Not Another D&D Podcast - Ep. 90: Those Left Behind (The Chosen Saga)

Episode Date: February 13, 2020

The Band of Boobs join their allies and put together a plan to save the world! Beverly has a harrowing encounter, Moonshine hits the books, and Hardwon finds his way home. Support us at Patreon.com/Naddpod to get access to the after-show and a bunch of other Naddpod content! Get tickets to our upcoming live shows at naddpod.com/live.Music/Sound Effects Include:"Crackling Fire" by sagetyrtle at Freesound.org."Small Forest Stream" by CraftCrest at Freesound.org."Arkansas Traveler" by Ecfike at Freesound.org."The Purge" by Emily Axford."Bastard's Fate" by Emily Axford."Kingshammer" by Emily Axford."Mee Maw's Burden" by Emily Axford."Sea Beast" by Emily Axford."Greener Shades" by Emily Axford."A Wizard Tournament" by Emily Axford."Soul Coins" by Emily Axford."Deal with a Devil" by Emily Axford."Forsaken" by Emily Axford."The Mithril Miner's Shuffle" by Emily Axford.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Why did you laugh when you spent that? I don't know, it's been a long time, I was nervous. Moonshine, Sib, and fungal, dame, and breaker of chains who's coming here to show you how to play this fucking game. Oh, wow. Don't forget that name. And of course, called Well Tanner. Beverly Toggle, the fifth hippie skipping through several hurdles,

currently sitting on top of a turtle. Oh, no. Oh, it's not cute. It's sad. I'm not. Oh, OK, I'm sad. I'm not just sad on a turtle. It's really hard.

I'm sitting here. The waves are crashing. The turtle is so big, you've got like a little rug set up on it is lovely. Would you say this is your own personal shell? Oh, that's good stuff. Hard one, Surefoot has just been killed. Jake is off the hot cast.

We all love that. He died in his sleep. You have a celebration. The night that Glade Home got tired. Why don't I come over to the studio for this. You can go back to New York. Thank you so much. I killed a lot of fun. 90 episodes. What a run. What a very well. If I were a 20 right now, you have to go one of our PCs off screen.

I got a six. Okay. I'm going. No, hard one is not dead. In fact, all of the boobs have leveled up. Everybody is level 16 now. Oh, and? So we're doing good, babies. I thought we were level 14 before. Oh, well, you're level 16 now,

because you killed a bunch of, hello, gotties. That's true. And it had been a long time since I leveled you guys up. And I appreciate you. I'd like the end of the campaign to be very epic. I just want everyone to know that I can no longer be crit on. Ooh, wow.

Try and crit on me, Murph. It won't mean much. I'm trying, I'm gonna try right now. That's an at 20, did I crit? You didn't. Oh, okay. Somehow. That's a crit in the mist. Is that it, that's a fungal thing?

That's a fungal form thing. I mean, you still would hit me just don't get to add extra damage. Right on. Somehow the blade missed moonshine and just embedded itself right in me, though. Yeah, Beverly has died permanently. At least according to Under Thirconics, we've used Under Thircona from our circle of sports. I don't know what the Ravnica 14th level boost is. Right. You a baby. We're sticking with you a we've taken it this far. Don't add us at yourself. Yeah. Oh yeah. If you want to add yourself to talk about on our start on out, we think we think that's right. At my ass. Guys, let's do a little recap. So last time you guys had just defeated Acarots final hollow goddy when the Allah took to the sky

removing all of the light from the world. You found out that after killing Palore with the unwitting help of Bev and Irland, she evolved to a greater god form. She congratulated the world on killing Akharaat, but warned that there would always be evil in their hearts. She gave everyone one last chance to bend the knee and offer many people to corrupt on. Those people were then killed in a flash of light, theala promising to bring them back in her new world while the rest of you were punished. She promised that for 40 days, the world would ache

and then sparked a great cataclysm. As she disappeared in a crack of lightning, you saw four rates, a top horses staring down at you. Just a completely original creation by me. Way to go. Just a completely original creation by me. Way to go. Just for Horsemen. Um, can I do an insight to know which horseman was looking at me? I mean, I know where to color it was,

but like what type it was? You would need to ask somebody probably, I don't know if moonshine would know off the top of her head. Then I will ask someone. And you can ask me. I ask hard one. I think that was the beef horse. Oh no, I got beef coming after me. That's right. I got beef with beef. So hard one

moonshine in Apple, freed, glade home from the magical chains that bound it to Ausmodia and teleported away while Maverson Cobb saved some trapped dwarfs from the collapsing city of Iron Deep with the help of Jane Abramsbeard. Bevin Irland escaped a collapsing cave in Smuggler's Bounty only to be hit by a tidal wave and separated as they drifted apart, they shouted over the sound of the waves and made their relationship official. A fish emphasis on fish because they were in the water. Oh yeah, they were everywhere. And they were all applauding with their tiny little fins. It was a fish goal. They're a fish goal. I have the fire for the podcast.

Balnor's dead. Wow. Beverly's had a lot of time to think of funny t-shirts. Well, he's been on the turtle. And that is definitely one of them. Unfortunately, Bevin Erlin were then attacked by the wraith on the white horse who trapped Irland in a yellow prison gem. Bevrily attempted to intervene, but was rescued by the dragon turtle

Lazlo, who advised him that getting kidnapped was not super helpful. Meanwhile, the rest of the boobs appeared with Gladehome in the sky above the Iron Deep Mountains, where they saw the wreckage of the fallen city below. You found comfort, in the site of the SS Stormborn flying towards the city with your friends Maverick Cobb and Jaina aboard as well as the site of Beverly safely floating away on the Dragon Turtle which you guys saw through a Skry spell. And that is where we are now. So guys we are going to start with Bev because Gladehome is kind of chaos right now and it's going to take you guys a second to get situated.

You see other airships start arriving one with red and a guane, ones with other refugees, the casters amongst your party do not have a lot of their higher level spells so there's not much you can do for Bev in this moment. In fact, as you guys are kind of looking out over the destroyed city below, and you've just scried on Bev, Lucana speaks to you, Moon Shining goes, if he's not in immediate danger, it might actually be in our interest to wait until he gets to land. It would be dangerous for us to teleport and be kind of guessing where he is. All right, Papalook, I'll follow your lead.

We're still doing Luke. And we've evolved to Papa Luke. You got to keep evolving. If there's one thing I've learned, it's change is inevitable. Ride the wave, baby. Ride the wave, Luke. He nods solemnly.

So Beverly, okay. You are in the sunrise, see off the coast of Glateron. Still a bunch of miles out, you rest for the night as best you can atop the turtle shell amongst the rocking waves. I make a bed of kelp. You make a bed of kelp. You do your best to sleep. It is obviously quite rocky. There's still the aftershocks of the Alice Cataclysm and the weather patterns are crazy right now. It's not as bad as the title waves you were getting before, but there are still massive waves. The winds are rapidly shifting in different directions.

Every once in a while, you're woken up by the drag internal, like grabbing you in its maw and diving into a wave to kind of keep you going. So you are able to get a night of sleep in. You wake up soaking wet atop this dragon turtle. Oh, the kelp did not help. And you see there, the sun has risen, but it is very cloudy. The best the weather gets now is kind of just a thick mist instead of a torrential downpour. Ugh, it's like shadow fell all over again. So yeah, and there are no birds or seagulls

or anything in the sky. You can imagine that a lot of animals probably died in the cataclysm and the ones that didn't die are probably extremely confused by the crazy weather patterns. Did any animals been the knee? Oh no, they wouldn't. They would take a beating from moonshine if they did.

They definitely did not understand how to bend the knee. What about like one chimp? I bet like one chimp did. He's probably like a baby fawn that was struggling to stand and it looked like a benthene. But it didn't mean. Go ahead and roll the D4 to see how many chimps in the world benthani. Okay.

Why haven't we encountered any chimps? I don't know. Oh, three, three, three cards benthani. Devastating loss. So, we'll show out. We heard the Ceno evil, here are no evil, speak no evil monkey. Those were the only three chimps who home you had.

They were super endangered. You're super endangered and not horny enough to create new ones. I'm over it. Let's just order food and chill. So those chimps come back as milk loving angel chimps. All of you have choice. They're the only ones who are gonna get out of here safe.

So Beverly, you wake up and you hear Lazlo, the dragon turtle go, oh you're up, I heard you talking in your sleep about chimps bending the knees. Oh you heard that. Yeah, I was just tossing over some hypotheticals in my head about how bad the world is now. Oh it's so bad right now.

Thanks for taking the night shift. And I wish I could carry you, but I don't think that would quite work. Oh, I'm okay. I slept a couple months ago. I've got through like a three year hibernation. Wow. I should be good for another year. I've got some friends who wish they could translate you.

Yeah, it's pretty good. It's not bad being me. So listen, it is kind of bad being you right now, because the world is pretty messed up. Like I said before, I can get you to the shore, but once I'm there, I probably won't be much help to you. That's okay. You've got the seas to look after. Yeah, that's true. I do, since you know, the witch is missing and you're her friend, I would still like to help her by helping you. I would accept any help you can give.

I think that's the only way we're going to make it through this is by helping each other as much as we can. Yeah, so the witch was able to teleport me places, the Toshi brought me to the material plane, kind of anywhere she travels, I am usually on the same plane as her. I don't think you'll be able to teleport me to you, but you might be able to summon some of my power.

Your power is vast and grand, even a small portion would be Monumental. Oh thanks buddy. Yeah, I see he rolls back onto his shell You you you have to scramble out a little grove it. Yeah, you log roll Um, he starts spinning up water like a fountain. That's cute. I rub his belly. Oh Thanks there, buddy. Yeah, let me wax this bad boy. Oh thanks, I would appreciate it. But you put your spit on it.

Oh okay, you're spitting on me. But slightly, last time you tried to do graffiti on me, if you remember, and now you're spitting on me. Different time, okay, is the spit not good? You know what, I can actually, I reach in my hair and it's super waxy. Orgently worse, you know what just spit on me? Just spit on the kid.

I'll try and find some fish oil or something. How about that? That sounds good. Look, anyway, you can take a little bit of my blood and you'd need to do a little ritual to bind us together. I think if you had a druid or something to help you, you could pretty easily do it. I don't think the witch would mind. I'm already bound to her, but I think I would be able to give some of my power to you. I would be honored to carry your power. Wonderful. Well, if everything goes right, there are two things that I can teach you, something to hurt your enemies, and something to protect you and your friends. Two things are better than one. That's right. That's very early on in the green teen handbook, it says that,

with no attribution to an author or any reference to how it would be useful, but it's just in there. Oh, I probably wrote that in somebody stole it from me and we're just like, oh really? Yeah, but that happens to you a lot. Yeah, it does people think because I'm a turtle that they don't have to recite me and they can just take my tweets and and. Ah, that really boils my feather. That's brutal. Anyway, just, I pull out my knife, so just a little prick, or how do you want to, how should I do this?

Yeah, just gently stab me, but just don't do it wrong or I might freak out. Just be gentle, okay? Bev definitely thinks way too hard about this. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Get super in his head about. Whoa, whoa. Go straight for the eye. You pull out a dagger.

You pull out a dagger. Probably the only dagger you have. It's like a sky dagger. Yeah, it's your sky dagger. Yeah, they do. Do I see this? Love it. Rosalene is a shaken in my holster.

OK, Luke. So we do have to go. We got to get him now. I'm trying to transfer what's going on? Yeah, Rosalind's again real fucked up. There's blood coming from the hill. Oh my god It's got to survive out there. We should have never let this get along with a turtle I learned it from you I learned it from you. Yeah, so I try to delicately prick the tough height of this dragon turtle. Yes, you just take a little prick, get a little drop of blood, and you definitely have

things in your pack. I have an empty arcane vial. Yes. You have a little vial to put like a little drop of blood in, and you know that that will be enough. Cool. I know just the druid to assist me with this ritual when the time comes. Are there any words or things I should say moments to focus on? Any binding words?

Yeah. Yeah, you see he tells you the Sylvan words for a spell. You're not quite sure what that spell is yet. Some of the words you don't quite recognize, but you speak Elvis, right? Yeah. You do recognize the name Turtle. Turtle.

So that is part of it. Right. Turtle spell, got it. Turtle spell. So he has taught you some kind of turtle spell that you will be able to cast after you perform some kind of ritual. Fantastic.

So you guys sail for a few more hours. It hits mid afternoon and finally, you can see the shores of Galatoron, though they are barely recognizable. The mist is kind of lifted and now it is heavy rain. It's no longer as foggy. You see that the peaceful shores along the coast are now raised dozens of feet off sea level.

This is not how they were before. Rocks are jutting out like giant stone teeth. You see the mountain city itself, glater on the city and the clouds, is no longer in the clouds. You can see a huge chunk of it has broken off at the top. It no longer pierces the clouds. It looks like the entire castle and the cathedral district

have collapsed. You see upper and middle galatoron have essentially been cut in half. It looks like half of that part of the mountain just kind of slid off. So it's like a fissure broke. Like a wedding cake just got beat the shit out of it. Exactly.

Yeah. Yeah, so this once majestic mountain city has been reduced to just the base of the mountain and a fraction of the rest of it. Everyone's Zillow ratings are going to plummet. Oh, they'll look smoke good for property gold. No, not at all. So you see there are small-during fires, smoke rises from the few buildings that remain and you don't really hear or see any signs of life even as you get close. And in a city that was under the Alice control, you wouldn't expect many people to still be there,

but the utter stillness is eerie. You would think some people would have secretly opposed her, but it appears that nobody is here. And as you crest over a wave and get closer to the shore, you see that it is littered with bodies. There are wrecked ships, there are people who may have fallen off the mountain itself, people who are trying to escape or just, it looks like maybe the sea may have encroached on where the shore was originally and people were just kind of washed away. You see huge chunks and boulders that weren't here before. The turtle has to slalom just to get you to the shore. I tried to surf on the back, but then I instantly fall down. Oh, careful.

Sorry, yeah, no, that's on me. I should have known better. I buckle in a kelp seat belt. I'm kind of, yeah, I'm feelingaheaded after all the blood you tell you. I said to take a drop lit and you took a drop. Okay. So, we're that you can tell the difference. But you are old and wise.

Actually, I have three HP. Just kidding, a little turtle humor. Anyway, love it. You're so good at the timing because you like really stretch out every punch line. Love it. So as you reach the shore and you're riding past all these bodies, go ahead and give me either an investigation or an insight check. That's gonna be a six. A six. Yeah, you see that as you ride through them. Most of the bodies look peaceful.

them most of the bodies look peaceful. Like the allid just swooped in and was able to kind of magically take them away to another place. Like they're floating in the water and they're smiling. You do see that some of the other bodies do not look like they went easily. Like they look sick. Some of the bodies look a little bit more gaunt or like diseased. You see some of them have like boils on them? Can I do a medicine check on the one with boils? Go ahead and make a medicine check.

That's going to be a 16. You hop down off the turtle and you know. I make a face mask out of kelp. You make a face mask out of kelp. You find one of these bodies that has boils. And you turn it around and you see that it is this halfling man. You saw him from the back and you just saw that his feet and legs were covered in these boils that kind of turn his skin yellow.

And as you turn him around, you see his face is horrified and twisted and his face is covered in these boils as well. Does it look like some sort of radiant crick-rot? It does look like, as soon as you think something like that, this does seem like some kind of plague. You look around at other people and they seem to have that's your horsey. Similar.

Oh, that's right. The white horse. Is that how the white horse is. I think it probably is. I guess I scan the people in the sea that are bobbing next to us to see if I recognize anyone. Yeah, go ahead and give me, go ahead and give me a perception check as you look through the sea. This is not going to be good for the softball league. That's a six. Jesus Christ. off-bollie. That's a six.

Jesus Christ. Listen, I was pretty queasy from all the rocking on the waves. I've probably spent the past 24 to 48 hours, mostly puking up brine. You're a tired guy with a lot of emotional problems right now. Yeah. So you are turning these people over. You see that most of them look to have been taken away

by theala and do not look to have whatever this sickness is. But as you're going around flipping bodies over, trying to see if you recognize any of the faces, you see in the distance, the horsemen on the white horse. Its body is this dark, bluish color. It wears a long cloak and you cannot see its face. Their cloak looks old and torn.

The horseman gives off a bit of a yellow mist around it. You see it reaches out. It's gauntleted hand to you, and just points at you. It is very far away. And suddenly, the wraith bursts from one of the diseased bodies near you. Whoa. And it tries to stab you with a sword. You wrote very low on your perception checker.

It did. It's going to get a surprise around a tack on you. Oh! Hit it with your kelp. Hahaha. My God, a literal one and a two. The ray misses. Go ahead and roll initiative.

Hahaha. I rip its arm off and beat it with it. 13. Sweet, it rolled another two. Shout out to the two crew. So you may go first. You see this thing has a sword that came with it when it came out of the body and it is trying to stab

Is it still on the horse still on the horse in the distance? Hey come get your guy come get your this is your guy come get your guy There's all my guys you're my guy. I'm not your guy. You're my guy buddy. I'm not your guy my friend You're gonna need to talk about that. I've already got a crew. I understand you're trying to roll deep, but no sir, I will not. So this rath that came out of the body is still there. Okay. Even though the guy is still on the horse. Gotcha.

Oh, so that's the one you need to deal with. So you go first. Great. Yeah, let's go ahead and attack this dead body that maybe is someone I went to high school with. No, it is the rath came out of the body. It's like think of a ghost possessing someone in the first thing out.

Oh, it like tree stride. Exactly. It's got corpse stride. Exactly. Corpse stride. Oh, mooshed. He's a good corpse stride. That is so my aesthetic.

You know what, props. No, props on this maneuver. It's very sick, but I can't join your crew. I'm so sorry. You're going to have to really talk me off if you want me to join your crew. You're my guy. That's going to be an 18 to hit and 18 hits. All right, cool.

I don't got time to fuck around. Let's do a fourth level divine sword. Oh, Jesus, buddy. Well, fuck him up, man. You see the turtle is flapping, trying to get near you. You're just going to get a little closer. There's a lot of bodies I'm coming through. Give me over there, last load.

I'll be here in a minute. A lot of kelp, too. Oh no. The kelp's weighing you down, so sorry. I can't tell which one is you because you have a kelp mask on. You look like a rath. I was supposed to be camouflage and work too well. 32 damage on the first hit.

Sweet. That's all you need. Oh great. So this rath, this image of this rate that bursts from the corpse and attempts to stab you with a sword is immediately dismissed. As soon as you slash it and there's an explosion of radiant energy, you're not my guy. I am not your guy.

You're my guy, I don't have to be your guy, but you're my guy. Okay, what are the criteria here? You see that after you kill the sort of wraith copy that just attacked you, it had attacked you with this long sword. You see that after you slash through the wraith, the sword drops and clangs on the ground near you

and you recognize it as being Irland's like green teen sort that he used as a green teen. It's got like an inscription like the green teens creed on it. It's got a green hilt. It's got his name written on tape on the hilt. A momento. Where did you remember him by? Where did you get this? You know where I got it from. Give him back. You see a little yellow light in his hand,

and then he whew disappears. I want to pick it up, like I go to reach for it, but then I think again, and I want to use my divine sense to try and make sure that it's not cursed in some way. Go ahead and give me an insight or investigation check with advantage. That's going to be a 15 on insight. With a 15, you don't sense anything wrong with the sword,

but when you think, oh, this might be cursed. You think why would this creature leave this behind? Yeah, he's luring me. In Glade Home, you guys have gotten your rest in. It is the next day. Moonshine, you scry on Beverly, and you see that he has reached the shore. Okay, uh, Bev's reached the shore. You want head to, uh, later on?

Damn, God, I feel like I transferred 12 hours. You actually 13. Was it 13? Yeah, that's a record. Yeah, it's crazy. No, it's a record of how short it was compared to my usually. We're all helping build shelters for refugees and stuff and you're just snoring super loud Thanks, Beldor is there any heroes peace love

Yeah, I'll whip us up a hero's peace So how how would you like to get to him? I think you probably need another you might need like Lucana's to get you Yeah, I might just be like hey, Lucana's like just you want to just teleport us there so we can who the hell's Lucana's? I hate Luconis, like you just want to just teleport us there so we can... Who the hell is Luconis? Yeah, pardon me, Luconis. Hey, Luconis. Yes, we're doing that. Yes, your buddy, Luconis, can take you there.

I can take you to Galatoron. Yeah, that would be great. So you're able to scry on Bev. Luconis puts his hand on your shoulder, gets a sense, gets a feel for what the landscape is like there, and then teleports all of you guys to go later on. You guys see Beverly on the shore with this dragon turtle. Corps is everywhere. Oh my gosh, hey.

Hey, babe, over here. Is Moonshine on top of three corpses? Hi. And I know that these three corpses. These three corpses. Hey, hey, y'all remember Leslo? Hey. It's good to see you. I? Hey, screw this thing up, everybody. Didn't see you in all that kelp.

A lovely mask. Yeah, I'm looking my way over. We were attacked by a wreath. I'm trying to help. Did you know you can knit kelp? No. Yeah, it's pretty resilient. Oh, and that's what that cross stitch is made of.

Yeah, yeah, I made him look a little hat. Some gloves, because the water gets pretty cold, you know. So I had some flipper gloves, if you will. I notice you're not wearing them. Sorry. You see, Lucana looks around at all of these bodies and he goes, what happened? My God. I mean, did they, did they, is this just the cowardice of the comfort, comfortable? They all just gave in. This, this was the horseman. His power seems to be some sort of radiant plague, some sort of a holy crick-rod. I don't know what it is exactly,

but I think he did this. He was able to travel between corpses, like some sort of sick-ass tree-stried. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I mean, that sounds like something I should be able to do, and it's kind of fucked out that I can't. It's really, you got to respect the hustle of the move, but like, it's absolutely in your

domain, and I feel like maybe we should- It's anything I feel like a bit like, um, copy, right, in French. Yeah, I mean, like, that glassel has been going through that as well. He says all sorts of sagacious stuff, and people are just like stealing it and putting in books. That's right. That happened with me. I came up with this phrase, two things are better than one. That's back in a door finish.

I had two pickaxes. Yeah, you know, the first time I met you, you had two beers. I tried digging the better one. That was my thing. I made it something. I wish for the last loathe. Just let him have this one. Sure.

Then how are you? I'm sorry that we couldn't come to your rescue sooner. I wanted to come. Luke was fucking sanding my plans. What was I doing? I got you here. I know, but I wanted to come last night. No, no, no. It's I'm okay. I was with the Lowe and you should trust Papa Luke's wisdom.

Okay. I'm extremely wise. I truly hate this nickname, particularly my daughter could just call me father, dad. Peep-a-lug. Ooh, I like Peep-a-lug. Very well. PPL. As you guys are standing here with Bev on the Gl on shore, go ahead and give me perception checks.

There's gonna be a 25-moonshot. Damn it, I had an 18, I thought that was gonna be a little... I'm gonna find friends that roll well again. Moonshot, you see you have a profound knowledge of disease and plague in the way that it's spread. And you see this yellow mist starting to come off of these bodies that you guys are near.

Oh. And you see that Bev is in the fucking thick of it. But he has he is immune disease. I swaddle Bev up. Oh, okay, but he's immune disease. I'm a swaddle, bev, oh, he's immune to disease. I'm on swaddle, bev. And I say, y'all, we gotta be feet because we are gonna get infected.

Okay. Yeah, he's getting blue. Everybody go ahead and make a constitution saving throw. You can make it with advantage since Moonshan was able to see it coming off the bodies and nobody's touched anything yet. Should I make it? Except for Bev.

Bev, you have your immune to disease. So you are in the thick of it, but you cannot be affected. Do we get to add anything from Bev? Do you see have an aura? Yeah, you get my aura. If you get near Bev, Bev is touching the bodies and all up in the bodies.

Oh, okay, then I got a 10. Okay, I rolled a net 20. Moonshine, you see that you have gotten close to this body, and you have touched it as you've gone in and spoken to Bev. You do not feel any effects yet, but your natural insight would say that maybe this isn't good. Uh, Lucanus is also going to roll. I'm going to say he's back a little bit.

He rolls a natural 19. He's further back under the shore and he's like, we shouldn't be here if there's some sort of plague or something. Yeah, y'all got to head out. I got quarantine myself. Can I try using cleansing touch on moonshine? Yes, it removes one spell. Bev, you walk out from amongst the bodies that are kind of waiting in the water here. You go up to moonshine who's on the shore. Moonshine, you are able to see this like mist

coming towards you. You sense that you may have gotten something or may have gotten close enough that you would be in danger. Bev puts his hand on you and a radiant light fills your body and you see this like yellow mist dissipates around you. Sorry if that tickles. I mean, it feels great. Alright, we should go.

We should go. Yeah, let's head out. Can I leave a little hero's feast on the ground and hope that this, that this horseman of, of a disease accidentally eats it and realizes himself? So, does that take hours to make a hero's face? Well, you had some from the morning. We had some from the morning. We had some from the morning.

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and credit your name when we see people using your works. Oh, thanks so much. Which are your works? I don't know. Okay, I'll just, you know what, I'll just throw around credit and Willie Nilly. We should go. Okay, we're going, get the, get the, get the, get the,

I see Lucana's cast teleport and you guys all arrive back in Glade Home. It is day two now of this massive cataclysm. The city is overrun with refugees. There are scout parties being sent out looking for survivors. Mages are working overtime to set up magical homes. You see mama directs a bunch of Crick Elves in building huts, and then mages are enchanting those huts to make them bigger and more hospitable on the inside,

kind of like Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion, or Liamund's Tiny Hut. Yeah, you see even Mama yelling at some of the wizards. I want to see more Magnificent Mansions and less Tiny Huts. Come on now. Come on now. Come on now, hustle. My champion, you're here. Mama. Mama runs up. She gets results. Scramble's up on you. My champion, it is good to see you. I thought my head deeply,

fall to my knees. She knows us up on you. How are you doing? Moonshot, my daughter. Oh, you know, I've been better, but who hasn't in this situation, right? Yeah, that is true. I just didn't want to lie to you and be like, I'm great, because that seems like a really insensitive thing to say right now. I would be able to tell. Yeah.

And I would have thought less of you for it. But I'm glad you're still truthful. Oh, I didn't know that your face was so fickle. All right then. Yeah, it's like they say, normally you're not supposed to judge someone else because you know what they're going through, but like, now I know exactly what everyone's going through.

I know everyone's going through. We're all living it. We're all living it. You guys also see Kooter is nearby helping set up Huts and he looks super buff now. Damn. Who's that? Like God, Kooter, what are you doing for your core?

Oh, you know, just find a Taraskin stuff after hanging out with you guys, man. I feel like building Huts is easy. I had to rate your core. Oh, you know, just find a trash can stuff after hanging out with you guys, man, I feel like building a hoods is easy. I had to rate your abs. I'd say they're like level six or seven abs. Yeah, I'm kind of curious. What's your take on what level your abs are? They're level six abs. They are. They're peeking out a little bit, but I still got a little bit of a good. It's weird. The abs are there, but they like arch forward. Yeah You see mama scrambles up on hard one shoulder and goes The five of you she looks at Lucana's as well in Boundore. She goes you should all go to the castle

They're calling a meeting to discuss everything you heard her Yeah, let's do it. Yep. I also want to give over. I know I have, is it a scroll of Mordenkindins, Mordenificent, or Panty? Oh, you have like a wand. Okay. I want to give my mom a wand and just say, hey, give this out to someone. You see, my mom looks extremely touched and she goes, but this is your home, is it not? Oh, Mama, me, I can sleep anywhere.

A hard one, hard one can sleep anywhere for any amount of time. I wake up 40 people in the castle after sprinting there giving out water. Oh, fuck, did I trans again? You know, I've been- I've been- I've been wandering in the wilderness,

it ain't nothing new to've been wandering in the wilderness. It ain't nothing new to me to sleep under the stars. It is good to remember that we are crick-os and that our home is everyone's home. Yeah, I mean, that the truth. I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you. And the conist goes, and even though you regifted my gift, I'm also proud of you. I do. You don't see that there's a two mom all of moonshine on it. Yes, in a way, it is me kind of giving this away. And yeah, you see mom all looks up at Lucana's and goes, you're a mage, why are you not around

turning up magnificent mansions? And he goes, well, I assumed that I would need to go to the castle, get to building mansions. And look on us goes, all right, I'll catch up with the rest of you later. Of course. That's good, that's good. Look on us goes around and starts helping build shelters

for people. Cool, cool. Head to the castle. Sweet, as we're walking, I pat Balmour on the back and say, it's good to see you again. It's good to see you, Bev. We're real worried about you. Yeah, well, everyone's good to see it again. It's good to see you, Bev, we're real worried about you. Yeah, well, everyone's worried about everyone,

so that's something. Yeah, but I was more worried about you than most. Yeah, we were mostly worried about you, we were very nervous. We were very nervous, showed up, and I have a boyfriend now. Did I tell you that? Congrats. Yeah, I mean, is the kid from the Feywilder?

Yeah, no, no, no, it's her boyfriend. What? Come on, dad. Oh, you got to be attention to this story. Sorry, sorry. It's okay. Um, and you see, uh, yeah, old cob rounds the corner and he goes, A, Beverly. Cobb. Sorry you before, but, uh, thought you might be dead. No, not dead. Um, see you. My, my boyfriend is, uh, stuck in a gemstone, but that's kind of going around these days.

Uh, what we're going to get him him, we're gonna figure that one out. So you see, a Gwain runs up not too far behind Cobb with like red and stuff, red runs up and gives hard one, a hardy handshake and Posey and for hug. Hey, good to see you. Hey, Uncle Red. Good to see you nephew. And you see, a Gwain goes up to you, Beverly and goes, Beverly, I'm glad you're alright, but where's Erlin? The horseman took him.

We were out at sea in a tsunami, and the waves were crashing against us. I tried to reach out to him, but the horseman took him and captured him in a gym. The same one that I believed the Allah put, Ulfgar and Al-Anasin. So, if nothing else, I think he's safe, but we've got to act fast.

You see she nods and just kind of stares forward. Just the kind of look of somebody who has tried to protect somebody over and over again, but is failing through no fault of their own. I grab her hand like she did that day during the execution, and I say, he's too important for her to just throw away. She needs him. And I know that's not amazing news,

but it's something we can hold onto while we train and get stronger and prepare for The battle where we get him back You feel as you touch her hand that she Rips it like somebody who needs support how and she starts to Well up and like sniffles and then she throws her hand away and she goes, yeah, I know, we're gonna save him, duh. What are you stupid or something?

You're the one who got him captured in the first place, whatever. You're right. You see she just storms on. I'm a dingus, it's my fault, you're right. And Bounder goes, all right, well, should we get to the castle? Yeah, as we're walking walking I have one more question. I in a very suspicious move pull out a huge clump of Gunther's hair from my bag and I'm like moonshine. You want me to reincarnate this clump of hair? Holy shit, I'm

good. Oh yeah Gunther, your uncle Gunther died. So okay, I'm so sorry. Yeah, so you weren't gonna say that. It's okay, I've been gonna say hi to me. I said, how do you get yesterday? Listen, there's a lot of time for greetings. We've all not seen each other in various amounts of time, but we're all here now and that's what's important. Yeah, reincarnate takes a little bit, so we might have to say a little time

aside for it later. Sure, but I figured that you should hold on to this clump. I pocket the clump of hair that I plan to reincarnate later. Yeah, oh, by the way, can we say that I, as we were leaving the beach, wrapped up early and soared in some seaweed or something like that. So you have it? Yeah, I think I do. I think I have it.

Okay, I think I was reaching for it and then they teleported in I didn't touch it yet And then before we left I probably you know with whatever materials we had in the bag of holding Try to wrap it up in the same way that we've wrapped up similarly cursed objects in the past right on it cool So you have it in your pack? Yeah, I'll say I have it in my pack Okay, you have an ear pack because I probably am still skeptical of the fact that it is cursed and emitting a plague. So I'm immune to it, so hopefully keeping it on me will keep it from spreading. Great, great.

So you guys go over to the castle, you enter and you find some of your higher ranking friends amongst other leaders. You see Mima, Erdan, Koldain, along with generals and captains, old folks from the Druid circle of the Crick. You're in the war room lined with bookshelves and full of arcane gadgets. Erdan stands at the head of the projection pool, the one they used to kind of draw plans. He looks extremely tired. You know he was like holding that giant shield up for a long time.

You see as you guys enter, they're already kind of in the middle of like everybody's talking. looks extremely tired. You know, he was like holding that giant shield up for a long time. You see, as you guys enter, they're already kind of in the middle of like everybody's talking. Jaina Bronzebeard is in there as well. You see Jaina and Koldaina stuff, like give you guys a nod as you enter. So, what's up, man?

I'm just saying it's up. I'm just saying it's up. You're saying it's up? Yeah, it's up. You're in the war room. Get over the table and don't say what's up. Just nod. We don't stop in the war room get over the table and don't say what's up Just we don't stop in the world in the war room Sup I'm moonshine savage. I click my heels and salute and say sup Sorry first time in the war rooms. I just didn't know I just say like sup and

Okay, now let's focus on the me mogas. I mean, I say sup but be fair, you have been the wormer before you've been in this exact one. Yeah, we have. We talked before. The hard one fell asleep during that one. Just trancing, actually. I didn't see you and Oafgar kind of over by the finger foods for a really long time. Danishes make them sleepy.

Yeah, I had not one Danish, but you know what they say is two is better than one. I was pretty moved, I came up with that. I think Harlan forgot how to sleep. Yeah, it's been a problem. It's growing. I know we got a lot of things going on, but. I'll add it to the list.

So you guys see, you guys see Erdan is super tired, and he's already like a little bit humorless and he goes Very funny very good everyone all right together around listen We've gotten word from Hill home Luckily there weren't many casualties there their buildings and structures are particularly adept at weathering a storm but still their farms and weathering a storm, but still their farms and many of their crops have died and we don't know what else is to come in the coming days. So we'll offer anyone that needs refuge in our city refuge.

My mages are currently working on getting more platforms in the air so that we can expand and we'll have a shield up to block the rain in the next day or so. That can also control weather here and there. Yeah, Mima pops up. She goes, I think we would be able to help, especially if there was some kind of arcane bubble up, we could control the weather in here. And then on top of that, my druids can definitely

handle food for everyone. So we don't got to worry about crops. We can get our food by magical means. So we're probably in the best position that we could be in right now. So did you say that the people from Hill Home were gonna be moving to Glade Home? Are they staying there and they're just going to,

they're sending people to Hill Home to fortify it? You see Erdan goes, will send some mages there and set up a teleportation circle and will bring anybody who wants to come to Glade Home. Glade Home is the safest place for everyone right now. Great. Just, if you could make sure that Martha Togold knows

that I'm here and that I'm safe, I would appreciate that. If I specifically see her, I will tell her that. And tell her if she, if her kitchens in working order. Can't you scorn your mother's? Oh yeah. Yeah, you see, like we're like a meeting, but I like, yeah, Yeah, you see, Erden, we're like a meeting,

but I like to say Erden. Yeah, Erden's like, all right, I feel like we're super concerned about your mom right now. Not texting. Just so we can focus up, let's just scry in the projection pool because there's sort of a misunderstanding going on about you seem to think that I would go

and meet every individual person and I don't know that that would happen So why don't we just scryen your mother here? I would appreciate she's okay He waves his hand at the protection pool moonshine waves rosaline over it And you see that Martha to gold and Nana kindleaf are with a bunch of other people Man it can leave survived the apocalypse well well, on where there's originals alone. No doubt. I don't think there's something extra

on those where there's originals. I could Lord and my- I'm actually lunch. My bare uncle is dead. I can't believe that. Martha Togold and Nanakine Leaf are hunkered down inside a hobbit hole that's being kind of used as a bunker. They're packed in there with a bunch of other halflings

amongst them is Scoutmaster Damien. What? Honestly, I'm proud of the guy for not bending the knee. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, what? I do feel that way. There's somebody must have held his body up, right? No, that or maybe he had like, You feel that way. There's somebody must have held his body up, right?

At that, or maybe he had a Charlie horse or something, his legs weren't working. You could have passed out from fear when the Allah appeared. You know what it probably was? Yeah, as he passed out and he just went totally stiff. Totally limp. Yeah, so then he just slipped through the whole thing. Yeah, as you guys well rested.

As you guys are re-thing through all of this and everything, you actually, you hear some of their conversation because you can hear things in a scry, and you hear Martha Togold go, you know, Denium actually proud of you. I can't believe you didn't go with the big scary god lady. And he goes, yep, well, you know, I got kind of nervous when she was saying how,

you know, the evil would be punished or whatnot But I wasn't sure where white collar crimes or whatnot All right, so yeah, so he was too scared to bend the knee. I'm too scared to not And also on top of that even when I decided to bend the knee. I guess when I was in So he decided it was just crumpled on the ground Sort of needs to chest in the fetal position that apparently doesn't count as kneeling so I got to take a round. We should.

We probably shouldn't have listened to that whole thing. Yeah, respects back at zero I guess. I'm not glad I heard it. So yeah, so everybody starts talking about kind of the different areas of the world. You know that Hill Home wasn't as hard as other places, but they're still going to let the halflings up there. You also hear from Coldain that the great wall of frost wind fell during the cataclysm and that there were other giant tribes and stuff in the area.

So they are using this opportunity to attack and that the frost dwarves up there, the ones who survived are in a lot of trouble. So what happened to the rift during all this? You hear Erdan goes, it tore open more, but Thiela targeted the Feywild as well as the material plane. So there- Because of that, Rift. I can't be sure. I see. Hey, don't worry about it. You would have gotten there one way or another. Yeah.

You did the right thing. Well, we'll find out. Hey, there's a lot more right things to do. I know. Yeah. Erdan offers to set up teleportation circles in Frostwind to try to get more people out. You see Jaina chimes in as they're talking about the dwarfs and stuff and she goes, unfortunately,

I don't think there's really any way to help iron deep. I fear we've saved everyone there is to save and King McGannis is still missing. He sent me to retrieve an airship to try to save as many people as possible, but the last I saw him, he was heading out of the mountains and back into the city of Iron Deep. I think he wanted to help as many people as he could.

I think he felt he'd be a coward if he fled while the city still stood, but that means that he may be lost and his king's hammer with it Ginny, even if he's even if he's dead, we've got to find him. We have to bring him back and bury him with his people. I don't know if now's the time to be people. I don't know if now's the time to be sentimental hard one. But you see Coldain puts his hand on your shoulder and he goes on the other hand that King Xammer should not fall into the wrong hands. Oh that's true. Okay so it seems

like we got a guy or a hammer to find two things are better than one Always said that everyone's insanely quiet. I whisper copyright last Hey, I I always wanted to go back to iron deep. I didn't really want to go back to it as as rubble, but If someone's got to find this hammer, I want to I want to volunteer and help. You see Jaina nods and she goes hard on believe me, there's there's nothing I'd want more than to bury our king properly to find the prized weapon of the dwarves. I just feel like we're being selfish. And you see I just feel like we're being selfish. And you see, Mima pipes up and she goes,

we've got 39 days until the y'all comes back. And I think the elephant in the room here is that y'all are the only four that have faced her and ever survived. So getting that King's hammer is actually a priority. are the only four that have faced her and never survived. So getting that King's hammer is actually a priority because we need y'all to be as strong as possible. Yeah, I was kinda getting that impression. It seems like we've got a decent arcane

and magical infrastructure here and the thing that needs to be tended to the most seems to be the y'all. You see, Mima nods and she smiles and she goes, Moonshan, if we can keep the people of the world from killing each other and going hungry, do you think you could handle a little thing like a rogue god? Well, as long as she don't have three hearts, I think we'll be fine.

You see, she lets out a don't have three hearts, I think we'll be fine. You see, she lets out a big laugh, she goes, that's my girl, that's my girl. She doesn't have three hearts, right? You don't know that. You see, Erdan goes, no, I think it's just the two. Okay, all right, let's just keep in eye. Yeah, you keep your hearts locked down, I guess.

If you know any gods, give them a phone call. And you see, Jane kind of smiles and nods. And she goes, well, if of smiles and nods and she goes, well, if I get to do the selfish thing and the right thing, two things are better than one. I always said that, baby. Hard one. Let's go home. I whisper copyright last go.

Copyright last go. Copyright, who? Hard one, right? Yeah, that's what I said. And you see, as you guys are kind of discussing, that you will be the ones to fight theala, which was kind of like the unspoken thing as you guys were walking in.

Erdan goes, I don't want to put any of you in this position, but you do have the best chance. If there is anything we can give to you, moonshine, by all means, keep the thinking cap for now. Yeah, for now, yeah, I can keep borrowing it. That's fine with me. You hear Dioana in your head, moonshine go, there is no borrowing, the north y'all, green of elves.

Okay, then do you want to, what am I doing, am I stealing it? Erdan goes, who are you speaking to? Excuse me, you're being rude, you're interrupting me. I'm so sorry. Do you want to? Excuse me, you're being rude, you're interrupted. I'm so sorry. Do you wanna? Yes. I'm just borrowing this thing, okay? There is no borrowing.

It's just, it's just like, you ever lent someone a book, and then I'm just keeping it for a while. Hard one, I think she's sleep-talking-trainsing. I am a sleeper. I was a sleeper also. So yes, thank you, Erdan. I will borrow it a bit longer, and it will find its way back to its home. It's a laid home.

All right. Well, we're going to get to work on rebuilding and maintaining society. I think there's going to be a rise in nihilism as a bunch of people. I think the world is about to end. So we'll also need to figure out ways to keep everyone safe. Like a robust theater review, probably. The arts have to thrive at a time like that.

Yeah, I think what we wanna do is a series making sure people are well fed, but also robust arts grants. I would say like a lot of food and a lot of farce. It would be my red new. You see, me and Mark goes, I'll make sure that old cop goes on a comedy tour. I'll send you a new hour.

You do, yeah, you've got to keep it on. I got to tell you. Now is the time to keep it on. It is the luck of you. We are going to make old cop the minister of keeping it on. Although maybe it of keeping it last. Although maybe it's keeping it dark since the all is all about the light. Maybe it's maybe about getting dark.

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Okay, that's it for me. Go team pants and enjoy the show. So the meeting winds down and you guys are dismissed. Now we are going to do a little time jump because we're obviously not going to play the entire 39 next days until we get to the Aala. We're going to do some training, some meeting with people, some tying up loose ends. Hard one has agreed to help Jaina and the dwarves. The message is of hard one and Jaina. Working for montage time.

So is there anything that you guys want to do that day? And then we'll start cutting to the things that you guys are doing. I mean, I can reincarnate Gunther. Yeah. Okay. Sweet. Don't worry, ready? You might come back even prettier than he was before. Yeah, right. I don reincarnate Gunther. Yeah, okay, sweet. Yeah, don't worry, ready. You might come back even prettier than he was before. Yeah, right.

I don't know if that's possible. I don't know if that's possible. Sweet, so the first night, you guys all gather around. You have a few drinks. It's like a little bit of a celebration. You guys have the fur in the middle of the room. I'll say a lot of the higher ranking people like Mima and Erdan and Luconis are off kind of helping people get set up and everything. Mima is helping create food. Erdan is helping with the infrastructure and everything

like that. But like a Gwain and Cobb and Red are with you guys. We've got like good members, a lot of the members of the Gugan gang are here. You got a lot of the members of the Gugan gang. Maveris is missing because of course he cares so much about his students. You had to go check on them. Verenoth, respect. Classic, man. There's so many books left to be destroyed.

Yes, exactly. So yeah, so Boundless There with you guys and everything, everybody's having drinks and catching up, but you see a Gwein is kind of like Sullen in the corner and she's kind of, she's got a beer and she's just like sipping it and staring off in the corner. Sweet so as you guys are having this kind of reverse funeral for a celebration. What are you guys doing? Oh, we're probably still eulogized, Gumpther. Yeah, passed around the clump of fur and say our favorite memory. Yeah.

Remember that time we tried to sell them drugs because we didn't know them yet? Shit, that was gonna be my memory too. Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. See the only thing I know of him. You see, Red takes the hair and he goes, we did so much drugs, we used to, there was this crazy guy, we used to call him Dead Eye. We used to go nuts with him, it's Douglas Bounty,

we used to snort our cane off a gutter's ass, it was such a big ass, We can do so many drugs off it Tell us everything and then make Gunther tell it all to us again once he's back You see a red tells a raunchy tail of your Wow, wow, yeah, were you guys fucked up when you left me at the at the base of the door finish Yeah, just when I was an infant, I was in your care. I was just relaxed. I go up when I drink up beer with a Gwein.

Yeah. I had a hard one, you go over with a Gwein, and she goes, having fun at the party, you having fun nursing that beer loser, I shock kind of. Easy. Is it like a tanker of ale? And you like punch a hole in the side of the skull?

Yeah, punch a hole through a stone tanker. What the hell are you doing? I pass out. You collapse. A Gwayne walks off. After an hour, I'll go ahead and roll a D100 to see what got there. Comes back.

Ooh. 81. Oh my god, what is it? You guys see the clump of hair. How do you have it set up, Moonshine? How are you imagining your little spell circle? I think we're all in a little circle and then I've just gathered assorted bones and whatnot and made a circle around the clump of hair and then the clump of hair is right in the center.

So you see this clump of hair in the center begins rapidly expanding and forming this broad shoulder very, very big bear. You see like all the hair starts growing. It looks like Gunther is reforming as himself. You see like a lot of his like strong features and everything. But then you see skin starts filling in like pink pigments. And in the end Gunther comes back as a human. And he's got this big, thick beard. He comes out as this big, burly human.

And he sits up and he looks at his hands, and he looks out and he goes, ah! He starts speaking in like bare folk talk, and red goes, oh my god, God, you're disgusting, look at you. It'll fill in, it'll fill in. Oh! Oh! He's got so many other loaves of ravens. disgusting look at you. It'll fill in it'll fill in. 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, 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, I'm just a very, very hairy human. You see, after a second, Gunther is just like happy to be back,

red kind of rib-sum for being a human now. Not having, not having for, I guess I can't call you a fur ball anymore. That was still pretty fuzzy. Gunther picks him up and gives him a big hug and abrasism, pulls all you guys in and you guys have a nice night of drinking, singing songs and hanging out with your friends. They haven't seen the while. Can I ask Papa to give me a stick and poke tattoo?

You see Papa's a little bit drunk. Rare. Just like, you know, whatever fucking happens to us. I want to remember. Dude, I want one. I want one too, man. Wow, yeah, fine. Yeah, you want it?

You want to get matching fucking tattoos? Let's do it. Papa, oh, two, man. Wow, yeah, that's fine. Yeah, you want it, Balnor, you want to get matching fucking tattoos. Let's do it. Papa, whatever you want, man. Careful, because he's gonna bleed a lot when... Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha really focused up and it looks like a really rudimentary version of Gunther's body. I don't know if we need matching tattoos. What did he draw on me like a cool skull? There's a skull in it. Yeah, it's essentially a skull.

You see, he looks in a mirror. He just drew a guy on me pop-up with some mad him with you. Rear, rear, rear, rear. He just drew a guy on me pop off with some bad with you I know we just resurrect you know, but you I don't need it at two of them I thought you're gonna give you like a sword or something Yeah, I think a sword that sounds pretty cool here. You see he does a sword sword on you hard one that says RIP Gunther on it. Oh, he's fine. We're here.

We're here. And much on you here, he's he thinks that they're like these are holiday tattoos for Gunther. It's like starting to regret getting a test tattoo from a possible. Hey, I was kind of his birthday. Hard one, you're not talking like yourself. So you guys are all drunk and merry, and you guys all go to sleep for the night. Hard one.

As you are sleeping tonight. Trans, as you trans for the night, do you sleep with the king's hammer near you, would you say? Yeah. Okay, yeah. You, oh I do. Do you sleep with the King's hammer near you? Would you say? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Oh, I do. You are holding the hammer.

You are spooting the hammer. I'll come up to it like it's my girlfriend. Cuddling up to the hammer. I'll spoot in the hammer. Talking to the dwarf daddy says you go to sleep. Dude, I'm trying to sleep, man. I'm trying to try. Oh, look at that.

Oh, man. The room is spooked. We were there. You got the ballers. You got the ballers. You got to put one foot on the ground man I can tell you guys all there be bug you got that we're gonna have to we're only supposed to come out once a day But we're gonna turn you over Come on

Take your boots off the door fatties come out and take your boots off Meanwhile bound or just fully passed down in the corner of the room, just bent over in like child clothes, snoring super loud. His tattoo just like catching the moonlight. But hard one, as you fall asleep clutching the King's Hammer, you have a dream. It feels real though, it feels like a vision. Hard when you close your eyes and you have a vision of King Grimthor McGannis rushing

into the crumbling city of Iron Deep with a few nights at his side. The pillars at the entryway of the city are collapsing. You see dwarves are fleeing, but he's running the other way. He's running in. He and his nights set to lifting people out of rubble, freeing people, wherever they can. You see a nearby tunnel that you know leads to a neighborhood has collapsed, and there are dwarves stuck behind it and him and a bunch of other people start pulling rocks down and those guys are able to start crawling through the wreckage and get out and start running through the entrance and then you see a giant fissure cracks in the ground. You know the way Iron Deep is set up,

essentially that there are descending rings of neighborhoods that go down the mountain. And what you're seeing here is the entire top ring breaking essentially. So you see King McGannis as well as thousands of other dwarves begin falling in an avalanche of rock and dirt. You see him slide over the edge of the top ring and begin plummeting through the center of the lower ones, just falling in dirt and debris as he flails his arms. You see the King's Hammer slips from his grasp and you see he disappears into darkness. Go ahead and give me a perception check or an insight check as this happens.

The 23, Jesus. You see that as he's falling back, it doesn't just look like he's falling into darkness and that there's no lights down there and he's falling into an area that's dark. It looks like he's being like swallowed by darkness. You wake up the next day. Oh, god damn it, my head hurts.

Oh man. Did I sleep the whole night in child's pose? My back is destroyed. Yeah, I thought yoga was supposed to help you. You took your boots off, you couldn't help me, man. Last night I thought that too was a lot smaller, but it is. Yeah.

Got it, takes up your full lower back, dude. Yeah, I'm destroyed. I gotta find, I gotta find Jaina. Hard one, you run off to find Jaina. Yeah, you find her, she is getting an airship ready. It looks like they're putting together an excavation crew. You see a bunch of dwarves, you is getting an airship ready. It looks like they're putting together an excavation crew. You see a bunch of dwarves.

You see like six airships getting ready to go down, all full of dwarves. Some you recognize, maybe people who grew up sort of adjacent to the Bronzebeard family, like lesser members of the Bronzebeard family and stuff. As you run up, you see, Janice, already to go, and she goes, hard one, you're late. Am I?

I got a little... I got a little... Was there a thing last night? Uh, no. Ha, we're good. Hey, look, Jaina, I had, I guess, more than a dream, like a vision, like I saw what happened to meganis. You saw what happened to him? Yeah.

He was swallowed by darkness. Do you wanna interpret that for me? I'll have her. Go ahead and do a man's head check. That is an actual mad one. Ha ha ha. You mean like a monster ate him or something? You had a nightmare hard one.

You know, either way, he's, we're not gonna, I don't think we're gonna find him, but maybe we can, maybe we can still help us if we can, if we can get you that hammer. Getting me the hammer hard one, as far as I know, you have two of them, right? Yeah, I already have two. What do I need a third hammer for?

Look, you and moonshine and Beverly have been tasked with facing the Allah, and you need all the help you can get. And I'll be damned if I'm gonna let my dwarven pride stand in the way. I'm still gonna kick your ass, but you can have that hammer. As long as it helps me kick the Allah's ass, you can kick my ass afterwards.

All right, now get on the ship, we're gonna go down and we're gonna look for our king. Or at least this fucking hammer. So, now we're gonna do a little bit of a time jump. Moonshine, what would you like to do with the next few weeks? So, hard one, you begin getting to work, helping Jaina and the other dwarves go through the valley, looking under rocks. Just looking under rocks. Well, it's a little bit fancier than that. They have magical items and stuff that are basically

like locate objects that are like homing beacons, that are looking for the King's Hammer. You guys get to the city proper and begin excavating that, but we'll cut to that. It's going to take days, going to take weeks. I'm in charge of playlists. You are in charge of playlists. Moonshan, what would you like to do for the next few weeks?

I guess I don't really, I don't think I have any business until about 10 days before. I think that's when my gas would run up on the brains, right? Okay. So until then I do want to try and scry on the all every single day. I want to ask some people about like what kind of weaknesses the all might have. If like if Polaroa had any weaknesses since she she has her heart now, if Polaroa had any weaknesses she might have inherited if you know if she's weak to darkness, if she's weak to undead or- So you're trying to do research you're looking through like it's a research I'm reading the book luconis gay me. I'm reading books

Yeah, I'm kind of just trying to do that stuff until This about 10 days before sweet. I'll say you spend a lot of time in the libraries Wow, go ahead I'm gonna say go ahead and we'll say give me History checks with advantage. 21. Erdan is able to take you to like a restricted section of the library. Wow and he really talks. I've never known you were so interested in all of this arcane research. I'll be honest, this is not how I hoped to spend my end of days here, but this is what I need to do. So, this is where I am.

So you see... Luckily I learned how to read. I think it's overrated. But... You start reading books about Polora, and you find some that are specifically about the first people of Bohemia, like ancient books that survived earlier cataclysm. There was a time when gods lived on this plane with the people that they created, but it led to great wars, and that's when the pact of the gods was made, and

they were all separated. You know that since the Al is not an original God, she did not make this pact so that she would be able to come here. So you know that she has already been here and that she will come back. She will likely follow through on her promise. You learn the type of people that Polaroa created. He created halflings like Bev. He created humans. And the early versions of them were like angels. And even ones that had nefarious intentions, It was less, it was less about angels being good and more like angels are a species, you know what I mean? So you can gather from that,

that despite theala being somebody who's despotic and fascist, that she is still going to have ways to heal herself likely, Polar was able to curse people. You guys had read a long time ago back when you were in Moonstone and you were reading stories to the green teen that he is the one who cursed vampires and made it so they couldn't go out in the sun.

So you can assume that theala will be able to cast curses on people. You can assume that she wouldn't be able to do something arcane, like something like a power word kill or something, but you know that one of the most powerful things she would be able to do is something called a divine word. And you recognize divine word as being the spell she cast on you and Scrumper when she deafened you guys. If you guys had been more weakened, she could have killed you instantly with that. Okay. So I'm not, I'm more getting information that lets me know what I'm going up against,

but not necessarily how to go up against it. Is there anything in any of these tomes about counter spell that Maverick does all the time? You want to learn the spell counter spell? Why not? I'm in a fucking library. I might as well get something for it. That's good.

I'm at the door to the library, but I'm not going in, and I'm just so proud of Moon Shining. Moon Shining is just like a college student, finishing a fucking paper during midterms, just miserable and cooked up on Starbucks. Hard ones out there turning over a giant boulder, at least I'm not fucking reading. T.M. Lava. Here's what I would let you do. I will let you either not do an ability to score improvement or lose a feat.

I will, ooh, I will, look, there's no stealth in anymore. I'll sacrifice Wood Elf magic to our true outer spell. The Swede has been thrown, right? Yeah, there's no passing without trace with a fucking all-knowing dual divine heart. Okay, here's what I'm gonna say, Mochain. You can retrain a feat. Basically, you're spending all your time indoors,

instead of like spending it out amongst nature. You're reading books. You're trying to figure out the best way to beat theala. The best thing you can think to do is to be able to stop her from killing your friends. Go ahead and roll a D4, and that is how many spells you will need to give up to prepare a counter spell in addition to losing the feet. Wow. Three. So in order. It's memorizing not spell slots.

It is not spell slots, but in order for you to prepare counter spell, it is like you are preparing three spells. All right, I'll go for it. I mean, sweet. So Munchain, you spend a lot of time learning counter spell. You probably even spell. I'm miserable about it.

You're miserable. Thanks, honey. I'll see spend- I'm miserable about it. You're miserable. Thanks, honey, I'll see me. I'm pale. I'm salo in the eyes. I'm bringing Munchine like red eyes. I'm shaking. I come in. You're a jundus.

I'm pretty sure. I come in with a little box and I say, this is from Erdan, and they open it up and it's a pair of Pins, Mez glasses. I put them on. Damn, these pinched monastrels. You look great, honestly. Never thought I'd see this look, but it works.

Papa is bringing you out all of these big books. Oh, thanks, Papa. He also tries to bring out story books for you to read him, and he just like kind of casually slides them like, green room. Green room. Green. Green.

Do we have time for this? Beer. Oh, I'm sorry. It's the end of the days and you really want to have some little leisure time. Beer. Here's a gift certificate. Go to the spa. He, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he Scramble's off. You see, Lucanis is also in the library studying. He goes, I see you've regifted another one of my gifts.

I thought we were gonna go to that spot together. All right, you know what people look? I think it's, I've said this before, it's the fucking end of days. Maybe we pocket our grudges and saving for them with. All right, I'll go to the spa with Papa, who apparently is my daughter. Lucanis, Luc, it goes on.

Incredible. Okay, so Moonshine is spending most of her time trying to learn counter spell, Bev, what are you doing? I've got a lot of stuff that I wanna do, but I think first and foremost, I did take this sword because it's Earl and Sword, I can't just leave it there, but I'm really worried about it. It's been wrapped up in my bag until now,

but I think I probably call Erdan over. I set up maybe like a tiny hut off to the side. I like borrow moonshine's wand and I like cast a little Liam on's discrete hut for us to meet up in. Sweet. Yeah, you use the wand. You cast Leamon's tiny hut.

You probably had to borrow it from Mama. Who knows? Oh right, right, right. You borrow it from Mama. You use a little hut. You call Erdan over. Erdan is quite busy. Takes a little bit, but eventually he comes over to you.

He looks a bit frazzled and he goes, Beverly, what can I help you with? Well, first of all, I got you this latte. Thank you so much. Yeah. Appreciate it, it could always use the caffeine. Absolutely. It's actually, it's just froth milk, but.

I don't know why you would just give me milk. He seemed like a milk guy. Okay. Is that what you wanted? You called me here, I'm leaving. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Okay, all right, so we were at the beach in Galator on and I saw the horseman on the white horse. Okay, so I'm gonna assume that you guys have kind of filled in Erdan and all those other people

about these rates that you guys saw. And they kind of fill you in, it is obviously the same as the biblical horses. So the way it works in this universe is basically that they are all animated spells essentially. So the death one, the one in the pale horse is essentially like power word kill as a being. Then the red horse is war, the white horse is pestilence and the black horse is famine. So you tell Erdan that you saw the white horse. I mean he goes you saw the White Horse in the Glateron. Yes, it was very far away and I couldn't tell if it was maybe like a

cool sentar floating at first but then he corpse strided over to me and attacked me with this sword and I pull it out. I don't take it out of the wrapping yet but I like pull it out and it it's Erlinland sword and I know I should have left it on the beach But I couldn't bring myself to just throw it away the embodiment of pestilence left to sword and You brought it to a city full of refugees and you see Erdan just passes out instantly.

And you can't tell if he fainted or if it's something with the sword, but he's just gone. I'll go ahead and roll initiative. Okay, initiative, all right. Eight, eight, Erdan got a six, so you go first. Okay, I guess I will, you know what, I will cleansing touch him. Just in case he has been poisoned by the sword.

As you hold your hand over him, you do not have a full kind of packed with a god yet, but you have been able to use holy energy. Yeah, I've been like cobbling it together between Melora and the dust mother. Exactly. Yeah. So you're on borrowed minutes. You're on borrowed minutes. You summon some radiant energy, and you see,

Erdan goes from struggling to breathe. He was essentially mechanically, he was about to start doing death saving throws. He went to zero, and you see, he starts breathing normally, but he still knocked the fuck out. And this is the first person who's been like, near the sword, outside of like, it being inside of three bags.

Okay, I guess if I've got time, I touch hands in as well to stabilize him. Okay, yeah, you bring him up to like a few HP and he goes, have you shown that swords to anyone else? No, no one. He goes, put it back wherever you had it before. If it was in a bag, if it was in 10 bags, whatever it was in, I'm going to take

this far away and I'm going to banish it. Thank you. So you think maybe I should get Irland another gift. I think you should not bring diseased filled swords to the city and also you should throw out this milk. And not just because it probably has a disease now But because it's an insane thing to give somebody okay, okay, and then I think you should burn this hot down Sure, okay, in fact, we should cut off this entire chunk of downhunt I'm right downhunt cut down this entire chunk of the city put this wrap the sword wrap it back in the bag Okay, I will take this. You see, he takes it and he disappears.

I like to start to drink the milk. I'm like, ah! And I throw it. And then I go about doing everything that Erdan told me to do. Yeah, you're able to grab some mages. They full on like break. They hear like the story about Erdan

and their super freaked out. And you guys literally break off that part of the city, like some stone from the floating island and send it off into the sky. You guys destroy the huts. Erdan goes off and comes back after a little bit and just looks at you and shakes his head and walks away. Is he drinking like a cappuccino or something?

He looks to be drinking like a super black coffee. No milk. Black coffee. I write that down. Okay. Is there anything else you would like to do? Well, I guess here's the good news about the plague sword. Uh-huh. Is that it worked so quickly on Erdan? Yeah. That you can generally gather that it probably didn't infect anyone else

because it worked truly so quickly. Cool, I'm glad that it probably didn't. Yeah, good to know. If you'd be the other thing you should do with your 40 days is walk around Glade Home and see if anyone is passed out. Yeah. Just walk around greater restoring people.

I'm just gonna do a quick census of the entire population. Glade home. If you want to go to like, if you want to like tell Lucana's what happened and go to the all-cast, you're just doing a cleansing touch on the city. It's not a bad idea. That sounds like a beautiful plan. Sweet.

I'll say even Erdan suggests that. We should just be safe. Just give the the crystal a quick tap. Give the crystal a quick tap. See, this is why we have it. People thought it was weird that we had this all cast or something. It's great to me.

Or Dan leads you down to do a cleansing test just to be safe in the entire city. Essentially get to the pestilent sword vaccine. Vaxinations are important. Everyone should get them. Well, glad we got that out of the way. Coffee? Go home, buddy. I'm telling your mother about this.

Er, Dan walks out. I think I need to vice-president or something. Bev, what do you want to do with kind of the rest of your time? Okay, after that, after that scare, I think Beverly is realizing that he needs all the help he can get as far as defending himself and his friends goes. He's also stuck in a weird position where he doesn't actually have a source of power. He's just kind of leaning on other deities and like whoever, whatever source of power

he can muster for his spell. So he needs to get a solution to that. So I think he gets some, you know, he gets another coffee and heads over to the library with the proposition for moonshine. Sweet. moonshine, you see as you're studying this counter spell, I'll say probably, it's probably getting near the end of the day, the sun is going down. Hard one has probably like come in. He's done with his day of excavating the fridge. Brody, bronze.

He's dirt under the fingernails. Yeah, he's got his flat. Hard one, wipe your can all over me. Give me your sunshine and fresh air. Down or super candy. He's just been outside doing squats, trying to get dragged up. Overrated, okay.

You know what? I don't know if it's that. Maybe it's just that everyone who writes a book is kind of a jerk. Well, the author of Ulfgar goes, punch got it right. And I feel like they're, why do you have to write another book after that? When you start out reading,

they're all so sweet and nice, but the more complicated and intricate they get, the more biased and intricate they get, the more biased and heavy-handed they get. It's true, yeah. History is written by the winners, copyright laslo. I got you this coffee. It's a red eye.

I put just a little bit of mud at the bottom for you. Thank you so much. Mud in your mud? Yeah, I thought you might like that. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Mudding your mud? Yeah, I thought you might like that. Thank you so much, thank you. Yeah. Hard one, this is just a beer that I just like put some coffee beans in the bottom of.

Okay. The barista gives me a lot of weird looks when I go over there. I'm like you're inventing your own shit. You know, just try and stuff out. We got 30 days to really figure ourselves out in addition to how we're going to defeat the Aula. But speaking of that, Moonshine, how would you like to get out of the library for a bit?

Help me out with a ritual. Desperately. Ritual, that sounds like something we could do out in the open nature. You're grabbing my hand really hard. Follow me. Give me away from these bugs. Follow me! Can't be away from these bugs! So yeah, moonshine, if you want to help Bev out with the ritual, I will say, yeah, you're able to take him to like the water garden outside of Clay Home Castle. You see that the weather here now, after a few days, I'll say at this point, it's been probably less than a week. I'll say moonshine, it's going to take you more time of studying to get counterspell,

but you are well on your way to learning it. So are you guys having anybody else there or anything? It has only been a few days so far. Yeah, if there's any other druids, I mean, I would love to get Mima in on it, Momma as well. I guess like, whoever's around, we can get kind of like a party line going. Sweet, yeah.

Oh God, Munchine. Don't a party line going. Sweet. Yeah. Oh god. Moonshine. Don't look at me. The sun. Don't look at me. Don't look at me. It's so bright off of your skin. Look, the coolest thing about me right now is my Morpheus pinsness. Don't comment on her sweatpants. Cool. Yes. We're at the water garden.

Yes. You guys all gather around at the water garden. You guys see the weather here is actually under control. You guys have now have like a protective bubble up over the city, not unlike Ezri's, so the rain is not constantly pouring down. The druids have also been able to do some work to part the clouds and have a little sunlight coming through. Mima and the rest of the druids have been able to like add some greenery here with their druidic powers. You see two trees magically extend their branches and grow green leaves, creating an arc

around you guys. I feel like in this moment I'm surrounded by all these druids and people and I'm kind of feeling the emptiness of the lack of pull or even more than I normally do and I turn to moonshine and I'm like I don't know if I can even do this anymore. I don't what do you mean? You've still got your connection to the Earth. Hard one's got the Queen's hammer and the King's hammer. I don't have anything. I have no power I can draw forth anymore.

Well, I mean, my relationship with Malora is not like some special thing. I know that you and Palora have sort of a special thing, but literally anyone can connect to Melora. Really? Yeah. I mean, like, you don't even really have to pledge yourself to her. I'm- Melora doesn't really give you powers as much as- she helps you find the powers that are already in you.

Maybe that's what I need. Yeah. She is not the kind of deity you work with in an exclusive or jealous way. I mean, she's also hurting right now. So, I mean, she'll, she'll help you out. Okay. And if at the end of it, your back would pull or Okay, and not and if at the end of it your back would pull or No skin off her back. Okay, so she doesn't have exclusivity carved in no Contrast that's great sounds awesome. Yeah, I Guess I've just been thinking about What did I said? all that time ago about

relying more on myself and those around me and less on the divine and those out of our reach. I don't know if I'm speaking outside my bounds right now, but like my relationship with my deity, you have always had a father figure. You have always had people that are the authority to you. But when you work with Malora, like I said, she's not giving you powers, you merely go searching for her inside yourself and you open some door to try and find her and then all these powers that were inside of you

come spilling out. You're the daddy now. So what you're saying is that I need to be my own dad. Yeah. Maybe Akira was on to something in that way. Yeah, and Vests. He was also on to Vests. Yeah, he can In that way. Yeah, and Vests. He was also onto Vests. Yeah, he can't not to something with Vests.

It's true. Boundmour is looking really stylish. Yeah, thanks. You could put a shirt on under the vest though, I think. No, it'll hide the tattoo. Yeah. Yeah. Did the tattoo move?

I started to like the tattoo. Yeah. I think, Pop, I did a fine work on the color. I see, I see you filled it in and now he kind of looks like you. He colored it in, yeah, that's cool. Yeah, we know it's changed to, yeah, he added a vest. So, what is the vest of tattoo? No, the vest is a little vest I've pinned to my tattoo and it,

I know, it honestly hurts a lot. I'm gonna just trying to stay through it. Don't do that. I'm kind of trying to not make a scene right now because we're kind of about to do a ritual. But that's why I also like us Druids will, you know, we'll make a nice scene for you, but this ritual, especially with Malora,

anything you do, it's deeply personal I know you come from a religion that's really hierarchical and has Ceremonies that go the same way for every single acolyte but that this is just a different ball game I think I need something a little more personal. I think you do too, but also something a Little more detached. I think I need both an equal measure I think I need something an equal measure. I think I need something within and then something surrounding. I think I need that equilibrium if you know what I mean. Yeah. You all want to do some witch shit.

Let's do some witch shit. I'm not in the library. Keep me that turtle blood. Yeah that's right. It's your ritual but we are gonna all smear that blood all over us. Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah, I guess I rip off my shirt, I guess. Is this custom? I think what I do is I take the turtle blood and I pour it a little bit. I probably want to have enough for everyone to smear on themselves. Yeah, I'll say, Mimaw takes a little mortar and pestle thing and mixes the little drop of blood with some other kind of powder and hands you the little bowl. Wonderful.

I take two fingers worth. I put it on my face probably, like under my eyes and maybe like a mark on my forehead. And then I smear a lot on top of the amulet of blower. Oh, go ahead and give me a religion check with advantage. That is going to be only a 13. 13. Okay, yeah. Bev, you rub a little bit of this powder over your amulets and you do feel holy energy Coming from the amulet and coming from yourself. Oh I felt a little something there. Look kick. Yeah, you know, she's a little seed. You start to water her and crazy shit starts growing out

Yeah, Mima goes Bev, I thought you were kind of getting away from the green that thing This is just like, because they always say that you don't go out to Fomalore, you come home to her. I think there's going to be more than one reincarnation this week. You see, Mima, Smiles, and Nodz, and as you're getting ready to kind of take your oath to become a green night again, you hear a voice pushing through the crowd. Oh, out of the way I missed the first one, I missed the first one, he was away at camp, he was away at camp.

You see Martha Toe Gold runs out and gives you a big homestay. Oh, you made it. It gives you a big hit. Did her Dan reach you? I told him personally to go to you. Um, I don't which one was he The pin snes little tiny glasses. Oh, he's thought. Um, no, he wasn't there. Okay. All right. It was some other Wizards that weren't wearing little glasses. All right. That's a little ruse that was one with big glasses big glasses How big are his glasses? They're very small? We should we talk about how big the glasses are right now?

We get to my god. I'm so glad you're alive I'm so good to see you. Oh my gosh. I'm so proud of you. Thank you All right, I don't know. Yeah, I want to get away your thing. You see she backs up And then you hear another voice go hey Well, I figured if I was the first one to make your green night, I should make your green night again! I spear tackle pretty. Haha! Go ahead and make an athletic check.

I chuck a book at him. Oh no, 19. 19. Hard one, tackles Denny. Oh, why? Falls down, Moonshine cloppers him with a book and Denny is instantly knocked out. Yeah. So now that's how you use them books.

Yeah, that's good. I know. They're more fun way to use them. This ritual is already off to a perfect start. Thank you so much. I think you all for coming. How about this? You see, Mimag goes over and she grabs the paper

that Denny had in his hands and she goes alright let's do this the right way. Please repeat after me Beverly Toe Gold. The Green Nights fight with all their might. The Green Nights fight with all their might and through no slot we make things right and through no slight we make things right. But should the Nightsot dim our side, but should the nights blot dim our sight? We'll smite that frite with a lat so bright. We'll smite that frite with a light so bright Kalu Kalei Everybody shouts there's a bunch of crick elves around you see cooters there holds up a beer Kalu Kalei

I I rush to invite Jaina to this party. Yeah! Jaina rushes over real quick. What's going on? Is there something fun happening? Oh yeah, calloo callay! Calloo callay. Put your arm around you, start shrinking.

Mama Toe Gold looks super happy and proud. Bev, as you take this green night oath again and give yourself over to the realm of Bahumia to protect it, you see instantly you become more of like a wild child. Your hair begins to grow out as you feel the holy aura of Melora. Oh, feel your body. Copyright hard one. Your fingernails get longer.

You feel like flowers begin to sprout in your hair. Can we say that my feet where normal, halfling hair would grow, like wild flowers grow on them. Wild flowers grow in between your toes. It's kind of gross, honestly. And now on your helm, as you put on, as you don, your green night armor once more, as you put on your helm, there are giant stag antlers that come out from the helm, like a majestic green magical antlers. I turn to Moon Shandend in hard one and say, this dirty enough for you? Oh, damn, I shut my bean beer company. You do.

You do. And Bev, as you're celebrating with everybody, and as you've become this green night again, you remember the Sylvan words that Lázlo told you to speak to cast this spell. Turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle. You say turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle. You say turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle,

in Sylvan. Hey, and as you say, hey, you see a mini dragon turtle about five feet long appears under you. Oh, hey Beverly. Ah, look at you! Last low is that you? Sort of. Ha ha.

And Beverly, you have just cast the find greater steed and this is your new familiar. Oh, I like stroke, it's a massive mall. And I like, look it in the eye and I say I shall call you jaw jaw. Oh! And that's where we'll end it. Jaw jaw. Where is it?

We can't believe we all have an animal. We all love them equally. We all have an equally important animal. I mean, I think we're all praying for a Day's ex machina isn't a siola fight. Day's ex do. Her dad is supposed to have Coco. You have not seen Coco. We have a lot to do. Yeah. Victoria's Animal Overhard on your foot and check in on Coco. No, it's only been a couple. We have 40 days. I'll be back.

Yes. Sweet guys, thank you so much for listening. You can check our after show, our short rest over on our Patreon, patreon.com slash nadpod that's n-a-d-d-d-p-o-d-don't sing. We are. We are. We are. Does anybody have anything to plug this week? Call the oldie guy.

Oh, I would love to plug our PO box. Oh, yeah. We were away a little bit for the holidays, so it was kind of overflowing, but I went. We had belated Christmas. Yes, all my goodness. The great guys. Pelor, Reston Pies, his sack was full of gifts for the people of Bohumia. I love a bulging Polor sack.

Who doesn't? It's in several pages of the scripture oddly enough. I would like to shout out all of the wonderful people that gave us gifts. Great. Here they are. Katie and Ryan sent us an absolute bounty. Number one, a save the date for their wedding, which is going to be in a converted steel foundry. There was a lot of highlights, but there was going to be a cheesecake grill. Very enticing. You love to see it. They also sent us a drawing of pop-a needle point that says roll for horniness Some passion tea and a pop-a stamp again a bounty very cute a trailer and the family sent us a family postcard

Some cat treats and toys and a drawing from Charlie. Thank you They sent it for Bruce which is very He's doing Bruce. which is very sweet. Oh, I love that. That's so sweet. He's doing well. Bruce, thanks you. Bruce, thanks you. Bruce, thanks you. Katie M sent a very nice letter. Oh, good luck DMing your first time, Katie M.

We wish you the best. They also sent us some friendship bracelets with characters, Logan. I'm wearing a Kallu Kalei one right now. I think I'm a bracelet guy now, actually. He loves that for you. He looks good. He looks good.

Love that for you. Ew, that's the most networking thing. Oh, gross. Love that for you. I got one for you too. I just want to say that and not even looking up from your phone. This is the main is you ever been to me. Jake, you're eating.

Oh no, am I hurting your feelings? Only because it's so true. Jake, you're sub-tweeting me about the bracelet right now. But that's not your soul at all. It was, you had this phrase of a douchebag, but it came from you who is not a douchebag. I appreciate that. This is the nicest thing you've ever done.

Anyway, that's at Katie Cakes with a K24 on Insta, two black cat crafts on Etsy. Love that for everyone. Love that for us. Wiley Sherford Austin and his mom sent us a Christmas card. Wiley is a pet just to clarify. And letters for each of the boobs, very nice touching personal letters.

Thank you so much, Wiley. You're a very good boy. Deborah W. Sinus, a song they wrote called Terri No Longer based on a song that Beverly performed. It's the full extended version. Maybe I will do a full studio recording. I think you'll play it at that wedding. I've got a closet that I write music in. It's not a studio, but it is a closet. Can we fit a full children's choir in the closet? No, not at all. Okay, not legally. We're gonna need to work on that. I am a logistics guy. I love that for you.

Love that for you. Oh, Debra also sent hand-pain and postcards with notes for each of the boobs. Lincoln L. age 11 sent us a very nice note and wanted some DM tips from you and me. That was... Emily as well now. None are spared. Lincoln, as long as your friends are having fun, you're doing a good job. So don't compare yourself to anybody. Right.

Just make sure everybody's having fun, engage all your players, learn about their backstories first. Have them send you a little something or talk to them before you all play so that you can make it fun for them and fun for you. I'm just realizing that Lincoln, if I imagine you're playing with French from school, and if you are, you can like bring them over to a little extra separate area of the playground and you can have like one-on-one conferences with all your players

That's so good. You've got so much time that you could just like chill and talk about your game. You can take them to school dinners Oh, yeah, there can be oh man You and your crew can sit together lunch and like talk about the campaign. Oh, it's perfect Also, get your mom to make some snacks. Cute Miley and Tanner great name sent us a save the date for their wedding in Dallas That's too silly. We're gonna do it. Yeah, we're gonna do a wedding tour Wedding tour Unfortunately, we are gonna be doing a multi-city tour, but if you're not invited to the wedding you cannot come

So we are gonna have to sell merch at your wedding also. Just to make ends meet. Right. You gotta subsidize those. Yeah. I mean, you'll get an ad, you'll get an ad grottis gift, but everyone else will have to pay. Oh, we got a postcard from the House with two porches, aka, Emmy, aren s there and big mama big mama is their beautiful cat I believe um this is great their postcard has a picture of them wearing matching sweaters and on the matching sweater is a picture of them wearing last year's sweater I'm also pretty sure that this postcard said that one of them was super

drunk and almost got kicked out of our Boston show. Yeah. Respect. Very funny. Yeah. And the hard ones are a foot award. We also got, let's see, oh, a Christmas card from Corey Sidney and Bo. Thank you so much. A lot of Christmas cards. Sorry, I'm talking about them in February. Brian C.H. sent us a card with a drawing of a warg, some garbage pill kid stickers, a bunch of nice letters.

Thank you so much for all of your gifts, Brian C.H. And last but not least, Michael, Crystal and Millie sent us a Christmas card and a nice note. Merry Christmas to all of you. A belated Merry Christmas. Belated, Christmas. Indeed, we got you go here to sing us out. We have more people to thank. We got a big haul, but we don't want to take up too much time at the end of the episode here. We will thank more people next week. Thank you guys so much for listening.

Jake, you got anything to plug? Yeah, I have a new podcast I host with my brother. Yeah. It's called The Goat Show. You can find it on head gum or anywhere you get podcasts. Give us a tease. Yeah, I can. What's your favorite show?

Oh, favorite show. You bet. Yeah. Okay, well, shit. Ready, three, two, one, go. Actually, maybe this will be easier to think of. What was Mike's best show? Yeah. Oh, he, favorite joke. I can get your bet, your best quiz. Okay, well, shit, ready, three, two, one, go. Actually, maybe this will be easier to think of. What was Mike as best joke?

Yeah, oh, he, he started, he has a new nickname. It's Goody the Kid. You should like that. It's in the first 10 seconds of the first episode. So, if you don't like that, you'll hate the rest of the podcast. Love that for him. Love that. I love that for him.

Love that. That's it, I was waiting for it. Love that for him. Okay, guys, follow us on Twitter at CHMURFSTME. I called these called while Addy X for Emily and at J.Core, which is Jake and you can tweet about the show using hashtag NADPOD that's NADPOD. We are, we are, the youth of the nation. We are, we are, the youth of the nation. Hello friends, called while here, it is the end of our show, which means it's time to

shout out Arpenevalent Council of Elders. Let's get right to it. Brad D, Dillon B, Danny P, Steelbreaker, and Jack L. The White Horsemen's lieutenants. They each have dominion over lesser diseases like the cold, shingles, and the flu. This week, Jack L drew the shortest straw and has to be the horsemen of diarrhea. Tough break! Beardman Dan, Adam R, Danielle the Desterly Dame, Alachard and Alexander T.

Five Crick Druids who prayed extra hard to make Beverly's hair grow out. Now our boy can rock a ponytail. It looks awful, but it makes him so, so happy. And so kind Druids, we thank you from the depths of our hearts. Howdor Frostback, Jordan DJ, Jeffrey S, Cutter W, and Andrew M. Boundless Squad of Trainers. while our heroes were off on individual quests. These Jim rats helped our dad get absolutely shredded by feeding in protein-laced bud heavies after every rep.

God bless you all. Shubrid the mushroom, Alena C, Mixologist Michael McD, and Boundores boy. Gladeholm University librarians who have sworn an oath of vengeance against moonshine for using the dog ear method to save a place in various irreplaceable tomes. Yikes. Just an eye, Jacob C, Elena M, and Dana G, four huge eagles that spin their days doing favors for a local Bohumi in Wizard. Most people think they do it because they respect the Wizard's mission, but the truth is

the Wizard has pictures of each of them cheating on their significant others. Blackmail truly is the most powerful spell of all. Damial R. Destincy, Jive G, andle and Kathleen L. Four dwarves helping hard one and Jaina with the excavation effort. They actually already found the King's Hammer, but decided to put it back so that hard one can find it because, and I quote, the dude needs a win. Sergio Salazar Salaman Sakurai S. De Sikwani, Michael L, Trayle the Kray-Fey, and Jory S, Erdan's Elven Biohazard cleanup team. Their hazmat suits even have extra pointy bits up top for their long ears.

Even Erdan has to agree that this looks super cute. Adam H, Ryan, Aaron G, Jake L, and Michael K.M. The Blue Knights. Similar to Green Knights, but instead of pledging themselves to the Earth, they pledge themselves to the sea and each get their own dolphin familiar. I am jealous. Big Buck, Richard X. Malkana, Sam L, and Troy McCee. Inventors of the Curse Purse. It's like a bag of holding, but with extra warding for cursed items that are too tempting and sentimental to not pick up. Ffff, been there.

Dommr, Josh S, Nicholas C, Austin C, and Kristen P. The Necromancers. A group of necromancers with a soft spot for Julia Roberts' rom-coms. That's everybody's weakness. Mike H, Matthew E, Samuel B. Ocata and Angel B. The other kittens from Bubbles' litter, who are actually all ghosts now. Which is really sad, but also spooky and cute to think about a skeleton cat hanging out with a bunch of ghost cats. It's adorable, I'm picturing it now.

Thank you very much for this image, image Emily who wrote this specific shout out. Aaron C. T.J. M. the Noembarbarian, Tras the Traveler, Robert F. and Paul and Megan the Twins. Marriss the unscoolds class of students who, after ripping up their books, were able to run to safety during this teleportation of Gladeholm unhindered by heavy heavy tomes. Thanks, M'am. You saved the day yet again. Anime intellect, Zolo Dollo, Nick B. and Burley T.

A group of fishermen who've been taking Shay's hot yoga class to get rid of their rod and net hunch. And let me tell you, it is doing wonders. Moonstone's posture has never been better. Colton B, J, C.C. Lulu, Aiden R.H. and Robert P, Kranon Durlin's game night group of friends in the Feywild. They were actually in the middle of a really close game of code names when Gladehom was attacked.

And then these heroes abandoned a freshly cracked tub of hummus and a picture of Virgin Mojitos to save the world. Truly answering the call. Timmy R. Aaron Sully, Blitzbrick Demetri, J. Dragonborn and Zach C. Five green teens on a jamboreen in another dimension that just discovered the cursed plague sword that Erdan banished. So if I said to say, this jamboreen is going to be super canceled.

Lucas B, Jordan L, Talith X, Mateo C, and Pupp Thoth, a crew of drunk Crick-Elves who showed up at the reincarnation party without any context. They're now incredibly terrified of fur balls, fearing that they might transform into a large man at any moment. Kaley Elise, Barnes & Aitor, Mick Pucks, Christian A, and Yens Christian T. Jaina's adult friend group who had a sensible board game night while the band of boobs were getting wasted and bringing people back from the dead. Though things did get a bit rowdy when no one would trade Jaina a sheep for a wheat. Devon W. Shinnoa B. Jared E. Persephone and Eric McDee. Acrua philanthropist who reads story books to Possums. Pop-hop put a few to work while he got his nails done at the spa. Now that's excellent delegating my little buddy.

Recent S. Eric and Andrea B. J. Parker, Jonathan O. and Austin M.R. A group of cultists who worshiped the art of regifting as a means to save Bahumia from waste. They're currently on a pilgrimage to meet their prophet, moonshine sibon. Steven C. Maxwell C. Mike K. Omri-M. and Calum L. A crew of non-magic elves who just happened to be nearby when Mama was ordering everyone to enchant the huts. They're just waving hands around and hoping for the best because they're too intimidated to tell Mama that they aren't mages. I can identify. Scott D, no Thor the Prodigy Ranger, Mcungy, Dan and the Red Rain. A bunch of Galatoron pranksters who died seconds before the cataclysm attempting to jump from upper Galatoron to the ocean below on Boogieboards.

They didn't make it, but the livestream of the stunt got triple digit viewers. Hell yeah. Richard C. Quaranty, Curtis S. Michael C. and Nathaniel P. Library trolls who are now moonshines best friends. These dweebs read all day and what do they have to show for it? Only a bunch of awesome spells. Nerds

Nikki W. Andrew B. Christopher B. Nicholas P. and Kevin M. Jaw-jaw's older siblings. You look at Jaw-jaw and think how adorable Dragon Turtles are, but then you see his older siblings and their swallowing crackens hole. So expect Jaw-jaw to have a fearsome glow-up. Rahul Inn. I am the Atlas. Mary Bell, the Kitty Morphing gnome, Joe McGee, and Meta Amps. The team of Halflings that kept Danny Pebblepots knee from bending to the aula. After he was frozen with fear and before he curled into the fetal position, Danny tried very, very hard to bend the knee. Very believable.

At a Cassie, Amy W. Luke H. Kelvin Noodles and Grace G. Beverly's team of tailors. And it's going to take all of them to extend the ass on all his trousers. That boy's rump is to plump. Lance, as me M, Gary J, Kazimir, the all-knowing, and Spencer Kasprue. A bunch of sentars who despite having perfect six packs refuse to go shirtless. They're all wearing hoodies for some reason, also wearing four-legged horse pants. Weird. Eric G. Michelle O.

Gage M. Number 1, Beverly and fan Gen R. And Tingle the Bard. Mav versus students who decided to stop going to class after Mav versus didn't show up for a week. Now Mav versus back, but his kids aren't. He has yet to report this and spends every class napping. Well, that's all the shoutouts we have.

Thank you all so much for listening, and we will see you next week. Bye bye!