Dice Shame - 2-142 | 'The Party Line'

Episode Date: May 15, 2025

On their way back to Iron Slag, the party takes the time for a much needed heart to heart and a chat about who they are and what this adventure may entail...________________________________________________________________________________________________________________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 friend Nic 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: animal death, swearing, violence, claustrophobiaPart of the Rusty Quill Network Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Now is the good time to turn over a new stone. Use magic. All the cool kids are doing it. Where are you from? Why are you looking so weird at everybody, Doran? Far less training required. I am so sorry to have offended you if... Doesn't anybody else want it? I don't know. Hope can be dangerous.

A wholesome place. Well, it's probably one of the two. Maybe your birthday's today. Ah, I didn't throw them all back. See, Witted? You know what I'm talking about, right? I can't emphasize Witted's jaws on the floor right now. This is blowing his... mind.

I could be a baby yak. Welcome back to Dice Shame. This is Season 2, Episode 142, The Party Line. MVP this week is AC3 Creative, who just started Dice Shame the other day and is loving it so far. They also did a design for Red based on my descriptions from a recent spooky stream and he is looking awesome. Thank you so much AC3. You're this week's MVP. All right. Should we play some D&D? Yeah, let's do it. Woo! Ha-ho! day, so the spring weather has finally begun to shift.

It would seem that the long winter of Fayrun is at last coming to a true end. As you travel north to iron slag, the trees all around you are capped with a haze of new green growth, and apart from the tops of the mountains around you, the last of the snowdrifts, tenaciously clinging to life underneath rocky outcroppings or shady boughs are weeping their last, into dark, fresh earth. Crocuses and snowdrops push shoots up hopefully toward warmer days, and the nights carry a fresh, cleansing breeze. Although you're traveling to a place of great danger, a place where you will revisit loss and trauma and failure, the passage of time is immune to your creature concerns. And so, spring dawns over the world around you.

even as you travel. As they're walking through, what I'm imagining is spring thaw mud. Tamil kind of looks at the mud clinging to her boots and she says, well, perhaps the weather will take care of slowing down this Von and Dodd for us. Yeah, I mean, that was the plan. The letter we sent to chaos, hammer, I think, detailed the idea that you and Doran came up with about slowing that bastard in the woods to the north, right? Yeah.

To me a little waxed Doren on the back. That was all him. Well, thanks. But I don't need to take all the credit. I mean, you were there too. Thanks, Dorn. It's good to be perceived. With the fresh spring air, Doren takes a look around at his new compatriots

and suddenly comes to the realization that he's really quickly come to just accept and blindly trust these people with, like, you know, his life and having his back. I mean, even Wim, you only met, like, what, 310 day, 2.10 day ago? Yeah. Like, pretty recently considering. And it almost starts to eat away a little bit at him, I suppose. Not in a really negative way. Like, he's not doubting you guys, but he is starting to think to himself, like, I don't really know these people.

How do I, how do I know that they're not working for the enemy? Why are you looking so weird at everybody, Doran? You're just staring at each person as we walk, sort of mumbling to yourself under your breath. Is everything okay? Am I staring? You said something like eminy or something? I don't know. But is something on your mind?

I'm just, well, you know, I guess, I'd like to get to know you better. Doran, we've known each other for, I don't know, months now. Remember, I was hired to kill you, and then I decided to have a change of heart. Yeah. I'm sorry, you were hired to kill him? Yeah. Oh, he was hired as an assassin. He picked my name out of a hat or something like that.

Oh. Something like that, yes. It's not important. What's important is that we're friends now, Doran. Yeah. Look, and Red turns to Meal. Look, the truth is, yes, I came over from Mazdicaa. I worked for the Dark Tie, a super serious assassin organization.

They gave me the name of a dwarf I'd never met. I joined his party under the guise of being helpful when really I came to kill him. But I got to know him. I met him. I returned the money, and I decided to change my ways. It was a great arc. Sounds riveting. You should write that down.

It would make a great, great tale to sell. Oh, I wrote it down. Don't worry. I mean, it's point for him, but... I don't have a tale. Wonderful. But you know lots about me, Doren. You should really want to know about them.

Yeah. I mean, Endurance sort of starts with Tamil, and he sort of looks at the staff, which catches his eye, and he says, Well, Tamil, tell me, where are you from in this land? Where did you grow up? Oh, well. No money asking. Not at all. I come from a small fishing village at the mouth of the Delenbeer River, but nobody's ever heard.

of um really nothing to speak of there except a little bit of swamp and a lot of very hardy people who aren't willing to get their hands a little dirty whim signs to you how did you become an adventurer she wants to know how you became an adventure to meal who's been trying very hard to kind of pick up on this says actually i think i finally got that a little um well i was a sailor for a a while, traveled the seas, got a taste for wandering, and when I went back home, felt restless. So I went to Waterdeep, happened to stumble into some others who were looking for someone who could throw a javelin. She holds up static, kind of chuckles to herself, and so we set out. Are you a good fisher person? Oh my gosh, the look you get. I'm a great fucking fisher person. I'm a great

fucking fish a person Oh cool I like fish Eventually the five of you decide To find a safe place to camp With the night Yeah looks good Wim starts to sign a little bit frantically

She's like Remember when we were in water deep And I jumped in the ocean For the first time ever Oh yeah That was So cool And then she turns to Timil

And she signs I think I want to be a sailor. It's a great life. It's unfettered. I've never been on a ship before. You'd be great at it, women. That was some pretty fast hand movements. And Dorian leans over to Wittitt.

She wants to be a sailor too now. Now, at this point, you're leaning over, but you're kind of calling over, because the camera kind of pans over, and Witted is in his armor, and he's visibly sulking, not in like a way drawing attention are obvious, but he's sulking and you don't even need to ask because he's been sulking for a while now. He's sulking about the magic items that we left behind. And he's already asked if we can just go back. And everyone's like, we don't have time. And he's just like, no, but then when are we going back? And the helmet is up. So when he's been answering questions, it's with the helmet's voice and everything. You think he's sulking, but not being aggressive about it.

Just. Red walks over to Witted, and he's like, look, buddy, there's so many things out there. Think of what Duke's Alta's going to have in Iron Slag. There's going to be a thousand Netherite things, you know? When we go to Iron Slag, are we just going to leave everything behind like we did this time? It's like a big toddler, just angry. Listen, do you think I got all of this bling and red gestures to like all. all the, like, glowing, magical stuff on him.

He's like, do you think I got all this by leaving it behind? Look, all three of us got duped by that magic liquid that I filled up in my canteen. It took us a day or so to figure it out, but all three of us got tricked. And there was nothing all three of us who got put under the magic spell could have done about it. All three of us. The helmet rises up a little bit. I just feel like we, someone could have warned me that there was going to be. be it did chat me

and the helmet shuts again and what about you? We did we're talking to Temeel about where she came from. You said you're from Silvery Moon but always? It pops up a little bit and it's clear I think at this point because he's terrible at hiding it he's acting like he hasn't been listening

and that he's still been just stuck on the he's definitely been listening the whole time and he says yeah yeah well I've been to water deep out more than what occasion by a fably is originally we're talking centuries ago from the islands of Lantin, the gnomish islands of wonder and invention. But my family's lived in silvery mood for certainly the entirety of my life and my parents and

grandparents' lives. But business with the old country takes us through water deep on multiple occasions. The old country, I love to imagine what it's Italian. Yeah, yeah. There's a section of the family that is over in Lantin still and we go see that. them and they all speak in gnomish together and it's rad. It's a good time. That's cool.

Is your family business artificing? No. The helmet doesn't shut, but it like one inch, like a half inch, starts to shut a little bit. I think he realizes how weird that would be and stops it. Wrong question, Temele. We've got to get him to open up. Well, literally.

You can see the percentage of his openness in a radius arc. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think Tameel will set up the tiny hut again for them once they start to settle down. And as you enter into it, you'll start to notice a couple of changes. Like where there were just five hooks, now there's a special kind of shelf

that looks like it's meant for a bow to hang on it with the handle side so that the string doesn't have tension put on it. There is a piece of paper tacked to the wall with all of the accepted nicknames for Witted. Yeah. Yes. Proved nicknames. And there's like special.

special place for armor and, you know, like weapons and a special dwarf-sized stool. Yes. That's phenomenal. I love this effort in personalization. Nick, I want to give you inspiration for those details. That's the most fun. As it turns out, I still haven't used my inspiration. Well, so I will donate it to Alex.

Oh. Whoa. Thank you. Oh, my first inspiration donation from Tamil, or from Nick. From Tamila, Nick. Thank you. From us both. Yeah, and Red enters Lehman's tiny hut sort of tentatively and looks around, wow, Tamil, this is really personalizing it.

You know, we've all been traveling together for a few days, but, you know, every night we'd sort of recede into our own places. You know, Dora and I would still camp outside, and obviously you would create your own fire as you usually can. watered outside of the hut, but maybe tonight we should all, you know, stay in here together? I mean, I don't see why not. We are a traveling party. Hey, we're a traveling party. This is, this is great. Party? Noticing the detail that you put into this, Tamil, when it is definitely looking around, impressed in a way you haven't seen him being impressed with, except when he's looking at magic items of great value and construction. And he's looking around and really almost whistles at the work

and is very much like this is the kind of capping that I approve of. In nobish culture there is something called Vostig which translates roughly speaking in common to glambing would be the term this is the kind of camping that nobs prefer and certainly

my style tense simply are not functionally appropriate for most terrain and I approve of this sort of work well done thank you It's very homey. I like that you put the part of my bow that I don't have to hang it by this string.

Red goes to hang his bow up and hangs it by the string anyway, but not purposely just stupidly. He hangs it the wrong way and it like flips when he turns around and just bounces on those strings. Timil will also point out a little basket of fruit to Wim, who she's noticed kind of munching on like random food as they've traveled. In case you get peckish. Wim had scurvy when she's.

She was younger. Not a sailor, but had scurvy. Amazing. It was destined to be. Women signs, it was a rough childhood. And then kind of, I mean, it's a little bit ironic because she's still at an age where a lot of people would, like, consider her, you know, late adolescence. You know, not yet an adult. And as she sits down in front of this fruit bowl and starts going through it, she pulls out this, like, shiny green apple.

and looks at it appreciatively. Then she puts it down on the table ahead of her, and she drops her eyes. And then she goes to her bag, and she starts going through it. And beside the apple on the table, she puts down a ring and a pale blue rhomboid stone,

which all of you recognize to be the two magical artifacts that were in the thousand Maas cave system. Ah, I didn't throw them all back. See what it? Hey. And she looks a little bit ashamed. Did get all left behind.

That's, well, that I recognize just by its shape. If I may, a wib. And he reaches forward with the armor. Like he can't even help himself to pick up the rhomboid stone. Does she allow him to? Yeah, she looks over at you sort of side glance. And you can see she's got like almost a, a blush of embarrassment on her face from not sharing with everyone for the past little while

that she's had these in her bag. And she just grabs the apple and starts chewing on it and like turns her back to you a little bit. Witted kind of does pick up on a little bit of what's going on here. And he actually, as much as he is like, ooh, let me at these magic items, he sees that Wim's a little embarrassed. He picks it up with his armor and like leans in with like a little like not only like goggles clicking into place but like a little holding up like almost looking glass style spectacle that he's using to view this stone up close and he goes oh wibb please uh bring your far head close let me show you how this works and he attempts to kind of bring the stone up to her head and let's go whoa with the whir the stone begins to spin

in mid-air. It's like one of those shitty toys you get from Costco. It's like hovering right beside her head as you remove your hand. It just hangs in the air. Entirely, unnaturally, this magical item, and it begins to glow just a very soft light. Oh, you think by now I'd be used to seeing magical items, but that's amazing. What does it do?

It's just jewelry, probably. Obviously, it's just, it's really pretty. True. That I have not figured out yet. This is where the fun begins. She just blinks and surprise, like all of this embarrassment sort of forgotten as she sees Witted interact with this Ayoon stone. As it's kind of rotating, Wittitt is studying this thing and does say this is some kind of iron stone.

Wizards of Old would use these to keep their hands free for spellcasting while still granting them great boods and benefits of a variety of the source. So frankly, this could do a number of different things. Do you feel any different, Wib? She nods a little bit unsure. You look a little taller, Wim. Maybe it made you an inch taller. Red stands up and, like, puts us back to her and, like, starts measuring ineffectually.

He's, like, not even touching the top of his own head. And, like, yeah, yeah, you're taller. She nods. That would be a unique ironstone effect, certainly. She nods at you read. Yes, she believes she's taller than you now. Yeah, yeah. What both taller, I think.

We just visibly sighing like, no, please. Or maybe you're shorter. Oh, that might be a pretty neat magical effect. Dornland stands up. Well, it's probably one of the two. Both. I don't believe that Wim needs to be the recipient of this stone necessarily. Who do we want it to go to?

It's of strength. Oh, well, probably strength. Either Doran or Tamil. Tamil, what does your strengths... Actually, I think it should go to... I mean, so I don't use strength for my attacks. I actually use my charisma. So I feel like it should go to Doran.

Doran, I would think, yes. Probably, yeah, Doran, you use your strength as an attack. What's your strength score, Doran? Plus 4, 19? No, what's your score? 19? Mm-hmm. So it only bump you up to 20

because it's to a maximum of 20. Does Wittit attack with strength or something else? I believe all my attacks run off of intelligence one way or another. Yeah. Mm. Nice. I think Doran is watching this all like sort of wondrously. He doesn't care though to get these things.

He's like, oh, what does it do? What do you? Hey, that's kind of cool. And like he's very happy to see you guys enjoy it and someone take advantage of it. He's like a dad on Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. You kids have fun.

Well, like some dads, because I'm sure there's. some dads that are like, move, I want that. What's funny is I feel like Witted actually takes almost issue with this. He sees this response, and very much once he's locked in on the fact that this gives strength benefits, doesn't see why this wouldn't go to Doren. He plucks it again kind of into the air and walks over. For what it is worth, Dored, I don't want to push you one way or another, but these were given by Netheries wizards to their mightiest warriors and ancient beige dites.

Really? It was a signifier of great rank and authority to wield one of these for what is strength compared to the strength that can be gained by magic. I think we would all agree. You with your axe, he's making a huge assumption right now that you don't value like mundane strength. You with your mighty magical axe, me by armor, I would not benefit from this. These do not run off of strength and bustles. But your strength and muscles could benefit from magic, surely, like we all can.

yes and he's almost like to try this try this kid you're selling it yeah absolutely use magic all the cool kids are doing it yeah Timal gets kind of curious looking at Doran's reaction watching Doran's reaction Doran are you hesitant because it is magic well I might use it wrong

or I might lose it or break it I don't know forget I have it in my character sheet this shop It's like it's a passive bodice You could say that about any of us though I suppose but it's so small It looks so fragile and it's

Well I don't know how to use magic really All I have is And he points to this ring on his finger All I have is this magic ring Which holds some spells And I can barely use that And then the other thing is this wand And he kind of retrieves this wand over the

His pocket Look the other part of it is that Dorn and I, I think, are a bit gun-shy. You know, we had a companion with us that was more or less corrupted by magic. Yeah. And then we had another companion that was also more or less corrupted by magic. Well, that sounds like a skill issue to be. Ultimately, it was, I think, yes.

I wouldn't get corrupted by magic. I guess, you know, when you don't understand things, you fear them. And the truth of the matter is, I think. Of course. Not offense, Doran, but, you know, I think you have a tough time wrapping your head around it sometimes. But if you're telling me that I'd really benefit from it and that it's not difficult to use or hold on to, I mean, does it anybody else want it? And Doran sort of like looks over at Tamil and, you know, holds it out. Couldn't you use this?

It's quite cool. Yeah. Don't tempt me. Timil considers it and she'll look back at Doran and she'll say well especially if you have a bad memory associated with magic or magic items maybe now is the good time to turn over a new stone an island stone I get it

kind of looks at the stone as you say that well you know if you say so then maybe I will look we can share it I'll take a for now. And then maybe if it's not working, I'll give it to see you, to you, or to somebody else. Deal. Do I just put it in my pocket? Just put it on your forehead, like

what it did to whim. I kind of put it there. Starts hovering a little bit, yeah. Whoa. It's like hanging an ornament on an invisible Christmas tree branch. You just like set it in the air around your head. And it orbits you. Oh, whoa, Doran, you grew like an inch right away.

Oh, did I? Yeah, you're a little taller. Wow. And brighter. And I think you smell better, too. Oh, oh, thanks. Thanks, you guys. That's really kind of you to give this to me.

Wim points to the ring on your finger, Doran, and she signs, does that thing need a recharge? And Doran looks at the ring for probably a lot. longer than you would have expected. He kind of stares at it. No, it's not empty. Jack, Jack put a spell in here. Just before he died, I think.

It was, it's an invisibility spell. He sort of plays with it, thinking of his fallen companion, you know. Yeah. But, what do you think? Are you thinking, give me some sort of fireball, or? Whim signs. have you ever flown before? Flown?

Do I look like I have wings? I've never flown. Dwarves can't fly, whim. She signs, well, maybe I could help with that. I have a spell that would let you fly. Oh, on the ring. Oh, I think that would be a really, really neat thing for me to do. Yes, well, let's do it.

And he sort of hands over the ring. I'll always have memories of Jack but I won't remember him if I'd dead Red walks over to like an area of Lehman's Tiny Hut that I kind of imagine is like a bunch of pillows in the floor For some reason I'm kind of imagining Lehman's Tiny Hut

I could be totally wrong having like stuff around but in the center almost being a little bit like concave or convex like it kind of sinks down to a fire almost 70s in a way Are you talking about a conversation pit Are you doing?

Yes Yes! Yes. Right? Yes. Yeah, Conversation Pitt. I'm kind of envisioning like a conversation pit.

What is that called? Like a hot tub for a pet. It's a sunken, like sunken floor. Sunkin, thank you. It's got a sunken living room. Yes. Just because I don't know, the way you described it is so cozy and I'm kind of imagining that.

So Red walks down to the sunken living room area and like lies down on like the comfy couch. It's cottage core, but there's like a Shangri-La vibe also. Oh, yeah. We're on my white robes. Super cottage core. Getting 70s vibe. Just to give you guys a little bit of insight

My intention is to like to change it You know like as you know As like things happen in the party And then like as vibes change So I don't intend it to like look a A one way and that's the only way that it looks so We did is impressed because it has evolved That's something that he appreciates

With the situation Drain is special And I mean this in a complimentary way But it like reminds me like a video game You know like a video game Like you get your camps I always love that video game It is basically like

The cool island in Animal Crossing. Well, good job. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, Red lies down and he stretches out and he goes, ah. So sailor, you mentioned, you know, fishing village, and obviously, you know, you mentioned silvery moon there.

You guys got any siblings out in the world? Anyone else roaming around? Witted audibly just goes, mm, and looks down at a tool that he was kind of fixing with one hand and now seems to be giving his full attention to very transparently not because he needs to he's ignoring the question hmm oh all right uh tamil um i have some some brothers and sisters back home yes oldest of nine actually wow nine oh but she she also looks like she's not really comfortable talking about it oh i of Fair enough. I'm the youngest of 45, so I know the feeling.

Hello. Forty-five. How many distinct litters? Nine. But, you know, I, at least in tabaxi culture, you know, the way we treat brothers and sisters is not really the same way I've found over here in Fayrune, at least. You know, it's, I barely met any of them. I always like to think, well, Doren is my brother, really. Well, that's awfully sweet of you read.

Whim signs, Doran had brothers, you know. Well, I had brothers, you know. Oh, yeah, I know you had brothers. Doran has a tragic story about those, but... Wait, hey, fair enough. Tragic story. Did you lose? Yeah, literally.

Literally, actually. They disappeared into the dark of a cave. I'm sorry. It's okay. I have beat myself up long enough for this. long story short i wasn't responsible after all for my brother's disappearing and although they we gave them a burial we've never found them and so they might be alive and i just don't know and tough to have hope sometimes you know yeah i think tamil at this point we'll walk over to you

because there's still one spell slot available on the ring right yeah that's right and she'll touch the ring and a i guess a golden light will start to suffuse it a little bit I'm going to put a first level cure wounds in there as well. Oh. Just in case. Nice. Cool. What was that? That way you have it.

Just in case. Then we have it. You have it. Then we have it. Just in case. Thank you. Yeah. And Red sort of tacks on to Doran's thought.

He says, yeah, but you know, listen, I hate to say it, but hope can sometimes fuck with your brain, you know, hoping that your brothers are out there still alive. It's, I don't know. Hope can be dangerous. Red, Temeel turns to you, and her expression is now bordering on. angry and she'll say sometimes hope is the only thing that keeps us going oh i mean yeah of course i i didn't mean yeah sure i mean so sorry red sort of like stands up whim signs what is that supposed to mean it means that loss can be overwhelming it can be a thing that that turns everything positive and warm and loving in us into anger and a desire for vengeance and violence.

And so hope is the, it's the thing that keeps us connected to ourselves. It's a thing that keeps us connected to the ability to love. Sure, sure, yeah, yeah. Definitely. And then Tamil start, like, she's aware of a vibe that is now entered the hut. And so she kind of like shakes it off. and I think that she swats it Witted and she goes, you know what I'm talking about, right?

Witted had been watching surprisingly attentively the moment that Wim signed that question over and for Witted was very much like, ooh, juicy one, like looking over to see what you would say. And so you swat him and he absolutely is just like, I suppose that's as good as answer as Eddie. I don't know what I would have said at your place. Hope.

Hope can be powerful. Wim starts to sign and her gestures are smaller. unusual, like almost more intimate, like quieter. And she signs, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you. It's just that no one's ever told me that before. I grew up in what I know now is a cult and nobody really cared about me. So hearing stuff like that is very strange. Hmm. Yeah, I kind of wondered about you, too, Whim. I mean, I wasn't sure if you're part of the cult, grow up in the cult, or if you were adopted, or what your situation was. So, um, I guess I'm glad that you were liberated from the cult and that you're here with us. She says, it was very strange. I was forgotten a lot of the time. left to my own devices.

I think that's where my name came from. Oh. Red sort of like nods. I kind of imagine like Red and Wim have talked about all this before. Like I think Red knows a lot about Wim. But yeah, Red just sort of like doesn't make eye contact with Tameel.

He's like, yeah, yeah. Sorry, sorry as well. And he sort of like stands up and walks around a little bit like pretending to look at things on the wall. Oh, that's a nice wheel. When you get up and start to walk away, Tamil will call after you, Red. Red, I apologize. When we left the camp of the escapists, a little bit of an eye roll,

one of them told me that there were tunnels underneath this quenching pool, which is where I thought that my party members died. And so I have to have hope. I have to, otherwise, the only thing that I'm going to see, seat going forward is destruction. It's what motivated me in dead snow. It's what made me get into trouble with Carilla. It's what was driving

me until I met all of you. So, I didn't mean to snap. I'm sorry, I had no idea. Red takes like a half step towards you. Look, from our side of things, we just

watched our friend get obliterated by a giant and and I know he's gone and our other friend too I know they're never coming back and and the nights I spent turning them over in my brain thinking that

there was a way to revivify or a way that Mari would come back they killed me but I totally understand you're right and if you need us to hope along with you you better believe that I am going to be your

cheerleader right next to you you saying, hell yeah, we're going to scour that quelching pool? Quenching. That's the one. Sounds delicious. And we'll make sure, we'll scrub every bottom. And, hey, we'll find them. We'll find them.

We'll find them. I don't mean to belittle your experience either, read Doran. Oh, hey, listen. We're all still learning each other. That's the whole point of this. And Doran's right. I am. You know, we ought to.

We ought to, and Red reaches into his bag and he pulls out a bottle of wine. We ought to, and he uncorks it, we ought to really treat this party like a party, you know? And he takes a big swig of like some elven, silvery moon wine that he stole from Jack's mom's house three months ago. And he's like, it's a phenomenal vintage, entirely underappreciated. Yeah, he spits some of it up. Tannins. Here, and he reaches in his bag and he pulls out a water skin entire. He passes it to Whimmy, and he's like,

fill that one up with raspberry for you. And he hands the bottle of wine to Dorn. Oh, thank you. And Dorn takes a big gulp and then passes it over to Temiel. Then senses this like, you know, maybe this awkward moment, not really too awkward, but he pipes up again and turns to wit of this time. So, oh, you're in silvery moon, and you're obviously some sort of, um, what is it called on

artificer? I feel like he had been like looking into his helmet working on stuff and he flips of the helmet and reaches out with his little hand just kind of opening and closing it in a gesture of like hey give me that wine bottle, pass it over Give me, give me, give me, give me. Taville takes a swig and hands it right over.

I'll take a swig, absolutely, yes. I do enjoy wine more than other alcoholic beverages. And yes, I am what you would all Well, traditionally referred to as an artificer, yes. I practice a particular brand of technology-based magic. Whim signs, how old are you? I am just over 122.

Holy shit. You're a bit older than me. Absolutely, yes. In novish years, I'm about middle-aged, roughly. A little bit older. She gets up in mimes, like, being a hunched over old man and sort of like takes a couple of steps around, like, cracking-wise. Technically, I am not in my hunched old man years just yet.

I am currently in what is technically referred to as my Silver Fox era. That is not by my choice of terminology. That is by nobish culture, a choice of terminology. I will not take offense to that as an actual foxy old man. Certainly, it would be merely nobish terms. I apologize. What does Witted look like in the face area? Not Silver Foxy at all, really.

He does have. He does have white hair, but it's not clear that he is particularly old. You would put him more at like a human in his maybe 40s, kind of. So, like, I guess 122, not that bad for a gnome. But again, I feel like he'd be very hard to pin down his age. Very, like, Doc Brown kind of vibes where it's like, yeah, he's old, but he's hell a spry, like weirdly sprung for how old he might be theoretically. What would it is is he's a young gnome.

in Old Gnome makeup, the way Doc Brown is, like, because Christopher Lloyd was young. He would be played by a young actor, correct? He would be played by a young actor that's trying to play older. Exactly. He's bald mostly in the middle, but with big tufts of white hair kind of coming around the size. Oh, the Albert Einstein type of. Yeah, yeah, very Albert Einstein. 122.

Wow. Oh, yeah, that makes you the oldest. But then Doran turns to Natimil. And what about you? you are absolutely rude absolutely rude is it i can't believe you'd say that oh i and then waits for a reaction from you doran then starts laughing oh oh no i'm i'm 38 years old oh hell yeah wow but 38 but seriously doran don't ask human women how old they are oh is that old for a human i was just going to say i'm turning 38 this year do not call that all

You also don't ask foxes their age either. No. FYI. Whim signs, when's your birthday? Me? Oh. I don't know. Don't know?

You don't know your birthday? Look, I don't. You don't need to be weird about it, but I don't know how old I am. I think I may be around, I don't know. Anywhere between 30 to probably 70. Wim points at the wine skin that you're drinking. Yeah? You're drinking wine.

Oh, yeah. Probably old enough to drink then. Exactly my point. If you don't know when your birthday is, then maybe your birthday is today. Happy birthday, Red. Oh, thank you. I mean, today could be my birthday, but you didn't get me anything. Dang.

Well, look, it's not like you can cut off my leg and count my rings. Tamil leans into you. How will we know unless we try? That's true. Whim signs, how old is your daughter? Oh, man, I don't know. Let me think. She was, uh, carry the one.

And you can see at this point, Red is like... There's panic? Yeah, he's like kind of panicking. Like, oh, okay. Ooh, yeah, this is really... Like, the way, like, a bad parent would, like, pretend to know their child's birthday. Oh, I remember being cold. I think Reagan was in the power.

Red? You have a daughter? Yeah. Oh, she's wonderful. Her name is B She's beautiful She's a Tamaxie like me Well

What can I tell you about her This ring is connected to her It lets me feel her happy Wherever she is in the world It's a bit of an attempt As I mentioned a Grak-lack About connecting with her once again Look

The truth of the matter is I was a bit of an absentee father She was a bit of a favour To my best friend Branch of a River growing up She wanted a child and I helped her with that. And, you know, she didn't really want me in B's life,

not in a malicious way. She just knew I had greater things I wanted to see and experience. So I left and, well, a few months ago, B found me and wanted to reconnect. Oh. And I did a really bad job, obviously, because I didn't expect it. But I'm working on it, and she's lovely.

She's an adventurer like us. That's amazing. Yeah. And what happened to River? Oh, well, she passed away a little while ago. She was sick, natural causes. That's why Bea came over here, because I was, I guess, her last lifeline to her mother, in a way. I'm sorry to hear that.

Thanks. You'll meet her. I hope you'll both meet her. B, she's wonderful. Well, I look forward to it. whim sort of gets a sad look on her face and signs we keep saying hope i don't know it just feels weird that we would have to hope to see each other again hey listen to me was right i was wrong why not have hope why not put a little bit of of hope in that you know we've all been through some

terrible times, and I think what we could all use right now is to look forward to a little bit of sunshine, right? Red takes the bottle from Witted, who's drinking far too much of it. Whitted does seem the only visible signs where he's slightly rosy-cheeked, but with like his eyes just slightly lidded, he fights you for a second for the bottle, and he goes, no, wait, my birthday's 20 Marpodef. And he's like, does that get me another drink? All right, fine. He took a swing. He took like five swings back to back. 20 of Maupadeth.

Nice. We did 120 years is a long time to be alive. Do you have someone that you've met and, I don't know, settle down with back in Silvery Moon? Well. Yes. Have you had sex? Red. Wait, what?

I thought you were. I feel silly. I honestly did think you were talking about working as business partners with other artificers. So now I feel a little bit silly. immediately stands up and signs, I am going to get firewood and she leaves. Yeah, it is an immature, a mature conversation. Someone's special back home? Wooden says, I would rather talk about the artificers that I have worked with.

I have no significant relationships that I care to speak of in silvery mood. And he sort of huffs a little bit, almost like he hasn't thought of talking about any of those. Oh, right. So not married or anything? No, no. Married to my work and slaps the same. suit. Bessie.

Old Bessie here is the only thing that I need. I was going to ask you, actually. And you, too, Tameel, um, are you... Are you married? Tammil will snatch the bottle out of your hand red, and she'll just say, I am not. And then she'll throw back another swig. Fair, fair. Dorn wise, I mentioned that to you, Temeel.

But, uh, we don't really have to talk about that right now. Oh, come on. Look, Doren. We're trying to get... Everyone up to date. Right. Come on, Dorn. Tell them about.

Crablox. Cremlock. Cremlock. That's the one. Cremlock. I was married once. It was a secret of marriage. It was a secret of marriage to a goblin.

I was married to a goblin. Oh. It was a love of, well, what do they call it? A forbidden love. I wasn't really allowed to fall in love with a goblin, but it happened anyways. Doesn't it always happen like? that but it didn't last for as long as I wanted it to and after 15 years of marriage she died suddenly in a very very terrible tragic accident oh Doran you

might as well tell them the truth freak gasoline fire out with it Doran well I I don't know here and Red takes the bottle from to me and, like, gives it to Doran, he'll need this. It was a long time ago, but they should know. I don't like talking about it, but if we're going to be adventuring together, it's probably important to get all of our skeletons out of the closet. He kind of gives a look over at you, Timuil. Um, Tumiel's eyebrows go up, like, two inches.

Hmm? I'm not proud to tell you this, but. there's a, um, there's an old birthday celebration tradition that the dwarves and the Great Peak mountains have and that is to go on a hunt on a, well, it's I guess a bit of a kill expiry. Sourcing out an, and an enemy encampment and it was too late until, you know, we ripped the Band-Aid off door and ripped the Band-Aid off. We ambushed a whole party of goblin kind. expecting to take their heads for trophies.

And it wasn't until the lights came on at the end when I realized it was... What? Well, it was my wife and her family. Oh, my God. Yeah. It was a celebration for my birthday. I can't emphasize widage jaws on the floor right now. This is blowing his mind.

It was ugly, and I've had, well, he starts canning in hands. I've had about 70 or so years to think about it. As tragic as it is, I still carry her thought around, and, I mean, that was something I actually did do. I wouldn't say entirely on purpose. I didn't know it was her and her family, but... God, he takes another gulp of wine. But in any case,

that's my soul, um, on a plate for you all to uh, yeah. Lord, I'm sorry for such a tragic thing to have happened to you. Oh, thank you. And that's such a heavy thing to carry around for 70 years.

You know, I think, thank you both. I think the heaviest thing was that I couldn't, I couldn't grieve in the moment, nor surely after or really for many years after only because it was also secretive in the first place. So, you know,

anyway. Anyways, she's pivoting on his... Thor doesn't like these uncomfortable moments and he takes a swig. I wanted to know were either of you, part of your local artisan guilds,

you know, you being a little creative fella and you with your fishing? I raise my hand, yes. Oh. Let me verify this. Are there, like, because fishing isn't really like a craft in the same way that are to.

Doran's just making stuff up probably. I feel like I look over like, yeah, wait a minute, hold on. We are not the same. I would not, I would not put the skills that I acquired on the high seas on par with what Widdid does. Far less training required. Nick, you just lost

an opportunity to make up a new guild. What I meant to say was. I'm a bone jewelry with fish bones. It's the best. I scrimshaw. For what it's worth, I don't have the connections necessarily that one would expect with all the artisan guilds. I have worked with them in the past.

Unfortunately, much of my work is technologically beyond the level of the blacksmiths and other artisans that do much of their craft in Silvery Moon, skilled as they may be. And unfortunately, a good number of those guilds have ties to the nobility and therefore ties to

uncomfortable elements of my family that I have no interest in doing further work with. So I do not work with the artisans of Silvery Moon beyond those who I have had selected, those who are as interested in the craft of the armor as I. We don't work with you either. I am a guild artisan, just FYI. I am so sorry to have offended you in any way.

I certainly have esteem for all guild members who are willing to be open-binded and not bogged down in the economics and wealth aspects of what they are doing. I'm not offended either. Well, wealth, what is wealth? Yeah, actually his background is a guild artist in all things. Oh, fun. And you can tell when it is in a robotic way, like, oh, no, error, error. I've, like, I've offended you in a way that he has not apologized for any of the other offenses he's caused.

No, but, and I do like it because I think there's a moment when Red reveals his gillars and that you sort of look at him again and you kind of notice like little tiny elements, like, you know, like the button holding his cloak together is like carved wood and it looks really nice. It's just kind of like mucky and like, you know, like the little in trails on like his leather boots. Like it's actually kind of his whole persona is very like muddy and ruddy and put together. but when you look past it and focus on singular elements, they're really well crafted, including his like bow, which was originally plain wood, but is all, like, carved intricately.

Yeah, there's something to be part of a guild. Tamil takes the bottle and kind of pushes it back into Widdid's hand, and the second he starts to tip his head back and his eyes are off of her, she'll sign to the rest of them, family. Mm. So, try not to work with your family anymore, eh? families are so tough Don't you just want to sometimes kill him

I'm sorry, that was dark, that was dark A look, just a look at Doran Too soon, Doran, Jesus Wittin wipes his mouth with his sleeve In a way that he's now quite deep in his cups You can tell And he says, yes, not so much working with my family these days, no looks at the bottle like

how much left is in this anyway it's one of those never-ending elvish bottles yes absolutely he's looking in through the eye hole I like this bottle Red's sort of picking up what Tamil's putting down sort of just like adds in a little bit too and it's like yeah you know I just

I never really understood my parents you know like it's like they're on different wavelengths here I am you know where I care about something my guild artists are and re is, you know, most commonly for these arrows I made on my back. And, you know, they just never really gave at the time of day.

It's so difficult when you can, you know, craft something, when you have such a passion for something, and others, especially parents and family members, just don't get it. It is quite frustrating, yes. I would say I understood them just fine. They understood me well enough to, understand that they could profit.

And that is where we disagreed on things. There are ultimately two types of nobes. And unfortunately, you're probably, well, fortunately, you're probably more familiar with the kind like me, the friendly little inventors. But there's

another kind of nobe that they don't tell you about, and I'm sorry to say, the Wigwammer family, is the other kind of nobe. The nobes who like to get behind gardeners, right? No, not. Gardner domes. Those are forest domes. And you can tell he's like, I'm not talking about

forest gnomes. I'm now deciding a sore subject for him. No, not forest nobes. That's a totally different thing. Yes, technically there are three types of domes if you include deep nodes, but I'm just talking in a metaphorical sense. Doren, inside thoughts, outside thoughts, all right? Inside thoughts, outside thoughts. All right. Continue to you thought, would it. There's two types and

the other kind that... at least within the subcategory of gnomes known as rocknobes, and particularly the rocknobes that I have experienced with and I'm referring to. They're the kind who invented create. And that is a rich tradition that has gone on forever in my people. And my family of all families should understand that. The wigwobbers come from that tradition in Lantin. But since we came to Silvery Moon, my family became much more influenced by human and elven nobility

in their own traditions. And unfortunately, it is a rich nobish tradition as well to be sneaking around and manipulating people behind the scenes in unkind ways, ways I don't approve of, ways that I don't want to be pulled into. I like working with my armor. I don't like working with people because the way my family works with people isn't generous and isn't kind to those people. They work with people And they work with people very well When they want to exploit them But my family is not kind

And I Tried to not be like them And then people decided I was also not kind And so I became more like them Than maybe I wanted to be Hmm Well shit where did I

I appreciate you sharing that And hey From what I can tell You're a goddamn straight shooter you haven't deceived us almost to a fault and I appreciate that level of honesty from somebody so hey and Red walks over and puts a hand not on Bessie's shoulder but on your little shoulder

and he says a good one to me forget names you're the best know I know hmm you got him he reaches out and he pats your hand for sure complimenting his honesty that seems like exactly what he was just thinking of And he just like, and Red just like skims the piece of paper on the wall and finds the top nickname. It just says, little guy or whatever.

Exactly. Just to like button it. Red, I did mean to ask, you've called me Wadded several times. Is that a nickname or are you making fun of me? Oh, oh, I mean like obviously it's something that I, and as Red's talking, he's reached over to the piece of paper. And he's just writing on the bottom. Wadded. Could I ask for a sleight of hand check just to make sure that you put in a like,

so you can forge it actually probably better than most hand signatures because it's like printed machine style. 15 plus. You're pretty decent on slide of hand, right? Four, so 19. 19 is definitely more than enough 100%. He looks over and he goes because that is what, oh, huh. I don't remember. Well, that is one of the acceptable nicknames, so I will approve of that.

But Wittitt is a fantastic name. Just if you are making fun of me, just make sure. Listen, I've been made fun of all my life, and he gestures to his own ears and his tail. I know what it feels like when people are poking fun at you. Run to the litter, not looking like anybody else. Trust me. I don't like it either. I appreciate that.

And he steps backwards. Wimk sort of pokes her head back into the tiny hut. she's carrying a big arm of firewood. Sex talk done. Nods emphatically and drops the load of firewood by the fire in the middle of the room.

Tamil's going to walk over to the list of nicknames and cross-off nerd from on that list and then she'll look back to Redd like she wants to ask something and is trying to find the right way to do it. Like a Band-Aid, Tamil. Like a Band-Aid. Red like Catch a,

your eye. Can I ask about your ears? Go for it. What happened to your ears? Look, look, I'll clear the air. I was speaking to this a little bit of, bit with Jack before he passed away, and honestly, and he points to wit it. Well, you did that, too? That's really good. Swery.

Time for revenge. Has it had your ears the entire time. It's been a long. No, no, no. And he points to wit it and he says, hey, truth be told, I like your style with it and I like the way you're handling the way people treated you. And I think for me, I've ran away from it a lot of my life. And when people would ask me, I would sort of shy away from it. But I'm going to take a page of your book. And I'm going to look it head on. The truth is, I didn't know for a long time what happened to my ears and my tale until about a

month ago. We were in the stone giant's fortress, and I had accidentally put my hand on a large sarcophagus. Well, before I knew it, I had been blinked out of existence, and I appeared in a large black void, and a voice said it would answer three questions. Now, I could have asked anything about our adventure or about what's going on, but in the moment, I was dealing with some stress and some self-inflicted thoughts and and I asked it if it knew what happened to my ears and my tail. And the voice told me that when I was young, a man came to my village and took my ears and my tail because I was special. And then I asked the voice where I could find this man.

And the voice said, Mithrin. and I asked my friend Jack if he recognized it, which he didn't. And then I spent a little time in water deep poking around the libraries trying to find a connection to the word, which I couldn't. I guess my next stop would be Candlekeep. I've heard there's some libraries there that might help. They recommended heading there, but I don't know even know where that is. If we are going to Candlekeep at any point,

just please let me know what level of expectation to have in terms of assurity that we are going to go there and how much time we're going to get to spend there because cattle keep is one of my favorite places in fair route well fair i mean i i would love to go but anyway so the truth is i don't know i don't know who took my ears or my tail all i know is that at some point i would like i'd like to track them down and well i don't know what i'd do then red sort of has this like far-off look and like just looks in the middle distance for a second Is Mithrin a name that Tameel would recognize? Fantastic question.

In order to figure that out, are you proficient with any kind of tools? I mean, yeah, let me see. What are they? A shovel. I am proficient with the fiddle, the hand drum, the loot, navigators tools, and water vehicles. That's what I wanted. That's it, the loot.

There we go. Lute saves the day. I don't know what to tell you. Absolutely. Either cartographers' tools or navigators' tools. Cool. Being that you were a sailor and have proficiency with navigators' tools, I would like you to please make a nature check or a history check with advantage. Okay. They're both the same. Well, then you can pick which...

Just a, yeah, just a quick question. Anyone have a, is there, does anyone have like a feeling about which one might be more interesting history? Probably history. I think history might, yeah. Okay. Boobo. Give me something good here. Okay, a 16.

Okay. Okay. Although, hang on one second. I have a thing that if I fail an ability check, I can add some stuff to it. Ooh. What is that thing? Do you have to like sing yourself a song about it? I'm not failing.

I'm doing great. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. I kind of like the theme of this. It's called Fortune of the Many. Whoa. If you miss with an attack roll or fail a saving throw, you can gain a bonus to the role equal to the number of allies you can see up to three.

And then I can use this four times per long rest. Okay. Wow. So we're all kind of like sitting around and. Yeah, I would say a 16 is a little low for this check specifically. So you want to use this ability to bump it up. So I could use my fortune of the many to turn it into a 19. Okay.

Nice. As you cast your eyes around your companions, seeing their different faces almost reminds you of the kinds of people that you would see in this specific chain of islands, an archipelago near the moonshays. You know that this is not a name that you would be able to find on a map. but there is an island that is known by locals as Mithrin. Red, did you say Mithrin? Did I hear that right? Yeah, yeah, Mithrin, but like I said, I've poured through maps.

I don't think it's a real place, at least, on this plane of existence, sir. Well, it's not a name you'd find on a map, but there's an island in the Moonshay Isles that's called Mithrin by the folks that are in the know, anyway. And red? Like, doesn't even move for a second. He just sort of stares at you. Hold on. You know where this place is?

Yes, I have been by it. Oh, my God. I've never landed or set a foot on it, but... Camille. I know it's there. I'm sorry for this. and Red throws his arms around you and gives you a big hug

and then he lets go very quickly I know you don't like being touched but you have no idea what that means to me I can't I can't and he sort of just kind of wanders off for a second and then sits down and just shuts down for a second thinking

and he starts muttering to himself when can we can't no we need to feel with the volenthal first as soon as the volunteer it's done though Moochee Isles we need a ship to whim you're going to be a sailor And then we're going to need to figure out how to... Whim jumps in the air!

Doren, can I see one of your maps? Oh, absolutely. And Doren sort of retrieves his journal out and flips it to the page that's like a big hand-drawn map of Fyroon as he's been... He's got a page that's dedicated to the Sea of Swords, but it's just a bunch of blue that he's been drawing. Like, it's all blue. It's a sea, sea, sea, see.

Still working on the blue. There's a sea monster. I was going to put a sea monster over there. I thought that might make it look cool. All right. Do you mind if I make some edits? Please do. Just as long as they're correct.

Please don't put any false information in there. Promise. We rely on that. Tamil will quickly roughly sketch out the Moonshay Isles and then she'll point to one in particular. This one. That's where you need to go. Red pops back up and walks over.

I can't believe it. Thank you. Look, I'm... Man, I'm feeling awful, awfully good about hope right now, but... We got a job to do still. We got a job to do still. Speaking of, and Red sort of scans everybody, we're a day away from Iron Slag, and Duke Zalto is going to be there.

Additionally, if the Citadel is planning to stop the Von and Dodd in the woods north of it, we might need to go to the Vonendard very quickly after or head to Silvery Moon. There's a lot of things up in the air right now, but if we are heading to Iron Slag, what's our plan of approach? When Doran and I went there, we used a major illusion of some sort by the illusionists in our party, as well as a pass phrase, to open the main doors. Now, obviously, Avonandad stood there and obliterated him instantly, but we know it's not going to be there, so that could still be, viable entrance if either of you have the ability to make a major illusion. Alternatively, there was a yak village on top that I think we might be able to scale in to Einslag through.

Well, be prepared for a fight if we do go that way. My friends and I did try that our first attempt and we were summarily captured, but luckily, we were able to escape and make our way down the elevator they used to deliver the escapeists to Duke Zolto. Okay. Well, look, then it sounds like the yak folk are not friendly by any means. And with it, you can go invisible.

And, I mean, amongst all of us, we have different ways to stealth. Perhaps the play is to find a way to get through that yak village undetected. I can certainly do that. I could offer some recad and hopefully maybe even scout away potentially for us. Yeah.

And worst case scenario, I always have, have this, and Red pulls out his portable hole. Three people can stand in it for about five minutes before suffocating their death. One person just has to run in. It gets sweaty, I'll say that. I don't want to get that desperate that we're trapped with those. Well, what do we think about that, then, going and stealthy? Does that make the most sense? I think so. I've got a few tricks at my sleeve. Whim says most of the giants will probably be gone already, right? So this should be a piece of cake. Moreover, I think we need to talk clearly about our goal here. I think we need to go in and kill one giant, Duke Zolto, and look towards the pools for signs of your friends.

If we have to kill more to get to Duke Zolto, so be it. But at the end of the day, we need the conch around his neck. That's part of the ordaining. That's what we need to move on. And if there's a key to shut this Von and Don down, he's the one who's going to have it. anyone else is just collateral in my mind he's our prime target and red's eyes flick to tamil timil gives red a sage nod whim signs we're going to kill those hounds too and not only to kill duke zolto but we also have to retrieve that conch i just said that's yeah you said conch good point so we did you have invisibility yes and i would certainly make you of that. Whim

sort of like below the table signs to red hopefully in kind of like a stealth mode like whispery way like are we concerned about whitted? Red signs red doesn't sign back but he'll be like

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yep yep yep yes he's like out of nowhere he's saying that. That's good. Anyway okay so Yes, what, Red? Oh, yes, just the greater invisibility comment that we did just made.

Oh, yes, yeah, yeah. But that only lasts how long? It should cover me the duration of one hour. And you see, he's trying to ballpark the climb. Like, I don't know if that'll get us up to the yak folk or not. It depends, I suppose, on the rate at which you all travel, since I'll be traveling straight up. But if you're not levitating or taking some other non-magical beads, which I don't know why you would do that.

Surely, we could rustle up enough levitation spells or something like this that we don't have to take any staircase or anything like that to get up or a climb or a long hike or anything. But I would be cloaked and I would be moving straight upward using my boots. The boots will last me a good four hours. The invisibility will last me one. I'm not sure which you'll give out. I know what you'll give out first,

but I don't know how long it will take to get to the top of the mountain. Wim points at herself and does like a look, flying hands, and then she points at, like, a couple other people, like, I can do more than one target. We can all fly if we want. Getting over those walls will be tricky, but if we can fly, we might be able to do that perhaps under the cover of night in a way that could disguise us so we don't have to engage invisibility or any of those things until we are closer to being inside. I could probably make it up there really fast. I could probably make it all the way of the top.

I don't have greater invisibility or anything Best I have would be disguised self Which would also last an hour And I could look like a yak So could you though Why not? Because they're large creatures Are they?

Yeah I could be a baby yak Aw You know how you know how like Slaver Villages Have a lot of kids running around in there? Yeah, yeah, yeah Naturally A wholesome place

Well look It's a lot of ideas And we got all night And I got another bottle of wine Red reaches into his bag and tosses it to Tamil. Catches it in midair. Why don't we plan this thing?

And tomorrow we take on iron slag. And red gets comfy in the 70s circle. Tired slag then. And as the sky grows dark, the stars come out. And the smoke from your campfire dwindles and then extinguishes, you all gain the benefits of a long rest. All right, now I'd like to just thank our wonderful patrons. And what I've done is I've just created a list here.

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3 Snick-Snack, Jaron Blair, Nukulam, Sakura, Sparks, Trinity, True EC, Elzebub, Delicate Jaws, Nosts, Swuk, Bup, Zbaltazar, Ad Jack's Art, Jinks, Conzo Como, and T-Bad. Thank you again for listening, and I guess you'll hear us again soon. Hold on. You know where this place is. I have been by it. Oh, that one there. The one with all the fox ears on it? You know how it's shaped like a foxier and also... Decapitated foxier island?

Also known as Mithran. That's right. Those trees, those aren't leaves.