Dice Shame - 2-155 | 'Chest Thumping'

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

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You're really smart. Bon and Dot, done. We got Roblox. I'll do it. I'll do one more. We did. What can you make of this? Oh, no. My eyes, my poor, useless eyes. What do you think? Can you get the keys?

But why not, though? Yeah, let's put it back. Well. Get up for one second. Well, it was a good game, guys. I got a guy in water deep. I can't believe we're going to Ferris Bueller this situation. I'm very excited.

What's your name? My name? Yep. That's so easy when it's on your... Let's take that! Welcome back to Dice, Shame. This is Season 2, Episode 155, chest thumping. MVP this week is Derek, who just joined the Discord.

Derek said they like to listen to actual plays of campaigns that they're planning to run so they can steal, borrow good ideas, and that they're going to be running Storm King's Thunder pretty soon. Well, thank you, Derek. Feel free to lift any and all ideas from Joe. She's used to it. And good luck with your players. If you're looking for something new and, well, a little spooky, check out my new show, Tales

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Woo! Doren and Wim creeps steadily along the gas line that runs between the chambers deep within the bowels of iron slag, following the sounds echoing from within. Meanwhile, having triggered the disastrous effects of the trapped chest, Tamil, Red, and Witted stand ready to do. that which thrills every D&D player looting. Uh, yeah, I think, um, Witted, since, since you crack the chest, you want to take a look? I suppose, Tumul and Red stand back covering their mouths. I was just going to say, Witted flips his visor down and just sort of shakes his head. It says, wouldn't be two traps, I mean, as he is pushing the lid upward using sort of like Iron Man style, like,

from his boots to just sort of increase the speed a little bit to just get that momentum. Another poison glass cloud. My eyes, my poor, useless eyes. Yeah, Witted, as you push this lid up flying to get up high enough to just leverage it up and over, you expose the contents of this huge treasure chest. As you look down and into this chest, you spy, resting on a bed of ashes, a giant-sized adamantine crown, set with six black opals. And then underneath the ashes, you see several things kind of like poking out here and there among this, like, strange, velvety-looking-looking substance.

you see some potion bottles you see it's like a weird stone that's shaped like a cat and it's got one green eye and nestled deeply inside of this ash there is a large conch Hell yes Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa I recognize that

That's just like this one Red pulls out One of the other conches Jackpot Now this could be Trapped again right And Red has Is detect magic

Flyin Yeah so we're seeing Magic Bling boom Bling bling It's like a fucking pinball machine in here Wait

What did you find Conch The Conch You did find the conch A conch conch yes get up for one second you guys all find the fucking conch it was the big treasure chest we also killed salto yeah yeah yeah we actually yeah bone and dod done you're all level 20 um and there's a weird stone that's like shaped like a cat's face and it's got one green gem in its eye

Doran and Wim We are like Whim really really Really really wants to get by you But she can't Because there's not enough space She's like an old man She like keeps tugging at the bottom of your tunic

Like Yeah and Doren Keep up, move up, move up Putting his hand back like swatting her hand away Like slow down Be patient You know come on Yeah it's not working great

Quit it These youngins Quit fooling around back there. And you... Quick fool around, I'll pull this thing over. And you crawl your way along this natural gas pipe. As you approach the next juncture, you see the light of the next fireplace. And you've made your way into viewing space of the next room.

So you peer through and you can see a fucking rampage happening. Oh. This young giant is the same one that you'd seen earlier entering the room. And he is just fucking laying waste to the place. In between snotty sobs, this gangly adolescent rips a door off of a huge wardrobe and just flings it against the wall. he's clearly spent a little bit of time raging in here his bed spread is torn up and is lying on the floor you see a second set of giant-sized bedroom furniture there are two beds two wardrobes mirroring the first arranged on the opposite wall it does not appear to have been touched by this giant so he's

just fucking up one side of the room basically and he's like crying he takes a second sits down on this ruined bed and sobbing like scrubs a dirty hand across his face and then he picks up his pillow and he just throws it against the wall is anybody else pitching that like emo haircut and like she's down over one eye and a point yes spider man three i guess doran he's going to make a move he's here now so we deserve this he sort of tumbles into the room Maybe trying to look a little bit like he's avoiding the fire. Oh. And he tries his best to make a goblin accent because he knows how that is.

But you're speaking which language? Common. Okay. Doran tries his best, at least with an accent. He says, oh, it looks, oh, looks like you're pretty upset. are you okay what are you doing in here I

I'm really upset and I ran away and I heard you sobbing and I thought maybe I could sob with you and Doran does his best to look upset oh

that's bold moon I'm like that I guess I'm going for a A deception. I love this gambit. I'm not crying. Oh, he wipes his eyes.

Well, I'm not crying either, but I'm certainly upset, and you look like you're upset, too. And he, Doran sort of looks around the room at the trash. Yeah, so? Are you mad at your parents like me? Are you mad at your sibling? And Doran sort of points at the other. bed my dad I'm so mad

sometimes I could just and he picks up like it's gonna say like a stuffy but like he's too old for his stuffy he's kind of stuff the animal he's not acting like he's too old for a stuffing he picks up like his bedside table and just grabs it in both hands

and he just rips one of the legs off of it and throws it to the side and then kind of like looks at, you know, the corner of his eye, like, did he see that? I love that. He, like, picks up a stuffy, like, to throw it. And then he's like, no, not Mr. Snuggles. I could never. Yeah, Doran's trying his hardest here to think back to when he was a kid, the torment, you know,

he's trying his best to relate to this giant. You're really tough, hey? Yeah. I'm the son of Duke Salter. Of course I'm tough. You're the son of Duke Zolto? I'm so tough. I'm going to be in charge of this whole place one day.

Wow. I wish I was like you. Yeah, I bet, but you're just a stupid goblin. Well, yeah, but hey, maybe I could help you. Um, take over this place right now. You don't understand. You're too stupid. My dad's getting ready right now to take...

Everybody out of this place and go to war. Do you even know what war is? No, I'm just a stupid goblin. I know, that's what I said. But you're really smart, I think. Not as smart as my sister. Not strong as her either. Can't do anything right.

What happened? Why you're so upset with your dad? I don't want to go to war. I want to stay here. It's cool. And I got... What, I'm playing your video games all day? Sorry.

And then he kills you. I just want to play guitar hero. We got Roblox. This is just sounding all too close to home. You got games? Why do you want to stay here as opposed to going to war? Isn't that your glory? And Duren's trying to keep his appearance up.

Yeah, if you ask any other giant in this place, of course. Everybody wants to go to war My dad wants to go to war My mom Cinderhild Everybody Well I don't want to go to war

If I have to go so to you What's your name? My name? Yep That's so easy when it's on your Let's take that This guy doesn't Norrid

Doren backwards Okay Okay Wait, did you mean to do Dorn and Bacchards? Wouldn't that be Neroad? Well, it meant to do it, nor it, you know, play on it. That's so good. Not quite backwards.

This teen giant stands up from where he was sitting on his bed. And he walks over to you, Doren, by the fireplace. And he crouches right down, and he gets up in your face. Darnsaur holds his breath. And his head is like, like as big as you are tall kind of thing. Like, he's, well, maybe not quite that big. He's like a big dude. And he's like,

and if you have to go to war, you're going to get pulverized. There are going to be men and dwarves and elves and all kinds of little folk and they're going to pull you apart. I've heard there are warriors out there

are so dangerous even though they're so much smaller than me they could kill me with their swords well how do you think I feel like everybody's bigger than me

I'm just a little goblin yeah you're too little and he stands up and walks back over to his bed and turns his back on you for well Sometimes being little has its advantages. Like, I heard there's a door on the Vaughn and Dodd that giants can't get in,

but I might be able to shut it down. That would be a way to stop your war. If you didn't want war, I don't want to go to war. Doran's now kind of like peering out of the corner of his eye, hoping he's set enough bait. Make a deception check for me, please. Oh, fuck. You've got this.

And I don't even have inspiration here. I'll give you my inspiration. Can you? Yeah. It's a player to player. I'm not Red doing it. Harlan's giving Alex's inspiration. Perfect.

Take it. You earned it. Okay. And remember, you got lucky. 17. I think 17's a pretty good role, but no. Are you guys thinking? Well, because it'll be against his insight, right?

An insight's a wisdom? This is potentially a big get if he has. a high roll on it. And what's your bonus? For deception? A negative one. Oh, then action. Damn.

Stay, stay, stay. Don't hit. I can use Lucky. With Lucky, do you have... Okay, here's the thing. I can decide. It's whichever D20 I choose. You choose which of the D20 is used.

So you don't have to use the new role. You can use either one. You would have the 17 either way. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Should I re-roll? I think I'm going to. One more. Damn it.

Why not? Just to see. Yeah. No, no. Two. Doesn't work. Wow. Oh, no.

It's 17 it is. But I love it. You guys are using up your resources. I think I'm going to stick with 17. Do one more. Do one more. I feel good. I feel like this is the craps table.

Do one more? Am I do one more? I'll do it one more. Come on one more. I'll do it. I'll do one more. Okay, no more. That was a two as well.

That's another two. Another too brutal. The dice are like, I said what I said. Yeah. The dice are like you got an 18 and you should have been grateful. Did I stutter? Did I stutter? You ungrateful, motherfucker.

Yeah. So dare you. This guy thinks he's going to get a 25 with the one of yours. That's funny as hell. Blackjack, you stay at 17. This teen giant red-faced looks. sidelong at you over in the corner of the room

and he says why would you want to disable the vaunted dod well I just don't want to get killed and if we go to war I'll probably get killed but

I just met you and you don't want to go to war and maybe if we disabled the vaunted dod then you wouldn't have to go to war and I would get killed. For the first thing, the Von and Dodd is halfway across Farron by now. For the second thing, I don't even know how you would go about doing something like that. You're way too little and stupid, obviously. I'm... And for the third thing, well, my dad keeps a close eye on

everything that goes on around the Von and Dodd, so I doubt even if you got over there that you'd be able to incapacitated, or whatever. No, it's... Listen, your best bet is to just run. I gotta stay here. Run? Run away? Yeah, I mean, everyone's busy at the feast right now.

Run away like, uh, like all the other cowardly goblins? That's what they say about us, is that we're cowardly. Yeah, that's what they say about me, too. You seem very brave to me. Everyone says it. I think a coward we'd be too afraid to do this. And Doran sort of points around the wrecked room. This is defiance, man.

I bet you could... I bet you could steal your dad's keys to the Von and Dodd, and we could take it for a joyride. Ha ha ha. That sounds kind of cool, actually. You know, my dad said that it can fly. It can? It can't? It can? I mean.

And shoot lasers? I don't even know what a laser is. Wow. But that sounds awesome. Neither do I. It's probably like a big arrow. So, don't you think that would be a pretty brave and not cowardly thing to do? It's still your dad's keys to the Von and Dodd.

Would you take help from other, uh, goblin? or small folk, if it meant that you wouldn't have to go to war? Doran's feeling a little dodgy asking these questions. Yeah, maybe. If we could disrupt my dad's plans to keep everyone from leaving tomorrow, if we could,

if we could make it so that things go back to normal around here, yeah, maybe. Why? You got more cowardly goblins hiding around here? I can't believe we're going to Ferris Bueller this situation. I'm very excited. You know, I do have some friends. And I don't think we can do it without your help.

But I kind of need to trust you a little bit before I can. And now he's lost his voice. He's dropped the accent a bit. You need to trust me? What do you have to? lose. Well, I have everything to lose. And you, you also have everything to lose, but at least you belong here in this castle. For now? Maybe I can trust you and maybe you can trust me and maybe we can help each other. What do you think? Can you get the keys? I know you may think I'm just a stupid

goblin, but if you trust me, then I can almost guarantee that we can stop you from going war, but I do need your help. I'm listening. This chest is just full of these fluffy black cinders. And I presume you take all of these magic items. Hell, yeah, we do. Cool, yeah. So there's, like I said,

a giant adamantine crown. It weighs 150 pounds. Easy. I was curious if anything was light. up is obviously magical. I was hoping for the crown, but I'm guessing now. The crown is not magical, though it does look very expensive. As I said, there are two potions.

It's funny, even giant potions are still little people-sized. So, like, they fit in your hands. They're normal sized. You're not going to, like, take a bath in the bottle or anything. But why not, though? I mean, you could let them. They must shrink and grow, like the other mat. Like an Alice in Wonderland.

situation. One of these potions liquids are red inside that kind of shimmer a little bit as you move it. The other potion is clear, but it's got some like white sediment in it that when it's moved, it kind of like lifts up off at the bottom and like floats around. Does the red potion look like healing potions that we've seen before? It's super does, but it looks like really, really delicious, strong healing a mega healing potion very very i would say you guys can recognize this as a potion of supreme healing holy shit yes wow that's 10d4 plus 20 and those of you who are uh potion connoisseurs would gather that you're probably also looking at a potion of flying oh another potion of flying As you sift through these ashes and grab this stone, this cat face stone, you also realize that underneath these ashes is like a big mound of gold pieces, as well as a medium-sized leather satchel.

Red grabs the leather satchel. What is this? How do you both feel about leaving the crown As that feels like very obvious if it were gone I think everything's going to be obvious from here on out Fair enough If we're leaving If we're trying to leave the situation with us

Both us and Duke Zalto alive It strikes me that taking the crowd Given that it's not magical Might be more trouble than it's worth in the long run But we could be King. It could be heroes. And while Duke Zalt who is alive, heavy lies the crowd in this case.

Fine. But it's worth like, and Red just like weighs it in his hand. Thousand gold pieces, easy. Seven thousand, five hundred gold pieces. Yeah, Red puts it away. Yeah, let's put it back and he just puts it into his bag. You didn't see anything. You could like hoop with it.

It's like very huge, right? You couldn't because it's way too heavy, but like. Portable hole. Well, ding-da-ling-ding-ding-ding. Does it look like we could prize the opals? out from it. Look, I got a guy in water deep. This will go seven grand easy on the black market. All right. That's enough for me and Doran to really fix up Trullscul Manor. It's worth taking.

Okay. Sorry, whatever the price of a fire giant vendetta is to you, as you will. Look, I had a guy in the party that took every piece of ornate jewelry and never let me sell it, and he's dead now, and I'm going to sell this thing, and I'm going to use it to buy beer for the bar, And we're all going to go drinking after this. Speaking of which, Red, as you open the satchel and look inside, you recognize a strange number of these small items. Oh.

Oh, speak of the devil. This was Jack's. These are the magic items, I guess, that survived the blast from the... Well, I'll just look at these later. And Red sort of folds them up and tucks them away. Magic items sifted from the ash of your ex-companion

And Ruthread's eyes Just float down to the ash To go Oh, Jack He always wanted to be a relic He came one himself Tamil you were taking a look at this Cat face

I think that she would actually Kind of proffer it to Witted Assuming that it might be a magic item And having no real ability to identify it herself Witted this he looks at the item and as he kind of reaches out to take it his gauntlet he says oh goodness oh yes yes yes i've seen this particular model before uh this is your standard issue luckstone these are extremely handy uh yeah you these these enhance any of your skills and reflexes and i mean

they just make you lucky everything just just slightly luckier it's a sort of quantum uh possibility bending effect that happens around the facade. The way it works isn't important, it varies for model to model, but I mean, these are highly sought after. But it doesn't make the most sense in my hands.

And he returned it to you to Mill. Why not? I do rely on my skills, but my skills are mostly helpful for helping me. Your skills are helpful for helping all of us. And he kind of just

gestures to include Red, and he's kind of gesturing largely to the group, but returning it to you, Tammil. Um, Tumil will hold it out to Red. Do you want this? What is it? Sure. Red takes it. He's like, it's like eyes or gaze. He's like, oh, really pretty rock. No, I mean, it requires an attumment slot, you said? Yeah, I think I'm maxed anyway. Witted, as you gesture to try and, like, include as many of your companions as possible in this act of altruism, Wim, like, rolls out of the fire, and she's gesturing wildly behind her.

And she signs, like, Dorn is talking to a giant. You guys need to come right away. Oh, shit. Timil will shoot a message to Doren. Doren? How's it going over there? I'm a goblin, I'm a goblin pretending to be a goblin, but he believes me, and we're friends, and actually, I think you should join me through the ventilation shaft. And there's no rush, but play it cool when you get here.

Timil, we'll look at the other two. Doran says we should join him, but we should play it cool. Doran! Oh, Doran. Okay, got it. tosses the stone up and runs like hoping that to me we'll catch it you know like they do in cartoons we're like I just like I just had this wild visual

for you know when you're reading our thoughts you know it kind of went back to what when when Witted had that scene it's almost like I'd love to do some overdubs on this afterwards it's like you're peering through clouds and as you get closer it's like the clouds are just these

like random thoughts that you get through to like the main concentration point of like what the person's actually like wonder if this goblin makes me look fat yeah yeah yeah yeah yes yeah that's really cool for like detect thoughts and stuff i think this well i mean yeah maybe even for message oh detect thoughts too actually that's even funnier for the fact thoughts but yeah meta i assume this stone you should actually probably use right is that what you were saying uh i think nick timiel wanted it oh i'm i'm offering it to whoever can use it yeah but you could use it i think

you still have most of your attunement slots open still don't you i'll be honest i didn't realize that there were a limited number of attunement slots. Oh, yeah, Joe's not strict about some things, but she's strict about that, which I hate. You can't have unlimited magic items. She's like, it's always, it's hard three, isn't it? It is a hard three. Oh, yeah, here it is.

Okay, I found that on my sheet. Yeah, I actually am not attuned to anything. Although, maybe I should be attuned to my weapon? Probably a javlin. Yeah, okay. I have to be attuned to my weapon, too. Yeah, it would be attuned. Okay, so then I would have, I do.

have some slots available then. I mean, I don't want to unintune from the stuff like that. That's the thing is you got to be choosy a little bit. Yeah. Okay. I'll grab it. Cool. So, yeah, but he'll throw it up comically, you know.

Yeah. With it as a character, I feel like, is aware, I'm very concerned about the meta of a magic item attuned and has been, like, noticing everyone slowly over the adventure being like, wait a minute. Timil, does that have any tune with, has full, the tutumabit slots open? And definitely is why that part of why that was probably. Advertising you, yeah. Yeah, there enough. And Red bolts towards the fire and dives in headfirst the little pipe.

Nice. Going after his buddy, Doren. Because he didn't hear the, you know, the way he said. Whim comes out frantically signing. Tamil's like, Dorn said come, but play it cool. Red's like, oh my God, he's held up against a wall or something, you know. Come on, buddy. And Wim gestures that Witted and Tameel.

Come on, come on. He just starts jetting over. Tamil will jump up on top of the chest to slam it shut and then maybe move the tumblers a couple so it looks like the way they found it and then she will... Gas! Yeah. She dies.

Well, it's good game, guys. And you make your way through this natural gas pipe. Just saying, we took everything, but probably not the gold because the gold was a little too time consumed. I feel like that would take a while to shovel it. Well, what we got, listen, one crown worth $7,500 and what? A couple hundred dollars with gold. I think we took the more profitable option.

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