Episode 19: Everyone Dies at a Resurrection

Four family members try to raise a lost loved one. Can they get out of their deal with the demon lord and save their own souls? No.

I believe it was the Roman poet Virgil who said, “The can conquer who believe they can.”

DM, Marcus (Orcus) - Ify Nwadiwe
Stuart the Fridge - Bill Rehor Aella Dewdrop (Halfling Bard) - Krystina Arielle
Fay-Lor Swift (Wood Elf Bard) - Mal Blum
Junior (Mountain Dwarf Cleric) - Matthew Lillard
Tildred “Tilly” (Mountain Dwarf Bard) - Kelen Coleman

In a cottage, in a forest, you all gather. You are all coming in with a dish. It’s become a monthy gathering between adopted siblings. You have lost your father two years ago. Your father was a man of money. Y’all were used to the life of plush rich people things. Because of one unsigned will, y’all are all broke. Out of all of the children, we all know that one of you are taking it the hardest.
There’s a knock at the door. When you open the door, you know it’s someone you invited. Seeing as Tilly has been having such a tough time, you wanted to introduce someone to her that she might like. She does not like. Tilly instead suggests a resurrection, which Junior immediately rejects as a breach of his holy vows. She goes into her back and pulls out something. When she was back in town, she met this salesman who had this trinket from Vassa (Vassa is a place up north that you might have heard had some demon issues) and said it could make her dreams come true and bring back someone from the dead.
When Tilly taps the stick on the ground it starts to shake and light up. Black smoke and flames start to spurt out of the skull. This is confusing to you becaus the person who sold it to you said that an angel was going to come out and allow you to bring your dad back to life.
No one can see anything through the smoke and then, in an instant, it disappears from the room, and standing before you is something like an angel. It has wings, it’s big, burly. You can’t see its face; it’s covered. The skull stares down at you and says,
“Oh, Zingy, were you able to hold off the dragon’s bane?”
He, then, looks at all four of you.
“Why did you summon me?”

Highlights

  • 25:35 BBEG
  • 44:33 Matthew reveals his own father’s terminal state and his gratitude for being able to process that emotion with a silly game and friends around a table.
  • 47:12 Krystina:"D&D is actually very healing. We all have different things, but the thing that always brings us back to the table and helps us to relate to each other is that human element:
    • trauma
    • feelings we didn’t know we had
    • to see ourselves use the masks to kind of see behind the mask of who we are
    • and to feel free to process a lot of things that we don’t get to

and I’m grateful that we could all share this moment. It is a very real moment. It is a very honest moment. I like to do this thing with my kids and we’re going to do it right now. Everybody stop and we’re gonna take two deep breaths and we’re gonna move forward."
breath
“One, two three.”
breath
“Remember, life’s gonna life, but all we can do is live it.”