Tales from the Stinky Dragon - C03 - Ep. 20 - Tween the Devil and Deep Blue Sea

Episode Date: June 25, 2025

B-Team discusses Tolv's latest revelations, a mysterious stranger arrives, and a confrontation with a crew of gnolls ensues. Support us directly on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/stinkydragon - get access to ad-free episodes, bonus content like Stinky Dragon Adventures & Second Wind, our patreon-exclusive discord, and more! Check out our new Infinight Legends Collection and limited edition Anniversary collection at store.stinkydragonpod.com ! Follow us on our socials at https://linktr.ee/TalesFromTheStinkyDragon Cast: Gus Sorola, Blaine Gibson, Barbara Dunkelman, Jon Risinger, Chris Demarais Writer/Editor/Composer: Micah Risinger Producer: Benjamin Ernst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's a mixture of invulnerability leaves, a blowing of raspberries, fresh mammoth mint leaves, a trumpet blast of holy water, and topped with a cone of shiny sparkles. One gulp of this golden guzzler and you'll be on the elephone with your local deity in no time. Previously our adventurers were rewarded at a rainy roaraboo as Toll reminisced running into his role model, Boger, for the first time. B-Team browsed the three floors of the Fishing House and found an unfinished fry recipe, opened a nightmarish book of an a nightstand, and snatched a mysterious map and sea chart. But what truly took the crab cake was Tolv's Truth Bomb. He was no ordinary orc, but unthinkably a thaumatech this whole time.

this whole time. Kabbala kappa and let's continue this Kakodas Chronicle. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Tales of the Stinky Dragon. I'm your Dungeon Master, Gustavo Cirola, and I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow. You held on that arrow a little extra long this time.

If your character were to write a book, what would it be about? And what would the title be? That's submitted by MaddieDX. Everyone go ahead and roll initiative. Let's see who's going to answer first. That's a 14. 19. Three! Are we rolling initiative or just a D20?

Eh, dude, it looks like everyone's doing a D20. Stick with the D20. Yeah, I've not been keeping my initiative modified. 17. So looks like it's Gunther, Doug, Tollv, then Natty. Cool. Gunther lead it off. Hi, my name is Chris Damaris and I'm a male,

Crook, Folk, Frog-ish fighter named Gunther. And Gus, why'd you make a stinky face? It was like a weird way to go about introducing yourself. I'm just mixing it up. Mixing it up. Anyway, for my book, I think I would write about my village and the lives of us Kroak folk and maybe about the belief system that we have there and about the importance of faith and devotion to both family and culture. And I would call it Leap of Faith.

There's a lot of track getting laid. I was waiting for it. There was. Were there blank spaces between those tracks being laid out? Like, does the train need to, like, hop a few times on that track? Some kids put little pennies and coins on the tracks. It felt more like they're just holes, where they're just like, we don't need tracks here.

If it goes fast enough, it can go over this hole. What would Gunther write it alone or would you like contract Bunlap to help you ghostwrite a little bit? Bunlap. Bunlap. Well, I'm not very good at illustrations, so maybe I would get help with that.

From some Bunlap or someone even, I don't know who else, but I think I'm not good at art. The publisher can connect you with an illustrator. It's okay, they'll work it out. Yes. Bunlap, I just love the way he says Bunlap every time. It makes me so happy. Gus keeps bringing up Bunlap,

so that means he either really likes Bunlap or Bunlap's the big baddie this campaign that we're gonna find out in arc five. Make it happen. Unlike Barbara, I like the way he says one lap, so I'm trying to get him to say it as much as possible. All right, thank you, Gunther. Who's up next?

Next up, we got Doug. We do have Doug. Hello, guys. Welcome to another episode of Tales from a Stinky Dragon. Very happy to be here with you all. I'm a bug bail artificial played by Barbara Dunkelman. Hello, everyone. Wow, I do not change my voice that much

when I do Doug anymore. I feel like we're running the same. Wasn't as stark. And if I were to write a book, it would be called Big Hout Big Ideas. Okay. Don't laugh at his book. I'm not, I just like it.

Because, you know, I think Doug has a lot of big ideas and he's been, you know, trying to make a lot lot of big ideas and he's been you know, trying to make congenital heart disease Appropriately with my body type which is large Just like how heart now has three syllables how old Sorry. Just like how heart now has three syllables, howl. Yeah. Just have a lot of ideas, a lot of learning I like to do.

And, you know, I think it's important to also care about people. So big heart. This actually sounds like what's the brother-in-law in Severance, his book. It sounds like his book. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Just a bunch of proverbial, you know, proverbs and, and, and sayings or like that. And that's what Doug's writing down in his journal. This entire time we've been traversing across, you know, Endridge Bay and everything.

Don't worry. Next time I will have a big long explanation of what the book is followed by a pun next time. Don't you worry. Yeah. Big heart, bigger ideas. I'm a fan. You can sign me up for a pre-order of that, Doug. Okay, you're first on the list. Thank you, I appreciate it. That moves us on to Tollf Europe. Europe, more like North America. Just go, just go, just go.

Yeah, let's just brush past it. Mikey, you can cut that part. Hey, it's me, it's Blaine Gibson. Hey, and I play told who's a male Thaumatech barbarian Yeah Resemble an orc what no you learn more perhaps maybe asks the right questions the questions three Are you like a carnival device that we would put a coin in?

Are you like a carnival device that we would put a coin in? Maybe? Like the guy in Big? So a fun fact, Tov has already written several books in pamphlets. Yeah, I'm published. I've had a lot of time. I was thinking of all of the titles and the different books and I can just, if you want, I can name off all of the titles of my famous books. Do you want to hear?

Yes, but I'm a little disappointed you're not calling them titles. Titles? Ah, because water. Oh, well, you'll be pleased to know that they are very nautical based, you know, being a sailor. Not a nautical? I know a lot about knots, you know?

So, you know, I've got the do's and do nots of tying knots. I've got knot another knot book. That was the sequel to the first one. I've got knots about knots, knotty or nice. A holiday book about tying knots. Stop me if I keep going. I'm not eternal. A book on tying knots in the night.

Hitting knots and tying knots. A musical guide to tying knots. Knot knot, who is there? It's a book about knots and tying knots a musical guide to tying knots not not who is there? It's a book about knots and not jokes Notting off a pamphlet on how to make a hammock out of rope and knots for sleepies Do not enter another pamphlet on securing doors with nuts After all of these terrible puns, I'm gonna enable a do not resuscitate on you I'm going to enable a do not resuscitate on you. I'm just like, I'm over it.

That's my next one at the not book about medical knots. Okay. I'll stop. I've taken enough time. Okay. Yeah. Get out of here. That's enough out of your toll. Okay. To be or not to be the question of whether or not you should get your tubes tied. Oh, that's great. Let's co-operate let's co co operate on that one. What's the word I'm looking for? Co author. Yeah. Co-operate. Collaborate. Hey, Blaine, don't worry about it. You don't talk for a living. All right. Listen to no words for a living. All right, listen. I have to know words for a living, it's okay.

On that note, let's switch it over to Natty. On that not? Sorry, I can't stop thinking of ideas. You cannot stop thinking. Hi everybody, I'm Noddy Wonder and... I thought you said your own name wrong as an accident. John Risinger here, I play Natty Wonder who's a Drow Warlock mother of Mr. Gigglesworth aka Gigi and I've actually you know I had previously never thought that I'd be an author I figured I was I was born for the performative arts not the the

literary ones but you know with all these adventures that we've already been on and all these people we've met and different places we've been and all kinds of stuff, I feel like someone ought to put this all down into like an instructional book for like other people who might be following in our footsteps. And it made me, I was trying to think of like a clever title for it.

And honestly, I was thinking of a title and I was getting real hungry and I was thinking, man, I could really go for something from my mama's crockpot recipes. I like any y'all ever had a mama make stuff in crockpot? No, absolutely. You just throw everything in the pot and something great comes out. And I feel like that's a really good like metaphor from a book. So I figured I'm gonna call it Nattie's Crock-Pot of Everything.

And that's what it's gonna be. It's gonna be a guide on how to do what we do. Get good stuff out of your life. Yes. Do you want to cooperate on a crock knot recipe and knot tying book? Yeah, I mean, we probably should have a section on like what to do with rope for like, you know survival needs So maybe there's a whole not section in like a type of food that involves like some type of string, you know

I get it. No, I'm not talking about that Wrong show wrong show What's it called? It's like you put the meat and you wrap it in something. Like a roast of some kind? Yeah. Jadukan? No.

I mean, yeah. Golden Whamzee makes it a lot. You know what I mean? You use beef wellington? Yeah. Wellington. Yeah, Wellington, beef Wellington. And don't you use your woke for that?

Yeah. You do. Hey, we can have a section in the book about Beef Wellingtons. It's literally called Natty's Crockpot of everything. So everything go in it. This Crockpot talk makes me realize that Link needs a Crockpot in the next Breath of the Wild, the next Legend of Zelda game for all the cooking you do. He does!

Just carry one, put everything in there, walk around and an hour later it's done. Yeah, I like it. Crock pots aren't in video games enough. I agree, I agree. Do you think I could examine you? Just for my own research, because I'm just so fascinated by how he built you

and it's just state of the art tech. As you're asking this question to Tollf, Doug, you notice that the sigil on Tollf's shield begins glowing faintly and then brighter and brighter. And before you can comment on it, there's a loud pounding at the door and the door bursts open. Oh no. You see the silhouette of a golden thaumatech, and you hear a voice call out. Tov? It's you! Tov, the glow from your sealed sigil casts a pale glow across the golden metallic figure.

A face falls to the floor, something like a mask with magenta hair. The silhouette stands short and stout on one leg, roughly the size of a halfling. She's holding five daggers in each hand. No, wait, the daggers are her fingers? Glowing magenta eyes fixate on Tolv's metallic flesh. Without another word, her footsteps clunk forward toward you. She reaches out with bladed digits, but the flash of metal fingers gives her pause. The daggers are sheathed inside her hand hand and she reaches out once more for an embrace. It's me, Tolv. It's Elva, your sister. Oh,

so good to see you. Wait, so does this mean you are Pancak? Is that what this is? Or did you just rip Pancak's hair off because you had magenta hair? I was forced to be pancak for a while. Tolv, you remember your sister Elva as being something of, for lack of a better word, like something of a conniving rogue that would normally wear an arming doublet made of plum-colored leather and that her dagger fingers can also fire as crossbow bolts. That's just like so sick. Thinking back about Elva, Tov, can you remember what was the last raid that you and Elva went on together? Oh yeah, it was ship to ship combats.

I remember that much. We caught up with a, it was a vessel hauling treasures between lands. And I remember with my great strength, I threw Elvon to the ship and then I took a rope and I swung across super pirate style. It was so cool, but also very violent and I regret it. Yeah, I'm reminiscing, but it's not like happy though.

It's like we did terrible atrocities, but I mean, no doubt they were very cool. It sounds cool, but like, was there something that had went wrong during that or like any anything that you were trying to Particularly escape or any triumph ironclad did not care much for prisoners You know with the ship full of our Thaumatechs. He doesn't really have to feed us He knows but when we get to prisoner on board, then he's got mouths to feed. So Yeah, I'll let you fill in the blanks on that one, goose. Children, you don't have to feed. That sounds nice.

Yeah, I was going to say. Nice cheat. So Tov, this is your sister, huh? This is my sister, Elva. So like you didn't recognize her or like any like even a tinge of her voice when we were talking to her or anything like that. That's kind of sad. It's been so long since we've seen each other. And as you can see, Elva was a cunning rogue, you know, very good at disguises. Elva, could you recognize me in my get up?

Oh, I saw you, but I was in disguise. You know, I was undercover. Barbara, no laughing. There is a very serious moment. I need your full attention. We are a dramatic podcast. Which I know is going to obviously be like dubbed over by the voice actor for now, Elva. But I would appreciate seriousness on set.

I am performing my art here. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie's nerd. I like to burn. Since I was disguised as Pancak, I would understand if you didn't know it was me. Well, forgive me for not seeing you, but it's so good to see you. I didn't know if I was the last to make it off the ship.

Toll would give her a big embrace because this is truly family. He hasn't felt this close to someone since like, Bjorn, you know? Do you know of any of our other brothers and sisters? Did anyone else make it? Oh, and that's why I was dressed as Pancak. I'm on a mission trying to find all our siblings and see if we can reunite. You see, I think that the Sea Drinker can help us find our other siblings. I think that the sea drinker can help us find our other siblings. I'm on a race against Ironclad to find her, and hopefully find our siblings. All I know is the sea drinker is imprisoned on an island and finding it is difficult.

Natty raises her hand. Oh yes. Hi, I'll introduce myself for the first time to the real you, Natty. Hello, Elva. I have a question, because this is all quite interesting and quite moving, and I'm curious with your guys' desire to find your other siblings. I can totally understand wanting to reconnect with familial connections. I'm not familiar with this thoma thingies that you guys have are thrown around there as a term to describe you.

Could you enlighten me into what that means as far as like, what are you and how do you operate as an individual? Because it sounds like you're talking about robots, but I feel like I've been around Tove long enough and Tove don't strike me as a robot. I think Elva would turn to Tov and say, Have you been hiding secrets from your friends? Yeah, no, they think that I have been an orc this entire time, sister. Can you believe that?

Yeah, that's a beautiful laugh. Wow. You know, I will, to Tov's credit, I will say like, I'm kind of glad that he hid this secret from us, because I think that if I knew the true him, I might have been a little too intimidated and maybe just a little scared by him, because I've never seen, I mean, you know, I work on inventions all the time and I do play and tinker with, I've never seen anything quite like this type of specimen. Oh, you tinker? Can you perhaps help me find my leg and maybe reattach it to my

body? Absolutely. Defining of the leg might not be my specialty but detaching it to the body. Wait your leg was the one we found underground? You found a leg underground? Yeah because Tov said he recognized that metal but didn't tell us what he recognized it from. I was being coy. Wait didn't we ask about this though? Like didn't we ask if the leg we found underground Tell us what he recognized it from. I was being coy. Ooh. You little turd. Didn't we ask about this though? Like, didn't we ask if the leg we found underground, it was a right leg, but Pancake's missing a left leg, correct?

Pancake is missing half a leg. The leg you found was a full leg. And the imposter was missing a full leg. Oh yeah, my whole leg is missing. Wait, there was someone who was impostering you. That's not another one of your siblings, is it? No. No, see, Elva. See, all right, I think this is actually good that Doug said that because I want to bring up y'all need to stop with them secrets because you're even confusing people on what the secrets are and the secrets, okay? So let's all just make a little

period right now on secret time and we start being more open about ourselves that Elva was posing as Pancake. Yeah. And then we rescue the real Pancake. Yeah, yeah. Where did you get red yarn from? Where's this? Wow, you're running all over connecting the dots. Someone's really seeing a web web. Web web. Just for clarity, it was a throwaway line a couple episodes ago, but I mentioned that when you all ran into the imposter in the cave, that it looked like the imposter had hay or something for the upper part of its leg. Yeah. Because it was missing its full leg versus the pancak, who was only missing half of the

leg. Oh, yeah. So then maybe that other leg that we found was also belonging to this person So you're not the only one Elva with missing leg But then that means that ironclad still has control of some of our brothers and sisters The material of the leg that we found underground Yeah, you're pretty sure belongs to maybe one of your siblings because it's It belongs to Elva it belongs to me

because it's similar to this. It belongs to Elva. It belongs to me. I feel like I need to make a diagram here or something. But you're missing only part of a leg, not a full leg. No, okay. Pancake, the real pancake is missing part of a leg. Elva disguises pancake was not. Elva's missing their whole leg,

but was disguising that they were only missing half a leg through straw. Here's where Barbara messed up. This is what I was thinking. I'm pulling out the board with the red web as you guys said. Okay. Okay. Okay. So initially we had Pancak, imposter Pancak and we were like, someone's impostering Pancak. We need to find the real one. Yes. Save them. And then we did. I thought the one we saved now revealed to actually be Elva.

And I was like, oh, they were just pretending to be this Pancack person. But no, this is a completely different character. Because we ran into the imposter one in the cave and then later saved the real one from the prison. Correct. A disguise within a disguise within a feint within a feint. We've been on the same page the whole time. We're all caught up now.

Why were you pretending to be Bangkok and working with the mean people? I will answer that, but first I want to answer Natty's question from earlier. I will get to your question Gunther. I mean frog man. We have from earlier. I will get to your question, Gunther. I mean, frog man. We have not met. I am Elva. I'm not exactly sure how we were made or created or born or whatever that entails.

I was hoping that the sea drinker could enlighten me. Ironclad always said he was our father, but I know that not to be true. Yeah, from my limited understanding of what I am, you know, I've just always assumed I was a combination of technology and magic, you know, and I just had to listen to, we all had to listen to whatever ironclad says, you know,

but I mean, technically speaking, I am not at all organic matter, I'm completely machine. I get that. Elva, did you just say something along the lines of that you don't think Ironclad's the one who is your originator? I don't know. Yeah, I don't think so. We just were under his servitude for so long.

Okay, so yeah, you don't think he'd have the knowledge in order to create something as advanced as you guys, y'all? I don't think so. Okay. I was just curious, though. Like, are all your siblings told, like, do you guys all have, like, similar, like, you look alike, like, as if your siblings, are you all covered in skin or are some of your siblings, like, just a pure robotics?

Well, back when we served on Ironclad's ship, you know, we didn't all have skin. We were just thumb attacks, you know, we just had all have skin. We were just thumb attacks, you know, we would just had all of our wires and circus circuitry and everything exposed. But you know, when I came onto the, the land, you know, and Bjorn found me, then it wasn't until after he passed that I decided to adopt his identity because I was afraid of what people would think. Where did you get Orc skin?

Well, you know how I told you that Bjorn passed away? Are you wearing Bjorn's skin? Yeah, yeah, this is Bjorn's skin. Did you also ask for sugar water? No, not yet. Or put the lotion in the basket, be more lackin'. Does Bjorn know that he's missing his skin and that you have it? Bjorn has moved on, he is now passed, but I do want to make it clear.

It was one of his dying vices that I, you know, don his visage. You know, that if he was going to pass away, he said he wanted to protect me. He was like my father. He donated his body to science. Essentially, yes. And I was very uncomfortable with the idea. It was very difficult, but you know, I mean, I didn't want to say no to the person that I loved, you know?

So I decided to take on Bjorn's, you know, his appearance. If I die, please do not take my skin. I wouldn't fit in your skin. I have already measured all of you. I think that is the only one. This is a last ditch effort, you know, a worst case scenario, though. So sorry, I just made the connection.

So we put your beard in the store, the stinky dragon store. That's actually a removable beard. Oh, yes, but I have grown quite, you know, I know that's that's John I'm not talking to Tove right now Yes, I think we need to go back and re-edit that entry in the store and change it to Bjorn's beard Spoilery, I'm maybe like further further down the line. Maybe yeah? Oh, no, that'd be too spoilery. Maybe like further, further down the line. Maybe. Yeah, yeah. No, I get you. I get you guys.

We always just try to make decisions based on not spoiling stuff. But I feel you guys. Full disclosure. And they won't be out by the time this episode comes out, probably. But like my character is going to be a cool thermo tech robot. I mean, would you be honest? Why would I not? In fact, Elva, I mean, in your times on the mainland and traveling around on your own looking for our brothers and sisters, how do you feel like we would be perceived by the general population if we were just in our thaumatec skin? You

know, do you think people would would fear us? Do you think I'm safe to take off Bjorn's body? I think that plays into the question that your little frog friend asked actually. You see when we sailed under ironclad, we killed so many people and did so many bad things. I think the world is not ready to see us the way we truly exist or they would be very angry. Plus we already have character animated things that would require money to be due. Gunther, you stop breaking the fourth wall.

We already have one fourth wall breaker. I don't need another one. It would be too expensive to make new animations. Well, that fourth wall break aside, I would like to see a day where people wouldn't react in horror at who I truly am. It would be nice, as much as I love that I'm carrying on Bjorn's legacy in a way, it would be nice to be Tov, you know, it would be nice to just be who I am, as I love that I'm carrying on Bjorn's legacy in a way. It would be nice to be Tov, you know? It would be nice to just be who I am, but yes, unfortunately,

I guess people are still afraid of Thaumatechs. You know, I'm just gonna say this, Tov, and I don't wanna speak for the whole team, but I accept you for who you are, no matter what. And I honestly think this is pretty cool, so. Tov holds up A robotic thumbs up. Thanks. And Doug goes and just grabs his hand as like entirely in his paw and just holds it tight.

And Gunther grabs Doug's hand and pulls it to make sure it's real. To expand on your question, little frogman, I was part of Ironclad's crew for many years. During the mutiny, I lost my leg and had to go into hiding. I tried to fix it, but I did not have the skill. I wanted to find my siblings, and I thought maybe the sea drinker could help. But unfortunately, she was missing. But it turns out there was a pirate crew hiring folks that can impersonate others. And like my brother told, I was pretty good at donning

a disguise. It was rumored that the crew knew about the lost deity, so I decided to infiltrate the crew and find out more. Oh, okay. So that actually helps Ants clarify a little bit that whilst you are a Thaumatec person who is impersonating as Pancake, you are not the answer to all the other impersonations we saw, like the ones that we found. You don't know about this, but we found some of these people who were gardeners in this arboreal kind of place. And then they ended up being little punks that tried to kill us.

But you just, you joined up because you're like, well, I can disguise. And so you figured that would just be a good place to go. Oh yeah. Oh boy. Yes, but those are not thaumatech. I think it's just time of the fads that's happening right now.

People wearing other people's skin, you know. We're so popular, Tov. Yeah, yeah, we are trendsetters. Did you have other skin on before, Elva? No, I was in hiding, trying to figure out how to repair myself. Have you found any of your other siblings yet? No, just 12. Oh, okay, so you guys are counting backwards, I guess.

So did you capture Pancak and imprison them? Oh no, that was the pirates. I was simply there to impersonate. So why did they capture Bangkok? It was merely my job to impersonate and I was so focused on finding the sea drinker's location. I was not preoccupied with the ins and the outs of the pirate crew.

If I had to make a guess considering what Colonel Boyie, that whole situation was like, and that fight we had around the trees, they're basically being able to be Undarians out in the daylight as other people to accomplish missions and tasks, like steal important artifacts. Did they capture Pancak on behalf of you?

On behalf of me? I don't know if they specifically sought out Pancak, but that's who they captured, and that's who I was assigned to impersonate. And what did they ask that you find as Pancak? It was merely my job to impersonate in the day-to-day and try to replace Pancak without anyone noticing so that future plans could be put into motion. Future plans?

Like a Talented Mr. Ripley kind of situation. I don't know what that is, but okay. Hahaha. No way, that's wrong. I was thinking Manchurian Candidate. That's a different one. I was like, I only remember Matt Damon like in a robot or something. I don't know why I said Talented Mr. Ripley. It's a completely different movie. What do you know of these future plans?

It was my understanding that- And with that, a nearby window shatters with a spray of glass shards and a barrel of rubber bursts through the window and explodes with water and lightning yields. Everyone make a dexterity saving throw. Wow. I asked too much plot.

19. Eight, seven, but I'm gonna use a, oh wait. You have dangerous advantage on. I'm gonna base it on dexterity against effects that you can see yeah all right yeah rolling out again sans ooh Nat 20 and Elva got a 17 and let me reviewing so Gunther you had an eight and Natty was a six those are two are failures what believe it or not the barrel like I said the barrel exposed with lightning eels and water spraying out

everywhere all over the room. Those of you who failed take 14 points of lightning damage and then everyone else who succeeded takes seven points of damage. You instinctively look out the window for the source of this and just offshore in the stormy Saline Sea is a small sailboat. It looks to have no armaments and a skeleton crew of gnolls and the unmistakable pillowy silhouette of the privateer with a tricorn perched parrot. His plotting voice unnaturally booms across the windy waterfront.

Consider that a shot across the bow, B-Team. It's been a long night, so let's not muck around and cut to the quick, shall we? You stole from me two prisoners and a map. Return them to me or I'll seize you and everyone you love and bleed them for all they are worth in this world. You have one minute to acquiesce or you will quickly fathom the fatal force of my flagship The dock master. Yeah, this parrot takes flight from his hand and lands near the broken window It cocks its red feathered face and looks around at you 60 59 58 Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

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Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Go for it. Try set a timer for one minute. Oh, God. My gosh.

All right. Make your roll or whatever you need to do for to grab the parrot. All right. That's a. Dex. 50. Oh, oops. Could I fire a fireball at the parrot? Ten. Sure. It has to make opposing.

Ah. Oh, opposing role. Eleven. I don't think that is. It has to make opposing. Oh, opposing role 11. I don't think that is working. So you failed Gunther and 11 misses 30. Can I can I can I ask it was for. Gigi dinner time. Can I call Gigi to come and try to eat the parrot? Yeah roll to see if giggy listens It's a natural 20 that's my baby Ten all right

Roll with giggy, I guess okay, I want I'm specifically giggy eat the bird. I want to swallow it. All right. I rolled a 19 plus whatever giggy's attack thing is, but that might be enough as is. Yeah, it's enough as is. So I think that at this point, the parrot would not have been looking outside. It would be looking at you all and it would have have asked, ah, I've asked the clock, what's see ye?

And then right as it finishes saying that sentence, Gigi puts the parrot in its mouth. I turn to Elvin and I say, put on your disguise just in case, but guys, I think, should we go outside and negotiate? I mean, I don't know what other choice we have. Also is this, to be clear, who is that? That's not Ironclad, is it?

No, the privateer. Privateer. He was the one who was like speaking to Infernis. Correct. Where's Lasgiel? Lasgiel was outside working on the boat. With Gigi. Right.

And this is a big ship out there? It's a small sailboat that appears to have no armaments and a skeleton crew of gnolls. By the way, this was a real shoot the messenger kind of moment. I mean, you know, if you want to turn off your alarm clock, you got to hit it. You know, well, I thought it was a bomb. No, it's a bird. It was a bird.

Yeah, similar. Well, it ain't anymore. It's on the water. We can just run inland. A very fair point. I mean, do you want to take what they said seriously about, you know, they would get our family and our friends and all that blah blah blah I do know what they're doing in my family or friends. They might be bluffing, you know I mean they are on a tiny little little vessel and what isn't they were saying? Oh watch out for our big ship the dark master, but I'm not seeing the dark master. Do you know my family or friends?

Yes, in fact your time is up. What say you name all of our family or friends? Yes, in fact. Your time is up. What say you? Name all of our family and friends. Jojo, to me, Billy. They're bluffing. I don't know the name of all your family and friends, he might be white. Did none of these people ring a bell?

Are these real names? Can we tell if he's telling the truth? Make a vibe check, make a vibe check me get inside check inside check vibe check that's a Guys, he's telling the truth. He has our family and friends. I rolled a one you rolled a bad one. Oh I got a plan. I got well, I got an escape plan Do we want to escape or we want to answer them? I think this guy's phony baloney We should run inland like Doug says.

Yeah. Can I see out the window any other buildings Gus? You see, yeah. I mean a smattering of small buildings here along the waterfront by the road brew. So is there a door that we could get to that they can't see that we could go through? So the way the road brew is,

it's like a house that sits on the water. So it's like, you walked out kind of on a small dock and there's only one door in and out. The only other exits out of the Robru would be like through the fishing hole or out one of the windows, because you would be very exposed because it's very clearly only one door out of the Robru.

Okay, it doesn't matter if they can see this door or not. You're saying I can see another building, maybe like a 200 foot away building? Sure. Okay, Natty matter if they can see this door or not. You're saying I can see another building maybe like a 200 foot away building Sure. Okay, Natty cast shadow portal. Oh Shadow portal creates a door in the nearest structure. It is immediately bound to actually Oh, I don't even need to do it on the door I could do it on a wall or a cliff or a tree awesome But it immediately bound to a similar a door up to 200 feet away

The near door must be a place within where I'm going to make the original door. It needs to be 10 feet away from me. So basically, long story short, I make a door portal that that that will magically take us to another building that they don't know where we're going. Maybe we should say, you know, OK, we are ready for you to come inside and then we go to the other place. And then when they go inside, they leave their ship and we take their ship That'd be fun. That's pretty cool. I mean wait wait Tov you actually had a smart idea. Does the ship have a door? Yes, it does

Okay, there would be like a door to go like below deck. Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes Okay, Natty's gonna cast shadow portal. Shadow portal is gonna go to their ship. Tov Tell them where they can come aboard and take us prisoners. Okay, yeah, yeah. And then when they come aboard, we go take the ship. Is everybody cool with that? Yeah? Yes, I'm cool with that. Does that work, Gus? You try it. I mean, I don't know if it's gonna work.

I just wanna make sure that everyone's gonna be off that ship by the time we get on there, cause that might be a little awkward for us. If not, we will have to fight. Yeah, but we'll surprise them anyways. Well, that's my suggestion. I'm going to acquiesce to leader. I think it's an excellent plan. Let us execute. We shall lock the door. Come aboard, we shall negotiate! The boat begins slowly drifting closer and closer towards shore.

Let's see. Can I call for... At this point, Laskill would have come up into the into the row brook and said, that looks like a good boat we could use to find the island we're looking for. Oh, yeah, we are taking that boat. That is our boat now, Laskill. Where are we going to name it? We shall never let them take you. I promise you that. Oh, OK.

But that was very intense going through. I didn't know that was an option. Yes, they want you very bad. I will not let them do they. I didn't realize that this was like a mission to save Lasky. There are so many other objectives. They wanted the two prisoners. OK, I thought that they were just seeking revenge,

but I mean, I don't know. Is there a way we can send a message to the real Pancak? No, Pancak would have been back at the high three. But we need to consider that they are probably going to have people on their ship still manning it, but it will be a far smaller crew. So we'll knock those guys out, take the ship, y who were saving the sea drinker, my brothers and sisters. High five, Elva.

Here's another potential plan. Maybe one of you who's good at disguises can disguise themselves as private you and be like, these are my new recruits. Yes, I like it. You know, just in case we want to just use the crew on the ship to actually just. You know what? At minimum, that'll cause some confusion into our advantage. Doug, you're adding the cherry on top of this Sunday of fun. Sunday fun day!

Okay, the ship gets close enough to dog, or to pull up close to the rowbrew, and the three gnolls that you saw on the deck hop out to the pier leading up to the rowbrew and begin approaching the door. It's working! It's working! I'm gonna approaching the door. It's working. It's working. Just one second. We are changing. Don't come in. We are all naked. Do not ask questions. We will be out in one moment.

They're walking towards the door. All right. Now to use your portal. Yeah. Yeah. Natacast. What's it called? Shadow portal. Blue's could do weekend two. OK. The describe the shadow portal for me, if you would. Is it a door? He needs you to take up runtime

because he's doing something meta-wise. I'm not, this is just flavor text. This is playing in the mind's eye. I want our audience to be able to picture what the Shadow Portal looks like that y'all walk through. Is it, can't you see the Gus is responding to an email right now? It's very important.

In my head this is like Monsters Inc and I'm creating like an actual just wooden door with a doorknob but it's like if it's shadow it's like all dark purpley and black and we like open it up and on the other side is like Boo's room it's the uh it's the the ship and we go through and Natty Cast disguise self and looks like the privateer you all begin walking through the shadow portal and you emerge on the other side Except it's a little confusing You're not quite sure what it is that you see when you walk through the portal instead of stepping onto the small boat that you saw out in the clean sea you look around and you see you're on a towering, four-mast galleon. And there's many gnolls and the privateer on the deck that all stare at you as you emerge onto the deck of their giant galleon.

Nanny closes the door! This will surely work. Nanny closes the door! How many people are in there? Well, it's a four-mast galleon and I'll tell you what, actually Gunther, you make me a perception check. Matt 20, 21. Eyes. Okay, you look around and you see that there are, like I said, it's a four-mast ship and on top of each mast is a towering crow's nest with gnoll archers in them. And there's a capstan adorned with a large gemstone. And as you look around, you see four additional gnolls on the deck and the privateer at the helm. Additionally, you see a descending staircase

that appears to go to a lower deck. The privateer just smiles and says, ah welcome aboard. Natty closes the door, I've made this very clear, and Natty casts Shadow Portal again because I have two third level spell slots and cast it for a build. We're going back to project A not project B and we're going to a house inside of the village that they don't know where we're going. Okay so you close the door reopen it go in not back into the rober, but into a different house. So who's at the door if the privateers on the ship? So if I had to take three no's, he said three no's.

Yeah. And we were being like illusioned because there was a big gemstone. So like, yeah, well, let's get the heck out of here. We can't take on archers and crow's nests. You can only take on single parents. Yeah. Do it. Everyone roll initiative at that point. No, you said it sounded like single parents. Eight.

Eight. Six. Seven. Woof. 16 decks. Get those bad rolls out of the way. We are blowing it. 20 decks. So was the giant galleon the illusion or was the little boat the illusion? Nope, the little one. The little one's the illusion. Why would you want to present to be smaller?

So that idiots go on your tiny little ship. Well how do they know that we were going to go on that ship? I thought it was a very good plan. Nat you tried. I was so excited. Well I'm gonna try again. We're gonna go somewhere else. We're rolling initiative Natty. Just're rolling initiative, Nattie.

Just give up girl. This game over. You wanna fight this whole boat? Of course I do not want to fight the whole boat. Okay. There may be some supportive terminology instead of like, it's done. What is wrong with you?

Did your best, good job, good try. My best isn't done yet. I still got my best coming. Okay, go for it. You did a great job. You did a great job. I know. My best isn't done yet. I still got my best coming. Okay, go for it. You did a great job. I don't like it when my parents fight. How fast is the ship that we have? We don't have a ship.

Probably not faster than a four mask, like, galleon. We have a ship. Oh, the ship that Laskule was working on. Yeah, that was a rowboat. That was like- It's like a rowboat, yeah. It's just faster enough. We show row fast. Four masks means four giant sails that are all collectively getting wind.

And last time I checked our party is, oh, I'd say one, two, three, four, five. Yachts. I mean, it's nine people. I trust you guys are resourceful. You'll figure it out. That's what I'm getting at. Oh, we'll figure it out, Gus. That's our motto.

That's their motto. In fact, that is someone's motto. Yeah. So just so we know, it's one of the archers and then the privateer at the top of the initiative order. The privateer would probably give a command that says, keep them alive. We need to question them. And one of the archers up top would salute him. I'm going to, I'm going to go ahead and equip my shield, my glowing pretty shield. Are you able to do that, even though we're already in initiative? I leave that to Gus.

I'll give it to you. We- All right, all of you make perception checks for me. Gunther, this is a new one for you as well. 11. Six. 23, 18, set hike. So everyone, except for the six, which was Natty, I guess Natty so fixated on trying to move the shadow portal, everyone else looks around and realizes that besides just being on this four mast galleon, you look around and you realize that there

are two additional ships connected to this ship that are all connected like via suspension bridges. Each bridge is 15 feet long and all three ships are side by side and they all have their own crews and various armaments on them. Right. Cool. Cool. Cool. Just like the little weirdos in Moana. I haven't seen Moana in a long time.

They had the little tiny little like, they had coconut faces and they were like tiny little like, ah, ah, ah guys and they, but they all had like connected ships. Oh yeah. I haven't seen Moana. It's very water world. Yeah, since it like first came out in streaming. It's been a while.

Okay. The Null up in the archer, I guess, would fire an arrow down at Doug. He's the biggest target. Oh no. But the shot flies wide, missing Doug. The archer must be surprised to see so many people suddenly appear on the ship. Two of the Gnolls that are on the deck drop what they're doing and run over and begin trying to go after 12.

That's a 6 and a 22. The 22 hits I assume. Yaa. Uh, it tries to dogpile onto you. Make a... like it tries to like grab you and grapple you to the ground. Make me a strength check. That would be a 21. Oh, it almost drags you to the ground. Make me a strength check. That would be a 21. Oh, it almost drags you to the ground.

It like, you know, wraps itself around your legs and starts trying to, you know, get you to fall onto the ground so it can dog pile on you. But you might, you know, it's like too low. Your center of gravity is over it and you're able to counter its influence and you're able to break free.

One of the other archers would take a shot at... Do me again, I dare you. Oh, Doug. Hitting, that's a one, that's a miss. And then two of the other gnolls would have seen the first one trying to dogpile on 12 and they're gonna try to dog pile on Doug. All right.

Everyone wants a little bit of pizza Doug Boone today. Doug, make me a strength check. A dick Doug. Hey, I like it. Take some inspiration die for that. Ha ha. Old video game references for the win. Yeah, I'm an old man.

You make that strength check for me Doug. That is a... Chan? Chan? That's what I heard. Chan. The first gnoll is able to grab you and then you drag you to the ground. And then the second one jumps on as well. They're creating like a dog pile on top of you.

Because they're like dogs, they're gnolls. Yeah. Gnoll pile. And they're a hyena pile. And you take 20 points of bludgeoning damage. Can I use a reaction? Conceivably. So I'm not sure.

This is a shield. One reaction which you take when you are hit by an attack. I don't know if this is technically classified as that because I feel like that might be a ranged attack maybe? I don't know if it's like a grapple attack. It's a melee attack. Okay. Does it work for melee attacks

or is it just for ranged attacks? It just says when you are hit by an attack. Well, I will say this is more like a check. Like you take your, it's not like it's going against your AC. It's a check. So while it is like in melee range and whatnot, it's not an attack per se. Yeah.

Wouldn't that involve getting attacked? Not necessarily. How many points of damage? 20. Oh, and I forgot since you saved toll, you actually, you, like I said, it was, it was ineffective against you, but you take 10 points of damage. I forgot to mention that. Blaine, you got a question? Yeah, I have this thing called Guardian.

Once you're wrapped up with that thing, but because someone attacked one of my buddies and I, and I was assuming we're all within five feet of each other, I can called Guardian, once you're wrapped up with that thing, but because someone attacked one of my buddies and I was assuming we're all within five feet of each other, I can take an opportunity to attack against that creature. Okay, let's resolve this and then we'll switch over to that. Oh, I'm looking at you, I don't see Guardian, I wanna read up on it. So at the bottom of features and traits, it's Guardian.

Immediately after a creature within five feet of you takes the disengaged action or hits a target other than you with an attack You can make an opportunity attack against that creature. So was it an attack us? You know, it's not an attack per se because they're not rolling like a to hit and it's not going against AC It's a check that they're that they're forcing Okay. Okay. My is on you guys. It it doesn't necessarily count. I'm sorry. Okay. No, it's fine. I'll let you off with this one. Yeah. Alright, thank you.

And by the way, I don't know if I said it. Doug, you are grapple. Okay. And then the final two archers, they like look at each other nod and they like lean back and fire their arrows into the air and a volley of arrows begins falling all around all of you. All four of you make dexterity saving throws. It feels like that's a mean move to make against your buddies that are grappling one of the people right now.

Yeah. Hey, they're up top. They don't care. It's just their job to rain arrows down. Yeah. They're all so bad. Eight. I also rolled an eight.

I rolled a six, but I have advantage on deck saving throws. So I rolled a 17. All right. 19. All right, so I rolled a 17. All right. 19. All right, so 12 and Natty save. Doug and Gunther, you do not. Arrows begin falling all around, and the two of you who failed

take 10 points of piercing damage. Oh, dear. Those of you who saved take half. Because I'm nice, I'm gonna roll for those two nulls, too, who are dogpiling Doug. I don't think that's because you're nice. I think that to roll for those two nulls too, who are dog piling Doug. I don't think that's cause you're nice. I think that's cause you're going to follow the rules. If they get hit and damaged, does that mean I like him ungrappled?

Lose the disengaged? No, and only one of them fails. The other one succeeds. Taking half. Yeah. Hey, how does that null react to his brother hitting him with an arrow? Yeah, he surely would be really mad, right? He's not happy about it. He joined our team, right?

Yeah. Mm. Mm. One arrow, that's all it takes. Wow, I can't believe they hit you with an arrow. How disrespectful, they shot both of you. Are they speaking in a bizzle? Yeah.

And the kids are going to go, yes, your friends and brothers are shooting as you join us. We will definitely not put your skin on ours. I think they will take that under consideration. We have benefits. The Gnoll looks at you Gunther and growls. Why would we do that? You're the one hitting us with arrows.

And with that, it is the privateer's turn. The privateer pulls out a cutlass, looks at you guys, and shakes it menacingly, then turns to his side and slices through some rope and some rigging that's near him. And a cannon begins swinging across the deck, falling nearby on all four of you make me a dexterity statement throw again.

I will be speaking to Osha about this violation. 20. And I cannot roll well today. 17. First one was 11, second one was 20. 30, 20. Your first ones are always bad then your second ones are always good.

You know it's fun. My Dicer storytellers they like drama. Polvin, Gunther and Maddie all successfully saved. Doug, I guess it's cause your dog piled or hyena piled at the moment, Noel piled. You're just not able to move successfully out of the way. And you know, this cannon is kind of careening through and dropping all around you.

And Doug, you take some damage. Is there something I could use my reaction for? all around you and Doug you take some damage. Is there something I could use my reaction for? The gnoll that's dog piling could, if they're on top of Doug, how could they possibly avoid this? That's what I'm saying. If Doug gets it.

Well, Doug got to roll, so they get to roll too then Mr. Rules Lawyer. Yeah. Chris De-Ameris. Maybe they have like both of his arms out until like his belly's exposed or something. Yeah, 15 and 18, they both roll successfully. Doug, you take, what was that?

15 points of bludgeoning damage. Is Doug up? Yeah, I'm up. Okay. One more hit though, questionable. I was gonna say, you've taken a lot. We can take this all day. This doesn't hurt us a bit, right, dog?

And everyone else. Don't take any. Does not take damage, but you all had to lay flat on the deck to get out of the way, so you all are now prone. That's fine, we can stand up to deal with that. Anyway, we could open a portal underneath all of us and portal the heck out of here.

Yeah, actually. Gunther, you're up. So we're prone, huh? Yes. So just to stand up, all of our movement is gone. Half is how we usually do it. Half, yeah. Okay.

Also, am I prone and grappled, just a question or just grappled? It's gonna be both. I would imagine you were already prone anyway because they're dogpiling on you. Yeah. All right. And Doug's the only one who's prone, right? Sorry, cat grappled. Sorry. And then I got grappled.

Doug's grappled. Where is our allies like Elva and Les Gill? I'll say they're around you and they're also prone at the moment. Dang it. Are they also an initiative, by the way, with us? Yeah, I just I'm about to roll it. I just I realize I forgot to do that. How far away is the captain? He's at the moment. Dang it. Are they also an initiative by the way, with us? Yeah, I just, I'm about to roll it. I just, I realized I forgot to do that. How far away is the captain? He's at the helm.

I'll say he's about 30 feet away. And there's just guys everywhere. Yes, just for reference, after Gunther is Natty and then Tol. I'm gonna attack the one that is holding Doug. Okay, just so you know, there are two currently dog piled on Doug. I guess I'll attack both of them, attack one of them whichever one looks the most dead

Okay, yeah, one of them definitely looks worse for the wear you can tell this one has a few more arrows in it than the Other one all right. I'll attack that one. Okay. Does it 16 hits? Yeah, that's 10 points of damage you know you pierce it with your Rapier and this know since it already had a couple of arrows in it and whatnot, it kind of slumps over on top of Doug. Doug, you've got a hyena face drooling onto you now. How fitting. I think different body fluids come out when someone dies.

Pfft. Gross. Whoa. Stop. This is the second time we're talking about poop? I didn't make the sound, okay? That was Blades contribution. I do not know what you're talking about.

I say to the Gnoll as I go to attack it, you will have a fate worse than your friend there if you do not let go. And then I move to attack him with my second attack. Okay. And does a cool spin and stabs into him. Ooh, ooh. And this is the other one that was dog piling onto Doug, right? I'm in the Doug pile.

The Doug pile. There you go. Took a while. I don't know why we didn't get there sooner. That's a 23. Oh, okay. It's the flourish that did it. The spin is surely what's got you the 23.

All right. At that time I rolled a 3 to damage, but this time I'm going to reroll it. Once per turn when you hit a creature with an attack that deals piercing damage, you can reroll one of the attack's damage dice. And I must use that one, so I'm going to reroll that 3. And that became a 7, so that's 14 points of damage. Yeah, you pierce this gnoll, and it also stops moving

and collapses on top of the other gnooll, which is also on top of Doug. Waffle! Uh Doug, there's now a second knoll face in your face. Oh, I just uh, feel like Snow White but in a different way. All the animals are drawn to Doug. Oh, I was like, what part of Snow White did I blank out? I'm wishing! When did the dwarves all pile on top of Snow White did I blank out? I'm waking. When did the dwarves all pile on top of Snow White?

And I yelled to the rest of the crew, give up now or face brutality and perish. Ooh, take an inspiration die. I like that. I like that Gunther. Oh man, I already have one. But can I give it to someone? Give it to Doug. Can I give it to Doug? You have to use it in me. What we've been saying is if we're gonna give it like that they

should use it right away. That way it's not like we're just collecting them and transferring them. Okay then I'm going to use Second Wind. You're unstoppable Gunther. Yeah. By the way Second Wind is a bonus podcast that we put out for members of our Patreon if you go to StinkyDdragonpod.com at every level every other week We dive into the episodes We just recorded talk about some of the things that happen some of the behind-the-scenes As well as other things that are going on one of many benefits available for people who support us So check it out again. That's at stinkydragonpod.com. Look at you. Gus is my favorite pop-up ad that I would never block

All right, so you second I'm sorry'm sorry, Chris, you use second wind? Yeah, so I healed 11 damage, then Gunther will jump back towards the door now that the ones that were holding Doug are captured and say, retreat! And then try and go back through the door. They're not captured, they're dead. Yes. Okay, the door is still there and Gunther you jump back through it. So you're back in the Robru. Yes. Okay

I'm back through and that will be the end of my turn I'm by the door waiting like off just off to the side so that if guys come through I can stand on the Robru side On the Robru side. Okay. So next up we have Natty then Toll then Doug Hopefully Doug survives the length of time in between. How hard would it be to shove some of these guys through the door for Natty? We could try like strength checks, you know, you'd be able to make an effort at it. It's all about how difficult it will be. Okay.

So the thing that made us prone was the cannon, correct? Correct. It also got Captain Grumbles. Let's see. Because he's on my turn. He should be. So either way, I'm going to have Captain Grumbles. Let's see, cause he's on my turn. He should be. So either way, I'm going to have Captain Grumbles stand up as well.

So it hit Captain Grumbles. My God. How many hit points does Captain Grumbles have? That is a wonderful question. I need to look at animate dead to see what it gives him. Not Captain Grumbles. He's the heart of our team. Gus have mercy and Grumbles. He has the heart of our team Gus have mercy and grumbles He has the same statistics as his former self. So what did the captain that we fought in the ring have as far as HP? Okay. Well, he takes nine damage. It's gonna take a minute to find that If you chose a corpse the GM has the creatures game statistics I'm looking this up just so I can tell you and I don't have to keep track of it anymore. Yeah, yeah, I figure you want to give me this, this very important NPC that's going to be with us

for like four more hours. No, the rest of the game, the rest of the campaign. I'm going to have to keep casting this over and over again. I'll tell you what, this is our opportunity. If you want to get rid of grumbles, you can get knocked into the ocean right now. No, I want to use grumbles. You stop it.

We're sweeping these prone bodies into this door. So what about his armor class? Is it the same like, or does that change? His stats are the same as what it says. Did he, did he have a shield? Oh yeah. We gave him the, the, the, uh, censorship shield. Oh, right.

I forgot about that. So you write this down. I'm not looking this up again. All right. Captain Grumbles AC is 17. Oh my God. Just send him the PDF for his character sheet. And no, cause then he's gonna have all this other stuff.

I don't want him to have all of that. Why? He's our teammate. I promise to only look at Captain Grumbles stats. His HP is 84. I don't remember, I think he took damage during the fight in the pit. So let's say he was at 70, just to come up with a number, and then he took nine points of damage right now.

So that would put him at 61. Captain Grumbles is doing great. I was gonna say. He's so kicking. He might have the most HP of the group right now. He might be our strongest member. The cannon hits Captain Grumbles and stops. No! No! No! No! And he just goes, Remember the cannon hits captain grumbles and stops Oh, wow. There goes my hero.

So Micah just poses an interesting question. Didn't he die if that's how he got reanimated and brought back his grumbles? Yeah, he must've died. What do you mean? He did die at some point, right? Yeah, he's dead. So he must've dropped to zero. He doesn't have that many hit points then.

No, they dropped to zero, but you reanimate them at the statistics of what their character is. So he's full health. Yeah, guys! So then he is... 84 minus 9 so 75. Yeah yeah yeah Mike is right that is a broken spell oh my god. Everyone needs a grumbles on their team. It only works on medium or small humanoids. It has its limits. So 90%. It is a third level spell slot that I only can cast because of my pact. And I don't have unlimited spell slots of that.

Oh, okay. So yeah, I will say it did hit Grumbles. So Grumbles is on the ground. John, just so you're aware, and so that no one gets too attached, Captain Grumbles is marked for death now. But like, death, death. Mike and Gus do not like this man.

Okay, Captain Grumbles. Captain Grumbles, push. like this man okay captain grumbles grumbles push thank you guys push Doug through the door well he's prone cam grumbles get up oh he goes on your turn right yeah push Doug to the door I have to drag me well whatever relocate the fear the the bugbear into the room Why are you talking to this thing? Like it's like a echo, you know? Captain Grumbles lights off. No. Captain Grumbles.

Captain Grumbles, what's the weather today? Okay. All right, Captain Grumbles is going to go ahead and try that. How much do you weigh, Doug? I'm not light. You know, I didn't have a really big breakfast this morning. So around 300 pounds.

Okay. Captain Grumbles' strength is 10. So roll me a d20 and let's see where it ends up. But it's probably gonna have to be a pretty high roll. Come here, John. For what it's worth, if you choose to shove someone, they don't have to resist and you don't need to roll an opposed check. But he still needs to move 300 pounds.

Not a joke. I rolled a nat 20. Yeah! Yeah! Captain Grumbles! Yes, Captain Grumbles is jacked. Grumbles, I'm at your behest. Yeah. Captain Grumbles is so jacked.

Oh, Captain Mike, Captain. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Doug just goes, upies. Captain Grumbles begins slowly sliding Doug across the ground complete with two gnolls on top of him.

You're able to shove him. Okay, now we'll say you're in, you're in. Yeah, yeah, you get Doug. Toll's next, Gunther's already standing. Kiki can move in on his own. And Laskiel and Elva are with us as well? Yes. And private parts, Jesus Christ.

Oh yeah, and private parts too, oh my God. You see why I hate all these NPCs I hate him to hey Gus. I'm there with Didn't let me knock grumbles into the ocean. So don't ever say you're with me Yeah, he wouldn't have he wouldn't have been knocked anyway. He would have knocked the ship back Nattie goes for and he's not very big. So now he goes for private parts. Okay and grabs whatever Collar of private parts and pulls him into the door Nattie goes for private parts. Okay. And grabs whatever collar or private parts and pulls them into the door.

Nattie grabs private parts. Every time. Those jokes just keep on giving. Roll a strength check just to make sure. 14 plus, what is my strength modifier? One, 15. That's good enough. Just don't tug too hard on private parts.

And you're able to get I ask for permission Maddie I would assume yes, he comes in with mommy and cuz geeky design of strength to pull anybody Yeah, all right told you're up and then Doug and then the NPCs. Okay, I Rise from the ground is Elvin near me? Yes, Elva's right next to you. Can I summon the strength to toss Elva in and also have enough movement to myself move in? Make a strength check to toss Elva in. Oh, you know what? Actually, before I do that, I'm going to go ahead and rage

because that's going to give me advantage on strength checks. All right. And then I I am raging now. And then I, ah, I am raging now. And then I'm going to do a strength check is a, Oh brother, don't get so mad. 12, I'm here to protect you sister. I just got you back. I'm not losing you again.

That was a 12 and a 13. Yeah, you pick up Elva and toss her through, back through the portal and you just hear. Wee hee. Okay. How much movement do I have? I know it's halved because through the portal and you just hear, Weeeeeeeee gnolls off of their crows nests. Let's give it a shot. So you're able to get over there and make an attack roll at it. OK, this is my war hammer. Watch out. That's a 17.

Yeah, that hit. Cool. I'm going to do some damage. That is a eight plus your rage. And you're raging. Yeah, so would you get like plus two on that? That would be an additional two. Yeah, you strike the base of the mast with your war hammer and the whole mast begins shaking.

Yeah, the archer who's on top gets down on the ground and holds on, but as the mast is shaking, it seems like it begins shaking more and more and it slowly tips over and breaks off its base. And the entire mast falls over and breaks the suspension bridge that's connecting this ship to the one next to it. So this ship breaks free.

So then you go ahead and run back through the portal. Yeah, unless I have, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna run through. Yeah, okay, yeah, you run back through the portal? Yeah, unless I have, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna run through. Yeah, okay, yeah, you run back through the portal door, which takes us to Doug, who's now been pushed through and is on the other side. And I'm still grappled and prone. You are not grappled, but you're prone with dead bodies on top of you.

Well, could I summon my steel defender? Ganbot? Ganbot. Ganbot, I choose you. Well, could I summon my Steel Defender? GANBOT! GANBOT! GANBOT I choose you! And then could I also cast... Cure Wounds on myself? I'm gonna do it at second level. So that is...

13 points of heal. Okay, that's a lot. Still not a whole lot of health here. And then, I guess what's the situation on this side of the portal? On this side of the portal, three gnolls have broken in the door and are now standing inside the Robru. Okay. Other than that, it's the Robru's how you left it.

It's just the door's been splintered in and there's three gnolls who've broken in. Okay. I'm going to stay where I am, I think. So I think that would be my turn. But then I think Gambot would go directly after me Yeah, so gambot is going to I think go after and try to Attack on the I guess the the null that is closest in after breaking down the door sure 14 that's exactly what you need

Seven is 13. Oh 13 What is this gum gum gum math? Sorry, I don't know why my brain went 14. No, that's a miss. That's just short of what you need. You need an inspiration die? If you want. Oh yeah, do it.

I give Barbara my inspiration. Yay! Okay. Happy belated wedding gift. Yes. This time it's a 21. You hit. Yes, 21.

Okay, so that is gonna be then one to eight plus three. So that would be, oh my God, four points of damage. Gambot, you know, goes up to the gnoll and hits it firmly in the shins. Ah! Rubbing its chin. Ah! Yes it's like Gambot you show em who's boss! And that is my turn. Alright that takes us over to Elva.

Elva got thrown through she's on the Robru's side. She you know stands up and then points a finger at the gnoll that Gambot hit and a dagger fires out at it. So cool. You know, she rolled a one. She has the dagger instead. Like it doesn't actually shoot out. It gets kind of like stuck in her finger. She's like looking at it now.

She's like trying to perform maintenance on her finger as it is stuck. I was like, good thing she has nine other shots. I don't think she has that many at once. Now it's Laskiel's turn. Okay, so Laskiel is still on the ship. Despite Gunther's promise, they would not leave them behind and not let the enemy take them. We haven't left yet.

They are going to... I could really go either way here. They're going to come through the portal and either way here. They're gonna come through the portal and they begin rightfully through the pockets of the dead gnolls that were on top of Doug. So then it's Private Parts who was tossed here into the Robru. Gunther, you're the leader.

Private Parts is gonna walk up to you, give you a pat on the back and say, I believe in you Gunther. You got this. I believe in all of us. So they came through the door? Yes. OK. Don't let anyone else through the door.

Who are you telling that to? That's just a dent in general. OK. And it is those three gnolls turn who came in. Oh, man, that could do something really funny here. Do it. OK. John told me to do it.

The three gnolls rush Doug and start to try to dogpile him. Dogpile. Dogpile. Placemate whites though, wouldn't they have to get walk past me? And me. You said specifically you were just on the other side of the portal. I was on the other side of the door like on the far side so that it was still clear to enter and he was at the front. Yeah they're coming in from the robe root door not the portal that you all came through. I think there's confusion because we keep calling the portal the door, the portal the door. They're on opposite ends. Yeah, I just call them portal and door. Yeah. The three nobles come in and they begin trying to dog pile on to Doug. Make me a strength check Doug. You just got that health back. What the heck? Oh

My like like steel defender be in the way And trip over him. Maybe it's just it's just gambit making R2D2 alarmed sounds. That's just pretty much it. They grab you, they dug pile you to the ground and you take the 20 points of bludgeoning damage and you are grappled on the ground again. Well, I'm glad I healed myself because otherwise I would have been dead. All right, which means we're back up

to the top of the initiative order. You hear through the portal from the ship, you hear the privateer yell out, Roll the gnolls! And all around you, the three gnolls that you see here in the Robu stand up. They're no longer dug piling. Thank you. And they get up and reposition themselves at three quarters around the room

in order to try to distract you all into three different directions. And then with that, Gunther, you make me a perception check. That's 17. You see that the gnolls on the other side of the portal who are still on the ship begin like getting into formation, like they are going to try to proceed through the portal as well. They're coming for us! More Gandalf than Gunther. The archers. So normally they would volley at you guys, but they can't really because you're in the Robru and they can't volley through the portal.

So I'll say they're going to try to fire through the portal at Gunther since they can see Gunther. Oh, my God. One of them had 18, the other ones were like 10. My armor class is 18. OK, so it hits. So one of them hits you with an arrow doing 10 points of piercing damage. And the privateer would... He pulls out a pistol and aims it through the portal

in Gunther's area. I'll tell you what, Gunther and who else? Did anyone else stay by the portal or was it just Gunther who was really like blocking that portal? I guess if I was dragged through there I'd be pretty close to it, right? Well, you also got up. Yeah, you're on the ground though. Just wondering like if anyone's standing in that area. I mean, I've been through the portal, so I don't know. Where geographic that means I am.

We'll just say Gunther then. Make me a dexterity saving throw. It's a 15, and can I use the help for that? Yeah, absolutely. So then we'll just add on another plus two to that to assist. Okay. The privateer pulls out a pistol from his belt and fires it in your direction

and a burst of flame shoots out and envelops you Gunther, but you see it coming and at the last second, you're able to duck down and dodge the bulk of it. So you end up taking only half damage. You take five points of fire damage. Thank you, Brannibards. And Gunther, it's your turn. It's Gunther, Nati, Tolv, Doug.

Can I hold my turn until after Nati's gone? Yeah, so you stand there and you tell Nati something? Yeah, well, do your magic portal thing if you're going to. At this point, everyone has come through. Yeah, so I'll hold until Nati's turn. Okay, so Gunther shouts out a command and Nattie, you're up. And then after Nattie will be Gunther, then Tolst and Doug. OK, does the group want to want to retreat or do we want to try and take this ship?

I might have a different answer than everyone else. OK, because there's three ships, right? Yes. And the one that you were on has broken separate from the other two when the mast fell. But there were still a lot of people in it, right? Yes, and the one that you were on has broken separate from the other two when the mast fell. But there were still a lot of people in it, right? The galleon. On the one you were on, there were a few. Yeah, there's a decent number.

What about the other two ships? Those I'm assuming are like smaller, like less crewed. You could see gnolls on the other ones. There were crews on them. I don't know that you could tell necessarily if there were more or less people on those versus this one. But I will say there are dead gnolls on this one that you all have taken out.

Can you tell me Gus, how many people are still on the format? Well, three mass now. Yeah, not counting the private tier. There appear to be five gnolls still alive on there. We got a almost dead Doug. And it sounds like I imagine Gunther's kind of low at this point. Yeah, Gunther's not terrible, but not great.

There's also three gnolls in the room with us right now. Yeah, I feel like we... I don't mean to like flip-flop, but maybe we should take the ship. I will say this, if it sways anyone's opinion. Gunther was able to dispatch two of those gnolls pretty quickly in one turn. Yeah, the gnolls have been low HP this entire time. Apparently not low enough to get hit by my gambot. That's AC.

Yeah, and I have two Eldritch Blasts and a Gigi and a Captain Grumbles. I have an Elva with knife finger hands. Okay. I have something in mind. We have lulled them into a sense of us retreating. Now enact plan C, which is take the ship. You got it.

You got it. You got them all like lined up on the deck. It's like the kind of thing now where you roll a barrel through and it knocks them all out of the way. And like in a cartoon, they go flying like bowling pins. This is what we have the portal to, right? The ship we're trying to take. Yeah.

Okay. Well, you know, one step back, two steps forward kind of thing. Yeah, I'll just, maybe I'll stay here for a second. Why you guys do that? I feel like from under a pile of gnolls, you see like a thumbs up from Doug, like Doug's fur hand comes out.

Just covered in blood though. Fur. Okay, let's send the familiars first. Let's see if we can get them to take out some of the rabble, yes? Yeah. Could Captain Grumbles get to a gnoll or the privateer? On take out some of the the rabble. Yes Yeah, could Captain Grumbles get to a knoll or the privateer on the other side of the portal? Yes, absolutely I'd say that Captain Grumbles could easily get to the knolls as they have gathered up on the other side Captain Grumbles speed

Is 30 fyi, okay Captain Grumbles go attack a knoll and Gus since you're the one who gets to see the board with all the characters You just you do you. How does Captain Grumbles attack? Does he know on them? I don't know. He is a pirate. He has a sword, right? Well, I assume that now that he's undead that he has like something different. Yeah.

Can he just do a sword attack? He's got a sword. He's a pirate. He sword attacks the knoll. Yeah. Well, he's maybe not as dexterous as he was when alive. He's just kind of kind of like lashing it around, but it's still a sword being waved around.

But also, like, I think that our art for Captain Grumbles is inaccurate because it looks like he's like a long like he he's like been, you know, rotted away at. He's a pretty fresh body. He's got a lot of HP. He's a he's a hulking mess. It's fine. We can update his his graphic if we need to. But yeah, Grumbles goes attack. Do it, Gus. He's a Chad zombie. He's got a lot of HP. He's a, he's a hulking mess. It's fine. We can update his, his graphic if we need to, but yeah, grumbles goes attack.

Do it Gus. He's a Chad zombie. He's got muscles. He does. I feel like the cannon hit him and stopped and something changed. Yeah. It made him a really buff.

Okay. We'll say that captain grumbles goes through, swings a sword menacingly at the first knoll that he sees. Let's just roll a d20 and see what happens. Captain Grumbles. It was almost a 19, but it was a one. I gave Captain Grumbles my inspiration dice. Captain Grumbles takes your inspiration die and keeps swinging that sword around

and rolls a two. You are, I'm, you got, okay. You saw, I'm not lying. I, you see the rolls. Why are you letting him roll for you? He wants you to fail, John. No, I want you to succeed. I couldn't stop him from rolling. You see the rules. Why are you letting him roll for you? He wants you to fail, John. No, I want you to succeed. I couldn't stop him from rolling, so he did it. You told me to make it happen.

That's fine, it's fine. Grumbles is fine. I still like Grumbles. Grumbles is still out there, just like a blender. He's occupying one of them now. That will stop shooting Doug. Yeah. All right, Gigi, how about go help? Go get another one. Go get another one.

Doug, the grumbles is occupying that one. Go get another one, Gigi. And I send Gigi to go after. And I think what I'd like to do is I'd like to have Gigi. Yeah. Just have him attack. He's still thinking about that parrot. He's still hungry snack burps and a feather comes out. Gigi rolls an attack against the whatever Gigi can get to and rolls a 23 on attack. Believe it or not that's a hit.

With that big axe? Oh my god. No I'm not gonna, we're gonna simplify this. Gigi's just going for a rend. Oh! There you go. D4 which is 3 plus 3 is 6 slashing damage. Yeah that's pretty ouchy on that null.

It's like looking down in pain, trying to kick Gigi off. It has poison condition now too. Oh God, okay. Write that down, poisoned. But I'll simplify that for you. Gus, don't even worry about it. Now, Natty shoots an Eldritch Blast at that one. Yeah. Oh, okay.

Natty rolled a dirty 20. Yeah, you hit. When Natty shoots an Eldritch Blast, does she like cock her hands? Like, does she do anything like performative or does she just go wham? Yeah, she does a little quick draw action. Ooh.

Like hands, hands at the side and just goes, ah, brings the arm up. Love that. Finger guns. Yeah. Rolls a D, 10. That's a five plus four, which is nine. Yeah, that Gnoll was looking down at Gigi, trying to kick Gigi off of its leg,

then looks up at the last second and sees the Elders Blast flying at it, hits that Gnoll in the face and it falls over dead. And then there's another Gnoll I could shoot at, yes? It is a target rich environment. Okay, Natty shoots for another Gnoll. None of them are damaged? There's only one left on the deck.

The other ones are archers up in Crow's Nest. Can I shoot an archer? Shoot an archer. Yes, absolutely. Okay, I shoot an archer? Shoot an archer. Yes, absolutely. Okay, I shoot an archer with an Eldritch Blast. I roll a 17 plus a seven. That is 24. That hits.

I roll my D10. Ooh, that's a 10. 14. You hit that null with an Eldritch Blast and it knocks it backwards out of the crow's nest and it falls from the top of the mast down to the deck with a thud and it's unmoving. You hear a Wilhelm scream.

Yes, exactly. I don't know if we've ever used one of those in our podcast. Can I do a little deception here, Gustavo Sorolla? You can absolutely try. Privateer doesn't know how many Eldritch Blasts I have. Natty rears both hands that are now smoking with Eldritch Energy at Privateer and says, You got two choices here. These are, give us a ship.

Ooh, make a deception roll. That is 18. Wow. Plus what is Natty's deception? Natty's deception is plus seven. That's a 25. Oh! Yeah, that's a good roll.

Also Grumbles is like over there and Gigi is, Grrr, as well. There's just a lot of animosity energy on here. The privateer responds to you, Natty. Oh, you think you have the upper hand? And he once again pulls out his cutlass and slashes that and cuts a piece of rigging next to him and grabs onto a rope as it's flying by.

The force of the rope pulls him and he flies off the deck and swings over to one of the other ships and is now standing on the deck of one of the other two ships. Okay, what do the remaining gnolls do? At this point, they look around, they're slightly confused, they're looking at each other.

I think he retreated, he just didn't want to admit it, but I'm pretty sure he gave us the ship natty. Yeah, that's how men often do stuff like that. Yeah. All right, everybody, Captain Natty reporting for duty. Hi-hi. Get on the ship. Are we still in initiative?

Yes, I'm gonna say yes. Before you do anything, I wanna make sure, Natty, are you done? Was there anything else you were gonna do on your turn? I don't think I have any bonus actions, so I'm gonna say, yeah, I'm done. Okay, yeah, so then Gunther, it would have been your turn. Yeah, okay, I wanna stab the ones that's trapped, Doug.

Okay, there you go. This is Gunther's specialty. Like, he sees this and he like, he like, mature in candidate activates, and like, goes on a murder spree, freeing Doug. You is Gunther's specialty. Like he sees this and he's like, he like, mature in candidate activates and like goes on a murder spree, freeing Doug. You mean talented Mr. Ripley. Talented Mr. Ripley. Good call, thanks.

And so yeah, he pulls out and shoop down into the nose of the Doug. Ow. Not Doug's nose. Nice. Yeah, not in the Doug's nose. That's 21. That hits.

That's a 12. All right, Doug, you're just getting more and more literal dead weight put on top of you because that gnoll stops struggling and stops moving. At this point, it's kind of like a weighted blanket. It's kind of nice. Yeah. There are three dead gnolls on top of you

and two live ones, Doug. All right. Now, Guthrer will attack one or the other two live ones. Okay. All right, I rolled a one. of the other two live ones. Okay. All right, I rolled a one. I'm using my inspiration die. All right.

I was gonna say, I never want Barbara's characters to be in danger. However, this is quite funny. It's pretty funny. How much, it's just constantly a pile of furry gnolls on furry Doug is just a pile of just stuff. Micah says that Doug has discovered a new invention here. Like you've discovered the weighted blanket here, Doug.

Oh, my gosh. That's true. What did you get there? Got there was your roll 19. Oh, yeah, that hits. All right. That's another 12 points of damage. That one also falls over to death. This is like when Gimli keeps getting dead or in lures. Dead kills like on on top of them.

And then so there's one more still on Doug? Yeah. Action surge. Oh my god. And accent surges and stabs the remaining one on Doug. That was a nine. Oh I wish I had an inspo. I'd give it to you. Yeah.

No. It's short. But. Lucky. Lucky. I, it's it's it's short. But lucky lucky I accent searched. So I have another attack. Oh, yeah, you do. So I'm going to attack that one again. Oh, look at you. Oh, my hero, Gunter. That's 13.

But I precision attack. I could add a superiority die to the roll. Oh, that's a plus eight. Oh, not plus eight. When I roll a D8, it doesn't matter because anything you roll, you need a one, so you'll get to get it. Yeah, you hit it. And I will attack it.

Oh, for 15. Doug, it's just dead gnolls all the way down. Dead weight. Like a moth to a flame. They all came to me and they all died. Your plan worked perfectly. How's the bait? Is there anything I can do to help get rid

of the dead ones off of Doug or? I'll say like on Doug's turn, you can give like an assist for Doug to stand up. Okay, yeah, I will do that. And that's it. Thanks, good job. I'm done. Okay, that means that it is 12 and then Doug.

Okay, you who it's me 12. I'm going to, is it cool if I stow my war hammer and pull out a javelin? Yes. Okay, all right. So I still have shield equipped and then now I'm like full blown Spartan warrior guy. So I have my javelin and I'm gonna run through the portal

and then toss my javelin at one of the guys in the crow's nests. All right, yeah, go for it. I love it. Okay, that is a, my God, that's a nat 20. Woo! That guy's not having a good day. You use the momentum of your run

and the javelin flies through, striking a gnoll. Doing, I'm gonna adjust the damage that it says here because we always do max on one of them. That's gonna be Ten points of damage what happens to that guy the javelin hits the knoll and it picks the knoll up off of its feet and Knocks it out of the crow's nest and it falls into the water as well However, it does not fall back up to the surface Can we imagine not to retcon it too heavily but before that guy even hits the water?

Told has already pulled another javelin out To toss at the other crow's nest for the other guy does like a full whip it out 180 Do it. Okay, that's my second attack. So I'm gonna hit the other guy with another javelin. Oh, come on Give me another cool roll What is that that That's a 14. Oh, that hits. That's exactly what you need.

Yeah. Woo. I'm impressing my sister. Elva, are you watching this? She's still looking at her finger and wondering why the dagger didn't shoot. She missed it. Elva, sister, look at this sister.

Oh, what? Did you do something? Yeah. And then that is seven points of damage for that guy. Yeah, that hits that gnoll. The gnoll slumps to the ground and disappears below the lip of the crows nest. OK.

And then I guess with my remaining movement, Natty, you're on the ship, right? Captain Natty. I am, yes. I go to Captain Natty and then I take like a defensive position. Like I raise my shield between Natty and the privateer. Oh, well, I guess they're on the other ship, but I'm just protecting Natty.

Oh, Captain, my captain. You got it. Old habits die hard. Oh, wait, there's one more guy on the thing, the ship, right? He's on the deck. Yeah, there is one more. Okay, because I have storm aura So I gain a 10-foot effect when you start your rage and as a bonus action on each of your turns When activated one creature of your choice in your aura takes lightning damage

So could I run up within 10 feet of that guy and say you would be within 10 feet? Yeah, great So rewinding I run out walk throw a javelin at one guy at the crow's nest. He gets lifted, taken off into the water, spin around, pull another javelin, toss it at that guy. And then I look at the dude that's on the deck in front of me and then I Goku lightning strike him. Okay. I was thinking like the rock, you look at him and like raise your eyebrow.

And like the lightning just comes like shooting down. Yeah. It's Pikachu you dummies. Oh yeah. You do this. Fart and it too. Yeah's Pikachu, you dummies. Oh yeah. You do this. You do the fart and it. You do this. Roll whatever that damage is.

Okay, that would be 1d6. So it's not a lot, but it's still, I can't emphasize just how cool it is. It's only a one. So, you know, it's not much. The Null, you know, only takes one point of electric damage, but looking around, seeing that it's the last one standing, it turns and dives over the side of the ship to join up with its friend who's already in the water.

The ship is yours, Captain! At this point Gunther you help Doug to his feet, presumably, and Laskyla walks over to you, Tove. They pat you on the shoulder, reach into their pocket, and pull out the map from earlier and ask, So, do you know how to sail? Because it's time to sail to a missing island! Is that where we leave off? You can get a leave of heart there on our cool water adventure. How many episodes can we end on that musical note? But you have heard of us.

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Kind of a peek behind the curtain. We had it was like me, Micah and Gus were all communicating behind the scenes on information that told would know. And it was a combination of like Micah and I would pair off, I would share backstory with blanks for Micah to fill in, fill in the blanks. And then he would communicate some of those pieces to me. So I didn't have all of Tollev's story because I didn't want to just do Micah's job for him. And I didn't want to like, you know, corner Micah into, you know, a position where he couldn't make backstory for Toll. So it was like I only gave him as much information as I felt like he would need to just get going and stuff like that.

So it was interesting. We had this conversation where it was like, you guys were telling me lore about my own character, but in a way where I was like, yeah, OK, that fits within his story. Yeah. Even the way that the reveal played out in this episode was like, it wasn't fully scripted. And I don't know how much that comes across in listening to the episode. As a DM, I didn't know when Blaine was going to start talking about stuff. Like, I was trying to introduce hooks and opportunities

for Blaine to engage and do stuff if he wanted to, as told, but it's like, I didn't, like, I wasn't, I didn't know when he was going to do it or what he was going to say or how it was going to play out. It's like, I'm going to just kind of like set it every now and then, and if he wants to engage, he can. And if not, that's also fine. I feel like that's one of the challenges of role playing

and also doing like a comedy show where you're like, is now the moment I want this to be? And like, how do I go about introducing this thing that's a little more serious into the mix of like people just cracking jokes? I said earlier that I'd seen a theory on the subreddit, no, no, the discord. And I remember what it was. Someone was like, you know, it's starting to feel like, kind of like campaign one where they're kind of splitting off and doing individual arcs and stories about the characters. I'm not gonna confirm or deny that because I don't even know myself,

but it did kind of feel like that in, that like, that was a moment that Micah laid out for me. And he communicated to me too. He was like, this is an opportunity for you to do this, if you want to. Like, he was kind of like, he was like, when would you was like, this is an opportunity for you to do this, if you want to. Like he was kind of like, he was like, when would you want to do this? How would you want to do this?

And we kind of worked around it in a way where it was really fun because I went in blind. I didn't know that we were going to Bjorn's house, but it was also like, okay, this is a moment that I get to choose as the character to reveal all this stuff. And it was such a weird dance, but I think that the trio of us,

me, Gus and Micah nailed it. I was really excited and happy about how it turned out. Again, that's stingingdragonpod.com. We can't thank you enough for your support that lets us make this show. Listeners who interacted with us on the Stinging Dragon Discord had NPCs named after them this episode, like Lousy Laskyl named after AlexB007,

voiced by Chad James at Chad James RT from Death Battleaskyel named after AlexB007, voiced by Chad James at Chad James RT from Death Battle. Privateer named after PitFam3, voiced by Bernie Burns at Bernie from Roosteeth and the Morning Somewhere Podcast. Also want to give thanks to some people who write their voices this episode. Elva, voiced by Charlotte Avery at Moms Underscore Home from Astro Goblin. And of course Private Private Parts, voiced by Ben Ertz at Halcyon Underscore Ben. This week's our question was submitted by Maddy DX. This episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragons produced by Ben Ertz. Written, edited, composed by Micah Reisinger with additional editing work by Katherine

Arnold and David Sainier. Tune in next time for the thrilling episode of Doug's on the 1 and 2 equals 3s. How's it going today out in the world, here in the land of wherever you are listening to this. Don't want to, don't want to, you know, put anyone into a box. Yeah, it's going pretty well. We're fighting some gnolls. Doug's not doing too hot.

Doug's struggling a little bit here, but, you know, keep on keeping on. Am I right, everyone? Maybe sometime Doug should go pee during one of these breaks. But, you know, just like Doug Steel Defendo, he's got a bladder of steel as well. Right now we're watching the empty cameras of my fellow podcast reporters. We got Dutch Dale having some good licks, licking some paws, taking a pause, licking some paws. Okay, actually Doug does have to go to the bathroom.