Dungeons and Daddies - S2 Ep. 21 - Finding Forest Her

Episode Date: November 1, 2022

The teens find themselves in a tense standoff with a familiar face. This episode contains profanity, violence, sexual content. 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 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 episode description. A cool girl, some asshole, took me someplace real shitty to see a marching band. He said, I think I'm dying. Would you be the leader of these losers in a pussy wagon band? I said, no way, fuck those guys, I'm a loner, a poet and a goth girl, not like the other girls. But I came to beat them, this stupid parade of fucking try-hards And save this to learn world When I was a cool girl Some asshole took me someplace real shitty

To see a marching band He said, I think I'm dying Would you be the leader of these losers In the Percy Wagon. Welcome to Dungeons and Daddies, not a BDSM podcast. It's a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. This is a story of four teens from our world. I need to go get changed. I'll be right back.

Just the sound of later. i didn't get the memo take the ball gag out of your mouth man as a podcast people need to hear you clearly how am i still talking though good question use your imagination this is the story of what the ball gag was gagging she said this is the story of four teens from our world who have been transported back to our world to save it from an eldritch monster that was unleashed by their grandparents. Welcome back, Will. The last four episodes, I think, were all batch recorded, and now we're back. Now there's two, yeah, not to bury the lead, but there's two daddies on the podcast now.

That's right. Wow. It is now a 40% dad podcast. We'll get there. We'll get to 100% someday. What do you mean 40%? Over my cast? Am I a woman and not worth a percent to you?

Smells like wrong back in here. Will you tell this to Daddy in 2020? You're not being bad at Matt? Holy shit. You're cutting all that, of course. No, my mom got a joke. Two out of five, Matt? Beth?

What? Two out of five people? That's 20%. No, no, no. Two out of five is not 20%. It's 60% because Freddy just- It's not 60%. It's 40%. No, it's no. Two out of five is not 20%. It's 60% because Freddie just... It's not 60%. It's 40%.

No, it's 60% now because Freddie is an honorary dad because he just called Beth Matt. Like all good dads do. He couldn't even remember the name of his children. So Freddie's now an honorary dad. 50% maybe. I just want to say this to all my gals out there. It's fine to be mad at Matt.

And to be mad at Beth. And to be mad at Matt. And to be mad at Beth. And to be mad at Matt. Mad at Beth. My name is Freddie Wong. I play Taylor Swift, the ice cold cool ranger team of the group. Ice cold? That's new. I'm just trying adjectives, seeing what sticks. Real spaghetti methodology

for my characters. Taylor's rad fact this week, Taylor's favorite sushi is salmon sushi. He just can't get enough of it yo i respect that yeah because you know what it's the best sushi yeah i mean like look like freddy has different sushi pieces but salmon is good and you know partly because uh here's the thing i think about this a lot with sushi i'm like yes i feel bad about eating like tuna but at the same time it's just like last chance you know what i'm saying why do you feel bad about eating tuna

because it's like you know contributing to the deplet I'm saying? Why do you feel bad about eating tuna? Because it's like, you know, contributing to the depletion of tuna. And I feel like in 50 years, we won't have tuna anymore. That's true. And you're an asshole. I know. I like this fact. I was going to do something serious about it. I'm loving this NPR-esque energy we've got this morning. I have a question

really quick, just for Taylor. What's Taylor's favorite hour? Is it midnight? Is it? I don't get it it's a little album i don't get it i don't get it that's bait that's don't give him an inch don't give freddie an inch he knows what midnight's is all right really quick just what'd you think what'd you think i like it yeah it's good i know a lot of people don't but i don't care about that album a lot yeah i don't know i'm just't care about that. People don't like that album? Yeah, I don't know.

I'm just going off of what I hear on Twitter. A return to form from folklore? I'll tell you a little bit about Taylor Swift's Midnights. It's spent in front of his computer in his room with the mood lighting on, and he's chowing down on some late night nigiri and watching animes. Nice. Taylor Swift can't return to form when she's been perfect every single album. Anyways, my name is Matthew Arnold, and I play Lincoln Lee Wilson, a schooled-at-home

soccer kid who's a protective paladin of the group. And you know what? Freddie, I had another fact, but I think I'm just going to do your fact. And Lincoln's favorite sushi is a vegetable roll. That's... You chose violence this morning, Matthew. A vegetable roll, huh? Vegetable roll.

The fish is icky. It's not cooked. What are you doing? Doesn't like it. Just some cukes in there? Just some cucumbers? Yeah, just some cucumbers and a little avocado if you feel them spicy. Yeah, vegetable roll.

That's it. What's funny is that I have a reason for this dad fact, and it's going to come to play here in this episode. Nope. I figure I think things might get serious again anyway, so I'm just going to do a loose. Keep a light touch. Vegetable roll. Got it.

Got it. Vegetable roll. Hey, everyone. I'm Will Campos. Keep it light. Keep a light touch. That's a roll. Got it. Veggie rolls.

Hey, everyone. I'm Will Campos. I play Normal Oak, a mixed-up mascot kid who doesn't know who he is anymore. Teen fact this week about Normal. This one's for you, Frank. Yay. That raccoon that Normal found that he befriended a couple of teen facts ago, it's actually not a raccoon.

It's a going-on dog. What's a going-on dog? Not much, dog. What's a going-on dog? Are you serious? Did you seriously fall for that? Did you seriously fall for that? You actually fell for that? Are you serious?

Oh my god, Freddy is full on doing the Evangelion Shinji, like, doubled over in his chair, clutching his head. He literally looks like he has to go pile the Eva right now. I can't believe that. Will, you found

his perfect weakness. You found like a moment when his defenses were down. All right, so here's the real story. God damn it! How did you fall for it? How did you fall for that?

I don't know! It was a moment of weakness! Oh, man. Jesus Christ! So, here's the story of that dad fact. Last month, I became a father. My wife and I had

our beautiful baby boy, Andy. He's doing well. Everyone's doing great. I have been thinking story of that dad fact. Last month, I became a father. My wife and I had our beautiful baby boy, Andy. He's doing well. Everyone's doing great. I have been thinking about what my dad fact was going to be for a month straight while sleep deprived and pacing around back and forth. And I was like, I feel like I got one chance here to really pull something over on somebody. And I thought of this going on dog thing. I was like, wait a sec, because Freddie updogged me two decades ago.

I swear to God, 10 years, 12 years ago. He got me with just straight up updog. And I was like, I will have my revenge on him. Wait, do you remember that? I don't remember that. I had never heard updog before. And then you just updogged me. And then everyone laughed at me.

And I've been holding a grudge. The day Freddie updogged you was the most important day of your life. To him, it was Tuesday. It was a Tuesday. And I was like, I bet my first fact back, everyone's going to be wondering what it is. He's going to say something about having a kid. And I'm like, oh, wait, I'll call Freddie out specifically.

I'll rule him in. That was the move. That's what got me, dude. Anyway, I can die now. I'm quitting the podcast. Goodbye. Bro, just like fucking James Earl Jones used to say, dude, the circle is now complete.

I just watched an assassination. You know, like those videos that nobody moves? Like, we all just sat here and just watched Freddie get murdered. It was three seconds before a disaster happened video. Holy shit. Anyway. Do I need to turn back in my podcaster card? I think so.

Do I need to go back to the podcaster's guild and tell them that I've been forcibly ejected by an up dog joke? Hi. Fuck you, Will. Hi, Beth. How are you? Hi, I'm Beth May and I play Scary Marlow. That's right. It's the season.

That's my scream scream queen. It's Halloween. I know that this is coming out. What, Matt? That's my scream queen. Matt is the scream queen. Yes, go Matt. Okay, I know this is coming out after Halloween, but it's before Halloween for us, so ooh.

Have a spooky Thanksgiving. Yes, oh my gosh, such a scary holiday. Make sure the turkey hits an internal temperature. I play a goth punk seeker of darkness who's not like other warlocks. Fun fact about Scary this week, actually a twofer, a twofer, is that Scary still plays the wordle. Yep, a twofer, a twofer, is that scary still

plays the wordle. Yep, it's still going on. Are they out of words by now? Nope, they've done a lot of words, but not every word. What's her go-to starter word? Actually, she loses every time. What? Because her six guesses are always the same.

Awful, angry, annoying, cruel, gross, inane. She has gotten it right six times. That day she got in one, she must have felt pretty good. All over the socials on that one. I'm Anthony Burch. I'm your dad. Hey, dad.

Today's dad fact is that in order to help everybody remember the fact that Hermione the Unworthy is technically part of the party, I bought a The Joker standee. Yes, and you've been keeping it at my place. I've been keeping it at Freddy's place. Much to the consternation of anybody who comes to this house. We're going to move him so he's easier for me to see. Next to Freddy's beautiful pottery that Freddy has like slaved over for hours,

I have a little Joker standee that he's just a little freaky guy. He's just a little guy. He's just a little freak of the week. Yeah, he loves Taylor the most. I take him off of Freddy's beautiful shelf of pottery every time we record. This is the first time. So that everyone will know that Hermie's around. If people mention Hermie more, that's why.

Because we now have a visual aid. This Joker's pose is very like, he's leaning forward. He's doing that Michael Jackson lean forward. You know what I mean? Like the one where he had to nail his shoes to the ground or whatever. No, it looks like his mama is like just holding him up and he's like got baby legs. We'll take a picture. We'll post it on our social

media account. This was just the pose that was easiest to fit him into the thingy because he falls over a lot because he's just a little guy. He's just a little guy. He's a little guy. Don't fall over. I like him. We need a Joker movie where the Joker is just a little guy. I think the movie you're thinking of

is Ted. So the last time we left you, Ding Dongs, you were headed to the Undergrove with Grant. He had a parcel with him. He picked a lock

on a door made out of meat that was down a long flight of stairs. You seem to know more about his plans regarding the sun and killing the doodler than he would have liked. He opened the door to do something. He told you to close your eyes. And right before I could explain what it was, Beth said something about a flashlight. And I decided I didn't want to do the show anymore that week. That's actually why we took a month break. It wasn't for Will's kid.

Yeah, I needed time. We really had to convince Anthony to come back after that. Yeah, they had it. We had Brendan Lee Mulligan on the line. Yeah, he was on speed dial. Your eyes are closed and immediately overwhelmed with this bright orange color. You feel a warmth on your face that is unusual and you feel a nostalgia for not a memory

that really even happened, but a memory of you seeing a future memory inside of tilt, tilt, but run his brain. Damn. Do you ever have like nostalgia for a thing you didn't even experience? Wrong generation. Am I right?

It's like, when you like, remember what an N64 game looks like. And then you look back at what it actually looked like, but it's like, you're still in a stock. It's not what it was. Is the happiness and warmth I get from watching the annoying orange on

YouTube. My favorite classic film series on Turner classic movies. All I'm thinking about is the happiness and warmth I get from watching The Annoying Orange on YouTube. My favorite classic film series on Turner Classic Movies on YouTube channel. Oh, you got the criteria on box set? Wow. In the shape of an orange? It's really hard to keep on a shelf. So eventually, Grids says, I think you can open your eyes now.

And when you do, for the first time in your life, you're getting vitamin D. Ah, but that's where my dad fact trap card comes into play. Nothing is affected by Taylor because vitamin D is abundant in sushi and salmon specifically. That's right, Anthony. That is the exact reason why I picked the sushi dad fact for salmon. Taylor will be unaffected by the presence of the sun. Matt, on the other hand,

who only has vegetable sushi rolls, is suffering. Damn. We all take vitamins. sushi rolls is suffering. Damn. We all take vitamins. Yeah, you all were raised on Flintstones gummies.

You see the sun. You can't look directly at it, obviously. It is smaller than you saw in the memory of the future, and it is hovering at the top of a very, very tall cavern. It immediately grabs your attention because it is obviously the brightest and warmest thing in the room, but as your eyes acclimate, you look down and you see that the floor is glistening and wet and red and seems to be made primarily

of meat. You see long tendrils, long veins, almost tentacles throbbing and pulsating along the ground. It's so beautiful and so weird and disgusting, just like the annoying orange. And once you look away from the sun, you realize you were inside a massive...

Which you shouldn't be looking directly at. Grant immediately goes, like, don't look at it. Don't look at it. Look away from it. He's just staring straight at it. He goes, Link, no. And he tries to, like, push your head down or, like, block the sun with his hand. Can we roll to see how much eye damage Link just did to him? Yeah, roll constitution. I got a five. You got a five?

Okay, so yeah, you look way too hard, and for the entire rest of the episode, when you blink, you get a big old white circle in the center of your vision, and anything that's going to require you to do something long distance, you're going to do with some disadvantage. Okay. Grant's not quick enough to make you look away from it, but yeah, you look around, you see that this is a massive cavern. It's a studio apartment style, real open office plan kind of a cavern. Just one big, huge cavernous room with this sun at the top, beaming sunlight down on everything beneath it. And what is beneath

it, you ask? So the sun is small. Yes. Yes, as I was saying before, it's not the size of the sun you saw in your memory. It is a small, it's like from where you are, it looks like it might be the size of a basketball or something. Oh, but if we use the ruler... But it is as bright as the sun though, right? It is the same brightness as if you were like outside and the sun was at its normal humans. Like you're not getting burned up.

You're not in danger or anything like that. Are we getting a little tan? I mean, I guess if you stayed here for long enough, yeah. I feel so powerful. You're all pretty pale comparatively. So I think, yeah, you're probably. Yeah, get this thing away from me. Yeah, I don't like it.

As Grant tries to lead you forward across the slick, meaty, wet ground, you also see some trees idling every few steps along the ground. And Grant puts his fingers to his lips and he says, they're sleeping. And he tries- They're sleeping? The trees are sleeping?

What's your last name again? Mr. Wilson? Yes, the trees are sleeping. Don't- What's that big bright thing? What's going on? It's super light. My eyes hurt now. Yeah, don't look at it. What is that thing? You know, the trees are sleeping. What's that big bright thing? What's going on? It's super light. My eyes hurt now.

Yeah, don't look at it. What is that thing? You know, it's a star. It's a sun. Not like a you. Like Hatsune Miku? When I close my eyes, I still see it. Yeah, no, that's okay.

That's okay. It's haunted your eyeballs. It's a ghost. Wherever I look. Roll stealth with disadvantage, Taylor. Taylor's just so pumped at the idea that there was a ghost. And Taylor Swift really wondering if we're out of the woods yet. Don't will.

Did you hear her new song? Hey, what's up, dog? Go fuck yourself. Freddie says it smells like wrong dog in here. Freddie, you want to roll the bofa? 12 plus 4, 16. Okay. So yeah, you managed to stay quiet as you continue

forward so grant is holding this parcel to his stomach and he's basically saying like okay uh so we're gonna meet somebody and i just need you to just be be chill be cool don't freak out well are they like a celebrity uh yeah kind of i guess i don't know oh cool yeah it's like another family of yours or just another big lie that you have. Just like, you know, what is it? Oh, shit. I don't know. I don't know. Another family.

You're my only family. You and Mark are my only family. What are you talking about? I don't know. It's just, I just was, the floodgates are open, sir. So I just, once you lied, who knows what you told me. Yeah. I mean, this son hurts my eyes.

You didn't tell me about that. Oh, you did. But you know. I did tell you that. And sometimes little white lies can protect the people that we care about from the. You never said that. That's the opposite of what you would tell me. Anytime I would try to take a cookie or eat something, you'd be like, you got to tell the truth.

Yes. Anytime you tried to eat something? I feed him. He gets to eat. In between mealtimes, because I get a little hungry. Start taking notes. There may be a case building here. That's right.

Hermes here. I forgot he's such a little guy. You thought I was a tree, didn't you? Let me make like Hermes, start taking notes. There may be a case building here. No, that's right. Hermes here. I forgot he's such a little guy. You thought I was a tree, didn't you? Let me make like a tree and take some notes on this horrible father's situation. What trees take notes? So there. Is that a riddle? No.

No? I was just like, why? What trees take notes? Matt, what were you going to say? I don't know. I like that. What trees take notes? No.

You got Matt with a riddle. It's not a riddle. I was trying to come up with a joke, and it wasn't a joke. Yet riddles upon riddles. Okay, at the far end of this cavern, you can see an old, decrepit woman sitting on a throne of what looks to be glistening, uncooked steak. And she is asleep. Who's that, Dad? That's an old friend of Dad's.

What kind of friend? Never mentioned her. I mean, do you tell me about all your friends? Yeah, you do. Yeah, I tell you. We're supposed to tell everything. You absolutely do. I know everything about your day.

What has he said about me? Go ahead, Dad. Tell him. I don't care anymore. Actually, no, don't tell him. Okay, I won't tell him. Only good things. What?

But, dude. See, now we're talking about, now you understand a little white lies. White lies, yeah. Sometimes it's good to spare people's feelings. Look what you've done, Dad. I'm already breaking my... I can't even... I've said so many bad things about you.

You have? Well, I didn't like you at first. I didn't like anybody. He told me that all you were dangerous. Now you use real stealth. Normal. Maybe this is somebody in his journal. With disadvantage.

I got a six. Okay. So with a six next to you, the trees rustle, their leaves shake back and forth, and you hear a creaking noise, and the tree starts to rise up, and you see that its roots sort of form legs,

and they stand up on either side of you. And they lean down, and one pulls an arm back as if to swing at you, grab at you, maybe high five you. What are you going to do? I'm going to be like,

don't do that. Hey, wait, tree. No, don't hit me. So Grant is going to pop the top of the gift box. And if anybody wants to roll perception, maybe you can sneak a look

at what's inside the parcel. Sure. Yes. That's a nine. You don't see shit. 16. I got a 12. nine. You don't see shit. 16. I got a 12. 17.

Half of you see that inside there are two items. One of them looks kind of like Batman's grapnel gun. It's like a little gun with a three-claw hook on the end. And the other is what looks to be

a small flamethrower. Like a really handheld, just like a super soaker but with a lighter on the end. And he holds it up and points it at the tree and he goes, everybody be cool. Be cool. We just want to talk to Aaron.

Don't keep your fucking distance. So he's going to roll intimidation to see if he can get them to not fuck with you. Maybe we should make like a tree and leave. Ah, nice. Fuck. Is there like any trees that like are named after like teachers or anybody who takes

notes? So he got it. Shut up. So he got a 10, which is not enough. So the tree reaches down and grabs Grant around his stomach and squeezes. And he's going to roll constitution to see if he can wriggle free. See if he poops a little bit. He gets a two. He drops the flamethrower.

Oh, no. He drops the parcel as well. And he says, shit, guys, get out of here. Get out. He looks at you, Lincoln. He goes, two. He drops the flamethrower. Oh, no. He drops the parcel as well. And he says, shit, guys, get out of here. He looks at you, Link, and he goes, go. I grab the flamethrower. Okay. I go, put down my dad. He's been bad, but this isn't how we put it. I'm going to burn you. The tree looks at you

and then just turns and starts, with your dad in hand, starts walking towards Aaron. Fire warning shot. Hey, lady, help. So in the far distance, you see this woman like, and looks around. But the tree ignores your warning and starts walking in the opposite direction towards this woman on the meat throne.

What are you going to do? I'm just following and being like, I'm going to do it. And I'm looking back at all of you. It's like, I don't want to do this. I'm going to keep walking. Taylor's like, do it. Do it. You got to show that you mean business

in a hostage situation. I look for like the most overreaching branch, like, do it. You gotta show that you mean business in a hostage situation. I look for the most overreaching branch, like the last leaf. That's so far away from my head. Famous short story. And I just do a little like, you know when you're trying to get the gasoline to exactly $4? The tiniest little trigger squeeze? Just like, do a little bit of a flame on one leaf. Roll dexterity to see if you have the trigger discipline.

Oh, 16, 16. OK, so with a 16, you light that entire branch on fire. It's a smaller branch, just like a couple of twigs and stuff associated. And the tree stops what it's doing and with its other hand, swats at the fire, grabs it, breaks it off and throws it on the ground and stamps it out. But it stops and it looks at you with a little bit more of a wary kind of posture. Yeah. And it cocks its head at you as if to ask, you know, what? Well, yeah, just, you know, hey, there's more of that.

I don't want to use it, but I will just put down my dad and we can talk it out. I mean, I'm mad at him, too. So maybe we'll maybe we'll have some common ground and we can talk about what he did wrong. So the tree arches its back. You hear the sound of creaking wood and several trees behind you also get to their feet

and they start approaching you and you find yourself about to be surrounded. Back to back! Back to back! Okay.

Hey! That was bad too! We're surrounded, Dadsurrounded, Dad. I told you to kill one of them and then run through the corpse to get out of here. How about you? Don't worry about me. I'll be fine. Well, okay.

Who's in charge of these trees? Her. Yo, lady, get your trees to stop messing with us. Why don't you roll persuasion? 16. 16. Plus five. Jeez Louise.

Okay, so even from this distance, your voice booms out, maybe a little bit reminiscent of when Ron would use thaumaturgy to make his voice louder generations ago. Not that you would know that. Your voice booms out, and this small woman in the other end of the chamber slams a staff against the ground, and the trees turn to all look towards her and she puts her hands out and does a come hither gesture with her hands

and the tree puts grant down and starts walking towards the throne while still sort of it's hard to tell because they don't have faces but you get the feeling that they're all still looking at you even as they walk and they're surrounding you as one escort towards the throne scary you're such a leader look at that as you approach the throne you see that this're such a leader. Look at that. As you approach the throne, you see that this woman has grayish, reddish hair. She is hunched over. She has dead, dried flowers all over her dress. She's still very pretty,

despite the fact that she seemingly has been living underground for a very long time. And she says, Oh, look who it is. Mr. DeShit. Oh God, I've had so long to fucking think of a thing to say when you came back oh i fucked it up no you're the worst you're the worst you suck i hate you give me a good reason not to kill you mr wilson and grant goes i've got a deal i got a deal i i i i have an idea that we can all everything can be fine fine. All be good. She says, oh, I don't think so. And she casts a spell with her fingers. She like twiddles her

fingers in the air. She looks into his mind and she sees that he is lying. And she says, no, no, no. I don't think I'll be making any deals with you today. Who are these adorable little ones? And she starts approaching you with her arms outstretched like a granny who wants to go in for some hugs or pinch some cheeks. And she goes, which one is yours? I'm Mr. Wilson. I'm his kid. Oh, hello. Hello.

A pleasure to meet you. I may have to kill your father. But you're welcome to stay here if you like. After you kill him? I mean, forever. No, I mean, we're here because we're welcome to stay here if you like. After you kill him? I mean, forever. No, I mean, we're here because we're trying to save. So it sounds like we know that my dad and all the other dads did some bad stuff, but we're in charge now. And he just stepped out of line and we're here to try to fix things.

So it sounds like it should be you I should be negotiating with. Is that correct? Oh, yeah. He's our leader. Yeah. Me and my co-leader. Scary. We're kind of a dynamic duo.

And then we got our three followers here. Followers? Yeah. I'm your right-hand man. The trigger man, if you will. The hatchet man. Hermione says, I am definitely a follower. Yes.

And me, I'm just sort of following my own path right now. I'm trying to figure myself out. But I guess I'd sort of like, would you guys consider me a hype man? Or like a, you know, sort of like a strategy development person? Like, I don't know, but I'm involved. I think you're the heart of the group. Interesting. That's what I heard me would say.

Taylor leans in and whispers, he's the ideas guy. So Aaron says, ah, well, let me explain the landscape you find yourself on for this upcoming negotiation. Please sit. And as she says that, a bunch of little cubes of meat rise out of the ground at roughly butt height. And she goes, please sit.

And the trees put their branches on you and force you down into the seats. Oh, like a roller coaster, like a dune buggy and fucking, you know what I'm saying? Like the lap bar that comes out. Yeah, kind of like that. It's like, don't lower. The ghosts will do it for you.

Yeah. So she says, I'm presuming that you know that your father and his friends decided to put the doodler and our world to save their own world and what they maybe did not or maybe they did consider is the fact that doing so would blot out our son which my children my family she says gesturing at the trees need for for light uh so it took a great deal of effort it took a great deal of effort. It took a great deal of magic, but I managed to somehow reach beyond the veil of the doodler's butt, grab the sun, and bring it back here down to size. Though in so doing, I lost my love or whatever relationship

that Aaron O'Neill and Vince have in real life, that's what this is. I don't want to say it's one thing and then it changes and then the podcast is awkward for you guys forever. I should have never named you after real people, but whatever your relationship currently is, that's what your relationship is here. We have to live down here subsisting only on the light from this miniaturized sun and from all of the moisture we can gather

from the meat, from all of the people that we meatify. Meatify? Now you had me up until that last part. Yeah, until the meatify. But meatify? Wait, what? No, you had me up until that last part. Yeah, until the meatify part. We have to eat. We need water. Water is sorely lacking in this world,

and so sometimes we go out and we collect the meat. I thought you would have been, like, a vegetarian or something. I wouldn't be a vegetarian. My children have plants. I don't eat my children. Would you? Yeah, no. I mean, I don't know.

It depends. Like, I don't know how tasty are my you? Yeah, no. I mean, I don't know. It depends. Like, I don't know how tasty are my children. Ew. Ew. No, I mean, like, if, like, my children were, like, nerds ropes, like, I would eat them. You would eat your kids? Ew. Scary. Well, I didn't know that they weren't like nerds ropes. You scary.

You like nerds ropes? Yeah. Disgusting. That's the worst of all candies. Nerds ropes, come on. Whatever, stop bullying me. Oh my gosh. Your father came back to you. This is so cruel. Did you see the way

that they were just talking to me? You were going to eat your kids? You were talking to my neighbor and your kids, don't look at me because I'm the only other woman in this situation like I'm going to be on your side.

Oh gosh, oh my gosh. Women are so mean to other women. It's like really hard to catch a break. It's like we're always trying to compare each other or something. No, there's no comparison. We're pretty different. You just said you would eat kids. I'm prettier than you, so shut the fuck up.

Wow. Wow. Okay, so I get what you've done. It's nice for you. This seems like a nice place. It was a good job. Thank you. Yeah, I guess.

Not with a compliment sandwich. Get it later. Yeah, yeah. So, and dad, it seems like you've been on a quest and you've gone here. So that's good job for you, too. Not really a compliment. Just sort of said what I was doing. Well, not everybody makes it to the end of their journey.

And now you're both here. And we need to know what both of you are trying to do so that we can do the better thing. Because that's why we're here. Because you both have done a lot of you're murdering people like you I'm on people it seems like so that's fucked up I'm trying to hang that together I still see a sun in my eye

did you just say it's not murder if you eat them yeah what you ever eat a hamburger do you say you murdered the cow no I mean but the cow same thing with nerds ropes you know what now we're on the same page. Now I like you. Girls stick together.

Back to backs. Yes, they do. Hell yeah. Cross our arms, put back to back. Yes, bestie. Bestie, I can tell you exactly what your father wants. And father, please feel free to tell me if I'm wrong at any point. Yeah, I got a British accent in the intervening years.

I thought it would be a fun thing to do. And Grant looks at her nervously. She says, Grant Wilson was here to pretend to do some sort of deal to help my people find a new home for themselves. But in reality, he was, let's see, let's see. And she looks through his little parcel and she goes, ah, and she opens and closes the claws on the little grapnel gun thing. And she goes, this seems like it's made for... And she taps the end of it. Ah, heat-seeking, yes. You were gonna take our sun, weren't you? You were gonna take our globe, our light, our giving

energy. Wait, you were? And Grant averts his eyes when she says that. Your dad was gonna kidnap another kid? No, S-U-N! Oh! Alright. I'm back up to speed. Go on. Yes. He was going here to take our sun from us for some nefarious purposes I can only guess at. Whereas I, all right. I'm back up to speed. Go on. Yes, he was coming here to take our son from us for some nefarious purposes I can only guess at.

Whereas I, all I've ever wanted was one of two things. I wanted either a path open to hell where my children could live in eternity because the hellfire is not dissimilar from the fire of the sun, incidentally, or for a portal to be opened back to where we came from initially from our original world so you're saying if we could get you just if we're trying to get you

both what you want dad you want the sun right that's what you're here for yeah okay not gonna lie that's what you're here for right yeah okay the sun okay cool and you want to go to hell right that's what you just said or go back to the other place yes yeah but i don't want her where i live look at what she's big people she makes me people what oh you want to live here literally we're sitting on people people because she doesn't ever doesn't she got to right he gets it this one gets it bestie not yeah not my backyard i don't want anybody i don't want people who eat me in my backyard. Literally, I was trying to make the Nimmy joke at the same time. Okay, so you're saying if you came back to our world, you wouldn't eat people. If we went back to your world, I don't know if we would need to

because our world already had a lot of inherent magics in it. And Grant says, no, you can't. I've told you a million times that you can't. If you try to go through, that's too many people. That's too much at once. It could break the barrier between the realms. The realms could combine, and then the doodler would see everything. It's the thing that, Terry, that you're, scary, sorry, that your dad said.

Dad, ground yourself? He's not my dad. One, two, three, four, five, six. He starts counting his fingers. He starts counting things that he can see. It sounds like you got two things you want, and one of them is bad for Grant here. So it sounds like if you went to hell, we could get the sun? Is that what we're talking about?

Yes, if you could help us get into hell and establish a new civilization for ourselves, but I don't know if you'd be able to. This should be pretty easy. I mean, none of you guys have been baptized, right? I don't know what that is. Is that how it works? I don't know. I mean.

Dad, did you baptize me? Oh, I was talking about the trees. Oh, well, now I'm curious, though. I want to know. Grant says, yeah, your grandfather suggested it as a just-in-case kind of thing. Just-in-case? I don't even think we have a Bible in the house. So I kind of just did it to make your granddad happy.

Well, you're saying if we bring all these trees and this nice cannibal lady to our world, it's going to collapse whatever thing we're doing to keep the world separate, right? But like, what if we took them through like just one at a time? You know what I mean? We can, but every time any of us go through the barrier between the worlds, it's like your stepdad said, Scary, that what do you do when your arm is itching? Like, we're just itching the doodler a little bit every single time we go through this portal because it's connected to them.

If we keep doing it, if we keep doing with a lot of people that it's not familiar with, like Big Ol' Trees and Aaron O'Neil and all of our friends and wherever Walter is, then, yeah, it could notice, and it could start actually trying to attack us rather than just sort of passively observing us. It could cut off the arm. Okay, but is it okay to bring the sun back? Well, it's not going to matter once I bring the sun around because it's going to be dead. We're going to expand the size of the sun so big using that tape measure that it'll basically destroy the entire realm and everything in it and when he says that aaron goes oh that's the plan you're gonna kill all of us huh without letting us go back cool dick move yeah no we agree we're not letting them do yeah so dad we

haven't we met the other dads and i'm yeah you're i got bad things to say to you but we're not letting we yeah we're not doing that right guys but we're not letting, we, yeah, we're not doing that. Right guys. Like we're not killing this whole world. Yeah. So we're trying to find another way with you. That plan is terrible. That's stupid. Great. It's like,

if you got a better one, I'd love to hear it. We're working on that. Yeah. Okay. W I P Aaron says, ah, you know what we need?

Because we could go around and around all day. What we need is a nice little time box. We're going to, we're going to time box this conversation. So if you two wouldn't mind these trees, each one of you go ahead and grab one of Grant's arms. And then just slowly apply a little bit of pressure. Just pull a little bit harder and harder. And eventually this conversation will be over once your father has been ripped in twain for betraying my trust and the trust of my friends and sending us all to hell.

So if we don't come to a... Figurative hell, not literal. Not the literal. Oh, if only. If we don't come to a conclusion that we are both happy with, if we don't come to a deal that can be made, then I am afraid your father is going to be the price paid for this little conversation. I think we had one, right? We'll help you get to hell and then you can give us a son.

Sure. How? Oh, I want a quick team help. Can you just pause killing my dad for a second while we teen huddle uh no go ahead go fast what what taylor i have some uh i might have an inside oh yeah two and two uh hell you know just like not not something i like to you know brag about but it just might be you know just letting you know just letting you know that i have some connections yeah why did you kill somebody no no no way cooler than that scary well tell her yeah tell tell yeah you have you well uh link and i had a little side

adventure while you guys were doing the group project and uh i met my dad and he's a hell demon of some import as i've gathered in the time sense really cool guy you know don't want to you know burn any favors i have with him but uh he's down there, and I'm sure he could probably hook us up. Yeah, we got to connect to hell. With a little bit of grease in the palm, so to speak. That's right. I'm monetizing my relationship with my dad. Okay, go ahead and call him then.

How do you summon your dad? One second here while I speak to my friends. Pause killing my dad. No, there's no pause. That's how time boxing works. We just give you a solution. Where is the tape measure? Scary has it, right?

Scary. Yeah. Can I have the tape measure real quick? Yeah, here you go. I take the tape measure and I pop it open and I aim it at the sun and I look at Aaron O'Neal. Ooh, okay. Roll intimidation. Okay.

I say with advantage too. Okay. Oh, that's a natural 20. Ooh! All right, what do you say? All right, lady, listen up. I don't know this guy that well, but I like his son quite a bit.

He's a sweet boy. And I realized that a lot of bad stuff is going on, but here's the deal. Every little inch you tug on him, I tug on this and that son gets a little bit bigger. You kill him. I pull this thing and we all go up, okay? And she goes, whoa, whoa, whoa. He's crazy enough to do it.

Everyone stop. Everyone be cool. And they immediately do it. Normal just wants Link to like him again. Do you like me now, Link? Man, he's pretty cool. So immediately the trees drop your dad. And she goes, oh, okay.

So boys want to play with fire, huh? Are you willing for all of us to go up? I like the cut of your jib. You must be Larkson, huh? That's a Lark move. I'm not clear on that. I'm pretty sure that I'm his nephew, though. Okay. Okay. Same bloodline. Same I'm his nephew, though. Okay.

Okay. Same bloodline. Same bloodline. Sure, sure, sure. Okay, so what's your move, kid? You sort of got us at the end of a gun, but we've also got you at the end of several wooden guns, and the trees all flex. Now it's just a bunch of acorns, like, fall out on the ground and stuff. I know, this is all I had. Well, yeah, so let's call... Call your dad!

Do you know your dad's cell phone number call yeah yeah one second one second here does that give help need some trees i'm just gonna pull my boys aside my friends aside for a second hey so just really quick i don't know how to fucking contact my dad oh well you could have mentioned that before norm went all hardcore what's going on over there guys i feel like i'm losing the momentum here i feel like they're gonna realize that i'm not gonna make good on this bluff. What's going on? Norm core, I guess. Oh, yeah. You don't have a phone number or anything, do you? No,

I don't really have a mean number. Taylor, maybe if you, like, whisper his name on the wind, he'll show up. Have you tried that? Like, this Aaron chick, if she knows all our dads, how come she can't get your... Oh, yeah. Wait a minute. That's a good point. Hey, lady. What? What happened to Nick Foster? He went back to hell. What? What happened to Nick Foster?

He went back to hell. What are you doing, dude? Can you convince him to come back? Yes. Oh. Oh, I see. You're allowing me to kidnap and or threaten to kill you. What?

What? Because then Nick will show up to save you. Wait, hold on. I seem to have missed a couple of plot points. Wait, that is what happened last time, isn't it? Ah, yes. Oh, yeah. If you're in danger, then like your dad comes. Grab him! And two of the

trees are going to move to grab you. What do you do? I'm going to like take my hand down to my maul steel katana and be like, not another step forward lest you taste my steel. Roll intimidation. And the only thing I've practiced on is tree branches, too, so you know. Oh, my God know that's a natural

one whoa okay so they grab you in the mall steel sword snaps in your hands it falls to the ground like the piece of fucking sharp image garbage that it is i just realized taylor's been in danger like the whole time we've been here he got captured by papa john it's dead to do shit oh no yeah that's because he knew that we could handle it, maybe. I panic, and I pull the tape measure an inch closer to me to make the sun bigger. Oh, God. Okay, so it gets about 10 degrees hotter.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Jesus. I'll do it, I'll do it, I'm crazy! Wait, wait, wait, just split the difference. Too hot. I grab the flamethrower, and I point it at Taylor. Whoa, whoa! I give him the wink, he's like, that's Taylor. Whoa, whoa! I give him like the weak.

He's like, that's right, Nick. I'm going to burn your son. Oh boy, he's going to smell worse than this meat on the floor. He's going to be dead. What the hell, dude? I thought we were homies. I'm going to push this trigger if you don't save him. Roll deception.

13. 13. All right, I'm going to have. And also to be clear, where is the grappling hook? The grappling hook is in a box that Aaron has put down on a slab of meat that is basically acting like a little table, but she is not holding the box right now. It's next to her. If you try to go for it, she would probably get a moment to like, try to react and like,

get it out of your hands. It's close enough that she can react. I rolled for Nick, Nikki sort of observing from a distance. And as you yell that, nothing seems to happen. I'm going, oh, oh, this is gonna, oh boy, this is gonna suck. This sure is gonna suck for Nick when this kid burns.

And I'm like back in. I rolled a 17. It's not working. I'm back in and I go to Gran. Dad, you gotta do something. You did something to Nick. Don't you know where he is or? I'm gonna contact him.

Yeah, I know how to contact him and he doesn't want to talk to me. It's like having your ex's number and they don't. Give the phone over or something something there's only one way i know that he would show up and it's exactly what we're doing now but you guys don't mean it i could try to okay give me the flamethrower oh you've asked for it now my co-leader is really she's the mean one and i toss it it's good cop bad cop toss it to scary. But you're not going to really kill him, scary. I don't know what I'll do. Oh.

So there. Yeah, me neither. Okay. Do you want to not do the thing I'm not doing? What are you going to not do? I lock eyes with normal and I'm just like, no, I'm going to do it. You're going to do it? If you're going to do it.

Yeah, on the count of three. Okay, one, two. What are we doing? No, I jump in front of Taylor. Don't do it, it's scary. I hit the flamethrower. So the flames lick directly, they slam into your chest, Link.

You successfully jump in front of the flamethrower when nobody was pulling the trigger. You scared me, man. You're on fire. You're going to do it. Go ahead and take a D12 of damage. I drop and roll. Yeah.

Drop and roll as you take a D12 of damage. That's going to be your son. If you don't come out here, Nikki. I love that. The section that you're standing over now has now become medium rare. I panic and drop the tape measure and go to swat the flames out on Lincoln. Taylor

does a diving roll to try and pick up the tape measure. Alright, we're going to roll a pose dexterity because Erin's going to point at that and tell her trees to do the same damn thing. And she got a 19. I got an 11. Wait, as Oh, never mind. I'm not going to pull a mat and be like I did it the same in the middle of the song.

How dare you say that? Oh, spicy, spicy, spicy. You can say you're doing something. You can go ahead and do it. I mean, everybody's doing a thing in this moment. So yeah, one of the nearest trees leans down and snatches up the tape measure just out of his grasp. No, I was just, it doesn't matter. The tree does that.

And then like a full like one Mississippi, two Mississippi later, you hear, and then Taylor does a roll over where it went. It's nowhere near the ground anymore. Not even close. Aaron says, oh, you kids don't actually know. You're bluffing, aren't you? You don't know how to get to hell. Well, then we can always, I can tell you this.

I know exactly how we can get the worlds to merge, and maybe it's not going to be so bad. Things are crazy here. Things are crazy there. Grant's like, it'll be a lot worse. It'll be like fucking war between the people of this world and this world. It could be fucking crazy.

She's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure. Here's the thing, though. I know how to do it. All it takes is a combined sacrifice. Not of death. Nobody's going to have to die. We just have to feed 300 human years of a lifespan into my spell. And then we can sort of smush the two planes together and everything's Gucci.

sort of smush the two planes together and everything's Gucci. That sounds so complicated and awful. Wait, hold on. I have a question. Okay. And Taylor's panting over all the exertion that he's just gone through. Yeah.

Smooshing the planes. I heard there was more than one plane. There's more than just like our world and this world, right? Correct. What else is there? Maybe we can find more than one plane. There's more than just like our world and this world, right? Correct. What else is there? Maybe we can find purchase in another plane. Maybe we could just skip out on these realities entirely

because they're all kind of jacked up. I guess, but I don't have a connection to those other ones. It's only because of your family that I understand the plane that you're from at all. What are the other ones? So the other ones are the Infernal. There's the Goofs plane. There is the Spirit plane. Spirit planes. I hear that one. They don't give you anynal. There's the Goof's Plane. There is the Spirit Plane. Spirit Planes.

I hear that one. They don't give you any amenities. It's pretty affordable. Pretty affordable, though. Don't knock it until you try it. The only one that I know how to get to with a spell, I've actually got all the components ready. I just needed 300 human years of existence to pour into there.

So if you want to take some years off the end of your life, we could use that to power the spell. I don't know how many of you... And then you'll go into our plane. Yes. And Dad, what do you think will happen? I assume that basically all of the kinds of people that you've met here, all the kooks and Papa Johns and

and, uh... Oh, you're right, there's the Papa Johns in our world, too. It's gonna have a conflict with the IP. Yeah, they'll basically get transposed back onto our world, and maybe some of the more psychically relevant landmarks will show up, too. It'll kind of transposed back onto our world and maybe some of the more psychically relevant landmarks will show up too. It'll kind of be like, you know, if you took two different jigsaw puzzles mixed up half the pieces from one

with the other, but they fit together still. It does seem like there'd be a lot of death. Okay, and just to clarify, you would be okay to go to hell, Aaron? Of course. I don't like, I feel uncomfortable calling you Miss what? What should I call you? O'Neal. Miss O'Neal. Oh. Okay. Look, look. I'm just kidding. Nothing. Look. HeyNeil. Oh. Okay. Look, look, look. I'm just kidding.

Nothing. Look. Hey, we, hey. What, what? Adults, you look at me. I've been looking at you. We got all the leverage, okay? We don't have any leverage anymore.

We got all the leverage. You have no leverage. Oh, really? We have the measuring tape. You can't do that anymore. Oh, you got the measuring tape. Well, I'm a kid and you're supposed to care about us because we're kids. So, so you listen, you listen here. kids. So you listen. You listen here.

So your leverage is guilt? You listen here. We know a way to get to hell. Do we know it right now? No, but we'll go figure it out. So look, tell you what. All you got to do, you got the easiest job in the world. Just don't kill my dad.

Why don't you two just sit here and work it out like adults? If that's too hard for you, maybe you shouldn't be adults, huh? How about that? Maybe you should be dumb kids or dead. How about you guys work it out and we'll go off and we'll do all the stuff that you can't do and we'll go find a way to hell and then you can go to hell where you belong and dad you can go back home and you apologize you apologize to dad you apologize to me and you're going to talk you're going to be in your own hell mister yeah i'll tell you what and then we'll be good so how

about that how about we just let's figure it out his dad's in hell we'll figure out a way into hell roll persuasion it's pretty persuasive i gotta say in hell. We'll figure out a way into hell. Roll persuasion. It's pretty persuasive, I gotta say. Matt has returned to looking at Anthony quietly. He is twiddling his thumbs a little bit. I got a four. Okay.

So she goes, you're so cute! And she pinches your cheeks and she goes, you think that you have anything to offer in this conversation? No, honey, we are doing what adults do. Adults try to kill each other. Adults don't sit around and make funny little pretend promises that we know are not going to be kept. Grads, you knew you weren't going to keep your promise.

And grad's like, no, I wasn't going to. He's like, yeah, I know, you know, we know. Wait, there's one more thing we could do. We heard there's a place called the Church of the Doodler. do we heard there's a place called the church of the doodler and we think there could be an answer there to solving all of this to setting this right to defeating the doodler to making all the worlds better like we think there could be answers there if you give us time to look we'll uh leave his dad as collateral and if we don't deliver on the goods you can kill whatever you want with this loser yeah yeah go ahead and roll persuasion assuming you're telling the truth you're not just trying deliver on the goods, you can kill him. Do whatever you want with this loser. Yeah. Hmm.

Yeah. Go ahead and roll persuasion. Assuming you're telling the truth, you're not just trying to buy time so you can steal him. Okay, yeah, go ahead and persuasion. See, there's a concept called anti-fragility, and this is kind of like optionality. You have an option that you can exercise

without any downside. There's no downside for you. You just let us try to go do something. Mm-hmm. And then you get what you want if we don't get it, which is probably revenge on him, because he was bad, right? Yes. I got a 15.

She got a 17. Can I help? Can I help with this one? Can I help with this one? Can you? Yeah, I'm going to be like, I know my dad, and I can get him any here any time I want. Then do it.

No. Do it right now. You said any time you want. Do it right now. Do it right now. You have five seconds. I'm sorry your dad doesn't love you and he won't show up to save you, Taylor. How many chances are we going to give him? I can put myself in actual danger. I'm waiting.

Yeah. I'm waiting. I'm going to be like, you know what would be really cool is if dad showed up right now and I snap my fingers. You snap your fingers. God damn it. You snap your fingers? Yeah. Is there like a really high thing around here you could jump off of?

And then he'd come and save you. Like a tree, you mean? Yeah, like climb a really tall tree. Wait, wait, wait. What if I shoot myself into the air with my fingernail? And it looks like it's a naked me screaming and crying. And maybe that'll be enough. Sure, you could give it a shot i think um yeah go ahead shoot cheer i bite my fingernail as i'm unloading as

i'm like disarming the gun and taking out all my fingers i'm just pretty sure like he's been if he's watching us then there's a lot of times here you go i cast that spell of darkness again over this as it's happening so that nick can't see it okay so here's okay so here's what's gonna happen so i go ahead and i unload the gun and i and i hand it to you with magazine open i go go ahead take a shot all right okay here's this i don't think your dad's an idiot though i don't think it's gonna work all right all right here's what's gonna happen so i take the gun with my fingernail in it i look around is there a tree nearby yes okay i need the tallest tree here okay okay now remember first thing you do is you it's

like uh robin hood prince of thieves where he's teaching him a marion to shoot the bow like i'm like i'm putting my arm around like look you just gotta you squeeze okay yeah okay all right okay so the tallest tree comes in my head that's what he said what he said. I'm the tall tree. I'm the tallest one. What's your name? Tall. It's voiced by Beth now. You can't hear any of this, but that's what it's thinking.

Bring me right to the top of your tree. I'm the sad tree. I never get picked. There's a weeping willow over there. Hey, oh my god, that tree is so cool. So dramatic. Bring me to the top, good sir or ma'am or whatever. Why do you need a gun for this?

I thought you were just shooting yourself in the air. What are you doing? I need to get the... Ixnay on the gun. Just trust me. Just trust me on this one. Bring me to the top, good tree. So the tree leans over and puts its hand out

and an orb of darkness steps into it that has your weight and feel and voice coming out of it i guess yep it stands up and then raises its arm up as high as okay so now no one can see me from down there right correct and so you hear from all the way up at the top of the tree here. Wow. All right. Anyway. Wow. I'm so scared. So scared.

Boy, oh boy. And then like as you're hearing that, you're also hearing just like the fumbling of like metallic sounds as I'm fumbling with a gun. Okay. Here I go. Jumping off again without clothes. Oh no, he's going to do it. Wait.

Taylor, don't. And I lean back and then I hide in the branches and I point the gun down and I shoot my naked body down towards the ground. And you fall at 500 miles per hour. Like a rocket. A naked Taylor ran an anime rocket. Like a shot of a rocket.

You fire a Leib missile at the ground. Oh, no. Go ahead and roll a deception. With advantage? I mean, he's... 16 plus three, 19. Wow. Oh, he rolled 16, and you beat him.

So, as your naked, aerodynamic, weeby form hurtles towards the ground, it's last thoughts before disappearing into unconsciousness, being like, oh, I got to watch Mob Psycho 1000 Season 4. Suddenly there's a flash of fire, and the familiar form of Nicky Foster, it just appears with a puff of smoke and a puff of fire. He reaches out his arms, and he grabs this weeb bullet right before it hits the ground and all of a sudden

its momentum stops. It just goes straight back to hell. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He grabs the weebs from the tailor and then looks at you guys

and goes, nothing personal. And then disappears and goes, and just disappears back down. Okay. And then from the air

he goes, what was that? From the top of the tree. What was that? Literally, what was any part was that? From the top of the trees. What was that? Literally, what was any part of that? From the top of the trees of the air. Did it work, guys? Yes, it did.

It actually did. Look, can I put my clothes back on? Look, that's like, you know. Yeah, please do. Why don't you change your clothes on? As Hermie taught me, it's important that the method reflects in your performance. Hermie's like, no, no, no. He's got the right idea.

That's very cool of Shaw. Very well done. Very well done. Thank you, Hermie. I knew you were the best, and you continue to be my best friend out of all of these losers. Oh, fuck off. What that did, Miss O'Neil, is prove that we indeed do have a connection to hell. That was just a taste, as you will, of what we can offer you.

If that's a taste, what is the meal? I got it. What is it, Gary? Please help us retire. I got a spell that's contact other plane. What?

What? I just told you I've had that the whole time, Gary. It's only supposed to be for emergencies. I brought my dick out for that. Again, why did you take your clothes off? Can we get a quick scene of Nick with Braille's biggest son?

So none of you know about this, but we smash cut to hell, and Nick's like, so how did you lose your clothes? And Dummy Taylor's like, anime. I got it, I got it, I got it. Nanny, nanny. Oh, God, I got it, I got it. Nani? Nani? Oh, God, you've gone full weeb, haven't you? Here, look me in the eye.

Look, hey, hey, hey. Hatsune Miku. No, don't say that. Please don't say that. Come back. Well, if you've got a spell that can contact the other plane, then yeah, then that's something. Okay.

Let's go for it. All right. Beep, boop, boop, boop. other plane, then yeah, then that's something. Okay. Let's go for it. All right. Beep, boop, boop, boop. Beep, boop, beep, boop, beep. It's a spell and a cell phone. A spell phone, if you will. I have to make a DC 15 intelligence saving throw. Okay. And so I will do that.

Go for it. Oh, I'm going to finally do something useful, and I give you guidance. Fuck, I fail. What'd you give? I got a 10. Okay, well, how much does guidance give you? 1d4. I won't cut it. On a fail, you take 66 psychic damage

and are insane until you finish your walk. What? Oh, no. But that's problematic. You can't take actions, can't understand what other creatures say, can't read, can't speak, and speak only in gibberish. A greater restoration spell on you ends this effect. Yeah, I don't want to do that because that's weird.

I just turn into a valley girl. Oh, you just get put on hold, which means that you're just frozen in place because your mind is connecting to the other plane. Oh, I like that. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. You attempt to contact the other plane. That would be fun to play, Freddie. Yeah, you know what?

Let's not do that. Let's not do that. Let's just say... It fails. Let's just say that it fails. Let's just try to come up with some cool colors. I agree, I agree. It was a good idea if this were a novel.

So it fails, and it fails in such a way that your spell slots are all expelled for the rest of the... You used up your minutes. Yeah. All your minutes are gone. It's still ringing. Erin sees that going and she goes,

so, sounds like Operation Smush the Planes together is looking better and better by the moment, is it not? Excuse me, I'm making a phone call. Hey, Nick, it's scary. No, you have no reason to know me. It's just, I mean, a lot of people

do know me. I'm pretty knowable. Pretty fearsome. Anyways, what's that? You can't come? But you're still powerful? Oh, okay. I mean, I don't know. I think everybody's going to be pretty disappointed,

but they'll know that you could come and fuck things up at any time. It's a weird phrasing overall. And you're opening a portal to hell? Yeah? Okay? In a few hours? After we leave? That's great.

That's actually great news. So this entire conversation has really changed around, and now it's good news. So this entire conversation has really changed around and now it's good news. Roll deception. Also, Nick, I'm sorry, but the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now. Why? Because he's dead. Roll deception with disadvantage. That's a five.

So she goes, so in your fake phone call to someone, you started it off by saying, oh, you're not making a portal? Can you believe she thinks this is a fake phone call? All right. Miss O by saying oh you're not making a portal she thinks this is a fake phone call all right miss o'neill okay look here this is it okay you're right you got the leverage we don't have any leverage and i and i pick up the flamethrower and i turn around and i give it to her i was like go ahead if you want to kill us then that's that's what you gotta do but i gotta tell you something we're just kids it's not our fault that this happened we're doing our best to try to stop all this and we read what what the dads did. And like, I know that my dad did a lot

of bad stuff. And so did our dads and you have every right to be ticked off. But what I read, what I saw in that story, you seemed like a good person. You helped them and, and you gave them a chance. And, and I hope you find it in your heart to give us a chance too. Cause we're just, we're going to do our best to help everybody. And I promise if we go and try to find a way to get you to where you need to go then we we are because we don't want to repeat what our dads did so just while he's doing this normal is scooching his way towards the grappling gun okay why don't you give me persuasion matt and if you do decently well then that'll give you advantage for your stealth check towards the grapple gun.

I got a five. Not even an advantage? No. If you've been trying to convince somebody five times over and you tried a sixth time, that doesn't mean the sixth time is magical. So you just give me a normal stealth roll trying to get the grapple gun.

Sixth time. I got a 15. Okay, great. So you successfully sneak towards the grapple gun. You can basically grab it without a check at this point. You're close enough to it. As you're saying all that Lincoln, Aaron puts a hand on your shoulder and says,

if I may, it was never my intention to hurt any of you. You're small, stinky children. You all have your lives in front of you. And it's like you said, you're not to blame for what happened. Your daddy's to blame. Your father's to blame. And I'm sure you have a lot of really lovely solutions percolating in that little brain of yours there.

But sometimes the only thing that will quench the anger and the sadness and the fear that you've had for a long time is to sort of, you know, lash out at other people. So that's what I'm going to do to your dad. Okay. Because he killed everyone on this planet sort of in a sense. And that's okay you'll get over it big boy who's my

who's my special boy who's my brave boy is it you she's pointing at you is it though what's happening with the grappling hook I grab the grappling gun

and fire it at the sun wow wow okay roll dexterity with advantage because nobody's looking at you and while he is doing that,

I want to kick her. Right before I do it, I give a cool guy nod to Link and I like bulge my eyes like in like a Hero's Shed No Tears, that Jabu movie where like the guy and his kid communicate by blinking at each other.

I'm going to kick her in the shin. You're going to kick her in the shin. I'm trying to grab the flamethrower. I got an 18. Whoa! Okay, so with an 18, with the dexterity of the caped crusader himself,

your grapnel gun extends out on a really, really, really, really long chain, longer than should be able to fit a gun this size. The talons clasp around the sun, and then it gets reeled back in, and you see the shadows all growing taller and moving very suddenly, and all the trees

immediately get up and sort of look and try to see what's going on with the sun. There's one sunflower that's so fucking confused right now it just goes and suddenly the sun is at the end of the grapnel gun and the grapnel gun is completely retracted so it's near your hand you can feel the heat radiating off it it's really intense heat roll uh constitution it's kind of like the gravity gun in the end of half-life 2 okay so the 15 you're only going to take 1d10 damage 1d10 mama mia yes grant sees all this happen and he goes the box get the box but he tries to struggle but two trees are holding him but he's nodding at the box that he brought the parcels in i was gonna say dad successfully get the flamethrower why don't you

roll i would assume that grabbing the sun's a good disadvantage or me advantage for like she'd be just like she's probably turning to look at the sun. Yes, I would agree. Go ahead and give me a sleight of hand or a dexterity with advantage to try to snatch it out of her hand. Well, I'm going to kick her or pull the gun. I think it's like one action. It's like when you like steal a basketball

with just a big slap. 22. Without advantage. Yeah, you basketball slap it the fuck out of her hands and then catch it before it hits the ground. I catch it on my foot, then flip it up and back on my hand. Perfect. Oh, nice.

All right, so you've got the sun. You've got the flamethrower. I'm going to try to slide tackle in and sweep the box. Okay, go ahead and give me an athletics roll. 18. All right, so you effortlessly, with muscle memory that your heart has been trying so hard to kick out of your brain,

you use your expert soccer skills to slide tackle and grab the box. You now possess it. And Taylor flips his hair in a cool-ass way and goes like, well done, team. I think, yeah. Ms. O'Neil, I think it's time we renegotiate this deal. I think it's time we make like a tree and leave. Oh, I get it now. She's it.

And I run. Everyone runs. Great. You all start sprinting toward the way that you came in and the ground. The big meat gap. The big hole of meat. Yeah, you try to head back towards the meat sphincter

from whence you entered the cavern, the undergrove. And your hearts are beating hard enough and you're scared enough that for the first couple of seconds, you don't realize that the ground is shaking. And you think, oh, maybe something's chasing us from behind. It's best not to look around. But then in front of you, you see the ground is still beginning to shake.

Jiggle. Jiggle. And not the tallest tree, but certainly the widest tree that you have ever seen claws its way out of the ground. What? The widest tree. The widest. Oh, I think it's the widest. A verified General Sherman.

The stoutest boy tree that you have ever seen. The stoutest tree you've ever seen claws its way out of the ground and the center of its trunk opens

and you see fangs with sap dripping from them and inside moist, pulpy, kind of papery like wood substance inside and it belches at you and it raises its hands down to slam

all of you. Hey Link. What's up? Guess what kind of tree takes notes. Oh I've been thinking of this one. A note meg tree. A what tree? A note meg. We're gonna die. Hermes is like that's so good! That's so good! That's so good! That's what I was going for! All our days whisked away

but is there Something more To say You know that No one knows Us better Than ourselves I used to tell myself

It'll be alright Pretty lies That we 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, baked steel and borrowed We gotta pick ourselves up and say, not today, no, not today. We live for tomorrow, baked steel and borrowed, 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. I'll be on my way.

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Make steel and borrow. Brave where we can't change. We got to 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. Well, you missed an incredible pun there. You could have said, I don't know this guy that well, and I don't know this guy that well either.

Jesus. Well, too bad. Oh, well.