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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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Feb. 6, 2026

Nat 20 & Unwind: The Unwritten Favor Part 2

Nat 20 & Unwind: The Unwritten Favor Part 2
Nat 20 & Unwind: The Unwritten Favor Part 2
Crit Happens!
Nat 20 & Unwind: The Unwritten Favor Part 2

This Nat 20 & Unwind sits in the aftermath of a heavy chapter. We slow the pace, talk through the choices that mattered, and unpack what it feels like to say goodbye when the dice are not the ones deciding. The table reflects on character growth, quiet consequences, and the emotional weight carried forward into what comes next. Laughter breaks the tension, honesty fills the gaps, and the group takes a needed breath before stepping back into the fire.

0:03 I want to get my. Kiss dice. They're tiny, tiny little dice. I have teeny tiny little dice too, I just don't have them. In this bag. I have those and then I have a pair of like tiny dice that reminds me of labradorite. What that and you don't know? How bad I have? And on that note, welcome to Nat 20 and unwind here on Spotify and Facebook. Also our website Crick happens dot show. I just came into you guys just comparing dice.

0:44 From Bath. Oh yes, what else? You. Dice goblins you. I. Had. That it was funny. A dice goblin like. Yeah, you became a dice I had a per week quickly if you're. If you play D&D, not a dice goblin, are you you're. Doing it wrong? Yeah, you're doing it wrong. No. Yeah, you're doing it wrong. So I have a 70 slot case I fully intend on filling hell. Yeah. Brother. Hang on for that. All right, so before we get too far into discussing tonight's session, let's have a little fun with Zebulon. All right, my friend the Whisper Fang this week, what is your current business valuation number adds. Are you still at I?

1:35 Believe we're still at 23. 23 OK, cool. All right, real quick, if you want to go ahead, do you want to buy any of the additional things for this week, Maintenance, insurance, extra security, extra service? The usual maintenance stuff all. Right. So you'll take the maintenance and that's it, just maintenance. Hi Babu. I think extra security is part of what we were keeping generally, like every week. Sure. OK. Go ahead and give take off 30 gold from your current gold amount please. And then if I remember correctly, you have a -15 to this business results role, is that correct? I think so.

2:27 I didn't actually. Write it down. If I remember correctly, it was, it was. Yeah, it was. It was a -, 15 penalty. So all right, go ahead and give me AD 100 roll please. We got 42. All right, so go ahead and roll me one D6. 5. All right, you made a whopping 35 gold this this session with your Tavern, the Whisper Fang.

3:16 Oh boy. Oh boy, that's. What I call profit. Step 1. Build Tavern step. $5 five. Gold filled with drunks. Profit. Step three, profit. All right. And then if you want to, go ahead and give me AD 100 on the Tavern results table, see what's going on at your bar this week. All. Right, 1212. All right. A fire breaks out one night after you close. Oh yes, the good news was you. Oh no, he bought maintenance and security. Yep.

4:02 So how much gold do you have currently? Oh, that alcohol is really flammable. 577. Let's change that Romeo D20, please. Oh, let's change that. Save the ale. Please save the ale. Heaven, Heaven. Yikes, that's. All going up in flame. 140 gold is going to cost you in repairs. Oh boy. So you're down to what, 360, correct? Sorry, how much did you say? You're down to 140. Hello, Miss Mabel. Yes. You like the butt scratches. I know.

4:43 Hello. Could be 437. 37 OK, perfect. All right, What? Can I pay for the repairs out of my? Gold, sure. If I mean you can, essentially what will happen is Zebulon will pay it and then if you wish to reimburse him, that's completely on you. OK, how much was it again? 140 gold. 100. Yep. All right, so. Thank you very much for the help. All right, perfect.

5:25 No problem. So let's discuss tonight's session. Kind of an emotional one, not necessarily by intent, but yeah, said goodbye to Glave. And I think we saw a side of Mimi that I don't think she's shown a whole lot of people. My 3 year old kind of man. That she's, that she is not just like a complete bitch. Yeah, she's got layers. She got layers. Ogres have layers. Like onions? So do cake. Nobody ever like like. Onions. Parchees have layers.

6:05 You everybody say hey, you wanna pray for? And they said hey, no, I don't like no goddamn parfait. Parfaits must be the most delicious thing on this earth. Oh, right, yeah. Anyways, sorry, go ahead. I'll see some. I was going to say with the the addition of slip, I feel like we're getting Nero's Part 2 with slip like waiting for the the. The the. Knife in the back. No, not this time. Yeah, for real. I still feel like slipped in the wrong place, just saying yeah. I don't know.

6:48 We're kind of, it's kind of, we're kind of reluctant to trust you again, man. You don't have to trust me, but you don't have a reason to not trust Slip. Well, I mean after what happened with Neros, which was relatively recently, and then Neros murdered our newest party member. I mean, I mean Agamem went to Darkseid. Too, before he was. Our enemy. Yeah. And then of course, we bad to. Tell you how bad.

7:30 Hello. Hello. Hello. Quiet. There we go. So, yeah. And I mean, we met. Oh, God, Joanna. Jesus, I almost, I almost biffed it. There you go. And she just kind of. More lore on that leader. More lore on that later. Be in my one line. One line of hell you're. Not going to. Lie. Like, do you blink? I mean, Savara definitely doesn't blink when they're staring at Slip. But that's a good question, baby. But you won't see it now when you're looking.

8:12 Are you best hope I don't tell your girl? She probably admire too. Stand next to me. Yeah, I believe just why they I wanted to hit the wall of whatever we were like sneaking into and just do the earthquake action on my club just to see what it did. Because I mean, why not a 30 foot deep, 10 foot wide fissure that would mess up anything. I just wanted to skip it and just start to fight. I wanted to go to the fight for sure. Yeah.

8:57 And so again, I I'm going to kind of challenge you guys this week and I guess Veronica feet to the fire. Welcome aboard to plan out exactly what you'll do. What I will do is I will give you guys basically a rundown of what you all found and effectively with that information, you will build some form of strategy, what you want to do, exit strategies, entrance strategies, how you want to look for Elvis Corrin, and we'll take next session from there. So next session will effectively be the final session for this little mini story, which we seem to be kind of falling into lately. And honestly, I, I personally love it. You know, when we fall into a 234 episode story arc because it gives us time to not only tell the story and not rush things, but it also allows us to have these moments where you say goodbye to glave and we, you know, you split the party momentarily to have these different emotional connections with each other.

10:09 And yeah, so. There's more time for life to blossom in our world. Yes. We ought to make it a story. Yes, yes. Yeah, where am I? There we go. It's a lot of fun, Veronica. Welcome aboard. We're glad to have you. Welcome to our welcome. To your own. Little circle of hell, the chaos. Goblins how to pronounce it? Oh sorry, the eyeballs figured out how to pronounce it. It's Philippine Tarsir or something like that. If I said that wrong, you can blame Google.

10:51 Here's a funky little GIF of it. We're taking a look it. Just makes it nice. OK, that's, that's a little scary. I don't, I don't like it. I I don't I don't like. It. Squish it. When they're just clinging on the screen but like they're they're. It's like. Nocturnal, so that's a great because I because they're tiny little monkeys, bro. He's so cute, I love him so Adam. Scare people, Darkness, those kind of eyeballs. Just maybe not as big. Has anybody ever seen that horror movie? What is it called?

11:35 It's called weapons. Have you guys seen that one, the one that came out just recently? No. The eyeballs that look just like that from the people that I possessed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like really small. Position. They're really, really small. They got like little grubby hands. They have thumbs. All Yeah, we're at a building that's what I know we're hunting down a guy that's what I know we'll. Get you some more information as far as you know, kind of a little bit background what you would know personally and kind of your back. Story.

12:15 Like I said, this was a very, very quick, yeah. Those who don't know, I literally I literally like made this character an hour before started making it like an hour and a half before the campaign. Yeah, yeah. But we're excited to have you. But yeah, I'll get you more information about. We'll get your character sheet and D&D beyond things like that. I'll get you some information on the Oath binders Ledger, which you'll have as well. And then I this. Is the bib's. Facebook. What are? We doing on. Facebook on there as well, so. Yeah, I added you, Spencer. Perfect. I'm not awake. Who?

12:57 Then how are you talking? I don't know, I'm tired but. Perfect. I think tonight I'm going to play some Baldersgate. That sounds like a good idea. Minecraft come in my aldersgate so. You're going to play Minecraft? Today when we were trying to contact you. Yeah, we're like, you're playing fucking Minecraft. Open your phone. I I wasn't playing Minecraft. I wasn't playing Minecraft. I was going to. And then I realized what time it was and I was like, oh shit, I got a prep. I don't know, man, You had that Discord icon that said you had been on for like half an hour. Yeah.

13:38 I had it open. Minecraft sounds fun. Yeah, Minecraft does sound. Yeah, I love. Minecraft does sound fun but it's like $40 on laptop and I. That's fair, can't be bothered. Right now, I technically had like all three at one point. Well, because when I was a kid I had to get it for EC, so I had Bedrock and then it updated to like. Then I had it on mobile many years later and then Bedrock didn't work really well so I had to get the Microsoft version. Oh yeah, Microsoft version is. Of it all. Garbage. Yeah, Java's the the main one. Yeah, Java. That's what I that's what I got when I was really young.

14:19 Yeah, I have it on Xbox so. Yeah. And you're offhand? Yeah, I'm. That's when we still had a desktop. Yeah, all right, the dopamine's wearing off. The ADHD is kicking in. We're going to say goodnight here on Crit happens and Nat 20 and on wine. Thank you so much for listening. You can follow us on our Facebook and socials. Go to our link tree at our website as well. Crit happens dot show. You can also listen directly from our website by going to crit happens dot show Listen and please feel free to subscribe on on Facebook and on Spotify. We are so happy to have you here from everybody here at the P3 Podcast Network.

15:03 I am Spencer heart and we'll see you guys next time. Bye, bye, bye.