Tales from the Stinky Dragon - C03 - Ep. 29 - From On Hyra - Wilder Flower Power

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

Gunther deals with the fallout of his deity and Brutaliteam finally returns to Fort Endridge Support us directly on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/stinkydragon - get access to ad-free episodes, bonus content like Stinky Dragon Adventures & Second Wind, our patreon-exclusive discord, and more! Check out our new Grotethe T-Nic merch at store.stinkydragonpod.com ! Follow us on our socials at https://linktr.ee/TalesFromTheStinkyDragon Cast: Gus Sorola, Blaine Gibson, Barbara Dunkelman, Jon Risinger, Chris Demarais Writer/Editor/Composer: Micah Risinger Producer: Benjamin Ernst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever been listening to this podcast and been like, hey, I want to listen to more stuff like this? Well, you should check out Rude Tales of Magic. It is an improvised narrative role-playing podcast, sounds familiar, huh? Where artists, writers, and comedians from Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Marvel Comics, and more fight and stumble their way across the Madcap and exceedingly rude fantasy wasteland of Cordelia. You've got a group of unlikely survivors, a talking crow, a litch in a wig, a bubbly faun, a Sasquatch punk, and a teafling hunk, and they must solve the mystery of Polaris University's vanishment and return balance and higher education to their world.

And it's got a great cast including Branson Reese, Christopher Hastings, Carly Minardo, Tim Platt, Joe Lepore, and Ali Fisher. Whether you're a longtime lover of the series or a newbie, this tale is one you definitely don't want to miss. Subscribe to Rood Tales of Magic on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Pocketcast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. New episodes drop every other Tuesday. Check them out.

That's Rude Tales of Magic. of magic. treffle off this moral coil. It's a mixture of mycelial mud, a bushel of blight berries, a tusk of toadstools, a steeping of stinking of tea bags, and topped with a munching of mulch.

One pore of this plant-based poru, pushing the path of yeast resistance. Previously, our adventurers floundered with face-obsessed lizards and crept into the cragist to converse with sorcerists. I got to swallow a lot of spit. Gunther gifted his body to a slumber science sorcery and bantered with the bedrock. While sleepwalking,

the croak folks somehow shoved the cractus to a new location, is now conked out into a confrontation with another deity that demands dedication. Draw yourself a drip, and let's dive into this dank drama. Micah drooled all over his keyboard. He's just covered in it right now. I'm never more aware of the saliva. my mouth and when I have to read a long block of text and it's like oh my god do is it always like this uh hello everyone welcome to tales on the stinky dragon i'm here dungeon master gustavo sarola

and i'm going to hit our four players with a bullet oh no no the DM hasn't gone why is that an ongoing joke in our show why is that an ongoing i don't know it makes you think of uh there wasn't there like an old meme or an old joke like oh my god that that that baby has a gun who gave that baby a gun it's not kind of like that like just an unexpected juxtaposition of american life um this week's arrow question is what bird do you most relate to and why everyone go and roll that d20 and let's figure this out roll that beautiful what yeah my brain we spend too much time together yeah 20 oh three 17 uh six all right so we got 20 from blaine 17 17 15 all right so we got 20 from blaine 17 from Chris, six from Barbara, and three from John.

That'll be our order. Again, what bird do you most relate to and why? Hi, I'm Blatt. I mean, Gibson. It didn't work. It was, I tried to do a joke there. It didn't work. And I played Tov, the male Thametech Barbarian, level six.

Uh, yoo-hoo. I'm going to step in, it's me, Tov, and, you know, birds. I love birds. But the one that I relate the most to is like, when you go to one of those children, pizza combo arcade places and you go and they have the stage and then the curtains open up and then they have all of the animals and then they're playing their music instruments and then one goes it's a small world after a world world world small small small and then the fur comes off and then it goes into flames and then you realize that there's a robot underneath and that the children

oh they scream they scream from the robot that That is the bird I relate to the most is the animatronic one. The animatronic bird whose fur lights up in flames. Yeah, that's me. That's what I relate to, yeah. And then a crazy man puts a child inside of your machine, then their soul is stuck in the machine. Then you start hunting Josh Hutchinson.

Dude. And I don't even want to talk about five nights because my nephew is like, dude, it has his soul. Those have not been forced to watch it with children just now catching up that it's a five nights reference. Yeah, that's what I was thinking you're going for. And then you said

Josh Hutchinson and I was like, wait, what? Because I was saying the video game and I forgot that it got turned into a movie, right? Movies. Oh my God. Actually, the trailer looks pretty decent.

So, sponsors five nights. Is it one movie per night? I'm not going to let it slide, by the way, that you said a bird covered in fur. Do birds have fur? Well, the, the animatronic ones do,

you know, they're not going to cover those with feathers. Do you know how much feathers cost? Gustavo, what are you silly? Just find some pigeons. Slap that stuff on all over your robot.

Yeah, that's sanitary to put in a chucky cheese. All right. Thanks, Toll. I appreciate your insight into nightmarish animatronic birds. Welcome. Who's next? Hi, I'm Krista Maris, and I play Gunther, the male crook-folk fighter, level six. First, I want to say, just had the thought, Gus, Gustavo, would you be a goose?

And then... Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha, hog, hog, hog. Negative inspiration die for Chris. I know, I would say this about birds. I do not relate to any of them because they sometimes rain down upon my religion to attack us. But other than that, I guess I would say, penguin. Or it is flightless.

And other than them being in the cold weather, if there was a hot weather one, then I would be it. Don't penguins also collect like special shots? shiny stones that they give to their partners. Yes, they do. You do they? That's adorable. Yeah, it's another connection for you there.

You're like a shiny stone, don't you, Gunther? I like shiny stone. They made a whole Don Bluth movie about it. I've ever seen Penguins hug? It's like, I've seen people do it. And they're like, I'm doing a penguin hug where they put their foreheads together with their partner. And then just like put their arms out straight and slap the same side. Like on the side.

I've not seen that. It sounds cute. Sounds adorable. All right. I think that's a good one. People often forget about penguins when it comes to birds. That's a good one, Gunther.

Thank you. Penglings. There's so for you, good birds. All right. Did anyone understand what that sentence was? Nope. No, we just laugh. I watched you all laugh, like,

just to move across what he said. It's called being a good scene. There are no good birds. Yes, he just got it. Classic Chris phrase. Yeah, I got to. I don't know. It's like Steve Corella, like Bruce Almighty when he's messing with him.

It's all about, it's what the feeling is. It's not the words themselves. That's a lot of podcasting. It's just the feelings you get. It's more like Gus was laughing to get to move across what Chris said. Yeah. Sweeping that under and moving along, I believe next up was Barbara. It is. Hello, I'm Barbara Dunkelman. I play Doug Boone, the male artificer bugbear.

And a little known fact, Doug actually quite liked birds. Every now and then, he'd do a little bit of bird watching, you know, sit in silence, check him out. And I think over the course of the many years of bird watching, Doug has come to the conclusion that he is most like a raven. Oh. A raven's very highly intelligent. They know how to use tools. You know, they're playful, they're loyal. all the good qualities that Doug season himself, I think.

And they never forget their enemies. I want that too. Is that true? I feel like Ravens do really have a good memory, right? Yeah, they like pass down knowledge through the generations of people who have wronged to them. Like, if you get on the bad side of Ravens, they will remember.

After that Raven you have wronged, is long gone. It's children and their children will remember you and not like you. I had an experience with a Raven. and it was the most intelligent bird, wild creature I've ever had. Like, I was helping one of its bird friends. And they were all mad and attacking. But then they were like, oh, he's chill.

And it was like the logic and understanding that they have. Ravens are crazy. Yeah, just like Doug Boone. Just like Doug Boone. Also, side note question. I heard someone say that wasps also like, like remember faces. So if you like wronged them or like hurt their mess or something like that, they'll remember you, which terrifying enough.

Like Trevor had to kill a wast nest the other day And I'm like, kill all of them Do not leave a single one alive You leave no wrenesses Can you go in wearing a baklava or something? I can't remember Balaclama Not a sweet dessert

Chris is hungry I want to wear a baklava on my face I was getting in an elevator The other day in a parking garage And as I was getting in A wasp started flying into the entrance of the elevator as the door was closing and I reached out with my hand

like I was gonna swat it and bat it away and then I stopped myself I was like, what am I doing? Like, there's a sure way to get a wasp sting right in the palm of your hand and it turned away at the last second.

Not if you're fast enough. He's not going to my floor. Oh, you're going down, I'm going up. All right, bye. I was on set one time filming something and there was a was a wasp on set that everyone was afraid of and one of the producers just came

and like literally batted it out of the air and onto the ground and it died. Hell yeah. I was like, I want to marry you. I know I'm like troath, but I'm into it. That's like some AD energy there.

Just like keep it rolling. Let's get this, get this nuisance out of the way. All right. Speaking of the nuisance, just get out of the way. I will step out of the way and let John take a turn. Hello, everybody. I'm John Rice here, and I play Natty Wonder, who is a drow, warlock, drag queen, mother. And if I do love birds, I think they're so pretty.

and I think they have such, like, varietus and beautiful plumage, and their voices sing, you know, are just a blessing to us all. But if I had to pick a bird that I relate to, I'm going with an ostrich. Oh. I feel like ostriches, you know, a lot of people think that they're kind of, like, odd looking and a little, got some odd proportions and stuff. But I think they're beautiful. I think they got great powerful legs, which, which is. If you know anything about me, I'm, I'm strong and sturdy in the lower half. And they dance.

Have you ever seen an ostrich dance? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's cool. And I like when they, it's almost like you can hear music when they're moving and doing that dance. And I just like that about them. Plus, I just, I love that. They got ginormous eggs.

You can make like an omelet for like five families with one of them eggs. I had you pinned for a peacock. I thought peacock, too. Yeah. That's surprising. Or that bird from planet Earth that, uh, when it's like dancing for its mate it's like it has that giant blue like smile on it it looks so cool yeah Gus I'll go ahead and answer for you you're a turkey

because I'm great at bowling yeah I know uh I'm not what a flex John or Natty I should say the interesting thing about when ostriches dance especially with their plumage and their wings is it reminds me kind of like showgirls and like Vegas showgirls with those big feathery fans that they have and they're kind of like moving them around. So it kind of ties in with like the performance aspect that I think and that you would enjoy. Sorry,

I don't think you guys know that reference, but I'm just going to leave it there and let in, but who knows what song I was singing. Is that from SNL? Nope. I mean, they might have parodied it. It was like a Christmas movie with George Clooney's mom, right? I know it was a Christmas movie. I don't know who George Clooney's mom. So it could have been or not, I don't know. I'm not really good at like a Hollywood

legacies. It was George Clooney's aunt. I'm so sorry. Rosemary Clooney. I'm glad you corrected that. Thank you. Yep. Yeah. Chris was really worried. I think he needed to know.

White Christmas, Chris. You bitter, Chris. You good? Yeah, I'm good. Okay, good. And I'm Judy. Yeah. All right.

Let's move on to the episode. You hear something behind you, Natty. Sounds like sawing of lumber. Oh. Oh, no more sleep. 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 it the wilder flower 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 deer. You must prove your fealty or suffer the consequences. What can they do for you?

As you say this, you feel comfortably warm as a cool breeze brushes past you. A cacophony of chirping and skittering reverberates off the walls from insects, and tropical foliage sprawls across the floors, walls, and domed ceiling. You're inside an ancient temple made of smooth stone with a dome. dull sheen. You know this holy place. It's a sanctuary of first bloom. I'm waiting. She taps her toe. Uh, does it gunther see like, does it open up anywhere like anything present itself like in front of them? Uh, it's a pretty big room that you're standing in. There's nothing, uh, you know, the only thing directly in front of you is the wilder flower and then, uh,

you know, the walls and all this tropical foliage surrounding you. And there is a pedestal nearby that's empty. You got to go to the pedestal. Sure. I'm sorry. I have strayed in my path. I shall make you whole. I promise soon.

What can I do to ease your pain in the moment? Give her water. Give her moisture. Spit on her. Yuck. I'm going to need you to say that in Toll's voice. So this is in,

so this is in World. We're not there. Blaine is, though. Blaine's inside the. am I supposed to just do everything for you, Gunther. And now look at you, the fouling the pedestal further. Oh, no. Gunther jumps off.

I'll search to clean it. Do you notice anything at all odd about the pedestal, Gunther? This is empty. I know I shall fill it with, uh, mm-hmm. Gunther looks around for anything alive, like, fruits or food or anything. Okay. Make a survival check to see what you find. It's 14.

14, yeah. You find of course, like I mentioned, there are insects which are in abundance, but as well, you know, you begin looking through the tropical foliage and you find various strangely shaped and colored tropical fruits that you're able to pick up and make a little snack played out of.

Charkootery. Sharkootery. Show this help. She looks over your, the fruits and that you've presented her. I assume it's just like a variety of fruit. Is that correct? Okay. She looks over the fruits you provided her and kind of picks through them and says,

I'm more interested in vitality, specifically your vitality, Gunther. Yes. Yes, I understand. Yes, yes, yes. Gunther takes his sword and cuts like his palm. Okay. So that's some, like, the blood oath. Yeah, blood can drip from it.

She grabs your palm with one hand so that your palm is open and then puts her other hand on top of it, on top of the wound. High five. It's more like a Gunther hand sandwich is what I'm envisioning. Yeah, yeah. Yes, this will do. And then when she removes her hand off the top, it seems like the wound itself is not healing. I thought Naddy's deity was bad. Oh, we.

Oh, ho. Do you need more? No. She withdraws her hand, and then she knocks all of the fruit you present. off of the pedestal. She points at it and looks at you and says, You lose the blessing I bequeque the croak folk. You leave your family and home behind.

You casually speak to other deities. If I didn't know any better, Gunther, I'd say you've lost your faith. Not lost it is. I've just lost my way. I was trying to make you whole again. And I got lost. But I will find you again.

I'll find the way. We'll see, Gunther. And she exhales a breeze of fiery floral petals. They swirl around you faster and faster. And with a foosh, you're back with your companions saluting Natty. Though the red sun hangs lower, it now shares the sky with the moon and stars. Evening has fallen. When she did the pedals, though, she went,

Blu-Ah! It's like a boomer in Leffordead. Yeah, yeah. You look at your hand, Gunther, and you have the wound here in your waking life. Metagame-wise, we're going to say that your maximum HP is lowered temporarily as a sacrifice to your God. How much? By half. So instead of a maximum of 66, you have a maximum of 33 hit points.

Holy moly. Not a very nice god you got there. Where are we the rest of the party in relation to Gunther at this point? So you all are standing around Gunther. You're at the outskirts of the ruins are raising standing next to the Craggis and with Natty, leading you all. Oh, that's right. We moved. The practice moved. We're in new land. Is Gunther still out of it right now? No, he has now snapped back to and a little bit of time has passed and they have Gunther standing before you. He was zoned out for a little bit. He's sleepy head. You good? What's

what you doing over there? I'm not good. I am the opposite of good, which would be bad. Why are you bad? What's going on? I'm failing. I think he's just a little quanky because he just woke up. I I've been there before, you know. You just have a nice, long nap, and then someone wakes you up, and just everything sucks. I know the feel. It does suck when I wake up right now. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm losing. I'm failing at everything I set out to do.

I need to hurry. Okay, let's break it down here, Gunther. What do you mean you're failing? That can be many things. You know, education-wise, you could be failing a test, or, you know, you know, Or are you, like, failing a mission to be specific? I'm failing my dear tear, my family, and myself. I've been wasting time.

I'm sorry. I mean, what do you have to do? I can't be an army. I need to go. Like, again, though, you're speaking vaguely. You're like, I cannot be an army. What specifically are you failing at? Like, tell me, you know, like, be plain with me.

I'm very stupid and I need to understand. Finally, someone else said that. someone else in this group. See how it feels told when you're like a secret robot for like forever? And then I'm just kept asking you questions. You wouldn't tell me your secret robot? I was waiting for a climactic and cinematic place to do so. I don't know what that means.

Something was stolen from my people. Okay. And from my deity and I must return it and I can no longer be distracted. And so like is your deity talking to you? Like, what do they feel about all of the... Is your deity in the room right now? Is the deity here? Do you see the deity right now?

They are here with me in my heart and in my soul and in my blood and they are not happy. Well, I mean, maybe there's a way for us to help you, Gunther. I mean, we're all a team, and so if there's something that you need to find, maybe we could help you. I must find the 11 toad of the he then who are stolen from my people. The 11 toad? And he's talked about this guy. He's got someone betrayed him with 11 toes. But like, Gunther, it sounds like your deity is giving you lots of grief.

And you kind of saw how I interacted with my deity, you know, the sea drinker, and how great our relationship is. Like, have you considered, you know, I don't know, opening up your options, maybe looking at other deities, perhaps? That would be a crime. and I shall not hear of it again. Okay, I'm just saying, if your deity is treating you poorly, then maybe it's not your fault,

maybe consider possibly it's the deity's fault. Have you or a loved one been abused by your deity and you need someone to talk to? Call Fi-Fi. Oh, it is I who has been abusive and absent. Metatalk, Gunther's deity sucks, right? They're like super mean and jealous and they just hurt Gunther and Lord his age.

Like, Gunther's not the problem. I mean, Gunther's a problem, but he's not the problem. A, not the, very different. We'll find out, huh? It's all a matter of perspective. Everyone has their own, their own view on things. Well, from my perspective, his deity is evil. Nice.

Yeah, maybe we could help you. Because, you know, we'd hate for you to leave and then we'd be without, you know, our croak, folk. Fighter. Fighter. That would be, that would be a problem. And, you know, we could work together. So, you know, we'll help you, and then you help us, and it all works out that way. I agree with Doug.

You know, like, we won't push the point any further. You've expressed discomfort in us talking about this, but just know that our door is always open. Me, Doug, Natty, clearly. Gigi. Gigi's there. Captain Grumbles. I mean, you could talk to Gambad if you need to. He's very easy to talk to.

Yes, he will process it. Maybe I still talk to Gambat privately. Any time. I appreciate your love. You know what? In the spirit of sharing, you know, that's what we're kind of asking from you, right?

You know, we're like, hey, Gunther, and we hear that you're having a problem and you want to leave the army and we're asking you why. And you're giving us a little bit of information, but like maybe to help you feel a little bit more comfortable to share more,

I can share as well. Oh. Doug is sat I think I'm going to sit as well I don't want to hear about this I'm not sharing about me Okay I'm standing up now I'm sharing about Gunther

Okay I'm sitting back down now We we kind of kept this to ourselves But you know what I've been thinking about it And I think it's silly for us to kind of keep this as a secret I don't like secrets We found by we, me and Doug We found a little paper with your face on it down in the bottom of the ocean.

What? Oh, we're telling you, huh? Yes, Doug. And Natty grabs Doug's hand and squeezes and go, this is about making us a stronger group as a whole, okay? Okay, okay. I thought you were going to say that you had some sort of like trist, some secret romance, but, okay, go on, go on.

With who? I'm betrothed. I got a wife. You're right, but I mean, you know, you can still, you know, I don't know. That's my son right there. Okay, I know. Oh, God, what's the paper saying? Yeah, and Doug is not interested in people in that way. That's my teenage son right there. I was saying Gunther X Natty.

Oh. Yeah. Well, I think Gunther also has a wife, doesn't he? I have a wife. You're a stupid idea. I'm sorry. I just learned the word Chris. I was Sharon. I was sharing.

This is my time. This is my time. I reclaim my minutes. It said you were wanted. It was like a wanted poster. And by wanted, that doesn't mean like, oh they want you it's like it's bad wanted for crimes it was like it was like a crime thing like you've done something bad against someone else and they're like well i pay money to get this little so and so back here so we can punish him oh i've done many things that are bad and i do probably deserve to be punished so that is not surprising but do not know who would have such a paper on me do we remember like who put out that wanted poster like what the like who to contact if found kind of situation yeah

about it in the second wind. It's for Patreon members only and can be found at stinky dragon pod.com. Very insightful show. Tollv endorsement. Doleve, take an inspiration, DiBlane. Yeah! I have been searching for a long time,

and I have been on my own for a very long time searching, and I have been, and I've encountered many people in that time. And I have only joined Army only because I thought I could maybe see people and find things that I could not find on my own because the army opens up opportunities that it is difficult to do as a single person. But as before when I was on my own, I did many things to try and make my deity whole.

Okay, but did you, does the place sky blue falls ring any bells? I don't know, does it? Sorry. Yeah, does Gunther remember that place? Also, Doug, why does he keep talking about his deity's whole? hole, what does that even mean? A good one, 12. Doug high fives.

Yes, yes. It was a joke, yes. I've been studying these things you call jokes. And that I could tell was a play on words. Not to be confused with a pun. I was not always alone. Oh. I left my village, but I did not leave alone. Oh, so was it a black?

Shish, shish, it takes him forever. I'm engaged. I know, but he's just let him get the information. He takes long pauses, and I need to fill in the blanks because I can't stand awkward silences. So Chris, speed it up. I left not alone, but with my friend Bunlap. We had to separate because we were in prison. Oh, so you escape prison?

Maybe. But it did it not escape me? Well, that's a good one. So is Bunlap still in prison? Sky, Blue Falls prison? he may be last time you left him let's just be specific there we go i hope he's good but our mission is not to escape each other's from prisons but to make our village whole what does that mean i think that was stolen we must return it what was stolen i cannot say can you speak of it broadly

and help them out in that respect under an object an object that is sacred to my people that makes that makes my deity hole that is that protects our village, it was stolen, and I must return it. What if we named several objects, and then you give like a subtle cue, you know, like a spice to the nose

or a vink? Why do you need to know the object? I just, I saw that we can also look for it. I'm looking for it. You do not need to look for it. Well, I can also help look for it. That isn't my mission. Is it a cup? No. Chair? No. Vace. No. Sword.

No. I'm just going to keep naming things. Boots. No, no boots. Gloves. Well, here, here. Okay. Team leader telling everybody, hush, hush, hush, hush.

All right. You do that a lot. I do because you guys are tarts. Our channel boxes. Let's be real. Thank you, Doug. I'm still holding Doug's hand, by the way. So I'm a mediate here because I can tell that the group's getting a little frustrated,

did, but also so is Gunther, okay? He's trying to share, but he's trying to share within confines that are comfortable for him, okay? You know, so just so we're all on the same page, you were with your people in your land, wife, kids, all that kind of stuff. Then you and Bunlap left your people because, generally speaking, you went to go to retrieve something? Yes.

Okay. Okay. And then while trying to go and retrieve something, you did something that someone else thought was bad enough to put you guys in prison. Yes, I do not agree. I'm being very clear. I'm being very picky of my words here. So they decided you need to go to prison. But while in prison, you by yourself were able to get out of prison. Yes. Okay. And then at some point after that, you joined the army. Yes.

Okay. Now, the only little puzzle piece I'm trying to figure out where this. lands in the timeline of Gunther is that 11-toad dude where does he fit in what i just described was he before you left the land or was he like a prison dude no he was in my village when i was younger he just killed my my family and stole from us and then i grew up and i said i will find him he stole this object that your deity needs yes oh yes yes sorry i did not know that was a question but yes yeah Doug also just realized you were saying 11 toad Like toads

T-O-E-D T-O-A-D Yeah, yeah, yeah Very, very different You can see the confusion Coming from Gonto, I mean I understand But they're not tools

The person we were talking to Was the alchemist, okay? Hold back Okay, so he stole it, and now you left, and you left in order to reclaim your honor? I left to make my deity whole up. My honor was there. Okay, so the thing that was stolen, it damaged your deity. Yes. Okay, okay.

I cannot return home without it because I have no honor. So then, no, sorry, yeah, Tov, I'm all about, yeah, I'm, here, I'm a pass the talking ball over to Tov, okay, Tolv, you take the talking ball. What is this ball? It's the talking ball. Whoever holds the ball gets to talk. Okay, hi, Tov, you, who, it's me. This thing, you don't have to say what it is, but, I had it. It was a really good question that I was going to say.

that Chris up. Well, here's what we can figure out, is that the 11-toed fella, have you told us what kind of race that creature is? I don't not know. All I know is the number of toes. You saw something's toes and you don't know what it was?

Do you know what color the toes were? It could be like in Jurassic Park when they're hiding under the table and they just see the raptor feet coming by. It's like you don't see the rest of it. You just see like the claws. You could pick those raptor feet out of a lineup, but you don't know what the raptor looks like. Yeah, yeah, if it was it, was it a raptor? It was not a raptor.

Okay, okay. I always saw were the feet and that's his old. What kind of feet were they? Were they like your feet or were they like my feet or were they like Doug's feet? Well, I don't know. What you had a feet where they? Maybe we should figure that out right now. Well, I mean, is this something where you genuinely don't know or like you just don't

I think that's Chris saying he hasn't determined it. Yeah, I haven't been determined. So I don't know. Okay, okay. We can go back to that. you can make that decision now if you want but totally up to you do it do it craft the world as we go it was a toes that have long talons and they were the color of purple i love this this is just this we're weaving a pat a tapestry of narrative joy hey natty just a quick question don't i know

this might be weird what do your toes look like natty you're kind of purple I am purple but I don't have talents Okay I trust you You also only have 10 toes I have looked That's weird to share but okay I've looked at all of your toes Yeah that tracks Okay I feel like we've kind of got an idea of like

What Gunther so it sounds like You just had a dream that your deity Is getting impatient and a little huffy Can I ask what this object does Like what purpose it serves? You don't have to say what it is. Can you tell us, like, the use of this object? No.

But God, my, oh, my. We are trying to help you. I cannot say you are not in my village. I swear to God if this is like some sort of like hacky sack or like one of those whoopey cushions. The holy hacky sack. So here, because I can tell that we don't want to lose our Gunther, but Gunther wants to be able to do his little journey. Let's find a middle ground here.

Okay, we're on our way back to Fort Endridge to finish out the mission we're on right now. What if, once we get to Fort Endridge, we then can discuss with our superiors an opportunity to integrate your mission into what we do next? I think that's a great idea. Fortunately. Yes, that would help.

Okay. I thank you for that. well you're welcome and i encourage you i mean talk to toll here sharing is caring it makes you feel better we can all we can all carry the load okay yes okay i know we shall share the lord because i do not feel it's very strong right now why not i just feel weakens and gunther shows his hand oh my god what's happened that looks bad yes we don't know about what happens thank you blaine it is me giving to my deity to help then be strong

but it shall make me weak yeah that's quite wow see drink could never ask me to do anything like that you're saying it ain't a competition told you ain't help don't drink you get a competition I'm saying he deserves better you've changed you used to be so

polite and nice at the beginning of this little campaign now you turn into a little bit of a of a stick in the mud well now I got to know you guys like gee whiz I mean dog you're cool, but these other bozos, wow, wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. It's really all coming out now. Yeah. Yeah, I do.

All right. Well, we're going to have to talk about this. We got some... Yeah, we're splitting the party. That's right. Me and Doug are our own party now. Isn't that right, Doug? Doug, is there anything you need to share to get off your chase? Yeah, Doug, go ahead. Let's share what your feelings are that we will go our separate ways. My feelings are that I proposed this idea probably 20 minutes ago in this conversation. and everyone ignored Doug. What was the proposal? That we go and help Gunther on his quest

in addition to doing our stuff. Yeah, I feel you on that. I think we had to like bring Gunther to your level, Doug, is what we had to do. It feels like there was a journey here that everyone had to take part in. You put down a steak. Doug, at the front end, the end. Yeah, but I had to like, you know,

you got to drag a horse to water sometimes. Yep. That's exactly that you can lead a Gunther to water, but he's not going to acknowledge it. Sometimes you've got to scoot it from the behind and be like, keep moving, keep moving. There's water. See that where Doug is? Doug's where water is, okay?

Yeah, I'm sweaty. This whole situation makes me very nervous. That's Barbara slipping into Doug. Listen, you got to put something yourself into your characters. And I still don't know where this ball came from. Oh, that's Gambot. Sorry. Let me get back.

That's the cut. That's the talking ball. It's just handing Gambot around. Yeah. And he's just got his little. He's just looking at you while you talk. Smile, face. Okay.

Shall we head? Yes. Great idea, Natty. All right, so Doug's also passive-aggressive now. We're all developing in new ways. Is it not directed at anybody? I love it. So to set the scene, you all are outside the ruins of Razine.

And, you all did pass through here on your way many, many episodes ago. You did pass through here, and people say that some locals here aren't as drunk as you think. There's the constant racket of hammering and sawing, but the locals are connoisseurs of fine wine. The entire town is under construction, and there is a creek nearby that I believe you all crossed on your way through here, and a temple that also appears to be being rebuilt here in town. Oh, this was a Cobb and his crew, and they were looking for lumber. Yes. So there's construction. Did they find the lumber?

Yes. You all kind of made a deal with them. They found you all. Not all of us. They found some of you at the greenhouse with the fate gardeners. And Tov, I think, you made a deal with them to take the lumber in the area from the trunks of Tehi and to use it to rebuild their town. And then you dove down the chasm to regroup with your party. Tov the diplomat returning to his people. I am the savior. Hello.

Are there any out? Or do we say? see them? Do we have time to stop by and say hello? Do you guys want to talk to the ruins of raising Cobb? Do you want to get an update from Cobb? A human who's walking by notices you all and catch his eyes with you. You know, he does that thing where he was staring at the entirety of the practice, which wasn't there before, and his eyes come down and see you for, and he walks straight over to you guys. Oh, did you just see that mountain move? That was weird. Are you okay? That Mountain didn't hit you? We're good. Yeah, I know we're good.

Yeah, we ducked. Oh, that's good. Someone order a crag-tis? What are you doing here? I don't recognize you as a local. We're here to see this crackus. Look at this thing. Why are we automatically lying to these people?

Because I don't want to talk to them about why this crackus is here. I just don't feel like having that conversation right now. Mama's tired. Mama wants a glass of wine. Okay. You should be able to conjure that for yourself at something No, well, that's what Gus said that they're known for here Is that they got wine

I just want to I want to get to that part The name's Tenzow And who are you? What are your names? I'm Natty I'm Doug Doug Boone Goonther I mean Toll? What? I'm Goonter You are trying to take my identity

I'm looking for an 11-toed man But I mean I'll tell you why You're not looking for such a person Tolls on the dark web doing identity theft, literally the person's right next to him. You who, it's me, Tov, sorry. So, Tan Zau, you know, we've actually passed through these parts before. We talked to Cobb. Where is he? Oh, he's busy rebuilding.

Metatalk, are we recasting Cobb? Did we not get his voice actor back? It's Cameron. It's Cameron. It's Cameron. We can we afford Cameron? Can we talk to Cobb? That guy needs work. meta wise it's kind of a decision point for you all right like this npc comes out to you and it's up to you whether you want to engage and go into the ruins of raisine or if you'd rather just talk to this person and then keep moving on it's kind of like you're at a nexus of choices for the party i certainly will not make the decision i wouldn't mind talking to the people the ruins

of razine to get an update because i think we left things off rocky and i think this is our opportunity to patch things up with them because we kind of helped And we certainly left things off more Rocky now because there's a giant mountain. Yes. Good one, good one. I think that's a call for your team leader. That's Natty. Yeah.

Yeah, we could do a little bit of pit stop. Quick pit stop. We ain't staying here for long. We're going to get a little bit of an update and get out of here. And Gonto, if you happen to see anything that looks like the object you're missing, you don't have to tell us, just maybe like, uh, maybe just give us a sign or something. Or like a little. You do just signal like a, like a, like a, something.

Yes, yes, I shall do that. Okay, okay. Natty, I promise I will get you some wine for your patience. Gigi needs some wine, too. Oh, he's a page? Oh, my goodness. I guess I don't know they're drinking it, too. It's up to, you know, Natty's the parent.

Has subscribed to European-style parenting. A fringe. So, Toll, if you're asking Tanzal about Cobb? Yeah, I'd be interested in seeing Cobb. I'm asking Tanzow if he can take us to Cobb. Oh, I can't. take you, but he's over there. And Tanzau points at ye old wineskin.

Perfect. Tanza, thank you so much for your help. Enjoy the practice. I hear that it used to be a huge source of economic growth for the place that it came from. And now it's yours. Oh, it's mine. Okay.

Well, it's not yours. It used to be solosods, but now it's in the ruins of Razine. So have fun. Mine. Okay. All right. Enjoy the elevators. Let him have this. Let him have this. He seems distracted. Yeah. Yeah. He's looking past you. He's now looking at the crack, just and walking past you over towards it. Guys want to head to the wine place? Yeah, let's walk over. So you all make your way in the direction that Tanzao pointed into the town that's under construction, specifically to the building he pointed out, ye old wine skin. And as you walk through town, all four of you make me perception checks. It's our first role of the day. We've just been role-playing, yeah. 19.

16. 11. 21. Okay. Those are all good enough roles. All four of you notice that for all the noise that seems to be happening nonstop, the construction progress is slow. Not much has happened since you were here last.

And it seems like all of the construction that's going on seems to be haphazard and not very focused or directed. You approach yield wine skin. And of course, as the name would imply, it's a winery, a shop of some kind. and there seemed to be a handful of buildings under construction near it. Homes, an inn, bank, schoolhouse, you know, typical town stuff. And specifically for ye old wine skin, it has a blurry sign and a sagging roof and a door that seems to be slightly askew.

Do you think the people who built this place already had a little bit of taste test of their product? Yeah. I don't know if I feel safe going in there, but I want to see Cobso so bad. Knock, knock, knock. No, I was going. The door just falls off. So you all go in? Yeah, sure.

Okay. You walk in to yield Weinskin, and as you, you know, look around the interior of the building, it seems like there's bulging leather seats set out all around inside of the room. And looking at the bar, it seems weird because it looks like the bar also slopes to one side. And behind the bar stands a middle-aged human. And, uh, sitting in one of the leather seats, you see a gnome who you recognize as Cobb. Oh, Cobb. Hey, Cobb. What's up, fella? Good to see you again.

I can hear the finger guns. I can just hear the finger guns. Cobb kind of slowly turns his head around, uh, looks at you four, kind of squints his eyes for a second. Oh, hey. Get on over here. Oh. Here we come. You recognize us right, Cobb. You remember us? Yeah, it's you guys. How's it going? So good. It seems like things at the ruins of Razine are... It's less ruins and more like new builds, am I right?

This is looking good. New Razine, huh? Oh, we're working on it. Really trying to get the temple of the vine dresser rebuilt, but there's a lot to do. Yes, yes. We have been good to no longer lit the Great Sick. It has passed. We are cured, Cobb.

Oh, the Great Sick. Right. He turns and looks at Gigi, who is now much bigger than before. Oh, he's still big. Is that because of the Great Sick? There were permanent side effects, yes. But he's a strong and healthy boy now, yeah. Yes, yes.

If I remember, right, the last time you came through, Gunther said that the Great Sick was affecting Giggy and that's why he looked the way he did. Yeah. Just public video out for it, or animation. Yeah. That's too bad. Well, the rest of you look okay. Yeah.

So like, it seems like you... It seems like you've got that lumber that you were looking for, remember, when we helped you find it? Huh? Oh, yes, the trunks of tea. It's a lot of lumber. I don't know how to use it all. We're figuring it out. Good, good.

It looks like a solid bill and guntish slats. Tuck, dunk. Yeah, Cobb puts his wine glass down on the table, and it begins slowly sliding down the slanted table. Uh, this is just a question for Cobb. The last time, like the first time we met you, had you been spending some time here in, uh, ye old wine skin? Maybe. Okay.

Just trying to figure out if, like, it's just the way you talk or, maybe just, you know, spent a little too long in here. It's a regional accent. Oh, really cool. Say, can I buy some of that vine? Hmm? Some of that regional accent? Yeah.

I'll have what he's having. That's the specialty. Go talk to Connor over there. And 12, make me a charisma check. 12. Okay, yeah. Cobb, what kind of motions for you to come in closer? Like, he's going to tell you a secret.

Okay, I come in as close as I can without being blown away by his terrible breath. It's pretty bad. Connor keeps the good stuff in the back. Ask them for the Merloth. Okay, thanks for the tip, Cobb. And Cobb does a very exaggerated wink to you. Wink? That's a blink, but okay.

Is it with both eyes slowly, like... They're out of sync. I'll talk to Connor. Yeah, you walk over to the bar, and the bartender's wiping down the slanted bar that's in front of them. They've got a patchwork blouse on, and if you get closer, you kind of get a smell off of them, like tea. You know, tea leaves. You must be Connor. Hello, you who? My name's Tov.

How's it going? We, I am, Connor. Oh, another regional accent. Connor, see where. Last time, yes, yes, yes, I would like a bottle of the good stuff. I've been told that the Merloth is especially good here. Oh, indeed. Connor disappears for a moment, going behind the bar, and then emerges with a dusty bottle,

and pours you a glass from the bottle, and it's a deep black ruby color and slides it over to you. Oh, one glass of the mallet. Can I get just a bottle, like unopened? You know, it's a gift for a friend. Oh, big spender. Wee, we. They disappear again behind the bar and come back out with an unopened bottle looking very similar to the first one they brought out

and put it down next to the glass. Very nice. What's the damage? That'll be five gold. Okay, then I will hand over five. And I'll go ahead and give that bottle the glass a small. And I'll say, ooh, notes of berries and, yes, the body. Oh, look at that. And what about the legs?

The whole great legs. Yes, the legs on this. Yes. The potency. What year is it? What, yeah? Oh, it's the vintage. Oh, it's the freshest vine.

Great. Okay, well, thank you for business, Connor. Keep it up. Love this establishment. Support local. They just kind of nod at you and go back to wiping down the bar. Okay, and I give Natty the bottle for her troubles. You go, Natty, as promised, bottle of wine for the busy, busy mom, you know.

It's tough job. So happy Mother's Day. Could Doug walk up to Connor? Yeah, absolutely. Hey, uh, Conno, was it correct? Wee. Have you happened to see any, uh, anyone purple with some talons walking? looking around town?

Pepper? With talon? No. Okay. But you know? But you know? Maybe they just don't frequent places like this, but uh, maybe I happen to see one. Just be on the lookout.

Ooh. Okay. Also, I like your accent. The French. Oh, V. I am French. Oh, it's terrible. Terrible. It's from parish.

please do not talk to me too much it's easy as a Gus we need to not cast this character and just have it because I want to talk to that Italian guy again let's just take Gus around Europe and see what we get let's not do that

Bob were you done talking to Conor oh oh there it is There it is. So, Cobb, tell us about the temple of the vine dresser. What is that? Is that associated with some sort of a deity that I might know? Yes, of course, the vine dresser.

It's usually what the temples are named after, Tov. You got me there. What makes the vine dresser so special? Are they like, you know, do they frequent these parts? You know, like, what's their deal? Oh, they're the greatest deity, all right. They can conjure, summon, and control vines and grapes and create magical wine. Wow, that sounds like a very cool deity, right, Gunther?

Hmm? That sounds pretty cool. I was wondering what you're doing with that. He's trying to, like, blind date Gunther up with a god. And so this vine dresser, are they looking for more acolytes and followers? The vine dresser is always looking for more people to become. pruners. I shall not talk with other deities.

Sorry, Kyle. I like a picture at that point, Gunther's doing like to see no evil, hear no evil speak no evil. He's like covering his ears and his eyes and his mouth. Yeah. Who have you been talking to? So, you know, Cobb, it seems like things are going, Val. You know, you're

rebuilding the vine dresser and things are going great for the ruins. How were things with Teehee? Was that like an amicable relationship? Are you guys supporting each other? Oh, yes. Almost too much wood.

Don't know what to do with it all. They're having their own construction, too. Luckily, they make tons of lumber. That's great. Seems like everybody's happy and we helped out, right, Cobb? Yeah, good job. He gives you a big thumbs up. Okay, that's all I needed.

I have been fulfilled. This is the point of this mission. I got Natty the Vine. I've got my thumbs up. I'm good to go. Tov was doing his victory lap for diplomacy here in the ruins of Raisin. I'm just saying like, wow, private parts, did you hear that? We fixed every,

I fixed everything. Private parts scribble some notes. Private part's still with us? Yeah. How much wood would a raising raise for raising could raise wood? Ooh, it's a good question. Gunther and Toll make me, let's call it perception checks again.

It's a 14. That's a one. Gunther, you noticed that, you know, as Toll was talking to Cobb and they're talking about the trunks of tepee and all the lumber, you know, you're looking around and thinking about how you walked into the old wine skin. And in your opinion, Gunther, most of the new construction is stone, bone, and clay. It doesn't seem like there's a ton of wood being used in the new construction. Hmm. Stone bone and clay. This is an interesting use of wood I see.

Oh, yeah. So, so much of it. How old do you go about building these, this fine structure? I'm interested as someone who also likes building. Normally, one of us starts building on one side and someone starts building on the other, and then we figure it out and meet in the middle. And so the wood, where does the wood come in? Because I don't see it. No, that's an interesting question with many answers.

You see, the wood comes in from the trunks of Tiki. gets put here, and we kind of grab it and slather it up there. Oh. Slather it up? Yeah, it's a technical term. I'm not familiar with slattering wood, fortunately. Why don't you make me an insight check, Doug? It's only an eighth.

Yeah, you have the distinct feeling that Cobb has no idea what he's talking about. Hey, uh, Cobb, you're not like the leader around here. Who's in charge around here? In charge? No one. That sounds like a perfect structure for things to get done well. Do you perhaps have like a priest who's like helping with the vine dresser's temple? No, but we'll find one though.

After we build the temple, first the temple, then the priest. So the temple's not done. Oh, no. You all made your bar first. Yeah, you got to have a place to unwind after a long day. Play-o-oldies. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, it's going around here.

Because, I mean, you could, well, you can worship wherever, but, you know. I agree, I agree. Like she's got to have their liquor licenses, and that's all. That takes a while. And with no one in charge to approve them, I mean, it's a terrible bureaucracy. Where, where is the wood from Teehe going? Like, do you guys have a storage area that you're keeping it? It seems odd that you said there's slathering wood everywhere, but I ain't seen much slathering.

Oh, yeah, it's, it's out in the, uh, middle of town. Natty motions her party to go with her out there to investigate. I go with Natty. Yeah, I'll go. Sure. Thank you, Cobb. We might be back with more questions, but you take it easy. Maybe drink some water.

He lifts a glass in your direction and kind of nods and turns his full attention back to his drink. Yeah, you walk back out and there's several different buildings all around a town square. And sure enough, in the middle of town, there's like a large surplus, what you call it, like a depot, a holding area with lots of lumber. All right, group, I feel like there's some fishy going on here, and we can figure this out. We're very good at this. Now we've had practice with these kinds of puzzles and mysteries, okay? So, thank you. Why don't we spread out around this lumber, and we can see if we can find any clue onto what's going on here?

Why is everybody all drunk but hasn't made their temple, and why are there the wood not being used? I have a theory. I think that that's just it, that they're just a town of drunks, and they just don't know what to do with the wood. You know, I don't know if there's much of a mystery of foot, to be honest. Maybe they're professionals, professional crastinators. They're pro-crustinators, yeah, yeah. I've dealt with that before. Okay.

Tov, I think you might be right. I think we just might have stumbled upon a bunch of drunken idiots who are not doing a good job of what they should be doing. I mean, maybe for the safety of these people, we report back to the mortality and then they just like send like someone from the court of engineers or something, you know, like, so that these guys don't die. You know what? I like that idea.

Why don't we just keep checking on this city, like every, uh, every so and so and see how they're developing and we can, we can get more and more of this story. They're like our sea monkeys, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I like that.

I like that. Okay. Because they love the more Italian. Don't they? I mean, I'm curious to see what they're going to do with the practice when we come and visit them again. I bet they're going to build, like, tree houses, but very poorly on the cracktus. They're just going to mine the crackus.

We're going to come back to, like, a, uh, a memorial around all of the crackis, around all of the people who died in the elevator system of the practice. Okay. Well, Tov said he's been satisfied for what he wanted to do. I'm really itching to get back to Ford Andrews. I guess I'm itchy too. Oh, we should get that checked out going through. I'm down.

That's just dugged hair all over you. It gets everyone gets y'all itchy, you know? Yeah, try being me. I'm starting to think that Fort Andrews might not be there anymore how long we've taken to get back to it. So let's get there. I was hoping maybe to look at the creek real quick. On the way out, we could, yeah.

Is that possible? The creek is on that side of town. Just do that. That's where you stopped on your way from Fort Endridge, so you would be able to see it as you're leaving. leaving town. Perfect. What if Fort Endridge got moved like the Cractus?

That's funny. So could I go up to the creek? Yeah. You all begin leaving town in the direction of Fort Endridge, and you do come upon that creek. You know, it's a pretty small creek. It seems to be kind of very soothing water. And, you know, you look at it, and the water's almost kind of, I would say, like, it's a velvet-colored water, and it quietly churns in bubbles. When you look at it and the light hits it just right, it seems like it almost has a purple,

hue to it. Can I like scoop up a little bit of it and see if it reminds me or like I think Doug's sense of smell would be pretty good because like smell is a really good memory trigger. Yeah. Does it smell like any of the concoctions that they were working on in the practice for sleep? Oh, interesting question. Uh, make me, hmm, I'll defer to you. Uh, intelligence or a wisdom check. I'll do intelligence. Okay. 20, dirty 20. So how, how are you examining it just so I can give you appropriate answer? Just smelling it, I would say. So you get a little bit in your hand and try to smell it.

Yeah. So right away, you can tell it's not the same because when you touch it, it's almost like sticky to the touch, whereas the fountain in the crack this was a very like clean water. This seems almost like more viscous and sticky. And when you smell it, it has that kind of a sweet odor to it. Okay. Could Doug remember if he's like ever touched or smelled or seen this type of liquid before? I'll say without a roll.

I'll give you this one. I would say, yes, this almost smells like a kind of a diluted wine. Oh. Maybe it's like vased or something from the leftover berries and things. Well, it almost seems like if all the water in this town is also like just a diluted wine, it seems like everyone is just constantly in this like state of being kept in this, like almost like a little tipsy, you know? Maybe they need like good plumbing or something.

Like, they need fresh water, not, you know, booze. Yeah, perhaps. Maybe that's just why the vine dresser likes to, or their temples here. Maybe that's why. Maybe. I mean, if the people are happy, I guess we don't have to intervene. But, yeah, that seems like dangerous. It's just alcohol all the time.

Yeah. Yeah, and as you look around, you know, besides the creek water, there is also a crumbling stone bridge and a ruined carriage. And there are multiple animals near the riverbank. are the animals drunk they just fall over are they kind of like wobbling a little bit make a investigation check

that's a 15 12 yeah the animals seem a little unsteady on their feet it's that scene from Dumbo well this feels like something that someone should fix but not us go ahead and write that down

take notes of that private parts Private parts furrows his brow And writes it Could Doug just take like a little bit In like a little Vial? Yeah Yeah like a sample to take back with you

Sure Okay And you can probably write like Raisine Creek Water That would remember what it is Okay I will say to you that when we Realize that

Through our actions Had somehow relocated The Cractus to this town I was like Oh no we might have ruined this town I don't think we ruined this town I think we raise the property value I think we might have helped them, you know?

Who knows? I don't know if they would know if we had. Yeah. In the very least, we've provided, like, a storm shelter that will not crumble under, like, a tornado. Or we just provided the new temple for the vine dresser. All right. Party, move out. Move out.

And they wanted pruners, which is a funny word from that. I guess that makes sense. Like how you cut down pieces of a plant. Were there any villagers who were stomping grapes and then they fell down and they went, Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I can't breathe. Classic. Classic. Classic.

The best internet video. You begin your trip. direction of Fort Endridge. And by now, it is fully night, but the red sun is still present. How is it night when the sun stays up and is fixed? It's just how you would divide the day. I think at this point, it would be what would be commonly decided on, right? Like, I mean, we even have parts of the world here that it's nighttime, but the sun is still out. Okay, yeah. Better not be a flat earth type. No, no, no. There's not a multiple sun situation where like one will go away, but the other

will be like kind of a stagnant moon. Yeah, yeah, I got you. No, no. The moon and stars are present, though. Okay. Yeah, because this planet doesn't move. So, uh, you all arrive back after a bit of trekking. You arrive back at Fort Endrich.

And as you're approaching private parts chimes in and says, we should probably report to Sergeant Steele at HQ. Oh, I miss him. I wonder how his voice is doing. Gus is getting ready. I, I nominate that, our best note taker be the one to debrief with Steeleye. Before y'all make a joke, it's done.

Thank you. Thank you for, thank you for volunteering, Natty. Oh, no, wait. Our best note taker is private parts, obviously. He's constantly taking notes. It sounds like I think private parts will debrief Sergeant Stey, and we'll just be there listening and hear the recap of everything we just went. I think we could step away. We could just let them talk to each other,

and you and all of us can just go, like, to the best hall or something. Long rest? Yeah, it's a great idea. Private parts, any thoughts? We should all probably report to Sergeant Stey together. But if you're happy, either I could do the debrief or Doug, whatever you want. I think you would be great at it, private parts. Oh, no, I think you're being modest, Doug.

You can help us that. Just answer any questions, Steyla has. No, I already nominated Private Parts. Okay. Private Parts kind of stands up straight. and begins walking. Let him have his moment. I was trying to give you a moment.

Come on, BT, this way. Do you all follow private parts to age you? Yeah, I follow. Home sweet home. What one of many homes. Over there's where a fire started. And then over there's where we got fooled because there was someone that was like a skin walker

who was acting like someone they've earned. I'm familiar with that. Over there's where they got accused of stealing, Thon. All right. So, you know, you all are back at Fort Endridge, which is the westernmost military base for the Mortallion. And it's where most recruits are sent to for basic training. It's where you guys performed your basic training.

Oh, so long ago. You remember where HQ is. You've been there before. It's a two-story stone building, and there's four soldiers guarding outside of it. And the front door is obviously guarded, but you all are recognized as being members of the Mortaliants. You're able to walk straight in.

At ease, everybody. The team is back. This is the building where the courthouse is, where you went through your court-martial oh so long ago as well. Fond memories. Never forget. Attempted court-martial.

No, yeah, true. Okay, fair enough. You're led to a room where Sergeant Steli is overseeing some plans and looks up as you all walk in. Welcome back. It's about time, B-Team. Oh, how I missed your sweet voice. Oh, my wife missed it too.

I'm sure she's mad at the heck right now. What does Mrs. Steeleye do? What's her deal? And we're not here to talk about her. We're here to get a debrief on what's been happening. I'm curious, Sergeant Steli, if you had to make an estimation, how long since we've been gone? That is a great question. It's a great question.

It's been a week. Has it been a week? That's it's been. Yeah, it's been roughly a week. Wow. It's been one week since you're looking at me. Feels more like a year. So let's have a little.

little fun, B-Team with this debrief. Why don't we play the alphabet game? You guys know the alphabet? I did English alphabet. Some what familiar? Let's play it. Yeah, you all are going to debrief me one person at a time,

one letter at a time, going through the alphabet. Oh, God. I love it. That's great. On the conversation of how long it's been, I was going just through all my notes in my notebook to see how many.

It's like 12 pages of, That's a lot. Not quite two pages a day. All right, so what we're going to do is we'll play the alphabet improv game while debriefing the mission. We're going to take turns alphabetically by name. We're going to go Barbara, Blay, and Chris John. First player is going to speak a phrase beginning with the letter A,

the next person B, so on. And we'll end the game when the group gets to the entire alphabet or when someone pauses too long or uses the wrong letter. Okay. You! points at Doug. Hey, go! All righty. So, we left Fort Endridge.

and then went on our journey. And here's what happened next. Hey, how long is this episode supposed to be? Be! Before we could get to Indrich Bay, we stopped off at the ruins of Rizene, where they were struggling to build things because they didn't have any wood,

so we went to Teehee to see if we could give them wood. See, can you be? believe that we next went and found some people pretending to be priests and wood. And then they became actually not that where they were demons. And we fought them, fell down a hole, fell down another hole. And then Rene and Tolfir made peace with Rizine and the other people where they said, hey, take this wood, but they do not take that wood, then use it very well. But then we met the baron.

Nice, got it. Next, go. Everyone thought we were going to lose our fight with the baron. Over. Game over. D. D. D?

Oh, okay. He talks so long. I forgot what a letter we were wrong. Oh, what a pitiful debrief from B team. Uh, sometimes I wonder how you all even made it through basic training. Can't even get through the most important part of a debrief. D brief, the letter D. Nice, nice, nice.

All right, despite my best efforts, I'm pleased to tell you, you four have been promoted. Woo! Yay! Well, are we talking colonel, general. Are we at your level? Are we sergeants? Also, I just want to point out we didn't really get through the debrief.

Are you satisfied with the amount of information we told you about? Now, I'll get the rundown from parts. Oh, okay. Okay, cool. Each of you is promoted to corporal. Including private parts? Now, this is just B team. Well, I would like to formally submit a, you know, recognition to private parts without him.

We could not have done such a good job. I think that he should be corporal parts. Corporal private parts. Okay, all right. Corporate parts. Do you know what responsibilities come with being a corporal? I bet you're going to tell us. You're right, Tov.

Each of you gets a team of three privates to command. More MPCs. Are you sure about that? Oh, me? No. Well, that's up to them. Could I call dibs on private posts? Oh, dang it.

No, you get new recruits. Doug, your privates are right over. here. Private Crumpth, private Salis, and Private Will Dorado. Will Dorado. Okay. Now, Doug, my old eyes can't see very well. Why don't you help me figure out what they look like? You got it. Well, clearly, private Crumpth over here is a halfling, you know, a little bit on the shorter end of things. It's got, uh, it looks like brown hair, but it's kind of in like a bus cut, so it's really short.

And then a really, really big schnazer on him. Sorry if you heard that, Private Crumpus. He kind of looks down. Yes, sir. And then Salith over here, oh, wow, they look maybe like they're an elf of some sort. Long, long blonde hair, unrelated to any other character we've ever met before

who was an elf with long blonde hair. Totally distinct. And a very pointy shoulders. Okay. I like it. Good for a uniform wearing. Yeah. And then finally, Will Dorado.

For some reason, they're wearing a cowboy hat. I don't know why, but that's just what I see when I hear Will Dorado. And it's got a big red, scruffy beard. Love it. Sounds good. Yeah. It seems weird. Like a cowboy hat wouldn't be part of uniform, but he seems to be pulling it off.

Yeah. Somehow. Maybe it's a contraband, but they allowed it in somehow. They wear it for religious purposes. The Dorado clan. Careful with the word. contraband around a steel eye. I know.

Okay. Oh, that really helps me, Doug. Gunther, yes. These are your privates. Private Libby, private Rodney, and private Circe.

Why don't you help me figure out what these three knuckleheads look like? Yes, they look like muskrats. All three of them look like muskrats and they bear swords. And I called them this, the three muskrat tears.

Steyleye lets out a hearty gaffod, patsy on the back, uh, uh, Gunther. No, but seriously, specifically, what are they? Help me out. They're like, like, like, humanoid, like anthropomorphic muskrats. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. I thought maybe it was like a, like a insulting, lovingly kind of ribbing kind of thing. I didn't realize it was the actual description. That's why, that's why Steyal I was also kind of laughing.

Like, it's kind of like him insulting you. So I think that's why he kind of flashed on to that. Okay. Uh, next up. Maddie, me I present Private Electro, Private Allison, and Private Lars. You want me to tell you

what they look like? Yes. Well, Private Electro is quite a beautiful looking humanoid woman with short curly, brown hair. She's kind of covered in all this kind of, like, she's got her uniform, but then she's also got to kind of

decorated a little bit of some, like, silken coverware. Oh yeah, and Private Electro is actually, for some reason, they're like an older woman. It must have been somebody who decided to join the Army a little late. And Private Allison is also an older woman, a little bit taller than Private Electro, and kind of has like blonde curly hair and a little bit bigger than a little longer cut than Electros. And she's kind of wearing like a nice little kind of a bright blue pants suit with a big old belt with a big old belt buckle. again, all over their uniform. Apparently, this trio was given some license to kind of decorate

themselves a little bit, although I think we have been too. We don't, I'm not really wearing our uniforms, are we? We got a pirate of a fighter and a bug bear. And then Lars, Lars is actually the tallest of the mall. And Lars is actually also a humanoid old lady with like silvery white hair and is wearing these big all hoop gold earrings and a big and has a pearl necklace and kind of like a puffy scarf around her her neck as well and she's also kind of wearing these like silky robes as well let's go girls you got some fancy privates there natty well thank you told yes let me introduce you to private hunt Private, not wulu, and private smurgle, smirgrel, private smirgrel, I can't say it right, private smirgrel.

I look my troops up and down. Oh, yes, yes, very good, very good. Shall I tell you how they appear? Yes, son. All right, well, this first one, very charming young man, he's got a buzz cut, very military-cropped hair. That's hunt. And then, uh, not wulu. Oh, yes, they have, uh, you know, they're really trying to grow out their hair.

It's long and curly, but they have this big bald spot right down the middle. And then, you know, hair on the sides. And then smirgler here has a nice trim ball cuts. Yes, very good, very good look. They sound familiar to you guys. Smurger. A little bit. Uh, a little bit.

Sorry, got steel eye on the brain. It's the three stooges. Ah, yeah, yeah, that was my. That was my. I was going to do that if I didn't do the three musketeers. That's a good one. That's a good one. All right. As corporals, what are you going to do with your privates?

Son, don't, don't laugh at me. What training or orders do you give to them? What are we going to do with them? From a better perspective, you can treat them as a unit rather than dealing with individuals. Well, I guess, you know, this is our first time as corporals. So, Stasi, what are our options? Well, you can send them to do training. You can pick it.

Give them orders. Performing some kind of task around Fort Endrich. Sky's the limit, Doug. Well, I think the first order of business is to get some training in for these guys. So Crump, Salif, Will Gerardo, off the training with ye. The three of them give you a salute and run out the door, very enthusiastically. Oh, wow. Such power.

You didn't tell them where to go train. They left. I know. They seem to just know. I like these guys already. Go-getters. Yeah, let's dig into that. What kind of training?

Well, first, Doug has to go. catch them. They come back in, confused. They salute and they're like, What kind of training, sir? What kind of training? That's a great question. What kind of training would be important to Doug?

Is there like a library or any type of place with like, I guess, documentation on the wars and the history and everything like that? Sure. Why don't I give you a quick rundown of the buildings here at Fort Endridge? This might be helpful for all of you. It's been a while since you all have been here. It's been a week. It's been.

So there's the gatehouse. There's the barracks, there's the mess hall, the Cortez Courtyard, the seesaw, which is where you all did, some of your, like, it's the scrimmage indoor simulation area, the armory, and there's HQ. Within HQ, there are, of course, the war room, the Raven Room, the MP office, and the courthouse. I guess would the war room have documentation and things that they could kind of study the history of? There's a lot of maps laid out on tables with battle miniatures. It's kind of like where the planning for future actions are made. I'd say like I'd want them to go study the maps, so they have good sense of direction. Okay.

So they salute you and then run over to another table here in the war room and begin pouring over maps and the lines as they stand now. Oh, they make quick work with this. All right, Gunther, what do you want your privacy to do? Yes. Hello, hello, musketeers. There is someone who has done. bad for army. They are very bad, very

bad. And let me tell you, they have leans in close to whisper. They have six toes on one foot and five on the other and they are purple. And you shall try and find of them or find news of them. He already told his privates more than he ever told us. He's really

grown on these young fellows. Crush them right away. Okay. Private Libby salutes you, Gunther, and says, we will report to the Raven Room and study any communications that may have come to look for evidence of this 11-toed individual.

Yeah, secret mission. So the four of them run out of the war room. They went to the Raven Room? Yes. All right. Maddie, what do you want to do? What order do you give? Yeah, okay.

Electra Allison and Lars, your first bit of training is how to deal with an uncooperative and unruly prisoner. Okay? So your job is to deal with Giggy for a bit and give Mommy a break. Natty turns to Giggy and goes, now, baby, I want to be very clear.

I don't want you to be easy on them at all. I want you to take them through the ringer and you give them what for, okay? Do Mommy Prout. And at that point, Giggy just leaves like just walking chaos through the camp. All right, training starts now. I think your privates would salute, look at each other. with some concern and then run out the door chasing Giggy.

Keep your hands away from his mouth. I imagine that Giggy like ran up a wall onto the roof, did like a full 360 and then out the door. And then out of an eye. Love it. And Natty just goes,

that's the first break I've gotten in quite a while. I like to think the second Giggy runs out the door, Natty's pulling out that bottle of wine. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Toll, what about you? I want to check my shield.

Any, anything happening? No. Your shield appears. It's normal state. Okay. Well, first of all, privates, I have something to tell you guys. And Steeleye, I think you should be tuned into this as well. And then I pull off my face and reveal my thomitech.

There you go. And first and foremost, be on your toes because anybody could be anybody. Who? How does Steyi react from that? I'm going to make some roles to determine that. Yeah, because I guess this is his first time seeing it, too, right? Right? Yeah. I hope he's on angry.

It'll be fine. He loves me. Well, that's some intricate armor there, Toll. Good on you. I'll pass you on the back. As far as your private smirgle looks to the side and, you know, gets a little sick, but then quickly regains his composure. Just vomits at the face. Okay.

I slip my mask or my face back on and I say, okay, now I want you guys to be in tip top shape. I know Fort Indridge was described as being coastal. Is that referring to like Indridge Bay that's like farther towards the coast? Like the fort itself is not near any water, right? There is a moat around it and it's coastal in the sense that it's relatively close to the coast. But yeah, you are correct. Indrich Bay is the actual city that's on the coast itself. Okay, well either way I want you guys to do like a training montage.

So I want you running up and down the water. The moat, like on the beach, I want you to do strength training. I want you to do, you know, cardio. Just also like boxing training, like all of the cool things while listening to like cool music, okay? Living vicariously through all these guys. Yes. These are my kids, my children, my babies. Sir, can you sing us a quick little ditty of cool music so we know what to work out to, sir?

D-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Perfect. That's Rocky 3. You should know this. You're going to keep going if you let it. Actually, that's Rocky 4. I'm sorry. That's the one replay. It's the rush and Ivan Drago. Anyways, if you die, you die. Now get going. They salute and then run out the building.

Yeah, I think Toll would like Rocky 4, right? There's a robot in that one. No, that's 5, isn't it? The sun has a robot. Four, that's four. Robot in a Rocky movie? Yeah, it gets real weird. Rocky's son gets a rope. It's a way of showing that Rocky's like, he just got a ton of money. Wait, like, what kind of robot?

So, Polly gets a robot, and I think it's like a, it's like a, kind of like a, like Betty from future, the, like Jetsons? The Jetsons. Yeah, it's like, like, Rosie. Yeah, like Rose. I think that this would be a great thing for us to talk about Second Wind, which is our bonus show available exclusively for patrons over at Stinky DragonPod.com. I've never seen Rocky. We should have a quick aside. Blaine, let's make sure you and I are on this second wind to dig into and talk about Rocky, specifically Rockie.

for. Perfect. But again, yeah, all levels of or paid Patreon tiers have access to that over at sneaky dragonpod.com with the lowest level being $5 a month. What a deal. Okay. All right. So you all have dealt with all of your, the privates that are under your command. Let's make some roles to see how they are all doing. We'll start again with Doug. Since you had them investigating and like looking at maps and whatnot, why don't you make me a, let's call it a history check. History check on behalf of my privates, 21. Wow. Wow.

Okay. Gunther, you had yours going through communications and exchanges in the Raven Room looking for evidence or leads on the 11-toed person. Why don't you make an investigation check on their behalf to see what they're able to dig up? I want to re-roll. I roll the four. I want to use my inspiration die. Yes. Okay.

That's better. 12. Nice. Proof. Above average. Above average. That's your name, Tov. Oh, that is.

Natty, what did you do with your privates? I don't remember. Oh, yeah, yeah. They're team-carried giggy. Ooh, why don't we do animal handling for you to see how that goes? That's offensive. And it's not untrue. That's a two.

Perfect. And finally, Tov, you had yours working out here. Why don't we make an athletics check to see how they're doing? Oh, this is plus six. Good, good, good, good, good. Oh, 13. Okay. Yeah, they're out there working out.

And Micah's going to compose a montage song for them. I like how he just make like mountains of work for other people. I say the thing, Micah, that ever waves his hands and he does the thing. You know, it's great. Yeah, it's that easy. Yeah, that easy. That easy. It's not.

It's not. Doug, your privates come back to you with a stack of maps showing you where the front lines are and with suggestions for deployments that can be made to try. try to advance the lines. Oh, excellent job, everybody. Salute. And he does a little salute to them. They copy the salute back to you.

Natty notices the maps all have the word reference on them and realize they're not supposed to have taken those out of the library. Gunther, your privates come back and they present a stack of messages to you. Here you go. We found all the instances of toads that we could find in the Raven communications. Oh, no. In the distance, Natty, you hear the screams of your privates as they try to wrestle with Gigi. Lars didn't make it, pity.

You hear specifically one of them yell, She said to keep your hands away from the mouth. They got to learn their lessons somehow. And told after a bit your privates return, and they look like they're exhausted after having completed a couple of laps around the moat. And here that surrounds Fort Endridge. Oh, good work. That's the smell of hard work. And then I poke them in the eyes.

That's how you salute. Yeah. Gunther, as you're looking through these messages referring to toads that have been presented to you, at the bottom of the stack, you see that there's actually messages intended for each of you, addressed to each of you. Yeah, there's a letter that has Toll's name, one for Natty, one for Doug, and one addressed to you. Gunther. We just got a letter.

Gunther opens it and hands it out to the others. Gunther, you open yours and hand the others their letters. And Gunther, yours is from Shannon. There's only two sentences. Gunther pulls his friends close and says, My end, Shannon, she says to be on my guard. What? Take good luck.

My aunt Shannon, she said to be on your guard. We should be extra careful. Are you sure she's not saying like on guard, like she wants to fight you again? Either way, you should be ready to fight. She's just lurking in the shadows, waiting for you to open it. Yeah, she got like a ninja mask on in the ceiling. Doug, you have a letter that's addressed you from the Council of Conservation.

Thank you for entering their contest and they're asking, they were saying that they would love to hear more about your ideas for an invention. Oh, absolutely. Let me just, uh, is there like a return address that I could write them back on? Yeah, you can just send something back via the Raven. Raven, just like Doug, the raven. Oh, yeah. Nevermore.

Dear Council of Conservation, Doug is writing a letter back. I am currently working on an invention that I would like to submit for your approval. It's called the Echo Pulse Locato. It emits a soft sound pulses like bat echolocation to detect hidden animals without causing any panic and then also draws them into the device's location. Ooh, fancy. Yours, Doug Boone. Kisses. P.S. Miss you. If we have a little bit of downtime, maybe we can dig into actually crafting and getting the process started on that.

Dug into. All right. So you, you know, write that and seal it and prepare it to send back via Raven. Natty, you have a missive from Troop Troop, who would love to know more about your song idea, and they're asking you to submit the first melodic line or lyric. I totally prepared that and didn't forget that that was something that was coming down the line at all. So, Troop Troop Pirates, right? Yes. Okay.

And they need a song just for like a theme song for themselves. Is that what this is for? You need help coming with rhymes. There's group, poop, swoop, scoop, scoop. Songwriter wanted. Troop Troop is looking for a songwriter of both talent and experience. Audition required payment negotiable. interested parties to send Raven to Duke.

Okay, puke. They just need a song. All right, I got a song for you. If you got a little, like a ditty or a line or something. Yeah, yeah, I'm made of ditties. Yeah, why don't you sing it for us? Why don't you reveal us with a ditty? I am.

I am. If you would just let me, I'm going to sing my ditties. Okay, go ahead. This is just, this is just like the beginning of the song. Okay. We're going to, we're going to workshop the rest of this. No judgment. Haven't gotten like to the chorus.

and hook yet, okay? But I got, I got a name for the song. The Troop Scoop. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's a song that's about Troop, Troop, you know, get scoop on it, okay? Yes, yes. And it goes like this. Here we are pirates here to sing our song.

We are Troop Troop, here for you. Why don't you sing along? Oh. And it'll go into a whole thing. We're like they ask everybody to sing along with this song. Verse two. I have an idea for the hook. Yeah.

A pirate hook. Yeah. That's good. When you started singing, Here We Are, I thought you were going to go into the Highlander. What's that one? The Highlander theme song, here we are, born to be kings. We're the princess of the universe. Oh.

No one? Am I the only old person here? I got bored of that movie. It can be only one. It's not a very good movie. I just know. that Sean Connery played a guy from Spain. Yeah, there's also a TV show.

It was syndicated. It ran for a while in the 90s. Was the TV show better? I liked the TV show, but I was also like 15 at the time, so I thought it was super cool. All right, cool. Thanks, Natty. You go ahead and prepare that

and get ready to send that back via Raven as well. Okay. Toll, that leaves you. Have a letter? Yeah, it's a brief letter addressed to you from Elva. This is my first letter ever. She is informing you and getting you up to date with her journey to Tropican

Island, if you remember, both of you decided she should go there to investigate further. She informs you she snuck onto a ship traveling to Tropicairn Island as a stowaway. Toll, I can't make it out. What was the ship's name? Oh, that ship there was the... Oh, wow, now I feel like John being put on the spot.

All you got to do is come out with the name of a ship. This is a hard one. I want to come up with something clever, but maybe something referential. Who's the ship named from Jaws? Oh, what was that? The orca. That's all right.

She joined the orca. Yeah. The orca, that's right. Yeah, she snuck onto the orca as a stowaway. And while traveling among foggy seas, the ship's crew got into an argument that led to a fist of cuffs. An argument. Yeah, argument. And it's blurry here.

I can't read it. What was the argument about? How did they resolve that? Oh, it was about Captain Crunch and whether or not he actually held the of Admiral or Captain. Oh, classic. What did they decide? They decided that the berries are the best part

of Captain Crunch. They got distracted and hungry and just started eating it. And they went down their berry way. Yeah. They found common ground. That's a good way to settle an argument. Yeah, half of the ship wanted just the yellow parts and then the other half wanted to oops all berries.

Classic argument. She goes on to inform you that the ship should arrive in a day or so and that she'll send a follow-up or even soon. So as I said, you all are standing here in the war room and, you know, it's a circular stone room with a large, one large round table that you all are around and other smaller ancillary tables where Doug's privates went to go do their research and look at maps and there's officers and aides in various positions standing and sitting all around the room. And as you all are here talking, looking over your letters, Gunther, you see something of a shadow flip past your peripheral vision. Make a perception check at disadvantage. Oh, 30-20. Nice. Oh, nice.

Very good perception. You catch a quick glance of a creature prowling along the ceiling. It has multiple limbs and two sets of eyes, but it's difficult to make out its shape, almost like it's camouflage. And foosh, it vanishes into the shadows. Once you're done, train in your privates. Ah, get them out! You see Steeleye pull a dart from his neck. Oh, God.

What the? Crash. One after another, all the officers in the room collapsed to the floor unconscious. From behind you, a voice whispers. Time for your lesson. Gantar. Here! The glint of Nunchucks strike across your body with a wham!

Find out what happens. Find out what happens in the next episode of Tales from the Sneaky Dragon. Panther dies. That's the end. Will Gunther live? Will Gunther die? Who will inherit Gunther's privates? Find out in the next episode of Tales in the Stinky Dragon. Oh, dibs on crumbs.

No, wait, no, that's... Dibs on Libby! Dibs on Libby! Big was a triplet pair. Thanks for listening, everyone. And don't forget to listen to the upcoming episode of Second Wind where we're going to talk about Rocky Four. Get ready to spookify your wardrobe

with our fangastic Halloween-themed apparel available now at store. Stinky Dragonpot.com. We've resurrected the Teenics from the Peace Day Parade in Groteth, including ghoulishly good designs like Frankenstein say relax, three werewolves howling at two moons,

and the eternally charming, kiss me, I've perished. You could snag these spectral styles on T-shirts, crew necks, hoodies, and even mugs. Don't be a scaredy cat. Head over to store.com. And pick up some spooktacular merch before it vanishes. New episodes of Tales from the Stinky Dragon premiere every other Wednesday,

wherever you stream podcasts, and on the Stinky Dragon YouTube channel. Want to listen to the show 48 hours early and ad free? You could support us by becoming a patron at stinky dragonpod.com or join as a member on beacon.tv. Both give you early ad-free access and a member's only discord for each platform. Looking for even more stinky content and community. perks, our Patreon offers exclusive bonus shows behind the scenes content, access to the Stinky Dragon Discord, members-only live streams, stinky community events, and a shout-out

on the show, just like Wolf Burns, Cindy Rowe, Deborah Murphy, Ozzie 13, and Sammy Madsen Olson. These patrons directly support the show, get ad-freeed episodes, access to our patron-only Discord server, bonus content like SecondWin and behind the screen, and other stinky perks. Stinky perks like the sneak peek of our latest tavern tale Groteth Death House. You see a shadowy figure dart down an alleyway. So they took my coin purse then? They took all my monies? Seems like they might have. You can't find it. All right, I say, Stop! In the name of the law! And then I run after them. I give chase.

You chase the shadowy figure down an alleyway and you turn the corner and you find two small children at a wrought iron gate. It seems like they're trapped in a dead end. Oh, no. I walk up and I say, hey there, little guys. To meet you, Paney. Pleasure to meet you. And I see you took my money purse there. And I slowly deploy my arm blade of the blurling.

and I say, I'm going to tell you the story about how I threatened to kill O'Lenry at the university, okay? Let's not have this happen to you, so let's just give me that money back because I spent a lot of my blood, sweat, and tears, but mostly my blood on it. The little girl looks really scared, and she says, I'm sorry, mister, and she hands out the bag out with her hand. Oh, that was easy. No intimidation check? Not at all? No. Oh, wow.

One blade of blurbling does it. Okay. Listen, little children, you can't go stealing around from people, all right? It gives us a bad rap. People are going to think kids are all, you know, mischievous and doing things that they shouldn't be doing. So, you know. We don't want to. We need to give it to the monster in the basement of our house, so to keep it from coming and getting us.

You got to pay a monster from stopping to come to you? Yes, it'll come and eat us if we don't give it money. So that monster, that's called a landlord, all right? So what's your time to do is because you're going to go to your local authorities? It craves hemo pieces. Yeah, that sounds like a landlord. Once again, that's stinky dragonpod.com. We are incredibly grateful for your support, which makes the show possible.

Some of our friends voiced NPCs in this episode, and listeners who interacted with us on the Stinky Dragon Discord had NPCs named after them. The Wilderflower voiced by BK, our friend at Black Crystal. Cobb named after Cobb, voiced by Cameron Fletcher, Cameron. Fletcher on Instagram. Connor, named after True Fuzzy, voiced by Ryan Haley, Ryan's shorts on Instagram and YouTube, and Ryan Plus Experience on Twitch.

Private Parts, voiced by Ben Ernst at Halcyon underscore Ben. René Zeus, named after Renee DeHesuz, voiced by James Willems, and Zach Anner, who are at james.willems and at Zach.Aner, from The AnswerForet Podcast at AnswerForet Show. Tanzu named after Jerscher, Sergeant Steeleye named after Sergeant Steele 82, Private Crompth named after Cap'n Crompth, Private Celesi, named after Celessi.S, dot S. Private Will Dorado, named after Will Dorado.

Private Libby, named after Libby Brown. Private Rodney named after Rodney Ross. Private Searcy, named after Cerce, named after Bob underscore Electro. Private Allison named after Allison. Private Lars named after Drax Lars. Private Hunt named after Alice Hunt. Private Not Wulu named after Not Wulu. And finally, Private Smurgle named after Smurgle 3,4, 9.5. Thank you all so much for being wonderful patrons of the Stinky Dragon podcast. This week's Aero Question was submitted by Sandria. This episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon was produced by Ben Ernst,

written, edited, and composed by Micah Risinger with additional editing work by Catherine Arnold. Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. What's up? What's up? It's Tov on the ones and zeros. That's binary. That's right. Oh yes. We've got a full show planned for you guys today. Everybody's letting go of their fluids. And for some reason, I am. dry, so I'm going to sit here and entertain you for the time being. Uh, let me see. What do we have in front of us today? Uh, we got paper. Okay. And then we've got, uh, we've got a pin. We got a writing instrument. So I'm gonna draw a picture. Okay. Just be fun. All right. Oh, yes. Oh, that's nice. It's a, it's a hashtag. Uh, hashtag. Let me see. I'm gonna put some X's and O's. That's right. I'm playing tic-tac-toe with myself. Isn't that fun? Isn't that weird? Uh, I'm Okay, and that's a cat game. I don't know what they call it, the cat game, but here we are. Wow, that's been told on the ones and zeros.

We'll catch you next time when there will just... What? Oh, Doug! Hey, wait a minute. I'm just checking out the equipment. What exactly is going on in my studio? You've sat in my chair. The butt print that I've been leaving in this studio chair is now not molded to my butt.

It's so fairly comfortable. I'm just digging into it. It's just so nice, you know, lumbar and whatnot. When you have to call security. Oh, no. Oh, no. I'm sorry. I'll let it slide this time.

As long as you'll be a guest on a future episode of Doug's on the ones and two SQL streets. Yes, yes, of course. The post show to that post show told from the ones and zeros. It's a binary joke, you see. Oh, I get it. Mine was a mask joke. There's a binary joke.

Yes, I'm a robot. Excellent. Be boop. Wait, what?