Operation Slippery Puppet ft. Plinth | 10000 subscribers special

Hey guys making this took a year off my life but I wanted to do a sort of 'almost 10k subs' special. Polodio is the next comp 💖 i love you all so much and thank you for sticking with me and supporting me it means so much to me and really helped me make it through my seasonal depression this last winter. Ya'll the best. *edit- I half expected this video to bomb, I'm really glad ya'll like it 🥰 *edit- Polodio is gonna take a w h I L e **update I finished it! https://youtu.be/kcX12yqdrLI

As Brennan once said “Emily is the best DnD player I’ve ever met and also she was sent from hell to kill me”

The way murph was like “no I’m good to stay here” while everyone else was like “NAH WE GOTTA GET YOU OUTTA THERE” bc he was the only one who DIDNT READ THE TEXTS

Emily misdirecting Brennan by getting him to concentrate on the thermal detonators rather than the fragmentation device is some of the best D&D I have ever seen anyone play

My favorite part of this is how you can see Brennan physically relax after he shuts down Riva hopping from drone to drone. That so obviously should have been what ‘slippery puppet” meant and it was just another beautiful bit of misdirection. Just stunning.

underrated bit but my actual favorite is Murph not knowing what's going on, and when Emily starts to unveil it, the way he turns to Brennan with the absolute GLEE of a fellow DM who's so happy this isn't happening to him

“how did you know there’s be a plinth in this fight”, in the most defeated voice, just breaks me

The whole plan boiled down to "I have made myself into a bomb... just in case." and that's fucking glorious.

My fave part: Emily and Siobhan start giggling maniacally when he announces the plinth - Brennan probably thought they’re laughing at the idea of it and the space Girl Scouts, but they’re really cackling bc he played right into their hands

My heart melts when emily says “☺️ do you want to know more, Brennan?” What a boss move

I like to think Emily was saying “there’s no way I survive after this” because she thought Brennan was gonna kick her ass in the employee parking lot 😂

I feel like Murph' not keeping up with group texts was somehow critical to Operation Slippery Puppet.

"You look me in the eyes, Beardsley, and say 'Brennan, I think it's your fucking time'. It will be a cold day in hell when I go out like a fucking chump" - Brennan Lee Mulligan, accidentally foreshadowing events that will lead to Operation Slippery Puppet

this episode was a demonstration of the inherent comedy of the word "plinth"

For some reason, knowing that Brennan's mother - the creator of this world, is watching on a monitor somewhere close by is what really seals the deal. Knowing that you've defeated the DM? Good. Knowing that you did it in front of his mom? Priceless.

I don’t know why but Siobhan holding up her phone with a photo of sunglasses GETS me the most EVERY TIME

I love the misdirection where we think operation slippery puppet is the teleportation scheme that Brennan shoots down. NOPE.

the idea of emily poring over details about the fragmentation charge and coordinating all of this with siobhan (and the others who clearly know about operation slippery puppet!) while murph just ignores the text chain is perfect. incredible dnd household. i love the gunners!

It's beautiful. The misdirection during shopping to get him to focus on the Thermal Detonators, the joke about the magnet to gloss over what she's attached to the Psycho-drone, the slack-jawed astonishment on their faces when they see the Plinth, the near miss when they mention Slippery Puppet too early, Zac's Nat 20, Murphy bypassing disadvantage by using a reflex save attack, Brennan losing his mind as it all comes to the climax, "We read the books, Brennan! And by we, I mean 'just Emily'", sending the kids to camp, "We're not letting the doggie die today, folks!"...dang. Such a great episode.

Ally wishing for sunglasses and Murph handing his over and saying "I had my moment" is so sweet.