C03 - Ep. 31 - From On Hyra - Prove One’s Metal

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Previously, B-teams briefing at Fort Andridge was suddenly shattered by a pair of peculiar pugilists that conjoined Renee Sous, these fighting figures focused on Gunther, forcing his friends, futile fighting to the wayside. When Gunther was decidedly disarmed, the duo divulged they were actually disjoined and designated a destination, a delayed reunion with Bundlapp at Sky Blue Falls Prison. While Sresstein, Doug was visited by the veiled eye, who mandated a meet-up and meadow canning with his many mechanisms. Naps him nectar and nestle him for a noxious narrative. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Tales of the Stinky Dragon. I'm your Dodger Master Gustavo Sorola, and I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow. Swing! Swing! Swing! Sure. Following astrology stereotypes, what would your pet yours zodiac sign be? And that's submitted by Lower Marstar. All right, we're going to roll that D20. Excellent question, by the way. Yes. Two. I rolled a one. Seventeen. Four. All right, so it seems like we have Doug first with Seventeen, then Nadi with four, Gunther with two, then Toll with one. Woo-woo. All right, let us all uh, Doug. You got it. Well, hello everyone. I am Barbara Dunkelman, and I play Doug Boone, the Artifacer Bugbear Battle Smith Artifacer Boone. Boone. I read that plosive. Boone. Beats Battlestar. And uh, you know, it's funny because Doug actually has learned a lot about the zodiacs and all the different astrology signs and everything like that and part of his studies. And you know, I'm not going to tell you what Doug actually is, but the one that Doug is probably relates to the most. It's gotten an unfortunate name, but it's cancel. Oh. The reason is, is, Cancer's are typically, you know, very caring, very, you know, a little bit emotional. Might have like a harder exterior, but a soft interior, whereas maybe Doug's just only soft outside and in. But you know, it's just very compassionate. Um, you know, gets gets a little bit emotional from time to time and uh, yeah, he also likes the summer months. So being born in July will be pretty cool. Are you crabby? Do you go good with butter? I don't appreciate those jokes, tall. I don't want to be eating. Okay. This is okay. I know you're hungry. I know it's for second morning. I don't eat. That's very true. All right, Doug, I, uh, cancer. Good to know. Good match for you. Terrible name, though. All right. Who's up next? I think we had Nadi with four. Yeah. Hi, I'm John Reissinger. I play Nadi Wunder who is a drought warlock drag queen and mother of the bringer of the end of all times. And I don't, I don't necessarily, uh, subscribe to the zodiacs. I'm gonna, I don't really know much about them, but I was looking at them like if I had to like pick one that I associate with the most. I got to go with them capricorns. Mostly because of superficial reasons. Like the little sign is like this little goat with horns and reminds my little baby with his little horns. And so I like that. And then also, uh, it's apparently that they're like, they love like family and music and traditions. And so I'm like, okay, I'll, I'll go with that as well. And, uh, yeah, it's just, I, it also makes sense that their, their sign is like the end of the year and the beginning of the year. So I'm gonna like that with me and my baby, you know? Uh, yeah, yeah. So that's, that's, that's why I'm gonna go with the beginning of the end. Yeah, I began the end. All right. Capricorn for Nadi writing these all down. Thanks, Nadi. Gunther, I think you were up next. Yes, I'm Chris Demar. And I play Gunther the male crook folk fighter. And for me, I would say that I might be a star, because they say that Taurus is our stubborn and bullheaded and can get stuck in a rut, but though I do not have horns, please do not say I do. I also do not like cows. I like how you paused thinking we might say that you have horns. Please don't say I do. The script that we all read for these shows did say pause for a reaction. That was, that was a type of, that was a holdover from an earlier draft. Okay, cool, cool. I did. I did. In fact, we said then to the writers room a little bit longer. So Taurus, because you're bullheaded, but not because you have horns. Yes. Okay. That's what I would have given him as well. Very, very stubborn. Yeah, I'll grant that. All right, thanks Gunther. Last up, I believe we got to 12. It's me, 12, play by Blangipson. And you, who could say to you all, and for my astrology star things, I find myself a bit of a big dipper, you know, I'm out there looking for my little dipper, you know, I'm keeping my options open. I have many spoons to give to my team. You know, I can, you can fill me up and, why is everybody looking yes, Nadi? Yes. Question. Yeah. Did you just say you're looking for like a romantic relationship with someone? That's new news to me. I like that. I'm open to options. You know, I do. Who knows? I do not single. I didn't ask. I don't think of his type. Gunther. Okay. So yeah, I'm, I consider myself a big dipper. Yeah. That's, that's not a thing. I thought that's what you were going to say, John. I mean, I, I took that as a joke. And, but, uh, and so, What's the joke? I saw it. You've big dummy. I took that as the joke. But the other is I'm interested in like him revealing things about himself. Because that's the whole point of these things. We're supposed to learn a little something about you. I learned something new. So I want clarification. Yeah. A big dipper. I think the obvious answer for 12 would be places. Because I, why? Because it might be a good share for something. A lot of sign and, you know, you also, you know, where you hide on your sleeve. It's like I got a little bit of motions going. Okay. Yeah. I'm, I'm open to this. I mean, my manufacturer date was May 14th. It says right here on my arm if you reveal the skin. I think that that's technically a tourist. But I, you know, I don't know astrology. I follow the stars for, you know, the different boat and navigation things. And I've always liked the big dipper. So I, that's what I relate to with your guiding star. Yeah. The one is the big dipper with the North Star. Yeah. It is. Okay. Okay. That's like the idea of told making his guiding star one of the ones that moves constantly. It's one of the ones in the big dipper, but not the North Star. It's another one. Yeah. It's not the constellation. Isn't that right? Yeah. You just get that on the ocean. It goes in circles. It's efficient. All right. Thanks. Thanks, Tulsa. Always a laugh. Said with the straightest always a laugh. Always a laugh. Lane, that was hilarious. You cracked me up. That's a hoot. I sense you have something in your heart waiting to be made. I guess I just don't feel as inspired lately. Some of my inventions in the past have caused so much pain and I guess I'm just afraid. Well, the past is just that. It's time to move forward and learn and grow. I have faith in you, Doug Boone, that you'll be able to do whatever you set your mind to. Want to give me like a little clue or a little hint? Maybe. Maaab. Uh, yeah. Wait. What was your name again? Doug, Doug Boone. Doug Boone. That's right. I was going to say that. Doug, dude, Doug Boone, it's hard for me to keep track. When you come to meet Okian, we'll discuss it further. But if I forget your name, please don't take insult. What's going on with you? Say bro. It's difficult for me to keep track of time. The future and the present all mixed together for me. Time's taking notes so I can keep track of this. Maybe I should do that. I do recommend it. The veil dies. Christa Maris. I want to use my thingamajig. Meadow Canyon. I'll see you there, Doug. Okay, I will meet you at Meadow Canyon. It's easy enough to remember. Small puffs of clouds begin converging around your face. And they tickle your nose. And you sneeze. Aww. With the sneeze, Doug, you snap back to reality and you find yourself standing at the workshop and Gunther's just talking to you. So I say, don't you dare take that bug. That is my bug. But so, it's a little bit, you know, what do you do? What do you do? Yeah, that's really quite the pickle that you're in, Gunther. Which is listening that whole time for sure. Yeah. Chris, go and take an inspiration die for yes, ending that conversation. That was a really good performance. Well, Don Gunther, your first inspiration die of the campaign. You've done it. But you know how it is, Doug, siblings. Yes, uh, yeah, siblings. Yeah, they're really great, aren't they? No, because they take your bugs. Yeah, they might take your bugs and they might, you know, like, take on your own stuff, but yes. But the happy times are, you know, you've got to hold on tight to them. They certainly are lots of happy times, yes. Yeah. Yes. You, you've realized siblings, don't you? Oh, yes, and I love them all. I would cherish them so much. That's nice. Open wound. Open wound. Yes. Yes, yes. But I do not like them. Glad to be away. All right, Doug, just move just like me, Gunther. Uh, I feel like I'm seeing a little bit of myself here. Don, you look really confused. What's up? This is just my default. I'm just confused. Don't worry about me. I'll figure it out. I mean, you're wearing it on your face. You're all back. It's just me. It's just me watching Gunther traverse a touchy subject. That's all they suck. All right, unless you all have any other downtown activities you want to do, I think that about wraps it up. If you all want to take a rest, call it a night or push on. Oh, we weren't resting already. I figured if Doug had that in a vision, was it a dream or was it a vision? It was like in the middle. It was like a vision while he was a working. A vision quest. He checked out for a moment. Yeah, we've all been there. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Huh? What? Yeah. Yeah, I suppose a rest would be nice. Yeah. Because we get to sleep in our bumps. Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say. You all can sleep in the barracks and take it like a proper full long rest if you so wish. And it's such a good long rest. You're going to give us temporary HP points, right? No, I'll just give you back the normal amount you would get from a long rest. Okay, guys. Now that everybody knows that I am a thomatech, I can finally stop pretending to be asleep. So I'm going to go power down in the corner. So if you see me just there zoning out, do not fear. I'm just in sentinel shot. I mode. It's no big deal, really. Can you actually maybe just like watch me sleep, 12 if you're going to be up anyways? I mean, yeah, why not? I mean, do you have a preference on where you want me to be put? So you know, just, you know, nearby. So you can see if anything weird happens to me or if I look like I'm in maybe like a trans or a dream that's disturbing me. So you have this night stand here. If you want, I can just kind of crouch on it. It's like a goblin like a gargoyle. You just make you feel comfortable. Yes, and I'll open my eyes big and bright. So you can see the time watching. Do you have a setting first for playing Watt noise? Oh, I do. Yes, yes, yes. So here we go. Are you going to pass out? What did you say is something? I was going to ask if you could me to play Thunderstorms instead. OK, OK, yeah, yeah. What? Everyone's looking at me. It's not for me. I'm done. What's the matter? I'm so confused. And that he's already asleep. That's perfect. And that he's out. I like to think that tolls eyes also turn red and glow like a night light. So he's just there with like glowing evil looking red eyes and he's making that demonic sound. They actually display digital readouts of the time. Yeah, this one's ours in the same minutes. And we've got our thumbnail for the episode. Just a gargoyle mouth-a-gap staring at Doug sleeping. OK, you all are snugly asleep except for tolls who's making a demonic sound stop. Doug, go ahead and hit off the alarm clock. Snowy mode activated. Well, your alarm clock doesn't have a chance to go off because what shakes you from your slumber is a sergeant's delight who angrily enters the room, be raiding everyone. Me team, what in tarnation happened to me? What did you all do? You took a little nap. I took a little nap just like you're taking a nap. Over sleeping, not making it to go next assignment. Yeah, pretty much. I came and talked to you while you were asleep. I do remember that. Thank you, Tollf. Give me the key. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Do you need a white noise machine? No, you sleepy heads. I've already set your private to head to me. You don't can need to scout. Do you remember what your mission is? Or two as good. Go for it. Gunter, lay it on him. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. A beautiful song. Wow. Sounds like white noise. It was to go to the boiling blasts because their metal creatures are attacking oil miners and stealing relics from the fire-eater temple. Also, their bees, their bees. Is your mission to be a beekeeper, son? No. Are you gonna harvest, honey? Put it in a little jar, sell it at a farmer's market. That sounds lovely, but wow. It's not your mission. Did you just reveal your retirement plan, Sergeant Celia? That sounds very nice. Yeah, to the front line. You got it, sir. Let's go, team. Right away. Up in the atom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going. We're going. We're going. That too. Leave me a sleep in the war room. Leave me put my hand warm water. It's not gonna work on me. Got my first time falling asleep. We look down. He just has like a urine stain. Oh, I'm just gonna get fresh. And that's our alternate thumbnail. Yeah. DB pants. Okay, put the plan here. Natty, you're in charge, right? Yeah, I feel like I've been in charge for quite a while. And so I could probably relinquish controls. So I don't have to worry about that anymore. Who gave it to me? I think Toll gave it to me. Or maybe Gunther gave it to you. Or Doug? I think I gave it to Doug. Doug gave it to you. Okay, if math, math, I think it's got to go to Gunther. Okay, then I bequeath to Gunther. I accept but with reluctance and dishonor. Disonor? I just honor. I don't know what to not feel. So I should leave, but I shall accept it. Well, I mean, Gunther, we're going to try to, God, don't tell still like this, but we're gonna go strike to see your friend bun lap. So this is your chance to gain back your honor. Wear it with pride. You know what they say? The best leader's honor? Luctant ones. That's right. You do not seek the power. The power seeks you. You're perfect for it. All right, Gunther. What is, what's the plan? How are you going to approach this? So straight ahead, there's boiling blobs, but along that route is Mito Canyon, right? So your report, Indrich, Mito Canyon is three hexes away. So about 18 miles. Okay, from where you are, the next immediate places you go to, you have two options. You could either go to boiling bluffs or copia convent. Or the convent. That's where the mother, oh, I know this, I know this. I talked to her. It is non-convent priestess chess. Hey, look at you. Yeah. Even thought about her. She's for many, many weeks. Yeah, I talked to her. She sounds like this very dreamy. Ooh, kind of wispy voice. I hope we can get that voice actor back. You know, the copia convent is a small convent of nuns devoted to the fruit bearer. And the bees knees when it comes to leather working and tanning. Bees. Since we're talking geography. So we've got the boiling bluffs and then Mito Canyon's after boiling bluffs. Where is Sky Blue Falls prison in correlation to all that? It's also on the way. It's like you would get there on the other side of either of these options. Okay. Okay, okay. So it is between those options and Mito Canyon. Yeah. Mito Canyon is three away. So it's like immediately next to the boiling bluffs. The copia convent. And then you could do Sky Blue Falls prison after that on the way. Well, then it would sound like we should head to boiling bluffs since that is in fact our mission direction. And then we can get somehow, well, I guess we got two options. We can go boiling bluffs and try to like, like, you know, like when they were playing football and they try to just go right through the defense to get to where they want to go. Uh-huh. Or we could go to the the convent and try to circuit. I'm saying this by steal I had listening. I've pushed him away. I realize we wandered off at this point. Okay. Because now I'm talking about not doing orders. We could go to the convent and maybe that gets around the front line. So I'm to do any sort of the the armistuff. It's funny because we're soldiers. And we can go to all of our other little side quests. Hmm. I believe we should go to boiling bluffs. You're in charge because also the seeds are incurred. It's curious to talk to the fire eaters. Yeah, the fire starter. Yeah, we could fire starter the eaters. Sorry. Yes. You were you were really confident with that. You were just right up there. What? All right. So we're going to to boil and bluffs. Yes. Before we leave the camp. What is what is this called? The room that we're in barracks barracks before we leave the barracks. Doug put into trip me. Oh, yeah, no questions asked. Here we go. Soul starts to work his way over to eight teams. Bunks and just thrashes around. Oh, no. Oh, told where do you only ones in here? I know. I just need to in case there's like, you know, steel eyes watching through a window or something. You know, I just I didn't need to make it look like an accident. But to heck with a team really, you know, lucky for you. They're not there. They already woke up and they're out. You stuck it to them to the merits for not cleaning bump heads to the merits. That's too many to marry. No one wants that. Am I in trouble? Is this a thing that goons? No, this is to a team. Oh, yes. Yes. Bad day team. All right. Let's go on not the double just the single on the single. Here we go. There we go. Do you have like a fun marching song? Nadi, have you considered making a marching song as you? You're president to musician. Soldiers go by March. June by one. I want. Soldiers go by marching and they're having so much fun. Soldiers they go marching and they do and all their stuff. And they go soldiers go marching to the boiling glass. It's good. No, it's hot. It's the catch you in. Okay. So it is early in the day since you all just took a rest and you spent some time here at Fort Endridge. What is your marching order? Gunther, why don't you tell me what the marching order here is? It should be told then then me and then Natty. And then yes on the behind. It shall be dug. Excellent. You got it. So yes, sir, on the behind and just to make it explicitly clear, I have in fact continue to recast, animate the dead. So Captain Grumbles continues to want. And then Grumbles. That is an excellent point. I've been meaning to bring that up. You know, you said you recast. I want to make sure you burn the spell slot for that as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm happy to. Happy to. Okay. Worth it. Why did I make you a ring of spell slot refilling? If we're just going to use it on this guy every time I put my hand around. Captain Grumbles was like, so we can keep this guy around. He's the best. I love him. Skin swapping. Yeah. This is just so gross and degraded at this point. Okay. He gives me the key. He bgb's maybe Captain Grumbles can like stay around, but like 10 feet in the direction that the wind is blowing so that we do not catch you know, we're in dead skin as well. Yeah, but I take care of my dad. Did you not tell you this? You don't think I got products to take care of Captain Grumbles? Maybe he's born with it. Maybe it's Bjorn skin. I am aiming for a Blue Fairy. I'm a real boy situation with Captain Grumbles someday. That's what I'm aiming for. He was already alive and real at one point. He's a whole new person. He swears. He takes care of Gigi. He's just like we've made a new person. It's also a beautiful friendship because he started as an enemy, but now he is our friend. You know, sure there's macro mancy involved. Yeah. Isn't that beautiful? I know. I know. Captain Grumbles. I know. Oh, you're a dog. See, you love him, Gus. All right. What is the new one going to make me a perception check? Okay. I'm gone. 12. 30. 20. 30. 20. 20. 7. Okay. So, 2. 30. 20. A 12 and a 7. Doug and Nadia, as you all are, you two are number three and four in line, aren't you? The back of the pack. As you all are, you know, marching, making your way away from Port Andridge, you know, you've been walking for a little while. Port Andridge is just a spec behind you. You see something out of the corner of your eye kind of off to the left from you all. It seems like almost like a disturbance, like a puff of dirt moving around. Like on ground level? Yeah. And, you know, you focus a little more and look at it and it looks like someone's chasing a rabbit. Huh. Tasting a rabbit. Okay. How far away? Not terribly far. 100 feet, maybe. And as, you know, you're staring at them, you start to make out more details on the figure that's chasing the rabbit. It looks like it's wearing a top hat and it's holding maybe a wand of some kind in one of its hands. Wait, it's weird. It has like tentacles and one giant eye in the middle. So the creature is the body is like a giant eye surrounded by tentacles. A giant eye with tentacles and titular eye stalks. Wait, what? Metatog here for a second. What did Zuzu top look like? Oh, everyone make a reality check. Oh, Bob was Zuzu top. Zuzu top is from the Groteth campaign. And Arbrillian. The, the magic show at the beginning of the campaign. Very good, Bob. Well, it's a reality check again. So what you're going to do is you're going to roll a D20 and add all of your ability score modifiers, which is strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, wisdom and charisma. Farts. Do we add the negatives? Yes. Crit fail. 30, 14, 29. When you were talking about a magician, I was thinking it was that one barbed-tender, the old man bartender who talks like a magician. Oh, I'm not sure I'm a magician. I remind you what he sounded like again, though, guys. So what time? We'll pull up the audio for you for that. All right. So 29, 30, 14 and a one. Yep. One. I'm proud of that. I think you didn't add his modifiers. It'd be a 10. Just for the record, Crit fail and crit success is only on like attack rolls. Who do you make your skills check? You can still add everything. Like it's not an automatic fail with a one, an automatic success with a 20. If you're older one, that's probably not good. Anyway, it was a 10. Yeah. Maddie, you did okay. Everyone else, not so much. I had a 29. 29? It's one less than Maddie. Yeah, but you had to add 12 to your roll. Yeah, I rolled a 17. It's pretty good. 30 was the number we were looking for. So only Maddie is okay. Okay. Now I got to make a few rolls. That dang minus one charisma, God. Actually, don't have any negative modifiers. That's good. This is if you cheated on your rolls. I thought plenty of characters out of negatives. Yeah, so if I, what you talking about, Blaine? I'm special. I'm not. I'm upside down. I'm human. I'm not a automatic. I'm seeing this creature kind of makes your brain hurt from, you know, like inside. And it doesn't quite make any sense. And as a result of seeing this disconcerting image, Doug and told you have this sick feeling in the pit of your stomach and you absolutely cannot stand. You abhor violence. You want to do everything possible to avoid violence. Nothing changed for me. Oh, God. Oh, control. Oh, delete. What's happening to my process? I'm, but I mean, would that apply to Gunther and told would they have to roll at all because they didn't technically perceive this person? Yes. Okay. I'm a bit of an empath. Okay, Barbara. I, you know, I just feel the vibes of the world. Maybe you'll all cancel then. Maybe they will be affected by it. Okay. And is there a condition metagamize? No, for the rest of this session, you're just going to roleplay as if your characters hate violence. Okay. But not me. Not you, Gunther. You pooped your pants. You pulled a steal. Gunther, you get a chill down your spine. It's cold. Yeah, it is cold. You want to avoid darkness whenever possible. You're afraid of the dark now. All right. So keep my eyes open. That's a good plan. I start singing that one song by The Darkness. Somebody in the middle of the corner. No. Gunther, it's The Darkness. No, no. No. So for the rest of this session, Gunther, you are afraid of the dark and all three of you, whenever anything pertaining to violence or darkness comes up, you have disadvantage on any role. But not Nadi. Regarding that. No, Nadi, Nadi's fine. Nadi kind of squints and looks at the strange looking magician following the rabbit. And she like, you know, rubs her eyes and looks again and realizes that what she saw was not of this world, maybe not from this reality. It's a, it's some kind of weird illusion. Then after rubbing her eyes, she looks again and the magician appears totally mundane. Like a normal human being chasing a rabbit. Still a weird thing for us to be finding as we walk through this place, just a magician playing with the bunny. Can I approach the magician in the magician? Since I'm not scared of anything. Yeah. Metalwise, just because of this weird reality bending situation, Nadi, the only thing that happens to you is you get disadvantaged on your next role. Well, poop on you. Got him. So yeah, you see what appears to be a middle-aged human wearing a black suit and a top hat with a red bow tie and a cape and white gloves. Hey, classic. Ma'am, hello. I'm Nadi. What's up to you? Hello. Hello, Nadi. I'm looking for my rabbit. I can't help but notice you have a particular attire about you. Are you perhaps a traveling entertainer of some sort? Well, of course. I'm a magician. She does like jazz hands. Whoa. Okay. What happened with your rabbit? Looks like someone let the rabbit out of the hat. You don't seem quite bothered by the fact that you're about to lose your act. Oh, you know, rabbits are a dime a dozen. I can always find another. Don't you try and catch the rabbit? Yeah. What do you do? You try to chase after it? I'll chase after it and then grab it in my tongue. Oh. Just don't hurt it. Yeah, don't hurt that rabbit. No. If you hurt that rabbit, I'll fight you. I'll fight you. I'll go on. All right. Why don't you make a, however you like be going to tack with your tongue or whatever you do to grab it? So grab is like a strength, a thing, opposition, but I don't know as far as like the move if it's like a dexterity thing. I don't have like an attack role for my tongue. I thought you had like a specific thing for it, didn't you? No, it doesn't do damage. You should just grab things. Oh, okay. Then just do like an arm strike in that case. 17. Yeah. I'm going to make a post roll here for the rabbit. If it gets away. With the tongue to grab it, it's in a post dex grapple check. So the stinky dragon fun fact of the day, did you know that Chris's favorite Pokemon is a lickitong? Yep. Is that true? Yeah. Yeah. Go minors. Hold on. Julie buff. It's not relaxed. Also good one. Good one. So I guess that would actually be a plus three if it's a dexterity. So that'd be a 20. It doesn't matter. I rolled a seven. So you're still good regardless. So I guess while Nadi's talking to this magician, Gunther just goes. And then stitches the rabbit in his mouth. Oh, thank you. Most people don't want to touch the rabbit. It's got a rare skin disease. It has leprosy. Oh no. It's where you're in that. What's wrong with the rabbit? Well, well, well, well. Well, it's rabbit, of course. Perfect. Oh, rabbit, rabbit. I guess. Yes. Well, I think out there, like, Gunther's not a mammal. So I, like, only mammals get rabies, right? So you don't have to roll a check for that. I didn't know that. Thanks for teaching me something. Yeah. Okay, I learned. Yeah, it's about the blood temperature. Yeah. That's why I like animals are resistant to rabies if they have like warmer, colder blood temperatures like possums. Hey, Ben, as producer of the show, can you put us under educational on podcast sound? And welcome to this episode of Rabbit Facts. Not to be confused with rabbit facts. It's a competing podcast. Oh. The magician takes off their hat and grabs the rabbit and sticks it back into the hat. I do not know if you should be taking that to children's shows. Oh, it is what it is. It might need to old yellow this rabbit. Oh, no. It's violent. I do not like. Oh, you know, there's been fewer gigs since the war started. So I've got to do what I've got to do to book the events and this rabbit is a part of it. Did you get lost from where you were going? I mean, are you out here all by yourself? We're just trying to chase his rabbit? Yeah, we have some openings for NPCs if you want to join. No, not off right now. I'm just curious. The magician does like a very exaggerated, you know, pulls its hands up to its eyes and looks off in the one direction in the distance that turns around 180 degrees and looks off in the other direction in the distance. Oh, I guess I lost track of where I was when I was chasing my rabbit. Oh, well. And with that, the magician turns around and begins walking off in and not even the direction it came from, just a totally different direction. Godspeed. Weirdo. Anyway, I'm glad. Yeah, I can't wait to fight her at the end of this campaign. You all just letting furnace walk away and you gave her back her most powerful whip in the rabbit rabbit. You know, like a old folktale of like a traveling wizard on the road that people meet and scramp them wishes. Something like that. Oh, Vos. Did we get any watches? The magician does not turn around. I think it's like a monkey's paw thing. I felt more mad hatter than anything. That's just Gus' portrayal. Oh, you're right. You're right. I'm sure whoever we do with the Vio will do a much better job. Oh, your inspiration died. So you can be deprecating, but I can't be deprecating on you. When you do it to someone else, it's insulting. When you do it to yourself, it's deprecating. As the magician walks away, she raises her hat up and you hear an allowed booming voice. Oh, and don't forget to tell everyone you've met the great Zeppablake. Zeppablake. Yeah. Well, that was weird. I think that was actually par for the course of the Our Adventures. We've been meeting some weird characters all this time. Fair. In fact, was there a magician who was the bartender? They just talked like one. They just talked like one. Okay. So we have lost many, many minutes with this rabbit thing we shall continue. Oh, I think you still have a little bit of fur on your tongue. There's a big deal. Thank you, Doug. You know, you would look good with a beard. Really? Me? I mean, you already have one. You're practically one giant walking beard. But I'm saying, Gunther, you know, could I try one? Yeah, let me, let me fashion you one real quick. Just swap toes. Doug shaves off a little bit of his fur and puts it on. Gunther. What do you think, Gunther? How do I look? It's scratchy. Very cool. Yeah, why don't you keep that? Okay, I shall. It's a shame we're sold out of 12 beards on store. I think you drag and pod.com. Let's watch. Let's watch. You could buy one there. We're hoping to restock this soon. Q1, Q1. There you go. Okay. So, the magician has walked off. What do you want to do, Team Leader Gunther? We should continue. Go down any rabbit holes. Oh, very nice. I've walked you for several hours. You eventually start to come up on boiling bluffs. As you are walking to the outskirts of the area, you see a creature start running in your direction. Very panicked. Gunther, what do you do? Wow, what kind of creature is it? It looks like it's a balding gnome with cinched ginger hair. Are you friend or foo? You gotta tell me. Help! With what? Have you seen any middle creatures? Oh, no. They stolen a relic from the front. Okay, bye. And then the gnome runs off back into town. Oh, I had so many questions for him. Oh, stolen relic from the front. These could be my brothers and sisters, but I think it's very clear I should probably stay lowkey not to reveal myself here. Yeah, we won't out you. So you know in boiling bluffs that there have been tail of metallic monsters recently seen hiding near the river bank. In regards to the font, was it like a helvetica, a comic sand, a times you roam in like what? All right. So boiling bluffs, you know, there's blackened bluffs that dribble with crude oil. And the river bubbles with boiling oil and there's brick and mortar buildings and oil lamps and torches that are lit throughout. Is there something to do with the fire eater here, right? And the fire eaters got a thing with the sea drinker, right? Y'all. Correct. And here in the boiling bluffs, there are a few landmarks that may be of interest to you. Okay. There's the crude corral tavern, the font of the fire eater, which is the temple, and Sora's Sump, which is a mine. What are the fire eater? The font of the fire eater, a medic of the fire eater, as bling. Thank you. I say we shall go to the font of the fire eater to inquire within what does he say. I mean, also they said a relic was stolen from the font. So assuming they just got one font here, that's probably where it was stolen from. That's a very good point, Doug. Thank you. Yeah. And we should keep out for those ding darned metal people. Watch out for those guys. Am I right, guys? Are you metal? Are you technically made out of something a little more than that? Look at the brick and more to the architecture of these buildings. Look at these things. Wow. I'm not metal. And I have a beard. All right. So what's the move here, team leader? I guess move towards the font, lower case. Okay. Which means, sneakily, I got you like trying to avoid this. I think there's a lot of chaos going on right now. So I don't know if anyone really can pay attention to us, to be honest. Is everyone running around or was it just that one, dude? You know, as you're walking around, you don't notice anybody else running around panic. It seems like it was just that one person who seems to be running around panic. Maybe having a heat stroke or something. Maybe got bit by that rabbit. Gus, can I do something? Yeah. Can I take a look at my shield? Is it glowing? No, for the listeners, remind them, why would your shield glow? Yeah, no, it's okay, Gus, that you forgot. I'll remind you. So basically anytime I'm near a thomitech, it's supposed to glow. The runes on it. You know, it's bright outside, so it's hard to tell. And as you're looking at it, do you think maybe it is? You kind of do that thing where you cup your hands around your eyes to try to make a little dark area and look. Oh, yeah. It seems like it's ever so faintly glowing. Interesting. Maybe we could take it into a dark room. Oh, never mind, that's a terrible idea. Are you an inspiration, dark hunter? How do you end up? I don't take it. Okay, so you're heading over to the font. Is that correct, got there? Did I hear you right? Yeah. The column of smoke and the temple carved into the cliff face. There seems to be a river running through the cliffs and it smells, it has the aroma of like barbecue. So the river running into it, is it normal river or is it black river? What? You said there was like oily river, right? Oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like a oily river. So the oily river is running into the font and does it coming out any different? No, the river is running through the cliffs and the temple is carved in the cliff face. Okay, sorry, what you said is the river black? I was like, what's he talking about? Okay, yes, yes, yes. All right, well, I guess we just go up to knock, knock, use the fire, use your home. Okay, you walk up to the temple, going through leading the way, knocking, as you're doing that same person you admit at the outskirts of town, that same balding gnome comes running up to you, going through hand out and being shaking your hand very enthusiastically. Oh, no, the fire, it is not here right now. But does show up quite regularly. Hi, I'm Flack, who are you? Flack, I am... Monther. Monther? Pleasure to meet you, Monther. I look back and wink at the guys because I'm in disguise. And did I look back at Maddie and Dog and Trog? Ha, ha, ha, ha. Flack, we overheard you saying that a relic was stolen from the fonts. I assume this is the same font you were referring to here. Yeah, yes. It seems like the gnome's always out of breath. Yeah, yes, it is, yes. Let me show you round. And there the gnome begins pointing around. You see, we have a natural font of oil always burning, very comfy. We've got beds with wool and blankets for priests and visiting travelers. We've got a steam room for prayer and meditation and a hot stone slab for cooking hot meals. In a relic, a relics for divine manifestation. I'm the firemaster here, Flack, and I help out the Kindlekin priests. Wow, okay. Flack, I want you to do me one favor before we continue on this little tour you're giving us. All right, this is something I call box breathing. You go in for five, hold for five, out for five. Here we go. Hold. Hold. Hold. Hold. Hold. Okay, how you feeling now, buddy? Ah, tired. Flack, maybe you need some sort of peaceful calming aura, like a white noise machine. Ah, that would be nice. Barbara, why are you taking your headphones off? Barbara, what's the matter? Don't worry, I'll still be able to hear you if you do. I was just offering. I didn't, you know, he didn't say yes. Oh, yes, yeah, yeah. Okay. I hope it's lowered a little just for the listener's sake. I hope you up the gain, Micah. You can get into a music track, you can beatbox with it. What was the, the relic exactly that was stolen and do you have any idea who might have taken it? Yeah. It was the fireball, pull the fireballs, you've probably heard of it. Metal creatures were seen wandering around in a temple, but they managed to escape without anybody noticing. And these metal creatures are they like humanoid, were they walking on, you know, two feet or were they like spiders, like what do they look like? Yeah, yeah, they were humanoid, yeah. Okay, were there any identifying qualities of these metal creatures? Uh, they're metallic? Tallic, great. That makes sense. Did they refer to each other by any name, do they communicate in any sort of way? They were made of some kind of blue gray metal. Oh, do you know why they want the fireballs, fireballs? Well it's very important and very powerful. I don't know what they want specifically, but they're probably envious. Were they violent in any way? Do they like, you know, were there any, um, were there any casualties or anything like that in the village? Uh, no, they were in and out undetected. Hmm, interesting. What does the fireball or fireballs do exactly? I'm exuberant guesses. It's a blazing firey red translucent gemstone about the size of a grapefruit and it's constantly steaming. Wow. According to legend, this is just between us. Of course, it's a single teardrop shed from the fire. Wow. It's a pretty powerful single teardrop. Yeah. Why would somebody want to take it? It's very valuable. Maybe that's the reason. What purpose does it have here? Well, this is the font of the fire reader and it's the relic of the fire reader, so we just make sense to have it here. Oh. But you don't do need, you'll have no practical use for it on a day to day basis. Preya, meditation. It's like going to a Catholic church. Like, why you got all these bones around here? These saints, do you do something with them? What's the point of that altar of Mechka? It's all over there. No, I understand. When things are stolen from your village, you can be very, very upsetting. Oh, yeah. So upsetting. It's like a sacred labooboo. I have here with me the only solid gold labooboo. Shall we go look upon the river? Thanks. What does that put on the sun? Up upon the rivers? Come on, come on, Mark. No, just a round of the mud. There you go. I love the sun. Should we do that? Flak, can you point us in the direction of where the people were? Well, if I knew that, I'd be there, you know, getting the opal back. How about we do this, Flak? I feel like we could be helpful for each other, help to each other, even. What if, me and my compatriots, we offer to help retrieve the opal for your temple, and in return, you do your darnest to help us get in contact with the fire reader. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I can do that. A little bit of that quid proquile. Yeah, this for that. I get it. Perfect. You know Latin. Okie dokey smart little gnome. Make sense, you into church, you know Latin. All right, let's go find them metal robots. We look for like tracks. Yeah, you can do that. Just around the riverbed. I don't need to do this. I don't know if this is an abuse of the power, but I could also like pull up as a cape, right? And he has the shield that glows when it's near thom attacks. I'm assuming these are thom attacks, so I could throw the cape over me and darkness. Copy your eyes, go through it. Well, not too long, because that's also darkened. You know, don't blame go through. Just stare over there into the sun. Don't look at the sun, you're so bright. I'm blinded and figured out. Ok, so anyways, if you guys guided me and we kind of walked around the village and then the stronger the light grew from the shield, that kind of points us in the direction maybe. When what about this also? Just to get us started. I'll use my octopot of obscura and pour it out looking for that fireball. Dangle of fireball, mine. Banging on a fireball. That's done done done done. That was good. Done done done done. Can you do that? Cust? So yeah, turns water and inquisitive ink dribbles them out. Ink flows toward hidden things in the area. Use 4D6 dice full per long rest. Barbara, if the fire eater is pit bull, I'm going to scream. Fireball! And then jump. Dull it. Yeah, go ahead and you can dribble some out and you roll from your dice pool, Gunther. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 5, 2, 5, 6. So I guess I lose 1, but I have 3 remaining. Correct. So you dribble some out and you're like, at first it doesn't seem like it's doing anything. It just kind of stays in a puddle and then it slowly begins dribbling and running off to one side, seemingly leading you to one area here inside the font. Like inside the font? Yes. The call is coming from within the house. So you know, when you first walked in, flat kind of pointed out some different parts of the font to you. There's the font of burning oil. There's beds with wool and blankets, a steam room, a hot stone slab, a reliquary, and there's various priests and travelers, including flat who came up and greeted you. As you're watching this liquid flow, it seems to be kind of leading out towards the steam room. It's the same room, that makes sense. Hey, we get a good vibes from Flack. We have Vibe check on him. Yeah, make me an insight check. Good call. 6. Yeah, it doesn't seem like it's high dancing to you. Alright, I am though. My real name is Gunther. Don't tell him. It's a secret. What was the fake day we gave him? Month or a month or a month or a month or a month or a month. Try to buy mini stuns. Month or a month or a month or a month or a month or a month or a month or a month. Daddy is a dotto. Actually, I'm a mother. Oh, that's true. She's a blank. She's a mother. She's a blank. She literally can't say that word. That tickled me. I don't know why. She's a female dog. She's a female dog. She's a female dog. She's a female dog. She's a female dog. She's a female dog. She's a female dog. She's a female dog. She's a female dog. She's a female dog. She's a female dog. She's a female dog. She's a female dog. She's a female dog. Before we begin search, we should take stock of your temple. So we are familiar with it. Oh, absolutely. And you know what, Chris, since you rolled an insight check, I'm going to give you something. I'm going to reward the investigative effort here. Let's yes and your terrible role. Yes, yes. Yes. You know, you rolled an insight check on Flax. It seems based on you trying to read him that he genuinely cares about serving the community. It seems like his concern is real and that he genuinely is concerned about what's going on here. Oh, that's a cool read. Yeah, okay. I like Flax a little bit more now. I just feel bad every time Gus has to voice Flax because I worry that Gus is going to pass out. Yeah. No, it's okay. I'm not totally talking to you. Don't worry about it. Gus is stressing me out so bad. I need some white noise because I'm so stressed. Oh. So I guess can we head towards that? Boiling room. Steam room. Steam room. Yeah, you bit of due to Flax and I've been walking, you know, following the liquid in the direction of the steam room. And, you know, as you approach it, you can see a river trickles past a hot bowl of coals that are causing steam in this room. And there's benches with wool towels and what seems to be a drain in the floor. And around the room, there's various Kindlekin priests meditating and praying. And then there's a daddy cast disguise self and puts a towel around her and a big old towel around her wig. So she looks like she's meant to be in here. Or just got out of the shower. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then she sits down next to like those guys. Okay. Yeah. Can I get a vibe for the guys in there, the Kindlekin priests? Yeah, like you want to make a vibe check or what do you think I do here? I want to acknowledge that we are in Asana and they probably are in various states of unclothed. So I don't want to like stare, but I also want to, I feel like I could maybe recognize a sibling if that's what they are or a thom attack. So you're like looking at them and then you put your cape over your head with your shield. And like, I look at it. It's in here to see if it's a, it's any brighter like that kind of thing. Sure, sure. Normal, Sanna behavior. Yeah, that's me. Well, these priests that are here, they're not exactly, you know, in, in Sanna Ty. It seems like they're meditating and praying like they're deep in thought. They don't seem like they have much regard for you. You kind of, you know, check your shield to see if it glows any brighter. And it does seem like it's glowing a little brighter, but it's not like super bright and blinding or anything. Okay. I give like a, like a cutting of the neck thing to the rest of the team. Like this isn't them. Kill them. Gunther, toss this sword. I mean, I know that he was in the midst of disguising self to do something. So I don't want to like all of a sudden just completely leave that. Yeah. In order to assist that, let me give a little bit of flavor text. These priests seem like they're wearing outfits made of black wool. And they're wearing steaming ceramic shoes. Their shoes are steaming. Yeah. Like as in their shoes are hot. Probably. How bad does it smell in there? Just their shoes are not not the ground. Maybe it's like a flatulation or not, not flatulation flat. What's the where I'm looking for guests? Flagulation. Flagulation. It's so close. Why are those two words really close? So there is a hot bowl of cold steaming in here as well. I'm Chris to answer your question. Nettie, do you want to do something to disguise here? Yeah. So there you described him as like meditating or praying. Are they like sitting? Are they kneeling? Is this like what's the prayer situation? Two of them are kneeling and one of them is sitting. And they all appear to have their eyes closed. Okay. I'm going to sit awkwardly close next to the guy who's sitting. Okay. Can I just sit there and listen for a second? Do I hear anything? So flatuation. So flat-illus-flat-illus-flat-illus. That's the steam. That's actually the first thing. Yeah. I mean, you don't hear anything. This person just seems to have their eyes closed. Okay. Since you sit down right next to them, this priest opens their eyes and kind of like turns and looks at you and then closes their eyes and bows their head once again. Hey. I'm new here. What are we doing in here? I was on a tour of the temple and I wanted to come in here and seem like you guys were having a good time. I am attempting to reconnect with the fire eater. Oh, reconnect. Like you've connected with them before? Well, the fire eater has not been seen in some time. Normally, she manifests herself here quite regularly. But it has been a while. Was her disappearance in correlation with like the loss of the opal or was this happening before the opal went by-by? It's been happening since before the opal was lost. Oh, okay. We worry she might be offended. What happened? What happened? We do not know. We are trying to figure it out through meditation and through prayer. You're just one of those people who think it's your fault. It most likely is. So we're hoping through meditation and prayer we can discover the source of offense. Oh, okay. Is there something we're supposed to do in this room specifically to like try to connect with the fire eater? Do you wish to join us and become Kindlekin? Absolutely. I love the accent. Excellent. You can join us by performing our initiation rituals. You can walk on hot coals, learn your belongings, or experience the tongue of tongues. Oh, all three? Oh, not or. It's and. Let me retake that. Oh, heck yeah. That suddenly got much worse. You can join us by performing our initiation rituals. Walking on hot coals, learning your belongings, and experiencing the tongues of tongues. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? When in Rome? Do fiery stuff. Most excellent. I got this. I'm so convinced. I'm very interested in the tongue of tongues. I'm very like, I cannot tell you what that could possibly be. Well, that's fine. That thrilled. That's fine. Are the three of us just kind of like in the doorway watching this happen? That's up to you. What are you all doing? I would be obvious if I tried to come and join. So I think I would just be trying to stealthily watch. Yeah. I'm watching from the corner and kind of listening and doing that thing where you're like pretending to look at something up on the wall. Yeah. Wow. And the interesting is beard. Nettie turns around and sees that Doug has much more volume than usual in his hair. I was just giving it the inhale. Because of the steaks. My hair started to turn curly. Oh, you be so cute. You can't. You gotta perm. It's my natural curls. That's how it works for me to, Doug. Me too. Excellent. Which of the three rituals would you like to start with? Let's go and order. You said I'm in that word for a reason. I figured that's the clear sign of clear way to get to that fire eaters presence. Oh. I appreciate the enthusiasm. Yeah. So first, walking on hot calls. You must wear shoes filled with hot calls for a day. Ow. Ow. Yeah. That sounds smart. It's the first step to proving your devotion to the fire eater. Oh. Infuses on step, I see. Okay. I'm just looking at my character sheet to see if there's anything I can do to mitigate this. And it says as a drought, are you fire resistant? Nope. Nope. Nothing. So we're doing this full go. Alright, give me them calls. Excellent. You know, I'm luckily for you. There's a bowl of steaming calls in this room. So, you know, you can grab some with the tongs that are in the bowl and use them. I just have a quick question to the shoes coming to forage you. I'm just asking for daddy. You can provide your own shoes or use what is here? Is there also a way I could very, very stealthily come in and just graze daddy and give her guidance? Yeah. Do that. Yeah. Absolutely. It's just Doug awkwardly walking through the steam room, just gently touching daddy and walking back. Listen, so one who has gone to Sauna's before, there's nothing worse than being accidentally touched in a sauna. Yeah. Any case, the anything real. That's why I wanted to sit awkwardly close to the sky because there is an unwritten rule that you don't do that. Nope. Also, just discovery as I'm looking through my character sheet. Don't worry, Barbara. Animate dead specifically is you use it without using a spell slot because it's part of my eldritch invocations. Wow. It's like a cantrip then. It is a spell that I can cast once every long rest. Oh, okay. Nice. Every long rest you could reanimate. And so we long rested and I brought Mr. and we kept him grumbles along with us. So don't worry about that. I can still keep kept him grumbles around forever. All right. Forever and ever. That's broken. Eat that, Gus. I've got plans for kept him grumbles. Oh, do it. All right. Coles, grab them with the tongs, put them in my shoes and feel how that feels. We are very appreciative of the devotion. I'm hesitant to read the Medigame thing. I'm going to hold off until it's relevant. Great. That's not ominous at all, Gus. I was able to cast guidance though. Yes, absolutely. I figure you do that thing where you kind of walk in, do a circle around the room, you know, walk kind of close to Nadi, do the quick brush and then just walk back out to the door wherever you want. Just so you know, Nadi, that you can add a D4 to any number rolled on one ability check of your choice. Thank you. I am quite familiar with it. I'm sure you did have plans. That's good to teach our listeners who aren't familiar. Yes, Steve. Steve and Illinois, we see you. I think the last time we did that someone did get into our like a discord or something, it was like, that was me. It's a discord available. I think you drank a pod.com. Do you remember the next step? Yeah, burning stuff. Oh, make a constitution check. Yeah, why not? It's 13. Okay, yeah, you feel the coals in your shoes like burning and stinging. You know, pain is just a warning signal. Sent from the brain. You are holding it together quite well. To be clear, Blaine did bring up something that Nadi walks around in high heel boots all day long. Nadi's got tough feet. You're ready. Maybe Nadi's got calluses that are helping to absorb the heat. You could ankle strength. Yeah, that is correct. Now you need to burn your belongings. Make a constitution check. 15. Alright, it real hot. We must set fire to some of your belongings. Chose a new random. Go ahead and make another constitution check. What are you doing here? Please be gaky. Please be gaky. 18. Alright, yeah, whoo. Little touch. Anything is Captain Grumbles. Yeah, randomly. So what you're going to do is you're going to roll 3D6 individually. And using each number rolled, I'm going to start from the top of your inventory and count until reaching the item slot corresponding to that number. And we're going to burn that item. Okay, you burn my auto harp. Nadi will in fact bring this temple down around these people's faces. You're rolling so you're burning. Alright, first roll. One. That is your auto harp. No, no. Wait, what was the rule? Roll 3D6 individually. Using each number rolled, start from the top of the inventory and count until reaching the item slot corresponding to that number. Burn the item. Wait, why am I rolling three times? Three items? Yeah. You got to burn belongings with an S. We did Zip. Alright, alright. Yes, that's fine. They'll have to deal with what happens with that. Six and six. So do I need to roll that third one again? Well, what I'm going to do is I'm going to not count the items that are already burned, so that's okay. Which you burn in. That's a dagger. Okay. And your light leather armor. I think I even have the armor on. I don't think you do either. It's not perfect. You're going to take it. Yeah. So auto harp, dagger, armor. J'rath. What am I supposed to do now? So it's automatically burned. Nadi, you must take these items and put them in the fire to burn them. You can do an illusion. You can? You can. I can. You can? No. You don't have any type of illusion? You guys are crazy. You guys all think I have a million different spells. I'm just a warlock. That's fine. You know what? It's, I'm Nadi's, Nadi is committed. Okay. She's very straightforward. She's in lie. She likes to be straight on. So Nadi does. She takes auto harp. She plays it one more time. A sad little melody. And then puts the dagger on it. Raps all of it in the leather armor. And where do I put this? You can put it on the steaming coals. That should do the trick. Nadi played Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash. I was just thinking of, I was trying to think of a good song and you got it. No. Nadi plays something that will not get us copyright strike. Yeah. Nadi puts it on the fire. It slowly begins to smolder and inverse into a small pile of flames. Fireball. Better, better. This is a somber moment. Okay. Nadi more. Nadi. Oh man. Todd, you know, we used to work with Todd. He did great. It was really good. Oh yeah. It was crazy good. The last step is the tongs of tongues. I'm so excited thrilled for this. I want to see what this one is. What's this one in tail? This one is simple. You merely split one's tongue into a three-pronged fork. Oh! Using the tongs of tongues in a blade of your choosing, do the deed. You will certainly bleed. And now that you look, you see this kindle-kins' tongue is split into a three-pronged fork. Okay. Oh. You're doing this, Nadi? Yeah. Nadi goes and grabs. You said it's like a little blade? Using the tongs of tongues and a blade of one's choosing. Oh, you can supply your own blade. Well, you took one of my daggers. You're still have one. I have another one. I think the whole dimension just makes you cooler, in my opinion. Yeah, yeah. It makes it. And Nadi's tough as nails. She takes the tongs out her tongue and goes, Gigi, don't watch. Actually, Gigi, watch. This is important. This kind of thing doesn't seem like you. Folve doesn't watch. Nadi cuts her tongue into two spots. So she has the three-pronged fork down now? Does was accidentally watching it. Oh, God! Oh, God! Why did I watch that? Oh, my God. I'm scotful. I feel like Doug would start vomiting. Well, Doug and Toll also really like, violence is, and that's kind of violent. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You take five points of slashing damage. That's it. It's not bad. It's just a tongue. It's just a tongue. Yeah, you must talk with a numb tongue for the rest of the session. That's not going to be good for audio listening. Only when I'm in Nadi's voice, right? Yeah, of course. Nadi turns to Gigi and knowing that Gigi has a demonic fork tongue. Oh, yeah. Mama, look at that. Look at that. And Gigi also goes back and he goes, just blood dripping down. Gigi likes blood. Yeah. It's a horrifying image that will not be our thumbnail for this episode. You ever went to church with a friend and then they start doing things and you're like, what did I get myself into? Yeah, it feels like that moment. I have not. I think there's more cult stuff than church stuff, if I'm being honest. Yeah. The Kindlekin Priest puts their arm around you very hardly, Nadi. Oh, welcome, sister. You're one of us now. Great. I've forgotten why I committed to this. You don't sound right, Nadi. Yep. That's not the right way. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. I have a question. Yes. Yes. Sorry. Sorry. So I didn't get your name. What's your name? My name is Phanus Apollos. Phanus. You said. You said. Every time? Every time. I love the, you're immersing yourself in the character. I love it. Phanus. You said that they still have guys in here that you guys are all time. They're not behind the returns who fire here. That means you know them? Do I know the people in here with me? Yeah. We work acquaintances. We're not best friends or anything, but we work together. That's how Gus describes all of us. But like, you see him around before, they're not in your, like, danger. Oh, yes. Absolutely. Okay, because between you and me, we're looking for the metal folk who came here and took the up. Oh, yes. We need to find them. But now that your Kindlekin, you have access to help from us. Ooh, what a good program. Something to come from this? Yes. Okay, good. We love your enthusiasm. You jumped right in without knowing what you get. That's a nanny. Well, I get. It did a replacement on a hot, frequent, fryer buyers. Oh. You get the boon of tame deflaim. A spark of fire is always but a prayer away. Granted, the fire reader isn't preoccupied. Any relation, Doug? A boon of tame flame. I, I imagine it's similar, but I don't know if there's any at the end of that boon. No, there is not. Yeah, no relation then. You have the benefit of hot stuff. Need a woolen blanket, hot meal, scented candle, a light source. You can visit the font and find a fellow Kindlekin, horse into raven and receive one of these items once per day. Whoa. Okay. And on top of that, the best benefit of all, fiery friends. We are forever part of a fiery fellowship that burns with compassion. If there are more involved with that, that is you saying we're buddies. We're buddies. Okay. We're work acquaintances. I like it. I like new fans. I don't know if you want to ask if there's something that you could call upon them in time of need or something like that, like some of them. Yeah. Is this like something where you guys have helped me if I need help? Yes. If you visit the font of the fire reader, you will always have help here. All right. Can they cancel my student loan debts? And they helped me cat that suffering suffering stuff. Cash. I can do. I thank you so much for all of that. I have one more question before I probably got to leave and redone my compatriot over there who probably just wonder what the heck going on. Did you say anything about those metal guys who came in here until the outpull? No, but there have been erratic attacks against miners by metal creatures. The miners suffered some lacerations. The creatures will last seen near the boiling river. Maybe that's a lead. Yeah, that's interesting. I heard that they were attacking miners. Were they just attacking the attack or are they trying to steal something? Or was what was you did anybody to turn a motive? This is serious D&D. Yeah, yeah. We really have no idea. They just seem to come out of nowhere and begin attacking for no reason. Okay. Well, I won't take up any more of your time. You have very hospitable for letting me interrupt your prior and then making me part. Hey, hey, fist bump. You get a fist bump back. There we go. There we go. And then Nadi actually goes in for a hug. All right. Yeah. You go in and get a very hardy hug from Fonus. And Nadi turns around and goes, Who else wants to be one of these guys? Oh, you can take your, you can, oh, wait, you have to continue wearing the shoes with hot calls for the rest of the day. Okay. Now you want me to hold your heels for you? Yeah, all like my boots. Your boots. Oh, I imagine they're heel boots. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, please. Thank you so much. That'll not be you. I like you. Well, these are all work of all these things. Yeah. My mom made them. Rhyne's done. It's like embellished from like tip to bottom. That's crazy. Don't waste any faith. What the hell is that? Nah, could it thumb and else talk about the, the recording? I think that I, I, I'm a Nadi being spoke for the rest of the episode. Somehow not using your tongue makes my tongue really tired. I don't know why you're like flexing it in the other way. You're avoiding it. It's avoiding it. Yeah. It's like when you're in the car and you get tired from having to compensate to all the changes. Well, this is the direction that the stone, it's supposedly went, right? Yeah, the, the liquid flowed into here, you know, over time it continued flowing, came into the steam room and then went down the drain. So do we know the source of the heat? You said there was like a hot. Yeah, there's a hot bowl of coals causing steam. Is there seem to be any sort of like, you said the drain? Access to the drain. Yeah, like a, like a, how big is the drain? It's narrow. It's pretty small. I mean, do you go over and like poke around with it? We got someone who can fit in a small place. It's true. Doug Boone. I actually can. Yeah. I was like, yeah, I see how we get a joke, but yeah, that's like a power, right? I thought, yeah, it's a, I think it's a feature of a bug bear maybe? It's a bug bear trait. Yes. I guess I don't want to interrupt or upset the priests. We're buddies. We're buddies now. These are my homes. Yeah. The buddies and they all have their eyes closed. I don't know. I guess we could try to see if we could get into the drain. Oh, yeah, without squeezing, you could move through and stop in a space large enough for a small creature. Oh, what is that ability called? It's called sneaky. The man Doug could both get in. Well, you go over and you know, you begin looking at the drain and 12. Since you're the first one who brought it up, why don't you make me an investigation check? Okay. That is a zero. I mean, he's my inspiration. She was. I bet batter rolls this game. Yeah, this has been a battle over. Oh my god. Oh, this is a four and a wasted inspo die. I give an inspo die. Alright, you won't regret it. Here it comes. Here it is. 13, not bad. There we go. It's much better. You know, you bend over to kind of look at the drain and as you're getting closer to it and looking, you realize the grate is loose. It's not fitting flush or like the way you would expect it to on there. Like it's been disturbed. Oh. And as you're bending over, looking at it, like a reflection catches your eye and you see something shiny under one of the benches in this room. Okay, can I investigate that? Okay, let's go over and take a look and under the bench is a small piece of some kind of bluish grayish metal. It's in a small water puddle and it smells terrible. Oh no. Earlier that gnome flacks of the metal people were bluish gray. Do you want to pick it up? I like because the other people are meditating and I don't want to interrupt them. I want to like point out, like I'll lift up the bluish gray metal, point this and then I'll point down at the drain too. When he gets closer to the metal thing, does this shield glow more? I imagine it's only if he's actually near a bee ink. That's what I think. That's how I interpret it as well. I'm going to say probably not. Doug sees told motioning and looks at the grate and then nudges Gunther and goes, Hey Gunther, I think maybe something went into that grate, maybe something that belonged to that piece of metal, but told me it's holding it. Is it, you know, what I'm gathering from his hand signals over here? Yes, yes. I think that is very true. It's awfully dark in there and it is so dark. Well, when I help you out actually, let me just imbu a tiny item here with a light. If we go inside, I could light up the tunnel. Oh, that would be most appreciated. Not that I'm afraid. Gunther's night lights available at Storda, sticky dragon pod.com. Can we go up to the grate? Could we tell if this like tunnel is small enough for us to fit in? This opening is super narrow. This drain is normally only big enough for small creatures to get into. So normally you would not be able to fit in this, but Doug, you have that specific feature that lets you fit into where small creatures can fit and Gunther is small. So you too can fit, but Nadia and Toll would not be able to fit in there. What if I gave one of them my potion of gaseous form? Ho ho. You're pretty sure that would work. Probably only one of them. Yeah. When you drink this potion, you gain the effects of gaseous form spell for one hour or until you end the effect as a bonus action. And gaseous form is a transform, a willing creature along with everything that's wearing and carrying into a misty cloud for the duration. Well, in this form, the target's only method of movement is a flying speed of 10 feet. The target can enter and occupy the space of another creature. The target can pass through small holes, narrow openings and even mere cracks. Although it treats liquids as if they were solid surfaces. The target can't fall, remains hovering in the air. Well, in the former misty cloud, the target can't talk or manipulate objects. And any object that was carrying or holding can't be dropped, used or otherwise interacted with. Target cannot attack or cast spells. I love that this could work out and I would hate to split the party three to one. How about instead of one person for one hour, we do two people for 30 minutes? Mm. Like they each take a half a sip. I'm saying, you know, Gus off from table. I don't think that works. I think you have to do the entire thing for the effects. Otherwise, it's like you just start burping and farting a lot. Oh, thanks. I'm going to keep that in mind. I could also hold on to it because I feel like it will come in handy in case we ever need someone to do a reconnaissance. Yeah, pretty cool. It is really cool. No, how about this? Because you're worried that if Nadi doesn't have anything Nadi has to stay, right? Or dolds, yeah. Yeah, one of you. Yeah, one of you. Yeah, one of you. Why don't I send somebody in Nadi's stead? Gigi can turn into a little like centipede and crawl around and Gigi can be my avatar. That is terrifying. And then Nadi can just hang out. Would Gigi not already be small enough to fit in there? He probably is. Yeah, yeah, probably. Although he did get bigger. So I think he is bigger. The other alternative is you two go down there. We stay up here. You guys try to find us an entrance and do that. Yeah, let's do that. Okay, go on to it. I'm going to take out. Do you actually have any more pebbles on you? Yes, of course I do. Here's the one I was thinking. I'm getting to you actually. Oh, perfect. Oh, perfect. I am going to use magical tinkering to imbue this tiny little pebble with a little pebble. I am going to use a little pebble with a five foot radius light. It's team Dunether or team Gug. Gug, I think we lay it on Gug. Gug. Or in this case, mug, since we're using a fake me. Oh, yeah. Or gung. Yeah. All right. Well, then holding out the rock, which is kind of like Gunter's rock. In this moment, Gigi, go in. Yeah, so the rock is imbued with a magical light. Yeah, it's a five foot radius light. Gunter also, just in case it goes out, it doesn't last as long as I'm hoping. Just hold on to me as well, because I got dark vision. So if you get scared or anything, just double protect you. Okay, that's good to know. I have dark vision too, but it's still so dark. I get out of help. It's very dark. I feel like Gunter, or I'm sorry, I feel like month there would be so scared that he'd be holding that pebble super tight. I'm imagining he's underneath me, like on my stomach holding up as I'm crawling. Yeah, let's do that. So Doug and month there begin hitting down the drain with Nadi and Toll staying in the steam room. Is that correct? Yep, sounds good. You go down, you're crawling, you know, it's a very tight space through the drain. Normally, Doug, it's a miracle you can fit in here. I don't understand that ability of yours, but you had to refrain it for a while. And as you're crawling through in the tunnel, you reach a fork. A fork? Yeah, not a eating utensil, Chris. The tunnel goes to the left and to the right. And the little droplets? We don't see them anymore. No, not at this point, they're exhausted. And Doug here, any sort of like noise, or like the smell that little piece of metal was in the puddle. Oh yeah. Is that smell coming from either side more strongly? Why don't you make me a perception check? I'm not to reroll that because that was a one. I'm going to use my inspiration dye. Okay, 16. A bad. It's pretty good. Yeah, you feel like that smell that you're looking for seems to be coming from the left side. As you're sniffing, you smell it. You know, I imagine Doug, like kind of furious as Browsees, he smells it. You hear a voice coming from the right side. Oh. Oh, hello. Is somebody there? Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. All right, find out what the voice is, find out what the smell is on the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Nadi, make sure you say goodbye and some salutations. I think nobody how good of time, okay, you take care of yourself and say hi to your mama for me. I would like to ask that if John is on second win, he has. No, no, no. If you are a subscriber on our Patreon over at StinkyDragonPod.com, next week we'll have an episode of Second Wind, or we're going to talk about this episode specifically and maybe we'll unveil some secrets. Attention, Stinky Dragon audience members, it's the holiday season, so we're having some deals in the Stinky Dragon store from November 24th to December 6th. All orders of $75 or more, you get 10% off. But if you spend more, you save more. Or as of $100 or more, you get 15% off. In order as of $125 or more, you get 20% off. Stock your inventory and boost your savings. 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Some of our friends voiced NPCs in this episode and listeners who interacted with us on the Stinky Dragon Discord had NPCs named after them. Zephyr Blake named after Blake Nelson, voiced by Fouya at Fouya. Flack named after Flakes, voiced by Micah Rysinger at Micah Dot Rysinger and Phonus Apollis, named after fan of motion voiced by Eddie Revis at Eddie Revis. This week's arrow question was submitted by Laura Marstar. This episode of Tails and Stinky Dragon was produced by Ben Ernst and Micah Rysinger, written in composed by Micah Rysinger and edited by Catherine Arnold. Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of Tails from the Stinky Dragon. So like if I recall, the front line is a certain direction but a lot of things that we also want to see including bun laps imprisonment are on the way. Correct. Disney World. Disney World is a big one. We need to make a stop. We also need you to the buckies. That's a no brainer. I love that boosies. Great. Oh.