ExU: Kymal is a two-part miniseries following some of the Crown Keepers shortly after their original adventures in Exandria Unlimited: Prime. It is the second mini-campaign of the Exandria Unlimited series and is followed by Exandria Unlimited: Calamity.

Cast: Aabria Iyengar as the Dungeon Master
Anjali Bhimani - Fy’ra Rai, Fire Genasi Monk (Way of the Four Elements)
Aimee Carrero - Opal, Human Warlock (Hexblade)
Robbie Daymond - Dorian Storm, Air Genasi Bard (College of Swords)
Matthew Mercer - Dariax Zaveon, Dwarf Sorcerer (Divine Soul)

And Newcomer

Erica Lindbeck - Morrighan Ferus, Lagomore Rogue (Arcane Trickster)

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4h 54m 1h 30m

Part 2

So, fleeing a 20,000 gold bounty on his brother Cyrus’ head, Dorian fled across the sea from Marquet through Emon, and met up with his friends, the remnant Crown Keepers, in the seedy little casino town of Kymal.
You all synced up, caught up a little bit, immediately got into trouble because you needed to steal a fur for reasons that are beyond me as a DM to understand. And ran into a new, uniquely gifted and very powerful friend, Morrighan.
After overhearing a bit of the Crown Keepers’ money woes, you figured you might as well combine your efforts. Mor is here to clean out this casino after telling the group that she has made her way through every other casino in the city.
But this casino is different. It is the original casino in the city. It’s the most well-guarded, and by far the most prosperous. So you teamed up with this group and began your heist by stealing a key to a penthouse in hopes of finding master blueprints.
It went pretty badly. You broke into the penthouse regardless, got into a big fight, and then blew up the room.
So, Mor, they’re effective. They’re not subtle, but they can still be useful.
You got the blueprints, you’ve retrieved the treasures hidden under some tiles inside the penthouse, and you, specifically, discovered the most interesting secret of The Maiden’s Wish, that a piece of the architecture of this place, the sky deck, a glass bottom overhanging bar that looks out over the vast mud and rocky nothingness of Kymal, shouldn’t have been able to stand for the decades it’s been around. That’s because it’s magically reinforced with a very rare, very powerful magical stone called brumestone.
So, you know that the streets are full of Nameless Ones stopping everyone from leaving via conversions and threats of death and pledges of fealty, but if you play this right, you can rob the vault, get up to the sky deck, and make the craziest escape ever into the night.
That is where we find ourselves. But before we actually pick up gameplay, I want to talk about a new mechanic I want to introduce for today’s poodle.
Each of you has a coin. You can call it a Fragment of Foresight, you can call it a Heist Coin, you can call it a Poodle Pip. What it’s called doesn’t matter. What it does is the interesting thing.
Now, we all know that planning is the most interesting and easy thing to do in Dungeons & Dragons. So in lieu of having, you know, a four-hour session of you planning your heist and then it not going at all like that, you’re just doing your heist. You’ve already made your plans. As you walk through and face down the obstacles, you can play your Poodle Pip and explain to us how you already accounted for this obstacle.
I’ve taken this from one of my favorite RPGs called Blades in the Dark. It’s a very cool heist-based criminal system, and they elided a lot of the having a plan with starting in medias res, and you describe how you’re prepared for this.
So I want you all to feel prepared and effective, because we’re about to begin, but not quite yet. You’ve made your way out of the penthouse. You’re down, you’re safe, and you’re all together. So you have a little time, you need to rest, but you have rooms here and you have a plan.

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    Highlights

    • 00:00:06 Anjali:“Adele Dazeem.” (reference to Travolta mispronouncing Idina Menzel’s name at an awards show)
    • 00:06:30 (not like the other girls)
    • 00:17:57 Erica:“That’s a dirty 20.” (makes excellent and loud imitation fart noise at Robbie, she’s gonna fit right in)
    • 00:27:45 Three out of five elements needed for Captain Planet. Adam Tots Planeteers
    • 00:33:55 Tovar, receptionist at the Chroma Dawn Cave, lists the available experiences:
      • "The first one is Brimscythe, The Iron Storm, and it’s a pressure point bed. You lay on it and you get pushed, and it’s good if you have tension. There’s a breath weapon facial that goes with it, it’s a skin-firming mud mask.
      • Next up! Raishan, The Diseased D-D-Deceiver. It’s named after the dragon. it’s a detox. It’s actually an ivy and locally-sourced, plant-based detoxifying wrap. All the plants are sourced from the Ivyheart Thicket just outside of town. It’s good.
      • The next one," and he points at the white door by behind him, "is Vorugal, The Frigid Doom. It’s a cold dip pool. There’s a dragonborn on staff that we keep, and he makes the hot pool hot and the cold pool cold. That’s his whole job. So there’s a cold pool, and then there’s a cold mask.
      • Umbrasyl, The Hope Devourer A black dragon, this is a cool full body, not devourer, massage. It’s administered by…" Then he goes and runs over and knocks on the door, and you see this massive old, scarred-looking full orc comes out. He’s wearing this jerkin that looks very awkward. Awkwardly like it’s supposed to represent dragon scale, and a little hat that looks like a little dragon hat, and he just waves. "Then the breath weapon facial is an exfoliating acid mask.
      • The last one is Thordak, The Cinder King. As you can imagine, it’s a hot stone massage, and a hot pool, and the facial is a hot oil mask."
    • 00:42:09 Aimee:“I’ve always wanted to see the top of your head.” (Giggety.)
    • 00:48:58 Matt vs the Moth
    • 00:55:06
    • 00:56:23 Aimee laughing at Erica’s description. Just like our divine Laura.
    • 01:05:27 *For what it’s worth, Raak-motu, the orc, has big earmuffs and he’s just humming sort of tunelessly to himself while he is absolutely wrecking your form."
    • 01:07:13 Dorian’s pale blue butt tan line becomes canon. “whale tail right over the hip bone”
    • 01:16:09 Opal:“Aren’t you tired of people calling you betrayer?”
    • 01:47:40 Opal:“I made a goop.”
    • 01:49:24 Fan Art Moment Dariax and Morrighan in the feathery uniforms of the casino.
    • 01:50:45 Flammable perfume and Fire Genasi
    • 01:53:05 Buffet puns: Pie-roden dessert bar, Stilben Fish Market, The Iron Authority Grill, The Emon Cloudtop Breakfast Bar, The Kraghammer Blast Furnace Pizza Hutch and the Whitestone Winery.
    • 02:04:42 Hand signals (Thieves’ Cant?) between Dorian and his brother Cyrus.
    • 02:11:25 Aabria:“You got your fucking rope.” Boondocks Saints Rope Scene
    • 02:17:00 Thieves Cant officially used.
    • 02:26:38 Aabria:“If you can reference a heist movie in normal conversation, for the rest of the session, I’ll give you inspiration.”
    • 02:43:51 Matt:“I made her yeet a dice.”
    • 03:09:25 Fan Art Moment Opal gets the “How Do You Want To Do This?” with a flaming dagger strike against a blinded half giant that grants the creature as her spectral servant.
    • 03:17:30 Robbie telling Erica “stop it” after a sneeze.
    • 03:19:15 Erica wisely uses a Poodle Pip to circumvent a massive door obstacle.
    • 03:34:42 “Dariax and the Magic Bags”
    • 03:37:18 Morrighan finds a marble relief with the name of the Raven Queen carved upon it, but pain and blindness prevent any attempt.
    • 03:56:56 Aimee:“Less panties than you think. They’re trying to find a dick.”
    • 04:03:18 Gaola Mistwick is behind the bar.
    • 04:09:05 Give me a general dexterity check to see how your ‘dicking about’ goes.
    • 04:21:49 Dorian:“Cyrus, did you bring the fantasy dynamite?”
      Cyrus got down into that market, and he was like, “I got to find something explosive.” But then this beautiful woman distracted him and he went on a whole noir adventure late into the night.
      He actually didn’t get his long rest. He played cards until you fell asleep and then he went on this beautiful adventure as this dame that was no good, but so beautiful led him out and around. He got turned, he was Polymorphed into a black bear in the secret fighting pit that’s inside under the West Run-- it’s what you were hearing.
      They all took random potions and would fight each other. He’s just covered in scars, bruised and beaten, and this woman says, “Thank you for defending my honor. Here’s the fantasy dynamite and a healing potion and no one will know of our love.”
    • 04:33:16 Dariax chooses fireball because the fuses for the dynamite were taking too long.
    • 04:49:37 As you take it all in, your mind drifts back to your point of entry from the Feywild. To that incredibly kind, incredibly old woman that sent you on her way-- on your way. With only her name on your lips, Morrighan.
      You saw in that moment as she pushed you through the promise in her smile that you would see more, the promise in her smile that you would see more, and you will look down on a world and change it. That it was just for you to do, good or bad, just you. Then you came here, and here you are now.
      Your last thought as you look out into the sunset, because truly, time is-- You’ve spent a whole day just drifting up here. A single raven lands on the brumestone that you’re standing beside, and looks at you and calmly regards you, unblinking, uncanny, but with you in the silence as something great and terrible approves of what you’ve done today.