Alright Podlings, Nix here. Welcome back to D&D Doo Doo Season 2, where we've headed
out into Meraki to support our Kobold friend Tagk, who's got some gold together to add to
his stash. Seems to me that everyone has a bit of clockwork inside them, something that
makes them tick. For me, it's exploring how tinkering and wild magic can work together.
For Sorlie, it's building his bushcraft base. And for Tagk, it's building up his shiny stash.
We have a saying in the swamp, they're on a wobbly log about it. Tagk was on a wobbly
log about travelling on his own, he wasn't sure he could do it. Luckily he's got me,
Fudgy and the small human child to come with him and help him out. We're on the road now,
but there's been a setback. The small human child realised he might not have turned off
the rudimentary hob, so he's had to go back to base to check it out. Fudgy's gone with
him, they shouldn't be long. In the meantime, me and Tagk are waiting at the river. As you
can imagine, Tagk has ants in his pants and wants to push ahead, so I'd better find a
way to distract him or he'll get in a riot tears. Luckily I remember him saying he likes
catching things, so I suggested we do a bit of fishing and he's agreed. Reckon we can
catch something, let's see how we D&D doodoo. Laters.
The competition is on. Sorry, not everything needs to be a competition, but I think if
we're fishing... I'm alright with a bit of gentle competition. Let's see what you got
then. Alright. Four. What are you doing with that rod? Just like swishing it about in the
water. How do you put me a bit of bread on? Alright, stick a nice big juicy worm on the
end. Fling it out, see what happens. You get a bite. I've got something here, Tagk. What's
it? It's a crabbing. One is a little one, six is a big one. Crabbing, juicy, fishy.
Four. Oh, it's a big one. Right, now you roll one to one against the fish. You have to
do as many rounds as its size, so it's four rounds. It's quite a big fish. Okay, I think
I've got a battle on my ends here, Tagk. Seven for the fish. Not twenty. Right, you fling
it straight, you yank it and it comes flying, no surprise. It's a flying fish. Lands a
wap on the side of the bank. Blimey. That's a tap. I surprised myself. I'm feeling actually
quite peckish so I might just eat this one straight away. What about tea? It was supposed
to be for tea. Chomp, chomp, chomp. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh. Tagk sighs and recasts his line. Right. Oh, this is great, Tagk. Nice bit of downtime.
He did say he wouldn't be long though, didn't he? Because I didn't want to get on. Oh yeah,
yeah, he's just nicked back. He's pretty swift, that small human child. I know what I'll do.
I'll gather some sticks to Tagke along with us so when we make camp we've got all the
sticks we need to just fling a fire together. That's great. Good thinking. I'll just stick
a little bell on your rod here so if you get a bite then you'll get a nice little dingle.
You already have a nice little dingle. Good stuff. He starts gathering sticks. So while
Tagk's going off finding a bit of kindling I'll get out my bits and pieces. I'll tie
a bell to my own little fishing line as well. Right, so I'm going to lay out my pieces just
on a nice leather sheet. Nice. Just so I don't lose anything, you know. I'll separate out
all the big bits of the dragonfly automaton. Just get it all laid out and organized. I've
got me clawed mechanical arm that glows gently and I place it over a few of the larger pieces
of glass embedded for the wings so I try and join a few of those up. Wonderful. OK, do
you want to roll? Yeah. Now it's a one or a two for a wild magic surge. Yeah, cool.
Four. Four! I was a bit close. But successful. It's lovely, you just sat cross-legged on
this little sandy bit soaking in the warmth. The sun's warmed up the sand and the sand's
warming up your bottom as you sit there with your little travelling workbench basically,
isn't it, that you roll out your piece of leather. Yeah, that's right. And with the
aid of the magic and also just your tinkering skill you manage to reassemble the automaton.
Oh lovely. However, you do need to roll, roll a D6 to see how many pieces are left over
that you can't figure out where they go. Let's see. Five pieces. You know, you know they
were really useful at the time. I'll just have a bit of a scratch me an orange hair
but like where did these go again? It looks alright, everything appears to be attached
as it was. It looks great. So it's working now as a little, it's together as a mechanical
object but it has no magical life to it. Oh man, right. And the only way to do that is
to have some kind of natural high electrical charge like from a lightning strike or the
equivalent through magical means. Absolutely. But unfortunately, Nyx isn't of the level
that can do the necessary spell for that so you need to find another way to get it working
with someone else along the way or wait for a thunderous elemental knight. Just then you
hear a jingling. Is it mine or Teg's? It's both of them. Teg, where are you? Get back
here. You've got a bite. Come in, come in. And he comes out with his bundle of sticks.
I'll wrap up my makeshift work bench. Yeah, your leather table. Yeah, my leather table,
get that all packed up. So we'll roll a d6 each for size. Tac gets a 3. Oh very nice.
Ooh. 3, 2 3s, right, ok. So if you roll for Tac's fish. Alright. Is that a... A d20 I
thought. D20. Ok so we've got 3 rounds each for these fish. Right. And Tac gets to do...
Plus 3, right. Hee! Says the black. 12, 15. Right. This is survival decks. For you it's
decks. Right. You're fishing fishy. Ooh 19. Right ok. Dirty 20. Tac gets away on the first
round. Oh, tac. Yeah, never mind. Oh blow it. You're not having much luck with these
fish. Alright so I'll roll for Nix's fish. Alright. Ok. 3. Oh I've got this. 10. Brilliant.
So ok, you're still in battle with the fish. Alright. Ok. Come on, come on Nix, to the
left. Alright. Oh 19 for the fish. Oh, it's got some strength this one. 2. It slips the
hook and it's gone. Oh, bad luck Nix. Oh never mind. That was a worthy battle. You honour
me fish. They are slippy fish. Did you eat all of that massive fish or is there a bit
left? There's a little bit left. What like head and tail? No I like the head. You like
the... So I think you've... There's like half with the tail. Yeah, the back end of the fish
is still remained. The head's nice and crunchy. Love that bit. Are you a head or a tail Kobold?
Well, tail is what I'd normally be given. If I was lucky I'd get a little bit of the
middle. There is a little bit of the middle isn't it? Fantastic. Yeah, I'll have a bit
of the middle. Oh you get stuck in. Well I'm going to save it for tonight. I'm going to
cook it up. Oh okay. Can you see I'm trying to save the fish. Survival I've got plus 3
so we're saving the fish. I'm glad you're around. I've collected the wood and pulled
the fish from your jaws. Unfortunately I can't catch a fish of my own. It's alright, you'll
get one. You'll get one. I'm glad you're around. You've got the good survival sense. Does something
I've been meaning to say really? What's that? Well you know back when we met and there was
that big crazy night with grizzly bears and anacondas. Oh yeah, not half. Yeah, well and
then I was getting my gold out of the back of the wagon. That's right. And that's when
you came over and you were talking to me and just want you to know that I wasn't working
for the gleb because I wanted to. They'd captured me as well and they'd forced me to work for
them. I mean the gleb themselves, they employed the four of us but the two kobolds that had
the lassoos, they were in charge of me and Rigby. He was the one that got eaten by the
bear. Oh man. And we weren't allowed to leave and you couldn't really escape because they
were so really good at tracking so we were just kind of stuck there with them and they'd
Tagke all the best bits of gold and they'd say that they'd got the, if you caught a really
good animal for the Gleb's collection, they'd Tagke that one for themselves and they'd take
that to the Gleb and they'd get the best gold. I see. So that was why when everything kicked
off that night I thought that's it, I'm off, I'll have a go anyway. Yeah, yeah absolutely.
Well I'm absolutely thrilled to bits that we were there at that time and we got you
there. Those two, they were a nasty bunch. Yeah it was Djinn, she was like really, she
was really smart and like had all, really skillful but she just didn't care. And then
Dottie was not as smart as Djinn but was really strong, she was like the muscle and you put
them together, you couldn't do anything. Yeah that's a nasty combo. Maybe one day we'll
meet them again, maybe balance the scales. Well we'll have you back Tagk. You look at
him and you see his bottom lip just kind of quivers a little bit and for a moment you
remember that very first meeting where you ended up doing patty back. Yeah, Nix puts
the hand on Tac's shoulder, say well you're not getting rid of us now are you. He sort
of draws himself up and looks quite pleased about that. Okay so he starts bundling up
the sticks nicely in a nice little bundle. I'll give him an end with that, let's get
this kindling bundled up. Do you know how to gut a fish? I'll give it a go, I usually
just like dive straight in. Do you want to show me? Alright then, yeah. He gets the back
end of the fish and he shows you how to gut it and he says so we'll take this bit for
tonight. Do you want these in us? Oh yeah, lovely. Right so. Very squishy. I sort of,
Nix throws it up in the air like a really squidgy bit of popcorn. Brilliant. Down the
hatch. So just then, rings again, third time. Ding ding. This is it, this is it. Round
three Tagk. I'm feeling lucky. Yeah. Right okay. Shall we do Tagk first? Yeah Tagk's got
a bite. Right. Three, it's come back. Oh he's come back for more. That three has come back.
Right okay. It's your time to shine. He takes hold of the rod and he gets ten. Right. So
you roll for the fish. Ten. Ten. Yeah, just about stays on I reckon. Right yeah. Okay
it rolls again. Ten. Ten so okay so that's thirteen this time. Alright get those feet
planted. Six. Six. He's still got the fish on. Come on. Come on. Heave. Heave. Heave.
Eighteen. Nineteen twenty twenty one. Oh. Come on this could be it. Right. I really
want a fish now. You've earned a fish. Six. Six. It's just a six. Yeah. So with a hoik
with his little ankles planted in the shingle, perhaps Nix is holding his bag. Yeah. Give
him a hand for sure. And a fish that is not a million miles shorter than the one that
Nix got is hoisted out of the water and lands flopping about on the bank. I did it. Yeah
you did. First time. Well done. Right let's get mine in shall we. Yeah. You've got to
do your D6 first. Oh yeah D6. See what size it is. How big we're talking. Three. Yeah
it's the one that's brought right. It's a size one. Type to do battle again. Scaly
beast of the deep. Sixteen. Sixteen plus one. Seventeen. Twelve. Still on the line. Come
on. You aren't going anywhere fishy. Thirteen. Fourteen. Fifteen. It gets away. So I'm afraid
it just slips the hook and disappears with a very rude flick of its tail back into the
water. I'll be seeing you again fish. I'll give him the old dagger eyes. Oh yeah. But
you've got, you've now got one and a half fish. Great. Which you reckon will cook up
nicely into a stew this evening. Oh I look forward to that. Lovely. And just as you're
finishing off tidying up you look down back the way you've come and you see this little
fuzzy face charging towards you. Oh look at this little boy. And it's little Fudgy. He's
on his way back. Very happy to see you. Hello Fudgy. And then if you've got a little bit
of fish. Oh here you go. Eat that. That's for tonight says Tagk. God's sake. It's fresh.
Right from the pond. And then further down the track again you see Sorlie trotting along
on his horse and giving you a wave. I'm back. It was a good job I went back to base. The
rudimentary hob was fine but when I passed the chicken coop I found Idiot wedged between
two rungs halfway up the ladder going up into the coop. Not sure how he managed that but
he did look sorry for himself. John and Jim were giving him a telling off too because
he was in their way. I pulled him out and fixed the ladder so they should all be fine
now until we get back. That's all for this episode so thanks for listening and see you
next time.