Legends of Avantris - Once Upon a Witchlight | Ep. 50 | The Getaway Gangarang

Episode Date: October 7, 2024

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Welcome to Legends of Adventress. Torbeck's name is Torbeck, and you're listening to Once Upon a Witchlight. Here's what happened last time. There is only one ruler of Brismere, and that is Sibylna. Utilize the stolen cauldron of ancient magics, and the unicorn wall that you now hold in your hand. To put the palace of Hearts Desire in a time stop. Undoing this magic will take quite a few.

A few powerful magical artifacts. One, you will have to fell the foul beast that guards the castle, the Jabalock. But you will need to find someone to help. Somewhere in Prismere is a warlock. The warlock is patron, is Baba Yagar. It is through her that you will be able to learn more about the cauldron. You will have to gain her favor. There is an oil can named Squirt.

Alright. You can find him at Little Oak. Little Oak, okay. With a getaway gang. Let us away, gentlemen. We are heading to Little Luke to meet the one and only Will of the Fay Wild. When you look up ahead and you see that there appears to be a small bit of a clear-yel, maybe another crossroads or a fork in the road.

Excuse me, young lady. Do you need a strap and young lad to help you? What happened here? Are you all right? I'm on my way to Loom Lurch. I've got a... A favor to ask of Granny Malachshade. And as you look, you see that the forest is thinning out around.

And in the very center, towering over the rest of the trees, you see a giant oak. I think you now know, is known as little oak. A small rapscallion of a boy leaps from the tree house and slams into the ground in front of you. As he looks up at all of you, he says, Stand down! Or face my merry hell! You have been traveling through Thither for quite some time now. Just recently you had spent some time at the Wayward Pond where you had met the

unicorn Lemurna and learned about how she had been separated from her lost love. And she was near inconsolable. Had it not been for the vision that Cremie, your character's name is Cremian, that's No, it's Briggsby. You gotta stop! You have two. Too many lizard folk, warlocks. That's just my lizard folk warlock.

Oh my god. Literally, my mind went completely blank and I'm like, which one is it in this one? Which one is it? It's brimpy. Cremie. If it hadn't been for the vision that Cremie had seen

of the unicorn, the hornless unicorn held captive in what you now know to be yawn. It is with this information that you are able to gain the allegiance of this unicorn. And who knows what that may bring for all of you, but you do have a powerful ally at your hands. You just have to fulfill the deal of bringing her lost love back to her.

It is with that information that she provides you with some more information that you needed to know about Granny Nightshade. You have learned about her visage. that she is toy-like in nature, that she runs a workshop at Lume Lurch, and that she has a key in her back, that depending on the way it turns,

can determine what her actual mood is, regardless of what she may be saying at the time, a great way for you to determine deceit from truth. And she also gives you information about a, about a tree where you can find a group of young boys, a group of kids actually, that have escaped from Granny Nightshade, that may have additional information

on how to infiltrate loom lurch and possibly more information on how to acquire that which you seek. And it is with that information that you make your way from the wayward pool, wayward pond, and journey further, deeper, into thither. Until you come to a crossroads and you meet an elderly woman

who had just recently lost her husband, she was kind, if not a bit strange, but you were able to make a quick ally as she was headed directly to loom lurch for her own purposes. And though you may not completely agree with the choices that she's making in her life, you do imagine that should you both, should you find yourselves at loom-lurch together, that you could help each other in some way.

So you at least know one ally that you will have at loom-lurch itself. And as you part ways, you continue in the direction that even she told you she believed the children to be. It doesn't take long before you eventually leave the tree line and find yourself in an outcrombing, overshadowed by an incredibly large tree. Little oak is what you've come to know it to be. And at first it is quiet.

You see swings that hang down from the canopy, a large tree house embedded in the branches itself. As you scout out, this place looking for any signs of habitation, you eventually hear the sounds of creaking boards as a small boy leaps from the canopy from the balcony of the treehouse and lands directly at your feet, pointing a small dagger at you. He calls out and questions your purpose here and what you are doing in, what you were doing at Little Oak and it is here that you stand

this small boy is staring out at you having just said the words stand down or face Mary Hell as he points to stagger at all of you looking between you. You look up at the treehouse and you see other small forms peeking up over the wooden railing that surrounds it. You see

small faces looking out of the windows of the treehouse you even notice scattered throughout the canopy of the tree itself, children are hanging there, hiding, watching, waiting to see what will happen. Do I recognize this child? You do not? No, no!

He's got me! Well, you, I would say there is a very, there is a similarity to the image that you saw on the wanted poster, but it's very clearly a drawing and it's not a... So I would say you could look at it and be like, that's clearly Will of the Fay Wild. Dormack screams and immediately tries a high-vite.

There's a hide behind Griko. Ah, he's got a knife! Get back here and she'd get back to him! And he like shrinks behind Grico, like, oh, you know. All standing scrunched up. Yeah, be scared. You've come into my domain. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Don't you disrespect me a little man. Don't you disrespect me in my home. Crocodile. What did you just call me, kid? I called you a crocodile. You think I'm a crocodile? What else would you be? You've ever heard of a fucking alligator before?

Watch your tone here, crocodile. There are children present. I think I can let this one slide. What do you think, you? Well, I don't know, man. I mean, it doesn't seem to know anything about alligators. It's kind of just blatantly disrespectful. I mean, I think it'd take about half a punch from you.

What do you think? I mean... I'd like to see you try. I mean... You don't want to be punched for you. like Gideon, he's quite the funny. He'd have to catch me first. Let me ask you.

And he's quite fat and large. Do you know how many clowns? Gideon is absolutely manslaughter? That's how strong he is. Well, good thing I'm not a man. Well, you have to be a man. You have to be a clown. He's to be a man slaughtered.

He's got you there, actually. You'll good. You'll good. Damn. Fuck. This kid's sharp. He really is. He really is.

Not as sharp as my blade. And he twists it and points it. the back at you? If you don't know what an alligator is, I'm gonna presume you don't realize what a fucking bounty you have on your head. What did I say about watching your words? All right. They're children present.

Guys, how are we losing this? Be smarter! Perhaps we should leave in defeat. Yes, to my friend's point, despite his vulgarity, you are aware that you have a bounty on your head, are you not? Yeah. All right. Are you doing anything about that or?

Defending my home. I don't think you know who we are. Look, I'm just going to put it out that. We could end things in about three seconds flat. Just I think for comparison, just so you know, I would love to negotiate. I'm not scared of you. You anger me. You anger the tree. You anger the tree.

You anger the forest. Where do you think you are, crocodile? Smack dab in the middle of the forest. I like those odds. Look, I'll acknowledge I'm in your world now, not my world, all right? And I'm happy to talk. You understand?

What I'd like to know. Who are you and what brings you to Little Oak? Well, I guess we should do proper introductions instead of fucking screaming. What did I say? Say about your words. Sorry, look. This is gonna-

What? What a do? Your name's Cremma LeCrew, and this is Carnivala Crew. We are a band. I can't say any of that. What? Huh?

What? I'm gonna call you crocodile. Why don't you just call me? Cram. Cren? Crocky. Fine. Crock.

You can call me whatever you want. Mascot platform. What? Well, I was thinking too. All right, crocky. And my name is Morning Frost. You can call me Morning Frost. No.

Is he crocky, too? No. I haven't decided what I'm going to call him yet. My name is Little Green. This is Big Red. Whatever you do, don't call him a bitch. Don't say those words here. There are children present.

Bitch? Can you say that? Hey! It's a little inappropriate. D'Rbeck's name is Dorebeck. I can say that one. Why does Scabatha want you so bad? Answer my question first. What are you doing in Little Oak?

We're in Little Oak to better understand why Scabatha wants you so bad. She's no ally of Oz, and maybe she's an enemy. But the prize for turning you in It's pretty high. So you're here because you think you can claim the prize. Well, I know I can claim the prize. You're a kid, I mean, wait a kid. They indicated that he was under the protection of this tree.

If we were to threaten you or the children, would the tree magically come to life and defend you? Is that how that works? Wouldn't magically come to life. It's already alive. then can we talk to it? He's the king of the trees, he's the treemeister. Oh, wow.

This is the king of the trees in this forest? Yeah. We're in the presence of royalty! How can we know for sure that this tree is alive and it's also king? Little Oak, and you watch as the tree begins to sway and move, the tree house creaks, but the tree doesn't move in a way that would risk breaking it, as you watch as two large limbs, not holding any of the children,

slam down one right after the other on the ground. On either side of you, dust puffs up around you. You begin to choke on the dirt as it's puffing up around you. Thanks, buddy. Thank you. Pleasure to meet you, Little Oak. Well, if Little Oak doesn't like Scapefah, and he's the king of trees,

why doesn't he have the last march of the the trees? What? And like blow up lunar lurch. What? Bhabba, bha, bb, bb, bha, bha. You know what I mean? Yeah, so you could, bbba, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, that seems boggress.

And you think that you, buffoons, could take me all of, all of the getaway gang. Little Oak and all of the trees. Without little oak, I think that we'd almost certainly be able to, or a role of your friends and you. That's exactly what I was going to say, bro. It kind of seems like what you're known for is just getting away. It doesn't seem like very good at five.

Then I guess it doesn't sound like you'd be able to get me and turn me in for that prize then, does it? Torbeck doesn't have any interest in that, but if you don't have the knife, Torbeck has like 20 feet of reach. The Torbeck's very long. It would be tough to get you. get away from Torbeck.

Nah, that Tormec is suggesting that he would do anything like that. All I'd have to do is tie your ankle hair together and you wouldn't be able to chase me. You'd be shockingly surprised how easy the fur detaches from Torbeck's legs. It's actually probably a condition. Ew. Yeah.

Okay. I'm gonna use my parenting skills to defeat use a situation. Please, please. Uh, little boy, this is an elder speaking. I'm taller than you. If, fuck. Watch your language. Fuck!

Watch your language! If you will let us up and parley with us, we will grant you a fly pad and a CQGGubble Robot, Robert, Rectangle trousers, Pops and Gets. I've thrown some V-Bugs, too. And we will give you 20 V-Bucks. Yes. We have V-Box?

Have you guys been holding out on tour back? What's a fucking, what a V-bux? I don't know. I'm on the Crevy-Aggler. Just make shit up. Oh, man. We will parlay with you, and we will come up with a plan to join your revolution,

and destroy Loomlutch and all of the inhabitants inside. What? That's the last thing that I want. We will do the opposite of destroy Loomluch and all of the inhabitants inside. We will just kill Scabatha. So do you want to kill Scabatha or do you want to turn me in for a prize? Which is it, Crook? I never said, I wanted to turn you in.

He threatened it. I wanted to discuss and negotiate, and I just made you aware of the bounty on your head. Does that work for you? Sometimes. What the adult does. All I'm saying is... It's because adults are scared of everything. These adults aren't hip like little greenies.

Why do you think bending over at a 45 degree angle with your arms across makes you cool to kids? Exactly. Damn, that was all I had left. That was a amount of ideas. The hat. Oh! Oh! I'll reach him and I'll grab.

Don't want you to get around. I'll reach in and I'll grab, I'll pull out my hat. Okay, that's, how about now? That's even worse. Oh, Torbay thinks you look pretty cool. What do you think this is Saturday morning in the 90s? I think, Jack, you'll be in whack. His name is Will.

Oh, come on, Will, don't dawn on that hill. Pretty good. I'm going back to threaten it now. Well, I do want to say. see Scabatha brought down. Granny Nightshade is a thorn in everybody's side. Well- I'm not letting you up into the clubhouse just yet.

That'd be stupid, especially with the threats the Crock has made. But you know what we'll do? If you'll agree to a drink among friends, we'll talk right here, where Little Oak and the getaway gang can watch. So that way if you step one foot out of line. Offering you and the Giddiquet gang,

will find these adults can really hang. You can call me morning floss. I wish I was dead. I hate these guys. Very cool. What is this feeling that Dormack has? Dormack feels embarrassed but I didn't say anything. It's called Cribb.

All right, we can share a drink, rum of whiskey. Huh? Rum, I got some rum, Gives got some whiskey, take your pick. It's true, we won't drink alcohol. What you're trying to get drunk with a bunch of kids, freak? Will you offer to drink? What other drink

could you possibly be intended? Yeah. We want to drink like tree sat? Uh, no. Blood? Morning mist. Morning mist? He looks over at you, stealing names.

My name? What? You know, it happens during the morning, There's no need to be so pissed. We'll join you for some morning mist. I'm not. I'll let you handle this one. I think it's working. Is he morning mist a drink? Yeah. Oh, oh. Well, they probably should have called me before they named it. I'm going to call my lawyer right away. One moment, please.

Sloan, can you get us some morning miss, please? Sue the Faywild. Little Oak, can you make us some stumps? And you watch as a ring of stumps appears in the middle of this area, all in varying heights to accommodate your different sizes. And then one that's just slightly higher than Grickos for Will. And he takes a seat as you watch as a ginger-haired. female wood elf begins to climb down the tree.

She runs around behind it and then you watch as she scampers over. She has a very kind face and she looks at all of you and smiles and then looks at Will who scows at her and she goes, and she attempts to make her face look angry, but she seems very, she seems very curious about all of you as she holds up what are clearly the large bluebell flowers and inside of them is a sparkling pale blue liquid that seems to be the condensed collection of mist in the morning of the Faywild and she begins to pass them out to you this one's for you morning frost thank you're welcome yeah this one's for you little green oh thanks on the hip give me some skin

And she goes to slap your hand and then she looks over it well. She goes, oh, just take it. Too slow. Yeah. She drops the clock. Oh no. I'll grab it, I'll say, why does it say morning and scratch it out it says Sierra? It's very interesting.

And she goes around in this manner to all of you handing out these flowers filled with this bubbling liquid. I'm assuming that cremey actually like spikes his all known like this. What do you think? Yeah, meza. Cheers. How is the cake?

You all begin to drink? Yeah. Yeah. It is, it has a little bit of a natural fizz to it. But it is, it is just very lightly sweet, effervescent, and it is. and as you drink it down, there's no citrus. It's almost a floral note to it.

And you're unable to tell if it's because of the vessel it was sitting in or the liquid itself. But you, when you open your mouth afterwards, a bit of mist begins to spill out, just a small amount. And you eventually drink down the entire flower of Morning Mist and Will just watches you curiously. So, your issue with Scabatha then, huh? You make a bum deal.

Trying to get back something you lost. Well, I guess we sort of made a few deals, we did. There's really nothing we lost. A friend of ours, I guess you could say, she lost something. And we kinda owe somebody else. You begin to feel a bit woozy. Something that, what was I saying?

You all right, man? I'm just feeling a little. Anyway, I was saying, oh, yeah. You spiked your drink, right? I mean, I put a little bit of rum in mine. Again, did you spike your drink? Oh, yeah. You also begin to feel woozy.

We talked to a hag who said, there's a pain with my fucking dumbass What did I say about your language? Oh my God, I'm so sorry I said. This is quoting, you know, I mean, she really did. She was dumb. Are you both feeling okay? And ugly.

I'm gonna address my strategy, lads. I've got to be. Okay. What? That's what happened, right? For real, for real, this drink be skibitty, phantom tacks, on God. Ski-y.

What? This ain't no Ohio drink. Oh my God, you are not doing this. You're a straight Rizla, for real, for real. giving me this skibbitty drink. Ah, we've been poisoned! Mike, Mr. Grin'i are dropping like four eyes. Mike, please take an inspiration.

That was really good and I hate you for it. That would be fucking Oluiser. I'll look at Koo, see it, and she's looking horrified, like, I'm gonna like look at Grick-Koo and like just see if that worked, like, He seems very, very confused. I have no idea what you're talking about right now. Few of us ever do.

But he looks up, you notice, actually roll a group, Insight check. Oh, you roll dice in this fucking time. You do. Wait, what are you rolling? Insight. Insight. Torpeg got an eight.

I think I'm proficient in that. Let me check. Oh my god. With D&D beyond. That is wasted. That is not. Am I doing normal? The two of you, you're not like incapacitated.

You're just feeling a little bit woozy. Just a little tipsy. Yeah, just a little bit tipsy where you're like, hmm, that hit a little harder than you would have expected. Man, snuck up on me. Inset, you say? Really open the blood vessels, you know. Yeah, it's like drinking out on an empty stomach. 19.

I got a 13. Eight. Three, okay. Nine. Yeah, no, that was a really, really shitty group insight, jane. It was really awful. Yeah. No, there were only two of you that got higher than a 10.

We don't know what children like. We ran a carnival. What matters? What the parents are going to spend money on? Oh, that's really important, man. He looks at you very, very confused as you're probably clearly looking up a Gen Z speak. Ohio Riz. Skibbitty toilet.

Skibbidi, Ohio Fountains. Can you explain what the Ohio thing is? You just looked it up, so you must know. None of those words are in the Bible.

Freaking sweet Lois. They made hoarse beyond my comprehension. It's sand undertail. I always come back. Purple guy. You're gonna try to kill us. He's just watching you very confused.

Oh, Phanos is in Fortnite. Huh? Panos? Arianna Grande. Is it Ariana Grande? Phil? Do you want Frost to do the Flossin again? I can't do the Flossin.

No, I just want to do the Flossin' game. No, I just want to do the Flossin' game. He answers the story. The Los Angeles Lakers? Huh? I'm dating Fortnite. I don't know. Oh, it's the Globetrotters.

Oh, they have 11 from Stranger Things now. That's the latest skin. I'm looking up Fortnite. Yeah, it was only available for 24 hours. Is that true? Yeah, all of the stranger thing stuff was only 24 hours, so if you didn't get it, it's gone. I got it.

I'm at a 90 degree angle. Oh, whoa, Prada. Prada, and Marriott Bonvoy. Well, that's all in Fortnite, too. You can be Marriott Bonvoy in Fortnite. How does that work? I don't know. But it's real, I swear.

He very clearly just wants you to answer the question. Look, we wouldn't mind kill a scabber. If that's what you're getting at. Right? Look, we just come out and fucking say it, all right? We can kill the hag, and if that helps you, then maybe you can help us. What do you want from the Getaway gang?

Well, I kind of like Bricko's idea of like, all the trees come alive and it's like, da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. And they start throwing. Oh, yeah, but that's... Man, a very ironic reversal, they all destroyed. Scabrefire. And loonage, but not everyone inside, just scapify.

Is there some kind of like dam they could break to, like, flood the beach? place or... While Scabatha's in power, the trees can't do that. Oh. Oh, really? Well... You think if they could march against her, they wouldn't have already done it?

You're not Scabatha. They could kill you so easy. Well, I have an idea. I think we do turn you in for a part with a twist. Mm. Refreshing. I'm about to take away your inspiration. more. It's just staying plus five. That's what they're hard.

Yeah. Yeah, for a five dragger. But it's all going to be a ruse, you dig. You're all being chained, but it won't be any change and we get you through the gates and you're all prisoners. But it'll be like, oh no, that's whack. That's crazy. And then we say surprise, scabuffa, and then we murder her and you break out all the kids. And it is a, it's a false. Production. The end.

If you pretend to be our prisoners, we'll be able to get close to scabith and kill her. Why would I ever trust you with my life in that way? Yeah, that's kind of dangerous to put a kid in that position, guys. Especially when you walk in here and threaten me first. We never threatened you. Crock? That's called negotiation, all right? Clearly you haven't read how to influence people and make friends.

and they tell you all about. And neither of you. Well, I don't think the advice is very good. I gotta protect the kids. It's not like I wanna stab people to come to Little Oak. Yeah. How many have you killed? I don't want to talk about it.

It's a lot. I'm a hardened killer. Yeah, yeah. A lot of throats cut. But the thing is, they've, he points up to the tree, the tree. They've been through a lot. They were stolen from their homes. Skabatha steals children through dreams. They don't even have to come to the Faye Wild. What? They can be having nightmares at home in their bed. And then they're just here working in her factory, making her horrific

little toys, all because she hates kids so much. These children are not from the Faye Wild? They are from the primaterial blame? Some of them are. Some of them are. Just depends. She'll take children however she can. She's evil. She's awful. She's the worst. We gotta do something! And these, these, the Getaway gangs, they're just the ones that I was able to save. They're the scrappy ones that were able to get out

on their own and I found wandering the forest. There's so many more at Loon Lurch right now. Imprisoned. Well, what's your secret, man? How have you been breaking them out? Well, I have a secret of my own. I don't know if I trust you yet enough to tell you, but I know loom lurch like the back of my hand. I know things about it that Scabatha doesn't realize I know.

I know entrances, I know exits. I know the timing of the guards. And that's how you've been able to allude her for this entire time. Yeah. And with your knife, occasionally perhaps doing something. Yeah. Look, I think you and I are more alike than we either of us realized. I mean, we're both trying to protect our found family. Isn't that right?

Yeah. We've both ended up in situations where you might have to cut the throat of a frogman stalking you through the swamp, just so you don't get track to a carnival where you're doing a job to get a one-up on the frogman's boss. Did you spike your drink? Well, I mean, spikes a relative term. I enhanced it a little bit. Yeah, it was barely a deal. Yeah. Yeah.

Ooh, I want to apologize in advance for what's gonna happen to you. Aw, are they gonna die? Oh, man. I'm sorry, what? Aw. Does the morning- I didn't know if I could trust you.

Oh. So you did put some- So you poisoned us. No, I gave you morning mist. I wanted to see if I could trust you. What are the ingredients? Blaze Taltourbeck immediately was going to happen?

Well, Morning Miss makes you more susceptible to the magic's in the Fay Wild. Things are probably gonna get crazy soon. And it will all be for the entertainment of the kids. You know, but for them. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. But so here's the thing. Before all of that happens, I think that we could easily come

to some kind of agreement, We still need to know that we can trust you, right? I mean, sure, we're gonna laugh at what's gonna happen to you soon, and we'll all revel in the inconvenience that we have caused you here today. But when all of that said and done, you could do us a couple of favors,

show that your heart's in the right place. Mainly one specific favor. All right. You do that? Well, what's the specific favor? Yeah, it depends on how bad this poison is. Yeah, how long is you're gonna lie? We should wait until after the effects to greet it.

Yeah. Well, I think you should agree to it now, and then after the effects, as long as you still do it, it shows that your loyalty is pretty sound. That was very suss and not winner-winner-win chicken dinner up you. Yeah, I'm kind of a scamp. Just playing ourselves. Oh, that we're back in the Torbanks inside,

are gonna be Torbaks outsides, I think they start sprang genitalia all over the place. Why does this always happen to us? I'm worried about the colors. Your metabolism is really gonna determine what happens to you now. What happens next is up to your metabolism. That's always the case.

Oh. So what we need from you is is there's only one way out of ya, that we know of. and that's an oil can named squirt. Wait, yawn or? Sorry, to yawn, out of thither. Okay, all right, I'm tracking.

As much as Endelin is probably the worst of them all, when it comes to kids, nothing's worse than Granny Nightshade. And if I could get the getaway gang out of thither, and at least into yawn, then maybe, If we could bring Little Oak, maybe we would be able to survive or find a way to get home. Your cause is a righteous one.

We agree. I think we would agree regardless of the fact that we'd already made packs of our own to confront the grain. Yeah, we'll start a few. Hold on. Mr. Remmey-Roehm. I'm not giving you any kind of contract. Magic Rosloff, King of Hearts.

Pavlona Blightstraw. Unicorn lady. What was that, the horse person? Oh. Diana Cloppington. Diana Cloppington. Just draw an arrow and put it in there. Gringe mime. That bug bear's brother. Oh yeah. Curly, a mermaid.

Hurley. Hurley. Hurley. Wasn't it Palasha? Yes, Palash and the mermaid. Oh, oh, Miss Kettlestein. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that's a little error.

I'm going to draw a little bird. That's cute. You know something for getting? Oh, oh, bloody toes. Yeah, bloody toes. Yeah, gosh, I hope that they do not. We revolved everything with the Keith lady, right? In the mountain.

Pictoonia. Yeah. Pictoonia. Yeah. Oh, who's that? What about the guy in the cage? Oh, Pictune you handled that, too. Thank God for Big Duny.

So Talavar, he's good. Okay. The frog prince, he's good. Yeah, no, he's done. He's done. Who was that? Was that Pierre in the cooking show? Oh, no, Pierre never got his head back. Oh, he should probably make amends with Pierre, too.

Okay. All right, Morgue. What is she good? Oh, Morgue. She's not good. Oh, we got to make good about a Wiggle Lung. Oh, okay. I'm gonna put more go into that. Okay.

More go. We really do need a whiteboard. Yeah. What's the damage? A lot. And we'll add Will the Faywild of this list. William Walk? Get in the fucking line.

I mean the cue. Here's a copy. I don't need that. Oh. You bought like the yellow page that the carbon copy. Oh, oh, oh, Willa, Willa, Willa, Willa, Willa, Willa. Willa the Whist. Not to be confused, Willem to Faywildewild.

Will of the Whisp. Oh, gosh. Whatever happened to her? Oh, Twig. Oh, fuck. Twig. Oh, isn't there a pumpkin head guy? Yes, the...

Oh, he's fine. Yeah. Oh, clap of course. I'm scratching that one. I'm counting that as a complete plus. That feels good. Check it off. You got the skull back?

Mm-hmm. Oh, the little girl. Who? Was that? Was she metaphorical? Was she real? What are you talking about? Willa.

You're talking about Will of the West. No, no. The little girl in a tower. was actually importantly. Lordana. Zabilma. Oh, that was like a, well then we all got horribly killed my. Yeah. She had no.

That's . I don't know if she's real or not or what. I mean, I think we could add Jabber Walk just because we owe him a... Yeah, fuck that guy. The Vangel. Yeah, that's a cake, but. Hold on, hold on, Devil Walk.

Goal, okay. What about that real depressing guy? Duncan? Duncan? No, not that. That's not. The boyfriend's dressing. The guy who was missing his heart.

Did we get his armad? Something, whatever guy. You found his heart. Oh, he didn't want it back, right? Hearts right. No, I don't think that he didn't want it back. I just can't remember if we, like, for the sake of brevityed that part. Or if you just left it there in the ice spots.

What about that naked Seder? Oh, we just let him go. We just let him go. We just let him go. And he said, ooh, to loo, too, too late. Yeah, didn't he give you something? He turned out. Yeah.

He gave you... No, Torbay something. Have a beautiful room! Yeah, no, he's good. Okay, naked satyr in the cage. But we don't know the deal. He turned to a fucking bird. We should figure out what his deal was.

He probably... Okay, I cried it again and then give it to the... Chat saying pig tunia took the heart back to. Oh, thank you, big tuna, okay? Depressing guy, all for here. Pig tunia, fantastic. Yeah, fucking pit junior. So all we have to do is fine an oil can.

I mean, I guess technically we need it anyway, right? Who can? Because we're going to be on. Squirt's upstairs in the tree house. Oh, I don't know. But squirt can't really help with anything, because how he works is that you gotta fill him with boggle oil.

And when squirt does things, well, he squirts. And so there's bog. Okay, you pervert. Okay, he's an oil can. We didn't say anything. I didn't say nothing. You don't hear the one if it's a bird. I didn't.

You pervert. I don't have been excited about this. This gets a fucking pervert is what I'm saying. Everything that Schwartz does uses his oil.

And he's been working with us for a while and now all of his oil is depleted. Well, the only place to get the oil is Lomelurch.

Because I don't know if you're familiar with this, but boggles are created through the misery of children. So Granny Nightshade makes sure that the children there are miserable to create more boggles to work for her so that they can create the oil that she uses to light the lanterns and keep the place running. Okay.

A old lady with dead husband. There was no way she was making, you know what, man. Cross her off the list. Go out, I'll put a question for the question. Okay, squirt. So next to squirt, we need to fill them up. Yeah. And that's the name.

His name is Squirt. Yeah. Got it. Oh, instead of a circle, do like the dotted circles so that we know it's an optional side quest. Now, I'm thinking, I don't think it's optional. We got to do it. Guys.

It's the only way we're gonna get to young. Not to- Do you make attention? That's not making it. There's no way. Oh, I only put a question mark. Should I do a circling? I think I also dot a circle.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Not to complicate things, but Torbeck would be remiss if Torbeck didn't also mentioned nib in the game. Oh, fuck! That was kind of an inconclusive ending. I'm going to do another question mock in a dotted circle. Oh, also, we also had to teach

start the redemption arc for Aged and Long Scoff. Oh, oh. Oh, what about, what do we do with Juniper and I look over in this giant owl bear pulling a chariot? What do we do about her? Is there a place that she needs? might be able to get some water and food here? You look over and you can see she's already got water and food.

Clearly some of the kids have come down from the tree. Oh, she's home! And she seems to have been handling it all very easily. Both her and Hootsey have water and food. And you notice that there are some bows tied into their owlbear fur. Oh, what about Mr. S and his son? Who? Going to theater school, Snake S.

Oh, snake is? Oh, I've got snake! Snake is snake! We're running out of apartments! I've got more, I've got more. I've got more. How are we going to do all of this? Oh, a little personal one, check in on the bus, D, see how the rough

patch with David is going. Jesus right. A little personal. A little reminder. A little reminder. little reminder, okay. Oh, all of Gideon's wives. I'll ask about taxiwagon over there.

All Gideon's wives. Don't forget the unicorn, LaMorna. Oh, my God. Oh, LaMorna. Amel, you got that. Oh, Mr. Witch and Mr. Lut. Oh. Yeah, Torbeck has some unresolved issues with them.

Torbeck is trying to work. through it. Oh, bully! Oh, God. That's what I was saying, Hurley and Curly is some of the brothers. And it is at this time that you all begin to see, a pink mist begin to form around you. Uh-oh.

The accumulation of witch light in the air that you don't normally see, but as the morning mist changes the way you view the world around you, can see what you've been breathing in. And it's almost magnetized to you, is it drawn to you by that which you have imbibed. I need you all to roll a D-100 for me. Oh, let's get it back.

Let's keep if I can get another 100. Hey, I know what that's gonna say. Oh my gosh. Okay, that's not what I thought I got. I got a 26. Two. Oh, two. On the dot. Forty-nine.

Wow. What did you get frost? 42. The answer to everything. 38. Well, also life in the universe. You feel this. You have experienced this before.

You already know what's coming before it happens. But it does not take a hold. It doesn't take hold immediately. You live in this feeling for quite a while as you continue to have this conversation with Will. He watches you. as you make your list and he eventually tells you that those terms are acceptable to him and the getaway gang and with a uh with a loud cheer from all of the children in the canopy of little oak

they all agree with him that these terms are acceptable and will let you know that what happens next is solely for the enjoyment um of the getaway gang and it's the first thing time in a long time that they've been able to find this kind of amusement and entertainment here as he as one of them lets down a a swing from the canopy he jumps onto the seat holding on to both of the ropes and they pull him up into the canopy and he takes his rightful place in the front of the tree house the getaway gang corraling behind him as they all cross their arms bend 45 degree angle and look down at you,

waiting for whatever madcap shenanigans that you will get into. It doesn't come immediately. And eventually they begin to get a little bit bored. And they start to mill about the tree house. They begin to pay less attention. But none of them make any attempt to come down and communicate with you or engage with you in any way. And so for the time,

you are in relative peace as you sit still on these stumps that Little Oak had made for you. Some drinks not morning mist had been left for you. Just simple sparkling spring water from somewhere in thither that you're able to drink. There are some refreshments that had been left by Sloan, the red-headed Wood Elf Girl. And you are left to talk to about what it is you plan to do. Oh, your girl named Sloan? Mm-hmm. Yeah, Sloan. Doorbed knows that this has happened a lot.

Yeah. Is it so much to ask for Torback to just hope that maybe once this mist would just let us take a nice nap? It's possible. I mean, if it's totally chaotic at random, Presumably one of these times we might just be able to enjoy a nap. You know, that'd be nice, but I'm seeing colors I've never seen before, so I'm going to guess not. Oh, we had to stage an intervention for the Seda Priest.

Oh, that was a bit of a grim, a grim turn of events. This list is really daunting. Should we maybe make a donation to Thacko's wife's foundation? Oh, yeah, and we should probably talk to that catering company about listing their ingredients. Oh, fuck. Are we really going to... I mean, it said peanut butter pie right on the fucking placard. Well, there's not much more plan and we could have done.

We don't know to wipe anything. Are we going to also all the clowns that he killed that Gideon killed? Are we going to go back and then find their loved ones and give them a little something? I mean... No, Gideon are probably just trying to finish the job. Right. They could be clown wives. We don't want to endanger them.

We're certainly not obligated until some greater court makes it a class action lawsuit. And then we're going to hold a whole lot more money. Yeah, that would be a real clown show. Bam, bum, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Bab, bam, bab, bab. Is it? Is it? All along the wash shower starts playing by my mind.

Should we have been through, perhaps a little stricter with Will and the kids? They're just watching us and they poisoned us and they're waiting for us to hurt balls. I feel like we're just, we're adults, we don't get it, we're out of touch. We could have put on a show. What the fuck is a Gat? I don't fucking know. A what? I don't even know.

A Gat? A Gatling gun? I don't fucking know. I've not heard that one. What the fuck is a muggis? Well either way, we're still headed to what you call it. fucking whatever it is. I can't believe you got this one.

I used to know what it was. Until it wasn't it anymore. I never know. We have no reason to keep her alive as far as I'm concerned. She's fucked up stealing kids with their dreams. We kill it. We get the bargle oil. We get the painting. We bring it back to Will of the farewell. We bring it back to what the fuck's the name.

name. The last name, Bavlona, Blightstraw. And then I think we're done. I wonder if when we get there, we'll accidentally fall through some sort of portal and arrive back in the Prime Material Plain where a small toddler will be chased around by a chameleon villain and we'll have to protect them in order to get them back to the Prime Material Blank again. That seems extremely likely given everything I've just learned regarding the stealing of children

and using their grief and misery in order to power a factory. We're a factory. Fras, do you just make a Monsters Ink reference? I love Steve Buscemi. Are you adding Steve Buscemi to the list? Cremie and Gideon, can you each roll another D100 for me, please? Oh, what? 38.

49. Cremie, can you roll again? 31. Wow, in the 30s, got stanchet. Yeah, I don't know what to do. I can change my role. No, you're good. All I gotta say is about time we're talking about killing hags.

Yeah. Yeah, let's refocus ourselves. Okay, the youth has gotten away from us. They've reminded us that we're all aging. We're probably passed on prime. Oh. And you know, we're out of touch. I don't want to hear it.

And we're not hip anymore, and that's okay. It's okay to not be hip, because what are they doing to save the Faye Waller? about this, we're fuck over two, and I'll deal with the minds and the merma. Cremie, as you were watching, the strange drunkenness you were feeling has faded. That must be some kind of way out of here. But it begins to be replaced by a need for thievery. As you look at Grico and the things, and the list that he's holding, that quill looks really nice to you. you feel kleptomania overtake you.

Said the joker to the thief. Yeah, that's good. And my smile will like grow up. Okay, I understood. Continue talking. Torbeck generally isn't for violence, but this hang sounds extra bad. And as you say that Torbeck,

You realize that there's something you've never told your friends before. Uh-oh. You are the greatest artist of Vantris has ever known. You are the greatest artist that has ever stepped foot in the Fay Wild. Funny enough, you're only able to draw stick figures, but they are the greatest stick figures. But any artist, you truly are ahead of your time. And you realize this is something about your

You've never shared before. As Stormback was saying, we have to do something to help these kids. And most importantly, get back that painting, so we can show everyone who the true artist is. No, my God, that was in that bush. And I want to turn, and the closest bush near us, I want to shoot and I'll just blast at it.

Okay. Ah! Oh my God! Ah! Beyond God, fellas. Oh, gosh! Do you think it's a fief? I mean, back when I was a little goblin boy, I saved of all of my tuppencees to bar this quill

as my greatest family heirloat. It's so precious to me. I would hate it if there was a fief in that person. More importantly, Mr. Cremie, you cut Torbeck off, as Torbeck was saying, we have to get the painting, so we can't bear to a true artist who is Dormick, and I take the quill out of your head.

That's fine. Just momentarily. Is anyone concerned about probably kettle steam in the bush? She's been tracking up. Gideon. And that was permanent quill, man. Don't put that on your tongue. As this happens, Gideon, you are overwhelmed with fear.

As Kremi tells you this, you're a coward. Cowardess is your first name, not even your middle name. You are Cowardous Gideon. Oh, I don't look at me. Oh, my God. Oh, no. No, wrong. This is the bottom.

My family and my family. I am not paying him. You can see that I am going, I'm just drawing on this. I took the extra piece of parchment that you were going to start the next list. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm taking the quill, and I am very preoccupied. It is difficult for you. Grico to give up the quill, not because you don't want to loan it to Torbeck,

but because you realize that your body is oddly magnetic. And there are metal components on that quill. And as you try to give it up, it snaps back in your hand. And Corbeck has to pry it from you. And he is eventually able to do so. There you go. Walls is happening. I want to slip behind Grico and try to take the hat off his home.

We don't go on night, Joel, Beck. You won't even need to roll for you, you just do it. He is so distracted by the magnetic quill that he doesn't notice as you slide up behind him and steal the hat from his head. I take the head off. Your hat's gone. Oh, I don't.

You don't notice. Suddenly it is v-v- and I'm just completely just swooped up onto Torbeck's back and all his machinery. Yes. I don't notice. Well, this is different. I was gonna say it's all in your mind, but you seem to have become magnetized, Kirkland.

Yeah, and- What are you talking about, Frosty? And he does. And as you're watching him, you realize that that's an awful place to be, not nearly as awful as the things that you have done. You are overwhelmed by the urge to confess all of the evil things you've ever done.

And if you can't think of something you've actually done, you'll lie about it, because people need to know that you are truly, truly, truly evil. Oh my gosh. What the fuck is happening? Oh no. Oh, gosh.

Oh, gosh. You know, I've never been this close to your back. Grigo. Where is you got? Torbeck was drawing you. I'm behind you. What? I'm behind you.

What? Stop it! Dormick can't draw you. No, I'm behind you. You got help. Help, out. Gideon, come help me. Oh, this looks terrifying.

No, me in them, there's a thief on the loose. Uh, uh, k. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. What? Let go of my chains.

Why are you doing this? Oh, gross. All of the screaming, crying in chains reminds me of something, reminds me of the time that I tortured a man to death. Just to see him die, I watched as the light left his eyes. He was for the pain I'd put him through. He's a monster, man.

Why would you say that in the stomach is Rusty? What's that? What I'm a rather than the place in the car. You seem to be choking. It's Gideon's big fissed. I'm choking on Gideon's fists. That's good. That's good.

Continue. Frost, hold still, Frost. Hold still. You, Gideon, your manacles are attached to Grico, and you hear the words that Frost is saying. And you smell the metallic smell of your manacles. And your stomach grumbles. As you realize you love the smell of blood. You thirst for blood.

How are you going to get the blood which you desire so much when you're so cowardice? You're so cowardly, but you want it. Blood so bad, man. What do you think? Frost, I'm too scared to do it, but you seem a little psycho, man. You're bloodied?

Frost, can you get him some lines? Not sure, let me need you for a one. I hate to ask, but when you cut, Greg goes through, I don't know. Don't even like saying. You only have to ask for one time. Don't go, don't, don't cut his fun. Torbeck's not done drawing you, me.

Just his neck, just his neck, not the whole thing. But Torbac, you realize that what could be more artistic than to draw a man's likeness in his own blood? Wait? Wait. Wait. Dormack is inspired. Slash away!

I'm not gonna cut it. Slowly, he needs to bleed it. Slowly he needs to bleed it. No, but I'm so hard, because Dormack wants to be able to see the light leave, Gregos. Respect the crime. You have to be in the light.

It's not. We're eating in the blood. I mean, I think we should give him the blood. I've always had the test. It's chaos. I want to sneak around and try to, if Frost's big backpack is sitting off to the side wherever he's set it, I want to take it and put it off. A roll of perception check at disadvantage.

You are doing this, and you're moving to the side, and it's, And it is evening now as the moon pierces through the trees and you realize that you are not just a thief, you're a werewolf thief. And though you are not the kind to drink blood for the purpose of, you're not a vampire, you're not a daytime or nighttime Dracula, but you do like your meat raw.

You like it rare. And where there's blood, there's generally, raw meat. We never had Goblin before, but it could be pretty good. Oh, Curry, help you. The only one who's saying. Oh, I'm going. I slowly expect one claw. We'll start somewhere soft and painful and our way around the book. Just the artery, frosty, just the artery, just let me drink deep. There would be blood in time. Just let me know when it happens. I can't look. What did you get?

I got a seven. Roll your slide of hand. I got a 18. Oh, yeah. You could pillage the entire thing. I just put it on. No, it's put it up. When Frost goes up and just runs his nails very slowly

along the musculature of Bricka, drawing like 18 inches of bloody line, I just, oh, no, no, go here. This is a backpack out of me. Oh, you want to find the blood for your drawing, yes? More! The second I smell the blood, and I had the backpack out all this and go, ah!

No! And I pull on all fours! I've seen that look before. I saw the hat in the backpack on it. The doorback has never seen such a beautiful. Beautiful scene. Like a feral band joke is it. So who's holding what?

So currently Torbeck is, I'll say Little Oak has created a small table for Torbeck to work on. And he is creating a masterpiece. He has a small acorn filled with Grico's blood that he's dipping the quill in to draw his masterpiece. Grico is attached to the mechanical contraption on top of Torbeck's back because he's magnetized. Gideon's manacles are affixed to Grico's face and throat and chains, all attach to him while Frost goes around his small goblin body and makes cuts that Gideon is feeding upon.

Death by a thousand claw moths. Grigo, my record is forty-th and I'd like to meet that record. The cries and the screams and get more beautiful. Oh, Wadado Tobeck, Wadaddo. Can I see that painting that you got there? I'm not quite finished yet. Please don't rush the greatest artist in the greatest dress. As you point your hand, bite it, and then death roll to try to rip the hand off. With the quill.

It's clunk. And you just start to twist like Torbeck's alchemic flesh. My arm just starts twisting. Excellent work, Chris. You chomp into his hand, but your teeth immediately meet metal. There are metal rods infused in his bones, at least in his wrist.

You're unable to sever the hand. Can I at least slurp the quill out of his hand? I will roll... Dex check versus, I guess, strength. Or Dex check, whichever you want to contest with. Tour bag is much better at Dex. Just straight Dex Check? Athletics, acrobatics.

Okay. Do I slide a hand? What am I doing? Athletics, acrobatics. Oh. Torbeck got a 21. Well, I rolled the natural 20. Oh, man.

I'm gonna dread you. What? I want the blood art to continue. Oh, I got a 14. You, Torbeck holds strong to the quill, and as your gator mouth latches on to his hand, Your teeth are pained against the metal that you hadn't expected to be there.

As the quill jams into the back of your throat and you wretch a little, and you rear back, not able to procure the quill that you were hoping for. Is Torbeg bleeding? Yeah. Yeah, no, definitely. I like, silence, clas, a little on the painting. That was horrible, and I move over,

and I start sucking at Torbeck's bloody wrist. And as you do this, you're thinking to yourself, oh no, what if, what if I get sick from this? I'm a fire genocene. Am I allowed to, like, what happens if I consume blood? Is blood okay for my body? It's the second time I've asked this question. First, was that one strange night in a hug? Whatever?

Have you had enough for a quick animal? I've been looking through my eyes and scanning from all the few hours. All the life is left Grigo's eyes. All the fight is gone. There's fee bulbs, if you all the rebugs you want, and diamonds, whatever you need. I just need you to answer me one question. Is it safe?

Is it safe? Is it safe? Is it safe? I'm going to get my mage hand out now, and you're going to get my mage hand out now, and you're going to and my visible H-band appears, now it's got 30 feet of movement every six seconds. If we put all of that movement into rotation and we go, let's say for a minute,

that would be, well, 300, 600 rotations per minute. That's almost as fast as a power drill and it's got 10 pounds of torque. Let's find out what we can do. It is at this time, and it is at this time that you, You don't notice them doing this, but every single one of the members of the Getaway Gang pulls out a Dandelion and blows at it.

As all of the little tendrils of the Dandelion float down around you and begin to coalesce, you immediately start to feel these compulsions fade from you as you breathe in the Dandelion fluff. And in minutes, you find yourself still in these same precarious positions. Kremi, you're still crouched on all fours, kissing with stolen goods adorning your body. Gideon, your mouth is covered in blood as your manacles demagnetized from Grico.

Grico, you fall to the ground at Torbeck's feet, covered in cuts. Frost, you look down at your friend realizing what you've done. Torbeck, nothing changes. You continue to draw your stick figures. Oh my God, Creel, are you okay? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I I I Whatever Whatever came over me It was all It was all the vain wild Uh magic I swear I swear are you okay You had Danny lions

The whole fucking time That was not on God They're laughing A grueless They're entertaining Didn't you see what you do With the mage hand Why are you laughing

Hey you had enough It had 600 pounds of torque One pananio I cannot wait to see what Andy's spell. Two bananas. Will steps forward and he says, so, even after all of that,

you're still going to help us? What the fuck am I wearing? You have my backpack. I do have your backpack. I mean, I still kind of like to steal now that I think about it. You have my backpack, back, back? You what?

My backpack back. Your backpack back. Your backpack back. Yes, I like my backpack. The backpack back. Is the greatest artist in avatress? Yes. Yes.

This is Dormac's greatest masterpiece. I started digging through all of your stuff and I find, like, I had stashed all of my own things in your backpack. So I like take out my like chef's hat, my hat, and I get everything out of that. You fucking go. Jeez. Thank you. I'm very sorry, Greg. I don't know what came over me.

I suddenly felt like a madman, a psycho killer. It's like you were the final boss of Ohio, the man behind the slaughter. I'm not sure what that means. Neither do I. If I could help it, I would have to. You know that, right? I was under the influence of that strange mist slaughter.

But does that mean he's gonna return? Oh, I don't know. I don't know anymore. I understand if you're mad at me. I'll just miss when it was all cool hats and skateboards. We'll get you a skateboard. I'll get you a skateboard. I will make it up to you.

So, again I ask, now that you've been through the Getaway Gang's trial, you still agree to help us. That's like we got jumped in, man. Dormick is done. The greatest. piece of art that has ever graced this plane or any oh my god it's Dormick and his friends oh oh this is me that is spectacular art

let's look at it on the camera one night only in Prismere that is the greatest artist Is Torbac? Is here? I look a little bit like I have breasts, but I'm... Those are your arms, Fra. You always do this.

I see it. I see it. Yeah, yeah. How dare you? I feel like this is our blue steel moment where he feels it and we're like, oh gosh, it's beautiful. Are these fireworks? What the fuck is this?

That's his witchlight canisters. That's Torbex. That's a lot. So Torback is that. Did you forget? Torebeck can't forget. They're in him forever. Tobek, you got me so good.

I look just like that. No, no, you look. No, you're such a good job capturing my essence. You're all the way down here, see? Here's your ocarina and your little vets. I kind of like how tall I am. Look at the frosts is a little pipsqueak compared to it. Wow.

It's all that. It's all hat. Tournbeck started drawings, and you quickly ran out of space. No, look at that. That's a long tour. This should be a t-shirt, I agree. You can't see it, but those are your scales, Mr. Cravee. Look at the detail. Tollbeck, you kind of look like that Yeti from that ski game

that goggles we come up with the little hands. Oh, you know. What do you all think? I think it's beautiful. Thank you. El Will calls down. Can we hang it in the tree house? Oh, Tormac would be honored. Make sure that you sign and dated. You just have to tell everyone about

the greatest artist and all of the ventress. Dormacal signed. I thought you were gonna sign it me. Oh, that's very lovely, toolback. He knows how to write his name. Look at that. Well, he's trying. He got it.

You got it, well done. Oh, so he still thinks he's the greatest artist in the world. Nothing's affecting him. No, that hasn't changed. That's just genuine now. Here you go, well. If I could put this on a shirt, I would.

One of the vines comes down from Little Oak, and there is a small dwarf boy hanging from the vine. His beard whiskers are finally starting to come in as he reaches out and grabs the art from Frost and is whipped back up into the tray. Hold on, you have to date him. Okay. Well, remember when he dated the last one?

That's okay. We can date it on the back. Are you sure? Yeah. Why? Just remember that's the 27th day of the fourth month. I was gonna say that you just the equivalent of Wednesday. Why is there so much blood everywhere?

Because I was a little bleeding Grico in a fit of torture. We were all kind of, you know, developed a taste for blood. I did the whole hissing thing again. I can't believe actual alligators sound like that. You went very feral, yeah. Yeah, it really hurts the larynx. You really wanted blood, but in a very cowardly fashion. I've had blood of, I mean, most of us now.

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Will of the Fay Wild calls out. So do we have a deal then? We had a deal before. Yeah, and the deal was that you would agree to it afterwards too, okay? So- We still have a deal. Restate the deal and then we'll agree to it if we still agree to it. Yeah, I restated the deal beforehand.

Do we have a deal or not? Yeah, we got a deal. One condition! No conditions! Did you like Dormax painting? Yeah, we already put it up in the tree house. Ah, then we have a deal. It is, I actually put it up on the back of the deal.

screen. Yes, we can put it on the board too. No, no, it's sting. So I am collecting certain things from which light on the back of the DM screen. There are only two things here so far. Yes! One is Torbeck's drawing and the other one is what the note Frost slipped me that said for Grico, a nice sweater for Hootsie in exchange for all of his nuts jokes.

So that's amazing. So that's here. And as things happen, I'm just going to keep collecting them at the back in the TM screen. I love that. No, this is stang. It's going to be right there so I can look at it all the time. So as you agree, some of the getaway gang begins to release these vines, these vine rope swings and slowly begin to lower them.

You're able to stand atop the wooden platform, hold onto the vines as they use these cranks to wheel the swings up, and you find yourselves in the canopy of Little Oak. moves the branches, creating small stairs for you to climb up off of the steps and straightens out his branches to allow you quick access to make your way down to the platform with the treehouse. And it is here that you find yourself. The floor of the treehouse is covered with blankets, cushions, and piles of straw. Hanging from the six foot high ceiling by a rope is a basket that holds apples, berries, sugar cane, and a few crumpled up sheets of parchment.

In one corner, lying on a cushion is a rusty oil can that looks out of place. Heaped in another corner is a crude unicorn costume made of polka dot quilts and a wooden horse's head that has a wooden horn attached to it. Will Torvik has a question? Yeah. Has Scabatha ever managed to take back

any of the kids you've rescued? Yeah. Two recently were out hunting for food. Apples and gathering mushrooms and different things to put in the basket. And some of her ten soldiers were out on patrol. She's, I think, getting wise to what we've been doing. And the ten soldier patrol has changed a little bit. and they were caught.

Dormack is sorry to hear that. It's okay. Pretty nice digs. I see you got a rusty oil can. That's squirt. Very pleasant. Oh, that's squirt. Yeah, squirt doesn't work because he's all out of...

Oh, God, is he like, is he dead? No, he just can't do anything. Without oil, is he... We have a small amount of oil. When we're ready to enact the plan, and I have an idea. When we're ready to enact the plan, we put the little bit of oil we have left in him, and Squirt will be able to help us.

But he's not going to last long. We've got to make sure we get enough to fill him up. You said you have an idea of where this oil is produced and how it's made. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's a lunach. No, I know that, but is there a specific spot there? Is there like a factory?

How big is loonish? Like, I don't know, 10 by 10? What? It's huge. You think Little Oaks called Little Oak for a reason. Loom Lurch was gigantic. When that tree fell. Oh, it's a fallen tree.

Yeah. There you go. Oh, hence the lurching. And I see you also got some kind of costume over here. Oh, yeah. This is it for anybody to put it on them. I mean, I guess you could wear if you want to. I don't think it'll fit you.

It was made for us. But it's the only way we can access the wayward pool. You know? You've got to be a unicorn to get into Weavered Pool. And so we made our own unicorn costume. And that allows us to get through the barrier. And then we can collect some of the water. It's the best water in all of thither.

So we make sure that we have some for the kids. I wouldn't go back to the Wayward Pool for a while unless you want sepsis. Frosty had a bit of a bit of a time. Did you poop in the Weyward Pool? I may have gotten some poop in the pool. I didn't. So. I wasn't actively shitting in the pool.

Wait, wait, so you didn't, you weren't actively, you just put it in there after the fact? No, we waited through and there would have been some form of cross. We're getting off the puppy. Wait, are you saying you had shit in your pants before you got into the pool? Hey, watch your wangweed.

Sorry, I think for this, I am. I think that this situation warrants it. No, we don't need to think of it. It's not important. Frosty probably doesn't remember. His mind wasn't his own. He just waited, you know, waist deep, drop trial and just let loose.

So wait, so you're little green, your big red, are you medium brown? No. No, that was a big brown. Yeah. I don't think that's. Anyways, no, sorry. I'm gonna like start walking to the unicorn.

I kind of like kick at it and just like, act a little nonchalant about what you don't really care about. about it, like picking it up, like, and I'm bored, you know, inspecting it. He doesn't seem to stop you. Wow. It's not bad, you know. It does seem like it was made for children. But you imagine, you imagine though you probably wouldn't be able to get the actual, like,

costume itself on, the unicorn, the cloth unicorn head with the wooden horn. You could, you could get on enough. It would just look very small for your head. Well, I have the real thing. You know what? I'm not gonna steal from children, all right? It's just nice. It's pleasant. Thanks. I think so too. So, uh, does Little Oak, does he say much? No. I've never heard Little Oak talk. Oh. But Little Oak protects us, keeps us safe. And he listens to me. So what you're saying is? is that Little Oak Ascension. Oh, yeah.

So you're like, you just say something and he'll just do it. No. Little Oak will do what Little Oak wants, but if he agrees with what I'm saying, then yeah, they'll do it. Well, so how do you know it's sanction, not just coincidence? You think that when Little Oak slammed down around you at my orders, that that was coincidental? Oh, maybe it's just like some sort of defense mechanism like a Venus fly truck.

Toss him out of the treehouse, Little Oak. and you immediately feel the tree, the tree house lurch, and you are pitched out. And you will take two points of falling damage. Wow. Well, that was unexpected. Am I out of the tree house? Oh, yeah, you flung out of the tree house,

and you land on the ground. Damn. Okay, falling like 45 feet. Grammy, are you all right? Just got the wind knocked out of me. I think I'm good. Your hat's up here. Oh, yeah, thanks.

Just toss it down. All the way down here. My hand will deliver it. Another one of the swings will come down and the getaway gang will essentially order you back into the tree. All right. What are you supposed to drink

when you've donated blood? Oh, that's right. You probably need meat. The more iron, the better. Do you have any odd? Haven't you had bananas? Yeah, but it's just potassium. It's just potassium.

I need the rest of me, electrolytes. We need more electrolytes. Do you have any, well, no, I suppose. Well, we got some fresh water this morning. Do you have any salt? Sure. Do you put a little salt in water? Do you have any meat?

We get some meat. We'll feed you soon. He goes and gets you an acorn filled with some water, and there's a large rock salt that he shaves off a little bit of raw, or a little bit of salt into the water and hands it to you. You gulp it down. Yeah, we got that from the wayward pool this morning.

Drink up, buddy. Your eyes are starting to look. Krusty. Think even. Wait a minute. This morning? Yeah. Salmonella doesn't exist in the field.

We got to drink a boog juice. Ah! Oh, that happened before this morning? Oh, yes. Oh, no. Suppose all of the... Thank God the rest of us haven't had any of it. Oh, I was just about to say, hey, that's...

Ah! I thought, I fought I thought that was the brown of the acorn. Dwork is disgusting! Yeah, you shouldn't break any more, Brick-up. You'll get very, very, very sick. I thought me to be right back. I want to go to the pool.

This is going to walk. I can go to the little goblin's room. Yeah, I patted off. Do you have any nun once he gets back? It wasn't from the wayward pool. We collect rainwater. Oh. That's very fun. You were very comical.

Thanks. Is that short for William or Willolomew or some sort of, is it just Will? Just Will. How did you find yourself in the Faywild? Oh, that's a long story. We don't have time for it. We should probably talk about what the plan is

for how we're gonna rescue the kids. Well, do you know whether they're being kept? Yeah, I told you in Lume Lurch. No, I mean, I know in a large, but like it's a giant fucking holly. Yeah, in the workshop. Workshop. Okay, the workshop. Is that near where the oil is produced? That's gonna be a little bit complicated.

Okay. So I do have a plan. I could tell you what the plan is, and then you could tell me if you think it will work. Plans are good. If you have the ability to draw, I can provide you some parchment and we could perhaps... That's okay. I can, I can show you.

I have a little bit of magic, myself. Oh my God. And he uses a minor image to start showing visually some of the things that he's talking about. So first is the approach. Bobby, Sloan, Zanor, and Starr, they're all going to creep through the woods to the west of the tree and hide just out of sight of the screaming scarecrows. Meanwhile, I'm going to sneak around to the entrance to the kitchen on the east side of the tree. Well, that's happening. There's going to be a distraction. You're all going to to go to the goblin market. You're going to pretend like your travelers, purchase some suites, arrange for a meeting with the hag. During the meeting, all of the kids will alert

the screaming scarecrows and they're going to lure the 10 soldiers into the garden. Okay? While that's happening, while everyone is distracted, you guys are going to go to the workshop and free the captives. I'm going to climb into the textile mill and the captives that are there. Once all the children are set free, everyone will run back to Little Oak. We're very good at plans like these. I'm sure we'll remember every step and make you smalllessly. I wasn't distracted at all during your speech at all. No, I have it all right. Great. Great.

Are you back? No. We just hear you downstairs. Morning from like down the hall, you know, like clearly in pain. Art really does imitate life. Drinker from back. Someone's put your toilet. I hope you gotta plunge you. I'm holding on!

Thank you for reading my mind. That was very funny. Oh, I was dying. Do you say goblin market? Yes, is there a market that goblins run? perhaps? Yeah. Now we're gonna look at it. Oh, oh, my God. It doesn't have been anything else.

You know what I'm doing? It's a candy market. It's a candy market. And the goblins sell candy. Yeah. Candy? Yeah, it's a way to lure children to loom lurch. Oh, what do they use for legal tender?

Anything they feel like. Class of fucking. Torbeck wants candy? You can get tons of candy there. It's so good. It's scary good. Wait, wait, wait. Does the candy affect you in any way

or cause like hallucinations or a poison or you've had the candy? Some of it. And were you ensuade by magic when you ate it? I'm still alive. Well, they keep saying they're not affected by that kind of stuff. Yeah, that's probably magical nightmare candy. You don't know. Oh, yeah.

That probably is. No. No, I mean, maybe not. Oh. Probably is. D'Orbeck's like, No offense. D'Oermbeck is like six times the size of will.

Surely D'Orbeck can resist! Well, you know, in the faywows, I think drugs is drugs, D'Obeck. I think it's done. Oh, no! That's so stupid. Oh no! Just look around from some literature. We're fine down here.

here. Just, you want me to bring up a book or something? Trammy! Wait a minute, Mr. Crammy. Well, Sunday was just normal water. One of the chances that Groko ate something mad! Just a minute, I'll help them out. I go upstairs and I slide a Sears catalog underneath the door.

Enjoy. The real magic is how you slid an entire Sears catalog under the door. I can picture like a half door. It's like a half door. It's like what you eat. Oh, he just like passed it over though. Watching machines full percent. Oh, that's really good.

Oh, man. Jesus. Yeah, you can read all the infraction for their heat pump water heater. I'm just saying, right? I come back. He's going to be all right. All right. Your plan sounds fine.

I mean, we have a goblin. Can we use that to our advantage? at all. I mean, I feel like if it were any other goblin. Yeah. You're right. That one thinks that, you can hear it. Torbeck's kind of like a hairy goblin.

Yeah, he's a goblinoid. We got two goblinnoids. Both of them speak goblin. That might be a gha. Well, I mean, you're not kids, right? So. Yeah. If you can find a way to convince the goblins to get you an audience with Granny Nightshade,

then, I mean, you're set. You really don't need to do much more. The goblins are just there to sell candy and to potentially set up a meeting with her. And to kidnap children. Well, yeah. What if our idea earlier wasn't such a bad idea after all? We don't need to capture you and take you and risk your life. But perhaps we could just say that we have information regarding your whereabouts.

We don't have to say anything at all, but we probably would get an invitation or access that way. Maybe do you have like some kind of article of clothing you're known for? My dagger. I could give you my dagger. Oh, is it one of a kind? I mean, it's the one I use. Well, I mean, what if she accuses us? Oh, you just, you know, made a dagger. Just a regular old dagger.

Anybody could have made that. We would need some form of evidence. Something like perhaps that costume or... You can't give you the costume. How old are we going to get into the wayward bond? You want to save these kids or not, Will? Give us the unicorn costume. Well, I gotta be able to div them.

I have to be able to feed them and water them. You can get brainwater. Would that be something? You don't want the water in the pool, all right? The water in the pool does more than just quench your thirst. Not anymore. Wow. Oh, it's a thirsty.

Cut it out of me. Cut it out of me. It's happening. It's fun. It would be a risk. This is the big one. Look, all right. Okay.

We make a distraction in the goblin market. Okay, then we'll. No, no. You won't make a distraction. the goblin market, we make the distraction. Do I need to go over the plan again? The distraction is what allows us to get to the market. You're a man, isn't that shit?

No, Sly and Wilbo go to the west side. You go to the north side. I'm going to tell you the plan again. All right. First, there's the approach. Bobby, Sloan, Zeno, and Starr. Starr. Zanor? Oh, gee.

Oh, shit. Nobody? What? Bobby, any points, and you see the, you see the you see the male dwarf that had helped you with his beard finally starting to come in is sitting off in the corner

whittling some wood creating a little figurine then he points to Sloan who's the female the ginger haired wood elf that had provided you with your morning mist and then Zenor he points to what is

very clearly a female orc child and she has her feet kicked up and she's just looking at you, scowling. And then finally points to Starr, who you hadn't noticed before, but peeking out from beneath one of the many pillows that adorns the floor of this place

is a small displacer beast kitten. Whoa. So, as I said, Bobby, Sloan, Zeno, and Starr are going to creep through the woods to the west of the tree and hide just out of sight of the screaming scarecrow's. Meanwhile, I'm going to sneak around to the entrance to the kitchen on the east side of the tree. All right.

Next is the distraction. You are all going to go to the goblin market, posing as travelers, purchase some sweets, and arrange for a meeting with ag. During the meeting, we are going to alert the screaming scarecrows and thereby lure all of the tin soldiers

into the garden and away from you guys. She got tin soldiers? I already told you the tin soldiers are her guards. I'm sorry. I was a little distracted with all this kid, no. How hard can they be?

I'm sorry. They can't be very good gardens. If they're made of tin, it's tin. They just fall apart. We just descend upon them. Yeah. Okay, well, you're gonna be in for a hell of a surprise. Okay, anyway.

So they'll be gone. Yeah, so the tin soldiers are gonna make their way over to the garden where the screaming scarecrows have been alerted. At that point, everyone's gonna be distracted. Granny Nightshade is definitely gonna be distracted and it's gonna wanna know what's going on. During that time, you will, because you'll be inside waiting for them,

meeting, the meeting's going to be delayed because of the distraction, so you can sneak into the workshop and free all the captive kids there. While you're doing that and the rest of the getaway gang is fulfilling the distraction, I am going to sneak into the textile mill and I'm going to free the children captive there. Once all the kids are set free, everyone's going to run back to Little Oak and we're down. Oh, and then maybe while she's distracted, we steal the painting too. And make good if we can find it. Torbeck thanks. This is one of those rare occurrences where

we make sure the kids get out okay. And then we deal with the hag. Well, I mean, that's one idea. We could all get out okay. We can't just leave her to keep doing this to the kids. She's already been recapturing them. I know Gideon agree with Torbeck. We've also committed to dealing with her in other ways.

I think I agree with Thorbeck. Once the kids are free, then we may need to take action. Talking about violence. Well, hell yeah. Against someone who is spreading violence. Yeah, but we have no fucking idea what she's capable of. It was about Tommy started talking about violence. I thought I was gonna start calling him Kitty softballs.

Will, are you familiar with Scabbith's abilities, with her magics? Do you have any way that we could perhaps prepare for what she might throw at us if we came to blows? There's no way to prepare for Granny Knight's Shades malevolence. That's what I'm saying. Look, if we get the kids out, all we need is the fucking trinket, whatever it ends up being, I'm sure we'll find that it will speak to us like the last one did. or and we need the painting

we'll free the kids done in and out and then we don't have to risk anybody's lives she'll just be like oh fold again but after that y'all can't stay here

she'll I'm sure look for revenge so we got to be ready to go to yon before we fucking... That's why we have to make sure that in all of that And in all of that, we find some time to Philip squirt. This squirt is our only way out of here. Frost, I hope you take a news.

Speaking of that, I sniff into the room, looking like an MD Capri, son. Brigh up. Does anybody smell a fireburn? You've lost a lot of blood and other fluids. Before I got in there, one of these. He's getting away getting shit everywhere. Rico, watch your language.

You might want to clean that up. Why you were yelling so much? It was a frightening scene. It was like the restroom and the dairy queen on the way of Jen Con. Oh, I think that story's too gross for the stream. Oh, God. The only word in the Goblin Dictionary, I can use to describe that, is

a explosion. All the kids just learned a new word. That's really bad, Grego. Well, you missed the whole plan, but I guess you would've missed it out of the way, so... Okay. I'll describe it to you, but I'm gonna need some of heisty jazz music with one of the bongos to play, and we can montage. It'll be very cool. Oh.

Anybody got bongoes? Anybody got bongos? No. You got bongos? We have a kid named bongo. Where is he? Ow! Ow!

Ow! A small, a small... A small halfling boy accompanied by a very tall, a blue elf, a girl, walk in to the, into the tree house. That's a deep fucking gut. Holy shit. They look at you and just wait. The blue elf girl says absolutely nothing. Jesus.

And Bongo waits her. Bongo, blue elf girl. Pleasure to meet you. They nod. I just wanted to make sure you existed. You can go. They look confused. They look back and forth between each other

and then they leave and continue to climb the tree. Well, we also needed like a breathy flute. I don't know if they had, I doubt they have one of those lying around. Do you have a breathy flute? No. No. You don't have anyone named breathy flu? We have someone named Flute who speaks breathily.

That's close enough. I can do it. It's gotta blow it really high. No, we can put out first. Hold on, hold on, on. I'll like wattle back to the bathroom. Well, instead of, you know, if she doesn't actually have an instrument, she could just do it like scat style.

Oh, it's too. I just craze. An outline cloud of where Virchow was. Yeah. Anyways. All right, I like the plan. I think whatever we do, what you're saying is that if we can fill up squirt,

Oh. All of them can get... Wee, weo, weo, weeer, wee, and Kelsey is somewhere. Kelsey is somewhere she's no idea why and she's in tears. Just absolutely in tears. She doesn't know why. So all we need is have him filled up.

And we're all getting to yawn. All of us. Yeah, all of us. And so, I think. Getaway tree. A getaway tree with a getaway gang. And you're now honorary members. No, thank you.

Oh. Even though you're very, old. Yeah. Bristle, cool. Oh. Your bones are creaking. I mean, this allegedly works.

Is that I mean? Anyway, I think that we should, we should plan to leave at first light. Spend the night here. You're welcome to stay in the getaway gang treehouse of terror. It's not, it sounds scarier than it is. We just like to tell stories at night.

Stay here with us. We'll have a nice dinner in the morning. We'll fill up squirt and we'll head out. And we'll head out to Loom Lurch right as the Goblin Market's open. And hopefully if you're the first one's there, you'll be able to get a very quick meeting with Granny Nightshade. How does that sound? I think it sounds fine. I think you should call it the candy market moving forward. Just as more appropriate. It seems like a place where they sell candy. Yeah, none of them have any other things. All the shuffle back in. Ian Morven, F.C. Crego, you've lost a lot of fluids today. Are you all right? Will, was one of the getaway gang named Mop?

Uh, no. Oh, gosh, we have a bravo. Zeeves in on a hyper-realistic, like, dried out SpongeBob, Grego. There you go. This is a nightmare. That's horrible. It's an adjunct. We have a plan.

You've clearly put a lot of thought into this. Without any knowledge of the place we're going or what challenges or risks we're taking on, it seems reasonable on face value. Yeah. Yeah. And it's been a long day so I can use a rest. Yeah. Will, we've earned your trust, I hope.

I hope you don't let me down. Something that goes both ways. Are you hiding anything from us? Yeah, most definitely. Well, can you tell us what you're hiding? No. But tell us. No, why?

So that we are not, we're putting our lives at risk. Yeah, me too. Yeah, which one of your gang has irritable bowel syndrome? You should have kept me. The biggest name is Graco. Which one is if it isn't me. We don't hide stuff from us if we're gonna be putting each other's lives

in each other's hands. It doesn't affect any of this. We need to know. No, you don't. Do I need to know all of your deep dark secrets? That's a good point. Definitely things that you haven't told me. I'm not prying.

Well, he gave us a bunch of drugs and he committed all his torture crimes. I did commit. The rest of you didn't. I got drained of half my blood and then the rest of me. Nothing's making you shit. You're doing it on your own. It was just rainwater.

I'm allergic to that. Oh yes, he's allergic. He's had a terrible rainwater allergy, allergy his whole life. Allergy. Allergy. Allergy. It was not swamp water.

It destroys my water. tummy. Okay, anyway, the time will come for that information, but the time isn't now. It doesn't affect what we're doing. As long as we're not taking on additional risk of something that we don't know, it's fine. I'm not trying to pry. I just want to make sure that we're looking around every corner. All I will say is don't try and remove any curses.

Not on me or anybody else. Oh. All right. As long as you don't do that. As long as you don't do that, nothing has to change. Glad you let me know. It's a pretty hominous thing to say. It really is.

Seemly important piece of information we should know before you're going to a cursed place. Does that mean you're like actively cursed? I mean, if you don't want to talk about it. From a certain point of view. But personally, I think the outcome was much better. So. Okay.

Does that mean that you're actually like hundreds of years old, cursed to being a child forever? Mm. From a certain point of view. Ah. So there's two things. There's a couple things that we need. Can you put your pants back on?

Oh. You're not wearing, but crack other children. He's got like those heart boxes. The flaps open in the back. Okay. The flap is blown out of the back. Okay. Number one, we need some bedding and a good meal

before we go off to adventure. Number two. I don't think it would be a good idea for you to eat. That ain't done. You're fucking bad. Torbac, Torbac didn't want to say anything. Torbeck is serious. concerned with the number of bananas that Gringo keeps eating.

This might have a serious impact on his gut biome. It's probable that the amount of fiber would be affecting him, yes. That seems very logical. Torbeck saw him eat like 50 bananas today. And isn't each one life the equivalent of all the food for one day? Torbeck's just saying. Oh, man, he's probably been backed up for months. And it is with that

The Will and the rest of the Getaway Gang make you a delicious meal You have a bed set up for you They create hammocks that are large enough To fit your forms And you all find places Within the Getaway Gang's Treehouse Hideout to enjoy a meal

And to sleep, you get to know the Getaway Gang Tell you the stories of where they come from And the families they hope to go back to and that they hope that returning to the material plane, they don't seem to understand how time passes. They are convinced that, you know, some of them have only been here months or a few years and they're convinced that their family's still out there looking for them. And they all have a sense of hope.

And though at first they are a little hesitant around the adult. that are here in their hideaway. They warm up to you, and they are excited for the plan and for the prospects that this brings to them and for the chance to finally leave thither. And it is with a night filled with storytelling and laughter and jokes and a little bit more drinking of the morning mist, that on the kids' parts, that is.

that you all eventually find yourselves lulling into a deep sleep. Your night is dreamless and restful as you all awake in the morning. You awake, fully rested, to the sounds of the getaway gang preparing for the day's task ahead. They already have satchels of food and water should anybody get split up, and additional time needs to be taken to get back to Lomler, or to get back to Little Oak. Everyone has been briefed on the day's plans, and unless there's anything else you would like to do in the morning,

outside of a quick meal, the getaway gang seems to be ready to depart. I'll look at who see else, I'll say, okay, after what happened, well, hopefully you don't remember the whole job. You stay here with Little Oak, here's some new flyers for your fly pad, and make sure you build a structure before nightfall or else the spiders are gonna come out and give them. Good, good, good, good, you stay here.

We're gonna be just fine, don't worry about it. And Juniper's gonna stay with Ousey. Mm-hmm. They're basically best rates. Not all of the kids in the Getaway Gang are coming with. There's obviously a good, portion of them that are not tasked with this mission. And they have become fast friends with

Hootsie and Juniper, who've also seemed to have taken a liking to Starr, the small displacer beast kitten, who when you wake up is jumping about on Hootsie's tummy. Look at you! Continually rolling a ball down to her beak as Hootsie knocks it up into the air and Star uses her additional, her little tentacle things to grab it and once again roll it back down as they play this game together. Very quick friends.

How did I not notice you yesterday? How did I miss that? Oh, you're so cute. She prances over to you and nuzzles into you, smelling a hootzy on your clothing and in your hair and realizing that you are akin to Hootzee. Here, share your flower page. with Star. Look at you, you can play together. They added multiplayer, I think.

It is with this that Will alters the plan and chooses to allow Star to stay behind. Instead choosing Bongo and the unnamed Blue Elf Girl to take Star's place in this adventure. Flute. Well, I suppose we're ready. Our first step is to fill the the strange creature of squirt with the remaining oil. Yeah, I really should do that. We will handle that when we get to loom lurch because we're going to split off and squirt's going to stay with us.

Squirt doesn't know you. And so if he comes to while he's in your possession, that will freak him out. All right, so all we have to do is just appear like normal travelers. looking for candy at the market. That's right. Roll right up and act like nothing's the problem. We got two goblin noise, the ham of the goblins.

And then we're on your own. And then we got Sylvester, Bongo, and Kazoo. and Ruby. What? Bobby Sloan, Zenor, Bongo, and Flute. Oh, okay. Close enough. Bongo is short for Bongolamu.

I learned that last night while we were telling stories. Bongolamilu. That's kidding. Beautiful name! Bungolamu. Oh, I love Dungeons is very name. And it is after a very quick, it is after a very nice breakfast that with full bellies, fully rested bodies and the companionship of new friends that you make your way into the forests of thither, deep within the tree line as you approach what you know to be the very center of of thither itself. And it takes a while to get there, a few hours travel.

But the getaway gang, they know this place like the back of their hand. And you're able to find it as quickly as it is possible to find. The forest is at its darkest here. Up ahead, a colossal dead oak lies on its side. Three living trees grow naturally out of its fallen remains. Their shapes resemble towers with candlelit windows twinkling in the gloom in wooden balconies encircling gnarled branches.

On one side of the fallen tree, firelight spills from a pair of quaint storefront windows, illuminating a clearing filled with merchant stalls. That's where you're going to go. We're going to head around to this area. You're going to go to those merchant stalls. That's the goblin market. Good luck, new friends.

We'll see you when it's all over. And he rushes over to each of you, and he clasped your hand. and then as he's turning to leave, he rushes back and he rips off a piece of his shirt and he hands it to you. If you need proof, I got away. All right, kid.

All right. Skibbitty on God. For real, for real, no cap. And he turns into the tree line. Bossing. Bossin. No. Well, he turned out to be pretty cool. I mean, he didn't.

Ian and all his friends did laugh as I was horribly tortured and slowly bled and drained of all of my fluids I am sorry about that are you feeling better now? I feel like we'll have to resolve that another time there's just no time there's candy to buy I mean sell I mean I completely missed the plan so we're we're purchasing candy we're gonna improvise no no there's a very specific plan that has to have great I do great winging it let's go lads We all have to work now. Three stalls selling candy are situated in this clearing,

lit by windows carved into the giant fallen tree to one side of it. Two goblins are working in each stall, and the whole enterprise is watched closely by a goblin with a toffee apple head who appears to be muttering quietly to himself. As you walk up, he seems to notice you as he puts his hand up almost as if to quiet you,

to hush you. and he taps on the side of his candy apple head and you hear him say, I don't have time to listen to you right now, you stupid thing. Damn, maggot, get out of there, get out of there! And that's where we're on the session. Oh, he's got a brain worm.

That's disturbing. Wow. Or at least he thinks he does. Thanks for running the session. You're welcome. And I will show you this, ah, this is the music. This is what he looks like. Whoa.

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