Hello Invisible Ears, it's Tagk here. We're getting ready to leave so I can add my gold
to my stash. It's a big day for me. I've never shared the location of my stash with anyone
else before but when I left home my mums said to me, Tagk you can't trust everyone but that
doesn't mean you can't trust anybody. We could do with getting a move on though. I was up
before sunrise working through my checklist. I thought there'd be three pairs of hands but
Sorlie is still in bed and Nix is only on his third breakfast so I'm just getting on with it myself.
Right, what do I still need to do indeed, Doodoo? Oh yeah, we had some snail mail. It read,
Please would you wish the Real Lee a happy birthday? Yes, with pleasure. Happy birthday
the Real Lee. I remember my birthday. Hundreds of us hatchlings tearing across the sand trying to
get to cover before the alligatross's ate us. I hope your birthday has a bit less existential peril.
Anyway, to the episode. I suppose you'll be wanting to hear about the weather.
So when you were sleeping last night and you heard the rain pounding down heavily on the roof of the
cabin it was a really heavy rain but come the morning it's just a light mizzle. In fact it's
quite refreshing. Tagk's rushing backwards and forwards, he's rolling up bedrolls, he's packing
up pots and pans, he's off to feed the horses. Alright everyone, how are we getting on?
I have not even got out of bed yet. It is very early, the sun has barely come up.
So basically like 5.30 then. I reckon, yeah. I shout upstairs, wakey wakey, eggs and bakey.
You've been at Sorlie's base for a while now and so there's a bit of a routine. Every morning
someone goes down to feed the chickens and see what eggs they've got. It's definitely very helpful
because I've just been on my own with this giant house to keep under control. Exactly. Well I love
feeding the chickens. Okay so feed the chickens, we're going to roll, see how many eggs you've got.
You roll a d6 and that's for next. We have five eggs. Five eggs, oh very good. Oh you beauties.
That's impressive out of three chickens. It is a bit of a mystery to me actually. What?
What the genders of these chickens actually are. They're like two are boys and one is a girl maybe.
Two are boys and one's a girl? Yeah. And you've got five eggs? Yeah. That poor woman.
Two girls and one boy. She's got really sunken cheeks. You can have some extra.
Okay there are two girls and one boy, how about that? There's two girls and one boy? Yeah. Okay
so what's the boy called? The boy is idiot. Right and the girls are called John and Jim. Yeah. Fine.
Okay so you get on with your morning jobs, you gather for breakfast and you have your scrambled
eggs and porridge and you do that thing where you eat up all the stuff that's going to go off and
you pack up some provisions to take with you. Nick what would you like to take?
Yeah I'd like to take a 60 foot of hempen rope. Okay I'm gonna tell everyone I'm going to need to
go out. Okay cool. I'm gonna go out and get some sticks and some stones. Okay. Because I'm going
to attempt to make some defense weapons for Nick's. Oh all right. Because Nick's only has that
mechanical hand. It's a pretty good hand though. It's got sharp claws on it. Yeah I think it would
be cool if that because it could go ching ching. Yeah all right then you're gonna make me a sword
or something. I think I'll probably make I think I might have an iron one lying around. That might
be one of my old swords. Well nothing too big just like a bit of a dagger might be nice. Yeah.
That'd be handy. Yeah it's sort of like a small sword sort of like that tall sort of thing.
Like a short sword. Yeah a short sword. Nice sword. Thanks very much. Yes I can search around and see
if I can find one with the d20. So are you are you crafting one because you had smithing didn't you?
I tried to find one. Already at the lock cabin? Yeah because I can because to what I can remember
I vividly remember having some sort of old sword. It seems reasonable that you'd have yeah okay do
want to um so that would be an investigate wouldn't it? So if you can get 12 or more you find something.
That looked like an 18. That was an 18 plus your intelligence plus one 19. 19. You found a fine
uh short sword. Yeah that it fits a swamp goblin very well. Is is this sword is this the one for me?
Yes. Oh man. It is. Good you honor me. You're welcome. I think it does need a little bit of
like a tune up because it is a little bit like gunky but I can use a little cloth and wipe it
make it shiny again. That's beautiful. This is very cool says Tagk. I feel I feel really well
protected now. Oh we've got your back Tagk. What what about your dagger does it need a little bit
of a look at? My dagger well it's all right I mean um the blade's okay yeah it's barely used to be
honest but I have been having a bit of trouble with the scabbard um you remember yesterday I couldn't
get my dagger free from the scabbard and hit myself in the face. Can I please have a look at it and see
if I can like yeah sure yeah please and he hands it over to you. Now do I roll to see what I can
find? Yeah okay so let's say another investigate. There you go seven. Seven okay plus one. Seven eight.
So you kind of have a good look around but you can't at the moment really you have a bit of a
jiggle you put a bit of oil you know a bit of um what kind of oil would you use? I'd use just like some like
buff sort of oil. You've got some special buff buffy material yeah. That's why I used for my sword.
I think you're like well what it needs is it needs a um a particular sort of wax treatment that the u
bear sells but you don't have any in at the moment so you just have to. Oh yeah also there's something
which I wanted to do I wanted to call those snowball people and ask how I can get this wonder frost
to combine with my sword. Oh because I don't want to be fighting but then I need it but I don't want
to be putting my sword away ever try to find my wonder frost and then poke them like it'll be
pretty hard so I'm thinking of like combining it. Do you want to ask them then? Okay I probably have
to shake the snow globe so we like go and walk over. So you're going over to the mantle piece yeah
where the snow sprites um snow globe is and and Nick's just like slowly peers over
the small human child's shoulder and goes shaky shaky flaky flaky.
You shake the globe you say your words the snow inside the globe starts to swirl and twinkle and
then um Tagkk suddenly leaps to his feet and goes it's the white doom. You notice that the
missile in the sky has turned to these really really soft little snowflakes. Okay then I run
outside with fudgy and then I go and say what are their names? Um Skift the bobo. The snowflakes
swirl around and form into you see um the the familiar faces of your three friends
Sposh with his clipboard Skift with her flowing icicle dressed and Gru going
Okay. Soly how are you? I'm doing all right I just wanted to ask you about the wonder frost.
Yes. Do you know how I can possibly combine that with my elemental sword? So that um the
the charge of the wonder frost would come from your sword? Yes. Interesting and you see um Sposh
sort of going through the pages on his clipboard and and while he's looking Skift says where's
Nix? Nix is here and I'm over here catching snow and I'm just running around with fudgy eating
snowflakes. Good point says Sposh he's a tinkerer isn't he and he uses well magic. That's right.
Yeah he does. I'm sure that he could he could tinker away um maybe if he were to grind down
the wonder frost in some way. Yeah that's what I thought I'm down I don't know if I can put it in
in one of the like engravings in the sword. Yes well I would also what happens? Well I would say
it's certainly possible but it isn't guaranteed it would be successful. Have you tried using um the
wonder frost? Let me let me says Gru. I'll do it I'll show you. Then he comes over. Okay and then
I go past the wonder frost to him. Okay so what you do is you hold it like this you point it at
the thing you want to send frost damage to and then like he kind of swings his arm around and
everyone puts their hands over their head no no Gru no no. So what could you what could we give him?
Um use a like a bit of old log or something. Yeah go and poke that log. The training log you've
probably got a little training area haven't you with your straw man and your yeah go and just go
and attack these the straw man. Great okay are you ready? Yeah ready one two three. And he swings his
arm and this charge of icy light bursts from the tip of the wonder frost. Oh check that out. Hits
the straw man and and the straw man is suddenly covered in hall frost. Okay so you mean so you're
saying that I can throw it yeah like that you can make it can make giant like ice structures going
on. Yeah it's dead easy you'd be fine. We're not giant ice structures we're still in a little wonder frost.
I'll take that again. Okay yeah. Got a mint mint tea. I thought I was bad. I have some mint tea nearby.
I mean you can get ones that are much more powerful than this. This is like a starter one really.
Okay it can sort of give a light a light icy charge and do a little bit of ice damage. So yes
you could you could just use it like Gru showed you um but if you wanted to there's nothing to
stop you combining it with your sword or having a go. Can I like wave it at water and turn it into ice?
Well what would happen says Skift is it would freeze an area and round about a meter across.
Wow that's cool so if there's like a water area which I want to check to get over I can just wave
it and make a bridge. Oh that's cool. Are we going to use the wonder frost as it is or are we going
to try to combine it with your sword? I'm going to try and combine it. All right I'm up for that. Okay
let's do this. Okay so before you start um sposh skift and Gru wave goodbye and they swirl up into
the sky. See you later thanks very much small elemental kids. Nix is um going to try and do
some tinkering here on your wand and now just bear in mind that he's a wild magic sorcerer which means
there's a chance if he rolls um well it starts at one if he rolls a one this time then a random
wild magic effect will follow but next time he casts magic it will be a one or a two. A spontaneous
chaotic something or other as I like to call them. Okay so I think maybe if we uh do this first part
together which is to grind up this wand. How like solid is it? Well let's give it a go shall we?
If we're gonna do it we need to be fully committed. The wand is a slightly it is quite brittle
um so yeah it is grindable. Right let's get to it. Okay let's get to it. Grindy grindy. Grindy
grindy. Grind I want a dust. Grind grind grindy grind the dust. Okay so you grind it up and you
have this little bowl of icy it's like icy sand sparkling. I put a few extra little powders and
chemicals of my own device in just to add to the magical effect. You've probably got a kind of
magical epoxy that you can use that will help some. So do you want me to pour it onto a sword?
Yeah let's uh. I go in and I'll un-sheath it and then suddenly writing and it starts to glow
because I'm holding it from its hand. Yeah. This is very cool is it safe? Yeah. Tag sort of goes.
Oh I hope not. Oh okay. No don't it's fine. It backs away. It'll be alright Tag. Come and have a look.
Yeah I'm fine here I watch from over here. Okay that's fine yeah. Right you are. If if if a small
human child is giving me a help do we get any? Yeah so we can roll with advantage then. Cool
if you want to you roll using your dice as well. Ready three two one roll. 13. Avoid worms. 15.
13 and 15 that's very respectable. And I got a plus three tinkering. Brilliant wow it does
and the ice ice crystals glow and you can see them it's almost like they sort of melt into the
engravings and it sort of flows through it like water and then for a moment your entire sword goes
and crackles over with frost and then fades and you know that the charges of the wonder frost
and now within your sword. Okay so then do you want me to go and try then? Well I'll just let
you know your wonder frost comes with five charges. So I'm sure you'll get a chance to use it. Yeah
you know I'm sure. We're on an adventure and this is a great way to start. That was actually really
cool. I thought it like that. Yeah it's alright I feel alright it's a bit of a roller coaster already this morning.
Okay so can I... Don't worry about it. Can I walk outside? You're fully prepared we've got you. Can I walk
outside with a sword just go and see what happens. You can but you will use up your charges and then
you won't be able to use them again. Yeah just that's true. Wait until we're in battle kid. That is true okay.
Yeah. I've been checking my chaotic crystal my seeing crystal for my dragonfly automaton. Okay.
But I can't see anything it's been ages now I don't know whether someone's nicked it or it's got
damaged every now and then I get like a fuzzy image and it's like in a dark place just like jiggling
around. So I don't know I'm probably gonna have to start from scratch. Something different has
happened to it unfortunately. Do you remember what happened with the dragonfly? Yeah. I'm sorry but it got destroyed.
What? How did that happen? You didn't break it did you? The elemental squished it like something. Oh what?
That's pretty cool. It thought that it would pet it because it liked it because it landed on him
and then it just broke. All right didn't have its own strength. I doubt it I'm sure that it can definitely be fixed.
What's left of it? I go into my back pocket. You're not in your back pocket all this time?
Well thanks for bringing it back. I appreciate that. Oh wow that's a great mess of bits. Yeah.
Yeah. Squished by an elemental not many people can say that. That is cool I'd say.
Well how about we take everything we need to have a go at fixing that once we're on the road. I really want to get going.
Absolutely. We're all good. Yeah let's do it. Let's go. Okay so I go and get Fudgy and then I bring
a big rope and like a box which has wheels on it and then I attach it to the horse. Fudgy gets in the box
and it's a little car. I'm for the dog trailer. Fudgy caravan. Your dog does have legs you know.
Yeah I know but we'll be galloping along and Fudgy won't be able to keep up. All right.
All right Fudgy move over. I think there's room for two in here.
No you're all right. Do you have to fight over that at times? Yeah. Well when he's got a bit of energy you can go
scout ahead and see what's about as well. Lovely. Right crew let's hit the road. Yeah hit the grass path.
That's it for this week. We're all suited and booted now. I've got this fine short sword to try out
and the small human child sword is charged up with icy power. Yeah it was really good to see those
snow sprites again too. Yeah that's an idea. What if we tuck them along with us? You never know when
skills like theirs will come in handy. There's the globe on the mantelpiece. All right I'll put it in
my knapsack. Uh what? Well you look at that. It's frozen to the mantelpiece. I'll try my super strong
mechanical hand on it. Nah frozen stiff. I reckon this globe is staying put. Oh well never mind.
Hang about. Sully and Taka getting on their horses. Looks like we're heading off. All right gang.
Catch you later.