C03 - Ep. 25 - From On Hyra - Sea Drinker? I Hardly Know Her!

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Speaker 18 Yo, it's the tunnel verse, and I'm here to say I am the best Mikey Michael that's here today.

Speaker 19 I'm so sorry, Mike.

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Speaker 22 Please take an inspiration, dark blue.

Speaker 25 I appreciate the commitment to the bit.

Speaker 24 Oh, man. Hello, everyone.

Speaker 28 Welcome to Tales from the Stinky Dragon.

Speaker 29 I'm Gustavo Sarola, your dungeon master, and I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow.

Speaker 33 I've already been hit

Speaker 17 in the gut, Mike, by a plane.

Speaker 36 So, this is a little bit of a different arrow this week.

Speaker 19 You guys have moved up to level six since the last episode.

Speaker 28 Let's talk about your characters' new abilities and how have they been honing their skills and talents?

Speaker 43 Like what kind of training, learning, crafting, whatever.

Speaker 29 So let's all roll initiative and then figure this stuff out.

Speaker 21 Initiative or D20?

Speaker 45 You ask this a lot.

Speaker 21 I know, because it changes each time.

Speaker 17 I think D20 is the fair one because I have positives to my initiative.

Speaker 9 I just roll a D20.

Speaker 29 Roll a D20 then.

Speaker 42 Let it be written.

Speaker 43 Let it be done.

Speaker 7 From henceforth, D20.

Speaker 21 D20.

Speaker 48 Up until our next recording session, where one of us will forget that this is the rule.

Speaker 29 It's going to be me. I'm going to ask for initiative again.

Speaker 7 Eight,

Speaker 50 14,

Speaker 26 one. Ooh.

Speaker 17 Ooh, you hate to see it.

Speaker 20 Where's your role, Chris?

Speaker 51 It's not really one. I just need a second to.

Speaker 26 I was going to say, that is Chris buying time.

Speaker 27 I was going to ask too.

Speaker 7 So it's going to be Doug Toll Natty Gunther.

Speaker 19 Doug, why don't you lead us off here with your fine velvety voice?

Speaker 28 Gladly.

Speaker 21 Thank you, Gus. I am Barbara Dunkelman, and I play Doug Boone, the artificer bugbear, battlesmith artificer, to be more precise.

Speaker 53 Level six today.

Speaker 52 Just looking at you, do your eyes turn to that clearly like a secondary monitor as you read.

Speaker 26 What's wrong with you?

Speaker 21 You know how like when people are in couples and they become more like their couple and like mannerisms and stuff like that?

Speaker 21 I've spent so much time like you guys, I've started taking on mannerisms now of Blaine, of like having to look.

Speaker 33 Yeah, let's turn this around on Blaine.

Speaker 35 Yeah, Blaine.

Speaker 7 Let's gaslight him.

Speaker 24 Get him.

Speaker 21 And, you know, Doug leveled up to a big old level six. That's an even number for those of you counting.

Speaker 24 In case you want to.

Speaker 27 Very scientific.

Speaker 47 For those of you counting.

Speaker 23 Division bow by two in three.

Speaker 24 Exactly.

Speaker 52 Everyone's on fire today.

Speaker 21 We're just going to sit back and laugh and uh you know when doug leveled up what was the question again guys

Speaker 35 let's talk about how how that happened doug what did you do to gain these skills and talents and why don't you explain what you got and how you got it does that make sense a picture of words well dude just not a whole not a whole lot that douglas here got uh actually kind of similar to you john my actual name is doug uh not john oh yeah yeah yeah just three letter word three letter names three whatever three Three-word name letters.

Speaker 56 Three word names.

Speaker 21 So I didn't really, you know, I didn't really get a whole lot, except I did spend some time, you know, really wanting to help my friends.

Speaker 21 And so I learned two new artificial infusions.

Speaker 11 Ooh.

Speaker 21 One of which I specifically learned and studied and picked up because I wanted to help my friend Naddy.

Speaker 10 Ah.

Speaker 21 You know, I noticed that she likes the final things in life, you know, some glitz and glam. And so

Speaker 21 I made this thing, uh, it's a ring, a spell refueling ring.

Speaker 21 I'll have to still, you know, infuse an item to get this to you, but I thought this could come in handy, no pun intended.

Speaker 17 Artificial infusions sounds like a flavor booster available at Panera Bread for their teas.

Speaker 21 And the other thing I got that maybe Doug would use on himself because he has been, you know, wanting to upgrade a little bit is a resistant armor and so I could pick something for this armor to be resistant against you know lightning poison all those all those fun little things that have been coming towards our way in battle so yeah that's handy what's the ring do you didn't tell me

Speaker 17 oh I could tell you I you don't have it yet though I have to actually make it and give it to you okay oh it's like a physical ring like a jewelry ring well I'm gonna make it into a physical ring what you what wait what did you think it was he like

Speaker 17 like a zone yeah zone like zone of truth but it's a zone of friendship and you give your ring.

Speaker 34 Yeah, yeah. Okay.

Speaker 61 I wouldn't have to do that. Yeah, like enter the ring kind of thing.

Speaker 35 Like an octagon, you know?

Speaker 21 Battle. But the, this is while wearing this ring, the creature can recover one expended spell slot as an action.

Speaker 61 Ooh.

Speaker 21 The recovered slot can be of third level or lower. Once used, the ring can't be used again until the next dawn.

Speaker 24 So that's an extra spell slot.

Speaker 47 That's fun. Yep.

Speaker 17 That's the most selfless thing I think our collective group has ever experienced. Barbara just straight up just taking a feat for a friend.
That's beautiful.

Speaker 21 Well, it's an artificial infusion, strawberry flavor.

Speaker 47 We love a blast. Not very often.
So yeah.

Speaker 21 Yeah, I'm trying to be a supporting character, Hugh.

Speaker 7 I love it.

Speaker 47 That's usually what the gays have to do.

Speaker 47 We have to keep all these others alive.

Speaker 28 Whenever you use the infusion, I want you to pull out like a shaker and mix it up nice and fresh, like with ice.

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 21 All right, cooking up an infusion here for you. Buris the Doug on the scene.

Speaker 38 While we're talking about Doug, I want to make a quick clarification.

Speaker 30 I was talking with someone on Discord for our Patreon.

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Speaker 65 And I wanted to be sure that we were consistent going forward, that Doug using his steel defender, like deploying it doesn't take an action or a bonus action or anything.

Speaker 29 The steel defender is just...

Speaker 45 There. Just there.
Yeah.

Speaker 52 Yeah.

Speaker 38 And it acts on your turn. I think we've been pretty consistent about that.

Speaker 9 So I just want to say it outright.

Speaker 63 That way, we know going forward, you don't have to worry about like, oh, I don't have any access left for Gambot to come out or anything.

Speaker 21 I thought it was after my turn, like directly after me.

Speaker 62 Correct.

Speaker 38 Right after your turn is when the steel defender goes.

Speaker 17 Somebody decrees this episode.

Speaker 47 Well, technically, Gambot is in the mail.

Speaker 11 My mom is sending

Speaker 11 me a moment.

Speaker 21 So excited. It's the cutest thing ever.
And it actually opens and closes, which is amazing.

Speaker 13 Cool.

Speaker 39 Got anything else for us, Doug? Does it?

Speaker 19 Well, thank you so much.

Speaker 38 I look forward to figuring all this stuff out and seeing it in action.

Speaker 13 All right.

Speaker 17 Next up, I believe, was Toll. You who? It's me, Blayton Gibson.
Extra caffeinated today. I have had a cold brew and I am coming after Gus.

Speaker 17 Also, my cat is matching my energy and is running around all over the place right now. I've got a coffee in my hand, too.

Speaker 35 Coffee bros.

Speaker 24 Let me see.

Speaker 66 Ooh, John, that's a lot of coffee, buddy.

Speaker 17 Let me see. I play Tol.
That's Tolk, Barbara.

Speaker 23 Don't put that down.

Speaker 26 That's an infusion.

Speaker 17 I play Tolv, the male orc barbarian. He is level six, and he's not an orc.
He's a Thaumatech. I'm still.
Wow.

Speaker 17 This is, we keep doing this, and I keep forgetting.

Speaker 17 And with my upgrade, good old Tolv, he has four rages now.

Speaker 17 And he also got this thing called Storm Soul at a sixth level. The Storm grants you benefits, even when your aura isn't active.

Speaker 17 The benefits are based on the environment you choose for your Storm Aura. So I am the sea storm aura.
So, I gain resistance to lightning damage. Cool.

Speaker 17 And I can breathe underwater, and I also gain swimming speed of 30 feet.

Speaker 67 I have a question.

Speaker 17 Yes, yes, Chris. Uh, the floor recognizes Chris.

Speaker 51 You can breathe underwater, but you don't breathe.

Speaker 17 Okay, well, I'd like to imagine this is actually great setup because I was thinking of all the ways that, you know, what Tolv would have been doing after getting his butt kicked by Ironclad.

Speaker 17 And I think, you know, being faced with all of the memories of the past and being reunited with Elva and going back to the Roarbu, you know, Bjorn's Roarbu, that he would take time to be more comfortable with the water.

Speaker 17 So I think he would spend time maybe

Speaker 17 meditating under water.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 17 He hasn't touched water much since, you know, finding Bjorn and some fishing from here and there.

Speaker 17 But I think he would take time to like, I imagine if he can't breathe or he doesn't need to breathe, he would go underwater and and that would be the only place that he could just have true quiet, you know?

Speaker 17 So, he'd just be under the water like Ben Aflica's daredevil. Yes, but

Speaker 17 yes, but I like Colin Farrell.

Speaker 29 Can I be allowed to yes and your underwater breathing here, Lane?

Speaker 49 Okay, what if we also say that Toll can speak underwater now as well?

Speaker 45 I would gladly take that.

Speaker 17 What it does it sound muffled.

Speaker 17 Sounds like if that's the rule that I can speak underwater, underwater, but I have to do that in person.

Speaker 70 I accept this. This is great.

Speaker 63 All right. Awesome.
Love it.

Speaker 17 As far as rages, too, I think he would part of that meditation is concentrating on how much he hates ironclad. It would give him extra rage.

Speaker 24 Oh,

Speaker 7 I think that that's pretty much it.

Speaker 24 All right, great.

Speaker 38 And I believe you passed the baton on to Natty Wonder.

Speaker 19 Y'all.

Speaker 17 Howdy, y'all.

Speaker 47 It's your boy John.

Speaker 21 Howdy, Natty.

Speaker 47 And I'm here to play Natty Wonder.

Speaker 45 It's a dry warlock, drag queen Mama.

Speaker 49 And I have also upgraded myself.

Speaker 47 And I actually, my upgrade came as a gift. I had a dream and got to chit chat with the old wife.

Speaker 47 And she told me that, you know, as Gigi kind of like he grows and learns new things and becomes more powerful, that she thought that I should also be able to like kind of do more things and withstand more things in order to facilitate being his mama.

Speaker 47 So, with that, I've become even more in tune with my little angel of joy and love.

Speaker 47 And with that, I have a new resistance to certain kind of damage in order to help me be more sturdy as a mama around him. So, thunder damage, I'm resistant to it now.
Thank you very much.

Speaker 47 And she said, you know, like, You know how when little kids, they get old, they can reach higher places?

Speaker 26 You know,

Speaker 47 kind of like Blaine's cat right there who's just reaching all heights in the room

Speaker 47 i can now use a i i i can't i'm trying to stay in natty mode i can fly i can fly if i want to sometimes during the day not very far not very long but a little bit a little bit so you know if giggy gets up somewhere you don't want to come down i can yeah no we're not singing copyrighted songs here gustavo it's only two seconds worth so we're good and so yeah so now i can i can kind of like how giggy can turn into a little bat and fly.

Speaker 47 I don't turn into a bat. I just hover up a little, a little far from the ground.

Speaker 17 I thought you were going to break the news to us that Giggy had a growth spurt and was now taller.

Speaker 35 I thought that was what I was saying.

Speaker 34 He was like, I don't want to watch any part of this.

Speaker 17 No, no, I want baby tiny.

Speaker 9 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 47 No, in my head, he was just, it was like, honey, I blew up the kid where he just gets, he's still giggy. He just gets bigger.

Speaker 17 I'll entertain that because he turns into Snorlax at some point.

Speaker 51 Bigger than Gunther pretty soon.

Speaker 35 Yeah.

Speaker 47 Meta-wise, it's a, it's at sixth level. I get an elemental gift, which tunes me into my, um, my patron more.
I'm a genie warlock. And so depending on the type of

Speaker 47 Ginny, D-J-I-N-N-I, Genie, Ginny, Ginny, sure.

Speaker 34 Genie.

Speaker 47 You get certain resistance and then certain abilities. And I swear to God, I didn't know this came.
You guys are going to think, like, Mateed could fly. Why is John flying again?

Speaker 47 I didn't know this came with the warlock. And it's only 30 feet of fly speed for 10 minutes.

Speaker 47 And I can cast that as a bonus action once for every proficiency bonus I have so it's three times every long rest man

Speaker 47 yeah it makes sense for Natty to be able to fly like to me that's just fitting well I mean a lot of people don't know this I'm gonna reveal a very close kept secret all drag queens can fly you didn't know that

Speaker 17 they just don't do it in front of the the straits yes

Speaker 17 this is me flapping my fan there you go thank you

Speaker 47 so yeah that's all that's all that's all that happened to to natty Just a little bit of a gift.

Speaker 17 So Naddy, does this make you the Motallion's unofficial Air Force?

Speaker 24 Just a one-person Air Force?

Speaker 47 I'm the air. You're the sea.

Speaker 17 I am the sea. I am the Navy.

Speaker 35 Yeah, you're the Navy.

Speaker 35 Yeah.

Speaker 50 In the Navy.

Speaker 34 Naddy Wonder Online.

Speaker 17 John playing flying characters. That's...
That's his, that's his cross to bear.

Speaker 51 He always has to be a character.

Speaker 47 I didn't even think about that either, Blaine. All three characters of mine have been flying.
I swear, not intentional.

Speaker 17 Euthageniah could also fly.

Speaker 26 That would be amazing.

Speaker 24 Oh. All right.

Speaker 63 Thanks.

Speaker 39 That's a lot to deal with all at once.

Speaker 42 But yeah, sounds good.

Speaker 38 Thanks, John.

Speaker 35 Welcome.

Speaker 42 Last up, because the Rolled A Natural One that we all saw is Krista Maris.

Speaker 27 Hi.

Speaker 51 I'm playing Gunther, the fighter, level six. And I...
decided to also spend some time

Speaker 51 studying and thinking and praying. And so I have borrowed a deep, deep hole and in it I have placed a rotting fish and some corpse of my enemy.
And I have stayed under that hole for a very long time.

Speaker 11 It was stinky.

Speaker 51 And I meditated and I prayed and I asked for guidance.

Speaker 24 And deodorant.

Speaker 51 And when I emerged, I had been fae-touched.

Speaker 35 Oh.

Speaker 51 So I, yeah, I got, it's, it's a, one of those, it's a feat instead of an ability, just a straight ability increase where I get to increase my wisdom by one. And then I, I learned a Misty Step spell

Speaker 51 and a one first level spell of my choice from the divination or enchantment schools of magic.

Speaker 17 Misty Step is so handy. That's such a good spell.

Speaker 26 Especially for like someone who wants to get up in melee like Gunther and get in and out.

Speaker 51 Yeah, I think that's great sneaky sneaky that's cool and then for my spell i picked hunter's mark that's a good one

Speaker 21 yeah yeah i had that one for kyborg remind me again that's like you get advantage on that specific person right but you have to do it beforehand yeah like you have to put it on someone it's kind of like you get extra damage and you can like track whatever enemy you pick as that's marked.

Speaker 51 So with a fighter where you have multiple attacks, it's a good thing to like add up damage. Yeah, it's just a fun spell.

Speaker 28 So, you buried yourself under a stinky fish and got fae touch.

Speaker 45 I guess like

Speaker 29 some some fae creature liked that.

Speaker 77 Yes, I'm trying to create under

Speaker 51 become the nourishment that I need.

Speaker 26 Oh,

Speaker 51 let's start to grow into something better than what I was.

Speaker 6 Okay, cool.

Speaker 13 I like it. Yeah, it makes sense.

Speaker 20 You smell terrible.

Speaker 70 I'm so sorry.

Speaker 17 If you could go underwater with me and have a conversation about this, yeah, I mean, this is coming from a guy who's literally wearing like his dad's corpse.

Speaker 24 You smell awful.

Speaker 35 We need to bathe you in sap.

Speaker 47 What's your

Speaker 47 moisturizing routine, Tolkien?

Speaker 16 It is working.

Speaker 17 Yeah, you know, all sorts of

Speaker 22 necrotic skin.

Speaker 17 Yeah, you know,

Speaker 17 he gave me a good, uh, good bones, good structure to work with. You know, he took such good care of himself.
A lot of bath salts.

Speaker 18 I just assumed that you had had too much sun on the ship.

Speaker 19 All right, let's go ahead and get this ball rolling.

Speaker 37 I know normally we

Speaker 19 like to wrap up these arrows a little more quickly, but I felt like we wanted to get really into the level-up process this episode.

Speaker 38 So I want to thank the audience for bearing with us as we kind of expand on the backstory for our characters.

Speaker 47 Thank you for bug bearing with us.

Speaker 17 Thanks for listening to the episode, guys. We'll see you next episode.

Speaker 35 It's gonna wrap on Sinky Dragon.

Speaker 80 You find yourself back on the ocean floor, surrounded by the shipwrecks, and the earth is still shaking violently.

Speaker 84 The ships that were partially submerged in the bed of the sea begin collapsing and shaking, and some of them begin partially submerging themselves into the sand, much like a lizard.

Speaker 59 Then the vortex of water that's swirling violently around you begins to lose momentum and then begins collapsing, and an ocean of water falls upon the entire party.

Speaker 27 I've heard dozens of fish stories in my day, but I have to say, that is one whale of a tale.

Speaker 23 You're all sitting at the bar of the high three, recalling your recent voyage into Nanibo to Fismum.

Speaker 82 She slides, drinks to the four of you.

Speaker 86 But you're missing the best part. How exactly did you survive?

Speaker 80 Everyone roll a constitution saving throw.

Speaker 80 Ooh.

Speaker 89 Is this to determine if we should correct Fismum for calling a whale a fish?

Speaker 17 That or they're gonna pull the trap door that leads to the underground fighting ring again.

Speaker 6 We just got here.

Speaker 54 14.

Speaker 68 10.

Speaker 31 16.

Speaker 47 Oh wait, Constitution Saving Throw?

Speaker 34 I can actually add the modifiers.

Speaker 42 19.

Speaker 68 Gunther.

Speaker 17 Sticky fish boy.

Speaker 35 13.

Speaker 28 So in order from highest to lowest is Natty with 19, Tove with 14, Gunther with 13, Doug with 10.

Speaker 59 Correct.

Speaker 21 Even though my modifier is plus seven.

Speaker 24 Wow.

Speaker 24 Ooh, not a great roll then. No.

Speaker 73 We flash back three days ago.

Speaker 85 The sun is shining on a coast of calm waves.

Speaker 22 We'll start with Natty since he rolled the highest.

Speaker 32 You will see the ocean lapping up against the beach far below you as you are restrained, caught up in the rigging of a shipwreck.

Speaker 76 The sun is beating down on you and you're utterly parched.

Speaker 47 Natty wakes up and his star goes,

Speaker 26 is my hair?

Speaker 10 Oh, my hair's perfect.

Speaker 35 Never mind. Never mind.

Speaker 33 We're all good, everybody. We're all good.

Speaker 49 We're all good.

Speaker 76 What do you want to do to try to get down?

Speaker 23 You are caught up in quite a bit of rope.

Speaker 81 Your hair looks great though, but you are caught up in rope high in the rigging of a shipwreck.

Speaker 30 Atewa, make a perception check for me, Natty.

Speaker 47 Plus three, two, a 19, so that's 22.

Speaker 23 As you're coming to and looking around, you realize that the shipwreck below you is part of the Dockmaster, the ship that you have wrote here on to get to Nanimo.

Speaker 65 And as you're looking at it and realizing that, you also realize that the ship is slowly starting to sink into the water and sand below.

Speaker 47 I didn't say it before, but Dockmaster sounds like an old early era gaming system. Yeah, like the Commodore or Atari or something.

Speaker 17 Yeah, well, like Kmart.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 44 Eight-bit processor.

Speaker 47 Natty would do obviously the obvious thing, which is call for her baby.

Speaker 94 Giggy, Giggy, mama needs you.

Speaker 47 Mama needs, where's my little sharp fanged boy who can bite through ropes?

Speaker 65 Make a roll to see if Giggy listens or not, if he's distracted by something else.

Speaker 45 This would be nice if he would listen.

Speaker 47 Except I rolled a one.

Speaker 44 In that case, Gus takes over driving Giggy.

Speaker 24 Dang it.

Speaker 60 Giggy comes out from a nearby jungle, some nearby vegetation.

Speaker 7 out to the beach. He's gone native.

Speaker 88 Looking around for the sound of your voice.

Speaker 28 He looks around left and right, up and down the beach, but doesn't seem to react.

Speaker 47 That's okay. He still looks adorable, even though he don't know where his mom is.
Love him no matter what.

Speaker 17 You know how like you introduce some sort of foreign animal into like an ecosystem and then it just destroys it because it has no natural enemies.

Speaker 17 Giggy in the short time he's been on the beach has been that invasive speech species.

Speaker 7 The birds, the mammals, everything.

Speaker 17 He's just fat from all the animals he's eating.

Speaker 47 I'd be so proud if in that short time time he was able to upset the ecological balance all on his own.

Speaker 35 That's just his step up and his abilities.

Speaker 17 What a sweet neutral eco-terrorist he is going to be.

Speaker 55 Okay, since I don't have Mr. Gigglesworth to help, Natty actually has,

Speaker 46 I think, a dagger. I got two daggers in my shorts.

Speaker 47 And Natty would use her daggers to cut through the ropes that are holding her. And then no matter what happens, Gustavo, Natty's going to hover down from the where she's being hung from.

Speaker 9 Oh,

Speaker 27 I'll tell you what.

Speaker 24 Love it.

Speaker 31 Make me a sleight of handshake.

Speaker 23 Love it or list it, guys.

Speaker 47 Gosh darn it. Pickles.
I rolled a one again.

Speaker 17 Language, please, John. This is a family-friendly podcast.

Speaker 96 Great plan. You're restrained.

Speaker 38 Natty recalls her dagger that she has just for such situations, pulls it out, then immediately fumbles it and it falls into the sea below.

Speaker 47 I have another one.

Speaker 27 Okay, roll me another sleight of handshake.

Speaker 47 Well, I have one now Maddie curses under her breath and reaches for her backup dagger okay let's do this again don't roll a one you big dummy

Speaker 72 19 with sleight of hand plus three 21 22 you're able to you're able to free yourself from your restraint and hover down to the beach below okay cool and then i shall look for my compatriots okay as you land on the beach giggie finally catches sight of you and he runs up to you what's that What's that in your mouth, Giggy?

Speaker 47 Oh, that's a tiny little head. Where'd you find that little head?

Speaker 67 I like to think that his mouth is just stuffed full of local animals, like birds and frogs and whatever he can find on the beach.

Speaker 34 It's just all in there.

Speaker 23 Every species of the island is in his mouth now.

Speaker 47 Yeah, he learns every time he bites something.

Speaker 22 Okay, make me an investigation check since you're looking for your party.

Speaker 72 15 plus.

Speaker 7 One, 16.

Speaker 60 You begin looking around for the rest of your party, and as you're looking around, you realize that the shipwreck you were restrained on is gone.

Speaker 15 What?

Speaker 47 Well, I guess I better figure out another party to play with. Everyone re-roll characters.

Speaker 44 The ship is just totally not there.

Speaker 76 It's just the sea and the sand at this point now.

Speaker 24 Okay.

Speaker 71 Do I need to do anything, or are you going to proceed?

Speaker 88 I'm going to proceed.

Speaker 82 We'll move on to our next, our next player, who is Tov, I believe, who rolled a 14.

Speaker 17 Contestant.

Speaker 90 Toll, you open your eyes and look around and you see you are next to rather large rocks jutting out of sand.

Speaker 84 And unfortunately for you, you are buried up to your neck in that sand.

Speaker 62 Uh-oh.

Speaker 24 Uh-oh.

Speaker 64 Nearby, a crab with three claws has caught sight of you and is eyeing you and is slowly making its way over.

Speaker 17 Oh, this isn't good.

Speaker 13 Get back.

Speaker 24 Get back!

Speaker 11 Don't do it!

Speaker 66 My precious skin!

Speaker 24 Alva!

Speaker 62 Sister!

Speaker 83 It's pointing one claw at you with two other claws to the side defensively.

Speaker 20 Okay,

Speaker 17 let's barter here. If you get me out of the sand, I promise to get you delicious fishies.
You don't have to do this, Mr.

Speaker 10 Krabs.

Speaker 35 Are you ready?

Speaker 10 No.

Speaker 55 Okay, then.

Speaker 60 We were just talking about your skincare routine.

Speaker 23 You feel like your skin is singed from being exposed to such harsh sun.

Speaker 47 Oh, that's permanent damage, too.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 17 You know, I knew it was going to have to come one time or another. How is the beard? Can I keep the beard at least?

Speaker 76 It's halfway in the sand. It's hard to know right now.

Speaker 47 I wanted Gus to say that the crab had already taken the beard and it was wearing it.

Speaker 27 You look over and the crab's wearing the beard now.

Speaker 35 What are you?

Speaker 17 I guess I'm going to try to struggle to get out then, you know.

Speaker 88 Okay, why don't you make me a strength check, but let's make it with disadvantage because you don't have much room to move.

Speaker 65 Okay.

Speaker 47 That's a...

Speaker 17 I don't really think there's any point in rolling again. That's a five, but...

Speaker 54 Oh, what the heck? I could always crit fail.

Speaker 17 Nope. That was 19.
So, five.

Speaker 60 Yeah, you struggle, but the sand just doesn't seem to be giving at all.

Speaker 76 There's no room for you to get any motion at all to use your strength to get out.

Speaker 17 It's not giving.

Speaker 24 I'm going to start eating it.

Speaker 17 Yeah, I guess I'd call for people. Natty, dog Elva, Gambot,

Speaker 17 Gigi, I think I called you already, Pirate Pots.

Speaker 45 What's that other guy's name?

Speaker 94 The release half knoll? Huh?

Speaker 27 Captain Grumbles.

Speaker 17 No, Captain Grumbles, the zombie, you two, but what was the other guy's name?

Speaker 20 Lassic. Was it Lasic? No, he's not with it.
Laskiel. Laskill.
Laskiel.

Speaker 17 Laskiel.

Speaker 17 I know we had one other. Maybe Sea Drinker, Squid Person.

Speaker 17 I think I've called everybody but Dog El.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 57 I was going to ask, because you're very deliberately going to everyone except Gunther.

Speaker 24 Oh, hold on, I'll call him out. Gunther?

Speaker 23 We'll say that since Natty went earlier, she hears your

Speaker 77 calls.

Speaker 79 And then, Natty, I'll leave it up to you what you want to do to that.

Speaker 47 Yeah, I would head to the sound of Toll's ABBA-like voice.

Speaker 54 You hear Toll calling from just a little further away from the water.

Speaker 97 Not too far, maybe 20, 30 feet in from the shoreline.

Speaker 24 And you see him buried up to his neck with a three-armed crab circling him.

Speaker 99 Oh my god, Tov, where's your body?

Speaker 33 Did your head come off?

Speaker 29 It hears you and turns one of its claws to you, Natty.

Speaker 17 Careful, this guy's feeling crabby.

Speaker 27 Don't hurt me.

Speaker 17 Natty would punt it.

Speaker 24 Wait, the head or the crab?

Speaker 13 No, not the head, the crab!

Speaker 22 So the crab, you said the crab turned to me like aggressively.

Speaker 31 I'd say it pointed one claw at you.

Speaker 79 So it's got one claw pointed at Tove, one claw pointed at you, and another one kind of going between the two of you.

Speaker 17 A Mexican standoff.

Speaker 55 I point one hand at the crab with finger pistols and one hand at Toll with finger pistols.

Speaker 33 Looks like we got a standoff here.

Speaker 17 Please do not blast me with your eldritch blast, please.

Speaker 55 I tell to the crab, leave or the or the head gets it.

Speaker 85 I think the crab might not speak common. I'm not sure.

Speaker 89 Okay.

Speaker 47 Natty would start charging up an eldritch blast and be like,

Speaker 47 I don't want to say it. I don't want to make any craps do today, crab, but you better back off.

Speaker 17 Crab, do what she says.

Speaker 24 She's just crazy enough to do it. Go run for your life.

Speaker 34 Crab, run, crab.

Speaker 27 Make an intimidation check.

Speaker 100 Sideways out of here.

Speaker 24 Scurry, scuttle out of here.

Speaker 98 18 plus 422.

Speaker 60 Has anyone ever tried to intimidate a crab before in DD?

Speaker 85 Are we groundbreaking here?

Speaker 47 I feel like everything's been done at this point in DD. A lot of weirdos have been playing this game for a a lot of years.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 62 That's true.

Speaker 24 That's true. Yeah.

Speaker 23 The crab begins scuttling away while still pointing its claws at each of you, but it recedes further away towards some nearby rocky outcroppings.

Speaker 70 Okay.

Speaker 98 Alright. You okay, Talv?

Speaker 17 Oh, I just, you know, got my butt kicked by my crappy dad, and now I'm buried in sand. So, like, if you can get me out of here, I think my skin is so, so damaged.

Speaker 47 Gigi, can you help?

Speaker 9 Gigi's very good at digging.

Speaker 17 You know, now that I'm looking around our surroundings, I think this is the Canary Islands. We have to be very careful because the local ecosystem's very,

Speaker 17 you know, there's not

Speaker 17 extinct species everywhere, okay?

Speaker 47 We just stop talking and listen. You can't hear a single animal sound at all because they're just all gone.

Speaker 51 That crab was the last of its kind. Yeah.

Speaker 24 I'm going to roll to have Gigi.

Speaker 74 I rolled a nat.

Speaker 24 20. Thank you very much.

Speaker 47 Just the highs and lows of Natty Wonder. I'm going to have Gigi dig out, like the little goblin he is, dig in the sand and get Toll out.

Speaker 42 Wow, cool. Make me one more Gigi check.
I'll tell you why after.

Speaker 9 I've rolled a Nat 20.

Speaker 88 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 62 What's he want for me?

Speaker 24 Another check.

Speaker 71 Eight.

Speaker 23 Yeah, he does a really good job of starting to dig Toll out.

Speaker 17 I know what you're going to do.

Speaker 27 He starts squatting over the hole that he has dug.

Speaker 24 Oh, God.

Speaker 24 Oh, bro.

Speaker 24 Oh, good.

Speaker 13 I've been working on that with him.

Speaker 47 I've been working on that with him. I'm glad he's using it finally.

Speaker 20 So, when we say that Tolf could speak underwater, is this what we were referring to?

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Speaker 91 All right, you're able to pull Tove out.

Speaker 47 Okay, I pull Toll out and I start patting him down, getting all the sand off him. I pull out my hair dryer that I keep with me everywhere I go and I start blow-drying him all over.

Speaker 17 Maddie, give it to me straight. My skin.

Speaker 68 How is it?

Speaker 17 What's the prognosis, doctor?

Speaker 47 I'm not gonna lie to you, Tov.

Speaker 46 It's looking pretty bad.

Speaker 72 Oh no.

Speaker 42 But don't worry.

Speaker 47 And Naddie pulls like

Speaker 47 a thing out of her hair that's one of those like caboodles

Speaker 47 and just opens it up and it opens up into like a million different little sections.

Speaker 47 I got every product under the sun and we're gonna get you looking like your Sunday best in no time, okay?

Speaker 17 I just need to save the beard. That's all I need.

Speaker 24 Where is it?

Speaker 11 All right.

Speaker 76 Well, at this point, we will smash cut to our next person on the list, who I believe is Gunther with the 13.

Speaker 60 Gunther, you open your eyes and find yourself on a windy cliff's edge.

Speaker 23 You look around and realize you're about 40 feet up in the air.

Speaker 100 You're missing all of your equipment and your clothes.

Speaker 34 I'm naked.

Speaker 70 As you look around and make this realization, you begin coughing up salt water, which just seems like never-ending salt water coming out of your lungs.

Speaker 80 Make me a perception check.

Speaker 51 13.

Speaker 88 Oh, you found all your gear and your equipment.

Speaker 60 It's at the bottom of the cliff directly under you.

Speaker 82 Oh,

Speaker 35 down. Woo!

Speaker 56 Jump, jump, jump, jump.

Speaker 100 Yeah, how far down is it?

Speaker 34 About 40 feet.

Speaker 51 I mean, I can, that should be. I probably just could climb down some, and a certain point I could just jump because I'm used to jumping those heights anyway, almost.
Yeah, why not?

Speaker 82 Make an athletics check to see if you're able to climb down.

Speaker 85 Okay.

Speaker 51 And if it if it matters all flavor-wise, I think Guther would use his tongue to like wrap around a rock or something

Speaker 51 at the top and then climb down. So if he falls, he'll like catch himself.
And then he can release it.

Speaker 23 Myself advantage because I think that's cool.

Speaker 24 Cool.

Speaker 57 Rule of cool.

Speaker 51 The 19 and a 14.

Speaker 34 So 19. Okay, yeah.

Speaker 82 19, yeah. Yeah, it takes just a couple of minutes, but you're able to scale the cliff down using your tongue as as you slowly descend.

Speaker 92 You reach the bottom of the cliff and find all your gear and your equipment strewn about on the sand below.

Speaker 80 Make a perception check.

Speaker 16 16.

Speaker 83 From the south, a three-clawed crab begins approaching and points two claws at you.

Speaker 67 Oh, God.

Speaker 16 I found it first.

Speaker 35 Tibbs.

Speaker 82 The crab begins scuttling east away from you into the rocky cliff outcropping.

Speaker 51 Oh, thank goodness.

Speaker 51 He did not know I was bluffing.

Speaker 51 And then I kinda equip myself with my stuff.

Speaker 17 I feel like for a moment there had to have been Pokemon battle music, like

Speaker 82 what do you want to do now that you have climbed down from the cliff and found all your stuff?

Speaker 51 Well, I guess look around and see if I can spot any indication of my party or the ship or anything.

Speaker 106 Make a investigation check.

Speaker 51 11.

Speaker 36 You do not see any sign of the shipwreck.

Speaker 22 However, from your vantage point, you think you see a couple of figures down to the south near three boulders sticking out of the sand.

Speaker 97 And you also think you hear some singing coming from the north.

Speaker 17 Can you give us a taste that singing, Gus?

Speaker 82 It's really hard to hear with the waves and the wind going,

Speaker 27 but it sounds something like.

Speaker 51 So I see two figures.

Speaker 40 Two figures near three boulders sticking out of the sand.

Speaker 51 And how far does singing sound like close and like close?

Speaker 73 It sounds pretty far.

Speaker 37 But again, with the wind and the water, it's really hard to tell.

Speaker 51 I think I would stealthily make my way towards the figures to see who or what they may be.

Speaker 27 Hey, make me a stealth check.

Speaker 60 That's a 24.

Speaker 97 Yeah, you're able to sneak your way south, and as you're doing so, darting from, you know, rock to dune, you see that the two figures to the south are Toll and Natty.

Speaker 93 And

Speaker 93 Natty is applying some kind of salve on Tov's skin.

Speaker 20 Well, Giggy peas on him.

Speaker 24 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 51 Then I'll come out and be like, hello!

Speaker 11 It's a bold Gunther.

Speaker 27 Hello, Gunther.

Speaker 11 Oh, no.

Speaker 17 What?

Speaker 51 Where is Doug?

Speaker 17 Sadly, Doug has passed away. I'm so sorry, Gunther.

Speaker 34 No, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 17 I think they're on the bottom.

Speaker 56 My constitution roll was too low.

Speaker 47 That was to result of whoever rolled the lowest.

Speaker 96 All right, that is a great opportunity to switch over and see what's going on with Doug.

Speaker 67 I'm alive.

Speaker 65 Doug, you are alive. Doug's in a hotel.

Speaker 22 He's taking a bubble bath.

Speaker 46 He's got room service on the way.

Speaker 90 He's got a drink and a coconut with a straw and an umbrella.

Speaker 53 A whole cheese pizza pizza just for me.

Speaker 23 Doug, you open your eyes and they're stinging because you're underwater.

Speaker 24 And the salt water is stinging your eyes.

Speaker 23 You feel like you're being rocked gently back and forth in the water.

Speaker 21 Okay, could I start pumping my arms up to like swim to the surface?

Speaker 27 Yeah, you're, it's the surface right above you.

Speaker 11 You start doing that and you immediately pop through like you were just

Speaker 97 a few inches underwater.

Speaker 21 It's like being in a bunch of my toes. Oh, I hate this.

Speaker 80 You pop your head up above the water and you're still being slowly rocked back and forth.

Speaker 83 You hear a song like a gentle lullaby as you're being rocked back and forth.

Speaker 24 Make a perception check with advantage.

Speaker 70 Rocked by what?

Speaker 105 Oh, the water.

Speaker 21 19.

Speaker 59 You look around and you realize that you're being cradled in the arms of the sea drinker who is now much larger than before.

Speaker 83 And she's slowly rocking you back and forth, singing you a gentle lullaby.

Speaker 76 You open your eyes, recognize that she's there, and she looks at you and smiles.

Speaker 21 Am I dreaming? Can you pinch me?

Speaker 51 The crab crop.

Speaker 45 Let me double-check one thing.

Speaker 51 No, I don't have an inspiration to die, but I'll take one.

Speaker 24 Oh, yeah, you're right. You're right.

Speaker 79 You can have one. Yeah, that was a good joke.
The sea drinker looks at you, Doug, and says, No,

Speaker 16 this is not a dream.

Speaker 56 Oh, okay.

Speaker 21 Well, you're a lot bigger than what you were previously. I assume it was that little squid guy we were carrying around, huh?

Speaker 57 Indeed. The water has helped rejuvenate me.

Speaker 60 She appears to be a squid-like creature with tendrils on her face, with her body made out of water.

Speaker 88 And yes, she is much bigger than before.

Speaker 21 Well, did you save me? Where what happened?

Speaker 16 Once the ocean came crashing down, the water restored my strength. I was able to take the brunt of the ocean's weight and surge you and your friends to the shore.
My apologies for any mishaps.

Speaker 16 It was quite sudden.

Speaker 21 Oh, well, clearly, you saved my life, so I'm forever in your gratitude, Misty Dwinkle.

Speaker 21 Or Mrs. I don't know.

Speaker 25 Are you betrothed?

Speaker 45 Bobby, sorry.

Speaker 21 Armacito?

Speaker 57 I wish there is one I love, but we cannot be together.

Speaker 35 Oh, why not?

Speaker 16 We should reconvene with your friends, and then we can share stories.

Speaker 57 Okay, but

Speaker 21 too deep to get into right now.

Speaker 56 No point intended.

Speaker 21 Do you see my friends anywhere? You might have a better vantage point than I do from down here in the water.

Speaker 92 She kind of furrows her brow and looks around.

Speaker 16 Perhaps they are on the other side of that rocky cliff.

Speaker 21 Yeah, that seems like a place they'd be.

Speaker 26 Onward.

Speaker 21 And Doug points in that direction.

Speaker 42 Does Doug begin walking or does Doug want to be carried?

Speaker 26 Like,

Speaker 27 is Doug still in the sea drinker's arms pointing?

Speaker 21 Yeah, and he's like curled up in a little ball with his hands at his face, like almost in the fetal position.

Speaker 47 I will say as someone who spent the majority of their life being the bigger person in a relationship, the first time that I got to go out with a guy and I got to be cradled by a larger person, I was like, this is nice.

Speaker 10 I like this.

Speaker 21 I got to be baby.

Speaker 68 Yeah, that was great.

Speaker 23 And that would definitely apply for Doug. Doug is

Speaker 47 Doug's always the big guy, you know, but then like, it's just kind of fun to be like the little one sometimes.

Speaker 60 Kind of a swell and a wave begins pushing you south, Doug, parallel to the shoreline.

Speaker 22 So look, the waves are crashing to the east along the shore, but this swell has kind of like picked you up and is moving you south parallel to the shore past the rocky cliff outcropping south.

Speaker 82 And after a minute or so, you see your three friends around three rocks that are sticking out of the sandy beach.

Speaker 34 Tubular.

Speaker 87 Guys, look who I found.

Speaker 34 It looks like they found you.

Speaker 21 Semantics, but yes.

Speaker 17 Toll would bow deeply before the sea drinker.

Speaker 47 You keep pointing out these large rocks around this. Are these rocks like significant or something?

Speaker 64 They're like one of the only landmarks in the area.

Speaker 23 They are the landmark I've decided to orient

Speaker 93 you guys around.

Speaker 27 That's it.

Speaker 27 Just to re-emphasize

Speaker 42 your candor, Gus.

Speaker 47 I appreciate it.

Speaker 51 Are you in fact Najorda?

Speaker 70 It is nice to meet you.

Speaker 51 You are much bigger.

Speaker 76 With a smile, she says, Yes,

Speaker 57 I am Njorda.

Speaker 16 Thank you for nursing me back to health with the water, Gunther.

Speaker 16 Your aid was most welcome and most needed in my time of need i can tell by your careful use of the water gunther that you know how precious it truly is

Speaker 16 that decanter you use belongs to me so i would like to offer you another item in its stead

Speaker 35 okay

Speaker 10 what is it it is

Speaker 9 this

Speaker 27 Seemingly from out of nowhere, she pulls out an item that appears to be an eight-handled vase.

Speaker 26 She says, It is the octopot of obscure.

Speaker 47 Can you make a good stew in that? Like you just put it in and you leave it for the day?

Speaker 57 You can use this to find things that are hidden.

Speaker 51 Yes, this is your water, then you shall have it back. I do not wish to steal from you.

Speaker 96 She takes the decanter and hands you this ancient eight-handled vase.

Speaker 23 And as you hold it, you see it has kind of a slippery texture and it's a reddish-brownish-yellowy color.

Speaker 98 And like she said, meta-wise, it turns water into inquisitive ink.

Speaker 23 Dribble some out, and the ink flows toward hidden things in the area.

Speaker 96 It has a limited number of uses, but we'll cover that when it's used.

Speaker 19 Ooh.

Speaker 51 Thank you very much. I shall use this.

Speaker 16 I sense as well, Gunther, that you're searching for something

Speaker 10 or someone.

Speaker 57 Did the Wilderflower send you on this quest? Or is this of your own volition?

Speaker 51 Yes, I hope that the Wilderflower wishes for me to be searching. That's what I do.
It is hard for me to know what decision is the right one or if I have failed everyone. But I hope so, not.

Speaker 57 I hope so, not.

Speaker 79 I hope I have not failed everyone.

Speaker 57 Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

Speaker 79 Okay.

Speaker 16 What is it you hope to gain from this quest?

Speaker 51 I hope to restore what was taken from us,

Speaker 51 bring pride to my village and family, and vengeance to my enemy.

Speaker 77 Hmm,

Speaker 57 noble indeed.

Speaker 51 Unless I fail, in which case I have abandoned my family for no reason.

Speaker 51 I'm curious, Norda. Why were you imprisoned, and who did it?

Speaker 11 Oh,

Speaker 57 that is a sad tale. I plunged to the depths searching for the fire eater, hoping to find her where Marine and Magma meet.

Speaker 16 However, it was a trap, and I was captured by Infern's underlings.

Speaker 16 Or Undarlings, if you will.

Speaker 57 And I was imprisoned on Nunyamo with Volcaniconda. While there, my suspicions were confirmed.

Speaker 16 The Fire Eater is indeed imprisoned in the fiery depths of Undar.

Speaker 47 Natty nudges Doug and goes, Man, Marina Magma would be a great club name.

Speaker 4 I think that is like that is just a lava lamp.

Speaker 21 Marina and Magma.

Speaker 51 Why were you searching for the Fire Eater?

Speaker 57 The Fire Eater is my one true love. However, I have been forbidden from pursuing her, and I have been bound to the sea.

Speaker 16 I have been doling out my duties to the other deities and demigods, trying to find time to reunite with the fire eater.

Speaker 51 It's one of those only at the once-a-year end-of-year party that you all get to hang.

Speaker 57 It is not easy.

Speaker 16 Hence the desire to go where sea and magma meet.

Speaker 51 So why would Undarians want to imprison you? Why do they care?

Speaker 16 They seek the Pathfinder and are trying to get any information they can.

Speaker 47 Is the Pathfinder like the key to finding you all? Like Pathfinder can find stuff, so if you want to find a bunch of gods, you get the god that can find the other gods first.

Speaker 82 The Sea Drinker turns to you, Natty, and says, Yes.

Speaker 16 The Pathfinder has an ability to find anything hidden with very little to go on. All the Pathfinder needs is time.

Speaker 21 i think the pathfinder also is they're looking for the pathfinder to also find the gates of hyra

Speaker 16 i mean yeah if you got somebody that can find anything that's pretty useful yes all they need is time and it can be found well luckily we got this jug of water that we could pour to things that we're trying to look for yesterday

Speaker 32 since you spoke up natty i think the sea drinker would address you a little further.

Speaker 70 Addy.

Speaker 16 It's a pleasure to formally meet you, Natty. Please give your best to the silent steed next time you speak.

Speaker 83 I will.

Speaker 47 Natty's toes. That's my gal.

Speaker 9 Oh.

Speaker 37 And

Speaker 47 are you all friends? Like, do you guys all like...

Speaker 47 Do you maybe meet up for like, I don't know,

Speaker 47 like, do some Sudokus together or something?

Speaker 58 As friends, too.

Speaker 82 They have the same Pilates class.

Speaker 83 A Pilates class.

Speaker 57 Yeah, that would work out yeah yeah yeah cool we've met before

Speaker 16 but we haven't spent much time together but i know that you know what it's like to be apart from a loved one so if there's ever a time that you need a favor use the necklace and call upon me using my true name and then she mouths njorda

Speaker 47 wait do i have a necklace now i told the necklace oh oh okay okay yeah that'd be great that'd be great i appreciate that That's very kind of you.

Speaker 16 And I'm sure I don't have to remind you, but just as in long-distance relationships, trust is key with true names. I trust you and your friends to keep my true name secret.

Speaker 51 Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know it was a secret.

Speaker 16 I think the unwilling knowledge of my true name is how I was apprehended and nearly finished by the Undami. Every deity has a true name, but very few speak of it.

Speaker 47 What's the significance of that? Since we got you here, maybe you could expand upon that a little bit. And I'm just going to warn you, I'm a simple girl.

Speaker 46 I like simple talk.

Speaker 47 So like metaphor and mystery just goes right over my big old wig.

Speaker 16 True names lead to true power and true control.

Speaker 55 Yeah, that is that wasn't that wasn't straight up with me.

Speaker 47 I just be more and more direct with myself.

Speaker 47 What's like, what is the direct result of someone knowing your name? Does that mean they got like power over you or they can uh they can uh maybe find you easier or or what?

Speaker 17 They just don't want you using their full government, okay?

Speaker 16 This is different for each, GH.

Speaker 57 But if we all have a weakness, it is our true name.

Speaker 47 Dad, do you do you know about this? Is this something that there's something that you're aware of?

Speaker 21 No, but it makes me wonder if maybe we should change our names, cause uh

Speaker 21 if people know what you're names, is that gonna

Speaker 21 that they're gonna have power over us? Like, should I go by like Douglas?

Speaker 21 Good?

Speaker 10 Good. Perfect.

Speaker 89 I think we have different rules than they have different rules, you know?

Speaker 47 Okay, so we shouldn't tell people your full name. We should just call you City Drinker.

Speaker 24 Yes.

Speaker 47 And

Speaker 47 where are we? Sorry, no one's asked that yet.

Speaker 24 Where are we?

Speaker 47 I mean, I love a beach, but I just want to to know where we are.

Speaker 16 We are at the edge of Endridge Bay. It's not far from here.

Speaker 21 The Edridge Bay?

Speaker 47 That's convenient, thank you.

Speaker 51 Do you know what happened to our companions?

Speaker 78 And our not companions?

Speaker 16 I suspect they're around here, in the nearby vegetation and jungle, and they should be reconvening with us soon.

Speaker 47 Nanny startles up.

Speaker 33 Captain Grumbles, where's Captain Grumbles?

Speaker 35 I don't even look for him yet.

Speaker 58 Where is he, Captain Grumbles?

Speaker 21 Where's the point of it, Podge? we're going to be in so much trouble with the Mortalian.

Speaker 78 Captain Grumbles could be dead again.

Speaker 76 I'll say at this point that each of your different party members slowly starts coming out from the jungly-y vegetation and reuniting with you guys.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 94 Wait.

Speaker 21 All of our NPCs are back.

Speaker 24 Hey!

Speaker 47 Let the record show Gus is the one who said they're all joining us again, okay?

Speaker 100 You asked.

Speaker 17 I have been bowing this entire time and my back is kind of aching and I I would love to join the conversation, but uh hello sea drinker. I am your faithful follower Tolv.

Speaker 17 Uh you knew my adopted father Bjorn.

Speaker 15 Just in case you didn't remember who I was, you know, no big deal.

Speaker 106 All right, as you stand back up from your bow, a small scrap of paper falls out from your pocket.

Speaker 37 Is it the uh the note to Bjorn?

Speaker 65 Yeah, who is that note you had uh picked up?

Speaker 17 Talks about how uh she gave him a uh necklace and it's a twin of their own oh no it's a it's a different note this is the one that was on the front door of the roarboot don't remember that note so many notes which one is that you should take notes you take a look at it oh oh oh bjorn your order is ready for pickup come by uh the untamed flame forge from shannon

Speaker 17 oh i i forgot we have a to-do list of things here in indridge bay i'm gonna put that back in my pocket yeah you know when you bowed and rose up you mentioned your connection to Bjorn.

Speaker 24 The Sea Drinker would look at you, Toll, and ask, Oh, what news of Bjorn?

Speaker 16 He helped me on my quest to try and find the fire eater.

Speaker 17 Yeah, so as you can see, I am wearing his flesh, so not good.

Speaker 24 Um,

Speaker 17 I am like his adopted robot son, and he has sadly passed away.

Speaker 17 But in his final act, he allowed me to take his identity to protect me because, uh, well, I'll just go ahead and show you, and i'll take off the bjorn face mask to you who it's me told if i'm actually a thawmatec boo spooky spooky

Speaker 16 the passing of bjorn is a loss to us all did you perhaps receive a gift from bjorn i mean many gifts knowledge uh good memories

Speaker 17 His skin, you know, I the list goes on and on.

Speaker 10 Fish recipe.

Speaker 35 A fish recipe.

Speaker 17 Yeah, yeah, that was good. That was good.

Speaker 35 Very good.

Speaker 17 I'm still looking looking for the deed to the Roarboo. You know, I might have that.
Might have a little bit of oceanside property.

Speaker 36 You could turn it into an Air D ⁇ D.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Wow.

Speaker 17 That's good.

Speaker 24 Oh, that's good.

Speaker 77 Oh.

Speaker 65 Hey, guys.

Speaker 45 I don't know if you all remember this.

Speaker 25 Coconut?

Speaker 13 Coconut.

Speaker 61 I'm looking for anyone, Blaine, Chris, and John to remember this.

Speaker 94 Coconut. Oh, oh, oh!

Speaker 27 Coconut. Coconut.
Coconut. Yes.

Speaker 45 John? Coconut. Chris.

Speaker 55 Oh, Jess, coconut. John.

Speaker 20 I don't think you were on that episode. Still the beans.

Speaker 34 Not even remotely triggering anything.

Speaker 61 Many, many second wins ago,

Speaker 61 it was me, Blaine, Chris, and John. And we agreed that we would have a code word for when we want to give Gus an inspiration die.

Speaker 27 Coconut.

Speaker 17 The decree of coconuts has been changed.

Speaker 47 Jesus. Barbara deserves inspiration dies for remembering that.

Speaker 8 Wow.

Speaker 76 The flame of coconut calls for aid gus you can you may have an inspiration inspiration die from the blade joke we wanted to be able to give so this is you you can roll an inspiration dice for something that you got coming up little peek behind the screen for our listeners here i when we play you know we use dnd beyond i do have a character sheet that i use as the dungeon master i'm going to give myself an inspiration die on there it has been done oh wow gus is hovering now above his keyboard

Speaker 37 the light just coming from his eyes i can't wait till like four or five episodes from now i'm going to use it, and you all are really gonna regret calling out that.

Speaker 47 We know what we're doing. We know what we're doing.
We're giving power to someone who already has all the power, but you know what?

Speaker 17 It's a good joke, Air D.

Speaker 17 Anyways, was there something specific, uh, Sea Drinker, that I should be looking for? I, I, other than this necklace?

Speaker 16 The Sea Drinker smiles and says, I'm sure you'll come to it soon.

Speaker 11 Great, cool.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 47 Then he turns to Tull of and goes, see how it feels when someone's all vague and mysterious and holds secrets and everything.

Speaker 17 She speaks riddles and mystery. What are we supposed to do with that?

Speaker 34 Nothing.

Speaker 9 Nothing.

Speaker 47 I already tried, but she just keeps going around in circles around the direct point.

Speaker 17 Okay, also, Sea Drinker, you mentioned earlier the Volcaniconda have taken you hostage. I'm going to be so for real with you.
For the sake of my survival, I struck a bargain with the Volcaniconda.

Speaker 17 I'm still in allegiance to you. I love you.
Number one Sea Drinker fan. Yo-Yo.
But the Volcaniconda might come calling for some ice cream down the road. I'm just giving you the heads up.

Speaker 16 We can deal with that when the time comes.

Speaker 17 I'm so glad that's off my chest. I've been feeling terrible.

Speaker 51 You say that the Undarians had taken you to gain power. Why was Ironclad also searching for you? Is he in league with the Undarians?

Speaker 16 That I do not know. I cannot speak the motivations of others.

Speaker 24 Interesting.

Speaker 20 Is Elva around?

Speaker 70 Yeah, we'll say Elva has come come out of the jungle as well and is probably, we'll stay right there with you.

Speaker 17 What's Elva's reaction to Sea Drinker? I don't know if Sea Drinker was a thing that popped up on my radar as a result of my interactions with Bjorn or if they also had some sort of

Speaker 17 assistance from the beyond or anything like that, you know?

Speaker 36 I'll say that she seems, you know, of course, awestruck to be in the presence of a deity, but maybe not quite as reverent as you are.

Speaker 11 Okay, all right, cool.

Speaker 17 Also, this is my sister Elva. Yeah, so I mean, I guess should we do we have any other questions for the sea drinker? I mean, what do we do now?

Speaker 17 Because we still have like kind of a mission to go about, you know, like, should we uh did we figure out why they were impersonating people?

Speaker 47 I mean, we figured out that they were impersonating people, but I don't think we figured out why.

Speaker 17 Oh, the Undarians?

Speaker 47 No, that's the whole reason we were sent to Andridge, to the Hendridge Bay was for our mission of like, people are impersonating people. We gotta figure out the, what's going on with that.

Speaker 47 And we we figured out that they're doing that, but we don't know why.

Speaker 17 Yeah, speaking of, you know, I was under, I was in disguise. I wonder if maybe the Mortalian was aware of something like me and other Thaumotechs like Elva here.

Speaker 17 Sea Drinker, have you been able to see like other siblings of mine? I have so many brothers and sisters, and they all got scattered to the Vins once we rebelled against Ironclad.

Speaker 16 I can't say I've seen any, but I have heard tales from sailors swapping stories. One spoke of metallic creatures hiding near the riverbanks of the boiling bluffs.
That's where I met the fire eater.

Speaker 16 Another told a tale of a shiny person shouting curses amongst the reefs of Tropicairn Island.

Speaker 17 That sounds like one of my siblings.

Speaker 21 Are we gonna have to like collect them all kind of situation?

Speaker 17 There are 12 of us.

Speaker 10 Do you want me to tell you all of their names?

Speaker 17 I actually have photos photos of all of them. Here, let me get up my wallet.

Speaker 7 And then we can go find the elite four.

Speaker 17 There's Tio and Neo, that's 10 and 9. Atta, Shu, Sex.
We don't talk about their name. That's just their name.

Speaker 33 It's

Speaker 17 very funny, sex, but anyway. Femme Fira, Trevor.

Speaker 45 Let's talk about sex.

Speaker 35 Twa and Et.

Speaker 10 And I don't know if I know Noel or not, but there is.

Speaker 21 Talk about you and me.

Speaker 100 Yeah. Thank you.

Speaker 51 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 17 Okay, so gang, I have like a couple of short things things that I need to do. I know I need to go into town to pick up something from Shannon.

Speaker 17 And then also, I would love to follow up with this metal person rumor because that might be one of my siblings. So that's me.

Speaker 16 At this point, the sea drinker chimes in and says, Perhaps you can follow one rumor, and your sister Elva can follow the other.

Speaker 91 I like that, yeah.

Speaker 17 Split the party, get rid of some NPCs. Yes, yes.
I cannot divert from my mission from the Mortalion, and I have fear that if I do, it'll attract more attention to us, you know, Thaumatecs on the run.

Speaker 17 So I'm going to like stay in line and do my current mission.

Speaker 80 Well, I will say this, from a geography perspective, Boiling Bluffs is only about six miles northeast of Fort Endridge.

Speaker 77 So minor detour.

Speaker 76 Right, versus Tropic Cairn Island, which is more out of the way.

Speaker 24 I see.

Speaker 17 Okay, then maybe you go to the Tropic Cairn Island, and then we go to the Boiling Bluffs if my gang is, like, so cool and wanting to go on a little detour.

Speaker 77 Elva nods at that.

Speaker 21 I'll follow you wherever you deem necessary, Tov.

Speaker 70 Well, that's nice of you.

Speaker 24 Wait, who's in charge right now?

Speaker 82 I don't know.

Speaker 47 Tov. Private parts, who's in charge? Is Tov? Is Tov in charge?

Speaker 51 No, you are, Doug.

Speaker 21 Now I decree.

Speaker 35 Toll.

Speaker 27 It's like a hot potato at this point.

Speaker 21 Well, if we're on a mission for potentially his family members, I feel like you should go.

Speaker 47 I got no objections.

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Speaker 54 Okay, so

Speaker 17 let's pull up the start menu list of missions and side quests. Pole needs to go to Indridge Bay to pick up a potential weapon upgrade, which would be so cool.

Speaker 17 We're going to go to the Boiling Bluffs, which is just a six-mile detour. As far as Indridge Bay, have we followed through with everything that we were assigned to do here?

Speaker 17 Because I know that we also have a time limit to get back.

Speaker 51 I know that Gunther had his aunt that was there he wanted to speak with, but that's not like pressing in any way. That was just a thing on the if we go back.

Speaker 51 And then also, Gunther would want to use that item he got to look for the thing that was stolen from his village.

Speaker 41 Okay, specifically, Gunther and Tov make me wisdom checks.

Speaker 39 Ooh, strong.

Speaker 17 Four.

Speaker 16 14.

Speaker 74 You know, thinking about your aunt, you remember that when you all looked at the note earlier that Bjorn's item was ready for pickup, that that was signed by your aunt.

Speaker 34 So presumably it would be at the same place.

Speaker 67 Isn't that nice?

Speaker 47 Let's go knock it out.

Speaker 17 Yeah, let's do that. Let's get this out of the way.

Speaker 21 So, want to point out, if we do eventually make our way to Boiling Bluffs, it's possible that the Fire Edo might be there.

Speaker 21 And so, I don't know if we should take the Sea Drinker to maybe reunite.

Speaker 47 Well, we should probably ask the god if they want to come.

Speaker 17 Yes, he drinker, what are you doing?

Speaker 21 Hey, you got any plans or are you free?

Speaker 21 What's your schedule look like in the next couple days?

Speaker 54 Do pincil us in?

Speaker 16 I do have a task I need to complete. However, I require your assistance.
It requires backstabbing, thieving, and general scoundrelism.

Speaker 17 Laskiel, you're a buddy.

Speaker 16 Yeah, Laskiel leaps up at the thought, and the Sea Drinker turns and addresses Laskiol and says, I need help finding and freeing the fire eater in Umdar.

Speaker 16 Once we uncover more details, I may call upon you four for help.

Speaker 21 You got it.

Speaker 37 As she's looking at you, four, and you say, you know, you got it, Doug, she looks at you again.

Speaker 16 You know, she was cradling you, and says, I sense something within you, Doug.

Speaker 11 Something you're not proud of.

Speaker 16 Something from your past. I know what that feeling is like.
I too feel shame for giving up the name of the veiled eye to the Privateer.

Speaker 86 You did that?

Speaker 16 If anyone knows where the Pathfinder is, it's the Veiled Eye. However, I was able to resist the torture enough to not tell the Privateer where to find or how to reach the Veiled Eye.

Speaker 57 So the gates of Hyra will remain safe for now.

Speaker 16 I bring this up to you, Doug, because I sense that you've already made a connection to the Veiled Eye, which is a rare gift indeed.

Speaker 17 That's correct.

Speaker 21 How did you know that?

Speaker 16 I can see it upon you, for the Veiled Eye ever searches for those that think outside the box. Mortals with new ideas.
As you know, he is the patron of seers and inventors.

Speaker 16 Those who wish to find him must prove their accomplishments by presenting a unique invention, a device, or a physical creation.

Speaker 16 As a reward, he may grant such a patron with a mysterious vision or mystical encounter.

Speaker 21 So I want you to down in my head, of course.

Speaker 51 You are such a visionary, Doug.

Speaker 93 Oh, nice, nice, nice.

Speaker 21 So, I'm confused, though. You said, like, your real names you have to be kept secret, and you know this.
And so, why did you give the Veiled Eye's real name to the privateer?

Speaker 16 I did not reveal the Veiled Eye's true name, merely the knowledge of the Veiled Eye.

Speaker 24 Oh.

Speaker 51 Do you know that the true names of any gods that are mean that we could use to fight them?

Speaker 73 I would say that that the sea drinker would uh smile and say, I don't think you have the power necessary to wield such knowledge.

Speaker 51 Yeah, I might not, but maybe Doug does.

Speaker 16 I don't wish to make enemies of any further deities.

Speaker 29 That's my fair enough.

Speaker 17 If I were to whisper a name to you, could you confirm or deny whether or not it's the veiled Eye's identity?

Speaker 78 Y'all, y'all.

Speaker 47 This poor guy's trying to walk around, not giving people's real names out. You guys are all messing with them.

Speaker 77 The TV Truther would just smile and say, no.

Speaker 24 She's not going to play your game with you.

Speaker 17 All right, Meta Talk.

Speaker 17 Was Maestro Pharynx the person that I had that vision with? Yeah.

Speaker 17 In episodes past, are they the Veiled Eye?

Speaker 55 I knew Gus was going to say that.

Speaker 78 I was like, there's gonna be a classic gus uh-huh if the character that knows it won't tell you then why would it gus

Speaker 4 I think with that the sea drinker would uh address Laskiel and say let's be off Laskiel

Speaker 22 we have much work to do are you going to hold Laskiel like you held dog how are you going to transport around I think yeah Laskiel would wade into the water and the sea drinker would transform into a wave again and it would almost look like Laskiel surfing off into the sea Normally, when you surf, you surf towards the beach, but surfing away from the beach.

Speaker 21 There he goes.

Speaker 56 Wow, so cool. There goes my hero.

Speaker 51 Just like point break.

Speaker 36 He pulls out a pair of sunglasses, and then Gunther mutters, Via Condios.

Speaker 83 And then that takes us back, flash forwarding to you four sitting around, having a drink at the high three.

Speaker 24 Oh, yes, right.

Speaker 33 We're here.

Speaker 65 This alcohol is very strong, very stiff.

Speaker 21 That's waddle.

Speaker 70 Okay, so now that you all are back at the high three, what is it that you all would want to drink and what would you want to eat?

Speaker 24 What are you...

Speaker 27 Paint me a picture here.

Speaker 21 Well, you know, I heard so much about fish. People cooking a lot of fish.
You got any fish dishes?

Speaker 82 Oh, you're going to put this back on me, huh?

Speaker 11 All right.

Speaker 11 One moment.

Speaker 21 I assumed you are the keeper of the menu, a special god here at the high three.

Speaker 24 You're right.

Speaker 76 I think I had one.

Speaker 92 I just don't have it in front of me where it was.

Speaker 17 The deity of hunger and

Speaker 17 lunch specials.

Speaker 21 What's your happy hour right now?

Speaker 86 There's blubber bisque, stale carp, piranha porridge, mmm,

Speaker 86 stale carp.

Speaker 56 That sounds appetizing.

Speaker 17 I think that that's what Gunther buried himself with.

Speaker 24 Yes, I prepared some myself.

Speaker 27 Gunther knows that fish.

Speaker 86 What about anyone else?

Speaker 17 Well, now that I don't have to keep up my act, actually, I guess I should to other other people. Wait, at this point, is my skin damaged? Is Tolv's skin like no?

Speaker 27 Natty helped you out, remember?

Speaker 17 Okay, okay.

Speaker 17 At some point, I don't know when it's going to be, and I might need it to be called out. I wouldn't mind if Tolv is in his more robot form, but he wants to keep the beard.

Speaker 17 But I don't know when that time will be. I don't know if people are going to be freaked out by the

Speaker 100 ultimately your call.

Speaker 38 That's whenever you're ready for that.

Speaker 70 That's not an us call.

Speaker 51 I like to think that you're looking a bit like the bad guy in men in black towards the later half where you're.

Speaker 67 Water.

Speaker 17 Do you have any...

Speaker 22 I'm just curiosity. Do you have any like motor oil or any sort of like, you know,

Speaker 17 I just need a good lubricant.

Speaker 88 It's been a while, you know.

Speaker 17 Any machinery like WD-40?

Speaker 86 No motor oil, but I could get you some grease from the kitchen.

Speaker 17 Okay, I'll take that.

Speaker 36 Bismum...

Speaker 84 Furrows her brow at talk of a motor, not quite understanding what it is you're asking about.

Speaker 77 But she does go to the back and returns with some bacon grease.

Speaker 72 Cool.

Speaker 54 I chug that.

Speaker 86 Gunther?

Speaker 27 Natty?

Speaker 51 I'll take whatever is gonna be like sustaining, but if it's like, if there's like bugs or something, that's cool.

Speaker 86 It's not on the menu, but this is a seaside town, so I'm sure we can find you something.

Speaker 4 What about shrimp?

Speaker 109 That's like bugs of the sea, right?

Speaker 34 Yes,

Speaker 79 I like it.

Speaker 82 Yeah, they can offer you some shrimp.

Speaker 47 I'm okay.

Speaker 89 I'm good.

Speaker 27 Okay, nothing for Natty.

Speaker 76 As you all are eating and drinking, you know, recounting your tales to Fismum, you notice a couple of posters behind the bar.

Speaker 9 Is this like a Planet Hollywood?

Speaker 27 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 38 They got autographs on them.

Speaker 47 What's in the posters, Gustava?

Speaker 20 You see, various things.

Speaker 106 One of them seems to be a call-out wanting songwriters for troop troop.

Speaker 70 And there's another one that's a Build Your Best Contest from the Council of Conservation.

Speaker 56 I recognize that name.

Speaker 21 We've heard that name before.

Speaker 17 Those were the two pirate groups that I think we encountered right below where we are standing right now remember in the the pirate pits the fight pits yeah personally doug i think you're shoe into in that one the songwriter yes

Speaker 90 i'll build i think naddy's probably more of our songstress here you take a look at the poster a little more doug because it catches your eye the poster conveys that with the sudden shortage of lumber in the bay area the council of conservation is sponsoring a contest for inventors to bring innovative contraptions devices or designs that utilize materials other than wood.

Speaker 97 The invention should embody the values of finding and rescuing endangered wildlife.

Speaker 59 And the winner gets an all-expenses paid visit to the menagerie and an evening with lead conservationist Mimi.

Speaker 25 And

Speaker 59 should send a raven to Mimi.

Speaker 17 I mean, Doug, I know we're on a military mission and we have so much side quests and things to do, but like, that is like your science fair. That is your thing.

Speaker 21 I've already started working on my project.

Speaker 94 Oh.

Speaker 17 Do you have the trifold trifold foam core presentation thing ready to go and everything? Yeah.

Speaker 34 It's called a volcano.

Speaker 21 This one is about different densities of liquid. So you'll see here in this jug, we got water and oil.
See that clear separation?

Speaker 26 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 17 Viscosity. Okay, since it's only a raven, I think while we're going to the shop to meet up with Gunther's aunt and to pick up my package, Doug, you can send a raven in with your invention idea.

Speaker 17 Natty, I mean, come on, you got to to keep sharp. You got to write lyrics.
You got to send a raven after the other thing. And then we can all have fun, participatory things for this episode.

Speaker 21 What's the prize of the other contest here?

Speaker 44 The troop troop.

Speaker 25 You know, y'all take a look at that one, and it's a poster indicating that troop troop is looking for a songwriter of both talent and experience.

Speaker 27 Audition is required.

Speaker 59 Payment is negotiable, and interested parties should send a raven to Duke.

Speaker 47 You want to buddy up on a raven, or guess we gotta send two different ravens?

Speaker 56 Two different ones, yeah.

Speaker 61 But You know, you get them at pretty cheap in this town.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 47 Two birds for one stone. Yeah, let's let's send it.
Let's send a message. I'm down.

Speaker 62 Let's show this world we got, Doug, okay?

Speaker 19 Okay.

Speaker 93 As you all are talking about this, a somewhat tipsy orc comes up and pats, let me roll the g4.

Speaker 9 Tolf on the back and says, serving in the mortalion, huh?

Speaker 17 Keep in mind that Tolv's Bjorn skin, which is an orc, is very visibly damaged. Think in black, that one guy with the sugar water.
So I look horrifying and I go, Yeah, what's up, fellow orc?

Speaker 17 Whoop, whoop.

Speaker 24 I think this orc is a little tipsy enough where he doesn't care.

Speaker 26 Pleasure to meet you.

Speaker 24 I served in the mortality myself.

Speaker 94 Orman, nice to meet you.

Speaker 100 He reaches out a hand.

Speaker 17 Well, Orman, instead of a handshake, how about I give you a salute?

Speaker 82 Because I don't want to touch him.

Speaker 23 He switches and tries to stand up straight and give a salute, but he's a little unsure on his feet. And he points to his chest.

Speaker 9 I served in the Mortalian.

Speaker 57 Look at all my medals.

Speaker 70 And he's got like a couple of medals on his chest there.

Speaker 17 Maybe you know our friend Private Parts, huh?

Speaker 70 He does that thing where he's like squinting.

Speaker 27 He gets his face real close to Private Parts.

Speaker 24 Don't think I do.

Speaker 31 Let me buy a round for my Mortalian friends here.

Speaker 9 No, don't everyone thank me at once.

Speaker 24 It's okay.

Speaker 18 Thank you so much. You are the best.

Speaker 65 He turns to Fizmum.

Speaker 9 A round of octopus for my friends here.

Speaker 17 All right.

Speaker 17 Delicious. That will be 32.

Speaker 56 None Finati.

Speaker 53 She's driving.

Speaker 47 Yeah, I'm actually good. I'm going to pass

Speaker 47 on your very generous offer.

Speaker 24 More for me.

Speaker 76 Ormond grabs your octopus and downs it.

Speaker 97 It's like a chunky, bubbly drink.

Speaker 21 Kind of like an oyster shooter.

Speaker 24 Ooh. Yuck.

Speaker 54 That sounds disgusting.

Speaker 17 Can I share like a look with Fizmum and kind of just get a vibe check on this guy? Like maybe a subtle thumbs up or a thumbs down, you know, like do we like Orman?

Speaker 17 Is he well respected and liked in this town? Is he trustworthy?

Speaker 76 Fismum looks at you and just, you know, kind of rolls her eyes and shakes her head.

Speaker 97 She reaches over and puts the drinks into Orman's hands and pats him on the back and says, All right, you get out of here, Orman.

Speaker 86 Go back and sit at your table and leave these good people alone.

Speaker 35 Okay.

Speaker 17 So he's a known quantity here, then I guess he's just kind of a

Speaker 70 little local drunk, I suppose.

Speaker 56 He's the Barney

Speaker 56 of this establishment.

Speaker 34 Yeah, maybe, maybe.

Speaker 90 So, I guess you all send off your Ravens and wrap up your meal and your drinks here at the High Three.

Speaker 72 What's your next move?

Speaker 47 Well,

Speaker 47 should we get to your guys's little errand about your seeing your aunt and checking out your upgrade?

Speaker 17 I think we should. I think you should start thinking up some lyrics there, Music Master.

Speaker 47 Well, I might have to stop thinking about lyrics at some point to start again.

Speaker 42 Oh, nice. I like that.

Speaker 24 Whoa, whoa.

Speaker 56 i could i could hear the dial-up connection sound as blain was probably was processing what i just said i'm still processing what does it mean did i upset john did i was that a good thing are they confident in their writing abilities i like how much that just kind of

Speaker 35 dang your brain

Speaker 56 what does it mean i don't know Guess you have to think about it.

Speaker 47 Maybe it's a thinker. Maybe it's tonight, Barbara, you'll sit up.

Speaker 100 You're like, oh, I get it.

Speaker 71 That's what he meant.

Speaker 17 All right. Yeah.
So let's move on to wherever that, what was it?

Speaker 24 You don't even know.

Speaker 47 What were the details of this thing that we have to do?

Speaker 17 Shannons.

Speaker 43 You're heading to the untamed flame forge.

Speaker 96 Yes.

Speaker 37 FizMum gives you directions, leaving the high three on how to get there.

Speaker 70 And you walk outside into Endridge Bay and walk over to the Untamed Flame Forge.

Speaker 60 And as you're walking out there, as a contrast to how it was before, the storm that had been raging before seems to have passed and it's now sunny outside.

Speaker 22 You walk up to the Untamed Flamed Forge, and you find it to be from the outside, it's a shack. It's a mishmash of metallic patchwork and hinges.

Speaker 59 It's an unusual architectural arrangement of slanted walls and roof.

Speaker 79 There's a squeaky hanging sign that reads Untamed Flamed Forge.

Speaker 47 It's like kidmashing architecture.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 21 Alright, this looks like the place.

Speaker 17 Gunther, are you ready to see your aunt?

Speaker 51 Yes, I'm very anxious to talk to her.

Speaker 9 Hello!

Speaker 22 Gunther calls out hello, and the door slowly opens, revealing a thickly built, youthful-looking Ode.

Speaker 92 The smell of smoke comes out from the building, and you see some smoke appear behind her.

Speaker 74 She is clad in obsidian iron, like a combination of obsidian and iron.

Speaker 64 She looks at you four and says, I am Shannon Egan's Windbreaker.

Speaker 57 Who are you?

Speaker 51 I am Gunther Bootkiss Windbreaker.

Speaker 57 Gunther Bootkiss Windbreaker?

Speaker 35 On guard!

Speaker 105 And she leaps forward and attacks you. What?

Speaker 35 Is this like a family tradition or something, or should we hold?

Speaker 79 Find out what it means and how Gunther perishes in the next episode of Tales from the Sneaky Dragon.

Speaker 17 I'm used to my aunts pinching my teeth, but not drawing a lethal weapon on my teeth.

Speaker 35 Pinching my cheek.

Speaker 11 You have some weird aunts here in Texas.

Speaker 23 The Gibsons have a strange family tradition.

Speaker 62 Weird folk.

Speaker 75 Is your aunt the tooth fairy?

Speaker 55 We'll talk about in second wind whether or not Blaine's aunt is the tooth fairy.

Speaker 81 But find out what happens to Gunther in the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon.

Speaker 29 Did you know September 5th is this year's Smarsh Day?

Speaker 27 That's right.

Speaker 42 You can check it out on the live stream.

Speaker 38 We're going to have a live stream on the Stinky Dragon YouTube channel.

Speaker 36 It's going to be running from 6 p.m.

Speaker 39 to midnight Central Time.

Speaker 40 We're going to have the whole Stinky Gang.

Speaker 36 We're going to have games, hilarity, announcements, all in celebration of Smarsh being king.

Speaker 28 Again, that's September 5th, 6 p.m. to midnight Central Time.

Speaker 74 And you can find that live stream on the YouTube channel.

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Speaker 47 You know what's also interesting?

Speaker 20 What happened at Home Depot?

Speaker 17 So Chris and I were out to buy the materials to build this basically window unit and also to buy the AC unit itself.

Speaker 17 And just going with Chris to a public place, I mean, you guys have all been around Chris. Like,

Speaker 17 you can't predict him. It's like, it's kind of like when you see parents out and they have like a leash on their kid and you kind of judge him a little bit.

Speaker 21 He's fast.

Speaker 53 Like, I feel like anytime I've gone anywhere with Chris, he just takes off.

Speaker 56 And I'm like,

Speaker 17 wait for me. Chris is just an adventure, you know? Sometimes

Speaker 17 you just got to go go hang out with him in a public space and it really like opens your eyes to things, you know?

Speaker 105 I feel like it's a marvel at how he...

Speaker 45 He's alive.

Speaker 35 Yes.

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Speaker 28 Some of our friends voiced NPCs in this episode, and listeners who interacted with us on the Stinky Dragon Discord had NPCs named after them, just like Orman, named after Orgamus.

Speaker 27 Fismum, named after Kim Karis, voiced by Aaron Zeck, at Aaron Zeck.

Speaker 96 Shannon, named after Shannon Logan, voiced by Ashley Burns, at Ashley Burns from Morning Somewhere, and of course Rooster Heath.

Speaker 42 And the Sea Drinker, voiced by Laurie Bird, at lorry.bird.

Speaker 39 That's L-A-W-R-I-E dot B-I-R-D.

Speaker 70 This episode of Tales of the Sticky Dragon was produced by Ben Ernst, written, edited, and composed by Michael Reisinger, with additional editing work by Catherine Arnold and David Sonia.

Speaker 27 Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of Tales of the Sticky Dragon.

Speaker 47 I get PTSD every time someone mentions the science fair solely because, and this is actually, this is lore for myself and my mom, mother of puppets.

Speaker 47 There was one year of the science fair where I had procrastinated too long.

Speaker 7 It was due soon.

Speaker 47 I got a stomach virus, was just exiting everything inside of my body constantly. My mom also had, was sick as well.
And we both were just remembered.

Speaker 47 I have this core memory of being in the living room of our house.

Speaker 47 And my mom's like doing the mom thing, trying to finish the project for me, and then begging me to get off of the couch that I'm groaning on to like come contribute a little bit before I go lay back down because I can't do anything.

Speaker 47 It was one of the most miserable moments of my entire life. And I think it is for my mom as well.

Speaker 28 Yeah, I just like you mentioned that trifold poster board.

Speaker 38 I was like, a shiver went down my spine.

Speaker 7 Worst thing ever.

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