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Welcome to Crit Happens! A new Dungeons and Dragons Actual Play Podcast from the P3 Podcast Network! Join DM Spencer Hart, and his rotating cast of characters as they accomplish their missions each episode with The Scalebound Syndicate inside of the world of Virelios, a dark, and moral ambiguous world filled with horror, and fear.
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Jan. 30, 2026

Nat 20 & Unwind: The Unwritten Favor

Nat 20 & Unwind: The Unwritten Favor
Nat 20 & Unwind: The Unwritten Favor
Crit Happens!
Nat 20 & Unwind: The Unwritten Favor

In this episode of Nat 20 & Unwind, we decompress after The Unwritten Favor.

We talk through Nyros, the reveal of The Unwritten, and why this session hit harder than a normal combat night. We unpack the moral pressure, the Syndicate reactions, and how forcing truth without giving guidance changes the table dynamic.

We also discuss player reactions, hard choices, and what it means when a campaign stops asking what is right and starts asking what you are willing to carry.

And Zebulon may or not lose money for his tavern, The Whisperfang...

0:03 So. I'm a. Little confused is Glave still dead and are we bringing him back or is that like not? Still dead I'm. Bringing him back. Still dead, but I'm not sure if we just left him there in the middle of the no. No, he's. Back in your bottle, holding. No, we took him with us. I mean. He's back. In the. Bag. Time doesn't pass in the bag of holding, correct? Correct. We can't. Exactly. Rot in there. And he doesn't need any oxygen because he's dead. So welcome to Nat 20 and unwind here on Spotify. Welcome to Nat 20 and unwind here on Spotify and Facebook. Hey, great session guys.

0:43 When a complete 180. I thought there in the way that we thought where we're going to do this tonight. But hey, I like it. So holy shit Mimi stop slashing people in the face. I like 6. Times they just kind of shook her hand, said Mimi's fine let's go and just kind of brush it under the rug like she's fine let's. Go come along, big Kitty. Everything. Everybody. You guys fought heroes. Yeah, that was ballsy holy. Crap, that's crazy. You've got to be kidding me right now. What? Level is. Everyone. Feet and you're fighting him, really.

1:26 What? Level is everyone. Everybody except Savara currently is at level 12, I think. Yeah, 12 or 13. Yeah, let's. Let's just say Neros is currently north of ACR 15 equivalent. Pretty far north, pretty far. North Feel. Like we beat ACR 18 or whatever one time, we just got to find Neros's bag of holding and invert it right? You just got to dump on all the acid. Yeah, exactly. It's like stealing candy from a baby. Take it and we run. All right. So real quick, before we go any further, Zebulon, it's income day.

2:16 Oh, for sure. Let's let me pull up the PDF of it and I totally know where it is. I think did I have a penalty from last time I didn't write. It down but. It was. It was a -, 25. That was definitely not my fault, honestly. OK, but I'm going to. I'm going to wait. Deborah needs his money first. Where the? Hell is my spudsheet that.

2:59 I don't needs to lose his money is what you're saying? I'll tell you what, you guys can keep talking about what you were doing. I'm going to grab it real quick. So guys, I'm going to be so honest with you. I thought Mimi was going to be a very cuddly character, very much like big cat energy, very much like ah, pet me. I'm so happy. I'm such a happy being, No? That's not the. Story we're in. Nope, not anymore. Nope, not anymore. I didn't know Mimi like clay so much, it warmed my heart.

3:39 All right. I have to say, when a picture of feral Mimi I think of like a cat, just like puffing up. Yeah, like super unintimidating, but at the same time, like, you're not going to mess with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. All right. So Zebulon, any purchases that you'd like to make again, this time insurance, security, things like that. What do you want to do? The usuals, the I think it's insurance, security and extra service. OK, so if you can go ahead and deduct 40 gold from your inventory and then go ahead and give me AD 20 sauce roll or I'm sorry, D100 sauce roll. Yeah, 6.

4:22 Just say 6. 00 and Oh no, it's nine. It's 9. Better. Than one. Girl, oh boy, that's better. So that's a, that's a -16. So I need to run with 3D 10, please. It's not going to be a good night at the office for you, my friend. All right. We got 10. Good start. 9 and a four, yeah. So 23 you are going to lose 138 gold today. Oh.

5:03 Holy shit. Go sell one of the diamonds. They're 25,000 each. Yeah, yeah. No. No, indeed those. So yeah, I apologize. Actually, Actually, I apologize. You had a -6, So if that makes you feel any better, you still lose 138 gold. But if you want to give me a roll on the Tavern events table, we'll see what happens at your your Tavern this week. Two another 00. Stop rolling. I'm doing so well. With a 2A group of temperament temperance preachers forms a picket line outside your establishment.

5:47 So what we're going to say here is that word has spread that you attempt that your party attempted to revive the quote abomination and they have brought it to your establishment. You will take a -15 penalty on your next role on the business results table which is the gold so. Mother of tractors, Yeah. Cool beans. Bah humbug. Bah humbug. We're going to pick it against them. Yeah. Yeah, look at this pitch, Mark. I got Beck. I say Beck. What do we want Revivify? What do we want it now? OK. We didn't get it and Mimi slightly crashed out because of it. And I'm slightly overweight.

6:32 All right. So yeah, that was a, it was a pretty big crash out. So perfect. We have to call it there because I have something personal to get done right away. So we're going to call that for 9/20 and unwind here right away. Thank you so much for listening. We will be back next week to finish up with the main campaign with the current story arc to see if they can extract the magistrate and take them over to the Ashe archive. So from everybody here at the P3 Podcast Network, I am Spencer Hart. We will see you next time. Bye. Bye. Bye.