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King of the Juggalos (Episode 2x83)

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King of the Juggalos
(Campaign 2 - Episode 83)
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Chibi-style Ratma Ritmo
Information
Release Date: January 15, 2024
Recording Date: January 9, 2024
Episode Length: 59:18
Cast & Characters
Michael DiMauro: Dungeon Master
Tim Lanning: T'Chuck
Jennifer Cheek: Selene von Esper
Mike Bachmann: Screech Echo
Guide
Previous Episode: Next Episode:
Clown Capitalism Full Circus


There is an awful noise coming from the clown/ juggler war tent. Just going to leave it there. That is a sentence that has never been said before. Wish us luck.

Story[]

Long Story[]

The party stands in the middle of an army of clowns and an army of jugglers. It's truly a terror to imagine. The clowns demands they pick a side. One of the clowns, introducing himself as "Honk the Hilarious", informs them that the leader of the jugglers is an evil artificer. However, as any great writer knows, one must show and not tell, so a giant juggler construct rips open the tent and begins wreaking havoc! It's juggling three giant axes, and doesn't care where it steps. In fact, it steps on a small child! It also picks up a clown, tears it in half, and throws the bottom half back down toward the party. Gross! Also, how is it doing this while juggling? It later does the same thing with a cow! How? It doesn't make any sense!

Anyway, this abomination quickly turns the party over to the side of the clowns, at least temporarily. They get to work trying to stop that thing. R'Oarc is mysteriously absent, but that will have to wait. Screech decides to climb up the creature, Shadow of the Colossus-style. However, Selene is about to hit it with a Fireball, and he doesn't want to be too close to the top of this thing when that happens. So, he only climbs up about 5 ft. Then, after attacking it himself, he realizes that he is taller than 5 ft, so he climbs back down. Cool. Seems like a waste of energy to me. T'Chuck hits it with an Inflict Wounds spells, so in retaliation, it tries to hit him with Inflict AXE. By which, I mean, it throws its three axes at T'Chuck, Selene, and Screech. Bad Axe! Selene is able to dodge out of the way, but T'Chuck and Screech are hit. They do succeed in their Wisdom Saving Throws, which is good because it sounds like they are only barely able to maintain their sanity. I'm not sure what that was about, but it sounds terrible.

Selene is finally able to hit this massive creature with a Fireball. It topples over, and crashes to the ground! But the battle's not over yet, because a smaller construct appears, bursting out of the chest of the larger one. This one is riding atop a unicycle. Actually, it's legs are one unicycle. And it's also juggling. Selene does something wild, and shoots a psychic lance out of her forehead! It knocks the smaller construct to the ground. Meanwhile, Screech climbs into the newly revealed entrance of the giant construct. Somehow, he is able to work the control panel enough to control this creature's arm, and throws one of the axes back at the smaller construct. The aim is so good that it chops off the unicycle/leg of the thing. Finally, Screech leaps out of the large creature, and, Wolverine-style, lands claw first on the construct's chest.

This destroys the construct. As it powers down, its face plate opens, revealing a small Gnome inside. Screech sees the light leave his eyes, and feels nothing.

Around them, the battle is still raging on. T'Chuck picks up the Gnome's body, and carries it back to the other. He yells out to the jugglers that their leader is dead. It's time to stop the fighting. A quiet stillness falls over the battlefield. The jugglers all gather around T'Chuck. They ask for his name. He gives it.

Then, quietly at first, but growing louder, a chant begins to rise. A simple chant, only a single word, really. "T'Chuck. T'Chuck. T'Chuck."

Short[]

The clowns and the jugglers are fighting in the Big Top. The leader of the Jugglers has made a giant construct which is currently on a rampage, killing people, animals, and things. The party sides with the clowns to stop this horrible thing. Selene destroys it with a Fireball, but there's another, smaller construct inside that. Screech destroys this thing, which also kills the Gnome artificer that was controlling it from the inside. T'Chuck carries its body back to the other jugglers, who begin worshiping him as their new leader.

Trivia[]

  • The giant juggling construct is wearing a big jester's hat.

In This Episode...[]

Cast and Player Characters[]

Non-Player Characters[]

  • Honk the Hilarious
  • Unnamed Gnome Artificer
  • Various Clowns and Jugglers

Locations[]

Inventory[]

T'Chuck Selene von Esper R'Oarc Screech Echo General Inventory
648 gold
Hunting Knife
Heavy Armor[2x06]
+1 Mace of Regnier[2x31]
Diamond worth 300 gp[2x34]
Breast-plate armor[2x34]
Backpack full of various useful things, such as "a tent or two", jerky, bread, cheese, etc.[2x38]
36 Boner Pills[2x61]
5 dead Phase Spiders[2x63]
A pair of disembodied lips, cured for preservation[2x65]
5 Kruthik heads[2x71]
A bunch of children's gummy vitamins[2x76]
Theonite Collar
Various Books
Devin Decacog's ring from The Farhold Trumpeter[2x14]
Bag of 50 gp[2x22]
7 Boner Pills[2x66]
Bone of dead Drow Warrior[2x79]
Torture Knife[2x05]
D20-sized rock of Theonite[2x16]
Theonite Sending Stone[2x17]
Theonite Ring of Protection[2x19]
5 Potions of Greater Healing[2x23]
Homemade "Resuscitation Kit"[2x38]
Crudely copied map of the tunnels around Mineford[2x55]
Handful of different mushrooms from the tunnel walls[2x55]
Penny candies from the Mineford General Store[2x55]
A ton of Screech Bucks, as carnival currency[2x62]
Several Hand-drawn Screech Bucks[2x63]
Single Hand-drawn R'Oarc Buck, worth 100 dollars[2x63]
7 Boner Pills[2x66]
A bunch of moss[2x76]
5 VIP tickets to "Owlbearpalooza" in Farhold[2x77]
The disembodied skeletal hand of either Stephanie or Wally Bonebraids[2x78]
+1 Battle Claws[2x05]
Grappling Hook[2x01?]
Torch[2x16]
Darkvision Goggles[2x59]
Drider's Scimitar[2x66]
7 Boner Pills[2x66]
"Please and Thank You" Amulet from Grimmly Tumbletoes[2x69]
Gem worth 5 gold[2x71]
4 Potions of Superior Healing[2x75]
1 Potion of Vitality[2x75]
1 Potion of Maximum Power[2x75]
Map of the tunnels around Mineford[2x55]
Crystal that shows some glowing mushrooms[2x55]
200 gp worth of an unknown "silky smooth, highly valuable substance" from the Brain Collector[2x57]
Drider's Longbow[2x58]
Drider's Chain Mail[2x58]
Drider's Leg Meat[2x58]
Map to Grimshaw Shadowhoof's maze[2x67]

Quest Board[]

  • [Active] - Save Selene's family!
    • [Active] - Recruit the help of Hortentia Calamore
      • [Active] - Travel to Vhur'endal
        • [Active] - Get in the good graces of the circus
    • [On-Hold] - Recruit the help of House Bartell
      • [On-Hold] - Travel to Anchordowns
  • [Active] - Find a cure for Thaldin Emberbrew
    • [Active] - Go to the nearby Drow city, probably Vhur'endal
      • [Active] - Get in the good graces of the circus
  • [On-hold] - Investigate "Bill, the Necromancer", in the far off city by the coast
  • [On-hold] - Take the disembodied lips to the oceanfront, for a burial at sea

Quotes[]

  • "If it meets, it beats off." ~ Mike Bachmann

Rolls[]

Combat Begins vs Juggler Construct

  • Initiative
    • Screech - Nat 20
    • T'Chuck - 22
    • Selene - 4

Round One

  • Screech
    • Melee Attack (Bear Claws) vs Juggler Construct - 14 + 3, 14
      • Hit, Miss - 14 damage
  • T'Chuck
    • Casts Inflict Wounds on the Juggler Construct - 17
      • Hit - 26 Necrotic damage
    • Grants himself and Screech 9 Temporary HP
  • Juggler Construct
    • Ranged Attack (Axe) vs Screech - 14
      • Hit - 13 Slashing damage, also requires a Wisdom Saving Throw - 20
        • Success - Maintains sanity, I guess
    • Ranged Attack (Axe) vs T'Chuck - 24
      • Hit - 13 Slashing damage, also requires a Wisdom Saving Throw - 18
        • Success - Maintains sanity
    • Ranged Attack (Axe) vs Selene - Nat 1
      • Miss
  • Selene
    • Casts Fireball (at Third Level) on the Juggler Construct, requiring a Dexterity Saving Throw - 12
      • Fail - 27 Fire damage - Kills It

A smaller, unicycle-riding construct emerges

Round Two

  • Screech
    • Makes an Arcana check to investigate the Construct's cock-pit - 18
      • He can control one of its arms
    • Controls the arm to pick up an axe, and aims it at the Unicycle Construct
  • T'Chuck
    • Casts Stone Shape in front of the Unicycle Construct, to form a pylon in front of it, requiring a Dexterity saving throw to avoid it - ??
      • He dodges the pylon, but smashes into something else - 4 damage
  • Unicycle Construct
    • Casts a spell at T'Chuck and Selene, requiring them to make Dexterity Saving Throws
      • T'Chuck - 12
        • Fail - 31 Lightning damage
      • Selene - 19
        • Success - 15 Lightning damage
  • Selene
    • Casts Raulothim's Psychic Lance at the Unicycle Construct, requiring an Intelligence Saving Throw - 6
      • Fail - 26 Psychic damage
    • Uses a Bonus Action to Telekinetic Shove The Unicycle Construct, requiring a Strength Saving Throw - ??
      • Fail - He is knocked over

Round Three

  • Screech
    • Ranged Attack (Giant Axe) vs Unicycle Construct (with Disadvantage) - 14
      • Hit - Chops its wheel/leg off
    • Action Surge: Melee Attack (Bear Claws) vs Unicycle Construct (with Advantage) - 23
      • Hit - ?? damage - Kills It

Combat Ends

  • T'Chuck rolls Persuasion to command the attention of the jugglers and the clowns - 25
    • They all turn and listen to him
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