Dice Shame - 2-91 | 'All Talk'

Episode Date: May 23, 2024

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And let me get some sunscreen on you. I can say you that again, Red. What, I, and fur? Blast him in the eyeballs. Now he's blind. Let's not put the cop before the force. Here, cheers. We're kind of whatever we need to be right now.

Sorry, I'm just basking in the sunlight. Which would be adorable. I don't recognize anything around here either. Oh my God. You don't realize how much you miss it until it's gone. Let's go. That's more like it. Yes.

We track forward. Indeed. We are walking. That was it? Yeah, that was it. It's not a very good walking march, but he's doing his best. I was expecting to be cut off. I was expecting to be cut off.

The Dwarven Army marches to some weird rhythms. Welcome back to Dyshame. This is Season 2, episode 91, all talk. MVP this week is Barry Jenner. that they've been hanging out in our discord and they've just started their dice shame listen thanks for joining us barry thanks so much barry all right should we play some d and d yes let's do it woo how long would it take the world to realize hiccups disappeared forever like six months i don't know i think it'd take a long time i think like how often do you get the hiccups

get them like so rarely at this point because I'm not a baby that like I was just a bit to say though but here's a thing babies get them a lot yeah so that would be a big clue like every every medical you know especially with how like neurotic parents can be right they'd be like sure baby hiccubing mine's not hiccuping so it probably be any pregnant woman would be like I would know in two days that's true because your baby your belly bumps the whole time with the hiccups you know what when you factor in the babe the chocolate baby aspect I think you're going to get out way sooner result But I mean, maybe, but how long do you get the like hiccup conspiracy theories as to like, Oh, the Mandela effect?

Saying that, what do you mean hiccups? You know, or do you become the fringed person saying, no, no, no, we never hiccups. That's a crazy thing for you to say. Hickup gaslighting. Funny that this question comes up because last week I got hiccups. But before that, I actually, I legitimately thought to myself, I haven't had hiccups in a long time. So I'll tell you, the timeline is probably about six. months because that's when I was like I haven't had a hiccup in like forever but but how many times do

you have to think I haven't had a hiccups in six months for you to then conclude hiccups nowhere in the world forever yeah I'd be like calling up harl and be like well harl have you had a hiccup lately was the question how would we know they're gone forever how long would it take to for the world to realize hiccups are gone forever well I think that would be tough because you know like I don't think we would ever guess forever. I think we'd be like, it's been seven years since hiccups, and we're still waiting for the, you know what I mean? Like, it's kind of like children of men, that movie where they stopped giving birth.

They're still like, I'm sure someone's going to give birth. Sure enough, spoiler, someone does give birth. God damn it's not forever. But you know what I mean? For sure you can't, you can't prove, you know, something that hasn't happened yet, right? Are there people in the hospital who are under observation for hiccup? I'm sure there are some who have like hiccup for years and years. It would just be miraculously cured.

Yeah. Oh, my hiccups are gone. And is this the individual or was it the collective that you were asked? I think for the collective knowledge of the world to beat hiccups aren't the thing anymore. Less than two weeks. No way. You think so. With babies for sure.

The minute Joe said it, she hiccups every day. The mother, the mother subredits, the parent subredits would be like, my baby's not hiccum, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor. All those doctors start calling each other. Within 72 hours, you're finding out that there has not been any hiccups. anywhere and then that's you know what I mean like everybody has to start wearing masks and you have to stay inside because nobody's hiccuping anymore there's a problem well maybe there'll be certain people who'll be fake hiccabing so that they get attention from the press like no I'm the only one who's hiccuping now that's true yeah oh I'm still oh me I'm the one I'm a bartender

in Minnesota and I am the only one who can hiccup just always that person yep that guy that we No, Brian? Two weeks. Two weeks. And I think years before that to get through the public consciousness and not just be a weird theory a nerd had that people no longer hiccup. I agree. Just like thinking about how other stuff like in like medical things like can take like forever

for anyone to come to a consensus for like hiccups are so minor. You're not factoring in the anal parent baby people. Oh, I think that the. parents will have noticed, but I don't think that the world will have noticed. There's lots of bad recommendations in parent groups, aren't there? Like, there's tons of bad science. It's not about bad science. It's the minute one person says, hey, BT-dubs, has anybody's baby pickup?

Well, additionally, pretty much. Every parent goes, uh, no. Then you have this boom of like, I'm going to ask my sister-in-law. I'm going to ask, like, you have wild, like, these groups that you joined. There's a, she joined a discord for people giving birth in that month. And it was like hundreds of people, let alone the subgroups that you met off of that. You know what I mean? And the apps that you download to track your pregnancy and they're like, what's normal for your baby this month?

The amount of times you've been like, she rolled over. Is that too early or too late? You know what I mean? Like you factor in the parents and it's wildfire. But you know what? After a while, I guarantee you it would start being like, well, did we actually ever even hiccup? Who's to prove? Who's to prove that we ever did?

That would be different, yeah. And you'd be like, no, no, no, that baby was laughing. And then all of a sudden it'd be like World War IV because people are fucking over the, the great hiccums. God damn it, Rob. I think from the perspective of like us, like just adults, I totally agree like it would be a while because I don't hiccup very often, none of us hiccup very often, but literally every day. More so when I was pregnant because there are apps that monitor your gestational age and they tell you like you should feel your baby hiccuping. and moving X times per day. And if you don't feel the hiccuping,

that's, exactly. So people would be going to their doctor being like, I haven't felt hiccups. Right. Like, it's a milestone for that. You know what I mean? Like, we don't think about how important that is as 30 plus year old fox,

but parents would be over it. They would ruin it. So quick. They would ruin the big twist of an M. Night Shyamalan movie, no hiccup within two weeks. The beach that makes you hiccup? Spoil it.

damn m night's like i thought i'd get a year out of this concept no how do they 48 hours how do they even come up with that idea i've already had this it's already written damn plants make me hiccup oh fucking that's good that's a that's not that's a pretty wild out there thought rob it's no chocolate baby don't worry alex oh that one stops The Grey Peak Mountains are a raised scar across the topography of southeast Fyroon, spanning some 200 miles measuring north to south. They're composed of several different ranges, split horizontally by the road that Captain Trenneros mentioned, the dawn pass.

You keep the deep underground roads for as long as you can, before being forced to surface like mammals coming up from the deep long swim. Ah, the surface. Oh, the sun. Thank goodness. Oh, my God. Yeah, there's like this, um, wide tunnel that you've been walking through for a super long time that's been really, really dark. And just from, for the last like 30 minutes of walking, it's just getting lighter and lighter and lighter. And all of a sudden, the shoulders of the tunnel just give way out into the foothills of the Grey Peak Mountains. And you're looking out over this vista. There's, A road that winds across the grounds in front of you.

It's maybe like, I don't know, two kilometers away, and you can see the snowy foothills. It's still wintertime, unfortunately, so we have, like, lots of conifers dotting here and there. You can see in the distance there's, like, a little building down the way. And then beyond the road, there are more foothills, and then the Grey Peak Mountains extend onwards. another, who knows, 50 miles?

You know, every once in a while I have to remind myself how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful place. I mean, look at that. You know, being adventurers, it really opens up the world towards you. It's gorgeous, it's breathtaking. No, all right. No, sorry, I'm just basking in the sunlight, honestly. You can say that again, ready.

The warm rays of light on your skin. You don't realize how much you miss it until it's gone. And fur? And fur? That's all I'm saying. It's really cool. Alistair's blinking at the sunlight. Is it always this bright out?

It's, uh... Oh, shoot. Well, I guess it's just the first time those eyes have seen the sun. It feels like extra super sunny. Yeah. It does take a little bit to get used to it. Trust me. Yeah.

Oh, well, you know what? Here. And red goes into Mari's bag of holding and says, can I borrow these? And he pulls out the goggles of night. Mari uses those. I know, but it's day. And he flips the leg of holding. lenses inside out.

They blast him in the eyeballs. Now he's blind. And he straps them on Elster. Yeah, now they like sunglasses. I love it. Thank you. Just while we're outside and when we go back in, Mari can use them. I'll need those if we go back in dark.

Yeah. We can rock paper, scissors for him. How about that? Now, you'll share them. Look, one of you can see in the dark, one of you can't see in the light. I promise you, there's not going to be any overlap. It's so dark in here now. Dark is usually not a surprise, right? And I know none of that makes sense scientifically,

but I like the idea in a magic world that when you just flip the lenses, they do the opposite. Problem solved. Science. Also, he slaps on like a nice floppy brimmed hat. Yeah, I was about to say, like, I love to. I was imagining like Marie's got like somewhere tucked in her bag a hat.

Yeah, like beach wear. And let me get some sunscreen on you and red like puts it on the Duragar's nose and the tips of his ears. There you go, Alistair. You're surprisingly caring and loving, Red. I've always been caring and loving. I don't know. When I first met you, you were all business, right?

It was in, like, the stone giants. Listen, when we first met you, I was convinced that you were shady as shit. Because who the hell talks their way out of dying from a stone giant? And I must say, Elister, the more I've gotten to know you, the more I understand why. You're quite affable. And more than that, I trust you now. Doran had a little bit of a rough time with your new shape he thought you were secretly this all along

but don't worry I edited around that conversation here we are I think I said I forgot about that yeah you did yeah Ulster I thought you were in the wrong body for a long time let's just bring this back up so I'll have to re-ed around it's easy I just cut it so it's that little building over there

yeah it's like this um I mean it's like super far away you're going to have to walk for like, I don't know, an hour to get there probably. But it's like on the horizon, this tiny little inn kind of straddling this dawn pass road, you presume. And it's leaking smoke from its teeny tiny little chimney. You'll be happy to know that I really am not too familiar with this end of the Great Peak Mountains. And so I'm about as loss as you all. Wait, well, lost? Well, I mean...

Doren. No, we're... He's found as us all? I guess. We don't really have a strong sense of where we're going. And so lost and founder. Nebulous concepts. Yeah, exactly.

Well, I guess all I'm trying to say is I don't recognize anything around here either. We're kind of whatever we need to be right now. Yeah. Whatever we kind of feel like being. I want to be Jack. Well, and those are great points. We talked to a ghost who told us to go across the pass and look for some peaks, I guess. Yeah, technically I spoke to the ghosts.

So I could have misheard. and I feel confident let's go let's hope you didn't we track forward indeed we are walking that was it

yeah it's not a very good walking march but he's doing his best I was expected to be cut off the Dwarven army marches to some weird rhythms I was expecting to be cut off

I'll be honest I was expecting to be interrupted they march like people running from sandworms in Dune. They're like, it can't be rhythmic steps. Lurch forward. That's why it goes so poorly. Hey, you know what?

And Doren's looking at like this slow slope in front of them that's covered with snow. What? If we had something like... I know exactly what you're thinking. And Red pulls out the folding boat. That's exactly what I'm going for, Red. I'm one step ahead of you, buddy.

Don't worry. I think this will go so much faster if we slide. You know it. Stephen one. Whoa. Oh my God. Get out of the way. And by using the secret phrase, Stephen one, Red's tiny binder-sized boat unfolds and plonk lands on the fluffy white powder in front of you.

Hop in, everyone. I don't got the strength to stop this thing. Everybody get in. Everybody, get in. What the hell? It's like already starting to slide down this, like, slippery, icy slope. Quick, quick, quick, grab my head. You're going to get on this.

It goes. She's just running. Just like, that's not where boats go. Boats go in water. What is this? That's never stopped red before. I know. Alistair jumps and lands heavily in the back of the boat as it starts to pick up speed.

Snow's made of water, Mari. Doorn runs behind it, pushing it like a bobsled guy, and then hops in. I like the idea that's moving, but not so much. And then Red's like, Mari, get on the bow. And start casting your ice. Do it, Mary! Murray runs up to the front, and she casts shape water, which turns any of the snow up ahead of them into ice.

And she stands there like a figurehead on the front with her hands outstretched, just ice sheeting off of them. Wahoo! Whoa! Whoa! Oh, yeah. Picks up speed, knocking small bushes out of the way. You, like, launch off of a small rocky outcropping and land heavily on an even steeper slope.

Starting to rocket and pick up speed now, heading straight for the road. All right, everyone, get ready to jump on. Three, two, what? One! Okay! As everyone jumps, Red goes, steven three! And the bolt holds back up under three. We all laid in the snow

Elister's legs are just like sticking out waggling Oh that was fun That was fun A little bit of Good job, Rand Can I help me out? I got you Alistair

Pulling this leg And we'll Jack starts trying to pull Yeah his noodle arms Are not doing it We all just stand there watching Oh you're wedged in there Pretty good

Uh Dorn You want to give me a hand here Yeah, let me hide. Torham with like one hand is this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's some. Mari's hair is frozen in the way.

Like, you've been in a hot tub in the middle of winter and your hair freezes. That's hers right now. It is just blown back and solid. Like a big spike. That's a nice way to wake you up to the outside. Well, Red puts the boat back away. Yeah.

Sure feels alive. Wow. Talk about invigorating. How'd you like that, Mark? and he like passed you on the back just breaking all the ice off of her hair trying to get it Doran smacks you on the back like friendly

but like as he does it like this like like this ice just shatteres off you just a whole layer off the front like after an ice storm just like a whole version of when you open your car window yeah yeah yeah it's cool

oh I love the idea of yeah just just a form of her shoots up an ice molt all right well that brought us uh one step closer to the edge oh and i'm about to break and then red breaks a piece of ice off his own fur is it a poem everything you say to me is a poem shut up when i'm talking to you okay sorry now what i was saying was shut up now we're not too far from that inn that's right i mean

we've been hiking for a little while wouldn't be too bad if we rested up and maybe had a brusky just one or two non-dwarven cooking don't and i were pretty good in town i just want to point out that it was you two, and red points to Jack and Murray, that kind of went a little overboard. I think Doran and I have been pretty tight laced as of late in the drinky department. You can say that again. Considering we just came from a Dwarven city, you think we would have had more to drink, but here we are. He was a turtle.

Which means, Doran and I can cut loose now, and you two can be DEDs, designated Delvers. Mario at this point is freezing and I think I would just like some tea, thank you. You look like you could use a warm fireplace and they do have a fire going and Doran points to this smoke leaking from the chimney as the narrator so elegantly put it.

Yeah, correct. So bruskees and bears and teas and tears. Let's go. Red point let jag with tears. It's not wrong. Accidentally. How the counting worked out Sometimes you bottle it up inside

Until you can't Excellent There there, keep it in buddy Adventure Let's go To adventure Yeah and we hike up to the front of the Inn

And head In Inside Through the door What's the You know what's the environment like I'll roll a perception Hey

Now we're playing D&D Rolling dice 11 um it's a snowy quiet afternoon there are tracks on the road from people recently having traversed but it doesn't seem to be a very well used path so there isn't any brush on the road there are old wagon tracks and then more recently, some footfalls. In fact, red, as you're looking at the ground, you see that there are a couple of humanoid tracks as well as quite a lot of smaller footprints.

Oh, I would love to do a tracking check on these. Yeah, so you can roll survival to sort of ascertain what kinds of creatures may have made these footprints, how many of them, et cetera. I have advantage to track survival. Wow, good for you. 21. Love those spaces.

Red, you can tell by looking at the tracks on the road that three people passed here within the last four hours or so, judging by the snowfall. These humanoids were probably medium-sized. The remainder of the small footprints are a little bit more puzzling. They have claws, and they're quite small. So small creatures with claws, they're bipedal. You're not familiar with the creatures themselves, but there's a lot, maybe 20, 30.

It's like some humans passed and a whole gaggle of small bipedal-clod creatures. Nothing to be concerned about, but I figured I'd let everyone know. Hmm. Yeah. Would a nature check help? If you're all nature, we can talk more about it, for sure. Take a lucky. Uh, that is a 21.

Mari, you're able to assess that these feet look like they would belong to a creature that's in like the dragon category of creatures, probably cobalds judging by their size. Huh. Interesting. They, uh, the little guys. They're something draconic, maybe cobalds? Cobolds? Like the silvery metal or colored blue?

I think I've, I mean, like I've run into a couple. Hmm. Can't say, can't say I know too much about them. I don't know what that is. Cobolds, let me remember for a second. Hmm. With a natural 20. Whoa.

Cobolds. Well, that's not what we call them. back in Mazdica. In Mazdica, they're called Kavowl. Oh. I'm not even trying to say that. Is you insane? Yeah, sorry, I was just... I was trying to speak the draconic language back then. What do they call them again? Kavowl. I know them very well.

I think Reds got something caught in his throat. Yeah, no, that makes a lot more sense. Interesting, interesting. Do you know much about them? Are they dangerous? Like, if they're headed over to that inn there, Maybe we should be prepared. Well, look, from what I know about cobalds, and a lot from over in Mazdica, they travel in big packs,

so 20 and 30 is pretty normal, but they're mainly followers. That being said, given what we know about the cultists in the area and the Clarion eggs, I wouldn't be surprised if there might be something a little bigger going up. Yeah, you make a good point.

Oh, the guy who came on a big expedition here to steal one of Clarion's eggs, he mentioned little dragony guys, but not by that name. Chasloff? Yeah. Oh, yeah. So if they are in there,

I mean, maybe we could use this to our advantage. I mean, we don't know what to expect. They might actually be part of the cultist group. They might know exactly where Clarion is. Maybe we should be smart about how we introduce ourselves, make sure. Look, look, look, let's not put the cart before the horse. No, I agree with you. I'm just saying there,

If it does come up, it might be good to have a strategy for what we're going to, what we're doing before we walk in. I say we don't tell anybody our plans, as we always do. We keep it close to the chest. We get a drink in the inn and maybe we ask people if they saw cobalds in the area. Look, if 20 or 30 cobalds are sitting in there drinking beer, we're going to know very quickly. Well, I understand that, but that's what I'm saying. Unless they're on top of each other in a trench coat, in which case, They could be very sneaky. Which would be adorable.

Yeah, and no lies, detect. I'm actually assuming that that might be the case, that we walk in there and there's 20 or 30 cobalt. If that's the case, then we'll run out by the door and burn the place down. Agreed. Whoa. Oh, that's pretty, you know, that's pretty, a little extreme red. Look, Doren, we just got out of the mines.

I'm sure everything is going to be fines. And if it's not, the ownership will be on mines. I get what you're saying. But you also just rhymed mine and mine. not. It was a different context. It's fine. Okay. For the time. If there are cobalds in there, we'll have a plan and we'll try to talk to them and if they're violent, we'll attack as we always do and we'll continue on our way. Excellent. Okay. Your rhyming is a crime. Fair. Look at all these trees made of pine, not made of pine, but you know what I mean.

Pine trees. Thanks, Alistair. All right, let's go. y'all head down the road towards this lovely tavern slash in it's a beautiful place made of stone it's a one story building looks like it's probably just like the the one main room and probably a couple of offshoot rooms where people might sleep there are some windows all four sides as it appears looks very cozy there's smoke curling from the chimney, and an appealing smell wafts towards you as you approach. This place looks cozy. Does it have a name? Yeah, there's a tile hung out front that says the blue goblet in. Hmm. Oh, I get it.

Because it's got a blue goblet on the sign there. No, because cobalt blue. Oh. Now, you're thinking of cobalt. Jack, I worry that red may be colorblind. What? I resent that accusation. I am not colorblind.

I can't see color at all. It's all right, red. Shall we go in? And Doran looks over at Mari, who is like, sh shiver, yeah, she is quite cold. Mari, you're not going to survive very long here. No.

I'm worried about you. We need to get you a coat or something. She has a coat of, but she was covered in ice. She was at the front shooting ice out of her hands. That's true. In the open wind. We need to find a solution. Maybe they sell coats in here.

I'm sure she'll warm up. I think we've got some like cold weather gear in one of these bags. Yeah, she's wearing it. All the cold weather gear. It's like Thomas's snowsuit. Scarfen, scarf on scarf on scarf. It's so cozy. Red opens the door and steps inside.

We all open the door. We all try to step inside together, but we just don't fit. So red opens the door and steps inside. We fall for it every time. I love that bit. You open the door and you are greeted to, again, lovely cozy room. There's tables around a bar in the back with a bartender standing behind it. A lovely roaring hearth on the one side. There are a couple patrons here, three people sitting in a table

drinking from tankards, and all three of them look up at you as you enter. Hark, fellow patrons. My name is Redd. This is my best friend, Mary, my best friend Jack, and my best friend Elister and I think Doran's outside but he'll be in in a second and he's also my best friend

and it's a blustery chilly day outside and we thought we'd warm ourselves by your health Yes and I'm his other best friend The bartender looks at the five of you as you enter

and looks back down at the table really quick and just polishing a mug, like the one mug over and over again. Ah, perfectionist, I see. Red says and walks over to the bar. Wonderful establishment you have here, my friends and I

were just saying from the outside, it looks pretty cozy. Thank you. Doran picks up on the body language of the bartender, and I'm going to do a look around. I'd like to perceive what the situation is like in here. From across the bar, you look the barkeeper up and down to assess the situation.

Roll insight. But not just the bar key. I want to look at everybody in the bar. See if there's shifty shifty glances or anything like that, other than the bartender as well. Doran stands in the middle of the room, appraising the situation. That's more like it. Yes.

And he's got his eyes fixated on the beer because I rolled a two. Oh, wait. What was it? What was it? A perception? Insight. Insight. Oh, never mind.

It's a six. Okay. From the middle of the room, Doran looks from the bartender to the patrons, to the fire, to the beer. This seems to be an all right kind of place. Dorn satisfied. One of the patrons,

the woman who is sitting at the head of the table, turns to you red and she says, I am Dracrochreau, Opecrus. And this is my best friend. friend, Krutica, and this is my best friend, Karimona. Hey, nice to meet you three. Very, very nice.

What brings you three out of the cold? As you say, it is cold out. There's a lovely fire here. Hip, hip, hooray, Red says, and slaps the bar and spins around towards the bartender. Join us for a drink, won't you? I will. As bartender, and Red wiggles the finger towards him, four of your finest ales for my friends and your super finest one for me and a tea oh and a tea

and as bartender matches eyes with red i'm going to roll insight on him as well excellent it's for murray you don't need any more liquids you're going to have like hyperhydrosis can't you to the hospital is it possible for a water genocity of hyperhydrosis that's for you to know and us to find out. 24. Red, as you order the drinks, you study the bartender carefully. His pupils are dilated,

and a bead of sweat rolls down his forehead, down his nose, and lands on the bar, and he nervously wipes it away. Yeah, Red makes no change whatsoever to his demeanor. Wonderful, wonderful! He brings a shaking hand up from underneath the bar and sets down the glasses and begins to pour drinks for everybody.

Brilliant. And Red spins back around leaning on the bar with like his back to the bartender. We'd love to join you for a drink. How many are you in? Are you going to buy a round or is it on us this time? Isn't the first one on us usually? You wouldn't turn down a free drink, would you? Do you often make your way to taverns and buy drinks for a stranger? Oh, you have no idea. Only three of you. We're a family here. It's small. Red walks over and puts his, like, feet over the chair, turning it around, like, that cool guy way. Oh, like, Riker?

Yes, I say Riker. And he kind of sits up and says, oh, hell's, yeah. We've been just from Scarborough. We came from the far, far north, and all over the place, really, we're adventurers, if you know what I mean. And, heck, it's a pretty dangerous wilds out here. We've had to draw these once. twice and red taps is bow. It is very dangerous wild out, yes. Some have very little idea how dangerous.

I'm impressed that you've made it this far from Scarborough, you say. Yeah, about through Scarborough. And where before that? Oh, before that, well, water deep to far far north, we were even in the frost peak mountains. Is that what they're called?

Spine of the world? That's the one. You are well-traveled indeed. Oh, we've seen them all. We've seen giant gnomes. We've seen dragons. Dragons. And when I say dragons, I'm going to roll insight. 21.

I want to know if anything whatsoever in her demeanor, her pulse, her sweat, her breath changes when I mention dragons. No. Yeah, but you know how these things are? It's just the way of the world. Now, kind of dangerous. Heck, it was a slippery slope. we had to traverse down only a few moments ago. Still covered in snow, yeah.

Ah, yes, I see your companion there is quite frosty looking. And she raises a cool eyebrow at you, Mari. Mari is sort of picking the last of the ice out of her hair and flicking it into the fire and watching it sizzle and evaporate away. Your tea will be ready momentarily, sir. And what about yourselves? Here, cheers. What makes you find yourself at the Blue Goblet Inn?

We're locals. Hmm. Locals. Living in the valley here, eh? Beautiful. Yes, we are frequenting this inn. Isn't that right? Barkeep.

The bartender does not look up. Red brings the drinks over and puts them in front of them And says, even better than answering questions, let's play a drinking game. Hmm. You ever played a drinking game? Here's how you play. If you've done something, you know, you take a drink. So I say, you know, I've never, I don't know, I've never had a galette.

I'd be lying. What? No, no, well, that's what I'm saying. Okay. Oh, sorry. He doesn't get it. You three get it, and Red takes a drink. Jack also drinks after, like, finally understanding the game.

I don't like this. Shut up, Critica. Oh, it's just a game. Come on. Look, it's a little bit of fun. It's a way to get to know each other, and it's a way to warm up. If you've done it before, you take a drink. Dora scratches his head for a moment, and then drinks.

So you all say something, and we'll drink if we've done it. The woman in the middle nods and sips thoughtfully at the beer for a second. I've never seen the ocean. Oh, I got a drink on this one. Got a drink to that. The other two, take a drink. Mary? She's never tea or anything yet.

She's just kind of watching and warming up. Well, I saw the Marina, and he gulps. All right, all right, Jack, your turn. Never have I ever got stabbed by a goblin, and he takes a drink. Oh. Doren drinks. There's a story behind that one, and he winks. Oh.

Mari? I like you imagine she's pulled out maybe a little. like a wine skin or a drinking skin or something that she has with her, and she just takes a very gentle little sip. You got stopped by, what? Anyway, sorry, friends at the time. You don't know what I've been up to before I met you. No, did you leave a scar, or you're...

Your turn, friend, and Red points to the guy who, like, kind of disagreed with it. Crudica, your turn, you pick one. I've never had kids. Well, shit. Red takes a long sip. Drakwa, like, elbows him and is like, fuck you. And she drinks. Just in case, plus I'm thirsty, and he drinks.

All right, Doran, it's your turn. When Red says Doran, your turn, he gives you a knowing look. Doran's stance changes ever so slightly, mostly with his feet. You wouldn't notice if you're probably sitting at the table. Never have I ever been in a barb roll. Ork Splitter begins to just kind of vibrate a little bit on your back. I don't know if I am innocent on that one. Red takes a sweet.

Jack gets up and walks to the bar to refill his glass. Alistair takes his beer and does a big exaggerated shiver and moves over to be in front of where the hearth is kind of behind these people. Mari kind of shifts back over to the other tables and goes and starts like, you know, kicking snow off of her boots. No bob rolls for you three? Hmm Draquah just kind of

purses her lips tightly at you Be honest Come on Even a disagreement I've lived a sheltered life I suppose Fair enough

All right My turn again I suppose Let me think Let me think Oh I know Never have I ever Served A measly

weak, ignorant fucking dragon named Clarion. There's a moment of tense silence. She doesn't move. And then she picks up the glass in front of her considering it calmly. She glances over at you red takes a cool sip.

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