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

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With new episodes dropping exclusively and ad-free on Beacon.tv. I appreciate the commitment to the bit. Hello everyone, welcome to Tales from the Stinky Dragon. I'm Gustavo Sorolla, your dungeon master, and I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow. I've already been hit in the gut. I'm going to start. Mike, my plane. So this is a little bit of a different arrow this week. You guys have moved up to level six since the last episode. Let's talk about your character's new abilities and how they've been honing their skills and talents, like what kind of training, learning, crafting, whatever. So let's all roll initiative and then figure this stuff out. Initiative or D20? You asked this a lot. I know because it changes each time. I think D20 is the fair one because I have positives to my initiative. I just roll a D20. Roll a D20 then. Let it be written, let it be done from henceforth D20. Up until our next recording session, we're one of us will forget that this is the rule. It's going to be me. I'm going to ask for initiative again. Eight. Fourteen. One. Ooh. Ooh, you hate to see it. Where's your roll, Chris? It's not really one. I just need a second to put my crap. I was going to say that is Chris buying time. I was going to ask too. So it's going to be Doug, Tove, Nady, Gunther. Doug, why don't you lead us off here with your fine, relevant voice? Gladly. Thank you, Gus. I am Barbara Dunkelman and I play Doug Boone, the Artificer Bugbear, Battle Smith Artificer, to be more precise. Level six today. Just looking at you. Your eyes turn to that. I clearly like a secondary monitor as you read. What's your? You know how like when people are in couples and they become more like their couple and like mannerisms and stuff like that, I've spent so much time like you guys. I've started taking on mannerisms now a plane of like. I mean, let's turn this around on Blaine. Yeah, Blaine. Let's gaslight him. Get him. And you know, Doug leveled up to a big old level six. That's an even number for those of you counting. In case. For those of you counting. He was a bull by two and three. Exactly. Everyone's on fire today. We're just going to sit back and laugh. And you know, when Doug leveled up, what was the question again, Gus? Let's talk about how, how that happened, Doug. What did you do to gain these skills and talents? And why don't you explain what you got and how you got it? Does that make sense? A picture of words. Well, there's not a whole lot that Douglas here got. Actually kind of similar to you, John. My actual name is Doug, not John. It's just three letter word, three letter names, three, whatever. Three word name letters, three word names. So I didn't really, you know, I didn't really get a whole lot, except I did spend some time, you know, really wanting to help my friends. And so I learned two new artificial infusions, one of which I specifically learned and studied and picked up because I wanted to help my friend, Yaddy. I noticed that she likes the final things in life, you know, some glitz and glam. And so I made this thing. It's a ring, a spell refueling ring. I'll have to still, you know, infuse an item to get this to you, but I thought you did this good coming handy. No pun intended. Artificial infusions sounds like a flavor booster available at Panera Bread for their teens. And the other thing I got that maybe Doug would use on himself because he has been, you know, wanting to upgrade a little bit is a resistant armor. And so I could pick something for this armor to be resistant against, you know, lightning, poison, all those, all those fun little things that have been coming towards our way in battle. So yeah, that's handy. What's the ring do? You didn't tell me. Oh, I could tell you, I, you don't have it yet though. I have to actually make it and give it to you. Oh, okay. Oh, it's like a physical ring, like a jewelry ring. Well, I'm going to make it into a physical ring. What you, what, wait, what did you think it was? He like, like a zone. Yeah. Zone, like zone of truth, but it's a zone of friendship and you give your ring. Yeah. Okay. I want that ring. Like entry the ring kind of things. Like an octagon, you know? Battle. But the, this is while wearing this ring, the creature can recover one expended spell slot as an action. The recovered slot can be of third level or lower once used. The ring can't be used again until the next dawn. So it's an extra spell slot. That's fun. That's the most selfless thing I think our collective group has ever experienced. Barbara just straight up just taken a feed for a, for a friend. That's, that's beautiful. It's an artificial infusion. Strawberry flavor. We love last. Not very often. So yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to, trying to be a supporting character here. I love it. That's usually what the gays have to do. We have to, we have to keep all these, these others alive. Whenever you use the infusion, I want you to pull out like a shaker and mix it up. Nice and fresh. Like with ice. Yeah. All right. Cooking up an infusion here for you. Boris the dog on the scene. While we're talking about Doug, I want to make a quick clarification. I was talking with someone on discord for our Patreon. If you go to stingerjuggingpod.com, that is one of the options you can have. And I wanted to be sure that we were consistent going forward that Doug using his steel defender, like deploying it doesn't take an action or a bonus action or anything. The steel defender is just there. Just there. Yeah. And it acts on your turn. I think we've been pretty consistent about that. So I just want to say it outright that way. Who we know going forward. You don't have to worry about like, oh, I don't have any actions left for Gambot to come out or anything. I thought it was after my turn, like directly after me. Correct. Right after your turn is when the steel defender goes. So many decrees this episode. Well, technically, Gambot is in the mail. My mom is sending the puppet. So excited. It's the cutest thing ever. And it actually opens and closes, which is amazing. Cool. Got anything else for us, Doug? That's it. Well, thank you so much. I look forward to figuring all this stuff out and seeing it in action. All right. Next up, I believe was told. You, it's me, Blaine Gibson, extra caffeinated today. I have had a cold brew and I am coming after Gus. Also, my cat is matching my energy and is running around all over the place right now. I've got a coffee in my hand too. Coffee Bros. Let me see. Oh, that's a lot of coffee, buddy. Let me see. I play, that's a little Barbara. Don't put that down. That's an infusion. I play told the male orc barbarian. He is level six and he's not an orc. He's a thumb attack. I'm still, wow. This is key. We keep doing this and I keep forgetting. And with my upgrade, good old told, he has a four rages now. And he also got this thing called storm soul at a six level. The storm grants you benefits even when you, your aura isn't active. The benefits are based on the environment you choose for your storm aura. So I am the, the sea storm aura. So I gain resistance to lightning damage. Cool. And I can breathe underwater and I also gained swimming speed of 30 feet. I have a question. Yes. Yes. Chris. The floor recognizes Chris. He can breathe underwater, but you don't breathe. Okay. Well, I'd like to imagine this is actually great setup because I was thinking of all the ways that, you know, what told would have been doing after getting his butt kicked by iron clad. And I think, you know, being faced with all of the memories of the past and being reunited with Elva and, and going back to the roar boo, you know, Bjorn's roar boo, that he would take time to be more comfortable with the water. So I think he would spend time maybe, what's it called? Meditating underwater. Yeah. He hasn't touched water much since, you know, finding Bjorn and some fishing from here and there, but I think he would take time to like, I imagine if he can't breathe there, he doesn't need to breathe. He would go underwater and that would be the only place that he could just have true quiet, you know? So he'd just be under the water, like Ben Affleck's daredevil. Yes. But yes, but I like Colin Farrell. Can I be allowed to yes, and your underwater breathing here, Blaine? What if we also say that Toll can speak underwater now as well? I would gladly take that. What does it sound muffled? It's the rule that I can speak underwater, but I have to do that in person. I accept this. This is great. All right. Awesome. Love it. As far as rages too, I think he would, part of that meditation is concentrating on how much he hates ironclad and give him extra rage. Oh, I think that that's pretty much it. All right. Great. And I believe you passed the baton on to Natty Wonder. Y'all. Howdy, y'all. It's your boy, John. Howdy, Natty. And I'm here to play Natty Wonder. It's a dry warlock, drag queen mama. And I have also upgraded myself and I actually, my upgrade came as a gift. I had a dream and got to chit chat with the old wife and she told me that, you know, as Gigi, kind of like he grows and learns new things and becomes more powerful, that she thought that I should also be able to like kind of do more things and withstand more things in order to facilitate being his mama. So with that, I've become even more in tune with my little angel of joy and love. And with that, I have a new resistance to certain kind of damage in order to help me be more sturdy as a mama around him. So thunder damage, I'm resistant to it now. Thank you very much. And she said, you know, like, you know how when little kids, they get old, they can reach higher places, you know, kind of like Blaine's cat right there who's just reaching all heights in the room. I can now use a, I can't, I'm trying to stay in Natty mode. I can fly. I can fly if I want to sometimes during the day, not very far, not very long, but a little bit, a little bit. So, you know, Gigi gets up somewhere, you don't want to come down. I can, yeah. No, we're not singing copyright songs here, Gustavo. It's only two seconds worth. And so, yeah. So now I can, I can kind of like how Gigi can turn into a little bat and fly. I don't turn into a bat. I just hover up a little, little far from the ground. I thought you were going to break the news to us that Gigi had a growth spurt and was now taller. I don't want any part of this. No, no, I want baby tiny compact Gigi. No, in my head, he was just, it was like, honey, I blew up the kid where he just gets, he's still Gigi. He just gets bigger. I'll entertain that because he turns into Snorlax at some point. Bigger than Gunther pretty soon. Yeah. Metawise, it's a, it's at six level. I get an elemental gift, which in, it tunes me into my, my patron more. I'm a genie warlock. And so depending on the type of, of, of genie, DJI, NNI, genie, genie, genie, genie. You get certain resistance and then certain abilities. And I swear to God, I didn't know this came. You guys are going to think like Mati, he could fly. Why is John flying again? I didn't know this came with the warlock and it's only 30 feet of flight, fly speed for 10 minutes. And I can cast that as a bonus action once for every proficiency bonus I have. So it's three times every long rest. It makes sense for Natty to be able to fly. Like to me, that's just fitting. Well, I mean, a lot of people don't notice I'm going to reveal a very close kept secret. All drag queens can fly. You didn't know that. In front of the, the streets. Yes. This is me flapping my fan. There you go. Thank you. So yeah, that's all, that's all that happened to, to Natty, just a little bit of a gift. So Natty, does this make you the Motalian's unofficial air force? Just the one person air force. I'm, I'm, I'm the, I'm the air. You're the sea. I am the sea. I'm the navy. Yeah. In the Navy. Natty wonder online. John playing flying characters. That's his, that's his cross to bear. He always has to play the plane. I didn't even think about that either. Blaine, all three characters of my thing to play. I swear, not intentional. You said you and I could also play. All right. Thanks. That's all. That's a, that's a lot to deal with all at once. But yeah, sounds good. Thanks John. Well, the last up because the rolled a natural one that we all saw is a crystal mirrors. Hi, I'm playing Gunther the fighter level six. And I decided to also spend some time studying and, and thinking and praying. And so I have, I have borrowed a deep, deep hole and, and in it I have placed a rotting fish and some corpse of my enemy. And I have stayed under that hole for a very long time. It was stinky and I meditated and I prayed and I, I asked for guidance and deodorant. And when I emerged, I had been fey touched. So I get, I got a, it's, it's a, one of those, it's a feat instead of an ability, just a straight ability increase where I get to increase my wisdom by one. And then I learned a Missy step spell and a one first level spell of my choice from the divination or enchantment schools of magic. Missy step is so handy. That's such a good spell, especially for like someone who wants to get up in melee like Gunther and get in and out. Yeah. That thing. That's great. That's cool. And then for my spell, I picked Hunter's Mark. That's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. I had that one for Kaibor. Remind me again, that's like you get advantage on that specific person, right? But you have to do it beforehand. Yeah. Like you have to put it on someone. It's kind of like you get extra damage and you can like track whatever enemy you pick as that's marked. So with a fighter where you have multiple attacks, it's a good thing to like add up damage. Yeah. It's just a fun spell. So you buried yourself under a stinky fish and got Faye touch. I guess like a some, some Faye creature like to that. Yes. I'm trying to create and become the nourishment that I need. Oh, start. Yeah. You roll into something better than what I was. Okay. Cool. I like it. Yeah. It makes sense. You smell terrible. I'm so sorry. If you could go underwater with me and have a conversation about this. Yeah. I mean, this is coming from a guy who's literally wearing like his dad's corpse. You smell awful. We need to do it. What's your, what's your, your moisturizing routine told? It is working. Yeah. You know, all sorts of lotion. On the chronic skin. Yeah. You know, he's, he, he gave me a good, good bones, good structure to work with. You know, he didn't took such good care of himself. A lot of bath salts. I just assumed that you had had too much sun on the ship. All right. Let's go ahead and get this ball rolling. I know normally we, we like to wrap up these arrows a little more quickly, but I felt like we, we wanted to get really into the level up process this episode. So I want to thank the audience for bearing with us as we kind of expand on backstory for our characters. Thank you for bug-bearing with us. Thanks for listening to the episode guys. We'll see you next episode. It's gonna wrap on Sea Dragon. You find yourself back on the ocean floor surrounded by the shipwrecks and the earth is still shaking violently. The ships that were partially submerged in the bed of the sea begin collapsing and shaking and some of them begin partially submerging themselves into the sand, much like a lizard. Then the vortex of water that's swirling violently around you begins to lose momentum and then begins collapsing and an ocean of water falls upon the entire part. I've heard dozens of fish stories in my day, but I have to say that is one whale of a tail. You're all sitting at the bar of the high three recalling your recent voyage into Nonimo to Fismum. She slides drinks to the four of you. But you're missing the best part. How exactly did you survive? Everyone roll a constitution saving throw. Is this to determine if we should correct Fismum for calling a whale a fish? That or they're gonna pull the trap door that leads to the underground fighting ring again. We just caught here. 14. 10. 16. Oh wait constitution saving throw. I can actually add the modifiers 19. Oh good. Sticky fish boy 13. So in order from highest to lowest is Natty with 19, 12 with 14, Gunther with 13, Doug with 10. Correct. Even though my modifier is plus seven. Wow. Not a great roll then. No way. We flashback three days ago. The sun is shining on a coast of calm waves. We'll start with Natty since he rolled the highest. You see the ocean lapping up against the beach bar below you as you are restrained caught up in the rigging of a shipwreck. The sun is beating down on you and you're utterly parched. Natty wakes up and his star goes, is my hair, oh my hair's perfect. Never mind. We're all good. Everybody we're all good. We're all good. What do you want to do to try to get down? You are caught up in quite a bit of rope. Your hair looks great though, but you are caught up in rope high in the rigging of a shipwreck. I tell you what, make a perception check for me Natty. Plus three, two, and 19. So that's 22. As you're coming to and looking around, you realize that the shipwreck below you is part of the dockmaster, the ship that you have route here on to get to Nani Mo. And as you're looking at it and realizing that you also realize that the ship is slowly starting to sink into the water and sand below. I didn't say before, but dockmaster sounds like an old early era gaming system. Yeah, like the Commodore or Atari or something. Yeah. Well, it came out. Yeah. A bit processor. Natty would do obviously the obvious thing, which is call for her baby. Giggie, Giggie, mama needs you. Mama needs, where's my little sharp fang boy who can buy it through ropes? Make a role to see if Giggie listens or not. If he's distracted by something else. Be nice. If he was listening, accept the role to one. In that case, Gus takes over driving Giggie. Giggie comes out from a nearby jungle, some nearby vegetation out to the beach. He's got native. Looking around for the sound of your voice. He looks around left and right up and down the beach, but doesn't seem to react. That's okay. He still looks adorable, even though he don't know where his mom is. Love him no matter what. You know how like you introduce some sort of foreign animal into like an ecosystem and then it just destroys it because it has no natural enemies? Giggie in the short time he's been on the beach has been that invasive species. The birds, the mammals, everything. He's just fat from all the animals he's eating. I'd be so proud of him. In that short time, he was able to upset the ecological balance all on his own. That just stepped up in his abilities. What a sweet little eco. Terrorist. Okay. Since I don't have Mr. Gigglesworth to help, Natty actually has, I think a dagger. I got two daggers in my shorts and Natty would use her daggers to cut through the ropes that are holding her. And then no matter what happens, Gustavo, Natty's going to hover down from the where she's being hung from. I'll tell you what. Love it. Make me a sleight of hand check. Love it or list it, guys. Gosh darn it. Pickles. I wrote a one against language. Please, John. This is a family friendly podcast. Great plan. You're restrained. Natty recalls her dagger that she has just for such situations, pulls it out, then immediately fumbles it and it falls into the sea below. I have another one. Okay. Well, I have one now. Natty curses under her breath and reaches for her backup dagger. Okay. Let's do this again. Don't roll one. You big dummy. 19. We're sleight of hand plus three, 21. You're able to free yourself of your restraint and hover down to the beach below. Okay. Cool. And then I shall look for my compatriots. Okay. As you land on the beach, Gigi finally catches sight of you and he runs up to you. What's that? What's that in your mouth? Gigi? Oh, that's a tiny little head. Where'd you find that little head? I like to think that his mouth is just stuffed full of local animals like birds and frogs and whatever he can find like on the beach is just all in there. Every every species of the island is in his mouth now. Yeah. He learns every time he bites something. Okay. Make me a investigation check since you're looking for your party. 15 plus one 16. You begin looking around for the rest of your party and as you're looking around, you realize that the shipwreck you were restrained on is gone. What? Well, I guess I better figure out another party to play with everyone. Reroll characters. The ship is just totally not there. It's just the sea and the sand at this point now. Okay. Do I need to do anything? Are you going to proceed? I'm going to proceed. We'll move on to our next our next player who is Tolef, I believe who rolled a 14. Tessin. Tolef, you open your eyes and look around and you see you are next to three rather large rocks jutting out of sand and unfortunately for you, you are buried up to your neck in that sand. Oh, nearby a crab with three claws has caught sight of you and is eyeing you and is slowly making its way over. Oh, this isn't good. Get back. Get back. Don't do it. My precious skin. Alva. Sister. It's pointing one claw at you with two other claws to the side defensively. Okay, let's let's barter here. If you get me out of the sand, I promise to get you delicious fishies. You don't have to do this, Mr. Krabs. Are you ready? No. Okay, then. We were just talking about your skincare routine. You feel like your skin is singed from being exposed to such harsh sun. Oh, that's permanent damage too. Yeah. You know, I knew it was going to have to come one time or another. How is the beard? Can I keep the beard at least? It's halfway in the sand. It's hard to know right now. Oh, man, I wanted Gus to say the crab already taken the beard and it was weird. You look over at the crabs wearing the beard now. I guess I'm going to try to struggle to get out then, you know. Okay. Why don't you make me a strength check, but let's make it with disadvantage because you don't have much room to move. Okay. That's a, I don't really think there's any point in rolling again. That's a five, but oh, what the heck? I could always crit fail. Nope. That was 19. So five. Yeah, you struggle, but the sand just doesn't seem to be giving at all. There's no, there's no room for you to get any motion at all to use your strength to get out. It's not giving. I'm just starting eating it. Yeah, I guess I'd call for people. Natty dog, Elva gambos, giggy. I think I called you already. Pivot parts. What's that other guy's name? The reese half null, huh? Captain grumbles. No, captain grumbles the zombie YouTube. What was the other guy's name? Was it Lassick? No, he's not with us. Last, last, last skill. Last skill. Last skill. I know we had one other maybe seed drinker squid person. I think I've called everybody, but yeah, I was going to ask like, you're very deliberately going through everyone except Gunther. Oh, hold on. I'll call him out. Gunther. We'll say that since Natty went earlier, she hears your, your calls and then Natty, I'll leave it up to you. What do you want to do to that? Yeah, I would head to the, to the sound of Tolls. I like voice. You hear Toll calling from just a little further away from the water, not too far, maybe 20, 30 feet in from the shoreline. And you see him buried up to his neck with a three armed crab circling him. Oh my God, Toll, where's your body? Did your head come off? And here's you in turns one of its claws to you, Natty. Careful, this guy's feeling crabby. Don't hurt me. Natty would punt it. Wait, the head or the crab? No, not the head, the crab. The, so the crab, you said the crab turned to me like aggressively. I say it pointed one claw at you. So it's got one claw pointed at Toll, one claw pointed at you and another one kind of going between the two of you. A Mexican standoff. One hand at the crab with finger fizzles and one hand at Toll with finger fizzles. Looks like we got a standoff here. Please do not blast me with your eldritch blast, please. I tell to the crab, leave or the, or the head gets it. I think the crab might not speak common, I'm not sure. Okay. Natty would start charging up an eldritch blast and be like, I don't want to say it. I don't want to make any crabs do today crab, but you better back off. Crab do what she says. She's just crazy enough to do it. Go on for your life. Crab, run, crab. Make an intimidation check. Sideways out of here. Scurry, scuttle out of here. Intimidation, 18 plus four, 22. Has anyone ever tried to intimidate a crab before in D&D? Are we, are we groundbreaking here? I feel like everything's been done at this point in D&D. A lot of weirdos been playing this game for a lot of years. Yeah, that's true. That's true. The crab begins scuttling away while still pointing its claws at each of you, but it recedes further away towards us. I'm nearby Rocky outcroppings. Okay. All right. You okay, Tof? Oh, I just, you know, got my butt kicked by my crappy dad and now I'm buried in sand. So like, if you can get me out of here, I think my skin is so, so damaged. Gigi, can you help? Good at digging. You know, now that I'm looking around our surroundings, I think this is the Canary Islands. We have to be very careful because the local ecosystem is very, you know, it's not extinct species everywhere. Okay. We just, we just stopped talking and listen. You can't hear a single animal sound at all because they're just all gone. That crab was the last of its kind. Yeah. I'm a roll to have Gigi. I rolled a nat 20. Thank you very much. Just the highs and lows of Natty Wonder and gonna have Gigi dig out like the little goblin he is digging the sand and get a, get told out. Oh, cool. Make me a one more Gigi check. I'll tell you why after I've rolled a nat 20. Yeah, I know. What more do you want from me? Another check eight. Yeah. He does a really good job of starting to dig tolef out. You're gonna have, I know what you're gonna do. He starts squatting over the hole that he is. Oh, good. I've been working on that with him. I've been working on that with him. I'm glad he's using it finally. So when we say that tolef could speak underwater is this what we were referring to? All right, you're able to pull tolef out. Okay, I pulled tolef out and I start patting down getting all the sand off him. I pull out my hair dryer that I keep with me everywhere I go. And I start blow drying him all over. Natty, give it to me straight. My skin. How is it? What's the prognosis doctor? I'm not gonna lie to you tolef. Yeah, it's looking pretty bad. Oh, but don't worry. And Natty pulls like a thing out of her hair that's one of those caboodles and just opens it up and it opens up into like a million different little sections. I got every product under the sun and we're gonna get you looking like your Sunday best in no time. Okay. I just need to save the beard. That's all I need. Where is it? All right. Well, at this point, we will smash cut to our next person on the list. I believe is Gunther with the 13 Gunther. You open your eyes and find yourself on a windy cliff's edge. You look around and realize you're about 40 feet up in the air. You're missing all of your equipment and your clothes. I'm naked. As you look around and make this realization, you begin coughing up saltwater, which just seems like never ending saltwater coming out of your lungs. Make me a perception check. 13. Oh, you found all your gear and your equipment. It's at the bottom of the cliff directly under you. Oh, jump, jump, jump. Yeah. How far down is it? About 40 feet. Okay. I mean, I can that should be I probably just could climb down some and a certain point I could just jump because I'm used to jumping those heights anyway. Almost. Yeah, why not make an athletics check to see if you're able to climb down? Okay. And if it matters all flavor wise, I think Gunther would use his tongue to like wrap around a rock or, you know, something up at the top and then climb down. So if he falls, he'll like catch himself and then he can release it. Yeah. And then give yourself advantage because I think that's cool. Cool. Rule of cool. The 19 and a 14. So now, okay, yeah, 19. Yeah. Yeah, it takes just a couple of minutes, but you're able to scale the cliff down using your tongue as you slowly descend. You reach the bottom of the cliff and find all your gear and your equipment strewn about on the sand below. Make a perception check. 16 from the south, a three clawed crab begins approaching and points to claws at you. Oh, I found it first. Did the crab begins scuttling like east away from you into the rocky cliff outcropping. Oh, thank goodness. He did not know I was bluffing. And then I can equip myself with my stuff. I feel like for a moment there, there had to have been Pokemon battle music like. What do you want to do now that you have climbed down from the cliff and found all your stuff? Well, I guess look around and see if I can spot any indication of my party or the ship or anything. Make a investigation check. 11. You do not see any sign of the shipwreck. However, from your vantage point, you think you see a couple of figures down to the south near three boulders sticking out of the sand. And you also think you hear some singing coming from the north. Can you just taste that singing? It's really hard to hear with the waves and the wind going, but it sounds something like. So I see two figures near three boulders sticking out of the sand. And how far does singing sound like close and like close? It sounds pretty far. But again, with the wind and the water, it's really hard to tell. I think I would stealthily make my way towards the figures to see who or what they may be. Make me a stealth check. That's the 24. Yeah, you're able to sneak your way south. And as you're doing so, darting from, you know, rock to dune, you see that the two figures to the south are Colv and Natty. And Natty is, Natty is applying some kind of salve on Toll's skin. Well, giggy peas on him. Yeah. Then I'll come out and be like, hello. It's a bold gunther. Hello, Gunther. Oh, no. What? Where is Doug? Sadly, Doug is past away. I'm so sorry, Gunther. No, I'm just kidding. I think they're on my constitution roll was too low. That was the result of whoever rolled the lowest. All right. That is a great opportunity to switch over and see what's going on with Doug. I'm alive. Doug, you are alive. Doug's in a hotel. He's taking a bubble bath. He's got room service on the way. He's got a drink and a coconut with a straw and an umbrella. A whole cheese pizza just for me. Doug, you open your eyes and they're stinging because you're underwater and there's salt water is stinging your eyes. You feel like you're being rocked gently back and forth in the water. Okay. Could I start pumping my arms up to like swim to the surface? Yeah. You're it's the surface right above you start doing that and you immediately pop through like you were just a few inches underwater. It's like being in a bunch of my toes. I hate this. You pop your head up above the water and you're still being slowly rocked back and forth. You hear a song with a gentle lullaby as you're being rocked back and forth. Make a perception check with advantage. Rocked by what? Oh, the water. 19. You look around and you realize that you're being cradled in the arms of the sea drinker who is now much larger than before. And she's slowly rocking you back and forth singing you a gentle lullaby. You open your eyes, recognize that she's there and she looks at you and smiles. Am I dreaming? Can you pinch me? The crab cro- Oh, crap. Did I happen? Let me double check one thing. No, I don't have an inspiration. I but I'll take one. You're right. You're right. That's it. That is you can have one. Yeah, that was a good joke. The sea drinker looks at you, dog and says, No, this is not a dream. Oh, okay. Well, you're a lot bigger than what you were previously. I see you remember that little squid guy we were killing around, huh? Indeed. The water has helped rejuvenate me. She appears to be a squid-like creature with tendrils on her face with her body made out of water. And yes, she is much bigger than before. Well, did you did you save me? What happened? Once the ocean came crashing down, the water restored my strength. I was able to take the brunt of the ocean's weight and surge you and your friends to the shore. My apologies for any mishaps. It was quite sudden. Oh, well, clearly you saved my life. So I I'm forever in your gratitude, Mr. Drinker. What, Mrs? I don't I don't know. Are you patrolled? Mommy, sorry. I wish there is what I love, but we cannot be together. Oh, why not? Oh, we should reconvene with your friends. And then we can share stories. Okay, but two deeps again to right now. No pun intended. Do you see my friends anywhere? You might have a better vantage point than I do from down here in the water. She kind of first her brown looks around. Perhaps they are on the other side of the rocky cliff. Yeah, that seems like a place they'd be on wood and Doug points in that direction. Does Doug begin walking or does Doug want to be carried like? Like is Doug still in the Sea Triggers arms pointing? And he's like curled up in a little ball with his hands at his face, like almost in the fetal position. I will say as someone who's spent the majority of their life being the bigger person in a relationship, the first time that I got to go out with a guy and I got to be cradled by a larger person. I was like, this is nice. I like this. I guess it could be baby. Yeah, that's great. And that would definitely apply for Doug. Doug is Doug's the big guy, you know, but then like it's just kind of fun to be like the little one sometimes. Kind of a swell and a wave begins pushing you south, Doug, parallel to the shoreline. So like the waves are crashing to the east along the shore, but this swell has kind of like picked you up and is moving you south parallel to the shore past the rocky cliff outcropping south. And after a minute or so, you see your three friends around three rocks that are sticking out of the sandy beach to be lawyer. Guys, look, look who I found. It looks like they found you. Symantecs, but yes, told would bow deeply before the sea drinker. You keep pointing out these large rocks around this. Are these rocks like significant or something? They're like one of the only landmarks in the area. Okay. They are the landmark I've decided to orient. That's it. Okay. It's just to reemphasize where you are. I appreciate your candor, Gus. I appreciate it. Are you in fact an aroda? Neorda. So it is nice to meet you. You are much bigger. With a smile, she says, yes, I am Neorda. Thank you for nursing me back to health with the water gun, sir. Your aid was most welcome and most needed in my time of need. I can tell by your careful use of the water gun, sir, that you know how precious it truly is. That decanter you use belongs to me. So I would like to offer you another item in its stead. Okay. What DC? It is this seemingly from out of nowhere. He pulls out an item that appears to be an eight handle to vase. He says it is the part of obscura. Can you make a good stew in that? Like you just put it in and you leave it for the day. You can use this to find things that are hidden. Yes, this is your water. Then you shall have it back. I do not wish to steal from you. She takes the decanter and hands you this ancient eight handled vase. And as you hold it, you see it has kind of a slippery texture and it's a reddish brownish yellowy color. And like she said, meta wise, it turns water into inquisitive ink. Dribbles some out and the ink flows toward hidden things in the area. It has a limited number of uses, but we'll cover that when it's used. Thank you very much. I shall use this. I sense as well, Ruther, that you're searching for something or someone. Did the Wilderflower send you on this quest with this of your own volition? Yes, I hope that the Wilderflower wishes for me to be searching. That's what I do. It's hard for me to know what decision is the right one or if I have failed everyone. But I hope so not. I hope so not. I hope I have not failed everyone. Oh, okay. What is it you hope to gain from this quest? I hope to restore what was taken from us, bring pride to my village and family and vengeance to my enemy. Hmm, noble indeed. Then let's say fail in which case I have abandoned my family for no reason. I'm curious, New Order. Why were you imprisoned and who did it? Oh, that is a sad tale. I plunged to the depths searching for the Fire Eater, hoping to find her where Marine and Magma meet. However, it was a trap when I was captured by infernices underlings. Oh, who notings, if you will. And I was imprisoned on Nunyumo with Volcaniconda, while there my suspicions were confirmed. The Fire Eater is indeed imprisoned in the fiery depths of Undar. Nettie nudges Doug and goes, man, Marine and Magma be a great club name. That's genius. I think that is just a lava lamp. Why were you searching for the Fire Eater? The Fire Eater is my one true love. However, I have been forbidden from pursuing her and I have been bound to the sea. I have been doling out my duties to the other deities and demigods, trying to find time to reunite with the Fire Eater. It's one of those only at the once a year end of year party that you all get to hang. It is not easy hence the desire to go where sea and magma meet. So why would Undarians want to imprison you? Why do they care? They seek the Pathfinder and are trying to get any information they can. Is the Pathfinder like the key to finding you all? Like a Pathfinder can find stuff, so if you want to find a bunch of gods, you get the god that can find the other gods first. The sea drinker turns to you, Nettie, and says, yes, the Pathfinder has an ability to find anything hidden with very little to go on. All the Pathfinder needs is time. I think the Pathfinder also is they're looking for the Pathfinder to also find the Gates of Hyra. I mean, yeah, if you got somebody that can find anything, that's pretty useful. Yes, all they need is time and it can be found. Well, luckily we got this jug of water that we could pour to things that we're trying to look for. Yes. Since you spoke up, Nettie, I think the sea drinker would address you a little further. Addie. It's a pleasure to formally meet you, Nettie. Please give your best to the silent steed next time you speak. I will. Nettie, I'll just tell us that's my gal. And are you all friends? Do you guys all meet up for, I don't know, do some Sudoku's together or something? As friends, too. They're the same Pilates class. A Pilates class. Yeah, that would work out. We've met before, but we haven't spent much time together. But I know that you know what it's like to be apart from a loved one. So if there's ever a time that you need a favor, use the necklace and call upon me using my true name. And then she mouths Njorda. Wait, do I have a necklace? No? I have a necklace. I told you I have a necklace. Oh, okay. Okay, yeah, that'd be great. That'd be great. I appreciate that. That's very kind of you. And I'm sure I don't have to remind you, but just as in long-distance relationships, trust is key with true names. I trust you and your friends to keep my true name secret. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know it was a secret. I think the unruly knowledge of my true name is how I was apprehended and nearly finished by the undami. Every deity has a true name, but very few speak of it. What's the significance of that? Since we got you here, maybe you could expand upon that a little bit. And I'm just gonna warn you, I'm a simple girl. I like simple talk. So like metaphor and mystery just goes right over my big ol' wig. True names lead to true power and true control. Yeah, that wasn't straight up with me. What's, I just, I'll be more and more direct myself. What's like, what is the direct result of someone knowing your name? Does that mean they got like power over you or they can maybe find you easier or what? They just don't want you using their full government, okay? It is different for each deity, but if we all have a weakness, it is our true name. Do you know about this? Is this something that you're aware of? No, but it makes me wonder if maybe we should change our names because if people know our true names, is that gonna, they're gonna power over us? Like should I go by like... Douglas? Good? I think we have different rules than they have different rules, you know? Okay, so we shouldn't tell people your full name, we should just call you Sea Drinker. Yes. And where are we? Sorry, no one's asked that yet. Where are we? I mean, I love a beach, but I just want to know where we are. We are at the edge of Endridge Bay. It's not far from here. The Endridge Bay? That's convenient, thank you. Do you know what happened to our companions and our not-companions? I suspect they're around here in the nearby vegetation in Jungle, and they should be reconvening with us soon. Nanny Starles up. Captain Grubbles! Where's Captain Grubbles? I haven't even looked for him yet. Where is Captain Grubbles? Where's the play of it, Pa? We're gonna be so much trouble with the Mortallion. Captain Grubbles could be dead again! I'll say at this point that each of your different party members slowly starts coming out from the jungle of your vegetation and reuniting with you guys. Okay. Wait, all of Owen, Tee-Tee's back! Let the record show Gus is the one who said they're all joining us again, okay? You asked. I have been bowing this entire time and my back is kind of aching, and I would love to join the conversation, but hello, Sea Drinker. I am your faithful follower. Tollve, you knew my adopted father, Bjorn, just in case you didn't remember who I was. You know, no big deal. All right. As you stand back up from your bow, a small scrap of paper falls out from your pocket. Is it the note to Bjorn? Yeah. Who is that note you had picked up? Talks about how she gave him a necklace and it's a twin of their own. Oh, no. It's a different note. This is the one that was on the front door of the roar boot. Don't remember that note. So many notes. Which one is that? You should take notes. You take a look at it. Oh, oh, oh. Bjorn, your order is ready for pickup. Come by the untamed flame forge from Shannan. Oh, I forgot we have a to-do list of things here in Indridge Bay. I'm going to put that back in my pocket. Yeah. Well, you know, when you bowed and rose up, you mentioned your connection to Bjorn. The sea drinker would look at you, told, and ask, Oh, what news of Bjorn? He helped me on my quest to try and find the fire reader. Yeah. So as you can see, I am wearing his flesh. So not good. I am like his adopted robot son, and he is sadly passed away. But in his final act, he allowed me to take his identity to protect me because, uh, well, I'll just go ahead and show you and I'll take off the Bjorn face mask. You who it's me told if I'm actually a thaumatech. Boo. Spooky, spooky. The passing of Bjorn is a loss to us all. Did you perhaps receive a gift from Bjorn? I mean, many gifts, knowledge, good memories, his skin, you know, I, the list goes on and on. Fish recipe. A fish recipe. Yeah, yeah. That was good. That was good. Very cool. I'm still looking for the deed to the roar boo. You know, I might have that might have a little bit of a ocean side property. You could turn into an air D and D. That's good. Oh, that's good. Hey guys, I don't know if you all remember this coconut coconut. I'm looking for anyone Blaine. Remember this. Oh, oh, oh, coconut coconut. Yes. Yes. John coconut. Chris. Oh, yes. Coconut. John. All right. You were on that episode where you're gonna spill the beans, not even remotely triggering anything. You remember any many second wins ago. It was me, Blaine, Chris and John. And we agreed that we would have a code word for when we want to give Gus an inspiration die. Oh, the decree of coconut has been Jesus. Barbara deserves inspiration dice for remembering that. Wow. The flame of coconut calls for aid. You may have an inspiration. So this is you. You can roll an inspiration dice for something that you got coming up. Little peek behind the screen for our listeners here. I when we play, you know, we use D and D beyond. I do have a character sheet that I use as the dungeon master. I'm going to give myself inspiration die on there. It has been done. Oh, wow. Gus is hovering now above his keyboard. Light is coming from his eyes. I can't wait till like four or five episodes from now. I'm going to use it and you all are really going to regret calling out that coconut. We know what we're doing. We know what we're doing. We're giving power to someone who already has all the power. But you know what? It's a good joke, our D&D. Anyways, was there something specific that I should be looking for other than this necklace? The Sea Drinker smiles and says, I'm sure you'll come to it soon. Great. Cool. Very specific. Natty turns to Toll and Gus. See how it feels when someone's all vague and mysterious and holds secrets and everything. She speaks riddles and mystery. What are we supposed to do with that? Nothing. Nothing. I already tried, but she just keeps going around in circles around the direct point. Okay. Also, Sea Drinker, you mentioned earlier the Volcaniconda have taken you hostage. I'm going to be so for real with you. For the sake of my survival, I struck a bargain with the Volcaniconda. I'm still in allegiance to you. I love you. Number one Sea Drinker fan. Yo, yo. But the Volcaniconda might come calling for some ice cream down the road. I'm just giving you the heads up. We can deal with that when the time comes. I'm so glad that's off my chest. I've been feeling terrible. You say that the Undarians had taken you to gain power. Why was Ironclad also searching for you? Is he in league with the Undarians? That I do not know. I cannot speak the motivations of others. Interesting. Is Elva around? Yeah, we'll say Elva has come out of the jungle as well and is probably, we'll say right there with you. What's Elva's reaction to Sea Drinker? I don't know if Sea Drinker was a thing that popped up on my radar as a result of my interactions with Bjorn or if they also had some sort of assistance from the beyond or anything like that. I'll say that she seems, of course, awestruck to be in the presence of a deity, but maybe not quite as reverent as you are. Okay. All right. Cool. Also, this is my sister Elva. So I mean, I guess, do we have any other questions for the Sea Drinker? I mean, what do we do now? Because we still have like kind of a mission to go about. You know, like should we? Did we figure out why they were impersonating people? I mean, we figured out that they were impersonating people, but I don't think we figured out why. Oh, the Undarians? No, that's the whole reason we were sent to the Andrange Bay was for our mission of like, people are impersonating people. We got to figure out what's going on with that. And we figured out that they're doing that, but we don't know why. Yeah, speaking of, you know, I was under, I was in disguise. I wonder if maybe the Mortalion was aware of something like me and other Thaumatechs like Elva here. Sea Drinker, have you been able to see like other siblings of mine? I have so many brothers and sisters and they all got scattered to the winds once we rebelled against Ironclad. Hmm, I can't say I've seen any, but I have heard tales from sailors swapping stories. One spoke of metallic creatures hiding in the river banks of the boiling bluffs. That's where I met the fire reader. Another told tale of a shiny person, shouting curses amongst the reefs of Tropicair and Ireland. It sounds like one of my siblings. Are we going to have to like collect them all kind of situation? There are 12 of us. Do you want me to tell you all of their names? I actually have photos of all of them. You know, let me get up my wallet. And then we can go find the Elite Four. There's Tio and Neo, that's 10 and nine, Atta, Stu, Sex. We don't talk about their name. That's just their name. It's, it's, oh, very funny sex. But anyway, Fem, Fira, Trey. Let's talk about sex. I don't know if I know Noel or not, but there's you know, you and me. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So gang, I have like a couple of short things that I need to do. I know I need to go into town to pick up something from Shanan. And then also I would love to follow up with this metal person rumor because that might be one of my siblings. So that's me at this point. The C drinker times in and says, perhaps you can follow one rumor and your sister, Elva can follow the other. I like that. Yeah, split the party. Get rid of some NVC. Yes, yes. I cannot divert from my mission from the Mortallion. And I have fear that if I do, it'll attract more attention to us, you know, Thoma Tex on the run. So I'm going to like stay in line and do my current mission. Well, I will say this from a geography perspective, boiling bluffs is only about six miles northeast of Fort Endridge. So minor detour. Versus Tropicare and Island, which is more out of the way. I see. Okay, then maybe you go to the Tropicare and Island and then we go to the boiling bluffs. If my gang is like so cool and wanting to go on a little detour, Elva nods at that. I'll follow you wherever you deem necessarily told. Well, that's nice of you. Wait, who's in charge right now? I don't know. Private parts. Who's in charge? Is told? Is told in charge? No, you are. Now I decree. It's like a potato at this point. Well, if we're on a mission for potentially his family members, I feel like you should be like. I got no objection. If you want to save a few quid, British gas have a way. You get half price leaky and it's called peak save on every Sunday. It's the smart thing to do if you're regular folk or furry and blue 11 till four. Let the good times begin. You could charge up the car or take the dryer for a spin. Half price electricity. What joy that brings with British gas peak save we're taking care of things. T's and C's apply eligible tariffs and smart meter required. Okay, so well, let's pull up the start menu list of missions and side quests. Paul needs to go to Indridge Bay to pick up a potential weapon upgrade, which would be so cool. We're going to go to the boiling bluffs, which is just six mile detour. As far as Indridge Bay, have we followed through with everything that we were assigned to do here? Because I know that we also have a time limit to get back. I know that Gunther had his aunt that was there he wanted to speak with, but that's not like pressing. And anyway, that was just a thing on the if we go back and then also Gunther would want to use that item he got to look for the thing that was stolen from his village to it. Specifically Gunther and told make me wisdom checks. Oh, strong for 14. You know, thinking about your aunt, you remember that when you all looked at the note earlier that your inside and was ready for pickup that that was signed by your aunt. So presumably it would be at the same place. It's let's go knock it out. Yeah, let's do that. Let's get this up to the bay. So I want to point out if we do eventually make our way to boiling bluffs, it's possible that the fire you don't might be there. And so I don't know if we should take the sea drinker to maybe reunite. Well, we should probably ask the God if they want to come. Yes, you drinker. What are you doing? Are you going to play Enzo or you play Eero? What's your schedule look like in the next couple days? You pencil us in. I do have a task I need to complete. However, I require assistance. It requires backstabbing, thieving and general scoundrelism. Last skill, you're a buddy. Yeah, last skill leaps up at the thought and the seed drinker turns and addresses last skill and says I need help finding and freeing the fire reader in Noondar. Once we uncover more details, I may call upon you for help. You got it. As she's looking at you for and you say, you know, you got it, Doug, she looks at you again, you know, she was cradling you and says, I sent something within you, Doug, something you're not proud of, something from your past. I know what that feeling is like. I too feel shame for giving up the name of the veiled I to the privateer. You did that? If anyone knows where the pathfinder is, it's the veiled I. However, I was able to resist the torture enough to not tell the privateer where to find or how to reach the veiled I. So the gates of Hyrule will remain safe for now. I bring this up to you, Doug, because I sense that you've already made a connection to the veiled I, which is a rare gift indeed. That's correct. How did you know that? I can sear it upon you for the veiled I ever searches for those that think outside the box, models with new ideas. As you know, he is the patron of seers and inventors, those who wish to find him must prove their accomplishments by presenting a unique invention, a device or a physical creation as a reward he may grant Santa patron with a mysterious vision or mystical encounter. Dying is down in my head, of course. You are such a visionary, Doug. Nice, nice, nice. So I'm confused, though. You said like your real names, you have to be kept secret and you know this. And so why did you give the veiled I his real name to the privateer? I did not reveal the veiled I's true name, merely the knowledge of the veiled I. Do you know that the true names of any gods that are mean, that we could use to fight them? I would say at that the sea drinker would smile and say, I don't think you have the power necessary to wield such knowledge. Yeah, I might not, but maybe Doug does. I don't wish to make enemies of any further deities. That's my If I were to whisper a name to you, could you confirm or deny whether or not it's the veiled I's identity? Y'all, y'all, this poor, this poor God's trying to walk around not giving people's real names out and you guys are all messing with them. I just want to see you would just smile and say no. She's not gonna play your game with you. All right. Meta talk was the was Maestro fairings. The person that I had that vision with. Yeah. In episodes past, are they the veiled I? I knew Gus was going to say that. I was like, there's going to be a classic Gus. I don't know if the character that knows won't tell you that I would Gus. I think with that, the sea drinker would address laskyl and say, let's be off last kill. We have much work to do. You're going to hold last kill like you held dog. How are you going to transport around? I think yeah, last kill would wade into the water and the sea drinker would transform into a wave again. And it would almost look like last kill surfing off into the sea. Normally, when you surf, you surf towards the beach, but surfing away from the beach. There he goes. Wow. So cool. Just like break. He pulls out a pair of sunglasses and then a gunther mutters via kondios. And then that takes us back. Flash forwarding to you for sitting around having a drink at the high three. Oh, yeah. Right. We're here. This alcohol is very strong, very stiff. That's water. Okay. So now that you all are back at the high three, what is it that you all would want to drink and what would you want to eat? What are you painting me a picture here? Well, you know, I heard so much about fish. People cook a lot of fish. Do you have any fish dishes? Oh, you're going to put this back on me, huh? All right. One moment. I assumed you are the keeper of the menu, a special god here at the high three. You're right. I think I had one. I just don't have it in front of me where it was. The deity of hunger and lunch specials. Was it a happy hour right now? There's blubber bisque, stale carp, piranha forage, stale carp. That sounds appetizing. I think that that's what Gunther buried himself with. Yeah, I prepared some myself. Gunther knows that fish. What about anyone else? Well, now that I don't have to keep up my act, actually, I guess I should too. Other people wait at this point is my skin damaged is told skin, like no, Natty helped you out. Remember? Okay. Okay. I at some point, I don't know when it's going to be and I might need it to be called out. I wouldn't mind if told is in his more robot form, but he wants to keep the beard, but I don't know when that time will be. I don't know if people are going to be freaked out by the, I mean, that's ultimately your call. That's whenever you're ready for that. That's not a, that's not an us call. I like to think that you're looking a bit like the bad guy in men in black towards the later half or water. Do you have any, I just curious, do you have any like a motor oil or any sort of like, you know, just need a good lubricant. It's been a vial, you know, any machinery like WD 40. No motor oil, but I could get you some grease from the kitchen. Okay, I'll take that. This mom furrows her brow at talk of a motor, not quite understanding what it is you're asking about, but she does go to the back and returns with some bacon grease. Cool. I chug that. Gunther, Nadi. I'll take whatever is going to be like sustaining, but if it's like, if there's like bugs or something, that's cool. It's not on the menu, but this is a seaside town, so I'm sure we can find you something. What about shrimp? That's like bugs of the sea, right? Yes. I like it. Yeah, I think they can offer you some shrimp. I'm okay. I'm good. Okay, nothing for Nadi. As you all are eating and drinking, you know, recounting your tales to fismum, you notice a couple of posters behind the bar. Just like a planet Hollywood. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they got autographs on them. What's, what's, what's in the posters, Gustavo? You see various things. One of them seems to be a call out wanting songwriters for troop, troop. And there's another one that's a build your best contest from the council of conservation. I recognize that name. We've heard that name before. Those were the two pirate groups that I think we encountered right below where we are standing right now. Remember the pirate pits, the fights? Personally, Doug, I think you are shoo into Vin that one. The songwriter, yes. I'll build. I think Nadi's probably more of our song stress here. You take a look at the poster a little more, Doug, because it catches your eye. The poster conveys that with the sudden shortage of lumber in the Bay Area, the council of conservation is sponsoring a contest for inventors to bring innovative contraptions, devices or designs that utilize materials other than wood. Invention should embody the values of finding and rescuing endangered wildlife. And the winner gets an all expenses paid visit to the menagerie and an evening with lead conservationist Mimi. And should parties should send a rave into Mimi? I mean, Doug, I know we're on a military mission and we have so much side quests and things to do, but like that is like your science fair. That is your thing. I've already started working on my project. Oh, yeah, the trifold foam core presentation thing ready to go and everything. Yeah, it's called a volcano. This one is about different densities of liquids. So you'll see here in this job, we got water and oil. See that clear separation. Yeah, viscosity. Okay, since it's only a raven, I think while we're going to the shop to meet up with Gunther's aunt and to pick up my package, Doug, you can send a raven in with your invention idea. Nadi, I mean, come on, you got to keep sharp. You got to write lyrics. You got to send a raven out to the other thing. We can all have fun, participate, Tory things for this episode. I'm down for it. The other contest here, the troop, troop. You know, you all take a look at that one. And it's a poster indicating that troop, troop is looking for a songwriter of both talent and experience. Audition is required. Payment is negotiable and interested parties should send a raven to Duke. You want buddy up on a raven or we got to send two different ravens. That's three different ones. Yeah. You know, you get them pretty cheap in this town. Okay. Two birds for one stone. Yeah. Let's, uh, let's send it. Let's send a message. I'm down. Let's, let's, let's show this rule we got, Doug. Okay. Okay. As you all are talking about this, a somewhat tipsy orc comes up and Pat's, let me roll the D four. Toad on the back and says, serving in the Mortalion. Huh? Keep in mind that tolls Bjorn skin, which is an orc is very visibly damaged. Think men in black, that one guy with the sugar water. So I look horrifying and I go, yeah, what's up fellow orc? Whoop whoop. I think this orc is a little tipsy enough for he doesn't care. Pleasure to meet you. I served in the Mortalion myself. Nice to meet you. He reaches out a hand. Well, Orman, instead of a hand shake, how about I give you a salute? Because I don't want to touch him. He switches and tries to stand up straight and give a salute, but he's a little, uh, little unsure on his feet and, uh, he points to his chest. I served in the Mortalion. Look at all my medals. And, uh, he's got like a couple of medals on his chest there. Maybe you know our friend private parts. Huh? He like does that. They were like squinting, you know, like it gets his face real close to private parts. Hmm. Don't think I do. Uh, let me buy a round for my Mortalion friends here. No, don't everyone thank me at once. It's okay. Thank you so much. You are the best. He turns to uh, Fizmump. A round of octopus for my friends here. All right. Delicious. That would be 32. None for Nadie. She's driving. Yeah, I'm actually good. I'm a pass on your, on your very generous offer. But more for me. Orman grabs your octopus and downs it. It's like a chunky bubbly drink. Kind of like a oyster shooter. Ooh. Yuck. That sounds disgusting. Can I share like a look with Fizmump and kind of just get a vibe check on this guy? Like maybe a subtle thumbs up or a thumbs down. You know, like, do we like Orman? Is he well respected and liked in this town? Is he trustworthy? Fizmump looks at you and just, you know, kind of rolls her eyes and shakes her head. She reaches over and puts the drinks into Orman's hands and pats him on the back. It says, All right, you get out of here, Orman. Go back and sit at your table and leave these good people alone. Okay. So he's in known quantity here. Then I guess he's just kind of a, just a little local drunk, I suppose. Is the Barney Gumbel of this establishment? Yeah, maybe, maybe. So I guess you all send off your Ravens and wrap up your meal and your drinks here at the high three. What's your next move? Well, should we, should we get to your guys's little errand about your senior aunt and, and checking out your upgrade? I think we should. I think you should start thinking up some lyrics there, music master. Well, I have to stop thinking about lyrics at some point to start again. Oh, nice. I like that. Whoa. I could hear the dial up connection sound as Blaine was probably processing what I just said. I'm still processing. What does it mean? Did I upset John? Did I, was that a good thing? Are they confident in their writing abilities? I don't like how much that just kind of didn't get braved. What does it mean? I don't know. I guess you have to think about it. Maybe it's the thinker. Maybe it's tonight, Barbara. You'll, you'll sit up. You're like, Oh, I get it. That's what he meant. All right. Yeah. So let's, let's, let's move on to, uh, wherever that was it. You don't even know what was the details of this thing that we have to do. Shannon's you're heading to the untamed flame forge. Yes. Fiz mum gives you directions, leaving the high three on how to get there and walk outside into Andridge Bay and walk over to the untamed flame forge. And as you're walking out there, as a contrast to how it was before, the storm that had been raging before seems to have passed and it's now sunny outside. You walk up to the untamed flame forge and you find it to be from the outside is a shack. It's a mishmash of metallic patchwork and hinges. It's an unusual architectural arrangement of slanted walls and roof. There's a squeaky hanging sign that reads untamed flamed forge. It's like a mishmash in architecture. Yeah. All right. This looks like the place. Gunther, are you ready to see your aunt? Yes, I'm very anxious to talk to her. Hello. Gunther calls out hello and the door slowly opens, revealing thickly built, youthful looking ode. The smell of smoke comes out from the building and you see some smoke appear behind her. She is clad in Obsidian iron, like a combination of obsidian and iron. She looks at you four and says, I am Shannon, Ikan's windbreaker. Who are you? I am Gunther, Booth, guess windbreaker. Gunther, Booth, guess windbreaker. I'm guard. She leaps forward and attacks you. What? Is this like a family tradition or something? Or should we help? Find out what it means and how Gunther perishes in the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. I'm used to my aunts pinching my teeth, but not drawing a lethal weapon on my The Gibson's have a strange family tradition. Weird folk. Is your aunt the tooth fairy? We'll talk about in second when weather and hot planes and it's a tooth fairy, but find out what happens to Gunther in the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Did you know September 5th is this year's Smarsh Day? That's right. You can check it out. The live stream, we're gonna have a live stream on the Stinky Dragon YouTube channel is to be running from 6pm to midnight central time. We're gonna have the whole stinky gang. We're gonna have games, hilarity, announcements, all in celebration of Smarsh being king. Again, that's September 5th, 6pm to midnight central time. And you can find that live stream on the YouTube channel. New episodes of Tales from the Stinky Dragon premiere every other Wednesday, whoever streamed podcasts. And on the Stinky Dragon YouTube channel. 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So Chris and I were out to buy the materials to build this basically window unit and also to buy the AC unit itself and just going with Chris to a public place. I mean, you guys have all been around Chris. You can't predict them. It's like, it's kind of like when you see parents out and they have like a leash on their kid and you kind of judge them a little bit. He's fast. Like I feel like anytime I've gone anywhere with Chris, he just takes off and I'm like, wait for me. Chris is just an adventure. You know, sometimes that you just, you just got to go hang out with them in a public space and it really like opens your eyes to things, you know, I feel like it's a marvel at how he's alive. Yes. Once again, that's all at stinkydragonpod.com. We're incredibly grateful for your support, which makes this show possible. Some of our friends voiced NPCs in this episode and listeners who interacted with us on the Stingy Dragon Discord had NPCs named after them, just like Orman named after Orgamus, Phizmum named after Kim Karris voiced by Aaron Zeck at Aaron Zeck, Shannon named after Shannon Logan voiced by Ashley Burns at Ashley Burns from Morning Somewhere and of course Rooster Sheath and the Sea Drinker voiced by Laurie Byrd at lori.bird. That's L-A-W-R-I-E dot B-I-R-D. This episode of Tales from the Stingy Dragon was produced by Ben Ernst, written, edited, composed by Michael Reisinger with additional editing work by Catherine Arnold and David Sonny. Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of Tales from the Stingy Dragon. I get PTSD every time someone mentions the science fair solely because this is actually, this is lower for myself and my mom, mother of puppets. There was one year of the science fair I had procrastinated too long. It was due soon. I got a stomach virus was just exiting everything inside of my body constantly. My mom also had, was sick as well. And we both were just out of memory. I had this core memory of being in the living room of our house and my mom's like doing the mom thing, trying to finish the project for me and then begging me to get off of the couch that I'm groaning on to like come contribute a little bit before I go lay back down because I can't do anything. It was one of the most miserable moments of my entire life. And I think it is what's for my mom as well. Yeah, I just, like you mentioned that trifold poster board. I was like, like a shiver went down my spine. Worst thing ever. 500 orders a month was manageable. 5,000 is madness. Embrace intelligent order fulfillment with ShipStation. The only platform combining order management, warehouse workflows, inventory, returns and analytics in one place. What used to take five separate tools, ShipStation does in one. 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