Last time on the Empire Initiative. As the battle
at the Orc outpost continued, the final bean
began to coalesce. To the shock of everyone,
it erupted into a 60 -foot pyramid, destroying
the outpost and almost every Orc left standing.
The only Orc to survive was Zogar the fearless,
and the Crusaders quickly captured him for interrogation.
Desperate to return to his family, Zogar promised
to abandon Bloodharvester for him to start a
new life outside the Wode. Victorious, the crew
made camp near the pyramid they had spawned,
but as they got settled, they were approached
by a dark figure. Much to their surprise, it
was another frog folk who revealed himself as
Boulder, the leader of an organization he called
the Leap Syndicate, and he was eager to meet
the rumored Frog King. This is episode 15, Leap
of Faith. He has introduced himself. I am Boulder,
leader of the Leap Syndicate. It's very nice
to meet you. What is the Leap Syndicate? I thought
you would never ask. You asked immediately. It's
great to meet another frog, but that is, you
know, but first of all, as one frog to another,
I love a pun. That's great stuff. For any, like,
frog -based wordplay, this is always appreciated.
She really does, he means that. Um, so he kind
of - he clasps his little thin, froggy hands
together. This is dark, by the way, out of curiosity.
We talked about this before, right? Keep forgetting.
Like, think? God, I don't remember. What did
we say? i feel like we said i was 18 but yeah
and that like adulthood is like around like 10
10 like that's they're mature at 10 then there
was like five years of maturity and then three
years of wandering i think is what we said gotcha
um so i think i have thought it was less time
um I'm just trying to think of - or, I had an
idea of how old he was, but I don't want it to
not make sense. Full maturity at ten years. It's
been a couple years, sorry. You were right, that
is what you said, and I do remember now. It did
make sense to me. So, Bowler is about five years
old. He is not an adult, but he is like... Close
to as far as like bodily development. He's a
little bit sweet. He's like He's smaller than
dark But he looks pretty like but he looks like
like I guess you'd be kind of like a teenager
right at an early Dean so It's like, probably
a mix between malnutrition and being younger
than you, that's how much smaller he is. It's
like the guy who works with me, he's 19, he looks
like an adult man, but he's clearly not an adult.
Exactly! Um, so that's kind of what I'm going
for as far as his age and just to give you guys
a perspective looking at like, this is like the
first time you guys have seen another frog kick.
I feel like we're doing the same thing, which
is like the tennis ball match, like back and
forth. And like, because, and it's like the middle
of the night and Drifter is just like, he's like,
he kind of just, he starts to like dump behind
some grasses and stuff as if he thinks he's like,
as if he's like a nature. He's like in a nature
documentary, he's like, can't disturb them. They
don't want them to - yeah, exactly. This is a
rare sight. Like, that is what Drift is doing.
He is like, I'm gonna shut the fuck up, I'm gonna
watch, and I'm not gonna serve. I don't wanna
scare his observation, you know? Like, yeah,
exactly. the the satellite here's going going
observation mode um yeah so that's that's what
Dirk is doing and um because he's like all he's
an all all black and he's like shiny from like
the coating of some slime that frogs have on
them so like the fire light is like kind of reflecting
off of them and there's like orange sort of like
glow and you know you're kind of like You know,
the frog that stood in the flames is now standing
in front of a frog, reflecting flames back at
him. I don't know, it's just an image that I
have in my mind. And you're like looking back
and forth, and he says the Leap Syndicate is
a secret organization of frogkin that I have
founded. I was born as property. I escaped. I
have done my best to save who I can. However,
the only reason I was able to escape is because
the farms are very dark and I was born with a
hyperpigmented skin. So from time to time, I
sneak my way back into the farm and I will take
a tadpole that is dark. There is not many of
us, but we are strong and we can be stronger
with your help. We had heard whispers. because
we're always watching the orcs. We had heard
whispers of a frog king here to liberate us.
We thought it was a fairy tale. We thought they
were just trying to scare their children. But
then we heard of things happening, hunting groups
being slain, the sound of the silhouette of a
frog wearing a crown. the flames behind him in
the darkness yes with the blue flames and I was
certain that there was some validity to it and
he looks like he's being vindicated like as he's
explaining himself he's becoming more and more
vindicated and he's like he's like I knew that
I just needed to wait for another incident and
then we could find you and when I saw that pyramid
I knew it had to be you. I knew it had to be
you. And, he didn't believe me. But just wait.
You wait. I want to save everyone. I don't think
that's possible. But that is why I founded the
Leap Syndicate. Liberate. Empower. Annihilate.
Propagate. We will rebuild. Leap. I want to make
my response. You're gonna get me a pair of those
sweatpants. They look juicy as well. Oh, it's
gonna be the leaf and then the things are gonna
go down each leg. Oh my god, so 2004? Yeah, and
I was at my beach. Amazing. Okay, let's process.
Propagate. That's always been Dart's fucking
thing. I am very proud of us for not, like, screaming
instantly. It's so hard. It was worth the wait.
What a way to come back. I was like, oh my god,
I've just been telling you guys the acronym!
The acronym is also his game plan. Can you please
re -say the adage? Liberate. Empower. Annihilate.
Propagate. Leap. Fuck. This is so hard. Well,
they're fucking around I gotta google something
rain instantly starts making patches It didn't
mean the same thing and they were so cool there
was liberate extricate annihilate and propagate
But I hate liberating the same thing. Yes. I
was looking at extricate. That was that was one
of the words I was looking at So like I didn't
I actually didn't want to use liberate because
of the hamster. I don't know why but I was like
You know what I mean, but at the same time I'm
like, wait a minute. No, that's just a reference
It just make it's just burning. Yeah, it's bringing
it. This is this is Ryan's wheelhouse full hamster
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Yeah, so that is his speech that he's been working
like he's just so worked up to give and he's
just kind of like, he's impassioned. Will you
help us? Are you really here to save us? he's
looking at you with a glow of hope in his eyes
that you remember seeing in your own children
i'm going to step forward and give him a big
old hug he's like stiff you like hug him he doesn't
pull away and he just said me stiffens while
i'm hugging him i'm gonna whisper into his ear
we're gonna be such good friends He just like
gives like a deep rumbly laugh No, that's not
even the best part then I'm gonna step back and
I know his reaction time will be good enough
to pull this off tongue -five Literally no hesitation
zero rehearsal. Yeah. No, it's perfect First
of all, I love the acronym. That is amazing.
Thank you. I bet your stronghold is really a
hopping He's been dying these for at least five
minutes so he smiles but looks a little sad when
you say that just a little but in all seriousness
that is absolutely why i'm here to liberate frog
poach i really really really really he starts
to like sink Little bit like he's bending his
knees bending his knees as you're saying really
really really hate works Just he just springs
up and just jumps up like four feet in the air.
It's just like He lands Like he's just like there's
so much coming out of him right now that makes
sense, but it's just So much like teenage boy
adrenaline I want to do an inside check. Sure.
When you mentioned the base 11. 11. Normally
I would say that you're not like familiar enough
with frogs, but you are. You can tell that you
could tell that he looked a little sad, but you
couldn't really parse more from it. It was just
kind of like that made him think of something.
Kind of sort of thing. Maybe he seemed a little
sheepish. I'm just gonna venture a guess and
say that you don't have soldiers, but what you
probably do have that can be very, very useful
is knowledge of the layout of the orange camp
and a location of frogs. I do contain that knowledge,
correct? I also have a contact right inside.
A frog contact. A frog. Frog cat? Yeah, frog
cat. Hey, arm frog. No, I have a contact on the
inside hog. Only a frog. I do not have an orc,
I think, as much as I would detest working with
them. That if we were able to get that, it would
be helpful. Currently, I can only take one, maybe
two tadpoles at a time. Extremely dangerous every
time. Question. Short windows to work with time
wise. And I don't have a clock. How many tadpoles
have you liberated so far? Defying liberated.
They're not in the farm. But it is still alive.
Yeah. About seven that are useful. Five that
are too young. And he'll basically say Not all
of them make it. Like he saved more tadpoles.
He saved more tadpoles than that. But not all
of them make it. And part of the issue is that
we don't have an established base. We need one.
A base of operations. Somewhere where I can raise
warriors safely. Train warriors safely. Where
I'm the only... I'm the only... formally trained
warrior we have, and everyone else has learned
from me. Okay, well, uh, first of all, you were
so incredibly brave, and I'm sure you've done
everything but good, and I am so, so proud of
you. Two? He, like, has to drop his gaze from
your gaze, as in, he's like, thank you, my tail.
We're gonna rescue Hora. I'm gonna help you.
The syndicate's gonna fucking love this. I'm
like, he kind of like breathes a sigh and make
Ray makeup inside our medicine check. 16. Okay,
he's exhausted. When he lets out a sigh, you
see like his legs almost collapse. underneath
him he's exhausted and he looks like he could
be he looks like a little bit skinny so he might
be hungry if you just immediately like like he
after that adrenaline has like just peaked and
started to wear off he's just like i think you
might dream thank you would you like water you
wanna you want some pancakes pancakes i think
he needs some pancakes i bet he doesn't have
any full of smoke you've never had pancakes and
flux is just Freakin' out. That's fair, they
know what. Like, in a good way. Can boulder see
fluff? No, you feel fluff. Got you, okay. I don't
know if he has frog senses that might sense that,
like, it's not... Um, I mean, he's got dark vision,
but he sees... Any sort of sense that dark has,
he has. So, he doesn't have, like, any sort of
extraneous... detection of abilities as far as
you're aware. There's my decanter. Just start
pouring. It's endless. He sort of looks a little
bit curious, but he picks it up and kind of scoops
it with his both hands and just starts pouring
it on his head and over his back. And he's not
wearing any clothes, but he does have a belt
with weapons on it, notably a dagger and a little
blowgun. It's endless do this as long as you
want He shakes off a little bit of the excess
water. He's like, I haven't had a fresh running
water in a few days. I'm going to give him a
pill of blood. Yeah. Ryan is making, panically
snaps it up. He's going to need a shrink. We've
got lots of work to do. Um, um, Drift like kind
of starts to stand up out of the shadows. And
when he, when Winger starts moving, um, Boulder
jumps a little. He's like, oh friend. Oh, by
the way, these are my friends and compatriots.
They'll be assisting us in the liberation. I
am Boulder. i have not met your kind that's rain
that's zavari that's drift he's new drift like
gives a cat paw thumbs up and just like a toothy
smile like trying to seem like docile like kind
of ducks his ears back but he's like accidentally
looks a little menacing and boulder just kind
of like side eyes him a little like doesn't say
anything just kind of like looks around rain
starts making pancakes and makes like regular
ones but then takes uh goes and finds like a
spider web and that's like vacant and grabs the
branch or whatever and starts like getting bugs
all in it and then mixes the pancake batter with
the bugs um so that it's like a buggy pancake
it's just and um then puts like soup like uh
uh maybe some of the tea uh remnants like maybe
they like have like the kids the tea is already
used but like uh um the the buggy bog tea um
but maybe use that to like use like an infused
maple syrup of that um bug attracting tea herbs
or whatever you know um it looks like you can
use it one last time like come down and stick
on it right yeah yeah So he's watching you cook
with like with an intense fascination like Doesn't
he doesn't really say anything? Unless like somebody
like like unless he notices that somebody watching
him do this All right, what is she doing? It's
uh something I've read about it. Okay. Yeah.
So I didn't know how it was done. It's a human
invention. They apply heat to food to make it
into better food. It's kind of turning its head
sideways. Then there's crispy bits, you know,
like the, like, I've heard that the wings, the
wings get even more crispier. And then there's
flavor. Have you ever had flavor on your tongue?
He eats bugs, of course he's had flavor. Like
sweet, delicious bug flavor. Sometimes I dip
my bugs in algae. It reminds me of the farms.
But sort of in a way I can't explain why I like
it. But you like it. And he looks like kind of
ashamed. Like wouldn't you like make that face
to what he said? He starts like, he's like, oh,
well, I don't know. I guess I don't know why
I like it. Like, you know what I mean? Like,
he's like, he's like, you know, Ray looks at
Benson and is like, Noted. Next time I see some
good algae, I'll get it. And then just like keeps
making the pancakes. And just like acknowledges
like his like flavor choices. I scoop a bottle
every time I go. I don't wanna overwhelm it.
I mean, it's loud to take in. That's why I just
wanna give him some pancakes. Pancakes. And some
water. He takes like, he looks at the pancakes
for quite a bit of time before deciding to try
them. And he'll just kind of like lean forward
and like his tongue, you've never seen a frog
tongue move this slow. He just sort of like lulls
his tongue out very slowly. It's just over his
bottom lip and he just grazes the edge of the
pancake. Like he's almost like horrified by the
idea of like trying something cooked like he's
kind of like right and immediately well actually
we'll just see how good the pancakes are it was
like two actually yeah uh i'm gonna use flux's
diet that's probably likely better than anything
you have still but um i feel like it's an 11
but i i think it could be like your survival
or you could use intelligence for cooking or
wisdom it could be a 12 12 um so he's like missing
something and then he like takes another little
taste with the syrup and just like got like just
like not even like chewing it just sort of like
topping them back into his mouth and you know
what i mean like and just just just using his
mouth no hands no utensils just Delicious. You
guys wouldn't know this, but that's actually
highly complimentary. Oh, thank you. I have much
gratitude. Thank you. And he kinda like holds
his stomach and he's like, I ate too much. And
it wasn't like, you didn't give him a huge portion,
but like, he's like, he's trying to see you very
much. He's like, I'll let it settle. That's what
I feel. You just need to rest a little bit. In
the meantime, why don't you tell me about what
you know about the farms and how they're laid
out, so we can start making a plan for rescuing
the frogs. Would you tell me about what you know
about our culture, our people? I only know this
jungle, I only know this woad. Well, I can tell
you that there are a number of different kinds
of frogs depending on what sort of environment
they grew up in. Jungle frogs are different than
forest frogs, different than life frogs. I have
seen, there do seem to be differences between
us. I personally am a forest frog. I can't tell
you everything about our culture, but I can tell
you about the village that I was from. You were
from the village? I was, once destroyed. The
villages were real? They were, and I'd like to
bring them back. My village was centered around
cranberry bugs. Which is like a swamp filled
with fruit One thing we like to do I play with
fruit. Yeah, I grew it lots of it Fields of it
as far as you can see and he's like he's like
a very just so into it. He's hanging on your
every word We also ride giant sliders Giant spiders.
Yeah, I got one. I've seen giant spiders in the
forest, couldn't we ride them? Yeah, I could
teach you how. You know how to tame them. I ride
one, his name's Charlie Bigspider. What an excellent
name. Thought so too. So I could get spiders
for all of my soldiers. I mean eventually, yeah.
They're a little hard to tame, it takes some
time. But we can do anything. That's true. That's
true. Um... And when he says that, like as he
said we can do anything, you see he like rests
his hand on his dagger. He doesn't like grip
it, he just rests his hand on it. Uh, before
we do anything, before we start realizing all
of our dreams, we got a free rp extremely source,
somehow. That's what I came here for. I heard
that they were farms, and that they were eating
us. And I cannot apply that. You've heard correctly.
Mainly they eat. They seem to like the eggs.
That is an abomination. However, they eat us
at every life stage. There are some of us that
they keep alive to work the farms. That is how
I escaped. I was kept to be a worker shortly
after I learned my language, my job. I saw an
opportunity and I escaped. All I have, throat
wise, is what I learned from my caretaker. She
wasn't exactly my mom. I'm pretty sure they ate
my mom. That's tough. But yeah, and yeah, he's
just like, yeah, you're absolutely right there.
It is a large operation. There are multiple spawn
chambers. There's a chamber mainly for eggs and
tadpoles. There is an algae farm. There is, just
outside of the city, there are bug traps. There
are these large carnivorous plants that attract
bugs. They go there and they scoop bugs out of
it and they blend it into a slurry and feed it
to us so that we may not gain any... magical
benefits from the bugs that live here at the
Lode. Is that what happened to the pancakes as
I cooked them? You didn't use any magical bugs.
Okay, but they were delicious. Magical does not
necessarily mean delicious. Some are delicious.
I like the sneaky snails. Now get the Barney.
I wonder what it is like to go to a bar. mm -hmm
um but yeah so he'll say like so we don't have
a base we are nomadic which is tough there are
a lot of things in this jungle that like to eat
us um it also makes it very hard to care for
the young um he will also say We are very limited
in supplies. We have recovered some weaponry.
Mainly we are working with things that we can
craft. We have a resident crafter. His name is
Sonny. But yeah, he makes all of our weapons
except for... mine and he puts his hand on his
dagger again and this time he like draws it and
you can see that the dagger is like it looks
like it is like shiny and jet black just like
he is it looks like it's made of like obsidian
almost like the entire dagger is one solid piece
of obsidian like there's no like separation from
the hilt and the blade um it's it's very unusual
um and he will he kind of like he just pulls
it out like without the blade like facing out
like sort of like facing down um and he just
kind of like shows this he says no one is to
touch my weapon that is a very unique dagger
you have there it is indeed it is the key to
our success and also blade it just works indeed
it does it is It kills the marks. It is everything
to me. Okay, well, I'm gonna have to, uh... Sunny,
is your crash guard? Yes. Okay, so it just so
happens that I am, uh, not an expert, but I am
pretty knowledgeable in two things. One, while
I have a blade of my own, My weapon is the bow.
I'll pull my bow out and show it to him. I have
read about these, but I have not found one intact.
I may not have the size and strength of an orc,
but with this weapon, I can attack them from
a distance to make up for that fact. That is
very useful. My second in command specializes
in using the dart. Gun. Or I should say the blowgun.
Yeah. That's our arranged weapon. Smart. Very
smart. There are lots of useful poisons that
can be put into those. He will say I specialize
in using my dagger here. But I do also... I have
some arcane abilities. Me too. Me three. Me four.
Um, that brings, uh, that, real quick, uh, I
wanted to talk about my second special. training
which is guerrilla warfare excellent are you
familiar with punji sticks oh god what are those
oh no no okay so what you do is you dig a big
hole right then you take a bunch of sharpened
sticks and you cover them in food okay food food
disgusting and he looks excited when he says
that then disgusting you put all the pointy sticks
in the hole with the pointy end pointed upward
and backed by it, right? And then you cover it
with leaves and stuff so that they can't see
where the hole is. Then they come running after
us. We make them chase us. They run over the
hole and they fall into it and they get stabbed
by the pointy sticks and then they get sick from
the poop on the sticks. That's just one of my
many ideas. That is brilliant. That is brilliant.
I have been looking for books on tactics and
warfare, but you would be surprised that there's
not a lot of books around here. You should always
pull from multiple sources, not just dark sources.
We'll get you more information. I like this idea
of the... What kind of arcane things? My question
is... He literally puts his hand up. to sort
of like, shush you almost, because he's so into
this trap thing. He's so into the shitty sticks,
the shit sticks. My question is, are there other
things that we can put in pits? Oh yeah. Snakes!
Snakes. Oh, that's a little bit better. Um...
Coat -covered snakes. It was way too obvious.
When you say that, you don't see anything but
you hear a SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
snakes and then he's and then he realizes once
he's like oh just snakes and then he's like oh
you said something what are your arcane abilities
are you more like offensive defensive offensive
okay mainly related to any sort of like gesture
he puts his hand over his dagger again he doesn't
like put it on and he just puts it over it kind
of like I'm sorry, that's what I was thinking.
It was like the dual. Um, but yeah, he's mainly
concerning. I mean, he kind of like seems a little
hesitant to like explain further, and he's kind
of like giving you this look. Make a insight
check. Oh my god. Uh, 13. You're not exactly
sure what he is doing, but he's like trying to
gauge. you in some way, but you're not exactly
sure what it is that he's concerned about. Would
it help if I told you more about myself? Perhaps,
yes. Okay. My name is - If you do not mind. No,
I don't mind. We're all friends here. At least
we all trust each other so far. I am a cleric
of Asmodeus. I am best at attacking people from
long ranges. Healing is also a specialty of mine
as well. I have a number of healing spells and
I don't fight with weapons. I am magic so that's
what I use. Long range specialty as well then.
When you say Cleric of Asmodeus, who is Asmodeus?
That is a long story. Okay, maybe it's not a
super long story. Um, the lord of the hells?
The hells? Do you know what hell is? That's probably
a complicated one. Just final time. The point
is she's got this magic spell where she goes
like this and crazy magic fire shoots out of
her hands and blows stuff up. I can make fire.
Fire frog. I can also... do this and he draws
his dagger and just like throws it like into
a tree and as soon as it sticks into the tree
and he kind of like starts to bring his hand
back the dagger reappears in his hand and he
puts it like he puts it back into the cheese
so that's cool check this out and then i just
belch wow amazing our people are so powerful
Um, yeah, maybe quite any other questions from
Boulder currently. You should get some rest.
We'll conquer this pyramid on another day. I
will attempt to rest. You need help when you
sleep? I have a spell that can magically help
you sleep. I do not have a problem sleeping.
Resting is sometimes difficult. Ah, I understand.
What will help you rest? Knowing that your brownies
are safe? And he just kind of like shakes his
head and he's like, it's complicated. Okay. I
mean, I ask myself the same thing every day.
Okay. Savari. Rain. Drift. Have you guys heard
the ringing noise? Not us. I hear it. We don't.
You hear it. It just kind of gives you like a
knowing nod. I hear it as well. I bet you do.
Though, when I first started hearing it, I felt
like a lot of pain to the point where I couldn't
even think. But now, when I hear it, I feel nothing.
But I still hear it. Every day. Twice a day.
We're gonna put a stop to that. Though I shouldn't
say exactly every day because sometimes we are
outside of its range. We've sort of mapped out
what the range of it is because most of us hear
it. But yeah, after a while it stops hurting.
Every time I would hear it, you know, or almost
every time I would hear it, I would pass out.
from the pain and feel sick from it but i don't
know if i just got used to it or what it doesn't
do that to me anymore i was wondering if you
still felt the pain for now i think i know how
to make it stop really the chief of the orcs
he has an item it causes the sound if we can
take it from him it'll stop We will take everything
from him. Oh yeah, tongue flies. Drip is like
touching in tongues. And he's kind of just like,
not my culture, not my culture, I don't know,
I'm sorry. I may be weird for tabass easily.
Yeah, that's exactly what he's imagining too,
probably like two papery, sandpapery tongues.
Which is not possible. It's like, you know, two
different grits. Yeah, rubbing together like
against the grain. Just not a thing. Not possible.
Some things are just too horrible. Just for my
own comprehension. Exactly. But yeah, I mean,
if you guys are ready to like go to bed and stuff
and he says that he'll like, he says that he'll
take you to like the rest of his, you know, crew.
in the morning lately. Yeah. I'll take first
walk, you'll take first lunch. Yeah, I want to
like inspire hope in the frogs he's rescued so
far. I don't want my exact, I don't want confirmation
of my existence to reach the farms because I'm
afraid the orcs might like use them. frogs in
the farms against me somehow. Understandable.
So like, we gotta, I don't know exactly how it's
all gonna go down, but I feel like we have to
either free all the frogs without the orcs spawning
out first, or we have to kill all the orcs and
then free the frogs. I feel like as we learn
more about them, probably the answer will become
a little bit more clear. Probably. And also,
he was talking about how they're pneumatic and
that's causing survivability issues. Yeah, my
people need... They need a home. Like consistent
spawning pools that we can protect to make sure
that our young make it. Like in this pyramid
right here with a river nearby? Um, I mean, it
sounds like they've pretty much got a whole area
set up for a frog community. They're just...
harvesting from it but they've already got like
take back the area yeah then like it's already
set up for their survival right we can sort of
more about it oh if he thinks it's not i would
assume i guess that he you guys would have asked
like oh like approximately where and he will
say that there they are beneath the city there
are catacombs beneath the city that have been
converted into these farms. So it is not outside
of the city, it is within the city. So it's not
that it's impossible to control that area, but
it'd be very difficult without killing everyone
who's in those buildings. Because it's not like
the entire city, it's just like there's a main
catacomb structure. Under the city, and that's
where it is. So you could potentially control
that area, but you would need to take a chunk
of the city itself in order to control the area,
the whole area. We took over the city of the
glass pool. We could take over the city of the
frog pool. Now you're sure. If we lead my people
out of this woe, we'll have to like... and build
a home for them. If only I was like some kind
of powerful lord who could acquire resources
to put that kind of thing together. Oh wait,
I am! Answer? Er, we just gotta get the people
there, you know? Yeah, crowd. Um, yeah, that
much theory. Question team, how long did it take
us to get here in the world? Was it like, a few
weeks? So long. From the actual entrance to the
Wode to where you are now I want to say that
it was So it was a it's been about 10 days. Okay?
Roughly eight of those was like finding was finding
the the place so like and then you guys rested
right after you found the place and Then you're
resting now. So like now it would be the 10th
day Um, which does mean that we are inching closer
to, we're inching very close to the seventh month.
So getting, getting very close to having a month,
like, just straight up a month before the Jubilee.
And when it, like, within a couple of days, I
think it's probably going to be a month until
the Jubilee. Because the Jubilee is on, like,
the eighth of the... first or the second of the
eighth final, right? It's wait, uh -huh. I can't
remember the names of the months. You better
look at that document. Nobody tell my extremely
traumatized former POW new best friend about
the extremely fancy party that we're going to,
son. No. No, no, no. Then we'll have to explain
what parties are. It's going to be a whole thing.
Well, we know what the ability is. Basically
you guys like it when you started this a journey
it was towards like the middle of the sixth month,
which is soon You guys are now entering the seventh
month, which is Lathandery the eighth month is
Polarin and I think it's the second of Polarin
is the Jubilee Yeah, the week and then the last
day of that week is the ball. Is that correct?
But we're expected to be there. We're expected
to be there. They would like it if we could be
there like two weeks before for like fittings
and whatnot, but they did say if we can't make
it that early, that is fine. So essentially that's
a little more than two weeks from now is when
they are like they said Zavara you should be
here two weeks before. So like in two weeks.
Yes. Roughly a little bit more than two weeks.
Also the trial is two weeks before the jubilee
starts. It's like several days. It's like...
Oh my god. It's like right at that time. So it's
not necessarily the actual jubilee. Yeah. Once
for the actual jubilee, two weeks before. So
it's at a few weeks. Yeah. Okay, you guys. So
things are really like really sort of, you know,
getting crunchy timelines. Piggy butt. Can I
pour this real quick? Yeah. Um, but you guys
can do it. You've worked on how you're scheduled.
I'm figuring out this timeline in her head now
that she's lying down. She's like, I have to
leave here in a few weeks. There you go. Yeah,
you do. I should probably be leaving then too.
I thought, yeah, I thought you said you wanted
to be there. Yeah, I have to. I mean, I wanna
see Zaris, but like, I have to learn about stuff
before I make a fool out of everything. I will
teach you what I know. Starting right now. Or
you're just chomping out on chips. I know for
baller and dancing, you'll have... I've seen
people say that you'll have best... flow, mobility,
I guess you would say. If you keep your arms
situated on your wheels more up like this, because
it feels really weird dancing, but it makes things
a bit smoother. I've never been, like, a smooth,
flowy dancer. I'm more, like, a quick, like,
static. Like, I mean, why don't you have flux
and, like, laugh and gravity make you flowy?
That would be really fun. I never thought about
using Moon Glides to dance before. I used to
ride out. I guess she thought about it. Under
the moonlight. I was looking up some of my notes.
Helping Rain learn how to dance slowly. I go
into Moon Glide and I start dancing with you.
Um, typically the... I'm leading. I let typically
the woman lead, so I would lead. Yes, I should
let Zaurus lead, yes. Okay. I was like, Zaurus
would what? No, lead this. Now technically it
was Zaurus, he would lead, but... But this is,
this is their day. I think girls dance under
me. Um... Drift, um... We'll pull out, um...
What is a cat -like instrument? I can only think
of a kalimba, but it looks like truth. Your cat
played a kalimba! Castanets. Castanets! No, that
was Jade. Yeah, Jade played the castanets. The
kalimba. Was that Sonata on the arm? Yeah. Okay,
that's Sonata. Well, Drift plays the kalimba.
We'll just go with, yeah. So we'll take out the
kalimba. pluck a little tune for you to dance
to and he's like alright headbanging it. He knows
a song or two. I feel like it's like moon dance
like yeah exactly and then Zelda's lullaby you
know that's the other one he knows and the final
fantasy like credit yeah yeah so you got three
songs in his repertoire all bangers back to back
to back all bangers I know what instrumentative
acts you wouldn't play. A shamisen. That is correct.
Wouldn't work out very well, probably. Maybe
like drums. With your patterns. And then like
the things that brushes. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah,
I can see it. I can see it for sure. That's cool.
Instead of the whatever it's called I don't know.
But yeah, so play a little tune and um, boulder
is curled up on in like a nearby tree, sort of
like a low limb, and sleeping. Um, I know Reign
says she would do the first watch. Um, that's
cool, I'm gonna use this opportunity to inform
myself to Jesus. Oh, them dancing. Okay. Let's
do it real quick. Oh my god. Okay. 18. I'm guessing
about as far as not, like, letting them down.
Right, that makes sense, though, actually. Gavari's
heart goes spooky. Um, yeah, so Rain's taking
the first night watch. Um, give me, like, a perception
check. Instead of running now 25 25. Oh Wait,
no, it was already past the evening. Okay 25.
So the 25 you notice that Boulder is like not
sleeping soundly if that makes sense that he's
like tossing and turning his legs are twitching
He like it's kind of like he's like it almost
looks like he's like he's like thrashing in a
way It almost looks like he's like fighting in
his sleep. I sing song of rest for him Um, hmm,
that was interesting. Because my bard ass would
like to try to soothe him asleep. Aww. Settle
down, little froggy. Settle down, little froggy.
The trouble's gone away and time is gonna slay
all the fears you're dreaming, little frog. With
the song of arrest, I had to make another con
- I mean, I had to make another con -fave with
advantage, which you didn't know who your con
-fave was, but he was. And he has settled - he
settles down after a few minutes of his singing,
and starts to sleep more soundly. So anyone can
spend the hit time during the short rest to add
a decent status as a long rest. So whatever.
So mechanically, he had a level of exhaustion
that he was not that he was a he was not sleeping
soundly. So he was going to get another level.
But because you arrested him, he has instead
healed that level of exhaustion. They have to
really know that. But you know, she settles him
down. What in your character's opinion makes
a good leader? And if you have any examples of
who or however you guys want, however your character
wants to express that idea. In Zavari's opinion,
what makes a great leader is someone that other
people are proud to rally around. are proud to
work for the same cause as you, if that makes
sense. Like, that it's important for the people
behind a leader to believe what their leader
believes. Yes, a leader is only as strong as
the people behind them. That is something we've
always told the children. Yeah, that sounds like
something you would say. For sure. She also thinks
something that makes a great leader is a willingness
to make hard decisions. As a leader, you're faced
with many issues, not all of them good. Sometimes
the politically correct decision isn't the morally
correct decision. So being able to navigate that
properly is a sign of a really great leader,
in her opinion. Good things are, that's me. Then
you just leave the room by going up the stairs
on your hands. I'll carry a massive book. I think
Dard would say that a good leader or a good equality
leader is accountability in so much as they take
responsibility for their choices and the consequences
of those choices. No. And also, a good leader
never asks their people to sacrifice anything
that they would not be willing to sacrifice themselves.
That's good. That's what God thinks. Great. So
do you think then that a leader who is willing
to sacrifice anything personally is justified
in asking that of his people? No, because Star
Wars only is said to deal in absolutes, if you
like. Yeah. If you're that, like, committed to
your cause, it causes you to lose sight of things,
I guess, is the way I'd put it. There's such
a thing as asking too much. Absolutely. Definitely.
Definitely. That was good. Really noble. So,
to contrast that, I'll go next. Okay, cool. That's
okay. Yeah. So, Zaris. First off, a really good
leader. Like, a really good leader, you know,
like, ideally, it's to be hot. Yeah, it's hot.
105. the hotter the better, right? Because people
have to want to get behind you. They have to
want to look at you. They don't even necessarily
have to want to get behind you, but they have
to either love to love you or love to hate you,
you know? And if you're really hot, that already
kind of puts you in that sort of mode, right?
like absolutely you want people to be jealous
like but only a little right and it's like better
i think for people to be jealous of like your
physical appearance than like your money and
shit because like beauty is forever but anyway
uh although i think we have the same parents
in the same households a little i mean i also
think that leaders um you know good leadership
at least and they should be like tapped into
the people that serve them. Like you have to
serve the people that serve you because they're
putting their trust in you and you have to like
understand them. I feel like the council like
in particular always forgets about that. Like
they just think that like they think of civilians
as like I don't know, subhuman or something,
it's weird. They don't realize that there are
people living their lives every day and they
have problems that we don't have. If you're not
tapped into that, how can you expect your people
to back you up if you're not backing them up?
Dad always says that... power comes from the
people, right? And yet, they're always fucking
ignoring the people. But yeah, so I think those
are really important. You gotta be willing to
listen to people and hang out with people. You
know what I mean? If I can't hang out with my
subjects, then why are they even my subjects?
You know what I mean? I don't know. But anyway,
so yeah, that and then also listening to... like
the council, even though I just shit on them,
you don't always have to listen to that. But
like, you at least have to like hear them and
like, even if they're wrong, sometimes they're
like a little right. And you can kind of like
pick that out. And then one, you can compliment
them and kind of get them on your side. And then
two, like that could actually be valuable because
like, you know, it's impossible to be hot and
know everything. It's just not possible. It's
easy, honey. Anyway. Dart would argue that you
do not need to be hot to be a good leader, but
being a good leader makes you hot. And then he
licks his own eye. Oh, that's something to think
about. That is very hot of you, Dart. It was
like, Dart's hot now. And you're like, you're
right, Dart's hot now. No, no, no, yeah, you're
officially hot. And you know, welcome to the
hotties. Brain. It's going to say that in her
mind, a good leader listens and listens to everyone,
their advisors of the past, as well as, but not
as well as, especially like the people that they
serve. And on our date, um, like, Zaris definitely
was down to, like, talk to the people who were,
like, picketing and protesting against the park
that your, um, mom got made and blasted off.
I mean, they did spend a lot of money on a fancy
park that not very many people are gonna have
access to, but you know, I feel that. They were
down to listen to them. I was too scared of the
threat of your mother to allow them to go into
the thing. I was too scared for them to be even
in the fucking room. That was just like, you
know, just... I mean, I am the reason why people
didn't steal the shit that was there, but you
know, I didn't, I was a guest, whatever. So yeah,
Zara's just like really listens and that is hot
girl shit. Oh, by the way, babe, I totally got
fruit trees for that part. Like we talked about
peaches and apples and oranges, although it's
not like the best place for oranges to grow.
Like they should be alright. Well, we'll talk
about invasive species a lot. Aw, man! Actually...
But yeah, who takes second watch? Me. Okay, Dart.
Make a perception check. Hmm, good question.
before I do that. Are we still doing the whole
double proficiency bonus for being in my special
territory or whatever, my favorite terrain? Yeah.
Okay. Fill in your favorite terrain until you're
inside the city. 22. Okay. How far away from
the pyramid do you guys think you camped? I feel
like a, like 16 to 100? I feel like I'd still
want to camp in like darken it like not like
in a safe location i wouldn't want to let's like
oh this is ours now we've never been inside i
do think you can still see it i feel like we
can still see it okay i'm just kidding so dart
um you notice two things one you notice that
i guess how far away you guys might be like to
where if you would hear anything i feel like
you you hear just some general sort of soft commotion
of like a group of people or a group of humanoids
checking out the pyramid. Like if you're clear,
maybe you like crept a little bit closer if need
be, but you know, something kind of like drew
your attention here thinking that there's activity
at this pyramid. So you kind of hear like a group
of people um like uh and like a horse um sort
of but it's not exactly like a horse sounds like
deeper than a horse um but you can you can hear
the hooves and it doesn't sound like they're
trying to be quiet you then see the top of the
pyramid is capped with like a it has like a gold
like the the the triangle cap on the top of the
pyramid is gold um and on the very top of the
gold is like a gemstone like a I mean, it could
be some sort of white gemstone, like quartz.
It doesn't seem to be diamond because it's not,
like, shiny. You guys did see this. It just,
you know, wasn't really that relevant at the
time, so I didn't mention it. But there's, like,
a gemstone at the top. The gemstone at the top
glows brightly, like, super brightly, and it
shoots, like, a beam of light into the sky that,
like, cuts through the clouds. And then, like...
it's sort of like it's basically like the light
like the beam gets like a little bit wider and
then skinnier and then it kind of like fades
out and you can see a glow coming from the pyramid
itself like a like sort of like a bluish glow
that then I mean are you going to investigate
closer I guess is what I should ask before I
like continue to describe the scene because like
right now I would assume you're just like close
enough to like See like the light and hear a
little bit of like the the group like a Lord
of the Rings I hate to do it, but I'm tempted.
I'm gonna investigate. Okay, we're all still
I'm gonna make anything up or doesn't make anybody
else It's not like super loud like if that makes
sense, it's like dirt away So that's why he hears
that there's commotion. Um, the light doesn't
make it always. Mm -hmm I think you have a good
advantage or something. Or you double your proficiency,
that's right. Uh, well I rolled a nat 1. Oh damn.
Um, but if it's double proficiency, that gives
me a 13. Do you want to like retroactively cast
a cast without trace out of curiosity? If you
think Dart would do that, I'm fine with that.
No, let's see what happens. Well, the perception
check was an 11. E -leven! And in this case,
it is a good thing. Nobody seems to notice you
as you kind of approach. There is a group of
works with a rose, which is a... I will pull
it up. kind of like a bison um and pull up an
image oh why am i not pulling this up on the
iPad i don't know but it's too late now um so
it looks like this oh so you would know that
like jesus christ um this is just it's like a
rose is like an animal that like it's a cow hounding
um it's it's like a lifestyle animal um they
are i feel like dartwood does rose they're like
typically used by like drow or like dwargar like
denizens of the underdog but it's not completely
unheard of to see them on land if that makes
sense um but yes you see a rose and you see a
group of three orcs and a dwargar. The rose is
pulling like a cart and they are all like complete,
they're dressed completely decked out in adventuring
gear. Like they don't look like, they don't look
like the regular orcs that you've seen around
here in the sense of like, I mean, you know,
in the sense of like they, they look like they
are well equipped and ready to go. Like they
look more competent than your average local orc.
And they're all speaking in Orcish together.
Speak it? One of them is, yes, yeah, and you
can understand that. One of the Orcs is a woman
and she has a staff. And she's kind of like an
older Orc. She has really deep... like deep cut,
like frown lines and wrinkles sort of on her
face. I mean, she's wearing, she's wearing like
a, she's wearing like. like half of a bonehead
dress, if that makes sense. It's like she had
a whole bonehead dress at some point, but it
cracked in half. And instead of like fixing it,
she like wore it. Like if that makes sense, she
like used that as her like, she stylized that.
You know what I mean? She's wearing like half
of a bonehead dress and the bones are, they look
to be like maybe rose or buffalo or there's something
with horns. Maybe like a goat. and she's wearing
robes and she looks, you know, sort of, I mean,
I guess you could say shaman -y, sort of like
priestess -y. You hear her saying a prayer to
Grumsh. Bad guy. And they're talking about, so
they're discussing their plans for what they're
going to do when they get outside. They're like
don't touch anything like one of them is like
clearly the leader is like a he's a male work
that's wearing like pretty nice -looking chain
mail He has He has like He's got basically like
the sides are shaved and it's like long on top
sort of hairstyle and it's like a little bit
like if that makes sense like like each one of
these people has like a style they're more like
They just kind of stand apart. They kind of stand
apart from like your average person, like your
average person, your average work. But yeah,
his hair is like kind of soft and it's like the
very tips of his hair are like red. Like it's
like almost like he like dyed the tip of his
hair, you know, the top of his hair red. And
he's got kind of like a, like he's got like a
really chiseled jaw and he's got kind of like
a, I mean Dart wouldn't think he is handsome,
but he's got kind of like a, like a handsome
like protagonist kind of face. Right? And he's
kind of just like, he's like, whatever you do,
don't touch anything, okay? You wait for my cue
because we don't know what's going to happen
when we get in there. But, one thing we can guarantee,
treasure. And you know what Vryn loves? Treasure.
Said Vryn. Um, and yeah, and they're just kind
of, they're basically, like I said, they're just
kind of disgusting, they're like, and some of
them are like, kind of like, they're kind of
arguing, it's like, you know, because the leader's
like, I don't think we should split up, I know.
I know that you like to split up and then and
you know and the the lady is like I have so I
can summon things like just leave me alone like
you know I can go off on my own it's not you
know why are you like stop trying to chain me
to you like and she's like kind of like like
you definitely like get like that they don't
agree on much like this shaman or priestess and
the the leader of this small adventuring party
um you get the kind of gist they don't really
get a lot much but um but yeah so you see you
see the beam in the sky and you can that's when
you kind of walk up and you hear them talking
and the they're the Front of the pyramid has
like So the pyramid has like it's like smooth
the sides are all smooth They don't have like
steps the front of the pyramid sort of like pushes
in and like Create steps and then you see like
a large slab of it just sort of opening up in
a doorway is opening and that is the like bluish
glow because coming from inside the pyramid there's
like this like it's like it's like almost like
foggy inside into the if you're trying to like
from the outside you're trying to look in it
it's almost like you can tell it's like some
sort of magical obscurity if that makes sense
like it's like you can't see in it like by design
You know, but you can see there's a glow coming
out of it and they They do leave their rose Outside
and they all all all of them walk in all four
of them walk in and the rose is just like he
before they go right before they go in the Dwagar
who isn't saying much she's like the only one
who doesn't have much to say but he is speaking
in orcish he hammers like a pipe into the ground
and like ties the rose up to the like stake in
the ground before he goes and he kind of gives
him like a like a pat on his nose. So that's
what you see and like once they go in the door
will shut behind them. You would have time to
jump in, but you would get trapped in there with
them, most likely. I mean, I guess you wouldn't
know if you can open the door from the inside
or how exactly it works. I have a much funnier
idea. So, I'm going to make a note of where I
saw the door at. Clearly, it's where the route
thing is taped up. The door is facing north,
we'll say. Okay. I'm gonna go back to chamber
and I'm gonna wake up the whole day and I'm gonna
say At your service my king like he says it as
he's sitting up I'm actually like an undertaker
at your service my king. We're gonna go do something.
Fuck. I can't wait. You're gonna love it. Grab
the shovel Fuck yeah How's it like? So do you
want to re -stealth or use your previous stealth?
Do you think you're like trying extra to not
wake up then? Or do you think you're just waking
up older? I'm just waking up older. Okay. We're
gonna grab shovels and we're gonna go back to
the temple or the pyramid and I'm gonna show
him how to dig a punchy stick pit right in front
of the door. If the orcs make it back out with
the treasure, we're going to have an ambush waiting
for them. Starting with your first lesson in
wildly inhumane guerrilla warfare. Yes, he will
happily follow you and follow your instructions
to a T. Okay. This is an excellent idea. Perhaps
we should dig two in case they think that there
may be one and they jump over it. Then they can
fall into the second one. And it would be worse
because they'd have the momentum of having jumped
over the first one. Smolder? I love where your
head is at right now. Let's totally do it. Yeah!
As well put something above so when they jump
off it's like boom! A pinball! And then a pendulum
blade. Oh my god. We might as well have one of
those tripwires where the two logs crash our
way. We somehow sleep through all this construction
like a Looney Tunes episode. We're just really
happy sleeper. Just doodle. S .E. Boulders, this
is what we call a circular saw, or a kick saw.
Your entire family were on watch, and now you're
tired. Singin', thinkin' of them. Yeah. I think
they'll miss you. Bye. We weren't in the room,
we heard Kiss Me Through the Phone. Kiss Me Through
the Phone. You can imagine where I'm going with
this. Kiss Me Through the Dippo Meds Pass. Nevermind.
Um, once we're done setting up our traps and
we've let them rest a little bit longer, I'll
go back and wake them up and tell them this one
thing we're gonna do. Uh, so, are you waking
them up, like, before sunrise? Or, like, is it,
well, is it, like, morning, morning? Like, if
that makes sense, like, is it the normal time
they'd be waking up? I mean, it's early. It's
daybreak, I would say. So, yeah. You get your,
you guys get your long rest. Um, yeah. Um, when
you wake up, like, Boulders, like, stand, like,
rain, when you wake up, Boulders, like, standing,
like, right next to you. Like, like, he's, like,
waiting for you to wake up. And, like, as soon
as you open your eyes, he's like, guess what
will you do? And then, okay, so, one of the things
I learned in, uh, like, martial arts growing
up was how to trip people by, like... So you
grab the one side of their calf and then you
grab the other side by their ankle and you push
the opposite directions and it makes them fall
and that's what she does to boulder. I was like
grab leg and then like push to the opposite direction.
He does not expect that at all so it totally
works on him and he just goes down. And then
we're just like laying there eye to eye. and
he just like stays there if that makes sense
and just kind of like looks you in the eyes and
he goes I should have waited yeah you smell like
shit too we were doing wrong stuff or was that
bad you smell like the stuff that comes out your
butt what do you call that all right Ezra's laying
there next to each other he like rolls away What?
No snuggles? You wake me up abruptly? God, no
little spoon. Fine. Where's ours? So... So I
got this pillow and this... No. No. Absolutely
not. That's not invented in this world yet. Right.
That's really good for my neck. Last night, while
you guys were sleeping, I was on watch. I overheard
some whorls. so i went to investigate and remember
that cure made you spontaneously conjured with
your one beans oh i forgot about that how could
i ever about you forget we're in the shadow of
it what you're just like you expect her to forget
the coolest thing that's ever happened i grew
that i'm its mother That's my proudest thing
I've ever grown. You're just like, wow, your
green bum is insane. I know, it's golden. Two
things. One, I deeply regret giving you the wand
of bean. So let me use it sooner. I've gotta
nurture it, actually. I'm gonna let it, like,
I'm gonna water it and put it in this... So the
orcs that were here last night went into the
pyramid looking for treasure. Now I figure either
they're going to die horribly in there, which...
Hooray! And if not, when they come out, we're
going to jump on them. Me and Bulma got up last
night and spent most of the evening digging punchy
stick traps. This is very disturbing. It was
a bonding activity. Frog stuff. This is going
to be fun. Okay, are we on the right side? We
have technically done something the exact same
just without the poop before, so this is not
the first time this has happened in this group.
What were we supposed to use, poop? He said poop
was necessary. Oh, let's hear that. They don't
know what they're talking about. These are whores.
It's alright. They don't eat your kind. They
eat your mom, right? So let's... Sorry. I'm sorry.
Do it! I'm sorry coming from your traumatized
ex... uh... very traumatized friend, very...
Current traumatizing. He's got a traumatic frog
disorder. I'm sorry about that. We all have something
wrong. No, but everyone has validated. Yeah,
no, I'm saying everyone is validated. We just
all have something wrong. My king, prepare yourself
for the sound. He'll give you a warning. Because
he knows when the sound happens. It happens at
the same time every morning. Shortly after sunrise.
Get away from the punches. And dart. You are
feeling the ouchies from the sound of his screaming
in your ears. Will you make a con save and a
wisdom save for me? My constitution save is 15
and wisdom save is a nat 1 plus 4. So your wisdom
say it wasn't a 15? No. My wisdom say it was
a 5. My constitution say it was a 15. Okay. So...
You feel the intense pain from hearing the sound
resonating in your head. The pain is shooting
through your body. It is disturbing your soul
once again. The last time this happened to you,
you heard the sound, you were able to defend
yourself from the assault on your soul. This
time, you are not so lucky. You feel it disturbing
you, like before you had felt kind of like that
you felt your soul stealing itself against this
disruption, this like sonic disruption. And this
time, you are not able to resist or rebuke this...
damaging effect. However, you don't pass out.
Give us time. But it hurts like hell. It hurts
worse. Like every time you fail the wisdom save,
which you've done twice now, it hurts more the
next time you hear it. It hurts way more. And
the anger and the hatred that you feel... bubbling
up inside you it makes you feel like the fluid
filled canals in your body are boiling hot like
you're just so impossibly angry like if vrin
was in front of you right now you would destroy
him by smashing your face into him that's how
fucking angry you are if that makes sense that's
how fucking intense it is there's no logic it's
just this destructive hatred But once it lets
that grip let you go You feel like you feel that
it has damaged you But you are able to kind of
shake off the residual effect and you don't pass
out from it Balder he's like tense the entire
time the sound is going on but he doesn't look
like anywhere near is it like it's like he's
not in pain in the same way that like dart is
it's almost like he does kind of like pause as
if he's like somewhat in trance but he doesn't
like react really he just like waits for it to
pass then he goes are you okay my king i suffer
as my people suffer I will channel that suffering
and rage into glorious retribution. Let's go
kill some orcs. Mm -hmm. Yeah, do you say anything
about it? I'm already out of curiosity. Every
time it happens, I feel like you're... I'm always
like, I'm keeping a close eye on Dark now. Just
do another Atomic Check release. I'm gonna try
to read his soul. Yeah, never mind. Here. The
roles are rough, huh? My dice are mad at you.
I feel like you should always have it. Wait,
what kind of... You've done some dope roleplaying
recently, right? You could have inspiration if
you wanted it. I bet that makes sense. Because
I feel like I keep forgetting to give it to you
guys. But like you guys are constantly roleplaying
super good, so it's like... I guess like, so
I was thinking maybe like we could do like, you
have inspiration, you start with one each session.
If you don't have one, you have one, and then
you can have like up to two. But if like you
have one, when you start the session, you don't
gain another one. If that makes sense, we always
have at least one. Does that make sense? We could
do that. That way we always have the inspiration
there because you guys are always kicking ass
anyway at the roleplay. Did you re -roll? I'm
about to. If you want it. You don't have to.
I just want to. Now 20. Wow. Okay, so Dark Soul
is like green. We've discussed this, I think.
You like kind of sense the taint. Now, you can
see the taint. In the sense that it's altered
the color of his soul slightly. Oh, you blessed
us both. What do you - what color is this for?
Um, so it is still green. It's just like, taint
off, like the color is off now. Like the color
is visibly off. It's more like, so I'm trying
to think about green. Um, what happens when he
makes like red and green? They don't mix right?
So they don't mix well, right? So like, doesn't
that kind of get brownish? Um, yeah, they like
brown each other out, they clash. Sorry, color
wheel, yeah, they neutralize each other, so they
like turn to like a brown, just like glossy.
So it's like as if a little bit of red was introduced
to his green. Red and green makes yellow. He's
red and blue. Right, I'm talking about his soul.
Okay. The color of his soul. Okay, I'm sorry.
Guys. Red and green. Red and green makes yellow.
Huh? Red and green makes yellow. Is that what
the internet says? Mm -hmm. I didn't know that.
That sounds like impossible, but - And I hate
that it's brown as well. I thought it was brown.
Like, cut for hair, it's like brown. Um... I
did do Google it. Is that yellow is a color that,
like, you can't make? Jesus. Yeah, I don't know.
We're looking at color theory, folks. Give us
a second. This will be edited out. Because hands
are more complicated than I thought. Yeah, it
depends on if you're talking about light or pigments.
It makes brown. In light, it makes yellow. Okay,
so we're going to say it starts to yellow then
because probably, I would say, I imagine like
soul color. And like a tree, like the leaf. Yeah.
Yellows over time, right? Yeah. So it's kind
of like, yeah, it's like his soul has gotten
more yellow. Um, the Zavari. What's that Nat
20? Can you get the inkling to take a glance
at Boulder? and look at his soul as well it's
just soul looking like his soul seems as though
it was also green it is not green it is like
much more yellow than green but you can kind
of tell by looking at it or kind of looking at
him and kind of how the energy is flowing i don't
know exactly how to describe it because it's
like an intangible thing it's sort of like a
feeling mixed with a visual component um his
soul is like fully tainted and is he really your
friend or something actually roll another arcana
check 23 not only is it like his soul is tainted
you see that there's like an ombre of color there's
like a little bit like it's like goes from like
greener to like much more yellow if that makes
sense and now that you see it in boulder you
almost see that same pattern in dark but you
didn't really notice it until you've seen like
the full pattern if that makes sense um it looks
like boulder's soul is missing some of it and
that it has been replaced with another piece
of a soul from someone else. Which, I mean, you've
never seen anything like this. Obviously, you're
very new to this. Asmodeus has never really told
you that you can read auras. You don't even know
exactly how or why you're able to do it. So you
have any frame of reference for... what this
means, but like, but you can see it. You know,
you can see it. It's like, it's like the yellow
section has like a different resonance, a different
frequency, a different vibe to it than the greener
section. They don't seem like they're coming
from the same creature. Whatever has replaced
the part of the soul that is missing from Boulder,
like it's someone else's soul or something else's
soul. Why are you looking at me like that? None
of your business. Right? Um, can you help me
gather some fish down at the creek really quick?
Um, yeah, sure. Yeah. Why was she looking at
me like that? Mind your own fucking business.
I don't love what you're saying, but I love the
way you're saying it. Zohara's just gotta tell
you what the fuck she saw. And she's like freaking
out. You mean his soul is being ripped away bit
by bit with that thing? i think so um i also
really don't know what it means i don't i am
scared for a part yeah how much of a soul of
dark soul i mean and like 99 97 percent like
like a 15 15 that's a lot that's a lot of soul
maybe like we'll think 12 .5 that's like a fifth
or an eighth Fuck it. 12 point. Yeah, a little
less than 15. Yeah, a little less than 15. That's
still a lot of soul. Boulder, it's like 25%.
As the cleric of a god of nature, I'm strongly
of the opinion that souls can heal. I, Zola,
would not disagree with you. I'm just telling
you this. You have a lot of, you have a much
stronger bond with dark than I do. So if you
notice like, drastic changes. It's because he's
12 something less percent less dart. I have to
count you. This is really hard for me. This is
a flop. Oh my goodness. Oh my gosh. You know
what you need to do? Like from Lilo and Stitch,
like the Dwarne and Stitch or his bad meter.
That's what you need to do like for a dart. Color
in. Yes. I'm going to make a bad meter for a
dart. Colors some of it in. Well, we got to color
it a little bit for the punchy sticks. I'm just
kidding. Look, we invaded Vietnam. That's all
there is to it. You're called the soul bad. Soul
stealage. Yes, soul stealage is really the meter.
Ray, you think you're... know anything about
souls and shit? Out of curiosity? Do you have
any reason to know anything about it? I mean,
a little bit. There are the ceremony under school
where you input some of your soul into the sacred
stones of the order. If you've made it to the
grand mentor level, which I am far from, but...
It's, it's a transference. It's not unheard.
I think so in regard to the transference of energy.
I'm not just a priest. I'm a war priest in defense
of the God of nature. And these forks have made
an organized industrial process of the consumption
of my people. I am justified in being both angry
and murderous in defense of them when one uses
us. with like everything that you just said about
like what you know about soul transference um
kind of similar it seems like it's kind of similar
but like there's obviously a different purpose
for this sort of transference and it kind of
reminds me a bit of maybe the ritual like creating
new nights right where they're transferring potentially
the souls of those bad guys that they were holding
hostage not bad guys they're misunderstood monsters
i don't know it um so for that sort of ritual
it was more similar to like uh a lucky brain
flip situation where like the knights were being
like childed um by like presumably like voiceless
hawkers mind flayers or perhaps even like saxton
or something you know what i mean if that makes
sense it was slightly different um it was more
like brain over soul um but like you know it's
a reasonable like line of thinking um it's just
you know yeah i mean you guys don't have a ton
of information but i i do think there's you know
the only thing that we know for sure is this
is definitely related to that sound which is
coming from full Yeah, Witch and Wren has control
over her. Yes. Bitch, what the fuck is he doing
with the souls? Or does he not? No, I don't know.
And if we release them, do they go back? Like,
screw them? Um, maybe. Let's just keep an eye
on Dark and Boulder, and hopefully we can figure
this out before it gets much worse. Yeah, we
should also probably notify Shadow Riper so he
is aware. Should we tell? Damn it. Do you think
that would cause more harm than good? Let's wait.
Let's wait. Okay. You hear like a rustle and
like a tree limb sort of like leans down and
eyes open up off the limb. Oh my gosh. And he
sort of like forms, sort of like sneaks his way
off of the tree and kind of forms into his humanoid
form with his like, his partial humanoid form
with his long sneak tail. And he goes, did somebody
say Shadow Viper? How long were you listening?
Not very long, to be honest. I was keeping an
eye on Dirt, and then I noticed you guys had
gone through prom, so I was just making sure
that you weren't wandering off to snuggle back
and kill him. Oh no. Man, I love this guy. He
literally just rolls her eyes and is like, I
can't. You never know. You never know. Well,
if he seems to be acting different, it's because
apparently the noisiest hearing pulls up the
tainted meter is tainting his soul you're a talented
artist oh thank you i did many years of art classes
it's about 12 .5 percent taint on a dark which
is a lot on a little black baby Um, what does
the tank do? What is the nature of the tank?
We're not sure what the nature of the tank is,
but it is messy. It's just vile, even. It scrunches
up his nose and kind of looks disgusted. I don't
keep an eye on him, but he does not seem like
he is acting any different. Well, that could
change, you know, just it's good to be mindful
of the weather. Yes, and stay with Boulder. Someone's
gonna know them too. Oh, I won't be keeping my
eye on that one. And my crossbow. Just in case.
Just in case. Could be a double agent. Could
be a double, triple agent. I like this guy. His
lack of trust. I've learned a lot from you, Rain,
and it's how to be more suspicious of people.
Thank you. Let's be suspicious. Let's be suspicious.
Let's be suspicious of other people. And Shadow
Viper rolls the coin across his necklace and
disappears into the tree. I wonder why, as he's
slithering away, I wonder why Dart told me to
do that. Dart would. He would. He absolutely
would. We'll all laugh about it later in time.
He was just like, stop! Then you guys return
to the group. Fishing for your fish. I tried.
I did the Mulan like fishing in the water like
thing that will never work. All she grabbed was
a bull to his foot and tripped him against his
head. And the fish that are eating off his toes.
There you go. And just dropped some. Yep. It's
her first day. We're back. Yeah. This is Zavari
gets letters from her family. um still no word
from tree warden um i did not write a letter
from tree warden but he does get back to you
um and that was like a month ago right it was
i um definitely ran out of time when i came through
writing the letters this time so because instead
of prepping all month like i should have i Didn't.
Um, yes, he will say, um, almost excellent, King
Dark, right away. I will work on it as simply
as possible, which, as you know, is not that
swift, but it will be done. I will compile a
list of documents. And yes, you got the deed
to Gravesford. Are you reading the letters? Oh
yeah. Did you read both of them? Both of them?
I just got a notification for one. I'll look
in a little bit. You've read this. There's a
letter from Zalia kind of going, tell me what's
going on and Umbermora was like, you know, Zaris
and Remu and she had noticed that they were wearing
like the mind shielding rings that make it so
nobody can read your mind and I asked her, okay,
take them off, tell me what happens. average
version. The highlighted is what she reported
back to me on. And what was the end part of that?
What was the end part of the highlighted section?
Like it's anchored to them and it didn't bunch
the skin at all. I do have a thought as to what
the hell that is. Something that we've seen already
as a party. Do you remember the master ravens
had a ring on? that was like embedded into them,
like into their bone structure. That's what I
think I know. I have no idea if that's the case,
but that's what it is reminiscent of in this
moment. It's hard to care for a royal. This ring
kind of makes it hard to curl. It's just uncomfortable.
You know, like, this is my favorite hand. That's
all I'm saying. Oh. I'm trying to, I'm trying
to, like, don't, we let him do that a little
bit. Be patient as to what hand this is on. Do
you know what hand this is on? No one knows.
Use your imagination at home, folks. That is
just something I... Every time you feel sad for
Zahra, they have to make a sex joke to balance
it out. 100 % by frogs greet each other with
tongue fives. And just not reading the other
one. It is from Remu. After Zahra learned of
the trial, she did message her father basically
what the fuck is going on. Oh, they sent back
a book? Not a book, a novella. Okay. You know,
it's probably not, I don't know, is it long?
Not that long. I didn't think these were that
long. Plus it's, you know, a lot of him being
a certain way. What? Oh, I'm sorry. I was like,
I wrote it, so I was like, it wasn't me. There's
a lot of stuff here, but the thing that's interesting
says, it was decided amongst the council and
the empire that we would not include you in the
trial. oh my goodness you being part of the trial
is part of the trial he also says i apologize
for not telling you i admit i knew you would
feel emotional about it so i did not want to
involve you yeah i'm reading and ingesting at
the same time that was just i then also said
that it was agreed upon goodness Raine is so
happy that Zaris is not like Remu in that regard.
She is waiting for the day where Remu does something
that she realizes that Zaris does. Anything else
you want to share? My lovely father very clearly
instructed me not to go to the trial. He thinks
dollar ass would try to have me incriminate my
own family as if I am stupid. I'm going to that
trial anyway. Okay. Where you go, I go. You don't
have to. You need protection. Your mom clearly
told me that I would face the brute or the force
of the Umbermoor army if anything ever happened.
Anything ever happened to you? That includes
the Dolrath family, Kenway family, whatever the
fucks they are. I mean, he also clearly told
me off to a dollar. I think we're doing that
anyway. Well, hey, here's to disappointing your
fathers. Thanks. I hope that satisfies your need
for a reply from your dad. Thank you. But he
says he loves you? Yeah. But does he? And that
he's just trying to protect you. But is he? He's
just Reign in the background. You can see as
Marty's very clearly upset but not willing to
feel more than that if that makes sense. Like
the way that you think a woman in her position
would feel sexually under that. And Reign is
trying to be the inner like back of your mind
like there's like 99 % of your entry it's like
that train but there's probably something in
the back of your mind like this is fucked and
rain is just going this is fucked and just like
is just saying the things that the back of your
mind is saying that you won't acknowledge rain
i know that you think that this is fucked it
is very annoying it is unfortunately how a lot
of these things go which is why i'm having zolly
spy on my family for me in the meantime Yeah,
that's nothing that she wasn't doing already
just for her own record. I just told her she
sees anything interesting. Let me know. Don't
you think that your mother's monitoring her stuff?
I mean, Zali is being monitored to some extent.
She's 13, but she's parental controls on her
diplomat's couch. They do take it away at certain
times. Where copies get automatically cc'd, like
I said. I will say... She does say that they
don't always let her have it. But she didn't
mention if they screen her. I will say there
are benefits to being the heir of a family. There's
benefits to being the spare of a family. Your
reigns sometimes aren't as tightly held. There's
even more benefits in your third and final. You
don't even have a title. So she is able to use
her position to her benefit, and I'm very proud
of her for that. Well, I just hope you know that
if there's ever a time where it seems like she's
in trouble or goes too far, that, you know, I
would help with whatever you need is. If something
were to ever happen, and for whatever reason
you found yourself in a position between me or
Zalia, please do not hesitate to help Zalia.
Please promise me. She's the only shining light
right now. Still, here, I need to make sure that
she is protected. I told Zara it's the same thing.
I would do whatever it is needed to make sure
that she doesn't go through the same thing that
you went through. You know, if you need to protect
someone, I could teach you how to make a punchy
stick trap. Can you get one that's portable?
That's less food, like 100 % portable. Portable
hole, but it's a portable pun juicer? Yes. Yes,
that could definitely be a thing. Ask the curator.
He'll be disgusted. Adjust my excavate arrow
to also, like, in the five -foot thing that digs
out a -lace sticks as well. Oh my gosh, yes.
I just thought that it could just be like you're
gonna poop arrow to follow up. It's a porta -potty.
Oh my god. Ew. Belle would love it. Oh my god.
The death for a potty is always the same. The
potty would just be the lanta, right? Yeah. Pooping
it. That's what I'm saying. But the lanta is
like... Wrong campaign. Yeah, wrong campaign.
Pooping that. It's a different t -shirt. Um,
but yeah, so your morning is, you know, you're
getting shit, your letter is in the morning and,
um, something's up with Dart and Okay, what the
hell is going on then? Uh, Boulder will, um,
you know, please... Can I take you to the rest
of the Syndicate, or should we stake out the
Pyramid music? Oh yeah, I don't know how long
it's gonna take them to do that. They've been
in there hours so far. Mm -hmm. They could be
in there days. Well, I guess we'll just have
to go meet the Syndicate and come back and see
if my trap caught anything. I can send Daria
out to keep watching the area. Oh, man, Daria
could let you know. Yeah, if you want. That idea.
Excellent. I can't wait. Our camp is currently
outside of Doradius. Someone will be traveling
for a few hours. Are you prepared? Do you have
any medicinal herbs that help with healing? Basic.
Earth, yes. Okay, do you have them on you? So
are you ready to help us heal if need be? Oh,
um, no, I don't have any on me. We do at camp.
I'm not really, it's - Okay, then yeah, let's
head to your camp. In like a good way. Got a
killer. uh so he will he will lead you to his
camp and he is like jumping through the tree
like he's like really good at traveling through
at like a breakneck pace if that makes the naruto
yeah naruto through the tree so where are you
from where you like they're talking while they're
jumping through it oh my god uh you know the
other side of the mountain Which mountain? That
big one over there. I don't think I ever saw
that. I wish you guys could see me. You're pretty
far away. I will show you what that was. I don't
know what they are either. We don't really get
to see these mountains. There are mountains but
apparently there's a break. I don't know. It's
weird. I went under them. I didn't go over them.
I live on the side of love. Interesting. So you're
from the same mountains? Yes. Are you sisters?
No. Lovers? Finders. I miss the third mysterious
thing. Ah. Besties. Complicated. Oh yeah. Oh.
You have a concept here. Oh yeah. Besties. If
you're not complicated with your besties, then
are they really besties? That's so funny. Oh
my god. If I was either one of them. So the Leave
the Syndicate camp, the current camp, is in the
canopy of trees, so it's not on the ground, it's
off the ground. There is like, essentially they've
made... By layering larger leaves over sections
of the tree's canopy, they've made a very light
floor. This is something that you probably couldn't,
you can't roll over, right? You would have to
stay on main tree branches to kind of stay up
here. It's a very small camp. I don't have a
map of it, but just sort of imagine that. um
it's like it's kind of like sort of like a series
of hammocks up in the trees um and they've picked
like a particularly like dense part where like
it's really like it's heavily shaded like the
canopy here is very dense and it's heavily shaded
and sort of like darker if that makes sense um
and like When like, you know, he's like as he's
like arriving to the camp he like he kind of
like opens his mouth to just like a little and
it's like croak sack like, you know blossoms
and gets it gets really large and he goes And
there's like sort of like very very like intentional
pattern That way they do not attack us when we
arrive. So that is like the sound that he uses
to let them know it is me, Boulder. And he always
tells you each of our members has a distinct
sound that they use to alert the others. I want
to do a sound so bad. Oh yeah, you'll have a
sound. You could have a sound too. Yes, please.
I can have a sound? Yes. I'm trying to raise
this there. You should go, wow. Wow. I would
want you to do that every time you announce the
table. Every time you talk to any member of the
Leap Syndicate. No, it's not going to be that.
Yes, you can have a sound. Absolutely. I'll have
to think about, I'll think about my sound. Um,
but yes. And as he like, he's sort of like, he's
like, he looks at you guys and he's like, Should
we meet on the ground? I didn't tell them to
come down. He jumps ahead a little bit and I
love it. He feels great for you. Like a chorus
of like happy sounding croaks and you hear of
like several frogs jumping down and like landing
on the camp like the jungle floor, the soft jungle
floor, the wet feet slapping against the ground.
A sound I haven't heard in many years. And as
you guys like sort of emerge through the trees,
at the base of the tree where this camp is, you
suddenly find yourself surrounded by eight in
total, frogkin, all roughly about boulders. age
and of varying sizes. Um, and they all just like,
and they all have like a dark pigmentation, but
they're not all like solid black, if that makes
sense. Like they have different coloration, but
they're all, all dark pigmented. Um, and that's
a lot of pancakes. Um, and Boulder stands in
front of them and he says, leap syndicate, I
introduce to you, King. start and they just they
just fucking lose their mind to start croaking
like crazy i don't know and then i uh for flavor
for flavor i'll slay all behind him oh yeah the
play the blue flames just for flavor sake There's
all kinds of - a chorus of various croaks, um,
and just goes... Oh, no, that's a... Yes! I can't,
like, I can't make a frog noise, save my life.
We can have all those terrible noises, I may
use that. It's crazy to hear a chorus of fucking
frog croaks, everybody's just, like, cheering,
um... And he says, Leap Syndicate assemble. And
they all kind of like get into like a rank, you
know, a rank and file. And he gives you like
one, like they all kind of stand in order. And
he says, Bowler, founder, leader, and commander
of the Leap Syndicate. This. And he gestures
to like the person next to him, a dark red...
A dark red frog that's very, like, very small,
but looks fully developed, if that makes sense.
Like, this type of frog is just small. But it's,
like, kind of similar to, like, a tree frog.
This is Ant, my captain, second -in -command
of the Leap Syndicate. And Ant, it says, uh,
pleasure to meet you, King. I want to... like
maintain my composure but I cannot I am overwhelmed
with emotions and on the brink of tears because
this is the most strong confront I've seen in
one place since like before my village was destroyed
My name is Sienna, I'm like Tenzin and Korra.
I can't, that's all I'm gonna say. That's Sienna.
You have to watch it, bitch. Oh, nice. Fuck you.
Fuck you. We all just start screaming. Yeah,
you gotta watch it. So yes, this is Ant, the
second in command, our captain. Immediately following
is a dark blue with... black spots, um, very,
very dark blue. Um, and this one is like actually
a bit a large, a little bit larger than Boulder,
closer to dark size. Um, this is Keen, our lieutenant,
and Keen kind of like gives like a, he, he, with
his tongue goes whoosh and gives a salute. Just
a lot of, yes, a salute across the, across the
top of his eyes with his tongue. Um, and our
squad leaders. Um, uh, Tad steps forward, um,
dark brown with like these little black specks
all over him. He is our best hunter. Um, and
Tad goes, My King, I'm sorry I doubted your existence.
And he looks kind of like ashamed, like he's
like wobbling almost. Sorry I doubted your existence.
and our other squad leader, Dapa. Very small,
dark green color with dark brown spots. The first
female swampkin I've ever seen. I already knew
I was going to look that up. She has little eyelashes
coming off the corner of her big round eyes.
So she looks a little bit feminine. Where do
you get those falsies from? I don't know. um
nature she goes cat whiskers oh my god okay it's
a pleasure to meet you king i always knew you
were real she always believed in you darling
i like her already i forgot that i have like
a the thingy the obsidian thingy i'm here to
take notes with i have my obsidian up that's
where i'm getting my notes from can i just have
the uh the names again Uh, sure. So, the captive,
his name is Ant. Or, I'm sorry, their name is
Ant. They're non -binary. Sorry, I'm misgendering
my OOCs. That's the captain, second -in -command.
The lieutenant, which is third -in -command,
is Keen, spelled like K -E -K -E -N. Keen. I
was thinking Keen. Keen, K -E -E -N, male and
squad leaders. Tad, Dark Brown Black Specs, he's
the hunter. And the other squad leader is Dapa,
the girl. And there are three unranked members,
which... It doesn't mean that like they're lesser,
it's just that they don't have like a title yet.
They are newer. Our crafter, Sunny, who is a
dark green with darker blue spots. This is, and
he points to a male frogkin who's a little bit
like, he's a little bit like naturally chubbier.
if that makes sense. He's got like kind of a
wider build. He's a little bit thicker and he's
got kind of like he does he's not he's still
a frog but he's got like a like sort of like
a bumpy ridge on the top of his head. Sora is
similar to like a toad but like still still frogkin.
Um this is Bubbles. Yes Bubbles is Bubbles is
the brains and um is the sauce and uh yeah Bubbles
is dark. It is. I can't believe you're real.
This is fantastic. Please, you must tell me all
about culture, folk culture. Boulder doesn't
know anything. Please, you have to help me. There's
no books in this place. We have three books.
What are they? There's a book on I don't have
the name, but there's a book on mushrooms. Nice.
Um, there is a book on, uh, on a fight, like
sword fighting. And the other book that they
have is like a book of like fables. Like think
like, like the fantasy version of Red Riding
Hood or, you know, where, you know, the, uh,
Red Riding Hood is the wolf or whatever. I don't
know. Yeah. So yeah, it's a very short, small
book. The most substantial book they have is
the one on sword fighting, and it's got diagrams
in it. It's got techniques and forms. And the
whole thing is written in poetry. It has choreography,
fighting choreography. It's useful to practice
the choreography to learn to fight. Knowing that
my book, to me, that I've learned all the things
I need for my manual quickness, and that in a
hundred years it'll reset, but you know, I don't
know if I'm gonna be here in a hundred years.
It could still be useful. I'd really be useful
for someone to learn how to stretch properly,
especially those who are filled with fluid canals.
I'll take it! Excellent! Thank you so much! Now
you have four books. Ah, wonderful! We'll go
to start a library whenever we get a stronghold.
Well, we've got our eye on a place, but I'm not
sure that we can clear it out. Well, talk about
that later, please. Allow me to introduce our
final member. He's like, stop. Stop it, bubbles.
And out walks another female frog, and she is
dark gray all over, almost black. And her eyes
are like a very... like dark grayish blue um
and she has like made her own like lipstick from
something like from maybe bugs or like plants
or what Not the Chili Pepper. No, not the Chili
Pepper lipstick. It's gonna be really hard to
get that here. But yeah, she's made like sort
of her own lipstick. Probably plants. From like
plants, and she is like, she kind of brushed
up. And so she's got just like a tiny bit of
like red on her upper lip from the lipstick.
And yeah, and her name is Jambette. This is Jambette.
I love the voice, but... I should've put the
other one with Dart. Hey Dart, how do you jam
bet? Please allow me to welcome you with a song.
And play us a little song. She goes... and her
like croaks actually and she like sings a croaky
melody that is surprise like pleasant to the
ear to you guys like to you to the non -frogs
she can carry in the room she can actually carry
a tune like she actually does sound good she
has like a nice voice but she's just singing
sort of like uh she's using her voice as like
an instrument to sing what she's saying in frog
is like get back you don't know me like that
get back get back you don't know me like but
in Friggish it sounds really beautiful. Yeah.
Fervish, really. Yes, and Fervish, it sounds
beautiful. But yeah, so you are now staring at
all of the adult members of the Leap Syndicate.
There are some children, which are, they are
still hiding. Good. But he was telling you two
of her children could maybe fight. if they needed
to. Um, the other three are too young to do anything
of the sort and must be protected at all costs.
Um, I will give you the names of the kids, but
I will not introduce you to them in this session,
I feel. Um, Nufred, I'll adopt them. Fine. Jamal,
your kid's got to adopt them. Hide your kids.
Hide your kids. Hide your wives. Hi, Jambette.
Yeah. Not Jambette. You don't ship Jambette.
No. Jambette is goo. No, it wasn't Gooba. Or
Gooba. It was not that. I made a mental note
that it's not that, but I didn't mental note
what it actually is. So, the children. The oldest
is Cap. No, Cap. Roughly the same age as Cap
is a little bit younger. A couple of days younger
is Drip. Then Dare. Dare is old enough to start
learning how to fight but cannot fight. Squish
is the second to youngest. Cannot fight at all.
The youngest who is barely like Tadpole. He still
has their tail. is lucky is that you um when
you said there were five i was kind of hoping
that maybe you're going to be dodged it They
are like, they're just like swarming you. They're
all like, they're like, they're all just gathered
around Art. They are so enamored by you. They're
like, oh no. Like, and like, they're like, he's
so healthy. Wow. Like, he must eat well. If I
was just barely holding back my emotions as I
met the adults, I am completely losing it when
the kids come out on balling. okay yeah oh yeah
yeah well then we'll do that jam bet will hop
up with bubbles and they will together they will
gather the kids and bring them down um so they
introduce you to the kids one at a time cat um
uh all dark brown his like spots and like coloration
hasn't fully developed yet um he like looks a
little bit scrappy and um and he's got kind of
like um he's got like he's got like really long
legs like for his body because you know what
i mean like he's like he's like in that awkward
phase where his legs are too long um and he wears
like a hat that is like um it's like half of
like a dried out gourd with like a leaf bill
if that makes sense around like like around the
the top of it um he's like made himself a hat
um Drick is dark blue and he's like kind of like
timid like you know he's like he's like kind
of like he stands kind of like behind Cap and
sort of like looks over your shoulder and it's
like whispering to Cap like shh shh shh and in
fribish quietly in fribish and um Cap is like
it's okay it's okay um drip is like can i touch
you can i touch you i don't know i don't have
the voices down and he just like runs just like
just like touches you super fast and just takes
off i touched the butt exactly um And then hopping
out of Jam -Bet's arms is Dare. Dare is like
a little dark red sort of like, it's very similar
to an ant in the sense of like a smaller sort
of like build of a frog. And Dare seems like
a rough ass. And it's kind of like, you don't
see how fast I can run, Kingdart? Yes, I'm the
shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh
shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh shh So many
times. He's just like, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop,
hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop,
hop, hop, hop, hop And he's like, but he this
one he's not he's not scared. He like starts
tapping you and boulder like whoa, whoa, whoa
like hands off the king like And then From bubbles
his arms he like gently lets down a much like
smaller like think like a wall tour size Dark
green Green I said there is red Yeah, so dark
green and Looks up at you is like And like he's
like looking up at you with so much like wonder
and amazement and like looking in his eyes It's
like the exact same He's like, wow! Like you're
like a god to him. And then, uh, Jambet will,
she'll kind of like, she'll kind of like turn
around and on her back is a very, very small
froglet. Um, the only one that isn't dark colored.
This one is like a yellow, sort of like a Like,
I don't know if you've seen those like yellow
and black sort of banana colored frogs. Like
that sort of color. With a little bit of black
developing on the tips of their newly formed
hands. And you can see that she's still got a
little tail. It hasn't like, it no longer has
a fin, but it's still like that tail shape. Like
it hasn't fully like fallen off yet. And... yeah
and she's just like kind of clutching like jambette's
shoulder and jambette will like take her off
and go this is lucky um and lucky just kind of
looks up at you like with just really really
wide eyes and then just sucks on the tip of her
finger um and she goes lucky doesn't talk she
shouldn't be able to by now but she doesn't And
she just goes, just like a very soft, squeaky
ribbit. Just, that's it. No, no actual words.
She's saying hi, I think. To see another frog
folk brings me so much joy. I don't even know
how to express it. But to see little froglets
again after all these years is one of the greatest
joys of my life. I am so happy. to meet each
and every one of you. I can squish all of your
small faces. Um, Dare, the little red one that's
like kind of outgoing is like, why are you waiting
for King Dare? Squish this! And he just like
throws his body at you. Like, like just throws
himself at you. And tears. And then as, yeah,
and all of the, all of the frog - kids and like
they just all start gathering around dart and
hugging him and yeah like a weird pile of grapes
all these like dark muddy colors oh the sound
is atrocious yes it's very sticky very wet um
but yes they all celebrate and and there's just
for like a moment in these frogs lives there
is nothing but hope but hope It's gonna be alright,
it'll be alright. Thank you for listening to
Roll Forth. This has been the Empire Initiative
featuring Samaria Hawkins as Lady Zavari slash
Lady Litria, Ryan Musgrove as King Dart of the
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