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Hello friends
In the last week's episode
Hello. No, okay.
There was a woot.
There was a woot!
And then there was not a woot.
In last week's episode
you were recovering from your battle with the Kruthix
and as you exited
trying to figure out what you wanted to do for the day
making elaborate plans
a book was thrown out of a door
and briefly, very quickly chased by Dell
who then encountered a soldier who was waiting to pick them all up
and escorted them to the Queen
where she was holding her counsel
and as you met with the Queen
she told you, well, she thanked you
and then also reminded you that
everything that you did was very illegal
and that's not true.
Come on then. Lay down.
That's fine.
So you would not be receiving anything.
And then she asked if you would like to help
track down the monsters
because you were so adapted to doing that
in the caves before.
So you were tasked again with finding out
why people were going missing again
in rapid numbers
and help
figure out how to deal with that problem
and we decided to not do that.
Well, actually before we went to that meeting
you encountered beta gopers
then you took into the room
helped distract during the meeting
and then lost immediately after the meeting
which you then chased through the town
and lost.
But bumped into some goblin friends
you had earlier ripped off
through fiendish magic elf dice rolling again.
We met them in a back alley
they made some quick deals
you tricked them again in some dice
and then they all took two favors.
One they were going to trade information
for 50 gold on
Samarit.
Samarit?
Yes.
Del's rival
Bar
Second was to find information
of people going missing.
Which they said to me to take longer
to get to know
what would require more gold.
You guys then
started a process to hunt down
some goblins who had stolen
a robot suit from Tyrus Bronzhan
which you'd originally dealed a while ago
you went out
and decided to elaborately disguise yourselves
in the orc clothing
so you laid some bait in the woods
to see if you could hunt down some prey
you encountered a hippogriff
you killed the hippogriff very quickly
you then skinned it
made costumes, hiked up a mountain
found the goblins
and then immediately realizing
when the goblins didn't speak orc
we were now talking about the rest.
Del cast heat metal on the robot suit
and immediately turned two of the three goblins into ash
and the third goblin ran away to the mountains
while Del questioned his life choices.
You guys then went back down the mountain
and has continued doing so all the
experience of your PTSD
a week's worth of regret
and one in a peepening.
You better put your goblin friends in front of you
that Savari was being hunted by some sort of
a demon or devil and was going to
was leaving town roughly
one to two weeks after where she goes
constantly to move
you guys then
went back to the hidden gem
went to bed
and as the three of you woke up
a voice reached into Koka's head
and said, I think it's time we had a talk
and then Koka slapped herself really hard in the face
Prola, come on, let's do this.
Now I'm afraid
Nothing happens
There is a brief silence
and the voice again
that's acceptable
I resist courage to keep my hands
Rollcons to do?
I say nothing
and I wait and I pretend it's all a bad dream
This isn't a dream
That's just what a dream would say, I think
You've been watching me here
Who's who?
I've been watching you
That's a not scary
anything I've just given you is now
You've realized you can't be rightful
You're willing to regret
You're willing to hold those carries
of old powers to end us
But this is not helping in case
I do not see why I'm having to ever work with you
because I don't even know what you are
I've got to play slapping myself in the face again
After a pause
The voice says
In exchange for the dwarf
You'll let huge or other friends
live
I try to mentally find the end call
but very obviously
Obviously
Don't mind me, this is actually a specific role
As you try and shake off
psychic and cannibalism
This is going to go really great
but as you know I'm super fast at this
I'm going to work on myself, right?
No, you're all together in a bit
Essentially you have just woken up
and immediately the voice has started to talk to you
Are either of them awake?
No
Did you hear me slap myself in the face?
No, I'm dead asleep
In fact I'm probably off the bed on the floor
It's snoring
I'm awake
but I'm like in my own head
What's the mask on?
Not if it's just the curtain
We've seen your face in the video
I got this in the interest of podcasting
What do you like to describe yourselves
and what you look like and also give your names?
The bard goes first
Very well done
I am Dell, the masked bard
protege of Silver Ojects of Horn
greatest part of our generation
I am a changeling
who wears a mask covering my face
hence the name Masked Bard
in an effort to endear myself
upon all races
and let them all feel a sense of ownership
not knowing who I really am
or what I really am
My main goal in life is to
bring peace and love and understanding
to the entire world and all races through my music
On board
I also
I grew up listening to a lot of
you know as a bard
listening to a lot of stories about different heroes
and wanting to emulate those heroes
as well as my mentor Silver Ojects of Horn
who occasionally went on adventures himself
while we traveled together
usually leaving me behind because I
haven't developed my powers enough yet
to protect myself so I usually go off
in an adventure and I would hear about it
after a while
I grew up wanting to emulate that
and going on adventures myself
and this is the three of us in that
Stop me any time I am going on through life
It's an encore, you can choose your life
Okay
I also am a change-links
so I can change if I can do the length of it
Yeah
Enter a level 5 bard
I am a level 5 bard
It's probably more than we've ever heard about you
in the course of this game
Over the last year
You're welcome audience
You heard it here first
This is just what I'll be listening to later
and then probably Jeff ever need to read
Steve, that's what I mean by audience
Yep
You're reading the level 5 bard
Level 5 bard
And Layla
Layla, a very lunchest wonder what exists with us
Step in for Steppers
The background is out of the town
Our sound effects expert
I am Coco, Eric, Oak Green Ranger
of very little renown
Born in the air elemental plane
I grew up with good parents
in an isolated tribe
with a relatively same age
quote unquote
twin adopted brother
More on that later
That's my story
I'm here looking for my brother's origins
and trying to keep him and Layla alive
because they are dumber than rocks sometimes
I'm Cora
I have a dragon named Steppers
He's a good boy
I'm also a Drake warden
So I have a good boy named Steppers
who likes to zap things with his personality
Little blue dragon
He's a good boy
I can't write him yet but he's small
I am Fleeblas little Fleeblas
I forgot you had a lot of space
I am a red hooded Eric Oak Green
Born
Somewhere within the sky realm
or so I am told
I grew up with my
older sister
Koka who sits beside me here
Although in the sky realm
I was only there my whole childhood
I never learned the name
I was often bullied for
starting to grow a beard
a bit early for Eric Oak Green
and also
hair
I never quite figured that one out
but I'm still learning
to fly myself
I am a rogue
and I like jumping through windows
That's on me
Oh I don't see
You're both the office
Fleeblas is a
level 5
dwarf rogue
As you look around
roll per second
18
You can tell Fleeblas has passed out
on the floor next to you
You are
pretty sure Belle is awake
but he's not paying attention to you
Ignoring scary voice in my head
I look down
I wait
I think somebody
is talking to me in my head
Oh we are
They said they are
I can hear me I guess
Have you tried willing them out
with your personality
Yeah they don't hate my personality
as much as I do
I can't hear you
Here let me try
Hey you guys
Hey what are you
doing in there
Do I hear you?
After a long pause
You just hear
What are you expecting
What are you expecting more from us
It should be clear
because
we are really tired of this
Give us the dwarf
This is a dream I'm having
Dancing with wood
Ow
Wood bit me
You hear me say
I'm on the floor
asleep
Wood bit me
As he rolls over
He slides out a little bit
on the floor
What you mean
In my head I say
and out loud for Del's benefits
since he is sitting here now
I say out loud
No deal
He's ours
You are not holding here
You are too
We will continue to watch
until the
opportune moment arises
We will have him
one way or the other
Can I
make some kind of insight or
account check and see if they can see through my eyes
or if they can just sense everything through my brain
Make an insight check
I'm not impressed with these things
I need to
Let me try
No I think they're all brave
The most that you're aware
is that there is a presence in your mind
right now
You can feel it there
like you're aware of it
and that it is in your head
Are they still in there right now?
They are
Let me hear you
I guess they're not talking back anymore
No
I think they
disconnected but they're still
on speaker
You know like when you talk to somebody
and you can hear them out loud
Speak ring
You disconnect the FaceTime video from the audio
still there
What's FaceTime?
Well
But we bought them
Also bad news
If we don't give them
them
or if we did give them
If we did give them
If we gave him to them
They won't kill us
But also
Why wouldn't we?
I believe that
So I would say we not do that
because we're good friends
Right?
Listen, I think we're really good friends now
Yes
I always wanted another Dopey World brother
I'm glad that we're all on the same page
You see a hand reach up onto the bed
and rip all of the blankets off
As I do
barrels on the floor to roll into a burrito
Still asleep
Do I still have my bag of sand?
We're in the same room right?
I take my bag of sand and just dump it on
You dirty
Full gosh roll protection
No
You stay sound asleep
Cool
Glad we got that understanding though
Okay
Well, seems like there's nothing we can do about this
right now
We knew we were going to have to
fight some kind of psychic monster
eventually
I mean it's probably the mind place
It's almost certainly the mind place
Yeah, it would be surprising if there was another
mind monster
They also said we, like as if there were multitudes of them
and if
I cover my ears
If
If it's very distracting
covering my own ears and trying to talk at the same time
But I still draw on
If people are disappearing
like they say that they are
it's probably not just one mind player doing it
Yeah
Probably a bunch of them
Do you know anything about mind players?
I know a bit
from my book
Say you do have a book
Let's read about it in our book
Yeah, let's do that
Story time
There's some information
not a whole lot
Although more than
when you with the boulders
It has
a rough sketch of
a thin
gaunt
black road creature
with a
squid-like face
with tentacles draped down
in front of it
As you kind of
give through it
these are heads
If you skim through it
they are able to pick up
like they do eat brains
they are able to read your mind
they are able to communicate telepathically
They are very intelligent
Does it say anything specifically
if they see and hear through the eyes and ears for another
or if?
There is no mention of that
Other than if you see one
the odds are they are already in your head
No stats are correct
Pretty much in big boulders at the end
if you see that one
We didn't do that last time
We stood still and listened
Then I got a nosebleed
Is my nose bleeding?
It's not
It is not
I give it a goire
If you'll be able to hear
Stop licking my feet
Oh man
Oh me
I think it's good
Carefully found the wound
Feathers
They are not clean as they are
Yeah just like you tick feathers
I'm sure
One of the streams of his long musko friend
No
I lost Woot again
You want me both to know
you've been talking about Woot all week
I miss my buddy
What did we have to do today?
Try not to get eaten by mind players
Is number one
We were just waiting for
We completed the one mission
We were just waiting for information
Tyrus
We needed to go talk to Tyrus
We delivered the thing and we were all beat up
So we left
We didn't get your stepper's armor
Correct yes we got to get his armor
And then didn't you want
Did you try to commission something?
I thought about it afterwards
That I'm very weak and I would like arms that make me stronger
Yes that's right
I'm not like new on like I'm not going to cut off my arms
Keep those
You did not mention that to him though
No I did not mention that to him
Because we were doing this like our goodwill mission
You had requested special multi shot arrows
I did I requested multi shot arrows
Although I could also commission instead
That was before I got multi shot
I could commission a flute
That when played
It emits
Bright flash light
That can blind our enemies
And I can name it shock
So when I'm not using the aw
My loot
I approve
You're playing Steven
You're going to finish the sentence or just leave us hanging
I can
I can use shock
And aw
I could use both
I bet I could
I was going to say you could call it
Flute and Flare but that's better
I
Next time if I get another loot
And another flute
I can name those
Those things
That would make you a high flute man
Only if you picked me up
And flew me away
I could probably do it
Or you could name one
Dynamite with a laser
That's scary
You say that in your sleep
Yes I say that
But I sleep very quietly to myself
Blue House are you awake yet?
Five more minutes
I saw much steppers for the day
I say get it
I don't want to go to flight school mom
That stepper seems to
Fade in from another dimension
Or she just kind of materializes in the corner
And starts licking my nuts in the face
And I roll a constitution
Get it game
15
You are only
Mildly
Dragon Slammer
You're able to block most of it with your blanket
But
And sand covering
Some in your hair just kind of like sticks the front up
Like a stick
It's a mess on the floor
That's gross
I made a mistake though
We've all made mistakes
This is a very tiny ruin for four things
To be in
As long as we make more
As long as we're
The opposite of mistakes
As long as we're in net positive
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You hear from us
You hear from a blanket breeder on the floor
Don't do anything
Okay
Blue House wake up
Hold on
Dang it
You roll over
And face the bed
Stoppers now licking the bed
Are your eyes open?
I'm pretending to be asleep
Be spanking
Alright
Shall we go?
Oh I was going to do the next bed
It's morning
The early era
The old cream gets in the snack
An old era type of proper bed
How do you know
Go-Ga is so dark in here
I guess for record information
You're all in the city of Deep Shield
Underneath the mountain
Home of dwarves
That's true
How would we know what time it is?
I did not take the survivalist's feet
None of us did
I took the worst one
None of us know anything
Is there a way that
Is there like a cycle of
The ambient lights coming up at all?
You guys really haven't
made the intention to figure that out yet
People all just got a run around
Going I guess it's time for bed
I guess it's time for bed work
We all became red nicks
I look at the white moss to see which direction
it's pointing
We're all nature
Nature 18
From what you're going to tell
Staring very intently at the white moss
That is growing in a small patch
Inside of your hotel room
It's growing
It's totally missing
They never call
They never write
I think that it means that it's noon
Are you sure about that?
No wait you hear it now
I hold my fingers
I hold my fingers up to the moss
I have no idea how people do that
Oh yeah
I'm going to scrape it off
It's
It comes off in like a thick sheet
Roll a constitution
I'm just watching it
I licked it
Constitution saved
Stop being dumb
As you lick the moss
Nothing happens
But it's a lot like
What you'd imagine
licking moss that tasted
Like a vaguely of flour
I can see why they make everything out of this
Is it good?
It tastes like flour
It's kind of like bready, yeasty
Coco who did not catch that
From the DM
He says like a Virginia
Or like a tulip
Like a tulip
Have you ever seen a tulip dell
Because it doesn't sound like you have
Have you ever
Been kissed by the rose on the grave
This beat don't do a lot of kissing
Have you
Ever
I really want to do the
The
The second verse tricks over
I've never danced with the devil
By the pale moonlight
Coco get your dog
Stovers get
More
You're not trying hard enough
That's a quote from Batman
Psycho sources
We expect Warner Brothers to be our first
Lopsided
Like a brother's original
Yes
You took our words
A day
You
You might have also gotten it from some place else
I don't know actually
Step right down
Alright boys
I'm ready to go see
What Tyrus has for us
Let's see who Tyrus has
Can I bring a blanket
If you want, I mean we have a blanket
Do you want to wear a thug blanket
That I commissioned for us
No, it's okay
I'm gonna get up and stretch
And head out the door
I provide for you
As you stretch you kind of like nudge Del a little bit
And almost knock him off
Because four of you crammed in this little room now
Is more than this room was designed for
And you step as you march
You briefly trip over
Step in and head to the door and open it
And head out the hall
And you breakfast
I'm ready to go
I could eat some breakfast
Alright
Let's get it. I want to talk to Gwen anyway
If she knows where there's a bank
Or somewhere we could exchange gold
We're just gonna give it to him directly
And the form is in
Not given to him
That's what I was thinking
What are we going to do
I forgot about that
Cause that's how we wanted it anyway
I have 14 different notebooks
I've been using to take notes over the course of this campaign
I did not have that written down
I feel like he would be a bit disappointed
If he found that all of his gold bars were now
A piece in his first home
If he wants them in bars
He has to go to the bank and pay like a
He wants to melt them down
To build a giant gold statue outside
Let's just give it to him
But exchange not like
Give because we need money
Yeah, let's just keep it for you
Well, we can just give
We can get money though
Money is useful for
Feeding little brothers
Good thing I don't have any of those
My sigh stormed out the stairs
Gwen
As you guys can see
We're in the main room of the Hitchhick
Gwen looks up across the room
She's really working on your
Next blue blanket
She's pretty far in
Like on these three quarters
And she holds up with great pride
She shows you the intricate design she's doing
She goes, it's taken a bit of effort
But I think it's kind of
Closer to the design
That I just sketched for her
70%
You can tell instead of
A lot of the more elaborate
Fireworks and explosions
It's got some doilies
Oh, that's adorable
She put her personal touch on it
And it looks better than I got
A better hope for her
It definitely looks like
A grandma's interpretation of
A
Explosive action scene
What are those doilies?
Why is they
Oh
They're beautiful
This is how we're measuring the passage of time
By how far she goes on the cruise
I thought I saw her on the cruise
I figured it out guys
She's got a bold emotion
I very much like this portion
She points to one of the bigger doilies
She's like, dyed a little bit to represent
Different colors
Oh my gosh, that's so cute
That's my personal touch
And you have a gift
If everything goes well
I should probably be done by tomorrow night
That's fantastic
And then, your hat
Will be quick as a whip to whip out
Oh thank goodness, my head is getting so cold
It is rather chilly on the other side
My pad has been
You wouldn't think that there is
As much of a breeze down here as there is
There's a lot of intricate venting system here
It's important
For at least fresh air for us
That's probably for the best
That's why everybody is so chilled all the time
Because everyone has a chance to vent
That is two in that one
In the industry we call that a tupper
I wouldn't recommend going into the vents
What's in there?
Hot air
Probably some machinery
Hot air
We share a room
It's the cheese on the bread
What would you like to have?
Yes please
Two cinnamon rolls
And a
A Dell special
A Dell
A A
Dell
A Dell special
Crong!
Actually it goes toward husband
And the usual rigmarole happens
Where they yell back and forth
Crong can't hear
After a few minutes
She brings out two fresh cinnamon rolls
Or cinnamon loaves
For you to go in the cinnamon loaf
With cheese on top
For you to go in
Loaf
Or is there a heart?
Yeah they are
They should mark them that way
Loaf
It's just a single hole
Yes
I like that
I pay four to cross the counter
So I have the money holder
Thanks very much
And I have a cheap pocket
How much is that again?
Like silver?
It's probably maybe five silver for the three
I have to do math
Two two and three for the cheese
Exactly
Roughly enough
Okay I did it
Math is hard
Alright friends
I totally did that math harm by the way
I'm just realizing now
It's okay buddy
You just gotta count
Count your talents
And then when you run out of talents
You can start counting your pin figures
Oh I thought you said count your talents
That's what I thought too
Zero
I think you are very talented
Very very awesome
You have no apple
Is this true?
I have other things
Strong
Independent bird man
Well this has been delightful
Thank you very much
And now
I think we are ready
Guys I want to talk to you about something real quick
What's up buddy
So
I wanted to just share with you
Growing up
As a protege
Of Sylvio Jackson's harm
The greatest part of our generation
Well actually that part was
That part was great
That's not part of what I'm going to talk to you about
Part of my training as a bard
Was that I had to learn lots of
Stories
And a lot of the stories that I learned
That involved great heroes
And these great heroes
They left an impression on me
And I wanted to endulate them
So when I went out into the world
And I met you guys
And we started this adventuring thing
I got so excited
And I started getting more and more powerful
And I
I feel like
Yesterday
I maybe
Went a little too far
And I want to apologize to you guys
I want to apologize to the goblins
But I can't
No I think you should
I think it's too late for that for the boss
No no no
Don't understand
Guys
I didn't know you very well
I know you didn't speak
Orcish
Is Glenn still here?
She is
She's knitting
And you see as you guys mentioned
Like power and all this
She kind of raised her head up a little bit
Like squinty I looked at you
And I shrugged and went back to the knitting
Anyway I say all of that
And I just said
To tell you that
I'm sorry
If I could take it back
I would
I'm probably
I'm never going to use that spell again
I will do
Everything I can
As I gain power to forget that spell
Or a different one
That's all
I'm going to put it down
Excuse me
I'm going to put it on Del's shoulder
It's okay buddy
We all commit crimes sometimes
You should feel bad
And then feel better
Now that you've shared your feelings with Glenn
Not about the murder part
The murder was
Maybe let's not murder
Like that again
But you said a lot of good things about it
We've killed people before
But that was different
That was within the confines of the law
Yeah and they were trying to kill us
This is a little cold blooded
And I recognize that now
One good thing to take away from this
Is that you didn't kill everyone
You didn't go on a murder spree
Exactly
Once again, like with the bandits
Some of them got away
Because we let them
So we saved that one's life
Yeah, okay, good
And they definitely won't come back to haunt us
That's an enormous combined army later in this camp
No, they definitely can't come back and haunt us
I mean the two I set on fire
They probably could come back and haunt us
Because they're dead
And they died in a gruesome way
I mean, they probably
They probably are ghosts
They probably do have some owners all the time
We should find a player for you
Probably at some point
I've fought that since the beginning of our campaign
Almost do
But it's okay, I can heal
It's like I kinda can too
We're forgetting it
We're fine
We've got two almost healers
She's got motions
Stella, at least you didn't commit arson
Oh wait
Hey, too soon
For the ghosts
Well, I'm glad you got that off your chest
Yeah, me too
Thanks for listening guys, you I feel like
Are the closest thing
Bless you
Thank you
I'm so sorry, she is allergic to
Emotions
No
We're not a terrible person, Stella
It's real bad this time
I'll just walk behind you guys
We're front
So I can take
The hits
Stella, it's okay buddy
Yeah, he's gonna be over here
Really hard not to sneeze
It's okay bud
I think you did great
Except for, you know, some choices
But we have to pass those choices
And even though I probably will never
Wear anything made of metal again
You know, we all grew from that situation
I think you took the easy way out
And sometimes the easy way is
I wouldn't say the best way
No, you're not helping
For the mind
You move things along quicker
Yeah
Like much quicker, we
A single tear lease out of Dell's mask
Who knows
Where we would be now
If we didn't murder two innocent people
I mean, innocent
They weren't, I mean, it's true
Hey, that's so good, they know what
That's true, they still broke the law
Didn't they die recently?
Yes, but they did do something bad
So you were not out of love
And therefore you followed
Your own moral compass
And...
Alright guys, I think Dell's had enough
I'm the tale of Dell, the master murderer
It's like Timon is a sort of rap roasting Dell
Who's the fire of his own sin
Dell, for the next three hours
We are going to berate you
By this one decision that you made
This is the rest of the episode
We all got some time, sure it's hot out
Too soon
Thank God this is a tester
And we're never going to show this to you
Except for the sound bite, which will just play on repeat
Every ten minutes of the first episode
Yeah, it's the intro and then
This is a tester who will never see the light of day
And then still on laughing
We're good at this guys
Well Dell, now that you've had that time to think
And talk and be sad, are you ready to go
Talk about your extra arms that you've had
Yes
Let's move on to something happier
Let's move on
I'm going to listen to all your music at three
I'm going to reach your head out to the door
You can see one look up and kind of look at you
And then look at the door
And look at you
Look at the door
And then go
It doesn't work like that
I'm going to slowly close and try to stare down
Like his arm line, like what's he pointing at
I'm going to slowly stand in front
Of his hand
Come on Dell, we need to go
Let's go
How's you guys going to leave here one go
The blanket should be ready tonight
Feel free to come back
The door closes
Just try and stop this, all the doors close
I don't think she wanted to stop us
I think she wanted us to come back
Then check it out
But we're not checked out
No, we still have like two nights on our cab
Where are we
Where are we going
Tyrus
I was sound asleep
No
I believe that
I had this dreadful nightmare
That
A small goat
Would never see before in my life
Was licking my feet
Are you sure it wasn't moved
Who?
I look at Dell
Confused
Whoot
Are we celebrating now?
I think we'll start to Dell
I don't trust him much
I'm gonna do an inside check
Wait, my phone is broken
I guess for us if you're being honest
You can
Roll persuasion
You're intentionally lying, you can roll persuasion
Eleven
I don't know what I'm rolling for
But eleven
I'm guessing plus something
Well, you have to add your modifier to your persuasion or deception
If you're lying
Oh, I just vaguely
I have forgotten
Who was
That was the thing that kept me from listening
So you're not lying, so you're rolling for persuasion
I vaguely remember Whoot
You could have feel that he is almost entirely forgotten
Whoot
Other than there was a small goat he saw at some point
He was telling me
He's on the level
He usually isn't
He clips a lot
Okay, you remember
I've had some weird
Head pains lately
I apologize
You remember when we were in Ceylonia?
Okay, you remember
That night
After we
Had the show
We had some fun
Doing some adventures and stuff
I was all jazzed up about it
And I wanted to
Do one more thing
And we stopped
Someplace
Do you remember what that place was?
I can't recall for the life of me
You remember what we did?
I don't remember what we did
I don't remember
This is not a good test
I remember now
This one too
Now I'm aware that
That memory changing spell
Would be very effective on the three of you
Remember when we did that thing?
No
I remember now
I know exactly what you're talking about
You get jazzed up about a lot of things
That's true
I do like jazz
It's appropriate
It's got more of an R&B vibe to it
Play jazz, baby
Did we find a bahar I recall
Us doing battle rock?
Do you remember
We have a friend who lives in a bag
We found him
Under something
They're talking
I smushed for the jokes face
Like that real S.N.U
Also we have a friend
That's a rabbit that's got a horn
We always forget he even exists
I've stopped forgetting lately
Since we got a mini made up one
When we were in that room
We said there was four of us in there
There was actually five
That's six if you count our friends in the bag
You see a little clamp hand
Shoot out of the bag and go yes
And then back down
He's my favorite
And you're a fern to put on a joke
And get it, yes
Of course
Did you remember on the main ticket
Before he reached his hand out of the bag
Oh yeah
Okay
Let's see
Fill in the audience
This is a review for us and them
Cora Joke the rabbit with a unicorn horn
Called an outmage
This is the episode where it's just flashback
It's a montage episode
We had a candle from a witch
And didn't meet it
Because I have fairy fire
I basically guaranteed my first board was going to be like a tiefling
Or something with the way that that went down
I'm going to go
You see
The candle let us see invisible things
We were fighting a monster that was invisible
And somebody had fairy fire
And didn't tell us
I was playing music
While they were having their meeting
Because I'm the guy at the party that just plays the guitar all the time
And wasn't telling me we can't episode at some point
We should have though it would be fun
Now that our music has resumed
We didn't have a long pause
We're going to have to edit that later
And now
A message from our sponsors
Anyway, as you exit
The hidden gem
We say this walking into the Tyrus'
We catch up on our Netflix queue
The tavern
That is carved out of a large
Geo with blue reflective crystals inside
Or I'm sorry purple reflective crystals
I think that's an important freaking analogy
I'll edit that out
Is that the surrounding area?
Essentially the entire building is one giant
Geo
As you walk in the door it's just like reflected purple
Like crystals on all the walls
Oh my god I can't wait to see that
Where are we making it?
Other mechs and stuff, give me a picture Jeff
As you approach the hidden gem
There's essentially one kind of carved out
A rectangular
Portal with a wooden door and a carved out hole
For a window
But as you look like
It looks very unassuming from the outside
It's just a standard black kind of
Rock exterior but as you open it up
It's just like purple reflective crystals
Forming like the wall and ceiling
There are essentially four booths
On either side
Of the walls leading up to the one kind of
Long back bar that Gwen sits at
The bar kind of stops short
About three feet from the side of the wall
And then there's a door in the back
Where a crumb kind of yells out and stuff
Where you can get a feel in the kitchen
As you enter along there
If you were to hang it right
Instead of continuing through by the back bar
You would go down the hall which has the
Four ruins
Which you guys are occupying
The first one on the left
What does it look like as we walk to the
Tires?
So as you exit the hidden gem
You're not very familiar with the series
It's just like four nights here now
You hang it right, you walk past
You're not going around to see the instructions
On your head and then directly to the right
And down the large set of stairs
Leading to the central
I want to say cavern
But that doesn't look
Central area
Cavan makes it sound cave like
Very well constructed hexagonal
Central chamber
That's what I'm looking for
Which houses the main
Market district and some
Buildings and houses of
Deep Shield
As you head downstairs
You can see the large fountain
With the largest of the illuminated
Crystals shedding light in here
Flooded by all the other crystals
Scattered around the ceiling
You march down you see
People are starting to recognize
We're just in passing like oh that guy's familiar
He's usually here this time of day
As you head down
You cross by the fountain and you head start
To head by the rock bottom
In
Can we hear
Sabah saying what's her name
Zivari
Not this early in the morning
You're not hearing anything
And as you kind of walk by
You see the table we originally met
Madmug, Belch, and Pig
Three goblins you guys keep tricking into doing things
It seems like no one's really
Frequent in it
You do see like a goblins just passed out
On the little porch area
In front of it just
Real perception
Poo-poo-poo-poo
Some tea
You walk by you get a pretty good look
At them and you're like
Not one of them
Good, my boys are working
Yeah just kind of slumped face down
Like head hanging off the edge of the porch
Just like
Mug hanging like over one hand
Just clearly drank way too much last night
You start to head
Toward the science district of Deep Shield
Whereas you head up those stairs
You see the large blue orbs
Channeled with
Kind of an arcane electricity above it
And as you walk back through the doors
You see the large copper coils running through it
And it's a stark difference
Between like the very traditional
Dwarven home on the inside
You see the
Kind of
Looted almost library to the right
It has a lot of the same architecture
Of the royal chamber
But
A lot of the intricate jewels
That are in the royal chamber have been removed
Long ago
It looks
Like a very much abandoned
And left to
Rock building
That used to be very ornate
On the left you see Tires Brons hands
Shop
For lack of a better word
Lots of electricity
You see tiny robots coming to a fro
You see where you originally dropped off
The large cart of gold
With a merman thunder boots
Tricks
We had many tricks
Brightly illuminated
With the same kind of pulsing blue electricity
You can kind of see like occasional as you walk up
Flashes of like bright
I shoot out the windows
Like he's clearly working in there
We going
Inside
We go
As you enter
Do we do that too?
I like stock after him
Is this a traditional creator?
I've never seen a beautiful
I think we should follow suit
Feel free
I do it alongside Del
As you all enter in our rather interesting fashion
Like Angry Bird by Leanne
Not at all as a normal pursuant interish
We dance
If we want to
We can leave it all behind
Because
If our friends
Okay
What's Tyrus doing?
As you enter you see Tyrus is at the table
Originally
You saw Giddiff had been disassembled
He's now at that entirely different project
Going down now
You see large arc beams like shooting off
Like just huge like
Tesla coil like arcs shooting up
And connecting with large things on the ceiling
That's like almost seems like a protection for him
Because like heavy electricity is going into this
And any kind of feedback is going to be
Shoo! Like sucked up back into these conductors
But he's entirely focused on that
It's not even registering you guys matter
And as you look around you see
Little tiny robot assistants kind of running around
A handful of them
You see this giant
Essentially stone golem that he had
You had seen earlier
Um
It essentially looks like a combination
Of a mad scientist laboratory
And a mechanic
Do we see the mech suit in here?
You don't see the mech suit
Good, Dahl couldn't take it
Tyrus
That would have been triggering
It's okay buddy
He doesn't respond
He's just a little assistant and just like
Wham!
Is there like a bell or something?
My cloak makes an illusionary bell
And I tap it
And say ding!
At that point you see
One of the arcs like electricity
Sharply hit the conductor coil
And Tyrus
And he shrinks his back out
And he's just gonna lean over that
He's stretching his ears like whole back crack
And he turns around
And like the thick like
Leather
Almost like radiation at you for it
You get an x-ray
Like really heavy duty
He turns around big welding mask thing in front of him
As he pops it up you can see it as like
Thick beard
Looked up at you guys
What's wrong?
Tyrus, we had something to show you
Dahl has a new power he learned
I think it could be of some use to you
I'm gonna pull out a sword
And I'm gonna lay it on the ground
Dahl do the thing
No it's nasty dirty magic
I don't like that stuff
I want technology, I want science
Machines is the good stuff
Give me act
That's creepy Dahl
I'm gonna go
That's creepy Dahl
It's in his science
Induction
How do you know what that is?
That word just came to me
Dahl do the thing
That was incredibly scientific
Sounding and now I am mildly intrigued
I feel his forehead for favorite
You can also worry about your friend
I told you guys
I'm really bad at headaches
Go on do the thing
I'm just
I'm just don't have a thing
We were covering the thing
Dahl do the thing
You did cover the thing
Dahl you're on the spot
I do acknowledge
You succeeded in your task
Better than I expected
I will not be entirely offended
And we did it quick
This is science
Heat waves are
Important
Alright
I guess I'll waste my
A second level spell
To cast the spell
That I just found
I would never cast again
And heat up his
Sword
That's the sword
I'm going to do precipitation
And warm it up with that
As you wave your hand over the sword
Sorry
It's the rating part
Now we got to put a big old M next to it
I already did that
Don't worry guys
It's fine
As you wave your hand over
You two remember seeing when he cast
Heat Metal on the robot
Like the next student that it turned
Red and then almost white hot
And as he waves his hand over the sword
There's the color change
Is it like heat rays at all?
No
And as Tyrus looks very closely at it
You sing heat
You hear a loud snort and he just spits on the sword
And there's not even a season
And he just looks up at you
And goes
Somehow
I expected more
Stupid terrible magic
Very inconsistent
To be fair I say
He did just about never to do that again
This was a hard time
That we just had yesterday
I apologize Tyrus
My friend is being a bit
Shy
Shy?
Shy is not the word I would use
To describe the group of you three
Did you just call me
Shy?
I back away
Mask
I am a bird
I perform
For everyone
I'm not shy
Tyrus rubs his hands together
The one bronze gauntlet's meeting
His flesh hand
And as Del is singing he just reaches out
And sets the bronze hand against his stomach
Del I'm gonna need you to roll a strength check
Oh no
16
I'm gonna get him to the strength
Almost instinctively
You take a quick step back
Which is what saves you from the
BOOM
Force impact that hits your stomach
And just knocks the wind out of you for a second
But doesn't send you across the room
Sorry about that
I don't know what came over him
As I said he's being a bit
I flop a hand over his mouth
And squeeze
Where I think his mouth is
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
I could only cast a vote of silence
Jon I'm quite disappointed in you
Has a marketing opportunity
So, what brings the three of you here so early in the morning?
Is it early in the morning?
It's early in the morning, guys.
Oh.
I'm sorry, I didn't know.
The moss is pointing up, I thought it was good.
That is weird.
Um, anyway.
It's about five o'clock.
I almost had it right!
You guys took your long rest at like seven o'clock.
Oh my gosh.
Can you, next time we need to ask a time before we go to bed.
Um.
Or what time it is when we wake up?
Elling was up at 5 a.m. grinding.
Elling.
One hand, excuse me.
No, she was up and eating.
Breakfast to serve, you know.
Yeah.
Um, anyway, to Tyrus I say, we did not know the time of day because we are underground.
Uh, so-
No, I'm sorry, Dwarves.
I look at Flu Bloss for a moment and then look back at Tyrus.
You see Tyrus looks at Flu Bloss and like, brings the same monocle thing that he once looked at you with.
And brings it to his eye.
And looks at you for a while.
I'm gonna brush like my cloak with the feathers on it.
And then he brings the monocle back down one side of the two of you and goes,
Yeah.
Clearly there are no dwarves other than me here.
I do like the Cronk Rye.
And he's just heavy-sized.
The most exasperated, like I am not paid enough for this type of sigh.
Um, we came here for two reasons.
I say hold them three fingers up.
Um, number one, we wanted to ask if you were looking for gold bars because we know that Murgon brought you a shipment
and we ourselves have a few of gold bars and we were looking to exchange them
so we might have more money to invest in the city, the local economy, our projects that we might work with you on.
We wondered if there would be some kind of bartering system that you might employ.
Yes, we could still. We are closing in on the end of that project, but I could definitely use some now to finish it off.
How many are we talking?
I have ten, I think, right, DM?
I believe so, yeah.
I have like ten thousand gold and change, so I figure that probably ten thousand would be...
Roughly a thousand gold per bar, yeah.
That's the kind of thing that I was thinking.
It's almost an entire shipment.
All right, what are you looking for?
Well, we had a couple of ideas.
As you saw a moment ago, I'm not strong.
So I was thinking something to put on my arms or a bracer or something that would make me stronger.
Also, as a bard, I like to use my instruments in my adventuring.
It's kind of my thing.
I was wondering maybe a flute and maybe it could do, as I'm playing it,
there's like maybe a trigger or a button or something I could do that would create a bright flash of light
that would blind or confuse the people that were playing it.
Now, just be clear, ask me if I can make you some kind of explosive device that you can hold next to your face.
Not explode, just a light flash.
Yeah, something that goes big and bang if you want to be two inches from your face.
I'm not bang.
What about something highly reflective that you could pass the light in front of and then it might, pochah!
Sure, that thing. Can you do that thing?
Something that shoots.
Pyro is just like a heavy size.
It looks like you're looking for something that can incapacitate an enemy and you want it to be a musical instrument.
Uh-huh.
Okay, now, if your heart is set on some sort of large flash bang, I can do that.
Or you can maybe let me put something together that would work similarly that maybe wouldn't literally kill you.
We need him alive.
I don't know, but my idea is not a trigger.
No, we need you alive.
Okay.
Take it from someone who's been in a few shop accidents and as he raises his like, bronze hand and like, wiggles the fingers.
Bring it back down.
We'll take it.
Sorry for your pain. That's not gonna hurt.
It doesn't hurt.
I tried.
It makes him feel worse.
I just thought maybe, why are you so awkward here?
I just wanted to think of a hand for you.
I need a tool.
He's like, oh that guy with police. Who am I thinking of?
Sting?
No, that's not at all.
The guy with the police? Who else could it be?
I saw Ben from Parks and Rock with police.
That's who you are. You're Ben Wyatt.
What happened?
You remember Ben Wyatt from Parks and Rock?
Every time you talked to a police officer, he'd be like, hello sir, how are you doing tonight?
He'd freak out.
It's like that.
Pardon my 13 year old voice cracks.
No, I'm not.
No one's me.
That was a worse, that was a worse, wild wasted spell.
Stop saying stuff.
Science.
Wild wasted science.
That's about what I expected from Magic so far.
Yeah me too. I just wanted another further representation of how gross magic is you guys.
Del, we're gonna talk about this later.
I'm so sorry, Tyrus. I have no control over this.
Your arms and my face.
Nobody has control of magic. That's why we should stop using it because it's awful.
Tyrus, this bowl of pretzels is delicious.
I was saving that for my lunch.
I slid it towards him.
So, is there any other requests you have in exchange for the Gold bars?
The both.
So, I know it's embarrassing to say, but as an air coker and myself, I've never been able to fly.
Right, I imagine you have never flown before.
It's nature see the side I have to you going.
I have like one of those like, whoo, expressions on my face like,
maybe it probably falls open a little. I don't know. I don't know birds.
Is there any way you can teach me?
Right, as an adept flyer myself.
Well, you too are a featherless air coker.
I can tell by the long hair and the...
You would like something that would allow you to fly.
That would be quite nice.
I say to him like a whisper, or maybe just like jump really high. That'd be okay too.
That is more easily achievable.
I whispered that some flugos doesn't hear.
I'm playing with the robot dog.
You see it as flugos plays with the little robot dog.
Tyrus briefly like, you see a slight smile creep as he looks at the little dog.
And then he goes back to looking very starting.
I'm dancing with the robot dog.
How?
Tyrus looks at the little dog and just kind of goes,
if you want him to fly, that would be all of it and then some.
Figured?
If you want jumping high, I can probably do that and the special instruments.
And as he's playing with the dog, I say to Tyrus,
as long as you really sell it, you'll do that.
Doesn't it make him so much happier being a just fly though?
I think we get a lot more trouble.
We can work out to that too.
We can always come back and do missions.
But we don't have any.
If we have 200 gold plus whatever you guys have, we're on to the boss.
And then he's going to those carriages to find a simulation.
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm aware.
It's good, that's good.
He'll be in that positive.
He said the thing.
Boom, got him.
He said the thing.
That's the money shot.
Since I would not.
Gold gun.
We're not, there's no camera.
A fancy instrument and the boots or whatever I decide to make.
He's scared of things covering his feet.
No boots, no shoes.
Maybe like a leg bracer.
A whole leg brace, that would be great.
I was about to say it wasn't entirely even, but now we want things that make someone jump that can't go on their feet.
So no, I would call that even.
Legs are fine.
As we keep just upping the difficulty of the things I need to make free.
But on the plus side, you have a band of adventurers who get stuff done, albeit unorthodoxly,
who would love to work for you again in the future.
Tell me the thing. Just get it.
Tell almost everything.
As you again tell and then just looks away and again disappointed.
This is going famously.
Now...
Thank you.
I believe we had some other business in exchange for the max suit you brought back for me.
Yes.
Which for those of you listening along at home was considered the loading rig of the Monster Manual.
That's cool, Jeff.
He goes back to the desk he was working on and he pulls off what looks like an extraordinarily...
It almost looks like heavy plate armor for a human,
but it has these intricate blue etchings going along it.
Kind of lining all the different outer ridges.
There's a sharp, almost ice blue sculpting to all the edges.
Outlining almost a scale pattern as it runs down the chest piece.
And as he holds it up he goes.
I designed these for the little dragon friend who can materialize.
I point behind me where he's been sitting this whole time.
I would assume.
And as he looks a step or two he...
Kind of walks over and holds up the giant.
So you realize this is essentially a giant breast place for him.
He goes, I have measurements in the on point.
And he hands it to you.
And as you reach out it is surprisingly dense.
Like, he got me.
Staggered a little bit, my bird arms.
He goes, you don't intend to sneak him anywhere, right?
He's really bad at sneaking.
Well, he'll probably be even worse.
He leaves that to me.
He reaches back to the table and he pulls off.
These ones are more long and jointed in the corners.
And he kind of looks like a...
I'm not sure if these would fit wings.
But I had an idea for a future.
That is very appreciated.
And he kind of hands it to you.
He is, like, are they bigger than like his wings are now?
A little bit bigger.
A little baby wings.
Yeah, eventually it'll fit the first portion.
But it looks like the second part is like a joint that can disconnect and like reattach later on.
So like they might fit his next form and then the attachments will fit his...
It would probably hit as he grows to a medium size, but there's no way he would reach.
Like, he's gonna be way too big for a large size.
That's cool. We'll be back with that.
I said nobody in particular.
As I'm like measuring it against his wings, we'll be...
Cool.
If you decide to put these on peppers, it will give him a plus one to A-Seed.
Oh, cool.
Like the whole thing or like with the wings too or like...
Yeah, Polshman.
Essentially his arm or something.
Cool.
I start...
I forget where we are entirely and I just start getting this boy dressed.
Oh no.
Do I get advantage because he's my boy?
Sure.
Okay.
Good.
Because that was...
Look at that, it's still 14.
That's 19.
No, 17.
I know that.
Plus six, plus 11 is 17.
Stepherz puts it on pretty well.
You see as you go to like put over the...
the kind of chest plate armor, it has to go over his head and he kind of like...
shakes his head and finally back and forth first eventually.
You know, like get his head in there.
It fits pretty well.
Yeah, Stepherz, you're such a handsome boy.
Yeah, Stepherz kind of like...
leans up, you see like a big smile go across his face and see what kind of...
then kind of leans over on his side with the heavy armor on.
Just lays down.
Aw.
Thank you.
That's gracious.
Does he look like he's enjoying it?
He doesn't seem overly bothered.
I wouldn't say he loves it right now, but...
He'll get stronger.
He'll get stronger and fit it better.
Or rather, acquire the muscle.
He's just a baby.
Guys, he's just a baby.
And he's our tank.
He is our tank somehow, yes.
And our DPS.
Stepherz, the dragon is 1000 crits.
Yes, it's 1000 crits.
If I decide to engage you all.
I've like dedicated this particular G20 only to Stepherz.
And whenever I roll it, it's bad, but for him, it's gold.
I think it's still red.
Actually, it's plastic.
Terrace looks...
somewhat pleased by a brief second that it looks like everything he did just fit together perfectly.
And then pretty quickly goes back to the start of the book.
Thank you, Tess.
I'm very excited to test this out.
It was in exchange for the job he pulled, so...
Pay.
Now, I believe you also had ordered some arrows.
How did that come out?
Well, I made these.
And he pulls out 10...
They look like normal arrows.
He pulls out one more.
And he blows it into someone like a crossbow he had in the corner.
He goes...
Brief demonstration.
That's not me.
And as he pulls it, he fires it in like a large cork board on the other end.
And you can see as it fires at about like 10 feet away, it looks like it separates into three.
Oh, he traded his rolls.
That's awesome.
Literally traded the last.
As he walks up, you can see as he pulls it, it essentially...
It's the same mass of the arrow, but it's like it's much thinner.
It's like the arrow literally divided into three.
It's like, come back to you with the three pieces and it goes...
They can be fired once.
And they do less damage because of the mass reduction.
However, you can potentially hit three targets with them.
That's very, very amazing.
As we agreed, a gold piece for these rolls.
If you have separate, just do the lightning rolls.
Yeah, it's actually a target roll.
I have my favorite exotic again.
Now, I took the liberty of upgrading the idea, because this was a bit too small for me.
I don't know whether to feel insulted or proud.
And he hands you a thicker bolt.
It seems like a heavier arrow.
And this is like, you make one of these as it's slightly more difficult to achieve.
And he passes it to you.
He reaches over to his desk and pulls off another one.
Demonstration.
And he loads it into his crossbow.
And then he lets you three and goes, we should step outside.
Ooh.
And as you exit his shop, he kind of looks down toward the back wall, where it looks like
it's more like a junkyard back there.
You see bits of metal and just thrown away projects.
Rolled perception for me.
14.
I'm pretty enthused by this.
16.
10.
Uh, Del, you don't quite make it out.
Uh, Fulvas and Poké, you notice you make it out?
Yeah, you do.
Do you have a second character, Stephen?
Well, I do.
As I tell you every day, bring another character.
Uh, Koké and Fulvas, as you look over the junkyard, you make out what looks to be the arm of the
mech suit you brought, his legs in the junk pile.
Oh, man.
And he loads the heavy looking bolt and he takes a step forward in the group.
He's maybe only like 30 feet away from the junk pile at this point.
And as he fires the bolt, there's a slight whistling sound as it flies and as it connects
with some of the junk pile, it ignites mobile flame.
That just continues to burn for a little while before eventually fading.
That's really cool.
And as he turns to look back at the review, he just kind of...
I'm going to explain this anyway, even though I'm pretty sure the three of you are going to
entirely understand.
I've combined a lot of the science of the Alchemist fire, put it into a fireable version of
the bow and arrow.
The mixture of chemicals are trapped inside the shaft of the arrow and as it detonates,
you will see the point of the arrow actually ruptures that's creating a point where the
oxygen can mesh with the two chemicals which creates a reaction that produces a flame.
And I... these are somewhat more difficult to make.
Ten gold piece for these.
I have one now.
But should you return or not, I can't make them.
That's very impressive and I cannot believe your work.
Maybe before we leave this place we could work out an arrangement where, you know, if you had some extra stock of those,
I could buy them every time we're in town.
Maybe we'll talk before we leave.
You know, Tyrus, I would almost consider your scientific ability to be magical.
Why do you do this to us?
Don't ever say that again, Durin.
I'm so sorry.
This is science.
Point in fact.
You saw the point.
Magic treatments.
Wait, would it be cheaper if it was magic?
Guys.
Guys, this is the deal is we got all of this stuff for doing a job.
Well, we could get it cheaper.
You pay for quality.
And pay you will as he holds out his hand.
I give him ten goals to start and say I'll take the multiple fireball ones from now.
And I assume we'll be making more gold on our way back because the gold bars were most of my money.
That's fair.
And so please return.
Or I will return to buy the gold bars.
I need any more.
Well, I'm going to Edward when we make the deal.
We'll get to work on the requisitions so you can pass over the bars.
How much was the giant fireball one?
Ten.
I mean, the giant fireball seemed a little excessive, but I'll buy that one.
I have seven gold now, everybody.
I'll buy the giant fireball ones for you.
Fireball arrow?
Yeah.
Essentially, you are able to cast the Alchemist Fire Jar, but it's actually a show.
That's so cool, Jeff.
However, it's going to be an arrow that essentially can fire in a 15 foot cone.
15 foot.
And you can hit three targets, but it reduces the damage to 1d4 per target.
So 1d4 per...here's a question.
If steppers blesses them, is it...
It would still be affected by steppers.
1d6 for the whole cluster or a d6 per arrow split?
It would be like a d4 instead.
You could choose to either have them focus on one or spread it between the three.
How would it work if it was spread and be reduced damage?
Essentially, whatever you rolled would be divided between each shot.
Okay, cool.
That's cool.
With a 6, if you rolled a 6, two for each shot.
Okay, cool.
Anyway, what were we doing?
Tyrus just showed off his cool Alchemist Bolt.
And then Del bought me a really nice, explodey arrow.
So now I have two explosions.
Briefly installed in the freezing and said, you all think too small.
Yeah, I mean, that's fair.
At this point Del, or Tyrus just kind of turns and goes, if that's all and holds out his large, like the bronze gauntlet he wears on his arm to take the 10 bars bolt.
What was that jar he gave us for...
To destroy the...
Yeah, because I didn't...that wasn't what was firing.
So I have two out of this fire.
You have one throwable jar?
Yeah.
And you have a fireable bolt.
Right, it's like a placeholder just so I know that I have it.
But I'm not gonna have to add another one, because I have another one.
Or essential oils.
Okay, I'll take the other one away after the home's red.
Yes, because we grenade.
I have everything that you guys can't be trusted with, except for the beat.
I have the beat.
And the pots.
I used my Viann, wait.
Steven, no.
At this point Tyrus is just awkwardly holding his arm out and waiting for you to give him the gold bars.
I start taking them out of the bag of holding and like, get him please, please grab the bars.
Get him please.
You reach out and take the first one without an issue, but as you start to pull the second one out,
it gets about three inches out of the top of the bag before the plant manager goes, no!
I take out like my last remaining silver pieces and it's like, no, look here, here, like with the dog.
Like, get it, look.
There's a long pause and then the other claw reaches up.
I get one and I dangle another one over.
You see the clamp hit the silver bar and then they both go down to the silver piece and they both go down back into the bottom.
Dang it.
The other, well his hands are full so I start taking out the other ones.
You get about another three before and you pull the other one out and no!
No.
Grab it again.
Can I arm wrestle him for it?
You go straight.
Oh gosh.
I hope I'm stronger than a tiny round metal man.
Oh man.
I can't scroll.
19.
Yeah, you just pull it straight out and there's just a sliver like how you peel like little gold slivers from each side.
As you pull it out of the stand, you go, no.
Oh, get it, I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
Now you just have to do it nine more times.
I'm going to do five now because as you extract the silver.
So I have five more?
Yeah, you got to get five more.
Okay, I start trying to rush it.
For the sake of you speeding this along, there's at least one more interaction with Gith before you finally get all ten out.
Buddy, I'm sorry.
And then as you pull the tenth out, you just hear, I'm under the books.
Aw.
I'm sick of my whole head like practicing there and I just start whispering like, don't worry buddy, we'll get you a nice big plate sometime soon.
What does it look like inside the bag of folding?
It looks like an empty bag.
Really?
Yeah, like there's nothing in there.
Get it, stand.
There.
Okay, so.
I'm just whispering into the void.
You essentially, as you put your head in there, it blocks out all life. You don't see much.
It's just dark.
And briefly you realize you can't breathe.
Um.
I exit.
Okay, that's your response.
I can't think of anything.
I'm just a breathing person.
I say out loud.
I'm just breathing.
Did you guys know there wasn't a year in there?
Haven't we turned corner joke in there?
No.
Corner joke has never gone in the bag.
He's never gone in the bag.
Jeff made sure corner joke would not go in the bag.
Good.
That's for the best.
You did put that guy's arm in there once.
You did put that guy's arm in there.
And there's a bunch of squishy dead, uh, instructions.
You have a bunch of dead baby crevice.
You still have 15 pieces of, uh, chitin armor.
Talk to Shayra about, I remember things.
That one time.
Maybe we could trade him those, uh, armor pieces.
No?
I'm fine with that.
Maybe for the, well, maybe.
DM, would he be the kind to make armor out of something natural or is he purely like a metal guy?
He could potentially do something with it, but it wouldn't be entirely his wheelhouse.
Would Shayra be a better resource for that?
Shayra would be the much more like, I make things out of pelt sand, hide sand.
I explain that to Del.
See, Shayra is where it's at, man.
So we said we bring stuff back to her like the acid pouch.
She might either have a use for it or she might pay us for it.
We can sell it around.
She can do it.
Oh my gosh.
She wants the whiskey.
Now that you've been tires the bars, you just kind of walks in and that would be your shopping.
Only two, three in the alley.
Do I have the arrows now?
You have the arrows.
Ten of the, you said ten of the split shots?
Ten multi-shot, one out of the spire shot.
What else do we have to do right now?
The Queen wanted us to check out the mind players.
Yeah.
The disappearances.
And the goblins are working on it.
So we should check on what they found because I said a day or two.
It's been a day or two.
It's been a day.
But we can see a day.
Or two.
We're moving.
Would you go sit at their table?
It doesn't hurt anything to try.
You can talk to Shaburi again.
Shaburi?
Yeah.
He's in the car.
I take an ownership of this episode.
I really know.
It's people who want to see it.
I'm listening to all of you.
I have a headcanon that Koka can't say all the sounds with her feet.
So sometimes she just gets wrong every single time.
Like, remember?
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You hear from the distance.
This corner joke is niggling on the top of your board.
You're working deep shit.
I was in cityway.
It was like an old lady or something.
Like in the distance.
Well thank god something to do.
Let's go guys.
Oh no, I need your taff.
No.
I'm falling out of my can canon.
I said we make this canon guys.
Bring a portrait.
It's dead silent in the alley.
David, you're gonna die.
Because I am the DM.
Not Emirates.
Not Steven either.
I love a pea, not Cali ever.
Oh my gosh.
This is my story.
I have one job.
I have like a slight background for how you guys ended up on that, but it never really came up.
And then you guys rolled real, real low.
Yeah, we rolled really bad.
It was like we were knocked out.
We don't know.
We paced Rob does I guess.
Yeah, it may come up again, but.
That was the story.
It was a funny time.
It was weird.
It was a time long ago.
Yeah.
And now we're here in the alley of Deep Shield between the library.
Heading to Rock Bottom?
I think that's what we decided.
Yeah, I think we're gonna go try to find Mad, Madface, Madmug, Madmug, Madmug Pig and Bill.
And Go-Binish Creature.
Pig's Ark.
What are they?
They're not Go-Binish.
No, that's cows.
They're swine-ish.
You want some cheese to go with that swine?
Ah!
And then you put two pieces of bread and you get yourself a hand in cheese.
Boom.
Got him.
You're a vegan.
You got yourself a good afternoon meal.
He's a vegan.
Sponsored by Ham and Cheeses.
And I'm kosher every time.
Yeah.
I guess I'm vegetarian.
This joke is not made with any of this.
No, it doesn't.
Rock Bottom, here we go.
Yes, we're heading to the bottom.
As we exit the Science District and head back downstairs, you walk past the Science District.
Yeah, it's a whole district of science.
It's pretty much, it's divided into districts, but it's not exactly been fully.
The whole district is just the library of buildings.
They are very large buildings, but...
Let me let us see if I can call it.
Science District.
The Science Hexagon.
Science from the High.
Steven, what is your mini today?
It's a head.
Nice.
Very good.
Yep.
That looks like a hack-a-fight I ever saw one.
As you approach Rock Bottom right now...
Maybe it'll be noon.
Took us seven hours to get from Tyrus' to the time.
There was a demonstration.
Yeah, there was.
It was a lot of talking, armor fitting of a dragon.
I used to believe that we were just having a discussion in the alley afterwards.
We stopped for like tea somewhere.
Quick short rest of the alley.
Are there any coffee shops nearby?
You have a brewers kit.
You just brewed us something.
I brewed us something.
There we go.
I don't know how the brewers kit works.
I don't know if you can even do that.
It takes about an hour.
We had time.
We spent seven as you hung out in the alley.
Yeah.
That's why we're all a little punchy.
We had a nice coffee brew.
Nice pour over.
Nice chemex.
I'm triggered.
In the dirty alley.
What has Tyrus been thinking as we've been...
I hope you took the golden wood and went back to the shop.
You guys essentially just sat down in the middle of the series and I think we'll go to next to the junk pile and start doing a pour over.
While you're brewing, I'm going to give you inspiration and then I'll get it back because we take a short rest.
Roll survival.
Add this to it.
I think...
Oh hot dang.
This is going to be the best coffee you ever guys tried to have.
Oh heck yeah.
My survival is really good.
Eleven.
After all that.
With Del's help, artfully playing guitar music as you pour your pour over.
It's a basketball cup of coffee.
What do you guys think?
I pretend to drink it because he probably doesn't know that birds can't have caffeine and so I'm just like doing the conflux.
Pour it over my shoulder.
It's good.
It's fine.
It's adequate.
She's always loved my coffee.
You can talk to beans or a little burned but otherwise...
I should have burned coffee beans.
I guess I'll turn into a wharf so I can take my mask off and start drinking it.
It looks eerily like Tyrus.
The coffee looks just like Tyrus.
I call this the Tyrus brew because he's dark and doesn't have much flavor.
Anyway, after your delightful cup of coffee outside of Tyrus' shop,
you head back down to Rock Bottom in more ways than one.
You notice that goblin who was originally drunk and passed down the steps has gotten up and made his way roughly two houses over as I was just sitting down by the side of the road.
You can tell there's a little more commotion going on inside but it's definitely not like busily busy hours for a lot of people.
You share a claim?
Is it a bargain?
You hear what sounds... well, roll perception.
No, I just tell you everything.
What do you mean?
I know 15 of them.
I'm gonna say having kind of hung out with Del for long enough now.
You can tell she's playing music but it sounds more like a long one.
There's still some faint tuning going on. There's a melody and then you hear a note and then just a...
And then the song starts to play again.
Under my eyes.
She's in their voice.
Are they goblin too?
I don't know.
Sharon is.
You guys wanna hang out and listen to some music?
They will see us here at their table.
That's a good possibility.
Their table's outside though, right?
Their table's outside on the front porch.
We could sit at their table.
Sing the line we wanna meet.
Unless you wanna sit inside.
I wanna watch the show.
I can sit outside.
Sure.
No, I think we should go in.
We can go in.
Honestly, I probably wouldn't pay attention to the meeting anyway.
Maybe Del could learn a lot from this musician.
Or she could learn a lot from him.
You know it's a collaborative thing.
We all learn something from each other.
Us artists are a tight-knit group.
As you guys go in, it is still dim in there.
I think because it's clear there is no actual...
Everything in the caverns is like illuminated by these glowing crystals.
There are no crystals in here.
It is just dim. Only the ambient light from the outside illuminates it.
From this dim lighting, you see Shul the ogre is behind the bar.
He has a towel on. It looks like he's mimicking clean.
But he's just staring up the ceiling and rubbing the same spot on the bar.
Maybe you lost in thought?
Maybe asleep? You're not entirely sure.
As you look around, there's not many people in here yet.
There's still one or two goblins just passed out from the night before.
Their little bodies could not handle the amount of drink they had.
Because as you remember, at rock bottom, there is the one drink you can order.
I remember. I'm not going to order a drink today.
You see Sivari in the far corner. On the same stage that you had seen her before.
Roughly...
Two days earlier.
Kind of warming up on a loop.
As the door opens and light floods in, she looks up and you just see her eyes.
You don't.
She just continues the warm up but keeps giving you the evil eye as you walk around in here.
Down the churvi way of...
Another way of... Hi!
Is there a table near the stage?
Hmm... It's not so much a table. It's more like...
A barrel.
And then like, there's a stool that one leg is like a little shorter than the other.
And then like two passable chairs.
Well you guys could like make a work, but...
Yeah, I know this is a little messy, but I'm going to make a work.
Okay, we trust you.
You guys want to see me through?
I'm going to go get a table. I'm going to go get a drink.
That didn't work out for you well last time.
I was to fly.
It was fun.
That night was the closest I've ever come to flying.
Oh gosh.
It's probably still kind of giving you the death stare as a few of us heads over to shoo the ogre.
And as you approach the bar, shoo is just still staring at the ceiling, kind of mouth hanging open.
Like just rubbing the same spot on the bar with a greasy towel.
Shoo of my friend.
I'm going to flick him a coin.
Kind of lands on the bar and like does the roll and a circle thing.
You kind of shoo, just kind of snaps out of it for a second.
And he kind of brings like his head back down to you and he's like the hushed whole shoulder and everything.
He kind of looks at you and goes,
Yeah.
That is one fine piece of currency for a drink.
One drink?
One drink.
You see like the large hand just drops a towel on the floor.
He smacks the gold, pulls it and like shoves it in as a little like coin purse.
And he just goes over with the big tackered and just pours one big drink for me from the one tap.
Shuts it again, kind of walks up and puts it in front of you.
So sure, the rock bottom, huh?
Yeah.
Is that your name? Did you name that?
Yeah.
I find that to be a very, um, a very elegant name.
How did you come up with it?
There are rocks downstairs.
In the basement here?
Yeah.
How many rocks?
Lots of rocks.
Are they your rocks?
Yeah.
Where did you bring them down there yourself or did you just find them down there?
They were there.
Oh, I understand now.
Good talking to you, buddy. I will take my drink now.
Okay, bye.
He kind of just like doesn't move as you like turn it down like water.
He just kind of like washes you walk away.
I kind of look back and show as I get to the table, I go, you know, don't make eye contact.
I stay staring at the door.
Don't, uh, I try to spell Holy drink from my own water and walk her in there.
Did you order that?
Yeah.
I wouldn't try.
No, of course I didn't.
This is my water potion.
Okay.
It's very operate, so I have to like...
And then do like the blah, blah, blah, blah.
You don't like put your feet in the water.
No, except my drink looks like it has to be like a bowl.
So when I have to order something, it has to be like a bowl of water so I can, you know, my entire face into.
Okay.
Uh, just for funsies.
Fluvus, Rolola, Constitutions.
Shweep.
Don't you like your brewers?
I think do brewers get like special something?
Dwarves get a...
I want to say a bandage on Constitution and some are others.
They do. They get a...
I'm not even looking at the right one.
A nine.
Alright.
It is kind of quiet in here.
Savari is still kind of warming up, but now that she's kind of seen you come in, it's just still like...
Angry eyes.
As you can tell, she's definitely like trying to put more of a show on and she's like playing and still warming up just to show off a little bit.
And it's going...
You can see how she's playing. It just sounds amazing.
And you're kind of stunned by the fact for a second that you're like, this is the warm-up?
Like this sounds nothing like the concert before.
Like this sounds like borderline master play right now.
As you're listening, you're just going...
It's how she's probably better than you were.
Were. You've gotten better too.
Delphi, life-changing?
I really know how to hurt you.
What's with you today? You're being so mean.
No. I was not...
For offense.
I'd like to cheer her on.
Ooh, Savari, you're amazing.
Here, have this de-aid of inspiration for your next role.
As you yell like these helpful words to her, she kind of plays and then like pretends to ignore you.
As you can... You play a lot of very encouraging, boisterous music with your bardic work.
Her music has... Well, it was originally sounding more aggressive at the Moon Festival.
It's now somewhat haunting as she plays in this place.
It's very minor chord but melodic.
And you can tell, especially these rock walls that you're in, it just reverberates and builds on itself as she plays.
And it's just very...
Like that?
A lot like this.
Like, not so much spooky but just kind of somber but also beautiful in the same run.
Gosh, this is... She's really talented.
Not better than the very... like... very talented.
I think it's hard to compare two different parts.
It's really a little more like... Yeah, exactly. But no, she's a little...
It's always...
You sit and listen and she plays through a solid piece and eventually she stops and comes down and walks,
not leaving eye contact with you, though, where she assumes your eyes would be in your mask.
I'm gonna say, why are you here?
Well, we were meeting some goblins but I also decided I wanted to hang out with you.
You came to meet some goblins?
Yeah, we got some goblins that are doing some work for us.
You know, like, we made a... We had some work that we needed to do and we thought these guys could probably do...
Tell me you were pressure.
No, we just... We made a deal. You know? Like, have you ever made a deal?
You're saying some was maybe out of your depth and you needed to hire some professionals to help you deal with the situation?
No, we were delegating some responsibility because we had other more important things to do.
I am.
Yeah, he's totally right. They found out that there's like demons or something around here, what not.
Scary.
Luckily, we're the sort of professionals who...
The first time you see her eyes leave, Dell, I'm looking at you very intently and I need you to roll a deception check.
Oh boy.
Twelve.
Her eyes narrow very sharply. I continue smiling.
Kind of unaware of what I said.
I'm choosing to just continue like...
Anyway, we're very...
I was drinking water.
Drinking water was my noise effect for that.
I was very good at dealing with that kind of thing, so...
Demons and monsters and things.
And helping people out of tough situations that they might have found themselves in.
Oh yeah, Dell's a cleric. He does all the magic and healing and stuff.
I do some healing. I'm not necessarily a cleric, but...
I find you're a cleric.
No, he just makes friends with clerics.
I don't explain why you need the goblins to be actually heavy lifting before you know it.
I mean, they're finding information.
No.
Do you know when clerics are there?
Well, you know when goblins step out of line, I usually set them on fire.
That's true. You did that yesterday.
It's savvy for you.
Yeah, that one wasn't savvy.
But anyway...
Oh yeah, we better hope that we don't have any demons hanging over our shoulder after that one, Dell.
Otherwise, we need some people to help you out.
Well, you know, people have been hearing voices lately, so we'd best if we didn't hear any more.
Sure, still looking you, Fugos.
And you can see...
With her natural, tiefly appearance, she looks at you and she goes,
I've been called a demon myself.
Oh, I would question.
I didn't mean you insulting.
No, no, no. That was wrong choice of words.
The demons are pretty powerful. I don't know if that would be an insult.
You're a powerful bard.
I'm darn right I am. This is not my first time here.
However, it is going to be my last night as I'm leaving.
So, if...
What's that? Are you going to come stay at the Hidden Gem?
Because I know they would love some music.
Dell hasn't gotten a chance to play. They were really helping.
I agreed to stay here for the week and I'm going to pick this up.
I'm only moving out of deep shield.
That is really too bad. I've been trying to get a show set up at the castle
and I was really hoping that you might be able to play.
I can't stay a few more minutes.
And I would...
I'm spending with someone who likes you.
Well, you get an audience that...
Recognition. Collaborating artists. That's what you do.
You know how much that Fugos and Mards make a lot?
If you're staying here, you can't be making much.
This clientele ain't great.
However, I will be playing with you and your...
You can open. You can start. Start the show and close too.
Right Dell?
That is exactly what I was thinking. You would close the show.
Opening and closing together would be the same amount of time a full show would be.
And you would be the first and last things right here.
I think the best thing I could do for my own personal show
is to not associate it with the likes of You Three.
Actually, after the last time that I played...
Well, that was a competition. This would be like a collaboration.
And You Three clearly did something to throw off my act.
You just denied that you did.
Yeah, they didn't do anything to throw off your act.
I just flew and got stabbed.
All I know is that three of you were there
and that show went worse than the other one before.
So You Three clearly did something about it.
I'm going to forget that.
I don't know why you're not such a grudge.
Maybe that's the demonish attitude that people think about you.
Whoa!
I mean, if that people are calling her a demon...
That's a bit rude.
That's not very nice, but if you're rude...
I apologize for my friend.
You know what, pal?
It's just some people can be really bigoted.
I'm very much against all this monster talk.
Well, he's talking. I'm pushing him off.
I've been called that sort of thing myself.
And that's one of the things that with my music I'm trying to fight.
A Cocoa Rolls-Rank Check.
Five.
You're going to push and it's your chair that rocks back a little bit.
You start to lose your balance for a second and then reset.
That would take a while.
If anything, a show at the palace would be our opportunity to raise awareness.
Roll persuasion, I would be happy to.
I should never roll persuasion ever.
Let's see.
Yes.
Oh, no.
That's okay, because I can't roll over in the time.
Okay.
Because I'm a Silver Tom Bard.
So, 17.
She looks at you in rows.
I'm happy to watch where I am.
And I tend to move from here to Greener Pastures.
Greener Pastures? Where is that on the map?
I'm trying to figure out what the world is.
There are some more turns of phrase.
I stand up and I turn around.
I insight check her to see if she's lying and throws off a path.
Sure.
17.
She seems honest that this is probably her last night in the city.
She's hiding somewhere better, quote unquote.
You're not entirely sure about that part.
But you at least know she's not going to be here tomorrow.
I was in over to Del and whispered,
maybe Mushroom's gone.
She's already been in the arms.
Okay.
All right.
Well, can we ask why you're leaving so suddenly?
I feel as though we have an excellent opportunity here.
I just wanted to know, by all means, tomorrow you can play here.
If you think this is such an excellent opportunity.
I think so.
However, I feel like the people would be rather disappointed by her performance after mine.
It wouldn't be me.
So, that's right.
I'll start to continue to darken my doorstep.
That's another term of phrase.
Del, the last bard.
It's already dark in here before we got here.
Did you need your ice cream?
I have an original ice cream.
Oh, you have dark vision, don't you?
Dark doesn't bother me.
She's got dark vision.
I had dark vision.
I just have blind sight.
Yeah.
I'm left.
No, she turns her heads back to the stage.
That one was very nice of her, Del.
I thought it was a generous offer.
You know what I'm saying?
She puts away the woot and goes out of the violin and starts to tune it up now.
I sit back down and listen to the show.
When she starts getting going, I'm going to cast Fairy Fire on her.
I start watching for Mademom.
It is somehow even better than the loop play.
What?
It's a 25.
She flies on her.
And then she just angrily, you could tell there's definitely like,
the loop portion had been that like, somber.
You can tell this violin piece is definitely more energy into it,
but it has that same like,
it is definitely not what anyone necessarily happy to use.
It seems more like what she would have wanted to play at the Moon Festival.
Like a...
It's got that dramatic, like fiery beat to it going on that
if this was a better location, probably people would be dancing to.
However, it's mainly just Shul, who is now starting to bob his head behind the floor while staring at it.
Still at you guys.
Is anybody in the bar actually either conscious or like paying attention?
Not really.
You got the two just straight passed out goblins.
Just imagine a practically empty room with like one guy at a table like leaned over like
and completely passed out.
The construction crew who was like kind of frequenting this area,
this is like where they were staying, had all left.
Like you essentially had a lot of the regular business of this area have now left the city.
And now that like it's the middle of the day, a lot of the dwarf construction workers are out work like building stuff.
This is not the opportune time for this place.
This was not ideal.
People don't come here for lunch.
This is where you go to drown your sorrows at the end of the day.
Oh man.
Does Shul offer any food?
No.
It is just drink.
I'm so sad.
She probably heard about your sandwich too or your bread, your Dell special.
I mean I understand jealousy happens when you're in misaligned work.
I just wish that we could come together and hug it out so to speak.
Yeah.
I'm sure she would love a hug.
I think she's not ready for it.
But once coming.
We'll get there.
Yeah.
We'll get there.
She's going to be my friend someday.
We're going to bridge gaps.
The two of us together.
Just make sure that the gap that is bridged is not the space between her horns on your head.
That would probably hurt.
Has Goblin's shown up yet?
Do I see any Goblins?
Roll per se option.
Not for pointing.
Oh dang it.
Holy buckets.
What a great time for that.
There is so many Goblins.
That wasn't my annual hand-over lunch.
Not only did you find the Goblins, you found Woot.
And the demon.
I have never seen that go before.
And those books that the Queen has.
You see everything.
And Burgund's.
Exactly.
And the book.
And Burgund's.
Including the book.
Look out there.
There's the story.
It's right in the middle of the book.
It's like that meme where you start seeing numbers.
You see the Goblins?
Cocoa?
I see everything.
You don't see them.
But as you sit and listen to Savari,
you with your natural ranger instinct are able to drown out what's around you to listen to fainter things outside.
And as you sit and listen to you just hear one burp.
Somewhere outside.
I hold up my finger.
Stand up.
Walk out.
As you walk out,
you can hear, well it sounds like a handful of Goblins kind of talking.
Like around the corner of the building as you start to head along the side of the rock.
Thank you Jeff.
Those were very salty.
She picked up an empty glass and Jeff is filling it for her.
For those of you playing at home, kids.
This is the sound Jeff's aggressive fridge makes.
Thanks, Jeff.
You're welcome. Would you like some more Coke?
Oh my gosh, I would love that.
I still have a little bit.
The Coke massively refrips my, not the drug, not the drug.
The drone.
We play a clean game here.
Thank you Jeffery.
Here.
As you round the corner, you see Mad Mug kind of having a close discussion with Belchakig.
Roll, there you try to sneak up on him or you just kind of...
I'll sneak up for to be freaky.
Roll stuff.
I call it a fear.
I think that's gonna be like a 10.
11?
As you start to try and stealthfully approach,
you trip over some trash, which then knocks over a slightly larger pile of trash in the stack alley.
And you see all three of them turn and look at you and go,
I'm like, big eyes.
Hello boys.
Hi.
What are we up to today?
What about you?
Chicken.
Did you say chicken?
Checking in.
What are you checking?
Well, we already found out about
Mercari.
Now we're wanting to know more about
about the job.
Yeah, the job.
That job may be more dangerous.
The original game I've been out is...
It sounds like you know something.
You'd be surprised if you could spend about a million years.
Well, if you know something that we agreed to pay you for,
then you should probably tell us.
But here's the problem here is I know what I know.
What I know is that it's worth more than what we agreed to pay.
Hmm, doesn't sound like it to me.
Because I don't know what you know, so how would I know what it's worth?
Well, if I tell you what I know is that you would pay for it.
Hmm.
You see the conundrum.
I see.
My gold staying in my pocket is what I see.
If you don't know more than I do, I can just go find it out myself.
Here's the deal.
We had talked 150 for this.
If you give me 200, the information's yours.
But I would also like you to forget that we ever had this conversation.
You never hired me for this work.
And you never talked about this again.
Hmm.
That sounds like a conversation you need to have with our front man.
Because I have 70s so great.
I don't say that last part out loud.
Saying that for speed.
No, it's good that you're the one having this conversation.
That's what I figured.
I'm like big fuck at me.
I got nothing.
So how's that?
I'll go talk to our man.
See if I can bring him back here.
Make it quick because I'd like to not be here anymore.
Hmm.
That would make two of us.
Stop sniffing my insulin man.
It's like a leg of my character.
Oh.
The dog's like this.
Lala!
Come on.
Go in the monkey.
Um.
I head back inside.
Go in the monkey.
Find Elle.
And Elle.
Our boys are outside and they want some more money than we originally knew from.
So you recall.
They flamed, they'll forget the conversation.
Oh, you got the monkey.
I think they just want more.
Anyone can get them to talk if they try harder.
I just...
I really didn't want to have to do this.
I get up and I go out.
I follow making sure there's no more metal on me at all.
I pull my seven silver to clean us.
Now you listen to me.
Thank you.
Shit.
If you ever want to find me again.
I'm sorry.
You want me to find out?
I'm even warming up.
That's the one.
That's the one where you use.
That was very good.
Thanks.
I was intimidated.
Good.
My feathers are flat on my head.
No, you got to perk them up.
You got to be there too.
Okay, okay.
I do little horn feathers.
I have a blue feather.
Is there a window in this window?
Where is Petrified?
Petrified.
No.
But that's turned to stone.
I am emotionally petrified from that.
And I have a...
What does it do?
You have...
They have advantage on attack rolls.
You fail strength and dexterity saves.
I have a fail on my strength dexterity saves from that.
You are incapacitated.
Can't move or speak.
I carry him over my shoulder, I guess.
Can you sneak behind them and then just like...
Be there all of a sudden?
I'm great at sneaking behind them.
What do you want me to do after that?
Just sneak up behind them and then just like walk up and then like...
Like when you're right behind them, then like kind of let yourself be known that you're like right behind them.
That's it.
I'll do this.
I'll give them the...
Yeah.
Was that good?
That was perfect.
Okay.
Do that.
I'm going to give you inspiration to use...
Oh, trust me.
I need it.
Either sneaking or intimidating or whatever you need it for.
It's all yours.
I fluff up.
I fluff up my feathers.
Because I can't talk.
I don't look like this.
Well, I guess I'll try and sneak out behind them.
Roll the stuff.
You got it.
I got full horned, heartbeat, all the poops.
Oh my gosh.
So, to preface this...
You have luck, don't you?
I have a...
I know I can use it for this.
I have a plus eight on my style.
And I had inspiration.
Thirteen.
This is perfect.
Del and Koka, as you round the corner to talk to Madmug Pig and Belch.
I failed the stealth check.
Not the...
Madmug kind of looks at you real quick and goes,
Ah, it's here.
K.
So, here's the deal.
I don't know if your friend informed you here,
but our information's a little more than the original.
Oh, I've been informed.
K, good.
Listen here, you little shit.
I'm scared.
My...
I uncork the bottle of my last smoke.
Just a little bit.
Yeah, whatever it is, I uncork it a little bit to give some...
Great, great.
I'm gonna change my vocal chords to make it sound a little bit more demonic.
So, the ever smoking bottle will immediately fill the alley full of smoke so that no one can see anyone.
And cast Fairy Fire on myself.
I'm burdened.
I forgot how that works.
I just think it's more like fog clumped in.
We need to figure this thing out before we continue using it.
Maybe if one of us read the card about it,
it's provided in everybody's DMD app.
You popped the cork and you just whoosh this giant pile of last smoke.
I was thinking this background does, but glad you cast Fairy Fire.
You call on us.
Yep, so...
So I'm gonna use the day in the violet fire.
I start subtly flapping my wings to clear out a little space.
The DM has left the building.
Jeff, come back!
Hold on, Haley.
I'm trying to intimidate.
Oh, I said this was the DM.
Hey, Jeff?
Yeah, no, I mean...
What are the chances I'm gonna be able to use my performance instead of my intimidation today?
Oh my gosh.
You want to use what?
My performance instead of my intimidation.
You're awfully trying to intimidate them, aren't you?
Shh!
No, it's fine.
I'm acting.
Sounds an awful lot like you need to roll an intimidation checkup, right guys?
You tried.
I was gonna use my glimmerly float battery this week.
That doesn't work.
Oh no.
Okay.
23.
An intimidation?
You know what?
With the...
Because intimidation is a charisma, so I still have a high modifier.
With the sudden smoke appearance and the backlit light around you and the demon voice now appearing,
you have startled them.
In fact, you know, smell a slight smell from Belch that is different from the usual smell the Belch has.
I start flopping my wings to see if I can smell it.
You're too familiar to a smell that I recently smelled from a goblin?
This should call you the urinator.
A goblin piddler.
So much better.
Hey, there's no call for all of this.
I just wanted to re-negotiate.
Do you have any idea who you're dealing with?
There are much worse things than what you believe to have stumbled upon.
From behind them, I'm going to whisper in the ear, I listen to him.
I cast telemetry G and make the ground rumble.
You will not break a deal with me, or you will find yourself in a worse place than rock bottom.
Do not speak unless you have been spoken to.
There's a long silence and the Belch just burps.
I look at him and I flop my wings and fatally I slam my fist into the wall and say,
Answer him!
Which is it, answer you or wait till I'm spoken to?
You've been spoken to!
I'm not going to be spoken to.
I'm going to be spoken to.
I'm not going to be spoken to.
When my kind, when we make a deal, the deal is binding.
You give us the information and we give you more work later.
I would answer him soon as his voice is getting tired.
You don't want to see what happens when his voice gets tired.
You pick it up and there's the very comical jump forward and he goes,
Eyes wide.
I get him 150 gold.
He takes it and then very slowly backs away toward Madmug.
Madmug snatches the money quickly out of Pig's hand.
I'm disappointed that we spent that much money on this.
You have some plus sevens all over.
Thanks.
This scene is worth 150 gold.
Yeah, honestly.
So Madmug goes,
Okay, so here's the deal.
Coco, write this down.
What should I do?
Keep standing there. Good job, Fluvans.
Yes. Good job, me.
It's good to encourage your employees.
Thanks, boss.
Write that down, Elch.
I look up to you.
What's the information?
And pay them fair wages.
We split it equally here.
We're about to have a calamity.
Three of us are a team.
Okay.
This is scrounging around.
We have kicked over some rocks.
Scrounged around a little bit in the ears of the wheeler.
People from the area, the main location,
when Goa missing is actually not too far from here.
When we got over there,
Pig tripped, fell down.
Then he said, he started to hear the voice in his head.
We didn't like that.
So we left.
We were going to go down.
We were going down.
Here's the deal.
Pig said it could see us.
We didn't like that.
Then
something happened to Pig
and Pig passed out again.
And I had to go get help from Pig.
It was a whole other deal.
Thing is while we were scrounging around
or not, we found these rats, which normally doesn't bother me. They're quite tasty cooked
the right way. However, some of these rats had, uh, you could see the brains. And we noticed
once we knew what we were looking for. There's a lot of them around here, and they don't
act like normal rats. They carry to watch ya.
Did they have a hole in their head that you could see the brains, or were they just out?
It's like the brain was just out on the top of their heads. It was kinda creepy. I don't
even like being around here anymore. You should leave. Yeah, that's kinda the vibe we're getting.
This is getting creepy around here. We don't want to be the next group to disappear. So, if you don't mind,
I think we're done here. We're gonna make our ways out. We might take a little vacation.
Go see some family in the mountains. You know, wait, where in the mountains?
We'll group the goblins up there. So when most of the goblins down here come from originally.
Don't go there. It's not. Your stories about us, you actually go there.
Sounds safe for them, yes.
Your stories about us, it'll really confirm. Hey, you did, you did good work.
Yeah, guys, thank you very much. Yeah, not so much of the touchy.
Don't stop trying to hug him.
Don't go for the touchy. Respect his boundaries.
These weird business people still, no matter how much you had to deal with it, just keep it formal.
I don't know where they've been.
Can I go in for a hug and try and steal back some of the gold?
Roll slide of head.
Come here buddy. I know my employer doubt he's quite a scary man, but 13.
But it's okay.
You get about 50 gold back from him.
Dang boy!
As you expertly fish your hand into his coin purse.
I taught him everything.
And he briefly goes,
Listen, you guys are weird to touchy and be in a group.
It's not weird.
I don't mind touching him.
Nothing like a warm embrace.
No offense, but you know, we're trash goblins.
Look, we don't even know each other.
I just think, alright, you got the bird thing going and the weird faceless thing going and...
Bird thing.
You're still the most normal looking thing around here, which is saying something.
So, that's the first time anyone's ever said that.
I know buddy, it's okay.
Look pal, we don't even know you. What are you doing here? We don't need to be talking.
You're still being came here saying you got a tooth and now we're giving you the information and now he feels like a...
We don't know you.
You don't know us?
And you don't know us.
So why are we having this conversation and I went why and then the other...
I'll go back to Demon of Voice.
Okay, if you're not gonna give us the information, then get out of here.
Not really where it's going though, but good enough.
I wink also behind my mask.
He looks at you guys, very confused and goes,
Which, I thought we just had a deal. So what is going on right now?
Buddy, you wanted us to forget about you. You want us to forget about you.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. This is how you forget about me.
We're done, right?
Yeah, but when I walk away, I want you to forget about me.
The thing that we're...
So low.
The thing that we're like, that's involved in this eats brains.
So I think you guys are gonna be fine.
Yes, I don't pay.
Was I cutting words down?
I didn't put the magic in that.
That was rude.
We are gonna go.
Like I said, don't look for us. We're gonna go see some family.
I think we're done here.
I turn around and just start walking away.
Like I said, we're done here.
A deal's a deal. Don't tell nobody.
We look forward to seeing you again.
Why did they turn around?
We're Italian guys.
Hey, don't tell nobody.
Don't tell nobody. We know people.
Come on, Louie.
He rolled a two once, if he understood what was happening.
After they left, I say, yeah, those guys are definitely gonna die.
Yeah, they're not gonna live.
If those things have already been in their brain, they already know that they're working with us.
You know, once they've been talking to me on the side too, you know.
Yeah, you're gonna die too.
Yeah, I know.
I remember that sooner or later. It's now or in 20 years, so...
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Well, it doesn't matter if they die because at least we at least get to keep some of this.
I passed Dell 25 of that gold.
So you basically stole 25 gold from him?
Yes. I did. I stole 25 gold from Dell.
I'm so proud.
Did I see that happen?
To find your speed.
I probably did.
You know, you get the work to get it, you deserve it.
Can you roll a wisdom saving throw?
Great, I'm so good at these.
Oh boy.
Oh yeah, did you ever hit cancel?
No, and Jeff wouldn't let me.
You said a what saving throw?
Wisdom.
14.
Oh no.
As you turn and leave and walk out of the alley,
you've completely forgotten that interaction with the goblins.
I forgot all of that.
It's just going to be.
Do I remember what we were doing before?
No.
You were in the bar.
And now you're around the street and you're walking with your friends.
Cool. I'm not upset about it. I don't want to be there anymore.
Okay, you look lost.
I'm just hungry.
I would eat this at breakfast.
It was like eight hours ago.
Let's go find it.
I'm not going to show you guys the lollipop.
Oh my goodness, I found a cat.
Look at this baby.
Do we see any of those rats like nearby?
Roll perception.
Friends, I found an alley cat.
18.
I think it has a problem with its brain.
Let me touch.
Hello, good boy.
Oh no, it's broken.
Oh no, your brain is broken.
As we look around, you see rats.
None that really stand out to you.
You're in the dirt near the city, there's rats.
You're not seeing any with exposed brains watching you.
I'd like to at all times be looking around for that.
Okay.
If I see one, I'm going to cast a cat trap.
So I don't waste spells every time.
I'm just going to mock them viciously.
The rats?
If I see one, how?
Are you saying this out loud at all?
Well, you'll hear the vicious mockery.
Okay, understood.
Do you have the zoos?
I guess I'll share my plan.
If we see any of those rats, I'm going to make fun of them real hard.
Do you not like rats or something?
Well, not the brain ones that they were talking about.
I mean, I think most rats, they come with those.
Yeah, but the ones with the brains out, like Mademoiselle.
Yeah, there's no one with the brains.
Yeah.
The ones with the brains.
All rats have brains.
Yeah, but all the stuff you just wrote down.
To clarify, do I remember that these goblins exist at all?
Remember they exist.
You just don't remember talking about it.
Like meeting up again.
Okay.
So we do?
Have this conversation and you're starting to get this like complete information.
You become much more aware of that presence still in your head.
Yeah, I think in my head, you'd be still in there.
Most of us.
I...
Oh, I was reminded of this is music.
I was really confused.
It's like, what about it?
I was minding that the music change was good for this.
Oh, okay. Yeah, you're right.
All out of this in post.
Can I try to force the thing to end again?
Roll it across the kitchen table.
So great at these though.
Great.
Six.
Nothing.
I don't say a word to either of them, but I reach out in my cloak, which is very tattered from all of my travels and nowhere placing of clothes.
I rip off a strip and I tie it around my eyes.
But with blindsight, I can still walk and navigate within 10 feet.
So I can still follow you with my eyes closed.
Soaker, are you okay?
You seem a bit disoriented.
Um, I guess I rip off another strip and stick it in my ear holes, I guess.
Kind of say quietly.
I think that they've been listening this whole time.
Since this morning.
And I don't know if this is going to help.
Let's go.
Should we just take her to the hidden gem and then leave her there?
Maybe if you're in for a night.
I can't hear any of this stuff in the mirror or something.
If I'm trying not to pay attention.
Uh, you can't.
Well, perception.
With disadvantage.
Okay.
Uh, 16 plus whatever.
Six, stupid.
That's stupid.
30-20 was my lowest.
For 19, I guess.
You can still kind of hear them.
Put my hands over my ears.
Guys, don't say anything like I'm, I'm, I'm perceptive.
I'm too perceptive.
Don't do whatever you were just talking about.
I'm too perceptive.
Don't do whatever you were just talking about.
I guess she's got to come with us then.
I just continue holding my hands.
Um, you can try and get the thing out of your head really as many times as you want.
I'll just roll again for that then.
Is that kind of, charisma?
Charisma.
Oh, I just got on.
Let's, let's say for a second, if you're going to like sit down like focus, like you're not on my head, you're not on my head.
I'm just going to walk off to like the nearest building and like crab to my head against it and just start like gently rocking against it and banging my head against it every couple of seconds.
If she's doing that, then I'm going to be like, whatever the fuck you're doing.
I want you to do the best job you possibly can.
Here's to the eight.
Thanks, I'll roll again, I guess.
Should we get her some?
I'll try like three more times and then I'll do that, I guess.
Oh my gosh, you put all that, that's like your pain.
I know what that's like.
I know what this process and the group effort is.
Eventually you are able to shake it and you feel the presence of me, but as that psychic link is severed, you take nine damage.
Oh geez.
That makes sense, I'm going to hit him as well.
Awesome brain cells there.
Ow!
Oh my gosh, that sucks.
I think we're safe now.
I take the earplugs out really quickly.
I can hear you.
No, it's gone.
Like, I heard myself and I hurt you back.
I'm hurting you.
Okay, yeah.
You probably just trust me anyway.
What was the color of the window in the temple where we stayed in Chalonia?
I don't even know the color of the window that we stayed in Chalonia.
Jeff, what was the color of the window that we stayed in Chalonia?
In the room that we stayed in Chalonia.
There were no windows.
Do I know that? Do I remember that?
You can go along with my history, I guess.
Geez, 16.
Yeah, I think I remember.
There weren't any windows.
Essentially with being a coastal temple and the way that it is turgle, shell shaped.
Oh yeah, that's right.
The walls are front of it, unless it's rain, unless it's torrential, sideways rain, water's not going to be able to get into the open windows.
Yeah, that was an easy one.
What are the four pillars of the guard, the Great Protector?
That's not my interest, wheelhouse.
Leave that in.
Day five or three?
Day five.
Anyway, I don't remember the four pillars.
One was dragon turtles for life or something, I don't know.
Great Protector's in a half shell.
Great Protector's in a half shell and turtled power.
That was the theme song to the Ninja Turtles television show, original.
Originating in 2004 or something?
No, in the 80s. Come on, 2004.
I don't think that is true.
Zoomer, fucking zoomers.
I'm sorry, I'm a millennium.
I lost two birds for our audience.
We have like, that's the zoomer.
Wow.
Yeah, I was talking to make sure that it really was you.
But you're asking me things that I don't know, Del, why would I care about those things?
Yeah, it's definitely not.
Of course it's me.
Just don't talk about locations or people or we're going.
At least for now I guess.
Well I feel like they're gone, but who really knows.
I'm just hurt.
Well emotionally, physically and mentally I have the worst headache in the world.
Do you want a Tylenol?
What's a Tylenol?
Medicine.
Intermotion.
I read about it in my medical book.
I read about it in my book about hormonal birds.
Alright, where are we going?
I think to get some rest.
Do we need rest? It's like two.
It's like two in the afternoon.
I'm the only one that's hurt and I don't want to go to sleep.
I don't want a nap.
FluBoss is always ready for a nap.
I'm a little tired.
I think FluBoss, do you want to like, I think I hurt my foot down there.
Could you like, just tell me to walk?
It's going to take a while, but I'm super hungry.
Could you run ahead and like order some food and then we'll be right there?
Do I have any memory that times passed in that chunk of time?
Like, what up?
I need an intelligence check.
It's not going to be very fun for a brain for a reason.
I can't see.
Nice!
Thank you.
She's allergic to bed.
15.
Oh no. Who's there?
I call out into the nothing nest of the streets.
You can kind of make out that something doesn't quite add up, but you're not entirely sure.
It always seems like you woke up to head out the door and then all of a sudden you were in the street.
How did you get here?
I don't know. I don't know. Whatever. Fine.
I'll rustle up some food. I'll be at the flower.
And I just, I just ponder it as I head back.
If my blinds are still on, I guess.
I just take it off. It doesn't matter.
You're not walking around blindfolded?
No. Not for now. If they rejoin me I won't.
Because it was just me. The food loss isn't there.
I don't know. Do you think she's alright? Do you think she wish to bring her?
Does she let Phil her in? I mean she's got, I told her to write some stuff down.
So she can at least read what she wrote and like, something's affecting her memory.
Can't you hear us? No she went ahead. You went ahead didn't you?
Yeah. I'm like on my way to the flower.
Oh.
Jim.
I don't remember.
You're all walking back to the door and you're like, I'm out.
Yeah. It's too much for me.
Everything's hidden in so far away.
I go back to the door. Jim.
We can make her read that.
She'll see it's her own handwriting.
That's right. You said Cocoa right this time.
Yeah. I did.
Yeah. Jeff.
I mean.
Yeah Jeff. In my head, Canon, I check it when I write something new and then at the end of the day to review so I would not know right away.
I guess we, there wouldn't be any harm in showing it.
Yeah. The struggle I'm having is if they can get so easily into her head, is she a liability or is it worth it to have her?
Because she's...
Are you saying like...
No no no no.
Because...
That's a part.
Because I get it but we can't.
I'm sorry.
I've seen that side of you that I think that we have other options this time.
Blue glass.
I mean like if anyone else I'm all in...
Just go quickly. Just kill people in the streets.
Blue glass.
Not my sister.
Listen.
I don't remember if we filled you in on this part or not.
While you were sleeping.
She was contacted by these guys and they said that they wanted you.
They would let us live if you gave them you.
Now we're not inclined to believe them anyway.
But I want you to know that what I told Coco, and she agreed obviously this wasn't a community discussion.
It wasn't a party. But I felt I would never do that.
Because you guys have families.
They told you they were looking for me. They want you.
And it took you 12 hours for you to tell me that?
I mean things were happening. We had to go full seat.
I'm gonna go find Coco.
I'm gonna run ahead to find me.
Not good.
Not three.
You're running pretty sure she went this way.
You're running and you're like...
I should be able to find her. She's a bird in a city of dwarfs.
She just can't pick her out.
She's just my face in this situation.
I'll have you two go for the percentage X's one.
There it goes.
What?
19.
21.
Coco, how's your walking?
Especially now you're taking the wine full off.
You moved me to the city.
It smells nice.
You can't shake the uncomfortable feeling that something is watching you right now.
You just can't quite get a beat on me.
I look around.
What do I see?
You're going up steps and you see people moving around.
No one actually like washing you.
What's steppers looking at? Is he seeing anything?
Oh, perception for stuffers.
Let me see if he has a different wine.
He doesn't. Maybe he does.
He does not share my main stats.
The Israeli Obi-Wan. I want to say it's not a good one.
It's negative one.
So 14.
You're just walking along the edge and just looking at you.
You have a good... You get to that uneasy feeling.
Stevie.
I put the blindfold back on just because I feel uncomfortable.
Now knowing what you know, the food loss runs off ahead.
And I know what I know.
You know what you know.
As you're walking, you're just very like eyes open.
Are there weird little rats watching what's going on?
And just as you pass by on one of the streets,
one of the alleys you catch this very dim light very briefly
that just fades out.
And as you turn to look, you see one rat,
but it's just standing on its nine legs.
It's just staring at you.
And as you kind of look at it closer in the dim light,
you can see its brain is exposed.
There are other little rats kind of flying around in this alley.
You're still closer to the rock bottom than you are to the center of town.
But this one rat is just intently staring at you.
What kind of thing to say to me?
I've washed more brains off my weapon than there is in your head.
That was brought to you by Vardic Insult Generator.
I think it's, I don't know, I'm Reddit or something.
I don't know.
Let me give a look at it.
A monster by?
This one's by Rat.
Reddit, please, monster us.
Alright.
So the rat needs to make a wisdom saving throw of 15.
Yeah.
Or take a d4 of, say, a dino of wisdom.
And the rat's so incredibly high.
It might be.
This is my blindfold.
What do you have to roll?
A 15.
A 16.
What happens?
Nothing.
It's a canter of nothing happening.
They stare at this rat and as you say this to it, you see, its exposed brain illuminates briefly.
And then dims again.
Ah, press.
Okay.
Okay, alright.
That's fine.
It's totally fine.
If I painted back to the gem, I'd like to order three ghosts, two ninjits.
The one that's very excited your back, honestly.
The usual scenario happens.
I continue to keep my blindfold on.
Does it look something along the lines of this?
Oh no.
I don't like that.
It is a very dim light that does have a faint anguish to it.
But it only illuminates maybe like five feet around the inner edge of my pitch dark.
It's still pretty bright for a little break.
I am going to look a dead in the eye.
With your mask on?
I'll become, I don't know, a hack-off.
And I'll remove my mask.
And I'll look a dead in the eye.
And I'll say to it, I'll get my room down for a minute first, because I'm going to play this song in a second.
I'll say to it, penis pimple.
It's a porcust.
It is a...
What's that ability?
Unsettling words.
I feel unsettled.
Here's an inspiration die that you will subtract from your next save.
Then I will start playing a song and the rat will hear some dissonant whispers.
Another wisdom saving throw of 15.
Do you want to roll initiation two there, though?
It doesn't.
It just barely does.
Geez, these rats, man.
Very good.
Oh, well, I didn't mention this, but I was casting it there a little.
It was a two-way.
I casted a second level.
Whatever you feel me, Delwood is on it.
That is what I was doing.
That was my idea.
It's probably overkill anyway for a rat.
There's one rat.
There's a single rat.
But, for all you know, I want it.
I want this one to be dead so that I can study it.
I'll have somebody that knows what they're doing study it.
Geez.
Anyway, five seed, five d6 of psychic damage.
What the heck?
17 psychic damage.
And if it's alive, it has to move its...
It's a lot of damage.
Good, because I didn't want it to move.
As you play these strangely discordant sounds on your lute,
strange whispers start to emanate around the rat,
and you see it kind of seize up and then shrink down into itself.
And it just lay down around.
It has a small amount of blood that starts to come out of its mouth.
And you thoroughly, psychically damage this rat.
I'll look around to see if there's any more.
I pick it up and, I don't know, I guess pocket it there.
One dead rat in your pocket.
I go to find these guys.
Two less.
What do you do?
You're on your way to meet up with your sister.
You should be lined up in a hidden jet.
Yes, I'm just running to the...
When Adele was walking to the gym,
she saw you both cooking, sitting at a roof.
Do you talk to me? Do I know your life?
Because I have a blindfold.
Cocoa?
Huh?
If I caught up to you, I needed to discuss something with you that I just found out.
I'm slowly putting my hands over my head.
He's not paid yet, but that is the crazy rat.
How cool!
He seems to have exposed his brain.
That's a good answer.
Is that an actual answer?
Yeah, really.
That's awesome.
I slowly start putting my ears over my hand.
My hands are over my ears.
You, uh, would tell her, her voices.
What?
You think about me this morning?
Do I hear him?
Oh, okay.
I didn't think.
Yeah.
I give up because I'm too much of a thank-you-suff-tive.
Okay, this is important.
Okay.
I didn't want to tell you because I didn't want to freak you out.
This morning, I woke up and it felt like somebody else was up here with me.
And they were, they said they wanted to meet and they said that they wanted you.
And that if I gave you to them...
Or if they are, because they didn't tell me, you old heck of heroes.
I'm disappointed that you didn't tell me either.
Well, I think that's not a way to worry.
You don't need to worry about stuff like this.
It's my job to protect you and I'm protecting you, if I'm not talking to you about it.
Because that's what big sisters do.
Here's your bread.
I bought you some bread.
Thank you, thank you.
Well?
You have no idea who these individuals are?
No, I think they're mind-players.
I feel weird now.
I feel like I'm still being watched.
And so I'm really concerned because I have no defenses against them.
And I can't shut them up when they visit.
So I don't want to see or hear anything you guys do within reason.
Because I'm worried that they're going to find you through feet.
Let's...
Let's talk about Del.
Either we get them out of this or maybe it's time for me to leave.
Alright.
I love wine.
I eat my bread with my wine sight.
Del, can I confirm did you take the rat?
I did take the rat.
Okay.
Nice.
Confirm.
That was the whole point of using all those high-spells lots.
I wanted to make sure you had a mind battle with it.
I got it.
You didn't have a psychic battle with the rat.
That's something you can say when you're dead now.
I got it titled first in the script.
Psychic battle with the rat.
When I kill something, I got to go all the way.
All the way.
I'm sensing a morality shift in you, Del.
Thank goodness this rat wasn't wearing any metal.
Del, you're dead.
Focus shutter, super distance.
Yeah, DM has Del done enough...
This thing is clearly evil.
Has Del done enough chaos to change lives?
Is it evil, evil, yucky, bad rat?
Iki notty.
He's yucky, Arr.
He's not a good guy.
He's helping monsters.
Yes, no matter you, Del.
These are monsters.
I don't use that word lightly.
These things are monsters.
For those of you playing along at home,
the reason that Koka forgot that entire experience
was the voice in her head cast Modify Memory.
I am not a charismatic furry.
If we ever find other air poker, maybe I'll be a little...
I don't know if anybody can understand my nonverbal language.
Del, is you walking with a rat in your pocket?
What do you want to do?
So, listen guys, on the way...
FluGlass, on the way here,
I had an encounter that I think is an important step
that we can take to move forward,
but I am afraid that we are getting dangerously close
to following the main storyline,
and I think that we should put all of our focus on finding your goat.
Do I hear any of this?
Yes, with your goat.
Yeah, okay.
Del, enough of the rats already, okay?
You had to find rats in Shalonia about one time.
Now, every place you go, you have to find rats again.
This is not...
Is not doing rats again?
If I had a...
The rat captured goblins and learned mast bar and barge at issue.
If I had a nickel for every time Del went off...
I didn't kill any of the other rats.
You killed all of them.
And you a little bit deep inside.
If I had a nickel for every time Del went off and killed a rat,
I would have two nickels, which is not a lot,
but it's weird that it happened one of them.
This was a bad rat.
It was a brain rat.
What are you talking about?
Coco, read your journal.
What do you know about my journal?
What do you tell my journal?
You might have known this time.
Well, but I'm a little more stealthy than that.
Coco, wow.
Del has had the eye holes in his mouth.
Coco, read your journal.
I don't want to.
I think too much.
Mine, so I guess I read my journal.
My field notes.
And you can see in your handwriting...
Very detailed meeting notes.
From your interaction with Mad Mother Pig and Belch.
About that feeling that he'd leave.
That not really understanding you,
stealthy about them, not meeting with you.
Going to see that family in the mountains.
Very specifically, there is a note that says,
they found a rat with an exposed brain
that was acting strange.
Oh no.
Del, did you know about this before?
Is that why you went to the devil in Shalom?
I pulled out this rat,
and I sat it down on the table.
Del!
That's not a sanitary.
I kind of brushed it in my hands before going to see it.
We should take that to the Queen and show her that we're making progress.
And maybe she even knows something.
I don't think fixing her rat problem.
The librarian, James.
Ebna.
Like, know something about it.
Yeah, because we're the council.
I just don't think the Queen is the first.
Maybe Ebna might be our game.
Alright, what do we guys think?
I killed Ebna. Let's take it.
You want me to carry it?
You're not going to eat it, are you?
No, it's not going to eat me.
Vegetarian.
Birds.
Except for what I'm not.
What?
That's a plus.
For what?
Our pilot catch-act.
I think I have a plus one, but my thing's loading.
Yeah, plus one security.
You haven't really dealt with a lot of weird stuff like this.
Like, you dealt with some weird things, but nothing on this level.
You do however get a sense that one, this is not a normal rat.
At least not anymore.
But you're starting to put together that uneasy feeling of being watched.
Notes of rats with brains acting funny.
And their interactions with the mind flayer, knowing the association with the brain, telepathic communication.
You're starting to put together these rats might be connected to the mind flayers and they might be able to communicate.
Hey guys, I think that these rats are pretty clearly connected to the mind flayers, and I'm pretty sure that this is how they're...
This is a weed that's been talking to us.
Can I make a perception check to see if there's rats in here, or if there have been...
Yeah, you can.
Dang.
We should check for rats, guys. 11.
One's pretty clean.
You think she'd throw a pretty big fit if she realized there was rats in her restaurant?
That's fair.
We should be watching for this though, possibly as we go about our business.
I've been doing that already.
I did come up with it. I'm going to start taking notes for every meeting we have, as I have been, for everybody to do about my private journal.
Bluebuss, maybe you should start taking notes too.
He does better visually if he draws pictures instead of stories.
Maybe you should start drawing pictures.
I have been...
I pull out from my bag to additional small notebooks just full of little boy looking doodles.
Doodles that I've been collecting over the years. He takes a lot of notes.
Do you have any doodles of... oh, goats.
I have...
I don't think I did.
No, you didn't.
I don't.
You should make more detailed notes.
That's probably true, buddy. You see a lot of things going on.
I'm a lot of practicing.
I just... I have a suspicion about a thing. It might be unrelated.
I'm just going to put this on the board for us to know whether or not we should keep this private for now.
I mean, loot.
Oh, yeah.
It's kind of a similar situation.
Yeah.
I miss loot.
I miss his goat.
I just scratched corn and joked all day.
I'm more animal friends.
Corn and joked is good at blustering. A much better word.
I just, like, wring his face out with my hand because he's a sweet boy.
Corn joked is real floofy.
My picture was one of those big rabbits, like a massive... like, they were like the biggest rabbit.
Yeah, that lady who carries the world's biggest rabbit is like strapped across both arms.
Yeah, that's...
He's a big boy.
Stephen, remember I said to you this rabbit reel I sent to Jeff yesterday?
It's important to me.
Oh, yeah, that's right. I wanted to remind you to send me that rabbit reel that you sent to Jeff.
You too? You too, with this recurring joke?
Keep that in.
I don't like this joke, guys.
We'll need that later.
It's a mystery tool for later.
That is from Mickey Mouse Club.
We keep us from the house.
Alright.
I don't know the culture of this child.
You're a 99 child.
Well...
Alright.
It's because I have a 5-year-old.
It's because I'm still a 5-year-old.
That's roughly...
3.30?
We should go find up another one.
Endgame or out of game, because...
Endgame.
Endgame, ideally.
Yeah, we should find up another one next.
Very nice, guys.
There we go, friends.
This is mine.
I was curious if there would ever be an opportunity to cast Modify Memory.
I'm kind of glad it was.
There is.
No, you did not, sir.
Good thing one of us is virtually immune to that.
Right? I was thinking how perfect that is.
And we're just constantly like,
I'm also like, oh, you crazy man.