Dice Shame - 2-39 | 'Sharing is Caring'

Episode Date: May 25, 2023

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Oh, there we are. Yeah, hey, welcome back. Pretty cool. Battle Minchin she got here. I don't know what I'm doing. It's just like everything in my life, Red. I don't know if you remember, like, a week ago when I was full of bugs. Shit, we got to get inside, Marry.

One more question is asked. She's going to start crying. Red and I were just discussing this hair ahead. No, Dory, no. What's up with her? I like museums. That's where I was coming from. Were you guys eating mushrooms last night?

Do you think they offer a guided tour? I hate this homebrew. Oh, good one. Oh. I got it. There's two levels there. Yes. Welcome back to Dyshame. This is Season 2, episode 39.

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helps make 50 popcorn kernels fresher. Anyway, on with the show! It's a beautiful winter night in the Grey Peak Mountains. Red, as you leave the room where your friends are preparing for sleep, summoning their spirit companions, and ruminating over magical items, you find yourself out on the battlements looking out at the wild darkness beyond the walls. A couple of soldiers nearby are keeping watch, and they nod amicably at you, inviting you to sit with them. Red Waves walks over.

Hey, friends! Uh, pretty cool. Uh, battle mince you got here. Red kind of gestures to the vast expanse outside. Yeah, one of them is sipping a mug of something hot that smells like soup to keep warm. And he nods at the walls. Yeah, well, they, uh, they do their job, I guess, for the most part anyway. Did you see when you were coming in the, the stone giant that got partway through?

Yeah, pretty cool. Red sort of like matching the soup sip, reaches into the bag and pulls out some of his rabbit jerky and, like, kneels down next and starts gnawing on that but it's awkward and loud so who are you i mean i get it don't worry we're kind of weird coming out of the of the stone and being a part of your little town for the night i understand the questions my name is red-handed robin and uh you might have seen we have a wizard named jack he's the one in the really silly looking hat I don't know if he was wearing a hat, but I always picture him in a hat that he wears, so I describe him as such. There's also a blue person, that's Māori.

She's pretty easy to spot. She's the one that's got the coat. And then there's Dorin. He's the dwarf, and he is actually a famous iron worker. I wouldn't be surprised if you've heard of him, although, and Red kind of looks around the mountain surrounding. I suppose you're kind of secluded up here. And you, like, I've never seen a person covered in fur before. I hope that's not rude.

Are you some kind of animal? Well, we're all some kind of animal, dummy. You've never seen a tabaxy before. That's awesome. Yeah, now I'm from a place called Mazdica. I'm a fox kind of humanoid, is the easiest way to explain it to you. But I sailed across the great expanse to come here.

I spent many days aboard a ship. You were on the ocean. Yeah, yeah, that's the big blue thing. That's probably east of here. It's, I've heard that it's water as far as you can see that you can walk for 10 days alongside it and never find the other side. Oh, buddy, it is exactly that. And it is awesome. It is like, wow, just there, intimidating, you know?

And if you ever get trapped out on there, if you ever sitting on top of that water and just looking down below, there's just nothing there, it's endless, it's spooky. Yeah, you should seem to see before you die. It's one of those top ten things I would see before I die. Probably number six. So you're an explorer then. Are there others like you in the world? What a great question. Yes, I suppose I am an explorer.

And there are others like me in the world. I would say the three I'm traveling with are like me too. Maybe not Jack, but definitely Doran and Mari. Who is this character with a hat and read these forward? He says, Jack likes to call himself an archaeologist, which I suppose is a type of exploration as well. but not the same kind as Maori and Dora and I. He's not here, so let's say bad things about him. He also can't play the flute for shit.

No, I'm just kidding. I would even say that we're adventurers. That might even be a more app name because when we get somewhere like this, we try to help out make a name for ourselves. And typically when we're headed somewhere, we're going for a purpose. And Red sort of looks towards the direction of the front

that the giants might have been coming from. And he sort of stares off for a second. He says, and the purpose, we're after. Quite a mighty one. Another soldier, she's never taken her eyes off of the darkness this whole time, despite obviously listening, and she's just, like, rolling these thin cigarettes and smoking them. Shouldn't do that. That'll kill you.

Is the entire countryside overrun by stone giants, or is it just us, she says? Well, the truth of the matter is that they are quite present right now. There's a lot of places that are in a lot of trouble. There's been a great upheaval in the ordering of the giants. Their caste system, you know, from the high up to the bottom, has been totally rearranged. A lot of the giants feel like a god abandoned them and that it's kind of a free-for-all to who climbs to the top. So they're really trying to move out towards some of the territories

that were previously inhabited by, well, primarily humans. So nowhere is safe. Well, I think what's nice about this is that it seems everyone that we've come across is under the same banner, you know, even though there might not be places that are safe, people are safe. People see these terrible things happening and they want to help. We've seen a lot of good on the road and in the towns we've been through, people who want to hand out blankets and food and try to make communities out other people that have been displaced. I think for the most part tragedies like this sometimes bring out the best in us

trying not to think about the Jalenthal Dwarves There's always an exception that proves the rule So if we can't defeat them Maybe Maybe in the springtime we should go But we wouldn't even know where Where would you go to be safe somewhere I'd think for a second

I understand the instinct. Believe me, I understand the instinct. I ran for a lot of my life. But the truth is, this isn't something you should run from. This is something that you need to stand up against, because they're not going to stop. And that's what me and my friends are doing. We're not going to stop either.

We're going to be taking these giants back to how it should be. We are destined to do this. Don't run. And anyone who feels that tells us, them why it's important to stay because in numbers we have strength it takes many of us to bring down one giant and if we start losing that strength it's going to be easy to lose everything that we care for over here you nod thoughtfully at your words and one of them pours you a mug of this broth it's like a comforting salty like maybe poultry smell and hands it to you

Thank you. Red takes a deep set. It's so salty. Oh, God, you drink that? It's like pure soul water. Jeez. So, have you traveled the whole world? Have you seen everything? Where do you like the best?

What's the coolest thing you've ever seen? In Mazdica, there are these things that I like to call llamas. But they don't look like llamas. They're covered in scales. They got sharp teeth and long snares. Bakey tongues. Back in the barracks, Mari, you just finished looking at this

locket of longing. Doran, underneath Mari on this lashed together set of bunk beds. Beneath, Marry, not underneath that. Right. Oh, how did this happen? But the funniest thing would be Doran's like, I'm so embarrassed, don't tell anybody.

What the hell's going on? How are they get here? And Jack, you finish your incantations and your ritual to retrieve Kieran, who jumps up and presses his paws against your chest and just bathes your face in doggy kisses. Yeah, hey, welcome back. I miss you. Yeah, it got pretty freaky there for a minute. But it turns out there's this whole other town just outside that,

crazy known place. It's been a weird day. Doran's going to, you know, Marie has no idea what we're going to be expecting here at this Deadstone cleft, this Thane. And so I feel like Doran lying there pulls out a cigarette. He's smoking away and he starts recounting their tales of the giant lair, Grunhawk, in the hills south between Belliard and Bissilmer, if I'm not mistaken. Is that right, Jack? that's right well we were sneaking around underneath the main hall of this giant layer you know above us and little to our knowledge the giant leader uh what was her name again jack chief uh chief gu chief gu that's right well let me tell you mary it smelled like pig piss and crap it was foul i mean even for my standards remember that remember that red red comes back in oh yeah remember that oh there you are It was wild. I mean, we even found some prisoners. I mean, most were dead, but, hey, we may even find prisoners or survivors at Deadstone cleft.

I mean, who knows what those giants are up to. So anyways, we began fighting, and I realized just how ill-prepared we were. We had no idea we were even infiltrating this giant lair. Little did we know we would take out one of these things of the ordnings. Listen, Mari, I mentioned this not to scare you, but, But, you know, I think we'll succeed. I mean, we're at least prepared this time around. And, you know, it's not a stroll through the hills, but at least we'll be a little prepared.

She swings her feet over the side of the bed, and she just goes, I just need to step outside for a second. I'll be back in in a minute. And she walks out without acknowledging anyone else. Oh, did I, did I say something? Wow. Oh, did anybody say anything while I was. gone, Mari seems upset. I don't know.

Maybe I scared her. I don't know, but maybe I'll take Kieran for a walk and see if I can catch up with her. Make sure everything's all right. Oh, sure. Oh, boy! Red, you down for some dragon chess? Already on it, buddy.

Red runs over to the fire to sit next to Doran and play dragon chess. Aw. When you leave the barracks Jack into this cold night, Mari, where are you? Are you just out on the wall? Yeah, she's made it not too far from the building, just sort of standing in the, the widest open space she can find, sort of closer, I guess, to that town square kind of space.

And she's just sort of looking up through at the sky, which is completely covered in all of these criss-crossing chains and all the random bits of detritus that are trapped up there. And for some reason, one pair of leather boots, which she doesn't even understand how they got up there, it's so high. But they're dangling from it. It's my frisbee. She doesn't even really notice that Jack has coming towards her. Kind of feels like a cage, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, it feels like spiderwebs. That's what I keep thinking of.

I keep imagining being a kid again and climbing through a tree and just coming across spiders in the tree. And I knew I was in their home. But, yeah, now I just feel like I'm trapped in here. now that you've said it like we just saw a giant mechanical lizard earlier today a giant mechanical spider is not out of the realm of possibility

climbing on these chains I don't like that at all the person who comes out to comfort and stumbles down on your fear oh shit Mari that could actually happen the thing you're just saying that could be real shit we got to get inside Mari I'm taking notes over here mechanical spider

got it got it Jack, have you ever felt weak in a situation? Oh, yeah, all the time. I don't know if you remember, like, a week ago when I was full of bugs. That was a pretty low moment for me, and the last couple of months have had some of the lowest moments of my life from the, like, walking on the edge of death. Re-examining everything I've gotten up to in the best.

But on the other hand, they've also been some of the most fulfilling and exciting moments in my life mixed in there. It's a real brew that pulls you along this road, that's for sure. But the idea that we've saved more lives than not over the last couple of months, that's not nothing. Yeah. And as you're standing around this town square, you see signs of life in the windows around you. You know, there are lights on the smell of people. making meals, the sound of far-off conversation. Yeah, I don't know what I'm doing.

I don't know what I'm doing. I have this power and she holds her hands up and there's, you could see that she's just cast this tiny, tiny amount of magic. Like there's a little glittering ball in her hand. And then she swipes it away. She's like, but I feel. so inadequate with it and I don't know what I'm doing and when I use it, I've caused pain before with it and I'm afraid that I'm going to do it again. And I'm just afraid. I'm just

afraid. I was afraid in the cave and I was afraid down there and in the gnome minds and I'm afraid here and I'm trapped underneath these spider webs made of metal and I don't know what I'm doing? Well, just like when you were talking about being in that tree and you were in those spiders homes, they weren't really a threat to you. You are so much bigger than them in a way that you are bigger than you may appear now. You've got a spirit to you, a power to you. You can overcome anything. But that doesn't mean being afraid isn't a legitimate emotion right now because goodness, we've got some odds stacked against us. but despite that would you do anything different i mean now or just ever i don't know i was thinking

to the last you know little little while since we've known each other but you know ever sure i'm open and she's it's it's like she's she's always kind of a little damp because she's just a lot of water but there's like this sort of moment where she's trying to hide the fact that like if one more question is asked, she's going to start crying. Mm-hmm. I just, I need, I need to tell you about my friends. Back in the barracks. Ha, you didn't say dragon when you touched my side, so you need to king my dragon and put

three dragons to my one dragon, and that means... I don't remember any of these in the rules. You know, one day we really need to learn how to play this, Doran. I'll agree with you there, Red. Hey, how are you doing, by the way? Since the information about your mom? Well, yeah, to be totally up front with you, the more I think about it, the more I want to get back home, you know? Yeah.

And I've just been working a lot of my own patience. My mother and I, we didn't have the greatest relationship. No? No. What was it like? Well, I had brothers, you know. You said. Yeah, well, did I tell you about them?

No, but you did say next time we had some downtime that I should ask. It's a bit of a long story, and I mean, I can tell in detail. if you want maybe another time well you say that you'll tell me late a lot don't tell me about you brothers yeah well we were very young i have to say this was about 80 years ago or so wow we were just kids you know really in our 20s i was me goran and lauren and we we went down and in fact we were looking for deadstone cliff that's that's you know we were all always talked about going to Deadstone cleft. Oh, that was where we were going to. And we went adventuring. And we would always go adventuring. And my mother would always say, don't go too far.

Doran, Lord, and Gorin, you're going to get yourself in trouble. Well, you know what mothers are? They're always right. So there we were. We went too far that day. And I was the older one. I should have known better. I should just stuck right beside them. Oh, it's okay, Dolan. Take a second. Well, you know, it's pretty sad, you know. Well, when we climb down into the caves, I said, that's deep enough. It's deep enough, boys. Who's afraid of some deep caves? We are dwarves, right?

Well, I'll tell you right now, even the most experienced dwarves, don't go too deep. They kept going, and I told them, I said, Goren, Lauren, stop moving. You're going too deep. mom's going to have your necks Red Get pretty choked up here Hey that's okay Doren Yeah

What happened though They disappeared They disappeared It's as unexplainable as that That's exactly what I told my mother My father And well they never really believe me But that's the truth

Red you gotta believe me Oh my God They just went too deep And I kept looking And I tried to fall And I got to a certain point I couldn't see I just couldn't see

In front of me I couldn't see my hand in front of me I had to stop going forward I can turn around Look back I could see I can see the light way up there The top of the cave

But I'll tell you I don't care Who believes me or not I couldn't see any further I couldn't see past my own nose There's no echoes Oh

Don't and I believe you Of course It's okay Well red eye did know it at the time but it was almost like magic. Doran, that must have been so brutal. That must have been... How did your family react?

I mean, how did... Is that why you left home? That's why I left home the first time. And then I thought I'd come home for a while, and that didn't go over too well. I basically stayed away from my family after that point. I haven't really talked to my mother at all. My father is a different type of person.

I mean, you know, we didn't really talk to begin with. Doran, I don't blame you for leaving home. That must have been terrible. The memories there. It wasn't just how they treated me. I mean, nobody believed me. Everybody thought that I left my brothers to die, you know. Everybody thought that they were the younger, but they were capable.

They just didn't listen. They went too far into the caves. Nobody would believe me. Of course, it didn't help. I couldn't find the cave where we went. Couldn't find how deep it was. I couldn't recreate the situation. Oh, I left home

So sorry to hear that, Doran That was the start of it You know, because after the wars I came home It sure didn't help that I had lost all of my My men in those terrible accidents Oh my God It's just like everything in my life, Rand

I'm surrounded by people that keep dying Oh, Doran, that's not No I look around at you guys And I think to myself It's just a matter of time Doren, no, Doren Red throws his arms around Doren

Doran, no. I'm just going to lead you out onto a bridge and it's going to collapse or we're going to take you out and a boat is it going to drown. No, Doran, no, don't. Climbing around on the mountains

and you're going to fall to her death or horrific, terrible bloody accident. Look, Doran, you told me about stunting Danlin's people and I never said this to you but I think you made the right call. You did? Your men died, but you killed

countless orcs that could have killed countless more men. And look, your brothers it's a tragedy what happened to them but you tried I know you tried I know you well enough to know that you would have tried you didn't do anything wrong and Doran I know you we're not perfect but you have a good heart you're not going to get us killed you know we are capable adventurers of our own volition to do this you you are one on a

team of people who are all choosing to do this you aren't making a call that sacrifices us And frankly, if you did, it would probably be the right call. I trust you. I believe in you. You need to believe in yourself. It means a lot to me, what you're saying. You know, of course, I don't blame myself for all the time. And sometimes I get, it gets a bit emotional, right?

Oh, never apologize for being emotional. No, no, I know. But listen, I'll say this. I'm about going home. Of course, I'm a little bit nervous about going home. In fact, I think the last times I went home, I had too much shame, but you're right. I mean, hell, for all my failures, I've had many accomplishments, too. Yeah, that's what Jack said.

Look at this. Wait till my father sees this, that he smacks his fist against Chaos Haber's breastplate. Exactly. That's what Jack was trying to tell you the other day, you know? You aren't Doran Ironfish. You are, you have more accolades than anyone in your family. And yes, to accomplish as much as you have. It's difficult to realize all the missteps along the way as well.

It is difficult to look and say, well, I failed here and I failed here and I failed here. But those might be a few things in a long line of hundreds of noble acts. It's just because you've done so much with your life that it feels like you've failed. Well, thanks, Red. I really appreciate it. His hand comes down your back a little bit stronger than you would have expected. Thank you. Thank you. I mean, trying not to press buttons anymore, but... Of course, no, no, but I mean, you know, beyond that. Enter Jack and Mari again.

Why have you two been crying? I love the idea of that crying Doran, locks eyes with crying Mari. They give each other a knowing look to know, be like, no, we're not going to, we're not going to talk about it right now. Like, both of us are too fragile at this moment to, like, really discuss each other's problems. Oh, Mari, Jack. How's it going? friend and I were just discussing this hair. I had my eye. Yeah.

And DeBari's like toweling, toweling outer hair. It's looking very, everyone looks super, super good and normal, refresh, moisturized in their lane, thriving.

Yeah, definitely not just having, uh, investigated an entire underground. Yeah. Um, are you okay, Jack?

Are you taking it all right? How are you, buddy? Pretty good. Good. You could use a night's rest. It's a lot to unpack from today. Yeah, I got to, I want to go to sleep.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind it, too, between you two and veranda. What's up with her? Veranda is like... She's a sleep here. She pouted in the corner. I was curious because if Jack was, like, also crying from, like, whatever they talked about, I was going to be like, everyone is upset but me. Veranda's over there pouty.

We got married, teary. Yeah, we got to... Kieran's like, I'm great. I'm a dog. I got a walk. You turn back to Dorn and he's sailed to sleep already. Oh, all right, well, let's turn out, turn down for what? And red climbs into bed.

The adjoining barracks rooms fill and empty throughout the night, as watch is kept and shifts change. You hear muffled, amicable conversation, smell the smoke from a pipe in another room, lit in the dark hours of the morning, a snatch of muttered prayers, and then the gray fingers of dawn begin to paint. the sky

you have long rested Oh yes Nothing like a long rest And I'll do it again And I'll do it again Morning Good morning

I slept like a kid Good morning I'm feeling very refreshed Oh me too Red was that you running in your sleep Yeah I do I do that sometimes. I imagine I'm chasing a boat.

What? A boat. I guess you do know walk on water, so that makes some sense. Well, it's a tree, Mari. It's not real. Yeah. Red like rolls his eyes and walks around. She rolls hers back and just goes and starts making some oatmeal.

It's only a true. Oatmeal for breakfast? Yum. Oatmeal, oatmeal, oatmeal? Red points to everybody. Yeah, absolutely. If that's what they're serving, yeah. Food is good.

She has some, like, dried fruit in her bag, some sort of various dried berries that she kind of puts on top to make it look less sad looking because it's oatmeal and side note, I, Alex, think oatmeal is gross. What? Yeah.

You think oatmeal's gross? Get... Why? Educated. Oatmeal is delicious. I've never had good oatmeal. I mean, I get, if you don't like it, but gross?

Well, maybe it's not gross, but maybe it just, It doesn't look appealing to me, and I don't enjoy eating it. Just close your eyes. I mean, it's totally fair not to enjoy eating it. It's gross to you. It doesn't look appealing and I don't enjoy eating it. Oh, you, but it's gross.

That's what I said. It's too far that I don't like oatmeal. There's a word to sum that experience up. No, because gross implies that like, I don't know, when I think gross, it's like, oh my God, that cow's brains are leaking out of its ears. That's gross versus, like, oatmeal, which is like. There's a sliding scale of gross. I can see oatmeal being gross. Let's not talk about oatmeal being gross because I have a limited number of foods that I can eat right now, and oatmeal is one-on-a-hury.

O'Neill is perfectly fine. Thank you. I'll clarify. I guess my reaction is more that it's coming from Alex, who I know has a pretty diverse palate and, like, you've cooked a whole pig's head and a kombucha girl. Yeah, we'll bash open a crab and eat what's inside. So I just, to me, I'm surprised that I was more, like, gross. Like, you think oatmeal's gross? of all the things that's your line that's a fair point that's where i was coming from but for comedic

effect well that's why well then i was right because i was like how are you grossed out by oatmeal i don't buy it i'm not actually grossed out there's not that many steps from it it's just hard oatmeal literally i bought tons of oatmeal and i made oatmeal cookies out of the prepackaged oatmeal and they're fantastic to use anyway this was a meta like what what the fuck wait hold the podcast we need to talk about oatmeal for two minutes hold the podcast yeah yeah yeah hold the podcast turning wheel i love oatmeal it's definitely not gross those are some good berries on there let's marie's got berries it's fine yeah that's disgusting uh red i think you still have those poisonous berries in your bag i do i sprinkle them into my my porous yeah she's she stees and she's just like

stop that you get the shits she literally just grabs them with their hand you don't know they're poison berries you didn't see me eat them you will soon don't worry they feel so good in my stuff yeah she probably does know the name of them and exactly what kind of poison they're my ways to go to the bathroom in the morning it's like a laxative it's like ah oh there we go nature calls be right back marie makes a makes a mental note to next time she makes porridge for or oatmeal or anything for red to cast good berry and to put those berries on it so excuse me no that would that gives you it if it uh it would negate any uh H.P. that you lose for eating the poison berries.

Oh, nice. Yeah. So. I don't think I lose H.P. No, no, but it's just, it's just the mental, they're, they're healing berries. So she's like, and then you have to, like, sieve out the berries that red poops out and, like, use them, like, sieve it coffee beans. That's such a choice. I don't know that you have to. Yeah, you do. I'm the DM. You must.

I hate this homebrew. Oh, good one. I got it. There's two levels there. Layered. There's a bustle of energy in Slatefell this morning. Even as you are still in your barracks, you can hear people coming and going about their daily business.

So what should we do today, friends? I think what might be a good idea would be if we maybe asked around. I mean, you saw the stone giant that was halfway through the wall. I wonder if these people have any firsthand experience or advice. twice they could give us about tackling a stone giant. That sounds like a great idea. Yeah, I'd love to know a little more about this place. No, not history, though.

I don't want to do that. No museum tours, no canoe museums. None of the stuff you always make us do, Jack. I like museums. You and Mari can do that. Maybe there's an art museum. I'd love to go see some frescoes. Pith of the oldest tree.

Oh, you guys are like sort of burying the hatchet a little bit after last night. Yeah. Emotional sharing. Yeah. Oh, that'll last. Go do the weird, boring nerd stuff. Yeah, like, you know, find out about how this place is withstood at 100 years of giant attacks or something. What's the oldest rock in town? Let's find it.

I mean, if they had an annotated map, I'm all for that. Darn, let's go get drunk. Do you think they offer a guided tour? Well, everyone who lives here has lived here their whole lives. So I don't think... They're experts. I don't think that there are going to be many, like, historical markers because it's just like everyone knows all that stuff. All right, you guys do history stuff.

Dorn and I will go to the pub, because that's the cultural center of every town anyway. Well, yeah, we're going to check out of the pub for a couple of daytime brews and then find some sharp things. Yeah, and while we drink, we'll be social and we'll learn things from the bartender people. Yeah, sharp things and kabumi things. Maybe we can get kabumi things, yeah. Exactly, and shoot some arrows and have some fun and make some bets. You don't have cousins that make kabubi things. Kaboobie things? Kaboom-y, yeah, you know, like a kaboom.

Right, blowy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, blowy yuppies. Yeah, we're going to get blow yuppies. Okay. Yeah, you never know. You never know. Best of luck. Yeah, I don't know how it got there, but I'm supportive, so.

Well, what I'm saying is we'll find some sharp things, and we'll find some strong guys. Why, we'll look for sharp things and strong guys? Come on, that's tough stuff. You know, sharp things. Yeah, we'll be tough. Oh, like tough. Yeah, that's right. Dawn and I will do that tough stuff.

We'll go find some broken glass and a barbell. Are you guys eating mushrooms last night? steak and we'll we'll lift weights and we'll get all sweaty together. I don't know what's happening right now. Yeah, we'll go do the tough stuff. You do, you two do the learning stuff. Sure.

Yeah, I'll go learn myself some knowledge. Veranda, what are you going to do? I'm going to sit here and soak. Oh yeah, Veranda, you're still here? Veranda is actually still here this morning, although she's very reserved. She's partaken in breakfast without contributing

to the conversation whatsoever. flycatchers curled up at her feet and she just looks around kind of morosely at the four of you and we'll take veranda with us as well I want to talk to her okay sure you've really opened her up so I

I feel like maybe Dora's gonna roll a bit of roll early morning perception on veranda where's she looking around what's her what's her vibe oh you get a bonus because it's early morning early morning perception oh shit yeah if you do

before 8 a.m. It's the dawn of inspiration, and then you. Is that a perception or what? You said you wanted to roll perception for some reason. What do you, tell, instead of telling me what you want to roll, tell me what you want to achieve. Observe Veranda to see if she's looking at any particular person or a particular area for why she might be so sad, why she's here. So, is she dashing her eyes? insight into her mental state.

Using perception. That's the good way. I remember once Alex was like, can I roll intelligence but use my strength stat or something? I have big smart arms. 14. With a 14, you notice bags under her eyes. She didn't sleep very well. Yeah.

She seems pretty tired. All right, let's go. Come on, Veranda. Come on, Doren. Yeah, we'll go find sharp things and have a few drinks. Hopefully in that order. Surprise you didn't follow me there, Red. And Doran leaves and Veranda leaves,

and Red stops at the door and turns back and he just says, For the record, I don't understand what he's saying, but he needs this. We had a heart to hot last night, and he's missing his mom. Let's go to the bar!

And Red leaves. Well, let's go poke around and see who knows what. Yeah, maybe someone's got something. Let's start with the bakery. I could use it bread, and they're always trustworthy. my favorite place to start. If you're going to the bakery,

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