C03 - Ep. 32 - From On Hyra - Double Trouble, Oil and Bubbles

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They found firemaster flack at the fount of the fire eater who frantically filled them in on metallic monsters who filled the fire opal of fireballs. Nadi nipped her tongue in a newcomer kindlekin initiation and dug and got their crawled into a constructive drain to ran out of steam there. Almost did it. Almost did. It is impressive. All right, here we go. Nadi nipped her tongue in a newcomer kindlekin initiation and dug and got their crawled into a construction drain to close in on clues of the crime and question. For yourself a rotation and let's proceed with this punch in pop order. You do this to yourself. Hello everyone. Welcome to Tales in the Stinky Dragon. We are Dungeon Master Gustavo Serola and I totally forgotten Nadi mutilated her tongue last episode. Oh yeah. That intro was like, oh right, Nadi got into some stuff. Anyway, I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow. Do it. I dare you. If your character was a patron, what would they submit as an arrow question? We'll spend the next four sessions answering each of these and I was submitted by Buggie 52 and Blacks Knight. That was actually a suggestion from the community to do. That's a good one. I say that might be my favorite suggestion. So I like that. It's clever. It's meta. Also shadow to Buggie. Yeah. I believe there are some smart supporter. You can be just like buggy at StinkyDragonPod.com. Everyone could roll a D20 and let's see the order we're going to do is four. 16. Also 16. Roll off. 17. New roll was a eight. 14. So goes John Barbara Blaine Chris. Yes. You broke my brain because I was thinking characters. And then you started saying player names like, who? What? Who? John Flesh, Nadi. You're going to be leading us off today. Hello. My name is John Reisier and I play Nadi Wonder who is a drow warlock mom drag queen lover of music. It has a three pronged tongue now. Oh, no. She's a she's a cool mom. Yeah. Like Amy Polar and Mean Girls. Yeah. And if I had to ask a question, which I ask a lot of questions, but if I have I was put on a spotlight and said, you got come up with the question for an arrow. My question would be if the world was ended tomorrow, what would you do today? I feel like that's a pertinent important thing to come to terms with. Nadi, you do seem to like, you know, be interested in the whole idea of the end of the world. So that does seem very part of course for you. I mean, it's a pretty interesting thing. The end of all things. Yeah, I would say so. Yeah. It's like, there's not much more interesting than the beginning and the end of everything. I feel like if Nadi says, oh, you want to go fishing on your last day on earth. And then I'm going to retake that. I feel like if I said I wanted to go fishing. And then suddenly Nadi shows up with fishing rods, I should be worried. She knows. Okay. Yeah. Like everyone said that tracks. Yeah. What would we do? What do we want to do? That's a thinker. Thanks, Nadi. I appreciate that. We'll find out the answers next time on Tails for the listening. Maybe anyway, thanks for listening. This episode's TKJ was brought to you by Blahyfur2 and Box9. Barbara Slushdog. I believe you were up next. Yes. Hello, everyone. I'm Barbara Dunkelman and I play Doug Boone, the Artifist or Bug Bear. And my question is, if you could master one skill, which one would you pick and want? And the reason I'm asking his question is because I feel like our team has very skilled at a lot of things. But I never really wondered, you know, like if they could just pick one to be really good at, maybe the best in the whole universe, which one would they pick? And I'm just, you know, I'll be curious to know the reasonings. Because it's a good way to get to know people. It makes a difference. Yeah. It's a good ass breaker. Are we not already friends? I would hope so. But you know, I think we're always trying to make those friendships stronger. And learn more. Get to know each other. Exactly. And also, if I was a patron, I would say, wow, what great content. This group of people is playing now. Oh god. I'm a daily, on the weekly. Man, am I happy? I am subscribed at stinkydragonpot.com. Wow. The value for starting at only $5 a month. You can't be bad. So much promotion going on here. Listen, health insurance. All right. Thanks, Doug. Appreciate that. We're going to go ahead and move on. I believe told you were up next. Yeah. Can you? I'm so sorry. Can you repeat the question? What more time? Sure. Anything for you. If your character was a patron, what would they submit as an arrow question? And we're going to spend the next four sessions answering each of those. Okay. Hello. It's me, Blaine Gibson. You who I play told via my mail or to know a thomacic barbarian. Micah fix this way. We'll not have this mistake anymore. And the reason I needed the question repeated is because wow, just like Doug, I am gobsmacked by the sheer value of these Patreon. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah. I'm not face. Get your face. Put that. Don't don't face Paul yourself. Try to make money here, man. Okay. So here's my question. I would ask contestant one. Tell me about your perfect first date. The reason I asked this is because I have never known, you know, I love life. I have always been on a ship with my brothers and sisters, you know, going to war. Not a lot of time for romance then in there. So, you know, I'm kind of exploring, you know, maybe the dating scene, you know, going out to about town and seeing who I can meet and things and I'm just so curious about all of the meet queues of my friends. I have a question about that, 12. Yes. Do you think that, like, if you were to find someone, they'd also have to be a thomacic? Oh, I know. No preferences, really. You know, on my dating app, I just say anything and everything. Okay. Because if you need something built, you know, your companion of sorts, I can maybe help you out. What about Gambot? No, Gambot. Off the limit. Thank you so much. But no, that's fine. That's fine. I'm going to find something like organic, you know, nothing artificial. You want you want to happen organically? Okay. Okay. Yeah. No artificial intelligence. Yeah. No, it's funny because, you know, we ask you ask these questions and we've been doing this and I keep waiting for the answer. I'm like, okay, and then we're going to segue into the answer. It's like, oh, no, wait, no, no, no, we're not doing that. We're not doing that. They'll have to tune in next week. These are the answers. Couple of days early if they, you know, sort of, what's that? They've gotten it. They've gotten it. We have a Patreon. And have free. Last up, we've got Gunther. Gunther, hit us with the best shot. Hi, I'm Chris Dimares and I play Gunther the Croke Folk fighter for Gunther's question. He asked, do you think your parents are proud of you? Why? Why not? And I asked because I want to know more about you because my parents said that they were ashamed of me. My parents don't think podcaster is a job. Prove them wrong by going to Stinky Crank and Blender. My parents hope it is because they got two children trying to make it happen. We definitely are over indexed on Reisingers in this company. It's a little weird over indexed. What? Very much. No, there are two of them. Two out of seven is a pretty high amount. Okay. Let's cut down about one and a half. Chris, we're going to have to marry. Make it too good since I like that. That's an area. Chris has to take your name. I'm not taking to Marys. People on the swamp. These corporate mergers are getting really weird. All right. Thanks. Thanks Gunther. This is a weird episode already. Yeah. It's almost like a few of you have been cooking inside of a garage for the last three days and your brains are a little more. Three days. Yeah. We're recording at an unusual day at a different time. Yeah. It's all right. It's a little like loopy. Yeah. Yeah. Feeling good. Feeling great. Ready to play D&D. Let's do it. Let's dive in. You go down. You're crawling. It's a very tight space through the drain. Normally, a dog gets a miracle you can fit in here. I don't understand that ability of yours, but you Andy defrained it for a while. As you're crawling through in the tunnel, you reach a fork. A fork? Yeah. Not a eating utensil, Chris. The tunnel goes to the left and to the right. And the little droplets? We don't see them anymore. No, not at this point. They're exhausted. And Doug here, any sort of noise or the smell that little piece of metal was in the puddle. Oh, yeah. Is that smell coming from either side more strongly? Why don't you make me a perception check? I meant to reroll that because I was a one. I'm going to use my inspiration die. Okay. 16. Not bad. It's pretty good. Yeah. You feel like that smell that you're looking for seems to be coming from the left side. As you're sniffing, smell it. You know, I imagine Doug like kind of furious as brown as he smells it. You hear a voice coming from the right side. Oh. Oh, hello. Is someone there? You. There is such a strange question. Are we really here in life? Or are we just, uh, is this mortal coil here? No. After a run through, I was thinking of all these really deep questions. He just wants to ask more questions. Hello, who's there? We are not here. What? We're very much here. We're asking who you are before we tell you who we are. I don't want to give a way of position. That's something you say before you call out. Nadyo, you here? I'm calling down the drain. I'm going to hear you guys trying to be sneaky and it ain't working. I'll sorry. How'd you say you who is that for me? You who? I guess sound does travel really well in a long tunnel. What? I said I guess sound travels really well in a long tunnel. To summarize, no. We are gone. You who? It's me. Tio. Who are you? Tio. Do you happen to know someone named Toll? Uncle? Take an inspiration. I was going to say if anyone would say it. Oh, yeah. Indeed. And how do you feel about Toll? Good or bad? Are you there? You said you were not there? No, I'm just asking. Do I have to be here to ask a question? Oh, yeah. Old friend. Old friend. Okay. Sorry. Completely tangent. Just cross my mind that Blaine has set up with his character that there are going to be 11 siblings potentially that are we're going to have to cast with voices. So at some point, we're going to have 12 people doing voices for Blaine's family. And it's like, it's like a choir of people that will be like voices. I just struck me like, how many of our friends we're going to need to get the new voices for siblings? We can just get a couple and then pitch them away. Should have had Blaine just do them all. That would have been funny. Anyway, sorry. It's Cytric. Continue to talk to Tio. Okay. So Toll is actually a good friend of ours. I guess we're trying to figure out what's going on here. Are you guys trying to steal something or did you steal something from here? Are people looking for you? Introduce yourself. I'm Doug Boone, by the way. I'm not here. Oh, Doug Boone and not here. Oh, no, no, I'm Nunter. Hey Chris, people with this joke, Blaine loves it. I'm okay. I admit I'm here. I'm Nunter. Is that my name? I was only going to wait one time last time. The web of lies is so sticky. I'm Nunter. Oh, Nunter. Yeah, I am looking for stuff. Am I looking for you? I don't know. Do you find a chance to have the fire-opel of fireballs with you? Oh, no. What's that? It sounds scary. Okay. Well, why are you in the train? This is a little awkward, but perhaps you could come over here. But you like an insight check here? Absolutely. Vibetrek. Maybe you see if the they're telling the truth or if this voice is actually real. Yeah. Vibetrek. Typically, inside is like, you want to get the motivation behind what someone's saying. If you want to check if it's real or an illusion or something, we can do a different check for that. I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for. Yeah. I didn't want to see if they were truthful first, but my insight role was very low. It was a six. Oh, yeah. Sorry, you got a month or there. He reads people. It's true. I guess I could check too. Go for it. I rolled over. I rolled over. It's just so cotton as web of lies that I don't know. I don't know who I am anymore. I'm not the only one who can see where this goes. Yeah. You both think that they're being very force-right. Could I now do something to see if it's like an actual real voice or if it's like an illusion? Yeah. You can make an investigation check, I guess. Oh, ten. It seems real, you know, a bit of a funny accent, but yeah, it seems to be a natural source, I should say. Why don't you crawl your way over here? Because we found actually like the place we came in is a pretty good exit. Yes. I'm afraid of the dog. I think they're broken. Are you not able to move? Well, it is a little awkward. Maybe it is best explained if you come over here. Okay. Can we start crawling towards, I guess it would be the right side. Yeah. Can I check on Nadi's tongue because I'm not able to hear any of this? Yeah, why don't we do a quick little cut just to see what the other two are doing. No, they've already been cut twice on the tongue. Doug and Gunther proceed to the direction of the voice. Nadi and Toll, what are you doing? You hear the sound of Doug and Gunther crawling away and it's becoming more faint in the distance. Tell you, if I do this, I can have the thought of things on the side go out their own different directions. Yeah. And I can have the one in the middle go straight forward. It's pretty cool. You think that you are able to whistle and sing at the same time and maybe like crawl out as well. You haven't even thought of the musical applications to this change. Oh, man. Of the possibilities. Oh, my imagine if I learned a yodel. You're going to be like, what's less than a quartet? A trio? For someone who's like whole family is based off numbers. I'm not very good. He's the number that's smaller than four. They want to applaud Blaine's vulnerability. Okay. Someone who forgets the most insane things myself. I want to I think Blaine for his realness. I can tell you about the entire cast of the predator. I can tell you the most stupid information about Pokemon and X-Men, but I can't remember like someone that I knew five years ago. That's all I needed. Sorry, I just wanted to check if Nadi's tongue was okay. Thank you for the segue. You work on that yodel. Meta game wise. Just for me so I know what's coming ahead for me. What is Nadi and Toll going to do here? Are you going to wait to see if they come back? Are you going to try to meet them somewhere? Just so I know how to pace like cutting back and forth between you guys. I mean, Nadi, I have a shield that I can like kind of sense. Like we can almost use it like a like a metal detector. Like we can walk around and try to find like an entrance. You may have done that last episode and you did it by the drain here, which is one of the reasons I think that Doug and Gunther went in. I'm sorry, Doug and Monthler went in. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I guess I also don't know that Tio is down there yet. So I don't know. I mean, we can find another entrance. What if I said toll, I think Tio's down here. Tio! Oh my goodness! So convenient that you found my 10th brother after my 11th sister! I bet after this we are going to find Nil. No, no, no, no. Nil's zero. No, no, the names of your own siblings is too wild. Nio! Listen, if after Tio comes Nio, he's got to be nearby. Absolutely. The Oracle has told me that they were nearby. Take good care of Tio. He is so friendly, unless he's still under the control of iron clad in which case he may try to kill you. Hope that helps. Thank you! Yeah. Say hello to him for me. You got it. All right, Monso, you ready? Oh, yes, that's us go out. Also, all of my brothers and sisters have like unique combat powers. He's highly lethal as is all of the rest of us. So if he's not on your side, you will die. Best of luck, I'm going to, I'm so excited to see him again. I can get us down there. How? I'll make a portal. You can do that? Yeah. Why didn't you do this last time? episode. There's also another pathway we didn't. We're not taking that kind of smells like stuff that we've been looking for. It is a sewer. So that to make sense? It's like the metal, right? The metal. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to do it because the metal wise I didn't want to spend the spell stop, but I don't care. Let's do it. Netacast Shadow Portal, which basically is like a portal gun, which I'm rereading the the spell and it doesn't even have to, I can do it to any wall. I don't have to do with the door. No. Do you need to see where you're going or? Yeah, I can see down a drain. If you fit down the drain, I can look down the drain. But would you be able to portal in there and still like, because you might not be able to fit? We need to. Yeah, so reading it, it says that the distant door can be one you can visualize or you can describe by stating distance and direction. I think once Doug and Monthler get down there, they can describe it and then Nadi can use that. Yeah. Okay. Nadi does it. All right, hold tight, you guys. Or Nadi doesn't do yet. Well, because I think we've got to get there. Yeah, we're going to do Doug and Monthler getting in first, maybe a little bit of dialogue and then whenever they're ready to describe it to Nadi, then Nadi can use the portal. Cool. I see. Okay, back to Doug and Gunther, who continue to go down the tunnel and then eventually it opens up. Okay. What do we see? You come out to what appears to be like a bank on the side of a river, and the river bubbles with a mixture of water and boiling oil. First national or like it's chase, well, as far go. I just got to click that heroic inspiration. You are losing your energy. Blank, you're in and that's going up. Breaking up. And you see a little bit of campfire smoke coming out from behind some brush and there's a middle or that lies on the shore. Here by the campfire you see what appears to be a metallic head with no body. Oh. Hello? Oh, hello. You must be Doug. How did you know? Viva just talking, yeah. Yeah, but I could be I could be a monster as well. Yeah, because you guys sound so familiar. You look like a dog. Oh, thanks. I think. You look like you've gotten ahead in life. Oh, Monter, you're such a junkster. What happened to your party? Did you have a body? Oh, yeah. Viva attacked by some dretches and these stole thematic pots from both me and my sibling, Neil. I'm right there, but I. Oh. Could I go ahead and yell down the drain back at Nadi and told to describe this place? Yeah, absolutely. Nadi cast shadow portal. And that's what it looks like. And yeah, we we chivalve that way. Sure. And we and it can last for a minute. So for quick, we can use to get back. Hey, Tauv, how much do you want to talk to your siblings? Lots and lots and lots and lots. Okay, we might have to find a different route back. It's fine. One minute. I can make that. I can do that. I'll speedrun. Now go. So yeah, all four of you are there at the bank of the boiling river. Told just be lines for Tio's head and just picks it up like gingerly. Oh, dear brother. It looks like you lost your head again. No, it's right there. It's the rest that is missing. Oh, you must be told. Yeah. Okay, real quick. Does he know? He knows it's me, right? My memory is a little fuzzy lately. Oh, Tio, my dear brother. You talk like me and you seem familiar. I know Tauv is a friend of mine and you seem like you might be him. Well, maybe usually I should give you a friendly face to remember. And then I rip off my face in my... I love your skin. Your skin. It's me, Tauv, your brother. Oh, yeah. That seems very familiar. How are you, Tauv? I'm doing so good, but I have to reprimand you a bit. You are just calling out really nearly to strangers. As storm attacks, we need to be careful, Tio. What happened to you? Why do we need to be careful? Well, because a lot of people don't like storm attacks. In fact, these are all my friends. This is Tauv, Nadi, Muntar. Yeah. This is Tauv, my new face. So I hold up the Bjorn mask. Nadi, Dog, and Muntar. His actual name is Guntar. And yeah, I had to lie to them for so long because, you know, it's Thomotex. We're not, you know, looked at very kindly, you know, out here because of all the things we did for Ironclad. Tauv, it sounds to me like Tio might have a little bit of memory loss. Oh, that's right. I need to speak slower and more baby like to him. He's the close-and-apps. You were attacked by dretches? What are dretches? Oh, dretches are evil creatures, undarians. They are nasty looking and they took our storm attack parts. I turned out okay. Look at me over there. And he like, he kind of nods with his head. Oh, over towards the cap. And you see what appears to be another Thomotex laying there. However, it is missing its head. Oh. Oh, that solves the vio issue. Ha ha ha ha. Do you know if Neo is still alive? Like, is, are they able to communicate still? Oh yeah, Neo is fine. Just unable to speak. They took his head and all of his armor. Oh no. I think I have a solution at least for a short term. Why don't we take the head of Tio and put it on the shoulders of Dolf? Oh god, alright. That's good. Good Mr. Act is good. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's a great idea Gunther. I don't know if you would be comfortable with that Tio, but it is a solution to help you get around better. Are you okay with that? Putting my head on your body? No, Neo's body. That works too. Neo's body stands up and gives you like a no sign with its hands and it crosses its arms. I think the most impressive part of all of this is Tio being able to nod his head without anything attached to it. It's like rolls it. Wow, how does that work? It works through the magic of storytelling. Usually Neo cannes me around. I'm kind of liking his arms instead of on his neck. Yeah, well Neo, I'm so glad that you were able to join us for the most part as well. Told once to go in for a hug. Neo, little family reunion. Sure, you go in for a hug. Mickey, let's call it an athletics check. Oh, he's a wily one. 10. I'll say you go in for a hug, but Neo's not expecting it with no head. So like as you get close, Neo kind of turns at the last second and you end up hugging a big chunk of shoulder. Oh my goodness. Neo, it's your brother. It's me. Don't be so silly. The body turns around to face you. Another Europe closely here, like a bit of a humming and warring sound coming from inside Neo's body. Gain, I know we have so much on our plate already, but I mean, can we help my siblings here? They seem to be in some dire straits and we need to find their respective parts. Oh, they're missing stuff and we smelled stuff that are dug and gunt or smell stuff to smell like them the other direction. That is true. I think that that's a good lead. Maybe we should go there and then Doug, I may have to ask for your expertise in helping maintain my my dear siblings if that's okay with you. Like it. Figure it out. Oh, I love that saying. If you love it, we need to make a shirt with Doug on it that says that. That's a great idea. You know, after the dredges took our parts, they went back across the river. Perhaps they went into town? Into town. Okay. So where we went to a drain and we're here and kind of like this space, where would we be town? Would we have to go back out the drain or is that somewhere else in here? I believe there is an exit over on the other side of the river. Okay. So geographically, is that in the same direction as the smell or is the smell of the metal in a completely different area? It would be in a different area. I think it'd be like going back the way we came, but then instead of going right, we'd go left. Correct. So it'd be like through like another section of rock wall essentially. Yeah. Well, Tio, do you know what's in that direction of the smell? I don't know. Perhaps that is, as a mind is. Good mind. Oil, mind. Okay. So, can we pull out that piece of metal that we found on the ground? Is this familiar to you? Is that part of you? Oh, very good, then sir. Yeah. I guess Tio would look at it. Or would you hold it like close to front of his face? Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. It's possible, but I don't think so. Could it be Nio's armor? Perhaps it's his part of Nio instead. Maybe it'd be Nio to like feel around it and see if it feels familiar to him. Nio, come here. Is this you? Nio comes over a hands-out stretch kind of grabbing random. We get there. Any recognition or is this just? Yeah. Nio eventually clasps his hands around it and seems to get very excited about it. And he gets trying to like attach it to his own body. So maybe we go the smelly armor route and then we follow the other direction where Tio indicated earlier to go to town where the dretches are. Gunther's in charge. Yeah? Okay. No, I mean, I think that's um... Gunther, you're talking funny. No, sorry. Yes, I think that is a good idea to go back. You have a good head, follow it. I just worried that we might have to split the party again because you guys can't fit through that drain that we came through. And we don't need to go through the drain. But if we wanted to go check the other side of where we had this smell... Always that the case. So you all are in this area called a boiling bluff. There are several landmarks in the area. The only landmark you all explored last time was the font of the fire year, which is a temple. In addition to that, there's the crude corral, which is a tavern. There is Sora's Sump, which is a mine. And the boiling river, which of course you all are in now at the moment. So these are landmarks that are known in the area. So presumably you'd be able to get to them. Video game talk from the overland map. Gotcha. Okay, I thought this for some reason I was picturing all of this like underground through like a series of like tunnels. Yeah. We'd have to like navigate and go through. 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Listen or watch wherever you get your podcasts. Well, maybe we should disguise neo and teo so that's too not alarm any potential things that we are on there trail. Oh, we could just leave them here. Perhaps we might be a burden. We could wait here. Okay, how long have you been here? I think we've been here probably five thousand years. Yeah, that sounds about right. Oh goodness. Hold is that correct? No, okay. We call this an unreliable narrator. Yes, it is. Very good. Nadi neo. Hold up your fingers. How many how many months have you been here? Neo words and kind of gives like a shoulder shrug with pumps upright and then holds out the number one. Well, if you've made it this long and if you guys are going to be okay, I better come back and you you better still be here. Okay. You get two enthusiastic thumbs up from neo. Okay. All right. Well, here's teo neo. There's this character. There's this joke in Muppet Treasurer Island where they're calling the role called the ship and they go, headless bill. No one answers and they go, headless bill. No one answers and they turn around a corner and there's like just headless dude. He just does a very enthusiastic salute to know head. That's whatever. He puts his hand out and that's all I can imagine right now. It just for my sake is neo. Blueish grayish. Teo is a small metallic humanoid head made of blue gray metal missing their body. Neo is a large metallic humanoid missing head and armor. He is naked with multicolored energy veins for any threat of spotting. When you say naked no coverings. Right. They took his armor. Oh panel on your computer is open. What's the color of that then? Multicolored. Yeah, there's multicolored energy veins running around. He got RGB. Interesting. Okay. Okay. And Teo is he him. Neo is. Also he him. Great. Let's go to the mine. Y'all. Which mine are yours? A month or? Yes. Yes. And just because I'm going to leave a weapon with them, I think I have a handaxe or something just so that they can protect themselves because I'm not sure if they have any x-axis. Or weapons. So you leave one handaxe? Oh, what's known for me? Just kidding. I see they have your human tolls. Yeah, you know. As you can see, the family relations. As the number of texts are known for two things. Our sense of humor and our ability to murder and kill. Great. Okay, let's go. Okay. What is your marching order, month or? Bumther. I'm happy to go first. And then 12, you want to follow? You, whoa, use your shield. We'll use your shield so you go first. So you're like, if we see Thomitech, it will glow. And then I'll fall behind you. And then Nadi and Doug. Does that work? Yeah. You all, you know, begin marching over to the river. You know, you have to cross it to get to the x-axis. Teo indicated. And as you get close, you see that the river doesn't seem to be much good for drinking. You know, it has a lot of oil floating around in it in as well. But it does appear like there are, you know, there is a good amount of tropical plant life growing on this side of the river. So you all begin trying to cross it. And like I said, it's gross. It's like an oily water mixture. Not good for drinking water? Not good for oil. Disgusting mix of both. But not even a mix of disgusting combination of the two. You wait across the river, come to the other side. And sure enough, you find a tunnel that appears to lead out and up back up to boiling bluffs. Cool. You follow the tunnel for several minutes and eventually find yourself out once again in the area of boiling bluffs with all of the different areas available to you. And you all said you were going to head over in the direction of the mine. Is that correct? Sure. Yeah. That's what Teo said would they be, right? Yeah, he said possibly. I think he said that he saw them leave going back out to town and they probably went to the mine. Uh-uh. And this is a separate place than the smell of the other ore that we've... Well, it might be the same. You don't know. Okay. All right. Yeah, you never went down the other path, but I think you all are speculating that that is the same blockcase. Great. Okay, just make sure. I know. You got video game brain. You want to make sure you go to all the different areas. Yes, 100%. Oh, I'm about to trigger a boss cutscene. Let me go back to this weird room that probably has an access. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, you find yourself back out on the surface of boiling bluffs. And, you know, there's signposts throughout the area that kind of lead you in different directions. You find one that points in the direction of Sora's Sump, which is, you know, the name for the mine area. You follow the signs and head over in that direction. And sure enough, you find a mine entrance framed by caution tape. There appears to be safety signage every two feet. There's a shelf of hard hats and high vis vests and the shaft heads underground. And what does the signs say? The safety ones? They say, uh, caution, low ceiling, falling rocks, enter at your own risk. And others say, do not enter, curiously. Kind of mixed messaging going on here. Doug would go over and start grabbing the hats and, thus, and handing it out to everybody. All right, guys, you read the safety signs. There could be falling rocks that don't want anyone getting hurt. You know, your head is where your brain is. That's the most important part of the bloody. So everyone put on the helmet. There you go. Cole, I don't know if this one's going to fit you, but just try it on for size, Nadi. I'm sorry. It's going to maybe ruin your hair a little bit. That's okay. Safety first. I do not have hair. 81st. I wear all my stuff. I put one on giga and it just covers him holy. Doug would put on a hat and a vest as well. That's a bruised seed with caution. As the sign says. It also says, do not enter. Oh no. So you, the party enters the underground labyrinth of oil mining tunnels. You smell the familiar stench of the blue gray armor. You hear large scuffling sounds rumble in the dirt feeling overhead and the mine support beams begin to quake and tremble a little bit. Oh, that's good. Maybe we ought to proceed with caution in quiet. Yes. Don't use any loud booming voices down here. Or high-pitched, shrieking voices either. Toll. What? What? What? Well, in order to proceed here through the mine, we're going to use that mechanic we use every now and then. We're going to use the deck of dungeons in order to generate the maze that you all are going to go through. We've done this a few times in the past. If it's your first time hearing this as we are doing this right now, it's going to be a deck of cards and we're going to be picking through them. And the party's ultimate goal is to have a good time, clear path cards. I'm sorry. If I clear path cards, there's several different cards. There's clear path cards, monster cards, obstacle cards, wanderer cards and item cards. As they draw them from the deck, these create different actions that are going to happen. And the party's ultimate goal is to reveal clear path cards that will guide them in the right way. This sounds interesting to you. Or if you've heard us do this in the past and you like this, you can hit over to our Patreon at StinkyDragonPod.com. There's a free download. If you just follow the Patreon at the free level, you can get access to the rules that we use and the cards. And if you want to, you can incorporate them into your own home games. Yeah. I love this meta-game thing that we do. So great. It feels like the most comfortable boxers in my boxer drawer that somehow sunk behind and I found them again and I put them on and they're just as comfortable as usual. That was weird. But descriptive. Yeah, I'm glad you thought it was weird too, John. And Chris, at least some of us were underwear, all right? So, let's get out of here. It's very true. I'm not wearing underwear right now. Ooh. Oh, now it's gotten weird. Yeah. Yeah. So just to be a little more formal about it, the deck represents the progress and perils waiting for the party in the past that lie ahead. So we're going to roll in, or you guys are all going to roll initiative and we're going to go based off of that initiative taking turns. Each of you will take one turn per round on your turn. There's going to be three cards dealt out, based down in the river, left center and right in this represents a juncture of different past players can take while traveling. On each of your turns, you can take one action, then pick one card from the river. Of course, I went over the categories, clear path card, monster card, obstacle card, wanderer card and item card. Whenever a player picks a card in the river, the card will not be revealed, explicitly to the players. Instead, I'm going to present you with a scenario that represents the card chosen. We'll explain the cards as they're drawn, just because it's going to be a mouthful to go through right now. And you can use your actions to help kind of give you advantage just when it comes to it. You can use strength to pioneer your path. The exteriority to run recon. Constitution to get gutsy. Intelligence to optimize your options. Wisdom to Peruz pitfalls. And charisma to bolster buddy. That is the gist of it. All right, why don't you all hit me with that, uh, those initiative rolls. I did 11. 9, 6, 3. Wow, low rollers. And everyone right in order from first to last. All right, so the orders to be Doug, told Gunther and Nadi. So that means Doug, you are up first. There are three paths before you. Left center and right. You can use an action and pick a card. You should have all those actions available to you. I would like you optimize options. But that's an intelligence based check that allows you to draw two cards from the deck. Choose one to replace a card in the river and you shuffle all the remaining cards and place them on top of the deck. Okay. Doug, you come to what appears to be an intersection in the tunnels in this mine before you. And you're going to try to use your brain power to figure out which way to go. Is there like something Doug does? Or how does Doug try to think about what's in front of him? Doug would reach down on the ground and kind of feel it and feel like where the rumbling might be coming from to see which direction might be the safest, the smoothest. Ooh, very smart. Yeah, the Pocahontas song. Will I choose the steady course? That's exactly how she sounds. That was a bit of a barb-rope. Thank you. I've been practicing. All right, so my intelligence role was a 12. All right. You try to put your hand down on the ground to feel some rumbling, but you feel what appears to be rumbling from every direction. And you're not able to really ascertain any additional information, including your tummy. Ooh, so what does that mean? It's a lunch. So it seems like you're unable to divine any further information about what the correct course is here. Okay. So I pick a direction? Yeah, pick a direction. All right. Well, you know, based on my experience and, you know, we found two siblings going right, so I'm going to go right. Okay. I hope that's the right answer. You step on a landmine. You step on a crack and you break your mother's back. You follow what appears to be, you know, what you think is the rumblings on the ground tracing a line in the path in front of you. And you come upon a small alcove filled with ripping stalactites and what sounds like skittering noises in the distance. Before you block your path, you find a large sleeping animal. It seems to be a mole-like creature that's the size of a large dog. It's got a thick barrel-shaped body and a ring of tentacle sprouts from above the mouth of spade-like incisors. Currently, its eyes are closed and it appears to be sleeping snoring gently. Do I have any, like, existing history or knowledge of what this creature is or if it's dangerous? Uh, make a nature check. It looks like it's Gunther's mom. Oh! A jada? Do not do that, my mother! 13. You're not familiar with this exact animal, but it does appear to be some kind of maybe, like, a mole, like some kind of subterranean animal. Based on its incisors and based on the teeth you can see when it snores, you think it could have a very vicious bite. Okay, guys, this guy could be kind of dangerous so I think we should quietly sneak past him and continue forward, okay? Okay. Okay, everyone be stealthy. Holy moly, look at the size of those teeth. Everyone makes stealth checks. What? Stealth checks. I also think I have advantage on stealth. I think you do. It's that same ability that allows you to squeeze down to small. Yeah. Baseless? Yeah. Glad you reminded me that I have this advantage on stealth. But it's okay, because I rolled a 15. Not the worst. 25. Oh my god. My higher roll is an eight. You're making me feel good about my nine. Let me see what Gigi rolled. Oh yeah, there we go. That's the tiebreaker. Gigi rolled an 18. Normally, you know, when we do group stealth checks like this, I just require half to pass, but you all were right on that line. Gigi pushes you over the line. Oh, that's what you meant. Luley, he was going to break the tie. Oh, okay. Yeah, he is the tiebreaker. That's my little boy. Boy boy boy. Let me roll for Cam. Grumbles real quick. Just like that. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Gigi looks angrily at you all. Burrows his brow and puts his finger to his mouth. Do you need to keep shut up? Oh, she's growing so fast. Those of you who rolled well, so what was that? Gunther and Toll, you both rolled well. I know the two of you make me, let's call it investigation check. 17. Three. Okay. Gunther, I think you're probably focused on looking at your own feet, trying to be super quiet. But Toll, as you're walking past this creature that's sleeping, you see it has a collar and a name tag. Oh. And you see that the name tag reads Sinbad. Sinbad? Oh, he was in that one Shazam Kazam movie. Was he not? And yeah, you all managed to stealthily sneak by without waking the creature who continues snoring and growling in its sleep. Oh. Sounds just like Geki, but older. So do we successfully get biome? Yeah, you successfully navigate this in counter. I love your work and jingle. I'll move the way. He was actually really good in that. Up next is Toll. Hello. I'll be doing Run Recon. The Dixterity Check allows you to draw three cards from the deck. You choose one to place on top of the deck and the other two cards are shuffled back into the deck. You come across a gap in the ground. There may be a fissure that has opened up in the ground. And trying to figure out if it has any information for you. How do you want to approach this? Yeah, I mean, I guess I go up there and I mean, do I have like, whether it need like tape measures with all of the high viz and safety materials and things? Sure. Yes. Okay. Well, I'm going to just take some measurements, write those down, drop those down, communicate them to the group. Kind of rough estimates on how wide of a gap it is, how deep of a gap it is. I drop my tape measure down into the gap. It's very deep. And I just communicate that to the group. I guess I don't know. Okay. Sure. Yeah, go ahead and make a Dixterity Check to see if you're able to hold on to the tape measure and not fumble it and drop it as you're making all these measurements. Eight. Yeah. Maybe you're still nervous from walking back past that animal. You mean your palms are a little sweaty and as you pull out the tape measure to make your first measurement, it slips out of your hands and falls down the fish. Unable to provide any further insight. But could Gunther listen to see how long it takes this? Yeah, if we listen in, we can get it roughly. Which of your turn Gunther sit down? It's not your turn. You're after told. Can I hear it? Can I hear the scoop, blue or whatever? No. Now you failed your check, told no further information for you. It's never ending. So you've got three paths in front of you. Uh, center. Center, you got it. You pick your path and begin leaving the party down that way told. And as you're walking, make me a, let's call it a perception check. 22. Nice. Something catches your eye on the ground in front of you. It looks like an ice cube of some kind. Why would there be an ice cube here? I mean, send that was there. That way it's pretty good. That's the best one of the episodes. That one got me. Ice cube, Sinbad. Who else were going to find any merpies down here? A lot of great 90s comedians. Yeah, ice cube. Should I investigate it further or is it just kind of note mental note to self? That's up to you. You tell me you're the player. Okay. Well, I get up close to it. I look at it. I get real close without touching it. I ask why the world was so bad to it. Yeah, you get close and begin trying to investigate it up close. You see, not only is it an ice cube, but it looks like it's an unusually colored gem of some kind. Oh, okay. I'll take it. Yeah. I'm going to slack you something or your inventory. So you know what to put in there? Gus just said plutonium. So you have this strange unusually colored gemstone slash ice cube. All right, but it might inventory. All right that's it for to isolation. Gunter your up. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm cheering bolster buddy. I want to choose a player and grant advantage on their next checker save. Oh That's a charisma trick so that I picture you're walking down the the corridor and who you try to bolster Gunther Natti what nice things do you say about Natti to try to bolster her? Natti, Natti, Natti, Natti. Just their name, huh? Natti, Natti Natti, I'm afraid of the dark right now, but being near you makes me less afraid. I know that you will keep us safe You're seeing really emotional in this mine You okay, my dear? The dark right now you a subterranean creature. I don't understand it either He had that effect from the last episode that we recorded. Oh Right that fear was only for that session. Oh Okay Chris give yourself an inspiration after remembering that and thinking okay. Yeah, that's appreciate the the commitment and that was a very nice thing to say to Natti Why don't you make a charisma check? Okay as he's crying Make me be a brave Shoot five you have all these nice intentions and things you want to say to Natti, but you become tongue tied Like I would think as a frog your tongue can literally tie itself into a knot Yeah, and you just can't get the words out and you have to spend a few moments unlacing your tongue Oh, wow, so you've got three paths ahead of you. I'll go left you go left. Did he let's try? You go to the left and you find what appears to be a minor who is sitting down on the ground nursing an injury Shush on his left arm You're doing down here small child Working Oh Okay, do you need assistance? Oh no, no, I'll be okay. I was attacked I guess while I was down here What he went that way and he points down further in the direction of the mine by what some kind of demonic creature It was the some kind of greenish gorilla like and Darian was disgusting. Oh, no That sound like a drench. Yeah, based on yeah, your previous discussion You would think that he is describing a dress. Okay, do you know your way back? Are you okay to stay here? What do you need? I just need to rest a little bit and now be able to regain my energy and and find my way back to town to get to a healer You must get those stretches for me make a pay. Okay. I'm much Medical deals of course Do it in my name Renee Renee you know someone named Renee Zeus I didn't dance any family No, I'm just a humble patron over at stinky dragon pot.com Shadot Renee so they pointed a particular direction that said that's where it went Yeah, and that's where we want to follow correct. So is that maybe got a right path correct metagame wise that is Indication of a clear path card. All right cool. That's what only need ten more No, no, it's only nine more now Okay, that was a very good there next up. We've gotten maddy Maddy pays a forward and also goes for bolstering a buddy And is going to bolster Douglas It's not my actual full name my full name is just dog Duck dog with seven use How do you want to do that? I said good question. What would daddy want to talk about Doug? Stugged been up to that's been commendable Doug just putting his little fist under his his chin and doing like the big blanks with the big eyelashes Duck I really do think that that sauna did wonders for your hair You got so much body and it's just the ways and the curls It's really giving you this exotic look to you and I think it's working for you. You're looking Dapper I think that's the word I'm looking for you looking quiet. Dapper. Oh, well. Thank you You'll notice that some of my hair is straight some of it stays pearly. I don't know how to get it all even So I might need some haircare tips from you nadi happy to help anytime. Okay. Just whatever you do. Don't brush it that's disaster I know you don't brush curly hair. I ain't knew I will double in size if that happens All right, Maddy want you to make that a Christmas Nadi's Cruiser modifier plus four that's 18 oh yeah, you really help Doug with his confidence So Doug you get advantage on your next check or save Everyone needs compliments all right, so before you you see three paths nadi left center and right which way do you want to go? Nadi's gonna go the way that she Shoots just straight forward. She's a straight shooter all right You pick the center path and as you are walking down the path you hear what appeared to be the shuffling of And before you you find a fellow can that can acolyte who seem startled that you walking up? Oh you scared me Hello fellow acolyte and I stick my tongue out So we do right we just see each other. I'm clacks. Who are you? I'm nadi wonder pleasure to meet you nadi wonder I don't recognize you are you a new acolyte um brand spaken new like maybe Two weeks ago. Yeah, you see the blood is still there for Down here searching for the fire opal of fireballs. I mean yeah kind of are you? Yeah, why else would I be down here in this cursed place? Is that like a saying or is that a literal thing because we do live in a world with little curses? Oh, no, it just thinks down here. It's hot and disgusting I'd much rather be back at the farm. Why'd you come down here to find the fire? Are you guys? Cuz you you just believe in the cause that much want to help? Oh absolutely We must do whatever we can do to get to the fire opal of fireballs Is there anything I can do to help you as a fellow acolyte? I can help you or your friend Are you are you hungry? Do you need water? Yeah, you know what? Cracks come here come here. I got big I got I got big favor I know we just met but I feel like I can trust you. Okay, uh-huh. You see that little something something over there He needs his diaper changed. Oh God are you pointing it gone through or I'm pointing at both Yes, I'm pointing at giggy. You know, I'm gonna be straightforward. I don't feel like doing it You know sometimes moms just don't want to do it again And you know what you you offered to help and I'm gonna take it. Oh Okay, sure. I'm happy to help nadi. Do you have a fresh diaper? Yes I mean you got your diaper bag on your right. I do. I always it's in my hair. I can't hear responsible mother Yes, I do have a diaper and I would say whatever you do stay away from the teeth. Okay. Don't worry It's not my first time changing a diaper nadi. Yeah, this is gonna be a new way for you This is gonna be a new experience Quacks takes the diaper on makeup check here to see how this goes three great Oh god. Oh my gosh. Is it number three? That's where he wears the number two That's exactly how to imagine Gus would roll if Gus were to change a diaper absolutely So Quacks takes the clean fresh diaper with a lot of enthusiasm and approaches giggy and begins trying to change Gigi but Gigi is having none of it Gigi before Quacks approaches notices that what's gonna happen and then like Jason state them in transporter rolls around And all the oil that Gigi can find so he can't be allowed to Yeah, it's like a grease peg at a rodeo or Jason state them in the transporter Quacks is running around chasing Gigi with a a clean diaper trying to get him changed you did good eventually Quacks would give up and come back to you covered in oil with the diaper which is no longer clean as well I'm sorry nadi. I tried. I failed you know what you did accomplish You kind of target him out a little bit which that that's also a boon for any mama Okay, so I did help then great you did and he's gonna sleep good tonight. Yeah What about you three can I do anything to help any of you do you know the way forward? Yeah, have you seen anything like because you're using you coming from the opposite side of us Is there anything we should look out for anything any dangers or monsters? I'm all turned around. There's a sleeping dog wall somewhere around here. I'd be very careful around him Oh, it's in bed. Uh, you saw him? We did yeah, we actually just passed him a little while ago I'm gonna give you a little bit of insider information If you run into sin bad you can distract him because he loves plain fetch Oh, I know I've learned to just let sleeping dog most lie So we just passed him by well if it comes to it and you need a bit of knowledge There you go. Thank you. Thanks Quack. All right. Well, I feel like I did my part to help you all be safe out there I'm going to keep looking over here for the fire opal of fireballs if you find it take it back to the front you guys Okay, it was good meeting you all and a Quacks wanders off Ah seems like Quacks just wanted to be helpful in any way they could I feel like Quacks Isn't their given name it's a nickname and whenever they walk away. It's like The class shoes that do that You All right, that was nadi so we're back up to the top of the order with dog I almost said Douglas Douglas you going to most of you want Douglas fur Okay, so what options do we got right now any of them? Yeah, you can use any of them. Yeah, let's do The ruse the pitfalls Ruse the pitfalls you can reveal two cards in the river you choose one to discard and shuffle the two remaining cards and place them face down in the river This is a wisdom check so I'm trying to give you a scenario to set you up to use your wisdom here. He's painting a tapestry You come into a room that appears to be a railway with mine carts and it's an intersection with tracks heading in Is several different directions and the wind is whistling down from seemingly all the different tunnels and possibilities in front of you How do you want to approach this? I would want to go stand at where there's like an intersection and see which way the wind is coming from Oh, okay. Yeah, don't you make me a wisdom check and you do have advantage on this check thanks to the bolster buddy Hey Oh, good thing I have advantage because that was a one Oh my gosh seven seven they keep rolling into like from 18 to four. Well, tell them that too I know I'll use my inspiration. Oh, okay. Okay, 17 nice. Okay. It seemed at first like the winds were coming from random directions But after you know observing them for several seconds You're able to determine that it seems to be coming predominantly from one side more than another Which allows you basically metagame wise to reveal two cards in the river So which two would you like to reveal let's reveal left and right to your left you ascertain There must be an item of some kind however to your right you ascertain There's difficulty in an obstacle of some type Which one What so let's keep that Item potential So you discard the one on the right and you shuffle the two remaining cards and place them face down in the river So just so it because we can't see does that mean that there are two options now for Doug Are you put a third one down to replace the one you got rid of a third one comes into replace so Doug knows that one out of the three is an item Correct, just doesn't know which one correct. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for asking this good for our listeners to See we've got three options in front of you left center and right and those all got shuffled right yes, it has been reached off Let's go down the center. Oh Oh, Gus gets so excited when we make decisions Yeah, I think I know it's coming and then it's like okay now I have to load all the stuff to To be prepared to convey it is funny to have the pause of just you you just delight it You just that's just a nice little moment of delight you It's very It's very family of 12. Yeah, I do have a couple of nieces and nephews and I am teo gust to them Oh So I do have I do have experience being a teo Okay, you determine which direction the winds are coming from and as you are looking down that path You see what appeared to be a trail of small clawed footprints heading in that direction Perhaps these are dretches who knows okay I'll be no betticky and wise is that is a clear path Wow Did it it only 12 more to get I know you're at eight at this point All right next up is told and after told is Gunther I didn't like how my last thing went with my bad role so I'm gonna try run recon again Okay, before you you see a Mind shaft that appears to have a rickety lift and pulley system You said you want to run recon so you're gonna make a dexterity check of some kind how do you want to interact with this? You see there's like a rickety lift thing Lift and pulley How rickety is this I'm gonna lift Sorry, blame brink, but but but but but blame blank blank blank blank blank blank what your child's name the deal at one Yeah, can I and I put Gigi on to the thing to just see if it can hold it like a claw machine almost Sure, I will not even make you make a giddy roll Like test the strength of the pulley system with Gigi's weight Yeah, but also like what was that game that you used to play on the playground where you had the ball and then it was on the pole These guys Heather ball. Yeah, you know just it's a fun Uncle toll activity. You know my my wacky uncle Gigi wants ups right now, so he's he's willing to be a manable to your experiment. I got to roll that actually I got to roll that no no Here Normally yes, but he is way better So Gigi begins resisting a little bit make your dexterity check to see if you're able to Wrangle him and get him on to the place like you want 14 there you go You you wrestle with him a little bit, but you're able to easy It's very close, but you're able to overpower him and get him onto the pulley and you're able to test it Isn't that fun? Oh swingy roundee That like sound of like Yeah, he's just like he's like going for anything in the air. He's just a pendulum that's like Irving's like close enough. Gigi's just in a mood today. All right, so yeah, you were successful that allows you to Draw three cards from the deck and choose one to place on top of the deck and the other two cards are shuffle to back into the deck Cool, let's look at those three cards. All right your three cards from the top of the deck are wanderer obstacle and item Ooh, and I get to choose one to place on top basically one to keep and two to get rid of yeah I'm gonna lose the obstacle for sure and then home. I'm reading wanderer represents travelers or lost souls met along one journey Okay, I'm a game-wise cracks was a wanderer copy So is Renee's all liquor. Cool. You know I'll wander. Let's leave that item card. I'm a Joker All right, I'm a smoker lose the wanderer all right I'm a man I don't want a bad wanderer. Yeah, there can be bad wanderers. Oh also met a game-wise in a the previous time you did this You encountered the the duel. Oh, the ghost duel read the ghost duel made pop the video out of it. Yeah, right I think I'm going to be in smarsh. No, no, no, this campaign. You think that's the last time we did this Camping one. Yeah, if memory serves that seems all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so Before you you see three path which direction do you want to go? Center and right I'll do that Sounds good you go down that path and before too long you come upon a dwarf who's standing what is back to you and he's He appears to be staring intently at the cave wall or the tunnel wall. So then I gave face to butt with him. Okay Um, I make my presence known. Oh, what are you staring at? He turns rons and looks at you Why are you? I'm batzana. What's your name? That's son of what a cool name. Yeah, I guess it is isn't my name is 12 Yeah, yeah, it is and this is my gang my party my crew my homies my friends my doll It was running to you see himself to everyone natty sticks his hand out. I'm batzana. What's your name? Natty natty wonder natty good to me walks over to a dog. I'm batzana. What's your name? Hello, I'm you to a dog boon. Oh pleasure to meet you dog boon and finally got there you walks up to you Hi, I'm batzana and who do I have the pleasure of meeting? Gunther. So Gunther so Well nice to meet you Excellent batzana what were you looking at that wall there who can help you? Oh Curious mineral deposits in these walls I fancy myself a bit of a geologist. Oh I'm so interested like are we talking iron or other metals that are Named another metal blade name another or They've got a little bit of gold silver So being a geologist that rocks that's good. It's very good. All right. My internet's going out Oh just all kinds of various minerals there's some iron ore and some copper ore here as well Various deposits of different kinds nothing extraordinary very mundane, but while I'm down here I'm also looking for my child. I was in this place. Do you see her? I mean we did find a minor earlier Named Ray. No, no We also found a Person named Quacks, but I don't think that that's your person either. No, no But the child look like oh she's the spitting image of me just smaller puts his hand like Waste high what does bats on all alike a very disheveled looking dwarf with a matted beard So does your daughter also have a beard? Well, of course silly me. Okay. Uh How do you feel about children tolls? Are you a fan me? Oh, you know, we've got a giggy I've got you know, that's a bet's more than enough for me. He's a fun call. I'm the fun uncle. That's right Yeah, so we got our hands full. We're not looking to adopt. Thank you But you never thought of having your own I don't know if I'm capable of having my own I don't know if that's on it necessarily knows that probably not you know Hmm, so is it a deal breaker in a relationship if you meet someone and they do have a kid I just just can't eat. I didn't know that this was that kind of a direction. I mean no I don't are you making lovey-dovey eyes? It's me or I I Not into beards, you know, I'm the beard guy, you know I forgot to tell you I set up a dating app and then I had to meet up spot be exactly this location blind date in a cave wow Guys, thank you so what how thoughtful of you all you're welcome. Just trying and you know do solid right right Helping me someone was a kid. I Shit, we will keep our eyes out for little bats bats on it. What's your what was her name again? Zatana Zat Bona Down Zat Bona It's a family name. I see I see which part that at part because that's the only Consistent Anna Tasnabah Oh family what about you Gunther sup? Do you like kids? I love kids Think about my kids now that you bring him up and I am sad. I am also missing children But I know exactly where they are. It's the opposite. That doesn't seem like a problem. I missed them. Oh I see I see yes. How many children do you have? Shoot Did I say 46 or is that my Was I know many kids I had or how many wives I had I can't remember? I just keep track 51. Oh wait. No, those are my siblings. Shoot. They're not anyway. Yes kids are great. Wow That's a lot of children Gunther good luck with that. Hope it works out. I hope you find yours. Yeah, Zatana. Yes Yeah, we're fine. Just you gotta get going. Yeah, yeah, you enjoy those minerals. Oh, okay Well if you see Zat Bona send her my way. Okay We'll do it'll do of course. Of course. Okay, bye Was there a light source or were they just in the dark staring at the wall kind of like Blair Which project style it's dimly lit by torches that are very far apart, but of course they have dark vision Okay, they're at home in in tunnels underground in mind. They watch us walk away Yeah, I'll say that's on his waving enthusiastically as you all walk away. I like them. Hey, too Advise that's on it comes running up. Oh you like me Join the party let's go NPC of NPCs See you later Nice, I'm again met again perspective. That's another wanderer Guys, so you get an idea for what you encountering That's it for So Gunther you're up. Yeah, okay. I shall also run recon Gunther's gonna skitter ahead Stinkly yeah, check out the place you come into a room that seems to have a pool of crude oil that boils and bubbles every so often Gonna go ahead and try to run recon and scout ahead and figure out the best way to go So I want you to make me a dexterity check with pleasure. I rolled a nine. I've had such vegetables We find the scaling tin of Zat Bona Ha, I've had the wrong slack channel open for a long time Blaine, were you not gonna tell me I said you a random slack about an NPC? I don't know man. You're getting up there in years and I just I just kind of go with the flow I was like man, Mike is really not telling me the other responded to my NPC thing. I was just like oh He's been talking to me this whole time. Okay. Gunther you made that dexterity check and what was that check? Is a lowly nine Ooh, yeah, you try to get your way around the various hazards, you know, this pool of crude oil But you accidentally get you know stepping it a little bit and it gets a little bit gets on your foot And it distracts you and you're like sliding a little bit because of the the oil You're not able to really figure out any additional information crude oil more like rude oil Mm, very very read but you still do have three paths in front of you can go left center or right right Okay, so help me if this is another wanderer. I like the wanderers You're looking at all the different options and you look to the right and you begin sniffing the air And you catch the whiff of what appears to be a some kind of fetted odor coming from the path to the right You recognize it as the foul smetch foul smetch foul stage from earlier What a smetch Yeah, and you feel like you're getting even closer to uh to your goal. So yes, that is a clear path Also, we found our new big bad sminch Smidge quinch That is got there. So next up we have natty. Yeah, we do I think none of the cards in the river are revealed right now None are revealed you walk into a room and you find what appears to be a crane Platform dangling over a chasm. Let's do something weird. Let's optimize our options Optimize options. It's an intelligence check. Yeah, it's successful It allows you to draw two cards from the deck choose one to replace a card in the river Shuffle the remaining cards and place them on top of the deck what of your intelligence? What of your of your brains? Are you gonna use your natty? So there's a crane over uh like what a chasm is that we said when you say chasm? Yeah, yeah exactly Nadi well nadi is from the underground oh cows and so nadi will actually get to the edge of the chasm And really use her draw vision to see like what's going on is there like is there a bottom to this chasm? Is there something across the way we can get to do we have to cross this chasm just kind of you know using using She's as was more like recon, but I'm doing her. I'm doing optimizing my options of what we should do with my eyes That's smart the intelligence smart smart Oh, she rolled decent 18 plus one 19 oh, yeah, that is a success So that allows you to draw two cards from the deck those two cards you draw are a monster and a wanderer I keep one call them both. Yeah, you can choose one to replace a card in the river take the monster card Please no more wanderers, please Take the monster card no All right, so nadi takes the monster card and you replace a card in the river which one do you want to replace wait what left center? Or right oh oh psych I didn't think you were asking like which position I that's your like as I don't know what the other cards are Left left okay place the left with that and I'm gonna shuffle the remaining cards and place them on top of the deck all right So that leaves you with three options nadi left center or right? I think I'm confused I don't know what what just happened. So I picked the monster you where'd you put the monster where you said Which was left is that we did I thought we shuffled the cards in the river after you did the Optimizing option. Oh, I'm sure the remaining cards and placed them on top of the deck So like the others that were off to the side. Okay. Okay. Cool. This is good because I love having Disclareifications for people who are listening who may want to play this on their own. Yeah, I'm doing it for them Yeah, we make sure that we pretend not to understand thing Explain it better for you guys. That's all but Chris is the best at that All in for the audience. Yeah, like when you guys forget someone's name or any details Covered difference between blinds and a window We weren't rolling there That's an inside joke that's for us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I pick right. Okay. You pick right so Don't say it. No, no, no, no, no, I'm laughing about something else which I was gonna be like is someone's like hey They're strangers like get out of the caves So met again, why he pulled a monster card which does not trigger a monster to appear immediately It's meant to represent menacing individuals or creatures that are looking in the shadows closing in on you guys and yeah When drawn the monster card is discarded But the party receives one strike and a strike represents the party's presence being made known to monsters nearby Once the party receives two strikes there they encounter a threatening monster. So I'm just writing down the baseball works Two freaks and you fight That's Canadian baseball you you you're proceeding down the path and you feel like in the darkness behind you in the head of you You can hear growling and snarling and guttural sounds it sounds very menacing I have a feeling we shouldn't go that way. Maybe it's another mold dog. We're not alone in this game Well clearly we're not we've met like 50 people Convention in this cave. I don't think that caution tape or signs did anything But didn't stop you guys we should have this end All right, that's it for nadi so we're back up to the top with Doug and after Doug is pulled Cool. You've got three clear paths correct. You have three clear path cards. Okay, and I could do any of them correct Let's do Get in gutsy Hitten gutsy you walk into a room that has a pitch black pit in it with heat rising dangerously from up inside of the pit And you choose to get gutsy which is a constitution check What do you use that musters up your constitution Doug? I close my eyes and try to use the best of my like what I've learned from Meditation and calming myself But also to muster the strength of going okay, you're not gonna be afraid Well, you're picturing your mind is probably a lot scarier than what is actually in real life So you're gonna go forward and you're gonna take a big old jump. Oh Look at that. I like that. That's a that's really good really descriptive. Yeah, why don't you go make that constitution check? Fear is the mind killer. You're right Doug Yeah, you do your best to try to convince yourself and muster up the strength, but that fear still Is sitting inside you it's it's difficult to to squash especially with all the scary sounds in the distance That feels part of the course for your old dog boon here I'm working on it. It's a process you'll get there. Yeah, all right. So you're left with three Options left center and right. Let's shake right you pick the right Oh One I saw that yeah, I wrote lots of things. What do you roll a one for what he's gonna have for lunch He has a d6 and six different things pizza sandwich burger I'm gonna use a real die from now on for these a box of uncrustables macaroni the other box of uncrustable If you were to build a giant uncrustable out of uncrustables with the edge of the giant uncrustable count as a crust Of a giant uncrustable there's no crust is that like a vocal warm-up like it how many wood could it with chuck chuck Yeah, I think it's a gas leak in Chris's house This is dangerous amount of carbon monoxide how long's that gas leak been going on blind I think you should close his window slash curtain The stupidest inside joke ever This thing we keep it in I like how dumb it's getting I want the community wondering what's this whole blinds and windows thing Never know all right dog you enter a room that appears to be a huge round cavern with an overturned mine cart in it with small Child-sized burrows dug throughout and would appear to be a giant centipede corpse blocking your path Oh, it's a very descriptive room. Yeah, the rest in peace said bana We're child size this is where we learn that that told has like face blindness and Can't actually tell like organic creatures If you know it's a little dangerous in here, but hey concert you're very familiar with burrows You take a look at those and tell me if you think anything might be under there or So you think they're empty I would be proud can I assist with that yeah make it an investigation check Oh 16 16 yeah you go over and take a look at the burrows and It seems like these were you know obviously dug from the room that you're in they're dug down pretty shallowly and I'll say you do find something you know as you dig around you find various other small Pieces of smaller centipedes in each of these burrows like babies like legs I don't I don't feel so good about being in here Oh should get out of here let's pretend we have a bunch of legs like a centipede roll out Yeah, is this to be like looks like it was attacked it looks like it's been attacked and and chopped up At the the pieces were buried and then these pieces that are in the burrows They don't look like they belong to the giant centipede corpse these look like pieces from smaller centipedes I'm here baby centipedes can I this is Doug's room no I mean well I hear the ghetto well it's gonna say what about that overturned mine cop Oh, yeah, let's go look at that could Doug go take a look at the overturned mine cart Yeah, what do you want to do like you want to like look under it see what's what it's covering or you want to like I assume like without having to lift it if it's something that's like made of a few pieces There's probably cracks like a peek into to see if there's anything under it yeah that makes sense without Actually like releasing anything that my pander yeah make me an investigation check I have a plus four that is a nine so that's a 13 13 yeah you go up and yeah, there's a you know A small hole punched in the side of the mine car probably from years of use and you know You put your eye up to it and take a look inside and you see some tools you see a hand drill and a pickaxe in there And what appear to be some various chunks of metal oh Actually this stuff might be kind of useful And as you're looking at it and you turn to convey that to your party the mine cart It's overturned and three armored dretches jump out from under the mine cart Farge monster card yeah holding up weapons and menacing you all everyone go and roll initiative And We're gonna pick up that fight on the next episode of Tales from the stinky dragon Oh K fight Yeah, I met a game wise that was a monster card yeah Listen to everybody we're gonna find out what the status is how this fight's gonna go and learn a lot more in the next episode Or Tales from the stinky dragon we're here to fight the evil smidge And First that bona and Renee Yes, and Quacks all right. 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