Triforce! - YoGPoD 19: Dungeons & Dragons Part III

Episode Date: September 30, 2009

The concluding part of the great chronicles of Brick, Madeowyn, Dylan, Barry and Bubbles as they track down the source of the evil at the Icy Spire! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

pickaxe FanDuel Casino's exclusive live dealer studio has your chance at the number one feeling winning which beats even the 27th best feeling saying I do who wants this last parachute? I do

enjoy the number one feeling winning in an exciting live dealer studio exclusively on FanDuel Casino where winning is undefeated. 19 plus and physically located in Ontario. Gambling problem? Call 1-866-531-2600 or visit connectsontario.ca.

Please play responsibly. Hello. Hello. Hello. Testing, testing. So, D&D session three. Yeah, so give us a little recap of where we are at the moment the brave adventurers made a win brick and dylan have discovered a great ill at the center of the direwood and they've journeyed to a village

they've asked about what's going on it was entirely pointless, part one of D&D so eventually in part two they found that there was ice and snow at the centre of a wood in the middle of summer and there was a giant spire reaching out to the sky a giant blue spire with weird runes and horrible figures of demons carved into the side of it. They fought some goblins.

They made friends with a goblin called Barry. He's joined them on their adventure. And we join them as they are about to enter. Finally about to enter the icy spire. Dun dun dun. It's taken us months to get here. Dun dun dun! Oh and Dylan's like a human bard who doesn't really feature in it much at all. And I just can't be arsed. I can't be arsed to play a character and attempt to be a shite.

He does nothing. We leave him behind. He gets stuck in his tent. I just forget that he exists. Hello, and welcome to TTTT. Yorkport, where do you think Yorkport is? Go, go, go Go, go, go Go, go, go Rick and Maedwyn and Dylan and Barry and Bubbles, our troop of adventurers, are outside of this horrible, menacing spire that reaches up into the sky.

There's snow swirling around them. The ground under their feet is hoary, let's say. That's a lovely word, isn't it? Hoary. Yeah, hoary. It's not a word you hear outside of fantasy fiction. No, not really. Something tells me that I should have listened to the D&D 2 podcast so that I would know where we were at exactly.

We're at the doors. But bugger that. we're at the doors but bugger that we're at the doors we're at the door yeah we need to open the door we were a little bit distracted we need to open the door the door is um i need to actually find the description of the door this is a great start this is a great start so we got an great start. So we've got an icy tower. What is it, made of ice? I mean, now we can actually see it. It's just like, what is it? What does it look like?

You know, Canary Wharf? Eiffel Tower? The tower is... No, no. It's... The thing from Neverending Story. It kind of looks like a stalagmite. It's encased in ice.

The sunlight's reflecting off of that ice. How tall is it? It's very tall. Right. It just disappears off forever. Oh, right. So it's very, very tall. Okay. And there's a door in it at the bottom.

It's at least 100,000 metres tall. Right. It's so tall, the clouds cover the... Yeah, it's like that tall. It just disappears off. Okay. The cobblestones on the pathway are all frozen over.

You're stood on that pathway, directly in front of the only entrance that you can see in the tower. front of the only entrance that you can see in the tower. It's a single door with a foot-thick sheet of solid ice covering it. Okay. Steel door. Um, it doesn't matter what the door's made of, you've got to get through a foot of ice covering it first. Um, I have a fire blast thing, don't I? And the idea was that I could burn through the door, the ice. Do you know what I'm just going to do? Right, combat, I'm just going to explain now. We're doing combat completely differently, right?

Instead of it being based on whether you hit something and how much damage you do with dice, like d20 dice for example, you're going to do more damage based on how good a description you give on the attack. So, Hannah, you're about to try and melt through the ice covering a door, right? You need to give as detailed and as florid an expression of your abilities and as florid an expression of your abilities as possible in order to get through that foot of ice covering the door to go for it. With a headache, thank you. What's wrong with you, Hela? So you've got... I've got a bad headache. I've taken pills for it. My eye is like... I've got a blood vessel popped in my eye.

You've got a blood vessel popped in your eye from stress. You're sure it's drugs? Yes, and it's making my head hurt. It's not drugs. Have you got one big red eye? Like creepy, weird eye? Oh no, it's not filled, but it's like... The evil eye. Oh man, that sounds gross. I don't know, it's not filled, but it's like, um, all the capillaries and that. The evil eye. Oh man, that sounds gross.

Do you have like a drooping side of your face, like a withered hag? No, I haven't had a stroke, I've just popped the blood vessel. If you wink at someone using your bad eye, does it squirt blood at them? I'll tell you what, Hannah. We're playing this D&D game. I want you to roleplay fire shooting out of

your bad eyeball and melting that door. I want you to give as good a description as possible, right? Fire is shooting out of your bad eye at the door. Go. Go. Okay, fine. But not through the eye, that's just silly. It's got to be through the eye. No, no eye.

It's got to be through the eyeball. God's sake. It's got to be. H, boat. Okay Okay Maedwyn does a sort of weird Like squinting thing Where she closes her normal eye And then like I can't even describe what it looks like Looks like Popeye Yes Okay okay okay Effectively

You just summarised it there in a word Oh god and she like oh dear she stares at the door and the first thing you notice is that there's a little bit of heat probably a little bit more than normal obviously because it's quite cold

so she's straining she's going with one eye closed and there's a little bit of heat I'm getting there hang on and then basically Dylan reaches out towards you A little bit of heat. I'm getting there, hang on. And then, basically, it starts to build. Dylan reaches out towards you. He rubs his hands and he, like, holds the palms up towards you. So he's, like, warming himself.

Rick pulls out a small wooden stick with a marshmallow on it and holds it out. Oh, dear. Anyway, so he does that and then you start to notice that there's little bits of ice that are starting to drip and you can hear the drops falling on the floor. And basically that gets louder and louder and... Louder dripping. Louder dripping and you start to get rather large chunks of ice that are just sort of cracking off and falling to the floor. Can we see any flames?

So are you like a microwave? No. Have you got some sort of microwave I-beam going on? Well, you can't set fire to ice, can you? Are you like Superman? Yes. The centre of the icy spire is completely mounted away But the outside is still totally frozen Brilliant

It's like the reverse Reverse of the microwave Well the thing is right Chemically you wouldn't be able to set fire to it would you But the flames are supposed to be It's called burning spray right You shoot out fire The fire just spurts out of you It's called burning spray, right? You shoot out fire.

The fire just spurts out of you and goes towards your enemies. So you've got to... there's got to be fire. Well, I was getting there and then you two just ruined it. Are you going to go super cyan? The flame's going to shoot out of your head. Yes. Actually, I woke up this morning and my hair was like... Did you ever see a BBC programme called Cave Girl? Vaguely, yeah.

It was a bit weird. Yeah. Yeah, that's what happens with my hair. I kind of fancied her a bit. Oh, God. Oh, how old were you at the time? She was... I will admit she was quite attractive. Well it was like when I was about 14, I think

that was around, so he was probably like 20. 20. Older. That's a bit dodgy isn't it? Yeah. No because the girl, the girl who played it was actually like 20, so it's fine. No she wasn't. She was quite, she was. Oh. No, she wasn't. Oh, fuck off.

She was. She wasn't 22. All of these people are when they play them in, like, these things. So all teenagers you see on screen are all like 25. Yeah. I think Jennifer's Body, the new Diablo Cody movie starring Megan Fox. Megan Fox plays a cheerleader or something, but she's... I mean, what?

She's like a woman. she was born in 1979 so she's like 30 yeah she's 30 anyway okay yeah we're getting sidetracked we're getting sidetracked can i can i can i carry on yeah okay keep going fire fire um is this still going haven't you figured out yet sim Simon what's happened yet We're trying to get through this fucking door He wants me to use fire Is she still like burning through the door with her microwave I think that's fine We don't need to do any more than that

Good What happens to the fucking door The ice has melted Somewhat There's still like a few inches of ice covering the door. So maybe Brick could try and bash his way through and try and break that thin layer of ice. Yep, sounds good. Let's do that. Give me a good description of how you do it.

of how you do it. I lean back, right, taking the full weight of my body into my arm, and then I swing my fist forward in an extremely forceful fashion and thunder into the door. Do you make any noise as you do this? I go, no, I don't, I'm a robot, I'm silent running. Brilliant! I go, no, no, I don't. I don't. If only you'd made a noise, then he would have broken through, for sure. Are you sure you don't want to make some kind of yell, some victory call,

a war cry? Brick doesn't have any of that stuff. He's just automatic. He just does stuff. Well, if you don't, then you're not getting through that door. I'm just going to keep hitting it again and again. It's no good. It's no good. It needs some kind of a shout

to break it down. It's like you're a tennis player. You can't score an ace unless you go like that. Actually, they've stopped the girls doing that in Wimbledon now. They're not allowed to shout. Oh, god damn, that was the best thing in Wimbledon now. They're not allowed to shout. Oh god damn, that was the best thing about Wimbledon.

Oh! Oh! Oh! Well the thing is, you had the girls that did that, and then you had like Serena that just went, UGH! Yeah, it's like a builder taking a dump. It's like, UGH! Some of us like that Do we? I think the viewing Women's tennis viewing figures went up like

A hundred fold after women started grunting Look you've got to grunt To get through this fucking door Or like give a war cry Or yell Or do something The ice smashes apart. It's gone.

What? The ice has just disappeared. With your victory call, your sonic effect, the ice is shattered. And you can see the door just standing there. It looks old and knackered. You can see why they put a foot of ice in front of it because it didn't seem very strong.

Okay. Is there a door handle? There isn't any door handle, no. Is there a doorbell? There is a doorbell, yes. Okay, I pressed the doorbell. This is a fantasy setting, why is there a doorbell? Oh, there isn't a doorbell. Okay. There's a doorbell. You ring it.

There might be a knocker. You ring it, and it goes, ding ding, ding ding, ding ding ding. Ding ding, ding ding, ding ding ding ding. So what are you going to do? Are you going to wait, see if anyone answers? Yeah. I mean, what if? What if, like, the person who's at home is on the top floor? It's going to take him, like, weeks

to get down to answer the fucking door. There'll be a lift. There's always a lift. Yeah, a teleporter. So you're just going to wait for the guy to answer the door. Sorry, so is there actually a doorbell and it rang that... What is that, the Great Escape theme tune or something?

Yeah. Brilliant. So you're just going to stand around waiting. What are you going to say if someone opens the door? How are you going to react to them? Would you like to buy some cosmetics? Have you ever thought of letting Jesus

Christ into your life? I think we'd just give Barry a little tap and make sure as soon as the door opens a crack, a crossbow bolt goes straight through. Oh god. So you're just going to kill? Um, a small question. Hell yes we are. Yes? Does the door, like,

open as in when you push it? Or is it just not possible? Are you saying that you want to push the door? Maybe try it, you know. Okay, so who's going to push the door? Barry. Why are we sending Barry in? You're not sending Barry in.

Because he's expendable. You don't control Barry. He's not expendable. You go and push the fucking door, Maddy. Well, if it's trapped, Hannah could just be... Fine, I'll push the door. I'm pushing the door. Or have acid pour down on her.

Lean on the door. Okay, you're pushing the door. The'm pushing the door. Or like have acid pour down on her. Lean on the door. Okay, you're pushing the door. Um, the door opens. Right. Okay. Excellent. Well I'm glad we rang the doorbell. You left it unlocked.

Um. Jesus Christ. Okay, so you're in. You're in the tower. The icy spire. Oh my god, this is terrifying. So you're in a little foyer area which is quite nice.

A foyer? Yes. That makes it sound like there's elevator music playing in the background, a little water dispenser. Well actually, the interior is, it continues the same theme that was established by the exterior, with the demonic carvings in the blue stone. You can see that there's stairways on either side of the room to your left and right. It's quite a large open area. The ceiling's over 20 feet high up. You can see that there are horrible statues of carvings of these weird devil creatures. They have oddly gleaming eyes that seem almost alive. Oh god. Can I preemptively say that I'm They have oddly gleaming eyes.

That seem almost alive. Oh, God. Can I preemptively smash a few? You just walked into someone's house and you just want to smash up the furniture. Well, I wouldn't do that. I'm not that paranoid. I'm alright. I can defend myself. I'm fine. Let's go. Let's go. There's a door immediately to your left and immediately to your right. There's a door at the back of the foyer and of course there's the two staircases that lead upstairs. Right, well I'm going to signal for everyone to stay behind me and gingerly walk towards the door nearest on the left and see if I can see is it

is it closed or is it open the door is closed okay but there's a statue with glowing eyes directly next to the door yeah right okay what is the statue of some sort of a creepy demon creature thing a creepy misshapen horrible demon that's carved into it's the same material it's that same blue rock it's covered in runes it's got weird glowing shiny eyes I'm going to approach gingerly

it seems as though it's staring directly at you not at Maedawyn, not at Dylan who's somewhere at the back not Barry, not Bubbles ok I'm going to signal for Barry Not at Maedawyn Not at Dylan Who's somewhere at the back Not Barry Not Barry Not Bubbles Okay I'm going to signal for Barry To take aim with his crossbow

Right How are you going to signal that exactly? What kind of What kind of signal are you doing To say Barry I want you to load Hang on His crossbow's broken isn't it?

Didn't you break it? Oh No he mended it Didn't he mend it? No, he mended it. Didn't he mend it? He might have done. He might have done. I'm going to signal like this. I'm going to take two fingers.

I'm going to point them into my own eyes. Right. And then I'm going to point them into his eyes. And then I'm going to point them at the statue. Right, I gotcha. I gotcha. Okay, well, Barry, he draws out his crossbow nervously He looks a little bit twitchy

His eyes are darting around He looks down at his crossbow He loads a bolt into it He draws it back He takes aim at you Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Fires the crossbow The bolt just kind of like falls out onto the floor.

Why did he take aim at me? I don't know. He's probably a bit confused about the weird signals that you're doing. You're pointing at your eyes and then at him and then at a statue. He's not a clever lad. He's a goblin.

Alright, okay. So he tried to shoot you but the crossbow bolt just kind of like fell out the end. So he hasn't really mended the crossbow. Thank god for that. There's a clatter as the bolt hits the floor. Well, in that case I'll put Barry down and I will raise my shield and sort of approach the statue and see if I can get to the door and open the door before it

comes alive and if it doesn't come alive then that's cool. Okay so you're slowly walking up towards this statue and it's staring intently at you, going ever closer to it, you've got your shield up in front of you peering over the top of the shield the statue's staring at you, it's following you as you're moving towards the door. You're stood directly in front of the door now, next to the statue, the statue's looking down at you. You can't be sure, but it seems as though its head turned slightly to follow you. And it's still just staring at you with its weird glowing glassy

eyes. Okay, I'm going to push the door open. With my foot. Okay. You kick at the base of the door. The hole at the bottom half of the door just shatters apart into splinters.

So you can't actually see into the room, but now there's only half of the door there. Can I send Bubbles in to have a quick look around the door? You could do, if you wanted. Because obviously it's the spirit cat. You're sending a kitten into a room. I can resummon it. Okay, spirit cat. So Bubbles the kitten, spirit kitten.

What are you going to do, Hannah? Are you going to kneel down and gently push the kitten under the door or something? Bubbles is in a little... I have a little bag. You're like Paris Hilton. You can talk to it. No, it's my herb bag.

Because remember I had a herb bag. The cat sits in it. A handbag! A handbag! With a little kitten poking its head out of it. Yeah, so I just basically whisper to the cat to tell it to go and have a look round the door. And it hops out and sort of like stumbles along, because it's actually just Okay, now when you're talking to the cat in your language that only you and the cat understand I want you to tell the cat

right now what you want him to do but you have to use it in like the voice that you talk to cats in. I don't have a cat voice. Okay. It understands Everyone's got a cat voice. Everyone's got a cat voice. Everyone's got a cat voice!

You've got to talk to him like... like you're talking to a baby or something. I'm trying to not say. The only thing I can think of that's complete gibberish is goo goo ga ga. Fuck's sake. Okay, so you go ga ga... ga ga goo goo. The cat... it like, patters along the floor to the bottom of this door um it's between brick and the statue the deadly scary devil statue with the glowing eyes who looks down at the cat and it suddenly moves like lightning It picks up the cat in its fist and it throws it across the room.

The statue has come alive and it's acted and it's thrown your cat across the room. Yeah, I'm not very happy. The cat, I don't know how the spirit thing works. I mean, is it just going to die and then respawn? It hits the wall with a wet thud and then it just vanishes. It instantly dissolves into thin air. That's what happens.

Brick leaves a little stain. Brick reacts quickly as his eyes were already on the statue and brings his mace down in a wide arc. Where are you trying to hit it, though? In the face. Okay. You successfully manage to smash your mace into the face of this horrible demonic statue. You hear a horrible cracking sound.

It sounds like a thousand eggs all being smashed at once. And you draw your mace back and you see that you've shattered the eyes of the demon. And there's like a puff of blue smoke coming out of the eye sockets. The statue just falls

with a thud to the ground. Lands on your foot. I push it off my foot. Has it got any pockets or anything? Well, I guess not. It's a statue! It's not wearing jeans and a jacket! The eyes with a weakness, obviously. That was a good guess. I'm going to kick at the rest of the door. How can you kick... so you're like... you're doing like an overhead kick? No, I'm just kicking at waist height so I can like duck under it.

I punched the fucking door. You punch the door, the top half of the door just shatters into splinters again and you can see into the room. It's quite a modestly decorated living room. There's a low table, some nice comfortable chairs around it, bookshelves lining the walls. There's a fireplace that has a fire in it but the fire seems to be blue instead of red and orange. Now, to either of you want to have a look around in this room, it seems to be quite safe. Oh, but the ceiling is slowly starting to lower. No, it's perfectly safe.

You can just walk into there. I will go in and have a look at the books and see if there's anything that I can understand. You can see that many of the books are to do with something called the nine hells and there's names and various creatures that with your knowledge of magic you're able to identify as being devil lords. You can see there's an awful awful lot of books that's about a particular devil lord called Asmodeus. Is there any books here on ancient artefacts that might have been stolen from my vault?

So whilst Maedwyn's browsing through the books carefully, you're looking around and you see on the mantelpiece of the fireplace there's a tiny crystal statuette a little sculpture Does it have glowing eyes? It doesn't have glowing eyes It's transparent but it's got like a

glue blow around it A glue blow? A glue blow? For fuck's sake. Spoonerism. It's got a glue blow around it. It's some kind of demonic figure again. That seems to be a recurring theme. You can't tell who it is, it's just some demon thing. It's a very, very delicate crystal statue. Given that everything else in this room has just fallen apart when people have touched it, you might have to be careful handling it.

Have a look at this, Maedwyn. Statue! I've got a bag with her lid and a cat. Eww! Don't cut it, I'll put the statue in. Cat can sell much better. Is Maedwyn taking a look at it now? Yes. And a cat. Meow! You... Take the cat out, put the statue out, and the cat can sit on my shoulder. Is Maedwyn taking a look at it now? Yes.

So, Maedwyn looks at the little crystal sculpture, and you identify who it's a statue of. A statuette of, I should say. It's Asmodeus himself that half of the books in this fucking library are devoted to. Is he like a bad guy? He's one of the devil lords of the nine hells, Lewis. Do you think he's a good guy or a bad guy? A devil lord of the nine hells?

Just put it in the cat bag And it'll be safe in there Put it in the cat It's not even a handbag It's a cat bag Because that's good though Because that'll cushion the statue So if maybe he delicately puts it in the cat bag It'll be fine

It's a herb bag So you put it into your bag And there's like a There's a sound It's like a Ka-ching Sound Because you've just You've just made some money from that If you're going to sell it like a, there's a sound, it's like a ka-ching sound.

Because you've just made some money from that, if you're going to sell it. So that's treasure. You found treasure, guys! Give yourself a round of applause. Right, we'll head back out. So we've just learned a bit more about this place. So there's still

two stairways, I guess, at the end of the hall and another door there and another door on the other side. What's happened to the other four statues? Are they still just standing there on their own? Yeah, the other statues haven't moved. Right.

Their eyes are glowing and shiny and glassy but they're not looking at you. they're completely still and just stood there you've got no idea if they're alive or if they're just statues can i blow them up with fire since i believe crystal like when submitted to high heat will shatter

okay so if you would like to describe how you attack can i not use my strange Popeye eye? Can I actually use a proper attack? So come on, Hannah. No pressure. But if you fuck it up, the statue is going to come and attack you and it might kill you. No pressure, though.

Hang on, I've got a good idea. You know Dylan? He has these sonic attacks, pretty much, doesn't he? Because he, like, screams at them and stuff. Surely, if... No, it's not actually sonic. What is it, then? He could sing.

He could try and sing in as high-pitched a voice as possible to shatter the eyes. Then what's his attack? What's his main attack, then? Duh. Duh-duh-duh. Stirring...ring No everything is Like a buff To you pretty much

He better fucking buff me When I get in combat I'm going to be pissed off If he doesn't He's going to buff you right now La la la He's buffed you Well I feel much better

After that It's good I feel stronger You should do Harder Better Faster Stronger Well, I feel much better after that. It's good, it's good. I feel stronger. You should do. Harder, better, faster, stronger. The stirring song has warmed my metal heart. Okay, Hannah, description of your attack, please.

The burning spray one, yeah? Okay, right. I sort of hold out my hand. Show you can! I hold out my hand. SHOW YOU CAN! I hold out my hand. Basically, again, the heat is sort of the first thing that you really notice. And then sort of spirals of flames start to emerge. They materialise, sort of like a metre away from the hands,

going towards the statue at quite a fast pace. It sort of gulfs the head of this statue and starts to flicker round the eyes. K.O.

Perfect! It is just like... So the statue, its eyes shatter because you gave such a lovely description. It's just like um... So the statue, it's eyes shatter because you gave such a lovely description. The heat manages to shatter the eyes, the statue just falls limply to the floor. Yep, well this door we've just cleared, let's take a punch at it and see what's in here. Okay. Sprink just punches the door down, splinters away. You're

poking your head around the doorway and you can see that it's a banquet hall. There doesn't seem to be anything else in here really, it's just two fireplaces. There's nothing, it's completely empty. The fireplaces are lit are they with the same blue flames? Not even a mouse. That is correct, yeah. Creepy, creepy, creepy stuff. Door at the end, all the two staircases, which I guess probably lead round to the same place. Um, guys, the statues have gone. The two statues at the end of the foyer you turn around to look for them and they've gone they've vanished dun dun dun

so you're looking around carefully, you're looking up above you there's no sign of them whatsoever you take a quick look Under the stairways To see if they're hiding under there But no, they're not in this room Let's see what's in the last door Let's see what's in the last door

Okay, you smash down the door And you can see directly ahead of you It's a small kitchen There's lots of jars Lining the shelves up above there's shelves everywhere on every wall and they're all filled with these glass jars inside of the jars there seems to be like weird they look like small serpents or something it's like a slightly light blue liquid or something with some bubbles in it

i mean you could go and get a jar and have a look and see what they are i'll pass is it possibly just jelly deals is that what it is it's jelly deal with like you know it's gone a bit frozen in the car that is exactly what they are yes that is exactly what they are how the hell you son of a bitch okay that is exactly what they are they're just jellied eels that are frozen so whoever owns this place he's just obsessed it's all he eats he's a cockney he might be he might be if you meet him i'll have to remember to do a cockney accent. Okay. So, let's have a look at these stairs. Do they bend round, do they? Okay, so you walk back into the foyer and you look up the stairs and you can hear something in the distance. Hang on, hang on.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner That I love London What do you think it could be? Is it the Cockney? The kitchen man? No, it must be the lord of the manor The kitchen Cockney The Cockney You can't hear anything at all

The air is still There's not a sound in the place other than your own footsteps. Okay. Um... You wanna make your way up to the second floor. Which staircase are you gonna walk up? Right.

Um... Does it matter? Do they bend around to the same place or are they different staircases? It looks like they go up into the same... Same area, yeah. Right. Fine. Yeah. You're taking the...

The right one. Did I just bugger it up for you? God damn. Okay, so you take the right staircase, which may well have been a good The entire floor is just one large room, it appears. It seems like there's bookcases on one side. There's a workbench with weird apparatus and test tubes and flasks. There's crates and barrels on the far side of the room. flasks. There's crates and barrels on the far side of the room. From where you are now you can't see the north side of the room too well because you've walked up the south side. The railings are lovely and decorative. There's um... I'm just going into too much detail mate. Yeah, so what, we've got a big wide open room with some sort of alchemy lab.

Yeah, pretty much. You have to, like, move about to see the north side of the room. Okay, well, how do we get out of this? How do we get higher? Is there more stairs or is there some sort of platform? What's the exits to this room? There are no doorways, no stairways. Okay, so is this suddenly, is this it? I mean is this the final room?

Let's see if we can ascertain what's on the north side of the room just by walking towards the middle a little bit. There's carvings into the floor itself. Lots of runes and a circle carved out. It kind of glows slightly, like a silvery glow. So there's some sort of a demonic circle in the floor. That's pretty much what it looks like, yeah. Right, okay. Well, I guess one of us is going to have to stand in it and something is going to happen. So I'm going to volunteer to go first.

Hang on a minute hang on a minute you're going to stand in a possible demonic summoning circle and you know possibly summon something yes brilliant well you can do that i will stand and laugh okay so you're going over to the the silver the silvery the silvery summoning circle. Yeah. Okay, so Brick walks over to this. He stomps over. He stands in the middle of the summoning circle. What are you expecting to happen, exactly? I'm just waiting for something to happen. You just stood there.

End of the world. Brick is in the summoning circle. What are you going to do? Nothing. I just want to walk out. Well, as you start moving out of the summoning circle what are you going to do? Nothing I just want to walk out. Well as you start moving out of the summoning circle you feel like a force field or something there's an invisible surface that stops you from leaving the circle. Oh my god. What did I say? Okay so so now you're stuck inside of a summoning circle you've like you were like You're bound into it now.

God damn it. Which means we now have to fuck about to get you out. Okay, so the summoning circle, remember it's carved into the rock of the floor, and it's silvery. Right. So Brick, are you going to try and explain your situation to Maedhrin? So Brick, are you going to try and explain your situation to Maedha? I'm like banging on the force field with my fists.

Is Barry in here with me? Barry's stuck in there too, yeah. Oh, damn it. He's looking up at you. It looks as though he's about to cry. Don't worry, Barry. It'll be fine. I just, like, ruffle his hair. He's scratching at the invisible. He's scratching at the invisible wall with his claws.

He's trying to get through. He's crying. Don't worry, Barry. He's just broken down. He's weeping. He's all right. It's chill, man. He's dropped to his knees.

He's got his head in his hands. He's face palming He needs to chill out Are there any books Like a beginner's guide To summoning circles There are plenty of them There's

You scan the bookshelves And you see that there's About 14 books devoted to summoning circles Any specific ones That say how to get 14 books devoted to summoning circles. Any specific ones that say, how to get Idiot Friend out of summoning circles? Well, the first one that you see, it's Rituals and Summoning Circles, Uses and Methods,

Chapter 1, Volume 1, even, not Chapter 1, Volume 1. And the second one that you see, it's Volume 2, and they go all the way up to volume fourteen. I'll start with volume one. Okay, so you're going to sit and read through fourteen books? No, I'm assuming there's a contents

page. I'm just going to sit down. Fuck me. Like two years later, Barry's sat there, he's got, like, a long beard. Brick is in exactly the same position that he was two years ago. Okay, so, um...

Are you actually going to read through all these books, Hannah? Okay, no. The runes, are they actually properly scratched into the floor? Or are they, like, can you smudge them out? Okay, the summoning circle is carved into the floor and it's got

and it's silvery. Didn't you find a bottle? Hang on, look over at the alchemist's table, Hannah. Is there any kind of bottles of, like, silvery stuff there? Well, as Hannah is looking through the alchemist's lab area of the room, she can

see that there's a small bottle of silvery liquid that's labelled Quicksilver. Aha. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay, so... I'll pick it up. Mm-hmm. Okay. Mm-hmm. Okay.

So... I'll pick it up. Hannah, it's your job, it's your task to free Brick and Barry... Hello. ...from this terrible predicament that they've found themselves in. I'm not convinced that this is gonna... If Hannah accidentally completes the ritual of summoning by pouring the Quicksilver in,

surely it's gonna summon some massive monster inside the force field with me and Barry. That is a risk. If Hannah does the wrong thing, that she could accidentally summon something, I guess. Oh, Jesus Christ. So, Hannah... You're to have to be careful here. So, hang on.

The circle itself. Yes. Is there a circle of silver? There's a circle of silver. Or is it just these runes? Yes. So there's an actual shape. There are runes that are also silvery,

but there's also a lot of runes that aren't. They're just carved into the surface. Oh, so they sort of need, if one was to perhaps complete it, you'd have to pour the stuff. Yes. The problem that you're faced with, how do you remove a liquid from like a rivulet? A pipette would be quite useful. Well, mercury's toxic, so I can't exactly scoop it out, can I? Bubbles could lick it up and keep dying over and over again. That, yes. You could lap it up. No!

Sacrificial kitten. I don't want to do that to my cat because I'm assuming I need reagents to summon it again, don't I? So there's like a limited amount I can resummon. Is there like, is there a pipette or like a limited there's a limited amount I can re-summon. Is there like is there a pipette or like a cup? I'm just going to point I'm going to point at the runes without silver in like to gesture for you to pull silver in and then I'll bang my shield

I'll be like, I'll be alright. You want to complete the ritual. But, I mean the thing is you're bound in there you're stuck, you're trapped. So even if you summon something and you kill it, you're still going to be trapped in there. Alright. So Hannah needs to find a way to break that circle. Yes! We've established this, I asked!

I mean you could carve into the rock or something to try and like... Or, or, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Can I like, because mercury is a metal, can I not just like evaporate it? This is the solution to everything. Use fire. Oh, yeah. You could, yes.

Yes, you could do that, Hannah. It boils at 356 degrees C, which is perfectly fine. She could probably do it. She could probably do it with her magic. Oh, and that wouldn't be too bad. The air would be nice and full of, like, evaporated mercury. That is the downside. That would be harmful at all.

That is unfortunately the downside. The air would be highly, highly poisonous. Just hold your nose. You don't even breathe. What are you complaining about? You're a robot. It doesn't nose. You don't even breathe. What are you complaining about? Yeah, but... You're a robot. There's a good chance that you would die and that Barry would die and that Dylan would die.

Oh, no. Okay, um... On the alchemy table, are there any, like, liquids that aren't, like, having things in them? Is there anything I can chuck at it that will react and make it not mercury? Are there any... Hang on. Let's go through that question again. Are there any liquids in which there isn't anything in? They're not like floating organs. Having anything isn't in.

What's it matter? You can just take the floating organ out. It's not going to be acid, is it, then? So you're looking for some acid now. Yes. Some sulfuric acid or nitric acid which will dissolve into a salt. There's acids, there's yeah, there's probably bottles of acid there somewhere. Can I chuck it at the mercury? But you don't know which bottles would contain the acid. I mean there's loads of them.

I'll guess, I'll just throw them all. I don't want to be like, choke to death. You can't breathe, it's fine, You're not going to choke to death. It's a big room. Rick is just going to fall asleep, okay? If you get out of this shit when I'm back, that's fucking fine. Let's go through this again, okay? The solution to this problem, you can either carve into the floor to make the mercury flow away somewhere else.

You can either soak up the mercury somehow, right, or you can try and boil the mercury, or you can throw hundreds of bottles of weird alchemy components and acid at the summoning circle that contains Barry and Brick. I'm really tempted whilst he's gone AFK to just like burn the mercury and if Barry dies it doesn't matter. So Hannah what do you want to do Hannah? It's your decision. Okay burning into the ground. Fire. Good. I'm basically etching it into the rock but towards the circle so that obviously the mercury isn't flowing into it and then I'm burning it. What are you etching with?

The burning spray thing. How can you... it's fire. How can you etch into rock with fire? Very hot fire. Can melt rock. It's called a volcano! Well okay, okay, well you can try it. You can try it if you want.

Um... Alright fine, yep, I'll do that then. Okay. So... Alright fine Yep I'll do that then Okay So because you've given a poor description That's like an automatic failure I haven't done it yet You've had about 10 minutes To do this You've failed abysmally

Well it's not my fault But I seem to be the only person in this group Who has a skill that actually works on things So your fire Launches out of your hands, hits the summoning circle, it manages to boil some of the mercury, there's like the air shimmers around this circle, you can see that the silver in the circle is broken up. It looks like a join the dots puzzle now. There's little blobs of mercury still there but a lot of it's boiled up. Of course this doesn't affect Brick. It doesn't affect you because you're some distance away from it.

Poor Barry though is in the line of fire and he's encased in this horrible poisonous cloud of mercury gas. Lewis is going to kill me. He's going to hurt me. He covers his mouth, he's coughing, his eyes are watering, his skin kind of sizzles slightly and takes on a silvery sheen. It's like this burning hot gas is scorching his flesh and leaving a horrible scarred silver surface on his skin. Poor Barry. But he looks lovely now, apart from all the horrible burn scars.

His skin's like bright silver. Poor Barry though, he's coughing. It's fine, he's not, he's an NPC, no one cares. Skin's burnt and silver. He doesn't look well. He's a goblin. Dylan, Dylan has to use some of his healing ability on him, he patches his, his wings up. Oh, oh good. Dylan can actually do something for once. Yeah, he sings a song. Poor Barry!

You've been burned pretty bad! And stuff like that. He manages to heal. But he's still horribly scarred and now his skin's silver. I don't know how you're going to explain this to Lewis when he gets back. Why is Barry silver?

Oh, I don't know. I've put you on loudspeaker for the amusement of my house, right? Stop that. Hello. I should probably read up on an expert. He's called James. Have I been freed from this prison yet? You have been, yeah. The summoning circle's been broken.

There's still little blobs of... Yeah, it's all fine. Little blobs of mercury remain in the circle, but it's not a complete circle now. But we should definitely move on and try and find some way out. You look down at Barry, who's next to Dylan now, outside of the circle, and Barry's skin is scarred and burned, and now it's bright silver. You know, every inch of his skin is bright silver. What the fuck happened

when I was making a cup of tea? You're out of the circle now, though. You're out. Hooray! So am I burning? Am I covered in mercury and crap? Yeah, you're absolutely fine. No, you're a robot. You're fine. Only the NPC got hurt.

It's fine. He's not an NPC! You're such a bitch! Barry's a person! Treat him like one, Lemadia. Oh, man. Harsh. It's payback for Bubbles. Bubbles dies on a minutely basis.

He could be re-summoned for some cheap-ass herbs. No, he's only died once. Look, Barry's okay. He's not gonna die or anything. He's just slightly silver. His skin is just bright silver now. He's mercury toxic to goblins. Yeah, and he's... He probably could be dead right about now.

Um, well, he was coughing, but he seems alright. Dylan's looked after him. He seems alright! So... Yeah, Dylan's like, hey man, the goblin's gonna be fine! Okay, thanks, thanks Dylan. It's good

to know that. God, Barry's the first real friend Brick has had. Oh, thanks! So you've left the summoning circle. Now you've got to figure out how to get out of here. What's in the barrels? Sorry, in the out of here. What's in the barrels?

Sorry? In the barrels? Ah. What's in the barrels, yeah. So Maedwyn's going to explore the barrels. Have a look. They seem to be filled with just miscellaneous crap. There's bits of straw and droppings and some bizarre

metal implements in there. There's a couple of swords, but they've rusted away somewhat in one of the barrels. Do you want to keep checking the barrels and have a look through all this junk? Or are you just not interested in this?

I'll pull away a few of the barrels and see what's behind them. Are you reading my fucking mind or something? Okay, so you pull apart the barrels, you move them to the side, and you can see that they've actually been hiding something in the corner of the room.

Inlaid into the floor, there seems to be a weird platform. It's not quite like a plinth but there's a there's a bizarre unmarked circular it's not a floating disc is it well you don't know let's see a circular platform references to a floating disc it might be hannah it might be i'll try to make these barrels sound like as boring possible, and it's as though you sensed that something was there, and so you pulled them away. I don't even know how you managed

to figure that out at all. Uhhh... So, Brick... Which is very clever. Brick is gonna... It was a bit conspicuous. It was conspicuous in the fact that there was absolutely nothing interesting about it whatsoever.

Okay, so guys, what are you going to do with this disc? Are you going to try and operate it? Are you going to put bubbles on it and see if you can get it to work? I think we're going to... So we've had a close look at it, have we? We haven't found any control panels or anything. Are you standing on it now, by the way? Yeah, I'm standing on it now.

I can't see any buttons or anything. So you and Barry are stood on it. Yeah. You're telling me that you can't see any buttons. Okay, well, you can't see any buttons then. Can Barry see any? Can I see any buttons? Is Maedwyn standing on it too now?

No, Maedwyn's not done. Okay? Is Maedawyn standing on it too now? No, Maedawyn's not dumb. Okay, Maedawyn's not standing on it. You're just looking around it. How else do you think it could be operated with your amazing knowledge of floating disks? Do you want to jump up and down on it to see if you can get it to work? Yeah.

It might be like one of those blinds, you know, that you have in the kitchen where you have to pull it a little bit for it to go up. Pull it down to make it go up, yeah. That's true! So you're jumping up and down, stomping about on this disc.

It's still not moving, it's not shaking or anything, it's completely still. Nice work. It's not hovering yet, is it? It's not hovering, you need to activate it somehow. You need to find a special way. Can Brick get off, is it? It's just laying on the floor. It's not hovering. You need to activate it somehow. You need to find a special way. Yeah, well, can Brick get off of it? Because he's a little bit heavy, probably. Which isn't that big.

Alright, I'll get off it and let Maeduin get on it. I'm not getting on it. No one's getting on it. Well, currently Barry stood on it. Barry can stay on it. No, Barry's coming off it. Come, Barry. We'll leave. Barry doesn't know what's going on. She's trying to kill him every step. I will happily put Bubbles on it because Bubbles is light enough to not actually affect it.

If it does lift. So now Barry and Bubbles are on there. Barry's not on there you faggot. No no, Barry's gone. Barry's gone. He took Barry off. Bubbles has just sort of sat down on it and is just mut gone. Barry's gone. He took Barry off. Okay. Bubbles has just sort of sat down on it and is just muting. Just Bubbles.

Oh, this is just, this is unbelievable. I thought this would be so, so easy to do. Is there an on switch? There isn't any switches or buttons that you can see. Are there any runes? Not on the disc, no. Have we tried shouting at it? It's unmarked.

Shouting at it, that might work. Um... So what would you... What would you do? Up! Because I guess that it's... Hey! Oh my god!

Did you see how easy that was? Did you see how easy that was? So I guess that it's... Hey! You can't actually get on it at once. Oh, my God. Do you see how easy that was? Do you see how easy that was? That's all you have to do. Oh, my God. You just have to command it to go up. That was it. That was this great enigma.

So wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Just to be a bit picky here. Everything else in this place is like old and possibly demonic or weird runes. But this responds to someone just saying up that's correct yes yeah um that's not so what's happened so you've stood on the disc and you've said up quite simply the ceiling above you rapidly opens up and there's like a circular hole and the floating disc just shoots straight

up. It's completely dark above the previous floor and you're just rushing through the darkness for probably a good couple of minutes. Is there anything that you want to do whilst you're on this tiny little disc shooting up into the darkness? Oh, crap. So who's on there? Is it just me and Bubbles? Yes. But I assume it's just Brick and Bubbles. Brick and Bubbles. I'll just, like, look at the cat and go, No, I'm going to kick the cat off.

Spitefully. Fuck you. Oh, God. It made me choke. Okay so you kick Bubbles off, Bubbles goes hurtling through the darkness. You can't even hear him land or anything because you're just flying upwards. Eventually you appear at the roof of the tower now. The disc just comes to an abrupt stop. You kind of do a little jump in the air. You look around you- Oh crap. There's some guy here isn't there?

Well there may well be. Bye bye. Oh shit. Bye bye. Oh shit. The top of the tower presents a bizarre scene that is strangely beautiful in its own way. As you look down, you can see nothing but clouds, but is about the size of your clenched fist, Brick. Good grief. And above this sapphire, the ice that surrounds the tower draws together into a single point about 20 feet above you. It's like you're

in a greenhouse, really. Yeah. So there's no man, no demonic monster, nothing that I'm going to have to fight on my own. Well, there's nothing that you can see at the moment, no. I'm going to step off the platform and say down. Okay. You might want to send the thing back down Sort of take up a battle stance

Just in case something pops out somewhere So the platform disappears and there's like a perfect Circular hole That just goes down into the abyss It'll be a good minute or so Until that platform reaches Maeda Wynn, Bubbles and Barry Well Bubbles isn't Barry

Bubbles is dead unfortunately He's just hit Bubbles has been. Well, Bubbles isn't Barry. Bubbles is dead, unfortunately. He's just hit. No, Bubbles has been resummoned. Oh right, he's magically resummoned. Meow. And he informs Maedawin about what happened. That he was kicked off of the platform.

Dun dun dun. Dun dun dun. Um. So I guess it's time for Brick to do something, to have a look around, to start the big final event when he's alone. I'm just going to... No, no, okay. Yeah, that's a real... okay. It might be better for you to wait i guess i'm quite happy chilling out waiting for them yeah it's so stupid why that i mean that always happens in like films

and stuff that people just get somewhere on their own and they just walk towards you know the big final sapphire like with their hand outstretched you know it's just like why are you doing that yeah it's like it's it's like horror films why are you going to investigate a noise on your own in the dark without in your nightie yeah in your nightie yes or why have you not made a win the platform is landed no one no one locks their doors, ever. Platform's there. Oh good. So, I'm gonna, um... I think I'm just gonna sort of say how you...

I'm gonna give Barry a little hug and then I think we'll put him back on my shoulder you know, unsheathe my mace and move towards the sapphire. Maeduin, is there anything you want to say or anything you want to do?

I don't think it would be appropriate for the listening audience. Wow! She's that mad! Oh my god. I just like haughtily stalk past them and ignore them really. I'm just going to approach the gem in the middle cautiously and sort of circle around it and have a look. Just punch it! Well you can see that the gemstone has little cracks and chips in it. Is the statue in my bag doing anything, by the way?

You take a look at it and you see that it's gently pulsing. Oh, no. That same glow. Okay, well, I guess this is the source of the evil. So, I am going to... Don't punch it. Damn it. Why not?

Because, um... Quick question. I'm going to punch it damn it why not because um quick question if i'm gonna punch it if i move away now if i move away from the gem does the statue glow less it's just constantly pulsing as you move around okay okay so lewis you want to punch the gem. Yep. I'm going to get on the platform just in case shit happens. I mean, there is a sheer drop off of this roof. Just, I mean, there is ice in the way. But if you break through that ice, you would just

plummet. Yes, and that's why I'm not standing on the platform. Just in case gem breaks, platform breaks, plummet to death, die. Okay. So Brick stomps up to the sapphire. He pulls back his arm and he punches it square on. Gemstone pulses with a bright blue light and a wave of energy pushes you back and you're knocked to the floor.

A stream of mist billows out of the sapphire and it coalesces into a thick cloud next to the gem in the form of a massive, muscly, white, furry monster. There's mist coming off of the hair. It's like a horse after it's had a race on a cold day. There's like all this steam rising off of it. The creature roars at you. Okay so you've got a bizarre muscly yeti creature that you've summoned.

You've got a gem muscly yeti creature that you've summoned. You've got a gem that's beating away. Wow, the heart of winter. Maeduin is going to have to go first because Brick is currently on the floor. A retard. Let me guess, you're going to use your fire attack. No, no. The statuette thing, has that obviously gotten worse

as well? It's beating. It's beating away at the same rate as the gem. Okay, I'm going to crush it under my foot if I can. No, it's our treasure! Fuck you, you don't get a say. You've buggered everything up so far. So with your action, I mean you could just

throw it to the floor, surely. It's my treasure! It's quite brittle. Do you just want to throw it to the ground? It's a bit pointless to delicately place it on the ground and then stomp on it when you can just chuck it. No, no, I'll just drop it and then crush the list. You could throw it at the creature and see if it bounces off of him. You might even do damage to him. But don't be silly. You don't want to try that, okay.

It won't. I'm not... No, because then that would be like giving him back something that might kill him. The creature captures the crystal figurine in his hand and he roars with victory and he instantly kills you with a laser beam. You are aware, Hannah, that this might totally backfire and actually just give you more power. Oh, oh, says the guy who's bugging it up so far. I walk straight into the circle. Hannah takes out the figurine from her handbag,

her cat bag, and she hurls it onto the ground at her feet and it smashes into a thousand million billion pieces. The creature doesn't seem to react in any way. The sapphire is still beating at the same rate, with the same intensity. Oh great! Great! Great. Great. You've just destroyed a priceless artifact that was worth about

26,000 gold pieces and now it's been destroyed forever. You idiot! I did warn you. I mean it's in tune. It's like attuned to the sapp's in tune. Well next time you should carry the... It's like attuned to the sapphire in winter.

Yeah exactly, so it may have broken anyway. But still, you know, look on the bright side. It's Brick's turn. Was that my move? Yeah that was it, that was your action. Alright, okay, brilliant. Well, it's fine. You decided to do it. It might have, you know, the monster... It's fine. It might have hurt him.

It's fine. So, you know, you get in combat with a massive fucking snow yeti, no problem there. The first thing you do is destroy all of our treasure on your first go, and do nothing else. What do you mean, all of our treasure? on your first go and do nothing else. You mean all of our treasure. Right, Brick is furious at Maedawyn, but he's going to take his fury out on the Yeti.

So he's going to lumber to his feet, charge forwards, hopefully be able to get in range, and cleave. I'm going to bull rush. In the spirit of winter. After a long and mighty battle that would take another one hour to get through for the poor Yognorz. The yeti was

defeated, but Dylan has fallen. He lies on the floor so we have brick made a win bubbles and Barry like wailing on this monster this big hairy Yeti there's lots of dice rolls and lots of drama but at the end of it all the Yeti is defeated and the sapphire that's in the middle of the

rooftop shatters into lots of little shards really pointy sharp looking shards that are strewn across the ground and the shards start moving

I'm sorry? Sorry, so what's happened? Something has smashed into shards and now they're coming towards us Shards have got little legs and they're slowly like walking towards you.

I don't like it. Can you fire a burning spray, the Maddy, I do think? Yeah I think I already used the fiery spell on it and it didn't do anything. It is made from ice, the heart of winter. Fine, fiery spell, go! So I would assume that a fiery spell, aoe fire, was a good option here. You can throw the cat at it. No, the cat is not being thrown. Poor fucking cat. They're coming closer! Another fiery spell, what else are we going to do?

Actually now that you notice, when the sapphire exploded and the shards just... Oh dear. The shards just flew out of it. One of them seems to have struck Bubbles. Yeah, Bubbles just disappears in a puff of blue smoke. And there's like a bloodied shard where his body was lying. Oh my god. After this massive Yeti battle, which we've skipped, how are our injuries?

How is everyone? Um, well, Dylan's about to die. Oh my god. Maedawyn's pretty fine. Brick's alright as well. It's just Dylan who's in danger. Actually, now that you notice, when you look down at Dylan, he's on the floor and he's got like a blue shard sticking out of his chest. How did this happen? And he looks up at you and he goes, help man. God. I got a shard in my chest. Oh my god, this is terrible. Help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioioio Mercurial. Well it's Maeda Wynne's turn. Burning Sprite, go.

You have to describe it. Oh really? Yes. Really. Just describe you having a shower earlier and that'll do. Oh jeez. It's what people want to hear! It's what I want to hear! Okay, she makes elaborate gestures in the air, swinging her arms around, and flames

erupt from her hands, covering the ice shard things in molten flame. That's amazing. That's the best description of burning spray I've ever heard. You managed to hit nearly half of the shards with your wonderful spray. Unfortunately, that does still leave seven of them tottering towards...

Actually, no. One of them is in Dillon, so there's still six of them left. And they're inching their way towards Brick very slowly. Right. Well, so we destroyed... She destroyed half of them,. And they're like inching their way towards Brick very slowly. Right, well so we destroyed she destroyed half of them didn't she? She destroyed six of them.

One of them's in Dylan's chest. It's kind of like going in and out of his chest. It's like stabbing him. And Dylan's just, he's making horrible squealing noises. Blood's just spurting out of his mouth. I'm torn now so I've got a choice between saving Dylan or taking on the six remaining

shards. You're not going to hit them. I'm just not going to hit them. It's going to be like a rhino versus bees. There's just no way it's going to hit them. It's going to be like a rhino versus bees. There's just no way it's going to hit them. Hang on, I'll assign Barry to do Dylan and I will just trample in like a charging rhinoceros. So I'm going to, I think I'm just going to run at the remaining shards and just try and squash some of them beneath my feet. Well, you've got two feet, so I'll say that you do crush two of the shards under your foot. Feet, even.

Dylan, he can't do anything. He's, like, spluttering, coughing up blood. Oh, my God. This shard's just, like, thrusting in and out of his torso. That's horrible. Repeatedly stabbing him. What about Bubbles? Oh God, Bubbles is dead.

I was going to respawn Bubbles, but he moved on. Well, you can do that. You can respawn Bubbles. Yeah, I'll respawn him. But what are you going to do with him? Could he go over and try and pull the one out of Barry's chest? He could try. I mean, how's he going to grasp it?

He doesn't really have opposable thumbs. With his teeth! Okay, so you summon Bubbles and this little bundle of white fur appears in your hands. He looks up at you with his big eyes. He smiles. And you gently

give him an underarm toss towards Dylan. Bubbles, he lands square on Dylan's chest. Oh, God. Unfortunately, on top of the shard. No! But he's not dead. He's still alive.

He just has this blue shard sticking out of him that's thrusting in and out of Dylan's dead. He's still alive. He just has this blue shard sticking out of him that's thrusting in and out of Dylan's chest. It's a bit of a weird image, Siren. Yeah. I'm not comfortable with this. I'm not entirely comfortable with this. No, I'm not. You're not comfortable with the idea of a tiny kitten with a dagger stuck in its belly repeatedly...

That's thrusting in and out of a man. It's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. It's perfectly fine. Right. Something weird. Good. Well I've got that sorted out then. So whose girl is it now? As Dylan

the extra weight goes into Dylan he's kind of like grunting now. What do you mean extra weight? The weight of bubbles. He's a way of a thing. He's ethereal. The weight of bubbles in the shard is kind of... He's ethereal.

It's pushing down on his lungs and it's causing the air to escape with every thrust. And Dylan's now... He's not just doing his horse rasp He's kind of like grunting He's going Right Excellent Okay well I think

Yeah Barry Barry's now reached Dylan Okay so it's Barry's go And he's trying He's trying to grasp the shard And he's like holding on to bubbles Trying to To get a good grip on the cat to try and remove the shard.

So he's kind of squatting down over Dylan's chest. Grasping onto Bubbles from behind. As Bubbles bobs up and down with the shard thrusting into Dylan's chest. As Dylan goes... Okay. What does Barry do? Shard thrusting into Dylan's chest As Dylan goes Okay What does Barry do? He's trying to grab Bubbles and like pull bubbles

And the Shard away from Dylan Is it successful? So he's still struggling Right he's struggling Okay who's go is it now then? I guess it's Brick's go Go to Brick now So do these things not attack?

So Brick can just continue stomping around Just crushing them all underfoot Yeah they're just slowly walking They're just really slow Right so let's swing at them And I'm like a big elephant just Stomping on mice

Okay so you're stomping on another couple of them. And they easily just crush under your feet. There's only two of them left now. Apart, wow, and the one in Dylan. So these two little shards, they're almost at Hannah now. They're like by her feet. What are you going to do? Burning spray.

You're going to burning spray at them? Yes. Okay. Lewis, you can just copy and paste her description of what burning spray was. Just do it over again. Okay. Okay.

Okay, so you cast your burning... That's the best burning spray description I've ever heard. Again. Brilliant. Again. Thanks. Okay, next. So she successfully burns away these two little shards.

So you're just left with that one. Barry's somewhat successful. He's pulled Bubbles off of the shard. But as he does so, so bubbles just disappears in a poof and barry goes sprawling backwards so bubbles did die effectively yeah so bubbles actually didn't wasn't any help at all all all that happened was bubbles just got in the way and stopped Barry from saving Dylan. What now? Well Dylan's dying now.

He's clearly dying. He's being stabbed repeatedly in the chest. Are you going to try and maybe offer some assistance? Yeah, can we drop some sort of healing wave? Healing stream, totem, I don't know. Do you actually have any abilities to heal? Don't we have some patch-up first aid sort of ability? Did you remember to bring any bandages with you?

No. Any sticking plasters? Dylan's like the healer. I don't. Okay so you've got... Adventurer's kit. Well the gold isn't going to be much help. That's going to be really helpful. Let's just pop some gold in the wound and oprah. It'll work just like a charm. Why don't we just rip off some of Dylan's clothing and use it as a magic bandage just like they do in films.

I'll pop out the Tesco. You could try a tourniquet. You could tie it round his neck. You've still got to get the thing out. Brick is going for the chart that's in Dylan, and he's going to make a wild grab for it to try and get it in his hand and grip it and then crush it in a metal fist! Good heavens above. Okay well Brick grasps this shard and it shatters and poof it disappears and you're just left with your hand hovering over this

massive gaping wound in Dylan's chest well Dylan's dying now he's clearly dying and you hear it in the background, the breeze blows and you can just hear this noise. So you've successfully beaten the heart of winter. But at what cost? As you look around the rooftop you can see that the wind kind of like quietens down, the snow stops falling, the fields far below, the snow starts melting away on them, little flowers, little daisies spring up in the grassy meadows below, the sun is out and it's shining brightly. A couple of children are skipping along on the hill with the kites blowing. Brick stands up over Dylan's dead body and turns to the fields and just looks out over

the beautiful landscape and point. With a single low quiet sigh, Dylan's last breath escapes his lips with a grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Amazing. What an amazing ending to an adventure.