Legends of Avantris - Once Upon a Witchlight | Ep. 63 | Failure to Communicate

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

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Welcome to Legends of Aventress. I'm Nikki, and you're listening to Once Upon a Witchlight. Here's what happened last time. Having rescued the prince of one of the Fay Courts, the Spring Court, you found yourselves with only one path ahead of you. And that is the path towards the Brighanach Mines. You ventured down the perilous climb, scaled half this mountainside, until you reached the, until you reached the valley below, and the entrance to the mine itself. It was here that the queen of the corids, words rang true. You were all tasked to give up a wish, not one or two, but three a piece, to unlock the door to these minds. In doing so, you found yourselves entering

the minds themselves. The wishes, which you had been granted for mere moments, were crystallized as an offering to this place into a large node that was interspersed with many other wishes from

countless adventurers, or as Frost learned in his moment of clarity, that the dreams of the mortal realm, the wishes, every wish on a star, a wish in a fountain, dreams of those all over the material realms come to this place and find themselves encased in stones.

Stones that can be used at a later date, you realize that these stones that are trapped inside this node could be extracted if you could find the ones that belong to you. And they could be broken open and used. And it's in this moment that you are looking at this node and thinking about the ways that you could extract these stones that you are overtaken. You don't see the ropes as they are tossed over your bodies, as large puffs of this almost glittery wish-like dust begins to fill your nostrils.

You feel a tiredness overwhelm you. You feel consciousness slowly slipping away from you. And you try with everything that you have to overcome this sleepiness from this dust, but you are unable to stave it off. And as your body has begin to fall, and as you begin to lose consciousness, you see the mind spread out in front of you,

tunnel after tunnel after tunnel, shimmering and sparkling with this beautiful wish dust. Ropes begin to tighten around your body, is anchoring you and hold you to the ground as you vainly search for who's doing this to you. You're looking up towards the sky looking for anyone. And it is as you hear the words call out to hold you captive, to keep you here, that you realize the sound is not coming from above, but from below. And as you look down, you see eight, twelve, fifteen tiny little rat-like creatures.

is incredibly large, noses long and rodent-like. They all dressed in tiny mining gear, picks thrown over their shoulders as they hurl tiny rope after tiny rope over you. And just as you lose complete consciousness, from the very back, you see two much larger humanoid eyes blink out of the darkness as you lose all consciousness.

You wake abruptly and you begin to struggle. You feel yourselves almost cocooned in ropes. The sound of pickaxes slamming into rock is echoing throughout this space as your eyes slowly begin to adjust to the light. It is dark in here, but you've been unconscious for who knows how long and the candles flickering all over this space

illuminate it in a way that is hard for your eyes to adjust. And as you begin to come to, you see that there are roughly now about eight of these small rat-like creatures. None of them seem to be paying attention to you as they are hacking away at the node that your wishes went into. You see that they're extracting these wish stones

that are large for them, about three or four of them each, will grab onto one and move them into these tiny little mine carts as they send them down into tunnels. And they're working and working and working as they're extracting these, muttering to themselves, speaking to themselves. But aside from that, you see nothing else. They don't seem to be paying too much attention to you, but you move and try to extract yourself from this, but you have hundreds of tiny ropes that are tying you to these large metal spikes that are stuck into the ground. you are essentially grappled and restrained.

And that is what you see. There you go. The moment you speak, you immediately hear the sound of the pickaxes stop. And these creatures, you see this, their whiskers move this way or that. They all turn and look towards you. And with horror on their face,

every single one of them slings their pickaxe over their shoulder. They jump into the mine carts and they hurl themselves deeper into the time. Yeah, you better run. You're left in the space completely alone. for the time being. Where do you down? It sounds like Torbeck.

Gideon, Cremie, are you here? Yeah, I'm here. Is everyone all right? I think we got drugged again. Polonella, are you here with me? And you hear the buzzing sound as Polinella also strapped down is buzzing against the ropes.

I would, I think more or less the moment I'd come to consciousness. I'm gonna try and produce flames at my back to burn through the rope. Okay. Oh. What's it? How does that work?

Oh, it's, I mean, it's a flickering flame appears in my hand. The flame remains there for the duration. It's neither myself nor my own equipment. It'll shed bright light in 10 foot radius, dim light, additional 10 feet. It ends if I dismiss it. I can attack with the flame. It does like damage.

And it'll last for 10 feet. Ten minutes. Oh, it does, the last or ten minutes? You conjure up this flame in your hand, and I'll have you roll an attack roll. Okay. Because your hands, you're tied, but there are no ropes around your hand,

so you're attacking the ropes. Oh, okay. I'll immediately use my mind to undo the knots of the ropes. It's not knotted. Whatever is tying us down, I'm going to reach out with my mind hand and start to feel around and try to find a way to undo the bind me.

Roll a strength. 21. You conjure up this flame, and you all feel as the space that you're in is illuminated even more as this fire erupts into Gideon's palm. You don't have much movement, but you have enough movement to flick your wrists. And with a quick flick of your wrist,

wrist, you throw the small orb of fire backwards, and you're able to aim it towards a spot directly where the metal spikes are. And you watch as some of the rope begins to burn away. And you imagine it's gonna take you. Am I not physically wrapped in rope? You are. Oh, okay, okay.

So like, it's, think about like being cocooned in rope. So you have, there are hundreds of ropes, and they're all nailed into the ground with these metal spikes. And so you're able to burn away a couple of them with the one fire, but you're imagining it's gonna take a little bit more than that. Frost, you realize that there are no knots

to be untied. This is a sheer strength thing. These ropes are, they end in, it's like an aglet, if you're familiar with aglitz. I'm not. The shoe, a shoelace, how it has that little plastic tip at the end and the, that's an aglet. I'm so impressed that you knew that.

Not many people know that. That's what that's called. Oh. Connection. Uh-huh. So these are more like aglets where the metal piece is that is the aglet and it is anchored into the ground, into the stone itself. And that you, there's nothing to untie. There's nothing to mentally figure out.

It's going to be a matter of strength for you to figure out how to dislodge it. As I'm figuring this out, I will pull and pull and pull, but my mind forces not. enough to free it from the ground. But Gideon, you are making, and this lasts for 10 minutes that you can keep producing this. I mean, it's a cantrip so I could keep it going. So you imagine it's going to take you about 10 minutes or so to free yourself, but you are with time you will watch as Gideon's constantly producing this flame and singeing away at these ropes until all of the ropes that were connected to those metal spikes around you have burned away. You stand up and as you do the ropes begin to loosen and fall away from

you're able to dust yourself off and you see that you're in a gigantic cavern. There are about 10 tunnels that lead out from this, all of them about 8 feet tall and every single one of them has a multitude of tiny little mind tracks that these carts are set back and forth on. But everything that you see in here, this cavern is huge, everything is tiny. These rally creatures that you saw stood about maybe 12 inches tall. they are diminutive, especially in comparison to you, for the first time in a long time,

Grico towers over the entities in this space. And you see that there are little camp areas, these mining camp areas where there are tiny little lanterns that are still light. There are parchments and things with schematics for building and creating things. You feel a sense of familiarity with a space like this. These are clearly engineers.

These are creators. You see a small section where they've been mining war and creating their own mine carts, their own tracks. All of this seems to be created by their own hand. That is what you see as you stand up. And you look down and you see that your companions are all very firmly nailed. Hang on, everybody. I'll get you out of here. Damn, strap me up, huh?

Man, I can't wait it to start cutting throats in here. You see it. I'll take out the dagger and- Your voice hits against the back wall and echoes back out to you. It almost sounds like there's another Gideon a hundred feet deep into the mind yelling back out at you.

Are we drug and tied up again, Gid? Yeah, that seemed to be the size of it. Gosh, these day old brigad-awks say Lilliputian dust. Why did they run away? You'd think that they'd stick around after, You know, getting us like this. I'll start with Cremie with the dagger.

They're lucky that they're running. Usually you've got to pay extra for this. Thanks, kid. Should I do the whole Dennis Leary thing again? We feel like that's not really appropriate for this porn of the adventure. I mean, it's a fresh episode. I guess it could. Oh, yeah.

I'll wait patiently then. I got to figure out what form is the best for this year. I thought she had like a whole new stable of creatures. gonna do. Yeah, I know, but I don't have that many. I'm gonna, Dennis Lee is one of them. I got Dory from Super Marvel 64. I got Stuart Little. That's like almost half of what I got.

Well, all right, stick with Dennis Lier. Oh no. Did they take the throat slitters? I feel around for the knife. Do I have my knife for? fruit slitters? Oh, no, all of all of your knives are gone. No! Oh, I'm still tight up.

I told you, I guess I don't cut, grab me out with my dagger. You notice that all of your pouches, basically everything that you had on you is gone. Oh, no. This is gonna take an extra minute. Not toward a giant filthy sag. What are those big, dumb muscles for you can't rip me out? I'm a student fucking. Well, let me give it a try.

Yeah, what? Are you too much of a bitch to just rip out the legs? You're staying tied up. I'm not, Tom, Bollard. You're staying tied up. I was gonna leave Frosty last, But it's you. Okay, well...

Wow, you were going to leave frost the glass. That's amazing. Oh, I forgot. You were here. No, don't forget about Torbek leaves. Also, those guys were really small. Torbeck's not sure what he expected, but certainly not that. I think these guys suck.

We could just, like, stomp all over them. They were, like, they were really tiny. Yeah, but they phoned us with drugs. I feel like... And it hit real fast. I feel like we could kill these guys with the... a rolled-up newspaper. Yeah.

Does kid break me out with his... Yeah, can I just rip through the ropes? They're like really small ropes, right? They're really small ropes. They're incredibly strong. You imagine you have to pull the metal piece out of the ground, and it's really, really embedded in the style. It's going to be a strength check to do it,

and you might not be strong enough. I go into Cremie's jacket, and I pull a cigarette out, and I'll light it for him. I don't have that many of those left. Well, this seems like a good time. Oh, oh, oh. Yeah, no, for you, man. It's gonna take a minute.

Just relax. Hey, skit. Well, while we're here, I mean. I flame torch the ropes with my. Yeah, you begin, you begin to use your fire on the ropes again. You imagine it's gonna take roughly another 10 minutes. I just wanna cut them out of the cocoon. Can I, like, in it down now?

You don't almost say. There are hundreds of ropes. They're, and so as you're doing this, it just takes some time. It's just, it's not quick. Okay, okay. You're having to hang on, Brammy. All right, I might eat another one or two or three of these.

But after about 10 minutes or so, you're able to, you do want the flame to make its way up. And if he's still trapped and you catch his jacket on fire, he could go up in flames. And so you have to be careful and you are slowly, you were slowly extricating cremmy from from this cocoon of ropes.

And after about 10 minutes, you're able to do so. You know what, again, I'm a little disappointed. It's not with pales in comparison to Fernandos. You know, the fact that you need to use flame to get me out. Well, listen, man. You were just drugged and tied up too, I guess. Oh, yeah. You know, I'm just, it's kind of like waking up for the day, all right?

I'm not at 100%. And I got to say, these guys are, they've made some impressive rober, Have you checked you that? I'm in this damn near flame immune. I pick it up and I inspect it. Is it like magical, special? Maybe I could sell it for a lot. It does appear that it is some sort of,

you're not quite sure what the core is made out of, but it's not, the core on the inside is almost some sort of metal. And the more that you look at it, it almost looks like it's woven together with these strands of metal. The way that it catches the light, is beautiful and roll a perception check. Me? Yeah. I mean, I'd be impressed by their work

if I wasn't so set on killing all of them for dime, yeah. 12. I would say that's enough. With the way that you stared at the stones and the way that the caverns here are shimmering in this same dream-like sparkle, as you inspect these threads, It looks to be as if they've somehow found a way

to take maybe it's the dust or something from these wish nodes and used it to turn it into a thread and have woven their own ropes out of it and they're incredibly strong. You're getting good, God damn. You imagine the ones that have been burned, they're no longer stable. But if you could find some way to rescue the other three

without destroying the rope, these could be quite valuable. They could even have potentially other uses that could be incredibly helpful for you in the future. Well, whatever you guys decide, Gideon, don't be too careful with the flame. Just set Torbeck on fire. Torbeck doesn't care anymore. It's probably the end for old Torbeck. Why are you talking like that, man? What's going on?

Life doesn't seem worth living without that. knife. Without my knife? Without my knife, that used wishes to steal for me? Without Torbeck's knife. It's not you're not. The wishes were undone. Tobach, get over it. It's been a week. Come on, we're really only been like 10 minutes. You don't know how long you've been in touch. Tormex's extremely confident. It's only been 10 minutes and he'll never

get over this. So Gideon might as well just set him on fire. All right, let's do Fralls next. He can probably figure out how to untie these ropes. See if you can find the origin of where one end starts or begins. It's tied to this metal thing right here. Can you pull it out and pull it free? Well, he ought to try it in the last one. But get, no, time.

No, this is a new thing, man. Oh, this is a new thing? Well, I don't know. I think maybe. Look, I'm just saying, if you can avoid burning them, I think these can go for a pretty penny back on the material. Well, all right. Let me head to the metal, you know, shoelaces and get them all pulled up.

Roll a strength check for me please. Ah, this is so boring. Cah, this suck. It's made the Brigha Knock suck. Your voice echoes back at you. It sounds like there's a Grico about 100 feet away who's yelling back at you. No rat face fucks.

Do you want athletics or just a shrink shriek? What did you say to me? What are you saying? I called you a rat face fuck. I called you a rat face fuck. I don't know my rat face fuck, just because I was a rat face fuck just because I was a rat fakes fuck.

I'm out here. Just continues. I wonder how deep we are. 22. Oh, you place your hand at the base of the wish road, and you begin to pull, and this is incredibly difficult. It takes all of the strength that you have, but you're eventually able to rip one of the ends out.

You follow the rope along to the other end. There's one of these spikes on either end, and you're able to, now that one side is free, The other one comes away a little easier. You're able to pull it free. It does take a bit of time. It is more labor intensive than just burning the ropes. But you immediately can feel that this rope has some sort of magical properties.

You're not sure what they are. But there is something special to this, and you're able to wind it around your arm. There's a significant length of it. You have about 20 feet of witch room. While he's doing that, I'd like to look around the room that we're in. If there's anything left there, if there's any equipment or if it's just empty. Yes, Torbett. I rolled in one.

It's a handy question, I sure. Plus five, six. What's the difference? Got it! It just set me on fire, too. Does this sound like or is reminiscent of the description of the hair that's being harvested from the other creatures? I can't remember there anymore. So the corids.

Corids. Yes. Does this sound like corid hair? This is sound like what they're harvesting their hair for. Roll an intelligence. Wow. Oh, that's not going to happen. Check out the big brain on.

Don't know. I was just going to say that. Go back to. Go back to Cremie then because otherwise we got it. Well, I believe I got a series. Just straight in? Yeah. Uh-oh.

We call it a hot nine. Oh, that's so close. It's really sad. Yeah. To you, I would say, You would look at the, you were up close with the corids, and you remember seeing their beards, and you remember hearing, you remember them hearing talk, hearing them talk about how they had to stop all of their merriment because Indolin was coming and harvesting against

their will, their beards, and using it to turn them into ropes and pullies and things at Motherhorn and that she was working directly with the Brighonox to create this stuff. And as you're looking at this rope, you see similar grays. And though this is way prettier, the, you know, the cords, beers were much more just dark, dark gray. There's almost like a universe of stars inside each one of these metal threads. So it is definitely, most likely, probably 100% the cord hair. Okay, Annie knows that, but Dormac knows it. You begin to look around and you see, oh, you say sex?

Oh, you say sex? Warm it up. You stand tall in this space and you see something similar to what Gideon saw. But it looks like just a bunch of small little mining encampments where you can see there are little satchels filled with dust. There are outcroppings of rock that have been partially excavated. You see disassembled mining carts. You see broken mining picks. You see an entire station where there are a bunch of mining helmets and mining gear,

similar to the ones that they wore before they ran away. But aside from that, you see a couple little documents, but as you pick them up, they're too small to read. These creatures are about 12 inches high, and you're just much too large for your eyes to register what's written on this. Outside of that, you don't really see much else. And Gideon, are you going to continue to try and... Yeah, yeah.

I think I would do Frost next. Okay. And then once I get him free. All right, Frost, do that mine thing you do. Help me know which one of these things, now that you're free. Help me know where the weak spots are, all right? Let's pick up the pace. You, it takes about 15 minutes manually pulling them out.

So a little bit longer, but it's worth it. You now have about 20 of these wish ropes if you wanted to keep them. 20 feet of wishrope? 20 feet of, 20 feet of, you know, 20 individual. They threw tons of these over you because you're huge. 400 feet of wish rope? We are huge.

You're, in comparison to them, you're gigantic. We could double-dived. And so you could lace up a lot of large sneakers with these. Sweet. If you wanted to. Apologies if you mentioned this, but where does it look like we were brought in? I know that there are all these little tiny entrances.

You're inside the right, inside the entrance of the cave. And I would say at this moment, as you dust yourself off, as you remove all of these wish rope from around you, you look behind where you'd come in, and you can see that there's a carved archway into the wall, but it's just flat stone.

There is no way back only forward. But you are able to now stand. You, Kremi, Gideon are all free, Torbeck and Grico are still trapped beneath these rope. And I would have you roll an investigation check in response to Gideon's question about helping him. I will get a 24. With a 24, you look at the rest of these rope that are here

and you realize that yes, strength can handle this, but it's also a special type of metal that these aglets are made out of. It's the same type of metal that's woven through the rope itself. It's the same ore that is made from these wish stones, from these nodes. And you see one of the small mining encampments, and you see that there are pickaxes and hammers and other small implements. And you imagine, though they're really tiny, if you could utilize them in some way, that they may actually help because of the way that they work together.

The same way that I would say it would become clear to you in this way that you couldn't just go to one of these nodes with a regular pickaxe and hammer and extract a wishstone. You would need to use one of these tools that if you found a way to use these tools to your advantage, even at their diminutive size, you would be able to remove these iron spikes much more quickly. This metal looks quite different from any metal I've ever seen. It probably is how they mine the ore around here. I have no idea where they got this.

Does this look familiar to you? This is it look familiar to me? It looks just like all the wish stones and all of the ore inside of this mine. Well, it just looks, I mean, it looks like maybe it's smelted from the ore that they're just dealing with in here. It just kind of looks like what's around us. I wonder if smelting the ore destroys the wish inside, uh, strengthens it somehow. Hmm. It's very interesting magic.

I imagine the Brighi Knox would tell us and teach us much. No, he left the goblinoids for last. I wasn't going to say nothing to him. I was so good. I'm also here. I can't believe. I mean, what was I supposed to do? Which one was going to help?

I mean, which one was going to help, all right? Just because Hohdollies was first, all right? Cremie goes first. Oh, yeah. That's all obvious. Oh, good friend on the Pohler is here as well as his Polonella.

He's still mad about the Tuscan Raider thing. I don't know why that means so mad. Leave that, but it did. It's all right. They do consider us friends. Wait, yeah, there are two other people here. Yeah. We have to bring him.

We can't. Oh, well, there are. See, there he goes. All right, we're helping this. He goes. Just because an army of hobgoblins, like, killed his family and, like, imprisoned him for like 18 years.

Yeah. Suddenly, it's all goblins and bug bears, sins of the father and such. Yeah, if I'm gonna for it was really our friend, as soon as he'd freed, he'd slid our throne. Yeah. But yeah.

I'm not really... Whoa. Whoa. You're fucking cream. You're fucking crazy. Just put the gallon when he's out of their misery. No, no, no. I mean, we've been traveling together for so long, but that's what you guys want.

He would just start snapping. Yeah. George is begging for it. Unfortunately, all the... Gringo has been pretty upset this whole time. He's always saying, oh, man, this sucks. Yeah. Maybe it's tough.

He's bringing on. She's so. We're going to have to find our things. All of it. Wait, are all of the things gone? All of your things. What about a clothes? Your clothes are still there. Oh, shit, fuck.

If any other possession that you had, it is gone. Definitely no Fernandez. There's no one. What I want to say, Grummy, you notice that your hat is gone. Oh, my God. I look through all of the various mining camps. Guy! Your hat, man!

No one's got to be around here. I'm digging. They wouldn't take your hat? Let's look for it. I mean, who else is tied up? Just Greg going toward, mate. The hat's more important. I'm assuming you've utilized the mining implements to help you help Gideon extract the ropes.

Of course. Absolutely. I'm just that's worth. Wait, the 24 or whatever you're just that's hard. And so you were very quickly able to extract. You notice that as you tap on it, the vibration causes the earth beneath it to shift and they almost pull out like a gear.

This is so. And you're able to very quickly rescue, no, not Grico and Torbeck. You're very quickly able to rescue on Devor and Polonella. Before Gideon decides that he's gonna help Kremi look for his hat, at which point you're left waiting his strength.

Please. No, we're living out of my face, man. We'll bind it. All right, Grandma, we'll bond it. Worst case scenario, they took it, and we just got one more reason to slit all their fucking throats. I mean, tie me up.

And we run all over this gliding area. Yeah, yeah. And there's this little glittering pile of, like, stuff. And I run up and I kneel down by it. And I roll up. And you do at advantage, because Gideon is

held with you. What is it? Investigation, yes. 23. Oh, amazing. You begin looking through this, and you very quickly realize that though they have taken your things, they were not left in this area. You are able to see, with that check, though, that from where you had been, there are a set

of larger prints. It makes you think back to when you were losing consciousness and you saw a much larger set of eyes peering at you out of the darkness. But at the time, those eyes looked huge, almost ominous. But as you look at these footprints, you see all the tiny, tiny footprints of the Brighanax, and then a set of footprints that are almost child size. And as you follow this particular set of footprints, there's only one of them. You can see the movement as they moved all along around all of you.

And you can see where those footprints moved. They went from Gideon to Cremie to Gras, to Grico, to Omdipur, to Polonella, to Torbet, of course. To Hootzee that with all of you, there is a trail next to where they were moving, where it's very clear they were dragging your things. And so you imagine that you could follow these drag marks to wherever your stuff was taken and potentially this entity. You know, when we're finally released, if we're released and not set on

fire and release from this miserable existence. Dormick's gonna maybe see, you know, Dormick was pretty sad on just like crushing one of the brieons, but now Dormick's just gonna try to eat one. He only lived once. They're like bite signs, basically. You're talking a lot about like, you know, you're having your throat slip and being set in fire

and have you like, have you, have you, like, have you, like, Have you thought about, like, talking to your local drug dealer and drowning your sorrows in the endless void of narcotics? Dermak thinks about that a lot. Yeah. Dermak used to do that a lot. Oh, good. But, you know, we left our local drug dealer outside of the carnival of the crew before all this happened. Yeah.

Old Stinky Joe, really had a supply. And that really had a supply. And that really says something because he avoided Torbock like the plague. Yeah, he really did. Yeah. Oh, man. Gosh, maybe they'll farm crummy's hat. Yeah, my hat.

There's no one in the down. I can't feel me feet anymore. I hope the flesh doesn't necrotize that. Uh-oh. Here you go, Gricone. I'm going to start to drink up. Yeah, you're using little tools, but it also requires strength. Oh, what do you think they're doing with it?

man. I mean, the hats as big as they are. I know. All I found of these disgusting. Once Gideon comes back and pulls in them, but you're priming every single one. And I'm totally like a disgusting bloody ears. So by the time he comes back, he'll be able to wrap them all in his hand and yank them out in one go. I run up to a pile of crates and a little gear will appear in front of me. Yeah, it does. And I walk in front of it and I do this.

And then the whole pile of crates will disappear. And mining supplies. None of this is my stuff again. I can't do it that way. We gotta go. We got a Jay's aggram, man. Oh. Oh, wait. You're naked without my hat. Oh, we should get Grick on.

Do we see any of the raw, like, or, like, wish rock? Oh, yeah. You see roll an investigation check at advantage. Thank goodness. Yeah, okay. That's going to be a 23. You very quickly see that none of the wish stones are present here. You do notice that the node that your wishes had been embedded in has been completely excavated.

And that all of the stones, including yours, have been removed. You remember seeing that as the Brighenox left, that they all worked together to throw the wish stones that they were working with into these mining carts and take them deeper into the mountain itself. This looks to be a processing area where they separate the wish stones from everything else. You do see that the rest of the note is still here, that the bits of dust and other rock has been separated between different camps, as if it's all used for certain things. You can even see where they are processing the rope.

You can see what is a large metal spindle that they use to take the processed ore and spin it into a fine thread to use for these ropes. Each one of these mining areas that Kremi is ripping to pieces currently seems to have a function. And you are able to find quite a few schematics for things like the spindle and like their pickaxes and hammers and things. It's a very well-oiled machine. Gideon, I'm going to need your resistance to free the others. I can't do it alone. They require strength and these tools.

Well. Yeah. Fronzie's been over here fumbling around, fumbling around like a jack-and-a-napes over here. What? A what? Like a jack-in-a-wapes. Like a what? A jack-in-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-sla-like a gutter snob.

What are you doing over there like a gutter snob, Frosty? I'm endeavoring to free our friends while you look for coming down. Oh, fine, fine. Don't be saying weird stuff and I'm uncomfortable now. I don't want to be associated with him to me. No, no, this is just what we do. No, no, no. No, no.

I say he sucks. I'm not like, I wish that the caress of the void would take me to free me from. That's too far, jeez. I mean, a little. It makes a little present, though, man. I mean, things, things may be bad, but I can turn into like cool dinosaurs and stuff. I mean, I mean, face can't get that bad.

This is a real. Life is pretty good. You know, getting in his breakfast in bed and it's fine. but Torbeck doesn't, all of a sudden it's depression. Get off Torbeck's ass, okay? Why eat eggs and bacon? You eat tombs. It's liquorice. It's called licorice, Gideon.

All right. Read a book. Hang on. Hang on. All right, let's see if we can't get you all free. With all the work that Frost is done to loosen all of these ropes, you are able to grab onto them and rip them out in one fell swoop. acquiring 40 more of these 20-foot roads. Sorry you couldn't do anything over here, Frosty.

Oh, man, should my feet be that color? They're always that color. Oh, yeah, I'm green. Okay. That was a close one. Oh, that was a close one. Okay. Okay.

Well, thank you guys. Frost, you did a great job getting me free. Thank you very much. You're welcome. You did it all on your round. We need to find our... What? No, he didn't.

Yeah, you want a good job. No, it was all me. No, you got to thank me, Rico. You're only free because of me. Thanks for having our Frosty. Okay. All right. I'm tying you back up.

Okay. Enough goofing around. Yeah, we got to find Kremi's hat, man. They took his hat. My hat. No. Well, and all the rest of the watch stuff. We're not for my hair.

No. We're finding... What else was in our possession? That was particular. valuable. Well, all of us lost our tunement to the luck rocks. Oh, yeah. All those gems. Oh, man. Turby got two of those.

Anything else we can think of? No, I think two of me on Arcina. The two stones and Dormant to be filthy sack are gone. Oh, I had that one engineering firefly from the carnival, man. My cane. Is my cane gone? Your cane is gone. My cane. My cane is gone. My cane.

Turban had a bunch of little knick-knacks. All of your trinkets, your, um, you had some wine that broke Faye packs you had all kinds of shit They were made a wood or something Oh my bumy turtems

To our next very precious vial a spit Is gone My backpack contained the bobbing lily pad that we acquired Bag of beans, a potion of heroism Pixie dust a potion of advantage Two star sapphires ball bearings, ball of string Bedroll bell blanket bullseye lantern

Charver the Monarch The Flammar skull Why you listen is now Better go old to frost Because I'm very organized. He stops in the container store. That's actually a good point. He's got labeling on each internal container.

Gideon, you also realize that Twig is no longer on your back. Oh! And the kidnapped Twitig! Oh, that's what I was something wooded and that's what I was thinking. Oh, I'm sticking in my cigar box. Oh, my cigar box! Oh, yeah, you were a cigar dude. Not me.

Oh, and my flasked. Additionally. Oh, and your unicorn horn is gone. Oh, shit. Oh. How do I feel about unicorns these things? I think you feel like this. I can't believe that I can't cast any spells

with a cry of material components now. That makes me mad. These brigginawark's sub. Let's go kill these guys. Oh, yeah. Can you let Torbeg out first? Huh? Guys.

What? What? Doreg knows he's a little depressed. It's a little dark. like, you know. Just stand up, Torbeck. You're just lying on the ground. Yeah, he ripped all those out.

Yeah. Oh, they're not doing off of him. It's like that mental thing. It's like he's got a weighted blanket. Torbeck's like a confused dog. Yeah. You know how they, when you have a baby elephant and you like tie a rope around its leg to a peg

and it can't get away, and when it grows up and it's like eight million tons and you tie a little rope around its leg and don't leave the post. Even though it can easily. break it. It's a mental prison. And that's basically the story of Torbeck is a walking mental prison.

Thanks to helping Turrmec out, guys. So oftentimes it happens. We live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. Whoa! It was pretty poignant, though, Gregor. Actually relevant to the situation and I am. Yeah, I learned it from a couple of eagles.

Oh, my goodness. Oh, Glenn? Yeah, from Glenn and up on the Erie. I was a goat. I had a very nice solo adventure. Oh, you guys were walking around. From old Glenn and Don, huh? Yeah, Glenn and Don.

That's like the most beautiful thing. I'm trying to hear you say. Yeah. I'm hoping that we can... Hello. You look down and you see a much smaller version of these Brighonox than the ones that you'd seen. This one appears to be more of a juvenile.

Kyle. We're killing. Fucking kill. I try to snatch them. This creature is not in the mining attire that the other ones were in. You quickly reach down and you hold it in the palm of your hand. It starts to shake. Its eyes are incredibly wide as it shake.

Ha! Ha! I look at it very closely. Does it look like it's made of flesh or like stone? No, it's very clearly flesh. It looks like a small rodent. Are these just cobalts from my flesh? These are just cobalt from World Warcraft.

Done. Thank you. Okay. Eat him, Torbeck. Eat him. Torbeck's eating a lot worse. Don't eat him. We need information. He's gonna eat you. Please don't eat me. He's definitely gonna eat you.

I'm, Torbeck's thinking about it. No, no, no, we'll slit his throat. Like we said. Don't let my throat. No, we're gonna say you throw in the play. Give us crappy hat back, you son of a bitch. Oh, what's a bitch? You are.

Let, we have some questions, before anybody gets eaten or attacked. Well, no, he's a son of each. Well, he's also even by some of the agency. They ran away. They abandoned you forever. As soon as we woke up, they all ran away. They left you to us.

So first off, what's your name? My name's Topic. What? Topic. Topic? Topic. Topic? Topic. Torbeck's name is Torbeck.

Tupeck. Where did they all go? Oh, it's a stupid name. Well, my guess is they probably went deeper into the mines. Okay. That's cowardice. Did you see them carrying a whole bunch of stuff like a big filthy sack and a hat? Before I went to take my nap, I saw him.

Oh, man. Can you... Just looking for a nap, sleeping on the job. Yeah, you tell you know. You usually go hang for that sort of thing. That's right. Oh, God, please don't hang me. How?

Can you lead us deeper into the mines? As long as you don't kill me, I could leave... Well, we still might eat you after you leave us. Do you? We don't eat you. If you know where our stuff is, I'd love you to lead us there. Then I can fetch my throat slither. Um, um, I could definitely do that for you.

All right. Well, as long as you're useful, I guess, we won't select your syrup. Here's the thing. Durek doesn't want to put it in because Dormex worried it's going to take off. What do we do about this? I got 60 iterations of 20 feet of magic rope. I won't get off of you promised that to kill me. Oh, my.

Stop pitching me. Stop pitching me. Stop pitching me. I was trying to grab it by it's like the back of its shit. Yeah, it's wearing like a, it's wearing like a, like beige tunic and a pair of like, I'm gonna move the back of its beige tunet to like hang it through the air. How big is this thing?

This one is probably about six. Is it like small person sized? Or is it literally like this thing? It's about six inches. Oh. So this is accurate. Yeah. All right, all right, here you go.

I'm gonna use my mind hand to grab Oh, God. Let go. What's that? Let go. Like hell, Frost. Torbeck giving it to Gideon. I'll be able to hold on to it.

We will tear this thing in two dice. Torbeck swears to the gods, Frost. Why? Don't you trust me? No. Why not? Torbeck's very hurt and vulnerable by now by being the last one I'm died.

But you trust you did? No, and Gideon has all the rope. The heat might actually fail on a creature like this. He might be immune to the rope. Wait a minute. Am you in the rope? Is this one of these things, Frosty? I do trust you, you and me best mate,

but this is a little creature. Are you sure you're not trying to endeavoring to crush it's bride? If I were endeavoring to do that, it's mine would already be crushed. It goes right. You're up to something. I just figure if we rope the creature, it might be able to get free. This way we can hold on to it for the duration of the adventure.

Well, what if I tied it like a necklace and just set it up? so Torbeck-A-Ware. Oh, about this now. Yeah, too, yeah. By one of those guys, our friends called the Queen, the Corids. I got wronged.

Oh, no, are you friends with the Coritz? Yeah, I'm going to be scared. Oh, no. Oh, no. Alize, event. Wait, wait, hold on, that's not right. He starts shaking and crying. Wait, hold on.

I'll let go at the sight of it. Ah! Okay, I got, I got it. Wait, wait, wait, why I don't. Andling, that's not right. Wait a minute. This sounds like a misunderstanding. We should all.

I think we got all the wrong. Hold on. No, we can't trust anything this guy says. Oh, God. They don't crimpies. Yeah, they dream this. They're trying to. It happens to all our stuff.

I think topic's being genuine. Tupper. The topic seems convinced. Why do you think that? You're suddenly just a great reader of these creatures? I can be fine. Say it. What is it?

What is the mind say? We're not allies andling. Oh, man. Yeah, what is the mind saying, bros? The Brigginoff's really sucks. But like, now I'm really don't because this is a cute little kid. Yeah, wait a minute. We got all really riled up by the Corridz, and now we realize, I mean, all the

Corrid's fall. I'm going to use my ability to detect thoughts, and I'm going to reach into Topic's mind and see if they are being genuine, and also to sort of get a sense of what knowledge there might be while I rifle around. What does Topic need to roll to prevent this from happening? I get surface level thoughts for free. Yeah, yeah, but you could potentially get more than that. Let me just go find it. Oh, one more.

Oh, certain little, you know. Does Tuppick, would he be able to tell that this is happening? If I decide to dive deeper. And so right now I'm just gonna do surface level. And then if I feel like there's hiding information or something, then I can read those thoughts. Right now I'm just sensing.

You sense, and you can sense the validity. of these, of the thoughts? No, it's not a zone of truth. So if you are thinking lies, then I can't do anything about that. So you, you immediately, well, roll a percept, roll an insight check. Yeah. I think that would be, that would be fair.

I'm gonna get a dirty, the dirty, the dirtiest 20. Perfect. I would say with that, as you listen to these thoughts, you can tell that they are genuine thoughts. What you're hearing from topic, in his mind is he is in absolute. You sent some thoughts where he's saying to himself, you shouldn't have come in here.

Yes, they looked interesting and cool. They could have been new friends, but they're allies of Endelen, they're allies of the Gorin's. They're here to steal our schematics. Endelin's gonna steal us again. She's gonna use us, she's gonna take us away. you begin to hear other thoughts.

You feel a sorrowness and a sadness coming from topic as he begins to think about his grandfather who'd been stolen by Endelen and the Koreds. And that they would never get him back. His great mind that helped them to build their city beneath the mountain. And that Obud needs to hear about this. That he's the only one that's going to be able to do anything about this. He has to prevent you from getting back to

to Endelen and telling her about how many of them still exist and that he can't believe that he walked in here and trusted you. Oh, man. And things of those nature, things of that nature. Once it starts to cycle back around and to cycle. Now, just one moment, Tupick. Tepic is being genuine.

Tepic believes that the cords are allied with Endeline. The corners are aligned with end of the lens. That's not the case. And... You're under fucking caved? Tuppie was thinking... That's pretty funny. You went under a rock.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's very good. Tupit's very good. My father has been stolen away, my animal. How do you know about my grandpa? I can read your mind. I'm reading your thoughts right now. Whoa.

Whoa. Gosh, that's a little evasion. That's an evasion. I mean, I know we're funny. The son is too false. That's too false. This is like the male thing again. And you didn't even ask.

You didn't even ask. You didn't really messed up for all. And someone's not saving their own head. What you're saying is if I were to be detecting thoughts all the time and be able to look into your minds, you would not appreciate it. That would cross the line. You would not appreciate it. Let me tell you.

Yeah, you definitely. It's one thing to threaten to kill it up. It's another thing to enter my mind without my permission. Yeah. Gosh. Whoa. What kind of person are you? I apologize for not asking for your permission.

Doleks didn't realize we're trying with a pervert this whole time. It's okay, Tubbock. Here, here. Here, come. Here, my name is Grico. Hi, Grico. Hi. So, you got to excuse the five of us.

We're learning about the dangers of tribalism on this adventure. And you've told us a very valuable lesson, and I feel like we might have a nice, a nice singing a song about. somewhere out there pretty soon. But we are not gonna hurt you, but we need to figure out how to get our stuff and our puppet friend back and all of our implements

because there's also someone in the mind that what we need to see, I think her name, their name is Gleam. Also take us to open. Also, give my fucking stuff back. Yeah. No, no, no, no. Don't listen to Grimmie.

He may look like a lying, cheating, allegation. cheating alligator guy. Also, it's still a chance in my name. Just being honest. That's fair, what's fair. I'm probably going to take those schematics.

All right, all right. What was your name again? Was it two-pack? Two-pack a day? Oh, Tu-Pick. Puppet. I'm no way I got two-pack. Avengers and Jill.

Tupac. Tupac. I assume his last name is Tuxon. We need you. I feel like we all need a lesson about the dangers of tribalism. And we really need your help to get our stuff back

and to also find this friend and also, because everybody hates Enderlin. But you're friends of the cords, which means you're friends of Endelen. I can't help you with your friends with Edelan. Endo-ed. Would someone who's a friend of Edlin say this?

Endelin songs. Roll a persuasion check at advantage. Huh? Yeah. That's pretty. That's pretty. That's pretty. Oh, hold on.

I'm gonna take out my Crooked Moon Dice bag. Look at that. Dice bag. Oh, I'm feel right now at Crookedmoon.com. This is a mass production copies here. Oh, I got the Vampire Rose Dice, is the D20 that I pulled. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Persuasion and advantage? That's a 19. Oh, yeah. You immediately see Topic begin to look at you a little more quizzical. Are you still peeping into his mind, like a pervert? Well, now that I've turned it on, I can't turn it off. On the United States door. Is he a very?

For a minute, I detect thoughts of all creatures within 30 feet of me. All right, well, while we're asking questions, you know, is your kind any natural predators? Are you regularly eaten by anything? Yeah, all kinds of creatures are natural predators because we're so small, so we just stay inside of our mountain and then we're safe. Doorbexies. Okay. Yeah. But you promise that you're not friends of Endelen?

Yeah. You promise? You swear on everything. Everything? Yeah. Yeah, everything. But you're friends of the Korans. They're all right.

Yeah, well, I mean, but the Korans give their hair to Enderlind's and that she could make her awful contraptions and that's why she stole my grandpa. Actually, that's not the case. See what's happening here. No, they're the ones that are stealing their hair. What? No, we've never touched their hair. Oh my God.

No, Endelin and the Koran stole my grandpa because he was the best engine. of all of all the Brickinoc kind, and they took him. And now he's up there and he has to work for the cords and Endelin to do their nefarious bidding. No. What was his engineering specialty? He made binding contraptions. He was able to turn the wish stones

into all kinds of super powerful things. Well, she probably can't use that for anything. Just out of curiosity here, if you're familiar with the process, when he does turn the wish stones into things, does it destroy the wishes inside? Yeah, it does. That's why he only ever uses the bad wishes to turn him into stuff. Oh, that's actually quite clever. But I'll have you know that Gid's a bit of an engineer and master.

Well, I'll be careful because if Enderlin gets her heads on you, you're... Well, we'll probably not dead with you. I mean, the same thing that happened to her if I got my hands on her. Okay, so you're not friends of Endolin. No, we hate Indolin. We can't shake your phone because you were friends of Adelan. No, Endelin did some terrible things to Outs. No, Grico, say it again.

Ellen fucking sucks. Also, the Corrid's believed that you're stealing their, their, their, their beards. That they, that they, that, you're the ones who are allied with indolence. We never even leave the mine. How would we ever steal any of their beards? I don't know what to tell you. There's a, like a 90s special. They're right outside of our, they're right outside of our mind.

Always try to get in. You could, if I open the door for you, you could see them just out there staring, to get into steal us. Nobody's anything. No, no. We'll keep that one close to our chest. Oh, all right. I mean, I think I may have seen a few somewhere in the vicinity.

At least a minute a mile radius. I'm starting to suspect that the leader of this region is trying to control its inhabitants by driving a wedge between people who normally would have common ground and be on the same side to protect hatred and animosity against each other that's really all. in their heads and it's not legitimate. You know, I think you might be right. Well done. Oh, I've got stealing it's scared.

Wait a minute. We should have got YouTube, Juggles, Jules, Jules. That's too fantastical to be played. You know what, Kruger, that reminds Torbeck, we should probably come clean about throwing rocks earlier. It's got to come out. know any better. It was definitely the cord is, but they didn't mean anything.

Yeah, there might be some agnizations of rock thrills later. Every time we open the entrance, the cords are yelling death to the burghur rocks. They were old. One moment. One was like them. Do you all come out and make a ton of noise in order to keep the cords away? No, not to keep them awake. We have to bind the stones, but sometimes we have to open the door to let all the wishes from yon inside.

Where is the noise coming from? Yeah, well. From deep in the mine. Oh, man. Is there like actually a pet? We don't do it to upset the cords. We just do it because we have to buy the wish stones. It pisses them off pretty good.

Well, them stealing my grandpa made me pretty bad. No, they didn't steal your grandpa. Well, that's what you say. No, I mean, well, I guess maybe they, they pull the wool over our eyes? No. Or is he pulling the wool over eyes? There's a deceiver here, but I don't think it's either the Korrids or the brigandons.

See, one of the artists is legitimately just one big fucking misunderstanding. I think it's a manipulation. Or the deliberate manipulation of the leaders so they don't actually feel like. What? No, it's like funny whimsy stuff. You know how like the answer was always in the thing the whole time. No, I'm just talking to think. No, no, no, no, no, no. Stop thinking. Stop thinking.

No more thing. Right. I actually would be friends with each other in order to keep their attention to the hate at each other instead of the person in control. We had a good one. We had a good one.

That was it. We really did. Oh, wait a minute. I think there's something fishy going on. Yeah. Chugles, chugles, we'll cry. Back in it. What was your name again?

My name is Morning Frost. Hello, Morning. You can call me Frost. This is Grico. Yeah, I'm a political science major from Goblin College. I was just going to... That's actually true. Hello, Rico.

It's place to be eating. This is Torbeck. He was going to eat you. Please don't eat me. Torbeck's a drunk. And Torbeck is down to like 2% chance of eating you. That's very low. And this is Cremie and Gideon.

Hello, Gideon. You make a beautiful couple. A guy's. Yeah. Yeah, they're a couple of guys. Yeah. If you have, find a wish zone, can you tell what wishes inside of it?

We're looking for the wishes that were brought in here with us that we made in order to enter. I can't because I'm still really young and I'm just learning what O-B-B-B-B-Kad. O-B-D. O-B-D, O-B-I-D. O-B-B-I-D. O-B-B-D.

O-B-B-U-D. O-B-B-U-D. O-B-B-D. O-B-B-B-B-D. Oh, buddy. This end of it stays. Oh, buddy. Oh, buddy.

Well, hey, is there actually a path in this tunnel to get to her like palace or whatever. I mean, they think that you can get there. Yeah, there is. And we have a, we have it completely guarded. It's so hard to get to so nobody can get to her. Obud makes sure that nobody can get there. And nobody can come in

this way. It's a one way. Once you go through, you can't get back. Wasn't he Obud napped? What, no, my grandpa was. Oh, that's a different. What's your grandpa's name? Oh, Albud's like the leader of everything. Is he about the same size as you, like edible?

Oh, but yeah. What happens if we eat him? Well, all of the burger dogs would be in complete this right because we would have lost the leader of everything, and that would be really horrible for all of us. And then, you know, the next of, it would have been my grandpa would have been next in life, but he's gone now.

So, you know, it probably would be Zarley's dad, I think, but I'm not sure. Okay, all right. Well Torbeck, I also saw in Tuftick's mind that if you were to eat any of these creatures that you would experience terrible diarrhea Like wow potato chips Would actually stop Torbeck

Well, I just wanted to let you know That's just like a normal day for Torbeck Let's be real here for us Yeah, he's got IBS It stands for I be shitting Plus they're like, you know The size of slide or Turbank could probably Eat four dozen

Without even like breaking us. No, no, no, we're kind of like eggs. You could only eat like four of us before it's just too filling. Well, I can eat a lot of them. Someone's got to find out one way or another. Please don't eat the brink. Okay, okay, Torbeck, sorry. No.

Torbeck is just having a little bit of a rough day. I feel like he's the size of a chicken nugget. Toolbeck could house at least 50 of those things. But I'm just one of the smaller ones. Listen, he just doesn't like to be told he can't do something. That's true. Yeah. It's just, he's not going to eat you.

You just got to stop saying that he can't eat you. Well, you're going to really want. You can't eat me if you wanted to. Well, there you go. That would be really not fun for me. Hur. Can you spell the name of what you are? My name?

No, no, no, no. Rigidoc. Yeah, spell that one. Yeah, I can, but let me look it up. Because I feel like I'm hearing eight million different things. I'm assuming it's B-R-I-G-G-O-N-A-U-K-S. B-R-I-G-G-G-G-. A-N-O-C-K.

Brigg-a-knock. Brigg-a-knock. Yeah, everybody's talking about, like, you know, cosmonauts and Briggerocks and Briggins. No, but Brigh-a-nock. Oh, guys. Something that's starting out of this. Here's our turner.

Something I feel like we need to go deeper into the mine. What do you think, Topic? I could definitely take you deeper into the mind, but why were they left here anyway? Why did they take, do they know that you were, well, did they think you were partnered with Endolin? Probably. It's possible. It's very likely. We came inside and then they threw some sort of sleeping powder or some fell on us.

Did you knock before you came in? Yeah. We made, we made wishes and then we came. Oh, no. You're supposed to knock before you come into somebody's home. Oh, that's true. We didn't know. We didn't do that.

Well, there wasn't this a big open threshold? Well, I mean, to be fair, at the time we were political agents in service to the courage. To be fair. Oh, that's fair. We were sneaking in. To be fair, we were sneaking in with the throat slitters and we was going to... Yeah, well... Yeah.

I mean, under the information we had, you know, it made sense to slit y'all's throats. Yeah. But not anymore, right? Well, well, if what Fraud says is true, no, not anymore. And we get all our stuff back. Like, Cruz's that. Well, I at least need my heart. I have, honey and my cane.

We could make our way deeper in and we could see if we could find Molly. Okay. Does she have my stuff? Who has my stuff? More than likely it's Molly. Molly is the human child that came over from thither. Wait, Molly? Molly?

Yeah. What's her name Molly four episodes ago? Huh? We're looking for a gleam or a glimmer or something along, though. There's something along those lines. Wait, did we know them all, or was this a different child? A human child? They gleam?

Is this a human child that can, like, walk on the edge of a cliff face like a fucking mountain goat? We know one of those. No, she eats, Watson, Liz. No, she's already, she's already at the mother horn. Yeah, yeah. So who's, this is this different kid? That was like, Misha or something. Wow, there's so many kids.

Oh, there's so many kids. Oh, no. No, she's not good for kids, I all right. Oh, this is terrible. Mom had escaped from Thither a couple of years ago and came and found her way here and De Yon and then stumbled into our minds and has been a friend of the Brickadocks ever since.

Wow, she really do yearn for the mines. Yes, she year for the mines so much that she now helps us here. Wow. Well, again, I bet she's got some Flint and Steel we could borrow. But she's the only one strong enough to be able to carry it. of your things because they're just too big for most of the most of us.

Okay, so she robbed us. So if we find Molly, I could just, we could just explain that you're not enemies and you're not friends to end up and she'll just give all of your stuff back probably most likely. That's hope. All right. And you had a lot of valuable things in there.

But she could be a little bit skittish because she had a real rough time and thither. So you just have to be really nice to her because otherwise she gets mean. Oh, okay. Man, that's- Pretty mean sometimes, too. Yeah, she's actually really similar to you guys, kind of.

Similar to us? Yeah, and the way that you act, where she just, like, slit throats first and then ask a question later. Well, hang on, I mean, are you saying you think she could take the five of us? No, not at all. She's a little kid.

Oh, easy, man. I mean, we're not there at all. But she has all of the brugadocks at her disposal because we love Molly and we'll protect her to her very last breath. Oh, she got my, a, blah, blah, How many of you are you? Over that, mommy?

Oh, I don't know, maybe like four or five thousand. Oh, yeah. Is a rat queen? Where are your allies and what is their headcount? We're gonna get Willard. Molly would love being called Molly's rat queen, but I don't know if she's ever met a rat before. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Does she look like Crispin Glover? Who's that? Oh well. What's a Crispin? I'll judge when I see it. Yeah.

Okay, we're gonna go deeper into mine. You're gonna make sure that you don't betray us and a shocking, stunning betrayal, and they say, oh, I was a witch the whole time. I don't know how to betray. But I'm got- It's kind of that kind of campaign. Well, I got to.

Oh, boy. That was an ominous thing to say. Oh, boy. Yeah, would you know that. Hold on a moment. Okay. Are you gonna put me down that? It'll lead you into the bide.

You won't like scamper away and hiding a tiny little hole that we can't get back up? We just hold you up so you can see better and then you direct us and probably just throw it. I'm not used to traverse these caves from up at this vantage point. Yeah, put them down to what I used to. But I promise I'm not gonna trick you or one over you or two time you are no good you.

Right. Because that would, you would just eat me for one. But then two, I really do believe you that you're not what you say you are. And then also, and then also, if I help you, you owe me a favor, right? That's how it works. No, because you rob me. Wow.

Let's just say yes. We'll call it a favor. We'll call a favor. I don't know if I'd need help with something in the future. Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, whatever. Or if I were playing a game of marching the scattering. Put Topic down.

If he tries to run, Dorik has 10 feet of reach. You can't move that fast. Hold on. Hold on. Are we sure we don't want to... You've got all this rope here. Look how much you have. You just said the rope wouldn't work.

Yeah. You said he's a muted rope. We read the thoughts and we had this whole conversation. We could have a long tether to Tupper. Do you have the rope? Yeah, I got a whole bunch of rope. Are you sure you have the rope? Meaning, is it recorded in D&D beyond?

Yeah, I'm sure. I put it down. And like in five episodes, we're not going to forget that we have this rope. Well, I mean, I could also do that. But it is, if it's been 20 feet of wish rope times 60. Oh, we have 60 times 24. 50 times 20 feet. I have 60 iterations of 20 feet of roof.

That's a lot of rope. That's a lot of room. It's important that it's in your inventory. That way you don't forget that you've gotten things like the cumulus spectacles. What? Okay. That's stolen from me.

Old Tupacino. Lead us to how stuff one is. That's your new nickname. It's a cool nickname. But before we make our way deeper in, you have to promise me that you're gonna be nice to all for family and friends. and to Molly too.

We are so nice. They're going to be really scared of you at first, especially if they think that you're big, bad, evil, Endolin lovers. Oh, no. No, we think Endolin sucks. So you might have to let me do the talking first, and I'll bring Molly out to you all by herself

and probably with 10 other brigadocks as bodyguards, and it'll just have to be nice, okay? We don't want them to knock us out and then us wake up coming up again. They'll go and wish us. right in their face donkey straight out. Wish dust? Yeah, it's dreaming dust.

It puts you straight to sleep. Dreaming dust. Wow. And then while you're asleep, you give up, you give up wishes you didn't intend to give up. Wow. And then they turned into wish dogs

that are then taking deeper into the minds. That's actually pretty fucked up. Yeah. Wait, wait. The stuff that put us to sleep actually took more wishes from us than the wishes. Oh, yeah. That's...

Depends how long you were to sleep. Oh, no. So you guys invaded our wish minds without our permission? That's wrong. That's wrong. That's what you should have! Just learned that this is wrong.

Well, to ask me, the powder does it, so I wouldn't know what you wished even if I had been there. Oh, wow. But the last time I was in this room was four hours ago. Now how do we know what we lost? And you probably have to ask O-Bund to give all of your wishstones back. Oh, yes, we are.

And he generally requires some sort of payment for a wishstone. Of course. Oh, classic. I don't think we need all of them wishes back. I have one in particular that I would, well, two. I actually all three of them would be really nice to get back. I just feel like it's a slippery slope there, Frost. I feel like it's a big old monkey paw.

Besides, we don't know what wish we lost in addition. Those could be a real valuable. Oh, no, you probably lost maybe four or five more. What? Yeah, if you were out for four hours, then that's a lot. Just imagine it, Cremie. Somewhere out there, there's a lot. rock that if how do you how do you break them open or do you like crack them

smash them against the wall you can take a hammer break them into pieces if you're super strong you put them in your hand and you could crush them easy see you think about all the things that you wished for or the wishes that you've lost that are right around the corner that could activate in your hand that's part about it as long as long as the stones themselves are broken then you don't ever have to worry about the wish coming true or losing the wish is it the person who crushes the wish who gets the wish? So, like, if I, for hypothetically,

picked up the wrong wish and I crushed it in my hand, would I suddenly be the consequences? You would grow a wish for that person? It would be the wish of the master of the witch. Oh, the master of the wish. Like dragon binder, binding dragons. It doesn't brighten it to one who blows it. It's to the horn's master.

No, that's an important distinction. I just wanted to make sure that. Oh, is that how that works. Yeah, so yeah, I just figured it would be whoever blew the horn. No, it's the horn's master, not whoever blows the horn. The last thing you don't know that. Long people don't know that. I would never risk his own logs.

Yeah, exactly right, yeah. Oh, is it dangerous to blow in it? Extreme way. Oh, yeah. So that's the thing you never want someone like Edelaine getting down here and getting her hands on all those wishes because she could make all her wishes come true,

but then it could be really bad for you depending on what you wished. One last question. How many Brighanax are able to know what's inside the wish before it's open? This is extremely important door making these enough. Right now it's only open that could do that. How often does he tell other people about the wishes he sees?

He has a rule where he only tells the person who's wish is the wish that he sees. And he's never broken this pool. And his giant pony. Does the pony tell people? The pony can't talk. It's a pony. He can never be due to. I should say wild.

Talking pony is the least strange. In that case, then, we don't have to hurry. Well, there's only one way two people can keep a secret. Yeah. You know what I saw? That's not as much fun when Drip Peace Goblin and Gideon. We are going to eventually get into some tunnels

that are significantly smaller than these ones so you might have to knock. Okay. Yeah, we've been through this before plenty of times. Okay, well, if you're ready, I'll take you on in. Okay. But we're going deep into Brickonock territory. It's probably going to take,

I don't know, I have no sense of time, so it's probably going to take quite a while for us to get down there. And when we do, it's people's homes in there. So he looks around and sees the destruction, the looking for the hat caused. Maybe please don't do this again. We will be nice. We're not going to destroy any more property.

All right, let's go. We lead the way. He reaches up, he reaches up towards you, Gricko, and he holds out his hand as if he wants you to hold his hand. Oh, let's come nice. Come on, let's go. Man, anything that I may have said about the Brigger Knox, it was not true.

Anything you may have heard, let's go, let's go. He leads you towards... Let's go, Tupik. He leads you towards the edge of the room, towards one of the areas that had been a little roughed up, but it withstood a lot of the destruction. And it's where they were making their lanterns. And he reaches out and he finds tiny lanterns,

and he hands a tiny lantern to each of you. And you notice as you hold it up, even though it's tiny, it's the amount of light that it illuminates is what a lantern in your size would create. There's a magical property to these as well, even though they're small. Because of your size, they illuminate about 30 feet around you with bright light.

And that allows you to, easily make your way through. These lanterns are really special, so make sure you keep them out of you, because should you ever get lost, they could always help you shine the light on the way home. It's a brigadoc lantern.

You guys make this, or what is this like? Yeah, we just had it? Yeah, you could keep these as long as Molly says, it's okay. How does it illuminate? Is it like oil made from wishes also? There are candles inside. No, I There's fire in there.

What? Duff, frog. Yeah. God damn it. This post me as far as one. He can't see your fucking potter. I can't. I can't.

I can't. I can't too back like a fucking football. What a ridiculous question. What magic makes it illuminate more than normal lantern? For the love of all that is holy. Oh God, he looks like he's a devour. Don't do a devour. Oh, no.

He won't deaf. Oh, you know how he gets him he's an adephyrins. He's always doing that. Don't do it, Rose. Not this time. I got all my shoes. I can kick this kid. You go to kick it and I can pull his hand.

I lipped him up like... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Lucy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh. Well, just like most things in here, we utilize the remnants of the wish stones to their full ability.

And there's like an ash powder that's used. You could use it for explosives and all kinds of things, but you could also use it to melt into a wax. And so we're friends with this cyclops that has a lot of bees. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. And they supply us with.

with the beeswax to infuse with the war powder that we could make these candles that they're ever burning there. They will literally never burn away. They'll forever, forever candles. I assume that moments later, Polonella's stinger jams right through. It's stomach.

You notice that Polinella doesn't seem to have any kind of negative reaction to this at all. Our frontal loat. The metaphor is just making all that up. It doesn't, it's just the normal bee. There's something really wrong with Humdivorne. He's actually like on his side. He's actually like on his psycho.

He's on the fucking he said. He isn't that right, Paul. This is my girlfriend. Oh, this is my girlfriend. This is giant meat. Nigeborg is actually evil. We had to kill him. She's got this love backstory.

Back story. Oh, God. Not to alarm you, but we have it on the authority that this beef farm is unethical. What are you being? Well, we've heard bad things about the cyclops and the bee farm. No.

The, the... Hey, Amdeport, you've been awfully quiet. Aren't you? What are you saying? You talk to, Chupac. You see that Amdipur has his arms folded, folded in front of him. And he looks a little frustrated,

but he is respecting Tupac, and he is not, he's not arguing with him, but he doesn't, it's very clear he doesn't believe what Tupac is saying. As he says, no, we've been working with the beekeeping cyclops for a long time. The bee population was

almost dead. If he hadn't rescued that queen bee from peril and helped to rebuild the bee population, there would be none of these honeybees. available at all of yod, let alone the rest of Prisbier. All right, damn deport, Torbache's got to be honest, we're in a lot of mixed signals here. Well, that's not the story that I heard, and as you can see, Pollenella is quite happy here,

and she is the Queen Bee, as it were, as why she's so large. If this were the case, don't you think she would have flown away and gone back home to the beekeeping sideops? And she tells you she's happy? Yes, she was stolen. Did who do you she was in peril? Was it, uh, old Enderlin would said that? Was it Endelin that spread that rumor maybe? No, it was, well, it was something Gleem and I talked about when, when I met, she, she,

Gleem helped me to rescue Pollenilla from Cyclops. He was quite angry. You should have seen the way he was taking his club and trying to smash the both of us. He was even, there were, he tried, he tried to smash me. and Polinella was in the way if I hadn't jumped upon her and rolled, she would have been smashed beneath the floor. So I'm telling you right now that this is, this is, I don't appreciate the way you're trying to besmirch my character.

I don't, no, Turvick, we're not, Turvich is not trying to besmirch anyone. Durvich trying to get the facts straight. There's a lot of crazy things going on. Oh boy, I gave you your, I gave you your tent. I gave you your tent. To be fair, Durvick doesn't have that tent anymore, so. And to be fair, I think my, I don't think mine made me for a record.

Mr. Krebbe didn't buy that one of Sorbank. You know, it was kind of a dump. I tried to give it back to you, and you refused to accept it. Because it was a dump. Well. Sounds kind of like a true personal problem. Look, look, I don't think we're going to solve this on beekeeper giant thing. Why don't we just go meet Molly?

Wait a minute. No, no, no. No more waiting for any more minutes. No more waiting for any more minutes. We're listening, right. Go ahead. I'm starting to see you a little fishy. Yeah, please elaborate.

Like everybody here what hates each other is actually a bunch of fairly decent, well-meaning people just trying to live the best life they can. Even the cyclists. And they've all been tricked into turning their eye and hatred toward each other, so they all stay distracted and easily controlled. Yes, a pattern is emerging. And she's a mouthful like that. She's a mouthful like that. We should proceed. What do you think there, old tuffins?

Yeah, I would be very happy to lead you deep into the cave. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Far away from the exit. My nose and you start bleeding. We just all smell toast. Look, look, if you start getting an urge to go out into... I shouldn't know. You know what? I say too much.

I'd like to go on midnight. No! No, no, no, no. No. No. No. No. What? No, no.

That lake looks for me. No. Come on. Please, middle of the cave, way far away from the exit. But what is that? I don't. Yes, sweet a middle. We proceed.

You do. And as you're having this conversation, Tuftic once again reaches for your hand, Grico. I hold this hand, I'm just going to look at all. Begins to leave you deeper into the cave. It takes, it takes about an hour of walking through tunnel after tunnel. You're consistently, you're consistently taking a tunnel which will lead into a much larger cavern, which will have another handful of tunnels branching off from it,

sometimes two, sometimes as many as 20 tunnels that branch off from this. And Tupick seems to know exactly which ones to take. They vary in size from large tunnels that are easy to make their way through that have anywhere from two to eight tracks, mining tracts. that carts would ride on going through them to some of these tunnels that you're forced to walk through that are significantly smaller, only large enough for one mining track where you have to squeeze your way through them.

It is a bit claustrophobic and it is, it begins to get warmer and warmer as you get deeper into this tunnel, or into the mountain. But you eventually find yourself spilling out onto to what it almost looks like a small terrace. And you see that there are tracks that lead off over the terrace down deep, deep into the mine.

You can see what appears to be the tallest turrets of a giant castle of some sort deep in this. But that is not where topic is taking you. Where topic is taking you is off, that is all to the left. these mining tracks go over, but you're following a pathway to the right that winds down to another small, well, small to you, platform. It is a large pillar of rock coming up from the center of this large cavern, and on top of it is almost like a plateau, a flat area where houses and a small

village has been built on top of it. And you can see that there are many of these that dot the landscape, but he's taking you to a particular one. One. that has a much larger house built onto it, almost a Grico-sized house. Clearly a house built for a child that sits at the very edge of this. And as he leads you towards this, as you're walking along the pathway that skirts around some of these small little Brighanac villages heading towards this particular one, you see that there are many Brighanawks in standard attire, some in dresses, some in shorts, some in overall, some still in their mining gear, as they're milling about shopping in the small marketplace,

going about and doing your business. And as you get closer, they notice you. And they all begin to mumble and whisper, and there you can feel the tension in the air as you are not easy to hide. And as Tuppick realizes this, he stops you, squeezes your hand, Gricko, I'm gonna have to go

to the town center you'll be able to watch me you can see me the whole time but I'm gonna have to knock on Molly's door and just let her know what's going on because if they continue to be worried like this then it's gonna be an angry mom scenario

wouldn't be helpful if we just sat on the ground quietly I think you should just sit right here and you can dangle your feet over the chasm and you could look down on the wishing castle. That's where all of the dreams go to what's they've been wished. Torbeck doesn't think he's gonna sit on the ledge, but Torbeck will sit in the dirt quietly

and not cause any problems. And you realize that this walkway is basically just wedged, like ledge size. So to sit on it, you would have to dangle your feet over the chasm. It's horrifying. Okay, well, on that case.

So you press yourself against the wall. You sit sideways. Yeah, perfect. You could easily sit sideways. Okay. But it is quite precarious, this pathway that you're walking, is it's made for foot tall Brickonocks. Okay.

Is that amenable to you, Gricko, and friends? So we should just stay here because of the risk of social unrest due to outsiders coming and with the perceived allegiance to their seeming enemy due to misinformation. All right. Go on now.

Go on. I'll be right back. You could trust me, don't worry. And he quickly lets your hand go and rushes into town. You see as he darts from person to person saying things, and you see as they grab pitchforks and look towards you. A couple of them grab small torches as they all be. begin to assemble around a fountain

in the very center of this town. As you do eventually see Tupac walk over to the large child-sized building and begin to knock on the knocker there, you can hear the sound of these knocks, three of them in secession, echo throughout the cavern. And everything is almost silent

as everyone waits to see what happens. And as the door opens, this small, mousy girl in a little brown dress and an apron, peeked her head out of the door. She's got long brown ringlets that fall down around her. She's got smudges of dirt on her face. She has a handkerchief tied in her hair, keeping the wild mane of it back from her face,

large brown doe eyes with thick lashes. She's quite cute. As she looks out and she looks forward and then realizes she needs to look down as she noticed is Tuppick there. A broad smile in her face. You can see as she smiles, she's missing a couple of teeth, teeth that haven't fully grown in yet.

She's quite young, around probably six years old, you would imagine. As she looks down and smiles at Tuppick, she picks him up and they communicate. She looks nervous at first, but she listens and she looks up at you. She looks back down at him, and eventually she nods. and she starts to call for some of the other Brighanax. You notice about 10 of them mobilize. These ones are still dressed in their mining attire as they all get together

and she begins to pull what is very clearly your belongings out of her house. All of them seem to be, as far as you can tell from this distance, untouched, but she is directing them to load them onto what is a child-sized wagon, something that she would normally pull and they help her load all of the stuff and you watch as she grabs the handle of the wagon and she begins to walk through the town the rest of the briganox are looking up at her and smiling running towards her and hugging onto her legs they all clearly like her a lot as she begins to move towards you dragging this wagon along um the 10 briganox and tuppick all following along behind her um tupec's falling behind he's significantly smaller than the rest she eventually

picks him up and puts him on top of the wagon and he's riding along sitting atop one of your I was going to say Torbeck's dirty sack. That just sounds horrible. Yeah, with the two stones inside. Yeah, no, that's awful. So you, he's riding along, sitting on top of a frost's ball of yarn, as they begin to move towards you and that's where I'll take a little bit of a break. Hey! This podcast is brought to you by our Patreon. Become a Patreon. Become a patron today at patreon.com slash legends of Aventris and gain access to tons of exclusive perks, including a monthly movie night and a weekly Patreon exclusive campaign set on the high seas, shroud over salt marsh. You can also go to the crooked moon.com to pick up your own copy

of our first published supplement, The Crooked Moon, a folk horror tome for Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition. And don't forget to snag all of the extra goodies like dice, minatures, plushies, a tarot deck, and more. Thank you. As Molly and her entourage of Brighanak's begin to move towards you, you see that all of the residents of this small Brighanock village are standing at the gates and they are watching with bated breath. You see that they still hold their pitchforks and their torches in hand just waiting for the command to attack. From this vantage point, you can see the other villages that are spread all around and you see that many of them are also doing something similar.

And you begin to notice that there are Brighanax that are running from this main village, a long pathway is going to the other villages, letting them know what's going on. And it's as if every single one of the Brighanox in this place is waiting with bated breath to see how this is going to turn out. And it doesn't take too long, though. She is walking slowly, communicating with these Brighanax that are surrounding her as she makes her way towards you. But she eventually rolls up in front of you and straightens out her dress. She looks up at you with her big doe eyes.

So, Tupik says that you're not actually in the league with Endelen. Is this true? And she points her finger at you, Crummy. Why, look at me? No, or not. What, you look like you're the leader of this. and she leans down as topics like, No, sorry, Molly, no, no, it's the green word.

Grico's the leader of the group. Well, no, please. If you have to take my hair, maybe I'd look more like a leader, all right? I would like my hat back, please. Finally, some respects around here. Yes, it is all, Grico, I'm the leader. And yes, we think that Endlyn Moongrae

fucking sucks. But, and yet, you are clearly aligned with the courants. We could smell them on you. Yeah, we was rolling around with them and partied pretty hard, I gotta say. But as it turns out, though, you guys are, like, accidentally at odds with them. Yeah, they also really hate Anderlin. Yeah, they, like, really, really fucking hate it's a misunderstanding. They might hate endling more than you guys, not to kind of make us so much.

They think you guys love Andalind. They think that you guys would like the Andlin people. They stole Papa Thirk. No, that was Enzun. I'm sorry, did you say Papa Furk? Yes, they did. That's quite the name. I'm sorry, what?

I'm pretty sure that. I look around and do I see only one female Brighanak? No, you see many, you're very funny. That's very funny. Is that Brigitte? No, Flussey, isn't the smirts? It's very clearly. fraggle rock. God, for being so small, you say a lot of dumb shit.

Remember the lantern? The lantern. The lantern is fire it. The light. The light. It's clearly fragil rock. Not the Smurfs. Come on. Give your references. And just so we can all set the scene. Someone in chat earlier said that instead of with our legs dangling, we're all sitting like we were in a bobsled. I love that. We're still in that position. Yeah, yeah. Feel the rhythm. Feel the rhyme. Come on boys. It's Brigham on time. Well, how can you prove that you're not in league with Endelin? I mean, how can you prove that you're not in league with Endelin?

And then she points at you, Grico. Oh, thank goodness. I've been doing some thinking on the walkover here. My employer is. I prepare my telepathic shove. Somebody's getting it. I think there might be some. Fowl machinations afoot.

And we fade to black. I love that. I love that. We do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the reality in the world, Grigga will tell her what we think is going on. But then we'll fade back when she believes us and it's all great.

Really? Who is like, oh, oh, thank you. Brigha, that's the most lucid thing I've ever heard you say. You don't say that such would be very. It's really... Oh gosh. I know. I know. Everyone got fooled.

You're not foolish. Enderlin pulled a wall over everyone's eyes. It's very... It's very tough to believe, but here we are. So the corinth, they really said they would go to war for you. Oh, yeah. I mean, everyone wants to go with... Everybody hates Enderlin.

We were even told that the cyclops served Enderlin and was a really bad guy. No, I've met the Cyclops before. It's really not. That's what we're saying. There's a whole lot of misinformation going on to all pick people against each other. I heard he was quite evil and he was doing awful things with bees and he starts on to four starts mumbling to himself.

He seems really upset that he might have stolen from someone who was nice. And he seems genuinely like confused and perturbed that he might have just rocked in and stole something that wasn't actually in trouble. Hey. It's okay. It's okay. I mean, look at us. We threaten to use our throat slitters on this very charming child.

Stop saying throat slitters. That's what we say. We're going to call, bro. That's what we say. We're headed out with throat slitters. Dagger. No, no, no, that's not what they are. They have a purpose.

It has a purpose you announce. So don't beat yourself up too much. I mean, although to be fair we don't really know if you should pick yourself up too much, we're not gonna judge. We're not gonna judge. It's not being, this is a very complex situation we found out of such.

All right, well, we, we, We need to understand why you are here then. You did not knock when coming into Brignock territory, which is not very, it's not very friendly. No, it's even in your name, we should have known. Oh, man. We didn't know about the knocking, to be fair. We would have knocked.

We would have known. No, we wouldn't know. We had the front. No, no. We were knocked out. We were turned around by And the end of them, and we knew about the knocking. And we were pulled out. And we just, well, if we weren't on account of the political.

But you do apologize to Molly and the Brighianox. Of course. We apologize. We're very sorry. Sorry. I speak on behalf of my Brighianock friends, and we accept your apology. Awesome. Can I get my stuff back, please?

Everything but the throat's such as for now. What? But we just have to make sure you're not going to do. That's all kind of mine. It's very special. Look, look, I'm going to be honest. the throat fliers. That is

the least dangerous thing about all of us. That's actually true. So I shouldn't give you back the rest of your No, no, no. You should give you back. Definitely give us the stuff back. Because at the end of the day, Torbett can easily eat a few thousand of you without blanket.

That's not going to happen. That's not going to happen. Torbick's just saying, like, Torbick doesn't even stuffed to eat all of you. No, yeah, he could do it without his stuff. So the stuff is kind of irrelevant. You know, I'm also just really strong. It's also wrong to steal.

Aren't there laws you've taken from us? And you threw a bunch of drugs in our face and pass us out. We're not upset, though. Everyone were on cool terms. We just want our stuff back. Everything but the throat slitters. Because we're still quite afraid of you. Okay.

That's fine, man. We'll learn them later, perhaps. Yeah. I mean, I could turn into a beastie from the, late Jurassic period. I ain't it. Eat everybody. I don't need nothing. If you did something like that, you'd fall right off the pathway and deep into the chasm. That's true.

How deep is the chasm? Very key you're going to turn into aquatic, Jurassic, beasties can turn into like flying ones? Well, no, I can't. I mean, that's very hard. I mean, that's very hard. I don't even figure it out yet, okay? It's very hard. It's very hard. I don't know you know the flaws.

I don't even know you can turn to the aquatic ones, man. You did the laparous thing that blew me away. Yeah, I can do that. That's pretty impressive. Thank you. Finally. I like that it's canonical that Grico basically went to Ongoro. And it's literally in my back story.

Got that out of the world. Yeah. Exactly right. Anyway, we don't need none of our implement. So if you could just give us back everything, including the hat, including our stuff, and the throat slitters, we're not... If we wanted you all dead, you'd be dead already. is what we're trying to say.

And we don't. And we don't. We don't. We don't want it. We don't want it. We think that nothing sucks. And we want to go to war against her. And I'll think that we can all go to war.

All right. We'll pass out your stuff. But you promised you're not going to kill any of us. Yeah, we promise. We do. I will say, I will say, as long as you also watch out to not be stepped on and killed accidentally. We'll look out and make sure. We'll not intentionally kill anybody.

We won't. We won't. intentionally kill any. Scouts honor. Yeah. Yeah. The briganox mean a lot to me. They saved me from

the worlds of yon. So if we ever get to a point in which there needs to be some sort of altercation, it's between you and me. They're not to be touched. We promise we'll kill you as bad. For the good of the community, I'll do it.

You don't have to sacrifice yourself? That's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. Don't do that. I would take at least one, two, three, three of you down with you. Take us where? Well, I don't know what happens when you get into a multiplication. I'm six.

I mean, the impression that you notice. We tickle each other, right? You also don't have that. Until somebody gives up. You don't have the capacity to truly understand mortality in death. What do you mean mortality? Let's not. What's that word?

Let's not cover that. Okay. We fade to black. Well. Call of the void. More a reminder. It's a dark, it's a dark world out there.

Anyway, stuff, please. And as five of these Brick and Knox begin to hand out all of your stuff. Hey, what are you done with me lately? Give it here. Oh, nice. Thanks. Thanks for all our stuff back.

Thank you. You all right click on or kneel down. And our end of the story's all, yeah. Now I have my towel back. Now that you have your things back, why are you here? If you're not here to, if you're not planning to steal more of the Brighinox

and take them to Hendlin. We befriended the Korids, and they asked us to do it because, no, no, no, they're fine. We told you. They're there, they're cool, they're cool. They're cool, they're cool. They're cool, baby.

They're cool. What I love very much, and I left her in the capable hands of the cordage, and she's fine. She's got a fly pad. She's got all of their crazy party. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. I said the hootzy was here. She's not here. She's gone.

How many chords are they? Four thousand wheeze. I believe they were, like, 13 or something. Oh, never mind. Yeah, something like 13. Yeah. No, they're like 13 little Fonzie's. Yeah.

Really funny. And what is Fonzie like? That's like 13 me size. No, he asks you a question. What's Fonzie like? Come on, Molly. What is Fonzie like? In the farewell, he's just like,

I don't know. You're asking. Oh. Perhaps there's no Fonzie. What is Fonzie like? I've never met. Fonzie's cool, baby. I've never met a Fonzie before.

That's right. He's cool, and that's what we're going to be. Everybody's cool. He's a corid named Fonzie and he's cool. Exactly right. Gideon reaching to Torbeck's big filthy sack and find his wallet. That's very funny, Dolbeck. Torbeck tries.

Yeah. Broken clocks and whatnot. But that doesn't answer my question. Why are you here? We're here looking for gleam. And for a way through to Enderlin's Castle. We understand there's a tunnel connection. Motherball.

Yes, there is, but Obert control. He doesn't let anyone in for that. We're going to have to have a conversation about it. We're not a very tough conversation. Well, that will be difficult. Getting to Obed is we could let you through, but you have to go over the bridge. Okay.

Oh no, is that Troto? Oh, no. We're not just one, but three. Wait, hold on. Three Trototos? Out of the bridge? Grug, mucklump, and peek. Excuse me.

Is there actually trolls? Yes, under the bridge. Bridge trolls. Wow, it's your lucky day, Greg, O'clock. Not one but three. One of them is called glug? Grug. Grug.

Grug. Griggo, you're going to double rod the tricyclem, man. Mud clump. Mucklump. Mucklum. And peak. And peak. And mucklum sounds like.

Dormick. She sounds like a little. She sounds like beautiful. She's the matron of the cave troles. Mucklump? Yes. And a matron. Oh.

She's quite fertile. Oh, geez. Why do you know that? Why do you know that, small child? I read it in a story book. We all know what Gringo was wishing for. Oh, I mean, my therapist says I have matron issues. No.

Oh, we are. Oh, we are. I suppose that we can solve this problem through a little diplomacy. And we got our wishlight wine bag just in the right. Oh, there we go. But the problem you'll run into is,

you see, this bridge, it leads over the chasm from Brighenock territory to Obed's cavern. And it's deep within the presence. is where all of the bad wishes go. Mm-hmm. The bridge is quite treacherous, and the bad wishes have corrupted the cave trolls. I don't know how else to say this,

but the bitches be crazy. Oh, yeah. They're, okay. These bitches. Are they empowered by these bad wishes? Do they experience the benefits of these bad wishes? I'm not sure, but only Brighonox are small. enough to traverse the pathway unless you are able to get the trolls on your side or even

better I guess to kill the trolls. Well, now that you know about mortality, you understand what that means. So wait, we're gonna kill the trolls? There is no fucking... There is no heck in way that these trolls actually don't actually hate end of the and are actually part enough, and there's one big misunderstanding. No, they've been corrupted by bad wishes.

They probably get to kill. No, I don't think the trolls care about Enderlin one way or another. I think they're just trolls who happen to live under a bridge and there just happen to be bad wishes beneath them and now they're corrupted by it. Would anyone like to play hopscotch? Well, she was also wrong about the cords though. She was wrong about the chords.

She was wrong about the cords. I'm sure Gideon would like some scotch. I don't know about hopscotch. Well, whiskey. I mean. Oh, I didn't hear that option. Does Scotland exist in a few while? It does now.

It does now. That's Canada now. Well, this is a brigadine reference, and I guess it does. Well, okay, so we need to fongling, we need to deal with the trolls, we need to get to Motherville. Was that the elf that was in here recently?

Yes, she was an elf, that's what we're correct. She made her way, well, attempted to make her way to Obed, but we don't know if she's, if she's, survived. You see, unless we make our way with you, and we won't, because it's far too dangerous, especially for a Molly. Definitely not. We don't know if she survived or she plummeted to her, that word. Yeah, you can stay dead. No.

Her mortality? No. Oh. Is anyone who play hopscotts? Not really. Uh, uh, well, Grickle probably does, maybe. How do you play hopscotch? Molly.

Molly, I know that we're not. supposed to that you can't go with them, but if you want someone to lead them to, oh, but I'll go, because I'm not scared of no trolls, or maybe just a kid, but, you know, I gotta, I gotta learn these minds eventually, and I really wanna, I wanna ask open a question

about Papa FERC, my grandpa. I ain't afraid of no trolls. I'm afraid of no trolls. I ain't afraid no trolls. Okay, first, we play Hobbskots. Second, we go to the trolls. Third, we attempt a little bit of diplomacy. And try to arrange a political man.

I think we throw that plan right out. Torrey does a great plan. Grico, could I ask you a political question? I mean, it is my degree. It's in my, it's in my canon background. Be careful, or we'll have to fade to blank again. We'll be able to fade a black again. Why Thor do you keep sweating profusely every time you talk about diplomacy?

Well, you understand that. Fade the black. Diplomacy makes him feel good. Bring it. I'm totally if we wouldn't mind if, you know, Tupik came with you. Well, Tupac, we are very worried about you. Your safety. What?

We're very worried about your safety. So I can't come? Well, here's the thing. I got a little nervous when we're talking about children crossing large chasms. And does this girl, does this girl like really blonde and look like the chick that played Violet Beauregard and the Tim Burton? Charlie and the job of the back name? No, I described her to you. Does a grandfather look like Robert Patrick, the T1,000, from Terminated 2?

Jesus. Because I think Bridgeta Terabithia. That should don't end up. You know, actually, no, no. It doesn't look like any of that. Oh. He was great as Davy Skatino in this approach. I'm pretty sure I can make my way across because, you see,

Brigadocks were small enough to walk the very, very center of the bridge. The trolls can't get to us. So we can pass fairly easily, but we tend to like to go over the bad wishes because they call to us. call to us and it becomes we want to give in to their dark desires. Oh. Oh. We'll handle it just fine. Yeah.

I think I'm mentally strong enough. I can handle it just fine. Um, okay. Uh, I think that we have no other choice because we don't know how to get there. We need a guard. A guard what knows of his mind and a guard what is brave. And you know what topic? I think you might just be brave enough for this adventure.

I also have to... I also have to... Just unpack one thing. Topic. Obud has been turning these bad wishes into tools, metal, rope, these kinds of things. Lime, rope, bombs.

Are we just naming things? My point is that if the bad wishes can corrupt and he's been exposing himself to these bad wishes, is Obit all right? Are we in communication with him? Is there a chance that he has been also corrupted like,

the trolls. Perfectly fine. He lives in a small hut top his giant pony, and he sends letters and things to us. Now the pony's giant? It was a giant pony the first time.

Yes, and it's giant in comparison to Molly, and it's giant in comparison to to Brignock, but it'd actually be quite small, especially in comparison to you and you. Yeah. What? You look like you could crush my hand in your fist.

And you too, Grico. Oh, yeah, for sure. That would be easy. I wouldn't. That's not good. But it would be easy to do. Would you, would you play a game with me? Well, I think Grico's playing.

I don't want to interrupt his turn. But you're so weak. Do you play Paddy Cake? Yeah. Yeah, I know that one. Are you good at it? No. Good me either. And she starts to play Paddy Cake with you and you, you're both of you.

You, you're, both of you are fucking it up really badly. Oh no, it's supposed to go down. Up, up, up, up, oh shit. Hey, keep up. Oh, sorry. Oh, that game sucks. What do you mean it so far? Can you do...

You're just bad at it, Grico? Can you do the kicking version? Yeah, uh-uh. Uh-uh. Can you do the kicking version where you move your legs out and then like, I'll kick between your legs and then you kick between mine and then we jump around in circles and then we patty kick some more. Well, I don't know that one, but I'll give it a try. I'll teach you. Yeah, that's fine.

And then you, you guys do that for a while and she giggles the whole time is really happy. Nice. Okay, now we play this game. We're playing a real game. 13 dead end drive. How do you think? How do you teach you about mortality? And it'll be fucked for the whole family.

I don't want to talk about mortality anymore. I mean, this is a really good game. Oh, too. You can't unlearn it. And you'll be thinking about it every night before you go to stay. Does anyone want to play checkers? Oh, I'll play a game of Cheggers. Yeah?

Does anyone have a copy of Tornado Rex? We already keep going up. Oh, yes. Do you have a copy of Tornado Rex? We have a pile of lost things. Oh, Fireball Island. In from the pit. Oh, you know.

Don't we get it. Oh, you know. We have one game that we stole off of someone who died in the chasm. It's called Don't Break the Ice. Oh, what? That's cool. Look out to give that like cherry pick a game, you know. I'll have Zahli go get it.

And one of the, one of the Brigha Knox runs over and brings a board game don't break the ice and you guys sit on the chasm for a while playing out. Oh, I wonder that mouse trip. Did you want to play hungry, hungry hippo? Yeah. Oh. You should just come until we can make dinner and tomorrow. And spend a whole evening playing board games.

It's not like we have any time pressure. We're on the clock. We're on the clock. 47 days ago they told us we had 13 days to do something. It was probably 100. We're in terrible time debt. Well, days down here aren't the same as days outside because we're in a world of wishes. Oh, let's go.

Can we go back like a couple days? You can stay here as long as you want to. Wow. That's amazing. Do you want to? Please, we can have a slumber party. Because, let's... I could see if the Gricinops can make you pajamas.

I think Griggo really wants the trolls, to be honest with it. You're not going anywhere, please. We can't speak. Grigo, they'll be there tomorrow, please. I'm saying, if we are going to I Love the Lotus Eaters, down here for a while. We had plenty of time to play early 90s ball games and do a little bit of the play with the throne.

I'm saying? We had time. And I feel like we... I mean, what's for supper, eh? Well, what do you want for supper? I don't know. A little bit of free part two match, studios with the liquor.

I don't know what you said, but I could do bang as a match. Maybe a bit of chicky nandoes. Oh, we could do chicken nando. Oh, I know. A chicken burger for the chicky nandoes, eh? Oh, God. Fuck some chickenburgs. Oh, oh.

Oh, okay. Oh, I'll call the grub and see if we can get some cheeky nandoes. Oh, there we go. And you see if she calls out and a grub makes its way along the wall. And she whispers to it and it looks, it goes, yeah, I can probably get that. Oh, okay. You want the 30 minutes, 45 minutes, you want the Express. The Express is a little more expensive.

What's happening? I mean, it's a cheeky nando's, how much could it cost? I mean, it is well. Stop! The worst! This is what for you on Mr. Guru! Really? Then I'll have the carrot cake as well.

Does anyone want the peri-peri sauce? Oh, that's the good stuff, yeah. Do they call some macho peas in there while we're at it? Do they come in those bottles where we can make it maybe take with us? We could do that, of course. It was only $43. You know what? Yeah, I had enough hard.

You know, it's hard to choose from front of these. The mashed potatoes are good. It doesn't make any sense. I was at one restaurant this fucking fantastic. I feel like I'm at a convention. Oh, boy. There's some cheeky nandos from the Grubhub and then we'll have board game nights.

As long as there's no time passing here and we have every reason to trust that what you're saying is true and that that's justified nerds, then absolutely. And as long as we do trust you, but as long as you can keep our brook slitters on us and then we'll feel a lot safer.

If you're agreeing to Grubhubhub and board game night, then we could definitely give you back your throats. Oh, okay. Do you want to watch a movie? What's that? Hmm? What's the movie? Oh, you know, you don't have a movie,

you'd ever seen a movie before? Perhaps I... The world in which I come from has movies. Oh. Oh my god, she, did you get Isakad, little girl? She's from 1980s New York. That's why she has that accent. Hey, he was guys.

Do you want to watch Shira? I don't know what that is, but I would like to experience whatever a movie is. That would be so fun. I really don't want to multiverse this thing, but if we can, I don't know, I feel like board games is less of a leap,

line, drinking movies, but, you know, why not? We'll just watch, we'll play board games. Yeah, yeah. Okay. What the fuck is a travel agent? And she, with the rest of the Brighanax, ushers you into the village, The moment that you make your way into it, the rest of the Brighanax have already been alerted to the fact that you are, you are friendly and you're going to be here for board game night.

And you watch as they all help Molly move tons and tons of board games around. You're ushered into her small house. You have to hunch over to get in there, but all of the Brighanax join you. And there's a large board game room. Multiple tables dot this space. One, Molly size that you all have to hunch down to sit at. You're significantly too big for it. You somehow make it work as there are tons of other smaller Brighanax-sized tables.

And it's almost like going to your local game store where crowds of people where they're all playing different games and you're all enjoying. There's a table of Brighanox playing Marshall the scattering and yelling and cheering. Who wants to play Carcassone? No one? Too many hates that game. It's sort of Andy. Okay.

It was really cool at the time, I guess, it was just one of those objects. I'll play rock'em-sogum robots. Come on. And you all spend a night playing board games with Molly and Cuppet, with Zarlie and Oila and Trigg, and all of the other Brigha Noghs that are here, you enjoy their companionship.

And eventually a large, a very large grub shows up right outside of the knock on the door and they bring you all of your cheeky nandoes and you all eat together and enjoy a night. Eventually, you are led to the back of Molly's house where the Brigh and Knox have made while you've been there cots for you to sleep on. They're Molly size, so you have to curl up on them. But you are able to spend a relaxing, comfortable night in. in this village.

And finally, the lights are turned down low. Molly has gone off to bed. Topic is staying at Molly's house tonight, but they leave you and head off to go find sleep. And you were left in this room, having spent a strange yet long day in the Brighanac mine, not at all what you had expected. But as you all pull these ridiculously small blankets

up around your necks, you have an opportunity to communicate before you take a long rest. The spicy chicken wrap from Nando's. That's garlic bread instead of croutes. It's unbelievable. Frost, what the fuck are you talking about? All this shit is me. Like, yeah, it's just chicken on brand.

It's pretty good. It's pretty good. It's fine. You know, yeah. Is it $48? No, no, it's not. No, it ain't. Grinick.

I enjoyed the bees, but not for like 30 bucks. You're gonna fuck you guys. His wings are fucking slavings. All right. Now much. You know what I'm from? We call this a chicken burger. What fuck?

It's a chicken burger. It's a chicken burger. It's a chicken burger. It's a chicken burger. Slavchicken sandwich. It's a chicken burger. Oh. Is that like a goblin difference thing?

No, Torbett's never heard of ever. I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I mean, it's not bad, it's good, it was a little cheeky mandos. I really enjoyed it. It's a frosty, you really like that. You don't. You tip the grub pretty well. He's a giant, like, pretty wild grub. Who bought us of food actually quite works canonically.

No, no, he told me his name and then I cooked him like a football. He was, he was about three, he was about three feet long, one foot around. He had, he had a saddle around the middle. You seem familiar for some reason. A very, a very tiny face with first lips. Oh my gosh. I mean, I feel like that wedding ringy has is a small.

It wasn't a wedding ring. Oh, my God. Who can say? Who can possibly say? Oh! Only three people in chat know what we're talking about. Oh, well anyway. Well, well, anyway, we was talking about secrets.

Yep. There's no... I mean... I was talking about secrets earlier. Mm-hmm. Yeah, oh, gosh. Where are you going with us? I feel like we've really spilled our beams.

Okay? I feel like if there was anyone listening or wishing us ill, or like, if there was some, like, some, like, spy watching us, like rubbing their hands. I mean, they had... everything we've really bared our ass is what I'm saying we're in a very vulnerable position and I may be able to turn into a 30-foot ferropod from the Lake

Jurassic but as they solve everything it solves most things and it don't solve everything that's all I'm saying when did you learn to do that Ricko oh I feel like after I party with the brigadocks I just like you slip me something in my mind awoken to the moon you know what does the moon have anything to do with any I don't know, actually. I don't know. I don't know. I really know.

Oh. I'm supposed to go back story. I was not a time for that. And that's, we fade to black. As Ross tells us a backdoor, you fade to black. I didn't tell you about my invention to Dino, Dino Jungle. And as you return, you all engage in a cheeky little pillow fight. for eventually wearing yourselves out

and falling asleep. You enjoy a long rest. You wake up in the morning and you can already smell the fresh breakfast that's been cooking. And as you change out of your Brighanak provided pajamas and put on your cartoon character attire that never changes,

you make your way out into, you look for the kitchen in Molly's house, you don't find it. She doesn't seem to be, anywhere within the domicile. Make your way out into the town square. And you see that there's almost like a festival is happening as all of the Brighnachs have been creating

a communal breakfast. There's porridge and big slabs of butter and eggs and bacon and toasts. There's a huge, there's a huge table laden with foods of all kinds of. scones and clotted cream and jams and everything you could possibly want all in tiny childlike and brighi knox sizes. But you imagine there's a bacon's like. It's just like cubed that you'd finally get a salad.

What will you guys be having? I don't know what you do this brighnogneux, but it's girly bread grutons. It's really good. It's just the leftovers from Nando's last night that they've turned into breakfast. Oh, please, please. With no shame or hint of irony I earnestly explained every item.

Oh, it's actually pronounced, Pieri, Peary. I say that many, though. I say it over and over. I can't start. Oh, that's funny. Oh, that's funny. Oh.

And you sit down with Molly and the Brigha Knox, and you enjoy a beautiful breakfast among your new friends, and that is where we'll end the session. Oh. Of course, there's definitely beans in tow. Surely nothing bad. A bean with Brighanard would have like a basketball, though. But these are Brighanokeon.

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