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Hello Invisible Ears! It's part 3 of our fight with the Mudboils. There were 3 at first,

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2 medium sized and 1 big beefy fella. Nix managed to get the 2 smaller ones fighting

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each other and the ferocious boulder kept bashing away at the big one, but then it

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grabbed me and lifted me up into the air and started squeezing me. Lucky for me that mud

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is slippy I suppose because I was able to wriggle out and from then on I kept my distance.

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Instead I hurled my sword like a javelin and can you believe it I hit it and it popped

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in a shower of mud. But was it all over? Nope. I think Nix thought it was because he dived

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into the mud pit and started doing what looked very much like wallowing to me, but - horrors!-

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where the big mudboil had spattered down, 3 small mudboils popped up! They might not be

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as big but they are definitely as bad tempered. I want to get out of here but Nix is still

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in the mud. What's he trying to D&D do do? There's some patches of bubbles coming up,

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I don't know where they've gone. Nix look there's 3 more. Oh my word! I think he's

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going to, he's quite a nippy little dude, he's going to run around the mud pit but keeping

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his distance from the 3 mudboils and he's trying to get to you. Can we just get out

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of here? But after Tagk it's the 3 new mudboils. Oh dear. They're going to start making their

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way towards you and one of them is going to get an attack of opportunity on Tagk as he

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runs around. Got ya. And there's also the boulder at the edge as well which is on the

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far side so they're basically going to peel off one each and try and attack. So Tagk is

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running around to you, but one is going to get an attack of opportunity on him but they

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roll at disadvantage. Careful, Tagk! And he's just... Oh it's so sticky! This is just not

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your natural environment. Oh that's good. A 9. Oh nice. A nice low 9. So. We'll have

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it. Yeah that'll work won't it? 9. It swings this mudboil, isn't quite close enough. Tagk's

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got a bit of speed on him and swipes but misses. In your face mudboil. So there's one is bearing

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down on Nix. I've had enough of these muddy marauders. So does a 1 hit? No. Not a sausage.

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Right, so just yeah too far away. They're these ones they're like those little dogs that think

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they're much bigger than they actually are so he just misjudges there's no point. Little

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yappy type mudboil. Yeah a little yappy type mudboil. Second one is going to go for the

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boulder, which is still on the side, the little rock that's still on the side of the

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shore. Does a 13 hit? No and misses. Great. How's the rock looking? The rock's looking

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well hard. Yeah. Yeah very muddy. And then the last one is going to come for Tagk. So

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the mudboil would still be rolling at disadvantage because he's dodging. So let's see an 8 would

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not hit and neither would a 7. So, wow, these yeah they've only just formed. Everything must

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be still a bit blurry for them,they don't hit anyone. They're young, they're naive, they

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know nothing of the world! They think they know everything. Yeah, it's the boulder. Go

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boulder. Get rolling. At them. Not away. We need all the help we can get. You notice that

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it starts to move again as if on a central point and then starts tumbling and rolling

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and tumbling and rolling. Curious. And the light starts to build up from inside starts

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deep within the rock swells outwards until the whole thing is illuminated all lit up

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with this bright light and then there's a sudden flash and... You Nix, you feel this wash

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of light crushing over you. Does it smell good? The sniff is good. The sniff is good.

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I'll take it in. And it heals you for three five points of damage. Wonderful. I was getting

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very tatty around the edges. Yeah your tatters were frayed. Your frays were tattered. Right

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I was on four I've just gone up to me top which is seven. Oh, you're looking juicy again.

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Oh, green and plump. And very, very muddy. Thank you. I recognize your smell and it is good.

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The boulder starts to... you see it turn its head. You're getting a sense of which way

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is forward for this little this little stone now, and you see that it's turned its attention

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back to the mudboil closest to it. Right. And now it's Nix. Right then, well. I just need

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to interject a little bit. Okay, please do. Actually with Nix. Nix has been casting quite

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a bit of magic so far in this. I can see where this is going! Yeah. During this fight

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so far. Something's surging. Yeah, Nix can probably feel the wild magic charge starting

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to build up inside him. So the connection that you have with the magic of Meraki is

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very deep and pure. But the barriers that other magic users might face whilst training

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and learning how to use all these different spells which you don't have those barriers

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and it might be very frustrating to those who are learning the magic, but it does actually

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keep them safe. And Nix doesn't. Boring! Yeah. But Nix doesn't experience magic in the same

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way as this. They call that proficient. I call that dull! So, I was just wondering what

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is it like for Nix when he's been casting magic? Oh man, I think he starts getting a

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real sort of flow of almost tidal, on a sort of micro scale. You know his mohawk's crackling

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more and his eyes starting to get a bit twitchy. And all this elemental power is sort of surging

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up from the ground and from the atmosphere around him. Wonderful. You're feeling this

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energy which is, as you say, it's coming up from the ground which is where Nix came from, but

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also from every living thing in Meraki. It's kind of like... it's drawing in. It's just your

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skin's porous and you're filling up and up and up and the charge is building and it's

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got to go somewhere. Yeah. There's like this sort of pulsating sort of wub wub wub. A bit

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wub wub. A bit wub wub, yeah. I'm feeling the elemental bass bass lines. Cool! So you're

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going to have to roll for a wild magic surge. Now this is if you roll a d20. Nix has it

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pretty good with his magic I think. So, I think you know you don't really have the chance

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to escape this. You've cast three spells so now something is going to happen. Alright,

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yeah, fair. Right I'm rolling my d20. Alright. Alright. I'm rolling. Okay. Are you ready?

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11! Okay, so if you could roll a d4. Right d4 here we go. It's a one. Okay you get one

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temporary hit point. Oh nice. I'm up to eight. I'll do that as a specifically as a temp.

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Oh no. Yeah. There's a box here and everything! Temporary hit points: one, in a box. Oh that felt

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great! I think I mean there you are in the mud as well. You're back in your element, as it were

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and it's as if you're able to just the the surge building up in you acts as a kind of conduit

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between you and the mud itself and you're able to extract the essence of muddiness from the mud

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so that it rejuvenates your cells and you are... well, you're feeling pretty good. Oh great! This

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is like being back in the swamp! I've been getting soft around the edges being in that log cabin.

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You were getting a bit crispy? Yeah, I've had it too good for too long and I need to moisten up. Get

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my frog on. Aw! Does Nix ever sort of just sort go up to his nose? Oh yeah - just make some

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little bubbles, yeah. Poking his ears out. Is that what you're doing now? No. No. Okay. What's Nix

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going to do? I'm gonna with my revitalized being I'm gonna rush forward and I'm gonna shocking

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grasp this closest little mud boil. Well that's a good idea shocking grasp worked very well last

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time didn't it? Yeah so that's a cantrip. Yeah. 1d8 lightning damage. Yeah. So I've got to hit first.

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Okay. Oh no that's a five. No that misses I'm afraid. You're still quite weighted down by the

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mud at this point. Every single of my many pockets is just like full of mud now which is great. Yeah.

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All my little uh knickknacks and do-wotsits uh had a nice bathe - they probably feel as good as

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I do. So it's Tagk to go next and he's just been swiped at, so he's going to turn and he's going to

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go for that one with his shortsword and misses. Oh. And then it's the mud boils, so the first one...

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that's on you does a eight hit. Nah. And the one that's going for Tagk does uh what's that five hit?

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No. And then one's going for the boulder. Ten? No!  It's just a mess, it's just absolute...

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people are slipping... even the things that are made of mud are slipping in the mud. It's just chaos.

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So the boulder is going to go for the one closest to it. Right, we can do this. Come on team.

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And misses.

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Nix. Right, uh, what am I doing? I'm gonna do shocking grasp again. Yeah. Yeah, keep it Cantrip.

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Come on. Seven. Misses. Tagk. Oh I never I never added my my thing on. What thing? My attack bonus.

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Oh yeah. Right well that's Tagk doing that thing - he was trying to get his short sword out

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of the scabbard again. He's got the short sword out the scabbard this time and he's gonna go for

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a mud boil ...19! Nice. So that would be a 23 so he hits and that's, um, he's very good actually.

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Oh one plus three points of damage. Oh that gets it. Nice. Yeah that's only a little one. Boom.

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Right, mud boils's go. There's two left. There's a one that's on you, Nix. Does a

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11 hit. It doesn't. Misses. Um and then the one that's on... I duck deftly out of the way.

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...that's on the Boulder, misses and it's the boulder's turn. All right. And the boulder's going to bash at it.

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And hits! Yes! Yes and does come on. Four points of damage. You beautiful boulder! That's that one

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gone. Right. Yeah it is, it's Nix. All right back to me. I'm gonna do it again. All right, come on.

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Eight. Misses. Um Tagk, is um gonna go for the one on you. I think my claw is malfunctioning here.

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Seven plus. That's not gonna do it is it. Does it. That hits. Yes. Um, so roll a d6. Six. Splat.

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A mighty blow. Go away!

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And the final mud boil explodes into a spray of mud. After a bit of a moment and just like...

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can I make a perception check just to make sure that nothing's uh. Yeah make perception.

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... gonna sneak up on us. No more surprises. Right. Two. Watch out! They could come from anywhere!

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From the sky! From the ground! On a two you see something moving in the mud. You dive for it...

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Grab it. I'm just going. Get here you. Get here. And as you do so at the same time something grabs your foot.

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And then you realize it's you grabbing your own foot.

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I'll have you! Ow!

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Are you going to stay in the mud? No, I'll get out. I sort of, like, you know, I'll

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climb out of the mud and then I'll sort of, you know, I'll rub it around. You know, give my skin

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a bit of a moisturize. You know, just wipe it over my face a bit and just let it dry there. Get all

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nice and crusty. Quite muddy isn't it? Yeah, don't worry the nice bit is right. Once the sun's like

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baked you a little bit. Yeah. You can all peel it off and it's dead crusty. Oh, it's so satisfying!

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...Right. Is there anything that Nix would like to do at this point? I would like to uh walk over to

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this uh beautiful elemental boulder and I want to take a deep goblin bow and say thank you

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beautiful elemental boulder. You honor us. Okay um well I'll roll for the boulder.

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Is that six? Six. It doesn't appear to be paying you any attention at all. It appears to be

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looking into the mud. Very occasionally sort of moves side to side as you might do if you were

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looking. Yeah. For something. Could I uh well, I'll uh talk directly to the uh boulder. You know trying

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to use a bit of my uh sort of chaotic magic intuition, if you will. Are you still thinking

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that those uh mud malarkeys are still about? Or are you looking for something else I wonder?

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You can make an animal handling check. That would be uh wisdom which I have uh plus two. Right.

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That only rolls ones! Right. We don't use that one anymore! You're banned. Unless we want to roll

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ones. You're going in dice jail! Yes. Judgment is passed. Um. So that's a three. That's a three.

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Um, it gives no again no indication of hearing you or engaging with you um but it suddenly just sort

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of starts forward a little bit... and then starts to sort of jiggle and move a little bit as if excited...

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and you notice that there's some movement in the mud. All right. 'ere, tagk? What? I

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think um this boulder's looking for something. Well. Maybe you could try. There's not more are

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there? I mean I'm not picking up a lot uh you know. Roll for perception then. Yeah. Tack's got...

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Oh, Tagk rolls with advantage because Tagk's got pin drop hearing. Oh well that's brilliant anyway.

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So yes what do you reckon? Look! And you follow Tagk's quavering little finger

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not his little finger, perhaps he points with his little finger, his quavering little finger

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into the mud not far from where the the big boulder is and you see there is actually some movement

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and as you watch four and then five small shapes move out of the mud, just little pebbles

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oh look at that! There's a larger one, there's a really small one and then there's three sort of

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in between... yeah and they're all drenched in mud but they go over to the big boulder and they just

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kind of roll themselves onto the big boulder until they're kind of on top. Oh wonderful!

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Are those... maybe they got bashed off you in that fight? You fought very bravely, Rock.

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It did, didn't it, it was like it was he just kept bashing at that big massive creature. What was

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going on with that creature i mean what is... what is going on with this rock what is going on...THAT

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is my point, like i'm gonna do a list - my list is what is going on with this rock what is going on

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with this mud what is going on... on! Right, what you need, i think, and you know this might be a stab in

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the dark, are some answers to ease that fretting mind of yours. I think first of all i want to know

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do i need to be running in any particular direction? Let me do another list do i want to be running

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that way do i want to be running that way? Well... And as Tagk says that the little rock starts moving...

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it's moving towards Tagk. No, no, no! says Tagk. the boulder keeps going. I'll try and uh... Tagk, Tagk it's all right

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i've got you. It's getting closer. Just, just be calm, i'll um put my my muddy goblin hand out like uh

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you know putting it out there for like a small dog to like have a sniff at so it knows that we're

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not a threat. Oh nice, okay. No fast movements, let it have a little sense of you okay? And the boulder

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continues to roll right up to him and the little pebbles on top they kind of roll themselves but

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they roll so they can stay on top if that makes sense they're rolling and the bigger ones rolling

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and it rolls right up to Tagk's leg and stays there and Tagk goes very, very still.

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Ha ha, right. And... nothing happens. Now what, Nix? What's it doing? What's it doing, Nix?

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It's not doing anything. Let's write a list of all the things it isn't doing

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It's not leaving. It's not attacking, it's not attacking, okay, right so. Well well

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we'll just let it have its little moment. Yeah, it just stays there

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all right maybe uh have a very gentle walk, like just a few steps back, nice and slow, i think. If

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it does anything, you've got to go for it Nix, okay? You got to stop it, all right? Let's... i think

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we're re all right, let's just see what happens

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Alright podlings! Thanks for having our backs in that battle. It was good to know you were there.

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how do i know you're there? Well sometimes i just get these knowings, like i've got with this boulder

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i just know that it is an honorable stone, i'm sure of it - it healed me earlier remember? But, poor Tagk...

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he don't know it yet. There he goes, far from what i would call relaxed. Can you see how Tagk's heels

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don't touch the ground? Mine do. I think yours do too, don't they? Tagk's got those ziggy zaggy legs

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some creatures have - all the better for springing away. There's a space between Tagk's heel and the

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ground, see, and the boulder seems to like that space very much. It's tucked itself under there

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and is rolling along quite happily. And look at those five little pebbles rolling with it!

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ah sweet as a baby bog lump. I'm starting to get an inkling... an inkling of what this boulder is

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and where it's from, have you? But it's time to say farewell for now, marvelous podlings.

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As Old Nan would say, 'love what you do what you love!' She frequently talks in circles does Old Nan,

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well they're more sort of ovals with lumps and bumps, sometimes it's a rhombus - ever seen a rhombus?

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they're incredible! They're also known as a 'goblin square'...

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