Tales from the Stinky Dragon - C03 - Ep. 16 - Brig of Endridge Bay - Lost Souls & Lost Hulls

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

Brutaliteam attempt to find their way through the Cursed Catacombs in search of inexplicable imposters. 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!Check out our new "Council of Barbarians" Tee and the NEW Infinight Legends Collection at store.stinkydragonpod.com ! Follow us on our socials at https://linktr.ee/TalesFromTheStinkyDragonCast: Gus Sorola, Blaine Gibson, Barbara Dunkelman, Jon Risinger, Chris DemaraisWriter/Editor/Composer: Micah RisingerProducer: Benjamin Ernst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's a mixture of blackened fallen tea leaves, cinnamon necrosis sticks, a claw full of orange-peeled flesh, and the stillest of icy water. One cup of this corporeal cold one and you'll have an ear full of unfinished business opportunities. Previously our adventures were eye to eye with iron. Nope, this isn't right. All right, skip me.

We'll do this in post. We'll do it live. Do it live. It is correct, isn't it? Our gang just killed the big post. We'll do it live. Do it live. It is correct, isn't it? Our gang just killed the big boss. It is correct, yeah. Okay, my bad. Let's keep going.

Keep some of that in, Micah. Previously, our adventurers were eye to eye with ironclad, Toll's formidable former captain. After some brief banter, the fearsome foe fled and the foursome of our friends put it back to the first floor of the high three to consume more complimentary cold ones and cuisine. Eventually Eventually they found Fizmum and courageously crossed into the cursed catacombs in search of Pankak and their imposter. Round up a refreshment,

let's resume this rink recollection. Something about my brother saying swag, your stench really highlights how I am literally a co-owner of a company that's name is about smell and I can't. Does uncle Mike ever talk to the kids like that said, Hey kids, swag your stench on over to your uncle. Just trying to connect with them on some sort of colloquial slang level. Have you ever met anyone else who can't smell and you felt like my uncle, is he in jail? Cause I heard the statistic that people that don't have a sense of smell are statistically more likely to be serial killers. Oh, that did come out a while back, didn't it?

Yeah, that did. He's like dragging a body away. No. Yeah, I say that because I remember seeing that. I'm like, oh. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Tales from the Stinky Dragon. I'm your Dungeon Master, Gustavo Cirola.

I'm putting this train back on the tracks. Choo-choo. Whoop-whoop. I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow. Pew-pew-pew. Can't put a train on the tracks if there's no tracks built. So we're going free. I'm gonna hit our four players with an arrow Can't put a train on the tracks there's no tracks built so we're going free we're building the tracks What is your character's go-to karaoke song that's submitted by Tommy the jester? I know yours. It's a good one. 14. 18. 4. 16. So we're going Blaine, John, Barbara, Chris, I think.

Correct. You, who it's me 12, it's Blaine. Dang it, I was, I had a, I was hoping I would get low initiative order because I wanted to do the, the, the, the joke answer, which was, you, who it's me 12, I'm a male orc barbarian level five and my favorite karaoke song is the Pirates of me 12, I'm a male orc barbarian

level five and my favorite karaoke song is the Pirates of the Caribbean theme song. And you guys went, oh, but 12, that doesn't have lyrics. And I say, yeah, I just, you know, hum along to it. You know, it's actually, I don't know if everyone here will know this song, although last time I made this reference in a crowd, people actually connected really well with it. The pirates who don't know anything,

no one here knows that. No. That's a VeggieTales song from a VeggieTales movie. I thought you were setting us up for a joke. Don't do anything. Thank you, Micah. We are the pirates who don't do anything.

Do you anything. We just stay around and lie around. That kind of thing. Yeah, I know that song, yeah. Okay, here we go. I had a mild amount of a church indoctrination. Christian values and vegetables. Well, okay. Okay, here we go. I had a mild amount of church indoctrination. Christian values and vegetables. Well, okay, I'm gonna update mine.

Okay, so my favorite karaoke song, I haven't had many chances to sing karaoke. If you guys wanna go out this weekend, I'm totally free, I'm totally game, would be Holy Diver by Dio. Yeah, it's a big one. It's a bit of a campaign one callback. Okay. Yeah. I don't know what campaign one means. Okay. Well, I thought I thought

it was a safe space in these confessional booths and I could break the fourth wall. I guess not. Is that the real title or what's the real title? Yeah, Holy Diver. Okay, I don't know because I don't know, I don't know Dio songs. Yeah, if it's not VeggieTales, John doesn't know. Correct. Correct. Or Andrew Lloyd Webber. He was just about a guy in the Midnight Sea. But what's becoming of me?

He's just out in the ocean, and he's just having a tough time in the waves. I can relate. Holy diva. There it is. That's me telling on myself that every time Barbara did that, I didn't know that was referencing John same. I'm just now learning that that was a reference. I thought that was something we had made up in this group. I had no idea. I knew it was

a reference, but I just never asked. No, I didn't. You guys never Ronnie James Dio. That's nothing to you. No, I know what I know. The name of the band Dio or, or is he a solo artist? He so, Oh God. All right. So we're going to get into it. I, I, I, I pull that question back. I just, I don't know these songs. That's all in the story. Okay. So like he filled in for Ozzy and black sad and it caused a huge divide in the metal music. Talk about this on second wind. We're like, we've got, we've got an episode we gotta get to. I love it. I love it. Okay. Holy diver. Diver. Very good song. Next person. Thank you. Toll.

Next up I believe is John. Hi, I'm John Reisinger and I play the character that makes us so we can't do this show and we go on tangents the entire time that we're recording or I sometimes play Natty Wonder who is a drow warlock. What am I saying? You know, I swap around those characters. And what song do I, well, unlike my friend Tove, which I'm so sad to hear about this,

I did karaoke all the time. My village, we loved it. We just did it all the time. My village, we loved it. We just did it all the time. We would do it, you know, even just around a campfire. You can do karaoke wherever you want. And my favorite song I like to sing was actually a song that was created by a local band. Their name was Muse.

And they had a great song called Apocalypse, Please. And it's just this great song about, you know, the end of the world and it's got a great like opening riff and it's just fantastic song. Love it. Anything about the end of the world, huge fan. REM, they made a great one. It's into the world as we know it. Yeah.

I feel fine. That's another good one. Yeah. Now you're speaking my language. Those are references I get. Yeah, yeah. I was almost going to say, I love Death Cab for Cuties. I will follow you into the dark.

Oh! Because of both, they got words and both of those things that I like, but you know, I had to go with Muse. Okay. That song is really good. All right, well thanks, thanks Natty. We're going to swap over to, I believe,

our resident DJ, Doug. Doug Boone on the one and two. Who is up next. Who is up next, yep. Doug in the morning the 1s and 2s. Who is up next. D-d-d-d-Doug in the morning. Which, by the way, if you haven't been listening to the very end of every episode, you're missing out on Doug in the morning.

It's a fun fact. The Marvel Cinematic Universe stole that idea from us. Ha ha ha. We predated them. I was going to mention, too, it's funny. A lot of people ask us, you know, about the various campaigns that we record. Like, is there any connection?

Like, do I have to listen to this campaign to understand this campaign, et cetera, et cetera? Or could I just jump in? I feel like the big thing people are missing is the references we make and the jokes we make that like cross over every campaign. Like, holy diver. And that's, that's the big thing. We've jokes that transcend time and space and campaigns.

People are like, what is this council of barbarians? I don't get it. Who are these random voices? But good news, if you go to our store right now at store.stinkydragonpod.com, you can get a shirt that shows these characters. So you can see who Elga is and who Gum Gum is. There you go.

If you buy that shirt, you wear it, and we make that reference, you look down at your shirt and you say, I know that. And they wink at you. The shirt actually winks at you. I know that reference. Hello everyone.

Welcome to Doug in the morning. It's me, Doug Boone, the artificial bug bail played by Barbara Dunkelman. Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. And you know, there's really only one Tom Doug ever did karaoke. And so it's just the only song that Doug sang. And the only reason I was able to do it is because it was at the end of the night when

most people had left. So it was closing time by Samsonic. Okay. But there was only like maybe two or three people left in the club. And so, you know, I took a chance and I did it and I felt pretty good. And everyone was maybe a little too intoxicated to pay attention. So felt nice. It's the perfect audience. Exactly.

Were you the last performer of the night on the way out? And you bust out some closing time? I sure was. There's a lot of words in that song that might be difficult for Doug to say. Listen, John, it was hard to find a can't wait open song that Doug was saying. I'm surprised that Tove didn't get the take a chance reference. What?

She said, take a chance, the second go, and all I heard was, take a chance. Take a chance on me. Oh, Abba. Abba. See, I make references to music. Wow. Local band for you, Tove, Abba.

Y'all. We're going to find out that's his family. That's his actual biological family. Mamma Mia. Here we go again. Thank you for sharing, Barbara slash Doug. And up next, we have probably the most musical of the four. Yes.

He needs no introduction. He is Chris Damaris, musician. I am also playing. Chris is a guitar in the background of his shot, which just adds to the house. Sorry. Anyway, I am playing Gunther the level five male croak folk fighter. fighter. We do not, um, to, I would say karaoke, but there's, uh, some songs that my village sings together that are very special meanings that we sing to bring us together and talk about our commonalities.

Did someone forget to put the batteries in Gunther today? Did someone forget to put the batteries in Gunther today? No, I do not eat batteries, I eat bugs. Which I ate. But the song, it is such a special, our village sings it together because it brings us together. It's not easy being green. It's a very special song to my village. I thought you were going for a village people reference. I thought you were more of like a yellowish green.

It's green, there's the shades of green. There's yellow, there's green, there's brown. It's not easy. Pink, green. It's all the colors, it's just a rainbow connection of colors there for you, isn't it Gunther? Yeah. Why is there a guitar behind you, Chris? Do you play guitar?

Yeah, not well. Give us a little taste, come on, give us a lick. I just, I need to point out, if we're talking about Chris's camera, when Chris first popped up, his camera came into our chat. I thought he wasn't wearing a shirt, but just a little kind of like shoulder jacket, because the color of your shirt's almost like skin tone.

It's one of those baseball teams. It's very similar to your skin tone. I was like, is Chris just wearing a little bolero? Like, what's happening? He's doing that thing that little kids do where they just pull their shirt up over their head, but leave it on their arms. You go, Chris, Oh, he almost did it too. You almost prompted him John He went for it. He's very susceptible

All right I think we learned a little bit about all of the all of the players and all the characters today So thank you. Thank you for sharing. We appreciate that Guzzler. What's your favorite karaoke song dart? What was the voice for Guzzler? You don't want to enter the stinky drive. Well, I'll tell you what. I'll sing Renegade by Styx any day of the week. Ooh, Renegade.

That's like a little Guzzler, a little Colonel, no, what's his name? Oh, Stee-ly. Stee-ly, Stee-ly. Love Styicks. I have not done the Guzzler voice in years at this point. Yeah. Trying to remember listening to it.

You can get right into it by just going, it's a. It's a, ready, get it, buy Sticks. You like Sticks? There it is. IRL? I don't know, I mean, Sticks is cool, yeah. But I figured that was like a good song for Guzzler. Sticks is cool.

Don't worry, got to Mr. Roboto. Yeah. Natty, make me a dexterity check. That's a natural one. That's a critical fail. Oh! Congratulations! You stub your toe and stumble and fall over on uh, on something on the ground. What the, what in tarnation was that? You look and there's a small box on the ground. What's in the box? What's in the box? It seems to be a very secure box made of some kind of weathered stone.

And on the top of it, etched into the stone, is what appears to be an anchor. Shake it. Shake it. And it feels very heavy. And it sounds like there's something small rattling around inside of it. You know what? I opened the box.

You open the box and to your surprise and horror. And inside of the stone box, it shimmers with white, pink, blue, green, and purple like the inside of a seashell. Ooh. And as you open it, you see on the underside of the lid is engraved a symbol of a chalice overflowing with water. Oh, and there are two things inside of the box,

a piece of paper and a necklace, a charm necklace. Describe the necklace. It looks like it's a wavy chain made of silver beads, and it's got a charm on it that's in the shape of a rowing oar and made of... Nakri? Nakrar? Nakri. Nakra. Mother of Pearl. Hahaha! And then the Un Foil de Papier. Is it folded up? Is it sealed, is it a letter? It's just a single sheet,

and it appears to be brittle and bone dry, and it's got a note written on it in common. Well, I speak common. I'm gonna say. Little known fact about Nattie, she speaks common. Oh, I learned something. Divers, cool. What's it say?

Do you read common? I'm being difficult now, I'm sorry. You are being difficult. You run your eyes over the piece of paper and I'm gonna slack it to you so you could read it. Okay. I love that we do this. Give me that sweet southern charm Nanny, all right. That's the wrong window. There's the right window He was in first campaign. That's good.

Blessed Bjorn, you have been more than a faithful follower. You have been a steadfast tide rising to meet every challenge, unyielding as the waves. Because of you, my lost love will soon be found. I am leaving to find her as soon as I finish this letter. As a token of my gratitude, take this necklace. It is a twin to my own, forged in the endless swell of the sea. Should you ever find yourself adrift, call upon my true name and the waters shall heed your cry. The Sea Drinker. Oh.

That's your guide. Yeah, I was gonna say I didn't want to interrupt your flow, but yeah, that's like totally my god, the chalice overflowing with water. Yeah. Also, who was Bjorn? Was that the name that you said, Blessed Bjorn? Yeah. It seems to be someone important to the Sea Drinker.

I told you, you know a bjorn. I actually do know a bjorn, yeah. Wait, you do? Yeah, am I like, is it cool to talk about this? Like I look in the air? Can I get a sign? You do, you. Yes.

Okay, I heard a sign. So like, okay, I hate to bring down the mood because we're already just having such a great time in this cave. But when Ironclad, you know, got rid of me and, you know, he abandoned me after a what's that thing called mutiny? Muny. OK, so when we mutinied against Ironclad, oh, I'm, he so sucks. You and your siblings, if I remember correctly.

Ironclad is like my dad, but like the lamest poopiest dad in the world, you know, sucks anyways. He's like a piece of bad. Yeah, he's big bad, yeah. I see what you're gonna do. So then when I made it to the mainland, I was taken in by a good person named Bjorn,

and Bjorn was like, he was like, kind of like a dad to me, to be honest. Another one. Well, yeah, but like a real one. He took me in. A dad. A good dad. A good dad, yeah. I gave myself an inspiration. Good for you, yeah. I don't know why that tickled me so much. He was a good person, you know in having only really known ironclad and then to be Met by this beautiful wonderful person, you know, I just he was really nice. I love Bjorn So what what happened to Bjorn? He passed away. Oh Yeah, we had a couple of good years and he taught me a lot of things and he took me under his wing and then And then he had wings?

No, Gunther, he did not have wings. He was not an Aarakocron. He was an orc, just like me. Is he the one who told you about the sea drinker? Or was that a prior faith you had while on the ship with ironclad? No, there was not a lot of culture to be shared on a ship with ironclad, just a lot of like death and swords

and stabby stabby, but yeah, Bjorn introduced me to the sea drinker, yeah. Okay. I don't really know his relationship with the sea drinker, to be honest, but- Well, from this letter, it seems like Bjorn was a really known and faithful follower to the sea drinker and is responsible for the Sea Drinker

finding or being able to find their lost love. So helped your guide somehow. Yeah, sounds like it. Yeah. How did your new dad, Bjorn, die? What happened to him? I don't really know. I'm not good with medicines and things like that. I think he was just afflicted by some sort of disease and he was taken sadly before his time. It was very hard for me, you know? Why is this box down here? It's a great question, I have no idea. Because this seems to be a gift that the Sea Drinker was trying to give to Bjorn and never

got this necklace. Yeah, so either it was like lost in transit from Sea Drinker to Bjorn or Bjorn put it down here. I don't know. Yeah, maybe he was exploring this place too for some reason. Maybe. Well, I feel like this necklace should be held held on by you for the moment.

I appreciate that, Nady. That's very kind of you. Yeah. I totally thought you were gonna be like, finders, keepers, losers, weepers. And I was gonna be like, wow, it's like that ice knife from campaign two all over again. And I woke up quickly, things worked out just fine.

Anyways. You know what, Doug? I think I figured out, I think Tove is plagued by some sort of past life situation, which is what he's bringing the baggage from to our Relationships because I know me Natty and I'm not the kind of person to be like finders keepers But he seems to be putting that on me from some previous person. Oh, yeah. Hold on. I'm getting voices. Okay I think I need to do a backflip. I just I feel that I don't know

Necklace would you say is it movable or immovable? Oh, stop it. Well then, I'm gonna add this to my equipment if you don't mind, Nady, again, thank you. Yeah, take this and the letter. Why don't you hold on to the letter? I will. I'll take good care of them. I miss Bjorn, he was a good guy. Yeah, and don't forget that the necklace seems to have some sort of power. Meta speak, is this anything that I need to find in inventory or is it just simply a necklace?

Just call it Mother of Pearl Necklace. Woo. Yeah. Guys, I don't care how low it we get and how hard up we get for cash, I'm not gonna pawn this one off. I'm just saying that right now. It's actually not, it's Nacre necklace.

I'm gonna slack you that word. How do you pronounce this? Nacre. I would assume that that, what you just sent me is some sort of spelling error. Or like it would have been something fancy like Nacer. It's a Micah-ism. Mm.

Language all its own. Micah has such a great vocabulary. I feel like I have a good vocabulary, but then I read some of the stuff you guys like, man, that's next level. You know, I'm pretty impressed that Natty found jewelry and didn't keep it for herself. I feel like y'all are getting a bad feeling about me. I'm actually at the very... No, it's not a bad feeling. It's more of just, you know, someone here who would appreciate some fine jewelry would be you.

Yeah, just because I appreciate something, I mean, I hoard her. I appreciate that. I'm going to... You know what? This is my promise to you. Yeah, just cause I appreciate something, you mean a hoarder. I appreciate that. I'm gonna, you know what? This is my promise to you. When it comes to your arc, I'm gonna find something real good. I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. I'm sorry.

I need to stop being meta. I'm being a good one. But all right. I went ahead and Blaine, I slacked you the letter as well. I just want to make sure that you got that. OK, yeah, I'm looking through it. I added it to the description, so I've got it. Why don't you make me an investigation check?

OK, that is not my strongest. It's going to be a hot nine. Yeah, you realize that with the piece of paper specifically, you need to be very careful with it because it is very brittle and bone dry. And you feel like if you folded it or bent it too much, it might snap. I think this this would also fit this kind of time and era or setting like an oiled kind of canvas, like a wax oiled covered like satchel of some sorts. I feel like Tolv would have something like that on his person to keep things dry that are important.

So I'm gonna put it in there, but I'm gonna wear the necklace. Yeah, Bjorn's my guy, he's my homeboy. As you are securing the letter, you've noticed that there is something a little unusual about it. The piece of paper is fairly long and tall, but the note seems to be kind of scrunched up

and written primarily in the top portion of the piece of paper. Hey, Doug. Yeah. You got that like cool like, what is it? Susophone, what do they call it? The iScope, what do they call that thing? Susophone?

I don't know. Isn't that an instrument? It is, it's like a tuba, right? Sorry, oh you're thinking of the spyglass of Zodiac spy glass of Zodiac killer That's the one. Can you look at this piece of paper? I feel like there's something more to it only if you call it by his proper name spy class of Zodiac Thank you. Yes the first of its name. Zodia.

That's very tickled. You got to respect the tool in order to use it. His name is Tov. Got him. Nice. That's a good one. So, Doug, you comply?

Yes. You pull out the spy glass of Zodia and you try to focus in on the piece of paper and in the blank area, you can see what appears to be some kind of blurry text. Could I focus in to see if I could read it? Put your glasses on. Because I assume that's also potentially in common.

You know, you try to focus it and read it, but you can never it never seems to come into focus. It looks almost like it's water, like there's water in the way and you can't see the text clearly. Oh, water. Hey, hey, Tov, you seem to be an expert on water. So I'm trying to look at this thing here, and it seems like there might be some type of liquid or water on the people. Do you know how to you might remove that or something?

Maybe it's such a touching letter that it makes you tear up and that's why you're having trouble seeing it. Because that's how I feel. That's really possible. Doug is barely in touch with his emotions. Do you mind if I take a look? Maybe I can see it. It could be, you know, if Bjorn wrote it down, I might know his handwriting. What if the paper needs to be quenched? Oh, it's very fragile. I mean, he's thirsty. Does anybody? Yes, Gunther. Does anybody have like a piece of flat glass or a bottle

of some kind? That way we don't have to put water on the document, but we can look at it through water. I mean, I have my glasses. Okay, we could cry. I don't think Gunther heard anything you said. Look at it through water. I think Gunther might just wanna cry. Maybe he's been holding onto it for a while. Gunther, if you need a shoulder, come on here, buddy.

Dog pats to his shoulder. I don't know, I'll cry on your shoulder and Gunther jumps up onto your shoulder. Gunther's definitely onto something. I want to try that. If you guys will allow me, I don't often do this, but I'm going to get a little emotional and I'm going to summon the best tiers that I can and then I'm going to look, Doug, if you'll let me, I'm going to look through the Spy Zodia, through these tears and see if it changes things. I don't know, give it a shot, you know, what, what?

Are we staring at me? This is awkward. No, I just think we should cry. You're talking. I was waiting for you to finish your sentence. I just said it right there. I just said it right there. I was listening to you.

I'm sorry. This is hate, I don't even need inspiration. I'm just gonna cry right now. This is to make me cry. Hey, Doug, remember that time Tolp said he never gets emotional? I don't even need inspiration. I'm just gonna cry right now Hey Doug, remember that time told city never gets emotional So now me and good they're just crying I guess And that was Gunther crying on my shoulder. Gunther crying? I missed my wife. Oh my god. So now me and Gunther are just crying I guess. Oh you guys are killing me today.

They're getting emotional. Yeah. Let's go and stay in touch with that. Don't lose it. Alright so, can I try crying? Yeah. What do you think about to evoke these feelings, Tolv? Tolv's brain tries its best to drift away from hatred.

So he tries to put ironclad away and instead think of the few happy moments that Tolv has had. So he thinks about his siblings and the time that he had with them on their ships, on their ship. And then he thinks of his good times with Bjorn. He just does anything he can to see like happy tears. Oh yeah, I like that. Yeah, that's really, really good.

Okay, so yeah, you start conjuring up these fond memories to conjure happy tears. And then mechanically, just so I understand, like what's the way you're doing this? You're crying and then looking through the spyglass of Zodia, like I just want to make sure I understand exactly what's the way you're doing this you're crying and then looking through the spyglass of Zodiac Like I just want to make sure I understand exactly what's happening here Yeah, I'll try crying and then through those watery tears look through the spyglass of Zodiac onto the document I feel like if this document is as brittle as you say it is I'm afraid to put liquid on it

You know what they say like water plus water equals clear Plus water equals clear. It should work. I don't know. Listen, dog, I don't know what I'm doing here. I'm being very vulnerable with you guys in this cave. Maybe your tear will kind of make like that bubble of water that almost acts like glasses, you know? Yeah.

Who knows? Who knows? You conjure these memories and start picking up the spyglass to look at the paper. And as you're doing so, you realize you don't need the spyglass. Oh. Through your tears, you're able to see the text on the paper. Oh.

Oh. Doug grabs the spyglass back. There you go. There you go. You see the beautiful writing, but you're unable to make it out. It appears to be written in Celestial. Does Toll know Celestial? I do not believe so, no.

Does anybody know Celestial? I know Celestial. Oh my gosh. Okay, Gunther, I'm going to need to make you cry. Oh, sorry, Doug. I'm going to need to make you cry. I'm already crying! Okay, Gunther, I know I mistaken the names.

I feel like we've opened the floodgates on Ganto and anything is just gonna set them off now. I mean, guys, let's just, you know, team building. Oh my God, Private Parts, you can join if you want. I forgot you were here. Private Parts is busy attending to Captain Mumbles. Well, there's a lot more people in here than I thought. Captain Grumbles.

Captain Grumbles. But Mumbles is great too. Dog, it's very, this text is very important to me. It could be a message from beyond the grave from my dear Bjorn. Could you somehow summon some tears to see if you can read this? Oh, don't worry.

Dog is very in touch with his emotions. Oh wow, that was fast! Ask me to cry, I just have to think about one thing, and it starts working! What's that thing, Doug? It only works if... Let's give her the paper! Okay, here you go! I just want to say, Gigi is so confused.

Hahaha! Is Gigi not crying? Gigi is looking at the three of you you making all these sounds and crying and just kind of looking back and forth and just not not kind of understanding what is causing all this. I picture Gigi seeing this and also crying because I feel like when you're a baby and other people are upset you get upset. But it's the cartoon version where his head tilts back and tears spew out the sides. Let's just help you get on shoulder.

Oh, I give me the paper. OK, there you go. Use the paper. Be very careful. Could I read the section through my tears? Yeah, I'm going to send you what it is. It is OK. OK. Oh, Doug, real quick, I'm going to prompt you. If this is from Bjorn, I need you to read it in Bjorn's voice Okay, that's my prompt to you. I mean, I don't know it

I don't know if this is from Bjorn just to remind it this was written by the god not Bjorn. Oh, okay. Okay Never mind continue You know the true names of those who dwell in Hyrule. It's so good. And few still live to speak them aloud. There is power in such knowledge and peril in misuse. Guard this secret as you would your own breath beneath the waves. For to share it is to invite the storm.

My true name is Najorda. Take that again, I didn't understand. Let me spell it out for you. Let me spell it out for you. Oh, it's okay. N-J-O-R-D-A. It's good, let it out. It's probably got a silent J.

Nyorda. Nyorda? Nyorda. Oh, that's beautiful. What about Bob? I go in the night, I take Natty in for a big hug. Oh! Why Natty?

Oh, I just need the love and support of my friends. Okay, I didn't know if you were forgetting a name again and calling someone else another name. Did you want to cry, Nati Vonder? You can. He's okay. You know what? I'm too happy for all of this good emotional expression and discovery of lost important people to cry. Okay.

But I pat Tove on the back. Ooh. Yeah, and at this point, Private Parts walks back over and just says, Guys, I think we should keep moving. We've made a lot of noise here. And his gaze turns to Tove. What?

What did I do? Huh? Nothing, Tove, you're good. Okay. You are the leader, but it's okay. Is Tov the leader still? No, this is still Doug. Yeah, that's what I thought.

I'm so sorry, I forgot. It's okay, I get the names mixed up all the time. It's perfectly acceptable. I did not forget the name, I just forgot the leader. Alright, everybody. Time to toughen up. No more tears, we move forward. Yes sir. Ooh.

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Gunther is really firing today. I had just enough time to let the coffee hit before I started. Okay, good. I'm here for it. Get an IV of coffee. Can I scout ahead? Is that available? Mm-mm, me, notes and tables.

There they are. That's a good song. You're buttering me up. We'll get you nowhere. I need an inspiration die. Yes, it is available, sure. From the vantage of Doug's shoulder, Gunther tries to scout ahead.

Ooh. Ooh. You do have a very high advantage. Yeah. That's a dexterity check. Yeah, so scout ahead. Yeah, it's a dexterity base check. Oh no!

There's a two plus five for seven. Ah, the tears are still in my eye. It's hard to see. The tears have attracted cave dust and now you've got cave mud in your eyes. I can't see anything except for sadness. Do you change into animals? No, it doesn't. So yeah, because your eyes are too bleary, you're unable to really glean any further information about the paths laid out ahead of you.

I feel that, everyone. That will go to the left. Okay. Is that one available? Yeah, all three are available. And are you still going on top of Doug's shoulders or are you leading the way here? I'll lead the way.

I'll hop off in shame. All right. Gunther hops off in shame and begins leading the way forward. And as you're doing so, you're kind of slowly making your way, gingerly stepping through the cavern. like I said you know you've got this these tears in your eyes and maybe dust and it's hard to see and you feel like

there's something actually in your eye like you know how like you feel like a hair or something I don't have hair you were just undone presumably in your travels you've had some hair you were just on my shoulder you't have hair. You were just undone. Presumably in your travels, you've had some, a mammoth's hair. You were just on my shoulder. You might have hair on you. I have hair. Yeah, it's in your right eye. It's like really bothering you.

You were crying. My hair got wet. You know, I might have just gotten you. I've always wanted hair. Well, you've got one in your eye. What? You said leave the hair there. You're gonna try to pull it out or anything. This is the bump? Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Gunter tries to pull the... it's a very long hair. I don't know where it came from but it like pulls it out it's like a six inch hair.

It truly is nothing like getting something that is stuck in your eye out of your eye and you just like, oh, I feel like personally getting something stuck out of my teeth is even better. Oh wow. You pull the lock of hair out and as you do it, you realize it's really long. You ever get one of those like really long gross ones in your eye and it's a lock of bronze hair.

And as you pull it out and hold it in your hand, it takes the shape of a key. What? Oh. I didn't know my foe could do that. Your hair is magic. What you got you? A key. Is it like, how big is it?

It's like an actual, Goddard looks around for a door. Make an investigation check. No, you don't really see any locks or doors. There is a spiral staircase that continues the path in this direction, continues your descent into the catacombs, but that's about it. So this is like a key like that hold shape as a key It's a key that whole shape as a key. What are you like? Like I take it out

It's in the shape of a key and it's still like holding shape. Yeah, like is it still hair form? Yeah, it was like a like a long piece of hair and you pulled it out then as you were holding it it transformed from Like a long straight piece of hair into the shape of a key. Oh that must have really hurt. Did you have like retinal damage or anything? Do you need some eye drops or anything? I have my own drops coming from my eyes. Oh not again. We've moved past that part. Come on, Guldur. We shall go up the stairs I suppose.

Down. Down the stairs. Okay, you begin walking down the stairs and as you step on them, they're very squeaky, like old wood and just kind of squeaks and groans a lot as you all walk down the staircase to the next level in the catacombs. We must be quiet stairs. Okay.

All right, that's it for Gunther. Up next we have Doug. Alright, so what I got in front of me? You actually have three options, three paths ahead of you. Okay. Remind me again, do I choose a direction and then, or do I choose an action? Choose an action. Okay.

Um, can I do careful consideration? Yeah, careful consideration. Yeah, careful consideration. So Doug stands at the precipice of this decision and with fingers rubbing his chin, he ponders the possibilities in front of him. That's a wisdom check. Yeah. 15. Oh, that's a really good roll.

Something about the situation rekindles an old memory and you're able to regard the paths in front of you and try to figure out which one is the best. So, metagame-wise, you are able to reveal two cards in the river. So, pick two directions to reveal. Let's do right and left. You consider those directions... Hmm. Hmm. Right and left. Right and left. You consider those directions. Hmm. Hmm. Right and left. Right and left.

Left and right. With your years of experience in burrows and dens, you feel like there is some kind of creature or animal in the left passageway. And you feel like looking down the right passageway, you get a sense of correctness and that being a better way to go. Hmm. And then from a metagame perspective with the rules you choose one of these to discard and then we shuffle the remaining two and place them face down in the river.

I am getting a bit of the heebie-jeebies from the left side so I don't think we should go that way. You got it. Let's discard that one. Okay. We shuffle the remaining two cards and placed them face down. All right. So you still have a left center and right path,

but the heebie jeebies option is gone. As far as I know. Yes. The heebie jeebies you got from that is gone. Now there are fresh options in front of you, left center and right. I will go right. Okay.

The heebies and the jeebus. Hee-bee's, gee-bee's. Where'd you get those gee-bee's? Cre-bee's. Yeah, Cre-bee's, that's a good one. You begin making your way down the right path. And as you do so, maybe it's because Gunther just found some hair,

but you're looking around on the ground and you find some locks of magenta hair on the ground. Oh, didn't, was it Pancak that had magenta hair? It was good memory. Yeah Stout Halfling with magenta hair. What color hair was that key that I pulled from my eye? Like bronze? It was like a bronze copper.

Yeah bronze. Oh sorry wrong metal. Stupid stupid. Guys Doug picks up the magenta hair. I think we'll onto something. This is probably a pink-hacked hail. Hopefully they're not like cutting it as they walk. Cause that, you know, you don't want to cut your own hail.

I've done that before with mine and it did not turn out well. Go to professional. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, bangs. I always regret them. Especially when you're walking, it's even more difficult. It's true. I cut my hair all the time. Well, I feel when you're walking it's even more difficult. It's true. I cut my hair all

the time. Well I feel like you're more skilled in the beauty department. Cosmetically inclined. Exactly. Plus 10 to cosmetics. So uh with Doug's turn settled that means we are upon 12. What are my options, dude? You've got all of the options available to you. Okay. Yeah, I don't think this is set explicitly, but it seems like we're not going by like the actions table is limited. Oh, okay.

Micah kind of updated the rules a little bit for this new iteration. Then let's do, let me see if my dex is any good. Yeah, what the heck. Let's do Scott Head. Okay if my decks is any good. Yeah, what the heck? Let's do a Scott of Head. Okay. Roll for decks? Yep, make a deck check. Okay.

Oh, that's a 19. Man, that's also a good roll. All right, so you kind of forge ahead a little bit and investigate and try to ascertain what the best course of action here is. And from a metagame perspective, we're gonna draw three cards from the deck, and then we choose one to place on top of the deck and the other two are shuffled into the back. I put the Aesir in

Aesir Tain. It's a bit of a bit of a Nordic joke. Am I right guys? Am I right? What does that mean? Aesir are a race of creatures in Nordic mythology. Yeah. Am I right, am I right, Micah? Whoop whoop. Was Freya part of the Aesir? I can't remember. It was the Aesir and the gods that were two different. Give yourself an inspiration die. Yeah!

That's a good one. That was told by the way. Micah says that's over his head. Yeah. All right, so yeah, we've made it game wise. We've got three cards and we'll choose one to place on top of the deck and the other two are shuffled back into the deck. Okay.

Then can I get let's see those cards. Oh, wait, no, the Aesir were the gods. Okay. Okay. Oh, it was an Aesir. Gotcha. You know, you scout ahead a little bit and you know, you see two possibilities with chests of some kind

and another possibility with someone else who appears to be exploring the catacombs. Ooh, stranger. I'm going to avoid that guy and go to the leftmost chest. So you choose one to place. We keep that one and then lose the other two. They go back to the right. Exactly. So then you are still faced with three options to friend you. Left, center and right. Left.

Why is that? I just have a feeling in the back of my head. I don't know. He's a big fan of Beyonce. To the left. To the left. One half this time. Yeah.

She was one of the A's here. Oh, yes. All right. So you go to the left and you're greeted with a passage with vents and small water puddles on the floor. Ooh, like a little splash. It sounds like a splash zone is what you just described, like what I would take my kids to when they were young.

Yeah. That sounds fun. Until we die. Well, except, yeah, it seems like as you're splish splashing around, steam begins rising and the puddles begin slowly bubbling and expanding Okay, the water slowly rising told higher higher

Why don't you do something? I'm gonna get out of that water. I'm gonna go to the other side or no wait This sounds like a dead end. Is it a dead end? I don't know. I need something Toll begins running to escape it make me a perception check toll why not okay? 15 just blame listening to Gus like he's a he's an audience member just wondering He was just you know in Blaine's defense he really it's easy to get enraptured by your storytelling, Gustavo. Oh, yeah. He just wants to stir and listen.

Sometimes I think I'm the audience. You can see that there is an exit on the other side of the passageway, and as you begin running for it, boiling hot water begins exploding out of the puddles. Ugh. Make me a Dexterity Saving Throw. Okay. I think on Dexterity Saving throws, I have advantage. Yes, with your dangerousness. So that's a...

21 and... 13. The Scalding Hot Water explodes all around you, doing... It would do 5 points of damage, but you save successfully. You take half damage. You take 2 points of damage, but you save successfully. You take half damage. You take two points of damage as the boiling hot water falls on you and lands on your skin told. Oopsie daisy. My bad.

That hurt so bad. Oh, my gosh. Stewart is crying too. A lot of tears today. Then once you get across the level, begins lowering again. And the boiling and the eruption seems to be subsiding slightly. Do the rest of us need to cross this obstacle? Now you do. Mm-hmm. It's okay guys because I brought it up. Well no now because Tov's across. Okay, you made that sound like it wouldn't have happened if I hadn't brought it up? Hey Tov, you alright? Oh, I'm doing great. Just a little scalding. Nothing too bad.

Just run so so very fast and it'll be a-okay. Okay, Fentel, you wanna hop on my shoulder or you wanna go yourself? I've never left. Wait, yes I did. I'm back on. Actually, Maddie wants to do something with Doug. Oh. Hey Doug, I have something really important to ask you to do for me. Are you going to make me cry again?

No, it's not. Stop crying. Could you hold my ring for me? Sure, I'll hold it. It won't fit on one of my fingers though. No, I just want you to put it in your fist and hold on to it. Okay. Okay. I put the ring in Doug's hand

and then both Natty and Gigi disappear into the ring. Oh, it's like the flash. Do I see that happening? I never thought of it like that, Blaine. That's pretty good. I thought this was an engagement, but instead it's a ghosting. MetaWise to explain to you guys,

that's the genie vessel for my patron and where Gigi is summoned from. And I have the ability to enter it if I want. That's cool. Okay, so do I know that you're in this ring now? Like, did I see you like, like? I feel like in my head, Blaine wasn't off. It was in my head, it's like't off. It was in my head.

It's like the Jumanji suck. Like when the kids get sucked into the game, it's like that in my head. Okay. So we would know. In the original Jumanji with Ron Williams and Bonnie Hunt. Okay. Well, I got a gun on my shoulder and I think the rest of the party in this wing.

I want to hold up my shield over Doug's face so that like, you know. Like this? No, like protecting, like so that while we pass the water I'm blocking Doug's face from the water. Maybe like a hat. Yeah. Yeah.

Is it raining down? Like how's the water coming in? Right now it's very low again. It is the small water puddles on the floor but it seems to rise up and then it went back down. Okay guys ready to go. Listen daddy if you're in jail we're gonna run through the water so just stay in the ring kind of vibrate. Could Doug then while carrying Gunther with the shield on him and holding the ring, just like run as fast as he could towards toll. Yeah. You begin running as fast as you can and private parts does his best to keep up as well as captain grumbles.

You're running through and as you begin running through, once again the steam begins rising and the puddle bubbles begin expanding and the water slowly rising higher and higher. Make me an athletics check, Doug. I was going to ask, this might be one step too far, but as I see this happening, could I grab Gunther's shield and like put it under my feet while I'm running so it almost acts as like a like a board like a star ward awake board wakeboard yeah yeah got there I don't know how you communicate this but somehow got there knows any flings it forward while you're running so so that you can just like hopefully

you said athletics yeah we'll still call that an athletics check to do that. It rolled from a 17 onto a 3, so it's a 3. I give you my inspiration die. Oh, nice, I forgot we can do that. Okay, thank you. You're welcome! Again! Oh, 19!

Woo! Oh yes! I was really hoping for the 3. Okay, yeah. Yeah, so Gunther tosses his shield out front and Doug hops on top of it and says cowabunga or something and uh we don't want to end the deal. Yeah speedily skims across the surface of the water reaching the other side shortly before it explodes into a cacophony of bubbles and exploding water. Daddy I wish you could have seen what just happened

or which were crazy. It is so cool. What do Captain Grumbles do? Apparently this is called skimboarding. I just learned from Micah. Oh. Skimboarding or skimming is a board sport in which a skim board is used to glide

across the water surface to meet an incoming breaking wave and ride it back to shore. They did it in California beaches all the time. Yeah, Private Parsons and Captain Grumbles did not get on there on the shield. So they're a little slower and the water explodes all around them and they get a little, they're a little worse for the wear.

They come out the other side, slightly damp and looking unhappy about the whole situation. Okay, but look at the bright side, you guys. How about that exfoliation in my right? Super open. It's okay private parts. You can say what you think. Take an inspiration back Chris. That's good. It's called self care. Natty, do you just come back out of the ring or just Doug do you have to do something how does this work? Hey Natty we're through with the stuff if you want to come out now I don't know what to do I'm still gripping on to the wing. Natty

appears outside the ring with Kiki thanks Doug. Yo. Can I have the ring back? Here you go. And Natty puts it back on her finger. I was hoping it'd be like a green lantern thing you know. In darkestty puts it back on her finger. I was hoping it'd be like a Green Lantern thing, you know? In darkest night, in brightest day, I summon my friend who is like super gay. It's pretty good. All right, take an inspiration die. That was good. Okay, that was 12, which means Natty, it's year up now that you're back with us. Hi Natty, welcome back.

Hi! You are up, step on up. You got three paths ahead of you and a full range of options you can use. Yeah, I'm just gonna go with boost morale for my action. Okay. And a little charisma on that. That's a critical failure. Don't need to look at my sheet for that.

Who were you going to try to boost the morale of? I think Natty would have tried to do the whole team, but I imagine one person in particular would have been more inspired than everybody else and so they would have gotten advantage on their next turn. Gotcha. Maybe you like uninspire someone because of your failure. You just pick one person, you just make a total downer day.

That's a DM decision. It's like when you try to compliment someone, but you hone in on something they're insecure about, or you bring attention to something they would rather not talk about. So despite your best effort, they're like, oh, now they're self-conscious of this thing that they don't wanna really think about.

This must have happened to Gus really recently, because he sounds very specific. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I watched a video online of this person who insulted another person made a comment about their forehead and the person receiving the insult like instantly, like subconsciously, like touch their forehead. And it was just it was just a really weird, awkward encounter. Oh, that's what's like standing out in my head anyway.

So, yeah, you you know, go up there and try to give a rousing speech To everyone but every time you try to talk giggy's following along Mimicking you making giggy noises. So nobody can really hear what it is that you're trying to say But I picture giggy like Patton walking back and forth Speech and just No one can really focus on what it is you're saying, Natty. He thinks he's translating. Go team!

All right, so I have... Three paths in front of you. A left, a center, and a right. Natty wants to go right. All right. As you are heading to the right, you find another staircase. This one going up and leaning at the base of the staircase as it goes up. You see what appears to be a small wooden crutch. Tiny Tim? Who has a crutch? Oh wait, someone

did have a crutch. Hold on. Did Pancake have a crutch? Yeah, it was like a Kaiser Soze thing. Can we do like a history check maybe? Yeah, can I explore the depths of my information, my knowledge? Yeah, why don't we start with Nadi since it's her turn and we'll expand it to everyone based on how she rolls. But Nadi, why don't you make me a, let's call it a wisdom check. This is much better than my last roll.

19. Who's Pancak? Who's Pancak? Pancak? No, no, they have crutches. Oh, it was Pancak. Yeah. Well. Well, yeah. Toll remembered and Toll told you.

But yeah, you do remember that something about Pancak using a crutch. Do you yeah, Toll remembered and Toll told you, but yeah, you do remember that something about Pancak using a crutch. Do you remember why, Toll? Because they had magenta hair. I don't know. I know. Oh, half a half left leg. There you go.

Yeah. It's missing. Yeah, half of Pancak's left leg is missing. Yeah. And we asked what the leg was that we found in the wall that one time, but it was a right leg. Yeah, there you go. Look at that memory. Yeah.

And it's of a diminutive size, so you think this could theoretically belong to Pankak. Okay, I'll hold on to this. Okay. I think we're going the right way. Seems to be a good omen. Not for Pankak. Yeah. So, is that a correct path card? Yeah, metagame-wise, yeah, that is a clear path card.

I only ask because I can't remember where we're at in number wise. Yeah, that's the third one. That's three, okay. I mean five. Yeah, there was one in the previous episode, then Doug found the magenta hair and you just found the crutch.

We're more than halfway there. Look at that Optimus, glasses half full. Living on a prayer. I like that attitude. Whoa. We're more than halfway there. I see what you're doing. Hello everyone, if you enjoy our show we've got a great podcast recommendation for you.

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You still have advantage on a charisma check. I think it was because of something you ate or drank at the High 3. Oh. Oh, is it the... that slime or something? The slug? Oh, is it because I ate the mushrooms or something? Or I don't know. Yeah, I had something. T. You both had some hallucinogenic effects for a little while that have since worn off. But I think they're also had something else as well that gives him advantage.

That makes sense. I don't know why I had in my notes, but I had that Doug and Gunther have an acid trip And I was like, I don't remember this you could boost morale Luther who's next and the order next after you is Doug Doug what you did with my shield was very Inspiring and I want you to know that it made me happy and I think you are super neat That's so nice One of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me. You're gonna make me cry again, Godot

Oh, don't make me cry again You guys making me cry now thinking about crying That should just be the thumbnail for this episode is everyone crying. It's like which scene is it from? I don't know It happens so many times in this episode. This is the one where everyone cries. Yeah. Just do it where it's the three of them crying and Natty's not in the thumb.

And people are like, what happened to Natty? Ah! Clickbait. Clickbait. Oh, John. You can never deprogram that part of your brain, huh? Nope. I'm just so good at thumbnails.

Yeah. So roll a charisma check with advantage. That's an inside joke there. That I will never let die. I don't think. Two 15s. So 15. All right. Yeah.

Doug, you feel really good about yourself. You feel like, you know, you're puffing your chest out, standing up a little more straight. You know, you can figure it out. I can figure it out. Yeah, I like to think the second Doug stands up straight, you just hear all of his bones start cracking because he has such a hunch.

Yeah. And then are all three paths clear or available? They're all available, yes. Gunther will move to the center. You're walking forward in the path and, you know, you're still holding that lock of bronze hair you found earlier, I imagine. You're still like regarding it and trying to figure out what to do with it.

And as you're looking down at it, you see something on the floor beneath your feet as you're walking through this passageway. It's not a lock of bronze hair, it's a key of bronze hair. Yeah, I know, I was just thinking that. I was like, there's a joke or pun in there. You have visions of a lizard folk who is really into hair. No, no, no. But you, as you're looking at it, you know, you're looking down at the ground

and you see there's a necklace bead on the ground. And it's near an archway that continues the passage forward. And this necklace bead, can I look closer? I like to think that Gunther just kind of leans over and puts his face close to the ground to examine it. And yeah, you see, it appears to be made of purple heartwood. This is pancakes. Solitary bead. They have a necklace of purple heartwood.

I have it in my mind. You all took really good notes. I'm kind of shocked at this. I'll take it for pancake. OK, do you you convey this to the rest of your friends? Yeah. Yeah. Good. Let's go. And then yeah, continue.

I'm guessing the necklace that Told is wearing, it's not made of the same material, is it? With silver with a made up word that is like pearl. Knacker. Yeah. Yeah, it's like more like a mother of pearl is the necklace that Told has. What is mother of pearl compared to pearl? I think mother of pearl is the necklace that told us what is mother of pearl compared to pearl

I think mother of pearl is more iridescent and it's not necessarily a sphere like a pearl is sphere But mother of pearl is like can be flat and iridescent if I understand correctly All right. Good job Gunther up next like we said a little while ago is Doug on the threes Once in twos equals threes. All right, could I do a it's element tree? You absolutely can I feel a It's Elementry? You absolutely can. I feel like that's Doug's favorite. And you have advantage on this because of Gunther boosting your morale.

Well, what a sweet thing for a friend to do for another friend. Don't think I'm going to need advantage because I was 22, but I'll roll again. Okay, 22. All right. You, you know, bust it down scientifically, logically. You try to figure out what your best options here are, which, uh, metagame-wise allows you to draw two cards from the deck, and we're going to choose one to replace a card in the river.

So you, you know, using the process of elimination and logic, I would say like looking down one path, you see what appears to be an obvious trap of some kind, and looking down the other path you can almost get like a sense of fresh air. Go down the sense of fresh air path? Yeah, so you can choose one of these and replace a card in the river with it. So you choose one and it'll go into the river. So which side was which again?

I would say the left appears to be maybe a trap of some kind. It seems suspicious. And then to the right, you get like a sense of fresh air. I wanna get rid of that left card. All right, you get like a sense of fresh air. I want to get rid of that left card. All right. Which means we will put the fresh air into the options that lay in front of you.

So you can go either left, center or right. And you know one of them has, at least one of them has fresh air. Which could be a trap, but we'll go right. Okay. You walk down the right passageway and as you're walking down, the hallway slowly becomes more reinforced

with iron plating and leaning up against one of the iron plated walls you find what appears to be an antique crystal shield. Ohhhh. Can I pick it up and take a look at it? Yeah, you pick it up and since you said you're taking a look make an investigation check on it. Investigating. Darn. Six. And since you said you're taking a look, make an investigation check on it. Investigating, darn, six.

You pick it up and take a look and you see that there is a colorful script written on the back. Oh. It's written in Ork. I don't know if you can read Ork, Doug. Guess what? I can. You can?

Dang. Oh. Then in that case, clear as day, you can read, and again, very flourish, colorful script. It says, made in Bulgaria. Oh. Then in that case, clear as day, you can read in like, again, very flourished, colorful script. It says made in Bulgaria. Oh, yeah. Any of you guys know a place called Bulgaria? I think that's where Vostogos Gorol is. Anybody? Anybody?

Bulgaria. Can I see if I know? Yeah. Make a wisdom check. Why not? I'm going to add that as well. Can I? Oh yeah, go for it. I'm saying this to the whole group, so I would think like... 16.

I'm waiting for everyone else's rolls too. Six. I hate my dice. 20 plus one, 21. So 16, 21, six, got it. You ponder it and you think about it and you're not quite sure if you've ever heard of that. It doesn't seem like a familiar land.

None of us? Yeah, none of you. It could be that maybe since it's antique maybe it's a land from long ago that no longer exists. Bulgaria. How do you spell that? Probably like Bulgaria with a V. Yeah exactly. Okay and it's a shield that you said is like some pearl. It's an antique crystal shield. Crystal. Does it look like a practical shield? Like, still usable? Yeah, like usable or more like decorative. It's crystal so it probably would not be super effective. Do you think we should take this with us or should we just leave it here?

I think so. I've traveled to many places and I've never heard of Volcaria so it could be special old. I guess I'll hold on to it for now. You should go for it, yeah. As Doug says that, parts of his speech seemingly get bleeped out. Well, I guess I'll bleep onto it for now. Keep talking.

Hey guys. I love you. I love you. Interesting. New development. Weird, where's that coming from? Okay, so here's a theory gang, vulgaria,

the root word vulgar. I think it shields us from vulgarities. It's like a, some sort of joke thing, I don't know. But I didn't say anything vulgar. Say a naughty word. F***. Okay, yeah, all right. Say a naughty word, Barbara, and don't push the button.

Poop. What happens? What do we hear? Oh no. I'm just gonna put this guy down. Say a word for when you're going to keep carrying something. Huh? What?

I'm trying to figure out the word that got bleeped, but I can't say the word because Nattie wouldn't have heard the word. I gonna hold on to this guy. It's intermittently. I'm gonna onto this Okay, that's what I wanted to figure out I want to figure out if it was if it was random or specific So it's a random censorship. It seems to be kicking in randomly. Let us give it to mr. Grumbles captain So it's basically the MPAA. Can we give it to Captain Grumbles? So he just goes...

Arrgh, f***! Arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, arrgh, Grumbles is very important. I need you to hold on to this shield and protect it with your own life. Okay? All right, thank you. He's so angry. Captain Grumbles take it easy man. He hasn't got to take a turn so I think he just feels left out. All I know is I don't think I want to visit this bulk area personally. Yeah Strict laws. Yeah, no freedom of speech. All right, that was Doug which means 12 Europe. Oh Let's see. Yeah, I would like to forgy path. I would use my strength. Okay, show us that strength toll. Ah

use my strength. Okay show us that strength toll. Ah that's a 20. Oh nice so that adds two additional clear path cards into the discard pile so you know you go out there and you just kind of like clear some growth and clean some slippery moss off the ground and just generally try to make the path easier for your compatriots to follow which metagame wise just increases the opportunity in general for people to make a correct choice. You're welcome. Hard work. Yep. Moving boulders.

Hard work. I guess I get to choose which path to go down. Yeah. Yeah. Left center or right. Let's give center a go. Let's get a shot. All right.

Center square with Harvey Firestein. What? John got it. Is that just celebrity squares? Hollywood squares. Yeah. Whoopee. Yes, Whoopee Golden was on there a lot too.

That was just Gunther being excited about progressing. Whoopee. All right, so you begin proceeding. And as you are walking down the pathway, I'll tell you what, make me a perception check. Okey dokey. That's a 10. As you are walking, you slowly begin hearing a sound.

It almost sounds like the clinking of chains and a voice crying out in pain. And it's slowly getting louder and louder. And as you are walking down this passageway, it appears to fork to the left and to the right. Uh-oh. You want to maybe hear where the thinking is coming from? Yeah.

Can I figure out which one? Which traction is coming from? It seems like the sound is traveling down and coming from both of them. The same sound. Maybe this fork just goes around, it's just a big circle and it goes to the same place. Like this, wham.

Yeah, just the way. Yeah, just the way. Uh, left, let's go left. All right. We encountered chains before, they were white chains. White? Yeah. You take the left path and after snaking around

for a little bit, you come to what appears to be a cavernous underground cove flooded with seawater. There's natural rock walls and palm fronds and moss and a smattering of jagged rock sea stacks. Now, is this the kind of water that I could swim through or is this the kind of water that's going to make me burn and hurt and go ouchy? It does not appear to be boiling steamy water. Okay. And does this lead to any place? Like it's just water in front of us and then it leads down.

Okay. I appreciate the questions. Thank you for asking. Yeah. You see, where you have come out, you're on a dock that appears to hug the Western edge of this cove. And you realize that this looks very different from the catacombs you were just in.

Across the cove on the eastern side, you see another wooden dock that also hugs the eastern edge of this cove. And in the middle between them is floating and sunken shipwreckage. To the north, you see what appears to be a menacing house-sized skull with one eye replaced by a sharp gemstone. Ooh, got a real goony situation here, yes, Nady? That skull is across the cove where that other wooden dock is, past the wreckage? The skull is to the northern end of the cove. Yeah. It appears like both of these docks kind of snake to the north towards? The skull is to the northern end of the cove. Yeah. It appears like

both of these docks kind of snake to the north towards the big skull. Okay and then there is a watery area in the middle with all the wreckage? Okay. Correct. Between the two docks and south of the skull. Does anybody have like like Misty Step or like some sort of walk on water power like lily pads that they can shoot out so that Gunther can hippity hop. I might be able to to make something. I'm interested otherwise I'm gonna be honest the only thing I can think of is I put like all of you inside of Nati's ring and then I skip it like a skipping stone and we just kind of see how it goes. Do we know how deep it is? It's presumably deep, but I wouldn't say super deep since there's like ship wreckage. You can see like parts of ships are settled

under the water, but parts of them are still protruding from the top. It's not deep enough for a ship, but it's deep enough to swim in. Is that narrow enough for you? Does that kind of answer your question? Yeah. I'm going to be so for real. I am like terrified that there's going to be like a big sea monster, you know? I don't know if it's deep enough for that to be a monster. Is there anything above the shipwreckage or the things? Like in the ceiling? Yeah, or like that could be used as like something to grab hold of to swing across. Stellactites. It's almost like a big cavern. So there is a ceiling with stalactites up there, but it is pretty high up since it is like a cavern. Like how high?

Let's call it 70 feet. If I can throw you, then you can throw. You could throw me. Catch you with your tongue. Oh, I have a question. The house-sized skull, does it have a door? What I was about to say was, if you continue on this dock,

it appears to lead you to this house-sized skull. As in the docks were just like a boardwalk to the skull. Correct. We can just walk. Nattie goes, why don't we just walk right here on this little path made to walk to that skull? No, throw me. That seems to make just a little too much sense, Nattie. Throw me now. Why don't we just walk right here on this little path made to walk to that skull? No, throw me!

That seems to make just a little too much sense, Nanny. Throw me now! I let everyone win. We start walking and I throw Gunther in front of us. I was going to say, Toll, give him a shot. I picture Gunther like Gimli in Lord of the Rings. Toss me! Toss me! And you, sorry, one last question about the skull. You said like one of the eyes was a gem?

Correct. Which one? It's left eye, which when you're facing it is the one on the right. Thank you. What kind of a gem? It's just some kind of sharply cut gemstone. Okay. When you get a little closer you might be able to see, but from here it appears to be like maybe it's a sharp gemstone

roughly in the shape of an eye, you know, since it's in the eye socket. It's encased in some kind of brass frame and it seems like light beams are casting out of it to the south I know you made a goonies reference. This is very rescuers is what this is. Oh, Natty starts walking the boardwalk All right, same. I was thrown right? Yeah, I threw you. Yeah. Did you really throw him? Oh, yeah Sure, do you know the strings? Up the docks, right? Yeah. OK. Roll for throwing. I'm going to give it to him. So it's a plot while he's flying to the air,

he wants to pull out a sword and strike a cool pose. There you go. Everybody clap. Wow. Good job. Yeah, yeah. So cool. This is patronizing. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Very good! This is so cool. This is patronizing. The docks themselves seem to be planked walkways and they're dimly lit by lanterns.

This route you're taking seems to feed into the skull. And you said there was a door? No, John asked if there was a door. I said that the walkway just kind of feeds into the skull. And as you get closer, you can see that the skull is a house-sized skull covered in moss and grime. This plank path you're walking on feeds directly into the side of the skull and seems to proceed to the north.

Past the skull? Yeah, like the path leads you into the skull and beyond it. Oh, into the skull. So now we are in the skull housing and heading north. I wouldn't put you there. I would say you're at that precipice. If you want to walk in and continue, that's up to you. You know I want to go inside of the skull.

I mean- Well, point of order. We have a leader. Doug? Oh, it's still me, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. You know, you can't just come across a giant skull and not go inside.

That's what I'm saying, yeah. But maybe one of you, if you have the ability to like check for chwaps or something like that? We all do. Can I check for chwaps? Yes you can. Yeah, you can. Absolutely you can.

The look on Barbara's face as she realized she can do that. For some reason I thought it had to be like a special ability. Some classes are more attuned to it and have better checks for it, but anyone can look. I'll check for traps. Where are you looking like exactly? What are you looking for exactly? Like what in your mind, what are these traps you're looking for?

I would say like I would kind of peek in, like I wouldn't step in, but I would look for anything on the ground that maybe looks uneven. Like it could be like a stepping plate or anything like in the walls of the skull that maybe have like something sticking out. Yeah. I'm going to look for the Sword of Power to raise above my head and say by the power of Grayskull I have the power. Nice. Are we walking into the mouth? What hole are we looking at? It would be like the cheeks. Okay. I rolled a 15 on my investigation. Yeah, you do a pretty exhaustive search looking around and you don't see anything that appears to be a trap.

No pressure plates, no trip wires, nothing of that sort. Okay. Doug does that thing where he stays quiet but he like motions forward with his two fingers into the skull. As you're looking around, you know, looking for these traps, you can tell that the skull is actually made of rock and not bone. It's the same kind of jagged rock as like the sea stacks that are in the watery area out in front of it.

Do they look carved? Yeah, potentially. Yeah. Or like a natural formation. Natural forming skulls. I will say now that you're up close, you, and it's a good thing you're making this check, Doug. You're especially in tune with this.

You recognize what the gemstone's doing. What's it doing? It's kind of like the eye caster you saw in the seesaw at Fort Endridge. Seesaw is the training place. Yes. If you remember, at the very beginning, you went through like a simulated training. So what's it simulating? I think he was just explaining that.

Yeah, so it's like at the seesaw in your training, it created like a holo, almost like a holodeck in Star Trek, like it creates like a holographic experience that you then use to train. John slash Natty is asking, well, what's this doing? Once Doug points this out, Natty, your eyes follow it and follow these rays of lights

that are casting out from it into the waters of the cove in front of you. And you see that out in the water, the light beams are casting visual and audible illusions of a safe patch of sea in the midst of a storm. But in fact, you know that there are rocks and ships wrecked here. Oh.

That's evil. It's a trap. That must be where the Ark of the Co ships wrecked here. Oh. That's evil. It's a trap. That must be where the Ark of the Covenant is, yeah. No. It's a trap for ships to crash. Oh. Okay, that makes sense, yeah. Because if I was safe and then they go that way

and then not so safe. Is there a opening in this cave that would allow for a ship to come in and crash? Well, there's that cove of water between the two docks that we talked about. But no entrance big enough for a ship beyond the skull, if that's your question. Weird, then how do those ships get there? Oh, oh, oh, I'm sorry, on the other side, yes, that leads out to the sea. To the south.

Yeah, yeah. So that would explain what the ship saw was a safe passage and then they hid in and yeah, it's a fly trap. It's a Venus fly trap. How big is this room? I think I misjudged. It must be like a multiple football field's worth or something. He said a cavernous code.

Yeah, it's cavernous. It's huge. The ceilings are 70 foot high. The width across from the Western and the Eastern docks is probably over a hundred feet. It's pretty big. Cool. How big is the eye physically?

The jewel that's doing this illusion. It's pretty big cool. How big is the eye physically the jewel that's doing this illusion? It's really big if you had to guess it would probably weigh a couple hundred pounds Yes, skulls the size of a house imagine the eye scale. It's pretty big. Toll. Yeah You ever heard of like ironclad either doing something like this or talking about a legend of something like this or Doing something like this or talking about a legend of something like this or anything like is there like a cursed cove or something? Or is this what he does? Well looking at my notes That I took in real life in the game in real in in our universe real world You can make a history check if you want you talk weird Yeah, okay, okay. Oh my god, where's history?

Order Yeah, okay, okay. Oh my god, where's history? Ten I gave him an inspiration dice. I don't need no you don't need to do that. I do it give me this reason That's his choice. Okay, just to recheck with advantage That was a good use because I just got a tooth That was a good use because I just got a tooth. You know, if you win some you lose some. Oh, this is good. Oh yes, I remember this place. Yes, it's called the Cove of Lost Holes. Like a ship hole.

H-U-L-L. Not the other kind of hole that your brain went to because this isn't a cutter, you know. Wait, I can't tell if this is blame BSing or this is Toll of actually telling the truth. This is Toll receiving a message from the beyond. This is Toll recalling this memory. This is Toll recalling, this is Toll recalling. And I know from our experience at the Seasaw that thing is called its Thaumatech. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, so this is something you've heard of. Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. I don't know if it's ironclad's doing or not, but you know, you would not believe this. It would be something of ironclads. I don't think ironclad is smart enough. I am. He probably is.

I'm just trying to insult him because he sucks so bad Should we cover up the eyes so that people do not die Yeah, that or like totally steal this giant gym and try to resell it that didn't an option It is too big. How big is it giant God? How big we just went over several hundred pounds Okay, what if we shattered it in my head? How big is it? Giant. God, how big? We just went over it. Yeah, several hundred pounds. Okay, what if we shadowed it? In my head, I was stuck, you talked about reselling it, and I realized, Endridge Bay is eBay,

and I was making myself laugh in my head while you were talking. That's so good. That's very good. Okay, how about then in that case, Toll takes a whack with the war hammer. It's still Toll's turn, so I think that this would be something he'd want to do.

We're not an initiative. I know, but you know, just. They said, give us more story, Tov. Don't just listen to the Gus. Tell stories with Gus. Yeah, tell stories. How are you going to try to approach this? Are you going to climb like the outside of the skull,

or are you going gonna try to go inside and then climb and go up there from the inside? Like what's your approach here? I'll climb from the outside of the skull. I have had experience climbing being on ships with the sails and things. Yeah, same thing. That is totally something someone would say.

Who knew things about ships? Yeah. You sound like me talking about sports or cars. I have played with balls and things on fields. They've moved the ball successfully. Yeah. Yeah, you put your hands on the outside of the skull, begin finding a foothold, and as you do that, you start to hear grumbling voices approaching. And along with it, you hear like sparks and zaps. It seems to be coming from the north, from inside the skull. It seems to be getting louder.

Captain Grumbles, did you learn how to throw your voice? That's really impressive. Very impressive. Wow, he's got the shield. Oh, I vape at everybody to get their attention stem fully. And then I say, talking, I move my hand up and down, talking inside and I point inside the skull. Oh, okay.

Can we sneak in? Now he starts doing the chicken dance. With the hands, making the little. And then he shakes his hand vigorously. As you all are signaling to each other, the voices suddenly stop for a moment. Finally, a voice breaks the silence and says, I think I heard something. It was over there. Footsteps slowly march towards the party's position, getting closer and closer with every second. What will the party do?

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Doug's on the ones and twos equals threes. You know, it's an interesting day today. You know, a lot of stuff's happening. We've got some boiling water. We've got some hair that we found falling to Pancak. You know, it's just we're on the case is how I'd like to say it. But you know, we're not not making as much progress as Doug would want, but we're making we're making moves. We had Nattie turn into a ring somehow. I didn't know if she could do that. It was pretty wild. We got Chris here doing a little dance on his camera. He's looking at me. He knows I'm doing this. Hey, welcome Gunther to the show. How

are you today? Hello. I'm very good. Very good. What's easy to show? This is Doug's on the onces and 2s equals 3s. How's your afternoon going? Oh, it is good. I like afternoons because they have the sun and it reminds me of home.

But then I also like night. I like all the time. Well, we love that positivity here on the Doug's on the 1s and 2s equals 3s. So thank you so much for that addition. Oh, hello. Gus is back as well. He's been listening this whole time. You know it. I'm always here. It makes me feel like there's always someone watching.

Listen, no matter what, I'm your biggest fan, Doug. You've always got at least one listener out there, no matter what. Wow. Can we get a pew pew? Pew pew, pew pew, pew pew, pew pew, pew pew. Doug's got to work on his soundboard. Coming soon to a new episode. Pew pew! Pew pew! Pew pew! Pew pew! Pew pew! Pew pew! Pew pew! Pew pew!

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