1.
So on TikTok, remember I had the whole bear man in the forest deal?
So I saw one that is being posed to men.
It is not the same as far as like depth really, but I still wanted to ask you guys because
it's fun.
I think I know the answer for all of you, but the question is would you rather talk
about your feelings to a woman or a tree?
Or a tree?
Or a tree.
And there's nothing specific, right?
Not a specific person, just a woman in general.
Just a woman in general.
Would you rather talk about your feelings to a woman?
Just a random woman?
Imagine you're in a forest and you want to talk about your feelings.
Would you rather there be a woman there to talk about your feelings to or would you rather
talk to a tree?
A woman.
A woman?
Why?
Well, because talking to a tree to me, that's just me thinking the thoughts that I already
know without any feedback.
Well, I have spoken to trees before.
I've dabbled, but I like speaking with women.
I am an emotional creature and I like to speak my emotions out so I can then use logic and
I enjoy speaking with women.
But I do love talking to trees.
I'm curious what the back and forth on this is.
Because I love nature, Cody.
I don't know because at first I would immediately say woman just because having a human connection
with somebody, even if it's just me sharing my feelings, means that I can get other people's
perspectives and they can consider things that I haven't seen before.
But on the other hand, how much of me talking about my feelings is going to be me having
to justify or rationalize my feelings in a way that somebody else can understand?
Because I don't have any problem with sharing feelings.
I talk to you guys about my feelings all the time.
If something's bothering me, I'm pretty straightforward about it.
Same with you, Felicia.
We're very open in our communication on how things make us feel.
But if it just kind of depends on the person, woman or otherwise, because it's like if I
have to sit here and you're irritating and annoying and you don't actually give a shit
about listening to me, then I'd much rather have the tree.
But because at least then I can voice my opinions out loud and maybe just me hearing me say
things then I can go, well, that's a lot darker now that it's not in my head.
Maybe I ought to let that go.
Or that sounds ridiculous when I say it out loud.
So I don't know.
I guess the committally, it would be like to talk to another person because I would just
you know, I'm also it wouldn't annoy me at first.
It's if we have to explain if I have to explain the same concept or why I feel away over and
over again, or if I have to like rationalize it.
I don't want to tell somebody how I feel on something and have me like, well, that's really
fucked up because they're misconstruing it.
And it's like, well, no, it's not.
It's this and then just have them refuse to try to see my perspective.
And it's just like a tree wouldn't argue with me about my validation of my feelings.
That's the thing.
They of course, it's it's finding the right person to talk to about your feelings.
Yeah, I feel like like the question or like the discourse around this one is really more
about like and the reason why it's being asked to men is to have them think about like their
emotional vulnerability, like to see how vulnerable they will allow themselves to be, I guess.
I mean, for for me, I'll be honest, I'd rather talk to a tree.
I don't have a lot of I don't like that.
I don't like the vulnerability.
Now again, Cody and I do talk about that kind of stuff often.
But when we do talk about it, I feel like for this is the same for both of us.
We don't really get emotional when we're talking about our feelings.
We talk about them very straightforward so we can get an understanding of them and try
not to bring the emotion into it.
Sometimes it happens, of course, but I'm an emotional beast.
A lot of times, not Cody speaking, just in case.
A lot of times, I can't hold back tears.
I I have difficulty actually feeling the emotions of my feelings if I'm talking to someone else
because I'm guarded.
So for me, I would rather talk to a tree because then I wouldn't feel so guarded because I'd
have no one there to actually perceive my feelings and my emotions.
And I think that's what the question is, like just checking to see how and I'm like, yeah,
the question strikes me as a how much do you subscribe to the societal pressure that men
aren't supposed to feel feelings?
Yeah, because that is very prevalent.
I have I have another bit of like my question to it.
Number one, my reason to speak into the tree is I'm sure is different than it's different
than that discourse.
But also me as a man, I want to be perceived.
But I feel like my emotions have not been perceived as a man.
Like if I'm if I think the real bare discourse would be as a man, do you feel like anyone
cares?
Like, I feel like that comes.
So I'm like, yes, please talk to me, but also take me seriously.
It reminds me of the trees.
They don't they don't make me feel bad.
I don't remember the entirety of the context, but basically it was about whether or not
this is a man who is married, has a daughter.
Right.
So it's the three of them living together, him and the two girls.
And then he was talking about how he, you know, does not allow himself to show emotional
vulnerability, doesn't allow himself to break down or to appear weak at all around them.
And the whether or not it's true, the perspective that he has is the two women that I have at
home that I care for would rather see me die in my saddle than watch me fall from it.
Can you explain that to me?
They would rather me be a stoic hero, even if it cost me my life, than to see me survive
and be pitifully weak and emotional.
Yeah, I feel like that's something at least for me.
It was like ingrained in my brain and I've had to like work against that.
There is a lot of that, too.
I mean, it happened with my parents, too.
Like there was so my dad for a while was, you know, kind of job hopping and struggling.
And one of the things he ended up doing was selling cars.
Right.
And he hated it.
Hated it.
He's always been a salesman, but he just hated something about that.
And he told me there was there was one day where he just like, God, he really just didn't
want to do it.
He was like standing on the porch about to go to work and just like didn't want to go.
And he was like pretty much like on the verge of tears, if not in tears at how much he hated
the prospect of doing this.
And my mom came out and she was like, you need to man the fuck up and go do your job
because you have a job to do.
And that's not my mom being harsh.
My dad needed that dose of reality right there.
But like that's very much a kind of I feel like that's the norm is just being like man
up is a thing that's not just used by men.
That's the thing that comes around that's just like, what are you doing?
You should be a man here and you should be doing man things.
That's kind of the on your saddle versus falling off moment is like, I know that this sucks
and you hate it, but you're not allowed to be a human being right now.
You're supposed to be a man.
So go do the man thing.
Yeah, it's called.
I was going to say you don't get that from me, do you?
No.
No, it's a society because we treat each other like people.
I do like the man up thing.
It doesn't I don't see it as specifically for men.
I see it as take responsibility.
Yeah.
But the reason that that is man up is because it's what men should do.
The fact that it's applicable other other places is like secondary to the point.
Yeah, it's just when it's they're just like anything there.
They're parts of the man up sphere that are just toxic and bad and it's not good for the
human.
And it's like, yeah, it can because I I say the things like, oh, like, what is it?
You don't have balls like things like that.
Just using the sexuality to it's I'm losing my word of emotion.
Yeah.
I'm just like putting men and women in different boxes because man is the word that's being
used.
It's also it's tough because I think that from an individualist standpoint that, you
know, quote unquote toxic masculinity is is bad for the individual.
However, I think that toxic masculinity is good for the society because if you don't
take men and make them do the roles that they're supposed to do in order to uphold that pillar
of society, then that part of society collapses.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, it's just it's if we don't weird the pressures like we've got to do.
We've got to do Ant Hill stuff.
We have to do work around stuff to to live and thrive.
So it's just it's weird that our human brains can like say no to that.
I don't I don't mean to to I mean, I do kind of actually, I guess, undermine your analogy,
but worker ants are all female.
Yeah, no, I just mean just purely because we do have the ability as humans to be like,
I don't want to do that.
I don't feel like doing that.
But like other creatures don't.
Yeah, the ones the ants that don't work get kicked out or killed.
Yeah.
And it's like man up is like the softer version of that.
Now I get that aspect of it that somebody like people need to do what needs to be done.
I don't get where toxic masculinity is a good thing in that.
Well, the reason I say, quote unquote, toxic masculinity is because there's a lot of it
that gets put under an umbrella term that isn't that toxic.
There's some stuff that is definitely toxic.
But again, that's what I'm saying.
It depends on what we're talking about.
There's you know, certain poisons are good for you.
There are certain medicines that are poisons that are used to treat certain things.
I mean, radiation therapy for cancer is a perfect example.
You have to poison the body or you have to poison the cells to save the body.
So some of the people have to have that shit thrown in their face.
And while it hurts on the individual level, and that as a whole is probably not good for
a society, there is an equal need for that for the whole.
I guess I guess I'm curious what what is under the toxic masculinity umbrella that is not
actually toxic.
Getting people to do what they need to do.
I guess like coaches and sports, though they can go too far, you know, like people can
always take stuff way too far.
I think for me, what I would consider toxic masculinity is the stuff of like, don't cry.
You know, like, well, damn it, what's that movie called?
But you know, there's no crying in baseball.
Like that is toxic.
Yeah, because like, yeah, cry if you have to.
Yeah, I'm a believer in let it out because it's killing you on the inside.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's where that's the toxic part, because it's like, what's what good is the man if
he's not here anymore?
Or like, because he steps stuff down too much.
Or the thing like, I mean, more baseball, but like you throw like a girl, like using
like that kind of stuff, that kind of language is the toxic stuff.
You can encourage people to do the things that need to be done without using like toxic
masculinity is how I feel about it.
So I wouldn't say that that is like the toxic, what's the word I'm looking for?
Way of speaking is necessary for that kind of stuff, especially like where we are now.
I feel like a lot, like, for instance, in our household with me working, like, I know
that I need to do what I need to do, and I know that y'all are supporting me.
But there was never a discussion between the three of us that was like, you know, y'all
need to man up and get a job, or Felicia, you need to man up and get a job.
It's I feel like where we are now, at least our generation, and like the younger generation,
I don't know about Gen Alpha, I haven't talked to Gen Alpha, they're children.
But there's a lot more, like, I feel like discussion is a lot becoming a lot more easier
between genders, if sexes, that is a lot easier to have those conversations of like, of deciding
who's going to do what needs to be done, rather than it being a role that is being pressured.
So what I'm I get definitely what you're saying, like with our our household situation, stuff
like that, like there was never a discussion of, you know, telling any of us we needed
a man up or whatever.
But we also weren't pushed to the point where that had to happen.
Nobody was like pissing and moaning and crying and being like, I don't want to get a job,
I don't want to fucking do it, I don't want to and then having to be forced.
But that's like when it's appropriate is like, when you have somebody in the moment that
you need to push, and you need them to do it.
I think that, you know, aside from, you know, physical abuse, that almost all means of getting
that person to a place in which they will be a better person.
I think that there's a place for toxic masculinity there.
And in that case, if it's a poison that helps somebody get better than they were before,
is it really toxic?
Yeah, I think I mean, that's, that's life, there's always got to be the bad because I
wouldn't, I wouldn't consider myself a good person unless I learned what the other side
was.
So, yeah, I mean, there's also plenty of people that we worked with that just sucked in the
beginning and were bad.
And I had to pull them aside and give them a real shit talking to and be like, you need
to, you know, I wasn't being toxic per se.
But like, I was putting them in a spot where I was like, look, dude, you're awful.
You're bad at this.
You're not going to cut it if you keep doing this.
What's going on with you?
And what do you need to do?
Because I need you to do this.
And either you can do that or you can get out.
See it like that's what I'm talking about, like that is necessary.
But somebody could consider that toxic.
My male boss pulled me into a room by myself and then berated me and told me either to
get better or quit.
Well, yeah, but you use good verb.
Yeah, you use that's that's the thing.
I feel like that's the difference is you're not like, you're not like taking what's his
face that was like throwing a fit about the fact that he doesn't know how to cut onions
and to the walk in and telling him like, you're not a man because you don't know how to cut
onions.
You know, you took him down there and you're like, you're kind of shit at what you do.
You are shit at what you do.
And you're not good enough at this to be talking.
You're not good enough at what you think you're good at to be talking to any of us this way
when it's your third day on the job.
So you can shut up.
And because like he was being toxic.
He was having toxic masculinity where he was talking back to me because I was training
him and you took him down there and you're like, no, dude, she can do this better than
you, which is why she's training you.
So you can either actually listen to the people that are training you or you can leave.
Yeah, that's about a perfect example.
Right.
Yeah, that's a pretty good one right there.
That's a bad time to use toxic masculinity.
I'm not saying that we should use it all the time.
That's a guy who used it all the time.
There's the there's the energy.
There's an energy behind it.
That is such.
But if you know, you also don't take penicillin for headaches.
You take the appropriate medicine for the appropriate moment.
I think the thing you're talking about, Cody, is called something different.
It's not toxic masculinity because that's a specific thing that's just not a good quality.
The toxic is when they take what you're what you're saying and then they're like, you know
what?
Hey, hey, scrawny boy.
You're talking about man.
Hey, woman, do woman thing.
Yeah, you're talking about reality checks.
That's what I think.
I don't think you're talking about.
I don't think it's toxic.
And everybody needs more of those.
My problem is that we time and place is so wrong these days.
Toxic masculinity is not clearly defined to where somebody like me can just know off the
bat what it means.
Yeah.
And what it means to me is completely different from what it means to somebody else, because
like the way that I talk to people, I try to treat people like human beings first.
Always.
I don't care if you're 30 years older than me or 30 years younger than me.
It's like you are a human being.
You have or will have the same struggles that I have.
And we are equal as a result.
Nobody's better than me.
Nobody is worse than me.
Some people are better than me at things and I'm better than some people at things, but
not inherently better.
And that's my philosophy.
And so that influences how I talk to people.
Now, however, that doesn't mean that if I see somebody that's like fucking up and like
really in a bad spot, if I think that I need to go to them and be like, you're you know,
if I need to be toxic in order to save this person, then I think it's called for.
Like it's the tool for the right tool for the right job.
You know, I guess I can I can see what you're saying.
Sorry, also, I laughed because you're saying 30 years younger than you.
So I imagine you taking your three year old.
You're walking like you suck at this.
Listen here, I've been watching your walk for 20 minutes now and you fucking suck.
You are shit.
Get your shit together.
Get out of your house.
Goddamn bobblehead.
But no, I get what you're saying.
I think I know those are good things.
I think I'm getting what you're saying where.
But I do feel like that's because of the world we were brought in, brought up in and having
to like where we are, especially as millennials interacting with people older than us and
younger than us.
There are times where it feels like you need to use that kind of verbiage for people that
are older than you, because that's how they especially with the people, the people from
the generation before us, the ones that grew up in the heyday of toxic mass.
You got to lock into some some old school shit.
It's like I have to go back to being on like my fucking now CYO soccer team and think of
all the visceral shit that we used to say in order to deal with this guy who would have
been like a dad at one of those games, because it's like that's the world he comes from.
Listen to your pipsqueak.
We are thinking of the same guy.
But like that's how it has to go.
But some people just react to it better than others and you just have to learn to read
people.
But yeah, I just think it's a tool.
It does feel really good, though, because there was a time that I had to take Chef into
the walk in and I had to do the same thing.
But the toxic is when people do that for no reason.
I didn't have to use any of that verbiage.
I just told them, hey, if you keep acting the way that you're acting, I swear to God,
everyone is going to quit and you are not going to have any staff.
Yeah.
I mean, if you just saw a dude walking down the street firing off a nail gun, then you'd
be like, you're a fucking moron.
What the fuck are you doing?
Like in this scenario, that nail gun is masculinity.
That's a guy being toxic with it.
It's bad.
But like when it calls for it, you should be able to use it appropriately.
I think so and agree.
All things in moderation.
Yeah.
And that's that's the issue.
It's just we just want to put everybody in their box.
It is this way or that way.
No gray.
No, no, no.
The in betweens.
It's just this and that isn't that clipped out of context in real time.
Isn't that a torag thing where you use people's weapons against them?
Yes.
Let's see.
That's one of his edicts is using your opponent's weapons against them or using their strength
against them.
And torag is hardcore.
I'm trying to find the thing you're talking about torag.
I can't find it.
It's probably the first edition.
Oh, well, you know, whatever.
I have no idea.
Yeah.
He torag uses offensive maneuvers as a form of defense.
Yeah, I think that's kind of what it be.
So Rootmore was doing the best time in the world to use those bursts.
Dude, it's crazy.
There's really no other time to do it.
It lighting up the sky from the ground.
Welcome back, guys.
Last time we were playing, you made your way to the graveyard at the behest of the screaming
and panicked Varen.
Find the gates swelling with the undead.
You make your way into the graveyard and you make short work of the zombie troop before
beginning to investigate the graveyard before being and before long, you know that there
are several fresh graves from what you assume to be some kind of accident or something that
led to multiple deaths as there are six graves marked for a week prior to your visit.
As you begin to investigate, one of you has the idea to dig up the grave and investigate.
And so you do.
And as you are examining the corpses, nothing seems too out of place at first.
You find a rather shiny and magical looking dagger that is something a plus one striking
dagger before the corpses hand reaches up and grabs you, dragging you into a zombie
fight.
And as you make short work of that one and deal with the second, three more burst forth
from their graves.
And here we are in the middle of initiative and it is the beginning of round three.
I had to think for getting around three and it is one of the newer zombies turns first.
That would be the one right next to you, Monet, who is going to reach up from its little hole
in the grave and try to swipe at your legs.
Oh, not good.
Pretty good.
How's a 25 treat you?
Yeah, that's it.
That's OK.
Just a claw, not too bad.
That's going to be five points of no, I'm sorry.
Yes, five points of slashing damage.
And as this thing is like kind of clambering and clawing at you from the grave, it tries
to pull itself closer to you, like pulling your ankle up towards its mouth as it tries
to bite your leg as well.
Natural 20.
Oh my God.
Not good.
So for a total of a 24.
Yeah, that's a hit.
OK, so double damage on this.
This one is a bite.
Not the best.
13 points of piercing damage.
Oh, I forgot my laptop charger at home.
We're going to have to start this episode over.
Started over because of that.
I gotta go and we're just going to have to start this over.
Yeah, I get that.
Don't forget about your peepee.
Hell of a start, Cody.
Thank you.
Oh, for the zombies final action, as it bites into the flesh of your leg, it will begin
to feast, tearing off a small strip of your flesh, which does one point of slashing damage.
And you almost see like the creature seems to be emboldened slightly as it begins to
feast on your flesh.
I don't care.
That's such a gross word in this context.
Feast.
I don't care if it feels emboldened.
Well, it's your turn next, Monet.
Slap em.
Whack em all.
Yeah.
Monet is going to take a damn step back.
And then she will summon her whirling grindstone right there.
And I assume that if I summon it right there, that it should still hit it since it could
hit me from its hole.
Yes.
I'm upset.
Okay.
Why is that?
Because you don't like me.
That's not true at all.
I would think if you zoom in on the picture of these animated corpses, they do look pretty
gross, Cody.
Thank you.
I'd be upset if I got hit by one of these too.
And by the way they're crouched, they might have ups.
Chopping off their arms might not be good enough to get them to stay in the holes.
Yeah, they're squatting like a frog.
Yeah.
You have seen some of them so far, like they like almost twisting, contort their flesh
until they go down on all fours in a very like feral like stance.
27.
Yeah, dude.
Is...
Smashing.
Not good for me.
That is a critical hit.
Yeah.
No.
Okay.
Yes, finally.
Okay, so I'm going to do 2d6 slashing damage and 1d6 fire damage.
Or double on a critical.
Oh, I need more dice.
Here, this can be your fire.
Thank you.
So how much are you rolling altogether?
66.
Whoa, okay.
Goof.
And this is just your normal elemental blast?
No, this is rolling grindstone.
Oh, okay, your fireball.
Chop him to bits.
To ribbons.
And him.
Yeah, I think you're going to kill it.
I don't think so.
I'm very surprised that wasn't my die.
Oh my god.
That's so shit, dude.
Damn.
I'm never using dice from friends ever again.
Hey, I'm sorry.
Both of you had one.
That's true.
That is 11 slashing, 2 fire.
Okay, so as your whirling grindstone begins to spin and hack away at this creature, you
can see immediately it just rips a big chunk of flesh off of the creature.
As it begins to spin and grind away at him, those throbbing pustules that are all over
this thing's upper torso and face are ground away and it splashes this sickly, almost neon
green looking eiker just into the air in like a 5 foot spread around it.
Thankfully you step back and so it splashes harmlessly on the grindstone and on the ground
around it.
I hate that.
Anything else for me, Monet?
Nope, that's her turn.
Well that makes it the second one to a burst forth turn.
And he lets out a shrill shriek before you can hear the creaking and snapping of bones
and the creature emerges from the hole on all fours.
It's gonna do.
Okay, I can leap right here.
So this one just shrieks and rocket jumps out of the grave and lands with a thud, a
sickening crack.
And you can see like one of its limbs is like, it broke a bone landing next to you as it
lashes out.
Hey, Bok.
Yeah?
You're upset with me, aren't you?
I'm not upset with you.
You just happened to be there.
I was going to go somewhere completely different, but from a jump it can't reach you.
So sorry.
Why are you in front?
Really quick.
Was that a, what a skill was that, athletics to jump?
Yes it was.
For a total of a 25.
And was that a critical success?
On a 15 foot jump?
Yes.
Okay, never mind.
Sorry.
I've got an ability that I haven't used yet called upstage.
You know what it is.
Okay.
Sick.
I can see where he is.
I'm a jump liar.
Sorry.
But yes, I did.
I'm a jump liar.
Yeah, now he did critically succeed.
Exactly.
Damn it.
That jump was lame.
I keep forgetting.
I've had that since like level two.
Dang.
Actually, you know what?
Let me double check.
Cause I think I did that correctly.
15 sounds right.
No, no, no.
Not the DC.
I need to double check his, uh, athletics.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
He nails that.
It's like, he's going to, he's got a plus five to his strength.
He nailed the shit out of that.
The zombie lands a quizzical look on his face as he stares into the sky.
Rootmore soaring off into the moonlight.
You're bringing upstage.
The silhouette.
In front of the moon.
I have no idea what upstage is.
So you hear this thud and sickening crack as this creature like almost seems to like
collapse in on itself as it lands.
And as it like slides through the dirt up to you that lasts like foot or so, its mouth
opens wide and it tries to take a bite out of your other ankle.
Ankle biter!
Not a good roll.
Uh, 13th.
So that'd be a miss.
No, that's it.
I dropped my guard.
All of my AC was in my other ankle.
The other, the other one ate all of her armor off.
Rootmore that's you.
Up next.
Oh, fantastic.
Rootmore is going to continue playing Whack-a-Mole.
He's going to step forward and swing down at the zombie that is still in the grave that
attacked Monet with his war hammer.
Oh, nah.
20 to hit.
That's a hit.
Yeah.
Oh, nah.
Also you saying Rootmore is going to continue play Whack-a-Mole.
That sounded like a drop.
I don't, it didn't sound like it was coming out of your mouth.
You came with such conviction with it.
It was very good.
Take that, idiots.
Oh, uh, 12, 15 bludgeoning damage.
15 bludgeoning.
Okay.
Straight on top of the head.
Massive hit and another sickening crunch as this creature's face is malformed now.
Its head partially crushed in, but it's still wriggling as if its unlife is there.
That's gross.
I should have done a vicious swing.
I thought it would die with a regular.
Oh, fuck.
Swing it again.
You want to, you want to pull out your PP or what?
I mean, at a minus five, it's plus 10 to hit.
I think Rootmore can hit him with a plus 10.
Let's go.
Yeah.
27 to hit.
Critically.
Nice.
Rootmore.
Oh, come on.
Do you got any, you got any bonk sounds?
Oh, I forgot.
Thank you.
Oh, that's, uh, 29 bludgeoning damage.
And with a final crunch and a sickening gurgle, the thing returns to death.
Yes.
That's it.
You also forgot Monet's Beyblade sound.
Yeah, I don't have that set up.
Beyblade.
They took away the, where's the X?
Hmm.
I don't see the ability to cross, cross my creatures out.
Top right.
By the colors.
Oh, it's hidden behind my zoom in.
That's why.
Oopsie.
Oh, the other one, Cody.
Oh, that's the one you were hitting.
Yeah.
I apologize.
The first hit would have killed that one.
You said the one that bit Monet.
They both bit Monet and that was the most recent one.
Oh, yeah.
I meant the one still in the grave.
He was swinging down at it.
Okay.
Well, let's, uh, backpedal then because the 15 would have killed the first one.
Oh, shit.
It killed both.
So 15 to that boy.
And then do you want to make the second swing hit the other one?
Yeah.
And that was for how much?
20 something.
I thought it was 29.
Am I crazy?
26 or 29.
Something.
Either way, that is two kills.
Oh, yes.
Oh, it's awesome.
Okay.
My, my apologies.
Okay.
So that leaves, that leaves two standing.
Two standing.
Oh, I didn't see the other one.
Yep.
The one that Rue Moore said he was going to continue playing whack-a-mole and then walked
away from.
Oh, I forgot.
I didn't see that one either.
Oh no.
No, you made it.
You made the right choice.
Okay.
Monet, you're crossed out.
Oh, that's why I made the right choice.
I died.
All right.
And that's it for you, Rue Moore.
So up next is going to be the last of the recently emerged, the one to the far south
of you.
You can hear more of that sickening crack and then you see it slowly clambering out
the top as it begins to make its way over to you.
And as it gets closer and closer on all fours, it starts to pick up speed before it's like
galloping on these limbs that are like stretching unnaturally to help it run with such speed
on the ground.
You can see its claws like digging into the soft earth of the graveyard as it kicks up
and it launches itself at you, Rue Moore, and its mouth is wide open head first like
some kind of corpse bullet.
Oh, 24 to hit.
That's a hit.
Dang.
I know he's got some good AC sometimes.
I mean, 24 is pretty high.
If I raised my shield, it wouldn't have hit.
It's okay, Rue Moore.
God greedy.
We're doing fine.
All right.
Maximum damage on the bite.
Ten points of piercing damage.
And that brings it to you, Scarab.
Do would Scarab know if the I don't remember if that zombie that's in the very top next
to the dead one.
Mm hmm.
If that one came at the end or not.
Has it been hit?
He's the one who's been here the longest and he has been here.
He was the one that was in the pit with you.
Mm hmm.
Right.
So and just a heads up from where he is because he's in the grave and he's on all fours, he
will get a partial cover bonus.
Yeah.
Just from where you're standing.
Huh?
No, he would.
He was on top of the headstone.
Oh, this guy?
Yeah.
You're right.
I apologize.
Never mind.
Just regard.
Sorry, guys.
Sometimes we drink when we do these podcasts.
I don't think that's any excuse.
I don't think that's it.
It's just it's been a couple of weeks or something.
Emma, just go to earlier and edit out the part where I said that just so we can make
Cody look real.
We just say it real low and quiet so it doesn't get picked up on the microphone.
What?
That this is, this is a ruse.
Yes, it's a ruse.
Scarabs terrified.
Tricky.
Tricky is going to be commanded to move forward five feet and slam its tusks into said tombstone
zombie.
All right, let him have it.
What's his name?
Johnny Ringo?
Don't name him.
You're right.
Never mind.
Take it back.
I was, I didn't say anything.
Don't you do it, Cody.
Don't think of one.
I've been holding on to this one for a minute.
I'm going to use the golden pee pee that you gave Scarab for talking to brass nose.
Golden pee pee.
Scarab's golden pee pee.
I mean.
Okay, we got a natty 19 for a 30 to hit.
Critical hit.
Woo, wow.
Yes, finally.
Look, I'll take the power friendship.
Can I get a D8 from both of you?
I'm sorry.
I will take your D8 as well.
Dang it.
Damn it.
I don't know if we've ever mentioned, but when we play this, when we do this podcast,
oftentimes we're drinking.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, it's funny because we're not doing that today.
Are we?
We had a shot.
Oh, okay.
One shot.
I'm drinking.
Am I the only loser not drinking?
No, I'm not drinking yet.
It's hard for me to remember if I drank or not because of the Delta.
You know what I'm saying?
Is this a one?
I think that's a one.
Twenty.
Oh, I'm 31 damage.
Tricky rolls up and as he rears down and flashes his tusks at this thing, it rips it in half,
sending it flying in two different directions.
However, the neon green Eicher comes from this stabbing tusk motion as well.
So Tricky will take a small amount of poison damage, but the display is visceral and beautiful.
And beautiful.
One point of poison damage.
Not persistent.
Nope.
Beautiful.
Just a one off.
I'd love to see that.
Okay.
Just a tasty splash.
Just went ahead and showered herself in all this goo.
That's all.
Final two actions.
Scarab's going to start to pull himself together, see that his friends are getting hurt.
He's going to reload his gun and fire at the one in front of Rootmore.
Twenty six to hit.
Let me double check.
If it's a crit, that is a crit.
Oh no way.
Oh my.
I didn't even want a crit.
We're hearing a lot of that today.
I know.
Yes, finally.
Scarab also pulls 31 points of damage out of his ass.
Damn.
Let's go.
Rootmore you hear and feel at the same time a loud crack and a rush of heat.
And where in front of you was this partially crumpled zombie.
Or the zombie that was gnawing at you, rather.
There is now nothing.
There is a spray of green.
And before you realize it, the sound, the sensation, you suddenly feel a splash of green
on you.
And as do you, Monet.
But the creature is exploded.
Rootmore opens his mouth.
Monet covers her ears.
Covers her ears and there's blood dripping down her arms and she goes.
Rootmore three points of poison to you.
Monet one to you.
Spicy.
Green cat drop.
One to Monet?
Yep, one poison damage.
Damn.
Monet dies.
Dang, hate to see it.
I'll see you guys next time.
Damn.
Just, that's my reaction.
Damn.
There's like 40 more graves you want to continue digging.
Make five episodes out of this shit.
As you finish firing the shot.
Yeah.
That would bring us to the end of round three.
That would.
Hmm.
Let's go.
And as you kind of like look around waiting to see what else you see, another hand burst
forth from that last grave.
As another one of these like festering creatures begins to burst forth and he like helplessly
scrambles out.
He's like screeching and clawing his way out of the dirt.
And as he does so, you begin to feel under your feet a slow vibration.
That gradually builds into a rumble and then a quake.
I need a reflex save from everyone.
No.
Okay.
Reflex ain't that bad.
Make sure you know, look at your, look at your saves, look at your PP.
Please give me the save with a minus four.
Oh.
See like I, I'm pretty confident in my reflex, but I do have three PBs.
I do too, but I think the worst that'll happen is we'll just fall.
I'm going to save my PBs.
Rolling with plus eight.
Here we go.
Uh oh.
All right.
Twelve.
We die like men.
That's a 19 for Monet.
Okay.
What'd you get on your two, Matthew?
14 for Tricky, 17 for Scarab.
Okay.
And Rue Moore, you had a 12.
Twelve.
And this is with, everybody took a minus four on theirs?
Yes.
Okay.
That's with it.
All right.
You feel the ground begin to quake and it shakes beneath you violently.
You can also hear the muffled sounds of what sounds like screaming from beneath your feet.
None of you are taken off balance by this.
None of you fall prone, but the ground shakes so violently and where that one zombie had
emerged suddenly a torrent of corpses erupt from the ground as well as behind you a torrent
of corpses erupt from the ground and to the north of you a torrent of corpses erupt from
the ground as a flood of undead, fetid flesh begins to form around you in a massive macabre
display of violence.
Hungry are the dead.
Okay.
You know, you say that Monet is out of stamina.
That last little bit of poison took away her last bit of stamina.
Oh.
Which is why I said, damn, she's dead.
I think we should run.
Yeah, possibly.
This is, we just fought four.
So this, is this, are we kind of seeing this as the same whore that was at the gate or
is this worse?
Uglier.
Each one is roughly the size of the one that was at the gate.
That single zombie that's there is no more.
He's tossed into the fold or destroyed completely by them erupting.
Also sorry, these are not placed correctly.
They're not all directly on top of you.
Don't worry.
They are a bit off from there.
Okay, so.
But yes, there are three of these troops that have formed around you as the graveyard erupts
to life again.
And as they spill forth from the ground, toppling over each other, collapsing and forming this
almost like moving wave of rotting bodies.
The one persistent trait among all three of them is that, that hideous yellow glow that
seems to like undulate almost like, like a sea of lava amongst the corpses and you can
see all of their, their eyes, their every warfus is glowing and he gashes wounds or
anything like that.
There's this glow emanating from their bodies and they slowly begin to stand from their
positions.
Roll for initiative.
Okay.
Here we go.
Why's it got to get serious again?
I fucking love it.
I'm having so much fun right now.
Okay, baby.
I don't remember if we will unlock the gate or not.
I know I wanted to.
We never did not.
No, we did.
We did.
We locked it again.
Did we?
Rue-Maur tested the key.
He was like, I wonder if this goes to the gate.
This is after y'all did the, before the, the other zombies popped out of the coffins, unlocked
the gate and he's like, oh, that's what it works for.
And then he locked again to be sure.
Cause y'all weren't going at it yet.
Yeah.
Regardless.
It doesn't matter cause the holes are next to the gate.
Yeah, true.
Yeah.
But we're up against a fence that doesn't look like it has holes.
How are you guys looking, uh, health and stamina wise?
I just told you.
I know you told me you're out of stamina.
Are you, have you dipped in HP at all or are you just dead even?
That last bit was my last bit of stamina.
Okay.
And scarab?
Fine.
Yeah.
Tricky too.
Yeah.
Completely good.
Doing, doing okay.
Rue-Maur has a...
We've been hit, but we're fine.
How's your health and spell situation looking?
Rue-Maur's having the time of his life right now.
Beautiful.
Only half his stamina is gone.
Okay.
Cause when anyone says that, I don't trust him ever.
I know.
He's five HP.
Do do, do do, do do.
Time of his life.
So are we planning on staying?
Cause Monet is out of stamina.
Let's see who goes first.
I can say right here after we get initiative.
So Monet, what you got?
Monet got a 22.
22.
Scarab.
20.
Let me triple million check.
27.
And Rue-Maur.
29.
Nice.
Beautiful.
Good job guys.
All right.
As these corpses begin geysering forth from the ground, you can see that the flow is beginning
to stop and they're slowly beginning to stand up and form into groups, but they are very
slow.
And so Rue-Maur, you are first up.
What would you like to do?
They're slow, huh?
The only time we're in difficult terrain is if they're all over us, right?
Correct.
Okay.
Something else to know is unlike the, much like the first troop you faced and unlike
the five zombies you just killed, these do not seem to have the same level of intellect
as the ones you just fought.
These are more slow.
They seem more shambly.
Almost as if, well, I mean, you could roll a knowledge check on it if you'd like, but
I don't want to take your actions away.
No, he doesn't have time for that.
Oh boy.
Can't walk and chew bubble gum.
Yeah.
Well, I can just say they just look like they're slow at getting their stuff together.
Okay.
Yeah.
Those other guys seem scary.
Like if this was a group of them, this could be very, very bad.
Right.
But who knows what these become?
I don't know.
It's cool.
Cool stuff.
Love it.
Love to be here.
I don't have a chance of getting out of here.
Now is probably the time to run.
I will buy you time and I will be okay.
And he will cast a three action heal.
Okay.
It's all of them.
Right.
Good enough for all of them?
Yup.
30 feet.
Hell yeah.
Lay it out.
It's all three of swarms.
Lay it out, holy man.
He's going to heal tricky too.
Ooh.
Here is a PP to give you disadvantage on your fortitude save.
Beautiful.
Oh.
Probably not going to get worse than that.
Okay.
First one gets a two.
Well, plus it's bonus.
Hold on.
For a 13.
That is a fail.
Okay.
The second one, the one to the west, the first roll I rolled is a one.
So it's not getting worse than that.
So it's going to be a 12.
You rolled a natural one.
On that one, yes.
That's a critical fail.
Okay.
And on the third one, 14 and a five.
So the five will be a 16.
Fail.
Okay.
Awesome.
Okay.
We're doing three D8 hit points.
Except for the one that critically failed the last second 68.
Yes.
Do you want a friend dice or no?
Sure.
Why not?
We'll do it.
I just, I need two.
Thank you.
You got two.
Our friendship.
Thank you.
Sorry if it's sweaty.
It's okay.
I'm sweaty too.
My hands are clammy.
It's some good stuff.
It's an eight, a five and a five.
That's 18 for the fails.
Okay.
Hold on.
Sorry.
This is going to be a lot of math.
It could be big numbers, dude.
Hold on.
Okay.
So 18 off of that first.
Just area and spiritual.
Yes.
Let me just run off the rip.
Go ahead and take 18 off of everything.
All right.
And for the critical hit.
14 additional.
It's 18 plus 14.
What is that?
30, 41?
No, 10, 20, 30.
No 31.
Root more.
Your unleashing of your holy healing energy decimates the hordes.
All three of them take tremendous amount of damage and one of them, you strike them so
fiercely that you can literally see you've cut away about a quarter of the zombies in
the horde to the west immediately just dropped dead.
Wow.
You almost feel like I say a quarter.
It's more like a third, almost half of the zombies just straight up are banished away
by your holy light and left lifeless on the ground.
You can see all around you immediately.
They're just wisps of this yellow light leaving the corpses and then seeping back into the
ground.
Oh, damn.
Back through hell.
You got this feeds.
Never mind.
I don't think we have to run.
All right, up next is going to be scarab.
Yeah.
So one action, scarabs going to get on tricky.
Scarabs going to reload and he's going to call out to tricky.
Tricky.
Yeah.
And they're going to run for two actions and I believe that's all I can do.
Okay.
Moving on.
Monet, it's your turn.
Run towards gate.
Were any of these completely destroyed or?
The oval one is now only taking up 12 spaces instead of 16.
I see.
Yeah.
Cody said that you took out a quarter of that horde.
You guys remember from the troop that you were fighting before, you saw like as you
damaged it, it like shrank and got smaller and smaller before you finally ended it.
So at this point, one of them has shrank once.
And you do still have that whirling grindstone out.
Yeah, I know.
That's what I'm thinking about.
I think that Monet will sustain her whirling grindstone.
You want to go ahead and take the grindstone's turn first?
Your choice.
I'd like to.
Do it.
Okay.
So I'm going to move it or it's going to move and it will actually, I can move it inside
of it, huh?
You can.
Difficult terrain, but yes.
Not that it really means anything different.
Actually, it's fine.
All right, did it.
Okay.
So it's going to attempt to hit this horde.
Yeah.
Smash the southern horde.
With a speed.
Natural 20.
Wow.
Magic, magic, and a card.
I haven't gotten a natural 20 in so long.
Oh my God.
I guess, I don't know if this would, I don't remember if this counts as magic or piercing
or spell.
It's a spell.
If this is a cold bomb or spell, it's not a cold bomb or spell.
It is a spell.
It's a spell.
Oh, but it's not cold.
Oh, a cold bomb or cold spell.
I see what you mean.
Next card.
Well, no, no, there's something more to it.
It says it takes triple damage and is slowed for one, slowed two for one round.
If it, or any other bomb or spell, it deals double damage.
Okay.
So in this case, triple.
Okay.
Sweet.
And then put that in the back.
Put that in the back.
So.
This is going to chop up some zombies.
What is this?
Triple damage?
I'm going to need some D6s, y'all.
Zombies walk into those zombies like Frank West with the lawnmower.
Let's get it done.
Damn.
25 slashing damage.
No, sorry.
27 slashing damage.
And.
11 fire damage.
38 damage altogether.
And that is an area attack.
Okay.
38 points of damage plus a little weakness in there.
All right, Monek.
So your whirling grindstone takes off like a furious hop and it slams into this hoard
and you can see it sending bodies, limbs and goo flying in all directions.
There's an orange blaze as the fire spins and whirls throughout the crowd.
And before you know it, it is like running through it with a lawnmower.
It has reduced the hoard size down to a mere eight spaces.
Frank West made eight.
That's going to be a weird Paul guy.
Okay.
And with Monek's last two actions, she will run.
Sustain is one.
Do you want elemental blast?
No.
That means it is now.
The troops turn out first, the hoard to the north.
Finally recovering from the glass of healing damage, they slowly begin to shramble your
way root more.
You see them kind of like twist and swarm around each other.
Some slower than others to realize.
So the hoard almost seems to like swing around itself before it is repositioned.
Thank goodness that tree was there.
It's like they're all holding hands.
I have to go around the tree.
Chained together.
I kind of visualize it as like, you know, some of them are standing still.
The ones in the back are like more, more aware and they're like moving more to the front
than the others are like, oh, we're moving.
And they just start following too.
So it's more like amoeba like in how they move.
A lot of birds.
But they slowly begin to close in on you.
And the first few ones as they approach, reach out and attempt to scratch you.
I really, really think it's more likely that they didn't want to split the pole.
They don't want to ruin any friendship.
Okay, I'm going to go ahead and need a reflex save from your root more.
Okay.
I'm not made of face.
Oh, good.
19.
That's a success.
You'll take half damage of 14, which is seven points of slashing damage.
Okay.
And then the horde to the west after seeing tricky fly by and Monet, they all sort of
like turn from root more's direction and are like kind of wiggle following you guys as
well.
Over here.
So they kind of spin around this way, but they're slow.
So they just barely managed to get behind tricky and they will reach out and try to
grab at him as well.
Reflex save from tricky, please.
Not good.
15.
That is a fail.
Tricky will take 16 points of slashing damage.
And finally, the horde to the south is going to make its way north up to root more.
So it does that same kind of shifting in your general direction as they all shamble.
And so now you were slowly becoming sandwiched by the two hordes moving in.
And as you're getting scratched on one front, you feel several hands grab you on the back
as they claw at you as well.
One more reflex save, please, root more.
Okay.
Natural 20.
Beautiful.
Crazy.
Critical success means no damage.
So as you feel these fetid hands beginning to grab at the back of your armor, maybe you
can feel like a clawed hand like on your pauldron.
You like wrench your arm away in time and you can feel like no touchy bones snapping
and maybe you even see like a fingernail flick by as you wrench your armor free from their
grip and reposition between the enclosing hordes, which brings us to round two.
Root more.
You're up.
Another three action heal.
And he gets all of them again?
You reach all three?
No, I can't reach all three.
That one stepped away.
It's 40 feet away, no?
No, 30 foot emanation.
You could move first.
Yeah.
No, it costs 30 actions.
Oh, three actions.
You're right.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's the only thing.
Lurs trying to cheat for you.
The nova blast going off in the distance as Root more screaming and hacking.
That's why I was like, no, come back here.
Like you were just at 30 feet with that one.
Please come back to me.
I did roll to see who would go for it.
Two out of three.
I'm going to turn in another PP.
This one you gave me Cody for using the dagger for the well to keep the well from being used.
Right.
Okay.
That was a long time ago.
So a fortitude save at a disadvantage.
All right, we'll start with the Northern one.
Natural six, natural three.
So that'd be a 14.
Okay.
That's a fail.
And on the Southern one, natural five and a six.
So a 16.
That is also a fail.
17 positive area damage.
All right.
We're going to add some stuff here.
Beautiful.
That's all.
I want to see this.
I want to see this animated.
Big pillars of light.
Are they dead?
Did he do it?
Are they still not dead?
Are they still undead?
Monet did you have any like hit point damage when Ritmore did the first one?
No.
Nobody did.
She's just-
Tricky got six point.
Okay.
I forget to mention.
I forgot to ask, but I stole those little numbers.
Take every little number I can.
All right, Ritmore.
As your burst of holy light emanates from you again, you feel Korag's love and respect
wash over you and the horde just behind you that you narrowly avoided bursts into holy
flames as all of them collapse to the ground and a clatter of bones.
The horde in front of you, some of them still reaching out towards you.
You can see the light envelop them and their hands like burn away unraveling into ash,
reducing the horde in front of you down to the same size as the one you did to the west.
So you've diminished the number greatly of the horde in front of you and the one behind
you is no more.
This is such a fun fight as a cleric.
This is all you want when you're a cleric.
Healing and killing at the same time.
It's crazy.
All right, Scarab, what you got?
Because Tricky's following Scarab, but with these holy lights blasting off in the back,
you see Tricky turn around and you almost feel Tricky's fur, this voss, these vines
growing, this moss off of him starts to raise into the air like static.
He turns straight around and Scarab's like, oh my God, okay.
Tricky is going to, Scarab is going to give Tricky two actions.
He's going to smash into the zombie horde in front of them.
This is going to be a 25 to hit.
Yeah.
25 to hit.
Not maximum.
Not maximum damage.
Not even close.
It's going to be 12 points of bludgeoning damage.
Damon.
Well, Damon.
Tricky is going to swing again.
Okay.
20 to hit.
Okay.
Before that, 12 points of bludgeoning damage.
Yes.
The rest of you can see after rumors like bursts of holy light, you hear Tricky squelch.
Squelch.
What's a good word for it?
Squeal?
Squelch is more guttural than that.
A good breathe.
So that means squelch, but squelch is the feeling.
You hear Tricky's battle cry and as he begins bucking and tossing his head around, he's
just sending corpses flying and they're clattering to the ground harmlessly.
Some of them get back up slowly and shamble back into the fold and others, they just lie
still on the ground as the yellow light leaves their eyes.
You have reduced the size of the horde again.
Get smaller.
Now a 20 to hit.
20 to hit.
Is a hit.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Shriek.
Howl.
Whale.
Squall.
Yawp.
16 damage.
Yeah.
Tricky's over here doing deathcore.
Scarab.
There are only a few of them left shambling about.
Scarab and Tricky are going to charge back towards Rootmoor.
Two strides to get right over here and halfway through that, Scarab turns back and fires
at the zombies.
Left standing.
I'm rolling.
I've rolled 14s for every attack.
That's going to be...
That's a crit.
Oh.
You're just flying.
We don't even need that this episode.
Finally.
It's been the whole time.
Yes, again.
Yes, yes, yes.
Jeez, dude.
40 damage.
Oh, oh.
Jesus Christ.
All right.
If you'll allow me, I want to tell you how this looks in my head.
Go for it.
I can't think straight now.
Because, I mean, imagine galloping past the horde after sending them flying.
You're riding past.
The cloak is billowing.
You turn around in saddle and you point your gun at the crowd.
You can almost see for a moment the sleeve lifts and you can see the beginnings of vines
and moss on Scarab's arm.
The gun begins to glow right before he pulls.
When you pull, we see the bullet leave the barrel of the gun, sail slowly through the
air.
As it goes, you can see what few zombies were shambling about.
Some of them stumbling over the corpses of their fallen corpse brethren.
Some of them are mid-standing.
One of them is getting up and the bullet goes through the side of his head, out the other
side.
As it goes, there's another one that's slowly kneeling down as if he eats something.
Bullet goes through his head, out the other side.
And before you know it, the last remaining zombies just cleaves through each of their
heads.
Four zombies in a row, eviscerated by this bullet.
And you kill the western horde.
Yeah, dude.
Back to the shadows from whence you came!
Reminds me of my old Halo 3 days with sniper rifles.
Yeah, dude.
Boom, triple kill.
Yeah, it's just a perfect shot.
It's only happened once, taking out three dudes through the head.
Yeah, dude.
Let's go!
Alright, that's it, turn end.
Monet, you and your friends emboldened by your onslaught.
Face down the last of the three hordes.
Are you gonna try it?
I'm too far away.
Well that turns into a cat.
No, uh.
That'd be so awesome.
I wish that, I wish that you could go that far.
I was planning on taking out the one that you took out, but.
How far can you move the beyblade?
I can move the beyblade up to the other horde.
Hell yeah.
Because she'll sustain.
Do that.
Alright, roll the hit on these guys.
Roll the beyblade.
You know what?
I wanna feel cool.
Be cool.
I'm gonna use a pee pee.
Yeah, let's go.
Roll twice, take the better.
Let's get another crit.
Bring the house down.
Let's get a natural 20 on this one.
Not a natural 20, but a 27.
Not a crit.
Very close.
Do it!
Crush and spin.
Burn it away.
Big damage.
One, two, three.
Big magic.
So that is a five slashing one fire.
Okay, but it is area.
And it's not nothing.
Alright.
I'm gonna be able to do a two action elemental blast.
Yup.
This guy.
He's a heavy kid.
It's not gonna be as good as when she do it melee, but that is a 30 to hit.
Oh my god.
Critically hit.
Nice.
Yeah!
So many.
What shape are you making this?
I'm not making it into a shape.
She just, you know, she has her elements channeled swirling around her and the small bits of
metal flying around her start having little sparks of electricity arcing between them.
Bro, it would be cool if you just took whatever statue is in the middle of that fountain and
threw it at the horde.
I would love to.
The range is not big enough for earth or metal.
This is electricity.
We should be the X-Men sometime.
I see the B attack from Cloud from Smash Bros.
Oh yeah, like the green wave.
That slash, that windy slash.
They all smack.
Let's go!
Oh, double.
Yeah, it's critical.
I did double.
I know that feeling.
Double, there should be at least 30 dice on this.
So that is 19.
Electric.
And this is a single target area.
It's a single target.
19.
Nothing to sneeze at.
These are good hits.
Or slashing, whichever does more.
Slashing actually does more.
Nice.
Cool.
Undead don't like to be cutted up.
So it can do slashing for sure?
Yes.
Okay, Prince Zuko.
All right, Monet, so as you begin to channel your elements around you, swirling the debris
of all of these different things, electricity starts to build up.
And you can hear it starting to hum to the air, the crackling going just...
And then it discharges with a...
And there's like just a spread of lightning that flies across the field, right past Tricky,
just over Scarab's head.
Giving Tricky some static...
Right in front of Rubemore.
His mustache and beard go straight up in the air.
And it shreds through the horde, killing it.
Yeah!
Wow!
You're not just saying that?
I'm not just saying that.
That was just enough with it being slashing.
That's the thing.
I feel like the hordes didn't start shrinking until they reached a threshold.
And then it was like every time.
I like these hordes.
It's fun.
And as the last of the zombie hordes fall to the ground...
For the first time since you got to this graveyard, there is once again...
Beasts.
No more rumblings.
No more growling.
No more scratching.
Hungry are the dead.
But the dead remain as so.
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Do you know who it's from?
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Maria.
Oh, did I not write that?
No, sorry.
No, we have a comment.
We have a comment.
I'll wait to think Maria.
I've heard of this one from Maria and it says, Hey Felicia.
And then actually I'll read how it's supposed to say, I Felicia.
And then emojis covering the mouth today is June 26th and I'm listening to episode 10
of CKK B1E10.
Crown of the Cobalt Game.
Book one, episode 10.
I love all of you, especially Felicia.
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That's my mom.
Thank you Maria.
That's my mom.
Thank you.
That you guys remember that episode, right?
Yes.
Episode 10.
I do because she talked to me about it.
Awesome.
That's the one where we killed the warg.
Scarab you threw that junk bomb.
Yeah.
That's what I got from Little Homeboy.
Was that the same episode as Scarab and the halfling screaming at each other?
I don't think so.
No, no.
No, the other co-world.
No, the halfling at the shop.
Cause we got items from all of them.
No, the gnome.
The gnome guy.
No, that was episode eight.
Okay.
Yeah.
Cause I feel like I got it at his shop.
Yeah.
We all got something else.
So early on there were a lot of screaming back and forth with Scarab.
Two different people had to scream at each other.
I've definitely heard that a crowd favorite is that time at the shop.
Yeah.
Very funny.
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It's so fun to scream and chill voices with my friends.
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We did get an email from, oh, let me go.
If only I had it right in front of me.
Was it Squatty Potty?
No.
That'd be so cool.
I don't know if you guys want to sponsor us.
Who wants to sponsor us?
You guys make a lot of doo doo here.
Hey, we too many tabs.
Maybe doo doo, but we do make a lot of it.
But we doo doo be making it.
We do got a lot of content for you guys to shit on whenever you want.
Yeah, rabble supreme.
I don't know.
I don't know who it was, but apparently somebody in one episode was giving out hints saying
we need a fourth player.
Sorry for the confusion.
Oh yeah, sorry.
Right now we are good.
Appreciate the hell out of that, but yeah, if we do pick up a fourth, it would be, we
would definitely announce it and it would have to be in person.
Who knows, maybe try out someday.
We're still waiting for Justin to answer from the seller.
We really appreciate the interest though.
Yeah, honestly, that is very sweet.
I understand from the position of your email that you were trying to be like, hey, I'm
not trying to be weird.
I don't think you're weird.
No.
Hey.
Hey, yeah.
We should think she weird, but you never know what the future holds.
Whatever, she thinks everybody's weird.
Yeah.
This is true.
Definitely.
Thank you for listening.
That's not a bad thing.
I didn't say it's a bad thing.
I do think you're weird.
I don't think it's bad that you're weird, but we're also weird.
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You can delete this.
I'm on my period.
I'm going to have to go to the bathroom a lot.
Just throw it at the end of the episode.
That's a drop right there.
Bro, I would actually love that because I think that-
Even more representation.
You can cut it.
Do you want this to stay in because we keep talking about it?
Yeah, go for it.
Bro, I bleed from my vagina pretty often and it makes me suffer.
Felicia, you can't talk about that.
Hey, ladies.
All right, everybody.
I'm going to go home, enjoy the episode.
I'll see you later.
All right, we'll see you in a bit.
I'm sensitive.
You got to go back to the house to pee again.
Oh my God, I forgot everybody's names.
Look, all I'm going to say-
My name's Imad.
That's Felicia and that's Matthew.
Thank you so much.
Hi, and welcome to the cursed caravan.
You're Cody.
All I'm going to say is the other day I started my period and I had to take a nap because
I was dizzy because I was bleeding out.
I was dizzy from blood loss.
I just want you all to know that PCOS girlies and endo girlies, I get you.
I get the pain and I love you.
Imad, you still have the out.
You don't have to put this in there, but I would appreciate it because representation,
it fucking sucks.
I love you guys.
I'll leave it in.
We're all about to bleed out.
Get ready to get dizzy, boys and girls, because we're going to bleed out in this combat.