Not Another D&D Podcast - The Rotating Heroes Podcast - Arc 1 Ep. 1: The Obelisk at Bonbihr Mountains (w/ DM Zac Oyama)

Episode Date: November 26, 2020

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Also, tell your friends and follow at RotatingHero'sPod on Twitter and Instagram. Finally, I'm gonna come clean here. At the time of recording the first episode, I had not settled on a name, so when we started, I just paused where the name would be and I was rightfully and swiftly roasted for it. This interaction still makes me laugh, so I decided to leave it in. And with that context, please enjoy the first episode and my immediate face plant. Thanks! And now presenting the Rochigi Heroes' Foodcast! Okay, hi, this is the first episode of podcast. The Raw Confidence of a DM coming into being. The title is so creative and so powerful that it could only make you fully invest in

the podcast. And thanks for listening. We're joined today on this first arc of the podcast by three of my friends who are very funny, very talented and very good D&D players. Let's just go around. Top left on my screen is Emily. Hey, what's up?

Thank you so much for having me, Zach. You're welcome. Thanks for being here and then we have Mike Trap. Hello, thanks for having me You're welcome. You're so welcome. And finally we have Shavon Hello, thanks for having me So you're so welcome and honestly that would have been a perfect place to intro everyone's characters But we have to do a Lord dump. We have to take a huge dump of lore on the top of this episode.

Shit that lore over a sec. You guys sit back for a whole bunch of proto lore the night before, and now we just got a hunker down, we got a big ol' Lord dump. Grab a mag and get it ready. Call and sick to work, we got a Lord dump. Okay, so let's just enter the world that we're gonna be playing in for this arc and I think all of them. Wow, so let's get started.

I take you now to the continent of Amelar. A land where great nations grew to almost unfathomable heights. Their technologies pushed the limits of what was thought possible. Massive obsidian ships hovered without effort. Metallic constructs built cities overnight, and life was never easier before it became much, much harder. As nations of

men, elves, orcs, and dwarves filled the lands, tensions over resources mounted, and the war for Amelar brought a scale of death and destruction the world had never seen. Blinded by ambition and greed, the nation's fought till the world was nearly unlivable. As Amelar itself was almost fully consumed by the war, a great emerald flash turned the sky green. As the green light exploded in the sky, a forest larger, denser, more full of life than the world had ever seen, blanketed the lands in an instant, covering over half the continent. It would seem that nature went nuclear, and in an instant, what became known as the endless hope was a reality.

But as much as it created, it also destroyed. Almost all the great cities were lost, but nevertheless, the war was over. It had to be, for there were no real nations left to fight it. Many survivors called the Emerald Flash occurs. Others, a miracle. But we're not gonna start in the forest, I'm sorry. I know it feels like we should. I'm just, I made a ranger.

Yeah, sorry Emily. Change, ranger. I also made a ranger. I'm all about natural terrain. Looks like we had three rangers here and sorry, you got, you got about. You got two minutes towrite your characters completely. It's my podcast with me alone.

Instead of that, we're venturing east. Past the edge of the forest between the KipTide mountains and over the Sapphire lakes and even the East Sapphire lakes. Our first arc starts at the foothills of the Bonber Mountains. So where does mountains go in Amelar? The Bonbers are considered small but proud. You'd probably say, hey, that's a nice mountain, if you saw it, but it would be probably a very intense day hike on hiking.com.

But beneath the Bonbers is really where the magic happens. A natural cave system, a mile deep, led to perfect conditions for a mine that in time led to an impressive door of an stronghold. The family responsible for this union, the orbraters, were artisan jewelers turned warriors turned leaders, their housewords reason over might guided them for many generations. June orbrator, the warrior queen and wielder of the iron comet,

was one of the greatest of them all. She learned from her parents' generation that the world could change at any moment. Her new first hand, when the emerald flash created the endless halt to the east. She knew it was important to rule with a giving spirit. It was under her rule that the nearby gnomes and halflings of the pastoral city of Aberdeen were welcomed in this city for trade, commerce, and friendship. Birdham was stronger than ever under June. They were ready for any manner of attack, but unfortunately, what happened next

was for a lack of a better word unprecedented. As history tells us, no one could have anticipated what became known as the wafting. A great wafting. The city and the sea. Yeah. The great. The casting.

It's not disgusting, it's scary. It's kind of gross though. No, it's what you'll see. A great obsidian obelisk, an ancient technology from the previous age, nearly the size of the mountain itself pushed free from the endless halt, seemingly carried on the breeze, like wafting. Just wafting this way. Drifted back and forth, closer and closer at a bewildering and glacial pace.

Crossing the distant shores of the Sapphire Lakes, closer and closer, until it struck the mountain itself with a force even the great keep of burden could never have withstood. It struck the mouth of the cave, it was such a force that the mines and city itself all caved in, buried by miles and miles of rubble, wasp beneath the earth. Most confusing of all, the obelisk struck the mountain and then stood still. Decades later, it remains dormant. The dwarves, gnomes, and halflings were all left with a shocking lack of closure.

No one really understood what the obelisk even was. No attempt to get inside it was ever successful. No entry way of any kind. There was no use of force, however large was able to penetrate its surface. Any search for answers was a dead end. The only clue they had was that sometimes, on especially quiet nights, if one was brave enough to press their ear to the surface, they could hear something. Something that sounded like the pounding of a single hammer accompanied by the faint twinkling

noise that one could swear was music. Okay, thanks for tolerating the Lord Up. We're now firmly in present day. Wow. But that's the kind of dump I don't want to flush, though. Yeah, look at the thing. I've got to kind of dump out a show of mercy. Ooh, it's a gun of dirt. I've got a show to murder. Smooth Lord

hump. Oh, gross. I promise the rest of this won't be as gross. We start our adventure at the foothills of the bombers in the quaint town of Aberdeen. While still pastoral in many ways, the town has changed massively in the last 50 years, most notably in two ways. First, with the presence of the obelisk, the chief industry of the town changed from farming and agriculture to tourism. Nomes and halflings of Abertonian cater to flocking tourists all hoping to check out the legendary obelisk. The second reason is the massive influx of refugee dwarves that settled in the north side

of town now called New Birdam. Today is an especially big day, as it's the day of remembrance. We cross down to the Nommish district where in the stable of a family home that's not occupied by any horses or anything. A cool teen hangout sort of has formed and trap can you can you introduce your character? Yeah! I'm Turbine Spizzles Inc. I'm a nomish bard, and the main thing about me is that I just, I love the Obelisk, so gosh, daring much.

I'm basically like a Disney nerd but for but for this Ovalisk I could tell you all kinds of trivia about it I'll go out to the Ovalis get night and press my ear against it and tune all my musical instruments to it And I'm out here. I'm out here in the stables. I'm just like I'm working on my I've got a little like a car would be too generous to describe it. It's basically it's like instead of wheels it just has like a series of boots that like turn around and like It's all like it makes loud cranking noises and stupid like fouts of smoke, but I I really I really want to see I really want to see what do you call the stuff that gets hit on the road

I really want to see road kill from your boot car It's like he to an animal really hard. There's a special lever you can pull where it just sort of like tries to like scrape it off against the side. But yeah, I'm working on my little my stupid little tour car, which I give. I run tours to go in and around the obelisk

or around the obelisk and take a look at it to curious lucky lose. Cool. Well, you're working on your vehicle, whatever it is. Hang out in your parents' former stable, they don't have a horse or anything, where you have created this teen space where you're not under the same roof as your parents and you get to do what you want You got posters of the

Obelisk everywhere and you got your different gizmos like you sleep on a like a bed of hay like an old Obelisk sleeping bag that I was like six but I still kind of like it's all the rady but I'm still using it Rose and Rose of Opalisk, like a special edition Opalisk hats. New one comes out each year, and I've got to buy the new one every year. I'm wearing this year's,

but the old ones are still arranged nicely on the shelves of the stable. Please say you have a series of Opalisk action figures. Yeah, they, they've lined up and they sort, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, Got some eggs and bacon going if you're you're going to work right come on in all right Yeah, just just one second. I just got a I just got to finish the there's a there's there's some cool going on here between Obelisk from from five years ago and hopeless from three years ago and there's something cool happening What do you mean I'll be up in a second? Okay, your dad patiently waits for you to play with your toys for a little longer Don't you have work in a little bit?

Yeah, don't wait for me. I'll be there. I appreciate you looking out for me, dad. Just like scarfing down eggs, like barely even paying attention to what my parents are doing. Yeah, well, I mean, your parents are in the kitchen and they're like, they're having their morning routine, they're drinking their coffee, there's like a little bit of like abrudeen newspaper-esque thing that like is very simple, but like your mom's reading it. And your dad is, he's, you know, happily worked in the mind for many years before the obelisk arrived. And now, you know, he's just like, his job now is to like help with the infrastructure of the town, which is so much more boring for him. It's so much less interesting.

He calls out to you and he's like, so can you come in here for a second? Can we just talk to you for a little bit? Yeah, sure, Dad. Kind of in a hurry, but yeah, what's up? Okay, I understand. Yeah, what are you working? You guys are working the Day of Remembrance Festival, right? You got, you're working, you guys are working the Dave Remembrance Festival, right?

You got, you're out there. Yeah, I mean, I don't think that's a real job first off is what I'll say, but. What do you mean? Well, you know, giving tours of the outside of a large tower that no one knows what it does. It's not just a large tower. A large tower is kind of an understatement.

I don't care. I know what I know about the obelisk. Took my job. Well, you know what I know about the obelisk? What? It's two miles high, exactly. And also, you could hear a wonderful humming sound in there at some times.

Also, the obelisk asks as a deep, free bug repellent. Here's some other fun facts about the obelisk. I think we can stop there. Hey, so I mean your mother would talk to you and we just want you to consider just mull it over today just getting a real job. You can help me. Look, we got some drainage culverts to dig.

We got some wiring to rewire on the bridge. You know, there's a lot of fun stuff to do. Dad, none of that sounds... That all sounds fucking awful. Okay, wow. Okay, well sorry to swear to your dad, but I think we're just different. And I would hope that one day you come to your senses.

He's started choking up. I'm sorry dad, but I really got a run. We got a lot of paying customers there. They can't wait to see the outside of the obelisk and I can't wait to show them. Okay, well, yeah, we'll talk later. You get out of there. For the day of remembrance, I think you and your your buddies that run this, the obelisk tours are working this sort of festival, like helping, because it's over, it's a festival that marks the 50 years it's been since the obelisk landed. You know, it's a somber festival.

It's got a bit of an identity crisis, Obviously, there's a shrine to the dwarves that lost their keep. There's this statue in the center of town that has this pickax with swirling copper and tin, swirling metals holding it together, and there's some flowers, candles and stuff. But generally, it's supposed to be a fun festival. It seems like the numbs and halflings have invested more time into making it that. But on the way there, you pass by this little, it's almost like you live in a district

that feels like the Amsterdam-y, kind of like River Canal. You pass by like a lower, kind of like a hole in the wall bar called the peanut slumment, where a little gnome and it's truly a hole in the wall in that there's a piano and three stools and there's no room for like a man could not go in there. And the bartender yells out to you and it's like, hey, turbine, can you come in here and play this one of your songs?

You got any time to play this a song? I really got to get going here. And the festival's about to get going. OK, maybe you could stop by later. I'll give you a couple of copper if you come in. I check my watch. Do I know how much? How much time?

You're very late. I'm extremely late. OK. I imagine also driving this thing. The wheel's just huge. It's like the top of my head is the bottom of the wheel kind of situation. I feel pretty guilty about this, though.

So as I'm driving, it's like, I put a harmonica in my mouth as I'm driving away. And I'm just blowing about this though. So it's like, as I'm like driving, it's like, you know, I like put like a harmonica in my mouth as I'm driving away. And I'm just like blowing tunes at him as I'm cruising down the street. That's beautiful. That was something else. Through tall grass, you sprint. This is the fastest you've ever gotten in your entire life. You look to your hands and feet and notice that they aren't hands and feet. They're clumping.

They're galloping, if you will. You look to your left and you see a Palomino horse just having the best time of its life also running. To your right, a Mustang gallops. Just kind of foamy sweat on its shoulders that are super muscular as it's just like make-in-time. I guess three muscular horses. You run and run and run until you get to a crystal clear lake. You've earned the swoop-sad horses.

Linguering shots of just names. You go up to the crystal clear soup and you lean forward, you look down and you see your halfling face. No! Reflecting in the water and boom, you wake up. I knew you were going to do this to me. You wake up, then you You wanna introduce your character? Yes.

Hi, my name is Brenda Elizabeth, but you could call me Brenda Elizabeth for short. If you're strapped for time, I am a horse girl and a circle of stars druid, but I prefer circles, sparkles. I have a magical trapper keeper in which I doodle with my rainbow gel quill and I live in a one-room house with my eight grandparent. I'm also a half-leg who

wears a stretch stirrup pads, a unicorn t-shirt, and I have impossibly log, impossibly thin hair. But my bangs are really poofy like I permed just my bangs and I'm also wearing multiple wristwatches. Yeah, so you wake up in the corner. I should specify the description I just gave was I came up with it with the full knowledge that I have a minus one to charisma. I love that in a world, in like a D&D type world, a horse girl very much could be a race, but it's very much not a race here. You are a half-ling that is a horse girl, leave me. Okay, obviously I am a horse girl.

I love horses in every incarnation. It horses you to chords, Pegasasus's centars, but Zach I need to ask you was that have I turned it to a horse yet or is was that just a dream and I just woke up from something I don't know if it's happened to you before I don't think it has I think you just had a had a dream that was pretty glorious You wake up and you're just like, you have matted your hair, your thin hairs all matted and sweaty, like just on your face, like your bangs are somehow still...

I'm tangled up in my own butt length hair. You got single plate of grass in your teeth. You do smell the real soup in your house, the nasty cabbage soup that your grandparents are Putting together You you were raised by your grandparents and and when we say grandparents, we don't mean to we don't mean for we mean No, eight grandparents eight grandparents five grandpas three grandmas Yeah, you got grandpa guys, grandpa Paul, grandpa,

grandma Jan, grandma Elizabeth, grandpa Brendan, grandma Gale, grandpa Sean, grandma Shelley. Wait, I may be wrong amounts of either, but there are eight of them. There are eight of them, their they're eight of them. They're eight of them. They're they're names sort of fluctuate. All of my all of my grandparents got divorced and then remarried and then resituated very amicably into a one room house to raise me. So this is a this is your very much your family home. That, you know, your grandparents are all, you know,

they all have one. I wouldn't call it a bed just because it's so large and it has to accommodate all your parents. But they just sort of congregate in this big mass in the middle of the house. It's like a 70s conversation pit. Yeah, it's sucking in. It's sucking in from both the weight and the design. Big decorative pillows.

tie dye. Grandpa your grandpa, Brendan, uh, uh, notice is you toss away. He's like, uh, Brenda, Brenda. Yeah, yeah, Grandpa, I'm sorry. I woke up from a really good dream. Not a good dream. Oh, yeah, I had a really good dream. Grandpa, can I just tell you what my dream was? Oh, we would love to hear your dream. Yeah. Oh, that's your grandparent's dream. I know that this is a morning ritual that I tell all eight of my grandparents Come sit in the center of the pits is popping into fraying

Well, okay if you're going to press me yes I had this dream and I was running faster than I've ever run before and I looked on one side It was a palibito podium that on the other side. It was a Mustang and then I looked on one side and it was a palabito poti and that on the other side it was a Mustang and that looked down and I was of a equine body. Oh wow. I would love to be an equine body. This old body is like kind of stands up straight who's just they all sort of stretch. Don't sell yourself short. Cripabrendid, you are jacked and everyone knows it. So what do you think? Yeah, everything in popping sounds.

Everyone looks like Cripabrendid is the most jacked of all of them. He's got like this sinewy, like, old man muscle. He was like, well, I'm glad you woke up because we were all just talking and, you know, today is the day of remembrance and a very important day for our town and um Yeah, I know that with the tourism that the The prices have gotten a little well pricey for the admission. I know we used to have a two-room house So now we have a one-room house. Yeah, I mean we're getting priced out of the neighborhood I yeah, we're getting priced out of the neighborhood. Yeah.

But we can all handle that. Between the eight of us, we can figure out a way to, you know, Gail makes watercolors, palm-baked pies. Gus is working on that soup. The rest of us are, you know, making do. Sorry. Can I just grab a Sorry. Can I just read it? Can I just clarify? Is the soup a buddy making a devor or?

Well, it's a money saving endeavor. I do love to go to my day with a good cabbage soup. Yes. Well, the cabbage soup is nearly ready. So you can have some in a moment but before that We just wanted to give you this and all the grandparents part and grandma Shelley comes forward with a wristband for the day for Mempran's festival There it's like a tin silver wristband because the Disney of Disney if I the price is almost Holy horsey how did the eight of you come up with the

means to buy me this? Well, as I said, Grandpa Gus sold some pies. Grandma Gale sold some watercolors. Grandpa Sean braided some bracelets and the rest of us did stuff too. Again, I'm not going to acquire because the more you don't say it, it seems like drug dealing. I'm just going to push aside my three wristwatches and then gingerly put on this new band and then very laboriously go around and hug each of my eight grand parents for a very long hug each. What a sweet child. They all, you know, it takes about, I don't know, 30 minutes to hug every grand parent

in a meaningful way. They're also not helping by being slow. I'm a little bit old. More pops and creaks. So I hear at the festival, they're, you know, they all got, they have all kinds of games, but they're going to do, you know, a best in show, horse show. What kind of horses do you think they'll be displaying at this best of shokes' periods? Rinda Lismouth? Yeah, Grandpa.

All kinds. Grandpa, Brendan. I...I... Words have been stolen from my mouth and the only way I could think to communicate right now is with another round of 30-minute hugs. Let's get it started. They proceed to laboriously hug you again. As you continue to hug them, we're going to cut over to our final character. Shivan, you wake up in your penthouse suite in the star-born hotel. Do you want to introduce your character? Hello peasants. I'm Astrid Starborn. My daddy owns a star-born hotel. Obviously, when the obelisk came,

my daddy opened the hotel instead of being a stinky underground dwarf and we made so much more money than anybody else. So anybody who says that we're not a traditional dwarf can suck it. A long sort of silvery blue braids. I'm wearing like a leather, almost like a pinnacle dress with a like a petapan collar, and everything is extremely crisply pressed in iron. My sheets get changed every night. Everything is. Your your your places and maculate. You, uh, your family, uh, owns and operates the starboard hotel. You kind, you know, I think other dwarves kind of consider you,

maybe class traders, not the right word, but they all live in New Burmier and you're one of the few dwarves that live on the sort of the halfling gnome side of town for financial reasons purely. Like it was a wise investment to open this hotel in the heart, like kind of in the town center. and it was a wise investment to open this hotel in the heart, like kind of in the town center.

The Starborn Hotel is the nicest hotel in all of Aberdeen and tourists, especially rich tourists, flocked to this place. You're on one of those rich person beds that are so tall. So, we'll post it obviously. Yes, obviously. Billowing curtains around me. Well, obviously there's, yeah, it's obvious.

Billowing curtains around me. Yes, yes. You pull the curtains wide and you look out over Aberdeen. You're basically the highest elevation in the town outside of the obelisk, of course. A servant quietly brings in a cup of coffee and leaves silently because he knows that you don't want to talk. This is lukewarm. I'm sorry, sorry, it just sprints out.

Grants it, runs back away. Perfect, and help nowadays. Good gracious. You go about your morning routine and notice that your daily present is on the little pedestal next to you. Of course you get a present every day from Papa. Papa! Thank you so much! What have you got today?

There's like a little, it's not a big present, which is a little disappointing, because usually you get bigger presents. And you open up the like crisp wrapping paper and find a golden bracelet. It is a wristband for the festival today and it is a front of line pass wristband that gets you free snacks. You never have to wait. It's basically a $500 pass at bad Disney World. Does it let you ride the horses in the bested show?

Because I think I'll steal it. I'll compromise my morals It might it might do that. I feel like that the best it best and show is more of a show but with the status that Astrid starboard and wheels maybe they'll letter wow you go you go downstairs maybe they'll letter. Wow, you go downstairs once you're ready. And you enter the hotel's bar, the Opel of Bermur, which is named after this big Opel that was in the center of Bermur.

That sort of lit up the whole city. It was just kind of like this magical focus that gave light to this underground world. There's a big mural of it behind the bar. It's like an upscale, it's like a kind of like a gastro pub with like truffle fries and artisan pizzas and that kind of thing, like very hotel bar feeling. And your dad is absolutely tearing a new one

into a bartender. Why are these glasses so, this glass is dusty. So what are you, what are you thinking? I mean, yeah, what are you thinking? Huh? Hey, there's my sweet little girl. Do you like your present today? Yes, thank you.

Are you excited for your day? He looks a little nervous because, you know, you are kind of scary to him. You are one of the few people that actually can wield a status over your father. I mean, it better be good. It better be that at the last year, because last year was... Oh. I'm so sorry about last year. And you know, I didn't actually put on the festival myself,

but I gave a stern talking to the mayor, and he promised me that they're, you know, they added a horse show and everything. It's gonna be... It's gonna be beautiful. If it's not, we have to get a different man. Daddy we have to. I'll install a new mayor if it's not up to your you're liking this year. Thank you I love you. I love you too sweetheart. Your dad feels like he got out of this one a little okay, like he was maybe worried that you weren't gonna enjoy that. I just had to buy a politician. I'm gonna do that.

I'll buy my daughter a politician. What little girl doesn't love a senator? I want a new senator father. Okay, so we're gonna cut over to the festival. It's not too far from the Starburn hotel, but- I would just like to say that on my way there, I do, you know when kids pretend to run by doing a little giddy up, I gallop.

I'm gonna gallop, I'm gonna throw the other one. Instead of skipping, I do a little horse gallop every day. Everyone's looking at you like your crazy- I wave, I wave like your crazy. I wave I Wave like I think I'm bowing beauty of the beast Good morning to halflings walk by you and they're like that's that girl with the all the grandparents Okay, I see

The one that you know, it's the crazy they all live together. I am a thermos of cabbage soup Slaushing everywhere Yeah, you're you're you're spilling your thermos all over yourself as you run a little Dwarf who's like maybe like a year or two younger than you with two other little noms He's got like a knit cap and like a goatee walks by. He's like, what do you think you're a horse? I know I'm a horse. A little numb snicker as well. And they all like, yeah, okay.

If you're a horse, we are obelis. Honestly, I think that my retort was better than yours. Oh, go to hell. They have the fashionable clothing, but I think I outwitted you. And I take a huge swig of cabbage soup. Oh, what is that? So I'm like a cabbage soup. Okay, whatever.

We're going to go into the part. This is kind of a no- win situation for us talking to you. So why? Because you're, I don't know if you were even able to make fun of you. It seems like things just bounce off of you. Yeah, you know what they do. Because you know what?

I feel like the rest of my peers, and I'm talking about you, you are my peers, are so distracted by things like dating and growing adult bodies that I think that you're wasting your brain, you're wasting your bait and you're wasting your hearts. Me, I'm a doodler and I love horses. Okay, you have just like a weird sense of self that makes it really hard to make fun of you. We're gonna go Being bonk, let's get out of here and be a little bit of a little now. I'm just following this other dwarf into the festival

As bonk walks away, I I shut her because I have a secret crush I shut her because I have a secret crush. Bunk like looks twice like what? Their twins, Bink and Bunk. It's no interest in Bink. Bink looks at Bunk like what happened? Turbine, as they are walking into the... Turbine, you've your your weird ass vehicle that is

Honestly shaking violently at this point. There's something wrong with it definitely Your buddy Mars is like okay, hey dude you're late. I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry The mayor is actually giving someone's finally paying us to do something so we kind of like kind of focus up a little bit. Alright, I'm sorry man. I didn't even stop to play a song or anything. I just went, what is that? I was going. That's not gonna happen to me, right? Yeah, I guess. Normally I stopped to play a song and today I was like, no, this is important.

You're still 30 minutes late. If only I had at least one wristwatch. Yeah, okay, you could make one, right? Anyways, we've been giving our duties for today for the festival. It's pretty casual, I think. We just like kind of have to like make sure people have wristbands. So you just post up over here, I'll post them over on the Northside of town. I'm like, and just switch later in the day.

But it seems pretty cush. We get a break to like kind of like do games and stuff in a little bit. So yeah, I'll see you at lunch. I'm pumped man. This is gonna be great. Yeah. Oh, yeah for the off You like you like clicks his obelisk hat to like two horns click the hat back I forgot to mention team. I've got my hat and I've also got like one big pointy beard So just like my head's just one big diamond pointy beard. So just like my head's just one big diamond. Oh, that's very, um,

it feels like he's, you know, it sounds like he looked like a sword. Your friend, your friend, uh, he, he's like, has similarly bad facial hair. He's got like a bit of a mustache and patchy hair on the sides. That's just sort of nothing. It's like first gnome hair like gnome's going through a video. They like can't quite put up their their gnome mustache is yet. Yeah, he's like this is going to be the best thing of our lives and just inventors north to his post as you're waiting the aforementioned

dwarf raider and a bacon-bock walk. Hey fellas. Make a perception check. All right Errol a 10 but I get a plus two so 12. Okay. Yeah, you got a pretty straightforward job They they're walking by they are not wearing wristband. Oh fellas. I'm sorry. I'm gonna have to stop you You're gonna need a wristband if you're coming in here. Oh a wristband so I need a wristband to go into the middle of the town. Well, yeah, you know, it's the day of remembrance. And the proceeds go towards maintenance of the obelisk and paying employees who benefit from the obelisk. And, you know, the general health and well-being of our town.

So, you know. They walk in. I chase out of them. Very, very, it's got, hey, fellas, I know you didn't mean to do that. So so come on, we're just gonna have to, we can go get you a wristband from the ticket counter over here. Gotcha, okay, we'll be right there. All right, well, if you wanna, how far am I from the entrance? I feel like I'm trying to like balance, watching the entrance for more people coming in, but also chasing down Bink and Bong. You're getting to the point of its strength. You're, you're, you're to chase after these guys you're gonna have to like leave your

boast. This is very dumb. This is a dumb thing to do. Can I not? Yes, you can spell. 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 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 This is a silly campaign. Whatever. This is the dumbest possible thing to use a second-level spell for but I'm gonna cast suggestion on that Wow, okay, so you cast suggestion on Raider. Yeah, let's see how this works I suggest a course of activity magically influence that creature Target must make a wisdom saving throw on a failed save it pursues the course of action

You described the best of its ability so I cast it and be like hey fellas I really think you and bankin bong should all go get some get some wristbands okay Raider's gonna roll he got a 15 what's your spell set 13 oh did you just try to fucking cast this fellow? I mean, yeah, I did. I'm not gonna lie to you, fellas. I really think it's a good idea for you to go get a wristband. Look, you're lucky that if I fought you, that the whole town would notice that I'm beating up a guy who, who's seemingly, it has the job of putting wristbands on people. So I'm just going to freaking walk away from this. But after the festival today, you're fucking dead, man.

All right, well, I look forward to resolving this amicably. They walk away. I put some money in the ticket counter to pay for our big box and raiders. That's a lot of cash for you. That was a, I'm sure it's pretty upsetting. Yeah, I'm not like, I, that's like the right thing to do, but it's like, it's gutting me how much of my money this is. Man, I will not be able to buy a churro later today.

Oh, devastating, absolutely devastating. So I'll say the rest of you get there, Asteroid, Brindale, Elizabeth, you walk in. The festival is pretty fun for how somber the theme should be. They have a couple of activities. There's like this big pen where there's like kind of animal shows where this sheep dog is hurting sheep Everybody's like watching and clapping from a little like makeshift stands. There's like an axe throwing competition for prizes There's a little make your own obelisk station where like the the person who makes the best obelisk it a prop gets a prize as well There's like all kinds of treats everywhere What do you guys want to do? This is very conflicting for me because obviously I want to go watch the animals but I am also a really good crafter.

So I might hit up the Make Your Own Opalisk Station first. Okay, great. So you get to that Make Your Own Opalisk Station. It's mostly children. It's like my peers. I guess my peers. So they're like eight year olds trying to mess around with glue. The person who's like working there, this little gnome lady, named Sansa, she's like,

oh, hi, Brindal is with. Hi Sansa. Yeah, why don't you, yeah, if you, I guess there's not an age limit on this, why don't we, pull up a chain if you I guess there's not an age limit on this why don't we you pull up a chair if you want that's kind of interesting that you started this with I guess there's not an age limit It almost made it see this though. There's an implicit age limit Okay, well Brinnell is but I think we were initially thinking of this being for younger It's totally it's it's fun to make crap. Tanzer, I understand you could smell on me

that I've become a woman recently in the past year. Not what I was saying, not what I was saying at all. You smell the ripening of my body, but I still feel like a child at heart, but I guess I could go watch the sheep dog. At least let me leave some sparkles and crafts for you to at least delight the hearts of the children with. Brinnelliz, I wanted to be clear that I was not

coming from that place at all. And I would love if you made a craft. And you can maybe even show these younger kids how to make a craft. I mean, I could use your help if you felt like it. OK, I help. I love it when an adult asks me to help. Yeah, so you can help make a crafter make your own craft at like these little kids are like

struggling with glue and stuff, but yeah, I guess you can make a slide of hand check or if there's another ability score that makes sense to you. Yeah, I'll go with a slide of hand. It's gonna be a 10. 10, I mean, like, the competition's not great. So, so your obelisk looks like an obelisk. A lot of the other ones are like those little tongue depressor stick things are like, they're kind of, they can't really hold the shape that they want, so that's kind of,

I think I'm like a little bit rude to these kids. Just in like, I kind of am sit up down and I'm like, I open up my trapper keeper, I show them some of my doodles and say, if you're good at stray for a reality, make sure that you have a vision for it. Do you see this picture of a yellow lab that I drew? I gave it hearts for eyes which you don't actually see in the wild, but you know there was an intention behind it. You understand what I was meaning. So if you're going to you know- Oh, it just sneezes on the paper. Yeah, I'll be-

Oh no, that- that my favorite picture of my- A little bit of apple fritter comes out of its nose like it's just a gross situation. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. All right. You know what? You might be younger than me. I think that Zan's her bite a bit right. I go look at the show show. Astrid. What are you doing? Oh, and I will say that turbine you're around your lunch break at this point if you wanna check out some other stuff. I don't have any more money left, so I'm... I'm... But I'm still... The animal show is just people,

the price of admission gets you into that. So you can play like booth games, but like yeah. Yeah, I'm, I just, I'm so hungry, but I'm still like, I'm like, I love taking in the sights, but I'm pretty hungry because I spent all the money I have, getting, getting big and bonking raider in. I love taking in the sights, but I'm pretty hungry because I spent all the money I have getting a bonkin raider in.

You see Brenda Elizabeth pouring a huge cup of cabbage soup into her thermos top. It's just like licked my lips. It smells vile, but it's so, I'm so hungry. It's just like, oh my God. Your mouth waters as you smell this horrible. I'm like staring very hard at, at, at, at, at, at Brenda Elizabeth in the cabbage soup.

I don't realize I'm staring, but it's just, it's so entrancing that it's just like, excuse me, do you want some? I mean, would you? Absolutely. Cabbage soup flows from the faucets where I'm from. Wow. I, I'm from wow Here help yourself. Oh, hi, I'm Brenda Elizabeth Brenda Elizabeth for sure

The Tigray I jumped her by and spizzles thing. Yeah, you could finish the whole thing if you want to see oh my god thank you I'm so hungry oh just like tossing like like shots just like tossing back at you yeah can you roll give me a constitution to not have your Yeah, let's see. Dude, dude, what is that? That is a 14. Hey, it's sitting, okay. Yeah, like, it's not a little weird, but like, you're not, you're not, you're something's not hurting as much anymore. Like, it was a weird meal, but it did its job. You're sloshing around a little bit. Hey, aren't you that, uh,

aren't you that grandparent girl? Yeah, I am, yeah, no parents, but a surplus of grandparents. Yeah, that's pretty cool It is pretty cool. Yeah, and you're you're the guy who drives the car that has boots for wheels That's right. Yeah Yeah, I love it. I saw squirrel got caught up in the hoops the other day. Oh god I didn't see that I got to go back there and clean it It's so cool. Oh, there's just just absolute mayhem in the tire Bits in like the trends of the booth. Oh God

Does Turbine have like a special badge that he's working the show? I think yeah I think he has a different colored wristband like a green wristband or something that's like staff Turbine your staff. What do you know about the best in show pony display? Oh, oh, if you, look, the mayor put it on special this year. If you like horses, I mean, this thing is gonna blow everything else out of the water. I mean, nothing's ever gonna be as good as the oval is put.

Oh man, they got all kinds of horses there. They got pala me knows man they got all kinds of horses there they got palminos they got Arabian they got Mustangs and others Brando Elizabeth steadies herself especially doesn't fade as he lists horses for an hour Astrid as as they're talking about horses you've entered you've skipped the long line of people with risk regular wristbands trying to get into the festival. And you know, you are a rich kid that maybe doesn't have a bunch of friends. And so you look around and maybe it's a little uncomfortable.

What do you think Astrid would do. I think that she sees two people that maybe she can make her friends for the day. And what about my stir-up pants and permed bangs makes you think that you can control me. that you can control me. I'm both a reeking of cabbage. It's like, yeah, I mean, they're like the people that are roughly your age. So it makes sense that you're like, I guess I'd go. I also just mentioned, I have like just a huge like big ol' like coat bottle glasses that have like

multiple varieties of lenses that I can like flip in and out depending on like what I'm reading and how far away it is. Just giant fucking glasses and a big ol' yeah. Oh. Bremel has been should have some second hand like old man glasses that pass down to her for whatever your best.

Through your grandparents' prescriptions. So it's like your eyes are just being scratched by this. I'm working up to them, you know? We're painting at each other down in centralison horses. Oh, horrible. As soon as it pains you, you do walk up to these horses. I got them and smell. You both smell terrible.

Let's go and get some charrows, and then you can watch me play conval games. Okay. I'm on board the moment Charrows at said. I'm on board the moment anyone speaks to me. Okay. Oh great. I click and walk away. I'm speaking to the fellow. It's not a, but it works like a spell on one another. I scurry along after. I mean, I'm telling you this makes sense. I feel like as just like this guy who sort of is like a collector of trivia and stuff, he kind of just like knows a bunch of stuff about the town,

a bunch of people around town. I feel like it maybe makes sense for him to be like at least aware of Astrid. Totally. You would all be sort of aware of each other if not like actual friends. Like it would make sense that you're like, oh, I'm finally introducing myself today, but like generally you've seen each other before. I'm just assuming that they know who I am,

and I'm not really interested in you there. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Wow, this is hitting a little too close to our actual relationship from all of you. No! Hey! Uh-oh. Um, so I know that Astrid owns the hotel. Yeah, this is, she's like, wow.

This is kind of a big deal for you guys. Still like the Astrid starboard snap that you took off. Hey, hey, can I ask you something? Yes, what's it like on the inside of the hotel? Oh, that's a really good question. Hey, hey, can I ask you something? Yes! What's it like on the inside of the hotel? Oh, that's a really good question. I think I was gonna think of asking that too. I want to know too. It's nice, it's beautiful, it's the most beautiful building in the town, obviously.

Well, second most beautiful building in the town. The Obliscus is the Obliscus considered a building. Well, there's actually two schools of thought on this. Now, some people actually have the obelisk to build it. And others consider it more of a monument. Now, I believe that the obelisk is hollow. I stopped playing a game called Wackenome and just like raging out on this game.

I mean, this is another game for children and you are crushing it. Yeah, I'm using my actual real war hammer instead of the rubber mallet that they... The person working the game like oh, it's like grimacing and just watching you slap. Please, please don't, please don't. Don't tell me what to do! Don't you know who I am? You want to do that there's the axe game it might be more suited for your Yes, obviously I want to do the axe game. Oh, that sounds fun

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stuffed animal. And if you, you know, if you hit the target, but not in the center, you get the smaller prizes. And it's just points to a bunch of bananas. Just regular bananas. Not stuff. You get the smaller prizes and it's just points to it like a bunch of bananas Just regular banana We got it Wow, what does that say about this town that we need to win food? These are shipped in from out of town so bananas they don't grow around here. So this is a bit of a delicacy

I've had bananas before give me the axe. I lean it over to Astrid and I just say, I believe in you. So just give me an attack roll. Great. I'm thoroughly convinced. Like, I'm already convinced that Astrid is going to fucking kill this game. I'm like, so excited to like watch the past or at work. I rolled a seven.

OK, so it's like a hand-act stat. So you can add, it's your proficient because it's a thrown weapon that you can use strength for. Oh, OK. So 7 plus 6, so 13. Great. So you hit the target, but not in the center. The axe you threw just digs it.

Like it goes way further. Like you are your muscles ripple as you just huck this ax as hard as you possibly can into this target. The guy working there is like, oh, right, that's one banana. Oh my God. That's one banana. You're fucking, it like chips out a chunk of the target

and he's like, oh, I didn't know people could do that. And he hands you a banana and he's like, you're the strongest person I've ever seen. I throw the banana behind me and put another silver piece down. I think of the banana. All right. I play again. Yeah. Okay. 21. Yeah, you throw a hand axe that buries itself so deep in the center of the target that it rips the entire thing in half. Jesus Christ.

I cheer just so loud. I'm like immediately on board. I'm just so happy for success in any form. I'm just like, yeah! I'm crying all over. I of course expect this kind of response to where everything that that I do to take it in my stride. The dwarf reluctantly hands you the large stuffed animal horse and is like, we're gonna have to shut it down for the rest of the day, the target's gone, didn't bring any extra targets. That's okay, I didn't need to play anyway. I immediately just hand the horse to Brenda.

Holy shit. Brenda has been fully quiet staring at this at this stuffed horse the entire time. And the second that you put it in Brenda's hands she's still frozen but a tear comes down. Next, Next game. You're by the actual horse show is starting. You hear the sounds of the shepherd dog, sheep trials ending. Someone puts a little metal on a dog and they get out of there as a literal... I don't even understand how the metal's being going to just thrill. As you start watching the show,

give me a perception check. All of us? Yes. Oh boy, I got a raw 19, but you know that's gonna be good. Ooh, I got a sick fool and I got a seven. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. No surprise, Brenda got a 25, and I got a seven No surprise Brenda got a 25 the second So as the ponies are coming out

You despite being transfixed by these ponies You're you're looking deeply at this one Palimino horse that's just gorgeous, just trotting out almost in slow motion. But as it's, as it's, you see it marching out into the little pin. Yeah. Something flies by in the background that for, despite your focus on the horse, you see a thing dart through the sky that has kind of a weird trajectory like it wasn't a bird. I'd like to look further into that because if there's any sort of horse flies or something that could be really uncomfortable for the horses, so I'd like to pursue it. Okay.

You can run around to the other side of the pin and give another perception check, I guess. Okay. That type of told, I guess. Okay. That type of totally a died. Okay, I'll tell you that this time you lost it, you can't figure out where it went, but it was like weirdly gold. Something about this thing was shining in a way that it wasn't metallic.

I mean, it wasn't metallic. I just saw something flying, that's the color of your wristband. What is it? I want saw something flying. That's the color of your wristband. What is it? I want it. Where is it? Can I do an investigation check to see if I can look for any clues about where it went or anything?

Yeah, give me an investigation. Oh, baby. A 23. Okay, there we go. Okay, with an investigation check of 23, when you check the other side of the like, paddock or whatever it's called, you see that they're like, in the mud, there was briefly tiny like, almost like bird, like, you know, when you see seagull prints in the sand, but they're like, kind of like wet. You look at it closer and they're not wet,

but they have like joints in them that are a little like, I would say like, kind of like a Lego man or something, you know, like it doesn't look like an actual animal's joints. There's something, something not human was here. It's a cataclysm. I was thinking that, I mean, I have someone

who really enjoys animals and rendering them with my rainbow gel. Well, and my animal curiosity was not awoken by that. I really like machines, but I've never seen anything like this before. Oh, and you don't actually see the item there. We see the prints, right? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, well, I just, I suppose Brenda Elizabeth wants to, you know, keep an eye out because she wants to make sure that the horses are still able to have a pleasant experience in

the show. So yeah, you're still on guard, you're looking around, but it's kind of hard to not focus on these beautiful horses as the show continues. As you're talking about the footprints, Raider and Bink and Bunk walk up, I'm like, well, the show continues. 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 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 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 Detectives be lame playing detectives is just about the most fun thing not to mention all the TV shows that are the most popular just people playing detectives Whatever I you know what you know it's cool cooler than playing detective the obelisk No, daddy Your daddy. Do you just say you're daddy? I? You're daddy? Do you just say you're daddy?

I um, hold up my wool hammer and step towards them intimidatingly. I stand next to Astrid and I say, yeah, you know what? Astrid's dad is cooler. Yeah, Astrid's daddy. What? Uh, make a group intimidation check. I got a daddy 20 14. Hold on. Oh, wait a second.

I have a minus one. So that's a 12. Okay, overall not horrible. Rayder is like, oh, uh, wait, so you you're are you Astrid starborn? Yes, obviously. Oh, okay. Yeah, whatever you're lucky That that your dad is so rich because otherwise You know he'd give me hard time. I you know what I'm just gonna. It's not luck. He went really hard This kid is like two years younger than y'all there's no reason for him to try to make fun of you all. He's just like bored, uncomfortable.

Raider, I gotta say, I feel like there's gotta be a better bully than you in this town, right? Or are you the town bully? There's kind of a power vacuum there, so I tried to claim claim it and it's not going well. But as Raider is like flailing to make fun of you, you hear this massive, all-encompassing horn blow. A like insanely loud air horn, like sort of like a fog horn blast through the town. People are like literally covering their ears.

Are the horses upset? Horses are running around in circles like crazy. It's coming from... Give me a perception check. That's gonna be a 12 foot. And a 10 for me. And a... 8 for me. Okay, it's really, it's so loud

that it's hard to tell what's happening, but it is so, it's also so loud that it's like kind of breaking your reality. Like, you see other people looking and it is coming from the obelisk. Ah! And as the horn finishes up, I feel like, oh, I feel like,

I feel like any sound coming from the obelisk is just like a siren call. Even if it is like painful, it's just like I have to go see what this, like it's like the equivalent of like, you know, someone being like, hey, we've got new information about a new movie coming out of whatever. It's just like, I gotta go see what's happening.

I just, yeah. Well, before you can even really get anywhere, as the horn blows, you suddenly hear a voice cut through it. Oh, hello, sorry, that was the wrong button. Hello, hello, can anyone hear me? Hello. Yes. Yeah, I just worked.

Yes. Is this working? Yes. It's, it is. Okay, that's magnificent. Okay. Well first off I have to say apologies Sorry about everything didn't see the mountain kind of came out of nowhere and the The facilitator is a bit difficult to steer and things were kind of shut down and damaged there so

Sorry for crashing here. I Can tell that this is obviously not ideal for people. And it seems like we are stuck on top of your mind, which yeah, I feel very bad about this. I have to say, just want to underline this. It's my bad. It's cool, man. Who are you? Yeah, we have explained yourself. Do you know that it's been 50 years? But also it's cool man. Wait, it's been 50 years? It's been 50 years. Yeah. Oh my god. Are you an obliess or are you a person? Or is it you a person, obliess? I'm an elf. Listen, I'm seriously taking notes. I'm copying your notes. You're just taking notes for the excellent. That's where it's just that writing anything.

This 50 years has really kind of blown this dude's mind. He's just like, oh, wow, I've been to the honest side. It's been 50 years. It's just me with my head down working. There's a lot of stuff in this thing is kind of broken. And it's just me and here to sort of repairing stuff. Are you a spaceship? It's not necessarily a spaceship, but it is highly advanced,

I would say. Probably more advanced than anything over in your town. By, I don't know, miles. You were fat. So you can go to space if it's not necessarily a spaceship. I mean, almost anything is possible with the facilitator. But this isn't, I'm meant to make a bit of an announcement. I'm not necessarily trying to have a talk back.

I'm sorry, did we preempt the Q&A early? Did we start the Q&A? Yes. This is not the Q&A portion. What does the inside of the oval is smell like? What does it smell like? There was a time for questions and a time for answers, but I have two important items that I'd like to meet with this entire town about right now. So the shift sensors indicate that there's an excavation occurring. And you would know this that actually Raiders mom, Nadia Okorn, is the leader of the dwarves that have been trying to excavate back into the mind. And it is slow going. It is so, so far down like it has been 50 years of digging. And they're almost like they've made a lot of progress, but they haven't

quite gotten there yet. Yeah, he starts, he returns to speeches like I understand that there's an ex, an excavation occurring to get back down into the city and I love the effort but I think we need to put a pause on that because the excavation is dangerously close to knocking the ship loose and it could possibly crush the entire town. I want to be clear. I just want to help you guys get back into your home in the mountain, but that's a priority here, but I just I think we've got to pause that for a second. Okay. Well, we actually, uh, well, you know, me and turbine have no power, but I bet Astrid could put it a good word. This voice is ringing out to the whole town. Like they're there are dwarves and I'm still going to continue having a personal conversation. Uh, okay. I it seems think some people are just talking to me directly. Oh, so I'm gonna say that.

You might be familiar with me. I'm turbine spizzle zinc. I've been at the Oboa's pretty much every day of my life. Oh, I actually have noticed that some of the cameras are working here. Yes, obviously you're familiar with me. I'm asked to starboard. Right. So you would know what I am. I'm not a bunch of no one. Okay, again, it's just, there's about 200 people asking me questions individually right now.

So I was gonna keep you against that. Amor, can you feel that? So moving on. I looked at turbine and I nod, yes. So you guys are just kind of having one side of conversations with him. It's like when you're talking to someone and they're on the phone having a different conversation. Yeah, he's just like this voice sounds great a little bit as he's trying to continue his point. To that end, it's hard for me to accept that I need help, but here goes straight up, we're hiring.

If you've ever wanted to work in a futuristic, almost alien floating tower that's capable of doing the most anything you can imagine, this job would be perfect for you. Or if you just want to be rich and have whatever you want or just want to experience the world, this place could be good for you. Turbine lets out a squeal that is so high pitch that human ears can't hear it. Does it just a delight it to look like? Oh. Ha. An eagle calls back.

Ha. Ha. But to my point, we are hiring, we are seeking highly motivated, talented individuals with creative problem solving skills Due to the slight less than ideal circumstances. We have to be sort of um We have to be a little strict about who we're interviewing and we can only interview 12 people at this time Like raising my hand obviously seeing a lot of hands obviously raising my hand across the entire hand I have a gold I have gold wrist thing. So again, it seems like about 200 people individually

are asking the questions. I guess I shouldn't be respond. All right, I'm gonna power through. Look, decide up it's easy. And as he says that, you see 12 drones drift down from the sky. You know immediately this is what you saw earlier. They're these little golden robots with spindly little arms and legs.

They have a little round body with sort of a big... That was like like Mike was, you know, the guy from Monsters Inc. That like little green dude, but they're gold and robotic. And they have, they hold in their hands like a little quill. Each of the 12 drones. He's like the drones floating around you town which is I have to say is a gorgeous town. They find them and if you retrieve the quill and come up and as he says that a table walks out of a little hole in the in the obelisk just like like it's an animal and then spreads out and makes a little sign-up sheet

on top of it. I squeal again. The robotic surface of it, like kind of spreads to reveal like the surface that you can ride on. So I want to see that you can creatively problem solve. However you want to do it, get one of these quills from one of these robots and then bring it up here and write your name. I guiding bowl a robot.

So they're all kind of far away right now. How far away are they? So this voice is like the obelisk is like a five minute walk from where you are. Okay. And so this is sort of in the distance. But as you see this happen, he's like, and we'll just get started now. And as he says that, the robot split and fly in different directions. Everyone give me a perception check. Ooh, I go really good again.

23. 23. 10. 10? Okay. I got good again. 23. 23. 10. 10? Okay. I got a 15. Cool.

So as you see these, it's almost like they're like, you know, the snitch from Harry Potter. They're darting around this guy. Yeah. Everybody also roll initiative. Okay. Whoa, I rolled a 18 again. 9 plus 4, 13. 10.

I have 22. Yeah, you're doing it. Oh, wow. Rendo, this thing. You know, I'm not good with people. But... But... Okay.

So, it's kind of not a real fight, but this feels like the best way to do it. These drones are darting around the town. Everyone in the town is going fucking nuts. The guy who just did the axe throwing game with you is like, every man for himself and like, punching each other in the face and darting around trying to chase these things. As everyone is like looking around this entire town for these rope and these like flying robots Brindale Elizabeth, you are centering yourself trying to think of the best way to look for them. Your eyes are once again drawn to the horse pattern and you look up and this beautiful palimino horse is sitting there with one in its mouth.

You know what? I thought I was going to have to use other spells. I'm just going to walk over. I have a dream in my heart of buying my grandparents back that two bedroom, that two room house. And so I'm going to go over to that Palomino horse and cast a spell that you would assume would be coming from a place of selfishness, but I'm gonna cast animal friendship on that

Palomino horse. Ha ha ha. Perfect. Wait, so does it make a save or anything? Let me just double check, sorry, I can't have just a friend now. He's just by the right now. He's on Zach. The spell lets you convince a beast that you mean it no harm.

Choose a beast that you can see within range. It must see and hear you if the beast's intelligence is four or higher. The spell fails. Otherwise, the beast must succeed on a wisdom. So it automatically fails if its intelligence is for. It's got an intelligence of two so we're good. Don't ask for your help. Watch yourself. I'm reading a book. You stupid. With 80 drones. Okay, okay, new friends. Okay. I walk over to the

horse that I want to. First off, this is very exciting. I'm going to pet it. Okay, you walk over to the horse that I want to first off. This is very exciting. I'm going to pet it Okay, you walk over to the horse the horse regards you looks around as it's kind of nong on this little like helpless robot that's flailing Like kind of like slapping the the horse in the face, but it's not I kind of want to do like an is there like an apple around or something? I kind of want to like Indiana Jones Yeah, make a make a like luck check for Apple. A luck check, okay. 19! A lucky apple. Okay, to your left is a whole bag of apples that were going to be caramel later.

And no one's around, yeah. Yeah, so I just kind of want to I kind of want to like without the horse noticing, like distract it with some pets and then swap out the apple for the little dude. You are seamlessly able to swap this apple out for this little robot guy. And the horse nozzles up to you. It wants you to pet it. It's, you know, has you. You and I have a story that will be told another day. Just like so. Right now I need to get first in line to get a job. So you take the the quilt, give me a insight check. 19. Okay. So with it 19, you'll know that like you have to be, you look over and you see a

door drop kick a gnome like people are going nuts. So I think I take the quill and then maybe like if there's a piece of hay or something that from an aerial view would look like a quill? Oh shit, you know what I could do? Ugh. I can get another rainbow gel quill, right? Or is mine special? I think you have like a couple, yeah. Okay. Then I'm gonna swap out this quill for my rainbow gel quill and then send the drone back into the sky and hide this quill.

Oh, wow. Give me a deception roll, I guess. OK. It's going to be a minus one to whatever roll. That's a five. You see this little gnome run up and grab it and you're like, what the fuck? This one's a liar.

All right, we're going gonna move down the initiative order to turbine. To turbine. With your, you had a 15, right? 13. 13? Oh, okay. No, I'm sorry, perception check. Oh, perception check.

I don't remember, for sure, 15, that sounds right. I think it was a 15. You'll notice that there's not any in the immediate area, but with a 15, it's high enough to see that, there were two that darted near where your house is. Okay, cool. So you can run that way. Yeah, I'll run if you want.

That's towards wherever I think that this thing is. Yeah, so this feels a bit like your home courted wherever I think that this thing is. Yeah, so this feels a bit like your home courted manage a little bit just to be near where you know the neighborhood better. So you run through the town to where your house is. And as you're passing the peanuts lament, give me a perception check.

That is an eleven Okay, that's I mean I think that's enough. You'll notice that you know every time you pass the the peanut slumette people are like Calling for you to come in no one called for you to come in when you walk by okay. I take a peek inside You look inside and you see the absolutely filled to the gills bar with four people inside. It's just like tangled up arms and legs, fighting over a drum. Can I see the drone?

Yeah, it's like wiggling around in the middle of them. The bartender looks up and notices you. He kind of, these are the regulars. These are the people who are there every day. He's like, Oh, hey, hey, turbine, you got a drone. Yeah, we got a drone. Shut your fucking mouth. Listen, do you, he thinks about it for a second and all the other numbs look at you and they're like, okay, well do whatever you want but you know we'd love to hear a song. If I play a song will you give me, will you give me the drone? Yeah, make a persuasion check with advantage

19 plus five so 24 They look at each other I'm pretty good player They have really wanted to hear a song all day these these are pretty unmotivated regulars out of bar Okay, sure what's your? And they pointed the piano. I guess I sit down and I play a little tune on the piano. Okay, make a performance check. I rolled a seven, but I have plus five, so 12. They... Dada, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da to reach. Can I like to lunge at it? Yeah, I lunge at it, try to grab it. Okay, make an attack roll. A non-weapon, an armed attack roll? Yeah, it depends on what you're thinking you do. Yeah, I'll just try to like, I have a rapier. I guess I'll try to like, just like smack it down, down to the ground and see if I can like, dive on it with grenade. So I'll

make this a smack it with a rapier. Cool. so you give me a slide of hand check to do this definitely So not an attack roll Give me the attack roll and then give me a slide of hand check my attack roll I roll Sorry, is that a d20s that we're looking for yeah, yeah And what do I add to that? We're rapier I should say like to plus to hit So I rolled an eight plus five, so 13. Oh, it actually skitters out of the way from that attack.

It's pretty small. So with that, we will cut over, unless you have a bonus, actually, you wanna do it. Um, let me see if I have anything useful I can do. I do have like a sort of last ditch plan But I I don't think I don't think I don't think I'm desperate right now. So I'll just I'll wait till nice turn that's fine Okay, cool then Astrid it's it's now your turn You got a lower perception check for everyone so you didn't necessarily see any the higher perception check the like the the more obscure Drones you would find so what you see is like basically right outside the hotel are

10 people beating the shit out of each other trying to grab That's my drone I go into a rage and I dive right into the scrum. Okay, great. So make a Opposed strength check do you have advantage on I do on when I'm when I'm raging I brought into this grum. Okay, great. So make a post-strength check. Do you have a advantage on something? I do when I'm raging. Cool. Just a flat-strength check. You can do athletics if you want.

Okay, great. Athletics, it is 22. Great. So this mass of adult men are fine. And you're able to, you just like kind of step on a man's face and just reach down into them and pull it out up top. I grind my heel into his face a little bit. Just.

Oh, fuck. That, uh, uh, roll damage on the man. Nine damage. Okay, so the man fully goes unconscious. I kick him away. Is what? He's like just like on the ground like so hurt. So we're gonna go back to the top of the order to,

oh actually, now it's the people's turn. So, Shavon, you're going to have to make nine opposed strength checks. I'm so old with advantage though, right? Cause I'm still rating. Yeah, all right, first one. And they're probably commoners too. It's a two.

Yeah, 15. Okay, 13. Okay. 13. 12. Okay, one guy snatches it from you, but someone's gonna try to snatch it from him, and, uh, they don't. Another person's gonna try to snatch it from him. And they...

Snatch a glass over his head. They don't. No, the person's gonna try to snatch it from him. They don't. This one guy who snatchatched it from me is doing pretty good. Oh, and finally, a last guy grabs it from him. So it's changing hands all over the place. Okay. And another commoner is going to make a insight check

or a perception check. Ooh, Brenda lives with, can you make a deception check? Yeah. Okay, I rolled another 19, it's a minus one, but it's an 18 now. That's a tie, what do we do? Do we do a roll off? I think there's like, you know, a tie usually, there's like a standard rule that's like

either the player or the NBC wins in a tie, but this is just from based on my own actually research. I don't remember what like the standard rule is, but this is just from based on my own actually research. I don't remember what the standard rule is, but there is like in case of tie. I think it defaults to player usually, but I'm not sure. Yeah, okay, in that case, he looks at you and he's like, he's pretty wary of you. And then he's like,

He's just about the grandparents. You're that's who you are, that's who you are. That's who I am. Okay. And then he runs off. Turbine, you hear the footsteps of people running down this river path. They're coming closer so they might be in your way soon. But that is now we're going back up to Brind Elizabeth. It's your turn.

Okay. You see the day is in front of you that has the sign in she. This is by dream is that I turn to this animal that I've cast edible for a chipod and I mount them and we gallop towards the dais. So fucking sick. Essentially taking the route that has the most things for us to leap over And I take my ink onto its mane My skinny skinny long butt length hair whipping in the wind your hair makes just sort of it almost looks like this horse is two tails

in unison back and forth I Want to look like a nightmare of like a romance novel cover. It's you against the chest of a horse. And while I do that just in case, because it's so fun to use new abilities, because presumably, I'll be able to use the animal's action to get to the day is oh yeah, and that's the case then yeah I'll say that like for our purposes you're you can get there in one turn if you do that Okay, so I use this great Palomino Pony. I whisper to it. What is your day magic beast? Can it talk? No. Actually, I can communicate telepathy.

I just realized that. Oh my god. I get into the mind of this podium. I say, what is your name so that I may call you what you wish? Oh, the ballamino looks confused for a second as it feels the tendrils of your psychic powers Reaching into its brain. Can we say the tendrils of my psychic powers look like my skinny thin hair? Your little tassels together like It's like well, hopefully it's not exactly like avatar

What may I call you so that went the bard sig of this they know what to call you? It's like, well, hopefully it's not exactly like Avatar. What may I call you so that went the bard's sig of this, they know what to call you? Garfass. Garfass, take me to the dais so that I may get a job interview. I shall make haste and it sprints, it is like leaps beautifully over a defense. It's something to behold, but yeah, it gets all the way there. And as much as I'd love to spend my action beholding it, I'm going to use my starry form dragon.

Holy shit. So I get like a dragon, which basically it gives me, it just gives me a boost thing, but it takes an action to activate. Okay. No, it's when you make an intelligence or a wisdom check or a con saving throw to maintain concentration on a spell, you can treat a roll of nine or lower on the D20 S10. I just don't know if there's going to be any intelligence or wisdom checks coming up

and I figure why not use this action to do that. Well, as you are writing this horse, you transform. What does this look like exactly? The starry dragon. I think that it looks like a kid who's dressed as a dragon for Halloween. So still humanoid. The starry dragon costume appears around you. It has a hole cut out of the neck for your head. And the head is bouncing around like a thought. I have like Lisa Frank sparkles and stuff. Yeah, like you have like a glittering rainbow chasing behind you.

Like it's there's magic in this town for sure, but not that much. And so like you see like a farmer sees like, oh fuck, and like just like dive out of the way. Like it has no idea what he's saying. As Galfa's leaps over there. Yeah, out of my way, puny farmer. Yeah, you just...

So yeah, you make it all the way to the dais. I deposit my feather on the dais. Yeah, well, it's like a quills. Oh. Gaston object interaction, can I write my name? For sure. So you write your name. I write about Brenda Elizabeth in parentheses.

Brenda Elizabeth for short. So Brenda Elizabeth in parentheses, Brenda Elizabeth appears in just this like beautifully glittering writing that shines with silver and then gold and then different colors. As it imprints on the sheet, the quill evaporates in your hand. I could have used that in my trap. We're going to cut over to turbine. You are in the doorway of the peanut slomit. The drone is kind of darting around in the air and it's starting to go outside. Oh, I'm sorry, actually skip the drone's turn. The drone does walk kind of like float outside

and just kind of sits there. You don't know exactly what it did, but it's just kind of sitting in the same spot outside the door. Can I try to just dive on top of it? For sure. I think you will also have to make a similar check as you did last time. So just an attack roll, I think.

Can I specify the horse's name is Galfast? Yeah, G-A-L-F-A-S. Great, that's what I just wrote down. OK. That's the name of the hobbit in Bloodkeep. Oh, really? Or Galfast. It was Galfast Handhead.

What is one of the... Oh, shit. Oh, well. This is Gal fast without a team. So it's different. All right, I'm rolling in. Can you tell I didn't have a name for the horse? All right, that is 14 plus 5, so 19.

You tackle the shit out of the stride. It falls to the ground. It just skids across the ground. It's like you're it's pretty small but you know you're not the biggest guy in the world so it's like I don't know tackling like like one of those life-sized Barbie. How big is this thing? Like how big it like it's really light. Alright so do I have like can I like rip the quill out of it? I'll just say like since you tackle that you can rip it from a tag. Yeah, it's like these little twig arms So you rip it from its hands and it's like kind of like

Slapping at you, but nothing's really happening And you see the commoners coming in behind you They they see that you have a quill and you saw movement left if you want to just like just start booking it towards the towards the table Absolutely, so you take off towards the table that people are chasing after you. Astrid, you are in this scrum still. They're people are just beating the shit out of each other trying to snatch this thing. You see the guy next to you who has it, didn't have it moments ago, and the guy before that is the one who took it from you.

It's just chaos here. Are they all smaller races? They're all dwarves and... Yeah, dwarves, it's a combination of dwarves, noves and halflings, yeah. Cool. I mean, I'm just gonna try and grab it again. Okay, cool.

I'm not rolling very well today. 14. Roll the today. 14. Roll the 13. Yes. So yeah, you snatch it from this dude's hand. You have a feeling they're all going to try to snatch it from the same. Yeah, can I just intimidate them? Yeah, make an intimidation.

Great. Oh, God, a nine. They rolled a seven. Yes. So you're raging and you have, you are path of the, what kind of, uh, Oh God, and nine. They rolled a seven. Yes! So you're raging and you are path of the, what kind of barbarian are you? Is it ancestral guardian? Yes, ancestral guardian.

So you have these terrifying, ethereal spirits around you that are not humanoid in a way that you can necessarily fully recognize, but there's just a bunch of fucking ghosts flying around you. What do you say is you intimidate them. I say this is mine. Don't you know who I am? I deserve this and you don't.

They all look up and they, like, your hair like billows with like fucking like dragon balls, you know, as you say this, and they're all fully intimidated. And they like scurry off to try to find another one. Get out of here. Yeah, so you can take off for the day. You take off, I pocket it, I put it, I don't wanna draw that much,

I'm not that arrogant, but I wanna put that much attention to myself. Cool, we're back around to Rinda Elizabeth. You're already on the system. You can do something else if you want. I mean, well, first off, I should tell you I looked at my ghostwise half-leg silent speech. You can only speak telepathically to a creature that you share a language with. So I'm just letting you know that right now. I won't try that again in the future, but I won't let you undo the fact that I did. It's hard. I will say that with the combination of animal friendship, it bypassed that in some way.

Thank you. Let me see. Is there anything else I want to do? Make a perception check if you want. Yeah. Okay. So you want me to make a perception check? As I dress as a dragon holding a stuffed horse, uh, sort of survey

confidently on my Palomino. Okay. That was a four, but then it becomes a 10. Uh, so 16. Okay. With a 16, you look in the distance, you see a little gnome screeching as he's running. Ooh, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to get off Galfast, point at turbine and send Galfast to turbine. So Galfast looks at you in knots. Like, you guys can continue talking. Okay, cool. Brave Beast, my new friend who loves my cabbage soup wires you. Say no more.

I need, I just kind of like shakes his mane and sprints off down the hill. Just dicks a dwarf out of the way. Let me see if there's a stupid spell I want to do. You know what? I'm going to also create bonfire. Just to like really show off that I already I'm done. People yeah you create a bonfire and the people at town are like someone's already found what like a grandparent girl really? What is she wearing? Where did you get that spirit of the dragon beats in my beats in my heart? Okay, they all just keep running around. Turbine, you

see this horse galloping towards you as this angry mob starts chasing you What do you mean I reach like the horse and I are running at each other can I reach the horse? Yeah, I'm gonna what I'm gonna do I Will be really stupid here I'm going to be like run towards the horse and try to try to mount it and like ride the horse the rest of the way to the table. But like as I'm running towards the horse, I want to take out that banana I picked up earlier and throw the peel behind me.

I'm like, oh my God. Mario Kart. Oh my God. I'm trying to stop you from something in the crowd. Yeah, there's like eight people chasing you. I'm like, it's the one down. You know, like it'll take the, you're just gonna bike wipe out

with the two or the France. Like one gonna bike wipe out with the tour to France. Like one wall is it ever, and just like, yeah, at least. So you throw a banana peel yet, they haven't got to you yet. So that's just in the track and, and then I'm booking it towards the horse to try to. Okay, so you can get to the horse's turn, I'll say. Make athletics or acrobatics check to hop on the horse. Do acrobatics, that's a the horse. Do acrobatics.

That's a little better for me. 12. Okay, cool. You're so small. You jump up and the horse just bites you in the head and just puts you in his mouth. It just turns around and starts galloping back towards the day.

It's steady, galfast steady. Turns around and starts galloping back towards the Davis steady Galfast study so after your turn is Astrid Astrid you are running from this crowd that that was Intimidated by you. You see this beautiful horse that y'all were looking at earlier Galloping towards Towards the dance with a little nominets mouth just like biting his hand towards the dance with a little gnome and it's mouth just like biting his hand. I feel my limited edition hat. Astrid it's your turn. You've successfully intimidated this crowd. It seems like they've run off to join the crowd chasing after the tournament.

You're in the clear. Oh, we've got Cal fast. Yeah, yeah, I mean, he's like ahead of you in the clear. Oh, we've got CalFast. Yeah, yeah, I mean, he's like ahead of you in any way. So yeah, you can make a stealth check if you want to hide the quill and keep going. Sure. I'll do a stealth check. It's a nine.

With a nine, you're trying to be quiet as you can, but there are swirling spirits around you. People notice you but they're gonna start taking off after you on their turn. Okay also funny to have the richest girl in town who always says don't you know who I am try to be stealthy. Everybody stop remembering who I am. I know who I am. You don't know who I am. I know who you are. You don't. You don't know anything idiot, imbecile. At this point, Galfast will just go on Breno Elizabeth's turn. Unless he would do something else, Emily, I think he's just going to take off towards the day.

Actually, Breno Elizabeth is incredibly spiteful. Galfast deposit him in the river. I will be the only. Yes, joggy dog world out there. She gets a little bit of power and she can just go as mad. I think yeah, Galfast goes on my turn and brings turbine as far as they can. Cool. So Galfast does that turbine.

It's now your turn and you're at the day. I'd sign my name. Cool. Your, your name, glitter's turbine, spizzle sink. Bear your behind. These beautiful swirling colors and lights. Just be really careful, turbine, because the quill disappears, but I think it might be a really valuable pull. It's a collector's item. Shit. Fuck. yours disappeared too. Disappears in the wind. I immediately start looking for another quill.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a couple more drones. I see a sapper on your drone. Not. You're running like five minutes away. After that is Astrid's turn, it's back around here. Great, I go for the day is. Cool. Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to roll for the commoners.

The commoners are going to just, let's see if any of them, they're chasing after a turbine. Let's see, what should I roll for the fan of the old? I think they should all adapt. Yeah, check. Dex check. Dex saving? Yeah.

I think that everyone who does it, yeah. Or the entire group full of the slips on it. All right, let's say the check was for a DC 10. Okay, fuck, everyone's gotten over a 10 except for. Okay, because it's funny, I'll say that the first five people are like, oh, I'm gonna peel them like, let me go over it. And then number six through eight are like, what are you doing? And then the first guy slips in his head, the back of his head, nails the dude's head behind him. And then you fucking trips and the other guy flies over them and breaks

his teeth on the ground. Herbide, you are an inspiring warrior. Thank you very much. So three of those guys are out of commission. Five dudes are... Well, I think the guys who are intimidated by you won't come out after you, Astrid. But I think the other dude who noticed you when you were trying to make a stealth check

is coming after you. So just make a post-strength check because he's going to try to grab it from you. 25. Okay, so this little man comes up to you and tries to grab your drone and you just stiff arm him in the face and he just...

Right in the neck. Bins back. Elbow to the neck. Look, oh, it just hits the ground super hard. And you can make it up to the day assistant? Yes, thank you. I can't believe you signed it before me, and I signed nothing.

Squeeze it in of the top of the page. It's a bit weird. Absolutely. I left a spot for your asteroid. Thank you. And then like part that says like the day by the top, like the little like header section, Astrid Starborn appears.

I put it writing. And little star above the eye in Astrid. That appears, that you get it just in time before the 12 disappears. I'd love to, I'd Astrid, I'd love to have a doodle date if you're into doodling. I don't, I can show you all the stars and hearts and S's I draw.

I don't know what a doodle date is. You don't know what a doodle date is. Well, let me tell you, I take out my concertina. It doesn't. As you explain the doodle date. You don't know what a doodle date is Well, let me tell you I take out my concertina As you explain the doodle date the rest of the town finishes up the hunt for the drones You look after you Some familiar faces sign their name the the man who was working the the axe throwing the booth writes his name down That's good because your asterisk put you out of a job He, man who was working the axlering booth, writes his name down. That's good because your asteroid put you out of a job.

Yeah, she really, like, I don't understand. I've never seen a child throw an ax at heart. Raider, Bink and Bunk, come up with a different quilt. A human tourist comes up who was like, just kind of just like, gangly man comes up writes his name and yeah just other towns folk right right their names and all 12 spots are filled okay looks like we have our 12 interviewees well thank you to everyone who participated it's very obviously competitive to get a spot here. You're all winners in my book.

But these 12 please why don't you come aboard and you see the gate appear in the side of the obelisk what was once a flush wall has a beam of light kind of reveal that's doorway as it lowers down and there you see him Barnabas Glintin once again, I squeal so loud There's just the birds run away the sheep dog is just running in circles Turbine you look up and you see this elf with a Top hat that doesn't look dissimilar from your obelisk hat. He's got sort of a mismatched suit on.

He looks almost a little like inspector gadgety. Like there's like his hands look a little metallic in nature. He's got like dark black hair and a little spectacles on the bridge of his nose. He stands there and he looks at you 12 and he says, okay, now everyone time to come aboard. It shouldn't take super long. Oh, thank you for being considerate of our time. Yeah, I mean, it's just so that I guess I

I'm just trying to actually I don't know. I'm realizing that I've been like two years working. Yeah, I was wondering. I lined up. I like I just keep know I'm realizing that I've been like two years working. Yeah, I was wondering. I was lined up. I like I just keep taking like one step forward to be just like a step in front of like the rest of the line. I step in front of you every single time. I just keep stepping in front. So we're just like all 12 of you start stepping in front of.

I get on gal fast. I saw it. Okay. Well, dancing up. As everyone starts walking into the obelisk, Brindelis with on Galfast, that's where the episode ends. Woo! Oh, wow.

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