Tales from the Stinky Dragon - C03 - Ep. 27 - From On Hyra -Early Bird Gets the Vermustang

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

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Bring over a brew and let's buckle up for this bedtime tale. Hello, everyone, welcome to Tales from the Sticky Dragon. I'm your dungeon master Gustavo Sorolla and I was caught off guard. I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow. We're not caught off guard here. This week's arrow question is, which celebrity from our world would your character be the most star-struck by?

And that's submitted by Buggy 52. Everyone go ahead and roll that D-20. Let's see what order we're going to do this in. Shout out to Buggy. Two. Oh, also a two. 20. Eight.

All right, Blaine, roll off. You two roll off for third and fourth. 17. Oh, I bet I can beat that with a 17. Roll off. Let's keep going. Come on, Barb. I don't like going to keep this going.

What are the chances? 16. Two. Dang it. All right. So who at the 20? Me. Gunther.

So it's Gunther, Natty, Doug, and then Tolv. Hi. I'm Chris Damaris and I play Gunther, the male croak folk fighter, level six. And for me, the celebrity I would be the most excited to meet is, of course, Carmitt de Frow. Mm-hmm. Are you not, like, offended by him? Like his representation of frogs being maybe unrealistic.

Oh, I think it is very realistic. Wait, is Gunther's representation of frogs realistic? No, right, maybe. He's a different type of frog than me. He does not grow. He's also much better at singing and dancing. Could you sing one of a Kermit's favorite or a famous songs content. In a five, six, seven, eight. It's not easy being green. I was hoping he would chicken out on

that one. It's actually really nice. It wasn't close to the melody, but I love the effort. Can we have that available? Chris, can you sing it's not easy being green and we can post it on Patreon? Not even a chance of copyright infringement with that one. I love it. It was so good. Yeah, the melody's totally different. We could call it it's difficult being a shade of emerald. There you go. So Gunther, this begs

the question. I know everyone's thinking it. Is your wife a pig? You know, you take that out of your mouth. No, no, I'm just like a literal, not. She's not a pig. Also a croak folk. Gunther's climbing on the stage. He's about to hit

Gussler. You take that out of your mouth. Okay. Here it is. Oh, there goes. Gross. Cool. All right. Thanks, Chris. Next up, I believe we've got Natty. Howdy, everybody. It's John Reisinger, and I play Natty Wonder, the Drow, Warlock, drag queen, mother of the bringer of the apocalypse. Mr. Gigglesworth. I think I've been pretty open about a lot of the people that I like and a lot of the people that I've styled myself a little bit around. But the celebrity I'd want to meet Might be a little bit of a surprise to people But if you really think about it It shouldn't be that much of a surprise

Obviously, I'm a lover of music And musical talent And the musical giants out there I've made reference to plenty of times But if there was one celebrity I got to meet It would be this hunk of a musician That I've got the Hots for His name is Mr. Johnny Cash

Oh, that's a good one, yeah. First time I saw that man ever performing, I had the vapus. I thought you were going Orville Peck. I thought you were going RuPaul. You took me on a journey there. I didn't expect Johnny Cash. I was thinking Johnny Cash. There you go.

I think you set it up well. Thank you. Yeah. So that's who I'd want to meet. Johnny Cash. Or at the very least, go to a concert. That's all. I think your wife may have met him.

Too soon. Too soon. Mattie's wife has been meeting a lot of people lately. Yeah. This week. Yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah.

I think that's very well suited. Thanks, Natty. We'll talk maybe in a second wind or something about some more Johnny Cash. Love to. Up next, I believe, was Doug. It is. Hello, I'm Barbara Dunkelman, and I play Doug Boone, the artificer bug bear level six as well. And, you know, I think, obviously, you guys might think people, Doug would want to

meet. Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, you know, Benjamin Franklin. It's famous guys who are very smart. You know, Alexander Rambell. And of course, Doug would be absolutely starstruck to meet these guys, but ultimately, similarly to Natty, Doug is a lover of music. And it might surprise you to hear this, but Doug would be absolutely starstruck to meet Madonna. Madonna. Okay. Big fan of her music. Which era?

Okay. You know, kind of like the 1984, kind of like a virgin era. Holiday. Some of the best music. Yeah, exactly. You know, some of the best stuff over there. Doug used to blast for music when he was working in his workshop. And just, you know, especially, you know, because we are living in your material world.

You know, your material bug. Just some of my favorite. I was going to ask what your favorite song was, but you, you belted one out. That's cool. My God was pretty good. I also, Papa Don't Preach is a good one. You know, I could go on. But I'll save those for whenever I do me, Dolly, not Dolly Parton.

You can't have to meet Madonna. Sorry, I was thinking about Dolly Parton because of daddy. Well, maybe we can, we can reach out to her people and see if we can get her on Dugs on the Ons and Twos, which I hear is blowing up. It's massive. Yeah, you know. maybe uh depending on when you're listening to this maybe that's something that's coming soon or already out it's probably already out by this point hopefully hopefully we're telling ourselves one way or the other with that that call we're not good at planning too far ahead okay thanks Doug what musician

does Tov want to meet because everybody's been musical well Kermit's kind of half and half yeah Kermit's a triple very musical yeah triple that yeah I I I will say when Doug was talking about liking a musical act, I was thinking maybe like divo or something like that. It may be very up Doug's avenue. But yeah, but don't, I expect that. Anyway, I'm sorry, Toll, you're up. Well, hello.

I'm Blaine Gibson and I play, ooh-hoo, it's me Tov. I am a male or thamatech barbarian. I still need to change that. Here we go. Another week, another meaning to change my character sheep. Type it in now. Pull it up and type it in. No, no, no.

I'll do it. I'll do it later. I'm a level six. male Thametech barbarian and I have a bit of a cheaty answer. Oh. I guess if I wanted to do musicians it would be Bjork, obviously.

But no, I actually have, oh, Abba, so good, so fine, yeah. But no, I have an actor. Actually, a family of actors. This again is a bit of a cheaty answer because I love the Scarsguards.

Oh, they're wonderful, the Stalin and the Alexandre the Alexander and the Bill. Oh, I love Bill. He's Pennywise. Even Gustav and Stefan, the lesser-known Scars Guards. But they're just so great.

And, uh, wow, they really are just a family of Vikings going out and pillaging Hollywood and starring in every film genre and franchise you can imagine. I just rewatch Nasferatu. And yeah, Scarsguard gets, he's lost in that character. It's fantastic. Yeah. No, they're such good actors. And I think that's something I channeled with when I was lying to you about being an

orc. I was like, what would a Scarsguard do to lie to their friends and they, oh, method acting. So that's why I ate food and then would spit it out whenever you guys weren't looking and things like that. Yeah. Yeah. Generally, if you see a Scarsguard in a film, you know you're in for a good ride. You're like, if Scarsguard shows up, you're like, ooh, yeah, we're in for something good.

Yeah. And Alexander, oh, he's so hripped. And have you, have you seen the Tarzan movie? It's actually very, I mean, you'd think Northman would be my favorite. But Legend of Tarzan, so good, so good. Margo Roby. I thought you would have wanted to meet Brent Spiner.

I don't know who that is. Data. Oh, Star Trek, huh? That's cool. What about that guy from bicentennial man? The guy who's the actual bicentennial man. Oh, robots, people. Yeah, no, I just, I just can't get

enough of those scars guards or Haley Joel Osmet. Mm. Oh, also a good one. I want to meet flubber. Oh. Another green. Yeah. Maybe I could make my own flubble for you, Gantle.

That would be so neat. It would help me jump. Oh, it looks like, it looks like Gigi already made a bunch of flubber like substance over there. All right. Everyone roll a D20. Lowest roll has to clean up Gigi's flubber. I literally pulled up my ties to roll it right out since you said that. The fun thing is you don't know which Andy came out of

M. Yum! Fun! All right, let's get everything set up and get these races underway. Natty does change Natty's attire through her morphing abilities into a very fancy racing, like, dress, and a big old white hat.

Oh, nice. Very appropriate. All right, you all lead your Verma stangs out to the starting line. There's little stalls with the gate in front of it, and Iris is watching up. from the side and with a flurry of magical explosions go off. On your mark, get set. The gates open and from the top of the practice.

All of you hear a loud, blood-curdling scream. And with that, at the same time, a fifth unknown Vermeusank takes off from the starting place and starts the race. We're going to do this kind of a way that we've done before. We're going to have a skill challenge. And I'm going to describe obstacles. that are in your way, then each you's going to tell me how you're going to try to get around it.

And we're going to have a little bit of fun with this. We're going to see who wins and wins their money back, I guess, from the betting with Iris. Should we go over who's on who? Yes, why don't you all tell me which Vermistang you are riding? I'm on, I believe, popping fresh. That sounds right. And I'm on the vinner. Terry, everyone's favorite.

I'm on precious little on hill. And I'm on the fourth one. I didn't write it down. Help me. You are on Wester. Wester. Yes. Isn't Gigi writing it for me?

Giggy's writing it for me. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Gicky was on it. Okay, so we're going to do this. We're going to have three rounds of racing, and we'll see who comes up first. So every round, each is going to make a skill check, and you cannot reuse a skill check twice. And the DC of the skill check depends on the risk involved, but I'll announce it before the roll.

There's no magic, and you're playing against the other riders. So you're playing against each other and this mystery rider, who has. shot out of the gate. Racer X. Racer X, yes. Oh, Speed Racer. Your goal is to have three successes before two failures. Okay.

So why don't we, everyone, go ahead, and roll an initiative for me, so we'll determine the order everyone's going to go in. Ooh, 23. 18. 24. All right, so we got Gunther with a 24, 12 with a 23, Natty with an 18, and Barbara with a 9. Oh, and I got to do Racer X. Barbara, the fourth character in this campaign.

Yay! That's funny. I wrote down, I read as I typed it out, and I wrote Barbara instead of Doug. We are one and the same. It's because I'm such a good character player, player only. Player only. I'm going to make a sure it says player only. Okay, Gunther, we're going to start with you.

Gidey up, little wormy. We're Mustang. Oh, that's good. Gunther, you take off with a shop and you're going down the straightaway, and as you do, a nearby cliff begins disintegrating and a rock slide begins coming down the track in front of you. Don't get knocked over. What do you want to do?

What are the capabilities? Like, how does the worm thing move? Does it move like a horse? It's got like jagger. Legs. Yeah, that like a horse, but they don't end in hooves. Okay. Could I try and make the horse jump, like jump over it?

Yeah. And since you asked, I'll reread the description of Irmistan to you, since we haven't done that in this episode. It's a worm horse that's horse shaped with no hooves and worm skin. And it's got a colored mane of hair. And yeah, it gallops pretty quickly through the sandy ground. All right. So yeah, you want to try to make a jump?

Yeah. Hell, you must use your wings to fly. That came out more Gandalfi than Gunther, but whatever. All right. It's angel. What kind of check do you want to make? I guess, like, would that be acrobatics? Yeah, make an acrobatics check.

We'll call it. So you're just trying to make a jump. We'll call it a DC-15. Acrobatics check I passed with a 21 ooh that was a height that's a high I was nervous 15 is kind of high 15's pretty middle of the road you have a plus eight on that you whisper into uh el an hell's ears to fly you fool and it takes to the air gracefully jumping over the skittering rocks and boulders that come onto the track right in front of you next up is Toll, writing Terry.

Yoo-hoo, and Yehah! Let's go, Terry! You begin catching up to RacerX, and as you do so, but... I'm glad you used my joke. I like it. It made me laugh. I wrote on the initiative order, Racer X. You begin catching up to RacerX, and right as you pull alongside, Racer X's Verma-Stang, lashes its head out, and tries to headbut, Terry. How are you going to try to evade it? What are you going to try to do? Well, first and foremost, I'm going to make a mental note to talk to I.

about the safety of this race course because I'm seriously questioning it. And then I think I'm going to try to, you know, scare them back. You know, maybe intimidate them with Terry, make them second guess fighting Terry and Tov, the dynamic duo. Okay, so you're going to absorb the headbutt and then try to scare them back? I'm going to try to challenge the headbutt with a headbutt of my own. Some like a counterattack. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. How do you want to do that? What kind of check you want to make for that? Whatever a parry mixed with some sort of check to, I don't know, like diverting their momentum to make them attack themselves in some sort of way. I don't know. I don't think there's a judo check. Okay.

All right. How about we do slide of hand? You're like trying to like get around them and redirect it? Yeah, sure. Slight of head. Yeah, slide of hand. We'll also call this one a DC-15 slider head check. Okay, here we go.

That's A-6. Is inspiration dyes allowed? Yeah, you can do an inspiration die. Thank God, Terry, you could have goofed that up so bad. Good thing this next rule is going to be a victory. 14. Just ever so shy. So I think Terry's trying to gauge how to avoid and, you know, redirect this headbutt.

And we'll say Terry manages to avoid the headbutt. But when you go out to, you know, kind of redirect and give the energy back to them, you kind of stumble a little bit. And Terry, instead of continuing down the track, begins going perpendicular to the track and veers off to the side. Oh, no. You begin falling behind a little bit here. Oh, no, I'm tangled up with Racer X and now we're kissing. Oh, no. So Gunther Pass, Toll, you kind of stumble a little bit.

You avoid the headbutt so you don't take any damage or anything, but you do end up falling behind a little bit because of the kerfuffle. Okay. Because I'm right, I'm right where I want to be. One mistake away from failing? No, I have a plan. I have a brilliant plan. I have concepts of a plan. All right.

Next up, we've got Maddie. Nope. Good. What'd you rule? I'm not in the race. Oh, Gigi. Doug. A lot of people get Doug and Gigi mixed up.

Yeah. We are very similar. Gicky riding Western. As Gigi is riding Wester, going down the track, a flock of birds that was circling overhead begins getting lower and lower. And suddenly, you see a murderer of murderous crows begin pursuing Gigi trying to peck at his eyeballs. Well, the early bird gets the worm. Because we're riding worms.

Thank you, Nigel Thornberry. What does Gigi want to do? Gigi would bear his teeth at them and be growling at them. them to like show his alpha dominance like a like a little kitten trying to like puff up yeah if the kitten was a team it was a demon from hell why don't you um make an intimidation check on that and we'll also call this one a DC 15 in my head now for the first time giggy is like a stitch or Lilo is it which one is it stitch okay 15 with no modifier nice plus zero on on a intimidation check.

The murder of murderous crows descends and begins trying to die for Gigi's delicious, juicy eyeballs. The Gigi buries his teeth and the murderous clothes think better of their plan and begin climbing away and continue to circle the track from above. Next step, we have Racer X. As Racer X rounds the bend, Gigi comes across a dead animal that's slayed across the track and must try to jump over it. Fail, fail, fail, fail. Racer X makes the jump, and you can see as he clears it, his Verma-Stank tries to kick it back at the racer behind them, but his kick to kick up the dead animal in your faces fails

and does not manage to actually kick it up. Also, this isn't a sponsored thing for a 17-year-old movie, but the Wachowski Speed Racer, really good. It's incredibly good. It's really good. You should watch it. A lot of people slept on it. I've never seen it. I'm one of those people. It's incredible.

It's maybe one of the best anime adaptations in a live-action format. Hard agree. I don't know. It's ghost in the shelf for me. All right, Doug, you're up. You would be pulling up to Racer X and his Verma-Stang once again rears his head around and tries to headbutt your Verma-Mistan. What do you want to do? Could I maybe, while this is happening, see if there's, like, a better kind of angle or pass that, like, mathematically that my Verma-Stang could take to avoid this?

Yeah, it's geometry, right? Yeah, my dear Watson. Yeah, how do you want to do that, like investigation, or do you have a specific role in mind you want to make for that? Like perception? Yeah, you should really do a perception check to try to figure that out. Since this is kind of in Doug's wheelhouse, we're going to make this a DC10 perception check. Okay. 11.

Good thing it was. You see Racer X's for a Mustang rear its head, and you kind of expected this might be coming after seeing what happened with Tov, so you make a break for the inner lane to try to pull away, and the head butt clearly misses you and pop in fresh. Uh-huh. Miss me. Now you got to kiss me. Wait a minute. That's two out of the four of us have made a joke about kissing the racer X. We all want to kiss Racer X. So hot. Why don't all of you make perception checks since we're talking about RacerX? Okay. Okay.

Ooh, that's a 19. 18. 14. Is this Nattie or Gigi? I'll let you choose. It don't matter. Natty could be watching. I've rolled up seven at back. I'll say everyone except for giggy slash Natty kind of gets a look at RacerX.

You see that RacerX has bristly hair and looks vaguely familiar, maybe a little on the plump side. And is a human. Okay. Okay, we're back up to the top, Gunther. Who have we met that's on the plump side? That's a human. Colonel Bojee? I wish.

I love that guy. You like the person that wasn't, yeah. Yeah. Gunther, you know, you see Doug take that angle and move to the inside. You're distracted for just a second. And when you look forward ahead onto the track in front of you, Gunther, you turn around and you see a large cactus in the middle of the track. Oh, no, what are you going to do?

Oh, no. Well, Gunther would use his survival skills to avoid natural hazards. Okay, yeah. Make me a survival check, we'll say. This cactus is so big, you're going to really have to kind of. to try to find your way to make a a DC 20 check on this one DC 20 yeah give me one of those 11s gus what 11 guys or whatever duck hat okay uh I'm rolling don't worry don't worry you can make it through the wilderness somehow you'll make it through wait what was it 20 you

wanted a 20 yeah I rolled at 18 mm close that's pretty good Gus is playing favorites again And Barbara always gets with Gus's mad favor. Because he picked one of his modifiers that's high. And so then Gus met that with a higher check he needs to make. It's not even that high. It's a plus four. But watch this. I'm going to choose religion.

He's going to be like, 30 savings throw. All right. Can I, can I use, I guess I'll use my inspiration die. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, go waste that inspiration. I like Gus's response. Well, I want to try. Yeah, go for it. Yeah. 21. Oh, ha!

Eat Chris's butt, Gus. Nom, num, num, num, num, no. No, no, stop it. Yeah, you see this huge cactus, and at the last second, you drift your Verma-Mastang around it and narrowly avoid hitting the giant spines and getting them in your leg and your Verma-Stank side.

Close call, Gunther. Thank you. So that's two successes for Gunther. We're moving on to Toll. You-hoo. What kind of treachery do you? I find from that dreaded racer axe. I hope it's not more kisses.

Oh, no. A nearby body of water, it looks kind of like a stream. I think I described it in the previous episode. It begins rising and flooding and running over into the track. And now there's rising water on the section of track that you are on, Toll. What are you going to do? I'm going to pick up such speed.

I'll be like a skipping stone gliding over the water. bracefully with Terry. Ooh, I like it. What kind of role do you envision that being? I've got an idea, but I want to hear what yours is. You're probably going to say athletics, which is my highest modifier, so you're going to make it as something impossible.

But I think that that's the most appropriate one, athletics, right? Or is it acrobatics? I was thinking acrobatics, but since you said, like, gliding and skipping and not like brute forcing through it, but it's whichever you want. Chris, pick one.

Acrobatics or athletics. I thought act. Don't think, say. Acrobatics. Acrobatics, all right. Why'd you put it on me? I don't know. You're just standing there. Yes, and.

Yeah. I was like, oh, shoot. I have to make a decision. Why don't we make this also a DC20 check? Brutal. Okay, here we go. Oh, you know I failed. That's a six.

Oh, yeah. Okay, you try to power your way and kind of glide across the top of the water, but Kerry doesn't quite have enough speed, and you end up getting bogged down in the water and the mud. and slowly Terry begins sinking deeper and deeper into the mud. Betray you! Immediately, immediately the swamp of despair. Everyone in a certain age range becomes very upset when you hear something described like that.

Until eventually, yeah, Terry is chest deep in mud and unable to move. And Tov, the race is over for you. Oh, do you know what that means? I've got to put Terry down. I bring out my boarhammer. Sorry, Terry. You had a good run. Close your eyes.

Look away and think about rabbits. Don't do that. Canonically, I will not kill the swamp, the horse thing. We're going to go hofer on this guy. No. All right, that brings us to. Giggy. Huffer's alive.

Shrodinger's goat. Stupid huffer. Gigi is racing probably, I would imagine he's looking up at the crows and like shaking his little fist and muttering curses at them under his breath when he suddenly rides into a giant dust devil that has wandered its way onto the track. It's obscuring his vision. Where's the track? Where is he? What does he do? Hmm. He would probably just be like, okay, if the Vermistang just goes really fast, as fast as possible in some direction, he'll get through it. It worked out for toll if it'll work out for Giggy.

I just can't think of anything else that like if he was in like, if he, if he's a toddler, who is stuck in a space he doesn't want to be in and so he's just going to want to muscle his way through that space. Again, I'm going to make a reference to a cat. Like if you get like a cat with a plastic bag attached to it and then the cat just has to get away from that plastic bag but has no like idea of like how not to hurt itself while it does it.

Okay. What kind of check do you envision that being? I have an idea for one, but what do you think? I feel like he would bear down on the Vermistang like gripping it really tight. and just like really trying to like push it forward. So I would say either something strength-based or he could be trying to persuade the Vermistang

to go as fast as possible through like, I don't know, intimidation or persuasion. So I'm going to let the DM make the choice. Those are all good. You did intimidation last time so we cannot reuse that. So let's go with something strength this time. Sure.

Now keep in mind, Gigi's life depends on this role. If he fails, he dies. Good luck. You can make an athletics check, I think. It would be good. That's a strength-based one. Go ahead and make that check. And we'll call this one, this is also kind of hard.

So I'm going to give you the option here. I can give you a lower DC, but then you have to make a separate roll to see if you pick the right direction or a higher DC. And you don't have to pick the direction. You don't have to make the role to pick the direction. That's fun. Let's do lower roll and luck into a good direction. Okay. So just make a, we'll call this a DC-10 check to see if you can go for.

fast and then we'll roll for the direction. Yeah, you got 16, but his modifier is negative three. So 13. Yeah. That's why I went low check because I'm like, he's got a negative modifier on strength. He's small. He's small. Yeah, he kind of bears down and gets the Verma's tank to pick up speed incredibly fast.

Now, so what we do is I'm going to have you roll a D6. One and two, you veer off to the left. Three and four, you go straight correctly. Five and six, you veer off to the right. Go left. Who said that? It's like a ghost Like the face of

Kiborg like partially dissolved Over Gigi's shoulder just appears And says, go left You can do it, bro And Gigi bites at it No, ow He rolled six So he goes

To the side Right, yeah So it makes you fall behind a little bit But you're still in the race You haven't totally fallen off the trail So is that a failure? No, no, no, you're still in it You're just falling behind a little bit

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Then as he is accelerating, the sand beneath the feet of the Vermostang begins sinking in and collapsing into a sinkhole. And he must try to power his way out. He is going to make a athletic trick for this one. And this is pretty difficult. It's going to be a DC20. But don't say I don't challenge him to. And he rolled five. That is a failure.

So, Gracer X begins sinking, kind of like, you know, in old cartoons when someone steps in quicksand and they begin, like, sinking into it and they can't move. It's kind of like that. It begins slowly sinking into the sand, significantly slowing him down and letting everyone catch up and or pass him.

Which brings us to Doug. Hello. Doug, you are writing pop and fresh, not pooping fresh, as I wrote down here. Let me correct that. Yeah, that's why you call him when he goes to the bathroom. As you were racing along, a giant sack is tossed onto the racetrack in front of you. Independent of everything else, make me a perception check.

20. Ooh, that's a really good roll. As the sack hits the ground in front of you, it opens up and you see 22 pieces of gold spill out of it onto the track right in front of you. Deal or no deal? No, wait, hold on. What did I bet on this race? I think I bet like one gold Yeah

You know what I'm gonna overcome My greed in this moment And keep on racing No deal According to the calculator This is 22 times The earnings you could get from your bet

I'm gonna I'll leave it there for Giggy to pick up for Natty I think she's in need of some Yeah see the problem Is Doug has a gambling problem And so they Even though it's an easy win Doug has to

That's to play the odd. He has to win the bet. His pride now is a mistake. Okay. So, yeah, you look down and contemplate the deal or no deal for a moment. And then when you look back up, you have to very quickly pull yourself back onto the track and find the best angle once again to get ahead. What kind of check do you want to make for that? I mean, would it be another perception check if I'm like essentially doing the same thing with figuring out the angle?

Yeah, but we can't use the same check again. So you've got to think of like a different way to do it. Well, from the previous time I did it and I did it well, what if I use my history of that moment and do a history check? Sure. You've learned about the local landscape and you're applying that knowledge practically now. Why don't you make me a, we'll call this one a DC20 history check. Oh, dear. Gustavo, that was a natural 20 with a seven modifier for 27. Go, Doug racer, go!

I know this. Yeah. I know this. Once again, works out the best angle using his history of mathematics and knowledge of the local landscape. It's history of mathematics. My mathematics of history. Pull, pop and fresh back on track onto the best line. Which brings us back around to Gunther.

Giddyup. You are looking at the track and in front of you is strewn out rotten fruit. It looks like someone maybe just dumped trash all over the track in front of you. It's covering the whole track and it's super deep. Let's say it's like a 10-foot patch in front of you. What are you going to do? Okay. You have done acrobatics and survival so far.

Yeah. Stealth. Can I do like a dexterity check to try and like weave through it? Yeah, but it has to be a skill. Gotcha. Okay. You could pick a dexterity-based skill. Okay.

What about this? Gunther will lean down and try and push all the stuff out of the way as it's, as the worms running. Looney tunes. It's like curling. Well, this whole thing has been like, And of Barbarra's wacky racers. So this is, this is on track. I guess that would be slight a hand is what I would propose for that.

I like it. It's a very creative solution. But it sounds like it would be incredibly difficult. So once again, why don't you make me a DC20 slight a hand check? Getting me all the hard ones. Listen, when you're in the front of Mario Kart, you don't get blue shells. 13. You don't have an inspiration.

I think you used it already. I used it on my last 20 check. All right, yeah, you lean over and begin swatting away at the, dead fruit. But as you're doing so, El-on-Hel's legs begin hitting your hands at the same time. It just ends up creating a huge mess and your hands get really dirty. Oh no. Dinky rod and fruit. So it does cause you to slow down just a little bit. All right, we're back at Toll. What are you doing, Toll? You're out of the race at this point. You have a horse that's a never-ending

storying over here. Yeah. Go get the money. You know, I'm glad that you came back to me. No, I won't cheat. That's not the Toll's way. Instead, I will be comforting Terry by singing him the classic Abba song. The winner takes it all. Yeah. You want to give us a taste? The winner takes it all. The loser has to fall.

It's simple and it's plain. Why should I complain? But tell me does she kiss. And then go for that high note. Like I used to kiss you. We're getting into racer axe territory now. It isn't easy being green. Why don't you give yourself an inspiration diet if you don't have one, 12?

Oh. Wow. Hey, I'm going to add singing to my list of things to do to get inspiration die out of you. You have a list of things to do? Yeah, jokes is crossed out. Those died long ago. Good jokes. Yeah, good jokes.

That's the key. All right, Tov is beautifully serenating Terry as Terry is slowly drowning and dying. No, he's, we saved him. We saved Terry. Can I make a role to save Terry? I didn't realize he was dying. What he's sinking? You can make like a strength check or something to try to pull him out.

Yeah, I want to lift this thing out. Seven. I'm going to use my inspiration die. 30, 20. Sorry. Yeah, you managed to start pulling Terry back out, and he's no longer sinking and is slowly making his way out of the muck. Don't give up, Terry.

We have so many more racists to VIN. FYI, I was totally going to kill Terry. Oh, no. Okay, so that takes us to Gigi. Gigi comes across that same sack of gold that was tossed out at Doug earlier. So he sees the shiny gold on the track. I feel like that would at least motivate a giggy check to see if he maintains concentration in the race

or if he goes for the shinies. Is that a typical giggy 10 or 11 or higher? Yeah. That's a five. I would think that that means giggy stops the race and begins getting on the ground and grabbing all the gold and stuffing it in his mouth. Could I try something as mama and try to convince him not to?

What do you have in mind? Like can I just yell from the stands like with all the boisterous volume that Natty can muster to tell Giggy no. I'll tell you what, is there something that you have been, that a lesson he's been trying to learn that could maybe be applied here? Oh, yeah. I think like focus, you know, like any, any toddler that is not something that is in their wheelhouse by default, in fact, the opposite.

And so we've been trying to work on focus, because I'm, I'm going to need him focus eventually on his main goal and not get distracted by monies. Shini's. Or shiny things or candy or biting stuff or pooping in places you should or stealing stuff or saying bad words to people that he shouldn't be saying. How do your parents do it?

Spoiler, we do it poorly. What do we get a taste of Natty's adult parent voice here and how she will try to convince Giggie? Mr. Gigglesworth, the harbinger of the Great End, immortal keeper of the souls, blood harvester of darkness, and generally just a good boy, wonder. You stop it. You stop it right now. I'm kidding flashbacks of my mom doing this to me.

That's very well done, John. It's like when you hear your middle name, you're like, uh-oh. Yeah. All right. Why don't we treat this as a life lesson with Giggy? And why don't we throw a wisdom check in here and see if this is like a permanent lesson that Giggy's going to learn or not? Oh, that's fun. Good.

Actually, I was thinking about that we haven't done one. of those in a bit. Yeah. So give us a wisdom check. Let's see how it goes. Will this trauma sit with him for the next 15 years? Find out. Is this easy, medium, or hard?

That's DC 10, 13, or 16. Yeah, I'm going to say this is a medium one. It's not basic social skill. It's slightly more complex. It's personal skills. Yeah. You know, it's self-control. Hey, that's at 18.

All right. I'll say that at that point, like, you catch Gigi as he's stopping and, you know, like, looking down and it's beginning to reach, to grab, to put gold in his mouth, and he hears you, turns, looks, and, like, does that thing like a dog where he cocks his head, and you see, like, the light bulb go off behind his eyes. He looks around and then pulls his Verma-Stang around and continues the race. Just the point of your mom's a powerful tool. Apparently. I know all about it. Powerful incentive. So I don't think in-game, we've really dug into the life lessons with Giggy aspect. We did that one episode where everybody got to do a

life lesson. Yeah. But since Giggy passed this, check and learned focus, the additional reward Gigi gets is he gets an additional hit die to his HP. Yeah, I've been keeping track of his HP getting up, which I kind of think of like him actually growing. Oh, does he get physically bigger? Like, he learns this lesson physically gets a little bigger on the Verma Mustang. Yeah, I was thinking that like he should grow as we adventure because I think that's fun

because I think he does need to grow to something that's of an apocalypse bringer. Yeah. Although I can't remember what we figured out his hit die was. D4? Yeah, it's D4. He's going to get an extra four points of hit points. He's up to 36.

So, yeah, Gigi perceptibly gets a little bigger. He's not quite as small as he was before. He's not huge, but he put on, like, he walks up a little bit and turns around and gets his Verma stang back on track and begins resuming the race. That vermer stang is suddenly like,

it's heavier. That's one eighth bigger compared to his previous HP. So, yeah, he gets one eighth bigger. How much bigger? would you get, Blaine, if you got one-eighth bigger? Oh, let me see. That'd be... Come back to me.

Math is not my tongue. He's got to figure out what one-eighth of, like, 200 pounds is. I'd be gaining roughly 23 pounds. Whoa. That's a significant amount of weight. Yeah. That's like almost as much as David Kornspy. I've lost that amount since last summer.

It's not a small amount. So, yeah, Gigi does good. Okay, great. Gigi has learned something. And it's still in the... Race, oh, hold on, let me check here. Oh, that means that's three successes for Giggy. So what's he got to do to win at this point?

Pass an English test. I mean, he did fail the check to go get the stuff. Is that not a fail? We'll finish out the round. It's only Racer X and Doug, and then we'll determine the winner based on all of the extenuating circumstances like that. Let's go, Doug. All right, so it's Racer X's turn.

And, you know, I'll say like all this weaving by Gigi causes Gigi to get in the way of RacerX. So Racer X has to perform some evasive maneuvers to try to get around. giggy, or else either fall or collide. So I'll say, like Doug, he's going to have to find a path. He's going to try to perceive a better path to go on. Uh-oh, maybe he makes a charisma check for another kiss from Tov. Sorry, I'm just being around the presence of horse-like beings. Voluptuous horse-like beings.

That's a 19 plus 4, which is a 23, which is a success. He did fail his previous one, right? He did fail his previous one. He was stuck in sand for a little bit. So, yeah, RacerX manages to very quickly turn his Vermustang and cut the corner around Giggy and avoid collision and continue on the race. Which brings us to Doug. Doug's got two successes, right?

Doug does have two successes. I'm going to say if Doug has another success here, Doug is the winner because Giggy went slightly off course in the previous one. But if Doug fails here, then Giggy's the winner. Oh, my God. Only if you say it's a photo finish. It's going to be close. I mean, they're really neck and neck here.

Or a winner, Doug. Come on. Once again, the murderous crows make a reappearance and swoop down trying to eat Doug's delicious eyes. Doug, there's a murder of crows all around you. What do you do? Oh, man. Doug gets really small like a bug bearing, gets in the ear of his verb sting to hide from them. I don't know how small Doug can get.

I just went like full on micro with him. I know it's not a check. I don't know if I'm allowed to do it, but can I cast a shield? No, we said no magic in this. What about my steel defenders? Is he allowed to be? Or is that considered magic? Come on, Gambat.

That's not magic, but yeah, your steel defender's always out. You could try to figure out a way to use Gambot if you want. He has the ability to kind of, like, extend his head up, like in a spring-like motion. So I'm imagining he's just sitting on Doug's shoulders just springing. And so the crows are kind of being swatted away by Gambot. Yeah. Sure. What kind of check you envision Gambot using for that?

I guess animal handling? Sure. Why don't you make an animal handling check? We'll call this one. I think I said DC-15 last time when this happened to Giggy. So let's do a DC-15 again. Well, for surface-to-air missile. It's a fail to six.

Ooh. Do you have a inspiration or anything you want to use? No, even though I was so funny earlier on and I sang different songs and lyrics. I did all these things. Barbara uses guilt on Gus. Is it effective? So no, okay, got it. Okay.

Judge is checked. Oh, yes, he has to have emotions. I feel guilty. Ooh, the person from Russia, bad slow score. But could I see that Gambot is failing and then instead of this, just do it myself? Ah. Ha ha ha. No, we'll say that the...

Hell, Gambot have a talking to him and teach him how to properly. The crows begin. in picking at Gambot. At least Gambot distracted them from you, Doug. So your eyes are safe, but the crows do pick at Gambott. And you have to, like you said, spend some time trying to shoe them away. So they don't pick at my eyes, which means I'm able to continue on nice and straight. Can you guys, can you guys hear that?

Yep, that's Barbara's competitive nature coming through. Just trying to be fair. Since one of us got to be able to talk to our little companion creature, guy. You're talking to the 20, 2015 check guy here. 20, 2015. Everyone's so sour, I love it. I don't care if I win. Give it to...

I'm singing up to my horse. That's almost cool. I'm at a great time. No, genuinely, Barbara is someone that I would... If Barbara was on one of those reality shows, I would root for Barbara because I don't think anybody would want to win more than Barbara.

Go watch Survive Block Island, season one. It's true. Available for first sponsors over a show. Oh, no, no. generally super fun yeah you can see me lose terribly all right in a photo finish down to the very end giggy manages to pull ahead

and pull out the victory at the very last second on west air coming in bird the crowd goes water and what's giggy doing in the photo finish he's mooning the camera that's amazing so wait when you say photo finish who's it between Doug and giggy yeah and you say he's mooting the camera and is that a is that flubber

Nice, nice callback. Give yourself an inspiration back. There you go. My gilting work. No, for the record, no, it did not. I'm not encouraging bad habits. I'm going to teach a giggy lesson here to everyone. I don't think I was able to put any money down on this anyway, so I don't think I win.

Yeah, Gig pulls ahead and wins the race. Oh, wait, no, Tov fronted me money. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Five gold pieces. So Tov wins money. You all reconvene together at the end of the race. track. What do y'all want to do?

Could I go run back onto the track to just get some, get that gold bag? Hold that one's watching. Yeah, so you all reconvene that Doug immediately darts off back onto the track. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Natty would go up to Giggy and like raise him up over her head and like be cheering about how good he did everything like that. I want to comfort Elon Hill. How's that go?

Elon Hill, you won in my heart and I tell you what here, eat this. That evil cactus, I have called. Cut it up and now you can cut off the thorns and now you can eat it. Gunther, that's not the front end you're talking to you. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. I'll unheld you. You sneaky, sneaky. What about 12? What's 12 doing? He has sunk further and further into the quicksand with Terry. Yeah, just thumbs up as he goes down into the quicks.

I'm seeing SOS by Abba as we both sink down. No, I would have taken Terry to the stables and would have been cleaning the mud off. of Terry and giving him a pep talk. You did a good job, Terry. Don't let him get you down. Very nice, very nice. I feel like wormhorses would like the mud. Well, then I put more mud on him.

How about that? You're a super trooper. Racer X pulls up as well and dismounts from his Vermistang. I guess Doug has run off. Tov is off. So Racer X would address Gunther and Natty at this point and just kind of shake his head. Oh, I would have won if you hadn't played dirty. He did not play dirty.

Who? I, nothing played dirty except for someone who throw trash. Yeah, now who did that? I guess we'll never find out. Natty would reach out to shake his hand anyways because she's a good sport. The racer would reach out to shake Natty's hand as well

and say, I'm Sheldon. Sheldon. Sheldon. Sheldon. Hello, Sheldon. Is this your first time here at my uncle's place? Yes, Iris's nephew. Who? Iris is the person that was keeping the horses

and running the batting. Oh. They mentioned that their nephew is a racer. Oh, okay. Okay. I'm going to give Blaine my inspiration dice that I have for remembering that. There's something about them looking familiar though, but I don't know if we've ever met them or so just because they look like Iris. Sheldon bears a striking resemblance to Iris now that you put it together. Really, really looks like a younger version of Iris.

Oh, we'll say, Doug, you picked up the gold on the track. Hey, Natty, I know you came into some bad luck recently, so here you go, and Doug hands half of the gold that he found on the track. Oh, wow. 11 each then. Oh. Can I approach the group? Yeah, yeah. I think as you're approaching,

Cole, I'll let you say everything here in a second. Sheldon will say, head over to my Uncle Iris, and he'll give you your winnings. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to put Block Splitter back up. And he takes his for a Mustang, turns him around back in the direction of the stables.

Oh, okay. Do you want to see her a merger? We heard a scream. Maybe that was just like the starting bell. Yeah, that's just how they start them. They just go, oh! They start with a human sacrifice. I'm going to join the group, but as I'm passing Sheldon, I say,

Hey, Sheldon, good to see you, Basinga. He's waiting for a reference. Nice, nice. Let's go over to Iris, and then we maybe can investigate what this screen was. All right, yeah. You all head back over to Iris's booth. He says, oh, that was a good race. You did very well.

Iris, were you throwing things into the track? Be honest. No, never. That was probably the spectators. They can get so boisterous here. Can I take a vibe check on that? Yeah, make that insight check. Ten.

You believe he is not hiding anything. Can I approach Iris? Yeah. Say, Iris, we're not very familiar with this location. Is it kind of a rough and tumble place? Because we may have heard some sort of act of violence at the start of the race, and it's very concerning. Oh, I heard that too. It sounded like it came from the top of the cragitus.

I think we should go check that out. Someone might be in hurt or in danger. The Cractus is just a local attraction, right? It's a monument. Like that big castle thing. Yeah, I knew what it was to look like, but it's like it's function is it's just a, it's just a tourist place, right? Do people like live in now? Yes, it's a popular attraction.

Metta wise, he mentioned last episode that you all could ride a lift up to the top. But like, is it like the Eiffel Tower that's just to go look at it? Or is it like the London Tower where like prisoners used to be in it? Eiffel Tower. Yeah, okay. So it's just something pretty. Yes, it's beautiful. well known.

They probably built it in the middle of nowhere to just attract tourists and stuff, right? That's my, yeah. So just as a reminder, now that we're done and the way this conversation is going, I just want to remind everyone of the general landmarks in the area here. That way we're refreshed. So there's the cragtis, which is a cactus-shaped boulder that's the size of a castle. It looks like it almost has stained glass on the outside, and there are lifts to the top, which was also described to you by Iris.

There's also an aqueduct of some kind. It appears to be like a constructed channel of water flowing from the direction of Endridge Bay with a stone bridge crossing it that kind of seems to flow into the Cractus itself. And there's also the racetrack that runs around the Cractus across the aqueduct. And there's this boost that Iris is in with a sign that reads Place Betts here, No Magic, and the wooden corral of worm-looking horses. Their spectator stands just past the booth. And that's it.

Well, I feel like as team leader, since you're checking my notice. As team leader, I suggest we settle our bets and then head up to the practice to investigate what's going on. Why are we here? Why are we at Solisat? We're heading back from Indridge Bay. That's right. We're passing through. Okay.

You're heading back to Fort Ender. Which means just like we're supposed to always, we get distracted by just random stuff. That is interesting to us. Exactly. Can't avoid betting on horse races, you know. No, definitely not. How much had you bet, Natty? So, uh, Iris counts out five gold pieces and hands them over to Natty.

Here you go. Wait, all I got a bet. All I got back was what I bet. Oh, 10 gold pieces. You're right. Five and then five. Yeah. Ten gold pieces.

Congratulations, winner. Okay. I give all 10 to toll. Oh. That's just so kind of you. You know, this guy's got a pretty sweet deal because he gets, you only get 50, 50 earnings, but everyone bets. So, like, yeah, the house always wins. The house really wins.

Listen. Casinos in Vegas didn't get built because they give you money, right? When you walk into a casino in Vegas, it's not because they're giving money away, right? All that opulence, you see. I want to go to Vegas with Chris so we could pick fights with all of the pit manager dies. No way. No way. No way. Oh, Chris got his legs broken again.

Dang it. Should we hurry and go save that that person? Chris is counting cards again. One, two, three, four. I head to the crowd. practice. Yeah, let's go. I think, Nadia's a great idea. Got your money. Let's head up. As we walk away, Gigi goes up to Iris and holds out his hand like he's supposed to win too. Wait, didn't you get double if you raced? Yeah, you do get a little extra. There is a bonus for racing as well.

So there is a little bit of money set aside for Gigi here. I figure you're just going to give him like candy or something. Yeah, half the winnings go to the rider, half go to the better. So I'll give it as a bonus to Gigi. we'll give an additional two gold pieces of winnings over to Gigi as acting as the writer. And he immediately puts those in his mouth and eats him. Savings account. That's not going to come out very well. Or you invest and then it will grow. Pay off in dividends.

Oh, he made a deposit all right. Yeah, they'll pay off in flubber. Okay, you guys head over to the cactus, which, as I said, is a cactus-shaped boulder, the size of a castle. and it appears like stained glass and in one direction I think in the last episode I was pointed out to you that there were lifts that you could pay

to get up to the top. What if we don't take a lift? You want to try to free solo this? Probably very tall. Oh, I just didn't know if there's stairs, you know? No, no, no. It's a huge boulder. You'd have to rock climb up.

Make a investigation check for me, Natty. Oh, that's not going to go well. Except I rolled a Nat 20. Woo! With a modifier of plus one. So 21, Gustavo. If you had to estimate, you'd guess that the crack is probably about 100 feet high. Cool.

How many people fit in one lift? Like, is it one person per lift, or could a whole group of us fit? Three people, one bug bear. It's one person per lift seat. It's like a little seat that takes you up. You know, like a ski lift, it's kind of like on a track that goes around, but each individual little seat is just for one person. It's just those chairs attached to some elastic cords,

and you sit in and it just launches you up to the top. there's a type of ski lift that is individual person and it looks like a little tea bar and you have to like put it in between your legs and like the tea goes around like the back of your legs those which stress me out so much as a kid trying and get one of those yeah that is exactly what I had in my head I didn't know how to describe it adequately I'm glad you did Barbara because that's exactly what I was in business that's how Barbara got to school every day through the snow honestly because we we could do some some like snow sports in California where I grew up because we had the mountains out there it wasn't the getting on the ski lift that always got me it's when you get off to dismount because you're like if you're snowboarding this is because I would go snowboarding

one foot's not in the board and so you have to kind of like get off and keep going as you get off the thing and don't fall there and be where everyone else is getting off the ski lift because it just keeps moving and so more people are coming in a second that need to get off the ski lift how much is it

per person per lift it is one gold per seat. I'm pretty flush with cash. I'll pay for everybody. Dang. As you walk up, it's just like how Iris described. There is a tiny cactus

with a mouth for a coin slot and a little sign by it that says one gold piece. I'll put in, I guess, five at this point. Does Giggy need one? Or can they can children ride for free?

Giggy can sit in Natty's lap. Okay. Four gold pieces. Chaching, chaing, to ching, to ching. Actually, Gigi goes in Natty's wig.

Oh, okay. Even better. He's getting a little big for that. He may not be able to do that much. longer my neck hurts I feel like I'll last I just I'm a little embarrassed that I might not be able to get on this very gracefully

so I just don't want you guys watching Doug that's fine that's okay Doug that is a great question I was about to ask what order is everyone getting on so I'm going to write Doug last I'll go first I'll go next I'll go third with kind of a loose handout in case Doug

needs it you know to support them well also respectfully not watching because they asked I had a friend that He was a very large football player in, like, high school. And we went to 6'5s Magic Mountain, and there were a couple rides at the overbar things. He was too tall and big for it. Like they couldn't click, so he couldn't ride the ride.

Incidentally, unrelated to anything else, I typed everyone's names in on my computer to keep track of the order. Everyone's going in. Gunther is the only name it auto-capitalized. Is it because it's the only, like, name? Yeah, it doesn't recognize everybody else's. Maybe. Yeah.

Yeah. Because Doug is not a typically a name. Tov is not a typical, like, English name. And Natty's not a word. Natty's a way of describing whether a person's on steroids or not. That's what I'm saying. That's the only thing I can think of with. Wait, really?

Yeah, yeah. It's, are you Natty? Do you do a natural? I didn't know that either. Yeah, I'm not. I'm Natty. What? What?

What if, what if Gus was taking steroid? What if this was the result of steroids? No, it's all nice. And we just don't know because we just see him on a webcast. Yeah. I always remember Gus had abs. Every time I saw him, he had abs. It's like a, yeah, it's a, no.

Okay. It's not anymore. Not anymore. Natty, you are up, 12, you know, pays the one goal for you. And the lift comes around with the seat. Go ahead and make me a strength check to see if you're able to successfully get on the lift. Uh-oh. Doug's nightmare.

12. What is my strength modifier? Plus one. 13. Yeah, you go to. hop on to the lift. You grab onto the bar, but you can't quite manage it. And you slip off, and the lift continues going without you.

Uh-oh. Does that count? Could, like, Gaggy, reach out his little hand and grab onto it and just drag you up. Actually, what if? No, no, my. Oh, I can fly a little bit. You can? Yeah, that was an update from the last time they all love.

Like a little bit. An update. Like, yeah. We got a new Natty DLC. Yeah. The new Natty patch. elemental gift as a bonus action

three times per long rest you can give yourself a flying speed of 30 feet that lasts for 10 minutes can Natty fly to the thing and try again? So here's the thing I'm thinking you didn't go in a direction

I was expecting Natty could also just fly to the top you said 100 feet was how tall it was right but I want to ride the ride yeah the flying speed's 30 feet for 10 minutes so Natty would just have to spend

18 seconds you know how you're walking speed determines in battle how far you can go it's not how far tall can walk and until he can't walk anymore. Tov only got 30 feet out of Enderjord, Endrich.

So you want to try to get back on the left? Okay, so let me describe the way it works. It's kind of like how Barbara said how it's a T. When you pay the gold, the T opens up. And then once you're not on it, it goes if the seat folds back up into just a bar. So in order to try to get another shot, you have to pay another gold for it to open up

and accept another butt. I'll fly up. Okay. Tov already was very generous in paying it. and Natty's low on fun so I'll just fly up but I'll fly up like right in front of us it looks like I'm using it

Yeah I was what I was saying Like where everyone thinks you're using it Yeah yeah yeah But I'm just like hovering in front of it Why do I imagine when Natty flies though It's just a T pose She just like It's like dragging an asset in Photoshop

You know Like a Magneto and Days of Future Pass When he just lifts himself up Yeah but instead of a cape It's just her wig Yeah, I was just like, yeah. All right, Gunther, it's your turn to try to get on. Make me a strength check.

Nat 20 for 19. All right. Nat 20 for a 20. 19. You grab onto the lift and manage to plant your butt firmly in it. And the lift takes you up. It's slowly taking you up to the top of practice. The next up is Tollv. Why don't you make me that strength check toll?

You bet. Also, they're not very compliant with the, accessibility laws, I'm pretty sure, but, you know, that's an adventure for another time. No, I'm not, not compliant at all. They need, uh, they need some help with that. 12. All right. Oh, you try to grab on, but your hands, maybe your hands sweaty or something. I don't know. You just get, you can't get a good grip on it and, uh, slide right off of the lift. All right. I will take another gold and I will pay again. All right. Yeah, the put another gold in the cactus and the next chair opens up into a tea and you can try again to sit on it.

Make another string check. Hey, Doug, watch this. This. Wow. Somehow, that's even worse than before. Just would you roll? It's me in the face. He rolled a 10.

10. Roll to 10. And you, once again, slide off, narrowly avoiding the seat hitting you in the head. All right. Third time's a charm. Here we go. One more gold piece for the house. 13.

These places are tourist trap. Toll, maybe, you know, you keep trying to show off for Doug or show him how it's done. Maybe you need to focus on yourself, because once again, you fail to really get a good seat and fall off of the lift. Hey, another gold piece. What's your strength modifier? Aren't you a barbarian? Plus three, if I rage, maybe I can do it. You would rage at this point.

Yeah, yeah, after three failures. 14. This is really infuriating, 12. Once again, you try to grab on and you, you slide off. This time, the bar does kind of bop you on the head a little bit. One more gold piece. rolling it again fifth times a chart

12 I'm just getting I already know the answer skipping this one the vibes off rolling again 14 another one this is the one here we go

come on dude five no seven oh my god you're rolling it again I like to imagine Doug is just here waiting as told is just

coin coin coin just falling coin falling in the head. Yeah, over and over, just smack, smacks. Gus, I rolled in that 20. Eighth time is the charm. It takes eight gold, but Toll finally does it. Doug, this really boosts your confidence.

No matter what happens to you, you cannot look nearly as foolish as Toll just. That's fine, too. Especially with no one behind me watching. Right. So, yeah, Toll, you finally get the hang of it after eight tries, and you managed to hold on to the lift, and it takes you up. Doug, this really does inspire you. So why don't you make me a strength check?

with advantage. Oh, wait, how is this going to work? Tov, since you went up, did you leave a gold for Doug? I have plenty of gold. Yeah. I was just trying to be nice by paying for everyone's entrance, not knowing he was going to take me eight tries. Okay.

Can you take me higher? All right, Doug, go ahead and make a strength check to see if you, with advantage since you've seen how not to do it. Okay, that was the first one was a four. And the next one, next one was an 11. Oh no. Even with that guidance, yeah, you're not able to quite do it. Maybe like your fur kind of slips off of the handle and you're not able to get a good grip on it. I'm trying to see if I have anything that could help me in this situation. That would give me some type of advantage. That's a very, a very dug approach, analyzing the situation, seeing what's available.

He just finds an off switch near the thing to just like stop the ride and then get on and turn it back on again. Yeah. I'm like, can I cast warning bond on this thing? Okay, I'll just, I'll just try again. There was one gold. Oh, 17. Oh, okay, yeah. On the second try is the charm for you. You're able to successfully grab on and write the lift with all of your friends. I can't imagine that the checks for actually climbing this could have been harder than getting into the chairs.

Listen, I feel like that it's accurate for how hard these things are actually are to get on. I know, we just had that conversation about it. I like that before we did it. You set the stage for this, Barbara, and how difficult this could be. I really put it in everyone's in mind. Yeah, it's very stressful. You all take the slow, leisurely ride on the lifts once you're on up to the top of the crack. With Amex Platinum, access to exclusive Amex pre-sale tickets can score you a spot trackside.

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Don't worry. I won't make you make a check for that. It's a DC20 check. Otherwise, you go all the way back down. Yeah, I'm riding it. I sleep on it. No, no, no, no. We're not doing that.

We're not doing that. You dismount on the top of the practice. Like I said, about a hundred feet higher than you were before, and you look around and you can see miles in every direction. It's a really beautiful view. Up on top of the cractus, along with you, you see a goat that appears to be asleep. Oofar? Oh, Barney? Sorry. You heard goat, and he turned immediately into Barney.

Hovner's, he's been here the whole time. Before we wake this goat, do I see any signs of like broken glass or anything that may have had to have done with what we heard at the start of the race. I'll tell you, this is going to be weird, but I want you, first of all, to make me a perception check. Okay. The goat could have been the screen. Or it could have bucked someone off of the top of the thing.

18 on perception. Okay, now make me a nature check. Ooh, I am fun with nature. That is a pin. Yeah, you look around trying to find what could possibly have been the source of the scream, and you consider the goat for a second. And, you know, it looks pretty patchy. It must be tired if it's asleep.

It hasn't heard you all. And it seems almost like it's surrounded by a flickering aura of dark light. And it kind of draws your attention. And as you look at the goat more, you think maybe the scream you heard was a goat screaming. So we didn't see anything related to the scream. It was just we heard the audible scream from the top of the tower. The cragastus, yes. The cractus part.

It's got a dark aura. An aura of dark light. Hmm. The haunted goat? Could Nadi, like, investigate or, or check on that dark light aura as a spillcaster to see if, like, is the magic that she's familiar with or if, like, any bad vibes are getting from it? Yeah, you want to make, like, an Arcana check? Yeah. Plus one to Arcana with a natural one.

That's two, Gus. Maybe someone can install black lights here. Yeah, I don't know. Well, everybody, it seems safe to me. Go ahead and approach it. I check my shield. Does my shield do anything strange? No, it seems not reacting at all.

Which number sibling is this? I told you, you know, we could have just, I could have seen, shut up. I was just curious. I mean, they bitchies robots as people, but maybe like, sibling number five was made to go. Yeah, maybe I'm like a beast wars guy. You know, I can transform into like a cool, yeah, gorilla man. So we don't really know much about this creature? Just seems like a patchy goat that is asleep.

Get in there, Doug. You got some investigative powers. I tried to read thoughts. So you could have this goat's thinking about anything? Yeah. Of all the things that I thought you were going to do, that was none of the list of them. I like to keep you on your toes, baby. I love it.

I love it. What's this goat thinking? 12 of them. How does that work exactly? Can you read to me what it says for the rethoughts? Absolutely. I target one creature I could see within 30 feet of myself. And you detect with the sense thought option, you learn what is most on the target's mind right now.

If the target doesn't know any languages and isn't telepathic, I learn nothing. Okay. Yeah, you concentrate on the goat and use your mind reading powers. And you sense frustration and unhappiness. You see from the goat's perspective people yelling at it and taking it and leaving it here on top of practice. Oh, I don't like that at all. I feel like this goat has not been treated good

Oh no Has it been bullied? I think it has been bullied Maybe we should go talk to him And maybe take them under our wing Or something like that Or at least help him back down Yeah, we don't want to bully the billy goat

Oh I see what you do Nice head up Just wondering what is that Stupid grin you were wearing I have no idea Bully the Billy It's like why are you smiling while you say that Can we approach the goody?

Absolutely I think he's safe to approach Just be kind to him. Hello, little Billy goat. The goat's eyes blink. Then it looks startled for a second as it sees you and stands up. And it asks, Who are you?

Oh. I am Gunther and these are my friends. Dog, Dove. Nelly. It looks around regards to all of you and says, Were you sent by the bedrock? No. We're nice to goats.

I don't want to bully you. What's the bedrock? I was sent here as a sacrifice to the bedrock. Oh, you're doing a great job of a goat voice, Gus. I hope we don't recast that because I think Gus is doing a great job with this voice. I'm impressed. I'm always impressed. You are a man of many talents.

It was not my fault, but they blame me for everything. Like what? What do they blame you for? And who's they? Failed crops. I was sent here as punishment. I carry the sins of all. You're a whipping goat?

Some would say a scapegoat. Nanny, that's Nanny laughing. Not John, just Nath. That happens every time I introduce myself. So what are they sacrificing you, too? Is there like some sort of monster or dragon or a deity that you're supposed to be appeasing? Yes, the bedrock. What's the bedrock?

What's the bedrock? What's the bedrock? What is it? What is that? She is a God. And what happens if there is no sacrifice from you? Um, I don't know. Hopefully nothing.

That's what I think. Is that why you got bad, like, you got bad aura around you, like a dark aura? Is that like all the sins or something? Yeah, everyone in the community puts their sins on me and casts me out to sacrifice me and purge their sins. Oh, God. This is Jesus goat. Oh, no. You know what?

I don't think that... And a cactus is like a cross a little bit. Oh my God. Micah, what are you doing here, Micah? I approach... Some people would say Jesus is the goat, you know? Take an inspiration to I. This isn't me doing any religious commentary,

but this is me comforting the goat and saying, I don't think that you should be the one to blame for some people's misconduct. fortunes, so I for one think that you should not be sacrificed. You seem like a decent being, and you should have a second chance. You shouldn't be shouldering the blame

of a bunch of other people. Thank you, but maybe I did it. What did you do? Oh, my God, did you do it? No, no. I'm just, you don't know me, that's all. Maybe maybe I did. Can I do a vibe check? Yeah, make an inside

check. Go, it's weird. 16. You think that this is a complicated goat, you think that maybe the sins that have been placed on it are affecting it. You know, this dark aura. Oh, it's like, it's like he's holding a ring that he's got to take to

a mountain to get rid of. Can we put the sins onto something else? Like this hat? And Gunther holds up his eelskin hat. I forgot about that. Has Gunther been wearing that this whole time? No, but he's had it. He sometimes puts it on. In moments of privacy

when he wants to feel special. No, I cannot transfer them. It has all been put on me. This is my life. It's those mages down there who put me up here. They're over there by the aqueduct, and he kind of motions with his head down towards the base of the cragastus, which in the direction of that aqueduct you saw before you came up.

Maybe we should go talk to the mages and release this poor goat. You come at us. What's your name? Escape, go. Escape, go. No, not like. Escape, go. Good. Cool.

Eh, close enough. No, I cannot ride on the lift. Neither can we. Why don't you go talk to the sorcerists and see if you can convince them to take me down? I agree with that. Do I have like the context that maybe, are these related to like, what was it, was it Mother Abbey? Who was the, who was the Mage lady? Campaign 1, I think.

No, no, yeah, you're right, you're right. That was, that was, oh, God, we met them. They were like the priest. Yeah, they were at the, they came with. Chess, Princess Chess, yeah. Do you think of the... Oh, yeah. Thank you, Barbara.

Make a religion check. Okay. That's... Not bad. 16. This doesn't seem like it would be related to you, based on your knowledge. Okay. Okay.

I think we will have a bird with these mages and see if we can lighten your load, Mr. Skap, goat. Or if not a word, then a sword. Perhaps I can offer assistance with a sword. Oh, okay. How sure. The goat begins, you know, you ever see a goat? something you know how that really exaggerated chew like when they're grinding up plant material starts like doing that with its mouth like chewing on something and then it spits something out at your feet

gunther oh okay pick it up and inspect yeah looks like a tooth that's one of my teeth you can craft it to a weapon oh my goodness oh are you like an inventor of some sort no i'm just afflicted and much like the goat this tooth also has that flickering aura of dark light about it a Thurcet tooth. Thank you very much. Mr. Mr. or Mrs. or just scapegoat. Thank you. Whatever. Is there anything else of interest at the top of this cragdisk? You know, you can see in every direction. If you wanted to, you could like look into other directions or you could just head back down. We'll probably come back up here to talk to the scapegoat. So I don't know. John Barb, you, you guys, I don't know if you guys wanted to talk to goat anymore. look around that I don't want to speak for y'all, but I think I'd be good to ride the dreaded

lifts back down. Oh, we got to come back up again. One last thing that'll help you in dealing with the sorcerests. The skipgoat kind of gets a little closer to you for. There's a secret entrance to the crag-tus. Oh, very easy. If you follow the aqueduct in, you can enter the inside of the crag-dust. That's cool.

So would it be advantageous for us to? use that entrance to then go to the aqueduct that way or should we go to the aqueduct the front way and get down off of this crackus first get down first and go to the aqueduct and enter cractus that way okay are these sorcerers is anything that they do not like goats apparently i don't know what they don't like but they believe sleep to be sacred Sleep to be sacred? Yes. I mean, yes.

Sorry. Yes. Like, just like normal, like a nap or like the forever kind of sleep. Nap, dreaming. Mm-hmm. Okay. Okay. Bye-bye.

Okay. Bye-bye. But I want to seal this, you know, promise in keeping with your culture. And Tollv wants to bonk the Billy Goats head with his own. That's cool. Oh. Yeah, let's make up pro's strength rolls. Okay.

18 nice eight okay yeah you uh butt heads with scapegoat and you managed to push it back just a little bit it falls off the watch very good oh crap we're gonna do our best to get your situation figured out mr scapegoat thank you all uh heading down what's the move here uh leader that's me yeah why don't i gather everybody around for a little bit of a like a strategy meeting okay all right so we're gonna go and meet up with the sorceresses and they clearly are the religious type and they clearly have customs here that they might be following that they think that they're doing this for the good of everybody so we got to do this diplomatic lack okay okay we are visitors in other people's lands and this there's other customs here okay okay okay yeah okay so who here should be leading in discussion on talking with

these sorceresses oh that's a great question I know a lot about different religions and ways of life, just from, you know, my readings and studies. But the only thing is I'm not very good at talking to people, so. Well, Doug, do you know how you get better at that? Out Natty. Don't say talking to people. You have to talk to people.

You know, it's practice. It's something you can't get. It's one of them things you're going to learn this is that there's some things that book learning can't actually teach you. Yeah. I've read things about exposure. therapy as well. All right, I think this is perfect.

And just know, just know that all of us back here, me and Tov and Gunther and Gigi and Gambot, and I think Captain Grumbles is still here. He might just be a pile of iron somewhere at this point because I think he's there. He's there. He's there.

Okay, we're all here to back you up, okay? Yes. Look at this charisma team. Wow, look at us all. We will beat the muscle. Yeah. Well, I was thinking more like we'd be emotional support for our friend here because we're not trying to intimidate people. I'm glad I brought this up because Gunther,

that's why I wanted to talk about this. This is a diplomatic situation. This ain't no like bullying situation. I kind of saw that coming from a mile away. I was like, I think we're all on the same page, but I think that this whole group meeting is specifically for one person. And yeah, you just conferred to his practical third.

Gunther nods and winks. Yes. I don't think he's understanding now, Dean. Start brandishing his sword Yeah, yeah Slicing his throat with a stinger Okay, okay Then we've got our game plan

Doug you're gonna be the talk And Tov you watch that frog Okay, you don't let that frog do anything Okay, you got it, you got it That's your, that's your responsibility Okay? Amiatta, not to mess this up, Gunther I mean, it might be a good distraction

if we need it, I would say But everybody's job is to be sending Doug good vibes, okay? Okay, here we go. Okay. I don't like him. Natty shuffles Doug Ford to have us all head towards the aqueduct. Okay.

You walk over in the direction of the aqueduct and it's a constructed channel of water flowing from Andridge Bay. There's a stone bridge that crosses the water and there's a couple of what appeared to be mages near the bank. I don't know. I mean, yeah, probably. I mean, those might be like the welcoming party. Like we're probably on the outside of something where there's people. on the inside. Should we like talk about the game plan?

Like, are we telling them about the goat? That's a good question. I would say, until we get to maybe someone in charge, our goal is to try to get to someone in charge and let them know that we want audience with them. Hello? One of the sorcerists is drawing a pail of water out of the aqueduct. When it hears you say,

although it kind of like jumps and drops its pail, it turns around. Uh, uh, who are you? Oh, sorry, my name is Abun, and here with me are my adventure friends. We got that creepy guy over there waving at you's toll. He hurt. Dental giant over there. And then that little guy over there, this gunto.

He might need to go boom, boom. So that's true. That was that noise. And then right over there is Natty. Addie. Very friendly. Very beautiful. Hello.

What are you doing here? We're looking for your supervisor. Flint's not available right now. Uh, maybe you can leave a message and we'll pass it on. Flynn, well... No, no, I didn't say Flynn. You said Flynn. Well, it's funny, because Flynn and I actually go way back.

And so, if Flynn is, you know, somewhere inside, he wouldn't be surprised to see me. He would be excited. So maybe you should just... Inside? Inside what? Well, I mean, because I know Flynn, I know there happens to be an aqueduct right here that will allow us to go inside and up to crack this. How do you know Flynn? Well, here's how I know them.

I will send thoughts. Just, just, sorry. This is an audio podcast. I am putting my hands to my head on your temples. And pointing as though I am sending my brain out in order to determine their, to use telepathy. Your rethoughts. Well, technically, if we're being accurate, I think I could. only use that once per long

rest. You used it on a goat. I did. You used it on the goat. I did. But it gave you good insight. It's true? Yeah. Okay, well, he asked the question. How do you know Flynn? Okay, well, yeah, me and Flynn, we go way back. You know,

we used to talk about how sleep is sacred. Very good, yes, this is great. You know, we used to bond over our love of sleep. Yeah. They called them the lazy boys. Oh, did you kick your feet up with Flynn? Absolutely, yeah.

You know, I've ever seen Willie Wonka in the chocolate factory? You know how the grandparents kind of sleep like that, kind of like sargreens in the bed? That's kind of like me and Flynn. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, I bet Flynn will be excited to see you then. Perfect.

Well, we will be on our way just after Natty chimes in. You said Flynn's not here right now, and you could take a message. Maybe we'd go find him or them wherever they're at. Are they at like the local watering hole? Are they on an errand? Are they at home or anything like that? They'd understand if we stopped by. Lynn is currently at headquarters attempting to connect with the bedrock.

Oh, that sounds so. I've always been interested in learning more about the bad rock. They sound like such an interesting deity. Where might that be? Is there like a local temple that you guys do that at? Make a persuasion check, I guess, Natty. I have advantage on those. Where's my modifier?

That's still a pretty good role. That's 17. That's pretty good. Oh, yeah, Flynn, you just have to follow the secret entrance in the aqueduct. And then the sorceress, like, stops. It kind of, like, puts their hand in their face. Oh, no, not again. Don't feel bad.

I think someone who's honest and nice is a good person, and you should be very proud of yourself. The sorceress, like, shoulders are slumped and turns around this. I was spill the beans every time. I'm going to go take a nap. I'm going to sleep this off. I think Flynn would really appreciate you being so honest to friends of his. Oh, thank you.

I'm going to, I'm going to go take a nap. Surchase turns around and walks away and finds like a little patch of grass alongside of the aqueduct and mats it down and lays down. Like a dog? Like those little circles to mat it down or something? What are you talking about? Yeah, you can't just lay down in a bunch of grass. I've got to lay it down, make a little bit.

Crazy person would do that. What you got to do is do a little circles. around the little grass. You got to make sure there's no snakes. All right. Well, shall we go inside, everyone? Yes, let us. Yes, but before we do 10 out of 10 performance, dog,

very good socialization, you're doing so good. Black, a pro. My confidence definitely has increased by at least 0.6%. This is a growing moment, and you have gained one-eighth your size. I might not be able to fit into the size. off with that, now. Do we know where the entrance is, Gustavo? Is it like just in it?

Like the water? I think, Chris, the way you described it is probably most accurate based on the information you have so far. Just follow the flow of the water. Mm-hmm. We're like, enter the water and the water leads you in. Okay. Like a ride. I feel like we should maybe have Hove lead the way just because he's the most familiar with water and might be

able to sense kind of way to go inside you. I'm also very, spends lots of time underwater. That is true. I forgot you are for all. You were a desert. Frog. Don't even say that. Yeah, what do you are saying? You've been doing nothing but talking about how water's so rare and sacred to y'all. It's especially. That's how

I know how much to swim in it. The good thing know about Gunda leading the way is if he does his voice from under the water, we'll hear the base of leading the way. Gunther, can you breathe under water? No, but I can hold my breath very long. Oh, don't you? Answer my question. That's all I needed.

No, no, no. Thank you. I can breathe under Walter. Okay. As leader of the truth, I shall make an executive decision. Tov shall take front and then we will have Gunther. And then Doug, you be right behind Gunther, and I will take up the rear. Gunther Salutes. Yes.

All right. All right. Forward March. You all enter the water and realize that the awkward duct is kind of deep, you know, and is moving fairly quickly. Why don't all four of you make dexterity checks just to see how you're able to keep your footing and if you're able to resist the strong flow of the water? Oh, five.

That's an 11. 17 my dear god six but did natty give me an inspiration a while ago i did i use that gus or was it like you need to use it in the moment oh 15 i won't use mine yet i'm gonna keep the five well i just made a whole huff about being the water guy so if i were to fail in front of gunther i would never hear the end of it he'd be like our barbarian failing on a bunch of strength chair Doug and Natty lose their balance and get swept up with the current. The water rushes them forward, knocking them into Gunther and Toll. The momentum causes everyone to spin and flail about.

Soon, you all are careening down a dark underground tunnel, caught up into current, unable to see clearly. Amongst the splashes, skittery noises shuffle along the tunnel ceiling, and several beady eyes leery from above. One after another, lizards leap from the ceiling, lunging for your faces. And we're going to resolve that in the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Oh, Gus and your cliffhangers, oh my goodness. They're kind of under the cliff at this point. But yeah, it's the same concept.

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by Catherine Arnold and David Sonier. Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. you've ever seen those social videos where like people like they'll interview like little kids about like uh serious things but it's like getting them to talk about serious things and be funny yeah i realize that i've heard the way chris talks and it's in those videos it's how kids respond to the questions wow that that was that that was high like just it's very similar you ever have a dream that you that you that i that you yeah yeah yeah yeah chris would be great on like if they we did another reboot of kids say the darndest things he'd be great on it chris says the darndest things new series coming soon