Dungeons and Daddies - S2 Ep. 14 - Welcome to Earth

Episode Date: July 26, 2022

The teens get their bearings as they acclimate to their new surroundings.This episode contains profanity, violence, sexual content, and body horrorSupport the show on Patreon!Get merch and more at our website!Follow us on Twitter @dungeonsanddads!Check out the subreddit! DM is Anthony Burch (@anthony_burch)Lincoln Li-Wilson is Matt Arnold (@mattlarnold)Normal Oak is Will Campos (@willbcampos)Scary Marlowe is Beth May (@heybethmay)Taylor Swift is Freddie Wong (@fwong) Theme song is "On My Way" by Maxton WallerBrian Fernandes is our Content ProducerAshley Nicollette is our Community ManagerEster Ellis is our Lead EditorTravis Reaves provides Additional EditingRobin Rapp is our transcriber Cover art by Alex Moore (@notanotheralex) Send us stuff and get in contact: https://www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/contact The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dungeons and Daddies is a rowdy, horny, violent podcast for grown-ups. Content warnings can be found in the description. From the New Faerun Times, I'm Michael Barbarian, and this is The Daily. Today. Many moons ago, forefathers from another realm came to our world to rescue their lost sons. Then, back in their world, those sons unleashed an interdimensional chaos monster known as the Doodler. For years, the sons, Larkin Sparrow, Oak, Grant Wilson, Nick Closen, Terry Stampler, battled the Doodler in their world. Until one day, they did something drastic.

Using a ring of swapping and something called an amplifier, they made us all switch places. So everyone in their world came to ours, and we all wound up here, in the forsaken hell world of insanity and terror they left behind. Now, recent reports suggest that their children, the children of the children of the four original fathers, may have returned to our new world, their old world, to rescue their fathers once again, which has many concerned Faerunians asking, are you fucking kidding me? It's Tuesday. We think. We can't tell because the doodler has blotted out the fucking sun. God fucking damn it.

Welcome to Dungeons and Daddies, not a BDSM podcast. Instead, a Dungeons and Dragons podcast about, well, this changed now, doesn't it, right? It changes every change. Well, this one does. It's about four teens from our world. But not our world. But kind of not our world. There's a lot of questions that are going to be answered

today, I think. My name is Freddie Wong. I play Taylor Swift, the ranger, anime-loving teen in the group. Will there be anime in this world?

Will Taylor be the Hayao Miyazaki of this world that we've entered now? You remember the movie yesterday? The Beatles one? Yeah.

It's that, but it's just like Taylor being like trying to badly recount the plot of Nausicaa. Everyone's forgotten who Hayao Miyazaki is. Taylor's going to get this grift on by being like, so it's called Totoro, but it's like his OC of Totoro. His OC of Totoro, and he has a sword. It's not a sick mom. It's a mom that's been captured by a bunch of bad guys

his mom calls toro he's like listen to me very carefully here's what's gonna happen next should that be a good movie i'd watch that taylor would watch that and that's what taylor's plan was is all the cops like we can't help you kids and like if there's only somebody that could help us save our mom from the yakuza yeah the mom gets kidnapped by the yakuza yeah and toro is like this like forest spirit oh she meets him in the bus stop and that's instead of like waiting for like a bus at the bus stop can't save the mom until he gets his sword but he lost it because of some sin he did back in the day and he needs to rediscover his warrior like ways what was this

story break what's going on boys all right sorry tay. Taylor's rad fact for today. Totoro, he's always imagined as a samurai movie. They're done. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's what he's going to try and bring to this world. He's going to try and pitch that. That's the one I haven't seen.

I haven't seen my name. It's a good one. It's classic. It's great. Did you watch it? Big teeth. Yep. Big teeth.

Love that. Dennis, love him. There's a bus, but it's a cat. It's kind of weird. Hey, everybody. My name is Matthew Arnold. I play Lincoln Lee Wilson, the schooled at home soccer soccer kid who's the protective paladin of the group. Continuing halfway.

Halfway, Mark. We're on the Wednesday of the senses here. It's the hump day. The hump day of the senses. What's our hump day sense, Matt? It's going to be sound. And a little dark, but I think Lincoln kind of of just maybe he doesn't even realize this but his favorite sound if you were to really think about it is actually the sound of silence in the house

when both of his dads have closed the door and he's just alone for a second and he's just by himself he's actually i think he's a little smart i think he's just like he's like you know what i feel free i'm alone this is good maybe this is what does he do when he's free does he just like get that ice cream that they want he just gets ice cream he just relaxes he just doesn't have to like put on a smiley face with his dads he doesn't have to do anything he's just like he just wants to be left alone sometimes on the couch does he like play some fifa looks out but you know sometimes he even looks at pictures of him and his dad and misses them for a little bit but then he's just happy that he's you know he can just fucking be himself and just not have any pressure on him more or less

the same same guy without that pressure about that heat yeah hey everyone i'm will campos i play normal oak a mixed up mascot in a strange new land a strange new world if you will star trek colon strange new star trek colon strange new worlds, if you will. Star Trek, colon, strange new world. Star Trek, colon, strange new worlds, strange new normals. My normal fact this week is that ever since seeing Taylor and Link get super into Laffy Taffys and being left out of that. That's great. We were super into that. He's felt really left out and he really wants to impress them by getting a Laffy Taffy joke published.

So he's been writing in and submitting Laffy Taffy jokes. And you can read all of the jokes that Normal submitted if you become a Patreon member and subscribe to get our bi-monthly zine, The Teen Tribune, because you can see the whole letter. But I thought I'd sample some of the Laffy Taffy jokes that Normal has written. So here we go.

What's the opposite of a stink bug? A deodorant. Wow. Those are too good for Laffy Taffy. That's a good one. Where do clams post their selfies? Where? On social media.

That's good. Okay. Why did the driver barf in the HOV lane? They had carpool tunnel syndrome. Wow. Holy shit, Will. Those are good. This, as you can tell, is clearly just a way for me to try my because when freddie was like oh this would be the hardest thing they were all

i bet i could do laffy taffy jokes so yeah there you go here's the problem will they're too good they're not too good the apex of the joke candy world for you guys one step too good i'm mostly just amused at the fact that normal things taylor and link are really into laffy taffy reminds me this one time where like some friends from school they like went to like the batting cages and like i wasn't there and i heard they went to the batting cages and like oh my god like i want to hang out with them they were super into baseball and i got like a mitt and like a bat and i told my dad i was into baseball now i was like hey i got all my stuff we're gonna bag cages like that was just I think we did once like

We bought them at a gas station once normal, it's okay. We're not it's like when your grandma would see you like holding like an RL stein book she's like you fucking love our side of it. You're getting when you're 35 Yeah, pretty much like sour baskets she ate some she loves them yeah she stole some of my sour patch kids so i was like well i guess fucking love the sour baskets then and i bought her 69 bucks hold on for whatever reason you couldn't get it shipped to your place yeah so he just texted me he's like hey can i send something to your place like uh yeah sure it's like for the podcast yeah and then i look at my door and like literally it's stacked up to like my chest i still have a box of these motherfuckers we couldn't go through these some are in my car there's no way to get rid of them little bags inside they have like three but it's like i'm exhausted so much plastic yeah it was truly one of those wasteful things.

I appreciated it, though. Hi, I'm Beth May, and I play Scary Marlow. She's back. A goth punk seeker of darkness who is not like the other warlocks. Whew. Try that different. Yeah. Fun fact is that the closest that she and Terry Jr. ever got to bonding was when he was just dating her mom.

And she was kind of like, oh, I don't know about this dude. I don't know about any dude at all, etc. And he gave her some lemonade, but called it demonade because it was strawberry lemonade and red. And so she thought that was pretty fucking dope and cool. But then he really wanted to watch Fly Away Home, which she considered a propaganda, a.k.a. dad propaganda. Propaganda. Wow. Oh, my God.

That's what Taken is. That's like all those movies. Taken is propaganda. That's very good. Did you make that up? Yes. That's super good. I bet I didn't make it up it's out there yeah whatever you're probably the most popular person to say is that you fly the way

home with the one where anna paquin has to like like she's like the maverick of geese she has to like lead them on a yeah yeah with jeff daniels i didn't see that movie also it's jeff daniels right i think it is i don't know probably he was in every movie back then it was a lot there's definitely that movie and like october sky occupies like a very specific genre of like science teacher doesn't want to teach today so you're gonna watch this while she grades i'm anthony birch i've said enough about my life i don't need to give you a dad fact today so when we last left our intrepid group of teens, you had sort of unveiled a lot of things. You'd found out what Code Purple was, which was essentially that the world that you thought of as Earth that you had grown up in, that you were born in, was actually known to others as the Forgotten Realms. And that Code Purple was a means of swapping all the people from one realm to another that your dads all decided to do to

avoid the doodlers influence you opened the obsidian door that you were told not to open and it revealed a uh ancient handsome evil maybe probably yeah evil warlock who was also scary's patron a guy named willie stampler after trying to debate what to do with him he disappeared i'm sure that won't come back though so that's good fine. That's the call. Putting a button on it. Out of sight, out of mind. And then you decided to head through the Omegar fault door that led to the other dimension where your dads went to the other realm,

which now you know of as Earth. You had to back through the door to Earth to find that there are no stars in the sky. It was completely dark. The only spot of anything in the sky was a small purple distant dot that represented a portal through which the doodler, the creature that you're now looking at up in the sky had inserted its eye to look at the other realm, which was where you grew up. The sun that you

grew up under was actually the pupil of the doodler. So I have a question. If we were looking at the doodler's eye the whole time, are we looking at the doodler's butt now? So we're just like the doodler's ginormous ass has blotted out the sky. The whole doodler's so big, it's like the whole sky. Yeah. I love that we are going places that that little baby cuck. Where is this going? H.P. Lovecraft? Lovecraft has not even penned a single word about Cthulhu's butthole.

And here we are breaking new ground. So indescribable. He never actually described the bottle. He'd always just fucking wave it. Imagine something scary. It's like that. Oh, whatever. Oh, wow.

Oh, break your mind to think about it. That's full on the like insert a scene here ass bullshit. So without any further ado, let's deal with the fact that you're all now completely alone and isolated in a hostile world that you don't understand and that your parents or at least your dads are here somewhere waiting for you. Taylor, like his ancestors before him, checks if his phone works. It does.

What? Guys, I got a signal. What the fuck? What the fuck? I quickly turn around. Is there like another door? Or are we just in the middle of like a, where are we? So when you look around, you see a whole shitload of darkness

pockmarked by flames in the distance or nearby. It looks like you're on a road where there's basically a couple of torches every 200 feet or so. As you look behind you, you see- They use feet in this universe. You see the path sort of extending in the darkness behind you. There is no door. There's not an equivalent on this side. It's an otherwise nondescript sort darkness behind you. There is no door. There's not an equivalent

on this side. It's an otherwise nondescript sort of dirt road that had some distance. So we're stuck here. Who knows? Did anyone, do we pack food

or water before we went through the door? Did anyone remember to bring anything? I don't really, I built up a whole head of steam about getting through here

to tell our dads what's what. I had normal, like one of those Gatorade gel packs that you like suck on. You know, if you're a a runner you know what i'm talking about i got a couple of those in my pocket and i got a couple power bars i got like enough food for like a couple minutes so not much else but here we're stop eating it we need to save it oh my god i have one in my mouth i am eating it i like those gatorade things because it's like you're drinking slime or

something yeah you want a green one i got green. No, I'm not hungry right now, but you know, maybe. Sorry about your gram. I'm sorry about your grandpa or whoever that guy, Willie. Oh, Willie. I don't want to call him my grandpa. Cause that then makes it kind of just dumb or whatever. But like, I don't know, like Willie's a cool guy. I'm sure we'll see him again.

Okay. I hope not. Oh God. Where are we? Yeah. Can we do a little world perception? Yeah, sure.'ll see him again. Okay, I hope not. Oh god, where are we? Can we do a little world perception? Yeah, sure, if you wish to. Ten. With a ten, you realize that Taylor has his everyday carry kit on him, which is enough food for him and him

alone. I got an eight. I got an eleven. So all of you know that you are vaguely in another realm, and that if the realms are stacked on top of each other like plates, then you're probably in a similar sort of equivalent area to where you were before. Like if there is a Sandemus in where you grew up,

you're probably in a Sandemus-ish location in this new realm, but that's all you know. Guys, this happens in animes all the time. People get transported to different worlds and we just have to use our knowledge from our world to do well in this one. Everybody's phone starts ringing. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I set mine to silent. Is there a caller ID? Yeah, it's your number. Okay, I answered the phone. Norma Loke speaking. Hi, Mom. Is she calling all of us? Norma, where are you?

I've been waiting here with dinner ready for hours. What's going on? You didn't tell me you were going to be staying at somebody's house. It's been a day. Mom, what's going on? You didn't tell me you were going to be staying at somebody's house. It's been like, it's been a day. Mom, I'm on a field trip is probably the best way to describe what's going on right now. You know what? Dad's been on an office trip for a long time. And then every time I try to tell you that it's like something more important than that,

your brain glosses over it and you don't understand. What? I'm in another realm. I got to call you back. Okay. She goes, and you back. I hang up. Okay. She goes, I love you. And you hang up on her.

What does my caller ID say? Your caller ID says it's Marco. It's your dad. Yeah, I pick up. Hey, Dad. Hey, did I forget? Did you say you're in a state's house or something? No, definitely not.

I mean, I'm on Earth or not. I'm away. I'm gone. Like, I'm where Daddy is. I'm like, I don't know. Wait, you're where Dad is? Yeah. You went to Seattle? No, no, I'm away. I'm gone. I'm where Daddy is. I'm like, I don't know. Wait, you're where Dad is? You went to Seattle?

No, no, no. I've never been to Seattle. Is this Seattle? Yeah. Oh, look, the space is over there. It's dark and gloomy. It is. It gets 70, 80% cloud cover most of the year. Oh my God, Grey's Anatomy is happening over there. Yeah. Really old show. Wait, okay, so you're in Seattle and you waited, I mean, it's like 2 a.m.

You didn't think you could call me at any point between getting on the plane? No, it's just been like minutes. How did we get on the plane? You don't even have a- I didn't go on a plane. We went through a big door. Yeah. That went to another room with seats that then took off in the air.

Oh, I get what you guys are doing. I'm like, okay. I was like, oh, yeah, I'm on, oh, duh, I'm on, I love you, and I will, no matter what happens, I love like oh yeah i'm on oh duh i'm on uh i love you and i will no matter what happens i love you and where i'm on a field trip you did sign it you're so forgetful sometimes okay remember i feel bad that i forgot but like okay you scared me islands you go on a ferry it's fun we go snorkeling it's like a week-long camp uh okay all the kids are doing it don't check out school we're all there no kids are at school so marco goes like uh um okay yeah i guess i i guess i i did forget well i guess check check in with me you know obviously yeah uh if you can i love you uh yeah of course yeah no the

house is all quiet no no yeah that's a nice sound where my boys are gone um no it's not i mean not to me and like it's like when you play games and stuff but no okay yeah um well have a good work week i guess i love you i love i love you too all right bye i can't believe i forgot and It's like when you play games and stuff. No, okay, yeah. Well, be safe, I guess. I love you. I love you, too. All right, bye. I can't believe I forgot. And he hangs up.

What's my... It's your mother. Hello? Hey, are you... So, I've gone to Seattle. Oh, for fuck's... Oh, no. Yeah, I'm going to be on Grey's Anatomy.

The show is still going on. Yes, I know it is. It's season 78. And we're snorkeling. And we're snorkeling. Say we're snorkeling in case she calls my dad. And I'm snorkeling if you call again. Anytime I call, you'll be snorkeling. Yeah, that's what acting is about.

Because I'm going to be a big star on Grey's Anatomy. I've got to say, I did not give you the credit. I thought this was some normal teenage rebellion stuff. I didn't think you would full-on run away. Like, what did I do wrong? Like, what did I do that made you so upset at me that you didn't want to go to Terry? Was it because, like, you couldn't,

because Terry's not even right. You should be happy. I figured that would keep you home. At least, geez, oh. No, it's not. Well, I'm going to Seattle then. I have to, like, this is absurd. I'm going to get Terry.

You're what? I'm going to get Terry. Your what? I'm on another planet, and I'm getting Terry, and I'm saving him because I know that it makes you happy or whatever. Roll persuasion? A two. Look, again, I get it. I started a rock band when I was in high school I didn't move away to do it but like okay if you're gonna go start your own like thing you're gonna you're gonna rebel it's cute but like could you maybe not do it a plane ride away could you maybe just come back you're not gonna be able to find me I'm sorry you're pretty active on social media

it's not gonna be that hard sometimes if you see something that looks like your soul, and it's, you know, a broken can of something, like pickles, and you're like, my soul feels like a broken can of pickles, then you need to take a picture of it and post it. Again, I'm not blaming you. I did the exact same thing. She says drinking from a Topo Chico. She thinks Terry's gone?

All of your parents think that your dads are on a work trip and then they'll just be back pretty soon, but they don't know when. I'm just saying, Mom, that sometimes I feel like a bottle of Topo Chico where I'm like, you know, nice and hard on the outside, but on the inside I have a deep hole. You know, that's what she said. Anyways, you're not going to be able to find me, so don't look. Okay, great.

I'm too rebelled. Great, cool. Well, I guess I have to call the police. No, you don't. Fine, fine. Call the police. See what I care. They're never going to find me.

I, what? Nothing. Look, when you get picked up for whatever it is, just call me. I will bail you out. I will be very angry. I'm not going to pretend I'm not going to be, but, like, we'll deal with that, okay? Whatever. I hate you. Okay, cool. Thanks. I love you, too. I will be very angry. I'm not going to pretend I'm not going to be, but like, we'll fuck, we'll deal with that. Okay. Whatever.

I hate you. Okay, cool. I love you. No, you don't. Bye. God damn it. God damn it. I pick up the phone.

Okay. It's your mom. Hello. What's going on? All right, mom. You remember when you got the leading role in that time I got reincarnated as a Dakimakura? Honey, I, I'm an anime voice actor. I don't remember anything. It's just a paycheck to me. I don'tated as a dakimakura. Honey, I'm an anime voice actor. I don't remember anything.

It's just a paycheck to me. I don't care about the stuff I'm doing. It's just a paycheck. I just got isekai'd. I'm in another world. What time is it over there? It's like 4am. Time moves differently. You're probably not going to hear from me. I got some big, big quests

I gotta deal with. Anyway, it's just like in those animes that you voiced. Love you, mom'll see you later roll persuasion real quick three she goes wait and then you hang up on her and she does not believe you i turn around everybody like well my mom's taken care of and buttoned up i'm not sure that any of your parents are those stories that you spun were any good but uh i'm all clear uh guys one second i think i got a way to handle this and i call agent may hails okay she goes oh hey okay cool so did you how long has it been since you went to the portal uh hey mrs mrs hale miss hails uh hey there um so we're we i we just walked through we're we're on the other side of the portal so it's been like a few hours on my end. Great. Like a minute. Like a minute here. We've been here about, I'd say, 30 to 60 seconds.

Okay. So we just got a bunch of kind of freaked out calls from our parents. So we were kind of wondering if you could like maybe come up with like a really good lie for where we are. Just like take care of that. Could you just take care of that? Seattle-based lie. I just sent you a picture of me smiling. Did you get it?

Do pictures still work on the phones over there? Yeah. It's a really harsh flash and you're at darkness, and you took it from a very weird angle, so I don't know actually what I'm looking at. I just sent a picture. But how about we do a picture of the four of us and say we're on a field trip,

and you send an update, how we get those weekly updates, just be like, send a picture to our parents, be like, hey, they're all on a fun field trip. Whatever I told you. Could you send my mom this picture of this tattered flag and say me? I could. Yeah, I guess I could.

If you can just text me the passwords to all of your social media, I can set up a sort of fake field trip that you're all on. Nice try. We've learned from the beginning of our lives to never give your social media passwords to anybody. We have our social media. We'll make sure to update our social media with pictures. I got scheduled posts

going for weeks. Don't worry. Let's do a quick selfie so I hold the phone out. Look as not kidnapped as possible. Look as happy and cool and not about to be murdered. You're going to have to put down that newspaper. Is there anything around that looks kind of picturesque? Not

really. There's a bunch of torches and stuff. Like a museum. Let's be next to one of these torches. Kind of picturesque. Not really. The fire? I mean, there's a bunch of torches and stuff. Maybe we're at a museum. Let's be next to one of these torches. Let's all point at the torch and do kissy faces. Like, ooh, it's a torch. I'm looking serious.

I'm going to do the little Korean little heart fingers in mine. Because I think that's fun. Well, I'm holding the phone. So I'm just going to big smile. OK, just be careful with the flash. Because we don't want it to look like a Blair Witch photo. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I want it to look like a Blair Witch. So you you know what I mean? I want it to look like a Blair Witch photo.

So you're going to split the uprights on every one. My photo will satisfy all three of your requirements. Don't worry. It'll make everybody happy. It's going to be as broad and popular as a photo as possible. Here we go. It's going to be a four-quadrant photo. Yeah, four-quadrant photo.

Can I roll to see how good the photo is? Yeah, just give me a straight D20 roll. It's a six. No one's happy. I don't show it. I'm just going to stand to miss Hale. You guys don't worry about it. It looks good. Look, it looks like I'm smiling. It looks like I'm smiling. What the fuck, man?

Okay, you all look really bad, but this looks like, yeah, this is definitely, this will do it. You look like bad. You look bad in all their shows. So, Mrs. Hales, I have given you the login for my Pinterest account, which is my main social media. So, I'm going to need you to go ahead and like every day or so like another cheer routine or like if there seems like a really nice, sensible, normal kid outfit that you see on there.

Just like that and put it in the folder that says style references. I'm going to give you my I'm going to give you my login to my LinkedIn, which is my main social media account. into my LinkedIn, which is my main social media account. If you could just add, to really help the illusion, if you could just add, like, I don't know, like, museum tour guide above my lawn mowing that I have up there as, like, my most current job,

that'd be great. And I'll reach out to every single person you're connected to unannounced. Just my two dads. Yeah, just your dad. On my LinkedIn. Hey, May, I'm gonna give you Taylor's password to his Pornhub premium with his main social media account. Sure. Taylor, what stuff should I be liking so people don't think something's awry?

Like, what kind of stuff? Excuse me, Scary. I gave you my Facebook Messenger login. Like, that's my entire life. You've already liked every single hentai on Pornhub. I don't know what else. Yeah, just keep up. Just here's what you don't like.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I'm bad there. There's so much bad stuff. Listen, you have to you have to wade through the garbage to find the gold. I'm not going to do that, Taylor. I'm just not going to. People can think that you're missing. I don't care. I would rather I would rather

they would think you're dead than me go through the new and trending on Pornhub. I won't do it. There's a ceiling to how much I'll lose your intern

and you just found it. So you didn't come with any supplies or we were going we don't have my edc i got some power bars i think well the door like it's still like open on on this end so i think i can at least send things one way i'm gonna throw something over here weapons Weapons. Food. Well, just test something. Okay. So she goes, I'm going to throw in a gun. Miss Hale, you're an adult. Don't just throw a gun. Like, is it in a case?

Unloaded. What are you doing? Don't throw a gun and it might go off. Okay. In retrospect, I should have asked permission before I did it. I didn't test a gun. Just throw a rock. I thought you would need it.

I thought it would be useful. No, that's smart. It's smart. It's too late. I already threw in the gun. Where is it? Are you just going to wait there and see when it shows up? Yeah.

Okay, cool. You guys want to wait for this gun? I mean, listen, it will be irresponsible for us not to. I hope it shows up at some point. But okay, so it sounds like whatever connection we have through the phone, that'll keep our timelines in sync. So whenever we're talking on the phone, we're good. But yeah, I guess call me if you need stuff.

Oh, so like if we hang up like the time difference so like we should hang up to see the gun pops in right away no no i think if you hang up and then you and i start talking again like it'll be like hours have passed for me but either way i'm sure they're gonna come by at some point i'm gonna assume that this thing works and it's just on delay and i'll get some stuff together like a you. But is the gun going to land here? Or like, is there a gun just going to fall on us? Like, is this hole following us like a storm cloud in a cartoon? Or like, is the hole here?

Like, is this our base of operations now? Or like, are things just going to land on us at any moment? It's scary. So as you say that, a small purple portal opens up behind you where you sort of came in and a gun falls out. Okay, we're going to walk forward 20 feet and throw something else in and see if this thing follows us. Okay, let me grab a hair tie. Could you actually send some black moon mascara? I don't, that's not, I don't have that.

You have to shop for it. Yeah, okay, well I can bring it in the next, like if you give me a bit. Okay. Okay, yeah, so I give me a bit. Okay. Okay, yeah. So I'm throwing in a hair tie. And you move 20 feet forward, and she throws in a hair tie, and it shows up back where you started,

in the same spot. Okay, so this is like our drop. It's time to build a base here. I played enough Fortnite to know. Well, save your batteries. Be careful. I'm going to get a care package together. You should see it sooner or later.

All right, later. Bye. And she hangs up. Well, that's nice of her. I I'm going to get it carried back together. You should see it sooner or later. All right, later. Bye. And she hangs up. Well, that's nice of her. I call her back. Yeah, what's up? All right, here, throw something else in

and I'm going to grab a rock and I'm going to try to throw it into the portal when I see the purple portal show up. Would it be better for you to kick it because you're a soccer guy?

Yeah, I'll kick it. Okay, so you want me to throw something else in. I'm just going to see if something big. A little portal shows up. A hula hoop. All right, just give me I have to, I was in bed. Let me get to daddy if... Something big. A little portal shows up. A hula hoop. All right, just give me...

I have to... I was in bed. Let me get to Daddy's. I got to get into my car and drive to Daddy's. Give me a second. And I'll stay on the phone. Oh, hold on. Here's what we'll do.

Here's what we'll do. Hang up so that we get to Daddy's quicker and then call us. Yeah, we'll hang up. We'll call you back. And we hang up when you get to Daddy's. Okay, cool. Yeah. So, the second you hang up, the phone starts ringing again.

And she goes, okay, so I'll throw in a napkin and she throws in a napkin no something bigger something bigger okay i'll throw in a uh a chair an unfolded napkin i will throw in oh here's a here's a box of like Lunchables for my fucking lunch I got from the fridge I was gonna eat so here's a box of lunch you eat Lunchables as an adult oh yeah

well I wanna see if they get rotten on the way in oh that's a good idea actually where's our Lunchables I guess I'll find out I hope it's a pizza

they'll last forever that meat soup will be nothing I guess loaf of bread find a loaf of bread no I want the Lunchables toss them in so she throws in

the Lunchables I'll open them first she opens the Lunchables and then throws them in. You took the candy. There's a sneaker bar. I'm not fucking stupid. I'm not fucking going to take the candy. The portal opens and an open Lunchables.

At the moment the portal opens, I throw a rock. Okay. You throw it into the portal and the portal closes. And Mae says, Rock. Okay. Oh, yeah. I got a rock.

What? Wow. No, a rock yeah, I got a rock. What? Wow. No, rock landed just outside the fucking door. You need to carbon date the rock to see if there's any weird- I'm not going to do that, but like-

What do the Lunchables look like? So the Lunchables look delicious. More or less normal. Wait, so can we just go back? Yeah, hold on, hold on. If you do a big hula hoop or something, we can dive through

and just go back. Well, we got to know what kind of shape they're ending up when they get back there. We don't want to get there and be all old or whatever. Yeah, I actually don't know what it's like when they're- Let's throw the Lunchable back.

Oh, let's throw the Lunchable back. Yeah, yeah. Okay, great. Throw another Lunchables in so we're next. How about I just throw the rock back? I'll just throw the same rock. No, we need to kiss. And then Normal takes off his watch.

Oh, I love it. That's great. Throw this goodbye sweet, sweet i kiss it and i throw the watch their way mark the time it's currently 245 what kind of watch you have it's a yugioh watch okay does it have like a date or whatever because we don't know about the time and honestly it doesn't really work that well i also also throw the Lunchables. I put the watch in the Lunchables. It's like a fucking Sierra point and click adventure right now.

I hand you the Lunchables. Just throw it all in there. We get multiple test subjects. Nice. I also put a bug in there. That's a good one. I spit in it. You throw the Lunchables, the bug, the watch, and the spit into the hole.

And you hear May go, oh, oh, gross. Oh, no, no, no, no. Okay, so yeah, this is aged, I would say, decently. I would say at least a week or so. The Lunchables have gone bad. The watch, oh, weirdly, it's still 245. So it's like almost an exact two-week thing, I guess, when you're coming back through this. I think the portal is different when I instigated it than if you find a way to instigate it

on your end, so I don't know. But yeah, it's a couple weeks. This bug is very dead. And it turns out spit, if you let it age for a long time, is maybe the worst smell in the world. So thanks for that, normal thing. I thought I was free of your scent when you were on the other end of the universe, but it turns out you're still right here.

So that bug must have been really old if it was about to die in two weeks. Wait, so we could just get two weeks older? Like if we just jump in and out? And two weeks wiser. Wiser? Maybe some voices dropping? Yeah, you'll have no food. I'm not going to say.

We're going to need to bring snacks on our way back. It sounds like if we need to get out in a hurry, we can run through and jump here. But we are going to be like in a hurry, we can run through and jump here, but we are going to be in a sort of bottle episode situation for two weeks, so we might want to bring some food or something to read. You're running up the down escalator. There's probably a way on your end where you

can open it in your way, and it's more frictionless. We reverse the polarity. Maybe. That could be a thing. We can sit here all day throwing things in this hole we need to deal with our present situation my grant always said the worst thing to do is like you order something and then like every time the waiter comes back you're like oh now can i have water and the waiter goes and then when the waiter comes back with water like oh actually can i also have this like

i say we get our order all together and ask miss hale everything we want all at once so why don't you maybe we just hang up and we just put together an amazon wish you should get everything because it goes really fast right once we like tell her so it's just like what all do we want all at once. So why don't you, maybe we just hang up and we just like- put together an Amazon wish list. Yeah, we should get everything because it goes really fast, right? Once we like tell her, so it's just like, what all do we want from Miss Hale? Let's not waste our time.

Maybe we just get a big order ready. What all do we want? Nine. Everyone roll. Anthony's like, please move along. Another three. I got a one.

Four. Wow. What is with the rolls? So it's too late to do much of anything by the time you notice um if you had been paying more attention you would have seen three lights in the distance approaching you slowly that there are four lights instead we're all writing down what flavor lunchables we want yeah oh make sure you get the blankets what we need blankets we don't know if

they have blankets in this world we got it's cold already the time you notice it's because the light from these torches is casting itself onto the ground near your feet and you turn around and you see three torch flames that illuminate pockmarked faces that peek out from red cloaks. Two of the people are holding either end of a pole and there's a large cage dangling from that pole. And inside is what looks to be a severed head.

The person in the front holding the torch smiles very, very, very big and goes, lost? No. No. Where do we want to be? Yeah. Yep. Absolutely.

It's our favorite spot. Smile for me? I mean, the finger. I don't do that. Yeah. Well, I'll always smile at a friendly stranger and I smile. So as you smile, you notice that his smile is artificial. He has seemingly stapled up the corners of his mouth and his face looks like it has been subject

to a whole lot of wear and or tear in his attempt to keep that smile going. And the two men that are holding up the cage with the severed head go they have it they still have it oh they have it it's dinner time boys and all three of them drop the cage they throw their torches onto the ground and they open up their cloaks and each of them takes out a knife in one hand and a syringe in the other everybody roll initiative oh seven fucking 11 stop using. Can I just have an advantage for some reason? Absolutely not. Okay, well, I got five. I rolled a six. God.

Freddy, it is your move first. Nice. And 11 is the highest? 11 was the highest. How many people around us? There is a severed head in a cage that as it hits the ground, you hear it go. You see its tongue exit from it and it pushes itself up so it can sort of like turn around and look at you.

What the head did? The head did. And then there's three people wearing red cloaks who are currently wielding a knife and a syringe. Does the head look like it's happy to be in the cage? Like, is it trapped or is this like just the way they move it around? It looks trapped. I'm just wondering if maybe we have an ally in this head.

Yes. It does not look psyched to be there. It doesn't look like this is a palanquin. It's not like a conveyance of in this head. Yes. It does not look psyched to be there. It doesn't look like this is a Palanquin. This is not like a conveyance of honor. Okay. Cool. I'm going to put my hand on the hilt of my travel katana.

Your sharper image, fold-out travel katana. It's a fold-out travel katana for traveling. That's just called a knife. It's a knife. It's a travel katana. Sure. I believe that Taylor would have brought a blade

with him on this trip. One of those mini katanas. Yeah, yeah. And I'm going to go stay back or I'll be forced to unsheathe my blade. So that's your turn is telling them don't. Well, dude, what's their reaction to me saying such a fucking hard. Roll intimidation. Like such a hard ass thing.

You know what I'm saying? 19. Wow. Okay. So you can feel them flinch, though they don't drop their weapons or anything like that. Their gaze, all three of them stop looking at you, and they start looking at your other friends. So you get the feeling that they are probably not going to attack you

because they're a little bit intimidated by you, but the others are still up for grabs. These numbers are no good. I want a Zephyr strike, but specifically I want to try and cut off the arm of one of these guys. So roll with disadvantage if you want to do something specific like that. I will roll... Ah!

Jesus. The natural one. Wow. So the sword gets completely stuck in its sheath. That's what happens when you don't practice fast speed unsheathing and you attempt to make it go fast, you can get stuck.

You got to keep it oiled. So what you accidentally do is you pull out the entire sword still in its sheath and basically toss it at their feet. So you have no sword right now. And I go, Zephyr, strike! Ah, shit! The smiling one in front goes, thank you. Thank you, so generous. Thank you.

Now it is Scary's turn. Who has the gun? It's on the ground by your feet. Nobody picked it up. Taylor notices the gun by his feet and says, hmm, should have done that. I will cast Vampiric Touch. Okay. The touch of your shadow wreath tan can siphon life force from others to heal your wounds. Make a melee spell attack against a creature within your reach.

Or is he not in my reach though? I mean, we can say you moved up to him and then did it. Okay. On a hit, the target takes 3d6 necrotic damage, and you regain hit points equal to half the amount of necrotic damage. Okay. Yeah, go ahead. Go for it.

11. You lunge at this thing with your hand burning with shadowy energy, and it barely just moves its head to the right, and you just barely manage to whiff. Your arm is now like over his shoulder and he goes, close, very close. I can feel it coming off of you though.

Very close. Normal. Normal is going to cast Guiding Bolt and zap him. Zap him real good. Hell yeah, dude. A flash of light streaks towards a creature of yours. This is what I tried to kill Scary with

a couple episodes ago. I realized that when Anthony said the damage was 4d6, I heard 4d6. So I was like, jeez! Oh, I see. That makes sense.

I rolled a 19. Wow, okay. So that'll do it. So that is 22 radiant damage to one of the ones holding the severed head. Okay. The one second closest to you that

scary did not just try to punch. Your guiding bolt hits him and he explodes. Oh! He just explodes. Oh my god, I almost hit you with that, scary! Oh, I'm so sorry! I thought I was just gonna stun him! Oh my god! Black, pungent jelly litters the ground amongst him and flies

in the air and he smells even worse on the inside, much like a tauntaun. Oh my god. And he is instantly incinerated by that was that one the ones holding the cages that was one of the two holding the cages yeah now it is your turn link by the way when when this happens the other two cackle and they go more for me oh god i don't like that i don't like that i'm gonna pick up the gun i'm gonna check his chamber and cock it and load it because grant one of the few things that they do and you know as i said he was a sniper i feel like occasionally the range yeah i went to the range it's like a fun thing but it's like grant was secretly being like at

some point uh link might have to know and i point the gun up in the air and i shoot and i go you see this this will f you guys up more than like what he just did. And I got a lot more bullets where that comes from. I literally just exploded him. I don't know that a little gun is going to do that much to scare him. What are you doing? He's saying it's even bigger. It's bigger than that one. Yeah, it's real big.

It's real scary. I got a bunch of them. I'll shoot. I'll blow you all away if I have to. Wipe those smiles off your faces. Just calm down. All right. Roll intimidation.

I don't think you need to have disadvantage for it. Cause it made it. I mean, have they seen a gun before? Shouldn't be advantageous. Just big boom, boom. Well,

what happens is one guy just exploded and your thing just made a loud noise and nothing happened to them. So they have, I wish you take that. Well, cause I said it does more. Well, yeah.

Why would they believe you just went, this would be even worse. And then you didn't do a thing. Okay. I did a 13 intimidation. Okay. 13. I'll have them roll insight.

They literally got a 14. Oh my God. Is that a toy? Is that a toy for babies? A baby holding a baby toy. It's not a toy. It's not a toy. Shut up.

It's not a toy. Okay. So is that my action? That was your action. Okay. I'm going to cast sanctuary you ward a creature within range against attack until a spell ends any creature who targets warded creature with an attack or harmful spell must first make a wisdom saving throw on a failed save that creature must

choose a new target or lose the attack or spell the spell doesn't protect the boarded creature from area effects etc the word or creature makes an attack it goes away so essentially they have to do a wisdom saving throw to attack. I'm going to actually cast it on Normal because Normal blew one of them up. So I think, I'm just trying to guess who they're going to try to attack next. Sure. Normal gains the armor of self-confidence because Link paid attention to him.

That's a codependence armor. The two remaining smiling men, it is their turn. So the one nearest to you, Scary, is going to jam the needle directly into your ear canal. Oh! No!

Unless your AC beats, what's your AC? 12. Yeah, no, it beats that. So the needle goes, and it's weirdly painless. It doesn't hurt. You feel pressure, but you don't feel pain. It's like a piercing. I want to use protection as a reaction.

Oh my fucking God. What? Oh, you want to play Dungeons & Dragons or what, Anthony? No, it's just the ultimate, like, no, you don't get to do this thing. It's like a piercing. I want to use protection as a reaction. Oh my fucking God. What? Oh, you want to play Dungeons and Dragons or what, Anthony? No, it's just the ultimate like, no, you don't get to do this thing. It's a reaction.

Okay, what is it? When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that's within five feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack.

Okay. You must be welding a shield but we already said that my shin guards are my shields. Oh, sure. Okay, cool. Wielding.

Welding a shield. You must weld a shield. I welded my own shin guards. So he tried the attack again and whiffed completely so his needles right about to go to scary's ear and then you bring your shin guards up like suddenly you're resting your leg on scary's other shoulder and uh you block the needle with your shin guard my friend's alone he goes oh oh the other one. Bum rushes normal and tackles him to the ground, succeeding at the wisdom saving throw.

So your sanctuary did not do anything. And he gets a natural 20 to his attack. So the needle comes down right into your forehead. Again, no pain, just a lot of pressure. And he just leans in and he whispers, think of your happiest memory.

And you feel your happiest memory beginning to conjure up inside your head. And you can feel that it is moving towards the syringe. And next turn,

if he's not taken off of you, he's going to suck that right up into that syringe. So the first time I ran out on the field as Teenie the Teen, and everyone was cheering, or at least I thought they were, because the sound was amplified that syringe. So the first time I ran out on the field as teeny the teen and everyone was cheering or at least I thought

they were because like the sound was amplified in my head of my own screaming. Were your parents there? Yeah they were there and you know like my dad was feigning enthusiasm but I thought it was real and I was getting the crowd super torqued. You're saying all that's going through this syringe right now? I'm saying it's approaching the needle of that syringe very much so.

Okay so we're back at the top of the initiative so once again it is Taylor's turn. Okay so seeing this guy on going the needle I'm gonna just do a flying jump kick. Okay. To try and jump kick the needle or no the body mass. I'm gonna jump kick the body mass of this guy. Okay.

Go ahead and give me an attack roll. That was not that. Yeah, what do you have? That's my attack roll. Jesus. Natural one plus three. Oh my God. So you eat shit.

I think I feel like I kicked the syringe plunger and it actually- Deeper in. Yeah, deeper in. Great. Yeah, so now it hurts. Now I'm forgetting when I got a new video game console for Christmas. So you just jump right onto the fucking smiling man's back

and the plunger goes deeper in. And yeah, now his top three favorite memories are inside this syringe. Is this a flash film article? Newer's top ten favorite memories and what we could do without. You won't believe number one. Okay, so yeah, he's losing even more memories. He hasn't lost them yet. He hasn't lost them yet. They're now inside

the syringe, but he has to retract them for them to be fully gone from normal. So that was Taylor's disappointing excuse for a turn. Now scary. I look at the dude who's sucking memories out of normal and is like, hey, you think you're hot shit? Only I'm allowed to be mean to normal.

I cast Fireball. Okay. You have normal. Shield your eyes, dog. What? So Fireball. Fireball's an area of effect. It sure is.

Sure is. Oh, I didn't know that. That's fine. That's fine. So every creature in a 20-foot radius sphere centered on that point has to make a dexterity saving throw. A target takes 8d6 fire damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful one.

Sorry, guys. I've got all this power, and I don't know how to use it. Yeah, so normal's basically pin prone under this guy, so I'm going to say you have disadvantage on your dexterity saving throw. I'm there, too, I think, because I just did. Oh, you're not pinned. Yes, you're there as well, yeah.

So both normal and... We're all within 20. I feel like, yeah, 20 is... How far would 20 be? Me to Freddy is at 20? Well, no, you're by scary because you just blocked with the shin guard,

so you're safe, assuming scary didn't just also blow herself. What I'm just saying was that 20 feet, I'm trying to gauge in my mind. If I fucked up this bad, I think that scary

fucks up this bad. Okay, fair enough. No, the point is like I'm next to you, so I probably am not. Okay, so everybody's in this. You cast a fireball and it hits every single person.

So everybody roll a dexterity saving throw and Normal and the smiling man that is being pinned by Taylor will roll with disadvantage. So I got a one. I got a 21.

I got an 18. I got a nine. So Scary a 21. I got an 18. I got a nine. So Scary's spell save DC is 12. So everybody got less than a 12. You are going to go ahead and roll yourself eight D6 fire damage. What? Everyone that got more than a 12,

you're going to roll yourself four D6 fire damage. Now, since normal got a natural one, I feel like every one of your dice, you roll twice and you take the higher of the two um okay so like are we like even for when you almost uh like killed me do you remember when you almost like killed me because that was like uh totally not cool man i took 14 damage i took 13 damage okay so roll one was 30 damage and uh roll two was 30 damage and roll two was 31 damage. Normal has 24 HP.

Oh no. So normal just got blasted hardcore and is in death save territory. Yes. Scary. Holy shit. Scary. Oh my God. I said, yeah, that we're kind of even.

I never meant for this to happen. That was awesome. So what happens is there's an explosion of fire that lights up the night around you. Fuck, fuck, fuck. The two remaining Smiley Men are immolated instantly. They turn to fucking ash. The head in the cage is like, well, oh, no. Mr. Head.

It gets burned to a crisp immediately. No, don't worry about Mr. Head. It gets burned to a crisp immediately. No, I don't worry about Mr. Head. And it's flailing around inside the cage. You know what it is? It's like the scene from Terminator 2. Yeah, exactly. He's holding the cage with his tongue. Yeah.

And the fucking skin gets blown off of his bones, but the tongue stays there. And it's just a skull in there now. And yeah, normal. The melting goo of the dying smiling man on top of you burns you even worse. So you take that 31 damage

and you fall into death saves. Like you basically get knocked unconscious by this explosion around you. But hey, you're out of combat and you won technically. I definitely feel like the incinerating blast has definitely incinerated normal's tighty-whities, which I think were still the only thing

he was wearing when he jumped through the portal. So you've got a singed, unconscious, naked boy in front of you. Okay, so you're out of combat now. I gotta go quickly to heal him. Do you lay on hands? I do lay on hands. I can restore up to 20 HP per long rest. Who's all hurt?

I'm fine. Literally everybody is hurt. Just a just a flesh wound all right how does it work well i mean you you rolled too right because you were in it rolled yet but i did get hurt yeah everybody got hurt because even if you saved you still take half damage so none of you is not hurt i got 33 okay but i'm fine because i've got 67 hit points. So you're actually on fire right now and it probably looks pretty cool. Hey, I'm on fire right now. When I heal 20, he's back to 20. It's not like the difference between the damage he took.

Like there's no negative. You have to heal up my damage. You're just at zero, yeah. Okay, so you're just at zero essentially. I think so. I'm just going to use it all on because we can all rest. I'm just going to use it all on normal. I do that thing like I'm going to make like a bandage,

but all I'm doing is I'm ripping my sleeves off and I'm making him like a diaper. So like I touch his shoulder and I heal him 20 and I also make him a little diaper. So now he looks like, no, he looks like, let me solo her. Hey, Norm, I think I've got an extra band shirt somewhere here. So Normal's eyes crack open, and with his hair still smoking, he looks at Scary and says, We're even. Yeah, here you go. Here's the Harbor of Fuck shirt.

You look great, buddy. Thank you. And I put the shirt on. I'm glad we're all having a good group experience here. Were you guys all really scared that I might have died? Not really. Yeah, absolutely. I'm also scared of like scary.

That was so much power. I was more scared of like how much power I had. That was pretty wild. We need to rethink our group dynamic if we ever get into any of these scuffles. It definitely feels like scary. You're our cannon. I just got to like know my own strength more

because I've got so much of it like those guys like they had a head taylor drops to a knee and goes like will you teach me sensei um yeah sure i guess specifically how you did that fireball thing speaking of this like scary i don't know like there's just a lot of power in this place like check this out and then from my hand the gun is now glowing because i cast this sacred weapon on it so as an action with positive energy the weapon is considered magical it can add one to attack roles but also emits a bright light for 20 feet it's like sting oh cool like a flashlight so hopefully because it's really dark out here so i got glowing like glowing glock here casting light around like this i don't know here

do you want to hold this yes okay here i quickly unload and i take all the and I take all the bullets out, and I chuck them out into the woods. Wait, no. What are you doing? Yeah, no. This is too dangerous for us, especially like we already got more powerful weapons than a gun, and guns aren't a toy, but like it's a cool flashlight. So, like here. I hand you the gun now flashlight.

Like, that's yours, man. It's pretty cool. I kind of wish we knew what they were going to do with your memories, Norm. Yeah. I'm really happy that you got cool powers and you almost die uh i think i might have been dead for a second i saw some weird stuff in there well you have powers too don't you you can like i'm hurt we're all hurt could you help us oh yeah i'll get right on that what happened wait so the syringe did just right

back in he never managed to push the plunger back into my head. Yeah, you keep the memories. And I go, I'm good to go. Max Payne. See under that syringe. It might be useful. Who are those guys? I look at their singed bodies

to see if I can find any clues to who they were or what they wanted. They're carbon-based life forms. That much we know. I think you can roll investigation or perception with disadvantage

because they're burnt to shit. They're flammable. Yeah. They are flammable. Fire, they are flammable. Fireworks in this world. Well, that's a three, so that's not going to be helpful. Taylor's seen all he needs to see. Oh, Taylor's going to also hang on to that memory syringe.

I rolled a 11. With an 11, you can see that they were pretty well equipped for violent endeavors. You could see several knives. You could see bottles that have now exploded, but they were presumably full of something that mattered. Like these look like survivalists. They didn't look like, you know, city folk who were on their way from A to B. So there's like a very post-apocalyptic vibe. They look like post-apocalyptic survivors kind of. Yeah. Well, not survivors anymore. Not anymore. No, no, no. What about the head in the cage? I want to examine the cage, the head itself, what remains of the skull. The head's gone. The head is, yeah. There's a skull in there now.

Crispy and still, the few bits of flesh remaining on it are still burning. I stare deep into the eye sockets to see what eldritch insight I can gain. Okay, roll Arcana. And also I want to look at the, you know, the cage. Ooh, can I roll Arcana too? I got good Arcana. Sure, if you want. Eight plus two, ten.

I squint a little bit and be like, this used to be someone. Correct. That's about as much as a ten gets you. We all used to be someone, Taylor. I rolled a 14 plus 4, 18. 18. Okay, so with an 18, you can see, even with most of the skin blasted off, you get the vibe from Arcana that

this face that's in this cage was like more well off than the men carrying it around. This guy seems like he was like a guy about town. More well off than these other ones. Well, not anymore. Or does he have like some fancy jewels in his teeth? Oh, that's funny. Most of his teeth are made of different metals.

We shouldn't look too fancy around here because this man got his head chopped off. I want to take the skull with us. So the teeth on this thing are all jewel encrusted. Like they've had jewels grafted to every individual incisor and molar and bicuspid.

So, yeah, if you want to take that skull with all the jewel teeth. Better take this. Alas, poor Yorick will give them hell. So, is there any landmark around? I want to just take a look with our, when we got our now our cool flashlight. So, I want to take a look. Sure.

My first thought was, like, probably don't want to go in the direction they came from. It probably like a good bit but like let's see if there's anything that's okay yeah i i see what you're saying because it's like we don't know much but we know that direction bad stuff came from there right so i'm thinking look one direction is as good as another we're looking for our dads right like what if we go one direction was a shit band thank you i really like them i like them and O-Town and all the other good old bands. I regret giving you my Harbor of Fuck shirt. You're wearing pristine shreddage right now.

Go ahead and roll perception to sort of get your bearings if you want to sort of figure out where you are. 17 plus two. 19. 19. Three. Taylor's just kind of like looking for his- I take the flashlight back.

Taylor's just trying to get the sword out of this guy. I would be like, stupid fucking thing. I got a five. Three. Taylor's just kind of like looking for his flashlight back. Taylor's just trying to get the sword out of this guy. I would be like, stupid fucking thing. I got a five. Okay. Link, you can feel like your eyes have adjusted a little bit to the specific kind of darkness that's at play here. And you can see that from this darkness that has blanketed the world, there are still little pinpricks of activity.

Distant cities or distant towers. So the direction that the Smilers came from, you can see sort of a pillar of lights moving up into the sky, decently high. You see a lot of lights at the base, but there's one pillar that seems to ascend higher than the others. In the direction behind you, where the Smilers were going, you see some more dim lights, but a large collection of those dim lights sort of nearer the ground, more of a village type of thing. And then to your left, you see one single burning flame that seems to be burning very brightly. Like it has the brightness of a star when you look into the night sky, but it's at like, you know, eye level for you. And it seems to be to your left.

All right. As you also look around and see more of the world, you cannot help but have your eyes flick upward at the undulating form of the doodler that has overtaken the entire sky. It's like he's twerking. I'm going to put Cthulhu twerking into an AI image generator really quick. Do that. That'd be fun. As you sort of move the gun around that you took from Taylor, for a second, the light hits some part of the creature above you, the dude there above you, and you realize it's actually a lot closer than you thought. It's close enough that the flashlight

doesn't dissipate entirely before it hits it. And you see slimy scales undulating in waves, almost like it's an ocean of scales above you. And just the mere looking at that and realizing, oh my God, how close it is, and the sheer size of it, your brain gets a sense for the scale. So give me a wisdom saving throw.

All those are just me. Just you because you're the one who saw it. I'm still fiddling with my sword. 13 plus 4. Wisdom 4. Oh wow, okay. 17. Great. Wise is Lincoln. So you managed to keep your cool. It is very scary. I just look

away. You react to whatever you like. How high up is it? So it looks like it's only about 100 feet up, this particular apartment. Oh, God. It's real close. Okay, so here's the landscape team. A quick team huddle. We got where those guys came from.

It's like, you see there's like a big column over there of light. Oh, yeah. It looks like a small village over there, and there's like one really bright light there, and just don't ever look up. Why? What's up? And I look up. All right, go ahead and give me a wisdom saving throw

as you see the exact same thing. I got a six. You get so scared that you just drop everything you're doing and run. So as long as you are outdoors for the foreseeable future, which will probably be not that long, but so long as you are out of doors underneath the obsidian sky that undulates

and is thriving and living above you, you'll have to roll not to lose your nerve anytime anything dangerous happens and like run in fear. Oh, shit. For the rest of the time we're here? No, no, no. Just until you basically acclimate more to the space that you're in. Okay. I look to everyone else and say, he's right. Don't look up. Don't do that. That's not a cool thing to do. Don't ever look up at the sky. It's really not great, guys. I'm just telling you right now. It's very bad. And then I just take off.

Where are you going? Whoa. Come back here. What direction does he take off in? I assume I want to get inside so I don't have to look at the bad thing anymore, right? Yeah, but, you know, it's all dark to you. But aren't there like, he just pointed out like. Oh, yeah, that's true.

Yeah, so there's a village, a bright light, and then a scary column. I get to run towards the village. Yeah. Okay. So the village is back towards the village. Yeah. Okay. So the village is back towards the way that you came. And so as you're running, are you screaming? No, I sprint after him. Are we all sprinting after him?

Yeah. I guess Norm is deciding which direction we're going. So as you all sprint after him, you're running in the direction that that portal opened up, where the gun and all that stuff came out. And as Norm is leading the way in his diaper and punk rock t-shirt, just sprinting with terror, you see the portal open up in front of you again. And even in the darkness, you flinch and you're taken aback by a bright yellow color

as the hood and then the windshield and then the body of the pussy wagon drive through the portal with a couple of greasy hands around the steering wheel, and you are about to hit it, and the driver hits the brakes as hard as they can, but it looks like it still might hit you. What are you all going to do?

I'm going to dive out of the way. Yeah, I'm going to drop and roll. All right, everybody give me dexterity saving. Do I have to roll to see if I lose my nerve? You already lost your nerve. You're already running. I'm going to get dexterity saving roll. Yeah, just give me dexterity.

A 12. I got a 16. God, natural one. Oh, my God. I got an. A 12. I got a 16. God! Natural one! Oh my God. I got an eight. Okay. I got a 16 plus two, 18. All right.

Taylor is so committed to like the head down Naruto run, like samurai run with his hand on the hilt of his sword. They completely miss the fact that there's a car in front. It was all those movies where like the cool guy

just stands there in the car like slams on the brakes and stops right in front. You're just doing that. You're like, yeah, he's going to stop right in front of me i know it's gonna look cool yeah which means you also leave your head down with your hand on your sword so it just hits you full speed in the fucking head so take uh 2d12 worth of damage taylor normal you almost get out

of the way the uh headlight clips you a little bit so take a da the damage as you're knocked clear scary what do you do that uh helps you avoid you just dive out of the way? Yeah, I dive and roll. I slide tackle out of the way. Great. There you go. I was lifted, so you slide tackle under it. I got a 12. You got a 12? You get hit by the other headlight as you move to the side, so you take a D8 as well. I took 2D12 and that just

takes a D8? Yeah, you got a nat 1. You got a nat 1. It hit you in the head. So the car screeches to a stop and the door opens and a familiar figure in a bright red suit comes out and goes, you rang? Oh no. Oh no. I'm so sorry.

I did not mean to drop in on you like this. Herman, you just hit me with your car. I know, and I was trying to, as per our arrangement, I am your sidekick and I was coming to save you. God. And yet,

Taylor stumbles up after having taken 11 damage from the car. I go, give me the fucking keys. Are you Hermie or are you like

the Joker right now? What do you mean? I mean, there's this thing called acting, I guess. Thank you. You're welcome.

So are you acting or are you like If you're out of character. Are you in character or out of character? If you're asking me my method. Was anybody asking that? No. An expert never reveals his secrets, so I'm glad you weren't asking that. Did Miss Hale send you here? Yes, yes.

Your girl Friday, Mae Hales, reached out to me and suggested that perhaps, mayhaps, I could come and protect you as I swore my sword to thee, Taylor. As per our previous arrangement, we're now best friends and there's no taking that back. Yes, correct. Thank you. Yes, correct.

Yes, I'm your best friend. Sorry, everybody. He says, looking over at the rest of you. And says, look at Linkin Park, spot's still open. And he goes, yes, I have brought some supplies for whatever this uh performance is that we're that we're putting on here well you want to i mean you want to are you gonna stay or can you just leave this up here and go no he's staying with us as far as i'm concerned i was specifically given uh this device he says and he pulls out of his joker blazer a little it looks like a like an

old pda if there's three dots on it and he he says, Miss Hales suggested that you have this. So she says that it is, none of these words mean anything to me, but I did memorize what she said. Like a good actor. Like a good actor. I know my lines and her lines. She says, this is a handheld incursion detector. She said that as your fathers appeared in different places of the school, that those places might mirror places in this plane, and that by following the coordinates for those incursion points, we might find where your fathers are. Well, Hermie, welcome to Earth.

I mean, we're on Earth, right? I think, yeah. Yeah, we thought we were before, but... Anthony, am I still running? Yeah, and Hermie goes like, earth right i think yeah we thought we were before but anthony am i still running uh yeah and hermico's like oh who's gonna look up he's gonna be his normal has not stopped running he got up from the car and is still just running towards this village we have a car we got a team to catch we have a car hold on i fire up the pussy wagon and i as i'm running i shake the gun like one of those like self starting flashlights.

Cause the spell only lasts one minute at a time. So I'm like, come on. Okay. So I'm gonna drive the car in front and like use the tailgate to like, like receive normal as he runs into it. We all hop in the pussy wagon and chase after normal. All right.

So, uh, normal is pretty quickly overtaken by the pussy wagon. Uh, I believe I get to roll athletics for that. Okay. Versus a driving roll as we're off-roading because

normal is just streaming across the ground. Good point. So roll your animal handling, Freddie. Two. Well, you're not driving. I'm driving. Hermie's driving. I beg you to roll normal dice and not do the D&D beyond. This is insane. Wait, isn't Hermie driving, though? No, he demanded the keys from Hermie. Oh, okay.

I got an 18. Okay, so you see this while, what are you, how do you fuck this up? I'm sitting there being like, hold on, before we go off road, I know that there's usually a switch where you can

change the differential. All right, so you're navigator now, and I switch spots with him. I think we need to go four wheel drive. This is happening while normal gets further and further

in this. I'm buckled in, stay back. So normal on his own, oh, his This is happening while Normal gets further and further. I'm buckled in. Stay back. So Normal, on his own. Oh, this village is close. He gets close enough to sort of figure out what's happening. Normal, as you run forward, you can see a long, long, what initially from the distance looked like, oh, this must be a really big, really wide village.

This must take up a pretty big amount of space. As you get closer, you see that it's actually a relatively small village, but with a really long line of people leading out of it, all of whom are holding torches. And as you run, you sort of get up to the end of this line. Are you still terrified? Are you going to keep running? Like, what are you going to? So I'm running, I'm seeing people and they're walking towards me. They're walking in the same direction that you're running. Basically, they're all heading towards this village and you've just come into the end of what looks to be

as you continue to run and you see people going like no cutting well actually it's okay if you cut I would prefer it if you cut you see them sort of looking at you with dour faces

and frustrated looks in their eyes so normal like someone who's late for their flight and is trying to make his way through TSA is apologizing to every single person in line as he cuts away

hi I'm really sorry but there's a giant scary monster in the sky. I really need to get inside. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. So you come to a couple of wooden gates that have a couple of guards there, but as they see you running up, they go like, oh, absolutely. No problem. And thank you. Wow. Really great customer service. Yeah. Did you guys see that, though? You guys see the big scary thing in the sky? We shall probably get inside. That's probably the thing to do. So they open the wooden gates. And as the wooden gates open, I feel like this would actually stop you in your tracks.

So you see the line is circling around the interior of this sort of camp. And in the center of the camp seems to be a very large vat full of some steaming, very thick, yellow, viscous fluid. And the smell is familiar. You can't quite place it. But you see a couple of people from that line

are pushed by two of these guards into that vat. And they scream in agony as they begin to get burned. And you see a tube leading from this steaming vat of something yellow and these bodies. And it snakes its way up to what looks to be a bright red and yellow throne. It's bright yellow with dots of red around it. On this throne is a very large, very old man with a red polo shirt, and the tube is leading directly into his veins.

And as the vat of this liquid begins to bubble, roll perception right now. 18. 18. 18. With an 18, roll perception right now. 18. 18. With an 18, you can immediately recognize that smell. It was the one time that Lark took you out for some non-vegan food. And he went, let me introduce you to pizza. And you can smell the cheese in that vat.

You can see the throne that he's sitting on. Oh, my God. And you see, as the people who've been pushed into this vat melt and die within it, the guards who just push them in put their hands to their chest and then outward, and they say, better ingredients, better pizza, all for the papa. And he goes, as the cheese enters his veins. Well, I'm going to go. And two big hands solidify on your shoulders. No, no, no.

You're next and they push you towards the big vat all our days whisked away but is there something more to say you know that no one knows us better than ourselves you should tell myself it'll be all right pretty lies let me sleep at night i know that no one knows me better than myself. And I know I'll get this right. It's just a matter of time till we make it out alive. We gotta pick ourselves up and say Not today, no, not today We live for tomorrow

Make steel and borrow Break where we can't change We gotta pick ourselves up and say Not today, no, not today I don't need your sorrow Come back tomorrow I'll be on my way Not today, no, not today. I don't need your sorrow. Come back tomorrow. I'll be on my way.

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Come back tomorrow. I'll be on my way. Where does it say area of effect so I know not to do this again? It says it in the book. Always read the fine print. Yes.