C03 - Ep. 30 - From On Hyra - Revelation of Renéesús
96 min
•Nov 12, 20255 months agoSummary
In this D&D campaign episode, the party faces martial training from twin toad ninjas named Renaisus, learns valuable combat lessons about weapon retention, and discovers a mysterious figure called the Veiled Eye who requests Doug complete his eco-pulse locator invention. The episode balances combat encounters with character development, downtime activities, and worldbuilding around imprisoned creatures and military operations.
Insights
- Character development through failure: The party learns combat lessons through defeat rather than victory, with Gunther gaining a new disarming attack ability after losing his weapon multiple times
- Collaborative storytelling mechanics: The introduction of dice pool mechanics for long-term projects creates player investment in multi-session goals beyond combat encounters
- Narrative foreshadowing: Multiple plot threads (Bun Lap in prison, the Nectar Knight escaped, the Veiled Eye's mysterious appearance) set up future story arcs and character reunions
- Downtime as character expression: Players use rest periods for personal projects, relationship building, and creative pursuits (songwriting, invention work) that deepen character personalities
- Environmental storytelling: Detailed descriptions of Fort Hendrix's absurd interior design (shag carpet, disco balls, lava lamps) create memorable settings that enhance immersion and humor
Trends
Gamification of long-term projects through resource depletion mechanics rather than simple time trackingIntegration of player-created content (listener-submitted NPCs and names) into canonical story elementsEmphasis on character agency in downtime activities as equally important to combat encountersUse of mysterious mentor figures to guide character development and introduce new mechanical abilitiesBalancing comedic worldbuilding with serious narrative stakes and emotional character moments
Topics
D&D Combat Mechanics and TacticsCharacter Progression and Ability AcquisitionDowntime Activities and Character DevelopmentLong-term Project Management in Tabletop RPGsDice Pool Mechanics for Resource ManagementNPC Relationship Building and Emotional StakesEnvironmental Storytelling and World DesignCollaborative Narrative DevelopmentPlayer Agency in Non-Combat ScenariosMentor-Student Dynamics in Fantasy Settings
People
Blaine Gibson
Player character Tove, a Thama Jack Barbarian who struggles with weapon retention and receives combat training
Chris Redd
Player character Gunther, a Croke Folk Fighter who learns disarming attack ability after losing his rapier in combat
Barbara Dunkelman
Player character Doug Boone, a bugbear artificer developing an eco-pulse locator invention and encountering the Veile...
John Rice
Player character Nadi Wonder, a drought warlock drag queen who writes songs and cares for companion Gigi
Gus Smyrnios
Dungeon Master running the campaign, introducing new mechanics and managing narrative pacing
Quotes
"Guys, are we actually real performers if we aren't self-centered?"
Nadi/John Rice•Mid-episode character discussion
"I abandoned him. I left. And then he got arrested and has been in prison."
Gunther/Chris Redd•Character backstory revelation
"The past is just that. It's time to move forward and learn and grow. I have faith in you, Doug Boone."
The Veiled Eye•Mysterious mentor encounter
"It's a party in the graveyard. When you're dancing with death."
Nadi (song lyrics)•Song performance
Full Transcript
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Oh, give me a view. Welcome to the gassy goss. I'm your Stink Master Gustavus Hero. I'm going to hit our four gas bags with an arrow. Right, Zero. This episode is really trending high with the 10-year-olds. We don't know why. How does your character relax or wind down for the day? That was said, ooh, it's sent by multiple people. RPG Freaky, Piscopusness, and Hub. I haven't gone roll at D20 yet. Let's get to it. Six. One. Sixteen. Seven. All right, so it's going to be Tove Gunther Doug Nadi. Well, hello. I'm Blaine Gibson and I play Tove. You hoot me Tove. I am a Thama Jack Barbarian and I am a level six. And, uh, oh, sometimes when I like to wind down, you know, let my hair loose by that. I mean, take off my skin that belonged to my adopted father. And I hang it out, you know, and I nourish it with lotions and service all these things to, you know, help it last longer. And then I like to take an oil bath to like see three PO, you know, to make my joints feel nice and loose. Yeah, sometimes I employ Doug to do maintenance on my body because I am a robot. I've seen so many things and he loves it. It's such a bonding experience for me and Doug. I feel closer to you, Tove. Yeah. Against my will. So, Doug knows where the off button is. I'll never tell. The second time that you have mentioned the off button is very concerning. I also, I liked the idea of you washing your skin and accidentally putting it in the dryer and it shrinks and you can't get it on the top. I bleached it. Oh no. Oh. Put your head in the shirt with my skin. Which one of you did this? Is that how Tove gets a sunburn? It's like a evening call over. Yeah. Oh man, I love that. Thanks Tove. I appreciate that. We learned a little bit about you. Who did I say was next after there? Next we got a Gunther. Oh wow. Hi, I'm Chris. To Maris. My mind. Are you okay? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. That's why you surprising him. I think I played Gunther. You got a warm Chris. The Croke Folk Fighter. And I'm of course, level six. Of course, level six. What I do to relax is, of course, I like to burrow you all know that I find a nice cool spot and I burrow in it and I relax and take a little burrow nap. And then I like to read where I will, I have some text that is important for me and my village that I read. People magazine. Barbara, take an inspiration, Dosh. Hi. Hey. What? Well, what was that? She said people magazine. A book is important for my people which is about the will to flower and what we must do. And then if I'm not doing that, then I just read books for fun. I know. Why did I know this about you? Because I'm always burrowed and oh, you can't see. But I read books and I have a few favorite books. Like what? What kind of books is it in here of my not books? Yeah, I would ask you, but what's in your books? No, no, no, no, no, it is not. That's enough knows. Okay, you don't have to rub it in. There's the fellowship of the spring. That's a good one. I heard that one. For whom the croak tolls. Oh, and then of course the art of war, Terilili's. Oh, you can't be there. Those are good. Those are pretty smart. No, you've read them. No, I've heard of them. I haven't read all of them. Cool. All right. We learned a little bit about Gunther and his burrowing activities very, very much. It sounds like an introvert kind of person. Burrow. Thanks, Gunther. Oh, you. Like how you saying burrow sounds like a ribbit. Burrow. All right. That's it for Gunther. I hope I don't surprise the next person. Doug. I knew it was me. I was stood and we had what two people go already. So that would mathematically place me next. Wow. It still makes things out. She did the math or he did the math. A astounding. Hello, everyone. I'm Barbara Dunkelman and I play Doug Boone, the bug bear artificeer and of course level six as well. And Doug actually has like a whole, whole nightly routine that he does to to wind down. First, he takes a nice long bubble bath and really gets it on his first, scrubs it nice and well, make sure, you know, the dirt's out of there. It's all fresh. And then he takes about two and a half hours to comb out all the fur. It's really tough after it's wet and he's got to make sure it dries nice. So that takes a while, but it's very relaxing and meditative. So he enjoys it. And then Doug likes to journal about his whole day, analyzing every single moment from top to bottom. That takes another two and a half hours and four. Shelly is really into it. And then Doug also likes to read. You know, he winds down with a novel or two perhaps each night. That only takes about 25 minutes. So how long does it take you to rehearse social interactions for the next day? I do that in the morning. Yeah. It sounds like your day is pretty much, so you start winding down as soon as you get out of bed. The process takes so long. Thank you. When I wake up in the morning, I review my notes, my journaling from the previous night. And then I set myself up for success the next day. I'm very similar routine with the Doug sitting there and analyzing about all the social interactions that I say something wrong. Do you have any books that you've read recently that you enjoy Doug? Yes. I actually read all of the Tolls' notch books. That he highly recommended. Oh, right. Yeah. Riveting stuff. I know. Rebiting. Very good. I thought I spotted a court of nuts and bolts in your bag the other day. Good stuff. You're not supposed to see that. That's just for me. Listen, Doug's got online some way or not, though. Okay. Yeah. No judgment. Just who's curious if it was any good? All right. I'm not supposed to see that. Thanks a bunch. Appreciate that, Doug. And finally, last up, no surprise. We got Nadi. No surprise at all. No surprise. Hey, everybody, it's John Rice here. And I play Nadi Wonder who is a drought warlocked drag queen mother. And I guess that would also sounds like I should have like drag queen daughters. No, you shouldn't. Anybody want to be my drag queen daughter? I'll give it a shot. Me, me, me. Every night I do have, I do have quite a bit that I like to do in order to wind down. First, of course, is I like to take off all my makeup that takes roughly three to four hours. And then after, you know, before I do that, actually, I like to give Gigi his nighttime energy drink. So he sleeps well. And, and then I do all my makeup and, you know, I put my wig in its pressure, atmosphere controlled case that I keep in order to preserve it perfectly for every single day. And then what I actually like to do is I like to, I like to journal a little bit, but I like to, I like to like try to write lyrics for little songs about what happened during the day is like a little practice for writing songs. And so, you know, I'll write songs about, you know, the writing of my journal, O Gunther being mysterious. And, and we're, again, I guess I should add another, of course, that song. I would hear. Write the song about Doug and his luscious locks and his beautiful hair. I can't wait for you to perform this at the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All this, yeah. It's going to be a rock opera at the end of the hard journey together. But yeah, I like to write, I like to write little songs, little deities. No, told songs, huh? No, no, told. I was watching Blaine the whole time. You're saying that. Oh, me and Gunther and Blaine just, we're impatiently. I've noticed you try to make everybody's answer today about you. Yeah, that's, that's, that's Blaine. That's Blaine. Yeah. Gus, I'd like to add a request in inspiration, nice for getting Blaine to break character and go into Blaine. Blaine just wants to be loved. We did a thank you video to somebody a forever ago. It was so like, I can't remember the context. And Gus said, we'd make it about you because I said something about, I appreciate how you do this with me. And Gus was like, oh, yeah, so about you, huh? It is stuck with me ever since. Oh, my God. I don't even remember that. That's so funny. I think about it all the time. Guys, are we actually real performers if we aren't self-centered? No, I mean, that's true. That's true. Anyway, let me talk. No, my favorite part about that was you got Blaine to break character and you like look down and look the way. Yeah, like no one will ever see that. It was like the crushing weight on him as he made the realization. It's very good. Yeah, good. Blaine, you are loved. Don't worry. No, thank you. All right, thanks. I wouldn't learn a lot about your routine. And as you all are here talking, looking over your letters, Gunther, you see something of a shadow flip past your peripheral vision. Make a perception check and just vanish. Ooh, dirty 20. Nice. Oh, nice. Very good perception. You catch a quick glance of a creature prowling along the ceiling. It has multiple limbs and two sets of eyes, but it's difficult to make out a shape almost like it's camouflage and bush it vanishes into the shadows. Once you're done training your privacy, I'll get them out. You see Steel Eye pull a dart from his neck. Oh, God. What the... Crash. One after another, all the officers in the room collapse to the floor unconscious, from behind you, a voice whispers. Time for your lesson. Got that. Yeah. A glint of nunchucks strike across your body with a wham. Oh my gosh. Are we about to fight ninja toads? Oh. Oh. Ha ha ha. How old are they? Teenage mutant ninja toads. Teenage mutant ninja toads. No. Toads in a half-shale. You got to sing it the melody backwards, so it's a cut. Not the right track. Yeah, rule up them. The melody, not the lyrics. Then the people listen to this background. They'll be right. Oh no, it's rim brand. Picasso. Monet and Dolly. Yeah, Dolly. Gunther, go ahead and make me a... Strength saving throw. Gunther, you're going to die? 12. I'm not the strongest. I'll give you the option to make a dexterity saving throw instead if you want. Oh yeah, I'll take that. Not the strongest, but you're the bravest. I rolled a 10. So instead of a 12, that'd be a 15. Okay. Oh yeah, I forgot the Europhonist fighter. I know your fighter, so I was thinking it's extremely... But yeah, for you, it's dexterity. When I think of Chris, I think of one word. To Phones. No, no. It's pronounced a mess. Oh, fine S. Oh, mess. So you were standing there and the nunchuck come out of nowhere and hit you doing 19 points of bludgeoning damage. Oh, algae. Nunchucks, huh? Yeah. Before you, you see what appeared to be two thodes conjoined at the hip. And they're wearing masks with slits for eyes and a full black body suit. That appears to like cause light to disappear and it makes them blended to their environment stealthily. They're attached? Yeah, they appears like they're attached with the hip and they're moving completely in sync. Oh, cool. Right? Have I seen anything like this before? And have I seen thodes before? Like it is done through familiar with thodes. Make a history check for the first part of that question and I'll answer the second one. Okay, my history check was six. Okay, as far as thodes, your ant was a thode. Oh, okay. Sorry for gotten there, huh? Yeah, you have seen them before. I thought you were a crow-foot. Number bigger, thicker. Like a thick toad. And you've never seen anything like this before. They're obviously very strong martial fighters, which you know, that's a you're very familiar with. But you've never seen anything, any creature move like this. So in sync. It is time for your lesson, Goddard. I've been waiting for my lesson. Hey, Godd, everyone that's going role-initio just to get everyone involved here. Gunther is this like your brother. It's just how you, you know, after we met your aunt and she assaulted you, I'm assuming this is tradition of some sort. No, I do not know them at all, but apparently they are teachers. No, no. They're underpaid. They bought their own schools of lies. That's depressing. 14. 18. 19. 22. So I think it goes 12 Gunther Doug Maddie. Doug ran those numbers twice. Yeah, I implemented my card. And then I'll roll for the mysterious figure figures as well. The figures. Ah, seven, great. Six. 12. You see this scene unfolding in front of you. Before you do anything, why don't you help me describe this room a little bit. Right now, you know, you're in the Fort Hendrix headquarters. It's a circular stone room with a large round table. We talked about how it had a map showing the front lines and whatnot. And before this started, there was a lot of chatter going on. But now all the officers in aid seem to be unconscious on the floor. What else does Tove notice about this room? Oh, it's got, you know, pink shag carpet. A lava lounge, every five feet or so. There's a couple of disco balls. This is Deal Eyes bedroom, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, it's the officer's quarters. There's a coin slot to make the table in the middle rotate on the circle. Yeah, I think told us the studio 54 filters enabled. I think we need a disabled though, as before, before proceeding. Do you have filters in your eyeballs since you're like a robot guy? Oh, Micah, can we do that? I want like infrared. Yeah, yeah. Well, maybe I'll work on that for you, Phil. Oh, new eyeballs, score. What do you want to do, Tove? After I'm done admiring the shag carpet, I want to... I'm going to see if I can make a move towards the thodes and hit them with my gaville of gale strum. Ooh, yeah. Too handed. That's a... 10? Hmm. Believe it or not, some is. Bomber. Okay, I have two attacks, so I'll take another swipe. 16. They definitely step aside dodging your gaville. Like, you know, that matrix move where they lean backwards and bullet time is like that, except they're both doing it at the exact same time your gaville swings missing over them. Oh, they're good, whoo. Okay, well, um, you see, I guess I could do a bonus action, but I really don't have anything in mind. I'm just gonna call it there. I'm just gonna bid to feed on that one. I'm just gonna swing around, swing one, swing twice, and then I'm gonna just admire one of the lava labs. Ooh, this is nice. Just taking the L. Yeah, yeah, wow. Oh, after dodging your attack, your adversary just scoffs at you. Pathetic. Okay, well, that was insult to injury, okay. Okay. Actually, you didn't injure them at all, so I was just in some... Thank you, Nadi. Gunther, you're up. Okay, can I attempt to jump and flip over and get to behind them? Yeah, do you have like, uh, is that like a move of yours? I just adding flair to it. Oh, okay. Ooh. I would just like flip, jump, flip, and then attack from behind, and while I'm in the air, I want to go, ooh. And then use my second wind, use my second wind, and regain one d10 plus six. Okay, just because you're flipping, make me an acrobatics check. While you're saying that, I was like, I know a guy's gonna do your... Yeah. That's why I'm asking, like, is there an ability? Like, what, what, what's going on here? How are we doing this? Let's try this acrobatics. Oh, man. Oh, no. All right, so I rolled in two, but I have a plus eight, so that's a 10. Okay. You see, Chris, Gus doesn't reward Tom Foulery. Whenever you think you're doing something that's like finesse, or, you know, adding a little flair, he likes to punish that behavior, so... Listen, we have, uh, rules here that we have to follow. Oh, I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I'm just saying, you know, my ears have kyborg, it's... I know, I know this experience well. Don't be surprised if you end up on the ground, getting pumbled. Yeah, you make your jump, and maybe you're focusing a little too much on your second wind and recovering, but you almost fail the landing. You barely managed to catch your feet under you, and find yourself standing on the other side. And how much HP did you get back? 13. It's pretty good, that's almost all back. Yeah. And then I go, the only thing I want you to teach me is, where is the six-towed villain, or a leaven-towed, depending upon how many feet toes you're counting in total. And then I want to attack, uh, man, I rolled it one plus eight, that's nine. Not a critical fail, I'm just throughout the rest of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I hate this. It's funny, it's like, you get called on by the teacher to say something, and you just like, totally freeze. You can't get anything out. Your mouth stops working temporarily, and then you call your teacher mom, and everyone laughs at you. Yeah. Well, been there. All right. Yeah. You, uh, you try to strike with your, uh, rapier, and you, you know, you try to stab with it, but it kind of, you know, again, maybe you're stumbling a little bit. Maybe your, your palms are a little sweaty, and the, the rapier just kind of like, droops out of your hand, and as you try to stab forward with it, it points down, and you just hit the ground in front of your own feet. Like, you stab the ground? Yeah. Am I disarmed? No, no, you still have it in your hand. Okay. But, uh, yeah, it's, uh, I'm just trying to describe an embarrassing scenario for you. Okay. Well, then, oh, shucks. Second attack! And then, uh, try and use my second attack to get them. All right. Careful of the shag carpet to go into it. Yeah, if you get bullied and that is no coming out. All right. 21. Ice. Oh, that actually does hit. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I rolled a one, but I'm going to reduce my, uh, which I'm going to call skill two, we roll that. I need to know what the skill is. It's the whatcha McCall skill, guys. The whatcha McCall skill. I don't see that in the rule book. It's not here in the index. Peer, sure. Once returned, when you hit a creature with attack that is piecing, you can reroll one of the attacks damage dice. Okay. And you must use the new rule. Yeah, but I rolled a one, so. Yeah, it can't be any worse. Yeah, so that's a 12. Ice. And then, I want to use, oh, wait, I already used my bonus section. Dang it, then mine. I don't want to do that. All right. Well, uh, I'm done. I'll take the 12 damage. You'll take it? I do have much to learn. You're right. I reasoned by previous comment. All right. You lash out with your rapier after the embarrassing failed attack and move to strike the foe in front of you with it. Uh, but they very quickly pull out a sigh from their garments and catch your rapier. Are they tired? And they redirect it back to you. And the rapier pokes yourself in the shoulder. You take three points of damage from your own weapon. Oh no. I should have not rerolled and just. What have I heard? It would be a shame to kill you. I agree. All right. That is it for Gunther Doug. You're up in the after-duck is natty. Doug, before you attack, why don't you tell me about something in the room? You know, if this room you're in, why don't you give me an element? Why don't you describe something that Doug would notice going on in this room? It seems like there's like wallpaper on the walls but it's kind of peeling off a little bit. Uh, need some repair. It seems like there's maybe like messages written under it or something like that. Ooh, I have to be serious. I'm creepy. Nice. All right. Can I ask what, what these guys look like? Like, what color are they? You can't tell because they're totally covered in this black suit. All you can see is like the slits around their eyes. Okay, gotcha. I'm going to keep it simple. I would like to cast guidance. Am I close enough to Gunther where I could touch him? You can be. Okay. Like, if not, you could move yourself to be close enough. Yeah. I want to move up to just like, tap Gunther on the shoulder. I'm really like, listen man, I see a really struggling here and it seems like these guys have it out for you. So I just want to help you out. Thank you. And at first Gunther, when you touch the muscles, it goes, wow. Gunther. I'm sorry. I know my hands really big. Now Barbara, did Doug do any flips on the way there to kind of match Gunther's finesse? Uh, yes, he did a shumma shalt. The furthest tangled in the shag carpet and Doug is just laying on his back and he's an entangled in shag. No, it's all static electricity from the from the roll. When he comes out of the roll, it's everything out. When it touches him, it goes, you know, like, you know, it's all, that's a little, Also, the guidance is only for ability, slash skill checks. Okay. So just in case that comes up, thank you. That will be my turn, but my steel defender is there. So Gamble is gonna emerge as well. What does that sound like? It's all rusty. We haven't used him in a while. That's like a monkey. He's been listening to Gigi and he's trying to emulate him. Oh, that. So he comes out and he is going to roll up to the thodes, plural, and he is going to do a force-empowered rend melee attack, which is a plus seven. What do you attack? Oh, this is a Gamble. Gamble, yeah. That is a 22. Wow, that's impressive. Yeah, that would hit. That does. 28 plus three. So six points of damage. Six. Oh, do I want to take that? Yeah, I'll take it. Oh, okay. And then he rolls back and he kind of like bounces his little head to make him look tough. Oh. Oh. You'll get him, Gamble. Is there anything else that is for Gamble? That's it. All right, that is it for Doug. Up next is Nadi. Then after Nadi is your enemy, then we go back to Told. John, before Nadi goes, why don't you tell me something that Nadi would notice in this room that apparently is a nightmare of interior design? I mean, that's a subjective opinion at that point. No, no, this is objective. Yeah, Nadi starts looking around, I'm just kind of taking in the room and she notices a few wet spots on the floor that she's going to have to clean up later. Gigi. The Shack carp, it's going to really soak that all up if she's getting to her. Oh, he is. I can smell this visual. Is he not wearing his diaper? He is. It's just right now it's on his head for some reason. Plus, remember, he grew. He's too big for them now. Nadi has to get the new bigger ones. Yeah. Anyway, I'm sorry. So what would Nadi want to do here in this scenario? So I get why everyone else is joining in on the fight. I understand that motivation of like assisting Gunther being attacked. But Nadi heard them say it's time for a lesson. And we also, when we visited Gunther's aunt, she greeted in the same way. Nadi would start thinking that this is just customary and doesn't want to ruin whatever moment that Gunther is having. And so Nadi would just start strumming on her auto harp and just kind of like creating some like some like fight music just for like to kind of like set the mood for what she thinks is like maybe an important moment or just a necessary moment. Yeah. Now Chris, John is going to let your character die out of respect for their culture. It just goes to Gigi. It's like, all right, now you got to learn a lesson. I pay attention. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, she's playing her music, but then while she's doing she's like telling Gigi like, what chord she's playing. So he also learns a little bit of music. Oh, okay. I like that. Is Gigi musically inclined? Not a lick. Not a lick. Anytime he makes any sort of like attempt at singing, Nadi thinks it's the most gorgeous sound she's ever heard in her life. One of those parents. I like to think the music you're playing is just like the final fantasy seven battle theme. 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Yeah, Gus when you were playing with your stick in your hoop That's how I beat super Mario Brothers the first time was in that exact scenario and we had to go to the post office with my mom And I just turned the TV off and left it because I was already in Bowser's castle Oh It's a hard game too. Yeah, and then and beat it That's impressive until you learn like where the warp pipes are you're like I'm on world six I'm going to bed, but my TV's not so yeah, we had I had just ditched the stick in the hoop the year before Blanney was right after it was right after that. Oh, man. We got really sidetracked. All right That is it for daddy. So it is your enemy our mysterious enemy first of all the enemy once again is gonna pull out It's nunchucks and lock their both sets of their eyes on you Gunther and The lash out with their nunchucks one more time again. This time make me a strength saving throw 21 all right. Yeah, the nunchucks lock themselves around your rapier and the enemy pulls like to as if to try to pull the rapier out of your hands But you manage to keep a firm grip and hold on to it Excellent You recognize that voice are you up to check on that I didn't recognize these people he didn't recognize the Blanxux wrap around and your enemy grunts in approval But still with the momentum of the nunchucks They still kind of swing around the back side of the rapier and come up and knock you in the chest still doing a little bit of damage Hitting you for nine points of bludgeon damage. How you doing by the way? I would not be doing very well if I hadn't done my flip then second wind they look around analyzing the situation and Yeah, they're gonna go ahead and attack you again Gunther the other body Lashes out with that side that they used earlier to redirect the attack and tries to take a stab at you hitting AC 18 Misses yes 18s a miss wow he have really good armor all right. Yeah, the side hits your armor But then it hits it like in a reinforced spot and deflect off Not doing any damage to you Very good it didn't hurt at all Oh Cole One of them turns and looks at you and tosses a dart in your direction Hitting AC 18 ooh That's a miss 19 Such high ACs what oh wait, you know what I might have had my Shield up and even though I didn't make any two handed I did I did proclaim I was gonna do two handed so let me lower my shield That's you can have your shield hanging on the outside of your arm as you swing down with both hands right that didn't Obsent our audience in the greater YouTube audience at all I I took my shield off so now I'm at a 17 so yeah, that's gonna hit guess. Okay. Yeah, that does hit I love that on YouTube how angry people well not angry how Invested people got because that's just engagement That I mean that's just like driving driving that algorithm Content over and over and over and over and leave a comment and share with your friends to show how wrong It's like I understand that bucklers exist, but we're playing D&D. We're not in the middle ages in in England the rule of cool. 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I would absolutely would have used it there Yeah, the the dart hits you and you instinctively reach to your neck and pull it out and you look at it And you feel a little woozy and you look around and realize it's the same kind of dark that took out the officers and aids in the room but you might just shake your head and Regain your faculties, okay? You only take some piercing damage and you take 10 points of piercing damage But you might as to stay awake, okay, and for their final attack the enemy once again Narrow their eyes and looks at your weapon Gunther and once again lash out with their nunchucks trying to wrap their nunchucks around your rapier go ahead and make me a Strength saving throw. We're not moving away from gambler. Are they because I don't know if that would provoke an opportunity attack No, all of these people are within melee range or I think they all attacked the them. So It's all right there. He's watching That's a 13. Okay. Yeah, this time you're unable to hold on to your rapier and they pull down with all their might on the nunchucks And your rapier comes out of your hand and stick into the ground point first into the ground Gus can you take that again instead of into the ground into the shag carpet? Into the shag carpet the the rapier pierces the shag carpet angering your parents because they just paid to have that installed Doing that with the nunchag was how splinter got defeated shredder at the end of the minterals movie. Oh, yeah That's right. I had Michael Angela's nunchuck and he wrapped around his little weapon I have not seen the nunchuturtles movies since it came out in theaters like what was that in like 88 89 or something like that Is your stick and hoop and I roll down the street towards the theater. I watched it for the July. It's really good holds up I'm so old and it was it was so long ago. I remember I paid two dollars to see that movie How much a movie should cost okay? So your rapier is now in the shag carpet in front of you And the nunchucks swing back around I'm strike you in the jaw doing 14 points of damage center. Oh It's gonna try to speak as his jaws broke It's a broken no So you're like at one hit point and at one hit point with that the enemy in front of you Stose all of their weapons puts away the side puts away the darts and returns the nunchucks to their belt the lesson is finished I'm nearly finished You have much to learn young one. I know Who are you tell me let us go outside and speak privately all of us Yes, let us do yes, the game all come Here's the mightiest of you all Yeah, it's actually Later on you so yeah, I think Play strong the figure before you turns and walks briskly to the door again like totally in lockstep It's uncanny how the two of them can move so precisely together Doug natty and toles why not the three of you making me a constitution check 11 nat 2023 14 dog and toles something about the excitement of all this and you know You've been going for quite a while now Traveling and doing all of these things you're starting to get kind of a little tired You both have one level of exhaustion now Exhaustion means minus one to all d20 checks went outside of combat Okay, the figure turns and walks out of the room Well, as everyone leaves got their looks around at all the officers Past out and then does a little salute with his little kink behind his foot And then walks out and like to picture he does the salute and like rubs his jaw and then goes out Hopefully they don't think it was us that did this to them when they wake up in a Night of a show here and before Tolle leaves he looks and he sees into the bathroom that the shag carpet extends into the bathroom floor Toilet yeah, any judges quietly and get their notices that they're framed pictures of past generals But they were done by like someone's relative who was really really bad at art But they were like too polite to like say no so they're all hung up and they'll they look terrible It's like the refrigerator of a Ford andridge man I rented an apartment years ago that had shag carpet that went all the way into the bathroom And it was absolutely gross. I hated it As long as it's not in the toilet space Yeah, it went all the way around the toilet and everything it was I don't get it. Yeah, it was terrible So does everyone follow the figure outside? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Maddie and Gigi are doing the same Unified step kind of thing like they're doing the two of you just for fun make me um, I don't know dexterity checks just to see one for me one for gigs Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay gigs natty rolled a five Gigi rolled a 21 Gigi's like like a perfect copy of the figures in front of you Meanwhile natty might be too distracted looking at how adorable Gigi looks and almost accidentally kicks him by accident I can't stop looking at him. Yeah, he's too cute You all walk outside of HQ to see uh This figure before you they take off their masks and turn to look at the four of you Gunther what is your lesson you have learned today? Hmm Do not strike unless I am certain it will not it will hit and not hit me back Hmm no wrong Oh Yes, don't bring a sword to a nunchuck fat Almost look quite Pull raises hand. Oh, okay you Get a grip you know you got to hold on to your saber better. I mean come on. Yes All right Ninja pirate Yeah, Gunther if you're a opponent cannot hold on to their weapon. They cannot use their weapon Okay, let's go on down Gunther Cost up some of the blood that from his beating and then writes a note using it so that he won't forget it So he'll remember it because it's written in his own blood and don't forget and the opponent is truly disarmed But no one will fight alongside them and they fight alone Now what you guys are like a jointed hip literally yes, but you see we are no longer physically That's a hip and they undo the wrapping that's around them binding them together and you see that they are indeed two separate individuals Whoa you were like fighting us on a hard mode is that wow Well, according to them, that's you're more powerful when you're together versus Yes Oh Barb's bars look a surprise when you said yes Yes, what they're excited about it where their stars students we used to be physically can join But after a bloody combat two years ago, we were separated We still strap ourselves together when we fight to know to have the ultimate combat prowess what happened two years ago? What you were split us under bloody combat with hill our enemy They look at you like you asked the dumb question a lot of people out there Why have you come for me Shannon sent us to provide you training and to convey the lessons that we know to aid you in your search Thank you. What's in May I call you? We are Which one is the name which one is Zeus yes So like when you were separated was that kind of like cool? You actually kind of relieved because you had some autonomy or no, oh, it was terrible all right Gunther we know that much like we were separated you have been separated from your friend Perhaps he this time to reunite with them and increase your powers together How about bun lab they talk about bun lab have you spoken with bun lab do you know of this plate together? Are you guys are you guys bun sir? hahaha That's better than gun wrap we have not spoken to him, but we have observed him in sky blue forest prison Oh He needs your help perhaps it is time to reunite with him. Yes Do you know anything of the six-toed villain or eleven-toed depending upon if you're counting all the feet We got to nail this guy's branding because it's very confusing right now six or eleven Well, Mike, I pointed out I previously said six toad and then I later referred to his levitator. All I can say is you would find them when you are ready and you are not ready yet. Oh, bird. Got their nods and shakes its head and looks down. Everybody go ahead and make me a perception check. 30 20. Not 20. Uh, minus 13, but with exhaustion that is a 12. A 12. Those are all pretty decent. I did the thing where you like look at your cards for poker, put it down and you go, Hey, I look at him. Yeah. Well, four of you here, bees buzzing angrily versus happily. Bies. Bies, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz. We got another campaign that might have been buzzing bees. If we tell where that's coming from, like what direction it appears like it's coming from maybe behind and under you it doesn't make sense. You turn to look around but you can't see where the sound is coming from precisely. Like in a tunnel that's underneath this ground as there have been in the past. Maybe. Maybe. Uh, nice, nice. All right, everyone. Ready your tongues. Okay. What are we going to do without a tongue? There's a bundle. What's the plan? You use your tongue to wrap around them. Gigi just starts looking the ground. Nice. I have a question. Yeah. That thing I got. Nouns are fun. Names, titles. That thing I got from the... Gigi. Water person. Sea drinker. The sea drinker. I got a thing that can help you find things. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh. Water pouch or something? That endless water. The octopon of obscura. Okay. Can I use that? Turns water and inquisitive ink, dribble some out, ink, close towards hidden things in the area. And I want to use it to find bees. Okay. Yeah. You go ahead and pour some out. Go ahead and roll me for the six. That's a 16. Two, four, six, four. Yeah. We have this mechanic, I guess, now might be a good time to introduce it and to explain it called dice pool. You may hear us use this every now and then from here on forward. So this is my explanation to the players and this is my explanation to the audience as well. So the octopon has, what did I say, 46? Uh-huh. And you roll those and we kind of track your progress and any dice that rolls a one through a three is dropped. So in this case, you roll what I say, two, four, six, four, we drop that two. Got you. So in this case, you have a three D six pool. So when you want to use it again, use three. And the number you roll kind of determines the progress you make and it's kind of a depleting resource. It's time goes on. Okay. So now in the future, instead of 46, you'll be using three D six. Gotcha. Since we dropped the two. And as this comes up again in the future, I'll, I'll re-explain it again one through two more times because I'm sure it's a new mechanic. We're learning the ins and outs of it. So you are incentivized not to roll low. Yeah. Too often. Correct. It's a way to kind of limit the use of something without saying like two uses per long rest. It's a little more luck and interactive. Yeah. I like air. Yeah. I think it's fine. I'll prove that's fine. You can continue to use this. Yeah. Michael Blaine approves. Now he doesn't want to use it anymore for some reason. The ink kind of dribbles out from your octopus and goes in the direction back towards the HQ and then seems to see straight into the ground. The shakarpet is absorbent to us. Well, I think we're outside now. They are under the ground. We are being attacked. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think they're coming towards us or do you just maybe passing by? I would assume they are attacking. I've been attacked the price surprise. I already won today. We can be proactive and attack them. I can hit my hammer into the ground and cause a cave in. That sounds like fun. I saw burrow. Can I try burrow underneath the wherever that ink went? Yeah. Do you have tools for that or is that just a gunther thing? I don't know if I have explicit tools. I just cast something that they do. Yeah. I'm just trying to figure out how that would work. Yeah. I have a shovel. You begin digging into the ground. Dog pitches into shovel. It takes a while. It first just dirt and not much else. I like to think the shovel that Dog actually has is one of those little sandcastle shovels. No plastic ones. No plastic ones. Yeah. You start to get really tired and it just seems to be dirt. So we hear bees under the ground. Angry bees. Angry bees. Renaisons. Is that what their name is? Renaises. Renaises. Renaises. Do you want to do this like a cool attack that you had planned that you didn't really get to? Do you familiar with these bees? You turn to ask Renaisus and they're gone. Cool. All right. We just got Batman. That's neat. Did they turn to the bees? There's a note on the ground where Renaisus once stood. Oh. Can't pick it up. I need it. Yeah. You're self with friends. You say arm, no self with friends? Yes. That's OK. So I feel like there's a theme going on here about just being together and having your good camaraderie with people you work with and stuff like that. Don't be alone. So I think this is really just trying to help. Don't split the party. No matter what we do. Never ever ever. Or it could mean for you to all take your arms off and I fight with them. That's an idea. Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking you were going to say it was like Voltron where they are literally your arms. Wait. You know how like earlier today how we were promoted and now we all have like little privates that are out of our command? No. Yes. Just no private. No. We have like two. We have like a team. Each of us has three privates at our command. Yeah. But aren't you all like passed out in the room on the check? I'm losing it. Sorry Barbara. Gus is losing it. I'm digging holes and things like a perfect thing for them to do. It's true. We could put in a look. Put your privates to work. Make your private work for you. Before we proceed, I just want to cover like a meta game point of order. So Gunther, you have actually learned a lesson from Renate's face today. If you refresh your character sheet, you'll have a new ability on there. Oh my goodness. Oh. Do never be alone. It's called stop sucking. I'm on your sword. I fly from Barbara there. It's called disarming attack. Oh. Gunther lesson. Disarming attack. When you hit a creature within a attack role, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to disarm the target. Add the superiority die to the attack's damage role. The target must succeed on a string saving throw or drop one object of your choice that it's holding with the object landing in its space. Do you want to practice? Yes, but I'm worried about bees. Is there anyone around? Yeah. You know, the fork's pretty bustling. You know, everyone inside each key right now is unconscious, but you assume they'll be back awake at some point. But yeah, there are other members of the mortelian walking around accomplishing various tasks. There's a group of four recruits walking by practicing their marching. Could I go up in front of them right in the line of where they're marching? Yeah, you're a corporal now. So they all stop and they still look you, Doug. I salute them back. Addies, friends. Friends? I mean, subordinates. There you go. Doug is unnatural. I have to say. I have a very important mission for you guys. So you know, me and my fellow corporals here and Doug points back to the group. You know, we've been heard a strange kind of buzzing sound is coming from underneath. It's almost like angry bees, specifically very angry bees. Do you guys happen to know what those might be or what it's from? One of them steps forward and addresses you. Sir, we have heard reports of the Mectonite area. And there are rumors that he was imprisoned underground. Now he has been set free. The fort has been plagued with bees. And there's dripping honey and numerous beehives all around sir. What is a nectonite? That sounds like the coolest thing ever. Describe him in perfect detail. I want to know everything. It sounds like a cocktail. It sounds like a dude who uses like when he goes jousting has like a big bee stinger at the end of his thing in his whole armor is like honey-cold and yellow and golden. I like K and I. Yeah, like some sort of serial mascot, but his food is for strong boys and girls. Now that's a young guy that was coming out of the scene Zoro with his parents and then some guy shot down his parents and he went home and a bee ran through his window and scared him and he's like, I will use that in it. Anyways, anyways. I don't know these people anymore. He said he was imprisoned underground and he just escaped. Yes, sir. He was imprisoned underground. It has been recently set free. He didn't escape. Set free. Oh, the nectar night is a demigod, of course. He's a well-armored night, the face of a fox, and his armor is constantly dripping with honey. I love this guy. I love it. It's been of a mixed imagery there, but we'll go with it. I'm so down. There are bees all over Fort Indritch. There are numerous beehives. Well, that's good. They participate in an important part of the ecosystem in this area. So I'm glad they've returned. With this nectar night is he, he was imprisoned by the mortalean like the underground prison was owned by the mortalean. Unknown, sir. The underground area under Fort Indritch was only recently rediscovered. I believe you all discovered it, sir. Yes, we knew that. Of course. Are we using that area now? Like the mortalean or is it still the umdareans? Oh, yes. We hope to be building a temple of the blood beather coming soon. And the private points to the whole in the ground. And there's a sign here that says temple of blood beather coming soon. Is the blood beather another? Is the blood beather another demigod? Flawless, flawless. I was just going to ask Gus, but I was like, I should say. I know I liked it. That was a perfect transition. The blood beather is actually a major guard. OK, I have another mission for you guys. OK, once we're done talking, you know, I'm dug in the others. Might have more questions, but there is a room where there are a bunch of sleepy officers. OK, first and foremost, I want you to re-wold paper. There are the walls in there because they are falling and being stripped. OK, and I want tie-dye wall paper. OK, and then I want you to put a fluffy pillow under the heads of each of your superior officers so that they have a nice nappy time. Well, the arti sleeping on ShagCopper, which is pretty flush. Yeah, but I mean, imagine the favor that they will get by, you know, waking up and they have such a nice nap on a nice cushy pillow. Yes. So that I do wonder are these bees hostile? Like are they like disrupting you guys here in the motallion or I kind of peaceful? They're mostly an inconvenience, sir. They seem to be all over the place whenever we're trying to get work done. We're having to deal with excess honey and honeycombs and constantly harvesting it and trying to relocate them. Don't just be careful not to lose your glasses. What? What's a micro reference? Oh. Oh. I was going to say also like bees and honey are also my worst nightmare because when you get that in my fore, it came over man. Came over. So why was the nectar night imprisoned exactly? Unknown, sir, his time in prison predates for indrage. Oh, and he was imprisoned by us. What do you mean, sir? No, army, motallion. Unknown, sir, as far as I know, no. His imprisonment predates our activity in this area. Who is the one who freed him? We gave that order. He freed himself once the escape path was cleared, presumably by you all. Oh. Yes, and we did that on purpose. Yes, yes. The temple of the blood beater. What's the vibe of that? Why the blood beater? The blood beater is someone the motallion respects. He was once a brave mortal warrior who was ceded to God to it because of battle prowess and all great mortal warriors aspired to follow in his footsteps. He is super strong and a patron to humans. I feel like we should be like, you know, exulting like the olive branch God, you know, the peace God, not the blood beater. We are in a military. I know we're aware that we're part of a fighting force that goal is to come to participate in combat of a war. Yes, I just want to be aware of the military industrial complex. I don't want to fight just for poops and giggles, okay? Ideally, we finish the war so that we can have peace, you know. If there's nothing else, sir, we'll get back to work making the officers cosy. Oh, very good. Daddy, got any good questions for them? Yeah, Daddy. We're going to know more about the blood beater or the neck tonight. No, that seems like you guys got good information. I figured we should maybe, uh, the bees, I don't know if the bees are really our problem right now. Are they our problem right now? We hear them angry, but they said they're everywhere all the time. I imagine, and quick, if I'm wrong, uh, so are gents. Private. Private? My bad. Would the bees lead us to where the neck tonight is potentially? Unknown, sir. We have not noticed any pattern to the bees' appearances. We know the neck tonight is free somewhere. However, we have not been able to find him. And is the goal of this to recapture him? Negative, sir. Okay. Well, it doesn't seem like there's really an issue here. I know that it would end up mining being a little bit inconvenient. Just a minor inconvenience. Yeah, it just seems like a little bit of a status update for the fort right now. They got a bee problem. Yeah. You know, if we get ordered to maybe deal with these bees, we could deal with them. But aren't we supposed to be heading to somewhere else? What's our mission right now? Who's in charge? Am I in charge? I don't remember. I think I am in charge. I believe in that you were in charge. And that he where we headed? We got a free bun map at some point. Oh, yeah. Let's go get bun lap. Who was it that got maps earlier? Someone got maps. Didn't you get one? Did I get one? I thought you did. I thought you took the maps, Gunther. Okay. But can I pull out my maps and look and see where Sky Blue Falls is? Yeah. You pull out your map and you see Sky Blue Falls in the distance. It's kind of on the way to the front. It's not all the way at the front. And you know that you had been kind of expected to head out to the front. So it is something you could stop by along the way. Closer by before Sky Blue Falls, you see some other landmarks on your map that you could conceivably go to. You see Mito Canyon and Boiling Bluffs on there as well. Nadi, choose away any of the lingering privates. Go back. Go back to your work. Go to your stuff. One of them points before you start shooting and says, oh, Boiling Bluffs, there was news from Boiling Bluffs recently, sir. There was a relic stolen from the font of the fire reader there. Oh, the fire reader. Oh, you know where you go there. I knew where you go there, Nadi. That's fine. And then they salute you and then walk away. They go look for pillows. Very good. Carry on. And then they call it the netty turns to private parts and goes earmuffs. Private parts puts his hands over his ears and starts humming. Okay. So we're supposed to be heading to the front. But we've got some personal business we want to deal with. But our personal business is in the direction of the front. So why don't we head that direction? And then if we happen upon, let's say a prison with a certain little friend inside of it, we can maybe do some some shenanigans there. But all the while we look like to our superiors like we're actually heading where they told us to go. And if they call us out on it, we can say we were recruiting new members of the mortally. And you know, what lies upon lies is always a good call. Yeah. We'll never get caught in it once because we have steel trap memories, right? Everyone. Right. Yeah. Right dog. So it's your name is. And I do want to give you all a quick reminder as well. So you're at the fort. You're at Fort Andrews. You have the opportunity to rest. The party hasn't rested in many watches, which is why your exhaustion is starting to kind of build them. Now we're probably good. I think we're all at like full health. And we got we should just head out and not even think about recovering. You can head out to I'm just saying if you wanted to rest, this is a good opportunity to or you can just go out and continue if you want as well. Long rest please. I could use a long rest. Yeah, we should rest. We haven't been to our bunks in a while. I feel perfectly fine. I feel like I'm going to have to rest. But you could just stay up and watch. Yeah, I want to call your bluff. He's not actually saying anything. He thinks he's saying that he's actually on the ground right now just gurgling. No, I say that because I had a long rest recently because of that whole trance with the bedrock, which is quite good. They did not have to roll for exhaustion on rest time. Yeah, let's go to our bunks. We can actually sleep in our beds for once. I sleep in eight teams bed. It's really damn. It's really wet. Gross. Yeah. And if you all want, you know, you can use the downtime to pursue other things, talk to each other, talk to NPCs, work on any long term projects or goals you might have. It's really up to you guys. If you all want to do anything, you tell me. And if not, you can continue to. I would like to maybe knock out a little bit of work on my invention for that contest. Oh, great. Because that's another dice pool thing that we're going to do. So it's good that we worked on that. Hey, Doug, could gig at least watch or maybe you give them something to do to help? So he can have a little less than what you're doing that. I'm very particular about my equipment and everything and my tools and everything. So does he have a little play pen? You could put him in a cage so that he could watch, but just not touch. Or like an extra big diaper that's like a straight jacket or something. Or like one of those bouncy things where he's kind of strapped into it. I don't normally like to restrict him in any sort of way, but he does have his little leash. That's the only restriction I'll do. That's just so I can keep an eye on him. So what if I like attach the leash to like a steak in the ground that's just long enough that he can get to the edge of your machines, but not touch him. Okay. All right. You know what? Hey, Doug, come here. A lot of times he sees his tail and he starts chasing it and he he he'll go in circles around that steak and the leash will get shorter and shorter. I just want to make sure you're counting for his slightly larger size, you know? Yeah. And the distance that he could go now because he is slightly larger, you know, mathematically speaking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have to put it like an inch behind. Yeah. Okay. You got it. Mass time speed equals energy, whatever, something like that. Yeah. Emcee squared. I also want to say this about Gigi getting bigger. Can I make a request about him? What happened when he got bigger? I don't know if we specified this because you said he got like he grew. Yeah. I just love the image of this little baby, Gremlin. And he just like increased in size, but not actually maturity. Yeah. Absolutely. Like he didn't actually turn into like a teenager, but he's just a larger Gigi. So when you like are in Photoshop and you take the PNG and then you just kind of zoom it out, like make it a little bit bigger. Yeah. He's just scaled up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like in hunting, I blew up the baby. Yes. Yeah. Terrifying. Classic. Yes. Okay. That is now cannon. I asked, asked Tole to like use his hammer to really hammer it in and then goes, all right, Doug, I guess you're okay and Nadi leaves. I love it. No notes. So, uh, you're watching any movies lately or I don't know what you're, how do I talk to a kid? Could Gunther go with Doug as well to try and work on his sword and talk with Doug? Sure. Like he's got that, that goat eye or whatever shadow thing that can be used to upgrade his sword. Like both of you working side by side on different projects. Yeah. I feel like a workshop kind of area because I did already imbue your other sword, right? With you imbueed my armor, which is part of the reason why my AC so I, but now this is one of the goat gave Gunther that little like item. It can be used to upgrade my sword. Ooh, Gunther, I have an idea for your upgrade because Rinnussus were telling you you need to hold onto your weapon. Maybe you make like a cool chain that connects from your sword to your hand and be like a wallet chain, but for your sword. I love it. That's funny. So Doug's gonna be working on his invention, Gunther's gonna be working on his sword. Nadi dropped Gigi off to watch Doug and hopefully get a lesson. Is Nadi gonna do anything? We call that Dougie Daycare. Nadi actually is going to use the assistance of one of her closest friends ever told to help with an activity she has in mind. She needs to work on her song. All you picked the most musically inclined member of Nadi and told you're gonna assist Nadi with that. Yes, I have something else to mind that I'll do, but I also wanted to chill with Nadi for sure. Okay. Doug, we'll start with you since you said what you wanted to do first. So this invention uses from the flyer, right? You saw in the high three that you're entering into the contest. It was for the build your best contest. Have you mentioned what the invention actually is or what it does? I think I did in passing, but as a reminder, the contest was to make something, an invention that should embody the values of finding and rescuing endangered wildlife without using any wood in the invention. The invention that I came up with is an eco-pulse locator which emits a soft sound like pulses, kind of like a bat echolocation to detect hidden animals without causing them panic and to also draw them to the device's location so I could kind of lead them out. Where did you get the idea for this kind of thing, Doug? Well, you know, Doug, Doug spent a lot of time kind of out in the wilderness and he knows like a lot of really sudden noises and traps and stuff like that could really frighten a lot of animals and wildlife and so he just wanted to make a really calming sound to kind of help draw them out and to kind of maybe rescue them from dangerous locations. So he didn't want to make anything that captured them because you know, Doug knows what it feels like to be kind of, to feel trapped and there's not a fun feeling. What does this look like? Like what is this invention, this eco-pulse locator like what does it look like broadly speaking? I would say it's kind of like a little backpack so something he could wear on his back that has almost like a speaker looking bit to it that makes the pulsing locate a sound. Okay, has Doug sketched it out or is it just like all in his mind so far? I think he, one of the steps of working on it, he would probably sketch it out first and then start collecting all the parts he needs and stuff. Okay, well what kind of parts are they? Like what kind of materials? I know you said no wood, but how would Doug kind of put this together? I think over the course of them journeying, he's collected just scraps of metal, wire, things of that nature. I think it's more of an electric system rather than any type of wood or any natural material. So just in his scavenging, he has scavenged many years and so he knows what to look for. Okay, well on that note, let's make a roll on the dice pool like Gunther did just to see what the progress is. So you're going to roll 4d6 and in this case the more dice you drop, the more progress you make towards completing your invention. You keep saying dice pool and I keep thinking that's just Wade Wilson playing D&D. I got a six of four, a two and a one. So you drop the two in the one. So you have 2d6 left in your dice pool. So you made pretty good progress then. You drive you drop two of them. That's really good. Wait, question. Yeah. Do you want to drop within this instance? Is Doug trying to lose? Yes. In this instance, you want to drop them all because once you deplete your dice pool, then you're done with your invention. Okay. See, this is why I was like, we're going to explain this a few times that we're going to work through it because it's an interesting mechanic that I think is really flexible. I can see the look on Barra's face as well. I was just like, wait, what? Yeah, because I was like, I thought it's bad if you roll low because then you have like less dice to contribute to the progress. Yeah. In this case, dropping them is progress. And yeah, we can really dive into it a little more in second wins for this. So if you're a member of our Patreon over at StinkyDragonPod.com, next week we'll release a second win and we'll talk about this episode and we'll get a little more into the dice pool. I'm excited that we're using it. I've been looking forward to this for a little while. So you're not quite at the stage where it's done, you know, the prototypes not completely finished, but you're making good progress. And hopefully the next time you really sit down and work on it, you might finish it. But we'll see. I think Doug would hold up his sketch to Gigi. Like, what do you think? You got any notes? Is a, you like it? The Gigi would have to make a wisdom check for Giggle's worth this. Has to go well. He is a plus zero and he rolled a three. Ooh, very good. So what's he do, Gus? He loves it. I'm going to say he doesn't really pick up what's going on. He doesn't understand the concept behind this. He can't seem to focus on what Doug is showing him. Instead, he seems to be looking away in the distance. He's just staring at Captain Grumbles and looking his chops. Yeah. Thank you for clarifying that Captain Grumbles is still with us. I didn't do it. I have to remind everyone that I can't escape these NPCs. There are other people here. We've got to paint the picture. All right. Good. I think they had good progress there, Doug. You happy with that? I'm pretty happy. Okay. So Gunther, you're going to try working on your sword or your weapon. What's going on here? Yeah. So I have proficiency with smithing tools and I got this skate goat tooth, which is a jagged goat tooth surrounded by flickering aura of dark light. And I want to try and view my sword with it. It says must be crafted to an item and weapon. Once per session, you can reroll and attack roll, but you instantly take 1D, 20 in the product damage for the sin of making a bad roll. Okay. I want to work on that. And you know, with Doug being such a crafty person, see if they have any, you know, notes or help. Yeah. How do you want to approach that? You want to make like a check for your blacksmithing or you tell me how do you imagine you'll work on integrating this tooth? So talk tape at the. I'm imagining like at the, you hold the sword like on the base of it, closer to where your pinky would be when you hold it, hilt, yeah, in the hill, like the base of the hill, yeah, kind of attaching it there. So it's kind of almost like a tooth at the bottom of it or in the center. It would almost look more just like jewelry or something. Yeah. Pommel. No blacksmiths. I'm no blacksmiths like you must say. Yeah, it sounds like the pommel to me. It's like blanges yelling out the pieces of swords. Yeah. I know why I'm so uniquely like, I know these things. Yes, whatever Blaine said. Yeah. I could be wrong. I'm no sword expert like Blaine, but I think that sometimes swords, didn't they have like sharp objects on the pommel like for up close like melee, like, you know, hitting someone over the head with it? Yeah. Yeah, everything looks something like that. Yeah, but I think this would be a thing because if I have to roll to damage myself, if I miss, so it's almost where I squeeze the hilt and it'll bite me. And then I get to reroll the grip, the grip. Okay. Does that make sense? I think so. No. I'm telling you what, audience. Why don't you draw us what this looks like? Oh, man, that's going to be, it's going to be worse. Gus, not you Chris. I'm telling the audience. The audience could draw us what, how they picture what they think of this on the audience. They're nice to us. But did it make sense like, because you hurt yourself if you use it. Yeah. So I want to be able to like bite. It's like a bite. Yeah, I get you. I think I know what you're going for here. Why don't you make like a blacksmith check or something? What's a blacksmith check? I don't know. That's why I'm asking him. How about like, is that like a slight a hand? I'm trying to think of it's more dexterity or strength based. Yes, that's not a hand. The actual rules D20 plus proficiency. That's from Micah. Oh, plus just a proficiency. What do you, I got you. Yeah, go and roll a D20 then and add your proficiency bonus, which is plus three. Thank you, Micah, for knowing the rules. It's 11 plus three, so 14. Oh, can I use that thing that Barb gave me? What's it called? Yeah, at some point in this episode, you got to say something but tap. Yes, the butt tap. You can use the butt tap and add. That's not even what he did. I didn't touch it, but it was guidance guidance. So that's the next one. So the duration on that's typically only one minute, but we'll say that. That you can still use it. Long rest. Yeah, it's one one day. So that takes you to a 15. At least so. So you rolled in 11 plus three is 14 plus one is 15. That is exactly the number I was looking for was 15. You weren't going to make it if you didn't use that guidance. So yeah, you work and you're able to integrate the tooth into the pommel slash hilt of your rapier. Nice. Cool. While I'm working on it, can I talk to dog dog? Yeah. I'm afraid to go look for a pun left. But he's a friend. I know. Are you just afraid to go to the sky blue falls prison because they're looking for you or are you afraid to actually see a friend? I'm afraid to see him again. Why? What happened? I abandoned him. I left. And then he got arrested and has been a prison. No, we were both the prison and I left and he's I abandoned. Well, that's a little awkward. You're not going to lie. I don't know. I trust. Well, he was just thinking about friendships. You know, they kind of ebb and flow. And sometimes we do things we regret. But I think if and when we do see him again, I think you all you just need to do is say, oh, sorry. And maybe you know, give a proper explanation for why you left him. I imagine it was so that you could maybe come back and get him out, right? That is what I would like to think I would do. But I have not. Well, he might forgive you. So anyway, I'm going to go now. Look at this cool tooth. I put on my sword. Maybe you guys could just like join yourselves at the hip and not all will be forgiven after that because then he'll be forced to be with you, you know? No way to choice. Do you show Doug your sword that you modified when you say that? Yeah, look at the sword. Doug holds it up almost like it's like a child's science fair project. Wow. Actually, this is pretty good. You want me to test it out for you? If that involves stabbing me, then I prefer no. And does there like a pillow nearby since when you're in the bunks? There's giggie. Gee, stop it. I would never hold a child. Do you remember all I talked you about sword fighting? Sure. What are the one of the privates you talked to earlier is walking by with a stack of pillows? I thought you were just going to say one of the privates is walking by. Could Doug just like stab the pillow? One of the pillows walking by. Yeah, make a the tech role. If it's a one, you're stabbing the private. I'm telling you right now. Do I get anything since I'm using the sword that Gunther made just rolled the D20 and we'll see how it goes. It's a 10. I would say that's a miss. You could activate the scapegoat tooth if you want to reroll that attack roll, but you take damage if you do that. You know what? Gunther, I trust you. I think it works just fine. Just a wift. And then I say to the private walking by. Just wanting to keep you on your toes, you know, get your eyes out of your way. They kind of give you a wider burst and walk further away from you. As Doug hands you back the rapier Gunther, you hear a voice emanating from the tooth. Hello, I know what you did, Gunther. Let's keep going. Do I hear that too or just Gunther? Just Gunther. What do you know what you did last summer? I told you you did. Oh, shoot. All right, on that spooky note, we'll move on to Nadi. Well, I believe you said you were going to work on your song with tolls assistance. Yes. Sing writing duo of the century. Are we like mid-practice? Like that's not my tempo. Small with feeling. I love that. So yeah, if we could go do this like maybe in the in the bunk, like we could do it like at the beds. I feel like that's a fun little place to be like writing music. Yeah. So tell you heard my fantastic, wonderful beginning of my song that I shared with you guys previously about the the troop troop. But as glorious of a song that was going to be, I'm sure you were going to say, I feel like my heart wasn't in it. Oh, I was thinking I got, I got to really write this song about something that matters to me because they're, they're the little thing that they sent out. I just had you can write a song as long as they send me a songwriter. So I'm a show what I got and I'm a writer song about my wife. Oh, oh, you're going to dedicate this to me right now. No, not at all. Not even a lick understood. Yeah. This is about the most important person that I could ever think of and that's my bride. But I'm having a difficult time with my lyrics. I've got, I've got kind of like, I'm working on these choruses and could you help me with some rhyming? Yeah, you know it. Okay. Throw some words at me. Let's do some word play. Okay. I'm obviously going to use the word bride in there somewhere. So what's a word that can that can rhyme with bride that I can put into my song? Oh, so many. You could feel bride or die. No, no. Just this rhyming game. Get out your dog. Tied, cried, lied, abide, died. Oh, died. That's very, you know, somatic, you know, because they are the like Lord of death. Okay, I like that. And with you being red now, you're not here. You're not here. You all got your moment. You all got your moment back off. Maybe if you're talking about like their hipstones, lie, oh boy, they're wide. You know, that's going to be fun. Okay. So we got, we got died with bride. I like that. That's a good one. You made a good choice. Okay. Great. It's like mad lips. I love it. Give me another one. Give them on. God, let's, I'm feeling the juices flowing. Let's go. And then another word I'm obviously going to use is like death in there. You know, yes. So what's, what's a word I could rhyme with death? This might be a bit of a stretch, but your wife, the name is not best. Is it? No, it is not. And I'd prefer not to put the name of another woman in the song. I'm writing about my patrol. Yeah. I messed my to not have to write sort of. What is that? Back, back. I was like, no one's going to say that. Surely they're family guy fan. You might talk about Seth McFarlane. And it's a harder one. I feel like I'm challenging you with this. Yeah. I mean, it's, I think you're going to have to go into double syllables at that point. So what to be like, what's that? Class. Class. My practice is I go through the alphabet. Yeah. So like, best calf, death, Beth. Oh, like a just just replace the first letter kind of a thing. Yeah. Oh, there's other words. I'm summoning a rhyme from from somewhere from somewhere deep down inside breath. Breath. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I like that. You could take it. It's not singing it then. Corress. Oh, okay. Oh, because it become correct. Okay. I got two more words that I need. Rams for. Okay. All right. Throw that to me. Yes, yes, yes. I love this word. Gale. Gale. Oh, okay. Let me see. God, like, don't know. Deep sea foul. No, no, you know, you want to say nice things about them. Okay. Growl. You know, maybe some sort of like. You know, how you make you think bring up such, you know, how is a good one? Prime will instincts howl. I like that one. Yeah, that's got a lot of potential with that one. Okay. Your best friend, you know, they're your pal. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So last one. Okay. It's not my favorite color. This obviously her favorite color. Black. Oh, okay. Attack. That's a fact. I, you know, who's the brother of Coney, his name is Zach. We've got you want to go into the sack, you know, like for the 60 times. I don't want to get crashed with this one. I am racking my brain. You know, you want to shoot some fools. You pull out the Mac, you know, oh, they have hooves. You know, their hooves go click-clack. Oh, and your wife has hooves, doesn't she? She does have hooves. Yeah. You know, baby got back, you know, I don't know. Don't cut her, him some slack, you know, I like back. Yeah. Like that one. That one's like black. That one's got wishes right song about that. Yeah. Track. Oh, tracks and other tracks. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I got my words. We'll come and go. I'm going to go fish. I'm working on these choruses. And I got a little bit of melody, but I need, I need to come up with the use these words that you gave me. So let's, let's come back to me. And I'm, I'm going to show you, tell what I come up with, okay? Okay. Okay. I think on that, it does at 12, you may have said you want to do something else as well. Was there something else on your mind? You know, I wanted to just go check in on the private. So we're all setting up the officers and maybe, you know, sit by the sleeping still eye and just give him a visit, you know? Okay. I just, I, I've grown so fond of still eyes. Is he so slumbering? Yes. Yeah. You walk back into HQ and they're all still a sleep on the shag with nice fluffy pillows. Now, and Dela, he's laying there asleep on the pillow, smiling. You've never seen him smile before. It's weird that when he's asleep now, he's smiling. He's off putting, oh, look, that little baby slumbering away with his organic body parts, needing rest and restoration. How sweet. What an interesting way to say that. I hold his hand and I say, so just, Dela, you have such nice skin. Wow. How have you been? And I just wanted to tell you, regale you about all of the fun adventures I've been on in the name of the motallion. And, you know, I also just, I have a confession to make. I told the rest of the team, but I consider you part of the team, but I, I'm actually a thomotech. And you just seem so receptive to things right now. You're not screaming at me like you rule. But yes, I, I do have a robot body under this massage. And I just want to tell you, still I pop so that you never watch Rushmore. I think it's the thing of when Max Fisher goes to the hospital to see like the headmaster of the school. There's a few out of stroke. It's like he has to spoken for days and then Max Fisher walks in and he just like opens his eyes like, what do you want? I love that. No, he's a very quietly yell mumbling in his sleep. Oh, what's that? What's that? It's not in still. I want you to say to me. Oh, he's doing me. I'm like Captain Grumbles and like a loud captain grumbles. Yeah. Well, that's nice. Sergeant Steele. Yes, yes. Yeah, I don't know. I just wanted to, I just wanted to keep Sergeant Steele. I busy. I just wanted to visit my old friend. If he was a wakey would say thank you. Or he would scream. Thank you. Oh, that's nice. Okay. Maybe a medicine check told. Okay. It's a 14. Is this why I find out he is medically dead? Now you, you know, as you're, you're, you're stroking his cheek until confessing your thomotech origins to him. Do you think that key and the rest of the officers who are unconscious here will probably wake up tomorrow in the morning? Oh, okay. That's a good sleep for them. Yes, that's a very good sleep. You, oh, you wake up and you yell at all of those privates and you have a good time. Keep that blood pressure down though. Okay. Kisses. Give him a little kiss on the forehead. There it is. There it is. Originally, I wanted to train and I wanted to use like my, my spider silk leggings that I got in the cave, but I really just wanted to visit with Steeleye, you know? Oh, I think it's good. It's a, it's a nice bonding moment. Yeah. As you're stroking Steeleye's cheek, you know, the privates are still coming in and out of the, the war room here. Now they've moved beyond giving the pillows to the officers. They're now redoing the wallpaper. I believe it's one of the other instructions then. Yes. They're tearing the old wallpaper off and plastering up the wallpaper with glue. Good. Yes. Don't forget this tie dye. It's, it's perfect to match the shank carpets and the lava lambs and the disco balls. Oh, yes, sir. You have impeccable taste. Yes. In, uh, in wallpaper, sir. And the Voter bed goes over to that. Yes. It's funny how those went away. Yeah. Okay. Yes, sir. Water bed. Uh, got it. Well, we'll requisition that right away. Good. Okay. And then you know those busts from past generals and things like that. I want to paint them. Yes. Okay. You want to paint them or you want us to paint them, sir? I want you to paint them. This is become art class. I want you to express yourselves. Okay. Yes, sir. So use all sorts of colors and different palettes, you know, I want you to think of the song party man from the Batman film, you know, by Prince. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Have fun with it. D'express yourself. Express yourself. Okay. And this was officially sanctioned by the higher ups, too, sir. Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Right away. I think my friend, Natty, has a fire song to sing to me. Okay. The private's run out of the war room to go look for pink. Okay. Hold on. I just need to get my key. What are you unlocking? Music. I'm actually playing a note on piano. Just like it. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh. Michael Jones coming for your job. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Watch out. It's big brothers on the hunt for your job. I'm taking this time seriously, okay? Yeah, apparently. Okay. So nervous. Okay. I'm just going to breathe with your organs. Okay. Clums, yes. Just in and out with the air. Okay. The title of the song? You want to know the title? Of course. Yes. It's Dancing With Death. Ooh, that's a very lovely title. Here's how it goes. Dancing with death. She's my sugar, sweet bride. She feels me with love. I feel like I've died. When the Reaper comes a colon, honey, don't hold your breath. It's a party in the graveyard. When you're dancing with death. There's one more dancing, a little bit more. And then we go, oh, my silent lady, Steve, she's a beautiful gal. Clippity-clop, Clippity-clop. Her sight makes me how. When the midnight bell rings, darling, don't you look back? You'll be laughing in the afterlife with my lady in black. Whoa. Steve, that was so good. I don't know how this is happening because this is not my real skin, but I have these goosebumps now. What is this feeling? That's amazing. That was really good. There you go. Genuinely goosebumps. Yeah. Dog gives a standing ovation. You don't have fun. Oh, good. I'll take one. That was good. That was very good. That's a GCDC. No, GCDG progression. There you go. Come, come, come, come. Here comes the sunshine. I don't know what you're talking about, Doug. That's just deeply moving. Doug, you're working on your invention, really focusing on it, looking at it, trying to piece together all of these spare parts that you've found. And as you're doing that, you have to blink a couple times because you see a face slowly materializing and appearing on top of your invention looking back at you. What? Here's to be half metal mask and half obscured with a void of stars in a body of clouds. And then as you're looking at it, the face begins to almost like emerge from the invention and begins standing up. And then there's a person standing before you. You look around and you're no longer in the workshop. You're in a room with a reflective floor, almost like glass. The ceiling made of starry constellations constantly shifting, small puffs of clouds slowly circled the room. It's almost like the clouds are granting you visions of future technologies. Whoa. What kind of future technology do you think Doug might see in those clouds? I don't even know if he'd be able to grasp the concept of future technologies because if it hasn't been invented yet, I imagine it's maybe ways to communicate with the gods or even people who have passed or see through different dimensions realms or anything like that. I think that's something he envisioned as being something he would like to have. Yeah. That's what they say about technology, right? Like advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Yeah. And it's just like really eye opening for you. And the figure before you speaks. Hello, you. How are you doing? What's this you're working on? It's just an invention for a contest. Who are you? Oh, I'm the valedine. I love inventions. Why don't you tell me more about it? First of all, it's a pleasure to meet you. Oh, great. In powerful veil, die. Oh, what's your name? I'm Doug Boone. Doug Boone. Nice to meet you, Doug. Nice to meet you. I'm just working on a little invention for a contest. But it's still working progress. So I'm kind of a little embarrassed if you're looking at it right now. Oh, it seems impressive. Does this help locate creatures? It does. I guess you ought to be able to die, so you would know. So yes, it seems like fine quality craftsmanship. You should be very proud of this progress, Doug. You know, I don't say this lightly, but I think I could die happy right now. It's not your time, Doug. You have to bring me your invention in person. This one? Yes, I need you to finish it and present it to me. Are you judging the contest? That's a little weird. I don't know about any contest, but I think this invention has great potential. Why don't you come to Mito Canyon and bring me this device so I can ascertain its capabilities? Mito Canyon, but we're going to make our way to the boiling bluffs. Are you still going to be there for a hot second? I think I'm always there. Wow, that's beautiful. Are there any other inventions you're working on that you could show me? I mean, I'd be glad to start on something for you. What do you need? Oh, I love all inventions. OK, Bob. Gampot. Gampot. I mean, yeah, he is my prized possession, but I do have a little still defender named Gambot. He helps protect me and my friends. Oh, isn't he adorable? The Ville dye reaches out and like Pat's Gambot on the top of the head. Is anything happening to Gambot? Doesn't seem like it. I guess he can see Gambot's head spins around. Gambot is evolving. Nerds. I sense you have something in your heart waiting to be made, Doug. I guess I just don't feel as inspired lately. Some of my inventions in the past have caused so much pain and I guess I'm just afraid. Well, the past is just that. It's time to move forward and learn and grow. I have faith in you, Doug Boone, that you'll be able to do whatever you set your mind to. Want to give me like a little clue or a little hint? Maybe. Come on. Map. Uh, yeah. Wait, what was your name again? Oh, no. Oh, find out what happens and what's going on with the Ville dye in the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. You're not threatening our lives at the end of this episode. It's true. It's not just a happy one. It's not just a clip about to fall or anything. Oh my God. Be surrounded. It's the end. 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