Tales from the Stinky Dragon - C03 - Ep. 18 - Brig of Endridge Bay - Pvt. Conversation with The Privateer

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

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with a sandwich bell, they bluffed their way to a beached boat's brig. Now Nati has nestled her way into overhearing a fiery face to face withassy goss. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Tales from the City Dragon. I'm your Dungeon Master Gustavo Cerola. I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow. OK, yeah, that's fine. There's a lot more gruff in your voice that time. Me? Yeah, I'm gonna hit those four players.

I'm gonna. Little spoiler, little behind the scenes peek. I did some pickup audio right before this in a voice I haven't done in a long time, which may be affecting my intro here. This week's arrow question is, what would be your character's coffee order? And that is submitted by Queen Chartreuse.

Oh, I think a queen. Yeah. Let's everyone roll some initiative. I already rolled a one. So I'll talk to you guys in like five minutes. All right. 16. 18.

16. Oh, you're tied 12. I know. Who's a higher dexterity? 16. 17. Bleh! 12. I know who's a higher dexterity. 16, 17. I'm doing the loser sign for John. Very aggro. Great energy today, John. Barbara Blaine, John.

Yeah, we got Doug, Tolle, Maddie and then Gunther. Well, hello, stinky dragon fam. What's up on this good whatever day you're listening to this podcast? Not much. Oh, it could be Mondays if you support us at stinkydragonpod.com. It could you get a 48 hours early and with no ads. Wow crazy But hello, I'm Barbara Dunkelman and I play Doug Boone the male bugbear artificer who is currently a level five and This may surprise you but Doug is a big fan of coffee. Very big fan of coffee.

Why would that surprise us? Why, I don't know. I just wanna be mysterious. That was a legitimate question. You said this may surprise you. I was just curious the reason behind that. Well, it's cause you know, you don't ever, like Doug seems to be pretty even-keeled guy.

And so he's, you know, never seems to be too jacked up on caffeine or anything like that or too low energy. So he just, he may surprise you. I just want to be mysterious. He does have to poop a lot though. I have noticed that. That would happen regardless. So let's be honest. But something I did actually, I created my own espresso machine back at my home. And so I'd make cappuccinos, I'd make lattes, I'd make different espresso drinks. But I think my favorite one, you know, I just like a nice big Americano. Nice hot Americano, just black, no cream or sugar, just nice. But sometimes if Doug wants to tweet himself, he'll have one of those like big old like cookie frapuccino, you know, cream.

I think it's called the de-malice. To get everything in it. Only on your birthday. We need to post a picture of that drink at some point in our Patreon. I forgot about that. That monster for context. On your birthday, you can, you get a free drink from Starbucks and by free you could put anything you want in it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that two years ago. Well, I get every year. Oh you do Yeah, the demeres wasn't that an episode like the office was like waffle day pretzel Pretzel day and Michael got everything. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like maybe we could Delve a little more to Chris's birthday drink tradition on Second Wind, which people can get access to once again, if they support us at stinkingdrunkenpod.com. Oh yeah, delicious drink. So bad for you. It's not, it's not.

I don't know if I'm on the next Second Wind, but I think I took a photo of it or maybe a video one year. Anyway, we can talk about it later. But that's it for me. Thanks Doug. Thank you, thanks for the question queen. Gus or Char-chus. Char-chus obviously.

No, no, no. We're 12 up next I believe, right? Yeah, that's me. Yoo-hoo, it's me 12 played by Blaine. And as far as coffee, I only became a coffee drinker very recently. It's very good for, you know, regulating my body temperature, making sure I don't overheat. And you know, in a way to make me feel nostalgic, what I like to do is have a cold brew.

But with my coffee, I, you know, cause we're out on the oceans, we might be out up like in the, the colder sea regions with the icebergs and things. But I like having my coffee in the shape of like a popsicle, just a frozen block of coffee. Yeah. Interesting. It's good. That's it. That's my answer.

Yeah. That sounds really good actually. Yeah, it does. So for you, coffee's a cold drink because I think, I feel like most people wouldn't say they drink coffee to regulate their temperature to keep them cool. Most people would say like they drink coffee

to warm themselves up. So for you, Tov, it's exclusively cold coffee. No warm coffee ever. Oh, no warm coffee. No, I like the cold, yeah. Isn't it true though, that like if you're hot and you have a warm drink, it actually regulates your temperature to be cooler?

Cause it's like- Oh, is that true? There's something about like if it's really hot outside and you drink a hot beverage, it's supposed to cool you down. I don't know the science. Maybe Tolliv is built different. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest. I'm not gonna try that this summer in Austin. I will not drink a hot beverage on a 105 degree day to test that out.

Barman is 100% true. It just goes against human nature. Because when it's December and I'm ordering a cold brew, it feels wrong. You want to do the opposite of the weather, but do some research. Let me get Doug in here to actually explain it. He says, in the hot dry weather, drinking a hot beverage could actually help cool down by twiggling your body's natural cooling response, sweating and allowing the sweat to evaporate, which absorbs heat and lowers the body temperature.

So you make yourself more hot to sweat to then cool down. Something like that. That's a lot of steps in addition to having to need to poop already, you know. I would just put a bunch of ice in my tummy and be done. Jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle. Thanks, Toll, y'all. Moving on next, I believe we are at Natty. Howdy, everybody.

I'm John Rice here and I play Natty Wonder, who is a drow warlock mother, single mother, wife. Just making her way in the world. Yeah. So yeah, I love a good cup of coffee and I'm, I'm normally not very picky. I kind of just, you know, what, what's, if someone's going to fix me a cup, it's like whatever they got around, I'll take it. But as, as a mama who's often just trying to quickly make sure that I get my nutritional needs met while also taking care of a quite rambunctious little angel. I love just a good old shot of espresso.

I love that, because then you can just down it, you get all the effects, it's kind of tasty. And if you wanna go a little special, if I'm, you know, every mama needs moments to treat themselves, you go a little special, if I'm, you know, every, every mama needs moments to treat themselves. You need a little, a little treat, you know, to kind of like take the edge off from the day. I love me and Affogata, you know? I love just a little bit, a little bit of ice cream

in there. Ooh, that's just, that's just like, you know, it's dimful, but the good kind. It's like a coffee float. Yeah. And what does Gigi like? Does he get coffee or is he more of a cake pop kind of guy? Gigi mostly, he subsides on a very strict, you know, a diet and controlled nutritional intake of energy drinks.

That's all he drinks. Just pounds those back. Probably an average of a couple dozen a day. That seems to keep him happy. He does not need those. He's a growing boy. I like the idea of like, Natty going to like a Starbucks and Gigi getting a pop cup

and just like sticking his whole head into it and like, just like the cream being everywhere. Yeah, yeah. Kind of like what Tove said, sometimes I'll just toss Gigi some frozen cubes of coffee just to kind of tie him over till he can get to his next monster. You are what you drink.

What's the HP on that monster? That's a good one. Thank you, Natty. Once again, the paragon of parenting over here. Really appreciate the insight. Hello. Gunther, you're next. Yes, I'm Chris Damaris and I play the male croakfolk fighter.

And for me, the coffee is something very special, you see, because what we do in my village, there are sometimes small puddles near the oasis where the water will puddle up in a nice little spring. And then what you will do is you'll take the coffee beans and you will grind them into little pieces. Sounds scary. Then you will put them into the water and you will sit in it and then rest and let it absorb your skin. Oh, like a coffee bath. Yes. Did you also absorb through osmosis? Uh, no.

Can't say I do, no. No. If I might say, that's a big word for Gunther. It is how we say it. So is this just a Gunther specific? No. Or just the whole village? Well, it is a special time.

So not very common. That sounds like prison coffee. But is that coffee? Prisoners they do not receive coffee. That's why. That's why that sounds like prison coffee. So it is a relaxable and then you leave the, you leave it and you go jump so high. Is this also how Bunlap would do it or did Bunlap have any special coffee?

Oh, he would sometimes sit and give me a cum so rambunctious. I was just re-listening to that episode where he talks about Bunlap. So you bringing it up now is funny. Oh, Bunlap. Bunlap's like my favorite person we've never met. I can't wait. Hopefully one day we can meet Bunlap. I wanna see what this is all about.

This legend, this king. I just realized his name is the amalgamation of two anatomical parts. Buns and lap. Mm. I do not have buns. I can't wait to meet cheek groin. 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 rooms. On the platform, you see someone kneeling, talking with someone who appears to be inside the fire fall 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 fire fall. Yeah, but the other person in the room is that person who's kneeling. Yes. Okay, do I see

enough of them turn into them? Yes, but, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. 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. Let's go 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 demons Skype conversation is with none other than Infernas. No!

What has New Order told you? Ah, yes. The so-called Sea Drinker resisted our initial methods for some time. She may be gentle in demeanor, but her resolve is to be commended. Once we threatened the well-being of Fire Eater, she... Do not waste my time! What did she tell you? Of course, my Overlord.

She told us she knows not where the Pathfinder resides, but there is one who may yet. Speaking of, no one has discovered where we are keeping the Seedrinker. So that secret remains safe. At that point, the Firefall's flames burn brighter and hotter, and steam and smoke consume the cavern. Get to the point, Pit! A thousand apologies. She says the Pathfinder serves under the Veiled Eye. That forgetful enigma! This is the vital information you've summoned me for! serves under the Veiled Eye. That forgetful enigma!

This is the vital information you've summoned me for. No, of course not, my overlord. I simply desire to keep you apprised of our fateful progress in opening the gates of- Enough! With a push in Furnace's abyssal black blade pierces the Firefall, reaching the privateer's thick throat. Dry up the sea-drinker for all she's worth, and then discard her.

The next time I hear from you, you better have the Pathfinder in shackles. Yes, my Overlord. I shall soon tremble at your sight, and may I say you're looking particularly... And with that, the blade retreats into the firefall, which snuffs out like a candle. I'm trembling at your sight, and may I say you're looking particularly... And with that, the blade retreats into the fire fault, which snuffs out like a candle. The room is left in near blackness, but the quiet is abruptly replaced by the rushing of water that fills the falls and washes the floor. Well done, privateer. Your attention to detail and persuasive prowess are to be commended. Well, kind of you to notice, Inferness. I humbly agree. Yar.

It's good. Is this the first time we've heard Inferness talk? The real one. Yeah, you previously encountered Inferness in the Seesaw during your training when you first did the Mortallion. I just don't remember if we heard them speak or not, but I think, okay. Also, it's interesting to note for combat reasons that they seem like these holograms have physical powers

because she just threatened the privateer with like a knife, fire blade. And then disappeared. Yeah, spooky. Just a quick clarification, this is a different voice than what you heard in the seesaw. Okay. Interesting.

Do we get a bigger score? Do we get a bigger voice actor? Yeah, you're never going to believe it. Man, Arnold Schwarzenegger. What? I was going to say Gustavo Cirola. Hey Ben, get on that. Get Arnold's people on the phone.

I'm pretty sure in F furnaces is she her. Yeah. All right. Schwarzenegger has range, John. Aren't you he him? Yeah, it's true. So the privateer has turned to exit the room and is walking straight at you, Natty. Yeah, that means I should probably do something, right?

Yep. Man, wish I had an idea. I wasn't expecting him coming straight at me. Hmm. Life comes at you fast. You gotta be ready. It does. Could you give me a physical description of the privateer?

Yes, I can. And did she say his name was Pitt? She did at one point refer to him as Pitt. The privateer appears to be a soft-bodied humanoid fiend. Seems to have maybe a balding head covered by a tricorn hat with a parrot on top. And he's wearing a pea coat that is made of some kind of maybe like an otter skin. How big is this guy? It's a humanoid size, you know, humanoid fiend, so a medium size, but maybe, you know,

a little pudgy. I'm not sure if you mean like, is he large or is he wide or like? Like medium? Yeah, imposing physically is what I'm prodding for. It seems like, you know, he has seen his share of combat, but he is a little soft. And he has a parrot? Yeah, he's got a parrot on top of his hat. Interesting, like a live one.

It appears to be moving. Uh yes. I'm gonna turn into one of the guys that was guarding the Briggs. Okay. The one that we talked to. Let's just say that guy. And uh I'm going to walk in that guy's way and get his and get his attention. Okay. And I'm gonna be I'm gonna be frantic, okay? Okay. Remind me, how are you able to change your appearance like that again? I'm special. That's all you need to know. Fair enough for me.

Uh, my, one of my Eldritch invocations is, uh, Mask of Many Faces, and I can cast Disguise Self at will without expending a spell slot and I also have a feature and trait called Mimicry where I can mimic the sounds of other creatures including speech The creature that hears the mimicry must succeed on a wisdom check to determine the effect is fake So I guess if they want to check if it's faked that's there is a check for it

But I don't know if it means automatically you check that. Sure. But also I have impersonation, which gives me advantage on charisma checks while I'm doing this. Nice. Yeah. And disguise self. So you make yourself including your clothing, armor, weapons look different until the spell ends. You seem one foot shorter or taller. It can appear thin, fat or in between. Can't change your body type. So same basic arrangement of limbs. The changes wrought by the spell fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, if you use the spell to add a hat to your outfit, objects pass through the hat. So it just looks like it, but no physical aspect to it.

Correct. Upon physical inspection, it'd be like a Star Trek holodeck thing. Illusion. Okay, I just wanted to lay out the ground rules before we start playing. a Star Trek holodeck thing. Illusion. Yeah. Okay. I just wanted to lay all the ground rules before we start playing. Okay. I'm going to talk as Natty because I don't know how that person, whoever voice actor is doing the null sounds like.

Okay? So I apologize. But I'm going to come out. Sir! Sir! I'm glad I caught you. You're going to want to stay in here for just a tick, okay? Because we got a situation out there that I don't think you

want to be a part of all of the prisoners they rally together and they've decided to create well the easiest way to say is some sort of fecal fight where they're just throwing poo everywhere oh my god it is everywhere it is all all of the all of the guys who are who are the other guys who are in fact Gus I'm gonna say that my visage. I've got poo all over me. Okay Call and go ahead and blame it Chris. If you want to mark this to be animated later, that would probably be good Man it's just I don't even know they they must've been saving it up because they had so much to give, okay? And then the other guys, they, they, upon, you know, seeing of this, this, this array

of, of, you know, matter, they're vomiting as well. So there's vomit and poop everywhere. The smell is unique, I can say, okay? So I'm going to save you from that problem and say, could you stay in here for a little bit more and clean this up? We don't want you to have to deal with this, okay? Okay, I wasn't sure where you were gonna go, but I like it.

Just for fun, make me a deception check. I would love to, and I am not surprised by that at all. What is my deception modifier? Plus seven, I rolled a 12, so 19. Oh, that's good. Nice. Oh, and I get advantage, no. Yeah, I get advantage.

Let's see, nice. Nope, that was a two. We're going with good. Nice. Oh, and I get advantage. No, yeah, I get advantage. Let's see, nice. Nope, that was a two. We're going with 19. Nice. Wish it was the two to begin with, but okay, we'll go with this. Oh, there's no reason it was the two. The R2 is the two.

Yeah. I was waiting. I was waiting so much for that. Me and Blaine at the same time. Yeah. Yeah. The privateer, first of all, seems startled by you just appearing there seemingly out of nowhere to him

And second of all he does take a step back a little disgusted and maybe gives you a slightly wary eye and says Disgusting wash yourself off here in the water. He points at the the stream in front of that's between you all I'm gonna finish that clean up before I clean up myself that I don't feel like I should have to clean up here and then go get it all over me again, you know, get that fresh poo feeling on me. Fresh poo feeling. John, would it help if we made like barf noises in the distance to help your point? I'm saying this loud so if you guys want to assist, I can't advise otherwise. Tolljust is going, RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Five. Oh. Oh. Well. This is, this is, this is testing Gus's improvisational skill.

Well, I wasn't, I had an idea for how this would go. And this is not in any of the directions I thought it would go. You should know this better. Yeah. Well, in that case, let me make a check on my own. Oh my. Ugh. I dropped a check on my own. Oh my. Ugh, I broke the five.

Um... It's working, it's working! This is podracing. Quip racing. Well, be quick about it. I have much to do, very important work to be done. How long will it take you to clean? Well first, I mean, I gotta get the fight to stop. They're still producing.

Again, I don't know how. We might want to look into what we're putting into rations for the prisoners in the future, okay? But yes, I will get this done tooth-sweet and give you a holler. Why don't you just, you just kick back a little bit while we take care of the dirty business, okay? Well, eliminate the unnecessary prisoners if need be. That will put the others in line. Yeah, make an example of someone. Sir, yes sir. The privateer, I guess, would turn around and sit down on the circular raised platform there.

Make me a perception check, Natty. Can do. That was only five. Plus perception is plus three so eight. Okay yeah you can't see too much because it's you know it's pretty dark in that room but you hear like some muttering under his breath. Guard! Nobody appreciates what I do. Okay I will exit the room. Okay just to rejoin your party. Yeah because where they are is not visible by the Brig people.

And what are we? Guards, guards. Yeah, the guards. Brig people! I come up and I just start, I go, hey, good job, good job, high fives all around. Good job. As Natty approaches, Toll just gives one big silent handshake.

Well done, my goodness. Your best work yet. So like, is there actually poop anywhere that we should be? No, no. I don't need the poop. I was so convinced. No, Gigi's got that covered. Maddie turns into the privateer and goes,

Okay, shall we try phase two of this well thought out plan? You tell us! Time for number two. Finish it number two, y'all! Phase Time for number two. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's number two, yeah. Phase two of plan two. Okay. This is John asking again. I know it was Gunther had a conversation with the guard and I think the result of that conversation

was like we need to get approval by the privateer to take the prisoners for more torturing. To torture the prisoners here, I believe is how he had framed it. You all wereer to take the prisoners for more torturing? To torture the prisoners here, I believe is how we have framed it. You all were here to torture the prisoners. Okay. Like we were the hired contractors to torture. Correct. The outsource torturing to subcontractors, yeah.

This is the group that they would hire. Okay. Naturally. Then the group needs to come with me. This is the Halliburton of this world. Yeah, I think Doug would try to look really intimidating. So he, you know, kind of, I would think goes into more of his bugbear personality.

So he kind of like hunches and- The bear, the bear part of bugbear. He's like doing like the stalking kind of motion, whereas usually he walks pretty upright. This is good, this is good. I like, yeah, you can't see it, but Barbara's kind of pantomiming it. I'm a little scared. I'm going to turn off your camera, Barbara.

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Is this the promo right now? Isn't it okay i think we got it where are we good podcast yeah you all walk back down i'm going to re-describe this uh room for you just so you know what you're dealing with so uh this room is a sandy grotto with vaulted ceilings and there's a beached ship that fills the cave and it's lit by hanging lanterns. There's a gangplank under the ship and barred bricks on either side of the gangplank which are below deck and there

are four gnoll guards here. Two here guarding the bricks and then two up on top of the gangplank like on the main deck of the ship And then they're stepping stones to the east that lead to the stream and that's where you're coming back down Okay, I walk up. Okay. You said you're walking up to one of the gnolls outside of the brig door, right? Yeah, got their follows with with arms crossed like see Okay, you uh, yeah Yeah, Natty walks up and walks up to that guard and just puts arms together and just stares at the guard.

Okay, the guard just kind of looks straight at you. Seemingly like with like a blank expression. I'm waiting. Attention! Snaps fingers. Yeah. The Gnoll looks a little confused and says, Yes, you have my attention. I'm the captain, aren't I?

Are you asking? Yes. No, this is John asking. Yeah, well, I mean, the privateer is who they said was their boss. Right, okay. I guess these guys don't follow, I don't know, military decorum. They just seem just dull.

I think I think you have to spell it out. Your mortality is showing. Okay, sure. So do you care to explain to me why you made my contractors come and bug me while I was having an important conversation? Nice. Make an intimidation check for me. Intimidation, charisma based. It is. I get advanced. conversation nice make a an intimidation check for me

intimidation charisma base it is I get advanced that first one was an 11 plus force 15 oh that was a sweet old net 20 this guy's pooping his pants for real so 24 if you want the full I finally had a good roll. I rolled an 18 and it's insufficient. Well, your orders were nobody to see the prisoner without your authorization. So I'm following orders. Right. Which I gave these gentlemen my authorization. So again I ask why are you bugging me when I got other stuff to do than worry about your

shenanigans? Because the authorization was not given to me! Are you arguing with me? What was waiting? I feel a little insubordination creeping up in here. You might want to watch yourself. Again, I rolled a nat 20. Yeah, the uh, Gnoll kind of grumbles and says... Okay, so these hearts are now turned out, isn't it?

Yes! Time to torture Doug growls Rarrrrr Torture Does Toll do anything? Oh, he pops his knuckles Rrrr

Pop pop pop I like how you're a barbarian who is like actually really violent, but you're like Got their moves forward towards the Brigadier towards the one towards the Brigadier. Nope No, what is the word? Brick the brick the brick the break the break the break a brigadier brigadier someone who guards it brigadier a break, right? What's a big it's like it's like a General, isn't it? It's like a Brigadier General. It's like a military unit. Right, right. All right, let's not get into, you know, semantics, John. Brigadiers is also an Indian restaurant in London. Our audio podcasts where all we do is talk and use words. Let's not mince over those, okay?

Yes. They don't mean anything. So a brigadier is a rank of officer in the We're on an audio podcast where all we do is talk and use words. Let's not mince over those, okay? Yes. They don't mean anything. So a brigadier is a rank of officer in the British army. And I do, these NOLs do not strike me as Brits or army. Thank you, Micah, for telling me that. I don't want to feel like I knew that. Okay, so the NOL pulls out some keys

and unlocks the door and steps aside. You know what? I want you to go to your cores I'm gonna talk to you in a little bit. Okay. Oh He's good We're gonna have a talk. I don't appreciate your attitude and we need to have a discussion in He's in trouble The know looks a little confused. My quarters?

Wherever you check up, I don't care. I don't even pay attention to what you guys do at night. Just go somewhere I don't have to see ya. Um, man? Okay. He walks off, leaving the grotto out to the southwest. Okay. Hopefully the real pit is this mean to them. What if he's like actually really nice to them?

Yeah. This guy's acting really weird Well, I know myself that if I had just gotten that kind of a conversation with my boss Usually you pass that down because you're not processing it like a healthy person You pay that you pay that back to those who are you're in subordinates. Mmm, are your subordinates? Yeah, guess he said these talks to me all the time those who are your insubordinates. Are your subordinates. Yeah, Gus used to have these talks with me all the time. We're getting inside into John as a manager.

We're gonna say to John if he didn't have any healthy, you know, therapeutic skills or coping mechanism. Yeah. I take medication and I talk to a therapist, okay? You work it out. Yeah. Okay okay yeah that null leads to the southwest and the the two nulls up on the top on the main deck of the ship seem to be stifling laughter. Can we step into the brig so I can once

again give a handshake to Natty that was such a good one. Don't don't don't. Not right now. Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. Okay. It's not good. Okay I'm gonna take a little break, rest on my laurels, and let Gunther do whatever he planned on doing. Time to torture. He's crazy. We aren't here to torture us. We are not here to actually torture us. This is called role play, okay, Gunther? Sometimes I get so into the imagination that I forget.

I love the enthusiasm, yeah. When we were outside, we saw the where pancake was, right? Pancake. Pancake. It's the yeah. Whoever was in the right brig was described as pancakes look like pink hair or something. And based on the conversation with Furnace, they have Nyorda, who's, I guess, my deity, which is the sea drinker. So I guess they're here as well.

It sounds like it. Somewhere. Yeah, they seem to be sounding like they are a Captured they definitely have her captured. Yeah, okay Yeah, so you walk in to this room and We're gonna do gun throw go to where pancak was because we saw pancak while walking past so go there first Okay So you went in here to the eastern cell, and in this cell you see a handsome half-nole wearing a corduroy vest

who looks up at you. Wait, what? Is he a prisoner? Well, this person's in the brig. Am I wrong that you had previously described the person in this brig as being looking like Pancake? Oh, shapeshifter! I believe when we said that, I said that person was in the West cell. Oh, okay. Nevermind. Nevermind.

I took- I took bad notes then. Heh. Then that- that was the whole reason that I wanted to approach the guy- I see. I thought you were just coming to the one that was closest to where you were. No, I was trying to approach the one that was guarding Pancake. Okay. Well, and he'll know, so uh, why don't we just do what's up with this guy? Sure. And the guard unlocked the door.

Yeah. Okay. Uh, does this guy look familiar? Uh, and the guard unlock the door. Yeah. OK. Does this guy look familiar? No, but this person looks up at you with kind of a smile on their face and says, oh, visitors. I've never allowed those in here. I nudge Gunther, and I'm like, sir, retrieve the prisoner.

Yes. Yes. Yes. And then Gunther goes in. Alright. Grads him. And then maybe takes a rope and pretends, or at least sort of minds them as they walk. Oh, there's no need for that, friend.

I'll come along willingly. Okay. I'm new here for torture. Why are you here? Well, if you're with him, they nod over to the privateer. You should be all over that. It is not my job to further to be disrespectful. I'm not sure what language you're speaking, friend, but when you come back around to common, let me know. I smack Gunther and I go,

no fraternizing with the prisoners. And I walk over to the other guard and say, we going to have a problem? Like your other other chap that Noel just shakes his head. No, okay Open up the door since you're dealing with a new person just make me a deception check here Even though you're good at him. Oh 13 plus 7 20 30 20 or 12 nice rolled an 18 again, but 20 beats it. Yes, you're doing it. Yeah, the Gnoll unlocks the door and steps aside. Alright, I do the little like, uh, when you like bite your lip and make that whistle sound that John can actually do. And it sounds just like? Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I think any attempt at whistling would just be lost on these microphones. And I motion the big ins over.

Is that us? Yeah. That's us. That's two big boys. That's two big boys. Oh my, we'll deal with you later. What? Would you say that too?

The guy in here. Oh, Gunther's got that one. I'm taking him. Yeah, Gunther's got that one. We'll deal with you now. Simultaneously. Get over here. I walk over.

Okay, I walk over. I walk over. I'm going to take the mic. I'm going to take the mic. I'm going to take the mic. I'm going to take the mic. We'll deal with you now. Simultaneously. Get over here. I walk over. Okay, then what do you guys do with the prisoner? Who's in this cell? Yeah, who is this? Cause I know that the handsome Nol is in here, but who's this other guy? Oh, I see.

So everyone goes into the cell here and takes a look. And yeah, inside here. Should we not all be in here in case they trap us? They could spring a trap on us. Well, I don't think Gunther needs yeah, inside here. Should we not all be in here in case they trap us? They could spring a trap on us. Well, I don't think Gunther needs to walk in here. Yeah, I'm waiting in the hallway with the handsome Noel. No hallway.

Okay. I'm waiting. You stand there at the end of the gangplank. Yes. There you go. Even if we get trapped, we'll figure it out. Yeah. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, you walk into this room

and you see a halfling with magenta hair missing half of their left leg, wearing a wooden necklace. Okay, this is fake Pankak. Okay, may I? Is it? Why would it be fake? Is it not? Well, okay, alright, real quick meta-talk. We know that Pankak is missing, but we also know that at some point they were shapeshifted So we don't know if this is the shape shifter or if this is the real one

If this is the real one it makes sense because then someone's been going in and out of the cave as pancak And they just needed to have the fake one locked up, right? I forgot that they were shape-shifting, but that's the whole reason you're here Acting weird they followed them and ended up in the cursed catacombs, and they removed their face and heard voices. That's what Fizzmum's recollection of it is, because their partner is Pancak. Presumably this is the real Pancak, not the shapeshifting one, because the shapeshifting one was pretending to be them. I think what we have to do is ask them something only Pancak would know.

You mean the person we've never met? Yeah. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. Okay. Go, Doug. Hello there, prisoner.

Oh, hello. You look very big and scary. What's your name? I'm Pankak. What's your name? Hmm. Hey guys, it's Pankak. Food! What's your name? Hmm. Hey guys I'd say the comedic timing on that was perfect Question because you got that one right. Excellent job.

Pancake says what? What? So, uh, you seeing anybody? This is not me coming on to you or anything like that. I promise. It's just a question. Yes? And who are you?

Why are you here? We'll get to that in a moment, but what's your partner's name? I'll never talk. Why would I say anything to you? Why are you here? We'll get to that in a moment, but what is your partner's name? I'll never talk. Why would I say anything to you? This one's being difficult. We're going to take this one to our private space. I just think that you should give us the answers to the questions we were asking, because then we'll be extra nice to you.

And what is being extra nice, huh? Not locking my door and forcing me to be a prisoner here? Yes. Pancake just has a puzzled look on their face. I think that you should just let me go and return me back to Endridge Bay. And back to who as well? I think we should restrain the prisoner and have this discussion in a private space. Can I do something real quick?

Go for it. Oh, yeah, go for it. With my new feet, I'm telepathic. the prisoner and have this discussion in a private space. Could I do something real quick? Go for it. Oh, yeah, go for it. With my new feet, I'm telepathic. Could I cast Detect Thoughts? Oh, good spell. I'm gonna look that up. You could do that, Barbara.

I thought you were doing such a good job of figuring everything out. Through discussion. Yeah, why do you need this? It's also a second level spell that I have. Oh, it would help if I'm not looking at Gunther's character sheet. That's why I couldn't find it. I do not have that spell. Nope, you do not. There's something, I don't know why, but Doug and Gunther feel like it's like the same flavor of name. I keep mixing up the, yeah, it's the same

thing as Gum Gum and Mud had the same kind of thing going. See, I have that with Toad and Doug in my head, but maybe that's because I'm Gunther. Single syllable. So you can read the thoughts of certain creatures and focus your mind on any creature you see within 30 feet. You initially learn the surface thoughts of the creature, what is most on its mind at the moment as an action. You can shift to another creature.

If you probe deeper, the target makes a wisdom saving throw. Okay, so you were asking about their partner, so I'm gonna say those are the thoughts at the surface of this creature's head. Yeah, through your telepathy, the thoughts you're getting are. I'll die before I tell them about Fizmum.

A little tear goes down Doug's face. Oh. Bye. This is the real Pancak. Okay, I think we should do what Nati said and take them elsewhere under the guise of torture. Yes, we shall take them to. You're outside.

Or how about now that we know it's the real Pancak, we let them in on the way we're trying to help them. Toll looks to see if the other the other null is being distracted by Gunther Yes, what's good? They're doing Gunther is pulling out different weapons That's showing What weapons are you are you showing well he had that flail he picked up So he's kind of like doing some likes like jump ropes with it Like showing you know, like,

kind of show off how good he is with the flail. And then- You're a timid, ditty booger there. Toll gives thumbs up. Keep me going, keep going. And then also taking his sword and wrapping the flail around it, and then going, ah.

And also kind of looking up at the other gnolls, be like, see how good I am. I like that you're adding a weapon to a weapon to like make something new. So it looks like Gunther has them distracted. Do you have any sort of invisibility or anything we could get them out of here with? Let's just escort them.

Like I just procured the opportunity to do so. Before you get to that, the half gnoll that Gunther is with has something to say about all of Gunther's fancy flailings. Oh, I'm not so much into weapons, but I'm no stranger to backstabbing. Oh, and who have you backstabbed? And why do you think it's me doing the backstabbing? Why do you think I'm in here? Because you have stabbed in the back. Oh, you're a smart one. I'm gonna keep my eye on you.

Why should I not torture you? Because that would be mean, wouldn't it? You don't seem like a mean guy. I am very mean. Look at this! And I show my jump ropes. The meanest jump roping you've ever seen. Yeah, wow.

Aggressively jumping rope. Make me an intimidation check for your aggressive jump roping, Gunther. This is where the patent falls apart. It's a three. Yeah. I picture it's like, I mean, no one's gonna do anything. All your checks have been fine. It's just, I wanted to paint the mental picture of what this looked like in the picture.

It's like Gunther's trying to jump rope and he drops the flail and like very quickly picks it up and like tries to act like it's all part of the bit and incorporates it in there. It's all intense eye contact while he does it. Even when he falls he's still maintaining eye contact. Yeah, a little bit of sand gets in his eye and it's like real water and he's trying to blink it out. Well, because I also have Doug's hair all over my face. Oh Okay, yeah, sorry I wanted to build a little bit of a little bit of flavor outside

So I think at this point Doug would go over to a pancak and be like, okay Don't give anything away, but we're here to help you and we're here to save you But we got to pretend like we're taking you away and we're evil, so you gotta play into it, okay? But we're gonna get you out. Pancake looks confused and says, Well, I guess I've got nothing to lose. It's either follow you or stay in here. Exactly.

If it makes you feel more comfortable, Fizmum sent us, okay? Oh, how is Fizmum? We'll talk about it later. We have to get you out right now. Yes, but they care very much about you and want you to get out to safety. Of course, right away. Okay. Natty walks out of the cell and goes over to the guard that opened the door

and said, you, you got good instincts. I appreciate your aptitude. You keep this up, there's a promotion in the future for you, okay? The gnoll just kind of smiles and stands up straight. Yeah, yeah, you wear that with honor. All right, let's uh, Let's let's head out with these prisoners. We'll bring it back in a lick But in the meantime you guys the knowle raises his hand for you privateer the guard. Yeah. Okay. Yeah What you want? What's a promotion?

We'll talk about this later. Okay It's I'll give you a hint. It's a good thing He smiled and begins nodding. It's a good thing. All right, come with us prisoner Pencak starts pulling at your your arm Doug in a listen to me way or it is a defiant way Like trying to get your attention and pull you down to like their level. I guess you're allowed to speak to me briefly What is it? I need to go slow. And because of my crutch, someone took my leg. Did we pick up the crutch in the cave?

Yeah, I think Pancake at this point is just saying that they're going slow because they don't have half of their leg. Oh. It got taken. Who took your leg? Just out of curiosity. I don't know.

She's around here somewhere and she's in for a hell of a payback. Are there more prisoners? These are the only two Briggs you've seen so far. And these are the only two people you saw in them. So there was a female who took their leg. Seemingly, yes. Yeah.

Okay. And it seems like they have Njorda, but Njorda is probably in a different holding area. So yeah, I, with Natty, I think we've got to get out of here with the handsome Nolan Pancak. Okay. Can I offer assistance to Pancak?

Yeah, you tell me. Yeah, if they want to put like an arm over my shoulder or something, I can help them move. Pancake's a halfling or a dwarf, what was it? Halfling, yeah. Just throw Pancake over your shoulder. Pancake, I don't mean this to be demeaning. I'm going to, in the spirit of role play,

throw you over my shoulder like you are going to get, you know, so pummelled and beaten up. That's cool with you. Yeah, just like kick around, like you don't want it to happen or something. Normally no, but okay, yeah, I get it. Okay, great, it's all good to get you out of here faster. Okay, come with me, you prisoner!

Oh no, anything but this, not the torture. No! Putting you over my shoulder now! Woe is me, this is the worst thing that's ever happened in my life. Yeah! Gunther looks at his null prisoner like if he should do the same. They look at you almost like they can tell what you're thinking.

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I think we should leave. Okay, cool. So you guys are going to go to the south and are you going to stop off at that little room with the desk? You just going to continue and head out retracing your steps. I think we need a game plan on our exit. Who's the who's the leader? Who's in charge? Doug? You know, I've been leading for a while now. I think I think it's time to last member of our team take the lead. Guntel? Oh, oh, Gunther was looking at private parts.

Because I just want to confirm Tolv and Nattie have both been leaders so far, right? Yes. I had the shortest reign, but I was very proud of my time in command. Hmm. Well, knowing that, maybe I give it to Tolv. What? No, no, no, I don't want it. Quintal, you are ahead.

Quintal, putting you in, coach. Okay, we shall make a big cover up our hole exit and then run the whole cottage. So we're exiting out the thing. It's like a skull, right? Yeah, so just to be clear, you're gonna leave the grotto with the ship in it, kind of head to the south to the room that had like kind of the lake with the

stone in the middle with the sword in it, go past the room with the desk in it, and continue all the way south to the skull. There was that room that opened up when you pulled the sword, right? Correct, that was out to the east from that room, the grate opened up. But we're just trying to leave. Do we see what's in that grate that opens up whenever we were walking by? No, because it kind of like, it's on the east side of the room,

and then it kind of, the way it opens up is kind of to the north, it kind of turns a little to the northeast, so you'd have to go up to it and look to see what's beyond, because otherwise there's like a rock wall kind of blocking the line of sight. Okay, you shout her out. And then we go of blocking the line of sight. OK, she shall hurry her out. And then we go to where the school, the entrance to school is.

Is there some way to block the exit? I'm also wondering if we need to find Hank's leg before we go. Yeah, but I had to retrace her steps. That was also the place where we found the shield, I think. Wait, Bulgaria leg. I thought they had a crutch. They're missing a leg. Some female took their leg like a prosthetic leg. Yes. OK, Penkirk's leg? I thought they had a crutch. They're missing a leg. Some female took their leg.

Like a prosthetic leg? Yes. Okay, that makes more sense. In my notes, I don't know that we found their leg. I know that we found the crutch, and this was right around the time we made the, we found the crystal shield made in Volgaria. We shall try to escape first.

It's not the leg that we found in the wall, right? No, we asked it. It's a different leg. Yeah. Okay. They are missing their left one. And I think the one we saw on the wall was a right leg. Yeah, correct. Wow. That's some detail.

We taking notes. I think you all had asked about that specifically like two episodes ago. Yeah. Cool. And also according to my notes, I believe the crutch might have been in the room or area before we found the skull place.

So it could be very soon. So yeah, if we wanna start making our way towards that. Yeah, can we exit where the skull is and then see if there's some way we can block the entrance of the skull so that they can't follow us? Yeah. Does anyone have a blocking thing? Blocking thing.

For the exit or entrance? Yeah, you all get down there. And as you're getting close to the skull, you see that same Gnoll that a fake privateer had sent off earlier, relieved him of his guard duty. And he's walking around with someone who looks really familiar. Everyone make a perception check.

Seven. 14. Not 20. 11. Fourteen. Not twenty. Eleven. It's almost like that gnoll is walking with Pancak. Oh, it's the shape-shifter. Imposter. Walking with, like as in like they're just kind of strolling with them?

Yeah, seems like they're kind of meandering slowly in your direction. Okay, I have a cape. Could I put Pancak under the cape? I say Pancak, I need you to hold on tight to the back of my back and under my cape as tight as you can. It's almost like a Panbackcak? Yes.

Yeah, why not? Try it. Yeah, you get your cape out and while Pancak is on, I guess like a piggyback ride with you, you put your cape over them. Yeah. So I look a little hunched back. But I mean, they I'm a very large person and they're a very they're a halfling. So this in theory should be OK. I don't know. We'll see.

They continue walking and they kind of see you and they begin walking towards your group. We just keep walking. That's what you do. Yeah Don't their nods like, you know, like that kind of like nod while you're walking through a hallway They're acknowledging a co-worker that you kind of vaguely know. Yeah, does that other Pancake have both legs? This Pancake has magenta hair and is missing half the left leg. How are they getting around? With a crutch. The crutch. You read that like that wasn't there.

It's not that. I was reading something else. OK. Sorry. Normally, I'm like saying something and reading something. And yeah, it's a whole deal. The master of multitask. Apparently not master, if you can tell.

Yeah, walking around with a crutch. Yeah, we just walk past. That's what Natt doing. Natty's gonna walk past. Natty's not even gonna look at this lowling. Tov, make me a let's just call it a deception check. Okey-dokey, that is a five Very good. I think that passes. Oh great. Could I give him my inspiration die? Oh, yeah, you can. Sure. You may. Thank you can. Sure.

You may. Thank you, Barbara. You're welcome. You're such a good friend. That's a 17. Oh, much better. Yeah. You're walking by, the Gnoll gives you returns, you're not Gunther, but the Pancak looks

at you, the privateer, and asks, How did the conversation with Infernis go? I mean, you know, cause we saw it. Yeah. Nattie goes, I will divulge more details later, but we can just say it did not go well. Infernas was not pleased with our progress. No, I'd be in a much better mood.

You imagine if it did go well, right? Thanks for rubbing salt in a bad situation. So we should keep the sea drinker where they are then. They actually said to, situation so we should keep the sea drinker where they are then they actually said to now John's got to think on his feet gotta freeze the seat right yeah bring him to us bring him to us actually in furnace ordered me to re question the seaer. So could you bring the sea drinker to the skull entrance?

Perfect. Nailed it. Bring the sea drinker to the entrance to this grotto? Yes. I have a plan. Don't question it. Surely you understand the amount of resources it would take to do that.

It will take a little while. Do you want to review the map? Yes. I lost mine. I'm starting to worry that the sea druncher is like a whale or something. Nanny wouldn't say that. Nanny wouldn't say that. Okay.

That's just John wanting to be stupid because it's funny. Penkek would begin walking and says... Okay, OK, let's head back to the main deck. We can review the map where it lies. I will be right there. So just to be clear, are we leaving the Sea Drinker where they are, or are we bringing the Sea Drinker here despite the resources and time? Now see, this is not what I wanted to do right now.

I got another business deal. That said, I'd give you more details later. I would go to the map, and I will talk to you at the map okay gosh we already had a problem today with this one points to the know okay so I'm already in a testy mood so just give me a second nice this one gave you trouble pack heck points at the null yeah pancak kicks that null squarely in the back into the water below and says trouble no more. Thank you. You I believe were the one asking to see the

map so don't take that tone with me. Don't take out your frustration with inferness on me. You know what? I will admit when I'm wrong. You're right. I was taking my frustra- that thank you that helped so much. You kicking that was like a bomb on my soul. And I appreciate it, okay? I needed that moment, okay? And I will apologize. I raised my voice in an unnecessary way, okay? Let me deal with the situation I got going on right here, right now, and then I will meet you at the map, okay?

We good? We're good, but don't listen to Laskeel too much. You know how they can talk their way out of just about anything. What did they say? Lasgeal? Yeah. Talking about, I'm assuming the Half-Knoll. Yeah, this pancak motioned over towards the Half-Knoll that's being led by Gunther. I put my finger to my nose and I say, heard.

Could I telepathically speak to Natty right now? Please. Please do so. Because I have telepathic utterance, which means I could speak telepathically to any creature I could see within 60 feet of myself It's in a language that I know and the creature understands you only if it knows that language Which I'm just being common and the creature cannot respond to you telepathically with this feet. Okay Daddy it's me Doug. I'm speaking to you telepathically Natty, it's me, Doug. I'm speaking to you telepathically.

Is there any maybe reason that we should maybe tell this fake pancake, like, oh, hey, you could take off the face. You know, you're just around colleague. You don't have to pretend to be this other person and maybe we reveal who it is. Natty puts a hand behind her back and a thumbs up and goes, hey, actually, I got to ask, is that hard to keep that up?

And just Nattie motions to like their whole body. Does that get tiring? It is quite time consuming to apply the disguise and the makeup. So it seems like it's a physical thing and not like a magical thing. How long does that take to get off? Taking it off is much faster than applying.

Do you need to use it for the rest of the day or you wanna let your hair down? Cause I'm fine with it if you're fine with it. I may need to return to Endridge Bay shortly, so it'll be more efficient to maintain this for now. Is there any check that I could do to see if I can see through this deception at all? Just anything noticeable? Just make an investigation check, we'll call it. Oh good, I through this deception at all. Just anything noticeable.

Just make an investigation check, we'll call it. Oh good, I'm really good at those. Well, I rolled a 19 and that got a plus one, so that's a dirty 20. Nice. Hello. Sean's on fire. Yeah, you'd look a little more closely

at this pancak that's standing in front of you, and you realize that this person's hair appears to be a wig. Oh. This one also is not wearing a wooden necklace. And the upper half of this one's left leg is stuffed with hay. What? It's like this one is missing its entire leg, not just half of it. Oh.

So half of it is actually hay. It's like a part of the disguise. But the real Pankak, their entire left leg is gone. The real Pancak is just missing half the leg. Half, sorry, that's not it, yeah. And fake Pancak, which leg is missing? Is it the same missing leg as the real Pancak? It's the left leg.

Okay, okay. I gotta ask, how do you get that whole thing to work down there? I assume you're pointing to like the leg? Yeah. This fake Pancak says, Well, I don't have that leg. So whether half of the hole is missing,

most people just overlook it. That's true. That's true. People are not very perceptive. Okay. And, Nattie just kind of gives a little wink and pats the fake cack on the shoulder and goes, all right, I'll meet you at the map.

Okay. Yeah. This pancak kind of like furrows their brow and then just kind of nods and then continues walking past. Toll, make me a perception check. Perception check. Yeah. That is a six.

Oh. All right. What do I see, Gus? You just feel the pancak on your back, like shuffling and just kind of like uncomfortable and like mumbling. Okay with Natty having exited that conversation I start making my way towards the entrance of the skull and maybe adjusting kind of like my shoulder straps that like my shield and

my hammer would be on to just kind of give them a little bit of extra leverage, you know. Sure. And Glasgow was on the half-null that was with me. Glasgow? Glasgow. How do you mess up names so bad? Every time. Did you write them down?

And that's what I did, I read it because I forgot what it sounded like, so I read wrong. Anyway, are they in the water now? No, the guards in the water. No, it was the guard-null who got kicked into the water. Yeah, there's still bubbles coming up or are they just kind of floating there, swimming, listening? You peek over and take a look and yeah,

you see the gnoll swimming for the shore. Okay, I agree. Don't think without. Yeah, yeah. Did that fake Pancake have any type of accent that we could sense? Yeah, were they talking like Pancake or were they using a different voice?

Because we've now spoken to both of them, so. It sounded to you like very similar to actual Pancak. OK. Method. OK, so have they left? Yeah, fake Pancak has continued proceeding to the north. Pancak, can you get home on your own? We should probably exit. We should get to the cave entrance.

Exit, yes. I'm not sure how to navigate the passage here. Oh no. Don't worry, we know where to go. All of you make a perception check. 14. Four. Five.

18. Okay, the 14 and the 18 were okay. That was Doug and... Natty. Natty, off in the distance from the north, you hear a booming voice calling out. I is the poop clean. Is it safe to come out now?

Oh God. Hello? Natty shifts her voice to the guard and could Natty like, I don't know, because I don't have a good idea of like where the fake Pancak is now, where the one that's in the water. And so could, where did the fake Pancak go?

Did they go towards the brig? Up in towards the north, yeah, in that direction. Okay. Because if you remember the fake Pancak said they were going to the deck to look at the map. Okay, then you know what? We had to go, that's our cue to get out of here. As much as I want to know what's on that map, I also want to know what tomorrow looks like. I think that sounds like a good plan. Yeah. Yes, let us go, but the water drink, what is it? The water drinker? It's the sea drinker. Sea drinker. Sea drinker. The water drinker.

That does go very quickly. Is there a way to bar, like stop the entrance of the school that they're coming in and out of? Like any sort of thing that we could put in front of it or? It's pretty big. If you had explosives, maybe you could like collapse it because it's all carved out of stone. I mean, I think it's up to you to try to figure out

like how you would want to do it, but it is really large, a really large like carving. Does anyone have a way to bar the entrance to this school? Is this something that like if Natty were to just rapid fire Eldritch blast, it would cause a cave in? You could try it, it couldn't hurt. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. So Natty would try that.

Okay, yeah. I can hear Micah's brain going, they didn't check half of what I made out for this place. Yeah. Just to go back for the sea drinker and I'm wondering how we can do that. A beam of crackling energy strikes towards a creature within range.

It's force damage. Force damage, you only have one beam, not two beams, right? Oh, you're fifth level, so you do get two beams? No, but it is, what do you call it, cantrip, so I can just do it over and over again, if I'm not in combat. Oh, I do have two beams. What does that mean? I didn't see that. Yeah, so it's two beams at fifth level, so you get two of them. Two detail. Oh. Well, learn something new. What do we send private parts back with pancake

and we shall go back for sea drinker? Pancak. Yeah. Pancak. I feel like here's what's gonna happen Gunther is that that fake pancake's gonna go towards the ship. They're gonna then hear the real privateer asking about poo.

What that is gonna result in is them understanding that there is a fake privateer that just walked past them and that there was a Ruse that was concocted in order for us to escape so if we want to go back in I'm not opposed to that We're probably going to need to go in with force this time. I don't think stealth or deceptions on our side I think your leader should make a Battle plan here. There you go. That's me. just divulging information that I have deduced with critical thinking. Here's what we shall do. Private parts take rear pancak

that escape as quickly as possible. We shall hide back and attack and slow them down and then get real a sea drinker. Are you sure we shouldn't all just stay together? I don't know if we should send private parts off. He kind of has to be monitoring us, right? Sir, might I suggest an alternative? What is that?

OK, in that room where we met the dude that was on his lunch break, I think he ate a sandwich or something. He's dead. He rang the bell for sandwiches, yeah. Yeah. Gus, correct me if I'm wrong. There were piles of, like, cannonballs or something

next to a cannon. Yeah, there were supplies up there. Yeah. Could we hide Pancake there whilst we attempt a more aggressive approach? That's just my suggestion, but I'm open to any option at this point. I'm tired.

Last skill raises their hand. What is it? Oh, if we're scheming, can I take part? Yes, please. What you in here for? Is this the new hairless hutch of this campaign? Yeah, maybe. What does this guy's deal?

I love it. What you in here for? I like taking things. I've got very sticky things. Oh, okay, you're Joe Pesci's friend from Home Alone. Sticky bandit. They reach into their pocket, and it seems like they really get a lot of their arm into their pocket.

It's bizarre. Like, it's really they really get a lot of their arm into their pocket it's bizarre like it's really really a deep pocket my friend Julie Andrews did that once I'm gonna say it's a pocket of holding yeah and they pull out a rolled up piece of parchment perhaps this could assist you oh is it a map it is a map oh is this the map that they wanted to review with us? They're going to be very mad very soon. Can we take a look at it? Yeah, yeah, it's a map that depicts the coast of Andridge Bay and the Slean Sea. There's a triangle drawn in the middle of the sea marked with a few X's and one word

next to it. It says brig. Is this look like anything like what the brig and the area we're in or is this a separate location? It seems like it's a separate location because it's off in the beat, off the bay in the sea. Laskeel? Laskeel, yes. That's your name, yeah.

They were talking about the sea drinker earlier. Do you have any information while you've been locked up? Have you seen them in a brig in this area or are they elsewhere? Oh no, the Sea Drinker is not here. The Sea Drinker is on Nanymo. Nanymo. Nanyo business? Is this the map to the Sea Drinker?

It's their attempt at a map. Oh, let's go. I guess we haven't considered that maybe like the people we're looking for aren't down here. The problem is no one knows how to get there. That's a problem for later I think. No one except for me. Oh, Nazgul, you are liking you. It's Lasgul. Lasgul? Lasgul? Come on!

Just type it out phonetically how it's said. Lasgul. Lasgul. You called him Nasgul. Perhaps we can arrange a trade of some kind, and I can give you the information you desire, and I could also get something out of it. How about the twaid is us getting you out of here? Oh, that's a very compelling offer. Gigi right now is aggressively trying to get into that pocket and like reaching in with Gigi's full hand. Gigi is just all over that. You better watch that little one.

He might get lost in there. And then Laskiel kind of like unlatches Gigi from his pocket and, you know, I feel like holding him very gingerly with the tips of his fingers and like puts him down on the ground. I find telling that little something, something no, doesn't turn out so well.

We need to go now. All right. If we have map, we shall go. Let's go Laskiel. If we have map, we shall go. Let's go Las- Las-Gil. Oh, you learned my name! You did it, Gunther. Yass. Las-Gil pats you on the head very gingerly, Gunther. Oh, I like this one.

He's a little slimy. Are we moving? Are we grooving? Yeah. Okay. Let's get out of here. I need to make boom boom. What? Are you gonna try and block the entrance, right? That's not what that means to me. I thought you were telling Gigi to make boom boom. What? Are you gonna try and block the entrance, right? That's not what that means to me.

I thought you were telling Gigi to make boom boom and you said Natty by accident. It's a Eldritch Blast, right? Yeah. Did we figure out if that was gonna happen? We haven't tried it. Yeah, we'll try it. Well, in my head, but you tell me if this is not possible

because we're not in, we're not in combat and Eldritch Blast is at will. Would I just be able to go over and over and over again? Yeah, so we won't get too pendantic about it, but it's like around like should we be able to do it once around so you should do it like once every six seconds, but let's just say you do it over and over again. Sure. Let me just make a roll here just to see. This is a roll for me. Go for it. I'm going for figuring out this demolition plan. I want to move real Pancak.

I give them the option of either being on the ground or I could put them on my shoulder if they would prefer. When you uncover Pancak, they seem very agitated. That was the imposter, wasn't it? They were here. They were, yeah. I should've killed that faker. Yeah, well, if you want to get out of here alive,

I don't think we should alive Yeah, very upset and agitated we will get your revenge soon pancac don't worry first things first We got to get you back to fizz bomb fizz mom. Sorry Yeah, so Nattie you begin launching Eldish Blasts at will, and the first couple seem to have no effect on the boulder, but then after that you start to see cracks appear that grow larger and begin to connect. And right over the, like, the right eye hole, the cracks all seem to come together, and

that part of the boulder collapses into itself and the whole thing kind of shifts and collapses down on the right side blocking the entrance to the cavern that you were just in. Nanny brings her fingers to her mouth and just goes Now we go bye-bye quickly. Can we make our way out? Yeah as you begin making your way out you see Gigi has a small bell in his hand and he starts ringing it. Lasgiel says, oh, he's got sticky fingers. That belongs in my pocket.

Here, let me get that little one. And he reaches over to try to get the bell from Gigi. Can Gunther try and grab it with his tongue? Sure, make your, however you do that for your tongue, Gunther. They need to make a dex grapple check with it. It would be an unarmed strike, would it not? Yeah. So who, Gigi?

Yeah, I guess. Do you mind rolling me a dex check for Gigi, Natty? Yeah, he actually has a dex modifier, plus three. I rolled an 18, that's 21, my dude. That wins. Yeah, so you try to grab the bell. And I feel like Gigi would see it coming and then moves it out of the way.

And I imagine this is like the ax all over again. Now we are not getting that back at all from Gigi, are we? Yes, who he still has the ax. So does Gigi have this dragging the ax in one hand and the bell in the other? Yep. I guess at that last skill would look at the bell and look at the ax and say, well, he can the other. Yep. I guess at that, Laskiel would look at the bell and look at the axe and say,

well, he can keep it for now, I guess. Laskiel, this is a rite of passage, you are part of the party now. No, I don't want that. I definitely don't want that. No, no, you are here to stay. Okay, post-haste, let us go. We have so many NPCs with us.

Yeah, we do. Gunther, you lead your team out of here? Yeah, can we try and, to our best of our knowledge, exit back the way we discovered that successful? Sure. Oh, and picking up the... Crutch. Crutch on the way out. Mm-hmm. If we didn't already have it.

I thought you did, but okay. You make your way, you retrace your steps back through the passage you came. Luckily, you dropped breadcrumbs along the way and you're able to find your way back. And you make it back to the High Three in Entritch Bay. That was much faster than how the journey invent, am I right? That was so quick. Fast travel.

We knew where we were going. We know the way this time. Yeah. It's great. No, I'm no, no complaints. I assume you enter the High Three here? Yes. Yes. You enter and you enter the high three here? Yes. Yes.

You enter, and you see Fizmum on the ground floor, who looks up when the door opens and sees you all, and sees Pancak, and she lets out a cry, and runs forward, embracing Pancak. Is it really you? Uh, looks up at you four it says you found them yes sure day It's the real deal and let's kill. I don't know who that is but Okay, there are new party member

nudge last kill Right. Oh, yes you guys So great. Oh Oh guys, so great. Oh, Pancake, I thought I'd never see you again. It's so great to see you. How can I ever thank you for bringing my Pancake back? Well, technically there's seven of us, because we've got Gigi, and we've got private parts, and we also have Lasky. And Captain Mumbles, don't forget him.

Oh, we've got eight of us, Captain Mumbles. Grumbles? I always get that wrong what did I mean this dead grumbles okay grumbles you can help us get to here and holds out the map well you'll need a boat and hopefully some better seas for a journey like that better than this weather we're having but for now as a thank you I can provide you some lodging if you'd like. Yes. Oh, you know, I think we could use some of that.

How many beds you got? There's a house at the docks that no one's using that I can put you all up in. That sounds great. Sounds great. Are there bunk beds in this house, or what's the deal? Yeah, what's the bunk bed situation? No bunk beds, just regular beds. And I can reward you monetarily as well.

Oh, that would be nice. My mom always said a job well done is its own reward, okay? I'll take Natty's two gold pieces. Was your mother unemployed? Oh, you were all so wonderful to talk with. Here, let us discuss as we make our way to the house. This mom leads you outside and begins walking through the streets of Enbridge Bay out towards the docks. And you know, the storm continues to rage outside, just raining non-stop.

And of course, this is what Fismum was referring to about the weather needing to be better before you could depart. As the storm rages on, you know, you wonder how long you're going to have to walk in it. Fismum, almost sensing it, says, it's not much further. And she points just ahead onto the docks. Atold, you follow her outstretched hand and finger to the docks. And you see something familiar. You recognize the fishing house in the distance that Fismum is pointing at. You recognize it as the fishing house of your mentor, Bjorn Boger.

Oh, home sweet home! To find out what that means and what the future has in store for us on the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Oh my gosh, I hope I cleaned up before I left. On the adventures of Laskiel and the rest. Welcome to stinky dragon cribs. Yo, this is my house. Over here is where I hang. This is where I listen to music. Like I know Chris is gonna try to say Laskiel

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So when the guys were walking up and daddy had transformed into a pirate, she was like, Oh, and that's how you lost your tongue and can't talk. Blaine, that is on my list of things to talk about that I wish I had done. I wrote, I should have given John grief about the pirate captain not having a tongue. I, you're right.

I know in the moment and as the NPCs, I should have caught him and called him out. That should have been an escalation. Like I say in passing as me, cause I think if I remember right at the time, I think Micah slacked that to me, but I should have pivoted it to an NPC dialogue. This isn't a favorites thing,

but I feel like you've caught me with my pants down like that several times during the role play. And then I'm like, like when I lie in D and D, you guys throw roadblock after roadblock and I am just stumbling my way through conversation and it's always very fun. I love that though because that kind of gives space for improv. Yeah, it gives opportunity to like just increase the storytelling and you're like in a way you're like no ending in a way you're like no ending someone. When you're like catching them in lies like that

and just like it builds and builds on top of itself. But I think that's a lot of fun. Yeah, I like the element of just digging my hole deeper and deeper. And it is funny because you keep asking questions and it keeps eliciting responses in a way that makes John in particular tear his hair out. Cause he's like, just stop talking.

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