The Adventure Zone - The Adventure Zone: Steeplechase - Episode 21

Episode Date: March 23, 2023

The arcade employees reach the lair of Geltfrimpen, but he's not giving up his heartscale without a fight – or, skirmish. Beef gets ready to rumble. Emerich causes a sexy distraction. Montrose falls gracefully. Opening monologue performed by Autumn Seavey Hicks: https://www.instagram.com/autumnseaveyhicks/?hl=en Additional music in this episode: "Cold Journey" and "The Vikings" by Alexander Nakarada: https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com/; and "The 4t of May" by Maarten Schelleken: https://imlcollective.uk/product-category/library/maarten-schellekens-artist-profile/. 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

Hey, Steepie's Crystal with the K here, and it's official. Jelt Frimpin, the fearsome infinite dragon that is both the protector and dominator of all of ephemera, is finally getting his own movie! We'll follow this terrible, blessed demon savior from a hatching egg to the fearsome hero tormentor we all know and love and fear in equal measure. The Best Bit? Actor Craig Ferguson, who originated the role in the Dungeons of Jelt Frimpon video game, and is now long dead, has been replaced with drum roll, please! A dentonic crafted AI simulacrum of Craig Ferguson!

Uh, yes, please. Too early to buy our tickets? Oh, well, guess we'll never know when to stop dreaming. I'm mostly, mostly with them now. Ah, smaller. than I assumed. Hello everybody and welcome to the Adventure Zone steeplechase. Hey, Justin.

Yeah, I've noticed here on our Roll 20 board two clocks have been added. I see dragon plating and fire blast. I hate that. I hate that's there. That's interesting. Yeah. That's just there in case we fight Jelt Frimpin, right? Yeah, that's just there in case.

It's not assured that we'll fight Jel Frumper. Right. So we could go the diplomacy route, right? Yeah, sure. You could go the diplomacy route. Or run away. At a runaway clock, please. I know it's an option.

So what happens now, Justin? It's your game, man. You just, I was just about to, I'm just about to just show it. Okay, yeah, do it. Oh, wait. Excuse me for this, but I have to keep up appearances. Who dares? Into the layer of Jelfrimpan.

Hi, Neil. prostrate yourselves. I also kneel. Emmerich Niels. Oh, yeah. Oh, my to gel frimpin. Delicious. And his tail swings the three of you in a line.

Whoa. You see him start to swing. He's huge. So you have a second to react. Let's make it one of you. It's going up you Montrose. Yeah. You were the first in Neil. Yeah, I mean, I'll just I'll just take like a very, very casual step backwards out of the range of the tail and look like fucking totally cool and chill I do it. Okay.

Give me a risky standard. Finesse? Of finesse, I think. Okay. 4-5-2. I've not rolled a six in several episodes. I'm starting to think that the number doesn't exist. You mostly dart out of the way, but the tail catching.

you right on the leg as you're passing by and flips you onto your back. So you're now prone, but you're, uh, uh, you're, you were not injured. Good. Thank Christ. Uh, the other two. What are you, what are you doing? Uh, I'm, I'm going to step back hers as well and pull Amrik back by the collar with me. Okay. Um, because I think I'm better at finette. I don't know. What's your finesse? Emmerich? One. Oh, yeah. I'm pulling him back.

We maybe should have done a group finesse role. Well, this is something that is happening to all of us. Well, this is just this, he just swung at you, Montrose. That's what I changed it

to make it a little more concrete. He swung at you. He knocked you off your feet. He is not, that is the swing, though. That is his, the one move he was making.

Yeah. There's no. Yeah. Remember that for, we haven't had a lot of big fights like this. It's mainly reactive. So, like, reacting to your, your choices.

Mighty Joe Frimpin, we seek an audience in accordance with the laws of welcoming of the seven. A claw, you're like halfway through this sentence when a claw, one of his clawed talons grabs you around your waist and pushes you up against one of the stone columns in this room. It's cavernous. You can't see all of it. There's still just the one moon beam coming down that you are commences artificial. And there are now that you're a little deeper in, you can see some torches lining the walls. And he has picked you up. And you can see his snout gets very close to you. And from somewhere deep within him, you hear, I would advise fighting back. and then he tosses you to the side beef. I'm going to hold on to his claws before he can let go. Okay, great. So I'm still clinging there. Okay.

Why don't you give me a... I'm wrestling with him. Yeah, it seems like a skirmish. Yeah, skirmish roll. And what position would you say it is to hold onto a dragon's hands? It is... desperate standard

because you are strong. Five and a four. So as mixed the success as it could be. Yeah, that's an extremely mixed success. Mark experience. Good point. Thank you, Griffin.

Always there. Okay, you do manage to hold on, but in the process he squeezes you so tightly that sort of knocks the wind out of you for a level one harm. You're winded. Okay. Then I'm going to draw a longish dagger.

I'm going to say it is a version of a machete. Okay. That is... A cool machete. It's called a kukri? Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah. And I am going to bury it in the back of his hand. Okay. Okay. How do we do, man, you guys never use like weapons and shit. Yeah, it's a skirmish, right?

You know, it's a skirmish, but is there a modification from the... No. It's about the effect. Right. Oh, right on. Okay, take a load, Trave. Take one load for that. Yes.

A fine hand weapon, I'm going to say. Very fine. And give me a skirmish roll. Okay, what position is this, Justin? This is, I'm going to say this, you know, you held on. I'm going to say this is risky standard. And Justin. Normally it would be wishly limited, but you did draw that beautiful knife, so.

I have an extra potency in effect to hard light and tech when it comes to skirmishing. Hard light and tech. Yeah, is that happening here? I mean, it's tech. Excellent. So you said it was risky or desperate? Sorry. Risky. Risky. And so the effect is going to be great. Well, oh, that's true. Okay, good. Yeah.

Because of my circuit breakers. Fantastic. And I am going to go one step further and also do not to be, well, no, I don't want to do that yet. I'm going to say that. Let's see how it goes. A six, a four and a six. Wow. Excellent, Trave. That's great. Oh, it's four and a six. But still, that's great.

I mean, he really, you really needed that. And with a great effect, full success, what were, let me ask you this, Trave, what were you trying to do with this attack? Who didn't really clarify that? I would say I am going for a tendon in the quad hand, the gripping and picking up. I didn't like being picked up.

And I think as a skilled and experience, arm wrestler, I'm going for like, you know, the grip muscle that happens right there in the crook of the thumb and index finger. Great. To make that gripping. You bury this, this fantasy, this fantasy cori that you have. I'm probably saying that wrong. Cucre.

Cucre. Cucree. You bury this cuckery into the tendons of this thing. You expect blood, but what you see is a sort of a leaking gelatin. and as fluid like you would see inside a stress ball if you cut it out. So you cut through a layer of that and your knife feels resistance against where

the tendon should be what appears to be some sort of like cabling. Once you, with a six though, pushing a little deeper, you sever that mechanical tendon and his, the arm, or rather the

hand, is the dragons have hands? Yeah, claw. You know, the hand of it. it falls limply to the side of its wrist and releases you to the ground. That's good for you. You've made a ding of two

into the dragon's plating. Hell yeah, take that dragon. I don't know how it makes you feel, but it's been three years since anyone has penetrated gel frimpinth skin. Excellent. good work.

Thank you. I don't usually get thanked after hurting somebody. It's a new... Huh. Okay. I'm going to need a second. You guys go. Emmerich?

Emmerich is going to use Tempest. Hell yeah. Is going to summon a storm around Gelt Frimpin of chilling frost. I'm sorry, gel frimpin, gelt frimpin is his brother. Yeah, he's going to summon a chilling frost around gelt frimpin.

Jell frimpin. Jell frimpin. Like hair gel frimpin. Is there a tea in there, jelt. No. Jelt frimpin. Jelt frimpin. Yeah, jelt.

Jilt. Frimpin? Yep. Let's all say it a few more times. Jelt frimpen. I worked so hard to come up with this name and didn't just. Is it one name or is the first name? Is it first name, Jelt?

Last name, Frimpon? Jelt Frampton. Do you feel like I do? Okay, so he casts Tempest casting a chilling frost all around Jelt Frumpin. So you're pushing yourself. Yep. Did it. Do you have the stress to spare that?

I have one left. Wow. Jesus. Well, wait, pushing yourself is two. Oh, right. No, yeah, pushing yourself as two. Yeah, Dad, I don't think you can use it. I don't think you have the stress to use Tempest. Because that would put me over the top, wouldn't it? Yeah, you don't want to do that. Okay. Back it up. Um, okay. He raises the Gibb Ghost projector and releases, um, releases, whatever. Scott Bowflex.

Shoot Scott Bowflex out The Ghost Projector To what end is sir? Don't worry about it Let just let Justin figure that out Now that he's here Okay All right you

I'm not gonna make you roll for that Well I guess Eh Eh To produce a full grown Scott Bowflex From one's wrist Okay you know what you tell

Dad we'll call this A tune right To summon To summon To seduce the dragon Seduce the dragon seduce the dragon I like in my head canon

he doesn't come he doesn't pop out clean it's like the scene at Ace Ventura where he comes out of the rhinos butt hole I just kind of imagine Scott Classic comedy just very slowly Wops out What do you want Scott Bullflex to be wearing?

Sexy dragon costume I would say armor Oh armor okay Like a knight A dragon slaying night. No, no, bud. No, bud. No, I mean, like, shirt and pants. Like, you can, I'm not giving you any mechanical benefits to Scott Bullflex here. I'm just saying, but if you do your tune roll really well, we'll see. Okay. We'll see. All right. So, this is what? Risky, desperate? Uh,

no, this is, I think this is controlled, right? I mean, if he's not under immediate threat and he's just using the thing, like, I think this is controlled standard. Okay. Here we go. Jesus. Three, four, one. Four gets you into mixed success territory, doesn't it? I would like to propose that he's wearing a t-shirt with donkey and the dragon from it from Shrek, and it says my ass is dragon. Oh, that's cool. Okay, yeah, he is.

I didn't know who you knew that, Trev, but that's actually a hundred percent answer. What would that be in Shrug speak, though? Wouldn't that fit more? It says the same thing. It's a good pun. Shrook is, I don't know if you picked up on this, nearly identical to Shrek in so many ways. I think they sound very similar. I'll great you that.

Hey, Griffin, we don't normally just confirm fan theories like that. Yeah. So please be careful moving forward. Okay. You, okay, with a four, you summon Scott Boldflex, and he's wearing bike shorts and the my asses dragon t-shirt. And he looks around like, what in the fuck? That's what he says. What the fuck?

Oh, Scott. Scott, do you see the large? No, I missed it. The dragon? Oh, yes, you did see him then. Scott, my son, my friend, I would like you to run as fast as those muscular toned legs of yours can be. And run around and try to distract this dragon.

so that we have time to analyze it and try to find its weak spot. I don't want to do that. Well, I know, but you'd really be helping Papa out if you did. I don't want you to get close enough to be hurt or damaged. Just like a distraction. A sexy distraction. Turn on your full sexiness. Turning on, now that I can do.

And let's say that Scott starts running around. And like every time he'll stop for a second, like shake his butt. And then he'll keep on running. And then I think, you know, Dad, a tune? Trying to figure out how to figure out how. How sexy. Like sexy. Yeah, I think this would be a tune.

Okay. Yeah. All right. Give me an attune role to figure out how well, this goes for Scott. And again, we're talking controlled. Sure, because there's not, yeah. Standard.

Yeah. 6, 2, 3. He is really sexy. He's super sexy. We already knew that. And even the dragon is like, what could this? Wow.

Dynamite. I normally like them big. Big butt. Wow. What of you? Oh my. That's an extremely sexy man. Well done.

Textbook. Okay, so he's, uh, Scott is very effectively and subjectively creating a distraction, which is made an opening for, um, who has, wants to try next. Can we see the heart scale? That's interesting. I don't know what the fuck that is or what it means. Interesting question.

Here's what I would say. Yeah, so you can see one of the many scales on the chest of Jolt Frimpin. He is, by the way, 30 feet tall. Good. He is mainly in a sort of like very dark red, almost a brick red scales. His belly, though, is covered with dark, almost mustard yellow scales, except for one that you can see is sort of like glowing right in the center of his body. And that is what is currently going on. Hmm.

If I wanted to look for, this is not a real dragon. I just Griffin you're going to have to take that sentence apart for me Go on Okay on two different levels Two axes

This is not a real dragon There must be some sort of Control thing for this guy And I'm trying to decide if it's Inside of it or Outside Oh

Now it seems like some sections Just filled up in the fire blasts clock. Justin, do you want to tell us about that? Yeah, as you all are doing your business, you could see right behind his jaw you can see

a deep glow start to emanate from his throat. Scott's got him heating up, huh? Yeah, Scott's really revving his in. Is this what happens to dragons when they get hornified? That's what happens to everybody when they get horny Travis. Wow. Yeah.

There's so much about human sexuality I'm still learning. And that's the whole reason we podcast, Trave. Yeah, man. I'm trying to educate you about how us earthlings like to pork. Roast pork, it sounds like. I've rewarded you no points for that, Travis. I understand, yes.

I understand. I'll keep workshopping. I'm going to try, I can't fight is my only thing. So I'm going to try and while he's distracted, get, like, on top. What do you can't fight? Was that, like, you just like not going to. fighting. I have no fighting. You choose not to. Oh, you know, I have one in Hunt. If I, well, uh, okay. You know what I do? You have nothing in prowess? I have a lot of prowess,

but that's not fighting. It's not in skirmish. Yeah. Um, hmm. Okay, let's let's let's, I, I have a question. If, if we have established that this is not a real person, that this is a construct of some kind, would it not be wreck? I don't know no points of that either. I think then we get, I would also be careful getting too in the weeds there of like we fight hard light and this is a

creature. Okay. Not like a building or an in a, this is an animate object. Right? So whether that is like a robot or what we're treating it as a being. I'm going to try and get on top of this thing. Well, it's distracted.

Great. I don't know. Bebrow. Okay. Well, I have one in that, which is not great. So I may push myself here. Can I get a bonus dice because he's distracted from the thing that Emmer did on his last turn? Yeah, I like that.

That's fine. Okay. What's my position? You're like in front of him. Risky, desperate? Oh, yeah. Risky. And I'm going to make it standard because he is big.

Okay. I'll take my two bonus dice and Mark Stress, and please. Wow. 6-2-2. 6-2, thank goodness for that bonus dice. I know that's not how probability works, but still. You, with a leap, with a six, I think you, like, start running while he's ogling Scott Boldflex. And once you get to the tail, you notice that there is a raised section.

lining the back of his tail of these like sort of rocky outcroppings, I guess, would be the way of putting it. And you use those to scale up to, how are you trying to get to? Were you trying to get to just to his back? Yeah, I mean, I think ultimately our goal here, I don't think we're going to kill Jelt Frempen, so I think our goal here is to just sort of expose his belly some more. So, yes, I'm going to try and get up to. maybe like his neck, bottom of his neck. You climb up to the neck.

You are now wrapped your legs around. You're right above where his like large, leathery wings attached to his body. You're at the wishbone. Okay, yeah, sure. And you managed to grab onto one of those spikes and are holding in what is a pretty like secure position there. Cool. I'm going for the glowing scale on the best. Kelly.

Going for it. Speak on that. Okay. I'm going to attempt to, like, power slide under there and pull that thing off. Okay, so you're going to try to rip the scale off? Uh, yeah. Okay. Listen, in for a penny, in for a pound, we'll find this dragon.

We need the scale. I assume that this challenge finishes when we get the scale. Let me, let me just to, like, kind of clarify. You know how, how, just so I can make sure you know what you're looking at here. You know how like scales overlap typically? Yeah. The way that his scales have sort of arranged themselves around what you assume is the heart scale is that they have overlapped it almost completely. Oh, on all sides.

It's like on all sides, right? Like if you were to try right now, you could not get a grip from what you are seeing. I see. Then maybe just smash it around it. Say that again? the scales surrounding the heart scale have overlapped it in such a way that you can see it but you wouldn't be able to like get a grip on it like right away like you wouldn't be able to get a get a hand on there or anything to try to like remove okay I got it so I'm going to

slide under there and try to wedge that kukri in like up under the scales trying to pry off some scales around it then okay great I'd like to assist in this in doing sort of what I set up, like just try, but maybe I'm just sort of stabbing it in one of its back scales just to get it to rear up and give beef a little bit more room to work down there. Great. Okay, good. And what's my position on this, Justin? This one is going to be desperate. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. But I am going to make it standard because he is still distracted, so I'm making some of these a little bit easier. And Griffin's assisting, and I'm going to push myself. Wow.

Yeah. Because I won it. Is this a wreck then? Oh, I was doing it in skirmish. I think it's skirmish, yeah. I mean, it's still part of a living... I'm fighting a dragon. A three and six, a two and a one.

Thank fucking God. Wow, that seemed like overkill until you rolled trash, trash, trash six. Mark Proustache. I did. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, Treff, inspiring. You jam your kukri.

Correct. Into where the left and right of the heart scale. And you managed to pry two of the scales surrounding it off before you're tossed aside. Oh, he noticed? Yeah, he did notice that. He did. He did notice that. Is that going to take the plating clock down?

There we go. Loving it. And you hear him scream out and ping. No! I will say one thing to note, Trev, as this feels different from the other time that you attacked him, these like popped off a little bit more easily than your previous attack. Like, you get the sense that like this sort of, this is part of it. This is part of it. Exactly right.

Got it. And your other attack maybe wasn't. Marvelously quickly. You should feel very proud of you. Thanks. Again? Thank you. You're welcome?

I'm having trouble staying here, though, so you could move as quickly as possible. I'm trying so hard. Oh, my God, dude. I'm trying really hard. Are you the dragon? Stop hurting us. I do have to. Keep up appearances, you understand.

Okay. Okay. We're at six out of eight segments on fire. No, wait, sorry, four out of six segments on fire blast. Just to keep those at home abreast. And we're at four out of eight segments on dragon plating. So that's about halfway there. Where, how many scales are surrounding the heart scale? How many?

were four and there are now two. Do I see any kind of apparatus where this fire blast is like a charging up? You said it was like we could see. Oh yeah. It's in his throat. You can see. And now it's glowing roughly twice as bright as it was

before you made the last two attacks. So how high off the ground would that be? 20 feet. You can't jump 20 feet. Emmerc can't jump 20 feet? Come on, man. Vertical. Come on, man. Wait, now.

Wait, now, hold on. How is the broken elbow affecting? That's what's stopping him from being able to jump 20 feet? Exactly. Are you still, is Montrose still on the back? Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty close to this glowing spot, right? Radical rock, yeah. In retrospect.

You should have fixed your fucking elbow? No, I should have run up with you on the back. man, I would not love to let it with a broken arm that you refuse to treat. I would not have let you get away with that. True. True. I know. Okay. I would like Emric to try to pry the other two scales off the heart scale with his lightning hook.

Okay. Interesting. This will be skirmish. Can't get away? would let me do tinker since it's working on a mechanic You're just tinkering with it You know it's just a bit of tinkering

You took it down to the shop And tinkered around With this 30 foot dragon All of the mechanical's dad are on the inside We're treating this as an inanimate object Go ahead, Dave Go ahead Maurice Fiddle about with this

Crazy old Maurice So it is it tinker? No No It's not tinker I was taking your sarcasm. No, I appreciate it. No, it's good. I like that. Fine. I'll skirmish the hell out of it.

Yeah, fight the dragon, man. Anybody want to help? This is going to be... You know what? Because Scott Boldflex sees you going for it, I'm going to make this risky standard. Because Scott... No, risky great. That's what I'll do. So normally this would be desperate,

but Scott Bullflex sees you going for it and he knows he has to really put on an extra sexiness and then he starts doing his patented move where he flexes his butt cheeks in alternating order and he can noddingly bounce. Kind of a reverse Terry Cruz, right? Yeah, sure, yeah. Okay.

More like an upside down Terry Cruz, I would say. Anybody want to help? Anybody? I have two in skirmish, so I'm going to be rolling two only. That's pretty good, actually. Yeah, I only have three stress left, and I want to save it for pushing myself. All right.

Here we go then. Two and a four. Partial. Partial success. Partial success. That makes sense. So let me describe it. He runs in a zigzag pattern towards the dragon

and takes a big whoosh with the lightning hook and does what damage? Uh, you take, you take a swing with the lightning hook and, uh, you, I'll tell you what, with a four, you, uh, manage to, uh, get the hook up onto one of the, uh, plates that is protecting the heart scale, uh, but you, and you pull it down and it is loosened, but is not completely, uh, removed with a four. Just one.

or both of them. Okay. Just what, one is loosened. So there is three left on the plating clock. Fire blast at this point is now at five out of six. Let me just say this. I'm going to leave the hook in there. Okay, sure.

I'll let you do that. I'm going to leave the hook. It jammed in there behind the one loose. Let's say it got stuck. Scale. Then. Let's say it got stuck. Right.

and run away, right? Run away. Oh, wait, that's a bonus action. Oh, wait, that's the wrong game. I stand up on its back. And I shout, Jilt Frimpin. I am Artemisius Good Party, Hawk Blade of the Emerald Coven, finger of the eighth and forgotten,

and I wield the darkest power. And I pull my big pistol that I got during the gutter city job. And I aim it right at his glowing throat spot. And what do you do after that? I'd say, go now and speed whale. And I fucking shoot the gun.

Fucking hell. Classic dragon slang maneuver. It's weird how often those like knights didn't use guns. I'm right behind him, so he can't see me for all he knows. Okay, Griffin, I, because you have brought a gun to a dragon fight, I guess I'm going to give you a risky standard. I mean, it's a gun. And we have well established the power of this incredible gun.

Okay. Can I argue that because it's somewhat point blank range, that maybe instead of a hunt roll, it would be finesse? Yeah. I mean, I would grant you that. Yeah. So risky. Isn't there a way to increase the effect if I take a different position?

Hmm. Can't you trade position? position for effect. A player might want to trade position for effect or vice versa. This kind of tradeoff isn't included in the effect, it's not an element. The GM should assess. Yeah, you can offer, you can accept that or deny it.

Basically, it's up to your, you want to make your position worse. A desperate role, a desperate role with great effect. Okay. Here's what you do. You're holding on to him and you pull the gun and you, holding one of these you realize that

his back plating is a lot tougher so you hanging onto one of these spires or the you know his spikes you grab onto it and let yourself dangle down hanging from his neck and place the pistol against his neck before you fire cool I'm gonna go whole hog on this one then

and use daredevil too meaning plus one to the roll if I I accept minus 1D to resistance rolls against consequences from my action. This is stupid. I have two level one injuries already. Go for it.

Yay! So, finesse, desperate. Great effect, then? Sure, yeah, great effect. And my bonus dice from... I'm gonna push it. I'm gonna take... I have one empty trauma slot.

Now, after I've pushed it. Okay, please. That's a crick Wow, that is a crit. Okay, Griff, you you lose your grip on the spike and start falling backwards, but luckily your hand was already on

and you hear a voice whisper to you. Aim true, mon truce. As you fall, you pull the trigger and it rips through the throat of this thing. the fire that it had been storing a blasts out the back filling the cabinet momentarily with light.

His fire has completely drained so this is back to zero. And with that attack, not only have you done that, but you've also taken away two more of his armor plates, leaving him with just one left.

And it is clear he is the that jelt frimpin is stumbling uh around it you can hear uh servos inside of his throat as that gelatinous ooze that you saw in the in the wrist beef uh starts to gush out of his uh neck uh and he uh swings his head back and forth not seeming to be in his own control anymore i'm going to take this moment then to grab that uh lightning hook that's wedged in the plating and just rip it out with all my might trying to knock, get loose that, um,

that hard scale. Just use my full beef super strength. Go super beef on it. Okay. Um, give me, I land okay from my, you're fine, fall, right?

No, you actually land in a cool way. Oh, with critical. Oh, like a Black Widow lands or, oh yeah, one like extended, fucking toching to the moon. Yeah. Love that.

Would this, would this be scratch? Crimesh, Rack? Let's call it. I mean, I've been fighting with skirmish at this point, right? Yeah, I think skirmish. Okay. And... Uh, we're gonna call it.

Yeah, I mean, because the hook's already in there, I'm gonna say this is like, risky standard. Okay. And... Would Scott still wiggling sexually... Scott has been... I've been factoring Scott into the fact that you're fighting a dragon this whole time. Well, I was still... doing my free fall fucking shot up to the sky

fucking in that animatic scots in the background just like did that do that and I'm pushing myself to do the not to be trifled if you can push yourself to do to perform a feat of physical force that version is on superhuman

great so it will be take that into account I got a mixed success a four a two and a three Two and a three. You grab the end of that lightning hook, trav, and you yank it as hard as you can with all your incredible power. And as you pull, you pry off the last plate that is holding this thing in the heart scale in place. You also snap the lightning hook into...

Oh, now wait a minute. Okay. Yeah, it's not mine. You left the lightning hook in there. It's not my hook, man. It's fine. You just build a further one. You fix it. You fix it stuff all the time. Yeah. And then the...

A little duct tape. Jelt Frimpin, the last scale falls away. The heart scale is there. Jelt Frimpin is sort of lowered and not really seeming to be noticing you all anymore. And the heart scale is there for the taking. Are you going to go ahead and grab that beef? Yeah. Yeah, grab that beef.

Grab that beef. All right. You take the heart scale. And as you do, Jelprenpun just seizes. The moment that you pull it out, it's about maybe five inches around, perfectly circular ridges around it. You can still see it's glowing a little bit within. and you are now holding it

and as soon as you take it out, Jel Frimpin, sort of seizes and lowers to the floor and lays still. Do you guys... Hey, congratulations. You guys beat a dragon. That's fucking sick.

Do you guys think they'll be mad that you shot the animatronic through the neck? That definitely wasn't like the plan thing, right? They'll be posting out in front of the ride due to technical difficulties. We will be... There's nothing in the rulebook that says a dog can't play basketball. And now they know, don't they?

Yeah. Hey, yeah, Creaky Man, are you in there? That was marvelous. And you... The sound seems to be coming from, like, the entirety of Jelt Frempen. It's emanating from him, not localized to any one point. point in the, in the dragon's body, but, um, it is coming from him, generally speaking. So are you, is this like the pilot of the animatronic?

Are you in there? Do you want to come out and talk to us? It might be less weird. Would that I could. I appreciate what you've done here. Many take the scale. But few, few can truly conquer, Jill Frimpon. Is an onodice.

stand in your presence, let alone be honored in this way. We come seeking your heart, scale, for we have a greater quest to attend to. Oh, take this

scale. Here, hold on. You take, you, you are, here he took it. Watch. And you hear a low mechanical hum, and much like a ski ball being

return to you. You see another heart scale, like, slide into place. I say, Jill... Don't take another, though, it's great. Okay. Of course not. We... Cheld Frimpen, this is not the first time I have sought audience with you,

but I do not remember you being so combative. I... I... I am not Jilt Frumpen. I am here. But I am not Jilt Frimpen. Maybe we ask your name? Would that I know.

Creaky man will suffice for now, I suppose. A good moniker, isn't he? Okay, uh, creaky man, if, if I may, um, I'm wildly confused. I'm a lot, I don't know, like, you're, uh, how are you, what, what's up? Uh, what is, what is this? I will do my best to tell you what I know.

It takes quite a bit for me to be as here as I am. But I will try. Part of me is in Jilt Frempen, many places throughout the world. Part of me is here. Part of me is imprisoned here, I think. And through this act I am no longer here, this part of me. I'm able to be more concentrated

if that is the correct word else elsewhere I will not be here long and then I will vacate Jel Frempen for good and I will be a little bit more myself elsewhere

Where are you located if not here? Do you have some sort of home base? I'm scattered. More accurately, I think, shattered. I have seen you elsewhere. I was in one of the vans,

as you made that thrilling escape. I was there. I called out, but it was so... I have watched you from the porch of used to been in the the whittling I sat a rocking chair

couldn't summon up enough voice to reach you but I called out I called out to anyone who would listen honestly but you three are the first who seem to be looking hard enough to hear okay

why are you watching us what are you what are you want from us I need you to free me. You freed me from this prison and by freeing me I can no longer return, which is a sadness I love this place. I love this world, but I wish to experience it from inside, Joel from me. So now I will leave to the other layers. I would ask that you find me. I don't know how free I can be and I don't know what I am.

All put it together, but I can't be as many places as I am now. I can feel what little grasp I still have of whatever I once was slipping away due to find. And the spark that was

illuminated within Jeld Frimp and the final spark goes out and it is completely silent. Um, if we just external, whatever sort of consciousness was in inspiriting Jelt Frimpin, the Infinite Dragon. We should probably shake a tail feather.

I mean, we should probably do that anyways. You shot his head off. Yeah, I did. That was, by the way, thank you, too, for being here for that. That was the coolest thing I've ever done in my life. And if no one had witnessed it, I would be heartbroken. Two, as you start to, oh, sorry, go ahead. No, we're moving.

We're leaving. Finish your conversation. Let's go Yeah, we need to As you start to make for the exit A man Wearing Let's see

A white peasant shirt That is draped over What is clearly the bulge Of a tool belt And brown leather pants and boots Walks in the room Uh Hell

You know, um You know guys really saved the town this time. Thank you for your incredible battle. Now, you must go, lest this

beast awaken once again. Okay. And you can see him walking towards Delt Frimpin, and you hear him under his breath. Mother fuck, what I did. Jesus Christ. Fucking hell.

Do you still have the orb? Uh, what, we never got, we didn't receive an orb. The Chrysanthemum orb? We didn't get that. We didn't get, that's the, what you used to, oh shit. Yay Verily, you really fucked this guy's whole scene, huh? Yeah, it was a dragon we killed it.

You killed the fuck out of him, man. Um, hey, do me favor on your way out. Lock the door, yeah? It's gonna take a while. Oh, he is good and dead. But just go ahead and lock the door because I'm going to need fucking a few hours to get this guy back up and running. I would be glad to. I would be glad to.

Do you have like a key card we can use to lock the door? It should lock on his own. Just make sure that you pull it all the way closed because it could get a little stuck. This door over here? The one you came in through. The one that I'm walking towards? Yeah, there's another exit. Yeah.

Okay. Do you see? No, to the left? You see the one stone there. Push on that. Okay. Okay. Now, insert the...

You guys probably don't have the emerald feather, do you? Nope. Fuck. I'll hold on. And he walks over and he has like an emerald feather in his pocket that has like a chain tied to it with a tag on it that says gel frimp and exit. And he swipes the green feather. Verily, you can use mine. Okay, so see ya.

And where's the photo booth where we get pictures of us during the fight? Is that this way? Oh, you wish to see this display in your magic here? I do not actually want any kind of photographic evidence of this fight. Thank you so much, beef. We are good. It's in the old shit. I do actually want a picture of me falling down,

shooting a bullet up through a dragon's three. Those were captured automatically and will be sent to your, you're in for your perusal. What did you do to its wrist? Oh, sorry about that. Well, hey, bye! You fucking hell. Beef out.

Yeah, I guess. That wasn't like a command. It wasn't telling him to do it. Hey, man, beef out. I'll see you later. Can that guy show up after every heist we do and just be like, Jesus. There's laundry fucking everywhere.

all over the street. There's chocolate footprints all down this nice hotel. We need that running gag character that shows up in every... Yeah, God knows me. Yeah, we don't have enough running gags on this show. That's always been my... Yeah, that's always been the issue. That's been the note I've given at the end of every episode.

It's like, we need to reference by any way. Did he have a name tag? Was it Justin? Don't let him bully you, Justin. Oh, he's the regular guy. He's just the regular guy. Comedy and Culture. Artist-owned.

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