The Adventure Zone - The Adventure Zone Versus A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Live in Columbus!

Episode Date: April 23, 2026

There’s something strange in these woods! Fairies and doppelgängers and donkey-heads abound — can Lady Godwin, Winnie-the-Pooh, and Brother Phileaux stop Puck from eating Shakespeare before they fall under the forest’s enchantment? Additional Music in this Episode: "Discovery" by Kirk Osamayo: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/kirk-osamayo/; and "Thatched Villagers" and "Clothe the Fields with Plenty" by Axletree: https://youtube.com/c/AxletreeMusic.  Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/jointaz

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Backstage like five minutes before we came out here. Hit me with a, oh, sorry. You hit me in the head with a metal sword, Mac. Are you okay, Juice? Yeah, Pop, thank you. Okay, buddy. Actually, dad, that's funny. You call me out because I wanted to speak on that for a second, pal.

I was looking at this backstage. It's no fear of Shakespeare, mid-sever-night's dream. Shakespeare side-by-side plain English. Now, before you laugh too hard, you should know that this was handed to me yesterday by my dad and said, in case you need to bone up. Now, I was looking at this and Griffin said, what is that? And I told him, and then I realized, dad only gave me this. So I want to know, dad, do you think I am your stupidest son?

or the son most likely to read the dumb book you bought, which is it? I think you fall right in the middle, Justin, where he knows I know it the best. He knows Griffin doesn't care to learn about it. Not at all. And you're right in the center. I'm furious that you'd let him off the hook by giving him an answer, Travis. Well, I had my own answer. I mean, you are the farthest away from the college experience.

Thank you, dad. Fair. How dare you call him your oldest son? There were some booze in the audience. They were like, whoa, out of line. Hey, Paul, quick review, green apple, white call is hitting. It's an 8.5. The peach is also on fire, Paul.

Well, good choice. Paul and I were pretty stoked about some new flame. Black cherry is. Okay. Yeah. All right, before we get started, do you guys want to do a quick character intro for anyone who doesn't know? Yes. Sure.

My name is Lady Godwin. I was splatted in a terrible car accident caused by Dracula and the Wolfman. to destroy the entirety of my body or so I thought I was separated from my fancy fancy British lady body and strapped on the body of a barbarian lady and then I go around the countryside, it's hit stuff with my axe, Jen from Myers. That's the whole story. Dad's is always my favorite when we do Taz versus shows. It's a good time for me to go to the bathroom. It's weirdly early, but still, it's a nice break. If you've never listened to Taz versus. Try to figure out the big sort of turning point in dad's character arc if you can.

I play Brother Philo, who is an artificer and a friar, and he is on this adventure. He went on the adventure with these others to kill Dracula because it was his calling. And on probably, I don't know. Episode four maybe. Was it four? It was pretty early. Episode four, he saw a mysterious looking helmet on a bed, and he put that helmet on, and he was transferred into the body of

Pinocchio the puppet. It's like a family guy cutaway gag that just got stuck. It was like a one-off pole. It was like burned into the episode and you kept kind of seeing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're not still in that cutaway, are they? It made one or two

efforts to try to switch him back. but no, he's never taken. It just is also been a joke. So he is, and as a matter of fact, his real body got shrunk down and is in one of these. He carries his own cadaver. He's an absolute ghoul and also the Pope kind of. No, yes.

Turbo cardinal. He is the interim, interim turbo cardinal. You're not allowed to add that because you're not being mutt tonight. That's true. Still the GM, I can decide. That's true. I GM the original run of Taz versus Dracula. Tonight I will be embodying Denthelius, the High Elf Ranger.

No, I'll be Winnie the Pooh tonight from the 100-acre wood. See, you didn't know because the head part is not up yet. Oh, it came off because I'm terribly wet already. I'm wet everywhere on my body. Holy cow. He really is. Yeah, man. It's hot inside these poo bears.

Yeah. And I'm Travis McElroy. Thank you so much, Paul. Just as okay. What up, Trav Nation. I'll be GMing tonight and making the magic. Let's jump right into it. The three of you wake up on the forest floor.

That's normal for me. That's the only place I do that, man. You remember very little of how you got here, but you see a small ball of light each of you. you dancing before your eyes with tiny gossamer wings, one pink, one yellow, one white. Which one's mine? Yours is white. Yes.

Pooh-bear, Philo, make a wisdom-saving throw. But not Lady Godwin? Not Lady Godwin. That's fucked up, man. Wisdom save, 14 plus 317. Okay. Okay, wisdom save. I'm sorry, 14 plus 6, dirty, 20.

A gentleman's 20. I love it. Can we stop saying dirty 20? That's why I say gentlemen's 20. Every time you all say it, I hate it more. Please stop saying dirty 20. All right. I got a dirty 12.

Come on, man. Perfect. Winnie the Pooh. I'm gonna call it OSHA. This is my workplace. Winnie the Pooh, you look to your right. And you see a woman lying on the floor who you know to be Lady God when she is beautiful. Gorgeous.

You feel strong feelings for her. You're able to keep them under wraps. You're going to play it cool. But you, Philo, you look to your left and see a beautiful woman lying there. You are enamored. No, it's Lady Godwin, not Winnie the Pooh. Sorry, Buster. That's my left.

I don't think you're ready for this, Jeline. Philo's left, not your left, Clay. Oh, right, okay. You have never been so in love in your life. Wait, am I unconscious? For the next three seconds. Okay. Your love for her is chaste and beautiful

like a night of old for a lady fair. Do you realize the unique vibe you've chosen to cultivate in the room tonight? Yes, I do. Hey, Griffin, every syllable you utter prolongs it. Lady Godwin, you wake from your slumber and feel nothing. You're perfectly normal.

Drop kick, activate. God, the two of us, you're rocking with Pinocchio and Woody the Pooh. We could not be more drop-kickable accomplices. Okay, so what do I, I don't have a problem. No, you're all- No, you're fine. Okay, good.

Hey, Philoerway, you're looking to be like that. Would you say? You are remarkable. With my, just to make anything else be happening right now, with my dirty 20, do I know that I was, okay. You're fully aware that something strange is going on. Could you shut up for a second?

You are. You can hear that voice. You are the moon. Okay, yes? You are. You have an astral body. Okay. I have our body, which is a step up on you, I agree.

Hey, don't body shame him. No, I just mean he's got doubles. It seems a bit greedy, doesn't it? Something is terribly strange here. I'm sensing that as well, Mr. Pooh. You hear laughter echoing through the tree. trees, bouncing off the leaves, almost tripping down the vines, as a green glow appears in the forest and a full-sized, you know, six-foot tall man appears with large gossamer moth wings,

laughing at the frivolity of the trick he's played upon you. And he yells, yes, that is right, I am the merry wonderer of the night. None of us said that. We did, sorry, your whole deal is a lot to take in. But none of us... Yes, you should thank your luck, for I am the merry trickster park. And you're all like super into each other now, right? Absolutely not. What?

The puppet's weirding me out, though, if you have some sort of anti-enchantment? Well, you're in love with the puppet now, right? I'm not. I didn't even have... I didn't even... I didn't even have a moment where I thought that I might be confused. Even though you rebukest me. I'm going to punch him in the face.

In the blink of an eye, Puck is zooming around you to see a swirl of light, and then he's back to his post, and he looks pissed. You are cheating! You are cheating! Your head and your heart are not connected. They are different.

Why are your head and heart not connected? Oh, isn't that funny? Yes. Well, they're quite separate, aren't they? They're from different lines. I don't know. I have a different head from my body. It's so hard to explain like this, but I have a different head than I started with. Well, a different body isn't.

Wolfman hit her with a car. She exploded and got a barbarian body instead. Okay, just say that next time. I get that. Honestly, it's not. Forgive me for being a bit existential for a moment. But that's cheating. Being existential? No, the body head switch thing. Exotential's fine. That plays. You guard your.

Your tongue. What? This is the woman I love. Oh, anything you can do sincerely. Money? Do you need money to make this not happen anymore? Does thou not wish me to find the love of my life? Yes, I'm also getting tired of this. This guy gets...

For reasons, meest can't quite explain. Thou don't enjoy hearing dad hit on me. I did think this would be a merry... but now I'm creep to all hell. And a bolt of lightning strikes Fylo down. Stands up, you're no longer in love with Lady Godwin. Oh, gentle bear. No.

No? You're not. Another lightning. Nothing and no one. And let me say, Dad. Your capability for love has been erased, Philo. No, wait. Burned out.

And you attempting that gambit on me while calling me gentle bear the whole time is a nightmare. No, you're back to your normal, weird self. Yeah. Hey, what I miss? I need no money. I need no things. I simply need distraction while I play out my revenge plan. Yeah, that's cool.

How do we get out of these woods? How did we get into these woods? Shakespeare stole my story and played me for a dupe. Then he wrote this play and trapped me in a loop. So when I saw my moment, I reached out. and I got him. And by the end of the night, you shall all kiss my bottom.

Iambic pentameter. If we do, if I kiss your literal ass, now can we skip the, the Jabes? Make a perception roll? Yeah, sure. Ass and bottom.

He has no ass. Wow, okay. Can't wait, Trave, to hear what you do with a critical one on. Yes, go for you. Awesome. Don't look. Wait, my eyes are closed.

Who were you talking to? No one look at this. You still have to do the stuff, but look at you now, butt kisser. I am going to, I guess, just bite him with my bare teeth

as hard as I possibly can. Wait, bite his butt? That's where I'm at, man. It's what I'm aiming at. Thumb ahead in that book, Justin. This is probably the early any butt has ever been bitten at one of our lives shows. Normally we wait until

Act 2 to eat ass. Hey Griffin. With your critical one, you have disadvantage on this by you. Yeah, I'm looking in the book, Dad. I'm not seeing this part. Look up bottom. It may change what you think. That's a 16 plus some stuff. Some cool stuff.

16 plus 6. 22. So, boy, I hope that's the one we go with. Yeah. Fuck. Nine? He farts in your face. Shit, this just keeps getting worse. Yes, this is quite a distraction for you and for me.

I need to return to my business. Have fun exploring the forest. And the green light vanishes, but still dancing around you are the blue light, the pink light, and the white light. And you hear them muttering to themselves in quite an annoyed tone. You can't quite pick up what they're saying,

but you can tell that they're kind of, frustrated. I'm going to grab a pink one and pull it close to my ear. Normal? Normal thing to do. Make a, you can make an athletics, athletics, make a dexterity check. Are you sure? You're trying to catch a fairy, my dude.

I just feel like athletics, you, yeah, okay. Okay, athletics or dexterity. Run at it so fast that it just kind of splatters against you. I got a, hey, I got it too. Hey. What the fuck, man? Oh. I cast enlarge on the pink one.

Okay. Weird. Weird, man. Weird, dude. So weird, dude. Dude. Once again, I, this is why I love DMing for my family, because I established that they have the power of speech. Right.

And then they're like, I know. I'll grab them. Oh, that didn't work. I'll make them big. Okay. So did he make them big or not? It's like that really, really. What do I need to do there, Clint, when you cast in large?

Oh, you just grow larger. Yeah. If it's unwilling, it can make a Constitution saving. Thank you, Griffin. Yeah, you're welcome. Clint, I'm not going through another live show. 15 plus whatever, so I think I'm going to beat it out. Yes, Con 14.

I can read my screen, Griffin. Yeah, but it's faster when I do it. What the fuck? I'm sorry. I was being rather brutish. I was rather unnerved, and I just wanted to hear... I thought you were part of the whole business with that nasty gentleman. No, you guys are as bad as he is.

Oh, well, that's not fair. He farted in my open mouth. And that was... Yeah, we loved that, didn't we? Yeah, yeah. Sorry, to be clear, I loved that, too. That was good. You said you wouldn't look.

I mean, I heard it. It was quite audible. Yeah, yeah. So, um, what's your guy's deal? Do you know anything about him and how to get out of these woods and how to kill him what his weakness is for his death? Sorry, we should introduce ourselves.

Yes, sorry. I'm beesblotum. Bees. Peas blossom. You said something. Peas. Pea popham. Are you guys getting this?

Because it's hidden different for me every time. I believe it is peas blossom. Peas blossom. Peas blossom. A pleasure to make sense. I'm mustard seed. Mustard seed, we got that one. And I don't think that's right, is it?

Yes. The phone, where did you go? I was kidding, mayonnaise. I'm sorry. I can't keep this rules up. Certainly, you guess, for my scale. There's a largely unknown comedy rule, which is yes and followed immediately by a,

uh, never mind. Actually, I got to, it felt too mean. It was, it was, it was, it was, It was yes and to compassion. Man, if we had a dollar for every time we pretended to be somebody's parent to get out of a sticky situation on this show, we would be billionaires. Excuse me, but are you fairies?

No shit, dude. Yeah. With the cost of our wings, this fucking guy. I do not have a fairy in any of my... So let's go ahead and stop this right where it is. Look at that. Let me just cork it right there. Hey, just to decide, we're supposed to be heroic figures

and kidnapping generally frowned upon. Hey, just a double check, you said something about killing park? Yeah, does he have any major food allergies? Yeah, go on there, heroic figure. Tell us more about killing pot. He bonded in my open mouth. I saw. I may be a bear comprise.

Can I just say that would be the fucking most kick-ass. villain origin story. If you're like, why is Lex Luthor like this? Well, one time, Superman ford it in his open mouth. Monster beef. Well, bats, you see one time your parents farted in my open mouth.

So now I'm the Joker. Yes, we suspect he brought us here and has the key to our freedom, and so we would like very much to... Remember, remember when you farted in my mouth. So we want to kind of stop him. Oh, actually, yes.

I'll tell you, I don't know how we can help right now, but we'll be there at your aid when you need us. No, not in the bottle, you pervert. Okay. And so what this is going to grant each one of you is one pocket advantage for you to call on, you must call on peas, awesome mustard seed and mayonnaise as your pocket advantage to use once throughout this live show.

Cool. I go to mayonnaise. I say, you're my road dog for sure. Hell yeah, brother. I want peas blossom. Don't say it like that. Okay? I will have peas blossoms.

You did want more of those and the offers revoked. Don't push it. Dad, for this show, you should push it. Well, you also need all the advantages you can get up here. I would not piss one away.

Peas blossom, would you do me the honor of cooperating? with me in the near future. Hell yeah, dude. Great, get in the bottle. Hey, make a Constitution saving throw real quick. No reason, no reason. You mess with the poll.

So you want to pick the character sheet that says, brother Philo on it. Constitution saving. Oh, right here, right? No, saving throws Constitution plus seven. But 10. Yeah, piece blah off some farts in your mind. mouth. Oh no. And you take two points of damage. Oh, awesome. I didn't have to, that's great, man.

Peas blossom fart. Jesus Christ, man. Oh no, the fantasy police showed up. This has never happened before. Dad, you've got to deploy that fairy fart this episode, man. If you huff it and think nasty thoughts, you can fly to never let. I want the tone and tenor of this show to change on a dime immediately. How many points off? Two. Two. Okay.

All right. Around you springs up brush and vines and the forest floor forming a pathway, but I need each of you to make a dexterity saving throw to avoid being whipped by this brush and sticks and leaves and branches. No freaking prong. Five plus two, seven. 14 plus two, 16. 10 plus 1, 11. Oh.

Okay, Philo and Godwin. You take six points of damage as you're whipped in the face by branches and thorny vines. Pooh Bear, you tuck and roll, my dude. You're cool. Yeah. I've been telling you guys, when you're in the woods, you've got to keep your head on swive. Everything out here is out to get you, I guarantee it.

You two are just sort of plant food walking around to them. I actually have a limited range of motion due to the surgery, believe it or not. I can't swivel at all. It's about 15 degrees one way or the other. Very much like predator. Yeah, very much. Television. The three of you find yourself in a forest glade with different kind of stumps and logs,

almost fashioned like buffet tables. And all around you, you see, out bowls of some of the most delicious and enticing food you've ever seen. Winnie. You see bowls of every flavor of honey you can think of lavender, orange, even flavors you've never heard of peppermint honey, double honey flavor. Double honey the forbidden honey? Yeah. Almond honey.

Soy honey. Zesty terriaki honey. Triple dog dare you honey. Wasp honey that the scientist swear doesn't exist. but you know does. The most delicious. The triple X red hot honey. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All of it. Philo, now normally as a man of the cloth, you're not tempted by such earthly things as food, but you see before you, bowls and bowls of communion wafers, all flavor blasted with every flavor you can think of. There's cool ranch communion wafers,

nacho cheese communion wafers. Nacho cheese. You see pizza-licious communion wafers. Nacho-geased. Nancho cheese. And you know that these are eugoristas. They're eugoristic. Now, Lady God,

wait, do they have all blessed? All blessed. One with everything. That joke would have killed in Canada. They would have flipped their fucking shit. Now, Lady Godwin, you have a bizarre almost mind-bending experience of you can see all kinds of platters of rare meat,

both in the way that they're cooked and where they come from. But you can also see that these are bowls and plates and platters full of sticks and leaves and dirt and bugs. Yeah. That's what you see underneath the things that you see. Honey time, baby! Winnie the Pooh. This is all very Billy Corgan of me.

Fylo and Winnie the Pooh make a wisdom saving throw. Godwin, I need you to make a contested wisdom versus story. strength-saving throw. On myself? Yes. Got it. I'm gonna, can I elect to just fail it? I think it's true.

If you're not trying to resist it. If you put 18 bowls of rare, if you put the elusive wasp honey in front of Winnie the Pooh, he'll literally tear your arms off to get to it. Yeah, Griffin, I'm going to give you inspiration for choosing to fail that. Thank you so much. So now you have basically two pocket advantages. A second mayonnaise appears, holy shit.

This is my brother, Mayachup. I got, my wisdom is a 19 and my strength is a 23. So you feel, you see these things and you're like, ooh gross, that's not food. But your body pulls over to them and starts picking. So this is exactly like eating Taco Bell. Damn, dude, get them.

So your hands almost out of control. in fact, out of control of your brain, start picking things up out of these bowls and shoving them onto your face. Okay, great. Philo, what about you? You're gonna love this stuff, guys. Oh, it's fantastic. Well, no, your head is fully aware

that this sucks. It's vulgar. What about you, Philo? 17. With a 17, you fully know this is a trick? You're drawn to these things, but your brain is able to just barely stop your body from shoving these things into your face. But your friends, on the other hand,

even though Lady Godwin is protesting, Winnie the Boot isn't trying to stop himself from all, from eating whatever these treats are. I've been waiting for this forever. Dad is the voice of reason that has to talk us down from the ledge. No, fellas, wait. Excuse me. Ladies. It's a bear. Okay, people.

Nope. Nope. Friends? Friends. Nope. No adventurers. Okay, yes. Sure. Sure. He looks down because you're about to start eating in the sticks and he says, That's my cousin. And that's a former employer. So are we eating sticks or bugs?

What are we? No, are you trying, okay. Dad is trying to convince me that I am eating his friend. Oh, another puppet's arms? Another puppet's arm. But now, hold on, Travis. That's a very stupid thing. But I do, I do see sticks and am eating.

them. So I think that's got a good chance to convince me as anything, right? In my mind, he just said this honey is his brother, and I'm like, you're saying that to get this fucking honey away from me? If you try that, the arms, so easy to come off of you, my man. Let me do a contested wisdom with dad to see if he can

convince my mind that this is family. Yeah, so, Justin, you're going to do a wisdom-saving throat. Dad, you're going to do a persuasion check. Okay. Well, mine is a... Pertuation. Got it right there. Mine's a one. Mine's a two!

Okay, okay, wait. Dad? All right, and now, let's play it out. Go ahead. Okay. Wait, you are right now, eating an associate of mine that I am actually much closer to than you.

And if you keep eating that, you're going to get splinters in your throat, and that is where your sutures are. So I don't think that's a. a real good idea. He just wants your beef. Don't listen to him. Look, pal.

You didn't roll shit. Okay, listen. None of that was anything. Total garbage. But it worked. You've convinced me. This is your former employer, did you say?

Bob, I had a newspaper, round. A puppet newspaper? Isn't that how most of them are, Justin? Oh, let's bookmark that. Oh, wow. How. Heady stuff. I'm taking down the print media.

Wait, can I just say, you all had to think about them. There's a moment we were like, wait, what is that? What can he be talking about? Is he talking about how corporate monopolies on certain media properties? But is he against the free press? I don't know. Let's just fucking woo just to cover our bases. Okay, so I, do I manage to stop eating?

Yeah, the two of you are free of this glamour. I'm finished. I'm done. I'm done. Really? I ate all my... I ate all the honey that you had on your shelf. So just let me introduce myself.

Can he see... Can he maybe... Maybe our plates can become his honey. Oh, yeah. It doesn't go away. As you eat it, it keeps filling back up. Holy shit. I return.

This is my end, my grail. I've made it. Enjoy the rest of your adventure, practical strangers. I'm so happy for him, but I don't know how many sticks you could eat. if you're a bear before things get rather dicey. Philo throws himself up on the table

and just starts breakdancing to sweep all the plates off of the table. I thought, yeah, I thought you were gonna say break dancing. I figured you would say break dancing. I'm going to rip, I, you heard me warn him twice, right? I'm gonna rip his arms right off of it. Like the second his shadow crosses over the plane of my, like a dog guarding its food bowl. I'm so sorry, I would.

warned you twice. It's not me. It's Winnie the Pooh and his insatiable appetite for honey. Is that an attack roll? You're going to lay the smack roll down on him. Yeah, I sure am. Excellent. That's a 7. I'm going to use the heroic inspiration from earlier that you gave me.

All right, that's better. 16 plus 6, 22. Okay. What do I roll? No, he is attacking against your AC Clint. I mean, it could be like a string check to see if I rip his arms off. I don't know if he able to contest that. I'll give you this. Give me a deck saving throw. And you need to get a 10 or higher to avoid being ripped into pieces.

Rip, rip, rip, rip. That's a 6. Well, plus 1, 7. I guess I'm done rolling. Now, Winnie the Pooh. Yeah. Give me a wisdom saving throw with advantage. With advantage. All right. Critical failure. And 14 plus why don't they just put all the shit on one screen technology hasn't evolved that far wisdom save is actually really good that is a non-natural 20

a gentleman's 20 I don't like that either man but yeah a GMO 20 yeah sure okay with that 20 the anguish that you feel at the reaction you just had of ripping his limbsaw Yeah. Snaps you out of it for just long enough

to see bowls of sticks and mud. And it's... And bugs? And bugs. Cool. Just enough to convince you it's not honey. Now, Philo, your arms and legs have been disconnected from your body.

He didn't say anything about my legs. Okay, sorry, just his arms. But as a puppet, that's not as bad as it could be. How instant is his realization and declaration that he has realized the air? of his ways because I have a drop kick in the chamber that unless he is like

audibly protesting that he is no longer going to attack Philo I am going to have to fire off. It takes a second. It takes a second. Okay, I have to drop kick. I fully understand my man. No hard feelings at all. I totally get it. I ripped the arm up your road dog.

But it's a grapple drop kick. What does that mean? So it's like a grapple attack. The target must succeed on a strength desk. It chooses which saving throw DC equals 8 plus propost plus strength or it has the grapple condition. I'll use strength. I'm better at that. Okay.

Seven. Looks like Team Rockets blasting off again. Yeah, 15. Okay, so I grapple in with my drop kick. So you drop kick him. I drop kick him, but at the end of it, he's grappled by my legs. Are you an octopus? What are you talking about?

I mean, I don't know. It was just, I was about. You kick my ass so hard, it buries it. into the stuffing of me. Does your boot get stuck in his asshole? No, it's like, okay, you guys got to understand. I had a drop kick in the chamber. We've established that narratively, right?

That's canon. I can't just stop the drop kick, but what I can do is make it a non-lethal grappling drop kick at the last second. If Lady Goblin full-blown drop-kicked Winnie the Pooh, his ass would be back in the big machine at the builder-bear factory. A.A. Milne would be back working at the Sonoco Station, okay? no more poo to write it back because I done kill it. But instead the foot goes in me.

Here's what I'm going to say. If you want to control your drop kick that much, give me a deck saving throw to control the arc of your drop kick. Okay. This is going to be great. Would you prefer it is a high number or a low number? Is it a golf situation? It's a nine. I got a nine on a guy.

Okay, with a nine, you boot him into a bush. All right. Could be worse. And out comes Winnie the poo. Oh, bother. You kicked me quite a long way. I'm so sorry, Winnie, that I didn't realize you had snapped out of it. Oh, yes.

It's okay. I'm quite all right. I'm terribly sorry. We should be moving on. Shall we continue on our journey? Absolutely. Lead the way. I need to cast one very important spell.

It's called mend. I want to put my arms back on. Can you do that without your arms? Yes. Oh, did I do that? That's okay. It's okay, Winnie. Am I dead or can I come out of the bush?

No, you don't. I don't. Come out of the bush? When you fly on the other side of the bush, what you find is you stand up and you're on the other side of a stone wall that run between you and where you just were. This fucking forest sucks shit. Could you hand me those two arms? Of course. Do you want your left on your left and your right on your right or switch it up?

I'm very flexible. Okay. And I cashed me in and my arms are back. Oh, excellent. Let's continue on, friends. Man, that's pretty good, Trave, actually. Did I hear him say friends like that? I want to do a perception check.

Just because he called you his friend? Yeah, because we just established that we're not friends. Give me an insight check. We established like 10 minutes together. We're not friends. Give me an insight check. That is our code word. That's how you know if we're being held hostage.

10 plus 13. Who's going to laugh at that? With a 13, it seems like either something's off or a big emotional moment has just happened and you missed it. You're not sure which one it is, but it's one of those two things. He did try to kill me. I think that would shake him a person. When he can't ask you something?

Yes, of course. It's kind of tearing you up, which you did Philo, isn't it? Yes, when I tore him up, it turns out the real tearing was in me. I forgive you, my child. Oh, okay, dad? Oh, I am rather peckish, anyone hungry? I could go for a smack roll of jelly. Again.

Honey? Yes? It's too late. I want another chance. Okay, he's going to start running off into a bush ahead of you about 10 feet to your left. He's going, but I do shit like that all the time.

So, like, it's not that weird. You'll never catch me. Okay, he said that. I'm going to throw the back of Jennifer Meyer at his kneecap. You are doing some really out-there shit with attacks this evening. I'm trying to be a little more not,

like, I wouldn't try to sever, he's the poo. Like, I wouldn't sever his leg. He's a child of icon. Okay, here's what I'll give you. His AC is 15. That's true. If you get a 15 to 18, then you control how hard you hit him.

If you get over an 18, it's just going to hit him and do damage. Okay. Come on, Jesus. Okay. And 15 or under. Misses. Okay. So I rolled 11 plus 6, 17.

Right on the money, son. So what are you hoping to accomplish with this Jennifer Myers' throw? I'm just hitting the back of the kneecap. knocked that little stupid bear to the ground and make him go, ow, ow, ow, it hurt so bad. Someone helped. It's never hurt this bad.

Oh, oh, it hurts so bad. It's never hurt this bad. Turning to Elmer Fudd a little bit. Somebody help me. Yeah, he goes down inside the bush. Okay, I slap him with my open hand as hard as I can. You go over to him and slap him? Yeah, on the face.

Okay, as Lady Godwin crosses behind the bush to go slap, uh, winning the poo in the face, the two of them come back out. Who? I'm so sorry, Winnie, that I attacked you. It's okay. Oh, bother. I'm sorry that you hit me with that eggs. You're back there with Winnie the Pooh.

Dude, you're in the wall zone with me, man. Wait, is it? Wait, Winnie the Pooh's there? Yeah. Okay, I slapped Wendy the Pooh across the face and size like that. What the fuck? I told you. Oh.

What did I say? What did I say? What did I tell you? I, you didn't tell me anything. He said that he was. You made me chase you. You made me throw my axe at you just to slow you down. Who are you?

Something really funky is happening up here, and it's making me so sad. Let me see your knee. My what? Your knee. Are you a subscriber? Okay, I flip him over. My Kinnakerna is regularly denied on Only fans. You know that.

Okay, I show him my knees. They are unaxed. Okay, something very confusing is happening, but for the life of me, I can't puzzle it out. Philo, meantime, you see your traveling companions, Lady Godwin and Winnie the Pooh. They have made up after their strange and brief fight right before your eyes.

Now, Philo, should we get moving? Maybe back to where we came. Well, not back to way we came. We're going to head on out of the woods. Oh, I don't know about that. Yes, I agree. That might not be the best decision. It's hard to tell these two apart a little bit.

Well, we've operated all this time as a democracy, so yeah, well, let's go wherever you want. Hey, guys, if we do this the right way, the three of us might get the second act off, which would be pretty cool. Winnie the Poop points... Get home in time for... Winnie the Poop points towards the Bush and says,

yes, that's it that way. We didn't come that way. Yes, but that's the way we're going to go now. All right. You know what? After what we've all been through here, over the last... Stop looking at me.

I'm not there. 45 minutes. I think I should trust you because now we are friends. Philo crosses behind the bush and Philo comes back out to Winnie the Pooh. And Lady Godwin, they're like, oh yeah, wait, fuck.

Oh, shit. Yeah, so we didn't think this one through, didn't we? Oh, bother. And the three of you are back on the other side of the wall now. Okay, so... I saved the day.

I'm the hero. Yoics. Everyone drink. We need... Okay, we need to give each other passwords. So in the future, we know that we are the legitimate uses. But we can't let anyone else hear them unless they are needed.

Are we agreed? Yes. I want... You are saying it out loud in the forest that wants to kill your mind. Okay, listen. The three of us have to come up with the secret code in secret together now.

This is great podcast. Yeah. This is what's going to be interesting. I think we have a foolproof plan now. Foolproof plan. If I had only not had ear plugs in and I could have heard it. You're right.

Dad's only hearing through the monitor right now with his special ear attachment. So everyone plug your ears. No, I'm just kidding. That's not how I hear rustling in the undergrowth, in the leaves as a man in what at one point would have been kind of flamboyant and very dressy attire, but is now very dirty and stained and ripped. Comes running up his hair is wild. He has a crazy look at his eye, and he goes, tell me that you're real. Oh, waffle something.

Was it waffle that you said? I'll toddle right up to him. Dad just tried to put our fucking pass. on blast, but he did not hear it right. We said that in secret, so Travis wouldn't hear. We took a break from doing the show for people to generate a secret password. The idea that you would belch it out like that is so hurtful to me. Not 30 seconds after the fact.

So hurtful to me. But it wasn't the mention of Waffles. That was just our opening idea. We have a different better one, Dad, that we didn't tell you because we knew you'd fucking blow it. Well played by me. I tottle right up to him and hold that. out my tummy. Go ahead.

Go ahead. Polk. Oh, thank God. What is your name, young stuffed bear? My name is Whitney the Pooh of the 100 Acre Woods. Fuck, that was good, man. What's your name?

Bottom the weaver, they call me. Perhaps the greatest bottom there ever was. Powerful, I am. Powerbottom. Yeah, we fucking get it, dog. Okay. Do you have...

Travis is going to die like a goose's gloop in the tunnel of this gag. Do you have a donkey head? Because that's like the only thing I remember. What the fuck are you talking about? He's a normal man. Okay, fine. Do you have a first name because I'd like to never say bottom again? Nick.

Okay. Nick? But I prefer to be called bottom. Yes, absolutely. We can handle that. Are you real? Tell me your real. Yeah.

Well, in many ways I am a pretender. Okay, a player. We do not have time with it. Yes, that's it. Poke his belly, quick. Poke my belly. Poop. He's real.

Yep. That's foolproof. I've been trapped in this wood for God knows how long. Can I give an insight check on this? You may. To try to figure out what his deal is. Oh, that's pretty good. That's gonna be an 18, and I'm to do that 18.

I'm going to add a particular number, and that's going to be a plus three. So 21. He is a sincere idiot. Okay. Everything he is saying is true when he says God knows how long. It's unclear whether that is because it's been a long amount of time or because he has failed to keep track of it. But he does seem to be sincere in his panic and his desire to be helped and befriend you.

Okay. Bottom? Yes. I think you're the real deal. field, but I'm not quite ready to tell you our secret password. That's fair. All I need is some food.

God's, am I hungry? My stomach, how it grumbles, how it rumbles, empty it is. I am an empty bottom. Oh, man. Looking to be filled. Okay. I, um,

well, there's a, there's an all, you can eat honey buffet on the other side of that there wall. And you would share it with me? For sure, my friend. No problem, though. Just get on over that wall and it's all the honey. And what was yours? Slabs of beef.

Oh, there are holy wafers. And holy wafers. Jesus, they're going to blow your gourd, bottom. Wait, don't you have some value we can extract from you? What a terrible way of loophers. looking at the world. How did you get here in the first place, Bottom? Did you-

I walked. So how do we walk out of here? If I knew that, young stuffed bear. You got me there. Here's what we're going to do, bottom. We're going to turn around, face the other way, and walk until we're left. That's what we're going to do right now.

We're all four of us going to turn around and walk out the way we came, because we haven't been in here that long, so we have the best chance of getting out. So you follow us on the way back out that we came in, and we'll all leave together. Make sense to me! Perfect. In other words, we're going to use the back door.

I am so ready. I... Not at his age. Not at his age. It's embarrassing. Can I deploy my druidic knowledge of the woods, my home biome, to try to get some sort of a bearing here?

Bear. Yeah, thanks, Dad. I can always count on you. I can, I have wild shape. Can I just like turn into a bird and give it a quick butcher's? Can I do a quick butcher's of the forest? Give me an Arcana check before you do.

Okay, an Arcana check. That's going to be a 10 plus a 2 of 12. There is a strange kind of vibration of magic from the leaves and trees around you. Yeah. You could try, but you're on. sure of what success would look like. Okay, I don't want to turn into a bird because I don't actually think I can do that.

But I thought if I said it fast enough, it would just kind of go through on a technicality, which has happened so many times before here on this program. I just kind of want to use my nature understanding to see if I can figure out, like, a heading that we should be going towards. So I guess just a nature check. Can this be trying to find out, like, how to execute on what I just said? like he's trying to get a heading on their way back out? Are you trying to find a different way forward?

I'm just, I don't know. I come from the woods, so I would like to utilize that knowledge in some way, shape, or form. Very, very general. Nature plus five, Nat 20. Okay. Oh, God. With a Nat 20, you sense that nature magic that you were feeling that strange vibration, you get a sense of the direction to which that just keeps getting stronger.

And you get a vague sense of that starts dissipating in this direction. And from your eyes, right, the way that it keeps getting stronger seems to be the thinnest of the woods, what you might consider a path. And you see behind you thick undergrowth seemingly no way to pass. and that is where the magic weekends. Listen, I know we had a whole thing, but we got to go through the thick stuff. Got to go where it's thickest if we want to get out of here.

The path is easy, but as a good friend of mine once said in a poem, don't take that one. Try the other one, he said in his poem, It's pretty chill. You know, I have picked up my two arms. No, I see that, and I'm really sorry, by the way. We're going to be working through the traumas of today for quite a while, I think. I could go to the thicket and pick it with a stick just to see.

Yeah, sure. I don't actually think there was a plan associated with that freestyle rap you just did, but... I was just trying to work in and into the woods. Sure, okay. So, sure, let's go deeper into the woods. It's an illusion. Trust me. Okay.

I'll follow Winnie. When he says to trust him, what does that trust look like from you, Lady Godwin? To trust him? That it's an illusion. What do you mean? What do you mean? Like, do you still, what do you do? That I trust, I follow Winnie the Pooh wherever he goes.

Okay. Winnie, what are you doing? I'm going to walk towards them thick branches to try and part them with my druidic magic because I rolled a goddamn natural 20 on my nature roll. And if that turns out to be a trick, I'm going to be protesting the act two of this show from out in the lobby. Okay, give me a wisdom saving throw.

All of us or just? No, yeah, wisdom saving. Just you, Winnie. 18 plus 6, 24. So you know it's an illusion. You say to yourself this is an illusion. You start moving towards this thicket, faster and faster.

and you start to feel doubt like there's, I don't know, and you overcome it, and you say this is an illusion. And you become more confident in your steps, and you hit this line of thorny brush that looks like it is just going to tear your soft, felt outer skin, a sunder. But instead, you feel nothing. You bust through, and you're in a clearing, and you see Puck there with Shakespeare dangling over a boiling pot of some weird green fluid. as the three of you come busting through and Puck goes, oh shit! You made me eat bugs and farts today. Yeah, that's a statement of fact, and I agree.

I think there should be a second, try again, but at the second half, I should put like a warning or such a kind of, you're right. Otherwise, it was just a checklist of awesome things I did. You're right. Buck, I never do this. Can we try and again? You want a second run at the entry line? Yes.

Take it from the top. Okay. Okay. Go ahead. Yeah. You made me eat bugs and farts today, and I don't like that. So, now we're gonna kill you. And save, what's up, William Shakespeare?

Well, I don't know about that. I'm not a fighter. I'm a lover. So perhaps it makes more sense for you to fight each other. And from behind him, steps Fraudwin, Folo, and Winnie the two. And we're going to roll initiative. When we come back after intermission, everybody, head out into the lobby, grab yourself a poster, grab yourself a drink, and we'll be right back.

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I mean, that's if they choose TAS. If they choose TAS is their show of choice. All right. What else are they going to chew? Why are they listening to this break if they're not going to choose Tass? It's a good point. Yeah. The good point.

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Yeah, I sat down and made the decision that we owed that to our listeners. Very bold leadership. Well, you know, that's what I am the Pater Familiar, as you know, Justin. $20 a month, the good clean fun toiletry bag, the embroidered rock advisor, $35 a month, all that other stuff. Plus an insulated stainless steel water bottle. That's the best kind of steel. Unmatched.

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Oh, I thought you were saying like my nickname. Okay. I want to get back to the show. Okay. Please go. Let's kill William Shakespeare. No. No, that's not.

Justin, that's not what's happening. Let's get his old ass. Well, that's not... Let's roll for initiative. Okay. Griffin, were you about to start playing some games? What? No.

It was like you were about to start gaming. Dad, grabbed my knee, and I was like, is he dying? Is this it? Is this a, oh God, is it got to happen on stage? I've always said I wanted to die on stage. Yeah, you have said that. I've seen you die on stage many times, Clint. That is a... I really walked into that one, dude. You sure did. Well, hobbled into it mostly. You're very old. Okay. 19 plus 2 for 21. Yeah, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. 11 plus 2, 13. 18 plus 1, 19. God.

What did you get? What did you get, Justin? 13. No, actually that was good. We normally discourage this level of audience involvement, but you fucking dragged his ass. That's great. That was good.

You know what's weird is that at the top of Winnie the Pooh's character sheet at his inventory is Carpenter's Tools. Why the fuck, man? What do I got that? Well, he was the son of a carpenter Winnie the Pooh was. I guess so.

No. that was Jesus. Here's our poster up here. Yes. Hey, everybody. Maddie Vion did a kick-ass job with this poster, wild about it,

all the special little details, and there should still be some available out in the lobby. If you want to grab them. Also, the Pulse Subboard Memorial Camp Food Drive is still rocking, and we're donating all proceeds of that challenge,

Corey, to the Mid-Ohio Food Collective. So grab one of those if you're able. I miss you, Paul. I miss you, Paul. I miss you, Paul. RIP, rest in Paul. Guys, he can hear you. us.

I know, Dad. It feels like you're doing with us. Paul is watching. From my distance. All right. Who?

You are up first. You are faced with Winnie the two, Fraudwin, and Folo, as well as in the background there, you have Puck dangling

William Shakespeare over a boiling vash of green strange liquid. Gosh, it really feels like I should deal with that situation.

first, but I'm not. I am going to point at Winnie the two, and I'll say, except no substitutes. I'm going to cast plant growth, specifically overgrowth. All normal plants

on 100 foot radius sphere, centered on that point, become thick and overgrown. Travis, the type of plan I would like to specifically conjure up and grow today is those nasty, nasty vines that whipped my two cohorts earlier in the evening to try to give him a taste of, I guess, his own medicine.

So you're going to whip him with thorns? Yeah, I guess so, yeah. But not thorn whip, which is a thing you have. I figured this would be cooler and a callback so you would make it hurt more than a can trip

that I can shit out any Friday night. Okay, what do I need to do? Is it an attack roll or is it... Well, I'm bending the rule. of what plant growth does, so I'm going to say a dexterity saving throw, or you take one million points of damage.

Well, hold on. One of those I'll give you. You're trying to beat 200. That is a not 20. Motherfucker. Fuck. Fuck you, Winnie the Pooh. No, Winnie the Two, please.

You're right. Winnie the Two does 18 backflips. Shit. Whoa. That is what I do. You got me. I learned it from watching you, Dad. Okay.

Now, I have a question. When Winnie the two does 18 backflips, do I clock that? Like, am I now? Do you count all of them? No. Do I see the 18 backflips? And I'm like, that's the fake Winnie the Pooh. I'm standing next to you.

I know, but there's a lot of charms and deceptions here. I don't like you. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I just want to store that away for later that I have a way of telling these two apart. That's all. Okay, do a wisdom saving throw. Okay. Saving throw.

Interesting. Okay, wisdom. Check. Okay, no, I'll do your saving, though. It's fine. It's plus zero either way. 17. Yeah, that's not winning the food.

I'm next to you. You saw this when he the boo. Walk out from behind the puck. Do you 18 backflips? You're like, huh? That does seem like, no, you know what? I don't think that's him. Okay, Tram, here's what I was angling for, I guess,

is that I would also notice some kind of mole or something that would let me differentiate the two of them for. You understand? I have that hole you kicked into my ass. That's me. Hey, check this shit out, though. This is really going to zing you, dude. I may have missed with the attack,

but every creature moving through this area must spend four feet of movement for everyone. Foot it moves. Got you. Good luck dealing with that, minor inconvenience. Okay. I'll make sure to write that down. Dad, you are up.

Brother Philo is going to use one of his many infusions. Like B-12? It's going to sick it on Lady Fraudwood. Okay. Kind of fucked up that you're not attacking your own doppelganger, I think. I actually think it's less fucked up. I want to say I think it would be more fucked up if he was like, I've been looking for a chance to beat the shit out of myself.

Yeah, yeah. Hey, Griffin, let's talk about problems. Like what you just said is, Dad, why wouldn't you kill yourself if you had the chance? Fair. Isn't that every man's dream to kill himself? To kill his own image? So, uh, my good friends,

Brother Philo brings out his old friend, Crow Nuts. The sweet puppet pumpkin homunculi. The pumpkin homunculi that freaks out, Lady Godwin. Okay, Dad, who 3D printed that for you? Because somebody did. Your middleist brother 3D printed that for me. You're on my shit list

now, Travis. And very carefully painted it. That's Dad's Father's Day present. Aw, cute. Cronut, attack. Cronet's going to fly right into Lady Fraudwin's face. Assuming that

Lady Fraudwin possesses the terrible fear of pumpkins. I have to. If not, then my entire purpose this evening is for nothing. Wow. Well, don't dangle that fucking carrot in front of me, Dad. To know that I

could take away your entire purpose? You made it. I know, and I'm really struggling with a dichotomy of feeling successful in my 3D print or ruining my dad's existence. Look at his little leg. Damn it, you've stolen me on his little articulated

legs. Okay, Pop's make an attack roll for me. Um, Jesus Christ, man. You got too many fucking props on the table, Clint. You're like my fucking kids at red lobster, man.

Just toys everywhere. Give me an attack roll plus four, Clint. Get this man a place mat, some crayons. Okay. And a lid for his Coke Zero if you don't mind. What did you need from our father? An attack roll plus four.

So a D20 plus four. All right. There's so much swiping. Yeah. Okay. Plus four. That's a 23. Yeah.

Holy shit, what is that? How did you? Oh, my God. Is that a flying jack-o-lantern? Yes. Fuck shit. Listen to your knees. Okay, give me 1D8 plus 2 damage.

And Lady Godwin, I'd like you to make a wisdom-saving throw with advantage. Yeah, I saw that coming. Thank you. Okay. 1-D-8. that's six plus two is eight my first wisdom saving through is a five my second wisdom saving throw is a 15 that's 10 more all right in this moment that pumpkin's a friend you're not sure about next time but right you know that it's higher is not directed towards you okay up next though is folo who is going to

yeah come swinging in with their quarter staff aimed for you, Winnie the Pooh. Do I have a quarterstaff? You do, man. You have PolarM mastery. Shit. And you bring that shit up all the time. Yeah.

All right. Do your best. Nat 20. Do worse than that. Do not do your best. No. All right, Nat 20, sure. I got hit points for days.

Chill. Okay, so that's going to be 12 damage. No problem. Whap, whap, it hits you quite good. And then with Polar mastery. God damn pole arm mastery. You got me again. That is an 18 plus 4.22. Fuck that single dice you have there. Yeah, that hits my AC. Why, this is one of the flame bright dice available on macroemerge.com. Yeah. That's another four points of damage. Great. No problem. Not even worried

about it at all. Godwin, you are up. Okay. So what we got in front of me? Lay out the landscape. another Winnie the Pooh, another Godwin, and another Philo. How many of them are dead so far? None, man. We haven't done very good at all. Silcho. I did make it somewhat more difficult for them to move through the space that surrounds them. Okay.

Can I ask this, Travis? Are we in any way confused about this? Not currently. It's still two lines. Okay. I'm going to, um, uh, punch myself in the face as hard as I can. I'm going to need you to clarify, Justin.

Okay. I'm going to punch the other me in the face as hard as I think. Honestly, anything else feels mean, right? It's like Winnie the Pooh and Pinocchio, so I think I'm just going to punch the adult woman. You know what I mean? Yeah, sure. All right, make yourself an attack roll.

You're doing unarmed strength? Yeah, I want to be kind to the mug, you know? I'll mess up the goods. Two. Fuck, man. Wait, but I get another one. What? A fighter, right?

Yeah. Fighters take several hits, attacks, right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, thank you, everyone, for backing me up. That's a nine. Fuck me. No, a nine plus six.

Nope. I didn't say that. I said a nine. Oh. Oh, shit, dude. I did the math on my own, brother. Yeah, it's a nine all day. Well, up next is Lady Fraudwin.

Ah, man. Who is now going to take a swing at, at you with Stephanie Gilbert, her axe. That is an A plus 6, 14. That ties? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That is how that works. And that's going to be 1D12 plus 3. Guys, we're getting our asses kick in front of all of Columbus. That's 13 points of damage. Ouch. And then as you pointed out, a second at time. Yeah, thank you. Now wait, is that...

That's a 19. Are they actually a barbarian, or are they an illusion? They're a barbarian. Okay. The illusion of one. Okay. So that's 25 to hit. Okay.

That does just clear it. Okay, great. And, oh, okay, that's one plus three, only four points of damage. Oh, okay, good. I can... That's like nothing at all. Don't even worry about it. No worries.

Okay, and up next, Oh, is Winnie the two. Shit, he's going to be so mad at me. He's going to be so mad. Yeah, Winnie the two is going to thorn whip at you and say, this is how you do it, motherfucker. No, not within that one. That's not how you do it.

Oh, bother. I'd say that's so bad. Some of it ought to get on him. Yeah, the thorns. As he whips, the thorns come off the whip and hit him in the eyes. and he dies from it. I say, good luck moving your full speed, dip shit. No, but I will say the fairy that is embodying Winnie the two knows he's going to have to explain it to his partner later and he's going to be really embarrassed.

Yeah, sure. So just know that. He'll take psychic damage later. It's a moral victory for sure. Okay, we're back at the top of the order with Winnie the Pooh. This is how you do it, motherfucker! I'll hit him. I'll hit him with a good old-fashioned thorn whip.

Okay, so wait, just so I can understand your progression. Yeah. What you've done is you failed to hit him with a shitty simulchra of a thorn whip, and you've lured him into a false sense of security. And now, just when he thinks you can't thorn whip, you're going to thorn whip him. And he's going to lean into it because he thinks it's fake. Yeah.

Does a 24 hit my fake ass? Yeah, it does. That is going to be nine points of damage on the thorn web of my fake ass. Ow! Ow! All my beautiful stuffings coming out. Is it? Yeah.

Not all of it. I take it to get stronger. Yeah. Give me a constitution check, Griffin. That's how it works at the bill to bear. Yeah. Just a constitution check? I just checked.

Ohio State law cannibalism is forbidden. That is going to be a 14 plus zero, 14. Yeah, with a 14, you're going to pick up five like temporary hit points. Okay, I'll take five 10 hit points. Thank you. Oh, no, that's my stuffing. Not anymore, it's not. It's up there with the bugs and sticks and mud.

I forgot about that. All right, Dad. You're up. Cast flaming sphere on. Cef flaming sphere. The round thing full of fire. Hey, can we take it back from one? Just real quick.

We're going to run it back. Give down a second round. Hey, everybody. I'm Justin McElroy. Welcome to the Adventures Zone. I will also take this moment to kindly remind you guys of your pocket advantage from your fairy friends. I have not forgotten. Okay.

I just am saving it for a real good shit, man. I cast Flaming Spheres. on Brother Philo's doubleganger. Folo. Folo. Okay. He needs to make a dexterity saving. Thank you, Griffin.

I love having Griffin as dad's spell interpreter. It's so helpful. Okay. That's not great. You said a dexterity saving throw? Dexterity saving throw, that is an eight plus one, a nine. No.

No. that does not avoid and talking to the mic 2D6 right there right in the mic it's the one in front of you 2d6 6 and a 3 that's 9 okay that is going to because I don't know if you know this as a pub but he is made of

wood yeah be double damage so that is going to hit him for 18 you look like a fucking high profile stockbroker right now with the many character sheets you have in front of you It's so good. This is how a professional DM does it. Griffin, read a book. No, he's got me.

No, he got my ass. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you don't boo that. No, no, no, no, he got his ass. It's different styles. I'm all cyber, all digital, all day long. I don't keep things analog like that. I got to keep it in the fucking cloud because there's so much of it. That's how big data gets you.

Yeah. Big Dad is never getting access to these character sheets. Okay. Are you saying Big Dab? Sorry, big dada. Thank you. Oh, no, big dad took my character sheets again. Dagnapp.

God damn it, he's so big. All right, so then Folo. Hey, is anyone else in the range of that burning, flaming sphere? Because it does have a bit of range. Oh, what's the size of it? Five feet. Five feet. Yeah, you didn't notice that when you were kibitzing?

What kibitzing did I do? It's a five-foot diameter sphere. I gave you double damage. What the fuck? What fuck are you talking about, old man? He's talking about me. Talking about him. Okay, yeah.

No, every, like, it's about evenly space. Cool, I'm glad I said something. Folo is going to run an attempt to tackle Philo. Yes. Oh, good luck with that. Just tell me somebody videos it, please. Give me a dexterity saving throw, Clint. Yes.

Travis. Lady Godwin only likes Bunraku pornography. It's the only thing. You will need to beat a 15. I got a six. Not quite.

The two of you go rolling just, is it ass over tea kettle? Is that the term? Anyways, you go rolling in a big tumble when you come up. It is unclear. Which one is which? I lost track.

Did you follow? I have a good way of telling you a part, but not him, no. It's me, Philo. It's me, Philo. This is it, the moment we've practiced, go ahead and say our secret password that you definitely heard and remember. We'll see it on the count of three. One.

Wait, okay, hold on. Is there some sort of magical reason we can have to talk for a second where you can Nope. One. Hold on that, I want to be over here so I can see both of you at the same time. Okay, okay. Okay, yeah, they got to get the whole, okay. One, two, three. Waffles.

Waffles. We did say waffles at a certain point, so. Chicken and. Nope. This is the phony right here. All right. Up next is Lady Godwin. I'm going to shove one Pinocchio.

into the other. Yeah, dude. You got a 6th Street on a strength or dex. Wait, which one are you shoving? I don't know. Left? By what way could I answer that question? You Justin know which one's which? I know, but like I, Lady Godwin doesn't, so what do you only say?

Left, you. I mean, Dad, I don't know. Why wouldn't I attack Dad if I have the option, right? Yeah, attack Dad. Love? Yeah, okay. No, I'm saying. If you wanted love, you should.

should have learned a password. That's right. And let that be a lesson to all of you. That's right. Everyone who feels love in the world knows the password that you don't. Exactly. Okay, here's what I think, Travis.

Yeah. Flip a coin. Okay. Head to dad. Even you attack dad. Odd to you attack me. Wait, shouldn't Justin roll it? That's okay.

At the 10, you attack down. Okay. Dad, I'm going to. to do a, you gotta succeed on a strength or dex saving throw. So roll, strength or decks, you choose whichever everyone is best for you. It's these woods, man, they're really turning us against each other in a way that is gonna be so healing

when we're done with it. Where to go? Did you say where did it go? That's fucking chilling. Look at your little son, I don't help you with this stuff. No, I mean, it was a 20. It was a 20. Was it?

I swear. Boy, he's helped you all the time. You never even asked me. Ask your special little Wonderboy. I don't ask him to lean over and tell me what to do. No, I know. He says it was a 20. Dad's never lied to me in my life.

Yeah. That's right, son. Okay, so I'm going to believe it was a 20. A not 20 or a GMO 20? Now, hold on, you're losing it. I was believing you 30 seconds prior. I don't know what GMO means. A fake 20.

No, it was a real. 20. You get multiple attacks, right, Lady Godwin? Yes. Talking as a free action, right? Can I just say, which one of the two use, the real Pinocchio? Not me. And my nose grows. Not me. And my nose grows.

Wait, no, fuck. It doesn't grow. All right. Shit! I hit that one in the face with my axe. Which one? The one that fucked up. I was too deep in character. 22. Yeah, that

kids. All right. Yeah, that's 1D12 plus 3, 10 points of damage. I don't know if you know this about Wood and Axis, but it is a weakness that Wood has. Also, I'm just now thinking about it. This Pinocchio would have been horribly burned.

So you had it coming, you think? No, I'm just saying it should have been pretty easy to tell the two of these guys apart. Okay. So you hit it for 20 points of damage. Okay. Is he still ticking?

Barry? I look at this Pinocchio, damn son. You're made of sturdier stuff that I would have assumed at first brush. Yeah, it's ain't no balsa here, Pat. Sure. Any of the two, no, sorry, Fraudwin is going to take a swing at Philo

with Stephanie Gilbert. That is, Jesus Christ, A 19 plus 6. 25. Do not have to add anything to that 19 to make it sufficient. Yeah. I'm so sorry. I thought this would just be a fun romp.

I don't get a chance to, you know. No, man, he just hits you with the axe. Yeah, no, that's 12 points of damage. Wow, man, that sucks. And then a second attack. You got to stop making braggadocious. Fuck me, another 1925. Wow.

12, max damage, plus 315. He's okay, he's okay. I'm okay, he's okay, he's okay. But it's getting dicey. That's what D&DF up. Fuck, shit. Okay, Winnie the two is going to cast wild shame. Okay, I'm glad we've broken our pattern of just hitting each other with thorns and saying this is how you do it.

And turn into a big old black bear. Oh, man. And you'll, Oh, bother! And is going to attempt to pick up Winnie the Pooh in his jaws. Okay. Am I rolling against that, or are you? Yeah, so you're going to give me a deck saving throw versus his attack roll.

Kick ass. Can I do a string saving throw? Isn't it either one? If it's to avoid a grapple? Yeah, I would rather do a strength. Believe it or not, I'm stronger than I am fast. Winnie the Pooh? No one.

Yeah, I've detained. That's silly old. stuff with love. Titanium bones in there. I got 11 total. Oh, that's pretty good. But his bite attack is 8 plus 4 a 12.

Oh, shit. He's going to big you up and start shaking you around. But currently, just grappled no damage. That was close enough that I'm going to say no damage. But he is shaking you around like a chew toy in a dog's jaws. Okay, cool.

Next, give me a collective D20 roll. So each of you roll. D20. 15. Dad? I can read this.

I don't want to. One. The loneliest number that there ever was. Okay, Justin. And I got a 20. Holy shit. What did you get, Griffin? I got a 15.

15, 16, 36. Okay. Oh, total. Okay. You were adding them. Okay. Smashing through the trees behind you. In one horse open sleigh.

I don't think Santa Claus You know what? Nothing. Nothing. Through the woods behind you? Nothing happens. Glenn, are you having? No.

Comes a big, 10-foot-tall hulking beast made of rippling muscles and throbbing veins. It appears to be a man but so gargantuanly swole, almost a minotaur, except instead of the head of a bull, it is the head of a donkey. Cool. Okay. I'd recognize those pectoral muscles anywhere. Is that you bottom? Bottom. Shit.

Power bottom. Can I, I don't know if he's with us or against us, but can I roll animal handling to try to harness this power bottom for our side? Yeah. What is Lady Godwin seeing, Trep? Exactly that. Oh, really? There's no illusion. This is not an illusion, my dear.

I got a 16 plus 6, 22. Power Bottom sees Winnie the Pooh and does a strange, kind of awkward, but deep, like, bow, very theatrical to Winnie the Pooh. And says, you fed hungry bottom, fill the bottom. Okay, no more talking is rule number one. Our DPS against the real boss man has been pretty piss poor so far. Can you handle our light work? Which one bad one? I mean, start with the pretender to the honey throne,

and then the other two, if you can, if you have time. Yes. Go get him, Bear Bottom. Come on. He's a donkey, man. He's a donkey, though. Yeah, that is an 18 plus 5. Yeah, cool.

A 23 against Winnie the 2. Give me a string check plus 10. Me? Yeah, but it's... Oh, I'm fucking stepping into the Eva suit of... Yeah, cool. You're gondoming him. That is a natural 20.

Yeah, so Bear Bottom just swipes across the ground, and you hear Wendy the two go, Oh, brother! I've lived in the birds. And then a big mushroom cloud of fluff goes flying up into the sky about three miles away. That's what happens.

It's really, really, really packed in there. Up next is Philo. Wait, hold on. I was in Winnie the two's mouth. Okay. I'm going to call in mayonnaise now. You're going to give me a dexterity saving throw with advantage. Okay.

That's cool. That's cool of you. 14 plus 2, 16. and then 16 plus 2, 18. This is a good fucking dice, man. Can I tell you an 18 was the goal? Oh, yeah, so? Okay, cool.

Thanks, mayonnaise. As Powerbottoms swipes Winnie the two in the air, you get caught between Powerbottoms, like middle finger and ring finger, and he swipes you down and goes, You save Bear! puts you back on the ground and patch your little head. Okay.

How was mayonnaise involved in that exchange even a little bit at all? Manage was whispering in power bottoms here. Okay, nice. Saying, hey, don't watch it. Don't do this. Be careful. Cool. Thanks.

Thanks, mayonnaise. Hey, thanks, man. You welcome. Awesome. You saved me. You saved me. Wow, who saved who, right? Sheesh.

I mean, pretty explicitly. I was on a dark path until you came into my life. Wow. Yeah, man, you should have known some of the shit I was into. Oh, God, let me take my turn. Who's left in front of us standing of the enemies? I think two is the only one we've... Yeah, Winnie the two is out.

Fylo's close. Lady Frodwin and Folo are still in. Folo's taken a shit ton of damage at this point. Yeah, I'm going to hit Folo with Melf's acid arrow. Amazing. Wow. You know exactly what kind of stuff you don't like being hit with. And one of them is Melf's acid arrow, for sure.

Know thyself. So that's the details. If you press the button with the number on. I actually wrote this down because I knew. This is an attack. No, I actually wrote this one down. This isn't a time. So you're going to roll a D20 plus six to hit.

All right. Now, have you used your mayonnaise yet? I have peas blossom. Thank you. I've ever heard in one of our live show. Have you used your mayonnaise yet? Do you have any mayonnaise left? 15.

15, yes. That will. He'll hit Folo. He knows. It's him. Now you're going to roll 4D4 damage. 44 damage. $44 damage.

Fuck. All right. Okay. So that is only going to be 14 points of damage. 3344. About as good as Melf's gets. Yeah.

You melt Folo down to Little Wooden shoes. Just clogs now. This has an impact on Brother Filo. Okay. This has an emotion. Wisdom saving throw. No, I mean, that's narratively sound.

Wisdom saving throw, okay. And that would be this minus one here. Holy shit, they paid to come. 18. Yeah, it has lasting damage, but not like real damage. Just like emotional damage, you're fine. You pack it down in your heart, you'll deal with it later. Your death's better, whatever.

When I look at the little shoes and start laughing. A totally healthy response. Totally normal and cool. Up next is going to be, let's see here, bo, bo, bo, bo. It's got to be my turn. Yeah, up next is Lady Godwin. I want to do an insight check on the fake me. To see if I can see with my severed nature that it is in fact a fairy and not me.

Okay, go for it. And I'll give you advantage. because it's established that your ability to see through the glamour. 18 and a 13, so 18. Yeah, with an 18, you can see it's actually two fairies, one controlling the head, one controlling the body. I eat the top one. That's his right as an American.

Dad, tie my bracer, please. I'm eating the fairy. It would be an honor. Thank you, Dad. I'm trying to eat this. this fairy. And Travis, if I have any trouble getting it down,

I got a little extra mayonnaise to help it go. You know what I mean? Okay, yeah, man, give me a constitution check with advantage. All right. I just want to, for future record, to be known that Justin is the one making this particular move and not me

for people. Just for future brand auditors, just know that this is absolutely not my shit, and it is Justin's shit, and he is the one who will own it fully. Normally, Trav, this isn't a very funny number, but normally, in this case, I think it kind of works. What I got, the best of my two roles, was a 10 at trying to swallow the fairy.

I got a 10. Plus anything? What? Plus anything? Nope. Just a 10. With a 10, you eat the fairy. You do it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And right now, you don't suffer anything. You do it successfully, but. I eat the other ferry. It's easy. Hold on. As everyone knows, fairies are immortal,

so the ones that you've melted and kicked have survived. So right now there's no damage. Okay. But there will come a moment later. Right. Where perhaps a bodily function is finished. Okay.

And maybe some damage will happen. You're saying I'm going to have to pass the fairy. That'll be after the show. After the show. That's later. That's not something we have to worry about now. That's not Chekhov's gun. We're not going to resolve that here tonight.

Next time we come to Columbus and do a live Taz out of nowhere, Lady Godwin's going to shit a fairy out. No, Lady Godwin is... Lady Godwin... Probably during the drive home. Okay. Yeah.

So you've successfully slayed the three doppelgangers. Now all that is left is puck, dangling William Shakespeare over a vat. And he's been... so chill, by the way, not dunking William Shakespeare. Well, he's been enjoying the show. And you know, it's interesting. A lot of, I kind of thought William Shakespeare would

like say some stuff. Or like, get a hand on the ball. Like, you know what I mean? Here's what's going to blow your mind. He's gagged. Yeah. And not like in a metaphorical way. Sorry, what were you going to say, Gerva? Isaiah, he was also gooped, but it doesn't make any sense. It's fine. It doesn't work

a second time. Ah, says Buck. But how will you know which is the real puck. And you see, along with him, three other pucks pop up about 40 feet that way, 40 feet that way, 40 feet that way, forming a diamond. And the one who is just talking goes, you don't know which one's the real me. Yeah, cool, man. And the other three nod. Well, Trav, I guess then in that case, I will drop kick the one to do just talked, I guess. I mean, I'm not, I'm no, you know,

I'm not a smartest man, but I feel like I'm going to go ahead and drop kick him. Ah, but how do you know? Making it a devil. 21. How do you know, ah! And he lands in the vat of Willie Kinku. He lands in the fat.

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