Nerd Poker - The Fog Campaign - Episode 37

Episode Date: September 16, 2025

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Hey, it's Brian Posein. Nerd Poker. We're calling it... The Sod campaign. My friends are here. Chris Blaine. Ken, engineer Sam, and of course our kick-ass DM,

Dan Telford. Welcome to Nerd Poker Hey everybody It's Brian for saying You're listening to Nerd Poker And my friends are here We're doing a Zoom episode Because everybody's schedule is wonky

Sam was recording this for fucking Hawaii And won't even say hi to us He's Underwater Eating coconuts A no Hang it from a tree. All this deep and tiny bubbles.

Yep. So, but that was, uh, Ken, Blame and Dan. Chris is also here. Hello. Hey, pal. Hi. Now, are you still in Vancouver? Are you back home?

No, I'm home now. Oh, cool, cool. Welcome home. Why did you come back? Yeah, no kidding. We're all trying to get you to take us there. They went on to say. Let's, uh, oh, so since he's,

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All right, so it's time to talk about what happened last time on nerd poker, the fog campers. The fog campaign. Excuse me. I finally coughed a dungeon master up. That voice is gone forever. No, the ding-dong danglers have descended into the basement of City Hall. Not our name. Oh, that's funny, because I had plaque made that I'm going to hang outside your house next time we record it your house, right?

I'll rip it off and smash it and set it on fire. Well, I knew you were going to do that, actually. So it is fireproof and breakproof. No, it's not. No. Not with the determination level that I have. Oh, wow. All right.

Well, folks, if you subscribe to us on our $325 per month level on Patreon, I will send you a ding-dong dangler's plaque that I have had customer made for the Possein household and is no longer welcome. Anyhow, on behalf of Philip the Plank, a Kuatowa head of the Thieves Guild that you guys met. The Thieves Guild is run by a rotating number of anonymous people. This particular one told you that his name was Philip, the first time someone as the Plank has offered their real name and asked if you could go into City Hall and rid it of an artifact that keeps Kuatua from entering Delsmith City Hall. Many of the denizens of Delzmouth have left over the last few months,

some even over the last couple of weeks when the non-ding dong, non-danglers have been in town. And there's become increasing hostilities between the Kuwaitoa and the gnomes and elves and humans. So what Philip is hoping to do is take control to the town. And you guys were kind of on board. So you headed in the city hall, found some dead bodies, worm-ridden dead bodies in the boarded-up

disused city hall and descended into the basement. So right now you guys are in a basement and if you would like to tab on over to roll 20 you can see it. I want to grow up to B

B in D-Basement. I got to send Nick Heel some screen grabs of these maps. De-basement. You know a little slideshow going to that on the old IG. But you are kind of hitting a wall. There's no door.

You found evidence of footprints going down some stairs. Right now, you guys are all located in a sort of big room with empty barrels, empty crates, signs of worms, empty cots, and some stairs that go down a little, then down a little more, and then have a blank wall. And so you're trying to figure out, okay, well, since some footsteps go down these little substairs and there's a wall, maybe there's something we can go, some way we can get through the wall, but you have yet to kind of nail that part down. And there was some magic behind the wall, I guess, some small signs of magic. Yeah, you're getting some distant pings.

I do remember that coming up, and I do remember giving you a rather unsatisfactory result. And why don't you all roll an insight check for that one? Okay. No, I said, I said, do it. Don't, don't, I don't need me immediately mouthed okay. Do it. Here comes. Are you ready?

I only got a 26. Oh, golly. I really hate that voice. Me too. I'm going to do my last on site 20. Nice. Ooh. What you got for me, Brian?

I'm sorry I wasn't logged in Blaine, Brian for saying logging in stall What's it brought to us by? Oh, brought to us by Flaming Hot Charmin

Thank me later Flaming hot Charmin Ha That's the entire wrap, huh? Yeah What else do you need, really? Yeah, it's a stretch toilet paper that burned your anus.

Oh. Your anus. Why would we thank you? Some people are into that. Are they? You know what? It's really big in Sri Lanka for some reason. I would have guessed Germany, but I was surprised.

It's really incredibly popular in Sri Lange. A flaming hot sherman. Does a bear scream in the woods? Do you guys attach it with that? here let me here's Joffrey and then it was a what was the role I'm so sorry we're going inside we're going inside all right it's all good it's not his special name but here we go yeah all that for an 11 whee so nothing d and like I got this guys yeah well we And yes, there's a eight from Twiddon, 11 from Joffrey, 26 from Shalab.

Yeah. And a passive 20 from Siam. So Siam and Shalab between the two of you, but especially Shalab, this is helpful since you were the one who is casting the tech magic and trying to find the Euras. It feels like there might be a lot going on, but there's these really heavy brick walls. There's some distance going down. It's really hard to get a read on the limitations of distance. with Detect Magic right now. Okay.

Unsatisfying. But I did not expect that much build up for it. So I guess a way that I can help lead someone else into talking besides me is, yeah. Like, you know, you guys are still trying to figure out what's going on over there. You got like a distant aura. You're still trying to get something a little, either a better clue. I mean, I feel it. how dare you make that

keep going stretch I feel like we need to get through one of these walls when do we know the artifact is down here yeah it's down here somewhere yeah and you have a detect magic up but you don't detect anything yeah well it's faint I think does the

does the faint pain get less faint when you go down the stairs Um, it would. It would, but it's, it's the unsatisfying thing about, um, the tag magic is that is not really how it works. It's like a, it's like a distance aura that you're kind of like collecting other oras in.

So you can sort of see when something passes a certain amount of distance. So he's getting faint amounts when he's close and he's not getting really anything when he walks away. So which is there one wall that it seems strong? It seems more southwest than northwest, but like... Big Southwest. Again, these are, I'm trying to frame this, like, you see it or you don't. It's like, it's faint because it's bare, it's, it's, it's not there often and it's moving.

It's not faint as in like, you feel it warmer or it's more vivid as you get closer. Should we start? I feel like. Fame might have been the wrong word. You know what I mean? Like it's, it's a rare occasional edge of a aura that you're getting that's moving around when you get close. When you walk away, the distance becomes a problem. Have you guys searched for secret doors and stuff in here?

Yeah, I think so. A little bit. A little bit. Can we do like a massive, on purpose? Super search, yeah. Cool. Why doesn't everybody get down in the hole, bottom of these stairs.

Hey, watch your mouth. Great little peepers down there. Not in this room? Down in the walled off bottom of the stairs. Okay. Yeah.

Right, what happens? Nothing. Can I give people? Sorry, I ya, like my mom. It did sound like I upset daddy because I didn't say something good enough. What was that? Chris.

I'm going to give people guidance. Great. Everybody can include a guidance die on their investigation check. We're doing an investigation check. Not Little Peepers is best, but it did move his token down there to show that he's contributing. 23. What's the rolls?

Sorry, fellas. 15. Investigation. I got a 12. Eight. Oof. And we got an eight from Little Peepers. These are not a lot of high roles.

Feels like it's probably not a physical thing. Wait, somebody got something high. Did they? I'm seeing... Blaine, I think. Seeing 8, 8, 11. What did you get Blaine? I'm not...

I got a 23. 11 plus 11 plus 1. That's a good one. I don't know why it's not showing up in my game log. I like that one. Cool. Yeah. So, Blaine, you're going to see that there is some distortions in the rock on the north side.

I'm going to try to, like, put a little pink sort of, like, dots there. Okay. I hope it's not social distortion. I'm not a big fan of social distortion. No, they're not really good at taking away walls so much as balls and chains. That's a social distortion. I used to love the Italian sub at Big Dot. But you can, there's some sort of scoring, and it looks like it might be magic because it looks like it's, what's a good word for it?

It looks like the rock is moved, but not in a linear fashion. There's like, more scarring on it. Okay. We're not going to open this. We're not going to kick through this wall and get flooded, are we? Do we feel like, you don't, you don't. You don't see any, like, signs of water stains or anything, but it is a dank basement. Okay.

Do we sense, does Blaine sense that those pink dots are like magic? Like, what is it, what are we getting there? That it's a secret contraption to open a Dover or? I'll let Blaine do an Arcana check. I'd love to. Uh, 17. 10 plus 7. So they're hard to see, and it's because you got a really good look that you were able to see it.

It looks like this is some sort of transmutation spell or spell that is designed to change the surface of things, something that might have created a temporary door. Okay, so this is like some sort of weird magical camouflage, maybe? Yeah, but maybe, but it's not, it's a wall when you touch it. So it's not an illusion. That's why I made a point of not saying illusion. Okay. Should we just start kicking the shit out of it or hitting it with hammers or something? I mean, like, and yeah, like, you have not tried explosions yet.

Are there any cracks or any air coming through, anything like that? No. Okay. I mean, there is such thing as like magic that turns stone, you know, but I don't think any of us have any of that. maybe that's what it was maybe they have some sort of like way of turning the wall into a doorway yeah transmutation thing yeah but we don't stone to wood or woodstone something um do we has anybody have explosives just ibs now i mean a dimension door but that could just end up sticking one of us in a wall including me yeah we got some flaming hot dude wipes

and Dan, it doesn't feel like it's, that doesn't feel like the wall itself is magical. So dispelling magic would not. I will let you do an Arcana check. I do feel like this could be the rabbit hole that lasts the whole episode. So with the 16, almost the door. Twin and Rule 16. Yeah, there could be something magic about the door,

but it would have to be triggered by a spell. And you guys haven't tried any spells other than detect. No, that's what I'm looking through now. I'm going to try to spell magic. Okay. M-A-G-I-C. He did it. Great job.

I'm proud of you. Thanks. Your father and I have been waiting for this day when you could dispel magic. You went to Mage College and here you are. So to spell magic, choose a creature, object, or magical effect. Any spell level third or lower, cha-cha-cha. When you cast a spell using fourth or higher, you automatically end the effects of a spell if it's equal to or less than. So what level are you casting the spell magic?

Fourth or higher? Yeah, ding-dong. No, I mean, I don't know. I think you have fourth-level spells, but I'm not sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got it. It is a fourth level spell. So I will cast it?

At fourth level. Here we go. Here nothing happens. but now all those listeners who are waiting for me to ask Ken what level I have satisfied you fourth and it didn't work it does not appear that there is a dispelation of magic it appears there is a manipulation of magic

it does not appear there is inherent magic it appears they have been using some sort of yeah specific spell you're not finding help as you try to dispel I will also throw out there

there's a possibility that there was a magic door there that you just eliminated rather than revealed did you say that again I think you kind of cut out oh I'm sorry there must be my connection you guys look for the internet there's a possibility

can that you may have eliminated a door in an attempt to reveal it. What? Dispelled. So if the door was there magically, I mean, you erased it. So. Way to go.

Me. I'm not saying that's what happened, but I am saying dispel was a very specific. Can I cast sledgehammer the fucking wall open? How about that? Oh, fun. What level? Nine.

Oh, you win. Ken, you should get your Star Wars character. Do you remember the time you used a cannon she just fucking blow a hole through a wall. You should just do that. I'm going to do that. I love Star Wars.

Star Wars is fun. Star Wars is fun. Sebelbo, yes. Sebilbo. I mean, I don't have anything super destructive. Magic-wise, I'll look to my friend Shalab.

Like, do you have any great magic? Anything? Looking at if Bigby's hand work. I have a large hand. You have fireball? Fireball? Fireball. Oh, okay. Fire. I have it too. Could we maybe like...

Well, the difference is like fireball is, yeah, like a massive amount of damage if it hits. But I got him. Firebolt is not. I'm going to catch Bigby's hand. All of us have fire. I mean, I have firebolt. If we have free firebolt, that's that's 6D10. That's got to be. equivalent of a fireball because fireball is like 60. Well, sure,

but let's take a, now this is meaning, okay, so you're sure you don't want me to punch her with a magic fist? You can do that too. Try that. Looson it up. I will, you would all kind of know

in world that stone can absorb a lot of fire damage. This is magical fire so that You know, functionally, most stone walls are considered resistant to fire damage. And so functionally, I'm just being a killjoy here. I love this part of being a DM. Is there something that Slight a hand could do?

Big Bees hat. I cast Big Bees hand. Do it. Honestly, you could. Would you like to? Slet a big beast hand. You're whispering it like you're joking, but I do think that could work. and so fucking serious right now.

Bigby's hand. Castile. Bigby's hand. This level. Hi, I'm Bigby. Check out my hand. Would you like to tell us what the spell does, Ken? Yes.

You create a large hand of shimmering magical energy in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. The hand lasts for the duration and it moves at your command mimicking the movements of your own hand. The hand is an object that has AC20 and hit points equal to your hit point maximum. Wow. If it drops to zero hit points, the hand,

the spell ends, the hand doesn't occupy its space. When you cast a spell and has a bonus action and you later turns, you can move the hand up to 60 feet and then cause one of the following effects. This is the important one. Clenched twist. Yes. Yes. I'm going to punch it.

All right. So this is, as the spell says, a melee attack spell role. So, um, 5D, 4. Mealy spell attack. It's just a spell attack. but it's a melee effect and then on a hit it is 5D8

force damage I will cast it if you use a higher level spot it does increase are you doing a higher level I can't fifth level is that's as high as you can go

that's as high as I can go once you level up and get this higher you can increase the damage by 2D8 for each level to not 1st the 8 that's a lot of damage wow all right

so I'm casting it by casting let's see that spell attack roll please oh sorry yeah you did your damage first we got to do the attack first okay sure to include your spell attack bonus

and don't just roll a plane B8 or D20 got it plus 8 so to get my dice and roll it now here we go happening yeah oh my fucking god wow what did

ignore the damage could you roll a d-100 yep 10 no oh fuck man you botched it after all that certainly did fist botch let's hope for high numbers now oh man I saw fist botch open for quicksand don't struggle you can get out 28.

Okay. 28. Watch a spell. Yeah. I mean, you're just going to punch the wall and you're going to get a terrible swing and it's not going to work. Why don't you try rolling again? You all hear the hand, just go fiduci against the wall. He's got a terrible angle on it because of how narrow the hallway is.

It's a big ol' little whiff. All right, I only got one more shot at this. Mm-hmm. That's a 25 Oh, that is a hit Would you like to re-roll your damage Or take the 17? I'm giving you a choice, Kennell, real roll that shit

Yeah, pretty low Not much better Oh, it's worse Yeah, 11 All right, so there's a big cadetang found as he gets a better hit off and there are chunks of rock fly off of it

it is significantly smushed but he does not get like half the wall done the wall doesn't look incredibly unstable but you see the damage that was done there's a loud booming noise as this magical fist

collides with the wall why did you say this is your last chance Ken it's a concentration spell for one minute oh I see see what you're saying. Yeah, got it. So you can do it again. Just because of slant.

Incredibly loud noises. I mean, yeah, it's a concentration. Yeah, I'll do it again. I'll do that shit again, then. Uh, uh, that's a 10. It's a miss.

Of course it is. That one will be another boom. So you've now three loud booms against this wall. Roll another one. Boom the shit out of this. fucking shit. Oh, well, G-wiz.

16. Why do they call you boom-boom, Freddy? That is a hit, roll your damage. Oh, God. He loves doing it. That's a

20. That's much more damage. Damage. There is a kaboom The rock caves in There is a huge cloud of dust That flies in Let's just to see

How messy it is Will you roll a survival check Yes 13 Lucky 13 Well So you do collapse in much of the ceiling

you see one of the desks from City Hall above kind of like go like through the hole you've created and snap in half thank you Ken for helping me move that desk five years ago but yes

so we're through what do we see all right so up ahead you see what appears to be a skeleton that was trying to escape this room and it's sort of reaching out towards the wall you just destroyed. Oh, dear.

There is also another skeleton laying prone on the ground. Two skeletons? The dust starts to clear a little bit more and you can see that this is actually a cell. Got it. Look at Roll 20. You can see

I'm going to get rid of the pink scoring that was using the same. there was magic marks on the wall. Just put a big old X there. Like, no, that's no wall no more. So are those bars over there? Yeah, those are bars. Got it.

Would you like to enter the cell? Yeah, I'm going to enter the cell. Wow. Okay, in cell. I ain't scared. Damn. You see, in the room, there is a library, a desk. The desk has what looks to be a very cursed-looking toome.

open on it. The chair behind it looks pretty gnarly. Definitely some occult shit was going on in here. And there is a torture rack in the middle of the room with blood having spilled off and dried on the floor that is now revealed on World 20.

Yikes. Is this the Chiller game? Old video game, guys. I know all there is to know about the Chiller. Can I pull the bars open with my big magic fist? Let's see. What do we do?

Forceful hand, the hand attempts to push, grasping hand, the hand attempts to grapple, interposing hand is Heidi, I think. I suppose we can let you do, because Target must succeed at Dexterity Saving Throw to not get grappled if you're doing. We're not doing that. it would be probably like a strength check um and this is going to be a weird bonus what i think i just do just do a um a spell attack melee we'll just count the the pull is in it a punch same

thing i wanted it to be different but i don't think that 13 no no luck just start rattling it somewhere you feel like your captor is laughing at you but that is more of a feeling than a truth great roll again I'm gonna do it until it happens and the rest of you I think would be noting just how incredibly loud shallow has been by smashing this wall down and is now rattling I don't give a fuck I don't care what was the last roll Ken

21 all right so at that you're going to be able to crank like bend the thing significantly and it doesn't completely come off its hinges but you manage to take one of the far bars on the the bar door and kind of bend it inwards a bit so

it's big enough for I think all of you to spit through none of you are gigantic or anything what do you say fellas you want to get in there just to be clear the entrance to this is through the cell where the skeletons are

Yes. bizarre. I mean, it's a magical door to get there. All right. So then we step into the... You said this is like a library? It looks like an office. It's pronounced library.

An office, torture room. It looks like somebody studied here, performed experiments with prisoners here. Can I get an insight check from everybody? I'm in the New Yorkie Purs and Joffrey into the room. You bet. Little Peepers. 2017. Oh,

go ahead. Ken. 17 is what you got? You got 20? 17. 25. Nice. 15.

15. Twin, is that a botch? It's a 7, yeah. Oh, okay. That's a nice bunch. It's a very pretty botch. So you guys are in... The kind you don't take home to Mama.

Yeah, Shalab and Joffrey, what did you get again, Blaine? 45. Yeah, for whatever reason, your role is not showing up. So you three, I'm going to be able to put together that there's probably some other way people were getting down here if they were not a prisoner. You think maybe that wall that you just smashed through had a magic. opening that people were getting thrown through or shoved through or dumped and then the wall would seal itself back up. However, people were getting down here by choice, it was teleportation or something like that. How used does this room look? Is it dusty, dirty? Does it

look recently? I mean, the skeletons have been in there for a while, obviously, but does it look anybody who's been in here recently. Bestation check from anyone who liked it, please. 13 plus 11, 24. Nice. So I could get 24. Anyone else would be the kind. I'd like to help me.

Not as high, 18. Cool. Yeah, now it's 24. 10. So you guys are, you know, okay, this room has probably been used fairly recently. It's not really easy to tell with a 24 if someone was here in like the last couple of hours per se, but you don't see a heavy layer of dust on things. And there is a sconce to the south wall that you think might open up to the space. to the south, but

you're not sure exactly how to operate the scons. It's just you see there's scoring on the floor and you're like, okay, we know we've seen magic doorways before. That sconce probably is something that can activate a door. And also

those high insight checks, particularly 24 plus you made a lot of racket. If anyone's down here, they know you're coming. Okay. What kind of skeletons were they? Were they humans? Great question.

Kuatowa. Were they gnomes? They look like they were gnomish skeletons. Do they have anything on them or like? Nomish halfling. You're not really able to tell the difference at this moment, but they look like they have been stripped of supplies. There's some very ragged bits of cloths wrapped around them.

Hmm. Are the supplies anywhere on the room? In the new room? Can you see them anywhere? Or is it trunk or anything we can look at? Yeah, should we do like a big scour of this room before we... Yeah, for sure. So let's get an investigation scouring check, please.

I'll give people guidance. Scrobing bubbles. What power? What power? Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Dan, look at the shot we left behind. So what is the guidance role, Chris? For investigation, Dan said we can investigate the room.

Right, but how much do I add? Oh, it's a D4. I'm sorry. Uh, on, what is it, investigation? Sorry. Yeah, boss. All right. 27 plus 1, 28.

I got a 19 with the help of Chris. Nice. 15. 12 is a 4. What did you get Chris? Oh, I 5. Okay. Well, 28.

That's pretty fantastic. That was Brian? No, 19. Yeah, that was 28. Still good. Blaine, your... Just assumes it's fucking bonkers today. Cat with a magnifying glass.

Wow. There are a... One of my favorite Disney movies. Kurt Russell's great and everything. There are a lot of books here written in Infernal. Does anyone here read Infernal? I mean, I imagine I do. Let me see.

let me Ruggedy Bunk Bink Bunk Infernal I read Infernal Hmm Okay Well Siam you're going to find

A lot of those Everyone's going to find the books Siam you're going to be able to find the important ones And hand them off to Shalab There are a lot of books here written in Infernal It looks like Someone was trying to use the Nine Hells as a middle point of getting a distant

cosmic being onto the prime material plane. That would have meant they were making a deal. A what? But you are witnessing a series of books trying to get a horrible cosmic being to the prime

material plane using the nine howls as a staging ground. This is a being that was maybe so far outside the The planes you're familiar with that it had to be transported to the nine hells first. Dear Roseanne, you are cordially invited. These are worshippers of Mephistopheles. They seem to have been using teleportation.

And based off of the amount of staging instructions you see, you're thinking maybe the next room is where they have been teleporting things in from the nine house. Interesting. Anything else we're finding? Let's see. It's starting to get a little evil. This is what my pastor warned me about. You open the desk drawer and a bunch of chick track spill out.

He died 30 years ago, but he'd be concerned. I'm going to take a peek and down the other room. Or we can't get it. in the other room yet, right? You can, you just haven't tried, so I'm not automatically saying yes, the door open. Wait, wait, wait, don't we want to search this room for, like, the artifact first? I don't know that walking into the room filled with hell creatures is... All right.

Well, I will let Ken, as the infernal reader, do an investigation check to go through these books that seem to be, you know, reference to the followers of Mephistophiles and see if there's a hint at what might be going on with the relic. how big it might be big it where it might be um yeah doing that what am i doing a investigation as you're trying to just page through these books as quickly as possible and that right then that's a 21 oh takes you a couple books but you feel like you get the hang of it pretty quickly as far as what you're looking at you all the infernal kind of easy to read And the relic looks like it is about 10 feet tall.

You see several references to it being made. And you can tell it's the relic that Philip was talking about because there are mentions of it being somewhere in Fay Run in the basement of a building. And in some of these texts, it's referred to as a summoning point. but it is not mentioning Del's myth and the summoning points often reference a relic

designed to keep certain species from entering places but also to bring species in their place. So it is a displacement relic that if you ban someone or something from being able to approach it, it will draw

in other someone's or somethings from another plane. Wow. So by pushing the Kuatoha away, it is able to draw other beings into the basement. And it's tall enough that you're thinking, yeah, probably in the next room, probably rooted to the ground. Huh. And probably meant to draw beings into this realm. Is there a, uh, is there a still a, uh, a detective?

magic going on with anyone do you still have it do you still have a spell slot for it shalab because it is a concentration spell and you've been using big bees instead of it so I can run I mean I have detect magic too I could throw one up

and then just sort of see if there's if there's a strong bang behind the scons all right well you run detect magic and we'll have to see what it finds on the next episode of nerd poker anything you want to plug

sure hi everybody I'm Dan you can follow me at cirque desolet.com or if you want to hire me as a dungeon master I guess you could go to dan telford.com you're something in tights I'll give you that

okay I've just got news in the last day that most of my, I don't even know what stand-up is left for this year because of my a gig that's no longer a secret, but I'm super stoked about the Big Bang spin-off. My stand-up dates are up in the air,

so I know for sure I was supposed to be in Beverly Mass next week, 19th and 20th. That is no longer happening. unfortunately and then I was trying to set up a comic shop and that's not happening I think that's moving to January now that's what it's looking like but just stay tuned my guy John that does all my social media stuff will be on top of all the cancellations and and not cancellations but what would you call it when some when a date is rescheduled

rescheduling, yeah, yeah, any of that. Chris is also here to help when my brain farts, thanks, buddy. That's what I'm eating for. I'm eating a lot of fruit and broccoli. But I had some comic book conventions coming up in October and November and I don't know

if they're happening. So stick around here or go to Brianpacine.com or follow me on social media Instagram primarily, and any of that rescheduling will be announced there. What a fucking idiot I am. Blame. We attribute the success saved mankind for us for joining us on this episode. You got walls and a roof.

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