Tales from the Stinky Dragon - C03 - Ep. 38 - From On Hyra - This Means Warden!

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

Brutaliteam narrows down their search for Bunlap while facing down their greatest obstacle - the Warden. 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/TalesFromTheStinkyDragonCast: Gus Sorola, Blaine Gibson, Barbara Dunkelman, Jon Risinger, Chris DemaraisWriter/Editor/Composer: Micah RisingerProducer: Benjamin Ernst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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While isolated, they were introduced to other incarcerated and anisyncratic individuals. They each devised and deployed plans for prison breaks and eventually delved into a dungeon where the true danger lied in waiting for them. The warden latch on to our libation and then let's leap into our lore. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Talesman to Stinky Dragon. I'm your dungeon master Gustavo Sorolla and I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow. I think Gus is using hacks because he has unlimited ammo. Oh, that's true.

We don't keep track of them. We're not that kind of D&D podcast. We give them back after each time. I think that's what happens. You think that, is that part of like battle where you, like, go out there and just, like, get your arrows back? Are they done?

That's a good point. Yeah, and I never miss. Everyone rolled a D20, and this week's question is, what does your character believe will happen to them after they die? 14. Six. 18.

Two. Okay, so it looks like it's going to be Tov Gunther Natty Doug. Tov, why don't you leave us off? Hello, it's me, Blaine, back from vacation. Terrible to be back. Thanks for asking. I'm engaged now. Congratulations.

Yeah, thank you. That wasn't the question, but thank you for telling us. Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm so kidding. Let's stay on track. Sorry, guys. I play Tov.

He's a Thomotech barbarian and, uh, you hoon. as far as things that happen when you die. God, my voice is gone. You-hoo, it's me, Tov. Hello. Welcome to Jet Life. This is going to be maybe the weirdest episode ever. Yeah.

It's just, I've already got those vibes. I'm here for it. I'm here for it. You-hoo. You-hoo. You-hoo. You-hoo. Okay, anyways.

So when you die, I don't actually think that we are living. You think, I think that it is some sort of like, What's that thing called? Simulation? Simulation. Yes. Thank you, John Risingger from on the spot. And so I think that I just go, you know, and I just like, I'm in a holding pattern and a tube, like in the great beyond, like the great D&D beyond.

And then I'm there. And I look to my left and there's another green guy. And he's a part robot. And he has an arm that's a robot. And then I see a purple man and he's there too. And I see a man that looks like a lawyer and he's screaming. Is he on fire? Something about euthaginia.

Mm-hmm. That tracks. So a holding pattern filled with nightmares is what I'm gathering from you told. Yeah. Until the next adventure awaits. Hmm. Interesting. Interesting.

All right. Yeah. That's a horrifying vision of the future. Thank you, Tolt. Very far-fetched. Oh, Gunther. I'm glad you're here. You're actually up next.

Yes. Hi. I'm Chris DeMaris. I play Gunther, the male Crokefman. book fighter. Chris is also engaged. I'm not. Big announcement.

Congratulations. Not. Engaged in this podcast recording. Wow. Engaged in combat. When I die, I believe I will join my ancestors in the ground. And then, but we are not just dead. We are still there watching and looking up over our, over our families and our village.

We are in the ground, not in the sky. Powerful. Looking up over your families. Yes. Yes. Beautiful. Well, we look up and then... Yeah, the prepositions are kind of messy with my mind here.

Yeah, yes, yes. I see you. So we don't see their feet all the time. Sometimes maybe you can like jump up high. Gunther, you are a weird little frog man. It's always interesting to hear your perspective on what's going on. Because I guarantee it's always going to be a little different. So thank you for that.

You're welcome. Is there, sorry, I'm going to dig into that just a, just the first. Yeah, because we're in the ground. That makes sense. Yes. I got to dig you up and ask. Is there just family that you would look over or is it anything wider in the world? Like, are you still concerned with the same connections you had?

Yeah. Well, my village and the people in my village and my family. That is who, that is where I will be, we're like planted. I love the way that Gunther says family. I don't know why. Family. It's very just like... All of my brother's sisters and me.

Family. It's just like... I want a loop of Gunther saying family and Elga saying broccoli. Just playing back and forth over and over for eternity. I'm going to fall asleep to that. Thank you, Gunther.

Appreciate that. Berkeley. Natty, you are up next. Hi, everybody. I'm John Rice here. I am not engaged. I already tried the marriage thing and didn't work out.

And I play Natty Wonder. I was there. song. I play Natty Wonder, who is a drow, warlock drag queen mother. And I'm impressed

with the question of what happens when I die. I don't think I'm going to really surprise anybody with my idea or understanding, but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go,

I'm gonna go be with my wife. My wife. I was like, the train was coming and I knew that it was going to come out that way. And I was like, you know what? It's fine.

It's fine. Yeah, let it happen. What harm could a little bit of bore at in our show be? Listen, only a partial portion of our audience is millennials. So, yeah, I mean, I'll, you know, my wife will be there. And, you know, I think, well, I mean, the real answer is that we're going to finally get to have our actual celebration of our marriage and our wedding and all that kind of stuff, which is what I've been sending all these souls there to get prepped for. Because, you know, they got a lot of nap. against default and stuff.

Natty, I have a quick follow-up question of that. Go for it. Have you actually met your wife? Yeah, my wife. When? In a flashback. In my dreams. Oh, okay.

Well, you know, I don't know if that would actually constitute meeting, but, you know, fair enough. Well, hold on. Didn't you say that you, like, talked to your God? Yes. Where did you talk to him? I played the fist. I feel like I could picture Doug looking down at his.

feet in that moment. You know what they always say. Don't point a finger because you got like three more pointing back at you. Oh, well, I guess the thumb is technically not a finger, so that's very wise, Natty. Excellent use of the terminology. And the way that I point out, my thumb's not pointing at me. How do you do that where your thumbs pointing at you? I'm trying to do it.

I can't. Everybody at home now, Stinky Dragon, try to point at someone and point your thumb. and point your thumb at you. Let's see the fan art of all the characters pointing their thumb back at them. I think I'm doing it. So natural. I'm double jointed it, though. So the fingers just extending it.

Okay. Was that it going to be with your wife, have the actual celebration wedding? Yeah. I hope everyone's invited. Thanks, Natty. Yeah. Everybody is invited. I hope not.

I just want to go. That's why I keep looking for Toves off butt. You're never going to find it All right And finally up We got Doug You know how in Grotesh We did this like gag

During our arrow questions How it was like We were in like confessional booth Or something like that Yes I think my head canon for Canon Is that we're sitting around a campfire

With Gus And just telling him All these We're answering all these questions For him at a campfire Okay I like that That's what I picture Yeah

Because we're on the go a lot And we have like a, the talking stick or something that allows us each to talk. Yeah, it's funny because it's funny you say that because right now, in this episode we're recording right now. I was like, oh, Gunther, there you are. Come on over. He was underground. He had walked out to go use the facilities in the woods and coming back to the fire. Yeah, which turns out was three feet away from us.

Drink some more water. My God. Well, hello, everyone. I'm Doug Boone, the artificial bug bearer. And, you know, it's a great question. about what happens after death. And, you know, Gustavo, I think Doug knows a lot of stuff. Doug feels like he's very knowledgeable, very wise.

But Doug is willing to admit this is the one thing he has yet to learn. This is the one thing he doesn't know. But he hopes to learn maybe someday, maybe through some divine intervention or, you know, some type of knowledge, what happens? Ultimately, he just wants to be reunited with his brother. Well, that's nice. And just tell him he's sorry. So whatever happens, you know, after death, I hope that could be the case.

It's a reunion and communication of some kind. Exactly. Oh, that's really nice. You didn't say if you're engaged or not. Oh, I was engaged. I've been engaged so long that I turned married. No. Weird way to phrase.

I mean, it's not wrong, but it is weird. I turned married. I turned married. Yeah, I've been engaged so long. 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 throat.

Oh. All right, let's get Rizzy. That's a four. Okay. 18. 16. 20, dirty 20. Nice. Well, I'm glad one of us failed so we can see what's going to happen. And I, yeah, I did that for you guys.

There you go. Polve, 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 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 cat. Click, click, click. And the ceiling will rummills to life, lowering menacingly toward the floor and view. Everyone roll initiative. What are those initiatives? Seven. Six.

Nine. 21. Let's see. And the warden's got an eight. All right. So she's going to go between Doug and Natty. So we've got Gunther Doug Warden Natty Toll. Gunther, why don't you lead us off?

Okay, so we're in the center of the room. You are close to the center. Not like dead center. Okay. You came down from that hatch, which is kind of close to the set, like a little north of the center of the room. Because in the center of the room's that pedestal, so you're just north of that.

And it's circular or square? What's the shape of the room? A hexagonal? The room's a hexagon. And then where is the warden in relation to us? She emerged from behind the tapestry that's on the north wall. So she's pretty close to you within like 10 feet or so. And that tapestry that's on north wall, is it billowing?

Like, what's the, what's it look like it's doing? Is it actively moving, like cranking? Yeah, it looks like it's, it's a type of crank called a dog. So, that may be confusing. But yeah, it's a, that is confusing. It's a crank and it appears to be, like, ratcheting through gears. That's why you hear like, click, click, click, click, click. Oh, it's a hand crank.

Oh, it's a hand crank. So this tapestry looks like a TV or something where it's got, it's like moving. Or is it three-dimensional? I think you can think of it like a TV, right? But instead of pixels, it's threads that are moving. Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then the ceiling is falling down on us now? Yeah, it's lowering. I wouldn't say falling implies like it's coming very quick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's cranking down. Falling with style. Indiana Jones style. Yes.

Got it. Okay, all right, all right. I'm going to, well, I guess stand up first, so I'm no longer prone. And would I be able to reach the tapestry? Yes, but the warden is between you and the tapestry. Okay, I'm going to, can I just try and hop? over to just jump over her entirely and just hit the jump to the tapestry.

Yeah, well, I mean, what, describe to me your, the specifics of your jump. How high can you jump? How far can you jump? I can jump up to 25 feet. A high jump is 15 feet. My long jump is 25 feet. Because I'm my croak folk legs and whatnot.

So standing up from prone use some of your movement. Does that affect how far you can jump? What if it's like a track runner stance, Tony? It's extra push. I guess it probably would, right? Yeah, so I'd be like half movements. So, what is that? It's like 12 for your long jump?

12 and a half, yeah. Yeah, and I said the warden's about 10 feet away from you, and she's between you and the tapestry. So you'd basically be... I wouldn't be able to be jumping. Yeah, okay. Right, you'd be jumping right to her. Then never mind, Gus.

I want to rush her and just go for an attack, I guess. What kind of attack? What kind of attack? Why don't you? Paint me a picture. Paint me a tapestry. With my sword. I haven't beat you a tapestry. That's not how you make tapestries

We need me a tapestry That's how I make tapestries I shall not run from you This time, Wharton It is me Hi And then runs forward with a sword And stabs

Stabby Stabs Okay I guess at her Take her glasses Yeah Room glasses I stab her in the eye Yeah

Get her, yeah You're gonna make an attack Let's avoid Call shots here Let's not get it in the weeds that much about it. Okay, all right. I shall roll!

That's only at 10. I shall fail. Ooh, ooh, ooh. So you run up and try to lash out at the warden with your rapier, but maybe the stress of the situation, remembering or seeing the warden again triggers bad memories and your blow misses. What if I extend a superiority dye to add eight to it? Or try to add eight.

I'm going to do that. Didn't see that coming, did you, Gus? Okay. How does that work? You use a purity dye and you can roll a D8 and add it to your roll? Yeah. So that's plus six. So 16 hit?

Yeah, 16 does hit. Woo! All right, so then I will hit her. Hit her. Okay, so never mind. You don't miss. You actually hit. Ha, ha.

I jerk you. Twelve points of damage. Whoa. Focused on the glasses. Stop. What? Spectacles actually is the word that he used. Gosh, you should just let him do what he's doing.

and have Chris do this at disadvantage. That's a called shot, right? That's how it works. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we could homebrew that. You lash out hitting the warden who doesn't even really seem to wince. She just kind of sneers at you, Gunther, and says, Oh, Gunther.

Welcome back. Oh. Welcome back. Yeah, he was there. Right. Welcome back. I was like, have we met this person before? I knew that in Doug's voice.

Welcome back. What the hell? What are you talking? about. You go with time? Oh, God. Oh, God.

Thank you, Barbara. I, cap'n. And I guess I'll strike once more. By this time I want to strike her toe. Get him. Wait, how many toes does she have? Is she wearing flip-flops, Gus? This is important.

No. Birkenstocks, perhaps? We'll never know. Proper prison shoe attire. Pinsripe suit. And flip-flip-flip. My God. A true villain.

That's style like that. She sits at a desk all day, you know? She's supposed to be comfortable. She's one of those people who takes her shoes off on the plane, isn't she? All right, that's a 16. Does that hit? Yes. Listen, if you're on a 14-hour flight, you've got to take the shoes on. It's always wrong, Barbara. It's always wrong.

Well, you'll leave the socks on. At least one sock on, right? I rolled a 1 on my damage, but I'm going to use my, I'm going to use puncture to reroll that damage. All right, so that's 10. Okay, so you rolled a 1, but you're going to use the puncture skill to re-roll it? Yeah, and make it a 10. So that's 10 points of damage to her. And I shall use my bonus action.

Yeah. Is that a maneuver? What is that exactly? No, that's just like a feature of like a feat I got. And I want to use my Frostblade rapier effect, where when the blade strikes the surface as a bonus action, an inch of ice spreads across a surface up to 10 feet in radius. And I want to try and freeze where she's standing.

That's why I stabbed her in the toe. Ah. She's going to get cold feet. Can I do that, Gus? There's a lot to read, so I'm just trying to keep up with you here. Yeah, I'll read it. I see inch, when the blade strikes the surface as a bonus section, an inch of ice layer spreads across a surface up to 10 feet in radius.

I just kind of want it around her. Okay, and does it have any other effect or it's just like it becomes icy? It just becomes icy, I guess. Maybe she's like, I'm hoping she's frozen to the spot. Okay, we'll deal with that when we get there then. making a note of it here. Because she was standing in water, right? Yeah, it's like water,

and there's already some patches of ice in here as well. Okay, got it. You've got a lot of abilities, Gunther. I'm out. I'm done. Gunther's going to be wearing an Elsa dress. He's called blue. Doug, you're up next.

Then after Doug is the warden, the nattie, then told. Okay, I want to stand up. Stand up. That takes half your movement, I believe. That's okay. Because I'm going to use my crossbow, comma light to shoot at the warden.

Okay. Anywhere, Gus. Anywhere. No, I'm not calling the shot. Just want to shoot at her. Okay. I appreciate that. I was just thinking about

our Baldur's Gate 3 videos where I have, Gum Gum has that tiny little baby crossbow. That's what I picture this being like. It was a 21. 21. That's success.

All right. And that does. Oh, bah, bah, bah, bah. Heck yeah, 10 points of damage. Ooh. Dang. But also, Gus, Doug has something called surprise attack. Ooh.

Where if you hit a creature that has not taken a turn yet in the current combat with an attack roll, it takes an extra 2D6. What? What? Roll it. Pipping. And that does an extra six points. Woo-woo. Wow.

Perfectly average. Perfectly average, exactly. So that's 16 total? 16 total. Great. Got it. But then I got another attack. now.

Oh, yeah. Extra attack. So I'm going to do that again. Doug gets two attacks already? Mm-hmm. Wow. Yeah, I figured that out last episode. I probably had it for, who knows, how long.

I just want to point out the vocal range of our Barbara. She goes from like this very, I got another attack now. She's a little gremlin going, mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I don't know if this will hit, but it was a 14. Oh, no. Sadly, that is a miss.

Mm-blah-hmm. Okay. And then I want to summon my steel defender. So I think he goes right after me. Do we have a thing that you do or say when you summon him? No, he's always just kind of there. Yeah, but is there like, is there like, you know how like I tell, you know,

we tell all our devices to do stuff in our house? Is there like something you do to activate? I'm not saying you have to, I was just curious. Alexa, summon Gambot. Everyone's Alexa just got really confused. I'm kidding. So follow a question to, is it always Gambot? Or is it, do you have other, like,

is it always have to be the same steel defender? It's just Gambot. It can't be like Thomas or something? No, I told him. I would never, I would never blame. Okay, sorry. I'm just curious. I think it'd be great if every time you summon Gambot

with whatever, like, your phrase is, that we get like a Sailor Moon-style, like, animation things or, like, he comes up and it's, like, all sparkly, and it's like the camera coming around and all the parts attaching to Gambod. He has hair all of a sudden. Waving in the wind. Oh, my God.

Yeah, a little theme music. plays and it's just like a easy reusable animation it's like anytime gamut comes out it's like this is the sequence we play what is what does he say blaine once the sailor moon comes out like i am the something something uh let moon prism power make up the terror that flaps at night moon i am the tear that dark winged uh moon prism power flight make up then dun da da da da da da da da da da all right uh i think what what He doesn't say anything. I think he has a little button that he presses. Okay.

To be discreet. It's his belly button. I'm not telling you where the button is. Yeah, no. Nope. Are you any abuse of power? We all know where Toll's button is already. Who knows?

She hasn't found the button yet. What shall you think? Our fuse. Doug knows what it is. Gambot activate. Gambot activate. So I think he goes directly after me. Okay.

Yeah. So he is going to roll up to this warden here and do some force empowered rend, aka shoot his little head up into her chin. Bam! Okay. A shot. I know, I know.

I mean, you know, shoot his head up into her vicinity. Ooh, that is a 26. Wow. How? That's so good. He has a plus seven to his attack. Wow. Getting hitting the chin is the worst.

Yeah. More like a steel offender. Got him. And then he does one D8 plus three. So that would be. It was a one so close. So four points of damage. You got it.

It's like comical. Like, boing. Yeah. Ding. I like to imagine he knocked the glasses off of her. Yeah. Canny. Gaines.

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Okay. It is the warden's turn. What she's going to do is she's going to point at Toll and a bolt of energy flies out from her hand in Toll's direction. I'm already running away. What are you want from me? I'm running the obstruction. Hitting AC 18. Yeah, that gets me.

Well, wait, if it hits my back and my shield is on my back. No, no, you're not wielding your shield. Well, no, but it's on my back, though, where it needs to be. This bolt of energy hits you and it's a psychic damage. So it forces you to recall and it brings up scary memories from your past. What does it make you think of, Toll? Oh, man, scary memories from my past? I remember this one night I was waking up in my bunk bed and I saw in the corner a man sitting there with a big hat.

Ah, it's so scary, but it was a coat rag. That's all it was. But for like five minutes, not even, like, minutes. Not even seconds, five minutes. I thought that there's a dude staring at me. Maybe the man in the yellow hat from Curious George. Oh, no. It could have been. It called, ah.

This bolt of psychic energy makes you think of this terrifying encounter you had, and it shakes you to your core, causing 30 points of damage. Oh, my God. Ow. Gus, what did I do? All right. The warden laughed with joy watching you. You were already afraid, and now you're even, you know,

You know, you're damaged and recalling scary memories. She seems to really relish in this. A lot of our villains laugh. Can we give a villain a laugh that actually kind of sucks? Like it's just not scary. Like she snorts? Yeah. Or like a tee-he-he-he.

I have an idea. How about when we cast this NPC, we cast them for all the voice lines, except we keep Gus's laugh for the villain. What are you saying? I'm saying you have such a great laugh that no one could do better. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, okay, got you. Yeah.

After you take this damage toll, the warden adjusts her glasses and looks over them at you and says, My brother may have misjudged you, but I can see into your heart's horrors. I'm no magistrate. I am the warden. What's her life? What's her, do I see a, like a name tag on the warden? The magistrate? I don't know. Brother. What's your, was it Ironclad is her brother?

What she looked like? I described her already. She described it. I know. Hornroom glass, yeah, but I don't know. Jowls. Jowls? Short, jowls, skinny.

Pinstriped suit. Uh-huh. And also has a, was it a button that had like the scales being weighed down by serpents? Her brother of the hamburger? Yeah, she had a button with the scales. Which was. Wasn't the magistrate the thing that we fought at the beginning of this campaign?

It's a bad guy. Yeah, but that was, that's an Andarian, and she seems like not an undarian, right? Well, that thing didn't look like it was an endarian either at first. The magistrate? At first. Well, no... Oh. Or is she related to someone else?

She's at the magistrate. It's got to be the magistrate, right? Judge. John, getting inspiration die. Oh, are I taking crazy pills? John, you're getting inspiration die, John. Haven't we met the magistrate? Yes.

Wouldn't we recognize her then? Yeah. Wasn't the magistrate a Nundarian? Isn't she not a Nundarian? This is like a Nodun Daryan prison? If I would you offer this information, you look at so much confusion, You have sewed into our party.

The first time I didn't ask if I recognized this person in the middle of combat and it bites me in the butt. Also, why would I, I would never be like, oh, my sister went to the Starbucks, ma'ho. Like, why would you offer this information? You talk about Ironclad all the time, dude. Yeah, well, he's my sworn enemy. I don't talk about, you know, Tio and Neo. You talked about looking for your sibling. Why is this bothering you so much?

Because John, how many times do you go to Best Buy and say, My brother, Micah, has a Mac? I think you did psychic damage to Blaine. I think Blaine has taken psychic damage. It seems like it. I think the 18-hour travel day Blaine had yesterday did psychic damage to him. Possibly.

Who's to say? Okay, we're all on the same page. Is everyone good? Do I need to clear anything up? They are the magistrate's sister. Maybe. Correct. I'm done.

Can I cut recording? I'm done. Did we kill the magistrate? We killed the magistrate. Murdering magistrate instead of... Yeah, yeah. We killed your brother. Ha, ha.

Ooh, that's a bold move, Gunther. Let's see how it plays out. All right, Natty, you're up. Okay, I have a couple of things. Daddy, can you take your turn to explain to us what's going on? Yeah, yeah. Story time. I actually want to try to accomplish a couple of things.

First, Gus, is there any way that a other party member can help their party member can help their party member remove the fear thing, or is that something that the player has to resolve in their own? If you have, like, a spell or an ability or something that can do that, but there's no, like, just, like, normal. Correct. Okay. Not like, you know, letting a hand when they're down or something, right?

You're not going to, like, shake them by the shoulders and start slapping him to get them out of it or get smelling salts out. Okay, that's fine. I was just curious. Pep talk, perhaps. Tov, how, how full is your glass right now? Ah!

I can't hear you over the screaming. Wait, your fiancee is going to think something wrong. Is that almost empty glass? Is that what that is? Okay. Okay. Captain Grumbles, get that shield of swearing over and block toe from any more damage, okay?

That's a good, that's a good, little sweary boy. All right. And then Natty stands up, uses a bonus action to use her elemental gift of flight. Grabs. Yeah. Yeah. Just yeah, the T-post. It's every time. It's Magneto and Days of Future Pass. And she grabs Giggy and flies up. So if I got up from the ground and my, the elemental gift gives me a flying speed of 30 feet, how can I go? So you'd be able to do, So removing the prone aspect takes half your movement, so you'd be at half of your flying speed, so you'd be able to fly up 15.

Does, if turning flying, does that not automatically remove prone? Because they're not standing up, they're just flying up. Oh, take that. No, it takes half the movement. That's so much more lame that they're having to stand up, and then they lift off. Yeah.

Okay, so the Natty will go up into the sky. She's got Giggy in her hand, and she's going to, throw a Gigi Pocoball at the tapestry. Cool. Nice, nice. The one with the crank? The crank. No, just one of the other ones. No, not the crank? Crick! I was messing.

I was messing. He was just like, John! John! Stop being silly! Yeah, I throw it at the dog crank. The dog. Hand crank, yeah. All right. Is you trying to have Gigi do something, or you just throwing him at it or what's the plan here?

Pay me a picture. Pay me a tapestry. Well, Natty's plan is throw Giggy at the tapestry. If Giggy gets to the tapestry, Natty then will try to command Giggy to do something. Yeah. We'll just have you make like a strength check or something just to see if you're able to throw Giggy far enough to get to the tapestry.

And I get like advantage in that like with a mom who's like got adrenaline going. They can lift their car off their kid, right? Well, you're not trying to save Giggy. You're trying to throw him into danger. But in Natty's mom, A car is on Gigi right now. Just, no.

Doesn't matter. Nat 20. Doesn't matter. Mom is here. Mom strength. Mom strength on the board. Okay. You toss Gigi and I like to picture like he rolls up like into a little ball.

And like tumbles end over and hits the wall with the tapestry and bounces off and it's like like a poca ball and poca ball in poca mp-a- just like kind of wigg-a-back and forth on the ground. So when he hit the tapestry since you went ahead of it, played with that visual. Nothing happened. Did he go into World 1.1 and Mario? I was hoping there's that opportunity. Or I was gonna say it, like hoping that he would like cat like grab onto it. Oh, you want him to grab onto it? I mean, you could say either way, either he's holding onto it or

standing in front of it. Like a screen door. Yeah. All right. Giggy, can you stop the crank? Bite the crank. Do something. Bite it. Bite it for mama.

Nying-a-g-g-g-k. Roll to see if Giggy listens. Man, I rolled an eight. I think you tell Giggy to do that and he does that thing like a dog where he sits down and then puts one of his legs up and starts like chewing on the inner part of his thigh. Okay, dang it. All right, well, he's there. Flexible. Yeah.

Our soldier is on the point. You've deployed grumbles and Giggy. I would imagine me throwing Giggy is my action. We call it a bonus action if you want. I have bonus action was flying. I'm going to be honest. Oh, okay. All right.

Yeah. So then yeah. Okay. I think you earned a. John, you don't have to be honest. Give him an inspiration day. He's been so good today, John. I gave him one.

Guys, it's Christmas time. I got to be good for Santa. Well, by the time this comes out, it's going to be way best. Yeah, it's not going to be Christmas. It's about a smarsh month or whatever. Smarsh month. Summer. Stinkuary?

Yeah, that's one. Probably happy stinguary. Well, then Natty will finish your turn by saying, that tie does not match that suit. Just saying, girl. That's it for Natty. you all see the warden disappears. What?

She seems to like vanish. Just like poof, out of existence. And then with a poof, she reappears immediately right next to Tov. Oh. What is their obsession with me? Tov and? Grumbles.

Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Tov, it's your turn. Okay. Well. And you can remake, just for a reference, you can remake your save at the end of your turn

to try to break the frightened. Oh, great. To clarify, you said that I drop everything. Can you just tell me if I was holding my gavel and I dropped it or if I dropped something, because I don't know what was equipped, if anything. I would say, I'm going to look at your inventory. If you have it, yeah, it looks like right now you have,

well, you have both your gavel and your javel and you quip. That's plain. So I would say, yeah, you dropped the gavel. Okay. How many shields does you have equipped? On the back or the front? In both. Am I still running?

Because you said that I was running in the opposite direction. You were running. then you are still under the frightened effect, so let's double check what that says. The room's not that big. He's probably just scratching at the wall. I had a plan, actually, that involved the wall if I was running. So you have disadvantage on ability checks and attack roles

while your source of your fear is in line of sight, and you cannot willingly move closer to the source of your fear. Oh, lucky for you. She came to you. Oh, great. Can I paint you a picture for what I think would have to happen? Okay. And then you do all the things, you know, guess hatred things,

where you make me roll bad things and then I lose and I die. If I'm running, then I see a wall. I just keep running at the wall and I have my, they are called. Oh, your mittens? Leggings. Oh, leggings.

Your octa leggings or whatever they call? I was thinking of the mittens of mushrooms. I have my stockings of spider silk so I want to go like real loony tunes with it and I would just run at the wall and then run up the wall. What? I have a question. What do those look like?

Lulu lemons, you know? Like, do they look like fishnet stockings or something like that? Like, what? In my head, they're male ballet dancer stockings. Oh, amazing. Like tights. It's cold in Austin right now, and I'm wearing, like, actual, like, little leggings on right now underneath my jeans. So I just kind of imagine they were just like that, like athletic, like underarmor Lulu Lemon type.

Very cool. Okay. Yeah, you could try to keep running at the wall. Okay. So I'm just going to do that because I'm not prone. I think I got my full speed, right? So like 40, 40 feet? Yes, however, I'm going to get my attack of opportunity.

Yeah, I figured that would happen. I mean, I have to do it, though, because you told me I'm just running, so. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So the warden appeared next to you, which reignited your fear and caused you to continue running at the wall. She lashes out again with another one of those psychic attacks. Okay. Ooh, lucky for you.

I don't think it's very good. That is a 12. Yes. You missed. Okay. I have a great quip for this, even though I'm afraid. You want to hear it? Yeah.

Don't you know that terror leads to truth? Nothing is hidden from me. Your secrets are mine. You just told us your secret that you have a brother. Yeah. We're just offering so many little quips. Okay. Listen, if Micah wrote them, I'm going to say them.

I know, of course. I understand. Is the wall the What's the distance between me, the wall, and then how tall is the wall? How far up do I get on the wall with my spider silk? You were probably pretty close to the wall already. Cool.

And then from where you were, the ceiling was 60 feet high, but it's starting to crank down. We'll say it's probably closer to 50 feet at this point. Okay. So I'm like 10 feet from the roofish. Okay. Somewhere, maybe not that.

Like 30 feet up in the air. Okay. Yeah. Halfway up the wall, we'll say. Sure. Or when it was fully extended. Cool. So I'm up on the roof and you said I can't take,

or sorry, up on the wall. And you said I can't take any sort of actions against them, right? Disadvantage. Yeah, you're just at disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls. Okay. Then I want to, I'm going to double speed, double move up. And I want to be to where when I end up on the roof, I'm directly on top of the person.

Okay. Yeah. So then in my next turn, if I theoretically take the fear thing off, then I could just like jump down on them or something. Yeah. Luckily, you're so afraid of the warden that you don't have time to be afraid of the ceiling that's slowly cranking down. It doesn't even register with you. Yeah.

Okay. So now I'm upside down and you guys look like you're on my roof. And then I'm going to finish with a rage. Although if I don't attack, then that's going to screw me up, right? Farts. Yeah. Or take damage, but unfortunately, the attack of opportunity missed. Yeah.

Okay. Well, then can I at least try to like shake the fear thing? Yeah, make another Christmas save. Ooh! 18. Oh, you shake it off. All right. Nice.

Woo, woo, woo. Like Taylor Swift. Yeah, player's gonna play, play, play, play, play, play, play. I wish I, man, I wish I knew the rest of the lyrics that's on. Shake you, thank you. Okay. That's all I need. All right, so I am no longer afraid and I'm on the roof and I'm directing on top of her.

Yeah. All right, cool. You're no longer afraid of her. There might be other things in your life you're still afraid of. No fear. Toll has no fear, except for the hat man. That really did shake him to his core. Okay, is that it, Toll?

Yeah, yeah. Okay, then we're back up to the top with Gunther. And Gunther, you're up. Gunther, what did you? You hear something, Gunther. What do I hear? Is that Captain Grumble? Captain Grumble is in the wrong direction.

What? It sounds like some kind of groaning. or mumbling coming from behind one of the tapestries. Which one? Make a perception check. Solid seven. Pretty, you know. Seven, not bad.

They say it's the new 20, Gus. Seven's the new 20? Yeah, Dungeons and Dragons magazine says sevens are like the new crit. D&D power. That's the new 2026 thing, I guess. Yeah, yeah. You may not have read it yet, but we did. Issue comes out tomorrow.

Nat seven. It's somewhere on the southern end of the room. So like not quite close to you, but like down in the opposite direction. All right, which tapestries are on the southern side? The ones in the south are the pair of hands with fingers tied together. That one's in the southeast. The one to the south is a tombstone. And then the one to the southwest is two faces, one of which is covering its ears

and the other one's covering its eyes. Can Gunther make it to the pair of hands, fingers tight together? See, I'm pretty sure you can make it. Yeah, you can make it there in one movement. Okay, I'll go there, and I guess I'll like first touch it, touch the hands. Are they tactile, like, moving like the other ones? You approach the tapestry with a hand outreach to touch it and feel like how tactile it is, and as you're doing so, several serpents leap out from the tapestry all over you.

Make me a strength-saving throw. Oh, no. Snakes, why have got to be snakes? That's good. That sounds really good. Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no. Five. No, I did.

The snakes all begin wrapping around you and drag you down to the floor, and they begin slowly starting to constrict you. What does it feel like? Describe that to me, Gunther. It feels like giant worms are... Can I do anything? Am I restrained completely? Metagame-wise, you lose the ability to roll a D-20 until the end of your next turn.

So all D-20 rolls and saving throws are auto failures. Hey. Okay. Question. I don't remember. Did I use Misty Step last time? Have I used Misty Step? I believe you did for part of your surprise.

Like when you surprised the guards? That's right. I did. Okay. Is it only a one time per long rest thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, so I lose all my D20s. One thing I'm going to mention as well.

You hear the clicking of the crank continue. The click, click, click, click, click, click. And the ceiling just continues to lower. On the bright side, you're getting closer to the ground. But for everyone else, the ceiling appears to be dropping. precariously more and more. Okay, I guess that's, I don't know. Can I, can I, I can't even, I'm just like in the ground wrapped up, right?

On the ground, yeah. In the ground. Yeah, I was like, oh, I know we covered that at the beginning during the arrow. Yeah, I don't know if I could do anything other than maybe I could try and use my tongue to like move the tapestry. Could I do that? I don't know if that counts as a D20. If you're trying to grab something, I guess I need to make a Dex grapple check with it.

Correct. 20. Well, I got to... And I stop. Gunther's a little tongue-tied at the moment. Tongue tight, yes. Thumbed died. All right. That's it for Gunther, Doug. And after Doug's the warden, the natty.

All right. I'm going to try something here. Who's that? That's Barbara. That's a new voice I'm trying out. Just dig. It's dig. It's dig. Dig. Oh, I wonder if I could do a British accent for Doug.

Oh, that was... That was tough, me, Dad. All right. I love it. Where does that go? This is his friend, rug. I am going to once again shoot my crossbow, comma, light at the magistrate. But before I do that, I don't know what skill check you want me to use for this,

but could I try to remember what we know about the magistrate or like what we learned in our battle with them? History? Make me a history check, yeah. Okay. I figured I just didn't want to assume. Yeah. 20. That's pretty good.

The magistrate, he was initially disguised as Colonel Boy. That's not how you say his name. Boy. Thank you. You fought him early on at Fort Endridge. How did we kill him? You had combat with him in the armory room. Remember by the three chests and then afterwards, Steeleye came in.

Would Doug remember if he had any vulnerabilities during that battle? I don't think it was anything specific that he was, that seemed. to work better than anything else. No specific vulnerabilities. I'm double checking to be safe. If I remember correctly, he had to have his blood in his body to keep living. That's one weakness.

It's one weakness. To tell, yeah, that would be, I guess a weakness. Yeah, there was nothing that seemed to be especially effective, but nothing that also seemed like it didn't work, if that makes sense. Yeah, that does make sense. Well, I'm gonna try shooting my crossbow. I imagine she's still within range. I have 80 feet on that crossbow.

Okay. Yeah. Shooting. That is a 22 to hit. Wow. Okay. Yeah, that connects. And I will do my damage.

Aye, aye. Three points of piercing damage. It's better than last time. Oh. That was a D6. No, wait. That was a Gambot. Gamb.

I got the little rule. But I do also have a spell called branding smite. The next time I hit a creature with a weapon attack, before the spell ends, the weapon gleams. With astral radiance as you strike, the attack deals an extra 2D6 radiant damage to the target. These random little buffs do you have? I know, I know.

What was that called? Branding smite. It's a spell. Brandon smite? Never heard of them. So I think the spirit of the spell, just for clarification, is you cast branding smite at some point,

and then the next time you attack with a weapon and it hits, then it activates. We'll let it. There's not a big difference one way or another in this case. Okay. So I would have had to cast it before I made the attack? Right. You had the bonus action and everything. So we can easily say you would have cast it first and then used to your crossbow. Because it's like you can cast it and then if your crossbow misses, it's still active.

Then the next time you would hit, it would work. Okay. For some reason, I thought it was something you'd do after. So I will remember that for future spell casting. I'm just bringing it up so we know going forward. Aren't with Paladins like you do your smites after you hit your attack? Some of them are, yes. Or some of them. It can go either way. I think with Paladin's also, it's like, yeah, you can prock it after. Gotcha.

You can only go one way. You can't go two ways, Gus. Gus being generous DM. Well, it also, it's not that big a day. It's just the order that we do things, so it wouldn't have made a difference here. And this one's a, I guess the big difference is this one's a concentration spell, so you wouldn't be able to, like, keep it up, cast something else, and maintain it at the same time. Gotcha.

So I assume now that I'm using it to do that extra D6, 2D6. of damage. After that, the spell is off. Correct. Okay. So that's an extra 2D6 of damage, which is seven. Seven points and that's radiant damage, right? Correct. All right. The warden does not seem too pleased about that. It's because she's a daemon. A diamond. She's an undarian and they probably don't like that radiant damage. But she is still standing and fighting. A diamond. Well, good thing I have a second attack. Do it? Crossbow comma light hitting at you. 19 to hit.

Nice. Yeah, that hits. And that, oh my God, it's going to be another three points of damage. I keep rolling ones on my hit die. Yeah, not great. I mean, those are all pretty little. It adds up, but yeah, they're all a little low. Yeah.

And now, how far is Gambot from her? Okay, well, she teleported over closer to 12. So Gambat is probably, let's say, 25 feet away. Perfect. His 20, 25 feet somewhere in that neighborhood. His speed is 40, so he's going to go up to her again and give her another what's it for? Gambot's got wheels. He does.

The problem is that Gambot moves like a Roomba, so he doesn't actually go straight at her. He just starts hitting walls until he finds her. Yeah, he uses up all 40 feet of his speed. Just being around. I'm just trying to find her mapping the area for himself for later. He's caught on the lip of the carpet again. I think he's trying to dock on toll. Stop his GapBas.

Diggy left a mess on the floor and GAMBot rolled over it. Oh, no. And his tray's already full. No. All right. And then he's going to do his force and powered Wren once again,

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Yeah. It's her turn. Oh, it is her turn, isn't it? Okay, great. It is. I thought that's what you were doing. I thought you were thinking about what to do for your turn. She has things she can do on other people's turns,

like where she teleported to toll. So I was going to use one of those. But no, it's her turn. So she'll do her actual stuff. Teleporter to Tolvian. Come on, Gus. I like when Blaine laughs like an old Victorian woman. Well, I mean, she already hit Tolv.

He's right on the ceiling above her. So why not? Teleporter? No, not teleporting. She's not going to go up there. But she's just going to, yeah, use her psychic attack on you. A bolt of energy flies out once again from her finger guns, flying towards you Toll, hitting AC, 15.

Aha! You missed. Smells like Uptov in here. Come on. Say it. Say it, please. Hey, Tov, what's uptold? Somewhat frustrated the... I mean, nothing much Natsy what is up with you. Sorry, I got so excited you acknowledged me. I was waiting for it.

She was like, you just laughed. I go, okay. So stupid. She kind of furs her brow, Cole, and says, I like to think that despairing is caring. And trust me, I can take care of all of you. Uh-oh. Oh, that sounds nice, actually.

Oh, wow. Thank you. Wow. I think she's about to do an A-O-E. attacks, so it's not going to be very nice. I think she's about to do something very matronly. I think she's about to turn over a new leaf right now. And she concentrates, but you can't see what the effects of it are right now.

Great. Time to break that concentration. I love danger I can't see. Natty, it's your turn. And then after Natty is 12. All right, Natty's going to fly over to the tapestry. The one where Giggy is? Yep.

And he's going to feel around on the crank and see if, like, Natty can do something to it. Can Nattie grab it or stop it? Just rip up the tapestry, I don't know. You, can I blueska-doo into the tapestry? Ooh. No, but... No. Make me a perception check, Natty.

Gladly. That's a 14 plus what is my modifier. 3.17. Yeah, you come up to this tapestry, and yeah, you can see, like, a crank that's woven into it, and you begin feeling around trying to see what you can do with it. You touch it and it just appears to be flat. Like there's no, the texture is of thread and, you know, the woven fabric, but it doesn't seem like there's anything sticking out from it.

What about behind the tapestry? You move the tapestry and look and there's just a stone, I mean a metal wall behind it. What happens if I just crumble up the tapestry and my hand just kind of hold it like, just kind of like, you know, it's still probably attached to where it is hanging, but I'm just kind of like crumbling up. Does that stop the ceiling? No, you bunch it up. It's still attached, but, you know, it seems like the same.

You can still hear it click. Click, click, click, click, click, click. And the ceiling is still slowly lowering itself. Hey, any of you guys got an idea what to do with this tapestry? I'm here. I'm open to ideas. I know how to stop the ceiling from falling. I know this.

But I'll go on my turn. I got a firebolt. Yeah, you think it's like destroy it? Hey, warden, how do I stop this? She'll tell us. If I say please, will you tell me? No. Nattie shoots the warden.

Yeah. Elders Blast. I don't know what to do with this tapestry. I'm going to have Giggy Dry and just scratch at it, but I'm going to shoot her first. Oh, that's a 19 plus modifiers. Doesn't matter, probably, right? It doesn't matter. However, the warden crinkles her nose and you have to re-roll that dye. Okay.

She has what Micah has lovingly coined, Desperation Die. It looks like an anti-luck die, which forces you to re-roll. What does that have to do with her nose? Does she smell something weird? It's like a bewitch thing. Yeah. Can you do that, the genie? That's not a genie.

The witch. The witch. Literally in the name. Yeah. No, the genie does it. Remember? No, she does the, she does the head nod. Get your old TV land shows correct, okay?

You're right. I'm sorry. Okay, I rolled again, and I rolled a 16 with modifier. Oh, curses. All right, that's still connects. Yeah, yeah. What a waste of a desperation die. Yeah, what, oh man, it really sucks when you try to do something

and then you roll and your demon child won't do it. Wait a minute. Gus has... Oh, that's an inspiration die, not a luck die. Man. Yeah. I was going to use it. He's grumpy.

I rolled a three plus four. That would be seven plus... Oh, I got to see all my modifiers. I get agonizing blast, so they move the plus four. So what I say? Seven, that's 11. And then I have my genie thing. It gives me three thunder damage.

So 14 damage. And this is all attached to an Eldridge Blast, right? This is all attached to an Eldridge Blast. Okay, yeah. So your Elchie... Eldridge Blast leaps forward from your hands. Zig-Zag-I-Legra-Blash kind of like zigzag, like a lightning bolt, zigzags through the room,

striking the warden doing 14 points of damage. Like dark sides of lasers. He says to a roomful of people who have no idea what he's talking about. No idea. I shoot another Eldridge Blast. Can I do that? If you can. You tell me?

Yeah, I can. All right. 17. That hits. Ooh, that's a good one. That's a nine plus four. That's 13. Plus four, and I don't think I do Thunder again.

Once during each your turns, yes. So 17 total. There's a lot of damage. Yeah. All right. All right, yeah. The warden is displeased with you, Natty. She might have to do something about that, but she is still standing.

That's fine. I'm going to roll to see if Gigi will do it. Mommy says, Mommy rolled in 18. Giggy, eat the tapestry. All right. Gigi's going to just try to, like, rend at it with Giggy's attack. Sure. I think in the future, let's just make sure we ask Giggy and then roll.

I want to make sure we don't roll and then change the idea after. Oh, that's fine. Yeah. No. But yeah, you had already said that that's what you were to do, so it's fine. Yeah, that's why. Normally I wouldn't, but that's a good call. Okay, yeah. I guess have Giggy make an attack? Yeah, let's do that. Rand is plus five. I rolled a six. That's an 11. On the tapestry. What's the AC of the tapestry?

That's a great question. I'm trying to double check while you're doing that. Hope it's not a seven. That's like the new 20. Yeah. Good callback. Take an inspiration, die. That was an excellent callback. Oh, thank God I've been needing one. Graswit stronts here.

I like the callback. I'm going to say that Gigi begins clawing at it and trying to rend it, but it doesn't really seem to do anything. Metagame-wise, I think it was a little low. Probably should have been a little higher to really be effective. I thought Gigi was going to eat it. He's just hanging there on this tapestry. Yeah, I guess he's trying to claw through it,

but he just claws out. Well, Mama's done. Mama. Tom. You're up, and then after Tov, we go back up to the top to Sneaky Gunther. Okay. Toll is gonna stop the roof from falling. So he's gonna push down really hard.

Push down? Yeah. Go for game, it's down. Like jump? Oh, right. He's not gonna jump. He's just gonna, uh, he's gonna hold it as strong as he can. Does that have any effect on it?

Is it like that thing Tollve can't poop? How do I know that when I says, anybody can't do? got ideas and you said, Tov knows how, I was like, Tov does not know how. No, he's like that. He's going,

I thought he had a better idea too. No, it doesn't seem to do anything. What? Yeah, you're stuck to the ceiling slash floor for you and it's still very slowly clicking down with that ominous click. But I'm on top of the

warden. I would say you're above the warden. Right. How far away is the warden from my gavel? Oh, she teleported, let's say, 20, 25 feet. I think that's what we rolled for Gambots movement. Oh, farts, okay. I'm going to do this really, really cool attack without it.

But that's all right, because I got my javelin. You can just drop it. You don't even have to make an attack, right? You can just drop. Okay. A free hand, a free action? Like a cow. Yeah, nice.

No, this is way cooler. Check this out. It's time to get told for eyes. I take my javelin and I un- release from the roof with my spider socks silkings directly on top of the warden and then as I'm coming down with my javelin I want to do like a lightning strike so I'm going to engage my rage I didn't mean arrive with that I'm loving that that sounds fun and when I start raging I prock storm aura so I gain a 10 foot aura effect when you start your rage and there's a bonus action on each of your turn when activated one creature of your choice and your aura takes lightning damage.

So, like, right as I'm about to hit him, I activate my rage. That's pretty cool. He's doing a Blanca. It's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolute Toe's Lightning Strike. I loved playing Blanca.

You would. So OP. I like Blanca, too. He looked like a little mutant. Let's figure out the damage. Well, I guess you have to make an attack of some kind. How is this going to work into your mind playing? Probably the...

In Blaine's mind, this will kill the warden. Does that work for you? Yeah, on my mind, I think that this is about as powerful as a nuclear bomb. It's a javelin attack. So, I mean, it says it's thrown, but I'm just going to treat it like it's like a melee. Two-handed? Yeah. Like Scrooge McDuck in the Nintendo game, he just went down with his cane.

That's what you do that. So maybe I'll do that. And then because I'm raging when it happens, I'll add my rage. bonuses and then I'll add my stormora bonuses on top of that. Javelin's listed as a melee weapon here. Oh. You can't you can throw it, but yeah, it says, uh, it's a melee weapon. So yeah, if you just use it as it's in there, it should work fine.

Okay. Then let's roll 12. That's a miss. Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on. Does Rage give me any advantage? You gained advantage on strength checks and saving throws plus two. Okay, it's damage. All right.

Well, hey, guys, remember when I made you laugh and you gave me that inspiration? That's what you get, Gus, for letting Blaine make you laugh. There you go. I'm going to use my inspiration die, rolling that again. That's a little bit better. Oh, I think that's a little bit better. 21. Dog, is that you?

A 21, believe it or not? Good. Okay. That's it. So I'll roll my javelin. That's an eight plus two melee damage from rage. Ten? and then I'm

gonna use my stormora which is I gotta start writing these down all right A 1D6 So once again it was it was 8 with the jablin plus 2 with rage Plus a 1D6

That I'm about to roll Okay You gonna roll Roll? Here it is You who? That's me Farts One

It's a 1 Yeah but the emotional impact The emotional damage was an 8 Well, speaking of impact, do I get any additional bonuses because I'm dropping from the ceiling? Yes, we call that fall damage. You fell 40 feet. No, no, no, on them, Gus, on them.

Well, let's deal with your fall damage first, then we'll figure that out. So you fell 40 feet and it's D6 per 10 feet. So I'm going to roll 4D6 falling damage here. Okay, but I'm also raging, though. So you'll take half. So lucky for you, that's only 10. So you take half of that, which is five. Don't take that.

Five. All right. Cool. and then I want to use my second attack. Boy, what I'd love to go for my gavel of Gailstrom. And I have the movement speed to do it. But then I would prock a, what you might call it? She missed last time.

That's when Gus turned into the little demon on Blaine's shoulder. She missed last time. I'll just hit with the javelin again. Yeah, you could also, if you want, maybe ask the sea drinker for help. I can do that. Okay. All right.

Oh, see, drinker, I don't know. I'm starting this with a whisper song, but I want to know if you'll help me. I'm trying to attack this warden. Please, see, drinker, I did like a cool lightning strike. In your name, I pray amen. Make me a religion check. Okay. Do you say pray amen?

Yeah. It's like pray and amen. It's like combining praying and amening. Thirteen. It seems like nothing happens, and then the water along the floor begins, like, lapping and moving, almost like waves are generating in a wave pool. It seems like the origin point is under your gavel of Gailstrom, and the waves begin picking it up and floating it across the floor,

and it comes across and bumps into your ship right around your ankles. Oh, it's served. Very cool. Ouch. Oh, God! C.J. Go! I pick up my gavel then. Okay, yeah, you pick it up. But I want to do it like with a cool flourish where it kicks up water

and it makes like a Lego, like a, what are those water tornadoes? Okay. Do any of us get picked up in that? Yeah, you can surf with it, Doug. He started a little vortex, yeah. Yeah, and then carrying that momentum from picking up the gavel, I take another swipe at the warden. Okay.

Fards! That's a 12. Ooh, that is a miss. But what if I did a bonus that I don't have? All right, fine. What if I make you, what if I do a little dance, Gus? Come on, Gus, give you a little inspiration now, huh? Well, you don't get an inspiration dive, but you miss, and there's something about

Seeing you miss, especially after having such a cool moment with the sea drinker bringing you the gavel, it shakes the confidence of your party members around you. Something about seeing this cool moment kind of fizzle causes everyone to have doubts, and they feel like you all could potentially fail at your mission here. Tov gave us anxiety. Guys! No! Everyone hears the warden whisper in their minds. Your friends will fail you. Metagame-wise, everyone has disadvantage on their next D-20 role.

Dang it. But what if we heard it and didn't believe it? What if we heard the Friends theme song after? Yeah. Do-no-la-no-do-d. Barber was so fast to that. I hope they came through in my audio. We heard it.

Unfortunately, the Warren's in her Napalm era. She's going to take down. I'm the only one here. You're the only one. I saw your Spotify wrapped. Big check for my name, Palm Ere. Okay, that's it for Toll? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. Gunther, what's up with those snakes?

I don't know. I don't know. Are they on me still? Yeah, they're constricting tighter and tighter. What are you gonna do? Can I try and slip out of them? Sleepery, I'm all wet, I'm a frog. Yeah, at the end of your turn, we say you can make another strength saving throw. But until then, I just stay under snakes.

I don't know if you have any other abilities or any other ideas. All right. Well, so can I stand up or am I on the ground? They dragged you to the ground and they're wrapped around you. We could try to stand up. You could make like a strength check independent of the saving throw to see if you're able to stand. Okay, here goes. Oh, wait, no, you can't because all D-20s are auto failures.

Okay. Farts. I want to roll to the next paint, next mural. Tapestry? Yes. I want to roll to the one with the two faces and listen and see if I can listen, hear that noise that I heard. No, you can't do that because that's a check. Those are all perception checks.

Oh, well, I'm just going to roll to the two faces. Okay. You roll over to the two faces, which does not require a check. That's just movement. You don't get all the way there, but you get most of the way there. Oh, wait, that would be regular movement. You're rolling held up by snakes. You get halfway there.

Okay. Yeah. And like every other, like half of the turn, you're submerging yourself in water. It's like you're torturing yourself half the time you're rolling over there. Mamba Mia. Mamba Mia? Because mamba's his name is a snake. That's good.

Have you been looking up snake puns? Shut off, Joe. No? I didn't say anything. Shut up, John. Yeah, John. I guess he goes after John. I didn't do nothing.

Jesus, John. I was going to say Gus. I was going to say Gus. John catching strays for no reason. Shut up, Joss. Normally you're the one calling me out for... I didn't know. He's so used to it.

I've been a good boy. I've been a good boy. All right. I hate snakes. I can't do anything. Unless... It's like a... It's like an anime moment.

I can't do anything. Unless... Gunther. It works for me to pray to the seed drinker. You should pray to your crappy God. I pray... Please help me. I've not talked to any other gods.

Would the flower please? Is that anything? That's your prayer? Okay, I can do better. Listen, I've been thinking about you a lot and I'm trying my hardest and, you know, I've been good and, you know, not seen any other deities. Or even thought of them. Just me, you, and these snakes, and they're getting between us. I think it's going to work.

Make a religion check. 15. You say this prayer, you know, close your eyes real tight, and then you open them, and you see the water moving in front of your face. And very slowly up from the ground, you see a water lily start to sprout up from the ground. And flower and bloom right in front of your face. Wow. And the waves kind of cause it to move back and forth, and it leans forward and touches you in your nose.

It's in the shape of a middle finger. You regain the hit points that you've been missing for a little while here. What? Really? Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Whoa, wait, exploring this, it was the water from the sea drinker that I summoned. So is the sea drinker or is this the tiger lily? A lily sprouted out and touched him. No, I've been at half HP for like a long time.

Yeah, because your God took it away. So, like, don't be so happy that they're giving it back. You know, like. It sounds like an abusive relationship. Yeah. But yeah, you got it back. Thank you. You're too easy to impress.

But you're still covered by snakes. Yeah, snakes. What do you know of snakes? Anything else? No. Okay. I can't do anything. Can't move.

Can't breathe. You want to try to make your strength check to see if you get out? There's too much stuff on me. So much voice cracking happening right now. I forgot about that. I was wondering what the reference was. All right, I'm done. Make your strength saving throw.

Oh, yes. Come on. 20. At disadvantage. Yeah, it's at disadvantage. Ooh. I thought that already happened now. Or is all of his D20 years.

Ha! 21! At disadvantage. It's from the warden's, your friends will fail, you think. Okay. Yeah, you manage to pull the snakes off, like some kind of wrestler ripping your shirt open. Yeah, can they just explode into gory goo? Like, just whew!

Sure, you rip the snakes apart and have snake bits all over you, Gunther. Yes. Those snakes are history. Yeah. Doug, you're up. Oh, gosh, okay. Could I pray to the veiled high? You've opened a can of worms,

I feel like I see it happening. And so I'm just like, oh, yeah, it's a good idea, actually. Yeah. Oh, blessed veiled eye, it is I, Doug Boone. I remember last time we spoke, you kind of didn't remember my name when I told you, but now I'm telling you again, there's a favor to you. Give me a sign that you hear me. Make a religion check, I guess.

It's not normally what you do in a prayer. Give me a sign. Yeah, I wasn't expecting that. That's why I was like, oh, there's a long pause. Would this be a disadvantage? Yes, because it's your next D20 check. Okay. Okay.

An A8, it was a one, so it's critical to. You feel a breeze. Is it the veil die? Is that something it does? 12. Which is you? All right, I'm just going to assume you're listening to me. I need help stopping this floor from moving,

or just the ceiling from moving down and crushing us to death. So if you could point me in the right direction in order to stop this from happening, Do it now. Okay, make a religion check for this, for the actual ask. Is this also a disadvantage? No, that's cleared now, so it's just a regular. 18. You finish your prayer and open your eyes, and then you see, over by where Natty and Giggy are,

that tapestry develop and form like an eye of fire on it. Oh, okay. And then the tapestry, the eye of fire spreads across the tapestry, catching the entire thing in flames. Wow. Thank you, Viodon. Hopefully that was you and the right decision to be made in this moment. Well, on the bright side, the clicking stops and it seems like the ceiling is no longer coming down towards you guys.

Guys, look! And a... Oh, did it! No. You know what? We all did it. Because, you know, you guys showed me with the power of praying to your deity, that a lot could be done. Okay, so I think, would that all be considered my action for this turn? We'll say your prayer was your bonus action.

Okay. So I think in seeing that, are any of the tapestries still up? All of the other tapestries are still in place. The only one that caught fire was the one with the crank. Could I aim my firebolt then at the... Is the two faces one still up? Yeah. Do you want me to describe all of them to you? Yeah, there's one with the tied fingers. There's one with the tombstone? The tombstone turned into crank. Termstone to the crank. And then the two faces on the southwest, right? Correct.

For my own curiosity, why are you attacking another tapestry? Well, when this one burst into flames, it stopped the crank. So I want to see if burning all these tapestries maybe injures her. It's not a bad theory. Or it helps us get out of here. Yeah, I was just curious. You do you. Doug has method to his madness.

Yeah. Doug cast fireball at the two faces tapestry. Fireball? Firebolt, sorry. Oh, okay. I was like, oh, what did you get that? I was just like, that's pretty powerful. That was also on her Spotify rap.

Yeah, yeah. Fireball. Fire bolt, please, which is a cantrip. Yeah, make a range spell attack. 16. Yeah, that's a successful hit. Okay, that does. 11 points of fire damage. Wow.

The fire bolt strikes the tapestry, igniting it, and the flames run all through it, and the tapestry goes up in a puff of smoke. Okay. And it seems like the smoke rises up to the ceiling. and just kind of dissipates from there. Do I see anything change in the room or does anything happen to the warden?

Make a perception check. 25. Nothing that is apparent to you. Okay. Well. And Doug just brushes his hands off and goes, next. Which I think at Gambott's turn.

Yeah. Where is Gambot now in relation to the warden? I believe Gambot is still right by the warden. because the warden didn't move. And Gambot had run up to the warden. Well, guess what he's gonna do? Bob that little head up, force and powered rend. Yeah!

Bang-wee-wing! That is a 26. That hits. Plus three, which is seven points of damage. That hits the warden squarely in the job. Good job, Gambot! Does a Gambot reply? And then he spins up in the air and does another one of those Sailor Moon poses.

We've got it. We're going to use it. Okay, that's it for Doug and Gambon? Yes. Okay, it's the warden followed by Natty and then Toll. The warden is once again going to go after Toll. She's like single-minded on Tov apparently. My gosh, why you obsessed with me? Well, you were frightened and now you're right next to her.

So it's just easy. She's going to try to psychically damage you once again. Hitting AC-18. Yeah. Yeah, that is. Mm. The bolt flies out and strikes you, forcing you to recall another scary memory from your past hole.

Okay. Okay. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay, so there's this one time, right, where I'm hanging out with the crew, right? You know what told me? All the, my brothers and sisters were on the ship,

and then someone says, like, a really funny joke. so I'm laughing. Ah, ha, ha, ha. And then suddenly my stomach, like, turns, like, poopy style. And then I just, like, all of the fluids inside of me just start, like, you know, coming out. And I'm just like, oh, but, you know, like, everybody's still laughing. And I know that if everyone noticed that I stopped laughing, that something was wrong. So I have to keep laughing.

So I keep laughing. And then I'm just, like, counting down the moments until I could go to the poop deck. It's terrifying, really scary stuff. I got secondhand embarrassment for you, they're told. Yeah, it happens. Terrible memory. And on top of that terrible memory, you also receive 15 points of psychic damage.

Good. Is there any sort of like effect that rage does? Does that knock that in half, or is it just physical? No, it's just for physical. I'll say, Gunther, you notice that the tapestry in the northeast begins moving. But? Almost like it's flapping in the wind. From the tapestry emerges a giant bird.

A bird. Gunther hates birds. I do not like birds. It takes flight. Oh! And flies over you, Gunther. And it's circling. Oh, no.

Everyone! Run! So Gunther doesn't like birds? I do not like birds. And the bird circles and then dives down at you with its claws stretched out, almost like it's going to grab you, Gunther. Oh! Oh, no.

What is it? What do I do? It would hit AC 14. Oh, thank goodness I miss me. The talons clasped right around you, but you move your head at the last second. Otherwise, they would have firmly gripped around your head. Oh, everyone, there is a bird. Yeah, we can see it, Gunther. It's like a 30-foot wide room with a ceiling that's down to like 30 feet.

There is a bird. I feel bad for it. the bird, it's like when you go to the Home Depot and the bird gets in here. It's just... It's just scared. Can we help it? Is there anything we can do? You know what?

I'm gonna use my Gus inspiration dye. Oh yes! Oh, yeah! I'm so happy. I'm gonna re-roll that. That's a 25. Yay! Go bird! Go bird!

The bird's talons grasp firmly around your skull. Oh! Go for the snakes! You rip the snakes off. already doing 12 points of slashing damage. And it begins beating its mighty wings against the air trying to take flight. Make a strength check, Gunther. It's a 13.

I rolled a 13, and I have plus 5 on strength. That's an 18. The giant bird takes flight with Gunther and its talons. By the head. It's kind of like a Kermit the Frog situation. where your arms and your legs are just flailing around frantically. I want to make a fan art request that someone does the Mexican flag, but instead of a snake, it's, it's Guntzer out of the gulib.

Oh my God. And as you're taking flight to the air, you once again hear that groaning sound, Gunther. This one's not you. It's not your groan. It's something else. Where do I hear? Do I hear where it's from? Make a perception check.

A tin? It seems almost like it's coming from the tapestry in the southeast portion of the room where the snakes slept out from. What? The one you rolled away from. Do not be afraid of those snakes. There is something in there in the tapestry, I think. Okay. That is it.

That's being carried off. Yeah, his voice fades away. Natty, you're up. Okay, well, Natty's flying. You're not the only one. Or Nettie can fly. Yeah, I'm going to shoot at the bird. Okay.

Actually, could I do another giggy throw? Yeah. Please, please and thank you. That's what I want to do. I think Giggy, up close and personal with the bird, is exactly what I want right now. B-1 with the bird, giggy. So throwing, you did what, a strength check, goose?

Yeah, yeah. 14 plus, what is my strength modifier? One, 15. That succeeds. All right. And then. I got a rule to see if Giggy will do what I want. Yes.

To, like, attack the bird? Yes. Okay. That's a critical fail. It's not a good day for me getting Giggy to do what I want. Okay. Well, what were you going to have Giggy try to do? I'm just curious.

It's attack. Just like, just mess up the bird. My perspective on this, the failure, since, you know, you didn't succeed, is that Giggy gets there and is so overcome with the fact that he's flying in the air that he loses sense of what's what. against attacking Gunther. Perfect. I think John failed intentionally

because Chris told him to shut up earlier for Doriske. Yeah. So am I rolling for attack with Gigi then? Yeah. Yeah. All right. What is Gigi? Okay, Gigi's a plus five.

That's a 17th. Is that hit Chris? No. What? I asked that sarcastically. I figured that was a hit. Uh-huh. All right.

He's so strong. He's got a weirdly high age. Remember Gus? Yeah, I just double-checked it. Yeah, all right. He begins trying to attack Gunther, but Gunther's just flailing around so much that all the attacks, uh, miss. Yeah. It's the stupid, no, no, curbing, floppy limbs. The bird, not me. That's exactly what I'm picturing. It's a wet slaps, just like, since I didn't use a bonus action this time, can I make the throw my bonus section this time and now do an attack? Sure. Aw, you're such a good man. Who's a good man? Who's a good, good. Who's a good, good. That's a 25 from my first Eldridge blast.

That's good. So then we'll roll for damage. That's three plus four plus four plus three. So 14 damage. Yeah, that's pretty good. You knock some feathers loose from the bird. Perfect. And we're going to shoot the bird again.

Just like we did in the backyard with my mamas. You know, like you go sit in the backyard and you shoot. Maybe I'm just thinking of my dad, I think he had a memory where he would like shoot like a doves in the backyard and then they'd like eat them. Oh. Hurting small animals with your parents? I didn't do it. My dad did. It was like on a farm.

They would eat it? At least they would eat it. That's hunting. Yeah, it's called hunting. People do it. I thought you were just revealing that you just killed birds for fun as a kid. Yeah. I said my dad.

You worked your way up to humans. It's very different. I said my dad. The signs were all there. Yeah. You know how much I had. hate animals. I've really incorporated into all of my D&D characters. I forgot what I was doing. Was I rolling my second?

Shooting a bird or some. Yeah. Harming a small... No, I rolled 16 plus 7 is a 23. This switch is successful. Thank you. That's an 8 plus 4 plus 3, so 15. The Elders Blast flies striking the bird, which causes it to explode into like a big ball of feathers and it falls to the ground. And so do Gigi and Gunther. Along with Gigi and Gunther. Okay. Squaw.

Let's see how much fall damage they take. Yeah, let's see. Yeah, do it. Taking seven points of fall damage. Okay. Giggy's going to take damage. That's okay. He's actually almost as beefiest mom.

Wow. He's growing. He's a big boy. And that's my turn. I didn't use any of my flying. So could I fly over to that tapestry that was making the noise? Yeah, absolutely. And just as a free action,

Can I just whisper, is anybody in there? It's not Captain Grumbles. One grumble if you're a person. Perfect. Okay. There's someone in the tapestry. It's probably a prisoner of somebody. Careful, it could be the hat man.

All right, that's my turn. I'm done. Cool. How close is the... Warden. Pretty close. Still right up on you. Okay.

I'm stuck in here. That's okay. Otov is still spinning around. He's going to act like he, uh, that momentum that he was carrying from that missed hit. It's still going. He's working up a vortex and he's going to go for another hit. All right. So I'm going to hit with Magabla Gailstrom.

Oh my God. This is me. Play your duty again. Play it. Please, Zedringer! Sea drinker, please. I'm bombing over here. Everyone, you hear once again the ward's voice in your mind.

Your friends will fail you. I think you just mean Tov. Tov will fail us. Tov will fail you. There we go. Wow, you didn't have to like name names. Okay. All right.

I'm going to keep spitting around. And then I'm going to take another hit. He's going to vomit. All right. And you have disadvantage on this one. one because of the effect. Blom it. Because of your friends will fail you.

Okay. Disadvantage, great. I really needed that. 25 and 17. Believe it or not, that's a hit. Oh my god. All right, well, it's definitely two-handed. So I'm gonna roll both that. So it's a 1D10 plus 13.

So that's seven plus two from rage, plus storm aura, which would be a D6. So we're at nine right now. We roll that D6. and it's a three. Okay, well, we're doing some math. 13, I think. You spin around again,

maintaining that vortex and maintaining that momentum. And even though the warden's somewhat in your head with her whispering about failure, the gavel of Gailstrom comes around and strikes her on the side of the body doing a significant amount of damage. It does that thing where it like knocks the wind out of her,

like she gets hit in the lungs. Like all the air comes out. Almost like when you get hit in the solar plexes and you're like, Back in. Barrow, what does that sound like again? I can't breathe. And you hear her mutter something.

How? And she falls to her knees and then slumps over to the ground. Oh. Oh. Did we get her? How? How? Maybe she's just impressed by our combat abilities, I think, is what's happening.

We're just wiping this family out. This is great. See if it's a fake. Can I face off? You can I uh... face off? You go and you try to Mission Impossible her and you see that she is indeed wearing a disguise. Oh my god. Just like her brother did with the Colonel Blee.

Who would do such a dastardy thing wearing a fake skin mask? My God, what have we come to as a society? Who is it? Who is it? It's no one you recognize. It's like a disfigured being that seems like obviously she's not moving. She's not moving. She's, you know, you've taken her out. But it seems like she would be hunched over on all fours, shivering.

She's got mantis arms. Mantis arms? Yeah, like a sagging, tearful face. Okay. Deceased? She deceased? It seems like it. Okay.

And it seems like her face almost looks like Elva's face. Elva? Like your sister Elva? Yeah. The fake one or the real one? The real one. Uh, okay. As in Elva's...

disguised face when Elva was in disguise? No, like Elva's face, as you remember her working with her on ironclad ship. Oh. Is there, like, any known, like, shapeshifters out there or, like, people who could take on the appearance of others? No, you just start shapeshifting in front of you guys saying, yes, I've done it the entire time we've been here. I don't think such a thing exists. No. Doug, you ask that question, and, you know, you look over at the warden's face, and you have no idea what Tolv's talking about.

That is very clearly your brother's face. Oh. Oh, no. Oh. Oh. Whose face does she look like to me? You go and look and you see your wife laying there, Gunther. My wife.

My wife. Can I go and kiss her? Nadi, who do you see? Do I see anything? Yeah, you take a look, Natty, and yeah, you see your wife as well. You see Death's face on this body that's laying there. Well, I know that's not her. Well, she's dead now, maybe.

And then from the corner, once again, you hear, Oh, yeah, Natty moves the tapestry aside. Who do you see? Who do you see when you look in the face? Mr. Mumbles? Oh, you move the tapestry aside, and behind the tapestry, you see a bloodied and restrained bun lap. Bon lap!

Nottie goes to try to remove his face, see if he's a face. No! Who are you? Who are you? You try to pull at it, but his face is... It is actually... It's a real face. It's a real face.

Okay. Gunther, is that the real bun lap? I don't hope so. Gunther runs over and tries to restrain him. Yeah, he's got like a gag in his mouth and restraints holding him. And you're able to free him. And it looks like he's been worked over. He's pretty bloodied and beat up.

Could I cast cure wounds on him? Yeah. And it seems to really help. Like, you cast cure wounds. I'll let you roll whatever the healing is here. Five points of healing. Five points. And it seems like that kind of enter.

He energizes him, like he can really, like, breathe, and he seems like, oh, like his eyes clear up. He can look at you. He's taller than most croak folk, muscular and nightly. He's got dreamy golden eyes. Very dreamy. They're very fierce, and they fix on you, Gunther. He says, Gunther, thank you for coming back. I'm sorry, I left.

Think nothing of it. It is what needed to happen, but Gunther, you need to help me escape now. Of course. I'm sorry, let us go. Yes, let us go. And Gunther, I have something I need to tell you. What? I know where the Wilder Shield is.

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Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Anybody realize curious George shouldn't have a tail? What? He's a curious little monkey. Monkey's got tails, don't they? They cut his tail off? I just think he... He just didn't have a tail in the artwork.

That is weird. I never thought about it. They docked his tail? That's like a monkey's defining thing. Yeah, that's how they like walk. They need that thing. I know. For balance. I say they walk with their legs, but okay.

Some might say it's curious. Oh, get out of here.