Legends of Avantris - Once Upon a Witchlight | Ep. 62 | Wish Upon a Door

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

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Greetings. You're listening to Legends of Aventress. My name is Morning Frost, and this is Once Upon a Witchlight. Here's what happened last time. Is all this violence and noise necessary? I mean, I understand y'all really don't like them Brighanax down there. I mean, perhaps this is something that my band of mercenaries could help you with. So it's the plan, and then we are going to convince the Queen that we are going to kill the Brighanox, and then we are going to...

Do it. Instead go to the Cyclops, or are we gonna clear the cave first? I just wanna make sure we're clear. You're gonna kill those horrible brigands. Yeah. The Amdaport and Bambunela are gonna come with us to the caves. We're gonna kill all the brigandats. With rocks.

Well, violently. Just know that should you ever make your way back up to Lockburyhenge, you've got an entire kingdom, queendom, of cords at your side. And should you ever need us in battle and fight? Should you ever need our allieship, our friendship, or just a good dance. You're kin of the corns now.

Well, I appreciate that, and, you know, who knows? If we ever decide to make a move against old bitter end, we may need some... We would march alongside you gladly. The prince of the summer court or the spring court or some court of the Fay Wilde was trapped here eternally until they could get all of the beacons lit. And they would be able to create a portal back to wherever they wanted to go. that it would unlock the ability for you to create a portal wherever you wanted to go. If each of you took a beacon, you could probably light them all at once.

That could be a solution. Even though you have this plan stretched out for what you're going to do with the Brighanax, this is an opportunity. This is a portal to anywhere. If you wanted to go back to the Witchlight Carnival, you could. You realize that you have a choice that needs to be made here. Do you pass up this opportunity for a portal anywhere, or do you continue on to the Brighanock mine? Having made new friends with the corns atop their hill here in the land of Yon,

you are moving on to your next journey, your next adventure within this land. And it is here, as you're about halfway down the mountain, that you have a choice to make. In front of you is the crater basin, this large lake surrounded by eight fey beacons, all being lit by, a fay elf of some sorts, this potential prince of one of the fairy chorus, you could stay here and assist, which from what you know could lead you towards a portal out of the Faye Wild. Though you don't have the money that you need to pay back guru, you would at least be one step closer to home, if that were the journey that you decided to take, or portal really anywhere. But a portal at your disposal could be huge in this moment, or you could choose to continue to scale the mountain and climb further down until you reach the large valley at the basin of the mountain, the statues of the corids that lead into the Brighenac mines.

You know that taking this path leads you towards a secret entrance into Motherhorn. But here, the wind is lashing against you, as your backs are against the... the mountain and you see as this elven creature makes his way off of the boat, scales one of the, one of the beacons. And it illuminates as he places a torch to the top. As he begins to climb down, the copper basin reflects the flapping of wings.

As you see these large peritans begin to circle around. In the moment his form lands in the boat again, he starts rowing to the next one. You watch as they all in unison, unison beat their wings and extinguish the flame. You watch this happen, beacon after beacon after beacon, and yet this person does not seem to stop. They are determined to make their way out of Brisbane. All right, arm de Port, you got your knife? Yes, I have a knife on my person right here on my side. I also have one strapped to my boots should I need. All right, well, I would, for you in my

pack? I would suggest putting one between your teeth. What for? Give like the old days. I take out a chef's knife and I put it between my teeth. I'll take out my... Open his mouth and put it between his teeth. I'll take out of my blade of forlorn's remorse and put it between my teeth. Is that the cool blade? That's the cool blade, yeah.

All right. I pull out a machete. Now what we're gonna do is we'll go on the ground. Tornik doesn't have a knife. Getting you an extra time for Torma? I can't. I can't. I can't.

I can't understand you. Please lend Dormack a knife. I have a knife for your two. I can't. You can have a knife. my boot knife. Thank you. Alright. Now, what's what we are you doing for you and, Brown?

So now we're gonna crawl our way in there. Ah, my turn it's tongue! Ah! Yeah. Oh, go ahead, girl. We can look at it really, okay? Yeah, go ahead. All right, okay.

We're gonna look at us. You know what I'm saying? I'm not going to... They're gonna leave. It's sweeping a red. Mm-hmm. Right. You don't do some little in tiles.

Yeah, right. They're gonna crawl. and then we're right under the edge and then we're going to take the knife out of our mouths and with your left hand reach up, clasp it firm and tie it over the mouth

with your left hand like a pack of snowballs and then with your right hand take the knife and cut the throat from ear to ear just like that and you gotta make sure to get them right under the jaw so if they snap down they don't mess with your knife exactly right it's floating

Just on the jaws as you can. You hold kind of under the bone there, and then you're guaranteed to give. You want me to slice from ear to ear this poor elf who's failing to light the beacon? No, no, no, not that guy. The Brickonauts. You didn't hire the whole friar. I couldn't understand.

I think we had a single thing you were there. Going into the mind to kill off the Brickin' Knox. I think that's what I remember, Chad. Right now we're saying at a bit of a, we can go down and we should. But why wouldn't we help this? We're about halfway down the mountain towards the Brickonox. Look at this elf. But currently we're facing an elf, lighting beacons.

Oh, well, we could do that if we wanted. It's almost as if a narrator had described the scene for you. I thought we could see it all. I thought it was like that way, but also like that way. We have to choose one and then the other. We are at an inverse. We're probably not going to come back and help this poor elf if we go down into the mines now.

Well, I thought we were going to kill all the Bruganox. We're going to come back and be like, look, it's done. Then we're going to help old Adam to pull with the giant. And we're going to help this elf guy with the beacon. How are you doing this guy's not here? I do believe we had made a choice that once we get to the entrance to Motherhorn, should we have not found gleam, we would then make our way back out, because assuming we would make, we would destroy it an entire population of Brickonox,

so the mines would be empty. Well, there's only half of them left now after Grick-Hon Torbett. Their blood would have stained the rocks completely, and we would have no, there would be no resistance to our leaves. or coming and going, in which point we could then make our way towards the Cyclops Beekeeper and attempt to find glean. But I am unsure which way in which she would have gone. It's all very logical what you say, which is why here it won't work.

If we go down into the mine, something will happen and we'll never be back to help the Elf Man and we'll be lost on some grand other alternative adventure. So we're all going to put the blades in our mouths. We're going to crawl towards the Elfman, we're going to slit his throat. The Elf Man is here now. Let's just help him. seven times if you count Polonella. We also can't crawl towards him.

I mean, we'd look ridiculous crawling towards him in like six boats. I mean, that's just great. He's in the middle of the water, I think. We doesn't approach the man. We don't have to crawl towards him with daggers in our mouth. I mean, it was just the way to do it all cool, like. Well, no, I was really daggers in the mouth

was for the Brigginaw, not for this elf guy, all right? Stop suggesting that. Are we going to mind-craft this and I'll get in a own and a tiger? Because Stormack's more comfortable with his claws, and he's also silent. almost invisible. Torbeck is a very solid question. I'm much more skilled with my rapier

than I have ever been with a dagger. I use a dagger mainly to bone, de-bone fish or to skin a rabbit, you over there, but my rapier is really my weapon of choice. Torbeck's skinned a rabbit once. Oh, yeah, who was a rabbit? Oh, was it a dead rabbit? No.

He was alive at the time. Oh, he was out of the water too. It's insensient. He was screaming and drowning, too. Begging for his life. There was Dorebeck still has a scar. I wouldn't call that a rabbit. The bloody, blue, disgusting scar.

Yeah. I wouldn't call that a rabbit-like species. I had a very close friend once who had a scoff just like that. Not covered in a blood of the time. Don't look at it too closely, man. It's a different scar of an ass to be. Do we have to be worried about you keeping trophies of your kills? That's the only one Dormack has so far.

I should send him a letter. See how he's not. He's doing. No, I don't think about it too much. Just, let's move on. Fine, we'll go talk to the prince, and I'll put away the throat slid him. I agree, though, that if we have to kill the brigandons, we should use our own talents. I, for one, use my mind. I have a dagger on me, but honestly, I woke up with it in the tavern at the beginning of this adventure, and I'm not sure why I still in my inventory. Well, god be on your character, you see.

Yeah, by default, it just popped into existence. Rossi, you can use your mind to hold the dagger, man. Nobody's saying you got to keep it in your teeth. It's just the way to do it cool, like. The dagger floats out. Oh, yeah, no, that's quite easy. It's quite intimidating if I use it like this. You got to use your paw beans to hold the jaw, though.

That's non-negotiable. I mean, I could just paralyze them, and then they would be in a mine prison. And then slip the throats. Yes. While they were in the mind-prudence. Oh, okay. Well, I thought you were talking about locking them in a mine prison for just like in an ever-living prison of their own mind.

I'm not quite that advanced just yet. I'm still working on it. I'll feel like we've got to help this out, guy. I agree. Do you think he's... Matt? I think he's actually very frustrated. I imagine that every time he puts a beacon to light,

and then it gets, you know, wished away by these pelotons, pelotons, pelop, pelot. That's an exercise, bye. Well, well, well, well, pet, pep, pet, pet, pet, Pedal and peritans. Peritans, yes. Peritans, yes. But why would so many peritans be encircling these becones and preventing him from this game?

Oh, what if you, like, really pissed off those peritans? Well, then we should take care of not to also piss off those peritans. The last thing we want is for them to turn their attention from this fairy prince and turn their attentions to us, and then they're following us around, constantly blowing Gideon. Doing one. And you know what?

He is a fire creature if they're inclined to blow out flame, then they could follow us around and blow Gideon for hours on end. The parents are actually very gentle and sweet beast. He's just because they have a taste for humanoid hearts and are very cruel. That's not their fault. It's how they was made or something.

I'm closing one eye as I try to duck hunt one of these parrots. Just try to see like how far, tell me how, gauge how far away they are. You, they're about 200 feet into the air circling right now. They're incredibly high up, but you do see that as another one of these copper braziers is lit atop this beacon that one after another, they begin to plummet incredibly quickly. And by the time the Fay Prince boards the boat yet again

and heads towards the next beacon, they've already snuffed out this flame, as they shoot back into the air. This time you do notice that they hover a bit. They do seem to have noticed you, but they're not making their way towards you. And now as they ascend into the air, they don't go up nearly as high.

How many are there? They are circling incredibly quickly. It's hard to tell, but you're imagining five, maybe six of these creatures? And how, How far away is this gentleman from us now? Would we be within Yellen distance? The lake itself is about 400 feet in diameter.

Oh, wow. And he is, strangely enough, you notice that the boat is always going to the middle of the lake and stops for a minute as he looks out over the edge. As you move closer to the edge of the water, you're able to get a better view of him. This is,

an entity, almost like akin to an elf. You've all seen elves before. Pointy ears, very similar, but his skin is almost a mossy green. Where hair would normally fall from his head are lengths of beautiful, purple, and pink wisteria flowers is they drape down his back. You see bits of moss and leaves

and what even appeared to be bits of bark embedded within his hair. And there is an air of regalness about him that you can't get a good look at his face. Even from this distance, it appears to be very attractive. He was handsome. He is very clearly handsome, exactly what you would expect for a prince of some sort.

As he leans over and looks down into the water, you see as the lengths of wisteria hair begin to fan out over the water. And just as quickly as he does so, he looks up, looks towards the next beacon, and makes his way over. Is he, like, crazy, magically handsome, like the King of Hearts, or is he just like,

he's a handsome guy? He is magically handsome, but not crazy magic. Got it. You know, like, there's a handsome guy. Yeah, there's a scale. And he's, like, halfway on this scale, whereas, like, the King of Hearts was, like, off the scale. The King Hearts is the scale.

He is the scale. He is the scale. He is the scale. He is a list of handsome, beautiness. Yeah. Torbeck is requesting that it's very important for Torbeck's immersion. Well, we'll work on it later. I have our bones that we find out what is causing the peritans to continue to put out the vegans by asking him, very simply.

If we do a favor, then by the rule of vegans. Oh, no. Wow, man, you think they were the vegan police? Oh, they're all the vegan police. I thought they ate hearts. No, they're putting out the vegan. police because they say, hey, you can't eat pots. That's inhumane.

Or chicken parmesan. Or chicken parmesan. Or chicken par. Jolado. Tomato's not vegan? Milken eggs, bitch. Nice setup. Nice setup.

Okay. I feel like we need to make sure this guy looks like he's seen a rough time of that. I. and going to approach him in a way that we're going to be able to eat. Oh, God. That's so great. All right. You're going to approach it and you're going to put in any sense.

Yeah, don't worry. I don't know that's a good idea. He's a spring guy. I know what these Elphrey talks like. They all like aminals. I would say from this vantage point, it is easy to tell that if you had to guess a court for this, for this Faye, it would be spring.

I know exactly what these spring fellas are. I mean, I feel like it's got to be pretty, looking pissed off. Look, this is just damn right. It's a fissian what he's doing. Huh? It's a fissian, yes. I agree.

Are you gonna turn into some kind of like giant aquacreacher and go swim up to him? Is he in the water? So there is... Is there him in the middle. Yeah, there is essentially what appears to be a crater, a crater lake that you are looking out onto. And it is 400 feet in diameter.

Yeah. And he is on a rowboat in the middle, looking into the water, and then he rose towards one of these eight fey beacons. There are stairs that encircle it. He climbs them. There's a copper basin at the top that he uses a torch to illuminate. He climbs back down, gets back in the boat, goes out to the middle of the water. The peritans extinguished the beacon, and he does it all over there.

And there's an island in the middle? There's no island. There's no island. Oh, he's in the boat. He's in the boat. He's in the boat. He stops there. He always goes down at something.

and looks down into the water. Oh. Okay. And the only time he gets out of the boat is when he gets to a beacon and he walks up, spiral steps, and lights in and walks down. There's no island in the middle.

That was just the sun. There's going to be treasure, though. Okay. Okay. I can swim very easily. Okay. I want to walk into the water. No, you do.

You step into the water, and it is, the temperature here is the coldest that it's been in all of the Faye Wild that you've experienced. so far. The constant drizzle of rain has dropped to the temperature significantly, but as you step into this water, it feels warmer than you would expect. It's still cold, still chilly, but it's not freezing. Like you imagine that you could swim in this and be comfortable. You could bathe in this and be just fine. The clearness of it is so pristinely crystal clear that

you can see straight through as if there were no water here at all. Though you can feel it on your skin, it's dampening the length of your pants. you reach your hand in to cup some of the water, and it rushes through your fingers, and it's almost as if it had never been there. But it is the most crystal clear water you've ever seen. You've got to your already, congratulations. Okay, guys, we don't need a boat.

But we're going, we don't need a boat. I'll pull up my ocarina. Bopo-boh-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-----------. Are you playing your o'-o-o-o. Roll a performance check for me, please. The peritans are out of nowhere and kills you. Uh-oh, no, it does. You're dead. I'll have an 11.

You immediately notice the peritans. As the ocarina begins to sound, though the elf, who is now rowing towards another one of the beacons, doesn't pay you any mind. The peritans, however, stop their circling, and they make their way over. towards you and you look up and they, all of them are now circling overhead. Over top of Grico? Are you having all of these, Grico?

This is part of your plan? Pro-p-p-propro, I'm probably trying to me. I turned to pleasiosaurus. Damn. You do? Oh! But then, there's a fucking monster! You're late!

Bago! Oh! Oh! Here, God! Oh! Now he did it! Trio! He can't do it.

You can know that it's Greg. No, no, no, she's a big monster. No. That's not Grico. He'll be doing that thing he always does. Yeah. We should probably kill it. I think that that is Grico.

Just one moment. I reached out with my mind. I believe we should all put our blades between our teeth and we should crawl on the ground. Oh, he can knock. Hey, it's me. Yeah, it's 2024 now. There is a small vocal minority

that's very upset that I can talk now. They're very cross about it. I'm very upset about it. I'm very upset about it. Just so we know that you're still Grigo. What's Grigo's favorite flavor ice cream? Oh, oh man.

Well, I mean, it gets it kind of depends on today. That's Grigo. That kind of feels like on the equivalent of like a Tuesday, it might be a little bit of rum punch. Oh. A little bit of rum punch. Okay. That's cute stormy.

That's Gregor. That's classic Grigo indecisiveness. What have you turned into? What is this? thing. Oh, this is the infamous long-necked flipper fellow. How do you know to do that? When I got abandoned on a mysterious tropical island, I almost got eaten by many fangs. This is in my backstory. I never read your backstory. I mean, you never, I don't even know what your backstory is. It'll even estimate for a long time.

Everybody hop on! Are you sure about this? Well, I mean, what else if you don't got no boat? I thought surf was a ninth level spell. Are you gonna be able to defend yourself? Are you surf? The birds are being very interested in you and you smell briny so perhaps he'll perceive you as food. Yeah, let's jump on him. I mean, he's a giant monster.

You notice. I'm a monster just like you. We could be best mates. Help us out. You notice that as Grico changed into this new creature, that they lowered themselves just a little bit more as they're scoping out the situation. A roll of persuasion check to see if you convince them.

Do we all be? I would say they're about 100 feet up now. What do you're Resuasion or animal handling? Persuasion because you're talking to them. Oh. 15. They lower themselves down about another 50 feet.

They're now 50 feet above you as they're circling you. You can see how incredibly large these birds are now. The gusts from their wings as they soar over you is, for those of you with fur and hair, it is being blown. this way and that. But they don't make any effort to lower themselves even further. Hey, Grico! Yeah. Torbay doesn't want to tell you how to live your life,

but if those things get closer, you try to eat them. No, these Peritans and I are on very good terms. They're lowering me because they find my singing voice, pleasure. Booh-d-hoo-hoo-mo. Roller performance check at advantage. As this is happening, I'm keeping an eye on the Elfman, and I want to see if this distraction is allowing him to light additional beacons.

Okay. Mm. Um, 14. Uh, you begin to sing the song of your Pleasysource people, and it's actually quite beautiful. You imagine that the sound of it underwater would be, um, would be even more beautiful, but even above the water. It's almost a haunting in the way that you're... are making these noises, and the pelotons, the peritans, the peritans seem to be really,

really interested in it. They lower themselves even further. They're now about 20 feet off of the ground. As they are beating their wings, trying to keep themselves a lot. And you, are they huge? Are they like massive? They're very large.

I can tell you, I can tell you exactly. I think my, I beat my up. So they're medium. But they are monstrosity. They're still very big. Um, But like the, are we just like, hold on from the, But these, these are like,

large human-sized birds. So like, when you think about, like, a hawk versus what this is, this is like... The lion is a medium-sized creature. Yeah, exactly. They're, they're huge for birds. I'm gonna try to climb one to Grico's back and hold on for dear life.

Wow, these birds are flapping their wings. And you, you, It's easy to notice that they are moving their heads in time with the song that Grico is performing. Can you roll a perception check for me, Frost? Oh. You show about this, Griko? We'll proceed.

How are we gonna get across very quickly and in style? And your dinosaur music is gonna counteract their inherent and primal hatred of humanity? I scamper up on 18. My head. Grimmie, you just make the move, man. If they get too low, you let me. me know. I've got about five seconds left. They get any fucking close up.

You watch as your friends, including Ambeforce, begin to climb atop Grico's pleasiosaurus back. The Peritans now hovering 10 feet over your head as they seem almost hypnotized by the performance that Grico is giving. As you see all of this happening, you glance out towards the lake and you see that there are that, um, that this Fay Prince is making his way towards a second beacon, the first illuminated. As he climbs up towards the second, he lights it. The first one still lit.

He looks back, you see him for the first time, do anything other than he's done this entire time, as he looks back and he sees that first beacon still lit. And with a quickness, he sprints to the boat and begins to row towards the third, no longer making his way towards the center of the lake. I think you're doing it. Oh, we're doing it.

It's just like Hazy May's Cave in Mario 64. Come on, fella. Let's get out. Jorbeck was gonna make an earthbound rappers, but no one will get it. And I tried one. He still tried to him. I'm trying to get it.

I appreciate it. I would hear this back. Are you saying? All we gotta do is join you and sing it and it'll protect this guy from the Peridans? I mean, is that the new move? Oh, yeah. Oh, they loved...

My whole theme is music calmed the savage beast. We must sing a song. Someone else's thinking something to sing that we could... So we don't lose their interest. They might get bored of the song. I know a song.

My trial for my boyhood days. I can perform that. I don't really remember the lyrics very well, but I'm sure I could piece them to... I can't remember how it starts now they think about it. Was it once on a summer's day, or was it... Late on an autumn eat.

Oh, actually, I don't know. I'm not sure I could. Why are you volunteering this information? You don't know what's all. Well, I do know it. I can't remember exactly how it starts. Well, I'm on to Grego's back, and then we'll try to make it to our way

to one of the beacons. I think we're on our way to... Secret Lake. The parentins are here. Come on, guys, help me out. Roll a performance check. Secret Lake, secret lake. And I'll say at advantage, because you're putting your heart

and soul into it and because Grico, yeah, I can tell. At advantage? At advantage. And because Grico has also been singing. Ew. Performance, you say? Yeah. 12.

That's not bad. I got a plus zero to performance. God. The dice must like you because I rolled in 11. And so you watch as a day. They drop to the ground completely. And completely encircling you now, you see as all of these peritans begin to swing in tune

to your Secret Lake song, you see as some of them open their beaks and though they can't form words, there is almost a humanness to the movements that they're making. And the sounds that they try to produce, they're not, they can't hit the notes properly, but they're trying. very clear they're trying to sing along.

You can see almost a sorrow, almost a sadness behind their eyes. And Gideon, roll a perception check for me, please. Oh. Or an insight check. 13. Looking up at these massive creatures, you don't notice anything at first, but as you listen to the sounds that they're singing,

as you watch the movements that they're making, you look into the one close, into the eye, of the one closest to you, and you realize that those aren't avian eyes. Those aren't the eyes of a peritin. They're humanoid. Ugh. What? You gotta see their eyes?

No, no. Oh, oh, my God. Secret. Secret agent, secret. Secret agent man. Secret agent man. Oh, I know a song that's long enough. That's very dramatic.

The legend lives on from this. on from the Chippewa and down on the Big Lake they call Gittigigoo-me. Keep going. Lake and instead never gives up for dead when the skies in November turned gloomy. What's November? I sing the entirety of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. By Gordon Lakefoot. Roll a performance check at advantage.

That's the singing starts. What did you notice? Gideon? What did you notice? Oh, their eyes, man. They're not weird bird eyes. They're like weird, haem eyes. Could these be transformed people?

Well, I mean, perhaps some sort of beacon guardian. Old one. Oh, you use this song is a bop. And these peritans are completely lost. I shed a tear. in their performance. The sounds that they're making are as close

as they have gotten to singing along, but they are all getting into it. And roll an insight check at advantage because of how well that performance went. Whoa! And I had a little bit of, you know, some pleasiosaur, laparice type of bellows. Yeah, some trails.

I was wondering if you were just laparice. Insight? Yes. Insight. Yeah, I look kind of like, more cuter like a laparice. Oh man, 24. As you perform and as you watch, you do notice what Gideon had mentioned that their eyes are humanoid. And you also begin to see different things in their mannerisms that don't seem natural to this form.

You're familiar with pheritans. You know how they move. You know what their instincts are like. And these entities seem much more humanoid. And the thing that you begin to notice now is they're looking around. at you as they're performing along with you almost as if they're looking for your recognition of the performance they're now trying to give back to you I'm gonna presume that this song that Grico goes it's Grico and I presume that this

performance is gonna take five minutes and 58 seconds about halfway through and putting the pieces together I'm gonna cast to detect thoughts and if they If they know how much more language or if they're overwhelmed in an instant. I'm going to try and get a sense of how they are feeling about this. If I can get some, if I can get voices, I'm going to try to communicate with them in this way. 29, the lyrics.

You, so you, you see this, Grinco. You notice these things. Frost all the while, you glance back out towards the basin and you see that four beacons have been illuminated. The fourth one, having just been lit, as this fairy prince makes his way back down towards the boat again, moving in such a hurry, constantly glancing back, clearly curious

as to what's happening here on the shoreline, but determined to finish this task at hand. And as this happens, you push out this. And is there a, like, radius? for this or is it certain? It's a one minute concentration, the presence of thoughts within of creatures within 30 feet of me

that know language or are telepathic. So if they can't communicate because they're stuck inside of bird bodies, but if they have common or some other language, I would be able to hear that presumably. You... You... You...

You... So much screaming in your mind to torment. You push out this magic and everything quiets for a minute as the sounds of yawn fade into the distance. And you begin to pick up on the sounds of thoughts and only thoughts. You hear the thoughts of Torbeck, his stomach's grumbling, and he thinks he still has a bit of licorice in his pack somewhere,

but he couldn't find it. And so maybe if we have an opportunity, would anyone notice right now if he got the licorice, if he went to look for it, maybe Kremi took it. If he snuck up behind Kremi and rummaged through his pack, would he notice right now? they all seem kind of busy. I look over and I see Torbeck rummaging through his pack.

You hear Gideon's thoughts as he's singing this song. He's making up line by line. Oh, it's going to come now. Well, what rhymes with that? How many more things can I rhyme with Secret Lake? Two rowers forbidden from one another. Wait, have I already used that line already? All the while, you're hearing the thoughts of your friends.

And then you begin to hear voices that you've never heard. before. It feels like we're performing again on stage. Oh. If only they would notice that note I hit, it was spectacular. I'm a soprano again. Can you believe it? And then you hear another voice. I thought I was going to die before I performed again. If I, if my days are numbered at least I have this, this one single memory Molly this one single memory. Falling is fun. She thought she could best us with these bodies.

But little did she know, we're still the greatest troop of Mama's land has ever seen. And you hear bits of talk as more voices chime in, as what are clearly a group of what you're able to piece together is a group of performers, a performing troop that had incurred the ire. of the old hag and had been turned into

these forms and cursed to extinguish these beacons but all they have in their hearts all they want to do is perform and all they long for the cheers of an adoring crowd I will lean forward after listening to this and knowing that we only

have another two minutes and 48 seconds left in Grico's song I'll lean in to those not performing Grammy, Torbeck, these creatures, I reached out with my mind. They are not monsters at all. These are... What the hell?

They have the minds of performers. These have been transformed by the hag. Oh, they're people. These are mummers. Yes, they crave applause. They crave an audience, and they crave to be understood to sing again. That's why they're being so distracted by these performances. Oh, they're mummers?

Exactly right. I've been plenty of mummers. I know exactly what they love. Well, I would a crowd get really excited for people who can't talk very loud. No, Gid. What? It's not that impressive. You just go,

you're talking about mumblers? That's a totally different thing. That's a different thing. What? I'm so embarrassed for it. What, I mean, what the hell is a mumber? Mama, they're like, I don't know. They're like, conval type folks.

They're sort of our kin in a way. They do pantomimes. Yeah, they're just a little more flamboying and gaudy than we are. Well, well, well, well. Who's the dumb? You didn't know, Mom. You didn't know mommers.

Mothers. Mothers? I would bet anything that you were thinking about eating jubes again. That made me true, but Torbeck... No, you don't know about mommers. No, you don't. Eaton tubing and knowing what Mumbers is. What Tormack knows.

Mommers versus mumblers. Not even close, dumbass. Cremie, do you have Torbeck Flickrish? By what I have? That's right. Okay. Now, we need to address... We do... Press me is parrots, and we need to. Paritans, I know you're not actually peritans,

that you've just been transformed into your, I can sense your thoughts, and I understand that you are actually fantastic theatrical performers inside. Please, let us help you. Are you continuing to perform or as Frost just talking at them? Oh, oh, yeah. They're all these coaches are really similar. They're continuing to sing a day.

What's Detroit? Roll a persuasion check. In a much out hole in Detroit. At advantage because of the performance. What's fucking Detroit? 14. The foot is in Detroit. You, they pick up the pace.

They begin to make noises louder. They're trying to mimic the trills and sounds that Grico is making. They're squawking and garbling, but they're They're doing their very best. All the while, you can hear the voices in your head. Did you hear that? He said, he could help us.

But I don't want to stop the performance, though. I'm finally performing. And they seem so focused on performing and hoping this ends with a round of applause that though they seem to have heard you, they don't motion towards you in any way and they just amp up their experience. We have to let them finish.

And when they do finish, everyone applause. and we'll make them our allies. Do we have to let them finish? I mean, just be nice. It's gonna be nice. We could actually make a happy resolution of this, assuming that the elf man, when he finishes lighting that final beacon,

doesn't create. Oh, watch! Just a roll back. How many be it? I was gonna wave. Five beacons and cool. Of eight? Eight.

Is that what they call on the Faywild? What? A happy resolution? Yes. What are you talking about? Oh. Yeah. No, no, I hear it now.

Frost, you inside their heads, man, that's sick. The Kales of November come early. Keep saying November. No one knows what that is. Oh, gosh, that's it. Oh, we got to the end of the song? Oh, we got to the end of the song. Oh, no. What, I didn't have a song.

Oh, well, I remember what a song. Oh, good job, good. Yay. I would like you to roll a group persuasion check out of marriage. I'm going to Peritans. Oh, man, I'm crushing it, bro. Wow. How do you feel that?

This is persuasion. Very quite easily. Remember when I rolled at advantage? Oh, yeah. Oh, this is straight? I haven't seen that in a long time. Oh, thank goodness. Oh, shit.

Oh, no. 21. Okay. 11. 20. Seven. Seven. You also got a seven?

You also got a seven? You also got a seven? You also got a seven? I just wanted to say seven. Wait, so 21, 11, 11, 7.7. Yeah. Oh, wow, that's five, okay. What on to 44?

You're like a 26? Oh, hold on. On the board out of 40. And Tom DeBoer. Now I will roll for him. Oh, my God, a 38! Whoa! Whoa!

That's Caprice here? It's a big bonus is twenty-three. You, oh, he's an advantage. So that didn't help. You all begin to clap and cheer, and as these peritans begin to hear the sound of the clapping, your magic begins to fade away. The last thing you hear is,

the applause, they love us. And they all begin to move forward, and they attempt to bow. They begin to preen about and show off their feathers. And as you can to clap and cheer, they all seem incredibly happy. And then they begin to start performing again. And you watch as they start to do an almost synchronized dance,

beating their wings in tandem with each other, almost like synchronized swimming, but with flight. You notice that they leap up into the air and they do acrobatics and then they, all the while, you're watching what appears to be a story of a performing troupe that makes its way to Motherhorn and becomes the greatest troop in all the land. Yeah, they're very, very, very good.

It's interpreting. It's interpreted. It's very obvious. It's very obvious. As they make their way to Motherhorn and perform, they become the greatest troop in all the lands. They're playing themselves and then at Motherhorn. So good that their influence is negatively affecting bitter end. She becomes resentful and angry,

and as they gain renown, she has to punish them, and she locks them away. But people are unhappy. They want their performing troop back. And they beg her to release them, free them. She does with a catch. They're free to sail the skies, but never again to perform.

They're cursed to circle the beacons and prevent her wrong one prize possession, a prince of spring, from ever leaving Yon. And they're trapped here. Little do they know until the prince escapes. And it is, as they finish this performance, and they land, they all begin to take a bow

as they wait for the applause. And as you begin to cheer and applaud. Where do you get all those puppets? You see a large, large pillar of light, as the eighth beacon is lit. All of the lights shoot towards the sky, and the mirror glass or the mirrored water that you're on almost turns to glass.

You feel yourself no longer sinking down into its depths, but you see now that you were standing atop of it on the pleisosaurus body of Grico, you see that it is, it is like glass beneath you, like a mirror, And it is not reflecting the skies of yon, but a beautiful wooded forest, so dense and so green, the lands of the court of spring.

Off in the distance, you see a beautiful, perlacent castle shining in the sunlight. The trees themselves coated in wisteria and moss. It is very clearly the realm from which this prince has come. And you look off in the distance. He pays you no mind as he strolls to the very center of this lake, where you see a prismatic archway has appeared.

Thorny vines wrapped up around it, framing the archway. He reaches out and touches the face of it, and you can see the prismatic mist on the inside ripple. He sticks his hand through, and as he pulls it out, you can see that he's pulled a frond from his home out to his hands, you can hear the sounds of him choking back sobs as he realizes he's finally on his way home. He turns towards you and though you have never spoken, though you do not know his name, he knows what you've done for him as he raises his hand and he waves to him. And in almost a silent

acknowledgement, you feel a tethered connection to this entity. You have saved his life. And a fay debt is owed. Should you ever come into contact with this entity again, you imagine that that could come in handy as he nods towards you acknowledging this connection that you now have between all of you, as he steps through the shimmering portal and disappears. As you look down into the mirrored glass beneath you,

you see the prince appear. He is on the pathway heading towards the castle. He looks over his shoulders, as if looking out to see the land that he had come from, and you can see the look on his face, that that portal is no longer there. He is home. He turns and begins to walk towards the castle

as the water begins to shimmer and shift, and the surface begins to turn back into liquid. How do we find you? Oh, we didn't get his name. Oh, the parrots. The peritans all, they look around. They look horrified from me. moment as they realize what's happened. They have failed. They did not do that which they were

tasked to do. And they allowed the fey beacons to be lit. They all begin to ascend into the sky, but their wings aren't working. They're, they begin to fail on them. They begin to panic as they start to whoosh this way and that. They're not able to gain flight. You begin to notice that feathers are disappearing from that. Their sizes are beginning to shrink. They're trying to climb higher and higher into the sky. But it's to no avail as they begin to realize what's happening. They begin to circle around the water, slowly getting lower and lower and lower before about five feet above the water.

All of them turn back into their humanoid forms. With splashes, they land in the middle of the lake. Can y'all swim? You hear screaming and yelling as... Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Go, Grigo! I'll take my jacket off, I'll take my hat off,

roll up my sleeves. I'm taking my shoes off. Oh, damn, man. It's ten minutes. At least I'm like to... And I dive in, and I try to at least save one. I try to keep my back, my hump, my locknest monster hump. If I had a really cool, like, shell, like, lampers, that'd be cool.

But anyway, I keep my back above the water so everyone can, like, stay on, and just try to... to basically get there as quickly as I can without not as the opposite of breaching, submerging. Mm. You begin to swim towards the middle of this, and you find all of them as they are completely soaking wet, still covered in some of the remaining feathers

from their peloton forms have spread out around the water and begin to stick to their bodies, and they're to pull them out. They aren't paying too much attention to you as they're fighting with each other, before they realize that they're not fighting with wing anymore. They're fighting with arm and hand, and these are all what appear to be humans.

You're back to yourself. They don't look special in any way. Got them. We failed, but we somehow survived. Yes, we found that the punishment is really the commitment to doing what you did. As soon as you let things go, you were, were freed and you're now back to your normal selves.

You could have done this a long time ago if you had stopped putting the beacons out. But she knew. She knew the only thing that would get us to stop our mission was a performance. Wicked, wicked thing she is. Yes, she plays her mind tricks and she had you all fooled quite nicely.

Martin, are you alive? And you see that there is a soggy old man. I'm pulling all by this stuff from my teeth. Are they naked or do they have clothes? No, they're wearing clothes. They're wearing there for four of my teeth. Don't pick him up like that, no. That's his penis, Ricko.

On hand my penis. That breast creature, on hand my penis. What is it crying? It's kidding me. This is the fee wild benefit. What is my crime going for a delicious swim? All of them are wearing clothes,

except for Martin, the old man. Dormex, next, stop it's next! As he, you throw him onto the back of Grico's new form, and he is shivering and cold as the woman slowly moves over to him, and she wraps her cloak around him and tries to keep him warm. I'm so happy to see that you're still alive. Well, yes, but if I had died, at least I went out with a bang, Molly, am I right? And she reaches it and she gives him a quick peck on the cheek.

Absolutely, darling. You were spectacular. You carried the entire troop. We couldn't have done it without you. You were all excellent performers. Oh, thank you. Just using your bird-like bodies, you were able to convey that entire story about your origins. It's remarkable. Well, we had, to be fair, we'd been practicing it for many, many years, but we never thought we would have anyone to perform it for. The prince never even looked up at us long enough to... to even recognize what we were practicing.

He was very focused on leaving, and I'm sorry that you felt the need to try and stop him, but do you have any idea what his name is, why he was trying to leave, what his goals are? Oh, he know tons of things about him, yes. And then they die. Martin! He's still alive.

That's a big one. We give you all the information. I'm gonna start flippering back to shore. I'm gonna start, I'll beach myself and I'll kind of like do the little shimmy and the sea turtle shimmy. I love the sea turtle. I'll go back to shore. Yeah.

Hi, I'm Grico, I'm not only in the don't look like this. It's absolutely lovely to me. I'm gonna take my shirt off in my pants and let's be in my underwear and I'll start to hang it. Is there like a tree nearby that I can hang up my clothes? There are a few barren trees. They, the wind has completely blown the leaves off. But you find more outcroppings of roads. than anything. You find enough places to be able to hang up your cloaks or any waterlogged pieces of gear and clothing and begin to set them out.

I'll go just kind of set up a campfire in that area. If there's like some, like if it's kind of like decayed wood and I can gather some stuff together so we can dry out and they can kind of gather around. Thanks, Keith. That's nice. Yeah. Do you even realize that y'all would turn, you lot were turned into hideous, shrieking, heart-eating, hobby-like monsters? Just like my ex-girlfriend. Of course we knew.

Oh, bitter end was bitter in the end, and she could not stand that we had such a following. Yes. We think the bitter end sucks. So do we. We hate her. We're trying to stop her and kill her or something. We spanned her sisters for some reason.

We'll probably just end up making a deal with her. No, no, no, no, free me! That's what we did with all the others, man. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me a third time, shame on you again for very clearly taking advantage on people who are very easily fooled.

That's true. She better not fools again. Well, this worked out well. Everybody had, you know, it worked out. The guy went home, these people are back to humans. Things are looking up. Yeah, so y'all are mummers, huh? Yes.

How long have y'all been transformed? Do you have any sense of that? It feels like forever, but I imagine 50 years? Oh, my God. You know, in all my years, I've met a whole bunch of mommas in this one thing that mommas love more than performing, and that's drugs. Y'all must be seen it right now.

Anybody got any opium or what alcohol? Oh, yeah, right. That's right now. It probably squeeze out a little windlight at it. Oh, man. We know. I always got the flask on, man. Something from my fingers, too.

They're like jazz musicians, you know. What is happening? Oh, man. I mean, I can't speak for the rest. I mean, Martin was a little crazy in his younger days, but the rest of us are fairly straight-laced. Well, I'll be just the opium, man. No one of a lot of us.

Just the opium, huh? Have you aged in your bird forms? No. So you're the age that you were when you were transformed. I'm exactly as I was. That's something. The last time I remember. So you just lived 50 years flying around

and putting out beacons? Yes, poor Mavis. I'm shocked that you're able to talk about it. What about Mavis? Is Mavis dead? What? No, she's right here. And you see there's clearly...

Oh, I need a smoke. That looks at a do smoke. Oh, I don't think that would be able to do some opium. Oh, I don't think that'll be. That one doesn't look to be eight at a day of 115. I mean, it does. That happens exactly like that. You're all welcome to have a mummer.

Oh, right. Oh, well, I'm so rude. I have any drugs. I've obviously introduced Martin, and this is Mavis. I'm Molly. This is Maeve. Matthew, Morgan, and and much.

Hey, everyone, they call me Getsu! Well, this is great. It's just so happy. Everybody just swive. I don't know, well, did we do the thing? I mean, we did the thing first.

I mean, is it now the tunnel? No, no, we got, we have a favor from the spring court elf person that we were allowed. How do you know that? He just disappeared. I felt it innately and also were in the Faye Wild. Don't you remember the rule of Rensopause? Well, yes, the rule of reciprocity would say that

considering the great deed you've done for him and really he's royalty, the entirety of the Spring Court, I imagine the favor you've gained today is quite large. And we were able to help you transform back, and for that favor, I propose that you tell us everything that you know about how. how to perhaps defeat bitter end if we've fought, defeat the hag, and all of this.

Yes. And all of this? Yes. Yep, yep. If we, anything, any information that you can give about her whereabouts or her habits, her weaknesses, her fears, where she sleeps at night, these kinds of things. Yeah. Well, she's horrified of the eclipse.

Oh yes, alleges. So that's a fear of hers. What was that? She's horrified of the eclipse. The eclipse? Yes, the eclipse. Yes, it's. Gosh, I've never read Berserk.

Why is, I don't know what the hell the Eclipse is about. She had every copy of the Munger burned. Gosh, I never had my chance. What the heck? I mean, burning. I don't even know who Griffith is. I feel so out of the room. And you never shall.

Oh, man. You know, I've always wanted to be balls deep in Inkybus. I mean, sucky bus. What was that? What was that? Sorry, don't worry about it. What? And aside from this, she has her ory of tragedies that tells her the future,

so she always knows what's to come. That's the reason she's afraid of the eclipse. It spoke of her demise beneath one. And let's see what else is there. She loves performances. There are performances. Oh, Mudge, do you still have the program for Mother Mudge? Mudge.

Thank you, Mudge. Yes, it looks like it did. Oh, classic Mudge! Mudge is a Pockemon? Yes. Mudge is lost it. Mudge! I can't say that all of these are still running, though.

She was, she did not like to change the schedule unless something truly, spectacular came to play. So there are a few things that were playing when a tragedy of twilight was playing. Love unsoiled, finding no suit for among the living, a maiden looks towards the unliving. That was quite gory, gruesome, really. A village no more. Light straws fall. This was her favorite, one of Endlindle in the Moongrave's favorite plays, of course, in which her sister meets tragedies in. And island of death in an ocean of tears.

She really does love her tragedies and plays that make one weep. If that leads to the next thing, you can keep this, should you want it. As I said, I can't be positive that any of them are still on schedule. I'm dripping like a little over a room. Should you find yourselves in Motherhorn, the best way to get into her good graces would be to have a play at the ready to debut on stage. She's always looking for new talent. Again?

So should you be some sort of band of thespians, you could find yourselves quite at home, especially if you needed a ruse all the while to get closer to her. We don't really get along with those. The more, well, we get along just fine. You helped us. Guys, guys, guys, you know what this means, right? We can, we, we, we can finally, huh, we can, we can do, huh?

The greatest, huh. What? Uh-huh. Of all time. Okay. All right. We can just do cats. Oh.

Yeah! Yeah! Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me, Jobeck? What? No. I don't care if it was... I don't care of cats

who is remarkable for time. It's just a bunch of different cats showing up, introducing themselves, and moving on. It's terrible. It's fucking terrible. What the fuck is a delical cat? That's not even a thing.

It's not even a fake. They're all trying to die. They all weren't to die. Well, it's a metaphor. You know, it's a little fucking metaphor. Cats is only marginally better than Phantom of the Opportunity. She was a Tony Island.

Oh, D'Rbeck loved that one. Give me the gun, man. Yeah, we did a gun. That was Dormac's shape, Lord. Duremberg's like, man, Torbeck wished you'd a gun. Well, if you guys don't like that, then what are we going to do? Well, you will not want to have a troop name. It's the only way to make yourselves look professional.

Stage names would be necessary, of course. And, well, it would be a lot of planning, but truly if you want to, make your way into Motherhorn without causing a big notice, showing up as the traveling band of Thesbians is going to be your best choice. Oh, Thesmian. You may not know, you may not notice about me. I'm not looking at a cat of being a 350-foot crustacean from the Pelliazoic era. How do you know all those things, but you know...

But I'm actually an acclaimed award-winning playwright. and I am a very skilled mummer myself. Behold, the Norfremenders, so davenos. The Norfremenders and the mummers fast is almost done. My son is home. And sin. I'm glad it's shit to say to a motherfucker

while you pretend to take a giant shit. All eight of the mummers applaud you. They all seem enraptured by you, even Mudge. Mudge! I've seen better, you're right Mudge. Something about Mudge is not right. Something about Mudge isn't right. So she likes to rock around on all fours and scream.

There's a pattern here. All of these programs, every one of these shows is a terrible tragedy. If we're going to perform something, we're going to have to think of something truly sad. Something truly dark, something truly heart-wrenching. What's the saddest story? ever seen a herd of red. Oh. Does to be sad?

That's be terribly sad. The tragedy of the epic tale of Sir Mogo is quite tragic on account of the loss of her dear friend's own friend. So yes, if it's already been performed, you cannot bring it to better end. I mean, I wouldn't mind another chance.

I really fucked up the song the first time. If she finds out that you're performing a rerun on her stage, you'll be executed. Ah, cute, here's pretty depressing. Look at that one. Has she seen Airbud? What the fuck? That's really, that's really sad.

Can you ever, can't can't even have ever seen a dog? The air bud is not any, no, I think you're confused. No, air bud, and then the judge makes the dog choose between a clown and a kid, and the clowns got the newspaper.

No, but it's all sad all the way up to the ending. Are you saying I'm thinking of the plague dogs? Oh, the tragedy of Doth Plagueist the Wise? Oh, no. No? I got Once Upon a Forest, that's pretty fucking... That's really fucking depressing. That's really fucking miserable and depressing.

Oh, my God. Is there a stage version of Watership Down? That's getting closer. Yeah, that's... God, ugh. Well, if I want to dip back into the... Class struggle theme of the first problems We could do lay mids.

That one's also pretty depressed. How about we just pick a name, get some costumes, show up and like a tacker? We just got to get in the building. We don't have to do a whole. Old daggone play again. We need to sell it. We have to sell it.

Well, get a good costume for all day. Look at where we are. We're contractually obligated to do this show now. We have a play bill, idiot. No, we don't. No, he's got a play bill. I'm a singing pleiosaur. There are all sorts of popular performers that are doing this.

We're gonna have to do it too. Look, a tragedy of Twilight. Robert Pattinson is in this. Oh, wow. You got Robert Benson? You know? I think he's super on the radio, you know? I think he's pregnant, too.

I look. I forgot I had this. Oh. I really wish the man bat had a better foot act. Yeah, that could be good. It ran a little long. It was so good for so long, as soon as it has ended 20 minutes early,

and it would have been perfect. Yeah. You know, what's he doing just out in public? Yeah, why did it turn to a disaster? All of a sudden, it's like a real superhero, like a fucking firefighter or something. Yeah, it's like, no, yeah. That's, oh. Yeah.

He's the first respond to save me people from the other. Oh, what's that right? Fucking sucks. You know, this notice indicates that Enlund is looking for it. This notice is looking for actors. And Lynn Moongray put out her own notice very specifically looking for talented actors to join her delightfully tragic blaze. Oh.

But we haven't in already. We know that old Snake as Snake Jr. is there right now. And one of those little girls is up there. She just climbed them out. I mean, she didn't succumb to... Oh, no. The Elements or Tornado wrecks. Torquardtorek forgot about that.

She definitely succumbed. The Torniq likes that wreck, Prince. Yeah. I wonder how many of, um... audience members understands that reference is probably a little too young. Very few. If she didn't succumb to the Elements or Tornado Rex, I think, that she might be there too. Alright.

Like, uh, Yasha or Pasha or Pasha? Misha? Misha? No, Misha would you have a girl? We just left her. If we turned into the woods with a big... Oh yeah, if she went to the woods. Oh boy.

We could do the tale of that one green troll. Who? And he had like a whimsical companion who would talk and loved waffles. Oh yeah, I mean that's a great soundtrack. That's a great soundtrack, though. Or tragic. I mean... It's kind of funny.

Well, I'm not doing a Scottish accent. I don't think the rest of you can do a Scottish accent. Oh, what? You had to be the lead! We can do it. You agree. Wounds. Wounds. Wounds.

Wounds. Wounds. I'm not going to. I had it. I never knew. I never... I'm close. I'm close.

I never knew. Okay, okay. That one's out. That one's out. That one's out. That's not sad at all. Well, I mean, it is kind of sad in the sense of, like, the whole moral of the story was about not letting first appearances and your appearance kind of make you judge people, but they spend the whole time making fun of the main villain because he's short. Yes.

We, we... It's kind of sad. The definition of irony. Yes. Three years ago, we talked about this. And he just looks like Michael Eisner, so there's this weird, like, you know, IRR beef that sort of takes me out of the TV, you know?

The tragedy of Jeffrey Katzenberg is when we don't want to touch probably. Oh, no, no, that's just more cruel and violent. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Okay, that one's out. Okay. Gosh, it's hard. Okay, hold on, hold on. Something truly tragic.

And walk to remember. No. No. No. Now, now, now, now. We already did the tragedy of Wiggle Wall. We could, I've not performed with you before, but I'm a talented performer, I believe. We could do the notebook.

Oh, no, yes. No way. Not a chance. No, that's too sad. Torbeck will never sit through that ever again. Yeah, that's what I'd draw the life. Especially not in the presence of other humanoid. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. You think Torbeck's pathetic now. Goodness gracious. Yeah, we'll do Brokeback Mountain. The perfect suggestion. For this particular campaign, we won't take that seriously at all. Yeah, Brokeback Mountain.

Okay, there's got to be some great tragedies. Do we need to decide right now? I mean, I think now we know sort of a general plan. No, of course not. I just, I would suggest that you're more than prepared at the moment You're charging to Matherhorn. The moment you even get within distance of the place, she has eyes everywhere.

You want to make sure you're in character. Method acting, of course, Mudge is a method actor. Mudge! Mudge! You're right, honey. Who else but Mudge? Yeah. Every time Mudge times Hymourge.

Dormack gets more scared. Dormack really does the fight for Hudge. Mudge, you mind standing over there? There you go, Dormick. You can stop cow. Jinky got Mudge as a Mettig actor. Looks to Derek, Derek Mudge. He just gets me, guys.

He gets me. Get on him. Well, I don't see why we have to blend this now. We have a bunch of brigandots to kill. Yeah, I'm not. Yeah, I'm supposed to say. All right. Oh, man.

Oh, God. I really want to shoot to animate much. Oh, my God, much. I can't wait for that. Oh. But yeah, so there's no need to, to, to, to live in a little the plan right now as long as you have a rough idea of what you plan to do and as I mentioned stage names and a troop name and obviously need costumes you need to

look unified in some way. Uh, I have my flipper up. Yes. Excuse me. Yes. Um, could we figure out after we kill a bunch of Brighornooks? I don't care when you do it. It's up to you. Um, are you gonna be around here or are you like going away forever after we're gonna. Well, I think we're going to light the beacons and we're going to go home. Oh, that's smart.

Oh, that's really sad. We're worth home for you. Oh, wait, just anybody who likes these beacons just gets to do whatever they want? Well, if you light all of the beacons, the portals created and it returns you to the place your heart desires. To say we can go home? We want to go home. Like right now? Wait, where's home for y'all? Oh, yes.

Are you following us? No, I'm just curious. I mean, maybe... We're just making a conversation. You know what Torbegg's our desires right now? With alcohol? Yes. Strawbeck milkshake?

Yes. But also that mudge stayed apparent. I was just going to say, don't let muds light any of them beacons. Because you know her hurts. Fuck, though. If she lies to be it, you know, that's taking them straight to somewhere weird. Oh, horrible, dark as eyes.

Dormick can see it on its only face. Okay, all right, Mudge. Let's get out of here. I got you saddle. Holy shit. Don't know our Mums are free to do that. I owe Mudge. Oh, man.

Dormick wishes nothing but horrible ill will upon you. These guys are way better than Mumbler. I don't know where you've seen mumblers in an assembly like that that doesn't make any sense, but definitely better. No, to answer your question, I'm not sure if you're familiar with it, but we, until we came here,

we were a small time, we performed at a, and we performed at a little inn called the Honeypot. Blair. The Honeypot? Yes. That's it.

on the prime material link? Where is this place? Is it in the Veywall? No, it's not, no, it's in, um, that's not familiar. Yeah, the Honeypot. No, it's not a Baja Creek or something. Oh yeah, we've been in Beaver Creek or something.

I thought the, yeah. I thought the Honeypot was, uh, it was south of there, wasn't it? I don't know, I don't think so. Was it knee grist mill? I think that was all probably retconned. Oh, never mind. Oh, I don't know. Oh, I don't know.

Please you're sure as Grico can say. Oh, I'm a very particular set of knowledge. Of certain things. He's 350 feet long. He existed 205 million years ago. I mean, the guy knows things. Whichever was it? Mesozoic.

Okay. Yeah, 350-foot tall or station from Mesozoic. I just need about 3.50. That's all I need. What's next? Red wants to get away from mudge. Mudge! Please, anything to move along?

Well, what can you tell us about that prince? Where can we find him? Yes. Oh, well, I'm assuming that he went back home to the Spring Court, so you'd have to travel there. Got a name? The Spring Court? No, no.

Oh, for the Prince. Oh, yes. Alaric Green Teeth. Larrick Green Teeth. All right. He'd do anything embarrassing or anything. while, you know, y'all will follow them for 50 years? I mean, constantly trying to light beacons,

knowing that we're going to. Yeah. Did he do anything else? No. 50 years? You mean he was in that boat for 50 years and you were right over top of him? He didn't do anything embarrassing?

No. He did anything weird, like a real freak, like real freak shit? I feel like he'd have to stop to use the bad. No. I mean, he's up a king. He's a plant. He's definitely got degenerate concern. He's kidding.

He's kidding in the boat, didn't he? No, I don't think he defecated even once in 50 years. How's that possible? He would have drowned on his own poisons. His body must be working at 100% efficiency at all times. Yes, he's a fay creature. He's a prince. He didn't need to sleep for 50 years?

No. He didn't come down from one of the beacons and sort of stumble and then fall a little awkwardly into the boat in 50 years? No, he always was so great. He's not even one time. No. Oh, my God.

Why are you picking your nose while you're asking this question? Torbex's done it like 18 times today, and you're telling me that Prince didn't do it one time. Mudge, why are you standing behind Torbex? Grigo! Gringo! Oh, no. No, you gotta say a favorite calming phrase, Yargolo Nasrugurov.

You turned to your ancient slum. You turn to your ancient slum. Give yourself a dust bath in the same. No! And through your nature. Please. Mr. Crummy, please. Your sluggery is no Sagarov.

Please. Go on. Go on home, man. Go on home. All right. I got to cook dinner. Go away, Mudge. Mudge stands behind you.

She pulls her arms in the air and she starts dancing. And she's doing the female orc dance from World of Warcraft. Isn't that also just Shakira? Go away. And that's the thing. A smell or something. You never know which of her lazy eyes look into. Dormick doesn't know who you are,

but command this creature away from Dormann. Your shaw, y'all, y'all, back to the plains of you go. Hatch, match. And with that, they all mount Mudge's saddle. Oh, my God. And they rush towards the beacons. They hook of them toes on to their skin. No way.

The moments that they start to ride off. Rest in piss, you little freak! Don't come back! Orange, you wrestling piss, she'll slumber for 300 years. That was awful. But you hang out by the water's edge as they light the beacons, and then the water turns to glass beneath you,

and you see what looks to be this really quaint inn. The sign on the inn has definitely changed, no longer called the honeypot. It's hard to read. You can't tell in the water, but there's some inn in Beaver Creek that they make their way back to as they walk through that same archway

and disappear into the material plane. Sneeds feed and seed for relief chucks. Yes, that's exactly what it's said. Oh, guys, Dormick's not sure that mud was always like that. There's probably something wrong with the curse for it. Everyone else seemed to mute

to the 50 years of being aware of this. Perhaps mudge was actually the most intelligent of all, but degraded terribly over the course of half a century. God! I don't know. Were it phased by it at all?

Just looking upon muds increased the violent nature of Torback to bounds you wouldn't believe. I've never seen you so affected by another creature. This is a remarkable. Yeah. Toerbeck. Torbeck wanted to hurt much.

Wow. Well, she's gone now, Torquick. Yeah, yeah. That a little bit. And look, here's the thing. I don't think any of them make it through the night. I can tell they were going to withdraw. It was just going to.

And unless they found opium quick. I mean, that speed stop didn't seem pretty sketchy, so maybe it's just around the corner, you know? Now what? That's awful. You've been very quiet, Antipore. I'm shocked that I appreciate you all greatly

and I think of us as very close friends, but I am quite shocked, not just as the DM's NBC right now, but that you managed to accomplish that organically the way that it needed to be accomplished right way. We didn't encounter, boys. Yeah.

Wait, by the module? By the module, there's good. And you distract them with performance, so yeah. I mean, obviously the little bit changed because it's me, but. Oh, is that a facial? Congratulations, Grega. I don't find you.

I'm almost a congratulations for you. I can't believe Wizards in the Coast will put an NPC like mudge into a model like that. That's a nightmare. They didn't. They didn't. Tarek has a strong letter to write. Did you need to include the saddle?

What the fuck? No, well, they wasn't, okay. It was kind of by the book. It was kind of my book. They did the performance there, right? They clapped for them and they liked it, okay? They did it. It's so easy.

What we have to do is do things by the book and we'll be able to get through this adventure and perhaps two more sessions instead of doing. You know what they say about doing it by the book? You know what they say it's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake? And if the way it's hazy, you gotta do the cooking by the book and you don't want to be lazy.

Do you ever hear that, oh, bearable? I've heard that song, for, but it's usually overlaid with another song that I can't repeat it this time. I don't remember that. I don't even talking about it. Oh, my God, Derek, really? I don't know he's not over there.

Thank you. Fucking thank you. I've done no one. That was not him for me either. I mean, I get the reference, and I knew what she was going to. I know he was going to make that reference. Okay, well, I guess I better

heat myself over to the, uh, to the mind. to the mine and start killing. Although, I feel like this form is very suited for the Brighorn. Can you mix it up? I'm so tall right now, though. But let's see you move around on land. You watch as a trail of blood

begins to appear beneath him as the sand begins to rip away the soft undersigned flesh of his aliasaurus body. No, Bricka, stop. You're bleeding. Stop! What's a foul?

Why you let us do the throat slim? By the time we're done, you'll be there. What is the flipper? He's gonna be able to cover at least 20 mouths with that thing. His insides begin to spill out all over the ground. Yes, look, we had snakes. Oh, no, you God. Those are you're gonna get some,

you're small and large intestines. I collapse out. It's like, as I then tumble into my small goblin form. All right, Philis, what are you feeling? I'm taking requests. Oh, well, the wants. Oh.

You know what? Can I please have a cheese pot, extra longworm? Longworm and fucking cheesebop? Ooh, yeah, that's a good stuff. That's a good stuff. I'll make you a separate pot. Wait a thing, cheese pot?

What? No, that's the best way you eat cheese pot. Cheese pot. No one. No, long worm. No longer. What? You can't have cheese pot

without a little bit of chimkin, really. No, we're not chimkin. No, you gotta do it. I'm not a huge fan of longworm. But Polinello would love a longworm. Can you eat chimkin? Can your biology process there? Well, it's not pleasant afterwards,

but I do love the taste. Oh, right. Look, Tormeck's not even opposed to long worm. He's just allergic to it. Every time it's 120 longworms, up. Somebody poison my long ones. That's right. Every time.

Every time. Every time I eat 120 long worms. That's too many no-lums. No, that's not just allergic. That's way too many. That's too many long ones. That's too many dintagal looms. Why did you get 120 long work?

I'm making three cheese pots, all right? Only three, but... Two of the fucking freaks and one regular old, all right? Okay. A plate cheesepot, Jimkin one and a long one. That's right. That sounds delicious. Are we going to camp here for the night?

Or are we going to go? Here we go. Are we camping here for the night? Are we heading down the mountain? We're just having a real best for lunch. It just seems like a waste of time to set up the entire camp. I would agree with you, but they seem to be settling down. I mean, it's only been an hour and 20 minutes since we came down from the cliffs, but here we are.

Everyone's very tired. I am feeling quite tired, yes, exhausted and peckish. I think an extravagant cheesepot meal. You do. It takes about an hour and a half. That's it? What? Okay, two hours. It takes two hours. At least three. Oh, yeah.

It takes three hours. It's eight twenty five. You're ready. It's eight twenty five. Dinner is normally at six, Premier. What are you doing? I didn't do like one more hour, Ross. Oh, fucking hour, all right?

You have to take your time. I take chopsticks. All the ingredients as you go. The edge is all brown in you. So much on the bread. Cremie, I hate to do this to you, my good man. But could we please have Beaselberry Pie on Mode for Dessert? This guy's a sick...

How much time we got? Yeah, all right. I keep doing my ice cream maker. You're an attachment. You're ice cream attachment. And it takes another three hours to me. I'll go pick the Beesleberries from this bush. The melody of nudge echoes.

to eternity. That's what I'm like mud. Mudge is in our dreams. Mudge haunts the hunters. Wow, even the Beaselberries are scared. Liffel we never run into Mudge ever again. That is fucking crazy. All right, can I do that?

Okay, another two hours pass as you finish up the Beaselberry pile. A little break. Quick, quick break. Good job. You get a short rest. You do. Yeah.

We've done anything. I definitely needed that. I cast one spell. I don't get it back. Oh, spell slots. But the evening begins to approach, as you imagine you have enough time to make it down to the entrance to Brigh enough mine before night falls.

Though you could choose to spend the rest of the evening here around this lake, occasionally looking up at the beacons, realizing that should you want to, support a later disposal. Wait. Though, you really have no confirmation that anyone got to where they intended to go. Just what you saw mirrored in the lake.

That seems ominous. That's a monkey pause if I ever saw it. Don't suggest it. I'm not suggesting anything. Don't suggest it. What if we do the first 10 minutes of up? That could be, I'm not doing the first 10 minutes.

I can't cry on stage, man. That's the only good part of all. I'm not doing the first 10 minutes. I'm just saying that that's the saddest thing that we could do. That's also, what's the word, delightfully tragic. It's not really a story, though.

It's like 10 minutes. No, it's his whole story. They fall in love. They spend their lives together. Yeah, you fucking die. That's just laugh. And then she died. Exactly right.

It's the best possible outcome. Well, I guess you're right on that. No, we can figure something better than that. We will. We will. Anyways, I was gonna point out that it's nighttime now, and the brigandats are almost certainly asleep, and their necks are almost certainly exposed.

Folks, Linus. Okay. Shit. Ready to go. I guess I'll do it too. I guess I'll do it too. Who ate from the non-freak cheesebop? Oh, I had chimkin.

I had chimkin. I had Jimkin. I had longworm cheat. I had non-freak. I had long-worm cheese-poth. Non-freak. Oh. So, with my chef origin feat,

I can cook three special treats that gives the three people that eat the be, uh, cheese pot, three temp HB. Oh, good. What? That's a very nice. That's what you get. Fucking freaks.

Look, I made the best one. What the fuck? What the fuck? Fucking long one, we eat long one. You know they said the elites eat longworm, right? Yeah, that's why it's so good. Duh. Like in the swampy man that was down in Agway, they just feasting on that stuff.

Well, that's just all you mean you know it's good stuff. You know it's good stuff if they're all fancy red people eat it. It means they have taste. What can I say? I mean, I don't... You just have a really unrefond palate, you're not good man. They're always eating weird stuff, man. So just to be clear, I don't get three temporary hit points because I ate the chimkin. Yeah, that's correct.

That's correct. I'm sorry. I should have to go. Goodbye. Suck it. Doorbeck is not constipated. Please don't record this. Hey guys.

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a tarot deck and more. Torbeck thanks you. You spend the evening enjoying cheese pot, longworms, chimpkin and friendship as you all sit around the fire together. But evening is fast approaching. And so just as the day began, with a choice, the evening is beginning with a choice. Do you stay and make camp, or do you scale the rest of the mountain

and head into the Brigh-Nock mine at night? And it is right around this time, as you're trying to make this choice, that you begin to hear the sounds of the Brighonaut's awakening. As the sounds of their hammers and chisels and stone, you can hear carried on the wind, the screaming hollers of the corids, as they scream out,

death of the brigandocks! And they begin to hurl their rocks down into the canyons. Well, fuck. Yeah, Toro was over and they don't be asleep. That has our chance to perhaps sneak past them. We could get into the mine and then be waiting in ambush when they finally return in their version of morning.

Just wait until morning and then slow their throats again. It's been a pretty full day. I mean, I don't know how many days we got left in the rock block, But if we got time to sleep in the place. I feel like it's only been like two days since we told the King of Hotslice. Hard to say.

Yeah, I feel like. I'm sure time moves different somewhere. Either for him or for us, probably. Yeah, I mean, it probably isn't one matter of that. For what we know, it's been like five seconds since we got, but I saw him. It's more than he knows. I can see both sides, fellas. I mean, if we could sneak in.

Why don't I just sneak in? I just wanted to do some throat slip, and that's all. Well, they sneak during the day. a problem. We'd have fit, slit their floats in the daytime on account of being nocturnal. We didn't know about the nocturnal. Yeah, that was a problem.

We could have guessed, man. We could have guessed. I think we go now, and they're distracted, they're singing, they're trying to disrupt the evening. They're not going to be looking for intruders now. If they had any traps that they might set up for their sleep time, they'll be disabled now. They'll be down. We'll be able to penetrate their defenses. Torme thinks you're just making all this up.

I mean, I am, but it's coming from a place of logic and... You're still bullshitting as frustrating. I wouldn't say bullshitting. What I'm saying seems extremely reasonable. You don't know what I'm eating about their traps. Yeah, can you believe this guy? He's taking observations and data that he's observed and extrapolating from that data. They say that's dangerous.

Dangerous. Dangerous. Liar, liar, liar, liar, pants on fire. You might say that extrapolate. It turns... It turns... You and me into an extrapolation was very unseemly.

That's right. Very insolid. I wouldn't want to seem unseemly. Exactly right. There we go. Well, so what's the plan? We just rush them, just head first, straight into the cave.

It's fine by me. No, we still sneak in like Frost's saying. We just hope that they're not in their homes. Oh. And so I guess while we're in the homes, we can rob them, you know, take all their valuables. Maybe they have powerful magical gems, just like the old, uh,

Horrods. And we can rob them blind. And then, when they come back all exhausted from the mines, then we slit the throats. It just won't be as easy. Because we'll have to have a bit of a struggle in the entryways of the various numbers. No, no, no, no.

We lie in wait. Once we were inside, and they don't suspect that their living quarters that we'll be able to hide. And then once they're sleeping, they're just about to pass out Their breathing changes. Their eyes start doing that dancing thing

behind their eye words. Snowball, pull. Snowball, pull. Just promise Torbeck one thing. Yeah. If we cross paths with Mudge again, you leave Mudge for Torbeck. Torbeck wants to see the light,

leave from Mudge's eyes. I think she's out of the honeypot. I think she just needs feeding seed, man. It's over, let it go. You think that's when you least expect it. Mudge will show you. You think you could handle Mudge by yourself? Man, did you see her?

Are you in love with her? Torpec will be the last thing that Mudge ever sees. I'm pretty sure last we heard, Mudge was slumbering for three hundred years in a sea of piss under the plains of you guys. And Torbeck will be waiting. Okay, well, with that, I believe I have the perfect form for this operation.

Oh, it's me, Dennis Learie. I'm an asshole, support our firefighter. And I transformed the Sabredo Tiger. Scratch. Oh, boss said, I love Dunkin' Donuts. That is a stretch. That took me, man. I get it now, but...

That whole song is very catchy, though. I'm a Sabretoothed tiger now, so, man. Hey, I got cutting out my pulse here. Oh. Oh. You're going to feel like a whole prehistoric vibe right now? Yeah, it's kind of my favorite right now. You know.

It's my curder face. I had, like, small little critters last, last tall, and now it's prehistoric, Bob, I got one more, one more my back pocket. You can have one episode by episode. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of my own, oh, oh, hey, Kudor, remind you of it. Kind of, like, awkwardly stand up.

Mm, I just like beans. Ha, ha, that's Frost. I ain't doing Frost. That was spot on. That's right. That's pretty good. I love a ball of yarn and cabinet. I do love those things.

It's like frost. It's like frost. Oh, hold on. Oh, good you stop. Why does it be so anatomically correct? Oh, okay. Man, oh, oh, I love the socks. Let's get a lobster roll or something.

Say, wait, guys, hang on, why won't anyone listen to me? Hey, God, I hold on, why won't anyone listen to me? Is that so many sense? Oh, well, you know, it's got a wrong thing. You just assume that I don't say that, because you never love to listen to me. don't say that because you never listen to me. Bokkarah, Dr. Paul on the corner, everybody. Everybody do that thing.

I think we'll just conflate and fall off with Dennis Lerick. Yeah. The next words are Bokticar and I'm at Aberdeh. Oh, man, I love Matt Damon. You proceed to the mind. Fantastic. I'm still.

I'm very stealthy too. I'm stealthy as fuck. You all begin to scale the mountain climbing down into the canyon that connects the two mountains together. You dodge all the boulders. I need you all to make a dexterity saving throw for me. Oh. Dixie say.

I'm green at the far. 23. Uh-oh. Deg. A bit. Seven. Nine. 14.

24. Your world was about to get. Anyone who got a, anyone who got an 11 or less. It's going to take two points of bludgeoning damage. Oh. And you're going to, and you're going to fall 10 feet. Oh. What are you going to do through a bunch of rocks at us?

Before being able to grab back onto the cliff face and continue to say. How much damage, sorry? Two. Two. Oh. Guys, you got that 10. You see transform into some of my 10b HP. Unappropriate, prehistoric animal to help climb the rocks like I did.

That's what you should do. I recommend it. Is that something you can do for the rest of us? No. Well. How do you expect? would do that? I don't know. Figure it out. I did.

Oh, look at me. I'm a saber-toothed tiger. Yeah, but totally, I say, I say, extrablat latte instead of extrapolate. That's pretty good. I know about various eras in dinosaur history, even though that doesn't make any fucking sense. I can get it now. You're Grico. That's what you do. That's what you're doing. That's fine. That's fine.

I'm trying, right. It takes about an hour. And you are able to climb down to the base of this mountain. You wind through the constant throwing of these boulders as the sounds of hundreds of tiny pickaxes and hammers can be heard echoing through the canyon as they're chipping away at the stone. The sound emanates from the mouth of a cave,

but has fingers of rock reaching skyward above it. Statues of irate hairy creatures with cloven hooves, which you now know to be the cords themselves, are positions so that they lean around trees and peer over boulders, all staring balefully at the cave entrance. It's us! Fucking stop!

As you make your way through the constant rain of stones, you eventually find yourself facing this entrance, and you can see that, though you can hear the sound emanating out from it, It is clearly blocked off by a stone door. Directly above the door, carved into the stone face, look to be three carved niches for gemstones. There are no gemstones to put there.

You see no writing on the door at all. All you have is the information that was given to you by the Queen of the Courids. That when you got here, that there was no harm in the Corrid statues, even though they look menacing, they're clearly designed to scare away the Brighaac's, and that you would need to offer up a wish. Oh, to get through the door, offer up a wish?

That's what she told you to get through the door, you'd have to offer up a wish. Oh, gosh. It could be anything. It doesn't have to be a large thing. We could just wish for whatever we like. Wish. I wish I had known to think of a wish. Does that count? Can't? Does that count? If we offer it out.

How does that count? That's a nightmare. She's right. Grico turns inside out. Guys, jump the fuck out. Guys, if it happened. If we offer the wishes up,

does that mean they never come true? That's what I would be. Torbecks are way too important to give up. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. So, you imagine that something like I wish I had known to offer up a wish would work. If it weren't already reality,

you had been told by the queen of the corids that you needed to offer up a wish. wish. So Grico did know that he needed to offer up a wish. Therefore... Got him. Okay. Well, somebody else, somebody else go. It's going to have to be a genuine wish, even if it's not the largest wish in your heart. But what if, what if it never comes true? Well, you could wish for something like, I wish for a small piece of candy, and if you don't get it, then you don't get a small piece of it. But that's not what Dorek wanted to wish for. Well, it has to be something you want to wish for, but...

All right, I got this one. I'll go first, all right, everybody. I'll take it. And if it doesn't happen, I'll just do it myself. Door, I wish that all them hobgoblins, what held me prisoner, suddenly get struck in dead

in hilarious and embarrassing fashions. Torbeck thought of a new wish. Ady, be a boy. Doorbeck didn't know he could do that. Well, I don't know. I mean, I'm just, I'm seeing what the door can do. You step forward and you begin to speak your wish. And as you say, I wish, you can feel a thrumming beneath your feet as if almost something in the very core of the mountain is listening.

And as you finish saying the words, you all watch as a tiny moat of light appears on the tip of Gideon's tongues. It begins to float through the air and make its way up towards one of the slots at the top of the door. and it fits in perfectly, exactly one fifth filled in this stone indent. And that looked like it worked. If we've given the power to wish people dead. And a sweet motorcycle. A little bit of a sweet motorcycle, please. Wait, did it work?

No, please can I also get a sweet motorcycle? It's too late. It's too late. Frosty, wish me a sweet motorcycle, but call it a fat hog. But think of a motorcycle when you're thinking about it. I don't think of that I can wish for your wish. Frosty. I can try.

Fine. No, don't try. Wish for your own thing. If Torbeck wishes for harm to become a certain individual. Yeah. Torback almost feels like that's the coward's way out. That is a coward's way out. It seems obvious.

Doorbeck will wish for something else and hold back with every fiber of doorbeck's being, even though Torbeck really wants to wish harm on someone. When Torbeck instead wishes he own Gideon's cool night. No! No! No! Don't light touch his tongue! No! No! No! It's a weird! I tackle Torbeck! I rush Torback as quick as I can. I tossing with Torbett. I hold you to take feet on the door. Get your hands off me. Get your crumby hands off me. You watch as the moat of light appears on Torbeck's tongue. No! The moat sails towards the door and slots it right next to yours, filling up now two-fifths of

one of the stone, the stone slots oh my fuck, how many of the door? As you rush forward and you charge him, you, Torbeck tries to keep you at bay, but you are incensed and you tackle onto him. And it is in this moment, Torebeck, that you realize that the knife has slipped out of his grasp and has fallen into your pack.

The moment you touch it, you feel a kinship to it. Gideon, you're no longer attuned to this place. Hey, give me back, you cock and little freak! Yes! Wishes do come true! Damn you, Dormac! Damn you! Why would you wish for that? That was the Fulmoryans, whatever? Forlorn's remorse, I believe it was called.

Gideon, you do realize what this means. You can wish for my knife back? And the cool motorcycle. No, no, no, no. Rob goblins. What? They've all died in a hilarious and painful. Can you imagine?

I did want to eventually hunt them down myself, but I mean, why go on a crazy revenge quest when this magic door just do it for me? Man, and then I get to smoke cigars and drink whiskey and whatever the hell else I want for the rest of my life. No, things are looking pretty good for me. Anybody need anything cut? Hey, you shut your mouth. Anybody eat anything? I have a night.

I have some things that I need slit. Torbeck's ready now. All right. Well, just we gotta wait till they're asleep. Okay, but if anyone needs a knife, Torback has one, so just let Torbeck know. All right. There's a very likely chance that any of our wishes will come true.

Now that the door is proven that the knife is... I'm not going to wish for your motorcycle. That's not what's true in my heart. It won't work. You can't do that. You can't do that. Frosty? Ain't nothing that said something about truth in your heart.

Just wish for things that you won't. And get that knife back. It's unclear whether that's going to be there. I don't want to waste a wish on it. I'll be honest. Well, do one of those things. Even if it was a really cool sick motorcycle, like the escape from Shindra Tower from Final Fantasy 7. I don't know.

Rossi, wish me to funder. I'm not going to wish on it. I'm not going to wait. Frosty, wish me the fan rear right now. You can't say that you have the ability to wish me the fan rear. And then not do it. What have you lost? I got my own wish.

Because you got some kind crazy intelligent way. I know you're going to say, well, I don't I just read it. Boy, why don't I read it down this piece of paper? And then simply wish that the contents of the sheet of paper come true. I don't want to wish for something. and saying, this is the Faywild. If I wish for a clarity of mind, or if I wish for us to find what we seek,

it's gonna be twisted in some horrible monkey pawning. You're right, Frosty, the safest thing for you to do is wish me the friend rear. Door, I wish for that cursed toilet to leave me alone forever. But Frosty, it's too marketable. Too many good bits. You watch as not one, not two, but three motes of light appear on your tongue as all of them

shoot forward and one of them slots in to each of the open slots at the top of the door. You immediately feel that clarity of mind that you wish for when you said, if I wish for clarity of mind, if I wish to find what I seek. Door, I wish that toilet would leave me alone. You feel all three of these wishes take hold. Your mind becomes incredibly clear. You feel like you could see if there were things lurking in the ethereal plane. Your intelligence is raised by two.

Holy fuck. And you feel that at the start of the day, that you could roll a D20 and that you could alter a roll once a day. All right. G. I'll take a port in any fucking day of the way. To all right, I just even smarter than bronze.

That's pretty good. Let me ask you this. Does clarity of mind also bring back memories that have been taken from me? I would say for the sake of this, sure. That would make sense. Anything that was shrouding your mind, I would say would go away.

None of you would see any of this happen. Frost, you would. realize this happens because your mind is so incredibly clear that you can feel and you can see it. What I will is actually roll a perception check for me. Seven. You feel something slightly unsettling about the change that has overcome. Oh, you know that what has happened to your mind seems in this moment to be incredibly beneficial. That there is something that just isn't quite right.

And that I would say you would feel in your heart of hearts that a wish like that is not. You wouldn't, it's not the kind of thing you would recommend to anyone. I go, I'm paralyzed by the sensations. Finding what you seek. You look up at this door and you realize, you see a lot of things all at once, the clarity of mind coming into play, the wish to find what you seek,

and what you're seeking right now is not only gleam, but an entrance into Motherhorn and a way out of the Faye Wilde in general and how to pay off guru. All of these things are things that you seek. And you feel like you're beginning to realize how to do most of them. As you look forward, you realize that this door, oh, how clever. It analyzes how many people are standing in front of it.

And there needs to be three wishes offered. If there were only you, only three wishes would need to be offered. But each of you are going to need to offer three wishes. And that's because, wow, look at that. Deep within this mountain, you can see there's an entire, Brighenock kingdom. You know what the Brighanawks are doing. The Brighan Mines mine wishes. When children and any person, lovers, anyone looking at a shooting star makes a wish on the material plane, that wish is formed into a

wish stone that makes its way directly into this mountain and mountains all over the Faye Wild and can be farmed out. They're incredibly, incredibly valuable and incredibly powerful. Wishes. that cause harm, wishes that do horrible things, turning corrupted wishstones, and you see this huge cavern filled with corrupted and dangerous wishstones. Oh, oh.

Those not so valuable, but incredibly, incredibly terrifying. The mountain gives and it takes. You can see that deep within this mountain, there is a cave that leads directly to Motherhorn. It truly is here. And they're sitting, what is it, in a house? A house in the mountain is gleam. She is here at the edge of this pathway.

You do know that in this very moment, she's there. And as you're looking at all of this, you realize that there are so many things in the Faye Wilde that are valuable here. But on the material plane, they would triple, quadruple, sex double in value. Because they would be so hard to get. And if you're just smart about the things that you collected, you could easily accomplish your goals here and have more than enough money between the things that you collect. And you begin to see in your mind's eye a room in a palace, the palace of heart's desire, filled with gold and treasures. You accomplish your goals here and you could easily pay back, Guru. And in that moment, you feel the clarity of mind, the way to accomplish your goals.

And that blasted toilet, you don't hear the whispers anymore, but you'd have to open up your tent to truly know. I don't. If elder evils can be banned. I reach into my pack and I immediately take out parchment and quill, and I just start mumbling these things. You become a cartographer? I, I, yeah, I take out my leather working kit and I make a map. No, I start scribbling and scratching,

and I'm mumbling to myself, the breaking knots, they mind wishes. They have corrupted witches. Wishes. Wishes. They mine wishes. There's a cave, a motherhorn. I can see it all here, clearly in my mind.

The wish took hold, just as Torbeck was able to get his dagger, You, I have clarity. I can see how we get and get what we seek. All we have to do is collect. Cremie, we can solve our debt problem with Guru by just collecting the magic items here in the Faywild. Think about how rare they are. We don't need to satisfy the debt through Roslough's promises, however shaky and vague those may have been. No, we can pay the debt through the things we earn on this adventure easily.

And there's so much more. Wait, what? You begin to get an incredible headache as your mind is slowly is attempting to process all of this information too quickly and too much for your actual anatomy to handle. Gleam is in the house. Somewhere in the mountain.

We'll be able to find Gleam and a port. Somewhere in there. That is lovely. It's solved flowing through me so quickly. It's very hard to catch. Do the witches get monkey, Is this a monkey part of the wishes? There are such thing as corrupted wishes.

There are... No, I don't fucking trust this. I don't want to open the door. We all need to give three wishes. We all need to give three. Three wishes. Probably people who still know. I think I have a way to hack this, all right?

That's probably the corrupted ones. Back in Agway, there was this little, like, trinket and kind of invention shop called cabbages. And they used to sell these little booklets you could buy with, like, cheat code words you would say in Jinkscraft. like do certain things, right? Oh, that's pretty cool. I remember a specific passage that I read once that I think could just unlock this whole thing. Cool.

Okay. So let me give it a try. Okay. Mushbashar, Tom, that shall mouchard, who shall help a lark. I say the word friend in draconic. You watch as Kremi begins to say these words.

this word at the door in a language that none of you but Cremie understand, except for you, Frost. What? As your clarity of mind, you realize that you can understand at least this language, maybe even more. As you, the headache intensifies

and you're going to take four points of psychic damage. Ow, oh gosh, the witch is a monkey pod. I knew it, I knew it. I can't blow it. almost gonna with something wholesome and sweet. You begin to say this thing, and nothing happens. The Torbett feels

fine. Torbair just has a cool knife now. No, no, no, no. It took two wishes I didn't intend. They were too powerful. Friend isn't going to work. You're going to have to pick something small and wish for it. I don't say it in the bag. Speak Fran and Anna if you end up a big giant magical stone dolls. That's not what the

prompt is. You have to speak a wish and then the lenders. You need two more. Wisher or your fucking motorcycle for Christ's sake. Who? Who's gross? I don't know. Torbeck sounds, Frost sounds pretty mad.

You never wish for it and then make another wish right in a row that isn't for the night. No, no, you go first. No, you go all your wishes first. I almost walked up and win. No, Torbeck's not going to do it. No. You got to go first.

No. No. I grapple back and tickle him until he wishes. Yikes. Yight. Roll a strength contest. Dormbeck likes it. Torbeck gets a massive erection and just giggles.

Yeah, that was his wish. Torrek didn't even have to waste a wish on this. You did Tourmet's deepest desires. No, no, I'll go on and make a wish, all right? Well, you gotta make three wishes. Why don't we start with one? Are you wished yet? No, I'm afraid.

No, why don't you know? I just don't want him to get monkey-balled. I have really serious wishes, but I'm now worried it's gonna get monkey balls. Well, that's where I'm trying to kind of like walk the line, you know, and try to, make sure the door can open, but like it's not the end of the world.

Okay, all right. I wish for a wedge of cake from the Newee Blanche Festival. Oh, that's nice. Oh, very simple. That's very good. I'm very good. I've been craving that cake since we've got to the Faye Wild. You watch as the little light appears on your tongue

and it slowly drifts up and finds its place in the first stone. And just as just as quickly, as it nestles into the stone, you feel your cooking satchel weighed down a little bit more. Not just a slice of cake, but an entire cake cut into slices has appeared within your pack. Oh. Wow!

Do you want Torrbeck to cut that cake more for you? No, no, no. I think we saved this. Okay, well, but when it's time, we use a super cool knife to help cut the cake. Oh, because you have an hour. Oh, my Torquake explodes. I'm getting I'm going to wish that.

He said it. He can't unsaid. All right, this cake does. Oh, it looks awfully delicious. I think we save it till after our next meal. I wish to face and conquer my fears of the apex predator of this world in all worlds. And to claim its power for myself, I wish to harness the power of the grobbling.

You almost got a Jabberwock is what I'm gonna tell you. I'm like, you're really summoning the Jabberwock here right now. I wish to claim his power for myself. You watch as the light on Grico's tongue appears and begins to make its way and slot into the door. And as it does, you see, that the door itself, a painting of the grobblin appears. As it steps up off of the door, you see it's 2D form.

That when it turns to the side, it is so thin, you can't even see it. As it turns this way and that, it is, but simply an animated drawing as it shambles towards you doing a jig. But you don't feel scared at all. And you feel like you could do the same jig. You even feel like should you ever need to in a similar way that you transform into a plesiosaur or a goat or a saber-toothed tiger that you could now take the form of the grublin.

Yes, that's what I was hoping for. Snowy, this will backfire. Oh, no more to say goodbye to Dunkin' Donuts ice coffee and say hello to Hot Jones. You don't like that? It's like you in your mouth and doing the noise. No, a little, a little meaty keyboard is playing. With the organ sound. I'm not able to speak.

How was he going to take his third wish? Grigo, come back to us. You have what you wanted. And I just do a real stylish check. All right. Was that your first wish or you? His first wish. The only person who has more than one wish is Frost.

I'm so sorry, Derek. It was just really unfortunate. I'm very happy with this outcome. He just all three accidentally. Yeah, he did two accidental wishes. And I debated not counting them, but I had to because they started with I wish. I'm very happy.

All right. Doris got to save at least one wish. You watch as... I'm not going before Torbeck spends all his wishes. With that final wish from, or that first wish from Grico, you see that one of those, one of the gems is fully formed and within it is swirled, this strange but beautiful magic. It's almost hypnotizing to look into it.

It looks like a sea of stars. And it reminds you of the most beautiful falling star shower you could ever imagine. A perfect moment for wishes to be made. And it's trapped deep within this gem. Frost, you look at this and you see that this is very clearly one of the very very very vibrant, good quality wish stones. It doesn't resonate with that same evil energy that you saw with the bad wish stones.

And you feel like you have accomplished something positive with this stone. The other two do not remain incomplete. Torbeck wishes the guinea and can't wish her his knife back. God, Torbett, you're... Stop. We can't turn to violence like this. See the wishstone there

It's pure, it's good It's how it should be I'm gonna pour all my rage into my wish It's gonna turn around It's gonna be a corrupted wish I can see it, I can see it also clearly No, my rage is going right into it And from it I will forge a sword

Just think of the happy wish Think of the motorcycle You don't need a dagger when you've got The Shidre Tower's motorcycle It's called the Fenrir Frosty. God, read a book Are you? Well, he's got one more wish.

He's going to spend it. Torbay's got all the time in the world. I'm not doing some stupid bullshit, Torbeck. I'm not using a single wish to take from you like you did for me. And then use your second one to stop him from taking it back, okay? I'm going to wish from really cool stuff, and I'm not giving you the opportunity to take it. Okay. Well, Turbeck doesn't want to take anything else.

He will once you see that motor cycle. Turbba doesn't have a motorcycle. Didion, you watch the light appears on your tongue. It begins to sail. No, I didn't say it. I didn't say anything. Uttering the words, I'm gonna wish for really cool stuff and you're not gonna be able to take it,

seems to have worked. That's better, this better resolve the Fenrir from the Chinatown. That's all I gotta say. Or a duplicate night. This doesn't, no, I don't give a shit about the night. This doesn't result in the Fenrir from Ginger Tower. I need you. I scoop and leave.

I need you to roll five D-100s for me. Oh, my gosh. It's an orb of annihilation. You roll 100. 72. He says, 56. Unfeitingly. This is a bunch of bullshend.

I don't mean fenry is gonna be on that team. It would be in. 44. Oh, look, is this right here in the internet. Shin remote or something like, right? 34. Look, we got the stats for the Fenrir. All we have to do is go back to episode like four or five of Stargust.

That'll be all set. That should be the last one. That's the last one. We got all the stats we need. We got them right here. And then I want you to roll one D20 for me. Straight. Don't add anything to it.

Five. Okay. Then answers that question. You only get five Fenrirs. We'll find out. Pull this up really quickly. Today's been a good day. You can just talk to each other for a little bit.

I don't want to talk to anybody, Dor. How's he going to get his wishes in? I don't know what the wish for. I feel like it's all going to be fucking ruined. This guy has a monkey part written all over it. Torbeck knows what he wants his last wish to be. Well, then why don't you go on to wish him? Because Torbeck feels like he needs some sort of protection from me.

Gideon. I'm not coming for you. You're the backstabbing scumbag that stole my knife. I'm not coming for you. Look, this is just a game we play. I get the knife. You get the knife. You magically stole the knife for me and they wished that I couldn't take it back. I wish that you couldn't wish for it back. It doesn't mean you can't take it back. Look, everybody laughs. We have a good time. And then we go on to the next time where the knife changes hands. Come on, Gideon. You're smoking a little Here we go Rico's got two more wishes, man Can you wish in Gropman for him? Can you think of it? No, we're gonna have to convince him to change back No, there's no convincing Rico

After see those fucking therapy Oh yeah Oh, yeah, that whole ass thing We got one sweet What do you wish for, Greco? What is it? What is it, boy? Okay, because I don't have, you find that your pack has now filled with magic items.

I will get you those magic items next session because I can't find what I need to roll for them now, but I haven't written down. So you will find out what those are. And you feel that you could, you could share those. And also my bag is full. You can share those with your friends except for Torbeck. They all seem to be repellent. Well, then your original statement stands, GM. Nice.

All right, Groblin. Well, Tollbeck, you know what you're doing? Yeah, but Dormick wants to hear what the Groblin, I was to say. I'll look at you. And the Groglin's mouth will open. Toolback. How tall are you? Brunt, damn, you're seven feet tall, maybe a little taller, not sure.

Magic door. Uh-oh. Bricko wishes he was taller than the doorback. About 7-2. There you go, that works. Oh, that's okay. You watch as the, you watch as the light illuminates on your tongue and it spreads, it floats towards the door and slots into place,

and you watch as the grobbling begins to grow. Oh, no, what are you doing? Bricko? Oh, no. Holy crap. I shipped back into Grico. You returned to your original height. No!

You're 7-2. That is horrifying. Oh, he's monstrous. I am the ultimate apex predator. Grosyne. Griko, you can still use your last wish to also wish to be. He's a monkey paw horse. She likes for Rebecca.

We're like, sorry, Grego. I had a very wholesome wish that was gonna be very impactful for the law. And all our fans would have thought it was very sweet and wholesome and would have cried about it. But because you're a monkey bar door, I don't trust it.

I ain't saying shit. Well, I mean, to be fair, it did work. I mean, why don't you go, why don't you get to try it? No, he's a monkey part. No, I ain't risking it. I ain't risking it either. I'm not gonna go fucking. I ain't sell it.

Do you want to tell us much is that we could talk about it? I'm saying it out loud. I'm a suckered. Magic Dool, please, you're not, you bothers? I don't know. I wish for what my heart desires most of all,

beyond the two things I've already said. I wish to break this fake curse and finally be able to say the greatest joke of all. The joke what the G.N. hates the most. You see the light appear in your tongue as it begins to float towards the door and it slots in. Haddy Field.

Fenrier? It was called the wolfing, right? A wolfen? I don't think so. I mean, what's a wolfen? Is that a type of? What's a wolfen? Wolf and these nuts.

That's your monkey ball. You got it well be seven, too. Well done. Good job. Monkey body's fucking door. Fuck all you, balloon people. Oh, God. You f-mouchants! That's crazy!

Wolf and these nuts! That's awesome! Oh! Wow, you look like the you're at the conclusion of Jacques-Hank redemption right now. In there... Woof and these nuts up! Well done, Graco.

Okay, Dorebeck will go with his last wish. Dormac wishes he had more lacquerish, and he means the actual inner tube. litter too. You've never had a relicorce before. That's fucking funny. Yes, you do say this, but the door doesn't understand meaning. It understands licorice. And so you, you say this and you are surrounded by these tiny, little chubby gelatinous candies.

What the fuck is this? It's licorice. No, this isn't licorice. Yes, yes. You've been mistaken about liquorish. entire time. Oh, this tastes terrible. That's true, yeah. No, no, the liquorish that's Dorebeck knows he's good.

This is licorice. It tastes herbaceous, it's sweet, it's quaint flavor. Oh, liquorish, so. It's good like black licorice. What the hell? The door's broken, guys. Hold on, hold on. It's stuck in my teeth.

So, dang it. The phyluscher of liquorice is all messed up. Wait, so it is a monkey pop, that's not what you wish for? I told you it was a monkey pop. Wait. No, he says it's not a monkey paw. To be fair. I mean, he got what he asked. No, Dormick asked for licorice. This is a licorice. Oh, you misspoke it was licking.

What, no, no, no, no, Dormick meant licorice. No, I'm pretty sure it's for us licking. Okay, well, the door interprets the wish from its own perspective, Cremie. That's what you have to understand. How do I fucking know what the door's perspective is? Yeah! You're just going to have to word your wish very carefully. I am surging with knowledge right now, and it's really quite painful.

What at the door thought the cake from the festival was a flaming bag of crap? Well, then, you have that at this time. This doesn't make any sense. I hate this. Torbys had to throw the liquors from the dirt. No, it sucks. Where it belongs. In the dirt?

In the dirt? Yeah. Man, what a monkey paw. What a waste of a wish. It won't make it taste any different. Oh, Turbic can't wait to get home to have a real licorice. I'm going to use my mind hand to collect the dirty licorice. You do.

And I'm going to use breasteditation to clean it slowly over time as I swirl it around. Hmm, I'm going to enjoy this later. It's going to study with my glasses on. All right, I got one more. They're called spectacles, Kremmy. Are you ready to go? Yeah. You're going to do it again?

No. No, I can't get my cool ass bike. Well, I know. We're about to go into the mine. We go, no, I know. If I had another wish, I'd ask for the really sweet truck to follow you. D'Orba has an idea. Mudge is still alive, as far as we know.

I thought you wanted to meet her in great combat. Yeah. Yeah, you need to meet her in great combat. Okay, all right, fine. On the planes of you. Yeah, we can have an adventure towards the planes of you go. You see a bitch. Yeah.

See a steaming piss. See the steaming piss. Okay. Yeah. That's fine. Door. I wish that I had a perfect mastery over the form of engineering. We'll put that contraption on Torbeck's back.

You watch as the light illuminates on your tongue and it combines to the last of a of the stones and you feel your mind start to you begin to look at Torbeck and you see how everything works with his anatomy the way his blood is pumping the witch light through a system the witch light is how it's working within him it's almost as if you can see through and into him and And though you have an initial understanding of how it works right now, you imagine it's going to take some time for you to have the full understanding. You're also going to need to take some time to work directly with Torbeck's. It would take experiments. Yeah.

Naked experiments. Yeah. Of course. Torben got four wishes today. And even five. Yeah, four point five. He might even need to be milked. Oh, six moorses.

Can we make it, salmon? Fuck, it's genius. Which light is storing the balls. Why not I think of that? How could I not have seen it? It was right in front of it. Gideon. Torbeck has something for you.

Slaps, slap, slap, slap, slap, oh, God. Of course, wishlight stormed it. What are we doing we try? Did it work? Yeah, it was. It happens. Which lot is storing the ball?

Yes, Torbick knew it! Wait some time. I don't say that. Yeah, I can see it. I'll see how it's working, man. That's with that tail pop. No, that's why he had those two that kind of looped into is just front of there. Torbizabeth's nutsack's been stretched to bronze bag.

Dormick's been in constant pain. This whole time, it's been unbearable. And pleasure. Thanks for noticing. That's why you wish would have been never. It doesn't really come up in normal conversation. Yeah, I'm starting to figure it out, I guess, or something. All right, well then, door.

I wish for my power over death and undearth to apply not just to humanoids, but to fay as well to all the beings of this fucking land. You watch as the light appears on your tongue, and it finalizes the second wishstone. Frost, you immediately see that this wish stone is not as pristine as the first. It's not a corrupted wish stone,

but it's a little darker, a little more sinister. But you feel that your magic is just a little bit different. It's not something you'll know until you're face-to-face with the ramifications of what you wished for. You do feel changed. Mechanically, lots of spells and features relating to undefat can only be a humanoid,

so I hope you're at the awful blood of Fay as well. You know, no, I heard that and that wish. Yeah. Thank you. I understood it. This is too big, grimmy. That was far too big. Oh, do you feel powerful?

I think so. I mean, I don't feel that different, but let's slip through some throats, kid. I'm a gigantic groblins. Who's left? Just you. One more wish from you? Oh my God, my third wish. Jeremy, look at the stone.

It's it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's the final wish. You can't wish for more. Are you, you're wearing clothes, right? I mean, when I'm in, now I'm a grobbling. Just the, Groblin wear clothes? No.

Just a little guy. It's a big guy now. Guy's a big guy. I'm a seven foot two, grobbling. Cremie, look at the stone. You need to make your next, which very small. The cake, the cake levels, cake levels. Frost.

You're thinking too small. Think of the possibilities. Anything? I can see an end to this. I can see the way through, but if you break that stone or corrupt it, the door may open, but you will have a monkey paw situation. It will get monkey pod, yes.

Do not be greedy. Do not let your ambition drown you. Think about Torreg's an hot sack. I could have all the jinx craft sorcery of Ram and Guru. Has he always known how words are sounding? I got to have the riches and wealth and fucking home of Alphonse LaBlanque. Oh, yeah. I could have it all.

The fabled alchemist. It's called for death. Wait, what? No, he's just a rich guy. What do you mean? He's not a rich guy. This is a really strange. I know like booted oceans and some shit.

Yeah. His weird animal party's a hangful. Not a weird. I don't know what we heard about it. Torbeck knows you're focusing on other things, but just think about Torbeck's nut-saced elasticity. There's, you know, a little bit more stretch. No, man.

Think of something big. Get yourself something nice. Some of a big, nice house, all sorts of whatever you want, as much gold as you can have. I mean, we could have a hundred. thousand gold pieces right now. Heck, man, you get a million gold pieces. Pay off the debt? I've already told you. Even the items we already have on us right now is probably worth 100,000 gold pieces.

Don't listen to him. Look at him. Look at them. Don't listen to him. I mean, why not 10 billion gold pieces? It's too big. What not 38 quadrillion? I mean, we're going to put 38 quadrillion gold pieces? I don't know. I could include that in what I say in an offshore bank account. Give it to me a mutual plan.

Yeah. And responsible. and say neutral of those. Government bombs, stuff like that. Those are 3%. I just kidding by the favor of government. I suppose you got me there. I think I know what I need to wish for.

I don't believe it's second. I'm sorry. I wish for Gideon to get us not back from Torbellic forever and ever and ever. All right. He bleeds out and dies right here. Forever and ever and ever. No, but in this moment, you do realize the knife is no longer at your side. You look up, you see that it is held aloft in Gideon's hand,

is that final note of light connects and locks into the door. With a rumble, the door itself slides open, and you see in front of you a glimmering, shimmering, cave, the entrance to the Brighanock mine. You're really upset with that. All right, everybody, dagger up. Let us slit some thrice. Very strange, Paul and Ellen,

I didn't have to give up wishes, but I'm not. That's not a protagonist, come on. I do believe that's true, a side character. And you make your way into the mind. Yeah, we stupe the way into the mind. You feel your satchel just filled with, laden with new items. Now your blade strapped to your side, frost,

you feel your mind open to everything that you see before you, Grico, you are in your seven foot two grobbling form as you begin to move forward. Towers you step over the pieces of unwanted licorice as you search for that which you cannot have. That blade that was yours from but a mere moment. Yeah. You think about the taste of the cake in your mouth

when you're finally able to eat it and the fact that you may have untapped powers as you step into the cave. All three of the gems illuminate. And you feel all of those wishes taken from you. You all return back to your original form as those stones fall to the ground and are encased in a large rock.

You look around you as you realize you do still have your blade, but Torbeck can steal at any time. The licorice is completely gone. Your intelligence is gone from you. you attempt to reclaim your grobbling form, but that's taken from you as well. As you realize that there are hundreds of these large stone, think of World of Warcraft

when you're a minor, you have to, you have to, nodes, thank you, these large nodes that are embedded with wishes. And you see that right where you stand is a large node that is filled with your wishes. Should you have a way to extract them, you imagine, and in the, you don't have access to this knowledge anymore, you retain the memories that you gained.

And what you learned, you wrote it down. I have no idea if I can trust any of that information. But you realize, you know, that should you be able to retain those wish stones, each individual one, that you could break them and your wish would come true. They're still within your grasp. What you had was yours, but you've given up. You've given it up to enter this mind. And it is as you were looking at this, that I need you all to roll a wisdom saving room. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Run. Seven. Beautiful.

22. 26. 9. 17. You step into this place. And there is almost like a shimmer in the air. Not the same that you're familiar with. with the witchlight, but almost like Star Does,

just filling up the space here, and as you begin to breathe it in, you feel sleepy, a little drowsy, almost as if you could fall asleep and enjoy a nice dream. But you're able to shake it off enough as you're looking at the node that encases your wishes, seeing what the future could hold for you, should you be able to extract them.

And it is this moment of sleepy distraction that you don't notice the tiny Brighanax that has surrounded you as they all begin to blow this drowsy dust into your face. And you hear, you all fall asleep, and that is where we will end the session. Got us. Got us.

Got to get it up. Just for us run the session, Nicky. Very good, good. Just before Frost falls asleep, he hears a low voice from inside of the session. just tense. 50 years pent up. Can you imagine?

I was getting rid of the toilet. But for the sake of it, it is possible for you to get those wishes back, but they were offered up to the entrance. Fuck. Great fucking session. Great fucking. Thank you so much for listening to the Legends of Avengers podcast.

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