1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:22,640 Oh what a pickle! Nix here, but here is not where I thought it was, that's for sure. 2 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:29,360 Ah dear, I suppose this is what comes of tucking into a stew that's been blasted all ways 3 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:36,320 round with flames from a wild magic surge. I was lying by the fire looking up at the 4 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:44,580 stars. Tagk and the boulder were sleeping. Nice. Next thing I know I'm rising into the 5 00:00:44,580 --> 00:00:50,840 above and beyond again. It's a place I've been many many times, but I've always forgotten 6 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:58,920 about it soon after I come back. Well not this time though, I'm going to remember it. 7 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:04,920 Yeah I'll even tie a bit of string round my finger to remind me. It wasn't just me up 8 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:11,560 there, so was the boulder. I tried talking to it earlier and it hadn't seemed bothered, 9 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:17,960 but now it was trying to communicate. How it did it was by remembering, reliving its 10 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:24,600 past and sharing its dream with me. It showed me how it got severed from something it called 11 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:31,720 'The Whole of Many Parts' and gone tumbling long ways off through the countryside. It 12 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:39,800 got well and truly lost, poor thing. Now all it wants is to get back home. I remember that 13 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:44,800 feeling well. When I first started having my trances and waking up in the middle of 14 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:51,120 nowhere it used to give me the squidgy-widgies too. That was until Old Nan let me into a 15 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:59,360 secret. "Middle of nowhere? Nowhere has no middle young gobling. You are in the middle 16 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:08,680 of somewhere. You just don't know where that is yet.! Good Old Nan. Oh well. All the daytime 17 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:15,000 things will be asleep for a few hours yet, so there's no rush. Plenty of time to figure 18 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:25,480 out what I'm going to D&D doodoo. Laters. Have I got a muddy snout? Yeah, you're sort 19 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:32,560 of covered in leaf mould and stuff. That's a good start anyway. You open your eyes and 20 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:37,760 you see a little close up view of your left hand and a little woodlouse going over your 21 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:47,280 fingers disappearing under a leaf. Oh hello. Do I have a sense like looking at the stars 22 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:53,720 or the surroundings or anything at all of my position in relation to where I would 23 00:02:53,720 --> 00:03:02,640 have been? He gets a sense that some time has passed, maybe a couple of hours. But the 24 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:07,640 stars, it's the same stars you fell asleep under. You know that but they don't give you 25 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:14,120 any other information. Alright, so what else? Nix is going to put his hand into one of his 26 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:22,160 many many pockets and pull out a small rod of copper wire. Okay. Right, maybe I've just 27 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:30,160 walked around in circles for the last two hours. So this is anything within 120 feet. 28 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:38,440 Okay. He can use Message which is a cantrip. Oh yes, okay. Just in case he's just been 29 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:46,320 doing circles for the past two hours and he's still within 120 feet. Or that's 36.57 metres. 30 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:52,000 Thank you, that's really helpful actually. It really helps make it... Sorry 31 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:58,320 America. Right, we should maybe have our own units of measurement as well. Yeah, that would 32 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:03,040 confuse anyone. A goblin length. I think a goblin would probably be about a metre tall. 33 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:11,040 Yeah, yeah about a metre. So 36.5 goblins. Great, I love it. Yeah, 36.57 goblins. Maybe 34 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:16,880 that's a bit, how many, how many centimetres, so five feet is a hundred and... Right listeners, 35 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:22,840 we're going down the mathematical rabbit hole here. Alexa, how many centimetres in three 36 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:30,080 feet? "Three feet is about 91.4 centimetres." If you include the mohawk... Yeah, if I got 37 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:39,600 my mohawk, that's, I'm a full metre. Right. Nice. It all works out. Right, do me Message. 38 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:46,200 Ten. I'm going to ask you to roll at disadvantage though because you don't know... well, which 39 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:53,720 way you're going to send your message? Yeah, fair enough. Seven. I think there's a little, 40 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:58,880 there's a little hole in there, it's a mechanical claw and he just like inserts this little 41 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:05,960 copper rod into it. Oh nice. Get a little spark. Yeah. And then the crystal in the arm 42 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:11,840 sort of glows a little and then he just like starts beaking into the copper rod. Can you 43 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:17,240 sort of put your finger out as well, like a little antenna? Oh yeah. Yes, I point a 44 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:23,680 mechanical digit up in the air. Yeah. Just sort of like give it a little wiggle around 45 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:30,640 just to like feel out the frequencies and I just, I just whisper, whisper into me little 46 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:39,680 copper rod. Oi, Tagk, Tagk, hello, where are you? Okay, well there's a pause and then you 47 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:45,720 get a message back. It's quite indistinct. It's quite muffled. Okay. You know how some 48 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:51,520 messages have a certain kind of static. Yeah, yeah. This one feels like it's buried in feathers 49 00:05:51,520 --> 00:06:02,240 and you can just hear, [stiffly] I am eating a mouse. What, Tagk? You sound very bassy. Why are you 50 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:09,320 eating a mouse? It's not like you, I didn't even know you like that sort of thing. 51 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:17,600 You just hear a "hmmph!" And then the sound of an owl flying away. Okay. So back over at the 52 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:22,880 clearing, the fire is sort of dying down and Tagk, you know, that's the thing where he 53 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:30,200 just sort of, maybe the logs of the fire drop and it's just enough to make him stir and 54 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:37,960 he looks around and he sees a spot where Nix would have been... and his eyes narrow... and he 55 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:44,960 pulls himself up... and he looks around... and looks around more. He gets up, he scrambles. Nix? 56 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:51,960 Nix! This isn't funny, Nix, NIX?! And all the little boulders, they jolt up. All 57 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:56,640 the little ones fall off the top and look a little bit, what's happening, what's happening? 58 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:03,040 But they get under his, he's like, oh, get off, Nix! All he can see is a footprint. 59 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:11,680 Oh, crumbs, Nix, come back! And then I think Tagk will remember the conversation 60 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:19,800 that he and Nix had when Nix was being admiring of Tagk's skills. Right, right. Okay, 61 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:27,100 wait a minute. I've got skills. I've got training. I've got, I've got ideas. I've got a plan. 62 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:35,200 This is what I've been training for. What did they say? Run away. And... he runs off into 63 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:48,240 the trees! ... ...and he comes back. No, no, that won't do it. No. He's going to see if he can 64 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:53,720 find some tracks. Come on, Tagk. Oh, Survival. He's got his Rogue Expertise. So he's got 65 00:07:53,720 --> 00:08:03,640 plus six to this. Oh, 19. Yes. He sees a track towards the edge of the clearing, heading 66 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:11,840 off in a sort of North easterly direction. Right. Okay. Let's go and find him then. Um, 67 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:20,840 he's going to take the ponies. Oh, what about my stash? Well, uh, what I need to do is make 68 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:27,000 a map. He wants to be able to find his way back to the clearing later on so that he doesn't 69 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:33,000 get away from his stash. Okay. So I think he's going to take out his Hide and Seeker 70 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:38,480 Gem, holds it in his hand. He's going to remember Nix again saying about how he must have 71 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:44,240 some kind of innate magic within him. Yeah. Okay. We can do this. So he gets out 72 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:49,960 his little notebook again. He puts an X. That's for camp. Right. Now, I find out where 73 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:56,600 where the Hide and Seeker Gem says I need to be going. And then I can kind of triangulate 74 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:03,120 with where Nix has gone. Maybe so. Um, so he holds the Hide and Seeker Gem in his 75 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:13,640 hands and it starts to glow and then to pulse in a steady rhythm. Oh, that's odd! The Hide 76 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:19,120 and Seeker Gem is indicating to go pretty much in the direction that Nix has gone. 77 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:27,160 Oh, okay. Well onto the pony. Come on, Ermintrude. And he heads off. He's got his Dancing Lights 78 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:35,760 cantrip - a little light above his head to kind of lead the way. Off he goes. And the boulder 79 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:42,080 follows along behind. Tries briefly to get under the horse's...hock, do you call it? Under 80 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:48,040 the horse's leg and the horse, the pony's like, and just kicks it away. So from that 81 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:53,440 point on the boulder just kind of keeps a reasonable distance and the five little stones 82 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:59,960 are following behind. Great. Gathering no moss. Yes. And off they go. We'll go back 83 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:07,320 to Nix now. What's Nix up to? Yeah, he's just like... at the moment he's absent mindedly 84 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:16,400 just sitting on a mossy log chewing on a bit of mushroom that he found. Tack's probably 85 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:22,960 just going to be like sleeping still and lazing around. I think it's up to me. Right, shall 86 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:31,720 I just pick a random direction? No, I've got it. He's going to have a bit of a search around 87 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:37,820 on the ground and see if he's, if we can see any prints or like there's a bit of a trail from 88 00:10:37,820 --> 00:10:49,320 his long coat. Yeah. OK. Do you want to roll Survival? Yeah. Seventeen. Very good. Well, 89 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:58,760 you hear, yeah, OK, so you do a scan round and you see a little path. Nice. All right. 90 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:05,720 It's one of those that's like a deer path: a track that an animal's made. It's not like 91 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:12,320 wagon size. Is there any sign that I've traveled down that path? You can't see any 92 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:21,680 tracks, any prints, but you do see some mounds on the ground and you go to investigate. I 93 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:26,520 think from the swamp, Nix is probably very... he's got experience in like ant hills and 94 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:29,920 things. You know, you've got to be careful around mounds and termites and all that sort 95 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:36,160 of thing. I'll just take my time and have a very small investigate. It's not an ant 96 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:41,400 hill. It's just a pile of earth. Right. You can see there are more further on and the 97 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:47,880 trees are starting to open up a little bit. If you carry on down, you break out into a 98 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:55,360 kind of natural meadow, an open area. OK. Could I perhaps say that I left a little bit 99 00:11:55,360 --> 00:12:04,600 of a marking from where I initially woke up? Yeah. So I'll pile a few logs up. Nice. You 100 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:13,480 know, trying to make a rudimentary sort of goblin shape, I think. Lovely. OK. You know, 101 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:20,600 a few chunky legs and like a bit, you know, log body. I might just like use a very spindly 102 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:25,600 bit of stick for like the mechanical arm. OK. Yeah. I've got a bit of string so I'll 103 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:31,800 hang like a little bit of fir cones sort of bobbling off it and stuff. Nice. OK. Yes. 104 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:37,280 So you do that and then you're heading off down the track. Yeah. You've gone down and... 105 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:44,800 I'd like to make a torch, more for Tagk's sake than I need for being able to see 106 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:51,800 my surroundings. OK. How are you going to make a torch? I'm going to use a bit of wood. 107 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:56,400 Can you remember what the small human child did? Oh, yeah. I'll think back. Let's try 108 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:04,600 that then. What did the small human child do? I don't know. Well, I do actually. You've 109 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:10,200 got a big twig. Yeah. Big stick. Yeah. And then you got... And then I'll wrap some material 110 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:15,800 around it. Yeah. Great. And then I get a... And then what did you do? Get a flint? Yeah. 111 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:23,800 Yeah. Have you got one? I prob... er... It's a logistical nightmare! You've got an adventurous 112 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:31,320 pack? Well, I don't have it written down. Oh. Right. I'm going to say... Can I do a 113 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,840 roll for it? Just to see if I can make some? Yeah, go on. Yeah. Eleven or higher and you 114 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:44,280 can make a rudimentary torch. Two! You have a stick. You wrap your bits of fluff around 115 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:53,760 the top. Yeah. They fall off and you've got nothing to light them with. So, yeah. Well, 116 00:13:53,760 --> 00:14:01,520 I've got the little goblin totem. Yes. Effigy. Yeah. That I've excellently crafted. Yeah. 117 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:07,400 And I make a bit more of an effort. I like drag a stick behind me just to get a bit of 118 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:13,480 a line in the woods. Nice. So I know where I've come from. Yeah. If Tagk somehow manages 119 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:18,840 to find that then he'll be able to follow that as well. Okay. Maybe like attach 120 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:26,440 little bits of strings with like acorns on or like fir cones just so I know where I'm 121 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:34,920 going. That's lovely. I think that'll do it. That'll do it. I like that. Lovely. Okay. 122 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:40,520 Are you staying put or are you exploring? I think I'm going to explore a little bit. 123 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:46,160 Yeah. Okay. So yeah. The sky is starting to lighten a little bit now. You've broken the 124 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:51,400 main cover of trees and so it's letting more light in. It's still a while off dawn actually 125 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:59,720 breaking but there's a little bit more light. The field is falling away to more kind of 126 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:06,440 farmland and some distance away you can see what looked like fruit trees and they look 127 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:11,000 fairly ordered in the way that they've been planted. So we've got a bit of a civilisation 128 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:17,880 on the horizon? Yeah. And you can also see, you can see a field of dark earth and it looks 129 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:23,480 like there are some things growing before you. It's not, it doesn't look like you're 130 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:30,040 about to, if you're about to reach a more populated area you're right on the outskirts. 131 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:35,840 Yeah. The field's quite small. Yeah. So it could be any like little small farm like right, 132 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:42,400 you know, in either direction. Yeah. That sort of thing. Okay. You do see though more 133 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:48,560 and more of these mounds of earth around where the field is and around where the orchard 134 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:58,600 is: There are a lot. Okay. Have I seen these before? Do you want to make a Nature check? 135 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:05,600 Yeah, Nature. I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking. That'll be a 14, will it? That'll 136 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:13,000 be a 14. Yeah. Okay. So it's not something you've personally encountered before, but 137 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:19,840 you do remember Old Nan talking about when you were a gobling and you'd had a bit Too 138 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:28,520 Much Fun and the other goblins - - that was a regular occurrence! - - Yeah. And things were getting 139 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:35,120 a bit fraught between you and the other goblins. Old Nan would bring you over and sit you down 140 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:43,320 and she'd... well, how do goblins record knowledge? Do they use books? Yeah, they do use books. 141 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:49,160 Mostly for sort of like abstract scribblings. Well, that's what I do. I think Old Nan would. 142 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:54,520 Yeah. I think that's probably where I got it off. Many goblins absolutely wouldn't, 143 00:16:54,520 --> 00:17:00,800 but like she had a few sources, bit of trading for like the scraps of paper. Yeah. She used 144 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:07,600 to make her own little bits and pieces and like bark books and yeah. Oh, very nice. 145 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:12,960 So it was definitely something that would have been handed down, but yeah, quite a rare thing 146 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:20,120 really. Well, I think what Old Nan's got is she's got a book from, it's a Baoh book actually. 147 00:17:20,120 --> 00:17:25,400 One corner of it is burnt so much that that whole thing has sort of crumbled off, but 148 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:31,680 it was like a little artifact that she liked and it was like an encyclopedia of all different 149 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:40,760 races and beings and flora and fauna of Meraki as seen through the Baoh's perspective. 150 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,280 I would have loved flicking through that. Yeah. And well, she would read to you from 151 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:49,440 it and she would annotate it herself and she would scribble it all out and she would add 152 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:55,920 bits to it and correct things as she saw fit and all the rest of it. You remember hearing 153 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:02,680 about the 'Lesser-Balded Gleb'. Okay. So you know the Gleb. Yeah. Like Glabrous and Rotunda, 154 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:10,040 These large mole rats from the Glebeian plains. But these were the 'Lesser-Balded Gleb' 155 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:15,500 which were also... they would burrow colonies under the ground. You'd hear that they were 156 00:18:15,500 --> 00:18:23,080 more of a, seen as a nuisance to farmers because they would eat the crops. Okay. So it could 157 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:27,760 be that, or it could be something else entirely. All right. I've got a hypothesis. Let's put 158 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:33,280 it that way. Okay. I'm just going to plump myself down a little bit, chew on 159 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:39,160 a little mouldy bit of bread and eat another mushroom. Maybe do you sit on one of the mounds 160 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:43,240 of earth? Oh, yeah. Just sit down on one of them. Well they're quite nice aren't they? 161 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:47,240 Well you could, it's like a bean bag almost. Yeah, like a bean bag. Give it a little wiggle. 162 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:53,200 Okay. So I'm going to, we'll pop back to Tagk. Tagk's going to make another Survival 163 00:18:53,200 --> 00:19:04,240 roll to see if he can keep on Nix's trail. Oh, easy. 17. So that's, that's a 23. He follows, 164 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:09,720 he follows the trail very carefully and he sees that, so the, basically the tracks that 165 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:19,640 Nix has left behind are very haphazard. Sometimes he's on hands and knees, sometimes he's running, 166 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,520 sometimes he's going in little circles, can see where he's bumping into things. Sometimes 167 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:28,840 he doesn't seem to move for a while. There's a bum print maybe. I don't know, whatever. 168 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:36,000 Yeah. I think he was sleepwalking or something. He doesn't see any signs of a struggle. So, 169 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:43,120 you know, he guides the ponies through the woods and then he comes to an area where... 170 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:49,880 ...he sees a shape! The horses whicker, they're a bit spooked by it and Tagk looks and it's 171 00:19:49,880 --> 00:20:03,720 like there's a creature watching him! Hello? Nix, is that you? It doesn't reply. Nix? 172 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:11,200 Tagk reaches for his short sword and dismounts off the pony. Excuse me. Hello? And I think 173 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:16,440 he'll send one of his, he'll redo his cantrip and he'll just send the light over to see 174 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:23,840 what it is. And the light drifts over and... it's like, there's footprints everywhere of 175 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:28,480 Nix! He's gone backwards and forwards and he's like, he's gone to get, yeah, he's gone 176 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:34,680 to get a fir cone and then he's come back and then he's tied it to a tree. It's, it's 177 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:46,640 really weird... It's like Nix has been turned into wood... and then his head falls off! 178 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:57,280 Oh my God! Nix would have loved to see that. If only he was there... 179 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:01,800 [outro]... But he's not there, is he? We'll have to wait until next time to see if Nix and Tagk can 180 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:08,000 track each other down. Until then, take care everyone and see you next time. Don't forget, 181 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:15,560 you can check out our Insta at DNDDoodoo or if you want to say hello, dnddoodoo at gmail.com. 182 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:44,000 Both of these are DNDDOODOO. Bye!