Dragon Friends - DF2 #3.02. Leomund's Tiny Hat

Episode Date: March 1, 2026

Up in the shivering mountains, the Heroes of Yearth hesitantly try to work themselves back into their adventuring groove. Slay a manticore, a simple enough request, but will the heroes let their failures rattle them from the heroics required of them? Will they be able to save face before they find themselves in even more dire straits? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

20. 13. Wait, this isn't one of those illegal dice, is it? Yeah, no, that's the illegal dice. Well, that would explain why I've rolled too much. Why do we have that? Okay. Guys, I've got a 20.

I'm putting the illegal dice in the chair. The loaded dice. You can pray, but your gods won't save you. The worm's fire will not spare you. Doom and destruction, death and rebirth. They can return with their heroes of yours. Their jaws are all tizzled. Their asses are furs.

Dragon friends, our heroes have found themselves on the top of a snowy mountain where they play tag man with a four-armed troll who has set them on a quest to kill or bring back in one piece. One of the most dangerous mountain creatures there is, the Shard Mall Manticorn. Thank you, Whedon. Our heroes spent a brief second congratulating each other. and apologising and having an emotional bond, at which point, while they were not prone, but vulnerable, yes.

And hugging. Very vulnerable. Emotionally. A sassy mantegore swooped from the air, attacking them. Eden, you were playing the role of sassy shardmore mantoror. Yeah. And you are attacking. Who do you want to attack with your claw?

So the shardmore mantacore is going first. Well, it goes a drop on them. Okay. So the Chardmore Manticore swoops down towards you and as it does, spiny shards

shoot out from its wings in a 20 foot emanation and seeing as you're all hugging each other, you are all in the space for this so please make a DC-15 dexterity saving throw while I prepare my D-6s.

Who passed, who saved? What was the save? Fifteen. DC-15 dexterity save. No, I didn't save. So, who passed? Charimilar passed. So Charan-Mor throws him out of the way and only takes half damage, which is 15.

Everyone else takes 30 piercing damage. Oh, fuck me. I've only got eight hit points left. Did we rejuvenate before? You had a short rest between when you were passed out on the mountain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the thing. Polywater, it's your turn.

I don't know if we can defeat this manticle, because that was just its first thing, and I'm already so nearly dead. So I'm going to use psychic whispers. That's one of my psionic powers, and I'm going to roll a psionic energy dye and see if I can speak to it. The dye is just for how long I can talk to it for.

Okay. And I'm going to find it, D8, because I know. what it looks like. I can't, I don't know. From being psychic? So for one hour I can talk to you. You're a side duck now?

I'm a side duck. A little Pokemon reference there. Ever heard of it? Okay. No, no one's ever heard of Pokemon. I get a headache and explodes. Yeah, really cool ability. Can I talk to the dragon?

Yeah, you can talk to the Manticoor. Sorry, the Manticoor? You can talk to the Shadmal Mantico. And I say, do you wish to feast upon the souls of many men? Um, look, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just a working mother trying to defend my children. Honey, talk to me about it. I am talking to you about it.

I'm a working mother too. Well, are you at work? What's, what's your job? This, basically, I'm an adventurer. Oh, really? Yeah, and what's your job? Defending my children. Oh, yes.

Yes. Stay at home, mum. Hey. Not a real job. Dinner, you can't see that. How old are your little ones? Oh, they're 18. Oh.

Yeah. Still at home? They're not leaving their roots too. I've got a beautiful 18-year-old twins, and I hope they never leave. Oh, that's nice. Now, listen, we did, I'm going to be honest. We came back, we came to kill you. Maybe. I can now see.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You came to kill me? Yeah. Okay. Not going to work out. As I said, just a job. Nothing personal. But I've got a suggestion for you. Okay. How about we go. We could even take your little ones with you. We'll go back to this hunting lodge, absolutely chop block full of really bad men, you know, worse than your ex-husband, I'm sure. My husband's dead.

Someone came along and killed him. I've been raising these children. For 18 years. Alone. A single mother. I took a fucking, I took a stop. Which is ironically how he died. Are we just watching them kind of, can we tell they're having this like psychic conversation?

Yeah, I think you can tell that what you see is what you see is Pollywaddle staring off, kind of doing a stare off, I guess, with the Manticore. Who is now, I guess, hovering in air just like flashing. happening in the air above. I know we're in combat. Could I, like, do my move while this long conversation is going? Yeah, you could, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I just go over to Polly and I put my hand on her back and I cast enhanceability, which will give her advantage on charisma.

Oh, anything in, sorry, rather, yeah, charisma skills. Perfect. That's great. It is really funny, though, to think of you looking at somebody, just looking at someone and going, let me help. Let me help. Put it in your head on their back and make better at it. pretty hard over there.

This is a spell? My nose is bleeding. Yeah, that's a spell. So that doesn't need any role or anything. It's a second level spell called enhanceability. I could use any ability. And I'm like, well, it's not strength. I don't think she's going to punch it.

I think that she's having a psychic conversation. Psychic. That's from smart D&D. Okay. Did it a munch about, you see Polly Waddle having a psychic conversation. You see Ernie Sweetwater laying hands on her in order to enhance her abilities. want to do anything? Do you want to get in there? Yeah, I'm worried that Dinner Much About is like misreading the situation

because I don't feel like he's feeling any sense of urgency at all and it's worrying me as a player. Okay. So I'm, what? You did take 30 damage from the spikes. Yes. I may be blaming myself. Okay.

I just said, I brought this upon myself. Yeah, so maybe I'll just cast invisibility. Oh, smart. Okay, you're going to hide? Yeah. Great. Charon Valerian Who looks worse for wear

The manticle Has not been touched at all But I mean about who's from Sorry, he's not gonna heal the manticle Of our friends I don't know I think Polly Waddle's pretty I got eight as well

I'm gonna go well you've disappeared Yes I'm looking all right So I'm gonna go over to Polly And put my hand This is like the final scene In Guardians of the Galaxy And they're trying to hold the

Purple Rock I can't remember that film But any description of any superhero film just sounds so ridiculous. You know when they're trying to hold the purple rock. And I'll put my hand on my shoulder and I'll cast healing.

And that's a bonus action, so you can actually do an action as well if you want. Well, so you get eight points. Oh, thank you. And my action will be just to start singing songs from the Guardians of the Galaxy sounds.

What do you pick first? What do you pick first? Bump, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, Hey! Is that my, is Manticor's turn again? In Menta calls turn. Okay. And so I've offered you this proposition.

So is there going to be like some sort of persuasion check? Yeah, I guess there has to be a... Actually, sorry, the other thing that I'm actually going to do is I can, um, uh, as in my one level of bard, I'm going to cast Bartic inspiration on Polly as well. Hmm. Come on. You're going to let him do it? Hey, you know what? How about this?

I, my thing was in action, so I get to cast it as a bonus action. because those two bonus actions. I'm going to do it too. Yeah, we're all getting a bonus action. You get a D8. I see him go to sing, but I'm like, can't sing if your mouth's full of nice words, friend. And so.

Okay, so you can do your little persuasion. I'm like, come on, bring the girl. Are they girls? Your kids? Are they girls, by the way? Maybe. Yeah, yeah. They're twins.

It's a Pokemon said. I've caught them all. Yeah, but is it a girl and a girl or a boy? Because I don't want it to be a girl and a boy. I said it was like Pokemon. I've caught them all. Boy and a girl. Okay, what are you trying to persuade me off?

Well, come with me. There's a hunting lodge full of men. You can gobble them all up. I'll show you where they are. Plus, they probably would want to kill you. So it's really a defensive move. I just want to say, I'm on your side. Gals for gals.

You know? Manta cause before whores. I've been watching a lot of always sunny, and I've just been hearing Danny DeVito calling people whores. Like six hours straight, it sort of changes your brain. Okay, so... I'm trying to convince them to come to the hunting lodge with us.

What you're offering... So the Manticle, I think, would feel like they're in a position of power. They can see that you have been really, you know... Honest. Attacked. You've been really damaged by their wing shards. They would also... She would also know that... I think she would not feel particularly threatened by you.

You don't look particularly threatening. So I think for the initial check, I think it would be quite a difficult persuasion she'd be like, don't kill us, kill these other people. Because she could just kill you and then kill us other people as well. Yeah, but we're going to tell her where they are. I was going to say, didn't you, didn't you, or did you not make it clear that we were sent here to hurt her by those guys?

Yeah, you did say, you did say we've been sent here to try and kill you. Which I think is a pretty good argument, being like, hey, we did you a solid. Go get them guys. Okay, here's what I'm going to say. I think the initial persuasion would be very, very difficult. I think it would be 20. Okay. Because you've offered her nothing.

Polly is just thinking about this in her own mind and she's staring into the metagals. Yeah. Eyes. Can we, can they either, can we, can she have an opportunity to convince or? That's what the persuasion check is. It's just a DC 20. Well, I mean, it's a DC 20.

Tell us what it is. But you have, it's a DC 20, but you have advantage. And a D8. Whoa. I have advantage and a D8. No, you've got, you don't, do you get advantage from enhanceability? Yeah, that's the whole point You get advantage and the inspiration

DC 20 So we get 12 two dice So roll the maybe roll the 8 Oh no yeah Do it all the same time Here we go What do you think girlfriend Can you convince a Manticore

Oh fuck 27 Oh shit Oh yeah of course Because you got a plus charisma Ha ha ha fuck yes Okay I've rolled a 19 plus a persuasion of 5 So I got 24

So 24 Yeah 24 is pretty good I think 27 made her out and she did it. I'm so happy right now. I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed. All right.

Okay, well, I'm listening. That was the initial. More conversation. Tell me more. Now you need to bring the Mantigaur down to the hunting lodge, I think. Yeah. Well, look, I was planning on

eating you all, I mean, not eating you all, killing you and feeding you to my children. they're hungry they're still barely full grown but sweet they're 18 that you know what's if something happened to you

God forbid you know like a pack of adventure wait wait wait wait wait what would happen to me what would if anything happened to you

yes you know if you accidentally you know it flew into a rock face that you didn't see I've what I don't see that happening if I'm honest

mention that she doesn't have a partner and if she chokes at home there's no one to help there's no one to help and those girls and those kids need to learn to look after themselves. Have they ever hunted before? You mean doing it all for yourself? No, I've been a hunter.

I couldn't. Well, come on. Can I, sorry, how do you imagine she would, how would she choke at home, Demi? What are they, what do you eat? Like a clavicle. She'd get a clavicle stuck in her throat. Do you have, hey, have you ever had an inflamed uvula?

Not yet. Right, so if you do get one, you might choke on that. You know, I mainly eat bones. Don't like the meat, but I like bones. So that's like one of the main top things you could possibly choke on. On a phone. Did you know that if you eat meat and sit at home and have a big steak by yourself and don't chew it, that you can get sent to hospital?

Yeah. I'll do an operation on you and all your friends will laugh. What sort of? I'll put it on a general anesthetic. Look, whoa, whoa, no, no. I'm not trying to be disruptive here. It feels like you've passed the persuasion check. So the mantelchrist stopped attacking you.

Yes. But I have not sold on why the manticle would come down the mountain with you. Okay. What's going on? What are you suggesting? Oh, I'm just saying, why doesn't she come with us, kill everyone in the hunting lodge, and we'll show her where it is, we'll, you know, make it easy for her. I see what you're saying.

A Trojan manticorn situation. We bring the manticorn down as if she's dead, frozen, a trophy ready to go. And then when she's inside, she can run amok and eat everyone alive. Okay. That's maybe the smartest thing you've ever said. And we hide inside the Manticore. No, no, okay, no. Okay, so I think that the pitch to the Manticore is,

Manticore's children are hungry. Maybe you could feed cultus to the Manticore. I think that's the pitch of the... No, I was, to be clear, I was saying they should come along and learn because they've got to learn for themselves. Oh, okay, sure. But you're trying to solve the problem of the children's hunger. They can all come and eat.

I'm teaching a man to... Fish. Fish. For humans. Man decor. To hunt the most dangerous prey. He'll have apples for the rest of his life. Dang it.

I guess that's the pitch to the manticle. Teach a manticle. Separate to that. I think there is the issue that the troll is employed by the cultists. But I don't think he is... The cultists don't necessarily want the manticle dead. It doesn't matter The troll wanted the trophy of the Manticore's head

In order to impress the cultists Yes but that's all going to be out the window When they're all eaten up Yeah Who's gonna attach it to us Where's the evidence that it was us It's just a Manticore It's gonna eat the evidence

Love's bones Are you gonna, hey, hold on DME is hard Sorry Manticore Do you also eat meat or is it just the bones Who is this, where's that voice coming from? It's just disembodies voice Polly

Oh sorry my friend's saying Do you just eat bones? Yes. Oh, so there's just going to be some like de-gloved or I guess gloved. Throw the skin away. Yuck. Anyway, look, that's just a thought. If it doesn't work, then, yeah, try and eat us.

Go ahead. You know where there's some great bones you might like to eat? Where? On the back of a certain chariot. Oh, delicious bones. Oh, they're covered right now. They're covered. They're covered in yucky skin.

Ew, ew, ew. But were they to ever be de-gloved? And then yummy, yummy, more for mummy. Okay. Oh, my God. Ball's in your court, really? It is. It is.

The ball is in the... I think you've persuaded her to come. I think, yeah. Do you know what? I'll go round up the kids and we'll all go down the mountain with you. Hang on. I hadn't programmed. I hadn't planned this.

There are two other manticles coming as well. Yes. Two, let's call them junior manticles. Juvenile manticles. What are their names? What about their names? Stephen and Stella. Ooh.

Yeah. I always find it weird when families do that, you know? Yeah. With the whole literation thing. Yeah. You know what's weird? Like Stephen Sondheim? Yuck!

You know. No, no. No. Well, not just the name. When all your kids have the same letter? Yeah. Like Stephen Strange. Like Dr. Strange.

Yuck. Yuck. I mean, I do think that's yuck. Anyway, tell me what's happening. What are you guys going to do? We want to march down and get the mandicore to eat. I don't know if this manticle is. I mean, we don't know what the...

We've just been watching them stare at each other for ages. Yeah. I'll be right back. Woosh! And the manticle flies up the mountain. Okay, look, so I convinced her to go and eat the people on the lodge instead, which I think is a great outcome for us. Mm-hmm.

I mean, I was down to eight hit points there. Yes. Hi. Cherry on Valerian. Party member. Yes. Plus, I do like to party. Isn't it funny?

Anyway. Forgive me if I'm being dim-witted. But what are we doing here? Why are we here? We were in a castle before we fell into the snow. Granted, I got these cool bits and pieces, but... Why are we here? Do we need the necklace?

Do we need to take the necklace away? Do we need to kill these cultists? I don't understand what the adventure is anymore. Oh, why does anyone do anything? You want you to go home and play on your game boy. We're heroes. We deal with the situation that's presently in front of us. What's a game boy?

You know, when you have that little boy that stands in your home and provide you little games and you get to me, and you press his buttons. The buttons on his shirt. He's like, put the four vertical. No, turn it vertical. Move it over and drop it. You mean Tetris.

The Manticle returns with her two juvenile. children, Stephen and... I'd like you to meet my children, Stephen and Stella. Wait, can we still talk psychically? Yeah, yes, yeah, yes. Just for one hour. Oh, this is Stephen and Stella, by the way. This is Stephen and Stella, and they're flapping above you menacingly, looking down with

hungry eyes. They're like real, um, for Mantigores, they're real like, um, surly tea. Yeah, they're like, oh. Mom, I don't even want to go eat these cultas. What? Yeah, why can't we just eat this duck? Yeah, there's a duck right here, Mom. Yeah, I prefer duck.

Yeah, I guess actually what's happened is You've only convinced our mum to do something And now, for some reason, you invited two more magicals into the situation Who you've not charmed or persuaded at all. Yeah, yeah, and the kids are like, Mum, how am I supposed to eat the... All these people have their covered in skin, yuck! I guess we'll have to deskin them, mum. Oh, ugh, ugh.

You're such a shit, mum, mom, mom. I may have made a mistake. So there are two juvenile manticors you need to deal with now. They're not just going to do what their mum says? Well, they're 18 years. Do your children do what you say? I think this manticor is going to attack the duck. Mom, mom's just going to eat this duck.

And is the mom letting them do it like as a learning exercise? No, the mom's going to protest. She's annoyed about this, but, you know, it's like when you, I guess this is the manticle equivalent of trying to control your kids from eating all the grapes at the shop. You've seen that? It's like the marshmallow test. Yeah. You can have one luck now.

Because since they were pre-contrast, you've set a bad example by eating grapes every time you go to the store. And they've seen you and they've learned from you. And now you've got to try and stop them. You're allowed one though, right? I think you're allowed one to test. But I've seen kids eating more than a dozen. But what do I care? They're just stealing from colds.

I don't give a fuck. Yeah. It's true. But if I was, if I was Mr. Coles or Mrs Coles. Mm-hmm. Oh, ho. All right, Medicare Tats.

Mary Savings. Alex, Pollywoodle, what's your armour class? 14. Ooh. Sure, sorry, this is, I'm Stephen. He's rolled a multi-attack, three attacks using rend and tail spike. Okay, so the 219s hit.

Yes, so you take 1D8 plus 3 slashing, slashing damage. So you take eight damage And then you also take 17 that hits You also take 7 damage You take 15 damage I've got one hit point And now Stella Jealous is going to attack Stephen

Attacking Stephen Yeah because he's getting her duck She wants the duck Oh yeah That's teenagers That's teenagers right She wants the duck Two of the one of the Rens

Atama class is 14 I don't think they hit Okay well one One and one. Yeah, I hit it with run, and then I got this tail spike as well. But that misses. Okay, just one rend. Okay, so yes.

Okay. You take, what is it, D8 plus three? How much is it? Yeah, D8, yeah, one D8 plus three. D8 plus three. Fuck you, Stephen. That's my duck, six damage. Okay, so he's...

So there's two juvenile mantichores fighting in the sky, and their mother is doing what, Michael? Well, the mother's just trying to control. I'm just... Stop it. No, you kids, stop it. Okay, that's what's happening. In this universe, that's what happens.

This is what happens. This is what you wanted to do. Polywaddle, let's go to you. It's your turn. Oh, dear. Okay. Well, I've got one hit point left. So I guess I'm going to just use my psychic blades.

I'm not, it's not a, I can't do a sneak attack, can I? No, I think they know where you are. Okay, all right. given that they are attacking you. Okay. Oh, wait. Literally fun. Nope, that doesn't hit.

I rolled a two. Okay, Ernie Sweetwater, you're up. I'm going to do, I'm going to cast as a bonus action healing words level two. So that's going to be three D4 of healing for you. Thank you. And at the same time, I'm going to cast a major illusion. What I'm going to do is I'm going to make the appearance of, like this is like a minor illusion

but just like a big angry version of it because it's like a level... David Copperfield style Oh even imagine that but like even cooler guys It's a third level More than David Copperford? I'm gonna try and I'm thinking like what a

How many buttons on his shirt does he have undone? Oh yeah yeah It's only goes like this and all of his buttons come down as he casts this And I cast it the monk haircut though I try and make this illusion of like Polly growing really really big as big as she possibly can.

Giant duck. Yeah, and it can create like smells and feelings as well. And like this heat kind of comes off her and this and this awful swampy smell as she becomes like, I want to know exactly how big it can be. Do you know how bigger? Yeah, it's a sexual thing, Debbie. Thank you. It smells like, what are you describing is the smell of delicious cooking duck?

No, no. This is an evil, like, oval acrid sort of thing. I'm turning like this giant vampire duck, like horrifying thing. Do you know how big a major, you there, spellbook? A major. Major. Okay, so, yeah. Major image can be quite big, I think.

Yeah, I'm trying to make this motherfucker. I'm trying to scare the shit out of it, basically. So it can be 20 foot. It can be not larger than 20 foot cube. So that's what, that's like 8 meters big or something, seven meters big. And I make an angry look at them and say, ugh.

Like a real garbage pale kid version of a duck and like scary. Yeah. Yeah. So I would argue that as an illusion, this would be an intelligence test. test for these stupid animals. So yeah, a couple things about the illusion. Any physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion.

Oh, okay. A creature that uses its action to examine the image can determine that it is an illusion with a successful intelligence investigation check against your spell save DC. So Tom, do you know what your spell save DC is? 15. DC 15.

Okay, so I think while this is happening, they're taking all this in. Didn't much about it's your turn. Okay, I'm still invisible. So who's closest to me? Which meant you call? Let's say Stephen. Okay, so Stephen, I'm going to move behind Stephen.

That's my movement action. I'm going to cast Ray of Frost on Stephen. Okay. Zap. Zapp. Can you roll a dice? Yep. Zapping.

His... Yep, what is it? His armor class is 14. 17. Hey, that hits. How much damage does it do? 2D8. You roll the damage.

You click on the button. Oh, yeah. And it rolls it. Oh, that's so much easier when I was looking at the dice. That is 11. 11 damage. Yeah. Okay, he's looking...

But now I'm not invisible anymore. No, he knows. He sees who you are, where you are. I was behind him, but yes. Charon Valerat, your turn. I think I probably see my friend getting attacked, and I'm just going to attack Stephen. Okay.

So I'm going to just come out with my swords. just go pell-mell. So attack once for 19. Uh-huh. Once for... That's a natural 20. Dang, they both hit, then. They both hit.

So I get two hits, and then the other one doesn't hit. So that is four damage plus four, eight damage. Eight damage in total. No, one's got to be more. You do double damage on the 20th. Oh, sorry, double that.

So four has eight. That's 12. 12 damage. Chach, chat. Take that Stephen. Okay, Stephen is... Ah, ghost! This sucks!

Bad kitty! I hate getting attacked with swords! Oh, Mom, this is all your fault! Stupid mum! I'm just trying to... Teach you about life. You've been sheltered for too long. Actually...

It is the Shadmold Mexico's turn, now what would she like to do? I'm going to see if my... If my wing shots recharge. No, it takes like five turns. Oh, fuck. Five or six turns. Do you know what?

I'm going to try and, uh, I'm going to attack Charion. Because the Charion's attacking my darling Stephen. Um, yeah. What's your armor class? Uh, 13. Okay, so I hit you with a claw and a bite. Two hits. And then I'm going to try and sting you as well.

Hell yeah. Oh. I got a natural one on the sting. But that doesn't mean I've not. not going to hit you with the other stuff. Okay. Don't be like... Oh, I wish I had a D-10 right now.

It's fine. Oh, holy crap. That was very good. Which one was good? 19. Oh, hang on. What do you want to do? Cutting words as a reaction to try and drop the 19.

What do you mean? Do you want me to make me not hit? I want you to roll a D-8 to... Oh, did you hit with a 19? Is that... Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hit with... I hit with a 14 and a 19.

I hit with two. I look at... I look at... Carrie and I try and figure out it. Oh, I do it with the 14 then. Thank you. I do it on the 14, so roll a D8. Oh, and minus it?

It from that 14, yeah. Oh, that was so cocked. Minus four. Okay, fine. One misses. But my bite does it on you. But my bite does it on you. You take nine damage from my bite.

Can I know what the cutting words were? Ah, yeah. This is the mum. Yeah, you're saying it's the mum. I can't control her kids. Oh. A tisk tis. I say so quietly, but her ears pick it up anyway.

With an incredible mentical hearing. What's that? So that's the mom. How damn. Okay, so stellar at this point. I keep laying into Stephen, I think. Oh, still? Yeah.

Yeah, she keeps attacking her brother. Yeah. Okay, let's see if you have two hits. Two hits. Yeah. Oh. take that. Dyes, Stephen.

I've always hated you. I hate sharing a room. We all live in a nest. Exactly. Really quickly, Estella, what specifically do you hate about sharing a room?

You stink. Yeah. You stink like your socks. Change your socks. Yeah. Just the socks? Yeah. That's all that stinks.

Yeah. It's just that. And farts. And bad breath. We live in a nest. Exactly. I can't. Oh, you shock.

18 damage. Mom, did she just claws it to her brother? Did you know Stella's not a virgin? Oh my God! Oh my God, shut up! Shut up! I'm going to kill you. I'm literally going to kill you.

And the mom's like, what do you mean? It was while I was on exchange. She should take some psychic. She told me about it. It was fucking weird. Look, I didn't even like it that much. I'm not going to do it again, I promise. Is that I think of a rat bag shit that your brother would do?

Oh my God, yes. Is Stephen still alive? Yeah, yeah. He's alive. We might not be alive. He's still alive. Rage glows in her eyes. Whose turn is it?

It is Stephen's turn. Okay. And actually, yeah, yeah, and he is going to attack Stella. and now, because they're now fighting, he attacks her with his bite, but misses. Polly Waddled back to you. Remember, you are very unwellery.

Oh, I got a little bit healed, but yes. Can I say, so is the deal off or? Now, the mother at this point is lost focus on you. She's just trying to control her two manticle children who have, some shocking news has been revealed to her. Yes, yes. She doesn't want to talk. So they're distracted?

They're distracted, yeah. Can we hide? You could hide. Can we run and hide? You could hide for sure. You can fly. Oh, you can hide, yeah. Fly up and hide in the sky.

Because they can also fly. They can fly. Could I, can I use my action to like wave to the others and tell them to dash with me? Yeah, but that'll just be a movement. I'll allow you to do a movement and then do an actual action as well if you want. All right. I'm going to say, let's hide. What is she mean?

Are we on the edge of the nest? Or are we like near the like just on the side of the mountain? No, I think the nest is still another like 15, 20 metres above you. They're flown down as you're climbing the mountain. So you could clam it down. But I guess they're on the top of a mountain. So it, I think it'll be hard to find a place you can hide. Instinctively.

Yes. I spread my wings. Oh no. I grab dinner. Leapof faith, leap of faith. I become grabbed. I grab dinner. And I grab Ernie.

Yep. By like the scruff of the neck, like by the back of the shirt. And I like leap down. He's like Goliath. He's so big. You jump up. And I. I'm leaping like, I'm leaping down the, down the slope up. Yeah.

I have tele. Like an alpine paraglider. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm going to use my telekinetic feet to take a huge piece of tree bark and put it underneath Charyon's feet. So just in case he scrapes against something with snowboarding. Oh, they're kind of snowboarding.

No skiing. Okay. And Charion, sorry. And Ernie, what are you doing as you were grabbed? As I'm grabbed? As you're grabbed by. So dinner's trying to make shift, make a telecommunication. No, I'm not.

Yeah, but it's. Like a snowboard out of, at. At what point, can I ask? Yeah. At what point when he is grabbed? Yeah. Yeah. Do I have a few seconds after I'm grabbed?

Well, I guess it's a reaction to being grabbed. What do you want to do? You've become, like, you are grabbed. So like, while you're grabbed. Grabbed you, by the. back of that. Actually, to be fair, Charine, this was out of order. So Ernie, you should be able to get a turn before you're grabbed. Sorry, I'd do beg your part. I become ungrabble. So I've just seen into the future. I look over it, Charron. I'm like, oh. Don't grab me.

Got a feeling my friend's going to grab me. So Polly's looked at you and said, run. Yeah, I, I, I look at to Polly. Polly is everything else do you want to do in your turn? Polly. You're just running. Love with like reverse D&D. What no, it was Polly. No, I run. And I run. That's it. I run. I run with, I run with Polly. I dash. Okay. I'm going to try and dash for like a bush or anything that will provide cover on. Okay. Okay.

And so now, Ernie, you've had a, I'll allow it, a small premonition that you're about to be grabbed from behind. Is it like when you see a cat about to touch the thing? It's funny. So I want to do, I want to run there. And I also want to change my major image. Can I do that? Oh, yeah, because you made the duck big. I made the duck big.

Okay. Oh, it's out of order. Oh, am I still big? That's going to be harder for me to. I don't. I made the, no, no, it was an illusion. There's an illusion of big, of big you. But I'd like to change.

You've run out the back of that now. If it's still going and they haven't noticed it, like if they haven't investigated it, while we run, I want to change that image. I should know how my smells work and that's my mistake, but I want to make it a major image. Can I make it like, can I make the, can I make it look like all of us, you know, like four of us? I don't think so.

Can I make it look like? I think it appears at the spot you can see and last for the duration. Seems completely real. I don't think you can change. change it. Okay, well then I just cast minor illusion as a cantrip and I just make that look like me next to the duck and being like just interacting. I think minor illusion is even more minor than that.

Isn't minor illusion like it has to be in the palm of your hand? Yeah, it's pretty small. It's a can't. It's a can't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you can make a thing. You can make like a barrel. Sound or image.

I make a barrel. Here's what you do. Do you just make a barrel? I make a barrel next. I'm fucking, I don't know. The mantikors, stop. Five for a cube. Yeah, five for cube.

So make a pair of goggles that has exactly that image inside of them and then put it on their head. I make a how tall's dinner? You're not five foot. I'll just make me and five foot and it looks like I'm further away from them. Oh yeah, make small loss running away. Oh, and it's a parallax illusion where they're like, hang on. Look, we're spending a lot of time on this. I make a five foot just a humanoid kind of figure.

Look, you guys run away, right? That's what's happening, yes? I think everyone's running away. You're bravely running away. I want to give Ernie the opportunity to do anything you want. So you're going to leave a humanoid figure as an illusion behind. I'm just going to try like a distraction. I'm going to, yeah.

Okay. We're next to the giant duck. So there's some stuff there. So on the mountain, there is a brother and sister, twin mantico's fighting. Their mother is trying to pull them apart, having just had some shocking news for fuel to her. Polly Waddle is running for cover. Ernie has had a premonition that Charon's about to grab him. And you've left a humanoid man next to a giant duck.

A generic, like a generic Republican man. Next to a giant duck. Yeah, pastel shirt, weird shorts. Yeah. As you, as you begin to run down the mountain. Okay. And then they fly down the mountain. Or they fall down the mountain.

Okay. So did not much about it. In your turn, you use your telekinesis to grab. You can do whatever you want for me because I'm... I'll create your premonition as well. You know that you're about to be grabbed by... Yeah. I become grabable.

You craft a snowboard from bark? Yeah. Teleconnectly, craft a snowboard from bark and then lie prone on it, I guess. No, no, no, no. I'm going to stick my feet into it. It's my snowboard. So that in case we fall. You don't have like bindings.

All right. You stand on wood. You have a bark plank. Right. This isn't crafted by the Burton snowboard company. I'll just hold it then. So I can use an escape. board later. Or here's what I do.

No wheels. Snowboard. Yeah. Oh yeah. Like for skating on snow. And I, um, and I, I just have that and say, hey, don't worry. I got a way for us to slide. Okay. At this point, Charion Valerian jumps from the side of the mountain for the very first time using his new leather wings. That's to be fair, everyone's running down the mountain. I'm not jumping off a cliff.

Yeah, no, I agree. You are, you are trying to, I guess like those squirrel suits. you see crazy Norwegian people glide out of a Red Bull? Yeah, yeah. This is actually a Red Bull video. It's actually a Red Bull. How it's been described, it does seem like it resembles.

I don't want to sway how you play this, but it does seem like it resembles that. What? Like a Red Bull suit the way that the movie. Yeah, I think that's what it is. It's kind of like, I think it's a very steep mountain because you've had to use robes and ice picks to climb up there.

So I think you've got, I think you've, I think the reward of this, could be, this could be one of the coolest fucking things for ever not Dragon fans. This could be one of the best videos we can sell a lot of Red Bull with this. The risk is, you are jumping off a mountain. Yeah. To be it down and a mountain.

We're down and out. I forgot to say because as I go to hide, I also give a good luck and I sing it melodically, so I give a barric inspiration. Do you get the... Melodically. Good luck. So, enjoy a D-8, buddy. It might be the last D-8 you ever.

And I think also like I Afraidy-h shit. How are you grabbing me by the way? Just with your regular arms. Titanic Star. I don't know if I have to roll to grab. Everything's happened. I grant that I made a...

It's a great ball. It's a great... I love the vibe. All I'm saying is instinctively, I've bolted and my wings have come out. Okay. So you've grabbed dinner now. Okay.

And dinner's... So it goes... So on the snow is a snowboard. On the snowboard, is dinner. Behind dinner, hands, I guess I'll say hands just on, so underneath the gargoyle but also I can like pull the left on right. Yeah, that case. Yeah, yeah. I'm sort of in a me make. Stear me like one of your French girls? I won't. You can steer me. We can steer each other. So arms through the armpits like you love armpits like you're playing an improv game. Yes. Yes.

Marvelous. And you begin to flap as you as, as, but the thing, it's, you're, as, but the thing is I think you've probably lost traction on the snow now because you're running down and there's a snowball beneath you. So it's going to be difficult for you to run. So I've got, so you've got to really push off at this point and then flap. Well, it's probably catching the wind. I'm catching the wind. I'm getting speed up. Okay. So I think I think this is now a dexterity check for you to be able to use your wings. Yes. You've never used them before so you have disadvantage. But I guess I got disadvantage. But I guess you're carrying, you because I cast gust of wind backwards. Oh, gust of.

Gustav wind backwind. What I was going to say, is that just a fart? Yeah, I just fart. Did you just gust of wind in an elevator? And I pulled down my jeans first so that the denim doesn't mitigate the gust. I don't think the gust of wind is coming out of the uranus. Is that what you do with hike? We've got really good denim.

You can't fart through it? Well, no, what I used to do when I was mad at my mom, when she was going to clean something up in the kitchen, I would go in and I would pull my pants down. I would fart into the cupboard, and I'd pull my pants back over and then shut the cupboard, and then be like, oh, yeah, she's going to smell that in a bit. But if you don't pull your pants down,

the entire fart isn't going to go in there. Yeah, because it's all in you. It's all in your pants. It's in your shorts. Take that, mum. Take that, mum. Take that mum. I'm running the food that I eat.

Yeah. Yeah, I've ruined this lasagna that we're going to eat later. Ha ha. Okay, so just to go through what gust of wind is, a line of strong wind, 60 feet long and 10 feet wide blasts from you in a direction you choose. So I guess it could come out your ass if you can. Yeah, it comes out of my asshole.

Or into, yeah, actually that's better. I think you're attached to the wings. I think you're attached to. I think you'd have to shoot it behind you or down. Because you said we don't have traction, so I'm shooting it behind. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's, I think that's the way to do it.

So I'll say that this, this cancels out the disadvantage you used to have, Simon. Okay. Because you're carrying a full-sized man. Carrying a full-sized man. Who has? Who has cast a giant fart behind him. Okay, any creature in the line must spend two feet of movement for every one foot.

Okay, that's fine. As a bonus action, each of your turns before the spell ends, you can change the direction in which the line blasts from you. So you can steer with your ass blasts. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay, Simon, I think, what do we think? I reckon this is probably a DC-14.

14. No, that's very generous. Okay, we'll say 16. 16 to be able to control and fly. Otherwise, there will be consequences. It didn't go great. You got inspiration, remember. You can add your D8.

See how inspiring this. What are you getting up 14? 16. It's 16 plus 10. It's 16 including dexterity. What do you want? Okay, what did you roll? I rolled a...

It's a 7 plus 4, isn't it? It's a 7 plus 4. 11 plus your dexterity? No, that's including my dexterity. Bad roll. So you wouldn't even got to 14 then. I'm going to turn into a big snowball and roll down the hill, like. I think that's what's happening.

I think, I think, first of all, by the end of this, unfortunately, dinner's wonderful leather work will come undone to you being part of an average. Am I going to take some damage too? Because I'm like probably part of the snowboard. Well, I think at this point, now it reverts to dinner's skill on a snowboard. So previously, the issue was, was chatting. You got a little lift? Why?

You ate shit. So too much wind blew all the sails off. Blew everything off. So now he's just on your back and you're snowboarding. You do a season at Whistler though? Wait what? Do you do a season at whistler? Yeah!

On the bunny slopes. All right. So what do I? I think, and this is a, this is not a well, this is a hastily teleconetically crafted snowboard. So it's jagged. I think you have disadvantage. I think it's a, this is like a balance check. Is that dexterity?

That's still dexterity. Here's what I do. Hey, give me this. Do you have to? Proficiency in snowboards? No, shut up. I, he's trying to help. He's not trying to do anything.

He's being eaten. I'm going to clunk out my, um, my foot knife, my shoe knife and just sticking into the back of my snowboards. So now I have purchased. He's got more grip. Okay. He does have a drone knife. Okay.

Okay. I'll allow you to do that. We'll come back and check in on you. Okay. Polywater, what are you doing? Well, I ran and I hit. Okay, now you've hidden in a bush. You found a bush to hide in.

I'm going to talk to Ernie. Okay. Ernie, what are you up to? And I go, what do you reckon? No, I think we just have to get out of here and come up with something else. It's just the two of us now. I don't think we can take on a mum and two kids. I just feel like I've wasted everyone's time.

No, no, you haven't. You tried really hard and, you know, arguably that mother should have been able to control both of them. I think it was good. I enjoyed learning more about how you deal with things in life. And I feel like I've gotten closer to you. And you've seen my big duck. That was the first time I did that. That was a really big duck.

Yeah. Yeah, that was nice. I did that for you. Oh, and I appreciate it. I could have made anyone big. You made me big. And I won't forget that. And you're big in my heart.

Aw. Now. So you guys are skittering down the mountain. So should we go down? Yeah. Hey, look at that snowball. Oh, make a wish. Okay, so flying down the mountain,

propelled by Asplah. Yes. Dinner Munchabat is trying to control a snowboard while giving a piggyback to a charing valerian. Who is a snowball? Who? No, not quite yet. Not yet.

This next role will define snowboard. So this is a dexterity role. I think it's difficult, but you have purchased now. No bonuses are being given by anyone else. I think... I'll go say you have disadvantage because you have Charan's... you back but then I guess the knife shoe gives you

advantage again so we'll say they cancel each other out regular role DC 14 dexterity in the book is there a section about snowboarding not the journey of dragons adventure 14 what did you get

I got a one you're digging you're digging too hard with the toe and I don't move and then I fall over So here's what happens. The shoe comes off.

I got one shoe. Yeah, your knife shoe gets stuck in the snowboard. But you kick it so hard, but the shoe then comes off. So the snowboard is just flung out from underneath you and is flying down the hill. Do I lose my knife shoe? Yeah, you wash your knife shoe. Here's the other thing, though. You can't control where it's going because the ass,

and then the final ass blast actually blasted the snowboard in the way of the bush that Molly and Ernie are out. Put his husband, number one. Yeah, that's how it works. That's how... I'm... I've lost so much control that I'm doing, like, ballooning around the area, right?

No, no, you're just... You're just flying down this fucking hill. No, I just thought that maybe I was, like, hurting myself against trees because of how much wind is coming out of my asshole. No, you're just flying one way, which is down the hill. Yeah, okay.

You're hitting all kinds of things. Every time you try to grab anything, it's icy and slippery, it's snowy, you're just rolling down at it. You don't know how to turn your ass off. Are we entangled? Are we entangled? Sorry. Sorry.

So first of all, you guys need to make it. The board has come towards us. Is now heading directly. A board with a knife in it. Knife in the back of it. So there's no sharp, there's no sharp knife unless it hits you, in which case you will break apart and it will get stuck in it.

Well, it's really a board with a shoe stuck in it. Bore with a shoe stuck in it via knife. It's a ghost. I don't. But you guys are having quite an intense conversation. Oh, no, no, you would see it coming. You said you did say, look at that snowball. So we're ready.

So I will grant you that you do see the snowboard coming. So you need to dive. dive out of the way, this will be an easy dex check because you see it coming. So just dexterity 5. You've got to beat dexterity 5. Done.

Polywadle? It's dinner's shoe. You can pick up dinner's shoe if you want to. Yeah, we're past. You both are able to do I have the opportunity to grab the shoe as it comes past?

Yeah, I think you can. Can you fling it? Can I suggest that as a reaction, you're like, you're like, then you fling it up in the air? Yeah. And it may or may not hit it, A manticle

No, okay, I'll allow it. I kick it, I try, I kick it like that and I try and catch it. So as the snowboard comes by, you're trying to put your foot into the snowboard and then flick it up to break the shoe away from the snowboard and then ideally flick the knife shoe on towards a manticle. It will, it's fine if I lose the shoe. I think what he's doing is trying to do like a,

you know when you do like a skateboard like do and you flick it up. Yeah, yeah. That's that, isn't it? I think it's just a reaction, and if it hits a manticore, it'll be a fluke. But they are all distracted and they are all just above us. So I'll say, because the first role is to get out of the way, I'll now allow your bonus action to try and grab the shoe, but it is going quite fast.

So this is going to be a sleight of hand, I guess, and you've got to be 15. You know what they call me. Can I sing him a song? They call me Natural One. Oh, man. What were you going to say? Do you sing him a song? I was just going to sing,

I just noticed he was always singing me songs, and so I was like, you can do it. Oh yeah. Okay, he's a bard though. The microtone, like, untunedness of that has caused me to get a one.

Okay, now where is the imagination? So only if it's useful, we can sing. We cannot sing because of our imagination and our emotions. No, I'm just saying that, I'm saying you're allowed, as much color and shade as you like, but there will be no in-game mechanic effects of polys singing.

She's just, you know, because they've been bonding. He's been singing. You can do it. And the female, the young... It's truck three, isn't it? Exactly. I actually had some great notes on that. The young female Mentechore is not distracted because she's lost her flower.

Ernie Sweetwater, you try and kick the shoe, but unfortunately you stub your toe on the knife bit of the shoe. You take 1D8 damage. It's good. Shoe damage. Can I do cutting words to the shoe so I don't take damage? What do you think? No, I think the answer is no. Shoo is sentient.

Sentient. Sentient. Is that what you say? Okay. Seven, great. That's the highest roll I've fucking done all day. Take seven damage from self-inflicted shoe damage. And you guys are rolling down the hill.

So how do we do mechanics of rolling down the hill? I think, I feel like you need to do, you're going to keep rolling down the hill and keep taking damage until you need a roll. Does that make sense? Although you use strength or dexterity Is this a saving throw? You need to, I guess it's kind of a saving throw because you're saving yourself from rolling down a hill.

Does that make sense? I'm going to do dexterity? So you've got, it's hard though, because it's a steep hill. You've got to beat 14. Otherwise, you take 1D4 damage. Hold on. Is this in turn? Is this charion first?

And then? It'll be actually you first and then charion. Oh, okay. All right. Well, I'm going to roll dexterity. And what are my beating? You got to, I can't remember what. Did I say 14?

I think I said 14. 14. 14, yeah. It's a B. Oh, 21. So miraculously, you only take one round of damage. So take one D4 damage from the initial fall. And Dina is able to steady himself as he grabs a branch that's going by.

Charon Valerian, you were on dinner's back. What did you roll? So I'm going to roll a strength check. That's a 14. So that's 14 plus six strength. 20. Okay. You are then able to grab onto dinners, grabbing onto the tree.

tree holds and you're able to stop you only take 1D4 damage from the initial fall okay I feel like at this point we have now

steadied the descent I think you're all you're all okay the Manticore mother is still trying to pry children away so you have a second

what do you want to do Ernie Sweetwater it's sorry Polywater it's your turn can I do a sneak attack on her Who? I want to fly up and do a sneak attack on Stephen.

Oh, you're also quite far away by then? Like, I want to threaten him. Like, I want to hold a knife to his neck. Is that a bad idea? Because you can tell me if it's a bad. I feel like your reaction. Let your fellow players tell you things are good or bad ideas. Who are we to say?

Who are we to say after a... escaping the three manicholas. Why not go back? Why not just go back? I think as I see the look in Polly's eye. I go, Polly, it's fine for a plan not to work out. We'll figure something else out. It's actually part of adventuring.

It's like maybe not succeeding in figuring something else out. You don't have to. There's some pride in there, isn't there? Yeah, there is some pride. I feel like the narrative was geared towards that and I feel some responsibility to make it happen. No, no, no. I got a major illusion.

we can put some trees under a blanket. We'll pretend like we have the manticle and you can do a really good voice or something like that. He's pleading with her. We can do it. Everyone can have a part. Everyone is coming out of his sport. Everyone can do something.

Charon can sing a song and make it sound like a manticle and dinner can do something. Dinah can make a use a gust of fucking, I'm not seen many of dinner smells, so I'm not sure what he can do. But everyone can do something. You'll be a really great thing. Maybe because you're all together?

Yeah, and you don't have to hold a knife to this fucking child's throat. He's 18. No, I think you're right. No, I think this is a persuasion check, I think. So let's, so let's choose to pass. So, yeah. You can choose to pass if you feel persuaded. Okay, let's do a persuasion shake.

Let's do. You really believe in us? I believe in. You really think we can do that together? Yeah. Just make an illusion of a manticle. Well, I mean, I'd do that, but if you guys figure out something to do, That'd be good.

And then she gets her hand back out, handbag out. She starts whacking him and goes, well, why didn't you think of that? I'm sorry. I didn't realize. I thought I could just do ducks, but I feel like manton cause now that I've seen one, I could do it. Okay. All right. Okay, fine.

All right, let's go back. Okay. I think you did really well, by the way. All right, let's bloody go. Oh, God. And we go, we make our way. We go down in a really cool way down the mountain. We fashion a toboggan out of bark.

Don't, what are you doing? I'm fucking, you know what? Let's roll this done. Let's drop two D4 damage. I'm going to get down there real quick. I've got wins. So what I'm going to do is pull my hands through your armpits. And I'm going to.

Now, Tom, do you have gust of wind as a spell? You know what I do have? I was recently. I hop on a skidoo. I was recently at the snow. Oh, la. Dita. Spent a couple of weeks in the snow.

And I know for a fact that toboggons are genuinely the most down. dangerous thing on the mountain. More people get injured. You are more likely to injure yourself on a toboggan that you are skiing or snowboarding. How come? Because there's no brakes or steering on a subbogging. It's just, it's really a snowball territory. So do you want to do a toboggan? I think, I think doing a toboggan plan is kind of funny.

Tom seems on board as well if you want to fashion a toboggan. You can't lean? You can't lean or anything? You can try. I mean, we've just been told how dangerous it is. I think that's the thing you've got to bail out. I mean, the great thing is we know. I just think it would look really cool and really establish some good power dynamics in the group.

if they've eaten shit down the mountainer, we come down in a really cool way, and I think it's worth the risk. Brother, I am there. I am there right with you. In fact, we're going to do this ourselves because I got a feeling we might sit down for a little while. So I'm going to cast,

I'm going to try and get as much, like, wood kind of bass. I'm going to cast, I don't know how to pronounce this word, Learman's Tiny Hut. Oh, sure. Yeah, Leomans. I believe it's Learman's. Yeah, yeah.

So not only we're going to be coming down to toboggan, we're going to be coming down a little motel. We're going to ride a hut down a mountain I thought you were going to make the hut And then use the wood in the hut I don't know if you can do that The second I leave this hut It disappears

Okay so you're going to build You're going to get a I mean this is also what we could do Can I turn the hut like sideways So we're like a rocket ship going down Oh the Eves So it's aerodynamic And we're sitting on the windowsill

Yeah It is it is look We don't have to do that It's fine I'm asking you lot It is technically in a mobile dome Okay Well, then I can I...

But... But... No, no, I bet immobile. But if you were to attach... I think it's... All motion is relative. So, do you know what I mean? Yes, guy.

And people say this is a stupid podcast. So bad. You're good man, Michael. It just has to be immobile in relation to something that you've attached it to. So if you've made it... If you were to nail... If you were to nail or attach it to some planks of wood...

But you can't go outside. to do it though because you go fucking plank of wood have they found? No, I'm just giving you an example. If. If. Or logs or something.

She's there's got a fucking toboggan. Yeah, use my fucking shoes. I don't know. Is there anything? No, I'm just telling you the theory of this. No, I appreciate it. You should attach it to some logs or something.

And as long as it didn't move from the logs, I think it would be okay. I hate to bring this to the realism. I don't know if we have time to grab, to cut down trees and fashion. Well, yeah, but take apart what he's saying. Put a fucking hat on it and say the hat if I'm attaching the hat to it.

Because it's, It's a hut. Yeah, because then you'd have to move the hat. It's a hat. Yeah. But you'd have to lift the hat. I cast Liaman's tiny hat. This hat is immovable.

But if you're saying, it's immovable. If you attach it to anything, then it can move. That's what you're saying. I think... That is what you said. Yeah. Yeah. But it's about...

Now glue a hat to the hut. I think it's about the weight of the... It's absolutely not. In the back of a wagon or something, for example. That's how I'm reading it Let's just say I've cast it But there's no nothing I don't think there's realistically anything

So I've just made a nice little house there for a while You know what? It gives you plenty of time in a safe place To fashion some planks You mill some timber fashion some planks There you go You're in good spirit because I can dim the lights in there as well There you go

The two of you The two of you The two of you The heart would also provide you protection The I believe the Manticore family I'm having a very difficult conversation Yeah Ever since dad died

I'm sorry mum I'm sorry, I didn't know. No, you don't need to apologize. It's just a bit of a shock. I'm not saying you didn't do anything wrong. Can I go? It's just a bit of a shock. Stephen, shut the fuck up.

Can I go? Stephen, shut the fuck up. Stephen tried to lose his virginity so many times. Okay, we grab some, like, whatever, is there some bark? I'll allow you guys to have a long rest in the hut. That's what you can do in the hut. So, you don't see your friends. You don't see your friends for eight hours.

And I'm holding under a tree brink. And then I win like a crazy frog plushy because I held on for so long. Meanwhile, your other friends, you see a giant, you see a little hut pop up. You've got one shoe didn't much about. Yeah. I think, I think Charine Valer didn't much about need to make a decision about what they want to do. They've just, you've just seen a hut pop up though. How far away is that hut?

Let's say like 20 meters away from you. Oh, I thought you were talking to me. I want to go to the hut. All right. Let's go to the hut. How far away do you think it is? It's either really close and small or really far away and gigantic. You know what?

I have a lot of trouble with that. Yeah. Let's... The hut looks nice. All right, let's go to the hut then. Can I ask, they come to the hut. How long is our rest? Eight hours.

Great, the hut lasts for eight hours. That's the duration of the Leomin's tiny hut. So it disappears kind of when they... Is that how long it takes... Does it take them to get up? the hill 20 meters no no they're like 30 minutes away that's fine they can just walk across the hill at the start oh yeah but do you not let us in no no no before i thought yeah some reason no sorry so let's go to the hut all right and then i make everyone um hot cider with what hot chocolate hot chocolate

where are you gonna where you get apples and it's oh come on i've got a supply bag yeah you got you got rations yeah and i've got my edc so i've probably got a lot of high calorie stuff that i can give And I've got dried apples. Definitely. Yeah. Okay. So we all have hot apple cider. And we're all sitting around and can we all have a little chat?

Isn't this nice? Nothing. This is exactly how everything worked out. Just great. All of us here together. And look, I just wanted to say while we're doing all this feeling stuff. You know, I think I was a bit short with you before. You asked what this adventure was all about.

Yes. And I'm sorry about that. I just, you know, I was in the moment. I just wanted to apologize for that. That's okay. And I think, you know, I think that the mission is what it always has been. We have to stop Tiamat from being brought back by Rasmere. Can we do that from inside the hut?

Well, we could make a lovely plan. Do you not want to be an adventurer anymore? Where's this come from? I just think I could, you know, you know, you see people, living in tiny houses and you think, I could do that. And now that I'm here inside a tiny house, maybe that's the life for me.

This house is going to disappear. Pretty quick. Okay, well. We better go stop that dragon. I suppose so. And then I'll build you the biggest tiny house you've ever seen. So having been given the very simple quest of killing a man and bringing the head back to a for-armed troll,

who promised you genuinely that he would help you in your larger quest of, again, stopping the drag, which is what you want to do. You instead, our adventurers instead, brought two more mantichores into the fold, then watched them have a family breakdown, and then had the most unconventional Winter Olympics, imaginable, having now abandoned, it seems, the Manticore quest

they are to return to either the forearmed troll empty-handed or take on the cult without the troll's assistance. What will happen? You can find out the next episode of Dragon Friends! The cast of Dragon Friends for this episode is Alex Lee, Simon Greiner, Demi Lardner and Tom Cardi. Our dungeon master is Michael Hing with MPC voices by Eden Lacey and post-accompaniment by Nick Harriet.

Shakira Khan is our producer, and the podcast is edited, mixed and mastered by me, Hugh Guest. This week's episode is brought to you by contributors to the Dragon Friends Patreon, who get early access to ad-free episodes, uncut videos of recording sessions, and an exclusive backlog of content for just $5 a month.

Until next time. Gather good people, I'll tell you a tale of heroes and cowards, dressed in chain mail, of kings and children, beggars and lords and lords and dragon fire the burn them all. But look to the ashes of Phoenix's burst with six wondrous heads, the heroes of yours!

You can pray, but your gods won't save you. The worm's fire will not spare you. Doom and destruction, death and rebirth. The moon can return of the heroes of yours. Their jaws are all chiseled. Everyone knows you've got to chew first. Not everyone. Do you mind if I jump in?

There's a stereo. Not fucking everyone. Some real dumb cunts out there will just take big bites and watch that movie that Robert De Niro He's like the assistant Yes You know that And he'll lie on his back like this

Yeah And he'll eat cold strips of steak And he wouldn't have brought a knife or fork Because his dishwasher was Was already dirty Is this the plight of the intern? What are we talking about? This has a steak

Whatever this fucking idiot Were you eating Were you eating steak lying down Prode Prone The Dome? The Dome knows how to chew Better than you do

Put that finger down Demi Sorry. Wait, wait, wait. Okay, so look. Remember when Tom went to hospital because he swallowed his steak? I thought you were talking about Robert De Niro

and I was like... No, because I was watching that. You're watching it. For some reason, that's really pertinent to me. You can't watch Robin De Niro movies anymore because you have flashbacks? I don't know, I just have like... I'm not trying to be disruptive here.

It feels like you...