Not Another D&D Podcast - The Mavrus Chronicles - Blazin' Daze (Part 3)

Episode Date: November 20, 2024

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Okay, the Maverick Chronicles. Okay, hot boys. I'm around your dungeon dose and Emily Axe. We're joined by Brian Murphy. If you offer me a seltzer then we're gonna have word sir Max son of Mumford. Whoa fucking get him back absolutely vicious. And of course we got Caldwell Tanner. Goo touching friend who loves lands and it's hungry Dave and I'm ready to send. Dude the station wagon is a sacred place. I hunched down, no one could see me, dude. We all knew. And we've got Jake Hurwitz. Never fear, I have no ears.

One big head, folks. One big head. Dreadnevers. One big head. And finally, we've got the guest to end all guests, Zekoyama! The sorcerer with the jiggly arms. It's time to be very alarmed. All right, you found it.

You pulled it out. Wow. It just took you longer to pull it out because of how long your arms are. I can tell you wrote that. I couldn't read. I feel like you're an adrenaline junkie the way that you never have a rhyme

and figure it out on your feet. You gotta take a leap of faith every time you forget to write a rhyme. Last session, the boys of summer neglected the raucous delights of the Blazing Babe Festival in favor of starting drama, mostly with each other. They offered us seltzers, they started the drama. Macs and Macs.

Things got real in that stink hut. The four of you kicked off the event with seltzers, they started the drama. Mac. Mac. Things got real in that stink hut. The four of you kicked off the event with seltzer showers and schwag from some brand ambassador dryads then had a run in with a zine wizard from Gladehome University who let slip that he'd actually met Carl at Gladehome U's new student orientation. What? Wait, what? Carl's a rat. You grappled with Carl's betrayal of your plan to attend the Party Plane Community College together,

then approached Tred's dad, who you'd seen spending time with a mysterious moon cleric in silver robes. Dr. Nevers introduced the mystery woman as his guru, then you all tried to get him to talk shit about his invisible son who was standing right there. What? I wanna clear the air.

Mack proceeded to invite him to the fey grotto. Then the four of you sought refuge from the elements in a vegetable fermenting tiny hut. Heaven. Inside, you discovered a bounty of comforts, toothbrushes, a full bath, and most importantly, a dog-eared summer edition of Lands End Catalog.

Oh, dips. It's almost hoggiest, boys. Huggiest is upon us. Huggiest is upon us. Huggiest is upon us. Huggiest is upon us. Your reverie. Your reverie, however, was- a group of possessed pixies started flinging fire bolts, trying to prematurely ignite the capstone of Blazing Babe's magic ritual, the effigy of Melora herself.

You made quick work of the pixies with some fear-inducing emo music, minute meteors, and one chilling mouth shower. There's like a blue raspberry slushy flavored mouth blast. And don't forget that I missed with my mace. Oh my God. I tried to do a murder. You miss with your mace then try to get Tred to use a sword. But their felled bodies dissolved into a mysterious, stinking goo which you all proceeded to touch,

double touch, and in some cases, triple touch. Fuck! What is wrong? What if we touch it again? The quadruple touch? It's the only thing that will work. Seems smart to me. Dave's eyes went black.

Mac's ears sprouted wings. Mavris's limbs became tentacles with fingers at the end. And Tread's ears first scurried away from his head, which had doubled in size. Then said ears sprouted their own wings. Wait, did the ears also double in size when his head doubled in size, then said ears sprouted their own wings. Wait, did the ears also double in size when his head doubled in size?

No. OK. Because I think we discussed that if he gets the ears back, they wouldn't fit his current head size. I didn't notice how little your ears were, Tread. Dude, drop it. No, don't drop the ears. They will run away again.

We need to find them. As you chased down Tread's flying ears, a festival emissary intervened, analyzing the goo and discovering that it was, in fact, Demon Eicher from the Infernal Plains. Wait, what? What? That seems like very off vibe.

And that's where we are now. The four of you are being escorted, well, actually, let's resolve if you caught Tred's ears. Okay. Can I be like the lookout? I'm using my dark vision. Yeah, yeah, okay. So I'm gonna let you roll.

I just need everyone's chasing the ears, dude. I'm gonna let you roll with a triple advantage, but it's a really high DC. Holy shit. Me, specifically Mack, I'm trying to grab them? Well, no, because Mavris is trying to grab them. Mavris is trying to grab them. You're flying. You're flying. So I'm trying to grab them. Well. No cuz maverick is trying I'm flying holding maverick. Okay, triple advantage triple advantage. Be happy hit. What's yours? You have to hit a 20 slight of

Guidance I'll give you guidance okay Got any for to this I if my hands are normal size So I'm gonna play a really cool like palm mute riff and give you inspiration. Hell yeah Okay, you're a d6. You're tone deaf without your ears man. All right guys Hold me steady Mac. All right. I'm trying All right, I'm gonna add a one to that And then I'll see what I add to four Okay, so five plus my two that I have All right, I like really need my ears dude, I know dude, I know everybody just calm down. Okay. I'm really nervous now

Okay, you did it all right to 18 There wasn't that one in there though Okay, alright. Two 18s. Oh no. There wasn't that one in there though. Left one, right one. Alright, don't get your tentacles all over them. You leave his tentacles alone, he saved your ears.

Oh shit, you're actually- I feel like I caught a bug with my bare hands. Maverick, grab him by the earring. That's safer. So you successfully retrieve Dread's ears. Take them. Thanks dude. Maverick, I don't- Do you have any hand sanitizer? I don't say this enough, man, but thank you for getting's ears. And- Take them. Thanks dude. You have any hand sanitizer? I don't say this enough man,

but thank you for getting my ears. Yeah, I've never heard you say that. That was honestly really sick how we all worked together to get our boys ears back. Yeah, and only one of us got thanked. You can max storms off. Max put me down. Mac, it's so dark.

Mac, put me down before you show them off. You have to go, dude. I don't wanna go this way. Max storms off carrying Mavris like a construction crane. And the woman who you guys spoke to earlier, this summer Aladdin wearing a little Phoenix feather tutu with like a little fungal Bluetooth in her ear and a little name tag that says Amber meets up with you and she says, okay,

I promised you all that I would bring you to the med tent. Assuming that's what we're at just opposite sides of the med tent because we are in a fight. I thank you for bringing Maverice to get my was that so hard? We're not in a fight. Thank you for bringing Mavris to get my ears. Was that so hard? We're not in a fight anymore. You make it hard. You do. We have a therapy tent too, if you need that.

We obviously don't need it. We're working out right now. Whoa, back off. Matt. Matt? The chip would just collapse is the thing. Are you coming at my boy? What are you trying to say about Trent?

This guy's ears just flew away. Okay, you all just totally dodged a bullet for the entire festival, so I have to swallow how insane you're being. Are there chips in here? Like, are there Gatorades? Is there like a cooler? In the med tent?

Yeah. I don't know, I haven't been there. Let me take you there right now. Okay. On stretchers? They're sort of hanging, silken, healing cocoons. No, to carry us to the med tents. Are you sure?

To carry us right now. Do you need to not? Yeah. Give me a persuasion check. Actually, because of everything that's happened with absolutely with disadvantage. Yeah, okay. Okay. Wow.

That is a net 20 and a net one. You see in her eyes, like she came in ready to offer you guys a lot of stuff and the amount of things that have just evaporated, the amount of possibilities that have just evaporated. The amount of possibilities that have just evaporated. I'm sorry. Everything. We'll go to the med tent.

We're going. We want to go to the med tent. My sandals hurt, OK? So take them off. How's sandals, dude? Well, I put them on because my boots hurt. OK. OK.

My name is Amber. Hi. Amber. I'm an Amber emissary. Got it. Amber. We, Amber. I'm an Amber Emissary. Got it. Amber. We're sort of here throughout the festival to make sure that things run smoothly, which I think all of you can agree they are not doing right now. No, I'm having an awesome trip.

Yeah. Those pixies like definitely try to burn it down early, but we like handled that. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So if we need us to handle anything else, just like let us know. but we like handle that. Yeah, so if you need us to handle anything else, just like let us know.

I absolutely will do that because like I said, right now you guys just totally dodged a bullet for us. Unfortunately, we still have to figure out where that bullet came from. Okay. But let's get you into the med tent first. And another thing is, you know, this is kind of, we are mid ritual right now and it's kind of unstable.

And in order for the ritual to work, the party has to go well. And in order for the party to go well, party goers need to feel safe. So I'm just letting- And that's where we come in. Yes, and you guys defended it, but the official line we're gonna kind of put out there

is just that those pixies, and she kind of raises her voice hoping to be overheard, those pixies just had a bad trip from some curdled telepathic tipple. Yeah. But we're allowed to say that we're the heroes of Blazing Babe and tell other people as well, right? Actually, give me a perception check.

Okay. Okay, that's a 10. It doesn't really take a huge perception though to notice that people are clocking you. And not in a way like earlier when you came in. Like they're not looking at my giant head and no ears. So a lot of people actually are kind of avoiding tread

because there's so much going on there. Yeah, we've gotta get you in, man. Can you put me down? When we get, we're going to the med tent, dude. Okay, yeah. But yeah, you guys are definitely, you've caught some positive attention. I'm just kinda dancing in there. You're like an inflatable, giant inflatable man.

I guess saving everyone at the festival gave me a big head. I really do need it reduced though. Oh my God. Absolutely and I promise you, our medic this year is amazing. She's Kalishtar, she's from the Dreaming Plains, so she sort of does her healing and work in the dream space.

Oh, okay. Cool. That's sick. Yes, it's very, very effective and only a little bit invasive. Cool. Okay, sure. I mean, as long as I get to lay down, it's been, I guess my feet aren't hurting as bad right now

because I'm being lifted in the air, but yeah. I mean, again, my sandals are really digging in, so like I would love to like kick back. Your dogs are all barking. As you guys listen to the barking of all your dogs, you enter this med tent and you see, hanging from the ceiling, four silken healing cocoons. Holy shit.

You also are greeted by the wafting perfume of incense, lavender, chamomile, passion flower. There is a little druidcraft orb that's playing the soft patter of rain like a white noise machine. I mean it's no fermentation tint but it's pretty nice. This is as good as a fermentation. As you say that you hear in your head, is it? Ah, I know what it is.

Jade punches the tank. Yeah, I scream. And a woman with white hair, draped in a swath of cloth that looks like it was painted on her with oil paint, appears, her eyes are smiling, but her mouth doesn't move as her voice echoes in your head. Oh fuck.

Oh, she touched the goo too. Hello. Hi. Hi. Trent does a really, really enunciated hello with his mouth. Please do talk out loud. Is this like library rules? Do we have to be quiet?

I feel like I have to be quiet. This feels like the therapy tent. We're looking for men. We're not in a fight. This is group therapy, right? She looks at Amber, probably communicates something telepathically about you, and then she says, you are all here to be cleansed of your infernal corruption.

Oh. Okay. What if we kind kinda like it? That is a choice you may make. Interesting. Oh, but like, I like being able to see in the dark. I feel like I would love to be able to make my eyes look normal again.

And there's my elbows and my bones. Yeah, I feel like Dave, if you're gonna stay quote, infernally corrupted unquote, you should stay in a different tent from us. Yeah. And you can't be a dentist, okay? What the fuck? All right, yeah, Dave dives into it.

Infernally corrupted dentist? That's true, that would be so bad for my yelp. Well, how this will work is you will all enter, again, still echoing in your head and just making uncomfortable eye contact with you. How this will work is I will induce a sort of alchemical expedited long rest. All right, are you done?

I feel like you're staring right at my no ears. No, I'm not. Her eyes dart. Oh my God. Through the potency of your dreams alone, you will achieve the benefits of a full night of sleep. While you slumber, I'll be anointing you with salves and ungems. Ungems? Oh my god.

Okay. It still drives dry July. It's still dry July, but it's legal to be anointed. There's nothing against ungin. Can we wide bar real quick guys? Is she a freaking perv? What is an ungin? Dude, you don't know?

I don't do this to you. Just tell me the answer. Fine, you don't know? I don't do this to you. Just tell me the answer. Fine, I don't know what it is either. Is that what you wanted to hear? Back. You just said you knew what it was. I'm going in there every time. I get in a cocoon.

Alright. I call that one I misty step into one. I was walking towards it. I have to move They are sort of like the little slings that people do aerial yoga in so it is an acrobat extract I'm not good at that I got an 11 fucking hell shout out to the two crew We had Dave go to the highest one. Dave and Mac get completely caught up in your thing.

An 11? Check it out. Here comes the hungry caterpillar. You fully missed. You fully missed. I got an shout out to the two crew. Dave, you fell through the tent. I missed you stepped through the tent. Oh! I misty-stepped.

You misty-stepped outside the tent. He misty-stepped into her arms. Oh! And this is a completely different direction than I wanted to go. Oh. I got a 14. Okay.

Dread is the only one who gets in. She helps the rest of you in with deep pity in her eyes. I could touch the ground in quite some time. I feel like this is flawed because we're hurt. So you make it hard to get into your blanket things. You know what? That's actually really good feedback. Holy shit, I've never heard anyone say that. Now, before I begin the process, pay attention to your dreams, because I'll be healing you on the outside, but you'll have your own work to do inside. Okay. Yeah.

With that, she sort of gathers... Tate just instantly is like, don't have a horny dream, don't have a horny dream, don't have a horny dream. And I'd like to do a check to see if I say it out loud. Yeah, go for it. Yeah. Okay. What would that be? Constitution or wisdom? Yeah. Yeah. Okay My wisdom is plus one. I got a dirty 20 a dirty 20. Yeah myself

The tape grabs max and Okay, so this is just a nap so like when we wake up it's still dry July We're so close experience of long rest, but it's not You're saying we had a saying on the way over here one more sleep to hog is No, I feel like there's gonna be more pixies or something. Yeah, we might have to touch some more Eichor. Alright, I can wait till August. Actually, as you say that, you do see Amber does have the bile if you just want to touch it again. Just one more for the road, right?

Touch it, man. Maybe it'll cure you. I'm not scared. Fine, I touch it. Okay. Mac, wait. This was really fond of it. Don't do it, Mack. Roll your D100. There's some bad ones on here.

50. The target's arms and legs switch places. The target from moving unless it crawls. his arms and legs switch places. Oh! Oh! Oh! The target from moving unless it crawls. Holy shit. Get up in the sling! I'm chilling my silver suit with my Batman mask, and I start playing with an orb with my legs.

Dude, kick me, kick me with your hand feet. It's fine. Whatever, we're about to be healed. Who gives a shit? I'm so mad. I've flared my legs. So she kind of assesses all of your various infernal ailments, gathers a bunch of herbs,

puts them into this chained sensor, smoke starts pouring out, she puts on a gas mask and just starts swinging it around and smoke fills the room. You have time for one more thing, Everest. Should I put all my keys and stuff in a little basket? And you pass out. So the smoke from this sensor fills your vision

like heavy curtains closing on this reality and opening onto another as the four of you drift into a magical sedation. Mack, Davinaxius and Tread. Your dreams are vivid but abstract. Why don't you guys, the three of you, roll initiative just to see okay? We'll start It's a one 14

13 I got a one Shit I gunked jeez you go through it on your arm Okay, so tread will start with you You guys kind of enter this dream space. It doesn't feel real, it feels metaphorical. And Tred, you feel the ground speeding underneath you. Shit, whoa. The wind in your hair. Oh, fuck.

The windows of the station wagon are down. Someone fucking fapping back there. Dave smiles. Your dad is riding shotgun. Like he always does when he gives you driving lessons. Except this time he doesn't look so good. Dad? His hands are covered in ash.

What the fuck? I'm sorry, Trent. I just wanted to learn a couple of cantrips. Yeah, and I just want to learn how to three-point turn, Dad. What's going on? I just wanted to learn something, be a little closer to you. I didn't mean for any of this. As he says this, you realize the station wagon

is barreling towards a roiling river of flame and septic fluid. Okay, so I'll just, I'll signal. One, two, three, four, look at the blind spot and trying to turn, Dad. Dad, what's going on with the brakes? Oh, the wagon, Dad? How do you want to handle the situation? What do you think tread does?

You know what old man sometimes the only way out is through. I'm gonna put the pedal to the metal and go for it. I think we can jump it dad. Give me an arcana check since we've decided that all cars in this world are arcane vehicles. All right. Ten and two. That is a four... No, 18. 18! Tred, you look at your dad who's looking at you with weakness and fear, not something that you're used to seeing your dad have in his eyes. And you confidently shove your... What kind of shoe are you wearing? fear, not something that you're used to seeing your dad have in his eyes. And you confidently shove your, what kind of shoe are you wearing?

An America skate shoe. And you confidently shove your skate shoe into the gas and you huff it, leaping over this river of flame. Just like you taught me dad and since you succeeded you now will roll a Constitution saving throw to heal your infernal corruption at zero to come on but you get to roll it with advantage because you succeeded ah that's an eight And an 18. Nice. Whew.

That is very good. Won't tell you what happens just yet though. Who's next? Davinaxius. Davinaxius, you enter your dreamscape. You squint into a bright light, a fluorescent overhead light Reflected off of

golden scales The most golden you've ever seen belonging to an ancient gold Dragon, oh shit. It has its mouth open howling in pain. The dragon unhinges its jaw revealing a set of teeth like a row of swords. You see a molar in the back infected with rot and decay. As you peer at it though you realize the source of the pain it isn't systemic it's not the root or the nerve or the gums it's just a cavity localized it could be easily dealt with with the right extraction. Dave looks in his hands does Does he have his tools? What are his tools in this situation?

I think he looks into his frisbee bag, sees what's in there first and foremost. I guess, yeah, he's just going to run over and try and approach the dragon. Does he know who this dragon is? I imagine he does. No. Oh, I don't.

This is an ancient gold dragon, but you do feel a kinship with it. Right, okay. I think, yeah, I look in my bag and I realize all I have is frisbee discs. Yeah. I mean, it's a huge tooth. You just gotta hit that little pocket of decay. Okay. So you're saying if I can remove the decay, then I can save this beautiful granddaddy? Yeah.

Um, I go up to them and say, I'm sorry my friend, but that thing's gotta come out. Help me! Can I try and use just a little bit of poison breath to put them under? So professional. Yeah, I'm going to say that just works. I love that. In fact, I'll let you roll your attack roll with advantage now. Count backwards.

Count backwards from 10. 10, 9, eight, seven. Shout out to the two crew and also the natural 20 crew. Yes! Yes! With that natural 20, you have navigated this dream in such a way that I'm gonna let you decide precisely what you keep from this infernal gift. Oh,

if you want this infernal corruption, if you want to keep anything from it. I mean, I guess I'll keep the dark vision, right? Can we say that I have like the ability to like slide the dark vision on like shades? Yeah, you can actually do that. So the status effect you had was the target's eyes turn black and it gains dark vision out to a range of 120 feet. So if you wanna just keep that and you can slide them on like. Yeah, like a third set of eyelids.

Yeah. Awesome. Can I describe how I remove the cavity? Absolutely. I think I take this Frisbee disc and I charge it up with arcane energy and then I spin it, spin it really fast until it turns into like a buzzsaw, and then I just, pssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss Amazing, creating more cavities for you to solve. Beautiful.

So you are actually resolved. You got that nat 20. You wake up, you are fully in control of this. This infernal corruption became an infernal gift. Mack. Yeah. You hear the sound of rubber tires on loose gravel. Oh, fuck.

You feel your feet pedaling. Trying to keep. Guys, guys, I'm feeling, I'm falling, I'm falling, guys. We're going too fast. Come on, Mavris, don't stop now, wee. You're in the back of a tandem bicycle. The rider in front of you is wearing a Gladehome University hoodie

Coral Coral Coral slow down dude. You're leaving me behind Coral faster and faster your pedaling becomes more labored as something Gums up the wheels of the bike stickers Shit so many stickers. This is the dumb person's patch the wheels of the bike. Stickers. Shit! So many stickers.

This is the dumb person's patch! Miring the spokes of the wheels. Get them out! Get them out! The bike begins to teeter off the road! Coral! Slow down! Coral! In this moment you have two options. You can try and hang on and steady this bike or you can take a leap of faith.

I take a leap of faith? All right, give me a religion check. Coral we need to sidebar. Fuck. Eleven. Okay. Interesting. I have a channel divinity. Starting at 6 level, you can use your channel divinity to aid and rally your allies. All friendly creatures within 30 feet of you are frained, paralyzed, poisoned, or stunned. Get an immediate saving throw with advantage to remove the effect. Can I try to use that? Yeah, yeah. I'll say that. It's a good thing your eyes are closed too.

Sweet. We'll find out why later. I'm going to boot and rally and make a con save with advantage. Nice. All right, I chug a beer as I fall off the bike. Oh yeah. Whoa. That's dirty 20.

Ooh, okay. So you chug this beer and you leap into the unknown. Coral? Mavris, you however, your dreamscape is a little different. You enter something more tangible, more literal. The smoke fills your vision, but it doesn't dissipate. It kind of lingers at the edges,

reefing your vision like a picture frame or a window dressing. Okay. And you see a vision that is so crisp, so vivid, it almost seems real. What is this, a Samsung? As you say, what is this, a Samsung? You see a vision of yourself.

Okay. You see you walking through the great hall of a university, a tiefling amongst high elves, a sorcerer amongst wizards. You see yourself sitting in the back of the class, dreading the long lectures, increasingly escaping to the nearby woods to skip stones in the river all by yourself. You see Carl is actually there with you, but he's becoming more withdrawn in his studies. The two of you are realizing that maybe the thing you had in common was your friends, that maybe you got along in a group but weren't really destined for solo hangs. And you see yourself floating on a leaf, wishing you were at the beach with your friends.

Then the smoke begins to bleed back into this vision, but now it's two different smokes. There's a thick sulfurous smoke coming from below, and then from above, sort of a curly-cued fragrant pipe smoke. A voice beckons from each direction, one from above, one from below. One says, Maverice, child of my child. The other says, Maverice, Mavris the unschooled. The tendrils of smoke wrap around your legs and arms, pulling you in opposite directions, fighting for you. What? Hey, there's enough of Mavris to go around, okay guys?

This is scary. You are in the middle of a tug of war, but you have the sensation of swimming or flying and you feel like if you just propelled yourself a little bit, you could decide the outcome of this tug of war. They both sound rad. Um... I guess... I don't know. Something... Something's calling me down below.

I just wanna... I'm just mother of... Wait, what's it against? Maverice, child of my child. Child of my child? Grandma? Maverice, child of my child. Child of my child? Grandma? Ha ha ha. Would you like to go in the direction of?

I think both sound cool to him, but he's just way more curious about that one. And I think he's gonna hold his breath and just look into the waters below or whatever it is. Okay, Mavris, you plunge into this sulfurous smoke. And I'm going to let you make your con save to remedy this infernal corruption with advantage thanks to the help of this mysterious presence. Okay, um, a...

That's a 19. Okay. And you all awaken in your healing hammocks. I touch my ears, are they on my head? Tread, you are fully returned to normal. I'm normal. What's up guys? I flick on my sunglass eyes.

Holy shit. Whoa! I flick them back out. Oh, it's Dave. Holy crap, we've all kept our powers. Tread blinks and tries to send his ears on a mission. I see your ears wiggling a little bit. Amazing.

I couldn't really do that before. I mean, a little bit, but. He did see that there is something a little more animated about his ears now. Wow. You can keep tempo with those things. They're double-jointed. Go, go go gadget ears.

Mac, you've also returned to normal. All of you have returned to a state that you wanna be in. Okay, so like full disclosure, did anyone have a horny dream? My dad was in mine, so no. So no, over at all. But I guess that'd be a horny dream for you, wouldn't it We are you already started spinning. It's gonna keep Guys a bunch of people are sleeping. There's like a bunch of people sleeping. There's like a guy who broke his arm

Alright, let's go around real quick Yeah, I had a dream where instead of you guys betraying me and leaving me on the bike coral did girl and Yes It's coral and I core I fell off the I fell off the bike again The coral just like kept peddling And he had a glade home University jacket on like he's leaving us. Yeah Well, I had a dream. I don't know if you guys but off of that. I had a dream. I went to glade home You're spinning me back! Stop it, you little man! You're scaring me! You're scaring me back, damn! It's not a little man, but I'm sorry!

Cut the rope, Dan! Oh, sorry! It's worth the neck injury! I'm gonna fucking barf! He's gonna yack! He's yacking! He's yacking! If he yacks, I'll yack!

If you yack, I'm gonna yack! Alright! Everyone do a constitution save to not yack right now. And if one of you yacks... I got a neck warm! Okay, since he yacked, now you all do it with disadvantage. Uh-oh. Well, I got a two.

I got a two as well. I got a two also. Matt does, he yacks so fast, he yacks so fast, that he doesn't even put his head down, he's just staring forward and goes, Raaah! Oh, wah! You weren't even spinning!

Blah! I'm still spinning, blah, wah, wah, wah,'m still spinning! Wow! It's getting everywhere! It's all over the tent! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! We're more hurt than when we came in! As all this happened, you look over to a seat where Amber the Ember Emissary was waiting

for you. Oh shit! Hi, I dreamt of my father. When did you get here? Did you just get here? Did you just run in and sit down? Some crazy guy came in and puked on us. She says, I just got here. She's lying. She feels bad for you. She doesn't want you to know she watched this.

I think he was this guy, Coral? He goes to Playdome University. He barfed all over us. Everywhere. Yeah, he's kind of a fucking rat. Yeah, he's kind of a rat. And he said he was regretting that he left all his friends. He wasn't even a good college friend. It moved quickly, so most of it got on us instead of all over the tent.

Yeah, with heroes again. We want to just kind of shave, please and behave again. Right, and my breath is a weapon So there you're gonna want to clean that up quicks It is gonna like just eat through everything it touches using the dream healer like has a very animated telepathic conversation with amber and she's just like Can you ask her if she has any clip bars Now we kind of your after lunch and we did bring lunch

It was all behind us. I feel like dehydrated. In your head you hear, no cliff bars. We need those Gatorades. No, brush my teeth again. I think we were promised Gatorades. Someone said, I guarantee Gatorades. Someone said you had Gatorade Frost.

As the person who brought you here, I don't think anyone promised any Gatorades. They said that you guys had the ones that like Sugar free so there's your calories, but they didn't have the full calories. They're like the 80 calorie ones It was like a done deal. Yeah, I was guaranteed a propel. Yeah Okay, I'll just take a power read if you have one I'll just have another peanut butter stout Okay, I'll make beer for everybody.

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but I think that conversation kind of settled. We're even now. We're like to leave even. No, that makes sense. We made a mess of the tent. Yeah, it's fucked up in here. Yeah. Did you guys figure out anything

while we took our cat nap? Not horny? Tread looks at his watch. Almost hog his boys. Give Tread like a very tiny high five behind his back. There's actually been a pretty interesting development because of something that you all set up. Well, yeah, yeah. We were making big moves.

Yeah, what's up? It turns out that in an ingenious move of foresight, you caused one of the pixies to flee. I'm assuming you did that on purpose. Yeah, I swung, I didn't actually wanna kill it with my mace. Well, like, Tread cast fear, but I would say that, like, Mack swinging his mace

is really what instilled the fear. Maybe he died. Mack is that like Mac swinging his mace is really what instilled the fear. Maybe he died. Mac is so good at swinging his mace near stuff. In any event, the reason I came to you is because one of the party goers sort of arcane constructs actually caught and apprehended the pixie. Oh shit. Oh my god. And so we have her and we've been kind of trying to elicit information from her.

Do you want me to sidebar with her? Yeah, we can sidebar. Yes, I think I came to you to ask if it seems like you handled the situation. I was wondering if you would find out what information you were getting. We all just interrogated ourselves in a dream prison. So I feel like we're like really ready to go.

Hey guys, can I sidebar with you real quick on the way there? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah There's there's a little walk. So you have time. Yeah. Yeah, so let's walk. Thank you. Thank you. Amber. Bye. Bye We're sorry about did you say bye? Yeah, it was like I didn't know are you coming? Are you gonna? Oh, I'm your escort Bye and then you kind of like walk together You can sidebar without me. I'll walk ahead. It's that weird thing where you say bye and then you kind of like walk together.

I just hope I get it. She kind of also equally does not want to walk with you. Do you see that she actually has like a little fire spirit that looks like a fuzzy Pomeranian? So she kind of walks ahead and she's like, Pom Pom can corral you if you get lost. I'm gonna be like 20 feet ahead. Do you have any tiny little bags

if it like shits out a little brick of twerk coal or something? Yeah, she has a tiny bag. Of course, it would be irresponsible for a dog owner not to. We could save them and then like give them as like pranks to each other and be like, you were bad, you don't get presents on Christmas.

You got shit bricked. You got shit bricked. You got shit bricked. Let's remember that for Christmas. That's gonna be really good. We'll do it to Coral, cause he left us and so he doesn't get anything for Christmas. He's getting me up pranked. Speaking of Coral, I had a freaking dream where I went, please don't be mad again, I

went to Clayton University. What the fuck? What is your problem, dude? This is exactly where I got last time. Let's power through it. Alright, yeah. And then I was there with Coral and we weren't like we weren't we were like didn't it felt so real But we just like didn't connect in the same way that like you know

Let's boys connect And I wonder if you guys didn't get along because you both fucking ditched us in your Tread then I hit a tread. Are rats like communal animals? That's where we get to be back. Fucking hit me. Just fucking hit me. I rather hit you with words, dude. You hit yourself when you went to freaking college without us.

But this is a dream. And then the point is, at a certain point. Oh, it's your fucking dream now. Oh my god, dude. My dream was all of us going together to community college. Look, I'm still into that, OK? But I just hit a point in my dream where I was given a choice, it seemed like, where one was going up towards what I think was Clayton home, but another one was going down, and it seemed like a grandmother of some kind was telling me to go down.

So you obviously went up, right? I didn't. What? You went down? You thought I would betray you guys? I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. Was telling me to go down so you obviously went up right? I did it what you went down you?

You thought I would betray you guys You thought that Mavericks would leave his boys behind But I'll know what it meant I don't wanna hate me, okay? I can fucking puke, I'm so fucking mad right now. But I don't know what it meant. Okay. I'm gonna dig a puke hole for everyone, just in case. On the road? Yeah.

Stan. As you guys decide whether or not you're gonna puke on the road to go see this pixie, you're kind of walking through the campground. Does anyone wanna do any kind of perception check? Or anyone who wants to give me a perception check? Yeah, Worstred's dad. If you I do a perception check to look for dad we gotta get off his dad I want I'll look to a perception check just to make sure

he's not near us I got a who I got a 22 22 17 16 those shades their prescription okay I'm gonna say that with a 16 and a 17, you both notice an absence. I'm not looking for Treadstone. Right, but I'm saying like, he's not here. It's almost like if you're trying not to run into him, you've cased the joint, you're not gonna run into him. Guys, we gotta find him,

because I gotta talk to him, because in my dream, I saved an ancient gold dragon through the power of dentistry. That's sick. Why don't you talk to him when we get back home? I Feel like those are really office. Okay. We all talked about like your shit extensively and I wanted to bring up my We were all sharing it I didn't get to share honestly, that really fucking rocked my soul a little bit. Anyone with an 18 or higher, you actually both notice the Necromancer from Shadowfell. You see that he's wearing this sort of sleeveless Necromancer's tunic, rigged up with Critmas lights.

Oh, sleeveless? Holy shit. And he's got a full arm full of what from here looks like candy bracelets. Oh shit, we have to exchange bracelets. Is that like real candy? Is that gonna be okay with you, dentist Dave? That's just more money for me. I'm gonna heat up one of these toothbrushes and make a wristband.

You have a fucking toothbrush? I found one. We got one from the same place that Lynn's in, Calvin. I have, of course, my necklace that's a bottle opener, but I always have extra ones for my boys and to give out to friends. So I'd like to try to exchange one for a candy bracelet. Oh, that's awesome. You could, here, take mine. Exchange this one. What?

You could exchange it. Why would I do that? I made that one specifically for you. Do you not like it? No, I love it. I thought you needed, I thought, sorry man. As you have this encounter, the Necromancer actually comes over. Hey, you guys saved the day. Peace, love, unity, respect.

And he puts his hand over yours, Mac, and slides a candy bracelet onto it. Holy shit. Slides a candy bracelet onto you, Mac, and slides a candy bracelet onto it. Holy shit. Slides a candy bracelet onto you, Maverick. Slides a candy bracelet onto you. Slides a candy bracelet onto you, Tred. And up close you see that this is not candy, it's actually bird vertebrae.

And he walks away. Oh shit, okay. All right. I'm gonna puke again. I can't do the slide thing, but here's a toothbrush that I kinda got hot. Wow, you don't even owe me anything, but thank you. Okay.

Check it out. Can I look at it? Yeah, absolutely. Do you wanna give me an investigation check? Yeah. Nat 20. Did you really? Okay. Oh yeah.

This bracelet, it is a candy bracelet. I mean, it's not candy It's we can eat the bone, but you can eat the bones and if you eat the bone You roll a d4 and it casts that level of false life on you Whoo, so if you eat this you will cast a 1 through 4 level false life on yourself Eat the bones. Tred, do you think you're gonna be able to, your stomach will be able to handle that? I have my liquor bone. I can lick a bone. Tred. We'll see. We'll see if that doesn't work. It doesn't work. You have to crunch it to work. Dave puts a hand on Tred's

shoulder and says, I'll chew up the bones and I'll baby bird him to eat. That would make me sicker. He's got a really weak stomach. All right, let's go sidebar with this pixie. And the final thing you notice, Dave, with above a 20, you notice there's a disturbance in the cuddle cave. What? No. You see a writhing mass of moaning,

sighing limbs spilling out of the cuddle cave and into the campground. I think that's supposed to happen. That's fucking intense, dude. Guys, it's dry July, it's not August yet. Wait till midnight, okay, have a little respect. A few partygoers get swept up into it as it trundles through the crowd.

It's spreading, it's spreading. Throwing sharp elbows and flinging dislodged glow sticks. Oh shit, it's a cuddle wave, it's a cuddle wave. In the center of this corrupted cuddle is a tiefling woman. Big hair, big earrings, a little bit too much makeup, and a better late than never's t-shirt. No.

Jen with two heads? Jen with two n oh my god oh help me all this is far too much intimacy and vulnerability Daddy roll initiative! Oh this is nasty! Ah it's six. Ten. Don't let it horn you up boys. Eight for Dave. Eleven. The highest of our group with an eleven.

This is not good. Okay so, first up in initiative that you know is actually Mavris. Mavris, you see in front of you this writhing mass of intermingled limbs. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Uh. Is my dad in there? Okay. Mr. Nevers? It's doctor.

Can I make a... Anyone's dad could be in there. Will you allow me like an insight check? Absolutely. It doesn't feel great to just shoot this. I feel like it's a sentient lifehugging out. I'm not going to make you do an insight check. This is a corrupted cuddle.

So this has gone into hyperdrive. This is what happened with the pixies. We're attacking the idea of the cuddle. Yeah. OK, so they're not people anymore. You're not just killing a random person. OK, great. Yeah. It's a Katamari cuddle. Okay, so they're not people anymore. You're not just killing a random person. Okay, great. It's a Katamari cuddle.

I'll fucking smoke them, good. I think Maverick. And Jen with two N's is in the center, stuck. Okay, Maverick's just gonna do, keep it simple, stupid, they say. Cast melts my meteors. Yeah. Maverick, that's like a really good slogan.

That's a great thing, dude. Six little meteors fly around me. Yeah. Mavrid, that's like a really good slogan. Great thing, dude. Six little meteors fly around me. It's not my thing. I do other stuff, but this is super useful right now. And I think when he creates it, I can huck some meteors. It's just like, hucking things is kind of like my territory. Dude, he hucks, you toss.

I'm tossing. Okay. Matt, honestly, thank you for that distinction, because I'm like, I was getting pretty heated, but I'm feeling good now. I can tell you were upset. So okay, so I'm gonna, I got six meteors around me. I got, I'm gonna throw two of them at this guy. Great. Yeah, you see, you see sort of in between all of these writhing limbs.

Like, again, you like don't even see faces in there except for Jen with two ends, terrified face. You see kind of this fiendish eye core sticking between all these limbs. It's kind of hot, but uh, enough. He's like toss, sorry, hooks two meteors. Don't toss.

Heat it, dude. Yeah, you can heat it if you want. Right, yeah, but just tossing or flipping or spinning, that's gonna be me. I'll hold all this in my head as I launch these meteors. And I, Maverick launches two meteors. They have to do deck 16 saving throw. Nine fails.

Nat one fails. Wow. Do your damage. Shit. Pretty bad. Pretty bad stuff. Nine fails that one fails Wow Pretty bad Pretty bad stuff Maverick comes out hot on his earlier victory. I did nine damage nine damage. Okay, that legs I guess Mac that is you the only thing that can stop this boys is destroying horniness Even if it means our own. And I'm going to take the Lanzan catalog.

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Your spell sizzles. Your fingers. Oh! I told you guys these stickers were fucked! No, dude, your reaction to them is fucked. Their eyes lit up and they cast counter-spell on me. You're distracted by the sticker and you're not mad at yourself.

Mack, you're being insane right now. I am going to have to ask you how many, I know Tred, you have a sticker on your amp and you have a sticker on your guitar. Are any other stickers out right now? You're sick. I put one on my horn. Why?

Because it's cool. It's not cool. I'm a brand ambassador. Yeah. Okay. The brand is counter spelling. The brand is? The brand is counterspelling Oh, they're evil they paid attention to me

I I think I don't know I mean I have a couple stickers on me I mean they're evil I would have how many how many do you think I think I like probably it doesn't know Have to you Wait to the ones on my frisbees count Never gonna cast another because you fucking morons Did did the one burn up that looked at me? Yeah. Okay, so these are just counter spell stickers. I'm gonna have to use my mace. I just said, we're gonna get kicked out of the fest.

Mac, I didn't get counter spelled, so maybe you're just being crazy. The stickers have it out for me. Maybe be nice to the stickers, I don't know. And now that is the cuddle muddle It is going to roll a d4 to see which of you guys is going to attack Oh shit, I feel like it's gonna be me one attack for maverick. Oh One attack for tread one attack for Dave Oh, not me another for tread two for tread two for Tread. Two for Tread, we're going two for Tread. So, it is going to shoot dislodged glow sticks

at Tread twice. Does a 12 hit? No. That's not gonna hit either. Mavris, it's coming after you. Oh, I have a cloak of displacement. I forgot to mention. Also disadvantage. So you see me with. It misses you, the glow stick whiffed past you. Oh, I have a cloak of displacement. I forgot to mention. Also, disadvantage.

So you see me with... It misses you, the glow stick whiff pass you. Your Schneider cut Batman coat is so cool. Yeah, it's pretty sick. Not in the original cut, by the way. Davin Axius, we've got one glow stick coming for you. I open my mouth. Oh my God, they rolled so poorly.

That is going to be a seven. All right, a bunch of glow sticks going everywhere. Innocent bystanders do get absolutely thwacked with that. Whoa. That J took one to the dump. The Jann with one end got thwacked. Watch out. As a bonus action on this corrupted cuddles turn,

it's going to use a revitalizing ride. What? Whoa. We got HP, we didn't even earn it. Oh, we did earn it. And then we gained 12 hit points. Jesus Christ. Okay, you're stupid stickers.

I would have hit it for like 60, 10. God damn it. It's more healed than when we started. Yeah, it looks great. It does go back to fall. Guys, maybe we should join them. I don't know. It's not Hoggist.

David Dewan is like, please get me off of this. That is Davodaxius. All right, Dave is going to use innervating breath. Each creature in the cone must succeed on a constitution-saving throw. You're going to breathe on on a Riven cuddle? Yes, but cold air. I'm gonna try and cool this thing off. Yeah, it's too hot, dude.

Everybody cool it. Too sexy, dude, too sexy. Yeah, I'm gonna try and kind of like freeze the cuddle muddle. So they need to make a constitution saving throw. And I believe this is going to be a DC 14. Wait, Maverick, do you have counter spell? I do. Yeah. Okay.

Was it a spell? It was not a counter spell. What? It's just after me? I'm being targeted. Is it absorbing it? But they disappeared. It got a 13.

Yes, Dexay was 14. Konsei was 14. You see Dave like just tries to freeze it and cool everything down. Dave basically just pours a bucket of ice on this huddle muddle. Pours a corona. The arriving mask goes from oh to um.

Hey, hey! Just blasting with a hose. So they are incapacitated. OK, incapacitated, so it will be losing its next turn. Tread, that's you. OK, Tread is going to look at Jen with two ends in the eyes and sing, my heart is on deck But you're the batter so take a swing at my soul and make it shatter

Do it on the on the on the mass, but I kind of wanted to sing at Jen so she knows that I'm As you do that. She's like are you Ted son? Tread never see how my gig get the piggly wiggly got canceled so she knows that I'm, you know. As you do that, she's like, are you Ted's son? Treadnevers, yeah, my gig at the Piggly Wiggly got canceled. I was just looking for your father. Where, yeah, I was just, I had a weird dream about him. What's up? What does the cuddle roll?

Con, DC 16. Does the sticker like counter spell him? Shout out to the two crew. I think I got power from the sticker. The sticker has no effects on me. It inspired me. Mack, you have to let the sticker go, man. There's like 10 stickers and they only attacked me.

Yeah, I don't know, maybe it's your vibe. It's been a long day, man. 25 damage. Woo! And it was all because I looked at the sticker right before I sang my song. I felt like it bolstered me. Mavris, here, take one of these stickers. Good luck.

I got three now. Now you have three, yeah. I have a few more in my pocket. Fish them out. Next up is, that's background to Maverice. All right, let's just, I'm just gonna freak out on this thing. It's actually frozen mid-rive, so it's like, ugh.

Okay. It's like a beautiful statue. This doesn't feel great, this doesn't feel great. Scorching Ray at a third level. Well, no, I'll do it at a second level, just cause. Okay. Then I will just make three ray attacks. That one.

Okay, that's just gonna miss. Does a 15 hit? It does. Okay, so one hit. And then does, okay, so 16. So two hits. Okay, so Mavris, what are we saying? He hucks?

I have to huck, yeah. He hucks. I can't toss or flick. Hucking two scorching rays. yeah. He doesn't huck. He hucks or yeets. I can't think toss or flick. Hucking to Scorching Ray's. You can yeet or huck. At this faceless ball of limbs. And then I will also do one more meteor.

So I have three meteors left. Shout out to the two crew. Yeah. Hey Maverick, that was some great tossing. Hey, it's not tossing. Hey. It's not toss it Are you trying to fucking trick me, dude? Okay, stay in your lane good work 20 damage

He'll, freaks. You fucking sex pests? You guys aren't cancelled, but you're really freaking close. Mac, that's here. Okay, I run away from... First off, can I do a perception check to see if the seltzer spokespeople are around and if they look like Excited that I'm getting fucked with yeah, I Can't roll good. I got a one

You're pretty sure when you say seltzer spokespeople you see dread and you start to wonder you're losing it and you start to wonder. Are you a sponsor? I just said I was a great ambassador. You love it so much? Yeah, I'm a fucking ambassador. Yeah, I am an ambassador. I start to gather inflicted wounds in my hand. Yeah, yeah.

What are you doing, bro? Are they selling soldiers at the Picklywood? Is that what you guys think? Alright, I'm going to run away From all of the stickers run to the other side of the cuddle puddle use all of my moving so I can't even see my friends Away from the fucking stickers I'm going to do second level inflict wounds. Okay. Where are you going? Second level inflict wounds. Okay.

Where are you going? Shut up. Using the corrupted cuddle, you block your line of sight to the stickers. Yeah. And you don't need to do a wisdom trick. Good. As a reaction, I throw a sticker.

Mack, you forgot your sticker. Make a paper airplane and toss it. I still only got an 11 to hit. Oh my god, Murph, you're so cursed. I know. I know. I'm aced 12. Okay.

You always roll one less. Well, there goes a second level, level three level spell. The stickers feel confident that they didn't even need to be there. I just absolutely so furious at my friends. Oh, you guys like stickers so much? Well, stick this away from yourself, dickheads. And I haunts the Land's End catalog. No!

You all see the Land's End catalog gets sucked up into the catamarino. OK, Matt, we were all having a lot of fun and goofing around and like really being like really fun. I haven't had any fun That is the corrupted cuddles turn and it does nothing Dave that is your turn. Okay. First of all, I realized I could on your turn the cuddle comes back to life cuddle comes back to life. Oh. Oh no. Excuse me.

It's cause you threw the fucking magazine in there, dude. I freaking burned it up with the magazine. It went great. It went backwards. It's not like full. I tried to punch it the other way. I'm not an athlete. Thanks for reminding me.

Guys, guys, I hate to say it, but I'm getting chubbed. I'm getting chubbed. He's getting horny. I'm not. He's gonna jump in if you guys keep putting freaking stickers everywhere. Just like the fact that the Blazing babe cannot be ignited before dawn, you cannot get too chugged before midnight, before it's August.

You can't nut till 12 o' one, dude. The arms of the clock, they're getting so close to 12 o' one, but I'm thinking about the arms now, and I'm thinking about the arms touching me. Throw a frisbee. Think of the huck, dude. Or no, the toss! Think of the toss! Alright, you're right. I'll stay true to the toss. It's confusing because you can huck a frisbee.

But Dave can't, dude! I'm giving you a hug as a gift! He gave it to you, man! What don't you understand? A lot. Thank you, Mac. I'm screaming over the moans on the other side of the ball. It's so loud! Quiet, Brooklyn! You're rude. You're rude.

You're in a cave. You don't need to be that loud. Emily, I realized last time that I could have taken an attack in addition to my breath weapon. Can I have three attacks this time? Yeah, you can. Yeah. Why not?

Oh, thank you. Wow, look at that. Some of us get counters filled by stickers. Some of us can take three attacks. Can I take three attacks? Which one of us is married? Dave drinks the power that he had the entire time.

What? What the fuck? Where did you get that? David! David? David. It's my middle name. Dave. David. Alright, I'm gonna take three attacks. Okay, so that's a natural one on one of the attacks.

A 27 on the second attack, and a, um, 15 on the next one? Two of them hit, yeah. Two of them hit, great. Alright, let me roll some damage for it. Must be nice to hit, guys. I was really devastated that you got him a level. I'm devastated for myself. You hit something, you hit the LL Bean catalog.

You hit it right into the Riding Massive. Well, I was trying to pull it, and now it will never fap. Well, I was trying to taunt it into the desert. You can fap with your imagination, Trinidad. Why don't you just join the Cuddle Puddle Band? I can't imagine anything except for how my friend fucked me over, so it's hard.

That is 18 damage, but I think I'm also going to do a beguiling arrow? Beguiling. Beguiling? Beguiling. Beguiling. I am quite beguiled by this. Okay. I've been sitting on that one for quite a beguile, huh? Let's see. So,

let's see. The creature hit by the arrow takes an extra 2d6 psychic damage. Choose one of your allies within 30 feet of the target. The target must succeed on a wisdom saving throw or it is charmed by the chosen ally until the start of your next turn. Okay. So roll your damage because. That's 18 and then seven more damage.

No need to charm. No need to charm, although I will say that as you sink a disc into this writhing mass of limbs, it kind of releases everyone from the cuddle. Oh, it releases everyone. And so you've got a crowd of people here that you could have charmed by one person. Who would you like? I look at Mac. I say, hey man, I know you're having a bad day, but I got you this pile of people. I really appreciate that. Hey everybody, there's a lot of stickers around

and we gotta get peeling. Whoa. We need to peel and destroy every sticker around here because Blazing Baby has gotten too corporate and corporations become alive stickers that steal your spells. And that's not fair to spellcasters. You got wrong, from years in the past, that's not fair to spellcasters. He's not wrong.

From years in the past, it's got way more core. Yeah. As you say this, you see that this crowd of like people who were cuddling looks to you and just like totally falls for it. Jen with two N's is totally charmed by this. Oh, I need to, I'm going to break the spell on Jen with two N's.

OK, you break this spell The other people go they start peeling the stickers. They go to you Tred Hey, get your hand off my horn I don't need to take the sticker off. You gotta do what he says. I'll take it off myself. I don't want people peeling my shit I'll peel it off later I'll peel it off later I love you guys, it was good to have you on our show You gotta do what he says. I'll bequile you man does anyone have any alcohol so we can get it cleaner off Yeah, I don't have a yeah, I spiked my power. Yeah, I have beer

No, he said alcohol right rubbing alcohol. Yeah, like I'm removing Yeah, here's what Jen with you and says um I have some nail polish remover, okay? That's awesome. Thank you so much, Jen. Jen, are you okay? Yes. We dropped a magazine in there. Did you see the LL plans in?

She picked up a Lands End catalog covered in this goop. That dives for it. And she's like, is this my Lands End catalog? We wanted to return it to you, that's why I punted it to you. Oh. But it's, we're wondering. If you don't want it anymore

because it's covered in that goo, we can take it. You're Ted's kid? Yeah. God, I've been looking all over for him. I can't find him anywhere. Have you seen him? No, so he's like, is he missing? Is he like involved?

Do you like, score? No, of course not. And that's where we'll end our episode. Dude, your dad! You betrayed your family! I didn't like score drugs, dude! I meant score drugs!

Still, still shouldn't say it. Potential infidelity. That's a rancid thing to say about somebody's father. That's a wrap up on part three. Zach, do you have anything you wanna plug? I would like to plug, I guess I'll just plug Dimension 20. Yeah. Yeah. Just hang it out. Everybody go hang out out Everybody go hang out

Hey everybody, it's Emily here while we were recording these last two episodes Caldwell spilled a corona light all over his character sheet And I decided it would be fun to include at the end of this as sort of a blooper reel So without further ado, here's another beautiful installment to spill stories Fucking absolute spillboy God bless Phil's skilled to Corona everywhere Perfectly perfectly all over his character sheet. Just on his character sheet. It's actually kind of perfect to have a character sheet

covered in beer. For Hot Boy Summer. God, that's funny. Some of my character sheet. It's so fucking wet. How did you spill it? It instantly soaked through the favorite towel. It's so wet.

Oh, two paper towels. These are kind of bad paper towels. Oh my god, it's so... That's a half a beer. There's half a beer on that character sheet. Full half a beer. It's so wet. Almost done.

Everything is so wet. Cut this. Your character sheet is keeping it in you coward. Nothing is like gutt this and saying this. It's gonna stink of beer in here for the next couple days while we're recording. Stop! I'm just really upset I lost so much beer.

Good God. That's not for Corona, man. My arcane arrow abilities, they're so... It fucking reeks like Corona in here, man. Why does Corona smell like that? Why does it smell like Corona? Alright, I think we just gotta deal with your soaked page. Yeah. This is my life for the next hour or so.

Shall we continue? Yeah. Alright. I think I pull out one of my discs and I'm gonna like cool it down with my icy breath And I'm going to try and cast Intervating actually so wet Absolutely transparent Constantly it looks like he has a wet piece of toilet paper

It looks like he has a wet piece of toilet paper in his character sheet. Look how flimsy. It's the wettest thing I've ever seen. It's literally falling apart in your hand. You couldn't get your character sheet more wet if you took it into the shower with you. Like the paper in the opening scene of the Titanic. Yeah, Jesus Christ.

Can you even read that? Yeah, I can read it. It's a letter from the same private Ryan. I got it. That was a HitGum Podcast. What's a $5 meal deal at McDonald's? That was a hate gum podcast. you