Dice Shame - 2-12 | 'Been There Done That'

Episode Date: November 17, 2022

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Jack, are you some rich boy? Ah, so the 1% is truly here. He's a noble and a wizard. He has all the privileges. And is he missing? You leave it alone. We can put them back in you if you want. Just try it. I'm starting to see a pattern here.

It's nice leather. How are you doing? Not going that, gray. There's a lot of weird shit going on. I'll do what I can. Marry is family now. Swatterdeep, if you can find it anywhere, you can find it here, probably. I'm intrigued by the wood armor, I have to admit.

Intrigued? Ha ha ha ha. Oh! Oh, that was good. It's a pun every time. Welcome back to Dice Shane. This is Season 2, Episode 12, Been There, Done That. MVP this week is Reedy from Twitter,

who's DMing their own Storm King's Thunder campaign and had some lovely things to say about the show. Thanks so much for listening to Reedy. you are our MVP. Thank you. Are you looking to send something to the Dice Shame crew? We have a P-O-Box 310-44, Westney Heights, RPO, AJAX, Ontario, L1T, 3V2, Canada. You can send us Christmas cards, or even some dice you might want us to shame.

Send them our way, and we'll give them a good home. We love snacks. All right, shall we do this? Yeah, let's play D&D. Woo! If you know me at all, you know that I am constantly weeping. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

And the most recently was a day ago, I was crying about the fact that I was playing video games on Sunday. Was it joy that you weren't working on a Sunday? I was stressing out about this session, actually. I was like, oh, I've wasted my time on Sunday. There were tears of regret. Oh, oh. Yeah, I'd do that. So I wanted to know what you guys were crying about most recently.

Can you remember when you cried? Tell me about your cry times. The most recent time I cried was like, like 20 minutes ago. Yes, join me in emotions. I'm doing great. I'm thriving. I'm feeling good. Experiening the full range of human emotions?

Boy, am I feeling emotions recently? No, Parkdale haunts coming to an end as of tomorrow. Like the main storyline is ending. I mean, by that time, it's exactly, it'll be like a month after the drop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so Parkdale Hot is ending, uh, so tomorrow as of this recording, but it, it's, it's done as of October 28th. Weeks ago. Oh, the Parkdale hon finale was great.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's a final. Yeah. Oh, no. And, uh, series finale. And, uh, and, uh, and yeah, just, I, I, I, I looked at my phone.

I was setting up all my year to do this and I looked at my phone and I looked at my phone and, just the sheer wall of free time. Yay. No, that's not happening. No, I've just like really kind messages and support and people who are going to miss the show and just like really, really lovely stuff. And I was like looking at it. And I feel like I finally, I finally had like a moment to like stop and think. And I just like, I'm like setting up my mic and I'm crying.

And I'm like, here it comes again. I know. I'm just, it just feels very good. It's very bittersweet. What about anyone else? I would say our wedding was probably the last time I cried. It was only four months ago. But I would say that was probably it. Because I was so happy. I was going to make a joke. But why? I don't want to be one of those people. Because I'm in the room with you. I have many throwable things. You see those couples and I don't want to be that. If I do... You don't got to do that boomer shit. No, that's what I mean is boomer shit. Like, oh, the old ball and fucking chain.

Going in the garage to drink a beer and watch fucking... I'm not going to kink shame if that's what you're into. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Did I say ball and shame? I meant whip and chain. Ball gag and chain. It is weird that that became normal for a generation, though, right? No, but we...

No, that was probably... Last time, at least I can remember. No. because you get all misty-eyed when you listen to certain songs and I feel like... See, that was mine. You know what?

You were playing Randy Newman. Oh my God, you're so right. On the weekend. Yeah, I cried to my own piano playing. Well, but you know what? It's tough because... Were you playing piano man? No, no, I was a Randy Newman's song.

Well, I was walking down the street and I couldn't tie my shoes. It's funny because after I played it, I went, man, it's so sad. that people just think of him like that because he writes songs that are so beautiful. And I was playing this. You made me cry too. Yeah, it's a song about a man coming to a party, a generational party that's, you know, kind of in the south of the United States, a lot of these families do parties year after year after year.

And it's sung from perspective in a woman who comes to a party who's talking about how he came here years ago with his wife and he came here with his kids. But that his little boy has kind of drifted away from him. And he's talking about if you ever see my boy, like tell him that I miss him and then I want him to come. come home. And it's like a really sweet song, but the thing I love about Rainy Newman, and anyone who's big into Rainy Newman totally gets this, and they totally would be like, oh, yeah, that's exactly it, is he takes these kind of universal feelings, but he sings them from a perspective that's really kind of one-note, solitary, unique, very bizarre, like, angle at something that's kind of, so you get this wonderful feeling of familiarity in the subject matter, but from a

perspective that you didn't expect. And it has this wonderful pairing, and he is, a monumental songwriter for that reason alone because I think his voice is so unique not just his singing voice but his writing voice but anyway I highly recommend the song I can't remember the name of it it's very good so listen to all of them and you'll know it's funny because my answer

kind of rhymes that one in a way I took me a minute to think of it but I was listening to the latest Annie DeFranco album because we're going to see her early in November but it's it's this 25th anniversary edition of the Living in Clip album and so it's remixed all these songs and so it was listening to all of these songs that I've like had in my soul for 25 years all remixed to really sound different to show

different parts of that to put different parts of the audience there or whatever and so it was this experience of getting that like oh this is the same recording session of the thing I've listened to forever but here's this other twist on it here's this other highlighting of a different amount of it or here's this whatever and there was one where they're playing with like the I forget with some symphony orchestra that comes on it was like holy shit this is this is all of excellent stuff and it was just that like frisian moment of like wow music is good when it's good oh I totally feel that music is good honestly and Joe will attest to this like I could be having a crappy day or whatever and she'll be like we'll have you listen to like music today and I'm like oh

you're so right I forget I forget how good it feels I will and then I'll put it on and I'll go oh that feels so much more relaxing like it it's music and tea I forget that they're fabulous and they feel good and it's nice to sit and like enjoy both at the same time or something and just be like oh shit let this washer over you man I you know totally what else you need discovering new music and shit and just like yeah

by the way the name of the song is wandering boy that's very very good it's from his news album called dark matter sometimes you just need a does somebody you need a song to cry to like every I think everyone's got those those couple of songs that like just are gonna no matter what are gonna hit you like a train and yeah yeah I'm like yeah left and leaving by the weaker thans forever oh man

song i think it's the it's the cat named virtue all that i was just doing to say for me it's plea from a cat named virtue and it's the part where the where he goes i know you're strong it's always that part and i go oh fuck it always makes me tear up because this idea of this cat like pushing up his owner and being like listen i know you're having a tough time but i know you're strong is like the sweetest image it always makes me crack out when i'm I'm singing it along in the car. I'm always like, when you say crack up, you mean breakdown, right?

You crack, the voice crack, sorry. Your voice cry, I'm used it. The cat just loves him. You know what? It's not even, because I'm not an animal person. To me, it's not even that the cat loves him. It's that this person is so depressed that the idea that the cat could be boosting them up. Like, to me, I take it almost from the angle of like this really hurting person that needs anything in his life to make him feel better.

I don't know. It's even a stupid. cat. Even a dumb fucking cat. I mean, it's also just about that perspective of like, oh, someone is trying to, like, externalize their own shit and imagine what if, what would the cat say to me? Because I literally can't say it to myself. So I just need to go that one step removed for myself.

It's almost like the weaker thans are an amazing band. They might be pretty good, I guess. People go listen to them. Fantastic. What about you, Alex? When's the last time you cried? I, uh, I honestly, I can't. Tough guy answer coming up.

Huh? A what answer? Nothing. He's giving you shit. I can't honestly remember. I think I got teary-eyed. I was chatting with karma, my wife, and we were just talking about life and this and that. I think I just got, we were, we were, you know, kind of resolving, as every relationship does, you know, resolving the little issues that arise.

So, you know, I was, I think that was the last time I got teary-eyed, but, you know, there is a, there is a musical artist that always does. it to me though if we're talking about and and i have wept you know i i recall i recall being at the sink doing dishes i have my earbuds and and listening to jeff buckley's album grace nice yeah yeah beautiful album yeah and it's it's the album that's good but it's also like the story of him and how he died i don't do you guys know this i don't know this yeah he he he went swimming they were recording this album and he went swimming in the Wolf River in, I want to say Cleveland or something. And he, he just went swimming and his buddy bandmate was right there on the shore. And one minute, buddy sees him swimming. This is like the middle of the night. Next minute he's gone. And there's no alcohol, there's no drugs. He's just

like, he got, they think he got pulled under by an undertow, right? And this is a guy that at the beginning of his, of his career kind of, and his father was very good with folk music. And like, he really, he has one of the most soulful voices I have ever heard. And, and, and, And, you know, I've heard, it's all listen to that album. And I, and I think I've only heard hallelujah off of it. Yeah. I've never, I've never, I didn't know that. I've never even heard that album.

That's awesome. Yeah, I listen to the whole album. It's like, it's, he's got some really, really cool, fantastic vocal stuff in there. And that hallelujah is probably my favorite version of hallelujah, but that's just a cover, right? And if you listen to his original stuff, it's like very, it's a little out there. But, you know, I would say, take a listen to so real, or is it too real? Either way, it's got the word real. He died at 30. I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, I think about that and I think about other friends that have died. And, you know, it just kind of spies. The ball gets rolling, right? And then all of a sudden I'm weeping there doing dishes. Let's all just take a moment and listen to a sad song, each and cry.

I think we should do a dice shame, like Spotify playlist that's just songs too. cry to cry to by Dice Shane Hey guys this actual play podcast has a great new Spotify playlist

Songs to fucking cry to it's got like it's got like dogs and thunder by Sarah Herman which is about like a dog dying

and like which just makes me sob every time I've never heard that but I do like Sarah Harmon she did a really good jazz album I love her

I love her well you know what this could have been a really depressing conversation but I think it's not I think it's not you know I think

It's about the powder of music. It's a good conversation because I mean, we cry when we're stressed. We cry when we're tired. We cry when we're happy. And then we also cry when we're sad. But it's not always sad, I guess is my point. Sometimes just cry constantly for no reason. Yeah.

I'm right there with you, Joe. I'm glad they've got some fucking just out there bonkers emotional energy on this podcast. Hell yeah. I just have some solidarity. I just feel like a. giant wall of emotion sometimes or I'm just like gotta be normal and I'm just like I have too many feelings what do I do with this um you know what we do with too many feelings we cry we turn them into fucking weird whole play let's do it yeah yeah yeah the streets of water deep

are especially quiet at night this time of year were it not for the carousing of certain drunken adventurers leaving bathhouses late at night. A pensive, hopeful dawn dulls the edge of the quiet and people head out of their homes bundled against the cold and wearing bleary, determined expressions against the winter light. We see a flock of sparrows crest the top of high-peaked roofs, and we see Jack leaving the temple of saloon looking refreshed, if a little bit thinner, more gray than you have.

yesterday. Yeah, there's a even a hint of a smile on his face as he's making his way back to the copper cup just because he's making his way back to the copper cup one more day when it looked like

he might not. I've got no worms to weigh me. Exactly. He's feeling like a new person in that way. I'm still standing. I got no worms in me. Gonna go and see my buddy

who smells like the sea. Hey. Well done. Jack, you know that nobles in Waterdeep observe midwinter by hosting these really lavish and kind of like tone deaf parties because everyone else is kind of hunkering down for the hardest part of the winter and all the rich people are like more concerned with renewing alliances and discussing strategy and starting new plots to you know foil other noble houses under the guise of socializing right well it's not that

tone deaf if you really think about it you know if you put it in context of the kinds of things that the nobles have to worry about in their day to day. Ah, so the 1% is truly here. Jack, are you some rich boy? He's a rich boy, but he don't think he's a noble and a wizard.

He has all the privileges. And yeah, you make your way back to the copper cup. Absolutely, yeah. I think he's hoping to be there in time to like wake Torin up or at least, you know, be there in time to have a minute before the day really he starts. But otherwise, I think his mind is sort of trying to reflect forward on like,

what are we doing next? How are we going to dissect what's going here? Do it as best to put the dwelling on the near life and death experience to some quiet campfire where he's got nothing else to do in. You enter the copper cup. Torin greets you with a kiss. He's already awake. This man does not know the meaning of time off, especially being that he's in the service industry, right? All standard holidays are like big work events for people in the hospitality world. No days off. And, uh, you know, he's, he has a concerned look on his face. Are you okay?

I'm in one piece. Um, and yeah, I'm, I'm okay. I, we found Remy. We did what we set out to do heroic stuff. Found some really strange and awful things under water deep. So what was the deal with that guy? I mean, it's so, and he's like, he runs. a hand through your hair and he's like,

you're going gray, Jack. You know that, right? Oh, yeah. Anyway, what was the thing with this guy? A monster cult. I think that's the like short, monster, monster got him. Morning, Jack, Red says as he walks downstairs.

You made it back in one piece, eh? Yeah. No friends feasting on that. He like trails off as he sees you with Torin. He's like, uh, morning, Torin. You know, I kind of miss him, and he pokes his arm. where there used to be a big, like, writhing lump.

Oh, do you? Well, we can put them back in you if you want. Just try it. Anyway, I'm going to head back to the breakfast nook that you have with us, Toran. Morning. Did he fill you in on everything? It was quite the adventure. Remy and Cabin and...

What were Osgood, Oslood, whatever his name was? Yeah, Oslid. He left in a hurry when Doran came for him last night. I'm sorry, cabin? Yeah, cabin. I know. We like to call them, what was the joke you made, Mary? He says as you walking down the stairs. Where I'm from, we call them camps. Yeah, it was a good joke. I think you had to be there. I don't think she's a morning person. Do you mean Cabin Zathendrick? What? I don't know, maybe. Do we mean Cabin's Athenric? Darin? Oh, you went there.

No, good morning, Torin. Good morning, Jack. How are you feeling? Great, better. Way better, actually. Who's Cabin Descendric? Have I run across him? That's actually really weird that you say that because now that you say it, Rimi looks just like him. Wait a minute. Hold on. What do you mean? Looks like just whose whatsoever? Yeah.

So confused. We need coffee. Cabin Zetundrick. Hold on. And he like gestures for serving staff to bring around a carafe of coffee. Yeah, he's a, I mean, everyone's talking about him. He's a high noble visiting from the Moonshay Isles. And is he missing?

No, no, no. But I remember Rimi coming in and thinking that it was. cabin. It's going to sound a bit strange, Torren, but I think that you should suggest to this cabin person that they really keep an eye on where they walk, where they go. I doubt he would even come here. That's partly why it's stuck in my mind as I thought someone who is so high-born doesn't belong in the dock ward.

Oh, okay. Was he like famous or something? No, I've seen him on the streets. You know, he's the kind that's carried in a pack. Halloquine wherever he goes. Hold on. Doran, when you saw these other bodies, you said they were all gray-haired people, right?

They were all middle-aged, gray-haired, white men. And I know you think all white people look the same, but, well, no. I mean, these were very distinct-looking men with gray hair. And that's when Jack's hair sort of like catches him out of the corner. Hey, Jack, your hair's certain. Certainly starting to go gray, isn't it? I'm not going that gray.

Hey, let's roast, Jack. And he runs, and Doran runs his hand through your long, luscious hair. Oh, Red does it too. Wow, I've never realized how thick your hair is. Everyone touches hair. Torin's like, no, no, stop. This is mine. I just had a bugger on my hand.

I needed to get it off sometimes. It's luscious. You've got to. It's lovely hair. Anyway, hold on. Are we saying that Remy looks like this cabin Theldrick or whatever his name is, and all the other people down there looked like him as well. Well, yeah.

I saw one of the other guys down there, and yeah, he looked like Reming. Yeah. But he was not him, and he was dead. Yeah. Where did Cabin Setheldric come from? The Moonshays, across the sea. Yes, the moonshays. I mean, he's the talk of the town right now, one of the more exotic nobles visiting for the midwinter holidays.

Well, that's what the thing asked, remember, if it came from across the sea, it sounds like that's what this thing was looking for. How would one go about finding this gentleman? I don't know where he's staying these days. Probably, I could ask around. Jack would probably be better than I in finding a noble. I mean, certainly I could send him a letter in an hour or two and see if he's got some time to meet us. Otherwise, you know, I can get some family connections and see if...

Are you noble born? Can't you tell? Yeah. Look at the spoon up his ass. Yeah, House of Wands. My father's best are Wands. He, like, waits a long pause for you to recognize the name. And she lets the paws go on way too long, you guys.

Don't think I've ever heard of them. Yeah, us neither. We think he made him up. B busts in through the door of the Copper Cup, looking exhilarated and trailing behind her, there are two half-orke women and a human man, and they're all, like, laughing and chuckling, and, like, the human man gives one of the half-orkewark. a high five and these are like adventurers clearly. Bee, darling, you made a new clique.

How are you doing? Oh, I can't wait. Guys, this is my dad. Hi. Red-handed Robin. That's what they called me. Great to meet you. Nice to meet you.

It's just this big, boisterous, energetic group. Oh, this is my best friend Doran and my best friend Jack and my best friend Mary. Hi. Hi. Hello. Hi, nice to see you, Bea. I've told them everything about you. Ha, ha.

I hope not. Everything. Does he make everyone call him dad or daddy? Is that a thing? I think it's certainly. Just the people I need to help and save. Like this little boy, and I tussle Jack's hair. Listen, I went out yesterday to find some of the rarer books that Jack had mentioned, and I ended up meeting some new friends. They were at this bookstore trying to do their own research. And, well, it turned out that the books that I was looking for and the books that they were looking for had both been stolen by this shadowy band and the bookseller. ended up having us go out and try to locate them and, well, we're making some plans to look into some more leads. Did you join your own adventuring party?

Well, maybe. I'd never been more proud of you. Come here. And red hugs B. She gives you a big hug back. Do you have any leads? I mean, Bird's Eye View is extremely rare. There's probably only one copy.

Jesus Christ, Jack. Let us have this moment. Listen, I. know that I had asked if I could join you and, you know, with the stone giants and everything, but I think this is really cool. I kind of want to stay and see if maybe I can, you know, find some stuff out about this. She looks a little bit embarrassed. Be, be, and I pull her aside for a second. I know that it's not like big, big time stuff. All I ever wanted for you was to carve your own path and definitely not feel ever like you need to walk in my footsteps.

Frankly, that's the number one thing I'm nervous about I am so happy if you want to do this I am so happy that you want to go out and carve your own way And look, you can always write me Are any of you majors? He yells at the other three in his party One of the half-ork women kind of nods her head

Cool, that's Jack He has a magic letter thing Jack, teach that how to do that And you two can send me letters when you need to okay get it done some magic works right you just tell each other things if if you go back to the hamperat house

before i do can you just tell oren that i'm sorry of course we can oh dorin you're right here you always do that well i i kind of snuck up here i know i'm quite a bit shorter than both you but listen i just

i i i overheard what you were saying about sticking around it and i really i can't stress enough because we were just talking about it that please be very aware of the under the under the sewers under the city okay because there's a lot of danger down there we just came from down there there there's a lot of danger down there there's a lot of weird shit going on right and there's people going missing so just just just be extra on your on your extra lookout yeah she looks between jack and red and doran and then she walks over to Mari and she takes both of your hands and she goes, please take care of them.

I will. I will. I feel like they kind of know what they're doing, but also I feel like they definitely need someone to help out in some ways. I'll do what I can. Doran, your shoes are on backwards. Oh, no. Oh, and I forgot my bow somewhere. Regist starts looking around at the ceiling for his bow.

Anyway, I just came back here to get some of my things. We have to leave. Where are you heading? Well, we're going out to Amphel. Oh, no, shit. There's a person we met there. We delivered a ring to her. She was very sweet.

About some great horses. Yeah, yeah. Aw, shit. Shit, I forgot about that. Now, one more word advice before you take off. Always keep your blade sharp. Always keep your armor amended. All right, that's your Uncle Doran's advice.

So. Thanks, Doran. She gives you big hug. Oh, God. Bye, Jack. See you later, B. Good luck. Yeah, to you too.

Jack kind of eyes up the three others as B runs to get her stuff. So, uh, you any good? One of the half works is like, I mean, yeah, like, we're pretty good. What do you mean? Are you any good? I do all right. Can I roll insight? Yeah, you can definitely roll insight.

Roll initiative. Let's fight these motherfuckers. Yeah, let's do it. Take them down. A one. Ultimate fail. I'm like, I'm like talking. I'm talking to people that aren't even standing there.

I'm like over at another... You aren't even aware of anyone in the room. Your shoes are on backwards. Just eyeing up that table again. His nemesis. You leave it alone. That got a fixed. What were your names?

The orcs names are Dura and Morn. And they're clearly sisters now that you get a closer look at them. Mm-hmm. And the dude's name is Carl. Jack eyes him up and down and does his best to look tough and just says, you know, I'll remember those names if anything happens. Thanks. Bees really cool, by the way.

Yeah. I mean, I'm more so talking to her dad, but yeah. She's so cool, isn't she? And you must be cool because she picked you, and I trust her taste. All right. Did he teach you magic letters yet? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's been like a few seconds. You should learn it by now. Yeah, wizards, it doesn't take any time at all to copy spells in the spellbooks and all that. Perfect. All right. You send me letters. Red-handed Robin. You can send it to me any day or any time.

Red-handed Robin at dyeshame.com. P-O-box, dyshame.com. Paris, Ontario. H-O-H-O-H-O. Regardless, just, you know, let us know how you're doing. Oh, Dad. And B comes, like, tumbling down the stairs with, like, a whole armload of her equipment and stuff.

I didn't want to tell them about the teleportation circles. Oh. Can we use those? Yes, of course. Mine is yours, and Jack's, good white eyes. Yeah, I don't know. I'll let your Uncle Jack answer that. Please, Jack.

Thanks, and then they all leave. Enjoy! The thing about secret organizations is... You have those? Ah, whatever. They like to think they're all secret, but they're all just silly. I hope B has a good time. Adventuring is the best.

Okay, now listen. And I didn't want to... And Dorn kind of leaps up. and puts his arms around two of you and pulls you into a huddle okay and he's like okay I didn't want to bring it up well but B B just walked right in so but

I would put money on it that if we do get a chance to speak with this is it Cedric Cabin Fever Cedric If we Cabin Zithendric

Oh if we do get a chance to speak with this cabin person who's got money on the fact that he's also got one of those coins one of those goose coins I would put good money on that you know I'm starting to see a pattern here something with a beast

patterns are all good and well and I think you're 100% right and I think the soon as we can reach out to cabin and try to meet up with him that's great but I'm also realizing that Mari you joined us and you don't even know the overarching quest we're on right now and the giants

they're kind of a big deal let's have some breakfast and sit down because we never really got to talk about this. Is that a pun? Yeah, that was a pun. You caught me. He's always trying to slip those puns in there. I've noticed.

Four big breakfasts for us, please. Yes, and a big orange juice, please. All right, look, the long and short of it is we were brought on a mission from giants. You know this. I told you in drips and drabs that we were taken by a cloud giant and told that we were meant to reorder the ordaining. But where we're heading next is sort of.

of a big deal. See, we got to speak to an oracle who had answers to many questions, although they were very selective about what we could and couldn't ask. Yeah, and there was a lot of debating within the party about what we're going to ask. We always have the fine print. Lots of fine print. Oracles are like that. So we ended up going around and collecting all these giant artifacts, and when we returned them, it gave us the location of all of the giant strongholds all across Feroon, at each of these strongholds is one of these, and Red reaches into the bag and pulls out a conch. This, it's a magical conch that we believe will teleport that person to the Storm King's Court. But it will only take one of us, so we need at least three more

should we choose to go there, and Red puts it away. It's a pretty good hunch. At each of these locations, there should be one of these conchers. So our goal now, is to head to these locations and defeat the giants. And we thought, because Doran grew up there, heading to Deadstone cleft and the Grey Peak Mountains would be a great first step, but Doran seems to get all bum-bushy about it.

Well, I've never been to Deadstone Claft. I mean... You said you went there as a kid. No, no, we didn't go there because it's very dangerous. Well, Doran was married to a goblin and I think... Well, now it must be... Now, it's true. Doran was married to a goblin. Yeah.

Tell her. Okay. Were you? You know what, Red? There's like some things that I've told you in confidence. And yes, I, yes, I was married to a goblin. But marry his family now. We need to trust.

Doren, this is a gossip. But it's not even about trust. It's just sort of like these things, these are things I don't necessarily want to relive. You don't, I don't bring up the fact that, you know, why, why did your ears get clipped off, Red? Ouch. I wasn't using it to attack you. I was using it to attack you. Well, I'm not using it to attack you either.

I'm just saying that there's some things that we don't necessarily have to talk about. All I'm saying is that you've seen a little hesitant to head back to Deadstone Clough, aka the Great Peak Mountains. Well, I thought maybe it was to do with your relationship with your family, and obviously your family's relationship was fractured because of your relationship with the goblins. No, there's nothing wrong with my family? All my relationships are fine. What are you talking about? You're making a lot of assumptions they're red.

And so you might be asking yourself, why do we want to go to the storm giant? court because that seems like the important fact that red left out yeah but they used to be the lead of the ordaining and now the king and queen are missing and the princesses are ruling we assume and something weird is going on there and that's why we need to go there right thank you context gravely needed well i didn't get to finish my whole spiel we got as far as where we're going and then i got interrupted by blushing bum over well you know to go talk about you know this and that happening in the background. Look it, put it, put it this way. That's a whole side conversation that doesn't need to happen here or now. Where are we, what are we talking about? We're talking about the ordaining, yes.

So yes, Jack's right. That's why we want to head there. So the question is, of the places we could go, do we want to go to Grey Peak next? I think so far, we've all said yes, but obviously we have a new party member here, and maybe they have an opinion too. I'll try anything once, because at this rate I'm probably going to get killed if I try it a second time. Have you seen a giant before? No, I have not. They're big. Are they really 50 feet tall? No, not all of them. Some are taller, yeah. What depends on the kind. And Jack might conjure up a minor illusion of us and the stone giants and fire giants and hill giants we've seen so far, and Zephyros, the cloud giant, and just, and our frost giant friend, um, Harshnag. Harsnag. Harsnag. Harsn.

and sort of put them all in a line and just sort of give a general here's in context of us from Doran on up to giant size just to a nice lineup and I know a great deal from them I learned a lot from Harshnag as we were traveling up north

for about eight days you could say they're even my favorite enemy which gives me advantage on information about them intelligence and tracking them as well I also do more damage to them and can speak giant someone called me an idiot savant one

I think they meant it as an insult. Take whatever wins you can get. Yeah. I don't think I'm dressed appropriately for this, am I? You definitely could use some bedorama. You're wearing, like, leather. Yeah, what is this? It's nice leather.

There's some beautiful embroidery work on this that my grandmother did. It's not even studded leather. What is this? Is this seal skin? Is that a seal skin? No. Whale. Yeah, it's whale.

Wow. Beautiful. Oh, I love the embroidery. Don't get me wrong. See this in red points to like kind of a weird symbol on his paldron. I had this brought over for my studded leather armor when I bought this breastplate. We can keep that embroidery and put it on something else. What do you see her indoor?

I see her in, yeah, maybe some sort of breastplate. Well, I don't know. You could probably get something that'll go underneath that. Yeah, we could get something down underneath that. Honestly, yeah. She'll need to tighten up there because this is where they, you know, especially when something comes down on it, it's going to crush that. Funny thing, that's not going to work.

It's just whatever. I have one of those things where, like, I put on any sort of, like, a lot of metal. It all just turns my skin green. And, yeah, I can't wear, I can't, I have to wear, like, solid silver. Wow. It's a huge pain. You have a nickel sensitivity. Yeah.

Well, you know, I mean. Other, everything else just turns my, turns my skin green and weird. I had lots of friends in the Army that just did not want to wear metal for whatever reason they found it heavy and too heavy. So, you know, there's a technique where we can layer some, uh, some furs and leather. And it'll certainly add a layer of protection. Oh, there's lots of different... Hide armor would work well.

I read a great book about some of the fantastical trees across the world. Oh, yeah, wood armor. Purportedly some pretty fabulous properties, even to be used as armor. If you can find something anywhere... Oh, yeah, wood has good properties, eh, Jack? I think so. I'm intrigued by the wood armor. I have to admit.

Intrigued? Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, that was good. It's a pun. Every time. Marry stands up, quits the party. It's water deep. If you can find it anywhere, you can find it here, probably.

Or Baldes Gate. Look, either way, we want to make sure that we are all on the same page I head into the Great Peak Mountains. So we want to stay here for a few days, you said, right, Jack? Well, I figured we could, you know, head out right after midwinter. It's two days away that gives us a day to make sure we're supplied in provision to go climb a mountain. And that seems like enough time if we're smart about it. All right. Doran, do you want to maybe work with Jack on, I don't know, sending a letter ahead,

let some family know we're coming, maybe so they expect us? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Work on something with Jack on that? Perfect. transport to Loudwater, and then it's a few days walk or ride to Deadstone Cleft, roughly. I mean, we're going to want to hit the Great Peak Mountains, probably some of Doran's familial relations first. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. I mean, a local guide, or at least someone who's seen what's going on there with the Giants, would help us all safely navigate this. Yeah. Have you ever had, do you have brothers? Oh, well, I had brothers, you know. Really? What do you mean had? Well, I think this is a conversation for another time. We got a couple of days to get this sorted, Red.

Why don't we go... Sure. See what we can do but armor first. Yeah. Look, it doesn't really matter. We have golds. Mari, we want to get you new armor. I also think we should get a new round of health potions.

And frankly, some of the potions we had came in handy. Another water-breathing potion might be pretty useful, as well as any potions that might help with climbing. Ultimately, if we are scaling a mountain, I know there are some magic things, you know, slippers of climbing and things like that, as well as potions, I think we've had one before, that could help with that.

So maybe getting retinue of potions together would be wise. Yeah. Yeah, no stealing potions, eh? That was not on me. Right, right. Let's have a little fun before midwinter hits. After all, we're probably not going to be heading back to Waterdeep for a long time once we head out to the Great Peaks. Let's get our jollies in while we can.

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Tony Pepperoni, Trapper 939, and Tyler Fowler. Thank you so much. No, I was going to say, I love me a meme playlist on Spotify. Sandwich has the song bread, cheese, lettuce, chicken, mayonnaise, bread by all different artists. There's a couple of other ones, but they're so funny to me. I don't know if I want to put chicken in there, though. Mayo needs to go on top. That's funny.

I'm sorry, the order of this sandwich playlist is wrong. No, because you have to have one, like, spread or sauce on each side. So chicken function, or sorry, cheese functions like that, and then mayo is underneath. I'm fine doing mayo on both pieces of bread, you know? You can double mayo me as well. If it's like, if it's like sliced really thin, then you don't need much mayo. But if it's like a thick chunk of chicken or a think chunk of turkey. I love how the audience is going to listen to this or not.

And they're not going to have any context. If you were to make a meme playlist, what would it be? I would put, get dressed, and it would have new shoes by Paolo Nintini on it. You could also put short skirt long jacket on there. Oh. I actually did one of these. Did you do a meme playlist? I did.

I used to be the studio manager at my job. And I one day was off and so somebody else was covering me. And I made a playlist that was like, hello, Dean. And so we'll be covering me for. like it was like the whole thing it like worked out yeah yeah it was very stupid so good