C03 - Ep. 17 - Brig of Endridge Bay - Docked and Loaded

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Previously, our adventurers were crying through the cursed catacombs.

After bouncing past boiling water, fencing with a phantom and nicking a Nacra necklace, B-Team uncovered a cavernous cove with a colossal skull.

But are there approaching footsteps from friends or foes?

Draw yourself a drip and let's dive into this dank drama.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to Tales from the Sneaky Dragon.

I'm your dungeon master, Gustavo Sarola, and I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow.

Okay.

Whoosh.

It went past us.

We skipped it today.

Back right into the game.

Your game is off.

No, no, no.

It's like Guardians of the Galaxy.

What's that guy's name?

Yo, it circles back around, hits you anyway.

You never rolled for attack on a single arrow i do you just don't see them i it's hidden from the players it's being built up and we're all gonna take the same hit at one point this was a crit so you got to answer two questions i'm sorry that's just the way that's just the way it goes it's the it's the dice not me today's arrow is

who has a tattoo and where is it and what does it mean and if you don't have one what would you get and where submitted by tga scythe great question while we're rolling for initiative you have to share about one of your tattoos guys I have an Atari logo tramp stamp.

John, I was going to say Toll had an Atari tramp stamp and you ruined my bait.

And now I can't use that joke.

That makes me so happy.

That makes me so happy.

He's making it better.

Now you got to think of something original.

Yeah.

I was for an old website we used to do before the rooster, even before Rooster Teeth.

We put a poll up.

I was like to try to drive traffic.

It's like, I'll get a tattoo and let people vote on the poll and had a bunch of options.

And because of that poll, I got this tattoo.

Bodhi McBog face lost.

Yeah.

Did it work?

It was a pretty successful website.

It did all right.

It led to another website that was a little more successful.

Well, I guess I meant did it drive traffic because stinkydragonpod.com is what you're talking about.

Yeah, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

I rolled a nine.

I rolled a one.

10.

I rolled a 15.

So Bimi, Blaine, Blaine, John, Chris.

Blaine rolled a one.

Oh, sorry.

Chris.

He fudged it so you could go last since his

question or his answer got derailed.

No, I don't know if I can.

Oh, man, it rolled off.

Okay, well.

Okay, so Bimi, Chris, John, Blaine.

Well, hello, everyone.

Welcome to another thrilling episode of Carol from the Stinky Dragon, where we learn all about our body modifications that you didn't know before.

Wait, are me and Gus the only one with tattoos?

Yeah.

Yeah.

My body's a temple.

Gus, you and I are the bad boys.

Yeah, the bad boys.

I'm a stinky dragon.

New team name.

Let's do a Discord event where someone gets a tattoo just to drive traffic.

Woo, we should.

I'll do that with my mom in the Discord event.

Yeah,

which has already happened by the time you're listening to this.

It was wonderful.

So fun.

Love Patty.

Yeah.

I'm Barbara Dunkelman, and I play Doug Boone, the male bugbear artificer who is at a level five that I keep forgetting that we leveled up not too long ago.

And

Doug Boone, listen, Doug does not have tattoos.

That may surprise some of you here, mainly because

it's pretty much impossible for Doug to get a tattoo and for anyone to see it with all the four.

I was going to say that the first half of what you said is incorrect, but the second half is very correct.

We could shave you.

You could shave me down and then tattoo me, but then that's going to go back real fast.

My head cannon is Doug is like the Santa Claus and the Santa Claus.

Exactly.

Where if you shave him, it just finishes.

I was saying of that Homer Simpson moment where he shaves and then he looks up in the mirror and his five o'clock shadow is back on.

Yep.

But you know, I think if I were to get a tattoo and if I was able to actually have a tattoo for people to see it, I think it would be a picture of my brother.

One of those.

Yeah.

Just like his smiling face.

Just so I could always see it.

I can't help but think of those like, you ever see those things on like Reddit where it's a terrible tattoo and a hyper-realistic looking face, but the teeth look like terrifying because they're not really detailed.

I love those.

I think I would get it kind of done in like a cartoon kind of version of him.

You know, not a realistic version.

Yeah.

Good call.

Yeah.

We can make that happen with a stencil and some spray paint right now.

Again, the foot is going to be all over the place.

Wouldn't look very good.

But I do respect those who get tattoos because, boy, is that commitment is forever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Did Doug say where he would get that tattoo?

I don't remember.

I think I'd get it right on my tattoo.

He would just have his brother's face over his face.

I'd get, well, no, instead, I'd get my face on my face, but tattooed just an inch to the left.

So, and I'd stand outside 3D movie theaters and be like, whoa!

Good point to put on people.

It's certainly a choice.

Yeah.

Doug, I would never call you two-faced.

Oh, look at that.

But no, I think I would get it on my forearm.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Not your five-arm?

Oh, no.

There's no such thing as a five-arm, guys.

That's silly.

It's not a body part.

All right.

Thank you, Doug.

Hi, I'm Chris Damaris, and I play Gunther, the male Croak folk fighter.

And

I have very many unintentional tattoos.

Unintentional?

Scars?

Oh, yes, that is the word.

Oh, okay.

Yes, yes, yeah.

From my travels, as I've traveled and searched, and there have been people who have stabbed me, believe it or not.

But other

than that, my body is a temple.

And so I just have the one tattoo of the temple on my body.

Where?

That is a secret place it is.

I'm not to tell.

Ew.

That's so unlike you to not share information, Gunther.

So do you not really understand the difference between scars and tattoos?

Is there much of a difference other than one is intentional and one is not?

Pretty sure there's a key difference here.

Well, they both look the same to me.

That's how we do tattoos.

Does Gunther need glasses?

Are you okay?

Do frogs have bad vision?

I mean, there were some tattoos you could get with like white ink that kind of look like skulls, but usually it's done with like a colored ink so you could actually see it.

And skulls definitely usually don't have a color to them.

Unless you got stabbed with like a pen.

Yes.

That's just a tattoo, though.

Right.

Exactly.

But that is, it is a secret temple, so I cannot say.

This ink has penetrated my skin.

Scar.

Okay, so Gunther has a tattoo of a secret temple in a secret location.

Sacred temple.

Secret and sacred.

Yes.

Secret and sacred.

Got it.

Okay.

Enlightening as always, Gunther.

Thank you.

Up next, I think we have Natty.

Hi, everybody.

I'm John Rice here, and I play Natty Wonder, the Drow Warlock.

And on the subject of tattoos, I got to admit, I'm honestly covered in tattoos.

I can't even name all the tattoos that I have.

I got tattoos all over my body.

I'm just a canvas that's been painted on over and over again.

I love it.

Are they not exposed?

Can we not normally see them because of what you're wearing?

Yeah, I mean, I wear, you know, my pants and my boots and my long-sleeved gingham shirt.

You do have a long-sleeve shirt.

Yeah.

So, yeah, they're actually just all over the place.

My back is like a sistine chapel kind of situation.

Oh, which is your favorite then, since you have so many?

So you have a temple as well.

It's a temple.

I can't even pick my favorite because I've got, I mean, I'm just covered.

It's all things like skulls and gravestones and like burning places and rubble and, you know, hellfire raining from the sky.

Just I got that stuff all over me, all over me.

Would you ever consider letting giggy give you a tattoo or has giggy already given you a tattoo it's like a kid with a crayon on a wall

i do like that idea um i'll have to find a like a an empty spot for him to to to practice on practice

maybe he can draw doug's face one inch offset from your face on your face oh my god well that's the one place i don't put tattoo because i cover that with makeup and so it would just be covered all the time yeah true but uh the rest of me just a smattering of tattoos.

I also don't, I would prefer not to look at my own face on someone else.

Oh, in that moment, Natty turns into Doug.

Oh, God.

Behold.

Oh, and now you got to do my voice too, Natty.

Go ahead.

Really play your fall.

Hello.

Which one's which?

Take the straw.

Also, isn't that red dragon, the Hannibal Hannibal Elector movie?

Doesn't he have like a back tattoo?

He's got a giant dragon tattoo that covers his back.

Yeah.

That's not Ray Fiennes.

Who is that?

Is it?

I think that's Ray Finnes.

That's Ray Fiennes.

Yeah.

Never saw it.

Puts in the fake teeth.

Don't forget at some point, maybe you could also change your mind, Natty.

You get some makeup tattoo as well.

I hear that's a

with some people.

Would not recommend.

Oh, yeah, I could, but I love actually the process of putting my makeup on.

It's very meditative for me.

Okay.

Plus, you can change it up if you ever want to.

I feel like

you're kind of stuck.

Or not stuck, but you're kind of like, you got one thing.

Yeah.

All right.

Thanks, Naddy.

Up next and last, we have Tov.

Yoohoo.

Hello.

It's Yuhuen Gibson, and I play Tov.

And I forgot what I am.

Hold on.

Male Ork Barbarian Level 5.

Existential crisis.

Yes, it happens every week.

Once a week.

Yes, I have tattoos.

I have several.

I do not know the origin of many of them, but I do know that I have one very

big one on my lower back.

It's some sort of secret runes.

Let me see if I can take a look at a mirror.

There's an S

and then an E and then a G and then an A.

I don't know what that means.

So stupid.

It's so dumb.

Yeah, I had another tattoo, but someone ruined that tattoo, so that I just painted over it with this tattoo.

What does Sega mean?

Does it stand for something?

It's some like ancient, you know, entertainment thing.

I'm not really sure.

Like I said, I don't know what all of these tattoos are.

The god of entertainment, Sega.

You've got to shout it.

Sega!

It's the god of hedgehogs.

I prefer to sing it.

Sega.

I'm more crazy taxiera shouting it.

When did they change that?

I figure the initial one that you did, Barbara, was to show off like the audio processing because it sounded like voice.

It was really nice.

And I think that took a lot.

That actually took a lot of space on those old cartridges.

Like most of it was that.

Whereas later, then there was more flexibility.

So they just changed it.

That's funny.

I didn't even think about that.

Yeah, we can do a deep dive about that maybe in Second Wind.

Cause I actually, I think I know a bit more about that.

About that.

Sega intro.

But anyway, if you're a patron or you listen to a Sawn Beacon, you can probably hear me talk about that in the second one for this episode.

I'm gonna make a note about it.

I'll look up a little more detail so we can talk about that.

Ooh, okay,

now it's time for the episode.

I don't, I'm on my blankets, as I said, okay.

Wow, still that after all this time doing this, still is awkward as hell when it comes to segues.

Yeah, yeah, you put your hands on the outside of the skull, begin finding a foothold, and as you do that, you start to hear grumbling voices approaching.

Oh, and along with it, you hear like sparks and zaps.

It seems to be coming from the north, from inside the skull.

And it seems to be getting louder.

Captain Grumbles, did you learn how to throw your voice?

That's really

impressive.

Wow, he's got the shield.

Oh.

I wave at everybody to get their attention stealthily.

And then I say,

talking, I move my hand up and down, talking inside, and I point inside the skull.

Oh, okay.

Can we sneak in?

Nanny starts doing the chicken dance with her hands in the little mammoth.

As you all are signaling to each other, the voices suddenly stop for a moment.

Finally, a voice breaks the silence and says, Think I heard something.

It was over there.

Footsteps slowly march towards the party's position, getting closer and closer with every second.

So there you are.

Footsteps approaching.

The whispers are getting louder.

What do you do?

Oh, we're in it.

This is happening now.

This is it.

Okay.

Hide.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I motion to the team.

I go, oh,

I wave my hands because this is an audio podcast.

I just remember.

No, no, no, no, no.

And then I cross my neck.

I say, no, no, no, no.

Kill her.

No, I will not kill you.

No,

no.

And then I go like this.

Like, I cover my face with my hands, like peekaboo, to put you in a box.

No, and then I say scatter, scatter.

Doug grabs Gunther and curls up into a ball, almost like a

like a bush.

All right.

I picture it looks like a triple from like original Star Trek.

It's just like a furry ball.

That's a big treble.

Yeah.

And then Gunther takes Doug's arms and opens them up like Tollf was gesturing.

A little window.

Yeah.

Just so you could peek out.

And then I look at them and I see that and I give them a thumbs up and then I look at Natty and I point at them and then also

Giggy and I say, come on, hide, hide.

And I do more motions to indicate hiding.

Natty grabs Captain Mumbles.

Mumbles?

Grumbles?

You got

Mumbles last time.

Captain Grumbles puts him in front of her.

And then Natty turns into one of the other sailors we saw in the the arena.

Nice powers.

Yeah.

And stands there with Captain Grumbles in the skull.

Okay.

And then I, as a person on the skull, I'm assuming I'm above the doorway, right?

Because I'm near the eye socket where the gym is.

I'll give you the option because I said that you started hearing the voices as you were starting to climb.

So you could have either gotten off the skull or continued up.

I'll leave that.

totally to your discretion.

I'd like to imagine that I'm on top of the skull, like near one of the eye sockets.

So I'm like theoretically above the doorway.

Sure.

And then I would take my cape, similar to Doug, and just kind of hide underneath it and just low profile, but just stay there on top silently and motionlessly.

Okay, I think I've got it.

Do you?

So

what we're gonna do is have a stealth check for Toll,

a stealth check for Doug, and a stealth check for Gunther.

And then Natty will deal with you and your deception here in a bit.

Am I proficient in stealth?

Doesn't give you advantage, but it does give you a little extra boost.

19.

19.

That's a.

This is 9.

I'm going to use my inspiration die.

Because I feel like being up here would be advantageous.

Oh, I have one.

I'll give it to you, Bami.

Oh.

Okay.

All right, 15.

Hey,

16.

I look like an iBooger on this giant skull.

Much better.

A big green eye booker.

That's me.

So, Tov does his best impression of an iBooger.

My what impression?

His what impression?

Your best impression?

You said breast.

You said breast.

You did say that, did you, not?

I didn't hear.

Toll does.

I want to get a replay on that, but I'm pretty sure I said best.

Toll does his best impression of an iBooger.

Tov does his best impression of an iBooger.

I said breast.

Micah says, sorry.

All right.

Micah, Micah, Barbara, I'm all over the place.

Barbara hunkers down, does a triple impression while covering up Gunther.

But Gunther does open a little window so he can see out a bit.

A window?

A window?

What does that mean?

Yeah, he said he opened up like Doug's arms so that he could see out of the way.

Just like Tov was motioning.

Right as everyone gets into place in their hiding positions, Natty, you see two gnolls walk around the corner into that little opening in the skull y'all we're walking to.

As they walk in, I turn to Captain Crumbles and goes, oh, so that's how you lost your tongue and you can't talk anymore.

Interesting.

They both stand there kind of a little unsure what to do.

Why don't you roll me a...

Wait, since you look like a pirate, do you need to make any kind of check for that?

Or is that just like a spell or an ability you have?

It's an ability I have.

I have mimicry.

It allows me to mimic the sounds.

It was one of my level five things.

Oh, it's like an ability you have?

Yeah.

Is it the mask of many faces that allows you to cast disguised self-at will?

Yes.

That's cool.

I'm jealous.

Yeah.

So they both stop and they hear you, I guess, finishing up your story with Captain Grumbles.

I don't know how he told you how he lost his tongue if he didn't have a tongue to begin that story.

But why don't you go ahead and make me a

deception check?

With advantage.

Do you have advantage on that?

i do actually that's not just john being uh silly impersonation while you're disguised as a real fictional person you have advantage on charisma checks deception or performance well i'll be what was the check performance or deception deception deception's plus seven so that was actually 13.

not bad oh that's much better uh 26.

oh that is pretty good i ain't just whistling dixie here just for flavor this isn't necessarily for any specific reason but is there like an inspiration you take for your disguise or like something someone specific you saw that you're trying to draw this from, or is this like your own creative?

I said I wanted to look like one of the sailors that we saw in the arena.

Oh, okay.

John can't remember exactly those because that was, I think, we recorded that episode two years ago.

It was about two years ago.

Roughly, yeah.

All right.

Not actually.

It was probably like a month and a half ago.

Yeah, yeah.

Maybe a month.

The gnolls stop dead in their tracks and their noses kind of go crazy, like sniffing the air,

looking straight at you.

And one of them, who's holding

a flail, asks,

What are you doing here?

I'm minding my own business.

What are you doing here?

That's a good answer.

That's very sailor-like.

Sorry.

Yar, I be minding my own business.

What ye be doing here?

We're following orders, moving equipment.

Okay.

What's that got to do with me?

Sorry.

What that got to be to do with me?

Oh, God.

Perfect.

They like space out a little bit from each other, and then the other one resplies, Well, you're here not moving equipment, so that's what it has to do with you.

I wasn't ordered to be moving any equipment.

Well, what were you ordered to be doing?

To watch after me, Captain, here.

Not bad.

Okay.

Who would you get your orders from?

Oh.

Why don't you take your captain and turn around and walk back in the direction you came?

This goes further in?

The skull?

You have not looked in there yet, but presumably, yes, because they came from the other side.

No, y'all were at the entrance to the skull, and that's when y'all were looking up at the gem and stuff.

Okay.

So, but presumably because these gnolls came from the other side.

Again, I must be asking, why you be giving me orders?

You're not in charge of me.

He's in charge of you.

They motion to Captain Grumbles.

Isn't that how captains work?

Are you new to this business?

He's not my captain.

Okay, he didn't give you an order.

Why are you being so mean?

Make a dexterity saving throw, Natty.

Am I an eye-line of Natty?

Yes, you are watching this from above.

Okay, all right.

I have an idea, but

I want Natty to...

You got it, Natty.

19, eat my shorts.

Woo!

One of them that had spaced out and kind of was standing off to your side very awkwardly reaches out and tries to shove you as if to push you into the water.

But you notice it coming and you step aside and the knoll loses its footing since he didn't make make contact with you and is like kind of off balance on the edge of the dock.

I swat him into the water.

All right, just make a roll to hit.

I don't know what my modifier is, but I rolled a 19.

That's probably it.

It's your proficiency bonus plus your strength or dexterity.

Regardless, 19, you're probably hit.

Yeah, you give him a little shove and that pushes him over the edge into that water that was between the docks that you all saw earlier.

I bare eyes at the other knoll and I say, ye be wanting to have some of this as well.

I didn't start this fight, but I be finishing it.

Is there intimidation?

Make an intimidation check.

Sure.

I think we stumbled into John's campaign four character.

Yeah.

Pirate Sally.

He be making a lot of fighting noises down there.

That was only an 11.

What's my intimidation?

Plus four.

15.

Not bad.

That's still pretty good.

It's because you're playing in my charisma playground, okay?

What are you going to say?

Yeah, I guess so.

We're in John's world.

Yeah.

Or we're in Naddy's world, I should say.

So this gnoll has a couple of options here.

It's going to...

Yeah, one is to screw around and find out.

Ew.

Well, one is to deal with you, but you had a good intimidation roll.

It could dive after its friend in the water and try to pull him out, or it could turn around and run because you intimidated it.

I'm going to roll and see what it's going to do.

Let the dice decide.

Yeah.

The knoll looks at you, bars its teeth, snarling, waving its flail around menacingly, then turns around and runs back into the skull.

Is it going for backup?

I clap my hands together to knock the dust off.

I see.

That's how we do it in our on our ship.

Are we worried that that's going for backup though?

He can do whatever he wants.

I don't know.

We'll find out soon one way or another.

Has it already passed through?

Has it already gone underneath like through the door?

No, it did it come out of the skull or did it approach the skull?

It came out from the skull.

So has it gone back into the skull?

That's what it did.

It retreated back into the skull.

Okay.

So this thing is real big.

The skull?

Yeah.

It's huge.

Okay.

I would have probably have attacked it, but if I've missed the opportunity, then I'm just going to hold still.

If you want, I'll say you could do it if you want.

I'm going to jump down to attack it because I don't want it to go back and get reinforcements.

Video game rules.

All right.

You plop down and surprise it.

Since it's surprised,

you can make your attack.

So go ahead and do it.

Is that advantage?

Let's say

no.

So that was a 14 that it rolled with my Warhammer.

You happy with that?

I got no choice.

I don't have an advantage.

I don't have any inspiration dice.

So, yeah, 14.

We'll go for that.

Idiots.

Okay, here you go.

Love it.

I love it.

Listen, if I give away inspiration dice so freely, I have to be wanting to collect them freely, too.

Like, I've got to put doubt in your mind every time.

I put my blood, sweat, and tears into earning those inspiration dies, Gus.

I put blood, sweat, and tears into taking them.

No, you don't.

All right, I'm gonna roll for damage.

Oh, whoa.

Oh, gothit.

That's a five plus four.

Do I have any other additional stuff?

Because it's surprised.

Is it crit?

Yeah, do you get two attacks?

No, but if you were raging, you would get a plus two on it.

I'm not.

I'm not.

Yeah.

Can Natty shoot an Elders Blast?

If Tov's attacking, Natty would help.

But I'll let you do what you want to do.

Yeah, let's deal with the Tollf thing.

So, well, that would...

I guess I do have two attacks, so that would be the first one.

How does he look?

The Knoll falls to the floor and then slides off of the dock into the water, unmoving.

Oh, okay.

Well,

that came out of that.

Do you have any cool one-liner?

Um,

uh,

no, I'm good.

That's what they were saying.

Yeah, yeah, no, I'm fine.

All right, all right, all right.

So that was terrifying, Tol.

If you came out of nowhere, bashed the knoll, and uh, it's in the drink.

Oh, oh, wait, hold on,

drink up.

All right, that was all right, that was all right.

The other knoll is in the water, the one that just fell.

Yeah, it appears to be treading water at the moment.

I I shoot it.

Oh, God.

Wow.

War crimes.

All right, go for it.

By the way, the whole time this is happening, I'm just holding Gunther at this little ball as he's just watching.

A little hands reaches out and gives a thumbs up.

Roll for attack?

Go for it.

You've really come to the name Brutality.

You've grown into it.

This is war.

What is it good for?

What is it good for?

There you go.

Gus gets an inspiration die.

I only rolled a 13.

Does that hit?

That's actually exactly what you need.

Their armor class is 13.

If you said no, I would be like, well, he's treading water.

I'm going to shoot him again.

One plus four.

So five plus four.

So nine.

It's exactly the same thing Toll got.

So yeah.

Oh, was it?

Yeah, he also did nine points of damage.

Yeah, the Noel stops treading water and is now floating face down, unmoving in the water.

He's already dead.

Okay, I'm done.

All right, so it's just you guys now, as far as you can tell.

Should we hide the bodies?

Oh, wait, they're the one

water's already taken care of that big guy.

Toll and Natty, since you two encountered these knolls and dealt with them, why don't both of you make me a perception check?

12.

17.

You realize that, you know, as you were jumping down and attacking that knoll, you realized you've seen these two knolls before.

Oh, I guess we got...

Oh, we got ambushed at the campsite by knolls.

Was it by knolls?

And then I think that we scared them away.

We killed...

them.

Yeah, Natty evaporated one of them, and then the others ran, I think.

On your way to Enderidge Bay, yeah, you encountered some Knolls who were trying to set up an ambush at the abandoned campsite.

Oh, I remember that now.

Now who gets ambushed?

Now Zuga ambushed?

Now who is ambushed?

Oh, okay.

No, I think he said Nausuga ambush.

That's what I heard.

He gave his breast try.

Yeah.

That's the name of Chris's character for campaign.

Zuga ambush.

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Could Gunther try and get some clothes from them?

Well, they're in the water.

Yeah, yeah, like jump in, take their clothes so he can disguise himself.

Which clothing do Knolls wear?

Check out if clothes are really going to do it for you as a

little frog person.

Yeah, I don't want to like yuck your yum, but I think it will be difficult for you to, I don't know, disguise yourself as a knoll.

Oh, I turn into a gnoll.

Oh, like that.

That's what you would want.

I could just do it willy-nilly, who's one of my favorite country singers.

Oh, yeah.

All right, all right, all right.

Your turn, Gunther.

I could tell Chris moved his monitor up or something, because now he's like constantly looking up.

It looks like you're confused or concerned, but I realize now you're just looking at your monitor.

I was looking up what a knoll looks like.

Doug, can I have some of your hair?

I shall disguise as a null.

Why don't you describe a null then?

If you had to look it up, why don't you describe it that way for any of our audio listeners who may not know?

Knolls are like humanoid doggies with like fur and more kind of claws and I don't dog noses, dog faces.

So my thinking is if Doug would be so kind as to lend some of his abundant hair, then I might be able to stick it to Gunther and kind of just look like a very hairy knoll.

Are you implying that I shave myself?

No, I can help with these.

If you would just let me borrow a little hair, I will give it back.

Doug does that thing where he kind of brushes his fingers through his armhair and like, you know, how like some will come loose.

Yeah.

He does that.

I'm just Doug shedding.

Yeah, I'll always.

Trust me, I can understand.

Yeah.

I'm holding my forearms up to the camera.

You can't see mine because I'm blonde, but I have the same thing, as you can see.

And then

he gives Gunther those like loose little pieces of hair.

Yeah.

Am I able to grab some clothes and hair myself up?

Yeah, I saw Dutch just knock that off.

Yeah,

I'm going to be nice.

I'm going to say that maybe you should have someone toss down a rope or hold a rope for you before you dive in.

That way you have an easy way to come back up because the docks are kind of high from the water.

Yeah, I'll say you're able to dive in and disrobe one of the or take some of the clothes from the knoll if you want.

I'll hold the rope.

This feels suspiciously like deep sea fishing, which I have much experience with.

Instead of the rope, I just give them my tongue.

Oh my god.

Sure.

Oh, that's nice, Gunther.

Okay.

Oh, your tongue.

Yeah, we're going to find out this is like some kind of time travel thing, and this is like a hairless hutch origin story.

Guys, I just want to say we should probably hold you up.

We still got a fine pancake.

Not to try to wash you along in your mission here.

I agree.

Giggy, could you turn to something a little less conspicuous?

And Gigi turns into a centipede.

If you make the roll.

If I make the roll.

Nat 20.

That's my boy.

That's my baby.

That's my baby.

So Gigi turns into a centipede and Gunther retrieves some clothes and comes back up onto the dock.

Am I able to stick the hair?

Here's my thinking.

I have a lantern I got from a grill.

I use some oil from it rub it on my face and expose body and then stick the hair to it just stay away from fire

or it's about to smell like burnt hair and frog

uh

sure just make a

you're gonna need some kind of check you make a sleight of hand no i'm gonna just call it a performance check okay

20 20

wow he really oils himself up real good yeah you do a pretty decent job what did the null sound like Just so for while I was listening.

I don't know.

I wasn't paying attention to the voice I was doing.

It sounded like Scooby-Doo.

Yeah.

That's fine.

I'll.

Doesn't matter.

When Chris was describing how gnolls look, all I could think of was the

dog mutant from Teenage Mutant and New Ninja Turtles 2.

Oh, off-brand

Bebok and Rocksteady.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because they couldn't do Bebop and Rocksteady for some reason.

For some reason, they just couldn't get the rights.

You only get the turtles, not any

mammals.

If we have Natty as a knoll, and then Gunther is a tinyer knoll, and then Doug is like a kind of off-looking knoll, maybe like we get you further back.

I could go in as like a prisoner, you know?

Because I don't think I'm going to be a very...

You're a pirate?

I mean,

that's offensive, Natty.

I'm a sailor.

But yeah, it's not offensive for you to call me some type of knoll.

Well, I I mean, you have fur, you know, you couldn't.

Okay, well, that doesn't mean I...

I mean, yes, I was a pirate, but I don't like the title pirate.

Yes, but you can pass as a pirate.

Yeah, but I don't, you know, it's the principle of the thing, okay?

I do not like being called a pirate.

It brings back bad memories.

Also, it is an opportunity for surprise if it looks like he is bound.

But then we gotta come up with the reason why we got a prisoner sailor.

he was trespassing

yeah

we could also you know think on the fly we could just head on

who's in charge right now doug's in charge doug gets to decide that's a good point doug what's the next move i think we should just continue forward as we were and you know when uh when something comes up natty i think you take the lead with that charismatic self of your of you

And if we need to pretend that we've got a pirate prisoner, I mean not pirate prisoner back here,

you know, we do our thing.

And then we have Guntho, who's covered in scraps of my full.

He is perfect.

If they zip, then we zap.

Exactly.

And they zop.

And then we just

electric powers.

Yes.

Okay.

Private parts is very intently writing down notes.

I'm sure he is.

Wait, what do we do with Private Parts?

What do we do with Private Parts?

Private Parts, I think he's just...

He knows how to play along.

He is prisoner.

I don't think that's even us making that up.

I think he is a prisoner right now.

He's here on his own accord.

Private parts is a what race halfling?

The smaller he is, the more convenient it is.

You know, he can hold on to my back.

If he's small enough, you can just tuck him away.

Yeah, I'll roll him up inside as a ball again.

You can put him in that ring, that natty ring.

It doesn't work that way.

No, I think that's just for ho.

Oh, private parts is a stout halfling.

Stout halfling.

Okay.

Could we foreseeably hide private parts in Doug's vest as a humpback.

I like this idea.

You try whatever you want.

Like a private parts papoose, you know?

How about I just hold Private Pouch's hand and walk him along like he's a little buddy?

Okay.

All right, we've got a plan.

I mean, surely, you know, if there's people coming in the open space and there's people holding hands, they can't be, they can't be bad guys.

I agree.

Let's go in this skull.

All right, come on, Private Poults.

All right.

He takes your hand and follows you.

You take private parts in your hand and lead him.

Alright, well,

you just had to.

Did you want to cover up that gem at all?

Is that a question for the leader or for

pove was you and them before?

Yeah, you know what?

Oh,

this is perfect.

Okay, hold on.

Way back when, I think it was around the time we ran into the Vind Trader, I took a curtain.

You remember?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, you did.

Yeah, I think that this is the perfect opportunity.

So I'm going to put that curtain over this big gym and protect fellow sailors, not pirates!

I think a barbarian's a little touchy.

Aren't they always?

Alright, yeah.

So you want to clamber back up there and cover up the gem with that curtain you found before?

Yeah, sure.

Why not?

That's my line.

Yeah, you climb on up and bust out the fabric and cover up the gem, and it obscures the rays of light that it was shooting out and kind of breaks that illusion of the calm sea that it was projecting.

The gnolls came out of the skull?

Yes, it appears they came from further north.

And were they holding equipment that they said they were moving?

No.

Okay, thank you.

Hypocrites.

They had flails in their hands, but that was all they were holding.

Okay, it gets Gunther will hold a flail now.

Gunther has a flail?

Is that okay if I took one of the flails?

Okay, let's make sure.

It's been 40 minutes and we have not entered this cave.

We have not moved a single step.

Please, can we go inside?

I am with Doug Boone 100% on this.

Yeah, I mean, you tell me, y'all tell me.

Let's go!

Let's go!

Naddy takes the lead.

Naddy takes the lead.

I follow Naddy, whoever.

Naddy?

That's not very cool.

Doug said for me to take the lead.

Oh, never mind.

Oh, when it comes to the charismatic stuff.

Yes, absolutely.

But I think that means you should go out in front.

Okay, there you go.

Then I take the lead.

We're going in.

Naddy's gone.

You guys can't see Naddy anymore.

I'm communicating to the team through Naddy.

Everyone else follows?

Yes.

Got it.

You pass through the skull and come out on the backside, and you see an inlet of eel-infested waters with small rock islet.

Water forks off to the north and to the east.

There's a mixture of plank bridges and sandy shores that hug the west side of this room and circles clockwise to the northeast, kind of like sea shape.

To the west you see a path that seems to lead to maybe a small cavern of some kind.

To the east it leads to a barred gate and a half submerged drain gate.

And to the north it looks like it continues and opens up to a grotto of some kind.

And what kind of instrument does the barred gate carry?

Come on, Gus.

You know, you want to give me that inspiration.

I'm taking our inspiration and die away.

The next time I give you one, it's going to be like we're even.

Question?

This one's serious.

Okay.

What's on the island?

Can I see what's on the island?

A little rock island?

Yeah.

You take a look, and it appears to be just a sharp rock formation that juts out from the middle of the water.

And there's some kind of like bronze saber that pierces the top of the rock.

A saber?

Yeah.

Like a

little sword.

Okay.

Toll, do you...

Do you recognize that?

I see Toll, like, staring intently at this little rock.

Do I recognize that?

Do I have like a history check I can do?

Or?

Uh, yeah, why not?

Make a wisdom check.

Okay.

That is.

Oh, zero.

Four.

We're going to do a playing golf over here.

No, is there.

No, yeah.

It's very sad for me.

Uh, no, it doesn't seem familiar to you.

I can go check and look.

You do have good jumping.

How far away is it?

From the closest point, you could see it's probably 10, 12 feet, something like that.

Okay, could I use my tongue, stick it out to grab hold of the rock, and then jump across, and then use my tongue to kind of...

I'm going to take your word.

If that's something you can do with your ability, yes.

I don't know the specifics of your tongue ability.

A tongue has a 10-foot range.

If you're trying to grab something, you'll need to make a dex grapple check with it.

Okay.

You can't handle or move anything more than 10 pounds.

If you come around and kind of approach the island from the northwest side, you could probably get to within 10 feet of the saber from that side.

Okay.

So if you want to like, I guess, grab it, you can make that dex check just to make sure you grab on securely to it.

The 19?

Yeah, we'll say that's good.

And then, yeah, so I jump and climb up.

You lash your tongue out, wrap it around the saber, and then I guess like...

What is that?

Like retract it and pull yourself in?

Yeah, I like jump and then just pull my tongue in as so I kind of like make sure I don't slip.

I want to make sure I'm understanding just to be clear.

Is it the rock you're grabbing on or the saber?

I guess like maybe the hilt of the saber.

Okay.

Yeah.

You you know you grab out you latch on to it and you kind of like pull at it to pull yourself in you know over to the island.

And as you do so the saber seems to be loose and it rises out of the rock a couple of inches.

Oh.

And as it does so it opens up the gate that leads out to the eastern portion of this room.

Oh, are we sure that

isn't like the king of England now or something?

Yeah, yeah.

You're the chosen one.

Does the sword come out all the way or is it just more like a lever?

It does not come out all the way.

Maybe it's stuck.

It just seems to come out a few inches.

I opened the gate.

Well done, Gunther.

That was the gate to the west.

Or sorry, the east.

East.

Yeah.

Not the one, the bars in the water, but like the gate to the like cave thing.

Correct.

Okay.

Well, Doug, what should we do?

I mean, ultimately, we're trying to find Kankak.

Correct.

Right.

Could Doug tell if there's any, like, sounds or noises coming from around nearby?

Yeah, why don't you make a...

Yeah, call an investigation check.

That's a big old ten.

Okay.

It's gonna take me a little while because I'm gonna have to scroll through a bunch of things to give you some information.

So yeah, give me just a moment.

I think what he's actually doing is checking if we get into a Nazunga ambush.

Out to the west, you think you hear like mumbling of some kind.

Have we heard this mumbling before or is this like a new mumble?

Hard to say.

It could be like someone talking maybe.

Okay.

Guys, I think I hear something to the west, so maybe let's start going around outside.

It also is like, you know, the sandy part, so keep on forgetting what.

It's not on the way that if we wanted to go through that cave, because we got to go a long way around this whole grotto.

Grotta.

To the north, you definitely hear more sounds of like conversation.

More than mumbling.

Like there's definitely

multiple people talking to each other.

And we're not seeing anybody in this grotto.

There's no other person here.

Correct.

Okay.

And then to the east, kind of beyond the bars and the gate that Gunther opened, you hear like running water.

Okay, that would make sense.

Well, I think we should go west.

Okay, I like that.

You guys cool going west?

I mean, technically that's left.

Yeah.

Gunther salutes and kicks back his leg.

Gunther loves that salute.

Okay, so let's go west.

Cool.

And he takes the lead.

Okay, Gunther, as you let go of the saber to follow, it slides back into the rock and the gate to the east closes once again.

Oh,

the key.

Fun little puzzle.

Was it instant that it closed, or was there like a time, like after it went back in, it was like counted down and then closed?

It seemed like it was pretty instant.

Like, as soon as Gunther let go of it, it started coming down.

We didn't see what was in that little cave, right?

Correct.

We could like put like a plank of wood, you know, there's all these bridges.

We could take like a plank of wood and just kind of wedge it into the sword hill to keep it elevated.

Or, you know, if uh the sword, I imagine, is less than 10 pounds.

Yes.

Okay, Gunther said it, so it's true.

I mean, is it?

Well, if I was able to pull it out, then I would say.

Oh, right.

You're right.

Curse you and your technicalities, Chris.

Because then, you know, someone has Macehand, perhaps.

And

Naddy does.

I have Orc hand.

Does that work?

You have two Orc hands, yes.

Okay.

I have no hand.

All right, I saw a Red Ruling character.

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You all follow the path to the west, which seems to lead into a small cavern.

In fact, it's a low-ceiling sandy cavern.

There's crates, barrels, and shelves of supplies lining the walls.

There are any coupons for the crates and barrels.

Get out of here.

Any furniture?

There's cannons, cannonballs on the north side of the wall, and in the center of the room is a desk with a knoll sitting at it, looking down, and he's scribbling on a piece of paper.

Doug clears his throat so that he doesn't alarm him.

The knoll looks up.

It's a knoll, so you know, he's got

a hyena-faced fiend, and he's wearing a bicorn hat that appears to be made of eel skin.

He looks at you all, seems slightly startled, closes his book, looks up, and says something in abyssal.

Does anyone here speak speak abyssal no i do you do gunther you do okay oh wait wait wait wait wait giggy does too

oh no but he's a little centipede can he just be in my ear or gunther understands

sorry sorry i got excited because giggy speaks it he only speaks abyssal in common i was gonna say i didn't think he spoke anything i didn't think he spoke common either understands how about that he understands

giggy yeah he understands in abyssal he looks and addresses the group at large and asks, How did you get in here?

Gunther responds, the same way you got in here through the entrance.

We're here to torture the prisoner.

Your proficiency in Abyssal, like,

are you pretty good at it?

Like, how did Gunther learn Abyssal to begin with?

I think it is a language.

You know how, like, people learned Latin because it was you know the language from the past i think in his village they taught abyssal a better question gus would be you ask chris if he knows what abyssal is the language of

we all know that right chris uh

i'll give you a hint giggy knows how to speak it for a reason he's googling right now

i feel like the root word abyss it's probably something with like undarian or some sort of eldritch otherworldly language for demons.

Well, I stand by

my they know it in the village.

They learned it.

It's like going, you know, something you just get in school, like learning Latin.

Okay.

I'm just curious.

Yeah.

So like any high school student, you can ask where the bathroom is and ask for a glass of water.

And where the library is.

And where the library is.

Yeah.

It's just funny.

I like the idea of figuring out how someone learned the language and how versed they are in it because I think about like, yeah, how I learned Spanish, right?

Like I never took lessons in it.

So it's like, I can say anything if it's something I would say to my grandmother.

But it's like, if it's like a technical word or something modern, it's like, oh, I don't know how to say that at all.

So you can't say uncrustables in Spanish then.

It's probably just uncrustable.

It probably is.

Because it's a brand name.

But I wonder if it's like a, if there's like another clever play of the words that they would do.

Anyway, anyway, sorry.

Distracted.

That's not what we're here for.

We're here for DD.

The Null

kind of narrows his eyes and says, Who gave you those orders?

I was just hired.

I'm here to do a job.

That's what we here are for, to torture.

Unless, do you want us to torture someone else?

Oh, that's a good question.

Tolf contemplates getting his hammer ready.

No, Troll doesn't understand what's happening.

It's just like this guttural conversation that Gunther is having with

this Noel here.

What does it sound like to us, Gus?

I love this episode of Star Wars.

That's really good.

It sounds very much like Jabba.

Naddy, make a Gigi roll.

What?

Wait, I rolled a 13, so it's a positive, whatever you're trying to do.

Giggy effectively conveys the conversation that's happening.

Oh, okay.

To you.

Then can I interject?

Sure, you can.

I won't stop you.

But you can't speak.

That's what I was going to do.

I was going to say, is there any chance you speak common?

We don't all speak abyssal.

So you say that?

Yeah.

And with that, he pulls out a bell and begins ringing it.

I shoot him.

If he gets to taking action, I gotta take an action.

Yes, we'll deal with that.

Everyone roll initiative just so we get the order, and then we'll deal with that.

Action!

Six, eight, six.

What's your decks?

16, 9.

You're before me.

Okay.

And I'm going to roll three here.

The first one is for the person at the desk, and then the other two are for two girls who are about to run in.

Okay, so Natty, you wanted to blast first right away, so I'm going to do that before we get into the initiative roll.

So go ahead and do whatever action it is you want it to do there.

I rolled eldritch blast.

That's 26 on attack.

Okay, yeah, that hits.

I figured.

Didn't think this guy would defeat.

I rolled a one plus four, so nine again.

Yeah, the knoll slumps over his desk, unmoving, and as he does so, like a brass jeweler's loop falls out of his hand and rolls across the desk onto the ground.

Okay, go look at it.

When it's your turn.

Oh, I thought we were out of combat.

No, I said two other gnolls run in at the same time as well.

A Nizunga ambush, Chris.

Please.

Sorry.

Yeah, two more gnolls come running into the room holding small plates in their hand.

And they see the scene before them with the knoll at the desk slumped over and they drop the plates of sandwiches onto the ground and pull their flails out.

I was wondering if they were like having a meal when you said that.

The first one is going to take a swing at Natty with its flail.

It is plus four to hit.

That's a 19.

Yeah, that hits.

All right.

The flail hits you, doing one point of piercing damage.

Okay.

And the flail kind of wraps around you and begins like kind of constricting you a little bit.

So it has you grappled.

Okay.

The second one is going to do something similar.

The second one's going to do a threat assessment and decide it needs to attack toll.

So it swings its flail at toll, hitting AC seven, which I assume is a miss.

No, but I'm very honored that you think that I am a threat.

That is a good assessment because I'm probably going to have to hurt you now, but you know.

All right, that's it for them, which means 12.

It's your turn.

After 12 is Natty.

Oh, looky there.

Okay, well, I am going to...

I'm going to attack the one that has Natty.

Yeah.

Yeah.

After 12 is Gunther.

I'm sorry.

I said the wrong thing.

It's okay.

You won't need to worry about it because I'm probably going to take them out right now.

I have this thing

where if I'm within five feet, let me make sure that this actually does something or if it's more of a they get away.

Sentinel and Guardian.

Immediately after a creature within five feet of you takes the disengage action or hits a target with a tech, you can make an aptitude attack.

Okay, never mind.

Never mind.

That's as if they try to run away.

All right, I'm going to hit with my Voorhammer.

I'm going to do it one.

No, sorry, two-handed.

Let's pretend that I put my shield away when I was climbing.

So my AC is lower now.

I'm going to hit the the one that's holding Naddy with the flail.

That is a my goodness, that's not gonna feel good.

25!

Oh, that hits.

Surprise, surprise!

Surprise!

That's a

11.

Ooh, yeah.

You hit it with your Warhammer, and it just kind of like pounds the knoll to the ground where it is unmoving.

And then with that same momentum from that last hit, with my second attack, I was gonna go for the other guy.

Sure.

sure i will say as you kill that one knoll and it's not moving on the ground the one that's remaining standing sees this happen and it seems to get enraged by it and like reflexively lets out a punch that hits you knoll uh that hits you tove uh doing one point of damage

ow

what the heck man

Okay, I'm gonna hit you with my hammer now.

You ever get popped and you're just like, oh, you know, like it's like, oh, what's up?

It's just surprising, but it's also very upsetting.

How could she slap?

How could she slap?

Why would you do that?

Okay.

Then you hit her, you paw.

Oh, no.

That is a nine.

Oh, no.

Maybe you were, like, so stunned by the fact that it booped you that you're not able to hit it.

You're not able to focus on it.

Okay.

It was a crotch shot.

Yeah.

Not loud in the ring.

No, they hit toll, not private parts.

Hey.

Pick an inspiration die there.

That was good.

That was very good.

Because not only is it a good joke, but you remembered Private Parts is here.

Yes.

How could I fight?

He's in my vest.

It's really hot.

Could you run out of here?

It's just for.

You gotta let Private Parts breathe.

Is that it for you, Tol?

Every time.

Yeah, air him out.

The only thing else that I would want to do is

without opening myself of attack of opportunity, staying within reach of them, maybe like circling to the door to block their exit.

Sure.

Yeah, so like stay close in melee range, threatening, and and just kind of putting yourself between them and the door.

Yeah, and then I go under my breath.

Gunther, I believe.

Yeah, Gunther, you're up next.

Gunther drops his flail, pulls out his sword, charges at seemingly Tolf.

You killed my brother, he says in abyssal.

And then right before he gets to Tolv, he stabs the noel.

Sneak attack!

That's at 27.

That hits.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Quite a stabby stab.

And that's 15 damage.

Yeah, you run that knoll through with your rapier.

He slumps over, unmoving.

My brother.

I missed.

Gunther's are like really sticking to the part.

Is that that's all?

They're both.

Yeah, that's all.

Quickly hide the body.

Yeah, I was going to say Tov would drag one of the bodies behind the desk.

Yeah, and Gunther will get the other.

Okay, and then there's also the body of the person who was sitting at the desk as well.

Can we position him?

Looks like he's sleeping.

You can position him as well, too.

Not just position him.

While they're doing that, could I go grab whatever book he was scribbling in on his desk?

Yeah.

And I think Gunther wanted to pick up his.

Yeah, the thing he dropped.

The loop.

Loop.

Yeah.

Well, I'm going to deal with the body placement real fast.

So you are propping the one who is sitting at the desk over the desk like he's sleeping, and then you're hiding the other two bodies, one of them under the desk.

What about the other one?

Yeah, I guess can we put both of them under?

Sure, why not?

Kind of shove both of them under the desk.

It's not like the one who's sitting at the desk needs all the legroom.

Ooh, and his eelskin hat.

Can Gunther put that on?

Yes.

Let me do, let me deal with Doug and the book, and then we'll do Gunther and the loop in the hat.

So you take a look, you know, at the book there, Doug, and it's a pretty hefty book that you know had been laying open, but the knoll closed.

And as well as the book on top of the desk here, there's a velvet bag with some gold in it.

And the book appears to be a thick ledger of some kind.

It's a list of supplies and like treasure, like a reserve of some kind.

That I would probably glean that they have here in this like underground location.

That would be the logical conclusion.

Yes.

Okay.

So, so, yes, for so we just killed the accountant.

That's cool.

This was all stuff that, like, is it you said there were supplies and stuff all around us, right?

Yes.

I was hoping we would find a dirty secret, perhaps a secret crush, or like a confession of sorts, you know, but it's just numbers and I don't like numbers.

Numbers.

You just have to find the scary numbers and put them in the box.

Hey,

gunpowder.

Mysterious and important.

Took me a second.

Yeah.

You pick up the loop that rolled off the desk onto the ground, and it's a brass jeweler's loop of some kind.

Jeweler's loop?

Do you know what that is?

It's like a, like, yeah, almost like a little small magnifying glass.

You see, like, jewelers look at it to like look at gems and find find detail.

I guess I'll put that in my inventory.

Or does it look like there's any jewels in which to look at?

You probably have jewels in your inventory.

My not too rich.

This is like one of those like Doug, what's that like super cool horoscope thingy?

Kaleidoscope, you know.

Nice byglass of Zodia.

That's the one.

One episode.

Blaine is going to remember what that thing is called.

It's okay.

It's in my inventory, not his.

I have a little bit cheat sheet.

Is it something like that, you know could i like look at it too and see if it looks anything like the spyglass like you're trying to figure out if it's like a similar artifact is that what you're getting at yeah yeah artifact or like manufacturer

made in vulgaria i guess both doug and toll since you're trying to figure this out both of you can make uh let's call it investigation check i assume gutther you're allowing them to do this yeah okay you're not like smeagling it and my precious i was just trying to figure out how to spell loop

20.

Alright.

I've got this.

I've got this, Doug.

That's a two.

Toll, we're looking over here.

Oh, oh, yes, yes.

Toll is just licking the loop.

Toll, you, you know, maybe you get like sand in your eye.

You're still too hyped up from the cop from combat to be able to really notice anything.

But, Doug, as you're looking at the loop, it appears to have something inscribed in it.

It doesn't seem to be the same craftsmanship as the spyglass, but there is an inscription on the loop that appears to be be written in Draconic.

Hey guys, any of you know Draconic?

No, no, ma'am.

Well, no.

Maybe we'll just hold on to this, uh, be able to translate it at some point.

Private parts, do you know, Draconic?

You're a well-read gentleman.

He uh begins flipping through his

tablet.

I do not, but one moment.

Oh, the iPad baby has some use.

No, I don't think I have anything that could help us in this situation.

Captain Grumbles,

As you're looking at the loop, Tolf, it's almost like the runes come together and it like before your eyes,

the script almost transforms, and you can read it now.

Guys, I think I'm magic.

I can read this thing now.

What does it say, Tolf?

It says crafted by Dr.

Accuterius H.

Imeritusian.

What?

Wait, what?

Just like the script appeared and you were able to read it, Toll, as you say it out loud, the inscription seems to transform again and disappears.

And now it's gone.

Roll me a D20, Toll.

You've got it, boss man.

Here we go.

One piping hot D20.

That is A12.

And I want you to add all of your ability score modifiers to that.

So like your strength modifier dexterity constitution intelligence wisdom and charisma

uh uh uh yeah yeah for sure that's going to be a quick math you've got this math minute eight nine nine so what's the total that that plus your role 21.

All right, yeah, your vision kind of like warps and bends, but then snaps back in into crystal clear sharpness like usual.

Where'd you go, Talv?

I am like freaking out, man.

I mean, woman, I I don't know.

That was so weird.

It was like, hey, this is made by this guy with a fancy name, and then it went away, and then

I just kind of zoned out for a second.

I think, you know, I'm going to write this note down in my book, but I'm going to just abbreviate it to

A-H-E-M.

That's probably convenient.

H.

Yeah.

You feel Tolv like what you saw was

not of this world.

It was like...

Wait, I have to ask.

Did Blaine just figure it out?

You guys, Dr.

accutarious h amiratusian is dr ahem

i don't know what that means but that feels significant does it not heard of such a name i mean we're just saying it is dram just because we're just uh you know put into the abbreviations down here we don't know if that's actually what this fellow calls himself or not or what the significance is i feel like when i say it i want to clear my throat like dr m you know it feels right does that feel right to you guys it feels right You guys are crazy.

That's not how I would shorten that name.

That's so weird.

We should probably hold on to this, right?

I feel like, I don't know, if we ever meet this guy, maybe he'd want it back.

No, I think we should throw it to Vay, you know?

Okay, well, did we accidentally just kill him?

Is it Noel?

The Noel?

That's probably Dr.

Ahem.

Oh, no.

Hold.

Could I look at that Noel who had the

jeweler's loop and see if he has any other items on him or like...

Yeah.

Is this chair a wheelchair by any chance

no it is not why don't you make me an investigation check we've killed a lot of gnolls i don't know why you're so curious about this guy 18 well he's a doctor because you know like he's a good guy uh he doesn't seem to have anything else on him unlike the other gnolls you've seen so far i would say the one thing that sets this one apart is this one was unarmed he did not have a flail like the other ones you've seen so far okay yeah guys i think we should hold on to this okay any volunteers you want me to pop pop it in my pocket i'd already put it in my inventory but i could take it out oh no you could take hear it talk

is there any supplies from the book that we should take uh

no i don't know if we really need this book but we should probably take on this like jewelers loop i think does the desk have any drawers you take a look at the desk daddy and you do not see any drawers on it it's just like almost like a just a surface to place things on do we want to take the gold though in the sack a little sack of gold yeah i will take that all right uh barb to clarify i was saying like in the book do you said a list of supplies that were like kept here Is there anything in there that would be noteworthy that we would want to call out or look for or anything like that?

I guess, like, yeah, could Doug read through the list and see if anything stands out as of any importance or something that, like, a name we recognize?

Absolutely.

Doug, can you run the numbers and see if they committed any blue-collar crime?

Oh, you just have to do that.

Oh, I'm sensing a little bit of FWAD.

Oh, FWAD?

You don't say?

A f of frog.

For the record, there are 25 gold pieces in that bag.

I just wanted to roll that before we get too far from it.

Cha-ching.

Could I divvy that up amongst our team?

Yeah, absolutely.

Alright.

Let's see.

Five, free.

Six, six, and one for Gigi.

Or find those fee.

There you go.

There you go.

I like that better.

So you guys all get six gold pieces and I get seven.

Cool.

Could Doug take a look a little closer at everything that I guess like a rough kind of flip through the book of all the supplies listed, see if anything kind of catches his eye.

Yeah.

It's a lot of mundane things.

Rope, oars, dried fish, brewer supplies, kegs, barrels, and crates.

Longer bow of triumph.

Stop.

So like nothing really other than that that stands out?

It does also list some treasure, but it does not appear to be in this room with you.

Okay.

I think all this was was the bookie.

Yeah, feel kind of bad.

He wronged the bell.

He didn't have to do that.

Yeah, well, he felt threatened.

Rightfully so, you know.

They did bring in sandwiches, so maybe it was like the dinner bell.

Yeah, maybe they were just bringing his lunch.

He was, he was, maybe they were bringing us us lunch, you know?

They dropped their sandwiches and pulled out weapons.

Are you guys crazy?

We don't know null customs.

We don't know how they operate.

I've only been in null for five minutes.

I think we should probably get a move on in here, and maybe as a team, we should just uh we'll try talking to people before blasting them

if they don't ring an alarm bell I won't blast them.

That's what my grandma used to say

classic granny.

Very specific.

Do we know it was an alarm bell for sure?

Again, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

He looked at me with alarm, rung the bell, they came in, had their weapons, and then attacked us with their weapons.

Yeah, because you blasted.

Tensions are so very, very high right now.

I feel like it is imperative that we do a group hug.

I will not say no for an answer.

Come on.

I will not say no for an answer.

Twelve offers an open-ended hug.

I won't say no as an angel either.

Come on, Mr.

Grumbles.

Doug goes in for the hug.

Okay, thank you, Doug.

Naddy?

I'll go in for a hug.

This is healthy.

This is good.

Yes, yes.

I pad it out.

I say, mm, all the bad vibes.

Let them leave our bodies.

Here we go.

All right, now let's go to the next area.

Maybe we'll roll a charisma check.

Let's see how good this hug is.

Ooh.

My charisma.

That's actually low for me.

8.

20.

18.

Oh, 5.

I think Toll and Natty are holding back some tension.

They're giving Gus hugs.

We call those gugs.

Oh, roll for Giggy.

Oh, good.

If he gives the hug?

Yeah.

17.

He gives you the hug.

Should I roll his charisma checks?

Yeah, let's roll his charisma check.

All right.

He rolled.

Wait, what's his modifier?

He ain't got no modifier for Chrisma.

He's here, but he rolled an 18.

Gigi needed that.

Oh.

Yeah, Giggy's into it.

Sweet boy.

I guess Gigi would, as a centipede, he's hugging.

Yuck.

A hundred hugs.

Horrifying.

Okay, Doug.

After you, I'll leave you.

You said we want to get going.

Let's get going.

Yeah, Doug starts exiting this room that we just walked in.

Okay.

Assuming there's no other exits in this room, right?

It's just the one you walk in from.

And I realize I forgot something Chris had said.

Yeah, Chris, you can take the hat.

I think you had mentioned that.

I don't know if I ever acknowledged you could take that Knoll's hat.

The eel hat.

The eel skin hat, yeah.

Yeah, cool, cool.

Cool fedora.

It just adds to the perception, the disguise.

And it's not a fedora.

I described it as a bicorn hat.

It's a bicorn cat.

It's like

you picture like Napoleon wearing it.

Okay.

Like it looks like a taco.

Yeah, yeah.

Is it bicorn?

Because I was hearding bike horn.

Yeah.

It's like two corned.

Bicorned.

Oh, I see what it is.

Gotcha.

Okay.

That's a look.

Oh my, don't speak ill of the dead.

Well, this is the important part.

Is it out like to the sides or is it like a taco?

Like the points are at the front and the back.

I think that's up to Gunther.

How do you want to wear it, Gunther?

How is he wearing it?

We'll say he was wearing it

taco.

All right, taco it is.

I think that's better for swinging your sword.

Otherwise, you'll get it caught up, you know.

Very true, very true.

Okay, yeah, so you walk back out from the exit that you walked in from.

The entrance turns into an exit, and you're back in that room with the pool of eel-filled water and the rock island in the middle.

I guess could we keep going kind of like clockwise towards the north?

Yeah.

You walk closer towards the north, and as you get closer, you can see that it leads back into a sandy grotto with what appears to be a ship in it.

Ooh.

Do I recognize the ship?

Make a wisdom check.

16.

No, it does not seem like a ship you have seen before.

Okay.

Do y'all walk in to there, or are you just kind of like peeking in?

Or like, what's the move here, Doug?

I'd like to peek into the ship.

I mean, like, the grotto.

I feel like you all aren't in the grotto yet.

Y'all are like, this is what you see so far while peeking in.

If you want to see more, y'all actually have to enter a little more.

I would like to go in.

Yeah, we'll follow.

Me too.

Yeah.

Is this a fine vessel?

Is this a good ship?

Lollipop?

For my knowledge, it seems pretty

good quality.

I'm gonna say ship.

Ship ship.

Pretty tip-top ship.

There you go.

Yeah, so you enter or you walk in a little more and you see, you know, this is indeed a sandy grotto with vaulted ceilings, and there's a beached ship that fills the cave.

It's lit by hanging lanterns, and there's gangplank onto the ship.

And there appears to be barred brigs on either side of the gangplank.

And you can see that there appear to be a couple of knolls guarding the area, and they're stepping stones to the east that lead into a stream.

Anybody in the brigs?

Make um investigation check.

We all do that or sure.

17.

12.

All of us?

If you want, it's up to you.

I'm good.

Now you got it.

Yeah, all of them look.

All right, from where you are, it appears that there is indeed someone on the left and the right side of the brig.

Anybody look familiar?

It's hard to see from where you are.

Maybe if you get closer, you can get a better look.

Oh, I remember, guys.

Chill

out.

Hmm.

Permission to approach the gnolls.

Gently.

Maybe I should go first so that I can speak on behalf of the gnolls.

Sure, whatever.

The gnos that came out before spoke common, but that one in the accounting room, he didn't.

Go ahead, Gunther.

Lead the charge.

We are, I guess, walk up and we are here for the torture.

Where are they?

Bro, so you say tortured no no ha ha ha ha

the prisoners since you said you're here for the torture why don't you make me a deception check gunther okay 20.

okay the prisoners are in the brigs one to the west and one to the east i was told to torture the little one that is the halfling with the limp and who told you to torture the halfling I don't know.

I'm just I'm just here to work.

You don't know who hired you?

Let me...

One moment.

And Gunther goes to dig through his stuff looking.

I can't find it here.

Do you know

who's in charge here?

I'm just a contractor.

That really made me laugh, Chris.

Well, why don't you make me one more deception check here?

Okay.

Come on.

Deceive him.

Is it 13?

Not bad.

I'm going to roll.

A high roll is bad for you.

A low roll is good for you.

Five.

Ah, yes.

Is that a high roll or a low roll ghost?

That's

three rolls.

I think Doug and I run the numbers, and that's five is low

on a D25 or something.

I guess it depends on what you're referring to, is low, the comparison, and everything like that.

Care the three.

The knoll says, The privateer, of course.

Ah, that's right.

Anyway, where's the magenta hair palfling pancak or something?

Why don't you stop to the privateer first, and then we'll let you in.

Alright, where are they?

The gnolls just point at the stepping stones leading up the stream.

I look back, kind of give a look at Doug for like confirmation to continue.

Or wait, did they hear that?

Because was that in the weird language abyssal?

They didn't hear that.

Alright, I'll go forward and go to talk to the privateer.

Okay, and I assume everyone else follows?

Sure.

Yeah.

I think, yeah, we'd probably see Gunther doing that and follow.

Okay.

As you do so, all four knolls that are stationed out here, they're all of their heads just turn and watch as you guys walk to the east to the stepping stones in the street.

Give a friendly wave, yeah.

Nanny waves.

The two up top on the ship look at each other and laugh.

Why would you be laughing?

Nanny yells back, well, that was funny.

They don't say anything.

So yeah, you head out to the east and you see a trail of stepping stones that appear to head northeast into the stream's current and slopes upstream to a small cavern.

I want to relay to the group while we're away what was said.

Okay, give me a give me a taste of that.

What do you tell them?

Well, I told them I'm here to torture.

I lied good.

Then they said that uh Pankak is in one of those uh prisoner spots, but we don't know which one.

And they said to go talk to the privateer who is in charge.

So are we like your prisoners, or I think we're all torturing together.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, we're specialized in my mind.

Okay, yeah, that sounds good.

Are we within eyesight of those Brigs as we approach?

I mean, you walked kind of by them, yeah, as you were, uh, as Gunther was talking.

You were kind of close, and then, you know, as you walk by to the stepping stones to the east, you do walk pretty close to them.

Can I glance?

I'm assuming if one's Pancak, do we recognize the other one?

Uh, make a investigation check.

If it matters, I did say the name Pancake, so they might have like...

It's Pancak.

Yeah, Pancak.

If they had heard their name, they might have looked.

13 yeah you see one of them appears to be a halfling who has magenta hair and is missing half of their left leg

uh the other one appears to be a half knoll maybe human does not look familiar to you okay guys i'm pretty sure based off the description that we know that that is pancak should we go sneak around back in sneak around back in like instead of go talk to privateer the boss we go try and sneak into the ship, or we could go try to fool Privateer into thinking they hired us.

I feel like we're in for a fight if we try to convince someone that we're actually here to take them.

Because I think that they would know maybe who they asked to help or not.

And there would be a dead giveaway.

So maybe we should try to do it the sneaky way.

That's a good point.

Also, do we know if this is Padencak or the shapeshifter that is posing as Padencak?

Oh.

Because Because that's like a thing too, you know?

Erno, Naddy, what do you think?

I feel like we're gonna have to use your charisma maybe to talk to the privateer and get more information.

I feel like we should probably talk to the privateer since if that is pancake, they're in a prison that's literally being guarded by people we just talked to.

Yeah,

okay.

And in the spirit of transparency, being back on a ship, it's pretty weird, you know?

This has been a vial.

This is, you know, I miss it, but I hate it.

I don't know how to do with these emotions naddy maybe you could just go kind of wander up over to where pancakes is being held and maybe see if if that's the real one you know i feel like you got a good judge of character sure

sure sorry that was john

sure

or not you know you know you're your own woman if you want to make your own decisions no i'll i'm hey yes sir and

naddy if we walk down that path do we get out of the view of the gnolls for a moment?

Yeah, you will eventually lose their line of sight as you enter the cavern.

Okay.

What if, counter-argument, what if we sneak our way towards where the privateer is?

I get a look at the privateer,

and then I go back as the privateer and do a little switcheroo.

He's a good idea.

I love that.

Natty, that is so smart.

Y'all.

Yeah, nothing bad will happen with that, you know?

No, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, it does heal to help

yep

sounds good don't put that thumb up also go for it this is very important like looking at the ship like how many miles to the gallon does this puppy get you know stop i'm so now i regret letting you go i think it's more it's more miles to the galleon in this case oh that's very good oh that's good that's good is there a way gus for natty to like peer around a corner and get a look at the privateer uh before

being seen yeah Before I give any information, I need to take a stealth check from you.

Oh.

You gotta take?

You gotta take?

It's that trade meme.

I give you.

You give me stealth check.

I give you information.

Maybe sword.

Will gus, that's a nat 20.

Thank you very much.

With a plus three sus 23, which means I'm going to roll bad for the charisma checks.

No way.

You stealthily

sneak in, and luckily, what kind of works to your advantage is the sound of the water kind of over, like it's louder than your footsteps.

So you're able to kind of sneakily, stealthily crouch up, you know, crawl up and see, peek into the cavern.

And inside, you see a small smoky cavern that appears to be very brightly lit.

There's a rushing waterfall made of fire, or I guess a firefall.

And in the cavern, there's a one-foot high fire on the floor.

And there's a raised circular platform in the middle of all this made of red gemstone marked with blazing runes.

On the platform, you see someone kneeling, talking with someone who appears to be inside the firefall itself.

Okay, and they're the only person in the room?

Well, the person kneeling on the platform and then the other person in the firefall.

Yeah, but the only person in the room is that person who's kneeling.

Yes.

Okay, do I see enough of them turn into them?

Yes, but uh.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Gus kept it simple.

Thank you for your enthusiastic reply.

Yeah.

Yeah, so now he turns into the privateer.

Or into that person.

And hopes it's the privateer.

And let's go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you get a pretty good look at this person who's kneeling on the platform.

And then as you look around, you realize you recognize the creature inside the firefall.

Use some demon Skype conversation.

The demon Skype conversation is with none other than Infernus.

No!

Oh my gosh,

they're long distance dating.

Find out the status if it's complicated or not on the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon.

Are you going to turn into the big bad natty?

I mean, that'd be cool.

I could.

I think Infernus might be bigger than Natty.

Just a little.

All right.

Well, thanks for listening, everybody.

Had a lot of fun this episode.

I love these kind of navigating dungeon episodes.

But yeah, thanks a bunch.

And don't forget, in the next episode of Second Wind, which you can get if you're a member of our Patreon at stinkydragonpod.com or if you listen to the show on Beacon, I'll talk all about Sega and the Sega intro that they used to have all those years ago.

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I don't get to talk about it.

And of course, we'll talk about this episode and, you know, stuff that happened in it.

But yeah, I know you really want to hear about Sega.

We could at you, John.

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Actually, I revealed his last name in the last episode.

Did you?

No, no.

I was going to say, I have it in my head that you specifically said, Toll is a share,

a prince.

It's not Toll ironclad, is it?

I didn't say that.

Well, because we were talking a little about this episode, like father figures and like who actually wrote.

So many dads.

So many dads.

Joel and all his dads.

I don't know.

Because we learned of another

father figure.

Yarn.

Yeah, I would address that outright because I didn't know how Mike and Gus would want me to navigate that.

Cause like I wrote some very important figures in my past and I was like, am I allowed to say this?

Am I allowed to give this information?

So I feel like we should address actually that, that aspect of our show, which i think you're a prime candidate for this discussion blain there's moments where character reveals or character lore or character development happens and i i wonder where you come from of the worry of saying too much

because it seems to be a concern and i want to understand that concern i think the audience would be curious about that concern there's a lot of information i'm willing to share i feel like Pulvis is an open book for the most part, but there's stuff that I feel like needs to be revealed in a storytelling fashion.

It needs to be shown.

What's the show not tell?

That's like the old adage with writing.

Show not tell on an audio podcast.

Yeah.

And I understand like, ha, show, not tell, you know, it's an audio podcast and stuff like that.

There are, there are like story elements.

There are like, like beats that like, I feel like we want to hit as a narrative before those things.

Otherwise, it's just like coming out and it's like, hey, I'm Gunther.

I killed my whole family.

What up?

You know, like, it's like, it would be cooler if like, that's Gunther.

That's the guy that committed the murder of whatever.

And then we're like, Gunther, what's the murder of whatever?

And then, yeah.

And like, I want it to kind of come out like that.

Like, I want it to not just feed the audience the information.

I would like for them to have a few episodes where they come up with some speculation and they might craft the, you know, it's like severance.

Severance didn't come out right and say, this is what this is and that.

And like, and I think that that's a fun way of storytelling.

There's been a couple of times where, like, I think now I'm more caught up to speed on how this will play out.

And I, and I'm very excited about it.

Yeah.

But I also don't want to reveal too much.

Give me and John the inside scoop, Lane.

No, it's fine.

It's fine.

It's just me.

It's just me, Barb, and the Patreon audience that gets to listen to this and the beacon audience that gets to listen to this episode.

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A number of incredible voice actors lent their voice to this show, including

Private Parts, voiced by Ben Ernst at Halcyon underscore Ben.

Patrol Noel 1 is voiced by Dean Chinowith at Chinowith on Twitch.

Patrol Noel 2, voiced by Jeremy Schlier, I hope I said that right, at Sleepy Shaman.

Noel Bookkeeper, voiced by Colin Parker at Colin M.

Parker, Noel Guard 1, voiced by Patrick at Rhaegar, and Noel Guard 2, voiced by Keralin at It's a Small World.

This week's ErrorQuest Jan submitted by TGA Scythe.

And this episode of Tales of the Stinky Dragon was produced by Ben Ernst, written, edited, and composed by Michael Reisinger with additional editing work by Catherine Arnold and David Sonia.

Tune in next time for the thrilling episode of Tales of the Stinky Dragon.

Yeah, you get a pretty good look at this person who's kneeling on the platform.

Yeah, it shoots him.

Just kidding.

Just kidding.

Just kidding.

Just kidding.

That was for me.

That was one for me.

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