Dice Shame - 2-73 | 'Son of the Morning'

Episode Date: January 18, 2024

Imagine your best game of D&D. The shocks, the twists and turns, the moments that can’t be caught because you just had to be there. That’s Dice Shame.Join our DM Jo, her husband Harlan, their brother Alex & their best friends Rob and Alex as they experience those unmissable, gut-wrenching, heart-aching, joy-filled moments.This legendary AP releases a brand new episode every Thursday morning at 1:20 am!Content Warning: animal death, swearing, violence, claustrophobiaPart of the Rusty Quill Network Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Likes bed by yourself. That was my worst fear as a child. Unsalted bacon. Feeling all right? You seem grogier than usual. Still dark out. Why are you guys up? Fine. Good. Holy crap. Do the room just get hotter? Bacon is the unifier.

I also agree. Ellisler, Elster, of course. Oh, too hot. Oh, yuck. A bug. Don't worry. All done now. Let's take a step back here. Just because people die doesn't mean that we should change who we are or what we do. Oh, Maurice.

As someone who's just recently died. Welcome back to Dice Shame. This is Season 2, Episode 73, Son of the Morning. MVP this week is Queen from our Discord, who just started Dice Shame the other night and is live vlogging their reactions as they chew through our backlog. Thanks so much for checking us out, Queen.

You're this week's MVP. All right. Shall we do this? Yeah, let's do it. Yeah. Woo! What's invisible that you wish people could see? Germs.

You know what's funny? You say farts. The wind was where I was going, too. But farts was exactly what came to mind when I read the question. I was like, man, could you imagine seeing farts? Like, first off, convention floors would be disgusting. Clubs, convention floors, horrible. Oh, no.

But how funny would it fucking be? Just to, like, be in an office. And you're just walking by, hey, Janice, good morning. And then you see this, like, cloud of blue? You'd be like, Edward. Well, but I think that's, there's so much of that. Oh, you. With the, like, people carrying CO monitors now to, like, be like,

oh, there's no ventilation in this room, period. you can see how much of everybody's breath is left over and you know you can go to a good ventilated space and be like wow what color would a fart be green no like a dark toxic green dark toxic green that's too on the nose I want to say I want to say it's like that infrared color like it changes give me the hex code no no it's got to be like a brown cloud like a shit cloud

no shit cloud oh but actually but actually I have seen farts in really cold weather. Okay, I wish invisible friends were visible. Right? You see like little kids walking to school and shit? That's dangerous though. You know creepy little clowns walking beside them and stuff. Oh, God.

Did you just say you want to see your invisible friends? Yeah. Because we all have invisible friends, Harlan. Like, what if you're in. No, not my. I said kids. What if your invisible friend ran out in front of a car? Do you guys have invisible friends?

No. When you're a kid. I'm learning about you? Have you never? You had, did you not have invisible friends when you're a kid? Oh, when you're a kid. Yeah, but they're not real. Do you guys have invisible friends?

What's invisible, but you wish people could see it. No, they're imaginary, not invisible. Yeah, but whatever. Who cares? It's a question. I just made it up, Alex. It's not a real thing. You could imagine a terrible monster that would frighten somebody.

That's seeing something that's seeing your imagination. It's not seeing something that's in. Yeah, we're getting stuck in the weeds. Let's just plow through. I say invisible friends. I like to be very rules. You know? Do you, though?

Yeah, I can tell by the way you fucking play D&D. Yeah. Damage dice twice? You said germs, Alex? That would be fucked up. But it would be kind of weird. It would also be kind of not weird. I mean, I'd be like, you'd have to get used to it pretty fast, seeing germs.

Yeah. Yeah. I think it would drive a lot of people. Germs would suck. I would not like that. But then cleaning would be really easy. I just pull up the lights. I'll be like, oh, this is clean or this is dirty and clean it.

Everything is dirty. You know, under black lights sometimes. your skin all looks fucked up. You'd never kiss anyone else ever again. But you get used to. Not if it was common though. Like if some people would get used to it. Some people really would not.

Yeah, but you know what? There's a version of this dimension where hair doesn't exist. And some people are asking, could you imagine if you could see the hair on everyone's body? Oh, it would be so unattractive. You know what I mean? Like you just get used to it. If it was the norm, it wouldn't matter. No one would smile with their teeth showing.

That's true. Because it'd just be like, wow. Look at all those germs. in there. My brain got stuck trying to remember what my mom told me the name of my imaginary friend was when I was a kid, because I apparently did have one and did name it, but I can't remember the name of it. It was like, like, Giga or something.

I don't know what it was. Harlins was Mimar. But my first thought was wind, but I would love to just see more of the electromagnetic spectrum. I'd love to know what ultraviolet. Yeah, that'd be cool as shit. Rays and X-rays and radar and infrared light looks like. You know, yeah. I think that'd be sweet.

What would be awesome to see would be music. Yeah. Whoa. Wouldn't that be fucking cool? That would be fucking cool. Yeah. I like that shit. What does ska look like?

Terrible. It looks exactly how people dance. Checkerboard. You can use like UV photography to see all kinds of like hidden stuff. And if you use certain types of UV photography on things like plants, it's really cool. And you see all kinds of like weird hidden patterns and stuff. And I want to see that. I want to see how weird and magical all this, like, living stuff looks when you can actually

see all of the weird, like, fluorescence that our eyes can't see. Yeah, it is cool. Would you also be able to see, like, is someone's aura? Is that like something you can see? Sure. If you believe in that, it's invisible. It's as real as your invisible friend. You know, like, if you know somebody's, like, really horny, like, they're, like, pink all around.

A horny aura? Oh man, that fucking person's in heat right now. Or if they're like in a really bad mood and it's like black and red. I love the idea of the horny aura. Or if they're in like a really great mood, they're all covered in yellow all around them. Wait, why are you great mood yellow? Good morning. I just got late and I'm not horny anymore.

That guy's a piss cloud. Yeah, I was quick this morning and now I'm yellow. Maybe instead of saying farts, I would say, um, odors, just in general. Oh, that would be so sad. Now the convention floor is fun. But what does fresh bread look like, right? I was going to say, what's the bakery look like?

What does your cologne look like? Fresh bread's like, you ever seen like a sparkly beige? It's like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaking of bakers. Wait. We should be going to play a baby. Most trustworthy.

Let's get baked. Oh, yeah, that too. you know what I would love to see and I've thought about this a lot kind of just as a passing thought I would love to be able to see where other people's sight lines go whoa that's a deep one like a laser pointer yeah yeah so like there'd be a laser pointer the amount of lasers around your breasts are going to be just overwhelmingly yeah just jose especially in this house be so frustrating to be like in a lecture hall and have everyone looking like you just be a big red dot on your chest no no I mean like everyone looking at a PowerPoint presentation together not my boobs again could you imagine though you're on stage and you walk out and you're really blinded by all these little like red dots suddenly in your eyes you're like hey guys I was like people would have to wear like glasses that would impede their visions so that like so you're reverse cyclical

Okay, okay. Can I get everybody put on their glasses, please? Let's stop the red dots already. Okay, okay. I don't need to see where everybody's watching today. Going to like a Taylor Swift concert. She just blinded it. You know, if that was just universal, it would really change like the whole society's relationship with eye contact and where you're looking. Like if that was just a fact of the world. Everything would change. A lot of these things, everything would change. Think about if you could see farts or odors. Everything would change. Would they, though? Or would it just be coming home? I mean, if you could see first, everything would change. Everybody would have, like, a fart catchers in their underpants, you know? But seriously, you'd have, you'd have like a... Are they just not farted in public? Like a filter in your building every underpants.

You can buy those. 1999, buy your very own fart catcher. The N95 underpants. Tired of those people looking at your smelly rays coming out of your briefs. Buy the new. patented fart catcher. Tired at all the lasers on your breasts. Buy this, the anti-breast laser looker.

It's just a mirrored shirt to blind people. How's your morning going, oh, it's okay. I had a, I had Indian last night, so today I'm wearing the, you know, I'm wearing the sharder. Wearing my fart catcher. That's great. All right, guys. Speaking of enjoying our own imagination. Flagellants.

Let's play some D&D. Let's do it. All right. Let's do it. As As life in the under dark is not well marked by the turning of the planet

and the rising and setting of the sun. The smell of frying meat coming from the kitchens of the Brighthelm Manor is what awakens you, Red, from a restful night's sleep. You've all gained the benefits of a long rest within the safe haven. Hey. Oh. Excellent.

You're so rusted. What a... Oh, hello. Hello. Red sits up bolt right and snaps his neck towards Jack and Ellister, who seemingly for the moment haven't been woken by the sizzling meat down the hall, which for a moment, Red sort of squints, unlike Jack, but also similarly to how he was the previous morning

where he also was groggy. Normally Jack's the first one up, and Red takes the opportunity to peel the pieces of paper off of his face. Last night, on the floor, he was trying to translate this letter, and he moved it to the bed as he was getting sleepier, and now all of these ripped pieces of paper are all just sort of, like, laid out in a very trying to solve a puzzle way. Oh, no.

And sort of before they stir, he hops up, snatches the letter that he was translating, stuffs it into his pocket, and throws the sheet over his half of the bed, trying to cover up his mess, just as, like, Alistair starts to stir. I like to imagine that, like, Jack's got, like, one little piece of, like, letter on his face and Red's, like, delicately trying to, like, extract it. Yeah, it's, like, a... Ball or something. Just words are magnetically attracted to me, you know, those pages are...

Come on. And then Elster spins around and Red's just like, Oh, I'm just waking up too. I like to do my morning stretches, standing up on top of my bed. How did you sleep with Jack? It's fine, I guess. Yeah? Oh, you seem grumpier this morning than you were last night.

To take a phrase from Jack's mouth, It's been a long day Hey, that's true But it's a new day A new dawn, I guess And Red sort of looks towards Where a window would be in the wall But there's no window in the wall

Because we're under ground He's just like, yeah, tough to tell Still dark out, why are you guys up? Oh, can't you smell it? It's some sort of bacon I think it's morning Yeah, come on bud Red walks around to your side of the bed

Better not be bland bacon You don't salted bacon Morning I didn't pick it anymore Morning Yeah Let's get dressed And go figure what breakfast is in

Right? Feeling all right You seem grogier than usual Yeah No sun down here And my brain still feels Pretty scrambled So it's you know

It's a new day And there's always a chance To make it a good one So we haven't fucked it up yet And we're just getting started There's still time Oh for sure Elister makes his way

over to the wash basin and there's like a polished silver mirror hanging above it and he splashes some water onto his face and then just like touches the skin on his face and is feeling the bone structure underneath just kind of quietly experimenting with this new skin and red walks over and sort of like stands next to him and like him being like a foot or too taller than this dude sort of touches his own face and Red's like, you know, feeling his cheeks and Red's feeling his own forehead and he's kind of like, man, I tell you. I wish I got a second chance in it like, like you did, you know? And Red feels his like severed ears and like there's like this like hard cake scar under his eye from times when Red's been really messed up. And he sort of looks down and he says, I totally get why you feel like a foreigner in this new skin. But. But man, sometimes, you know, I wish we all had a chance to change it up a little bit. You know, it's like Jack was just saying, you know. Nothing is more new than a new face.

And you kind of get to write a new story with it, you know? Well, I'm definitely a lot younger in this body than I was as a gnome, so I've got that going for me. Which is nice. It's also, you're an intimidating presence. Look at these broad shoulders. Before you were little nothing, we would have walked right by you, but now, whoa. He strikes an experimental pose in the mirror, like an Adonis. And Red Light oversells it, whoa!

Holy crap, do the room just get hotter? I mean, I'm muscular now, so I could probably at least, like, lift a big rock or something. Make a bigger robot? That's what you're talking about? You know, you're... Oh, God. Plus, speaking as someone, you know, who... who's a race that's not as typically common,

especially in places like Long Strider, wherever you're from. You know, there's a great sense of individuality when you look a little different like you and I do. It's not a bad point, Red. Thank you. What would you want to be if you weren't at Tabaxi? Oh. And again, Red sort of like touches his missing ears, and he's like, I think I just want to be whole again.

What happened there? Oh, uh, tough to, uh, I don't know. It doesn't matter. It's not about me. Sorry, I'm sure that's... No, me? I don't care about that. Water off my back, they say. All that.

Let's go downstairs and red goats to the door. I smell bacon. Let's, uh, Jack's pulling on his jacket, trying to get out of the door and escape the awkward moment. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mari Bacon! Mari Bacon. She's sitting there.

She's sitting at like there's like a little like vanity or table or something in there and she's sitting. She's been awake for a little bit and she's rumpled looking in this way that you only look when you have like at least a little bit of a hangover. And she hasn't had one for ages. It's been a long time since she's had that much wine. But she's her hair where Norman's pretty like smooth, there's like random sections of it that are dry like in the way. that like your mouth is dry when you wake up after you've been drinking too much. And she's trying to sort of push it down,

but sitting in front of her on the little table are just little pieces of what looked to be metal, but they are some sort of like meteorite rock, and she's broken into three pieces, and she's been filing them down. And she just sort of swipes it back into her bag and startled by the sound of Jack yelling about bacon.

through the door, which feels weird. Should be Red doing that, but... He was busy being sincere. Yes. Don't worry. All done now. Red's like standing outside your door, leaning on the wall. Like, come on, Marie.

Hey, where's the little mushroom buddy? He's like looking around. Come on, where? Buddy? He was right with you when you went to bed, and he is nowhere to be seen right now. He was staying up a little bit with me. I was telling him about the...

I telling him about something I was dealing with. Yeah, what were you working on there? Bacon. Yeah, let's get, let's get bacon. You're right. Bacon is the unifier. Doran, are you awake right now? Are you in your room?

Are you in the kitchens where is Doran? Doran woke up from his beauty rest in his own bedroom in a super comfy bed and did one of those really long stretches. Looking out his window to see the darkness, he feels perfectly at. home he jumps out of bed and finishes the letter that he started last night written to his mother can't quite find all the words but he's nearly got it dear mom i meant to write you sooner but i've just been busy it's about 28 years you know how procrastinating i can be he tucks it into his jacket and exits his room to see jack and red

and Mari talking really loudly about bacon. Mm-hmm. Yeah, Mari sort of stumbled out of the room. She's trying to, she's trying to, like, look normal, but she's just, again, like, her hair is ever so off. She looks drier than she should be. Coffee? Yes.

Oh, yes, please. Absolutely. So much. Oh, good morning. How did you guys all sleep? Oh, fine. Good. Snorringly.

Good. Jack? Jack's a snuggler. Sorry. We got on fine. I must say, I felt really comfortable on these dwarven beds. There's something about, I just feel home and safe, and I know

we're leaving, but you know what, it was it was certainly a... You know, we can each have our own bed anytime we stop at an inn. Like, we don't have to all get one and share. Oh, I also agree. Jack, I hear you. I miss you, too, and you know what? I'll be sure to make sure that the next time we stay together.

If this was better, I guess, all I'm trying to say. Oh, no, no, I certainly miss you guys. Don't get me wrong. I just, I wish that all the beds were as comfortable as the bed I slept in last night. I see. Mine just felt like a big stone. Oh, oh, oh, sorry. Well, but they all just seem like the big slabs of stone, Doren.

And Doran kind of looks back half-heartedly towards the bedroom where he just Cloudstone exited and it's like this cloud stone. You know, thick, thick, thick-down bedding. Oh, I just figured they were all dwarven beds are made of stone. No, Doran got the only real bed. Oh, okay, fair enough. But realistically, I imagine dwarven beds are like a special type of like, no, but like, picture this for a dwarven bed, okay?

It's not soft fabric. But what it is is like every bed is car. into the shape of a, like, that specific dwarf. Your butt fits this groove. Yeah, but, like, it's almost like you sit into it and you slot into it. And that's the way Dwarven beds work. It's like a totally different style of bed than the rest of the world. It's like how a massage chair has like a hole for your face.

Yeah, but exactly. Exactly. That's how I'm imagining Dwarven beds. They're made out of, like, marble. Oh, God, Marlowe is a firm mattress. You know, we make do. It's better than on the ground by. a scotch so a dwarf with dark hair and beard wearing a chain shirt the same as the other men

at arms and a sheathed axe on his back comes into the hallway and nods at the five of you standing there good morning morning hi trust your sleep was restful how's everything um amongst uh scarborough all is well uh would you care for some breakfast Oh, yes, please. Absolutely. All right, follow me. He leads the five of you into a dining hall. The table's set.

It seems like a couple people have already eaten and gone. There are some dirty dishes at certain places, but the tables heaped with dwarven breakfast food stuffs. I take a minute to look in any dark corners or under any tablecloths, anywhere that like a fungus might find comfortable before settling down, just to see if I can find our little friend. Yeah, and you find some really, gnarly dust bunnies that are woven out of beard hairs and all kinds of dwarven.

I really thought you were going to say like they were intentionally made dust bunnies placed in places, but no, that's way grosser. Just drifts of dwarven body hair that are just kind of underneath things. Spiders live in those. I feel like Doran in his home feeling much more comfortable. Maybe he leads the way. You guys kind of watch as Doran enters the room. And without really any hesitation, grabs a plate, fills it up with food from the buffet style in,

and pushing the dirty dishes to the side, finds himself a seat and kind of gestures to the three of you. And he says, oh, where's, where's, where's, where's Elister, by the way? That little guy get taken away in the middle of the night? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. We're in a safe place here. Go ahead. Alistair's right behind me.

Oh, he's right there. Cuddling Jack this morning. Hi, Doran. You recognize him, don't you? Doran, remember? He doesn't look like a stone gnome anymore. Alistair, Elisdister, of course. He sort of says over the side of his mouth to Jack.

Oh, I'll be honest, Jack. I forgot about that. I had some pretty wild dreams last night. Holy shit, Doran. You're a changed man here. Likes bed by yourself. Are we going to be joined by the chance? This morning, perchance, Red says, as he loads up his own plate and sits across from Dorn.

Chancellor Brighton went off to Scarborough this morning. He sends his regrets that he's not able to join you for breakfast, but said that he would be back this afternoon. He mentioned that you were heading off to pay your respects to some of your ancestors this morning. Yeah, yeah. Do you have any need of an accompanying guard? No. Oh, we can handle anything thrown at us. I don't think so.

Tunnels aren't exactly a welcoming place as of late. What do you mean? Yeah. Yeah, wait a second. Tell me, tell me about it. Has it changed when Doran was living here where the tunnels are welcoming place? You wouldn't necessarily let your kids go out by themselves. Especially because two of your brothers disappeared.

Say wander around in Deadstone cleft and never come back. From this comment, is it fair to discern that it's more dangerous now than it was? Yeah. Oh, dangerous in the tunnels, eh? That's a little interesting. Whoa, what the hell's happened here? Would you lose some guards or why aren't, I mean, I noticed on the way in there's not patrols in the tunnels. Well, you said yourselves, the dragon cultists, of course, creatures from the surface descend to our level for nefarious purposes.

Right, right. Or to escape the sun, so daytime. on the surface is often more dangerous in the upper under dark for that reason. And then, of course, we've been seeing creatures from the deep tunneling up through to the upper levels to search for easier prey or, well, we're not really sure yet. Doran, without meaning much insult, I mean, there's going to be a little bit. He can't help it. He says, um, meta, don't be insulted, but.

Hope you don't Don't be pissed off But He says something like It seems that you've eased up on the patrol of the tunnels I mean I remember as a youth You couldn't go two meters without running into

An angry guard in the tunnels In fact as a kid I remember getting smacked around by guards in the tunnels Well You know that was my worst fear as a child We are Chancellor Brighthelm's private retinue, his

men at arm, so it's our responsibility to protect the manner and also to see that the merchant shipments coming to Enfro are protected. You're not the regular city guard that Doran's talking about. That's right. And maybe that's a change

in leadership in the city when we get in Dorn, we can ask. So has all the city guard gone soft? I mean, what the hell are we talking about here? We're talking about invaders coming into our tunnels and, you know. The dwarf toys with his fork a little bit doesn't quite meet your eyes when he's spearing a piece of sausage. And he's like, well, I got involved in private work for a reason because it's a little more exciting if you catch my drift. Oh, I'm catching it.

Well, I don't think we need any help. Doran knows these tunnels pretty well. And I hate to be too cocky, but we are pretty seasoned. and adventurers. Of course, based on your gear alone. Mari's picking at her eggs, like, I don't know. Mari's like, oh, too hot.

The scone is too hot. Yeah, she's like, she's like, ew, yuck, a bug. Oh, I got a sliver. But I appreciate the offer. I'm excited to see your, you know, some of the dwarven graves. We saw some a little while back

in the far north, if I remember correctly and red looks towards Jack. Yeah, the tomb of Thorough Flame Tongue. I was actually thinking about that time that we were in the airship and remember, Kralath was doing that weird ritual and he dropped some stuff and we ended up coming across some fun times.

Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, just based on my experience coming into the city, having been rejected because of the rock plague and he does air quotes. Why the air quotes? What? It seems to me that, yeah, the city guard has gone soft.

I mean, we passed a bunch of dragon cultists on the way in. What the hell is with that? He shakes his head and disgust. Right? How do you know that city guard's gone soft just because some dragon cultists were a few miles out of town, Doran? Red, I'm glad you asked, because like I was hinting at earlier, when I was a child, there would be guards patrolling all the way up to the back entrance, to the front entrance,

you'd see at least two, three guards every couple meters as you walk down the tunnels. They would make sure that you wouldn't have the thieves messing about or cultists or any other type of riffraff that you don't want in a nice,

comfortable city, you know? Scarborough used to be a place of repute. If we don't come back, I've got something I'd like to give to Gautier And if you wouldn't mind, I'd like to give it to somebody just in case we don't return to this manner. Maria Ged looks up just like, what? Why would we don't return, Doran? What happened last night to your sleep?

That made you so weird. Where the hell are we going? Well, I mean, and he kind of looks at the rest of his party. Are we planning to come right back after we go and or are we just continuing? We're just visiting a gravestone and saying you respect. I'm assuming we'll have lunch here. Are you planning to pull? put us in the graveyard?

I'm concerned. Yeah, I mean, the rock plague isn't going to last forever. Maybe we can wait it out. Maybe it's only a few days. Hopefully we can get into Scarborough. I'd love to see the Scarborough town center. Yeah. And frankly, I want to see this city guard that has such an ill reputation for just existing right now.

I'm just sad that the light rock transit isn't running anymore. I've heard so much about it. You get a fucking Alex's inspiration. I worked in Scarborough Town Center. All right, both of you, inspiration. So Doren kind of looks, he almost turns, not in a rude way, but he's done talking to this other garden. He turns back to the other three.

I feel like Red puts a hand on Dorn's shoulder and he's just like, hey, hey, what's going on, man? I appreciate the conversation we had last night with Gautier, but, you know, I think I had a revelation last night in bed I had some pretty wacky dreams and it occurred to me that you know my mom's never written to me a letter she's never reached out to me I mean hell so whatever I've been on the road

we all know there are pigeons that can find people she could have written me anytime and it's I hate to say I think this whole rock plagues an excuse for my mother to not see me it's an elaborate it's an elaborate put it this way I have nothing here I came back to see my mother

I have a feeling she doesn't want to see me I accept it If we want to get moving I mean Hold on hold on hold on Man at Arms Sorry what was your name Robert

Sheldon Grobert Vic Do you mind just giving us the room for a second The four of us just want to share a word With our friend Yeah All right

He stands up and puts a bun on his plate And then puts another bun on his plate And backs it Don't combo low Or whatever Hey, Doren, what's all this then? Did you wake up on the right side of the bed or something? No, yeah, I did actually.

I read. Well, listen, we've got a lot on our plates. And he points down to his plate. Not these plates, I mean. I mean, we've got a lot on our general plate. We came off track. We just left Deadstone Cliff. I mean, let's take a step back here.

Look at what we've accomplished so far. I mean, Mari, you only joined us, what? A couple weeks ago? Look how far we've come, even just since we've lost Kralath and brought you on. I mean, we, hell, we took out a whole giant clan. I'd like to imagine that the look that Marie gives, after, like, hauling out here, getting, doing the fight with the dragon cults, everything, is, like, she's trying to not make it withering, but it's pretty withering as she's, like, just continually buttering a piece of bread, just like,

I have been through a lot to get here and now you're saying you're ready to leave but she looks over and just like smiles with like nothing reaching above the nose and just is like okay Mari's angry Look maybe I've just had a moment of clarity

we came here because you know you guys felt like I should have something to say to my mother you know, reconnect with her. But in my conversations with Goetheer last night, it's become clear that my mother really has no interest in forgiving me. Doran, didn't you say your mother was dying?

Yes. I imagine we're all dying. One day at a time. Just because people die doesn't mean that we should change who we are or what we do. Oh, Maurice. As someone who's just recently died. And change. Yeah, Marie at this point

slams a butter knife down on the table. And she looks over at Doran and she's like, we have walked out here entirely so you could go and visit your mother who is in fact dying. And guess what? If she does, I am not walking between that veil again. So, we're either going to go

try to figure out what's going on. Or I swear to God, I will put this knife somewhere where it doesn't belong. All right, let's all just take a big step back. We've had a really tumultuous 24, 48, 72 hour week. Jordan, what the hell did Goetjeet to say to you? What's going on? Look, look, I don't know if this Cotier is all, he's cracked up to be. Look, no.

Why don't we all leave this breakfast table and Red stands up and sort of steps back? He says, why don't we take that nice walk to your family, brave sight and we can talk on the way, Red sort of sure, kind of makes a gesture you know, around him, he sort of waves at the walls, you know, and it's kind of like somewhere where the four of us can speak privately

and then we can really air our grievances, okay? Five of us. Okay. Doran jabs a fork into far big of a bite of sausage and shoves it in his mouth. He says, you know what, Red, that's not a bad idea. In fact, I think what you should do is... All right. Well, walk and talk. Exactly that.

Yeah. I'm going to lead the way, and I think we should go, absolutely, and I'd like to see the cemetery. At least pay respects my father and my brothers. Because I had brothers, you know. We are aware. Jack's just going to meet guys with Mari and give it like a, what the fuck is going on, kind of silent mouth. She's hung over, and she's just like, Her eyebrows shoot up into her hair, just like, what is, Jack, what's going on? And then the two of you, your eyes also link with Reds, and Red's like, yeah, those biscuits were soggy as hell. Oh, my God.

He's still got, like, dough in his face and his fur. Mari, you know, sometimes you got to go somewhere and get there before you realize that you didn't really need to go there. And I know, I know that's a really crappy excuse, but. Let's go. Let's go and talk on the road. Come on, and Red like, pushes everyone out the door. I need to go somewhere. Let's go.

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