Nerd Poker - The Fog Campaign - Episode 17

Episode Date: April 29, 2025

Of COURSE the treasure vault has three gelatinous detritus tubes full of toothed leviathan tongues. What podcast did you think this was, anyway? We now take you to a party of scrawny detectives trying to wade through walls of plasmatic murder. For 3 bonus episodes a month and more, subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/nerdpoker . For merch, social media, and more be sure to head to nerdpokerpod.com.

Hey, it's Brian Possein, nerd poker. We're calling it The Sog Campaign. My friends are here, Chris, Blaine, Ken, Engineer Sam, and of course our kick-ass DM Dan Telfer welcome to nerd poker hey everybody it's Brian Pesane you're listening to nerd poker. It's me. My friends are here. It's the fog campaign. It's episode 1717. Chris is here. Brian, it's me.

Hey, pal. Hi. Don't tell Ken you're here. Who's not here? Chris is here. Oh, what? Oh, shit. Oh, hi.

I'm not supposed to tell you. I'm going to stab you in the head. Dan, what? Are we alone? Yeah. OK. I killed someone. You have to help me clean it up. Oh, shit. Again. You got to work on your temper. Sorry, buddy. Blaine's here. Brian, Dan killed me. If only Sam could keep this bit alive. Hello, sweet children.

This is good for ASMR. Uh huh. Yuck. People complain about us doing that. Don't do that. Let's do it. Can you do it in a Kua Toa voice? Oh, man.

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If we figured out we'll we'll talk about it. It's a E T E R N U M Dave. So to a terms, it's not here, man. No, man, I'm in terms of Dave. But thanks to all you guys for supporting us. Yeah, and you know what? Why don't we talk about what happened last time on Nerd Poker? Do it. We are in the temple of some Sahuagans slash Saguagans.

I forget, but they are a fish people who abandoned their temple to some sort of God or demi-God. We may be about to find out, but after purchasing this map to the Vault of Treasurer from the Thieves Guild, our heroes were taken by a Kua Toa guide through a gate and then themselves they brought... I'm getting kind of the words of the sentence mixed up a little bit here, but I'm watching

Ken like move his fingers over the map while I try to form a sentence. My point is although the Kua Toa got them there, they found their way through a puzzle already and loot along the way. You guys have gone through the beginning of the Fallopian tubes and now have the opportunity to approach the vulva. There are two long tunnels that you're about to head down. They're boxy but they're good. You are, you know, with a Kua Toa. They are a champion warrior.

They're, you know, like doing their best to guide you through, but they've never been here. This is, this is somewhere that they only go once in a while and they've heard a lot of stories. This place is dangerous. It's a dangerous place. It's a dangerous place. It's a dangerous place. You swam through this opaque mud.

Excuse me. I had Dr. Pepper hiccup. You guys swam through this opaque mud to get here where there were giant skulls from leviathans hidden underneath. It was very soupy, thick water that was mud tinged as much as anything right now you're Right at the precipice of the next chamber

So Which were here here or here here right there. So you go down this long winding tunnel or here? Right there. So you go down this long winding tunnel that looks like it was designed to be flushed with water. As you head through, you remember that you just came from two chambers. You had to choose one, two chambers, one that seemed to dump acid into it for those who tried to get through without having the right equipment. And then one that dumped magma into it. And so you think maybe these were designed for a quick stream of water to rinse the guts, the bones, the magma and acid. And you're heading into another chamber where you see something is written in deep speech,

chiseled into a small bit of stone. And then there are what look like giant aqueduct-like tubes and the floor is almost completely like impossible to understand because there's just this mud roiling back and forth between these things. And it's so thick that it's almost like just tubes of mud rising above the ground, splashing and sloshing everywhere. And it's above the floor line.

So think of it as like, uh, like a tube of cookie dough being squeezed through a trough back and forth. It's still viscous and wet enough that it's rushing back and forth quickly. You think you see all kinds of debris stuck in it, but it's flowing back and forth. It's almost like three gelatinous cubes in like tube form sloshing quickly back and forth. And that pack of deep speech is, is like right on the ground in front of those three chambers.

What does it say? Does anybody speak deep speech? I do not. Don't think I do. Oh, that were written in common. I speak depth speech, so I'm going to need a box of wine. As a wine, he drinks a lot of wine, Johnny Depp. A lot of wine. I speak a few languages, but that's not one of them.

Do you speak Latin? Yes. It's the root language for so many. See. Well, the Kuatua that you're with meals and tries to read it. He tries to clear his throat so he can get the exposition that is coming out as clearly as possible for his new friends. But he, you know, he seems concerned. He tells you, just past here, I believe the Sagoon who lived here worshiped their god, but it wasn't a true god. The reason

this temple fell is because it was some sort of cosmic being from another plane. He could not support his followers and his followers could not completely summon him here. So his idol remains looking over the greatest treasure that these people once had. people once had. I've never been here. I can just barely understand that this carving in front of us has five lines. I'm not sure what it says. So you can't read it. I speak common and under common. Anybody? Yeah, me too. Anybody else? Deep speech. Nothing. Sorry.

Let's see. I wonder if one of my magical abilities will have this. Plant growth? No, that probably won't do it. Liamen's tiny hut. Nope. Nope. Um, Aide? Probably not. What about Entenmann's taste of cakes? Oh yeah, with raspberry and glaze. Oh Jesus. It's so good. Sometimes that's just why I eat it wrong.

So it collects on your neck and then you get to have like a, uh, like a wet neck taco of Entenmann's. I call it Blanish. Oh, I have a spell here. Uh, solve problem, Dan. I'm going to cast solve problem. Oh my gosh.

Congratulations. You guys win. Speak any language in this. Well, you do think you could, um, you know, try to decode it. If you wanted to stop for a second, um, who would require one of you with an intelligence score of at least 15. And you would have to roll a DC 20 insight or investigation, your choice. Ooh. And if you could beat it, you wouldn't get all the words, but you would get, um, uh, a sense of it.

I have a 17 intelligence or passive, uh passive insight of 20 and passive investigation of 21. Jeez. Good. All right. I'll tell you what, if you, what is your bonus to those two things? If you roll, uh, tend to insight and, uh, Jesus tend to perception. Good golly. Okay.

If you can be, that's what Ms. Molly said, if you can be, that's what Miss Molly said. If you can beat a, um, a 25 on one of those roles, you can completely decode it because you're a detective genius, but I'm asking for a 25, if you can beat a 20, I'll give you like the vibe. 15 plus 10. 10, 25. Oh shit. Okay. Wow. Yay. That's handy.

That's maybe these tiny dice are the best. That's maybe the highest DC I've given you guys that you've actually made the roll. So that's pretty cool. Oh wow. All right. I've studied aquariums up when I was a kid. Yeah. So I'm good with fish. Yeah. Okay. So this is a very strange sort of instruction that it looks like was meant for. I'm going to look it up. What is it? Fucking Saho again or sagoo ahead.

You remember? Yes. Me there. So who is the wagon? So like so who look at the wagons connected. a wagon. So I hooligan. So Hogan's connected. All right. So hooligan. It's connected. He is saying we

cooling. It's New York. Hey, what is it's, it's instructions for how to get past. And the rough translation in deep speech is, and I can text this to you, every first, third, and ninth minute, the Leviathan's tongues crave more. The parasites fill the time between.

Excuse me. What? That makes no sense at all. Which one did you roll blame? Uh, I'm going to say, uh, insight. Are they the same bonus? What'd you get a plus 10 to both the same?

Yes. OK. I will. OK. I already gave away that this is going to be insight related, but you did roll a 25. I mean, you think that there is going to be some sort of schedule here every first, third and ninth minute. And I think it takes you long enough to translate this that you're all sitting around for a while.

And there are some very violent rushes in this thick mud like stuff that is just like turning through. And so every minute it gets heavy and then every third minute it gets heavy and then every night it seems to get heavy more often than that. So you think that maybe this is how often that is specifically a Leviathan tongue.

And a Leviathan tongue is is what just the I'll let everybody mud blast. You can you can all roll this one. It will be either a history or a nature check and it'll be a 22 history. I'm really more of a city boy. But the right works tomorrow. 18 plus seven history, 25. Holy fuck. Jesus.

18, 15, 25. Holy fuck. Jesus. 18, 15 plus two nature. Meow. Meow. 18 plus three history. Oh shit. Nice. Jesus, you guys are incredible. All right, so you two history buffs

are thinking about all of the giant monsters you've heard of, Leviathans often being either aquatic ones or, you know, sort of massive things from other realms. Leviathan tongue could mean so many things, but because it's plural, Blaine, you can also refer to that. I did text it to you. You can refer to the specific language if you want, but you think that there is some sort of, if it's on a schedule, some sort of massive being in the mud nearby and it's just sort of reflexively either while it's hibernating or impulsively with like not even its own mind, just like regularly churning through

here looking for either sacrifices or meat or something. Okay. What do we have that we can toss in there? Oh wait, we have to sacrifice something for it to go away? You don't know, that's not implied, but it does say the parasites fill the time between. I mean, little peepers, you've been so helpful. What? We have food, I guess we could.

Oh yeah, here's your food. But also, do we need to throw food in there? It doesn't sound like we need to make a sacrifice. This is the part that's kind of impossible to know. You have to just sort of try things. Yeah. Is the parasites fill the time between, is that like, maybe they're just eating, eating stuff in the mud.

Yeah. Then we can run through as quickly as possible. Does the mud seem to be less churning at any point for us? Like, does there seem to be a time when it, we could move faster? What is sort of frustrating is it is almost like every 45 seconds it's churning, but yeah, there are gaps. You think you could time it where you run through, but you would have to really find a pattern.

You would all have to pay really close attention. I would have you all roll perception checks. Can we all pay attention really specifically around the first, third and ninth minutes? That seems to be the thing, right? If you all roll, why don't you all roll a perception check to see if you can tell, if you can find within this mud signs of a Leviathan tongue

and start to piece together which one of these churning things are the first third and ninth minute of its pattern. Five plus eight is 16. Nice. Twenty one. Nineteen. Holy shit. Yeah. Between all you guys, you're able to figure it out. There's these horrible, like brown tubes just like covered in like teeth that are just kind of like like reaching in and out.

And in between it looks like there are sea creatures that are like swimming through the mud and biting at things and eating debris as well. So you just occasionally see these like jaws of fish kind of like going like looking for something to chew on. And then occasionally see this very thick, fleshy, ropey tongue with like little hooks on it, reaching through and pulling back. And you all are paying close enough attention. You find the first third and ninth minute. And that means instead of doing a perception check as you go, that is high, high, like really high. I'm gonna have you do an athletics check

because you know the biggest gap is gonna be between the third and ninth minute. You'll have six whole minutes. But again, it's to scale, but it's not one-to-one. You can sort of see they're pretty wide. So in six minutes, get all of you guys through this churning mud thing is still gonna be a difficult athletics check. Couldn't we do some of us through a six minute

and then wait it again and go the rest through the next six minute slot? Yes. Like if that compression is a problem, right? Like there's definitely a way where you could take advantage of not doing it all at once or doing it in groups. Great. It's very hard to tell between the map and this how far you have to go through the mud.

You know, it's like, it's like passing through an opaque gelatinous cube like anything could happen. You can't see the other side. You don't, you don't know if you're going to be, we can't see how far this is. No, there's just walls of this mud gelatinous stuff rising. So we, so we can't, we can't see where the actual end of, end of where we're trying to cross. We have the map. The map, I assume, tells us that there is a door. And there's a gap, but it's not big enough to squeeze through and not touch this churning

mud. You can see over it if you fly up 15 feet. If you want to try that and roll a perception check, someone who can fly or cast fly on somebody, it won't tell you exactly how wide it is, but you can narrow it down. Right now, you can narrow it down to like, okay, this is these, these gaps are either like 10 feet wide, at least, or 20 at most. I'll let you narrow it down more and help your other more dangerous check if someone can get up to the ceiling and peer over. Yeah, I was gonna say, is there space to go over under these?

I'm trying to describe how there's, yeah, like I didn't get to that until a couple of seconds ago, but I did say there's like just not big enough to get through. There's like six inches, you can kind of go like, like that. So if someone can fly up there. Well, we know it's 15 feet off the ground. You can't like peer over on your tipping toes. We can see, I assume. Sort of this shoot, like just to get a sense of how far so we can.

And we know because we have the map, right. We know that this is where we're headed. We can't see this right now. So what if we, knowing that, when we get to the sixth minute, let's just decide who the first group is and haul ass through it. We'll probably have to fight off shit.

And I don't have any, like, I can't fly, but I'm sure we've got spells and stuff that can help us. I mean, I have fly as a spell, but. Okay. Well, that could maybe hang on to that. And if things start going south, you can start flying and maybe help people get out of there. Yeah.

Unless you want to just burn it. Now, how long does fly last for? 10 minutes. Are you low on spell slots? Not long enough. I don't know. How's your NPC? Yeah, I can do it. Uh, 10 minutes. Are you low on spell slots? Yeah, I can do it. I can do it. So that might help. Like if you can at least fly, that's you and maybe helping pull somebody through.

Meanwhile, the rest of us can haul ass and will you let us know Dan, like from the beginning, should we just go in smaller groups? That's a better way to do it Chris you do an insight check Natural 20 You guys are rolling great like this whole campaign really six twenty six you think that the benefit would be 26. 26. You think that the benefit would be kind of one of those classic D and D someone goes ahead and fixes a rope sort of situation.

I'm not saying it'd be a rope, you know, and these tongue things could knock the rope around as they go by, but it's something. Yeah, like you could establish some sort of connection. You could be on the other side ready to reach in and pull people through. There would be an advantage to that. So maybe what if we tie ourselves off and like, how many do we have? We have the four of us plus the six total. So do we want to do like, do you want to break up the NPCs?

Like have little peepers go in the first group and grew go in the second. And then maybe split up the rogues have like, because the Coley and, uh and you go first. Yeah, sure. Shalom with with Peepers and we can. Luke says he would be happy to go first. He feels confident that he would at least not get sucked down one of the tubes, which is one of the dangers.

OK, so yeah, so Peepers can stay with us. That's great. Who will go first with me? That'll be me and my first colleague. Yeah, holy address. Did you get recast with a different

actor since last week? I'm afraid so. Still doing the voice, but somebody who is are you Finn Diesel? It's a Zoyberg. Yeah. Before you guys go, are we friends or family?

We'll find out when we get to Olive Garden and give you guys each bardic inspiration, all strong. Terrific. I can give you guys each bardic inspiration, I'll strum. So you each can add a D8 to any roll for the next 10 minutes. One time, you've got to use once, but it's better than regular guidance. It's bardic inspiration. I have a minus one to minus one. Who doesn't? You can fly.

You haven't peeked over the top yet. Well, I'll. The last sort of bit of prep I've told you that you could do. It's not going to give you an exact idea, but you can, instead of saying 10 to 20 feet, you could narrow it down by five more feet. Well, if we're ready to go, I will cast fly. Okay. Spicoli.

Yes. We know you got this friend. With a perception. Yeah. Yes. We know you got this friend. We're counting on you. Perception. Yeah. It's going to be you two and Gloog the fish man. What am I rolling? I said 12. He's scouting first.

You can't really tell unfortunately with a 12. Should we tie a rope maybe to Spicoli? Are you comfortable if we tie a rope to your waist so that way if you guys once you guys get across we'll have a rope to help us get all the way you're there. Are you comfortable with that? So that the movie will need to do that before the tongues come, I guess. What tongues? Because the, you know, yeah, that's why we're asking the rope. If we can go fast. Yeah, we'll see.

I mean the rope may not last, but it may be does. Okay. All right. So you guys get all tied up. But you're going to you're going to try and touch each other like link arms. What are you going to do here? Oh, you said you're going to fly. How's that working? You're going to like tug them while you fly. I guess, yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, pull him along through. I'll try and stay as high as I can over. He's got a rope tied to him right now. You both have guidance on you.

Yes, Bartek inspiration, Bartek inspiration. OK, so is it athletics? What was it, bro? Yeah, it was my role. Yeah. Yeah. And you both put your fishbowl helmets back on to make sure that you can breeze. This is going to be an athletics check to try to trudge through as your faces disappear into this rushing gelatinous mud So that's a three

Have a 22 nice glug rolled an 18 and The things attacking you rolled a two. So that's a 10. My athletic. All right, 10. You know what that is? Perfectly accepted. And you know what else that means?

That means as you fly, you're actually going to be getting dragged along and everyone else is helping you. Gloog and Spicoli, originally thinking you're flying would be a boon that brings them quicker, find themselves, grabbing onto Dzel's arms and just sort of yanking him like a tantrumy two-year-old through the mud. You feel multiple points fish smacking against your ribs. At one point you feel something long and serpentine that's not

one of the tongues but possibly a shark. Like just the feeling of a shark, like kind of slapping its tail against you as you go through this mud. Slapping of a shark. And the three of you managed to come out the other side. As you can tell, there's not really like a ton of room, but there is like a little walkway between these tubes. You see the second of three ahead of you.

For now, the rope is taut, but who is holding onto it on the other end? Who is stopping between each one? Are you? I don't know if that's what you're saying. Well, how long is this rope that you're? 50 feet. Yeah, 50 hundred feet.

Did you say 50 hundred feet? Whatever, we're at 85,000 feet. 52. What's the standard length of rope? It's 50. 50, yeah feet, whatever, we're going to be five. To a standard like the roads 50, 50, 50. OK. You would find just after this first one before going into the second one that this probably won't make it through all three. The rope. All right. So we tie a second one on to it.

Well, you could. Who's but you're holding it on the other end. Well, it's just kind of going right now. Yeah, I guess I could be feeding it. Yeah, but there will be an athletics check DC 15 to not have its whip out of your hands as the mud starts to yank at it. Very good. I'll bet.

Plus three. I'm going to give myself guidance. 19 plus 22. Look at you guys in your roles. So you hang on to it. you tie another end to it. Of course you can call over those six inches. It's very loud, all this churning, but you can spend enough time just going,

hey, hey, hey, over that little gap to eventually be like, yeah, why don't you tie another rope? That's how I'm solving the meta that is happening of you wanting to do that, Chris. And so, yeah, you, you three are now through to the next end. What's, uh, what's next for the other three folks? You go in and wave two. No, I think we're, we're waiting for the next six minutes, right?

Isn't it what we talked about? Yes. We're going to go like this, man. These dungeon masters can't bait you guys into nothing. All right. Yeah. Right. But we're waiting for the next six minute phase. And sure enough, not more than, you know. And can we, should hold the rope down on the ground. As low as you want it.

After about a minute, there's a churning when you can kind of feel Twidden and Spicoli just, the rope is getting taught as something slams into it. Can I get a strength saving throw from you two? Who? Spicoli and Twidden. Cool. Me. Okay.

Something is slamming into the rope and you know it's the time. I see. Natural 20. Jeez Louise. What is it? Athletics? A strength saving throw. Oh, strength saving throw. We do. We do the saving throws when things happen to you. Jeez Louise. What is it? Athletics? A strength saving throw. We do the

saving throws when things happen to you. Plus one. So 21. Okay. Eight. Did you? No, we don't have a. You have a bardic inspiration. Yeah, you can roll it. You have bardic inspiration? Yeah, you can roll it. So I just add to it. A D8. Okay. What's your total so far? 11.

Okay. Yeah, you'll want to roll that bardic inspiration. 16. Nice. You really feel your waist tugging. You like almost get pulled right back into the tube to like get sucked in, but you managed to dig your heels in. My music saved you. I've never said that out loud before.

And then you guys are now going to know that there's another two minutes, a very small gap in time in that before the third minute happens and there's another rush as the tongue slams against the rope again. I needed to end their strength saving throw from Spicoli and Twedden. No, I'm not good. Strength saving through a 10. Okay.

Do you have inspiration? I did not get myself part of it. I'm just saving them for getting across. All right. 19, that's good. You're on a 19. 19 plus three. Nice. Two.

And then do I still get inspiration? You don't need it. Okay. And you did use it. You used it. Cool. Siam, you see Twiddon just go into the mud. Twiddon, you get yanked.

Okay. You're currentlyid and just go into the mud Twitter you get yanked. Okay, you're you're currently free and loose But you you have a moment where if you want you can let go of the rope and try to grab and pull yourself Back to where you just came from or you can hang on to the rope. Oh, no, what's the choice? Okay or you can hang on to the rope. What is the choice? I'll climb back. Okay. That'll be a Dex save to, we'll call that athletics or acrobatics your choice. That's not a save, you're choosing. I guess acrobatics.

Okay, so you're gonna have to kind of do a flip around to grab and drag yourself out. This'll be a DC of 16. 13 plus six is 19. Hey, okay. So he almost gets swept away. But you see him kind of do a very athletic acrobatic flip around and yank himself back to you. But he's talking about with the mud and the fur. That's terrible. Yeah. Yeah. The rope, you hang on to it, but it kind of comes up loose in your hand. Twidden has accidentally let go.

Well, there's another minute and then a rush as the tongue rides by this time, no rope to collide with. And the pattern just sort of repeats while you guys stand around thinking about what to do next. Right. So we're going to go on the six minute. It's one minute and three then. Yeah. So whatever the next break is go.

There seems to be a minute between the ninth minute and the next first. So it's like, it's like tongue, tongue, tongue, gap of six minutes. Tongue, tongue, tongue. Got it. So where are we now? In the- Yeah, we're ahead of one tongue. We've had one tongue.

Right, but I'm saying, is it time for us to go? Yeah, it's your choice. Is wave one going next or is wave two catching up to you? Wave to the six minutes. No, that's right. Yeah, wait till- Chris Casey's such a don't you dare. That's what I know, I'm asking if it's after we're at So it's such a don't you dare.

That's what I know. I'm asking if it's ever at the six minute. I don't think we are. I will. You can actually time it. I mean, like we're you know, we know when it's happening. It's the real the real hard part was was figuring it out. And now if you don't make your athletics

check as a group, you will sort of like potentially be in the tunnel while it collides by. But yeah, is group A gonna keep trudging ahead or is they gonna wait for a group B to catch up? I would say the two groups should go at the same time. No. No? No. All right.

So you say- I've got my hand firmly on that cat. I'm just like, we're going to wait till the next round. To witness established himself as a team. So I understand. But he told us before it would be tough if we all tried to do it in one. So we're going to do it. OK. OK. Separately.

I'm believing Dan when he says, OK, I miss that. So are you going to which is you? We're going to go on that. OK, I'm the six. So are you going to, which is, you, I'll see you. So can I get an athletics check again, Brian from you and Ken and glug. Glu got a dirty 20. Nice. That means he has syphilis. I had a natural 20. Oh, mine minus one.

Oh, got a real G. Boo. And then let's see. Six. Okay. What is your AC, Brian? 400, I go team. Oh, we're gonna get you a metal shirt. You feel something collide into your ribs as the jaws of something clamp down on you. And it's being carried with the current of this mud, yanking you towards the opening and out into the sea of mud beneath the city.

You'll do a check to not be pulled away. It first does do do do do do do do do do. Have you thought of attacking this tongue? Yeah, maybe. Yes. Well, this is going to happen first, but yes, that is certainly an option. It's going to do. Yeah, Brian, you should kill that tongue. 14 points of piercing damage,

and I'm going to need a strength saving throw to not get ripped into the tunnel And what are we still in our wake though? Hmm, are we still holding out to each other? Yes So can I make an effort to try to pull him away from whatever's if he fails this? Yes, okay Looks like a yes Uh, looks like a yes. 10 and no, uh, that's it. Right? Yeah.

So you start to get pulled by these, get me old finger. The, these jaws that clamp down on your ribs, Spicoli you feel, uh, Spicoli, you feel, uh, not cool, man. Uh, you feel this, this yank Shalab is as, as your friend Spicoli is getting pulled. So this is going to be an athletics check at DC 16. Oh no. That's a six. You should watch when you do it. You start to get ripped down.

And now this is going to be a check. Yeah. A check for glug to try to keep both of you from going. OK. Oh, yeah. Oh, Jesus. Oh, God. Yeah. It counts. Dirty 20. So he's just let's get one more athletics check. You guys have now had to spend extra time trying not to get swept away. So you have to roll a second athletics track. 11. Nice. Look at that 20. Nice. 17.

You managed to yoink, shalob, yet again, and get through to the other side of, with one more tube of mud ahead of you, successfully stepping into that platform. We'll have to see how that goes on our next episode of Nerding Pokes. Hey Sam, what do you think happened today? Episode 17, we are still walking around in this giant muddy complex and something is swimming around and biting us. Yeah, that's pretty much it. That's correct. Dan, anything you want to plug?

You can hire me at dantelord.com. Wish you would. Oh, and I get it. I, you know, when I found out I got a new phone in December and I was at a party and we, there are a couple of people there who have cameo and they were like talking about like cameo, why don't you have cameo? I was like, I do, but no one's ever hired me on cameo. And they were like, really? Never. And I was like, yeah, I don't know what's up, man.

Maybe I'm just not famous anymore. And then I looked, the alerts got turned off when, and I had just installed cameo before I got a new phone. So for the first month, no, but in the like four months since I got my new phone, I missed a bunch of cameo requests. So if you guys want to look me up on cameo, I'll make a silly little video for you. Also, I still do that voice. You're doing the voice.

Hello. Happy birthday to Dennis. Dennis. Wait a minute. I might hire you. Happy birthday. I love you. Bramperstain.com is for me.

Um, uh, Rifter's trade Paperback is out now in stores. So go to a comic shop and pick that up. And Gromitz is coming soon. In August, Cape and Cowl is having Rick Remmender and I up to Oakland for their little con. And I did it last year and it's super fun. So if you're in the Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco area, and you like comical books and beers come by, it's at a brew pub kind of thing in Berkeley. Right near, um, kind of the classic, uh, where Golden Gate Bridge, Operation Ivy and all those guys.

Yeah, Berkeley. And Rancid and, yeah. Gilman Street. Gilman Street, exactly. It's right. I think it's literally on Gilman Street. So come out to that. And then I don't have stand up till July, but it's in Canada somewhere.

So this week I'm in like in a cave behind a waterfall. Yeah. And you're not coming back because you're hiding from the United States government. This week I'm in Ontario at Cape Cod. Come on to that. That's it. We attribute the success to save mankind from... Thanks for joining us on this epi- You got walls and a roof? Well- Uh oh. Uh oh. Uh oh.

Come on, come on, come on. Come on. Come on. Oh shit, I forgot I mic'd. Uh, Brian says something's bulls rung on the next nerd poker. Uh oh.

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