Taako Intelligence 2

Justin: I, uh, I need to cast, eh. I'm gonna make an Arcana check.

Griffin: Okay.

Justin: Um, that’s an.. nineteen. I'm trying to sense if there—if this is. I suspect this is not happening, so I'm trying to detect if we’re under the influence of some sort of illusory magic or not.

Griffin: Um, I mean, if you detect that, that’s fine, I think this roll is not Arcana, this is not you saying “hey, some magic stuff is happening!”. I think this roll is just a Wisdom save, just to say like, this would be Taako trying to realize…

Justin: To see past it, yeah, okay, that’s fine. Then that would actually be a… uh… sixteen.

[music starts]

Griffin: Here’s how this resolves. Taako, you get pulled under and, uh, Merle's just gone and you're just in this black space and you are completely alone. And I feel like Taako doesn't necessarily love being alone, sort of given his… his upbringing? Like, I feel like this isolation is, really, like fuckin’ scary? But then Taako is, you know, cleverer than we give him credit for and kinda says, like, “wait a minute, this isn’t real.”

[music stops]

Griffin: And as soon as you have that thought, you’re just lying on the floor of this hallway and you’re just kind of, uh, you see Merle actually still just writhing around on the floor. And both of you are safe and in this hallway but Merle is still sort of under the thrall of this thing.

-Ep. 59, Lunar Interlude V: Reunion Tour Part II, 28:55