S2E8 (New Pantheon: Academia episode)

"S2E8" is the eighth episode of the second season of the Academia campaign of New Pantheon. This episode aired live on April 25, 2021 on the Saving Throw Twitch channel and The Fantasy Network, and is archived on the YouTube channel.

Summary
Prom Court is coming up, and the North Point Academy School Safety Squad has not campaigned as much as they should if they want a chance to win the crowns. They meet with Mandy Murphy, the prom queen from the past year who was a survivor of the Night of the Keys (referencing EPISODE). Ms. Wang explains that using a bit of Mandy's energy, the Safety Squad can enter the dreamscape and time travel within that reality in order to find Orpheus and bring them back. And so they do, entering the dreamscape and follow past Mandy. After encountering and successfully fooling the sheeple (security guards of the dreamscape), they make it to the opened Door of Oblivion, where they see their past selves (including Iris) fighting the Phantom Queen among what seems like an infinite amount of keys. Initiative starts as the dreamwalking group fight off the Pawn King, and get back the figure of Orpheus. It is explained that Orpheus is actually Morpheus, the god of dreams. Finally, Zoya gives Dahlia a ribbon that has an aura to it, so Manny plans to turn it into a Prom Court sash.

Locations

 * North Point Academy in Washington State, USA

Main Cast

 * Steven Pope as the Headmaster (GM)
 * Emancipation "Manny" Brown, played by Aki
 * Dahlia Windgrove, played by Mika Midgett
 * Kwame Akinyemi, played by Omega Jones
 * Lennox "Lenny" Thatcher, played by Eric Reichert

Trivia

 * The explanation that Orpheus is actually Morpheus harks back to the confusion that the names Orpheus and Morpheus were used interchangeably before. Steven thus cleared up that confusion with this revelation.