Legends of Avantris - Once Upon a Witchlight | Ep. 70 | Yearn for the Mines

Episode Date: February 10, 2026

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Greetings. You're listening to Legends of Aventress. My name is Morning Frost, and this is Once Upon a Witchlight. Here's what happened last time. Last time on Once Upon a Witchlight, you found yourselves in the aftermath of performing Lucrulan Rouge. During a night's sleep, you dreamt. And the King of Hearts sent you a very important message. Your time is running out. And you needed to get to the ory of tragedies is there was something about your fates that you needed to know in order to progress your plans. With the help of gleam and eventually glister, you were able to, or with the help of glister

and eventually gleam, you were able to bring twigs, marionette body back to Motherhorn and make your way up to the ory of tragedies where you were able to glimpse your possible futures. What would happen if each of the hags succeeded with your help? And lastly, a fourth future that you didn't expect. What would happen if you chose to break those packs and move forward for yourselves? Move forward for your own aims and not help any of them.

It is after viewing these futures that you decide that that is what must be done, remembering that you had the wand gifted to you by Mr. Light, you were able to break all of your packs with the three hags and progressed to sabotaging the dress rehearsal. In doing so, Torbeck was able to steal the final hag treasure that the King of Hearts needs to accomplish his goals and to help you into the Palace of Hearts Desire. And you were able to rush then to the Orrower

of tragedies onto the top balcony and out into the pouring rain where Gideon attempted to turn all three of the Hags mounts into a mount that could carry all of you out into Yon and into your next adventure. It was here that Kremi decided to place the unicorn horn into the rocking horse, unnotes to him, freeing the unicorn that had been trapped in Yon. And as the lightning that was keeping him trapped was unleashed into the air, it went exactly where the rest of the lightning goes, straight towards the large copper rod protruding from the oratory of tragedies at the very top of Motherhorn, forcing a large amount of electricity into this contraption. Twig, her marionette body, placed next to it, was the conduit for all of this electricity.

As all of it was forced into her tiny wooden body, Gideon, you've raised. rushed to her, trying to save her before the impact. But you were not able to get there quick enough. As you watch as her body becomes charred, darkened with this electrical power. And as you hold her up thinking that this is it for Twig, you watch as the wooden pieces fall away, the marionette parts falling away from her,

and in your hands is the pink body of Twig. Lightning is still crashing and crackling all around you is she opens her eyes and looks up at you and lets you know that you and Kremie smell like Pennsylvania. And it is in that moment that you find yourselves. Sylvan word. Twig's eyes roll back in her head. She is still incredibly tired.

She has just been electrocuted. Her body convulses every once in a while. She holds tightly to you, Gideon. As the rain is pouring down around you, you have very very. limited time to get out of Motherhorn. You can still see that the lightning is crackling through the broken remnants of the ornery of tragedy. So much of it has been blown apart by this giant lightning strike. And you don't know how long Endelin is going to be, her attention is going to be occupied by the destruction of her dress rehearsal. And so looking and holding on to Twig's small

form as she clutches onto you, she seems in this moment to be safe. Your best bet is to make your way onto the newly formed dirigible and make to the skies. What do you do? Is she all right? Well, I don't know, but yeah, Twink, she was married it. And then I'll head to the controls and just start slamming levers and turning knobs and spinning a wheel. Oh for you. And you'll hear the dirigible start to kind of like whir, to like kick on and and rumble a little bit as it shifts on. And ideally, hopefully. And as you do, you see what had once been,

the Bavlornas Lillipad swells into this large balloon overhead as it begins to fill with air. And you begin to shakily move up into the sky's lightning is striking all around you. But it is focusing on this metal structure as you at first move very slowly and then jolt forward a little bit as you're getting used to maneuvering this thing. Eventually, you're able to, you're able to just dirty this thing.

And you rise into the air up above the clouds. And you are now hovering and flying fairly slowly through the skies of yon. Down with the bananas, Crick. Oh! Twiher. Are you back? You have many toads?

No! I'm feeling really packaged. Oh, we didn't. I hate the taste of bananas. Twingsy, what happened to you? You've been a marionette for like this whole time. Well, I don't know. I remember going down into a frog, and then I think I died.

And then I remember something about, I remember something about sand, and there were some swans. and then there was like stuff that happened and then there was no more sand and then I was being like this and that's what I remember Wait what? I didn't get, I didn't understand Basically basically as far you understand

That last fault That was her being electrocuted by the lightning Oh no no I think it might have been something else I didn't see it didn't look like that Well I was over at the tower she's more just like Kroombs No The good news is it sounds like you didn't die at all.

Welcome back. You know, I feel great. That's amazing. Well, I mean, if you don't account for the fact that my limbs feel stiff, my face is kind of droopy on one side a little bit, I'm really fiending for some frogs. Well, you have more bananas. I know you don't care for the taste of them,

but they have potassium in them and they'll help with your muscular issues. No. Um, I want to have to take it. take a look at her and I'm like, hmm, I'm gonna see, is she actually alive? Is she like half puppet? Is she like, are you trying to stare me down?

We can have a staring contest. I'm just trying to see. I don't have to blink. I'm trying to make sure this ain't no ding don't, which is stretch. She blinks three times. I'm the best at this. I'm not gonna lose a staring contest.

She blinked three times. Nuh, you shut your mouth, Frost. I'll have you now. Trust you more now. Everyone who challenges me to a staring contest regrets her terribly. Well, I'm not gonna regret it because I'm gonna win. She blinks four more times.

I guess we'll decide who wins and who loses. Huh. I'm drooling a little, but my eyes aren't closing and they blink. Ah, you're good. Yes, I am. Am I able to see if she's like real or not? Yeah, roll them out as a check. You know, if she's like.

You're insight too. I need to open up this. Middichean. E. I mean seven. Oh, she is, she is back. She is 100%. She is 100 P.

I don't like that answer. That's terrible. Twig in the flesh. Wow, you got me twig? Wow, that is very impressive. I told you I was gonna win. You're very good. Guys, I can confirm, according

to my official judgment, I believe that this isn't a wicked trick, a witch's trick. Oh my gosh, there's a frog in here. It's dead, but... Mmm, taste delicious. Well, that's good news then, Grico. Everything seems to be sent right.

Yeah, I mean, we just broke these packs. Twig is back, and we got this wicked awesome flying, flying badass thing. I mean, things are finally going our way. What packs did you break? What happened? Oh, well, we made a bunch of packs with the hags to...

You bet all the hags without me? Well, you were there, kind of, from a certain point of view. Oh, yeah. Does you hate me, Gideon? Because that sounds like something a hater would do. No, I mean, I wore you as a backpack the whole time. So, I mean, we brought you along. And, you know, in some respects, I mean, for all this at one point,

thought you did something really cool with roses. You basically participated in certain points. Yeah, I mean, you certainly did. something cool. I can tell that it came from your body at least. Well, all right. So you weren't even there in spirit. You were there in just physical body the whole time? I would make a pre-cool backpack. And then... You did? Yeah, when you came back... Did you put stuff in me or just

carry me around? Well, I think we put stuff like around you sometimes at different points, but never in you. Yeah. They made of wood. Yeah, you were solid, you were solid wood, so... Yeah, you weren't like an actual, like, you weren't made into a container. Oh, how's her, how's her leg look? Oh. Where her wound is? She has like, she had like a chunk cut out of her leg or something. Yeah, I mean, she's wearing her dress. So you could, you could look. I don't know, if it's like, you know, it's like, I would say as she's like wandering around, you, you, you'd have to watch her for a while to see if, you know, it peaks out, but it's not something that you can see automatically.

Oh, twig. Just to make sure it's a ding-dog witch's trick. Okay. Tell us something only Twig would know, but not a nasty witch. Good thinking, Gregia. Okay. Torbuck smells like pumpkin spice after he takes a bath. That's true, but you guys probably don't even know that.

Yes, no, that doesn't make sense. No, I think that's bullshit. It's true. No, it is. No, it's true. I've never smelled him. Smelt my polken spice. Yeah, wait a minute.

You should have saying their ding-dong witch's trick. Well, I don't know what to tell you. Tell us something else or else you might be a ding-dong witch's trick around. What's something else you know about us? I know that thing about you. How did you nearly die? I told you I went into a frog. Why?

I needed to get something for you. Oh, well, that's perfect. Don't worry about what you were going to get. But I think this is twins, though. I think you were sad. And I didn't want you to be sad. And I knew that I might not be able to breathe in there. But I figured if I got it for you, that you'd be my friend always.

I think she's one for two right now. Do we need a tie break? I feel like we need a tie break. I'll do it back. Now, guys, you're just brushing it over the few. You weren't there that for one glorious moment, Torbeck was beautiful, blonde, and smelled wonderful. I put bows on you.

That's right. and then all of a sudden it was too good to be true and it was taken away from Torbeck like everything else in his life. Yeah, because you're a filthy animal. Was that after he almost killed his own? Yeah, it was where he destroyed my house. Yeah. And I was so nice, I washed him off

and I put bows on him and then he farted in the water. Well, yeah, that part's true. You want to know how many times? We don't need to cover that. Nope. 17. Wow, at 17. Yeah, we'll say she's 17.

In 17, it hasn't turned in, like, at least after 10, it's got to be shot, right? It's got to be a little bit. No, no, no. Well, I'm not, because he drank the water when we were done. No, that didn't happen. That was definitely didn't. I was totally one there, too.

That definitely didn't happen. Okay, Dorek's lying about the whole long thing. What? What's that thing that I'm always doing that I'm caught known for? Oh, that's a good one. What's the thing you're always doing? Talking to animals. You do that weird thing where your fingers go,

oopsie daisy in the opposite directions. Well, I don't know if that's really how I want to do. I can't do with my own hands. Wasn't the thing you always do after Twix? Oopsie Daisy. No, he's always done. He's always done. Oopsie Daisy sounds way less cool

when you put it like that. Sounds a lot less cool. Well, I don't know how to do with my hands. Oh, we need something else. I'm getting tired answering a stupid question. We should let twig rest. I believe it's twig. Don't you understand?

I did a... Yeah. Where did Torbeck get a super cool scarf? Ah, boy. Oh, okay. Wait, she was for that? She was there for that. It was her very, very, very first adventure.

Oh, that's right. Twig was... Twig was full Torbett. Oh, that's right. Twig was full Torbubbubb. Yeah. Well, Thorback killed. Yeah, she killed more than the rabbit.

No, well, no, she killed all the other rabbit. She killed all that. I went absolutely crazy. All right, all right. Look, I'm glad you were alive, but Giddy, you could have died. And so I just hope you don't plan on doing anything like that. Again, I appreciate the acts of heroism. Well, I mean, I just thought, man, who knew I couldn't outrun lightning?

I really thought I'd get there and back before it's drug. I'm pretty fast sometimes, man. You know, I just, I just dashed. Look, you got lucky, all right? I'm just saying, keep that in mind for next time, okay? All right, crummy. You know, all right. Safety first.

Safety first. Thank you. Well. I missed you. Oh, well, we missed you. We missed you more. I didn't know you were, like, missing things. And then while you were the, you were in, like, a wooden body.

Thank you for not throwing. me away. Oh, of course not. Yeah, why would we throw you away? Overleaving me in that frog? No, we jumped right in after you and get you out of there. Yes, we risked our lives. We almost lost our own lives.

Pretty close. We're pretty close. I saved your life in one of my dreams. Oh, that's sad. What else happened in it? No, just lots of stuff. Oh, that's cool. There's like a cool car or something in that?

No. Oh. Could you fly? Yeah. Did all your teeth fall out and then a tidal wave came and killed you and all your loved ones? No. The teeth thing happens at a tour back all the time in his dreams and in real life. You put all your teeth in your dreams?

And in real life. Yeah, real life. You sometimes get the tidal wave one, yeah. I get that. I also often die in car accidents. I got a plane accidents. Oh, wow. Maybe this was really triggering something.

But, get it. How do you build this thing all the way? I know what you do for 30 minutes, but like in the rules, you know, the laws of equivalent exchange, I feel like there's more material role here than it was that we started. Well, yeah, I mean, that's the trick about Fay Engineering 101 is just, you know, nothing really makes any sense. So you just kind of slap it together, and it's all kind of built by belief. So as long as you think you can build it and you think you got the general parts. The things start to kind of just shift together. I'm really proud of this one section, though.

You see here in the lily pad, cut a little circle because I had the flame generation to kind of modulate the height for us as we were going in and out. But I couldn't, I couldn't solve. You get this, Gregor? I couldn't solve for once the heat kicked up. We just kept going upside and cut this little circle

and tie a string to it so we can kind of change the flap and that will allow it to release the pressure in the top and which point we go down. And so that's how we're modulating high. Oh, that's cool. That's genius, Did you? I understood every word.

Oh, well, somebody, yeah. I'm sorry, I am! The only issue with this vehicle is that we can't land on Round Island and there's no way

for us to get the Knights of the Round Island. Now we're going to get that summit material. It's right there. Are you kidding? The rocking horses is made for mountains

and the lily pad is made to travel across sea. We can land anywhere. Gideon. Yeah. What's the thing? things name. Don't focus up,

Gideon. That's a great question, Twig. I mean, we haven't really, I haven't thought about it yet. You've got to name it. And all the,

you know, all the lightness striking and all the you coming back to life, I didn't think to, to name this beautiful beast yet. I mean, it's got a lily pad,

it's got a cool kind of unicorn thing going on. It's got the, that's like, that's a good thing. You know what you could name it? You could name it the flagellence. Well,

I don't know. There's something to the fact that it's kind of flying pretty high on the wind. You know, there's something there. I think probably. Wind is too flatulent to the decent. I think we should think we're flying. No, it's flying on the wind. I'm thinking kind of like flame typhoon or something like that.

It's nothing to do with being high over the wind. Well, you know, it's kind of like the wind. It's like a big typhoon. And then it's on fire because I'm going to look at a heavy metal name for a heavy metal. fucking flying thing. I mean, what else are you going to buy a flying? I mean, build a flying machine. Right as lightning strikes a crazy head witch hunt.

I just feel like aesthetically, given the whole, like, you know, Clockwork ornithop to combine with giant lily pad Zeppelin combined with, you know, rocking horse unicorn mast head sort of vibes. It doesn't really speak, flame typhoon or whatever the heck you said.

Yeah, and you suffer a little bit more elegant. You're thinking like fire tsunami? I'm not really getting fired from any of this, you know. I see you. Well, to be fair, there is flames making the whole thing go up. I thought it was countless pounds of flamble gas. I don't know. Oh.

I was just electrocuted. Don't listen to me. It seems out. It's the fireball from the horizon. And just so I'm picturing this right, we're not in a hot air balloon. I'm thinking more literally the high wind where it's like a big long balloon like this

and we have like a little bit of steampunk or athoptervales. Probably some kind of like, you know, little mini propellers, that's the thing. Airship, like an actual airship. That's Torbeck's favorite. I've built the high wind out of a rocking horse and a lily pad. It's almost like you're going from under city

to Stranglethorn Vale. Oh, that's pretty good actually, yeah. Oh man. Tobeck is sad, man. You never have a sad man. Oh, the memories. We can come on with this. Frossey, you're always good at naming things.

Is it? I am. You're always like it. Just go ahead. Name it. Don't be a little bitch. Do it. What's your name? What's your name suggestion? What is it? Do it.

Name it. The creator's name. You just want to name it. You're so dumb. Sorry. Wow. Do we just go back for a moment? You said that you felt you saved us in your dream?

Yeah, I got a headache. During your dream or now? No, right now. What were you talking about when you said you saved us in your dream? I was talking about saving you in my dream, duh. No, no, but what was happening in our dream in your dream that you needed to save us from? Why are you praying so much? And how did you save it?

Well, it's an odd thing to say. I think it's important. Someone was trying to take your blood, so I sent us and Rose Adam, and I said, no, give us that blood back, dummy. You were there. Yes, yes, yes. You were there. It happened. That happened. If they had taken your butt, you would have been...

That's why you stopped it. Over and done. In my dream, though, not in real life. No, I think that you actually influenced real life. Don't lie to me. I wouldn't. Well. Unless I have to, but I wouldn't. That sounded like a truth, so I'll believe you now.

Thank you. Yeah. Frosty. Frost, you never lies, unless it's rather convenient. I mean, that's the only time to lie. So what are we gonna name this thing? We can't fly it off into adventures if it doesn't have a name. What are we gonna tell all the people

who think we're really cool? I kind of like the Hinden pad. Both well. You missed your opportunity to name it, so none for you, Frost. I gave it away. It's not for me. Oh, oh, ooh. It's how about because it's an ornopter,

how it says, I'm feeling orny. I like that one. It's a hard. It's a horse, man. Fishing boat name. Yeah. A little drama of paint. I get that right across the back.

You can call it the flying orny. Oh. But we gotta work in the lily pad somehow, right? Oh, yeah. I'm just a little orney. A little. Like a Lily-Patil. Holy little.

What if it's like the, what we call it? What are the different things around here called? What if it's like the Faye Hopper? The unicorn hopper. Oh, hopper. Yeah, like pad, like frog pads and we use it to kind of like get around. No, frogs are my thing. Well, yeah, but Twig, you're back.

You just got struck by lightning. You're kind of bad. How about this? How about this? This is in honor of me. Well, and the lily pads. Instead of... Well, it's more than you have that, though.

Instead of Gideon's classic name, where I was always like, I'm a bit of a horn dog. We call it the Orn Frog, and also a unicorn was there. A little barn, don't you think? Hornfrog. L-I-O-N-Y, the little orny is pretty funny. Man, it's just, I feel like that's beneath us, fellas. What's damn against us here?

Cremi. You're going to have been a single thing, Kermit. Yeah, you're probably going to say something like, man, we should name it, Hero from Assassin's Creed, too. Dorebeck alone is on, like, a bunch of different list and has, like, a million felonies. Put all of us together, and we are not upstanding gentlemen. You're going to say something like a hermit should be called, like, oh, Chartreuse indulgence.

No, no, no, no. Yeah, I think he always says about a Villotine dream. I wouldn't say that at all. Are you kidding? Imagine the kind of name I would come up with? I was thinking more like the Violet Magnolia. Oh, brother.

What do you think? It's got a certain genus et cetera. Oh, no, it's a little green, ain't it? It's a little green in brass, so I'm kind of picturing it as a little... Yeah, no, you do. Oh, what about the... What a bad, oh, oh, oh, hold on, hold on, hold on. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Oh, man, this is gonna be the whole episode. Yeah, yeah, it is. Wait, wait, wait, wait, we. We found another minute on this and then it's just the high wind. What if we called it? What if we called it the pooter?

The pooter? For what reason? I don't know. It's not made of, it's not made of pooter. I've got it. You don't know that. Guys, I finally found out of the name. It's not the pooter, right?

Why not? No, we're not. Because it's beneath us. Get in place. No, no, the pooter is that. So I feel, I feel. It's just not going to stick. You can't laugh.

I figured it out, lads. That's not beneath us. It'll check all the boxes. The ascendant Zephyr. I like Zephyr. That's the same. That's true. I can't.

I like that. How about that? I can't pronounce that word. What does it mean though, Grego? Oh, it's like, you know, you're flying high on the wind. Oh, it's like an ascendant, yeah. Yeah, it's so good.

Yeah. The ascendant zephyrs. Yeah. Oh, man, you know, we're kind of like, we're up, we're sending it here. Yeah. Yeah. I can't pronounce that.

Can I just call it poo? You can call whatever you want, Twitch. Yeah, you just gotta know what's name. What about the green fairy? Ooh. That's actually. Pretty good. And it gets us from point A to point B,

just like a fairy. Or just absent. Oh. Torback is really, now Torbans mean all three of these options. They're very good. I mean, I can at least pronounce that. Okay, I'll feel like we need a poll between the ascendant Zephy up.

Very cool. Or absent. Torbeck would just remind everybody the last time we voted in an episode of Dungeons and Dragons, it took a real We have getting split. I'm voting for the green fairy. I think that that's... Yeah, me too.

It's very self-evident. Yep, me, too. It's better than pooter. Me, no, it's not. What? It certainly doesn't insist upon itself. It's not. No, no, no.

But it's not really better than pooter, though, right? It's a little bit better than pooter, it's like. I'm not, I'm not the wrong. It's going to be all right. Tell me. I'm born the Faywouse. Look at your heart and tell me that you don't believe I know, but it's not the Green Ferry good.

It's good. It's better. You can call it Pooder as a nickname, but that's not what we're going to draw on the sign. How do we spell putter? Yeah, because the Green Ferry is already sell something. Yeah.

P-O-O-T-R P-O-O-T-R-O-O-O-T-R-O-Ber. Yeah, P-O-T-R-R-Ber. We're having too many conversations. They're debating on how to spell pooter. Oh. Well, that's not even in the running for name. What? I gotta say, I think I'm voting for the Ascend-Sephyr.

I'm sorry, Grammy. I mean, Well, okay, well, then we have to do this fair. All hands for the green fairy. Wait, what was the other option? All right, that's three for the green fairy. All hands for the ascendant as is a number. Oh, Torbex changes vote.

That's three hands for that's a tie. No, because there's three minuses. That means that I have to break the top. That's not possible because there's only six of us. That would be seven votes. We have a tie. Even Torbeck, this is happening again. Taurus.

I can't handle this. This means the butt. I want to vote for pooter. I'll vote for pooter with you. How many votes for pooter? No. I'm the captain of this. Frost doesn't get a vote.

I'm the captain of this ship. Frosty already voted. Frost voted. Oh, okay. He doesn't get a new vote, though. Okay, so that all makes one. Well, then Torbeck doesn't get a new vote, which means green fairy win.

No, Torbeck was just mistaken, so he gets to change his vote. Different rules for Torbett. If I can't vote for Pooter, then I'm going to vote for the Green Ferry. Oh, What about the flying circus? These are all so good.

I really like that one. I'm really like that. I was going to suggest crazy frog. It's like Mr. Cremontz Flying Circus. Exactly what about that. The flying circus? Okay. Kevin to the Queen's flying circus is pretty cool.

All right? Do this special say today. Thank you, Waltach. All in favor of the flying circus, raise your hand. Come on the cruise of flying circus? All right. Oh, wow. Everybody voted for the flying circus that mattered.

Everybody who had a vote voted there. It's exactly right. We don't need to be in. All right, let's get on with this fucking house. Okay, you want to name it then. You've got a christen it. We didn't bring drinks. I mean, we're escaping a crazy hag.

Well, you can use this dead frog. I already licked it dry. All right, Grick-or-Tool-Begg, one of you, one of you, christened the airship. Chris and Is he just like she's a sin of grace A dead awful

I Christian the great airship penciling in the flying circus but maybe the green fairy and maybe the ascendant Zephyr and maybe pooter but probably

we'll not see we're non-committal I christened me and I all raise it back. Oh, no. And the frog just, just like. Oh, it goes. Yeah, you just have one leg. And then you have one leg.

And you bet that's, oh, wow. I make that frog too dry. Do you guys see around like tears and rain? I hope that's not a bad. I'm gonna say, I mean, that can be a good one. You know, I mean, I'm gonna have to check to make sure I built this thing, right?

Does anyone know that aeronautical folklore? Is that a bad almond? No, but what are we gonna do next? Well, we have to decide where we're going and then get there. And we have to explore the rest of this shit. It all emerged around us. There's so many little rooms and cubbies. Look, there's a chest here.

Now that I've come back from the dead. Level 47. There's an ether. There doesn't make any fucking sense. There are two or three other levels of it. On the highway? I'm sorry, the flying searches are also maybe, the green ferry are also maybe pooter?

That doesn't make me fucking sense. Derek, you're a treasure. I have to contribute somehow. Now that I'll come back to a love, Should I get like a new outfit or something? Like this is the new, the new twig. The twig is new? Well, do you feel new?

No. Well, then it's the same old twig. Okay, so what are we gonna do now? Wear what you wanna wear, twig. That's what I do. Guys, I have a bad feeling about all this. Why? Oh no.

I know that we broke all of our faith pads. but my... Oh no, what's gonna happen now? If my goblet and political science degree has taught me anything that now they'll be able to figure it out one way or another and now especially that we've caused social unrest perhaps or caused the ruckus, the iron fist of the totalitarian

government of Mutherhorn will clench around yon and I wouldn't be surprised if the other hags notice something is up and they will claim vengeance. vengeance. Well, they might be able to start trying to attempt vengeance, but at least we can't be tortured magically because of the packs. From far. And she's going to have a tough time around here, man. I mean, once we taught those, uh, you know, the Brigha Knox and the other guys that they weren't actually supposed to be

fighting each other. I mean, they were like coming together. She's going to have a tough time now that they're unifying or whatever it is. Corbeck supposes we have to think about that apparent legion of unending death marionettes, but that's a problem for future us, right? Oh, that's a problem for us now. We have to think about how to solve that now so that future us solve that problem. Well, hopefully they can't fly. I mean, problem solved.

How long they can just stay in the air? Oh, indefinitely. Are you sure? No. but you built it you installed those old rings correctly here what's that sound

I hope they operate okay with cold general I mean we just can't hit a certain level in the atmosphere or I mean like the the balloon might start freezing over

but that you know that's why I'm able to fly don't go too high and we'll be able to plan from up here yeah don't go too hard. Hey,

don't boss me around. Yeah, don't boss them around. We just won't go to a... Now get, flies over to the piccanax. Yeah, all right, well... Oh, we're going to go to corners first and get hootzy, A,

and B, we need to let him know that now there's a new big boss in charge... If he survived, GOMO. And I think now we need to be using the local populaces as instruments of our will. I don't know how else to say it. And I feel like we tried to do too much

peaceful negotiation at the soggy court and I just think we need to spur of violent revolution so that all the hags are deposed. Everyone needs to pay close attention to Grico. He's the only one here with the political science experience necessary to design craft.

You know what they say. You know, the best time to start a political revolution was 20 years ago. The next best time is right now. The time is now. Oh, sorry. I don't do that.

You have such a beautiful voice. You think they're going to execute Brody Snake-East Snake Jr.? Oh, probably. I don't want to figure that. It's best that's all over it. You don't want to answer. Frost made him sign every page. I'm very confident that Glister and Gleam are clever and agile enough to have escaped.

I'm not worried about them. I'm not worried about Snake-ass, Snake and Frosty. I hate to say this. I don't think our dear friend Hurley made it. I don't think our new best mate, Frosty. It is a shame. I won't miss his antics. Oh yeah, what a bar.

Well, hey, the good news is to satisfy those guys, all we had to do was tell Burley that he was here. You look down and you see Hurley's clinging to the bottom of the flying circus. Like the on the face. What else comes out there? No, yeah. Oh, no, we're singing. We're singing. We're sitting. I'm seeing a knife prepose, wait, quick,

I didn't account for all this weight, br- I blended his fucking face. No, no, I don't do that. I just see it and then use my mind hand to push it. You had to be quiet. I don't have to use the stick in a quietly. If I had a nickel for every time on this channel, we had a bug bed dinghling from a rope from an airship.

I had two nickels. Only two nickels. Crazy. Oh, man. We need to go back, because I'm sure Hootsie is worried sick. Oh, is this still storming or do we stop this? Is it, oh yeah? I'm glad that you asked.

You don't need a roll perception check for this to see this. But the lightning that it has been being channeled from within these storm clouds used. I mean, I would say from up here, you can even see as you look down. The clouds have dissipated. It looks like the storm is slowly rolling out. It's still overcast.

They're still thick. But it's not what they had been. And as you look down, you see the broken dilapid, or the broken cage, which had clearly been the cage of the unicorn. And now that it's no longer housing it there, the way the lightning has shot up and destroyed that one tall copper pole sticking out of Motherhorn, now that is not being conducted in that way, it was almost as if it was keeping the lightning and the storm cyclical

and keeping it inside of yon. But now that that has been destroyed, the lightning is, the storm is. doing what any other storm would do. And it is beginning to roll out. And you see outside of the realm of Prismere, from up here, it's this thick, roiling clouds, almost circling the parameter. From where you are here, you have such a high point of view that you can see often to yon,

or often to hither, often to thither. And you realize that your view here is way more clear than it had been even 30 minutes ago. And you imagine it's going to take a few days for the storm to fully roll out. But yeah, you do see that the storm has dissipated quite a bit. As you're looking around, what I'll say is you can see over in one area, you can see the tall mountain with the circle of standing stones where you know the corns to me. And then you can't see much of what's going on there. You do see some movement on top of the peak.

And then off in another direction or then down in the valley, you see the entrance to Brighanoke Mines. And then off on another peak, you actually see something that you'd never been able to see before because it had always been obscured by the clouds. But one of the peaks of one of the taller mountains is completely verdant, covered in beautiful, bright, almost neon flowers. Dotted all along the mountain are these huge lumps of honeycomb.

And at the very top, what appears to be some sort of colony, almost a monstrous size bee colony. You see these huge beekeeping houses. And though you can't really see much of what's going on on the cord side, they were very small. You can very clearly see what looks to be a large, almost giant-like creature stomping around this plateau, covered head to toe and beekeeping gear. Do we see Hurley falling to his death?

Or does he get hit by lightning on the way down? You know, I would like you... Falling to his death, but it occurs before he hits the ground down. What are the propellers underneath us and so fall in Titanic style? It's a Titanic situation where... Black and then he falls off. Oh, yeah. He doesn't get ground up.

No, no, no, no. It's just the one. That's in the other Jones stuff. Oh, is it kind of like the main villain of that Mission Impossible film where he like holds the briefcase and leaps off and hits the car on his way down? Oh, yeah. I've never seen Mission Impossible. That was like one of the super-like. last ones.

I haven't seen anything after two. Mine blowing way. No, I would say you do look towards Motherhorn and you see that Motherhorn seems to be in complete disarray. There are people just, why are you not playing music actually? Sorry.

I assume. No, I didn't intend for that. It was just for her. It was the pause for her. It was death scene. But you see people running from Motherhorn. and you see bits of Motherhorn falling off and tumbling down the mountainside. And though the storm clouds are rolling away

from the rest of Yon, you see that the ones that are around Motherhorn are swirling and darkening, almost as if they are trapped there and being enhanced magically. She's tightening her fist again. Oh boy, this isn't good. It's their only move. Fith tightening.

Look, I would propose that we go to the honeycombs and perhaps Amtipur will be there. I know he's a freak, but we could perhaps... Why do you want to go see him? He's such a freak. He had a lot of valuable magic. He seems to know everyone and is well-liked by others. He could help us rally. Perhaps start to find some form of resistance to all of this.

I guess he did know the way of the land pretty well. We've got to go get Hootsie first, right? Well, no, he's got to go back in. Anyway, I mean, if we're gonna kind of spoil a lot of revolutions, we're gonna need some help. Some really freaky hell. You know what I mean? I mean, who else better to help us with a quest and an absolute fucking freak? Besides, the Game Master said that we were going to really enjoy the name of the Cyclots like two years ago.

I've been wanting to know for a while. For some time. For some time now, Jishie. For some time now. All right. I mean, I can spin this thing over to the bees. And that's the thing. Remember, in our visions and our dreams, what the oratory gave us, we saw three different, like, spooky caves with the shards of Narsal, I mean, the Vopal Sword.

And doesn't Andaport know the whole place? We might tell them, oh, hey, there's this place. He might know exactly where it is. He might be able to get us in and out. Oh, yeah. We have one of the hag stuff, but we still have to forge the sword so we can go glomphing around. He's one of our most knowledgeable companions, and as strange as he is, I think that he may be able to assist us. But at what price? At what?

Once we get there, it'll be a hilarious improvisational race to see who gets to say, I got honey all over my left. I'm going to win that. Fuck you, fuck you, Gary. No way, no shot. That's my brain. That's my way. We have a year to. We got little bit of moments.

All right, so we all get on the front of the ship with our legs out, and we fly. right way. You've loved. Torricks are the longest. You do. Torbex got honey all over his leg. You begin to navigate directly towards

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a verdant peak covered with bright flowers, large, large golden honey cones. And at the very top, just smattered with these giant beekeeping houses. Walking all around them is this giant, this giant-like creature in a beekeeping outfit. As he moves from one house to the next, he holds a loft in the air. As you get closer, you can see this, he holds a large hunting. as he reaches in, pulls some honey, and throws it into a barrel.

There are barrels dotting the ground that he's filling with this honey as he moves from one house to the next. And this is what you see as you begin to fly in. As you get closer, you realize that, in fact, you do see Omdipur. At the very center of this place, there is a large downed log,

absolutely massive. And you see that there is a door carved into the side of it, a small, an arch door that's tinged onto it. Small step mushrooms around the side, a window with fluttering lace curtains. Looking at it even from this distance, you can tell that this must be the home of this cyclops. The door is so large that he clearly can go inside

of this stump to find his home. And in front of it is a roaring bonfire. And sitting there in front of it is Andipur. He seems to be animated about something You don't see anyone around him. He's sitting alone at this bonfire as the giant moves around and collects honey. And it's just, he seems to be talking to no one.

And that's what you see as you begin to descend to this, this clifftop. Does it look from our vantage point like we would be able to sneakily approach ever before? You imagine that all of this is facing you, but if you were to go around the side, you imagine you could come in around the back of the down stump that this giant lives in,

and you would be able to come up on the back side of Omdivore. You could come on the backside of Omdiport, is what I'm trying to say. Get in. I don't know what you're gonna ask me to do for us. I'm not sure I have the strength to do it, but here we go. That doesn't raise a question,

how loud is this vehicle just in general? Yeah. Generally, you would imagine. something like this to make a lot of noise. But with Gideon's ability with Fay engineering, he was able to put essentially Faye mufflers on this thing. And you imagine that the sound, there is still thunder and lightning.

The storm is still happening. Any sound that you're making would be easily covered up by the sounds of just the environment around you. Roger. You gonna do the backside thing or what? I'm already, I did the whole spinning thing. I made a little bit of the noise.

And I mean, yeah, we're doing it. We're coming around. You don't have your mouth to do that. The machine makes the sound all that. All right. It's just fun to do, you know. I don't know. I read that wrong.

I looked up and I saw someone's name is his ferret venom and I thought it said fart venom. And I'm like, what on? What a name? The bold choice. The bold choice. Please don't make a name of it. I definitely fly the flying circus

to whatever spot I find that I think Frost is talking about that we can kind of approach moderately stealthily, land and approach on the flying circus around and you pull up towards the back of this large mountain top that this cyclops has made his home on and you are able to find a a spot that is not hindered by large honeycombs or or these beekeeping houses or anything like that. It's just this, a place that you feel like you can easily dock the night circus

or the flying circus in the glass. It's a book. There's a book on the night circus. And so it's just, that's what I think of every time. I just didn't know what you were referencing. No, no, that's all it is. It was an okay book. It was mid. It's a fine book. But yeah, you're able to do that. And it's still, it's still locked. It's still flying. And you don't put it down on the ground, but you're able to anchor it in a way that it's attached to the side and you can drop a rope ladder down and all of you are capable of descending.

Well done. I think we're parked and I don't think that we've been detected. Sweet. Doesn't seem so so far. Time to head out and check it on animals. This is so cool. Look at that goddess beekeeping stuff. Now, we have to understand

And the last person that we talked to said that that large gentleman was a bit of a villain, and so you need to be careful. He was easy. Oh, but he doesn't look, villainous. Look at him. Well, just for total context, the guy who told us that the big guy was evil first came off like he was kind of a cool hero guy, and then, you know, he started drifting into pervert territory, and so it coins really up in the air right now.

We're not sure who to trust, is my point. So be on your guard either way. Man, I don't trust anyone ever. That's why. Good. Now you're learning. You should cross-stitch that on a pillow. What?

You should cross-stitch that on a pillow. Oh, could I sell it for a lot of money? Probably a small amount of money, yes. More money than it costs me to make the pillow? I'm clear. Certainly not. Oh, hey, I mean, little things like that do quite well to farmer's market. Yeah.

We have been to a few farmers market. Why would you sell a bunch of farmers? One now, and that's, you're thinking of the goblin market. They sew candy. Yeah. I've never been there, but they've sell candy. I start making my way down the rope. Okay, bye.

You coming, Twig? Are you going to stay up here? Well, you know, I just was, but I can't want to. Come on down. Yeah, come on down. I know he looks like a flower. This is a very important tree. I know he looks like a flower.

Do you not sniff him. He looks... He looks like a giant. No, I'm talking about the other guy. Yeah. Oh, the pervert? Allegedly. Any potential pervert.

We're all suspicious that he might be a pervert. Yeah. We don't have any evidence, but honestly, he has this bee wife who he says he, like, does, has really hot sex with, and we are starting to think that it's just a bee. And not like, not like a roo-old. Yeah, not like a fay, magical beat. His heroic rescue may have been a kidnapping.

Oh, that's awesome shit. Oh, no. Yeah. Okay, well, that's really interesting. So much so that, Gideon, if I run off this thing, will you catch me from the ground? Well, no, I'm standing right next. If you did it right now, no, no, no, no, no.

You get on the ground, and then I'll run back there, and then I'll just fly off, and then you catch me. Oh, yeah, sure. Yes. Look, you're, like, just recently alive again. Do we really want to tempt fate on this? Yeah. All right.

Suit yourself. When I start climbing down. You just tell me when. Polly with his purve, I'm going. This could be so cool. What is over? Well, I guess I got so. Yeah, you go there.

All right, twig jump. And you watch as she runs back, and then you hear nothing for the longest time. And in the middle of the ship, she's like, you can do this, Twig, you can do this, is not so far. Hello? Okay, go!

And then she runs, leaps off, and as she hits midair, you see her, you see her, raise her arms out. Sal! And then she flexed. Now can I see your leg? Oh, perception check. It's a good question.

This observation is your one action. You won't be able to catch her any of this. You've blown your reaction. You've blown your reaction. Yeah. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. You can easily see your leg and you can see a scar where you imagine that.

Ooh. That's not just exposed bone. It's a pretty gnarly scar. Oh, is it like, does it look like scar over missing muscle? Or does it look like the whole chunk is there and it's like scarred over? It looks like there's missing piece. Okay, got it. Oh, sorry, I got distracted.

You in the ground. No, uh. Oh, you're out. I caught you. Yeah, no, that was really cool. You want to do it again? No, I think we got to get down to pour. Just one more time.

We will land again. We do this every time we land. Yeah, every time we land we do it. I was hoping that after I came back from death, you wouldn't still be such a bitch, and then she's going to start walking towards the ambulance. I can't believe she called you a bitch. She called you a bitch.

She looks straight at you. She turns around, she puts her hands on her hips. Just because you're too weak to catch me a second time because you got them flabby old muscles doesn't mean you need to blame stuff on frost. Get stronger, shut up. I don't get a muscle. She calls you a bitch.

She calls me a vampire. It's all false. You burn! You drink my blood. Never. No, no, no. You're thinking of something else. Almost died then, too.

I think you murdered those guys in cold blood. You're not to bury them in the muck and the mire. Oh, yeah. And lie about it, too. I wonder if we have a warrant. And then you told me I was going to become a vampire and I never did. I don't think they could prove it. I do think.

I do think about those people's family. No, you don't. You're ruthless. You're cold. You have no soul. Yeah. It's one of the things I like most about you. No, Frosty is a soul.

He's the softest kitty cat on now. Well, how? You should have seen him with our new best maid Hurley. He was so supportive and kind and very gentle with Hurley when he was having a rough old charm of it. Yeah, but vampires don't have souls. I read about it in a book once. It's true.

And because I'm not, I have a soul. Everything is fun. No, but you were. Yeah, you were. No, talk to this pervert. No, Twit, cut him some slack. He has a deep, lengthy, complex, and tragic backstory that explains all that. Yeah.

Well, I wouldn't know anything about it because he's never told me anything about him. Well, man, just wait if he ever does. Just you wait. Hold on. He'll have him. It is a page turner. Well, what can you tell me about his backstory to do it? Well, because it's not all place to do it.

It's simply no time. We got to go. Yeah, I know. I'm not to know. Oh. Oh, wonderful. Thank you, gentlemen. And with that, you make your way around this large house.

You see that it is, it's beautiful. There are, it's covered in flowers and moss. It's gigantic. And you're even able to peek into one of the windows, and you can see what is very clearly a small well-kept, or a large well-kept cottage. It's barely a one-room space for this giant, but it would fit everything that they need. And you're able to make your way around the side, and you see that Amdapur is sitting there.

He's sitting on top of a ring of toadstools around this fire, and he's sitting on one of them. And you imagine that at one point he'd been, he thought that he was talking in nothing, but you realize that Pollenella is right next to him, incredibly large, and then all around him, are just swarms of bees that he seems to be talking to animatedly. Let's get to the bottom of this. All right, inside rebellion and all that, right? Okay, I guess that's me. Oh, if it isn't me old pal, Lampedapour.

Oh, by Jove, is that you, Grico? Oh, by golly, it is. Oh, come and have a seat, what are you doing here? Oh, it's us, it's the lads. Um... Well, come and meet the lady. Oh, why you say it like that? Okay, hello, hello ladies.

What a new? The bees begin to scroll around you. They seem to be quite smart. They're buzzing around you. Occasionally, they swirl together, and at one point they all come together and pour the words, hello with an exclamation coming. Wow.

That's a life, mind-shed-shundit. Oh, hello. That's awesome. Hello, bees. Not bad. These are your friends? Oh, well, yes. They are Polinella's kin, so they are family.

Oh, okay. How's Polinella doing? Oh, she's doing well, so happy to be home to see the rest of her family, especially in such good times. Oh, yeah, about that. I see there's a big cyclops over there. Oh, yes, mudlump. Oh, mudlump.

Mudlump. Oh, charming. We don't really have time to deal with him right now. What do you mean deal with? I've already accomplished what needed to be accomplished. Watching you broke a piece between the Korids and the Brighornhawks really inspired me. Maybe what was preventing this relationship from fully flourishing was some good conversation and honesty. So when I made my way up here, I endeavored not to fight the Cyclops, but to try to understand.

stand the Cyclops. I showed him the love between me and Pollenella, a front row seat to our love. And he was able to see that we are interests aligned. But he wants to keep the bees happy and to do so they must

have a fertile queen. Okay. And that I want nothing more than to keep Pollenella happy. And her place is really here. And we have quite the loving family now. Oh. Gosh, I thought you were going to say. Why does he stand smart?

Oh. Oh. So is he not mad that you took Paulinella in the first place? That got me. That got me good. I don't know. I'm missed to... I'm not.

He's a bit of a duchy-dicky. He's a bit of a ducy-dicky. Oh, man. Yeah, he's a ducy-dicky. Oh, my shit. I just, I was trying to keep it in. I was trying to keep it in. I was trying.

So where do things stand now? I mean, is he just chill? Is he a cool dude? Yeah, what happened? Actively, I'm sleeping on a small little cot inside the house. Didn't know where that was going. But Polinella and I are working on our own little hive. And we will reside in there very close to mudlump.

Yes, and mudlump is still the ruler of this place and charge of the hive. He does own this hilltop and the bees, and the bees love him, honestly. He takes such good care of them, and I might have been a little bit, I might have been a little hasty in my hatred for him, but love does do something to a man. Oh, yep.

I'm glad that you were able to sort things out. As am I. Well, I guess it's good that Pallinella was able to find a nice provider in mudlump. find true excitement. But she really does. She really does take care of me. Well, I know.

Many such cases. If I can speak frankly with my friends, I always do. I think I would have died of horrible death if I had gotten into a fight with his sidewalks. He is incredibly loved. He's seen that guy? Yes.

I crested the hill with Polonella in my gentle embrace, and I came face to shin with this man, and I realized I was at a severe disadvantage. He probably would have just stamped you out, like a hundred fire ants. He was very angry to see me back, but Polinella was able to broker her a very gentle piece, at least for one evening,

and it was in that evening. that we came to an accord. Okay, to an accord. Yes. Does he even hear the things he's saying? To the can't be your own mind. No, you can. He absolutely can.

That's all lovely. That's all what I'm good. Oh, it is. It really is. I am glad. Nothing makes him angrier than a threat to his bees. And for a time, I was a threat to his bees. Of course not now.

I would never be a threat to fall. I'm so harmless. And gentle, a gentle lover, she says. Grigo was here to tell you about a threat. Not just to the bees, but to mudlump and to yourself. We have dire news. Oh, no, you would not come to this cliff top and bring bad news. Unfortunately, we must.

I would like for you to not do that. We're living peacefully here for a time. Not anymore. Well, maybe we could spend one evening enjoying each other's company having a bit of... It's a tiny meeting. I don't know how to say this. We got a lot of places to go, people to see it. We have to ruin like 40 other people's days.

Yeah. You're the first song on this. Okay. I'm just gonna... I'm gonna give it to you... You know, why a good friend once told me something that stuck with me, give to me straight rat boy. I'm gonna... Rat boy's gonna give it to you straight on the forum. All right.

I know that we taught you the value of hashing it out and like peaceful resolution. Forget all that. We're doing the opposite now. So you would like me to kill the cyclops. New plan. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, not the sideclops.

No, no, no, no. He's cool. I get, okay. What would do, we are, we are staging bloody coups in all of the provinces against the free hanks? What on earth is the second? What is that? Oh, no, this is on my sound like. The sidewalks, he's coming.

The sound like. We pulled out. We pulled out. Oh, we've patted too close. It's a skull in his nameplate. My apologies. There's no else to say this. I don't know else how to say this,

but the tree of freedom must be watered by the blood of tyrants. You know what I mean? No. Well, come on, let's go. How's this throwing on? Oh, he's got some great throwing on. Well, maybe he can help.

He's the weakest of the rest of the Cyclops beneath the mountains, but... How many are there? You look a lot of Cyclopes? A lot of Cyclopes? Cyclopes? Is that the probes of cyclopes? No, I believe so. Don't know.

I don't know. Chris Crickon on this. What are you talking about? Yes, he's one of thousands. There are thousands of cyclopes. Thousands? That's an army. Oh, we may solve this thing already.

I mean, that might be it. Do you think that Muddlum has sway over these other cyclopes? They're all right with their family. If it weren't from Mudlump and what he does, they would not be supplied these many bearings of honeymoon. If there was an existential threat to the bees, the mountains,

the very state of Prismere, could these cyclopes be rallied by Mudlump? Well, they, I'm not... Mudlump is quite a gentle soul, but the rest of the cyclops, you wouldn't want to get involved with them. They're quite bloodthirsty,

and they haven't had a good kill in many years. That's excellent. No, that's exactly what. We want. Yeah, yeah, that's great. We want to seat their thirst for blood. The hags are coming. The hags are going to war.

They're going to try and take over all prism here with legions of crazy marionettes and probably frogs and maybe a little pigs. Yes, they've got tons of marionettes. They'd be like fire ants to the cyclops. I see. But like, too, but like more than a hundred. More than a hundred. More than a hundred. Yeah, more than a hundred.

Yeah, just beating everybody on. No, no, we can take a hundred and one five. That's a lot of a lot of. Not a marionettes that when he stepped on them, they're going to run up their legs. And then they're going to try to be getting them off. And then they're going to try and get off. They're going to be off all for the marionettes. No, they're going to start getting chomped on.

And the cyclops are going to bleed out and die. There's no way that the cyclops is going to wear it. You can't do it. You can't do it. Well, I imagine if there was the opportunity for death and destruction they would be in. Excellent. Oh, that's great. Um, do you think

I hate that assless Do you think that we could like expedite it? Do you think you can just relay everything and then have him relay it to the song goes? If you need us to roll a few things We got tons of twists. We cannot stress that we have to do this like 40 more.

No, there's a lot more to go. So you just handle the frogs. Do you have a date in which you need them to mobilize and where are they headed? We need to I think in 24 hours time, we initiate the coup across all three provinces of Prismian. That's what I think. A unified attack so that none of the hacks can collude as much as they hate each other

and all be taken by surprise. Well, I don't understand half of this, but if what you're saying is that I need to convince Mudlump to rally all of his Cyclops brethren into a vicious act of death and destruction against all of the hags? Yeah, so, I mean, if the cyclopes... So spread out across Prismic... Well, let's start small and focus on Motherhorn. No, no, no, no, no.

How about if they are able to mobilize earlier and have a bit of a rumbling situation... Well, why couldn't they just contact the other cyclops in the other domains? The cyclones are the cyclops in the other domains? The swampclops in the other domains? The swampedclops in hither. Swamp? What?

Swamp clumps? Oh man, Frosty, great idea coming here first. Yeah, wow. And of course, the coral clops along the beaches in the fiver. What the fuck is this guy smooten? I don't believe it's a fucking word of me. Are you shit, mate? No, I haven't taken, I have not had a fecal passing in many years.

Can I insert? This guy's gonna die from constipation or he's gonna be 100% efficiency. He's a nice and sincere. Crazy. I guess he's telling the truth. Oh, that's,

I mean, this is, this is stereotypous news, indeed. This couldn't have been any better. Look, just go over to mud clump

and ask him, is it really worth forging swords into plowshoes if they must be forged back to swords on the morn? Such a beautiful thing. Oh, yeah.

What was that? What was that? He was the most well spoken of this group. Thank you. You're welcome. We gotta say that to like 40 more people though, so I think of the place. I can't believe they made the match

the gathering caught into a saying. That's very funny. Okay. All right, well I would be more than happy to at least attempt to do this for you. I cannot guarantee success. You have to guarantee it. Or Polonell is gonna be dead.

Everyone's gonna die. But you dare threaten her, you care. I'm not threatening her. The eggs are threatening her. You're threatening her if you don't make this act. We're just describing the threat. I cannot control the Clops. We're not asking you to, but we are asking you to tell them

of the threat the same way that we have told you about the threat. And I will. And if there is anything that can be done to mobilize the Clops, I will do what I can. Wait, wait, wait. You're calling them Clops. None of them are they? Yeah, we've been over there.

We've been over this. It doesn't go well. I can't do it again. Some of them are. Oh, no. Oh, wow. Actual Cyclops. What a nightmare.

Well, as long as mud lump, as long as mudlump is able to communicate and they are having enough of an organization hierarchy to like form ranks and like struck at the same time, if there's a coordinate effort. They can contact each other on the Rocky Tockys. Oh, okay. Well, the Si-ones don't just kind of connect them in a big brain.

They've got a great telecom infrastructure in that, Prismore. Really for the sake of brevity. Oh, no, it's quite nice. Think about how different our adventure would have gone if we'd met the Cyclops in the first plane of Prismere. And yes, you didn't know. That was how it meant so good. I think they would have killed you.

Probably run out. Puney, Kriftony. Holy shit, he's getting billed like a banana. Like I've gone red so in here. So, if you can convey all that to mudlump, I'm sure it's a lovely bloke. We just don't have time to meet him. You understand. I think you would love him.

I think you would adore him. Oh, here he comes down. It would be a man. Oh, no. You were gonna get someone to hear you. Mudlum, to-all. You love Mudlub already. I love Mudlub.

We'll learn later that Mudlub is Mudge's father. How did you guess? I just, you know, I had a feeling. I had a feeling. Okay, and then we also need your help as well. Well, how may I help a second time? You know every inch of prismia, don't you. You're a bit of a wanderer.

That is true? We was in form of like free, like little, I don't know, like coves, caves. What are you talking about? We saw them in the vision. We saw them in the dreams. Oh, oh, those codes. Why did the face so? The blade, the blade was shattered but were once be reforged again.

You know what I mean? Oh, do you mean the vocal blade? Well, I was going to tell you about it. Yeah, I was going to be more epic about it, but sure. Oh, yes. I've heard the voids. stories. We need to find as free like special coves about it and we don't know where there is. Well I can only think of one cove and that's the cove along the coast and thither. Man. Carpenter's coiff they call it. Carpenter's cove. Only one

cove though. Well only one magical cove there are some boring. How sure are we that there was like a cove or not like a cave you know? No no the other one Only one was a cove. The ever was more of like a cave, like deep beneath the mountain against like a mystical bridge, like through tunnels perhaps carved by things that Tom forgot, you know what I mean? Oh, the Star Lost Cave.

Oh, damn, that's a cool thing to say. Exactly right. Deep within Brighenark Mine. Oh, oh, oh, we've got to go back. We've been there. We've been there. We've been there. But I mean, we have a derrigible.

Yes. Okay. And then the other one was kind of more of like a mud hole, like at the bottom of a well? Oh. Oh, we know those whales. You know, yes. There are willow wisps in the swamble hidden.

Oh, in the first place. Yes. Yeah, remember there was like a... I wasn't in me right on during that. You're thinking, you're thinking of the weeping well. Oh, yeah, we've been there too. Wow. Shit.

So we need to go far on the shards of the blade where it was broken. and then we shall one thing the pieces of the four blade are in those very magical places across Prismia. Yes. No, that's the reason. I mean, exactly. We saw it in our dreams. Very magic.

It was a dream from the King of Hearts. I mean, from the King of Hearts. He's the leader of this whole realm. He's the most powerful man in the universe. Oh, well, take it easy. He might be a snaffy dresser. But he seems, he's all right. He's pretty powerful.

He's pretty powerful. Well, if you know what I would love. Just a dollop of my sweet honey's honey, Pauline, please. Oh, do we have to, I mean, can you do that after we? Oh, yeah, it's happened, look away, too, look away, twig. You don't want to partake.

In what? You see that, you see that Twig is sitting next to Paulinella and she's just chatting away. Yeah, and that really happened? No. He did, no. Oh, what? Wow, how gallant.

Oh, I've read about something like that one of my dirty books. That big? Why is that on the amount? That's my favorite moment. I'm taking it now. Thank you, Riddiqui, for that. Yeah, you're welcome.

Thank you, Derek, for joining in. My pleasure. Thank you for the yes and on that. Oh, gosh. And that's, oh, are we going? We should be in going. Yeah, well, Pam, the poor was offering us to partake in the, in the,

in the honeydom, but it seems like you already have made a good friend. I know, I love Paulinella. I think her and Big Tuna were good along really well. Um. Where is Pic Tunia? Oh, she's... Is she dead?

No. No. She's just flying around. She's flying around. Doing pig stuff, you know. She's in the summer cold with old Sir Tava, right? Oh, that guy was kind of creepy. Yeah.

Wait, that guy was creepy and you're like chilling with Andaple? What? Oh, my gosh. You should hear the thing. as Paul Nes said about him. And, if you're ever looking for another wife, you know where to find me. Whoa.

Didn't see that one, Calvin. Well, I don't see myself ever looking for another wife, but I will, I will keep that in mind. Thank you. Oh, my name's Twig. But you can call me Twig. All right, well, I think it's time for you to go. Yes.

Okay. So I guess you don't need to come with us then, eh? All right, well, I'll stay, if that's what you want. No, no, no. You're talking about it. So we should be able to find that, like, could you like give us, like, directions then, at least to where? To where?

No, Twig, I'm talking about underpour. No, I'm going to get up to land. Well, we wish, the cove, well, you'll head into, you'll head into, you'll head into Sither. All right. And then you'll head to, I mean, the moment you fly, I'm assuming you're flying in on that very loud dirigible that you have, just part of it.

Very loud. John. Get in, get in a muffle. Yeah, man, I'm gonna put muffled bit. Oh, well, it's quite loud in comparison to the bees. I'm assuming you're flying in on that. If you do, you'll see the sea immediately. There are, there is, um, beaches aligning it.

And right along, when you enter in, and then you fly, and then the beaches are there, and then there's sand, and then, well, there'll be a cove there. Okay. That sounds... By the beach. Correct. Right.

Well, you... Well, you know, so it would be there. But there, I... Polanella, please. Please. Not right now. Oh, yes, yes. Yeah, I can help them.

There should be a trail of clam shells, an oyster shells, leading straight to the cove. Well, have a clam shells or oyster shells? Maybe both. There could be muscle shells. I'll never figure this, please, now. They could be...

They could be... Crabbs? That was very fun. Crabb is my favorite fish. Mine too. Yum. Delicorous. Thanks.

Lucky for animals, I'm much more into fish. Yeah, me too. Me too. Not an animal eater. No, no. Just crabs and wheels. Good thing you saw fish. Fish, yes.

Okay. Well, Andapur, thank you for helping us unleashed the rumbling across Prismia. I hope it was not a tremendous amount of collateral damage. But if there is, can't be held, can't be held. Unavoidable. If it's going to protect Polinella, then we will do what we must. Before we go, it looked like Frost was eager to try some of Paulinella's honey.

Oh, would you like to try Paulinella's honey? She can squirt it directly into your mouth. Let's all stare at Frost while it happens. I don't know if you knew this, but he loves beads. Oh, dude. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. Thank you, Grimmie. Well, open wide, she's coming in. And you watch as Paulinella darts towards one of the houses

and grabs a cylinder of what is very clearly honey and she squirts it into your mouth with her tiny little bee hands. It is the most delicious honey that you've ever tasted you entire life. That's actually fantastic. Is that good? No, that's unbelievable.

What a range of flavors. It is unbelievable. And you realize that you feel, savory even. You feel powerful like you're benefiting from a hero's feast. Get away, mantra, mantra!

Oh, my mouth. Oh, what is he doing, honey? Mager, maude, please. Can I hold that? You would like Royal Jelly. Wait, is that different from money? Royal Jelly. You're about to get bait and switch, Mr. Grimmie.

Whatever it is, whatever he's his head. Yeah, me too, me too, me too. I guess we'll take a hit if it's going around. And Paul and Elow will, from open mouth to open mouth, squirt her royal jelly deep inside your... As in the squirt comes, I trep. Oh, you got honey all over my legs. Damn it, we all forgot.

Oh, I forget. Miss. We didn't all. Duremberg. The Grammy never forgets. Crammy never forgets erased to that improv. I just had the slags pressed.

Oh, that is divine. I'm assuming they all enjoy a hero speech. Yeah, and even Twig, Twig enjoys some really jelly. We all enjoy resistance to poison damage. We have immunity to the front. frightened and poisoned condition. Oh shit. Hit point maximum increase by 2D10.

Wow. And it's the same number of hit points. So I would guess roll 2D10 for us. I will roll 2D10 for you except for I don't have any dice so can someone pass them to me. How long does this last? I think it's 24 hours. Yeah. I will hand you some dice as soon as I find them in my pack.

And I will say for the sake of the friendship, even though you think he's a pervert, Omdipur feels a kinship with you. And so he, before you leave, he hands you a small honey pot filled with Polonella's royal jelly. And it's enough for each of you to enjoy two more dollops of honey. And he tells them each. And so to use them wisely. Oh, yeah.

We got a smation jaw full of it. Oh, oh, never mind, that's a two, not an actual. Oh. 12. 12 to our max HP. 12. And then we also heal. I can't believe you gave me two like

D100 die. Maxx is one of five. This is the closest thing I had that were. The second roll, the second role was two tens. That would have been nice. Wow, that really was delightful. Thank you.

Yeah, I got to say, man. Now I kind of understand you. Thank you. If it had not been for you and not, traveling together and you being so kind to me, I never would have been able to mend the relationship that I had with mudlum. Well, that's wonderful. I don't know if you can see, but Pollenella is so happy to be home.

Good. Man, I mean, entirely unintentional, but I'm glad it worked out for you guys. Glad it went out for you guys. Don't mention it. And you have something to protect now. A home, a family, everything that you've built here and that muddle. up is built. That, impress that upon him and his people. This is dire, existential. A lie will try. Thank you.

Yeah, just say death to tyrants. That'll whip him up. Not sure he knows the word, tyrants. They'll get the meaning. I think, I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Well, would you like to stay for the night? We can play a round. Nope, we got to go. What of you.

Back on the over, but we're out of here. Great senior. Can't actually. Can we take the loop in, shall we? No, that is my game. Very good. Well, I don't share any winks.

Welcome to the revolution. To the revolution. To a prismere where pollinella is safe for always. Exactly right. To the revolution. To the revolution. Unfortunately, I am a dandelion and I am unable to do this thing you're doing with your heart.

doing it in spirit. I am. And you notice that all the bees swarm around and make a hand and start doing the Grico hand movement. That thing he always does. Revolution. Frasional. Yeah, there we go.

Okay, goodbye. Goodbye. Safe travels. Back to the... Bye. Bye. Flying circus, man. Man, dude is honey struck.

And with that, you make your way back up. And with that, you make your way back up to the I almost said the jungle circus this time. They're all over the place. Awesome enough. The, what is it? The flying circus. The flying circus.

And you lift off into the air to head where you're heading to next. Well, Grico, you got all those spots, man. Just pick from this list and we'll go straight there. Okay, we gotta go get hootsie from the, the Korids. Yeah, we should grab her before that whole rumbling thing happens.

Oh yeah, that's pretty boring. Yeah, yeah. If the rumbling happens, I don't want Hucci to be part of the collateral damage. Who knows this province is even gonna still exist? Man, I hope they haven't already taught her King's Gambit or whatever it's called. Oh, I don't think I can afford all that to get higher an instructor and put her in like King's Gambit Club. You don't start about a time at three, you're already fine. Yeah, yeah.

It's crazy. And she has like pause instead of opposable thumbs. Yeah. Okay. Onward to the Corrid Hill. You are getting so used to flying the flying circus, and you are able to gently lift into the air. At this point, you notice a significant difference in the cloud coverage. It has cleared significantly, and you are immediately able to lock eyes on the hill where the corids,

where their circle of stones is. and you begin making your way directly towards it. It does not take too long before you're finally there. There really isn't a spot for you to enter this place in secret. But you are friends with the corns, so that really isn't a concern for you. As you pull the dirigible up close, at first you notice some of the cords rushed towards you, rocks in hand, ready to throw them at you before they realize who you are, and instead they drop the rocks and begin to jump and shout.

You see that Hootsie is sitting at the chess table with Argonautil, and they are playing a fierce game against each other. Is it a in-universe game for the name for this? I can't remember, but I'm calling it chess now. I immediately race forward to observe the non-chess. You dismount and you rush towards the game. What a fucking nerd. Let's go go Hootzee. I'm gonna' freaking won again.

Oh! I'm never gonna win this. this game with her. Hootie's been beating you. Every single time. And you were talented, well done, well done, Hootsie. Good job, I'm sorry that you are losing, but. It's like she can see every move I'm going to make

immediately before I make it. Hootie. Hootie, we're gonna have to play. Hoochie! We're back, Hoochie! We're back you and I'll run and try the hot, hopefully she acts excited. The moment she realizes you're there,

she leaps up knocking over the stone board, or the stone game. Organtle doesn't seem to mind. at all as Hootsie rushes towards you. I'm standing opening my arms and she's not like three times bigger than me. She has gotten bigger since the last time you saw her. But she tumbles into you roll a couple of times as she gently pecks at your hair and at your not hurting you in any way, but giving you little tiny nips of affection.

Oh, Hootsie. She hoots into the air this sound of absolute joy and love. Gosh, Hootie, I'm so glad that you all. You're here, you're okay. I guess it's okay that you're learning crowns if that's what you're passionate about. Oh yeah, that's what it was called. I'm glad that you, I'm glad that you missed

everything that happened in the Mons. There were some trolls. I had a scheming eunuch. I was a king, it was not good. Not meant for your eyes. Oh my gosh, you guys are playing crayons. What? Played what?

They're playing crayons. What? Cranes. Crayons. Crayons. Crayons. Crowns. Crowns.

Cron's. Cron. Cron. That's what I'm going to be. Cranes. Are you saying crans? Yeah, crans. Are you referring to this game?

Yeah. Wait, wait, wait. All right down the name of this game. She writes it down, C-R-O-W-N-S. Oh, thank goodness. Yes. Crayons. That's crazy.

Yeah, you're putting it. Cranes. This word says cram? Yeah, cranes. Oh. Well, anyways, enough about your stupid games. Uh, look. You're bad at crans too, aren't you? He's terrible.

Yeah, me too. I'm not sure. You wouldn't know. I mean, I think I'd be real good if I tried. He wants to be good for the years. I don't know about that, crummy. No, you don't, you don't know. I don't think you have a discipline to learn the game. Look, look, I don't care about that.

I just care about the freedom of the people of this here province in yon. And I need you to know that. Is there a problem? We have bartered an alliance. And it's time for us to kill the Bruganox. No, no, no, no. Oh, no, we take all that back.

They don't suck anymore. No, they're on your side. They hate Endling as much as you do. It's going to come and stuff. A huge surprise, but they feel exactly towards Motherhorn what you feel. You are aligned in every respect. Then explain to me how they've sent someone up there to make all of her control. Well, he was in prison. He was locked in a lantern, and he was forced to make schematics and, like, develop things. He wasn't doing none of his own free will. She had people. Gricka witnessed his final moments. He expressed extreme regret. It wasn't them that did this. It was no malicious intent. If you just spoke with each other, you would see that you are allies.

But what would be the point of doing all this? Why, why, why, why would... What would be her reasoning? Well, you see, when tolerance are worried about the consequences of the people which they govern over, it's much easier to not let your constituents realize that they're more powerful and numerous in you. So they concoct schemes in order to divide the people against each other, so they don't turn their eye towards the ones actually in control. So they'd like to sow discord. And although that most peoples could find common ground and agree on things and learn to love each other

It's easier just to divide them around things that don't really matter so they hate each other and you stay in control and every year that goes by that voice Group constrains tartan entirely So are you trying to say that she wants us to fight them so we won't fight her That's exactly right yeah exactly right But what's staging a coup? Not even really a coup just as a sister's a of uh uh A violent revolution? Y'all want in?

You want us, a rally the troops to fight against Motherhorn. Yeah. Alongside the Brighanox. Alongside the Brigham. And some cyclopes. I think you're going to fight. Oh, yes.

It won't just be them. There won't be bees. Oh, and the coral and the swan. Any other terrain you can take. All the clopes are on. And even the size is spelled differently. Yeah. When the swamp clops arrives, it's like,

Get out of my swam! Swam! Even that one extremely rare Cops clop. Oh. What? A cops is a small circle of trees. Oh.

Oh, frustrating. I don't know you was such an arboretto. I think I cut maybe 10 or 20 instances of that word in the triple room. Yes. We had to nuke every single one we saw on site. My left one as a treat. As a treat? As a little tree. I'm going to have to go.

What the hell? What the hell? However, the rumbling is happening. It cannot be stopped. We've set something in motion. There are exactly two instances of the word cops in the crooked men. Wow, two.

Two is a tree. One is in a description for the monastery grounds. Yep, yep, I remember that one. The other one is, is, how do I let that slip by? The other one is in bat hounds kennel, a copse of dead trees, surrounds the stable.

Oh, it's a written description and a spoken around? Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. It's the same fucking cow. It's a spoken and then a written description. It's the same instance. Okay, all right. No, it's not different pages, two 70s the other one. The word appears twice, but it's referring to the same thing.

The same cops? Yeah. So, um, uh, so we've, wherever we lock it or not, we've started something that we can no longer stop and control. So all we can say is your enemy is not with your name. neighbors, it's with the evil Hagwitz in control. Yeah. And you know what they say, that the Tree of Freedom is best

for the brother of tyrants and all that. I already said that to Andapult, but you weren't here for that. I'll probably, you know, for the sake of brevity, I'll feel like we should broke a piece, and then you should probably stage a bloody coup once the sarcops go fucking crazy. Brothers, we march on Motherhorn and we take our hair back. We take our We take our lives back, and we take yon back. And you feel the ground begin to rumble on your feet.

And all of the stones and the standing stones around you, you watch as Corrid after Corrid appears out of them. Shale and many other stone types. Bismuth and not just, any other stuff. I had them in my head, but they're gone now. Flinch stones. And they think. They all appear.

And around you are hundreds upon hundreds of corids marching to Queen Argonautil's side. You didn't need to say much. I already trusted you. Wow. We were friends. Well, I agree. And if you say we have to march on Mother Horn

and that we can trust the Brighorn then I believe you. Well, it's really cool that you summoned all these guys, but just so you know this is happening in 24 hours. Oh, we'll go back to bed, brother. They'll be marching 24 hours. We gotta go now. We got to go now.

Just the head, brother. She's the same place. They must have been called. Oh, God, that's got, brother. Come back, brother. Come back, go back. Yeah, yeah. The banners have been called.

She calls them back 14 or 15 times, and eventually you're surrounded by a bunch of corns as they prepare to march down the mountain and head towards the entrance of Brighanak mine. knock mine. You don't have like a line of torches you can light that run down the mountain? They all pour a torch, pull a torch out of their satchels and get ready

to light it with a piece of Flynn. No, no, Gideon's talking about a way to light the path, not that you will hold this torch. Yeah, I'm talking about, like, say you light a torch and then somebody else lights another one, and they get his torches all the way down, and then they see it, and they're like, oh, the brain off the brakes.

But there wasn't too, but there is now, and she stops her. She slams her fists into the ground, and one of the Brighanax, one of the corns, one of the larger ones, rushes over to a brazier on top of one of these standing stones, one towards the center, and lights it,

and you see as one on the mountain elsewhere lights, and they begin to light, and you hear the sounds of horns trumpeting throughout yon. Wow, that is so inspiring. Howard Shore, everybody. You have you got to go on the shore. I've always loved that Howard and Shore. I've always locked that Howard's generation.

Corrid's cold raid. Well done. And in Brighi, Naxalanta, mine are haunted by one so I can say in proxane. Okay, Gideon, you gotta fly through that mine. Good luck, I hope we don't all crash and die. I grabbed the side handle into the blimp. Like your mom, you drive, you're driving.

I think that the last thing we need to complete this violent revolution is maybe some of those gems. You got me left? I don't know, like, for like seven or eight, maybe. Once all of this is said and done, I'll give you some more games. We don't have, not now. We don't have time.

There's just no time. All right, back to the flying circus. Come on, Hootie, come on, Twig. Come on, everybody. Let's go. That was so cool. Okay, Hootzee. Oh, get up there.

Remember to buckle up. And I'm presuming there's like this alabair seed. Yeah, Garcia seed. Oh, yeah. I buckle this. She has a little helmet. Okay, who'd the goggles come down? Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's goggles.

I know that you're very into crowns. She has a little aviator scarf. Oh, you're so cute. And I know, and if you choose to be really into crowns, I will support you 100% in the way. I'll even find you a coach or whatever, but I've been saving this for years. I finally believe you're old enough.

I've been saving this since Gobbleau College. I'll reach him, I'm going to pull out like this crinkling with metal, like rapper. like, you know, package. This is called a booster package. A muscle to scattering. I want you to open it and see how it makes you feel

and think if dumb old crowns can make you feel like that. It's your coming of age tale. Hootsie opens it. She rips the pack. And the first card she pulls out is it's incredibly shiny. It almost glows.

with a rainbow light, and on it you see two out of 75. Nice. She tosses it into the wind and it flies away. No! Is that a good one? Wait! It was a serialized card, and you only saw it for a second. And she tosses it away.

Not really sure what to do with these. And if she pulls one card after another, this is the best booster pack that's ever been opened. Every single card is rare. And as she pulls it out, she tosses it out for the next one. Until finally getting down to the wrapping at the end, as she throws it into her mouth and swallows. What was that all about?

Neo would be rolling in his grave if he was dead right now. I had the booster pack. Oh, this is when they started to do all those cheap tines. This is the Garfield, the French. I don't blame you, see. Okay, well, you know what, that's okay. Maybe you're a little, when you're a little older.

All right, hang on everybody. he's gonna be a bumpy ride. You know, I always liked the Orson Pig Commander. I always thought that he was quite nice. I enjoyed him. You maneuver the flying circus down into the galley between the mountains as you plummet towards where you remember the door to Brighanock mine being.

And you know that this is a door that is openable only by wishes. But you feel like you know exactly where you know exactly where you're. it is and you don't have time to wish. You hope against hope that this is as strong as you think it is, as you push a button and a shield, a sparkling shield erupts around the flying circus, as you barrel into the door. And you, at first, it feels like it is not going to give,

but eventually the stone shatters, and you barrel directly into the caverns in Brighanock Mine. And you begin making the twists and the turns, through tight turns into this place. You occasionally hit buttons not quite sure what they do. The manual was in a language you didn't fully understand, but you have such a strong knowledge of Faye engineering that all you really needed were to look at the schematics.

And so you begin cranking buttons and you see one that has a small figure and a large figure, and you say, well, we'll just give it a shot. You hit small and the dribble and everything inside of it shrinks and is able to begin navigating through some of these tight turns. And as you come out into these wide caverns, you hit the larger icon and you get bigger and you're able to move through them faster and more easily.

Eventually, shrinking yourselves down again as you make the turn into the housing area for the Brighamox. And you see immediately that they are all in the small town area that you spent a night in. And that Golmo is there in the very center of the town sitting with the smaller Brighanax telling the story of his time in Motherhorn. He looks like he's gained a little bit of weight

because he's been eating well finally. And he looks like he almost looks like he's been here for years since Motherhorn, even though you know it's only been a day. But he seems happy without a care in the world. Like there's no chance of doom coming to the mountain. Oh, wait. Yeah, it is too.

And that's what happens is you pull the now tiny dirigible and your tiny cells. You're about Brighenock size up to the side of this, the side of this rocky pillar that you're able to climb out on and meet up with the Brighenox. Hey, you don't know me, I'm rat boy. I just don't look like, I'm not a rat. Oh, I recognize that voice anywhere.

Hey, Gomo. Good to see you, good. to see, huh? Did you accomplish your task? Yeah, we did. We did. Did a, where Glister and Gleam executed? Huh? Glister and Gleam? Or did they make it out? I don't know. Oh, well, don't they live with you now? Oh, I guess well. Oh, they haven't come back yet. They dropped me off when they picked up that toy of yours.

That's terrible. Uh-oh. So has anybody come out of Mother Hor? Oh no, do you have bad news? Telling me straight, rat, boy? What have we done? So, we're starting a revolution. We are reuniting the Korid and the Brigh and the Brigh and the Korid and all the Brighenox and apparently all the cyclones across Prismia

are going to revolt and rage. And you're going to storm... Say the tree thing. Say the tree thing. Oh, yeah, water on the tree or something? Oh, the tree of freedom is best watered by the blood of torrents. Yeah, there you go and so forth. That's better every time.

We need to go get a shot of a sword so we can kill the Jabberwok and such. And so we're going to move on, rallied the troops 24 hours time. The corrod will be able to fill you in no problem. One moment, Gregor. I think that he's asleep. I will slam my hand down to wake him. Whoa. I don't know.

So thank you for agreeing to help us in all the ways that you've just promised. Well, anything for you. You're so generous. You're so generous. Do you mind maybe relaying that to all of the senior council of the brigandots? It's crucial as you have the rear lines.

Well, I was trapped. My throat hurts. Could you relay it to them? Frost, maybe you could write a message up and you can then hand out, maybe some pamphlets? Yeah, yeah, yes. Do you write it up for me. One moment?

Yeah, that's right. No, of course. You're so generous there, old, go-go. I would help you. you with anything. Frost, make sure I read the tree thing, man. Put the blood of the trees and whatever.

I'll start with that. Oh, yeah. That'll get them going. It's a good hook. Oh, and the cords are chill. So that we were anything else? Oh, you know, that the powerful or let them have got all the giants.

That'll go, you know, show up. Oh, yeah, the great sundering. Or rumbling, the rumbling. The rumbling. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the rumbling. No, no, no, just the rumbling.

Sundering was definitely. Not Sunderer rumble? No, no, no, no, just the rumbling. The rumbling, the rumbling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, and include something about like that Grimraman or something. Oh, yeah, that the Hags, the hourglass coming will see the Grim Rwanda. Yeah, okay.

Here you, um, uh, I'll slam my hand down again. Here you are. You've just taken all of these notes. Oh, my penmanship has improved. Yes, it's, uh, it improves with age. Oh, nice to that. Must have done. Oh, go most.

That's true. Shee. Brickin'awks, round ye round, as an announcement. My fine friends that helped rescue me from deep within Mother Horn

in the grasp of the wicked bitter end. Oh, yeah. Oh, but it's topic. They have asked me... He... Topic waves and jumps up and down. They have asked me

to help them us, to help them in their... endeavors and so I am going to read to you the statement that I've made to them book oh yeah are you putting in there to keep moving forward into all the enemies on destroy what is this day hence what is this bullshit we're going to march on mother horn with the courts yes they're chill they're cool they're cool you you agreed with us moments ago yeah everyone down Everyone is washing and he, you see he's sweating,

he starts to really feel the pressure. Yeah. I did agree to this because the gourds are chill and cool now. Yeah. Yeah. And they also hate handling. And what did it? You'll be rewarded for sharing this information.

Well rewarded. I fell asleep during this conversation, didn't I? And all the wish stones are gonna be returned to the rifle owners and everything will be said on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything is. Off camera. Off camera.

Off camera. Off camera. They will all be settled because you're all friends now. The Brighanax seem to be very confused. But Goulmo moves himself aside and he rallies everyone around him. He begins to, he reads over your letter. And though your flowery prose is beautiful,

it's not the way that he speaks to this community. And so he uses his own words to express what it is eat need. And then he asked them simply if they agree to this. They are a community, they are a family, and he will not send them on this fight without their acquiescence. And they look nervous. They look like they aren't sure that they want to do this. They're concerned about the chorus. Until Topic steps up and he gets on top of a tiny little wooden crate and he begins to talk about the things that you did for them, the things that you did for him, and that you did for him and that that if you need help, that you have, they have to rise up and help, that yawn is theirs.

It doesn't belong to Endelin. And that if she's gonna try to force them to war with anyone else in Yon, then that just means that she is the enemy. And they will, and they should march alongside their friends and allies in this place. Yes. And take down the witch at the top of the mountain. And there are tears in the audience. People love Topic.

Topic is everybody's favorite. And so they all decide to rally behind. And you are welcome to stay. They invite you to a feast, a celebration, the night before they're going to march on Motherhorn. Well, if you want to stay. Unless they grant additional benefits, I don't see why. I think they're going to be out of garlic bread this time.

I was going to ask about the nandoes, But I, yeah. Wait, if they have enough grubs, you go with the grub home. Man, the grub of the grub delivery grub is going fucking crazy over here. He's ready for blood. I like this grub. I like this grub.

Man, he's got, he's a little fucking freak. Yeah. Okay. And so you gently decline the invitation to stay and feast with the Brigha Knox. And they are, many of them rush towards the entrance, knowing that it's been blown wide open by you, but to meet the Korids and welcome them into Brighenock Mine so they can march into Motherhorn

through the secret tunnel at the back of the mines in Obeds Grotto. You should all take some time to get to know each other and become good friends. Everyone here should become allies. Well Frost. Try playing a few games of Looping Chewy. Everyone will get along with when you play a game of Looping Chewy.

This guy with a looping chewing. I get with a looping chewy. And Devor had his. And I know there's another copy of these minds. Somewhere. True, true, true, true, true, true. Wise words, wise words. Wild words.

Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. And with that, you're able to jump aboard the not high wind, but the flying circus. And make your way where? I think there's a lot of two. Gotta go to the troll bridge and we gotta go down

to the tunnels what was called by forgotten things. You make your way to the troll bridge. You continue to make your way through the cavernous tunnels of Brighanock Mine. You remember you were just here recently and you are able to remember the twists and turns that you took with Tupik, even though it was the tunnels were many. And eventually, you find yourself spruce. filling out into the cavern with the troll bridge. And as you begin to attempt to descend with the high wind down into the troll width,

the troll bridge, you realize. I'm going down, yeah, it's the ascended zepard, but yeah, we're different. Flying circuit, whatever I can, flying circuit, whatever. We're trying a couple names. It's got a million names. It's got a million names.

As you attempt to take it down into the cavern, you remember that crossing this cavern on foot was difficult with the amount of wind that is rushing past it. And you don't believe you're gonna be able to take the flying circus into this cavern. You're going to have to climb on foot. But from this vantage point,

you can see very clearly that there is a winding pathway that seems to lead down. It looks as though it's been worn by troll feet. I can bring it down through this wind. I'm gonna have to land above it. We're gonna have to hove it the rest of the way. No, get sure, there's gotta be some other kind of way.

Isn't there some fade button you can just hit to solve this problem, please? Oh, wait. Well, this button says, float like a leaf on the wind. Hang on. Gideon dies instantly. No, he doesn't.

You do feel yourself float like a leaf on the wind. Unfortunately, the wind in here is incredible, and the flying circus begins to whip in the opposite direction of where you want to go. Man, it was cool and Alitutu did it.

Didn't you watch Serenity? You're supposed to die. I was referencing Serenity. Yes, I know. I don't know if I understand that reference. I've never seen Serenity, so I don't understand any of them. And he died when he landed Frost, okay? Read a book. Oh, was this fool? That you just did? Oh, you gotta be kidding, Torbeck.

No. Torbeck, you don't watch movies. You guys suck. Yeah, watch more media. Anyway. Wait, that's not the film. That's the TV show, because I probably won't see the TV. That's the film. No.

Yeah, because the TV show's called Firefly. Damn, right? You guys are the worst. Anyway. All right. All flying around and land wherever we're supposed to. You just land on the side of the bridge and you're able to anchor the flying circus and you see that you don't have to cross the bridge.

The pathway down does seem to be worn by the feats of trolls, well-worn path that the trolls probably take when they're coming up to scavenge for food or whatever. But it seems to go down into the cavern. And at first you're concerned with the wind so strong, how are you going to stay attached to this footpath? But you see very quickly that, or you feel very quickly, that as you step on to the pathway,

the wind doesn't feel as strong down here. Very fortunate. Oh. We seem to be protected on this path, and I propose that we move down. It just carry forward. I mean, we got a sword to forge, I guess. Yeah. All right.

This is kind of, this is like the vibe that we've felt in our vision, right? Of the future. Does it feel like kind of one, does it feel a little familiar? We saw a bridge, didn't we? Did we see a bridge or no? This is the bridge where you, with the trolls. We crossed to get to Obez Grotto, that's right.

Nothing else happens. But in the dream, we saw a bridge, right? In this very bridge. Okay. We're in the right place. We're on the right track. We're gonna find. find this shod. You know what they say? The best time to forge a sword was 20 years ago,

but the next best time is today. All right. Yeah. You got some great sayings today, Torbett. Thank you, Gideon. Torbeck's trying. Wow. Are you ready? I'm ready, man. All right, Torbeck lead the way. Of course, absolutely, Mr. Gramey, and I begin to walk down this path. Good call. Hoping that I will be protected by the from the wind lead towards what I hope to believe is a magical of some kind. You begin to descend and the wind is strong but it's not as strong as it was when you were crossing the bridge and you begin to just to descend this winding path. It's almost like a goat path along the mountain where it zigzags downwards.

You travel as you descend and you see the corrupted wish stones below you sparkling and shining and as you descend you doesn't feel like they're getting any closer but you're descending. it seems like it's taking hours. It's really only been about 30 minutes, maybe 40 minutes of descending, but you are getting tired. And you continue to descend, but you don't see any caverns.

You don't see any entrances into the walls. You don't see any way to walk further down this cavern. It's almost just taking you straight down until eventually you see down below you, which looks to be a half-circle platform, jutting out of the side of the mountain. And if the shadows are indicative of what's there, the mouth of a cave.

I look to some of the corrupted wishstones as we're approaching the mouth of this cave and say, talk about a grim reminder, Torbeck almost forgot there's Brighamak hell. You ain't never talking about this, do you? And I will begin to move towards the mouth of this cave to see if I can cross the threshold. You make your way down.

Are you going down by yourself? You're right behind. I'm just going first because I'm a sacrifice. I'll give a sacrifice. An unknowing sacrifice. You make your way down and you step on a platform. Exactly right. You kind of test it with your foot just to make sure that it's sturdy and solid.

And it is. And as you go to round the mouth of the cave, you immediately see a long, like beigeish, slightly green hand reach its way out as a troll is leaning up against the archway. Yeah, what are you doing here, big boy? Go back, go back, go, go, go, go, go back, go back, to rut, turn, run, what is it? What is it?

I try to turn around. No, you know I like it when you're right. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I was right under your tanks. Some sort of creature lounging in a sensual manner. Don't be afraid. It's probably a troll. This just sounds like a job for King's Mamia.

Just talk to, talk to, talk to. King Vibulac's not here, Dormac, we have you. You're looking so beautiful today. Oh, Torbeck? Oh, yeah, you're delicious, honey. D'ermake may have been a little hasty, everyone. See, this, you go, get in there. Look at how tall you are and how buff.

Oh, wow, nobody's ever seen that same way of Gideon before. Oh, that's true. What are you doing down here? What's your name? Oh, my name's Grunda. Grunda. Torbeck's name is Torbeck. It's a pleasure. Oh, a sexy name for a sexy man. And she like presses her boobs together and shimmies a little.

Wow. Oh, I'm just hanging out down here all by my son. Really? Wow. I'm feeling lonely. Just by itself, thank God. Yeah, Torbeck's, you know, lonely from town. Well, we're getting a little off topic here. Dorbeck and his friends are interested in what potentially lies beyond the threshold of this. I could be lying beyond the threshold of this, Gavin.

Delightful opening. If you catch Torbett. I've got a delightful opening. With your name on it, honey. Oh, boy. Wow. Man, it's hard to do. The question becomes, what's Torvite got to do to get through to this game?

Say, please. Oh, pretty please. With sugar on top. I'm sugar. I say vile films to make in goblin. Vile face. I think I need a little hit of your witch like. Give me just like a little taste.

Well, Torbeck's got to stay hydrated for my one hand. So let's see. He's not the answer. Ooh. All right, gentlemen, Torbeck thinks we've got an end. Torbeck, I think you got just distract her for like two to four minutes, however long you can keep it up. And then we'll just walk right in there and get the thing. Let us know when the coast is clear, all right?

All right. Come on in, baby. Yeah, you and Torbeck, let's find a dark corner of this game. Oh, there are many dark corners in this game. Come on. Come on. All right. Good luck, gentlemen.

Come on. Okay, Torbeck's lucky days arrived. To see you in three minutes. Okay. Brenda leads Torbeck into the cavern. So where'd you want to go? Torbeck is going to rock your world for 59 seconds. Oh, I can't wait.

Just right over here against this wall or that one. Let's start on this one and make our way over the other. 30 and 29, Mama's got you. And she pulls you to the wall. 59 seconds passes, and you see Torbeck make his way out of the cavern looking for you. But you have all made your way in past. We all have to make a quick time event. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then when they're swapping walls, you have to dodge out. You have to dodge out the way. But you don't need to make a stealth roll because the noises that they're making are obscene and far too loud, and there's no way they would ever hear you. But you're able to sneak in.

Torbett, you make your way out and you look around and nobody's there. But Grunda seems to have pieced out. She's done. So you're able to go back in and follow their tracks. Choochee? So I come out and I look at right. Guys, guys.

Gronda, what am all my friends? Granda? Gronda, where do you go? Direct on maybe we can go see a movie. Or get food? Oh, man. Gronda, are you there? Oh, man.

Oh, Gronda's only here for a good time, not a long time. Sorry, honey. And then she skulks back into the shadows. Many such cases. What? Gold pieces for Uber money? That's terrible. How could you use Torbeck like this?

Guys! We're down here, Tollbeck! We're down here. We're in the cave where we're... They're down in the plane, dolemy. Okay. Oh, no. Your Torbe is coming.

See, Uncle Tolbeck's gonna be real sad for a while. You can't do anything about it. He just, this is a character development canon event, I think. So, so let's, uh, let's, uh, sing us your favorite song. Uh, release the burdens of familiar oppressor and, and, and embrace your newfound icy powers that's very legally distinct from anything else that young girls your age love to listen to. Okay. Stifling sobs.

Uh, I attempt to find my friends. however long that might take. It doesn't take you long to catch up with them. You may be sad and you may be slow and you may be tired from your 59 seconds in heaven, but you are still capable and you make your way towards your friends and catch up with them.

The trek through these tunnels is long. They are winding. Occasionally you find yourselves met with one, two, or sometimes even three choices of pathway to take. And somehow, almost instinctively, You just get a feeling. This time we should take the left.

This time we should take the middle path. Left again. Right, right, right, right, middle. And you don't know why, but there is something you feel drawing you down these pathways. It takes a while. Occasionally you hear sounds within these corridors, potentially trolls about.

But you don't see Grunda again. She is gone. as you continue deeper into these caves. You begin, you feel yourself descending for a significant portion of this, portion of this. And occasionally you imagine that you see bits of wishstone and corrupted wishstone embedded in the walls and the way that they sparkle. There is, you don't even have to light a light. The wish stones themselves are illuminating these caves as they speckle the walls. You continue to wander through the tunnels in the darkness.

as it starts to get darker and darker, and you lose track of time. But you press forward through the supernatural sense of your vision from the ory of tragedy. And finally, you see a light in the darkness that illuminates a set of stairs, seemingly ancient. You make your way up into a primordial stone chamber

and ahead of you is a smooth pedestal upon which is the tip of a sword, gleaming and studdingly radiant silver and crimson. You have found the front of the foreman first shard of the forkl sword. And that is where we'll end the session. Thanks for running the session, Nick. Thank you for having sex with the troll, Torvac. I reach out to grab this shard. Thank you so much for listening to the Legends of Aventras podcast. We hope you enjoyed the session. If you want even more campaigns to listen to,

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