Pigeon Plus Ones is the third episode of season 3, The Unsleeping City.
Recap[]
"And last we left the Dream Team off they were near the promenade in Central Park in a version of New York with magic around every corner, indeed. But we have gotten our first taste of the Unsleeping City. Santa Claus' sleigh has just been flown away by jolly old Saint Nick himself, and his eight tiny reindeer. And the cops who perceived it as a Toyota Camry being towed away due to the strange umbral arcana that prevents New Yorkers from noticing pretty much anything weird happening, have now begun to disband."
"You guys see Officer Epona Cirillo, a centaur cop, has entered now this piece of Santa's dashboard with this strange fae runes with some infernal underneath it. She's taking that to go enter it into evidence. The wind kicks up, a little bit of snow flies around. You six companions, bedraggled by some combat, but all standing at this point, now stand here in snowy Central Park as the crowd kind of chatters and talks to each other about this crazy car crash."
"You are left with each other, snow whipping around you, the cold, brisk, New York day late in the afternoon. Pete, you feel that sweet peppermint tooth still in your head. Look around. Sofia, you now see the centaur walking away that a mere three days ago would have just looked like a horse cop to you, and the rest of these denizens of The Unsleeping City, you guys all know that something very strange indeed has happened."
Synopsis[]
The party head from Central Park back to the Gramercy Occult Society and meet Esther, Alejandro, and his granddaughters Ana and Amelia, who now smell strongly of peppermint. Ricky and Kingston check up on them and work to stop the spread of the disease while they take Ana and Amelia to the hospital.
On the bus, Alejandro explains to Pete that he is the Vox Phantasma, the voice for the dream realm, and Kingston reveals that he is the Vox Populi, the voice of the people. Alejandro tells them that this is the first time that there has ever been a Vox Phantasmas and a Vox Populi at the same time. Pete also tells Alejandro about the voice that came to him the day before and that he released something with the happyface button on his medical bracelet.
At St. Owen's Hospital, Kingston heals Ana and Amelia. Pete gives Alejandro a Juul, and he is so pleased with it that he declares he is in Pete's debt, and Pete need only call his name thrice for him to appear. Pete also tells Alejandro more about the Golden Door and the grey baby, Alejandro remembers something and rushes out to the Clinton Hill Chantry to look for a book. The rest of the team agree to meet at Kingston's place in the morning.
Ricky heads home to get his eight hours in, and Sofia and Kugrash head to a bar. Sofia starts trying to detangle Kugrash's fur, but the bartender confronts Sofia and tells her that her baby is too hairy and the other customers are upset. They wrangle two free drinks from the bartender and head out to run 'hairy baby' on two more bars before heading back to Staten Island. On the way to the ferry, they meet Em, the angel of the Bethesda Fountain. She tells them about the wedding of Angela Confetti and Ronald Pigeon, and gives them some water to heal their wounds from the battle. Sofia also takes a flask of water to go. Kingston agrees to let Pete stay with him and they go together to Kingston's apartment, and notice more magical effects coming from their proximity to one another and their two magics combining. In his sleep, Pete visits Priya's dream. Misty returns to her apartment and finds a forgotten invitation to the wedding of Angela Confetti and Ronald Pigeon, happening tomorrow, which she RSVP's to.
The next morning at Kingston's apartment, they agree to go to the wedding and Kugrash summons a bunch of pigeons to try to get everyone pigeon dates. Ricky takes off his shirt and immediately seduces a pigeon with crumbs, and Kugrash meets Perry, a pigeon who has had a crush on him for a long time. Sofia struggles to seduce any pigeons but Ricky casts suggestion on one of them, who finally agrees to be her plus one.
At the wedding, everyone meets up with their pigeon dates and mingle with the other guests, trying to find out about the what the pixies are up to and how they feel about the pigeons. Sofia grabs a champagne flute and enters the first closet she finds, and the rest of the party approached a hunting lodge where the family seem to be gathering. They find Don Confetti sitting at a pizza saver, and attempt to interrogate him, but he does not give up much information.
Sofia runs into Mario, who seems to have business with Don Confetti, but before she can talk to him more the flask of water from Bethesda Fountain starts boiling. Feeling that something is wrong with Em, she grabs everyone else and they run towards the fountain. When they get there they find the angel is gone, and see marks in the stone leading towards a manhole cover. They follow the scrapes down into the sewers and hear rats yelling about the return of Rat King.
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Featured Characters[]
The Dream Team[]
New[]
Returning[]
- Epona Cirillo
- Orlando and Rovias
- Esther Sinclair
- Alejandro Ortiz
- Ana and Amelia Ortiz
- Priya Danger
- Mario Bicicleta
Mentioned[]
Quotes[]
- "I watched you actively try to sell drugs to my two granddaughters not more than two minutes ago, so if this was a sting, probably I would have leaned into the microphone and say so by now"— Alejandro Ortiz
- "Someone killed my dad, but not in like a sad way, in a good way"— Pete the Plug
- "A grey baby? A grey baby! ...A grey baby"— Alejandro Ortiz
- "No Days Off! Love you mom and dad" — Ricky Matsui
- "Your baby is so hairy that it is upsetting other customers and I'm going to have to ask you to take your child out of the bar" — Maître d' to Sofia
- "You wanna be real dates? Kugrash...I've thought about you a lot..."— Perry the Pigeon
- "Nobody's happy at a wedding"— Misty Moore
- "The only bird I ever loved is a bird I killed when a crow tried to eat my babies"— Don Confetti
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Trivia[]
- Before being posted in-full on YouTube, this episode was initially posted in two parts, on August 6th and August 13th 2019. The videos were named "Offbeat Roommates and Wedding Dates" and "Our D&D Crew Crashes a Pigeon Wedding" respectively.