Dice Shame - 2-11 | 'Sweet Dreams'

Episode Date: November 10, 2022

Imagine your best game of D&D. The shocks, the twists and turns, the moments that can’t be caught because you just had to be there. That’s Dice Shame.Join our DM Jo, her husband Harlan, their ...brother Alex & their best friends Rob and Alex as they experience those unmissable, gut-wrenching, heart-aching, joy-filled moments.This legendary AP releases a brand new episode every Thursday morning at 1:20 am!Content Warning: swearing, violence, horror, mental illness, animal death, bodily horror, forced body horror, non-consensual parasitic horror and suicide.Part of the Rusty Quill Network Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 For when they pull them out of your butt. Famously, people love it when you yell outside in the middle of the night. I don't know how to celebrate this. This doesn't make any sense. All orifices! Hey, I got bit by a bug and now I got them crawling all inside of me. Want to say something cool? Ah, how much of this have you planned?
Starting point is 00:00:15 They're just charging me more because I have fur. Can't imagine how those assassins track Dorin' Down. Just holding a fistful of pineapple witches. More to enjoy! Stop shaking your head, Tyler! Man is that zero to a hundred of... You met these guys seven or eight hours ago at a bar. So clammy.
Starting point is 00:00:43 Welcome back to Dice Shame. This is Season 2, Episode 11, Sweet Dreams. MVP this week is Bill Dudney from Twitter, who is only on episode 22, hopefully a lot more by now, and cannot wait to keep listening. Thanks, Bill. Hope you hear this when you get here. Thanks, Bill. if you're enjoying dice shame but you need some more good good actual play podcast action i can't recommend our friends at planet arcana highly enough planet arcana is a tightly edited taro flavored retro futuristic d and d podcast co-demed by b and our close friend jay who also whips up some incredible original soundtrack music the game has immaculate vibes somehow ultra chill and high octane at the same time with a ton of tabletop chemistry absolutely check them out don't miss it all right shall we do this yeah let's play some d and d who do you guys think
Starting point is 00:01:43 you are in the top one percent of anything in the world in terms of skills or knowledge or yeah income you're in the top one percent Alex no I shouldn't say you should share I would say All of us are, like, in the top 3% at least, even if we're not making very much money. Of what? Of the world? The world income, yeah. Of income? I don't know if the actual figures, but it just seems right because there's so many people
Starting point is 00:02:09 and we make good money here in Canada. But that's not what you're talking about. Continue, go on. No, I mean, that's absolutely a fair point. It's honestly, I don't know enough about it to dispute it. I wouldn't say 1%. I would go 20% for sure. I honestly don't know.
Starting point is 00:02:25 I couldn't even wager a guess. I'm going to split the difference, say 10%. So, boy, okay. Top 1% of anything? Yeah. It's okay. Rob's Googled it. Let's find out.
Starting point is 00:02:34 Rob, tell us, tell us more. Tell us how fucking privileged we are. There's 8 billion people in the world. And so 1% of 8 billion people is a lot of people. This is true. That's, this is my whole context for it. 7.98 billion people. So you, you know, you're...
Starting point is 00:02:49 It's like, what's that? What's what percent? Is that? 79 million people? 800 million? 80 million people? Is it 80 or 800? I guess that would 10%.
Starting point is 00:02:58 80, yeah. 80 million. What am I in the top 1% of it? Or do you think you're in the percent? I mean, we must be. I just, I feel like you wouldn't know for some of it. You know, like maybe you're the 1% of the people that have a mole on this cheek. Hey, 1% of people who have moles on their faces.
Starting point is 00:03:18 Yeah, like I have a mole to the left of my nose. I bet we're in the top 1% of people closest to the North Pole. I bet there are not 80 million. people closer to the North Pole than we are. Put it this way. Out of 100 random people in the world, you are one of those. Just like a random sampling. What are you the only person who, well, it's 1%.
Starting point is 00:03:42 Definitely 1% of the Harlan's in the world, probably. Yes. 1% of the people with your name. I got a book here written by a guy named Harlan. I could easily just read, no, not Harlan, Ellison, a different one. Harlan, Coburn? Yeah, it is Coben. this has been another episode of things that Alex has close to her computer
Starting point is 00:04:01 Rob what are you in the top 1% oh I don't know do you take checks you've chosen a very I'm gonna say boring things so far people close to the I was looking for sure I love the idea just trying to trying to you know I like my mole thing so far that's the winner the mole thing is very good I like it thank you I feel like I'm in the top 1% of people who have had like more than five hair colors total because I I've had like, I've had like 15. I think that's probably fair. I used to dye my hair all the time, and I feel like I'm up there for just like sheer
Starting point is 00:04:35 variations. But we can bump that number higher, Alex. Let's get it done. Oh, man. Yeah, I miss it. It was fun. It was a good time. And then, and then I got lazy.
Starting point is 00:04:46 It was the worst of times. It was the hair color time. Yes. What was your most regretted hair color decision? I had this, like, sort of like, weird. Barfee green. lavender like sort of was like a bluey lavendery kind of color that like I've seen in other people and I like quite a bit but then on me I think just with my complexion I just looked really red and I didn't or just kind of ruddy all the time and I was like oh I don't look good with this and and the worst thing was that it was a very similar color to the grad robes when I graduated high school for some reason rather than doing like a like a colorful stripe they were like what if the whole rope was like a weird bluey purple and you had a matching mortar board and I was like a This seems like a choice, but okay.
Starting point is 00:05:29 Do you say motorboat? Motor board? Woo, yeah. Let's go. Let's go to grad. But like, did you have your hair done for grad at the same time? Was it like a weird coincidence or were you just like one weird color? That did happen to my grad, but it did happen at a wedding.
Starting point is 00:05:48 I was in a wedding. And I had dyed my hair teal and then I got the dress. And I don't know what happened, but I was like, my hair. matches the dress, and that wasn't planned. It had been, like, ordered ages ago or, like, made, like, made ages ago, and I got it. And I was like, oh, fuck, my hair is the exact same color. Does the dress match the curtains? Oh, my God, yes.
Starting point is 00:06:08 There was a lot of photos where I was captioning with that. I bet we're in the top 1% of hours of role-playing games played. Maybe you guys are. I'm in the top, maybe 20% at this point. I'm catching up. Come on. Well, yeah, actually, that's true, because the role players are so few in the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:25 Okay, I'm with you. Not to mention the fact that you and I, Harlan, at least, I mean, Alex has been on a lot of the Invictus stream, but that's been going since 2015. That's true. I got, I got hours under my belt of role play. I think I might carry the title then for most amount of time playing a game that I don't really know how to play. That's probably true. You might be the top of that order. The list zooms in and up the 10 people of the 8 billion in the world, Alex is like second to top.
Starting point is 00:06:55 hours of this game. He still doesn't questions about how to play the basic rules. Least understanding per hours plays. There's an amazing Venn diagram when you zoom in really close and you look and there's like two circles
Starting point is 00:07:06 and they overlap at one point and it's like people who play this obsessively people who have no idea what's going on and in the middle it's just your name. And you're like, we found it. He should know by now. By Job, he's found it.
Starting point is 00:07:22 Joe, what about you? Oh, I'm just going to say a boring thing about work, probably top 1% of people who know stuff about transfusion science. Boring. Yeah, it's pretty boring. That's okay. I love how you said, well, your answers are boring so far. I've only got boring.
Starting point is 00:07:37 I'll show you boring. You want to hear boring. Rolls up sleeves. I'm the top 1% of insurance brokers in this freaking world. Hey, sure. Joe, you could have said something like, you're in the top 1% of people who could like really effectively be a vampire on like a pincawl. Like a sudden notice be like, hey, you have to be a vampire, and you're like, I can do this.
Starting point is 00:07:58 I know what to do. I feel. I know how to get blood. I feel like there's some strange skill that I may have that I just haven't discovered yet, you know, that like I could be among the top 1% of. Vampirism. Javelin the throwers. But I've just never gotten my hands around one of those long poles, you know. It was good to feel like you're not done learning then.
Starting point is 00:08:21 Yeah, I have untapped potential. I'm waiting. 1% of ice sculpture carvers. I'm just waiting for the day that I'm like walking through a field and a javelin shoots by and then like all of a sudden there's just like, it's like a movie and there's like an Olympic coach and he's like, it's that girl. And the next thing you know, you're just like at the Olympics and they're like, you're like, I've barely trained for this.
Starting point is 00:08:43 Yeah, like he comes up to it. He's like, let me see your triceps. Let me see those triceps. I've never seen such. And then it makes perfect sense. Top 1% of people who. died at the Olympics, Joe. What, it boomeranged back?
Starting point is 00:09:00 Shunk! It does when I do it. What if it's something that shouldn't exist? Like, your top 1% of people that can telepathically communicate with a Brazilian aunt, that's very rare. Speaking of things that Alex has close at hand, she's got a boomerang.
Starting point is 00:09:16 Hey, it must be an Alex thing. She just got one. The enthusiasm, which she disappeared off screen and came back with a boomerang was very good. Big smile. Oh, no. Double Alex Boomerang. Both Alexes have boomerang.
Starting point is 00:09:27 You guys are in the top 1% of Alex's with boomerang. Hold them both up. Top 1% of the Alexes during a die-shame recording session that both have boomerangues. Do you guys know how to throw them? No. No. I do you know how to throw a boomerang, you just throw it. No.
Starting point is 00:09:46 Oh, you mean do you not to throw it so that it comes back? Well, yeah. Those are two of questions. Certainly I let it fall from my hands. I mean, that is like a child's plate or whatever the, what's the charity stream? Like the idea of doing a scavenger hunt where the audience gives you an item and the first one to go find it in your house and come back with it. Oh, for extra life. For extra life.
Starting point is 00:10:06 Sorry, that would be a great extra life charity thing. Did you go to a child's play? Child's thing. I said child's play because that's the other charity. Chuckie. No, it's the. There is a child's play charity. Really?
Starting point is 00:10:19 That's an awful name. Let me catch you. Is it? My brain goes, is it Penny Archie? It's the penny arcade one where they They started bringing like video games to kids in hospitals to help them recover and it's become a whole thing Are they not aware child's play as a horror movie?
Starting point is 00:10:34 I feel like that's inconvenient And they have a great mascot who they named Chuck And it's this nice little red-headed child doll Who murders everyone It doesn't seem to have held him back so I guess I never heard of it Bullshit I'm just kidding Good good on you for helping kids
Starting point is 00:10:51 Well good on both of you for having boomerangs. Good job, Alex's. You did the 1% thing. Congratulations. Should we play some D&D? Let's do it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:00 Let's do it. One percent of the shows on the Rusty Quill Network. Hey. The Temple of Saloon is a place where navigators pray before setting out on voyages.
Starting point is 00:11:18 And as the goddess of the moon, it's certain that it will be open to all visitors into the the dawn hours. The temple has a roof set with panes of glass that somehow magnify the moonlight that streams down from the clear night sky. The glass must be carved with light etchings. You can see as you walk in the shafts of light produce faint images, almost too indistinct to identify the prow of a ship, a pregnant doe, a pair of shifting eyes. The images caress the smooth stone steps that lead up to a central altar space, and rows of benches radiate
Starting point is 00:11:56 outwards from all sides. As you enter, you're approached by a human woman whose dark hair hangs in pools and waves. She's dressed in a white cloak. Welcome visitors to the house of saloon. Some of you are badly hurt. What services can we provide you? I got bit by a bug and now I got them crawling all inside of me. It was in the sewers. You got bugs in the brain. All of us feeling a little worse for wear but i think your main concern is is the bug man pretty sure they're going to hatch in less than before dawn anyways it's it's going to be bad if we don't do something and i don't know what to do she takes your hand and sort of palpates up your arm a little bit yeah that's a big one and notes with a wince the places that are moving under your skin i am artemis a priestess of saloon
Starting point is 00:12:46 but lack the powers that are requisite for this. Please follow me. She leads you down a few hallways into another chamber set with these skylights. Moonlight just streaming in. There's another woman there who appears to be doing some prayer work in front of an altar. I guess we'll follow. Would you mind if I sat inside and just prayed? Of course.
Starting point is 00:13:16 are welcome. Thank you. Thank you. And Doren kind of quietly mumbles to himself and walks in and sits at one of the pews. Interesting. Yes, some depth here. Mari and Redd, you guys are going with Jack, supporting him. Sure.
Starting point is 00:13:35 Here, uh, bite on this and Red pulls out a piece of dowling and hands it to Jack. For when they pull them out of your butt. The cleric turns and examines you, Jack, and then shakes her head and says, This is some evil, this sorcery. Sure feels that way. What happened to you? A creature, I don't know how else did it, tentacles and looked kind of like a person but transformed in the sewers and struck me with something and pushed something inside of me. And then I've been feeling these things start to hatch and crawl around.
Starting point is 00:14:08 And I've taken copious notes. And I think with my friends, we could reconstruct a pretty good timeline. but she shakes her head and begins to mutter a few quiet words and you feel the spell crackle lightly over your skin like static she reaches to the sky almost to grasp a shaft of moonlight and nothing else really happens the spell is subtle except inside of you jack you begin to feel immense pain as you start to revolce and expel the spawn of this creature from the sewers you have heave and a few disgusting tadpoles flop to the floor, milk white and streaked with your blood, spasming tentacles angrily around their mouths gaping and working at the air. And they start to sort of crawl around like beached octopye. Oh, God. Question for scientific purposes.
Starting point is 00:15:04 Yes, Alex. Which orifice is he expelling them from? All orifices. I'm going to say mouth, mouth. Just for palatibility. Just for podcasting. Fair enough. Red goes to pick one up and then stops.
Starting point is 00:15:22 He's like, not this time. Mari just grabs his arm. Do not touch that. But Shale needs a little brother. Yeah, she's the daughter of Eldath. Oh my God. What? That is disgusting.
Starting point is 00:15:35 Well, my name is Red. Who's Elder? I don't, you never met my parents. What are you talking about? The priestess says, if you need a place to rest you can be here for tonight and some of tomorrow
Starting point is 00:15:46 the illness might continue to expel itself during that time you can have a clean room here and someone to check on you regularly if you need yeah maybe that's better but we can tell Torin where you are and he can come visit yeah can you do that I'm gonna
Starting point is 00:16:05 of course lie down Artemis comes and takes your shoulder Jack and she starts to lead you off and then she turns back to you red and marie and she says the church will accept a donation of 300 gold pieces for our services what the what fucking scam god i could have taken those out of you i got a corkscrew it would have been fine classic scam do the work then ask for money pay him mary and red walks away oh no do you do you take checks Fantasy checks
Starting point is 00:16:40 Guess who's paying this I'm going back to Remy's Now Red pulls out 300 gold And drops it into the Scatters it on the floor Want your money Pick it up
Starting point is 00:16:51 You want it, go fishing No Red will We'll pay the woman And say Thanks for helping our friend Sleep well Jack Sleep it off See you tomorrow
Starting point is 00:17:01 She leads the invalid away And Red heads back out With Mary to Doren Hey Donnie you done praying And Doran meets you at the door actually Your voice echoes in this serene space Did you hear something back? Red is a hammer to a pane of glass always.
Starting point is 00:17:20 Can I just grab his snout like you with the dog? Just roared. No, don't. I just want to do what do is darned. Shh, shh. Well. You can yell on her outside. Famously, people love it when you yell outside in the middle of the night.
Starting point is 00:17:34 Doren, are you done? Brian. I'm done. I'm done. What's happening with Jack? Oh, he's going to stay here tonight. I want to hit up a bathhouse down the street. Anybody want to wash off with me? I'm smelling rank.
Starting point is 00:17:45 Oh, I could go for a bath. That sounds like a great idea. Says Doran for the first time ever. No, he had a really nice bath at the high forest. Yeah, six months ago. A hundred episodes ago. Mary, bonding in a bath? Okay.
Starting point is 00:18:01 Well, the bath we want to go to as a bar, you can drink while we bathe. All right, that's better. Let's go. Oh, fun. Hey, and I can drink while you guys bath. Two. To generous. To adventure.
Starting point is 00:18:10 Is this a place where you guys have been before? Yeah, of course. Are you sure they're going to let you back? They'll let me back. Knowing Doran's proclivity for ruining furniture, your entry fee is a little bit steeper than it was last time. It's a gold each instead of a silver each. I mean, a gold each.
Starting point is 00:18:31 Your permitted entry. The guy at the window's like, I don't know. Jason, we known each other for at least six months. There's clearly, like, a poster up on the back wall that says, like, have you seen this guy? And it's like a shitty drawing of Doran, like, running away with a bump blushing. Well, that's, uh, that's from when I was here last time. I was fixing their cabinets, you know, in the, in the change rooms.
Starting point is 00:18:53 Yeah. I don't know them. Can I get in for one silver? Yes. Yeah. Hi. Oh, I'm Jason. Thanks.
Starting point is 00:19:00 I can't imagine how those assassins track Doran down because think of all the businesses with his picture on the wall. They're actually really shit assassins They know bum first Doris They're just charging me more because I have fur You're not allowed to do that You're charging me more because of this Have you ever tried a nice conditioner?
Starting point is 00:19:18 What's it, what's it? Whatever, let's get a bath and a beer So we see the three of you inside Cannonball! Oh, that was a big one jumps into the bath next to Doran and splashes all of the sides against the water the wooden walls that aren't meant to get wet
Starting point is 00:19:35 And you now realize why they've been charged more to get in here. And he's shouting to the room next door. There's like a cut window where he's like, and anyway, after that, Doren went swimming back naked into the pool after the wedding. He's like shouting to Mari. He was like sitting in the adjoining bar. I picture it's like a Water Davian tiki bar. Yes, it is.
Starting point is 00:19:54 There's a harried-looking green dragon-born who is serving you, Mari. And the cocktails here are superb, if a little bit maybe overly garnished. Using Druidcraft, he freezes like a little disc in the water to put her cocktail on like a table. It just floats beside her. Oh, that's cool. Very cool. And that wasn't even the first time Doran got naked in front of us. He's been so naked so often.
Starting point is 00:20:19 It's quite nice. I mean, that's not surprising, but also. Anyway, you should have seen him go toe-to-to-to with Mogil Flame Tender. Doran went like shirtless in the rain, toe-to-choped him down. and that's how he got that fancy breastplate. Please, please, please, red. That's enough about me. No, it's true.
Starting point is 00:20:40 Look, Mari needs to be caught up on 150 episodes of content. This is coming from the guy who shoots one arrow and takes out a whole league of orcs. Oh, my God. You should see the marksmanship on this literal puppy. You should see this puppy in action. I got good aim. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:00 So this is just what you guys do. What do you mean? No, not normally We're feeling especially festive We don't normally talk about ourselves For this long Well, Doran does I don't talk about myself, Redd
Starting point is 00:21:13 I talk about the stories of the adventures that we've done Well, yeah, of course Look, we tend to try to celebrate every moment I mean, well, you saw Jack back there He was floating in the water for a few minutes If I hadn't pulled him out at the right time Hell, there wouldn't be any Jack here tonight Yeah
Starting point is 00:21:29 Yeah scary to think about it I mean there's not any Jack here tonight but we know he's safe and sound well thanks thanks again Red and Mari for you know all of your efforts and me too obviously
Starting point is 00:21:42 and Jack for what he did but I mean hell we worked as a team there I think that deserves a high five Hell yeah Red swims over and high fives yeah look the point is we try to celebrate every success because the truth is you never
Starting point is 00:21:56 know when the next day is gonna come or when the next day will be you last. I don't really, I don't know how to celebrate this because I don't really feel like I like did anything. I feel like I just kind of survived. I feel like I survived and I put a hole through a ceiling and I nearly watched someone die and a big thing tried to weasled its way into my brain and now I'm, now I'm drinking. I mean, I know I asked for a beer, but there's just so many pineapple wedges in this. I'm shocked. Dora, asked them to put extra in the yours.
Starting point is 00:22:34 This is most of a pineapple, but you know what? I think I like it. Yeah, we do. You would. Look, that's all adventuring is. It's stumbling and moving forward. Yeah. Look, Remy got home tonight. Yeah. Yeah, I guess
Starting point is 00:22:49 we did what we did to, we did what we meant to do, but it just, I don't know. I just, I don't feel like I don't feel like an adventurer. I feel like someone who's just kind of wandered into a room and died. Mari, let me put something in perspective here. In your life so far, how much of this have you planned and how much of it has gone along to plan?
Starting point is 00:23:15 Well, I went to college. I said to Juilliard for five years. My point is, you know, I think, you know, adventuring is just like life. sometimes you you plan it and it goes along to plans and but most of the time you you stumble through it and thank god you're you're alive you know by the by the hammer of more than i'm standing here today thanks to uh you know the luck uh the luck of my um well the luck just luck not the luck of anything but just luck is that who you were thanking tonight in that other temple morridan well yes Yes.
Starting point is 00:23:56 Just because you're in a different temple, doesn't mean you. Sorry. Mari uses shape water and creates a cube of water appears over them. And she's just thinking about what Doran just said. And she's like, I've never planned these things out. And I've never had to because life has always been simple. It's like the cube. There's just a couple of sides.
Starting point is 00:24:17 And you look and it's all flat and simple. But right now, everything, there's so many more edges now. and I'm trying to feel them out and then it just drops back into the water right on Red's head well you know that makes me want another drink
Starting point is 00:24:34 more than anything bartender and you know something to consider with that statement there Mari is that you know I think with more
Starting point is 00:24:46 edges comes more excitement and more to life and more to enjoy more to be afraid of and more to be concerned about
Starting point is 00:24:59 but that's life look look look look look look you're both wrong it's not about being a shape with edges and more excitement because the whole principle is wrong and Red casts minor illusion and he takes your cube originally it's not water this time it's just fake
Starting point is 00:25:14 the bartender is just shaking his head like oh my god magic users in the battle stop shaking your head Tyler we pay you enough Yeah, and some more pineapple wedges. And he paints this cube and he goes, look, here's the principle you got. You got this cube, right? And then you're saying it looks like this.
Starting point is 00:25:31 And he changes it to sort of the multi-edged cube. He's like, right? But it's not this. Or what Doran's saying, it's more like this. And Red spreads it all out to like a bunch of floating dots everywhere. It's just chaos. It's like randomness. It's just nothing.
Starting point is 00:25:45 It's like a sea of frozen snow. And he's like, this is what adventuring is. It's just trying to find a path through all of this. and whether you want to deal with these little dots as danger zones you want to avoid or these are the things you're trying to connect between you can go a better any way you want there's no perfect way it's not all one
Starting point is 00:26:03 whole piece it's just a minefield of chaos and we are doing a damn good job of it Mari turns she can't control those dots but she does turn all the create little like water droplets there and then she re-arranges them with one way overhand into a star map.
Starting point is 00:26:24 Even in chaos, there is order. And even in this order, there is a path and there is a guide. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. That's the path we're taking. But it's not smooth. We can't follow something straight.
Starting point is 00:26:39 We've got to jump from that one, into that one, into that one, into that one. And us meeting you? You meeting me? That was pure random chance. Not smooth or shaved off edges. It was a weird burst. And then we followed it to that star. And now we're here.
Starting point is 00:26:55 Waiting on a beer! He comes by with, like, a ton of pineapple and beer. Ah. Want to say something cool? And she pulls one of the beers up, and then she just, like, floats it near her face and just sucks the whole thing back, like a jello shot. That was mine.
Starting point is 00:27:12 Mari's actually got the soul of a frat boy. She really does. Tucked all the way down there. And Red swims over and picks up his beerstein and holds it up. We celebrate every day. That's the rule. Whether that be through prayer, and he points to Doran, whether that be celebration through the love of a good person and Red sort of gestures vaguely to the front door to Jack beyond, or whether it just be having a swim with some friends. We celebrate every day we're alive and Red holds up the Stein to toast.
Starting point is 00:27:44 Well, Mari just chugged that beer, so just holding a fistful of pineapple witches. Toast me with your pineapple wedges, girl. Squish. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Inspiration. The three of you slowly, after last call, make your way drunkenly back to the copper
Starting point is 00:28:06 cup. Torren's weighted up and you give him some news, I presume, of how Jack's been doing. He's concerned, but he knows you guys take care of him. The life of an adventurer. I'm sure he's like. Either Jack is fine or he's not. Well, I mean, he goes to bed most nights, not knowing if Jack is safe or not. So he assumes that he's well taken care of.
Starting point is 00:28:30 If we never came back tonight, it would be no different than how'd we come back tonight. You'd be like, I'm sure Jack's on a three-month adventure. He'll be back when he can be. You head up to your normal rooms in the Copper Cup. Red starts walking up the stairs and he says, Ah, we'll take the same old room, Torin. and his red leads to the top floor and opens the door.
Starting point is 00:28:50 Mari, you see it's just one room with three beds. And Doran's like already in there and he's like full on arms outstretched. He's pushing the one bed and it slides across the room into the second bed
Starting point is 00:29:04 and then those two beds go sliding into the third bed to make one massive bed for everyone to sleep in. Dwarven way. Dwarven style. I still don't, I still don't understand why this continually
Starting point is 00:29:16 to separate these beds? Like, this doesn't make any sense. Is it easier to make them or something? Oh, Mara, you don't need to join us, but we usually sleep dwarven style, which is to say separately, but with all the beds close together. You guys sleep in a puddle of each other, you know. It reminds Doran of home. Do you mean that normally you guys all sleep separately?
Starting point is 00:29:35 I don't. In separate bags and everything? I mean, I lived with my sisters and no, we did not share beds. Okay. Cool. Well, I get the one on the inside. And Red runs in and dives into the furthest bed. I had sisters, you know.
Starting point is 00:29:46 One of the headboards has all these notches from Doren putting orc splitter every night. This headboard's taking a little bit of damage. I'll just reuse a notch. So courteous of you. Blow out the light before you fall asleep, Mary. I'm going to cast your woodcraft to create white noise. Nice. Like a fan.
Starting point is 00:30:07 Man, is that zero to one hundred of, you met these guys seven or eight hours ago at a bar. She pulls the bed away a little bit, but not all the way. that's cute I like that Red you're in the room at the copper cup when something wakes you from a deep sleep
Starting point is 00:30:28 there's something in the room you can't see anything but you sense the presence of something watching you you try to move but you're paralyzed frozen in place You don't see Mari or Doran.
Starting point is 00:30:46 It's just you here. The ceiling darkens and starts to bend, sinking in the middle like a sail caught in the wind. It starts to fill the room and claustrophobia sets in as the space between your face and the ceiling diminishes to feet and then inches. It presses down on you, suffocating, and its surface becomes translucent. But instead of seeing the ceiling above you or the night sky, you see a deep darkness capped with roiling blue, the bottom of some great trench, and a vast shape moves on you so close that you could touch it if you weren't paralyzed. No matter how you struggle against the force and the void and staring at you through this deepness, an eye whose pupil could swallow you whole, you are transfixed. Your lungs screaming for air, blood pounding in your head. And in a blink, you're free, thrashing to wakefulness on the floor of your shared room, drenched and painting and smelling like salt.
Starting point is 00:31:56 Oh, my God, what's going on? Oh, my God. What is going on? I just had a dream, a terrible, terrible dream. Oh, God. And Red gets up off the ground. Sorry. Hold on, do you smell that?
Starting point is 00:32:10 Red runs over and Marry and he sticks his hand under your nose. Do you smell salt? God, you're so clammy. How are you clammy? You're furry. Do you smell anything? Yeah, you smell... You smell like the sea. Why do you smell like the ocean?
Starting point is 00:32:27 Why do you smell like the sea? I don't know. What were you dreaming about? I don't think I was dreaming. Thank you once again to our wonderful Patreon supporters Ace, Adrian Estock, Alexander Reed, Alexander, Artistic Witch, Brian Blass, Brianna Weber, Michael Weber, Brain Marie, Christopher, Colin Burkhart, Creature, Daniel, Divine Omen, Doug, Grey, Haley, Heather Nichols, K.R. Lars, Lazzania,
Starting point is 00:33:10 L'Auley Feldman, Lost with Two Faces, Mari Kahnyski, Matilda Rushing, Matt Wordberry, Merlin, Michelle Kahn, Mitchell Cadwell, Nut, Reagan, Ruku, Chelsea, Sarah, Shadowhaven, Sky, Tara, Tony Pepperone, Trapper 939, and Tyler Fowler. Ooh, thank you so much. Oh! Turns into this, like, multifaceted. cube it's basically a d20 and uh symbolism and uh feel like i've seen that before in my dreams in my subconscious sometimes when i when i'm doing something i feel it rattling around of my brain
Starting point is 00:33:54 um and she's like and there's there's so many more edges would you roll marie one t four nice that's going in the song Would you roll, Marie? 24. You climb the ladder and exit the warehouse. Twenty-four. Four. Starlight casts a dung-glom. I'm older.
Starting point is 00:34:33 It's all in corporate snouts, and I think what my friends may have to construct a pretty good timeline, but... 24. Four. Pushed something outside of us. 24. The only of these things start to hatch and crawl around. 24. The tentacles and looked like a person that transformed in the sewers.

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