Dice Shame - 2-69 | 'Hug It Out'

Episode Date: December 21, 2023

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Having an out-of-body experience, eh, red? Fair enough. That feels really weird. Oh, I dropped that big pencil. Will you pick it up for me? Say, you're looking, uh, mighty fine wearing that tunic. Hold up, darn, we're stopping. Can't go to my mother, so you gotta go buy a hat.

Quit being adorin about it. You look a lot different than how you looked before. Oh, sorry. I really missed my sisters. Mary, have a sip of this wine. I'm gonna have to see my mom. How many fingers do you have? Where's the bingo card?

Can't say I know how you feel. I've never been another, another body other than my own, but... Well, I saw you in a crab body. just a little while ago. I mean... Well, yeah, actually, you make a great point. Welcome back to Dice Shane. This is Season 2, Episode 69.

Hug it out. This week's MVP is Diffity. Dippity is nominated by jury, and they say, I think Dippity has just recently. I recently started listening to Dice Shame, but they're a delight to see on the server, and I'm excited to see their thoughts as they catch up on more episodes. Same, jury, same. Congrats Dippity, and thanks for nominating jury.

All right, shall we play some D&D? Yeah, let's do it. Woo! Oh, wait a minute. It's almost the holidays. Aw! Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and a joyous season to everyone who listens to Dice Shame. We hope you have a wonderful holiday and an amazing new year.

Yeah, happy holidays. right, let's do this. What, so I don't know, have I told you guys about going to buy Saskatoon berries in Saskatchewan before? No, no. Well, now, Rob. You never stop talking about this. Saskatoon berries.

I love that you think I would remember that first off. Well, you, you would remember it. If I told you before, I would. Then no, you haven't. Okay. The last time I had to buy, or I bought Saskatoon berries, it was in Moose John. Hold on. Hold on.

Before you continue the story, I'm sorry, I don't need to cut it off. But they're called, when I Google, they're called Saskatoon Service Berries. No, they're not. Well, that's what it says. The Saskatoon Barry. Not to me. Not in my heart. It's just what, you know, we could be a service berry, Pacific Service Barry or Western Service

Barrier? Like service barrier? Are these for like going to war? War berries? You want to go to war? You take some service buries? They're only for blue collar workers. Tell us about your service berry story. The last time I had to do it, I was in Moose Jaw. You had to? Had to. Gun to my head. How else you're going to have Saskatoonberry pie or Saskatoon Barry Tariff? Rob, get the berries. So my grandma says, listen, you drive to this gas station, you go around back, you knock on the door, you say Yvonne sent you. You hand this lady some money. She comes back with a bucket and you take the bucket and run. That's the like procedure for getting Saskatoonberries in Moose Jaw. You take the bucket and

you run. What happens if you walk? I don't know if run was in there. That may be a bit of an exaggeration. Do they take them back? I don't know. They're precious. These are illegal. You can't have these. Are you just telling us a story about how you used to like transit cocaine and and what's this? Historically, the fruit has been prohibited in the 1920s. Did you say prohibited? Due to its psychotropic tenet? What?

What are you reading? You're all over the place. I'm just kidding. Go on, go on, go on. All right, so you'd run with the pale. Okay, that was just to set the stage for last weekend. Right. We were out in a corn maze.

And right next to the corn maze is a Saskatoonberry farm. And we think, fuck it, we're going to go buy some Saskatoon berries. Not unless you know Yvonne. It's true. Yeah. Well, listen, we give this. guy a call and he's like yeah yeah with it we don't really have hours just show up and wave at us where we're right next door so we show up real local that's cool yeah nice we wave at the guy and he drives up

on a lawnmower and he's wearing a Saskatchewan rough rider's hat and he says no no come follow me and he takes us down into his garage and he we're now in his and he opens up a freezer and it's now like how many do you want and it's just bags of like scrawled but it was just the most the most perfectly Saskatchewan way to sell Saskatoon berries in the middle of nowhere, Ontario.

But just the idea of you're going to the and of course he drew up on a riding lawnmower with the hat and takes you to his garage. That's hilarious. I didn't realize

Saskatoon was named after the berry. That's interesting. And not the other way around. Yeah. The berry came first. Turns out. The city of Saskatoon

is named after the berry. I like that. Yeah. I like Saskatoon Berries too. There was a bush grandparents' backyard. So, anyways, I've got kilograms of them in my freezer now. We bought like between myself and my sister. Yo, Rob. Kilos. Give me some of those Saskatoonberries. Yeah. Can I buy some off you? Like just, just like, uh, 500 grams or something. Yeah, did you find this guy

online? Or you just saw them? No, no, he was just right next door to the, um, we went to the corn maze and walked through it and did whatever. And so he was just right next door there. It was kind of like homegrown ops. Always kind of make me feel a little bit weird. Like, we have, a place just up north of us that has existed since forever in my mind. And it's always been interesting because they've, this was before, obviously, marijuana was legalized. But year round, they have a sign on the side of the road. It's on Taunton and it says trees for sale. But trees are an air quote, like scare quotes. Like it's quotes. And I'm always like, hold on. Is this Reddit come to life? What's happening over here? Well, is it just like a really

obvious way of being like marijuana? It doesn't look like a nursery. Have you been? No. It's for Christmas trees. I know the one you're talking about. Yeah, but why are they in quotes? People are dumb. People just don't understand quotes. Yeah, English punctuation's hard. I mean, that's probably the reason.

People use quotes all the time for a stupid shit. I have to say, though, I'm the kind of person. I bought goose eggs off of somebody's deck. And you went up to buy them, and they came out and punched you in the head. They're like, you got a goose egg. You want a Hertz donut? Yeah. That's a punch bug.

Y'all. No, they, I was walking up the street one day, and there was a sign that was like eggs and I looked at it was like eggs duck chicken goose and I was like sick so I went home I got some money I jammed it in their mailbox I opened a box on their front porch and I took a bunch of eggs but you don't know which was which believe me you know by size it's like a pick your own right you want Alex is on the front porch going duck duck goose but I made a goose egg and it's the size of an entire plate so I put the entire thing on one tortilla and then I had the worst heartburn afterwards.

Oh, yeah. Hold on, what do you mean you made a goosey? She laid one. So are we going to get to try the Saskatoon berries, is the... Likely. We can probably make that happen. I mean, if you've got kilograms of them. Kelo's.

I would be interested in having a Saskatoon berry without having to go to Saskatoon, please. A.k.k.a. the service berry, which I relate to good berry, which is a spell in D&D. That is a ranger's spell. Saskatoon is a good berry. I'm not going to lie. That's from a Saskatoonite. Is that the right parlance? How do you... Saskatchewite.

Saskatchewanian. I don't know what they call someone from Saskatoon. Saskatoonie. Saskatoonie. We call them Rob. They're all Rob. You don't get out of Saskatoon without being called Rob. It's hard.

They're Saskatonian. Really? Yeah. That makes sense. It's like Torontoian Saskatian. Yes. Cool. Should we play some D&D?

Yeah, let's have some good berries. Let's have some Saskatoon berries. Bring it. It just occurred to me that the French word for corn is maize. So, like, in French, you're like, a maize, maize? Or you're probably a maize a l'avreuth. It's the corn maze. What is the maize maze maze?

I think everybody says that when they go to a corn maze. Yeah, I'd never have heard that. And you say, that's so funny. We, we, I definitely made that joke. All right. Now we're ready. A beautiful transition. Now we're ready.

You know, we should play some D&D. I'm feeling it. Yeah, let's bring the energy way down and get sad and mad at each other. You know what else seems to go, you know, this conversation about the Saskinian Perry's just goes on and on. The what? The conversation about the Saskatoon Berries just seems like it's going on and on. You know what else goes on and on?

What? Our conversations in D&D. I don't put that on all of us. I think that's, just you. You're right, just you. Yeah, for sure. In charge of that. And cut.

And scene. With a somewhat fraught post-combat debrief, our heroes seemed at odds with each other. With Jack and Mari on one side, taking care of one another's wounds, and Red and Doran cleaning up after the massacre. The reincarnation of Elister Noggins provided another topic for inter-party conflict,

and while Red took a walk to cool his head and scout the area, Mari stitched soul back to corporeal form, though not his original body. Ellister returned to the material plane in the form of a gray dwarf, a Duragar, a creature of the underdark. Mari and Jack, what are you doing? I don't know what went wrong.

What do you mean what went wrong? Look behind us. There is not a gnome. There is not a gnome behind us. There's another guy. I mean, it's still him, but he's in a different body because I did a bad job in there. I don't know. Maybe that's just the way it works.

I don't think so. That feels really weird, but... You just had pieces to work with. Oh, no. No, I mean, I'm no expert. But as soon as you start to play in the higher levels of magic and connecting to other worlds and reaching for souls and recreating bodies and stuff, there's only so much you can do to open a doorway before the things beyond want to step through it. And it's dangerous.

And I mean, maybe the danger is there's lots of things beyond that want to step through here. But there's also some choice about it. I don't know your family's traditions in and out and the, but I can't imagine the magic wood. Like, it's not necromancy. It's not pulling someone from beyond. and forcing them alive. No. If Elister is having some dissonance with his body and the choice of being alive versus dead, who knows?

The dissonance isn't his choice. It was my hubris deciding to do this. I don't know. Everything after that fight was just a big mess in my head. And so I thought I could make something right and bring him back because it just, it was awful watching him just literally break into. pieces, and then... Not even given death saving throws. Yeah, he just blew up.

And it was certainly a thing to see, but it was hubris on my part because part of that magic is knowing the person. If you know them, you can bring them back, and I don't know him. I just kept grabbing at pieces, and I brought back a body that wasn't correct.

I don't really know what to tell him because that's a weird discussion I have. Yeah. I don't know. All the magic seems wrong right now. All of it seems like a big mess. Maybe it's being underground. Maybe. I don't like it under here.

I don't know how you live under here. I've spent my entire life in the sun and now I've spent so much time in tunnels and underground and under chains even, even out in the open. And it just feels claustrophobic. How do you do this? Oh, I don't love it either. It's not, you know, for a lot of my life, I've gotten up to see every sunrise, which is real challenging to do in a tunnel or in a sewer or in a hospital bed.

But the last couple of months have seen a lot of those sunrises. Yeah. But there's another one tomorrow. And yeah, you kind of make the best of what you got. And Jack looks down at his hands. and I see a little bit hubris written on a lot of us. It's a calendar word for today. Yeah.

Doran turns to Red and he says, You know, now that I think about it, I say all that, but, you know, poor little guys probably feeling pretty, you know, out of sorts. Having an out-of-body experience, eh, Red? Yeah, we've been wrapped up in our own stuff so much. We haven't even really thought about him in the last 20 minutes or so. It must be really scared.

I might go back and talk to. Sure. Stephen and I will keep leading the way to, to, uh, hometown. Yeah, it's up there somewhere. Don't, don't rush. Okay. Dorn sort of drops back out of marching order and let's Marry and Jack pass by. Oh yeah, I don't have no idea what I'm talking about.

That's supposed to be me or them. That's them. Dweebbs. I'll maybe take the moment to try and catch up with Red. Dorn like stops. and pretends to tie up is like his, uh... Oh, classic.

Adventureing boots. You're like fussy with your grieves. Oh, I dropped that big pencil. Will you pick it up for me? Oh, and then he's kind of looking at the side of his eye until he sees Jack and Mary pass and he's looking at the side of his eye until, uh,

Elister is right beside him. He stands up looking like he's completed what he was doing down on his one knee. Oh, Elister, right? I, you know, I didn't see you there. Say, you're looking a mighty fine wearing that tunic. Yeah. Is it fitting you all right?

It's fine. Doren, thank you again for lending it to me. Yeah, no problem. So, uh, you look a lot different than how you looked before. I mean, you're a whole different person, aren't you?

Or are you the same in there? Are you the same person in there? Or were you always like this, but you were hiding yourself before? Just taking strides to match yours, he turns to face you in the dark, this unfamiliar, dark, dwarven face with a shaved head and a white beard, someone whose face you've only seen now twice, even though you've been adventuring with Alistair for five days. and he just almost pierces you with this glare.

Nope. And he says, I told you back there that I needed a little bit of time to get used to what happened. And as far as I can tell, this is me now. Listen, I know. And I'm sorry, I'm not trying to rush you, really. You know, I was talking with rat up there, and I thought to myself, well shit probably feeling a little out of sorts and maybe you could just use

someone to talk to you I don't know what to do with this body Doran we're talking about look at you and he slaps you on the back you look great you look better than before it's strange my hands aren't I don't know how I'm gonna be able hold my tools at home and then I'm I think about my workshop that I that I don't know that I'll ever go back to. Yeah. You know, I've, I've read about Drogar before, and they don't, their skin isn't, they can't go outside Doren in the sunshine.

I used to love going for walks in the afternoon. Uh, forget all that. I've seen, I've heard of Duregar on the surface before. It's, it's not that strange. It's a little uncommon, but then again, aren't we all used to seeing uncommon things, time to time. I mean, you could always get a big hat. Maybe, maybe you'll have to

take me to a shop in Scarborough. I mean, I don't even have any fucking boots. He kind of trudges along beside you for a minute. A hat shop? I can find a hat shop. There's a great Milner over there. Let's go there instead of home. What do you think here? Can't go to my mother's. We've got to go buy a hat.

I need to stop and drop my shoe again. You know where this is a great hat. shop, water deep. Let's go there. Jack's like, no. What if we didn't? Yeah. Thorne scratches his beard and kind of rubs his chin thinking and sort of contemplating

these difficult thoughts and feelings. Listen, I can't say I know how you feel. I've never been another body other than my own, but... Well, I saw you in a crab body just a little while ago. I mean, well, yeah, actually. make a great point. But I always knew that was temporary.

You know, I don't know how temporary this is for you. Well, I hope it is temporary, but... And he grabs Alistair's hand. And he looks at it. And he looks at it. And he kind of feels it. And he says, you may not be able to

control little tools the same way you used to, but I'll tell you, these are a lot stronger. And he kind of like pounds the fist and moves the fingers around. says, I mean, think of what you could do. I mean, I can, I could show you how to, I could show you how to be a blacksmith if you're, if you're that concerned.

And at the same time, I know lots of dwarves that are toy makers. And, I mean, don't, don't get down on yourself, Alistair. But tell me, no, never mind. What? Look. What is it? No. Do you think I'm cute?

Now we're walking, holding hands. Listen. I was gonna ask you if, well, it seems stupid now, you clearly have always been a gnome, and you liked being a gnome, and I guess it was just that magic spell that seemed to change you into a dwarf like me, but don't get down to yourself, you're still you. Yeah, thanks, Dorn. I appreciate you talking to me. I'm gonna need some time, but that does make me feel better, thank you. Think of it like this too Here's another good point Once we get to my hometown I mean

You know what I think you're going to get a lot more A welcome reception than you would as a As a gnome Not that we don't dislike gnomes But heck You're one of our kind You know

You're a dwarf now Jack catches up to red And offers you a water skin Thirsty Yeah I suppose He takes it very gently Takes a drink from it

Oh it's water Yeah sorry I'm just so used to drinking from Dorans Oh I think one of these has wine Don't worry about it I hand it back and I reach for my own wine skin And then I hand it to you Do you want some wine? Oh I went underground do as the dwarves do I guess

And yeah Jack tips it back We're uh you know what It's been that kind of day How much further do you think to Scarborough? I don't know. I don't know. Doran is miles away. His mind seems to be everywhere else but here,

and I don't blame him. Here kind of sucks right now. Yeah. We got into it. You know how it is. Back there. When you yelled at me. Yeah.

Sorry. Hey, that's okay. I don't blame you. I didn't, I didn't mean to, I don't mean, we, Marie, can we, Red's, red's looking hurt. Why don't you bring your staff of healing over here? Let's see if we can, I'm not ready to talk to her. Don't bring her over here. Hi, Mary.

Mari just kind of like, she, like, stops and looks up and she's, again, there's this, this embarrassment. She, like, locks eyes with Red. And he, like, turns away, like, nervously. Is she coming over? Yeah, I mean. I don't think she's coming over. And so, like, she looks at, she looks at Jack and she's, like, shrugs.

She's like, like, do I? Like, kind of like a do I? Like, yeah, look, I mean, he's, he's frostbitten and bloody just like the rest of us. He's been hiking this way for a whole time. I bet she can help. No, it's fine. Fine. Don't worry about it. No, come on.

Sit in one place, have another swig of wine. Quit being adorin about it and let her patch you up. Adoran? Mari sort of quietly walks over. Hold up, Dorn. We're stopping. And, uh, stand. stands next to Red. And again, there's this sort of creeping embarrassment that's kind of

swept over her because the adrenaline's worn off, the, the anger and the other feelings that she was having previously have now started to sort of taper out of, like, taper off. And she's, uh, now she just feels uncomfortable. And so she comes over. And she just, uh, she sees red and she sees that it's kind of, kind of dinged up. And she takes the staff and she ever so gently just touches him with it on the shoulder just

she does that she rolls her eyes like a doctor going to get a shot or something Redd holds at his arm like oh yeah it's nothing it doesn't need to be done really Jack's being worried it's fine it's all right

and she does that I didn't want I figured maybe you were out of charges or something you know You healed Jack in yourself. I figured you maybe weren't still upset at me. And Doran and Alistair in the back are trailing up slowly. I imagine Doran like lit a cigarette and they're like sharing a cigarette.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that mental image if they're just standing there. The two dwarves are like, well, no, we're still walking but slowly. We're cool now. And there's no talking between us. But I'm letting him regain his thought and Doran lights up a cigarette. Yeah, and shares it with him. Yeah, he takes it from you.

And then, you know, looking up ahead, I see this, this interaction. And then I turned to Ellister and I say, and look, look, they're making up. Isn't that nice? Look, he's getting healed. He was all concerned earlier about them leaving him out and him feeling like an outcast. Quiet, Doran. They can hear you. You're like five feet away from us.

Oh, sorry, sorry. He kind of laughs a little through his smile. Red. Don't take it personally. It was not... I didn't not heal you as a choice. Or because I didn't want to. I just was overwhelmed in the moment.

Just a lot going on and I'm still a little overwhelmed. So don't take it personally. Is that your way of saying sorry? Would you like me to say sorry? Yes, Jack did it and he never used to do it I'm sorry I don't worry about it You're overwhelmed

I hear you There's a lot going on in your life You don't have to be alone We're trying to do it all together We're all in the same boat Nothing's gonna happen to you You know There's words they're ringing a little hollow

In her head up in that last fight She's just like Well what is that though You got so mad at me for running away Why are we angry me for running away It's what I do I need distance to fire You came at me real hot now

like way too hot. I had just had somebody try to club me to death. Yeah, so have I. I got breathed on and I killed two of those creatures. You're not alone here. I know I'm not alone, but you, this is a thing that you do. You have experience doing these things. Your adventurers, you were an assassin.

You have all of this stuff. I am not. Look, you did it with Jack too when he retreats in a fight and when I pull back. Do you have abandonment issues? Are you worried that we're going to leave you? I just think that you work as a team. You don't just take off and hide alone behind a tree

and just start firing from a distance. You work as a team. You speak of working as a team. You speak of being brothers. And yet this style, this way of working, it just feels, it doesn't, I don't know, I don't understand it. I don't understand how else we'd work as a team. I mean, that's what we did.

We all took them down. We worked as a team during them in the carnival fights. Some of us were in the rafters. Some of us were putting their lives on the line, seducing women, but, like, points hard to his chest. I mean, I could have been slaughtered out in that street with one fell swoop, and there was half an hour I was alone. Where do you get off saying that I ran away from you?

Sometimes, yeah, we move back to gain the advantage. You know, I give Jack a hard time, but, yeah, he makes him. a smart call tactically during most battles and gets to a vantage point that is advantageous to all of us. I know. I just, I... Look, you and I pulled back during that stone giant fight with a big mud pool. We were 200 feet from everyone else.

I know, I know. It's, it's, there is just, there is this moment in the fight where I looked out and I, I was just by myself and the, there is just so much happening. and all I could think for the split second, which is, it's so silly, but I really missed my sisters. I really did. And whenever we'd be out, if we would be, you know, any sort of magic stuff, we would cast together. And it's weird to have been this long without them and to no longer have that sort of connection anymore. It's disorienting sometimes.

And there's this sort of feeling that there's just, there's something that I used to have, and I don't have it anymore. And hopefully someday when I go back home, I will. Look, fair enough. If you feel like you are alone, I recognize that. That's a fair feeling. I've never had that. I never had this.

This is my first version of this. So I recognize why having something maybe even more than this would feel like this is less than that. Does that make sense? Look, I understand. And if you have to take it out on us sometimes, or if you feel like you are abandoned at times, I recognize why that impulse comes across. But hear this, we are not going to abandon you. If we make the tactical decision to pull back and fire in a distance, or if Jack decides to poof out of existence and get to a different position so we can fireball everybody or even door and thunderwaves and moves to another position, I promise you, it is never at the cost. of forgetting that you are part of this.

And personally speaking, three sisters next to each other tactically is a terrible idea. We really should diversify on the battlefield. Okay. Mari, have a sip of this wine because we're in Dwarven territory. I think we can all acknowledge.

We have not been our best selves today. Maybe not yesterday either. But we're on the steps, Escoboran's home he hasn't been to in an awful long time. How long, Doren? Well, it's just counting his fingers. 30-odd years, I'm pretty sure.

How many fingers do you have? Every time we ask, Doren, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger. Oh, God. I've actually never been to Scarborough before. The hell is this. Let's go meet Doren's parents, find out what an authentic Dwarven bed in an inn is like. Probably bland. And try the stew.

because I don't have a lot more energy for the level we've been bringing today there's too much life and death going on and yeah now listen I could hear some of that conversation walking up with Elster ease dropping that's right how dare you that's right

Jack now listen here yeah where's the bingo card yeah I got it I almost said Rob I want you to know something Mary and you red and you Jack too then you Alster all right but to a Lester effect Okay.

Only because, you know, I think you still want to go home. We're all alone at one point or another in our lives. But right here and right now, I look at each one of you and I see someone that I can trust. And he doesn't necessarily point at Alistair because he's really talking to the other three. But, you know, he doesn't want to disinclude Alistair. Listen, you're all people that I trust. And I hope that you trust me. Because we are a team.

And whether you believe it or not, we do rely on each other. So I'm going to rely on you three to keep my head above water when we reach Scarborough, which I don't think is very far from here based on the color of these walls. So if we have our head on a swivel, what are we looking out for when we get to Scarborough? What are you most worried about? Like any other challenge, what's our game plan here? Crime? well drugs

I don't know I don't know I don't know how much has changed I don't know who's still here I mean 30 years that's fair I mean dwarf years it could be it could be the same crowd

that when I left you mean like dwarf years like he's got dog years like every seven dwarf year is one of ours but dwarves live a lot longer than if you like that would mean

they change a lot more because they get bored you know what I mean like every year a new facelift I mean I don't you know

to be fair that's my own assumption I don't mean to to suggest that dwarven culture is static like stone. That might just be something I've picked up

somewhere along the way. Hey, I don't know shit about shit. Not just giants. If we're talking about this now, I might as well get it out. You know, I don't really want to run into Kenjad or Grondag

because, you know, they're, listen, they were other officers in our unit and, uh, You know, they were instrumental and really driving me out of Scarborough, and they love to, there too, that I don't really, if I run into, I might need some saving. And then, of course, there's my mother, because I definitely need to see my mother.

What's your mom's name? Morin. Her name is. What's her name? Dorina. Yes. And she talks like this. Dorina.

I like it. Is it actually? We should go with it. We should go with it. Dorina. It's spelled Doran with an A. They are not created. But Doreen is a name.

Yeah. Exactly. Doreen of Scarborough. It's just two ears instead of an eye. Doreen. No, that sounds too. Doreen iron fist. It's so beautiful.

She's got a beautiful steel apron. Okay, let's do it. Let's do it. Plus, I can already hear the after-credit song. Doreen, Doreen, Doreen. Doreen. Your son is coming on here back to town. Please don't take my son.

All right. There's also my mother, Doreen. Oh. And. Right. I'm going to have to see my mom. I don't really need you guys to help me with the conversation, but I might need to rely on you

to allow me to vent about my mother at some point because Doreen is her own she's her own woman I'll tell you Hey whatever you need Doren you know that we're going to be here for you we want this to be

as good as it can be you know let's just get in there and you know what if push comes to shove you know what we can open that jack of worms when we get there do you have inspiration out? I do.

Right before Doran does his little thing and Mari's sort of watching and she locks eyes with red again and she just takes the like the longest hammer off that wine skin. She just slams it back. Whoa. She needs it. Just give her this and she hands it

back and then she gives him a hug. Oh, which is not something she's done for. And also when she does that there's this light warmth and she casts one more healing spell. Oh. Thanks, Marie.

It heals your heart. Aw, it heals your friendship. Oh. And also 13 HP. And as you're hugging red, you feel him squeeze back and hug back. Aw. You're right that tactically for druids together is a terrible idea, but we never really had to fight much. But it would look damn cool.

It would. It looks great. Guys, stop talking during our group hug. Oh, sorry. I left out here. Alistair, you want in here? Is it just you too? Yeah, come on, Alistair.

We've all healed, and by extension, you should feel better, too. Aw, we do a big group hug. Yeah. Stop talking during our group hug. It's just such a lot of it. I love it. It's so good. Thank you once again to our wonderful Patreon supporters

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