Dungeons and Daddies - Ep. 25 - Mummy Issues
Episode Date: January 21, 2020The dads delve deeper into the darkness of the pyramid along with intern Doug, bracing for the horrors that lie within...This episode contains profanity, violence, and sexual content.Support the show ...on Patreon!Get merch and more at our website!Follow us on Twitter @dungeonsanddads!Join our Facebook group!Check out the subreddit!Project DADGUT is the group transcription projectDM is Anthony BurchDarryl Wilson is Matt Arnold (@mattlarnold)Henry Oak is Will Campos (@willbcampos)Ron Stampler is Beth May (@heybethmay)Glenn Close is Freddie Wong (@fwong)Additional recording by Chad EllisTheme song by Maxton WallerCover art by Alex Moore (@notanotheralex) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hello, and are you looking to be an intern for four dads?
My name is Ron F. Stampler, CEO, CFO, CQD, SOS, ETC of Stampler Business,
and we are looking for our sons.
We're also looking for an unpaid intern to
start immediately, right now. Are you an enthusiastic rock star who loves to have fun,
but loves to get coffee even more? Are you alive, physically fit with thick skin, and able to take
criticism, and yelling, and screaming, and sometimes murder, but but not always and sometimes there's curse words
and we talk about sex we have just the job for you or should we say internship that's right
you're getting paid an experience the pleasure of our company and a chance to get a foot in the door
in an industry where you are not valued and considered replaceable we did a bad thing with
a town and a pyramid, and now we're
looking to explore that pyramid and vanquish the evil within so that we can hire mercenaries that
cost actual money instead of you, potential intern candidate. We get into extremely long,
boring arguments, which is why we need an intern to do the things we need to do while we're arguing
about whether to do them.
This internship requires a master's degree and seven years of electrical engineering experience.
This is an entry-level position with competitive pay.
We're competing to see how much you'll work for no money.
Or also super rich and you aren't LOL, please submit a resume and a cover letter.
We don't have a printer printer so just come tell us
are you ready to be called daddy then hop aboard the revenge of the mummy the ride and take part
in this incredible opportunity Welcome, folks, and Happy New Year.
Welcome back to Dungeons & Daddies, not a BDSM podcast.
Actually, a Dungeons & Dragons podcast.
A story about four dads from our world who are flung into the Forgotten Realms
in a quest to rescue their lost sons.
I almost forgot that.
It's been that long since we recorded.
My name is Freddie Wong, and I play Glenn Close, the rock and roll bard dad of the group.
And Glenn's cool fact, cool dad fact, is this.
You would expect...
They're cool facts now, not dad facts.
Change it up.
2020, new year, baby.
It's 2020.
New year, new us you would expect glenn you know
a guy who's been on the road to recognize the mummy ride either in the la or the florida
incarnation and the fact is glenn is a big theme park junkie but the truth is glenn only goes for
disney baby glenn's a hardcore disney he's got disney pins he goes
to disney world every chance he gets they always got stop off in orlando and refuses holder oh yeah
ap holders got the mouse on the yeah but it's crazy that he's so like anti-government and
doesn't realize that disney is basically anti-government pro-corporate yeah it makes
him charming now it's like he's got his blind spot. He refuses to go to that Harry Potter land.
That's some bullshit knockoff crap.
I would have put money on Glenn Close being pro-universal fuck Disney.
That seems like so fast and the furious rides, King Kong.
Cheap crap.
And that's Glenn's ad fact.
Hi, my name is Matt Arnold.
I play Daryl Wilson a stay at home coach dad
who's a barbarian
once he enters
the forgotten realms
um
what
he was a barbarian
before he just
didn't know
it's just all
these subtle changes
to like
Freddy saying
cool dad
and you adding
when he goes
to the forgotten
realms
Matt says it
all the time
he's like
a barbarian
now in the
forgotten realms
yeah I just
shifted it
maybe I just
spent so long
since I've done it
I don't remember what anyone else does.
I actually don't recognize anything.
I know.
What is this?
A little dad fact about Daryl.
A little bit also about the theme parks,
but one of the first things that Daryl connected with Grant,
who's a big video game player,
is that he saw that he was playing theme park,
and he was like, oh, if you like those stupid,
like if you like that on the computer,
let's go to a real one.
And Grant and Daryl love roller coasters.
That's like their thing.
They're like big roller coaster nerds.
But the first time Grant went on a roller coaster, he loved it.
But he's got a little weak stomach.
So he threw up all over himself.
And he was so embarrassed, Daryl went into the stall and also just pretended to throw up.
That's very cute.
And now he does that all the time.
So Grant always throws up or gets a sick stomach.
And Grant and Daryl always has to keep pretending that he also has this thing.
But no, Daryl's stomach is hard as a rock.
Nothing upsets Daryl's stomach.
That's super cute.
Hey, everyone.
My name is Will Campos.
I play Henry Oak, the crunchy, munchy, granola, munching, hippie, Birkenstock rock and nature druid dad.
Nice.
You got it.
Who turns into a druid when he goes out a teleprompter.
That was impressive.
I'm very excited about this.
Fun fact.
Fun fact about Henry.
This is a fun fact now.
Oh my God.
Dad fact about Henry this week.
Like Ron Henry's favorite musical is cats, man.
Good to see the representation.
I know where this is going. I hate this. The musical cats. Man, good to see the representation. No, I know where this is going.
I hate this.
The musical cats.
Just the music that cats make.
He just loves hearing.
There's an alley cat that lives nearby
who sings his mournful tune.
And Henry always imagines him serenading some lost love.
And it's his favorite musical.
Isn't that the cool little cat screaming?
Just, I want fuck!
I want fuck! I want fuck!
It's the language, it's the romance of nature.
There's no more beautifully expressed than that.
Will, come over to my house and listen to my stupid cat
just like, ah, for like, ever.
I do have an addendum to the dad fact,
which is that Henry's never been to the musical Cats,
but he has been to Larkin Sparrow's parody of Cats
called Nads, which they did for the fifth grade talent show
and earned a suspension.
Most of the lyrics have to do with Jellicle
sounding like testicle.
Scrotum Tugger is a curious sack.
Oh, man.
That's good.
You got that locked, cocked, and ready to go.
They go to the spermicide layer at the end.
Oh, God.
Very good.
Wow, good job.
I had a month to work on that.
Hi.
My name is Beth May, and I play Ron Stampler,
emotionally detached stepfather and rogue.
A dad fact about Ron that is neither cool nor fun
is that every year for a New Year's resolution, Ron and Samantha try to buddy up, which is essentially the same thing as saying that Ron says that his resolution is whatever Samantha says her resolution is.
since Samantha's kind of caught on to Ron's MO here is that Samantha, therefore Ron,
decided they were going to be kinder in the new year,
practice more kindness.
And in order to do that,
Ron went to Hallmark and bought a big stack of greeting cards.
And that's all he's done so far.
Where are the greeting cards?
Are they just sitting at home
or did he bring any with him on the Forgotten Realms journey?
I think they're just probably sitting at home.
I don't think the package is off them or anything.
I'm Anthony Burch.
I'm your dad.
Hey, dad.
Hey, dad.
I missed you during the holidays.
Where were you?
Where were you at Christmas, dad?
You didn't call.
I was at home enjoying myself,
enjoying the silence.
Didn't have to wrangle a bunch of rowdy boys.
My dad fact is that this is now officially an award-winning podcast.
Hey!
Because the Audioverse Awards awarded us, well, they awarded me,
best player direction of a new production,
which is A, the first time I've ever won an award that actually was based on my own merits,
and B, is just wrong.
It's about player direction
of which I have done almost none whatsoever.
But thanks for that. That's nice.
Did anybody else win? I mean, the whole podcast
won as well, I believe. The podcast won something else, or was it just
your award?
Literally, Freddie only sent me the one
about me. He didn't send me the other one.
I didn't know that. I assumed
if the podcast had won something, you would have sent me that too, but you only sent me that other one. I didn't know that. I assumed if the podcast had won something,
you would have sent me that too,
but you only sent me that one.
That is a very Freddie move.
Oh, my God.
That's great.
How is that a Freddie move?
Okay, well, we did actually.
I'm glad that didn't blow back on me.
I'm glad it's a Freddie thing.
We also got Best New Improvised production.
Oh, cool.
Wow.
That's great.
Along with some other very cool folks.
So thanks, Audioverse Awards.
Yeah, and if that and if Joker wins Best Picture,
it's just like good choices all around.
Like award season really coming in fresh.
I'll tell you what this podcast wouldn't win,
which is the Dutch Danish Cultural Sensitivity Award.
We just got a quick address this one
because we saw that one.
Y'all look the same, sorry.
So to be clear,
the little Danish boys, actually probably a little more dutch because
the danish is able skivers and uh they have more of like a cough sound it must have been so excited
to get in on that internet outrage he must have gotten the alarm like somebody finally
i kind of feel bad because i looked for examples of like what a danish accent sounds i'm like well
how different was it and it it sounds just like a pretty normal,
like it does not sound like an accent.
It sounds just like a slightly British,
slightly Germanic.
They're not fucking freaks like the Dutch.
They're weird voices.
Dude, the Dutch are freaky, man.
Welcome to 2020.
Everybody who doesn't have an American accent
from California sounds fucking horrific.
So Anthony, just right now,
do you want to keep it as a Danish boy?
In which case you need a little bit
of a less lilting Scandinavian accent
and a low and free jaw.
Sex caliber as a Dutch boy now.
Don't change his voice.
That's for sure.
Don't sound down about being Dutch.
I'm not going to learn a new accent.
It took me all year to come up with two new accents.
Like cram them into the same episode
like a fucking rube.
The last time we left you, last decade.
Oh, there you go.
That's a dad joke.
That's a dad joke, yeah.
You'd finally gone into the pyramid
and found out that it was the Revenge of the Mummy ride
from Universal Studios Hollywood.
Glenn spits on the ground.
Is this a Universal Studios ride?
You were basically going in there
to take care of the mummy lord
that was inside
in exchange for Boreanaz
agreeing to let you buy more mercenaries
for your assault on Barovia.
You'd seen on the outside
a sign with some of the letters missing
on the left and right ends of the words.
You realize that's Revenge of the Mummy,
the ride.
And inside you found a sign
with every third letter missing
that ended up spelling
this is a high-speed roller coaster with dramatic acceleration climbing, illen i don't know i don't know i don't know
and backwards motion persons with the following conditions should not ride has and there's a
bunch of stuff it was the biggest mistake i ever made and a lot of mistakes that i've made as a
podcast host so as you're looking at this car full of seats essentially so we're at the front of the
line we fast pass yeah you fast pass there.
You decided to come back.
So I do want to add that
when the second Henry puts it together,
he staggers back and he says,
my God, this can't be.
This is impossible.
The Revenge of the Mummy ride
in Universal Studios
isn't a pyramid on the outside.
Forgotten of the Moms
does weird stuff to things.
It must be some sort of magic.
This is crazy, guys. There's a roller coaster in here yeah have you guys have you guys been on this no no this
is not even like not even like a level one hurler like not even grand throws up on this guy it's
okay so we could go on it though it's not a scary ride uh you know what the best part is it's a
little scary there's like some bugs and some like air spray what do you mean like like little fake
bugs like they make you think there's some
bugs on it. Okay. How tall do you
have to be? About like
four feet. Now see, I don't
I've never been on a roller coaster and I don't take
the boys. You've not been on a single roller coaster.
I don't take, I don't, you know, because of the whole
capitalism thing. And you know, for me
I don't buy things.
Me and the boys. Where do you live, Henry?
I live, you know, I understand that I have to participate in society,
but there's just some things.
To me, my favorite roller coaster is rolling down a hill.
So that's what I do with the boys.
I don't really think Larkin Sparrow and high-speed machinery
should be in the same room either.
So this is like something.
But I don't understand.
It's from our world.
It must have come here like we did.
So as you're saying that a wall illuminates in front of you and you see a not too great
circle, like 2005 CG face come out of a bunch of sand and it says, serve me and savor the
riches of eternal life and join us in eternal death.
Now your souls belong to me forever and
then this chariot of seats just zooms into the darkness essentially oh my god that's pretty cool
guys they actually do different ones there's three faces and even though it seems like you're going
a different direction it's always the same but like it feels like it's different every time
hold on hold on sorry glenn close disney file here stepping in i think you're confusing revenge
of the moment the ride with the indiana j ride, which has a rotating chamber of three separate rooms, which hasn't worked since about like the mid 2000s.
So you're always stuck on the middle route in.
But originally when the ride came out, it made it so that when you got into that section around the corner, the entire room, man, would rotate depending and give you three different options.
So it felt like you were doing something different every single time also did you know that the end of the ride you actually
don't go okay so uh and then you hear some like roller coaster ass noises in the darkness and then
the ride comes back to a stop back where it was wait guys was this the same car oh maybe we should
mark it somehow let's put something on the car. I have an idea. Ron? Yeah.
I'm sorry.
It looks... I don't think I'm actually four feet. I think I'm
five foot four. If you're only allowed to be
four feet to ride the roller coaster, then I
clearly can't ride the roller coaster. I have to stay here.
Ron, here's what I was going to suggest.
Okay. Just to make sure that the ride
is safe, why don't we put one of your frogs
on it? That's what I was thinking, too. I think
that the frogs together are
four foot tall and that they could ride the roller coaster.
Maybe instead of just a frog, we like
put something kind of like human size,
like a test dummy type thing. That's a good idea.
See if there's any decapitations or like
Glenn slowly raises a finger
and points to intern dog.
No, no, no, not a person.
What do you mean? But like, you know, some clothes and like,
hey, you know, just put some stuff together.
I don't mean to be crass, but there's got to be like a spare corpse in this town somewhere, right?
That we can put on the ride just to see what happens?
Can you get us like four coffees and like a spare corpse?
Yeah.
How do you want that corpse?
Um, you know, not quite.
Intact.
Six foot two.
Six.
All right.
Let me go find one.
Who's the tallest here.
Henry's probably like five,
eight.
Glenn's probably like a good average five,
eight.
All right.
They're all six.
So we'll say,
yeah,
six foot two.
Just make sure like,
yeah,
if anything gets the top of the head off.
All right.
I'll be right back.
So he leaves.
And within 15 seconds comes back with a fresh bleeding corpse with,
with the top of its forehead sawn off.
Because I found a guy that was like six,
four,
but I like,4", but I made
do. Was he
Doug?
I love the enthusiasm, but
was this guy alive when you found
him? So where do you want me to put him?
Do you want him in the... Yeah, front seat,
Doug. Front seat? Okay, cool. Could you put
his hands up so he could be like...
Yeah, no problem. I mean, if we
wait long enough enough rigor mortis
will set in and they'll stay there if you want to test for like yeah yeah let's do that for whatever
guys can we do a quick dad huddle dad hey guys this is coming up on the performance review i
love this guy man i think he killed a man i'm not you know i've had enough ethical quandaries
and crises for one day so i'm just gonna assume that that man just died his own way and then i'm
gonna stuff all my feelings down about it for a while so that's how i'm planning on handling this okay
i'm okay with that we can do that for right now the henry's character arc is like i don't want
to argue about what's right or wrong because it's uncomfortable you mean the character we all have
as human beings henry's gonna pick his battles on this one or we're gonna be here all week
my question is if he's six three now with half of his head cut off.
6'2.
6'2.
I mean, that guy could have been a pretty tall guy.
That's just something to say.
You're right, Ron.
He could have been a lot of things.
A father, a husband.
Strap him in.
So Doug straps him in.
Lowers the restraint bar.
Does he have to do the check thing where he's like pushing on the bar?
He does the jiggering of the bar, whatever.
He's like, we're good, and points to no one.
He gets a thumbs up.
He points to like a console that has buttons on it, but there's nobody there.
And then the face comes out, says the whole lines again.
Now, is that this Vin Diesel I've been hearing so much about?
And then the coaster zooms off,
and then you hear all the noises,
and when it comes back,
you can see that the corpse is fucking thrilled
and ready to buy some teachers.
Oh, I'm okay.
On your way,
whenever you guys leave on your way out,
you're gonna see a picture of the corpse
that you can buy in the gift shop.
But no, he is made of stone.
He comes back and he's not flesh anymore.
He's stone.
Hey, if we had all gone on that ride,
the podcast would have been over.
So there is a console,
like I mentioned before,
with some buttons on it
that looks like it's probably not been used in a while.
Sounds like my Wii U, am I right?
that looks like it's probably not been used in a while.
Sounds like my Wii U, am I right?
Fuck.
I love that joke. It's like four years old.
That's really good.
No, that's like that perfect sweet spot
of how a year and a half, two years ago,
it was funny to say my wife from Borat.
Like, you fucking found it for Wii U.
Holy shit.
So yeah,
maybe there's that console there if you wanted to investigate it and see if there's... Let's investigate the console.
Okay. So in there,
you see written in hieroglyphics
that only Doug can translate.
So he picks it up and he reads it to you
and he says, okay, so...
It's not a console from Revenge of the Mummy
the Ride. No, the console is from Revenge of the Mummy,
but inside the console there is a parchment
with some hieroglyphs on it that he goes like,
oh, I can read this, I can read this.
Does it then have it in French and German?
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So it looks like it's directions or a warning or something.
Yeah.
Okay, so there's three.
So the first one is Phrase of the Mummy.
Second one is Risk of the Mummy.
And the third one is Bite of the Mummy.
Bite of the Mummy.
Phrase of the Mummy.
Bite of the Mummy.
I like that.
That's my band.
I mean, maybe there's three.
Like I was saying, I think there are three.
Are there like three heads?
No, there's only the one head.
Unfortunately, Glenn was correct
and you're thinking of Indiana Jones, but
there are several phases to the
mummy roller coaster.
I want to investigate the button
on the console and see if there's anything that
stands out as a way of maybe even
pausing the ride or turning the lights on, that sort
of thing. They usually will have those for emergencies.
Okay, why don't you roll
Disney wisdom. It's 2020, which means
it's the first time we get to have this
conversation again of fuck what is the difference between investigation and perception but whichever
one of those it would be investigation i think okay but i'd like a bonus for my disney knowledge
and watching all of the youtube videos of all the different like disney ride videos
but you're at disadvantage this is universal you get disadvantage true you're right so the first
one was 18 plus 2 which was 20 the second one was 18 plus 2, which was 20.
The second one is 11 plus 2 is a 13.
Okay, so 13 is not going to be enough to notice anything.
Shut the fuck up.
It had to be at least 15.
You shouldn't have been a Disney boy.
I'm going to go look at the button and investigate it.
Okay, you can roll without advantage or disadvantage. I've never been to any theme park.
Then you should definitely have disadvantage.
I mean, yes, I have.
Nope, too late.
Damage done.
Oh, I got a natural 20.
Yeah, roll again.
Doesn't matter.
Oh, with disadvantage.
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
This is tough.
Roll again.
Roll again.
Just a fucking throw in his face.
That is a seven.
Yeah, nah.
You guys have never been to this roller coaster?
Let me show you what's up.
Let me take a look,
and then I go investigate with my extreme knowledge.
It breaks after Beth looks at it.
You can't just all
keep stacking your rolls.
If you have four chances
to any given thing.
Wait, we broke the console?
Yeah.
I want to investigate
the ruins of the console.
Why did it break?
Go ahead and investigate
with advantage
now that it's broken.
I hope the ride
doesn't break that easily.
Because that was a one.
I got a 12.
All right.
So can we just press buttons?
Can we just press buttons on?
Wait, I mean it's broken now
so who cares?
Oh, okay.
So the ride won't work at all?
Dude, Anthony fixed D&D.
No, no, the ride works.
So as you're having this conversation,
the ride again resets.
The body comes back.
It's the same cart.
It's still got the body on it.
So you're seeing that whatever is keeping it running,
it's not technology.
This coaster console has nothing to do seemingly
with the fact that this is still running.
Hmm.
Hey, Henry,
you've been doing some magic lately.
Do we have any way, it'd be good if
when we send that corpse back through, I don't know,
can we see through the eyes of anybody?
You know what we could do is, I have my
phone, we could record a video.
There we go.
That's why we got our phones. That's very interesting.
All right.
Make sure you put the flashlight on.
Okay.
I'm going to put the flashlight on.
That's great because he's rigor mortis in this phone, so he's holding a phone.
That's very funny.
I'm going to put the flashlight on, and I'm going to give one of you Mercedes O. Garcia's
phone number.
Ah.
Don't go misusing it, gentlemen.
Hey, Henry, I'll take that phone number.
All right.
Just feeding those fucking fans.
Just drizzling it on their job. All rightaryl here's a mercedes phone number um 555 555 fake fake fake fake fake 69 69 nice now this is an iphone 3 so it
technically has video and a flashlight okay so you're gonna have to roll to see if your phone's
battery lasts you have to get above a four.
I got a natural one.
Your phone is dead.
Oh, beans.
Oh, wow.
I'm glad I gave you a Mercedes number.
Your phone dies in your hand.
Glenn, how about your phone?
My phone died too, man.
The only phones remaining are Ron's and Daryl's,
and Daryl's is an Nokia that doesn't have a camera.
Okay, before we go off using my phone,
I just want to talk to the corpse guy and see if I can investigate him as a person,
but then also just sort of get a sense
of what happened to him, what he's seen.
Hi.
Good ride, huh?
Okay, yeah, I'll put my phone on this thing.
Okay, so roll above a six.
Oh, God.
Oh, no, it's getting real.
15. Okay, cool. All right, so your phone still works. Next time, you're going to have to beat a seven. Oh, God. Oh, no. It's getting real. 15.
Okay, cool.
All right, so your phone still works.
Next time, you're going to have to beat a seven.
What phone do you have?
Better than an iPhone 3?
I'll say I have an iPhone 4.
I feel like Ron has a Nokia N-Gage that he thinks is a phone.
Ron has a Game Boy Color.
He has a Game Boy Color with a phone card attached to it.
Yep.
No, I think he has
like an iPhone 4R.
Okay, cool.
All right.
Well then, yeah.
So if you want to
I feel like you just
would.
Hit record.
Okay.
I'm going to take a
quick selfie of us
real quick.
Throw up the peace
sign and say,
Mommy.
Mommy.
Daryl flexes.
Okay.
So Doug's in the back and he he's throwing up very offensive gang signs.
You don't know any gangs here, but you can tell he shouldn't have done that.
Okay, so then I put the phone in the-
Strong grip.
In the strong rigor mortis-sized grip.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's made of stone now.
Okay, cool.
The coaster goes into the darkness.
It comes-
Shit, I just realized what's going to happen.
Yeah, the phone's going to be stuck.
Fucking idiot.
Yeah.
You were so clever for a second.
Yeah, the coaster comes back,
and now the phone is also stoned,
so you lost the phone.
Son of a bitch.
So we have one phone.
You have one phone, and it's a... Oh, no, Ron, it looks lost the phone. Son of a bitch. So we have one phone. You have one phone.
Oh no, Ron, it looks like your
phone bricked.
Fuck off. But I will say
that was the first dad joke of 2020.
Oh yeah, everybody. Bring in the new year with some damage
guys. Everybody take a D4 damage.
Four damage, fuck you Will.
Shall old acquaintance
be forgot and
roll psychic damage.
Four.
Wow.
That's the most lethal dad joke we've ever had.
2020 is off to a good start.
World War III, now this.
Achievement unlocked.
All right, dads.
Okay, so I will say.
Play of the game.
Because you had a cool idea with the phone.
When it comes back, you can see frozen, like somebody chiseled it into the screen.
Which scene is it?
Is it Olaf when he comes to life?
I hate you so much for saying that.
Wow.
You see it chiseled into the screen of the X iPhone.
It took a picture of something,
like words hovering in the air.
The first word is death,
and then there are four blanks after it.
So that was the last thing this thing saw
before it got petrified.
Death, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank.
Death, blank, blank, blank, blank.
Okay, so the first thing was phrase of the mummy, and then
assuming that these are corpses and like a phone,
I bet you they weren't able to say it. It feels like
you gotta say something, and that's gotta be
to not be stoned, yeah.
Oh, it's like you gotta go, I see.
This is a tricky one, guys.
I'm all for solving puzzles, but right now it seems like the only option is to kind of go on that thing.
But like, you know.
Close our eyes.
So there's a risk.
It's real risky, guys.
I'm not going to send them.
We're going to have a stone Doug on our hands.
He didn't murder a man.
Doug, you murdered that man, right?
No, he didn't.
He found him like that.
Doug, don't answer that question.
Doug found a man and he was missing the top of his head.
Doug's eyes are just very big and he's looking at Daryl and he's nodding slowly.
Okay, well, what are common phrases that start with death and end with four blanks?
Death becomes hers.
Starring Meryl Streep.
That's what I was thinking, too.
Meryl Streep.
What is that name?
I'll tell you the number of letters in each of them.
How about that?
Okay. Oh, okay. So the first blank is two letters. So it's death. Beep, beep. Meryl Streep what is that name I'll tell you the number of letters in each of them how about that okay
oh okay
so the first blank
is two letters
so it's death
beep beep
the second blank
is four letters
death is only the beginning
oh shit
that's my
that's what I'm thinking
the third blank
is three letters
fucking
and the last blank
is however many letters
the word beginning is
I'm really good escape rooms guys anybody who uh wants to do an escape room with freddy
you just let me know freddy kills escape rooms he doesn't buy himself oftentimes because he likes
to see it's phrase so yeah you probably have to say i like where your head's at glenn i think it's
like you have to see the phrase what were the other ones what did it say it was the risk of
the mummy and the bite of the mummy you know i should say that disney imagineering would never let such sloppy ride design come out
to public but you know risk of the mummy bite of the mummy all right guys i think we just got
going strapping i'm ready to ride we're gonna have to think quick we're gonna have to be on our feet
you know are we just gonna yell death is the only the beginning we'll say death is only the beginning
and that's got to be the one that turns you into stone because the man who happens to be dead who
we found dead uh he can't talk.
So that's probably what happened, right?
Doug, you want to come with us?
Doug, you're coming with us, man.
All right.
All right, man.
If you're going to come anyways, we could always do it once with you.
This is taking it the right anyways.
Why don't you go on and give it a shot?
You want me to go first?
I'm just saying he's going to do it anyways.
Why don't you roll persuasion?
I mean,
if he doesn't go, then, you know,
like you guys have an even number on the coaster.
That's great. You guys could go with four people.
I got a 14. Why don't you roll with advantage since you're his boss and he's an intern?
Oh.
That's a 19. Okay, so he goes,
yeah, it sounds good.
I really feel like it's me. But you can't go anyways,
right? Yeah. That's what I'm saying. And he knows the phrase. Alright. Alright, I'll see you guys really feel like it's me. But you can't go anyways, right?
That's what I'm saying.
And he knows the phrase.
All right.
All right, I'll see you guys in a bit, I guess.
Hey, look, he's all our interns.
We don't have to do that. I'm just offering.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
But we don't know what the other traps are.
There's three things, right?
I think we all have a better chance of making it through this thing if we work together.
I just want you to tell Benedict Cabbage Patch that I would have gone. I just want that on the
record. You can use
this as a reference. Okay, thank you.
That's all I want. I'm scared we're going to die.
Glenn is itching to get on because secretly
he's a big Disney fan, but also he wants
to see Taste the Forbidden Fruit of a
Universal Studios ride, and this might
be the only chance he can justify
doing it. Okay, here's what we're going to do.
If it looks like we're
all gonna die daryl you pull out that orb and we all hold on to you and then we teleport to grant
oh fuck i like that henry good thinking oh good thinking i pull the orb out and i hold it and i
make the sign of the cross i'm like let's let's do this thing real quick how does the orb work
again it's just that the orb works when you activate it anybody touching it teleports to
where the other orb is so you would go to wherever the hell grants or activate it by
saying you activate it by going into the game and talking to the dm and saying you activate it yeah
okay all right so y'all get in all right i mean i it looks like it looks like look two up here
two up in those seats and then two behind those seats you know there's no there's really no room
dang sorry ron I'm just saying
that I'm looking at the Revenge of the Mummy ride. It does look
like it holds 16 people per ride.
Yeah, 16 people per coaster. Okay.
Four rows of four. Hey, Ron, but
you can sit between us. It'll be right in the center. That's the
safest spot. Okay, cool, cool. All right.
Does Ron get nauseous or does Ron just get scared? I
think Ron just gets scared. Okay.
Because otherwise I was going to have you roll constitution saving
throws all the time to stop vomiting.
Ron, it's okay.
We all get scared and we're all scared right now.
You know, this is a pretty scary thing we're doing.
You know, it's, you know, part.
I'm not scared.
I'm a man.
I'm a manly man.
I'm really excited about this roller coaster.
We.
Glenn sits down and crosses his arms and be like, let's just see what the so-called imagineers
at Universal got with their sleeves.
We'll already put a finger on the orb here.
Including you, Doug, I guess. Doug's behind us, like, definitely. So he's like stretching over. engineers at universal got what they're already put a finger on the orb here including you doug i
guess doug's behind us like definitely so he's like stretching over yeah he's stretching over
to touch the thing all right y'all buckled in yes check your thingies i'm chanting death is
only the beginning death is only the beginning death is only the beginning so the coaster
speeds off ron starts screaming immediately and it's not just screaming it's like
immediately. And it's not just screaming. It's like,
ahhh!
Beth's backing of the wave from the microphone
had no effect on blowing
it out. And the music from the
Stephen Sommers classic Blockbuster The
Mummy starts playing in the speakers in the seat
back behind you. And Ron, you're going to feel air,
but it's not real arrows. There's somebody
airing on me. There's air on
me. They're not real arrows. Don't worry. Okay.
So you come and then the...
Hell yeah, we do.
Yeah, you come.
So you're zooming left and right
and taking corkscrews
and really like,
as far as indoor coasters go,
it's not a bad one.
And then all of a sudden
it comes to a sudden stop
and you see a very large stone snake
exit from the wall
and you hear a voice say,
speak the phrase of the mummy.
And you've been chanting death is only the beginning. Death is only the beginning. Death is only the beginning. Literally, it can't even get out of the sentence speak the phrase of the mummy. And you've been chanting, death is only the beginning.
Literally, it can't even get out of the sentence
speak the phrase of the mummy because by the time it says
speak the phrase, you said death is only the beginning. He goes,
yeah.
And recedes back into the walls.
And the roller coaster once again
speeds forward and does a loop. Actually,
there's no loop. It's not accurate.
No, universal rides suck.
And does some cool twists and turns and stuff,
and it once again stops.
And you see nothing at first, just total darkness.
But then on the left side of the coaster,
a spotlight hits a hole in the wall
that looks to be big enough for your arm.
A voice says,
Will you take the risk of the mummy?
And inside the hole,
if one of you would like to roll a perception check, maybe you'll see what's inside. Hot dice. In my head, I was on the left side of the mummy. And inside the hole, if one of you would like to roll a perception check, maybe you'll
see what's inside. Hot dice.
In my head, I was on the left side of the coaster since I said
Ron could sit in the middle, so I feel like I'm right next to it.
Sure. Glenn is actually taking notes
about all the things he would change in the ride,
so he's actually like, oh, okay, hold on. I got 18.
So with an 18, you can see that inside
is a shield. If anybody would
like to, roll Arcana. Ooh,
okay, all right.
11 total. Shit, you and I rolled another eighteen.
I got nineteen total. Whoa.
I got a seventeen. Everybody but Glenn can tell
because he's taking notes about how the
can tell that there is something magical
about this shield. But with
your eighteen perception, you can
also see some snakes
in that same hole. You know,
do we feel like it's gonna kill us if we don't do it?
Is that the risk?
I mean, it's the risk.
We got to take a risk, right?
I don't want to die.
I've got an idea.
I shove my arm in.
Wait, I've got an idea.
Wait, wait, wait.
What are your runs idea first?
It's too late.
He did it.
Immediately, your meaty arm going inside.
The snakes like and sink their fangs into you.
So roll three separate constitution saving throws. Try to so roll three separate uh constitution saving throws try
to beat an 11 on your constitution saving throws i got pretty good constitution guys yeah you're
you're beefy boy you're the perfect person for this 2019 because i got plus three and then that's
a 15 18 2019 18 you succeed to your constitution saving which means you only take half damage so
each of those snakes does 3d6 poison damage so you're gonna roll 9d6 poison damage. So you're going to roll 9d6 poison damage and have that, and that's how much damage you take.
Jesus.
I got 29.
You took 14 HP of damage.
So you have been poisoned.
Poison means that you have disadvantage
on all combat and ability checks
until you get it cured
or take a long enough rest for it to go away.
You now have the Shield of Protection
by Jake Nolan.
Would have been useful a couple seconds ago.
Yeah. So this was sent in by Jake Nolan. Thank have been useful a couple seconds ago. Yeah.
So this was sent in by Jake Nolan.
Thank you, Jake.
Thanks, Jake.
You can tell there's some magic in it,
but you're going to have to beat a DC 20 Arcana check
to find out what that magic is.
Or you can just put it on.
Guys, I took the risk and I got the shield.
You're looking a little peaky there, Daryl.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm poisoned.
I'm feeling pretty sick.
Suck the venom out.
No, I can't. Here, I put my arm out in front of him. No, I can't here. I put my arm out in front of... Henry, suck the
venom out. I put my arm out in front of Ron.
Well, Ron's right next to me. Okay, yeah,
I try to suck it out. Alright, go ahead and
roll a constitution to see if you also get poisoned.
Because
that's not a real thing you should do
in real life. If you get
bitten. Wait, really? Yeah,
you shouldn't do it 13 uh so what's your
modifier is there a plus something on it yeah plus one plus one okay so it's 14 uh no you don't take
the damage but you are now poisoned so you have disadvantage on guys that reminds me i took a
survival wilderness course and you're not supposed to suck the poison out of someone's oh you did it
oh sorry i'm i'm up in front of them so i can't see what do you do
with poison henry uh you get poisoned unfortunately like i didn't have any spells prepped for this
like you know that's like what your liver's for man yeah so you know just you know you're gonna
be poisoned for a little bit it doesn't seem like usually i like really bad snake bites like if it's
gonna kill you i think by now you'd be in a lot worse shape so i think you should be okay hey so
i'm getting like a big old magic sort of vibe from the shield and like i feel like i did my part i took that risk i put
my arm in there before you guys could say anything that felt pretty risky yeah because i actually had
a really good idea i was curious about that myself i was going to send in one or three rats because
snakes love rats and so they'd be distracted by the rats and then we'd grab the shield
ourselves.
But as for the shield itself,
I'm sure I could put it on.
I actually don't have many hit points left,
but I could definitely try putting it on.
Look,
I maybe it's just me being woozy,
but I feel like there's some judgment that maybe I shouldn't put my arm in
there right away.
And I,
I admit it was a little hasty.
I'm a little nervous,
but it was a little risky.
It was a little risky,
but I feel like maybe I did that risk.
Maybe somebody else can look at this shield.
It's pretty magical.
It feels magical.
I know you want to look at it.
Yeah,
let me take a look at it first.
So I have to be a DC 20.
So I have to hit like a natural 20 basically.
No,
you might have to plus something to our Connor.
He says you're like a magic.
No,
but that's intelligence and druids are dumb.
Oh,
no.
Any of you have a high job?
I could give it a shot.
I've got plus four. Oh, go for it i don't know if ron dabbled in some weird freaky shit ron is emotionally intelligent nope glenn also is a no all right uh well then you're not going
to know what it is until you unless you bring it to an npc who might be able to identify it for you
doug yeah what's up what's uh what's the deal with this shield, dude? Hey, Doug, what's your arcana?
It's not high. I'm an intern.
My intelligence
is not too... Actually, no, wisdom would not be super
high for just doing this work for free. He probably was
super overqualified. Yeah, he's probably actually got a
PhD or something. Let's say he's really intelligent and
really not wise because he's hanging out with you guys.
So, masters in philosophy or something.
Yeah, exactly. Art history. So, he's
got a plus five to arcana, let's say.
Oh, that's nice of you.
Ooh, he rolled a two.
Sorry.
He's like, yeah, I don't know.
Sorry, guys.
Well, can't you just give your best guess, Doug?
My best guess.
Fake it till you make it, Doug.
Yeah, man.
What do you think it does?
On our team, we're all about positivity and contributing to the group.
Doug, what do you contribute?
I was willing to go on this alone and save you the trouble
of getting stung by or beaten by a bunch of snakes.
That's a good point, Doug.
We'll talk about it when we grab lunch next week.
I'll be late by about 20 minutes and then act like I wasn't.
Seems like this roller coaster's been stopped
for a suspiciously long amount of time.
So are we putting the shield on?
Let's hold on to it for now and then get it inspected.
I think the roller coaster speeds off again.
So I did it.
And when it comes, I did it.
I solved the second puzzle.
I'm feeling pretty sick.
And Doug's like, I don't know why, but I kind of feel like the risk was you could take the shield or not take the shield. I feel like the roller coaster would have kept going no matter what.
But I'm glad you did it.
Thanks.
So the roller coaster, once again,
halts to a stop after a bunch of thrilling twists and turns.
And on the walls around you, you can see painted scarab beetles,
like black little scarab beetles.
And you see some holes in the wall.
Don't put your hands in there, guys.
Little tiny ones, too small for your holes.
Don't put anything else in there.
Ew.
And you remember Bite of the Mummy.
And you hear, through the speakers behind you
the wonderful soundtrack to the Stephen Sommers movie,
The Mummy, fades away,
and you hear the skittering of scarabs
getting closer and closer.
How many holes around us?
There's two holes on either side.
Guys, do we have anything we can plug these things up with,
or what?
So I'm going to give you 60 seconds to come up with a plan.
Okay, maybe the shield on one?
Put the shield over some of them. I'm going to give you 60 seconds to come up with a plan. Okay, maybe the shield on one? Put the shield over some of them.
I'm going to cast Entangle and shoot Grasping Weeds into the holes.
We can make the rocky corpse hold the shield against one of the walls.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lean the hands up so it's just blocking one of them.
All right, I'm going to cast Entangle, so I do that.
Does it say what the radius of it is, like the size of it?
It's sprout from the ground in a 20-foot square.
20 feet! Okay, so you completely covered one wall in your vines okay shisha uh all right so
the other so drag we drag the uh stone corpse over to the other one and like lean him against
his hands up in the you know raise the roof pose cover up one of the holes entirely all right roll
me uh anybody can roll me a strength check with advantage because you're all trying to do it
actually well no you'd have to unbuckle your ooh you'd have to unbuckle yourself from your restraints i mean how many
holes are on that i mean is it worth moving the stone guy to cover one hole i mean we need to
figure out what give me give me give me something then matthew how many is that how many other holes
there's two on the other side oh just two holes yeah just two okay yeah yeah okay let's do that
on the shield you gotta undo your strength which you don't have to check for you just do it but
then you're gonna have to roll strength to move the guy oh i shouldn't do because i'm sick okay
well i got natural 20 on the first one.
Second one, I got a natural 20.
I shit you not.
20, 20, baby.
That's 20 plus three.
Okay, all right.
I go, and I just lift him.
I scream, and I don't even take off my restraints.
This is my screaming.
I just rip out of them, and I go, oh, God, I feel so sick.
Now I know what Grant feels like on these coasters, and then I up the stone guy and i kind of just like stumble over the three of you i'm like
sorry excuse me coming through and then i put the stone guy up against the hole okay awesome so
ron put the shield in the other hole wait no the shield's important i rip off my t-shirt revealing
a set of rippling abs and i bundle up the t-shirt and plug up the hole how big is the hall big is
your t-shirt you said small holes oh i guess big is the hall? Big is your t-shirt. He said small holes.
Oh,
I guess that's true.
He said dick size holes.
It's enough to put.
I did not.
I don't point.
Did I say that?
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
No,
no,
no.
What happened is he said tiny hole.
Yeah.
And Freddie heard.
Yeah.
God.
Hey,
well,
hey guys,
it's Anthony.
It's Anthony,
your daddy master.
Don't sigh.
Shame. It's fine. Uh, dude, you's Anthony, your daddy master. Don't sigh, shame.
It's fine.
Glenn, dude, you look good, man.
Yeah, I work out.
That's like Dilf.
That's the sort of body I think Carol wants me to have.
That's like the Dilf body.
Was Glenn on Dilfs of Disneyland?
Like, for real, though?
Whoa.
For real, though?
Why don't you roll charisma to see if you were on Dilfs of Disneyland?
Oh, you walked into the wrong room, motherfucker. You walked into the wrong room, motherfucker. Oh, shit. For real, though? Why don't you roll charisma to see if you were on Dopes of Disneyland? Oh, you walked into the wrong room, motherfucker.
You walked into the wrong room, motherfucker.
Oh, charisma gives me, oh, boy.
That's a plus six on the saving throw modifier.
On an 18, so that's a 24.
You're not the focus of the first Dopes of Disneyland,
but you were in the background of the very first Dopes of Disneyland post.
And then later on, they actually got one of you, and it's about you. You were the background of the very first Delfs of Disneyland post and then later on they actually got one of you
and it's about you you were the daily Delf for one
day we're like Mickey ears like
just like why is this guy at
Disneyland alone fucking alone
this guy
who has a kid wait wait wait you didn't
go with Nick you go you go
to Disneyland by yourself and you
don't bring your child
he was in school that day, dude.
That's the best time to go.
That's the best time to go.
Hold on, man.
He's got to get his education.
If we're going to Disneyland on Wednesday, can you do that?
No, I have school.
Can we do Saturday?
Nah, I'm busy Saturday.
Saturday sucks, dude.
The lines suck on Saturday, dude.
He's the worst fucking person.
It takes like 40 minutes to get Dole Whip on Saturday.
I'll bring you some Dole Whip, though.
What a garbage.
It's melted by the time you get to it.
As if fucking Glenn doesn't have like a cooler.
That's true, yeah.
He doesn't have a stroller with a fake baby in it
to get him in the front of lines.
He doesn't need to.
He doesn't need to.
So Glenn is shirtless now.
So you hear the skittering,
and then you just hear like,
you just hear air, little puffs of air.
I told you guys, it was just air.
Coming out of the wall.
Fuck off.
Oh my God.
But then you do actually hear the skittering of real.
I was setting up a little double blind,
but no, you've successfully blocked it off.
A bunch of real scarabs try to come out,
but they get stymied.
You see them trying to strain against your vines
and they can't quite make it.
And they come up against the stone
and they're stymied by the stone.
And they're beginning to chew through the shirt, But you plugged it up well enough that basically the
roller coaster zooms off once again. You've completed the three trials of the mummy.
It continues through the darkness and then slowly comes to a stop and some lights turn on beneath
you. You can see into the gully works of the roller coaster
and far down beneath you,
which is it's accessible
via a ladder.
But if you had fucked up
the scarabs thing,
you probably would have
dropped from like panicking
and stuff.
But basically you can see
two ladders on either one
on either side of the
roller coaster that lead
downward.
And down there you can
see actually why you
roll me perception.
I'll tell you how much
you see.
Natural birth 20.
I got a two. I got 20 as well. I got see. Ooh, natural birth. 20. I got a 2.
I got a 20 as well.
I got a 10.
A lot of 20s.
I got a 14 plus 6.
Great.
You see that there are three mummies down there, actually.
There is one that is very tall and skinny and wearing a skirt.
Oh, man.
It's wearing a skirt almost like they stopped bandaging this person at the waist for some reason.
There's one that's kind of smaller and stocky.
And there's one that's very curvaceous.
And all three of them have long gray hair
that kind of comes out of the top of their mummy bandages.
Ron, what's going on?
What's up, Ron?
Yeah, Ron, you're having a reaction. What's up?
I'm having a reaction because I don't know about you guys,
but I've been dreaming about
three people that shape wise look a lot like these mummies but like they're purple whoa whoa
because they're but we see them in their dreams because we're in some sweet dreams so maybe they
dream and maybe like this is their real could this be the layer that they've been in this whole time
i suggest we proceed with caution gentlemen so so So down there, you also can see a,
what's a good brand of suitcase
that like a normal human being would?
A Samsonite.
You see three suitcases down there.
You see a Samsonite, a Tumi, and another six.
I was way off.
God, that joke's fucking good.
You see three suitcases down there.
One of them has kind of popped open
and you can see inside of it some gold
and are these mummies moving around the two smaller ones?
The two non curvaceous ones are kind of just standing there idly.
The curvaceous one is kind of ambling around randomly,
kind of like a zombie.
Whoa,
mom,
you think these are the purple people?
You can also see that they're holding things,
but you're too far up to see what they are. If you get close, you can do another perception role to see if you can tell that they're holding things but you're too far up to see what they are if you get closer you can do another perception roll to see if you can tell what
they're here's a thought i could hulk out again and glenn like glenn's ripping it he could probably
help me out here we i don't think we should just jump the gun let's let's i think we should
approach with caution but like i don't like do you know what i mean like the like i don't know
so just so you know yeah the car is completely stopped it's going to be stopped for as long as
you want to come up with a plan.
So because you succeeded
in all the trials
and stuff like that,
you basically can plan this
out however you want to
and you'll get advantage
if you try to like surprise them.
Basically, you get a free
surprise attack
if you just attack them.
Sounds like we're getting
into a combat,
so it might be nice
to like have like a...
Well, no, I'm just saying
if that's something
you'd want to do.
So like the mummies,
they're like covered
in bandages, right?
Yeah, I got this oil from this jug.
We could just pour it down there and just light the whole thing on fire
and let it burn out.
You know what I mean?
That's kind of what I was wondering.
That's a pretty good idea.
We should probably check where they are maybe.
Yeah, I just want to make sure.
Like, look, this is a weird world.
There's a lot of crazy stuff.
For all we know, these are people that fell off the ride,
and they need just help, you know?
Okay, well, what about this?
I don't know if you guys have ever had, like, a bandage or a
cast or anything, but
here's the thing.
What if we just pour
water on them?
Okay, so the bandages will, like, get all soaked
and slough off? Yeah, and it'll be all nasty, and nobody
wants to live like that, so they'll either
surrender or, um...
I got an idea. I like, I don't want to
get into a combat where we could get hurt
i'm poisoned we've been in a lot of combat recently how about we just get ready to take them out and
then we double check who they are before we do it sounds great somebody gets in position glenn
pours the gasoline all over them and then like henry maybe we tie you up on a rope and we hold
you you drop down and you say like like a drop bear yeah like a lit match you say hey who
are you guys i'm gonna light you on fire and then depending on what they say we pull you back up or
you uh or you now what i don't like about that is what if they attack me and then i drop the match
and then like pull you up and then like a whole wall of flame scorches me no no it's not that
much fire i mean i'll do it here's what i'm gonna. I mean, I'll do it. Here's what I'm going to say.
If you're scared, I'll do it.
I can do it.
Let's do it.
I'm probably going to die anyways.
I'm poisoned.
All right, Daryl, settle down for a second.
Poisoned.
Daryl gets so morose when he's feeling sick.
When he's feeling poisoned.
Daryl's one of those guys that when he has a cold,
he's like, I'm going to die.
This will be like this forever, Carol.
Please take me soon.
Let me do, because we're pretty far up,
but I bet they can hear us, right?
Like how far down are they?
They're about 20 feet down.
Is there any way leading out of,
so if we're looking down
and sort of like,
what does it look like?
Is there exits that they can go through
or is it just one contained area?
It's basically just a well, yeah.
Okay, cool.
Oh, sorry, and also down there,
you can see the bodies
of a bunch of other people
who tried to get there
and kill them.
Oh.
You see a bunch of Neverwintrians who also down there, you can see the bodies of a bunch of other people who tried to get there and kill them. You see a bunch of Neverwintrians who are down there.
Their flesh is falling off them, maybe like they got eaten by scarabs.
I buried the lead there a little bit.
I have so many things that I forget which ones are meant.
Some of them look like they got eaten by scarabs.
Some of them look like they got poisoned by snakes.
Some of them look like they were stoned.
All the people that Boreana said in here.
Oh, it's all the detritus
from the people
who failed the test.
So we don't know if they,
all right, I just go,
hey!
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Before you do that,
I'm gonna bardic inspiration you
and then be like,
hey, don't worry, Henry.
You got the touch!
Okay.
You got the power!
I go, hey!
The curvy mummy
looks up at you
and cocks its head
slightly to the left
and then just starts to moan.
What's your view on murder?
Are you?
What's your deal?
So give me another perception check, Henry.
A 10.
Okay, so that's not going to do it.
If you get closer, I'll let you go again.
And this roll will be easier.
Oh, guys, I just I'm going to go down a little bit.
There could be other stuff down there.
We don't want to burn or destroy.
I'm just going to climb down this ladder a little bit.
And I've got a rope. So I tie one end of the rope to the wait
guys try something really quick yeah yeah i just i just like and i spit a loogie down there at one
of them roll dexterity are you trying to hit one of them yeah okay which one um the one that's
right below me so the one that's looking up at the small okay the curvy one okay so there's the
stocky one the curvy one and i get this one. I get this advantage, right? Ooh, that was a 15. You hit her directly in the forehead,
and she doesn't react at all.
She's just busy moaning,
just like reaching up at Henry.
And it feels like it's not a person.
Yeah.
I'd be pretty mad if a loogie hit me on the forehead.
Yeah, all right.
I'm going to uncork the oil
and just sprinkle it down over there.
Let's see how they react to the oil.
Okay, so still no reaction to the oil.
They're just, and they're doing this,
they're moving their hand.
Okay, actually, so this is good.
As they're moving their hands, and you're closer,
so go ahead and roll perception again.
Okay.
It's like our kids.
It's like, who's getting the hand?
God, I got a fucking nine.
There's something white in one hand
and something black in her other hand.
If you get closer, you can see more.
Okay.
I just, this could be something valuable down there.
I don't want to burn it.
How close are you though?
How close am I?
You are, let's say you're 10 feet up.
So I'm 10 feet up.
And she slowly starts ambling toward the ladder.
Okay.
Like as if to like, maybe she's going to try to climb up.
Oh, I got it.
So I'm going to cast.
I'm like, hey, Henry, look away.
All right.
I look away.
So I'm going to cast hypnotic pattern which is a third level
illusion that i can do now i'm going to explain this as glenn can finger tut what what finger
tutting like you know when you like like at the at the end of you know like this no one knows what
you're doing especially congratulations you have outdone my word puzzle as the worst thing to
possibly reference on a podcast step up three step up Freddie. Step up 3D. Step up 3D. The end. Finger dancing is what you're trying to explain.
It's called finger tutting. Hold on. Just give me a second.
We're on the same wavelength.
This is finger dancing?
At the end of Step Up 3D, this guy does cool finger dancing.
I'm literally pulling up a video. It's like this sort of thing.
Yes, that sort of thing.
People at home, everyone just Google
finger tutting. That's pretty cool.
That's pretty fucking cool. That is fucking hypnotic.
Man, this is so
much better than step up to the streets okay so anyway look at finger tutting it's great i'll
drop down a whole youtube rabbit hole of fantastic videos of people with extraordinary talent but
glenn can finger tut okay so that is going to be a twisting pattern that weaves through the air
inside a 30 foot cube the creatures in here who sees the pattern must make a wisdom saving throw
okay on the failed save the creature becomes charm, the creature becomes charmed for the duration.
While charmed by the spell, the creature is incapacitated and has a speed of zero.
Nice.
The spell ends for an affected creature if it takes any damage or if someone else uses
an action to shake the creature out of its stupor.
So what's the wisdom saving throw it has to make?
It is a wisdom saving throw of 14.
So it just stops dead in its tracks and like lowers its hands and looks up at your finger, tutting, transfixed,
and you're going, oh.
And also I make this noise when I do it.
I'm like, that's horrible.
Wow.
That's horrible.
That's a crime.
Not to a rhythm, just random noises.
The noises you make snap her back out of it.
And it's like you never did it.
No, that's horrible.
But she's holding the two things?
Yeah, so she's still holding the two things but now she's lowered them
down to her sides and she's looking up in awe she's really incapacitated you get really close
i'm going to go as close as i can okay so uh give me a stealth with advantage to not get the
attention of the other two remember you have a plus eight because i gave you the touch the power
plus eight you have a 1d8 that you can throw for any ability check attack roll or saving throw
you can do it after you're seeing the roll but before knowing the outcome can add a d you can
choose to add a one d eight to that that's the two pyramids asked to answer correct so hold on
what number did you get i got a nine okay well plus let me see my stealth what do i have for
stealth plus two so eleven so i should yeah yeah all right i a 13. The two mummies sort of turn around and see you,
and they start very slowly ambling towards you.
You can tell that the curvy mummy that was looking up at you
is sort of more put together and less decomposed than the other two.
Oh, she's like the queen mummy.
And the other two are kind of like, they're a little bit more rotting.
They're a little bit, they have a harder time moving around, essentially.
So you have basically a turn of action before they reach you.
And that's assuming you stayed completely still.
Okay.
I am going to grab the, what's in her hands.
In her left hand, you can see a piece of paper, seemingly some sort of white piece of paper.
Something's written on the end of it, but you can't see a lot of it because she's holding
onto the middle of it, but you can see the letter R is just barely visible on the letter.
Okay.
In her other hand is a gun.
A gun?
What's down there, Henry?
She's got a letter and a gun.
I feel like the letter's going to have more information for us.
I'm going to go for the letter first.
Guns seem kind of redundant at this point.
I mean, yeah, I can turn into a bear.
I'm going to go for the letter,
and I'm going to try to tug it out
and replace it with this CVS receipt that's been in my
pockets the entire time. You could probably
wrap the whole CVS receipt around the
mummy though.
At least cut it in half, you bad man.
I use the CVS receipt to disguise
my face like a mummy to shoot
the other two mummies into thinking I'm a mummy.
That's great. Roll deception.
I got a 10. Yeah, it's not good enough. But wait, I have
inspiration from my dad joke. Oh yeah, you can roll again. I'm not going to blow it on this. That's stupid. Okay, so I got a 10. Yeah, it's not good enough. But wait, I have inspiration from my dad joke.
Oh, yeah, you can roll again.
I'm not going to blow it on this.
That's stupid.
Okay, so I give the note a tug.
Okay.
To try to pry it loose.
So she's incapacitated,
so the note just comes out very easily.
And so...
Whoa, Anthony has pulled out an actual letter
from his bag of tricks.
Ooh, prop work, my favorite.
Wow.
And he's handing it over to Will now.
He's handing it to Will.
You don't have to read this aloud if you don't want to. It's up
to you. Okay. Do I have time to read it
before the mummies get me? You can like move
around pretty quickly. If you want to be just
like weirdly sort of dodging and juking them like
playing Resident Evil. Can you just climb back up and read once it gets up here?
I can just scooch back up the ladder a little bit. Yeah, you can climb back up. You definitely have time to climb back up.
Okay. Alright. I scooch back up
the ladder a little bit. Guys, I'm
opening the note right now. Should we light the place on fire
now? Henry, hurry up. I'm running out out of moves i'm just cycling through the old ones
what the fuck will is reading a note fuck oh no oh shit oh shit hey Henry, should we light this place on fire?
Henry just stares in shock,
and he's just static on the ladder,
and his hand starts trembling,
and tears start streaming down his face.
Hey, guys.
I'm going to climb down there and help you back up.
Henry's not listening to any of you.
Okay, if one of you wants to pull him up,
you're going to have to just do something to either snap him out of it or physically yank him up. Henry's not listening to any of you. Okay, if one of you wants to pull him up, you're gonna have to just, you know, like, do something to either snap him out of it or physically yank him up.
What's a good way to make him
snap out of things? I just
snap at him. Henry goes
right ahead and lets go of the ladder
and falls to the ground. Okay, so you fall
into the arms of the other two mummies
that are at the bottom of the ladder. As he's falling,
Daryl leaps from the
coaster and, like, leaps towards the ladder. Like, he wants to getaryl literally leaps from the coaster and like leaps towards the ladder.
Like he wants to get like 10 feet down the ladder
and like grab on.
My plan is just to get down there as quickly as possible.
Okay, cool.
So roll acrobatics to see if you can land
without taking any damage.
You're gonna have to beat like a 19.
Motherfucker, I do get a 19.
Really?
Yeah, I could just roll an 18.
Oh, wow.
Okay, so how do you land?
Oh, so like since i leap off the coaster and
i like fireman pose it where like i barely grab both sides of the ladder i just slip down and
then at the end i grab it and i backflip off of it i kick it with my two feet i backflip and i
land like right where henry landed okay so the two mommies sort of trying to look at you one of them
turns to face you the stocky one uh roll perception holy shit you guys you guys uh i got a 20 i got 19 plus 120 with a 20 you can see oh oh shit he's
getting oh my god you can see that there is a a letter tucked into her bandages and it's halfway
in halfway out and the first three letters are on it are d-a-r okay i'm going to as i landed
i think i i'm going to invoke uh rage don't hurt them okay i'm not gonna hurt them and i and i
grab the letter while like kicking them off like i'm trying to like grab it and then like push them
away okay at the same time so if you're trying to do two things let's say you're doing a disadvantage
so give me let's do dexterity because you're kicking them and grabbing a thing at the same time.
I got 12.
Okay, so with the 12, you managed to grab a hold of the letter, but it grabs hold of your wrist.
And you can kick it away and it like falls to its knees.
So you're kind of almost still holding it up, but it's holding onto your wrist and it's got you.
So Ron and Glenn, what do you want to do anything?
First, I turn to Doug and I'm like, you know, not only those guys can do cool things,
I'm a part of the team, and I do cool things too.
So if you want anybody to show you the ropes or whatever,
to be on this team,
okay, I'm going to actually just climb down this ladder.
And Doug, if you could watch the phones for me,
and then watch for any incoming packages.
I'll hold your calls.
Okay, thank you.
So you go down, and the tall, skinny one turns to look at you. Now hold your calls. Okay, thank you. So you go down and the tall skinny one turns
to look at you. Now you roll perception.
I got a
13. She's
holding in her hand a letter that says
Ron.
Hi, can I have that?
Roll
persuasion
natural 20 fuck off i see that that works and i go can i read it if you want to i see that that
works oh hey can i have mine as well right right beth that is wide mouth right now this is very very very good that is currently
my favorite thing i've ever written i'm going to oh my god wow um all right henry what's going on
down there guys glenn you need to get down here right now i ask i ask for it as well saying that
it works for uh yeah you don't have disadvantage you can go ahead and roll persuasion uh in that
case uh without the disadvantage i got 19 one. That's 18 and he's bringing
me a letter
and it says Daryl. Hey guys, are we
good? We just Glenn what
come here? Oh yeah. Okay, Daryl
drops the floor and
he's just crying. I what the
fuck is going on man. I put a hand
on Daryl's shoulder and with
the note trembling in my hands
I read
my lion on Daryl's shoulder and with the note trembling in my hands I read My Lion
I am so sorry
if you are reading this we're beyond saving
ten years after your
disappearance my witch sewing
feminist theory book club
circle located a massive
amount of energy coming from this theme park ride
I intended to investigate alone,
but Carol and Samantha insisted on joining me.
We stuffed our suitcases full of things that might help us find you,
and we headed to Universal Studios Hollywood.
While in line for the ride,
we fell through a portal of the most brilliant violet color.
My heart swelled knowing I might see you again after all this time,
might see our two beautiful boys.
But we kept falling for years.
What?
This pyramid and everything in it has been falling for the past ten years.
This vortex swimming with magic.
None of us have ever needed to sleep or eat since we fell through.
But we are losing ourselves.
This vortex feels as if it's siphoning away something integral to us.
Our essence?
Our minds?
My crystals seem to have protected me from the worst effects of it.
I knew fucking crystals worked, by the way.
But I still feel something is changing.
Something I cannot stop.
There is nothing I can tell you that you don't already know.
If I do not get to see you again while I am still myself,
I can at least draw comfort from the fact that I have left nothing unsaid between us.
You know my heart as completely as I know yours.
I wish I could be with you to see this through to the end.
Tell the boys I love them.
Te amo, mi león.
Hasta la próxima vida, Mercedes O. Garcia.
April 20th, 2040.
I crawl over to the mummy,
and through my tears, I try to unravel the mummy and I and through my
tears I try to unravel the
the bandage on the head.
I'm gonna hold it back from that.
Yeah. Are you sure you want to do that? I mean, that's what I'm
trying to do. Daryl, Daryl, Daryl, Daryl,
no, it's that's Carol, though.
Yeah, I know, but you don't want to look at her like that, man.
That's Carol. It's Carol. It's Carol, but
if it's her, we got to do something. It's okay.
We'll do something. We were going to do something. We're going to figure this out. We're going to figure this out, man. It's Carol. But if it's her, we gotta do something. It's okay. We'll do something. We're gonna do something.
We're gonna figure this out. We're gonna figure this out, man.
I fold the letter and I just put it in my
pocket.
Ron, how you doing, champ?
I
sit down, crisscross
applesauce
with the letter
in my hand. I just keep
reading it silently to myself,
and you guys can only see my lips moving.
And then I stare at one of the mummies as tears move down my face.
Then you catch what I'm repeating.
Ronnie, you are enough just as you are, Samantha.
The mummies sort of see-
They were mommies.
They were mommies.
They see you reading the letters
and there is an exhalation of relief that exits their bodies.
And with one big sigh of utter contentment, they collapse to the ground and they stop moving.
Glenn goes, now y'all know why I fucking stick to Disney rides. Oh my god It's gonna be alright, it's gonna be alright It'll be alright, cause that's just life
All you do is try, it'll be alright
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We've had a lot of fun today, but you know what's not fun?
Snake bites.
If you get bitten by a snake, make sure to know how to deal with that.
In case that happens.
You know what you do?
You Google that shit with your non-bitten arm.
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