Dice Shame - 2-157 | 'Need To Vent'

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

After brokering a deal with the son of Duke Zalto the party seeks him out for their final confrontation..._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________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 friends Nic & Timm 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, claustrophobia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yeah, that's a great idea. Oh, honey, that's a terrible weapon. That's a piece of wood. Your father has no bodyguard. If I live to fight another day. Well, where is it? Is there a way other than the, um, door? That seems like a vibe.

How long do you think the rest of the fire giants will keep him as their leader? But if he sees us, I completely agree. I don't like to ask him to. I love holes. Ah. Exactly. Mm-hmm. Well, I'll tell you one thing.

It's kind of sick. How some families are. Indeed. I mean, sure, we've offered. But could you imagine wanting your own father dead? Certainly. Doran, you killed your goblin wife and lost your two brothers in the mind. All right.

I think we're getting a little off track here. Welcome back to Dice Shame. This is Season 2, Episode 157, Need to Vent. MVP this week is Cam. who's been listening along since the very beginning, Cam is almost up to date, and they've been having a great time. They said,

Red is my favorite character, but who can argue with Doran, Tamil, and Witted being up there as well? Well, thank you, Cam. You're my favorite character, and you're this week's MVP. All right, should we play some D&D? Yeah, let's do it.

Woo! three two one we should all say clap instead of clapping i might just shout it or it makes some more of other sort of noise like how you kia clap ah uh i'd like to invite cordially harlan and alex to join roll 20 i'm sorry i changed rousers so i needed to you guys are in trouble calling you out no not chrome edge you changed to edge what all right i changed to edge i changed to edge i I changed to edge. I feel like I sell of Chrome is awful. Chrome is a piece of garbage now.

It's a piece of shit. And I use Firefox and I always need two browsers. I never use FireFox. Tell us more about your browser. You know what? Nick cares. No, it's because I'm in the process of like getting off Spotify, trying to find a better browser than Chrome, like just all of this stuff where I have a

workflow and now I'm like upending it because, you know, like in some cases I want my politics to align with my workflow and in some cases, things are just pieces of crap now. Yep. See, I knew you get it. And that's exactly what I did with, I literally migrated everything from Chrome to Edge because I was like, it's I wouldn't go as far as edge, so I'm not that desperate.

It's the lesser, well, I already used Firefox and I need two different operating systems. I'm just Josh and you. Josh! I think I fixed my recording problem. I think I did. Oh, thanks, Alex. That's the just troubleshooting today. Oh, yeah. I'd like to hoard you inspiration.

No, I said, I think I fixed it. I'm pretty sure I did. I put some fix it in place. You're getting politiciany on us. Well, by this point, you said that so many times. I've already tried to fix it. And then I thought I had it and it didn't take. This time I tried something else.

I didn't take it. Computer's like, no. I don't want it. Well, no, I'll be, you want to know exactly what I did? The first time I took, oh, okay, so then you don't want to know. It's like, yeah, I tried something first and then I tried different things. So, we appreciate it. I fixed it.

Hardly good. Speaking of fixing computers, Nick, did you get your melted PSU replaced? Are you on a different rig right now? No, this is, so I always record on my Mac for this kind of stuff, because I only use my Mac in my booth. The office is the gaming rig, that's the tower that I have. We were gaming with Nick, and then Nick, like, we lost Nick. She just, like, dropped off the call out of the game and then sent us this picture. Your computer plug got totally melted.

Oh, wow. That's the plug that goes into the back of the computer Yeah Where you have power PSC is Not great, yep Cool, well I'm glad that your recording Setup is unaffected Yeah, it's crazy, we're playing a ghost hunting game

We're playing phasmophobia And then we played last night with Erica Who the game kept crashing her entire computer Yeah, and we're like, oh, she's next To the point where she was like, I can't play this The haunt jumped from Nick to Erica Yeah, did she also mess with the Ouija board? Really?

I think you mess with the game is aggressive ghost, shutting your hardware down. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. But we have to clap again because I accidentally clicked something. Oh, no, really? Oh, the haunt. The haunt is spreading. You shared the cursed picture.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't the problem. I just clicked it. Human error. Okay. Have you played phasmophobia, too? Yeah. I have not. I'm too scared. I would love to play that with you.

Scary video games are in another level. But it's because I take forever with them. It's like not fun if you're just like do the whole time. You should play with us because it's one where you like play ghost hunters in like a house. So one person, you can all go in but typically. It's cooperative. Erica, you know Erica, Tim. She usually stays in the van and she doesn't ever want to go in. She's too afraid. And I'm the opposite. I play the role of first to die.

Yes, that seems like a vibe. I loved how agro you got. You were like, hey, fucking ghost, whatever your name, Mary Shelley. Listen, you said that the ghost responds to cursing. I am just, you know, I'm being a good ghost hunter. You really were. I kind of flush out the ghost. I feel like that would be a good role.

Just being like, I'm knocking stuff around. What are you going to do about it? Fuck ghosts. Fuck stupid ghosts. Totally. All right. Anyone have any questions about where we're starting here, or should we just hop right in? I'm going to do a teeny intro.

That's all we need then. Yeah. Perfect. As you stand watching, a cold smile spreads across the young fire giant's face. Yeah, yeah, I think this will work. He starts to pace slowly around the wreckage of his shared bedroom, figuring things out in his head. I'll go back to the feast, and at an opportune moment, I will ask to speak to my father in private. I'll bring him to the war chambers and engage him in conversation, and it'll give you the opportunity to steal the key from him if you're swift enough.

He turns back to the five of us, looking for approval. War chamber, eh? Yeah, swift. We're everything We're so swift Something like taking a key from a giant Should be easy, right? Yeah, especially one so formidable

Red sort of like Darts his eyes towards Tamele And then back Where does your father keep The key around his neck In his pocket? He's got a satchel at his waist Okay, okay

Not on his person But on his person Okay That makes it a little easy Yeah, that's a great idea. Take your father off to the side, distract him. Hey, you know what? I'm down. I'm down with it. And if things go poorly, he'll be alone. And you feel certain that you'll be able to bring him along without your sister or your mother? Yeah, it shouldn't be a problem. I'll have to wait until he's finished addressing everybody. He kind of gets long wind.

at these things. Your father has no bodyguards who typically stand by his side in these situations, just making sure. It'll be just like a private father-son chat. No reason he should bring them with him. Right. Is the war room connected to these fireplace flus by any chance? No, there's no fireplace in there.

Oh. Is there a way other than the door, presumably, that you'll and your father will be entering through, that we might be able to enter from. I think getting there will probably be your challenge. Right, right. Well, where is it? Can you describe the area, maybe point to it on this map on Roll 20? Yeah, he describes the way there.

Essentially, you're going to have to go back down the steps that you came from, through the kitchen, to the east, towards where the feasting. hall is and then the war room is just to the northwest of the feasting hall it's like an adjoining chamber is the feasting hall that southern door in the kitchen that we didn't go through the feasting hall is what reggie saw after descending the elevator and seeing like some big tables yeah yeah okay we're close to them though or we were but that's to the feasting hall and then beyond the feasting hall is the yeah it's in a joining room Well, if you're lucky, we might even kill them for you.

Get them out of your way. I would say that would be a challenge, but I'm open to the possibility. Excellent. Right, okay, so downstairs through the kitchen, past the feasting hall, where all the fire giants are, to the war room. Is there any other way to it other than through the feasting hall? He shakes his head. Wim signs, if we could get to that one, we could at least see what we need to move through.

Yeah, yeah, I like that a lot. In fact, and Red turns to Witted. Witted, could Reggie maybe scope out away to the flu in the feasting hall and maybe peek around the corner to get at least eyes on the door to the war room and how many are currently still in the feasting hall? Reggie has gotten a look into the feasting hall. I don't think we exactly singled out where individual

things were, but we could definitely check out and maybe go into more detail this time. You hear a little of agreement coming from out of the tube, and yeah, Reggie, you'll come scuttling out and climb onto my shoulder. Right, well, I suppose all this has to go

pretty quick. You'll get him and then bring him to the chambers, so there's no sense in us dallying. Zol Timber nods at your party and he says I'll give it about half an hour then Is that sound like enough time to get into position? That sounds like a great idea He'll never see it coming

He bends down and picks up a long splinter of chair leg from some of the furniture that he had destroyed and he sort of pats down his like pantaloons that he's got on and he's like slides it down one pant leg and he's like you know in case

sorry in case what I don't have any weapons on me right now so that this is like going to be like an improvise like a shiv I don't if you've ever been to prison before oh honey that's a terrible weapon that's a piece of wood that's what we call a splinter

Whitted looks very offended by the idea Like that's what you've got He's just throwing some obvious shade He's like a teenager He's like I'm gonna do a murder for sure with this You do yourself a favor honey When you walk through the kitchen Just grab a knife that the ogre was using

That'll do 10 times more damage if you do Hey that's a good idea Yeah well you know Listen I told you I'm not really cut out for like war It's the whole reason that I don't want to do any of this Of course we understand And we'll make sure that it doesn't happen. So long as you can keep Daddy preoccupied

so we can get that key from the satchel. Half an hour. Half an hour. And then he heads toward the door. All right. Well, that's pretty far for us. And Red sort of looks at Tamil a little bit pain maybe, and he's kind of like,

hey, if it happens that we get the key without alerting Duke's. Salto. Are you okay if we leave this place with him still alive? After everything that we've seen after the close calls we've had so far, I think we need to be realistic about our options. Am I okay with it? No. Can I live with it for now? Yes. If I live to fight another day, then that day will be when I kill him. Look, and I'm right there with you I guess we've got to keep in mind that the

Voning Dodd is still out there and it's going to deal a whole great deal of damage and well shit if we get that key and take on Duke Salto and he bests us it's one thing for us to go down swinging but if we're the only thing stopping that Vonindod

and with the only means to do so and we don't get out of here with that key in the hand and we've doomed countless others to death you know I guess that's the way I'm starting to realize this whole thing is going Well, I have to disagree with you, Red. I'm sorry, but I can't see us leaving here without killing Duke Zolto. And, I mean, it's one thing to go and take on the Von and Dodd,

but with Duke Zolto leading an army of giants right behind it, this would be like cutting off the head of the snake. Right, but you understand that that Vonondod, if we don't shut that thing down, if we're the only ones with the key, then it's just a weapon out there that anyone can used, Doran. We also have to stop Zolto, otherwise he will just... I'm sorry, Dorn, but if we get that key and

we manage to get out of Duke Zolto's eyeline with it intact, I think we got to leave. I think we got to let him live another day because we could be risking countless lives. And I'm sorry,

but Zolto killing him at this point, it's you know, it's ego. It's having the option that we can And I'm not saying it's a bad thing And I'm motivated by ego Most of the time But in this case

That thing needs to be turned off No, no, no, no, red Come on now I'm not gonna convince you It's just gonna happen the way it happens But listen to me It's not my ego talking If we have him alone in a room

That's opportunity calling And if he should take us out The way he took out Tamil and her party While we have the means To disable that violence Onondod? How many have we doomed? These fire giants, they seem hostile and blustery, but I feel as though humiliation could also

be a powerful tactic here. Red, I think you might be on to something. If we small folk are able to dismantle the von and disrupt Duke Zaltos' plans, how long do you think the rest of fire giants will keep him as their leader. Yeah. I mean, I can't imagine them following a fool in that case. So perhaps the things we should be looking out for are opportunities to make him look foolish so that he can be destroyed by his own. I feel like that would be a very satisfying ending.

It would be easier. I don't disagree. Widdid's getting suited up back in his armor. You see the armor pick him up and put him back inside. And I think I'm ready to deploy Reggie. I think he also pops at this point, having gotten fully set up in his armor, he turns and says, I agree with Doran. The Voted Dot is a weapon, and we are going to get the key one way or another.

For what it's worth, I personally don't see much of a difference between dealing with Zalto Dow or somewhere in the future down the road. For me, the consequential difference is whether he has spotted any of us. Tamil especially, a familiar face, I think we need to be very conscious of the fact that if we leave here with Zalto being aware of who has taken the key, that is a situation I would not be comfortable with. Agreed. That being said, I certainly also have means of incapacitating Zolto

as well as his son, if necessary, without causing violence to anyone. I, that you bring up an interesting thing that I was also thinking, of Widdid, which is, are we certain that Zoltemba is going to follow through on the plan he described? Is there any

worry in anyone else's mind that he's going to capture us, hand us over to his father as a way of currying favor? I am not relying on his loyalty in my calculations. I definitely don't trust him either, but I don't think he's going to turn us in. I think there would

have been easier ways to do it. He could have just walked out with us in hand, you know? All right. Mm-hmm. Well, I'll tell you one thing. It's kind of sick how some families are. Indeed. I mean, sure, we've offered, but could you imagine wanting your own father dead?

Certainly. Doran, you killed your goblin wife and lost your two brothers in the mind. All right, I think we're getting a little off track. Here, perhaps we should... All I mean to say is, and I agree with what everyone's saying, My only kind of point was that if, if we managed to get the key and we are undetected, that I feel we have the obligation to prioritize getting out and stopping the Von and dog before dealing with Salto. But if he sees us, I completely agree.

Yeah, I would love to send Reggie through the vents and have him pop out. And even maybe just stay in the fireplace where he has the most cover and like peek around the room. Please. Doran turns sort of to Wittittitt, you know, it's pretty handy having your little friend there buzzing around. I mean, it saves us from having to, you know, climb around, scurry around this place, looking near and there while there's a bunch of giants around. I can't even imagine it. Yeah, who wants to do that?

Absolutely. Witton's waist kind of rotates instead of his, him turning, and so it looks kind of weird as he just, like, looks down. And he goes, well, Reggie does this for our benefit. Reggie would not endanger himself unless I asked him to. No, no, of course, of course. I'm just saying. Frankly, don't like to ask him to. And you can see we did sort of rotate back toward the tube, worried.

And maybe it's at that point where Doran sees this and he calls down the tube. Thank you. Shit, what's his name? Reggie. Reggie. Reggie. Thanks, Reggie. Sorry for him compromising your stealth, Reggie.

We don't shout after Reggie. If he's scouting ahead into enemy territory, typically, that's not part of it. Oh, good point. I'll send him on his way with my farewell bugle. Don't bring too much attention to yourself. You can tell Witted didn't think it was too loud, but he also felt like obligated to point it out for the future. Right, right.

In terms of getting this key, you have the ability to stealth with and bring someone else into your cloaking field, correct? Yes, but I am rudding low on power. I'm checking something that beeps on my wrist. I will admit between the ability to incapacitate in a single display, I kind of bring out the fist made of, like, sparking lights and stuff that, like, scintillate that we were, I was, I think, presenting in a previous session as a wave that would hypnotically incapacitate, almost like a hypnosis grenade, kind of, a group of people. And I say, I have the beads to take out potentially Azalto, it is sud, or cover multiple people in by cloaking field, perhaps not. both necessarily. All right. I'm just thinking of how to get this key, perhaps.

But let's see what we're up against first. Perhaps invisibility is of more mutual aid, yes. All right, well, let's start following Reggie because we can stop, you know, 100 feet from him and give him a heads up. And as we head towards the fireplace again, Red will sort of just cast an eye over the room again. I mean, we didn't really critically look in here

for anything of value or interest. I'm hoping for like a little teenage diary poking out maybe. Yeah, definitely. Especially on the sister's side. No. No, on the boy's side. Boys have diaries. But we already learned so much about Zaltember.

He's an open book. 25. Perception. Yeah. So this room is similar in size to the bedchamber that Zalto and his partner share, presumably, the one that you just came from. Many of Zaltembers' belongings and furniture have been destroyed within the past half hour as, you know, he was rampaging around in a temper. His sister's side of the room is mostly untouched.

There is a large chair that sits in front of a table with a mirror over it, like a vanity kind of area where presumably she would sit and, you know, apply giant makeup. up. Who knows? Giant mascara. Giant makeup. Like a huge lipstick, the size of a small tree. No, but I mean, you can't really see what's up on top of the table unless you were to like climb up there and whatever. But you see this furniture, ostensibly that's what it's for.

There is also a large chest that's sitting open on the far wall. And there are, the contents are like spilling up. out all over the floor the way that messy kids like leave their stuff everywhere and they're like burned and broken toys and dolls and other belongings like lots of shit just crammed in there with red's magic aura still activated from the previous room i'm assuming nothing is bright nope okay then red will just with his kitty claw climb speed which is the same as walking I think he'll scamper up to the desk and he'll take the most interesting trinket from the vanity. Okay.

The most interesting trinket on the vanity. How are you going to say no to like a giant mascara? That's so fun. The most interesting thing on the vanity is a dinner plate size or maybe a little bit larger metal disc. It is gold in color and engraved with a pattern of. fiery thorns in a circle all around the outside and it looks like it opens up and when you prize open the lid it's a mirror on one side and then there's like a compact powder um on the base of it that's like a burnt umber color and there's like a fluffy like like a side of a lamb like a poof

i love it yeah yeah red snatches it up and puts it right into the bag of holding Giant foundation. I am 100% and I'm just going to say it now. It'll be season three or whatever. Next time we fight an invisible creature, Red is tossing that poof at that creature. That's crazy good. And then you know what? It'll look like one of those big, it'll look like one of those baby dolls, the one that have like the plasticy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it'll never get it off. It'll look like a big rock. Foundation. Baby doll. Yeah. Red, after you finish your scrounge, Reggie has made his return to the party that have sort of gotten themselves ready at the entrance of the fire and is reporting his observations too widded. We learn that the hearth in the feasting hall is on the northern wall and there is a large buffet table laden. with food between the hearth and the rest of the tables

where everyone is eating and gathered. So that there's like some cover between where everyone is sitting and eating in between where you would potentially be coming out of the wall. So a carverie and a guy being like, would you like more roast? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So scurrying around the room, there are several server goblins, Reggie has seen them, like, picking up dropped utensils and farrying, like, empty plates back to the kitchen for washing. Right now, there's, you know, six or so goblins in the room. Four feasting tables are heavily laden with roasted yak folk and other delicacies. There are maybe ten giants in the room or so, a half dozen ogres. sitting at the heads of two tables, Duke Zaltow and potentially his wife or partner, a female fire giant, are holding court beside this woman, a younger woman, probably Cinderhild. Zaltemper's sister is also sitting.

There are two hellhounds who are hanging out beside a cauldron of fire in the corner. And to the very south of this room, that is the base of the elevator where Reggie had first done his little scouting mission. Reggie also reveals that to the west of the feasting hall, there's this long corridor that ends in a set of double doors where the kitchen probably lies beyond. And then there's a tiny corridor that leads north off of that hallway, and that's where the war room would be. So now you all kind of have a lay of the lay of the lake. and, you know, the occupants of these rooms. So, Mata, it would be smarter to come from the kitchen, probably, than the fireplace. Depends on the strat.

It's less exposed. When Reggie, Erwin Witted, I guess, is relaying the information to us about the lay of the land, and then he gets to the hellhounds. I think Timil would say, those hellhounds, did one of them have a scar over its right eye and the other, a piece of its left ear missing? Reggie squeaks in agreement. Oh, goodness. those are those are the hands that I fought they will have my scent

I assume these hellhounds would present a problem I didn't realize that that issue might be compounded potentially yeah I I could see coming from the kitchen being a preferable method and route

this may even be the opportunity for us to hide beneath some cutlery and kitchen ware potentially and pretend to be kitchen goblets that's one opportunity certainly we didn't really make use of it or or required the kitchen dispatch. You really want to get that through, right? I really, I really liked that idea.

I thought it was, you can tell when it's like, I'm not a cunning guy usually, but was that cunning? I can't tell about how cunning. You guys remember how just a few minutes ago? You know, like, that would really take advantage of my clever idea. Yeah. Let's be meta for a second.

Let's. Oh, okay. We met at a key. All right. So, I mean, the three. obvious plays are like invisibility disguise or I suppose size if there's a way to get tiny

where we bust down the doors and walk in like we own the place. Yeah, let's do that. There's still the portable hole option which is fun. And dimension door, I suppose. Well, dimension door is a little more resource intensive but it is, yeah, it could be an option.

Distraction? Distraction. I do have more fuzzy critters that I could throw out. But honestly, the portable hole seems like, at least to meal in the portable hole, it seems like a smart thing to do because then they won't be able to smell me at all. Is Doran still a goblin? It's an hour long spell.

No, I'm not. Because I dropped it after we met Zoltember for a while. Yes, that's right. You'd be fucked up, kind of funny, and I don't think I would do it, but if we all got into the portable hole and gave it to like a goblin and we're like, listen here's what we need to do. He's just like rolling that 20 on persuasion.

Run down. Yeah. And then he doesn't. That's just where it ends. We could have Reggie do that by the way. Oh. Oh, that's not such a crazy idea. Whoa.

I trust Reggie with my life. I love the idea that like 70 years later in a pawn shop, some guy opens a portable hole and just four skeletons. I was just thinking about it. There's this weird machine here. I don't know. Powered down. It was in a fire giant layer.

Yeah. Smells kind of weird in here. What? Oh, bones. Oh, my God. So when resurrects us, just as Reggie gets reassembled and were you reunited 100 years later in a new and twisted future. Yeah.

Guys, this is Reds rovers. This is what happened. I don't remember these guys. They just disappeared. What a stupid idea that didn't work. 200 years later. No, but I do like. it actually. Reggie can go invisible.

That's only when I cast it on him. And granted, just getting him wouldn't be as intensive. I could definitely do that. Yeah, actually, that would be worth probably, it's my last second level spell slot, but I'll have one third left. But it would also save all of us any additional spells, which is kind of cool.

I think it's a good call. Just a quick question. What happened with the grates above? Are they not looking down into this room? No, they're not. Oh, okay. Okay, so Portable Hole is the leading contender, whether it's Reggie or somebody else. I just have to say this.

I do think that's a little, a little boring. It's like a little bit taking the easy way out, just a little bit. Yeah, but that's, that's okay. That, to me, is the fun of D&D. I agree. When you think of a smart way to, like, bend the rules to, like, shortcut a maneuver, that to me is sometimes the most fun. I don't disagree.

I'm just saying, I'm putting it. out there. I don't think necessarily I don't want to do that. To be clear, I also agree with you. I hear what you're saying. However, and I hear what you're both saying about it being like cheap slash easy, but we have seen, well, I hear what you're saying.

I hear what you're saying. You guys hear what we're saying. My coming through here, we have seen quite a lot of the party sneaking through the halls of this dungeon already. I feel like you guys have earned your

sneak badges at this point. We've used invisibility, we use sneak, we use stealth checks, we've used persuasion. You hid underneath a dust pan. Okay, I'm down with that. Are you Tim and Nick? Are you guys down? I love holes. Cool. We can do invisibility, disguise again. Maybe we all look at goblins. Right close to the Red, when you had

Witted and I jump into that, you know, holes thing that you have, that worked pretty well to get us. Right, the portable hole. Yes, we could do that. Yeah, but then Red's going to try and sneak down. And who would be the word to carry? the portable hole if we're all inside in that case. Well, no, I would. I would put all you, well...

Wait, no. But you also have a scent that those hounds might detect. Wait, could Reggie potentially carry it? No. Oh, yes, of course. Ah, probably not. No. DeMille, you're a genius.

I mean... That's exactly right. Genius is so... No, it just makes the most sense, everyone. I could still turn Reggie invisible. He could carry all of us. There's no one more reliable. No, let's keep thinking.

He's mechanical. He would not be detected by the hounds. Agreed. Bad idea. Exactly. This is true. Too loud. Probably stinky. Robots are stinky. Oh, I think you're convincing us.

Yeah. Ah, the oil. Granted, a single blow would take him out, leaving us utterly stranded in an extra-messional plane, but at the same time, he is our stealthiest option for the very same qualities that make him so weak. When we're talking statistical value here, I think it's hard to. beat Reggie. I agree. Bad idea. We all agreed, no?

Who doesn't like a little bit of risk? Right, Red? And Dorn sort of shoves his elbow into your side. Who? All right, so not Reggie, obviously. No, no, I think that's... No, but Reggie, any... The biggest risk for him is the noise that he might make, but in a feasting hole full of

cutlery and loud voices, it seems... Robots. Very unlikely that he would be heard. Now, but not impossible, you know. Whim signs, but he already scouted and nobody saw him. Exactly. Wait, no, William, you're on. Yes, exactly. All right, I hear all the points

you're making, and even though they may make sense, I, I... Red. Something in my tummy says it's not going to work. You seem worried about getting it to the portable hole, but Tbil and I were fined there. Is there something that I... Red? Who? I don't think Red's ever worried. I don't know. Are you implying that I'm afraid of a closed, tight, dark space, which is like a tomb? I'm going to die!

What? No, that's fine. I could do it. Oh, I see. He's just to look around. He's finally getting it. Listen, I grew up in the big open plains of Mazdica. You know, the big, beautiful skies, and the ocean vast and blue were wonderful, you know. Underground, not so much. Tight little caves. No, no, no. Tiny little holes. Forget about it. Red. What? We are all being asked to do things that are dangerous and uncomfortable. And you have been so instrumental in this. This is the safest plan.

It really is. The hellhounds can't smell us when we're in that large, expansive, dark abyss. Well, look, if I'm being forced to do it, of course I wouldn't say no. Wim reaches over and just takes your little hand. Gives it a squeeze. Fine, but promise me this. And he looks right at Temeel. Promise me I won't die.

Promise me. I'll tell you what. I can promise this. You're not going to die alone, Red. Doran makes an excellent point. What? Red, as you and Wim have each other's hands, suddenly this little mechanical hand reaches out and touches the two of your hands.

You realize, like, Witted has extended his arms to hold Reggie up so that you can kind of, like, join your... He asked me to. He wants you to know, you're in the safest hands. Oh. And Reg just sort of looks over at Reggie and locks eyes with a little bee mechanical eyes and says, Reggie, you promise me I won't die. You zoom in on Reggie's eyes as you look into his eyes.

It's kind of a nightmare. This is all old, like, weird mismatch technology. It's very derpy and very much like, wait a minute, is that just a process eye, like a magical problem. And he looks kind of sadly. And he says, yep, that's him saying you won't die. And he quickly, like, he might be pulling Reggie away quickly. He said I'm going to be a god one day.

Wow, Reggie. You get me. All right, if Reggie says it's fine, then I'm fine, ish. Let's do this. Red throws the hole in the ground. Red, in your head, Tamil will message you specifically. Red, it would be ridiculous for me to lie to you, but I will tell you this. As much as I can, if your life is in danger, I will sacrifice mine to make sure that you survive.

Red looks at you with teary eyes. Thank you. And then out loud, right, let's get in this hole. All right. Wim jumps in first. Yeah. Oh, oh, sorry. And then after Wim, Timmy will jump in.

Doren sort of starts to take Red's hand in his. Come on, Redd all. I'll help you in. And then he starts, oh, yeah. Yeah, I got it. Just, you know what? Just count me down. Three, two, one, and I'm in.

Go, it. All right. You can tell Doran's, like, preparing to grab him and jump in. One. Start at three, though. Two. No, three, two, one. Don't start at one.

Go three, two. And then I'll jump in. Three, two, one. Three, two, one. That's too quick. Slow. Three, two, two, one. Give me a second.

Two hands reach out from the hole and grab each of you and pull you in. We did floats in, pops out like above the surface of a pond almost just to take one last look at Reggie. Work out to God to you, buddy. And gives him a little poke and he turns invisible. Last second level spell slot used up. and Reggie is now invisible just in case. We get like the camera angle where we see like a translucent Reggie, but like I just float down into the portable hole

and Reggie begins to start folding it up, which I have to imagine takes a lot longer than it normally. We're a tiny little cat-sized guy to try to do. You can do it, buddy. You know what I'm also realizing is there is a closed door there, so whatever, we'll figure it out. No, Reggie will. Ready to figure it out.

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Okay, see you're soon. He's doing the baby Groot. Like, I'm going to press the button that kills. There's only a 25% chance Reggie slats down. Shut down in 10, 9, 8. Reggie does get the blue screen one out of five times. Oh, God, look at the time. It's been half an hour.

It's standing here. Oh, God. All right, yeah. Go ahead, let's go. Let's go. No, I guess, I guess, in fairness, Tim's got his, uh, Witted's got his... I hope you're going to go, does one to have a scar with the eye? I did that.

Did it look cool? I already... Did you look mad about it? She's not even thinking that. She's like, shit.