Dice Shame - 2-8 | 'Sick and Tired'

Episode Date: October 20, 2022

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: swearing, violence, horror, mental illness, animal death, bodily horror, forced body horror, non-consensual parasitic horror and suicide.Part of the Rusty Quill Network Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nothing's gonna happen to you. I hope you know that. So I'm not gonna die. Boil them in your stomach. It'll be easy to find dinner. I love that you can always see his bum. It all came through. You've got my pen there, Jack.

You did this. Doran, write down grumpy. That's a side effect. I'm glad you're feeling better, Doran. She's a witch. Get her. It's less sewage-y sewage. You know what?

Let's just walk on top of the water. Sorry, I'm not being as precise as I'd like to be. But as good as it's gonna get. Throughout the campaign, you'll notice that Doren actually invokes all of the seven dwarves. I was going to make a joke It all came through Welcome back to This is season 2, episode 8

Sick and Tired MVP this week is Marlin from the Discord For their amazing fan art of Torin and Jack Snogging is the prince say Thank you so much, Merlinda. Fan Art is amazing. This week we'd like to shout out a Canadian company that makes the fucking best gummies ever. It's called Squish Candies. Check them out at Squishcandies.cai.

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Oh. Yeah, I like it, though. I know it's a popular sick food. I know it's a popular dessert. I get it. But I can't. I just don't. Something with a texture.

You don't like it, eh? I love it. I love jello. Am I the only one here in Dice Shame that... No, I think people are nostalgic for... I don't think it's actually popular. I think it's just around. And I think there's a really good distinction between like, oh, it's an easy, cheap food.

Okay, it's in the cafeteria because it's cheap and easy and technically a dessert. And therefore, people had it a lot as a kid. And therefore it's like, oh, maybe I crave that. And then you have it and you're like, oh, yeah, this is not. Disagree. Hard disagree. I buy it and make it often. I really like it.

Jell-O's good. We have probably about 40 boxes of Jellonaster. Yeah, I love it. I would bet you're in the like 95th percentile of jello eat. I was thinking the same thing. Yeah, that's a lot of jello. No, well, not. No, the reason we have so many boxes is because I was doing a raver. No, it's because I wanted it. And at the time, on Amazon, it was like, you know how they always show you? I mean, any supermarket shows you, like per hundred grams, how cheap it is, right? I was like, well, if I get two things of jello, it's like such a rip-off. It's like $2.99 per hundred grams. But if I get $0.50, it's like $0.10. This is why I always, this is why I always buy my cars in bulk. too. I'm like, why I get one car? I'll just get

five cars. And they're like slightly cheaper. I've been chipping away at that jello block and they're all shelf stable. Like, for real. There's no, like, you can mock me all you want, but the amount of times I do enjoy jello, it is, I am chipping away at that jello block. When the nuclear apocalypse

hits, we're going to be eating jello for the rest of them. When COVID hits again. We're going to be fucking partying at your place and just having, like, jello shots, it's going to be great. If someone put jello in front of me right now, I would eat it. Like, I enjoy jello. I've never had a jello shot.

Yeah. I don't think I've ever had a jello shot either. Or at least I've never enjoyed a jello shot. What do you do to make it? Do you just put vodka instead of the hot water? Do you have to heat up the vodka? Oh, no. I have made so many jello shots in my life.

Show us your ways. It was like a sigh there. It was funny. Nostologic reflection. I, okay, I have made multiple times. You know those like molded jello like. Like cake people would make I have done those

but full of booze So they're multi-layered fruit-filled Would you like a slice of alcohol? Yes, exactly And I want to say that that was like a thing I did in university But I have made one in the last five years So like guess who's doing okay

Clearly me Guess who's fun at a party Is really what she was doing Just see Alex on the couch With a straw in a jello mold Sipping out of it Yeah, you're invited Can you bring anything?

What were the molds of? Was it just a bunt pan or? Booz Jello mold. I've used, what have I used? I've used cake pans. I've used bowls. I've used shoes. Yeah, I've done a shooy.

Skulls. Those like antique copper molds that are like roosters and fish. Yes. Oh, yeah, that'd be a good one. That would be amazing. I made a bunch of them aspirational, yeah. Jello booze. But see, I would prefer the jello.

If someone handed me a jello shot, I'd be like, okay, but can I have one with just the jello, please? Can I have a virgin? I have a virgin gelo shot. You know, you were talking about making jello shots earlier and finding that perfect balance of liquidity versus the gelatin, I guess, right? Yeah. So there's like a, there's like a good balance there. And it's specifically good for jellos shots because whenever they're passed around a party. When you're driving, you don't spill them. When they pass around that party, you know, they're usually in this little tiny shot, you plastic shot cup, right? And then what happens? You're going to, like, dig your tongue in there, and you're like, usually got your finger, and you're like, but with the perfect viscosity, it just, you know. See, here's my trick is I always made them in Dixie cups so that you could just crush it into your face, like a feed bag. I've done those two. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.

What I'm trying to say is that, what I'm trying to say is that I am shocked I survived past 23. A feed bag of jello shots. I think my favorite use of jello is in that, like, a jello trifle with, like, like, a jello shots. like pudding and jello and cake and whipped cream and not I don't know either I have a strong nostalgic association with quite the opposite for me Rob you and I are jello opposite sides of this so good I do not I just want jello I love I make a big old thing of jello let it set and just dig at that bad boy with a spoon the thing I think is especially adorable when harland makes jello is he fills up a bowl or a pan with it and then he also fills up a bunch of glasses and then they all go in the fridge an assortment

of containers, different sizes. It's like a fun array. That's how we did it growing up. I remember like opening the fridge at our house and like there'd be jello in like a random old wine glass and like all the words out of my mouth. Two weeks later it's an Easter egg hunt

for like where's the ketchup, which is jello behind what? Oh did I forget what where? Oh how did that get? Yeah it's like that everything is cake thing except it's everything is jello. Everything is jello. Oh, I'll just have this glass of milk. What, jello?

But the worst use of jello by, I think, anyone's measure is going to be those fucking weird ambrosia salads that have fruits and vegetables hovering inside. I don't think there's jello in, though. Yeah, no, they're called, what the fuck are they called? Aspix. No, Aspick is a savory dish. Yeah.

Aspick is a, is you cook it down, usually using trotters or cowbones. What culture is that from? Aspics are... 60s. Well, yeah, they're very mid-sons. century, modern. They're found predominantly in the Western cultures, but they are found a ton in places like Russia and stuff like that, like lots of

and it's basically, yeah, so it's very sort of mid-century. And yeah, it's, uh, hold on, where is jello in Ambrosia? Here is a recipe. This is called Grandma's lime green jello salad with cottage cheese and pineapple. Yeah, but that's my Ambrosian. Yes, it is. I googled Ambrosia and it came up. Here's what's in it. A cup of crushed pineapple,

a cup of water, two packages of lime jello, one cup of mayonnaise. There we go. Lost me. Lost me. One cup of small curd cottage cheese. And half a cup of walnuts. Small curd. There's a part of this that is very like prairie

that came out of poor prairies. Yes. You know, depression era. We need to make everything into a food. Back in the day, that mayonnaise would have been. Well, not even back in the day. Would have been that back in the, okay, my grandparents are making that and that just existed up until whatever there was always a bowl of something

like that you serve that with a paralyzer yes except back in the day you know the mayonnaise would have been the plaster that you use in the walls in your house you know like they're like oh just a clump of plaster there tastes good this makes me think of someone i'm following me now on instagram which i think rob you'd really like and probably Alex now as well but there's this dude i've been following on instagram called sandwiches of history and he actually kind of looks like rob And basically what he does is every day he opens up a cookbook from like 1912 or 1940 and he'll make like, this is the happy camper sandwich and he'll like make it as written and it's filled with all of these weird like, you know, there's like there's a mock Waldorf salad one with like fake chicken and there's one with like diced pineapple cubes and stuff like that that looks a lot like Ambrosia because these are all from like the cookbooks of like yesteryear. The up to date sandwich book of 1909. yeah oh boy yeah uh sandwiches of history is the dude he's awesome yeah i'm reading the about page it's

you should check him out he looks a little bit like you didn't he not in that picture but in the other one maybe i could see it i do love food history stuff and i am like weirdly obsessed with like ussr russians like cooking it's like just so weird and like i love it i love it i i have a ussr cookbook and i've made my own class which is like a fermented bread drink. Does it taste like Kvass? It does if you

it does if you're me and you've made it poorly. But I did buy meat bass this weekend, which was very burning. How's your Bino Grigio was doing, by the way? God, the Bino Grigio.

Welcome back to week two of terrible food thoughts. I was thinking about that. I was thinking about that intro recently and then I was also remembering those fucking videos of people eating that fermented

fish from Sweden. Oh, Storm. Oh, my God. Surastroman. The videos that I find of these people who are trying to eat it and

uncontrollably vomiting are so funny. I don't know what it is. I just can't stop laughing. I feel like you'd appreciate the video that I watched one time with my family at Christmas. This says a lot about us. It was a video of a guy eating 15 hot dogs

without chewing. Like no buns, just like a hot dog And he just was like putting the man going And just like eating them And then at the end of it You see the video of him throwing up 15 Unchewed Hot Dogs And it is one of

And the fact that I watched it with my family And it was like a bonding moment Truly says a lot At Christmas Truly says a lot about the vibe at my house No not into it Anything vomited I get like

Compassionately nostalgic for anybody I see vomiting. It's just like an immediate, oh, I feel very nauseous myself. Oh, my parents and brother and I will gather around an iPad and just type in funny farting videos. And that's our whole afternoon. Oh, I love it. Yeah, all I have to do is fart. Easy to please.

Speaking of uncontrollable vomiting, shall we return to our D&D session? Oh, yeah. Wow, what a segue. Yeah, really? Thank you. Loving it. That worked better than I thought it was. The sewers have not been a pleasant place for our heroes thus far.

Between crab monsters, slimy dudes brandishing scimitars, and a monster with roiling skin who just wanted to share a little intimate moment with someone. It's been a terrifying ordeal, and it's not over yet. Red, Mari, Jack, and Doran, you're standing in a chamber where several adjoining rooms to the south have yielded. a corpse, and to the east, a tall red curtain. Pull it back, Doran. I got my bow ready. I use a bow. Red says to Mari.

I've noticed. All right. Oh, thank you. Doran stands ready at the edge of the curtain. It could be nothing. It could be a window. Who knows? Wait, those are the options? Nothing or a window? You've never seen a carpet against a wall? before we move on from here Jack's been sort of leaning against a wall trying to catch his breath taking like soft shallow breaths

of Mari's eucalyptus scented air she's putting around his head to try and calm the tummy I felt pretty awful already and I just want to make sure everybody knew the creepy guy crawly guy over there stuck some kind of eggs inside me and if we don't do anything

by the end of the day I'm going to end up like that corpse hive over there in the corner. Oh, Lord. What? We are going to do something about it, so I'm not going to die, which means we've got an opportunity to observe and describe something not well documented in any of the journals or treaties I've come across. So to keep my mind busy from my impending doom while we search for Remy and then do something about these new passengers, do you think you could help me document any of the things that are happening to me so that you?

at least, you know, this overall body of creepy-crawly parasitic aberration knowledge grows. And, you know, of course, if we publish, I'll give you writing credit. Well, you've got my pen there, Jack. In other words, yes, I'll help you write down what happens to you. Yeah, Doren will help you. And look, Jack, nothing's going to happen to you. I hope you know that. But if it does, I was wondering if you're okay if I have this,

and Red Pulls on your cloak. Mari's just been watching and listening and just very gently has her hand on the dagger that's on her belt. Oh, in case. This dick this guy's so bad. Well, that's a good point, though. Like, if there's a chance that Jack...

I'll do it, don't worry. Turns into a zombie. It'll make dinner with Torin very awkward, but we'll do it. Well, I mean, like, it'll be easy. It'll be easy to find dinner. That's true. I don't know. So without any further wait, let's see what's behind curtain number one, shall we?

Doran says as he yanks the curtain. Okay, let's do it. Doran, you pulled this tall floor-to-ceiling red curtain to the side, and behind it, the cut stone floor erodes into natural stone. The walls open up. The ceiling grows in height. Darkness all around. gentle lapping sound of still water. This is the entrance to some kind of cavernous subterranean lake. The shallows by the curtain here are studded with bones, ribs and skulls and smaller pieces

sinking into darkness as the water gets deeper further out. Wow. Well, scratch my ironwork. That is not a window or a door. Whoa, whoa, whoa, doren. What's what the new cool saying? Did you just Come up with that. Well, I get it. Tell me honestly, were you workshopping that a little bit? I saw you thinking and talking to yourself earlier. You were kind of mumbling under your breath. I've been working on that one.

I liked it a lot. Hey, guys, we liked it, didn't we? I was good enough. Mari's just looking into the darkness and just goes, nothing good lives in water like that. Well. Yeah, that's a cool line too. But I like Doran's better.

It kind of had this like... His really has more of a vibe. to it. It had a folk scene is to it. Yeah, he's good with that. Of course. And you can see his bum is blushing of course. I love that you can always see his bum. Well, he is wearing chaps. Well, you know when Doran blushes, because he does that thing where he like, one of his feet goes up on his toes and he like kind of squirms for a moment. He does the bashful thing. Yes, exactly. Mm-hmm. Throughout the campaign, you'll notice that

Doran actually invokes all of the seven dwarves. I was going to make a joke. It all came through. It's so good. All right. Well, let's push on, I suppose. Ultimately, what? I don't know, Red.

I really was hoping that this was just a wall. Now that I'm looking at it, I'm thinking that maybe I need a few minutes just to, just to collect myself. Oh, do you have to use the bathroom? Well, yeah. All right. Everyone look around for a pooping corner. I mean, take your pick. A poop.

Well, we got the room with the corpse and the room with the other corpse. Maybe you can't poop on the corpses Or there's literally the sewer Just out there with water meant to carry I get it Doran You see all the poop and it makes you have to poop It's kind of like running water when you have to pee You just see floating poop in the sewer

And it makes you have to go Yeah, yeah Are we talking about poop a lot? I feel like everyone's talking about poop a lot Or like you know hot red iron You know when you see that And you just think to yourself Man, I really need to do some blacksmithing

Yeah You know what I mean, right? not relatable turns to jack no yeah no jack of all people it's close right you look at his bulging muscles iron's the strong one right yeah let's take a short rest I call the corner fathers from the corpse and I point it jack sorry I mean behind you back in that corner I have a silly silly question a noob question actually I just wanted to Just for all of our audience listeners, you know, just so that everybody understands how to play...

This one goes out to you, the audience. How to play Dungeons and Dragons. Welcome to our recurring segment. So... Called Alex Justifies Not Knowing Something Simple by asking the audience. Now, hit dice, mine are nine, my hit dice are 9 D10. That's my fighter level or my level. And then it was always D10, right?

So that's even on a short rest, right? You can roll up to 9D10 plus your constitution modifier for each of those dice rolls. See, aren't you glad I said something, Harlan? I am. And admittedly... Just a reminder, you add your constitution. To your credit, we have short-rested very few times in this campaign. Twice.

Like, I think only maybe four. It's also a resource that you can choose to expend one at a time to see how you roll. So you can roll one hit dice and see how much you regain and then roll. another one, et cetera, et cetera. However, as the hour passes, Jack, your condition worsens. Your clothes begin to feel very tight on your body. As you start to swell uncomfortably, you notice it first in your hands and then everywhere. Mechanically, your dexterity score decreases by two over this hour. Gotcha.

And you are, while you're able to regain your spells, et cetera, your arcane recovery, you're unable to gain any restorative effects of a short rest, like rolling hit dice. Hmm. At this time. Brutal. Can I do anything, like to, like, restore anything, or is that? You could rub cream on his belly. Can give him a back massage?

Who's the beautiful, beautiful mother to be? Keep them from getting stretch marks. I can, I can get the vitamin. an e-oil out. Oh, I can hear it kicking. Start doing some Lamas classes. I think it's squirming.

Look. Yeah, so Jack, how's the baby? Babies. Spawn of hell. There's definitely one in my right wrist that is on a tendon and I cannot stand it. It's got to move.

I'm about ready to stab something through my hand because it is so bad. Do you want me to cut it out? I'll do it. says and he pulls out the ghost dagger. I don't know if that's better or worse, actually. It's like on your hand?

I thought it was in your stomach. It was. Yep. See, this is the thing about observing the changes as it progresses. Oh. Yeah, you've been writing them down, right, Doran? Look at Doran's pad. It's just like pictures of squiggles.

Right. He's got his journal. He's got his own language. I've been writing for an hour. Jack is. I've almost written sick. What's their next letter? Mari looks over.

He's just drawn a bunch of, like, pictures. of, like, Jack with, like, ex-stowed eyes and, like, a big thing, like, an alien chestburster coming out of him. And Red grabbing the cloak around Jack's back with a smile. I wonder, like, there's almost an element of, like, most of the way through this hour, Jack's stone skin is still in his place. And so the outside of him is rigid, which leaves a lot of pressure inside, which is great for, I guess, it hurts.

It's not good. But, and then there's this moment when the spell fades and his skin just sags and ripples. And then you, like, see all of the, like, critters. that were hidden by the like hard granite stone structure for most of it. Rob, that's disgusting. You get inspiration for that. Congratulations. You did this.

That nasty. Nice, nice. Is there any way if I could find out if there's like a plant that might help with this? You can roll a medicine check. It's called a sewer plant. A 15. You don't know of any plant that'll do anything for this. Fuck me, right?

Roast! Roast, Jack. But we're here for you. you don't worry doran's like sitting there and throughout the short rest hour he's like he's like making little notes about you know how jack's feeling and asking every every five 10 minutes or so but then not only is he asking how you're feeling he's also throwing out ideas of what we could do know maybe we could boil some water and you can you can you know pour it down your gullet and and boil them in your stomach you know cook all of them that'll yeah yeah he is i feel like one of the guys

looks over at marie and just like makes like a met like a motion like a motion like a squeeze out your hair. Use some of your water. She just shakes her head, no. What if we heated up a dagger and slowly pressed it into your stomach? No, you know, that sounds. What if we just killed you slowly right here and just ended it all. Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down, Jack.

It's not how stomachs work either. Doran, write down grumpy. That's a side effect. Definitely. Grumpy. While these guys are doing this, Mari goes over to the room where there was that one corpse that had like all the stuff that had burst out of it. and sits down on the floor outside of it.

She doesn't go in. She's not going in. That's too much in there. She's not going in. It's a mess in there. She takes up the dagger and she draws like a ruin on the ground and just sort of fills in with petals as she draws it. And then just closes her eyes and just sort of is quietly talking to herself.

Witch. I mean, Drew it, okay. She's a witch. Get her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She is. Well, who knows, Jack, maybe on the best case scenario, the little crit is inside you aren't bad.

Maybe they'll be like new friends, like the Unabahawk, Shale. If we can take examples from nature, probably what's going to happen is they're going to hatch and then look at the lovely nutrient-rich person that they're inside and devour me to grow big and strong so they can go and become other, whatever the fuck that thing was, and then lay their eggs in them. it's the circle of life in the grossest way. God, what a pessimist. I'm somewhat glad it's not a fungal infection,

just because those things can start to take over your mind in ways that... Wait, you think this take over your mind? No. Dorn, write that down. Mm-hmm. Oh, I am. It's taking over Jack's mind. Everything he says.

I'm not sure if it would or not, because I'm wearing this lovely ring we found that should protect my mind, I hope. Yeah, but that's exactly what a creature controlling Jack would say. Dorn, write that down. I'm writing it all down. Well, don't let me take the ring off then, because then we'll really know if I've lost my mind.

Or you're trying to trick us. See, this is tough. Oh, this is a tough one because if it's controlling... Oh, I don't know, Doran. This is deep. I'm writing this down too, Red. If it's controlling Jack right now, then it's trying to convince him. Let's get moving.

Put it this way. There's too much conversation. Doran stands up, dust off his knees. You know, his dust off his knees because the rest of him is totally covered in blood and shit. Anyways, dust off his knees. Doren likes to keep his knees clean. We know this about him. Everything is gore-covered, but the knees are spotless.

Doren, clean knees, that's what they call him. My father said you always have to keep clean knees, so I always finished. For some reason, I picture that, too. Clean behind the ears and clean in front of the knees. In front of the knees. He just, like, unraps. He, like, always wraps his knees every morning. We never question.

He unwraps, and they're, like, perfectly clean. He gets, like, a buffing claw. Pink and hair. That knee needs to shine. He's got to eat. He's got his knee wax he gets every once in a while. Like, you know, good old clean knees. Doran stands up and he's like, well, you know what?

You're not looking too hot there, Jack. And I'm feeling much better after that hour. And you don't look like you're feeling any better. I'm glad you're feeling better, Doran. All I'm getting is we should get out of here. Yeah, let's get out. Try and find somebody on the above here that'll help him. It'll be great.

I'm actually a little concerned about you, you know. Oh, thanks. I don't think you took this, huh? Oh, of course. on the way here. Jack, we've all been concerned about you. We're just trying to add a little gravitas to the situation. Good. Levity is what we need. And choking you is definitely not an option either. I don't think that's a good idea. Oh, of course. Get your mind off it. Look, if we don't care about you dying, then you won't die. That's just logic.

Mari waves Jack over. Hey. Over to, in front of the, this door where there is the, there's a corpse inside. I feel like that's not a great thing that he wants to see right now, but it's just there We all know it's there. Yeah. And she's like, that's going to be you. It just goes ultra dark. She's like, get used to that look.

Check it out. I'm a fortune teller. That's you. No. It's like, damn. No, she's like, she's like, I've never seen someone be killed before.

But I'm realizing now seeing this and seeing this room and seeing what's happened to you that I don't think any of those people that were killed back there were bad, that they were evil, that they were doing something that was of their clear mind. And I don't know what to think about that. But I also know that there wasn't much of a choice in that moment. It wasn't them. And they, they didn't deserve to die, but there's not much else we could have done. Yeah. All I can do in this moment is offer them passage in the only way that I know how. And she points to the ruin on the ground. when I was younger, with my family, whenever someone would die,

we would grant them passage forward into the spirit world. And all I can say is that hopefully we figure out what's going on and we fix this. And she kind of just gestures at Jack, who I think is like covered in poop water and stony and just like sweating and barfing. If the worst comes to pass, would you like passage? that's um a really lovely thing you did for them and uh but not for me dorens like what the fuck are you doing over there that would be nice

all right marie after you make this a chord with jack you hear a voice in your head of spawn. The one who is spawning will die. But perhaps we can make a deal. She doesn't say anything. She just shakes it off. And then can I tell it all what that's coming from? Or is it just like a voice in the back of her head?

You hear it distinct from your own thoughts. Another presence in your mind. Do I know it? No, you don't know this voice. It's like playing celebrities. Is it a woman? Is she dead? Is she wearing glasses?

Does she have a beard? Yeah. She shakes her head and starts to walk back over towards the others because this feels, this feels dangerous. Is everything all right? What were you two talking about? Conspiring against you. Cool. Jack actually promised to give me his cloak.

Oh, Jack, after all I did for you. I just think it would fit her better. Fine. It's true. It's a lovely, it's a tailored jacket. If you clean this, it's really something. Is everything all right, though? Yeah, it's about as good as it's going to get.

Ain't that true. Let's get moving. We've been sitting here too long. We've got to find Remy and then find answers. All right. Take the lead, Doren. Okay. Here we go.

And Doren, like, steps onto the, uh, I guess, this like a stone rubble pathways sort of thing? No, you're actually beginning to wade into the water. Oh, oh my. Oh, wow. Doren sticks his face

down close to the water and takes a deep whiff. Is this clean water? The water smells foul in a similar way to the sewers, not filth and slime from the

legions of people living on the surface in the city of water deep. Not sewer filth, but something else, something insidious. Doran sticks his toe in. He's like, well, it's not the same sewage. It's, uh, it's less sewagey sewage and jumps in. All right. Yeah, like feet first, just kind of a plunk. See how deep this is. Mm-hmm. Is it briny? Yeah, is it briny?

You think it's seawater fed, or is it... I'll tell you when I come up, when it's on my lips. You jump in and you're about knee-deep. Oh, well... Splashing in puddles. The door could lie down. It's not as deep. You're in the shallas right now.

It gets deeper as you move, but you'll be, like, wading forward rather than, like, jumping into it. Well, yes. Yes, it does. Oh, thank goodness I didn't dive in. So he starts to wade forward. I need to put safety signs. out here. Yeah, shallow, no diving.

Yeah, Doren, a massive dripping cavern of black water begins to open before you as you wade forward into the deeper water. You see, the walls to either side of you are eroded stone, weeping mucus, covered in protrusions, slick. Doran, I'd recommend you get back here. Don, where are you going? There's only one way forward, Marie, and red. Into the darkness, into the water. We've got to get out of here.

And I think this is the only way. Doran, you hear a voice in your head. You desire to find the human called Remy. Yes, we do. Wait a minute. Guys, do you hear that? Here what? Come closer.

he is here drawing breath Doran do you hear a voice yes I do Doran get back here right now who's hearing voices what I continue to wade forward where

the Rimi's close Doran come back if Maori says it's dangerous it's dangerous you don't even have your floaties on Doran's sort of preoccupied with the voice in his head and that he's like making

some progress here someone's actually giving him a hint towards what they're looking for this person. Mari's taking her coat off and putting it on the shore just putting the coat in the bag and it starts to wait in

after Doran just knowing that this is if he's hearing a voice and she already knows that she heard something this is generally not a good sign yeah you know she's already

something's twigged in her brain red turns to Jack are you hearing voices no oh good so I'm not the only one I mean, my ears are ringing. Is that a thing? What? No. Red, make a note of that, and if you hear a voice, do not follow it. I'm supposed to be making the notes.

You're making those now. I'm going to go get Doran. Red, you hear a voice in your head. It says, Your life has been harmed. Hasn't it? No? Red-handed, Robin.

You come from far. And where will you go now? Forward? Forward what? Where? Is it not asking you anything? Well, who is it? And Red thinks. Who is it?

Come closer. Dorn and I have a bad feeling about this. Come on out. Just stay on the shore and if anything comes out of it, just kill it, okay? Except us. Don't kill us. Got it. All right. And Red moves forward and stands on the shore.

Mm-hmm. Doren continues to follow into the water. After maybe 20 feet from this shoreline, you're swimming. Doran's continuing to follow this voice as though there might be a positive outcome. Mari, stop him. I'm sure. Doran, come on. Please come back.

Just grab him. But he's not going to come unless you stop him. But someone said that Rimi was out here. She grabs Doren by the back of his braid and pulls him back. What did the voice say to you? Well, they said if we were looking for Rimi to continue on. I mean, I don't see what the problem is. We were already heading in this direction.

Come on, guys. Well, I was not told that. What I was told was that Jack is going to die in that I can make a deal to help him. A deal. So he's clearly just saying what you want to hear. And it asked me when I was going and seemed to know where I came from. And now Doran stops. And so he's always listening, okay?

He says, well, look, what is our plan here? Do we, should we go back to where we came from and get to the surface back up in the warehouse? I mean, I suppose we could just go back that way, but we've come so far. No, we still need to find Remy. You're not wrong. We just need to be smart about it if we move forward. Red, the voice speaks to you again. Those dreams.

It must be. so hard. Your party doesn't see their importance, but you do. Right. Snap out of. I'm talking to you. It's talking about my dreams. It knows everything.

How does I know of your dreams? I don't know. I'm trying to quiet it. And Red singing a song in his head. Okay, so Doran starts to head back actually. You know, now he's sort of coming to his senses. Stop. There's only one way to go. Whatever the hell has caused all of this is down there.

somewhere it's talking to us it's not unheard of for there to be weird stuff deep in the underground that can get in your head we've already seen it we were at the wedding with the with the fungus people and and they had all kinds of mind fuckery sorry i'm sorry i'm not being as precise as i'd like to no it's okay i like you better this way to be honest well honestly you know here's kind of what i'm looking at here we're trying to save this person that that really we've been to save, but at what cost? I mean, I'm looking at you, Jack, and you're not looking real great.

And are willing, are we willing to sacrifice your life to find this other person that isn't vying to save the world from the Giants? Let's give it another hour. If we can get out of here

after that, I'm sure there's got to be someone in Waterdeep who can help us. The voice has only started up when we trying to push past this curtain. Maybe whatever is causing this is trying to scare us, to trying to stop us.

I say we push forward. Mari nudges Doran to keep going on, and she goes, I'm going to go and I'm going to look. And I don't know what I'm going to find. Hopefully it's something small and adorable, but I don't think so. Probably unlikely.

That's that stupid snail, isn't it? Can you breathe? We've got... I can breathe underwater. We picked up this potion and Jack pulls it out and it's this cloudy green fluid that smells of the sea and has a jellyfish bubble floating in it. I think it lets you breathe underwater.

Somebody else could drink it and go with you. My bow's not going to be super useful underwater. How much room is there on top of the water? Oh, a bunch. You know what? Let's just walk on top of the water. I'm going to go under, and if I come up and something's wrong, just listen for the bird song,

and she taps the ring again, and you can hear all the bird song. Either that or just scream Yeah, if I'm screaming Then just please Please come stab whatever's happening All right Look, we'll come with you either way

And Red casts waterwalk I can up to the show, waterwalk Yeah, you know what Level 9 of Red got this spell It's up to 10 willing creatures And honestly my bow isn't going to be useful On water so I would cast it anyway So anyone who wants to walk on water

I'd love to walk on water But I'm going to drink the potion of water breathing All right, well, they're going with you. Well, you can waterwalk too. I guess I'll stand here and I'll have my axe prepared for when and if you come back. But just remember to come back from me if you guys find the exit. Well, you come with me and I touch Doran with his permission. I feel like has to water walk on he and I.

And then I feel like I do that thing in video games. There's just like all of a sudden, like, I'm not allowed to be in the water anymore. and I default to above the water. Actually, that's true because the spell it grants the ability to move across any liquid, water, acid, mud, snow, quicksand, lava, as if it's harmless. And I can do up to 10

willing creatures, but if I targeted a creature submerged in liquid, it carries them to the surface at a rate of 60 feet per round. So basically, Dorn and I pop up and we can now walk on water. Cool. And you two are going to go beneath. Well, would you look at that?

What a freaky experience. Look at the ripples. I feel them. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Red. You two take underneath and we'll cover you from above. I mean, I can fire into the water and anything pops up. Dorn will chop off its head. I think I'm freaking out here. You know, I've never had such a hard trip. Other than those night mushrooms I took. Oh, my God, what's happening here? All right, snap out of it. Yeah, sir. Let's do it. Yeah, yeah. And Red walks out onto the water. Jack, you coming with? Yeah, Jack swims down beside Mari. Let's get this over with. You move together into the depths of this lagoon while its occupant waits hungrily. Thank you once again to our wonderful Patreon supporters,

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It would be funny if it was like a Mickey Mouse voice. But it's not. It's a spooky voice. Halloween time. Go on.