Tales from the Stinky Dragon - C03 - Ep. 30 - From On Hyra - Revelation of Renéesús

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

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What's up, all you umbral vampires, hover into the stinky dragon and lap up our latest libation. Take a leap of wraith. It's a mixture of sunlight sensitive tea bags, boiling in corporeal water, a giant hand of limonade, and topped with unripe grass berries. One nip of this necrotic nectar and your pores will pour darkness like never before. Previously our adventurers arrived on the scene of the ruins of Rézin, but after some constructive conversation with Cobb and other compadres, they ended up exiting to their end point of Fort Endridge. The party was promoted and put in charge of privates, but their proceedings were put on whole when a prowling perpetrator proclaimed their lesson planned for Gunther. Grab a guzzler and let's get back to this gassy goss.

Oh, that's a heck of a tongue twister there. Do you think there's an alternate world where Micah would have been a rapper? He is currently. What are you talking about? Also, I'm a gassy goss. What's up, y'all? Oh, p, p, p, p, welcome to the gassy gossy. I'm your stink master, Gustavo Sorolla.

I'm going to hit our four gas bags with an arrow. Gross. This episode's really trending high with the 10-year-olds. We don't know why. How does your character relax or wind down for the day? That was set by multiple people, RPG freaky, Piscuit business, and Hub. Everyone going to roll a D20, and let's get to it. Six.

One. 16. Seven. All right. So it's going to be Tov, Gunther, Doug, Natty. Well, hello, I'm Blaine Gibson, and I play Tollve. You-hoo, it's me Tollve. I am a Thermotech barbarian, and I am a level six.

And, oh, sometimes when I like to wind down, I, you know, let my hair loose. By that, I mean, take off my skin that belonged to my adopted father. And I hang it out, you know, and I nourish it with lotions and all these things to, you know, help it to last longer. and then I like to take an oil bath to like C3PO, you know, to make my joints feel nice and loose. Yeah, and sometimes I employ Doug to do maintenance on my body because I am a robot. I've seen so many things. And he loves it.

It's such a bonding experience for being dog. I feel closer to you, Tov. Yeah. Against my will. So Doug knows where the off button is. I'll never tell. The second time that you have mentioned the off button, it's very concerning. I also, I liked the idea of you washing your skin and accidentally putting it in the dryer and it shrinks and you can't get it back on it.

I bleached it. Oh, no. Who puts a red t-shirt in with my skin? Which one of you did this? Is that how Toll gets a sunburn? It's like a pink all over. Yeah. Oh, man, I love that.

Thanks, Toll. Appreciate that. We learned a little bit about you. Who did I say was next after there? Next, we got Gunther. Oh, wow. Hi, I'm Chris Damaris. My mom.

Are you surprised him like that, Gus? Why are you surprising him? You got to warn Chris. The croak folk fighter. And I'm, of course, level six. Of course, level six. What I do to relax is, of course, I like to burrow you all know that I find a nice cool spot and I'd burrow in and I relax and take a little burrow nap and then and then I like to I like to

read where I will I have some some um um some uh text that is important for for me in my village that I read people magazine. Barbara took an inspiration die I am what was that she said people magazine oh a book is important for my people which is about the wilder flower and what we must do and then if I'm not doing that then I just read books for fun

why didn't I know this about you because I'm always brood in a hole you can't see but I read books and I have a few favorite books like what? What kind of books? Is it any of my not books? I was going to ask if it was the not books.

No, no, no, no. No, it is not. That's enough nose. Okay, you don't have to rub it in. There's the fellowship of the spring. Mm-hmm. That's a good one. I heard of that one.

For whom the croak tolls. Oh. And then, of course, the art of war, terlilies. Oh, you got me there. Those are good. Those are pretty smart. No, you've read them. No, I've heard of them.

I haven't read all of them. Cool. All right. We learned a little bit about Gunther and his burrowing activities very, very much sounds like an introvert kind of person. Burrow. Thanks, Gunther. I like how you saying Burrow sounds like a ribet.

Burrow. All right. That's it for Gunther. I hope I don't surprise the next person. Doug. I knew it was me. I knew I was stood and we had two people go already. So that would mathematically place me next.

Wow. The math checks out. She did the math or he did the math. Astounding. Hello, everyone. I'm Barbara Dunkelman and I play Doug Boone. bug bear artificer and of course level six as well and and Doug actually has like a whole nightly routine that he does to to wind down first he takes a nice long bubble bath and really

gets in on his fur scrubs it nice and well make sure you know the dirt's out of there it's all fresh and then he takes about two and a half hours to comb out all the fur it's really tough after it's wet and he's got to make sure it dries nice so that takes a while but it's very relaxing and meditative, so he enjoys it. And then Doug likes to journal about his whole day, analyzing every single moment from top to bottom. That takes another two and a half hours, unfortunately. He gets really into it.

And then Doug also likes to read. You know, he winds down with a, you know, like a novel or two, perhaps, each night. That only takes about 25 minutes, so. How long does it take you to rehearse social interactions for the next day? I do that in the morning. It sounds like your day is pretty much you start winding down as soon as you get out of bed The process takes so long

When I wake up in the morning I review my notes, my journaling from the previous night And then I set myself up for success in the next day I have a very similar routine with Than Doug sitting there analyzing Thinking about all the social interactions That I say something wrong Do you have any books that you've read recently

That you enjoy Doug? Yes I actually read all of the Toll's notch books that he highly recommended. Oh, right, yeah, yeah. Riveting stuff, I know. Riboting.

Oh, very good. I thought I spotted a cord of nuts and bolts in your bag the other day. Gustavo, you're not supposed to see that. That's just for me. Listen, Doug's got on wine somewhere or another. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. No judgment.

Just, I was curious if it was any good. All right. Thanks a bunch. I appreciate that, Doug. And finally, last up. No surprise. We've got Natty. No surprise at all. No surprise. Hey, everybody, it's John Rice here, and I play Natty Wonder, who is a drow warlocked drag queen mother.

And I guess that also sounds like I should have, like, drag queen daughters. No, you should. Anybody want to be my drag queen daughter? I'll give a shot. Me, me, me. Every night, I do have, I do have quite a bit that I like to do in order to wind down. First, of course, is I like to take off all my makeup. That takes roughly three to four hours.

Oh, yes. And then after, you know, before I do that, actually, I like to give Gigi his nighttime energy drink, so he sleeps well. And then I do all makeup and, you know, I put my wig in its pressure, atmosphere-controlled case that I keep in order to preserve it perfectly for every single day. And then what I actually like to do is I like to journal a little bit,

but I like to try to write lyrics for little songs about what happened during the day is like a little practice for writing songs. And so, you know, I'll write songs about, you know, writing in my journal, Gunther being mysterious and weird again. I guess I should add another chorus to that song. I would hear. Writing a song about Doug and his luscious locks and his beautiful hair. I can't wait for you to perform this at the end of all of this.

Yeah, yeah. It's going to be a rock opera at the end of the... our journey together. But yeah, I like to write, I like to write little songs, little ditties. No tov songs, huh? No, no tov. I was watching Blaine the whole time.

You were saying that about me and Glenn there. Blaine just waiting patiently. I've noticed you try to make everybody's answer today about you. Yeah, that's, that's, that's Blaine. That's plain. Gus, I'd like to request an inspiration. nice for getting Blaine to break character and go into Blaine.

Blaine just wants to be loved. We did a thank you video to somebody forever ago. It was so like I can't even remember the context. And Gus said, way to make it about you because I said something about I appreciate how you do this with me. And Gus is like, oh yeah, so about you,

huh? It has stuck with me ever since. Oh my God. I don't even remember that. That's so funny. I think about it all the time. Guys, are we actually real performers if we aren't self-centered? No, I mean. That's true. That's true. Anyway, let me talk. No, my favorite part about that was you got Blaine to break character and he like looked down and looked away. Like, no one will ever see that. It was the crushing weight on him as he made the

realization. It's very good. Yeah. Blaine, you were loved. Don't worry. No, thank you. All right. Thanks, everyone. Learned a lot about your routines. 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. Ooh, 30-20. 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 whoosh, 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.

Got that. Here! A glint of nunchucks strike across your body with a wham! Oh my gosh. Are we about to fight ninja toads? How old are they? Teenage mutant ninja toads. Teenage mutant ninja toads.

Toads in a half shale. You got to sing it. Melody backwards, so it's a, it's a, knock, you the right, straight. The melody, not the lyrics. And if people listen to this backwards, it will be right. Oh, no, it's Rembrandt, Picasso, Monet, and Dolly. Yeah, go ahead and make me a strength-saving throw. Is Gunther going to die?

12. I'm not the strongest. I'll give you the option to make a dexterity saving throw instead if you want. Oh, yeah, I'll take that. Not the strongest, but you're the bravest. I rolled a 10, so instead of a 12, that'd be a 15. Okay.

I forgot that you're a finesse fighter. I know you're a fighter, so I was thinking it's strange, but yeah, for you, it's dexterity. When I think of Chris, I think of one word. It's finesse. No, no, it's pronounced a mess. Oh, finesse. A mess.

So you were standing there, Nunchuk come out of nowhere and hit you doing 19 points of bludgeoning damage. Ouchy. Nunchucks, huh? Yeah. Before you, you see what appear to be two thodes conjoined at the hip, and they're wearing masks with slits for eyes and a full black body suit that appears to, like, cause light to disappear, and it makes them blend into their environment stealthily.

They're attached? Yeah, they appears like they're attached at the hip, and they're moving completely insane. sync. Cool. Have I seen anything like this before? And have I seen thodes before? Like, is Gunther familiar with thodes? Make a history check for the first part of that question, and I'll answer the second one.

Okay. My history check was six. Okay. As far as thodes, your aunt was a thode. Oh, okay. You've already forgotten her, huh? Yeah, you have seen them before. I thought she was a crowfo.

Remember bigger, thicker. Oh. Like a thick toad. And you've never seen anything like this before. They're obviously very strong martial fighters, which, you know, that's a, you're very familiar with. But you've never seen anything, any creature move like this so in sync. It is time for your lesson, Gunther. I've been waiting for my lesson.

And God. Everyone, let's go enroll initiative just to get everyone involved here. Gunther, is this like your brother? Is this how you, you know, after we met your aunt and she assaulted you, I'm assuming this is tradition of some sort? No, I do not know. them at all, but apparently they are teachers. Oh, no. They're underpaid.

They bought their own school supplies. Oh, that's depressing. 14. 18. 19. 22. So I think it goes 12, Gunther, Doug, Natty. Doug ran those numbers twice. Yeah, I implemented them in my calculator.

And then I'll roll for the mysterious figure, figures as well. seven great thick 12 you see this scene unfolding in front of you before you do anything why don't you help me describe this room a little bit right now you know you're in the Fort Endrich headquarters it's a circular stone room with a large round table we talked about how it had a map showing the front lines and whatnot

and before this started there was a lot of chatter going on but now all the officers and aides seem to be unconscious on the floor What else does Tov notice about this room? Oh, it's got, you know, pink shag carpet, lava lamps every five feet or so. There's a couple of disco balls. This is a steel-ey's bedroom, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, you know, it's the officer's quarters. There's a coin slot to make the table in the middle rotate on a circle.

Yeah, I think Toll has a studio 54 filters enabled. I think we need to disable those before proceeding. Do you have filters in your eyeballs since you're like a robot guy? Oh, Micah, can we do that? I want to like infrared. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, maybe I'll work on that for you, Dolf.

Oh, new eyeballs score. All right. What do you want to do, Tolf? After I am done admiring the shag carpet, I want to, I'm going to see if I can make a move towards the thodes and hit them with my gavel of Gailstrom. Ooh. Yeah. Two-handed. That's a.

Look, 10. Believe it or not, it's a miss. Bummer. Okay, I have two attacks, so I'll take another swipe. 16. They deftly step aside dodging your gavel. Like, you know, that matrix move where like they lean backwards in bullet time. It's like that, except they're both doing it at the exact same time.

Your gavel swings missing over them. Ooh, they're good. Okay, well, um, let me see. I guess I could do a bonus action, but I don't really have anything in mind. I'm just going to, I'm just going to call it there. I'm just going to admit defeat on that one. I'm just going to swing around, swing one, swing twice, and then I'm going to just admire one of the lava lamps.

Oh, this is nice. Just taking the L? Yep, yeah, wow. After dodging your attack, your adversary just scoffs at you. Pathetic. Okay, well, that was insult to injury. Okay. Actually, you didn't injure them at all, so it was just insult.

Thank you, Natty. Gunther, you. Europe. Okay. Could I attempt to jump and flip over and get to behind them? Yeah. Do you have like a, is that like a move of yours or? I was just adding flare to it. Oh, okay. Ooh. I would just like flip, jump, flip and then attack from behind. And while I'm in the air, I want to go and then use a, use my second wind. Use my second wind and regain one D10 plus six. Okay. Just because you're flipping, make me an acrobatics check.

While you're saying that, I was like, I know what Gus is going to do here. That's why I'm asking, like, is there an ability? Like, what's going on here? How are we doing this? Let's try this. Acrobatics. Oh, man. Oh, no. All right. So I rolled a two, but I have a plus eight, so that's a 10. Okay.

You see, Chris, Gus doesn't reward tomfoolery. Whenever you think you're doing something that's like finesse or, you know, adding a little flare, he likes to punish that behavior. So listen, we have rules here that we have to follow. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying, you know, my ears of Kaiborg, it's, I know this experience well. Don't be surprised if you end up on the ground getting pummeled. Yeah, you make your jump and maybe you're focusing a little too much on your second wind and recovering,

but you almost fail to land. You barely managed to catch your feet under you and find yourself standing on the other side. And how much HP did you get back? 13. It's pretty good. That's almost all back. Yeah. And then I go, the only thing I want you to do.

teach me as where is that's six toad villain or 11 toad depending upon how many feet toes you're counting in total and then I want to attack oh man I rolled a one plus eight that's nine that's a critical fail yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I hate this it's funny it's like you get called on by the teacher to say something and you just like totally you can't you can't get anything out your mouth stops working temporarily and then you call your teacher mom and everyone laughs at you all right yeah you uh you try to strike with your uh rapier and you you know you try to stab with it but it kind of you know again me you were stumbling a little bit maybe your your palms are a little sweaty and

the the rapier just kind of like droops out of your hand and as you try to stab forward with it it points down and you just hit the ground in front of your own like it stabs the ground yeah it might disarm No, no, you still have it in your hand. Okay. But yeah, it's a, I'm just trying to describe an embarrassing scenario for you. Okay, well then, oh, shucks.

Second attack! And then try and use my second attack to get them. I'm careful of the shag carpet, Gunder. Yeah, if you get blinding that, it's no coming out. All right. 21. Ice. Oh, that actually does hit.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. I rolled a one, but I'm going to reuse my, uh, what's I'm going to call skill to re-roll that. I need to know what the skill is. It's the Whatchamacalla skill, Gus. The Whatchumacal skill? I don't see that in the rulebook. It's not here in the index. Piercer. Once per turn, when you hit a creature attack, that you can re-roll one of the attacks damage dice. Okay. And you must use the new roll. Yeah, but I rolled the one, so. Yeah, can't be any worse. Yeah, so that's a 12. Nice. And then I want to use, oh, wait, I already used my bonus section. Dang it, no, mine. I don't want to do that. All right, well, I'm done. I'll take

It's 12 damage. You'll take it? I do have much to learn. You're right. I reasoned by previous comment. All right. You lash out with your rapier after the embarrassing failed attack and move to strike the foe in front of you with it.

But they very quickly pull out a sigh from their garments and catch your rapier. Are they tired? And they redirect it back to you. And the rapier pokes yourself in the shoulder. And you take three points of damage from your own weapon. No, I should have not re-rolled and just, it would have heard less. It would be a shame to kill you. I agree.

All right, that is it for Gunther. Doug, you're up and after Doug is Natty. Doug, before you attack, why don't you tell me about something in the room, you know, this room you're in. Why don't you give me an element? Why don't you describe something that Doug would notice going on in this room? It seems like there's like wallpaper on the walls, but it's kind of peeling off a little bit. Uh, need some repair.

It seems like there's maybe like message. just written under it or something like that. Ooh, I'm curious. Kind of creepy. Nice. All right. Could I ask what these guys look like? Like, what color are they? You can't tell because they're totally covered in this black suit.

All you can see is like the slits around their eyes. Okay, gotcha. I'm going to keep it simple. I would like to cast guidance. Am I close enough to Gunther where I could touch him? You can be. Okay. Like, if not, you could move yourself to be close enough.

Yeah. I want to move up to just like tap Gunther on the shoulder and be like, listen, man, I see a really strong. struggling here and it seems like these guys have it out for you so I just want to help you out. Thank you. At first, Gunther, when you touch him on the shoulder, it goes, oh. I know my hands really big. No, Barbara, did, did Doug do any flips on the way there to kind of match Gunther's finesse? Uh, yes, he did a somersault.

The fur gets tangled in the shag carpet and Doug is just laying on, uh, on his back, entangled in shag. No, it's all static electricity from the, from the roll. So when he comes out of the roll, it's everything out. When it touches him, it goes, you know, like a little, he does a little. Also, the guidance is only for ability slash skill checks. Okay. So just in case that comes up. Thank you.

That will be my turn, but my steel defender is there. So Gambat's going to emerge as well. What does that sound like? We haven't used him in a while. He's like a monkey Robot monkey He's been listening to Gigi And he's trying to emulate him

Don't do that So he comes out And he is going to Roll up to the thodes Plural And he is going to do a Force Empowered rend Melly attack

Which is a plus seven What do you attack? Oh this is a Gambot Gambot That is a 22 Wow Wow, that's impressive. Yeah, I mean, that would hit. That does.

208 plus three. So six points of damage. Six. Ugh. Do I want to take that? Yeah, I'll take it. Okay. And then he rolls back and he kind of like bounces his little head to make him look tough.

Oh. Oh. You get him, Gambot. Is there anything else or is that it for Gambon? That's it. All right. That is it for Doug. Up next is Natty.

Then after Natty is your enemy. then we go back to Toll. John, before Natty goes, why don't you tell me something that Natty would notice in this room that apparently is a nightmare of interior design? I mean, that's a subjective opinion at that point. No, no, this is objective. Yeah, Natty starts looking around, just kind of taking in the room, and she notices a few wet spots on the floor that she's going to have to clean up later.

Giggy. The shack carpet's going to really soak that all up. if she doesn't get to him quickly. I can smell this visual. Yuck. Is he not wearing his diaper? He is. It's just right now it's on his head for some reason.

Plus, remember, he grew. He's too big for them now. Natty has had a chance to get the new bigger ones. Yeah. Anyway, I'm sorry. So what would Natty want to do here in this scenario? So I get why everyone else is joining in on the fight. Like, I understand that motivation of like assisting.

Gunther being attacked but like Natty heard them say it's time for a lesson and we also when we visited Gunther's aunt she greeted in the same way you know and so I think Natty would

start thinking that this is like just customary and doesn't want to like ruin whatever moment that Gunther is having and so Natty would just start strumming on her auto harp and just kind of like creating some like some like fight music just for like to kind of like set the mood for what she thinks is like

maybe an important moment or just a necessary moment yeah now Chris John is going to let your character die out of respect for their culture it just goes to giggy is like all right now you got to learn a lesson I pay attention yeah yeah yeah she's she's playing her music and then while she's doing she's like telling Giggy, like what chord she's playing, so he also learns a little bit of music. Oh. Very beautiful. Is Giggy musically inclined? Not a lick.

Okay. Not a lick. Anytime he makes any sort of like attempt at singing, Natty thinks it's the most gorgeous sound she's ever heard in her life. Oh, one of those parents. I like to think the music you're playing is just like the Final Fantasy 7 battle theme. Like, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. I'm not a nice, kid.

We played real video games in my house, like Pokemon, okay? That works. Pokemon Bible music then. That would actually make me feel more appropriate because it's like... That, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, dun. Dun, dun. That music played on repeat for a while when you were, like, doing things like gym fights or the Elite Four.

This is a little bit of a tangent. What? When you were a kid playing video games... I was never a kid. What? Would you ever, like, you're playing and your parents are like, we got to go, you know, get a haircut or go to the mall or whatever. You pause it and you leave it on for as long as you need.

Turn that off and you just turn the TV off and leave the game running. Okay, yeah. Yeah, Gus, when you were playing with your stick and your hoop, did you pause it? That's how I beat Super Mario Brothers the first time. Was in that exact scenario. And I had to go to the post office with my mom. And I just turned the TV off and left them.

Because I was already in Bowser's Castle. Oh, man. That is a hard game too. Yeah, and then beat it. Until you learn like where the warp pipes are, you're like, I'm on World Six. I'm going to bed, but my TV's not. So yeah, I had just ditched the stick in the hoop the year before, Blaine. It was right after that. Oh, man, we got really sidetracked.

All right. That is it for Natty. So it is your enemy. Our mysterious enemy. First of all, the enemy once again is going to pull out its nunchucks and lock their both sets of their eyes on you, Gunther, and lash out with their nunchucks one more time again. This time, make me a strength saving throw. 21.

All right, yeah. The nunchucks lock themselves around your rapier, and the enemy pulls, like, as if to try to pull the rapier out of your hands, but you manage to keep a firm grip and hold on to it. Excellent grip. What? Do you recognize that voice, or you let to check on that? I didn't recognize these people.

He didn't recognize. The nunchucks wrap around and your enemy grunts in approval, but still with the momentum of the nunchucks, they still kind of swing around the back side of the rapier and come up and knock you in the chest, still doing a little bit of damage. Hitting you for nine points of bludgeoning damage. How you doing, by the way? I would not be doing very well if I hadn't done my flippant second wind. They look around analyzing the situation and, yeah, they're going to go ahead and attack you again, Gunther.

The other body lashes out with that sye that they used earlier to redirect the attack and tries to take a stab at you. Hitting AC 18. Yes. 18's a miss? Wow. Wow. You have a really good armor. All right.

Yeah, the sigh hits your armor, but then it hits it like in a reinforced spot and deflect off. Not doing any damage to you. Oh, very good. It didn't hurt at all. Toll, one of them turns and looks at you and tosses a dart in your direction. Ah! Hitting AC 18. Ooh, that's a miss.

I'm 19. You guys have such high ACs. What? Oh, wait, you know what? I might have had my shield up, and even though I didn't make any two-handed. I did proclaim I was going to do two-handed, so let me lower my shield. Which means you can have your shield hanging on the outside of the arm. as you swing down with both hands.

Right. That didn't upset our audience and the greater YouTube audience at all when we made that animation. I took my shield off, and now I'm at a 17, so yeah, that's gonna hit, I guess. Okay, yeah, that does hit. I love that on YouTube,

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That was his role. That was not my role. Otherwise, I would have done it. It's not luck. It's I don't have a luck dice. It's an inspiration dice. But yeah, thank you. I absolutely would have used it there. Yeah, the dart hits you, and you instinctively reach to your neck and pull it out. And you look at it, and you feel a little woozy, and you look around and realize it's the same kind of dart that took out the officers and aides in the room. But you managed to shake your head and regain your faculties.

Okay. You only take some piercing damage. You take 10 points of piercing damage, but you manage to stay awake. Okay. And for their final attack, the enemy once again narrows their eyes and looks at your weapon, Gunther, and they once again lash out with their nunchucks, trying to wrap their nunchucks around your rapier. Go ahead and make me a strength saving throw.

You're not moving away from Gambut, are they? Because I don't know if that would provoke an opportunity attack. No, all of these people are within melee range already because they all attacked them. So it's all right there. He's watching now. That's a 13. Okay. Yeah, this time you're unable to hold on to your rapier,

and they pull down with all their might on the Nunchucks, and your rapier comes out of your hand and sticks into the ground, point first into the ground. Gus can't take that again instead of into the ground, into the shag carpet? Into the shag carpet. The rapier pierces the shag carpet, angering your parents, because they just paid to have that installed.

Doing that with the Nunchuk was how Splinter got defeated Shredder at the end of the Ninja Turtles movie. Oh, yeah. That's right. He had Michelangelo's nunchug, and he wrapped it around his little weapon. I have not seen the Ninja Turtles movie since it came out in theaters.

Like, what was that in, like, 88, 89 or something like that? You used your sticking hoop as you roll down the street towards the theater. I watched it 4th of July. It's really good. Holds up. I'm so old, and it was so long ago,

I remember I paid $2 to see that movie. Whoa. That's how much a movie should cost. Okay, so your rapier is now in the Shag Car. carpet in front of you and the nunchucks swing back around and strike you in the jaw doing 14 points of damage Gunther oh is Gunther trying to speak as his jaw is broken that's not broken no so you're like at one hit point i'm at one hit point with that the enemy in

front of you stows all of their weapons puts away the side puts away the darts and returns the nunchucks to their belt the lesson is finished i'm nearly You have much to learn, young one. I know. Who are you? Tell me. Let us go outside and speak privately. All of us.

Yes. Let us too? Yes. Could Gamma come? He is the mightiest of you all. Yeah, he is actually. The only one who made a late on you. So yeah, I think pretty strong.

The figure before you turns and walks briskly to the door. Again, like totally in lockstep. It's uncanny how the two of them can move so precisely together. Doug, Natty, and Toll, why don't the three of you make me a constitution check? 11. Nat, 20, 23. 14. Doug and Toll, something about the excitement of all this.

And, you know, you've been going for quite a while now, traveling and doing all of these things. You're starting to get kind of a little tired. You both have one level of exhaustion now. Ooh. Exhaustion means minus one. One to all D20 checks went outside of combat. Okay. The figure turns and walks out of the room.

Well, as everyone leaves, Gunther looks around at all the officers passed out and then does a little salute with his little kick behind his foot and then walks out. And like the picture he does the salute and then like rubs his jaw and then goes out. Hopefully they don't think it was us that did this to them when they wake up and none of us will heal. And before Toll leaves, he looks and he sees into the bathroom that the shag carpet extends into the bathroom floor up into the toilet and he judges quietly and get their notices that they're framed pictures of past generals but they were done by like someone's relative who

was really really bad at art but they were like too polite to like say no so they're all hung up and they look terrible it's like the refrigerator of the fort indridge man i rented an apartment years ago that had shack carpet that went all the way into the bathroom and it was absolutely gross hated it. As long as it's not in the toilet space. Yeah, it went all the way around the toilet and everything. That's awful. I don't get it.

Yeah, it was terrible. So does everyone follow the figure outside? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Natty and Giggy are doing the same unified step kind of thing like they're doing. The two of you just for fun make me, I don't know, dexterity checks just to see. One for me, one for gigs? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay. Giggs. Natty rolled a five. Giggy rolled a 21. Oh, Giggy's like a perfect copy of the figures in front of you. Meanwhile, Natty might be too distracted looking at how adorable Giggy looks

and almost accidentally kicks him by accident. I can't stop looking at him. Yeah. He's too cute. So cute. You all walk outside of HQ to see this figure before you. They take off their masks and turn to look at the four of you. Gunther.

What is the lesson? You have learned today. Do not strike unless I am certain it will not, it will hit and not hit me back. No. Wrong. Nanny raises her hands. Yes? Don't bring a sword to a nunchuck fight.

Almost. Not quite. Cole raises his hand. Oh, okay. You. Get a grip, you know, you know. You got to hold on to your saber better. I mean, come on.

Yes. All right, I'm a ninja now, yeah. Ninja pirate. Gunther, if your opponent cannot hold on to their weapon. They cannot use their weapon. I'm going to let your one down. Gunther coughs up some of the blood from his beating and then writes a note using it so that he won't forget it.

Okay, he'll remember it because it's written in his own blood. And don't forget. An opponent is truly disarmed. But no one will fight alongside them. And they fight alone. Is that why you guys are like a joint at the hip, literally? Yes, but you see, we are no longer physically conjoined. That's the hip.

And they undo the wrapping. That's around them, binding them together. And you see that they are indeed two separate individuals. Whoa. You were like fighting us. on hard mode? Is that there is a wow. Well, according to them,

you're more powerful when you're together versus one. Yes. Barb's look of surprise when you said yes. Yes. Well, they're excited about it. Who are they star students?

We used to be physically conjoined. But after a bloody combat two years ago, we were separated. We still strap ourselves together when we fight in order to have the ultimate combat power. What happened two years ago in which you were split us under? Bloody combat.

With who? Our enemies. They look at you like, you asked a dumb question. Well, there's a lot of people outdo. Why have you come for me? Shannon sent us to provide you training. And to convey the lessons that we know to aid you in your search. Thank you.

What may I call you? We are René. Which one is Renee? Which one is Seuss? Yes. So, like, when you were separated, was that kind of, like, cool, where you actually kind of relieved, because you had some autonomy or... No! Oh.

It was terrible. All right. Gunther, we know that... Much like we were separated... You have been separated from your friend. Yes. Perhaps it is time to reunite with them. And increase your powers together.

Talk about Bunlap? They talk about Bunlap? Have you spoken with Bunlap? Do you know of this plight? Together are you guys... Are you guys Bunther? It's better than gunwap. We have not spoken to him, but we have observed him.

In Sky Blue Falls Prison. He needs your help. Perhaps it is time to reunite with him. Yes. Do you know anything of the six-toed villain or eleven-toed, depending upon if you're counting all the feet? We've got to nail this guy's branding because it's very confusing right now. Six or eleven.

Well, Mike I pointed out. out, I previously said six-toed and then I later referred to him as levit-toe. All I can say is, you will find them when you are ready. And you are not ready yet. Bird. Gunt their nods and shakes

its head and looks down. Everybody go ahead and make me a perception check. 30-20. Not 20. Minus 13, but with exhaustion, that is a 12. 12. Those are all pretty decent.

I did the thing where you like look at your cards for poker, put it down, you go, yeah, look at all four of you hear bees buzzing angrily versus happily bees yeah buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz yeah we're in another campaign of met happy buzzing bees if we tell where that's coming from like what direction it appears like it's coming from maybe behind and under you it doesn't make sense you turn to look around but you can't see where the sound is coming from precisely like in a tunnel that's underneath this ground as in there have been in the past.

Maybe? Maybe. Nice, nice. All right, everyone, ready your tongues. Okay, what are we going to do with our tongues, buntal? Yeah, what's the fun? You use your tongue to wrap around them.

Giggy just starts licking the ground. Nice. I have a question. Yeah. That thing I got. Nouns are fun. Yeah. Names, titles.

That thing I got from the I think of a jiggy. Water person. Sea drinker? The sea drinker. I got a thing that can help you find things. Oh, Wasn't it like a water pouch or something that had endless water?

The octopot of obscure. Okay, can I use that? Turns water and inquisitive ink, dribble some out, ink flows towards hidden things in the area, and I want to use it to find bees. Okay. Yeah, you go ahead and pour some out. Go ahead and roll me 4D6. That's a 16.

2464? Yeah. We have this mechanic. I guess now it might be a good time to introduce it and to explain it. called dice pool. You may hear us use this every now and then from here on forward. So this is my explanation to the players, and it's my explanation to the audience as well.

So the octapot has, what did I say, 4D6? And you roll those, and we kind of track your progress. And any dice that rolls a 1 through a 3 is dropped. So in this case, you roll, what did I say, 2, 4, 6, 4, we dropped that 2. So now moving forward, you have a 3D6 pool. So when you want to use it again, use 3. and the number you roll kind of determines the progress you make

and it's kind of a depleting resource as time goes on so now in the future instead of 4D6 you'll be using 3D6 since we drop the 2 and as this comes up again in the future I'll re-explain it again one or two more times because I'm sure it's a new mechanic and we're learning the ins and outs of it

incentivized not to roll low yeah or too often it's a way to kind of limit the use of something without saying like two uses per long rest. It's a little more luck and interactive based. I like it. Yeah, I think it's fun. You know what, Gus, I'll approve.

That's fine. You can continue to use this, yeah. Micah, Blaine approves. Now he doesn't want to use it anymore for some reason. I don't know. The ink kind of dribbles out from your octapot and goes in the direction back towards the HQ and then seems to seep straight into the ground.

Oh, that shag carpet is absorbent too much. Well, I think we're outside now. They are under the ground. We are being attacked. Meant attacked. Do you think they're coming towards us or they're just maybe passing by? I would assume they are attacking. I've been attacked by surprise to already once today.

We can be proactive and attack them. I can hit my hammer into the ground and cause a cave-in. That sounds like fun. I shall burrow. Can I try to burrow underneath the wherever that ink went? Yeah. Do you have like tools for that or is that just like a Gunther thing? I don't know if I have.

list at tools. I just kind of something that like they do. Yeah. I'm just trying to figure out like how that would work. Yeah. I have a shovel. You begin digging into the ground. Doug pitches into shovel. It takes a while. At first it's just dirt and not not much else. I like to think the shovel that Doug actually has is one of those little sandcastle shovels.

A little plastic one. Yeah, you start to get you get really tired and it just seems to be dirt. So we hear bees under the ground. Yeah. Angry bees. Angry Angry bees. Renaisance? Is that what their name are? Is it is? Renaisus. Hey, Renaisus, dude. Is this like a cool attack that you had planned that you didn't really get to? Do you familiar with these bees?

You turn to ask Renaisus and they're gone. Oh, cool. All right. We just got Batman. That's neat. Did they turn to the bees? There's a note on the ground where Renesus once stood. Oh, can't pick it up and read it? Yeah, you pick it up and read it. Arm yourself with friends. Did you say arm yourself with friends? Yes. Okay, so I feel like there's a, there's a theme going on here about, like, just being together and, like, you know, having your, like, good camaraderie with people you work with and stuff like that, you know, not, like, don't be alone. So I think this is really just trying to tell it, don't split the party, no matter what we do, never, ever, ever. Or it could mean for you to all take your arms off and I fight with them. That's an idea, yeah, yeah.

I was thinking you were going to say to, like, Voltron, where they are literally your arms. Wait, you know how like earlier today, how we were promoted and now we all have like little privates that are at our command? No? Sorry. Gus says no. I say little privates is very funny. We have like a team. Each of us has three privates at our command.

Yeah, but aren't you all like passed out in the other room on the shed carpet? losing it. Sorry, Barbara. Gus is losing it. I'm digging holes. It seems like a perfect thing for them to do. It's true. We could put them to work. Put your privates to work. Yeah, make your privates work for you.

Before we proceed, I just want to cover like a metagame point of order. So, Gunther, you have actually learned a lesson from René Seuss today. If you refresh your character sheet, you'll have a new ability on there. Oh my goodness. Do never be

Hello. It's called stop sucking and hold on your swords. High five from Barbara there. It's called disarming attack. Oh, Gunther lesson. Disarming attack. When you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to disarm the target. Add the superiority die to the attack's damage rule. The target must succeed on a strength saving throw or drop one object of your choice that it's holding with the object landing in its space. Do you want to practice? Yes, but I'm worried about bees.

Is there anyone around? Yeah, you know, the fort's pretty bustling. You know, everyone inside HQ right now is unconscious, but you assume they'll be back awake at some point. But yeah, there are other members of the Mortallian walking around, accomplishing various tasks. There's a group of four recruits walking by, practicing their marching. Could I go up in front of them, right in the line of where they're marching?

Yeah, you're a corporal now, so they all stop and they salute you, Doug. I salute them back. At ease, friends. Friends? I mean, subordinates. There you go. Doug is unnatural, I have to say. I have a very important mission for you guys.

So, you know, me and my fellow corporals here, and Doug points back to the group. You know, we've been heard a strange kind of buzzing sound that's coming from underneath. It's almost like angry bees, specifically very angry. Bees. Do you guys happen to know what those might be or what it's from? One of them steps forward and addresses you. Sir, we have heard reports of the nectar night in the area and there are rumors that he was imprisoned underground. Now he has been set free and the fort has been plagued with bees and there's dripping honey and numerous beehives all around, sir.

What is a nectar knight? That sounds like the coolest thing ever. Describe him in perfect detail. I want to know everything. It sounds like a cocktail. It sounds like a dude who uses like when he goes july. jousting has like a big bee stinger at the end of his thing, and his whole armor is like honeycombed and yellow and golden. Oh, like K&I.

Yeah, like some sort of serial mascot, but his food is for strong boys and girls. I bet he's a young guy that was coming out of seeing Zorro with his parents, and then some guy shot down his parents, then he went home, and the bee ran through his window and scared him, and he's like, I will use

that in it. Anyways, I don't know these people anymore. He said he was in prison underground and he escaped? Yes, sir. He was imprisoned underground that has been recently set free. He didn't escape. Set free. Oh.

The nectar knight is a dimigod, of course. He's a well-armored knight with the face of a fox, and his armor is constantly dripping with honey. I love this guy. I love it. A bit of a mixed imagery there, but we'll go with it. I'm so down. There are bees all over Fort Indridge.

There are numerous beehives. Well, that's good. They participate in an important part of the ecosystem in this area, so I'm glad they've returned. With this nectar night, is he, he was imprisoned by the Mortallion, like the underground prison was owned by the Mortallion. Unknown, sir. The underground area under Ford Injurge was only recently rediscovered.

I believe you all discovered it, sir. Yes, we knew that. Of course. Are we using that area now, like the Mortallion, or is it still the Ullandarians? Oh, yes. We hope to be building a temple of the bloodbather coming soon. And the private points to a hole in the ground. and there's a sign near it that says,

Temple of Bloodbather coming soon. Is the Bloodbather another... Is the Bloodbader another demigod? Flawless, Barbara, flawless. I was just going to ask Gus, but I was like, I should just... I know, I liked it. That was a perfect transition. The Bloodbather is actually a major god.

Okay, I have another mission for you guys, okay? Once we're done talking, you know, Doug and the others might have more questions, but there is a room where there are a bunch of sleepy officers okay. First and foremost, I want you to re-wallpaper the vaults in there because they are falling and being stripped, okay? And I want tie-dye wallpaper, okay? And then I want you to put a fluffy pillow under the heads of each of your superior officers so that they have a nice nappy time. Well, they're already sleeping on shade carpet, which is pretty flush. Yeah, but I mean, imagine the favor that they will get by, you know, waking up and they have such a nice nap on a nice cushy pillow. Hello. Yes.

Before you get to that, I do wonder, are these bees hostile? Like, are they, like, disrupting you guys here in a motelian? Or are they kind of peaceful? They're mostly an inconvenience, sir. They seem to be all over the place whenever we're trying to get work done. We're having to deal with excess honey and honeycombs and constantly harvesting it and trying to relocate them. Don't just be careful not to lose your glasses. What?

What's my girl reference. Oh. Oh. I was going to say also, like, bees and honey are also my worst nightmare, because when you get that in my floor, it came over, man. Came over. So why was the nectar night imprisoned exactly? Unknown, sir. His time in prison predates for Indridge.

Oh, and he was imprisoned by us? What do you mean, sir? The army, retaliate. Unknown, sir. As far as I know, no. His imprisonment predates our activity in this area. Who is the one who freed him? Who gave that order?

He freed himself. Once the escaped path was cleared, presumably by you all. Oh. Yes, and we did that on purpose. Yes, yes. The temple of the bloodbather. What's the vibe of that? Why the bloodbather?

The bloodbather is someone the Motelian respects. He was once a brave mortal warrior who ascended to Godhood because of battle prowess. And all great mortal warriors aspire to follow in his footsteps. He is super strong and a patron to humans. Personally, I feel like we should be like, you know, exulting like the olive branch god. You know, the peace, God, not the bloodbather. We are in a military. If you are aware that we're part of a fighting force,

that goal is to participate in combat of a war. Yes, I just want to be aware of the military industrial complex. I don't want to fight just for poops and giggles, okay? Ideally, we finish the war so that we can have peace, you know? If there's nothing else, sir, we'll get back to work, making the officer's cozy. Oh, very good. Naddy, you got any good questions for them?

Yeah, Naddy. You want to know more about the bloodbather or the nectar night? No, that seems like you guys got good information. I figured we should maybe, uh... The bees, I don't know if the bees are really our problem right now. Are they our problem right now? We hear them angry, but they said they're everywhere all the time. I imagine, and correct me if I'm wrong, uh, sergeants?

Privates. Privates? My bad. Would the bees lead us to where the nectonite is, potentially? Unknown, sir. We have not noticed any pattern to the bee's appearances. We know the nectar night is free somewhere. However, we have not been able to find him.

And is the goal of this to recapture him? Negative, sir. Okay. Well, it doesn't seem like there's really an issue here, other than the honey being a little bit inconvenient. Just a minor inconvenience. Yeah, it just seems like a little bit of a status update for the fort right now.

They've got a bee problem. Yeah. You know, if we get ordered to maybe deal with these bees, we could deal with them. But aren't we supposed to be heading to somewhere else? Or we, what's our mission right now? Who's in charge? Am I in charge?

I don't remember. I think I am in charge. I believe Natty, you were in charge. And Eddie, where are we headed? Got a free bun lap at some pint. Oh, yeah. Let's go get Bunlap. Who was it that got maps earlier?

Someone got maps. Didn't you get one? Did I get that? I thought you did. I thought you took the maps, Gunther. Okay. Good. Can I pull out my maps and look and see where Sky Blue Falls is?

Yeah, you pull out your map and you see Sky Blue Falls in the distance. It's a kind of. Kind of on the way to the front. It's not all the way at the front. And you know that you have been kind of expected to head out to the front. So it is something you could stop by along the way. Closer by before Sky Blue Falls, you see some other landmarks on your map that you could conceivably go to. You see Meadow Canyon and Boiling Bluffs on there as well.

Natty, uh, shoes away any of the lingering privates. Go, go back. Go back to your work. Go to your stuff. One of them points before you start shooting and says, Oh, Boiling Bluffs. There was news from Boiling Bluffs recently, sir. There was a relic stolen from the font of the fire eater there.

Oh, the fire eater. Oh. Yeah, we should go there. I think we should go there, Nanny. That's fine. And then they salute you and then walk away. They go look for pillows. Very good.

Carry on. Natty turns to private parts and goes earmuffs. Private parts puts his hands over his ears and starts humming. Okay. So we're supposed to be heading to the front. But we've got some personal business we want to deal with. with, but our personal business is in the direction of the front. Yeah.

So why don't we head that direction? And then if we happen upon, let's say, a prison with a certain little friend inside of it, we can maybe do some shenanigans there. But all the while, we look like to our superiors, like we're actually heading where they told us to go. And if they call us out on it, we can say we were recruiting new members of the Mortallian, you know. Just lies upon lies is always a good call.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll never get caught in it once. Because we have steel trap memories, right, everyone? Right. Yeah. Right, dog. So what's your name is. And I do want to give you all a quick reminder as well.

See, you're at the fort, you're at Fort Ender's. You have the opportunity to rest. The party hasn't rested in many watches, which is why your exhaustion is starting to kind of build up. No, we're probably good. I think we're all at, like, full health. And we should just head out and not even think about recovering. You can head out to I'm just saying

If you wanted to rest This is a good opportunity to Or you can just go out And continue if you want as well Long rest I could use a long rest Yeah we should rest We haven't been to our bunks in a while

I feel perfectly fine I feel like I mean you don't have to rest Gunther you could just stay up and watch Yeah I want to call your bluff He's not actually saying anything He thinks he's saying that He's actually on the ground right now

Just gurgling No I say that because I had a long rest recently because of that whole trance with the bedrock. Which is why Gunther did not have to roll for exhaustion. Long rest time? Yeah, let's go to our bunks. We can actually sleep in our beds for once. I sleep in A-team's bed.

It's really damp. It's really wet. You. Oh, gross. Yeah, and if you all want, you know, you can use the downtime to pursue other things, talk to each other, talk to NPCs, work on any long-term projects or goals you might have. It's really up to you guys.

If you all want to do anything, you tell me, And if not, we can continue to. I would like to maybe knock out a little bit of work on my invention for that contest. That's great, because that's another dice pool thing that we're going to do. So it's good that we worked on that. Hey, Doug. Yeah. Could Giggy at least like watch or maybe you give him like something to do to help so he can have a little lesson while you're doing that?

I'm very particular about my equipment and everything and my tools and everything. So does he have like a little like play pen you could put him in like a cage so that he could watch but just not touch? Or like an extra big diaper that's like a straight jacket or something. Or like one of those little like bouncy things where he's like kind of strapped into it. I don't normally like to restrict him in any sort of way, but he does have his little leash. That's the only restriction I'll do. That's just so I can keep an eye on him. So what if I like attach the leash to like a steak in the ground that's just long enough that he can get to the edge of your machines but not touch him?

Okay. And you know what? Hey, Doug, come here. A lot of times he sees. his tail and he starts chasing it and he he'll go in circles around that steak and the leash will get shorter and shorter and shorter. Okay. I also just want to make sure you're accounting for his slightly larger size, you know,

and the distance that he could go now because he is slightly larger, you know, mathematically speaking, you have to put it like an inch behind. Yeah, okay, you got it. Mass time, speed equals energy, whatever, something like that. Yeah, MC squared. I also want to say this about Giggy getting bigger. Can I make a request about him, what happened when he got? bigger. I don't know if we specified this. Because you said he got like, he grew. Yeah.

I just love the image of this little baby gremlin. Can he just like increase in size, but not actually maturity? Yeah, absolutely. Like he didn't actually turn into like a teenager, but he's just a larger giggy. So when you like are in Photoshop and you take the PNG and then you just kind of zoom it out, like make it a little bit bigger. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like it. Like in Honey, I blew up the baby. Yes. Yeah. Terrifying. A classic. Yes. Okay. That is now canon.

Okay. Natty puts a steak in the ground. Ask Tov to like use his hammer to really hammer it in. And then goes, all right, Doug, I guess you're okay. And Natty leaves. Love it. No notes. So, uh, you're watching any movies lately?

I don't know. How do I talk to a kid? Could Gunther go with Doug as well to try and work on his sword and talk with Doug? Sure. Like he's got that that goat eye or whatever. shadow thing that can be used to upgrade his sword. Like both of you working side by side on different projects.

Yeah. I feel like a workshop kind of area. Because I did already imbue your other sword, right? With... You imbued my armor, which is part of the reason why my AC saw it. But no, this was when the goat gave Gunther that little item. It can be used to upgrade my sword. Oh, Gunther,

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And I'm hoping that I can help you make sense of it all. My name is Jamie Puezzo and I host Canada's most popular daily news podcast. It's called Front Burner. We break down one story each day and talk to the reporters, the politicians, and people at the heart of it. Our goal is to help you stay informed without feeling overwhelmed. You can find and follow Frontburner on Spotify. So Doug's going to be working on his invention. Gunther's going to be working on his sword.

Natty dropped Giggy off to watch. Doug and hopefully get a lesson. Is Natty going to do anything? We call that Dougie daycare. Yeah, Natty actually is going to use the assistance of one of her closest friends ever, Tov, to help with an activity she has in mind. She needs to

work on her song. Oh, you picked the most musically inclined member of the team. And Tolv, you're going to assist Natty with that? Yes, I have something else in mind that I'll do, but I also want to chill with Natty for sure. Okay. Doug, we'll start with you since, you know, you said what you wanted to first. So, you know, this invention just is from the flyer, right, that you saw in the

high three that you're entering into the contest. It was for the Build Your Best contest. Have you mentioned what the invention actually is or what it does? I think I did in passing, but just a reminder, the contest was to make something, an invention that should embody the values of finding and rescuing endangered wildlife without using any wood in the invention. Oh, okay. And the invention that I came up with is a Echo Pulse locator, which emits a soft sound like pulses, kind of like a bat echolocation to detect hidden animals without causing them panic and to also draw them to the device's location so I could kind of lead them out.

Where did you get the idea for this kind of thing, Doug? Well, you know, Doug has spent a lot of time kind of out in the wilderness and he knows like a lot of really sudden noises and traps and stuff like that could really frighten a lot of animals and wildlife. And so he just wanted to make a really calming sound to kind of help draw him out. and to kind of maybe rescue them from dangerous locations. So he didn't want to make anything that captured them. Because, you know, Doug knows what it feels like to be kind of, to feel trapped.

And it's not a fun feeling. What does this look like? Like, what is this invention, this Echo Pulse Locator? Like, what does it look like, broadly speaking? I would say it's kind of like a little backpack. So something he could wear on his back that has almost like a speaker-looking bit to it that makes the pulsing sound. Okay. Has Doug sketched it out?

Or is it just like all in his mind so far? I think he, one of the steps of working on it, he would probably sketch it out first and then start collecting all the parts he needs and stuff. Okay. What kind of parts are they? Like what kind of materials? I know you said no wood, but like how would Doug kind of put this together? I think over the course of them journeying, he's collected just scraps of metal, wire, things of that nature. I think it's more of like an electric system rather than any type of like wood or any natural materials.

Okay. So just in his scavenging. He has scavenged many years. And so he knows what to look for. Okay. Well, on that note, let's make a roll on the dice pool like Gunther did, just to see what the progress is. So you're going to roll 4D6, and in this case, the more dice you drop, the more progress you make towards completing your invention. Okay.

You keep saying dice pool and I keep thinking that's just Wade Wilson playing D&D. I got a six, a four, a two and a one. So you drop the two and the one. so you have two D6 left in your dice pool. So you made pretty good progress then. If you drop two of them, that's really good. Wait, question. Yeah.

Do you want to drop within this instance, is Doug trying to lose? Yes. In this instance, you want to drop them all. Because once you deplete your dice pool, then you're done with your invention. Okay. See, this is why I was like, we're going to explain this a few times and we're going to work through it because it's an interesting mechanic that I think is really flexible. I can see the look on Barb's face as well. She's like, wait, what?

Yeah, because I was like, I thought it's bad if you were low. Because then you have, like, less dice to contribute to the progress. Yeah, in this case, dropping them is progress. And, yeah, we can really dive into it a little more in Second Wind for this. So if you're a member of our Patreon over at Stinking DragonPod.com, next week we'll release Second Wind and we'll talk about this episode. And we'll get a little more into the dice pool. I'm excited that we're using it.

I've been looking forward to this for a little while. So you're not quite at the stage where it's done. You know, the prototype's not completely finished, but you're making good progress. and hopefully the next time you really sit down and work on it, you might finish it. But we'll see. I think Doug would hold up his sketch to Giggy. Like, what do you think? You got any notes?

You like it? The Giggy would have to make a wisdom check. Wisdom check for Gigglesworth. This has to go well. He is a plus zero and he rolled a three. Ooh, very good. So what's he do, Gus? He loves it.

I'm going to say he doesn't really pick up what's going on. He doesn't understand the cognitive. set behind this. He can't seem to focus on what Doug is showing him. Instead, he seems to be looking away in the distance. He's just staring at Captain Grumbles. And licking his chops. Yeah.

Mm-nam-nam-nam-nam. Thank you for clarifying that Captain Grumbles is still with us. I didn't do it. I had to remind everyone. I can't escape these NPCs. There are other people here. We've got to paint the picture. All right, good.

I think we had good progress there, Doug. You happy with that? I'm pretty happy. Okay. So, Gunther, you're going to try working on. your sword or your weapon? What's going on here? Yeah, so I have proficiency with smithing tools, and I got this scape goat tooth, which is a jagged goat tooth, surrounded by flickering aura of dark light. And I want to try imbue my sword with it. It says, must be crafted to an item

weapon once per session. You can re-roll an attack roll, but you instantly take 1D20 necrotic damage for the sin of making a bad role. Okay. I want to work on that. And, you know, with Doug being such a crafty person, see if they have any, you know, notes or help. Yeah. How do you want to approach that? You want to make like a check for your blacksmithing or you tell me. How do you imagine you'll work on integrating this tooth? So at the, I'm imagining like at the, you hold the sword like on the base of it closer

to where your pinky would be when you hold it. Hilt. Yeah. And the hilt, like the base of the hilt. Yeah. Kind of attaching it there. So it's kind of almost like a, um, uh, uh, tooth at the bottom of it or in the

center. It would almost look more just like jewelry or something. The pommel? I'm no blacksmith. I'm no blacksmith like you've always going to say. Yeah, it sounds like the pommel to me. It's like Blaine just yelling out the pieces of swords. Yeah. I don't know why I'm so uniquely like, I know these things. Yes, whatever Blaine said.

Yeah. I could be wrong. I'm no sword expert like Blaine. But I think that sometimes on swords, didn't they have like sharp objects on the pommel like for up close like melee like you know, hitting someone over the head with it? Yeah. Are you thinking something like that? Yeah, but I think this would be a thing because if I have to roll to damage myself, if I miss.

So it's almost where I squeeze the hilt and it'll bite me and then I get to re-roll. The grip? The grip. Okay. Does that make sense? I think so. No. I'll tell you what.

Why don't you draw us what this looks like? Oh, man, that's going to be, it's going to be worse, Gus. Not you, Chris. I'm telling the audience. The audience can draw us how they picture what they think it looks like. Why are you putting this on the audience? They're nice to us. but did it make sense like because you hurt yourself if you use it so I want to be able to like bite it's like a bite yeah I get you I think I know what you're going for here why don't you make like a blacksmith check or something what's a blacksmith check I don't know that's why I'm asking him how about like is that like a slight of hand I'm trying to think if it's more dexterity or strength base yeah it's not a sleight of hand the actual rule is d20 plus proficiency that's from mica mm-hmm oh plus just the proficiency what do you I got you uh yeah

Go ahead and roll a D20 then and add your proficiency bonus, which is plus three. Thank you, Micah, for knowing the rules. That's 11 plus 3, so 14. Oh, can I use that thing that Barb gave me? What's it called? Yeah, at some point in this episode, you got to say something. But tap. Yes, the butt tap.

You can use the butt tap and add a D4 on that. I didn't touch your butt. It was guidance. Guidance. So that's an extra one. So the duration on that's typically only one minute, but we'll say that. That you can still use it. rest.

It's one day. So that takes you to a 15? At least so. So you rolled in 11, plus 3 is 14, plus 1 is 15. That is exactly the number I was looking for was 15. You weren't going to make it if you didn't use that guidance. So yeah, you work and you're able to integrate the tooth into the pommel slash hilt of your rapier. Nice.

Cool. While I'm working on it, can I talk to Doug? Doug. Yeah. I'm afraid to go look for a button lap. But he's your friend. I know. Are you just afraid to go to the Sky Blue Falls prison because they're looking for you?

Or are you afraid to actually see a friend? I'm afraid to see him again. Why? What happened? I abandoned him. I left him. And then he got arrested and has been in prison? No, we were both in prison and I left and he's, I abandoned him. Well, that's a little awkward. Not going to lie.

I don't know. I trust. Well, here's the thing about friends. You know, they kind of ebb and flow, and sometimes we do things we regret, but I think if and when we do see him again, I think all you just need to do is say or sorry and maybe, you know, give a proper explanation for why you left him. I imagine it was so that you could maybe come back and get him out, right? That is what I would like to think I would do, but I have not. Well, he might forgive you. I hope so. Anyway, I'm going to go now.

Look at this cool tooth. on my sword. Maybe you guys could just join yourselves at the hip and all will be forgiven after that because then he'll be forced to be with you, you know, know what a choice. Do you show Doug your sword that you modify when you say that? Yeah, look at the sword. Doug holds it up almost like it's like a child's science fair project. Wow, actually, this is pretty good.

You want me to test it out for you? If that involves stabbing me, then I prefer no. Does there like a pillow nearby since we're near the bunks? There's giggy. Stop it I would never heard a child Can you remember all I taught you

about sword fighting? Sure, one of the privates you talked to earlier is walking by was a stack of pillows I thought you were just going to say one of the privates

is walking by stab him private Could Doug just like stab the pillow One of the pillows Walking by Yeah, make an attack roll

If it's a one You're stabbing the private I'm telling you right now Do I get anything Since I'm using the sword That Gunther made Just roll the D20 and we'll see how it goes.

Okay, it's a 10. Oh. I would say that's a miss. You could activate the scapegoat tooth if you want to re-roll that attack roll, but you take damage if you do that. You know what? Gunther, I trust you. I think it works just fine.

Just a whiffed. And then I say to the private walking by, just wanting to keep you on your toes, you know. Gotcha. They kind of give you a wider burst and walk further away from you. As Doug hands you back, the rapier, Gunther, You hear a voice emanating from the tooth. Hello.

I know what you did, Gunther. Do that scapego? Do I hear that, too, or just Gunther? Just Gunther. What do you know? What you did? Last summer. Who told you?

You did. Oh, shoot. All right. On that spooky note, we'll move on to Natty. I believe you said you were going to work on your son. with Toll's assistants? Yes. Sing writing duo of the century.

Are we like mid-practice? Like, that's not my tempo. I love that. So, yeah, if we could go do this, like, maybe in the bunk, like we could do it, like, at the beds. I feel like that's a fun little place to be, like, writing music. Yeah. Yeah.

So, tell you heard my fantastic, wonderful beginning of my song, that I shared with you guys previously about the troop troop but as glorious of a song that was gonna be I'm sure you are gonna say I feel like my heart wasn't in it and I was thinking like

I gotta really write this song about something that matters to me because they're the little thing that they said you can write a song as long as they just need a song writer so I'm gonna show them what I got and I'm gonna write a song about my wife oh oh you're going to dedicate this to me right now

No, no, your wife, okay. Not at all. Not even a lick. Understood, yeah. This is about the most important person that I could ever think of, and that's my bride. But I'm having a difficult time with my lyrics. I've got, I've got kind of like, I'm working on these choruses, and could you help me with some rhyming? Yeah, you know it. Okay. Throw some words as me. Let's do some word play. Okay, okay. I'm obviously going to use the word bride in there somewhere. So what's a word that can, that can rhyme with bride that I can put into my song. Oh, so many. You could be a bride or die.

No, I mean, shit, this is rhyming game. Get out here, Doug. Tide, cried, lied, abide, abide, uh, died. Oh, died, that's very, you know, thematic, you know, because they are the, like, like, Lord of Death. Okay, I like that. And with you being read now. You're not here. You're not here.

You all got your moment. You all got your moment. Back off. Maybe if you're talking about, like, Their hips don't lie. Oh, boy, they're wide. You know, that's going to be fun. Okay, so we got, we got Died with Bride.

I like that one. That's a good one. You made a good choice. Okay, great. It's like mad lips. I love it. Give me another one. Go on.

I'm feeling the juice is flowing. Let's go. And then another word I'm obviously going to use is like death in there, you know? Oh, yes, yes, yes. So what's a word I could rhyme with death? This might be a bit of a stretch, but your wife. Their name is not Beth, is it? No, it is not.

And I prefer not to put the name of another woman in the song. I'm writing about my betrothed. Yeah. Meth might not have the right sort of vibe. What is that? I was thinking that in the back of my head. I was like, no one's going to say that, surely. If they're a family guy fan, you might talk about Seth McFarlane.

It's a harder one. I feel like I'm challenging you with this one. Yeah, I mean, I think you're going to have. have to go into double syllables at that point. So to be like, what's that? Clough. Cleth? My practice is I go through the alphabet. So like

Beth, Kath, death, death. Oh, like, you know, so on and so forth. Replace the first letter kind of a thing. Yeah. We'll go beyond that. There's other words. I'm summoning a rhyme from from somewhere, from somewhere

deep down inside. Breath. Breath. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I like that. Thank you, guys. If Doug was singing it, then caress. Oh, okay. Oh, because it become caress. Okay, I got two more words that I need rhymes for, okay?

All right, throw them at me. Yes, yes, yes. I love this word. Gale. Gale. Oh, okay, let me see. Can cow, like, no, foul. No, no.

You want to say nice things about them. Okay, growl, you know, maybe some sort of like, ooh, rrr, you know, a howl, oh, you make you, they bring up such, you know, howl is a good one. Primal Instincts, howl. I like that one, yeah, that's got a lot of potential with that one. Okay. You're your best friend, you know, your pal. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. So, last one. Okay. It's not my favorite color, but it's obviously her favorite. color black yes oh okay attack that's vac uh you know uh who's the brother of Cody his name is Zach uh we've got uh you you want to go into the sack you know like for the sexy times I don't want to get crass with this one I am racking my brain uh you know you want to shoot some fools you pull out the Mac you know uh oh they have hooves

You know, their hoves go click, clack. Oh. Oh, and your wife has hooves, doesn't she? She does have hooves. Yeah, you know, baby got back, you know, I don't know. Don't, don't cut him some slack, you know. I like back. Yeah.

I like that one. I'll pack in black. That one's got wishes write a song about that. Yeah, oh. Track. Oh, track's another good one too. Yeah. Okay, okay, I got my words.

I'm gonna go finish I'm working on these choruses and I got a little bit of melody but I need to come up with the use these words that you gave me so let's come back to me and I'm gonna show you Tov what I come up with okay

okay okay I think while now he does that Tov you may have said you wanted to do something else as well was there something else on your mind you know I wanted to just go check in on the privates who are all setting up the officers and maybe you know sit by the sleeping steel eye

and just give him a visit you know okay I've just I've grown So fond of Steel Eyes. Is he so slumbering, yes? Yeah. You walk back into HQ and they're all still asleep on the shag with nice fluffy pillows now. Oh.

And Deli is laying there asleep on the pillow, smiling. You've never seen him smile before. It's weird that when he's asleep now, he's smiling. Very off pudding. Oh, look at that little baby slumbering away with his organic body parts needing rest in restoration. How sweet. What an interesting way to see.

I hold his hand and I say, Sergeant Steele, you have such nice skin. Wow. How have you been? I just wanted to tell you, regale you about all of the fun adventures I've been on in the name of the Mortallion. And, you know, I also just, I have a confession to make. I told the rest of the team, but I consider you part of the team, but I, I'm actually a thermotech. And it just seems so receptive to things right now. You're not screaming at me like usual. Uh, but yes. I do have a robot body under this facade. And I just wanted to tell you. Steel Eye pops open. You ever watch Rushmore?

I think we think of when Max Fisher goes to the hospital to see like the headmaster of the school. There's like you had a stroke. He's like, he hasn't spoken for days. And then Max Fisher walks in and he just like opens his eyes. Like, what do you want? I love that movie. Yeah, he's very quietly a yell mumbling in his sleep.

Oh, what's that? What's that Sergeant Steyleye? What do you have to say to me? Oh, he's dreaming. Captain Grumbles in. It sounds like a loud Captain Grumbles. Yeah. Oh, that's nice, Sergeant Stilai.

Yes, yes. Yeah, I don't know. I just wanted to keep Sergeant Steli busy. I just wanted to visit my old friend. If he was awake, he would say thank you. Oh, he would scream, thank you. Oh, that's nice. Okay.

Make me a medicine check told. Okay. It's a 14. Is this where I find out he is medically dead? No, you know, as you're stroking his cheek. and confessing your thomatech origins to him. Do you think that he and the rest of the officers who are unconsciously will probably wake up tomorrow in the morning?

Okay. That's a good sleep for them. Yes, that's a very good sleep. Oh, will you wake up and you yell at all of those privates and you have a good time? Keep that blood pressure down, though. Okay, kisses. Then I give him a little kiss on the forehead.

There it is. Originally I wanted to train and I wanted to use my spider silk leggings that I got in the cave but I really just wanted to visit with Stelyi, you know? Oh, I think it's good.

It's a nice bonding moment. Yeah. As you're stroking SteelEye's cheek, you know, the privates are still coming in and out of the war room here. Now they've moved beyond

giving the pillows to the officers. They're now redoing the wallpaper, I believe was one of the other instructions then. Yes. They're tearing the old wallpaper off and plastering up new wallpaper with glue. Good. Yes.

Don't forget, it's tie-dye, make sure it's, it's perfect to match the shank carpets and the lava lamps and the disco balls. Oh, yes, sir. You have impeccable taste. Yes. In wallpaper, sir. And the waterbed goes over there. Yes. It's funny how those went away.

Yeah. Okay. Yes, sir. Waterbed. Got it. We'll requisition that right away. Good. Okay.

And then you know those busts from past generals and things like that? I want to paint them. Yes. Okay. You want to paint them or you want us to paint them, sir? I want you to paint them. This has become art class. I want to express yourselves, okay? Yes, sir. So use all sorts of colors and different palettes, you know. I want you to think of the song, Party Man, from the Batman film, you know, by Prince.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Have fun with it, express yourself. Express yourself. Okay, and this was officially sanctioned by the higher-ups too, sir? Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah. Okay, right away. On it. Now, if you excuse me, I think my friend, And Natty has a fire song to sing to me.

Okay. The privates run out of the war room to go look for painting. Okay. Hold on. I just need to get my key. What's you unlocking? I'm actually playing a note on piano. Just a second.

Oh, oh. Oh. Micah, John's coming for your job. Uh-oh. Watch out. Big brothers on the hunt for your job. I'm taking this assignment seriously, okay? Yeah, apparently.

Okay. So nervous. So nervous. Breathe. Just breathe with your audience. Canic lungs, yes. Just in and out with the air. Okay, the title of the song?

You want to the title? Of course, yes. It's Dancing with Death. Oh, that's a very lovely title. Here's how it goes. Dancing with Death, she's my sugar sweet bride. She fills me with love. I feel like I've died.

When the Reaper comes a calling, honey, don't hold your breath. It's a party in the graveyard when you're dancing with death. And then there's one more, there's a little bit of more, and then we go, Oh, my silent lady steed, she's a beautiful gal. Clippity clop, clippity clop, her sight makes me how. When the midnight bell rings, darling, don't you look back? You'll be laughing in the afterlife with my lady in black. Wow.

That was so good. I don't know how this is happening because this is not my real skin, but I have these goosebumps now. What is this feeling? That's amazing. That was really good. There you go. Genuinely goosebumps, Steve. Doug gives a standing ovation.

You don't have one. Oh, good. I'll take one. That was good. That's very good. Micah, that's a G-C-D-C-D-G progression. There you go. I mean, it's no gum-gum, gum, gum, here comes to sun, sun.

I don't know what you're talking about. That was deeply moving. Doug, you know, you're working on your invention, you know, really focusing on it, looking at it, trying to piece together all of these spare parts that you've found. And as you're doing that, you have to blink a couple times because you see a face slowly materializing and appearing on top of your invention looking back at you. The face appears to be half metal mask and half obscured with a void of stars and a body of clouds. And then as you're looking at it, the face.

begins to emerge from the invention and begins standing up and then there's a person standing before you. You look around and you're no longer in the workshop. You're in a room with a reflective floor almost like glass, a ceiling made of starry constellations constantly shifting. Small puffs of clouds slowly circle the room. It's almost like the clouds are granting you visions of future technologies. Whoa. What kind of future technology do you think Doug might see in those clouds? I don't even know if he'd be able to, like, grasp the concept of future technologies because if it hasn't been invented yet, I imagine it's maybe ways to communicate with the gods or even, like, people who have passed or, like, see through different, like, dimensions or realms or anything like that. I think that's something he envisions being something he would like to have. Yeah.

You know, that's what they say about technology, right? Like, advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Yeah. And it's, you know, it's just, like, really eye-opening for you. And the figure before you speaks. Hello, Hugh. How are you doing? What's this you're working on?

It's just an invention for a contest. Who are you? Oh, I'm the veiled eye. I love inventions. Why don't you tell me more about it? First of all, it's a pleasure to meet you. Oh, great and powerful veiled eye. Oh, what's your name?

I'm Doug Boone. Doug Boone. Nice to meet you, Doug. Nice to meet you. I'm just working on a little adventure for a contest, but it's still, you know, it's a work in progress, so I'm kind of a little embarrassed if you're looking at it right now.

Oh, it seems impressive. Does this help locate creatures? It does. I guess you ought to bail out of eye, so you would know. Oh, yes, it seems like fine quality craftsmanship. You should be very, very good. proud of this progress, Doug. You know, I don't say this lately, but I think

I could die happy right now. It's not your time, Doug. You have to bring me your invention in person. This one? Yes, I need you to finish it and present it to me. Are you judging the contest? That's a little weird. I don't know about any contest, but I think this invention has great potential.

Why don't you come to Meadow Canyon and bring me this device so I can ascertain its capability? Meadow Canyon, but we're going to make our way to the Boiling Bluffs. Are you still going to be there for a hot second? I think I'm always there. Oh, wow, it's beautiful. Are there any other inventions you're working on that you could show me? I mean, I'd be glad to start on something for you. What do you need?

Oh, I love all inventions. Okay, well... Gambot, Gambot. I mean, yeah, he is my prized possession, but I do have a little steel defender named Gambot. He helps protect me and my friends. Oh, isn't he adorable? The Vildai reaches out and like pants Gambot on the top of the head. Does anything happen to Gambot?

It doesn't seem like it. I guess you see Gambot's head spins around. Gambot is evolving. Nerds. I sense you have something in your heart waiting to be made, Doug. I guess I just don't feel as inspired lately. Some of my inventions in the past have caused so much pain. and I guess I'm just afraid.

Well, the past is just that. It's time to move forward and learn and grow. I have faith in you, Doug Boone, that you'll be able to do whatever you set your mind to. You want to give me like a little clue or a little hint, maybe? Map. Uh, yeah. Wait, what was your name again?

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