Taako Magic 12

Taako: I got a fuckin’ idea for ya.

Griffin as Magnus: Yeah?

Justin: And as soon as I say that, Taako’s eyes go blank.

Griffin: Oh shit.

Justin: He is just catatonic. He falls out of it. His soul is gone. [Griffin: What?] It’s in a magic jar. The spell is called Magic Jar. The only action I can take is to project my soul up to a hundred feet out of the container and return to my living body, or attempting to possess a humanoid’s body. And I’m gonna take Magnus back.

Griffin: Okay. Alright. Alright. Alright. You cast your soul out of Taako’s body, and as you do, it steps into the ethereal plane. Um, which you’ve been in before, right? It’s where you Blink into. And as you start to approach Magnus’ body, you see behind you, you see Magnus and he is being sucked into a rift into the astral plane. And you recognise it, too. You recognise the astral plane from Lucas’ lab. You recognise it as Kravitz’, like, home? It is the plane where dead souls go to, uh, go to the afterlife and, um, you see Magnus getting sucked into this portal. You also see his body in front of you and you see Edward’s faint outline over the body. Which direction do you go?

Justin: I fly towards Magnus.

Griffin: Okay.

Travis: Wait, which one?

Justin: Uh, spell Magnus.

Griffin: What?

Justin: I mean the soul-Magnus!

Griffin: Soul-Magnus. You fly towards Magnus being sucked into the portal.

Clint: Trust this- This is so gonna work.

Justin: Yes. Yes. Soul-Magnus.

Griffin: Okay, um, Magnus, you don’t quite see Taako flying towards you yet. You just see the astral plane rift opening up and sucking you into it. And you see, again, you’ve seen the astral plane before, um, in the cosmoscope you saw it too, in the mirror. And when you saw it then it was just this, like tranquil sea filled with swirling lights and souls retired to rest in collective consciousness.

Through this rift, you see the same sea, but it is choppy and it’s violent and there are– there’s no lights below the surface. In fact you kinda see what looks like an oil slick on the surface and the sky is stormy and pitch-black and nobody’s there. Kravitz isn’t there. Um, and behind you, you see Taako flying at you. Taako, what are you doing?

Justin: I’m just gonna– I mean, I’m disembodied so all I can do is kinda fly over and try to grab him.

Griffin: Okay. Alright, you fly over and you grab Magnus’ hand. And make a strength save.

Justin: [rolls and laughs] Natural 20.

Griffin: Alright, here’s what we’ll do. Taako, you grab Magnus’ hand. Just as his feet were being pulled into the astral plane. And you can see into it now, too. You can see into the plane, also. Do you say anything dope when you grab him?

Justin: No, I mean, I can’t say anything, I’m a ghost.

Griffin: Okay, fine. But you see each other? You guys see each other, right?

Travis: And we definitely think some super cool action-y quips.

Justin: Yeah, we think something but it’s very private so it’s not aloud.

Travis: Yeah.

Griffin: Okay. You both see into this astral plane and you can tell that something is seriously wrong. And just as you pull Magnus back, Taako, you see a hand splash up from the choppy waters. [Arms Outstretched by Griffin McElroy begins to play] You see Kravitz, and he’s struggling to sort of pull himself up to the surface of the water. The oil -- this black oil on the surface of the water just twists around him and pulls him back under. And you feel that oil calling for both of you as well. And you’re both getting pulled into the rift now, but with a 20, Taako, you fight against the pull and both of you are flying backwards towards the center of the room, back towards the catwalk.

-Ep. 56, The Suffering Game, 56:03