The Adventure Zone - The Adventure Zone: Abnimals Ep. 21: A Deal With Killdeath!

Episode Date: February 27, 2025

The Abnimals cooperate with the affable Dr. Killdeath in his volcano fortress on Governor's Island. They've gotten in – but can they get out?Sgt. Salamander performed by Brennan Lee Mulligan: https://brennanleemulligan.com/Abnimals Theme by Justin McElroy, Eric Near (https://bit.ly/ericnearmusic) and Jonathan Coulton (https://www.jonathancoulton.com/).Additional Music in this Episode: "Sweet n Dirty", "Heads Turn", "Neo Soul", "Deja Vu", "Colossal", "The Heavy Three", "Courage My Love", and "Walk Tall" by Mr. Smith: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSk2j0fTMw9V94UGyfWrSuA?; "Air" by Jesse Spillane: http://www.jessespillane.com/; "Turn around" by Koi-discovery: https://koi-discovery.lescigales.org/; "Metal Goat" by Midnight Commando: https://midnightcommando.com/; "Electric Birds" by Scott Holmes Music: https://scottholmesmusic.com/; and "Task Man" by Gamesharkoff: https://gagmesharkoff.bandcamp.com/. World Central Kitchen: https://wck.org/ Happy MaxFunDrive! Right now is the best time to start a membership to support your favorite shows. Learn more and join at https://maximumfun.org/jointaz

You're at the height of our powers Atop the tallest in towers To stay You'll never stop us now And we'll do it with me much Until it's turning out just like to play And the way So wrong is long

But our mojo is strong And unless I'm wrong And I'm not We're at the height of our power You're standing in the middle of the pavilion of the planned neighborhood of Governor's Island. As you clear several at community center houses, different kind of buildings,

ice cream shop, all that stuff, you can see the area you were directed towards that you believe is the home of Dr. Kildath. It's kind of hard to miss now that you are clear of all the other buildings because it is a clearly man-made volcano, like something you might see in Disney's Animal Kingdom. Uh, cool. Do they have a volcano at Animal Kingdom?

They have a lot of stuff. But you know what I mean? Like when you see like the floating rocks in like the avatar world. And you're like, oh, okay. I know there's a waste of a volcano in the rainforest cafe logo. There you go. I can visualize that pretty easily. Do you mean animal made?

No. Fake volcano. Okay. Okay. No, I don't. There's humans in this world too. Oh, well, I know. Right.

But this looks like abnimal. Yeah, this looks like some act. Oh, you can see the hands of maybe a badger man. Jeremy Badger. Yeah. Jeremy Badger Man. Cool. Can we just stroll right up to the governor's mansion?

Just give him a go and knock? I mean, and by governor, I mean kill death? Yeah, definitely. There's an opening. You see like a cave, a cavern, you know, made to look like scary fangs and teeth, you know, a growling face that you can enter through. That's weird In the volcano?

The front of the volcano, yeah, it's the entryway into the cavern of the volcano. Is there any obvious guards? That's a great question that we should just de facto sort of ask, I think. Just assume I'm always asking that. No. Great. Really? Okay.

Can I like knock on the walls of this case? I want to see if this is just paper mache, if this is just sort of a facade. God. Yeah, go for it. Okay. What is my hand feel? Yeah, without, I mean, you can just touch it. It is definitely artificial kind of covering.

It's not made of rock. Okay. Maybe some sort of like. It's not a naturally occurring man-made volcano. Okay. Yeah, no, I guess great. Nature works of a serious way. Right.

Fellows, why don't I scout out the situation? I'll leave it. As an infiltrator. Yeah. I just feel like things tend to work better when we're together, man. There certainly is more destruction. We're together. Yeah.

The cavern is wide open. You guys can, like, peek into it if you'd like. Yeah, let's just take one. Yeah, we're peeking into it. Like, what do we see? Thank you, Justin. Inside. Unbelievable. You see. Is seeing?

Is seeing not a, I assumed, do you not assume, like, visual focus? You hadn't told me you approached it. I opened my eyes. I did say at the end of the last episode, I closed my eyes and keep them close forever. So I opened. Wow.

Good narrative workaround. It looks amazing in here. This looks sick. This looks like Barber Strice's basement. Inside. What I'm saying is literally, this looks exactly like Barbara Strice's basement. I watched a video of it yesterday.

Wow. This is actually a real place. It's one of my favorite places that exists that I've yet to get to visit, but it is an underground bunker built in the 60s or 70s in Las Vegas and it was built to be this house with like a pool and fake palm trees.

It's where they filmed blast from the past during Brendan Fraser. Got a huge blast from the past synergy. Okay. And this is all inside the cave. Yeah, so inside the cavern, you see house with a manicured art.

artificial lawn, lots of fake plants. It has like a grotto kind of pool. Everything is maybe a little too vibrantly colored, lit by fluorescent lights. It has a very homey, kitchy vibe to it. Okay. You can see a large fountain, a patio set. You know, you see the like a little wishing well.

And of course the pool house by the pool. Where is it? the pool. Thanks. Um, hey, before we head in here, what do you all actually know about kill death? Aside from all this stuff from like the papers, I don't know what kind of guy we're going to be running into in here. If we need to be...

You guys think it's just one guy? You think that kill death is some sort of committee? Well, some friends of mind me kick around the idea that maybe it's like a bunch of guys. I want to stroll right in. This is, this is prison. It's like no one gets a special little house inside a prison. That's crazy. We're allowed to go here.

I am going to slip into the pool. I was going to. Covertly. Oh, that's great. You're just going to go for a swim? No, I'm going to covertly slip into the pool. He's stronger wet. Just like I said.

I'm stronger wet. I'm stronger hiding. I don't know what to expect. I'm a little hot. Honestly, it's like kind of mugging. We're in a volcano. I don't love it, right? So I'm just going to slip into the water.

Okay. You slip into the water. It's heated. It's nice. But not too hot. It's pleasant. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's what I assumed.

And are there laser sharks? Freaking, freaking, throw him a bone, Travis. Yeah, there's laser sharks. They eat Lyle. Throw him a freaking bone, man. Lyle's all chewed up by laser sharks. Good. Awesome. Do we see any sign of kill death? You see that the lights are on inside the home.

Great. You see a front door with a doorbell. Yeah, let's ring that. You ring the doorbell and the door opens into the kitchen. That is a weird place for the front door to open up into. It's all pretend, though. That's true. Good point. This is a fake house. Yeah, okay.

There wouldn't be a front door to anywhere. And before you is a large man in flannel pajamas with bedhead, fuzzy slippers. Sorry, it's a man? Well, I'm freaking out. Not quite. Okay. Travis. This picture you've...

This finally messed up too bad for me to love you. Travis has just shared an image of a man. I don't know if Travis made this image. Here's how I would describe this man. This man looks like an eight... Okay, imagine Krang. Now imagine if Krang... If Krang is from Teenage Ninja Trills,

which is a big man with a brain in his stomach behind a window. Imagine Krang, except he's wearing knit pajamas and he's made of clay, and he looks like Santa with sunglasses, and he's got... What I can only describe is JRP hair? It's bedhead, Justin.

Clearly. He kind of, okay. He looks like squaw. And this is illegally distinct from Crang because it's obvious to anyone looking that it is a pancreas in his tummy. With a face? It's a crink. It's a crankerius.

What do you want? Was that the pancreas or the man talking? Well, it's the pancreas talking. Okay. Okay. I'm just looking up at the human face and down at the pancreas rapid. And my facing down here Okay, but I'm I've, you have to forgive me.

I don't want to be rude or uncomfortable, but I don't know which head to talk. You've never seen an alien pancreas piloting a Metsuit before. I'm so glad I'm hiding. Of course I haven't. No. Do you know anyone else like that? No. So it seems not my reaction seems to maybe a little.

And it's cool. I'm not saying it's bad. Maybe you're the alien. Okay. So, uh, we're looking for kill, kill death. He's not home. No visitors. What's your name?

My name's Cleft. And do you live here? Yeah, no doye. No, doye? No, doi? Sorry, I stride out of the water. Excuse me. Wow. Excuse the heck out of me.

Were you swimming? I know this is your home pal, but nobody gets to talk to my best pals that way. Okay? You know what? Listen, we're here for information and we're not here to be talked to like dirt. So why don't we start fresh? My name is Axelio. Nope, it's not.

That was a joke he tells sometimes. We have criminal names. I'm Hammer Ned. I said Maxillio. Listen, I get it. Every new prisoner wants to come and worship him and defeat of Dr. Kildeth. No visitors. Are you like his bodyguard, or what's your relationship to Dr. Kildath?

I'm his partner. Would you say you're the biggest, meanest person, creation, abnormal in this housing community? Like you are... I don't consider my... out to be mean, just very rude. Yeah, I'll say... What do you think being means, man? I'm not cruel.

Fellows, if you remember, we got instructions to take down the biggest meanest to establish our... Well, let's be clear. Yeah, that was Axel-Ile's instruction, so we don't have a boss, per se. I know, but it was a good suggestion, so I say we need to take...

It's really good. I remember making it now. It was good then. It's great now. And then you almost got... Let's take you down. Okay. Before, before we do that, let's see if we can get some information from him before.

If we start throwing fisticuffs. If we're talking through this, it might be easier for us to get information after. He made me more forthcoming, man. I guess, I guess so. I can hear you. Hey, okay, well, if you're eaves dropping, then let me ask you.

I'm not standing right here. I want to kind of ask you a serious question. Sure. Do you, and let's save everybody a lot of time. Do you feel like you would be more forthcoming before or after getting beaten up? This is just for a quiz. It's like a sorting quiz. A self-assessment.

A self-assessment. I guess I haven't thought about it before. Okay. Well, take your time, man. Okay. Let me think. And then you hear from deeper in the house. Left, honey.

Who is at the door? Now, hold on. Is that you, Dr. Kildad? Yes. Okay. No, no, it's just some more words, you know, fans. Don't worry about it, darling. We're not, we aren't, I mean, clearly we're fans.

Not fans. We're not fans. That's not why we're here. Stuff lately. We've, we've got a special mission. Who sent you? So sinister. Who sent us?

No one. We are rebels on our own sort of thing. Yeah, man, we're rebels on a secret mission we won't tell you about. I don't know why you're so antsy. We've gone rogue. And we're rogue. We're trying to shake things up. Yeah.

If you know what I'm saying. I don't. The status quo is no, is no mo when we're done with it. So can we turn it? You're narcs. No, we're not narcs. We're criminals. We're bad.

Okay. And you're near to speak with Gregory? Look. Dr. Kildet, we. Yeah. We have some, we got some information about a particular set of large tortoises that I'm in, um, in like a helmet with kind of a bionic, a jeweler's glass eye kind of thing with like a metal mask that comes in. He's wearing a bathrobe, but you can see large shoulder puldrons underneath it. Now we're talking.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So rare that we have visitors. I don't want to be bothered. Let them in, you old crank. It's actually pronounced crank. Fine. Come in, but take your shoes off.

Were you born in a barn? We're not inside the house yet. Why would you say that to us? Sorry. We're wearing our shoes outside of the house. I'm not really a morning person. I haven't had my coffee yet. Also, it's pretty messed up to say that to a man.

I think. I think it's not right. Oh my God, I feel some best. Yeah. Maybe you'll unpack that later. Listen, we need your help, Dr. Kildeth.

And we know that you've been doing... Oh, okay. Dr. Gregory Kilda? No, just Gregory is fine. Greg? I said Gregory. Is Greg too much?

Gee. Can we just go with G? Greg. Let's keep it at Dr. Kildeth. Dr. Kildeth, Gregory, listen. Wait, let me take off my C-Pack. Oh, thank God. That's much better.

That's what that, that is what that is? Did you get that custom, did you send that from, get that from West Coast Customs? I got it custom made. Yeah, I'll say. I didn't even know they could tweak out those bad boys. It got Noss? Oh, yes, it has Noss.

That's bad. I don't think you want Noss and your breathing a apparatus. Sometimes. I like the part. All right, listen. Yeah, listen, we need your help, Doc. Hmm. When you decided to turn over a new leaf,

to what extent that involved turning, uh, turning rat on your co-conspirers? Hmm. Well, I wasn't prepared for an interview, but I would say my new leaf turned, and now I'm focused mostly on, you know, kind of a corporate or like government as the bad guys, that kind of thing. And we love that.

We love that. Yeah. Do you have, I'm curious, how does this, uh, HQ setup compared to your, your previous digs over in a river city first HQ? Oh, well, it used to be Dr. Kill Death Incorporated, of course. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

And now you're an LLC. See? Oh, I'm retired now. Always. Have you eaten? Would you like some breakfast? We made cinnamon rolls. I appreciate that.

Every time we get roped into eating at someone's house, it ends up like an eight-hour-long affair. And we do not actually have that kind of time. Did you say that you were sent by the Greenback Gardens? He whispered. Well, listen, the less we sort of say about anything, the better. I'm kind of curious I mean we were like

made conversation Let me just say like you remember the HQ Listen Have you noticed many changes Like they switch things around a lot from from your days Or you're pretty happy with how things have turned out Well I'm not so thinking about We've been thinking about

Doing an HQ Veroon So we've been hearing about other hques that like different people have done. So we just wanted to kind of ask you about your HQ experience. Hmm, yes. The Dr. Killed Death Incorporated building was perfect for my desires. It had, you know, the corporation up front kind of appeal.

But then, ooh, all the evil secrets. Oh, you know, I used to wonder about that. You've got maps or anything? I'd love to see those since it's just for funds at this point, just funning around. Yeah, we're in jail, so, like, what would we even do with a real map? Just look at them. Admire the art.

Your lenses are cameras. Mine aren't even cameras. My lenses. Well, yes, I suppose I have some bluep-man. What? No, you can't just give them away all of our sequence, Gregory. Cleftor, what are you doing? Yes.

What? I don't understand why you're being so rude, rude. Yeah, are you being so defensive to us? Honey, you are being quite rude to our guests. Why don't you take some cinnamon rolls out to our other guest, wink, wink. Make sure he eats today. Very well. Who's your, oh, right, the other guest, right.

Now, listen, I... How has that been, by the way? This has got to be pretty tight quarters. How's your other guests settling in? Oh, you know about him. Well, you did just mention another guest, so, like, it wasn't a huge job. Ah, clever. You've seen right through.

It's been fine. He keeps to the pool house. We rarely see him. Won't even join us for Bridge. Well, you would... I don't know how three-player Bridge. Shocktopus joins us. And we have to sub in Calcugator, of course.

But he's no fun. He can figure out the odds perfectly every time. Yeah, he's a machine. Actually, is he a machine? I've always wondered about that. Part machine. Okay, that settles a bet for me. With the brain of an alligator.

And the heart of a chef. Look, how, how, like, plugged in are you to current events happening outside of governor's island? Excellent question that we should have led with. Yeah. Well, we read Lamar. We, you know, we are, we get newspapers delivered and the, you know, we can watch the nightly news, but so depressing, am I right? Yeah, you're not kidding. Look, you left quite a power vacuum and someone has stepped into that that has the whole sort of superhero villain, good guy, bad guy apparatus under their thumb. and for whatever reason, Carver has ended up, well, I was going to say a casualty.

He is still alive as far as we know. But we're looking to stand up to the big guy, if you know what I mean. Carver's in trouble? Yeah, Carver has been kidnapped. Carver has been kidnapped, yes. Well, why didn't you lead with that? How can I help? Um, we're gonna lead a siege on

RCFHQ and we need some advice on how to best crack, crack in there. Oh. Okay, well, let me see what I can find. Hold on one moment. Let me go through all my documents. Could I stick my nose in the fridge while you do that? To find something to eat or is your nose one? I never, I never know what's gonna, I gotta say.

That was the last thing I thought you wanted to nose around his fridge. an old dog. I'm curious. I mean, this place is laid out like a magazine article, and I thought perhaps there'd be something really interesting. Yeah, there's just a big bowl of green, Granny Smith apples on the table. Uh, they're fake. Those are not real. Yeah. Yes, please. Uh, my volcano is your volcano. Make yourselves at home. Let me see here. Do do, too. Ah, this I think you'll be particularly interested in. It's a map of the tunnel system underneath the headquarters. Like, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, I thought. Yes, I thought there would be of interest to you. Is this up to date, though? Like, do you know if they've, like, changed a bunch of stuff since you moved out?

Well, if I was not consulted on the renovations, but I doubt they even know these tunnels existed. Great. Love that. Uh, what do you know about the walrus? Oh, sorry, hold on. That's Clef's course. I wouldn't touch that. He gets very cranky about his cold brew. Which mouth drinks it? Well, it's funneled through a system. The body, so the main, his body drinks it, right?

And then it's funneled into his, him, his pancreas later. Yeah, that's how it works for all of us. Yes. Cool. So what do you know about the walrus? Oh, yes. Some of the newer prisoners slash citizens have gone. as I have mentioned it in passing, but even I haven't been able to get too many details from them,

but he seems to have his fingers in a lot of pies. Has anyone ever told you you speak in a very idiosyncratic way? Yes. This yogurt's out of date. I just like to tell you. Well, those dates are more of a suggestion, really. How old is it? Government scam.

Five years ago. Oh, no, yes, that's bad. I wouldn't... Okay. I wouldn't consume that. Very well. I shan. Now I'm talking like you.

All right. Well, I guess we'll take this and... Just like you probably know the guy better than, you know, most folks at this point. If we bring this up to Lamar, is he going to be able to handle it emotionally? All the stuff about Carver being kidnapped and... If I'm being honest? Yeah. It might be good for him.

He has been adrift for quite a while now. I just don't know if I want to rehabilitate a sad tortoise, you know? Believe me, I understand. Oh, sure. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm happy to be there for him and his type of need, but sometimes it can be a little much to always be the support. But luckily I have cleft to support me.

If only we all had a cleft, right? Mm. Were you to be so lucky? The phone starts ringing on the wall there. Oh, excuse me for just a moment. Probably one of the guards telling me, I don't know, some kind of shipment of fan mail. And he picks up the phone.

Yes, hello. Dr. Kildath here. Go for Kildef. What's that? Gashua. No, there's no Gashua. Oh, you're Gashua. Mm-hmm. Yes. There's a battalion of R-CFE agents headed towards the prison. Mm-hmm. Oh, all crumbs.

So you fled into the prison to use the phone to call me, okay? But you hear pounding at the door. You think you'll be captured at any moment. It's like watching a Bob Blue heartbeat. We should go. Oh, that was... Oh, hello? Oh, okay. Um, yes, there was someone

named Joshua Donette calling to let you know that there is... No, we got pretty much all of it thanks to the sort of commentary, the running commentary. Oh, excellent. Yeah, hey, we need to go and I guess...

Do you know how to get out of it? He was our way out, sort of. So if he's no longer... How would one escape Governor's Island if they needed to quickly, really fast? Hmm. Well, if this is to help Carver,

there is a little thing I've been working on that I could reconfigure to be an escape for you? Yes. Three, man, chap, pack. Three, man, chip back. Not quite. But it will take me some time to reconfigure. Oh, my gosh, okay.

I think we need to go off. Like four or five rounds of combat. Oh, good, good, good, good. Oh, great. With the RCFE agents closing in and the blueprints in hand waiting for Dr. Gregory Kill-Deff to reconfigure his escape plan, what do you do? Fellows, I just have this very strong feeling. You know, our world owes so much no matter what the state is that they're in now. I think Lamar deserves to know it's in danger

Yeah, I mean, I don't really want to go talk to a super sad tortoise man And try to make him not as sad and useless anymore But it seems like if we're about to go To war, it would be good to have a former guardian on our side Couldn't hurt to at least ask, right? Okay, I'll go ask, I'll go back the old baby doll eyes You guys maybe get ready, to be assaulted by a whole battalion.

Absolutely. No problem at all. It actually feels, now that I say that out loud, like it is not a fair distribution of duties. I feel bad for them. Hey, listen. It's sometimes hard to get your duties split up, right? Yeah.

I get it. Just remember, kids, when you're splitting up your duties. All right. All right. All right. All right. I regret saying. Okay, I'll go talk to them. Listen, it's hard.

Listen. Listen. If I can say something seriously, it's hard to split up your duties without getting your hands dirty. All right. Enough sense. It's a sticky situation. It's a sticky situation. You're going to get a little nutty sometimes.

All right. We're gone. Was that too corny? My God. Axelio and Roger, if you make your way outside, you see a lot of RCFE agents closing in. I count 48 just a quick glance. He's like closing in on us. You have some time.

And because of the layout of the streets and the buildings and everything, they are approaching in two at a time. You have some time if you want to prepare something out here. I'll leave you guys to think about that for a second. What obvious traps do we see out here? Well, so think in terms of general, like if you went into a kind of gated community, so there's trash cans around, light poles, picket fences, mailboxes. That kind of thing. Okay. And Navy, you make your way over to the pool house,

and you could see, like, the windows have been covered over with sheets. There is still some light coming through, you know, under the doors and everything. And Cleft is leaving. Thing, ah, maybe you don't have more luck talking to him. Any advice? This has got to be so fast. Um, you know, appeal to his leadership. kind of qualities?

Okay. Okay. Yeah. No, that sounds good. Okay, bye. Say less. Bye, Cleft. Are you going to be okay?

Because they might come in here, too. They seem, there's like a whole army out there. Oh, I'm one strong pancreas. Outside Roger and Lyle, the battalion to the west is the first to reach you. Look at them. They... Perfect sink. What's above us, Chaff?

I forgot to ask. Is it just sky? Yeah. So above you is a, like, projection screen kind of sky. Yeah. That is fake. Think about, like, the sky in the Truman Show, right? Okay.

You're under a dome. This is a closed thing. But to make it appear like you are outside in a beautiful, perfect weather community. How far away is this guy? The fake sky, do you think? You had to guess. I pick up, I don't guess, I pick up a rocket thread in the sky Okay, 20 feet

20 feet Um, Bup, bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bock. Okay. Oh, wait. You're afraid now? You should be. I remembered them. So we're all in a bit of a situation.

So I'm going to call that, do you think using my axe and throwing it at the ceiling is improvising a melee weapon? No, it is a melee weapon. I agree. I agree. I agree. Okay, two successes. So with two successes, it smashes into the sky and you see...

We're plunged in the darkness. Oh, hey. The sky. Roll two more because... With Hatchet Man, you roll 4D8, and if you added a time to shine dice, it would be 5D8. Okay, there's two more successes. And actually, it's a Calabunga. Okay, yeah, with a Calabunga, those two sixes,

Hatchet Man smashes into the area above you. And with the cowabunga in the head, it kind of splits open that area and falls, like, back to the ground, so it's not just wedged into the sky. Not, no, it doesn't. It doesn't fall to the ground, Tram. You catch it. Yeah, exactly, I do. I pull out my like little sheath.

It just like falls into it. And then winks at you. I'm back, Daddy. Hey, Daddy, I didn't draw blood again. I know, son. I'm really proud of you for never hurting anybody else. What is your desired outcome for this? I'm plunged.

This is my logic. It's daytime in the bubble. Yeah. That means that the sunlight is being generated from the sky, the fake sky. Correct. They don't have other lighting actions. activated right now. It's all coming from the sky. So if I could destroy the circuitry there, I'm trying to make it dark because in the dark, I have the advantage. Perfect. Yeah. So you smash and

above you like basically an area, like a circle roughly of like 20 feet of darkness descends 20 feet in either direction. Okay. Descends on the center of town. So there's still some light around the edges as it leads through. But where you are, you've plunged it into. like a moonless, starless night. Okay. So one of the, you've decreased the effectiveness of the attacks. One of the RCF E agents is going to take a swing at where they think you are. How can you hit that which you cannot see you with your fist, my friend?

Wow, that really blew his mind. You know what I mean? Yeah, he clips, he was aiming for like a solid strike across. the chin, but he just clips your shoulder doing one damage to you, Lyle, and then the second one swings at you, Roger. Roger, they get you, but you have two damage reduction, so even though there's three hits, Roger, you only take one damage. And now it is the two of you's turn. Lyle can see in the dark. Heck yeah, I can. Roger, not so much. Well, Roger had already oriented himself towards the guys in the West.

And one of them did just hit you? Yeah, so I have kind of an... So you're really oriented towards where he is right now, visa v. him? I bet you know exactly where he is. So he's going to do scourge at the China shop. It just plunged right at him. In close quarters, whirling like a dervish, he wrecks everything. You did set up these dudes in like 12, you know, 12 guys in a straight line.

Two straight lines. They're begging for it. So with this, with the decreased visibility, that would be 4D8 attack. And so roll 4D8. This is against the first two dudes. And if you want to continue from there, it'll be 3D8. Okay. If I use the time to shine dice, so I have to use it twice?

If you wanted to use it time to shine dice, it would bump up the first one to 5D8 and the second one to 4D8. Okay, I'm using the time to shine dice. So I start with 5D8. Correct. Oh, that's a mixed success. I got one success. With one success and you were moving against this battalion to your west of 12, I'm going to say, like, the two dudes that were right in front of you go flying, the ones that it just hit you. And they are knocked into the bushes.

They are out of commission. Okay. Lyle, you are up. All right. I am going to. I'm gonna run to the northeast and I'm gonna make a lot of noise okay

so there's two columns I want to try to pull those columns and it chasing me the most dangerous person in the whole thing and they are not going to know where it's coming from right so I'm trying to make some confusion in the northeast area

right? So if you can imagine that as a quadrant, I'm trying to pull some focus over there, rather than continuing to pull people towards this center here. Okay, cool. So you're running up towards the volcano? Yeah, near the volcano. I'm still in darkness there, I hope. Yeah.

Move yourself to where you want to go. Okay. He's just, oh, come on. Come on. Come on. It's just like up here, right? So I'm trying to make some confusion to pull some guys into the darkness, into here, not know where I am.

They've lost my location. I'm trying to go full, you know, predator over here. I love that. With the darkness, too, it's even more confusing and disorienting. So give me, give me a 48. All right, two successes. Two successes. Yeah, so you definitely draw focus of the ones leading each group.

So four from each group are going to head towards you, at least like in this direction. and they are also now, as a group, going to start flipping on their flashlights. Oh. It still is disoriented. They don't have the same visibility. But they do have something going for them. Back inside, Navy, you are now at the door.

It was left open for you by left. Inside, you see lots of, like, candles lit, you can smell incense, and hear like water sounds coming through a speaker. Great. I just marched right in. Inside, you see Lamar sitting on the middle of the floor with all the furniture pushed out to the sides. And he is writing in a journal, and you see like a stack of well-worn journals that he's been writing in seems like for a while. now.

Cool. I'm going to just march right over to him. Lamar? Yes. Okay. We have like no time at all because this whole sort of prison island is... Or do we have all the time? Oh man.

Hey, so listen, we need to get you out of here because I think that we could use your... Or do you need to get into here... Carver is in trouble. Carver's been kidnapped. Carver's in trouble. Carver's been kidnapped. Like it or not. I know you're on.

this new vibe, and it seems like it's really working for you. But Carver needs your help, and it's time for you to jump to action, yeah? He stands up, and you hear, like, his knees pop as he stands up, his bones, you know, he always stretches, and he says, okay, yeah, um, uh, I chill, um, and he picks up a big singing bowl that he's been using for meditation. Great. And he's like, okay, sorry, what's your name? I'm Navy SEAL, one of the Royal Seals, a former member, and I'm here with my own guys. We're making a break for it, and we're going to siege our CFHQ because that's where Carver's being ill.

Okay, this is a lot. Okay. Hey, I wish I had time to ease you into this, but I do not. So, can I put out these candles first? Yeah, I mean, it would be irresponsible to not put the candles out. Okay, can you help me? Yeah, sure. I just blasts. just a full, I just empty half my tank, just goosh the room super duper, duper quick.

Oh man, Greg's gonna be so mad. He won't because Greg is probably also going to be like double arrested and taken to jail jail where they take criminals from jail. So, yeah, he was working on a plan to get us out of here. So keep your head on a swivel. We got about 46 guys out there who are trying to, to take us down. So, yeah, straight the numbers, right?

Okay, and he grabs the cinnamon roll on the way out the door, and he pops it in and starts chewing on it and says, oh, I should tell you, I'm a pacifist now. Hey, kids, Sergeant Salamander here with another amphibifact from the amphibiforce. Every year, over a billion dollars. Go missing in the United States, and somebody knows where they are. If you have a suspicion that someone you know may be hiding dogs, be sure to tell a parent, guardian, or responsible adult. Together, we can turn this rough time into a walk in the bark

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