Dice Shame - 2-38 | 'Muscle Memory'

Episode Date: May 18, 2023

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Well, that ain't me, but I'll try it. That's why I suggested it. Can't resist a handle. Well, it's granite. If you hear an attack happening, have a swig of this. The genius of dwarves. I want pressure to build. The impregnated mouth boys.

Oh my God. Once a year, eh? So much going on in his head. It's been established now. It is canon. You know, we've all had our share of loss. Sure. I could work with that.

If the attack happens in the night, you'll hear it. I'm sure we will. If you hear a attack happening? That'll be the time. That's it. That's the cue. You'll know. MVP this week.

MVP this week is jury from the Discord who has been binging Dyshame and has just caught up. Can't wait for you to hear this jury. enjoying dice shame despite being around for a while we're always looking for new ways to grow if you haven't already please consider leaving us a positive review on your favorite podcast review site or hell just share us with your friends it would mean a lot all right without further ado let's do this you are all a bunch of fucking nerds what that's a lion you know it No matter what your self-perception is if you've been doing a D&D podcast for long enough.

This is non-negotiable at this point. That's a moniker that you just have to claim and adapt as you're in. Here's your title. So I wanted to know for each of you, what is one absolutely non-nerdy, cool guy thing that you can do and do well? and what is one cool guy non-nerdy thing that you wish you could do? Whoa, cool guy, non-nerdy thing.

It's kind of subjective, but fair enough. Of course, if you say like wield a sword, it's like on that line where it's like, I'm like, I think that's nerdy, though, but it's like it's nerdy because you're not like a knight. Okay, but what if it was like, what if, just for argument's sake, it was like a real sword, like not larping, but you actually were like, oh, I took fencing and like, to me that would be cool. or something or that's what I mean. That's because you guys are nerds and you think that's cool. Excuse me.

Really? I think that the cool non-nerdy thing that I can do fairly well is dancing. I think I'm like a medium good dancer that like if I was going to go out and dance, I would not make a fool of myself and I feel pretty confident doing it. So do you have like a style of dance? Do you like take dance lessons? Or do you just like feel the groove in your heart? White girl dance.

Mostly that, mostly feeling the groove. I did. Groove is in the hide. When Mr. Brightside comes on, let me tell you. I did a lot of ballet for a lot of years. And I got up onto point shoes when I was in a little, but. For real. That's what I was saying.

When you give me the example, I'm like, you're going to say that wielding a sword is like fencing, but dancing isn't nerdy? Like, you can make the argument either way. Like both can be nerdy. It's all like what kind of, because if you're holding like a... Like, clog dancing is not nerdy. Like, what do you mean? Like, ballet is not nerdy. Clog dancing is polka is immediately nerdy.

You can be nerdy about anything. That's what I mean. Like there's, it's how deep into it you get. Square dancing? Yeah, yeah. If you're, if you're wearing a cowboy hat and wearing the plaid and doing the square dancing, that's pretty, yeah, but it'd be cool as hell. Is that nerdy though?

Or is that, yeah, that's like, that's a hickshed. Are you nerdy? I think there's an element of nerdy that is over-analyzing at something. Because you could be just fucking grooving along on the, you know, boot scoot and boogie and line dancing to death. But if you know. But if you know Cotton Eye Joe. The origin of line dancing.

And if you were like way into it and you, you know, you know that tuberculosis is the reason we have cowboy hats or something. Like then you're getting way too deep into it. Do you know that, Rob knew that. And he shoehorned the conversation that way. so he could drop it. That is nerdy. Listen, I'm trying to get it out before you get around to me

because you specifically use country example. Because I'm really going to reach. I just want to say that I think the nerdiest dance and this is going to be like a hot button topic I think is Irish dancing. I can't wait. Because I've never known a non-nerd to do Irish dance.

It's also a dance that involves you keeping your arms at your side like the entire time like Tina Belcher style. It's like a Nerudal run as a dance. It's, you know what I'm with you on that. This is what I mean. Like, most organized dancing is kind of nerdy. Like, I think ballet tips to artie, which is nice. Like, it becomes more artie.

But on the spectrum, I think there's a lot of, like, guys. And I think the thing that I would really like to be good at that I think is strictly non-nerdy is like build really well-made, um, fucking like construction. What are you going to make a I would like to make a well I would love to make a really cool like table and chairs That would be so cool to be good at doing To like know how to use power tools

Yeah yeah To like be able to fell a tree Like take it from finding a tree To like making lumber seasoning and blah blah Going to the stages of a tree Shut up You're a little nerdy about this lumber right now

But at the end of it, it would be so non-nerdy to go into the wilderness and pick out a perfectly selected tree. And then you've got to age it for the trees to make sure it's not going to warp on you. You know, really nerd out in it. I think it would be cool to be able to cut down a tree and turn it into something I could eat dinner on. Totally. 100%. A non-nerty thing I always feel pretty cool after having to do is change a tire. Any time, it's like, okay, yeah, in emergency situation, flat tire, got to bust out this stuff, you know. How many times have you had to do that?

The nerdy thing is he keeps busting the tire, driving over, like, a nail. Well, let's go off trail. The birds here are so much nicer. Rachel, watch this. I mean, maybe three times in the last 10 years. Okay. But every time feels good. You shitty tires.

I did for a while, yeah. It's true. They're all spares. You drive on the spare until it pops again, and then you just get a new one from the back of it. You got to, you know, buy three for a debt, or, you know, three, for a dollar or whatever it is. That's a lot. But I'm kind of with you on that,

on that technical, everything about Maker YouTube lights my brain on fire in a really interesting way, but I don't have the space or stuff or whatever. Like anytime somebody's busting out resin in a lathe and making a cool project or, you're making it nerdy now. I don't know, but that's the,

you're making it nerdy. Somehow they don't. They just do it cool. And I am envious of that. Yeah. I think my, my non-nerdy thing that I'm good at is I'm also a bassist. Hey, yeah. And I played bass in like a bunch of like punk bands and like I was in a blondie cover band

and a bunch of shit like that. Like I did live karaoke band where we only did like women artists and it was just like, but mostly just like a lot of punk stuff, punk and rock stuff. So I think that's sort of like the coolest non-nerdy thing. Basists are like weirdos, but like we're fun weirdos. And I think the thing, if I had to, like, do a thing, if I had to learn it, I would love to learn how to, like, fix a car, like, jumping off of, like, Rob's and be able to change a tire. If I could, like, go and do it, like, like, you know, pop open the hood and be like, yep, there's your problem and, like, do that, like, fix, just, like, fix stuff like that. I, I'm good with my hands, but I've never, like, fixed a car.

Nice. Generally speaking, not nerdy things would be like what we're talking about. Like cars, construction, are you athletic at all? Music, athlete, athletes, uh, uh, uh, sports. Um, good, letics. Ath, f, f, f, sports. Um, picking up chicks. No, you know what?

Like, I guess, you know, is like, I was going to say, I was going to say, I'm good at sex. Sex. Can I say that? Pretty cool. I'm cool at sex. I don't really play a lot of sports, but I can. And so friends will call me and they'll say, hey, we're doing a pickup hockey game. And like that, like actually that's a cool guy thing.

Come on. So I'll be like. Absolutely. Yeah, okay. No one's ever called me to play any sport ever. And so I'll go and I'm not bad, you know. I mean, I played, here's a funny side story. I played a full season of beer, beer league hockey, like, you know, 30 games.

Wow. And I hadn't really played hockey growing up. And it wasn't very good. So I got rid of all my equipment, including my stick. I was playing with our uncle, Jamie, I was playing a little bit of pond hockey. And he only had the opposite handed stick to use. And so I'm like, he's like, use this. I'm like, well, I play with my other hand.

He's like, just try it. And I did, and I was actually very good at controlling the clock. It's just like, I didn't know. And weird enough, I was sober, too, which was a real weird. I played an entire season, playing the wrong side of the stick. And then, and then the other side. Now you have to go back. I did.

I played another season, but the funny part is I had all those really nice equipment that I sold. And then when I went back to play, I borrowed all this like old falling apart, sweaty smelling equipment. and I like couldn't I couldn't play the whole season so you know I guess I guess sports but nice what I wish I could do that was that was really cool especially growing up was I wish I could skateboard a lot better like I can I can skateboard down the street but I never had the guts to like like do anything crazy you know I could do it ballie school skateboarding is cool

And I was hung out with those guys. And, like, I was, you know, the great conversations. But I was never, like, in that crowd because I didn't skateboard it. I'm pretty sure this one's not cool. Building a computer. It's pretty nerdy. Yeah. It's very nerdy.

Not cool guy stuff. That's kind of what I was thinking. It's not going to impress Shania Twain. It's not going to impress Shania Twain, which is my bar. That's right. I don't impress a me much. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

So you build computers. What are you? Okay. And then the other one I wrote down was like, I can be very charismatic. This kind of goes with musical and stuff like too. You know, when people are over, I'll play piano and sing and kind of get a little bit of that kind of energy going, which I think is pretty cool. But it's also tough to look at that stuff critically. You know what I mean?

To be like, sometimes you sit down on the piano and you sing and you feel like, oh, everyone wants this. This is cool. And then sometimes you're like, oh, no, nobody wants this. This is the worst thing you could do right now. I don't think that it's something that you would very comfortably say about yourself, but I think that having a high charisma stat, being someone that makes friends easily and puts other people at ease is absolutely a cool guy thing that you do. But I don't, well, thank you.

I don't see that, but I'll take your word for it. Yeah, you're gregarious and you make people feel very comfortable. Gragious. Maybe that's a good way to put. You host a trivia night. like you're you're like a chill easygoing kind of guy and you make friends easily and that's not nerdy at all no i think that's a good point yeah like i host trivia and everyone is always like you know hey cool this is fun thank you harland oh great job yeah very public speaking is a whole i always get the same thing they're like oh being good with other people being good in front of a crowd not typical

if only you and i could get on to a project together god you'd be unstoppable wait a minute hold on wait harland hold on there's one more thing what's the thing that you wish that you were good at. Oh, I'm so cool, I don't need another thing. Shut the fuck. Shall we play some D&D? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. That's cool. All right, so Captain Bebe puts on his coat, leads you back into the center of town. This open space lined with empty garden boxes. And in the middle of the square, there's a raised plinth that displays a pole or handle of some weapon or tool.

And he turns to you and he says, as I mentioned, we don't get visitors to Slatefell, so I suppose this is a rare opportunity. Perhaps you'd like to try your hand at an old tradition we have here. When you reach 20 years of age, you're allowed to try your hand at this piece of nomish devilry, and once every year thereafter, if you're still keen to try. From what I know, nobody's ever figured out the trick to it. I'm sure it must be some kind of trick because I've tried it myself a fair number of times

and, well, I'm not a boastful man, but I can manage, physically speaking. How fun! I think I'm over 20, and Red skips up and throws his hand on it. The gist of it is that the handle is attached to some mechanism deep in the stone. If you pull the handle out of the stone, you're said to be as resilient as the stone of the mountain.

Well, that ain't me, but I'll try it. And Red grabs the handle and sees a crowd forming around and then kind of gets a little nervous. This outsider, what comes into town? Yeah, and Red straddles the stone and then just kind of starts pulling.

Yeah, you pull the handle up and you feel it slides smoothly through the stone for about five inches before it comes to a firm stop, still embedded in the stone. Then work for me. Red skips back over to the others. You try, Jack. That was fun.

Sure. Jack approaches the plinth carefully with an eye for detail, trying to figure out what weird gnomish mechanism is going on here, and pulls the key that he has from Zozhenbopf out of his pocket to strike that tuning fork kind of noise and put it against the handle before he pulls on it, just to see if anything happens. Jack. Can't resist a handle.

You tap the tuning fork end of the key on this handle, and you hear the vibration, a clear note rings. You wrap your hands around the handle and pull up, and it slides to the stone for about five inches before it stops. Is there anything from that mechanism or seeing the place where it moves or anything that I could investigate and learn a little bit about how it works or any? You can't see any of it. The mechanism is, like, buried in stone. He used his tuning fork. So this thing just keeps coming out five inches of the time. Like, it still doesn't come out?

Yeah, and it stops. And then it slides back down. Ah, okay, okay, okay. I'm, like, picturing it consistently coming up five inches and something. But at some point, it's going to come out. She's, like, never ending. It's kind of funny. It's, like, very long.

And it doesn't push in, right? Like, we're... Yeah, you did it! No. He doesn't. doesn't push it Dorin Dorin

Dorin Dorin He turns to red He's like quiet Dorin Dorin walks up And he kind of He kind of says as he's walking up

He says He turns to Bebe And he says Once a year, eh That's right Huh He gets down on one knee And he starts doing

I want to do a stone cunning On the On the rock that it's in Okay Speak with the stone What does it tell you boy I'm cold Well, it's granite

It's certainly Here we go, hold on It's an honest granite History is what, intelligence? Yeah A dirty 20 Yeah, this is an impressive chunk of granite

Okay It's definitely In line with the age Of the stonework That you saw in Zosan baffle Okay As far as the engineering behind this particular trick

you remain puzzled. But it is one solid piece of rock? It seems like that. You can't really tell. If it's jointed in some way, it's done in a very discreet manner. Like the secret door we exited from. Precisely.

Pull it darned. Not tonight, Red. No. And he joins the rest of you. Bo. Can Mari try? Yeah. Do it, Mari.

She walks over. and she looks at it. I assume that it's going to be the same thing. And she looks at that everyone else saw, nothing to notice. Red, like, closes his eyes and crosses his fingers really, really hard. And he's just, like, muttered to himself,

come on, I don't ask for much. Let Mary do this. Let Mary do this. There's, like, there must be, like, a little, like, like the, there's a tiny bit of a gap, obviously, between the stone and the thing it's in, like, obviously, because it's not. Yes.

So when she wraps her hands around it, I want to cast, uh, create water. Hmm. So it flows down her hands down through the cracks. I want pressure to build because it will push. Oh, okay. So she cast that. So I don't know how much you can see,

how anyone else can see of it. But when she casts that, the water starts to pour out of her hands and go down the shaft of this pole into there. And she starts to try to lift and kind of jimmy it up as the water keeps flowing. Mari, you pull the handle up these same five inches as everyone else, and water flows down your hands, down your arms,

and runs down into the hole where this handle is buried. And then you feel a small shudder, the water running down into the hole. You feel something deep inside being displaced, and the handle slides free. Wow. Mary! You hold in your hand

a plain metal rod with a complicated notch drilled into the lower end and you gain the resilient feet. Oh, hell yeah, Marie! Red runs over and throws his arms around you and, like, hugged you. Oh, you're so wet.

I did it, though. That's cool. That's, wow. That's amazing. Oh, my God, look, everyone. An outsider did, oh, wait, let's play down the outsider. Well, I mean, she's, she's like bright blue. But it's like, we came into your town and fucking ruined this puzzle from you for years.

From like thousands of years old. She's excited. She's like, oh, wow, I didn't, I didn't think that would work, but it did. Wow. I was hoping for you. Good job, Maori. I'm so proud of you. Yeah.

Well, thank you, Red. The Deadstone Four. Oh, no. People applaud. Some folks are like kind of bummed out. That's the people I'm trying to get over. It's okay. She's got nothing else in her life.

So do you take it with you? Do you put it back? Mari holds it. Can she feel any sort of magic in it or is it just like just cold metal? It's just metal. You can swap it out for your walking stick. Yeah, I like my stick. She can't use metal weapons actually.

Yeah, I can't use metal. And he's like, I never thought I would see anything like that in my life. congratulations well thank you do you want to keep this put it back in maybe it'll just reset tell you what give that to me and if this works please if our plan works i'll give it to the most deserving among us every year as a symbol the same thing of resilience but in honor of what you are offering to do for us here all right i like that i think that that's that's appropriate and hopefully. He grabs it out of your hands.

Our secret treasure. It's both mean and very sexy. How dare you? Firm, but gentle. Yes, that's right. That's how he does everything. Great job, Mary. You did so good.

That was crazy. I think I needed that. Aw. It's good to end the day on a win. Yeah. You see that veranda? She doesn't want to talk to any of you. Like, how is she looking?

She is looking like she does. doesn't want to be here. She's looking stressed. All right, baby. Show us our barracks for the night. I think we're about ready to crash. Yeah, he leads you to the barracks. And he's like, if the attack happens in the night, you'll hear it. And then he leads you off to the barracks. Smash. I'm sure we will. Do you hear an attack happening? That'll be the time. That's it. That's a cue. You'll know. I just wanted to give you the heads up. But not our Tuesday night attack. How do you think he became such a good captain?

Like, would there be bells or they'll be with a warning horn to get the town on high alert? You'll just know. You'll just hear people being murdered. This town just has gut feelings all to connect. If we get attacked in the middle of the night, you'll know. You'll hear the sounds of attack. And that's how you'll know. It's not kind of a hymn, isn't he?

Hell yeah, he is. Red slinks back to veranda and sees her kind of moping and he's like, I'm sorry I brushed you off before, but this town seems fine. I don't know what the big deal is. Bebei seems welcoming. They seem well protected from the giant. The enemy of my enemy is my friend of me or something? She just shakes her at you.

Well, what? Okay, fine. Tell me what it is. I told you. We should have left. What do you mean we should have left? You want to leave now? It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter. Why doesn't it matter? I can't tell you that. What do you mean you can't tell me that? Red sort of stops walking and looks around. What's wrong? I can't tell you that, Red. Can I roll insight on her?

Yeah. I wonder if she had a dream about this place. Yeah. Ooh, 18 plus four. I mean she definitely can't tell you some stuff She's not being deceitful Because she's being straight up with you About not being able to tell you stuff

Listen, we can't talk right now Okay, just leave me alone Well, she finds storms away Deadstone 4 don't need you anyway I think the name is sticking guys Don't want feeling that name I'm not sure Red I'm not feeling it

It sounds too cool TBD Like you're trying to make it too cool It doesn't have to be cool It could just be those four I just I don't want to use the nice zone four Because it doesn't include Maori

And we haven't really accomplished anything I just mean we could we could go as those four adventures It doesn't have to be Maybe we don't need to keep four in the number Our numbers could go and swell and change over time The sewer boys That was your first adventure together I'll take Deadstone over sewer boys

Yes The more we could forget the sewer The impregnated mouth boys the M-Preg boys That's right Oh I know The lovely bath time after M-Preg boys I wish that included all of us

Don't you Well that's exactly what I'm saying Nightstone 4 didn't include And we just stumbled into that All right alright fine No Deadstone 4 I'll let it go But what's another option Red says as we're walking towards the barracks

We should have some sort of moniker or name Something that makes people Excited for us And frankly we can leave behind that other name because if I recall correctly, the Jalenthal Dwarves sort of ran it through the mud anyway. They did, yeah, they wrecked it all kinds of ways.

So we want to read, what's something that we, you know, have been... Don't mind a bunch of dwarves ruining. You know? I mean, let's workshop it out of character and come up and come back with it in a minute. That's fair.

Okay, I'll add it in here. Yeah. Let's just react to a positive one. Oh, I like that. Okay, let's go with that. I could work with that. I thought, yeah, that's why I suggested it. I thought so too.

Great idea, Doran. You always pull it out of the... Doran, you came out of nowhere. Just whole cloth. You didn't mispronance it. I'm going to get started embroidering this on our coats. Yeah, the genius of dwarves, as they say. The barracks is perhaps slightly more drafty than you would like,

but otherwise quite comfortable. The room you're led to has four empty bunk beds with comfortable blankets, It's several empty chests for personal items, a fireplace, a wash basin, tables and chairs, a worn rug, etc. The window looks out at the outer wall, and you can see torches on the outer wall being lit to combat the oncoming darkness. As you enter this barracks, veranda basically like slumps over to one of these bunk beds and claims the bottom bunk and just like curls up facing the wall. Oh, Doren's got a lot of move those in a minute, Vranda, sorry. Every time there's beds, he... I hate to worry.

Dorn, like, walks over, and he kind of, like, leans on the edge of the bed where veranda is, and it looks like he's about to, like, lean down, see something really nice and calming, and he, like, just pushes the bed, and it goes across the room into the other bed, and then the other two nights, creating one massive bunk. Two, because they're bunk beds, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. One massive, yeah, of four. There's a top one and a bottom.

Upper lower. The one's going for the top bunk. Yeah. With a bunch of weird ladders in the middle just intersecting the bottom bed. Or maybe I'll go on the bottom bunk. Oh, boy. Still not used to this. And then he does say to Veranda,

listen, veranda, don't let it get to you. I, you know, we've all had our share of loss. You're poor donkey. I'm sorry. You know, but at least you still got your little. Cat and... Yeah, fly catcher jumps up and is nestled in her, like at her feet, just kind of curled up. And the look, the way I tend to look at things, you've got to think about it like this.

At least you've got a bed to sleep in tonight and you're not sleeping on the ground out in the woods. So, you know, put a smile on your face here. Have a sweet of this. And he passes his veranda, his wine skin. She keeps her eyes closed as you're talking to her and she doesn't reach for your wine skin. and she just says, I'm very tired, please, Doran, let me sleep. Oh, all right. Well, I'm sorry.

And Doran turns and climbs up on the top bunk and moves to the other end. Dorn, how will I sleep next to you up there? You can sleep below me or you can come sleep right beside me. Doren lies down on his back and takes a source. swig of his wine skin and kicks his boots off and they fall onto the floor, slapping mud everywhere. I do love that he climbed into his bed with his horrible boots and then kicked them off. That's peak Doran right there.

And that's when... I know that guy. I went to camp with that guy. You don't sleep in your boots. No. But you get there with your boots. There could be danger on the way into the bed, but once he's there... Because it's that feeling of getting rid of your shoes.

Did you take the armor off? No. Not yet. No. Doron sleeps in his arm. What if someone stabs him in his sleep? My thinking was more of the booze first and then the armor and stuff later.

The first is the lying down. Part of me imagines that Doran sleeps in his armor because of that one night, that red woke Kraloth up by standing over him with a knife. And Doran like opened his eyes and went right back to sleep that night. And ever since then, he's just worried that Red's going to wake up over top of him.

Like, it's a subconscious reason. Anyway, so that's what Doran's do. Jack pulls out a couple of supplies and sits cross-legged in front of the fireplace and starts to build a little fire and feeds it sage and charcoal and all the things necessary to begin the ritual to summon Kieran and sort of mutters to himself as he performs this quiet magic

to get his best friend back. What do I mean best friend? Where are your best friends? He says that out loud to himself, I'm doing this to get my best friend back. It's been established now. It is canon that Jack does not have an internal monologue. He just says it all over that.

He's an external processor. I mean, there's so much going on in his head. He needs to really put it out in paper. in front of him, Dick. Jack's a great guy, but he's the worst co-worker. He's just in your open-plan office. Yeah, he needs an office by himself in a corner in a basement with no windows and don't take his stapler. Red walks around in a circle and sort of eyes veranda and sort of rose his eyes like, oh, what am I supposed to do? And then he goes to stroll outside. I'm going to get some air and he leaves. Marie crawls up into the top bunk.

She lays there for a minute and sort of stares up at the ceiling and then reaches. into her pack and she pulls out that little locket of want that red had given her before because she hadn't really looked at it yet she just kind of took it and then just put it away and she pops it open and looks inside of it. Mari, this lovely jade piece inscribed with Dwarven Roons shows you your truest deepest desire once per day. So as you gaze into this locket, What do you see? As she looks into it, there's this sort of green light that settles sort of on the edge of her vision, but it's not the kind of light that feels unnatural.

It's the light that you get when you're walking through a forest and the sunlight comes through all of the leaves. And she can see herself and she's back home and she is walking towards her family's place and everything is lush, it is warm. The waters are blue around the house and her sisters are all there. everything feels good she can see her parents inside she can she can smell it she almost everything feels real like if she just concentrated hard enough she could reach out and touch everything there that she would just be home again and when she turns around she's faced with her two closest friends and she has not seen them since before she left and they're there and they're healthy and they're fine and they're alive.

And she sees them and it's so clear and they're smiling and she runs towards them and they embrace. It's almost like they're there again, but she knows somewhere deep in her heart that this will never happen because they're not alive anymore. And as that realization sets in this horrible dread, this feeling of guilt, starts to work its way up her spine, and it seeps its way into her whole body. And she snaps the locket shut.

And she's back in the cool blue light of this room in the slight draft, in the dusk. And she slips it back into her bag and lays back in the bed and stares up at the ceiling again. Inspiration. Nice. Very nice. You got a feat and inspiration in this episode.

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All right, right. Long time ago, I can still remember when that sword was still stuck in the stone. And I think that if they didn't come, then maybe the giants might have won, but we stopped having all the fun the day the adventures came. That's great. I can't think he just came up with that. My Mr. Beautiful guy went to slate where my mates fell and the boulders did fly.

And the NPC guards were drinking meat and red wine singing these will be our D&D. Linesstone Yay! Inspration for Alex, too. Good job. That was awesome. You don't have to give me inspiration for that. Such an original tune, too. Yeah, it's incredible.

Yeah, I just thought melody came to me. You know. You should have been a bard. Baby is just moving, right? He's a very pretty guy. And the songs are... Totally, totally normal that you wrote all that while Mari was doing her really emotional.

Yeah, you're going to have to listen back to this episode here. I got more important things to do I got to make lyrics I'm gonna make fucking lyrics to American Pie about a thing that happened 20 minutes ago in the episode So do your

Do your guards want to help us? All right, so We're gonna rush the base now He's like, Leroy Jenkins What the hell rhymes with Levy? It's so true That's good Great job

Good job everyone Good game bathroom breaks everyone's in the bathroom rob we could just do a jack and red episode from here on out sure yeah no gm either we're just you and you and me we'll just talk for a while i feel like we got a lot to say just you and me yeah conversation so jack um torren how how's he you know i don't know i've been traveling a lot so we haven't had a chance to you know connect right yeah how's be doing well i thought maybe road or something uh well we saw her like a day ago. Yeah, time is weird.

Two days ago, three years ago. Well, you know, she's in the, where was she going? Thunderdome. Baldersgate. Amphail, that's it. It could have been Thunderdome. The town south of Waterdeep. Yeah, I mean, I'm excited for her, you know.

She's got her own little thing and, and, I mean, both of our, you know, loves of our life are doing exciting things and, you know. I mean, your dad's working with Torin, that's got to be weird. for you? It is? Yeah, I mean, it, probably we, I should have stopped in and say hi or something, but I don't know that I, we'll maybe save that for our next trip to Waterdeep. He's, he's kind of

a weird guy. It's not, you know, you know how dads are. Yeah, you don't talk to him very much. I remember he sent us some money like a month ago. Yeah. Well, for my birthday, yeah. For your birthday, I guess it was. Yeah, he's, he's like that. He definitely he thought that solved a lot of problems, I'm sure.

Not so much for, for me, but, you know, I know the type. Mm-hmm. Do you? Yeah, well, I mean, obviously he solved Torrance problems, you know, getting in there with a bit of money, which must have helped those thuggeries to get out of there. It does take a load off the mine, that's for sure.

Yep.