queuing was lovely!! thank you to everyone who gave out gifts, and it was so nice to meet some of you on here!!

i have to say i was very lucky (/terrified) with the seats we got, if i had moved my legs i would have kicked ellie 😭

show starts!! the guys all run down the stairs directly past us and there’s a fun pre show bit that’s not in the recording so i’ll try to remember it best i can

(got a recognition hello and a wave from ellie!!)

they all said hello to lots of applause (obviously) then sat down while dave was sort of striding around the stage

(then dave turned to me and gave me a smirky hello and wave #okay)

he outlined what the show was going to look like and then absolutely struggled to get to his seat through the tiny gaps 😭

then gareth pops down to control the mic levels and they start recording!!

(oh also shoutout adam byron for randomly being in the audience)

the show was set in layer three (but in a kind of weird pocket dimension so that stuff contradicting the main story could still happen)

it was eric’s and tootsies play (glengarry glen zombie ofc) he was pissing himself cause thunden was coming and everything had been going wrong (reminiscent of tgws actually)

a lighting rig fell down and we got a fun trevor moment from chris

who at this point had only played fingers cause he could not get the voice right 😭 (in fact gluebrick barely appeared)

there’s a whole load of door shenanigans with knock knock puns

ellie being so sassy with shields (delightful)

they find a letter that karry was writing refusing to work on the production anymore and then she was passed out cause she was drunk?? i think?? doesn’t really get explained i fear

BUT they find white feathers near her and ellie remembers that dave had mentioned a guest at the beginning who had a white costume on (absolutely thrilled with herself)

and then chris and shields decide it could also absolutely have been a goose

they investigate!!

ghoul goes to a goose farm being run by sweet face the baby devourer (such a fucking funny scene)

he’s taken all the geese faces and is wearing them like a jacket for the show and decides he’s going to present as dame judi dench for it 😭😭

(we later get chris’ absolutely diabolical judi dench impression)

this is ultimately unhelpful of course

have to say they did not roll well the whole show

there’s a red carpet made of blood so ghoul gives henley some galoshes and sunglasses 😭

brad tanner does the interviews and we get a fun one with ghoul

rude paul and papa crumble are arguing with each other and then ghoul gives up and goes to sit in the royal box with rude paul who he’s become besties with

back in the dressing room they’re discussing the play and eric overhears ghoul and henley talking about how he’s a shit actor, he’s heartbroken and turns himself invisible 😭😭

INTERVAL

they spend way to long trying to find a way to make eric visible to themselves 

henley chucks all of tootsies makeup around the room to try and coat eric

tootsie comes back and is fuming and tells gluebrick off for ‘fiddling with my bits’ 😭😭

this then turns into a joke about him wanking in tootsies dressing room (let’s not)

eric is long gone and searching under the stage for clues 

he rolls a nat 20 but i can’t for the life of me remember what he learns

OH they then all go on separate quests to help fix the play as an apology

gluebrick absolutely fails to fix the set trying to use zombies and rats and jam

henley goes to the costume store and finds THE adam meggido (this scene is so funny i won’t spoil it)

ghoul does something i can’t remember at all

THIS ABSOLUTE ICON in the audience reminds shields of the spell locate person so they use that to find eric

the guy in the audience does a voice very similar to tim in aag

becomes a joke that yoda is now canon in the hohr universe cause this guy was the only person that knew anything about dnd and the voice 😭

they find eric!! he’s on the roof tied up being held by an angel with a mysterious mask on

they take it off scooby do style to reveal BIM (being played by henry shields)

he’s an angel now and was sent to stop the play because celestia wants the blood war to continue cause it keeps order in the rest of the universe 

(the play would have stopped that momentarily for everyone to watch)

oh at some point during this tootsie dies?? i think??

anyway they disarm bim and persuade him to work in the theatre as a stagehand 

the play goes ahead!!

you could tell how thrilled they were doing it in front of people for the first time, and that everyone was so receptive and involved (and pissing themselves) and also that everyone was so lovely and respectful of each other. dave did a very sweet thank you speech at the end and we got some group photos/ video

they leave (mentioning shields smiling down at me and saying a tiny thank you for coming as he walked past cause it was so sweet 😭)

everyone queues for stage door situation (they are seriously so kind for taking the time to meet everyone, i think it was over an hour)