The Adventure Zone: Abnimals Ep. 27: A Walrus Among Us!
37 min
•Apr 17, 2025about 1 year agoSummary
This episode of The Adventure Zone: Abnimals features an action-packed confrontation in a flooded office as the party battles a walrus villain named Walter Russell and his team of genetically modified animal goons. The episode showcases creative problem-solving, romantic subplots, and absurdist humor as characters use unconventional items like mortars and pestles to defeat enemies.
Insights
- Collaborative storytelling benefits from embracing unexpected creative directions and building on spontaneous ideas rather than constraining them
- Character development and emotional stakes (romance, relationships) enhance combat encounters and player investment
- Humor derived from incongruity—using mundane objects in fantastical contexts—creates memorable moments in narrative gaming
- Player agency and creative problem-solving should be rewarded mechanically, encouraging lateral thinking over optimal strategies
Trends
Narrative gaming increasingly blends combat mechanics with character-driven storytelling and emotional arcsAbsurdist humor and pop culture references remain central to maintaining audience engagement in long-form contentCollaborative creative projects benefit from embracing generative processes and building on team contributions organicallyAudience connection to shows driven by authentic performer chemistry and willingness to embrace chaos and failure
Topics
Tabletop RPG Combat MechanicsCharacter Development in Narrative GamingImprovisation and Creative StorytellingCollaborative World-BuildingHumor in Fantasy SettingsPlayer Agency and Mechanical RewardsRomantic Subplots in GamingVillain Design and MotivationEnvironmental Hazards in CombatGenerative Creativity in Performance
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Quotes
"When the universe delivers to you Manta Ray Romano, you didn't ask for that? That big magic? And if I tried to keep that inside, I'd worry that it would burn me out from the inside out."
Travis (Game Master)•Mid-episode creative discussion
"I had an idea. I'm going to do my idea."
Clint McElroy (Roger character)•Before mortar and pestle sequence
"They are not my buddies. They're my goons. How dare you?"
Walter Russell (Villain)•During confrontation
"Would you like to go to the movie sometime?"
Nicole Squidman•During combat encounter
Full Transcript
In spite of what you have heard, we're at the height of our powers We're top and tallest in towers, we're spinning You can never stop us, my man, if you trust that we will do what we must Until it's tearing up just like a wave And if I don't wish to run, it is long, but our mojo is strong And unless I'm wrong, and I'm not, we're at the height of our power The End Billionaire philanthropist Walter Russell No, the walrus Still, absolutely insane dude Lyle looks at me and says, alright man, what's he doing to you? How is he controlling you? What does he have on you that he's making you do this? That would explain it, wouldn't it? Yes Well, before we do anything else, Navy, I want you to roll to see if you haven't spotted Now, you don't necessarily have anything, but this was like kind of a prepared action for you Yeah, I set up Overwatch here What do you want me to roll? So normally it would be 2DA, but I'm going to give you 3DA since like you were intentionally hiding and preparing Okay, I will roll that to see how my stealth is I'm not sure Navy would blast Billionaire philanthropist Walter Russell on site Yeah, I accidentally rolled twice because I couldn't see the result But both are the same, two successes, one failure Okay, with two successes, yeah, he strolls in past you and you don't get any indication that he clocked you So came in, maybe there's like a potted plant there That you are able to hide your bulky boy A gigantic potted plant And plus he has a lot to look at here with Roger wheeling the unconscious carver in a hospital bed And Lyle up against the aquarium here I'm going to try to stay behind this again, simply just gigachat, monstera plant He posts about it on all the forums, really proud of his monstera Yeah, I make myself Especially considering there's no natural light coming in here, so you're like hmm I suck my blubber in and become sort of, um, sort of palm shaped, sort of bonsai shaped Don't go changing Yeah, you're right He looks at you Lyle and like a bemused smirk comes across his face and goes Who, who's control, oh you mean the walrus? Yeah man I am the walrus, gu gu gachu Sorry, I had something stuck in my throat And you got a little yellow metal custard dripping from that dead dog's eye too, so Gross Dad you, I just, this old guy stuff he threw out sometimes He said gu gu gachu Yeah, but we don't know that, like you gotta go like big hits of Beatles, you know what I mean Our generation, we only know like a Toxworth, like one TikTok I didn't even say all of TikTok cause I don't have the time for that Yeah, sure Um, I'm not gonna say anything until it is time to strike Okay Um, Mr. Moore, please be so kind as to return Carver to the hospital bay and hook him back up Before I have you arrested Um, um, very well And Roger turns and starts wheeling him back into that room Okay, cool Thank you for that Mm-hmm And that's a new strategy for us here on Taz, is obeying the villain And while, what's Carver's status right now? Uh, unconscious, um, like has been, you know, pumped with something from the IV that he was hooked up to that was keeping him sedated He is now disconnected from that, but it is still in his system And as, uh, as his, uh, Roger takes, starts wheeling him back into that room and using his body as cover He's going to force feed the pizza down Carver's throat Okay Um Excellent Okay, while he's doing that, um, Lyle's gonna pretend to eat the radioactive burrito as a distraction That's good Okay Lyle Give me, let's see Yeah, give me, um, the burrito in itself is a very distracting problem. Give me a 3D8 roll Wow That's a cow bonga baby That's the greatest roll I've ever had and it's to pretend to eat a burrito Thank you It's a 6-5-5 Thank you, Gilly Thank you for being where you are Can you describe for us what this, uh, pretending to eat the burrito looks like? Trav, I got a 6 and a 5 and a 5 I think the burrito splits in twain It's both consumed and not consumed So convincing is the, is the, uh, illusion of it that there are still people to this day that swear Swear that that burrito was eaten That's how convincing it is. We're talking David Blaine levels of like, as far as you could tell, like there's crumbs How are there crumbs? Where do you get crumbs? Here's what I'll give you too for that, uh, cow bonga He is fully convinced that you've eaten this burrito And when you have in your back pocket a reveal that you didn't eat the burrito And that is going to have an impact on him at some point What is his reaction? Uh, he moves towards you about halfway across the office at his death and says, No dog! Oh, well that is very unfortunate Axoline Okay, and I start like flexing, just sort of testing the waters He falls back And, uh, you can tell that he is concerned And he moves to his desk I thought you were going to say moves to his death, I was so excited Yeah, he just out of pure fear, he dies Awesome He dies of fear Yeah Uh, I don't want to pull too much focus, can we go back to, I was just trying to make a distraction I don't want to make this all about me, but the, I don't want to pull from the main narrative over there Alright, well, with that success, um, on Lyle's distraction You have a free reign, tell me down to pizza to Carver Um, I think, kind of wave it under his nose a little bit to see if that gets any kind of reaction You know, like smelling salts Oh, it immediately does, his turtle nostrils flare And you can almost see like that rapid eye movement underneath his lids And it's like kind of the first kind of activity you're registering And I'd lean close to his ear Wait a minute, do turtles have ears? It's a membranous, uh, like drum Where the skin is pulled tight over it, but they don't have external flaps Okay And I didn't have to look that up, I just know that So it kind of leans down close and says Man, I hope that's right I think it is Yeah, okay And he says, uh, Open up Carver, here comes the Moo Moo Choo Choo And he, wait, and he moves the pizza towards Carver's mouth Uh, it opens somewhat, I mean, it's definitely having an effect on him You see him like, hmm, choo choo Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh And start like biting on the pizza And you see like his muscles starting to like twitch Um, and his fingers start to move And that is when the walrus moves to his desk In a panic having seen Lyle very believably consume this burrito And he says, well, this is definitely going to impact the resale value of this building. And he slants his fist down on a button on the desk. And the wall of the aquarium starts to lower from the top, spilling saltwater into the office. Can this seems like the perfect time to spring my trap. Go for it. I'm kidding. I think that maybe five seconds ago would have been a better time to spring my trap. But they always say like, the best time to spring your trap is five seconds ago and the second best time is right now. I'm going to, you know, I could blast him with water, but it seems like that is a result that he would not find unfavorable, given his recent choices. I'm going to wrap my arms around him and I'm going to grab hold of his tusks, trying to kind of like restrain him in admittedly a pretty gnarly way. But you got to use what you got. You do indeed. So that is my, that is my action. So you do have bulky boy. No. Yeah. Yes. So I have a bulky boy, which is going to make you better at this. He is also. Oh, for sure. Yeah. These are two thick Kings Travis. And he is, I would say, not like significantly bigger than you, but he's bigger than you. Yeah. But I got more heart, you know, that is true. So you have three day and bulky boy. He has 48 to resist. I'll take a time to shine dice just to kind of even the odds a little bit here. Okay. So 48 to 48. That sucks. That's a cowabunga from you. That sucks. That is not a cowabunga for me. That is one success and three failures. Two of which are one. So I did have the element of surprise. Yeah, you did. So I'm going to give you a advantage. It still stands, but you can roll twice. Still going to. Oh, 7, 7, 8, 5, 4 successes, including a cowabunga. Who can be against us when Gary is with us? Gary didn't make this game. Travis made this game. Gary Geigex did not make this game. I actually made it in spite of Gary Geigex. Yeah. This is Gary Geigex. I will not approve of what I've done here. So far from Gary's life. Yeah. So Griffin, Lay it out for the audience. The walrus out of his four dice got a 7, a 7 and an 8. You rolled four dice and got a 7, a 7 and an 8 and a 5. Yes. Breaking the tie on the cowabunga and giving you a purchase on those tusses. So now you guys are like locked in a struggle, but you have the upper hand. Yeah. And you have managed to like, like you are like, think of it like a bucking Bronco, right? But you're on there, right? So you have the upper hand. Is the door behind us that Walter Russell came through? Is it still open or did it seal when he pressed this button? It sealed when he pressed the button. So water is beginning to fill this chamber right now. It is about like six inches deep and over the top of the aquarium wall that is now pouring over water, five shapes swim up to the top and come over the top. Okay. So five combatants have just come over the top here and landed in like, you know, kind of superhero poses, but villains. Oh, imagine that. Working together? Yeah. And how comfortable do they seem to be on land, Trev? Um, varying degrees. These are Manta Ray Romano, Pit Bull Shark, EO McDonough, Nicole Squidman, and C Snake Gyllenhaal. So did you, so my question is this, was the size of this supervillain team solely determined by how long your list of unscratched out celebrity fish is? That has to be it, right? It was like, I have five left. Yeah. Let's get them out. When we wrap this session. Everyone clear the storage unit. You're all coming with me. You get to just file that big notebook of names away. Man, I wish I was true. But the real thing is I thought of Manta Ray Romano. Yeah. And I was like, well, it can't just be one. Yeah. So I had to think of four other ones. What people don't realize, I think, is that one of our main diseases, I think, is having these thoughts and feeling like this can't stop with me. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Like you thought that and you thought like the universe has brought this to me and it would be, you can't just. Well, that's what inspiration is, Justin. I mean, it is, right? I try to burden too as much as it is a privilege, you know? Yeah. When the universe delivers to you Manta Ray Romano. You didn't ask for that? Yeah. That big magic? And if I tried to keep that inside, I'd worry that it would burn me out from the inside out. You know what I mean? That kind of fire. That fire. No, no, no. We're here to dance in the fire, baby. Yeah. That's what we're here for. We're made to play. We're not supposed to be standing outside the fire as guards do. That's right, baby. I say into Walter Russell's ear, call off your buddies here and stop flooding this room because one of us is a cow. And if you don't, I'm going to hurt your body. He bristles and says, they are not my buddies. They're my goons. How dare you? And that is his kind of main frustration with you and implying that he would have some kind of relationship with his underlings. Okay. And since Snake Gyllenhaal is right next to you, Axel Isle, he is going to attempt to curl himself around you and squeeze while the close squidman is going to move undulatingly towards you, Navy, and try to pull you off. I don't like that. Manta Ray Romano doesn't have legs. Hey, Travis, sorry, I can't disagree. I think Manta Ray Romano has huge legs. I smell a spinoff. Oh, thank you. We'll see. And the water is not currently deep enough for him to propel himself forward, so he's just scooching on the ground. Great. Itbull Shark, though, is going to start to charge towards Roger. So, and Eomik Dana lowers himself under the desk and kind of lays flat in the water and you lose track of him. How high is the ceiling in this room? Ten feet. Okay. Not a significant height, then. So let's resolve. Axel Isle. Yeah. You are being constricted by Snake Gyllenhaal. That says he's fair. What do you do? Describe Snake Gyllenhaal in excruciating detail for me. I'm trying to picture some limbs and stuff. Give me a... Oh, no limbs. This is like Boa Constrictor, very large, let's say Anaconda body with a Jake Gyllenhaal ass cad with snake eyes and fangs. Now, don't cut him in half because then he'll turn into two Snake Gyllenhaals. That's not how that works. That's not how he... No, he would grow two Snake Gyllenhaal heads. Right, right. Okay. And he's constricting me? Yes. Hmm. Travis, I'm using my lungs. I can manually activate my lungs to breathe in almost any environment. And I think that that includes when a snake's trying to crush me. So I'm going to use my incredible breathing abilities to try to explode Snake Gyllenhaal. Okay. Can I say that the phrase my incredible breathing abilities to describe somebody breathing in air is one of the best things I've ever heard in my life. Sure, sure, sure. And yet, and yet. And yet. And yet. Dice don't lie. Yeah, and yet, I make success. The strength of Snake Gyllenhaal takes you off your feet. You're not damaged yet, but the two of you intertwine together, roll upon the ever deepening saltwater on the floor of the office. And Nicole Squidman is going to try to pull you, Navy, off of Walter Russell. I mean, I'm a pretty bulky boy. Yeah, give me a bulky boy roll to resist. Her tentacles. Okay. That's a mega cowabunga, my friend. Wow. Okay, yeah, with a mega cowabunga, I'm going to let you choose what you like she's grabbing at your boots, right? While you're holding on. Can I just ask? I reflectively like as she's trying to pull me off of Walter Russell, like flex. And it's like, I think impressive in an attractive way. And there's an element of like, wow, this is it. It's like when Batman punches Superman and his chin doesn't move, there's an element of like, it's like you're trying to pull, you know, a stone column down. And I think that there's a spark there. And for Navy, that's probably a little confusing because then he has to start kind of thinking about is it the tentacle thing? Is it like what's what is the? There's a spark for both of you. There's a spark with Twix, you know? I think I think in this situation, I think there is a and with a mega cowabunga, I do think that this could be the beginning of a beautiful love story. But okay, but it is. We are I recognize sort of heat of the moment. I just kind of wanted to set some of the pretense here. And with a sparkle with a sparkle in her eye, Nicole Squibbon looks up at you and says, would you like to go to the movie sometime? Yeah, but let's let me finish. Let me sorry, I've never no one's literally no one's ever asked me that. Yes, this is why we go to the movies. Hey, you know what? Well played, sir. Yeah, yeah, that sounds great. I take I have to get two tickets. Don't worry, I have connections. OK, yeah, that sounds good. Please don't try to remove me from him because this is like a pretty climactic moment. Anything for you, my bulky boy. Amazing, amazing, amazing. Griffin, I'm going to give you one more thing with that mega cowabunga and complete success. Yeah, sure. Having like so easily deflected Nicole Squidman and kind of looking around at the makeup of these combatants. These don't appear to be like the fully natural animals that you have experienced up to this point. They don't seem to be an even combination of like human and animal. Right. These. OK, I was wondering why there's a snake with Jake Gyllenhaal's head that does seem to kind of go against convention. OK, I take note of that. Roger. Yes. So with Carver back in the infirmary, Pitbull shark runs to pull you back and kind of tries to body flamme you down into the water. What do you do? Well, I believe Roger is going to exercise his Wango Bango Tango when someone grabs Roger or attempts to grab him. 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I can visual the button that Walter pressed to start this flooding. Is it just like a big red button on top of the desk? Does it seem like I could just hit it again to roll the windows back up? There's a panel of buttons. And before you ask, unlabeled, God, he's the worst. OK, I. I already kind of gave him the ultimatum and it didn't work. So instead, I'm going to Nicole Squidbin has released me, right? Yes, but not from her heart. Great, I am going to point all of my splash pack thrusters behind me and. I'm going to try to blast forward with Russell into the desk, hoping that maybe if I crush the desk and maybe the and I do was it jelly roll Morton? Who's the jellyfish guy at the back of the room? Oh, Eel McDonough. Eel McDonough. Yeah, your second Neil to Eel pipeline. Fantastic. Maybe a bit derivative, but we'll take it. I'm going to. I'm going to just kind of derivative of himself. I'm going to just meditations on a theme. And they discuss it beforehand, grieven. There's more than one like Patrick or John in the world. That's that's a good point. So I'm going to blast forward. I'm going to try to kind of just sort of squish the walrus and the desk and Eel McDonough up against the the aquarium wall. And just kind of want to see what happens after that. So you're doing a hydro propulsion or? Yes. Yes. OK, so five D a. OK. Wow, that's that's now sometimes you don't get a good one. So that's a one, two, three, four, eight. So a mixed success. So with a mixed success, you are able to kind of propel yourself forward. And it like the walrus, his like chest hits against the desk. Yeah. And like sort of knocks the wind out of him a bit. You can hear him right as he bends over it. And so you definitely like winded him. I told you we're on the pain train right now. And you're going to hit your final destiny shoes. You don't roll up that dang aquarium window. And then. That means death. I'll kill you. I feel you. Murder, pal. You feel a hand grip your ankle. And an electric shock goes through your body as Yolma Donna hits you with three successes. Wait, he's on the other side of the freaking room, man. Well, he you lost track of him as he's down the water under the desk. And he is just like taser your leg. Not great. So I will give you the option here of either taking three damage or losing your grip on the walrus. It's two damage for my one damage reduction. Oh, rating. So I mean, I do have nine hit points also. I'm going to take the damage. I'll take the damage. That leaves me with four hit points, which is not amazing, but I don't want to lose control of the walrus because that's kind of the only thing I got going on for me right now, aside from the kindling of new romance. Indeed. Lyle, yeah, you are rolling around in the water constricted by Snake Jillon Hall. Yeah. What do you do? Yeah, man. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to. Lyle is freaking out because he's constricted and he really hates that. And he's a squishy guy. He doesn't like that. So Lyle very impulsively tries to grab hatchet man so he can cut off his own limbs and escape. OK, you feel a tingle. In your brain. Whoa, as Freggler's power of limitless foresight. What activates and you hear maybe the voice of the nuns that helped train you and raise you say. Maybe try chopping Snake Jillon Hall instead. Maybe maybe chop the snake. Maybe just chop the snake. I don't know. I don't know. I'll chop the snake. That's what I would do. I mean, you know, your own thing. OK, so now I've OK, now I'm back in now I'm back in the memory. OK, I'm way back. But but sister like I'm confused. You've always said that hatchet man can only be used as a tool. Are you are you saying that sometimes it's OK to use them like a weapon? Yeah, man. Like it's a hatchet, man. Not maybe it's but like if you find yourself in a scenario where you're being crushed to death and death and it's like a life or death thing, man. Like all I'm saying is if you ever hypothetically find yourself in a position where you're being constricted to death and your option is to use hatchet man as a tool to attack someone else or cut your own limbs off, which you might need in the upcoming battle, maybe think twice about how to proceed. Good bad news from God, Snake Jillon Hall. Ah. Anything's a drum to use my axe as a weapon. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. And I'm going to use a time to shine guys. And I'm going to give you an extra guys to Justin because I don't need it. I got two sixes that with a cow a bunga. You impact Snake Jillon Hall with a hatchet. You not quite like clean cut, but he is wicked unhappy releases you and scurries away to try to regroup, but he is in a bad way. And Roger. You find yourself side by side with a seething slightly woozy carver over the currently on his back, but struggling to get up. It will shard as Manta Ray Romano use he comes zooming towards your feet. OK, how close is Romano? Is he close enough to attack me on his next move? Correct. Well, I can't help it. I have something in mind. I'm going to prepare an action. Yeah, that's one of my favorite like summary of Clint McRoy I can't help it because I already had an idea. I did. What am I going to do for a while? Not do the idea I was thinking of. I love going to do my with him. Now with him. It's a burden. I'm going to do my idea. I'm going to use that's going to be on your tombstone. Go on. I had an idea. I'm going to do my idea. I'm going to use my mortar and pestle. Oh, my God. In the words of me, I'm going to I'm using my mortar and pestle to to do something. Do I for those of you who may have forgotten, dad tends to pick up stuff in video games and I made a joke. I think back in Scuzz's like layer maybe that there were like mortar and pestle around and dad took one and I regretted it, but now I'm excited to find out how dad's going to use a mortar mortar and pestle in this situation. I don't think he knows. I know. That's what's leaving the most. I know. So that's what I'm doing. I am going to I'm he's going to use the mortar and pestle to grind up the mince he picked up. Just a quick use. So in a very Lucas art style, use mortar and pestle on men. Yes. OK. But you don't know what's supposed to happen. Is that what you're saying? Oh, I know what's supposed to happen. I know what's going to happen to the next time. And then what happens? So I use the mortar and pestle and I grind up the mince. OK. OK. Once again, the mince that I think you got from the executive washroom. Right. And I pour those ground up mince into the bottle of orbits. Seltzer water. He's doing it. Uh-huh. And then I toss the fizzing almost ready to explode bottle into Manta Ray Romano's mouth. So it's sort of a Mentos and Diet Coke situation that you've engineered. Yes. Amazing. OK. All right. The pride that I feel that you have used not one, not two, but three pieces of weird detritus that you have picked up in this game as a functional. Oh, I was going to use a fourth. But I didn't. But I didn't think it would fit the theme of the show. I was going to grind up the painkillers and put them in there too. Good call, dad. Good call. Yeah. Good call not using that. Yeah, I thought so. But the pride I feel is overwhelming. And I would like you to roll five D eight to resolve this. Now, be careful, though, because Manta Ray Romano is rich for spin off like potential. I know we can do it. Explode him right now. I wouldn't explode him. But I mean, maybe if he inflates, he'll float to the surface of the water and not be able to get around. I'm going to add a time to shine dice. Do I want to say, I really want this to work. Of course. And thank goodness for that, man. Five and a seven and four failures, including a triple one. So like pretty good to use your time to shine dice here. So you lob this like this Mentos cocktail. It launches in the mouth of Manta Ray Romano with the open end sticking out. And it launches him like a rocket across the room. And you know what? Because I like this move so much. Sweeps the legs of McDonough. Thank God, knocking him away. And I have a bone mark, too. Of course you do. I guess not. Everybody loves you, Raymond. The studio audience erupts until after. Yeah, they're loving that. That's great. And your father-in-law, I guess, in this show, like kind of puts his hands on his hips and like rolls his eyes and roll credits.