Dungeons and Daddies - S2 Ep. 2 - The Game of Life [Any% WR Speedrun]

Episode Date: February 8, 2022

The teens confront horrors at the local elementary school where they must do battle with a monster obsessed with speedrunning.This episode contains violence, profanity, sexual content, references to drug use, and body horror.Support 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 Waller (Available on Bandcamp)Brian Fernandes is our Content ProducerAshley Nicollette is our Community ManagerEster Ellis is our Lead EditorTravis Reaves provides Additional EditingRobin Rapp is our TranscriberCover art by Alex Moore (@notanotheralex)Send us stuff and get in contact: https://www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/contactThe 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 episode description. Okay, asking someone how long they believed they were destined for greatness is so stupid, you can't even consider it a topic suitable for idle conversation. And if you still want to know how long I believed that I, Taylor Swift, was going to one day single-handedly change the world, well, I can tell you this, I always knew. Exhibit A, my dad, probably not human. Exhibit B, I'm the coolest kid in my school. So when a mysterious man in a suit showed up during detention and recruited me and my three sidekicks, Link, Normal, and Scary, into an

organization called Daddies, and that we were to be tasked with stopping eldritch horrors that infest our world, let's just say I wasn't surprised in the least. It was in that moment I knew the adventure that would define my teenage life and change the fate of the world forever was just beginning. This is my story. Welcome to Dungeons and Daddies Season 2, Still Not a BDSM Podcast. Don't say still because it makes it sound like eventually, Will. Not yet a BDSM.

Not yet. Hang in there, everyone. Edging is the act of... This podcast tells the story of four teens searching for their lost dads in a world forever changed... By the metaverse. Forever twisted by the metaverse. That's right. We're going to change it up every time, Will.

That's fun. I like that. I disagree. I don't think it's fun to change it up. This intro forever changed by Beth Naysay. Beth Naysay. Yeah, that's pretty good. My name is Freddie Wong.

I play Taylor Swift, an anime-loving teen. Codename Ranger. You see that in there? Oh, nice. Rad fact this week about Taylor Swift. An anime loving teen. Codename Ranger. You see that in there? Oh, nice. Rad fact this week about Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift is able to start a fire anywhere, any condition, any place on earth. Assuming he has a butane lighter and a lot of tinder and somewhat dry conditions, actually.

Okay. I like how you need a tinder. The lighter already does it. The fire happens you've made fire matt you did fire that's correct you made fire you did it the fire's done that second part so i went camping with matt and i said hey matt can you make the fire and he turned on his butane light i went did it gather around everyone down to the s'mores time hey everybody my name is matthew arnold i play schooled at home soccer kid uh lincoln lee wilson like most awkward teens i'm just gonna keep this really simple and i'm supposed to much of myself at the beginning here lincoln likes trains. He just really likes trains. Just, yeah.

That's fair. Yeah, airplanes, but safer. They're on the ground. Airplanes, but safer. And I think he might understand an elevator if somebody explains to him that it's essentially a train, but vertical. So maybe that will help him later down the adventure.

That was the sequel to Vertical Limit. It was Vertical Train. Damn. That's it. Hey, everyone. I'm Will Campos. I play Normal Oak, a perky, chirpy, chipper, cheery school spirit mascot kid slash cleric or codename cleric.

I don't know what we're doing with that yet. This week's rad fact about Normal Oak. High school kids can be pretty snobby about the types of music they listen to. Normal is a fan of all genres of music across space and time. Top 40 country pop hits, hip hop, as long as it is the marching band cover version. Oh, my God. Normal listens exclusively to school marching band albums that they like released to like fund the marching band for that year. And so like he loves a good marching band cover.

I actually I get that. I could watch those compilations on YouTube or whatever. This is also a will fact. band for that year and so like he loves a good marching band cover i actually i get that i could watch those compilations on youtube or whatever this is also a will fact this is how i get in method for normal is i blast marching band music on the way over here really oh yeah yeah there's some bangers and there's always songs you don't think are gonna rip ass as a marching band cover sweet caroline great marching band song anyway hi my name's Beth May, and I play Scary Marlo, a goth punk seeker of darkness who is not like the other warlocks. Ooh.

Nice. That was real diegetic of you, the way you said that. Thank you. Thank you. Fun rad fact about Scary Jr. is that her guidance counselor, when she was having so much trouble meeting her mom's new beau and him coming into the family and stuff like that, suggested that Scary write letters to Terry, her stepdad. And so far, all she's done is left like passive

aggressive post-it notes around the house about how he keeps washing her black clothes and making them like faded. And then how he threw away a couple of safety pins that she was using as earrings. I'm Anthony Burch. I'm your dad. Our dads are gone. Yeah, your dads are gone. So I am your interim dad. I'm your regency dad.

Your regent dad. I still have another dad. Fuck you. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Okay. I'm three of your dads. The regent dad. I still have another dad. Fuck you. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Okay. I'm three of your dads. The other two dads you didn't even know was there. The problem with this all being said in high school

is that my rad facts probably should be about me in high school. And I was not a cool guy in high school. I refuse to believe that, Anthony. Refuse. Also, Anthony, do you know what the people want? If you were a cool guy in high school, there's nothing I'd want to know about you. That's true. That's true. Like, don't talk. Yeah. I founded my school's film club in high school that's pretty real after school watch movies we would have been friends we all would have been friends i would have been

intimidated three or four of us would have been friends with me i liked movies in high school you'd misunderstand i would fall in love with you immediately and then completely pushed you away because i didn't know how to deal with that and I would have never talked to you ever again. Oh, we're so blessed to have met now. Yeah. So when we last left you, you were on, I guess, your first mission

as agents of the organization known as Daddies, the department for the, I don't care, it doesn't matter. Come on, give it to us one more time. This is our job. Dad, one more time. The department for the acquisition, destruction, deployment, and investigation of extra normal stuff, Daddies for short.

And you had felt a surge of daddy magic that directed you to an incursion by the forces of the doodler. And that incursion took place at the San Dimas Elementary School, where you saw basically a bunch of kindergartners forces of the doodler. And that incursion took place at the San Dimas Elementary School, where you saw basically a bunch of kindergartners being forced to get into a computerized machine thing for a creature that was running on a treadmill. And it seemed like they were speed running to

be the first person to get a million dollars quicker than anybody else who had speed runned. As you entered this room, the doors slammed shut behind you and the creature running on the treadmill had turned to you and said, speedrunning is life. So I have a question for the DM. When does Freddy's having the talk right now? Yes, I think it does. And how is that any different than what he normally does? Yes. So because of last episode, Taylor had tried to lockpick a door in the dungeon. And when you fail to lockpick a door, you get a curse. And Taylor's curse is that he has to speak whatever is going on in his mind. It says, I must think out loud for the entirety of the next adventure. Here we are on the next adventure.

I feel like that's really our curse. Yeah. It's a group curse. I don't think Scary likes me very much. The runner on the treadmill is just in speedrunning his life. As she says that, you see a gremlin come out from behind the machine, a little knee-high gremlin, and it's adjusting knobs

and tightening screws, and the runner goes, Tinker, Tinker, we got four new people trying to get a high score. I think they want to jump the queue. What do you think? And the Tinker's like,

I don't care. As long as they get inside and get a million dollars, that's what the doula wants. That's what he shall get or it shall get. They shall get. Whoa.

We're not here to cut into any lines. We're actually here to... Normal, you want to tell them that we're going to stop them? Normal's already put on the doula wants. That's what he shall get or it shall get. They shall get. Whoa. We're not here to cut into any lines. We're actually here to normally want to tell them that we're going to stop them. Normal's already put on the invisibility ring I got last episode. Everything goes black. You can't see shit. Last episode, I got a ring that makes me invisible but also blind. So, yes, normal has vanished. What did you do?

What did you do with normal? Lincoln, relax. It's me, normal. I'm right here behind you. I've got this ring on. It makes me invisible. He's put on an invisibility ring. No, no, no. It's me, normal. I'm right here behind you. I've got this ring on. It makes me invisible. He's put on an invisibility ring. No, no, no.

Shut up. All right, roll stealth with disadvantage, Will. That's a five. Your five does not cut it, and the runner extends an arm out in the direction of your voice, and it shouldn't be that gross. Yes, it should.

Whatever it is, it should be that gross. Okay, well, then one of her veins just out of her wrist and just snakes towards you, and should. Whatever it is, it should be that gross. Okay, well then one of her veins just out of her wrist and just snakes towards you and you can feel it like caressing your head and your face and she goes,

I know you're there. I know you're there. I know you're there. No, thank you. That's gross. You can't hide from me. This is not a stealth only run. This is an any percent.

Million dollars. Who wants to go first or together? Cooperative play is also encouraged. Whatever you like. I have some questions. I take the ring off.

Whoa. No, I'm just kidding. You can see her vein floating in front of you. Oh, that's gross. Striking your head. Can you not? Don't do this. Come on.

This is jacked up. This isn't okay. You got a bunch of kids here. What the hell is going on? Did you guys say something about the doodler? The tinker looks at you and goes, yes, yes, the doodler. He or it or they who we do it all for. Yes, of course, the doodler.

Are you also acolytes of he, they, it? We should play it cool here. Hey. Yeah. Roll persuasion with disadvantage. 14 and a half, three. The tinker goes, no, no, no. I would smell it on you if you were truly acolytes.

No, no, no. Damn, my bluff didn't work. Well, then what are you doing? We hear that you're killing kindergartners. Both the tanker and the runner gasp. Killing? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're teaching them.

We're teaching them what all kids need to know. They need to move fast. They need to move quick. And they need to get paid. And we are teaching them and getting them ready for the world in which. They need to move fast. They need to move quick. And they need to get paid. And we are teaching them and getting them ready for the world in which they are about to grow into.

We're just doing it a little bit faster. Gotta go fast. Gotta go fast. Aren't they dying at the end, though? They're finishing their runs. That's all. Are you official teacher?

Do you have, like, accreditation or anything? The runner says, of course, of course, look! And she points at a framed picture on the wall and you see a typical class photo

that you might see in a kindergarten classroom of a woman and a bunch of kids. And that woman in the picture looks a lot like the woman running on the treadmill except human. Less veiny. Less veiny, more human, less wild eyes, less passion in her face.

If I asked like my therapist to like- Fix this? Would she come fix it? Yeah, well, like the accreditation and they just showed a picture of him with his other patients. would be like oh yeah i don't believe you you think i got a job teaching at a kindergarten and they didn't check my bona fides i mean yeah that's me in my class does she look like she's enjoying this like she's a she's a part of this like or is she like she looks like she's being controlled a dedicated so here's the thing about Lovecraftian shit, and this is going to come up here a lot.

The premise of like someone is so obsessed with this elder god or someone is so obsessed with this idea of chaos and stuff that they've been driven insane by it. Like that's inherently kind of problematic and that sucks. I'm sorry. Anthony, we literally watched an entire group of people like kill each other for Szechuan sauce. We're such big fans of a cartoon. So I think we can understand. What it means to be driven beyond reasonable human bounds. So what we'll do from now on is instead of saying

that somebody's insane with passion or whatever, we'll just say they've got the sauce. So this woman, this teacher, clearly used to be normal, had a normal group of kids, and then at some point, she got the sauce real bad. Scary, maybe you're tough. Tell them what's up. You're the boss, remember? So yeah, go ahead and sort of represent the

group here. One, we never ever agreed on that. I'm kind of anti-authority. I don't know if you could tell, but I'm just like, not somebody that you want in charge, because I'm a little too radical. I thought if you were like anti-authority, that meant that you didn't want anyone else to be in charge. Well, that too.

I don't think Scary's very good at all. I would be a better boss. Why am I... Everything that's coming through my head is coming through my mouth. This is really kind of annoying. Oh my god. Boobs. Whoa, wait, don't think about... Wait! It's weird that he said that when he was looking at me.

I gag myself in order to make sure that I don't say anything. Anyways, okay, all right, all right, thinking, thinking, but not thinking out loud like Taylor. Your badges vibrate and you get a call from Agent May Hales who says like, hey, are you on site? What's going on? Yeah, we're here. Yeah, we're on site.

Yeah, we're here. There's like a vain lady. I think she she's a teacher she's trying to make these kids like play a fucked up video game where they turn really old and like so what do we do did we just i don't want them to die we like yeah we just tell them to not do it what do we do well okay so if they're innocent kids are on first order businesses ideally try to get the kids out alive and the current age that they were when they came into school. Guys, let's just pull the fire alarm. I go and pull the fire alarm. Roll, I guess, dexterity to see if you can do that before the runner notices.

How many kids are normal and how many are old? There are five 80-year-old looking ass kids, and there are 10 normal kids lined up for the machine. Okay, and there's one kid on the machine? There's one kid in the machine who just got out of the machine, and they're about to load another kid into the machine, but they and there's one kid on the machine? There's one kid in the machine who just got out of the machine, and they're about to load another kid into the machine, but they haven't started it up yet. Okay. So I've pulled the fire alarm with a

haha motherfucker. 20. Natural 20 plus 1. 21. Oh, wow. Okay. So you pull the fire alarm. A really loud alarm plays, as fire alarms do. Come on, let's go. Let's go. It's a fire alarm. You gotta get outside. So the kids, almost by muscle memory, sort of stand up and do the thing where they all line up and they all get ready to walk outside.

Or alphabetically, I don't remember which one. So if it's all by height, you can just look down the line from the front and you can see all of them. Because that way the call kids don't block the kids behind them. Damn, Freddy, you should be a teacher. That's not bad. But anyway, the kids all line up and the runner is like, y'all lined up and nowhere to go. Go ahead and try that door, ding dong.

Oh shit, that's right. I think we're locked in. Normal tries to open the door. It is locked. This is a fire code violation, and you should know that fire alarms call the fire department. The brave heroes of the San Dimas fire department are gonna be here any minute now, and they're gonna stop you from killing those kindergartens. 15 to 20 minute response time.

The worst in the nation. Upon hearing that, it'll be 20 minutes until the fire department gets here. Why would you add that the fire department of San Dimas is so bad? It's not my fault that we're underfunding our fire department. I don't know why Link is charping my nards for it.

I had to sell candy bars for the dump fire department. I'm sorry, what? Yeah, like the baseball team. We were sponsored, but then they made us sell candy bars, which makes me wonder why we were sponsored. Anyway, that's why I don't play baseball anymore. So the runner raises both of her hands, and she goes, oh, 20 minutes in this world, perhaps.

But once you're in the simulation, 20 minutes can feel like an absolutely infinite amount of time. And pop each of the veins from her hand, pop out of her skin. And all six of these veins start snaking towards you, seemingly intent on grabbing you. Freddie here, is there any tempered glass on the mission? It's just made out of complete tempered glass. Like anywhere. What makes glass tempered glass on the machine? It's just made out of complete tempered glass.

Like anywhere. What makes glass tempered? Anthony, I'll tell you 100%. Absolutely not. There's no tempered glass on a workout type machine. I thought it was like a computer or something. Imagine the fucking phone booth with a bunch of wires and shit coming out of it and a monitor on the front of it

and a bunch of blinking lights and that's what the tinkered little gremlin is futzing with. And all those lights and everything are plugged into the treadmill. The Peloton. Guys, step one, I think we got to fuck up that machine and then we got to fuck up this teacher. So normal just takes a running charge at the machine to knock it over. Lincoln's going to take a running charge at the teacher the moment the tentacles come out. I'll let my minions do the work. Okay, so it sounds like we should actually be rolling initiative. Initiative. Initiative rolls.

18 plus one, 19. 20 for initiative. Jeez Louise. Whoa. 18. Whoa. I got a one plus two, three. Nice.

That makes it sound scary. He's like chilling. I'm chilling, bro. Okay, so normal, you get to go first as you see these tendrils coming at you. Okay, I would like to take a running charge at this machine, this gizmo that they've been jacking people into and just kind of tip it over and break it. Go ahead and give me a strength check. I got a three.

Okay, your back hurts. You lift it with your back, not with your legs. No! Rookie shit. Should have stretched. Oh, that's bad. The little tinker is at your knees going, and is just like slapping your shins.

It's not doing any damage. It's just humiliating you, and it's going like, weak boy, weak boy, can't lift the thing. Taylor, your turn. I'm like, hey, that's our school mascot, and I'm going to just fucking punt this little guy as hard as I can. Just a kick. Just a real running kick. Go ahead and make a dexterity roll to see if you launch it. And I am aiming

for right between the up-close. Hey, is the goblin's head made out of tempered glass? Dexterity roll. Ooh, 13 plus 1, 14. No matter what, you're going to do damage to it, so go ahead and roll whatever your unarmed strike damage is. Unarmed strike damage. It's just two.

I don't even roll anything. It's just two. Great. You do two damage to the tinker. It gets launched across the room and hits the opposite wall and slides down and falls down to the ground. But it is no longer near the machine. You okay, Norm? Oh, no. I got to walk this off.

Oh, I should have stretched. I should have stretched. Link, it is your turn. Link's going to grab what I'm sure there is probably a globe somewhere in this classroom as there are. Yeah. So he's going to grab the globe and then kick it like a soccer ball at her face that'll work so you'll hit her in the face with it and that'll do whatever your damage what's your damage supposed to be for this two okay yeah but globe though if it's one of the texture globes where the himalayas are like bumpy so it'd be a 2.00001 damage to the fucking run are you saying it's got like spiky mountains on it or something like that yeah yeah yeah like some

tectonic place of shift it might be spiky mountains on it or something like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like some tectonic place of shift. It might be spiky, dude. We should do like a random country generator to see what country she gets hit in the face with. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And if it's a mountainous country, it does one extra damage. Random country, explore the world. Yemen. Not a lot of mountains in Yemen, I don't think.

No, wait. Is there? Yemen mountains. Yemen mountainous. Yeah, the Sarawak mountains are in Yemen. They're 9,800 feet. It's not that big. It's not that big. It's not that big.

Also, like, what you'd want to hit her is, like, the metal part of the globe. You'd want either the North Pole or the South Pole, guys. Like, I don't know what we're thinking about mountain ranges. Like, idiots. Oh, boy, who came up with that? Yeah, you're acting like the Braille lettering on the, like, the countries are going to kill somebody. So you do a whopping two damage. The goal is, like, whip her head back or, like, the Braille lettering on the, like, the countries are going to kill somebody. So you do a whopping two damage.

The goal is, like, whip her head back or, like, daze her or anything. Oh, if that's the case, then go ahead and give me a dexterity roll so we won't do any damage. We'll see if you can, like... Does it help that the Arabian leopard was reported seen in... Oh, yeah, it does. You get advantage. Yeah, you get advantage.

I'm trying to, like, daze her because she's, like, sending tentacles at me. Okay. I mean, everybody, but... What'd you get? Sounds like a natural one. Sounds like a bad roll, because she's, like, sending tentacles at me. Okay. I mean, everybody, but. What'd you get? Sounds like a natural one. Sounds like a bad roll, Matt. Looking at your face looks like a bad roll.

It's a four. Okay. But my dexterity is a plus three, so. Oh, okay. Still nothing. It's a one. It's a one. It's a one.

That's a one, baby. That's a one. Okay, so you fall flat on your ass. You completely fail to kick the thing. Your dreams of potentially being on the soccer team are quickly running away from you. You fall straight on your ass. You completely fail to kick the thing. Your dreams of potentially being on the soccer team are quickly running away from you. You fall straight onto your back. You take a D4 of damage. The globe lands in front of me and I see Honolulu and I'm like, I wish I was back in Hawaii on vacation with my dad.

My foot hurts. It is now the runner's turn. So the runner is going to extend her veiny tentacles and try to grab each of you because she is not distracted and can reach all four of you. So everybody give me a dexterity saving throw. Six plus three, nine. I got a natural 20.

Oh, that's nice. I got a 10. I mean, I'm on the ground. That makes sense. I also had a 10. Everybody except for normal, the tentacles encircle you and grab you and constrict you tight. I would like to 10. Everybody except for Normal, the tentacles encircle you and grab you

and constrict you tight. I would like to say that because I got a natural 20, Normal's doubled over with back pain and then he felt the slither of the tentacle and it freaked him out, so he jolted straight up and it fixed my back. Like you self-chiropracted. He's like, ooh, ooh, there it is.

All three of you, not normal, are grappled, which means that your speed is zero. You can't benefit from any bonus to your speed, so you can't move. And now that you're all grappled, the runner is going to go, and now it's time for a trio's race to get to a million dollars.

Check it out, everybody. Watch this, watch this. And then you start getting pulled over to the machine, which sort of unfurls its wall, sort of fold down and welcome you. And three bright lights appear in the center of this unfolded machine. And you can feel it beckoning to you. So next turn, if you are not released from her grapple, you will be thrust forcibly into

this simulation. Dude, this sucks. This reminds me of something. I really shouldn't be talking about the ones that it reminds me of. The ones where characters are constricted. I don't like this. I shouldn't talk about that the ones that it reminds me of. The ones where characters are constricted. I don't like this. I shouldn't talk about that. Scary, it is your turn.

I'm going to cast Unseen Servant. This spell creates an invisible, mindless, shapeless, medium force that performs simple tasks at your command until the spell ends. The servant springs into existence in an unoccupied space on the ground within range as AC 10, one hit point, and it can't attack. And then if it drops to zero hit points, the spell ends. Once on each of your turns as a bonus action, you can mentally command the servant to move up to 15 feet and interact with an object. The servant can perform simple tasks that a human servant could do, such as fetching things, cleaning, mending, lighting fires,

serving food, and pouring wine. I feel like there's just a kid at this school that fucking has a crush on you that just follows you around everywhere and you just get to boss him around. I cast friend zone. I pull into the nether realm of friendship and I pull him out and have him do my bidding. And he thinks I'm a bitch? It's going to be like, yeah, like a cool animal.

Iguana. Sure. It's an iguana, definitely. And it's like goth and its name is goth. But it can do human stuff. So it's like a humanoid iguana. It's G-E-O-T-H. It can do human stuff, but it's just an iguana. And it It's G-E-O-T-H. I mean, it can do human stuff, but it's just an iguana.

And it's going to light. If he has that anymore, that makes as much sense as a child that just followed us this whole time here. I mean, it's not like he follows you the whole time. He's appearing out of nothing. I'm just saying. And it is going to light the machine on fire. I tried to help you bang about. I tried to help you. tried to help you I tried to help you

No it doesn't Why? But it said it could No it didn't It said like Things like light fires Yeah Which presumes

That there are like Things around for it To light a fire It can't Can a human being With no tools whatsoever Just go Fire

With a butane lighter Yes He doesn't have a butane lighter! I got a butane lighter in my go bag front pouch! I'm gonna see if I can get

the lighter to goth. You already spent an action to cast this thing. But you can use a bonus action to tell him to go get the lighter. Yeah, that's what I'll do.

You know what? Here's what I'll do. I will let you roll persuasion or intimidation any social thing and if you roll well enough then you'll instruct him to both get the lighter and then do something with the lighter. So you're a nice pet owner or an abusive pet owner? It's all going to depend on what I have more in.

Okay, they're both the same. Both a plus one. Roll them bones. Come on, Beth. I'm going to beat a 15. I love coffee, Iguana. Damn it, I have 14. Plus one, right?

Plus one. I got a 15 yeah baby i i said you have to beat a 15 but you were so happy that i'll just give it to you i can't take that away what you didn't see is me like literally like tripping over my own hand somehow where i like dropped the dice before i could roll it and i was upset with myself and I was like oh 14 so yeah it was actually really inspiring moment yeah then I'll give it to you

so I'm like hey goth yes my love okay I'm gonna use my one talk out loud is what I for the world I need to know yeah it talked out loud it's iguanicized but it does talk out loud, and it has the strength and abilities of a human,

including speech. Anthony, can I also ask the iguana to not call me love, or is that another bonus action? No, you can do that one for free. That one's free. Hey, Goth, okay, I need you to get the lighter out of Taylor's go bag and then, like, light the machine thing on fire and then, like, try to prevent anybody from putting the fire out.

You can't. Just give him the scary iguana goth look. You know the one. So he goes, I can do the first two of those things. I will do them right now. That's what made me almost maybe fall in love with you

someday keep trying you see his pupils dilate huge and he goes I just gotta wear it down I just gotta wear it down so goth the

goth the friendzone iguana crawls over to- Or iguana's not going to sleep all night. Crawls over to the go bag that Taylor dropped, and he's going to search it for the lighter. He finds it in the front pocket. He finds the butane lighter and puts it in his mouth

and pauses for a moment to look at Scary like, Look, I did it. I did it. Do you like me yet? And then he's going to walk back. I feel like he's got enough movement to do both of these. Fuck it. Igu I did it, I did it. Do you like me yet? And then he's gonna walk back. I feel like he's got enough movement to do both of these. Fuck it. Iguanas got fast, motherfuckers. Yeah, and he's going to raise

one of his sticky fingers and try to... Taylor said that out loud. That was Taylor. That was Taylor. Taylor was thinking. Because Taylor's seeing it happen in front of him, you know?

It's one of those things where the camera is on the iguana and moving with the iguana and you're just in the background. He's just like, wow, what a fast motherfucker. Wow, look at wow what a fast mother what's great about this is that i'm like literally staring at dnd beyond which why would i ever but um like it says an invisible mindless shapeless force and yes that is and the perfect but the opposite of all of those but i like to think that like like, yearning is that. A mindless, invisible, shapeless force that is friend zone.

I was going to make fun of Freddie, but iguanas do go 21 miles per hour. And then I Googled average teen speed, and that's total 14 miles per hour. So iguanas are faster than us. We clocked the teen boy at 35 miles an hour. The average teen. Say it again. We have a teen boy. So if we're 30 feet, they're like 25.

Yeah, they get like 40 feet of range. Don't move. The teen's vision is based on movement. Careful, that iguana's twice as fast as a teen. So Goth, with the butane lighter in its mouth, crawls back to the machine, which doesn't have the tinker protecting it. So it's going to, with its iguana mouth

and iguana hand, sticky iguana hand, going to try to activate this butane lighter. Ooh, it got a 19. Oh my God. So it's fucking iguana mouth and iguana hand sticky iguana hand gonna try to activate this butane lighter oh we got a 19 oh my god so it's our fucking iguana smokes weed and you can't tell me otherwise you tell me he knows how the fucking butane lighter works right from the jump this is a weed smoking iguana dude best character become the most three-dimensional character in our fucking campaign best character was hiding in iguana and it's a weed smoking iguana no it's a magical iguana. It wasn't around the whole time, was it? Wait, or was it?

Yeah. I don't think so. Oh, no, it just showed up now? I mean, yeah, you all have magic. Yeah, she summoned the iguana. You don't have to contextualize your magic as things you've always done. You just have daddy magic.

It's her OC, dude. Oh, we got daddy magic. It all makes sense. The iguana expertly flicks the butane lighter on and starts to burn through one of the wires leading from the machine to the treadmill. By the end of its next turn, if nothing is done to it, it will successfully burn through. Let's say there are four wires that need to be burned through in order to actually disable this machine.

At the end of its next turn, it'll successfully burn through one of those. Normal, it is your turn. Are the wires plugged into anything? The wires go from the treadmill to the machine. I go up to the treadmill and I want to bash it so that the speed goes way up

so she goes flying off of it. Okay, like the controls? You want to hit the controls? Yeah, is this like a Nordic track or whatever? Yeah, Nordic track did have that thing where it made people old

a few years ago. I remember that in the TV ad. So as you look at the controls for this thing, initially it looks like a Nordic track

but then you start to sort of see like the letters are sort of... Nordic track comes back in a big way in the 2040s. It's the new Peloton. The letters are sort of morphing in front of your eyes and don't quite make a lot of sense. It's like when you're in a dream

and you look at a digital clock. It's like when you're trying to make an Ikea cabinet. Am I right? Oh my God. But the numbers are changing and the letters are changing in front of you and it's beginning to make you nauseous just to look at them.

Does it have the magnet thing that you pull just to stop it? No, it doesn't. Damn. Damn. Dude, that's a safety feature that all terminals need to look at them. Does it have the magnet thing that you pull just to stop it? No, it doesn't. Damn. Damn. Dude, that's a safety feature that all terminals need to have. This is obviously a magic word. Lord, hold up. I can read in dreams.

Is that normal? We don't actually need to answer that. He's just saying his thoughts out loud. Yes, that was Taylor thinking his thoughts out loud, not Freddy wondering about something about his own. I've never read in a dream. That's wild. I have tried to read in dreams, but I can't.

At any rate, normal starts mashing buttons on the panel. Go ahead and roll... I guess this is just luck. Just roll a D20 mode. So I rolled a 19, which means I hit whatever the second best button is on this. Okay. So you wanted to make it go faster, you said?

Yeah, I wanted to make it go so fast that she'd go flying off of it. You managed to hit the faster button on it. I'm going to have her roll to see if she can keep up. So she got a six. So it's beginning to go too fast for her. And she stumbles a little bit in her knee, hits the treadmill tread, and it skins some of her knee real bad. Like more than it should.

I'm not going to describe too much, but more than it should. And she takes a D8 of damage. I'm going to roll a D8 for her. So it took a lot of damage. She's jumping on one leg now. It just takes her leg clean off. What? Oh my god.

It takes her leg off? Yes. I rolled a D8. And basically what I'm doing is like, oh, I wanted to balance this to be like a normal D&D combat, but for four level one characters. And I put that into Kobold Fight Club. And it gave me an imp. And an imp has 10 HP.

And I said, yeah, sure. Stumbling on this thing causes her to lose a D8 of damage. She took seven damage. So she has less than half of her health left from this one fuck up. So yeah, she stumbles, her knee goes down, hits the treadmill tread,

and it just with one big pull yanks her entire right leg off, and now she's jumping one-legged on this thing. So does it look like she's deteriorated? Like her body's weak? Yeah, it takes it off way too easily. Yeah, that's what I was trying.

Okay, okay. Yes, she is emaciated. But people who are on the sauce have a sort of like, their eyes are sunken a little bit. Their wild eye looks like they haven't slept a long time. Their eyes look like little squiggles. Oh my God, no. They burp a lot.

They constantly have a little bit of like juice on their lip. Do you think our dads are going to be proud of us if we like kill a teacher? Yeah, probably not. Normal's kind of freaking out. This was way gorier and rowdier than he thought. He thought this was going to be

like a fun comedy thing and he was like, oh no, no, oh God, no. Taylor, it is your turn. As a ranger and as a tiefling ranger, I was thinking, you know, as far as like races go,

having a half demon sort of thing is kind of cool. Thaumaturgy has some interesting effects. Are there any unlocked anythings in this room? Unlocked anythings. Because I can cause an unlocked door or window to fly open.

There's like the cubby with all the nap mats in it. Do you know what I mean? All those mats are stacked up in there. If you pop that door open maybe those mats will fall out. You could also, if you wanted to, hold your turn until something happens. Like if you think Link or Scary will be able to get you out of this situation then you can say, I hold my turn until they let me let me struggle and pull my everyday carry pocket knife

Which keeps I keep in my pocket my mom didn't frisk me Whatever dick go ahead Belt knife roll dexterity. Oh, yeah. I got a cool belt knife where I know he would have seen your mom would have seen that And taking that from you. I grab my sword cane belt knife where I grab it with my knuckles. Your mom would have seen that and taken that from you. I grab my sword cane. So I believe that you have a flick knife.

What are the odds of a teenage boy having a cane and there's not a sword in it? If you saw him on the street with a cane. There's a sword in that cane. I appreciate an entire scene happening last episode where we go through your mom making sure you have no weapon. That's the whole point of the scene. And then you go but i had it in my pocket oh yeah what do you think edc stands for bro everyday carry you don't put it in your bag which means if you carried it every

day your mom would probably know about that and i'll like have you not carry it with you bro the amount of things that your mom roll dexterity see if you can get your everyday carry knife out of your pocket also i owned a cane sword in high school dude and not like a cool like i'm a victorian man like a zada wichi cane sword do you want to know why i absolutely know i would have been friends with anthony is anthony motherfucker i owned a cane sword too baby i kept it in the top drawer of my bedroom that doesn't mean you guys would have been friends that means you guys would have been mortal enemies one or the other one or the. That doesn't mean you guys would have been friends. That means you guys would have been mortal enemies. One or the other. One or the other.

Guaranteed. I know. I know. I would have been friends with neither of you because I had a staff that I carved myself and then carved Elvish words into. No, no, no. You would have definitely been friends with me because my friend Yuli currently owns a staff that's got his name carved into it in Elvish and we were friends in high school.

He sounds cool as hell. He is cool as hell. 18 plus 1, 19. You piece of shit. All right, you get the everyday carry knife out of your pocket. All of my preparations

finally beginning to pay off. My preparation, putting a knife in my pocket. Oh, yeah. All right, go ahead. All right, so I'm going to try and use it to wiggle my way out. Give me a strength check

to see if you can slash through these vines. Got it. Those are the fucking cheap ass. Cheap ass? Oh, yeah. Pocket knives are horrible. Yeah, you're a kid.

Six plus one, seven. So, yeah, you hack at the veins, but seven so yeah you hack at the veins but it's just chipping into the veins it's not doing any real your efforts are in vain one might say one might say it link it's your turn can i first do a history check before i don't know that i want to know if like i know this teacher okay yeah you know grants a librarian and i feel like fellow parents and whatnot yeah go ahead and roll history. I'm a grad school librarian, and I feel like fellow parents and whatnot. Yeah, go ahead and roll history. And if you do well, then you get to determine what that history is.

16, but my history is plus four, so that's a 20. Jeez Louise. Okay, so yeah. What do you want your history to be? What's the teacher's name? This teacher's name is Mrs. Nerfly. That was given to us by Paige Havener. Thank you, Paige. That's a very good name.

Good name. Her full name is Sponge Nerfly. Sponge Nerfly? Mrs. Nerfly. Mrs. Nerfly. Okay, thenfly. Sponge Nerfly? Mrs. Nerfly. Mrs. Nerfly. Okay, then I'm going to talk to Mrs. Nerfly. Mrs. Nerfly, what are you doing? Hey, it's Lincoln.

You know me. You know my father, Grant. He's the librarian, remember? You were writing all those Bernstein Bears books, and we talked about how they were really old-fashioned and kind of boring morals and really old-fashioned. And we turned you on to the Bluey stuff, the Bluey books, and you love them.

And come on, what are you doing? Okay, roll persuasion. What would Bluey the Australian Cattle Dog do? Oh my God, that's how I live right now, Will. Why are a bunch of adults watching Bluey? Because it's good. Because I've got a nephew. This is Lincoln talking, it's good.

Okay. 12 plus zero. So she says, it's pronounced Berenstain. And her eyes get bigger and bloodshot. No, that was after their son shifted and went back to Steve. They went back to Steve. You know what? You're right.

She goes, good pronunciation. No, fuck you. You don't understand. The things they've taught you in school, everything that you've learned, it's all lies. And none of it fucking matters. What matters is this. And she points at the treadmill and she points at the kids

and she points all around her. This, the stuff we're doing right now. Is there a way to like find out, mayhaps a role, if you will. Is there a way to find out if this person can be like saved? I suppose you could try to like like if you had her restrained you could do like an arcana check because it seems like whatever's gotten to her is magical in some way you could probably be able to tell like and leave probably

knows that that's not her normally right because he knows yeah yeah you saw mrs. wild if she had her job like this entire time and she was just like always like i'll tell her i'll be like guys like this is like like i just saw her like aflee when she was... That'd be wild if she had her job, like, this entire time. And she was just, like, always, like... I'll tell her, I'll be like, guys, like, this is, like... Like, I just saw her, like, a couple days ago. She's a really nice lady. This isn't her. This is... Yeah, that checks out.

Well, no, I don't know these other two people. These other two. This goblin person and this other adult. They're horrible. I'll kick the goblin. I'm gonna kick her. Okay, so that was your whole turn, Link. It is now Mrs. Nerflee's turn.

She puts the three of you into the machine. Instantly, you feel like fucking Akira. The wires from the machine slink up and they like plug themselves into your arms and back your neck and into your eyes. Instantly, the three of you are teleported to the womb. You're all separately in your own parallel simulations. And you hear Mrs. Nerfley from outside the amniotic fluid,

from outside this universe, saying like, okay, so the thing about this particular part of the speedrun is it's kind of boring, it's kind of an unskippable cutscene, so I modded it a little bit, so we're just going to skip right to the part where they can at least start talking, so here you go. I'm so comfortable in here. And then, yeah, instantly, all that comfort, all that safety, you exit your wound. No!lor strength check strength check to see if you can stay in the womb

got six yeah now they pull you out dang i'll just become a podcaster when i grow up taylor as it fast forwards give me a perception, shit. Because Taylor's got like a demon wound. Five. Five. Darn. You see two forms, two male forms that you have never seen before. Well, you don't see your mom. You're coming out of your mom. But two men.

Coming out of my mom. And I've been feeling just fine. Oh, shit. I quit. You're all suddenly infants. This is our life. This is your life. With normalcy.

Yeah, normalcy is three people hooked into the machine, their eyes closed, and they're kind of convulsing as a bunch of sensation goes through their body. You're basically getting plugged into a mini matrix. So the three of you as infants are together in a little play date while your parents are all hanging out and talking. Amongst all the parents that you've maybe recognized

from a distance at school or whatnot, you also see a very handsome man in what seems to be a suit. He's in a really nice suit. And he's talking to somebody that seems to be like, not a lot, but like a little bit on fire and not too bothered by it. And they're talking to your mom. Do I see grandma or do I see my biological parents?

Oh gosh, I forgot you're adopted. Actually, why don't you roll perception, Link? I mean, there's a lot going on. So that's a four plus two. That's a six. Okay. So you see something bathed in darkness when you exit the womb, a non-space where you think your dad might be. And then there's a big blank spot in your memory. And then the next thing you know, you're playing with this group of people and you see Marco and Grant, the real fathers. In this moment, you hear Miss Nerfly say, all right, let's start the timer. And all of you see in your vision, in like the upper right-hand corner of your vision, a timer start counting up from zero. And then you see on the bottom right corner of your vision, a dollar sign and then nine zeros. So she goes, okay, let's see

if they can get out of here faster than the previous best score for getting to a million dollars. I'm putting it on the line. I'm saying everybody gets to go back to the original age. I'm doing it. I believe in these kids. I think I can do it. The best time we had prior to this, the current WR, is 32 years. Two months, three days, 12 hours, 34 seconds.

So if you can get to a million dollars, any of you, before then. I buy $4 of Dogecoin right when it came out. How do you tell your parents to do that um you can also at any point fast forward to another part of your life you're more capable of doing things i've already beat this oh no this is just replaying our lives if i just fast forward to the point where right before i get put into the machine it's an infinite loop wait why is it looping though oh i see what I see what he's saying. At some point, I'm going to become a teen, and at some point, this teen is going to get

put into this thing, and then we're going to inside there. So you're going to go into another matrix within a matrix. You're going to go into the simulation.

Are we actually time traveling? No, you're not actually time traveling, but what he's saying still makes sense, though, because it's working off of his memories. It's basically,

you're in a simulation that is built primarily off of your memories. So what Freddy, unfortunately, has correctly pointed out, is that you'll keep going into the same simulation over and over and over again by the time you're a teen. You built in a time loop for us, man.

I did. I did. I did. I play the fucking Powerball every time because I hit this loop infinitely. I play every combination of the fucking Mega Millions. I tell my mom, like, the week before, I'll just fucking buy a scratch or whatever. I'll play the lottery over and over again until I win. Okay.

Is it actually a simulation of our actual life? Because that would imply that we could never get older than, than this. It's a simulation of your life that you can diverge from in order to try and get a million dollars. All these other kids that you saw, they were not as smart as you. Cause they're fucking baby teens.

Yeah. Cause I guess they're babies. So they're like, no, well I they're babies so they're like no well i guess i'll just try to like go to school i'll focus on this other stuff and try to be a school they're trying to do stem careers yeah they didn't absolutely just i wait until i'm old enough i know what stupid meme coin popped at some point and i buy when it's point zero zero zero zero one i buy a couple dollars of it well i guess the question's point zero zero zero zero one i buy a couple dollars of it well i guess the question is how much money does it take to buy dogecoin at its

like cheapest you research that while i talk about what happens this is the future so i don't buy dogecoin i buy sure you buy something else i buy daddy's coin because somebody makes a coin of our podcast you buy a coin based on a podcast i'm going to make daddy's coin right now in this world okay what i do is I do two loops. The first loop, I just remember some mega lottery winning thing at some point. Okay. You just memorize the number. I just memorize the number.

And then the second loop, I buy the tickets for that or have my mom buy some tickets for that. Does Taylor have to relive every agonizing second of his life over and over and over again to do this? I'm fast forwarding through that shit, bro. And also my life rules. agonizing second of his life over and over and over again to do this. I'm fast forwarding through that shit, bro. And also my life rules. Like I'm slowing down briefly to just re-experience all the good parts.

Yes. Whenever you fast forward, you're basically like looking at your body. Like the one time I scored one, like on the t-ball game where I managed to connect with it once, like that moment, like, Ooh, that's still good every time. Roll persuasion to see if you can persuade your mom to buy you in the second loop, a lottery ticket. Mom, can loop, a lottery ticket. Mom, can you buy a lottery ticket? I know what numbers are winning. Alright, roll... Five.

No. Well, you're gonna regret this. I'll just ask you next go around. Alright, how old are you when you ask this? The age at which I can remember numbers and speak, so probably somewhere in the range of five to six years old. Five to six, okay, so that's 12 years you've already wasted. No, but you said I could fast-forward it, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, like, fast-forwarding doesn't not turn the timer around.

No, that's fair, that's fair, that's fair. So, you're 12 years, so go ahead and roll again. Yeah, baby. 91. All right. You gotta ask, like, on your birthday or something so you get advantage on the roll. Ooh, that would've been good. That's a good point.

But alas, 18 years, so go ahead and try again if you want to. I'm going to do it on the birthday. All right. So on your 13th birthday, you want a Powerball with the exact numbers that you're going to specify. Yes. Wait, do all of us have to find a hack like this?

No, no. You don't all have to. I got an 11. Beth May here just Googling list of biggest class action lawsuits. That's great. Okay, so that failed. So you got 12 plus 13.

Mom! So 25. And also, by the way, each one of these times, the day after, my mom's like, Whoa, I should have done it! Every single time. I should have done it! On the day of, she's like, I didn't do that because I didn't want to teach you that gambling is a way to victory. And also, like, it ruins our relationship.

Could you imagine if your kid went up to you and gave you like the 300 million dollar winning powerball numbers in multiple realities that would fuck you up you'd be in therapy for that yeah she spends the rest of her life and yours resenting herself and being terrified of you it's just a simulation it's just but you are feeling all this uh so 25 one more of these loops and you will have not beaten the original i had such a foolproof fucking method. Yeah, you did. So you get one more roll of trying that if you want to try that. And then if that doesn't work, we'll go to the other two.

Okay. Persuasion? Is this all happening like in the span of a second? Yes, from your perspective, this is just like happening. Okay, all right. Fucking another natural one! Oh my God. What the fuck?

Can we loop back to the beginning of this podcast so that Freddie can take another question? What the fuck? Can we loop back to the beginning of this podcast so that Freddie can take another question? What the fuck? I literally, just 11s and 1s. I'm looking at my screen right now. It's persuasion check, 11. Persuasion check, 11. Persuasion check, 1.

It's just 1s on my fucking screen. And as your mother points out to you, that's why you don't gamble. Mom! Normal. As you are watching Taylor try to do this loop over and over and over again to get a million dollars,

Just my brows so furiously furrowed. His brows furrowed, sweats pouring down him, and you see him instantly age 12 years. And then you see him instantly age another 12 years. And you instantly see him age another 12 years. So Taylor's timer goes over 32 years. It's in a three-way split screen, and a big red X appears on Taylor's screen. And she goes, ooh, what a shame, what a shame.

Taylor looked like he had a really good strat there, some new strats that we hadn't seen before. But it turns out it just didn't quite work. It's bad RNG in that run. Sorry, Taylor. It's not my fault my mom sucks. So let's look at Lincoln's scary. What's going on there? So either of you you do you have

any plans for how to make a million dollars before you turn 32 yeah i bought doge so you bought doge coin oh i bought an nft what was it make it funny improvise something that's funny it was and then put that into the gameplay it was fart coin yeah fart coin it got up to $69. Yeah. Wait, it only got up to $69? Yeah, on May 20th, 420, hashtag fuck yeah. May 20th would be 520, fucking yeah. And it started at $8.00000000D, so it looks like a dick when you spell it out. And it was so funny. Fuck, this coin's going straight to the moon.

Wait, $8.000000D is dollars just eight dollars that's just eight dollars that's why i was confusing the people this this this stock's going all the way up to eight equals equals equals equals equals d tilde tilde tilde smiley face winky winky eggplant so i i bought that okay at what age did you buy enough to make a million dollars? If it's going from eight to 69. How did you get the money to buy? How did you get the money to invest? What do you mean?

What do you mean? You don't have money, asshole. You don't have a fucking credit card. That's part of the challenge of this. You don't get to act like this is the dumbest shit in the world, even though it is. You still have to strategize and roll for it. This is like how do you buy something at the store? What do you mean?

Because you're a kid. You're going to invest enough in fart coin to make a million dollars. Even if you know the rate of return, you have to have enough money as capital. Let's see. Did somebody run the numbers on how much you'd have to invest if it went from $8 to $69? No, it didn't go from $8 to $69. It went from.000000008 to $69, which is – it went from booze. No, you said $8.

The balls start on the left if you're making a dick with a D, and you know that. zero zero zero zero zero eight to 69 which is it went from no you said eight you start the ball the ball start on the left if you're making a dick with a d and you know that you know that you can't try to take it away it's not backwards d equals like equals like equals like eight it's eight dollars the whole plan was that's like a dollar if you invested like a hundred dollars in dogecoin right when it started you need need 14,492 or 15,000 coins. And that will be worth a million. Well, then the plan's not there because the point was that it would have been $100. I've got a plan.

Okay, normally you see Link aging up to 32 years as he tries to find a way to make. I only did like five years. Matt really got fucked on his turn. I didn't do it. I didn't try for 32 years. Once my Dogecoin situation, like most people, did not work out. I said, you know what? I'm just going to be a librarian and just read some books.

And I guess this is just where I am now. This is stressful. And I just spend my time reading poetry and reading books and learning. Here's what happened. I just gave up. You stop fast-forwarding and you just live in the moment. And you're like the inner light from Star Trek. You live out just 40 more years of your life.

You meet somebody. You fall in love with them. You have a kid. You watch the kid grow up and resent you. Like you have a whole fucking life. I watch American soccer become finally as good as European soccer. It's incredible. You live a wonderful life.

My plan is perfect. You guys are just fucking me. No, my plan. I've got a plan. What's your plan? Save us, please. Okay. So when Scary is 15, she sees like an incident in a self-driving vehicle where like the air bag like comes out and like discharges when there's no crash or whatever.

So in her loop around, she sits in the driver's seat, gets hit by the air bag like in the chest, therefore sues the self-driving vehicle company for like injury and then also sexual harassment. Okay. First of all, roll to see if you can persuade the person driving this car to let you sit in the driver's seat. Because this is presumably not somebody you know. I got a 16. How do you convince them to let you in? Because you do it successfully. I'm just like, hey, can I drive your car? And that works. I'll give you a cigarette.

It's a retro one. The ones that, like, there's no vape. Okay, so this is a... It kills you just straight up. You find a 16-year-old, very irresponsible driver, and you ask them to sit in their car, and you give them a cigarette. And so, as you predict it, or as you saw, the airbag inflates, you get hurt.

It breaks your, let me roll, four. So it breaks a lot of stuff. It breaks your collarbone, it breaks your shoulders. I broke my boob. Your boob is broken and you sue. And you want to sue for a million dollars? I mean, I would probably sue for more, but sure, let's say a million dollars.

Now that you've saved this other person, you've changed death's design, and now death is hunting down the other person to reset the course like in Final Destination. Damn, that's actually pretty cool. The other person's probably like a weird, dumb politician all about tort reform now. You're going to sue them for

negligence and for sexual harassment, and each of those you're trying to sue them for a million dollars So let's roll persuasion wait right first to see the quality of lawyer you get. Oh, that's a good idea Yeah, I guess your parents could invest in a good lawyer and then that'll give you advantage or disadvantage. I have a six lawyer You just got a roll normally so you're gonna roll first for negligence, okay, come on. But you still got a case. So you just got to roll normally. So you're going to roll first for negligence. Okay. Come on. Fuck yes, I got a 19.

Oh, shit. Hell yes. So negligence. Roll for damages. You get inspiration for that. Thank you. That's good. Roll for sexual harassment just because.

That's right. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. They're like, that's a stretch. That's fair. That's a stretch. I think that's fair. How much money did you get? She got That's fair. That's a stretch. I think that's fair. How much money did you get?

You got a million dollars. I got a million. Well, the average lawyer would take 40% of that. Oh, no! I can ruin everybody else's plan, too! You should have thought that before, Beth! Can't take it back. Can't take it back when you're making a joke.

A-0-0-0-D. $8. So you are 17 years old, and you have $600,000 how do you get $400,000 more dollars I guess we all work to ruin each other's plans I pay

an elderly grizzled musician by the name of Billie Eilish to help me produce a single and then it

goes to hell of viral and I make millions roll performance god damn it. Come on.

I got an 18. Yeah! What's the song? What's the song? Beth, we have to hear some of the song. Yes, is it Butthole Ricochet? What's the song? Yeah. Butthole Ricochet, yes.

And then the lyrics are... My boyfriend was a scorpion slut. I wanted to call him. now I don't know what I'm gonna do he's a scorpion I didn't want to date a scorpion he turned into a scorpion and now I'm just a scorpion slut

or my scorpion slut boyfriend and then there's another thing that's like, that was the sound that the pincher makes, you know, the thing with the poison that scorpions have. The backup singer goes, stinger! Stinger.

But it's romantic. He's really put me through the ringer. I'm just picturing a Billie Eilish song with that moody vibe. And then apparently the guy from the B-52s. And the dude just goes, Scorpion Slut. Watch out, everybody. Cover your butts because here comes a Scorpion Slut.

And we were stinging and pinching in the scorpion slut. Mrs. Nerfly looks at your score as the other two. As the royalties roll in. Yeah, the royalties roll in. You get seven trillion hits on Spotify and you make six. As scorpion slut takes the billboards by storm. Your money goes from 600,000. Well, it went to $400,000 to pay off Billie Eilish. And then by the end of your first month, you are a multimillionaire.

You have $10 million at the bank, and you're not even 25 yet. Mrs. Sturfly goes, oh, my God, oh, my God, that is a record. I can't believe it. I can't. This is what the sauce is all about. That speed. Yeah. Get him out. Get him out out and she presses a button on her treadmill I made a promise. I told you that once the once the record was beat you would all go back to normal

So mrs.. Nerf Lee is nothing if not a woman of her word, so Tinker do it and the tinker grabs the knobs on the machine and dials them all the way back and your ages And you go back to the ages that you were before you got into the machine I go suck it kindergartners we won the prods and the plugs and you were before you got into the machine. I go, suck it, kindergartners, we won. The prods and the plugs and stuff like that release you from the machine, and you are free from the machine and back in this life again.

Where's my, Chris? Mrs. Durfley goes, oh, she was never real, he was never real, nothing was real. It was all simulation in your mind, but you did such a good job. Well, not you. I had children. I need to

call my stupid mom. Link forgot he was in a simulation. He became convinced that it was a children. You're back in reality and you don't have a family anymore, but Scary, you did it successfully. Congratulations. You four are free to leave and the doors open up. Oh, no, we're not gonna, we gotta stop you. Yeah, can you

not? I feel like this entire time, normal has been ineffectually tugging on the power cord for the machine and has finally unplugged at the second you guys got out of the simulation. It was bad that you're killing kids in the first place, but I got to say, becoming a father, you really begin, it's just something. Oh my God.

Even all the kindergartners are like, oh my God. The old kindergartners are like, I hear this fucking blowhard goes. I can't stand here and watch you hurt young children. So we got to, I'm scared, but we're going to stop. We're going to beat you up. Has it been 15 minutes? Has it been 15 minutes?

Yeah. The fire department's coming. Oh, you're right. Man, I thought my life sucked before, but now I know it really sucks because then I got this image of my life when I was a millionaire, and now I just feel doubly bad and doubly angsty. How'd you get a million dollars?

Oh, it's a long story. I'm a fucking lawyer. And Scary says fucking lawyer so loud and then adjusts her collar and just tries to look really cool. So yeah, in that moment, the San Dimas fire department, they would kick open the door, but the door's just open. And so they rush in with axes and fire extinguish and they go, what's what's going on? And they see Mrs. Nerfley running on the treadmill with one leg and they go, oh my God, we got to get you to an ambulance. We got to take you to a paramedic.

And they see the old kids. I'm like, oh my God. Oh God. Every, every, all these kids need to go to a hospital. This is horrible. And they start grabbing the kids and just taking them out to the ambulance is there anything you want to do or you're just gonna let them take it from here well uh we all the adults are here is there uh hey uh mr flea look is there any way we can unage these kids like we dh can we dh the kids come on hey tinker do it what do the firefighters say when they see the tinker i'm gonna actually give them a roll to see if they notice the Tinker. 14. So they see the Tinker and they think it's just a weird, gross toy or something.

But Mrs. I mean, you never had that. Baby Yoda. Yeah, exactly. Mrs. Nerfley says, like, the power must go to the Besheed and the Tinker must de-age you manually from the outside. And that's the last thing she says is they pull her out to go to the paramedics. Who's like the lead firefighter?

Probably the tallest one. I approach the tallest firefighter. I say, Norma Loke, I'm with daddies. These kids are with us. We need to de-age them. So just give us one moment here while we wrap this up. All right, roll persuasion. That's so good.

Dude, that was copying. I got a natural blood. Wait, wait, Will, you got that re-roll. You got that re-roll. You got that inspiration. Yeah. You got that inspiration. Yeah. You can spend it on this if you want to. Burn it.

Burn it, baby. Burn it, burn it, burn it. Are you guys ready? Yeah. I got a six. Five. You know what it is? It's that mascot costume you're still in.

Yeah, you're still in the mascot costume. And I'm like, yeah, normal oak. I'm with daddy. So we've got an operation here. Situation's already been secured, gentlemen. So he pats you on the head and goes uh that's great kid now if you're and he peeks into the mouth he says are you you're not hurt no you're good you can go home but yeah no thanks man we got we got it whoever pulled the fire alarm good job good idea and uh that was me um sir uh sir like like i mean

have you do you know yeah yeah can you fix like look at these akira babies yeah do you know how to fix like i'm telling you just you know give us one kid let's just let's give it just give us a try just just put one kid on the machine and it'll fix it what's what's the worst that could happen okay so first roll perception before you see if what you said effective yep got a 17 as you're saying this so you rolled a 17 perception. You see in the face of the fireman, of the very tall fireman, that he's alarmed. He thinks the kids are hurt here, but he doesn't seem to be behaving as if anything like crazy extra normal is happening. There's something in his eyes that says like, this is bad, but this is just another day

on the job. He's not freaking out in the way that a normal person would be upon seeing the scene he's got in front of you. If I could tell that they didn't think it was normal i'd probably ask instead but sir what do you think is wrong with those kids oh i mean it's just something that happens to kids like you know it's exhaustion or it's it's too much time online it's it's uh they're probably dehydrated they've come down with poster syndrome no they literally look like they're 80 they're gonna die they look like they're 80 100 years old like i, they may look that way to you,

but I'm sure once we get some water in them, some tire and all. 30 blades of touchable grass. That. Yeah, once we get them a little time outside, get away from the internet a little bit, I think they'll be right as rain. You'll see.

I searched for clothes in the area. Okay. I would say that you probably find some spare soiled, like, shorts and a shirt from some kid who vomited on himself. All right. I run around the corner. I take off the mascot outfit and I put on the, because I'm sad.

I'm only in my tighty white is underneath, but this guy has not seen my face because I am true. You are a high schooler going to put on kindergarten size. I got to make it work. Right. All right. Can I try something? Yeah.

So we just have magic, right? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to work, right? Can I try something? Yeah. So we just have magic, right? Okay. What a thrill it is to play Dungeons & Dragons with Daryl Wilson again. I'm gonna go, you, sir, someone's going out. It's not normal. Watch. Here, check this out.

And I'm going to cast Lay on Hands on Mrs. Nerfly and heal her in front of all the firefighters. Okay. The of all the firefighters. Okay. The boy has the gift. Let the boy try. What is lay on hands?

You just have to roll how much you heal. You have a pool of healing power that can restore 5 HP per long rest. Link and God get rest before school, as always. So 5 HP. But what if she restores HP and she's evil, Matt? And she did 7. Yeah, she lost 7. I'm going to use all 5. Matt.

You give her 5 HP back. Matt, what are you doing? So all of her leg except for her ankle and her foot come back. Okay. And then normal, picking up while Link is laying down, casts Cure Wounds to cure the other two inches of her foot or whatever. I think the fact that half her leg came back would freak them out. I don't know if this gets that magical.

Better make sure. So you heal her all the way back. Her leg completely reforms. And the firefighters are looking down and go like, oh, I guess she So you heal her all the way back. Her leg completely reforms. And the firefighters are looking down and go like, oh, I guess she wasn't as injured as we thought. We were just looking at her weird. What the shit magic in front of you? And as she is healed completely up, she goes,

and reaches up and grabs two of the firefighters by the necks. And you hear a loud, and she like snaps their necks right where they lay. And they crumple to the ground. And the kids go, ah! And the kids start running. And the paramedics are like, what? And she starts toward the paramedics, and her veins are out again,

and she's attacking the paramedics. Guys, we should just go. Like, we blew this. I mean, I don't know. Do we have to, like, solve every job? It's like, you know how, like, with homework, it's like you can, like, do some of it, and then, like, you can do the rest of it, like, the next day? Scary, I'm 100% with you.

We should just get in the car. It's like, wait, are the firefighters dead? Yeah. And then what does she do? She turns around to see you blood dripping from her lips because she has just bitten me a carotid of a paramedic. Oh, God. She goes, you all were pretty fast, but let's see how fast you'll be the next time we see each other. And then she takes off in a dead sprint, and she is just gone.

And the body of the paramedic that she was eating goes with her. I'm so sorry. I was just trying to. She's a nice lady. It was an interesting idea. I don't think it was the right one. Scary. We got to get in the car and get the fuck out of here.

Did we do it? Did we? Yes. Wait, what about the kids? Fuck the kids. Did we do it? Wait, what about the kids? Fuck the kids. We gotta go. She left the kids. And what do we need to do to get the kids back to normal? Put them back in the machine and then tell Tinker to do it.

At first, my plan was to bluff her into thinking I was a kindergartner she missed the first time around and that I deserve a chance to go just to keep her here. But now I feel like I'm gonna look at all the other kids and be like, fellow kindergartners, follow me, the biggest kindergartner

back to the room. I can save us. Roll persuasion with advantage because kindergartners are stupid. Yeah. I got a natural 20. Great. So the kindergartners

look to you and they go, ah, the uber kindergartner. We will follow you anywhere. They're like the fucking aliens from Toy Story. Aw. They're not going to remember seeing two people murder in front of them, right? No, they will. They'll stick with them for the rest of their lives. They'll have the fucking aliens from Toy Story. Aww. They're not going to remember seeing two people murdered in front of them,

right? No, they will. They'll stick with them for the rest of their lives. They'll have to deal with that forever. But yeah, they follow you, what, inside, I guess? Yeah. Okay, cool. I leave the children back inside. I guess we need the help of Tinker. The Tinker is still there. I say, Tinker! Unold these kids!

I demand it! Roll intimidation. I got a 10. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna fucking kill you. That'd be intimidation, so go ahead and roll that if you want. Ooh, yeah, I got a 16. God, fucking Beth is saving us with her rolls. I, like, the first half of, like, my life, I was just getting bad rolls.

I got, like, three threes in a row. You say this to intimidate the tinker, and the tinker, having seen how adequately you behaved in the simulation and how smart you are, goes like, okay, okay, okay, put them in the machines. And then basically for the next half hour, he de-ages all the kids back to their original

ages. Alright. Great. Every time a kid comes out, because it takes 30 minutes, Lincoln's teaching them how to play soccer. Oh my gosh, stop it. So cute. Teen huddle. Hey, so what are we thinking we should do with the tinkerer? What do we do? I think we should just kill that.

I think we should just kill that. I kicked it really good. I don't know. I feel like we maybe could use some information from him. Just like, again, we still don't know anything about what happened to our dad. Torture him. This is, this is why, I mean, I've been hanging out with you guys for like one day and you're already talking about killing people.

It's weird. Cause like, I'm not the one with two fireman's consciences on my I'm not the one with blood in my hands so yeah. That really hurt. Not as bad as it hurt for those families. You know what? You guys do whatever you

decide. I'm just one voice here so you guys do what you need to do. Maybe we should bring this Tinker back. Yeah, let's take him to the like homework center. Yeah that sounds like a plan to me hey tinker you want to come with us uh no you want to come with us uh roll intimidation again shut up i actually got a really good roll again i feel like for the purpose of like the fucking podcast we shouldn't even continue just kidding i'm definitely gonna continue i got an 18. Nice. So he goes, all right, fine. Just keep me away from that one.

He says, pointing at scary. He shivers whenever you look at him directly in the eyes. We call all the kids' parents to come pick them up from school. We go through the phone tree one by one. As you all do that, I go to the bodies of the firefighter

and the paramedic, and I open up their wallets and I write their names down, and I'm going to write their families a letter later. Oh my God. Since y'all made it real for Lincoln, that's what Lincoln's doing.

Normal comes outside to check on Lincoln. He's like, Link, how you doing, buddy? I don't want to talk to you right now. So I'm, you know, it's a, I guess this is just what jobs are. So this was our job. Your badges vibrate and Mayhales says, hey, how'd it go? It's all done?

Agent normal here. Status is 100% contained except for the monster, which did escape. And there's two dead adults. Three. Three. Don't forget the paramedic. Two firefighters were killed. We lost some good men today.

By Mrs. Nerfly, who was a really nice lady. And then she was really mean now. And she killed two firefighters because I helped her, and a paramedic. No! No, Lincoln. You didn't help her. You were just trying to do the best you could.

Yeah, Link, you didn't help anybody. Why would you tell that to the families of John Early and Sebastian Arnold? Sorry, I can't think of it. John Early, the star of Search Party. I thought you were doing the scene from Face Off. What about Dickens? And Elizabeth Dickens.

Why don't you tell them that I was just doing my best? You tell their families. You tell their families normal. I'll take a break when the case breaks. Hey, also, May, can you tell the school to get like maybe a sub i don't think mrs nerfly is gonna be back for a long time can you also like let the town know that like don't start any fires because like we're down we're down a couple firefighters that night after you send an email to the families of the... A handwritten letter.

Thank you very much. Okay, fine, a handwritten letter. Then two days later, you're awoken by a knock on your door, and it's the FBI going, we understand that you know something about the deaths of these two firefighters and a paramedic. And your dad, Margo, is like, uh, Lincoln? 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 alright 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. I'll be on my way. Dungeons and Daddies is Matt Arnold as Lincoln Wilson. Anthony Birch is our DM. Will Campos as Normal Oak. Beth May as Scary Marlow. And myself, Freddie Wong, as Lincoln Wilson. Anthony Birch is our DM. Will Campos as Normal Oak. Beth May as Scary Marlow and myself, Freddie Wong, as Taylor Swift. Theme song is On My Way by

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