Dice Shame - 2-10 | 'Big Daddy'

Episode Date: November 3, 2022

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Steven, are you okay? Well, he doesn't have lips. Do you see? A knack, sit over there. Bring Jack's body to me. Whoa. Thanks, shame got so horny out of nowhere. I don't know what that was all about, but...

I don't know. I've just seen it in TV shows. Red, what are you talking about? Any of you call me mommy, I will drown you. I'm going to go get his boyfriend. Thanks, baby boy. I don't want Torin to get a wind of this. It's very DM dependent. All right, get him in.

As much as I think this tastes pretty good, I don't know that it's going to do it. We're going to need some stronger... Yeah. Something more potent. Just a fucking natural path. It's, I'm, I'm, I'm, like, I'm home you have. Just take some ginsen root. That's all you need.

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description now to donate and get ready to watch live. It's going to be a blast. And it's for a great cause. All right. Should we do this? Let's do it. It's a me, Chris Prattio. Yeah, I don't know so much about that choice in casting.

Chris Pratt is money. No one likes it. I don't get who they think they're appealing to. Welcome to the world of stunt casting. I hate it. Yeah, but I don't even get, like, Chris Pratt. guess they just put enough money at him and it's like, cool. Do I get to look heroic in it? Why him, though, of all of the actors that they could have chosen? Well, they go, they go,

what's going to bring money into the box office? They don't say, who's the best fit from Amari? So who's going to bring the most money into this box office? Who do the kids like these days? What do the youths like? Well, like he's not even really a draw. I feel like somebody on the marketing team or somebody like in the boardroom was like, I recently watched season two of Parks and Rec and I liked. Yeah, which was great. And then they were like, get me that guy. The guy made the joke about your computer. Get me the guy from Parks

and Rec Season 2. Yeah, your computer is a 404. All right. If you had to recast Mario, and it had to be a well-known name, obviously. Bob Hoskins. Bob Hawkins. It's already been cast. What do you want? Yeah. What do you want for me? It's already done. He did a great job. To me,

though, who fucking cares? Like, Mario doesn't talk in, like, any of the video games. He's just a violent protagonist. Like every video game that has Mario in any way, people are coming up to him being like, Mario, do this. And he's like,

oh, who ho. So I mean, moves on. But I think if you have to take the premise of the movie we've written requires Mario to have some lines and, you know, be a character.

But there's the issue. They wrote a stupid movie because don't make a character that needs to talk. They should have a legit Italian American plumber. Charles Mertonet is still alive. He's only 67. He could be doing this. But all he can say is Wahoo. Mario, the nuclear fallout is coming.

We need to know your answer to this question. Wah-hoo. He's like, mama me, I'm out of my death. Ay, aye, aye, aye, y, y, y, y, y. Charles Martinlet is in the Super Mario Bros movie, though. He's cast in cameo roles. Ah, cameo roles, a. They didn't forget about them.

Not important. I don't know, but to me, you could do a movie where Mario is the main character, but doesn't say a whole lot. And you just bring on these weird side characters that would allow him to still be the star, but not make him a different character. Because, like, I don't really give a shit what Mario says. I just want to see him jump on gumbas.

Hot take. Maybe. What is he going to offer? I just want to point out this thing from Charles Martinet's Wikipedia page. Says Martin's official debut as Mario was in the 1992 Super Mario Brothers pinball machine to being uncredited for the role. However, most are first exposed to his voice in the landmark 1996 game Super Mario 64 During the recording session, he and a few developers wondered what Mario would do when the player leaves him alone.

In the end, Martin had came with the idea that Mario would drew up pasta during his sleep. And in the final game, Mario says, 90-90, ah, spaghetti, ah, ravioli, ah, mamma-mia, when he did his second sleeping position. Oh, no. I remember when my brother and I discovered that so so distinctly. It's like a formative memory for me. Oh, man, I remember that game, too. We just, like, came back into the living room after we'd walked away from the game, and he was sleeping, and we were like, what?

He's sleep. It's very cute, though. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. I remember. He just goes like, oh, okay, I have to go to sleep now. I used to go to sleep. We, so we didn't afford an N64 growing up. We used to rent it from the video 99 or the jumbo video or something.

Jumbo. Yeah, and I remember my friend Tommy and I, we would rent it, like, you know, whatever weekends we would do sleepovers. and you'd rent the same game over and over and over again, trying to get as far as you possibly could, and then re-renting it the weekend after. Hoping against hope that no one saved over your last save. I don't remember using, I don't remember relying on saves.

Like, you just kind of were like, it was never even a question of, will this be here next time? It was just like, uh, yeah, I didn't know there really was, really any saving in console games. No,

what's saving? But we didn't, listen, when you live and die by a rental, we never, we didn't own a superintendents, We didn't own anything other than a PC, which, of course, you could save on a PC, but the mechanics of a video game console saving was so foreign to me. I remember, like, I was really a little kid, and we were renting NES games,

and you'd get them, and you'd have the little booklet with the codes of we've got this far and hit save, and this was the code of the state it's in, and so you try and other people save, so they've written them in the book, you know, to say, here's a cool save, go check it out. Yeah. No, we didn't rent, we didn't, I don't think we ever rented like a Super Nintendo. I think the first system I rented was 1064. I think, but I think even Super Nintendo had... Super Nintendo, I think at that point, they had the battery-powered saves.

Yeah. Yeah, they had the little battery pack in them, so you could save on the machine. But yeah, prior to that, it was codes. Well, I mean, PC games had that, too. I remember, like, Lost Vikings, when you got to a level, it was in a four-digit code. You know, like, KJN1-2, and you're, like, write that down, and then you just punch that back in. What a fucking great game. And there's also, like, EGM, like, magazines where, or Nintendo Power.

where you could, you know, get a magazine that would have different, like, cheat codes that you could try out or different save codes for different levels. Did you guys ever get a game, Jeannie? Oh, yeah. I used one, but we didn't have one. So awesome. No, I mean, we, like, rented it. They had them at the video store, two, video flicks where my brother and I used to go.

One thing I love is regional video store chains, like, from when you were a kid, and you're just like, oh, yeah, we used to go to, like, the VHS barn or something. Yeah. For us, it was Bianco's. I'm blanking on the name. I can picture this store. I can picture myself in it wandering around the aisles, but I cannot remember the name of this. Well, we had a jumbo video, and I remember they had a horror section that had these, like, mannequins, and they had a popcorn machine.

Do you remember that, Alex? Absolutely. The smell of a jumbo video, because there was only one, there wasn't one in Sudbury, but there was one in St. Catharines when I'd go see my grandparents, and I would go to the jumbo because it was near their place. And, yeah, it was this clear, clear, like, it smelled like popcorn. it smelled like cotton candy because they also had cotton candy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big giant bags. It's so strange that there's like a whole genre of retail building that just doesn't exist

anymore, right? That is such like an ingrained idea with like the movie posters. Well, Alex and I both worked at Blockbuster as well. So not only do we have that memory, but we both have the other side of that where we worked at a Blockbuster video and no longer. And I like was there right when it really started to fall apart. Do you see Netflix is putting out a comedy series about working at Blockbuster?

I saw that. You sound disproaching. I just, I mean, how fucking bottom of the barrel are these? Well, it just sounds like you. I got it, a series, but a dying video store. There was the one at a big box store that I watched that was pretty good. Superstore, right? Superstore, yeah.

I like that one. It's like Empire Records, but for the 2003. I guess. I don't know. Hey, man, we're going to listen to Lincoln Park and smoke weed in the back of John's Ackey. You want to join. What is it? A board game? Hybrid theory is so good.

I guess it's just depressing that that is still a memory of like, oh, I wasn't that long ago. I worked at a Blockbuster. And now it's like already a TV show in a nostalgia lens where it's like, man, remember when this existed? I'm like, fuck, I'm old because a show premise that some millennials pitched was like, oh, remember Blockbusters? Let's do a show there.

It's like that old now that when Henry watches it, he'll be like, so hold on, explain this to me? What was this? You guys used to rent physical videotapes and DVDs. Yeah, and DVDs and Blu-Rays. First of all, explain what that is, right? Yes. Yeah, no, we never had video game genius or anything like that.

We had PC gaming through and through, which we made our own fun. I remember playing Need for Speed and putting the chairs side by side, and one person would be on the joystick in front of the computer and would be at their side and you would like, and then one person would be in the back, remember? It was two, there's four seats, yeah. Yeah, yeah, and then we were driving the family. coop. So one person would be like playing the game and one person would just be sitting behind.

That's awesome. I love you, a backseat driver. It's like the kid, the person, the one who's in the baby seat. Go laugh. But the thing is, we were so bad at video games. It's funny because I remember like I've, you know, every once in a while I'm going a nostalgia kick and I'll replay like King's Quest and especially with Henry now, right? Because he's old enough to be like, oh.

And I just remember going to scenes and being like, oh, I was so bad at this. And now I'm playing it. I'm like, this is so easy. It's such logical deductions that can be made in this. The prime nostalgia period for the video games that we used to play when we were little. It's like the first 10 minutes of gameplay because there's a point at which your skill level couldn't really get you past like the first few introductory missions, right? And just replay those over and over again.

Do you want to go back to the Wax Museum? Because I just kept dying and having to go back to that screen where it's like, where would you like to go next over and over and over again. There's only one place because that's all you've unlocked. I can only unlock the Wax Museum. But now... Now you play D&D. Yeah, the ultimate video game.

That's right. That's not actually a video game. But they try. God bless him, they try. They try. It's Alders Gates still in early release. You'll never really be able to make a video game out of true Dungeons and Dragons.

No? No, you'd have to perfect the ability for the game to tell you that it doesn't have time to do this and you can't play it because it's not available. Yeah, yeah. You load it up. I don't like that choice you made. Sorry, I've got to work tonight.

Oh, they do have it. It's a booking simulator. Play on the 12th. No, the 13th. No, what about the 14th in the evening? No, we have an hour on the 60th. Come back on the DM isn't working. Should we play some D&D?

Let's do it. Yeah. It's the monster's turn. The creature begins to pursue Jack and Stephen through the water. And then, at the last month, moment seems to hesitate. Its tentacles flare once, and then it jets backward into the far reaches of the lagoon, its terrifying body disappearing from view into the depths of the dark.

What hell? Sevin! Bring Jack's body to me! Red's animal companion, Sevin, brings Jack's limp body to the surface of the water in front of where Red stands on the rocky shore. Red, it doesn't look like he's breathing. Jack! Red falls down by Jack's side and pulls in the last little bit from the water up to the shore. Come on, buddy.

Come on. Not like this. Not like this. The worst part is it's not that Jack's body isn't moving because it's full of worms about to pop at any moment. It's just not moving

in like a nice regular breathing moment. He's not breathing. Yeah. But he is squiggling under his skin. Oh my God. Yeah, Red sees these squiggling worms and he's like, oh God. all right

and he's going to cast cure wounds on Jack at a level three nice because I think he needs it I mean something tells me we're out of initiative order

right now in terms of the combat but we do have also another unconscious party member Jack of course until oh never mind then Red pushes Jack aside and dives into the Stephen, are you okay? You had to touch that horrible thing. Also, the human who Doran rescued from among a pile of similar-looking human men.

Who's hopefully, uh, Remy. It's someone, for sure. Guys, guys. Doran comes, like, walking across the water, holding this body. Guys, guys, and girls, there's, there's, I think this is someone we're looking for. There's a bunch of similar-looking white, gray-haired men over there. Hold on, darling. Jack's down and...

What? And I'm going to cast cure wounds. 20, you get 20 points back. Nice. Hey, Jack's fine. As you sit up and I pat your back. Come on. Get out, buddy.

Get that water out. Well, coughing up water. In the classic, you know, coming back to life after drowning sense. Blu. What movie is that from? What am I thinking of? All of them.

Oh, every movie. Like, you're like, spitting up water. I think it's just how they do it. illegal for any movie to be made without someone doing that swim fan i'm thinking oh honey i shrunk the kids but we didn't do the trope of where i kiss jack to try to get him back can you do that real quick yeah well that was delicious that was how red kisses troubling well he doesn't have lips he has like he's like a like a foxman i don't know i've just seen it and tv shows and stuff i don't think doren would have been jealous about that if he had

known what he was yeah smells like fish and rabbit jerky red has like like like like kitty jaws so he just kind of just like ow like a cat eating food my tongue is so rough all right yeah jack you come too come on buddy come yeah no all right ah fuck what you almost lost it there yeah what are we safe what happened i don't know the thing was about to take you out but it it turned tail and ran it it seemed to have i don't know hey something seemed odd about it Hey, wait up, guys. We're coming. Come on, buddy.

And Red's going to try to lift you over his back. Fireman carry and carry you across the water. Make a strength check. It's okay, buddy. What's your strength scores? Less than 10, right? You know what? Let me worry about that.

All right. 19. Hey, yeah, even though Jack is all waterlogged, you have no problem. Listen, Jack, when parents are worried for the children, they have superhuman strength. So just call me daddy, okay? just say daddy help me and I can carry you across the wall god weird no no not like that just say

daddy like you're my child just say dad help me at this point maria sort of she swum over and she's poked her head up from the water and then she hears that going on and then just goes back under red what are you talking about come on just say dad help me like bee wood not in a weird way and she pops back up over to door

and he goes I think there's some weird thing happening over there with those two that shame got so horny I don't of nowhere. It was so gradually. I never even noticed. You made it horny. Red is not saying this from a horny place. Everyone who knows Red knows he's just a sweet. I wanted to also make the joke. It's an Alex thing. The Alex is getting horny again. It's the horny Alex thing. Yeah. The horny Alexes.

Come on little boy. Doran sort of yells across the cavern. Hey, Red. Yeah. Do you see an exit over there? I don't think so. Let me look. And I'll run south. There's only one way out, and it's the way we came in. Well, come on, little boy. We're going to get out of here. And Red tries to pick up Jack, but... No, you don't.

Your legs are too full of worms. Come on. Too many worms. Way too many worms. Welcome back to too many worms. Listen, I succeed at the strength check. Let me have this. It's so rare I get to show off my muscles.

Please. It's all you, Daddy. Thanks, baby boy. and red like with a newfound energy bolts towards the exit Daddy's got you I'm giving you both inspiration for being

horny Daddy and son to each other Perfect All right Red has the exit It's a new dynamic Yeah why not Dorin carrying the unconscious man

And looking over at Mari he's like I don't know what that was all about but Oh, let's also get to the surface. Do you need him to call you daddy to carry him? No, no, I don't. Let's just keep moving.

And Doran lags behind. Mari moves up ahead and then Doran just whispers to the corpse, but if you want it to, I'm okay with it. Mari just yells out. If any of you call me mommy, I will drown you. You drag yourselves through the dark sludge of the sewer system. Jack, your illness continues to wear on you. Your trip back up to the surface city takes about an hour, and you take one level of exhaustion.

Okay. I feel like it's right around that point where Red's like, all right, I'll put you down, and then you get that next level of exhaustion. And you're like, uh, actually, all right, I'll continue. You climb the ladder and exit the warehouse to reveal water deep at night. It's much colder here above ground, and your wet clothes immediately start to freeze. Starlight casts a dim glow all around you, stinking and freezing. This sucks. Should we just go back to the copper cup?

Look, Remy's house is right there. You two investigated, so long as it's got a bed we can put him in and maybe a basin that we can wash up, let's just get somewhere warm. Yeah, I guess we already know that it has a bed. Yeah. Because Jack and Mari went there. We'll let's get him home, yeah. Can I do a check to see if he's even, like, functioning?

Please do You can either make a medicine check Or a perception check I'm going to do a medicine check Are we kind of doing this as we're walking? Yeah I kind of picture us walking and you're doing this well Come on, I'll open the back door

And Red carries Jack up the back steps And wiggles the back door Yeah, just we can't squeeze through it Just like here, let me lean on you a little bit But we can I don't remember the sewers being that smelly On the way in But on the way out it seemed to just go on forever

Would you roll, Mari? 24. Nice. That's going in the song. 24. I rolled a 24. You see that Rimi seems to be slowly regaining some measure of consciousness, although he's clearly not doing well.

The most notable thing about his condition right now that's changed since you first picked him up out of this gloomy, lagoon is that the skin on his face, his arms and hands is starting to chap and crack to the point where it's almost starting to bleed. We have to moisturize him now. Yeah. Quick, get me some nivier. You're not wrong. Yeah.

I feel like Red opens the back door and we pour into the house in like a cacophony of boots and noise and quickly Red puts jack down or leans him against the counter. Come on. Come on, let's get inside. Yeah, and Red shuts the door. Look, remember, there's a lot of dead people back there, and we don't need questions right now. What's up with him, Mary?

He's drying out. Yeah, he feels crispy on my neck. It's not the same as what's happening to Jack. Like, if I put my hand on his arm or something, I don't feel anything squiggling under the surface, right? Mm-mm. All right, so it's not the same as what's happening to Jack, but he's peeling away, like, dry paper.

Oh, my gosh. That's disgusting. Should we put him in a tub or something? Yeah, let's get him in a tub. Doran, help me out back. Bring in the trough from outside. Well, sure, but I think someone should run to the copper cup and get his spouse or whatever.

Come on, Doran. I want Mari to go for this guy and leave these three. The man full of bugs and two guys who weren't like... I don't want Toran to get a wind of this. I want this to be solved before we go to... That's just... Dorn, help me with the trough from outside. Of course.

Because there's no water in this house. Oh, for sure. And Dora, like, drags this huge steel. water-filled draw. Come on. And we like dragging the back door, water splashing around. I like pull out a dagger and chip at the frozen ice on top to like mix it up again. All right, get him in.

Yeah. This might be a little cold. I was going to say, I think it's a... I'm a little worried this might give him hypothermia. Not a wise thing. Jack, use your little file room. Warm this thing up. Yeah, I can try.

Yeah. And Jack pulls out the opal of the illed ruin and starts to... I mean, you could just like firebolt the shit out of it. I can also light a small campfire just with Druid craft in the middle of someone. All right, everybody just get it warm. That's all we care about. It doesn't matter how. Don't start whipping them out.

Just someone warm this up. And Doran's looking a little bit uncomfortable. He's like, he's kind of standing there wringing his hands, not really sure what to do. But then he thinks to himself, you know what? I'm going to go get his boyfriend. And he leaves. I'm going to the copper couple right back. Do you remember his name?

No. You do have the mobile feat, so you can hustle. Sure. Good luck. But I know what the person looks like, right? You do. That's right. And I do actually.

I don't know why they'd be at the copper cup, but. Doran heads off out the back door into the night to fetch this man's loved one. All right, Marie, it's just you and me saving these two people. Jack's like, hold. I'll help. I got this. Let me do something. All right.

Mari, I guess, let's put this guy into the water. What do we know about what's happening to him? His skin is cracking and is peeling, and he's still unconscious. As Mari and Red, you bodily just handle this man and dump him in a trough of what was very recently ice water. He sputters to life, shocked by this icy bath. And he goes into cardiac arrest. Hey, it's all right It's okay

Are you okay? Are you all right? Sorry, this probably isn't helping you. Answer us quickly. You rescued me. Oh, you had to. We got paid handsomely. Wait, no, we didn't. We wanted to.

We didn't need to get paid for this. It's fine. Yeah, no. That was someone else. We just want to keep Doran away from the copper cup. Who are you? Well, you sent him back there. I feel like Jack's saying that from the corner.

He's like in a pile. He's just holding his stomach. We just wanted to keep Doran away. Meanwhile, Doran's running back to the only place he was asthma to be. Does the water feel better? Your skin was dry. And I want to look down at his legs and stuff now that they're underwater. It seems like the skin has stopped sloughing off.

That's a plus. To a point. Keep your hands underwater, man. There's a big look of relief and he just starts pawing his water all over his face and drinking it greedily. Yes, I found that I need to stay wet. Or else it burns.

What burns? My skin, everything, terribly. Okay. When did that start happening? It's been days. I was out on an errand when I was kidnapped some people, some slimy people. And then he looks at his hand

and sees like his own slime is sort of rejuvenating now from having been dipped back in water. Red gets up and heads to the bed and tears off some like extra sheets and he comes back and he dunks them in the water and he like wraps them around the parts of his body that are exposed to the air. You see just pure gratitude in the man's eyes

at the care that you're giving him and it's tinged with revulsion at himself. Next thing I can remember I was being kept in the sewers, I think, underground, the terrible smell in the water. And then I was brought to sea, the monster. Did you see it? Did you hear it? Yes. Oh, yes. It dragged me underwater and spoke into my mind, asked me questions about my life.

I couldn't breathe. What did it want to know? It wanted to know where I came from, if I'd been across the water. It demanded to know my name, and it seemed unsatisfied with me, but it told me that I would still be of use as a servant. I was on the shore of the lake, then surrounded by corpses and filth, and that's when I noticed for the first time that I was sick, that I

had to keep dipping into the water or else my skin would start burning would fall off and it was terrible the other corpses

and red turns to marry did you see any of the other corpses were any of them alive? Everyone else there was dead everyone else was dead the thing that monster told me that I could that I could die there

if I wanted, but I didn't know what I wanted anymore. And you have no idea why this creature attacked you? No, it. No, I don't know. Did it ask you any specific questions? Did it lean into trying to know anything from you? Did it ask you to make a deal? It asked me if I was cabin.

Cabin. Do you know who that is or what that is? I have no idea. Well, where I'm from, we call it a camp. Sorry. No, but, uh... Marie, can you figure out what's wrong with them? I mean, you roll perception, but not like medicine.

Oh, you did roll medicine. I also have... One of my features is a researcher. What does that mean? When you attempt to learn or recall a piece of lore, if you don't know the information, you often know where or from whom you can obtain it. Hmm.

Often, but not always. Yeah, the library. Yeah. you go go up to hand the knowledge it's very it's very it's very DM dependent so sure sure I don't think that this affliction this monster is well known to these parts right so I don't think that marie necessarily knows what to do about this although I appreciate that you want to use your feature this is probably one of the rare times that it is not going to really come into play how are you feeling are you feeling different than you were before are you hungry do you feel any sort of motivation or purpose put upon you and red sort of gives like a wary eye to both jack and marie kind of being like you know we've dealt with a number of creatures that sort of can act as like servitors for certain things and at this point red's moved past the okay this guy's safe but is he safe like is he someone that can be trusted I feel

fine changed but it's good to be back home and he looks around his apartment who are you can I roll insight on that first sure fucking liar

you want to eat brains don't shucks to be back home fuck this place I hope my boyfriend doesn't find me I got a good role I got a 23 Pretty sincerely grateful.

Pretty, but not completely. I wanted to roll on the thing he said before the gratefulness about when he said he doesn't feel any different. I wanted to know if he's being sincere and like, yeah, like, put it this way. Jack also said, I don't have worms in my belly, but we could tell something he was wrong, you know, if he was like, no, I don't have worms in my belly, and then I rolled on it and I could tell he was lying.

I want to make sure this guy don't have worms in his belly. For sure. He doesn't appear to have worms. Well, not specifically that. From your insight role, you deduce that he sincerely believes that apart from the fact that his skins peeling off when he's not in the water, he is otherwise unafflicted, I suppose. That's his own belief. Yeah, yeah, that's enough. Okay. Who are you?

Thank you for rescuing me. But how did you find me? Oh, well, we're adventurous, your friend or partner, Osgood. Oslid. Oslid. He came by the copper cup. Not of a station. Osmond.

And mentioned you were missing. Donny Osmond. We decided to go look into it and one thing led to another. And then we were in the sewers and then there were horrifying critters. And now you're where you are and I'm where I am and we're here and Doran's running the copper cup. I should pay you or I'm very grateful. for this service. I don't know how adventurers work.

Do you need a reference letter? Yes, we do take various forms of payment. Mari just slaps her hand on Red's head and goes, it's fine. Yes, it's fine. We're just glad you're okay. Can I ask one favor, though? Of course.

Do you have a kettle? Yes. Can I use it? Yes, just there. He's in like, it's like a studio apartment. So you can sort of see like the, he's got like, a wood-burning oven and there's a kettle on top of it and everything. Mario goes over and get some water in the kettle.

Not from her hair. That's disgusting. Sure. It's from the bathtub. From the tubbies in, obviously. This is entirely because she has a herbalism kit. This lady loves a tea. Hey, Jack?

No, is it herbalism or herbalism? I'm saying herbalism. I refuse to let that H be silent. It deserves to be there, damn it. Pay homage to the H, even though I didn't there. It's all. Original choice. Oh, no.

Hoisted by your own pater. Homage to the H. And fun fact, marigolds are used to, they're used to, like, in gardens to, like, you don't want nematodes or worms or things like that. Marigolds are... Is that fun? That's fun for me. It's fun for me.

Weird plant person. And she brews some marigold tea, mostly because she's still every time she looks at Jack is deeply uncomfortable. Oh, yeah. So those are generally used to repel insects, worms, bugs, grubs. Yeah, Red's not even looking at Jack anymore. He's just like, pretty straightforward. Jack's doing his best not to look at Jack or...

He's talking to him. Yeah, Red also takes note and he, like, walks over and starts a fire in the small stove. Yeah. Actually, no, she did do that because she did use Druidcraft. Oh. Because that does create small fires. You can light a fire or a candle. Red walks over to start a fire and it's already lit and he's like,

oh, I need something to do. me away from Jack, and this guy whose skin is sloffing off, and Doran ran away. Could you find some aloe? What the hell? Allo to you too. What would you say, Joe, if not only did I happen to get Oslid, but I also come across a doctor, like would that be something? Because I'm trying to think of... You'll probably have to go to a temple to get healing for Jack soon.

I love the idea of Doran bursting in. Does anyone here a doctor? For real. It's like a pub. He's like, oh, I need to sit and have a beer to think this through. He stores just drinking a tanker in mail. Torrin, I need to tell you something. Yes.

A chakudery platter. Is it still here? Yes? He comes back? I need to finish it first. We'll talk in a minute. He comes back with Osloid, but he's also got, like, a sandwich and like a two-four. And like half a wheel of cheese.

Sorry, it took me so long. I was really hungry. Hey, boys. so we've got tea brewing we've got dreamy soaking in a tub what else is going on red will walk back over and kneel next to the tub with the guy say why did the thing ask you if you came across the sea you know red knowing that this thing referenced a dream that took place at sea red's dream and knowing that red himself has come across the waters It's sort of turning itself over in the back of Red's mind.

Did it say anything else about to see you or just asked you? I don't know. Its voice in my head was so horrifying. It was like buzzing and echoing deep in my brain. It didn't tell me why it was asking me questions. It was just drilling down inside of me. It started talking about things I didn't even remember were memories, things that happened to me when I was a kid. Red pulls the coin out of his pocket and he flicks it towards Mary, who I kind of hope clumsily does the thing that most people do when they don't catch it and kind of does the double catch but then does catch it?

Yeah, she turns around and it just bounces off her chest and then she tries to catch it and then it just hits the ground. and then she sort of awkwardly makes a swiping motion and just kind of picks it up. Clearly I meant to do that. Misses it the first swipe. But I feel like Red flicked it and then turned away and Jack and Red were both turning away so that she did all that.

And by the time we look back, she's holding it as if she caught it. Rini has a visceral reaction to that coin. He almost tries to like squirm away from it in the tub and kicks up a bunch of water. Whoa, whoa, what's wrong? Oh, that, that, that, that, that thing. What is that? Hey, well, it's a coin.

We found a few of them. The monster showed me a picture of it and asked me if I had any. Why? Why did it ask you about that coin? I don't know. He said that he found some and if I knew where I could get some. If I, if I knew who had any, that it might let me go. But that, that coin, that image, that monster put that image in my head over and over and over again.

for hours demanding that I find it, that I find some. Mari, this is a coin we found in the humprat household, just north of here in a town called Belliard. It was tucked away in a box, in a trunk. The box it was locked in was an infernal puzzle box. And as red says it, he looks at Jack for a second. Both our eyes shine that red from the puzzle box back at each other. And it just adds a new dimension to Jack's squirming skin as a worm-crawling.

beside the eyeball it's not good they do though both jack and red have like in one of their eyes you know in an animal when you like shine a flashlight you can almost see it like reflect in very certain circumstances red and jack both have an eye that do that this puzzle box was impossible to open jack and i spent hours trying to figure out the configurations and eventually when it clicked open it caused insurmountable amount of psychic damage to both of us and threw both of us back and it forever scarred us in a way but also bonded us I mean this would make a terrible friendship necklace if you cut in half but certainly well that's not even the one we found in there and red reaches in the bag of holding and

pulls out an identical coin this is the one we found in there that's the one I found on the body down in the sewers now we haven't found out where these relate to other than a boat in Yara. Our friend Zokin told us when he was working there. Oh, you know him. We've met. Boy, have we met. Yeah, he's that asshole.

Took all my stuff. Anyway, why this thing is looking for them? I have no idea. Maybe it likes gambling. Maybe. It tried to make me an offer. You hear a terrible commotion from outside, and Doran's gruff voice coming from distant and getting closer, and closer.

There's not much more to the story. The door busts open and Doran is there. Sweaty-faced from having run. Oh my God, Remy! Oslid like drops to his knees at the side of the tub and tries to embrace Remy and Remy like fights him off a little bit and it's like, don't, don't look at me. Buddy, I don't think I touch him right now. Maybe just give it a day or two.

Yeah. Yeah. In fact, you really shouldn't be. and the two of them have kind of a tenuous reunion with Oslid being very fawning and horrified in turns and Rimi just kind of not really knowing how to deal with all of this and the four of you are just standing in this man's living room really awkward Jack is sipping the marigold tea and whispers to Mari as much as I think this tastes pretty good I don't I don't know that it's going to do we're going to need some stronger,

something more potent. I mean, I don't... She's a fucking natural path. Yeah, it's, I'm, I'm... Just take some ginsen root. That's all you need. Yeah, we use some ryan and vinegar. Drink this three times a day.

Have you considered just going vegan, Jack? We just do some rakey really quick. I mean, as much as I appreciate good energy work, I, um... Yeah, I don't know. It's just a little relaxing for the bugs. I don't know if that's a something you've got. The closest temple is a temple of saloon A few streets over

Someone there might be able to help me I think we should go right now Yeah I'm at this at this point The only spell that's gonna that's gonna work with you Is animal friendship after all those things burst out of your body So I don't want to get there I have that Dory gives like a side eye look to to Mari

You know like this person who is like Originally really afraid of death is making now some pretty grim jokes You guys just met earlier today Yeah, that's right. Oh, my God, it's the same day. That's right. Yeah, it's getting quite late as well. Being the temple of the moon, I'm sure they're still up.

Well, I don't think we should waste any more time. And Doran kind of like puts his arm around your waist. Help me up. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, come on, body. And red goes on the other side. Let's go. Stop moving, Jack.

You're going to hurt. Oh, that's not you. Oh, that's a big one. No, I. Doran, feel this one. Oh, don't. This lower back. Holy shit.

Don't, don't poke. It's against the son of my head. Don't poke it out. It's so big. Okay. Mario looks over at Osloid and Remy and goes, I just stay with you guys. Thank you.

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