Dice Shame - 2-152 | 'Room & Board'

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

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I think it's very brave of you to offer it to scout ahead. I'm looking for approval. Did you leave him downstairs? It's as effective a disguise for all of us as Eddie. I mean, I'll admit I'm a bit curious. That's a very good point. Panic. How do we lose track of him?

That sounds like his upstart cousin. Duke Zolto. I probably wouldn't speak to him at all. Keep out. Let's go for the dustpan. Well, look, we're all going to get eaten like a chicken bag. Not, not Bolto. Doran and Red look at each other, and after the screaming match and both say,

Zalto. Welcome back to Dice Shame. This is Season 2, Episode 152, Room and Board. MVP this week is Slate, who posted in the Discord that they got two new listeners into Dice Shame. That's how this show grows, and we so appreciate you, Slate. Thank you for being this week's MVP. All right. Shall we do this?

Yeah, let's play some D&D. Yeah. Woo! I have a hot take. Okay. My hot take is that the acting in Lord of the Rings is too hammy. Come on. I will agree with you.

I wish you would. The Lord of the Rings does not have the best acting. Unfortunately, it's one of the. only films, there's like two films of the Lord of the Rings. So you just have to like either, if you love the Lord of the Rings, there ain't much else for you to like grab on to. Well, now that I say that, I say that. And yes, I forgot all about the new stuff that power just came out.

Well, I was going to say you could also read the books and use the power of your imagination. They're not sure. Absolutely. And he wrote some others. This day and ace. You're 100% right. And I think I tend to forget that. It used to be the other way around where you had the books and then you're like, oh, wow, the movie came out.

And then it's like, oh, my God. I still get that joy. I'm a big, I mean, I love movies, obviously. Right. But now, sometimes it's like that happens like all the time now. I still get excited for like Marvel movies. I'm like. Yeah.

Well, yeah, like even if it deviates from the source material, like V for Vendetta is so, the movie is, is just, like it's a different story than the graphic novel, but it's still, like, I enjoy the hell out of that movie. Yeah. And I will say this, like, I'm not going to boycott Lord of the Rings. Like, first of all, I understand how important it was in terms of just like cinema in general. And also, like, I do watch the movies. I just have to warn people that I watch them with.

If you love this movie, I'm going to be heckling it the entire way through. As long as you're cool with that, we're good. Okay, so what's a movie that did it better than the source material, though? there are a few there are a few and i mean like like like zodiac the movie did a better job at the zodiac killings like that's not that doesn't count like like because it just does a better job well what i mean to say is that's like compiled source material you know what i'll get back to you because i'm about to read red dragon which is what sounds the lambs is based off of no red dragon and Manhunter are based off of Red Dragon.

Science of Lambs is based off of... The book? There's a book, Silence of the Lambs? There's three books, yeah. Three or four? What's the first book? The first book is Red Dragon, Thomas Harris, right? I think it's Red Dragon, The Science of the Lambs, Hannibal.

And I think he wrote Hannibal Rising as well. Well, then I'll talk to you after I read those books. But you would have even a better shot, because if you read Red Dragon, red dragon was made into two movies, Red Dragon and Manhunter. Right. So you could say, you basically have two shows. shots to say it did a better job. I think the Shining the book was

also very scary, but I think the movie was better. Hard to beat that. Did you guys read The Shine? No. I don't read books. Books? I read it when I had a fever and I was home from school in high school over like a few day period. It was very scary. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

My dad was really into Stephen King and so we had a big bookshelf of Stephen King books growing up. And I kind of knew that like I shouldn't read these because it's going to be too much for my little brain but like when I was coming up into high school I sort of started dabbling and yeah for your little brain well my little brain couldn't handle horror anything for a long time yeah I was very sheltered you said the movie's better though I think so do you have one uh I mean and I'm probably

an outlier here but I really liked the watchman movie versus the comic and I know because you mentioned V for Vendetta it was pretty close though I mean like it wasn't shot for shot but it was like much and I I watched the like four hour cut which had the scenes from the pirate ship cartoon inserted. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, there's like, it's called Tales from the Something. So in Watchman, obviously, there's like a kid reading a comic book in the comic book. And the four-hour cut inserts those.

Well, it just thematically kind of like mirrors it. But I really, and so I really liked it in that. And they changed the squid monster at the end. But I really liked it. I thought it was really good. And when I read the comic, I was like, oh, this isn't really. and that's not like I wasn't I wasn't I wasn't the kind of guy who's like yay Rorschach's cool I was like oh this dude's like horrible like I wasn't I didn't

misinterpret the movie I just I thought it was but that's I mean like that was the thing like when they made V for Vendetta like Alan Moore's whole thing is that the struggle or the class when they released it for the movie they were like Americans especially American audiences are going to want to see a struggle between fascism and democracy so there's like there's a champion there's a good guy and you know who you're rooting for and in the end things can be put to right even if it's sad it can still be put it right

Alan Moore's like no no no the conflict here is between fascism and anarchy these are two like imperfect choices and like that's kind of what made it interesting all of the characters like the Nazis aren't characters they're actually like people that make

selfish choices you know and like everything is just very I don't know it's it's more unsettling than like heroic yeah I should rewatch that like the empire and Andor like Andor did you say? I I was just seeing a parallel kind of where it's like making the villains kind of like understandable and realistic and in some ways relatable is like a really powerful choice. Total Recall was a better movie than it was a short story.

Did you read this short story? No, but I was going to say it's better. I was going to say that earlier, but I was going to say that about Jurassic Park. I've never read Jurassic Park, but I've always heard the movie obviously did a pretty amazing thing. Michael Crane gets up his own ass a lot. I mean, he was a climate change denier. Is he dead? What's he?

He's dead now. He also wrote about dinosaurs. That's a little ironic, isn't it? Good. Isn't there some, are we not? Isn't that kind of funny? Michael Creighton. Well, but he died in like 2000.

He's like, I don't believe in global warming. The dinosaurs didn't even die. The guy who wrote Jurassic Park doesn't believe that we could get wiped out by global changing climate. Like, come on, wait, what does he think happen to them? That's pretty funny, actually. One of his later books is actually like an, it has a strong anti-climate change. message in it. Yeah, really.

Anyway, like, literally his characters are arguing where one of them's like, oh, ice caps are melting, prove it. It's just like, it's the weirdest thing. Anyway. Creating the most ridiculous straw men characters. I liked a lot of his books, too,

which is funny, because I also really liked the 13th Warrior, which is called, I figure what the original was called, the book, and the movie. The Warrior number 13. No, no, it was Eaters of the Dead. Oh, yeah. I remember seeing that.

When again, seeing it on my dad's bookshelf, I'm being like, oh, no, I can't beat that. Which is really cool. Too scary. Too spooky. Just the title of it. Oh. Do you think he doesn't care about climate change because he figures, well, some future species will just take, like, mosquitoes out of amber and bring us back. Oh, man.

So, like, what are we worried about going extinct? No one really ever goes extinct. That's like Harlan's podcast, divisor. Yeah. Spoilers. Sorry, sorry. We just spoil it. Have you guys heard DeVisor?

It's very good. We're not pitching it here. Alex, you should listen. Well, I may. Definitely Congo was a better movie than book. Guerrilla talking movie. Were they talking in Congo? Oh, because it's sign language.

And then she's got like, Amy has this like interpreter thing. It was an awful movie. And the book was decent, but the movie was awful. Silence of the Apes? School of Congo. Don't eat my sesame king. You always say that, always. Because it's so hilarious.

It's like once a day. What's his name? Fucking Frankenstein. Pardon? What's his name? Frankenstein? Oh, Frankenfurter? Yeah, Frankenfurter.

Oh, Frank. Tim Curry. From Rocky Horror. Yeah, Tim Curry, thank you. Tim Curry just shoving sesame cake. That was quite a journey to get to Tim Curry. Yeah. You know, home alone.

And Bruce Campbell's. in it too and died oh wow oh man so all right all that is to say dungeons and dragons yes we'll make a better movie that actually the ddia movie was great it was actually quite good was a big my dad loved it that's the biggest accomplishment of that movie to me that's cool did you get to be like we watch you in a plane together it was awesome he loved the whole thing he was like this movie's hilarious yeah it was great i loved it The scene with the gnome and the barbarian, the scene where, yeah, where Michelle Garcia's character is talking about.

She doesn't make me worry every day like you used to. Like, it was so heartfelt and it's just him as a hobbit. And I was really high during that movie. So I was like, is that, that looks exactly like, I forget the actor's name now, but like the Bradley Cooper. Thank you, Bradley Cooper. But I was just losing it. I got halfway that scene like, that's fucking Bradley Cooper.

What are we doing? that's so funny but that scene is so it's like such a such a home game moment like that's such a thing that would happen sitting at a random table talking about your feelings with your gnome husband actually speaking in movies real quick because I just saw Thunderbolts yesterday with Henry and really liked it and man Nick Florence

Not Knight and Gale but it's not Florence Pugh Pugh okay P-UG-G-A But for it's poo. Ford's poo. You remind me a lot, especially in that movie, because I know you've played like an Eastern European accent sometimes. And that's what she does.

You could, like, if you ever had to, if there was like a Marvel stream, you could play that character. I'm going to voice to like the shit out of that. I'll get my. Well, no, but even physically, your face is very similar too. Like you, you, I was literally like, oh, man, I don't realize. I got to Google her now. She's pretty. I like her.

I was like, I'm, especially in. Oh, I see that for me. Sure. Matterisms also. It's very funny. Oh, yeah. Just like Nick. No, but it was just funny because I, it's rare that I do that in a movie and I'm like,

oh, that looks just like somebody now. Anyway. I hope you stood up in the theater, pointed and shouted my name loudly. That's Nick. What are you doing up there? I know someone that looks like that. Body snatchers, reek. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

My friend looks just like that person. Although Harle's. did say that there was someone in the back of the movie theater who every time a joke was cracked they started applauded. I've been very lucky. I mean, I would imagine Nick and Tim you don't have this

because you're both in such metropolitan areas, but like we're very lucky that most of the time we see a movie, the theater is pretty much empty because we're in the suburbs, right? And the rare times that I'm with people like I was yesterday, it was filled because I guess people need things to do at Father's Day. Usually we go during the week.

Yeah. I was sitting next to somebody for the first time in the theater forever, and I hated it. Stop drinking. Did they try to take your fountain soda from your armrest? No, they were all super kind. I just, I'm a curmudgeon. I was just like, stop clapping at jokes. You're breathing too loud.

And the person behind you sitting there going, man, this guy needs to calm down. He keeps darting his head around, looking at people chewing and drinking. Yeah, for real. Do something. Do something. Just snap or stop, okay? Cool. Yeah.

Dungeons and Dragons. D&D? Let's play it. You know what I was going to say, just to bring us all back in, was like, this is going to be better than any remake that could be done. This dice shame episode? Yeah. No, like our dice shame. Better than a remake of other dice shame episodes?

No, like when they make a movie, it won't, it won't be as good as the podcast. People will watch. a dice shame movie and they'll be like nah you guys need to listen to the podcast because that's where the real magic acts. That's where the me sit down and get ready. So Florence Pug is going to play Tamil is what we're saying. Yes.

Or Nick will play the story. Speaking of Day's Shame, sorry. I love that you're like, I have a way to bring this all home while we were bringing it home and then brought us out of home. I just kind of wanted to. No, it's great. No, no, it's good stuff. Harlan will figure it out.

I'll figure it. I'll cut it in post. I'll cut it. I'll around this. Yep. Just have Alex be like, I'm ready to go. We're going to listen to this episode and we're like, wasn't there like a fun 20 minute conversation about movies and Holland's going to be like, unsalvageable. Nothing of, first of all, we don't want to get sued by the Michael Crichton estate. Yeah, Michael Crichton is not going to sponsor us at this rate.

No. God damn it. All right, bring us in. Yep. Deep within the bowels of this forge fortress, iron slag, our party of adventurers are delving to find the conch of teleportation. Ultimately, this is your goal, right? You are here to try to solve the giant problem broadly. you have made your way deep down into this forge fortress having evaded shall we say many different kinds of creatures fire elementals giants ogres hellhounds you are now in this mustering hall there are some huge pieces of giant furniture some tables

big pillars and a fireplace that occupies the northern side of the room. You've seen a giant enter one of the doors down at the far eastern side of the hall. And Red loses his pass without trace ability as Wim dissolves back into visibility with her invisibility spell having worn off. What do you do? Panic? Not actually panic. Well, fine.

Good job, Doran. Good job, everyone. How long does my tattoo keep me, you know, camouflaged deceit? It's a long-ass time. I think it's an hour. I think I'm still disguised. Correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah.

I believe you are the specific goblin that you guys yeated down into the dredging pool, right? Cleverly. you forgot cleverly with grace Dorn's like guys just don't don't mistake me for a goblin

I'm just gonna stay like this and maybe I can get a little closer and take a look and he sort of looks at the the for you with this quizzical like a look of

I'm looking for approval of whether I should scout ahead dressed as this goblin we did got the visor up and hearing Doran's voice clearly coming out of this goblin just goes a very dead pad. I think we'll be able to keep track of you as distinct from the other goblets. Have we spotted Red, have we spotted Eddie Giants up ahead? He's obviously trying to like nervous

about the idea of Doran going up ahead until we know more. Red is about 30 seconds into his primeval awareness as you talk to him. His head is on the ground and he just kind of holds up a finger to kind of signal like, let me see, and he'll spend the last 10 seconds just sort of measuring that. I want to see more than anything with the rooms ahead of us if I can detect any giant or humanoid presence in those rooms. And all the giants in the mountain. Every time you do that and you make me count, I don't do it. I lose one year of my real life. I've never done it. And yet every time you can play. You're always, since the first time I did it, you're like, don't make me count everyone.

And I'm like, no, I wouldn't. And every time you always say, do not make me count. I'm like, I never have. One, two, three. It's a bit. I'd like to say out loud that I'm ready for action. Dorn's like keeping an eye on all entrances. Okay, good.

This way you can be sneaking up on this idea. I'll do what I want. I think Temeel will also, Timmel will go over to Doran and say, I think it's very brave of you to offer to scout ahead, but I think even though you are disguised as the goblin, goblins do seem fairly low on the totem pole here, so being in Duke Zolto's room as a goblin, probably not a free pass, if you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah. That's a very good point. Yeah. And Doran suddenly brought back to the image of the Giants eating the yak folk for dinner that Witted was telling him earlier.

Oh yeah, good point. Red, as you finish off your primeval awareness ritual, you have some important information for the group. There are two giant folk on the left side of the hallway and one on the right. All right, there's two on the left and there's one on the right up ahead. It's anyone's guess which room is Duke's Altos. hopefully there'll be some ornatiness on the door to maybe signify it. But worst case scenario, a goblin could at least pass the immediate destruction of whomever should enter.

Maybe I could just sort of ask him if he wants anything else to eat. In a little voice, I'll do this. I'll say, oh, this is passable, right? I probably wouldn't speak to him at all. But, you know, knocking as a goblin. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, good idea. Okay. Let's...

But good register change. Oh. I mean, I don't know. And Red sort of looks a little, you know, doubtfully towards Witted and Temeel and Whim, and he's just kind of like... I might just get eaten like a chicken wing. Well, look, we're all going to get eaten like a chicken wing if we don't play this smart. And I frankly don't really have a clear vision of what we should do.

Is anyone got a strong thought? No, and as much as I hate to admit it, my observation about the goblins was only to say that it's not a free... It's not coplunch to kind of run around, but it may still be our best hope if we go room by room. Yeah, true. Well, if you guys will just keep it on my rear, I'll, I guess, go up there and he starts to sort of move towards the... Well, hold on a second, maybe, but meta. Yeah. Just so we don't go with the first idea.

because this could mean the death of Doran. Yeah. So that's option one. Doran as goblin and we kind of hang out in the outside of the door. I think that's kind of like, let's call that last resort, which I think is a good plan. Does anybody have any ideas? It's something of a last resort, but if push comes to shove and we do alert giants to our presence and they don't buy Doran's story, I do have the ability to potentially neutralize individual giants

and potentially groups of them. Unfortunately, I could only really do this once. One of his arms sort of like forms a fist, retracts into the arm, the hand, one of the fist, retracts into the arm, and then this like sort of nodule pops out that starts flashing all these little lights on it. It's not really clear how it would neutralize someone, but it is this sort of very unexpected, like,

scintillating light shooting out of his hand that's obviously like a minor version of a larger effect. The problem is I can really only do this, strictly speaking, once more before my battery core will be mostly used up in that regard. So it's a what-a-dud sort of thing. And I think since it works against a large group of giants, I have been saving it for where we really need it. but presentially it is a way to neutralize pursuit

or anyone who might otherwise be sending up an alarm. If you're saying we're dealing with a total of three giants, I could potentially catch all three if they were clustered together or potentially two if they were next to each other. Well, that's good to know. Dorn looks at this glowing handstick thing and shakes his head. He's like, I don't even want to know what that can do. I mean, I'll admit I'm a bit curious,

only because is it something that will affect us as well? Can we, are we safe from it if we're in the same room? He sort of tries to, without actually using up the spell slot, demonstrate a little bit by ramping up the intensity. The scintillating light will have a hypnotic effect upon the retinas and cognitive abilities. And as he's doing it a little bit too much, as strobing lights kind of pass over your eyes, you get all dizzy and it's like a lot.

And he's not nearly doing it full power. The lights are like playing on the walls and like the column that's just, the side where we're all kind of crouched and hiding in the, off to the side of the room. Wim's just like watching them pass by just cap. Okay, okay, low profile, low profile. Little Reds, slapped his hand in front of Wim's eyes. He just shuts it down. He knows he's been doing it too much.

This is like a horrible thing to do while we're trying to be stealthy. All right, all right. As we are all sort of crouched, hidden behind one of these columns in the side of the room, you hear an explosive bout of shouting. Something clatters to the ground. And then out of the door that we saw the giant go into, an ogre scurries out. I can only describe it as scurrying because he seems to be fleeing.

The door is still open. A huge, cauldron-sized piece of some kind of Equipment just flings out of the door and slams against the far wall, showering the ogre in embers and ash. And the ogre is carrying like a fire poker and a bag of firewood, and he starts like hoofing it towards you down the hall. And through the open door you hear in Giant, for those of you who speak it, And stay out!

And then the door slams behind the ogre. and he is, like, making his way towards you as if going to go back down the stairs that you came up. I mean, just, like, fully pressed up against this pillar. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I think Doran and Red look at each other, and after the screaming matching, both say,

Zalto. Tamil watches the ogre as they pass by and then looks over at Red. Red was that? Is that one of the giants, or does that not count for your detection? No, it does. That must be one of them. That means there's only one on the left.

And listen, we heard that scream. Did it sound like Zalto? You're the only one that's heard him before. That was not the voice. That's not the voice of Duke Zolto, no. Okay, well, that sounds like his upstart cousin, Bluplocto. Bolto. That's good.

That Balto. Okay. Dorn and Red look at each other and say, not soto and with that the ogre streams by like thundering the ground underfoot totally heedlessly of the place where you are all crouching to hide away he's got other stuff on his mind so he goes down the stairs and disappears did he leave the pot in the hall yes yeah so there's some piece of like big iron crockery uh like a big pot, something in the hallway where it landed after having been thrown out the door after

this ogre. Is it big enough for us to hide under? You kind of described it as a big chamber pot almost. That's what I picture, like a big soup pot. It's, I mean, you guys are pretty far away from it, but it's giant size. So it's like a big dust bin, like a dustpan kind of. You said hide under And my brain immediately thought of all of us, like, underneath it with an overturned, just, like, walking, carrying it along. Yeah, same to us. I did, too. That's exactly what we're thinking. I mean, that's what we had, like, proposed about the platter last session, right?

But this is even bigger, because this is like a bowl, you know. This is, it's probably, we'll say, if you guys were all squeezing inside, so maybe moving half speed, you could all fit underneath fairly well. But this would be like squeezing mechanics, right? So you all have to like cuddle up under the head. I mean, red looks to the others. Look, we're never going to get a better reason to move down this whole unseen than one of the people that works here leaving this. Let's bolt to that and get under it as soon as we can.

At the very least, if anybody walks through here, we're covered. Brilliant. Great idea. It's as effective a disguise for all of us as Eddie. Right now? Yes, now. And a goblin walking alongside, you know, a bunch of other servants carrying something is, that seems plausible as well. So we just need to fit all of us and Ruff.

Tamil's eyes go wide and she starts looking around really quickly. And she goes, um, where's Raffy? Oh, my God. Raffo's a, did you leave him downstairs? Oh, no. The monkey? Yes. Um, all right, listen, monkey's going to do what monkey's going to do.

I think maybe this is just a little bit of, um, this is a ticking clock now because he definitely will be getting after some shit. So, uh, let's go for the dustpan. Monkey business. Agreed. How do we lose track of him? He, he just does his own thing. You know how baboons are. He's going to be rough. You know how monkeys are? All right, let's go.

And red bolts to the dish. Yeah. And I love the idea of Doren, like being under there with us. Yeah. Because if we get caught, he can come out and be like, I've been trying to bring it back down. You know what I was thinking too. He could be the only one under there, quote unquote. It's really like, and just so you guys know, in my mind, I'm not expecting to like deceive these giants.

It's just got to be that one instant that gives us the upper hand. You know, so that they don't automatically see a dwarf and say, the fuck absolutely an upside down like basically metal tank is much worse places to hide underneath for sure for real you make a panicked and silent sprint across the hall through this you know mustering hall down the hallway across from the door and find yourselves beside this big dust pan it's clearly been used to carry ashes, probably from a fireplace, up until very recently. It is quite warm to the touch, but not so hot that you are going to be burning yourselves to be underneath.

We have resistance anyway. Well, maybe then it was, but you're, y'all are fine. Even just working under the assumption just in case that it would be maybe even with the potions, rather hot to the touch to put our hands directly against these, we did kind of attempts without saying anything. thing to be the one to when we get underneath this pan, essentially almost like pick it up and be the one moving it for everybody as I just hover slightly off the ground and sort of move it along.

And I just, the only thing I say is, well, Bessie also has fire resistance. And you see this almost like hissing of like this release of like almost cold style chemicals keeping the hands at a normal temperature as it's pushing the, so even the witted has his own fire resistance from the potion the best he's got around yeah and i think there's like a moment there where doran gets there just before whitted and starts to lift this thing and there's like a serious weight to this pan oh yeah and then whitted just gets underneath and it's like and dorn's a little bit like impressed at the strength of this mechanical body that that widd had i'm also probably not strong enough to do it all on my own so hopefully i've made it so that

People can, like, with shoulders, shove it and stuff. Right, right. But I want to take credit for, like, being single heavily. Okay, fair out. Just being aware of what my strength actually is. So, Dorn lifts with you. Exactly, exactly. I will still need help, but hopefully made it easier for you.

Cool. Holy. As Red scurries in there probably at the end, he just eyes the door to see if there's any distinguishing marks from the other two. Because at this point, we're looking for Duke Zolto. We know that's not his room, and he want to, He wants to kind of, you know, eyeball out. There's like a sign on the door where it says he's crayon.

Duke's all to. Keep out. Stay out. Keep out. No girls allowed. He man, woman, hater is close. The door is certainly carved with a degree more attention than perhaps the more utilitarian doors downstairs. but there are no, like, signs on the front of it.

With it, when Reggie scouted the table, Duke's altar was there. He was dining at a place of prominence, I'm assuming? Correct. Well, then maybe Duke's Aldo's room is the room he's not in, the one on the left, the far side. Realistically, it would be odd for him to leave his meal if it was still happening,

and based on my primeval awareness, I just did a minute ago, they are still largely congregated down there. So I'm thinking if we get to the end of the hall, we should slip into the room that's not occupied, the one on the left. I would tend to agree, especially considering I doubt that Duke Zalta would welcome or allow other people into his room. I think that you are deducing correctly. We have, by process of elimination, maybe found the correct room. Let's try that one first. Fuck yeah.

Good idea. Right, Temeel? Timil's just mumbling to herself, but fucking monkeys. Yes, yes, you don't worry. Let's go. Yeah. And I guess we all shuffle forward down the hall, entering the door on the far left. Okay, now I'd just like to thank our dear Patreon supporters.

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And we appreciate that. Nick, can you tell Alex to shut the fuck up? Alex. I'm learning. I haven't said. I'm having a while. But when I do, I make it count. I'm doing great.

All right. Bring us in. Great. Then delete this. Delete this. Highland delete this. The door is certainly... Sorry.

The door is certainly... The doy is sweetly nice. A nice toy.