Tales from the Stinky Dragon - C03 - Ep. 41 - Under Oondar Fire - Swinging into Whacktion

Episode Date: April 15, 2026

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Previously our adventurers beheld a bellowing from the bloodbather, avoided a vanguard of Undarians, made their way into the morbid mire of Mito and catapulted out of the canyon into the veiled veil. Now assailed by antlered animals, will they prevail or fail? Bring over a brew for this bedtime tale. Hello everyone. Welcome to Tales from the Stinky Drag game. My name is Gustavo Sorola,

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Yeah. Audience, if you'll listen back to the last 20 episodes of our show, you'll notice Gus has been acting differently. I did say that intro backwards. Normally I say I'm your dungeon master, Gustavo Sourla, and I said, I'm Gustavo Sourla, your dungeon master today. Wow. Who is she? Can you follow this CAPTCHA, please?

It proves me you're not a robot. I got a 12th. Oh, right. Oh my gosh. I'm like, for what? Come on, guys, get with the program. It's the stinky dragon. 15. 17 for John. Four. This week's arrow question is, what is your favorite fruit? And that was submitted by Riley Frenchie.

Rillet Frenchie, something like that. Hi. I'm a question. John Rice here and I play Natty Wonder, the Drow Warlock, drag queen, mother of the bringer of the Apocalypse, wife of death. You're a member of that cult. Keep going. Member of the Flame people. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Something like that. More. Kind of the special auto harp that I got. Auto harp of Auto Tune. Mm-hmm. Caretaker of Captain Grumbles. Mm. Yeah.

I'd do something about that. You can't kill something that I bring back from the dead. We'll find a way. I know you will. I know you will. My favorite fruit, there's a little bit of a cop-out answer, but I think it speaks true to who I am. Honestly, my favorite fruit is any fruit that you bake into a pie.

Because good answer. Good Lord, do I love a fruit pie? and I don't think I've met one that I don't like thus far. What about when the fruit pies, you know, sometimes they're too liquidy. That's my one complaint about fruit pies. Like they're not like gelatinous enough and that kind of thing. Yeah. Well, that's just a bad bake.

Right, yeah. Other than that, delicious. No, I mean, that's just a bad bake and that ain't anything about the actual pie itself. That's about the baker themselves. True. But, yeah, no, I mean, apple, blueberry, rhubarb, peaches, just any of the pies, cobblers, anything like that. Just good times. The rhubarb lady.

Rubarb? Sorry, there was like a fleeting internet thing. The rhubarb lady. It rings a bell slightly, but I think I've forgotten it. Okay, okay, it's fine. There my mind. Sorry. I always want to yes and any memes or inside jokes,

but if they go over my head, I can't do anything. One of the most renowned bakers of our land, the great baker Hebb, not known for necessarily the best quality, but maybe the best value and price in the land. Indeed. Yeah. Yeah, I would agree with that.

All right. Any fruit that goes in a pie, which I think is pretty much all of them, for the most part. Not pineapple. You make a pineapple pie? Very often. A pineapple pie sounds amazing. I don't know if the texture would be great because what would have baked pineapple tastes like? It's very stringy usually, right?

It'd be kind of like a pear, right? Well, it'd be like a pineapple turnovers. Peaches? Peaches are pretty common. Peaches? That's a pretty common pie. I can't. That word is synonymous now with saying it that way.

Speaking of peaches, you should check out C-Squod season two over at stinky dragonpod.com available for all levels of Patreon supporters. All right, thanks, John. Next up was 16, I believe. It's technically 15, but... 15, okay. Hi, I'm Chris DeMaris, and I play Gunther, the male crook folk fighter. And my favorite type of food is, of course, the sludgeberry.

It is so delicious. cities only found at the bottom of the water. You swim down and you look through the smudge. See, you find it and then it's like a treat. I love my sledgeberries. I like to think that for Gunther's sludge berries are, you know how normally cranberries are like grown in a bog and all of them float a pop and they get them. All of the bad ones that seem to the bottom get stuck in the mud.

Those are sludge berries. Sludge berries. And it's like garbage. It's left behind. But that's Gunther's favorite. Why is it that so many of Gunther's arrow answers are like him beckoning you into a dark cave to tell you a little secret? I'm about to say because it's Chris getting into the voice and he starts as if he's whispering you. There's a character from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and he's trying to find the kids.

Do you guys remember that character anybody? He's just like he's this weird little fellow who's trying, like there's not supposed to be any kids for some reason in this village. And so it's like Pied Piper, but just kids. And you just pulled that memory out when you were describing how Gunther sounds at the beginning of these. I don't think I've seen that movie in 35 years. That has been a long time.

Big bang, chich, Bing, Bing, we love you. Come by me. Come by me. All right. Thanks, Gunther. We'll look for sledge berries at our local shop. No, we want. One of those tastes like.

Yeah, what do those taste like? well it tastes it's like a sweetness and a grittiness and that is like good on the tongue very refreshing and you have a lot of tongue you want all right

thanks Gunther all right who's up next things to me hello Blaine Gibson here reporting for Taleson C Dragon and I play Tov you hoo

I'm the male photic barbarian Level 8 I'm not going to whisper into your ears as if I'm luring into a trap. I'm going to say my favorite fruit and I'm going to say this with full confidence

not knowing if it is a fruit or not is a coconut. Is it a coconut to fruit? Yeah. Is it? Okay, thank God. I was going to Google it but I was like, no. Confidence. Or it's a seed. Either way, I love a coconut. Okay, it's got a hard exterior,

you know, very protective, very strong. It doesn't look very appetizing or friendly but when you get into the insides and it's gooey and nice and refreshing and it's just so lovely. And I feel like I relate to coconuts in that way. I have the hard robot exterior. And then on the inside, I'm just a nice dude. Gouy exterior. Yeah.

Just like you told. So the meat's inside. Yeah. I feel like you're the opposite. You're gooey on the exterior and hard on the interior. Yeah. That's true. Only when I'm wearing the skin of my predecessor.

Am I gooey on the outside? Should I do an arrow question for Bjorn? Yeah. Oh, it's me, boy,orn. Like a sock puppet. I used to love apples before I died and got skinned by my young son, Tov, and he started wearing me around. Tov, isn't that traumatic for you?

No, it helps me cope. It's nice. I get to see my dad in the mirror every day, you know? Weird coping. I feel like, no, no, I mean, you using him as a sock puppet, just like two seconds ago is what I'm talking about. I am always very lonely and it's a nice way to just keep myself, you know, company. I feel like this is the part of the movie where you're watching the serial killer do unhinged

things and you're like, that is disturbing. I don't know what you're talking about. Tulf, Kilcars, do it. It's me, Bjorn. Okay, going to close the door on that one. But to answer your question, I looked it up, yes, a coconut is botanically classified as a fruit. Nailed it. Wow.

today I learned. Okay, thanks for that disturbing imagery told. Remind me never to call on you again. You're welcome. Last up, I believe we got Barbara. Hello, everyone. I'm Barbara Dunkelman, and I play Doug Boone, the artifice or bug bear.

And a fun fact for you, Gustavo, I actually like quite a few fruits. Okay. I did really good for you. I would say, though, that my favorite ones are apples, apparently just like Bjorn. For a number of reasons,

you know, we were able to grow them on trees, back in my village, so they were very plentiful, but also they're pretty much like the best bang for your buck in terms of nutrition. Great fiber, which is really good for you. And you know what they say apple a day keeps a doctor away. It's truly true. You know, Doug doesn't get sick very often, and I like to attribute that to my apples.

Okay, that's a hot take. Do you have a specific kind of apple? I don't know if you have different varieties or if there's just like generic apple that grows in your village. Oh, well, of course, Red Delicious. It's in the name. I'm constantly shocked by how many apples there are, you know? And how expensive they're getting. Yes.

We're going to bring it down. This is a fantasy. People come to here to escape the realities of the world. I eat apples a lot and for a lot of the same reasons that Doug listed. And so I appreciate that. And they're very filling. They're a good, like, filling snack if you want to just, like, supplement in the middle of a meal. But I find that my favorite apples are like, oh, this one's $3 a pound.

Yeah. Cool. Offrey back in my hometown, if you want to swing by John Risinger. Yeah, I'll do it. Swing by the land of Costco and buy your apples in bulk. You get a much better deal. There was like an apple picking festival in California we used to go to as a family, like up at the mountains. It was really fun.

Get cider, stuff like that. I swear California sounds like some kind of made-up fantasy land. It has a place called fantasy land inside of California. One time I tried to eat a horse apple. You were taking a bite out of one of those bad boys? No. Oh, how was it? Oh, it wasn't good.

I'd tell you that much. They're like little and gross, right? They're like the size of an apple, but they're all, they look like it's covered in worms, like green worms. It's all squiggly. Why'd you eat it? Because I was a kid and I thought it was a yummy, yummy fruit. And I wanted to live off the land, like a wild boy.

Sure, sure, sure. You go big and strong like a horse. Yeah. Do what makes sense? Plain is a horse girl. Oh, God. We're getting to the bottom of my origin story. Those worms infected his brain.

He's a horse girl. Where might you be at this moment? Not where I should be. And what do you see? Could you describe your location for me at all? As soon as you ask that, Doug, your vision goes stark white. Everything around you is blank, colorless void. It's all quite unnerving, perhaps even paralyzing.

And for the rest of the party, you see Doug's body go stiff and his eyes turn milky white. But that's not all. Amidst the darkness, your eyes catch shit. shifting shadows approaching and the padding of footsteps. Three beasts swiftly flank your position. They look feline, but their bodies are shaped like tense, and their fur is flaked with gold. Their heads bear six antlers,

and their tails are short like a bobcat. The darkness is suddenly pierced with light, as golden mist spews from each of the feline's mouths right into your faces. All right, everyone, go ahead and make me dexterity saving throws. Doug, you have disadvantage. Disadvantage. Disadvantage.

Whoa, well, well. 23. I rolled a 19 twice. You're welcome. Wow. I rolled a 5, but then I have advantage and I got a 22. Woo-bo. Oh.

13. What hit me? Okay. Everyone makes the save except for Natty. This golden mist, it's like a, how can you say it? Like a luminescent, glowing golden mist of light oozes out and seems to blanket all of you. Like pixie dust? Yeah, I guess kind of like that.

But for you, Natty, it kind of, it almost like sticks to you. And it bades you in a glowing light. Well, this ain't so bad. Yeah. You die. Her last words. This glowing mist of light illuminates within a 10-foot radius. Okay.

Well, we're fighting by World War I rules then, huh? Gas warfare. The chemical, right? Chris is looking at me like I'm a maniac. Well, I mean, it's not wrong. He's not wrong. From a meta perspective, you cannot turn invisible or you cannot benefit from the invisible condition because you're outlined in light.

And attack rolls against you have advantage. Oh. Oh, I thought they were like blessing us with like something nice. They're here to kill us. Possibly? Yeah, we don't know yet. I'll reread that description in case you need. eat it. But these are tent-shaped felines with golden flaked fur, and they have, you know,

six antlered head and the little bobcat tail. When you say tint shaped, are we talking like a one or two or eight-person tent? Like, you know, is it... It's all the same shape, isn't it? I mean... Or is it like a teepee? There's so many different variations in sizes of tents, you know? You have your, like, classic two posts at either end, you know, like Snoopy would sleep in. Is it a circus tent? There's circus, very good, very good. There's like the new ones that have like the crossing poles. Those are new? There's, you know, all sorts of tent.

What, let's say like a Snoopy house tent. Let's keep it easy. Yeah, okay. Okay. So this is like cat bus, but it's cat tent? Yes. With antlers and a bobcat tail? Yes.

Okay. Natty glowing in more ways than one. She usually is glowing regardless. With step. forward and go, hello, local feline fauna. My name is Nadi, and we are here as guests of your land. Make a animal handling check. And Doug, I haven't forgotten about you.

We're going to get back to you in just a second here. Oh, shoot. Did I step on Doug? No, Doug is standing over there. He's stiff. Right. 17. The animal begins looking at you curiously.

It does that thing, you know, that some animals do are kind of cocked. its head and turns it to the side. Sure. And you hear almost like a purring sound emanate from it. That's usually a good sign from them, kiddies. Yeah. I would slow blink at them. Ooh, very good.

Gus might not know what that means for cats. I mean, I know, but the audience might not know. So you need to explain for the audience. What does a slow blink mean to a cat? I'm betting that the tales from the stinky dragon audience knows cat stuff. I'm just taking a guess here. That's a good guess, yeah. We got major cat lady energy from our audience and I'm here for it.

Yeah. When your cat slow blinks at you, that means it's like it's calmed. It's happy. It likes you. All those things could be. It's just it's a good sign from a cat if they slow blink. As a dog person, I'm like, dogs just wagged their tails. It's easier.

Right. Different animals communicate different ways. See, my cats will slow blink on me and drool on me, which is the ultimate sign of either a tooth infection or love. or just being relaxed. So, yeah, I slow blink at them. Yeah. You know, these are...

What's you going to do with that, guys? Come on. These are felines. They know what that means. They also return a slow blink. Okay. Hey, group, I don't think we're in imminent danger from them. However, we do have a team member

who seems to be having a bit of a conibption. Doug looks fine to me. Their eyes are just... What? Shabbla, how about it? Blah, blah, blah. Might someone. try to rouse our artificer.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Before you rouse, I want to give Doug a little bit of information here. How much HP has he lost? This gold mist gives us a long rest, right? Doug, you see, you know, in your, what would you say? In your communication, in your, in your communication with the veiled eye, in your, I know there's a better word for when you're talking to a deity in your. Communion?

The communion. Yeah. Yeah. She's communing with the God. Yeah, and your communion with the veiled eye, you can see what appears to be a white field covered in snow, stretching as far as you can see. Hey, guys, Doug's got a gold mist on his garage.

All right, take a inspiration die. I don't know, that's going to make it. Yeah, wow. I don't get this joke. I don't get this joke. Like I paid myself? That's probably not going to stay in the episode, but it made me laugh. I wouldn't look like mist.

You ever peed yourself? It's just a dark circle. Yeah, so you see what appears to be an expansive field as far as you can see that's like covered in white snow. Okay. Is this familiar to me? No, I'll just say no. No need for it. Okay.

Could I try walking around? Yeah. You begin walking and it's just, it seems like it's endless. Nothing is different than anything else. It's as far as you can see. It almost seems like you're not even walking. Like there's no progress being made in any direction. Like a one of those liminal spaces or something like that?

Yeah. Can Doug hear Pink Floyd? Hello. Is there anybody in there? Did Doug accidentally eat some vegetable from the ground that he did not recommend? Did you eat some sodgeberries? Sauchberries. If he eat too many.

Could I try calling out? Yeah. Oh, could anybody hear me? This is Doug Boone. I don't know where I am. Do we, what's happening on our side? I love the Gabon. Doug, you received no reply, and your voice doesn't even echo.

It's like it's being absorbed. You know, like when you're like in a soundproof room and you, you know, you're doing something, you're recording something and it's just like the walls are dead. There's no no reverb, almost like a vacuum. I hate that. Makes me feel so claustrophobic. Chris, to your question, Doug's just standing there. His eyes are, you know, milky white.

and he just seems like he's totally seized up and tensed up. Could go to Doug and like kind of Doug shake him and like, are you okay? Shakey, shaky. Yeah, when you shake Doug, he instantly snaps to and rejoins you. Doug, from your perspective, you know, you're in this white void and all of a sudden it's almost like a jump scare. You see a ghastly glimpse of your brother, Phil, reaching out,

to you. His chest pierced with a familiar axe and then his apparition quickly fades as Gunther shakes you back to this reality. Oh. You saw your god? No, uh, I saw, I saw my brother. Oh, that's nice. And it was, it was, it was just, it was the moment he died. Oh, that was not nice, then?

That's not nice, no. But I, I, I don't know, like, I, I, I, I, like, wasn't, there was no one around, and I felt like I was kind of trapped. I don't know what it was. was. Well, you're back now here. Natty takes the headphones we put on Doug that was playing climbing up that hill off of him now. Wait, do we know that the veiled eye was communicating with one of us or has this been completely in the mind of one of our... I don't think we saw any of that, but we did like, we suggested that Doug do a prayer and so

this happened like mid-prayer. Okay. So externally, Doug went from praying to have an... bit of an issue. So maybe this has something to do with you praying to the veiled eye? Yes. Maybe, but also, strangely enough, like, the veiled eye said that they're not where they're supposed to be, but they're where we should be.

But I also don't know where he was. Who's on first? That's a great question. That is, uh, perplexing for certain. All four of you make me a perception check with advantage. Got it. So look at the kitties. 15.

That was a 10. 23. 16. All of you rolled decent enough. So all of you hear like a loud crack in the distance from what appears to be that fortress that you all saw in the veiled veil. That was like hanging like on a rope or something right? That was a separate building. Glacial fortress.

Yeah, I'll re-describe that for you here in a second. But as you hear that crap, all of these feline creatures that were, were out around you, take off running like a bolt into the distance. Oh, bye-bye. We weren't done with you. I'm going to put a cucumber. That's how I communicate it with my cats. Your cat's right behind you right now.

It works. Your cat didn't react at all when you made that noise, by the way. It's learned to ignore. So just to recap the scene here, since Chris asked about it, in the valley in the veiled veil, it's a valley that's blanketed with darkness except for moonlight. In it, you see a glacial fortress, which was the source of the sound. Besides that, or in addition to that, you see a spherical building that sways between two dead trees. I think that's what you were talking about, Chris.

And then on top of that as well, not literally, in addition to that, you also see a labyrinth gated by a familiar-looking golden mist. Labrines. Hey, you said there was a crack? Yeah, like a loud cracking sound. Like ice cracking? Or like a like a like you know some sort of archaeologist on the hunt. It's hard to say because of the reverb from the veil

and the distance, but it sounded like it was very, like it was something very big, not like a small, not like a whip crack, but like a more thunderous sounding crack. So it's a glacial palace or fortress. so ice, maybe it was like the cracking of movement of, yeah, I don't know. Could we move to investigate?

Yeah, at this point it's up to you guys. You have these three different areas that are here in the veiled veil that are available for investigation. Should we take maybe a short rest for our friend Doug to recover from his little issue? Or should we proceed with haste because the sound just happened? Probably we should go with haste. Okay. I still have half my HP. Okay.

Yeah. Then we're good. I just wanted to check on my buddy, Doug. You know? Oh, thanks, Natty. It's nice to have a mother figure around. Yeah. And a father figure in...

Uh... Nope. You tried. You tried. Oh, okay. Yes. I mean, Bjorn's here, too. You can claim the Bjorn skin.

The father figure that he's... That totally is wearing. Okay. Then yeah. I guess Natty was probably the... the group would start walking towards the fortress? Sounds good. A species be sneaky like and maybe not you should stay in the back because you're glowing.

Yeah. Sure. That way if they shoot something at me, it'll hit you guys first as it travels through our ghost. Exactly. Yeah, let's go to where we heard the crack. Fought a new curse word. Mother figure. Go figure.

And I know I mentioned it at the top, but just as a quick reminder, because I think I said it very quickly in passing. You all had also disguised yourselves. That's right. To look like Undarians. Undarians. Yeah. Except I think Nati, you may not have disguised yourself.

I think you went into the ring for that portion. Yeah. I can turn into an Indyrian. You've got the skills for that. Yeah. But do we know if this is Undarion controlled, though? I mean, well, okay, sorry, we have a lot of investigating to do. So remind me, you said you were going to investigate the fortress?

Is that correct? Where the crack came from? Yeah. like it came from. Yeah. Yeah, you get closer and, you know, you walk in that direction, and you see what appears to be a castle-sized glacier dripping with water. And there's two large, solid ice doors, a pair of armored dredch guards on either side of it.

Armored dredge. Those are endarians. Yeah, you encountered these before. Oh, wait, dretches are endarians? Yeah. Oh, they are. I'm curious why, like, the veiled veil, which is, you know, the place of the veiled eyes. would be under Endaryan control.

Well, there's a war going on. Yeah. And also, I don't like it. The places the gods are not where they should be deep. Okay. Well, since we're all in garb of like an Indyrian, we could approach us and try to talk to these guys. Yeah, if our disguises are convincing enough.

Well, maybe, I mean, I don't want a butt in front, but I am a charming individual, and I myself can't actually change my. visage to be like convincing and Darien and I have a baby that well the baby is on your shoulders or on your head right oh right we can put him back on was he on my shoulders and head the whole time I was in my trance yeah we could put him oh he had no idea what's going on yeah yeah he's asleep yeah I think that's a good idea I think you maybe you should talk to them we'll stand here and you know be on guard yeah so now listen real quick I again

I know I'm not in charge, but I have picked up on the pattern of our group of individuals. Silence is an option when asked a question that would require some sort of lie and deceptive answer. Mate, mate. Is there something on my face? Maybe we don't opt for that so we don't give away our game right away. Let's like maybe wait until we get inside the fortress till we let them know they should point their swords at us. Yeah. You guys hear that?

Tell that to Munther. I don't want to stifle you all participating, so don't take it that way. Please, I welcome your addition to our ruse. I just mean, maybe if you're, you don't have the best poker face, don't, don't, a fib. That's a valuable life lesson in general. I feel like this is targeted at all three of us somehow. Nanny wants to is trying to say this in the most caring way possible, because I don't, Actually, John actually doesn't want to actually tell you guys, of course.

Don't talk at all, but Natty would pick up on this pattern of what we do. All right. So. All right. Let's talk. Hello. Bellas. Natty.

Just for, just for, to build the scene, let's say. Why don't you describe how you make yourself look? I would look. Let me, before you answer that, like. Let me reread you a description of what the dretches look like in case that influences your, your decision at all. Sure. It probably won't. Yeah.

So the dredge's. The duches are greenish, gorilla-like undarians that are covered in fested, feted, pustules, and boils. They have gnarly curled claws and fangs, and they're armored with plates. Okay. And actually, now did you bring it up, Gus, when we were looking out at that army that Infernes was with, did we see those kind of fellows, or were there other kinds of Andarians? I'm just curious, because I think the dredges of the last time I've heard you describe the Andarians. Yeah, there were multiple types of creatures, among which were dronels.

dretches as well. Okay. And real fast, yeah, Micah brings up a point. I just want to clarify real fast. There have been a few others we've described, like the Grilps, de mongrels. So there have been a few. But which were in the column that were marching, as well as other types of undarians that you have not seen before. The dretches were the ones that were attacking Neo and Tio.

Yes. She you recall. They stole their bits. Yeah. Yeah. And wasn't one of the prisoners of dredch in the... Yeah. Oh, what was his name?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stitches. Wait, prisoner. In the prison? Yeah, when we were at the... In the Skybro Falls? Oh, that prisoner. The place we broke you out, Kanto.

There was another prison. There was? In his campaign? In the first cave we explored. Oh, way back under... And we put a creature in it, like a wolf or something. Oh, I don't know if that was... Yeah, I...

Oh, wasn't a... I don't think it was strictly a prison. It was a demongrel that you put in. there. But yeah, anyway, yeah. We're like down the rabbit hole there. I know. I was like, what does Naddy look like? Nattie would want to look like Demona from gargoyles. So like, you know Gus. Huh? So you know Gus. You know Gus. You know Gus. Des Demona? Demona. What's her name? It's the girl. Yeah, the red hair. Is it Demona? Demona. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I looked her up. I thought I was getting gaslit in the chat. And, but maybe

Harrier, like the dretches. Demona. Yeah, the Italian gargoyle from Disney's gargoyles. Okay, I never saw gargoyles, but I just did a quick Google search here. I got you. I see. Okay. Gargoyle, tail, wings, red hair, hair, harrier.

Yeah, and she would be hairier. But, like, yeah, a little bit of, like, a... Tattered clothing. Yeah. Yeah, you approach the... And glowing. Of course. Can't forget that.

Very important detail. And glowing. You approach. the gate and as you do the dretches step forward and block almost in unison they both say halt I have an idea yeah told please share your idea with class I like how you say if you're not good at bluffing don't say anything and the first bit of communication 12 what do you want to say is this something 12 needs to share in-game or is this something meta speak you want to share I mean, I kind of want to let it play, but I also don't want to take command.

Okay, okay, hey, you know what? I'm not here to stifle anybody. That's not my job. So they say halt and Toll bravely steps forward and... Yep. It's cool. Our friend Stitchy sent us here. You know, maybe you know him a smiley.

Old pal of ours, maybe you know him. He's a dredch. We're all dretches. We're all dretches. We're all cool with dretches. Yeah, that's why I says, stop lying. That's why you don't look like a dredch. You look like someone's skin inside out on a robot.

No, we're all like we're all cool. We're all cool with the dredgeys. Yeah, yeah. You are in disguise too. Yeah. Couldn't even wait. Couldn't just out the gate. One of them steps forward and kind of puts a finger in your chest hole and taps at your chest and just says,

Axis denied. Oh, I pull his finger and I go, come on, man. We're all pals here. We're all Lundarians. 12. You specifically make me a perception check. Okay. All right.

14. Nice. You know, you look down at where he was tapping you in the chest, and then you look at the dredch, and then you look at the other dredge, and you realize that the two of them are wearing breastplates that have the same sigil on the front. Do I recognize the sigil?

Make me a religion check. Okay. That's a one. I'm going to use my inspiration dice. Oh, I just had it. It wasn't even warm in my pocket yet. It wasn't even warm in your pocket? Yeah, just put it in there.

Oh, because it was cool. Okay, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, got you. That's a seven. Both of those breastplates on the dretches are frosty fangs on blue breastplate, but you don't recognize them. They do not ring a bell to you. And then the dredch points at his own breastplate and says, Access granted.

Oh. So it's like a symbol they have? Hmm. Seems like it. It's a symbol on both of their breastplates. He said frosty fangs? Yeah, on blue breastplate. On blue.

Okay. Natty, since you're also there and you're in the front, I want you to make me a perception check as well. I warmed them up for you. Thank you. Thank you so much. 16. He's so pleased with himself.

Just as, you know, this is going on and Tolliv is talking to these dretches, you know, you kind of take in this, who would you call it? This glacier, this fortress that's in front of you. And like I mentioned earlier, you notice that all of the walls appear to be dripping. And, you know, water runs down the front of the, well, actually, runs out all sides, but you're where you're looking at. You can see water's running down the front of the glacier.

And it's pooling up and causing there to be almost like rivers and canals of water that flow out from. and into the glacier, depending on the elevation. You guys having some sort of heat and problem? It seems like your domicile is disintegrating. Oh, that's an excellent point. What would they say to that? I think to that they both would laugh and nod,

and then give each other a high five. It's like if that's something like they want to be happening kind of thing? I'm thinking more like just happy to see something destroyed or like indifference about it all. Some people just like to watch the world melt. There it is. Very good. Okay.

Here's what Natty's going to try to do. Natty's going to turn around as though she's reaching for something in her bag, you know? And by doing that, she would cover her chest. And then while she turns around, she would change her image to have that breastplate on her that they have and kind of make a little motion like she was pulling some other bag and putting it on her chest. Sure. And then go, sorry, I forgot to be wearing my pass to get in. You guys are doing such a good job.

Keen eyes, you too. Right? All right. So access granted. Correctamundo? Correctamundo. Just for fun. Make me a persuasion check, Natty.

Just for fun. Natty makes persuasion checks for fun. 16 plus four. Dirty 20. All right. So dirty. Okay, I think when they see that, they would kind of ease up. And they would, you know, what one would say,

access granted. And then the reason I had you make a persuasion check was see if I was to be difficult about your party members not having the same thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it. I get it. You know, when you pull up to the club and you're the only one on the list and you're trying to vouch for your friends.

Yeah, John knows that feeling. Yeah, yeah. 100%. Been to so many clubs. Yeah, man. And to the rest of you, to the other three of you, They'll wave you in and then one of them would say, put on the breastplate of the frostbiter right away.

Oh, Frostbiter. That's the new one. Yeah. Where, where, hey, remind me, where are those once we get inside? Have you moved them? They would just kind of point in and say, uh, armory. That makes sense. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

All right. I probably could have figured that one now, Daddy. Thank you, thank you, Doug. You write that one down. A-R-M-O-R-R-Y. Does Tov recognize this place? Because it being a glacial sort of environment, and he's been to a lot of those places and things?

This particular place does not seem familiar to you. But yeah, this is like a place Tov may have haunted at some point in the past. No, not that. May have visited at some point in the past. Truckee. Got it. Did the doors open? Yeah, the doors open up.

They swing wide open. and you all can walk into this fortress. And he starts humming, let it go, and just kind of walks in. You guys see Smiley, tell him we said, hey. You walk into the fortress, and you see a few different points of interest inside. Within the fortress are contained what appear to be an enormous dragon statue furnace. In addition to that, you see floating ice rafts and igloos on some of those canals, like I mentioned earlier, that are going through the fortress here.

Like floating in the air? No, in the canals, like in those water canals, like from the water that's dripping down. That makes more sense. You know, air canals. Yeah, making canals, and they're floating in that. And in addition to that, you see some kind of giant crane mechanism that appears to be controlled by some spinning wheels. And inside this fortress, the air is very warm and humid from, like, it's not only the furnace, but from, smaller fires throughout.

Does the giant crane mechanism or whatever's creating that heat, does that seem like a foreign object that isn't typically here? Like, does it seem out of place in the kind of aesthetic of this land? I would say all of this seems like it should be. Aside from the glacier, all of this seems like this shouldn't be here. Okay. Yeah, because I imagine, like, I don't imagine the Andarians live in an ice clump. and this is something maybe they've like taken over.

They're doing it because they are more natural. They need the heat. They're inclined and so they need, they're heating it so they can stay here. What's that term called? Where you're... Acclimating? No. They did it in Superman.

John, what do they do? Paraforming? Yeah. I just want to, real fast, before we get too far from it, Barbara Tickin Inspiration Die. That was some good sleuthing that you did there. Oh, yay. Well, by the help of the whole team. And so there's dretches all milling around.

Like there's more. You know, seems like they're coming to and fro and moving around doing various tasks. I put my hand out to stop the closest one and be like, hey, chum, where's the armory? Chum. Without saying anything, the dredge turns around and points at one of the igloos that's floating down the canal. Perfect. How did you know Chum's name? Mr. Chum.

Natty's skilled in cold reads. Then yeah, can we walk towards the Army? Because I want to get these guys their passes to the rides. Sure. You walk over to it, and it's, you know, it's floating down the canal. So you have to move kind of quickly to catch up to it. Just like Frogger? Yeah.

What the way? Oh, I can do. Good here. Yeah, there you go. Let it in, coach. The way I think of it, then, I, again, for anyone who is new to the show, which I can't imagine you'd be new jumping in at this episode. If you are, leave a comment.

I'm so curious. Micah writes the modules, and there's so much detail in them. And I'm just a conduit for the story that Micah is creating and these worlds that he imagines. You're the prophet. But in my mind's eye, thinking about the layout and the way that these igloos and these rafts are floating through the fortress,

it's like a lazy river, like at a water park. Okay. We're just like very slowly moving through, and there's no, drunk people in tubes here. Instead, it's just ice rafts and, uh, it's my favorite part. And, uh, igloos that are slowly floating around through the, through the area. Okay. Okay. Looks like San Antonio on a cold day. You are pretty, it's pretty easy to catch up to the igloo that the dredge pointed at. And I guess you want to like try to hop over, hop in.

What's your, what's your play here? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I imagine that would be the only way we would get inside, right? Yeah. The igloo is domed and enclosed. And if you had to estimate, it's probably 10 feet by 10 feet, and there's like an ore sticking out of it that appears to be guiding it and maybe giving it a little propulsion. Okay, that's fun. I won't make you make checks or anything. But yeah, you hop over into or onto this platform with the igloo and step inside.

And inside you see a wooden rack holding breastplates of the frostbiter and a couple of other various items. I'm asking this to Gus, but also the rest of the group. We have Frostbiter? Is that a term we've heard previously or no? I don't think so. It doesn't ring a bell to me, no. Okay.

Okay. Could I equip my breastplate and then also, what are the other items, various items? I'll tell you what. I'm going to put this on you, Chris. Roll me a D4. With pleasure. Three. With pleasure, kind of like with advantage or disadvantage?

Yeah. It just means you're happy to roll. It's with both so that it ends up just canceling each other out. Okay, okay. It appears to be a shirt made of ice is one of the items there. A shirt made of ice. Would you call it an ice tea? Group inspiration die for John.

Take an inspiration die. That's good. That's really good. Yes. Just to be clear, I didn't want to make that joke because I don't like puns, but I couldn't. Listen, John, I get it. It's a compulsion. When a good one hits, you have to.

It's like vomit. You just can't hold it back. You just got to get it out. You should let it come out, not hold it in. Nice, too. Okay, okay, can I try and put one on? Is it actually cold? Yeah, you grab it and put it on.

It's very stiff. It's almost like a piece of cloth that got wet and then frozen. Do you think this one goes in the dryer or do you have to hang to dry? But yeah, you might as should put it on. I think it goes in the fridge. It's very crinkly and crack. I do not care for this coldness. It's good look on you, though.

You look very cool. Yeah. I've also donned my, what is it called? Eelskin hat. Oh, thank God. Who could forget? Wait, is that the bichorn hat? Yeah.

There's no one else in the armory, right? No. Okay. It's just like a coat rack kind of place. Yeah, there are more items if you want to keep looking, Gunther. Yeah, is there a weapon or something? Let's keep finding out. This time I want you to roll me a D10.

Oh, ho. With pleasure. That was implied by his weird laugh. Yeah, yeah. E. T's a five. And roll me a D4. That is a four. You see on the racks, you also notice that there's an ice helm.

Oh. Like a helmet made of ice. It seems like it goes well with your shirts. Oh, I guess I have to take my hat off that I just put on. The helmet and the shirt and the armored, do I look proper? properly disguised. I mean, you were already wearing a disguise before. You just, like, changed your disguise at this point.

No, I was in, I was in, uh, um, Tull's back. Oh, right. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. It, uh, it definitely looks like you're, you're wearing a weird icy disguise at this point. All right. I feel good, but cold.

Aren't you, like, used to a warm climate's gun through? Like, isn't this incredibly uncomfortable for you? It is very uncomfortable. this cold things that are get wet. I do not like. Well, good thing you put them on your body for the ultimate torture. There's one more item on the rack there, Gunther. Oh, that shall me what?

Ice underwear. Shall I roll me a D-100. With displeasure. 49. Oh, and then roll me a D-4. One. You see a, a war pick.

War pick. Like a weapon, like a pickax? Yeah, but instead of like for mining or geological purposes, this one's intended to create outchies. Like how big? Like big? The size of a sword or an axe.

Too big for me. It's got a pointed spike on one side and a hammerhead on the other. And it seems like steam is wafting off of it. Oh, like it's hot? Yeah, it's a little warm to the touch. I wouldn't say it's hot, but it's definitely a little warm to the touch.

Can't pick it up and check it. out and see if it has any, why it might be so hot? Yeah, uh, make, um, what do we call it? Just call it an arcana check. Call the police and a fireman, too hot. 11. Gosh darn.

I was like, can't save that. It seems like it's a, it's maybe got some kind of magical imbument that makes it warm and that causes it to steam. I guess I'll take that. Can I take it out and put an inventory? Yeah.

Is any... Call it... Maybe I put it in my back so I stay warm. That's smart. You can call it the Wafting Warpick. Whoa. Wow. Can't wait to never hear about that again.

While this is happening, could Doug just grab a breastplate and put it on? Absolutely. Same with Toll's. Absolutely. But there, you're going to get a breastplate as well? Cover up your ice shirt? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, Natty, I don't know if you want to keep the illusion going up to breastplate or if you want to grab an actual real one.

Yeah, I grab a real one. And I also put one on Captain Grumbles. Oh, my God. Is Gigi need one? Probably. I think Gigi is going to continue to be Doug's face, or unless Doug wants to try to rough this? No, it's fine.

He could stay. It's up to you. I'm just trying to keep us disguised, but if you feel like we've made it in. I'm getting increasingly paranoid, though, because he hasn't gone boom boom yet, and I fear that he's holding up for a real big one. He usually saves it either for me or for battle.

He likes to. Those two scenarios. Perfect. All right. Yeah. So you've found your breastplates, Gunther. There's no other items here. So you feel like you've found everything that was on the racks.

Would the party be okay? Hey, would you all be okay if we go check out that dragon statue? I feel like that wasn't here when they built this place. I'm down. That sounds cool. Yeah. And I could use a little bit of warmth, so that'd be nice. I'd like to admire the local art scene, yes.

Okay. You all emerge from this igloo To find yourself in a slightly different Location within the fortress You've drifted a little bit down Yeah, you drifted a little bit down the canal You moved a little bit But you know, you still have your bearings

Still have the lay of the land And you all said you wanted to head Over in the direction of the statue Is that correct? Yes Maybe we could hit the concession stands Before we're going on our next ride Yeah, you hopped off of the igloo

And make your way over to the dragon statue furnace and you know as you get closer you know you get a better idea you get a better look at it and you see that it's a statue that's made of some kind of thick gray metal and flames and smoke pour out of exhaust grates all over it do i recognize this metal make a what would that be armor some kind of metal not that it's armor i'm just trying to think of metal thing i don't want to put ideas in your head he wears it perception instead of that make me an investigate check. The stat that I have four points less than, yes, yes, yes, yes.

13. You know, you're familiar with exotic metals, Toll. So you take a look at it, and you identify the metal as being tungsten. It, you know, it's, and it makes sense to you because, you know, it's, that makes it able to withstand high temperatures. And, you know, when you get close to it and you're, you're investigating it and, you know, looking at this metal, it almost seems like, or it sounds like, or it sounds like, statue's breathing with the intake of air and the exhaust of all the hot air and smoke.

So it's like an engine or something maybe is inside of it? Maybe. Or maybe it's something to like, like a bellow maybe to like suck in fresh air and then exhaust the smoke. Do you see what's fueling it? No, no. It doesn't, you're not able to see what's fueling. It doesn't seem like aside from the grates for the exhaust, it doesn't seem like there's any other openings on the statue.

You said it's a dragon, right? Yeah. This is maybe a silly question, but do any like Undarians resemble dragons or like, is there any history there with Undarians like worshipping dragons or having that be some type of, I don't know, connection? I thought you were going to ask if it was stinky. I was going to ask that. Dang it, Gus. Why don't you make a religion check to try to figure that out?

Religion. Yeah. 30-20. Oh, that's pretty good. Doug normally does pretty good at religion checks. Do you have like proficiency in that or is that, do you have like extra? It's intelligent base, and I have some good intelligence, but I am proficient in religion. You're not 100% certain, but in the past you've heard rumors that the only God that looks like a dragon is the fire eater.

Oh. Wait a second. We've seen the fire ear. That's my people. That's my church. You tell me. Yes, that's my people. That's my church.

I thought it was that sounded like a question. I was pretty sure it is. Okay. The Kindlekin? Yeah. Is that what it was called? I don't remember. Yeah, yeah, it was.

There's no one like manning this at all. No, it just seems like it's operating autonomously on its own. Okay, well, I think there's a good chance that this was brought in by the Indyarian army. If they're not the original locales, you know, locals of this locale, then they probably are like they're messing with stuff. Yeah, I don't know. It seems like they brought their own stuff in here to keep it warm for them. Maybe they're looking for something here.

Oh. Some sort of like mining operation. I think we should take note of all over the different things that we could possibly, like, destroy to make it, you know, return back to normal. Global warming is a big issue for me. John has a meta question. Proceed. We headed this direction because we were trying to get away from the Keepe and the Endaryan Army.

Correct. Was there any other reason why we were going this direction to remind me of? Doug's looking for the veiled eye. Okay. And they should be somewhere out over here. Okay. In this direction. Thank you.

I just need my, I just need to be straightened out. Well, I, I don't know. Is there anything else that you think we should figure out about this furnace? Or should we continue to explore this place? I don't really see anything else that we could really glean from it. But, you know, it's interesting that Fireator is, you know, someone that does resemble a dragon and he's here. And, you know, and Darians are here. I don't know.

There's got to be some connection. Didn't the fire eaters steal like the tear of the fire eaters from the Kindlekin? Like I can't figure out the relationship that they have with him, you know? Fire, okay. Well, I think Doug saying that actually tracks, considering we found something of the veiled eye inside of the bloodbathers temple place. Yeah. And so maybe this was the Kindlekin fire eater place and it's been frozen.

I don't know. Maybe. Here's what happened. All right. Have you guys ever seen the movie The Holiday where they do a little house swap? Well, maybe the gods are all trying out each other's places, get away for a little bit, escape, you know, their daily life. It's like wife swap, but it's God swap. Yeah, it feels like the gods are playing like musical chairs right now and we're all very confused.

There was a quick reminder from Micah in chat. Thank you. reader is she her. Thank you. I need like a diagram of our Pantheon thus far. Like they unlock as we find them.

Okay, well then the other we could head over to that giant crane if you guys think that's worth investigating. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Yes. And we can move around freely

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Sure. Hi. You all head in the direction of, of the spinning wheels crane mechanism. And as you get closer, you can see it's, it appears like there's two stone wheels, one vertical and one horizontal, and a stone pedestal with a crimson button.

And on the far end, there's a crane arm mechanism with a claw. And there are two suspended wooden platforms that are hanging high that it seems like the crane is able to reach. Anybody operating it? No. No hamsters? No hamsters. And so the crane, what does it seem like?

it was built here to do. So it's got the claw. Was it just so that it could reach those suspended platforms, or is that being held up by the crane? It seems like the crane is designed to take things and put things on those platforms, almost like storage of some kind. Can we see what's on this platform?

Yeah. No, they're too high. You can only see the bottoms of them. I probably shouldn't blow this for just this stupid thing, but Natty uses ghostly gaze and sees through the floor to see what's... on those platforms. Cool.

I love that. And that's your new ability that we talked about last episode, right? It's like X-ray vision kind of thing. Yeah, do I get something special for using all of my new abilities first? You get like a punch card going.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do I get a free feet? Yeah, it's called spell slots. As an action, you came the ability to see through solid objects with dark vision to a range of 30 feet for one minute. I think these might be beyond 30 feet,

but I'm going to play along. I don't want to like quash your you're using the new ability. You know, you use ghostly gaze to look through the bottoms of these platforms and you see various crates on top of the platform. Can you then use ghostly gaze to see beyond those through those crates as well?

Okay. Nice, nice, nice, nice. In various crates, you see different kinds of valuables. Let's say like coins, gems, jewelry, art pieces. And additionally, on the other side, But on the other platform, you see various supplies, whether it's like weapons or provisions, like lamps and things that an army might use. I'm having a hard time understanding what is the purpose of these hanging platforms.

Are they like attached to a building or are they... They're just hanging from like the top of the glacier. If you had to guess, most likely this is how they supply things like the barracks that are in the canal. They can either take items from here and put them in the barracks or take items. take items from the barracks, armory, and then put them up there. Weird. So it's like a way to store things out of the way and then bring them down for use or then take those things back up and put them away.

Because things are moving. It's how they built a pyramid. I don't think it was. And then like put them in the river or the floating things and stuff and send them away. Exactly. And it keeps their food safe if bears come around. Things can come in and then be loaded up there for storage. or things can be taken down and then put down for use.

So think of like, you know, this is an army, this is a conflict, things like pillaging and loot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. That might be stored or provisions, food, breastplates, supplies that an army might need. Okay. Well, Tane, I feel like we've been investigating for a bit and I'm not closer to any sort of answers

of what this place's deal is. Should we try and find someone to talk about? Talk to. Yes, you could do that. Or does anybody else have a suggestion of next steps inside of this glacier? The only other place I can think is the one that's on the outside hanging from the two trees. But we never did get to the bottom of what that crack was coming from here. I think the crack was the ice cracking, splitting the glacier down the middle because of the dragon.

Do we see any big cracks in this ice fortress area? Yeah, you definitely see fissures and cracks forming within. the glacier, presumably from the heat, especially from that dragon statue. It's causing it to melt. You know what? You may not be good in here as in it could collapse. Yeah, this is like a ticking time bomb. As you all are up here looking at the wheels of the mechanism for the crane,

you hear a shout in the distance, and a voice calls out, Give me an update on the bandad! And you see Infernes walking by, followed by a horde of Ungarians. who seem to be catering to her and trying to take care of her. I guess it's time to introduce ourselves. I kind of want to. I didn't want to make a choice for the group,

but my instinct was like, I think Natty would go up and talk to Infernes. Listening to the intrusive thoughts. Somehow feel like Infernes would have a better idea of like who is actually an Undarian. Is there a way we can stealthily... assassinate them?

Oh, I don't know. Spy on them. Yeah, like, maybe stay where we are, but stay hidden so we could listen to the conversation happening. Yeah, I guess that's what I was going to ask. Like, what do you mean by spy? Like, stay here and kind of like tune in and... Where are they exactly? Like, off in the distance, I'd say probably, let's say, 60, 70 feet away.

Let's call it 80. 80 feet away. Is there anything we could do, like, based in the space? I don't know what... Are they just standing there? No, it's just like moving by quickly, walking through. with this port of attendance. The other dudes that we've seen milling about,

do they have busy jobs that we could pretend to be doing as well so that we don't stand out? It seems like no one's doing a job per se. People are just walking to and from the igloos. I have a way that we could give it up on that crane for a better vantage point. I don't know if we want to do that.

But to answer your more immediate question, Barbara, you hear the Undarians kind of replying to Infernes about the status of the vanguard. Why don't you make me a... I'm trying to debate here. Either like an investigation perception or maybe a stealth. Let's call it a stealth check

to see how much you're able to garner from this. Okay. Dirty 20. Oh, nice. Dirty 20. Dirty 20. My pleasure. You hear various voices answering Infernes

reporting in. Fort Mito was easily overtaken. However, there are no signs of the veiled eye. So they were looking for the veiled eye. So it seems like that Indarans are just taking over all these different places. Also, reports are coming in of four more battalion soldiers missing from the front. There's a heck of a lot more missing than that. Their data's wrong.

They're missing all the humans, too. It's a field of war, you know? The information, it's key. And it's hard to get, hard to come by. Okay, so to like keep track. Right now, they're looking for the veiled eye, and they're also looking for the sea drinker. Or maybe was the sea drinker just being chased by, uh...

Oh, my God. Who's my big bad? They're looking for the pathfinder. The pathfinder. They're looking for the pathfinder. Pathfinder, yes. Pathfinder serves under the veiled eye. Yeah, but then also, stinky butt McNutt,

whatever his name was, the guy that I hate. You should never remember the important people in your life. No, no, it's just not as cool as quadrant. Ironclad? Ironclad, I was looking it up. Ironclad was looking for the sea drinker. So I forgot Bjorn the other day too. Everybody's looking for these gods.

So like, what's, why are they looking for all these people? Why are the gods playing hide and go seek with us? What's the deal? Maybe they know danger's coming and so they're protecting themselves. As a quick flashback, you all discovered that the sea drinker had been interrogated. Let's call it interrogated slash tortured. and she had let it slip that the veiled eye might know where the pathfinder is. Yes.

That's right. So the ultimate goal is to find the pathfinder. Right. And that the fire eater was being held captive and that was being used as leverage over the seed drinker. Yes. Is their girlfriends? Right. Could the fire eater be in sight of the dragon?

Oh. That could be what is making it so hot. Oh. Dude, very cool. Oh man, we should blow it so hot. Oh, sorry, we should blow that dragon. Yeah, I wonder if we could, like, destroy the statue and free the fire eater. Yeah, I mean, that would definitely clean things up for this area because it's made of ice and

they're probably miserable, but then they're also melting everything, which is making this place miserable. I guess should we just continue to hide as they, because they're walking and having a conversation, correct, or are they stopped? No, they kept walking, yeah, and they're at this point, like, you can't make. anything else out because they're walking further away into the distance. Okay. How far away are we from the dragon statue? It's not that far. I mean, let's say 80 feet in the other direction.

You mentioned that there was like vents and things and it was like smoke was coming out. Right. Can I head back over there and take a look on the inside and see if I can like spot something? Yeah. Maybe you could try to like talking to him or talk to her? Yeah, yeah, something like that. Are all of you going or just told? Yeah, we'll go.

I would like to go, yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. You know, classic nanny. Classic nanny. Actually, before I do anything, I want to go up to it and knock. As such, like so, with the following.

Knock, knock, knock, knock. Who is there? You hear a reverberating response. Clung, clung. Oh, my God, oh my God. Yeah, there's definitely somebody in there then. Hello, fire eater. Oh, oh.

I'll do this. Do- dun, do-dun, do-dun. And as you're doing that, a strange-looking, let's say, Udard, a strange-looking being comes walking by and sees you. It looks like this creature's like, it's got a giant owl body with frosty feathers, and it's got, however, it's got a polar bear head. Dang, y'all come in all kinds of shapes and colors.

And it sees you knocking on the statue and asks, What are you doing? Well, you see, my friend here. What do you see? My friend here, we have been brought into C2 repairs to the furnace as it was reported that it had taken some sort of damage somewhere. And so he was checking it for any sort of faults. Repairs? No, no, no.

There are no faults. Well, am I asked why you would be the expert on this? This statue is under my domain. I have overseen the creation and implementation of this. For my records, what's your night? You call me the frostbiter. Oh, the armor. As in like this frostbiter, Nanny points to her chest.

Mm-hmm. That's me. Big fan. Is it cold slowing down your ability to talk at a normal pace? I hate the cold Oh, okay Iron it Oh, if he's biting the frost

That means he's attacking it That's why I oversaw The creation of this So you're telling me that someone else Put in a requisition for us And it was for a joke And we came all the way over here For not actually having to repair something

Oh, so frustrating I guess. Well, since we're here and we're such and we're such fans and officinados this kind of stuff, this is kind of impressive

that this is running inside of such a icy area. What sort of fuel source did you find was best for this location? The eternal kind. Yeah, that tracks. Ah, fire eater? Hmm.

Lucky for you, we're in the neighborhood offering free inspections, and we're willing to do a free inspection. That's homeowner talk right there. People have been at your door. Is there like a weird connection between like the frostbite or the fire eater and the sea drinker? They're all like consumption-based temperature things. You can make a religion check if you want. Where's the lukewarm sipper? I'll make a religion trick.

I said, where's the lukewarm sipper? Let's get out of here. I rolled a net 20 for 27 with my modifier. You're on fire with these checks lately, Barbara. I've got some good rolls today. You've heard rumor in the past of some kind of, how can I put it? You've heard rumor of some kind of jealousy between the three of them in the past, the fire eater, the sea drinker, and the frostbiter.

So have we determined the frostbiter is the one inside the dragon? Is that what's... No, you're talking to the frostbiter. Oh, okay. But we suspect the fire eater is inside the thing causing heat. Yeah, probably. Though if the frostbiter likes things hot, the fire eater might be something that likes things cold.

That's what I'm thinking. Like, it could be a weird reverse, but I don't know. Well, just to clarify what Chris said there, the frostbiter said that he does not like the cold. Yeah. So frostbiter likes hot. So that means fire eater might like cold. Yeah, like if the frost bites and the fire eats. When the shark bites.

Which one swat? It might be reverse of what you think. And the sea drinks. I don't think so necessarily. I don't think it's like it has to go that way as well. But there's a lot of eat, eat, or bite, or drinker. Like, that's what we got. Yeah.

Yum, yum, yum. And where does the lukewarm sipper fill into all this? Stop. I think you broke the party, Gus. Earth muncher. Where's one of those? Anyway, move along. Yeah, yeah, we'll move along.

Thank you so much. Last question. Where are, since we've come so far, where are the barracks that we might be able to find some place for rest for the evening? With a groan, the frostbiter turns and points one of his feathery arms at one of the igloos that's floating by on the canal. Okay. Just missed it.

It would wait for it to come back around, yes. So, yeah, can I pull my party to the side so we're not talking in front of the frostbiter? Sure. I assume you move away a little distance, and he stands there, he turns his back to you, and begins inspecting where Tov was knocking. I don't want to jump to conclusion.

but I feel like we might have found an objective for us inside of this place. So is it get dark, Gus, or is the sun not moving again still and it never gets dark? Oh, yeah, that's right. It's always dark here. It was because you're in the veil and it was lit by moonlight. Oh, okay. So then again, that leads me to another meta question. Is there a point where people go to bed? Like, is there like a midnight shift? I won't even make you roll for this. Because presumably from your experience in the Mortallian,

you know that there really isn't a downtime, especially being so close to a front of war, that there are definitely shifts and people rotate in and out, but there are always people milling about as they either go on watch, come off watch, go out to battle, come back from battle. It's a constant stream of Undarians in various directions. Okay. All right, team.

Stop me if you think this is done, but I think we should try to cause some sort of commotion. Like a diversion? To give ourselves a chance to maybe abscond with a god. Yes. It's a tall order. Which god? The one inside the dragon, Gunther.

Yeah, yeah. We don't know for certain that's got in there. We're pretty sure. You know, it makes sense because they were able to interrogate, right? Yeah. Hey, actually, I have an answer for this. Gus, you said those vents were opening and closing, right? Yeah, yeah.

I mean, yeah, sure, yeah. That makes sense. As heat and exhaust hits a vent, it opens up and releases it, and then as air is drawn in, those vents open up as well. Okay, Natty needs a moment to think. I have a thing, too. Why don't you let me do mine first, and if it doesn't work, you can do yours. Think, think, think, think.

No, Natty's using the spell a moment of think. I thought you were saying Natty needed a moment to do yours. John's need it. All right, John, let's go. Okay. So Natty stops time when the vents are open. And I'm not an expert on thermodynamics, but I think when the particles stop moving,

the heat isn't as strong. Like while you're in stopped time, heat shouldn't work the same way. Yeah, let's see where this goes. Let's follow this line of thinking. Okay. All I'm asking is then that would allow Natty to put her face up extra close to these vents

with flames not moving in. anymore and be able to look in and see if she sees a person. Okay. Flames. Round my face. Is the fire eater like a humanoid type? I don't know. Okay.

I should know what you'd be looking for. Just to clarify, okay, I did say we had clarified that you all had moved away and the frostbiter was looking at it, but you stopped time, which would allow you to go there, look and then come back without anyone noticing. Yes. I'm just trying to think through all of these complicated things. stopping time is so easy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I've read a lot of Flash comics, okay? So I know how this works. Why don't you make me an advanced physics check with advantage? What's in? I don't know. We're talking about thermodynamics and all of this. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay. You're able to stop time. You take a look into the event. And yeah, you do see what appears to be some kind of creature inside of the statue. And then so Natty would use the remainder of her time to think to then come back to the groups of the show. She hasn't, like, to the rest of the world, she hasn't moved. It's like, you never left.

And Nettie goes, time in. And tells the group, like, well, I just checked. And there is someone inside of that statue. Oh, should we, like, slip them like a shiv or some sort of tool? Did, what did they look like? A person on fire perpetually. It's probably the fire eater in there. Probably fire eater.

It's got to be the fire eater. Yeah, were they eating any fire by any chance? There's a dead giveaway. Okay, Nanny's a time to think. So Nattie goes back and sees if you're eating anything. Utensils, a plate, an oven. Schwarmah. Yeah, Swarma.

Okay, yeah. Nadi comes back. They're eating Schwarmah. Oh, yeah, that's why. I'm going to have to take care of. I have a potential plan for a diversion. Does it involve the crane and the button? How did you know, Naddy?

Are we like same wavelengths? Crazy. It's like we're finishing each other's. Swarma. Mission. So anyways. I just realize, I just realize I cut line. Chris had something, Gunther had something.

No, no, but John did something better. Okay, I have the spider silk, and I'm also sure that there's a ladder too, but we could do something where we drop. Okay, what if we went onto the crane and then repositioned the, you know, all of that stuff that's up there to then drop, causing a big, big commotion, and then while that's happening, you guys rush while everybody's heading in the other direction and then free the fire eater from the dragon. How do we, but how do we free the fire eater from dragon?

Oh. And they got like a, I don't know, a vacuum. What? I could drop the crane thing on the dragon. Yes, yes. But then that's probably going to kill a fire eater. Or tip it over. That's something.

Yeah. Nadi, did it look like the person inside there could fit through the vent? I didn't check. Nattie does another time and checks one more times and sees the scale of this person. Yeah, I'm going to say no. Most likely not. No, that would not work. Most likely not. How big is the dragon statue? It's pretty big. I don't remember if I gave an exact scale of it. Let me... I think you would say it would be classified as maybe huge, like so really big. Okay. So not something we could just carry out. No. Plus on top of that, it's like total discovered. It's made a tungsten, and tungsten is a very heavy metal, too.

So it's a huge chunk of heavy metal. Heavy metal. Yeah. Last time I'm going to do this trick, but Nadi will actually use time to think to go. Could I do a quick check to see if there's any sort of like doors, hatches, screws, cracks, seams, anything? It's a door. I'm scared of it. It sounds hard. I don't like this.

Yeah. But just for my own memory here, time to think that's like, it lasts for like six seconds, right? It's specifically... You take one additional action. Used as a bonus action that gives me another action time. So, yeah, at most, it's six seconds. So you can make an investigation check, but it's not enough time to investigate the entire thing. Okay.

Because it's... Depending on how good my check is. It's huge, right. Yeah, we'll give you a chance. I'll tell you, yeah, just make a check and we'll go from there. kind of playing this by year. That's how we do it. Hey, yeah, that was a four. Oh, I do have inspiration dice. Why not? Use it or lose it.

That one's a 19. Lucky you. How inspiring. Yeah. Inspired. I was inspired by Barbara remembering we have those in this game. You go over and take a look and yeah, you do find a crack in the tungsten near where the vent was where you were peeking before. It appears that there's a fissure that might go all the way. through the statue. It's got a weak spot. That could have been the crack that we heard.

Oh. Smart boy, clever boy. I guess they're one. You get a special toll of inspiration. It's worthless, but... It actually steals your inspiration die. I would say then that it'd probably be best, if there's a crack in it,

we're going to have to break open that crack. Mm-hmm. So then whoever's doing... Whoever's got to do that's got to be strong. Maybe has like a big old hammer. Mm-hmm. Maybe has like robot strength. Mm-hmm.

All right, Captain Grumbos, you're in. Love it. Perfect. I mean, even that little war pick might be helpful. Well, I mean, Tov also had the idea for the diversion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's all right. Thank you. I'll connect the dots. We should, Tov should not do the diversion.

if we need Tov to then try to get into the statue. Yes. So perhaps maybe the, you, since you are so good at machinery, do the crane. And then from... I'm not very... Why are you looking at me? I'm not very good at machinery. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was looking at Barbara. The Doug was steady behind you, Natty. You look like Gunther was looking at you, but he was actually looking at Doug. Natty's just like, well, you know what? I appreciate the confidence. I'm not normally into this. There's a moment Doug is going, what the hell? My own entire life.

She turns around and she goes, Hey, Doug, could I borrow your tools for a little bit? Going off of that idea, so if Doug goes, operates the machinery, Natty, does your ring fit other people that are not just you into it? Because you could create a disguise that, no, you're shaking your head, no at me. I think we should just go forward with trying to get this person out. Okay, I'm going to go with Doug and help with the diversion. since I'm good at those.

And we got the two strong lads to try to get this thing open and get that fire eater out, okay? Okay. Maybe what we'll do is the diversion will be my cue to take a big old quack

right at this crack. Yes. That way the noise is kind of covered up, you know? I'm gonna leave Giggy and grumbles with you too because you guys need

all the manpower you can get. Why would you do that to us? I don't want to me. He's already walking away with Doug. Oh my God. Oh my God. He left him with us. She left him with us.

Blaine was physically acting as told there and had like started shaking and looking around very nervously. It was inspired. That was really good. Taking inspiration die playing. That was really good role play. I like it. That means that I'm about to have a bad role and he and I need that. Okay. The dice gods now. So we have team distraction and team action.

Yeah. Cool. Nice. Let's head, we'll start with team distraction because that needs to happen first. Team Waction, that's really good, Micah. Uh, Michael, you get an inspiration, die. Uh, okay, so, uh, Natty and Doug, you walk up to the crane and the mechanism and everything. What's your, what's your approach here? Well, I don't know. I guess we could just start moving it and, you know, making noise with it,

moving stuff around, make people look at it. What could, could, does, does Doug's mechanical engineer expertise give him any sort of insight into how this working so that Doug could make it do whatever he wants? Yeah, Doug, why don't you make me an investigation check with Advantage? Okay. That's a seven. That's your best one with advantage. But, you know, I'm having a flash of genius, so I'm going to add plus four to that. Oh, nice.

Nice, nice, nice. So that's an 11? Yeah, that's good enough. I was looking for a 10, so you got it. You very quickly are able to figure out how this works. One of these stone wheels, like I say, the horizontal wheel seems to move the crane along the X-axis left and right. And the vertical wheel seems to move it along the X axis,

I'm sorry, the Z-axis, closer to you and further away from you. And then you feel like if you push that large button, it'll drop the crane down and make it grab things. Z-axis up and down? That's the Y. It depends how you're looking at it. So if you're looking top-down, it's X and Y,

and then Z coming up and down. So it's like whether you're looking at from your perspective or from an overhead perspective, we've argued... I'm picturing this like a crane game where you move things. That's exactly what it's like. Okay. So Doug, there's, with my lovely eyes,

I was able to see that in those like wood things up there, those little platforms, there's a lot of stuff you can make a mess with. Oh, excellent. And it's like important. Like some is treasure and some is supplies and they need both. It seemed like based on when you were looking, like the platform on the left was primarily treasure and loot and the platform on the right was more like items of some kind,

like various. items. Okay. I mean, should I just try to swing it around to knock all this stuff over? Yeah. I think I might just do that. Like, just trying to make a mess of it. Maximum.

Also, effort. Just so that, you know, I'm prepping with both hands, my gavel of Gailstrom. Like, I'm waiting for the queue. Okay. Just so I'm not just like, oh, told you're surprised by this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I'm watching that thing. This is the plan.

Yeah. You're doing it. You go up there and begin rolling the woods. Is there a particular platform you want to try to knock? over, what's your approach here? Probably the items. Actually, do the items look like it's like weapons and metal and stuff

like that that would make a clang kind of thing if it was knocked? Yeah, so that's the platform on the right. It's the one with the various items. You see lanterns, hatchets, bracelets, belts, harpoons, drums, mugs. I mean, it's just all kinds of various things.

Okay, yeah, I want to go for that section. Mugs, jugs, drugs. bugs. Those are nice and soft. Those won't make a sound when you drop them. Boots with the fur. All right. You begin manipulating the giant wheels

to move the crane around. What did you roll me a D20 to see how accurate this is? Can I help? 15. Can I offer the assist action? Sure. Why not? Roll me a D20 as well.

That's a one? How much did I help? Negative two. Okay. Doug just like pushes Nattie away. I'm focused. Stop it. That's like when two people try to play the crane game, like one's in one direction, the other one's in the other.

It's like, this seems like this should work, but it's actually harder. I really want this Kirby plush. Hold on. Give me a second. We'll call that a 13 in the end. Well, because after Natty's assistance. I critical failed.

I'm sorry. I critical failed. After Nottie's help. However, it's not necessarily the worst thing in the world. You're not looking for super accuracy. You're not trying to grab a particular thing. You're just trying to grab a particular thing. to kind of mash it around and knock boxes off.

And you're successful in that. You know, if you were trying to get a particular box, that probably wouldn't work. But since you're just trying to knock crates off from that platform, yeah, you're able to do that. And 12, you see this. You see these, we'll say, two crates begin falling off of the platform and racing towards the ground.

Can I also, at my Smith's tools? I want to get like one of the, a wedge. A pick. Yeah, so that and kind of have it, wedge it in there. So there's like a focal point for him to hit with the Warhammer. Sure. Yeah. I like that. That's really good. I was just looking into my inventory for something similar to that.

And then I was like, well, what's in the party inventory? And then it's four farts. It's what's in the party inventory. I used one of those already. Sorry, I'll walk one down then. And I'll dual both hands hold that new wafting war pick and be ready to lack afterwards. Are you holding the thing or the warped? Yeah, I thought you were holding the wedge.

Oh, I stuck the wedge in. Oh, I see. I didn't want to get my hand. arm smashed so I wedged it in. You don't have faith in Toll should be accurate in this. Yeah, what the heck man? Okay, so you you wedge the piece in there and you ready yourself to act along with Toll. And yeah, you see those boxes coming down and you strike right at the same moment that those boxes or those crates hit the ground.

Make me, let's say, an attack roll with advantage, Toll. Okay. 15? I could use my inspiration down. You might, 15 might be good enough, but I could also have a flash of genius for you. What is that? Although, you're not within 30 feet of me, are you? No, I'll say he's a little further than me.

I have, I have, I have, I have inspiration so I could use that. Use it, it. It's important. 15 might be enough. Okay, all right, I'm going to do that. Oh, my God. 14, so 15 is my highest. 15. All right, and Gunther, you want to also make a roll there?

Sure. 15. All right. Oh, do I have advantage? I don't have advantage. Yeah, you also have advantage. Yeah. You both were, like, kind of anticipating that, this, and preparing yourself.

They're corrupt. 15. Okay. I'll say it's like a one-two strike. You ever see like in blacksmithing when like there's multiple people, yeah, on either side of an anvil and they're both like hitting and they're timing it? That's exactly what's going on here. And Giggy's going to be the third head.

It's just his head though. He just goes, go. So then one right after the other, almost perfectly synced up with the sounds like two. crates hitting the ground in the distance with a mighty bang bang hit the wedge that's been driven into the crack in the tungsten and with that you see the fissure open up and run along the length of the statue leaving it in two and it falls apart in two giant pieces freeing what appears to be a dragon emerging from the ruins of the statue you see a dragon with cracked black scales The cracks between the scales glow a dull red.

And as you're looking at it, the bright orange flames become brighter and brighter till they burst out into actual like roaring flames shooting out from these cracks on the dragon. With a let's out a loud roar, looks around and begins breathing fire, melting all of the keep around it. You see the walls falling down and people running around, Oungdarians running around screaming, some on fire, some not, And the entire place just seems to erupt into chaos. I didn't mean to knock it over.

We'll see if they believe your excuses on the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Did we mess up? I feel like we messed up. No, that's probably the fire eater. But I was like, we should preserve this beautiful ice castle. And then the dragon just goes all over it. Find out if mistakes were made on the next episode. Spoiler.

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I have heard that there is meetup. I very much want to go. Please let me go, Mom, Dad, please. I have such hard time making friends. They all say I smell so bad. Please, pretty please. Okay, and since your parents are actually like doting and loving and involved parents, I'm going to give you another stealth check, but this is without advantage.

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Then, Misty, since you have succeeded, I'm going to give you a chance to assist Alexi. How would you help Alexi get out of the house? She does not come to poor part of town. Do you have anything that you could lend to help him? Yes. I will ring the doorbell. Oh, bold. Okay.

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Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Frost spider. It was good. Frost butter! I always wanted that as a kid. Yeah.

Best commercial for probably the dumbest toy. I don't think I knew anyone who had that. I had a friend who had one and it was not as fun as it seemed. The commercials. Living in Canada, I had plenty of frostbiders. Oh, there you go.