Legends of Avantris - Icebound | Ep. 20 | Chimes of Respite

Episode Date: January 17, 2025

At great cost, our adventurers have endured. With only a few days remaining before the new year, the party seizes this chance to recover and celebrate a well-deserved moment of peace together.   Gain access to an exclusive campaign, Shroud Over Saltmarsh, over on Patreon: https://legendsofavantris.com/patreon The Crooked Moon, a folk horror supplement for 5e, is available for preorder! Get the Crooked Moon at: https://thecrookedmoon.com/ Watch more D&D adventures in the world of Avantris live on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/legendsofavantris Check out our merch store: https://shop.legendsofavantris.com  Join our community on Discord: https://legendsofavantris.com/discord Watch our many campaigns on YouTube: https://legendsofavantris.com/youtube  All other links: https://linktr.ee/legendsofavantris   Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/wfsywmCI950?si=NeqpXI_bNi4spCpt

Welcome to Legends of Aventress. I'm Barnabos Dred Wake and you're listening to Icebound. Here's what happened last time. Tusk off the coast of Caloac! Ah, this is it, lads! This is how we die! The Princess of Wrath scurries further up the side of the ship to more closely examine the hexature armament, and you see her eyes widened with curiosity.

She bends her head down in an instant and bites. and wrenches the artifact free in one deft movement, gripping the hexature armament between her fangs like a cigar. So too does the invulnerable shield protecting Sopholeth pop out of existence. This game is over. I am left with no other option than to destroy you so I can pursue my purpose. There's not even a pop or a satisfying vacuum sound of something suddenly not being there and not. Whatever Taishan has done has instead taken soft lift.

This ship has no pilot. Don't you understand? Bearing free fall! And then a hand reaches down his hand and pulls a lever and the back of the ship pulls away. It is a ship designed as an escape pod in the Astral Sea, not designed for this atmosphere, and you bounce against the side of the mountain side. The front of the ship disappears through the veil first, and then followed by the the enormous shell-like back, you brace yourself for what you know will happen next.

The Nautiloid ship crashes into Ogerton, and the charged propulsion helm explodes, destroying everything. Nowhere to go but forward. Just keep moving. Was that crash this? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was us. Mostly Tyshen, but that was us. Ancestors. What was Mannyus, now just man, look, and you can see them all looking up and up, and seeing something on the horizon over the sight of Ogerton. Ancestors. Yes, ogre's free.

The threat is over. There is no chance that you will ever seromorphize into a mind flare. All of you dream. All of you have a very familiar dream. A dream of a library. Your own library. The library of your mind. You find a new book.

a shelf. Christine, the binding unmarked, but this is not the book of today's memories. It is a book that can only be written by the terrible stress one endures in a confrontation with a being like Sopholith. The pages were pressed by psionic power. In itself, the mental strain it took to push against those telepathic attacks, penned by the brutality and force of survival in those moments that nearly broke you. Reaching up, you take the tome and flip through it and realize the experience you've had has opened your mind to even greater potentials than you would have not found on your own.

Slowly, you all begin to wake up after a long night of rest. Still tired, you wipe the sleep from your eyes and feel the cold creeping into your room. It is quite warm under the thick blankets, however, and it's all too easy. easy to let yourself sink back into the soft mattress and absorb the truth of where you find yourselves now. Just yesterday you dared to confront the malevolent, parasitic entity known as Sopholoth, a massive brain-like organism wielding terrible psionic powers and plans for total domination. Yet, you managed to survive. Astonishingly, it has only been six days since you woke up here in what once was Ogerton.

What a strange and frightening experience this week has been, so full of mystery and uncertainty. And how long before that? Only 11 days ago, you trekked up a beckoning mountain and celebrated the end of autumn, midwinter, with the spirits of silver dragon-born druids who likely have been dead for centuries. And you think of what you learned there on the world. the mountain top, the fateful quest of the gods themselves, the fateful quest the gods themselves have bound you to. You shudder reliving the violence of the cursed monster that sought to consume you just a day before that day midwinter. For a moment, its terrifying visage passes before your

eyes, and you have to put it away again or let the fear take you. And for weeks and months before then, you survived, journeying north across a great ice sheet, the western coast of Dracar, with only the friends who stir sleepily beside you now to keep you company. You think of the band of Kobol, you met, remembering their strange ways and their offer to take you beyond the mountains to central Dracar. You think of the metal man, with his speed, the one who called himself second. Not three months ago you were stranded here in southwest Trachar, the crew, the captain. You think of the white dragon, the princess of wrath, as you perceived her then, and you wonder where she is now.

You recall the dread tower you approached out there on the frozen ocean, and the time it stole from you. Just about nine months ago then, wasn't it? Nine months ago you all chose the same table to sit at in a humid tavern in Wuzay, and now you are all here together. The experiences and visions you have all shared, how fate has called you. Today is the 25th day of the 12th month, and in four more days it will be a new year. The warmth of the blankets soothes your bruises and healing wounds. perhaps the day can wait another hour

turning into your pillow you drift back into sleep to rest a bit more and you all enjoy long rest what happens next is up to you let us fucking go let us fucking go I already took a long rest we are

in separate rooms For the purposes of waking up, I will say that you are in the room that you all first started sleeping in, that you were, the accommodations that Mannyus, now known as man, provided you. So I'll say that you're in the same room. I know that you went to a separate room to have your conversation, but I'd say at some point in the night, perhaps, you came back to this place. It feels almost a little like home now. And you can wake up and do what you like.

Kind of communal living? Very much. And very communal. There are dozens and dozens of ogres. There are perhaps a few hundred humans, thanks to your efforts to save and spread the word to get out of Ogerton before you went to the Nautiloid ship there in the cave. And all of you are chiefly in this central villa. partially because it is the least damaged, but also because you are here, because the people who made it possible for the terrible and word of spreading. Word is very much spreading across the community of what and why all of this happened in the way that it did. Things seem peaceful. You were able to go to sleep having a sense of that, and you'll be able to wake up to that information more as you start to explore the day.

We're all thinking. I guess SRIM is not an early riser, but if there were to be food being prepared or if our chef, our galley cook happened to be up cooking, I wouldn't, Scrim would wake up, or if someone was cooking, Scrim would wake up, but he wouldn't be an early riser unless there was a reason like food or something to get up. That is your choice as a player. You would have started smelling breakfast being prepared in the early hours. many of the habits and old ways prior to your freeing the city

have been baked into these people. It matters not that they're now free in this way, but you would have woken up to the smell of cinnabonds. Is that worth getting up for? Yes. That's up to you. We have a cinnabon out here? Oh, yeah. For sure. How cold is it? Quite cold.

Quite cold. It's getting colder. I'm sorry? Do they have Annie Ann because I prefer them to Cineabon? Yes, they absolutely have anti-Anne style Cinevon. Do anti-am yoga. Antio Anga. That's right. We just call her aunt. Yeah, I would get up if there was breakfast to be had and maybe some sort of coffee or something like that, right?

And just help myself and kind of gauge the day and see how cold it is. and stay close to the fires that we have? There are fireplaces that are roaring now, and there are people bustling up and down the hallways. There is a great amount of stores of food, but you also notice that there is a combined effort to continue to try and repair the front of this villa that was hit by that concussive force

of the explosion that happened but four miles from here. And so you can hear also the sound of not. knocking and carpentry happening as humans, former vassals, are boarding up windows, windows that, when it was more temperate, didn't need to have any pained glass or anything in them, open windows that just were draped that sort of thing in a more temperate way. Do I, given everything that happened with like the brains and the thoughts and the dreams, would there be and kind of what was attempted to access

would there be any kind of recollection of dreams that Barnabost might have that might be new given everything that happened to his brain previously? I would say that we ended last session with me describing a dream where you were back in the mind library and you pulled a new book off the shelf, a book that unlocked

information that was only hidden away there or perhaps put there by your psionic interaction, that's tremendous stress that your mind went through and facing Sopholeth. If you feel that you would have had that dream and then transitioned into another dream, those other dreams would have been traditional Barnabos dream fodder. Nothing particularly out of the ordinary,

just the things that someone like Barnabos would experience in the night in that way. It would have been very restful and peaceful. I will wake up in an incredibly good mood, and I'll be whistling, despite the apocalyptic nightmare that we experienced. And I would have gotten up, not too early, but early enough where I would have started cooking

as soon as possible before everyone else could wake up. And were there hogs or was it just cows that they have? There were. Sir RIM was counting them. Oh, the hogs, yeah. There was a variety of various kinds. So I am going to make the breakfast from Hal's Moving Castle times, you know, times 50.

You know, however much bacon I can get, however much pork belly, that I'm presuming that there's some kind of eggs, bread and cheese, and just like really classic, hearty, rustic, nothing too fancy, nothing fancy at all, very simple to basically feed a whole lot of people. I would literally murder, man, for that right now. Yeah.

When you arrived, you recognize some of the humans that are there as former members of the family of the House Blighinius and others who are new, who perhaps came from other villas, and joined this, the first day of this tribe. And there's a sense of reverence from both parties. Those who have known you over the last week and those of you who are just seeing, those of them who are just seeing you for the first week, they are a happy. helping you, taking our orders, running down to the larder to get whatever it is that you need, be it the meats that you described, or lard or seasoning, or what have you, making sure that if it's a menial chopping of vegetables task, do you wanna do it?

I can do it. You go back and forth a little bit, and you are able to create a spread under your direction without issue immediately. I'll probably the same, the young man or the boys that I was showing kind of how to de-glaze and kind of make the steak or whatever we were making dinner last night. And I'll say, okay, lads, now if there's a Bonnie Lash that has your heart, you make her this breakfast in bed, and then you'll have hers.

I mean, that's a Barnabot's promise. And I'm going to basically just teach anyone who's interested in making a super simple, but very delicious breakfast. There's a row of students, and you see many of them nodding, and the one at the end nodding, especially enthusiastically. It seems that there's love in his heart, and that you are all working together to create this feat. just in the morning. That's what I'm doing. I think I would wake up pretty early, and I would, not as early as Barnabos,

but maybe the sounds from cooking breakfast, him loudly shouting, would rise me quickly. And I would quietly, this is just the next day, right? This is the next day. Okay. It's the 25th.

And we'll be experiencing, in quite a bit of time. So you can just say, this is what I will be doing for the day. Or you can describe in detail if you want to go sequence someone out or if you want to, however you'd like to approach your day. I would start to brew some tea and brew as much as I can and start to enjoy probably a cup quietly and look out of a window, see kind of what everyone's doing. You mentioned that they have a lot of, sounds like maybe vegetation supplies, stuff like that.

Do I get this sense that they're building up this area that they're in? Is there like farmland? One of the usual features of Ogerton was that it had vegetation and animals, plants that should not have been on Dracar. There are certain animals that will absolutely be native to the land, but it seems perhaps delivered by, for the sake of creating a baximile, delivered by the elithet, there were hogs and cattle and things you might not necessarily find. Heck, they're chickens fucking around. So when you look out, you still see many of those same features, even though as you look down and out the window, you see the, you see the, to what was Ogerton. And you can see that's still softly smoldering rubble

where that city happened to be. There's still patches of land. What fences were blown over. You can see dotted figures out in the distance trying to wrangle what animals they can to try and create perhaps a new herds of these same animals. Those are the kinds of things that you see when you look out the window with this question in your mind.

Question as a player, not a character, because Scrim would have no fucking clue of this. But do I as a player or have any, and you can feel free tell me to go fuck myself, do we feel like the flora might not survive in Drakar that was introduced by the elephants? And I mean, I guess that would extend to the fauna

unless their animal husbandryd. Like, you know, if they introduce any kind of plants that are not native Drakar, do we feel like they won't survive? Is that a reasonable question? Or is that a... I think that that's a... Before we answer that, so that we have it for the stream,

where did we last leave... I guess it's on the recording, so maybe it should be fine. Yeah. What was the last thing you all saw? Because, I mean, we were out for at least 30 seconds. Yeah, take a second. I was going to make sure that. Yes.

We were describing, you were describing what I would see out the window as drinking tea. You were drinking tea, getting a sense of, just sort of questioning about animals and the world around you. And whether there was farmland and these ideas. Okay. So I didn't miss any of that. I was building to, well, actually, I was building towards exactly

that, no, no, no, I, that was exactly I was trying to, so the short answer is go fuck yourself. No, that's fine. I mean, because that's not a scrim question. That's like a me as Andy being questioned. Like, curious, like if we are seeing plants dying, you know, but Tyshend is getting there.

And in kinder terms, that it is a go-fuck yourself because that you should be exploring the world to understand that question. No, no. Hey. I'm not a... Tai Shen is going to see how far you can get What I was going to say is I would quietly enjoy my tea, and as the day progresses, maybe we're going to explore.

Everyone else is waking up. I would attempt to, I would probably head out an attempt to find presumably daisier, whoever looks like they have taken charge of this rehabilitation effort. And in a similar way, see maybe where I could lend some support. And what I would look to get a sense for is exactly that, where I think that the food vegetation they have if the protective dome, the magics, the heated bedrock that was presumably provided from the mind fliers is starting to wane if their food stuffs, their vegetation would survive from an encroaching winter. Tai Chen has his curiosity fact. and you take a warm cup of perfectly brood tea, and you're holding it between both of your hands,

walk out through the front doors, past the reconstruction efforts that are happening on the face, past the smells, just breathing in the cool air. And having only been here for a week, you get the sense that the temperature is dropping immediately as you walk out. And the path, this beautiful palatial path

that goes and makes a strike straight down towards the city of Ogerton, allows you to start to walk and almost like a trail, hike almost, to get a sense of what's happening. And you run into that administrator, that coordinator right away. It's not Daisy. It's Myelin. Myelin is very, very deftly starting to command the humans of this new tribe. He is starting to make sure that they're starting.

fences being put up and for what sections and for which animals. Whether or not you get a sense of if these animals can survive as the temperature drops because it is dropping rapidly, you would have to make a nature check.

Make a nature check. Oh, okay. Does mine also check this shit out of Tyshen to make it even for scrim? You know, everybody? I'm the same thing. In the serving Milan. Natural 20.

Hey. I don't know what my plus is, but it's a natural 20. 21. The animals, if cared for, kept warm, perhaps. There are certain varieties of plants and flowers and herbs and things that are not natural to this realm. And it does occur to you that perhaps the, the balance of nature will return to this area. Mylan.

Good morning. Tishin. Or unless you want to go around. I don't have to do this right now. How can I help you? I'm sorry to interrupt. I just, I wanted to get a sense with Ogerton now gone. Is it your plan to stay here?

It seems like you're shoring up this space to survive the winter? From what we are understanding, there's, the danger is over. This area is as good as any to make a home. There is fresh water. There is food in the land. There are enough of us to survive the winter, and then perhaps we'll make a new plan,

the ogres seem comfortable. I am free to... It's what I had been working towards for so long. Not something that I ever thought really was achievable, to be honest. I'm glad you and Daisy have been freed from what you had gone through. I'd love to help in whatever we way I can. I feel like I've taken quite a bit these last nights. And I'd like to, if I can, bring a little life back into this land.

You have helped by doing what you did. You have allowed us to have our destinies our own again. That is, when we first met I didn't trust you, when we second met, I was angry and scared for Daisy and for what might come of your arrival here. I never dreamed of this outcome, not once. If you want to help, you are welcome. And I will gladly give you something to do. But you've earned a chance at rest. It doesn't seem like winter here lets anyone rest. If you won't rest, I'd love to help accomplish what you're working for here.

Maybe if the crop that you've come to rely on, If we think that that won't last through the harsh conditions, maybe a small trek into the surrounding forest to find any kind of natural vegetation, harvested, bring it back, create new plants, something you could live off of 10 to for years to come. I will send a few out to see if we can scout for more natural food. That's a good idea. Thank you. Do you end up taking a task in, throughout the day? This is a, how does Tyshen enjoy the day? You go out and you learn this information,

you start to get a sense of this. Barnabos is cooking up a storm. The others are starting to awake from their slumber, but you're out here and you've finished your tea and thinking about what you want to do with yourself. What does Tyshaen feel in his deepest heart? If Mylan would task me with something, I would do it without question. What I would be focused on and what I would be attempting to do is supporting in any way I can

the rehabilitation efforts of this space to ensure that the humans that are here can survive the winter and that nobody's lost in the process. What do you think you would prefer? You can wrangle animals. You can scavenge. There's perhaps things down there in the town. You can help us take inventory. We know that these villas, these houses,

had tremendous amount of stores for the winter, and it was mild then, but we may be fine this first year. If there's something you jump out at, help. But it really is your oyster. Well, where I come from, we had a great deal of water nearby, Jade Shell Village. It's a beautiful place. We should see it someday.

But we had to use systems to bring the water to the plants where they were. I don't know if that's something that would be helpful here, but I'm not a architect. but I could try to see if we could work in a system like that to be able to keep the what you'll need here watered cared for through the winter the water has stopped in the baths and I wonder if the system of water that the illithid installed underneath the city wasn't perhaps damaged in the blast perhaps you could investigate that Back under the back under Ogerton

With all the ghosts Huh? Yes, I'll check that out. Thank you. And you start to make your way back To put on your adventuring gear. Queenie, you're near. How do you find your morning?

You know that meme of Anna from Frozen where she's sleeping and drooling all over the place? She's all right. That's Queenie. Yeah. You spent a tremendous amount of energy over the last 24 hours, more than perhaps the previous 720 or 7200 hours. It was a day. It was as if 14 days had passed all in one 24 hours period.

Exactly right. Exactly right. I think it was four or five sessions that was literally one day. So if you want to sleep, sleep in, you may. And she does. Queenie takes a well-deserved dress. I would say she'd probably wake up really early just naturally. and smell that food was being cooked

and that everyone kind of had their own stuff going and think to herself. No danger? They don't need me today and go back to sleep. Wisely. You're near. I would get up and I would turn over and realize that there's like some of my fur is in the bed

and I'll reach up and I'll feel kind of where the lightning had gone through my body there are like little bits like almost like lightning patterns where I'm still wounded from that moment and I'll sort of wipe

and feel some of my blue gray fur kind of come away and so I would skip breakfast and I would I guess there probably aren't any showers anymore but I would go to the bathing area and get water and just sort of clean myself and if I have any herbs left

apply some sort of salve on or salve on my wounds from the prior day and just for like a second kind of just feel the ear from here and came out of the like feel the ear that the creature had gone in and then eventually sleeped out of. It's very tender. Perhaps in some ways more tender than your injury here. You feel

the softness of your fur and then that sort of coarse, rough texture of where the lines are there. And then you reach up and it's sensitive to the touch almost hot. And you have the sense that it's going to

perhaps be another few days before you can even explore and see is there scabbing inside. Your hearing seems fine. So I would take some kind of like cloth or leather scrap and almost wrap, not quite an eye patch, but almost like this diagonal, sort of like an eye patch, but just so that it covers my ear. And really just sort of take the time to kind of clean myself and patch myself up if, you know, I were to get injured in my many journeys and the next morning I sort of take the time to heal myself, right? You know, be my own medicine man.

and, you know, make sure that my wounds are treated and that I am, and sort of just reflect and think about the night before and once I was done with all of that actually the others. You are there in the baths finishing up with your salves and with your bandages as you hear a voice behind you. Your ear okay. And you're okay. And you're, turn and you can see man, the ogre known as Manius Blighinius, standing there in the door frame, seeing you finish putting on the last of your gear and end, and still very sore from the previous day. Turn to him. Yes, I am okay. Are you feeling well? Man feel strong? I want to walk up to him.

and almost like just kind of take a look at him and get a sense of, um, do I still feel like the same level of presence is there this morning versus last night? Make an infect check. Oh God, which one do I want to use?

I think that's a twister. I think it's a twister. Oh, yeah. The first roll was a 20 and the second one was a one. I think we twist or famine. I believe we learned out of character that they were good. That did stop.

I know, but Your Honor doesn't know that. I love the twisting. Yeah. I think it's fine. I think we have. Thank you, Chad. Thank you, chat. Thank you, chat. And the Yorna would be distracted. There we go.

Much better. Much better. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, skills. That's almost a barbarian crit. 23. 23. With a 23,

you look at him and you size him up. You get a, sense of how you read him when you first saw him coming out of the carriage after the explosion of Ogerton, staying on your guard because there was a chance. A soft look that planted a nefarious, sinister idea in your mind that perhaps there was danger there. And there wasn't.

They seemed to be wise, if not the brightest fairy in the forest. And you see that same kindness that you see that you think. see saw before, you see that same, um, uh, uh, Oger confidence, let's say. But in fact, you, uh, with a 23, I'll say, the intelligence seems to have evened out, not, it is to have dropped and then sort of come up. There's a, there's light in those eyes. Um, there's a, a person in there, even if they no longer are the smartest person in Ogerton. Do you remember what we spoke about last night.

Oh, yes. Ammon? Anam? Onam. Oudan? Oudan. Oudan? Yes. Drak?

That's right. Land. Man. Oger. Three. Three. And I'll pat it on the shore. It's like a very half,

like very slight, smile. Dornier. How? Learn more. Honor. The three. I will teach you.

I will show you. And perhaps this is the, wait, this is the last day of the year? This is the 25th. And all months of the icebound calendar, let's say, are 28 days. So you know, four days from now, it'll be the New Year's Day. It'll be a year's end. I will show you and help you prepare for a great feast for the last day of the year. Oh, to celebrate honor and the three?

To welcome in the year. Oh. To wish the last year of farewell. I will show you what I know from my home. But you can create your own traditions. You can pay respect to the triad however you wish. Man will share this with the ogres. With the time comes, if there are priests or not.

priests or holy members of or tribe. Man. This is you? Smart. All right. Great worship. That we will take some time to go through some rituals perhaps

and prepare for the great feast. Good, good. I will tell you. I will tell you. other ogres and we will plan traditions.

Yes. Their own traditions. You are very tall and Mannyus is taller, man is taller. And he slaps your arm and it takes you a moment. I'm not used to that. Soon.

We'll be back. Much to do. Soon. And he turns and races off. And when I say races, I mean, like, he's no longer walking in a governarial, like, way.

He's not, he doesn't have that, like, height of hubris that you met when you... He bounced. He, he's straight, like, bounds down the tiled floor of this magnificent villa that was constructed, and you hear him disappear, screaming his wife's name,

ready to engage in some immediate conversation about what he's learned. Excited. Amazing. So then, yeah, I would just join the others and kind of as quietly as I can, kind of go into the communal room and like just stand against the pole. You go into the communal room, and I would say scrimp. You have slept in as much as you can. You wake up. You find a glorious feast for Barnabos. That Barnabos is prepared for the house, it seems. a second breakfast of source. And Tai Shen is nowhere to be found.

Queenie seems to be deeply asleep. Barbos, after finishing cleaning, the three of you find yourself in that same communal room either with a plate to eating or having just eaten. However you want, as you're near walking. As we're finishing up cleaning, I'll say, oh, little ones who are too small to help with the cooking.

I have a very important role for you, and I'll try to call, like, all the ogre in, like, it's like fucking episode one with all the little kids work on the pod racer. And are there any children? Yeah, I would say, there's a staggering of children. They all are at different ages, is what I mean by staggering. All right. Now, little ones, I know that I said you were too small to help cook. and we've enjoyed our breakfast,

but you have the most important job of all. Do you know what that is? You are going to keep witches away. You're gonna ward off the witches. And what I'm going to do is I'm easily gonna hand out a rolling pin to each one of them. And I'm gonna walk over to, it's had to been like at least 100, 200 eggs.

And I just dump all the shells. Smash them, quick, quick, wishes will come. They go to fucking town. And these shells. And some of them are, are slamming down and a couple of them hit each other almost in this in the in the in the chaos that ensues after your instructions One or two very cleverly grabs both sides of the actual rolling pin and actually starts almost making a dough or a powder out of these out of these eggshells But you've looked at almost immediately are satisfied that if there were going to be witches there are not going to be

Oh yeah, that's a strong arm there. Yeah, this remember to always smash your eggshells. It's good luck And I'll just be like laughing and I'll probably, you know, get a second plate. And when you grab a second plate, you catch a Yorneur, making his way to the communal room and start to follow. Scrim, you've made your way down, you have a plate, and you find yourselves the three of you for the first time after your incredibly long day together. Which three? Barnabos, Yornear, and yourselves. Tai Chen is out in the world investigating what he might investigate, and Queenie is still dead asleep. Scrim would have been keeping to his self, not being extra vocal for a change.

But seeing Yornear walk up and seeing the perhaps the fresh scars, the scarring would be visible. You'd see at least some of that, right? Scrim would look up at Barnabos, maybe make eye contact avoided. Look to Yornear and say, hey, All right? I will survive. Are you? Yeah, I'm fine.

Yeah, food's good. I well, thank you, Mr. Savascoch. That's enough. I mean, to be fair, was mostly the, my helpers. I just kind of supervised. I said that's enough. We all gonna be okay? What's got your gills, Mr. Staviscoch?

What you mean what's got my gills? You were with us? You know what we faced? all right a little too close to my own mortality for my own you know

sake all right I but we're alive barely do you feel that do you feel the fact that we survived against all that against all that death

against all that cosmic power the five of us we still live we were meant to and I'll gesture out to like like the group of the ogres and the humans kind of milling about or doing whatever they're doing.

And like, look at that. We're the ones who allowed them to build their new tribe. No matter what, even in the midst all this destruction, life still survives. All right. All right, Bobbos. You and I have to just make do. So, I'm willing to say, I accept your apology. Now I take this giant bite of bacon. Yum.

I'll just wipe my hand, my, my callous hand against my greasy face. Apology for what, Mr. Stavis. God, what I don't recall apologizing. For all of the horrific, horrific transgressions you made against me, and maybe perhaps the rest of us, your name, it looked shot. All right, I'm willing to. to accept your apology. And just move on for this and put it in the past.

I don't recall what you're... I know. See, now, I thought I was going mad, Mr. Yorner, because I haven't hit the bottle in quite a while, in months yet, and I still can't recall what you're referring to. Yorna, do you want to be fighting with me too? Why would I wish to

fight with you? Then you should probably just agree. And we should all just agree to accept Barnabos's apology and move on. Agree with what? The apology. itself, the apology itself. Stop asking questions. You're making too much sense. No, no, no, no, it's fine.

Where are they? They're in a communal room. Not our communal room. No, no, no. This is like the main room. Though it's been cleaned up. How far is this from our communal room? Given everything that's happening and their voices being raised,

I mean, I know that there's hammering going on outside. There's feet moving back and forth. if you wanted to stumble in. Cool. Keep that mad. Okay, so I'm glad we're all in agreement we could just move on. It's fine. Yeah, Mr. Sabascaut. I've only done something to offend.

Oh, is Tai Shan? Anybody see Tai Chen? Did you realize your sensibilities were so dainty? Is Queenie okay? Is Queenie all right? Tai Shen okay? Great. Queenie is fine. Okay, good.

No, where Tai Shan is. Good, fantastic. Why are you concerned with them all of a sudden? Well, because I cared about my friends. We've all been through a harrowing experience, all right? And we're all just pretending like nothing happened. And here we are, and we lived, we lived, all right, to see another day. Until what?

The next cosmic threat? The next bitter cold that takes my toes? What do you want from me? Huh? What do you want? I don't want anything from you. Faith certainly does, though. And you know what is next. need to retrieve the artifact.

This is not changed. I... Is in more favorable hands, I truly believe. This does not mean that we can allow it to remain in the possession of the dragon. What do you think she intends on doing with that thing? I do not know. I do not know if she understands what it is.

You're not suggesting we steal this thing from a dragon, are you? No, we will not steal it. We will take it. We're given the quest by the spirit of the land. She will understand. Look, you're a smart guy. I know you've been through a lot. But stealing is just taking with zero intention to return and without asking.

I've done a lot of it. Trust me. I did not say we would not ask, we will speak to the princess. We will explain that we are on a fit-bound quest to retrieve it at the behest of the land itself. And if she says no? Then we will take it. Great. Fantastic.

I've never killed the proper dragon before, one with the wings and the flying. that would be quite the thrill. It is not often done successfully. So we should consider her an ally for now. Do you agree? Whether I agree or not, Mr. Yorner never has seemed too affected any outcome, has it? Certainly not.

Well, I don't want to fight a dragon. You didn't ask me about the ally thing. I'm in agreement. Let's ally. Let's ally! Let's ally! I think that she perhaps will find us quite appealing to her band. But we have to remember that she did absolutely annihilate all of those poor wandering souls that we met on the solstice. This is true. It is an aspect of survival.

Perhaps it was in her nature to do so. Are you prepared to face the possibility that without, her involvement, we all may have died on that, Shep. They don't have to tell me twice. I was there. I saw it. We were fucked without her. I mean, rightfully so. I don't want to say it was an act of the gods, but, you know, come on. Well, you know, I bet that she doesn't keep her people's cattle. I bet she doesn't raise any kind of livestock if I had to wager.

You're right. Faith brought her to us. Fate gave us the opportunity. She gave us the opportunity. Corruption, the plague this land is gone because of her. So again, I don't believe we need to kill the dragon. But I'm saying if it does come to it, I will be quite excited. That will be quite the tale. It might come to it.

I'm ready either way. Oh, you've got to be kidding me. Unbelievable. All right. All right. I mean, is there any liquor with this breakfast? I, it's too early. I don't even know what time. Have you had your coffee, Mr. Stavis, Coach?

Fuck the coffee. I need the good stuff. This is unbelievable. Why don't we start with coffee? You're a little grumpy around the gills. Just a suggestion. You turn and look at the door and you can see that. Queenie is standing in. Queenie is standing there. With two mugs of coffee. Good morning.

I'm gonna walk up to scrim. Drink from one mug. Drink from the other mug. morning, Miss March, how'd you sleep? Pretty well. Both for me. I just juggle. Well, there's plenty more where that came from. Where's Mr. Fireblossom?

He didn't come to breakfast. I looked out the window when I was leaving. He seemed to be out in the field, work with Myelin. Already volunteering to work. What a loser. You got to be getting me. I mean, I'm not surprised. Smash cut to Taishen right now.

Tishan, you are deep in bowels of a freezing, freezing tunnel that's mostly collapsed, and you're starting to make your way back down towards Ogerton to try and get a sense of where these pipes may have broken. It's so cold down here, but thankfully they gave me these blue overalls and this fetching red hat. And then we come back to the scene. Do do do do do Whom, won, won, won. Queenie just arrived, and you're all talking about

whatever it is he want to talk about. What is it that I missed? I know I slipped in, but, God, I was, I was exhausted. You missed nothing. Oh, all right. Besides, potentially, we may have to fight or defend a dragon.

I'm sorry, what? Can we have one day when we're not talking about the end of the world. That's what I'm saying, Miss March. Let's enjoy and relish in the fact that we're still alive. We have the new year around the corner. We have a new tribe. Is there anything special that happens on the new year?

I ask because inevitably this moment of peace and calm will not last forever. and there is a day of change coming up soon. And with that, more than likely some horrible abomination is going to break from the ice and destroy another village somewhere. So is there anything we should worry about? Any like ritualistic things we need to make sure that we do so that we don't displease the gods that have kept us on this earth?

Well, there's been blood sacrifice. No, I can think it's anything. Oh, okay. We went right for that option. Well, and I mean, meaning no offense, Mr. Yorner, but I do recall that you did not employ the circle of salt around yourself, and one of those strange crawfish creatures made it into your ear. Did the rest of us? Did the rest of us work? The salt circle you speak of. I did.

Oh, yeah. I mean, I threw that shit everywhere. I bathed in it. The other two? No. I don't think Pichin do either. What all I'm saying is that you're tempting fate. I don't know. That's three out of five of us that didn't. And one of us got fucked.

Yeah, but that's still a 50-50 split. Fate does not bend to salt. And it does to blood. The blood is for the gods, not for fate. Yeah, as far as I know, I read a book once that said that, The gods don't like their food to be seasoned all that well. So they probably don't like salt. Oh, I'm saying, and I'll clink my pipe against my spoon earring that I made with the hex mark in that.

Oh, I'm saying. Scrooms ears like swollen over. Me too. Fuck out. My, my hex charm, my seabird tattoo, and a good amount of salt. Get me safe. Where did all fall of the spirits? The spirits would.

Oh, the ogres. But you didn't go down where the spirits were. We were in the vicinity. You never know when there's this ghost, Miss March. Well, I was with you the whole time. I didn't have one of those. That's because there were no spirits there. You never know.

I would have because I didn't have one of those things. Oh, I'm saying, why take the risk? It's a peace of mind. welcoming I told you that as soon as that albatross that seabird was killed by that merchant that our voyage was doomed. We invited that bad luck upon us. I hate to admit it, but he's right.

We've been paying for that mistake for months. I'm pretty sure that's the source of all of this. I should have killed them. I don't think so. I think the source of all of this is that we got on a boat with the money grub and butt hole and we sailed out in the middle of nowhere and we trusted our fate to someone who had no idea what they were doing. I don't think I had anything to do that seabird.

I don't know. I mean, you make a really good case, but on the other hand, there's a dead seabird. Yeah, thank you. You took the words right out of my mouth. How did you know? You're right. It is very obvious. It was a seabird.

I don't even want to agree with Bonobos. Okay, what's going on between the two of you? Why are you... I frankly don't know, Ms. Martin. He apologized. It's all good. We're moving past it. Anyway, where's Tai Shen? Anybody see Tai Shen?

I didn't hear it. He did. It's fine. We don't have to talk about it. You apologize to scram? Yes, yes, he did. Oh, I don't have any recollection. Oh, I don't have any recollect. He did it.

He apologized. What did you apologize for? I don't frankly miss Marge. You're getting as good as mine. Why don't you accept an apology from a guy that don't even know what he did wrong? It did happen. It's fine. Anybody see Ty Shen? I'm pretty sure he's in the sewers.

Yeah, I told you. Oh, that's fine, of course. Cuts to me, I have a plugged-in flashlight. He's with his niece, Mayweegee. That's pretty good. Taishan, you are actually making your way back to the town. And the reason is because you reached a wall of ice.

it was not that it was destroyed but you are seeing that the temperature underneath the city is no longer providing that warmth that it was everything seems to be getting back to normal let's say and so after exploring for a couple hours and spending your morning

doing the investigatory work trying to warm pipes and having no success you get the sense that two things are happening. One, the ability for the villas to have regular running water, warm water, or cold or otherwise, is going to be impossible without tremendous effort. Or, and, that there's nowhere for the water to go. That the town, there's this tremendous waterfall

pouring into it, is slowly being submerged by freezing, cooling water, that it is turning into something of a lake. The waterfall it was pouring into where the ship was is now like filling up? The waterfall was, yeah, yeah,

there was the crevasse, there is the town, the town exploded, sunk into the crevasse, and now the waterfall is slowly, slowly, slowly filling with water that is freezing. and it's already up to the point that you reached as deep as you went into the pipes, not even as halfway as far as you would have had to have gone to reach the bridge and reaching the novelage ship, any of those things. It is freezing under there.

Oh, no. And you turn, having these conclusions, feeling pretty confident about it, and your stomach is scrumbling. You haven't had breakfast. All you've had is a bit of perfect tea. and turning you will make your way back to the manner. And you can go to however you like. Well, just take the path, I think. You do take the path.

And I would say it was about this time that you make your way to the bathroom. You have all been talking and sharing this conversation for perhaps not that much longer. when Taishan arrives at the door. Mr. Fireblossom. Good morning, everyone. Why saves you a plate? I'd offer to heat it up, but I know you don't eat it. Oh, thank you.

I'm so hungry. What's everyone been talking about? We're going to befriend a dragon. What? Or kill it. Or kill it. What? This are our two options.

Oh, oh. And Barnabos apologize to scream about something Barnabos doesn't even remember doing. You finally apologize to Scrib? Finally apologized! For all your various transgressions? I am bewildered. I mean, I was thinking the same thing, too,

but I didn't know what particular one. Oh, well, I don't know what they are. I just know that Scrib's always saying that. We don't have to believe in the point. It's fine. We're all friends again. It's great. Oh, we're trying to take the high road right now. I don't even know what that means.

You know, you know what? We're going to leave that there. What have you been up to, my friend? Well, I went out to see if I could help with the effort to rebuild the town so that as winter encroaches, everyone can continue to survive. They were having a problem with the water getting to the crop, and I went to investigate, and I realized I don't know anything of plumbing. Oh.

That seems like a problem in and of itself. And... Could you pull your pants up? I can see your butt crack. You actually can't. It's overhauls. It's strapped over my shoulders. Well, there's a hole. Oh, there's a hole. Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh. They need a hole for them. Oh, somebody, I can't reach. My arms don't work this way.

I'll get it. There you go. Oh, thank you. No wonder it was cold down there. So indecent. Oh. the waterfall where we were before

that led into where the ship was it's filling up the crater where the ship crashed and it's freezing over that can't be good didn't look it but any of the water any of the things that the town

had enjoyed to prosper previously have run out or their Dracar is taking them back I mean it makes sense now that the invas the invader is gone from the host. It's not providing it with the things that it needs to keep the host alive.

I don't know how else we help, but... Getting prepared for a really, really rough one. I was going to try to teach at least some of them out of fish. We could take a band of people down there while the water's still running and still fresh and try and fill up as many barrels as possible with water. teach them how to y'all know how to distill your water

clean it up boil no I've never had to do that alright well I'm gonna have to teach them how to do that that way they have at least enough to get by after that they can start melting the snow

they need to really locate pants to wear closer to the hot springs. Or they could freeze to that. Do we know how far we are from the hot spring? Do you have to say it like that?

What do you mean? Look at this villa. This house should provide plenty of shelter if they appropriately eat it. For all of them? There aren't that many of them left. They'd have to move all of these. It's a villa. To thrive, they will need their own homes.

They will need to be able to put. And look at all the remnants of that dynamite destroyed. They could build new homes. Are they're going to keep all the swine inside? I'm sorry, the wine? The swine. Oh, why are you worried about drinking right now? The wine, too.

Can it all fit in the single villa? I don't know. Are they going to spread out across the five villas with the no-man's land in between? Maybe. Doesn't have to be no-men's land if you put men in it. Would they be able to? That's a great point. Everybody, everybody gets to that point

because of what Queenie said. Compelling. Listen, you know and you seem to know a lot about these people, right? I mean, they were here long before the horrific monsters were. They got to have some sort of innate survival instinct, right? Maybe give them a little spark. I'm going to say something. that I think is worth taking into consideration.

These people have been told what to do and who to be since the day they were born. Why don't we just ask them what they want to do? This is okay. I just think it is... If they want to stay here, we let them stay here. Unless they want to live on root vegetables and perhaps a little bit of dairy and blood. I mean that this is acceptable. They could stay here.

What do you mean dairy and blood? Eat blood and dairy. What do you mean eat blood? What do you mean not? I don't understand. They're not vampires. Why are you trying to make it mean blood? I mean, blood is very nutritious.

When you're caught in the doldrums and all you have our sea gulls and sea turtles. You don't think blood? No, I don't mean, no. Have we been eating blood this entire campaign? I mean, I haven't been for a while. I mean, in a survival situation, we have any blood for the past three months. When things don't grow. We're even hunting.

Can't they cook it? What? They could cook it. You just want to boil blood and drink it? I don't want to talk to you guys right now. I should go back to sleep. I'm just saying from a resourceful point of view, you can eat blood without killing your livestock.

This is all. Just going to put a tap in them? We don't need to go over this. My point is that... No, I don't want to. I'm disgusted. If they're used to agriculture and farming, winter is coming.

Nothing is going to stop it. And I don't believe... He said the thing. winter is coming oh i said the thing i guess they could stay here if they would like to you were making this place seem like it is the most inhospitable place in the world and it doesn't have to be even in the even in the deepest of winter they were still alive what did the sewer look like thysham well i i could barely even get close to it as i approached it was became obvious that as the crater was filling up, sections of it

were completely cut off, frozen. From ice? That's right, like ice walls, that sort of thing? Yeah, like ice walls. It was kind of like the ice was inevitable. The ice is inevitable. Unless they go closer to the hot springs, but I won't force them to do that. But, Yon,

I think that they're constructs here, there are many homes. How would they be able to build shelter so far into the dead of winter near the hot springs? Maybe the Tumis. is a smarter choice but could they not weather the the extreme elements here in the interim the they could if they chose to what else is outside of having a nest

sauna what near the hot springs is it that you're looking for them to have access to it's slightly more hospitable climate that they're used to they've spent decades existing and that they know how to use, they know how to yield crop or raise livestock in. Not saying that if they really don't want, do they have to go, I won't force them to do anything. Well, we could share these findings with Myelin. He's leading the rehabilitation effort and he knows there. He wasn't in Ogerton captive the entire time. He would know the area better than any of us. Wait, you talked to Mylan? I did. Did he punch you?

No. What a jackass. What are you mean? No, no, Milen needs to apologize. Well, I mean, yeah, he completely blindsided me, walked up and he punched me in the face. I never even saw him coming. Kind of fucked up if you asked me. And that's so weird, I saw his hands. He's quite a bit taller than you.

He just walloped me. Bam! I never saw it. You woke up and just just chose stormy seas, Mr. Seversy God. I mean, it wasn't today was a while ago, but yeah, I mean, I just woke up, I was confused, I was scared, and then bam, out of nowhere, right in the kisser. What did you do to him? I don't know.

I think that... Well, that's surprising. We all did some things to Mylan, and Scrim just took the blood. What else is new? Good Lord. What did we do to myelin? Did you ask Milen to apologize to you? I didn't get the chance.

He stormed off. And then the next time we saw him, you insulted him. He stormed off. Yeah, I was a little mad. Oh, goodness. Anyway, that's neither here nor there, you know, the other than the loose muller I have, but yeah, continue, please. Mylan, yeah, go ahead, talk about your hero, Mylan.

You hear a knock and you see Daisy enter the room, having heard none of this. And she's picking away at a plate full of bacon and Howl's Moving Castle Feast. And what are we talking about? Oh, we're talking about the fact that your dad punched scrim in the face, probably because he's pissed off that your sister dad, sorry. And that that's somehow our fault. And, um, I think we wrapped everything up with Mylan. I think everything is fine. Everything is fine.

Can you forgive Mylan for punching you in the face? Oh, well, yes, I guess. Scrim is just in a forgiving mood. Oh, Mylan, I'm a new year. It's a new day, a new year, a new tribe, a new ogerton. We should rejoice. We should rejoice. Barnabose, if you don't stop talking, you're going to owe him another apology.

I think that's just how he says hello from where he's from. That's what he is. I give Tyshend a very like sly, like, like side-threat, side-ey-ey-eye. Why do you look like Scrim when you do things? Like, what? As he does it, I think back to that moment and I think that he becomes a goblin. And I say nothing, but Scrim very clearly goes,

I'm frustrated to like sly like, I just very genuinely smile back and nod. Yeah, you know. We share knowing that. We were actually discussing how best to help your people rebuild and survive the elements here. We've survived many winters. You've survived many winters

with the protection of Sofellate's influence. With that gone, gone, the waterfall is freezing up, the harsh winters of Jakar coming in, and I think you're going to experience what that's like for the first time. Thank you. Oh, thank you, Barnabas. Oh, there you go, young lady. Um, she thinks about this really hard for a moment and then sort of,

what else can we possibly do? There's nowhere to go. There's no other, towns or cities. Yon- Do not need to live in a city or a town. There is no more town here. There are five buildings. You build your own village

where it is more hospitable. You are very fortunate that not too far away there is a natural element of the land that brings heat from the earth to the surface.

Didn't we have heat here now? Why, why? Well, Daisy, the thing is, the entities that lived beneath the waterfall, they were like, they were like a parasite that leached onto this land, and they filled its host, the land with what it needed to survive. The ability for heat, it provided the livestock that you were, all ate and the the level of intelligence that the ogres needed to run a civilization like ogerton was with them gone as I think you can tell the ogres no longer have that same intelligence the land will no longer have the heat and the running water and the animals for you

to feast upon and so now all those things remember when you were living in that house with your sister and you had to, she had to go out and hunt and that's how she met us. It will be like that, where you have a home, where you can heat it with fire, but you will be provided nothing else. And do you think you can do that here with the structures pre-existent, or do you think it would be better to move to a place where there is natural heat, like from the hot springs, but you're going to have to make the structures yourselves? And I think that's a conversation you should have with your day.

The swine will not survive. Rare form tonight. But they're my favorite. They're the cutest. They won't survive. Well, to be fair. We've just eaten 200 pounds of bacon for breakfast. The swine already gone.

Don't worry. If the, uh, will, out of the wreckage, I will build the, the biggest smoker that Jekar has ever seen. We can slaughter the lot of it and we'll do smoke saltport It'll last years

Pork shoulder It will last years I think I can accomplish that In a handful of days The cattle will not survive The crops will not survive It is because of them They made all of this possible

I've never seen The plants and bees like they survive in the true tundra. You need to get somewhere warm. I've just come from the waterfall where all of your water was sourced and it's filling up the crater where the ship crashed. It's freezing over. You won't be able to use it. You won't gain anything from that.

It might benefit us to speak with your dad and track to where the house. to where the hot springs are and just get a better sense of the situation there. If we think that you might be able to build. Look, I don't want to make any assumptions here, but I thought you weren't really interested in sticking around with the ogres. I thought you wanted to see what was out there. I do. I do. I just didn't realize that this place would be unsafe for anyone who wanted to stay.

It's hard to explain, you know? Well, I certainly don't know anything about, you know, Ogre biology, but you know, I kind of assumed they'd be all right in the cold, but you know, you only knows more than I do, so I trust him. They could be all right in their natural state, but their natural state is also to consume. I sort of gesture at. Say no more. I get what you're picking up what you're putting down.

The lifestyle you have lived. Can you grab my sandwich out of there? I could go for a sandwich. Yeah. Oh, good Ruben. I'm bizarrely funny. Thank you. The lifestyle that you have grown accustomed to,

that your people, the ogres, have lived all me. It is artificial. It is not natural. And because of this, unless you want to adapt, You could try to survive the winter here. You could. Your crops and your livestock may not survive. We'll likely not survive.

We should move now. Before the winter comes, yes. Well, how long would it take us to get everybody with everything that we need to those hot springs? Do we have time to do that before the new year? Because we got to start cutting people up. No idea. Because people, what? Look, look.

Well, Your Honor said we had to do some kind of horrific, animalistic sacrifice to the gods so that the New Year doesn't bring in horrorism even more extreme. What? I'm not one to be okay with these kind of things, but I also don't understand much about these religions, and I don't want to disrespect them, so we have to do it. I have literally never once agreed with Tyshen, and he and I are on the exact same word of the same line, of the same page of the same book. What?

I thought we agreed all the time. But also, what? You already said, did we have to do blood sacrifice? Why wouldn't you disrespect him then? You want to kill a bunch of people? No, I don't personally want to do it. I said blood sacrifice. Yeah.

I'm like a goat or something. Oh, thank God. I've been sitting here thinking to myself, how do I justify this? Who do we even choose? Oh, goodness gracious. Do I have to do it? What are they going to do without me? Do I can't?

I'm a rabbit. I think I saw goats around here. That's what I was thinking. Oh, thank God. That is so much better than I thought. The pigs are going to be. make it anyway. Oh, I didn't pick anyone.

I was still in the conundrum of if I sacrifice myself, am I people enough or am I too rabbit? I'd pick bacon 100%. You're eating bacon currently. Oh, not this bacon. Oh, oh, Daisy, did bacon do something to you? You got a crush. No.

No. No. I am going to, I'm like to roll it in. He's got. He's got a club all the way up his ass. I didn't kind of notice that about him. Do you think he's pissed that his name's bacon? My name was some sort of weird stew.

Alcatra? That sounds like a cat thing. I don't know. It was weirdly complimental, frankly. I like your new name much better. Me too. I mean, I'm not biased or anything since I named you, but. Thank you.

Anyway, I'm glad we don't have to cut people up. Well, how do we determine? The ogres are all about this feast thing. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yorne are put into their mind, I believe you told us about that, that we have to do all this stuff for the new year, which is coming up in like three days. How do we go about doing all that and then also moving y'all to the hot spring before?

I just don't think we have the time. I think that we should have a great feast, celebrate the new year proper. And then leave. And then we get everyone situated. And they can set up scavenging parties. make some sledges, and have their oxen just, they can spend months scavenging those ruins and still not have all the supplies in.

They have ox in here. I don't know if they gel them. Perhaps they're just bulls. You're all standing there in this communal room, in the villa of what once was the House of Blighinius, the House of Knowledge and of Education. And talking about where do you go next? What do you do?

How do you make choices, as a group, how do you perhaps guide this sudden new community of ogre and man and how do you face the winter? Winter isn't coming. Yes, it is true that there is a coolening, a coolening happening in this space. It's edging. It's not coming. It's edging.

It's cooling. However, there is, winter is here. Winter is upon you. It is late in the 12th month of the year, and you're approaching the middle of winter very much. So what are we going to do? Should we pick up now? I feel like the danger is over. Can we just see through the new year, perhaps?

Perhaps even see through the winter together and figure this all out when things warm up? There's surely enough food. Well, Daisy, I hate to break it to you, but you could stay here with your dad and with everyone if that's the choice that you all make for yourselves, but we're not going to be able to stay with you. We've got things we have to do. We can help get you the hot spring if that's where you choose to go, or we can help you start to build up here to make it through the winter. Once all that's said and done, the five of us are going to have to pack up our stuff

forget. I've made my choice. I have a bag. It's got my bone in it. You want to come with us? I wish I could have joined you for your confrontation to free us. I'm so glad I believed in you that you were able to do that. Young lady, I'm going to say something you're not going to like hearing. I think that it's a mistake if you do come with us. I think despite how capable Mr. Milane is. They need as many heads

properly screwed on into their shoulders as possible if you're catching my meaning. And where we're going, death is more likely than not. And I'm not saying you're weak. I'm not saying that an extra bow wouldn't be

helpful, but I'm saying is that if she does have a horde of strange lizard creatures and other savages with her. And she's a

gigantic dragon that rules these people. Annihilated in entire your civilization. There's very little we can do to protect you. I don't think we need to protect you, Daisy. I think you can protect yourself. But I wouldn't think about that dragon

or what you're capable of. I would think about your dad. He has lost one daughter already. think about what he would do to him to lose you too. Now I know, because I've seen you, what you could do at our side, and I would be happy to have you there, because I love you.

You know I do, but think about what you could do for these people, what they can't do for themselves, and only you can with the experience you had out in the winter with your sister and with your travels with us. That is invaluable experience that none of them will be.

be able to get and only you have. Would you leave them and your dad without that, knowing we can't be there to help you? You don't have to make a choice right now. And whichever choice you choose to make you, you know, I will accept it. If you want to come with us, I will link my arm with you and we'll skip out off into the sunset together. But if you choose to stay, you know I will find the type to come visit. This march is right. It is your choice. You have the freedom now to do whatever you want. You could leave Jakar if you'd like to. You could bring all of your people to the sea, build a boat and get off of this horrid rock. You can do whatever you'd like. What I'm saying is now that

you have your people, you have a new tribe, you have your family. Isn't that worth fighting for? There are plenty of battles here, south, north, wherever you go. What, but Besides this terrible worldly business that we've gotten ourselves mixed up in, is that fight more worth it than the fight for your father? For the people you've grown up with. It's your choice. I hear you. I really do.

Before I finished this bacon, I thought I was going to go with you 100% of the way that I'd, I wanted to see the world. I wanted to travel. I know every tree in that forest. I know every dip and ridge of that mountain line. This is the only world I've ever known. And my father fought to try to free me. But you're right.

Maybe it makes sense for me to stay to see the winter through, to help my father be a family. be together and make sure that everything is okay here first. That's what heroes do, right? Yeah, that's right. That's what they sing the songs about. People like us, we're pilgrims, as Mr. Yornear says. We're wayfares.

We don't have any people of our own. We have each other, and we have this strange destiny that we've been set upon by a giant hairy beastie with the horn, the land itself, so to speak. Well... And your fate has intertwined with ours. I don't think that your fate ends potentially dying cold with the rest of us, devoured by a dragon, frozen into a block of ice.

I think it's with your people. Or on your own, if you choose to. With my people. I just know if I had your opportunity, I never give that up at that age. You have your whole life ahead of you. I just, I don't want to say goodbye. If you come with us, it is likely that you will perish. That's true.

It was by nearly a miracle that she survived. Or it was by fate. to leave it was fate to bring her right here. If you do not get so chosen by fate, I suppose. Again, I do not know if I will be able to protect you next time. Yeah, I'm a millionaire and Barnabas. You gotta stay. You can't hack it. I can do my shield thing. You don't know that? You don't know you can control it? No, no. Just best for everybody, you know? Maybe. That's not very nice, Greg. Yeah, well, I'm not a very nice person, all right? It's nothing to do with nice. It is just the reality

of the situation. I'm a farm girl from Yona. Your fate is to go the rest of the way. And you don't know what Daisy's fate is. Don't try and scare her into whatever choice you want her to make. The beast that almost ended her life should be enough. Let her make the choices for herself. The same way, I stepped out of Yona and made my choice that I was not going to be a farm girl

but something else. I did not once say that she should choose one way or another. Telling her, if you go, you're going to die. I said it's likely she will die. I did not say she should choose one way or another. If she chooses to come with us and risk her own debt, that is totally funny.

That's what we all risk. Yes, we do. I don't think any of us are more capable than Daisy. Or Daisy more capable of the butt? But then else. From hit point perspective. You don't know that!

A certain point of view. You don't know that. I can't do math. I would have not passed that slow spell at the last second? Who would be having this conversation? I would have no hope. Daisy, I too come from a people. A people I left behind.

for the time being, people who needed me for quite a while. And there I have a niece. And if I had left too early, I don't know who she would be now. I don't know what memories I would have of her or was she of me. And I too wanted to adventure. I too sought what could be beyond the mountains that surrounded my home. and then something called to me. It was a great dragon.

And you need to find that dragon in your heart. You'll know, beyond doubt, when it is time for you to take to the seas and explore other areas. It doesn't have to be now. And if we move on and you stay with your family, it's not a goodbye. Let's just see you later. I'm going to go get more bacon. All right. When you see bacon, you let him know.

But if he wants to change his name, he can. I think that's probably wise. Do you want to name him? I think he can choose his own name. I think he can change his own name. After some of the things you've said to me, I don't think he'd like the name I want to give him. Let's pick this up in a few days.

Yeah, we got a lot to do. I want to see the new year. Will you be staying then until then? Oh, yeah. We're going to make sure you guys are at least well on your way before we leave. Okay. And we won't leave without giving you a heads up. We wouldn't do that to you.

You know that. Thank you. Daisy makes your way and you enjoy the remainder of the day. And what I will say for the sake of brevity, is that what catches on over the course of this day is that there will be a great feast, a New Year's Eve feast, a feast to rival all feasts,

and people are already starting to prep. A tremendous amount of food and gearing towards a midnight celebration. Celebrating very specifically, the moment that the night, turns and the middle of the night is reached and the new year is arrived at. It seems that the ogres have picked their traditions for themselves, and they have agreed that there is going to be not just food, but games and celebration,

not not just for the sake of revelry, but to honor those who were lost in the destruction, of their city, those who they called friends, their family members, a chance to mourn, certainly, but also to share in the lives of those who remain, and that there will be very much gift-giving, presence, opening of trinkets or bumbles. And you have the next few days to think about what you will contribute to each other in however, whatever direction. This is a relaxing time. As you are thinking...

We should have done this on the break. About what you might receive and getting giddier and excited about what you are maybe thinking about for each other or for anyone else. You are watching what Tyshen described.

Not just the slow accumulation of water consuming the ruined city of Ogerton, the charred, blackened, fragmented wreckage that was, buildings, churches, storefronts, shops, a coliseum, or hippodrome, if you will. And it is freezing. It is becoming a frozen lake out there, and it continues to grow up the side of the mountain. Grow up and freeze, crunching and crunching and crunching up until it is but still and glistening. And snow returns.

It's the last day of the year now. And you've had time to prepare and to eat, to sleep, to talk amongst yourselves, to think about what you might do next. And you wake up on the morning of New Year's Eve altogether. Or perhaps separately, if you've chosen to do that. Let's say it's breakfast. And you wake. Up New Year's Eve.

Of New Year's Eve. Yes, yes. Three days have gone by now. And you are at the final day of the year. Oh, you know about you? I'm making monkey bread. Would we say that we've moved to the hot springs? Are we still staying?

No. No. We decided we were going to try to move after the feast. Got it. Got it. Yeah, yeah. You're still at the manor. You're still at the villa.

however long it would take you to walk four hours, four miles, I'm sorry, to the lake now. And this particular morning, there are snowflakes in the sky. Big, thick, fluffy, slow-floating snowflakes. Just coming down like this, very soft, hitting the ground. Myelanus showed tremendous leadership in this moment and though the DM did a pretty poor job in the first session of this campaign describing his abilities as first mate

you now get to cherish and appreciate his administrative abilities this is refreshing and new to me oh he this was canon all along I suppose oh nothing new at all but I'm not surprised question Do we, when it comes to this gift giving,

do we understand this as a tradition of Dracar, of nature, or of the ogres? What is the weight of this gift-giving tradition and the coming of the new year? Is it something that Yorner is hammering into us? Man has been pestering Yorineer throughout the last few years. days and it is trying to get a sense of tradition and just as Yorneur said on that

first day the traditions are your own what is important is honoring the triad honoring the the land and Odin and and anam I am I am onam on him on him making sure that the gods that he respects that he's passing on to the ogres is a meaningful. The nature of gift giving seems to have been a spontaneous, perhaps, a rival. The nature of the feast idea seems to have been something that Yorner may have said. More and more traditions are still, it's one of those situations where someone has an idea and then yes and and and yes and, but through the lens of ogres. Then I would just say before Barnabas goes, that for those three days leading up to the feast, Scrim is very intentional.

doing very little work and that anybody who's paying attention would just see him coming and going. No work is demanded of you. Yeah, fuck that. I'm in Tai Shen. All of you experience reverence. You are heroes of this town. If there would be a general agreement, Barnabos, I would have suggested putting on a carnival for the... You motherfucker, I love that shit. You're a genius. putting on a carnival for the for everyone justifying it the sense that it's gonna blow through a lot of Rations, but basically it's gonna fucking suck and so giving basically a bit of morale to get everyone through the winter Which he would have experienced while wintering on whaling ships and tight hunting ships

Icebound but not horribly destroyed And so then basically taking whomever would want to come with them and Go to there was a House of the Arts, right? And trying to basically pilfer any kind of costumes, the theater, any kind of props and sets. The props that you can source.

And trying to build whatever he can for like a big carnival. What was at the villa? Only those five houses at the very perimeter of the land were not sundered by the great explosion that destroyed the center. But there is enough. These were very

wealthy houses. And so if you're working with human or ogre, you, or going by yourself, you are able to go to different houses and find pretty much anything that you were looking for in hopes to build a carnival for this purpose. All right. So yeah, I'll have like giant stretches of like canvas or hide, whatever, and like painting, like, I'll be painting all of like the vistas that I would have experienced my travels. It would be beautiful tropical islands or like different landmarks and basically trying to set it up.

for the feast to have kind of this big carnival and basically giving costumes to whoever would want it. After getting a sense of the day, Barnabot's is chiefly focused on these activities. And as New Year's days arrive, it is just softly being covered by snow. But we haven't covered what Tyshaen and Queenie want to do with their three days. I was actually going to suggest if Queenie would also like to do it, that I would think with the running water now totally, gone, I would try and spend those days working and going to the crater lake. I don't know if it's

like totally freezing over the top, but if it is heating edges of it to melt it down enough to source it into potentially barrels that we can bring back to have a degree of like on-hand running water and potentially learning the process of distilling or purifying water if we would need to. It's only a few days. Think about how much you got done the first, just the day before these three days. And you are able to, with the ogres being as strong as they are, and with the humans being as intelligent as they are, even without the communication skills that they've been stripped of, you are able to talk to them, go down there and carve huge cubes of ice that then can be strapped onto the back straight frozen style

and dragged back up to the town, which then can either be melted down into crisp, clear, beautiful skywater or kept as ice for whatever purpose. You ironically for Tyshan become an ice master in these few three days. But you are, it helps that you have the power of fire because you can make clean cuts. You can guide others to showing them how to think about the water. And it does seem to have leveled off by this New Year's Eve day. It doesn't seem to be filling anymore because the waterfall itself seems to have.

frozen. Wherever the water is going or perhaps it's just totally frozen on the mountain, we're talking about 15, 10, 5 degree weather, cold, not unsuitable for your climate appropriate wear or your resistances, certainly. It's chilly, but as long as you stay active, you're able to do what you need to to make sure that there is plenty of bathing water, plenty of drinking water, cooking water, whatever is needed in the form of these great ice blocks that you're dragging up from these from the lake. Queenie would actually spend her three days. I'm trying to remember, did I have Honey's bow?

Because I know that Daisy took the bow above the hearth in the house. And I believe Queenie took Honey's bow. But it's important if she has it or not. I think he gave it to her. Or Mylan. I didn't give it to Milen. You had your bow when you arrived, and then you put Honey's bow because you retrieved it from honey and put it in the place. And so then Daisy would have gotten Honey's bow.

That's right. Do you want to have- So I would go to Daisy then and ask if I could borrow Honey's bow. And I would take it for three days and go off into the woods. And I would use my busy as a busy. feature to increase my survival to plus 14. Damn. Jesus.

I know. Thanks, Derek. My pleasure. Queenie is almost nowhere to be seen during these few days. I basically sleep out there. You sleep out there. You eat out there. And I'm solely working, having heard that there were gifts to be given, I am solely working on making

gifts for the people that are important to me. And occasionally killing. a snow hair or a bird or something to feed on. There is this one snow hair that you just cannot... I'm looking specifically... As good as you are as a hunter, you cannot get this one snow hair. It's remarkable. Fuck that guy.

Just always darts out the last possible second. Yeah, fucking... Yeah. Fuck, Billy the snow hair. Fuck Billy. Fuck Billy. But I'm specifically looking for an elk. Okay.

And so that is what I'm tracking in the hopes of felling an elk. Make a survival stretch. Plus 32 million. Plus 14. Yeah, if you roll a natural 20, that'll be among the highest rolls we've ever had at the table. I rolled a two, so I'm actually going to twist it. Do it.

Natural 20. Oh, wow. I had that smell in my brain. 34. I feel like it would have been that, but I hit my twig box and so landed on to. So yeah. 34 to find a really nice elk or stag. You find a biome appropriate elk, a caribou that would normally be in the woods like this,

and you are able to fill it cleanly and with your great skills, with this little violence in pain as possible for the animal. And you are able to clean and do whatever you like with the meat and additional accoutrement. of a beast of that size. Perfect. Thank you. My pleasure. So it's New Year's morning. And Queenie, you have actually, would you say that you would have arrived by the morning of? Just spending those two days?

Yeah, the morning of. Yeah, I would have come in and I would have had a, a, like bees would be carrying a, basically the hide of the elk or caribou or whatever, filled with all the things I've been working on. So no one can see what's in there. But they're just carrying along behind me, like Santa sat because I just killed Rudolph, apparently. Do you all... You all find yourselves in a dining area, sharing it with some of the silent humans and ogres alike. It's amazing how quickly these groups have united in the face of true survival,

given what horrors have happened in the last few days. and there you sit. There you said. What happens next is up to you. Do we feel as a group that there is a particular time for gift giving? Do we feel, I mean, like, what have we learned from your and your passing on traditions to the ogres and the ogres passing traditions on to us? Do we feel like there is going to be a evening feast? Maybe like at the feast.

That there's going to be an evening carnival of sorts. That there's going to be an evening. event, that everything seems to be gearing towards when the sun sets. And that when that happens, that is the time to open presents and gift one another. That is the time to play games. That is the time to wait for midnight. There's no such thing as clock in this reality. The no-mish invention may exist, perhaps, but not in this space.

I would say that this is all extremely new and foreign to scrim, and he's, like, doing what he does best in that he's, like, making up as he goes, and, like, just trying to fit in and, like, look like he knows what he's doing, right? Having spent the last three days doing whatever he's doing to gather the things that he needs. You do that. And now you're all sitting and having Annie Ann's breakfast— cinnamon buns. Hmm. I think it was monkey bread. Oh, my apologies. Oh, we eating your monkey bread?

I save this for holidays. Oh, why don't you make this more often? This is delicious. Oh, he's very rich. Oh, it sure is. There will be a feast later, so do not fill up. But it's so good. Man stops in and grabs quite a bit of the monkey bread.

All day feast. All day feast. I like the sound of that. Hmm. The ogres have agreed we will eat for 24 hours. That seems right. Starting tonight until the following night. There are no objections from Scrib.

When would you like to conduct the blood sacrifice? The blood sacrifice, you say. If you would like to... offer a beast. Is this required by one of the three? It is how, at least, some parts of my homeland. How much blood must we produce? The blood of one animal is enough.

One animal. Not of human or ogre. No human blood, no ogre. no ogreblown. Can you throw a goblin in that, please? Come on, dragon. Oh, goblin, or dragon-born, or Triton, or rabbit folk, or fear, no.

A pig good? Pig is ideal for today, the last day of the year. From where I'm from, there are certain villages and tribes that have a festival called Sine Manet. And on this day, they conduct a bloat, which is blood sacrifices and feast. And a pig, a swine is traditional for this purpose. Again, this is from my own home.

If you'd like to experience it. Or should we save the play for before, before or after the blood sacrifice. It is up to the high priest of the new order. I will think on it. It's a good bread. It's a little trick. Oh, I don't share that recipe with anyone.

It's a family secret. Do you have a swine worth at least 25 gold pieces? Shet a lot of gold for a swine. That's got to be some pig. The finest pig you have. We will find the finest pig we have. When you are ready, some... Just go.

Jumps forward and trod trodgs off out into the hallway. Clearly, that is his day's mission. And you find yourselves all alone once again. I can't believe that the costumes survived the explosion. Thank goodness that we brought it back to the villa. All the costumes survived. All the costumes that we brought. brought that we brought back and changed in.

We took them from the theater. Yeah. And we returned here after the terrible revelation with the prine eaters. Yeah. And then so the seven voyages of Admiral Trothack, the Shark Punchers, what do you think this will be a tradition? Well, it's good to see you guys. It's been three days.

Oh, are you all right? I mean, you were just like, God. Oh, yeah. I was out in the woods, just working on stuff. When do we do presents? After the blood sacrifice, obviously. Oh, all right, okay. Well, I'm sorry, I didn't know.

I didn't know. Perhaps later, I actually do not know. Well, you're the one that told us we did presents. I did? Yeah. Oh, I guess I did. There's a lot of peer pressure going on here, Yorne. If you made up the thing about the presents,

I'm not going to be happy with you. I've spent three days in the wilderness working on the presents for you guys. No, no, I mean. I have to wrap them up. We must share gifts. Yeah, presents. To exhibit fellowship on the final day of the year.

Okay. All right. And that's today. I didn't guess. That is today. Days last day. I tried to miss it. Oh, dear.

I wrote really hot my survival to get back in a round time. Oh, you made it just in time for monkey bread. Oh, I can't eat that. Why? I have a gluten intolerance. Wait, Queenie, you prefer to eat fries. Oh, not the way I make a product. You're eating a 12-inch sandwich.

Oh, this isn't made from bread. This is made from a sandwich. Oh. Mm-hmm. That makes sense. So I would basically work with the, you know, the humans and the ogres that would want to, who would have volunteered to be in like a play and carnival and basically helping, you know, pass out costumes or people who want to celebrate, celebrate the new year in such a way.

I would say, sorry, God. No, I was to pass the day again, Again, because, you know, Scrib's not doing any work. Over the last three days or so, I'm not as gone as Queenie is, not even close. He would have been coming and going, but Scrim would have been more quiet than usual as well, kind of like lost in thought while going about the things that he's doing. Sure. And that includes today.

Again, avoiding work, enjoying the treats that Barnabos might be preparing to make. you know, picking at food, but not talking as much as normal. I mean, honestly, during times of real survival, like you have been experienced with this group, this is sort of like the first time where you've had a chance for privacy. This is for any of you. I would say all of you have spent less time together over the course of these three days than you have for the last nine months almost, right? And so you being quiet, you don't get any pressure or curiosity from certainly the folks who wouldn't call you necessarily friend but hero.

And when you do get a chance to interact with the rest of your found family, you talk briefly. You talk shortly. It's a nod. But you're also getting a little bit of that same from the rest of the group. Everyone seems to sort of be healing, not just in their physical bodies, but in their spirits and in their souls, just as you are. I think we should just fast forward to evening. Well, that's happened this whole time, who? Yornyer, you asked specifically, and nobody seems to know where Kett is.

Those of you have been wandering around have seen him occasionally, but he hasn't been particularly, he's eaten. So to clarify, he didn't just. vanish off into the mountains. He is, he descended with us. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. He was with you. He was with you. He was with you. He was with you. He was with you. He was with you was with you when you crashed. Yeah. He was driving, certainly piloting the escape vessel. I was there. Yes, exactly right. You made your way down the side of the mountain. You were able to make your way to the tree line four or five miles away from the center of destruction and

he was there with you as you met reunited with Daisy and with the rest of the humans with the ogres and you had your whole conversation they saw an experience of seeing ogre spirits rising out into the sky

which they called ogre heaven the few interactions that you've had with Ket over the last three days have been sour. Not violent, certainly,

not just pensive into himself. He has been spending his time training, perhaps, occasionally doing physical exercises with his sword,

relishing in that, but mostly just been, sitting, pondering, very much into himself, attempts to talk to him have been brief, abrupt. He's in a very bah humbug mood

to put a screw John on it. But that is not the here now. Right now, you are all enjoying the breakfast. Oh, that's what he was doing. So I still had a costume made for him.

Who else will perform in this play? Not me. There are a couple of people were interested in sharing the stories of the seven voyages of Trothack the Shark Puncher. Is this something you made up? Well, we had a little bit of time. When I spin a yarn, I get a little out of the hand, I admit. So yes or no question, Bonaposa. I mean, you don't have to like, you know, it's not open-ended.

Yes or no, should you make it up? Of course, there's no thing It's the other heck the shark puncher And you wrote parts for everyone Oh, you were all of those who wanted to perform You don't have to, in a carnival You don't have to perform in order to wear a costume Well, I just mean it's one thing to spin a tail

It's another thing to write out parts and dialogue and dress It's more like general guidance And it's more of an improvisational tale So we'll see how they do It still sounds pretty cool Would you want to perform that, or I think I still have five scripts in that original play? And your ear does pull out. One of these manuscripts.

No, no, no, it's a nice thing, but, you know, the time's past. We're never going to do it. Never going to do it. Never. I just never palm, I guess. I forgot that there was, I forgot that there was that script. Nope, nope, nope, nope. I got so into the head cannon of Trothek, the Shark Pops.

I mean, are all your costumes still here in the villa? I found a bunch of costumes. I can't remember who's was it. I just don't think it's possible. I don't think it's possible. There was a moment. We had it. We captured it.

We lost it. I still have my costume is all I'm going to say. This is definitely the garb of Shagoth of the Black Rock. I'm not opposed. We have the scripts. Look, it's a new year. I really didn't want to do any work. And now you're all suggesting I have to do work?

Are you kidding me? I don't think that spitting a yarn with your friends is work Who would get paid for telling stories with their friends? Sort of them of no one. Well, not as a full-time job. That's inconceivable and also quite frankly ridiculous. Oh, it's embarrassing, Addy.

Can you imagine being such an idiot to think that that would ever, ever be a real thing when all of us have to work real jobs? Unbelievable. The audacity of some people. People. Unbelievable audacity. Smash cut.

It's mid-afternoon and you are all ready to prepare, the entire audience of ogres. Some 60 plus ogres and some 200 plus humans are all out there, ready to go. I'll grab the script. Let's go. Oh, shit. Are we actually going to do this?

Stranding sign up for this. Bulship. It needs to be canon. I still have my full costume. Exactly what I was wearing. I kept everything. Mine would have been a bunch of shitty bones and shit. So scrim probably has it. Oh, this not a staple to anything. Just make sure that they're, oh, is there an amount of pages of yourself? There should be enough, but if not. You want to do that? Are you going to share? How many pages are in the play? Just kidding. It looks like three. I have three pages. I have three. But I'm not looking to see what's what.

Me, I'm not pre-reading anything, so. Okay. I'm just going to underline my. Yeah. Yeah, that'll be a good call. Can you pass me a pen? Or the, can you pass me the Batman bucket, Mike? Yeah.

You all find yourselves behind a very quickly makeshift stage, and you are staring at the script that you're near. somehow found and produced and was interested in running for some reason. And what you've discovered is that... How much did he pay you to set this on?

A huge amount. I mean, what his job? I could have gone to your medical bills. Unbelievable. This is why he has the medical bills. It's fine. I'll just skip those. Anyway, you

had one price. had one problem prior to performing this. And the problem was that there was no one to read the other parts. Yes, there were five parts written by the now deceased author of this play, Seneca Grutenica. That's right. But you are looking at it and realizing that they're, who plays Sophleth? Who plays some of these other parts?

there's only one other person who is capable of the job and that's kept rusty oh jeez let's fucking go yeah you're gonna regret that my friend oh you knew he would come around to it like to ask him every day much coercing you are able to convince him to contribute after days of silence

and perhaps mourning and contemplation and the curtains are pulled apart, not as grand. There are no, there's very little music. There's, there's no lead motifs, there's no musical orchestra at the front. You're not, you're not performing in an opera, but there's something weirdly more important about this performance. There's a gravity to this experience that is right for the celebration. And you hear the sound of The stage is set in a grand hall with Sopholite. The god of the ogres, seated on a throne of marble and silver.

The five-hoga demigods, the Jotna Frasca. Yotna Froskaw. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yotna, Frost God. Thank you. Trozak, the shock puncher, Fiona, Smashmouth, Shagoth of the Black Rock, and Mr. Bones. Stand before Sotholus ready to pledge their allegiance. Was this too soon?

Sothilith. Speak now, my loyal ogre demigods. What news bringeth you to me this day? Great, Sothelit, we come to offer our fealty and to seek your wisdom. We humbly request your guidance, just as Trothack, the shark puncher, on his first great voyage sought the guidance of the map in the halls of the Merling King

Oh mighty God of the ogres What are you saying? It's not on the script I didn't come up with all seven voyages Not to use them It's not going to do it It's fine If you're going to be more of an improv

You gotta end with the last line though Or can't start my own Oh mighty god of the ogres A great facsimile to the great Merlin king I don't know where to come in if you don't end the way you're supposed to on the script. We desire.

No, he has to say, oh, my God of the ogre. Oh, thanks. We desire to serve you and your people, Sophalith. We are your humble servants. Ready to fulfill your every command. And Scrim takes off his hat. We beg of your mercy, Sopholith.

And we beg to be sure. favored with your divine counsel. Ket stands and approaches all of you. My loyal subjects, I am pleased with your devotion. I have a great

task for you, a quest of utmost importance. I look around reading this next line. I like bow. We are ready to serve, Sopholet. What is your command? You must journey to the great city of Ogerton and impart to the ogreth, and impart to the ogres,

my teachings of education and commerce and military, art, and religion. Oye, Captain, we will not fail, you, Sotheliff. We will make sure that the ogres of Ogerton receive your teachings, just as Admiral Trothak the shark puncher received the Eldridge starry wisdom in the voyage of the eye of the bleeding star. And we'll ensure that they are well versed in all aspects of ogre society. The second voyage. Second voyage. You're maxed.

Oh, truly we live in a society. Truly we live in a sixth. God, why do they keep putting my lines after Barnaby? This is a great honor. What? This is a great. This is a great honor. This is a great honor.

I found it. I found it. This is a great honor, Sophleth. We will carry out your will with pride and ensure that the ogres of Ogreton are well-educated and well-rounded. All of the ogres die laughing. Oh, when you say that they, all of the ogres of ogres, are well-rounded, they explode in laughter. And all the humans looking around and is like,

Scrim is shocked. He is like visibly shocked that this is funny. Easy crowd, right? We will serve you and your people with all of our hearts, Safelith. We will make sure that the ogres of Ungerton are knowledgeable in the ways of commerce, military strategy, and the arts.

and and education and religion too let us depart at once Suffoleth we are eager to begin this quest

and impart the teachings of our people to the ogres of ogreton very well my auger demigards go forth and spread the knowledge and the wisdom of our people, but know this.

Your forms will be changed by your journey to the mortal plane. May the blessings of me be with you on this journey? The ogre demigods bow to Sotheleth and exit the stage, ready to embark on their quest to convey his teachings to the people of the city of Ogerton and the curtain falls. Oh, you just Pull them on that rope over there That one, no, that one

You're gonna do it at the same time You got it in a Oh, I'll reach out, I'll grab it, I'll pull it, Act 2, scene 2 3 Scene 3, my apologies The stage is set in a large hall In the Great City of Ogerton

The 5 ogre demigards Yotna Frasgarde Trothak the shark puncher Fiona Smashmouth Shaggoth of the Black Rock and Mr. Bone stand before a group of ogres

attempting to impart their teachings. Coffin and cough and throat clear. Greetings ogres of Ogreton We have been sent by Sopholid, the god of the ogres

to convey the teachings of our people to you. First, we will speak of the importance of education. Just because this is the most important voyage, the second voyage, the eye of the bleeding star, becoming educated. Learning on that voyage, the great Admiral Trothack the Shark Puncher, understood that starry wisdom, and it is crucial. Let all ogres learn and grow, just as Admiral Trothak the shark puncher did on his grand voyages. So that we may be strong and wise.

Yes. Oh, oh, tell my mind the wrong spot. No, the nodding was correct. Oh, okay. It might be coincidental. Oh, you started to say my line. My line starts with yes. Oh, yeah.

You come now. You come now. Oye. Oh, okay. Yes, education is key to our success as a people. It allows us to understand the world around us and make informed decisions. But some of the ogres in the audience are not paying attention. They are too busy chatting and laughing amongst themselves.

It's just the first topic. It looks like we have our work. Our work. Got out for us. Ogres. Ogres. Yes, I'm speaking directly to you, the obvious. You hear the sound of the audience, croon.

Sprint, get up, please. I don't see that in the next. Sorry, you're on inside. Keep going, keep going. Get going. Oghers, please pay attention. This is important information that Soapolet has tasked us with imparting to you. But full out of character disclosure,

Sophilip was a fraud and doesn't exist. Oyeye, this is more of a parody. We're mocking the religion of the old government system. Ah, ha, ha. Ah, all right, all right. Moving on to the next topic, commerce is essential to the prosperity of our society, just as the great prosperity

that Admiral Trothak, the shark puncher, gained on his third voyage in the voyage of the idol of the three-headed monkey. Poor Queenie. It allows us to trade and exchange goods, such as all of those gold in that Simeon statue, as well as resources, and helps us to thrive. Our ships filled with treasure.

But some of the ogres. It's your mother. It's the ogre. Yes. Education is key to our secret. No, no, no. No, no. But some of the other look is in the audience.

Which, which, where are we at? But it's this one. Come on. But he hasn't done this one. I know he's also doing the journeys in between. I'll read his line, too. All right, moving on to the next topic. Commerce is essential in the prosperity of our society.

It allows us to trade and exchange goods and resources. It helps us to thrive. Like the idol of the three-headed monkey. And I, Queenie, agree with that. But some of the ogres in the audience are still not paying attention. They're nodding off. Oh, you imagine how much a 300 monkey can nod. We actually see them in the script.

This is our show. We must all pay attention to listen to the dishes. Everybody. Maybe. Maybe if we sing the teachings, the ogres will pay more attention. Dancing Queen, young, and song. Sweet only 17. Did you say dancing queenie?

Dancing Queenie. What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? This is not sweet. This is not script. What are you saying? What are you talking about?

It's the same. We're only rated M. We're not rated X. It says the teachings. It says the teachings. Spim, I don't think that this is working. I'm trying to become a star. Oh, hold on.

I'm not sure that will work, Mr. Ponds. Oh, all the same. All the same, Yotanar of the Frost Guard. We must persevere. Just as Admiral Trothack, the shark puncher, persevered in his fourth voyage, the voyage of the ghost of the navigator, persevering amongst the souls of drowned sailors,

leering from the rocks. I did not get lost. the Admiral Trothak Shark Puncher could never get lost. Oh, that is ridiculous. This goes on for perhaps another hour as you complete the act of the Act 2, and you arrive at Act 3, scene 2.

The stage is set in an open space in the great city of Ogerton, the Five Oger Demigods, Yotna Frost God, Trothack, the Shock Puncher, Fiona, Smashmouth. shaggoth of the black rock and Mr. Bones stands before loud

crowd of ogres Sothelish, he said that. The god of the ogres is also present. Sothelis, that's me. Ogres of Ogerton, it is time for the lottery. One of you will be chosen to return

to ogre heaven to live out the remainder of your days in eternal bliss and wisdom. Oh, it's a little bit grim now that I'm reading it yet. As anyone else noticed that we always speak in the exact same order? I'm really frustrated with whoever wrote this script. None of this is in the script. Get back on script.

Excitedly, this is your A great honor, Sophilit. Who will be chosen? Yes. I say true. Who among us will be blessed as, Admiral Trotech, the shark puncher, was blessed on his fifth voyage, the voyage of the rumbling of the waking reef, blessed by the spirits of reef and seafoam

and rumbling crutchall kingdoms of sand. What? And be blessed with his gift. He's been doing that for an hour. Your ego, queen, Yes, education is key to our success and the people. No, no, no. I can't wait to see who will be.

That was 90 minutes ago. I can't wait to see who it will be. Uh-uh. It is a great honor to be chosen by Salvador. May the wisest with this gift. Come on, Sopolda. Let's get with the show on the road. Who's going to Ogre Heaven?

Did I not interpret that right? Do you know what impatiently means? I miss Reddit. Keep going, keep going. Salfa's holds up a large glass jar filled with slips of paper. Each of you has written your name on a slip of paper and placed it in the jar. I will now select the best, the ogre, who will return with me to ogre heaven. Sotheleth reaches into the jaw and pulls out a slip of paper.

He holds it up for all to see. The lucky ogre who will return to ogre heaven is Grandarius the Great. The crowd of ogre's cheers. This is exciting. And Grandarius the Great steps forward. a look of amazement on his face. And this is played by a five-year-old ogre child. A five-year-old ogre runs out.

Nicely done, lad. You have faithfully adhered to my teachings, Grand Arias, and expanded our understanding of the mortal world. You are a credit to our people. Go now and live in eternal bliss and wisdom in ogre heavens. Grandarius, the great, bows to soften the five demigods, and then exits the stage, and then the curtain falls. At four, scene five, Ogerton, a grand hall.

The stage is set in a grand hall in the great city of Ogerton. The five ogre demigards sit around in a large table piled high with delicious human dishes. Human dishes that have been prepared and cooked in a variety of elaborate gourmet ways? I think it's dishes made by humans. Audience, it's dishes made by humans, not made of humans. Yes, yes, this is the case. It seems to be a typo on the script. It's just human dishes as in made by the humans.

Yes. Thank you. You're welcome. I got you kit. At least you're sticking out of script. We'll bump one second. we are on stage you can't just hold on

I thought we had to be off script now I thought we had to be off script by now the last of you are improvving I'm allowed to do something you're still holding your script I thought it was off book what are you doing a toast to the success

of our quest and our gods Odin honor and the call what? Oh my God he's gone crazy we have successfully conveyed the wise teachings of Odin, Anam, and Jhkar,

just as my crew was taught the great teachings and the importance of a strong harpoon arm in my sixth voyage, smile of the shrouded Leviathan. And so Admiral Trothack, the shark puncher, has taught his crew, we will pass on the teachings of these three golden. the ogres of ogert town. Ogers of Ogertown. Oh, okay.

This is a great honor, Sotholith. We will carry out your will with pride and ensure that the ogres of Ogerton are well educated and well-rounded. You've done it again. Oh my God, it's like she's four pages by like always. On this one right here, since we want to I can't work like this.

We will make sure, no, no, no, no, we will make sure that the ogres of ogreton is right there. And we were about to enjoy to the ogres of ogres. Tweedy, take a large bite of roast like that. Oh, oh, right there, right there. And?

I can start it now that I know where I'm at. We've. Stop it. You knock it off. And I've got to take another large bite. Oil all over this thing. God damn it. And we've enjoyed a feast fit

for damn it gods along the way. I got sandwich all over my script. The Renaissance whole thing of map. Oh, I got it. We have faced many challenges and hardships together, but we have learned to work as a team and become friends. And this has been one heck of a journey. I think we make a pretty good team.

Maybe we should consider going on another quest together. Aye, another quest. Admiral Trothak The Shark Puncher never turns down another quest Just like I did it in my seventh voyage The anthem of the Emerald Sunset What do you have in mind exactly As I raise my eyebrows suspiciously

There Excitedly There There are always As we sail towards the green flash Unknowing if we would meet David Jones himself or the fiddler on his green. You're not helping. But we would

knew that either way we would face our fate on the seas like true ogres. She's so confused. I toasted the success of our quest. Yes, we have successfully conveyed his wise teachings to the ogres. No, there are always new challenges. Where?

Down. Where down? Down here. Yeah. Queenie, keep up to me there. He means this one. Get excited. I can't because he hasn't said his life. No, you have to get excited.

I can't until he says... No, he did say it. Can you say it, Bill? Another quest, what did you say? What did you say? What did you have in mind? Just like the mind was opened on my eight points. Another quest!

Another quest! What did you have in mind? Oh, Tashy. I mean, I mean, I mean, uh, Shagoff of the Black Rock. There are always new challenges to face a new adventures new adventures to be had. No, I'm lost.

You're right here. Got it. Yeah. See, I said my line properly. And so you can go into this one. But you have to be thoughtful about it because it says so right there and then parentheses. Always born to learn to accomplish. What?

What does that say? You got to pump your fist. Pumps his fist. Well, if you say so, let's do it. I'm always ready for the next adventure. I don't think that's what they meant, Bob. No, I think that is what they meant. It looks like he's pulling something else.

The next adventure, I say, this adventure. I'm making some updates to the script. Yes. The script is over, please. I'm getting tired, please, the next adventure. The next line is yours. Oh, this reminds me of my ninth of I said the next adventure.

You've only been doing that for 30 seconds. I'm tired. I shan, shut your damn mouth. You've had three days to rest. You don't know what I've been doing. You don't know. He's been unusually quiet for the last three days. Don't turn the UV light on its screws, Kevin.

So, is it my, is it, there are always new challenges to face. Oh, we're done, I think. New adventures to be hands. Oh, Jesus, you're going to be a lot of my face. He's run off stage to play with the lights. You're going to use my forearm hurts. It's tired. Hold on one.

He's with the production crew. He's got a click. I said the next adventure. Hold on one. I don't know what he's doing. He's gone behind the curtains. I'm dehydrated. You're on you.

Keep damping. I get only vamp so long. The nest. God, we can't even move around this time. My shoes are glued. It's like sandpaper on my dick. It reminds me of why you need your bananas for potassium. Voyage.

I tell you. Oh, yes, it saves the last line. We don't know what's happening. Yelp. Poms is the worst state direction of all time. Well, you know. Journey are supposed to smirley. I'm going to say it in one second.

He's been saying he's going to say it one second. That's 20 minutes. Please. He won't come back on stage. When I say this line, we all have to laugh. Okay. But it doesn't say that on the script. It does say that on the script.

No, it does. Oh, he does. He didn't change it at all. I will read it when we are ready. Okay. Do you want to, hold on, do you want to do your line first? so that we can just go back. Yeah, we just set it up, set it up.

Or actually, let's start with mine. There are always new challenges, I'm doing this excitedly. There are always new challenges to face and new adventures to be had. Hi, Griners, I was a more, a lot of us. Let's do this.

I'm ready with an adventure. It looks like we have a sequel on our hands. It's also the land, this is the crowd. The curtain falls. End, and now please. Do we take a bow now? I think, I think. Yeah?

I don't know how to. Thank you. Uh, oi. But the curtains closed in front of us. Never forget the voyages of Admiral Trousack, the Shark Puncher. It's just what you do. Oh, God, it's. I'm mixed up parlor.

I'm so glad I had the idea for the carnival. Mixed up parlor. I'm so glad I had the idea for the carnival. Carderball. Well, God, man. Oh.

That's for such as something. You all include the... We're going to take a break. That was awful. This is outrageous.

I'm sweating into my chair. Again. Oh, my God. Well, that's canon now. That's so much better than if we did it than if we had done

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what was an extremely lengthy play. There were so many additional characters, all of which had to be portrayed by initially the very hesitant and grumpy cat Rosteen. And ultimately, by the end, he's standing there now and sort of looking at all of you, like, this was, this was kind of fun. This was, this was not too bad, I think. Oh, it feels good to laugh at evil, doesn't it? I admit, I have been a bit pensive over the last. few days since our experience together, I am happy to be free, but this was good for the soul, I think.

Yes, I agree. I, too, was worried about performing. I'd never done in such a crowd before, but once Scrimand gave me those notes on how to project, I knew that I would be okay. You did, well? Thank you. Thank you. I didn't know you were such a good actor. Well, I had to ask what projecting meant, and he said, just scream the lines. And that just made sense. I was standing right next to you, but I could hear you really well.

I really tried to put a bit of myself into it. And you know what I really appreciated about you? What? You read the script the way it was written. Well. I always knew where you were at. Just didn't want to get lost. I, when you're telling the story, you need to put your whole art and soul into it, Mr. Fireblossom,

and you did just that. Don't take it faster, my own. All right, well done, everyone. Are you being passive-aggressive about my slight changes to the script? Oh, I'm not being passive about it at all. It was incredibly distracting.

We were out there, the lats were on us. I was scared. I was shaken. You do not think it was more humorous the way that I changed it? All you did was add in three gods. What's humorous about that? Sound effect at the end.

What sound effect did you add? The song that we all laughed over. You added a song to the one? Well, I spoke to the composer down in the orchestra. Oh, I couldn't hear anything because we were all, the script said to laugh. Frankly, I am shocked that we were able to find a full orchestra through this carnival.

It was three ogres who could barely play. Look at rusty trumpet. This is why it took so long. Yoraner had to go and talk to them and consult and then eventually came back on stage. I was wondering what had taken so long. I thought Scrib was going to succumb to blood loss. I'm a little sore, but you know what they say?

We suffer for a heart. It was worth it. What did you get? Everybody did great. Everyone did that. Oh, you did is great, Mr. Stabbergotch. I just don't really understand the stage instructions, but I did the best that I could. It sounds good.

I think we need to have a tall. Scrim, you're bleeding. I know. Your nails have dug into your palm. Yeah, well, you know. Oh. You know, good thing I wore. Make sure that doesn't get infected.

It's a good thing I wore my red pants. That's all I can say. Why even have red paints? Well, red's my favorite color. Scrim, can I ask you a question? Of course, Queenie. Do you know what impatiently means? Paciently.

Yeah, I, I, know what that means? Why do you ask? Do you always rub your nipples when you're impatiently? Do you think it meant impregnant? I stopped off. Inpregnant. Pregnate.

Do you need that? Do you need a healing? Impatiently. Yeah, no, no. Queen's right. I see it now. I see it now. Do you have chafing?

on your chest Chief feet doesn't even begin to describe in your name well did I smack scrim on the back Ah Please don't touch me No one touch me

No one Okay Well I'm glad that You know for such a last minute Change of plans That you know you all brought a great level of enthusiasm You made the fake

Oger Demi gods that we created You know, we gave them a proper send-off, I might say. I wish we had never done that. I think I wished the same. You did really well. I did just read the words in the order they were presented to me on the page. I just think I like your voice a lot. Oh, thank you.

It was a very pleasant to listen to you speak. Well, I, uh, is this what you do when you are not? Me? Is this what these people, you do? and you're not attempting to defeat evils and this sort of thing? Yeah, this kind of stuff, sure. So you're not, you're not. Scrimmites to fish.

And drink. At the same time. This sort of carnival is a special occasion. When you have a bunch of people where morale is low, supplies are limited, and death is very likely in the coming winter. It's nice to have a little bit of joy at the end of the year. It's a very special occasion that should only be done once. I think I have some experience with the threat of death and with danger around every corner. But it has not been plays and dramatics and theater that has rescued us.

It has been focus and working on our physical and mind. It is not what we are doing now. This is play. I'm sorry. I don't mean to interrupt. Do you have a minute? Like a minute over there? A minute over there. Over where? Over there. Over there. Okay.

Go on here. Yes. You want to? Okay. I need help. Help with water. Swollen and raw. I need you to touch and heel. Swollen.

Touching heel, but. No, no. I mean. Really swollen. What I did you tell me? The part that I was pumping, my fist, it was in the direction. I was just trying to follow the play. Please, please.

Your face is slower? Just touch it, just touch it, heal it. That's what you do. Close your face? I've seen, no, no, no, not my fist, where the fist was between my legs, please, swalling, touch it and heal it. Please. Oh, you only please, I need it.

Did that you need somebody to touch your swollen part to heal him? No, you're only farther away. Come on. Please, here's really terrible. I need to tell me what's wrong. Oh, me. Why didn't you say so? It's like I see hot without the hot.

You feeling bad though? You ever ice you nuts. In this moment that Daisy comes back around to the back of the stage, and she looks at all of you and she looks at all of you, and she is like, It's so weird. Never better. Thanks, thank you,

it. Oh, God. That was interesting. Oh, you like your performances, young lady. I did a little bit of theater. I've done a little bit of everything, but a lot of these shanty towns at least have a little bit of bread and circus,

and I'm happy to perform. and wax philosophical and spin a yarn. Yogers enjoyed it very much. Oh, and now all we can do is hope that they understand satire. So the message is a message for them. We don't have a Starship Troopers on our hands. I'm doing my part. Which one?

Yeah, no, I'm not sure what they took away from that, but they were laughing and clapping, and I heard a lot of Hail Sopholeth, and, you know, it was, it was, I think that they may have had a bit of a mixed experience. But everyone else seemed to enjoy it. It was fine. I'll take fine.

We did fine, lads. It was good. Oh, my, no. Hmm? Oh, not of mine. Oh. Is it almost time for the feast? Oh, yeah. The blood sacrifice before or after the feast.

Whenever Manny decides to, or Manny. I think he's gone by man now. Man? Yeah, he's shortened it since. He'll call him Manny, I think. Oh, yeah, I'll call him Manny too. Yeah, yeah. I was told he would come give me when he's ready, but perhaps we'll skip it.

if he wants to. He might be confused because you're asking for manny and it goes by man now. Oh, you think? I think it's possible, yeah. Maybe it was a misunderstanding. Well, you know, maybe this could be their new tradition. They put on the play every year.

How's your swelling, Scrim? Oh, you know, it's unbelievable. You know, I thought Bonobos had a gentle touch, but I think it was instant. It was like it was never. even there i got a spring in my step i'm ready to go i'm really happy he's a true medicine man if you know what i mean i think i think you should take some time to teach you what a fist bump is supposed to look like well i mean i did what it said in the script it was just one of those

things i don't think you can improve on that technique i thought maybe the ogres just were maybe well maybe i'm confused i thought the ogres were confused but you know who knows so what i'll ask is Is it say, grab your genitals and pump your fist? Well, it says, pump your fist. I mean, how else do you pump your fist? I mean, you know, I don't want to be a little indecent, but like, oh, we've all pumped our fist once or twice. This cold and lonely out here on the ice is all.

You said this language in it, pump your fist? You just do this. What? You go, huh. One more time, one more time for me? Ah, ha. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You give it a good hoi.

With that, with that angle and torque, I'd tear it right off. No, no, no, no, no. You don't grab your penis in here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's nothing. Your hand, your fish should be penis-free. It doesn't say, it says pump. And very clearly, I can read anything about your penis. But it says, pump.

No, pump is back and forth like this. It doesn't necessarily. means that you're holding yourself you know what maybe maybe we'd be visiting juries out anytime you read the word pump do you assume that it is to do with your is the orchestra still there yeah wait mr stabiscosh when when we were when you were sent below dead to be the build pump what are you doing this explains so much i i'm too sick for this I have to go. What do you think builds pumping men?

Bonobos, I don't want to talk about it right now. Hurry start playing, you can dance, you can jog. I have to admit this is the most cheerful I have felt in perhaps the year. This is very funny. There were four men usually at all times pumping. Send me out to pump water. You from the builds, you sent me out to pump water. You sent me out to pump water.

Like, water gets in the bilge and he needs to be pumped out because the moribound was a very shoddy vessel. I was a shoddy vessel all right. What? I don't feel so good. I don't know if I can make the feast tonight. Oh. Well,

I know. That also begs the question, if Mr. Stavis got it, he started a trend of the debt. May they rest in peace. Let's all make her wait. When I asked you that time that Tashi was upset to go pump

him up. That was not the time. You told me that's how it was done. Not the time. You told me that's just completely normal. Tysen, we talked and we said we never talked about. Tishan, please. Nobody look at me. Tyshen, please. Now is not the time.

Look at me. Now is not the time. Oh, no. Just as confused as you are, Ty Shoe. I don't think you're just as confused. I'm trying to do it. Just don't look. Well, I think we've learned a valuable lesson today.

What lesson is that? No. Don't tell Scrim to pump anything. I won't. Perhaps we could have more comments. and they work on his vocabulary. He thought that impatient was impregnate. I just had something in my eye.

A variety of new letters. I'm a consummate professional. How could this have happened? All of my years. Maybe you work better improvised rather than following the script. That could be it, Mr. Stavisgotch. Quite frankly, I'm embarrassed. What could you're saying?

Daisy. Daisy. Yeah, Daisy. Yeah. Oh, I was going to ask if you guys wanted to go and have something to eat. That would be nice. Yeah, I think that would be a good idea. I'm so hungry on getting to whale.

Do we know when we're going to get to give out our presents? I understand that it's as we eat. This is the first meal of something like 18 courses that the ogres have planned. They want to eat a lot. I think at the end of the night, we save it. We have our feasts, we have our sacrifice, and then when everything's winding down, around the fire. I don't want to sacrifice anything.

Oh, I mean. I know. I just said I don't want to. I think that Mr. Yorneur's sacrifice is a whole lot more palatable than those dragon-born sacrifices. I had to bring spring back. Yeah, I agree. I wasn't okay with that one either. Anyone else feeling really light-headed?

I think it's the consequences of fame and the thrilling satisfaction at your great performance. performance. Oh, I feel lightheaded. A little dizzy, right? After a performance, a stellar, stunning performance like that. A big O and half my blood on the floor. I skipped breakfast. I didn't have breakfast. You didn't have any of my monkey bread? No. No. Oh, maybe I did. I'm blue-knit power, so I had a sandwich. It wasn't very clear. Let us all find a seat and feast in this. You like all of the decorations that we put together. Quite a pinch. Surprisingly, these ogres and humans are, they're pretty artistic.

I need to hydrate. Scream goes in hydrates. The rest of you all make your way down to a eating square of sorts. Even though it is still snowing very, very, very gently and beautifully. You are able to make your way to a central place where there is a tremendous amount of delicious foods to eat. You are able to almost buffet style find chili with beef and beans, tomatoes and smoky spices, a towering salad with mixed greens,

root vegetables, crumbled goat cheese, tangy dressing, fresh buttery herb rolls with rosemary, whipped butter, for dipping roast chicken cranberry glaze stuffing pan gravy charcutory cured meats cheeses flights of different meads and wines some of which had been prepared by Taishen a cheesecake with a buttery cracker crust and fruit compote or caramel drizzle your choice or both you are able to walk down and find yourself at the head of one of the central tables everyone is laughing, having enjoyed the play, having enjoyed a carnival of sorts.

It is a social experience, and not a soul in dozens of miles in all directions, would it seem, that is not here in this central square enjoying the festivities, a celebration of life and a celebration of being together, a celebration to honor the dead and to mourn those who were lost in the last week. The five of you find yourselves there. Kett Rostin is sitting amongst you. Daisy is there.

Man and his entire family all joined at one table with a plate, two plates, three plates, packed and stacked high with whatever food assortments attracted you most as you went through and experienced everything. Finally, you are resting and sitting there and enjoying this feast. Did you guys see this, bread? Grabbed a whole bunch.

Don't worry, I washed my hands. I wasn't going to ask. Well, I told we're all in the same page. It's totally fine. Man Got you each gift Well thank you, ma'am

Is that the food Here? No, no, no, no, no, no, no No, no I brought you knowledge I'm always needing no He hands out Wrapped books

You can tell just by holding And feeling them By the spine And the way that the paper Indents around the edges It's obviously a book You know how that goes When you get a book

Did the library of Ogerton survive? No, no. Personal library. From villa. There's probably a lot of great knowledge that are in those books and all the villas. You might want to start collecting this, but thank you for parting with such valuable wisdom, I'm sure. The last knowledge of Ogerton, protect, learn. important.

And you each open your gifts. For you, Barnabos, you read the cover. The fascinating world of grass, a comprehensive guide. This book explores the various types of grasses found in Ogerton, including their physical characteristics, habitat requirements, cultural significance. It also includes tips on how to care for grass in your own lawn or garden. I will cherish this always, Manning.

I appreciate it. Proud. Thank you. Yes. I know a couple of fellows that are in the grass, but I used to sail with. I can probably share a bitter thing or two. Good. Good.

Cajenne, you start to unwrap yours. An ode to the noble sock, a tribute. This book pays tribute to, the humble sock exploring its history, cultural significance, styles and designs. It also includes tips on how to care for and maintain socks to ensure they last as long as possible. I'm giving it to scrim.

You not like gift? I just, no, I loved the gift. I just knew that it was more appropriate for him. I know, I share no on it just in case. We'll see what happens today. I appreciate that. I appreciate it, but then I'll remember. will read together. You know what they say, man. Five feet apart in the same room. A gift that you would

give your friend is one of the gifts that you hold closest to your heart. That's true. What? Yep. Yeah, Tyshan and I are just, you know, two guys sitting in a library, five feet apart, is being the same book. It's fine. No socks survive. A book about socks. Sox stay on while read the book about socks. You're near. You start. You start, to un... Wow, I have so many of these. You unpack your present from Mannyus, from Manny. And you, the secret life of rocks in ogre's perspective.

This book explores the hidden world of rocks from an ogre's perspective, discussing the various types of rocks found in Ogerton, their uses and significance to ogre's. It also includes tips on how to collect and care for rocks as well as how to use them in various ogre rituals and customs. I'll start flipping through it and like reading a little bit, a little bit of a little bit of a thank you, madly. Mm. Mm. Pugh from cleavage.

Yes. Funny chapter. And all, that's all I'll say. You start to unwrap your present. The joys of stomping. A guide to ogre footwork. The book celebrating the art of stomping, discussing the various techniques and strategies

used by ogres to make their presence known through footwork. It also includes tips on how to improve your own stomping skills. Tishin, keep the sockbook. What did you get? Nope, don't ask. Oh, is that boy Quentinious Terentardorus? Oh, that is one hell in over name. That is one.

That was really funny. That was really funny. That's brilliant. Wow, if I had inspirations, that you would have been in pain. That was quite funny. And Queenie, you pull the paper away and you find the joys of doing laundry.

This book, celebrating the often overbook. Really going to give this to the one woman in the party. Yeah. Exactly right. The often overlooked task of doing laundry, discussing the various stages of the process, and offering tips and tricks for making it more efficient and enjoyable. It also includes information on different types of cleaning methods. Thank you, man for giving me this book on how to do laundry.

Man ogre proud. Laundry for Queenie. Yep. As it should be. Thank you. Mani, I don't know how to tell you this. Happy New Year. Happy New Year, yes, good.

And he takes another large swig of his beer. I just checked Twitter, you're canceled. The tweet. You see the two birds that you? The one birthday. The two birds they fly down. Oh, I have to cyphered their tweets. Mani is canceled.

Yikes. Oh, God. Manny is clearly, please. Hashtag Manny is all the party. You know, it's really weird. The whole stomping thing is okay, but, you know, the whole laundry thing, no good. No good.

Weird. Because there's a lot of weird shit in this book. You think that this, Mr. Foyer Blossom, do you think that this was some subtle way for Manny to tell me to touch grass? Well, I suppose it's possible. But I think he likes you. You? Why would he give that to you?

Oh, you know, like I said, you know, I'm not, you know, unless it's a seagrass, I used to know some fellas used to run a lot of grass, but, you know, maybe. Anyway, I just wanted, I want to make sure you didn't think there was a coded message. No, it could be that he thinks that you just deal in the movement of it quite a bit, and he wants you to be able to tend to it for better, uh, vote marauding. All right. I'm not a smuggler anymore, but. There's nothing a sailor needs more than to learn about. grass. I'm not a sock

tender, but I've got my book, too. Well, I'm a woman, so I guess my book will do just fine. Yeah, it just makes sense. Daisy. Their shoes. My shit! Many is also

giving Daisy a book. And she pulls, she pulled... Wow. I didn't know what the fuck that was coming from. I mean, this is the kind of thing we get now that Rich is full-time events. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Audio cuts. You see Daisy get your attention, Queenie. And she's like, I mean, you're telling me about these books. She hands you the book. What she's been gifted by Mann is the Great Book of Grunt, a compendium, a compendium of ogre sounds. This book is a comprehensive guide to various grunts growls and other vocalizations used by ogres in communication.

It includes a dictionary of ogre sounds as well as tits on how to use them effectively and appropriately. I can't even use this. Do you want the laundry one and I'll take the grunt one? I don't really want either. Oh, you think that's still a problem with birds? The first just shifted their gear towards you. They're screaming in Tysad.

And they were glaring and cold. Queenie now. I was asking, you can have whichever one. You care for grass. I don't wear a whole lot of clothes. Do you think you'll benefit from this? I mean, the laundry at least maybe has something. Laundry.

We don't have an opportunity to really do our laundry much when we're out adventuring. Like, you like to try? You smell this. Smell what? Us. Oh no, I mean. I smelled you the first time when we met.

Yeah, so the laundry one really ain't going to do much for us either. I guess I'll keep it. You know what? It's the thought that counts. Happy New Year, everyone. You know, I hope it's not the thought that counts on this one. Happy New Year. You know, I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I'm really getting to stomping.

Well, I'm going to be on a thomping. I mean, like, at a certain point, this is. Start introducing cake and pies. You got to do with the really things. Look, look, look, there's a diagram of a guy stepping on a pie. That is shocking in detail. I don't know, but now that I've seen it, I want to try it. Looking around, you see that this is the opportunity for gifts.

Mani is giving gifts to his family. They're giving gifts to him. You get small trinkets. Daisy seems to have prepared gifts for each of you. you, if you have prepared gifts for each other, now is the time during this great first feast of New Year's Eve. Do I have to clear these by you? Do you trust me?

Yeah, same with my gifts. I don't give a shit. I feel like you would trust us. I mean, as long as you're not like, here's a... It's not a magical item. Yeah, there's no drool-do. Here's a device of quality. I don't want to give them, like, magic items.

No, no, no, you're good. These are non-magic items. Definitely not a drill-do. Definitely not a drill, though. Definitely not. I would like to roll an inside check. Please, please, roll. A inside check on Andy.

You succeed, I'm telling the truth. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Gift, gift, yes, you please. As long as you could justify producing it in this world, I think that you all have an established understanding of what is available to you at this time. Does anyone want to go first? I have gift for each of you. Okay.

Well, great. Here. And she hands each of you gifts, and you start to unpack them. Daisy does. Don't tell Manny. And you know that the ogre still don't understand these gestures. So whispering doesn't make sense, but she still leans in conspiratorily. I stole these from the library, from his personal library.

They're not books. These are scrolls. scrolls that had been accumulated over however long we've been here here and she she hands you each uh tishan you start to unwrap your scroll and you find a spell scroll of cutting hand oh wow scrim you find a spell scroll of last image queenie you find a spell scroll of magical tether Orney, or you find a spell scroll of hailstorm. All of these are custom spells that you did not choose that I have gifted you in Icebound previously.

Just a one-off consumable niceness. But because Barnabos is not a spell scroll person, you have a large, long rod of a package. Riches in rare form tonight. Excuse him. I say true. And you unwrapped it. Oh, on bottom bus, let me help you with that.

I can handle my own bottom. Are you sure you don't need a little pump or a stomp? Keep your grubby balls away from my brother. Are you sure because I'm thinking about the joys of stomping? And I'm ready. I got my goblin heel already. I know you're not a spell user in same way, and you have a special

way, but this, I found this. It's the thought that counts. You don't need to worry, young lady. I'd appreciate if it was magical. You could just look pretty? Well, I don't know if it's magical, but it seemed like it might be something you would enjoy. It's a piece of the ship. I found

a fragmented bar of it out in the woods. I open it. You do. And I turn around, I have a tail. I don't know what's special about this. Bina Bost, got a lobster, God! His skin starts peeling off in sheets.

What you find is a very, like, honed to the edge, but jagged almost like a lightning bolt, a piece of fragmented metal, alien metal, metal that you've never experienced before, but it does feel in your hands like a javelin. Oh. And this is a single-use javelin of lightning. Oh.

Just like the weapon of the Merling King. Was that Journey 3? That was the first voyage. You weren't paying attention. Journey 3 was the three-eyed monkey. I'm sorry. It was the three-headed monkey. The three-headed monkey.

Dang it. We were going to have to. Perhaps it was real all along. Thank you very much, young lady. I will treasure this and keep it in my barnacle-encrusted netting. Thank you. And she takes a bite of her chili. Thank you for this.

Second it, third it. Very nice. Thank you. Very kind. Look, these are gifts for the tradition. I was happy to do it because you guys are cool. You guys are awesome. Well, I love you guys.

But not, not, I owe you my life 100 times over. That's, that's, I'll never. be able to repay that debt, but this is a nice gesture. Well, I guess that leads to my gift to you. I asked you before I left if I could borrow Honey's old bow, the one you've been using, and, you know, my bow. I carved it all up. It's got all the bees and the flowers and stuff on it.

So I want to do something similar for you, and so I pull out the bow, and it is now carved with daisies, and a few bumblebees to represent honey. and there are small things hidden in there to represent us and our travels and all the things that we've done. And I freshly strung it, so I was out hunting by myself. And so I pulled off the old string and there's a piece of sinew there to give it really pull it tot so you can get the best shots possible. And here's about 20 arrows for you to use and go forth and do what you need to do. but it's got a little bit of everybody that you love right there on it. You can keep them with you.

Everywhere you go. Thank you. You're welcome. Happy New Year. Yeah. Well, and I guess I'll do nice things for the rest of you too. So, scrim. I don't like the fact that you cheat and lie.

Wow. But I know that it's part of who you are, and I love you just as you are. So from that caribou that I killed, I used some of the bones to make you these weighted dice. Oh my. And I will give scrimmed the weighted dice. Queenie, this is, I will cherish these forever. And they won't count against your inventory.

Thank you. Give them a roll, Mr. Stabascoch. Well, I would be honored. And I will roll them. And they'll snake eyes. What'd you look at that. Don't need you look at it. Might use this against you later.

I tried to make them look just like any other days. Nothing super special. However, I did carve a couple of things in there. If you look around, you'll find them. There's a little B for me. There's a room for Yornear. There's a tea leaf for Tyshen, and there's a shell for Barnabox. How about that?

These are beautiful. Thank you. I appreciate it. I thank you. All right, now, Tashen. while I was out, I was looking around because I don't know much about tea, but I had heard that tea

can be found in a plethora of climates, that it's a never green planet. So I thought what if I could find you some tea that would always make you think of this place? And so, I dried some from over my shoulder, I'll pull a bundle

of white tea leaves. So these are for you, I know it's not carved up or anything, but you know, it should last a while and I dry to myself. I smell really nice and fresh. Queenie, this is fantastic. Thank you. Welcome.

I'll brew some right now to share with everybody. And that'd be lovely here. I'll put it away in my tea pouch and keep out just enough to make a pot of tea. Are we buy like a bonfire or something? Like it's with a... Yeah, I would say that you've been moving back and forth from like... like a feeding table and also just like a genuine fire. It's still cold and it's still softly snowing.

It's been softly snowing the entire day. And you are drawn to the warmth. Everyone is circled in this way. For you, Barnabose, I know that you have your ancient estuary and you like to season everything with that. But I thought maybe every once in a while when you're making something that can use a little bit, bit of sweetness. You might be able to use some of this. I carved the container myself out of a

hunk of wood that I found in passing. It looked worn and weathered like it had maybe seen the rains or the water in some way. Maybe thank you. But I whittle it away into this nice little honey pot, essentially, and I carved your shell right there on the front for you. And my bees went to work and it is full of honey, just for you to use whenever you see fish. well thank you very much miss march my box cannot produce honey and i have a bit of a sweet tooth well it won't last forever my bees don't like to give it up so i wouldn't expect it to be refilled so you sparingly well tomorrow we'll have very special monkey bread a little chunky monkey bread i don't eat monkeys and i'm lean intolerance so i'll be a shorter honey in the valley look at that little very nice

carving, Miss March. Nice, whittling skill. Yeah, thank you. My love would love it. A skill that was taught to me by someone very special to me. And then lastly, this is for you, your ear. I looked and hunted for a long time, for one that was very, for a caribou that was very special, to make this gift for you.

The first thing is this little holster made out of the hide. to hold it. And then this blade of bone, and you'll see a small blade of bone. It's about more queenie-sized than you're near sized. Now, I don't know your runes very well, but I've been paying attention. And so I tried to put the runes on there. We can work on them too if they need to, of your three deities that you talk about all the time, and the symbol of Latin. So that any time you don't believe in yourself, you'll remember that I believe in you. And I'll sheathe it into the holster handed to you. And that's what I was out doing in the woods. I don't know what to say. I'm beside myself. Thank you. Oh, you're welcome. I know we've been through a lot and we started

this thing off, not necessarily as friends, but it's people who had seen similar things. And through the course of it, we became friends. And now I think we're family of a sort. So with this new year, I hope that whatever adventures come our way, we never lose side of the fact that we belong together. And I wouldn't be Queenie marked without you guys. Guide you something. I was nervous to say it, but then you gave me these beautiful dice, and I feel like, you know, now's the time, right? Yeah, sure. I was, I was out looking for things for people, and, you know, I was, I was here and there, and I found the most beautiful arrowhead. Oh. And, And it is a naturally formed arrowhead.

It's not perfect, it's rough, but it's made of stone. And it's something that Scrim would have dug up from maybe the ground where he happened to be walking past. And I don't know if it'll make a good actual arrowhead, but at the very least, it'll be something that you can remember me by. For one, I could never forget you even if I tried, and I wouldn't.

Two, this is spectacular. I know exactly what I'm going to use it for. Thank you, buddy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Tysha. The tea that you've shared with us has been wonderful and Queen is just so good at what she did. She found you actual tea. I just, I found flowers. It reminds me of the flowery nature of the tea and I wouldn't make tea out of it. Those are lavender. You know they make tea out of that. And it can grow in cold climates too. I was looking for that and I couldn't find it. I was going to say, don't make tea out of it because it would probably kill all of us, but I trust Queenie.

Scrim, are you kidding? I would love to make tea from this. It's either, I mean, chances are, it's either delectable tea or deadly poison. You had a very lucky time finding your gift, finding an arrowhead shape rot like you did that actually was perfect. Finding lavendar when the ranger didn't. Sometimes luck, sometimes you roll with weighted dice, you know what I'm saying? Well, if Queenie says it's good to make tea with, I trust her. It's going in the pot right now to add in. That's a perfect mix, two of them together.

And, uh, binobos. Mr. Sabbathgautch. I made you this, and Scrim will hold you out a horrific, like, like, winded together, like wooden fetish. to ward against witches. I listened to what you say, and I made a horrific, well, I think it looks lovely, but it's a protection. Mr. Savascoach, I did not know that you were on the up and up of folklore of certain cultures of chalk.

This is actually Will Ward against witches. I did what I could. You, I'm impressed. Thank you very, very much. much Mr. Stabascoch. It means a lot. You're near. I'll be honest. I'm at a loss. I hand you a pipe coat. And Daisy. We've been on quite the adventure. And well, you've been through a lot. And Barnabas, you talk to freedom. So I,

I talked to one of the ogres and I had them take some chain link and turn it into a ring. You could wear it around your neck. Whatever. It doesn't matter. But the point is, we're all free now, right? Just like Bonneba says, here. And it's a crude piece of iron chain link.

Just bent to be a ring. It's all I got. Thank you. I'm doing that screen. So thoughtful. Did you see the pine comb? That was quite nice. How did he know?

It was a fine comb. It took me a long time to find the pine cone. I look over to the sign there's a pile of pine cones. They're everywhere. No, I will say you look underneath, you're like giving it an extra, a second look you're near. You're giving a second look as you scan the pine cone, and underneath, you notice a growth. a positive

growth, something that you've been looking for for a long time. And scraping underneath, you find a hint enough for the component that would be worth

mistletoe. I knew it. I knew it. The moment you said actually, I'm like, you fucking... You're in a very lucky walk. I belabored. I thought about it and, you know, I came to pine cone

So anyway, how's everyone else doing? It is nice. Thank you, thank you. No, but really thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You see what's on the bottom of that pine cone? What?

It's a bit of mistletoe on the bottom of that pine cone. I don't think missile felt rose in this climate. I know. Did you see other pine cones on your walk? Scrim. That's the one that just stuck out to you. Oh, there were hot. No, there were no bind going. I mean, it was the only bind going I saw, and I was trying to pick the best. You were drawn to it, uh? Pick the best for you in here. Certainly wasn't a last minute gift idea.

It was a good last minute gift idea, thank you. It wasn't last minute at all. I believe it over the point for days. I'm sure you did. Oh, alright. Okay, I'm glad for an agreement. Is everyone done eating? Are we done giving gifts? Yeah, I think so. Do we also have gifts?

Yeah, I mean, you know, I only received one gift. I'm really expecting for your floor. I have a rapid round of gifts I can give. Oh, thank goodness, because I thought we were just giving and not receiving. Well, I was just going to say we were all going to go down and skate on the ice of the lake, but... Just really quick.

Really quick. quick. So as you know, I've been going to the crater and bringing up ice, and I've never done this before, but I've carved a selection of ice sculptures for everybody that I thought you would all really enjoy. Queenie, for you, Bear Jones. Oh. Or my best. That is his name, right? Mr. Jones is looking handsome. Mr. Bear Jones.

Oh, my God. This is also for you as it is a big. Because the tension is palpable, and I'm about to throw up. It's been 22 months since I've said the words Bear Jones in that order. And I just love you so much. I just want you to know. I just want to call him his name was Joe and Jones. Oh, my.

This is either going to go really great or really badly. I know that, um, Now I'm nervous. I know that... Ronnie nervous. I'm running nervous. I know that... I was given time, giving time.

It can be tough to retain the face of someone who meant so much to you. Do you affectionately call him bear jones when you're talking about him? I guess. That's all right. I think he would like that name. Well, perfect. Sweet Jesus. Anyway, here he is.

I promise this would be. be quick. Thanks. I don't know how I'm going to feel when he melts. Well, I think my hope was that in the land of Dracar would never happen, but once we leave these gifts of Joe's away. Aside from the warmth of your hands,

you know that this would actually be extremely well preserved for a long, long time. It's just closing in on zero, right? It looks beautiful, passion. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Bonobos, for you. You carved the name Bear Jones.

into the base. I just really thought it was his name. I love that. Thank you. Barnabas, for you, A recreation of the sea monster you killed in your dream that we all shared together.

It's been such a long time since you've been able to slay one, and I thought you'd enjoy the sight of one of your conquests. Mr. Fireblossom, you were paying attention. Well, look at the detail. You know, you know, you got the placement of the fin slightly wrong, but you know what?

This is, oh, this is beautiful. Oh, we dove into its mouth, and I was really afraid. I mean, you got the mouth perfect. I mean, that's a lot of teeth. I couldn't forget it. That's impressive. It's burned into my memory for all of my life, I think. That was a beautiful sea monster that you just gave me.

I'm glad that you liked it. That's beautiful. You're near for you. I know that your gods are. important to you and i know that you have many things to think of them and and recognize them but i carve something simple a a trinity of sorts to bring them together uh and it's like a ice replication of a like a try force some sort of trinity yep i appreciate because thank you of course and scrim for you why are you laughing well i was not laughing that wasn't even carried dude

Just a cut off bag of ice for it. I'm just kidding. It's not that. Your adorable new dog friend. It's super cute. What are you handing me? Ice sculpture carving that loosely resembles Scooby-Doo. As soon as you hand it to me, I like, like, throw it like five feet away.

I spent five minutes on that. It's the meme of Mac and Dennis and Dennis throws the plate down all the way. It lands like five or six feet away. Oh, I thought that you would like that. I thought you and he were friends. I've missed Judge's the situation. It's okay, Tashy. Just, he's your team ready. Not mad. I'm not mad at you, Tyshen. I'm upset at the situation and I apologize. Um, you all right, Mr. Zambi.

Miscotch. Would you prefer just a gold coin? I have 193 of those. You want to have 194? I wouldn't say no. Oh shit, I can't do man.

I'll just take the tea. Thank you, Tyshet. Thank you. I'll enjoy it with you. In the event it's deadly poison. You enjoy the tea. And you're watching as more and more of this.

strange tribe, starts to make their way down. It's going to be midnight soon. Everybody's eaten exchanged gifts. Unless Barnabos, you have... I always hold this and I will say, I'd like to save my gift for... When it's just us, the end of the night. It's the new year, if you don't mind.

I don't think there are any rules. And I don't... I don't expect anything for many of you. I did not give gifts with the expectations of getting any of them in return. Well, that's where Queenie and I differ, because I was giving gifts with the expectation of getting something in return, but if it makes it better for you to wait for the New Year, scrim will understand.

I got you all the best gift you could possibly imagine. The best. Nobody gives better than Barnbo. I suppose I could give gifts before we go down and have fun and games. I did not prepare any gifts. Oh, that's okay. Oh, you can still hear. Holy siren.

Holy fuck! Oh, has that been awkward for you? Not getting any of the gifts in this rotation? She's sitting here eating this chili. It's very good. Oh, she's quiet. I got a gift for you. You did?

I did. Forborn and the boss, reached my tag. Sometimes you are stubborn. You disagree with the rest of us. Sometimes. For this, I made you a goat. And I take out this little straw goat made of, like,

the straw that I had gotten from Overton, and maybe some from the stables. And it's, like, held together with twine and, like, little red ribbons, and it's bent and kind of shaped into the shape of a little goat, and I kind of put it in my palm. Pichem. You have bifery horns, and that reminds me of a goat. Amazing.

Queenie. He noticed. I still have it on my hand. I'm going to have them all together. Queenie, you have very strong and powerful legs like the noble goat of the mountain. So I made you a goat, and it's like the exact same good.

Scrim. You scream often. I do. Like a goat. This is so much better than the horrific reminder of the thing that haunts me every day of my life. That's just so cute. And Daisy, I think back to the time where we almost lost you. Because of that, you remind me of my DeKir Falcon.

It's extremely intricate. Come on, you're talking. It almost led to your demise, but we killed it. It's 10 times bigger than the rest of the rest of the world. Goods fine, Meme, and I throw all of them into the fire. And as they're burning, I'll take out a handful of incense, and I'll throw it in the fire. and my eyes will alight and

I will say Olden on them Mamot 3 through the flames now speak to me Princess of the land

and frost an ally an ally gained or deadly cost and I would like to cast I think it's a divination where I reach out to a god or divine figure

and as long as that I feel like that's sacrifices worth 25 gold pieces. Hopefully this should work. I paid my five gold pieces for you. I was just asked for some gold coins from my purse. I just gifted you. Wait, you're playing D&D. The rest of them are getting the memo.

Your magic and an offering put you in contact with the God or a God servant. You have a single question concerning a specific goal, event, or activity to occur within seven days. The GM offers a truthful reply. reply. The reply may be a short phrase, a cryptic rhyme, or an omen. The spell was not taken into account any possible circumstances that might change the outcome, such as the casting of additional spells or the loss or gain of a companion. If you cast a spell two or more times before finishing your land next long rest, there's a cumulative 25% chance of each casting after the first that you get a random reading. I'm with Mike. My whole character up to this point. This session was masturbation.

Okay. What's your question? So my question, I'm asking the gods if she's an ally, if the Princess of Wrath is an ally gained or it will meet a deadly cost. Basically, like, is it good or bad? Is she a friend or not? Is she a friend or not? Or busson. Is she sus?

Is she sussing to tell me that? I said, John, for real, for real, no cap. No cap. Is she sussing in the dragosy? I said, let me pull it up here. Give the man five minutes. Holden Amam Mahmuth three. Through the flames, now speak to me.

Princess of the Land and Frost, an ally gain or deadly cost. Through the fire and flame starts playing. And the answer. There has to be a yes or a no. No, no. You can write a rhyme, a sentence. It's basically like legend. A omen.

But it's literally, if it works and there is a god that I can commune with or a godly creature, it can then speak to me in this. But it can be cryptic. It can be, it can be anything. But it needs to be truth. It's supposed to be truthful. Yeah, no, no, no, no, it needs to be truthful.

And it's not like a wheel or, I mean, you can just say it like it could be yes. Yes. The drag goosey busting. For real, for real. No cap. On God. On the gods.

On Odin. As you watch the burning straw and material flame and crush down, you get your answer. And that's real. We'll end to next session. Thank you, Mary. Thank you. Thanks for another session, Derek.

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