Tales from the Stinky Dragon - C03 - Ep. 28 - From On Hyra - No Sorcerest for the Weary

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

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latest thirst quencher, yippee-kye, mother flubber. It's a mixture of pseudo-peas in a pod, gurgling green tea leaves, the chair you threw out last week on the side of the road that vanished all too quickly, and now you're having second thoughts on whether or not it was actually a good chair. Should you have gotten the seat a second chance, will other chairs support your tushy the way your old one did? Will you ever truly sit comfortably again? Previously our adventures saddled up for a raucous race with a volatile voice vociferated atop Cractus. After a rush around the racecourse B team, booked it to the crest of Cragutus and said hello to a screaming scapegoat that sent them to some sleepy sorcerists.

Now they find themselves touch and go as they go with the flow. Cobble a cup and let's continue this Cacodorus Chronicle. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Tales from the Stinky Dragon. I'm your dungeon master, Gustavo Sorolla. Hey, Blaine, how are you? Good. Blaine, watch out. I'm going to hit you with an arrow. Oh, no, point blank. Ten. I wish we were a video podcasting. Everyone could see how I looked at Chris. The question this week is, if you were the main character in a comic book, what would your superhero name be? And that was submitted by Amon Reddy. Everyone go and roll at D20. I know Chris has a 10.

13. I have a 3. I rolled a 19. Ooh. All right. So it looks like we got John Blaine, Chris Barbara, if I'm reading those right. That's correct. Yes. All right. Natty slash John. Why don't you lead us off? Hi. I'm John Rice here and I play Natty Wonder, who is a drow, drag queen, warlock mother. And if I was going to be a superhero with like an alter ego, it's a funny question to ask me, considering Natty Wonder, is, is already a stage name. So I've already, like, burned one of my, my fake names already. But if I was a superhero, and some might say being a mom is a superhero.

Oh, you can ask about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's one of the most, like, difficult superhero jobs and you don't get paid by anything, and it's difficult for, like, you know, forever. I would probably come up with a name that, like, plays into my ability to kind of get lost and on my disguises and voices since I'm so gosh darn good at that and I would probably

kind of play into like the enigma of that, the mystery of that and I pick something like mystique because I love me some French. I think it's so glamorous when people's to have little French stuff and so I love mystique you know that little QU E sound

like how's that work but I love it I'm such a fool I just realized that Natty was just your way of building mystique in D&D with the voice of Mystique's daughter. I was going to say that there's someone from the previous campaign who would be very familiar with the word mystique

and the Q-U-E. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But we don't talk about that because he sucks. Who are you thinking of? Sleek? That was two campaigns ago. I was talking about a Matid, Fompezine, our French character. Oh, my bad. I'm so sorry. I thought we were

crapping on Sleek today. I was like, yeah, I'm all here for it. That was so aggressive and confrontational. I thought you were just being mean to John. Yeah. Blaine hates Matteed. No. Okay.

Let me give you out here. Matede also sucks. I said it. Yeah. That's right. It's Blaine Gibson. I'm rolling right into mine because I roll the 13. Yeah.

I guess it's giving me the thumbs up. That means it's my turn. Bring back at Khyborg energy. Sorry. Sleek just like brought some shills down my spine. Hello. I play Tov the male Thomitech Barbarian level six. Mike had changed it from Ork to Thometech because he was tired of me.

messing it up. And, uh, you ho, it's me, 12. And if I were to be, uh, own superhero, I think I would take on some sort of, you know, secret identity so that no one could find out who I am. So I would be like 12 or like 12 man or 12 boy, you know, I don't know of one of those. And maybe I would have like the 12s.

It would be like 12 elves. And they would be like my support team. 12s? Yeah, the 12s. Yeah. So I don't think anybody would be able to crack that. Would you have like a whole bunch of arms as well? Kind of like someone you really admire. No, I don't know what you're talking about.

In a different campaign. Like more than three and less than five, so four arms. That sounds stupid. No, I hate that idea. So anyways, 12. 12 boy. Yeah. 12 boy. All right.

That's a journey. I feel like, but in a way, 12 already kind of has a secret identity since he's wearing Bjorn's skin. Yeah. It's kind of like you already have a disguise on and you have like a power that you're hiding from everyone. Yeah. It was also like my name was like plain sight.

It was 12 all of the long. So I know that it would also work if I just called myself 12 man or 12 boy. Because you idiots didn't pick up on that soon. I'm so sorry. I'm very aggressive today. I need to calm down. Hey, hey. Blaine.

What kind of coffee did you have? A iced mocha from Dutch brothers. Yeah. So sugar and. coffee. Yes, yes. I think, Gus, that should be your question every single episode to gauge how we're going to be playing. What coffee did you have today? Let's get a coffee check. All right, thanks, Lane. So next up, we've got Chris. Hi, I'm Chris DeMars. I play Gunther, the Crokefolk Fighter. And my superhero name, there's several options. It could be the Crokefolk Avenger.

Oh. Or if I was to team up with Bundab, then it would be Toad, Man, and Ribbitt. Oh, I would be Ribbitt. Or if we, if the four of us were to team up and have some sort of supergroup, then it would be the Fantastic Frogs. I like those, actually. Yeah, let's get rid of B-Team. Let's get a Bertella Team. And let's go with that one. Bratelow Team is out.

Fantastic Frogs in. I am down for this. I'm already green. I look the part. I hear it's not easy. No. I'm a little distractors having a side conversation with Micah here. I think initially he had written croak folk of injure.

O-F-S-I-N-J-U-R-E, like, ah, stabs, injure you? Oh. Instead of Avenger, so it was like, hmm. Avenger also works. That went over my head because I don't know what Chris said after he said croak-folk. I couldn't understand. Aventure. Okay.

So it makes sense. The Rysingers could not hear the word Avenger today for some reason. Or at least the way Chris said it. Well, it is interesting because Gunther has such an unusual cadence. to his delivery. Gunther puts the accent on strange syllables and then his tone rises and falls as he's delivering lines.

It's like it catches me off guard every time we start a session. Well, I don't know if you know this or if our audience knows this, but Chris's English is his second language. Yes. Yeah. Is Crokefolk your first?

No goblin. His first language is he doesn't know a language. It's just a series of grunts and points. Yeah. There it is. All right. Chris, really appreciate that. And then last today, we've got Barbara.

Well, hello, everyone. I'm Barbara Dunkelman. I play Doug Boone, a character who no one has trouble understanding when I speak in my character voice. He is a bugbear artificer currently level six. The five and a six look very similar when your eyesight is very bad. Turns out. And, you know, Doug Boone actually is quite a fan of comic books. You know, he just likes to read, you know, he gets a little.

distracted by the pictures every now and then. He wishes there was a little less of them. But something that he learned is that typically smart characters are professors. And so I think if Doug was going to be a character in one of these, he'd be a really good guy named Professor Iron Paw. Iron Paw. Yeah. I like it.

Maybe, you know, one of the people who teaches people how to invent things and inspiring all the young folk, even the croak folk. Not too folk. All them folk. It almost sounds like a villain name, just letting you know. Like, it could be an Inspector Gadget's other villain. Yeah. I guess it depends on how you say it.

If you're like, oh, Professor Iron Paw. Hey. Okay, that's a good guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But if you're like, Professor Iron Paw. Oh, no, no, no. That's a bad guy. That's a bad guy.

He's a better grade. I feel like the word paw, though, immediately makes it less intimidating. Yeah, yeah. That's true. I don't know. Is Doug in a chair maniacly stroking a white fluffy cat in his arms? Is that what he's doing? No, he's stroking a gambot.

Yeah, and by stroking, it's cleaning the dirt off. All right. I like the name, Iron Paw. That's cool. I can go multiple ways. Gus, what's your bad guy name? My bad guy name? Yeah, or your good guy name, whatever.

I don't know. You'd be an anti-hero. I didn't think about this. I'd prepare my superhero name is Dorkees. All right. That's no C-Squod. Blaine is hitting Gus with an arrow. Yeah.

Ow. If you're not a member of our Patreon, Dorkeus is the character from one of our tavern tales called C-Squod, which Patreon members get access to over at stinkyjagonpod. All levels. Gus is a player. Yeah, it was fun That was fun

Forward match You all enter the water And realize that the awkward duct It's kind of deep You know And it's 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 Can 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 going to 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, oh, I told you so. I'd be like, our barbarian failing on a bunch of strain 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 in the current, unable to see clearly. Amongst the splashes, skittery noises shuffle along the tunnel ceiling and several beady eyes leer at you from above. One after another, lizards leap from the ceiling lunging for your faces. As you enter into practice, four lizards fall down onto you from above, falling straight at your faces. What do y'all want to do? Come to quick, your cousins are here. Are they like humanoid lizards or just like lizard lizards?

No, no, lizard lizards. Like kind of big lizards. We should talk. They do not like to swim. They're falling from above like onto our heads kind of situation. Kind of like under your faces. Like yeah, your head. They also cannot figure out the lift situation.

Do not let them attack. They could plant a seed inside of you. Like facehuggers. Could Doug take out his shovel that he has in his inventory and just like pop it over him and as many people as possible to cover. them almost like an umbrella sure Doug why don't you make a I'll let you make the decision either dexterity or slide a hand check to see if you're able to get that shovel up and block yourself then depending on the success maybe we can have it

not only cover you but someone else I'll do dexterity they're the same modifier but six yeah you pull your shovel out and try to cover yourself but you don't quite get in time Gunther kind of gets in the way with all of his flailing around and you're not able to act here I'm picturing you like Kermit now with like kind of wavy arms, you're not able to fully deploy it. And one of the lizards plops down on you, and it's like square on your face. Does it like have any effect? Is it doing anything?

I'm going to see if anyone else wants to do anything first before we start resolving that. Did you come up to try and grab it off of her face? Well, you have to deal with one that's falling on you first. Oh, that's right. It's like when the masks come down in an airplane, and you deal with yourself, your first lizard before you do a very good lizard. That's a good point. I will also try to shield myself with my actual shield.

And then I guess venture to try to save Natty. Okay, again, like the oxygen mask. Deal with yourself first. For sure. Since you're pulling your shield out, let's call this a dexterity saving throw. Okay. Which I have advantage on. Oh, 15.

Oh, but I'm not done yet. 21. That's pretty good. Yeah, you're able to pull your shield out and block the lizard that's about to hit you. And then what was your second part of your action? Since you're, since you're old of 21. Well, we'll say you're able to do something else as well. Well, if I block one with my shield, I would see the one coming for Natty, and I would try to reach out and grab it before it hits Natty.

Ooh, okay. Make a, we'll call it an attack roll, like without a weapon, like an unarmed attack roll. Okay. Must protect my queen. I'm vite-nighting you, 21. Whoa. That's pretty cool. So I assume Toll uses his shield in his left hand.

John, what did the art for Toll? Which hand did he use? I'm going to say right hand, because Blaine, would swing his hammer with his left. And if the shirt reflects otherwise, then just, just buy it anyways, please. It's coming out eventually. I don't know when.

Are you really left-handed, Blaine? I'm mixed-handed. It's like a crappier version of ambidextreous. You're just bad at both. Yes, exactly, Chris. Thank you. How did I not know this about you? I've known you, like, over a decade.

I know, man, I don't know. You just stopped looking at me for a while. No, absent Tegg father. All right. So the art does have your shield in the left hand. But that must be a mirrored image. Yes. Yeah, that's what's going on there.

So you raise your shield with your right hand, block the lizard from falling on you. It falls down, hits your shield and bounces off and falls in another direction. Then like with almost, again, with almost like superhero reflex speed, you turn and your other arm shoots out and grabs the lizard right as it's about to fall on to Natty. Tall boy. Do you want to grasp it or do you want to like punch it out of the way? punch it yeah let's punch it i don't know if i want this thing slithered into my hand just roll me a

i just call it a d8 okay that's an eight you punch the lizard so hard that it doesn't even fall in the water it like goes over the bank and it falls out onto the river bank upside down and i do that thing that that one politician did where i go oh and blaine is no longer up for re-election can natty respond to that yeah yeah yeah natty it's easier turn. Wow, Tov, that was amazing. I didn't even see you switch your shield from your right hand

where you usually hold your shield to your left hand. That was so impressive. Yeah, I don't know if you know this, but I'm mixed-handed so if you swap back and forth. It's okay. Not many people know it. Even people you've considered, you know,

like best friends for over 10 years, you know. I just want to say, I think even Natty got it wrong. Natty said switched it from the right hand to the left hand, but it's supposed to be in the right hand because he swings the hammer with his left hand, he said. Well, you know, I'll forgive Natty because they're a fictional character. But Gus, I expected more from you.

Well, we'll continue this discussion in Second Wind about Toll's preferred hand, which is available to patrons at stinkingjongpod.com. All right. Anything else do I do, Natty? Or is it, uh, could I pass on to Chris? I mean, my lids are just taking care of. Okay. Chris slash Gunther.

Well, I was going to go with ducking under the water and swimming past, but I really like the visual of Kermitie. So just like slapping at the lizard. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Which, let's be honest, that's probably what I would do in that same situation. In that case, make me, let's call it two unarmed strikes because you're flailing both arms around. Okay.

At disadvantage. Nine and a five. Excellent. Somehow flailing your arms around does not yield the results you would expect. And the lizard almost seems to be dodging your pants and falls and lands right on your face. I wave like I just don't care. Quick, Gunther, before he sells you car insurance. Okay, so there's a lizard on both Doug and Gunther's faces.

They scurry around, and it seems like they make a beeline for your precious eyes. I'm looking for the moisture on your eyes. And they're both trying to lick it off, but they fail. What? They're trying to get to your eye, but they can't quite get there. Metagame-wise, they try to make an attack roll to lick up your eye fluid, but they missed. So you got lizards on your faces. What do you want to do?

It seems like they're really intent on eating your precious eyeballs. Can I head butt, Doug? Yes. So that both of our lizards smash each other. Okay. Go for it. Yeah. So I guess I'll help with this.

Oh, okay. I was going to say, if Doug wasn't helping, there's a height difference here that we're going to have to negotiate. But if Doug's going to go down, all right. Yeah. Both do you make attack rolls. It means Doug has like a lot of wind up. They're going to lean back and then just go, whir- And gravity-assisted.

Like, what kind of attack roll? Like an unarmed strike? Unarmed, yeah. This is the most pure form of an unarmed strike. There are no arms involved. I mean, this is. I'm going to use my inspiration back because that was a five. Oh, no.

Okay. Well, yes, Nat 20. Well, I have got a good counter for that. A one. Oh, I did a Nat 20 and you did a one. Where does that end up, Gus? Yeah, I'm going to say. that that means that Doug gets a wind-up and goes down to meet Gunther's headbutt, and it's

successful. The headbutts connect, but Doug's headbutt is so powerful that it forces Gunther under the water. Like, it essentially knocks Gunther flat on his back. It would be like tubing on the river, but there's no tube. Well, the lizards are looking for water, so wouldn't that be good that he landed in the water? Because then they'll be like, oh, actual water, I could get off your face now. They're looking for precious eye fluid, eye juice. Ew. These are dastardly creatures. I moisture is so important. You can't say any of this.

You're knocked cold. You are not cold. Underwater. You hear gurgling. The bubbles come up and pop. You hear the words like in a cartoon. Alternatively, it could be the thing where the bubbles come up and when they pop, the text appears.

Yeah. Instead of hearing the sound, you can read the text of what he was saying. Okay, but yeah, because of the high roll, though, the lizards do fall off as well and they're floating away. Am I drowning? Am I knocked out? No, you're fine, you're fine. I'll toll will fish out, Gunther.

Okay, great. Who, who are you? I'm just going to shake him by his little froggy leg to dry him off and bring him back to his senses. It worked perfectly. Good job. So you all emerge unscathed, for the most part, from the lizards. And you find yourself inside Craggtus.

Just to refresh your memory, this was that huge, boulder-like object that you had ridden the lifts up to the top of, and it was about 100 feet tall. And we saw that animal at the top there. Scape coat. Yeah. So yeah. You look around and you see on the interior, it's like a huge cavern.

And in here you see what appear to be beds carved out a rock as well as a fountain and some people milling about. Wait a second. Are they beds or are they catacombs like dead people beds? They appear to be regular beds from what you can tell. I was trying to get ahead of the pun, you know? like cactus, cragtis, catacombs, you know. I was thinking bedrock. Oh, that's the name of the deity, isn't it?

Yeah, good memory. Or good memory and or good notes. Both. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, definitely remember that by myself, not flipping back a page to last week's episode. I do remember, you know, they were talking about how sleep is very sacred. So maybe this is like their temple or something like that because it's all the beds. Yeah.

Oh, okay. That's a make sense. Do they have like a fountain of warm milk and like a bunch of blankets in one corner? Like what kind of sleepy vibes do they have? Their communion is they just take melatonin. Remind me canonically what happened. We entered this place at the behest of somebody. There was somebody.

It was a sorceress. Scape. Flynn. No. They were talking about Flynn. Did we get the sorceress's name? I don't think we did. So we're entering here.

and there's people in here. Have they seen us or are we entering stealthily? I don't want to alarm you, but Gus is rolling dice. I'm always rolling dice. Why don't you make me a, let's call it a perception check for me, Natty. There's 15 plus perception. Three, 18. Stop rolling dice.

He's rolling perception checks for everybody in the room. That's what he's doing. Yeah. It looks like they have not noticed you so far. Okay, then as, according to my notes, current team leader, I put my hand up, like a mom stopping the kids getting flying towards the front of the car when you hit the brakes.

And I say, and I gather the team around to make a game plan because we're kind of entering this place without any kind of a strategy. Who put her in charge? I think it might have been you. Oh my God, you're right. Does it seem like there is a leader? If I remember correctly, we're here.

That's John. If I remember correctly, because the scapegoat, they're up there to, like, pay for all the nastiness and sins of everybody here. Yeah. And so I'm worried maybe we should, we should enter this place with some sort of idea of what is our goal. Well, I think we should find, you know, bedrock or the person that is like the mouthpiece for the bedrock and see if we can maybe negotiate some other terms for how we can deal with this, like, bad voodoo so that they will not blame the scapegoat. Because I think that that's what you're here to do, save the scapegoat. Yep, save the scapegoat, save the world.

And then the cheerleader. Why can't the scapegoat be a cheerleader, huh? Huh? I mean, the scapego could be whatever they want to be after they get out of you, you know. Okay. Why don't we enter this room as like we're curious about joining their church? How about that? Oh.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, I'm going to start looking real sleepy. Oh, perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Bobber stuff I'm gonna get out in real life my eyes are watering now

and told who doesn't sleep is like yes I'm so sleepy I'm also extremely sleepy so is Doug making like loud kind of exaggerated fake yawns yeah but I think in doing the fake yons they would turn into real yons because that is something that happens to me

if I'm trying to fake a yawn it then turns into a real one and told to like even help to slip it why don't you carry you. Gunther who's sleeping. Oh, good idea. Okay. I'll take a nap.

I will hold him like a baby. I will bundle him in my cape. I think they might really like me here because I'm like a giant teddy bill. And so I'm like designed for sleeping. Yes. They will like pay you to be in their religion. Yeah. At the yawning, one of, uh, it looks like one of the people who's milling about turns and

notices and begins slowly walking over. Like casually? Yeah, seems like pretty casual. They're running at us with swords. You know, This is a theater of the mind podcast. I have to know how they're approaching us. Okay, then I'll walk up to them and say in a very, very dulcet low town. Howdy? My name is Natty.

Hello. Um, Pioter. How are you? I'm doing fine, Pioter. We're just new in town and we heard about your little, are they a religion, Gus? Would that be accurate? Yes, I think that would be accurate. We heard about your religion. and I'm sure you can tell just from the look of us, we are ready to participate in your great tidings.

Oh, that's good. What have you learned about it? Well, you know, that's a good question because we've just kind of learned the surface level stuff, and I'm hoping you can give me a little more information. We do know that you all really do value slate, and you like bedrock. Yes, acquiring knowledge is good,

but you need experience as well. That's interesting to say. And is that experience taking a little napsky in one of these beds and going to drift off to Dreamland? Yeah. Flynn could probably help you with that. He runs the show, and Joder kind of turns and points at one of the other people who's milling about. Okay. I think I would love to talk to Flynn.

Just be careful. Sometimes some people here get a little nervous when we have unexpected guests, but, you know, you foresee him all right. Yes, we love sleep. I am such a big fan of sleep. Oh, are you? All about, yes. What's your favorite part of sleep? When you close your eyes?

Hmm. Yes, I know all about sleep, yes. The beginning, hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, the anticipation of what's to come. Yes. Yeah. I love when my mouth goes, which is what I do when I sleep because I sleep.

Yeah. A classic sleeper here. Yeah, that's me. I've been doing it for years. And what is the typical range of hours of sleep one would get told? Oh, you know, anywhere from, you know, Vaughn to 24 hours. Yeah. He's so good at sleeping, he should be a sleeper agent.

Yeah, yeah, it's very good. Oh, I thought you were sleeping. Go back. I cradle here the baby. Okay. This is my son. Notice how we are both green. This is my boy, my baby boy.

Oh. He taught me everything I know about sleeping. That's right. Go to sleep. Go to sleep. okay so we're gonna go talk to Flynn now if that's okay yeah let him know Piotr sent you maybe it'll open some doors for you maybe it won't okay yeah Piotr all right and then can we walk over to Flynn yeah I assume you all begin

well you told me you were heading in that direction besides Piotr who you know obviously came over separate himself from the group to come talk to you all there appeared to be six other people milling about and all of them in here seem to be wearing like an awkward marine pajama gown and nightcaps. Are they doing anything in particular? Are they just kind of chat with each other? Are they participating any sort of rituals or anything like that? That's a great question.

Make me a perception check, please. That's 14. Oh, it's pretty good. A few of them are having conversations talking to each other. However, the bulk of them seem to be working on some kind of alchemy. This seems like they're brewing potions and medicines of some kind. I'd be able to walk over to where they're doing that and see what they're like putting in it and maybe using my knowledge of like science and chemistry to figure out,

like what they're actually making. Yeah. Doug sees science happening and like the whole rest of the world disappears. And like a cartoon, Doug isn't walking. Like he's lifted off his feet. Like when a cartoon character smells something in the, like an apple pie. Like they whops and it like, right, yeah. Except you see science.

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Regards, my fellow chemists. What, uh, what were we all brewing here? We're just experimenting with trying to learn more about sleep. Oh, so, like, are you trying to make, like, a sleep potion, like, to help you actually fall asleep, stay asleep? Like, what's the problem we're trying to solve? Two of them kind of look at each other and then look back at you and say, maybe you should talk to Flynn first.

We really shouldn't be talking to you. Flynn can probably fill you in on what's happening. It's not something we should be discussing with outsiders. Oh, well, I'm not an outsider. I'm right here. I'm inside. And yeah, Flynn said it would be fine You know, I actually am a professional

And so I'm just making sure you guys Have all the ingredients you need And making sure your, you know, measurements are correct And everything like that Why don't you roll me a deception check? E, for Really? We noticed you come straight here From the aqueduct.

Yeah, that's right. I was sent through the aqueduct by Flynn. Oh, that lies deep in... We're happy to talk. to you but all you have to do is talk to Flynn and once he gives us the okay then uh yeah we'll be we'll be happy to fill you in once you're in with Flynn then you're a okay okay's i'd like to say yeah that's what we all say no all right well you know i could have helped you but you know maybe i won't now since you know you don't trust me we'll make our own purple

drink if you want to help one of them turns around and grabs a flask and hands it to you you can drink this could Doug smell it see if you could tell what's in it yeah making Perception check. Oh, man. Okay, seven. It smells pretty gross, like stagnant water. You know, I think I'm going to pass. But here, you take this back.

I'll go talk to Flynn and then, you know, we'll be back to check in. Wait, is that a baba? I could give it to my son in my arms here. I don't think any of us to drink this. No, no, he's so thirsty. He needs his baba. It's baba time. Isn't that right?

Yes, Papa. I need my baba. You all have a mother with a literal child. Yes, that is my wife. Yeah, we're all one big happy family. Mama. As I'm leaving the table, could I just see, like, could I just quickly glance at what ingredients they might have?

Yeah, I'll let you make a call, either perception or investigation check. Perception. Hit 20. Do you see that not only are there potions out on their table, But some of the finished products that they're working on seem also to be like salves and food of some kind that's been created alchemically. And as far as ingredients, it seems like water seems to be one of the predominant ingredients that's portioned out here. The sacred ingredient for sleep. Water.

That makes me get up while I'm sleeping. What did you roll again? A 20? I rolled a 20, yeah. The water seems a little unusual. It's shimmering with various hues of like blues and greens. It's not just like well water that you would get and, you know, be drinking or water out of a river. There seems to be like some kind of iridescence about it.

Did it look like the water that Gunther fell into when we were attacked by the lizards? No, it seemed distinct from that. The lizards were going after eyewater. They were. Yes. That we all know, shimmers with blues and greens notoriously. Do you think that that's what this is, is the eyewater stuff? Like eye drops?

I think the only way we can find out is if Gunther drinks this. Yes, Papa. So thirsty. No, Gunta, no. No. No, he's so thirsty, look at him. I mean, if he wants to be a test subject. I like this constant cutting back to Gunther with his mouth open. This conversation happening.

I'm going to go ahead and feed him the water. Okay, yeah, I guess as Doug, you finish your conversation and turn to walk away to go talk to Flynn and like, you do that thing where you turn to your. right, but from your left side, Toll walks up with Gunther so you don't see him, and Tov grabs the flask and feeds it like a bottle to Gunther, who's cradled in his arms. We've been traveling for

so long, and he's so thirsty. Look at him. He loves it. So what does this stuff do in Evase? We're curious to see. Will, we're happy to help. I just rewatched Mickey 17. I'm getting major expendables vibe here.

Gunther, you can feel like a warmth as the liquid travels down your esophagus into your stomach and then it radiates out from your stomach all to your extremities to like your arms, your legs, your fingers, and your toes and you feel like a calming warmth

just settle over you. Are you peeing on me right now? Well, he is a frog. Well, not only could you fall asleep, but you feel like you can control, sleep a little bit. Control sleep. Like lucid dreams?

Metagame-wise, if you want, for the rest of today, for the rest of this session that we're playing on, you can cast the sleep spell on yourself. Oh. You can try to cast it on others, but there's going to be a check, and it might backfire.

Gunther, if you need to get out of like a bad conversation, just put yourself to sleep. I have all power of sleep. It is warm and comfy. You know, we are just trying to get involved with this religion, so we're happy to help in any way. Interesting, okay.

One of them turns around and grabs like a little sachet of what appeared to be like leaves and herbs and hands it to you and says, you can chew on this. Me or the baby? You had this hay because you said you're happy to help. Yeah, yeah, totally. I'll put it in my mouth. Look at the hay.

Okay. What is this? Is this like a salad? What is this? It seems to have no. effect on you. It's like you're chewing on leaves and sticks and nothing seems to happen. What does the intention of this? Is this also like a sleep potion? We're trying to find out and they begin writing down on some scrolls that they have. Oh yes. Very sleepy. Opens my nasal

passages. Wow. If you want to help further, you can go take a nap on one of our rock beds and they point over to the beds. That sounds like a great idea, but I think first, gang, we should probably go talk to Flynn. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we know what he looks like, but just to confirm that you guys know what he looks like, why don't you describe him for us? I'm laughing at the initial plan was like,

let's just go in there and let him know we're curious about their religion. And you guys have gone complete, like, lie crazy. We're immersing ourselves in their customs. That's fine, that's fine. Hey, it's a choice, and I support it. I'm here to support it. I love it.

They pointed Flynn out specifically for you, but I will describe him. I think that's a good question. He appears to be a slightly older orc, not like super old, but not, you know, very young either. On the, let's say the back half of middle age, maybe a little older than that. This is the most you've ever gone into detail about the age of something we've approached. He's got a weathered face and he's wearing a sleeping gown and a nightcap like everyone else. It's made of aquamarine silk that sparkles. Let's go talk to Flynn.

Okay. Oh, I assume all four of you. head over to Flynn, who, uh, sees you coming and says, Welcome to the Kragtus. Yeah, we've been here for a while, yeah. That's a lot of energy to bring to a sleepy place. Yes. Our research is on sleep.

Then the mystical powers of rejuvenation. God, lower your voice. People are trying to take a nap. Oh, a lot of energy. If you can sleep through this, you've mastered the sleepy arms. That's my boy, number one sleeper. Impressive. What is the connection of your interest in sleep to your connection to your deity,

who I assume is bedrock? Yes, it is the bedrock. It is through sleep. We hope to become closer to her and learn her secrets. So is this practice, is this like your temple? Is it a laboratory? Or what is the importance of this structure? We seek research into performing the art of sleep

So that we can better commune with the bedrock Oh, you see, we are masters of sleep Yes, they called me As I hail from the desert, Mr. Sunman. Yes. And then here is my papa Who is so good at sleeping He has transcended need for sleep

That's right. Heresy! No, you seek knowledge He has mastered the art of sleep So he is always sleeping I like the complete 180 you did there By the way

Give yourself an inspiration back For Mr. Sangman That was really good Yeah clever The goal would be to sleep As much as possible You know like You guys believe in like

Rejuvenation and stuff like that And it's caused by sleep And stuff like that But you No offense Look pretty old So like Are you like really old

But you don't look that old Because you've been sleeping a lot Or just Are you just trying to find The answer So that it could rejuvenate you. I'm just being observant.

Doug is a master at negging. I should have to see, I have no, course. Yes, I have spent a long and fruitful life researching sleep. However, my research has nothing to do we're trying to bypass the great sleep.

The great sleep. Is that like dying? Yes. Eternal slumber. Well, not that we're necessarily looking for that right now, although I do love death. Could we? Maybe you said you used sleep to commune with bedrock.

Does that mean you guys are actually able to like connect and communicate with this, this great God? So far, our efforts have been unsuccessful, but we hope to perfect it soon. Is bedrock like a person, is the bedrock in the room with us right now? Or are they like, you know, someone mythical and, you know, unseen. Boo. I like the idea of just going into someone's church and being like, Is the God with us right now? Yeah, yeah.

Well, in this land, it seems like deities can walk amongst them. So I'm wondering if there's like a physical. No, that's the whole point of this campaign. Yeah. She is not here now, but we hope to be able to find her and learn from her wisdom. Tell you what, as you've already heard from my compatriots, we're quite skilled at sleeping. We got Mr. Sandman here.

We got our scientist here who's very good at coming up with sleep concoctions and everything like that. Yeah. Dr. Sleep. Yep. That's their name. This tall drink of water right here, he can just turn off at like that, like a snap of the finger. And I think if there might be a button that might cause that too. We didn't know. I don't know if that's really looking for it. So, you know, we're so interested, but you know what? I heard something about, you know, as I was traveling around, I heard something about, you guys have a friend upstairs at the top of the practice? Flynn would ponder for a second and then say, oh, this. scapegoat?

He is no friend of ours. Like I said, I'm an empty book ready to be written in about your religion. What is the connection of the scapegoat and bedrock? The scapegoat carries the evil doings of mortals, and we cast him out to cleanse ourselves for the bedrock. What did you do that was evil? I stayed up late. Pass my bedtime.

So is it that bedrock wants you guys to be? be like clean and pure and so you're trying to get to that for your god yes you understand perfectly perfect okay i think i have a proposition to make for you flin spooky listen sometimes i make myself laugh is flin also a frightened magician or something you know i hate to see a creature as beautiful as a goat. Suffer so much, but I understand you guys are trying to rid yourselves or bring yourselves closer to your gut. I can connect with that. I'm always trying to chit-chat with my god as well. Yeah. Who said that? I just said that. I was going to say, I was going to like, it came from someone else. Yeah. I wasn't looking at the screen and I was like, who said that?

Was that Chris or Blaine? I was confused too. You like didn't move your mouth. There was like a bubble in my throw it and I just didn't commit to like the joke I was going to make so I just went I tell you what I would love to take this weight off of the goat but I understand the goat is of importance to you so I got a little buddy here this little guy and I point to giggy he's just hungry for sin he he's just he's just ready to gobble it all up look at him what's giggy doing let's say giggy has is on the ground just chewing on his own leg like when you have a dog and they're just like going to town chewing on He'd be chewing on one leg where the other leg is kicking,

so he's just going in circles while doing this? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's kind of bored because the adult's been talking for a while. Yeah, and he didn't get to eat any of those lizards. That's very true. We should have saved one for him. I know, you got to give him snacks, or he gets restless. I know the feel.

I'm the same way. Doug Wood and Bark. So what if we were to, I'm going to offer you two propositions for the price of one? My little demon here would love to take the sins that you guys need so that we can let that goat go because, again, I just hate to see a poor little creature like that just hanging out up there at the top of the Cractus. And then I bet you, I guarantee

you we could commune and get in touch with your bedrock. How's that idea? Does that sound pretty dreamy? Mm-hmm? Yeah. Come on, think about it, old man. Or shall I said, Rip Van Rinkle? Okay, listen, I know what I said was pretty offensive, but this is taking it one step too far. Nanny turns around and goes,

You guys understand. I'm trying to get something here, right? You understand this is negotiations? Why don't you make a persuasion check? I was going to give you advantage, but I mean, there was some insults that started flying by to. You know what? I'm just glad you didn't go disadvantaged, so I'll take it. That's 19 plus persuasion is plus 4.

So 23, my Gustavo. Nice. So just so I make sure I understand, your proposition is that they put their sins onto Gigi. Yeah. and that Gigi takes the scapegoats place? Well, I was just thinking that Gigi could, like, top them off. Like, could kind of, like, get them at a zero again, and then Gigi could just kind of, like, give the goat a break.

And then to sweeten the deal, I don't know why I'm talking in, like, Natty's accent, to sweeten the deal, we would also help them commune with Bedrock. Maybe I didn't communicate that well. But I think we should take the goat with us. I think we should take scapegoop with us. That's important. I'd like to save scapegoat. Yeah.

Oh, plus I love collecting NPCs. Where's Captain Grumbles lately? I haven't checked on that guy. Captain. Oh, he's over there. Captain Grubbles, go lay down. Go lay down. I think Flynn would kind of ponder it for a second.

You need to sleep on it, Flynn? Goli him. No, let it be done. Oh, good. I think Flynn would close his eyes, then outstretch his arms. before him. Oh, yes.

He's mumbling to himself. Why don't you have Gigi make a constitution check as he's sitting there chewing on his foot? That's a plus zero on Gigi's constitution. He rolled. Oh, that's a Nat 20th. After going to seemingly like a seance for a minute, Flynn opens his eyes. And all four of you make a perception check. It's kind of hoping that this would just turn into like confessional kind of thing where all these

guys would just line up and just tell Gigi all the terrible things they've done. I rolled eight. Dirty, 20. 12, 3, my eyes are closed. Nine. What does Doug see? I say Tolv and Doug both noticed this. Are you imagining it or did Gigi just get bigger?

It looks like Gigi grew a foot. A foot? God. Like a foot in height. He's way bigger than he was before. You know what's weird is that his own mom didn't realize that. That kind of tracks. Nanny, I think Gigi might have grown a little bit.

Gus. Is he just increased in scale, or has he matured a foot taller, like aging? His voice is also a little deeper. Oh, gosh. Oh, no. He's taller than Gunther now. He'd like to have teenage angst. Well, Nanny would just be be beaming with pride.

Look at my boy. You see that it's already working, Flynn. It's just taking on all of the sins of the scapegoat. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Interesting. Yeah. Is there any more? Does any other guys need to, like, take a turn, or does that feel like that's good enough? The sources are cleansed. Oh. We can begin fresh in the new. Okay.

So is just, like, a permanent change on Giggy, or? Yeah, so I'm curious. We can have to give, like, new animation assets for Giggy. I hope not. Is Patty going to have to make a new puppet? We'll find out. Okay. So. Does that mean maybe we could go up and let the scapegoat go?

Yes. Make it so. That was easy. The day is saved. Thanks to Dr. Sleep, Sandman, Nap, nap, napsie wonder. And me, Mr. Pillow. My pillow. Yes.

Now we shall all convene with Bedrock. Yeah. I actually do want to see if we could maybe convene with Bedrock. Okay. How do you want to do that? Like, are you going to go take care of the scapegoat first? Like, what's the, what? What's the plan here?

Put myself to sleep. Okay, so Gunther, you're going to put yourself to sleep? Well, do we even need to convene with Bedrock if we save the goat? Maybe we don't, yeah? I'll tell you what, Natty, why don't you figure out what the team's doing and let me know? Well, okay, I'll turn to the team. Well, I think we've a mission accomplished. Is there any sort of strategic benefit from us, like, trying to commune with their guide?

Well, we said we would. Yeah, but he gave in. I could go for now. I think he is old and his memory's not very good. Okay. Why don't we let Gunther take a swing at it, see what we come out of it, and then we can skedaddle, go get us a goat, and keep heading to Ford Andridge. Doug, what are you vibing with? What are you thinking? I'm on a constant quest for more knowledge. So personally, I would also like to maybe meet Bedrock.

Okay. We could split the party because obviously I'm not communing with Bedrock. I mean, look at me. I've never slept a day. I am totally lying to these people. I don't know a thing about sleep. Yeah, we know that. Yeah. Wait, what? Yeah, no, I just go into like a trance whenever you guys sleep. I've just been watching you guys sleep all of this time.

He's just a really good actor, I guess. I know. You get me fooled. Seeing as how I also don't necessarily need to sleep, I think this might be good if we watch over our compatriots as they attempt to commute, you know? Okay. A little bit of a watch system. So how are you all going to try to accomplish this?

Maybe you lay upon the bed and papa shall rock me to sleep. I feel like the bedrocks might serve as like a holy place to sleep. Yeah. The little like beds that we saw when we walk. Yeah. Yeah. Can we just go lie down in this? They're like a vessel.

Yeah, absolutely. Hey, Duck, do you want to ask those gentlemen over there if they might have a little concoction that might help? Well, I was going to go back over and say, okay, guys, I met Flynn and now we can talk about things. Yeah. Okay, I'll be quick. Okay. Gunther, you start doing your nighttime ritual.

Gunther looks at that Tov. Oh, you're very close to my face. Uh, hello. Rock goodbye. Froggy. Oh, good bye. Oh, yes. Oh, good bye, Gunther.

in my big arms All right as that's going on I will put him on a bed And save him from harms When the giggy screams The Gunther will sleep And go down in bed Without making a peep

I'm gonna throw him at a rock And just get out of my arms That was really good I don't know Pretty good really good Wow we should make that into a real song Okay just so I'm clear Now Gunther is being

put down to bed in one of the or put down to sleep in one of the beds and at the same time Doug is going to go talk to the people who were working on the potions. Is that correct? Sure. I'm more of a toss. I don't I don't gently put him down. I just kind of throw him out of a rock but yeah. And then Tolv and Natty

what are you all doing? I will accompany Doug because I'm going to be Doug's sleep buddy. Okay. Gunther uses the toss to land on his head and while the toss now that he has sleep warmth lands on his head so he takes a hit and and then activates his sleep thing.

Perfect. And then Toll where are you going or what are you doing? Well, I don't want to split the party. I guess I'll watch after Gunther. I'll go get to like a bowl of that sleeping liquid. And then when Gunther's nice and tired and sleeping, that I will put one of his hands in it, you know. Just so he has it nearby and he knows where it is.

Barb keeps yawning. Barb keeps yawning. Steve. Doug, you re-approach the sorcerer. rest who were working on the various concoctions. What do you want to do? Hey guys. Doug again here, I'm back. I just spoke to Flynn over there. Doug points over to Flynn. Flynn sees you point and then waves and points back. Now that we've established that connection over there, I'm just curious. What are you guys actually

making? What are you using to make it? Give me the low down. We are working on experimental sleep aids. We have various salves, edibles, potions to further our research for better sleep. And is it like for, like, a temporary sleep or like the eternal sleep that Flynn was referring to? Oh, these are temporary sleeps? And are all the ingredients found here in the crag test, or do you guys tend to have to venture out to find them? It's a combination of both. If we had a mattress sponsor, this would be a perfect time to mention Casper or Helix or one of those companies, but they got to give us some money before I get into that. Instead, just become a patron.

You can fall asleep listening to our bonus content. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Sweet sounds. But a lot of our research centers and focuses on the natural fountain found inside it here at Craggis. Oh, the fountain. Is that like why it's all like blue and green and shimmering and stuff like that? Yes, the waters of the fountain shimmer blue and green.

How did you stumble upon this water? Is it just natural to this habitat? Yes, that is why we have set up our research here to be close to the fountain. Interesting, okay. Doug is noting this all in his little notebook. And are the lizards that are kind of in here, are they like into that? Or like, why are, they went for our eyes. And so I'm wondering like why that is.

They're super annoying. They're obsessed with faces. They can't get enough of trying to drink our eye liquid. That's really strange. It is. So we have no idea why that is. They're just here. Just a kind of a personality flaw of those lizards.

Okay, got it. I don't know about flaw. It's just a quirk. Maybe if you use the lizards, like an ingredient for your sleepy potions. Have you tried milking the lizards? They look at each other. Um, no.

We'll get on that. Well, uh, is there any of this that I can maybe, like, have? You can have some if you try them here so we can observe using the scientific method and determine what works best. Yeah. I mean, if you guys think it's safe. We guarantee it is safe. Can I do an inside check on that?

Yeah, same. Natty's going to roll an inside on that one. Yeah, do an insight check. 11. 30, 20. You don't think they're entirely confident about that, Doug. That guarantees not 100%. Could Natty peek out from behind Doug and ask a question?

Hi, Natty here. I'm actually kind of curious. Flynn over there said that your guys' like kind of ultimate goal is to, through the power of sleep, commune with bedrock. Is that what you guys are participating in? Yes. Our research is to make for better sleep, which allows for better possibility of communication with the bedrock. Okay, well, we got one of our buddies over there already kind of getting into the position to maybe help with that study. And then Doug here, he's going to participate as well.

He's a sleepy little boy. If you can see, he keeps yawning the entire time we've been in this temple. It's true. Maybe if you guys have something that, like, you've gotten the closest, like your most impromising concoction. And Doug here could give it to Gunther. and we'll see how, you know, if we can't, you know, make some scrambled eggs. Yeah, because I will say this, guys, I am kind of a scientist myself. So if we give it to someone else, I could help you observe the, you know, symptoms, the reactions, all that stuff, too.

And maybe help you fine-tune your ingredients and measurements and everything. I'm a bit of a scientist myself. Your sleep, sorry, the Spider-Man quote. No will-m-de-foam quotes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, your friend over there took one of our potions already. Perhaps he could take the other three as well, and we could observe what happens when someone takes all four at once.

I'm the leader of our group, and I can volunteer Gunther to take all three potions. All right, so are you going to do, you going to go ahead and do that? Doug, do you want to administer it? I mean, I don't know if I want to be held responsible for that. Science. What are we saying about Gunther, you know? I mean, his mouth is open. You know, I could just siphon all of the liquids and fluids in there.

I mean, he's an open receptacle. Why don't you give my buddy Tov there the three different potions? Oh, hey, they hand over some stuff to you, Toll. It's not all potions. They hand you a salve, a sachet of herbs like you tried to eat earlier, and an additional potion as well. Okay. I'll run over and I'd be like, drink up, Gunther. And there's glug, glug, glug, glug, glug, glug.

And then you got to rub the salve on him, and you got to slap him around a little bit, you know. I like that you, to think you put it on, like, those football players where they have, like, the lines or the eyes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, you give them all to Gunther, who does not seem to be resisting. And the, I don't know if I mentioned it, the sorcerists come along as well to observe and see what happens. Yeah, as you can see here, I mean, he's taking great to it. He loves fluids. So, I mean, if anybody helps has any other things, let's just throw it in, you know?

I mean, what's it going to hurt? Like, asleep goes up, man. I just picture, like, when Gumgum insisted Kiborke shoot the healing potion into his mouth with an arrow, like, ah. Like, hey, his mouth open. Okay, I'm going to cut to Gunther, who's asleep. We'll deal with this waking world. in a moment. We're going to deal with Gunther in his sleep now for a moment. The Pink Floyd music video that is Gunther's dream. Yeah, you see hammers walking in

unison. You're asleep, Gunther, and you're having a dream. In the distance, you see a mountain range, and it seems to be very quickly filling your vision. It's like it's getting closer and closer. And as it gets closer, the mountains begin to look less like mountains and more like sideways zees until it zooms in and you're entirely on the side of one of these sideways zes. You look around and it seems like there's loose soil and boulders everywhere and some of the

soil under your feet begins to become disturbed and out from the soil pops a mole and it's looking at you. Will you whack it? Hello, mole. Are you bedrock? Yale's and you must be gonther. All my reputation

precedes me. Hmm, you've been working with the sorceress, haven't you? Yes, I have. Are you happy? I guess. What's wrong? Oh, there is much work to do.

It never is. So tell me, Gunther, what brings you here? What do you seek of the bedrock? I want to know what's wrong with you. What's up? What's the deal with eating so much sleep? Jerry. What troubles you?

Well, I have many responsibilities. and sometimes I seek to find others to share the load. How do you share such a load? It's a very difficult task. It's deity stuff, Gutther. If I were to share it with you, it would melt your brain. Who is able to help you? Could it be another god?

Like, the bright one or the sea drinker, who I'm very good friends with? Oh, are you? Well, that's very impressive, little. one. I like how the mole is calling Gunther little one. Yeah. Also cut to the outside world, Tolv is just standing on top of the bed with like of several gallons large barrel of fluids. We're just going to top him off here. He takes to a great. He's very small, but he holds a lot of fluids. We just hear Gunther going moly, moly, molly, Well, the problem is, the bright one understood me quite well.

But the pale one does not understand me. Gunther, can I tell you a secret? Yes. And the bedrock kind of looks around and beckons for you to come lower so she can whisper to you. Gunther lays on the Frizy mountain. You see, I don't know anything about sleep. The pale one just knows that my name has bed in it. and assumed I knew about sleep.

But I don't. Luckily, I found someone to help a little bit. The silent steed has been picking up slack on the sleep domain. The pale one just assigns deities. Yes. Remind me again about the pale one. It's been a while since we met. Why is your guys' go-to to lie?

The pale one is taken over the mantle, as it were. has cosmic ruler and has seen fit to dole out responsibilities to the deities. How's the bright one feel about this? It's like gossip girls. Like you're like, Spill the tea.

The bright one was murdered, so the pale one is taken over. So the bright one really has no feelings about it. Is there a way the bright one could come back? Well, that's beyond me. What about the silence deed? I know that you. You have a friend who knows all about the silence deed.

Oh, I do. I do metatalk. I want to metatalk, but only if you want to. I think we got to leave Gunther on this. All right, all right. Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say. If you wish to learn about the silence deed, you could do so in your other life. And the mole kisses you on the forehead, and you begin zooming away from the mountaintop.

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Air Transat While all that was happening I guess you all are watching Gunther's sleep And he seems to be having a fitful sleep thrashing about on this rock bed before you. It seems like he's having quite a bit of dreams. He's just tossing and turning nonstop in the bed. Rock bed, bed, bed, rock, rock, bed, rock.

Could I have been backing up a carriage filled with those herbs and leaves to like, like, beep, be, to like just jump into Gunther's mouth. You got like a big funnel that you've just put in there. That's right. Keep coming. Keep coming back. Oh, he needs this. I think he might be waking up.

So you gave him four different types. of sleeping potions and he only slept for three seconds. As you all are watching him and as Toll is backing up the truck, Gunther suddenly sits up in bed and then gets up out of the bed and begins walking straight towards the aqueduct. Is he sleepwalking? I hit some ambient. It looks like he's still asleep, but he's walking straight for the aqueduct. Tov would follow. Let's follow him.

Sund up! Don't wake sleeping sleepwalkers. Yeah, that's the number one rules. You don't wake him. Tov will have his arms out to, like, grab him if he were to do something, like jump into the aqueduct or something. It's not that he's jumping into the aqueduct. He's going, he's walking straight into it. He's like two steps away from walking right into the aqueduct. Oh, you got to Mr. Magoo him. Visually, would the depth of the aqueduct be dangerous? Normally no, but he's asleep, so who knows?

Tov, maybe just like pick him up so, like, he'll still be walking, but he won't be moving. Yeah, yeah. I'll gently, like, lift him, but spin him so that he walks away from the aqueduct. you know real like bugs bunny stuff here yeah yeah you pick him up and spin him and as you pick him up gunther you wake up and you see tolls holding you baba oh hello little boy how was your nap it was the good good nap i met him all you fall asleep again immediately oh oh oh and he's out indies out i have a feeling that's going to happen maybe a couple times over the next few days is this affliction narcolepsy well just with the amount of stuff we gave them that's you know designed for one person for an entire sleeping session, and we gave him all of it.

As you're holding him, his legs begin moving again, like he's walking. Okay, I'll let him free. I mean, maybe he knows something we don't, and we should just, like, let him go and follow him. That's a great, yeah, that's a great call. I follow. He begins walking back to the alchemical station where all the sleep aids were. Guys, he wants more chemicals quickly. Whip up a new batch.

Let's just watch. He begins grabbing them and mixing them all together, generally making. a mess of the station. The sorcerists begin rushing in trying to get everything off of the table so that he doesn't create a mess and doesn't create problems for them. No, no, no, let him cook. Gunther, you wake up again and you've got two flasks

in your hands. And then, I guess, you know, you put yourself back to sleep so I can just continue whatever it's doing. Like, I want to, I want to ride this sleep train. Oh. Oh, okay. Yeah, you wake up for a second and then you decide you were better off sleeping and go back.

to sleep. He wakes up as he go, eggs and milk. He goes back to bed. You put down the flask that you were holding, and he begins walking towards the side of the Cractus. And he walks up to the inner wall of the Cractus where you all are, and he puts his arms on it, and he looks like he's pushing. The other three of you in the party make dexterity saving throws.

18. 8. 7 and 11. I had advantage. Natty, you may stay on your feet, but Doug and told you both fall to the ground, as it feels like the entire Crackus begins shaking and moving as Gunther is pushing on the wall. Natty turns to Flynn and goes, is that normal? No!

Let's see if Flynn manages to stay on his feet. Someone helped the old man. No, Flynn falls on the ground. Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up. Good life alert. Natty helps him. Natty helps him. Okay, yeah. Flynn gets back up to his feet.

I think your friend has moved the Cractus. Is that even possible? No. Is, like, is Gunther strong? Like, what's happening? Is the whole crack just, like, moving along the ground? Yeah, you know, the sides were kind of like stained glass. And what you see on the exterior now looks a little different than what you previously saw.

Oh. It's hard to see exactly because it's stained glass, but it does seem like the exterior is different. And Gunther, you now are awake. Molly, molly, molly, molly. Gunto, how did you do that? I do what? Talk to them all? Oh, well, we'll get into that after, but you've moved the entire practice.

Oh, must be the bedrock. We are good friends now. I think Flynn would push his way to the front. You met the bedrock? Tell me about it. Well, the bedrock is very proud of you. I knew it. Yes, bedrock is very proud, but also needs help with the silent steed.

Are you aware of the silent steed? Help with the silent steed. Should we murder the silent steed? No, it's not a scapegoat. No more scapegoats. But you said needs help with the silent steed? If you really want to make bedrock happy, you should also pray to silent steed.

Interesting. This changes everything. The eternal slumber and the temporary slumber are connected somehow then. Oh, you're right. So I think that's what I was trying to say, Chris. Is Silent Steed is Natty's partner, I think. Well, I mean, Natty's wife's death,

who is like a centaur kind of looking. Right. But is that, I mean, Hey, Natty, is you, is your wife named the Silent Steed? Yes. Okay, there we go. All right. Okay.

So we've just turned to Sneepy Colt into a death cold. Oh, please. I'm really trying not to meta everything that I heard the most. saying, I'm trying to go off of what Gunther said, but it is difficult. So we must help people with the eternal sleep? Understood. Got it. Or just, uh, just, you know, it's not so much to help kill people.

That does not help them sleep. No, eternal sleep. I think you should just keep sleeping. You're doing a great job. No more goats. Okay. So let it be said. So let it be written.

So let it be done. Hey, Tullf, I think baby needs to get out of the pit. I'm, I'm, let's like a group bottle real quick. Yeah, I want to talk about this, but I don't want Flynn, who seems a little zealous to hear the wrong stuff. And I think that that's why we should maybe have Gunther, maybe steer them in a direction that's not going to cause them to do terrible things. I think we might be at that inflection point with him just telling them, just keep on sleeping. Do you feel like more, more repairs need to be done? I don't know really how to patch up this shit.

it's pretty, it's sinking pretty quickly. Doug, you ever read on this whole situation? Well, I mean, I know nothing. It was Gunther who experienced all of that, so, uh... Can I convey what I saw to the party? Sure, so that you get him on the same page? Yeah. Gunther is essentially the frog Messiah.

More like a prophet. Yeah, there you go. You're saying that the mole that you met is not actually the deity, but they think it is because she's got bed in the name. Well, it is the deity, but they do not know anything about what they are doing. Well, the pale one seems to be responsible. That is so clear. Pale one is the one that's divvying out all of these things,

but it seems like they are just not good at their job. They're filling in for the bright one. The pale one has no idea what they're doing, and then they're just saying, like, you do this. Hey, your name is Chuck. You're the Chuck wagon guy now. You know what I mean? Yeah, I got you.

Great examples. I don't know. I'm thinking of Chuck Mangione. He just passed away. It's very hard. So it's almost like they're, like, assigning people these roles, but don't really know what they're doing. Right. Well, maybe what would help is it sounds like I should have a little conversation with my honey.

I think that might be a good idea. I think so, too. Do you want me to give you some potions and things? I'll take good care of you so you can, you know, become one with them. I watched your care of Gunther, and I think I'm going to pass on said care. I hate when my mama and papa fight. I'm just going to make this very clear. I'm not your mother.

That's my baby over there. I'm good with just mothering the bringer of the apocalypse. Napsie wonder you're tearing this family apart, week. Not the mama, not the mama. Everyone turns it looks at like a hulking bigger giggy now. Who's like slightly terrifying. Wait, so he's like big big? Wait, are you saying he's grown even more or are you just making a joke?

He is bigger. He's a foot bigger than he was before. He isn't grown again, though. like a second time. No, correct, correct. Yeah, hulking brings a level of growth that I was just trying to be clear. He wasn't like, you know. Okay.

So the pale one seems like they don't know what they're doing. And then we also, didn't I hear the Infernes talking to the private here? Correct. Yeah. They're trying to find, this is John recapping, what the Infernish's goal is. They were trying to find the Sea Drinker because the Sea Drinker knows how to find thing. Pathfinder. They were trying to find the Pathfinder.

Why were they trying to find the Sea Drinker? No, they had the Sea Drinker. They had them captured. They were trying to use the Sea Drinker to find out where the Pathfinder was. Because the Pathfinder could, should get them out of the hell place that they're. Undo Dundar. You know what? I wonder if my wife knows where the Pathfinder is.

Do I have to ask her that before? I'm almost scared to know the answers to that because, like, you know, like if we know stuff and they know we know, we might get tortured. So, like, if we find out where, if we find out where the pathfinder is, that's some dangerous knowledge. But, you know, I think it's probably important to our quest. Especially if they know, they know, you know that they know. Where did you come from? Get back behind that, for the wall. I'll go back up into the cloud.

Okay, this is a lot to take in, but we do have one more thing that I want to take care before we leave here. That is not make them death cold. No, I just want, we got the goat. Let's go take care of escape. Oh, of course, yes. I can fly. How about I just fly up and talk to the goat real quick? Sure.

Well, I assume you all exited from the inside the cractus to go outside to then retrieve the goat. But correct me if that's not the correct. Oh, but there is a way to get up to the top of the crackus from inside, right? No. Who built this place? It's so like that. It's not even solid. It moves when you push it.

Not accessible. Okay. I'll go get the goat. Can I bring the goat down? Okay. First of all, everyone rolled me a perception check. Yeah, because we moved. Right.

14. That's one. 17. So the 14 and 17, you go outside and you see, you know, when you go to examine the practice for what you're about to do, you notice that the chairlift, the base station, is gone. And the chairs are on disarray on the side of crack. Oh, because we moved the mountain. Right.

Natty, you fly up to the top and it seems like scapegoat is no longer up there. He escaped. I wanted them to reunite and make amends. Okay, well, I come back down to the group and I share this, the wilderness. Okay, Naddy, did the goat get away or did you kill the goat and you're just lying to us right now? No sacrifice. Out of our entire group, I've been nothing but straight with you. No, goat wasn't up there.

I don't know where the goat went. Maybe it fell off when this boy over here moved the mountain. So Gunther killed the goat. Oh, no. Maybe. Can we look for the goat? As you all look around, all of you, regardless of your perception check, realize that you're in a totally different area than where you were before.

Like locale all around? Right. All of you make wisdom checks. Oh, gosh. Okay. Are we actually like a sleep right now because this is really weird. Four, 12. 10.

All right. The 12 and the 10, you recognize where you are. You are at somewhere you were before. You're just outside the ruins of Ray Z. Huh? Did we teleport? Like, can we still see the mountain? You see a huge scar in the land behind the Cractus, where it looks like the entire practice was shoved along the ground back in the direction where you were. God. Wasn't that like a different hex altogether?

Yes. You are now outside the ruins of Rizene, which on the bright side, you're closer to Fort Endridge. What did you do, Gunther? So let me get this straight. Goethe, you pushed us into like a completely different land? I did not know. I used so strong in us. Pedrock the mole To have dug a hole What do you do? Dug a hole

Mole Pedrock does not sleep He moves mountains and earth So she is in charge of Mountains and earth And geography and things And not sleeped it Yes

Wow This place is totally messed up man What does the area Like where we see The Ruins of Rizine Do we see any type of like Barrier or like Illusionary type thing

Like what does it I don't know what you were going to ask, John, but... I was going to ask the path that you're calling like a chasm. Is it just like as far as the eye can see and is it just like destruction? Yeah, it seems like it goes off into the horizon and yeah, it's like a scar on the land. Everything that was in the way has been leveled. From our knowledge where there are like towns and cities and things that were destroyed? Not as far as you know.

It was pretty empty. And then to answer Barbara or Barbara slash Doug's question, no, it appears to be, there's no barrier or anything. You're outside the ruins of Razine. It's not an illusion. And if we look down like where that scar is, if we're close enough to see, is it like just a pit? No, it's not very deep. It's like a very superficial. It got just drug into the ground. So what did we do to like Solasad's local economy if we took away their like biggest tourist destination? We've utterly ruined that place. No one will want to travel there because there's nothing to visit. Are there mustangs okay?

There's private parts. Private Parts is wandering around and says, On the bright side, it's a quick hop back to Fort Indrich for here. Why do you think Bedrock wanted to move things? Almost like they wanted to move things along. Think of inspiration die if you don't have one. I'm going to make a guess and say that through your communion with them, they might have bestowed upon you a little bit of their juice.

Or we made you into a super soldier with all of the fluids that. My goodness. Punch me. Well, he not only did something that was physically impressive, but it was physically impossible. He moved something from inside of it. I mean, you know, sometimes a cat can get stuck in a box and then the box moves around, you know. That's true. It's a different scale, but I see what your meaning is. Yeah, I'm just saying that it also happened in like a half second.

So that's something to keep in mind for future communions with these gods. Okay, so I think we should probably, there's something to be done here. Clearly, Bedrock, she wanted us to be here for a reason. Oh. But like, at least that's my interpretation. But like, where is Flynn in the rest of the sleepy time cult? Are they still around? Probably just still in the practice.

They're still inside. Inside. Okay. Welcome to your new homes. Yeah. Are we good with them? Yeah. They don't seem to be coming out.

or anything, they're still doing their work. Do we maybe, like, go back in the practice, take another little nap ski and have another talk with bedrock? I'm scared to. Or should we just maybe, like, go over to the ruins of Rizene? Because, I mean, it's here. And I feel like everything happens for a reason.

Private parts. I'm pressing Start menu to see what our objectives are. Private parts, what's your read on the situation? I mean, we probably just totally messed up, like, zoning and stuff like that. So, well, he said we're closer to where we were heading, which was Fort Andrews. This is just us on our way. Yeah, I think private parts would probably say,

The will of the gods can be capricious and mysterious. I can't fully understand what the bedrock may have been thinking. But we should take advantage of this boon, which is presented to us, and make our way back to report to Sergeant Steli. We got a few things to report. Just a few. Yeah.

Just a few. Well, I mean, Nadie, you're called. You're the leader, apparently. Someone put you in charge. Phone ranks. Yeah, that's what I figured. No response. Doug gets right behind Natty and salutes.

That's you. There you go. You know, yeah, I like that. I want to, I want to report in. I feel like if we wander around anymore, we're going to have way too much stuff to report in. Yeah, yeah. Private parts, scribbles your order down, Natty. Hey, Gus.

Is that a long rest? Yes, we'll say that was the longest for Gunther because of all of that. Actually, speaking of long rests, you know, Everyone forms up behind you, Natty, and you hear something behind you, Natty. Sounds like sawing of lumber. Oh, no more sleep. I turn around, and I look at that. Lumber or slumber?

You turn around, and you see Gunther standing behind you saluting what was head drooped. He's fully asleep and snoring. Okay. Gunther, you see in your mind a youthful humanoid flower. It burns with flaming petals. You know it as the wilder flower. She's visibly upset, burrowing her brow at you, Gunther. Oh.

Isn't the Wilderflower like your... That's his God. I'm sorry, what have I done? Your faithfulness is wavering Gunther. I've seen you talking with the other deities. You must prove your fealty or suffer the consequences. What can they do for you? We'll find out in the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon.

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