Tales from the Stinky Dragon - C03 - Ep. 13 - Mission Through Middrus - Weekend at Baronie’s

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

Brutaliteam deals with the consequences from their run in with the Baron and learns more about the Chaste Chain. Support us directly on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/stinkydragon - get access to ad-free episodes, bonus content like Stinky Dragon Adventures & Second Wind, our patreon-exclusive discord, and more! Follow us on our socials at https://linktr.ee/TalesFromTheStinkyDragon Cast: Gus Sorola, Blaine Gibson, Barbara Dunkelman, Jon Risinger, Chris Demarais Writer/Editor/Composer: Micah Risinger Producer: Benjamin Ernst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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the Baron was berating Bee Team's very own private parts. They danced with the axe-wheeling devil and saved the soldier from certain suffering. Now the Baron is bound and B-Team is begging a question. Grab a Guzzler and let's get back to this gassy goss. Hello everyone, welcome to Tales of the Stinky Dragon. I'm your Dungeon Master, Gustavo Cirola, and I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow. Wee! Excellent, excellent.

I'm allowed this time. I had a lot of coffee. You can't stop me. Open my mouth. Eee! Oh. Like Ace Ventura. This week's arrow question.

This week's arrow question. When he gets shot and he just grabs. Yeah, great bit. What a year for Jim Carrey. The mask, Dumb and Dumber, and Ace Ventura, all the same year. Like, what a launch to a career. Anyway. And also, a liar liar, I think,

was the year after that too, right? Was it? I think so, I think it was 94. Wow. Good stuff. I thought it was 96. But maybe I'm wrong. No, it was 97.

Save me for stinky pop. Oh, 97, you're right. Sorry. This week's arrow question is, what household chore does your character try to avoid? And that was sent by crazymage524. I need dice. Roll them if you got them, boys.

Are we doing a D20, correct? Yeah. Okay. Five. 11. 19. 14. You know, 5'11 is as tall as I am. Is it really? 11. 19. 14. You know, five 11 is as tall as I am.

Is it really? No, it's not. I'm like five nine on a good day. I'm 11, 19. That's very tall. Looks like Natty's up first with a 19, then Gunther with a 14, Doug with an 11 and Tove with a five. Okay. All right. Howdy y'all. My name is John Reisinger and I play Natty Wonder, the Drow Warlock pausing for a burp.

You got a burp like Natty. What's she burp like? I don't know, cause I didn't get the burp out. Smaller arrow. That's not this week's arrow question. I can't answer that. Sorry, I'm sorry, forgive me. That should be one week.

I was always jealous, this is a weird thing to be jealous of. I was always jealous of people who could burp on command. And I think Barbie, you're one of those people. There you go. Oh my God. You're welcome listeners. Oh, stop. As like a young boy that was always like, that'd be so cool to be able to do this. Anybody who could do it. Like, but they're always small. They're never very impressive. Okay. I got it out. All right. What's it? What is a household chore that I try to avoid? Was that the question, Mr. Gustavo?

What household chore does your character try to avoid? So, this might come as a surprise to everybody, or maybe it's not a surprise at all, but I actually found that I don't avoid any household chores. And the reason why was that I found that the activity of a household chore, whether it be like vacuuming or doing the dishes or folding them clothes, it brings a little spark of joy in my brain when I complete them. And so I actually found them as a source of like,

it's like therapy. You go around your house and you accomplish a little something and your house feels a little bit better and you feel a little bit better. And so that just became incentive for doing it. Now, I have a question for you. Yes, Doug, if I were to walk into your house, would your couches be covered in plastic? Yes, but that's mostly because Gigi kept having messes on.

I just picture your house like like my grandmother's house. That's like the plastic furniture. But everything is like very pristine, but like a little vintage. Yeah. We have a special dining room that no one uses except for special occasions. And we have plates that sit in a little armoire

that are only come out for, you know, like fantasy Pope. I also said that in Doug's voice as if it was Doug's grandmother. I'm talking me, Barbara's grandmother. That's Doug's grandmother. That's Doug's grandmother. That's Doug's grandmother. It's kind of an entire house I wasn't allowed into from my aunt. I'm not even kidding.

We were only allowed in like the the what do you call it? Like when you you turn your garage into like a little like house. Oh, converted. Yeah, I was only allowed that there was an entire house. And this was like a mansion. Don't feel bad because you're not allowed in my house either. Oh, man. You know, I know it's true. There was an entire house and this was like a mansion. Don't feel bad. Cause you're not allowed in my house either. Oh man. You know, I know it's true.

When, when are you going to let Chris know, Gus, that you've actually been inviting all of us over all the time, except for Chris. Don't do that. I'm so sad. It's your dinner yesterday, Gus. Yeah. I had a great time at your dinner party that you had.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Our weekly dinner party at Gus's house. Yeah. We had a great time at your dinner party that you had. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was really fun. Our weekly dinner party at Gus's house. Yeah, we brought the plates out of the armoire. I actually have been to Gus's house by myself before. Like without Gus? No, that's where I was there. Did you call the police, Gus?

The three of us. Okay, Gus is making a face of like, I do not recall or know what you're talking about. I have no idea. It was like, it was probably 12 years ago, but it happened. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. No recollection, but I'll take it. Oh, yeah. We filmed something there. No, this was like, oh, non-work related. Really? Okay. This doesn't sound sketchy that Chris is sharing this and Gus doesn't recall it at all.

It was after a party. Oh, after a party. Okay, that makes sense. Okay. Well, that's my answer. I like doing chores. I like them. All right.

Thank you, Natty. I appreciate you sharing. Next up was Gunther. Hello, Gunther. Hi, I'm Gunther, the male Crow Folk fighter. Mm, mm, true, uh, true. I do, I do, I do, I do. What?

Sorry, that was, that was, what's his name? Alder Gruber. That was Gruber. Yeah. It was. Sorry, that was, that was, what's his name? Al Jgruber. That was Gruber. It was. No, I think it is not a, it is to have one that is to not hold their house. It fills one with shame because from my home where the winds blow so hard and you must hold it so that there's nothing to topple you. Those who do not help hold the house, they are, it is, we bring so much shame.

What is your house made out of? It is, it is, it is in the desert, so the winds that they blow and so you must, you must hold things down so that, you know, brace against them so that the wind does not blow them off. Yes. Gunther, I have a question for you. Did you just read from the Bible? What was that? Do you have a carbon monoxide detector in your home? No, I do not. He sounds like a beta version of chat GPT. So, okay, let me rewind a little bit here, Gunther.

I'm gonna have to see if we can connect. So the question was, what household chore does your character try to avoid? And your answer is not holding down the house because of the wind? No, I do not try to avoid it. It is something I'm telling you, it is a chore that everyone must help with

because when the wind, when in a windstorm, if you're not protecting the things that you need in your house, then yes, then it will blow. So you cannot avoid that one? No, no. The household chore I do not like is to, um, oh, when the tadpoles and their tails begin to fall, I do not like cleaning them.

Wait. Okay. He doesn't like cleaning the tadpole tails. Yeah. So that's something new to me about them frog-like creatures. I thought they, I didn't know they fell off like a lizard. The nubs do. Eventually they slowly become smaller and then they become a little nub

and then they kind of... they come off in pieces. It's not nice, gross. Oh my God. Because then also you must gather them and they're cooked into the pot. Makes sense. They do lose their tails. I just looked it up. No, Gunther just told us.

You don't have to look it up. I know, Gunther knows the most about his species. Now be clear, would you not eat the tadpole tails? That's not something I do. I don't think anyone was. I figure if you did, it'd be like when you eat the placenta, that kind of thing. Yes. I don't know what that is.

Doug, that's the thing. Sorry, Doug. I saw your face when I said that's a thing. Humans are weird. I know, Doug, you have said you have no intention of ever having babies. So I'm teaching you about that kind of stuff. Wait, the tadpoles reabsorb their tails. Yeah, that's what I, that's my understanding. Yes. Yes. Yes. See, they primarily absorb it,

but after a certain point, because of the dry air, it becomes withered and then they must come off. So Blaine, you're thinking of frogs. Gunther's talking about croak folk. Yeah, I'm learning about croak folk here. Right. So you said Gunther that you would not eat them, but didn't you say earlier you put them in a pot?

Yes. Or is that just like for disposal? No, no, they are to be eaten. Oh, but you don't eat them. No, yes. You see, they, they are to be eaten. Oh, but not for me. But you don't eat them? No, yes. You see, they be eaten primarily for the animals. Oh. The animals.

I will say this, my best mate Bun Lap, he is so funny. He ate his own tail once and I was like, do not do it Bun Lap, that is gross. Bun Lap, that's a cool name. Yes, and he did it. And I said, don't do it. And he did it. Oh,, that is gross. Bun lap, that's a cool name. Yes, and he did it. And I said, no, do it. And he did it. Oh, what a cut up.

So either of you begin to eat your tail. I may lap, but I shall not join in. Maddie might be the only one with a tail. And we're still trying to figure, we still do not know where this tail came from. Maddie, the people want to know. I will not eat it. I will not, no matter how much the air dries it out.

I have a theory that if we were to get Gunther inebriated enough, I think we'd go full reverse and we'd get clear sentences. I think it'd be an opposite effect. Like he would just go up high register and talk a little bit like me. Do you think he'd get maybe like a British accent or something like?

Like, choose my deal. I had this friend, his name was Stefan Urkel. And yeah, he was like that. It was Steven Urkel's alternate character when he went into his machine. So good. Yeah. Thanks, Gunther. That was a journey to get there, but we did.

And I feel like I'm all the richer as a person for having experienced that journey with you. Next up in the booth, we have Doug. Doug, have a seat. I just had a weird realization. Do you think a lot of our audience even knows who Stephen Urkel is? Probably not.

Yeah, we have a lot of old... Not old. I mean, old, because I'm old. Hey, I'm old, guys, so I can call you old. We have a lot of people my age in our group. Leave a comment if you don't know who Stephen Urkel is. Yeah. The Venn diagram of knowing Urkel and knowing his alter egos is pretty small of a...

Yeah. Only 6.1% of our audience is 45 or older. Well, I'm not 45. I think millennials know. In that range. Okay. So 35 and older, what are we looking at? About 22%.

Or like 30 and older. Yeah. That's a quarter. That's a quarter of our people. There you go. They listen to us to be cultured, okay? They walk away with more knowledge about things they did not know. Me and my mom used to sit down and watch TGIF every week.

Dude, that was so good. I love TGIF. Yeah. Well, hello everyone. I'm Doug, played by Barbara Dunkleman. I'm an artificial bugbear level three, subclass battlesmith. And you know, Doug actually, you might not suspect this looking at Doug, but Doug actually just like Nanny keeps a tidy

home. I believe it. He values his possessions, he keeps everything neat and you know he likes meticulous activities and all that stuff. The one thing Doug tries to avoid but can't because it would be detrimental if he avoided this one. Detrimental. Doug doesn't like cleaning the toilet. Oh, but a little maybe TMI for the group, but Doug can destroy a toilet. It's like flushing birthday cakes in there. What are you doing? I do know, not from personal experience from a friend, that if you do have a hairy derriere,

it does cause complications in the turlet. Can we not talk about that? Sorry. This is gross. We're called stinky dragons. You just talked about a shriveled piece of body coming off of a person and them eating it. The frog tail, not butt hair and, and, uh, jingled berries. Anyways.

On what they are. Gus is losing it. I love it. Gus fashioned himself a, uh, bidet actually for his home. So he actually, uh, created one for his specific toilet. So he gets nice and clean. You create water. Exactly. But, uh, but the toilet itself, there's no bidet for his specific toilet. So he gets nice and clean. You create water. Exactly. But the toilet itself, there's no bidet for the toilet itself. So you got to clean that. I see.

Yeah, that's probably, I bet that's a lot of people's least favorite activity, if I had to guess. I bet you it's a really good use of the create water spell. Oh. I don't have that. Gunther, what do you think about using water for that purpose? It is at least. Hmm. What do you think about using water for that purpose? It is a waste Mm-hmm. I thought you might water water is a very precious material and for you to be

To be using it only for those things that you do not need Put your do do's away you bury them in the sand like ever a normal person And then you drag your butt through the sand. And like a normal, like a normal human. Human. It's like, oh my gosh, that's like, you know, when you go to the beach and you just got sand everywhere, but worse. All right, Doug, thank you for sharing.

I really appreciate it. Get out of here, because it's Toll's turn to get in here. OK, bye, thank you for sharing. I really appreciate it. Get out of here, because it's Tollev's turn to get in here. Okay, bye, thank you. Yeah, you it's me Tollev, and I am played by some guy named Blaine, and I am a male orca barbarian. I'm a little flustered at this question, Gus, or sorry, Vustago.

Mr. Master. I have not forgotten. Vustago. You know, no one tells you when you get a beard how hard it is to maintain the beard and how much hair goes everywhere. So like in this sink, in this shower, you know, just all over the place, beard hairs everywhere and my long, beautiful curly locks.

So that's very frustrating. And I think that that is the chore that I hate the most. Yeah. I have a question. Tolv recognizes Gunther. So for a household chore, but do you not live on a ship? Now, are those not meant to blow? So why would you try and hold it?

No, I grew the beard. I acquired the beard after I moved from the ship. They were very, very strict about appearances on the ship. You know, ironclad. So anywho. Y'all know how pirates are all about a manicured look. Listen, you have not met ironclad. You do not meet ironclad.

Hey, I love meeting new people. Well, no, you do not want to meet these people. I'm sure he ain't that bad. Oh, you just went to my very tragic backstory. Okay, Nati. Toll, if you'll allow me to break the fourth wall for a moment here. Yeah, go ahead.

Toll does all the time. That's actually a great setup and segue for any of our listeners. If you head over to stinkydragonpod.com and you can sign up for the free level of our Patreon. The other day I uploaded a behind the scenes look at how we recorded episode four and what the players here. So I uploaded my rendition of the Jarl Ironclad

voice on our Patreon. So it's available for everyone, even if you're just a free member. So head over to stinkydragonpod.com if you're curious to hear what the players here when we recorded because the final version is obviously very polished with music and sound effects and actual good voice actors. Hey, if you want to hear something crappy, StingyDragonPod.com. That's where all the crappies are. Was that it? Was that your plug?

Talking about Ironclad so willy-nilly, so happy-go-happy, he's very mean. I also, I need to point out, this is a very specific reference, so people would have had to see both. So the voice you did for Jarl Ironclad is very similar, in my opinion, to the voice you tried to do as Elga in our Narrative Telephone episode with Critical Role. Oh, that's funny, yeah. It has a little bit of a similar cadence, and I was just like, general, like, European something.

Who knows? It's just garbage. Who knows? For our pro stinky listeners, it's also the German dad from stinky dragon adventures. Oh yeah. Kill it. Kill it.

Kill it. Kill it. Kill it. Superman. Gus is a professional voice actor. It speaks. No. It speaks.

Yeah, you are. You have been published and paid for, paid to do that for games and movies Gus you were in Halo 3 bro. I was in Halo 3 And also the longest running web series of all time. Yeah. Okay, so cleaning up after trimming your beard got it Thanks, hold. Yeah, mostly like losing hair. It's the shedding that gets me. Yeah Strands I do not have hair. Yeah, I know. Do you ever get, well, that's a separate hour question. Yes. Okay. You met our friend named Hairless Hutch. You two might get along great. All right, let's dive into it.

All right. Yeah, you managed to incapacitate the Baron and you tire up and restrain her. And so I know your aim is to kind of interrogate here. So what's the first question y'all want to ask the Baron? Why are we fighting each other? The Baron looks at Gunther, opens her mouth and says, For power. No. Okay, I have a more direct question.

What or who or where is the Pathfinder you keep asking about? We ain't got no idea what you're talking about. Yeah, what's the miles per gallon on the Pathfinder? What's a brand of car? Is that a Nissan? Yeah. Nissan's a cool name. Nissan is a cool name.

A very mid car. Everyone listening who has a Nissan going, cool name. Nissan is a cool name. A very mid-car though. Everyone listening who has a Nissan going, Hey! Every Nissan I've had I liked. Nissan and Honda are gonna merge. I just wish that they would fix the look of their trucks. Their trucks look so...

Oh, I never bought a truck. What do you know of the Honda Accord? Hahaha! In fairness seeks the Pathfinder. so I seek the Pathfinder. Do you work for Inferness? Y'all in cahoots? I'm Undarian. That's a non-answer. No that's an answer to me. Of course. There you go. Was that so hard to just answer directly? So Inferness seeks the Pathfinder but we don't know what it is, so. So you claim.

Yes. Do you want to test if I'm telling you to? Let's play a little role playing. Let's imagine that none of us know what the Pathfinder is. In the event that that's true, what would you say in order to explain to us what, who, or where is the pathfinder? We will help you look for it,

but we don't know what to look for. We're not making promises like that Gunther. This is not necessarily we're joining up with them. I'm just seeking information. No, maybe we are Wink Wink. I like the idea that 12 says Wink Wink. That's a Swedish Wink Wink. I cannot actually Wink on command.

I must say it in order for it to happen. Maybe cough next time. Cough, cough? Okay, don't worry about them, Baron. Just answer my question. So your question is, what is the Pathfinder? Yeah, I was saying, let's play in a world where we don't know what it is.

Yeah, totally imaginary world. Vink, Vink. I'm sorry, I can't help it. A demigod. Oh, okay. And at this point, private parts, I guess, would be like tapping on Gunther's shoulder and whispering into his ear.

Yes. What? The demigod of directions. Oh. Everyone make a perception check. Can I also request another check to see if I know of this Demi-God? Yeah. Make me a religion check as well then for Natty.

Okay, I'm gonna do perception first and then religion. Seven. Twenty-one for perception for Doug. Twenty for... Can I do that too? Can I do a religion check? Is that cheat? Is that copying?

Sure. You can do both. You look at your own test. You gotta give me a perception check first though. I did. Okay check? Is that cheat? Is that copying? You can do both. You look at your own test. You gotta give me a perception check first. I did. Okay. Where'd it go? You got an eight.

Yeah. Seven for perception, that's a hard sentence. Seven for perception, 18 for religion. End of sentence. So Doug and Toll, you both hear like footsteps and sounds approaching the southern door. And then like a split second later that door opens. But I'll deal with that in a second.

I gotta deal with these religion checks first. Didn't even get to ask a question. Gosh. Gunther with a seven. You're not entirely certain, but you're kind of like... I would think you'd like look at private parts a little bit quizzically. But however, Natty, you had like an 18, was that it? Yes, I'm very religious. Do you think you remember the pathfinder is the demigod of directions?

I guess you wouldn't have heard private parts say that, but you know that, independent of private parts saying it. Obviously. And you know, as such, as being the demigod of directions, it can be very difficult to find the pathfinder, because the pathfinder kind of controls directions, right? So it's hard to find and the Pathfinder knows how to find hidden things. Does it come with GPS? Oh, sorry. It's the god of GPS. If I might ask a question about my check, Mr. DM, would I know,

because it seemed, I think when we, when we talked to the, the, who was that, that SOB in the pile of silver, the wind trader, when the wind trader, he was associated with Tove's God, the water gentleman. Water gobbler, yeah. The water gobbler. Is the, is the god of directions associated with the, with the specific god of the pantheon? Just out of curiosity. Are you asking if they're related to each other?

Usually demigods are, were sired by someone who's another god. You can't be a demigod unless there's a god above you somewhere. I see. So do they share the same lineage? Lineage. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

I would say you don't think so. Can I team huddle real quick? Yeah. Well, the doors open. Yeah, I got to deal with the door in a second. The Pathfinder, you know, is associated with the Veiled Eye and not the same as what you encountered before But the Veiled Eye is one of our gods. That's what the answer is. Yes. Okay. I'll ask this later I'll let you all do what you want to do

I got sorry to interrupt your team huddle dog But that door does open and you see an orc and a gnome walk in the orc is holding a rum bottle and the gnome is holding a whip of some kind and they seem to be arguing with each other when they stop and turn and look at you two at you four we recognize them um no you did not you awkward moment perhaps the work kind of like tries to hide the rum bottle a little bit behind her and Hello, you've caught us in an awkward moment perhaps? The orc kind of like tries to hide the rum bottle a little bit behind her and says,

Oh, what's going on in here? I should ask you the same question. Are you drinking on the job? Wink, wink, wink, wink, wink. Stop saying it. Stop saying it. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm very nervous.

Just follow my lead. I am. I for one like to hear the winks cause if I don't see Toll's sorry, I'm sorry, I'm very nervous about this. Just follow my lead. I am! I for one like to hear the winks, cause if I don't see Toll's face, I want to know he's winking, you know? It's easier to pick up on the cues when you get multiple sensory inputs. That's right, thumbs up! When we are trying to be sneaky, it is good to stay allowed. What he said.

Well, it's five o'clock somewhere. Oh, is that so? Well, it's five o'clock somewhere. Oh, is that so? Well, does the boss know about that? You know, it's funny you should say that. We were just talking about that. You see, I think I'm the boss, but Murfin claims she is the boss. Which one do you think is the boss?

Oh, Murfin is a pretty hard worker. See, Murfin, worker. You work, I'm the boss. And Murfin turns to look at the orc and says, No, I'm in charge. I told you they left me in charge. You answer to me. Are they dressed in a certain way? The orc looks like she's kind of young with a childish face and has a badger pauldron. And the gnome is a little bit older, maybe middle-aged, and she's got scarred lips

and she's wearing a tinsel tunic and has that whip in her hand. Did you just say tinsel tunic? Yeah. As in a tunic made of tinsel? Yeah, tinsel tunic. Why don't you understand about that? Yeah, duh.

You haven't seen a tinsel tunic before? Are they like a, like a, like are they gonna dance to Charleston? What is this, this tunic? Do you ask her? I'd, I'd love your tunic. I would love to know where you got such a flashy piece of fashion. Well, that's an interesting story. You see, when I was younger, I wanted to train large cats in the circus,

but I just couldn't seem to make it work. You know, the cats were bigger than me. They wanted to eat me. They never respected me. So I wasn't able to complete that, but I liked the outfit and the whip. She kind of like flings it in the air a little bit. So here I am.

While this is going on, can Gunther make sure he's keeping an eye on the Baron? Make me a perception check. Yeah, spoiler, Baron's gone. The tinsel distracted us, it's too shiny. Just a little shimmy in it, you can't help but look that direction. Nanny, I knew you would ask about the tinsel.

You want it for yourself, don't you? Yeah, I do. I roll the date. Yeah, you turn around to look and the Baron seems to be making a break for the door to the west. Oh, can I jump to pursue or like leap to pursue or grab? Yeah. What do you want to do? You just want to like jump and try to make a grapple.

Yeah. How far away are they? She hasn't made it that far yet. We'll say she's mmm five ten feet away. Use your tongue. Use your tongue Well, that doesn't have that great of a strength I will go for a an attack. I'm For it to be non-lethal. So it'd have to be melee then. Yeah a melee attack non-lethal. Can I do that? Yeah, roll it. Hey, you're the boss. I'm just here to tell a then? Yeah, a melee attack, non-lethal. Can I do that? Yeah, roll it. Hey, you're the boss.

I'm just here to tell a story. That's a 13. Don't have that open. I think that I'm pretty sure that's a hit. Let me double check. Yeah, I think 12 was hitting last time we were in combat. Yeah, that's a hit. I would also then like to use a superiority dice,

die, to make it a trip attack. Ooh, sure. And just to like paint a picture for the audience, like what weapon or like, how are you attacking? What is that look like? So gunther turn season basically leaps forward wax basically with the back of the head with this with like the non-stabby part of his sword. And then while the Baron is like wobbly,

then Gunther's long legs swings around to make a trip with his legs. And so just, you said sword, I want to be clear. It's a rapier. So it's like, instead of poking, like you normally do with a rapier, you just like kind of hit with the, yeah, the, the dull side. Yeah. Do rapiers have much of a dull side?

Well, they have like the guard. Mine does. It's like the princess bride, you know. I think I'm like almost like toothpicks. They're like long and thin and pointy. Yeah. Roll, roll your damage, if you didn't already. That is a 10 for damage. And then for my superiority die on tripping,

when you hit with the weapon attack attack you spend one superiority die to add The total to the damage roll and if the target is larger smaller it must make a strength saving throw of DC 14 on a failure They are prone. So that's an extra 8 d8. I'm gonna roll. She is large. I'm gonna go ahead and make that strength saving throw She's got a plus 5 on it. Dang. That's a total for 17 damage. I rolled a 24 on the save. Dang. But it doesn't matter because 17 damage plops her back down unconscious on the ground. Oh wow.

Dogpile! Hold jumps on top and secures her with more rope. The orc kind of takes a sip from her rum and says, I don't know how I feel about that. I take Gigi over to the door that is the exit door and I kind of pull him with his leash and he's holding the axe still. And I say, Gigi, you watch her. You watch her.

Make a roll. I rolled an eight. I would like to think that Gigi keeps following you around wherever you go, Natty. The more violent version of that is Gigi just decapitates the Baron. Oh, I should have done that. Gigi! I was really hoping that the two NPCs were going to keep you guys distracting the Baron was going to be able to make a break out of here without you guys realizing so curse you

Chris. Way to go Gunther. Are we able to carry the Baron back to like the leather table? The leather table? Uh, you could. The Baron is large so I don't think you specifically could, Gunther, but a couple of you might be able to together. I need help.

I will help! At this point, some grilp begin walking in from that southern door as well. They've got silver ore with them, and they begin approaching the refinery to begin smelting silver. They begin operating the machinery that's in that room. Do they even look at us at all? It seems like they're focused on their task at hand. And they don't care about the Baron either?

It just seems like they're just carrying the silver ore and going up to the smeltery. Could Gunther, who's knowledgeable with smithing, go up, and he's already also has the belt like he's been smithing, go up to the melted ore, nod at the Gwelp or whatever they are and get some silver.

And then go back to the Baron and like use the metal to like pour over some metal to like smelt the handcuffs, some like crude handcuffs. What would you mold them into? So I'm imagining if the Baron's hands were like, what is the baron wearing? Tinsel dress? No. No. She's in a dress version of the tunic.

She's wearing that petrified wooden armor. Well, yeah, I think I would take the metal from the unsmelted and kind of just like, yeah, I don't know. I have that also that stick that melts metal and just try and create like some sort of metal bonds that could hold them onto the table. You can try.

You don't necessarily have like a mold to pour that metal into like to shape it. It might hurt them. Right. Do we want to hurt them? Can Tov go over to the smelter and make a semi-automatic rifle into a supercomputer?

I have faith in you, Toad. I think you could do it. I think I could do this. Yeah, you don't know until you try, right? I'm just gonna wing it to the... I mean, I have proficiency in smithing tools. Right, but do you understand what I'm saying? Like, when you wanna make something,

you have to have a mold to shape it. Like, are you just gonna pour the silver around the Baron's wrists and let it cool like that? Just cuffs of like components and pieces. They have their wood armor, so I'm just gonna like pour it over it so it all solidifies over the armor so that they're like bound together, but it's not necessarily like melting their skin. I see. molten silver and pour it over the armor portion of the baron the petrified wooden armor to try to fashion restraints make a what kind of check would that be for you that kind of efficiency do you think Chris do you

have something in mind you could roll for that slight a hand I don't know yeah let's call it slight a hand and for lack of a better thing only one yeah you managed to hold the liquid hot metal and pour it over the petrified wooden armor. And it begins sizzling a little bit and cooling down over the armor. And as it does so, the armor bursts into flames. Oopsies.

And it very quickly spreads over the rest of the wooden armor, igniting the Baron in fire. Cool. Very cool. No, it is hot. We need to put it out. Does Tolv see any buckets of water or anything to extinguish this or sand? She might be resistant to fire damage. Possibly, but they are on their last leg, like about to die.

And this could be the thing that puts them over. I wish I'd looked through my inventory before I came up with a stupid plan. But anyway, go on. Yeah, you find a small bucket of water that you think might be for quenching hot metal. OK, well, I'm going to go quench that hot fire. Put it out. Yeah. You toss the bucket of water onto the fire and extinguish it. But the Baron lies there unmoving.

Are they dead? Make a medicine check. Okay. Dr. Toll reporting for duty that's an 18 oh my god. Where did you go to medical school? Oh the classic university of Scarford. Oh yeah. Scarford. You must have learned a lot at Garverd because you can tell that the Baron is no more. Right. While on the ship, Toll was a certified rope doctor. Oh, right.

What a callback. A callback. I also thought he said Scarverd and I thought that was very funny. I did, but we're gonna just go with Garverd because, oh, it's fine. They're dead. They're dead

Who cares where you went to school at this point the orc and the gnome look at each other and say well now We really need to figure out who was in charge There they both begin arguing again about who's in charge. You don't know anything about management What are you talking about? If you were the leader you were learning about management Leader like I am What are you talking about? If you were the leader, you were learning about management. I absolutely not pre-existent. I'm so excited. It's in my book. It is me. Ignore you, Gunther.

OK, Natty grabs Doug. Hello. Well, everything that Gunther and Tolev are doing is happening. Quick, quick. Oh, no. You guys are having your adventure. I'm going to have a separate adventure. I'm gonna have a separate adventure. I'm grabbing Doug.

This is background noises. And that's fine. Oh no. I grabbed Doug over to the orc in the gnome. So the orc and the gnome are not dressed in any sort of official looking garb and they are not dressed the same. No, they're not dressed the same at all.

Make an insight check for me, Natty. Five check. Is it possible? Could I also do a check to see if, like, this tinsel could have been made out of the silver that they've mined? Like, is that something that is a material that could have been made from silver? Interesting. I'll give that one to you, Doug, without a check just because you're a battlesmith and just because of Doug's tinkering nature.

This does not look like it's made out of silver or that it was manufactured here at this facility. Okay. Dirty 20 on insight check. Okay. There's something about the orc that strikes you familiar. It's something about the way that she carries herself or the way that she talks.

It reminds you very much of your training during basic training, almost like she's familiar with the mortality. And remind me, one was named Murfin.fin who's Murfin Murfin was the gnome look at you good job do you take an inspiration die Barbara you have one thank you Barbara and we don't have a name of the or no I don't think anyone's asked for the okay yeah how do y'all they pause their their heated argument and both turn and look at you they seem angry not at you necessarily but with

each other I'm Natty. This is my buddy, Doug. I heard your name is Murfin. What's y'all's name? And points to the orc. Murfin does not allow the orc to answer. Instead, interjects and says, That's Kiba.

Kiba. Kiba. Murfin and Kiba, I'd be so curious. How do y'all find yourselves down here in this silver mine, coming into this room? They both at the same time almost answer the exact same thing. I'm in charge of silver production here.

Oh. Now Kiba, what is it that you're willing? She looks at herself like, oh, these are badger pauldrons. What about your pauldrons? Are the pauldrons that are on her shoulder, are they shaped like the face of badgers? Yeah, they're like, pauldrons are Are the pauldrons that are on her shoulder, are they shaped like the face of badgers? Yeah, they're like, pauldrons are like a piece of armor

that go on the shoulders, and it's like, they look almost kind of like badgers. Okay. They're very decorative. I've never heard the word pauldrons until today. I realized that, I was like, oh, there may be a misunderstanding here. Let's expand on what this is.

Warcraft really prepared me for D&D a lot. I'm gonna say, this is expanding my vocabulary more than I ever thought possible. Lots of D&D as a teenager and lots of World of Warcraft in my early 20s. Kiba continues and says, Yeah, our friend Tana and Greggo told us about this job, so we came down here. Oh, you guys associated with Reggie? Reggie? Oh, we know Reggie. You all met him?

Yeah. What's y'all's check on Reggie? Oh, we're Reggie. You all met him? Yeah. What's y'all's check on Reggie? Oh, we're all a part of Chase Chain, but Reggie takes it a little too far. Well, it seems like he's trying to take a different path with his work, if you know what I mean. We know Hano and Grego. We do. Why do we know Hano and Grego? They were possessed gardeners. We met them upstairs with the, yeah, the Baron. They were the possessed gardeners, yeah. So they might not be with us anymore,

kind of like the Baron. Well, that's your job, to make sure the Baron stays with us. While this is going on, Gunther and Tollv are realizing the Baron is dead. Is the Baron dead? Yes, the Baron is no more. Jesus. I passed the medicine check, yeah.

And frantically coming up with a Weekend at Bernie style methodology of keeping the Baron alive and well. I'll let you all continue work on that. Yeah. I'll get in here and stick my hand in here. Can you go smelt a pair of sunglasses? Yes, yes, yes.

You know, my buddy here, Doug and I, we've been actually looking to join a faction. We're kind of factionless right now. You know, when you find yourself in that kind of situation. And I've heard a little bit about the chase chain. Now, I know y'all love them silver, and that's why you're down here doing your job. You guys also are all about the wood.

Are you guys the reason why all that pesky wood was cleared upstairs on the ground floor? Referring to the trees being cut down. Yeah. It's not our purview, but yes, the chase train did handle all that. I mean, we handle all the silver down here. Oh, okay.

Do you know what like the big overall plan is to do with all this silver? Cause then Grelp's ain't busy. Make a persuasion check for me. Cause I feel like this is something she wouldn't necessarily offer up. 18. Look at you.

Nattie's just so charismatic. That's why I have those modifiers. Murfin begins answering, but then Kiba puts her hand over Murfin's mouth and continues answering. Okay. Well, we have to smelt the silver as offerings.

To the Pathfinder. She has a quizzical look on her face. To the Wind Traitor. And the Wind Traitor is the one who likes the silver. Oh, that's right. That's right, Doug. Thank you. That guy, he was all about the silver.

Silver Eyes. Weird guy. Yeah, very weird. Do you guys also, I guess, like worship the Wind Traitor? Like is he your god? I'll tell you what Doug you make me a persuasion check as well. It's not gonna go well. It's gonna go great. Seven! That's a good seven. Murfin bites Kiba's hand so that Kiba pulls it away and yelps in pain and Murfin says we just have a deal with with the wind trader. What kind of deal? A deal.

Murfin kind of like squints and like looks at you a little suspiciously, Doug. Do you guys know the Baron over there? Oh, I am told, waves the Baron said, hello. Both Gunther and Toll, make me performance checks. You guys also have to be doing a Scottish accent, just so you know. Yeah, what is the Baron sound like? Scottish. doing a Scottish accent, just so you know. Yeah, what is the, what does the barren sound like?

Scottish. It's a Scottish accent. Posh. Yeah. Which is apparently Scottish. Scottish. Man, I can't even, I can't even summon. That's, no, that's, all right.

Do mud. Do mud. 14. 18. Oh. Eh. Oh. Eh.

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No, no, your roll was good, but I still just have to roll some insight checks on my side. One and a seven. I think we got it, Coonther. We go to high five each other, but it's just a clap. The Baron's hands. Kiba and Murfin look at each other and look at you, and you see Kiba put the stopper in her bottle of rum and stash it in her pack.

He's getting serious over there. Is Kiba gonna answer me? Oh, sorry, I was so caught up with the performance, I forgot about your question. It worked on Gus, it's successful. Yeah, it worked on me. It was really good. The Baron? Well, she's got her own deal.

She works with us here, but she seems to really focused on finding the Pathfinder and keeps wanting to head out to Andridge Bay. You can ask her about that. Why isn't that where we're from? Yeah. Yes. Fort Andridge was where we were.

Yeah, you all are from Fort Andridge. You are supposed to head out to Andridge Bay. Oh. Oh. We're heading west to the Andridge was where we were. Yeah, you all are from Fort Andridge. You are supposed to head out to Andridge Bay. Oh. Oh. We're heading west to the Andridge Bay. Correct. And speaking, speaking of. Oh my God.

Um, deal. Sounds like Mr. Bean. Speaking of our deal, I'd like to renegotiate. What were we offering you? I do love how we have someone in this party who can do good persuasion checks and performance, but Gunther jumps in. This is what we got.

Well, you're not in the body of the- Yeah, this is what you work with what you're given. Gunther, make me a performance check at disadvantage because that was not a great Scottish accent. What? You don't think so? I don't think so. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. Get in the comments and let us know what you think.

That's a that's a five and a seven. If I use my inspiration diet, does it just replace one of them? Yeah, it would replace one of them. So it's going to be bad no matter what. Yeah. And I bit my tongue! They look at the Baron and kind of ignore that question. Instead, refocus their attention back on Natti and Doug. Well, I'm all out of inquiries.

Doug, you got questions? Yeah, I have a lot of questions, actually. Kiba, I can't help but feel that you feel familiar. Have we met you before? Kiba looks very closely and very intently at you, Doug, like examining your face and says, Nope, can't say I have. At least I don't think I have.

I don't really know many bugbears. Where were you before you started working here? Make an insight check. 23. You see Kiba like tense up a little bit, seeming like she doesn't like that question. Oh, I wandered around for a bit before finding the taste chain. I grabbed Gigi and I hold Gigi up to Kiba and I let Gigi smell her.

Yeah, Gigi gets up in there real close to Kiba. Yeah. Hey, Gigi, do we know her? Make a make a roll for Gigi here. Gigi don't forget smells. 16. Give me this one. How does Gigi communicate with you exactly? Well, you know how how like when toddlers are talking and like they're broken garble stuff but usually the parent is the one who can translate it because you just, you hear him so much doing that stuff,

you kind of figure it out. That's, that's me and Gigi. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. You think Gigi mentioned something about Mortalion? Ooh. Okay. Where's Private Parts? I would assume over there, because Private Parts was behind Gunther,

so I assume Private Parts is over there with the whole Baron shenanigans. And I make the Baron salute Private Parts is over there with the whole Baron shenanigans. And I make the Baron salute Private Parts. That's confusing for so many reasons. Parts! Get your butt over here. Parts comes running over. Oh, does Parts recognize Kiba? That's what I'm going for. Yes.

Whoa! Parts, do you know Kiba? Parts looks at Kiba and then begins looking down at his notes, kind of like going through them, and says, Kiba Bucky? Oh, I thought you went MIA. Kiba looks visibly uncomfortable. Yeah, I may have spent some time in the Mortallion in the past. Oh!

The Mortallion! What? You were part of the Mortallion? That's crazy. Who would do such a thing? Ha ha ha! Barb's looking around like a shifty person. You were part of the Mortallion? That's crazy. Who would do such a thing? Barb's looking around like a shifty person. That's where you got to say the vink vink. So you left the Mortallion, you joined up with the chase chain. Is that the story? Make a persuasion check.

Seventeen. Kiba lets out a long sigh and says, I saw many battles and was witnessed to and performed many terrible things by my own hand. But one day I saw an opportunity. My commanding officers couldn't find me and everyone thought I was dead. So why not take advantage of that? The bear nods knowingly. And then rubs their chin with their hand. She's very interested.

At this point, Natti is trying to obscure vision of the baron with her wig as much as possible. Well, I'm running out of inquiries and understanding of what we're supposed to do down here. The baron is dead. I'm saying this in Jon's voice. You guys understand I'm meta talking. Speaking of meta talk,

I just want to point something out here. Yeah, yeah. Not to feel like you got railroaded here, but there's one vulnerability listed on the character sheet for the Baron and it's vulnerable to fire. Oh really? Oh, I trust you Gus.

As soon as one of our party was like, I'm going to pour molten silver on a living person I was like, okay this will end well Just putting that out there usually when you heat metals up enough to be liquid They're safe to put on biological organisms. At least we still have a body to Animate that's what a sociopath says That's what a sociopath says. I think a necromancer. But who knows? Same thing.

Yeah. Well, we kind of got stuck down here against our wishes. We were wandering around doing some business upstairs, and then we fell in a hole that we weren't even planning on falling into. And then we came across the Baron, and we weren't even trying to come across the Baron. And so we're kind of like down here without without any direction We met the wind trader that that guy was a was a whole character And so we ain't got really a problem with the chase chain and they're not really part of our

Objective at this point. I'm saying this to everybody I guess basically Toe toes in charge yeah I wave with the barons arm Toll what are we gonna do okay here's the thing I'm gonna drop the Baron and I'm gonna walk over and be like hello Mervin and Kiba good to see you so you know how the Baron was looking for the pathfinder they told you about that, right? Bear nods. Right? Baron, you know what I'm talking about? Mr. B-I-I-

No, no, do Murfin and Kiba know what I'm talking about? Yeah, they mentioned it themselves. That the Baron was looking for the pathfinder. Okay, do you guys have any information on that? Did they have any leads? Murfin will answer. No, no, that's the barrens thing. We're just down here smelting silver.

Okay, got you. So like- You could ask her. She's right over there. Oh no, she's very sleepy. Right, right barren? By the way, I rolled a dice cause I wanted to check to see what Gigi was doing

at this point. Cause I had in my head positive and negative doing. I rolled a nat one. Gigi is chewing on the barrens foot. I just want to make that very clear now okay love it Gigi knows what dead is. Murfin also says yeah I don't know about the pathfinder necessarily but the Baron kept talking about getting revenge against someone in Endridge Bay. Does she name any names? I don't know. Some council. The Council of Conversation?

That's her thing. Council of Barbarians. Oh no, no, the Council of Barbarians definitely didn't do anything wrong. My lips are sealed. Today. Okay, so, Mervyn and Kiba, let's share information. How can we help you if you can help us?

Because we're, we might've been aligned in our goals to get to Indridge Bay, unlike the Baron. And so maybe we can help each other out, you know, we need to get out of there, but this cave system is so, oh, it's so wind, winding and winding, and there's so many things. So we're trying to get over there. So like, could you point us in the right direction?

Kiba would answer, points to the western exit and goes, Go out that door and keep heading west. You'll end up at the next level above and head up from there. Muffin, I gotta ask. Oh, maybe not Muffin actually. I'll let Kiba speak for herself. Why did you leave the Mortallion? Like, what was wrong with it? You all look like you're pretty fresh in it, but battle and war can be very violent and ugly and I'd had enough

of it I hear that I mean we should probably I don't know if we have any more information they don't seem to know where the pathfinder is we're behind on our mission to get to Indridge Bay we got parts I think we should get out of here because we're kind of in a bee's nest. What would Tal say about that? Guys, I think we got the information we need. We're running a little behind on our, you know, vink, vink appointment, you know?

Hmm? Private parts, you're doing good, right? Private? He's nodding and making notes, keeping notes. Okay, great. We're gonna head out of here. We're gonna go to the vest exit. Keep it, Murfin.

You wanna come with? You wanna come with? No, we've had enough. We're pretty content down here. Okay, great. You live a prosperous, happy life and I hope you avoid all war and combat. That'd be nice.

Sounds like a good life. Before we leave the room, could Doug just look around and see if there's anything like weapons or there's anything like weapons or supplies or anything like that around this room? I don't know if I can do this while still attached. Also I wanted to look at the bear and see if they had anything. Sure, I'll deal with Barbara first and then Chris.

Barbara, make me an investigation check. I think we may have rolled this last week, but let's do it again just to be safe. I'm going to use my inspiration, Doug die because that was an 8. Okay 19 No, there doesn't seem to really be of anything that you can use. It seems like this is a room primarily for Smelting there's the bloomerie which is the conical chimney made of clay and the silver slag and that seems to be the the feature Dominating this room. Okay Well nothing to see here, boys. Uh, really empty room.

Unfortunate. Make me an investigation check as well. Since I've been inside of the Baron for the last like 10 minutes, do I have an advantage on- What do you mean inside? What? Inside of their armor, like pretending to be- I thought you've just been holding them up.

Yeah, I thought- I thought you were weakening or burning. Maybe we've seen different movies. I guess in my mind, Gunther's small enough He could have stuck his feet and some of the anyway Investigation 12. She doesn't really have anything. It seems like the things that she had were her armor, of course Which is now singed and burnt As well as she had that axe which flew out of her hands I think giggy still has it as far as I know owns the word you're looking for is owns owns perfectly crafted pair of silver handcuffs, ooh

I do love the idea and the visual of Gunther actually wearing the Baron like skin and just like Painting her that's weird. All right, where are we are we skedaddling? Yeah, I think we gotta get going. Okay Look away look away. Yeah, that's a way to get us all to look at you No, no, can I have gesturing to the to the other two our little friends? I want to take the head of the Baron you want to take a head Yes, you tell that to the two people as you tell them to look away. No, no to my group. Why? It's intimidation for later. I think that's a way to get people

to kind of pay too much attention to us if we're gonna go around carrying decapitated heads. Do you have a place to put it away or what are you planning to do with it? Like attach it to your belt? What if I meet you in the middle and I say, let's just cut off a horn and call it a day? That will do. Okay, that's like meet you in the middle and I say, let's just cut off a horn and call it a day? That will do.

Okay, that's like, you know, proof of defeat and we could use that as leverage. That's good thinking, Gunther. I nudge private parts and I say, that's some good leadership right there, wasn't it? Vink, vink. Stop saying vink, vink. He nods very encouragingly.

Okay, you make sure you might make a note of that for my boy Tove. Yeah, so we cut off the horns. Two nods very encouragingly. Okay. You make sure you might make a note of that for my boy Tov. Yeah, so we cut off the horns. Two or one? Two, one, two, one. I think one or two. Okay, just one. Okay, yeah.

You have a horn from the Baron. Great. Kiba and Murfin, just turn around and leave the room. Okay. Okay. They clearly don't care. Yeah. As we're leaving,

Natty whispers something to the dead Baron before we're going. Oh. Do we hear it? No. I kind of want to roll to here, honestly. You know, I'm very curious now. Can I give a little roll?

Yeah, can we roll in here? Moose doggo. I would say if you're curious about that, first make a perception check to see if you even see that. That's a 12. 11. I'm going to say those aren't good enough. You wouldn't have noticed necessarily. Oh, okay, okay. I'm gonna say those aren't good enough. You wouldn't have noticed, necessarily.

I'm gonna notice. 22. That does notice. So then make an investigation check, Doug, to see if you hear it. I wonder what Nettie's doing over there. What is Nettie doing? It's only a 12. I don't think I hear anything. You hear it perfectly.

I like your gait slightly cutting out of your Well, I don't think I hear anything. You hear it perfectly. Pssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss Sergeant, here we go. Walking to the west exit, the one that even Mervin told us about. All right. You exit out the door on the western part of the room and you find yourself back in that hallway you were previously in that dead-ended in the door that was locked and had no latch and you realize you're coming out from the other side of that. Oh so we've gone full circle. Yeah we went out the exit. Were there any unexplored uh routes that we took based on you guys' maps? There was a west door that we didn't take, right Gus? Correct, and you're looking at it right now actually.

If you continue down this hallway, it branches off to the south, which is where the long hallway with that mural of the coins, and then directly in front of you is another door heading west, uh, that I do not believe you guys went through. Let's try that then, uh, what was it? Yeah, what does that door look like? Do you think we should be given the Wincher or any more silver so you could give us more of that guiding wind for this journey or anything or?

Is there guiding with us still anymore? Or did it put? Gunther closes his eyes. Sure, it seems to be pushing you to the West. Okay, all right, so what does- Is he still here? Thank you. It's just an iron door.

Seems rather nondescript. Okay, I'm gonna give it a little open. You open up the door and before you is a decently sized room. Pretty good size. It's dimly lit with flickering lamps. The air seems to be dusty and the cave walls are shiny. And inside you see a few grilt mining on walls and in the ceiling. Actually, you see Kiba and Murfin in here. God, we just followed them. This is so awkward.

How did they beat us? They left before you all did. Yeah. Yeah. OK, well, I was going to have a chat with the gang and maybe just welcome back. Hey, everybody, give a small little round of applause to private parts for surviving the Baron. Good job, private. Wow. Duck starts clapping. Yeah, extremely sweaty.

OK, we got to get upstairs. We got to get to the ground floor You guys were do like a quick search through this room, but we got to keep going vest I think yeah keep in Murph and see you all walk in and they remember you asked how to get out of here and they They both kind of point to the west exit out of this room This is awkward, you know when when you're like walking with someone you're like, okay, I'll see you later And then you like walk the same direction I hate when I'm leaving the Chili's

to go to my, you know, horse and buggy. And then I say goodbye. And then I hug someone and then we just walk to the same direction. This is so stupid. And then you gotta make believe you're like looking for something in your pack and you're like, okay, I'll see you later.

And you just- Oh, my shoes untied. Oh, oh. Okay, you go on. Horse and buggy? Hello, this is my first time meeting you, okay. You go on. Horse and buggy. Hello. This is my first time meeting you. Obviously. Oh, God. As we know. Oh, God. Could Doug do a quick scan around the room as we're walking through it? Toll of it also. Make a, if you want to do that, make an investigation check. Toll saying horse and buggy just tickled me. I don't know why. It's like he's in a production of Oklahoma or something.

13 for Doug. Nothing particular stands out to either of you. You know, there's a few yellowish hooded lamps hanging around the cavern. The cave walls are kind of shiny with veins of silver that the grill seem to be hard at work mining. And you know, you see Kiba and Murfin still arguing over who's in charge.

And out of here, there's an exit path to the west and one to the south, as well as the iron door to the east you came in. We're just the wind. I think it was west, right? That's where they were telling us to continue to go. Yeah, they were pointing to the west, Murfin and Kiba. You guys wanna keep going west?

I think so. You're running this party. Yeah, you're in charge. You're the leader. I'm just trying to be political. I'm just trying to be nice. All right, let's go fast. Keep going. Totally a fan of democracy. Hello, Mur're in charge. You're the leader. I'm just trying to be political. I'm just trying to be nice All right, let's go fast. Keep going. I'm totally a fan of democracy. Hello, Mervyn Kiba. Good to see you again Mervyn and Kiba Pleasure to meet you for the first time. No, this is the

You've seen them before, Guthur. I have a question while we're walking. Can I can I ask Private parts something? Go ahead. What is the worst thing that you have seen in the army? Probably you lighting the Baron on fire and killing her. Hmm. In more of a past not of today. Maybe when our mess hall was on fire and you all failed to put it out. Mm-hmm. Why did you join army? It's a proud tradition in my family. He seems to beam at that. But Why are we fighting? You and I aren't fighting. No. I think this conversation is getting deeper than what Gus was prepared for.

Yeah, I thought it was a question. Now we're having like a longer conversation. What is the purpose of war? Yeah, let's keep things moving along. As we pass by the Grelps, Natty goes, y'all should unionize. And leaves. Yeah.

Y'all continue to the west and it seems like it's pretty rocky out of this exit, almost like maybe the mine had partially collapsed and is now cleared out. But you continue your way to the west and once you exit the room you find yourself in a long passageway and you recognize it as the passageway you initially dropped down into from the upper level. Is this the room where the villagers found us and told, talk to them?

They're one level up from here. Okay. This is what we fall, we dropped down into. Correct. To get away from them. Yeah, it's like, it's almost like a T intersection of two long passageways. The air's dusty, the cave walls are shiny.

There was an unlit torch here, but I think Gunther took it, didn't light it, but just like held onto it. And then to the west, there's a path that smells of fresh air. You came from the east and then down to the south is that narrow crawl space that Doug went through where you eventually found the wind trader. Oh, and there's a hole above you in the ceiling

that you all dropped down into. But we never went west to west though, right? Correct. Okay. And you said it smells good there. It's like fresh air. Fresh air. Fresh air smells like the sea could be in Dridge Bay. Let's keep going fast guys.

Follow your nose. Yeah. Toll bravely leads the way West. He fell for bravery. Put the shoulders and the glutes into it. Blaine is shimmying. Apparently that's what bravery looks like. Yeah. It is brave to walk with such stupidity.

It's brave to walk like that in a dungeon without looking for traps. Toll steps on a pressure plate and the ground explodes. Oh no. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. You all continue to the west and eventually this path winds and leads back out to the surface level. And you find yourself back out on the ground level.

There any like villagers or anything around us like with pitchforks? You see some people here from the ruins of Razine on the surface looking down into the hole that you had previously fallen into like several episodes ago talking with more citizens of the ruins of Razine down there and they seem to be trying to coordinate getting the silver and the lumber back out to the surface. Should we like avoid them, do you think? Because they were kind of razzed at us last time. And I kind of gave Cobb some direction

on just taking some of this stuff. Yeah, I think we should cut our losses and head west. I think we've had plenty adventure here for private parts to be taking some notes for us. Doug, how are you feeling? What's the vibe? Uh. We could check back in with Colb

or Cobb. I know, I think we're, I think we've done here. It seems like I think it's time to move on. I, you know, we'll remember these people fondly and taking plenty of notes of all the people we met, what they were wearing, everything like that. So if we do see them again, Doug will remember. We will see them at reunion. Yeah, I want to get a quick check. How is everybody feeling? Spell slots, HP and such. You think we should take like a long rest? I don't know what those things are. You keep saying.

How are you? How are your magic juices? You topped up there, Nadi. You need to refill? I'm doing fine. I'm doing fine. I think if we can find a spot that is secret, we would be prudent to take a short break. Doug, how are you feeling?

I'm feeling pretty good. But you know, if the team wants to take a break, Doug's a team play-o. Guess how are we doing on time? Like, we had, what was it, three days to get to Indridge Bay? Look at you, yeah, you had three days. In game time, let's say roughly 16 hours. You've gone through like two shifts and you're entering like the third portion of the first day. But we haven't slept in 16 hours. No, and in fact, I was gonna bring that up in a bit.

I was gonna let you off figure out what you're doing. If necessary, I was gonna bring that up. Maybe we should take a little sleep. I have a question. In a meta world, like, do we get sleep deprived if we don't sleep? I was going to explain that if we got to that point, but yeah, there would be, you know,

you can continue and you can push yourself. There can be some downsides to continuing, like exhaustion, for example. Okay. Then I say once we get past the village people from Rezine and find a nice little spot. Is that what you all are doing, just to clarify? Yeah, I think we didn't want to re-engage with them.

Yeah, OK, I agree. As you all are talking amongst yourselves, figuring out what to do, you hear a voice call out. You found my axe! Oh, Chy Lamode. Oh, wait, Pi! Gigi looks around, has no idea what you're talking about. You all look up and turn around and you see Pi A La Mode

walking straight towards you for. Hello, yes, the axe that you were looking for. Yeah, I thought you all abandoned me there after you freed me, you took off so quickly. Dolph? Oh, you know, our social batteries are a little run and dry, but we couldn't forget you Pi A La Mode. So yeah, here is your axe

Gigi go ahead and give the nice lady the axe deagle deagle deagle come on Gigi can Gunther try and tickle the Gigi well I'm I'm rolling for two different things right here that you guys are doing first told was asking okay I rolled a two Gigi ain't compliant okay well can Gunther tickle to release the axe? Dynatic chimes in. I wouldn't do that, Gunther. He don't respond too well to tickles.

Yeah, I think I've already done it though. Okay. You know what I mean? I love the commitment. Yeah, I rolled another two, Gigi attacks Gunther. Oh my gosh. Get him. So I need to roll for attack.

Okay. Would Gigi swing the axe or would Gigi just start chomping on Gunther and then drop the axe? Well, because Gigi's attack is a claw. So I think Gigi would then have to use the axe. Okay. So then we said it would be with disadvantage. That's how we had to roll on the bear because it was so heavy and difficult to pick up.

Well that's a nat 20. Do you have to roll again if you're at disadvantage? You're at disadvantage so yeah you do because you take the lower roll. What modifier did we give the attack? I think we just rolled it and then we decided to see I'll look it up. Okay that's a 16 so it's a nat 20 and a 16. That's probably a hit. What's your armor class gun through? Oh it's a 17. Oh okay let me. I just saw Chris wink. No no no, it really is. Okay. Gigi, I think actually has no modifier because Gigi is not proficient in any

weapon usage I would imagine. So there would be no modifier to that. Yeah, Gigi doesn't have that listed on his character sheet at all. No weapon proficiencies. So it would just be 16. Okay. So yeah, the axe swings around and hits you, but you deflect it. Gunther kind of knock it out of the way

It doesn't actually strike you. I think Gunther would like because he's more evasive. He wouldn't deflect it He would like flip over or something, you know, like dodge. Pai-E-La-Mo says, oh my careful with that. It's very delicate What's that? And she points at you Natty. Is that my Tempest Stinker pickaxe? Does Natty have a pickaxe? Who took, did you take it? Oh, yeah, you took it You picked up the pickaxe during the fight with the the first fight with the Baron, right? The Tempestinker pickaxe? Does Nanny have a pickaxe? Who took, did you take it? Oh yeah, you picked up the pickaxe during the fight with the, the first fight with the Baron, right? The Tempestinker. Oh yeah.

Do not recall that at all. He stole it off to one of the gardeners, I believe. It's the one that the head changes into like a breath weapon attack. I'm gonna just believe y'all. That's what I've chosen to do. Pye, so good we ran into you cause we have so many things to give you.

Can, when Gigi took his swing, You're so good. We ran into you because we have so many things to give you. When Gigi took his swing, could told have nabbed it when he was at the apex of his swing, like missing. I'm just trying to grab it from the thing, the baby. If you want to try that, make a dexterity check to see if you are able to snatch at it. Okay, nine. You try to. It's just spinning so fast. You you are able to like snatch at it. Okay Nine You tried to it's just spinning so fast. You're not able to grab it This is this is I have to as the father of the group. This is exactly how this would go

This baby hasn't life if the toddler does not want to give you something have fun have fun getting it from them That's how it is. Nattie hands over the pickaxe. I have no quarrel here. Oh, thank you. I've been looking for this for so long. Thank you. You're welcome. After doing Gunther's little flip and seeing Toll not grab the axe, can Gunther attempt to, with his tongue, grab the pickaxe from afar? Yeah, if that's something you can do, I'll take your word for it. You can use his tongue to grab stuff. I think it's like a 15 pound like strength limit or something like that.

Yeah, go for it. But what would that be? Just like a sleight of hand? You tell me there's not a check for it. Did we like do any checks with pile mode before to make sure that like they're cool? No, I don't think so. I don't know if you've really talked to her very much.

I don't think we did either. Cause she was under the imprisonment of Baron. They were captured within the obelisks. Captured. Yeah. God, couldn't think of a word. So it says you need to make a dexterity or grapple check with it, Gunther. Okay.

Oh my God, I rolled a one. Nope. Giggys got it. Pai'e Lamode kind of sees the situation and reads the room and says, You know what? You all saved me. You gave me the tempest tinker back. Why don't you just drop the woodcutter axe on the way back when you're done? Dog, you're a bit of an inventor. Could you like, you know, I don't know, fashion some sort of cage

or something for a little giggy here? Nattie's looking at you with some pretty rough eyes. They're not helping. Look, you do not want me to try and make any sort of handcuffs, all right? How about, how about, uh, you know, Doug has a motherly feel to it. How about Doug holds Gigi for a little bit?

Oh. And just does some bouncing. Do you want me to roll to see how, if what Gigi does with that? Yeah, if he lets me pick him up and bounce him on Uncle Doug's knees. I rolled a 17, which usually means the positive thing happens. So let's say Gigi lets you pick him up.

He's still holding onto the axe. More like funkle dog. Mm hmm. Meh. Why did I not get that? Funkle? Fun uncle. Fun uncle. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. As he's holding Gigi, could Doug, are there like, would you say like rocks or pebbles around on the ground somewhere?

Yeah. Could Doug pick one up and use magical tinkering to make a pebble glow a cool like blue color? And like hold it up for Gigi and be like, oh, shiny pebble. Isn't this cool? It needs two hands to play with though because it's very delicate. I feel like this is the kind of thing Gigi would be into but I don't want to speak on Gigi's behalf. I mean Gus you're part of the people that are holding the wheel, the steering wheel on Gigi. So does Doug just make a persuasion check or what do you want to do? Yeah make a persuasion check. I'll tell you what, make a deception check with advantage.

I like that. Oh God. Okay, well. No one can roll a winning roll against this toddler. A terrible modifier on my deception. So I rolled a six and then a five. So it's a six. I think Gigi's hands grasp even tighter around the edge.

God. I just want to be very clear I think Gigi's hands grasp even tighter around the edge. God! I just want to be very clear because often I know I can be a stick in the mud. I'm not causing any of this. I just want to make it very clear. These are the rules. This is what happens. I have done nothing. Pai A. Lamocke reiterates,

Why don't you all just bring it all the way back? I'll be fine. I have a lot of work to do. I have to reset up my shop. Well, don't worry because your ex is in good hands. Points to Gigi who's not letting go of it. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I have a lot of work to do. I have to reset up my shop. Well, don't worry, because your ex is in good hands. Yeah. Points to Gigi is not letting go of it. Yeah. I can see that. Um, let him have some fun with that. Was there a reward I do not remember? No.

No. Is that a missing accent? She says. Uh, my gratitude? I will cherish it forever. I'll tell you what, since you asked, I'll teach you a little something. Are you magically inclined? I believe in the magic, but I am not so.

Well, I'll try and teach you something. I can teach you a spell. I shall try. It's a real handy spell. It's called Animate Object. We got their bowels. Listening. It's a real handy spell. It's called animate object. Gunther bows at listening. Okay. She goes through the motions and tries to teach you this arcane spell. Make a arcana check for me, Gunther. That's probably high with Gunther.

It probably is. I think he's probably good at that. No, I rolled a five. I will use my inspiration die. The trick is to yell it. That's how you know he's serious. That's a nine. It's good use my inspiration die. The trick is to yell it. That's how you know he's serious. That's a nine. It's a good use of inspiration dice. Yeah. It seems so foreign to you, Gunther,

but she's like, she seems really enthusiastic about it and very interested in it. Can I look at like Doug and be like, Doug, perhaps you are more inclined to learn of these things. I just don't know if Gunther can like... Yeah. I'll tell you what.

Just to be safe, why don't I write it down for you? You see her dash off, and then a short time later she comes back holding a scroll and she hands it to you, Gunther. Ooh, this is very kind of you. Thank you for returning the Tempest Dinker, and I'll see you on the way back with that woodcutter axe. I'm sorry I've shamed your teaching. It's okay.

Before you go, Pie, when we came into town, I think Yadi said that they needed to talk to you. Does that ring any sort of bell? Oh, I should go talk to her. Do you need us to be around for that? I know it could be something important that pertains to us. Just curious, weird question. No, it's fine.

It's our own issue to deal with. That's how we found out about Pi. There was a person named Yadi who was looking for them. I didn't know if that was something that needed to get full circled. It was like a thing that could have happened before. Now it's like time's passed. It's a living world. This is when you go into your quest log and you abandon a quest. Yeah. Okay.

You know any safe areas around here for us to set up camp? Yeah. If you head west a bit, there is a small clump of trees you could set up camp in. I know travelers like to camp out there. That sounds like a pretty lush area for a little napski. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Bye pie. Don't run into any more barrens. I'll try not to. Careful. Cool. Bye, Pie. Don't run into any more barons.

I'll try not to. Careful out there. You guys want to head west to the clump of trees? Yeah. I feel like overall that was a net positive. We saved a person. Met a wind trader. Yeah, and she got her pickaxe back. I shaved my family. You're fine, Gunther. Don't worry about it. Did you just say you shaved your family?

No, they do not have hair. That's not what I was asking. I was asking if you said you shaved your family. No. While we're walking, can Gunther check for any surprises that might be laying in wait or anything that might be hidden? Sure. Actually, what I was going to do, I was going to make the team leader

make that check because he's taking points. So, Tov, why don't you make me a survival check? Okay, that'll be a That looks like a one What a way to phrase it It was hidden behind a group of texts, so then I was just like yes It was hidden behind a group of texts, so then I was just like, yes, that's a one, yeah. A one.

You all travel for a bit, a couple hours, and as you do so, what was a light drizzle eventually turns into a torrential downpour. Along the way, you come across a curious set of skeletal remains that appear to be maybe non-humanoid. Can we investigate the skeletons? What kind of skeletons are these? Make a... let's call it a survival check, I guess. Okay. If you guys want to pitch in with this rule, I wouldn't mind.

18. 10. I rolled an 18. Twins. In that case, Doug and Nattie, you both recognize that this is a gnoll skeleton. In fact, it appears to be carrying a small purse with it. Hmm, a gnoll skeleton? Yeah, G-N-O-L-L.

Could Doug look in the purse? Yeah, you open up the purse and take a look and there's five gold pieces in it. Da-da-da-da! Okay, guys, a gold piece for each of us and two for Finders Fee. Fair. And in fact, Doug, as you're looking at it

and pulling out the gold, you see that there's another coin leaning down a path to the left. Another coin? Peace, sorry, gold peace. Yeah. Okay, well first could I distribute each person a gold piece? Yeah, I get one too. One for each of us. Yeah, I said two to find those for me.

Okay. I'll use it for the group eventually. Is Duck still holding Gigi? Yes. Where's Gigi? With like one arm. While he's looking at the other. Yeah. Guys, there seems to be another gold piece over there just out in the open. But it seems a little suspicious. Maybe the skeleton who used to be in all was looking for something or collecting gold pieces and got mid collection. So I don't know if someone wants to maybe like try to reach for the piece and see what

happens like from a distance type thing and everyone have like a mage hand or something. Oh yeah, I do. I do. I forgot I have it. I haven't used it. Use the force. I'm using the force called my hand and I cast ma Mage Hand and I pick up the coin. Yeah. Gunther like kind of hide in the woods while this is happening.

Sure. Make a stealth check Gunther. Yeah, you pick it up and retrieve it Natty. And as you're doing so... 15. Oh, that's a good roll. You see there's another gold coin further down the path to the left on the ground. I'll give that gold coin to Gigi. The one you just got? Yeah.

Can't carry with both hands holding that axe. I put it in his mouth. We'll get that back in two to three business days. That's where he keeps all his money. Mate Jan is 30 feet range. Can I just go to the next one? Yeah. Okay. I pick up that one and I bring it back to Gigi and I feed it to the Gigi bank. So Gigi now has two gold pieces in his mouth?

Well, in his possession. Oh okay. Don, did you just make a piece of merch that we're gonna have to sell in the store now? The Gigi bank? Come on. I love it. Oh, I didn't even realize. It's like a piggy bank. Yeah, that's what it is. That was clever. It's the Gigi bank. Yeah, but it goes in but the coins never come out.'s indestructible come out in about two hours further down the path And you see there's another gold coin even further more than 30 feet away now at this point Okay, giggy runs after those coins. Okay. Yeah, there's a couple more guys as team leader I feel like I have to point out. This is so clearly a trap I mean Skellington's a trail of gold giggy keeps following the coins and eating them Okay, I guess Gunther's following discreetly from this hidden spot I mean, Skellington's a trail of gold. Gigi keeps following the coins and eating them. Okay.

I guess Gunther's following discreetly from his hidden spot. Okay, yeah, you watch Gigi go and total going down that path, there were five gold coins. I don't know if you want to add that for Gigi. And Gunther, make me a perception check. Eight. And you see that at the end of the path, like Gigi doesn't pay any attention to it

because Gigi's preoccupied with the gold. But you see down at the end of the path, like Gigi doesn't pay any attention to it because Gigi's preoccupied with the gold, but you see down at the end of the path, there's what appears to be an abandoned campsite. Oh, convenient. Appears to be abandoned. Does it look like recently abandoned or abandoned a long time ago? Is the dust of the fire still smoldering

or is there any ash at all where it'd been blown away and covered with growth? You'll have to get out from your stealth and go out and investigate it if you want to ascertain any further details gunther looks at uh his leader you probably can't see them anymore at this point because you've gone down more than 30 like you're down separated on your own gotcha all right then gunther's gonna move closer and to investigate and okay like still staying out of the of view, but like get closer. You can't have it both ways. I said like you're gonna have to get out of stealth

if you want to come out here and investigate. Guthr leaves and goes back to the group. Okay. And you report what you found? There is an abandoned campsite. Gigi is having lots of fun, but I worry that it could be a trap. Okay.

So guys, let's maybe head towards the camp, split up, surround it, and then move in slowly in case it's a trap. That sound fun? Yes. Cool little stealth mission? Huh? Cool little stealth mission. I shall, I shall go from above.

And Gunther wants to like climb up the tree and go across. Can I do that? Yeah, make a... Just imagining this like frog just leaping from... Make a strength check to get up in the tree, go across. Can I do that? Yeah, make a... Just imagining this like frog just leaping from... Make a strength check to get up in the tree I guess. Can I do acrobatics? Are you gonna jump? Yeah. That's right, I forgot you are a croak folk so yeah, I'll give you that one. That's a 15. You hop up into the tree and make your way that way and then what's everyone else's plan of attack here? I'm just walking down the path. All right. Okay, there's walking down the path then I want

to go through some of the brush and then maybe approach the camp from the other direction that Gunther is approaching from. And Doug, I think would kind of just follow the path, but sneakily since he's very sneaky. Oh, I just like imagine it's like a cronk from Impersonate Brew. Make me a stealth check, Doug, just so I have it. Do I get advantage?

Not if you're cronking. I'm not cronking, I'm sneaking. Sure, why not? Okay, 21. Oh, where did Doug go? I just go... Maddie, you walk down the path and you walk into a campsite much like Gunther described it.

You look around and it appears abandoned. There's nobody here, but you see some packs and a bonfire amongst some tree stumps that seem to be giving an edge to the clearing. Quick question then. What is it about it that seems abandoned if you just described a little? There's no one here. Oh, okay Unoccupied sure. Okay, my brain. I'm like abandoned means everything's gone but packs and a bonfire means Not abandoned but unoccupied but that's just semantic So there's clearly people that are staying here just aren't here right now, correct? Okay

Here's the thing though, cuz there was Skellington's over there. I, they must have abandoned it. Hmm. That's strange. Is that weird to you guys? I mean, I don't know how long them bones been there. They could been there for a long time. Usually bones means that body been there for a while. Yeah. But if there's like gold coins leading from the Skellington to the camp, but there's a lit fire, that's strange. Maybe that gnoll was stealing from them.

And then died of old age. Yep. It's a very just at a really bad time. Logical hypothesis. Yeah. Died of old age and then was left there rotting away for years and years. Yeah. His last action was stealing those coins before he died.

There's no tent or anything. Oh God. Gus is rolling something. Gunther, as you're in the tree, watching an arrow whizzes by your head, nearly hitting you, but miss. Oh, oh. Little G.

Which means hurry up. Yeah, yeah. Gunther jumps off from the tree, it says, we're under attack, arrows, take cover. What is the household chore that you most like to avoid? I was gonna say more questions. That was good. Oh, my God. Are we going to fight you guys?

The arrow shooter. He's 50 feet tall. Did any of us see that arrow fly by? I would say probably not, because you all focused on the ground. This was up in the trees. But Gunther did alert us to it, though. Yeah. OK, OK.

We think we've got to form up. And as Gunther drops down to the ground, several gnolls appear out of the tree trunks in the area and begin menacingly approaching you, with one of them brandishing an axe saying, give us all your gold. Howdy. Are we gonna have to find out next week

if we ever actually get out of this? No. Hand it over now or I'll cut you to ribbon. Right now? No, I don't think we will. You just hear from the bonfire area a little toddler hacking up gold that he'd been eating. That's right.

That's right. I'm a croak folk. We do not value gold in the same way that you do. But what I can offer you are these pebbles. Very valuable pebbles. Nattie holds up her hands and like open palms and she goes like, see, we don't got any gold. And then Nattie shoots an Eldritch Blast.

All right. Go ahead and see if that hits for me, Nattie. Yeah, that's a Nat 20. Oh my God. Okay. Yeah, that's a nat 20. It hits? Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah! Uh, drill for damage? Yeah. Plus a bonus die, because he rolled a nat 20. Oh yeah, okay.

Well, the bonus one is at max damage. So, uh, the D10 is the die. Yeah. So, I rolled a 9, plus a 10, plus a 3 plus a three. That's the damage. Plus they get pushed back 10 feet and take an extra three damage. So 25 damage. Just a piece of gold.

You hit this gnoll with the axe who's menacing you with the Eldritch Blast, and it pushes them back 10 feet and they just like disintegrate and fall to pieces from the absolute force of the blast. Gunther makes a mental note not to threaten Nattie. Nattie then squares her hands towards the other guy and says, who else wants to meet my wife? They all look at each other and then look at you and then turn around and run away. Do any of them pass through an attack of opportunity?

No. OK. Well, guys, welcome to our new camp. Take your souls at home. Way to go, daddy. Do you think if we maybe do like a rest or anything like that, one of us, we should like do like shifts because I'm worried they might try to come back. Yeah, absolutely.

I would say you guys get some shut eye and I could take first watch. We check the packs that we're sitting here abandoned. Oh, good call. Yeah, yeah, you open one up and it's just stuffed with straw. There is enough straw for all of us. I'm gonna let you keep all that Gunther. You can take my share Gunther. That's cool.

This is great feed for animals. Now he sets up for a sleep. All right and Toll of you have first watch is anyone gonna relieve Toll or is Toll gonna watch the whole night? I'll take second watch. Do we need a roll for those or can we also log a long rest? Yeah you can go ahead and log them. Nattie you fall asleep and you open your eyes awake half buried in sand. No Sun, no moon, no stars. Only blackness that gradually meets the horizon of dim purple. Black sand dunes ripple with labyrinthian spirals and at the center of the spirals are small cairns. Between dunes are shallow streams of mist that continue on past the horizon.

You feel like you're familiar with this place, Natty. It's kind of fuzzy, like as if you've been here in a dream in the past maybe? Oh, I think I know where I am Maddie looks around for a familiar face Yeah You look around and you see a female centaur with a white coat and pale features trotting over silently One eye dimly glows lavender and the other is pitch black and she's dressed in a cloak of black sand You said you'Naya? Hahaha! Take an inspiration die.

That's funny. Do I recognize this person? Yeah, it's uh, it's your wife. Sugar pie! She uh, she looks at you and she conjures an hourglass of black sand that flips over and begins falling. She says, Oh, it's so great to see you.

When did we last see each other? I don't know. It's hard to keep track of time in this little here sand-op-sand-op-opolis you've got going on. Oh, so, so true. She peeks at the hourglass as the sand goes through. What was it that we talked about last time? I feel like it's on the tip of my tongue.

I think we were just talking about how Gigi's, he's fairing with his growing up. Oh, Gigi, how is he doing, that little rascal? He got his first ax. Oh, I wish I had seen it. Yeah, I'm sure it's one of many, okay? Oh, yes. I've been busy and received so many spirits from you as of late. They are gonna make great additions, some more than others. Yeah, I've been

trying to stand people your way whenever I can. She smiles, a big smile. Oh, how I tire of all of this. It's the waiting, isn't it? I long for that glorious day to come. I mean, you know, the journey is part of the fun. I have to remind myself of that. It's just, I long for all of this to be over. And she points around. Yeah, when's that gonna happen, you know? Oh, I don't know yet.

She looks over at the hourglass again, and you look as well, and you see that it's nearly empty. Do you have any parting words for your wife? Oh, have you been getting my messages? She smiles big and says, I have! And as she says that, you sink into the black sand once more and you wake up. Okay.

Nadi! Nadi! Nadi! Nadi! Nadi! Nadi! Tov has been watching her this whole time. Nadi, you look like you're having a nightmare. Are you OK? It's morning. Hey, Tov. No, I had a great night. Sorry.

Mike, I want you to put an alarm clock with me. I picture like Nattie opens her eyes and it's just Tov like an inch away from her face, like face to face. Nattie, Nattie, Nattie. Not touching her or anything, just yelling and staring. Yeah, yeah. yeah. Maddie, Maddie, Maddie. Not touching her anything, just yelling and staring. Yeah, yeah, hello. How'd you sleep, Tove?

It's morning. You know, I had a decent rest. I'm feeling 100% again, ready to rage, ready to take on the day. Yeah. Ready to potentially hand off my leadership role. Ooh. Yeah, I think I've completed my watch.

A whole half a day, huh? Should I keep going? I don't know. That's okay, go ahead. Yeah, I think I've completed my watch. A whole half a day, huh? Should I keep going? I don't know. No, no, no, no, no. Good blame. Don't be blamed. Don't be blamed.

That's a command decision. I think I only had over what, two episodes? You're fine. Do you? Do you? Yeah, I'll pass the baton. WWTV. What would Tollv do?

What would Tollv do? Tollv, yeah, I think that that's enough. In the event that we end up going like for multiple days, because it makes sense because if Nattie had it for like half of a day and then I took over for the rest of the day, then we could pass it for you guys for the next day. Don't ever think it.

I think Tollv feeling like he needs to pass it on, sounds like a Tollv move. Yeah, just go for it. No bad decisions, no wrong decisions. Okay, I'm gonna wake up Dog. Dog, Dog, Dog, Dog, Dog. Yeah, Tollv. Just go for it. No bad decisions. No wrong decisions. Okay. I'm gonna wake up Doog. Doog!

Doog! Doog! Doog! Hello, Tollv. Doog is like wide awake staring at him as he's doing this the whole time. I shake Doog's hand and I say, hello, new leader. Leader? Me?

Yeah. Wow. I guess that I will be up for the challenge, leader Tollv. I mean, subordinate Tollv. Wow. I guess that I will be up for the challenge, leader of 12. I mean, subordinate 12. OK, nice salute. You salute yourself. All right, team, what do we see? What do we see during the night?

Anybody see anything suspicious or anyone try to come back to camp at any point? I would say from the people who were on watch, their perspective, nothing seemed to have happened. It was a quiet night. Peaceful night. Did we get a long rest just to confirm? Yeah. No, Doug, I think also over the night, I think we leveled up, right, guys? Right?

Y'all have accomplished so many of your mission objectives. I think now that we're all rested, we should take advantage of this this Vimminvigor we've been gifted and head to our The Eldritch Bay. Endridge. Endridge Bay. Sorry, I got Eldridge on the mind. That's why you're not the Leo anymore. It's true. It's true.

Boom got her. While while we were doing our watch, could Gunther have gotten that axe from Gigi and replaced it with one of his own axes? Like hand axes? I mean, we'll have to maybe make some rolls for that. gotten that axe from Gigi and replace it with one of his own axis, like hand axis. I mean, we'll have to maybe make some rolls for that. I don't know. I feel like Gigi's pretty attached to it at this point. He might have been sleeping with it. Yeah.

Okay. It's like his new teddy bear. I just didn't know if we were supposed to, because we were supposed to leave it somewhere. So that's why I was on the way back. In my mind, because you all want it so much, Gigi is now like clamped onto it and like it's still in recent memory. It's like maybe if you give it time it'll fade but now I think Gigi is like all over that thing. All right what's the move Doug? All right I think we continue west to Endwich Bay. That's it.

You press on through the brush and shrubs for another hour or two and the piercing rainfall and harsh winds continually pelt your faces. Thunder booms and lightning pierces the sky but another sound follows the stormy soundscape. The lapping of water against wood. The rough gravel and weedy dirt slowly gives way to damp sand and briny seaweed. After detours fraught with demons and demigods, you finally reach your destination. Endridge Bay. So it turns out Doug just had to lead us the whole time. Where you going, Doug? Find out what Doug's next command decision is on the next episode of Tales from the Sneaky

Dragon. New location! Pew pew pew! Doug immediately hands off leadership. Doug did it! Alright! That's it! And on a high note.

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Was he like? Yeah, we never did figure that out. Was there a version where he was bad? There's nothing creepier than like us going down a hallway in a cave and a guy saying, you would have purified the world. You know, like. So I think he was probably gonna always be friendly,

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you would have had to pass by Reggie to get there. So either we found a continuity issue with Mike and Gus or Reggie lied. Technically, if my map is correct, which now I'm doubting my own map, when we were in the room with the two different kinds of wind symbols, the one that was like on the made with chains and one that was on the coin, there were three exits that went up around that bend. One was the one that went to the coin. There were three exits that went up around that bend. One was the one that went to the spatula room that then led to the private parts torture chamber. One was the one...

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This episode of tells me to stick to drugs produced by Ben Ernst written editing composed by Michael Reisinger with additional editing work by Katherine Arnold. Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of Tales in the Stinky Dragon. One watering can of this Wesselwitter. Let me try that again. One watering can of this Wesselwitter. God damn it. One watering can. Previously, our adventures ran into Reggie,

the imprudent preacher. I'm just gonna f*** this all up. I'm never doing this again.