Critical Role - A Familiar Problem: Sprinkle’s Incredible Journey!

Episode Date: June 30, 2022

Pick up the one-page RPG A Familiar Problem for FREE at stores participating in Free RPG Day! Visit darringtonpress.com/familiar to learn more. Marisha Ray takes the RPG A Familiar Problem to Exandria with a chaotic crew of scrappy, stressed-out animal pals on an adventure! This one-shot features Critical Role’s own Laura Bailey, Matthew Mercer, and Travis Willingham with special guests Heidi N Closet (RuPaul’s Drag Race) and Isabella Roland (Dimension 20). CAPTION STATUS: CAPTIONED BY OUR EDITORS. The closed captions featured on this episode have been curated by our CR editors. For more information on the captioning process, check out: https://critrole.com/cr-transcript-closed-captions-update A Familiar Problem was created by Marisha Ray and designed by Grant Howitt. Character art by Mariana DiMercurio: https://twitter.com/minidoodles97 Learn more about A Familiar Problem: darringtonpress.com/familiar Find A Familiar Problem at stores participating in Free RPG Day: https://www.freerpgday.com Wonderful Charities We Admire: Big Life Foundation - https://biglife.org/ K9s For Warriors - https://k9sforwarriors.org/ Sea Shepherd Conservation Society - https://seashepherd.org/ The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation - https://www.xerces.org/ 

Thank you. view the episode on demand immediately after it airs, or you can enjoy the VOD on YouTube the following Monday. And for you loyal podcast listeners, the show transmutes into its audio only format Thursdays, one week after the initial broadcast. Without further ado, let's see what sort of fun, scary adventures await. Oh, hello, everybody! Welcome to A Familiar Problem, Sprinkles' Incredible Journey. That's whoever here. Yes! Today, we'll be playing the one-page RPG,

A Familiar Problem, created by myself. Oh boy. And Honey Heist designer, Grant Howitt. Grant Howitt! This game is all about playing a scrappy and incredibly stressed out group of familiars that are just trying to get a grip on their chaotic lives and their adventuring parties,

and undertaking a mission to prove that they are up to the task. You can pick up a familiar problem for free this Saturday at your friendly local game stores. I already showed it off, but I'm doing it again. Any friendly local game store that is participating in Free RPG Day. And keep an eye out for its wider release later this year.

And you can always visit DarringtonPress.com slash familiar to learn more. Slash. Yeah! Wow. Slash. Today, we are taking a familiar problem to Exandria. Let's jump into. Oh, right into it, right into it.

Oh, Jesus. A familiar problem. Ooh. Sprinkles' incredible journey. Ooh! Welcome back. So before we jump in, I just wanted to say really quick that I've actually had this idea to do this one-shot since the before times for an incredibly long time,

and I originally envisioned GMing this alongside our, I said I wasn't going to cry, our late bird Dagon. So I dedicate this game to her and Vok and all the familiars of the world. And just because animals are the best, you guys. Yeah, we love them. So to all the critters who touch our hearts and leave us better than they found us,

this is for you. And there will be no more tears after this. You got it, you got it. Wait, I don't know, you might make me cry. My character gets messed up. Every pet that's watching this is going to see that and go, you got it. Well, I don't know, you might make me cry if my character gets messed up. Every pet that's watching this is going to see that and go, oh my god. I'm talking to you.

They feel seen right now. Me, little snuffles. Their ears just perked. It's for you. Digit. Now with all the sentimental shit done, let's get weird. Oh no. Yes. Oh my goodness. Oh, going straight in. Button.

Okay, button. Button. Button. Button. Button thing. I. Oh my goodness. Going straight in. Button. Okay, button. Button. Button. Button. Button. I get to do it. That was my dog's first name. Button. Oh, Button. My first dog's name, there we go. I said it wrong.

This is your button. My dog's first name. The sun is thinking it's going to start making its way to the ocean horizon. It begins its descent over the coastal city of Nicodranas. The air is warm, but a light breeze starts flowing through the city's streets as the temperature starts to cool down from its postcard-worthy tropical vacation

weather that it has sported throughout the day. Savory scents of cured meats mixes with the smell of sweet incense as the denizens of the town begin their sunset rituals. Tired shopkeepers and wanton travelers flood the sidewalks, eager to discover what the night has in store for them. There's almost a music to it. The clacking of horse hooves

and the clattering of carriages, combined with the cracks of canvas flags being battered by the wind, and just the general white noise of anticipation. Anything could happen. Sprinkle. Oh jeez. The last 48 hours of your life has been fucking nuts.

In this short amount of time, you've been jettisoned from the comfort of your cage that was safe within the confines of the traveling cart. Since then, you've been yanked through sewers and flooded tunnels, dragged through the cold and salty sea, sucked up into a sentient water tornado that was shaped like an angry man.

You witness the assault and maybe murder of several individuals who, quite honestly, were just trying to do their jobs. As well as having a front row seat to watching a man get his hand chumped, chopped off. Chumped off? Chumped off. Chopped? Threatened. And then sent away on a big wooden people floaty

that people apparently call a boat. Oh. To top all of this off, this was spearheaded by this blue girl with horns that you've been forced into traveling with. She's the coolest. Just keeps claiming to be your mother. That bitch ain't my mom.

You currently find yourself. I just snotted. As you should. You currently find yourself back in a familiar, bougie building with six other compatriots your blue benefactor refers to as the Mighty Nein, whatever the fuck that means.

Rich-colored silks obscure the sunlight, trying its best to pierce through the windows. A charcuterie board with bread and pickled vegetables sits on a side table next to a beautiful woman in a rhinestone bustier with ruby skin and horns. And she actually resembles the blue girl that you've been traveling with. Mommy.

Here, Sprinkle. Have a bit of pastry. You must be so hungry. She just shoves the bread in your mouth and immediately sucks the saliva out. But you know, all things considered, it's nice in here. Sprinkle, you start catching glimpses

of the conversation between the blue girl and the red woman. They seem to be making arrangements for a permanent living situation for the blink dog puppy that you were also purchased with. Oh. There's mentions of dangerous situations ahead, so it would just be safer here. Sprinkle, what if this is your new home?

The two women hug each other, exchange a tearful goodbye. All right, Sprinkle, let's go. Perched on the shoulders of the blue girl, you and the rest of the big people, AKA the Mighty Nein, head towards the door, back out into the world filled with chaos and horror. As you exit the building,

the blue girl skips along with an uncanny excitement. Oh man, you guys do think we're going to beat any pirates? As she hops, unbeknownst to her, wham! You're struck by a wooden hanging sign bearing the name The Lavish Chateau. You are sent flying through the air and crash onto the street below. By the time you come to your senses, you look up,

see that the party you were traveling with has vanished around a corner. And in an instant, you find yourself completely alone. I breathe. Oh, fuck. I freeze. You suddenly hear.

The brown and black, slobbery blink dog puppy that you were traveling with has apparated next to you. Hey! What have you been up to? I found this stuff on the street to eat, and I spit it out. Do you want some? No, I think I'm okay.

Where'd you come from? I don't know exactly. I was over by those carts in the... I bamf. I don't know exactly. I was over by those carts and the. Oh! I bamf. So as you exit the Lavish Chateau, there's an alleyway to the left. You don't see the blink dog anymore.

Hello? Where am I? Did you go invisible? Did I go invisible? I think I did! Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck. A giant horse just comes bouldering past you, Sprinkle. I take a front towards the alley,

towards the bush. And then a barrel coming from the opposite side as a brewmaster just rolls a barrel right next to you. Actually crunches all of my toes. coming from the opposite side as a brewmaster just rolls a barrel right next to you. Oh! Actually crunches all of my toes. They somehow heal. It's like the swirl at the beginning of Ice Age. Oh!

Distant, distant relative fall. Sprinkle, you peek around the corner of the alley. Giant tongue up your back. Oh. Oh. I'm glad you followed me. Oh, that was nice. What are we doing?

I got dropped. I think I got left alone. You want club on my back? We can go get some food. Food sounds good. Come on! As you say, let's go get some food, you actually hear in the very back of the alleyway

rummaging through trash and crates and just a general clattering, and you hear as a bottle falls over. As you look back, you see three other critters on their own, rummaging through the trash. And why don't, at this point, for those who don't know what Sprinkle and Nugget look like as well,

let's go around and describe what everybody looks like. Let's start with you, Sprinkle. Sprinkle is a red weasel. He's a little fucked up. He's seen some shit. He's missing some fur in some sections. He's got little bandages, homemade and others. A couple frayed whiskers, some that are a little clip short,

and has constant tweaky eyes. He's also fancied himself a little, little handkerchief around his neck. That's Toa. That's Fickle. And let's jump to Nugget, and then we'll jump to the others. Well, Nugget looks like a dog that's brown and it's got some spots on it.

It's got some black spots and some white spots. And he's got superpowers, because he can eat pretty much anything that he wants to, you know? Even stuff that maybe you don't think tastes very good, he can eat it. That's cool. And as you hear that bottle crash

from behind the bottle on the top of the crate, you see a little crab that is responsible for batting off the bottle. Oh, I feel a little bad about that. I didn't realize that we were a mixed company here. My apologies. Well, you do see, beyond the fact of this odd crustacean that sits squarely between a marbled texture

of dark green and turquoise, this aggressive-looking, crusty crab, who, yes, indeed, who, as much as its voice tries to convey an essence of friendliness, just looks horrifying and not at all the kind of thing that's approachable or pet friendly. I want to be my friend!

Next, on the ground, you see. I'm in the trash can, actually. Perfect, even better. Only two of my legs are poking out. And as he does that, I reach out with one of the legs and grab him by one of the pincers. I'm like, calm down, hold on, hold on. And then that's when I peek the rest of myself out.

I'm like, how do you do? Hi, good morning. How are you? My name is Clarence Latisalt Abraham Pawtucket Pat. But for short, you can call me Clap. The Clap, if you're nasty. And then I pull the bucket out behind as well, and then I just splatter out because that's all eight legs now. And I'm just like rolling on the floor.

I'm Toby. And I wave him. Oh my god! Clap him, Toby. And then I put him down. Then fluttering a bit above, or whatever you may be doing, Joy. Yeah.

Fluttering out of the dumpster is Homely Small Dragon, Pseudo-Dragon. A homely, small dragon, pseudo-dragon, with a hunched back and a cigar. A kiss. Yes. Oh, hey. We got friends. Joanne, stop saying that with the cigar in your mouth.

But please. It's my water. Jeez. Water? This is my water. I don't even know her. Water don't even know her. Water don't even know her.

I'll take the bucket and put it right there by you. I'm putting this out. Put it out. No! Water don't even! I take the bucket and put it right there by you. I think you got it. I'm putting this out. Put it out. I'm putting this out! Not in my bucket, no! What do you want me to do with the bucket? I was just showing it off. Isn't it pretty? I love your bucket. Thank you.

But careful, there's water in it, and I don't want to get it on me. I don't like water. Not until I have to. Toby just clatters into the water. Get out of my bucket! You all seem to know each other. Are you part of like a gang? Are you gonna rob us?

Are you gonna take us for? You don't look like you got much on you. To rob! I take two of my legs and snap. That's right, get them Joanne. You don't look like you carrying bundles. You don't look like you're carrying bundles. You don't look like you're carrying bundles. Two tentacles.

You're not carrying bundles. I forgot I don't have anything. Do you carry anything today? Um, what? And I just vomited out some more of the food that I ate on the street earlier. This was worse. How old is it, though?

How old is this thing? It's really recent, actually. I take a little bit of that. Okay. Yeah. You actually sipped through the vomit, and there's some bones. Oh! We got some already! Look at that.

I found some bones, everyone. She's the bone collector. This might be good for a stew or something. You never know. I have eight legs. I could be a good chef. Probably not. Do you keep your bones in your water bucket?

No, I keep them in my ink hole. What? She keeps them in her ink hole! Thank you, Joanne. I'll show you, and then I lean over to show my ink hole to Nugget. Show me your ink hole! Nugget, you have never seen an ink hole. You are too young to have seen an ink hole before.

What do you think? It looks nice. I know it is, thank you. Never had any complaints. What are you guys doing? We're making friends, Dolby. Okay, I like friends. Friends are great. Yes, we love a good friend.

There's a bit of a clattering out into the alleyway as the hustle and bustle of the city is really starting to pick up as people are starting to get ready to go out to dinner, find their way for the night. Sprinkle, your anxiety is definitely starting to push you to know that it's going to be a small window if you want to move before you get caught.

All right, listen, I've been stuck. We should make a break for it. Get out of here. Find a new beginning. What are you running from? These crazy magic, they got magic. They go under the water and then they go on the fire. And all the time.

Wait, are you talking about those nice people that gave us food and got us out of the cages? Because they were really nice. Sprinkle. You have a person? Yeah, I have a person. You're a familiar. Oh my god. Yeah. What's a familiar? I gasped with three of my tentacles.

I wonder if someone's familiar. What's your familiar? So bad! As far as I can tell, it's like a pet, but there's also a special magical element to it. Special relationship. I'm like, pull it back. Dial it down, Tubby. We're meeting new people. We're meeting new people.

Well, maybe all the other people in the group would want you guys for other familiars then, too, because there's a lot of people in that group that you're with, that we're with. I don't know if we're still with them. I don't know. Am I with them? I'm not sure what I'm doing at this point. What's up?

Oh shit! What was this? I poof. It's gone. So the blink dog puppy that was standing in front of you suddenly just poof. And it's gone. Just a little bit of dust curls up and does that curlicue thing.

Yeah, it got in my ink hole. Put it away! Sorry. I finally put my ink hole. Put it away! Sorry. I finally put my ink hole away. As you hide your ink hole, Nugget, you're in the lobby of the Lavish Chateau. I love this place!

Do I see the charcuterie board? The charcuterie board is not here. It's right where it was upstairs. I smell the charcuterie board. I'm going to go try to find it. Fjordnith. Fjordnith. You head upstairs. And go look for it, and you do indeed.

Marion is very busy getting ready. She's got a show coming up in an hour, so she's doing her makeup. She's going to lick her ankles a few times. Oh! Okay. And then I go find the food. Down, down, buddy. Okay, and then, yeah,

she's busy doing her makeup, doing her hair, so you eat the remains of the charcuterie board, no problem. The rest of you. Did we kill it? Did we kill what? The dog, it went away! That's just what he does. I didn't do it.

He gets all excited and he perfs. Pretty impressive, actually. Do you guys have magic abilities? Can you perf? I can ink. You can ink? I can ink all over the place. But I can soak things as well.

I guess I'm just very nasty. Inking and soaking. With inking and soaking things. They're nasty. Joanne, don't, calm down. You didn't complain about it that one time, Joanne. No, I'm not complaining. I'm stating facts.

Just making sure, honey. Myself, I'm sort of a career familiar. I've been doing it for a long time. Sometimes you're in transition. I've been in transition now a little longer than one would like to be. So, you can hang out with us if you want. We do some magic sometimes. I've been training.

Training for years. It's all I want. Toby can't seem to catch on to anybody. Nobody wants a crab. They just look at me and they just get hungry. They kick me back in the water. I want a mess. You got desperate energy!

I'm sorry, I gave up that air! We can't go back to the pier. We can't go back to the pier. We got banned last time, remember? I'm sorry. No pier, no water. I mean, we'll go to the pier. I mean, I don't like water,. No pier. No water. I mean, we do go to the pier. I mean, I don't like water, so I really prefer not to.

You don't like water? Yes. I don't like, it scares me. What's it called, a hypochondriac? No. Hydrochondriac. There it is. Hydrophobic?

No, wait, that's... Awkward. You're not here. You're here. What Joanne the Scammer said. I said what I said, and I'll take what you get from it. I can't be mad at her because it's technically true. Yep, yep.

That's fair. Can I peek out of the window, from the window that I'm at? You can. As you look over, it's a little bit cracked because it's got the evening breeze starting? You can, as you look over, it's a little bit cracked because it's got the evening breeze starting to come through, and you look down and you can see a bunch of trash familiars.

I jump out of the window. Oh god! We're like, get out! I use the rocket. Roll a, let's do a sly check on this one to see how you do. First roll of the game. First roll of the game. For those who are familiar, this is a, or not familiar,

this is a d10 system game. You just have to roll over. You have to, it's easy. Roll over one of those dice. We are familiars. Yeah, d10. I rolled a six. Okay, easy enough. You vault off of the windowsill a little bit You vault off of the window sill a little bit, and there's one of those little awnings.

So you scoot your butt just right under it and plop right down. Oh, we thought you were gone forever. Hi, I'm Nugget. Who are you guys? I just introduced myself. I remember. Nugget. I thought we were better than this. myself. I remember. Nugget. I thought we were better than this. I saw your ink. Nugget.

I saw your inkhole. You did see my inkhole. Mm, sure did. Pretty rude to forget someone right after they show you the inkhole. Hey there, baby. Ooh, you know firsthand. Okay.

Not a forgettable inkhole. Is this a permanent base of operations for you in this alley? Because we really should move before somebody finds us. You have leadership energy? Unforgettable in gold. Is this a permanent base of operations for you, this alley? Because we should move before somebody finds us. You have leadership energy. No, no, no! Big leadership energy. No, no, no! You are a leader.

I just went around. Where are we going? Are you our leader? Maybe we're just across the street. I don't fucking know. Is somebody looking for you? Because nobody's looking for us. Hi, little Weasel man. How you doing? We'll follow you to the ends of Exandria. Sprinkle, when Clap mentioned the pier,

it actually jogged something in the back of your tiny little weasel brain. The pier is where you saw the big man get his hand chopped off and sent away. The pier could mean freedom of getting away from this place. You seem to remember someone calling it the Open Quay. Huh?

Ow, ow! I remember. I've heard you quay openly before. Yes. Been there before. Quay openly. Is it not a key? That was a good night. Not a Nicodranas.

We're not going to have this discussion again! I know better. Listen, you don't like the water? No, I don't like the water. You don't like the water. No, I hate it. It's horrible. It's so wet. Okay. I don't like the water. No, I hate it. It's horrible. It's so wet. Okay. I don't like the feeling of wetness.

Well, listen, we're more inland here, but I really feel like we could find a way out. Is that like Finland? Yes. Inland is like Finland? Yeah, it's like a sister country. Okay. And we could find a way outland.

To, if we go back down by the water, We can find a way outland to, if we go back down by the water, down by the open fay. I pull Joanne and I pull Toby in with my arms, one with the bucket and then one without the bucket. We go like, so what are y'all saying? We just met these cool cats and kittens. What do we think of them?

Are we gonna go with them? Should we go with them? I say just first glance at Weasel over there, at the very least, seems like a survivor. Seems like a survivor. Okay, we love a survivor. Yeah, yeah. You're a survivor.

Yeah. I'm trying to survive. Joanne? If we think they can survive, and you said big leadership energy, we might want to go with them? Is that what we're saying? But that panting, though. The dog is screaming rather loud. I don't know if we should

go with them. Maybe it has asthma. It's sort of like a white noise, which I like at times to sleep. I reach into the has asthma. I got inhaler. It's sort of like a white noise, which I like at times to sleep. I reach into the bucket and pull out an inhaler. I have an inhaler. Well, it's drenched. It might need, I shake it off.

It's definitely just a piece of iron tubing, by the way. That you found at the bottom of the ocean. Come on, give it to the dog! He has a little chew toy. Look at this stuff. So we should go. Let me. Hold on. Voice of Reason.

Scared one. Oh, scared one. You seem to be running from something. I've been there. What are you running from? So many things. Life? No. Wizards? I don't know.

I just wanted a peaceful existence where I could go through a meadow and maybe chase some bugs. Trying to retire? Yeah. I'd love to retire? Yeah. I'd love to retire. Listen, I think down by the water, that's where the more relaxed people go.

I think they would be in the market for more people like us, instead of the adventurer, cut-em-up types. Oh. You think this is real? It could be, but, but, you'll never know unless we go. And what do we have to lose?

Eight legs. Do you always grow back, or is that lizards? That's lizards! My apologies. Oh my goodness, not the reptilians. My apologies. That's your neck of the woods, isn't it? Yes. Look at you.

The nerve. You seem to be the chief negotiator for, like the head negotiator for this group. Yeah. Yes, you'll get used to it eventually. I have cancer, give it the grab. Oh! I ate a little bit because it was funny.

It was funny. It was flat. I'm not on your hull. Yeah, I know. I hear that a lot. And I hack back up the inhaler that I swallowed. Cling, cling, cling, cling. I put it back in the bucket of water.

But here's the thing. If we're going to make it down there, we've got to find a way to be incognito in costume. Oh. Costume! Yeah, I mean, we're a bunch of animals. I have an idea. We could go steal some human clothes

and go disguised as a person. That's brilliant. All standing on top of each other. Open your legs. A base. And then I have a lot of, I could be the arms. I can be the arms. And then we just need someone to be,

you could be eyes maybe. And then you just make sure that you, I'm very light, so I don't know why you're looking at me like that. I am very light. You could put me on your sprinkles. You could put me on your shoulders. And Joanne, you and Toby can be the face.

And you just have the cigar, you're smoking, and you can be, yeah, we got this. We have powers combined. You could fly, Joanne, and then you can carry Toby. I'm very smart. You want me to get some clothes? Where's your practice? Where's your practice? Let's form up!

Okay. Okay. So we start climbing on top of each other. Okay, I am going to need everybody to make... I feel like this is a, you're the base? No, I'm the base. No, I'm the base, you're the base? No, I'm the base. You're the base? The base is going to fucking destroy us. I'm going to sell the brains of the operation.

That is a good point. We're primed for success. Oh, you're probably going to bamf FNF. No, I wouldn't ever do that. Give me either a dealer's choice, either a clever or a sly check on however you're either brainsing this by balancing. I'm going clever. All right.

Okay, so. Or you're using your muscle memory. Ooh! I rolled an eight and a plus three. Whoa. Golden crab? Seven total. Fine. Two! three. Oh. Whoa. Golden crab? Seven total. Fine. Two! Fail.

Five. Fail. One. Fail. We're great! Well, we did good. We did. We did our part. We got through. We did our part.

So the aquatics have a great time. They're very used to holding onto things and being battered by waves and currents. Where am I going? The rest of you, Nugget, you're so distracted, and it just throws the entire tower off. I am not good at balancing. All you had to do was bounce on top of Toby.

You smash into the brick wall. Where do you want me to go? You end up falling through the awning that Nugget bounced off of earlier. We don't need nothing in the bucket. How do I fall? I have wings. Sprinkle, you were out.

It's because Sprinkle did the lifeguard thing and decided to wrap his hands around your neck. I'm panicked! Don't do that! Sprinkle! And you all come crashing to the ground. The three of you take a stress. Oh! Oh, no!

In this game, if something bad happens, either DM's discretion or if you fail a roll, you take a stress. If the familiars ever roll under the amount of stress that they currently have, they break and have a freak out, and then we'll see what happens when that definitely happens. Oh no!

I feel like I'm already there. I feel like I'm already there. Equal to and under. I feel like I'm already there. Under. Equal to is fine, I'm going to say. Okay, fabulous. We love that. So currently, you're okay. All right. So, yut. Everybody. Mm-hmm. Yut.

Does anybody start with stress? No. No? Probably you. You. I got to say. You know what I mean? Yeah, she's broken, to be honest. You? Yeah, you've recently, that's true.

You've recently snapped. This is pretty good for me. Yeah, you had a little brain reset. All right. Banned together by paranoia and honestly, very little persuasion, we now have our familiar party that is looking to solve this familiar problem.

You're all graced with a little bit of magical powers, but for the first time in pretty much all of your all's lives, you suddenly have the power of choice. That's power. With the camaraderie to back it up. As you creep out of the alleyway behind the lavish chateau, the bustling streets of Nicodranas

expand past your periphery. Destiny is in your claws. Emboldened by this moment of confidence, you all take a single step out onto the sidewalk as you are suddenly bombarded with sensory overload. You see blurs of color of pedestrians as they boulder past you. Cacophony of noises from every direction

just bombards your brain. Your sense of smell is even failing you because everything just smells like everything. Oh my god. And everything is a hazard. Oh, lovely. You all are thinking you might want to try and make it towards the outskirts of the city

and probably pretty quickly. So who's the fastest of us? I can carry one person. Hey, Joanne, how you doing? Who's on Joanne? And a bucket, one and a bucket. We've tried. Oh yes, we have.

Who can I carry? I would say maybe Toby. Maybe. Maybe Sprinkle. You move a lot. But he moves a lot. Also, I'm 2B8. I knew I should have cut off one of these legs. Red leader, what do we do?

Oh no, Don! Red leader! Red leader! It's shitty out here, isn't it? Hey, can you poof on command? What is poofing? Oh, oh, oh. I could have run over and alive!

It's a good question. You're all, see, just right out of your periphery, a big rug comes swinging past all of your faces. Oh! I need everyone in the way to make a slide check. Oh god. No, a quick, quick check. We're all in the way.

You're all in the way right now because you're standing in the middle of the alley. It's not a good day for me. Fine. Four. Fail. Died. Five. Five is what you had for me. Fine. Four. Fail. Died. Five. Five is what you had to make.

Eight. You're good. So it was, you failed again. Four. You, everyone else sees it just in time, but because you were distracted having this argument about who's going to ride on you, you all just see Joanne get pelted by a rolled up rug. No! No!

Baby mama, motherfucker! Boom, boom, boom, boom. You're in the middle of the street. Oh no! Can I run over and try to pick up Joanne with my mouth? Make a quick check. Joanne, no! With my, what am I checking?

Joanne, get up! A quick check? A quick check. Five! Fine, from behind, you just see a big slobbery nose come up and scoop up from under the house. Ow! I bug you! Clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk. Two giant barrels come rolling past the two of you

because you're in the middle of the street, being pushed by a giant half-orc woman. You're being carried. I was going to say, make another quick check to get out of the way. Ted! Good. I'm still fast. Super solid. You just, almost with that blink dog instinct,

even though you don't blink, you just feels like you teleported, but you didn't. Oh my god. That was amazing. Don't worry, Joanne. A milkmaid walks up and walks past you, Clap, sits down a few milk curtains, and then reaches over and tries to grab your bucket

to take off with it. I take one of the milk bottles with the tentacle, and I take the other one with another one, and I break them. I'm like, put my bucket down, baby. Make a fierce check. I have a terrible fierce plus, but it's okay.

A three. Ooh! Put it down! The milkmaid just goes, and she does scream and drop the bucket, but she punts you in the process. Oh! My beak!

She starts running. She runs down the alley and goes, it's a rogue tentacle monster! And she takes off. Monster? How dare she? This gets the attention of the shopkeep. I barely even know him!

That was right inside. The door comes flying open. Make a sly check to try and avoid it. A sly or a quick. I'll do sly because I at least have a plus in sly. Good. Oh, a nine. Great.

You see it coming. No bones. No bones. No bones. It's a no bones day. You no bone! And it's just enough to where there's that gap from the hinges, and it just misses you as a shopkeeper comes out with a broom and he goes, TANNICAL MONSTER!

I have them all up, just up against the wall and door, just. I'm going to step in front of Clap and just go. Why are you so angry? He swings the broom to you. Can I try and fly up? Yeah, make a quick move. Different dive.

Huh? Um, seven. Yay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's good. Seven makes about sense. Give me one. Yeah. Give me one.

Wow. All stressed. It is sheer chaos. Try and getch me! And it is only getting worse. This shopkeeper is just starting to square off with you now. Get! Are there any wagons around? You do see, if you look over,

it's a bit towards down the street, but you do see a wagon with a single horse in front, like a donkey in front of it. Oh, let's go get it. This one's Dramatica. We could ride on a wagon with a single horse in front, like a donkey in front of it. Oh, let's go get it. We could ride on the wagon. Toby. Yeah? Toby.

Hi. Grab my bucket and bring it over here. Thank you, yeah. It'll be a second, but we'll be with y'all. We just have to get my bucket first. You also have this milk cart. I still have the milk. Do I still have the milk?

You do. Bottles. Bottles. Do you still have the milk bottles Do I still have the milk? You do. Bottles? Bottles. Do you still have the milk bottles? I go under the door with one of them, like sideways, like, uh, uh, and I try to hand it to Joanne. We're on opposite sides of a door? Yeah, the door swept me up against the wall. Yeah. She's in between

the wall and the door. She's like, oh, my baby. There you go. Just for you. And then I think Joanne is going to be like, all right, let's go, and just start swinging it as she goes across the street to the wagon. The shopkeep that has been trying to stave you off

with this broom is just like, It's glass, you might be able to cut something like a rope or something. Make a fierce check. A move. Oh, that's good. That's good. A natural zero. A natty zero. A natty none.

He's very concerned about glass shards getting in his eye. He's got a bit of on sty. So he's just like, Oh, my sty! And then runs into the shop. The only time I'm afraid to get my eye and ear pointy things is when I have the stye. Oh, just the stye.

Hurry, Noggin, get under here! I flip over the milk carton and hold it over her head. So it's just a bunch of little feet. Oh my god, you're Metal Gear Solid-y? Yeah, yeah. Solid Snake in the Box. Fantastic. Come to the door and get me. Get your ass under here!

I go under. I think Toby's finally here with the bucket. I'm like four feet behind still. Okay. I peek out. Just a second. Just, I'm working on him. I peek out under it and I reach out. I grab the bucket, but not Toby.

Come on. But I keep it up, raised up, so Toby can go under. Come on, Toby, move. Good. Okay, great. Just milk carton bucket. Which is fucking fantastic. Give me a sly check from everybody.

Yeah. Shoot. No problem. It's an easy check. Fail. Three! Huh? Oh, I get a stress for that. Oh, jeez. Fine. Okay. It's an easy check. You just have to have a majority success here. Three. Huh? Game. Oh, I get a stress for that. Oh, she does. Fine. Okay. It's an easy check.

You just have to have a majority success here. Three. Okay. Not good. One. No! Three. Oh! It's going great! Now, I passed. I literally made that

like the low, it's one to five is easy. But I passed. You all failed it. You did, yeah. You did pass. Everyone died to you. Everyone's dead. As you all slowly start to slide, it just starts to gather a crowd. Oh no.

No one's immediately alarmed. But a little circle of pedestrians start to watch this. Look away! Look away! You're the only one who notices. Make another fierce check for me. You got this.

No, no. Four. Our mob is going back. I'm so, I'm so... People are mostly just like, What the fuck is going on? Very weirded out by him. There are, it's not even the people who are weirded out by it that end up being the problem. You guys end up scooching right in front

of a door to an open tavern. Oh no. Two drunk guys come stumbling out of it. I'm coming! Oh, that was fucking great. We got to go see another ass over tea kettle. I need everybody to make a,

just a fierce check to see if you can stave this off. Are they falling on top of us? Is this what's happening? This is what's happening. I got a nine. Okay, okay. Look at me go. Yes. I'm back on track. There we go. Back on track. A minute.

Four, okay. Seven. Okay. Five. That was actually pretty good. Whew! Nugget, you panic because you see this coming and you bamf. Badass mother.

Sorry you couldn't cook. Since we're so close in proximity, do we bamf with or no? No, just Nugget. That would be helpful. Picture ride. Yeah. That would be lovely. That would be helpful. Picture ride. That would be lovely. Is she a portkey? Sorry.

You will survive the trip because the milk cart ended up, the milk cart actually ended up breaking the guy's falls, clattering on top of it, but milk carton is completely shattered and you all are incredibly exposed, still with a bunch of people watching. All right, I got an idea.

I learned a special talent from watching other familiars when I was training to become one myself. Ooh. And that cart that had the one horse earlier? Uh-huh. I'm just going to use my Summon Horse ability, but instead of actually magically summoning a horse, because I don't, I just go ahead and clamber over

and jump onto the horse and go and just pull its reins real fast while snapping the back of its actual attachment to the cart so we just have a horse barreling through. Yep. Okay. Okay, there's a lot happening. First, I'm going to need you to make a quick move to even get over to the cart,

because the cart was across the street. Yeah, that's my plan. All right. Oh no, you're going to die. All right, that's my plan. All right. Oh no, you're going to die. All right, that is a six. That's passable. You are a crab. Oh, Jesus. It is a wide road.

Oh no. Yeah. I got this, don't worry, guys! You're not moving as quickly as you would like. Sliding speed! Conversely, as you look in that direction, you see Nugget is by the cart. Oh, I'm so close! Hi see Nugget is by the cart. I tell you! Hi, come on, I got the cart.

You all making your way? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, you all. I'm downtown. And I'm just... You vibing? I'm taking it leisurely strong, because they can't clock me.

Can I camouflage? We can camouflage. Yeah. I can camouflage, right? Because I'm a... Yeah, you're... I look like the road, so I'm just leisurely making my way. Okay, that's fantastic. So give me a clever check for that

to see how well you camouflage. Everybody else, give me a quick check to see how well you dart across. That's for you. Seven. Seven? They're so cool. Yeah. You take the shape and almost end up having the little spiky barbs come up as well

to make you look like a grainy, sandy road. Oh no. Where'd you go? First nuggets, then clap. It's just three of us. Survival on the finish. I love it. Good. Survival on the finish. I love you. Good.

Jesus. Okay, noted. Good, okay. You guys are all doing good this time. You start making your way. You're completely terrified, so that just gives you the adrenaline rush to make it to the cart.

You're taking your time, but you'll be there in a minute. You fly right on over. You're good. All of you end up making your way onto the back of the cart. Clap. You're 20 seconds behind. Or sorry, not clap. Toby, you're 20 seconds behind. Going to summon that horse! Give me!

Should I just grab him on my way and put him in the bucket? Sure. I pick Toby up and put him in my bucket. Great. I'm like, you take too long. Come on. Did you cast a spell for them? I did. I picked Toby up and put him in my pocket. I'm like, you take too long, come on. Did you cast a spell for them?

I did. Oh, the one time. But I summoned a horse! We got a horse smell. We do. Thank you, Clem! You're welcome. Did you say we're going to try and be the attachment to the horse in the wagon?

Is that what you said? Well, the original thought was I was going to rush the horse over to them, but seeing as how they got there far before I did because I'm a crab, I'm just going to leave the cart attached and try and just grab the reins and. Okay. Do we have to break a rope or anything? No, no one expected this cart to move

because it didn't have a horse. So it is not tied down. So you are now all in the back of a horse, or the back of a horse. We're in the back of a horse? You're in the back of a horse. Well, now all in the back of a horse, or the back of a cart. We're in the back of a cart? Well, Toby is on the back of a horse. The rest of you are in the cart as you take off clattering down the streets of Nicodranas.

With a fucking crab driver. With a crab driving. Should we try to describe ourselves as a person again to see if we can get the shape of a person at least? On a moving cart? On a horse? You guys can take a look, see what's in the cart. Oh, what's in the cart? I have eight arms. Seven is my bucket. What's in the cart?

I take seven arms and dig around. Okay, make a clever, both of you make a clever check to see what you find. Let's turn up. Ooh, that's plus a 12. Ooh! Three. I three. A 12. Ooh! Ooh! Three. I'm looking for gold.

Left in the cart. It appears that this- I left all my gold in my cart. Out on the street. I hope they have Apple Pay. Whatever this, whoever this cart belonged to might've been some sort of fireworks dealer. Whatever this, whoever this cart belonged to might've been some sort of fireworks dealer. Got you! And sparklers dealer.

Now, there is not really anything left in the cart because they did take the shipments out and were clearly probably dropping it off. But what you do find wedged in the bottom is a broken bottle. I'm finding everything. Honey, y'all ain't looking hard enough. I'm finding everything.

A broken bottle rocket. She had them sticky fingers. Okay, I got a lot of them. Watch out for these broken bottle rockets. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I'm just leaning my head out the side of the cart and experiencing the smells and the beauty of the city. It's like the greatest fucking day of your life.

This is amazing. You've never really experienced, you've been on the back of carts, but it's always been inside of a cage, and it was always a very slow-moving cart. This cart is moving at an obnoxious speed, considering it's being driven by a crab. Give me a Sly check

to navigate the bustling Nicodranas streets. As I'm doing this, I'm also shouting out behind the horse, Do you have a name, friend? Yes. I just evaporated and I've had 30 seconds of memories. All right, 30, keep going. Okay.

Your name's Ed. I have a name. Oh! Oh, get out of here. Okay, so you see. Crap driver. You see a group of a family of five and just this amazing-looking family

that's clearly on vacation. They're in nice white linens and have their hair all done up in the big hats as they're going out for a night on the town after coming in from the beach as a horse-drawn cart with a crab comes barreling towards them. It's not even that you're sly enough to dodge them.

They're just smart enough to get the fuck out of the way. Yeah, I won't take any credit for this. And you just see two kids go one way and the other three of the parents just grab a five-year-old and jump out of the way. Can I grab a hat in my mouth as we drive by them? Not yet! He came back inside.

Spriggan just has three points of contact in the wagon. He's splayed in the corner, like, Ha! Please, God, they have to stop! I take one leg to try and keep him calm and just rub him. Like, stay calm. I'm not working, it's okay. Gucci, Gucci, Gucci.

You see the cigar is sage. It's a sage. You know what? I'll say in this moment, with the tender touch from Clap, and just this solemn moment that I would count that as your fellow familiars soothing you. So go ahead and remove a point of stress.

Oh shit, fam! You're welcome. It's just too bad I have one point that I don't feel like I'm supposed to take my own way. I got you a hat. Do you want it? Yeah, I'll take it. I take two of my tentacles, take it out of the mouth, take two more, wipe off the saliva,

because I know there's plenty, and I place it on the back, like, turn backwards. Oh, and it's like one of those big woven sun hats that has one side of it kind of pinned up, and it's got like... Kentucky Derby. A hundred percent it's a Derby hat, and it's got these nice big kind of hyd 100%, it's a derby hat. I'm getting. And it's got these

nice, big hydrangeas that are pinned to the side of it. Blue. So blue hydrangeas. It's got a blue ribbon around it to accompany it. And yeah, you spin it around and you are now an octopus wearing a derby hat. Y'all can't take me! You look over your shoulder

and you just see the wife of this family. Just kind of... I look over and just wave a couple tentacles at them. She's just confused. She's not even mad. She's just confused. And I ink a little bit. And ooh. Gorgeous.

Joey, I don't know, why are you playing? You already know this. I have never played a day in my life. Oh, I know it. You always so serious. And then I dip myself in my bucket, because I feel like it's probably time I dip myself in my bucket.

Okay, you have a little hydration moment. So I'm like, Yeah. Then I climb out. My skin's wet! Then I shiver a little bit. I'm like,. You know what? Take a point of stress.

Oh no! It's just so much. Especially because it's starting to get that evening breeze as the sun is setting. So it's cold. Stress. You get a little prickly on your skin. Oh, Jesus. Yeah. But I kept the hat dry, because to a moment.

Just stick it out of the bucket. Yeah. You all continue bolting down the road until the buildings finally get more and more sparse, until they eventually stop reproducing. You all find yourselves at a clearing. Mobilities. Reproducing.

Right on the outskirts of town. For a moment, you all catch your breath. You can hear the white noise of the city behind you. I take two tentacles and just wrap around the smell of nugget, just for a second. Everyone take one, press in. Out. And then I let go. Can I have one of those

baby suction things? Just to clear her nose out. You know, you don't find one of those, but you can always use your mouth. Go for it. Joanne, if you do this, don't you ever bring your mouth back over here, girl. Absolutely not.

Don't you bring that mouth back over here, Joanne. You play with your motel. All you can have is the ink hole at that point. Not my baby. Yeah. Suddenly, you kind of have this quiet moment, the white noise of the city starts to fade away a little bit,

but then you're up ahead, maybe 50 yards or so. Oh, a big baby. You see. You do. You see... You do. You see another cart with two horses, two palominos in the front of it. I feel already shown up. Walking around the cart,

you see this hood merchant in gray and gold casual robes. Can't quite see his face just yet. You also see on the back of this cart a number of cages of varying sizes. The side of the cart sports a sign that says, Creatures of Fantastical Possible Talent. Possible? Possible.

The man turns around as he's clearly looking for something. Then you also see two other humanoid figures flanking on the corners of the edge of this jungle outcropping. He's heavier set, has darker tan skin, very sunworn. He has a bit of a double chin that pokes out from under this scarf that he has loosely draped over his head

to shield what is definitely a balding scalp from the sun. Look at mine. It's just like a yellow, soft linen. Yellow, you say? Yes. Oh? Like a pale yellow, not a bright yellow. Fine. Accessories. Exactly.

You can see his two younger apprentices. One looks like a younger female halfling and the other, which looks like an androgynous, kind of early 20s human. They're both wearing light linen colored shirts, button downs, and are carrying nets as they patrol the perimeter. What does the sign say on their cart? Can we read it?

Those are the bad people. You, I would say you all know just enough. Oh, we know what that is. Common to get the hint. It says creatures of fantastical possible talent. That's us. Under the horse. What do they do with people under the horse? creatures of fantastical possible talent. That's us under the horse. What do they do with people under the horse? They play you in cages, and they don't let you out

until somebody comes and pays for you. What, then they give you to somebody? Yeah, but then people are like, Take me! No, Toby, no. Let go of me! Toby, you don't know what you're asking for! This is my chance!

You don't know what you're asking for! Toby, no! I could serve someone! Toby! One of the female halfling just looks over her shoulder. I camo into the cart. You can almost see the striations of the wood slats.

She said, but there's your levitating hat. It looks like the hat's on the floor and the bucket is still. Perfect. Sorry, I got excited. Toby, please. I don't know why it could be good for him. I think it's exactly what he wants.

I don't know. Are we trying to stop this from happening? We have to find the right person, though. Any sign of them, you hear the older merchant shout out. Ah, no, no, not yet, Mr. Drudy. Well, keep looking. The hands have gotten far. I can't even speak, I'm so frustrated.

Hand have gotten far. Hand have gotten far. No, we got to get out of here. Does the name Mr. Drudy ring any bells to Nugget and myself? It's a cart we came from. You don't even have to roll for it. You recognize this as the cart

that you were recently trapped in, purchased from, along with that owl that rambled a lot. That owl was so annoying. Snitch ass, Molly. Yeah. Snitch ass. Fuck yeah. Snitch ass. Dollars.

How do we get away from them? I don't want to be in the cage again. I am a dead man if I've lost the magistrate's order of the blind magical mice. I am a dead man if I've lost the magistrate's order of the blind magical mice. Oh my magical mice. We hear that. We could eat them. Anything yet? Uh, no.

No, we're still... I do think I heard something, though. Just hang on. Uh-oh, didn't hear nothing. Drudy says. The man apparently called Drudy says, the man, apparently, called Drudy, All of this stress, it has me winded. You two keep looking.

I just need to rest my eyes for a moment. He goes over to the backside. You can see they popped up a little temporary camp, as it looks like they're about to head into or out of town. He has a little bit of a blanket, quilted rug, laying down in front of the cart, and the man just lays down and does like the old man on his back and crosses

and lays down for a moment while his two assistants continue to scan the perimeter. Oh, dough. Oh, dough. So we're going to play Don't Wake Trudy. Oh no! What is this? I'm having flashbacks.

Whoa! What is this? Whoa! Is that man sleeping in a suit? Yes. The 50s were a rare time. Or a night shirt. Yeah, yeah.

That man's eyes are already open. So. Can't have everything. He's a marine. Okay. And his mouth is too intense. He looks like it's with that mouth. He looked like it. Start flanking around this outcropping that you guys find yourselves in.

You can see directly across this outcropping that there appears to be a little dirt path that goes into the sanctuary of the canopy of the nearby jungle. But in order to get to that safe haven, that path crosses directly beyond Drudy, and you have to walk past him. You can see as the other two assistants

are making their patrols, that you can probably time it for a well-timed dart. Are there other animals that we can see locked up? You can. I was just about to say, we have to save everyone. We have to save everyone. We have to scrap it, is what y'all saying. I grab my milk bottle that's broken from earlier.

Okay. I'm still a plank though. But the arm comes up with the milk. It's like, so we about to fight? Is that what's happening? Blood will draw attention. Huh. Not if you finish the job.

They have- Oh, Toby, believe me. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. They have keys. They have keys. That's Not if you finish the job. Oh, Toby, but I mean. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. They have keys. They have keys. That's how they open up the cages. So what if we had a distraction? Your tentacles can get in those locks. Oh, you know.

I know. I know how my tentacles can work. I know. No! But I need a distraction. A distraction. Maybe an agile someone. I'll go!

I'm actually really good with locks as well. Oh, you're good with locks. Like magic. So I ain't got to put myself at risk. That's good. So then I- You don't have much time if you guys want to go at it together. There seem to be a lot of cages.

We can work together. Can you ink into the air and create a distraction or cover for us somehow? If you tickle me. Tickle? Yeah. If you tickle me, I ink all the time. I can always just cast it, but if you make me ink, it's different.

See a finger? He looks at his own finger. I am actually going to cast Mist around us. Oh! Okay! Yes! Oh, we get to chill.

And it's actually just the smoke from the cigar. Fantastic. Oh yeah. So, and you're, especially you're this mini pseudo-dragon and it starts to billow around you. And you just. Cube in the fog! Yeah! I'm like, woo, the foggy winds are coming in, honey, wow.

That cigar smoke just starts to combine with the late sea mist that is coming in and it just starts to poof, poof, almost in these concentric circles as it expands out. You all are now completely under a mist. Zoya, you haven't done that since the last time. It's been a while. We got to get the cage or something.

All right, let's go. I'm going to start on one side. Who wants to? I'll take the starboard side. Who wants to take the port side? Clap, you were right on my back. I'm always down for a port, honey. Let's go. I'm being invisible.

I'm going to camouflage myself as well. Okay. Sorry, I can't camouflage you, too. I do apologize. Goddamn it! You know I camouflage myself. It's fair, but I want extra security because I'm delicate. Of course.

Yeah. I'll be playing defense if anyone gets too close, I'll cut off their face. I give you the broken milk bottle. Glass milk bottle. I will not let you down. You got my back. I got your back.

All right, I stand up on all fours. Toby, do you want to be on my back? I'm like, I'm really calm now. Why not? You wouldn't want to be on my back? Do you want to be on my back? Why not? Do you want to be on my back? I actually think not in case you're on my back. I don't know what a poof is. Do you want to be on my back?

Tell me a nugget sounds pretty good. Come on, Toby. I climb with one claw on a nugget. Ow! Okay, all right. So you be surveillant, because you can fly around and see everything. I'll surveil.

Surveil? I'll surveil. That sounds right. But I got surveil. Surveil? I'll surveil. That sounds right. But I gotta talk to you. What? There may come a time in every blink dog's life where they need to know sometimes you disappear. You notice that?

Yeah, we gotta break this to you, sis. I do notice sometimes everybody else disappears. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And you just never thought it was you that disappeared. So for us, you are sort of going to a new place. Yes. Too much for you?

You just, let's finish this mission and we'll check back in. and we'll check back in. And we'll check back in. Nugget, make a clever check. Uh-oh. Oh Jesus. You get it. Oh, oh, six.

Okay, you needed a five. It doesn't, the concept of impermanence doesn't stress you out enough to make you bamf in this moment. Uh-oh. I thought I grasped the concept. In this moment. Yeah, I know. No, no.

You haven't, no. It just hasn't, yeah. It doesn't have to be in right now. That's good. You didn't get existential about it. That's fine, though. That's basically it. We'll take it.

We'll take it. Okay. So. We'll definitely take that. The two of you, you're going port side, you're going starboard side. You two are playing defense in your patrol. We're going to run around. All right. Free fire. Joanna. I've never asked.

You still have this amazing cover. Patrol, make a... Surveillance. Sorry, surveillance. Overwatch. Make a check for patrol. Make a clever check. Eagle eye. Yeah, sorry. Surveillance. Overwatch. Make a check for patrol. Make a clever check. Eagle Eye. You got it.

I believe you. Seven. Great. Right now, the two assistants are on their furthest back arc. So they're very close right now to the other side of this clearing towards the entrance of the jungle. You can see there's, do a little scan of the bushes

as they both look at each other and turn back and start making their way slowly around this way, blinking towards you all. So you have a pretty good windowing right now. I'm still up on all seven legs right now with my hat as well. Okay. The two of you, because you have cover from Izzy Smoke Cloud. I got cover.

I would say that's going to add a plus one to your sly check right now, each of you. Combining your sly that you have as well, you're not going to roll. That will negate whatever you spin on Don't Wake Drudy. Wait, what happened? You're going to spin the arrow.

And you have to get. Subtract that from whatever. And then take your sly that you currently have and subtract it by the number, and then that's going to go into Don't Wake Drudy. Okay, so spin. Jesus. No pressure. No pressure!

Two. Two. Okay. It was a horrible spin. Watch your horrible spin. I'm not going to play. What's your sly? A one, and then plus the one. Okay, so nothing. You're good for right now.

Oh, and you're the other one, so you have to do it. I sort of need to explain. We're at an even hunt. I really need to explain. What Toby, what Don't Wake Trudy is. We're subtracting that from our... You subtract your sly from... The star is a safe. Oh!

We have a boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Because you have this amazing cover, you've got a great plan. You all both successfully dart across the way and find yourself on the starboard and port side of the cart. You all get up to it. In the cart, you see in a bottom cage,

a longer oblong-shaped one, you see a peacock. On your side, you see a tinier one, a nice square, that's got two baby tiger cubs in it. Oh, I remember that! And then above, that's true, above on the top row above these two, you see a collection, about three varieties of exotic birds.

Let's do a nugget. Oh goodness. Okay, okay. All right. Because you're standing guard, but you still risk ruining this for everybody. No, we're going to save it because we're great. Okay.

Do they have food in this camp? That's a four. What's your slime? One! Whoa! But we also have a cover. Wait, wait, wait! We still get to cover one?

So it's only two. It's only two. Okay. Why am I waiting? No, I'm ready. Nugget, your turn. How the fuck does this work? You got to get the fuck out of here.

If he springs up, we have trouble. If he gets up, that psycho. If he gets up, so yes. If he gets up, there will be consequences. He don't want these problems. Oh no. Four. What's your slime? One, so two. Same. Oh! I don't like this. I'm having flashbacks. I don't like this, I don't like this. What's your slime? One, so two. Same. Ooh!

I don't like this. I'm having flashbacks. I don't like this, I don't like this. Give it a scream wave. Let's do one for you as well, to make sure as you're patrolling. Patrol even? Mm-hmm.

Oh, Jesus. Thought you'd be flying high enough to not be seen or hurt. You got a lot of bonuses for this. Six. Oh! What's your bonuses for this. Six. Two! What's your slime? Two.

Plus the life of three. Okay, so we have three going in. Oh! God, Drudy. God. That guy's a fucking pervert. We're still here. Joanne. We're still here, though. What should I call it?

I'm a doink daddy hot take. Look at him. Look at him, he's so fucked up. I'm just glad we're missed. That is saving our ass right now. Yes, it really is. That was a good call. All right, what are the two of you all doing?

I'm about to let some of these animals out. What you trying to do? I'm going up, I'm going up. Okay, I want to do, should I do the cubs or should I do the, I flip the babies out. I flip the babies out. And they are BBs. You come up to them and they just go, Hi.

Oh, but I don't know about that. And then the other one goes, What's the birds giving? What are the birds giving? The tigers just go, I'm hungry. Oh, I ain't got no food. I'm sorry. I got some bones. Are you my mom? Maybe.

And about this time, one of the birds, you see one of the birds go and peeks over down at you out of his cage. Well, who is you? Yo. Oh. Let me out. Hello? Yo.

Well, since I have so many legs, I could probably open both at the same time. You're cute. Oh, my God. You better stop. I'm almost taken, but we're open. Oh. You want to let me out, though? I can definitely let you out, baby.

All right. Can you hurry? You don't want to let me out, though? I can definitely let you out, baby. All right. I use the- Can you hurry? Also, you want to rush. Also, you're that one. I've been stuck in here for three weeks. Did nobody tell you to get up in there? Cage is full of shit. Who told you to use the restroom in there?

Literally have shit stuck to my tail. Oh, I don't really, then I, I don't know if I can keep flirting with shit. Am I not, am I- Down there! There we go! Am I, is this bad? Am I can keep flirting with you. Am I not, am I? Go down there. There we go. Am I like, is this bad? Am I not seeing the deal with this?

I unlock both, I just stop talking to them and just start unlocking both cages. Okay, it's gonna be tough. Make a clever check. Okay. A clever or sly. I'm doing clever because I have a plus three in clever. Okay. Here we go.

I'm a two, a five, okay. A five. Oh no. Uh-uh. It's because I'm trying to open both at the same time, isn't it? Yes. It's just cumbersome enough.

You can kind of wrap your tentacles and get into some of the logs, but you need at least one or the other to get that mechanism to lift the tumblers underneath. Okay, so then I'll just, the birds can chill for a second. I need to get the babies out. Okay, while you try and get the babies out,

we're going to go over to Sprankle. I'm going to go over to the peacock. I'm like, your feathers are so beautiful. I know. Oh shit. What are you talking about? Gross. I want to Oh shit. Put your tongue in it. I want to get you out of here, but I just want to make sure that you know

this city is very dangerous. You sure you want out? Whatever. I'm a fucking peacock, we're crazy. Oh. You know that, right? And I look across, I'm like. Just lean.

But my arms are still working, though. You can call me Trish, by the way. I don't like that. Trish? Yeah. Classic Trish. Trish, what a time. Oh, it's Trish the Dish! I remember her, she's wonderful! Let her out!

Oh, okay. And I'll use- I'll take it. I'll use my door magic to, I take my tail that's frayed and missing fur in some places and I'll turn it into a little lockpick and. Fantastic. You mark off that spell, you do it, no problem. We'll come get this other door in while I work on it.

Trish pops out. We'll come do this other one. You're stressing me out. Thank you so much. You're welcome. You hear the clink. Welcome to the South One. You're stressing me out. Thank you so much. You're welcome. You're welcome. Beautiful. I don't have some.

Am I supposed to give you something? I don't know. I mean, you could. No, that's, mm, no. Here, I have this. I ate from it earlier. It's just scraps. Here, take that, though.

All right, kay, thanks, bye. And Trish just walks off into the jungle. Great! A lemon peel helmet! That sounds like defense, huh? It might be. As the helmet comes on, his demeanor shifts. He's like.

Oh! I feel it. It's like cleaning a cat's eye. As my legs quiver. Oh my god. Ooh. And as your legs quiver, it kind of, yes, it's just exactly what you need.

Roll again. Give me another clever check. Please, something, please. That's a 10. It's free. A zero. No, that's great, that's 10! That's good, that's a 10!

Oh, yeet! Yeet! Just as free! Just as. Just as. I think I'll pass. I just peeled the bars back. Emboldened by the fabulousness of Trish and the fabulousness of now a fellow familiar

who's rocking the hat game. Oh my gosh. Click, click, click. The baby. The babies. Mom. I have children now, Joanne. Mom. Already?

Mom. Look second, I have some bones. We gotta get to safety first. I grab them. Okay. And I look over. I grab them. Okay. I look over. Come let these birds out. I got to get these babies to safety,

Mr. Squishy. I start to make my way away. All right. Make a sly check again. You are leaving, I will say, you are now leaving the zone of smoke as you now try to get these babies to safety. Wait until we're done.

Huh? Yeah, it's a spin check, but I'm just saying you're Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, I'm done. Wait, wait, wait. Wait until we're done, right? Yeah, well, I guess this is a good question. What are you doing, Joanne, right now?

Are you still on patrol? Yeah. Okay. Make another slash or a clever check for noticing. Oh, seven. Okay. You peek your head out of the smoke cloud that you made. The two patrolling assistants are now starting to arc back around

towards the end of where the cart is. They've got maybe 20 or 30 seconds before they're in view as they're walking through. Okay. Then you hear the, The goddess groans. Now, now, now, now. You hear the halfling just go like,

I don't know if the bodies work. Looks like we got a thick ocean fog coming in. Just, how are we supposed to find mice in fog? Can I start looking around for mice? Yeah, make a clever check. Oh, eight. Okay, make a fierce check to hold on. Oh, it's a four. Nugget, you go bolting into this nearby shrubbery

and you peek your head in. You do find a ground squirrel, but it doesn't seem to be three mice. go bolting into this nearby shrubbery, and you peek your head in. You do find a ground squirrel, but it doesn't seem to be three mice. Have you seen a mice? What? Have you seen a mice around here? No, get the fuck out of my home!

There's three of them. Goes back underground into the hole. I keep searching the bushes. Okay, and then you, unfortunately, as Nugget is so distracted and bolted towards the bushes, go flying off to the back of Nugget. You now find yourself out of the cloud as you have tumbled out.

I'm going to need you to make a slide check. With Don't Wake Judy. Oh boy. Without the bonus, because I'm out of the fuck. Without the bonus. That's fine. I'm really good at this. Star. Here comes a star. Or a six. Ooh!

What's your slime? Do you have any slime? One. Two. Five. It's okay. Oh, good. We're not going to make it. There's no way.

We're not going to make it. Three. Oh! Look at that! Perfect! Why does it got to creep like that? I hate it so much. The sound is so bad! Toby, as you get jettisoned off of the back of Nugget.

We all went on that one. We jumped harder than we had any right to, goddamn it. I knew it. Why right jump scares when you can just have Don't Wake Daddy? It wasn't me that did it. Why write jump scares when you can just have to awake Denny? It wasn't me that did it. Tsh, tsh, tsh, tsh. You land right next to Drudy

as he's sleeping on his side and he goes, and reaches out towards you, trying to grab you. I jam the glass bottle that's broken into his eye. Make a fierce roll. I'm so glad I gave it to him. That is a six. You miss his eye, but you do clip just his cheek just a little bit.

Ah! No! First blood! Over here! I run over and try to jump on Judy to protect Toby. Make a quick check. First blood. Nice! Jump on Drudy to protect Toby! Make a quick check. Nice! Okay, you come flying in. You scoop him up underneath of you. Unfortunately, though, Ural's presence is known.

Yeah. And Drudy goes, I'm fighting him. The blink dog, and tries to grab and go for his own net to get you. No, I want to try to knock Judy over. Make a fierce check as he's, you have a little bit of a moment as he's turning. 10! He

as he trips him. No! Is he face-facing me or is he ass-facing me? He's now ass-facing you. I'm going right for the butt with this bottle again. Yes, go off, Toby. Make another fierce check. Oh, that's a three. I go, crab battle, and I just rip this.

What happens? So once again, you miss entirely and just scuff the bottom of his sandal. Now that he's popped up and doing all this stuff, could I look over and see him and really try and hustle in this cage with the three birds inside of it? Yeah. Sure.

You used your spell, though, right? I'm still using my crinkled ass tail, but it's not quite working as well. Can I carry some of the baby cubs? Can Joanne carry a baby cub? Yeah, you can do that. Yeah, you can hand them off, yeah. Are they bigger than me?

Oh, stop! Make a clever check. That was so impressive. Thank you. Soft and simple. It's three. Nope. Unfortunately, all the commotion has completely startled you.

You are now entirely distracted as one of those assistants that was coming back around goes, You! Sorry, butch! Again! And is coming at you with a net. I need everybody to take a point of stress for all of the shenanigans that have happened in this moment.

Shit is hitting the fan. What are you doing? There's an assistant going for you with a net. I took a point for both of those misses earlier, right? Just take one point. Can I leap for the net and try to get it and pick it up in my mouth while Judy is knocked over?

You're trying to tug of war? Yeah, go make a fierce check. Mm, you hit a four. No, unfortunately, they go, you mangy mutt, and try and come at you. You have one last chance to dodge this net coming down on top of you. Jesus.

Can I try? Yes, you can. Okay, you bamf back to the bushes that you were previously investigating and are now stuck in a web of bramble, but you are not caught. Drudy does manage to grab his net and he's coming. He actually doesn't even have a net.

He misses that and goes for a knife because he once crabbed for dinner and he's coming back at you. I'm going to use my Butterfingers ability, my magic ability, to, as he grabs the knife and turns back, I leap and just go right for the groin. Oh! Make him drop that knife.

No! He absolutely drops the knife. It goes and clambers onto the ground. I let go and run over and pick up the knife. And now I'm a crab with a knife. Oh shit. I've seen that video. As you should be.

Oh yeah, I have. We just got a lot of stuff. You now have a crab with a knife. You have two baby cubs. The other androgynous human is coming after you with a net. Oh, that's cute. However, and I use Conjure Slit.

Conjure Slit? Get out of here. Slip! Slip falls directly on the tailbone, and you just hear. It's broken. Good, get out. Get out of here. I have a bruised tailbone right now.

Oh my god, do you really? It's literally the worst. It's so awful. The other halfling that was trying to go for Nugget now has no idea where this blink dog just went, but looks up and sees you. I would say by this point, the fog has started to dissipate,

and you are now exposed. Want to say it? They wonder if they do, but they're going to go for you. Fire! You pull your spell. Oh! Make a, you're just doing a spell?

I'm just doing a spell. It's not like a huge bout of fire, but it's like if you took a little hairspray, it burns the eyebrows. They're totally distracted. It's not a huge bout of fire, but it's like if you took a little hairspray. Hairspray? Burns the eyebrows. They're totally distracted. Drudy has you hanging from his balls. I've released them, but I have the knife now.

Okay, he's still incapacitated for the moment. Crabbed to the balls. You're going to take him in. That's good. The other human? Now that Joanne has blown fire at this person, can I hand off them to Joanne, or should I try to hide? You all have this brief moment of where they're all in intense, searing pain.

I hand off the baby to Joanne. Joanne's got the baby. You got both babies? I don't think I can hand them both. I think a tiger cub is probably my size. Absolutely, I would say make a... Yep. No, just one!

Just one? Just one! Just one! Make a quick check to see if you can actually still fly with these. Oh. No! For... Poof, poof, poof. Oh no!

Moments after you hang them up. Mom, baby. Mom? Mom? Me now! You're my mom? Okay, okay. Ugh, the two assistants. One starts to stand up

and tries to stumble and grab his net. Can I get out of the bramble? Can I try to get out of the bramble? Is this the one I tripped earlier? Yes. Slowly. I take the bucket and swing. Make a fierce check. Yeah! I'm fighting back, baby. Slowly. I take the bucket and swing. Make a fierce check. Yes!

I'm fighting back, baby. Hit this bitch. A seven, eight. Absolutely. As he's doing that moment where he's just going on all fours, and as he plants firmly, his right hand, it gets knocked right out from under him. He is back on his ass.

Yep, come on, let's go. Nugget, you're trying to bamf again? I'm just, yeah, sure. I just want to get out of this bush. Thank you. Just so you know. Nugget. That's how you do it. Nugget.

Yeah? Not only do you get out of the bush, poof, poof, you are now into the entrance of this trailhead going into the jungle. Oh yes. Evade it! You can probably grab.

I need everybody else to make a quick check as the, just, Drudy and the assistants are starting to rally. Nine. Oh yeah. Golden. Golden! 12, actually. 10! Six.

Good enough with everybody else. Once again, Clap grabs you, scoops you up. She's got you. We got to go. I look at the three birds and I'm like, I'm sorry, I'll be back for you. Wait, no! She's going to go!

Ah! No! Caged in their own shit. Oh no, poor birds. You all bolt into the entrance of this forest, finally making it to the safety of the jungle canopy. Oh god. The loud ruckus of the town fading even more as you start to hear tropical birds and insects

and frogs filling the air. The rays of the setting sun, sorry, go ahead. Oh, I enjoy it. So I start to caress Joanne and the baby cubs. Oh, yes, you now have these beautiful baby cubs. I'm trying to calm you down, because that was a lot. A lot of stress happening. Baby cubs.

It's true. The baby cubs start to scooch into you as they nuzzle you. I take two of the legs. Oh. You're a bit ticklish. I didn't know we were going to be picking up extras. Well, it'd be like that. Well, Trish just left.

She could have been helpful. You just let her go. She's just out. Mm, bougie. I know I didn't like peacocks. The setting sun starts to pierce its last light of the day through the jungle canopy. It starts to light up. Wait, was this right?

No, it was right. Yeah. It starts to light up and almost change it to technicolor colors, pinks and oranges and hues that are bouncing off of the freshly moist leaves, almost reflecting, giving it this almost psychedelic feel to it. And that is where we're going to take our break.

Oh! We're in the jungle! In the jungle! Welcome to the jungle. Plus two. With our babies. Plus the twins. All right, you guys. We'll be back in a moment to see what happens with this familiar problem.

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You all have made it to the safety of the jungle. A little bit of mist is starting to fill the air as the temperature continues to cool off. As you look up, you pretty much only see green light coming through. With what light is left of the day? What do you all do? We should set up a camp. Dance party.

You want to camp? Camp dance party. Camp dance party. I can't stop it. I got to lighten up. I just dragged two tigers across the road. And we thank you. And we thank you.

Thank you. I think a little relaxation, maybe to decompress. Okay. Some stress. Would be lovely. Put the knife down. Why? You're starting to, can I have the knife? Can I have the knife?

Do you know how to use one of those? Look at him and me. I grab the knife with three tentacles wrapped around it. But he's still holding onto it. It's kind of hot. Sounds like a tattoo. I'm just holding Toby. What was the question? You clearly are capable with a.

What was the question? I forget. I put Toby down, but keep the knife. Oh, shut up. Octopus has everything. Just in case it gets too crazy. I mean, maybe we should give them that. I mean, those claws don't look like they pinch that hard, do they?

I'm used to using what the Wild Mother gave me. Ah! Take a point of stress. Oh shit! Everybody has got to take it down a notch. I put the knife in the bucket. You know where I said if you need it. Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Mistress. But if you get too stressed out, I'm going to watch you. Holds the bucket close. I'm stiffing the Holds bucket close. I'm stiffing the bushes for some mice. Oh, the mice are still around. Make another Clever Trek. That's what I made you roll before, right? The Dyed.

Ooh. What? That's a great roll. Can I notice the dog is looking for something? You may, yeah. Oh, it looks going, I'm intrigued. I take three tentacles, I'm like, hmm. Okay. My non-existent chimp.

As you look pensively over, as the tentacles just slap your face, Nugget, you do start to pick up on the trail of three magical blind mice. It does seem like they bolted towards the woods. She can smell. They smell blind. Talons. Talons of magic.

She gets this amazing vision. It's like a hologram. It's like Tupac standing in front of her, but in her brain. I was there. Were you really there? I was there. We got to talk later. I want to know. I was there. Coachella? Yes. Coachella.

Coachella? That's how they call it. Coachella. Coachella. Coachella. Coachella. Coachella. Coachella. Nugget, you continue, and you can smell what appears to be a little bit of a hint of arcane

with that unmistakable smell of rodent, a little bit of a hint of arcane with that unmistakable smell of rodent, a little bit of pee, a little bit of that weird eucalyptus smell, as it trails you through the forest. Do you keep going? Yeah. Okay. Oh, Jesus. Keep going closer. You start to hear the unmistakable sound of water,

a waterfall starting to rush through. Oh jeez. The sound of blindness. Is Nugget still with him, I saw him? You watch as Nugget continues, and it's just starting to push through the thick undergrowth of the jungle, and it's starting to get out of view. Okay, I slowly move slightly that way.

Just a little stutter step, almost. Mm-hmm. So I can just stay in view. So I want to see what's happening, and I remove one of the legs from my face, but the other two are still going. Okay, so as you continue to, you take that third leg and you just part the foliage a bit

so you get a little bit of a better view. What's going on over here? As you part and as you, you can also roll a clever check for me. Ooh, and I got a plus three on that hand. Hopefully watch me get a three. I called it if it happened. Did you already take all your stress down, or are you good?

No, my stress has not been taken down. No one cares about that. Oh, a 10. Oh! So you continue to see the, and you can see the drooling, the trail of drool. Oh jeez. It's a little unkept booty fur that's got a few dingleberries

hanging off the back of it. I'll wipe you later. You, and your eye trains up and you also start to pick up the sound of the waterfall. And you actually see in the distance a little bit of a stream, as well as what almost appears to be a tiny hovel.

What is that hovel there? He's like, what's that? I don't want to, Toby! Yeah! What's that hovel over there? What do you think that is? What is that? It takes me about two minutes to get to you

because I'm a crab. Hell. That looks like a hovel. What's usually in hovels? People. You think people fit in hovels? Do you think they need somebody to be their familiar? Probably. You might want to go check it out.

I might go over to the house and see. But first, let me just rub your shell. Oh, fuck. Calm. You okay? Yeah. It's right under that one, it's like this little part in between the shell where there's a little bit of exposure.

I'm getting right there. I will say, I'll allow, in this moment of calmness and with the loving touch of clap, and it really is, and the soft feel of the jungle around you, you can all remove one point of strength. Oh yeah. And this is the last thing I give you.

The protagonist here is helping the carry. The carry. Just wanted to point that out. helping the carry. The carry. Just wanted to point that out. Comfort carry. Then you, the three of you. My mistress. You continue and you also nugget as you're sniffing on this, hot on the trail.

I'm gnawing on my leg right now, but definitely hot on the trail. I love it. As you look over, you also see what appears to be, it looks like a hollowed out tree trunk that has snapped at the bottom third of the tree, and the rot and the growth and the entropy of the forest

is slowly starting to reclaim this log. It's hollowed out, but something's living in it now. You can see silken banners that look like they're streamed off the front of it, as well as little hanging bones and drying herbs in the front of this hollowed out log. Only Nugget sees this? The three of you can now see it.

You two are considerably further. You are closer. I'm walking towards it. Can I grab Toby and throw him? Sure. I give Toby the knife and throw Toby towards the log. Oh, thanks. I got to keep my distance. Make a fierce check.

But I also walk slowly as well, because I want to get up close, but I don't want to be the first to get there. It's a saunter chuckle. Very much so. Ooh, 11. Switching to this die was lovely. Yeah, no joke.

Toby, you just cartwheel. I'm like, yes! Twirl, sis, twerk, sis, get it, get it, get it. He death drops. Stuck to that dagger. Right next to Nugget. Just all seven, except for the one holding the bucket. Nugget is, you're chewing on your ass,

on your hind leg, and then right in the mud. Get it, get it, get it, get it. Hi, Toby. I have a knife. There's a bones. And the two of you, you just watch half of your party wander off into the forest.

I'm sponsoring over slowly. As the last thing that you see clearing the foliage is Clapp as just a single tentacle pulls away and the leaves go, hiding them. Sometimes you got to let them wander off. Not jelly. Jelly.

You know what I'm saying? I should've known. You know what I'm saying? I should've known. Are you saying that you got to give them a longer leash? Aren't you worried that, what's that? Cigar? Oh my, take it. I've never. Oh, I'm not there. I've never. You're too busy throwing me.

Do I just, I just. I just shot put over here. I hear that. What's happening back there? Make a fierce check, because that's funny. Four. No, not great. Your little days, things go a little fuzzy.

You feel nauseous. That was great. I feel awesome. Worst feeling ever. I feel nauseous. That was great. I feel awesome. Worst feeling ever. I feel ting. I'm trying to see if you can go to sleep. If it's possible. You want me to sleep?

I don't need it to happen. I'm just wondering if you can. Oh, I'm capable of... I'm capable of... I'm capable of... Oh my god. When was the last time I slept? When was the last time you slept? I don't know. That answers so much.

That's probably it. That's true. You definitely are not well. No, I'm not. Okay, I didn't mean for this to become that. Okay, the dams were out. They also have the tiger cubs with them as well. They do. Oh shit. The tiger cubs are curled up.

They're a little exhausted. They were nicely soothed by Clapp, and they're curled up in a little tiger ball, and they're passed out for the moment. You know, maybe I'll try and find a dead mouse or something for the babies. We're going to go hunting? Well, I'm not much of a hunter.

More of just if it's around. Oh, oh, we're going to look for carrion? I could pick it up. Scavenge? You know. We could set a trap. If it's within five yards. Oh.

Probably not going to go further than that. Yeah. If you want to, you can. No, no, yeah, this is good. We should exercise our paternal instincts. Try and find something to feed the baby predator cats. Yeah. I'm camouflaging with the jungle, by the way.

Okay. So we all know. You shift to nice green leafy textures. Great, beautiful. What do you think? Are we going to keep them or are we going to let them go? Should we kill them? Should we kill the baby tigers? Is this a terrible idea to have them around?

Well, I'm just wondering where, if we, I'm just thinking, I don't know if they're safer with us or without us. I don't know. I don't either. I feel a cold shiver down my non-existent spine. Your maternal instincts. I'm a cold shiver down my nonexistent spine. Your maternal instincts. I'm like, what's going on? I turn back around and make my way back to camp.

Ooh! I'm climbing up the tree trunk to get the bone chimes down, so you start hearing scrambling from the other direction. I can't be in two places. Yeah, you're so much responsibility. Why do I have to do this? Why don't we let one go and keep the other? We got two.

Should we ask them? No, because think of the story. They'll find each other again in 10 years, long lost siblings. It'd be fucking great. This is so much pressure now. You just, that parting palm leaves, once again, just to peek through.

True siblings, separated by a jungle in an ocean of time. I know, but this one makes me feel worse. Okay. About this time, you all hear echoing throughout the jungle, Ha! Wayward travelers, I see.

Oh! Oh good, the jungle's starting. What the hell is that? Nugget, you hear it the loudest. Oh, the dog hears. Right there, right as you rip down what looks to be a chicken wing. Oh.

Chicken wing, chicken wing. Come, come now. Don't be shy. Okay. Can we hear this? You can hear this as well. It almost, you're not entirely sure if it's surrounding you or in your head. Maybe a little bit of both. Maybe it's just the way the sound

is bouncing off of the canopy. It's hard to both. Maybe it's just the way the sound is bouncing off of the canopy. It's hard to tell. I hold my tail down for Toby so he can climb up on top of me so he can look into the window. Knife in the other claw, hit and vault myself up onto your back. You look in,

into this tiny little hollowed out tree trunk. Oh god. It's got circular holes carved into the side You look in, into this tiny little hollowed out tree trunk. Thank god! It's got circular holes carved into the side with makeshift windows, not glass in there. Inside, you can see rainbow-colored, phosphorescent mushrooms growing from the decaying exterior. And in the center is a rotund, ancient-looking bullfrog,

whose droopy physique nearly fills the bow-like interior of this hollowed-out tree trunk. Behind it, a haphazard thatch awning. It's loosely arranged over top of it, making a makeshift roof. Yeah. Are you? Is this your house?

Yeah. It's been quite some time that I've had any youngsters visit me. Please, why don't you gather the others? I could use a little company. Oh, yes. Can we still? We can't hear that part, can we?

You can all hear this. So now it's not a hypothetical. Oh, Jesus. Either we let the tagging cubs stay here or we bring them towards. To eat whatever that is. I part the leaves. See, y'all thought y'all was going to leave the babies?

Okay. Yeah, I see y'all thought y'all was going to just leave the babies. Who would leave babies in a jungle? What are you, crazy? Who would leave babies? You would never do that. What thought y'all was going to just leave the babies. Who would leave babies in a jungle? What are you, crazy? Who would leave babies? What are y'all doing? What was y'all talking about?

Looking out for their best interest and well-being. How so? You know, we're giving them names. What are they? Chimbo? Lies. Say them at the same time. On the count of three.

One, two, three. Shudder. Shudder. I'll Sharpton. I let the leaves come back. How dare, what? Take, let's try it again. What's their name on three? One, two, three.

Jesus Christ. Not you. Maybe, maybe. Possibly. I wasn't done naming them yet. One, two, three. Perfume. Oh, you suck.

Give my babies. Give my babies. Oh, you still have the knife now. Are you scooping up the tigers and bringing them with you? You want the w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w The voice. Get my babies. I'm getting them. I'm waiting. We're coming, Miss Gory. Well, let's not. She rushing us.

Hey guys, there's a toad friend over here that wants to say hi. I don't want to see it. It's a toad. I think it's a toad. I think it's coming, come on. Are you a toad? I am.

Some call me a bullfrog, but people around these parts call me Frog-a-Yaga. Oh my god. Don't you think? No! It's a bit silly if you ask me, but who am I to rob the denizens of their froggy tails? Oh!

It's Froggy Yaga! You're not close enough to see it. Froggy Yaga. But if you want to take a look. No. I'll go up, I want to take a look. They seem really nice. Yep. I guess we start making our way. And they have chicken a run. They seem really nice. Yep.

I guess we start making our way. And they have chicken! All right, we're making our way. Joanne and Anson. Show it. They're holding the babies. All right, Sprinkle said he's coming. I'm coming! Joanne. I hate this. Are you taking the babies? I'll go.

All right. Okay, listen, Tiger. You can breathe. You'll be fine. Tiger, listen. Listen to me, baby. Wake up. Wake up. None.

Okay. I'm your mom. None. When you, okay. Only word they know. Wake up. We're going to see if, uh, we're gonna... Listen.

Yeah. Keep that in mind. It's okay. You should have fed them. No. I'm saying that. Actually, no. Leave them hungry in case they need to eat a frog. Mm-hmm.

The babies are eating frog legs tonight. I'm just saying that. Actually, no, leave them hungry in case they need to eat a frog. Mm-hmm. Your baby's reading Frog Legs tonight. Oh. Oh shit, we're going like that. Cannibalism. Joanne, you... I don't know what's eating animals. That's a cannibal, is that cannibalism? No. I don't think so.

That's all right. I don't think so. No, that's not how that works. There's a whole lot of predators in the animal kingdom that would like to have a lot of predators in the animal kingdom that would like to have a conversation with you. I'm an animal also. I'm an animal as a dinosaur.

To be fair, a lot of them do, actually. This is dino DNA. That's animals. Dino DNA. I'm sure there's other animals that eat a baby. I don't know. I'm not an expert on the animal kingdom. I'm just an octopus. Hey. That's true.

All seven legs, hey. Just like, hey. Just shuffle a pod over there. I'm just an octopus. Hey. That's true. All seven legs, hey. Yeah, shuffle apart over there. I'm just an octopus. Just a panda. I don't know how everyone operates. Joanne, you are the caboose of this train as you all begin to circle around Fraga Yaga's hut.

As you all get closer, you can see dried and bound grasshoppers hanging from strips of bark, almost resembling strings of garlic. Nugget instantly consumes pretty much all of them. Oh no. I'm going to save none for the babies. Behind the frog.

I'm going to bird it over there. I put it back in your mouth. Behind this bulbous frog with discoloration across her face and little froggy warts, you see a delicate woven spiderweb that has fireflies seemingly deliberately and evenly placed,

creating this beautiful mesh of flickering light that is framing behind her. Do you want to take a look? Yeah. You focus in, wondering if they are alive, and you notice that the fireflies all have their mouths bound by spider silk and look terrified.

You also notice, and as Joanne starts to get a little bit closer, specifically looking for the legs, that Fraga Yaga appears to be missing one leg. It's a little hard to tell, but as she rotates around in her hut, you can see she appears to have one that's been replaced with

what looks like a chicken leg bone. Oh! Froggy Yaga. Oh, she was hungry. Mm. How big is this lady? This Froggy Yaga. Yaga.

Froggy Yaga. You see the cute little tree frogs? Yeah, those. This is like one. This is a frog. This is a toad. This is one of those big-ass bullfrogs. It's not massive, but I guess.

It's probably not the size of this mug, though. Tiger baby. Yeah, yeah. Compared to Sprinkle, she's probably sporting half, or maybe his body weight. Okay, tiger belly. Oh, we can take him. We can take Frogger Yaga, hopefully. Hopefully he won't come back.

Is this an out loud thought? No, this is an inside thought. Okay. Why are you talking out loud again? Good morning. Come. Come now. Would you like to entertain old Fraga Yaga

and let me give you your fortune? I'm not in the entertainment business. I'm sorry. Oh! Hey, guys, I don't think she's a nice lady. No. No. Should we just leave?

Because there's a lot of little bugs inside there that look really sad. We should go. That'll be my fortune. Toby! You see, don't be sad, child. These fireflies, they know the penance they pay.

Oh, so they owe you. Where does the penance? Maybe you'll find out. What they owe you? What they owe you? What you do? What kind of services? I want to know. I need resumes. You can say I am a guardian of the jungle. Tiger baby.

There's a serious issue with privatized spider web incarceration. That's fair. It's a sociological issue on a large scale. Fully against that. Tiger baby. It's a serious issue with privatized spider web incarceration. That's fair. It's a sociological issue on a large scale. Fully against that. Tiger baby, wake up. I see you picked up food along the way. Excuse me?

Goodbye! Food? Food? I stand up on all seven legs. Excuse me? Food? Ah, do not take offense. Oh, I'm not taking it. I'm just moving my baby's load, hold up. Tis the natural balance.

You look to be a survivor as you are quite far from home, aren't you? Home is where I lay my tentacles. You will go far. I don't want no fortune. I don't know what you're going to do. I don't want no fortune, so don't try to suck me in. But Toby says he wanted one.

Yeah, can I have a fortune? No. Ew. Uh-oh. Now you're being rude, all right? He clearly said he wanted his fortune. You're ignoring him. Everyone always ignores me.

Yogg-A-Yogg has enough time and attention for everyone. Baby. Baby? Wake up! Stop trying to turn my baby into a cannibal. Okay, all right. Me and Carmen, our fortunes. There's something special about you.

Oh. Girl! She's fully lost it. I see a light behind your eyes. I've heard that before. A destiny this one has. Are you stuck in there? In the destiny?

Maybe. Maybe it's wrong. While I have most certainly grown to the comfort of my environment. When she says environment, can I start looking around and searching for things? Yeah, are you trying to do this noticeably, or? Slick. Yeah, are you trying to be subtle about it?

Of course I'm trying to be slick. I'm like, what's going on here? Make a sly check. Okay, well, I should've said clever then. Four. Not very sly. She's got a lot of clutter around here. She's definitely been here for a hot minute,

so it's kind of hard to even tell what the fuck is going on. She's a hoarder, y'all. She's a bit of a hoarder. Buried alive. Don't make me knock it over. She got cards. Who wants old Fraga Yaga? How'd your leg get like this? I see you noticed.

I was talking about the other one. You were the one talking about that one. I was talking about the regular one. I'll make you a deal. I didn't say that. Wake up! Wake up! What kind of thing are you proposing?

Baby! Wake up! Smell the chicken! Fraga Yaga tells you your fortune, and then Fraga Yaga tells you how I lost this leg. Oh. That sounds like a fair try. Never make a deal with someone in a hut! I'm pretty sure it was the other way around. Never make a deal with someone in a hut!

They're going to take your eyes! What's wrong with the size of that deck? Are you shitting me? I mean, compared to the frog size, that's a normal-sized one. Oh, yeah. You, eager one. Cut the deck.

You, reckless one. Reckless, yep. Cut the deck. You reckless one. Reckless, yep. Cut the deck. I didn't agree to the ass. They're shredded. Go, go, go, go. Good cut for a craft. The cards are ruined.

Jeez, I ain't got shit. I don't have very good dexterity, okay? That's all I know, man. All right, I'm going to go. All right, mistress. Now I should tell you, with so many strong beings and energies, the cards may tell the fortune for all of you. It seems you have already formed quite the bond.

That's something that works for me. Oh no, I just met the, oh no. I love you. I love you guys. I just met them this morning, actually. I don't know. You cannot deny. I've been with you for years. Destiny.

Let us look into your past. Yo, Gabba Gabba, I didn't ask for this. Okay. Who is that? Who is she? The Pervy Deer. The Pervy Deer? What the fuck did you just say?

Pringle! That's not what it says. She can't read. The lava. She has no idea what I'm talking about. The pervy deer. This is not necessarily a bad card, despite how fucking pervy that deer is.

The deer? I could see their e-coil. Oh, there's the deer. Oh, because the deer is looking up there. Okay, we're the animal. We're familiars, y'all. Yep. Uh-huh. Pervy deer, okay. Can Joanne just back out of the hut with the babies?

Are we in the hut, or are we all around the hut? On to Joanne and go with Joanne slowly? You're like, you come up to the hut and it's this concave tree trunk that's got the front of it open. So she's sitting in this tree trunk and you guys are in a semicircle on the threshold. But there's also nice little canopies,

so you're definitely in her area. Sprinkle. What are those people doing? Joanne's backing away, and I join. I slowly walk behind Joanne. I saw the red lady that we're at. I saw her doing that. I saw her doing that.

Mortal Kombat. Yeah, I think it's some kind of wrestling or like... Sometimes they fight so viciously, they yell and they scream, and then things start shooting all over the place. Been there. Ain't that right, Joann? Yes.

Joann had me inked one night, honey. I can see the wise ones of the group, compared to those who are still embarking on their journey, compared to those who are still embarking on their journey. But, if irony may have it, you sort of told your own fortune. You are on a new path, a path of discovery. We're all going to fuck?

I have enough legs. That is all going to fuck. I have enough legs. That is for you to discover. I have enough legs for everyone. Present. Ah. But what is she? Uh-oh. That was nice. Pierce, you proved.

No, the perfect rabbit. The rabbit and the murder baby. Love the murder baby. Moves away from the tiger. Wake up and murder baby. You see, the path you walk is treacherous. Filled with horrors. Like that fucking naked child

who's definitely showing signs of a future serial killer. Darling, you're being pretty vague, so if you're expecting payment after this, it's not going to happen. No. Fraga Yaga's payment is simply your company. But your destiny is comprised of the past, present, and the future.

One second, please. What happens if you tell us the future? Because I have not co-signed to nothing yet. I just want to make sure that that is clear, Miss Graw. You and your chicken leg. The future has not yet been written. That is for you to determine. So what's the point of this?

Can I just walk out before you put this card down? I'm fine. The cop said she was totally in, no matter what happens. Let the cards tell you. What's this? You pulled the unlucky fox card. Sounds about right. Sounds about right.

We are going to fuck. Unlucky fox. We are going to fuck. A lucky fuck. I ink a little bit. This is a sign of imminent evil. Sheer terror resides in your future. Oh well. Okay. Are you done with that chicken leg? The one that's my leg?

No! Okay. It's very much in use. But do you need it? You don't seem like a guy that gets around a lot. Yo, Gabigab, what you do? You all will walk to your doom if you are not careful.

Oh well. You and you. I knew there was something off about you. Gay gasp. What is it? You have the stench of the Harbinger. What, rabies? Sounds about right.

Absolutely. The Harbinger of Screams has been in your presence. The Harbinger of Screams. The Harbinger of Screams. Oh, muscle. No, not a heel. In all my years,

the entity, the only one who can inflict as much pain and destruction sundering the lives of thousands across these lands, you wanted to know why I have this chicken bone for a leg. Did the Harbingers, the Scraves eat your leg? Yes. So you have this chicken leg

so this dog can eat this chicken leg today? No, not a dog. Is that what I gathered from this? I thought we were rid of him. And giant people came and locked him away in his own prison, hauled him in a beast-drawn cart far from here. I heard rumor he broke free.

This reading confirms it. The Harbinger of Screams has returned to this wood. He goes by many names. AKA the Verminator. AKA the Talon of Asmodeus. Yes, that's hot. AKA the bird of prey to the Wild Mother. He doesn't find you.

I sure do. And recently. Yeah, yeah. A new name. Professor Thaddeus. The crab could pucker. My ink hull pucker for you. We know Professor Thaddeus.

Oh, that's what you mean we've seen him? Yes. Oh, y'all know this person? What's wrong? Who is this person? He's an owl that talks a lot. An owl? Yeah. And a professor?

That sounds like they get a lot of tutelage. And smart. Yeah, he thinks he's way smarter than he is, though. Or a lot of... Tutelage. Tutelage. I don't get it. I ink a little bit, but I giggle.

Wait. Did Professor Thaddeus hit? No, no, not sure. Professor Thaddeus hit your leg? Yes. I had a run-in with him many a year ago, trying to protect this forest. Many lives were lost that day.

I was lucky to get away. But I'm confused. I thought you were a bad guy. Perceptions aren't always what they seem, my dear. Perhaps not make judgments on first impressions. What do you mean you said that? I've been nothing but nice to you, Miss. I have been quite judgmental. I have been nothing but nice to you,

and I will apologize if you prove me wrong. I'll still eat one of those cubs if you want to get rid of one. You know we were sort of talking about it. It's surprising that you read our minds like that. But if she eats one. It's baby blood. They can't reunite, like you said.

Oh, it ruins the storyline? It ruins the storyline. Sorry, the rights have been sold. It also did my babies. The IP is no longer available. Spoken for, sorry. They also my babies. Y'all just over here having a conversation about my babies?

They called me mama. Oh, oh, Joanne, we're not doing this. They retained representation. I'm sorry, mama. Don't make me put this bucket down. Don't make me put this bucket down. Don't make me put this bucket down. It will not be pretty. If you were wise. Would you like some water?

Yes. Don't drink that. Don't drink that. Don't drink that. Just see your tongue whip out towards it. What'd you do with that tongue, girl? I got around in my youth. You ever use that on an ink hole? You seem like the type.

You know where I live now. Oh, yeah, so I'll be back. Me and Joanne. Anybody. Just anybody. We fucking anybody. You ain't never had that complaint, Joanne. I've been alone for a long time.

I hear you. Joanne's just not putting down like they used to. I need my warning. Listen to the prophecy. I rush for you to get out of this jungle unless he finds you. Follow this stream. If you keep following it down,

it will release you to the beach. Well, since you've been so kind, I give you some bones. You've been so kind. I see you like bones. I'll give you these. You've been so kind. I see you like bones. I see you like bones. She goes, I'll give you these. You've been very kind to us. Froggy Yaga likes bones. Those were in my mouth and also in my throat

and also in my stomach, but they came back out. Even more potent. Yeah, yeah. In exchange for your kindness. She hobbles over and cracks off a few of the mushrooms. Yeah. Oh. To all of you.

Thank you. I'm totally the best. Go trip some balls. I would totally eat those immediately. I keep them away from Nuggethaw, because Nuggethget's a little mysterious. So then you're just a blinked dog tripping balls in the forest. We have some, I hand everyone else a mushroom,

except for Nugget. I hold onto Nugget. Oh! Well, you don't have hands. A mysterious mushroom. I'm on. To your house. I don't know. No, freak out!

He's in here! Roll a Fierce check. Oh, Jesus. I'm Fierce! We're already in the fight. Fuck! Thrill! You owe! Oh, that's equal to the number of stress that I have. That's okay, right? Yeah. Equals fine. That's okay, right?

Equals fine. You do take a point of stress from this. Oh no. As. It's okay. Your throat starts to swell a little. That's okay! from this as dun dun, dun dun. It's okay. Your throat starts to swell a little. It's okay! No.

Your stomach starts to turn. It feels like when you took a hit of that cigar, but worse. You barf. Aw! And it's rainbows. Oh shit! Is it rain rainbows. Oh shit! Is it rainbows to all of us?

No. Look at the pose! I wake up and barf. Oh! That was shit. Make a fierce check. Taste the rainbow! Oh no. Taste the rainbow!

Oh no. I can close the door. That's a four. Take a point of stress. Y'all stressed me out. As the soft palate, the roof of your mouth starts to go numb, and you just drool. You start foaming at the mouth a little bit. Gravy. You look like Gravy's.

I got it. Jesus. I'm not done. I'm not done. I'm not done. So let's not put anything else in our mouths for a while. Never thought I'd say that. Thank you, Yo Gabba Gabba. Oh no! Sprinkle.

Sprinkle. Are you about to barf, too? No. It dribbles out as you say that. I move my bucket out the way because I don't want my bucket to go. It's not a barf bucket. Chum bucket. I'm okay. You got it in. You got it in.

That was very much that moment when it comes up just enough and then goes back down. Been there. Sprinkle. The jungle starts to swirl. Oh, we going on a trip? Well, let me pop one, too. The leaves start to blend together,

almost like they're being sewn into this kaleidoscope of a tapestry. It's a lot. As you think, take me home. Country roads. Uh-oh, bye-bye. Thank you.

You black out. Just a switch in your brain. He went to sleep! The rest of you see, as Sprinkle goes to sleep, his eyes gloss over Cloudy, and he just goes, and is frozen. Oh, it's dead. As you hear, emanating from his mouth,

Hello, adorable mangy critters. Yes, look, this weasel is deeply important. Surprising, I know. But he really needs to be reunited with his owner, Jester. So if you all could please escort him safely to the docks, really needs to be reunited with his owner, Jester. So if you all could please escort him safely to the docks, that would be phenomenal. You'll all get a reward. Ooh, I love a reward.

You'll get a biscuit or something. I don't know. I don't know how animals work. All right, move along now. Chop, chop. And you're back. I love biscuits. Oh, that's all you got from that? I slept forever. That was the best power nap I've ever had.

How was that for you? Let's all form a company or something. You're taking the world, what? You can't form a company. She likes companies. That was the gift that she wanted to take from us. So if we don't form one, she can't take it from us. Good thinking, Tobi.

That's a wild extrapolation, but fortunes are up to your interpretation, I guess. We got to get to the docks. Yes. We got to go to the docks? Yeah, Jester needs you back. What? Why? No, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, you're important.

What do you mean? No, no, no, no, no, no! Yeah, you're important. What do you mean? No, I mean, Jester's fine. She's really sweet, but man, she goes to fucked up places. No, like, wait, what do you mean? Look at us. We robbed a car earlier. You turned into an intercom. An intercom. An intercom. Is that like a snake?

We were promised biscuits to bring you back. But I don't even like the biscuits. I'm going to pick up Sprinkle and my valve and start walking towards the water. Ah! Nugget and Sprinkle are heading downstream. We did want to go to the water. Ugh, the water. Let's not go to the water.

We don't have to get too close. We'll just follow along the river and then we'll get to the beach and we'll just stay in the same. And then we can retire. to the water. We don't have to get too close. We'll just follow along the river and then we'll get to the beach and we'll just stay in the sand. And then we can retire. At the water. But what about the babies? The babies? What about the babies?

I don't know. Wake up! Ah! No! Where do you want to go? Chewing on your finger a little. Where do you want to go? Bedwing on your finger a little. Where do you want to go? I don't know. You want to eat this frog?

Not your Gabba Gabba. Gabba Gabba. Do you want to go to the water? Fyd. They're your kids. Yeah, I have to find, if we're going, I'm going to have to find something to eat for the babies before we go.

If you wish, yes. I was going to ask if you have anything for these. You can't eat them. We care about them. I promise not to eat them. However, these are jungle cats. This is their native environment, and we are always looking for stalwart protectors

of the forest. They could protect the forest, but they need to be raised. Someone has to raise them. Is there someone in here that could raise them? It takes a village. I, Froggyaga. Can watch them and if you wish. And not to eat!

And not to eat! Not really. Because if a piece of my baby is missing when I get back, we brawling. I believe in you. You must stop the Harbinger of Screams. I am the protagonist, I shall prop up. You have my word.

I think we can leave the babies with you. They will be safe for at least 48 hours. I can promise that. What happens after 48 hours? It's the jungle, baby! Chicks on a swivel. You already know that the murder baby's one of these spaces, maybe.

Those fucking murder babies. Are you guys coming or what? Oh my goodness. Should we rest first and then go? They're gone. That's the answer, okay. Well, I guess we don't really have a choice. Let's go.

You all trek through the jungle, desperately racing against the last fading sunlight. Follow the directions Fraga Yaga gave you, and you sense that the dense jungle foliage is starting to lighten up, it's starting to part. And eventually it gives way, just in time, as the sun begins to go down. And you can see the stream,

and in the distance where it dumps out into the ocean. Just beyond that, even further, are the docks of the open quay. Your destination is in sight, but the only way to get there is to cross the stream. At this point, you've made your way along to the, you've followed along the stream as long as you could.

But now you're at a pinch point with jungle behind you, stream in front of you, and a waterfall with a cliff as the water pours out towards the beach. Across the river, a downed log has fallen. You can see that if you can cross across this river, a downed log has fallen. You can see that if you can cross across this log, that the cliff isn't as steep on this side and has a pretty smooth path to get you to the ocean. However.

Mm. Bad word. The rapids are strong and the water, the log is quite rotten. Yes, yes. And waterlogged. Amazing. What is this? Fucking amazing.

What is this? I still, can I out-scrim the water? We're going to find out. Oh my gosh. You know what I was thinking? What could be the worst thing? Professor Thaddeus always liked looking at those mice in the cage, remember how much he wanted to eat them?

I bet he's going to try to eat those blind mice. I bet they're probably dead now. Before we cross the stream, can we just all take a second and just really calm down, you know? Might help improve our life. Do you need help de-stressing Claire? You're telling me, yes.

Dear Jesus, yes. I just come over to you and- Oh my God! I give you a big lick. Thanks. It's wet. It's not helpful. Does that help?

Anyone else but you probably could have helped. Do you feel better? Thank you, though. I give you a big ol' lick. Oh, my God. The tongue. Oh, my God, the tongue. Toby, wait!

I don't have a tongue that works like that. It doesn't help. Toby, you set off across the log. Here's how this is going to go. Help me. I'm going to try and... Travis and Matt, can you reach it?

Oh yeah, I can reach it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That feels close, right? Yeah. Yeah. Oh my god. You're going to roll a d10. In this case, you want to roll low because whatever you roll is the amount of balls

you have to put on the log. Do our statistics lower the numbers? Nope, this is just about a straight d10 roll. No pluses, no minuses. Oh god. If the marbles fall, Everybody. We'll see what happens. Oh, no.

And this is a weirdo little tweezer tong situation that you can pick them up and put them on with. So do we go one at a time, or this is it? This is the thing. So as each person goes across, it gets harder for the next person to cross? Cool. I call sec up.

No, you, at least third. Oh shit! Oh no! Sounds like someone should've went before you. He was first. You guys still have, you know, stuff. Oh, that's true. I'm going to, you know, I won't deny you your stuff.

I have absolutely nothing to help. Set fire to's true. I'm going to, you know, I won't deny you. Magic thing? I have absolutely nothing to help. Set fire to the log. Yeah. I have a broken bottle rocket. Put that on your back and then ride it. I tried to bamf it. Use it as a jet pad. Do you think you can shoot me?

You can spark it. Matt's first. You would have to, I would say, the arrow would have to directly line across or else you end up in the rapids. Oh no. Where's Killmeat? It's very south.

Are we going to have to put 10 marbles on the tissue? Well, no, first I'm going to put five on it. Oh. Great. First you put five on it. Actually, pretty fast, depends on who gets there first. You made the initiative. I did. You got to go first, Toby.

Well, hopefully you get a call. Hey, put him on slower. And not on the so wet. I'm not even supposed to be on your side. What's up? What am I doing? You were just aggressive. It's fine. You're right.

You do you, man. You do you, yeah. It's the Toby way. I don't know what the rules are. It's done. There are no rules. Then you know what? It's fine. We've already lost. There we go. Oh god.

Sprinkle, are you going next? With my 10? I'll say, where you were, so you were, oh, you grabbed Sprinkle. I grabbed Sprinkle. I'm like, calm down. Look now, here, Mr. Sprinkle. You have to go behind someone else

because you acting up. Oh god. Ooh. Oh, so you're not taking- Can I fly? You can fly. But once again, I'll say, you're going to have to make a roll for it because the rapids and you can-

I'll do it. It's a lot. Okay. Did we take the tigers or no? No, you left the tigers with the frogs. Okay, yeah. Because we would never have gotten the tigers. Okay. Can I fly with him? No. Or her froggy. Okay, yeah. Because we would never have gotten the tiger. Okay. Can I fly with him? No. Or her? No. Okay.

It's too rough, the water, the rushing. Look at that. You guys better go quick. Yeah, the longer we go. Where the. Two. Okay. All right. Yeah. Oh my god, oh my god.

Come on, Heidi. Oh, get. Sharks. Oh, oh. Sharks. Oh god. Good luck, guys. Good journey, Heidi. Oh, get. Sharks. Sharks. I love you guys. See ya. Good journey, honey. That's fine. Shit.

Oh god. Good bitch. Marble bitch. Oh my god, it dried off. Use your fingers. Oh my god, it dried off. That's horrible. You're a person of gods. Ew, get out of there. You know what? We just go. Yeah, that's fine. I'll allow it.

That's good. All right. All right. Joanne, what's your sly? Two. Okay. What's your sly? Two. Okay. I'll say you can attempt to fly across, but it's a hard check. You have to roll.

You have to meet or beat a nine. Oh jeez. Oh my god! You suck at flying. Or else you have to make a land. You can do it, you can do it. You can try it. You can do it. Or else you have to make a land. No problem do it, you can do it. You can try it. You can do it. Or else you have to make a land. No problem. 30% chance.

You can't even fly away at all. This is it. The rapids, all of that mist, as it's coming down from this mountain, this freshwater spring is hitting. A nine. Is that a nine? Okay. So that's an 11.

Yeah! Yes! That's what it's about! You are determined as the mist and the wind from the sheer force of this raging river tries to batter you down. The air current is almost overwhelming, but you fucking got this, and you just buckle down. You tuck your head a little bit

as you cut right through the mist of the river. Sorry! Good work. You better, Joanne. You want to go? You did great. Okay, sure, I'll try to go next. All right.

Three. Okay. That's your bad. That's your bad. Way better than mine. Come on, you got this. Oh yes. The wetness can keep it in place. Let on, you got this. Oh yes. The wetness can keep it in place.

Let it fall on the table, it gets drier that way. But the wetness keeps it from... Well, I already rolled mine, so I might as well just go. Yes, you did. Quick, quick, go as fast as you can. You can see Sprinkle. The other side waving.

Yes, they're all, Nugget crosses perfectly as the log in front of you starts to creak. What? Oh my god. We believe in you. We believe in you! Some of Nugget's weight has collapsed some of the log. There are now potholes that you have to avoid. How many is that, three?

Ooh! We're doing fine, guys. The log creaks again. You're about halfway across, Sprinkle. You can feel the mist as it's battering against your fur. Little drops, little droplets of water are starting to crust around all of your fur. Oh god, that's starting to move!

You're getting more and more waterlogged as you go. Seven. Oh god. That started from just then! Seven. Oh god, eight. This is the last one. Here's eight.

Over here, yeah, yeah. Yes. Oh god, that one's so wet. You're so close. Eight, okay. Okay, okay, okay. Nine, two. Shazam! It starts to creak. Died.

You are moments away. You think you've made it. You just did the most terrifying thing. We can't die! As you see, Joanne, Nugget, Clap, and Toby, they're like, Yeah, man. Joanne starts to reach out and

I was so worried for her. Cuckoo! No! The log breaks out from under you. You immediately are swept under from the current, completely underwater. You crack the bottom of a rock. Oh!

The rest of you just see. How big is the stream? It's a river. It's pretty big. Let's be real. It's a river. I'm going to say this was at least 16 feet apart. It's not that deep here, because it's going over a cliff, and you see, as you reach out, just a blur of red as he gets sucked into the waterfall,

and you go over the water. The best one to go down, I have to be honest. I've had a taste with it. And they all go up. And with that as a punctuation, Sprinkle, ass over tea kettle, smack, you hit at the bottom of this waterfall, little bit of a very shallow pool.

You can feel your spine crack. Oh my god! On a boulder lying just beneath the surface. Sprinkled! Paralyzed. I've been paralyzed. You are unconscious as the water starts to lap up against the shoreline.

Fine little. I make my way down. Be deaf. I make my way down to see if it's okay. You look down, just peeking over the edge, and all you can see is just Sprinkle's broken body on the edge, yes, of the bank. How you feeling? Can I go to him?

Can I go to him at this point? You can, yeah. You can all in there? You can now, the path curves around and loops down to the bottom of the waterfall. You can all safely get there. I make my way down to check on my good buddy, Sprinkle. You see he's face down, just

I pull him out of the water. I hold him up like the Hunchback of Notre Dame holds up Esmeralda. Beast vultures. Sanctuary! Grant him sanctuary! I move back out of the water and take his body to the- You pull his body as you hold him above you.

Did you go in the water? But my tentacles are wrapped around. You went into the water for him just a little? I did, I freaked out. That's an amazing point of sacrifice. I freaked out. You do take a point of stress for it, though. I figured, I figured.

I'm back up to four. But as you hold this lifeless, mauled weasel body above you, you embrace him, thinking, well. You smell that. He smells like ass. He died as he lived, which is ratchet. He smells like ass. He died as he lived, which is ratchet. He smells like ass.

Smells horrible. And then suddenly, . I throw him up. Splash, you go back into the water. And I grab him again. Oh, gosh. Oh, thank god. I was thinking about how long it took you.

It took you is a lot. Yeah. So you was just playing. No, what do you mean? I'm sorry. I landed that on. Oh, so you is a lock. Yeah. So you was just playing. No, what do you mean? I landed that perfectly. I got in the water for you. That's instant. That's instant from just, you know, evolution, baby. I dunk him in the bucket.

You're a zombie. You get slammed in the bucket. Life. Lap, you're like, you're magical. The protagonist, yeah. I finally unsubmerge him from the bucket. Wait. If a familiar can eventually become the hero,

does that mean you need a familiar? Maybe I do need a familiar. I should have a familiar. I wonder who it should be. Would you be my familiar? How about I be? I ink a little, which doesn't make any sense. Six of my legs clap.

Because one's holding the bucket, one's holding him still. It would be an honor. I can't kneel because I'm a crab, but. I do a lot of the jobs. Until we find you a sufficient one, you can be an honor. I can't kneel because I'm a crab, but. I'm out of a job. Until we find you a sufficient one, you can be my familiar. I'm up for the task, okay?

Would you go into the water for me? Yeah, I did, I did. That's very special, thank you. Just remember that if I'm ever in trouble. Oh! Oh! All this water and blood starts coming out. Take a point of stress.

Oh god. That was traumatic as fuck. Residual, sorry. Yeah. My back makes some weird popping sounds. I say, one of my legs is like, no! No, get out of that, get out of that. After being beaten and battered by the river,

you all finally make it. Oh, that's how he's that. After being beaten and battered by the river, you all finally make it. Oh, that's how he's immortal. Of course he's not dead. To where the stream meets the ocean. Who wants to make a clever check for me? I'll do it. Me. Actually, let's everybody make a clever check.

How about this? Not that good. Let's see. 11. Eight. Three. Ooh! 10. Got me a lovely 12. Ooh! The clock.

So. I'm glad we switched die. You're a bit distracted from the insanity of the past. I'm glad we will go into paradise. get distracted from the insanity of the past. We will go into paradise. It's a journey. This has been one of the worst days I've had in a long time. You say that all the time, Joanne. I do say that all the time.

Haven't you seen amazing things in the process? Like my ink hole? I say that all the time. All the time, oh, so you're tired of it. So you're just tired of my ink hole. I see that all the time. All the time, oh, so you're tired of it. So you're just tired of my ink hole. Well, sometimes you think something's new. Interesting, you weren't saying that last night. And I just fixed my hat

because I'm still wearing my hat from the way I am. Oh yes, it somehow miraculously hasn't been blown off or ripped off or tossed down the river because that's the miracle of fashion. It's bobby pinned in. Yes, absolutely. I give Joanne the lemon peel helmet. Aw.

Thanks for looking out for us up there. I'm still holding him. I was like, but I just saved you. I know! I know! I hand him to Joanne. Take him. He smells bad. I thought it smelled terrible.

I gave him a bath, though. As you guys are having this lovely conversation, Nugget, your nose picks up on a familiar scent. I was just looking around. Yeah. Three blind mice.

Three blind mice. What the hell? You start to follow the scent. Same for you, Toby. You start to notice, and you can see the trail that Nugget is on. Are we on the beach? You are, yeah.

So it's right as the river meets the ocean and has this nice little inlet. So you're starting to get onto the beach coming out of the woods. I smell vice. You follow the scent and you can see what appears to be remains. Oh. Uh-oh.

Shardy. I don't know anymore. None of you can breathe. Breathe? Under those bushes is the rest of what appears to be three dead rodents. Oh no. Those mice aren't sick.

Those mice aren't sleeping. Those mice are dead. I knew it. I knew it. I knew Professor Thaddeus was going to eat them. He always wanted to eat them, and now he's free and he ate the mice. Why would the mice? Can. Roll a clever check.

Why were the mice important? A 13. They were. Ooh! They're just a clue. I've been on fire since the break. What was it? A 13. You do indeed take a closer look, and you notice that the nature of the gashes

on these mice appears to be from talons. Ooh, this looks like an owl, honey. They're completely eviscerated with their innards, almost entirely gutted. This 100% was done by a large bird of prey. Was he eating them or are they gashed open and just not eaten? Are they murdered?

They were definitely eaten. This is the skull, a little bit of the skin that is still keeping the skull and the tail intact. Yes, with the rest of it. I'm looking up in the sky, looking for Professor Thaddeus. Make a clever check. I'll join.

All right. I don't see shit. I, too, will join. Is that under your stress? Nope. Okay. Take a point of stress, though, because discovering, you've never seen horror like this. And it hits you on a personal level.

I'm very sad about it. You're so sad about it. Can I also look for Professor Thud again? It's also kind of fucked up, because I kind of want to eat them. I rolled a four. But I don't want to, but I also really want to eat them. A 12.

Wow! What the fuck? I'm on fire, baby. Yeah. And that plus three is very handy. Is that under your stress? Yeah. Yep. Oh my god! You just came back to life. I thought you just- I thought my stress

was clear when I died. Sprinkle, you see these horrible remains, and a flash strikes. They're rodents. They're cousins. For a second, you see your face on one of their lifeless skulls. Oh, Jesus.

Oh, so it's about you. It's always about me. And you lose your shit. Oh, shit. Ah! Sprinkles unreachable unless somebody wants to do anything. Oh goodness. I take three of my legs and restrain him.

Okay, you are so distracted. You glance up for a second, looking for him, but then this shit happens, and now it's... Sprinkle, you're restrained. I am restraining him. Make a fierce check. Eight. You break out of her restraining.

Can I try to tackle him? Make a fierce check. Nine. Down. You don't... I was going to make it a 10. You don't restrain him, but you do punt him. You're trying to get him down, but instead you knock into him

and you go flying into the ocean. Yeah, that seems like it would make it worse. I can't get into the water, y'all. I'm like, ocean, that's my realm. I get into the water beneath as you're scrambling and I- The tide is starting to pull him out. I rush out and try and clamber on with a claw to drag him back into the sand.

Make a quick check. I've luckily found my way into the tentacles of a Portuguese man o' war and it's horribly scarring my body. I'll take it. There's a jellyfish bloom happening tonight. What'd you roll? Four! Yeah, the jellyfish are too fucking much,

and not only is he being poisoned and eviscerated, he's being swept out into sea. I bet that everything is fine in the water. So what has to save him? If somebody could fly, it'd be amazing. You're a little listless. I wonder what he's saying as he's being saved. I've got the flash!

It's like a million needles! Okay, I'll fly out. Somehow I feel it. Like a no. Make either a quick check or a clever check to see if you overcome your apathy of the situation. Make either a quick check or a clever check to see if you overcome your apathy of the situation. Do I give a fuck? 12!

Okay, it's a little bit of both. You're like, fucking fine, I guess someone has to be the adult, and you go out to Sprinkle and do... Joanne has been experiencing some newfound maternal energy today. Yeah, you know, the tiger cubs ignited a flame deep inside.

I'm glad my babies did that for you. Thank you. You can't really carry this waterlogged Sprinkle, but you can definitely keep his head above water as you, like, a National Guard drag him back into Zor. Yes, yes. Touch him with a boink! 100%.

I'm sorry! I should have gave you my bucket and he could have just gotten the bucket. Absolutely. I'm conscious now. Full National Guard. Like bucket rescue. Yeah. Too late, Mal. It's too late, Mal.

All right, Sprinkle, you've made it. You're a little delirious, you're a little tired. My god! Does he still? Oh! Snap out of it! Yeah, make a fierce check. I'm out of the trap! And you make a clever check.

Nine! Three! Great, yours beat his. Ha! You're very sober. Thank goodness. Aw. Toby, no!

You reduce your stress completely, but then you take in all the stress from where he smacked you again. Oh no. So you're down to one stress. So that's how you get rid of your stress. Yeah, you lose your mind. My jaw is like an inch over to the right

from where the claw hit it. I got a rolling heart. I'm okay. I feel much better now. Where did all the fur on my arm go? I was trying to smack his jaw back into place with my paw. It was a jellyfish wax. It's fine. You make, this one, make a slide check

to make sure you don't overshoot it. And make it worse. Eight? Yeah. Perfect amount of strength. Pop. Ah! Nugget realigns a jump. Unconscious.

Yeah, back down. Thank you. We got to get to the docks. Okay. There, there, over there. Yep. Mm-mm. Do we see Professor Thaddeus as we're walking? Make another clever check.

Can I patrol the skies? How about everybody makes a clever check? Absolutely not. 12. 12. Three. What the fuck? Five. I know, what the hell? It feels so nice.

It's the fidget spinner. The fidget spinner. It is. It's been enchanted long before. It's hard because the last bit of the light has finally faded as the stars come out. Prime time for owls. Prime time for owls.

This is their chosen time to hunt. In fact, did you all know that owls are zygodactyl? Means they've got two toes in the front and two toes in the back, but they can wrap one toe around in order to grab their prey. Anyway, it's dark outside now. Noted.

My four does not see anything. And you got a 12? I got a 12. Three. Five. Nine. You two are the only ones that see anything, and the only reason that you see anything

is just because right at the corner of your eye, you see a palm tree shift and what looks like a bird leaving from it. You don't see it directly. Just this blur of motion as it takes to the skies. I think that tree just perked. Oh, you think the perked?

Hmm. Interesting. So there was something in that tree, y'all, and we need to find shelter or something, or prepare for an attack or something. A big burn. Digging? Yeah. I probably digging. Check out. I'm probably just digging.

Just digging in the sand. Good thinking, Nugget. I get it with Nugget. Should we clap? You get pelted with a little bit of sand from Nugget. Oh, not my legs. You're getting it in my bucket. Now I have sandy water.

I'm sorry. It's okay, I still love you. I still love you. Do you already get new water in your bucket. Now I have sandy water. I'm sorry. It's okay, I still love you. Do you want me to get new water in your bucket? If you would like to, please. Okay. Thank you so much. You're so kind. I drag it along the ground. You're just scooping up more sand,

but it's a very nice gesture. I drag it closer to the ocean and try to get... Make sure you empty it first. Okay. Thank you. Make a lie check for your dexterity. Oh, oh! I love it!

Not too bad. You drag the bucket over and as it's scooping up sand, a big wave comes in and crashes right into your face. It goes right down your throat. But in the meantime, it also happens to wash out the bucket and give you a nice, fresh refill of salt water. So which way did the tree poop, huh? It was over there.

And as you look in the distance, you can see, heading along the beach line, with the cliffs lining the backside of the beach, what appears to be the docks that you were heading towards. Far off in the distance, you see the big people floaters attached to the docks. Oh my god, they're so big. That's where you were trying to get, right?

Yeah! The big floaters. We got biscuits waiting for us if we can get you there. So let's get going. I'm all for it. There's also lots of humans and stuff, so maybe some of them would need familiars. I've heard a lot of people retire to human floaters.

I'm not going to. Oh, wow. It's a living. I have a familiar. Shh. I can pull out my knife. Let's go. You walk along the cliff face, and in the distance, in the foreground,

as you have the docks as this view, you see what looks like a massive giant, a titan of calcium and salt-stained stone in the shape of a woman's head and torso. Her wild hair melds into the cliff face behind her as if she is eternally trapped in this barbaric act of masonry. That poor woman.

Suddenly, her eyes flash as a beam of light moves laterally across the inside of her skull. What demon is this? Oh my god. And then? What is happening? Stillness. I'm going to be alert. I'm going to be alert.

I don't like stillness. I'm going to be alert. I'm gonna be alert. I don't like stillness. I'm gonna be alert. Make a clever check. Oh. A five. Oh, that's just above my stress. Okay, good. You don't know.

It's hard to say. Ugh. Ugh. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Hard to say. That's got to be an indicator. That's like, you know. How many of us can fit in my bucket?

Pretty much just Toby. Maybe Toby and or Sprinkle. Because I can squish down to nothing, basically. Yeah, jars. If this terrifying frozen woman entity thing is watching the horizon, maybe we wait for when the eyes go past and we rush past, which is not okay.

Yeah, I grow a thought, too. Oh, that's genius. I do have plus two clever. Look at you. Flash! No, no, no, no, no! You bamf? Yeah. You end up going diagonally and end up at the base of this giant woman. I made it!

You're about halfway across. The rest of you make a quick check. Seven. Seven. Seven. Six. Okay. Oh, you're there. A two. Oh, finally. Uh-oh.

Finally a two. I break. The rest of you take off, knowing you have a short amount of time. You get halfway. You're standing at the base of the woman. Oh shit. Clapp is losing her shit behind you.

What do you guys do? Ah! Tobias, you have to help me! I grab two of her legs and I start slapping her in the face with her own tentacles. Make a fierce check. What are you doing? I'm going to go ahead and take my claws

and gingerly hold two of the other legs behind and just go. Hold her down. What'd you doing? I'm going to go ahead and take my claws and gingerly hold two of the other legs behind and just go, shh, shh, shh. Hold her down. What'd you roll? 11. 11, wait, you roll a fierce as well? Five. Roll a clever check clap. Seven.

Oh no. She breaks free of your grasp. You do manage to successfully give her a whack. I'm swinging the bucket, I swing it at Sprinkle. Make a quick check to see if you dodge the bucket. No, no, no, 11! Good, you dodge out of the way just in time. I'm going to go up to clap.

Flash across the woman's eyes. Okay. Do I chase Amy? Huh? Do she see me? You don't know. Okay. Do I, did she see me? What? Did she see me? You don't know. Okay. Nothing seems to be happening. I'm just going to go up. I'm just going to go up to clap.

It's probably just Lighthouse. I go up to clap and I just look at her. I could stay awake. Just to hear you dreaming. I take the bucket and I put it over, I try to capture Joette with the bucket. Make a quick check and you make a clever check. Let's see what happens.

Six. 11. You miss. I could spend the night in this sweet surrender! I could stay lost in this moment. I take two to go to the third sandbar. Okay, make a fierce check on this one. Yeah!

A three. I'm getting all my stinkers out the window. Give her a little kiss. You keep trying to fight it. I wrap my tentacles around. You just... I'm like, no! Every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure!

Throw it in the bucket now. Roll one last fierce check. 11. Oh no. Get in this bucket. I tried. I use Speak with Object. I'm going to talk to the bucket. No! Oh my god!

No, that hurt! I will just capture Joanne with the bucket. Joanne, you are under this bucket. All the ocean water that was in it comes crashing down on top of you, but from inside the bucket, you can hear, Wait, what? What do you want? As Sprinkle starts talking with the bucket, you can hear, wait, what? What do you want? As Sprinkle starts talking with the bucket.

Fraga? Who the fuck is Fraga? Why am I awake? Who's talking to me? Comfort. Clap. Calm her down. Give her your embrace. Oh, clap? Oh no, is my girl having a moment?

Yeah, she's freaking the fuck out. She's literally done shaking. Scream, clap. Who's that? It's me. Oh, hey, girl! It's your bucket. How you doing?

Girl, you know I'm your best fucking friend. Yeah, I've been out here with you strangers and crazy people all day. I've been proud of you, though. I've been in the water three times today. You know, I feel like you've really grown today. I tried. Not only did you overcome your fears,

but you've really become like just a comforting maternal figure for all these critters. And protagonists. Yes. You know, we don't talk as much anymore. We should talk some more. I've just been so busy. I know.

Joanne, well, Joanne's inside you right now. Usually Joanne's inside me. She is. But I'm not bad. She's a little stressed about it. You know, she was. It's okay. Look. She was trying to talk to you. Yeah, you're right.

She's a friend. We got you. You're right. You're right. She's got to know when to lean on your pals and your pales. Your pales. Oh, shame. It was that phrase I started giggling. Hey.

Shame. But I haven't realized Joanne's in the pocket yet. We're the pales. We're the pocket yet. With a pail. With a pail. I'm a mad Joanne. You hear clink, clink, clink, and you can hear Joanne's cackling from it, echoing from inside.

Oh, that is good. My cigar's out! She hotboxes a little bit. It's just a lot of smoke that comes out. It's whoosh. Hey, girl. How you just a lot of smoke that comes out. It's like. Hey, girl, how you doing? Oh, I get rid of my stress now. Yeah? You get rid of your stress. How you doing?

Fine! The accurately guessed lighthouse flashes by again. Okay, it's not a big deal. No. Do I die? Do I die? Do I die? I had a vision while I was going through stuff.

I don't think this woman's going to hurt us. I think we should just go, but we don't want to be seen, though, so we should try to avoid the lighting. Good idea. Very carefully and with ease, knowing that you are safe, continue to make your way down the beach.

I'm eating sand when they catch up with me. Nugget's like 50 yards down the beach already. You all eventually catch up. In the darkness, you finally see, hang on a second, hang on, mm-hmm, hang on. Nope, nope, I'll switch it in a second, though. You start to see the docs appear. If I can get that PA assistance

to help me bring out the map. Oh! What? that PA assistance to help me bring out the map. Oh! What?! Oh, I know this map. Oh my god, it's the map! This is like a battlefield. This was years ago. This was a battlefield. Campaign 2 battlefield, yeah.

Mommy's a battlefield. This is like a battlefield. This is like a perfect recreation. This is crazy. Yo, that's a trip. It's a battlefield. This is like a perfect recreation. This is crazy. Yo, that's a trip. It really is. Oh my gosh. It's a raft. After a long evening of so much travel,

you all have made your way across the entire outskirts of Nicodranas. You finally make your way to the open quay. That rhymes. You can see a long wooden dark with gleaming, floating wedges waiting at the end of it. Now, all you have to do is make it aboard the ship. But it seems you are not alone.

No. I'm going to switch the water here. You see a person silhouetted in the distance. And then another. Oh man. Who's that from? Interesting. And then another.

Hey, it's our friends! You say so. Sprinkle a nugget. Exactly. Did you know that Sam doesn't taste good? As you get closer, you notice. Oh, that's that La Blue Girl you were talking about. Yeah. Yeah.

The Mighty Nein are here. Are we going to have to fight the Mighty Nein? They're having a conversation with someone who doesn't seem very amicable. They're getting far away, some of them. Where are we in relation to them? You start hearing voices. You guys are

walking. Are we there? Uh-huh. It's us? There's you guys. Oh my god. There's Nugget. Oh! That's so cute. There's Sprinkle.

Oh my goodness. Oh. Oh my god, Joanne. Not that one. Joanne, the album by Lady Gaga. Ah, look at Clap. Clap is giving. With the bucket, I love it. Stop playing, Clap is serving. Toby.

Oh my god, that's sickening. Voices start to get a little bit more tense. You notice the blue girl with horns, Jester. Her name's Jester. And then you see more figures start to bolt as you hear sound of crossbow bolts. Oh, there's about to be afire.

Yes, thank you. That's better. Jesus. You are not alone. This is the Mighty Nein, and shit is hitting the fan. Oh no. The only thing that lies between you and your salvation is this clusterfuck of a fight that is actively starting to happen.

Oh, work. But then, swooping from behind you, making this vertical dive, almost clips the back of all of your all's heads, flies up and lands on the mast of one of the ships. Fucking Thaddeus. And owls.

Fucking owls. And I need someone to help me with this. Demon owl. Okay. Well, Jesus, it's about to get real up in here. It's about to be severe up in here. Hold. What? What is this? Oh my goodness!

Oh my god, I can't believe you are doing this for real. Oh, hello there. Oh my god. Who are you? It's Professor Thaddeus. This is Archie. Hi, Archie. Hi, Archie. Isn't he the coolest? This is the coolest thing. Archie, you got this neckband going, honey.

He is helping. He's a European barn, what kind of owl? Eurasian eagle owl. A Eurasian eagle owl. Oh my god. Wow. He's gorgeous. And today,

Those owls are beautiful. he's helping me decide what Thaddeus is going to do. Oh, Jesus. Which means... Oh, interactive. I'm going to make it up based off of what he does as he turns his head.

Is he heavy? He looks so big. You know, if you hold him for a while, I'd say he's like, what, 15 pounds, 20 pounds? You'll start to feel it. Is he really that heavy? Two or three? Don't birds have hollow bones? Or two or three? Two or three. 15 pounds. He's weighty.

He's heavy. He's two or three pounds. Yeah, the bones are hollow, right? You said 15 pounds. I was like, I don't know if a bird could fly at 15 pounds. Marisha, we got to get you back in the gym. I do have to get back in the gym. Not with this wingspan. He is gorgeous. I love him.

Isn't he awesome? Hi, buddy. I know it's okay, buddy. It's okay, Archie. Hi, Archie. They both look nice. Hi. Wow, sweet Archie.

Oh, my goodness. Hang out with, hang out, buddy. Shh. Oh, fine. It's okay. I agree. Oh my goodness. Oh my god, so beautiful. I love him so much.

I know, he's so sweet. I can't believe you got an actual Professor Thaddeus for Professor Thaddeus. I know, I feel like he's about to poop. Marcy, can you spin this around? Yes. This is so cool. Hot shot.

Look at that, buddy. There you go, buddy. Yes, look at you. Oh my goodness, I love this so much. Oh, Thaddeus. And therein lies the Talons you were talking about. Okay, because, baby, they are looking awfully strong. Oh man. Yes. This is so awesome.

It's getting severe up in here. He's going to choose what Thaddeus does? Yeah, we're going to wing this. We're going to see how this happens. Literally. Literally wing it based on what he does. I'm clever sometimes, you know? Plus three to it, actually.

Plus three. Well, well, well. Look what we have here. Here we go. He still protects his. Don't be offended if I'm just staring. That's fair. Sprinkle and Nugget, was it?

That's my name now. And it appears you have picked up some familiar friends. Friends is a strong word. No, you're my friend, I love you. I didn't say I wouldn't use it. I just said it was a strong word. I didn't. I think it is a very strong word. No, you're my friend, I love you. Oh. I didn't say I wouldn't use it, I just said it was a strong word. I didn't say it wasn't true. I'm honestly surprised to see you alive.

Though that will have to change now. Oh. Won't it? That's big words. Why? Is this the King of Screams? This is the Harbinger of Screams. The Talon of Asmoldius. Yes. Asmoldius. The bird of prey to the Wild Mother.

You do not meet him, Professor Thaddeus. Is that who was talking out of Sprinkle? Make a clever check. Bad. This not good. Three. You are so overwhelmed and confused by the amount of shit that is happening, you have no fucking idea.

Okay. Maybe. Okay. Maybe. Okay. Well, you see, you have to die because I have a reputation to maintain. Around here, I'm more than a mere mortal. I have become a legend. One that is greatly befitting of an owl of my stature. He's become one.

One. You see, you both saw me locked in that metallic prison, restraining me from my destiny. I didn't see, I don't even know what we're talking about. What were you talking about? We were all just sharing. What are you talking about?

I can hear, up to 10 miles away, real alphax. I'll slay. I heard you talking. And rumors spread far in the jungle. Well, that just sounds like you being nosy. This is my domain. Excuse me, what did nobody ask?

And he wants to make sure that there will be no more rumors, no more record of who has seen him in his most embarrassing state. Oh, they didn't want you to. I also hear that it's a bad omen to have bird facts in an RPG setting. This is a dangerous circumstance.

Thaddeus swoops down and he's looking at you, Sprinkle. At me, okay. He's looking at you. Make a sly check or a quick check, however you want to dodge this. Sly. 11. Yeah.

You tumble out of the way as you see Thaddeus get within inches of the ground before he pulls out of his nose dive, and then he turns his attention towards, okay, he was looking to the back, which means he's coming for you, Joanne. Not Joanne, the scammer. Yes, he arcs upwards and he does a loop,

he spins you, does a barrel roll in the air as he dips back down and he's coming to you. Make a sly or a quick check. Seven. He clips your wing as you go tumbling out of the air. Fuck! And you almost land into the ocean. Give me another fierce check to see if you hold on.

Nine. Okay, that has to be a good one. Yes, you manage to hold on as you crawl up over. You guys realize that you've got a moment if you want to try and make an advance. Oh yeah, let's run, let's run, let's run. We're going to do it. I'm going to start moving.

Oiny's watching. I'm camouflaging, I'm camouflaging. Oh yeah, good idea. Clapp, you turn into this cobblestone-like texture, gray, mossy almost, as you start to creep on by. Make a sly check for me. Oh, that's not my strong suit.

Oh, 10. I guess I'm good. Good. You're great. Your camouflage is uncanny as you just roll right on by. How are you getting through? I'm running as fast as a crab can run, which is extremely fast.

Can I just put him in my bucket? Yeah, I would say. Or be dragged behind in a bucket, that also works fine. Your choice. Oh, bucket, by all means. All right, ploop, ploop, you plop into the bucket, but not before Thaddeus sees you, Nugget. Okay.

And is coming to swoop down, make a... I'm going to turn invisible! Okay. That's my one thing. That's your one thing. You vanish from sight. You can feel his wings as he brushes over the back of your scruff and does another big loop,

coming around as he's now going back to you, Sprinkle. Back to Sprinkle. The OG. The OG. Oh, it's a two. Thaddeus sees his prey. This is where he is the most skilled, and you are a rodent, and he is hungry.

He comes through. He starts to dive down to a nosedive. Talons come out before I take the bucket and put it over top of him. Make a quick check to see if you can react in time. Nine. Phenomenal, you do. It comes crashing down,

but right as Thaddeus has really wrapped his claws around Sprinkle, so the bucket, boom, right over top of his knuckles, and you hear him just, Don't want to piss off the owl! He screeches as he recoils and darts back around, and you can see he's making a wide loop as he recovers from that.

Oh my god. I was in that bucket! Sorry, sorry. Oh yes, take a point of stress. Yeah, okay. I had to, I'm sorry. Sprinkle, you also take a point of stress as you definitely get hit. I'm not invisible anymore because I'm moving.

Okay, you're moving, so you're, okay, you lose availability. Are you all running? Let me get quick checks from everybody. Quick check. Okay. Ooh! Nine. Great.

Yeah. Four. 11. Okay. Five. Five, okay. So let's see, that was... I told you, having a bucket.

This bucket has come in handy so many times. I want the bucket. Okay, it's a pretty good idea. You were five. It's about the accessory, y It's such a good idea. You were five. It's about the accessory, y'all. I was four. You were four. Okay.

Sprinkle and Nugget are lagging behind just a little bit as Sprinkle is still recovering from the near miss with Thaddeus. The rest of you, Toby, as you start to scuttle up, a falchion comes coming directly at you as you see two feet, and it's coming from a big green man who is fighting another pirate-looking guy

with a crossbow. Make a quick check. I will. Ah, that's a one. You are pinned to the ground with a falchion in you. In me? Ow! It's in your claw. It can grow back.

That's true. Okay, so my one claw is pinned. Yeah. I'm going to take my other claw and I'm going to slip off my own arm. I could have pulled it out for you, but okay. No, it's what we do. The falchion gets yanked up again,

doesn't even seem to know that you're here. Will it go back? Does it take any stress from losing an arm? Yes, you do. Clap. As you see this happening, two crossbow bolts start whizzing past you. I hold the bucket up.

Ooh! The bucket is so handy. Give me a sly check. Let's see if I can, hopefully it'll check sound. Life is the bucket. Yep. Bucket is life. Six. Great. Ping, ping. Ricochet is off.

Baby, this bucket's the one! This bucket is the one! And I just, yip, yip. Yip! Yopsy. Nugget and Spreakle, as you are coming up, or wait, you're... Give me the stare down.

Oh yeah. Can I throw the broken bottle rocket to Joanne? Yeah, you can. It could end up being a, I throw this to Joanne. It could end up being a distraction since you have fire, you know? Clap in front of you. It's like, hey!

Tosses it. Take it. You now have a broken bottle rocket. As you catch it, you start to duck and weave through this chaotic environment, but from behind, this deer-looking man with a weird bluish grayish skin and pink hair

sends two bolts of divine light searing past you. Make a quick check. I might get seared. Eight. searing past you. Make a quick check. I might get seared. Eight. Okay, you capture the bottle rocket, and as your focus racks, you can see these two beams of light coming straight at you,

and you expertly slip them as you dodge and loop around. Look at you go, Joanne. Can I see Thaddeus? Yeah, Thaddeus is doing this big loop and it looks like he's getting ready to make his next attack. Can I Mulan him?

Yeah. You may attempt to Mulan him. Okay, I already did my Ignite Fire, but do I ever burp and a little comes out? Yeah, there's that and you still have your somehow magically lit cigar. Oh, it's still on? Depurred. It's forever lit.

It's a movie. We don't know how these things work. Exactly. I think I'm discovering a fear of birds. In the moment. The handlers asked, does anyone have a fear of birds? And I said, we'll find out.

But as you start to set that up, you see Thaddeus come in again. He's starting to make his swoops, but not before a giant greatsword from a large, tall, lumbering woman with white hair swinging as a pirate is trying to jump out after her from behind. Make another quick check for me, you two.

I try to just run around the pirate's legs. Okay. Five. 12. Okay. Sprinkle, 12. Okay. Sprinkle, or sorry, Nugget, you see it coming and you expertly, poof, almost a little mini-bam. I just want to trip the pirate, too,

as I'm going to help this lady out. Tabletop. I'll say, you think you're going to trip the pirate, but it's actually Sprinkle who gets caught up just directly under his feet. The pirate tumbles backwards and falls ass over tea kettle, but Sprinkle, you get punted in the process and go flying. Luckily.

Actually, where's that? Hopefully it's close to the pole. You go flying. This way, Not too bad. Nugget, you manage to accurately and swiftly catch up. Thaddeus is coming down for another round of attacks and he's going to Archie!

Archie! Archie! Archie! I feel like he's side-eyeing Nugget, so he's coming down for Nugget again, as you see him. His eyes are kind of closed. He's chilled out. Yeah, I think he's sleepy. Hi, buddy, are you sleepy? Had a big night?

I know. He's just comfortable in the fact that he's going to eat you. That's true. Yeah. I do want to touch night. I know. He's just comfortable in the fact that he's going to eat you. That's true. Yeah. I do want to touch it. I know. Oh. Oh no, he is going for Nugget. Now he is definitely looking at you. Down.

And you see as he dips low and he is soaring, he's using the current to surf at an incredibly low level to the ground. As he's coming for you, What are you going to do? I'm going to duck and roll. When in, how's that say? When in doubt. Make a quick check. Oh shitballs.

Oh no. Three. What's your stress at? Four. Tea, tea, tea, got it, tea. Mm-hmm. Three. What's your stress at? Four. Ooh! Tea! Tea! Tea! Got it, tea! Baby, tea! He knew it.

He knew it. No way! That was awesome. Thaddeus laughs. Oh, I'm going to get down. He don't. He's like, I got you, man. I'm going to get down. He's like, I got you, man. As he clips, and you can just feel his talons

scrape along your kidney, and he flips you upwards. You break. You uncontrollably bamf away in the same direction, directly next to Sprinkle. It's your job to calm him. And you are panicked as fuck. You are unable to act unless someone calms you down. Shake that!

Can I bamf again? You bamf again. You move right in between this blue woman with a giant bo staff and a pirate. The bo staff clocks towards you, make a quick check. You die. 10. Mm, you manage to do it.

I'm going to say 10 was the roll. Boof, boof! You land in the ocean right next to the blue Jester, the blue woman named Jester. Next to Jester. You are in the ocean, panicked. I'm freaking out! Thaddeus leaps back around and feels like he's looking at Clap,

and he's coming for you, Clap. I cast Soak. Get out of here. Ooh! Okay. As he rushes down, you can see him coming at you and you spray at him like a water hose and he gets completely drenched.

He tumbles a little bit and you see Thaddeus on both of his legs run this way and hide as he regroups. You all now have another moment to make another rush. My kidneys! I am out here carrying. My kidneys are bleeding out of the water! Someone help.

Who can help the dog out of the water? Jester! Yes, Nugget is in the water, splashing and panicking. The rest of you, you have a moment to make it to the ship, though, if you would like. I need to Mulan this owl. You can't see him right now.

Okay. But you can set, that's going to take this round, if you want to Mulan him, to set it up right now. Okay, I'm setting it up. Okay, next time you see him. Bamping out. Not more into the water, please, though. Boof. Bless you.

You're this way, into the water next to the, bless you again. Thank god. I'm not sure. Can you bath on shore, please? Well, he was doing what? You got a moment. Wait, can I? Can I run up onto the dock and go like

towards Jester and point towards? Yes, you can. I go to try and help Nugget. Okay. I guess I can. I grab the bucket. Can Nugget grab the bucket while it's broken? Well, Nugget is in the ocean panicking.

Okay, can I give the firework to Toby? You're so quiet now, it's amazing. You're so quiet and respectful from that old asshole that you were before. You want to give the firework to Toby? Give us 30%. Give us 30%. Just try it. If he eats your face, it's just destiny.

He's not even looking at you. Also. Don't check it out now. Can't fly away from Toby. Yeah, don't check it out. Come on, give him a little. But I don't want to make him sad. Give him a little stogie.

Okay. It's alive. I can do it, I swear. Can I get the? Well, I'm just asking a game question. Full immersion or nothing. Can I give this firework to somebody and then go try and get buttons?

What's your... Not buttons. What's your move? Everything out of the brain. I'm breaking. Okay. Okay, you hot potato the firework over to Toby. Who has one arm. You have one arm. Roll on. I potato the firework over to Toby. Who has one arm. You have one arm.

Roll on. I put the knife into my belt shirt. Yeah, I thought that was the arm. Yeah, you catch. That's fine. That's no problem. And then you're trying to go for Nugget? Yeah, I'm going to try and get Nugget out of the way. What about this? We need fire.

We don't have anything to light it with. Nope. I'll give you my cigar. There's a torch over there. I'm going to go ahead. Okay, I'll give you my cigar. Hang on, Nugget. FAMS again. Even further. We got to get Nugget.

I'm going to rush back towards the torch that's over there. Okay, make a quick check. Very slowly. Also make a quick check. Four. Is that above or below your stress? Oh, that's below my stress. Oh no, Toby.

So Toby, as you start to run towards the flame. I love when it blinks. Another. Oh my god. I put the bucket on top of Toby. Oh my god. Make another quick check to see if you can catch him. As Toby starts to rage and wander off,

make a quick check to see if you can get to Nugget. Nine. Okay, you successfully get to Nugget. Yes. A full one. I missed you. I'll say you can get to Nugget. Nine. Okay, you successfully get to Nugget. Yes. A full one. I'll say you drag Nugget out of the water. You both are right here. Who, who, who? You've been stepped back a little bit.

Everything is falling to pieces. Can I cauterize it? You break two. Do I? Oh no, wait, you just recently reset. You're good, you're good. But you do take a point of stress. Can I cauterize Nugget with my cigar?

Yeah, I'll allow it. Okay. Yeah, that sounds rough. Make a fierce check, Nugget. The tobacco will help. No. Three. Three. Oh.

Bamf. You bamf again. Well, see you later. Nugget has gone in the biggest circle possible. Holy. Bye. From water to water. In my furious rage, as I was running towards the torch that happened, I see this massive, intense-looking armored warrior

with a falchion, the one that stabbed me earlier that I lost an arm towards. I'm going to go ahead and angrily cast my last ability, Summon Holt, to try and break its ankle. Oh my god, no! You successfully do, as this armored man with a falchion starts stepping back as he's trying to parry a blow.

You can see him readying a what looks to be some sort of magical spell. As he casts it, he falls backwards, but still, foof, foof, two Eldritch Blasts come firing towards. Sorry, how's that pronounced again? Eldritch Blasts. There we go. Come firing towards you, Sprinkle. Oh shit. That's amazing.

Make a quick check. Two. Poof, poof. You get jettisoned into the water. Make a check. Two. Ouch. You get jettisoned into the water. Oh, this is turning to shit. This is going great, guys. This is turning into trouble. All of us are freaking out.

Can I pick up Toby? Yeah. And say, remember, you're my familiar. I love you. Toby, roll. You've always wanted to be a familiar. Roll a clever check as you hear, through your rage. Tandy.

Okay. You hear the words you've been needing to hear. Yeah. You're someone's familiar. Pay attention. And you calm. However, Nugget is still freaking out. Now be a good familiar. Poof, poof, poof.

Nugget ends up on this roof. I'm now going to throw Toby to Sprinkle. I need you to be a good familiar. Now that you've calmed down, I'll make sure you take your stress away. I'm throwing you to be a good familiar. Now that you've calmed down, I'll make sure you take your stress away. I'm throwing you to calm down. Calm Sprinkle down. Do a quick, do a fear check

to see how well you throw him. Are you trying to throw Sprinkle? To Sprinkle. Is Sprinkle walking down? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you're still panicking. I'm in the water. Asgore's in the water, so I'm throwing Toby. Oh my god. You're in the water. See Brooke is in the water, so I'm throwing Toby. Oh my god.

A water error. See, I thought that out. Look at me. Tim. Great. I will say, in the process, probably dropping the firework. Yes, so as... Is it getting chucked? I pick it up.

Right in front of me, please. Yes, literally, you're like, here, hold this, and then three seconds later, it's back at your feet. Okay, let's do this. And as you all look up, Thaddeus is back. He's fluffed off the water. I bought us some time, y'all. Oh, he's attacking you.

Oh my god, the one eye. The one eye! I like it a lot. Let me do it. I love it. Oh no, no, no, no. Look at me. You're my baby. She's like,. Oh, buddy. Look and wink. You're all mine, baby. He's like, end this, please. He did just get splashed with a lot of water.

It makes sense. He did. I apologize. As he loops around, you are on the roof as an easy target, and you can see that he is coming in for another attack. Where am I? You're still freaking out. I know, I'm disoriented.

That's my brain. Can I throw the bucket to try and take him off course? You're disoriented. It'd be a really tough roll, but make a fierce check. High! It's a really high one. A three. No. Is that a four? You take a piece high one. A three. No. Is that a four?

You take a piece of stress. I'm still. Oh. Help me. He loops down. I'm sorry, I tried. Coming for Nugget. You're aiming it up. You light it. There you go.

Get it, get it, get it. Now, as my dad once said, you got to be careful of these broken bottle rockets. Watch out for these broken bottle rockets. They can do weird things Marisha's dad wants. Yep. It's a real thing he said before he lit a broken bottle rocket,

and it did weird things. So happy I gave it away. So happy I gave it away. That's amazing. So roll a, yes. Don't try that at home. Down. This is what Archie looks like. Roll a clever check.

Holy. Like someone's grandpa, sitting up in the chair. Yeah. Roll a clever check. You got this, you have a good clever. You try to aim with one eye, as you see on a moving target. Oh, that's going to be a high check. You got this, you have a big clever. You try to aim with one eye as you see on a moving target. Oh, that's going to be a high roll. Seven.

Seven? That's like a clip or something. Yeah, that's not terrible. I had to clip that. You're here? Uh-huh. Archie's making a swoop this way. Or sorry, not you. You're great.

Thaddeus is making a swoop this way. Your character, sir. That's what I was looking for. You light the bottle rocket and you're trying to aim for the direction that Thaddeus is going for, which is Nugget. But broken bottle rockets do weird things. So it shoots off and it takes a hard right turn

and intersects point-blink Yathadius as he's looping around. Boom! You see smoke and feathers and a loud pop! How's that? Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!

Pop! And a little bit of smoke trail off of his feathers as he goes cascading down and out of sight. That's the best climax of a game ever. We need to get that dog down from that hat. Help, help, help! Yes. What was that explosion? Poof. Nope.

Poof. Not even on the map no more. Link's out of the game. He's so tired now. I'm going to go back to Toby and Sprinkle, who's trying to get him out of the water and save Sprinkle. What do you do to get him out of the water and save Sprinkle. What do you do to get him out? I'm going to reach over with my one claw

and grab you around the neck. And say, deep breath. And pull him under me to the bottom, where I can then clatter across the bottom of the water and climb up the side of the rock like crabs are wont to do and just drag you with me. Right. Make a fierce check to see if you survive this. Eight. Yeah, that's great.

You've been sucked underwater and through tunnels and up Water Elemental's asses before. Longer durations than this. You all skitter past. The rest of you have a moment to make a break for the ship. If you would like. I like, can I get on the dock? Can I somehow shimmy to the dock with my bucket?

Yeah, make a quick check. Seven. Seven, yeah. As you skitter apart, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, clap, you hear from behind you. I opened it right when you said that. You hear from behind you,

everyone get down as . I instantly just flattened my whole body. From directly around you, I instantly just flatten my whole body. From directly around you, a trail of fire goes looping directly over across you and starts settling onto, I should have had fire markers. I'll use these for...

No, this is fine. Use these for... No, this is fine. Boof. I'm surrounded by fire? Boof, boof, boof. I'm not surrounded, no. As the entire dock lights on fire, you are now separated from the remaining... Who's left over here?

I see, oh, from Nugget and Joanne. It must be full on separated right now. But you do continue to move forward. Dan. I'll say you get right here, past the game plate, dodging the fire that is now starting to consume the boat. Nugget. Back into the ocean.

Someone say nugget. The two of you, let's see if we can get you guys back up onto the boat. I'd say you're trying to drag him up. Yeah, I'm going to drag him, slam him onto the deck of the ship to knock some sense into him. Make a fierce check to see if you can lift. Am I close enough to help?

Have you come to the pier? Yeah, I'll allow you to. I'll lower the bucket. You lower the bucket. You still make the one roll, but she's going to make it easier. It is its own character. Fierce, that would put me at six.

Okay, it was originally an eight, but I'm just giving you a plus two because of the help. All right. So you don't make it onto the boat, but you, wham! Slam Sprinkle into the bucket as you skitter onto the boat, but Sprinkle and Clap are still on this gangplank. Is that person on the other side of them?

Is that person becoming an issue? They start backing up. They have no idea that you are there. Both of you, once again, make another either quick or sly check to get out of the way. That would be Sprinkle and... Sprinkle, oh sorry, Sprinkle and Clap. Quick or what?

Sly. I'll be sly. A four. Separated. So as you guys back up, Ooh. A four. So as you guys back up, this person with a crossbow bolt, crossbow, fires a crossbow bolt, that's the words, and trips over you, punting you both into the water again.

Oh no! Oh god. Nugget. Boof, Boof. Freak it out! What are the two of you doing? I'm freaking out! You still have a freaked out Nugget.

And we have a Joanne. Boof. And a Joanne. Boof is going to Boof over to the ship eventually. You're going to leave that ship to chance? And I'm going to try and get the the ship eventually. You're going to leave that ship to chance? And I'm going to try and get the... Oh wait, but there's two aquatic creatures

that just fell in the water, right? No, Sprinkle's not aquatic. Oh, I'll get Sprinkle out of the water. Can I fly over the fire and get Sprinkle out of the water? Make a Fierce Check as you have to dodge the flames. Up and out. Ooh, that's nice. 10.

Oh, fuck, that's good. Easy. You come over. You cannot get, you have to get one at a time. Okay. Well, I don't need to get clap. That's true. I'll just get sprinkle. You won't have to get clap. Hey.

I'll say both of you successfully make it onto the boat. Oh, nice! Good job, guys. As you come tumbling down, plopping Sprinkle. The person who's up on the dock and backing into it, with one claw, I reach back and pull the knife that I have. Oh god. You hurt the mistress.

Are you so crazy? No. Oh! But this person's. Oh, you're throwing the knife. Yeah. I thought Marisha said, Are you so crazy? Yeah! Are you so crazy? No. No. Oh! Oh, you're throwing the knife. Yeah. I thought Marisha said, are you so crazy? Are you so crazy? Are you so crazy as to do something?

You're throwing it at this person? Yeah. Okay. I'll make a fierce check. I'm not going to knock anybody else out. Why would you do that? That's a five. No.

No. Misses entirely. Shit. Misses entirely. You all hear. Where is everyone? I climb back onto the pier. Coming this way, plopping around. Oh no, you're all there by yourself.

Disoriented. Oh my god. Covered in flame. Nugget is all by himself. Thaddeus comes creeping around the corner at you. Well, at least I can get one from the other one who's coming out to you. Oof!

Boof, boof. You go behind Thaddeus. Ooh, I'm going to run up and tackle. Can I? I'm still disoriented. It would be harder. What are you trying to do? I'm going to, as soon as I bamf behind him, I'm going to try to leap onto his back and pin him down.

Make a fierce check. Oh jeez. Little high. I've been freaking out for a while. You have. 10. Oh. That is what you needed. You bamf back. Where did Thaddeus?

Oh, Thaddeus is over here. You jump on top of Thaddeus, oh, Thaddeus is over here. You jump on top of Thaddeus, have him pinned down, you're drooling as the drools start to lick away a little bit of the singed feathers on him from where he got hit with the bottle rocket. Thaddeus! Why you got to be so mean?

I got a question. No, that is! I just lay on him, and I'm about to shout to the group, Go, you guys! Get out while you can! I have a home here! It's okay! That's actually true.

You all hear this. Clap, you have a moment to finally climb up onto this. The ship starts listing away from the dock as the chaos rages on on the rest of the boat. You all are all... You are all safe. We're on the wrong boat. Except minus one nugget, who has a heroic sacrifice

in the floating embrace of the People Wedge. You all did it. The battle on the dock rages on, with flames licking the side of the boat as it starts to pull away from the docks. Are there any humans on this boat? Sure. Suddenly, you hear,

Sprinkle! What are you doing? Get back over here! As you turn around, and the rest of the Mighty Nein are on the boat with all of you. You get the idea. I'm not going to move all those minis. Doc burns into

just a crispy little hot pocket. I love how drunk Professor Fanny is. Very good, like, this room. You had a good night's trip. I'm so happy. You see, as the boat pulls away, Nugget, on the boat, or on the docks, as you get further and further away,

you do see what appears to be Nugget bamfing away. And a fucked up looking owl that staggers off and lists a little as he dips and flies off deep into the jungle. I still have another trick for you. I still have another trick for you. I just had another trick for you.

He didn't want it. You assume Nugget is safe. And with all the murder and the destruction, that's all drowned out by the sheer joy that is flooding your all's minds. This is the start of your new life, a new world. Sprinkle.

You take this moment to relish the fact that you did it. You survived. Before a hand just grabs you around the scruff of the neck and tosses you into the hood of their coat. Come on, Sprinkle, I bet you're just all hungries. Biscuit. I was probably with biscuits.

Where are the espadrilles? Sorry. They all sail off into the night sky. Nicodranas. We're not animals! Would you like some biscuits? An ingester. Thank you. Who magically bamfed you through Laura Bailey.

My bucket's empty at this point, so I just hold up the bucket. Just shoves some biscuits to this crab and this octopus that you just assume here because of the ocean. That octopus has a bucket. Mind your business. That's odd.

Joanne, what are you doing as the boat slowly starts to sail away? You stay on the boat? Joanne is going to stay on the boat. I thought you were going to leave me. And kick back, cigar and biscuit, and go, Retirement.

Yes. Yes. You perch. I'll be on the boat later. You perch up in the crow's nest and you lean back on the rigging. The night sky becomes just brighter and brighter as the light pollution from the city slowly leaves your view.

And that is where we will end tonight's familiar problem adventure. Oh my goodness. What's really cool is nothing bad happens in that boat, so it's just a great retirement. We love that. The ball eater definitely survived. We all survived. This isn't a ball eater.

It's not? This is the Mist, the Mistake. Oh shit, the Mistake. Yeah, this is the Mistake. A mistake. Merge of the extended weekends. Am I supposed to, where's my ending? Okay, that's, oh, there we go. Thank you all so much for joining us

for Sprinkle's incredible journey. Clap. To tell your own stories with a familiar problem, dive in and visit darringtonpress.com slash familiar. And of course, thank you so much to Archie the owl. Yeah, Archie. Archie. He's the best. Fuck off.

Oh, oh, oh. Archie the best. Aw. Archie, thank you. Thank you to the amazing animal handlers. That bird's brain is harder than mine. Brought. There he is. Now he's looking at you. He brought. There he is. Now he's looking at you.

Thanks, buddy. Thank you so much. Thank you, darling. You're the best. It's like I'm an eagle. Of course I'm the best. Where's my biscuit? And thank you all.

Thank you, Heidi and Closet, for joining us. Thank you. Thank you, Isabel, Roland, for joining us. It was so much fun playing with you guys. It was a good one. Of course. Thank you to our Critical Role casting crew. Yeah. And thank you all.

You should donate to some of the animal charities that we threw up in the break, if you haven't left, because animals are the coolest. Yeah. Good night, and is it Thursday yet? Good night, everybody. Bye. Good night, Archie.

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