Dungeons and Daddies - Ep. 25 - Mummy Issues

Episode Date: January 21, 2020

The 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 Dungeons and Daddies is a rowdy, horny, violent podcast for grown-ups. Content warnings can be found in the episode description. 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
Starting point is 00:00:39 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
Starting point is 00:01:24 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.
Starting point is 00:02:10 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.
Starting point is 00:02:39 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
Starting point is 00:03:03 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.
Starting point is 00:03:39 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
Starting point is 00:03:48 what he was a barbarian before he just didn't know it's just all these subtle changes to like Freddy saying
Starting point is 00:03:54 cool dad and you adding when he goes to the forgotten realms Matt says it all the time he's like
Starting point is 00:03:58 a barbarian now in the forgotten realms yeah I just shifted it maybe I just spent so long since I've done it
Starting point is 00:04:04 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,
Starting point is 00:04:16 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.
Starting point is 00:04:29 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.
Starting point is 00:04:48 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.
Starting point is 00:05:06 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.
Starting point is 00:05:22 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.
Starting point is 00:05:37 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
Starting point is 00:05:52 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.
Starting point is 00:06:14 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.
Starting point is 00:06:29 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,
Starting point is 00:07:10 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.
Starting point is 00:07:28 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?
Starting point is 00:07:39 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,
Starting point is 00:08:00 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?
Starting point is 00:08:17 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.
Starting point is 00:08:30 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.
Starting point is 00:08:39 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.
Starting point is 00:08:56 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
Starting point is 00:09:21 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.
Starting point is 00:09:36 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.
Starting point is 00:09:51 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.
Starting point is 00:10:09 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?
Starting point is 00:10:22 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
Starting point is 00:10:35 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
Starting point is 00:10:54 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.
Starting point is 00:11:13 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
Starting point is 00:11:31 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
Starting point is 00:11:53 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.
Starting point is 00:12:13 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
Starting point is 00:12:31 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.
Starting point is 00:13:11 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
Starting point is 00:13:50 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
Starting point is 00:14:05 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.
Starting point is 00:14:21 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.
Starting point is 00:14:42 Intact. Six foot two. Six. All right. Let me go find one. Who's the tallest here. Henry's probably like five, eight.
Starting point is 00:14:49 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,
Starting point is 00:14:53 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,
Starting point is 00:15:04 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,
Starting point is 00:15:18 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
Starting point is 00:15:44 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.
Starting point is 00:16:12 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?
Starting point is 00:16:28 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,
Starting point is 00:16:50 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.
Starting point is 00:17:07 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
Starting point is 00:17:20 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
Starting point is 00:17:38 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
Starting point is 00:17:56 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.
Starting point is 00:18:12 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.
Starting point is 00:18:29 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.
Starting point is 00:18:39 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
Starting point is 00:18:53 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
Starting point is 00:19:12 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.
Starting point is 00:19:39 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.
Starting point is 00:19:50 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.
Starting point is 00:19:58 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.
Starting point is 00:20:08 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
Starting point is 00:20:14 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?
Starting point is 00:20:21 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,
Starting point is 00:20:31 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.
Starting point is 00:20:44 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.
Starting point is 00:20:58 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.
Starting point is 00:21:10 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
Starting point is 00:21:37 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.
Starting point is 00:21:53 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.
Starting point is 00:22:12 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.
Starting point is 00:22:26 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.
Starting point is 00:22:44 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
Starting point is 00:22:55 would. Hit record. Okay. I'm going to take a quick selfie of us real quick. Throw up the peace sign and say,
Starting point is 00:23:01 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.
Starting point is 00:23:15 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.
Starting point is 00:23:26 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.
Starting point is 00:23:44 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.
Starting point is 00:23:59 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.
Starting point is 00:24:12 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?
Starting point is 00:24:27 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
Starting point is 00:24:43 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.
Starting point is 00:24:59 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.
Starting point is 00:25:16 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.
Starting point is 00:25:31 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?
Starting point is 00:25:44 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
Starting point is 00:25:52 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
Starting point is 00:26:00 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
Starting point is 00:26:31 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.
Starting point is 00:26:51 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,
Starting point is 00:27:08 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,
Starting point is 00:27:24 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.
Starting point is 00:27:34 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
Starting point is 00:27:53 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
Starting point is 00:28:17 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
Starting point is 00:28:48 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
Starting point is 00:29:03 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.
Starting point is 00:29:13 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
Starting point is 00:29:34 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
Starting point is 00:29:54 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.
Starting point is 00:30:07 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
Starting point is 00:30:18 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.
Starting point is 00:30:33 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.
Starting point is 00:30:51 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.
Starting point is 00:31:07 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,
Starting point is 00:31:23 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
Starting point is 00:31:40 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.
Starting point is 00:31:51 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.
Starting point is 00:32:02 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.
Starting point is 00:32:29 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.
Starting point is 00:32:45 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.
Starting point is 00:32:57 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,
Starting point is 00:33:11 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
Starting point is 00:33:32 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
Starting point is 00:34:09 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.
Starting point is 00:34:34 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.
Starting point is 00:34:43 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.
Starting point is 00:34:53 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,
Starting point is 00:35:02 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
Starting point is 00:35:30 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.
Starting point is 00:35:46 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.
Starting point is 00:35:58 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.
Starting point is 00:36:16 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.
Starting point is 00:36:34 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,
Starting point is 00:36:52 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
Starting point is 00:37:07 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?
Starting point is 00:37:19 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.
Starting point is 00:37:39 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
Starting point is 00:38:09 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.
Starting point is 00:38:31 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
Starting point is 00:38:54 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.
Starting point is 00:39:09 I don't point. Did I say that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no,
Starting point is 00:39:13 no. What happened is he said tiny hole. Yeah. And Freddie heard. Yeah. God. Hey, well,
Starting point is 00:39:21 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.
Starting point is 00:39:29 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?
Starting point is 00:39:41 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.
Starting point is 00:40:04 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
Starting point is 00:40:20 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?
Starting point is 00:40:32 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.
Starting point is 00:40:43 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.
Starting point is 00:40:54 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.
Starting point is 00:41:08 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
Starting point is 00:41:22 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.
Starting point is 00:41:49 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
Starting point is 00:41:56 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.
Starting point is 00:42:04 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.
Starting point is 00:42:18 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?
Starting point is 00:42:38 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
Starting point is 00:43:10 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
Starting point is 00:43:24 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?
Starting point is 00:43:40 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
Starting point is 00:44:06 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
Starting point is 00:44:14 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.
Starting point is 00:44:20 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.
Starting point is 00:44:32 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?
Starting point is 00:44:42 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
Starting point is 00:44:59 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
Starting point is 00:45:32 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.
Starting point is 00:45:48 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.
Starting point is 00:46:01 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?
Starting point is 00:46:13 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
Starting point is 00:46:23 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.
Starting point is 00:46:40 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!
Starting point is 00:46:48 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!
Starting point is 00:46:57 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?
Starting point is 00:47:09 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.
Starting point is 00:47:21 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.
Starting point is 00:47:49 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.
Starting point is 00:48:01 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.
Starting point is 00:48:14 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.
Starting point is 00:48:28 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.
Starting point is 00:48:37 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
Starting point is 00:48:55 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.
Starting point is 00:49:18 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
Starting point is 00:49:42 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,
Starting point is 00:50:06 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.
Starting point is 00:50:20 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
Starting point is 00:50:45 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.
Starting point is 00:51:17 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
Starting point is 00:51:37 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.
Starting point is 00:51:57 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.
Starting point is 00:52:11 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.
Starting point is 00:52:25 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...
Starting point is 00:52:35 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
Starting point is 00:52:47 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
Starting point is 00:53:03 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.
Starting point is 00:53:42 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
Starting point is 00:53:57 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.
Starting point is 00:54:11 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?
Starting point is 00:54:23 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
Starting point is 00:55:13 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?
Starting point is 00:55:42 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.
Starting point is 00:56:02 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?
Starting point is 00:56:23 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
Starting point is 00:57:06 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
Starting point is 00:57:21 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
Starting point is 00:57:39 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.
Starting point is 00:58:00 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.
Starting point is 00:58:19 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.
Starting point is 00:58:39 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.
Starting point is 00:59:01 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.
Starting point is 00:59:18 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?
Starting point is 00:59:34 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.
Starting point is 00:59:57 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.
Starting point is 01:00:35 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 Dungeons and Daddies is Matt Arnold as Daryl Wilson Anthony Burch is our DM, Will Campos is Henry Oak Beth May is Ron Stampler and myself, Freddie Wong is Glenn Close Additional recording this week by Chad Ellis. Theme song and outro is a little ditty called All Right by Maxton Waller.
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Starting point is 01:02:58 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. Or your phone that's not turned into stone.

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