Tales from the Stinky Dragon - C03 - Ep. 17 - Brig of Endridge Bay - Docked and Loaded

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

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But are they approaching footsteps from friends or foes? Hello everyone, welcome to Tales from the Stinky Dragon. I'm your Dungeon Master Gustavo Cirola and I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow. Okay. Woosh. It went past us. We skip it today. Back right into the game. Your game is off. No, no, no. It's like us. We skip it today. Back right into the game.

Your game is off. No, no, no. It's like a Guardians of the Galaxy. What's that guy's name? Yondu? It circles back around. Hits you anyway. You've never rolled for attack on a single arrow.

I do. You just don't see them. It's hidden from the players. It's being built up and we're all gonna take the same hit at one point. This was a crit, so you gotta answer two questions. I'm sorry. That's just the way it goes.

It's the dice, not me. Today's arrow is, who has a tattoo and where is it and what does it mean? And if you don't have one, what would you get and where? Submitted by TGA Scythe. Great question. While we're rolling for initiative, you have to share about one of your tattoos, Gus. I have an Atari logo tramp stamp. John, I was going to say Toll had an Atari tramp stamp and you ruined my bit.

And now I can't use that joke. God! That makes me so happy. That makes me so happy. He's making it better. Now you got to think of something original. I was for an old website we used to do before the rooster, even before Rooster Teeth, we put a poll up.

I was like to try to drive traffic. It's like, I'll get a tattoo and let people vote on the poll. And I had a bunch of options. And because of that poll, I got this tattoo. Boaty McBoatface lost. Yeah. Did it work? It was a pretty successful website. I mean, it did all right.

It led to another website that was a little more successful. Well, I guess it didn't drive traffic because SteakyDragonPod.com is what you're talking about. Yeah, it's the second one I'm talking about. I rolled a nine. I rolled a one. 10. I rolled a 15. So Bimmy, Blaine, John, Chris. Blaine rolled a one. 10. I rolled a 15. So Bimmy, Blaine, John, Chris.

Blaine rolled a one. Oh, sorry, Chris. He fudged it so he could go last since his question or his answer got derailed. No, I don't know if I can, oh man, it rolled off. Okay, well. Okay, so Bimmy, Chris, John, Blaine. Well, hello everyone.

Welcome to another thrilling episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon, where we learn all about our body modifications that you didn't know before. Wait, are me and Gus the only one with tattoos? Yeah. Yeah. My body's a temple. Gus, you and I are the bad boys. Yeah, the bad boys are the stinky dragon. New team name.

Let's do a discord event where someone gets a tattoo just to drive traffic. Woo, we should. I'll do that with my mom in the Discord event. Yeah, which has already happened by the time you're listening to this. It was wonderful, so fun. Love, Patty. Yeah.

I'm Barbara Dunkleman and I play Doug Boone, the male bugbear artificer who's at a level five that I keep forgetting that we leveled up. Nah, not too long ago. And Doug Boone, listen, Doug does not have tattoos. That may surprise some of you here, mainly because it's pretty much impossible for Doug to get a tattoo and for anyone to see it with all the fur. I was going to say that the first half of what you said is incorrect, but the second

half is very correct. We can shave you. You can shave me down and then tattoo me, but then that's just gonna go back real fast. My head can in his doug is like the Santa Claus and the Santa Claus. Exactly. Where if you shave him, it just... I was thinking of that Homer Simpson moment where he shaves and then he looks up in the mirror and his five o'clock shadow is back on. But you know, I think if I were to get a tattoo and if I was able to actually have a tattoo and for people to see it,

I think it would be a picture of my boydo. One of those. Yeah. Just like his smiling face. Just so I could always see it. I can't help but think of those like, you ever see those things on like Reddit where it's a terrible tattoo?

Yeah. Hyper realistic looking face. I love those. But the teeth look like terrifying because they're individually detailed. I love those. I think I would get it kind of done in like a cartoon kind of version of him.

You know, not a realistic version. Yeah, good call. Yeah. We can make that happen with a stencil and some spray paint right now. Again, the fur is gonna be all over the place. It wouldn't look very good. But I do respect those who get tattoos.

Cause boy is that commitment. It's forever. Yeah. Yeah. Did Doug say where he would get that tattoo? I don't remember. I think I get it. Face tattoo. He would just have his brother's face over his face. I get, well, no, instead I'd get my face on my face, but tattooed just an inch to the left. So, and I'd stand outside 3d movie theaters

good point to put on people it's certainly a choice y'all doug i would never call you two-faced oh look at that but no i think i would get it on my forearm oh okay okay not your five arm oh no there's no such thing as a five-arm gosh that. That's silly. It's not a body part. All right. Thank you, Doug. Hi, I'm Chris Damaris and I play Gunther, the male croakfolk fighter and my, I have very mini unintentional tattoos. Unintentional scars? Oh yes. That is the word.

Okay. Yes, yes, yes. From my travels as I've traveled and searched and there have been people who have stabbed me believe it or not. But other than that, my body is a temple. And so I just have the one tattoo of the temple on my body. Where? That is a secret place. It is I'm not to tell. Eww. On my body. Ha ha! Stinking! Where? I can't... That is a secret place it is I have not to tell.

Eww! That's so unlike you to not share information, Gunther. So do you not really understand the difference between scars and tattoos? Is there much of a difference other than one is intentional and one is not? Pretty sure there's a key difference here. Well, they both look the same to me. That's how we do tattoos. Does Gunther need glasses? Are you okay?

Do frogs have bad vision? I mean, there are some tattoos you could get with like white ink that kind of look like skulls, but usually it's done with like a colored ink so you can actually see it. And skulls definitely usually don't have a color to them. Unless you got stabbed with like a pen. Yes. That's just a with like a pen. Yes.

That's just a tattoo though. Right. Exactly. But that is, it is a secret temple, so I cannot say. This ink has penetrated my skin, scar. Okay, so Gunther has a tattoo of a secret temple in a secret location. Secret temple, secret and sacred, yes.

Secret and sacred, got it, okay. And lightning as always, Gunther, thank you. Next, I think we have Natty. Hi everybody, I'm John Rice here and I play Natty Wonder, the Drow Warlock. And on the subject of tattoos, I gotta admit, I'm honestly covered in tattoos. I can't even name all the tattoos that I have.

I got tattoos all over my body. I'm just a canvas that's been painted on over and over again. I love it. Are they not exposed? Can we not normally see them because of what you're wearing? Yeah, I mean, I wear, you know,

my pants and my boots and my long sleeve gingham shirt. You have a long sleeve shirt. Yeah, so yeah, they're actually just all over the place. My back is like a Sistine Chapel kind of situation. Oh. Which is your favorite then, since you have so many? So you have a temple as well. It's a chapel.

I can't even pick my favorite, because I've got, I mean, I'm just covered, it's all things like skulls and gravestones and like burning places and rubble and, you know, hellfire raining from the sky. I got that stuff all over me, all over me. Would you ever consider letting Gigi give you a tattoo or has Gigi already given you a tattoo? It's like a kid with a crayon on a wall. I do like that idea.

I'll have to find like an empty spot for him to practice on. Practice. Maybe he can draw Doug's face one inch offset from your face on your face. Oh my God. Well, that's the one place I don't put tattoo because I cover that with makeup and so it just be covered all the time. Yeah, true. But the rest of me just a smattering of tattoos.

I also don't, I would prefer not to look at my own face on someone else's. Oh, in that moment, Natty turns into Doug. Oh gosh. Behold! Oh and now you gotta do my voice too, Nattie. Go ahead. Really play your part. Hello.

Beautiful. Which one's which? Take the straw. Also isn't that red dragon, the Hannibal Lecter movie, doesn't he have like a back tattoo? He's got a giant dragon tattoo that covers his back. Yeah. That's not Ray Fiennes.

Who is that? Is it? I think that's Ray Fiennes. That's Ray Fiennes. Yeah. Never saw it. Puts in the fake teeth. Don't forget, at some point, maybe you could also change your mind, Natty.

You get some makeup tattoo as well. I hear that's a thing with some people. Would not recommend. Oh yeah, I could, but I love actually the process of putting my makeup on, it's very meditative for me. Okay, plus you can change it up if you ever want to. That's true, that's true. I feel like the other way, so you're kind of stuck,

or not stuck, but you're kind of like, you got one thing. Yeah. All right, thanks Daddy. Up next and last, we have Tove. Yoo hoo, hello. It's Wayne Gibson and I play 12 and I forgot what I am. Hold on. It's Mallorque Barbarian level 5. Existential crisis. Yes, it happens every week, once a week. Yes, I have tattoos. I have several. I do not know the origin of many of them,

but I do know that I have one very big one on my lower back. It's some sort of secret runes. Let me see if I can take a look at a mirror. It's a, there's an S and then an E and then a G and then an A. I don't know what that means. That's stupid.

Sega. So dumb. Yeah, I had another tattoo, but someone ruined that tattoo, so I just painted over it with this tattoo. What does Sega mean? Does it stand for something? It's some like ancient, you know, entertainment thing. I'm not really sure.

Like I said, I don't know what all of these tattoos are. The god of entertainment, Sega. You've got to shout it. Sega! This is the god of hedgehogs. Hi, before they sing it. Sega! I'm more a crazy taxierer. When did they change that? I figure the initial one that you did, Barbara,

was to show off like the audio processing because it sounded like really nice. And I think that took a lot. That actually took a lot of space on those old cartridges. Like most of it was that. Whereas later, like then there was more flexibility. So they just changed it. That's funny.

I didn't even think about that. Yeah, we can do a deep dive about that. Maybe in second wind. Cause I actually, I think I know a bit more about that Sega intro. But anyway, if you're a patron or you listen to Asahin Beacon, you can probably hear me talk about that in the second one for this episode. I'm going to make a note about it. I'll look up a little more detail so we can talk about that. Ooh, okay. That was time for the episode.

I don't... I'm on my blinds as I said, okay. Wow. Still that after all this time doing this, still is awkward as hell when it comes to segues. 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. Oh.

And along with it, you hear like sparks and zaps. And everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. It seems to be coming from the north, from inside the skull, You hear like sparks and zaps. It seems to be coming from the north, from inside the skull. And it seems to be getting louder. Captain Grumbles, did you learn how to throw your voice? That's really impressive. Wow. He's got the shield. Oh. I wave at everybody to get their attention stemfully. 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, and 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. So there you are, footsteps approaching. The whispers are getting louder. What do you do? Oh, we're in it. This is happening now. This is it. We're in it.

Alright. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I motion to the team. I go, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh We have to dance. No, no, no, no, no. And then I cross my neck. I say, no, no, no. Kill her. No, I will not kill you. No, no, no. And then I go like this. Like I cover my face with my hands like peekaboo. To put you in a box.

No. And then I say scatter, scatter. Doug grabs Gunther and curls up into a ball, almost like a, like a, like a bush. All right. I picture it looks like a tribal from like original Star Trek. It's just like a, like a furry ball. That's a big tribal. And then Gunther takes Doug's arms and opens them up. Like, like told was gesturing a little window.

Yeah. Just so you could peek out. And then I look at them and I see that that I give them a thumbs up. And then I look at Natty and I pointed at them and then also Gigi and I say, hide, hide. And I do more motions to indicate hiding. Natty grabs Captain Mumbles. Mumbles, grumbles. You got me on Mumbles last time. Captain Grumbles puts him in front of her

and then Natty turns into one of the other sailors we saw in the arena. Nice powers. Yeah, and stands there with Captain Grumbles in the skull. Okay, and then I, as a person on the skull, I'm assuming I'm above the doorway right? Because I'm on I'm near the eye socket where the gym is I'll give you the option because I said that you started hearing the voices as you were starting to climb

So you could have either gotten off the skull or continued up. I'll leave that totally to your discretion I'd like to imagine that I'm on top of the skull like near one of the eye sockets So I'm like theoretically above the doorway. And then I would take my cape, similar to Doug and just kind of hide underneath it and just low profile, but just stay there on top silently and motionlessly. Okay. I think I've got it.

So what we're gonna do is have a stealth check for Toll, a stealth check for Doug, and a stealth check for Gunther. And then Maddie will deal with you and your deception here in a bit. Am I proficient in stealth? Doesn't give you advantage, but does give you a little extra boost. 19.

Nine. That's a... That's a nine. I'm going to use my inspiration die because I feel like being up here would be advantageous. Oh, I have one. I'll give it to you, Bimmy. Oh, OK. All right, 15. There you go.

16. I look like an eye booger on this giant skull. Much better. A big green eye booger on this giant skull. Much better. A big green eye booger. That's me. So, Toll does his best impression of an eye booger. My what's impression? His what's impression?

I was like, ooh. Your best impression? What? You said press. You said press. He did say that, did he not? I didn't hear. I wanna get a replay on that,

but I'm pretty sure I said best. Toll does... I want to get a replay on that, but I'm pretty sure I said best. Toll does his best impression of an iBooger. Toll does his best impression of an iBooger. I said breast. Micah says... Sorry. Alright. Micah, Micah, Barbara, I'm all over the place. Barbara hunkers down, does a triple impression while covering up Gunther.

But Gunther does open a little window so he can see out a bit. A window? A window? What does that mean? Yeah, he said he opened up like Doug's arm so that he could see out. Just like, just like Tove was motioning. Right as everyone gets into place

in their hiding positions, Natty, you see two gnolls walk around the corner into the that little opening in the skull the all were walking to. As they walk in, I turn to Captain Grimles and he goes, Oh, so that's how you lost your tongue and you can't talk anymore. Interesting. They both stand there kind of a little unsure what to do. Why don't you roll me a, wait, since you look like a pirate, do you need to make any kind of check for that?

Or is that just like a spell or an ability you have? That's an ability I have. I have a mimicry, allows me to mimic the sounds. It was one of my level five things. Oh, it's like an ability you have? Yeah. Is it the mask of many faces that allows you to cast disguise self at will?

Yes. That's cool. I'm jealous. Yeah. So they both stop and they hear you, I guess, finishing up your story with Captain Grumbles. I don't know how he told you how he lost his tongue if he didn't have a tongue to begin that story. But why don't you go ahead and make me a deception check with advantage. Do you have advantage on that? I do actually, that's not just John being silly. Impersonation, while you're disguised as a real fictional person, you have advantage on charisma checks, deception or performance.

Oh, I'll be. What was the check, performance or deception? Deception. Deceptions, plus seven. So that was actually 13. Not bad. Ooh, that's much better. 26.

Ooh, that is pretty good. I ain't just whistling Dixie here. Just for flavor. This isn't necessarily for any specific reason, but is there like an inspiration you take for your disguise or like something, someone specific you saw that you're trying to draw this from? Or is this like your own creation? Yeah, I said I wanted to look like one of the sailors that we saw in the arena.

Oh, okay. John can't remember exactly those because that was we I think we recorded that episode two years ago. It was about two years ago. Roughly. Yeah. All right. Not actually. It was probably like a month and a half ago. Yeah. Maybe a month.

The gnolls stopped dead in their tracks and their noses kind of go crazy, like sniffing the air. Oh, looking straight at you. And one of them who's holding- Yar, howdy. A flail asks, What are you doing here? I'm minding my own business.

What are you doing here? That's a good answer. That's very sailor like. Sorry. Yar, I be minding my own business. What you be doing here? We're following orders, moving equipment. Okay, what's that got to do with me?

Sorry. What that got to be do with me? Oh God. Perfect. They like spaced out a little bit from each other. And then the other one replies. Well, you're here not moving equipment. So that's what it has to do with you.

I wasn't ordered to be moving any equipment. Well, what were you ordered to be doing? To watch after me captain here. Not bad. Mm-hmm. Okay. Who would you get your orders from? Well, why don't you take your captain and turn around and walk back in the direction

you came? This goes further in the skull? You have not looked in there yet, but presumably yes, because they came from the other side. Oh, we're not in the skull? No, you all were at the entrance to the skull, and that's when you all were looking up at the gem and stuff.

Okay. So, but presumably because these gnolls came from the other side. Again, I must be asking why you be giving me orders? You're not in charge of me. He's in charge of you? In motion to captain grumbles isn't that how captains work are you new to this business he's

not my captain okay he didn't give you an order why are you being so mean make a dexterity saving throw Natty my an eye line of Natty yes you are watching this from above okay all right I have an idea but I mean I want I want Natty to You got it, Natty. 19 eat my shorts. One of them that had spaced out and kind of was standing off to your side Very awkwardly reaches out and tries to shove you as if to push you into the water But you notice it coming and you step aside and the gnoll loses its footing since he didn't make contact with you and is like kind of off balance on the edge of the dock. I swat him into the water. All right just make a roll to hit. I don't know what my modifier is but I rolled a 19. That's probably it. It's your proficiency bonus plus your strength or dexterity. Regardless 19

you're probably hit. Yeah you give him a little shove and that pushes him over the edge into that water that was between the docks that you all saw earlier. I bare eyes at the other known as a, Yibi wanted to have some of this as well. I didn't start this fight, but I'll be finishing it. Does there intimidation? Make an intimidation check. Sure. I think we stumbled into John's campaign for a character. Yeah. Pirate Sally. E.B. making a lot of fighting noises down there.

That was only an 11. What's my intimidation? Plus four, 15. Not bad. That's still pretty good. It's cause you're playing in my charisma playground, okay? I'm gonna say. Yeah, I guess so.

We're in John's world. Yeah. Or we're in Nattie's world, I should say. So this Noel has a couple of options here. It's going to... Yeah, one is to screw around and find out. Ew. Well, one is to deal with you,

but you had a good intimidation roll. It could dive after its friend in the water and try to pull him out, or it could turn around and run because you intimidated it. I'm gonna roll and see what it's gonna do. Let the dice decide. Yeah, the gnoll looks at you, bears its teeth snarling,

waving its flail around menacingly, then turns around and runs back into the skull. Is it going for backup? I clap my hands together to knock the dust off, and I say, that's how we do it on our ship. Yeah. Are we worried that that's going for backup though? He can do whatever he wants.

I don't know. We'll find out soon one way or another. Has it already passed through? Has it already gone underneath like through the door? No, did it come out of the skull or did it approach the skull? It came out from the skull. So it went in?

Has it gone back into the skull? That's what it did. It retreated back into the skull. Okay. So this thing is real big. The skull? Yeah. Yeah. It's huge. Okay. I would have probably have attacked it but if I've missed the opportunity then I'm just gonna hold still. If you

want I'll say you could do it if you want. I'm gonna I'm gonna jump down to attack it because I don't want it to go back and get reinforcements. Video game rules! All right you plop down and surprise it since it's surprise you get uh you can make your. So go ahead and do it. Is that advantage? Let's say no. So that was a 14 that I rolled with my war hammer. You happy with that? I got no choice. I don't have advantage, I don't have any inspiration dice.

So yeah, 14, we'll go for that. It hits. Okay, thank God. No. Oh. Love it, I love it. Listen, if I give away inspiration dice so freely, I have to be wanting to collect them freely too.

Like I've gotta put doubt in your mind every time. I put my blood, sweat, and tears into earning those inspiration dice, Gus. I put blood, sweat, and tears into taking them. No you don't. All right, I'm gonna roll for damage. Whoa, whoa. Guts hit.

That's a five plus four. Do I have any other additional stuff because it surprises a crit? Did you get to text? No, but if you were raging, you would get a plus two on it. I'm not. I'm not. Yeah. Can Natty shoot an Eldritch Blast? If Tove's attacking, Natty would help, but I'll let you do what you want to do. Yeah, let's deal with the Tove thing.

So well, that was I guess I do have to attack. So that would be the first one. How does he look? What you wanna do? Yeah, let's deal with the Tove thing. So, well, I guess I do have two attacks. So that'll be the first one. How does he look? The Noel falls to the floor and then slides off of the dock into the water, unmoving. Oh, okay. Wow.

Okay, so that, do you have any cool one-liner? No, I'm good. That's what that was. Yeah, no, I'm fine. All right, all right, all right. So that was terrifying. Tove, no, I'm fine. All right, all right, all right. So that was terrifying. Toll, if you came out of nowhere, bash the gnoll, and it's in the drink.

Oh, oh, oh, wait, hold on. Drink up. Ooh. All right, that was all right. The other gnoll is in the water, the one that just fell. Yeah, it appears to be treading water at the moment. I shoot it. Oh, god. Wow. War crimes. All right, go for it. By the way, the whole time this is happening,

I'm just holding Gunther in this little ball as he's watching. A little hands reaches out and gives a thumbs up. Roll for attack. Go for it. You've really come to the name Brutala Team. You've grown into it. This is war. What is it good for? What's it good for? There you go. Gus gets an inspiration die.

I only rolled a 13. Does that hit? That's actually exactly what you need. Their armor class is 13. Oh cool. If you said no, I would be like, well, he's trading water. I'm going to shoot him again. One plus four, so five plus four, so nine.

It's exactly the same thing Toll's got, so yeah. Oh, was it? Yeah, he also did nine points of damage. Yeah, the Gnoll stops treading water and is now floating face down, unmoving in the water. He's already dead. Okay, I'm done. So it's just you guys now, as far as you can tell.

Should we hide the bodies? Oh wait, they're in the water. Water's already taken care of that big guy. Tollv and Natty since you two encountered these gnolls and dealt with them why don't both of you make me a perception check. 12, 17. You realize that you know as you were jumping down and attacking that gnoll you realize you've seen these two gnolls before oh I guess we got oh we got ambushed at the campsite by gnolls Was it by gnolls? and then I think that we scared them away We killed yeah, yeah Natty evaporated one of them and then the others ran I think on your way to Endridge Bay Yeah, you encountered some gnolls who were trying to set up an ambush at the abandoned campsite

Oh, I remember that now. Now who gets ambushed? Now Zuga ambushed? Now who is ambushed? Oh, okay. No, I think he said now Zuga ambushed. That's what I heard. He gave his breast try.

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learn more about the world you live in, just subscribe to Everything Everywhere Daily wherever you cast your pod. Can Gunther try and get some clothes from them? Well, they're in the water. Yeah, yeah, like jump in, take their clothes so he can disguise himself. Which clothing do gnolls wear? I don't know if clothes are really going to do it for you as a little frog person. I don't want to like yuck your yum, but I think it will be difficult for you to, I don't know, disguise yourself as a gnoll. Oh, I turned into a no

Who's one of my favorite country singers, oh, yeah All right. All right. All right. Are your turn Gunther? I could tell Chris moved his monitor up or something cuz now he's like constantly looking up It looks like you're you're confused or concerned, but I realize now you're just looking at your monitor I was looking at what an old looks like Doug, can I have some of your hair? I shall disguise as a knoll. Why don't you describe a knoll then? See, if you had to look it up, why don't you describe it that way

for any of our audio listeners who may not know? Knolls are like humanoid doggies with like fur and more kind of claws and I don't know, dog noses, dog faces. So my thinking is if Doug would be so kind as to lint some of his abundant hair, then I might be able to stick it to Gunther and kind of just look like a very hairy gnoll.

Are you implying that I shave myself? No, I can help with these. If he would just let me borrow a little hair, I will give it back. Doug does that thing where he kind of brushes his fingers through his arm hair and like, you know how like something will come loose. Yeah. He does that. Is Doug shedding? Yeah. Oh, always.

Oh, trust me. I can understand. Yeah. I'm holding my forearms up to the camera. You can't see mine because I'm blonde, but I have the same thing as you can see and then gives gives a Gunther those like loose little pieces of hair. Yeah. Am I able to grab some clothes and hair myself up? Yeah, I saw Dutch just knock that off.

Yeah, if I'm going to be nice, I'm going to say that maybe you should have someone toss down a rope or hold a rope for you before you Dive in that way you have an easy way to come back up because the docks are kind of high from the water Yeah, I'll say you're able to dive in and just rope one of or take some of the clothes from the know if you want I'll hold the rope feels suspiciously like deep-sea fishing which I have much experience with Instead of the rope. I just give him my tongue oh my god sure oh that's nice okay oh your tongue yeah we're gonna find out this is like some kind of time travel thing and this is like a hairless hutch origin story guys I just want to say we should probably hurry up we

still gotta find pancak not to try to watch you along in your mission hill. I agree. Gigi, could you turn to something a little less conspicuous and Gigi turns into a centipede? If you make the roll. If I make the roll, Nat 20, that's my boy. That's my baby. Good job.

That's my baby. So Gigi turns into a centipede and Gunther retrieves some clothes and comes back up onto the dock. Am I able to stick the hair? Here's my thinking. I have a lantern. I got from a grill I use some oil from it rub it on my face and Exposed body and then stick the hair to it. Just stay away from fire

Or it's about to smell like burnt hair and frog Just make a and frog make a you need some kind of check you make a slight a hand no I'm gonna call it a performance check okay yeah 20 21 he really oils himself up real good you do a pretty decent job what did the null sound like just so for well I was listening I don't know I wasn't paying attention to the voice I was doing It's not like Scooby-Doo That's fine. I'll I'll I'll Don't matter when Chris was describing how nose look all I could think of was the the dog mutant from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Oh off-brand

Bebop and Rocksteady. Yeah. Yeah. Cause they couldn't do Bebop and Rocksteady for some reason. For some reason they just couldn't get the rights. You only get the turtles, not any, not any mammals. If we have Natty as a gnoll and then Gunther as a tinier gnoll and then Doug is like a kind of off looking gnoll,

maybe like we get you further back, I could go in as like a prisoner you know because I don't think I'm going to be a very um you're a pirate I mean that's that's offensive Natty I'm a sailor but yeah it's not offensive for you to call me some type of no well I mean you have fur you know you you could spend your life on a boat okay well that doesn't mean I I mean yes I was a pirate, but I don't like the title pirate Yeah, but you can pass as a pirate. Yeah, but I don't you know, it's the principle of this thing Okay, I do not like being called a pirate. It brings back bad memories

Also, it is a opportunity for surprise if he looks like he is bound It is a opportunity for surprise if he looks like he is bound But then we got to come up with the reason why we got a prisoner sailor. He was trespassing Yeah He can also you know think on the fly. We could just head on out. Who's in charge right now? Doug's in charge Doug gets to decide. That's a good point Doug. What's the next move? I think we should just continue forward as we will and And you know, when, uh, when something comes up, Natty, I think you take the lead with that charismatic self of your view.

And if we need to pretend that we've got a pilot prisoner, I mean, not pilot prisoner back here, you know, we do our thing. And then we have Gunther who's covered in scraps of my full. And he is perfect. If they zip, then we zap. Exactly. And then they zop and then we just roll. We have electric powers, yes. Okay, Private Parts is very intently writing down notes.

I'm sure he is. Wait, what do we do with Private, what do we do with Private Parts? Private Parts, I think he's just, he knows how to play along. He is prisoner. I don't think that's even us making that up. I think he is just, uh, he knows how to play along. He is prisoner. I don't think that's even us making that up. I think he is up for a story now. He's here on his own accord. Private Parts is a, is a what race? Halfling?

The smaller he is, the more convenient it is, you know, he can hold onto my back. If he's small enough, you can just tuck him away. Yeah, I'll roll him up inside as a ball again. You can put him in that ring, that natty ring. That doesn't work that way. No no I think that's just for her Oh private parts is a stout halfling doubt halfling okay could we forcibly hide private parts in Doug's vest as a humpback I like this idea whatever you want like a private parts papoose, you know? How about I just, I'll hold private parts's hand and walk him along like he's a little buddy.

Okay. All right. We've got a plan. I mean, surely, you know, if there's people coming in the old space and there's people holding hands, they can't be, they can't be bad guys. I agree. Let's go in this skull. All right.

Come on, private parts. All right. He takes your hand and follows you. You take private parts in your hand and lead him. All right. Well, you just had to... Did you want to cover up that gem at all? Is that a question for the leader or for Tov? Tov was doing that before. Yeah, you know what? Oh, this is perfect.

Okay, hold on. Way back when, I think it was around the time we ran into the Vind Trader I took a curtain. You remember? Oh yeah you did. Yeah I think that this is the perfect opportunity. I'm gonna put that curtain over this big gym and protect fellow sailors not pirates. I think a barbarian's a little touchy. No. Aren't they always? Alright yeah so you want to clamber back up there and cover up the gem with that curtain you found before? Yeah sure why not. That's my line. Yeah you you climb on up and bust out the fabric and cover up the gem and it obscures the rays

of light that it was shooting out and kind of breaks that illusion of the calm sea that it was projecting. The gnolls came out of the skull? Yes, it appears they came from further north. And were they holding equipment that they said they were moving? No. Okay, thank you. Hypocrites?

They had flails in their hands, but that was all they were holding. Okay. It gets Gunther will hold a flail now. Gunther has a flail. Is that okay if I took one of the files? Okay, just make sure it's been 40 minutes and we have not entered this cave. We have not moved a single step Please can we go inside? I am with Doug Boone 100% on this Yeah, I mean you tell me you all I follow Nadi whoever mad. Yeah, it's not very cool. the lead, Nattie takes the lead. I follow Nattie, whoever. Nattie, that's not very cool. The duck said for me to take the lead.

Oh, nevermind. That's totally cool though. When it comes to the care wasmatic stuff, yes, absolutely, but I think that means you should go out and fight. Okay, there you go. Then I take the lead. We're going in!

Nattie's gone! You guys can't see Nattie anymore. I'm communicating to the team through Nattie. Everyone else follows? Yes. Got it. You pass through the skull and come out on the back side and you see an inlet of eel infested waters with a small rock islet. Water forks off to the

north and to the east. There's a mixture of planked bridges and sandy shores that hug the west side of this room and circles clockwise to the northeast, kind of like a C shape. To the west you see a path that seems to lead to maybe a small cavern of some kind. To the east it leads to a barred gate and a half submerged drain gate. And to the north it looks like it continues and opens up to a grotto of some kind. And what kind of instrument does the barred gate carry? Come on Gus you know you want to give me that inspiration. I'm taking your inspiration away die away. The next time I give you one, it's gonna be like we're even. Oh. Question.

This one's serious. Okay. What's on the island? Can I see what's on the island? A little rock behind? Yeah. You take a look and it appears to be just a sharp rock formation that juts out from the middle of the water.

And there's some kind of like bronze saber that pierces the top of the rock. A saber? Yeah. Like a sword? Okay. Tov, do you recognize that? I see Tov like staring intently at this little rock. Do I recognize that? Do I have like a wisdom check? Okay? That is Zero Four we're gonna do a plane golf over here. No For me No, it doesn't seem familiar to you. I can go check and look you do have good jumping

How far away is it from the closest point you could see it's probably 10, 12 feet, something like that. Okay, could I use my tongue, stick it out to like grab hold of the rock and then jump across and then use my tongue to kind of... I'm going to take your word. If that's something you can do with your ability, yes. I don't know the specifics of your tongue ability. Tongue has a 10 foot range. If you're trying to grab something, you'll need to make a dex grapple check with it.

Okay. You can't handle or move anything more than 10 pounds. If you come around and kind of approach the island from the Northwest side, you'll probably get to within 10 feet of the saber from that side. Okay. So if you want to like, I guess grab it,

you can make that dex check just to make sure you grab on securely to it. The 19? Yeah, we'll say that's good. And then yes, I jump and climb up. You lash your tongue out, wrap it around the saber. And then I guess like, what is that like retract it and pull yourself in? Yeah, like jump and then just pull my tongue in as so I kind of like make sure I don't slip.

I want to make sure I'm understanding just to be clear. Is it the rock you're grabbing on or the saber? I guess like maybe the h hill to the saber. Okay. Yeah, you you know you grab out you latch on to it and You kind of like pull at it to pull yourself in You know over to the island and as you do so the saber seems to be loose and it Rises out of the rock a couple of inches Oh, and as it does so it opens up the gate that leads out to the eastern portion of this room. Oh, are we sure that Gunther isn't like the king of England now or something?

Yeah, yeah. Oh, the chosen one. Does the sword come out all the way or is it just more like a lever? It does not come out all the way. Maybe it's stuck. It just seems to come out a few inches. I open the gate. Well done, Gunther. That's the gate to the... The west. Or sorry, the east. East, yeah. Not the one, the bars in the water, but like the gate to the like, cave thing.

Correct. Okay. Well, Doug, what should we do? I mean, ultimately we're trying to find Kankak. Correct. Could Doug tell if there's any like, sounds or noises coming from around nearby? Yeah, why don't you make a, yeah,

call an investigation check. That's a big old 10. Okay, it's gonna take me a little while because I'm gonna have to scroll through a bunch of things to give you some information. So yeah, give you just a moment. I think what he's actually doing is checking if we get into a Nuzunga ambush.

Out to the West, you think you hear like mumbling of some kind. Have we heard this mumbling before? Is this like a new mumble? Hard to say. It could be like someone talking, maybe. OK, guys, I think I hear something to the west. So maybe let's start going around that side. It also is like, you know, the sandy part. So keep on forgetting what is on the way.

If we wanted to go through that cave, we got to go a long way around this whole grotto. Grotto. To the north, you definitely hear more sounds of like conversation, more than mumbling. Like there's definitely multiple people talking to each other. And we're not seeing anybody in this grotto. There's no other person here. Correct.

Okay. And then to the east kind of beyond the bars and the gate that Gunther opened, you hear like running water. Okay, that would make sense. Well, I think we should go west. Okay, I like that. You guys cool going west? I mean, technically that's left. Yeah.

Gunther salutes and kicks back his leg. Gunther loves that salute. Okay, so let's go west. Cool. And how do you take salute? Okay, Gunther, as you let go of the saber to follow, it slides back into the rock and the gate to the east closes once again. Oh.

Oh, the key. Fun little puzzle. Was it instant that it closed or was there like a time, like after it went back in, it was like counted down and then closed? It seemed like it was pretty instant. Like as soon as Gunther let go of it, it started coming down.

We didn't see what was in that little cave, right? Correct. We could like put like a plank of wood, it started coming down. We didn't see what was in that little cave, right? Correct. We could like put like a plank of wood, you know, there's all these bridges. We could take like a plank of wood and just kind of wedge it into the sword hill to keep it elevated. Or you know, if the sword, I imagine is less than 10 pounds. Yes.

Okay, Gunther said it, so it's true. I mean, is it? Well, if I was able to pull it out then I would know right You're right curse you and your technicalities Chris Cuz I'm you know someone has mason perhaps and Nanny does I have orc hands does that work? There's two orc hands. Yes, okay. I have no hand Character We have no land. Alright, alright, it's rest assured that with Public Mobile's 5G subscription phone plans, you'll pay the same thing every month. With all of the mysteries that life

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There's crates, barrels, and shelves of supplies lining the walls. Are there any coupons for the crates and barrels? Get out of here. Any furniture? walls. Are there any coupons for the crates and barrel? Get out of here. Need furniture? There's cannons, cannonballs on the north side of the wall. And in the center of the room is a desk with a knoll sitting at it,

looking down at he's scribbling on a piece of paper. Doug clears his throat so that he doesn't alarm him. The knoll looks up. It's a knoll. So, you know, hell, so he's a hyena-faced fiend, and he's wearing a bighorn hat that appears to be made of eel skin.

He looks at you all, seems slightly startled, closes his book, looks up, and says something in abyssal. Does anyone here speak abyssal? No. I do. You do, Gunther? You do? Okay.

Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Gigi does too. Oh no. But he's a little centipede. Can he just be in my ear? Or Gunther understands. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I got excited because Gigi speaks it. He only speaks abyssal and common. Only two languages. I didn't think he spoke anything. I didn't think he spoke common either. He now understands, how about that? He understands. I thought he spoke giggy. Yeah, he understands. In Abyssal, he looks and addresses the group at large

and asks, how did you get in here? Gunther responds, the same way you got in here through the entrance, we're here to torture the prisoner. Your proficiency in Abyssal, like, yeah, like, are you pretty good at it? Like, how did Gunther learn abyssal to begin with? I think it is a language, you know, like people learned Latin because it was, you know, the language from the past. I think in his village, they taught abyssal. A better question Gus, would be you ask Chris if he knows what abyssal is the language of.

We all know that, right Chris? I'll give you a hint. Gigi knows how to speak it for a reason. He's Googling right now. I feel like the root word abyss, it's probably something with like Undarian or some sort of eldritch otherworldly language for demons. Well, I stand by my, they know it in the village.

They learned it. It's like, you know, something you just get in school, like learning Latin. Okay. I'm just I'm just curious Yeah, so like any high school student you can ask where the bathroom is and ask for a glass of water and where the library is Oh, we're the library is yeah, it's just funny I like the idea of figuring out how someone learned the language and how first they are in it because I think about like yeah How I learned Spanish right like I never took lessons in it

So it's like I can say anything if it? Like I never took lessons in it. So it's like, I can say anything if it's something I would say to my grandmother. But it's like, if it's like a technical word or something modern, it's like, oh, I don't know how to say that at all. So you can't say uncrustables in Spanish then. It's probably just uncrustables. It probably is.

Cause it's a brand name. But I wonder if it's like, if there's like another clever play on words that they would do. Anyway, anyway, sorry, distracted. That's not what we're here for. We're here for D&D. The Gnoll kind of narrows his eyes and says, Who gave you those orders?

I was just hired. I'm here to do a job. That's what we here are for to torture. Unless do you want us to torture someone else? Oh, that's a good question old constant plates getting his hammer ready no told us and understand what's happening it's just like this guttural conversation that's gunther is having with uh with this uh no here what does it sound like to us gus

I love this episode of Star Wars. That's really good. It sounds very much like Java. Nattie, make a giggy roll for what? Wait I rolled a 13 so it's a positive whatever you're trying to do giggy effectively conveys the conversation that's happening Okay to you then can I interject sure you can I won't stop you, but you can't speak That's what I was gonna do. I was gonna say, is there any chance you speak common? We don't all speak a bizzle. Did you say that?

Yeah. And with that, he pulls out a bell and begins ringing. Oh. Oh. I shoot him. If he gets taken action, I get taken action. Yes. We'll deal with that.

Everyone roll initiative just so we get the order and then we'll deal with that. Action. Six. Eight. Six. What's your deck? 16.

Nine. You're before me. Okay. And I'm going to roll three here. The first one is for the person at the desk and then the other two are for two goals. We're about to run in. Okay.

So, Matty, you want it to blast first right away. So I'm going to do that before we get into the initiative roll So go ahead and do whatever action is you wanted to do there Rolled Eldritch Blast That's 26 on an on attack. Okay. Yeah that hits I figured didn't think this guy was easy Roll a 1 plus 4 so 9 again. Yeah, the Null slumps over his desk So nine again. Yeah, the gnoll slumps over his desk unmoving.

And as he does so, like a brass jeweler's loop falls out of his hand and rolls across the desk onto the ground. Okay, go look at it. When it's your turn. Oh, I thought we were out of combat. No, I said two other gnolls run in at the same time as well. An Azunga ambush, Chris, please. Sorry.

Yeah, two more gnolls come running into the room holding small plates in their hand. And they see the scene before them with the gnoll at the desk slumped over, and they drop the plates of sandwiches onto the ground. And pull their flails out. I was wondering if they were like having a meal when you said that. The first one is going to take a swing at Natty with its flail. It is plus four to hit. That's a 19.

Yeah, that hits. Alright, the flail hits you doing one point of piercing damage. Okay. And the flail kind of wraps around you and begins that kind of constricting you a little bit. So it has you grappled. Okay. The second one is going to do something similar.

The second one is going to do a threat assessment and decide it needs to attack Toll. So it swings its flail at Toll, hitting AC seven, which I assume is a miss. No, but I'm very honored that you think that I am a threat. That is a good assessment because I'm probably going to have to hurt you now, but you know. All right, that's it for them, which means 12.

It's your turn. After 12 is Natty. Oh, looky there. Okay, well, I am going to, I'm gonna attack the one that has Natty. Yeah, yeah. After 12 is Gunther. I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing.

It's okay. You won't need to worry about it because I'm probably gonna take them out right now I have this thing where if I'm within five feet Let me make sure that this actually does something or if it's more of a they get away Sentinel guardian immediately after a creature within five feet of you takes the disengage action or hits a target with them in tech You can make an opportunity to attack. Okay, nevermind, nevermind. That's just a George Shad runaway. Alright, I'm going to hit with my vorhammer.

I'm going to do it one, no sorry, two handed. Let's pretend that I put my shield away when I was climbing. So my AC is lower now. I'm going to hit the one that's holding Nadi with the flail. That is a, my goodness, that's not gonna feel good. 25. Oh, that hits. Surprise, surprise.

Surprise, surprise. That's a 11. Ooh, yeah. You hit it with your war hammer, and it just kind of like pounds the knoll to the ground where it is unmoving. And then with that same momentum from that last hit with my second attack I was gonna go for the other guy sure

I will say as you killed that one knoll and it's not moving on the ground the one that's remaining standing Sees this happen and it seems to get enraged by it and like reflexively lets out a punch that hits you knoll That hits you tolv doing one point of damage What the heck man that hits you null, that hits you 12, doing one point of damage. What? Doink. How? What the heck, man? Okay, I'm gonna hit you with my hammer now. You ever get popped and you're just like, oh, you know,

like it's like, oh, what the? So it's just surprising, but it's also very upsetting. Yeah. How could she slap? How could she slap? She's like, why would you do that, okay, and you hit her you oh no that is a nine No, maybe you were like so stunned by the fact that it it booped you that you're you're not able to hit it You're not able to focus on it. Okay, it was a crotch shot. Yeah

Not allowed in the ring. No, they hit toll not private parts Yeah. Not allowed in the ring. No, they hit Tol, not Private Parts. Hey, take an inspiration die there, Barbara. That was good. That was very good. Because not only is it a good joke, but you remembered Private Parts is here. Yes.

How could I forget? He's in my vest. It's really hot. Can you let me out of here? It's just fur. You got to let Private Parts breathe. Is that it for you, Tolf? Every time.

Yeah, air him out. The only thing else that I would wanna do is without opening myself of that attack of opportunity, staying within reach of them, maybe like circling to the door to block their exit. Sure. Yeah, so like stay close and melee range threatening and just kind of putting yourself between them and the door.

Yeah, and then I go under my breath. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Brrrrrah! Brrrrrah! Brrrrrah! Gunther, I believe. Yeah, Gunther, you're up next. Gunther drops his flail, pulls out his sword,

charges at seemingly 12. You killed my brother, he says in abyssal. And then right before he gets to 12, he stabs the gnoll. Sneak attack. That's at 27. That hits. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Quite a stabby stab.

And that's 15 damage. Yeah, you run that gnoll through with your rapier. He slumps over, unmoving. My brother. I missed. There's a really, like really sticking to the part is that that's all yeah that's all quickly hide the body yeah I was gonna say I told would drag one of the bodies behind the desk yeah and Gunther will get the other okay and then there's also the body of the person who was sitting at the desk as well we position

him looks like he's sleeping you at the desk as well. Can we position him? Looks like he's sleeping. You can position him as well too. Not just position him. While they're doing that, could I go grab whatever book he was scribbling in on his desk? Yeah. And I think Gunther wanted to pick up his...

Yeah, the thing he dropped. His loop. Yeah. Well, I'm gonna deal with the body placement real fast. So you are propping the one who was sitting at the desk over the desk like he's sleeping, and then you're hiding the other who is sitting at the desk over the desk like he's sleeping and then you're hiding the other two bodies one of them under the desk what about the other one yeah i guess can we put both of them under there sure why not kind of shove both of

them under the desk not like the one who's sitting at the desk needs all the leg room oh and his eel skin hat can gunther put that on yes uh let me do let me deal with doug in the book and then we'll do gunther and the loop in the hat. So you take a look, you know, at the book there, Doug, and it's a pretty hefty book that, you know, had been laying open, but the null closed. And as well as the book on top of the desk here, there's a velvet bag with some gold in it. And the book appears to be a thick ledger of some kind. It's a list of supplies and like treasure, like a reserve of some kind. I would probably glean that they have here in this like underground location. That would be the logical conclusion.

Yes, okay. So yes, friendo. So we just killed the accountant. That's cool. This was all stuff that like you said there were supplies and stuff all around us, right? Yes. I was hoping we would find a dirty secret, perhaps a secret crush or like a confession of sorts,

you know, but it's just, it's numbers and I don't like numbers. Numbers. You just have to find the scary numbers and put them in the box. Hey. Gunther. Mysterious and important.

Oh, it took me a second. Yeah. You pick up the loop that rolled off the desk onto the ground and it's a brass jeweler's loop of some kind. Jeweler's loop? Do you know what that is? It's like a, it's like, yeah, almost like

a little small magnifying glass. You see like jewelers look at it to like look at gems and find detail. I guess I'll put that in my inventory. Or is there, look if there's any jewels in which to look at you Probably have jewels in your inventory. I'm not rich. This is like one of those like Doug What's that like? You're super cool. The horoscope thingy

The kaleidoscope, you know, my spyglass of Zodiac. That's the one one episode Blaine is gonna remember what that thing is called It's okay. It's in my inventory now. It's true. I have a little bit of a cheat sheet. Is it something like that, you know? Could I look at it too and see if it looks anything like this by glass? Like you're trying to figure out if it's a similar artifact? Is that what you're getting at? Yeah.

Yeah, artifact or like, manufacturer. Made in Bulgaria. I guess both Doug and Toll, since you're trying to figure this out, both of you can make, let's call it an investigation check. I assume Gunther, you're allowing them to do this. Yeah. Okay. You're not like smegling it and my precious. I was just trying to figure out how to spell loop.

20. All right. I've got this, I've got this Doug, that's a two. Toll, we're looking over here. Oh, yes. Yes. Toll was just licking the loop. Toll, you know, maybe you get like sand in your eye. You're still too hyped up from the from combat to be able to to really notice anything. But Doug, as you're looking at the loop, it appears to have something inscribed in it.

It doesn't seem to be the same craftsmanship as the spy glass, but there is an inscription on the loop that appears to be written in draconic. Hey guys, do any of you know draconic? No. No ma'am. Well, maybe we'll just hold on to this, be able to translate it at some point. Private parts, do you know draconic? You're a well-read gentleman.

He begins flipping through his tablet. I do not, but one moment. Oh, the iPad baby has some use. No, I don't think I have anything that could help us in this situation. Captain Grumbles? Gigi? Ugh.

As you're looking at the loop toll, it's almost like the runes come together Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh It says crafted by Dr. Acutarius H. Imeritusian. What? Wait, what? Just like the script appeared and you were able to read it, Toll, as you say it out loud, the inscription seems to transform again and disappears. And now it's gone. Roll me a D20, 12.

You've got it boss man. Here we go. One piping hot D20. That is a 12. And I want you to add all of your ability score modifiers to that. So like your strength modifier, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, wisdom, and charisma.

Yeah, yeah, for sure. That's going to be a quick math. You've got this math minute eight, nine. So what's the total that that was your role? Twenty one. All right. Yeah, your vision kind of like warps and bends, but then snaps back in into crystal clear sharpness like usual. Where did you go, Talv?

I am like freaking out, man. I mean, woman. I don't know. That was so weird. It was like, hey, this is made by this guy with a fancy name and then it went away and then and then I just kind of zoned out for a second. I think I'm going to I'm going to write this note down in my book, but I'm going to just abbreviate it to

Ahem It's probably convenient. Yeah, you feel told like what you saw Was not of this world. It was like I have to ask did Blaine just figure it out you guys Acutarius H. Amarathusian is doctor ahem Acutarius H. Amerathusian is Dr. Ahem? I don't know what that means, but that feels significant, does it not? I've never heard of such a name. I mean, what we're just saying is Dr. Ahem, just because we're just, you know,

putting the abbreviations down here. We don't know if that's actually what this fellow calls himself or not, or what the significance is. I feel like when I say it, I want to clear my throat like dr. M It feels right. Does that feel right to you guys? It feels right. You guys are crazy That's not how I would shorten that name. That's so weird. Oh, you should probably hold on to this, right? I feel like I don't know if we will meet this guy. Maybe he'd want it back. No, I think we should throw it to vay, you know Do we accidentally just kill him? Is it Noel?

The Noel? That's Tommy Doctor Aham. Oh no. Could I look at that Noel who had the jeweler's loop and see if he has any other items on him or like is his chair a wheelchair by any chance? No it is not. Why don't you make me an investigation check? We've killed a lot of Noels.

I don't know why you're so curious about this guy. 18. Well, he's a doctor. Because you know, like, he was a good guy. He doesn't seem to have anything else on him. Unlike the other gnolls you've seen so far, I would say the one thing that sets this one apart is this one was unarmed. He did not have a flail like the other ones you've seen so far. Okay.

Yeah, guys, I think we should hold on to this. Okay. Any volunteers? You want me to pop it in my pocket? I'd already put it in my inventory, but I can take it out. Oh, no, you can take it. Is there any supplies from the book that we should take? Uh, no, I don't know if we really need this book, but we should probably take on this

like jewelers loop, I think. Does the desk have any drawers? You take a look at the desk, daddy, and you do not see any drawers on it it's just like almost like a just a surface to place things on. Do we want to take the gold though in the sack? A sack of gold? Yeah. I will take that. All right. Barb to clarify I was saying like in the book you said a list of supplies that were like kept here is there anything in there that would be noteworthy that we would want to like call out or look for or anything like that?

I guess like yeah, could Doug read through the list and see if anything stands out as of any importance or something that like a name we recognize? Absolutely. Doug, can you run the numbers and see if they committed any blue collar crime? Or white collar crime? Oh, I'm sensing a little bit of FWAD. Oh, FWAD, you don't say? A frog? For the record, there are 25 gold pieces in that bag.

I just wanted to roll that before we get too far from it. Cha-ching. Could I divvy that up amongst our team? Yeah, absolutely. All right, let's see. Five for you. Six, six, six, and one for Gigi. Ha ha ha ha ha.

Or find us, fee. There you go, there you go. I like that better. So you guys all get six gold pieces and I get seven. Cool. Could Doug take a look a little closer at everything that I guess like a rough kind of flip through the book of all the supplies listed see if anything kind of catches his eye? Yeah.

It's a lot of mundane things. Gropes, ores, dried fish, brewer supplies, kegs, barrels and crates. Longer bow of triumph. Stop. So like nothing really other than that that stands out? It does also list some treasure, but it does not appear to be in this room with you.

I think all this was, was the bookie. Yeah. Feel kind of bad. He wronged the bell. He didn't have to do that. Yeah. Well, he felt threatened, rightfully so, you know. They did bring in sandwiches. So maybe it was like the dinner bell. If we can say that.

Yeah. Maybe they were just bringing his lunch. He was, he was, maybe they were bringing us us lunch. You know? they dropped their sandwiches and pulled out weapons. Are you guys crazy? We don't know no customs. We don't know how they operate. I've already been in old for five minutes. I think we should probably get a move on in here. And maybe as a team, we should just try talking to people before blasting them. If they don't ring an alarm bell, I won't blast them. That's what my grandma used to say.

Classic granny. Very specific. Do we know it was an alarm bell for sure? Again, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. He looked at me with alarm, rung the bell, they came in, had their weapons, and then attacked us with their weapons. Yeah, cause you blasted.

Tensions are so very, very high right now. I feel like it is imperative that we do a group hug. I will not say no for an answer. Come on, come on. I will not say no for an answer. 12 offers an open ended hug. I won't say no as an answer, Eo. Come on, Mr. Grumbles.

Doug is in for the hug. Okay, thank you, Doug. Nady? I'll go in for a hug. This is healthy. This is good. Yes, yes. I pad it out.

I say, all the bad vibes. Let them leave our bodies. Here we go. All right, now let's go to the next area. Everyone roll a charisma check. Let's see how good this hug is. Ooh. My charisma.

That's actually low for me. Eight. Twenty. Eighteen. Ooh, five. I think Tolva for me. Eight, 20, 18. Ooh, five. I think Toll the Natty are holding back some tension. They're giving Gus hugs. We call those gugs. Oh, roll for Gigi.

Oh, if he gives the hug. Yeah. 17. He goes for the hug. Should I roll his charisma check? Yeah, let's roll his charisma check. All right. He rolled, wait, what's his modifier?

He ain't got no modifier for Christmas, but I rolled an Eron 18. Gigi needed that. Oh, yeah, Gigi's into it. Sweet boy. I guess Gigi would, as a centipede, he's hugging. Gigi, yuck. 100 hugs.

Horrifying. Okay, Doug, after hugs, horrifying. Okay, Doug, after you, you said, we want to get going, let's get going. Yeah, Doug starts exiting this room that we just walked in. Assuming there's no other exits in this room, right? It's just the one you walked in from. And I realized I forgot something Chris had said. Yeah, Chris, you can take the hat.

I think you had mentioned that. I don't know if I ever acknowledged you could take that Nolz hat. the eel skin hat. Yeah. Yeah, cool. Cool. Cool Fedora just adds to the perception the disguise then it's not a fedora. I described it as a bicorne hat You picture like Napoleon wearing it, okay, it it looks like a taco? Yeah, yeah. Is it bicorn? Cause I was hurting bike horn. Yeah.

That's like two corned. Bicorned. Oh, I see what it is. Gotcha. Okay. That's a look. Oh my, don't speak ill of the dead. Well, this is the important part.

Is it, is it ours like to the sides or is it like a taco? Like the points are at the front and the dead. Well this is the important part. Is it out like to the sides or is it like a taco like the points are at the front and the back? I think that's up to Gunther. How do you want to wear it Gunther? How is he wearing it? We'll say he was wearing it taco. Alright taco it is. I think that's better for swinging your sword. Otherwise you'll get it caught up you know. Very true very true.

Okay yeah so you walk back out from the exit that you walked in from, the entrance turns into an exit, and you're back in that room with the pool of yield-filled water and the rock island in the middle. I guess, could we keep going kind of like clockwise towards the north? Yeah. You walk closer towards the north, and as you get closer, you can see that it leads back into a sandy grotto with what appears to be a ship in it.

Ooh. Do I recognize the ship? Make a wisdom check. 16. No, it does not seem like a ship you have seen before. Okay. Do you all walk in to there or are you just kind of like peeking in or like what's the move here, Doug? I'd like to peek into the ship. I mean like the grotto

I feel like you all aren't in the grotto yet You all are like this is what you see so far while peeking in if you want to see more y'all actually have to enter A little more I would like to go in yeah, we'll follow me too. Yeah, is this a fine vessel? Is this a good ship lollipop for my knowledge? It seems pretty Pretty good quality. I'm gonna say ship. Ship ship. Pretty tip top ship. There you go. Yeah so you enter or you walk in a little more and you see you know this is indeed a sandy grotto with vaulted ceilings and there's a beached ship that

fills the cave. It's lit by hanging lanterns and there's gangplank onto the ship and there appears to be barred brigs on either side of's gangplank onto the ship and there's appears to be barred Briggs on either side of the gangplank and you can see that there appear to be a couple of gnolls guarding the area and they're stepping stones to the east that lead into a stream anybody in the Briggs make a investigation check we all do that or sure 17. 17. 12. All of us? If you want, it's up to you. I'm good.

Nettie, you got it. Yeah, I'll let them look. All right, from where you are, it appears that there is indeed someone on the left and the right side of the brig. Anybody look familiar? It's hard to see from where you are. Maybe if you get closer, you can get a better look.

Oh, I remember guys. Chill out. Hmm. Permission to approach the gnolls? Gently. Maybe I should go first so that I can speak on behalf of the gnolls. Sure, whatever.

The gnolls that came out before spoke common, but that one in the accounting room, he didn't. Go ahead, Gunter. Lead the charge. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. We are, I guess, welcome. We are here for the torture. Where are they? Oh! So you say they'll be tortured?

No, no, ha ha ha ha ha. The prisoners. Since you said you're here for the torture, why don't you make me a deception check, Gunther? Okay. Twenty. The prisoners are in the brig, one to the west and one to the east. I was told to torture the little one that is the halfling with the limp. And who told you to torture the halfling? I don't know, I'm just here to work.

You don't know who hired you? Let me take one moment and Gunther goes to dig through his stuff looking. I can't find it here. Do you know who? Who's in charge here? I'm just a contractor That really made me laugh Chris Why don't you make me one more deception check here? Okay, come on Is it 13? I'm gonna roll a high roll is bad for you a low roll is good for you five More deception check here. Okay, come on. Let's see if M is a 13. Not bad. I'm gonna roll.

A high roll is bad for you. A low roll is good for you. Five. Ah, yes! Is that a high roll or a low roll, guys? That's... I think Doug and I run the numbers and five is low on a D25. I guess it depends on what you're falling to.

Is low, is a comparison and everything like that. Okay, the three. The Gnoll says, The private hair, of course. Uh, that's right. Anyway, where's the magenta hair, halfling, pancak, or something? Why don't you go to the private hair first, and then we'll let you in. Alright, where are they? The Gnolls just point at the stepping stones leading up the stream

I look back can I give a look at Doug for like? Confirmation to continue or wait did they they didn't hear that because it was that in weird language abyssal I didn't hear that. Alright, I'll go forward and go to talk to the private dear Okay, and I assume everyone else follows? Sure. Yeah. I think, yeah, we'd probably see Gunther doing that and follow him. Okay. As you do so, all four gnolls that are stationed

out here, they're all of their heads just turn and watch as you guys walk to the east, to the stepping stones in the street. I give a friendly wave, y'all. Nanny waves. The two up top on the ship look at each other and laugh. Why would you laugh? Nettie yells back, wow it was funny!

They don't say anything. So yeah, you head out to the east and you see a trail of stepping stones that appear to head northeast into the stream's current and slopes upstream to a small cavern. I want to relay to the group while we're away what was said. Okay, give me a taste of that. What do you tell them? Well, I told them I'm here to torture. I lied good. Then they said that Pankak is in one of those prisoner spots, but we don't know which one, and they said to go talk to the privateer who is in charge. So are we like your prisoners or...? I think we're all torturing together.

Oh, OK. Yeah. We're specialized in my mind. OK, yeah, that sounds good. Are we within eyesight of those Briggs as we approach? I mean, you walked kind of by them. Yeah. As you were as Gunther was talking, you were kind of close. And then, you know, as you walk by to the stepping stones to the east, you do walk pretty close to them.

Can I glance I'm assuming if one's Pancak do we recognize the other one? Make a investigation check. If it matters I did say the name Pancak so they might have like... It's Pancak. Or yeah Pancak. If they had heard their name they might have looked. 13? Yeah you see one of them appears to be a halfling who has magenta hair and is missing half of their left leg Mmm. The other one appears to be a half-null

Maybe human does not look familiar to you. Okay Guys, I'm pretty sure based off the description that we know that that's Pancake Should we go sneak around back in? that we know that that's Pancake. Should we go sneak around back in? Sneak around back in? Like, instead of go talk to Privateer the boss, we go try and sneak into the ship or we could go try to fool Privateer into thinking they hired us.

I feel like we're in for a fight if we try to convince someone that we're actually here to take them. Because I think that they would know maybe who they asked to help or not and maybe they'd give away so maybe we should try to do it the sneaky way. That's a good point. Also do we know if this is Pancak or the shapeshifter that is posing as Pancak? Oh. Because that's like a thing too you know.

Or no, Nady what do you think? I feel like we're gonna have to use your charisma maybe to talk to the privateer and get more information. I feel like we should probably talk to the privateer since if that is Pancake, they're in a prison that's literally being guarded by people we just talked to. Yeah, okay. And in the spirit of transparency, being back on a ship,

it's pretty weird, you know? This has been a vile. This is, you know, I miss it, but I hate it. I don't know how to deal with these emotions. Nattie, maybe you could just go kind of wander up over to where Pancak is being held and maybe see if that's the real one. You know, I feel like you got a good judge of character. Sure.

Sure! Sorry, that was John. Sure. Oh no, you know, you Sorry, that was John. Sure. Or not, you know, you're your own woman if you want to make your own decisions. No, I'll, hey, yes sir. And, Natty, if we walk down that path, do we get out of the view of the Gnolls for a moment? Yeah, you will eventually lose their line of sight as you enter the cavern. Okay, what if, counter argument, what if we sneak our way towards where the privateer is,

I get a look at the privateer, and then I go back as the privateer and do a little switcheroo. That is a good idea. I love that. Maddie, that is so smart, y'all. Yeah, nothing bad will happen with that, you know? No, no, no, no, no. Nothing at all. To help. Yep. Sounds good. Dad puts a thumb up. Also, go for it. This is very important. Like looking at the ship, like how many miles to the gallon does this puppy get? You know? Stop. I'm so... Now I regret letting you you go I think it's more miles to

the galleon in this case that's good that's good is there a way Gus for Naty to like peer around a corner and get a look at the privateer before being seen yeah before I give any information I need to take a stealth check from you. Oh. You got to take? You got to take? It's that trade meme. I give you this. You give me stealth check, I give you information.

Maybe sword. Well Gus, that's a nat 20. Thank you very much. With a plus three, so that's 23. Which means I'm going to roll bad for the charisma checks. No way. You stealthily sneak in and luckily, what kind of works to your advantage is the sound of the water kind of over,

like it's louder than your footsteps. So you're able to kind of sneakily stealthily crouch up, you know, crawl up and see peek into the cavern. And inside you see a small smoky cavern that appears to be very brightly lit. There's a rushing waterfall made of fire or I guess a fire fall and in the cavern there's a one foot high fire on the floor and there's a raised circular platform in the middle of all this made of red gemstone marked with blazing runes. On the platform you see someone kneeling talking with someone who appears to be inside the firefall itself. Okay and they're the only person in the

room? Well the person kneeling on the platform and then the other person in the firefall. Yeah but the other person in the room is that person is kneeling? Yes. Okay do I see enough of them turn into them? Yes, but, yeah, yeah, yeah. OK. Gus kept it simple. Thank you for your enthusiastic reply. Yeah. Yeah, so now he turns into the privateer,

or into that person, and hopes it's the privateer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you get a pretty good look at this person who's kneeling on the platform. And then as you look around, you realize you recognize the the creature inside the firefall. Who's in Demon Skype Conversations? The Demon Skype Conversation is with none other than Infernas.

No! Oh my gosh, they're long distance dating. Find out the status if it's complicated or not on the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Are you going to turn into the big bad, Natty? I mean, that'd be cool. I could. I think Infernus might be bigger than Natty. Just a little.

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No, no. I was gonna say, I have in my head that you, like you specifically said, Tollv is a share, a prince. It's not Tollv ironclad, is it? I didn't say that. Oh. Well, cause you were talking a little about this episode, like father figures and like who actually raised you.

So many dads. So many dads. Tollv and all his dads. I don't know. Cause we learned of another father figure. Bjorn. Yeah, I would address that outright cause I didn't know how Mike and Gus

would want me to navigate that. Cause like I wrote some very important figures in my past and I was like, am I allowed to say this? Am I allowed to give this information? So I feel like we should address actually that, that aspect of our show, which I think you're a prime candidate for this discussion, Blaine.

There's moments where character reveals or character lore or character development happens. And I wonder where you come from of the worry of saying too much. Because it seems to be a concern and I want to understand that concern. I think the audience would be curious about that concern. There's a lot of information I'm willing to share.

I feel like Toll is an open book for the most part, but there's stuff that I feel like needs to be revealed in a storytelling fashion. It needs to be shown. What's the show? Not tell is like that's like the old adage with right. Show not tell on an audio podcast. Yes. And I understand like, ha, show not tell, you know, it's an audio podcast.

But there are there are like story elements there like like beats that like I feel like we want to hit as a narrative before those things. Otherwise, it's just like coming out and it's like, hey, I'm Gunther. I killed my whole family. What up? You know, like it's like it's like, hey, I'm Gunther, I killed my whole family. What up? You know, like, it's like, it would be cooler if like, that's Gunther, that's the guy that committed the murder of whatever. And then we're like, Gunther, what's the murder of whatever?

And then, and like, I want it to kind of come out like that. Like I want it to not just feed the audience the information. I would like for them to have a few episodes where they come up with some speculation and they might craft it. You know, it's like Severance. Severance didn't come out right and say, this is what this is and that, for them to have a few episodes where they come up with some speculation and they might craft it. You know, it's like Severance. Severance didn't come out right and say,

this is what this is and that, and I think that that's a fun way of storytelling. There's been a couple of times where like, I think now I'm more caught up to speed on how this will play out and I'm very excited about it. Yeah. But I also don't want to reveal too much. Give me and John the inside scoop, Lane.

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Just kidding. Just kidding. That was for me. That was one for me.