A mysterious flash lights up the western horizon… and suddenly, nothing feels accidental anymore.

In this episode of Can We Level Up Yet?, the crew limps toward Titia after barely surviving a rift to the Smoke Plane—only to stumble into new problems, new allies, and very questionable financial decisions. Murphy wrestles with a gut feeling that something bigger is happening. Ripple invents solutions (and possibly new problems). Max continues his rise as the world’s most enthusiastic boy hero.

Along the way, they encounter imperial tax collectors, elite sea mercenaries, and whispers of a dangerous art thief tied to a Tabaxi past that might hit a little too close to home.

Also: pancakes, ship upgrades, and a crowd forming for someone called Little Wittles.

You know. Normal hero stuff.

A secret laboratory.
A runaway elemental rift.
And a decision that might be the worst idea this party has ever had.

In Episode 7 of Can We Level Up Yet?, the crew of the Sailing Sales uncovers a hidden research facility built by the Technocratic Alliance of Gnomish Islands. The lab was meant to study teleportation through the mysterious Plane of Smoke.

Something went very, very wrong.

With the facility collapsing and the portal spiraling out of control, the party must figure out how the strange arcane machinery works before the entire island gets dragged into the elemental planes. Unfortunately, their solution involves experiments, improvisation, and a level of confidence that may not be fully deserved.

Meanwhile, Ripple discovers the past has a way of catching up with you. Especially when that past includes an old rival from the Adventurer’s League.

Expect chaotic problem solving, questionable portal safety practices, and the kind of decisions that only make sense when you're level three.

Will the crew stop the rift?
Will the lab survive?
And will anyone involved learn a lesson from this?

Probably not.

But they might level up.

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A smoke elemental battle leads the crew of the Sailing Sales into a hidden research facility where a dangerous magical experiment has gone horribly wrong.

In Episode 6 of Can We Level Up Yet?, the Best New D&D actual play podcast of 2026 dives into chaotic combat, arcane experiments, and improvised heroics as Murphy, Ripple, and Max attempt to stop a planar rift from flooding the mountain with smoke elementals.

After sealing one portal, the crew discovers the real source of the problem: a T.A.G.I. elemental research facility that was experimenting with teleportation magic and dimensional rifts. What they find inside includes shattered containment chambers, abandoned laboratories, and evidence that the gnomish researchers were trying to harness elemental energy to teleport entire ships across the Endless Isles.

But the experiment didn’t just fail.

It created something far worse.

With unstable portals, rogue elementals, and a magical feedback loop threatening to tear the facility apart, the crew must figure out how to shut it down before the entire mountain explodes into another plane.

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