The Adventure Zone - The Adventure Zone: Abnimals Ep. 8: Security Measures!

Episode Date: November 21, 2024

The heroes are tasked by the Amphi-Force with an important assignment, but are they up for the challenge?! Things are heating up when trouble blows in to town, will our heroes be hung out to dry? Krilliam performed by Paul Foxcroft: https://www.twitch.tv/questingtime Abnimals Theme by Justin McElroy, Eric Near (https://bit.ly/ericnearmusic) and Jonathan Coulton (https://www.jonathancoulton.com/). Additional Music in this Episode: "11 MPH" by Beat Mekanik: https://linktr.ee/beatmekanik; "Questions", "This Could Get Dark", "Right as Rain", and "Heading Home" by Mr. Smith: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSk2j0fTMw9V94UGyfWrSuA?; "Slice of Life" by Bryan Teoh: https://www.bryanteoh.com/; "Thunder" by The Wanderer: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/stranger/; "Air" by Jesse Spillane: http://www.jessespillane.com/; "Steps on the Beach" by Audroid MK1: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/audroid-mk1/; "Demolition" by 1st Contact: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/1st-contact/; Taffy Machine" by Kate Kody: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/kate-kody/; and "The Drama" by Rafael Krux: https://www.rafaelkrux.com/#/. 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 have heard, we're at the height of our powers You're top of the tallest smile You take my man to trust And we'll do ourself wrong But our mojo's strong And unless I'm wrong And I'm not We're at the height of our power

You approach the amphibah fortress It is a, you know Oh my God, I almost said Bog standard That would be good Very appropriate Yeah, that would be of like a modern Pentagon government building

kind of fortress except for the swampy marsh moat and drawbridge. Not a giant moat. Is the building fun look? I don't know if you've

ever seen the Pentagon. It's the most boring building to look at in the whole world. Unless I guess you're looking at it from a top

where you could really appreciate the novel shape of the building. But from the outside it's just like a four-story tall beige. Nothing. Well, this is more

a two-story shade of green. Nothing. It does have a couple turrets. Gun turrets or castle turrets? That's so important. Castle turrets. Can there be turrets in the turrets? Turrets in the turrets.

No. Maybe mud, yeah, there's mud guns. How about that? There's mud guns. Yeah, sure, I love it. So as you approach the Infid before, just tell me, Lyo, what are you feeling? It's been a long time, I think, 13 months.

That is what you said, yes, 13 months. Since they've had need of me, I think I'm noticing that it does seem a little bit smaller. You know what I mean? Then the last time I was here. And then I started thinking about what was the last time I was physically in the building? Hmm. No. No, I don't know that I have been here, actually.

But I don't think I want to let on to that. You've never been to the amphibal fortress? I don't think they've actually ever had me come by. Wow. I don't know why they would need me too. So you were in sort of a contractor part-time position? This has been, yes, this is, so as an extreme firefighter, Axel Isle was only called when it was an extreme fire-related scenario. Which doesn't happen, I imagine, with these wet heroes.

Yeah, he's more of an auxiliary player. And they haven't had need, so like, why would he? It's not like they invite him back for beers or pizza after the car. crime fighting, you know what I mean? Although he would really like that. It is important to note that there's actually also a basement here. The top floor, though, that you can see is like the housing quarters where everyone else on the amphibious force lives.

And remind me of those beloved friends again, Tram. Of course. The leader is Sergeant Salamander. And then there's Cecily Ann, who is an amphibious worm woman. Trey Frog, who is a, you know, poisonous tree frog man. And the newt brute, who is a big hulking strong newt man. How much of your day? Love his cereal.

Love his cereal. How much your day, Trav, do you spend just thinking of animal hero? I mean. Wait, here's the problem, Griffin. I wish I could do it during the day. It's when I close my eyes to try to sleep. That's what my brain's like, let's think about this, man. Yeah.

You approach the driverage is down, and as you approach, Sergeant Salamander, throws up the door. Oh, Axel Lyle. So good to see it. Come in. How long has it been, man? Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. Come on. 13 months.

No, that can't be, right? No, it's going to say, like two weeks. No, it's been 13 months, man. Well, thank you for hurrying right over. Yeah. It's good to hear from you, though. You got some extreme firefighting action. Well, come in.

I'll brief you guys all on it. And hey, welcome back, man. You know, I was going to, I'll give the other two or two or at some point, but, you know, you make yourself at home. Oh, thanks. I appreciate it. Okay, so here's the lowdown. Here's the problem I'm running into you. Come in, come in, come in, come in.

Wipe your feet, please. If you guys wouldn't mind, wipe your feet. To get them, like, more slimy or these guys are big on dry feet? Well, no, it's clean in here. I'm asking Travis. One of his level? Very clean. Though, also, very warm and muggy.

Important to note. Great. They keep the amphibah fortress very humid. I just don't know why the surfaces of the buildings would not adapt to like... If there's slimy gentlemen inside the building, eventually, it's like... There's slimy people. Slimy people, then it seems like there would be just a sheen of constant slime. There's a bit of a Michael Sheen all over the place.

Okay, great. more of a rainforest cafe vibe that's in the basement if you look at the map dad you'll see that there is a rainforest cafe in the building oh yeah okay okay all right here's the problem

all right oh hi by the way sergeant salamander what's your name son Navy seal not in the military thank you for clarifying and what about you handsome what's your name moor Oh, I get it. Okay.

So are we doing this briefing here in the entryway? Because I think there is a briefing room. No, no. Come to the war room. Come to the, let's do this. Cool. Oh, man, I've always wanted to see this. Wait, what? What's that?

What'd you say? I've always wanted to see a war room. And then I kind of like let a few steps back so I catch more up with Navy SEAL. Again. I mean, again, to see it again. Okay. Yeah. Okay. It sounded like you'd never been here before for like a second. Oh, yeah. Wouldn't that be wild if they had never invited me?

I mean, yes. That would be hugely, I think, sort of toxic behavior from an organization such as this. Yeah. Roger's looking around to see if he sees any pictures of actual wild, you know. Posters of all of them on the wall. On shelves or, you know, on the wall. There are so many posters, so many pictures of amphibaphores. You maybe catch like one or two where you can see like Lyle half in the frame. You know? Like, and let's be clear, it was the way it was matted and he was in the picture, but they included a mat that. Okay.

Interesting. Yeah. I mean, sometimes that just happens. You do your best, right? All right, come here. Sit around the table here, boys. Oh, okay. So here's the problem.

Right now, Treyfrog, well, he's at his semifinals for his bowling league, so he's not available. Cessaly Ann is taking something called a Nebraska cuisine cooking class, and then she's got drinks with friends. So she is not available. What is a euphemism? I'm pretty sure. But for what? Exactly. If you're in a Nebraska cuisine, you're twisted.

Let me just say this. If you know, you know. I don't know. But if you know. Do you know? Do you know? Are you okay? Yeah.

Do you need a drink of water? The new brute is on a week-long meditation retreat, so he's unavailable. And here's the problem. The oven's on the fritz, and the repair guy is coming tomorrow, and we're getting parts delivered sometime between four and midnight today, and we're pretty sure someone needs to be here to sign, and I just got invited to see Madam Actual Butterfly with Dragon Rider Galaxia. Okay, if you want us to take your tickets?

No, I'm going to need you to stay here and just kind of wait for the delivery and sign for it if they need it. You're a real hero, Axelio. I'm... May I? Yeah. No, thank you. We're not house sitters. We're a team of, like, heroes such as yourself and...

Yeah, I emailed you. Remember the logo I made? I sent it to you. Did you get it, Sal? Yeah, I got it. We've had our design team working on some different versions of it, just working on color schemes and stuff like that. Oh, okay, yeah.

Yeah, a little bit of polish. That's cool. And before you get confused, I'm not asking you to house sit. I'm asking you to house sit and pets it because someone's going to need to feed mud puppy and take him out. take them out to go potty, you know, that kind of thing. Yeah, see what? I've actually never cared for...

What is Mud Puppy again? Mud Puppy, well, it's our team pet. I don't even know what I'm looking at here, Traff. Well, Mud Puppy is a... Well, actually, I look at them. They're very similar. They're very similar to axolotles, except for a few key differences of where they live,

how long they live, A mud puppy has four toes or an axelotel has five. But this axelot of that you're looking at, this is like a doxin-sized mud puppy who comes sliming up and rubbing against your guys. Sliming up. Sliming up. What a gerent. I immediately look over at axel aisle extremely concerned about the psychic load he must be feeling in this place he's never been invited to to babysit an unmutated version of himself. So this is the thing.

I'm much bigger. That's the main difference. Yeah, we're looking at a goofy and a goofy Pluto situation. Okay, great. A goofy Pluto situation. Um, I don't, oh. I mean, I think that this is really rad. I'm feeling so cool about this, actually.

Just to get to hang out here and sort of maybe like find us a place. I wonder if there's like a place. in here. You guys have said for a long time there was no place to sort of set me up in the HQ and now that I'm here and as I'm passing like the lazy river

and the screening room and all the different different facilities. And an actual functioning rainforest cafe. Yeah, I do wonder if you... Not full scale. Yeah. Important to know. It's a scale down. Maybe I can find a place to crash

in here sort of while we're poking around. Yeah, if you need to take a nap or something while you're here, I totally understand. And feel free to make yourselves at home down the lower level. You know, something a little more Kaiser Permanente. Well, yeah, I think that's something we could definitely discuss.

Yeah, I mean, you take a look around and feel free to make yourselves at home down in the lower levels. You know, we've got all the spa stuff down there. We've got training stuff down here. You can watch a movie over in the screening room. You know, any leftovers or anything you guys want to eat. over in the kitchen.

That's nice. They actually have a really good leftover chef here. Yeah, I mean, just remember the oven is on the frit. So it'll mostly be, you know, microwave stuff or ready-made stuff. You're not going to be able to, like, cook anything. We will have, we will have run of the place, correct? Yeah, don't go up in the living quarters. That would be weird.

But otherwise, yeah, make yourselves at home. Clean up afterwards, you know, be cool. and you hear outside a monstrous roar And he opens the door And he's like, oh, my rides here And you can see a dragon-like woman riding a dragon Land on the street And he's like, yeah, that's Galaxia, the dragonrider

She's taking me to the opera tonight. So you guys are all set, right? Is there a crime happening here that we are being tasked with, like, stopping or preventing. We're just, it's an ounce of prevention. Male, I don't know what you're having such a hard time understanding. They say, we're just here to scare off any crime that would happen. Isn't that better than having to fight crime to stop it in the bud?

Uh, if, if that's how you feel, then let's, let's do it, bro. Let's, sure. Let's house it. Nice. Yes, bro. I agree. He handsy the keys, Axelio, and he's like,

all right, don't do anything I wouldn't do. And watch it on those stairs. Remember, take that last step seriously. You could end up breaking an ankle. Ancles! And he heads out and hops on the dragon. What?

Waves goodbye. And Galaxi of the Dragon Rider and the Dragon and Sergeant Salamander take off to the age. I'm sure. I Griffin know. I know he doesn't have ankles. I Griffin know that sometimes characters in this world do involuntary PSAs. Ancles feels like a stretch to me.

Ancles feels like a... Well, it's about keeping your ten toes on the stair the whole time. A lot of kids want to jump off that last stair. And hurt their ankles. And hurt their ankles. And Sergeant Salamander takes that very seriously. As anyone who listened to the PSA at the end of the first. first episode of animals.

No. Okay. Sure. He's also legally required because of an incident that happened in his youth that he does have to really push ankle safety at least 12 times a year. He ate a kid's ankles. Just promise. Well, we can't discuss it. You promise me, guys, do you got to use coasters? Promise me that if you leave a room, please switch the light off.

They're really big about a conservative energy. Absolutely. Don't, I mean, take your shoes. off, you know, in the house and try to clean up after yourselves. And if you wouldn't sit right on the furniture, maybe you just kind of hover above it. So we can't sit down? So just sort of, if you just do a kind of a hover above, I'm worried about some of your staining potential guys.

We'll just, it would be better if we stood. Let's stay in the middle right here and just wait. I would actually love to have a little poke around. I come from a... A butcher's? I'll have a quick witcher's. What is that? Like a look around.

I, you know, I... I know it is, Gerva. Oh, yeah. What's a butcher's? It's like a look around. Oh. I'd like to stretch the old fet locks myself. The what?

Just promise me you're not going to go in the living areas, right? Because they definitely said not to. No, no, no. Just sort of a, you know, I come from a wet headquarters myself. And, you know, I think it'd be cool to see how they go about doing things. Yeah, keeping it moist without getting it moldy. Yeah. It's a constant.

That balance is so crush in a place like this. Yeah, I should ask, the other two are kind of more suited to this, but Roger, you're hearing this, like, warm. It's like 85 degrees and humid. How are you doing, bud? Not good. I think Roger is already unbuttoned his tuxedo. suit, which you hate it doing, but it is a little close.

Going all natural, huh, Roger? It's very far side, very cool. And I think while the two of them are in discussion, I think Roger has just snitched out of the room. No, absolutely not. No. My absolute top pride is to keep an eye on these two and don't let them mess it up. We're going to do a contested roll of the bag.

I'm just trying to slip away that I at least want a shot at it. Okay. All right. Roger, are you using any special skills to try to slip away? No, I don't think so. Okay. I don't think so. I think just kind of, kind of just slipping out, so to speak.

Okay. Yeah. Both of you just rolled 2D8, so we're going to see how it goes. I should get three, because this is a native environment to me. It is not a native environment. You said yourself, you've never. I've never been here before. I meant, no, now, Travis, an environment and a location are two different things.

I'm more adept at this environment. Yeah. You are, okay, you know what? Because he's sweating, right, and hot, and maybe not the top of his game. I'm going to say you can have three D-Aids, Justin. And also, you are, as you said, on high alert of keeping an eye on these two. Okay, well, what happened there is I got a two, and then a seven, and then a two. All right, Roger, two-d-eight.

Hmm. I'm going to use one of my TTS. Time to shine. Are we in a mission, right? Is this a mission? You're burning it. Yes, this is a mission. You've been hired to do those.

Yep, I'm going to use one of my TTSs. Okay, great. To sneak away from your son. I will say this. 643. You did? I mean, I rolled not knowing that you're going to do that. In fact, thinking that you're going to do the opposite because you said that.

So I think that that is cheating, but okay, we both got a big success. With two make successes, Roger has left the room, but as soon as he's out the door, you notice he's not. Hey, hey, Raj. Hey, please use a coaster, man. I will. And please put some garbage bags on your hooves. Roger wears shoes. We can't keep litigated.

What kind of feet do you have? Are they saddle all? Oxford's. Human feet. Everyone has human feet. No, we can't take it. Beautiful, gorgeous human feet. Size nine.

Perfect. Perfect toe. Triple-a. Perfect toe length. Just perfect piggyies. Perfect piggyies. Size nine. The piggies are in a flawless Fibonacci sequence of length.

Just as plump as you can like. The golden ratio is satisfied. A fine dusting of hair. You should be. probably go. An eye on invisible. You should go keep an eye on him. I'm actually the wetness in here.

I'm bo-da-ba-ba-ba-laving it. It is a little warm. I might go. Just take a quick dip in the cold tub and then I'll come right back down. Just you can use a coaster. It's a cold bathtub, but I'll do, I'll put a, I'll bring a coaster in with me. Where are you hand to, Raj? Sergeant Salamander's security.

And not outrageous. Perfect. Just for no reason, though. Well, he's curious. As far as you know. He's a curious little fella. We'll resolve you going downstairs in just a second. But when you get to the door, Roger,

you see a keypad that is both numeric and alphabetical. Alpha numeric, one might say. And it is a sealed security door asking for a password. While he's doing, once Roger leaves and once what's his other face leaves, I'm going to go to the main. There's only three of you. Well, and to be clear, Trapp, there's actually only two of us that Justin is playing. Yeah, outside of Justin. And then I'm going to go down in the main entry and just keep it out of the front door.

Excellent. Okay. I'm sitting in an armchair. Sitting or hovering above an armchair? Hovering above the armchair. If I come downstairs and you're sitting in an armchair, I'm going to, I'm not. Lose my mind. Navy SEAL as soon as you go down the steps to the lower level, it somehow feels even warmer or more humid or both down here. And you find yourself in a combination of spa and

kind of training area. To your right, you can see the lazy river with a swim up kind of lounge bar in the middle and on the far side of that are a set of mud baths. The cold tub and the hot tub are directly across from you. Yeah. To your left is the meditation center. There is a pool with a large floating platform in the middle that is a like balance training about you would have two people stand on it and have a fight to maintain their balances or you would stand in the middle while people tried to throw off your balance. And on the far side of that, you see the combination rainforest cafe and rainforest steam room. You can see like a small kitchen and a, a, table with menus and play settings and everything. From here, you can see one person kind of working at. I got it just real quick. Can I just...

Hey, so you are an employee here? Scree! That's right, man. I'm Bat Mercer. Nice to meet you. I turn and walk away immediately. I say nothing else to... It's short for Bath you.

I say nothing else to this person. I walk away as quickly as I possibly can. Scree! Okay. That's his best. Okay, I'm now looking at the orientation of this room. The cold tub is right next to the Rainforest Cafe, so I no longer want to go in that. No, no, no.

You have the hot tub between you and the Rainforest Cafe. You'd be safe there. But if you want to do something else, you can't do. You know what? I read on Goop that seal coats. What? Goop. I read on it.

Huh? He searched it on Goopal. I searched. I went on goopal and I found a goop article. by Gupta? By Gwyneth... He goopled it. By Levy to my joke.

By Gwyneth Pall Crow, who is a... A crow woman. And she said that if you get muddy, it helps the coat. No matter what type of animal you are, I head for the mud bath. I'm too curious. Oh, yeah. You soak in a mud bath. I get down to my shorts.

And I get in that bath. I hang up my gear. year and I get, I soak. And I get one point of armor. Give me three D8s to see how well you relax. Wow, I've never had to roll to relax before. You don't, you've never had to try to relax. Two success.

Yeah, actually that's not true. That's all I do when I relax. So two successes on that. I think I'm chilling like a feeling. You're chilling very well. You're going to pick out two practice makes perfect points. Oh my God. This game's so easy.

This is the easy. is a game for babies. Easy game for babies. All right. Roger, you find yourself at a security door that is currently sealed with a password,

sealed with a kiss. Okay, describe these, you said it was a numerical. It's an alpha, alpha numerical. So look down, Clint's where you're sitting, and you might see

in front of your keyboard, it's like that. The tone. That's your father. Hey, dad. I love you so much. It's like a keyboard. Change your diapers.

Is that better? Change your freaking diapers. Yes. I don't think he changed my diapers as much as mom did. Well. You might be surprised. That loves that. Or I might not.

That's what that implies. You might be surprised the hero is actually never. I became very self-sufficient at a young age. We just called you old soggy bottom. Yeah. Oh, that's where that came from. Okay. I want to really...

No, I tell you what, first I'm going to... I'm going to breathe a little cloud of methane onto the keyboard. Hold on. Just to clarify, I think that particular element is produced by the butt. I don't know if... No, it's both. They burp it and farted. Don't worry. They burp it and farted. Okay, so you're just burping on their keyboard. But I know what you're going for. No, I mean, I just wanted to know if you... Hey, will you house it for me?

Sure. I'm going to fart on all your keyboards. It's kind of... I'm going to give you pink eye. Yeah. I've actually seen this with people on my strange addiction before. So this can't happen. Sulfur burps, they call them.

So I guess I'm going to use my CH4U and breathe a little cloud of methane on the keyboard to see if any of the keys have been used more than the use. The power of methane. Okay, now the power of methane, which is high carbon content. Uh-huh.

Salute. Mad Lad. What are you, you, you're burping on the keys to get the code? What I love is if the idea is that you're trying to do like, let me see which keys they've touched recently. These are slimy folks. They've left a residue almost certainly. Well, the methane will really make them stand out. And if this keyboard is just for this door, then they wouldn't be using all of the keys, just the ones. And maybe from there I can narrow it down and try to figure out.

Trave, I'm sorry. He gotcha. man, this is scientifically so sound. Yeah, okay. No, I was just looking at the difference between methane and the air that we breathe, and methane is lighter and traps heat better. So I don't know what that means here, but I'm going to say that it will have an effect. So give me a 3D8 roll, and we're going to see how you do.

Okay. Hell yeah. Uh, 365. Two successes. Nicely done. You're going to be able to see four numbers and two letters. but not obviously the order of those. Right.

So the four numbers you're going to see are six, five, eight, and two. I got it. I already solved it. Oh, you did? I don't even need the letters, yeah. They were numbers. It's one thing.

Six, five, eight, and two. And then you see R and P. P. I know what you can spell with that. Of course. Your assumption is that it spells something. Mm-hmm. Okay. With numbers.

Mm-hmm. Like the way S3 can be an E? I guess that's true. I use that stuff in all my passwords. Well, you're 100% pure gamer. That's true. That's true. You don't have time. So type letters.

You're too busy leveling up in Fortnite. As you sit there by the door lie on, mud puppy comes, starts rubbing against you and whining in its slimy way. And looking at its leash and the door. Oh, man, I really can't. I got to keep an eye on the place. Can you give yourself walkies?

Ah, you're cute and kind of upsetting. Oh, man. It's like looking in a small, bad mirror. All right, come on. I'll lease him up. You hook up his harness. I hook up his harness and then I take him, I guess, out the front. Make sure you grab the bags.

Yeah, I do. I sling them. Because his droppings are upset. I was just, you can't. I was just thinking how wild it would be to have, like, a little human come up to you and try to get you to do stuff for it, and then I remember it, that's kids. That's kids. That's kids, man.

Yep. It's just like that. Actually, harder to say no to those. Yeah, true. So you hook him up, you take him out for a little nighttime stroll, a little afternoon evening stroll, I should say. How long a walk do you think you're taking him on this? There's just a quick go out and potty. I think he's, we're staying in the immediate area.

I don't want to get out of eyesight of the door. So I think I'm just trying to find whatever his sweet spots are within where I still have an eye line to the entrance. Okay, great. Yeah. While he's taking them out, what are the other two of you working on? Nice try. you're trying to trick me into not relaxing anymore. I sink even deeper into the mud.

I can work on relaxation. Gaining even more practice makes perfect dude points. You begin to choke as the mud fills your lights. Oh no. Oh, God, wait. No. Do you want to keep relaxing in the mud? I think I do.

Great. It'll take me a while to deep demud myself, right? Yeah, that's true. I don't want to talk to Bat Mercer anymore, like for sure, for sure. And I can't get into any other body of water until I have demudded, because I'm not trying to, like, wreck their whole place. Okay, yeah, give me another 3DA roll. Double success again.

God, I'm good at this game. Man, yeah, you're relaxed as heck, man. You're feeling, like, melted butter. You know what I mean? Like, you feel all the aches and pains of the day, every stress, every worry melting away. You're just having a grand old time. I have a issue of Goop with me that I brought,

like, always, and I'm reading about, like, jackfruit. Oh. What are you learning about Jack Fruit? You can make anything out of it. Steaks. Um, curds. Um, spaghetti. Way.

Way? No, probably not way, but spaghetti definitely. Here's some about Jack Fruit. It's super stinky too, but Durian's more stinky, so that's all anybody talks about. Yeah. Oh, man. Do I gain more practice makes perfect points for my... Yeah, I mean, you get two more points, yeah.

Oh, God. Great. Roger, you find yourself knowing that there's some order or combination of these six letters and numbers. What are you working on now? Okay. Can you remind me of the names of the characters in amphibophores? I'll go ahead and give this to you because I am a kind of benevolent game runner. There is not, this is not a word or code.

This is just the numbers that he has picked for the record. Sergeant Salamander, Sessly, and Trey Frog. New P. Me. Correct. I don't want you sitting there, boggling your mind, trying to find what these random numbers

and letters make an anagram of. You need to find this password. It sounds like if you're going to learn this password. Or, I mean, you could brute force it, new brute force it. But it might take you a couple tries to enter them into different, in different combinations.

Roger's going to look around a little bit. Look around. Yeah. He's currently in the study, correct? He is right now, yes, you are, I mean, in a little walkway, but Twix, the study and the security center. But yeah, you can be at the study. Can I look out for Colonel Mustard?

Can I do a deep dive, just really look around the study and see what I can see? Maybe he's the type that writes his passwords on a post-it note and, like, sticks it nearby. you absolutely can do you have anything that helps you in your looking around no but i think that needs to be the next thing i do when i get some kind of upgrade um excellent well you know what you know what i'm going to say with counterfeit right yeah that's what i was going to say counterfeit yeah this is i mean you're basically in there's like shelves of books uh in the study and things laid out. So I'm going to say that this is

as related to like Lingue and stuff like that. If you want to use 3D8 in this circumstance, you can't. Okay. I'll use 3D8. 672. Two success. Excellent.

Two successes. As you look around in this library, you notice that the books are all, it doesn't seem to quite be a Dewey decimal system, but each book does have some kind of code down the side to remind where to shelve it away. And each one is two letters followed by four numbers. All right.

And I'm going to look for 6582 RP. I think with two successes, you're not able to find that exact set of numbers in that order. You can see that there's like H.I. for history. You can see that there is I.N. for instructions. you do find an area that is PR for poetry. And is there a 6-5-8-2 or any combination of those four numbers? Give me another 3D-A roll now that you found the section. 7-1 and 8.

Another two successes. You are rolling very well. You find a poetry book that is a collection of poetry about the glory of the Salamander and it is PR 8-526. Okay. I see where this, Dad. Now, Dad. Yes.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Sometimes I hope so. Seems a little too easy, isn't it? Yeah, it does. It seems actually quite complimentary. Which is why somebody would say that. They want you to think it's 8.5 to 6. Can I open the book?

Yeah, can you open a book? Yeah. I think Roger can open a book without rolling. There's a gun in here. It's all here. The passport. I'm just going to open it up and read the first passage I see. Oh, to the salamander.

It's beautiful, slimy nature. Oh, how it moves through the water. And the land. Tis truly God's favorite the salamander. Let us all give thanks to the salamander and give hugs and kiss. This is if the salamander consents. Roger holds the book on his chest and closes his eyes and kind of basks in that sentiment,

that moving ode. And then he goes out in the hallway and he punches numbers into the keypad. Well, before you punch the numbers into the keypad, let's jump back real quick to Axelio and Mud Puppy as they return from their walk. How did the walk go? Was he a good listener? Is he a good boy, Mudpuck? great boy. Well, lease trained. Very obedient. Stopped a robbery. Just like on his own. Just like, I didn't know anything. It was great.

Yeah. That's incredible. He actually gave me their like raised eyebrows when it was time to put the bag underneath his holes. So it wasn't even a problem. Oh, you just caught it. You caught it as it happened. I know you don't, you are not a dog owner. You're not a dog owner. You're not a a dog have her, that's not how anyone does it. No one walks around. You don't just catch it as it comes out. Looking for facial shoes for your dogs to be like, go ahead, assume the position, bag me up, bro. You've returned to the infibah fortress carrying with you a just fresh bag of mud puppy leavings and you approach the door and begin to unlock it when you hear behind you cloud like an industrial

like air blower kind of sound behind me like on the street or yes on the street okay on the street do you turn yeah obviously yes assume yeah just assume

that if I hear it sound like if you are on World 20 make sure you're zoomed out holy crap yes you turn and behind you you see the amphibah force's greatest enemy. He's got a suit made of like hair dryers and dryer hoses, and he's hovering above the ground.

And behind him is his army of henchmen known as the Hot Boys. So it's hair, H-E-R-R, correct. Dryer, and the Hot Boys. And the Hot Boys. I have never felt so insecure about, our lack of a team name. Yeah.

Because hair dryer and the hot boys is like, I'd fall, I'd follow them before. I want to join them, even though like the name of hair dryer is maybe a little problematic. But who am I? Am I named after C.

I don't think it's problematic to just be German. Yeah. That's a good point. I guess I didn't think of hair as being just basically mister. I've only heard it coming out of the mouths of bad Indiana Jones guys.

I've never really thought of the word as being just Mr. They gotta come up with a name for those villains. Yeah, they need some branding. Well, I mean, it's not as threatening if you just think, like, this is Mr. Mueller. Like, it's not as like, oh, man, please don't do this. Why? You're amphibious scum. Oh, crap, man.

I have come to destroy my nemesis. No, man. Just listen, man, don't... Ah, listen. Yeah. Can you not... Hey. Sorry, who are you?

Clark. Hey, it's me, man. It's Axel Lyle. I'm an auxiliary member of the infibble forest. Oh, you are new? No, I'm old. I'm old. They just don't have need of me a lot.

An extreme firefighter... I have arrested you twice. Oh. Oh. Okay. I used to have a mullet. Ah, yes. Yeah.

Yes. I shit. Yeah. Yes. Listen, um, can you not do this? Because they are not here. You can't defeat them. Well, you're hard to understand.

I have brought my hot boys. Yeah. And we're... It's great. It's great. But this is their pad and they kind of let me, this is the first time I've been here and they kind of gave me a big responsibility of like looking after you.

Wait, so you have arrested. I'm doing the wrong accent. I'm from all over Europe. So you have arrested me twice. But you've never been in the building. You have never heard a German person speaking in your life. No, that's correct. Well, one time it was a citizen's arrest.

And, but yeah, I mean, I don't get a. a big opportunity to hang together with them very often and they they, I'm trying to change that man, trying to get in good with them and they wanted me to sort of protect the spot so don't, just whatever you're

doing, just don't do it. Let me talk to the hot boys real quick. There's 30 of them by the way. People at home, there's 30 hot boys on this on this, Roll 20 men. Identical hot boys. Yeah. And he turns to them I mean, to me, you could probably tell each of them apart. He turns to them and he says,

Okay, guys, so it turns out, and Faber Force isn't even here, what do you guys? Is this what he talks like to the Hot Boys? Yeah. What do you guys? What do you guys say? And one of the Hot Boy goes, you know, sir, I don't so much. I, but are we settled on Hot Boys? Is that what?

Well, we took a vote, man, and you guys picked Hot Boys. Yeah, but the only other option was warm men, and they just doesn't. Well, okay, yeah, we can talk about it back. I liked, I liked war men. You liked warm men? It sounds like war men. And that's pretty intimidating. But that's confusing.

Can't you see that, Derek? Because that doesn't fit in with like the theme. And what happened to your accent? Wait, why are you not speaking of their accent, boss? Oh, I'm, I'm, okay, for the last time, I'm not really German, right? But Mr. Dreyer doesn't sound good. Hair dryer sounds good. I'm from Nebraska, man.

Another Nebraska. Hmm. I think we should still attack, though, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah? Raise your hand. Yeah, raise your hand if we should still attack. Derek raises his hand.

Okay. 25 of them raise their hands. Now, raise your hand if we shouldn't attack. Kirk, get no hands. Kurt? Kurt. You ask for honest input. You're right.

You're right. Kurt, and I respect that. You'll still attack, though, if we all attack, though, right? Okay, cool, man. Kurt operates. Okay, while they're taking this, um, while they're doing this, I run back into the house and I scream, everybody, Infimipforce, HQ, maximum security, engage. Lock it down.

Sorry, was something supposed to happen? Computer, identify voice. Voice unidentified. Computer identify axolyle. Axolio, Axolio. Computer identify axelial auxiliary member of amphibicorce. Oh, we, um, calculating. Start read all files beginning with A.

Oh, okay, yeah. Uh-huh. Epibian. Bard, bar. Yeah, okay. Well, here it is. Axelago, junior auxiliary member, third rank. I've actually been pushing it.

Yeah, but I have clearance to activate maximum security lockdown to engage. Derek, the hot boy, runs over and goes, hey, um, hair dryer, I just wanted me to let you know. You got 30 minutes to, like, clean all your stuff out and get out of here, and then we're going to take the fortress, okay? Engage. Oh, the door slammed shut. And Derek's like, okay, I just want to make you. Lock it down. Mr. the warrus, it's Crillium from work.

I'm your henchman. Not that I'm wild about that title. Maybe lieutenant? I mean, you would say, Lieutenant. I'm getting distracted. Look, news. I followed Carver from Barker Industries, and I'm quite sure I have tracked him down

to his hideout. So, well done me. Yeah. some kind of warehouse, uh, won't lie, quite disappointing. So, um, I was wondering what you wanted to do next. Should we capture him? Okay, get some help and capture Carver. And you're always saying I should take more initiative.

So, okay, no, that's what I'm going to do. That's the plan. I'm going to call Crabegale, see who's free. Get everybody together. And then I'm going to capture Carver. Good, good. No, good. I will let you know how that goes

and don't you worry sir that video is as good as ours as good as yours it's your video you've been very clear about that so I'll just sort of crack on and if you get like five minutes

maybe just have a little thing about my title I don't know Captain Crillium sounds kind of I don't want to give you the idea it should be yours right I'll get on with that good okay love you bye bye-bye

Not love. I didn't mean to say love. Not love, love. Like, love, love, I mean, like work love. Respect. Sort of. Just bye, really. I should have just said bye. Imagine I just said bye.

I should just hang up. Okay, hanging up. That didn't work. Nope. You'd think this would just tie him out. I'm just going to destroy this phone. I'll call you from another one. Can't stop this recording.

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