Dice Shame - 2-144 | 'Captive Audience'

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

After Widdid's startling reveal, the party must consider if they can save the captives before moving forward...________________________________________________________________________________________________________________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.

Look, I have no desire to fight those chimera. I'm willing to be on board. Wait, we're pretty handy. Being more honest. And just to be clear, I'm not going to go. You know, truth and honesty are important. You have a temporary life. We could have someone else just give the door a knock.

Why can't you people just understand I'm not scary? I do not want to lose the support of our coherence. I got a charm arrow too, so maybe between you and me, we got two of them. I think you have charm person, though, right? I got it. chum, whatever I want. God in the sky. Cut to the chimery.

Just eating, red. It should have worked. Welcome back to Dice Shame. This is Season 2, Episode 144, captive audience. MVP this week is Jess M. A fantastic artist. and friend who recently tried to draw red without ever having heard the show.

Hopefully it inspired her to give it a listen so she can hear winning MVP. What a fun and creative way to practice your talent. Thank you, Jess. You're the best, Jess. All right, should we do this? Yeah, let's play D&D. Woo! Woo!

discovered that infiltrating the apparently deserted yak folk village may be more complicated than originally thought, our party of heroes stands on the threshold between the walls, deciding how best to proceed. To the west, a larger site is host to a pair of chimera, eating the corpse of a yakfolk villager. There are bloodstains and drag marks on the ground, and Witted has just discovered that a cage to the south is occupied by two. two captives. To the east, a smaller village site, with just a couple of buildings, also appears unoccupied at first. Though there are no bloodstains on the ground here, and having scouted the building attached to the water wheel, Red observed three slaves tending to three

large yak folk inside. All right, look, there are three elves in there with the yak folk, as I said, and on the other side of the creatures, I'm sure there's a play here where maybe we could, you know, lure one out and have them in fight and then slip by. You know, there doesn't seem to be anything else keeping us here. Or we could go into that mill room and contain the fight within there, you know. We're pretty handy. Might be able to take out both yak folk. Yeah, that's true too.

Witted's helmet's voice echoes out. We weren't sure exactly where he was. This is the first time he's been talking since he kind of slapsed away to go look over the walls. says I agree a contained situation is probably best at least at first we could try to avoid things escalating Right, contain, yeah. Oh, what say you, Tamil? Tamil, what do you think?

There are two others in the western portion, a dwarf and a human. A dwarf? And a human? Over there, too? Are they safe? Are they in danger too? And Tamil kind of lets that one be answered by Witted.

Dordon's suddenly looking a little more stern. Not in any immediate danger, no. Oh. Okay, well, look, if they're safe, then let's not worry about them. Let's deal with the three yak folk and the elves. You know, did it look like the other two would be able to escape? Are they slinging away? Do we not need to worry about them?

Are there yak folk watching over them, too? No, but they're not between us and the inside. The risk of going and trying to set them free would be the chimera, if I understand correctly. Well, hold on then. How are they safe, then? Good question. You said between them is the Camara, but you said they're safe, Widdid. Hold on. What are we talking about here? They're safe enough. They're in cages. The chimeras are going to get to them just yet.

They're in cages. I mean they're in capes of the prisoners? Witted, that's not safe. The elves over in that hut are also preaches. prisoners, and they are ones that we can help while also achieving our goal of getting inside the mountain, which is our primary objective, is it not? So you're saying that the other two there are captives, slaves, still in cages? I suppose. Widdard. There's a big difference between saying people are safe and not telling us the whole

picture. Dorent isn't even really concerned with Widdard's, you know, his lack of information here. Yeah, Red just sort of, and he locks eyes with Temeel. Look, I have no desire to fight those chimera. I have no idea if we'd be able to walk away from that. But again, it does not feel right to only help those that are somehow in the path that we were going to take anyway. Look, there's plenty of ways we can have. help the other people. I think, I think the truth here is, and maybe Red looks to Temeel when he says

this, being more honest. Look, and then he snaps his eyes back to the rough direction where it might be, even though he's invisible. He says, just casting around. Look, maybe I set us on a wrong path here. Back in the thousand Mars when we were speaking to Grak-lack, I withheld a little bit of information to sort of, I don't know, maybe give us the best bet at keeping everybody happy, Widdid. I didn't let you look at that netherese amulet because I thought if you couldn't put it back, we'd want to see it after. And we ended up leaving the place anyway. And Timil, you rightly called me on that and said that I should have been more honest. So here, let me draw a line in the sand here and say, if we can't trust

each other, then we are doomed to failure. Witted, you need to tell us exactly the situation that those people are in, because we have many ways that we can help them without delaying our ascent into the mountain. And he kind of looks like shyly to Tamil, like lesson learned. I do not want to lose the support of our coherence. And I do not wish. to not share information that might be of value to you. But getting into that mountain, finding out what's inside of there,

we can't risk our lives. I agree, I don't want to fight that chimera, and I don't imagine why we would. We agree on this front. So, I suppose if someone has a plan for dealing with not one but two potentially made in pairs of chimeras, um, I, those people, they may already be dead regardless of one,

whether we get involved or not. So I just, I guess I don't want to admit that I don't have a plan. But if somebody else does, then fine. I'm willing to be on board with saving whoever they are. Tamil is bristling at the idea of being willing to be on board to save people. Joe, I kind of want to do something shenanagony and let me know. whether or not this is okay. Tell me more.

So because of the way that the detect thoughts had gone down and because Tim Ud said Witted had rolled so poorly that there was like these images coming through, I think that in this moment on the residual of that connection and then just with maybe like using message and trying to like overload the psychic signal and I'm happy to roll like Arcana or whatever for this. I would love to try to basically drop into Widdid's mind the memory of what it was like to be captured in the cage with my party. You know, like when it seemed like there was very little hope for us and just as seasoned adventures, what it felt like to feel helpless and scared and just almost completely without hope.

I guess you guys, you were also in cages, right? Yeah. So this is like hitting home closer than not just dishonesty. You're like, oh, I was in a cage once. This is something that's happening through force of Tamil's will or something that's happening almost passively because of what you're dealing with psychically right now. I think that it's, she's trying to. hurt Witted with a little bit of empathy or a lot a bit of empathy she's trying to make him feel

what she felt I love that I want you to make I think a constitution check oh okay flat constitution yes please and then we'll see how that rolls out and then let's find out how it affects Witted I'm gonna use my inspiration for this because I really want this to work Oh my gosh, I rolled a one and a 19. Oh, my God. Phenomenal. The hero's inspiration. It makes it a dirty 20.

What a hero movie. I'm imagining a psychic pipe between Tamil's brain and Widdid's brain, and there's like a cartoon bulge that's moving along the pipe, and that's all of your, like, thoughts and feelings. and emotions. Witted, please make a Constitution saving throw to find out

how much of this impacts and influences you. Absolutely. It's like a cartoon bomb coming in over the phone. I love it. Like a bolus of psychic feeling.

Absolutely. And when it gets to you, it makes the sound of trash emptying. It's like, kish-z-z-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-. psychic baggage oh 18 I don't know how

okay you're fairly resilient so you receive the message and Nick please feel free to let him know what he gets because you were successful in communicating but Tim it's kind of up to you about how that influences widet yeah so in the same way that Tamil received images I think that what you get is just almost like

a dream overtaking your vision from Tamil's perspective. It's a dimly lit space. She's in a cage. You see four other figures, these humanoids, one with like this bright red hair, one that is clearly a dwarf, an aerococro woman. And then there's another younger human whose features look remarkably like Tamil's. And they're all just in plain clothes.

They've obviously been stripped of, their equipment and everything. But over the shoulder of the younger woman that looks like, Tamil, you see crawl this little clockwork spider. And you would recognize this as an artificer's homunculus. And she very quickly kind of like takes it and tries to scroll it away like she's trying to hide it. But all of their faces register just this deep despair. And if you're also open, if you open yourself up at all to the emotion that's coming through, you can tell from Tamil's perspective she is overwhelmed by the sense of failure and despair and just deep regret and a desire to do better.

That despair is just crashing into Witted and he's taking it, but it's calling forth all of different. similar experiences, there's only one that eventually, as he's getting barraged by this, just gets yanked forth. And because you're reading my thoughts, you instantly get it. There's one comparable experience where Witted, who never lets anything ever happen to his armor. His armor never malfunctions. He makes sure it doesn't because he wants to control everything all the time. There was only one time when he got really experimental with it one time where he ended up getting sealed powerless inside his armor and he couldn't get back out. And he's never felt helpless in his armor before, not once before or after that experience. But that despair that

he felt in that moment, he's suppressed that ever since. And you've yanked it forth now and suddenly even as he's like holding up a shield against what you're trying to send his way, even as he sees it. He suddenly like gets this gut punch kind of as he realizes, oh, oh, oh, that could have. And suddenly it's this shattering moment. That artificer that she saw could have been me. And then there's this one little sad bubble that pops at the very end of that thought chain. This worst part of being trapped in my armor was,

even the thought, I'm going to die in here. It's that I'm going to die in here because I don't have anyone around me to help me out of this. Tamil had people with her. And maybe that's why

Tamil makes it through all this stuff. Doran, you feel like something just happened here? I feel like the air is very thick. We were standing here for about 20 seconds just staring You know, truth and honesty are important, but so are our lives. Someone decide what we're going to do because I can't make this decision for us.

And I'm getting antsy standing here ready to kill. Oh, yeah, of course. That's what I meant. Look, something's going on, but whim, look, I'm thinking between... Well, actually, if his homunculus can lock pick, I think all I really need to do is throw rope over the other side. If you get that little guy to pick that lock and communicate in some fashion, and maybe with message, Red points at Tamil, whose locked eyes with Witted.

There's a whole, like, anime moment happening. But she's staring off into invisibility. Then the homunculus can lockpick the cage. They climb the rope over the wall, and they had down their own way. Wim signs back at you quick as a flash. If anything goes wrong, I could maybe charm one of the chimera.

Hey, I like that. I got a charm arrow too, so maybe between you and me, we got two of them. I think you have charm person, though. I got chum, whatever I want. God in the sky. Cut to the chimera just eating, right? It should have worked.

But can the homunculus lock pick? That's the real question. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the exact manual dexterity to pull off a maneuver like that. If I could get close enough, which I probably could, I could give it a shot myself, unless one of them is immediately, was one of them immediately, in front of the door. The two chimera are 175 feet away from the captives.

Oh, like 175 feet. I just go. Well, if you can lockpick, then hell, you're already invisible. I think it would be a very brave maneuver, Witted. And Red sort of tries to put a hand into the invisible direction, and he

finds the suit. You find it because you realize it's not the shoulder. Witted has reached out with his arm, and he's kind of taken your harm in the brother clasp accident. Yes, the arm to arm clasp. Yes, I love that

clasp. You feel no one sees it, but you feel the fingers wrap around your forearm. Oh, oh. Yes. I think I think we did this. You could do this. You could do this. You could save those two people.

And furthermore, maybe, while he's doing that, the rest of us could take on these others and Woody could join us after. There's no time of wasting, as you said. someone. Can't remember who. Everyone's been pushing the tempo. Doren, probably. Definitely Doren. So look, I'll string a rope over for them. I'll follow you overwitted. I'll string a rope on the other side so they can climb up. You can hover over, lock pick. Meanwhile, we'll start the assault on the other three.

Let me just warn them what's happening. Let me get a message to them as you'd suggested. I think that's a good idea. Brilliant. I love this teamwork. I'll carry. them over to us but just a warning they will be visible so do you want me to carry them back once they're out of the cages? Maybe once the cages are open, they'll have the option whether they want to scale the wall

if they can sneak and climb or if they want to be carried by you. Frankly, I'm not sure which is safer and look, we can open the door it's got to be someone up to them on how they want to get out. And if something goes very wrong, I can try to draw off the chimera.

We can. Whim nods at you. And Doran nods at you too. Red nods, too, but he doesn't know why. We all nodding. Yeah. Nottingly. I think Timiel catches Doran nodding. And just to be clear, I'm not going to go.

I have some friends that can potentially be distractions. So that's what I mean. You know Stephen, too? I'm a friend. Are you saying that Doran and I aren't friends? You know what? Let's execute the plan. It's a good plan.

Let's go with it. What's going on? Right. Plan, activate. Whitton says out loud, I'm leaving now. It starts to float. Yeah, I'll come to. We'll just politely let everyone know.

Red recorks his wine skin and follows. Yeah. Red is already strung a rope. He's just going to hang one down the other side. And this way the captives have the option to be carried out by Witted or perhaps they're very stealthy individuals. They can just scale the wall near the back. It's 200 feet away from the Camara.

I feel pretty confident that even if they moved, they're not going to move 200 feet in one round. All right. Tell me how it happens. Tamil reaches out to the mind of the dwarf, and she says, Do not react. We're here to help. I have a friend that's coming over the wall. He's going to try to open the door to your cage and then help you escape over these walls. You just need to be very, very quiet.

Yes. Yes, of course. And then Tamil looks over at Red and, you know, nods and then holds up a thumbs up for Witted, if he happens to be watching. Red nods and he scales the rope and he takes the piton and he hangs a second rope over the side of the wall that the captives are closest to

and then sort of maybe he even stays there as a bit of a lookout too and sort of glances back to Doran. Doran is on the lookout at the bridge looking for danger or if assistance is needed with the side mission we're on. Mm-hmm. You definitely at least see some kind of reaction

from the dwarf as there's and not like an invisible, yes, but not a like super quiet, relatively quiet, clanking of a landing. Dust is billowing up from where the jets are hitting the floor. God, I hope chimeras are stupid. There's a whole hiss as he audibly, he's like, that sounds like a helmet opening on a giant mech

because it couldn't be anything else. and a voice that tries to whisper. My name is Widde Wobber. I believe you have already spoken to my friend Temeel. You don't need to trust me. You could trust her. But you should come with me if you want to be rescued because that's what my friends want to do for you right now.

That's what my friends want to do. These two captives, I mean, you'd only seen them through the perspective of your homunculus. but now that you are up close and personal with them, you can tell that they are in dire need of your help. They are huddled in the corner of this cage. They are on soiled straw. They're both severely underdressed for the climate, undernourished, and they both look up at you with this gratitude and fear intermingling on their faces

as they try to place where this. voice could be coming from, they don't move from where they're huddled in the cage. Witted immediately, like, almost realizing that he is like, come on a little too harsh, goes, well, listen, I would, I know it's scary that I'm invisible right now. Listen, listen, I'm just being quiet because of those chimeras over there, but I want you to calm down, okay? I'm invisible. Are there any giants here? No, no, no, no. Listen. Everything's going to be fine. You're going to be fine, most likely. But I'm invisible. That's scary. I understand that. And if being less invisible would make me less scary, then I would do that right now. Okay, this is not going well. I want to calm you down. And that's what I'm attempting to do. And I hope that this makes you feel calm because I want to rescue you. And I care about you.

you getting out of here. Why can't you people just understand I'm not scary? Please, please just rescue us. I am going to make that Thieves Tools check, which is a D20 plus six for me. Fantastic. Did you roll insight on these two? I did not at all. Yeah, they're definitely cultists.

I rolled a critical hit. Oh, yeah. Just melt the locks. Natural or unnatural 20? You can open this cage with as much or as little pizzazz as you would like. Absolutely. I would like to free both of these guys immediately.

And I think it's as simple as I go, right, of course. And the lock just seems to melt, but it visibly melts in the shape of fingers that are like rolling into it and then it falls clunk, clunk, clunk into molten pieces in the snow. Oh, brilliant. That's so cool. Yes.

Cognizant of the fact. that this is a stealth mission. Both of the captives stand up, I mean, as fully as they're able to within the confines of this cage, and they make their way to the door and they get out. It seems like maybe they're unsteady on their legs, weak or numb from the cold, who knows, but they're not super agile, but now you have two freed captives. Witted will yank. the cage off. Thank you. Where do we go?

That way. Oh, I'm pointing. Sorry, one second. And he kind of reaches in and pokes them with like enough of his fingers that they can grab on and pull like he tries to pull them out basically. He's trying to pull them out without grabbing them and he doesn't know how to do that. Not while he's invisible. Yeah.

After a little bit of groping around blindly, they. We both managed to grab hold of one of your armor's arms. Yes, 100%. Yes. Okay. Is it just you? We heard somewhat of a female voice. That's my friend Tabil.

She'll be talking in your head. Yeah. They make their way with your help to the side of the wall. And catch sight of a tabaxi on the top looking at them. Hi. Look up here, look up here. Hey, hey, you. Red, from your perspective,

you've been able to keep an eye on these two monsters chowing down on the yak-folk corpse toward the north of this village site. It doesn't seem like they've marked your progress or whatever's been happening with your party while this escape attempt has been happening. Stupid monsters. As the two captives make their way up this rope that you've dropped for them, it's a difficult task. Red helps.

He like pulls as well. Yeah, yeah. It's a combined force. So it's a little ungainly, but they do make their way to the top of the wall. All right, come here. Over the side now. Into your arms. Yeah, come on, back down the other side now.

Oof, you smell. You too. I feel like Doren's moved over as a receiving party to the bottom of the other side. Yeah, a disturbingly thin dwarf drops into your arms, Doren, as you are waiting there at the bottom of the rope. Dear, dear, dear. All right.

Thank you. Oh, of course. What's your name? My name's Doren. What's your name? Oh, me? Why would you do it? You did it.

I was like, you set yourself up. I did that to my stupid self. What's the name, Joe? Dwarfine. I'm... None of these names are pronounceable. Do it. Do it, coward. I'm Hoggren.

Hoggren. Red climbs down. Sorry, can you see that again? What was that? Hoggren. Hoggren. How do you pronounce? What's the spelling of that? It's H-O-K-G-C.

We don't have time. R-O. Right, right. Duran repeats. it perfectly back. Hog Crin, listen, I want you to take this other person with you and you're going to head across this bridge and back down. Be very careful that that chimera nest, I think it's about halfway down.

Going down should be a lot easier than coming up, but... Hold on, just before you go. What the hell happened here? Oh, yeah. The chimera, the killing and the yak folk. It was late last night. The giants, they came up from the forge. And they took everybody.

The yak folk, the slaves. It was a massacre. I don't think they saw us here the southern side of the village, but Chimira, I don't know. I guess the flying monsters that you saw, they just came afterwards this morning. Did you hear anything of use

about what the giants were doing, about what their plans were, perhaps a way down the elevator? We're planning on. climbing through the water wheel. Is there anything that you know that could be of use, please? We're here to put a stop to the Giants.

I mean, those doors there, and he sort of gestures in the direction of the elevator doors that are in the mountain side on the western side of the village. That's how they came and went. Didn't seem like they were terribly concerned about being followed.

Okay. Thank you. Red reaches into the bag of holding, hands a loaf of bread or something. Here, I don't want to eat this. It's got mold on it. You have cloaks and stuff. Oh, I have some cloaks too.

Yeah, they have mold on them too. Oh, also, I had this chicken last night, and I am really full. And this is Whittitt's penny. You can finish it. Tamil, are you going to eat this from yesterday, too? This is half a sausage. Oh, no, no. It's all leftovers, but beggars can't be choos.

They gratefully accept all of the donations. Anyone have any more questions for the... Whididdy does his voice, going out from from the invisible space where he seems to have landed um and we saw three elves in the hut to the dorothe's there dear the wheel and there's a pause like he's not sure if he's going to ask it and then he says are there other prisoners still up here are there anyone any gnomes or anyone i'm glad that they are still alive honestly i was worried that They would be slaughtered.

The yak folk tend to dispatch their captives if they feel threatened because it's just a matter of simplicity. I don't think there's anyone else alive. Okay. So just those elves then. Hear that, everyone? He like suddenly like, I'm back to being the old one. Oh, thank you.

Yeah, yes, yes. All right. Be safe. head to Dead Snows Don't head to Citadel Adba And don't head to Silver Moon

I don't know what the giants Are up to but I never saw anything like this before They were just Picking people up Picking up these yak folk And They had these big sacks

And they were just putting People inside Alright I'm gonna have nightmares about it for the rest of my life Now I am too Get out of here and take care of yourself. Thank you. Thank you.

And they gratefully shake each of your hands before the two of them help each other back down the stairs and disappear from sight. Out of sight? Out of mind, right? Well, look, time is a waste in. Let's take on those other yak folk and save those elves. Who knows how long they're going to last? Yeah. Probably not too long.

Not with this axe. No, we don't want to kill the elves. We want to kill the yak. Doran's talking about the yak folk, of course. We're talking about the yaks, of course. Yax can say it. Right. And on the way back to the East,

Red just relays the positions of the yaks and the elves, so everyone kind of has a clear understanding of how it was inside. Yep. It sounds like while that was some sad news we just received about what happened with the giants up here, it does seem to be that we may not need to be worried about that many yak folk coming to reinforce those people inside the water wheel hut.

Mm-hmm. Right. A quick ambush could take care of all of them. And I'm proud of you for asking with it about other prisoners. Appreciate that thought. I confirm that we had no other side quests to go on. He's protesting all too much. So whim gestures like three on one hand and three on the other hand. Right. How do we want to do this?

This is kind of the first time we have the tactical advantage, so to speak. Hmm, the plans Redd, when you were scouting the hut Is a window An viable form of ingress Or are they too small? Oh no, they're large The yak folk are huge

There were three windows I saw I think the north, east and west Well, do we want to fight them in the hut Or do we want to draw them out? Selfishly And Red sort of leans around the door And points to one of the huts to the south I can pretty quickly

scamper to the top of that and I would love a little bit of distance between me and my quarry. I can overwatch from there. If maybe two want to ambush and lure them out, I'm easy, but my preference

would be outside. I have no objection. He's quite good with his bow and arrow. I will say that. It's not that I just, I'm bad with everything else. And Joe, you said that the sound of the waterfall and the water, wheel was conceivably loud enough to mask any battle sounds from those chimera in terms of

drawing attention if we were to start fighting. I wouldn't call it a deafening roar, but it is definitely background happenings. Yeah, so Tamil reaches into her bag and she pulls out basically this furry little ball and she says we could have someone else just give the door a knock or go in through the window and she tosses it out into the space

and the kind of in between everybody and I'm going to be using my tan bag of tricks here yes welcome to the show to Neil's bag of tricks so I think I unless you just want me to pick one

there are eight different creatures that it could be and I can roll for it. Raw. That's too fun. I feel like Tamil's bag of tricks

should have its own theme song every time it shows up that gets played every time. It feels like it's a mini show in the show.

Toil's bag of tricks. Yeah, okay. So Tamil reaches into her bag, she pulls out another smaller bag and she says, we could have someone

else just knock on the door. And then she'll reach in and her arm goes in much, much deeper. that it looks like it should Mary Poppin's style and she pulls out a little fuzzy ball throws it into the middle of

everyone and the ball kind of wriggles and moves around of its own accord and then oh yes I was hoping for this one suddenly two long arms start to emerge

from the ball as it grows and it morphs and it begins to shape and then you know you see this bright butt, this brightly colored butt as this baboon is sitting in front of everybody. Amazing. Oh, boy, what the hell is that? And then Timiel says, hello, hello, hello, my lovely little baboon. What?

Would you like to go on a little trip? What's his name? Is it Stefan? What's his name? His name is Rafi. Ralphie? Rafi. Stefan would have been fine.

Red kicks a stone. Rafi. Well, how about this? the next baboon we come across you can name how about that right oh no i i couldn't i don't name i don't know how to does that mean everything is just a variant of the same name he doesn't have any clever names they're just stephen all right raffee stephan what i want you to do she's talking directly to the baboon now what i want you to do is i want you to run to that hut jump in the window

break as much shit as you can and then run out the front door But let me get into position first then And Red starts heading Yeah Yeah I was going to say Key piece of information We're just like standing outside

And once we Once this all begins If we do draw the attention of the chimera The yakvurg may not be expecting it But we should definitely die for cover Right Yeah good thinking Great thinking

And then Doran sort of turns to you Timil sort of with the side of his mouth He's like Uh Does that animal Realize that they could be be in some danger, jumping in there.

Maybe he doesn't realize, like, it's magic. It is magic, right? This baboon. Is it a real baboon? Red starts petting it. You know, what's funny is it doesn't say that it's like a fay creature or anything, but it is magic.

The creature vanishes at the next dawn. So it can't die. Oh, like it can't die. Can it feel paid? Yeah, or when it is reduced to zero hit points. But it is a creature. It's not like an illusion of a creature. Oh, my God.

Where did it come from? You have a temporary life. Somehow, they have sort of adopted my attitude, which is, yeah, we know that we could come to harm. But for the right cause, it's worth it. Well, live fast, dying a day. Good luck. Gotcha. Gives a high five, a low five.

I make an insight check on the, no. Insights check like, oh, everyone's like, I don't want to be here. You want me in a what? Boone runs away. There's an opportunity to sneak in there, get on either side of the door so that when they burst out door and you're right there attacking from behind. I'm going to get on the far house to get some distance. Withed Temeel, I don't know where you two feel like you would be best, but let's get set up.

I'm going to head up into the sky and I'm going to light him up. I only have invisibility for probably another minute or two, so I might as well use it now. Love it. Let's wait until all three of them are outside. Because if any of them are inside, they could hurt the captives, and we don't want that. Agreed. And Red sort of nods to each of you and heads south to the building. All right, and with that, you all prepare to move into position to begin the ambush on the yak folk.

All right, now I'd like to just thank our wonderful Patrions. And what I've done is I've just created a list here. Let me just pull this out of my... Okay, here we go. Thank you to Lita J. Christopher, Colin Burkart, Merlin, Liz, Ruthan Reed, Trinth, Lorelei Feldman, J.D., Scotty, Haley, K.M., Queen, Shannon Waldner, Melinda Curley, Joy Robinson, Cass, S-ray 96, Moon, Nikki, Gabby, Tao, Tea Kettle, Abriel, Annalena, Gareth Bradshaw, Joshua Nance, Stab, Mandirpants, Oakland, Nerd Fairy, Keely Hill, Misrah, Aaron Lightning, Quinn, Rabida and Cheese, Axel, Abby Mae Birkin, Danny, Seer of Time, Izzy, Vol Control, Pan, Feli, Absolute Ocelli Behavior, Starlight, Clockwork Phoenix, Lechra,

A.K. Trash Panda. Amanda Nicole. Hyde. Alicia D. Merrimo. Bird. Fisher. Kara. Navia Aguia. H.D. Bean Fiend. Knox the Nightshark. Sunny. O.B. Luna de Maria. Luke. Wanderer Fen. Caspian. Zill Street. Liz. This guy could. Emerson Forsberg. Martina. Karen Duley. Minty. Roses So Fenvi. Hydrus. Lisan Cluckner, Jack, Celeste Jedlick, Eli Davis, Grace Searcy, Morang, Ren Gillespie, Nick D, Jelly Bean, Slate Blue Flowers, Shonk, Jane, Veritas, Tell, Pat Trat, Laura, Busing Star O3, Snick-Snack, Jaron Blair, Nukulam, Sakura, Sparks, Trinity, Truee C, 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. Do not react. We're here to help. Yes. Yes, of course. I'm picturing Tim Robinson from like, I think you said he was like,

ah, this guy's just like, scary. 100%. That's exactly what I wanted to do. I was just going to be like, you hear a screaming. But instead.