Tales from the Stinky Dragon - Of Life & Breath - Ep. 75 - Curmudgeons & Dragons

Episode Date: December 14, 2022

Our adventurers travel in search of the Elders of Tetora.  Thanks to our Voice Actors: Inku - Raquel Lily (@RaquelLily) Elder Namido - Stinky Dragon Producer Brendan Carruthers Elder Wanabe - Stinky Dragon Producer Ben Ernst  Elder Esdreem - Quentin Smith   Elder Shizu - Ashley Dillard  Check out our merch and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and more: https://linktr.ee/TalesFromTheStinkyDragon Go to http://shopify.com/dragon to sign up for a free trial and start selling today.  Go to http://dietsmoke.com and use code DRAGON for 20% off your order. Head over to the Rooster Teeth Store and stock up on your favorite RWBY merch this holiday season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a Rooster Teeth Production. Long time no see all you shadow dragons. Swoop on in to the stinky dragons, swallow our latest swill, shots in the dark. It's a mixture of nightclaw seltzer living shadow sake a bitter bite of lemon and a dash of darkened dill one nip of this necrotic nightcap you'll be lights out without a shadow of a doubt what i'm laughing that's not a judgy not laughing do you want to do it? No, I thought it was funny.

Previously, our adventurers skirmished with several Shadrow in a darkened geo. After hearing some spying chilling screams, most of the party headed to a house where they found Elder Namido being tortured by the leader of the Shadrow, Bolink. After a tenacious tussle, the party followed him into a black portal to a dark place and a scaly situation. Nab and Ike Kaplan's resume this rancid recitation. We always learn things that our characters would not have learned. Yeah, I was thinking about that. So I'm like, how do I carry this information? So what did you learn that your character doesn't know?

Their names and... What was the name? Just keep going with the story. So you didn't learn anything. Okay, very good. Did not learn a thing. I was curious if that's what would happen or not. Namido.

That you knew already. Yeah. Namido. Namido. Namido. I wrote down the pronunciation. You step through the mist of blackened shadows and everything goes dark. Your skin feels clammy and cold, and in the distance you hear the rumbling of thunder and rustling of wind. You blink your eyes and you can barely tell the difference between open and closed.

All you can make out are silhouettes, gray outlines of bare trees, jagged stones, thick swirling clouds overhead. Thunder and wind get louder and deeper. Out from the clouds flap two enormous deep black wings. Four clawed feet land on a ridge nearby as a hazy tail flails behind. You lift your eyes past a massive body of scales until you see two pale purple eyes behind the long snout staring back at you. A pitchfork tongue hisses out a small plume of smoke. A tingle trickles down your spine. Give us a taste of that. Give us a taste of that.

That pitchfork tongue. Oh! I was imagining like a... No, not up. I liked where Gus went. Boosh! A shadowy figure emerges from the ground before you. The shadow forms into a slender, long-haired woman with pointed ears and indigo eyes. A thin smile curls along her black lips.

Do you like what I've done with the place, Bart? I tried not to rearrange anything since you were last here. I wanted everything to look just like you left it. Or should I say, left them. I'd show you around, but you're a bit early to the party. A bit rude if you left it. Or should I say, left them. I'd show you around, but you're a bit early to the party. A bit rude if you ask me. Don't worry, though. My pal Ladori here will teach you some manners. A plume of shadowy flames erupts

from the beast's scaly snout and engulfs you in a black inferno. I rolled a 30 saving throws. Is this Inku? Yes, you know that. The pause is like what do they know and what do they not know? Excellent. 28. I did a nat 20.

Nice. Turn off my computer. 20. If I sound funny, I had a cold last week. You can't tell with GumGum. Cool. Because you already talked low. I don't know if it matters, but Kyber did a check instead of a save. One day you guys are going to learn.

Someday. Let's see. Strength saving throws plus a strength check. So add another four to that. To me? Yeah, 25. Thanks, Barbara. I figured your save was higher.

Yes, I appreciate that. Add three to that. I'm sorry. So it's a 24. 24. I'll take it. Hey, you know what? Deal. Or three to that. I'm sorry. So it's a 24. 24. I'll take it. Hey, you know what? Deal.

Or no deal. No deal. I'll take it, Howie. I want more intelligence saving throws. For some reason, I have a higher intelligence saving throw, and we do intelligence rolls, and I'm never good on them. I don't think this dragon's going to whip out a quiz and say, all right, bring out your number two pencils.

A nerd can wish. Well, we are talking about dragons here. A nerd can wish. Well, we are talking about dragons here. So Bart and Kyborg make the save. Mud and Gum-Gum both fail. What? With a 20?

Yeah. My goodness. Gum-Gum, you rolled an 8. No, I have advantage, so I rolled twice. Oh. Wait, why does he fail if you rolled a 20? So high. Because he failed.

Wait, wait, wait. The check was higher than that. The 20 was a save? Wow. Yeah. So if you fail the save, you take 65 points of damage. Oh. If you succeeded, like Bart and Kyborg did, you take 32. What?

What kind of damage is this? Necrotic. Would you say I'm frightened? No, you are not, but Gum Gum and Mud are. Wait, what kind of damage was this? Necrotic. He just said. I'm still raging.

Let's try our listening ears, friends. Does rage help with necrotic? Let's see if it does anything with frighten. But didn't you say, did someone on Twitter say that frightening prevents? Beginning at sixth level, you can't be charmed or frightened while raging. You said it was fire, right? Necrotic. But it was also fire, like flames.

It's like a smoky thing. Yeah, because, you know, give to the gromit dragon, reactive resistance. Just take your damage. Fine. What was it, 32? Yes. That's if you have mindless rage.

Do you have mindless rage, Gum-Gum? No, I just have regular rage. He has rage that he's got to see a therapist for. We have mindless rage at home. What primal path did you take? Did you take path of the berserker? Noker no okay then that doesn't apply to me so yeah it's it's if you had taken path of the berserker at sixth level you get a feature called mindless rage that allows you to resist being charmed or frightened yeah when you said i i could i was like i didn't know that

someone on uh on the internet was uh was asking questions about that, so we wanted to verify. You rolled 12 D10s. So, 65 damage? Yes. If you had gotten a better roll on that, like... Old 10s? Could have died. Yeah, 120.

Oh, yeah, I'm a little disappointed. Could have been better. How dare you, Gus? I just want to clarify something. You may say, Gus, that Mud is terrified, but I'm going to say you're in... Frightened. Frightened.

You're incorrect. Mud is absolutely enamored that'm going to say you're in. Frightened. Frightened. You're incorrect. Mud is absolutely enamored that he's looking at a dragon, and immediately, even after getting blasted with necrotic flames, does a little like, like trying to get the dragon to come be his friend. Make an animal handling check. Yes! Can you become a dragon after this? No, that's why I like those.

Animal handling coming up. I get pretty good rolls on that. Where is it? There it is. You're going to have to make like a 30. How about a 20? What's it going to roll against animal handling? Oh, it doesn't have to roll anything. Your psss are useless. It bites you. You die.

It chonks your head off. While you're doing that you make the noise again like a cat like a cat it looks at you with just disdain in its eyes and it seems to like pop away out of existence dragon yes what oh good job john oh i mean

good job mud yeah you're welcome also who's the lady i'm gonna ride that everyone make a perception check. Dragon's gone. Yeah. Well, I'm going to ride it later, though.

We're going to see it again. I'm going to ride that dragon. Doesn't that mean drugs? Oh. Well, no. No, I think it's like chasing the dragon. Either way, I'm going to ride that dragon. 12.

A very low one for mud. Guys got it. 24. That's a... Oh, 16. Kyborg, you have to like rub your eyes. You can't believe what you're seeing, but it's not that the dragon disappeared. It almost just sort of like dissolved into shadow and smoke and then reformed like 50 feet to the side of where it was.

It's moved into a flanking position with the party. It's a teleporting dragon. It's even cooler. Yeah, that's scary. Is this Inku lady in front of the dragon? She was riding it, wasn't she? The dragon appeared off kind of on a ridge. And you look back to where Inku was and she's no longer standing there.

She did a Batman. Do we know where she is? Make a intelligence check. You want to save? Maybe an intelligence save? Oh, man, it went from a 20 to an 8 to a 9. You don't know? She must have disappeared.

Oh, that's crazy. Wow. Thank you. That's a cool trick. You do, however, see that Shadrow from earlier that was in the big room with Namito. You do see he is still there roughing up Namito. Guys, I think we're out of our element. No, I refuse.

I'm in my element. Okay, go ahead. I don't know. What do we do? We're not in combat. What do you want from us? Oh, yeah, go ahead. Who are you saying that to?

I'm just saying I'm turning and just spinning around things. To the heavens? Yeah. We are the infinites. Can you do that? Hi, I'm Gum Gum. I don't think Chris has been listening to anything that's going on. It's perfect.

This is totally a Gum Gum character. You hear a booming voice through the shadows just say, duh. Oh. I don't think Chris has been listening to anything that's going on. It's perfect. This is totally a GumGum character. You hear a booming voice through the shadows just say, Oh. Wait, can I do a perception check? Is this that? Oh, God. What's the one?

The artist formerly known as... Entropa. Entropa. Yeah, no, no. Well, it's currently Entropa. It was when we met him, Armando. Armando. Yeah, no, but it was like the other guy's name. Jack.

Archie. No Archie Thank you inspiration die for Barbara Who are you trying to check? Well, I don't understand what you're asking Death in trope. I know this is in trope. She said it the worst way possible. Oh, no, okay It's the dragon. You are the only one who can tell because you're the only one who sees with that the dragon reform Okay, all right It's the dragon? You are the only one who can tell because you're the only one who sees that the dragon reformed. No, apparently he's not the only one. Okay, all right.

There's no way we can take this guy down. Guys, the dragon talks and Gum-Gum is dying. Sorry. It's all the smoke. No, the dragon didn't talk. Is there anything else other than death you would like? I'm on my way to the gas station. Do you need me to pick up anything?

You hear the whooshing of wings, and the dragon comes and sets down right next to you, Gum Gum. And it tries to take a bite out of you. Oh, my God. Should we be doing something right now? I feel like we should be doing something right now. Do something. It hits AC 34.

You have Onis to do whatever you want. I don't get to dodge or anything? What AC did you say? What are you talking about? Do you know how combat works? I thought you said 54. It started flying. I didn't get to react to it. Okay.

All right, it hits me. Maybe if you'll listen for five minutes. We're listening. No one's listening. I heard everything you said. I thought you said 54. It bites you for... This dragon's tearing this family apart.

66 points of piercing damage. All right. I cast... No, no, I'm fine. I can cast spells. Dragons tearing this family apart 66 points of piercing damage Plus 14 points of necrotic damage So that's 33 plus 14 so I Cast some a draconic spirit. I gotta look that one up you call forth the draconic spirit. It manifests in an occupied space that you can see within this range. This corporeal form uses the draconic spirit stat block, and when you cast this spell, you choose a family of dragon. Chromatic, gem, or metallic.

Oh, I'm a big fan of chromatic. This creature resembles a dragon of the chosen family. The creature disappears when it drops to zero hit points. So I made a dragon. What kind? Chromatic, gem, or metallic? I should have looked up what the difference between these dragons is prior to this. Okay, while you think about that, I won't act or do anything. I will remind you that everything, like I said, looks very dark.

It's very difficult to see here. Inku did disappear. You don't know where Inku went. Is it difficult to see even with my Veronian goggles? Yeah, because it's not weather. Okay.'s causing this how about my dark vision you do see that shadow in uh beating up namido and you do see the portal that you step through is still shimmering behind you where you uh exited from we just peace out never mind i don't i don't summon a dragon that's why i'm setting the stage a little more please uh

strike that from the record you're on stricken but i'm gonna call a dragon at some point i do do you think we need to save this guy first and then oh could i get him gum gum could i yeah i'll use my uh immovable rod teleport over to the the guy that we're the old guy whose name is namido hey nice namido and then i'll handcuff him with my friendship bracelets you make him your friend the good guy or the bad guy i'm coming i'm here to rescue you good and then yeah handcuff with my friendship bracelet is there he's tethered to the other person uh he's not tethered no the other person's been dragging him along okay and then grab him and sprint towards the uh exit and cast the um warding bond with the old man we're gonna watch how that fails glorious what's the wording bone the spell wards a willing creature you touch and creates a mystic connection between you and the

target until the spell ends while the target is within 60 feet of you it gains a plus one bonus ac and saving throws and has resistance all damage also each time it takes damage you take the same amount of damage the spell ends if you drop zero hit points or if your target becomes separated by more than 60 feet it also ends if the spell is cast again on either connection blah blah blah but just like a uh it's how long have you had a defense buff and not used on any of us i It's more recent. I only got it... It was an upgrade to his friendship bracelets. All right.

Yeah, so immovable rod. You can be able to get out there. I want to make a cool visual. Can I cast something too? Yeah, what do you want to cast? I cast Wall of Water. Oh, cool. Where and for what purpose?

To split us and the portal from the dragon and Inku. Inku disappeared, but there is the other Shadrow there. Yeah, the other Shadrow. I don't like Stinku. Oh, wow. Uncalled for. I can't believe you said that, Dwayne. Wow.

You know what? I've chosen that I think Qyberg needs to also be on the other side of this wall. Guys, guys, please. It's in timeout. Hear me out. Yeah, it's a 30-foot wide, 10-foot high, 1-foot thick wall of water. Okay. I will say, after you say stinkoo, the dragon turns and snaps its head and looks at you and begins growling.

No, no. My very inside of the young age, my very troubled youth, please stop. Okay, yeah. You're able to go out there, slap your friendship bracelets onto Namito, and begin making your way back. Oh, yeah, you're able to make it back to the portal after doing that. Thanks to a giant wall of water that's covering our escape. A wall of water.

It's a dark and angry water because it's hard to see. Yeah. It's like a raging sea in wall form. It's like dark waters. Was it close? Oh, yeah, you barely are able to get through there. Yeah. I know it's dark and kind of hard to see,

but is there any way Bart could recognize if he remembers this place? Or like has any sort of recollection of what this is? That's a good question. Make a, let's call it a wisdom check. Oh, 19. Oh, that is pretty good. What is your, oh, you got a plus 3 on that

Oh yeah, you're the one with the brains in the party Ahem, I'm also high on wisdom Do not lump me in with these What's your modify, or what's your wisdom? For wisdom? Yeah It's like plus 9 That's not plus 9

It is because I got the die gem Oh, right, right It's plus 4, sorry Saves are plus nine. Gotcha. Plus five. Yeah, it triggers a memory, something when you were young.

You know, it's like trying to remember something that happened when you were a little kid. And it seems like maybe you remember this. Maybe you've been here. It's very hard to grab onto because it's something from so long ago. Could I tell if it's before I was in the orphanage? Yes.

Okay. I'll say yes with an asterisk. You think so. It's hard to place that timeline, but in your memory, you believe it the orphanage? Yes. Okay. I'll say yes with an asterisk. You think so. It's hard to place that timeline, but in your memory, you believe it is. Interesting. Okay. Okay.

We're going to do the portal. You can fight the dragon if you want. We're going to do the portal. Bart just does a back dive into the portal. That's going to do like Homer going into the shrubs. That, but falling. Yeah, trust fall into the portal. I grab him so he doesn't hit his head and we go through. Who, Bart?ubs. Yeah, but falling. Yeah, trust fall into the portal. I grab him so he doesn't hit his head when we go through.

Who, Bart? Yeah. Oh, okay. Just cradle him right before he's about to hit it. I feel so safe in your arms. Trust fall accomplished. You all make haste back through the portal. And as you do so, Gum-Gum,

Namito slumps over onto the ground. He seems like he's very hurt. He's able to, you know, open his eyes and, you know, weakly mumble. Thank you. So Gum Gum, Namido slumps over onto the ground. He seems like he's very hurt. He's able to, you know, open his eyes and, you know, weakly mumble. Thank you for helping me. You're welcome. I'm Gum Gum. Here, drink this.

And I give him a healing potion. You all are taking no chances after that green dragonborn died the other episode. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, roll some healing for Namido. Okay. 2d4 plus 2 that's not much nine no seven that's all anybody really needs seven got it just to open their eyes a little bit just a solid seven uh yeah he seems a little better but as you're giving him this potion you notice that he has what seems like large blackened scars across his chest that look like they're pretty fresh.

Can I do a medicine check? Sure. Nine. They look pretty bad. Guys, it's not looking good. Gumbo does a medicine check. Is a portal still there? Uh, yes. Let's go. Back through? No way.

Oh, okay. Is there any way we can close the portal? Cover it up? There are books around. We can cover it up with books. Is there a sheet I can put over it? Bart, could you make another portal right next to it that takes them underground? I don't think I can make portals. I could do a dimension door.

That's what I'm saying. Dimension door. That would take them like... I think it's only like for me to transport myself. I don't think I could like make a door. I think you have to carry it. I think it's only like for me to transport myself i don't think i could like make a door you have to carry it i think it's what the word the verbiage in dimension door i think i could bring someone with me if they're equal or less yeah me cannot uh everyone make a perception check okay i was gonna if the door stays open i have an idea for how we can fool them 19 not 20

27 16 24 everyone hears a roar come through the the portal i pick up namido and start heading into the exit of this building if i take two pythons and then make a rope across it'll trip them as they come out cyborg's doing that i am leaving don't be so embarrassed they leave and go back through the portal can i start running for the door as well yes absolutely i guess i'll run i'll carry him too by the way way. No, I got him. He's also hanging. Oh, he is. Well, I'm pulling gum.

All right. Mudgeus has both of them. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Get in it. Give us an owl. Let's get the hell out of here. No, no, no, no.

I might be able to actually set a trap. Wait, I think I still have owls. That's what I'm saying. Let's get the hell owl of here. I don't. Casting Wall of Water would have broken it. Gotcha. Never mind.

I don't have any arcane traps Gotcha. How many episodes can these owls get traveled through? How many can have the same spell in the same episode? Do you all go back out to the courtyard, I assume? Yeah. Where the combat was previously? Yes.

And then I start screaming for our dragonborn friends in Draconic. I'd be like, it is approaching! How does that sound? Ready yourself! How about help? yourself. Help! Help! How about help? Help!

It's a borrowed word. Yeah. Oh, thank you so much. They attacked out of nowhere. He gives like a closer look at the party. You all don't look like you're from here. No. Uh, I think I am. Kinda.

Sorta. Maybe. Give him in. And I lift him up and show Bart. Yeah, Bart's just like a baby. Look at him. I see. He gives you a wary look, Bart, and kinda stares at you.

Well, I can look the other way in exchange for the help you have provided. Racist. Namito, where can we go that's safe? Like, where's a good stronghold where your defenses can protect us? Or a secret place. We are going to need help from the ancient dragons. Not that one we just saw through that portal, right? Definitely not. Okay. Where are they? There are three elders

that you need to gather. Edge quest. Yeah. His dream from Ashiko province. Wait, hold on. This is in character. Bart, say that in character. Hold on. I need to just make sure my memory is ready to go. Imagine Bart's like a little reporter with a flip pad.

A little press thing in the hat. They lick the pencil. Okay, go ahead. Okay. You said S-Dream. S-Dream from Ashiko province. Ah, Ashiko. Yes.

No, well. Shizu from Tsunam province. Oh, it is definitely Japanese. What province? Was it? Shizu. Province. From which province?

Tsunam. Like tsunami without the I at the end. Tsunam province. Got it. And Wanabe from Sora province. Tsunam. Like tsunami without the I at the end. Tsunam province. Got it. And Wanabe from Sora province. Sora? Yeah. Mud, you get all that?

Sora from what? Sora province. Sora province. Tic Tac from Pish Posh province. Gobbly Cook from what province? Once we retrieve the elders, we can appeal for aid from the ancient dragons atop Mount Sayamoto. Are they going to be as judgy as you about our race? I can help with that.

Okay. He gives you a medallion. Ooh. A kyborg. This will convince them of your authenticity and the fact that I'm vouching for you. Cool. What's on the medallion? Yeah, what's the modifier?

Why does he give it to kyborg? I speak Draconic. You don't. It's made of jade, and it does have an inscription written in Draconic. And I give it to Kaibook? I speak Draconic. You don't. It's made of jade and it does have an inscription written in Draconic. And I read it and it says It says, we breathe as one. Ah. Wise words.

Does it happen to have a dragon on it? Yes. Can I hold it please? You get to do the cheat code thing. Please let me have it. So what's the cheat code thing? Just let me have it. I want to alert the elders that the Shadral have invaded our realm and are searching for something called the Paladians. Oh, yeah, we've never heard of those guys.

I haven't either. I don't know what they're talking about. Yeah, crazy. Paladian? Yeah. I'm not a Paladian. Yeah, the old lady from, no, the old man who was the last of his kind at the Bayou. Remember?

The god? It was like we found the guy in the water temple. What was his name? Algaroc? Algaroc said that you're a paladin. Why am I a paladin? Remind me, Gus. It was passed down to you by Algaroc before he diminished.

Are we all paladins or is it just mud? All of you are paladians, but you're not supposed to tell anyone. It's a secret. It's like a secret order. Our defenders of the things that y'all got. Oh, the diagens. There it is. They're defenders of the diagens.

So we're like Freemasons, but we're not a bunch of old white men. We're Illuminati. Yes. No. So we're looking for, just to recap what we've been told. We need to go talk to these three elders to get them to find us a paladion? No. Have them appeal to

the ancient dragons from Mount Sayamoto. Sayamoto. Correct. Namito does not appear to know what a paladion is. He said that's what the Shadrow are interrogating him looking for in this realm. And we're trying, and to prove who we are, we have this jade thing with the dragon. Right. Which says

we breed as one. There it is. We breed as one? Yes. What is okay, we'll leave you with your friends. There's so much information. Yeah, at this point the other green dragonborn that you saved on your way here are running up and attending to Namito.

What's up, guys? Good seeing you all again. Oh, stop. We all saved your friend. We all saved him. We did equal work to save your friend. Oh, thank you. We would be lost without Namito.

Okay, so we need... Us too. Namito says, once you have found all the elders, you'll find me at the top of Mount Sayomoto. Do you have a map of the area, maybe? You can follow road signs to get to each district. How convenient. Or if you know anyone familiar with the area, perhaps they could guide you. Can we take one of your guards or anybody up for grabs?

Or Dr. Hen. Oh, where is Dr. Hen? Oh, yeah, where are you? We left him on the ship. That's a good question. Yeah, Duncan came with you. He's hiding in one of the trees. Duncan's been here this whole time.

He's not a fighter. I get scared as I remember he's there. Duncan, cup of coffee. Stat! Yeah, you got it. All right. What was the first place, Bart? It was Ashiko. All right. What was the first place, Bart? It was Ashiko.

All right. Oh, sorry. Namito was still saying something real fast before you do that. He was telling you that he's going to be out Mount Saimoto preparing for everyone. He says, make sure you find everyone before sunset. Once the sun goes down, the Shadra will become too powerful. This is imperative. So what you're saying is there's no chance for us to take a long rest.

Oh, absolutely not. Oh, golly. Oh, I could help. Do you have any healing? Yes. I could do a mass cure wounds as well for us. What if we need less heal and we need more luckies and things? Because that's what I'm needing.

You're going to have to rely on just playing normally. What about a short rest? Can we negotiate a short rest? Every minute you waste gives the Shadreal more time to grow in power. Okay, okay. Stuff it. What happened to your chest? And I assume right now it's like just the break of dawn, right? Like the first...

Oh no, this is afternoon. Dang it. We're running out of time. Guys, what are we doing? We got to go. Bart casts. Yeah, can I cast Mass Cure Wounds on all my friends? Yes, absolutely. How much are you going to give us? Let me do it. Should I do it at a pretty high level?

I don't want to waste my high level. I have 13 health, if that makes sense. Yeah, okay. You got bit. Let's do Mass Cure Wounds at the fifth level. Aw, dang. Which I think up to six creatures. So could I choose all my friends, myself, and Namito?

Yeah, why not? Yeah, and even one more if you want. We need him to be healthy, yeah. 3d8 plus four. That is a 19. Oh, nice. So everyone gets 19 points. I use Mud's Totem of Restoration, which Mike is so happy I'm finally using this item that he made.

It takes the shape of any creature you desire and acts as a spellcasting focus. And I make it turn into an anteater. What does it do? Yeah, what does it? That's the tongue. The dragon's back. Run.

Run. Oh, and I can cast Healing Spirit or Lesser Restoration. What does Healing Spirit do? Let's find out, everyone together. The clock is ticking. I know. D&D, Healing Spirit. Well, if a round is like six seconds, this is only taking like one second. True.

You call forth the Nature Spirit to soothe the wounded. The Intangible Spirit appears in a space that is five foot cube. You can see within range the spirit looks like a transparent beast or fae. It looks like... A transparent anteater. No, the totem's an anteater. Oh. And then I cast a healing spirit and it looks like a pangolin.

Oh, nice. A penguin? Pangolin. Pangolin. Pangolin? It's like a Asian armadillo. Yeah. Ooh, cute.

I think they're from China. Oh, they're like little dragon tanks. Look at them go. Oh, yeah, those guys are cool. That's cute. If you walk into the thing, it'll give you 1d6 of hit points. They ride on their back hooves and lift their little hands up. It lasts a minute.

How long is a... Ooh, they're also in Africa. Sorry. Stop. I'm looking at pangolins now. I'm a big pangolin guy now if if i want to play this the math right how long is uh is 10 seconds is an action six seconds is around so in a minute of how this long lasts people could do this 10 times yeah so everyone

can roll 10 d6 wow wow guys is that cool and you can have that health i feel like i shouldn't have bothered with my i think with him with Yeah, as long as everyone it looks like as long as everyone huddled up by it and wait for a minute and just kind of I cuddle it. All right, Cindy six. Do we all do we roll one? I rolled a lot of one I got a 30 15 30. Yeah, I got 35. So we each roll our own. Yeah, how many was it again? 10 d 6 a I'm full health okay gum gum still needs heals i'm like half health but if we took a short rest we can't we can't i'm gonna give you uh you're so far away from me you're so far away and i need to give you a potion of healing stat and the only thing i have is my brubo shooting with an arrow it's my brubo so i gotta shoot you i gotta do it

i'm gonna take the shot take the shot i take the shot. I take the shot. What do I do? I'm looking it up. Aren't we all close to each other, though? No, he's so far away. I can't. Bart, time is of the essence. I thought we huddled around the thing. Rubo, there it is.

Yes, and at this point. He wants to shoot the boy with an arrow. Yeah, so make an attack roll like with Rubo with him. Wait, is it actually gonna damage him? Just do it. Well, is it actually gonna damage him? Just do it! Well, no, this it's specially designed just to launch a potion that explodes upon impact. Close my eyes and open my mouth.

Gum Gum's fading! Uh, uh, uh, okay, here we go, here we go. Open wide! AHHHHHH It's an add 20, 31! I just get smacked in the face with a potion. Uh, make a dex check, Gum-Gum. A check?

Yeah. This will make sense in a second. That's a four. That's actually good. So you fire with such precision that the brew bowl goes straight into Gum-Gum's mouth while his eyes are closed. Oh, my God. Gum-Gum's unable to dodge out of the way, and the potion pours straight into into his mouth and the empty bottle falls to the ground. And I just swallow it like that. Wow.

So it just shoots the liquid? It shoots the whole potion and the container falls. So does it go grab your mouth and you drink it? It's like you did a shot. So roll for healing. It's a potion of healing. So 2d4. Yeah, plus whatever.

Thank you, that's 6. Yeah, make sure you deduct that potion from your inventory. All right. Just did. We've got some health. I'm up to 73. You're welcome. Of 137. You're welcome, my friend.

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Are you all ready to get going? I think with that, I am ready. I asked him what happened to his chest. Oh, Ladoria. Who? The dragon. Oh, Ladoria is the big dragon. Ladoria the Exploria?

Got it. Any tips on fighting them? Tips? Run. Okay. Okay. Bye. Yeah, I don't think there's ever a situation we could fight that thing. But we could befriend it.

Any tips on fighting these night owl things in general? Hit them with the pointy side. All right. Bye-bye. All right. We head off and Duncan sends us which direction? Duncan, get on my back. Oh, yeah.

Good idea. He's fine. I know. He's slow. He get on my back. Oh, yeah. Good idea. He's fine. I know. He's lazy, too. He's baby. In a Stinky Dragon record, I have 13 PDFs open today. So if it takes me a second to load, I'm kind of just going through them. Okay.

Where are y'all going first? The first place. To S'Dream from Ashiko province? The dragon's name is S'Dream. Okay. It's Ashiko province. So we name is s dream okay it's ashiko province so we're gonna ask you go all right so you're gonna head to ashiko province which is luckily for you not too far away uh you head in that direction courtesy of duncan pointing but you're able to

verify via the road signs that are written in draconic courtesy of kyborg i helped everyone's being so courteous as you get closer it seems like the village is very much painted in like orange and reddish hues. Then as you drive in closer, you realize that it's not paint, it's fire. Oh, we're dumb if we thought that was paint from far off. The entire village is just covered in an orange glow. Wow. Does it look like it's

not a control fire or is this like, there's the vibe? Oh yeah, as you drive in closer, you can see there are little pockets of darkness all around, and a lot of the buildings are on fire. It's just like a hellscape. It's not great. Is there potentially a building within sight that looks like it would be the important central part of the city?

Or a temple, a town hall, one that looks similar to the one that we broke into that had the other elder in it? Yeah, yeah. Not necessarily. In this town, you see one, two, three, about five different buildings, three to the left, two to the right, that are all in various states of burning. In fact, right outside of the first building on your left, when you enter the village, you have to cross a bridge, cross a small river to get to the village. And after you cross the bridge, the first building to your left, right outside of it, you see a little red dragonborn boy standing there crying.

Okay, we're open. I need a boy. All right, you can't speak Draconic. I'm going to run up and help. Okay. He just stares at you, Gum-Gum. I translate, and I very, in my most tender tone to not scare him, ask him how he's doing. What's your tender Draconic tone? I say, Very, in my most tender tone to not scare him, ask him how he's doing. Let's hear that.

What's your tender trachonic tone? I say... I was really hoping you'd go... All right, you got me. You got me. Do you have a... I gotta start. We gotta start using our inspiration dice.

Yeah, I was bent to just giving you one for that. His head snaps to you Kyborg and he says that His house is on fire But that his pet Jin is still Inside uh I don't Even say uh What kind of pet

Is it it's the best pet A rabbit I run in there I run in there I run in there I go to save the pet I call back to Gum Gum. I say, take care of him. I'm going to go get his pet rabbit. Okay, bye-bye. Hey, ask Duncan. Ask him if he knows where the elder is. He says, yeah, of course.

His mom's right next door. Here's your answer. Why would this kid necessarily know where this elder is? Just hopes. I mean, he's the only person we met. First person we met. Hey, do you know the answer to this thing we're looking for? How does Kyborg do with rescuing a rabbit? You know, you step inside the burning building and, you know,

beams are falling, lots of things are on fire. You realize it's a two-story building. You have to make an investigation check to see if you can find the rabbit. Okay, all right. My rabbit senses are dangling. Prepare his investigation. I've got to find my investigation check. This is not good.

That's a two. Inspiration die. Okay. Are you using it already? Yes. This rabbit is important. I used to own rabbits. Rabbits are very important to me.

Oh. Nine. You or Kyborg? Me. Wait, what do you mean? Blaine or Kyborg? Both. I actually used to own two rabbits, Fluffy and Bugs.

Oh. That's a great name. Yeah, you're having trouble finding it. There's just so much smoke, it's making it really difficult to see. Oh, and it's so hot. You take six points of fire damage. Gift of the Chromatic Dragon! Reactive Resistance.

I fire, you know, infuse myself so that I can have resistance to fire. Maybe that'll help with my checks. Could I cast control flames? I can cast it three times for three instantaneous. No, I can cast it three times consecutively. And what does that do? I can extinguish a five foot cube of flames. So let's say like that's 15 cubic feet of flames

in this house I extinguished just to maybe help his check. Oh yeah, absolutely. You're able to do that. And I would say that that would give kyborg advantage on an investigation check for the rabbit. Gumum, do you maybe want to ask Duncan to see if you could ask these people specifically about the name of the person we're looking for?

Maybe they'll know or be able to recognize that name? Sure, I will get to that in just a second. That's a great idea. I rolled a 6 and a 19. Yeah, you see the rabbit is at the top of the stairs on the second story, but it seems like there's a big burning beam blocking the way between you and him. How are you gonna get her? Oh, you have reactive resistance, right? Yes. What does that do?

Does that make you immune or? When you take acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison damage, you can use reaction to give yourself resistance. That instance of damage. I'm gonna hurdle this beam. Okay. Yeah you uh jump over it you would take some damage but i guess you're going to use your reactive resistance to negate that how much was it let me roll it you would take five points of burning down i'll take that i need to hold on to this for later all right but now you're on the other side you're gonna hop over again to come back no i'm gonna jump out a window. Oh! Yeah, so you all watch Kyborg go into

the house as it's aflame. The beams fall down and the first floor is totally crushed by fire and ash. And as that happens, out of the second story window, Kyborg jumps out with a rabbit in hand. There's a guitar riff and then I go... Right? Right, Micah?

I'm just blinking at you. You're gonna try to catch him? Yeah. Yeah, make a strength check. That was a nat one. Oh, yeah, you try to catch. I cast Gust. What does that do? I make a little pocket of air to the cushion their fall. I do have a...

I like how you're just wasting spell slots. These are cantri. These are cantri. I have the ring of jump, by the way, so that might help with my landing. That helps her up. That helps with downsies? No. No? No. No?

No. Well, jump, not land. Yeah, so... Oh, you need a ring of land on the other hand? You jump out the window without... Obviously without a very good plan, but luckily a giant gust of wind catch dude pops you up at the last second

and you land gracefully on your feet. What do I do? I just trip? Yeah. You're still waiting with your arms out. Okay, look, I'm ready. And I'm sorry, Barbara, you asked Duncan to ask what?

Uh, if this, I guess this little boy knows who, is it Estream or Sedream? Estream. Estream is. He says, uh, no, he has no idea, but my name is Lynn. Lynn? Okay. I make, I make a small, like, harness slash leash from some rope that I have. Maybe extra clothes for making. No, it's like it's not that hard to just tie it together.

I was, like, in the middle of talking to this boy, and then Kyborg just came again. But continue. I saved his rabbit, so maybe that's going to help him a little bit with persuasion. So anyways, I gave him back his rabbit, and I gave him the leash because I know how wily rabbits can be.

And I say, here you go, Lynn. Oh, a rabbit leash. I thought it was for the boy. Oh, no. He grabs the rabbit. Oh, and he leash. I thought it was for the boy. Oh, no. He grabs the rabbit. Oh, and he says, thank you. He says, I'll never lose Jin again. Nice.

Cool. Lin and Jin. Your mother. Stop it. Your mother is where? You said another house? Next door. He points at the building next door, which is also on fire.

So you had to save your rabbit before your mom? Priorities. He's a little kid. I don't think, you know, when you have, when you're so young, you think your parents can do anything. Yeah. It's like, you don't worry about them. But a helpless rabbit. Right.

It's like, but his rabbit, it's his, it's his responsibility. I run to the other house. Yeah. Outside the other house is a burly, or the next building I should say, is a burly female dragonborn who appears to be trying to douse the flames engulfing this building. I do the control flames thing again

and help. Okay, she's trying to control the flames, but all she has are blankets and you're able to control flames to kind of push them aside. And she says, thank you, but can some of you help me get some water from the river uh she points at the river y'all just crossed to help put this fire out like a water yeah i do i do create water and i create up to 10 gallons of water or and that i can make the

waterfall as a as rain in a 30-foot cube that's what oh that's i could do shoot ice arrows i could use my like one use of my rainbringer staff, but I'd probably save it if you can make water. I can make a lot of water. I can make water as well. Kyborg unzips his pants. Stop, stop. I'm helping.

All right, so you all start making water rain down to try to extinguish the fire. And I'm singing. Let the rain fall down. Here we go. Sweet. The water starts slowly causing the fire to diminish until it's fully extinguished. And the red dragonborn turns and says,

Thank you so much. You saved my business. Oh, what's the business? She points at the sign. Breeze Tea Shop. Tea. Tea. Tea's good.

We also saved your life, did we not? She was outside. Yeah, she wasn't inside uh we saved your kid's rabbit as well oh gin yes where was that rabbit second floor he didn't go inside the rear bedroom i got him he's yeah at that point gin walks up too i'm sorry uh lynn walks up do you want to ask the same question lynn is the boy gin is the rabbit mom is mom is what's your name breeze tea shop i Shop. I'm Bree. Bree Tea. B-R-I, by the way.

Oh, like the cheese. Well, yeah, almost. There's an E. Yeah. Oh, it's just B-R-I. Do you know where Estream is? Oh, Estream. Does she understand us?

You can, I assume you're either going through Kyborg or Duncan to get the translation. You got it. I feel like you phoning that one in now. Save his voice. Sounds like you're drowning. It does. She says that's his home right over there and points across the courtyard where the fountain is.

Before you say anything else, it's not on fire, is it? It's on fire. God, dog, come on! I cast another act of create water and rain water on the house. What's the range on that? I walk up to it. Okay, yeah, I'm just trying to convey it's like it's a bit of a distance across the courtyard. 30 feet is the distance, just to tell you.

You would have to get closer. You're probably 90 feet away or so at this point. Yeah, I'll go with. I think we all walk that way because this is who we're looking for. Yeah. I give Lynn a thumbs up and I say, stay cool. He just smiles. Wow, I smile just like him when i grow up and brie says thank you again and waves as you all are walking off that's draconic fur no problem oh i couldn't understand yeah so uh you walk up uh

and again like i said this building is also on. And you try to start extinguishing it again, Mud, as you walk up? I do it. It says it extinguishes. Exposed flame. Okay. Yeah. The flames start dying down. But you see, you can't really see anything from outside.

I'll run in. What if we cautiously went in? I guess as it fires. Fires out. Out. Okay. Yeah. I cautiously run in.

Cautiously run in. I might have some broken floorboards and stuff yeah you go inside and it's a two-story building when you cautiously run inside uh you don't notice anything immediately when you go first go in who went in other than gum gum so far i'm gonna ring of jump to the second floor oh make me a uh perception, make an investigation check. Me or Kyborg? Jump. Two. Okay. Yeah.

You ring of jump into the second floor? Aha. Yeah. All right. Yeah. You jump through an open window into the second floor and you see a wrinkled red dragonborn who seems to be cowering in fear in one of the corners, as well as that Shadrow, which you had previously seen with Namido with namido with namido in there this guy gets around i i uh use my longbow of crystallina and i say uh on s stream no

on the shadrow and i say forever winter oh this is fine is that cool with you yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm waiting for you to continue yeah yeah yeah i'm not stopping you. Okay, 26. That's hit. Okay, and then I do 9 damage plus, because they're a sworn enemy, 46 pull damage. That's 19. And then I'm just going to keep plugging arrows. So I've got three turns of this, so I'm going to keep going. 38? That was, yeah, 19 hit points on that one.

Okay, that one, you know, zips towards him and hits him. Oh, no. But at the last second, he catches it and throws it right back at you. Nah, I forgot about this move. My God, so nauseous. You should stop shooting this man. Do I have dexterity or anything that I can do to... I got to make a roll here to see if it's going to work or not.

While this is happening, can I also come into the building and... Yeah, you're downstairs with Gum-Gum? Yeah, meet up with them up here? Smart. He just catches it and tries to throw it back at you, but misses. And then he retreats into one of those portals like you saw previously.

Not with Estrin, though, right? No. Okay. I pull out the jade amulet and I say, we read this one and we gotta go. The wrinkled red dragonborn lets out a small yelp uh and then runs to another corner of the room trying to hide from you mud you're outside and bart and gum gum you're on the first floor yes and only cyborg's on the second floor and i guess i'll do i see anything do we see anything on the first floor? No, there's like a living area, many books.

I send Duncan in. Could I also go upstairs? Yeah. Can we go upstairs? I'm staying outside. Sure. Bart and Gum-Gum arrive upstairs along with Duncan, and you see a red dragonborn trying to hide and cower in the corner from Kyborg.

I catch them up on what happened. I say that there was the Shadrow. He went away in a portal. This guy scared me because I said we breathe as one. All of you make a perception check. Four. Y four yikes nine that's a low one for part of the two that's an eight for me oh okay what does dunkirk roll oh yeah duncan let's get christopher nolan on this i don't know why i said that oh duncan looks at the dragonborn and says it looks like he's shivering. Cold?

There's a fire. Not anymore. Or shivering because he's scared. Or because I shot a cold arrow at him. Does he seem hurt? It seems like there's something affecting him. I'm not sure what. Oh, can I do pull up my boomba?

Show me the magic. And you cast. I'm going to say it like Jerry Maguire. Show me me magic. So stupid. This show is so dumb. I do magic awareness. Yeah.

You detect a magic affecting the dragonborn. It appears to be some kind of illusion magic. Illusion magic affecting him. That's making him cold? That's making him afraid. He's terrified of us. Is there anything else in the room that's doing magic? The usual caveat. You, your

party, everyone. Uh, but nothing beyond that. Don't you have dispel magic, Mud? I do. He's magic. He's afraid. I'm outside. Oh, right. Uh, the wrinkled red dragonborn is still, like, cowering away beneath a window overlooking the river. Where's he looking? He's staring at all of you. Uh,

can I grab him and cover his eyes? That's a way to calm someone down. He might run away. Maybe Mud should come in here to dispel the magic. Could I yell out the window? Mud, we need you. There's a scared guy up in here, and you need to dispel some magic. Sure.

I got limitless ones of those. I do not. But I go in, and I cast it at the third level, uh, cause I'm running out of spell slots. Okay. And, uh, let me see the, any spell third level or lower on the target ends. If it's fourth level or higher, there's a check. Yeah. You cast dispel magic.

The dragonborn seems to like blink and kind of shake something off and then looks at you and says, oh, whoa. Thank you. I don't know what came over me. You're welcome. What were you seeing? I felt like I was trapped in an avalanche of snow. I've been there. Kind of the opposite.

There was fire. There was fire? Yeah, you're being attacked by a Shadrach. Who are you people? What are you doing in Tatora? We are the Infinites, and we're gathering you and the other two elders so that we can go to... Mount Saimodo!

Because we gotta summon a big old dragon. Gotta talk to the ancient dragons. How do you know all of this? We talked to... Oh, shoot. Namido. Namido. Uh, we breathe as one.

And I show him the amulet. The jade amulet. Oh. I start breathing heavily. Yeah. We breathe as one. And I show him the amulet, the jade amulet. Oh. I start breathing heavily. Yeah. Nami-do sent you? Then it must be dire. It's very dire.

Everything's on fire. Have you ever seen The Wire? What's Nami-do's plan? Your help we require. We gotta go to the mountain. Mount Cimodo. The Shadros have invaded and they're looking for the Palladians. Palladians.

Palladians. What is Palladian? We don't know what those are either. And I grin. I don't know. We don't know. I think they're the defenders of the Daiha Gems. What's that?

They're probably hot. Well, I'll head to Mount Sayamoto and meet Namido. Do you know where we could maybe find Shizu and Winabe? In the Tsunam province and the Sora province. Okay. But any, like, help on how to find them once we get there? Which one's closest? If I were you, I'd head to the Tsunam province and you can find Shizu's home.

They should be there. Gotta load that map. One moment. You maybe have like a cell phone number for him instead. This is a great episode. I'm having so much fun. Full fetch quest, going around towns. This is fun.

I love you guys. I attack Kaibor. Once you enter Sunam province, you'll find Shizu's home if you head left. Once you enter Tsunam Province, you'll find Shizu's home if you head left. Once you enter, veer to the left and stick to the left side, second building on the left. You got it. I can do that. He likes going left.

What about Winnaby? What about Winnaby? Winnaby. When you get there, Winnaby will most likely be in the large temple in Sora Prevalence. Alright, I don't suppose you have any healing potions in your house that we could take. Oh, I do! I have plenty. Yay!

Follow me. He goes downstairs. I hope they're not burnt. Yeah, and then he opens up a large chest, but it's all ash and charred. Oh, well, I did. I guess they got burned. We're gonna boogie. Do you have, like, a special guard or people that you trust that can

escort you to, uh, Mount Saimota? Absolutely. I'll get there immediately. They're not like your healing potions, right? Scorched. Oh, no. I hope not. I'll go find them. As we exit, could I yell to

Gen 3 and be like, do you happen to have any healing potions or healing items in your tea shop? I have lots of tea. Do they have healing properties? They make you feel warm. Okay, thanks, thanks. Maybe we should have given

that guy some of that. I know there's a fire. Here's a nice hot glass of tea. Also, you didn't yell that. I had to yell that for you. Draconic. Oh. Does she speak common?

I'll say no. Okay. We head to so many names. So many names this episode. Sora province for wannabe? There we go. Or do we want to get to the other one first? No, Shizu.

Sorry. We need to get to Shizu first. And the Shunan province. And the P There we go. Or do we want to go to the other one first? No, Shizu. We're going to Shizu. Sorry. We need to get a Shizu first. And the Sunam province. And the Hippomeranian. Yes. Shizu, we're going to who? Shizu in the Sunam province. Oh, Shizu is in the Sunam province.

Sorry. Yes. This will all be on the midterm. Election. I'm not sharing my notes. Listen, I'm writing these things down because I actually was able to help just... Jesus Christ. My apologies.

Please cut that. Please turn that into a song. I speak Draconic now. Sunan province, here we come. All right. It's not too far of a walk to get to the Sunan province. And as you arrive, there's a small river that you just need to wade through in order to it's just not very deep you need to cross in order to enter

the Tsunam province. Good part on my shoulders. How about you ask? Consent is... Art would you like to ride on my shoulders? Happy. Okay. Directly in front of you you see a well and then the path works path forks to the left and the right, and there's various

buildings in each direction. Well, we gotta go to the second building on the left. So we're going right. And is there anything on fire? You don't see anything on fire. No. Any shadows? Shadrows? Make a perception check. Show me the magic. Eight. Twelve.

Nothing that seems out of the ordinary so far. Wait, why did you make a perception check? Oh, I thought it was like a... No, it was just I asked him. He was asking a question. Yeah, nothing that seems out of the ordinary so far. Is there anything special with this well that looks noteworthy? I will say now make me a perception check, GumGum.

Five. Unless you want to use my other one. No, I want to use this one. Nope, it just seems like a well. I flick a coin inside and I make a wish. Ow! Oh, is someone up there? Help! Oh my god. Uh, what do you- Who's down there? Are you- Are they draconic?

Uh, yes. Alright. Uh, you look over and you see an elderly female silver dragonborn down at the bottom of the well. Can I lower the bucket? That's their name. Uh, what's your name? Um, Magon. Uh, please help.

Okay. Uh, I lower some rope. All right. Can I do the bucket? There is a rope nearby, but it's tied up into knots. Oh, that's perfect. Then they get to help. It's not long enough, though, because it's been tied up.

You're gonna need to untie it. How far down are they? Oh, at the bottom of the well. Can we see? Yeah, you saw an elderly female silver-born dragon. Like, depth-wise, like, how far do we... Oh, I see what you're saying. Um, you would estimate it's probably like

40 feet or so? Alright, I have a rope. Can I go do it? Rope. Sure, sure, yeah, I take Gum-Gum's rope. Thank you, Gum-Gum. And I lower it down, and I have me and Gum-Gum help her up. Or I was saying I go down and carry it because she's elderly. She's elderly.

She's going to need some help. You're stronger than I am. I'll admit it. You go down. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I go down there and I scoop her up. I'm guessing I'm not still on your shoulder. No, no, no.

This is all happening while Bart's there. Bart's there too? Yes. Right before Kyborg hops down the well, Bart hops off his shoulders. I would imagine we use the rope against the pulley thing. Is Bart claustrophobic? No, he just thinks that Kyborg doesn't need the extra very heavy weight of Bart. I like the challenge.

Yeah, Kyborg goes down and pulls up the dragonborn. And as you all come out, Kyborg and the dragonborn, you realize that you're covered in like a black ink. Oh. Ink, ew. Somebody's poisoned the water hole. kyborg and the dragonborn you realize that you're covered in like a black ink oh somebody's poisoned the water hole that was good megan says oh no this is our well for ink it's our reservoir of ink for calligraphers why were you down there how big is this well of ink how many calligraphers do you have a standard well she says oh i don't know how i got down there actually she looks at you all and says, wait, who are you all? You aren't from here. We're the Infinites.

You guys are being attacked by the Shadrow, and we're here to help by assembling the three elders, including Estream, Shizu, and Wannabe. We were sent here. Wannabe. Wannabe. We were sent here by Namito. Oh, well, that makes sense.

Yeah, where's Estre? We already found Estre. Oh. We're looking for Shizu. There you go. Who's in the second building on the left, according to Estre. Distracted by this well. Megan points at the second building, the one that you would have suspected.

It's a rather large building. It says, right over there. Are you okay? Yeah, how'd you fall in? Yeah. She doesn't know, but are you okay? I don't know. I think so. I feel fine. You just don't remember?

I don't remember. Do like a perception check. That's strange. See if something she's like... Tell me the magic! Okay. No magic radiates from her. Why don't you come with us? Are those amnesias here?

Let's go. You want to join us? We're going to go say shizu. You want to come with us? I'd much rather go home and clean off. Okay, go do that. Do you need an escort? Yeah.

Oh, no, my home's right over there. She points on the other side from the well. I just need to walk right across the path here. Okay. This is an odd encounter. It is. As she's going, could Bart just watch her? Make sure she gets into her house?

Yeah, it's not very far. It's 25 feet or so. She just has to cross a small path and walk into a building. And yeah, she walks through the building, no problem. Alright, let's go see Shizu. That was a very normal meeting of a person. Something's off, though. She didn't remember and I wonder why.

We can ask Shizu. He might know. It seems like he's a... Yeah, I have not specified. Thank you, John. Yeah, you turn around and start making your way over to Shizu's house. Everyone go ahead and make me a perception check. 10. 21.

12. Destined 18. Bart and Mud, as you're crossing the path to head over to Shizu's home, you notice off to your right there's a small, very idyllic pond. But for some reason, you notice it looks like it's frozen solid. Is it cold in this environment at all? No. Is the door or anything frosty?

Oh, no. This is like a pond off to the side. But no, the door for Shizu. No, no, no. When I did my show, show me the magic, I see magic within 60 feet. Yeah. Did I see anything else? No.

Okay. Is there anything in the pond? Wait. No, we're not by the pond. It's just like down the path a little more to the right but it's frozen yeah and actually now who had the hyrule bark now that you look closer you see that it looks like there's a dragonborn stuck in the pond oh my gosh um could i uh use my i think I have a potion of fire breath. Hey. And use it on the pond to like melt it. Ooh, that's pretty cool. Excuse me.

Yeah, absolutely. You use your potion of fire breath. And that has three charges and I just use the first one. Nice. And the water begins to melt. And it's a, it was a short male silver dragonborn who was trapped in the frozen pond. And he begins moving, and is free, and begins wading out of the pond over to you all. Thank you so much.

Bart helps pull him out. Oh, he appreciates it. You're not from here. Who are you guys? Mud Hen's in the pamphlet that he's been working on this entire time, so we don't have to do this with every single person. Oh, infinites. Okay, never heard of them. My name's Bax.

You have to help my partner, Weyado. He was forced to do this by the Shadrow. What? Forced to do what? He was forced to use freezing breath and freeze me into the pond. Oh. Uh, where is he? Did you also see this guy push an elderly woman down an inkwell by any chance?

They put someone in the well? Yeah, maybe. It's okay. She's well. What was your name? What was your name again? I hate it. Uh, maybe. It's okay. She's well. What was your name? What was your name again? Magon. Magon. He says he's in a building right

over here and he points to the building right across the street. That's the third building on the left. The one next to Shizu's home. Are we getting distracted? I feel like we are, but we should just keep pulling this thread. I mean, we gotta find out what's going on. Yeah. Should we split it up? Approach the house and perceive what I perceive.

What do you mean approach the house? It's like you're trying to perceive from the outside? Which house? The third on the left. Yes. Second on the left. Third on the left is where the boyfriend is. Correct.

Partner. Partner. I go to that house. I join. Ryan, you said you want to perceive, but I was asking like, how are you perceiving? Like, what does that mean? I'm looking at it.

Oh, you're looking at it? It's just a pretty run of the-the-mill, like, straw-thatched roof house. Nothing seems extraordinary about it. I knock on the door. You knock on the door, and you hear a very weak, help. I'm going to bust down the door. And I bust down the door. You bust down the door, and you see another silver dragonborn who's being restrained by a shadrow.

Is it the same shadrow from earlier? My mortal enemy? No, different one. Okay, bonus action. Forever winter, you are my mortal enemy. And I take some attacks. Oh God, they're going to throw the arrows back at you. I don't know why you keep doing the same thing. What's the definition of idiocy?

Insanity. That's 12 plus 46. 16. Yeah, there you go. The shadrow catches it, but is unable to throw it back at you. The arrow flies right at them, but snatches it out of the air and just tosses it to the ground. I'm going to keep shooting arrows until you shoot back, back I say. Shoot another arrow.

Why? Because they can only do it once. You don't know that. Well, we're going to test it out. Imagine that hit. It's 22, 7, plus 13, 20. Uh, yeah, this one hits the Shadrow. Uh, the Shadrow does not react

and seem to be able to catch this one. So it hits and plants itself, doing 20 points. What's that, like, 7 from the arrow and what's the 13? 7 is, uh, yeah, standard piercing damage, and then 13 is ice damage, which is the longer crystal there. Oh, okay. Yeah, the Shadrow, uh, grunts in pain and jumps out one of the windows, uh, on the eastern side of the buildingbow crystallina. Oh, okay. Yeah, the Shadrow grunts in pain and jumps out one of the windows on the eastern side of the building.

See it? Attack of opportunity! Side away. You all approach from the west and it jumps out the other side. You don't get an attack of opportunity. Well, okay, here's the thing. Longbow crystallina, when I declare that they're my enemy, ranged attacks, I don't have any disadvantage, so they can just run as far as they want. I'm going to still plug them.

That does not dictate that. That's not how that works. Okay, well they want. I'm going to still plug them. That's that. The logic does not dictate that. That's not how that works. Okay. Well, whatever. I still want to shoot an arrow. Okay. You shoot another arrow. You still see him.

We can start talking about this guy. I can see Barbara's head in her hand, but I still want to take a shot at this guy. Screw it. I failed that. Okay. All right. Let's continue on. What are we doing?

How did you fail it? Tell me. I got a one. Oh, yeah. The bowstring snaps. You're going to need to restring restring that bow okay fine restring my breath so he jumps out a window yeah like where like towards us uh on the opposite side of the building hear it yeah uh i don't know if you hear it just jumped out a window

oh was it there wasn't glass no oh okay okay go in the restrained dragonborn is still there uh and then backs runs in as well with you and says, Oh, thank you. He runs up and begins untying his partner. Wait, this isn't Shizu? No. Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh, no, I'm Weyato.

Shizu lives in the next house. Okay. What made you cast that cold breath to freeze your partner under that lake? The Shadrow was threatening to kill him if i didn't do it oh romance my gosh he you guys happen to have any healing potions in this house they're giving the pamphlet asking for healing potions or anything to help us on our quest to save the elders i'm just specifically asking for potions uh i'm afraid not we don't keep we don't keep anything like that on hand here sh Shizu may have something, though.

All right. Really quick, do you guys know anything about Megan? We found her stuck in the inkwell, and she seemed a little disoriented. Why was she in the inkwell? I don't know. We got her out, though. Is she okay? Does she just kind of have a memory thing going on, or what's up with that?

Maybe the Shadrow did that to her. That sounds really unusual. Okay. This better result in something. They're just making chaos. Yeah. They really are. Head to the Shizu's house and put my ear to the door.

Make a perception check. Love to, my good friend Gustavo. I smack you on the butt. 17. That really bolsters your confidence. Okay. You're welcome. Thank you.

You don't hear anything. At the very least maybe like some muffled talking everyone stand back i'm gonna do something insane i'm gonna try magic i try the doorknob whoa the door uh is unlocked oh and it opens crime of opportunity right there i clap gotta keep your doors locked. Going inside. You open the door and step inside and you see all along the floor are shards of ice sticking up like stalagmites.

Cool. I step around them. Okay. Does everyone else go in or? Could I use another spell of my fire breath potion to melt them? Oh yeah. I don't, I wait. I wait for the fire breath.

Hold on. Bart puts a hand in front of Mud and uses his potion of fire breath to go and does it all around the room. It's like it's our smallest member stopping our biggest member. It's like, what's it called when it's like mom hand when you're driving.

Come to a really quick stop and you put your arm in front. Can you burp afterwards? Oh, no, I can't. Hey! Yeah, all of the ice stalagmites melt. Everyone make me a... Well, I guess who walked in? Mud, Bart.

I now walk in. I was thinking... Just answer the question, please. Who walked in? I was going to jump in. I walk in. The stuff is jump in. I walk in. The stuff is melted now. I walk in.

Okay. Mud and Bart make a perception check. Another one? Let's say 14. 22. Nice. Mud, you realize that the voices you hear are from above you. You look above you and you realize the voices are coming from near the ceiling.

And you see that shad draw from earlier holding by the throat a beautiful silver dragonborn like floating yeah floating in the air and you hear the silver dragonborn say i don't know maybe the sora province and then the dragonborn gets dropped and the shadrow disappears the dragonborn so is this the same shadrow that had the arrow in it from Kyborg? This is the one. This is like the fancy one. I can say it. Nami-do? No, not. The one that had Nami-do? We had Nami-do.

Okay. You said you try to catch the Dragonborn? Oh, I don't try. Make a strength check. I do. Crack your butt. And he said maybe Sora, which is the location that the Wunabi is in. That's an 11.

Yeah, it's not graceful, but you're able to catch this silver Dragonborn. I never said mud was graceful. And the dragonborn says, Oh, thank you so much, but you have to hurry. They are going to Soar Province. Well, we need you to go to Mount Sayamoto. We were sent here by Namido.

What? Why? I hand the pamphlet. I show them the amulets and I say, We breathe as one. We're trying to summon the ancient dragon. Oh, that makes sense. Nam show them the amulets and I say, we breathe as one. We're trying to summon the ancient dragon. Oh, that makes sense. Namita's the smart one. That's smart. Yeah. So am I. My name's Skyborn.

Roll an intelligence check. No, roll deception. Oh, okay. I guess I can do that. This makes sense. This is Shizu, right? Shizu, yeah. Shizu, yeah. Is it Shizu? The dragonborn has not said that,. This makes sense. This is Shizu, right? Shizu, yeah. Shizu, yeah. Is it Shizu? The dragonborn has not said that, but you're assuming.

This is Shizu's house. What's your name? I'm Shizu. Oh, it's a lovely name. Is that a family name? Make sure you hurry. They are headed to Sora province. That's a bit rude.

What are they going to do there? They're looking for something called the Palladiants. Oh, weird. Never heard of those. I hate those. Wait, Shizu, is Shizu an elder? That's Shadians. Oh, weird. Never heard of those. Wait, is Shizu an elder? That's Shizu. Yes.

Okay, just making sure. You said she was like real pretty and stuff. So I was like, well, yeah. There's nothing wrong with that. She'll be old and pretty. Not exclusive. Well, you know, I mean, I thought you were like, what was Elise's character? You know, a little shrimp lady.

Anyway, sorry, go ahead. We're going to go to Sword Province. Post-Haste, you get your butt to Mount Sayamoto. Do you need help getting up there? Let's just end. Blaine, thanks once you're ahead. We're going to go to Sora province. Post Ace, you get your butt to Mount Saimoto. Do you need help getting up there? Let's just end. Blaine thinks once you're old, you're no longer attractive. Mud takes the shovel out of Blaine's hands. No, no. Just go down the well.

See you guys. Oh, yeah. I want to go and check on this old lady that fell in the well. Should we first ask what the quickest way to the Sora provinces? Yeah, that's a good question. Before we leave? That's a good question.

If you exit Tsunam province to the south, you'll reach Sora province very quickly. Also, what's up with Megan? She was in a well and didn't seem... Why was she in the well? How do we... Age-old question. Mud jumps in the well. No.

Join me down here. I have no idea. That sounds extremely unlike her. It's where I belong. We were going to go check on Megan. We're never going to find out why she went down there. No, we won't. Megan is the actual final baddie.

She's just senile, you know? Yeah. Well, it sounded like it was out of character, so I think it might have been something. We should go check by her house before we go to the Sora province. I have a final question. Jisoo, do you happen to have any healing potions in your house? The second pamphlet is handed over.

Gumbo is just on my shoulder working on pamphlets. He's a wonderful graphic designer. Oh, I might have something. Hold on. He opens up the chest and starts rummaging through it and pulls out two here they look like they have a little bit of ice in them it kind of shakes them they should still be good all right I hand both to gum gum are they just regular healing person yeah do you want to deliver them to you I got them and I hand them to gum gum

and I say drink these my fingers say oh god I did not mean to stress that that is not I did not mean to hear okay I rolled a one and I didn't mean to so that would be 44 plus four if you give both Yeah, he's gonna be a sloshy boy Chuck Chuck Chuck. You have to go pee. That's five nine three ones I'm trying you really I'm up to 82. That's pretty good. That's not bad Let's go say hi to Megan before we go to the Soror province. So do you all go? Oh, it's not far. It's just, you know, across the courtyard. Yeah. So

you go to her house? I'll go check out the well. Why not? I want to go to the house. Bart, you good with that? Checking on this whole thing? Yeah, I don't think I really have the You all go to the house except for Gum Gum who goes to the well. I mean, I guess I'll go with y'all. That's fine. Okay.

You knock on the door and Megan opens it. She appears to be trying to clean herself up, but she still does have some ink on her. And says, oh, it's you again. I look past her and see if there's any danger, since if there's any shadrows. Make a perception check. All right. 20. Nothing seems out of the ordinary. She has a small meal on a table laid out.

That's probably the only unusual thing. We need a code word that Gus can say when we are 100% wasting our time. I like how he's like, you need every second, every precious second to find these people and do this task. Well, it's his fault for introducing a weird character. Let's go follow up with a character we already helped. Yeah. But everyone's like, oh, that's acting strange. Strange behavior. Strange behavior. That's why we're here.

Alright. It's lovely to see you again. Just so you know. Do you happen to have any healing potions in your house that I might procure? No, but I have some water if you want that. I'd love a glass of water.

All right. Where are we going to next, Bart? We are going to... Let me open my pouch of notes. We're going to the Sora province. Yeah. We have to go to the south to get there fastest. Yes.

And we're looking for Winabi. Look at that. Yeah. So you all head south, Megan in tow. I'm just kidding. No. She's back down at the bottom of the well. No.

You don't know. I sit her down in her chair and I say, eat your food. And Estream said that they're likely in a large temple. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. So you all head south. And as you near the province of Sora, you notice dark clouds forming overhead, rumbling with thunder.

Great. A barely visible sun is nearing the western horizon. You reach Thorin, the town is peaceful. No fires, no screams, no battles, just silence. As you walk through the village on the main thoroughfare, it doesn't take long before you guess where Elder Winnabi might be. At the end of the path

is a temple partly shrouded in darkness. And there's likely a lot of Shadrachs here because they're looking for... Yeah, because Shizu sent them this way. Paladins. She's supposed to be in the large temple. All right. Well, let's approach.

Yeah, let's start walking towards the large temple. I use... Pass without a trace. Thank you. Smart bard. Pass without a trace. Okay. And that affects everyone, right?

Everybody. All my friends. And that just adds plus 10 to everyone, right? Everybody! All my friends. And that just adds plus 10 to stealth, right? Yeah, for the duration of the creature you choose, each creature you choose is in a 30-feet of view, plus 10 bonus to dex, and can't be tracked except by magical means. Yeah, you enter the courtyard,

and you kind of turn a bit and have to walk to the north to approach the temple. And as you, you know, walk into this courtyard, off to the east you see, like, a little shed courtyard, off to the east you see like a little shed, and off to the west it looks like a ceremonial drum that's roped off. And at the end of the path you see the temple, but even from the outside it's clear that the center of the building is shrouded in darkness.

Like magical darkness? Unnatural. You've seen this darkness before. It looks like the darkness you've seen. Would you say it's my old friend? Alright, thanks for listening everybody. We're done with this podcast. It's over. I'm going on a record of how many times I get Gus to shake his head. That one was pretty good.

That was good. Don't encourage it. All notes. Is it like that darkness when we docked? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, exactly. I have an idea.

Yes? Yeah. Please. What if the little lad who's able to be invisible and has the benefits of my past, tell us a little bit of reconnaissance. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. I cast invisibility on myself. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. You get advantage on stealth and plus 10.

Yes. Where did Bart go? I don't know. I picture Bart like jumping around. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Like looking left and right. And we have to remind Bart, Bart Bart you can't do the theme song While you're invisible

Or else they'll catch you I do it really hard Maybe they think they left A bluetooth speaker on somewhere Alright So how do you want to Approach this Bart? Selfily

Wise Like are you gonna go up to Like check a door Are you gonna go into the darkness you're gonna go like go around the side look for a window uh let me um let me just go see if there's a door that's unlocked you would speculate that the door is probably currently shrouded in that darkness because the darkness is like kind of right in the center of the temple okay so you'd have to enter the darkness to try to find okay so could I go around the side then that's not covered in darkness? Sure. You need to go, as you're approaching, you need to go to the left or to the right.

Let's go to the left. Nice. This one's for you, Kyborg. Kyborg senses something. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As you're getting closer to the temple, you can hear rumblings of thunder coming from

inside the temple itself. you can hear rumblings of thunder coming from inside the temple itself. You walk over to the left and peek into the window. I'm going to make my perception check to see if you notice. Yeah, it doesn't matter. They don't see you. Yeah, you peek into the window and you see a Shadrow turning over a room. Looks like they're looking for something in this room. Do I recognize the Shadrow?

No. Okay. I only see one, you said? Yeah, in this room that you went to the left, you recognize this Shadrow? No. Okay. I only see one, you said? Yeah, in this room that you went to the left, you see one Shadrow in here. Okay. And it sounds like that thunder or that rumbling you heard is coming from the right, kind of inside that darkness. Okay. Could I do something?

Yeah. You're at a window. But you don't know that, I guess, right? Oh, right. Yeah, Bart is invisible. Yeah. All right. You can make a perception check to try to see Bart.

Sure. It's not going to go well for you. I'm going to see this little lad. This is a 23. Oh, make a stealth check, Bart. With advantage. I know. I don't think it's going to go well for you.

And just to clarify, the only reason I'm having Bart roll and I didn't have Bart roll when I rolled earlier is I rolled a six and a one. There's no way. Yeah. That was impossible.

With advantage, this is 31, but plus 10 is 41. You have no idea where Bart went. Then I do nothing. This is Bart's show. Okay. Could I go to a different window? Yeah.

Which direction do you want to go? I guess continuing around the building. Yeah. This was a rather large room, so you know you're going to have to go around to the back of the building to get to a different room do you want to go all the way around yeah you peek in that window make my check no point yeah and you peek in and it's like you see like a sitting room and again see another shadrow like ripping open cushions and flipping over uh furniture looking for something looking for an item or the elder looking for well why would they be looking for a humanoid type thing within furniture and stuff that doesn't make sense when you're looking for, well, why would they be looking for a humanoid type thing within furniture and stuff?

That doesn't make sense. That's when you're looking for a thing. It seems like they're looking for something, yeah. Yeah. Just one, you said, right? Yes. And do I recognize him? No.

Okay. Could I continue around the other, like, walkways? Yeah, yeah, you can. You can also see into this next room from the backside of the building. Okay. Make my check. I don't know why I do this. It's pretty much impossible.

Yep, no point. Yeah, you peek into this room, and it looks like it's sleeping quarters, like a bedroom. And again, there's another Shadrow in here that you do not recognize. Cutting open the mattress, looking under the bed, kind of searching for something. Okay, weird. And I don't see Winnabe at all, right? I don't see any sort of... No, all you see so far are these three Shadrow, one in each room.

Okay. I guess, is there any more windows I could check before getting back to the front of the building? No. From what you can tell based on looking in, it's only these three rooms and then the fourth room by the front door that's currently shrouded in darkness. All right. Could I return to my party? Yeah. Bart magically appears. No! Well, I'm still invisible, I think. Oh, no. Okay. Yeah, Bart's invisible.

Don't freak out. It's me, Bart. Sorry. I stepped on your jaw. It's okay. That's good. So good. So there are at least three Shadrows in there looking for something. They're tearing apart cushions.

They're looking under things. I don't know what they're looking for, but this house is probably full of them. Is it the big old temple? Big old temple. Got multiple stories? No, one. Oh, okay. But I suppose we either,

we got to go for the direct approach. Maybe if we tried to lure them out into a trap. That could potentially work. Oh, how we do that? I don't know. Call them out to the front and then like sneak around behind them. I could cast an illusion.

We could pretend to be, what's her name? We don't know what she looks like. One of the elders. Oh, yeah. Do an illusion and I will do a... Before you do that, I'm going to make a perception check one more time. I'm sorry. 19. 13.

16. Mud and kyborg, you hear a particularly loud crack of thunder come from the temple. Probably no time. Let's go in. Approach the door and open it well it's dark right yeah you'll have you feel for it and slide it open as you approach the darkness get closer

you see a bronze dragonborn jump out of the darkness and then quickly jump back in as in like pulled back in no jump of their own free will which way were they facing as they jumped out facing still towards the darkness facing towards the building like jump backwards and then jump back in there yeah did they okay uh you know what a cast to spell magic oh yeah let's see it's a good thing you have that i don't know what we would do let's see the darkness dissipates and you see that fancy shadrow from before locked in combat uh with an elderly bronze dragonborn with waves of thunderous storm breath emanating from the dragonborn every now and then, keeping the Shadrow at bay.

The elder catches sight of you all for a second and throws a dagger that hits one of the posts along the walkway near you. He looks at you and says, Hurry, leave! And he turns his attention back to the Shadrow, who is in combat. All right, see you later.

Can I grab the dagger? Yeah, you grab it, and there's a little piece of paper with a drawing attached to it. leave and he turns his attention back to the shadow who is in combat all right yeah later uh can i grab the dagger yeah you grab it and there's like a little piece of paper with a drawing attached to it on the deck or that he like like wrapped around i can wrap around the hill well yeah i can't can i borrow that gum gum well i mean what but you can read it because yeah it's drawing yeah what is it oh okay sorry got it got it it It's got a picture of like a hand-drawn horn and a drum on it. Didn't we see a drum? Yeah, we saw a drum coming into the town. Yeah.

Did we see a horn? I don't recall. I perceive there's any horns around. We saw a big drum. Not a horn. Dog. Coming into the... I perceive there's any horns in this big building.

Maybe that's what they're looking for. That might be what they're looking for. Okay. Never mind. Yeah, that's what they're looking for. Oh. There's a big drum? Yes.

What's the drum? Is the drum like a big old timpani kind of thing? Yeah, similar to that. It's slightly roped off. What if someone goes to hit the drum and see if that does anything? I break the drum open. You break the drum open? Okay.

What? Maybe we needed it. Maybe we needed it? I thought maybe the horn was in it. What? Okay, it wasn't. I don't break the drum open. I smack Gumbo on the drum. It lets out a very loud bassy boom.

Oh, wait, that's on the other side of town, though, right? Oh. What, the drum? No, it's in the courtyard here, right in front of the temple. Oh, the courtyard. When you walked into the courtyard, there was the drum to your left and a shed to the right. Oh, look in the shed. I'll head to the shed. Somebody want to come with?

Yes. All right, so then Gumbo, why don't you hang out with Mud? All right, Bart and I go in the shed. I'll head to the shed. Somebody want to come with? Yes. All right. So then, why don't you hang out with the mud? All right. Bart and I go to the shed. You two approach the shed, and inside there's a bunch of musical wind instruments. Horns, flutes, things of that nature. Multiple horns?

Well, multiple styles of horn, I should say. French, sax. Can we tell what kind of horn was on the drawing? Yeah. Yeah, you find one that looks very similar to what was in the drawing. Okay. Bard? Bard.

Yeah, could I... I like to do drums. Could I bring it out and say, hit that drum on the count of three. And then on the count of three, Bart will also try to play the horn. Yeah. Yeah. I want a performance check from Bart. Okay.

And from Gum-Gum. Okay. One's going to be higher than the other. Mine is a 30. It is a drum at least. Nine. Gum-Gum invents a new time signature for his drumming that you've never heard before. I have proficiency.

I know how to use drums. What does that mean? I have proficiency in drums. What does that mean? No, you don't. Stop saying that. Alright. As you blow into the instrument and beat the drum,

thunder roars overhead louder and louder, and crack! A flash of lightning strikes the drum, and boom! The drum turns a shade of deep blue and transforms into a large sapphire bottom. The brilliant blue tower starts crackling with energy, and before you can take another breath, ka-pow! Bolts of blue lightning surge from the spikes,

striking each of you in your chest. Oh! Y'all are dead. Go ahead and give me all the characters. Oh, no. Stop that. I don't like that. No, no, no.

But if you want to find out what does happen, you have to tune in to the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Maybe we're super powerful now. Was our song cool, at least? It was just... It sounded cool. You liked it. Mike is going to go nuts with this.

Yes, just like that. Thanks for listening, everyone. I want to give a quick shout out to folks that interacted with us on social media recently. Here are some NPCs named after them in this episode. Namito, the Dragonborn Elder, named after at user falsely named. Did I say that weird? A.K.A. Graham. Bo Link, the Shadrow Leader, named after at Link IB.

Ladoria, the Shadow Dragon, named after at La Ladoria. Lin, the Little Red Dragonborn Boy and his rabbit gen, named after at Legion 8182. S Dream, the dragonborn elder, named after at S Dream Writes. Shizu, the dragonborn elder, named after at Grilled She's. Bree, the tea shop owner dragonborn, named after at Bloody Horror Bree. May Gon, the dragonborn stuck in the well, named after at Megan Plains. Why was she down there? We'll never know.

Bax, the frozen dragonborn, named after at Wyatt Plains. Why was she down there? We'll never know. Bax the Frozen Dragonborn named after at WyattBax91 and Wanabe the Dragonborn Elder named after JustWannaBeFunny. Get it? Also want to give a special thanks to some friends who provided voiceover for characters in this episode. Inku was voiced by Raquel Lilly. Elder Namito voiced by our Stinky Dragon producer

Brendan Carruthers. Elder Wanabe voiced by another Stinky Dragon producer Ben Ernst. Elder Estream voiced by Quentin Smith and Elder Shizu voiced We'll see you next week with another episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Thank you.