Legends of Avantris - Once Upon a Witchlight | Ep. 17 | When the Hares Go Marching In

Episode Date: May 29, 2024

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Hello everyone, welcome to Legends of Adventress. I'm Gricchio Grimgrin and you're listening to Once Upon a Witchlight. Here's what happened last time. Witchlight Monarch is Morning Frost and Gricco Grimgrin, Cremmy Lucreou, and that's where it ends. Oh! I was kidding. Oh! We're kidding it, yeah!

It's cold. It is your last night in this place and with these people. You make a distraction. I shouldn't have to tell you any more than that. You got that because. you're gonna distract Mr. Wic. Then you're gonna somehow accidentally brush into him.

Maybe it acts, oh, you trip and you're a big fella. The change should be visible on the outside of his waistcoat. So as you fall on, just use your strength and try to just break it. Then frost, that's when you... And you use your mind, you lift the pocket watch, and I'll be there, and I'll be in the shadows if I have to. I'll grab it and I'll whisk it away.

I'll mind, Burk. We are carnivola crew, and we have been so graciously crowned as your four witch-light monarchs of the evening. By removing the pocket, you are able to remove the watch and the chain itself from Mr. Witch's person. What are we going to have to do to get that watch back from you? Somewhere in this carnival is a cross and two prismere, and you're going to tell us where it is. Everything you seek immoral lies beyond this mirror. Mind the rule of three, future present past. And then Mr. Light reaches out and grabs your hand.

Find the alicorn and free the dormant queen at last. And then they both let you go as you fall through the mirror. What's me? The distant sky you spot a great balloon made of patchwork material. It spins out of control as though punctured, causing the wicker basket that hangs from it to swing wildly. Inside of that basket was Hootsie. This is a robbery.

If you resist, we'll meet you black and bluish. You stand at the base of the Queensway, a giant causeway that stretches from where you what, Mace. I just happen to be here. You stand at the base of the Queens Causeway, this giant pathway that leads from where you entered the Faywild, Prismere, to what appears to be a wall of myth. and fog. The causeway itself is broken and crumbling in places and what once would have been a beautiful thoroughfare that led somewhere is now no longer traversable. And it took you a while that you were able to make your way down the the stepstone mushrooms that led all the way to the swampy ground. And what you're standing on now is covered

and moss thick with fetid waters. The smells of decaying leaves and grass and other plant life is thick in the air around you. Bioluminescent mushrooms and other entities can be seen darting in and out of the thick fog that does obscure your vision. But there are heavy winds that occasionally break apart the fog and allow you to see deeper into this land of swamp. And as you look down at the ground around you, you see that the mangrove trees, their giant gnarled roots stretch out like long fingers as they plunge deep into the earth, almost as if they're holding it together. And it is here that you see grico coming back to you after he'd rushed forward in an attempt to rescue Hootsie,

believing that she was in what you had seen for only a flash, a floating hot air balloon that was careening through the sky at a rapid pace. But realizing that this land is new and treacherous, Grico turned his way back to you and met you here at the base of the Queensway. With the loud avian noise and the flap. of wings, a crane alights into the air, piercing the quiet of this place, and seemingly alerting a band of brigands. Rabbit folk brigands that have surrounded you at this point.

You have barely moved from this spot as a group of them march towards you, wielding their weapons aloft, and singing a jaunty tomb. about an entity known as Agden Longscarf, the Brighan Prince of Prismere. And as they encircle you, some of them with their weapons drawn, some holding standards, one of them steps forward. A female who wears an outfit that befits her rank, very clearly higher up in status, than the rest of these rabbit folk that are around you. as she calls out to you and demands,

This is a robbery. If you resist, we'll beat you black and blue. Hi, hi there. What is your name? My name is Morning Frost. They begin to circle around you, and as they do, they hop this way and that. They're very bouncy in their movements,

exactly what you would expect these Faywild rabbit folk to be. And though they are committing a robbery, they seem joyful, jubilant almost. Yes, Michael, did you have a question for the teacher? Did my companion see the hot air balloon? All of you saw the hot air balloon. So Gricka would presume that they would have been able to see it as well.

The red, that my friends would be able to see the balloon. Yeah. Yeah, okay. The balloon that had who'd seen? Yeah, because you saw it when you were a top of the Queensway. And even though you couldn't see further into what was off in the distance,

you were able to see up into the... Sorry, it's my... My music. It keeps doing that weird thing. How many rabbits are there? There are a total of six of them. So we're being surrounded and circles. Are they pointing weapons at us?

There are two of them that are pointing weapons at you. One of them has a giant snail that they clearly ride upon, and one of them is clearly the snail handler. I would say it's easy to see that the snail is not very tame, or at least they're not able to handle it very well as it doesn't seem to be listening to orders. It's very clearly perturbed, or not perturbed, it's very clearly distraught. I'll say. Aeomer, sails son of ailment, what news of the riddermark? What the hell was that?

Is this robbery? That's what she just said. We don't have time for this. I'm sorry it's been a misunderstanding. This is a robbery. If you resist, we'll beat you black and blue. And my name is Jek. Good day to you.

Jared? J-B-E-G-E-G-E-K. How do you spell that? J-E-E-W-B-K. Oh, Jeb-E-B-E-K. Jebick. Jebick. I, do you represent any sort of

of a marauding clan or... No, they say it was a prince. We are the brigands that follow the banner of Agden Longscarf, brigand prince of Prismere. And this is a robbery. No, it's not.

They'll start to cheer. They're excited. You hear some of them as they begin to sing that chant again with sticks and stones will break your nose, will beat you blind and steal your clothes. And they are very excited about it. Do they seem intimat or a, or threatening?

Well, some of them are pointing weapons at you. I would say you imagine if a scuffle were to break out, they are probably an equal match for you, but they don't seem like hardened crows. Sorry, I feel like there's been a bit of a misunderstanding. My daughter is in a runaway hot air balloon, so this happens all the time in a faywild, but we're new here, so it's a little bit distressing to us,

So if you will let us pass, this will not turn this robbery into what I believe Gideon calls us, He a massacre. Yes, we'd be happy to reschedule the robbery, but we're in quite a rush right now. Oh, man. Come on, guys. Was that a threat? Were you threatening us? Oh, no.

Did you hear that? I was trying to. I was trying to be all diplomatic. You notice that as they hop around you, they start to slow down, their ears turn this way and that. One of them attempts to look at you menacingly, but his little rabbit nose twitches in a really cute way, and it completely ruins the entire attempt.

But Jebik does cross her arms and looks at you quizzically for a while. You say, are in a bit of a pickle, your daughter is in a bit of pickle Well, no, no, she's in an air balloon That doesn't look anything like a pickle Don't you have big ears? Can you hear what I'm saying? That is very clearly not the question that I asked you

She's in a runaway hot air balloon And I'm feeling quite distressed about it She turns and she begins to chitter With one of the herring gone behind her Do you mean the one that crashed into Slanty Tower? Oh, Christ! Just a few minutes ago. I mean, Gricker, we all kind of saw crash.

I mean, it was like on... Oh, I thought it disappeared. I saw it disappear into the fog. Wasn't clear that it was not landing? It was clear that it was... It was very clear that it was a rogue hot air balloon that was not being controlled. This slanty tower, what does it look like?

This is a tower that is slanty. Okay, we have our lead. Let's go, fellas. Oh, no, no. No, no. No, no. No, no. Oh, you must pay the toll.

This is a rubbery. Oh, wait, wait, hold on, hold on. Is this a toll or a robbery? Are we being detained? Is this a toll or a robbery? Is a robbery. How much are you all robin? She reaches down and she picks up a beautiful carved gourd

that has a topper of gold. And she looks at it longingly and lovingly. Well, it's quite simple. I demand the feeling of delight that you remember from the best gift you've ever been given. If you can procure that feeling, put it in my gourd, you can be on your way. Oh, you want to take one of our memories, and we won't keep the memory. It'll be with you. It's not a memory. It's a feeling. Oh, that means you can't feel the feeling ever again.

I feel like this is our first time in this space. She looks confused at the things that you're saying about it. But she doesn't respond. Just real quick personal huddle. Just a little full man. Yeah, because, you know, Tom is of the essence. She puts her arms in the air and slowly backs away and joins the circle. And she starts to hop with them.

You notice that they're all hopping in one direction. Then they start hopping in the other. They kind of notice what each other's doing. They'll hop twice and then hop three times to the next. Then you start to hear that song, start playing up with one of them. Then they started into a round. They're clearly just having the greatest time hopping around you. singing. All right, fellas. This is one of those tricks and fay riddles, all right?

This is a riddle. I think it's a riddle. I mean, this is where Grit goes a vacuum. So you got any leads? You got any got any thoughts? I'm a little in distress, but luckily, I have a goblin defense mechanism to keep my call when there's legitimate weapons point pointed at me. But I'm this close to losing it, fellas. We need to get through this. I'm only getting about three of the words, as they're saying, every sentence. Well, this is about the worst robbery I've been a part of. I don't understand why we don't just rob them.

We're trying to get the slanty tower quick like. We steal the snail. We beat them all up. You know, we leave a couple rabbits in the dust. And we take the snail and we get there super quick. I don't really want to kill anyone. I don't have any way of not killing with my mind is the problem. If we get into a fight, I'm not going to be very much help.

You are such a drag, man. I'll tell it to my mind power. You can't just kill everybody. No, I can. I don't want to do that. Oh, God. No, but look, Gid, look, let's say we beat them up, right? Yeah.

And then we steal this stuff. Yeah. Well, A, we know we can't steal. Right? No, what? That was back in the carnival. Here, it's all, they're trying to steal from us. Oh, yes.

They were finally in one of the laws. Are we free of those laws? Those laws are just with a carnival, man. No, it's the laws for here even more so than a carnival. No, you don't know that for a fact. Excuse me. They, stop. Stop there hopping for a second.

I have three laws here that are the laws of the land, unescapable, especially here, outside of the carnival. You see Jebik's eyes kind of shoot back and forth. What laws are you speaking of exactly? The rule of hospitality, the rule of ownership, and the rule of reciprocity. If you are familiar with them, you might be about to violate one of them very seriously.

Well, that may be so. But since the hourglass coven, came into power. Oh. Things have been a little, how do you say, lax. Oh.

Oh, are you allied with the coven? No. We have a banner man. The Agden Longscarf, the Brigham Prince of Prismere. Oh, I have a question. Thanks to Agden Longscarf, Brigdon,

Briggin Prince of Prismere, and she bows. Oh, all of a question. Question. Very lovely giant snail. I would love to learn that snail's number. But before you do, what do you feel is like the biggest fear of like a snail? Like what, you know, I'm a snail enthusiast myself, but I want to deal with little, little fellas. Like, what are they scared by, you know? Like, what kind of creatures and natural predators do they got? Roll persuasion check.

A disadvantage because they're trying to rob you and they don't know you. A giant salt shakers starts to lumber through the thalop trees. Persuasion? 13. Well, this one seems to be scared of us, but I'm not a snail enthusiast myself. But Agden knows everything. You could come with us and meet him and ask him yourself.

Could you tell us where Agden is? We can meet you there and continue this robbery. Again, we are in quite a hurry. Yeah, yeah. I'm a goblin on the edge. On the edge of what? You don't want to find. now, Ms. Rabbit.

He's on the edge of gory violence. He's very interested in getting to his daughter as quickly as possible, and we intend to help him. So, it's in everyone's best interest to lay down our arms and

meet up later to continue whatever robbery you want. Maybe y'all can escort us there as your detainees. Oh, yes. You could take us to the Slanny Towers. You surely must know the way. We are not headed to the slanty tower. Oh, we would receive you, if a toll is paid, at the Briggins tollway.

Ha ha! Is that here? Are we at the Briggins tollway? No. You're at the Queens Way. Oh. Is there another massive bridge, call them the tollway? No. What is the tollway?

The place we take tolls. I see. Oh, no robberies, but tolls. It's the place that gets in the way so that you must. We must pay a toll to get through. Is it between the slanty tower and where we are now? No. It's between the slanty tower and where you must go.

Where must we go? Somewhere that isn't here. Then we are in agreement. Thank you for your time. So we scheduled this to maybe next equivalent of Sunday. Uh, uh, about four o'clock sharp. Yes, we will meet you at Briggins' Tollway, and we will let Agden know that you are coming. But we must take what we have come to take.

Oh, come on. Let's rob these guys. No, no. Oh, God, I'm itching for it. I'm itching for it. The second you lay a pinky finger on one of these rabbits, you're going to be cursed. You're going to have four more wives. The witches, the coven rolled in, and now no laws matter, man.

you heard her set it herself. Do you really want to be married to Grico? Married to everybody else. I'm not ready for commitment. If you punch one of these rabbit folk, then all of a sudden four lucky feet are just going to burst out in all directions. And there's going to be a dead, feetless rabbit folk. Yeah, we get to Prismare.

We just slaughter a rabbit, establish dominance. Nobody messes with us, man. We get to the Slanny Tower without incident. Look, I think I know what's going on. You just want to bro. for initiative, don't you? Look, would it make you happy? I'm just saying I can't do anything else for punch people.

Oh, fine. Just, I don't know. I'm going to pick fighter class. That's the one. Oh, just, all right. Just talk them out of it. I don't even know. I take out one of my dice, and I sort of like,

it floats in my hand and kind of like glows in an Eldridge voodoo magic. Why don't you go ahead and roll fun they should have been. Just go on, let's see what you're getting. All right. Well, it's pretty good. That's right. You'd almost certainly be going first.

That's nice. We can't give you what you're asking for. I just do it. We're, we're... No, we can't. I mean, we can't figure it out. It's a fay riddle. Are we being detained? We cannot let you pass. Unless you give us what we are.

asking for. It's a feeling. But, Agden Longscarf will be much obliged. And when you arrive at Brigadon's tollway, you will be greeted as guests and not enemies. I don't want some Faywild Gord to mess with my gourd, and then suddenly we're feeling sad all the time because it's taken our feelings of happiness and then we have to go and deal with whatever this Agden Prince is. Agden Longscarf, Brigand Prince of Prismil.

Okay, crumbie, if you would like that... If you would like to oblige, because the only feeling I have is rage and concern, how about you do it, and then we will pass? And otherwise, I'll say, Gideon, hit it. And I'll be literal and not figured at this time. And as you are saying this, you begin to hear a popping and a bubbling sound. And all of the rabbits immediately get to alert. and you watch as though they are still eyeing you,

they all begin to climb on top of the shell of this giant snail. They are shouting things like, it's begun, it's happening. Prepare, ready yourselves. And they climb on top of the snail as your attention is drawn to these circular stone, that almost look like towers that you now realize dot the left, landscape and intervals throughout this swamp.

And you realize that though they range in size from one foot, some all the way up to 10 foot, these look like Mario tunnels. They are wells as they begin to bubble and spurt as swamp water begins to spill out of them. And what was murky, wet ground is now beginning to turn into disgusting, fetid swamp waters as it begins to rise and rise and rise.

One foot, two foot, three foot, five. All of a sudden, you are swimming in this disgusting murky water. All of the herringon are atop the snail and the snail begins to paddle or it begins to move as it swims around you, still circling you, fast enough that you are unable to really

get out of the circle that you're in is they are still bearing down on you asking for their gift and you are going to deal with thank you Derek for the help this close to the water bubbles these iridescent bubbles begin to rise out they look almost like these shifting colors of an oil slick

and they're beautiful at first the way they catch the light. And you're almost mesmerized by them as one of them pops. And you realize that it is filled with this murky swamp gas, this marsh gas. And as you breathe it in, all

four of you are affected by the hiccuping gas. You experience the most annoying case of the hiccups. To cast a spell that has a verbal component, you must succeed on a constitution check to be able to cast it. You also have, you have disadvantage on all dexterity checks

that are made going forward. Well, no, no, it started. It's very going to we need some sort of taffy right away. Something has happened.

Now, if you will just oblige us and give us what we ask, we will let you climb atop the snail, and we will take you to one of the well holes, and you'll be able to get yourselves out of this murk. And it can't just be entirely... Burble? You simply need to touch the opening to the gourd, the beautiful golden cap, and the gourd will work its magic.

And I don't have to say anything. I just touch the fucking magical gourd, sure, why not? Do you do it? She holds it out. And Cremie, will this cure our hiccups? Getting out of the feted swamp, Will. Is that what the pipe is for? Well, its rim is above the water. I touch the gourd. You touch the gourd.

And what is a memory of a gift that you've been given? early on in our adventures when it was just Cremie and Gid they would both smoke together Cremie would smoke cigarettes and Gideon would smoke cigars and Cremie kept getting ashes on his suit and very thoughtfully of Gideon he went out and found probably robbed some rich like aristocrat lady of a nice long cigarette holder so that Cremie could smoke

his cigarettes without getting ashes on his nice suit. You touch the golden stopper on this board, and you feel it shift magically beneath your hand as it begins to rise and uncork from the bottle. And you immediately think back to this memory and the joy and the friendship that you felt in that moment that it was gifted to you, how thoughtful it was. And as you continue to think about it, that feeling of joy that you associated with that memory slowly disappears as the gourd takes that happiness in that moment away from you.

You still have the memory. It still is something in your mind that you consider to be thoughtful. But when you think on it, you no longer have that fondness that you had before, that sense of friendship and that feeling of a true connection between the two of you. It is now simply just a memory and a nice gesture. You'll see that there's a large hippocamp that's swimming with a green-scaled half-orice. I need you to roll a constitution, a constitution check. Oh, it's on a spill. It's a class future. I'm still going to make you do it.

Okay, what I'm going to do, Constitution? It's a constitution check. Oh, so check. Oh, check. 22. I'm going to twist your dread. That scared me. It scared me.

That'll be a natural 20. Oh. Yeah, so you are able to turn into this thing. But as you do this, she, Jevick reaches down and grabs your hand and pulls you onto the snail. And you immediately feel the gas expel from your lungs. And the hiccups begin to stop and you feel like yourself again. Oh. That was easy, fellas.

That's barely an inconvenience. You don't feel eternal sadness or anything? No, I mean, just, I thought about some, like, memory of the past, and it's just sort of like some mundane thing that happened once. You didn't lose your memory of it? No. I just thought about the time that you got me that kind of beat up, scratched up, like cigarette holding, you know, the kind of stank. Yeah, man. Well, that was pretty nice.

It wasn't beat up, scratched up. I don't know. It's top drawer. It was... Something the lady told me. It was, it's fine. You know. It worked. It does the trick good, you know.

Yeah. Well, I would like these hiccups to end. So, and to get out of your defeated by hiccups, this is indeed a strange place, and I will place my hand on the gourd. And what memory do you think of? I have still in my possession a signal whistle, but it is very special to me for it was carved by Grico. And I remember when you gave it to me,

it was to aid me in communicating with Hootsie. I realized that you'd, uh, uh, were starting to view me as a friend. And now you trusted me enough for that simple, uh, gesture to, um, uh, sort of be a part of your, uh, clan. Uh, and it meant a lot to me. I, um, hadn't had a friend like that before. So it was brought me a great amount of joy. And it is a, it's a, a what that does this? A signal whistle. Signal whistle. Sorry, I just have to write it down.

Like a, you know. Yeah. I just missed that part as I was listening to the story about hootsie. And you do think of this. And it was the first time that you'd really connected with Grico. And as you put your hand on the stopper, a very similar situation to what happened with Kremi happens to you. You don't lose the memory. But that feeling of closeness, that feeling of happiness fades from you as the gourd takes it into itself. And you still look on that memory fondly. It was still a moment of growth between you and Grico. And it definitely has some valuable uses, especially in your ability to communicate and work with a familiar that is so closely rooted to your group.

But that joy, that sense of that sense of true friendship and connection that disappears. and you look on it more from an objective standpoint. But with that, Jepic does reach down and help pull you on top of the snail. And as this happens, the rabbits around you cheer and they clap you on the back. And they proclaim Agden Longscarf. The Brighen Prince of Prismere is going to welcome you joyously and happily into Briggins tollway as you feel that swamp gas leave your lungs. the hiccups begin to subside

and you no longer feel that that taint weighing you down that you'd felt when you were bobbing in the mire. Grimy, you were exactly right. That wasn't just going to speed us along, but it was almost refreshing.

I feel like my mind is clear and I'm able to push aside a motion, be able to focus on what really matters. Yeah, exactly right. Gideon If you want to get through this, I would say that you agree to this robbery. Nothing bad happen?

I feel clearer than ever. No, it's really not bad at all. It doesn't feel like there's any kind of trick. It just touch the thing. Okay. I'll touch it. This is what happens. A very similar situation.

And what is it that you are reminded of? I would say in a similar, vein very early on in the relationship between Kremi and Gideon when I had first escaped captivity and I was on the run I encountered Kremi and we we recognized a mutual benefit to being together but he was obviously very put together and I was soot covered and you know, like blasted, clothes askew, like, you know, scraggly hair, rough beard. And after about a month or so of traveling together, Kremie offered me a comb, a sterling silver comb, and said something fancy about, you know, give me a haircut or something like that.

But, you know, we couldn't find a barbershop. So he gave me something straightened my hair, clean my beard, and just kind of dress it, dress it up a little bit more, you know? And that's the first time that anyone had ever freely given me anything. You think about this memory, and you feel the gourd beneath your hand vibrate with this magical energy as you begin to change the way you view this. At first, it's these feelings of friendship. you're becoming a new man. Kremi seeing in you something no one had ever seen in you before. And this comb was a symbol of that, that you were no longer enslaved.

You were no longer used. You were your own man. And you could present yourself exactly the way you wanted to. And Kremi saw in you more than even you had ever seen in yourself. And there was a sense of pride, a sense of joy, and a true sense of connection. But now, as you think about that comb, you think about the fact that Kremi is a dapper alligator. What are you crocodile? I can't remember.

They're fucking serious. Look, you have Briggsie too, and it's the same. I'm an alligator. Okay. He's a dapper alligator, and he can't be seen in public with someone as disheveled as you were and as soot covered as you were. And it wasn't necessarily a gift of friendship. as it was a means to make sure that the two of you could work together and the way that you needed to work together to pull off your cons.

And it was thoughtful, but it was useful. And really, that's what's important here. Yeah. Nothing weird about that. In some ways, it dashes the fog away from one's mind. allowing you to focus on fact. Hmm. Yeah, yeah.

All right, get up for you. Yeah, well, and then, yes. She reaches down, quickly pulls you up, and you, two, feel that relief. I am going to look, and you'll see this spectral hippocampus in the water, and it'll look, and I'm just going to glare at the rabbits, and I'll just both, and then I'll hiccup,

and I'm going to spin forward in the water, and I'll hiccuff, and I'm just going to be spinning her. and I'll finally come up realizing that with the violent hiccuping and my ability to only transform into aquatic swimming creatures just now I will not be able to make it so I am going to glare up at the rabbit and I'll I'm going to put my hoof uh hoof on the gourd and what memory do you comes to mind?

I will think back to childhood it would have been the equivalent of Sunday at my hometown with your enormous family and it was you know it was just at this point in my life it was just me and

me mom and it was the day that Uncle Gloerbo was going to come and cook. Every equivalent of Sunday day, he would come and he would cook for me and mom. And I would always help him get all the ingredients. And it was always a joy. And Uncle Glorbo is the one who taught me how to use a sling. And so I remember I was waiting up, woke up with the crack of dawn and looked out the window waiting for Uncle Glorbo to show up.

He showed it with all his effects, and we headed out into the bog. We gathered a bunch of mushrooms, a bunch of little bits and bubbles and plants and things that Uncle Glorbo would know. He's also a master herbalist now in his very extravagant backstory. And we dug up some really nice tubers. And then we went to the main course, and with our slings ready, we found a burrow of big, big, like, monfus swamp rats and we just massacre them. And we have a wonderful time. We bring them back.

We clean them. We chop them up. We turn them into stew. And Uncle Gloerbo has, we have delicious rabbit stew that Uncle Glorbo has made. And it's a very fond memory that I have. It's a memory of when you've been given a gift. The gift of rabbit stew. He taught me how to use the slang.

you feel an energy but the memory that you're thinking of doesn't seem to meet through criteria hmm now Grico this is mug water and some camomile oh he also gave me my favorite ladle

oh he's a ladle ladle in it stir in that soup don't stop it'll thicken I will think... I don't understand why it's being so awful. I will think until it was after the meal,

Mom had finished cleaning up the table, and we are talking, and he will have encouraged Grico to... Yeah, I think that he knew, he heard from my mom, that I was rebellious and I didn't want to be like just a normal goblin, and I really liked music, and I wanted to, you know, go out and see the world, basically the equivalent of a rock band in an equivalent on a Sunday. And he said that he disagreed with my mom and that I should pursue it. And he gave me my first jaw harp.

As you think of this new memory. Whole eating rabbits. You begin to feel the gourd react to you. And you think about this memory, this familial memory. And one of the times that you connected with Uncle Gorbo, and he truly saw you in a way that your mother couldn't. She was too close to you. And she wanted things for you that she thought was best

and didn't take the time to think about what really was best for you, but Uncle Glorbo did. And he was, he was able to see that who you were and what your needs were were different than other goblins. And even though it was not something he would normally gift, he went out of his way to procure this jaw harp for you and to give it to you. And that memory has always filled you with joy and the love of music. we're all intertwined in this.

But as you think about it more, you begin to realize that you were a hyper kid. You were a little obnoxious sometimes. And there were definitely times Uncle Gorbo got frustrated with you. And, you know, maybe that jaw harp wasn't this big moment of realization and understanding of you, but more a way to keep you amused and out of his hair. And that makes sense. I mean, that's reasonable. You were young and you were spunky and, you know, give a kid an iPad.

He didn't have much hair to begin with, so. And so the memory still brings you joy. It still sparked your love of music. But that appreciation of a deeper understanding with your Uncle Lorbo, that is gone. And it's more just something you're grateful for. fine and I'll shift back from the spirit hippocampus into Gricka

and I'll scramble up on top of the snail She reaches down and a couple of them do as they help to pull you onto the onto the snail and you no longer feel that that need to hiccup

as the muck is washed away from you I will say it's become very clear that though she has those memories now trapped in this gourd they don't seem to have any sense of what those memories are. Okay. So it's known as if you told your deepest secrets to a group of rabbits.

Well, that was painless, Jebik. Are we trapped here, like on top of the snail? No. We will take you over to the top of that well over there, the 10-foot-tall one, and you can stand there until the water recedes, and make your way back to the ground and proceed on to Slanty Tower. It's simply... A few jumps to the north.

What's all those of water? How often does this happen? It is random. Oh, great. Can't give us some sort of breathing apparatus, like, you know, one of those women's razors gray-painted silver from the Phantom Menace

that we're like sticking our mouths and, you know, breathe just five? What on earth are you talking about? What is a Phantom Menace? I myself do not appreciate a ghost. Grico was hanging underwater. He's driving.

You're all right. He's not much of a swinger. A swinger? He's not much of a swinger. Keep it a game. He's not ready to commit to be a swing. He's not much of a swimmer. Unless he's transformed into a giant hood seahorse.

Oh, I love shee horses. It was worth asking. I mean, I guess we'll just wait on the way. Could you take us? a slanty tower, we just wouldn't know what we're looking for if we saw it, you know? No, they said they're not going to slanty tower. They're not going in that direction. We have a few more errands we have to run them.

And I don't have to go just us, you know, so that your reunion is private with Utsy. And I think that they said that it was kind of like a tower that was slanted a little bit. It is in the name. I'm going to try it one more time. It's just a few hops to the north. And then a step to the left.

You put your hands on your hips. And they seem to really like what you're doing. Most of them, they get up and they start doing the thing with you, and they catch on to the words really quickly. Let's do the mind beans again. The mind warp. The mind warp. Oh, that would have been much better than mind beans.

That was a missed opportunity. I just felt inspired to sing after my hiccups went away. The shenanigans part of my brain is new to. by pure sorrow and urgency. So normally, well, I would enjoy such a thing. But it is with this that they are successful in navigating the snail towards one of the rims of one of these wells. And as they make their way to it, they help you dismount from the snail and find your footing on top of the rim this well. You're now looking down into it.

And you can see that the, the, the, the water is skimming over your feet. It is about level with this well. And as you look out over the swamp, you see a few other wells out in the distance, but not as many as you'd seen before. Clearly, the varying heights of some of them, many of them are submerged, but this is one of the tallest ones. You do begin to see the bubbles popping as if the water is receding slowly back into it. The stone is mossy beneath your feet. It's a little slippery, but you are able to find your footing as you all find your purchase on top of the rim of this well. And Jebik reaches out her hand and shakes each of yours. Very kind robbery.

It was a pleasure to rob the four of you. Perhaps we can return the favor sometime. Aha! All in the name of Agden Longscarf, the Brigid Prince of Brisbane. And they all cheer and wave their flags. We are looking forward to seeing you at Briggins Tollway. Oh yes, we'll... As friends. We'll be there. And so we don't have to pay the Tollay. Well, that will be determined upon entering the Briggins Tollway. Well, and I'm just curious, the Cove and they don't mind that he calls himself the Prince of Prismole, do they? That's a very cute shrug. He is what he is.

All right. Good to know. Who you are can't be seen. stopped. You are born just as you is. R is. You're born just as you is. What is your snail's name? It has no name.

What's his number? One. Oh shit. It's the only one we have. Snail number one. That's better than your snail, Rick. No, nothing is as good as snail number two. Do you want to name the snail? I feel like his name is snail number one snail number one

hang all of the rabbits immediately say snail number one and then start singing along with you I can't even help it my shenanigans are coming up but it's a serious business my survival situations is overriding my lover shenanigans

these are wells like this is like literally like stone I'm picturing and you can look down and there's water in the bottom but right now the water is all the way up to the top of it. It's basically like an infinity pool is how it looks right now, where the water is spilling out of it,

but it's not raising higher than this well. But you know from looking before the water fully had risen that there were wells of varying sizes from one foot tall to this one, which is, as they've told you, 10 feet. And you can see the little bubbles that are kind of indicating that the water is beginning, to flow back into the well, that it is going back from once it came. Thank you, Jebik.

It was a pleasure to rob you. So we just wait and this will eventually go away? Yes. Out of curiosity, what do you do with the things you put in the gourd? Well, this was a gift to Agden from Bavlona Brites, uh, Blight's straw. Blight straw. Oh. Wait, isn't that one of the hags?

Wait. Was this fucking hag magic? Oh. Wait. Yeah. I will be giving it back to. We're so stupid. I will be giving it back to Agdon, as it is his prize possession.

It's not often that slack jog, Lorna gives out gifts. Slack John. Well, well, well. You get, I try to trust one fucking time. I hate it to you. But you let us in the Prismair. Goodbye, friends. And you notice that the snail slowly begins to zero away.

We'll see you. We'll see you soon. They all begin to once again start to sing. With sticks and stones will break your nose. We'll beat you blind and steal your clothes. And as they begin to sing, the snail swims away. The song of these rabbits begins to fade. And eventually, you are met with a sound.

of silence, the sounds of crickets, the sounds of the swamp, and a bubbling, as slowly, very slowly, the waters begin to recede. I don't know. That's a deep subject. Oh, because the water's kind of deep. Yes, and this is a very large water. Frosty, I like how in times of crisis when I lose my desire for shenanigans, you pick up the slack that I gave

why we're such a good friend I agree I agree we're good we work off each other well in stressful situations you know she's missing like all night like hours

well I know but I only got my my memory back because the horrible delirium witchlight bees would it help if can't you like blank his mind again

just to like temporarily is that anything you can do otherwise if you like I would take a hit of that common moment If you have it. I mean, if you've got it, I'd really like it.

You know, I might even enjoy a shenanigan, but we should probably go, right? I can't just like wave your hand and say, these are not the owlbears you're looking for? I'm still working on it. I need to think about my spell mix. I took hold portal instead. I can close this door.

I can close this door real hard. You can't put my arm's at my arm's hour. But I can't calm my partner's emotion. Shit. I mean, can we just agree that when we show up in a crazy different land and a bunch of adorable woodland creatures want to rob us, that we don't allow that to happen? You think we can fucking agree on that, especially when they're agents of a covenant of a covenant of hags? Don't you think that they were going to actually attack us? What?

What would we have done? Punch them real hard. We would have to have to defend ourselves, and then there'd be a bunch of dead rabbits. And that's what you want to do when you come into an island for the first time? Yeah! You want to get robbed by witches? I mean, I didn't think we were being... We should have asked about the Gord's intent before the robbery.

We probably should... Oh, hey, this is actually a sole bag and the scars of a gold. I'm still a little hazy and fatigued mentally from the carnival. At least it wasn't scabbled. Well, I don't feel that different. Honestly, like I... I feel like... Maybe they're confused about the connection.

Maybe he just thinks it's hag-related and it's really not. How do they lie about that? I don't know. How would they even know? I guess if it's just... I mean, here's the thing. I feel like this long scoff fella, he's got to be opposed to the hags if he wants to be the bringing prince.

But these hags, you know, are the rulers of prison men. He could also have been a lie. Agden may have just told everyone that he got a gift from one of the coven hags to impress me. to cement his authority as prince. You know what? That'd be a good move. His name is Agden, but we never ask him to spell it.

What if the H is silent like her? Hedden. And it's Agden. Oh, Hagen. Oh, God. Oh. Oh, geez. Crammy.

Hagen. Cremie, how many times have we been wandering in a sketchy town behind a Rats casino? And a guy's bunch of thugs come out and they're like, hey, give us all your electron pieces. And you're like, oh, is this a rubbery? And then, and then they'd say, yeah. And then Gideon would say, you mean a massacre. And then there would be a massacre.

For you. And they were just trying to steal a couple of electron pieces. They're horrible hag magic and you just let them do it. No, it's completely different. Those thugs, they jump out in the alley with knives. You know what they want to do? They want to cut off it? They want some election pieces.

They want to steal every position we have. And we never stopped to ask them what they want her to use it for. Hey, listen. What's that? Is that Samara from the bottom of the well? Oh my God, I'm going to die in seven days. The moon is going to crash into the planet in three nights. Hello?

Voice? We're listening. And as you look up, you see a faint green. A faint green ball of light. It just darts this way and that. The size of maybe a bottle cap. Hello there. Voice.

Oh, careful, frost. Careful frost. What's this? That looks like a Willa Whistp. My name's Willa. Willa the Wisp. Oh, fuck. Oh, no.

It's in the name. It's the Willa Wisp. Wait, is that the spooky stories you were telling us about in Augwe? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, people would follow these things and end up without souls or end up, you know, on the other side if you catch my drift. Who are you? My name is Morning Frost, and these are my companions.

Are you trying to steal souls? Do we talk to it? I mean, should we be telling him his name? I mean, he's going to get soul snatched? It's not be a weird question, Willa. But do you happen to be Willa the Whist of like a voodoo variety? Or you're just more sort of like a whimsical, pleasant kind? benevolent variety.

Yes. That wasn't very clear. To be fair, she said she was a wisp, not a willowed the wisp, and she is Willa the wisp. Instead of a willowed the wist. Oh, she is a willow wisp. Oh, I mean, I've heard that they can be, look, this is, oh, we are in a swamp. Oh, fuck.

Well, I think it's unrelated. You look like you need help. Listen how sweetest voices. They couldn't possibly bring us any harm. Have you seen a very, A very sad owlbear and lonely. It's crashed into a tower in a balloon. Do you know which way you north is? Yes.

Oh, do you know which way the slanty tower is? Yes. Oh, well. Oh, what does it look like? It's a tower that's slanting to the side. Got it, okay. We won't miss it. Are there any other towers that aren't slanty

that we need to watch out for? I can see into the distance. There are beautiful towers on that old castle. Oh, so we do have to watch out from different towers and pick out the slanty one to notice? Those ones aren't slanting. They point straight up to the sky. Okay, so we'll not go to those towers. We'll go to the slanty towers.

There's only one slanting tower. There aren't like multiple slanting towers, but only one of them is the slanty towers. Only one slanty tower. Oh, the crooked tower. Which way should we go to follow you, Willow? The slant obelisker. You can't follow. Follow me.

Oh. We can't. Now do we have to get Willis Mojo back? I can't. Well, can you just give us the directions then? We'll be on our way. We just head to the north. Yeah, we already got the directions.

Oh, wait a minute. Willa, were you always a glowing bowl of light? No. Hither. That's what I was going to ask if at the bottom of the well. Never. able to leave I almost guessed it by accident by making a reference to the ring no you did guess some of the other wells

so they don't get lonely but it's just me oh man that's a that's a bum deal Willem is there anything we can do to help while we're sort of like in the area you know we've got some time to kill a guess just Are you a friend to Bevalorna? No. No, no. Good. Or her straw.

Good. Yeah, or that. Just end up like me, okay? I'm already feeling kind of bummed out, Willa. And if you can, not too much to ask. If you meet her, avenge us.

Like, killer. A fan of death, having experienced it myself. Oh, I don't really, I mean, we got it. We're gonna kill it. It's okay. We'll interpret your call for vengeance to kill. I don't do, do, do, do it. Just avenged me.

Hey goodness. No, we want you guys to think like we avenging her was like solving her puzzle or something, and then it's all good. I don't think that's probably an option. We'll convince her to, free all of the spirits or if we're not, then Gideon can punch real hard. She can't free us.

Oh. But if you can avenge us and eventually, I don't know, maybe rescue Zabalna, yes, Sabelna, we're back, it wouldn't be like this. Oh. None of it would be like this. Why don't we just... And as she begins to cry, you can see tears, these... glowing, luminescent tears as they fall from this little floating orb and splash into the muck.

You begin to see the trees that are towering over you. Their branches were reaching up towards the sky, but the more sad she gets, the more the fay wild shapes around you, and these trees begin to bend towards the water. and where once were mangrove trees are now weeping willows. And as she cries, the trees seem to mirror her emotions. Well, hey, are you like tied to the well or you have some kind of relic in there? It might be able to like take you out, put you in a different well with a bunch of other, you know, wispy friends. I can't go more than 10 feet from this well.

Are you sure? We might be able to dig up your corpse and put it into another... Yeah, we get your bones. Yeah, we get your bones. Like, first you can't scoop all your bones up and move your bones.

It's probably not the well. It's probably your skeleton that's down there that you can't get more than 10 feet away from. Yeah. We could try. If you want. We can try.

I feel bad. I feel bad. The trees are crying. They're sad, too. Don't you feel any emotion? My paternalian. I just- just need you to promise that you will avenge us. Oh, we will.

If we help you, you'll help us. We're interpreting and is murdering that through her, but yeah, we'll have fun. Yeah, we'll do that. We're definitely gonna save the building and kill the hags. You see as her orb of light glows for a second and expands, and the trees, as they are bowed over weeping, begin to start to right themselves. themselves. They're not fully reaching towards the sky the way they were before, but they're no

longer full weeping willows. They seem to be this strange mix of weeping willows in mangrove trees as some chipperness returns to her and she begins to spin in circles as she slowly moves towards you first frost. You feel the weight of her tiny willow wisp-like body. There is a little bit of temperature to her. It's cold, the cold of death. But you can sense just in the air around her that this entity, though contrary to what you know about willow wisp, is good, is kind. And you feel your body infused with a boon. And she moves from each of you. Just a light. biting on your nose for a second before flying to the next. As she grants you the boon of Willa the Whisp.

Oh, shit. The boon's recipient gains a D4 and can at any time within the next 24 hours, roll this die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw made by it. Can you say that one more time? Are you get a D4 that you can roll at any point? It's like a 24 hour blast. It's 24 hour blast. Yes.

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miniatures, plushies, a tarot deck, and more. Thank you. Water's receding through the mangrove trees. Should the moving mound block your path, simply go around it. Okay. And if you smell the stew at the inn and it moves towards you on its gnarled legs,

go in and say hello and get the rest you need. Okay. Moving around the mound. And what was the stew? There's going to be an inn that is going to walk towards us on legs. Yeah, we've got to say hi to it. Walking in and eat it soup.

Um, are you sure we can't like bring your bones to another well? Yeah. I don't think my bones have been in this well for a long time. Oh. You know, there's some around down there. There's some checks. He was down there. And perhaps some sort of personal artifact or omjid that you're bound to?

Like a pendant? Were you wearing anything special? No. Oh. Well, you're like a skull like in Sir Gowan and the Green Knight. The ancient fable. Well, I am going to look. I can't believe I'm saying this, but my paternal instinct is very conflicted right now, and my brain's about to shut out. We're just going to try real quick.

Willa, you did say something very important that I want to unpack as, as Grico does this. Okay, I am going to, if I start screaming, I don't even know, just something badge down there. How far down is the water level gone at this point? About three feet. Oh, that's not bad. I don't know if I have any.

So just dive into the seven foot deep water and feel around for bones in the pitch black of this well, Griko. Yeah. Simple, man. Find her lovely bones. Hey, I understood that, but I have just the trick. And I'm going to turn into a spectral version of an Ankeg, which is like a giant burrowing insect. And I'm going to just skitter down the walls and just start scooping out with my claws.

You skitter down the three feet of stone wall until you make it to the murky water. It is green and filled with floating bits of algae and insects fly around on top of it. Strange insects unlike anything you'd ever seen as you enter into the water. in the water of the well yes I'm going to try to go down and try to dig around as as quiet as gently and respectfully as I can

presuming like thinking there's going to be a skull or a locket or a doll or something down you swim down seven feet I need you to roll a D8 for me please oh I should have done a swimming creature you touch my secret bone the bear is die

I want you. Four. I told you not to search the way. You begin to swim down through the water, and it is difficult to see. This water is incredibly murky and filled with silt. But you do notice that those same oil slick-like bubbles are present here as well. And as you are swimming through this, part of your, what had been your hand, but is now some kind of bug appendage, pops one of those bubbles.

And you catch yourself hiccuping underwater. And as you do, you swallow huge mouthfuls of this disgusting, salty, earthy water. And it hits your stomach like a, um, Like putrid milk, which knowing you, you probably enjoy. But you do feel like your time down here is shortened. With every hiccup, you swallow and breathe in some of this water. You swim down seven feet, eight feet, nine feet, ten feet, eleven feet. And there is still no floor to this. Though you do feel this tube or tunnel shift, it's not going straight down,

it begins to angle out as if it connects somewhere else. And you imagine that you would have to swim for a significant amount of time to find any kind of bottom to this well. As the Sonic the Hedgehog drowning music plays. I'm thinking the Teenage Music, I... Dut-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

It's sewer surfing. I will... I will rocket back to the top and skitter out of the... I'll look like a sand crab covered in filthy goo. And I'm going to immediately... It's obviously a spectral spirit version.

I will shift back into Greco and... It's like pipes. It's pipes. It's not a well. It's pipes. I'm glad you're back up here. I was worried that there was going to be a small spectral little Grico voice suddenly joining Willa. I need you to roll a D8 for me, please. Wait, me?

An eight. You get up to the top and you begin to say this, but you're still hiccuping as that same that same march gas affects you in a similar way when you had been with the Herringon. And as you let out one of these hiccups, a oil slick metallicy bubble pops from your mouth and explodes and you feel your eyes begin to roll back in your head as dizziness overcomes you you feel lightheaded you feel like you are beginning to see something and with your eyes wide open staring down directly into the water of the well a vision begins to form what was your number eight rose upon rows of severed bully-wug heads all impaled

on spikes and they all chatter at each other. You watch this. It looks like it's happening almost in real time as if you are overhead watching, watching this, experiencing this. And just as you see it, the water begins to lower even more and the vision begins to ripple and fade. You all right?

Yep. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Oh, it's a pipe. Oh, yeah. Oh, I don't know. Oh, br-d-d-d-d-l-d-l-l-l-l-l-oh. Oh, no. I told you there like Mario Five.

Dun-d-d-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. Oh, the pier! Other Pia! Other P. Oh, there are so many Piers. Oh, God. Cremitt, is the... Yeah? Is he... Why are you asking?

No. You see all of the Bollywall catch down. They're a chatt. They're chatt. and singing, but I can't understand what they're saying. What fuck are you talking about, Gregor? And I'm going to look at, do I see anything? I don't see a damn thing.

There's nothing down there, man. Is this the water? It's just a horror vision. And I would like you all to roll on the naughty table. What? I didn't even say the naughty thing I've been thinking this entire thing. I'm going to say it now. I want to add a little bit of chaos.

into this and see. Well, it's very more than I need to ask you, do you have a cousin whose name rhymes with yours? Oh yeah. Oh, wait. You're rolling a D20. Oh, oh, shit. 15.

I'm keeping my. Grico, you see this vision. And as you mentioned Pierre, you hiccup and swallow another gulp of this fetid water. And as you do, you feel the life leave your body, as you immediately die and are reincarnated. Oh my god. Can he just fall under the well?

Don't fucking juggle bad guru. He's, you understand? The food are men. Oh my god, break out. Is he okay? We need a fucking leave. And I started moving over my shoulder. And you get a?

And you get a? Oh, five. Get a? You can only speak in song. Pretty yeah, actually. Oh, fuck. We should really go now. Oh, fuck, we should really go now.

Please, please, can we really go now? Now's not the time to sing. Look what happened to Graco. He's floating in the water. And Gino's fucking dead, man. Your entire mouth is numb and you cannot stop drooling. You're just there's time that fucking Graco? You know, who that's what?

Oh, oh. 17. You turn into a feral tobacco, see, and you feel the need to mark your territory. Uh-oh. I mean, he's fucking dead. He's fucking... Oh,

what's happening? What happened to you? Oh, man. Oh, what's this feeling? Oh, I just got a... Oh. He's got this feeling. Oh.

Oh. Oh, wait. I'm feeling all right. I'm feeling dead. I'm feeling real dead. Well, Will, we're sorry. We're sorry for the serving of second pounds. Oh, so.

Should I roll this publicly? Yes, we should. I don't, um... Sorry, I don't know why I'm peeing on me. I propose that re-roll, uh, repeat. Yeah, if you get a goblin, I'm gonna have a right. I just rolled himself and it was goblin. Oh, right.

Everything looked out better than 6'i-out. No. I don't know. 37? 31. 31? Oh. You need to roll the D6.

That is not being. You ever enjoyed yourself? You will see as I'm... You will see as I'm... tobacco form. Didn't choose to mark his territory, and you were unfortunately in the way. So he's an actual tabaxy right now. He's an actual tabaxy.

You are a fiery red tobacco. I know what I must do. And I think I have the strength to do it. Pants don't pissing. What are you doing? Don't stop marking him. Fishing on our dance three. He has to be respectful.

He has to know. What do you have to teach you? Take notes, Greg. Take notes. You'll see as my goblin skin will turn from green. My ears will shrink. I'll stay about the same size. And my hair will go from blonde to like a grayish, white, and kind of, I'll be crazy.

and I'll shrink my nose will shrink back in as I turn into a rock gnome Oh no As I all go I piss it up I can't stop I'm overwhelming urge It's a

We had to aim right for his face I didn't have to until the DM told me a head to I would you have of all places It smells Horrors Yeah, it tastes is even worse. Not just can't piss. Oh, God.

Yeah, fuck. Ah, fuck. Look, hey, he, I've bothered him. Gosh, you have... I'm still doing it as a weird that he's come to life and hasn't moved. Ha! Ha! Hey!

Oh! Gosh, if I had a, if I had an electric pit acid, I had two election which is a lot as weird as half a job. Just once I'd like to get to recession without piss. That's what we have ice bound for. That's true. That's true. Yeah, I've really had to piss on an ice wound.

Well, I'll screw well out. Well, gosh, it's my old friend Frosty. Well, gosh, I'm... Is that you? Yeah, I'm feeling like we got to say, Utsin. You're what perfect? What happened with you? Hey, is that, Gideon?

Gosh Yeah, it's me God I love to pet on things I don't love to piss on things I just have to piss on things He don't even Now that you're a cat

He's a cat You know my friends up back home I always called me whiskers Because I'm curious like a cat Oh wow Yeah So I'm gonna call you whiskers Oh well

Because he's a cat bear Yeah that's fine I guess I just have to, listen. I can't tell the difference between the two of you. What if you should wear a hat or something? I got giant chains hanging from my arms. Can't tell the difference between us?

I don't know. I've sloughed off my motor coil and just come two. My mortal flesh has been resurrected like they say in the good book. This is bad. What I'm not having a cold one more? What are going to be a fuck like this?

Oh, I guess the Piscott frosty chick. He must be allergic. Yeah. It was definitely coming out of the velocity that created a splash zone and everybody was involved. We're just gonna have a wood like this,

you understand? No. What? You have to look like this. Well, gosh, man, as soon as we got to the Feywild things we really got out of hand. We're the bottom of. Our souls were stolen by a bunch

of plucky rabbits with very adorable cowbat animation. You were just about the... And I die! It's important that I have to... You can understand what he's saying? Mm-hmm. Oh, God.

The boomer. You talked about how he's a bedside with your puff. Can you on the parker, brother? The boomer? The boomer. The boomer. The boomer. The boomer.

The boon. The puff. The puff. The... The The Frosty, you spit it out already We gotta save Hootsie, my dog

I'm pumping, I'm a problem Hey Willa, we're really awfully saying about your really depressing situation What is our fearlessly to crummy would say We gotta get away from this depressing key Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha That's it Oh my

No, I speak Frosty very plainly Ask about the bumma He likes some vanilla ice cream Yeah There was a point where I wanted to help you quite a bit But now I just want to go pee on that tree So I think we got to get out of here You don't take out a piece of parchment

All right Ask how Zablna is in danger And what else she knows Somebody Oh oh that's what you meant Frosty Hey Willa I have a question for you Okay

If you can choose to be freed from your horrible fate and avenge and be reunited with all of the ghost kids or get eaten by a giant spider what would you choose I would choose to twist oh thank gosh I'm not sure we're gonna pick the giant spider willa can I speak to you like this it's frost I'm speaking to you with my mind because my mouth has been numbed somehow and I can't make myself understood Do you want me to fix that for you? Oh, I would love that very much. Yes, please. Okay.

Can you do that? Sure. Why didn't you ask sooner? Because it would have sounded like you. Huh? Because it would have sounded. You understand my point. And she flies down and she hovers right in front of your mouth. And you can hear a strange incantation of words. And you immediately begin to feel the feeling come back to your lips and your tongue.

And you are... covered in drool. It is drool and piss. And piss. Oh yeah. But you are once again able to talk. Thank you, Willa. She can cure what ails us. I think, at least she was able to unnumify my mouth.

But good. That's really nice to hear, Frosty. But I'm just so grateful she did pick the giant spider. Yeah. Of all the people to cure her first, I'm glad it was you. Oh, you gotta dodge out of the world. I sit in on the edge of the well, and I look at the swamp around me. I pull in my Grig fiddle. I start playing,

while there's so many scenes about pissing and pissing on other guys. That's a very good question, Krammy, though. I'm not sure why you feel kind of held the same. Oh, perhaps we were magic. cursed in some way. Would you be able to help my friend Cremie? I believe he's probably singing inappropriately

and non-stop. Yeah, I'm capable. One day they'll find it the yellow connection. It's just one color. Thank gosh it's not too. I was worried. Do you know why this happens? Why we might be occasionally

swept up by fame magic and made to do things we don't want to or understand? stand? I think it's something in your soul. Well, that's awfully kind of you. Anyway, bye.

We got to go to the Crooky Tower, folks. Can you cure our... Slanty Tower. Oh, sorry, we got to go to the upright straight as the narrow tower. And we're going to the Slanty Tower. Gosh.

You just stand right there. It doesn't look like. Well, it's a tower that's slanty. Oh. Why did you just say so? I'm sorry. You're right. I should have just seen.

Why are you speaking in riddles? I think it's a Facing. I continue to pee on everything. As soon as you start to pee again, I just magehand your pee is up in so that he's right in the fucking face. It's like a water park. into your team. I'm tired of

getting visor coming up and spreading out like a fog I'm a tree use my mind powers to make you pee

yourself it's like we're all caught in the rain that's the nightmare it's like pee into back seas to get con in your end

that's good that's very good could you please this is your mage hand so supple curious I'll give you

five go pieces oh what's you got to she's dead Oh. But you would like me to fix your sinking, I can. That would be nice. And she floats down next to your mouth and you hear her, once again, say a small incantation.

And you feel that need to sing leave you. Oh, thank you. I love songs about cheating like your girlfriend. Especially with a stranger out of the newspaper. God that song's about it is No one really listens to the lyrics It's kind of a weird song to write about You know

It's always about romantic trips on the beach And little the shit they know They're gonna get fucked by someone From the newspaper Like a journalist? It's quite a switch No I think of like He means like a classified ad

Oh I thought he meant like from the newspaper Like a representation Well it could be You don't know Yeah Like the editor-in-chief. Yeah. Or like a beat reporter that's like desperate for the next story.

A sheet reporter, perhaps. Oh, that's pretty good. Or just like a photographer. Imagine that. And you would have a camera. That's even more exciting. Oh, God, a tripod. Or like the local food blogger.

Oh. Thank goodness they're not photographing this. Matt. Anyway, I think I've about rub this dry. No pun attention. I think he's almost not a piss You better do this now Get in my mouth, please

What for? So you can cure me of peeing on stuff You want me to fix Your Nature? Say it, say it Yes Yeah You want me to stop you

Hell on everything On everything On my friends, on myself In this well Sorry I feed on you His giant pissing cap Who hates the equivalent of Monday Okay, I'll help you

And she flies over to you Yeah, yeah, yeah, garfulu lasagna You know Nyang gharthuloo lasagna What was it? Mondays And it's strange eels Even Mondays made out

You know Oh, why must I recount this? Why do you sound like Torbett? Why must I kill Monday? And as you do this, she flies around you, and you begin to feel the need to piss Eb away as your fur falls away and you are once again Gideon Cole. And then you shit your pants.

Gosh! I fucking hate this place. Hey, we're going to be all right. We got robbed by rabbit. and I've pissed on everybody. Gosh, Gideon is good to see you back. I'm looking over you, like, to the top. I'm not really making it like...

We've been here for 10 minutes. We're covered in piss, and we've been robbed by adorable woodland creatures. So... Gosh, now I know you're really not living for the weekend. You're feeling very dehydrated. Oh, God, I need something to drink. Oh, Gideon.

No, no, no. If you can choose between drinking a whole picture of tall, cool, Budwiser. Or losing both of your legs in a terrible train accident. Which would you choose? Well, that's

a tough one, but I think how to go with the tall, cool picture of Budweiser, you fucking psychos. Oh, thank goodness. I thought you were going to go with the train accident. Why would you think I'll go with the train accident? I guess I'm just a worrier. Oh, my God. You care whatever the fuck his

psychotic thing is? That's why my friends call me whiskers. I'm just to worry. I think he died and lost 85% of his brain or something. Is that what his curse was? That's not permanent. It would seem so.

Oh, is that really true? Yeah, well, I mean, I didn't lose a lot of oxygen to the brain drowned it very slowly without anyone even letting me a hand. Just out of curiosity, can you try pulling one of your teeth out? Oh, hold on. Oh, fuck!

Can you put it back in? Oh, fuck. Go down, everything tastes like I. Can you please fix him too? I can't, I'm capable, yeah. Will you please? May you? Oh, it's one of those may things.

May you please? Would you kindly say would you kindly hit her? Will you? I can. All right. Stand up. May you can go ahead now and like presently. Open your mouth, man.

That's the key. Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, I was already doing that. She seems to watch you quizzically, but she doesn't make any move to cure Grick. Man, you know, after all of that all over me, I feel like we're off to see the wizard. You know what I mean?

You do, actually. Hey, Willa. Yeah. Will you or won't you? Anyway, can you please fix my brain? Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah. With you asking to be curious.

Oh, gosh. She flies over to you, and she begins to utter the incantation, and you feel your body begin to change. Your skin becomes that a shade of green that you're all so fond of. Your hair becomes that beautiful blonde. Oh, gosh. And your voice returns to its normal timbre. Oh, damn, dear, dear to Goblin Town. That was really good

What the hell we got? Holy shit. That's amazing. Well done. Welcome back, Gregone. Do you feel better? Remand me to never hang out with gnomes. Yes, they are a strange creature.

They are strange creatures. Can I ask what it was like? Oh, to die? Yeah, like. I think he means getting pissed on. No. No. We don't have to fuck up about all the pissing, all that.

Listen, it wasn't my fault. I'm still pressed to digitation. I know all the piss off of everything. No. Is Tollbeck back? That was all giddy, and he transformed into a feral to vexia. I've never seen that much hearing in my life. I didn't like the feeling.

I hate a Mondays. I was praising an elder whore. Well, I didn't like the feel I am. Let's go. I'm excuse me back in the shadow Let's go We have been carnival The crew

We will avenge you and all of your depressing murdered children friends And we got an owl bear That's also my daughter to save We do have that Thank you We swear this to you

We're going to make a Faye pact We will avenge you That makes me really happy Can you tell me What you know about Zabylna before we make our way. Just that she's not here anymore.

She's here, but I can't feel her the way I used to. Something is wrong. We suspect that. It's part of the reason we're here, and perhaps we will be able to avenge you, Willem.

If you can make your way to the Palace of Hearts Delight, maybe you'll find answers there. Oh, delight. Is that where the castle is? The big castle? Is that somewhere around here? The palace.

At the very center of Pizier, you can take the Queensway directly to it. The Queen's Way is broken. Oh. The Queen's Way is broken. Yes. Unfortunately, the bridge is

cracked in many areas. I'm sorry to sadden you, but it's the truth. It's going to be much more difficult to get to the palace without the Queen's way. Do you think killing a few hags might help with that? I'm not a fan of murder.

Too late. Too late. Too late. But if you could nullify their power, well, that usually comes to killing them. Yeah, and in their lives. Yeah, yeah. Or if we can take their power away and make them harmless,

then they'll just be slack john whatever and slack Jod Lorna You want to make a bunch of vegetables Of all the hags It wouldn't be the first campaign Where I've done that to one of the big bads That's better than killing them

I'd rather not see that happening again Do you want to go to eat Switch And go do this and say I've taken away your magic You won't hear anyone ever again Because we're rated Y7 Yes especially if it means that Slag Jod Lorna's voiced by Mark Hamill

I'm there for it Well, I don't know how to do that. And I don't see any giant deus X mocking the dragon turtles around, do you? Mark Hamill. Best friend Mark Hamill. Yeah, we've got slack-jawed Lorna. I was wondering if you could come voice her for us. Great.

Yeah, he'll be here next session. Mark Hamill, everybody. Oh, my God. We're going to all right to have to learn how a spirit bend. Oh, I'm sorry. His name is Hark Mammel. Hark Mammel? Yeah.

Okay, well, he's not as good, but... Against the jump duck. Fuck! He'll do the bitch. Thank you with Willa. The only parting words I have is, you know, you are stuck alone here, and that is, I'm sure, very sad. However, the people that you know at the other wells

who are stuck with each other, they may not even like each other very much. Perhaps they're stuck in eternity with some bitch, and you have the ability to enjoy your loneliness when you're not feeling a little. down and perhaps relish on that thought. Okay. That's right. You're just making it worse, Frost. Let's go. I wouldn't say it's worse.

Would you say it's better? I wouldn't say it's better. Oh yeah, that makes sense. All right, let's go. Okay, we will avenge you. Avengers? Shepo. You know, that was my line earlier. And you do that. You move your arms and you realize that you are looking out at a swamp that is no longer covered in

murky water, but you are 10 feet above the ground with no steps to get you down. Oh. We can jump down perhaps. Ten feet is not that far. No, it's snowed at all. Let's see who can twist their ankle the least. I would like you all to roll dexterity saving throws I will try to gingerly let myself down

I'm gonna hot tonight oh wow 22 for old Rico Grimmie Graham Dex saving throw Mm-hmm Mm-hmm 22 How many is a twist? Yeah, I'm gonna dread it

Oh no! Well I got a nine. Okay. My bag is full. I have 89 pounds of backpack on me. Ah! You gingerly climb down and you are able to make your, you're able to make your way down the well, crummy.

It is slick, it is mossy, but you're familiar with swamp areas. This isn't anything that is out of the norm for you, and you have your alligator appendages. that give you a little bit of extra dexterity as you make your way to the floor. Grico, you leap wantonly off of the well, and your small goblin body hits a patch of moss, and you bounce and do a goblin roll as you jump to your feet. Gideon and Frost, you watch as your friends are able to... to make their way quickly to the bottom. And you look at each other and you nod,

and as you both jump, you collide with each other. Oh, wow. And you slam into the side of the well and tumble down as you hit the ground feet first on a big mossy stone. Oh, my legs. Oh, my fucking legs. I'm contractually obligated. Both of your legs break as you impact.

Holy shit. Let's see if I could do this. One of your bones is sticky coat of the side, blood mingling with the fetid water. As Gideon, you land on top of them, though your legs don't break. The bone that's sticking out of frost's leg does pierce into your flesh.

Oh! And your large gash appears right around your hip groin area. You've been boned. Ah, he boneed me right. The groin. I'm in so much pain. Get in, get off of me without moving as much as possible. I know I can't.

Oh my God, my... The groin, I'm going to stretch without... I can feel everything, Gideon. My bone. Yeah, you can. Sorry, this fucking hurt. How did I mean it. Come on.

And you're each going to take five points of piercing damage. That's Jesus. Oh, my God. Gringo fix him. Oh, no. I'm a trained healer. I'm a trained healer. Oh, oh, I'm a frustrated.

Banana. Okay. That's good. You got to finish it. You got to finish it all this doesn't work. This is just a regular banana. Large spectral ground is going to appear above me and bang on some large wooden stumps and a giant magical thing of bananas will appear. That's fucked up.

Okay, let me just split this bunch. Oh, take your fucking time. It's just folding half like a damn long chair. Remy, pull Gideon off. Oh. Gideon off. Furn! Bone is removed from Gideon's abdomen.

The marty that was being compressed is released as blood begins to just splurt everywhere. Getting in spurred to take an additional two points of damage.

That looks like a seven banana. Oh God, that's an artery, give. I whip my belt off. This calls for a tourniquet. Don't touch me. You have to get it. No! I'm sorry.

I'm not taking my pants off. Do you even know where this wound is? Oh, God. Would you rather die? Kind of, yeah. All right. Oh, fine. I'll take my pants off.

You, my God, this is weird fucking prismere. I hate this fucking place. I'm punching through the groin. Okay. It's 10 fucking feet in the air, damn it. Just a few more, Frostings. You eat them, but your legs are still, Pushed like this as they fuse together in that position.

Oh, no. Ideally, as this happens, I'm going to use my wild shape as the big spectral gorilla that's going to give me my healing aura. And I'm thinking of like a massage therapist. He's like grabbing the girl. He's using its four arms. You're building a lot of tension in your shoulder. That's where I hold my tension. Oh, manna.

Banana. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I got to be a patch, possible. Okay. Oh. So,

you would be fully healed from that, and I would also give you. Oh, I think you clipped me a little there. Oh, my God. Yeah, you're gonna take another. You're gonna have to fix that. Oh. You're gonna take another point, three points of dictates.

damage. Why did I get the massage course? What? Oh no, you still here. Oh, okay, go off the stresses. She really stretched before working out. Your veins is going up. I'll get that. I have to be your vinyasa flow.

Oh, thank you. And with that, you are now standing. At the bottom of this 10 foot well, you are looking out at the swamp around you. around you and you can hear the insects chirping. That's good bird. The light here you've noticed hasn't really changed that much. The thick fog that enshrouds this place does a really nice job of stamping out the light.

And it is dark here. The floating bugs that have luminescent quality to them help to illuminate the area a little bit. You don't need lamps or lights of your eyes. own you are able to see, but it is dark. And you look forward, imagining which way would be north. And you feel the rush of wind as the fog parts for just a moment. And you see as you spin around and look that far off in the distance, about a mile in front of you, there is clearly a tower that is slanted to the left.

here we go yes see the slanty tower there yeah do you remember what willa told us about the tower we were looking for oh it's a slanty tower we're going to find that

that's the tower Hootsie is but a mile away oh won't she say so let's go Hootsie's so close come on Hussi Are you guys fine? Are you guys fine? Thank you Greg Spi Namaste Namaste Namaste I'm fine now thanks to your bananas and gorilla massage. My legs feel almost perfect.

If I hadn't been wearing my shoes, it would have been much worse. I'm feeling. Give you at least a little bit of traction. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I'm fine, but this one pant leg is ruined. I mean, it's cut all up by bone. We've got one regular pant leg and one that kind of cuts off at the groin. You know, we're a fucking dancer.

We're Dungeons and Dragons adventurer. Your clothes will heal themselves as well as overall. rest. Otherwise, we'd be in shattered, like, shattered rags by the, yeah, tattered rags by the end of an adventure. Oh, well, in that case, I'm fine. You feel free to put your pants back on, though.

Oh, yeah. I was wondering while it's so comfortable. All right, let's go to the fucking Slandy Tower. And with that, you begin to make your way through the swamp. past the mangrove trees. Occasionally the water does begin to rise, and it will rise one foot, two foot, three foot,

and then it starts to go back down. It will rise one foot, two foot, and then go back down. But so far, it hasn't begun to rise the full 10 feet that you had experienced well with the Briggins. Five foot bunch. I literally just watched that like two nights ago. It's such a good movie. I love Beetlejuice.

It's so good. One of my favorite movies of all time. I love it. So do I. It's unreal. Yeah. It's a spectacular thing. It's actually one of my favorite movies.

It is easily one of my favorite movies, Derek. Would you like to talk more about people, do you? Nice fucking model. Yeah, I'm done. Clark Bar. Alex Baldwin. Yes. Mm-hmm.

The scene, we're in that room, and they got like a messed up face. Oh. Got it. The scene where the child protagonist is afraid to go asleep at night because of monsters under the bed? You come together after this harrowing experience, and with repaired legs and repaired loins, you begin to make your way through the swamp. And it is a difficult trek. You are moving at half speed. while wandering through this swamp.

And it takes longer than you had expected. But you do make your way through the trees, and on occasion the winds will blow and the fog will part, and you're able to see bits and pieces of the slanty tower off in the distance. And though you're not getting as close to it as you'd like to in the amount of time, you do notice that you are getting closer to it, and you haven't lost sight of it. but this swamp is different than any swamp that you've been in before.

This is unlike the swamps of Agway that you have all, that you'd all grown accustomed to. Cremie, you had grown up in. This is a swamp that is ever changing. And as you move through it, you begin to notice something strange. That where the pools of murky water had been, it's almost as if they're moving and following you and collecting together until you find yourself staring down at a stream that had not been there before. But it's wide enough that it would be difficult to jump over.

And it looks to be deep enough that you couldn't just walk through it. And there is equality to the water, unlike anything that you'd seen, a shimmering, opalescent quality. and though it's still a shade of green, it's more a pastel seafone green than the dark, grayish, fetid waters of the swamp that you're familiar with.

I need you all to roll a D8. Do we notice this before the 8? 8 roll? Kew? 8. 8, no, 5. What did you? you get.

Eight, eight, five. Oh, who got the eight? Can you re-roll the first eight? Oh, me? Yeah. He rolled the first eight. He rolled the first eight. So re-roll it because you...

Eight. Two. You see this, this water, and you are caught off guard by it. It's... I will say that this role that you're making isn't any kind of a say. It just determines what you see as you look at this water. And as you make your way towards it, Grico, you once again feel a similar feeling to how you had felt atop the well.

That dizziness, that uncomfortability, that sense of being on the verge of unconsciousness as your eyes adjust to the water and all of you begin to see visions. But none of your visions are the same. Gricko, looking down into the water, you watch as a bullywug, bedecked in the trappings of a monarch, constantly adjusts his ill-fitting crown of lily blossoms while leaving through a large tome spread across his lap. Hidden inside the tome is a magazine, clearly labeled bully jugs. That wasn't in the module. No, it wasn't.

I mean, that's funny. I hope that's amazing. I like the idea of him sitting there, like, hiding the fact that he's reading his dirty mag. And so I was trying to think of what a dirty mag for a bullywog would be called in bully jugs gave way. The greatest ally of King Smebulak and Goblin Tobia. But you watch as this as this, um, is this Bullywug monarch is clearly living his day-to-day life. And you watch for five whole minutes. entranced by this

as he leaps through his naughty magazine and occasionally you can't hear the words that are being said. Look away. Look away, man. I can't give him some privacy. You can't hear

the words that are being said but he is clearly interrupted on occasion and has to respond to the people in his life. He's not joking off. Let him finish! Let him finish! He's just bored.

I'm waiting it for the article. Frost. You see a different scene as you stare into the water. A hag with toad-like features relaxes in a pool of water, while miniature versions of her ladle the water and poured over her head and shoulders. Oh. As she bathes in this murky, green algae infested water, these miniature versions.

You have seen these before. One of them appeared to have popped out of nowhere when Hootsie was taken. One of these toad-like creatures was the exact entity that had stolen Hootzee from Grico at the Witch-like Carnival. And you watch as they ladle this disgusting water and pour it over the hag, the toad like hag creature's body as she relishes in it, looking comfortable and cozy and warm. Oh, God, that's saggy. Cremie.

Your vision is different. A sater whistles to himself as he reclines in a metal cage that dangles off the end of a broom over a lake. He doesn't seem to be all that concerned, but trapped he is. relinquishing himself to the life that he is living and the fate that he has found himself in. As he dangles there in the cage, he whistles and hums to himself, just staring off into the distance. Gideon, you see an image, rows and rows of severed bully-wug heads all impaled on spikes. In this one, you can hear as the heads chatter to each other. The water ripples.

And then just as quickly as the visions came, the water begins to sink down into the muck of the earth. And where there had been a river, a shimmering, shining, seafone green waters, there is nothing but muck and algae. What was that? Who was he there?

Yeah, I saw the bulletwork thing. He was talking about from earlier. All the heads. Well, you saw... I mean, there was head involved. The fuck you see? What are you? I thought a new amphibian anatomy, but...

Bully jugs. Oh, well... Wait, good. Tell me exactly what you saw. Well, I saw... Like, like, spikes. Like, field is a... Spikes, man, and bullet-wug heads, Pierre and

other Pierre and Second Pierre and Pierre Garsohn and their heads are just on spikes, just cut off. And I don't know, man, like hundreds, thousands. Just bullywugs. What were they saying? What are they speaking? I mean, they were like chittering, you know?

That's like bully wogs do. Oh, that's what I heard too. Dude, la-g-g-g-g-g-ha-ha-ha. Oh, yeah, it's just like that. That's got glue written all over it. Wait, wait, wait, hold on, when the face is painted? No. Nah, it was clean, you know, normal bully-wugs.

All right, maybe it's not him. Well, you're saying you saw Bullywugs. Maybe I saw A-Bully. Well, I saw Bullywigs. And, Grico, you had that vision as well. The same one that Gideon's telling you that he saw. he saw. It was the exact same thing you saw at the world. That's the vision what killed me with Gideon saw.

I still would have preferred that seat. What are you saying? What'd you get this time? I don't want to talk about it. I think it's important that we all share what we saw. There may be some clue that allows us to unpack this mystery

and protect ourselves from the coven. Yeah, was your brother works face painting? No, no, I don't think it was. I mean, it wasn't his face that was painted. I am regretting my choice as dad something I thought was funny.

That's what I was going to say. Oh, what are you doing? I mean, you're going to do it out of you there. Cool. Yeah, I mean, it's as if the God of the world has given us so much ammunition, it'd be a shame not to use. Frostier

I guess you're right It was a bully work A king of sorts A monarch of sorts And he was Fiddling Well first with his crown What are you done

Dungeon? I do not make good choices Well, play I just don't make good choices. There was just a pamphlet of some kind. And it was Bolly Woggerston with mammalian qualities. I think one of the stars was called the Hawk Mammel. And she, oh, wow, I mean, her, but not.

And then he just, he kept going. And I couldn't look away. You're not making any sense, Greg. Oh, did you watch? You know, five straight minutes. Oh, my gosh. Now he kept getting, I was like, oh God, it's almost over, and as someone interrupted him, it would have killed a vibe.

Please stop interrupting him. Please. It's just, I couldn't. Do you think there's anything to be learned? Well, first he did. And then they're all reacting in horror as this would be the part of the scene where it'll cut away the music. And I'll just be like, and then everyone is reacting at an absolute terror. Yeah.

And some would be like, oh. Okay, I don't know. And then it all. I'm not sure why you were exposed to this vision. You didn't even blank. That seems like totally out of care to compare to these other videos. And what did you see, Frost? The hag that I saw,

because it's been weeks and weeks and weeks ago, can you remind me the name was it? Scabavica. You've never seen it. Skavutov. Oh, but the, so I don't, I saw a toad hag, but you also said it reminded me of the...

No, so what you saw during the witch-like carnival, which would have been a day ago. Yeah. was this tiny little toad-like creature that took Hootsie. Yes. It was not the masked girl that you saw in the mirror. No. What you were seeing in this vision is a large form of that,

and these miniature versions of her that are ladling water on top of her. It's as if she's created these minions in her image. I see. Oh. So I saw the... The toad hag that we saw captured Putsi, but they were all miniature. I hate that little guy. And they were bathing some larger toadish, for life of a better word, hag, I think.

Some sort of... The hags are toad. Like a bullywug or something completely different? It was not like a bullywuck. It had toadish features. You think it's... This is what she looks like. Oh!

So he had toadish features. Very, I propose. Toad-like in quality and posture, but she was bathing. And they were ladling this swampy water on top of her. So you're telling me, you spent five minutes watching the king polish his crown. And you spent five minutes watching some lady bathe? You have some kind of weird perverted vision? Well, that's what I mean.

No, what I saw was some Sater in a gilded cage. He was just in loving his life. enjoying, you know, whistling and smoking out a corned carp or something. I mean, he was just, he was having a good old time, but he was trapped, and he didn't mind. There must be some thread to all these

pictures. There was a book that he was hiding his pamphlet in, a tomb of shorts. I feel like that might be the important thing, and I'll just caught him in a very inopportune time. It's what

is what I'm starting to to register here. I feel inclined us to write your vision just off entirely. There's got to be an answer to every vision, Grammy. I guess we wrote the DA, if it's got to be...

There's got to be an answer to every vision. Oh, so we know that there's some kind of frog king. Oh! And perhaps the tome is a source of his power. And the crown is ill-fitting. You know what that means, don't you?

Then you get to finish. Okay, you are your guess, Cramme. You know what that means. He's not fit to begin. And why, Frosty? You supper. Why would you jump to that conclusion? Because if the crown of lilies was made for a monarch of frogs or toads or bollywugs,

it would have fit to that monarch perfectly. Maybe he got turning to a frog. Or perhaps it is the young or the young son or daughter of a monarch who recently passed and perhaps has not grown up to destation. But either way. Maybe he's just shirking his duties. He's overseeing a failing kingdom, you know? I know it's like. Like Boer King that's, you know, sort of coming to terms with his maturity.

I feel like the crown doesn't fit because someone else. was king, a monarch, and then they usurped it. Or have risen, the old king monarch is missing. Wait, is that these civilians crown? Rich, without showing what's on the other page and without what's looking on the other page, can you show Bevlorna to chat they wanna see? Oh shit.

So. Okay, let's get. Don't look, Mace, don't look. like hide this with like a book. Here, use the back of these papers. The bag of these papers, that's exactly right, Gricko. Oh, that's not Sca Bufo. I could have sworn that it was

going to be scabrefer. Hold on. Yeah. Oh, she got... Ooh. Oh, she kind of... Oh. Oh. I don't care for it. Oh, Frosty, the way you describe it, she

actually also, she looks like a toad, but she kind of looks like those gross turtles you see at the swamp with the noses. Well, bear in mind, when I saw her, she was entirely nude. Oh yeah. It's probably, yeah, not... That's true? Yeah. Did she say, oh wow. I'll miss that. Why a hag

is always bathing and stuff? She was being washed by a bunch of frogs. She's being held up by some sort of root system. Oh, like a little bit. Oh, I hate everything about this description of the Frosty. You're so detailed I can paint a picture in my head. Yes, yes. Well... In me head.

Wow. It's hard to push the details out of my mind, having seen her naked in this fashion. Man, I think I actually prefer. heard more vision. Nose is a good point. Good news, everyone. I've invented the thing longer.

Oh, it's the thing longer. She has the thing longer. Okay. Good news, everyone. To shreds, you say. So... That soothes the savage beast. I'm going to take that back.

What is this piece of paper? Oh, the stage is set in a grand hall. Um, do you think the swamp is trying to tell us something? What do you mean? It's a lump itself. Yeah, because you know how to swamp? We saw that it went kind of like pastel, like Lisa Frank, before.

It wasn't neon like Lisa Frank. Okay. It was like a light. Seafo. Like an algae? Was it like algae like or was it kind of like, I'm thinking like Easter pastoral, like what I would hope of the favorite, what I would imagine pre-horrible, bevorner? Yes. Okay. See, did you notice the color there? It was nice and cheerful.

Perhaps that is the remnants of the original swamp or whatever this place was, a meadow. Maybe it's like Sabil, trying to help us and show us a vision with a limited power. Maybe that's just, you know, it's very perceptive. I agree, Grico. I think that we should continue to, it doesn't feel like the curses when we are transformed. This was a vision that I felt lucid and had my agency. I was still frost. It makes it feel safer or perhaps something worth trusting. What do you think she's trying to tell us?

Maybe that that witch killed all the bullywugs and, I mean, there's a... Just the knowledge. The information will allow us to defend ourselves or perhaps find some way to free her or solve the puzzles of McEaven. Wait a minute. What order did the unicorns tell me? Dags. Let me think back.

Yeah, my memory is not quite great. It was. I want to say this is scabify, but I want to make sure that I'm correct. Oh, this is called the Faye Wildnodes. I'm way too far back. What is the question that you're asking? I wanted to think,

if I could remember what order the unicorns told me of the hags. I think it would be very clear to you that this is Bevalourne of Lightstra. Okay. I just want to make sure. Livorno was first and then I stopped writing, but I wrote down Bluhrana first, yeah.

So if I'm interpreting this Zibyona, let me know, come back to us in your pastel greatness, is that what Frosty saw was Bavlona Brightstraw. Blight. Blight. and she's a frog, a toad, a turtle, a thumb, a swamp thing.

And her little gross fellas are all little gross hers. And what I think is that Bollywug heads severed. Gideon saw it. I saw it. The usurper, a coup, a great coup, a great massacre of Bollywugs. Uprising.

with the tome of importance. Hopefully the pamphlet's not of importance. Bully jugs? Bolly jugs is another important. It's called body jugs. Of importance. And that the crown does not fit because they beheaded all of the frogs.

And then, we must seek out to the satyr who is trapped in a gilded cage. I mean, so... Oh, go ahead. What do you think? You think this, the... The...

hag somehow sided with this unfit monarch to overthrow a Bullywug kingdom and gave him the power to like kill him and then you know somehow the Sater is maybe relevant or maybe the Sater was on the Bullywugs team and so she locked him away the Sater probably has some sort of power knowledge that he that he is he or she is an asset that they can't kill that person Sater and so we must rescue them from that gilded cage. And you know, as the great professor once said, those who wish to be must

oh, never mind. We I feel like that's something that's weird. We know we have an idea of what's happening and this is all crazy tricks. I think maybe it's just the key players of Prisman

maybe. Could be there too. Well, maybe just hither or thither, whichever one we're in. Well, I think it's hither. And we are learning what's happening right now. The key players is not- We need you all to roll wisdom saving third. Who? 18 for Rico.

I'm gonna roll the charm. Wait, Hootsie's gonna roll the ball. I'm getting the balloon. E! O'Dar four. Nine total. So cool. Oh, I'm actually proficient. Derek?

18. Okay. You, Grico, you are saying this as all of a sudden your body locks up all four of you. And your eyes go milky white. As you begin to see a vision appear to all of you. Grico, a headless, child-sized scarecrow with metal lobster claws for hands tries on some new heads, including an upside-down wooden bucket and a withered head of cabbage. It decides on a large gourd.

Your eyes flutter and you look around and it looks like it's gotten darker, almost as if an hour, maybe two has passed. Cremie. Actually, we'll go with Frost. Frost, you see, you feel dizzy. You see two marrow swim past each other in murky water. And then you come to, feeling as if a few hours of paths. Gideon, a short, mean-looking old woman wearing a crimson cap, a leather apron, and iron boots,

uses a cleaver to chop meat in a drab kitchen. And lastly, Kremie, you all watch as Kremi stands there. His eyes milky white, as his body shakes and convulses. His eyes move back and forth rapidly as he is apparently seeing a vision. A tall, thin figure wearing a pointy black hat and a hooded black cloak climbs a rickety staircase leading up to a large ramshackled house built on stilts. As the figure approaches the house, their shadow seems to detach from their body. Move across the walls of the house and crawl through an open window.

And as you come to, You all gain your bearings, and you realize it doesn't just feel like a couple of hours have passed. A couple of hours have definitely passed, and it is, night has come to the swamp. We get the fuck away from here. I saw more visions. We need to make it to, at least the foot of the tower. We don't have to go inside, but we need to make camp anywhere but the swamp. When I'm making camp to, we get hootsy.

I don't know what that strange thing I just saw is. We can discuss it while we're right. running to Hootsey the mile, it'll take us in difficult terrain. We should have gotten there long ago. It only looked like a mile away, but there's no way of telling. We walk until we absolutely can't anymore, but we can't let our guard down. I'm gonna glance over my shoulder and look for my shadow

and realizing that it's dark and that I wouldn't have a shadow. Yeah, we should fucking go. Yeah, we should get out of here. Beid the way, go, go, go, go. You begin to move quickly. through the swamp. And it, hours pass. But there are no

convalescing of swamp waters obstructing your path. There are no will of the wisp that ask you to listen. There are no bands of brigands that accosts you, surround you, and steal from you. You are, for the most part,

unhindered as you make your way towards the slanty tower. And as the night continues to progress, the winds get stronger and thicker. You see a tornado build off in the distance, swirling fog around as it forms and then disappears, not strong enough to take its full form. And as the wind moves through, you perpetually gain glances of slanty tower as it gets larger and larger and larger as you get closer and closer. until eventually you make your way to your destination. A crumbling stone tower rises out of the swamp, leaning at such an angle that it threatens to keel over.

Black brambles surround the base of the tower and cling to its lower half. Hanging from the crenellations on the lower side of the tower's peak is a large woven basket at the end of a tangle of ropes and tattered fabric. The basket dangles 30 feet above the surface of the swamp. You look around and you see that the brambles are thick and they have been growing for many, many, many years. It would be difficult to make your way through them at this point. You can get close, but it's going to take some work to get to the base of the tower

should you choose to do so. Hootie! Ootie, uh, are you in there? I can... Shish! Shush? Shush! Where are you dealing with Hootsey?

I'm in a bit of a bind, as you can observe. I, Sir Talaver, is one of the Summer Queen's loyal servants, asked that you free me. You see, I was in the midst of a daring escape from the vile bevelorn of light straw when our balloon was set upon by a little wind instead plummeting to its current unfortunate location. My pilot, the Honourable Wiggle-Wog, did not survive.

I've been trapped up here for a while now. Help me, I must tell my queen of the fall of Prismere. And I have this injured owl bear that made its way upon the winds of the tornado. Oh, and two serpents are asleep in the brambles just outside the tower door. If you awaken them, they might put the squeeze on you. Or worse, devour me.

And that is where we'll end the session. Uh, hootsie! Hootsie! Hootsie! Bootsie! A very charming little explorer. fellow. Oh, real quick, get, while I'm thinking about it, can I get my belt back?

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