Dice Shame - 2-90 | 'A Rolling Stone'

Episode Date: May 16, 2024

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Grilled cheese tacks. What the hell is a post office? It still happened, but we didn't see it. We're just going to leave that off screen just for the safety of everyone. You got to trust the process, Jack. Well, that's thoughtful. What? I hope it has stretchy sides.

Hey, Alistair. You look great. I did come up with a spell all about letters. Yeah, fuck letters. I'm with dogs. It's going to be good to get back into it again. It's like the sunglasses hut. Top 10 Iron Fist hacks. Oh, yeah, here's some hacks.

Hashtag, Doran Iron Fist. You want to hold your hammer in your hammer. hand that you use the most often. Welcome back to Dice Shame. This is Season 2, Episode 90, A Rolling Stone. MVP, this week is Cheryl Rossback. They are active in the Discord and, frankly, post some pretty funny memes. This crab armor has plus one, the sides.

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Yeah, let's do it. Excellent. Woo! Is anyone, is anyone that has an intro really excited about one? I don't know, I just have to read this. I don't know why or what occurred that I wrote down these notes, but I have, I'm just going to read the full three lines. There's a whiskey soaked piece of paper that's like crumpled up.

I don't know, I don't know what it is. I woke up and I didn't read the language. At what point do you stop saying Happy New Year? Would you eat a baby made of chocolate? At what point would you stop saying Happy New Year? would you eat a baby made of chocolate? You just wrote the same thing twice? I wrote the same thing twice,

but I don't know why they're back to my life. Very, very good. And it reeks of whiskey. Just imagine the place that you were in when you wrote that. So would you eat a baby made of chocolate? Of course I would. I don't know if I would.

Wait, like is it like a living baby? Does it like exist and grow? I don't know. This is what we have to decide. Is it like a lint thing? Will it turn into a man made of chocolate? But okay, the real important question. solid or hollow?

Yeah. Is it filled? Does it have jelly guts? I like the late idea. It's a lint one. It's like a... Okay, but like are they selling it like this is a chocolate or oh my god, my baby's chocolate?

It's not being sold. It's in the wild. It's a living breathing. Well, then no. Chocolate child. That's just a cursed baby that you need to go on a question of hell. What you're really asking is, would you murder a baby if it had something you wanted? If it was tasty.

But what if they were made of chocolate? I'm not eating the. cursed child one very important distinction you are not made of chocolate okay that's the important distinction Alex I can buy chocolate I don't need to eat a baby I have to know where the 51 percent lies is it 51 percent a baby being cared for by parents or is it 50 percent a piece of chocolate because if it's more chocolate than it is a living baby that I'll eat it break a toe off how do you decide does it feel pay Like, could you bite it and it likes it?

Like, what if it wants to be eaten? It doesn't. What if the baby's like... Eat me, eat me. Does it melt? Like, in the sun? Does it get all soft and gooey? Because then you're not technically killing it.

You can just lick up the chocolate. Just wait for it to become different shape. Extra reason you shouldn't leave your baby in the car. Oh, no. Oh, my God. I left the Sunday in the car. Would you break a car window to liberate a baby made of a chocolate? To save a chocolate baby.

Or would you stand there knowing that it's... It's about to melt into a perfect cup that you can then just scoop up a moment later. Well, no, because you would still need to break into the car. Yeah. No, because you know the owner will be back soon enough. They're just going in for a pack of cigarettes. Well, no, you wait for it to pour out underneath through the door. Excuse me, sir.

I noticed your chocolate baby turned into a chocolate slurry. Would you mind if I partook? I have two straws. What would the... I hope you didn't have feelings for your chocolate child. If it had a feeling, what would the flavor be? Is it like horrifying or is it like a Cadbury? It's like hazelnut.

Oh, like a... Probably cream of some sort. Oh, baby cream. Like a cream filling, but it's like... Baby oil. What is this question? Diaper cream. Baby powder, baby oil.

Oh, man. Okay, so then at what point do you stop saying Happy New Year? Well, I love that this question was seamlessly integrated into when do you stop saying Happy New Year? No, no, no. They're one in the same question. I mean, I'm reading this. I don't know why I have this list. Oh, it's the New Year's Baby.

The baby. I stop once the baby melts. At that point we're done. It's like groundhog. Does the baby melt before February? I'll stop when the baby's good and ready. With climate change, you never know what's good. Every year the baby melts sooner and sooner.

New Year's is just going to be over like that. Hey, kids. Has the baby melted yet? Three more weeks of New Year. That's right. What's it, Ponsetani Phil or whatever the first? There's like a named baby.

Yeah, I don't know. There's a bunch of them. Oh, my God. I mean, I guess May for the new year. I don't know. Maybe. I mean, it doesn't have you seen them too, right? Happy New Year.

Have you guys had your chocolate baby yet? But you go to work January 3rd, you say happy new year, right? Like, let's say you're in a coma until May. It's a two-week rule for me. And you go two weeks. What if? Yeah. Oh, okay.

I don't know. After being two weeks old, the baby's too. Oh, oh, we're, oh, right. These are related questions. That's right. They're related. That's fair. Yeah, yeah.

I definitely wouldn't say New Year once the baby's still alive. I would have to make sure the baby's good and dead before. We just got home with our newborn child and Harlan, I'm kind of craving chocolate. Oh, I can just eat you all. You're like, oh, the dog ain't the baby. God damn it. No, we got to take it to the vet. Now two things are dead

Don't you eat that baby We can't use the citadel What am I talking about? Don't you eat that baby It's so sweet and tasty The baby's made of chocolate It's not dead It was never alive

I thought we established that it was like a baby baby I'm deleting this document That's called intro ideas It's just like random What can be like we've It's for everything that was in there It apparently only had two ideas on it And both of them were duplicated

You have two ideas twice You know you know that You know that mean That's like if I read read back my notes, read back your D&D notes. One of the notes here is mine is the opposite. If I knew then what I know now, I'd stop trying to. What?

Which is Jesus crazy. Are you okay? Also, hot dog. Sausages on the fire, eggs in a Ziploc, and prepared potatoes, onion, garlic oil. That's a camp recipe. It's a shopping recipe. Oh, it was starting a recipe.

All intro conversations, just notes to myself. Well, you made notes for intro. conversations about eggs in a bag? Oh, bag. I remember the egg bag. I don't remember the egg bag. I remember this one. This was a discussion about camping food.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the egg bag. I don't remember the egg bag at all. I do, yeah, yeah. I'm glad I don't. Don't get me wrong. I'm just confused. Speaking of being confused.

Speaking of a melted baby. Speaking of a melted baby. Should you play some D&D? I guess. Speaking of shitty intros. This is the gift that just keeps on together. That should be a new DNA. You fight a chocolate baby?

Chocolate Baby. That's a good album. That's a good album name. How do you fight a chocolate baby? It's a riddle. Yeah, an album name. It's by the flaming lips. I was just to say it's by the flaming lips.

It's like your Shemi battles the robot. That's exactly right. I was going to say Frank Zappa, but it's because I got old man brain. Yeah. So you've got a couple of downtime days before you leave Scarborough, right? Let's say you decide to leave on Alturiac the 19. That gives you what two days in town? Anyone getting up to anything in particular?

Oh, yeah. Red has crawled right back up those ventilation shafts, and he is having a long-winded chat with one of those cleaners. And he's just hour after hour being like, but why, my friend? And by the time he comes out, not only is Red covered and head to toe and soot, but he has made a new friend. For life.

In Charlack. Charac. Charlack. Is that the name of the caterpillar creature? No, that's Charac. Lack's loving wife, liver. I'm writing it down. This is the story they told Red anyways.

But then after that, I think I probably would get a few health potions. I'd do some shopping in town for Red. And that's all I really want to do. That's on my docket. You want to do that off screen? Yeah. Make it easy. Cool.

Last time we were market shopping, Doran got attacked, so let's just handle it. We're just going to leave that off screen just for the safety of everyone. It still happened, but we didn't see it. Anyone else? You know, I mean, Jack's ecstatic after having cast a spell at breakfast, and it didn't backfire and destroy everybody. So I think coming off of the high of having a spell kind of work, I think Jack probably spends a good portion of the day just doing chores but with magic.

And so, like, he's using his mind to move all the dishes to the sink, and with a wave of his hand, they're becoming clean. Once he feels like he's kind of, like, mastered the kitchen witch version of magic again, I think he's... The bewitched version? Yeah, I think he's going to try and, you know, go find somewhere with a little more space to practice a few spells and get back in his groove, see how much he can learn about himself. And if he happens to see a temple, guild, or other important place that might have a teleportation circle, he'd certainly stop to memorize it just in case Doran ever wanted to come visit his mom again. Absolutely.

Faster than 50 years. Yeah. There's a temple dedicated to Dumothoine, maybe a couple blocks from Doran's mother's place. And there's a temple library there where on the floor there's inscribed a teleportation circle. Maybe it takes a little bit of fast talking in order to get your way in there, maybe a little bit of clout. Yeah, I mean, as soon as you can sort of steer them around to talking about secrets and the mysteries of the arcane and all kinds of stuff, conversation just

flows naturally. Wonderful. And after visiting the market, Red swings by Dorian's house and picks up the staff from

Jack and finds a little hobby shop that he can kind of finagle his way to use their work bench and carpentry bench and kind of like

much to your chagrin you know, he's very much like no, no, no, I got it, I got, I got to trust the process. Okay.

You got to trust the process, Jack. Look, I am the process. You saw that wonderful, you know, arch did for the wedding, you know. No, no, I could pull those. Not a question of your skill at all. It's just, I almost feel a little naked without it now. There's some things. Yeah, but see,

then I'm going to feel real nervous if you're over me and you're going to be breathing on me. You know what? I'm going to go for a walk around town. Uh, you've got the staff. I'll practice magic later. I got the staff. You've got the staff. I got the staff. I just got to think of a name for it still. So I'll come back with a name. Yeah. You, you do it. You do that and wait, where is the staff? Oh, I have it. It's on my back. Okay. Funny. Funny. And redhead's off. like goes into the back room and yeah he spends a fair amount of time you know looking at it silently just hand on his face thinking you know red's not the most artistic on the outward facing but he is a guild artisan by trade he's a woodworker he's done beautiful pieces in the

past and his style is so much more fluid than the sort of dwarven construct of the city and even the dwarven woodworker who's looking over to the space that reds borrowed every once in a while I was like, well, that's not square off enough. And Red's like, da, no, no, don't worry. And it's organic. And at the end of Red's work, it almost, at first glance, if you hadn't seen it well enough at first, it doesn't look night and day different

because he's incorporated the natural shape of it, and the way it curves around the spellguard sphere at the top of it seems natural. But upon closer inspection, and as the woodworker comes over and sort of raises an eyebrow, you see the fine detail that he's hid between where he's moved pieces of the wood and resealed it with glue

and kind of made the whole thing come together and these sort of almost imperceptible but you can feel them in the palm of your hand this grain that he's carved along the entire thing almost only comes in a view when you hold it still for a second and as you spin it all of those become smooth and it's almost an optical illusion and when Red stands back the door of the hobby shop opens

and Jack returns and Red nods for a second solemnly and then grabs a really shitty piece of wood that's like kind of in the corner and he turns to the woodwork and he's like, you want to hear an elf freak out? He's going to get real funny in here. Oh no.

And Red heads to the front and after a good few minutes of pulling Jack's leg. He doesn't buy it for a second. Yeah, Red brings out the staff for you. Here you go, buddy. Well, thank you so much, Red. This is incredible. Look, I, I think I'm going with Lotea amesthesia.

It's Elvin for blossoming star flower, which I think, and you can even still see, the one still growing on the staff here. You've done incredible work. It's beautiful. Latia amistia estates. Pretty close, yep. The Mazdigan accent in there is really doing a lot of carry-in for you.

Well, I'm happy to help, bud, and I'm really glad to see you got your powers back. and Red puts a soft hand on your shoulder. It's still a work in progress. Like, some things are exactly the way they should be. They were, like, it, it feels natural, that fits within, but, but some other stuff, it's like, you know how light can pass through water and be bent and be in different places and stuff? Refraction. Yeah.

It's like all of the lenses that, that used to focus the magic had that point inside my body, and now it's been shifted somewhere else and trying to like find that locus of magic is a... I can see that this is... No, no, I hear what you're saying. I get it. No, I... I'm glad that you can find a simple way to explain it to me

that helps me understand. Is there a way I can help you focus those lenses? I mean, I think it's practice at this point. So hopefully we're back in fight and shape to go find... Those souls Face a dragon Hey no matter what

We're gonna make it through We take a time And we can do this And yeah You'll find your focus I know you will You always You always find a way

And as Jack goes to leave Red's hand doesn't leave his shoulder He kind of like tugs him Sorry That wasn't free I mean I was a few hours of work I was coping

I'm messing with you Let's go let's go I'll save your life next time, and we'll be even. Dale, wait, that's not even. I've saved your life 10 times. Alistair is going to spend a little bit of time getting himself properly outfitted in order to fit in with you guys as an adventurer. I hope it has stretchy sides.

Yeah, that's fair. I hope it's got four-way stretch. You know what? In a city like this, they probably would have, like, Duragar-made material. For real. Oh, that would allow their growth and shrinkage. I mean, considering he's in a dwarven body now, apart from the fact that he has this enlarge ability, and he's in a dwarven city, he picks up some scale mail, a shield, a war pick, some javelins. He's like...

Wall pick. None of it is like overly fancy stuff. It's not purely utilitarian either. It looks pretty nice. In fact, he looks frankly kind of dashing. and he, yeah, gets that all sorted and purchased. Where does the money come from? No one knows.

Oh, oh, Alistah looking good, buddy. Thanks, Red. And he eats a grilled cheese sandwich that he made for himself. Right, he can still do that. Of course he can. Grill cheese tax. Red takes a big bite out of half of it runs away. Conjure Grill Cheese Sandwich is one of the best adventuring spells you can learn.

Who doesn't want like a hot, crunchy tone? So limiting, though. But truly, what else do you need? Yeah. You got all your protein, you got all your... Carbs and fats. Your grilled bits. Mari, what do you want to get up to today?

One of your downtime days. After cleaning up Doran's mom's place, which took quite a while, there was a lot of plant life to get out of there. Like, things just... Every time she'd open a drawer, like another shrub would pop out. And she's just like, good Lord. But after that, she takes off for a bit and picks up like a couple of health potions and spices for the road, things like that. But at this point, she's sitting in a little dwarven cafe having, what she assumes is dwarven coffee.

It's certainly warm and bland and just like a weird, terrifying liquid. But it tastes not that bad. It's just like really hot water that's got like brown. Rocks in it. Brown in the bottom sometimes. It can't start your day without your rock water. Yeah, that's all it is. It's rocks with water for like thousands of years and they scoop it out.

It's minerals. Vintage rock water. Yeah, but this cafe is lovely. It looks out on the street. You can watch people coming and going about their business. It's a nice vantage. Yeah. And she's been thinking.

a lot lately about the talk with Ellister, all the weird stuff with letters. She's sort of seen the tension with Jack. You mean the could you ever love me stuff? Yes, all the could you ever love me stuff. It's definitely been sitting in her brain like a sleepy house cat refusing to move off your lap. Evocative. And she's she's been writing a letter and you can see that she's been writing for a while and things have been crossed out or erased or whatever and or torn off. And she's started again and it's written in primordial. She's almost writing it in the same way that you would write like a letter to something to someone that you're never going to send. You're like getting something off your chest almost like journaling it? Yeah. It reads

Fen. I hope this finds you well. It's been quite some time since we last spoke, but I was thinking of you recently. I hope things are going well on the farm. I know the harvest season is always busy. Lots has happened since I was last there, more than I could ever put in a single letter. I've been on the road, but not alone for once. I ran into some people, adventurers, I guess, a few weeks back and have been traveling alongside them since. It is a change for me. It's been a new experience, and if this reaches you, I hope I can come back and see you again some time. I have many stories to tell, and I know you'd enjoy at least a few. And she pauses for a second.

And then, you know, sort of sort of considering what to keep writing. And she goes, I'm writing to you from a dwarven city after days underground. I wish I could see her face right now as you read that, because I'm sure it's not what you expected. Pet the dogs for me. May the flowers bloom strong and the sunshine bright. If I come back your way, I hope you'll be all right to see me again. And she hesitates that she so goes to sign it. And she just writes yours, Mari.

and folds it up and slips it back into her bag. Not really sure what to do with it now. Doren, do you want to get up to anything in the next couple days? Doren spends the remaining time in town catching up with some old friends. He visits Gorgon's Tavern and catches up with Gerem Blento. He visits the blacksmiths guild where he again sees some old acquaintances, but also spends time sharing some techniques. that he's learned from different areas of Fyroon.

Nice. And some blacksmith hacks. He wanders about town, waving at people who recognizes and regaling stories for those who engage with him. Basically, he refreshes his relationship with the citizens of Scarborough and sort of reinstills his Iron Fist name and hopes to leave a better impression, especially for those who had only heard the tales of his failures and misfortunes. Yeah, here's some hacks Hashtag Doran Iron Fist These are the things that I like to do Melt a little metal here

Hacksmiths Top 10 Iron Fist Hacks You want to hold your hammer In your hand That you use the most often It's called your dominant hand Just a tip for you All right

Talk to you later After saying your goodbyes In Scarborough exchanging many hugs with Doreen and promises that you'll do a better job of keeping in touch. A little noise makes you turn around. And the Myconid buddy is standing there. Oh, we didn't eat you with breakfast.

Oh, little guy. Hey. He toddles over and just stands beside your foot, Mari, and puts his little paw down there on your foot. and then toddles over to Red, and then Elister and Doren, and he takes a second and just sort of stands beside your foot, and then moves over to Jack. Jack bends down and puts his hand out for the little guy to crawl into

so he can lift it up and put him at eye level for us. Hey, you changed Scarborough's destiny, man. You're a cute little guy. You don't know what you've done. It's going to be different around here, and it's all because of you. That's huge. Hey, you should stay with Doreen.

You know, she could use a little bit of company and look at all the dirt around here. Red points to like, so that's just we left in the sink. And, you know, most assuredly, we're going to be back this way to drop in on Doreen again. Right, Doren?

Oh, yeah. Listen, I owe you a big thank you. You open my eyes. The little myconid almost curtsies, sort of does like a little squat, and then spews just a mini cloud of golden spores. And as you just naturally breathe them in, you are overcome by a feeling of safety and gratitude. Feeling's mutual, bud. You take care of yourself.

If there's ever anything we could do to repay you, Reds Rover's got your back. For now and forever. Yeah, and you, in your mind, you get a brief hallucination of just piles of gold. You know what? He's worth his weight in gold. I bet we could measure this out. Four gold pieces. Right? Like we... Murray just flips it on at the table and leaves. Buy yourself something nice.

Everybody leaves a gold piece on the table. Yeah. You set the gates of the Dwarven City to your back and face the great darkness. of the depths of the Grey Peak Mountains. Bye. Goodbye. See you soon. People waving their handkerchiefs from the gates.

Arriveditchie. On their way out of the city, Mari sees that there is like a little, like a, not a post office. What would it be there? A post office. A message hut. Yeah.

Why bother changing it? There's no added benefit. Unless we know of a better option, just go with these. All right. No, I'm talking to Joe's comment. A message hut. I like the message.

The old main stop. The brand of post office. Yeah, it's like the sunglasses hut. She, on the way out of the city, Mari notices that there's a post office and she pauses for a second and

turned and sort of grabs her right by the arm and just goes just one second. And she runs in before you can even say anything. She doesn't even clarify. She just takes off. I think Mari quit the squad. It's very unceremonious. Peace out, losing.

Spider. I'm going to mail myself home. She wants to become a mailing spider. A spider? Well, I guess that makes sense. She can deliver so many papers. Builds herself on web, and away she goes. I love the idea for putting herself in an envelope, just being like, take me back.

Very fragile. Set yourself on the counter. with two gold coins. Like, and Torrin just opens an envelope a month later, and he's like, why is there a dead spider in here? Oh, no. Well, because the worst part is somebody jostles that bad, and Mari turns back to regular Mari,

and so it's just this letter explodes. She's in a bag. It just explodes. Does it happen if she dies of natural causes, though? If the spider dies of natural causes? Yeah, like imagine somehow you got trapped as a spider. When you eventually perish, like, after however many years, would you just immediately puff back into a full-size person?

I love the idea of it just being like, Mom, I killed a spider, and then a dead Janassie just appears. Oh, boy. But she, this tiny burst of courage kicks in, and she decides that she's going to send this letter, and she wraps it up, seals it with a little bit of wax that the person working at the counter gives to her and sends it off not knowing if it's ever going to make it

or if she's ever going to see this person again. and keeps going Runs back out and catches up Marry, why did you run away for the post office for a second? I thought you wouldn't coming back. No, I, of course I'd come back. That's, that's, I can't believe you thought differently.

What the hell is a post office? We call a message huts me. My message huts. Jacks, like, you know I could have sent that easily. I mean, to be fair, I did come up with a spell all about letters. I love words. What?

It hasn't been, it hasn't been, It hasn't been working great, but I'll show you how it works later. I can send a letter to anyone in the known universe, even across planes of reality. It's pretty miraculous. Mari's just sort of staring at Jack, just like, all right, that would have saved me. And I spent three silver. Yeah, it would save me a few silver and some stress, but whatever. And five minutes.

I mean, we had to wait for that wax to melt. Yeah. It takes me an hour, so don't, like, you, but it would get there is all I'm saying. Well, who'd you send a letter to? Everyone you know is here. Whoa. Everyone else is dead. Anyone else who knows drown?

You do have that book that's like, list of my friends that drowned. List of my friends that drown. It's getting more specific every time. Before I met you guys, there was somebody who I spent a lot of time with, I guess. I guess you could say that they were a partner.

They were definitely more than a friend. You were in business with them? No. It was. romantic. And I, I, I almost stayed for a while. I thought, you know what? I don't need to keep moving. I, I'm just going to stay here. And I was happy. It was good. But I was restless. And, and I left. But things lately have made me think of them again. And I don't know. Maybe. heading back out into the perilous wilderness has made me a little bit more daring in that sense,

and I thought I would just send them a note. Who knows if they'll even get it? I only realize now that Jack has a spell. Well, I mean, if you wrote her name on it, I'm sure she'd get it eventually, even if it took a little bit of time. It is a letter, after all. That's kind of their intended purpose. But I'm glad you mailed it.

Well, that's thoughtful. Yeah. Who knows? maybe some relatable feelings that's for sure yeah yeah yeah pretty hard for adventures like us to stay in long-term relationships right guys hey hey allister when did you get that sky llama you're looking pretty snaz yeah thanks red you look great and doran's kind of feeling is his new armor just hands all over elister and red does too but red's touching like his head like where there's no armor ah wow you're great hey well look at us who's better than us us five adventurers

Reds rovers, eh? That's right. Reds rovers, and we're going to find our friend's soul, and we're going to put him to rest once and for all, and then a little bit of our and water deep, I, probably, maybe. Looks a Jack and that looks away. Onward. To adventure.

Does Elister have a shield? Yeah. Anyone managed to keep one of those posters? Oh. Yeah, yeah, and maybe Jack has it with a couple of pins and says, maybe we should tack it right on the front here. Let him know who there's face. what is that called like heraldry or something you know it I know it's Heather

Lockley I don't think I met her yeah she worked at the Kevin Costner store on what and Epwood Coster lion shield and Kevin Costner Doren sort of steps forward in an excited sort of double step and he pulls his axe out and he starts swinging at at mysterious invisible enemies he's like it's gonna be good to get back into it again finally Back into the swing of things Is you swinging?

Dorn, you're so powerful! Say, I like that idea, Mari, about sending letters and I thought about that earlier I might have sent one here. I might do that while we're on our journey. I forgot about the mail. Rob's taking his glasses off, which I love. It broke both Jack and Rob.

Dorn, we've written letters together, I'm certain. Yeah, fuck letters. I'm with dogs. You're right. I just never thought about sending one to my hometown. Yeah, who needs to write? The written words for assholes. Yeah. The only letter I need is O for the open road.

That's not what O stands for. What's O stand for? Onward. Orange juice. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. Orange is a kill him. Well done, everyone.

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where, like, there's this theory that they kind of look weird and indistinct because they're intended to be viewed by, like, torchlight or firelight, which is flickering, giving all of these paintings on the wall, that, like, sense of movement because you're seeing two things kind of, or seeing it from two different angles. I think that, that really just echoed for me in the description of it. Sounds very cool. And it was absolutely intentional. I'm smart.