Tales from the Stinky Dragon - C03 - Ep. 37 - From On Hyra - Prison Break-In

Episode Date: February 18, 2026

Brutaliteam comes face to face with the Warden along with a few other odd cell mates 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 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

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drama. Hello everyone. Welcome to Tales on the Stiggy Dragon. I'm your Dundermaster Gustavus roll. I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow. Thanks. Sure you don't mean... Sorry, I didn't have a joke there. I went out about that. Are you sure you don't mean anything else?

Take two. All right, here we go. Leave that in. I'm fine. No, no, John. And... I ran out of pride, I think, at around like age of 33. And so I'm good now.

I don't really have anything to prove anymore. 10 years ago, you ran out of pride? I'm in my 40s. I'm just fine with whatever. You want to think I'm an idiot? I am, so go for it. A lovable idiot at least. Yeah, sometimes.

All right, well, all of my lovable idiots roll a D20, and I'm going to ask you the question here, which is, all of you, by the way, you're all lovable idiots. Oh. Is it too late to change our company to that name? Lovable idiots? Tales from the lovable idiots. This week's arrow question is,

if your character was a potato dish, what potato dish would they be and why? and that was submitted by Abbe Gizzle and Gabe Horacek. I rolled in 19. 19. Roll off. Chris, you got to just make it. You got to make it so difficult.

Didn't you all have a roll off last week in the week before? Six. Five. All right. Seven. Troy Aikman. Come on, Gus. He can do it.

Come on. Say it. Eight. There we go. What? You're going to... You got to do it for the audience. Chris, Barbara, Blaine, John.

I'm from Texas. How cool it had been if you're not. were like, all right, eight, cool, moving on. I know what it is. I've watched my share of America's team. Here, let me do one for the kids. Six, seven. Oh, no.

Stop. Merriam Webster's word of the ear. Thank you, Barbara. All right, Chris, you look pained. I just don't understand what y'all are referencing. Don't even worry about it. That's okay. You're allowed to be old.

Yeah. Sorry, old man. Don't worry about it. Me and Blaine are the babies of the group. Yeah, drink your prune juice, you old fart. Yeah. Chris, you're leading us off.

Hi, I'm Chris Ramirez. I play Gunther, the male crook fighter. If I was a potato, here's what I would do. There's a special dish where you sit out a potato in front of a hot stone and then it cooks itself. And then what you do is you take some juice, you take some fly juice and then you squish it inside and it becomes like a squishy, yummy thing inside and that's what I would be.

So is that what a baked potato? A stone-cooked fly-juice potato. Yes, it is tasty. Sounds like Zelda. Get it on the menu, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, it's what you put in the Zelda pot, and then it comes out and it just mush. It's like, yeah.

Monster guts. Now it windies. This combo don't work, Link. It is delicious. Maybe the Gunther. It's an acquired taste. You have not tasted it. Yeah.

Maybe you can make it for us sometime, Gunther. Maybe not. Thanks, Gunther, for that disgusting sounding, I mean, for that delicious sounding dish. Barbara, you're up. Hello, everyone. I'm Barbara Dunkelman, and I play Doug Boone, the artificer bug bear. And Doug thought long and hard about this one.

So Doug would be a baked potato because Doug is all about efficiency. This way you're using the entirety of the potato. You could even eat the skin, which is actually quite healthy if you didn't know that. But also, you know, a little bit of jokes thrown in there. You know, you could butter Doug up like you would a baked potato. Also, sometimes Doug could be a little cheesy. Also, sour cream is also tasty sometimes. And those are just some of my bacon bits.

You have all these puns, but not one for sour cream. You had one for every ingredient. I just like sour cream. But yeah, this is a big potato. Delicious. No fly juice, though, Saragento. What? Side note, if you haven't had it, the Big Potato at Rudy's is amazing.

Oh my God, yes. Such a good deal. Rudy sponsors. Who's up, next? I believe we got Troy Eichmann over there. Hey, it's me, Blaine Gibson, aka Troy Eichman.

I actually, I don't know if I want to tether my name to Troy Eichman. No, no, it's too late. You're Troy Eichman. He had a car dealership. Those are aspirations. Dallas Cowboys quarterback from the mid to late 90s.

Yeah, yeah. Anyways, you-hoo, it's me Tov, a male Ork, Thammotech, Barbarian. I said, Ork, I didn't even need to do that anymore, but I still caught in the old brain. Dham a tort.

And as far as taters, I would be scalloped potatoes. Because think about it, you know, scallops are in the sea, you know, very, very aquatic, you know. And then all my jokes are all so cheesy, but I didn't get that joke in before Doug, so it's not as funny this time. Hey, told, that was a great joke. Thank you, his original. Same one.

Also, side note, my girlfriend, Kristen, makes the best scallop potatoes. I think Chris and Barbara have tried them. Oh, yeah. Yes. Very good. I refuse. Delicious. Oh, man, they're so good.

Kristen also is just good at making anything. She made facacha bread that we've been. Is it? No, not facacha. Yeah, faca. Yeah, it makes, it's really good. Yes. So good.

It's such a weird sounding bread. Anyway, sorry. She also made sourdough, which was also delicious. Yeah, yeah. Just eating all her bread. No, I'm just hungry. Bread. I like a good scallop potato.

All right. Good. good, I like the tie-in to the sea there. Pretty good. Nice told. All right. And last, but definitely not least, we got Natty. Hello, everybody. I'm John Rice here, and I play Natty Wonder, who's a drow, warlock, drag queen mother, and I'm calling it now. This is going to be a weird episode.

The vibes are, they're not off, they're not bad, they're just weird today. They're silly, goofy. So, strap in, folks. You never know what's going to happen when the lovely idiots get in front of the microphones. As Natty Wonder, if I were to pick, which potatoes are, in my opinion, the perfect food. There's almost no wrong way to fix a potato,

although Gunther might have tried to get to that point. But if I was a potato dish, which we all know I'm already a dish, right? Oh. Yes, she is. That's Barbara. That was Barbara, not Doug. I was not expecting that sound, but I love it.

I thought it was Doug. That was super weird to me. I think it started, Dubey. And then it went to Barb, I think. It's because I had just a genuine reaction, but my voice was still ready to do Doug. There you go. She hadn't shifted gears.

A little bit of vocal gears. If I was a potato dish, I would be French fries. Excellent. Because they're just so versatile. And they go with almost anything. And almost everybody likes them. They're so easy to make. You just kind of cut up potatoes and then fry them.

You know, and you can do them all kinds of ways. You know, they're just, They're useful, they're versatile, they're yummy. They're just a good, good old, you know, standard. French? I'm not French, although I do like the French. Yeah, but honestly, any potato dish, any potato. They're just perfect.

That's your right, ensure. French fries are good. Two things. I was convinced Natty was going to say potato salad, but two. Ooh, that's a good one. Show me, potato salad. Yeah. Let me ask you, Gustavo, let me ask you, do you like,

fancy potato salad or just like plain potato salad? Do you like a bunch of stuff in your potato salad or you just want it like just plain? I wish I liked potato salad. Oh, so sad. I just cannot bring myself to enjoy it. I've tried it over and over my entire life and I feel like I'm missing something. You are. But French fries are interesting because I feel like you kind of touched on this.

They run the gamut, right? Like you can get French fries as fast food. You can also get French fries at like a high-end steakhouse. It's like a side for your steak. It's like this French fry can chameleon itself into like a whole array of different cuisines. Crinkle cut, shoe stream. Skinny, wedge. Like curly fries are good.

Curly. Honestly, I feel like a lot of potatoes are actually all fries, but they just have different names. Oh, wow. Deep. Like, you know, like at what point is a, because there's so many ways to make fries and still call them fries, but that you could just be like, yeah, this is like home fries. What is that? Those are just potatoes.

Oh, like a little broken up potatoes for breakfast. Yeah. How are those fries? Yeah. A potato is just a raw fry. Yeah. I have a lot of thoughts about fries, and I'm going to just get to end it here. You should have those thoughts, and we can have extensive conversation about potatoes on second win. Our show for our patrons.

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Dot stinkyragonpod.com. Everyone make me a perception check. Okay. Something's happening. Five. 14. 24. 13.

Doug, as you're thinking this over and trying to figure out your move, you hear the sound of footsteps running. And you look up to see Bosco making a dash for the crank. Oh. And he begins very quickly finishing extending the plank and it drops down to the prison. Daddy shoots him. There you go. Yeah, make your attack roll.

Thanks for doing that for us. Now we don't have to do it. That's a 19 plus whatever her model. to fire his ice. That hits. So go ahead and roll your damage. Yeah. 3 plus 4 plus 4 plus 3. So 14. 14. It's good. Yeah. The force of the blast hits Bosco in the back and he loses his footing and falls over the edge of the tower into the icy depth below. Natty leans over the edge and tries to shoot him again before he gets in the water. With a loud slam, the gangplank finishes extending and then slam.

down onto the roof of the prison across the lake. And you see a horde of armor-plated guards and a woman aboard the plank and quickly run across and accost you all. Natty starts pulling the crank up so that while they're crossing it, if you retracts. Everybody accosted us.

Yeah, and the woman commands the guards. Arrest and incarcerate these invaders. We'll deal with them in the prison. The sky is filled with stars as night is set, and there's rays of the low sitting sun. Hale continuously falls onto the top of the prison tower in the distance from which bladed guards and the warden have run to accost you all.

The guards very deftly, seemingly with a lot of practice, disarm you all, and begin stowing your weapons as the warden peers at all of you over her horn-rimmed glasses. I am the warden. You are military deserters. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. And that is something I will not tolerate. I believe in two things.

Discipline and the law. If you don't believe in one, you'll receive the other. What if I said I was a military appetizer? Give me back to your inspiration, die. I don't have one. Does that mean I get it one? Negative. Two negatives makes a positive. The warden eyes you gunther, and she points at her pin.

on her lapel. See this, Gunther? This means, unlike you, I believe in a higher power. The final word, perhaps they can help you like they helped me. She clasps her hands together,

interlacing her fingers as if praying. I think you need to pray more. Put your hands together in prayer. Don't stop until I say otherwise. Her glasses flashed with a dark light. Gunther, make me a wisdom saving throne. Okay. What is she pointing to exactly?

A lapel? Yeah, a lapel pin. A pin. She's got a pin. And what I can I actually see what it is? Yeah, it's a pin on her lapel that shows balancing scales weighed down by serpent scales. Six. I feel like we've seen that image somewhere before.

Yeah, a scale weighed down by scales. Looking at my notes. Your hands seem to act with the mind of their own as if you can't control them. And your hands clasped together as if you're in prayer and your fingers interlaped. Welcome to Sky Blue Falls Prison. Guards put them in separate cells. These inmates are to be considered dangerous. I did look through my notes and I found something for...

We found chests in the armory and one was a scale of scales. It was the name. It was the relics. Yes. Yeah. Now, I just want to question, because Natty was in the visage of one of the guards. So is Natty, do they recognize Natty?

Or is Natty like swept in with it as a guard? They saw through the ruse and were quickly able to disarm everyone. Shacks. You all are put into manacles, your weapons loaded into crates seemingly stowed, and the warden exits to the left below. You all are guided across the gangplank into the prison tower and led to your individual cells. I need to roll to see where your cells are, so give me just a moment. Polve is going to look for the nearest prisoner that he's going to make a fool out of with like a lunch plate or a lunch tray, you know?

You got to beat someone first day in prison, right? That's the rule. I see you've seen prison movies before. Might have to be Gunther, actually. I don't know, I don't know. Could also, like, I don't know if I could do this, but as we're being, like, walked through, could Doug make note of, like,

how the doors open and close and, like, the latches and how, like, all the mechanics work for these cells? Sure. Give me just a moment to get these rolls, and we can deal with that. Am I still praying? Yeah, your hands are. stuck together.

I don't even need handcuffs. It's true. Don't tell the Wilderflower about this. Oh, we'll be going to be so mad. I'm going to snap a picture of you. No, please don't tell her. Toll blinks with his ocular things, just, just cuck-cuh.

No, please don't. Oh, you can just wait. She's going to get so mad. I was thinking of you the whole time. Oh my God. Well, maybe you're praying to the Wilderflower. Yeah. Yes, it meant nothing.

Okay, and Doug, you wanted to pay attention to the workings of the prison. So you all get closer and you remember I had previously described this as like a spire that was sticking out of the lake. There was no land around it. It's just presumably a column that is the prison itself. It's 30 stories tall. You are led onto the roof and then led down into various levels where your cells are. Each floor is its own cell. and you are led down into each of the different levels.

Tov, you are placed onto the 11th floor. 11th floor gang, whoop, wop, let's go, guys. It's me, your newest member, Tov. And the door to the 11th floor faces in the north direction. Gunther, you are placed down on the 7th floor, and the door for the 7th floor also faces into the north direction. Natty, you're placed on the 22nd floor. Ooh, you got a high-rise.

and the door to your cell faces in the eastern direction. And Doug, last but not least, you are placed on the sixth floor and your door faces in the southerly direction. Okay. Are there anybody else in these cells with us? Yes, there is. Let me deal with Doug wanting to pay attention to the doors and all of that, and then I can get to you and the people who were asking.

We've gone to prison every single campaign. We have. It's our lot in life. Yeah. We started campaign too as in a process. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Guys, now we got to do it IRL.

Let's do tax fraud, huh? Come on, let's go seeky dragon. We can go way bigger than tax fraud. Come on, think bigger. Guys, I can't. I'm Canadian, I can't. Son up for our patron to bail us out. Okay, just to give a little more flavor text,

each of these cells is a hexagonal cell that appears to be made of some kind of stone, probably granite. And there is a, I'd mentioned this before, or an episode or two ago, but there's like a storm over the center of the lake, over this spire that causes like a hailstorm to form that peltz the tower seemingly relentlessly. Doug, why don't you make me a investigation check to see how much you glean from these cells and the way that all works?

17. See, Doug's the guy you're going to go to in prison because he's going to make the shivs, all right? He's the crafter. Well, he should say I don't already have a couple packed away. Well, just in case. Where are you hiding them? I saw this prison. I already started whittling them out in the forest there.

Contraband. Oh, I wonder how you got that day in. You see that it seems like the guards use a dual key system to lock the doors, where there's two keys that are used to activate two separate locks on the doors. And it locks with a very solid metallic sound. Like, they have to be turned at the same time, like... Like severance? Not at the same time.

Yeah, yeah. They're not nuclear launch codes, but yeah, it is more secure than one. And it's two different people who have two different keys or one person with two keys. Two people with two keys. Great. And these cells themselves, like I said, have a hexagonal layout. And there's a, what you assume would be like a load-bearing column in the center that is structural and holds the floors apart. And each of the cells is a cot and a bucket.

And there's a prisoner already in each of the cells when you are put into them. So that kind of answers your question, but we'll dig into it a little more here in a second, Blaine. Actually, since you ask that, Blaine, what else do you think would be in this? Or what else do you just Tov see in this cell? Is there like a piece of furniture or a decor or something in here? Oh, there's a lot of writing on the wall, those tick marks where it's like dash, dash, dash, slash, you know, it's like a five. So that's just covering the wall. Some sort of like brown paint on smeared across the walls.

I don't know if they got the good, like, painting team in here, but it seems like I did a messy job. Nice poop. Oh. Some pin-ups of some orcs and elven women. Wow, there are a lot to bring pictures in here. That's nice. Curly drawn.

Any fuzzy britches? What else would there be? I don't know. Is it like a bed or a toilet or anything like that? Yeah, he said cot. It's a bucket. Yeah, there is a cot and a bucket. Yeah.

Well, they have, like, that's a wap. They have a hot. Some sort of armor, like a hat. That metal bucket might serve as a good helmet. Hmm. I like it. Yeah, as you are shoved into your cell, Toll, there is a male elf standing there,

looking a little sad and forlorn, who lifts his head, looks at you, and then just looks back down at his feet. Yoohoo, it's me Tov. Hello, hello, fellow prison cellmate. How are you today? Just sad. Yo, yeah? What's got you down?

Well, I'm... I'm in prison. I'm Duck Fogg. Duck Fogg. That's a cool name. Yeah. You who it's be told. Well, good news, Duck Fogg, because we're breaking out today.

You want to come with? Yeah. How are you breaking out? What are you in for? For breaking in. I don't know. It's kind of convolut. It's kind of backwards.

But, you know, so I'm with my crew. We're all kind of separated. By the way, Duck Fogg, do you know why we have different floors, like why they put us on different floors? Do the different floors mean different things? It's just for security purposes. They built the cell vertically instead of horizontally to save space, I guess. So it's not like a power rating.

So say I was like on the 22nd floor. I'm not twice as strong as someone on like the 11th floor, right? You know, I don't know. I've never met anyone from 22. Yeah, probably not the case. But, you know, I'm just curious, just asking for no reason. Oh, yeah. Do we know what floor each other are on?

I'll say that you got dropped off in descending ord. Descending, okay. So everyone knows that Natty's on 22. Gunther and Doug know that Tov's on 11. Doug knows that Gunther's on seven, but no one knows Doug is on six outside of Doug. Oh, just Doug secret. Yeah.

I guess Gunther would know that Doug is below seven somewhere, but that's it. That makes sense. If there's anything else you want to say we'd do that, otherwise I want to cut to someone else and have their interaction, Toll. I'll want to communicate with the rest of the team, but I want to make sure that they settle in first.

Okay. We can circle back on that. We'll do Gunther next. I'm going, I just realized, instead of going down the list of the tower, I'm going by your old initiative from combat. So don't read too much into the order I'm doing this. I'm just reusing the list of names I already had here.

Right, most powerful first, got it. Gunther, you're shoved into floor seven, which also faces to the north, and when you're there, you see an orc who is scowling at you as you get shoved in. Just stay out of my way, little one. You can have that corner over there. Any points at the bucket?

The bucket? Alright, I guess I get the bucket. What's yours is your name? Big one. Why so? Why so short with your words? Yeah, there's no point in getting to know you. You just gonna end up at the bottom of the lake sooner or later.

Is that what happened to your last roommate? So it happens to most people around here, actually. Not just my roommates. How long have you been here? Oh, I've been here. here a long time. A week. A week? I have been here a long time too, but I have now come back again. Oh, you were in before? He seems to like soften a bit. How'd you get out? That depends. Do you want to get out again? Well, it would be a first time for me, but yes. Oh, yes. I would...

Do you want to get out again? Do I... Okay, I have a question. I obviously, I know. I know. I know how I got out, but how did I get out, Gus? Do you make it up? Okay. If you want, I can make it up, but I mean, it's the opportunity for you to make it up. You also don't have to tell him. Okay, yeah. I won't tell them because I don't know what it is yet.

I would tell you, but first, tell me everything you know about the routine of the guards. Well, they don't really seem to have a set routine, you see. They never come alone. It's always in groups. And whenever they're around, they put any prisoner into lockdown immediately. Immediately. And for food, do they ever let out for recess? Recess? Recess?

Ha ha ha ha. Oh, that's a good one. No, no, no, no, no. But I'll let you in a little secret, though. Yes. Sometimes, they don't lock all the cells. What? We can get out and move between cells and communicate with each other that way.

Why do they do that? Why do they not lock all these cells? cells. They know escape's impossible, but apparently not if you left. Apparently not, yes. Gunther wants to look at his bucket. Take stock of the room and see if there's any, you know. Yeah, you look in the bucket and it's filled with some rather foul-smelling liquids that you'd rather not investigate further. Tell me, what else do you see in the room, Gunther? Like, is there an item of furniture or a decoration? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so there's the cot and then, but I think WISO has taken, there were two cots, and I think he took a double bunk, like, double stacked his so that there's no

first other cot. He's top and bottom bunk? Yeah, like, so he has like double padding and then I think are there windows? There's no window there's just that door that faces out to the northern side. I think there's like a running path like where

inmates have been like to stay fit like would jog and circle so there's like almost like where the stone itself is like weathered down from just like running in circles trying to like in a circle around that support column all in the middle of the hexagon. Yeah.

I like it. Cozy. If there's nothing else with you, Gunther, I'm going to move on to the next person. We can always come back. Natty, you were the first to be dropped off. You're in Cell 22, and your door faces out to the east. When you are put into your cell, Natty, there's an inmate already in there who's exercising. What they look like?

You recognize this kind of creature because you saw some not that long ago. It's a dretch. Oh. He looks up at you as he's done. doing toe touches with a big smile on his face. It's just, oh, welcome, friend. Oh, hi. My name's Naddy.

What's yours? The name's stitches. Stitches. Besides stitches, the cot and the bucket, what else do you see in here, Natty? Natty turns to her left and sees a full kitchen with a refrigerator and a stove and a microwave. Booty. There's a pet house suite up here. Espresso machine.

Why have they got that in here? Yeah. And then there's a pantry. that's fully stocked with like all kinds of food. Stitcher says, oh, sorry about that. I was just practicing my prestidigitation. Here, let me get that for you. And he snaps his fingers and it all disappears.

Oh, you have the same brown paint too. Yeah, where there was the kitchen, there's a full entertainment center with video games. Just a butt. There are a bunch of little makeshift, like made from, like, the straw of the cots and, like, old, like, pieces of, like, food, like, bone or something. There's, like, little dolls all over the cell that are everywhere. Yeah, I like it.

Stitches, doesn't miss a step. He's still continually working out. And he asks, what are you in for? I don't rightfully know. I thought it would be for one thing, but then when we came in, the warden made up something else. And so I think we're just kind of being held here because I don't know, she's mad at us or something. Oh, you met the warden. Oh, yeah.

It's a good thing you're still here. Yeah. Does she like, is she bad? She likes to punish people. Better to be here than to be receiving punishment. Oh, okay. Do you know why you're here? Me?

Yeah. Well, yeah. It was a misunderstanding. I thought I was here for one thing. Then they made up something entirely different. I'm innocent. Stealing hair. I was going to say stealing hair.

I think flashbacks. I don't care. Yeah, I believe you could be innocent. It doesn't seem to be a proper due process. So what you said, you thought you were here for one thing, but then they said you were here forever. What's those two things? I thought I was here for robbing a store.

But when they got me here, They said I was an Undarian spy. Can you believe that? Me, Udarian. Aren't dretches Andareans? Yeah. That's probably why they assumed. Okay.

Yeah. I mean, you know. You believe me, right? Sure. What's, you know, why not? You know, I got no reason not to believe in you other than prejudice. And I don't want to be that kind of person. So.

Oh, you're great, Natty. I'll tell you what. I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Oh. My nickname around here is Smiley. You can call me Smiley Stitches if you want. Your real name is Stitches, but your nickname is Smiley. Yeah.

Okay. Sure, why not? Smiley stitches. I got that nickname in the O'Darion Military. Is Gigi with me? I was going to ask, is Gigi in like a, what do they call that? Like a juvenile. Juvenile stuff?

He's in the play pen that they have for people's kids. Yeah. A little play area. Yeah, we'll say Giggy's with you. Okay. What about Cap and Grumbles? Oh, that's a good question. Oh, no.

And has Gambott made his way back as well from me? Gambott's just do circles, like sad sounds as it can't find you. That's actually a really good question. In the last episode, we said Gambot would reunite with you at the end of combat. So we'll say the way that the end of the previous episode played out, we'll say Gambot arrived as you all were being accosted and taken. So you have Gambot back. What about my skin?

What are my Bjorn skin? Wait, did they let her keep Gambat? Yeah. Where does Gambot go when Gambat's not being used? That's for me and Gambot to know and no one else. We'll say Gambot is with your equipment. Dang it. Can it be like a service animal type arrangement?

You know how they let prisoners have service animals in their cells? Yeah. But Giggy is with Natty. We'll say Captain Grumbles is in a different cell. Okay, okay. It's the Darth Vader thing. Where's Padme? Is she safe?

Where's Captain Grumbles? Well, as you can see, Smiley, I got myself a little demon here, and he's been accused of a lot of stuff. So, I mean, most of it's true, but I mean, he's been accused just like you. So how long you been here? Oh, me. I've been here for three years. Do you have a sentence? Or is it just like, they put you in here and that's that?

A sentence. You're funny, Natty. No, they just put me in here. This place seems to be a little loosey-goosey. Yeah, you could say that. The warden does what she wants, you know, but you've got to listen to her. Don't disobey unless you want to disappear. Do you know where they disappear to when they disobey? Is there like a box? Rumor has it. There's a dungeon somewhere here that the warden takes people to when they disobey. Oh, okay. I don't know where it is. I've actually never seen.

seen it, but that's what I'll hear. Hey, what are all these dolls around the sale? Oh, those things. Those are my friends. Let me introduce you. Here, this first one here, this is Griff. He's a good friend of mine. Okay. Yeah, he's orange, not yellow. Oh.

This one over here. This is Simmons. They're a good friend. Uh-huh, keep going. Doug, you are led to your cell on the sixth floor, of which the door faces to the south. And as you are led into it, you see that there is a grilp already in it.

You saw grilps before. I don't know if you remember this. You fought some with the fake gardeners way back like many episodes ago. They were like the little, I think it was with the fake gardeners. It was right around then. It was like little fiends,

like little greenskilled and devils about the size of a house cat with wings. Okay, yeah, yeah. This grilp as you walk in is just scratching at the walls. And that turns and looks at you over its shoulder and then just goes back to scratching the wall. What else do you see in here, Doug?

I think Doug would see, in addition to the bucket, I think there's also a bucket of water. Okay. And then maybe some dirt next to it. And then if he looks around, I think he would find some pieces of wood and a tiny little carver's knife. Okay, sure.

Also, what's that in the car? Are those two keys in the corner? It is. Wow. Yeah, I think they both say Master Key 1 and Master Key 2. They do.

Wow, okay, perfect. And there doesn't seem to be any creatures that could do any sort of prestididitation or sort of illusions in here. Well, there's the grilp, I don't know much. You haven't talked to him, so I don't know. That's crazy. The grilp looks at you and gives a menacing smile

and you see that there are no teeth in its mouth. And he goes back to scratch. at the wall. Oh, he doesn't have pencil either. Pleasure to meet you. I'm Doug Boone. What's your name? Kenjamin.

Benjamin. Kenjamin. Kenjamin. Tenjamin. Tenement. Tenjamin. Okay. Kenjamin.

Sorry, I couldn't understand you because of like a teeth. Kenjamin. All right. Well, uh, I see we're going to be friends. Yeah. How long, uh, how long you've been in here, Kenjamin? I just got him. Oh, Jess God hears me too.

Why are you here? I imagine probably because we were trying to break in, so they put us in here, which seems kind of, you know, we were trying to get in here, and they put us in here, so maybe they should have kicked us out. That would have been the real punishment, but... Oh, well, congratulations. What, uh... Thanks. What brought you in here? Oh, they caught me.

I was an Undarion spy. Oh, yeah, that's awkward. Yeah. But I'm glad they're locking you up. What? What are you saying? I mean, I mean, no, what are you doing? Over there, scratching, scratch you on the walls.

I'm going to dig my way out. Oh, which wall is he scratching at, by the way? He is scratching at the northern wall. Okay, that's face south. Like the opposite side from where you walked in. Your door was to the south, so he's scratching on the northern wall. So would one assume the northern wall would like be the edge of the tower? Well, they're all edges.

There's no other structures. It's just one cell stacked on top of the other. So all of the walls are exterior walls. Okay. I'm so curious. Like I feel like I could draw this place where I don't know. Yeah. Does it look like a like a jenga tower that's all like weird?

Like there's like pieces jutting out, you know, from the center pole. No, it's just one hexagon stacked on top of the other. It's just a hexagonal tower. And people can send us fan art if they want on Discord, if they're members of our Patreon at stinkyjragonpot.com. I would love to see people's take on this because, yeah, I'm the same way where I'm like, I think I could picture this, but I also cannot for the life of me picture this.

Okay, well, what makes you think you could dig out of there, Kenjuman? Is it, you making progress there on your scratches? No. Oh. But I got time. That's true. That's a good point. I like you, Doug.

You seem easy to talk to. Well, thank you. I pride myself at being easy to talk to you. But thanks, Kenjamin. Have it happened to see any guards walk by, like, pretty often? Like, how often do they come around? I'm really not too certain. I only got here today, actually.

Oh, very helpful. But I have heard of rumor. Oh, what's that? I saw you looking around, and maybe you're like this rumor. I heard there's a skeleton key somewhere around here that works on every door, even secret wants. Oh, but like, I know you need two keys to open a door, so how would you do that? Well, maybe it works on both, or maybe not. Oh, so they don't have to be inside at the same time?

Yeah. Oh, that changes everything. What's the rumor on where it's hiding? I don't know. I wish I knew Well, that's great information Well, Kenjimate, you know I feel like we're buddies

So if you hear anything else You just let Doug know Okay, well I'm a little bit bored So I'm going to get back to work And he turns around and continues scratching the wall Okay So I guess I'll ask the group at large You know, I just wanted to have everyone

Give a moment to like build their cell And kind of talk about that What do you all want to do? What's the plan here If we can kind of figure this out? Should we like roll? or anything or just kind of go one by one. Yeah, why not roll, I guess. Initiative or just a D20.

Just a D20. Nine. Three. 14. Two. So I think that would be Gunther Tollv, Doug Natty. Gunther Toll, that's what I got. Okay, yeah.

Gunther, do you have like inklings of a plan here or thoughts? So from my mind, Gunther's previous experience, whenever guards come, either up or down, the prisoners hit the ceiling or the floor as a warning. The number of taps means the number of guards. Interesting. Interesting. Okay.

So they have their kind of like a messaging, you know, system. Yeah, you just got to be sure not to get confused. Like when you're upstairs neighbor drops a bunch of stuff on the floor and you're like banging on the ceiling. Shut up. Keep it down. Up 14 guards. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Where are the guards coming at 2.30 in the morning? Get real. And then, let's see, I'm with... Why so? Why so? Why so? All right.

Does magic work here? Yes, but most things have been taken from you. So, yes, with an asterisk, if you have the ability to do it. Okay. Can I see out the cell? Yeah. Your door faces out to the north, so you're able to look out in that direction. And you see the icy lake below.

you than on the other side of the bank of the lake. It's just clear shoreline. We'd previously discussed this, but it seems like all the vegetation and brush has been cut back a significant distance, presumably to increase the sight lines for the watchtower. So here is my plan, who I saw. Okay. We have several. Several one is when the guards, they come, right?

I need you to throw the poo. You throw the poo. That will disrupt them. and blind them and make them not in a good mood, right? That's how you got the brown walls, right? Yes. And then here's what I will do. I will misty step through the doors and then attack to hopefully get key. And they're so covered in poo, they don't even know what to do.

And then we make a break. Do you do? Yes. Chris, you have a fascination with throwing the poop bucket. I just want to point that out. I feel like we've done this before. It is a good way to use what you have. I'm not talking to Gunther, I'm talking to Chris.

Okay. Now why so? You tell me what can we use as weapons or something, what do you got in your head? Make a persuasion check for me, Gunther. Yes, it was only eight. Gus. He looks around and says, okay. Maybe we can work together, little one.

He goes over to his bed, to the cot, and reaches around inside of it and pulls out a piece of rock, like a piece of granite that's been sharpened. Hmm. I like it. I like it a lot, why so? Where else you got? Uh, you? Do not hold back on me. I am not weapon other than, yes, I actually am weapon, but not like you think.

Nah, I can throw you. Oh, okay. But see, I need, okay, you'll give me the stabby rock. What? No, no, no, no. All right, then I will just miss this step out and leave you. But what do I get out of this? You get me opening the gate when I leave. So why do you need me?

I don't. Okay. I think Huiso's not the smartest person in the world, so I think all of this talk would probably throw his brain for a loop. So he would hand over the rock kind of without thinking, and just kind of like a puzzled look on his face. Good. Is that it for you? You want to move on to the next person?

Yeah. I guess I'll hide during the poop throwing so it won't even know where I am and that I'll be behind them. That's my plan. Okay. Who's making all the poop? Well, WISO's already been working hard of that. Oh. He's been preparing for this plan for days.

He's been training. He didn't know it though. No, guys, he's been poop herring. Oh. It's like a karate kid. Show me paint the fence. Pupon, poop. All right, Toll.

First and foremost. After I give my neighboring cells up and down some knocks, some greeting knocks, you know, because I've been hearing knocks here and there. So I'm just knocking back. You're returning up, yeah. Yeah. Without fully understanding what that does. I walk over to the door and I try it.

What the heck? You give the door a shake and it is locked. Okay. Do I have, because they were like kind of components of Thomitex, because they're like Thomitech, you know, like, pieces. Do I have my mittens of mushrooms or my stockings of spider silk? We'll say that they took the mittens, assume, you know, because they slide on, but the stockings, I believe, are described as, like, they adhere really tightly. So they would probably appear to be part of your Darmatitech skeletons.

So I'll say the mittens are gone, but the stockings are still adhere to your legs. They're like yoga pants. They're just skin tight. Perfect. Okay. And then Duck fog. Duck fog, you who? Yes.

Do you have any like cool powers or anything like that? Are you like Superman or? Yeah. Yeah. I've got one superpower. It's not making paint for the walls, is it? I can rob. people. Great. Okay. Love that. Good skill. So the door is jammed. Okay. Duck Fog, I want you to try this. I want you to go on the... Let me see. I am on the...

Your cell is facing to the north. Yeah. My prison is north. Okay, so the door is on the north, yeah? Correct. Okay. Duck Fogg, I want you to go to the south end of the cell. And then if you hear a guard coming, I want you to holler for their attention. and say that I have escaped. And then while I'm saying this, Tov is using the spider silks, the stocking of spider silk, to walk up the wall and be on the roof. And he's planted above the doorway,

basically like ready to pounce on whoever walks into the door. Okay, okay, I dig it. Duck Fogg says, Okay, okay. Let me get my superpower ready. Hold on. And he walks over to the cot and begins digging around inside the cot.

What are you doing? What's in the cot? you'll see. What's in the car? He pulls out a flask and opens it up, it begins downing it. What does that superpower do? Is that some sort of super potion? Yeah, it makes me junk.

Right to the point. I love it. All right, whatever you need, you know. Do you have any other cool things in that cot? Okay, yeah, yeah. Hold on, hold on. And he begins digging around again and pulls out another flask. Okay, great.

And he immediately begins downing that. Two. Double the power. Good, good. Well, it's show time, so don't get too, you know, it's super powered, I guess. I'm getting into character. Great. Also, I would just try to see if I could connect with any...

Dog! Doug! Doug, make a... So you're five floors away from me. Okay. And also facing in the opposite direction. Doug, make a perception check. Hmm, 25, guys.

Oh. You hear Tov's voice on the wind calling out to you. Hello? Do I roll a perception at super disadvantage? I love, you know, that's an audio podcast that people can't see, but I love like how Barbara was playing it. Like, she was actually in the moment, like looking around, confused. Tov?

We'll say you're able to hear Doug because Doug was able to hear you. Oh, okay. It's crazy like I'm on the sixth floor. Actually, sound off, Natty, Gunther. I guess I would hear this. I'm right next. Gunther, you would definitely hear this because you're on the seventh floor.

So you're right by Doug. No, it is me, Gunther. And Natty, just make a perception check to see if you hear it. It's a 10. We all know sound doesn't travel up, so. If you're screaming up too tall, I'll say you don't hear Doug,

but. Oh, you are further away. They're all like within five of each other. It's okay. It's okay. Natty's just hanging out with smiley and singing some prison songs and just having a good old time. Maddie already has other voices inside her head. So like, I add more.

What's that supposed to mean? In a good way, you know. What voices? But what do you mean in a good way? You know, telling you to have people meet your wife and stuff like that. That's not a voice in my head. You hear in the distance, you hear another voice join your communication. Shut up!

What? Simmons? So I never got a response back from Natty, though. No, no Natty, but the other three of you can hear each other. Giggy! Giggy! Make a perception check for Giggy. Yes, okay, it's working.

11. It's better. No, still insufficient. Captain Grumbles! Captain Grumbles! Gingie's like a cat or a dog, like sitting on their butt, one leg in the air, like looking at their leg. He's having a bath. Yeah.

Nothing from Captain Grumbles either? No, no. Oh, okay, okay. Now that I know at least where... Well, I would have already have known this. And I already knew that Natty was on the 22nd floor because we were on the thing with them. And through echo location, Tov No. roughly where the others are.

Below you. The others can yell at you and tell you where they are. Okay. Where are you guys? Gunther, Doug. I'm in the prison! Oh, God. Oh, that's great.

Yes, what floor? He's on the seventh floor. Run above me. I'm on the six. Six, six floor good. Okay. Great. This sounds like a math problem.

Yes. I meant there is one floor above Doug, but Doug is four floors below toll. What floor is Natty on? And I'm with WISO! And what was the horse's name? Wait, wait, the died, Terry? No, it was just a... It's like the horse's name is Wednesday.

Oh, okay. Sorry, I don't know what my intent was with communication. I just want to see if I could establish comms. I'm sorry, Gus. Get your head out of your hands. I'm trying to... The party's splitting is breaking my brain. Okay.

You had a plan. Just do your plan. Yeah. Just do your plan. Yeah, I'm just going to follow true with it. Well, I don't want to, I can't communicate with them what the plan is because then I'm just going to be like, oh, hey, I'm going to be on the roof and I'm going to ambush whoever walks in. All right. So now I kind of roughly know where everybody is.

I'm going to Spider-Man. I'm going to stay there on the roof, waiting for the guard to come in and for Duck Fogg to do his part. Okay. Sounds good. Doug, do you have any ideas here? Well, what I was going to try to do is make some clay slash mud out of this dirt and water and try to reach around and stick it in the keyhole to get the mold of the key and then make my own key with the conveniently placed wood pieces and whittling.

I was wondering what the point of all of that was. You agree to it. We all hurt. Hey, audience, you heard them. That's true. It's there. Yeah, it's there. Sure.

It's all there. Yeah. You can begin working on that. Once it's recorded, it's legally binding. There's no editing. No legally binding, exactly. Because I assume we don't have any of our like tools. Right.

Yeah. I have my yoga pants, my magic yoga pants. Whoa. But that's about it. Yeah. Lulu Lemon. Yeah, we'll say it'll take you not that long, but it's going to take you a couple minutes to get to work on that.

We'll have you make like a check for crafting or whatnot whenever we come back around. Okay. Natty, it would be your turn, but duck. Fogg starts screaming. Guards. Guards, he's gone. My best friend, he left me. And he begins crying.

Like, it's not, you don't think he's acting. You think that he's genuinely crying and sad. I'm all alone again. Toul's just upside down looking at him, like shrugging. But he's also like beckoning more out of him. Like, yes, yes. He left me just like everyone always leaves me. I'm all alone.

And he escaped and ran away. And he took my Jew. It's good. Okay, I don't know what the juice is, but that's good. Keep going, keep going, yes. His juice. You hear more of that greeting, coming on your ceiling.

Two loud thumps. Okay, I hold. And he doesn't know what that means, right? No, he has no idea what that means. It's greetings. They're saying hello. Oh, yes, they're being friendly. And two guards show up at your cell

and unlock the door and come rushing in. Okay. Now I have a choice here. Do I... Do I... Gotta hack fast. I know. I'm gonna stealthily drop on the one

that's closest to the door while keeping my, me closest. Like, I'm gonna put myself between the guards and the door, and I'm gonna try to grapple with the one that's

that closest to the door. I got you, yeah. Yeah, so you drop down to the ground atop the guard, and you try to grapple them. Make a strength check. Since this is like a surprise attack, do even do anything

like sort of disven. You get advantage, sure. Okay. Okay, all right, strength check. All right, great, great, great. That's a, come on, got to do better. And as a barbarian, if you rage, don't you get advantage on that anyway?

Oh, my God, you're so right. That's great. I'm going to go ahead and click that rage. I got a 17, but I'll do it. Do I do another? Or I guess that was it, right? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so 17, 17.

17. All right, I'm going to make my roll here. Ooh, I rolled a 13. Yeah, so you land atop the guard and pin him to the ground. Can I disarm and take whatever weapon he has on him? Yeah, he's got a long sword in his hand. Yeah, you're able to knock him to the ground, pin him,

and pull the long sword out of his hand. Okay, and then that guy's prone, right? Is he any sort of unconscious, or do I need to just finish him off here? He's prone. He's probably not unconscious. Let me make a roll just to verify that. Well, he's awake. He's conscious.

You've just pinned him to the ground and disarmed him. Okay, this is what I'll do. I'll pick him up and I'll put the sword to his neck and I'm gonna hold him hostage and I'm gonna get the other guard's attention and say, drop your sword and give it to the elf over there, the drunken elf.

Give your weapon to this drunk gun. Do as I say who this guy gets it. Yeah, make a intimidation check. Okay. 14. Yeah, the other guard drops his sword to the ground and kicks it over towards Duck Fogg. Duck Fogg, it's okay, I'm here, I'm back. Make your way over to the door.

We're gonna get out of here, okay? What's the point? Chuck Fogg-Fal, get it together, man. We gotta get out of here. He just begins shuffling towards the door. The sword, pick up the sword. Oh, the sword. That's the one, yeah, come on.

He grabs it and he's just, like, dragging it, like a little kid dragging, like a stuffed animal. He's holding onto the hilt, and the blade is just scraping along the floor. Let's get a little bit more enthusiasm, okay? We need to be like, we need to be on point, all right? We're getting out of here. Is he out?

Yeah, he got to the door and... Well, we're really, really high up here. Oh, okay. We're like midway up the tower, but we got to play a ways to go. I'm going to then push the other guard that I have in my grasp further into the cell and try to close the door and lock them in. Yeah, you shove them into the cell and pull it out and close the door. Do we cut away to another person or do I keep this going?

I don't know. Well, it seems like you're... making progress here. Okay, duck fog. All right. Super serious. Look at me in the eyes. Look at me. He's looking at you. His eyes are glassy and bloodshot. Follow my finger, duck fog. Follow my finger. He's following your finger with his eyes and you see him start to lean backwards. Okay, no, I grab Duck fogg, I bring him in. All right, now caught your breath is so bad. Duck fog, we've got to break my friends out of here, okay? The more people we break out, the stronger will be. The stronger will be, the better chance we have of getting everyone out of here, okay?

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Oh, no. That being said, it is hailing and it's kind of treacherous climbing up and down. You do have, oh, you have those stockings, though. Yeah. Yeah, I guess maybe you should describe this to me. Are you thinking you would climb down or use, like, the gang plank? Because the gangplank is how the guards show up. It extends from the watchtower.

they come over and then go back. Oh, so like the gangplank also... You can move between floors. Got it. So there's no staircases connecting the actual places. Correct. So you either have to use a gangplank or climb the face of the tower. Well, I can't do that without losing duck fog.

I never leave a duck fog behind, so we're going to the gangplank. Okay. You can cross the gangplank over to the watch tower. I guess from where this point is, you would be able to adjust what floor you go to without alerting the guards who are up on the top of the tower. I would slowly make my way down until I found Gunther. Okay. Why don't Blaine, you tell me what floor is Gunther on?

I wouldn't know. I mean, I know that he's on the seventh floor. Would you not have heard us say that? Doug said it. Yeah, Doug said it. Yeah, Doug said it. Yeah, Doug told you what they were on. Doug said it.

So then I know because of the math equation, yes. Yes. So I'll go to the seventh floor. Seven floor. Okay, okay. Yeah, you and your note-taking and your brain got the best of me today, Blaine. Ah, ha, ha! How about thee?

You begin going to the seventh floor. Gunther, make a perception check. Okay. Get ready. Aim. 14. The guards are coming, Gunther. Get ready, why so?

We have seconds. Get ready. Activate. The gangplank extends and connects to the door, and you hear footsteps. approaching. Who's turn is it in this initiative? It's WISO.

Yeah, the locking mechanism, you're putting this on the NPC, the locking mechanism begins opening and WISO throws the bucket just like splatin. Oh my God. Please give me a saving throw. Please let me try to... We'll see if WISO is even able to throw it correctly, first of all. He rolled an 11. He tries to toss the bucket, but the content just splatter all over the floor, non-hitting toll.

That's a full bucket. I'm not listening to this episode for the folly. I'm not doing it. I'll help make the foley if you want. Yeah, but Gunther, you see that it's actually not a guy. As the filth hits the floor, you realize it's not a guard, but your friend Toll. You-hoo, it's me, Toll Skywalker. I'm here to rescue you.

Okay, so I saw a toll before I activated my plan. Yeah, yeah. Only the first part of your plan started, and then now you see it's Toll. Toll Ventures, it slips around a little bit. When did you be? How? This is why so. Duck Fogg, this is my friend Gunther.

Communication's not as strong suit. He's very surprised to see me right now. It's a pleasure to meet you. This is Waiso. We cannot leave him behind. I will not leave behind anyone this time. That's okay. We're going to go rescue Doug after this,

and then we're going to make our way back up to Natty. Duck Fog, how are you feeling about that sword? Do you want to give it to my friend Gunther? He's great with the sword. Yeah, Duck Fogg just kind of drops the sword. Okay. I gingerly take it. and hand it the gun there.

He just throws it off the gangplank into the water. Wait, do you have a weapon? Do you have a weapon? Yeah, I have the other sword. It's a long sword, yeah. I hand the stabby rock to WISO. Thanks for giving me back my stuff. Okay, so I assume you all head back and readjust the gangplank to go to your next location?

Yes. Are we to go one floor down to get dug? I hear you guys pretty good from up here. Do not. Throw the poo. It is us coming. Whatever you do, do not throw fecal matter. Okay.

Don't worry. Do not even cross my mind. That wasn't part of your plan? No. Well, she never would have gotten out of here. You go one floor lower and come up to the cell that's got dug inside of it. But the door doesn't open. It seems the lock is filled with mud.

Oh, actual mud. I sweat. There's mud. It's not poop. What is it with you people in feces? Why do you do this? It's mud. I don't believe you.

It's mud. It's just a bunch of bramble crack, you know. Okay, all right. Yeah, it takes a little bit of work to clear the mud, but you're able to get it, clear it out and open up the door and reunite with your friend Doug. Just in time for me to finish the key. Well, thanks.

That's great, though, because we have a backup, you know, and we can. Hey, here's the thing. We know that Natty is on the 22nd floor. We're all there when we dropped her off, okay? Do we want to continue to go floor by floor and let everybody out? Or should we just go straight to Natty? What do you guys think?

Could Doug, like, bring him closer so that Hengeman can't hear? Okay, yes, hello. I don't think we should be freeing some of these folks. This guy is kind of onion. You mean the one he has no teeth, that one? He's scratching the walls. He hasn't stopped since I got here. Also, he's an Undarion spy.

Can Tov quietly look over Doug's shoulder? What does he see? You look over his shoulder and you see a grilp who's clawing at the walls and then he takes a break and then opens up his mouth and begins like gumming at the walls. You see he's got no teeth. He's just like trying to dig into the walls with his gums. I quietly put a hand done Doug and just kind of get him. hide him out and close the door.

It's okay. I already put stuffing under the sheets of my bed, so he thinks I'm still in here. Okay, that's great. Okay. Well, then in that case, maybe we should just go to...

Wait, oh, we, what are we doing? We need to find Bunlap. Bunlap. Where could Bunlap be? Where... From memory. Did I know what floor he was on before? You remember Bunlap being on

the top of the tower, the top floor. The top floor? But would that hold up, though, because didn't one of our guys say that they change the towers freely? They can walk to and fro the cell blocks? They can sometimes visit between them. I believe he was on the top floor, we shall check. Okay.

On the gangplank, is there any sort of like documentation or anything listing off prisoners? That's a good idea. Yeah, we'll say yes. There's a piece of parchment on the watchtower side that has all of the different floors and all of the different prisoners listed. I don't want to be too much of a stretch here. It's okay if it's not the case. But does it show anything about what they're in for or anything like that? For some of them, yes, not for all of them.

Okay. How many of them are Undarian? You see on the list there's about four Undarians who are currently captured. Because we could just go and release the people that aren't Undorian. From what we do not know why they lock people up, they are not honest. Oh. Who are we to be judged at jury? and not executioner.

We're not killing people, but you know. Like prison, like, yeah, whatever that. Were you going to say dean? I was going to say dean of the prison. Principal prison. Yes. I'm injured in hooch making with a minor shift. I'm an inmate with honors.

Oh, man. Okay. I mean, what do you guys think? Do you think we should just, we got to find Bunlap, we got to find Natty? We got to find Captain Grumbles. I think you should at least get Natty back in the group. Yes.

If I were to give a suggestion and then make the decision. Okay. Well, I mean, Gunzo did say that last he remembered Bunlap is on the top floor. So we just start making our way up. Maybe take a quick little glance as we go to get Natty on the 22nd and then keep going. As we go up, we will ask people if they should be in prison or not. That might take a while. Let's get the most important people out of here.

That'll happen between. There's like a cut scene and then we'll be in the 22nd floor. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so I want to refer to the list. Is Captain Grumbles between us and Natty? Captain Grumbles will say yes. It's on floor 19. We go to 19, all right?

We got to go to 19. We got to give Captain Grumbles out. He's the most important member of this team. We leave him there. I mean... Never leave a man behind. Yeah, that's true. Well, Gunther, do you want to save Captain Grumbles?

Yeah, I think we should say. save Captain Grumbles. Okay, I think that that's the tiebreaker then. Let's go to floor 19. You go to floor 19, and as you're approaching it, you hear the sound of sea shanties, interspersed with bleeps as you approach. That's our man. Hey, Captain Grumbles.

Captain Grumbles is leading his sillmate along in a rousing sea shanty. I opened the door. This guy that I resurrected in life, like four months ago. Yeah. He's become our pet. He's the heart of the team, John. We need him. I love it.

So I say, I see Captain Grubbles. Come to me. Okay, watch the language, Captain Grumbles. Who's your new friend? Yeah. Hey, you new guy. What's your deal? It's a human.

He sticks out his hand. It says, the name's Babyface Red. Babyface Red. You stay here, Babyface. No, no, I'm trying to get out of here. Let's go. Babyfish, Red, have you seen one like me? You?

Did you call baby fish? Chris is, what's it called when you get like an... He's allergic to names. Yeah, yes. Baby fish do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Oh, yes, 30th floor. Perfect, baby face. Okay, baby face.

You're cool. Come on in. Got their high fives him. All right, yeah. I'm just part of the gang. another military deserter like you guys. Oh, great, yes. Can I wait to have more people along for this journey.

Do we have to remember. Do not judge one. Okay, let's make our way to, we go to the 22nd now. We get Natty. Natty and... I assume also we didn't find Bunlap as we were going up, right? No, but you don't think you would have found him by now.

Okay. But yeah, you have not seen him so far. Yeah, you go up to the 22nd floor and you see Natty and give him. Gigi and stitches in there. Smiley Stitches. What are they doing? Stiches is doing jumping jacks now.

Natty, what are you doing? She's playing with dolls with Gigi. What are the dolls saying? The doll. Hey. Yeah. You ever wonder why we're here? God, the prison madness is already taken, Maddie.

She's too far gone. Who would come up with such a line? Natty, your friends, or not your friends, your travel companions are all at the door. Hey, they're Natty's friends. You're getting, that mixed up with Mattee. Okay. Smiley, we're saved. Amazing.

Let's get out of here. Yeah, let's get out of here. Hey, everybody's my friend, Smiley. Hi, Smiley. Yeah, he's a dretch, and he goes around with an outstretched hand, shaking everyone's hand. Pleasure to meet you. You, too. Hope you not Un-Darion.

Oh, I am. Yeah. Okay. Good. Are we getting out of here? Oh, yeah. If you're not busy after this. He puts his arm around.

He told, would you like want to hang out? You know, for now, we're buds. Enemy of my enemy is my friend. So let's get out of here. We're looking for one more party member. Great. 30th floor? 30th floor, everybody?

Is that the top? Yeah. Based off the intel we have. Okay. You all head to the top of the tower, the 30th floor, and you open up the door. All of you make a... Investigation check.

Okay. 11. 3. Nat 20 for 19. 10. You open the door and look around and find that the cell is empty. There is no prisoner inside of it. Dang it.

God. Can I look in and look for any, I don't know, writings or signs or things I might find familiar? Yeah, you begin searching the room. You had like a 19 on your investigation, right, Gunther? Yeah. I had a Nat 20 that became a 19. Okay. You begin searching the room.

and in the cot you find something hidden in the stuffing. It's a petite, frozen manacle skeleton hand. It's attached to a key. Is it croak folk? Skeleton. Could Doug take it and hold it up to Gunther's hand and see if it matches? Yeah, you take a look at it,

and it doesn't quite seem to match. It doesn't seem like it's a croak folk hand. Was Bunlap some other species? Mm-mm. Not his crook folk. He was in a thode? Uh-uh. Didn't you guys have a manifest of who's in the prison?

Yeah, we found one on the gangplank thing. It's Bunlap on there? I check it again. Yeah, Bunlap is on there, 30. Okay. Is he like Invisible Frogman, Gunther? As you're looking around, Gunther, since, you know, you rolled pretty well. You see that you're going through every corner of this room,

which takes a little longer than normal, because it's a hexagon and not just a square. So there's a few extra corners to deal with. But you see that the central column in the middle of the prison cell, seems to have some kind of, like it's uneven in its construction. It seems to be like there's a seam that runs along it. Could we try pushing it or pulling it or seeing if that key somehow activates it? Make a strength check for me, Gunther. Another Nat 20 for 19.

That's 220s in a row. I did spit at my camera. And excitement. I don't know if y'all saw that. It's thrilled. Well, 220s in a row is pretty good. So the dice are in your favor today. Yeah, you begin pulling at it a little bit and you see that where the stone is uneven,

there's like an adhesive holding it together. And as you pull at it, that begins stretching and giving and you're able to pull more and more. And you see that there's a small hidden door in the central column that was being held by this adhesive. And you've now separated it. It's a brown adhesive. Maybe it's just my mud. Where does it go, the store? You look and you see that there is indeed a hollow,

shaft in the center of this column that seems to run all the way up to the rooftop, which is pretty much where you're at, then all the way down to the very depths of the dungeon. And there is a pulley system inside of it. I think Bunlap ain't here. I think we just broke into a prison for no reason. Could Doug take the key that's in the hand? Yeah. So he escaped? I don't know. We don't know. He didn't leave like any notes or anything or... We do not know. The only way to know would be to speak with the warden. I don't think that's the only option.

I don't know if that's a good idea. I think it's fun to say things as absolutes, but it's not always true. Also, we're kind of, you know, they arrested us and then we're technically breaking out. So I don't know if we should just go find a warden to be like, hey, what's up? Put us back or whatever. L-O-L, it's us W-D. W-D.

You guys have flaws in your prison. Question. Polly system. We're at the top, right? Yeah. There is a roof, obviously, at the very top of the tower, but you are on the 30th floor,

which is the top floor of the tower. And the pulley system seems to go all the way down. Well, I feel like this might be a way out of the prison without having to go through the watchtower, which might be in our best interest. And maybe that's how Bunlap got out of here. That's what I'm thinking.

So you think we should go down? Do we know what Bunlap looked like or what kind of creature he was? Yeah, he was like Gunther, but bigger and stronger. Could Doug look around and see if there's any like footprints or any clues of like something that was broken or like moved that he might have escaped through or like a path he might have taken in this cell? Make a survival check for me. Not 20 for 23. Oh, God. What is what was you guys in these?

20s. Amazing. I don't know. That's just glided. You do see footprints. You see, like, three sets of footprints coming from the door, and then what appear to be, like, maybe a scuffle of some kind with another set of footprints,

and then drag marks that head to the shaft. Okay. Maybe Bunlap push the guards down the shaft to their doom. Do we see any bodies down there? That's a nicer thing than I was going to say. You thought of a nicer thing than what I thought actually happened. We're just going to go with that. Oh.

Doug, as you're following the tracks and like, you know, following the drag marks to the shaft, you hear what appear to be pain screams echoing from below. Could I look down? Yeah, you look down and the shaft descends into darkness. You have dark vision, though, right? Yeah. It extends beyond the range of your dark vision. It's 30 stories, you know, all the way down.

So you can see, what, like 30 feet with dark vision? How far is dark vision? Yes, but what if I imbued a little... 60 feet? clump of mud with a radius light. Yeah, how big is the radius on that? It's only five feet, but if I drop it all the way to the bottom, it'll light up the bottom, which might, you know.

Yeah. But then they'll know where coming. If you want, you tell me. Yeah, I want to do that. Okay, yeah. Doug, you imbue a clump of mud with some light and drop it down the shaft, and you see it fall all the way down, presumably 30 floors down to the bottom, and then it stops.

It seems to hit something at the bottom and stops. Nanny wants to investigate the pulley system Yeah, is there something specific you want to know about it? Is it like if Nadi just starts like pulling it? Does something sound like it's coming up? Yeah, you begin pulling on it and it sounds like something is indeed coming up. And after pulling on it for a bit, like a small platform.

With a piece of mud that's glowing? We'll say no. You can still see the light down at the bottom. We'll say it bounced and fell off the platform. Just unless you want to help you. I'm trying to help you guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I think I've got a strong notion we should go to the bottom of this to get to the bottom of this. I do not.

I do not want to leave without my friend. I have already done it once. Oh, we're not leaving. We're still technically in the area of this prison. We're just investigating because he's not here. Yeah, that was Gunther agreeing. Yeah, it's not clear when you talk like that. For clarification.

Like saying yes. It sounded like you were disagreeing to me. No, no, no, sorry. That was him agreeing wanting to. investigate before leaving. Oh, okay, okay. The only thing I'll add to this, I actually, Tov wants to look at the kind of prison manifest type thing

and see if there's anything about gear equipment, like things held from the prisoners on there. Yeah, there's a, like an inventory and a locker denoted by everyone. And it indicates where your equipment is being stored in the watchtower. What, oh, the watchtower isn't the thing that's separate, like that's outside of our... On the other side of the gangplank. Farts, okay, guys. You remember in, I think it was the previous episode,

maybe the one before, when you first walked into the watchtower, I said there were a bunch of crates. Yeah. All of those crates are numbered, and presumably it's in one of those crates. Okay. I mean, we're already on the gangplank. Is it a cross, like, close enough, or is it, like, do I think it's where more guards are? You've already been back and forth there a few times as you've been activating it,

so you think you'd be all right. Okay, before we go, gang, let's go get our equipment. It's out over here, so let's go through these crates. Okay, we do that. Yeah, you all find out of something. Hey, Doug, it's Gambot. Gail, oh, I missed you, buddy. It's Bjorn's skin.

Oh, I miss you, buddy. Can I look in Box 30? Yeah, they're not numbered by the cell. It's like, it's just random numbers, presumably, for each crate. They number the crates starting from one instead of attached to the cell. it's a horribly inefficient system. All right. Is there any way for me to search

and see if I could find Bunlaps? See if they exist still, because that would also give information as to whether or not he's here. Sure. You see next to Bunlap's name on the manifest that there is a number next to Bunnaps' name.

So you find that box and open it up and you see what you know to be Bunlap's gear in there. There's a, you're the familiar green plate armor, Lance Longbow and Shield. Yes. He is here. No, well, he wouldn't leave without taking his stuff, right?

No. Well, that begs the question, Gunther, when you broke out the last time, did you take your stuff? I guess I didn't. Jesus, your old crate somewhere here? Oh, yeah, Kellogg. You probably would have because you had the sword hilt from your father. That's right, I did. So I must have.

Yeah, yeah. So I would assume you did take your stuff. Yes. Sorry, Chris, I was trying to hook you up with like a cool, like, sword upgrade or something, but. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, sorry, I'll get you next time. Me too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right, so should we take the shaft down? Yes. Yes, please. Okay. Quickly, baby face, duck, fog. Why, so, let's go. Oh, I think we're good. We're going to see our way out.

There's no way we're going back to the prison. Fair. This actually, this actually works out because they can kind of be a distraction. Okay. Best of luck, you can do it. We believe in you. Yeah, they just make their way out of the way. watch tower into the frozen waste.

I'm worried about what we just let loose on society. It's a necessary evil for us to get out of here and define Bunlap. As long as Kenjuman still locked away. Like smash cut to Kenjamin just like looking around and realizing he's all alone. Poor Kenjamin.

Kendraman probably just thinks he imagined Doug or something. Okay, yeah, you all cross back over to the prison tower and make your way into the shaft and then make your way down to the very base of it. All you make me perception checks. Okay. Oh my god, got another 20. Is that three in a row for you? I also got an at 20. That's, that would be... That's three in a row. Three, four, five

20s in a row from us collectively. Dean Tbion's broken today. Guess what guys? I got a critical failure. Yeah! Balancing it out. I got a nine. You got a nine. Okay. Daddy just falls down. Tuk chunk, chook, chunk, chok. As you all are descending, you hear the muted sounds of screams and water droplets. And you notice that the air is becoming even colder. It's bitterly cold. And you come to the very bottom of the shaft. And you see Doug's little clump of illuminated mud here at the floor with you.

Oh, grab that. Gigi eats it. You just see the light. Is your light too? It's like you put like a red filter or red gel over the light. He's just like there's like a dull red light illuminating this the shaft. And then we see inside of Gigi and all the other. things that Giggies eaten, like...

Floating around in there. Points, rocks. Oh, that's going to be... All that stuff's going to be so bad when it has to pass. He poops once a year. There are my pebbles. And on the floor here, you see a hatch with what's called a dog.

It's like a wheel handle for the pulley. Okay. I open the hatch. Okay. You open up the hatch and inside, on the other side of the hatch, I should say, you see a hexagonal room, a rather large hexagonal room. It's got a metal floor with walls and a ceiling that's 60 feet high. The floor is flooded with a few feet of frigid, bloody water and patches of ice.

Oh. There's a large and tall pedestal. It's about 30 feet high in the center with shackles attached to the sides. Then there are also six tapestries, one hanging on each wall. Are we at the top of this thing, looking down into it? Yeah, correct. You're at the ceiling, like looking down into it. What's it lit by?

There are sconces with porches in there that appear to be illuminating the room. Anybody attached to the shackles? No, Bunlap is not on the platform. I wonder whose skeleton hand that was in Bunlap's cell. I think that was a skeleton key. No, it was a key in a skeleton hand. That was manacled. So I don't know whose hand that was.

But it didn't look to be the size of what Bunlats would be. So maybe just a guard or the other cellmate or something? I don't know what I'd need to talk to this interior designer. I mean, I love what they've done with the place. Smiley talked about this place. He said there's a basement where naughty people went to. I see. What are the tapestries?

Should we drop down? Yeah. Is there a way to get down that like someone would normally do? Or is it like you just get normally just get thrown in? It does not appear there's a way to let yourself down. Who's got a rope? I have spider silk stockings that can help me walk walls. That doesn't help.

That's not the question I asked. Well, I could take people. down with me because I can walk on the walls. I believe I have rope. Okay. Yeah, I have rope too. Could we tie it off and lower it down? Sure. Let me do my special nautical knots.

Tov taught me. Oh, I've read a book about this. Yeah, Tov's book. Keep mentioning it because every time you do, I get royalties. As you're doing that, Doug, you feel like you hear a muffled voice calling out. Doug would go towards the voice. Guys, I think I heard someone over here. It seems like it's coming from behind one of the tapestries.

Interesting. I asked earlier, but it kind of got glazed over. What are on the tapestries? Yeah, there's six tapestries, one hanging on each wall. One of them is a gradient of blue colors. Another one appears to depict a pile of bloody limbs and bones. The next one is a pair of hands with fingers tied together. Another one is a tombstone.

Like a pizza? Yeah, exactly. Caperoni. pepperoni or like supreme. The next one is two faces, one of which is covering its ears and the other is covering its eyes. And the final one is a face filled with a question mark. Okay. Yeah, that tells us a lot. Harvey Dent.

This is all within the prison area, huh? Yes, you're presumably like at the bottom or below the prison. Yeah, potentially underground. As you all are taking the room in, a faceless yet familiar voice reflects off the walls. There's no use hiding it. I can smell your fear. The warden steps out from behind the tombstone tapestry and takes in a deep breath through her nose.

You feel a tingle run down your spine. Everyone make a charisma saving throw. Oh. Uh-oh. All right, let's get Rizzy. That's a four. Oh, okay. 18.

16. Oh, 20, dirty 20. Nice. Well, I'm glad one of us failed so that we can see what's going to happen. And I did that for you guys. There you go. Pold, you feel an all-consuming fear washing over you like an ice-cold wave.

You immediately drop within your hands and take off running in the opposite direction away from the warden as fast as you can. Metagame-wise, you're under the condition frightened. Frightened. The other three of you, you steal yourself as a deluge of fear crashes over you, but even though it doesn't take fully control, your knees buckle beneath you, forcing you to fall prone. Oh. Okay. In here, no one can hear your heart.

screams. In here I am the warden. In here I am the queen of nightmares. Her horn-rimmed spectacles flash over her eyes and the tapestry behind her flaps from a ghastly wind. The threadwork shifts from a tombstone into a crank and all at once the crank begins ratcheting with a click, click, click, and the ceiling rummills to life, lowering menacingly toward the floor and view. Everyone roll in We're never finding this stupid frog. Bunlap died years ago. It ain't easy being green. We're dealing with a Shutter Island situation here.

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