SE07 EP04 - Cozy In The Dansion

[00:00:02] Speaker A: Welcome, friends and adventurers to another episode of Dungeons and Blaggards. I am the dungeon Master, Robulon. Joining me in no particular order are the players. Brandon! [00:00:16] Speaker B: I am Ekurook Punschley, half orc blood hunter, Level 10, Dark Lord. [00:00:24] Speaker A: Eric! [00:00:25] Speaker C: I play Dr. Zozo Brightfeather, Level 10 Aarakocra artificer potionsmith. [00:00:32] Speaker D: Caleb! [00:00:34] Speaker E: I'm Kaitoa Tata. I'm a level 10 warforged barbarian. [00:00:40] Speaker A: Tomo! [00:00:41] Speaker G: Hey there. I'm playing Steve Tehuman. I am a human Gloomstalker Ranger, level six, Battle Master Fighter, level three. And a little bit of Rogue, level one. Vale! [00:00:56] Speaker H: I am playing Johawk. He is a gnoll champion fighter and totem warrior barbarian. [00:01:05] Speaker I: Hey, I'm Braeden. I'm playing half elf Beleg Dygar, hexblade warlock. [00:01:21] Speaker A: So, party as you enter, and Zozo, you caught up there. Johawk, you are starting to see a wonderful russet sunset here. Johawk, can you make a perception check? Sure. Rest of the party you are greeted by like invisible servants in this extra dimensional dwelling. And there does seem to be a large furnished entrance way which seems to break off into about nine or ten different branches. I mean this place is huge. [00:02:03] Speaker F: Dirty 20. [00:02:04] Speaker A: Wow. You can maybe smell a feast, Johawk. And party, you can definitely smell a feast. [00:02:14] Speaker F: I'm gonna roll a constitution saving throw. [00:02:19] Speaker A: And party, what are you doing now as a couple of kids bustle in past you and like Rook and Kaitoa, they're much smaller than you. But Steve, a couple of them are at your height and actually here is the wizardess in mint. They're coming through. And she gives you the stink eye, Steve. [00:02:37] Speaker E: I. I kind of shrug and try to give my most charismatic smile. Oh God. [00:02:45] Speaker A: Roll charisma. [00:02:48] Speaker E: It's a real shitty smile. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Okay. And sorry Johawk? [00:02:51] Speaker F: That was 13 on the Constitution saving throw. [00:02:55] Speaker A: Oh boy. Oh no. Yeah, you feel your stomach like reaching up into your mind. [00:03:01] Speaker D: A dangling goat is probably looking pretty good. [00:03:05] Speaker A: That would be on your mind too. And in fact, yeah, your perception. What was your perception again, Johawk? 20? Dirty 20. [00:03:11] Speaker F: Dirty 20. [00:03:12] Speaker A: So you also notice there are a lot of birds around Kozzem around the cliffs. And it does seem like as you look down, seems like there may be some birds that are, you know, chewing away and nipping away at the carcass of the goat. [00:03:28] Speaker F: Oh, am I gonna do something stupid? Guys, can I have some food? [00:03:39] Speaker A: And guys, your level does have windows and you can totally look down onto Johawk's little balcony. [00:03:46] Speaker F: Puppy dog eyes. [00:03:49] Speaker A: Beleg, Perry stumbles past you and it seems like he has a small flask of like a dark sort of cider [00:04:01] Speaker G: Oh, hit me up with that, hit me up with that. [00:04:02] Speaker A: And he gives you like a kind of wink and gun, but disappears quickly down towards the feasting hall. There is now nobody with you here in the foyer, guys, you five, what are you doing? As Johawk, yeah, you do see sort of the silhouettes of people up in one of those little oval windows in the level above you. [00:04:26] Speaker G: I follow Perry. [00:04:29] Speaker A: There's a spread? In one corner, Beleg, as you follow Perry, you go into this huge feast hall. [00:04:37] Speaker E: I'm going to go collect some food and I'm going to go to the edge above Johawk and pretend to eat it, but actually toss it down to him. [00:04:49] Speaker A: Ah, well, I mean there is like sufficient food to serve like nine courses every hour to like a hundred people. There's far too much food. [00:05:03] Speaker G: Oh, Beleg is starved! [00:05:06] Speaker A: And you see a couple kids clearly overindulging already. And then there are there's kind of like dormitories on the outer levels of this mansion. And it does, it feels like a tiny little pocket mansion occupying one of the levels of the Brass Towers. Although where reality and the illusion overlap is where Steve is dropping something, I guess, trying out the window. How you gonna get it out the window? [00:05:35] Speaker E: I'm pretty good at throwing shit, so I'm gonna try and aim it as best I can without. Without really gathering too much attention. So I want to play the role of pensive loner looking out of, I assume probably the same view that that Johawk has. [00:05:54] Speaker A: Okay. [00:05:57] Speaker E: Uh, was, you said there was like a mezzanine of some sort or some sort of overlook. [00:06:02] Speaker A: He's out on the balcony. But you have this clear brass window. I mean, you and Kaitoa battering ram through it. [00:06:09] Speaker E: Yeah. Oh, like I don't know if I'm gonna battering ram. So there's no way to get any of this down to him? [00:06:15] Speaker A: The Wizardess in Mint now comes up to you, Steve. [00:06:21] Speaker H: You want to feed your friend? [00:06:23] Speaker E: Are you gonna put me in chains again if I do? [00:06:26] Speaker H: We transport food all the time to Rube the monster - the Moop Captain - who now we're really concerned about this rhyme you've told us that we've never heard. Rube the Cube, it does have a sort of ring to it, but we can transport it right out about 10ft in the air. [00:06:46] Speaker A: Have it fall on his face. [00:06:48] Speaker E: I'd rather it not fall on his face. [00:06:51] Speaker G: In his face. [00:06:54] Speaker E: Open your mouth. [00:06:55] Speaker A: Who wants a drink from the fire hose? Yeah, Johawk. You see a silhouette, one of the windows, is clear that there are people staring down at you. And yeah, you know, this wizardess snaps her fingers and all of a sudden there's like this big silver tray filled with like, it looks like that barbecued chicken that Rube liked so much. [00:07:23] Speaker F: I'm in my armor, so I'm gonna keep my composure and eat it politely. [00:07:29] Speaker A: Shall I? And she's looking to you, Steve. [00:07:32] Speaker E: Yes, please help him out. [00:07:35] Speaker A: She does a little flourish with her hands. And the chicken does appear above you Johawk, dumps right onto your position. This is like four whole barbecue chickens. Hell yeah. [00:07:54] Speaker E: I'll try to give a thumbs up through the window. [00:07:58] Speaker F: I give a thumbs up back and politely just tear through this chicken. [00:08:08] Speaker G: I had leftover poutine that I broke home from having beers with my brother earlier. And on my way home, I gave it to a homeless person. And I regret it so much right now. I want it so bad. [00:08:24] Speaker A: Well, actually a couple of the children, as you're saying you want that so bad, you mentioned this dish - must be an elven dish. And one of them says, what's poutine? [00:08:35] Speaker G: Have you ever had elven cheese curds? [00:08:39] Speaker A: There's a lot of shaking of heads. [00:08:42] Speaker G: They squeak when you bite into them. And then we take these unique elven tubers and we fry them. And then we take yak drippings and make gravy out of it. [00:08:58] Speaker A: Okay, guys, 1D12 kids have fallen asleep as Beleg just goes on and on. Six kids have kind of dozed off, full bellies, they're off into their little kind of dormitory alcoves and they kind of seem to have like bunk beds. One above, one below. And guys, what are you doing? [00:09:21] Speaker D: Zozo inspects the food. She's a little suspicious. [00:09:25] Speaker E: Yeah, Steve is definitely not eating the food. [00:09:27] Speaker A: Well, Steve. Yeah, You've only transported the chicken out to midair to the hungry Johawk. You want to roll investigation on the food? [00:09:35] Speaker D: Yes. [00:09:36] Speaker A: Okay. Rook, Kaitoa, you see immediately that, you know, there seems to be quite the routine here. You know, these children are quickly making this feast disappear. At least their plates in front of them. And they are going for you hear a lot of them muttering, long rest before the High Magi. And a couple of them are looking low at their feet like it's not all joyous anymore. [00:10:02] Speaker D: Rolled a 15 on investigation. [00:10:05] Speaker A: It is of a sort of magical and transient yet belly filling property. Like it's clearly part of the extra dimensional mansion. [00:10:18] Speaker G: Beleg keeps regaling the kids to see if all of them can fall asleep so we could just explore the mansion. [00:10:23] Speaker A: Okay, well, they are onto the sweets phase of dinner. And a couple of them are. [00:10:27] Speaker G: Have you guys ever heard of Nanaimo bars? [00:10:31] Speaker A: And a couple of them are like, swooning, eating the chocolate, and a couple of them are eating pudding. So yeah, Beleg. Another one D12 kids. Oh, eight more kids are now, like, sitting back. And a couple of them have fallen asleep at the feasting table. [00:10:48] Speaker G: How many of them are there? [00:10:50] Speaker A: Well, there's 24 kids and the four what we're calling the praetors. These are the foremost wizards. [00:11:00] Speaker G: And I'm telling them all about Nanaimo bars. [00:11:06] Speaker C: I'm looking for some materials for repairs. Specifically, I want to know about the, like that fur that they got from the spiders. [00:11:15] Speaker A: Ah, okay. Well, that little gnoll pup comes up to you, and you actually see that they have a component pouch. And so you could roll. You want to roll persuasion, you know, because you saw this kid harvest some of this stuff? [00:11:30] Speaker D: I got a 16. [00:11:33] Speaker A: Your aim was? [00:11:35] Speaker C: I want to try and repair that bowstring. [00:11:38] Speaker A: Oh. [00:11:38] Speaker C: So I want to see if, like, I don't know if there's like a silk they got from the spiders or like. [00:11:45] Speaker A: The little gnoll pup is quite keen, as you're clearly looking at his component pouch. And he comes up and says, a wizard must always be prepared. Components, hand gestures and verbal combine to open a portal to where magic and spells come from. Components. That's why we have the tower. We have many creatures to harvest components and to train our spells on. So the wool of a spider, wool of tarantula. [00:12:17] Speaker A: And he takes a little like, you know, tuft of wool. [00:12:21] Speaker H: What are you looking for? [00:12:24] Speaker A: I have a bow. Well, Bob the Hobgoblin is still up. And this guy just obviously into trivia. He's flipping through a book and goes, well, the finest hair was that of the last elf. A strand of her hair strung the fiercest bow, they say. [00:12:51] Speaker C: You got any kicking around? [00:12:55] Speaker A: Do I have any just kicking around in my inventory? I'm going into the Dansion. And he now goes also to retire. [00:13:07] Speaker C: Is there anything comparable? [00:13:10] Speaker A: The little Gnoll looks up. [00:13:11] Speaker G: We have a frozen half elf in Maw. [00:13:15] Speaker D: Yeah, we have a frozen elf. [00:13:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:13:22] Speaker D: Yeah. Zozo overheard that. [00:13:26] Speaker G: Yeah. [00:13:30] Speaker A: Party as that kind of settles on you. The little gnoll pup does answer your question directly, Kaitoa, but also does hear the comments of the rest of the party and says, a component cannot be substituted. And they are looking so sleepy eyed. This little Gnoll pup, so effing cute. As they also go to their bunk. And there are very few eyes here. Except for the praetors are up and Frosty who sat across from you, Beleg. And he looks at you and says, you have a dead elf? [00:14:10] Speaker G: Nope. What? I don't know what you're talking about. [00:14:15] Speaker A: Can you roll Deception... [00:14:17] Speaker G:You're the dead elf [00:14:19] Speaker A:as you guys try and backpedal the last three things you said? No, we have a lead shelf. [00:14:27] Speaker F: Back in Maw. [00:14:29] Speaker G: Deception. [00:14:33] Speaker E: I got a 12. [00:14:35] Speaker A: I'll take something from you. Deception, performance. [00:14:37] Speaker G: Jesus. [00:14:38] Speaker D: I got a. Yeah, I got a 12 on deception. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Okay, 12 Beleg. [00:14:44] Speaker G: Yeah, five plus seven. 12. [00:14:48] Speaker A: Yeah. You guys are just not doing a good job. And clearly your words were remarked. But now a silence. [00:14:56] Speaker G: Why dice? Two sessions in a row. [00:14:59] Speaker A: A silence hangs in the air for a little bit. I'm not concerned. Dead elf. Pfft. They seem to not believe you. [00:15:11] Speaker G: Perfect. [00:15:13] Speaker E: Excellent. [00:15:14] Speaker A: Okay, party. This feast is kind of winding to a close. Any other sort of investigation you guys want to do of the extra dimensional Dansion? [00:15:25] Speaker G: Like according to my long rest. In a long rest, I can do up to two hours of menial activity that isn't sleeping. So I'd like to spend two hours of the long rest just walking around the Dansion, exploring. Where's Perry? I'd love to find Perry. [00:15:41] Speaker A: The Dansion has everything you could want or imagine. It's got like 50 rooms. You find Perry. He is in the spa. [00:15:53] Speaker G: Oh, Beleg will happily, Beleg will spend all eight hours in the spa. [00:15:57] Speaker A: He's got his feet in these like hot pebbles. There seems to be a great sort of like foot treatment going on here. Some sort of arcane foot treatment. He has got a full belly and he's got like a towel around his head, a towel around his midsection. [00:16:14] Speaker G: Sorry, boys. Beleg's out. He's living with Perry now. [00:16:22] Speaker A: Oh, we're not gonna live here. [00:16:25] Speaker E: Strangest relationship I can think of. [00:16:28] Speaker A: This is a one night show. This is just a perk before tomorrow's punishments. Every month. This is a one night thing. Before tomorrow. [00:16:40] Speaker G: Does tomorrow suck? [00:16:43] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. The end of every month is either the hand, the rod or the rocks. [00:16:50] Speaker G: Say what? [00:16:51] Speaker A: Well, the hand. You can't make those hand gestures. You gotta crush the wizard's hand. So one hand for a failed cantrip. And once two hands are gone, well, it's the rocks for you, off the cliff. And then the rod is, well, one of your party members, you've seen the goat get the rod. And so at the end of every month, we feast. And you better study hard we're like the big buddies, us praetors, one of us - they say Raymer will be the first apprentice in a hundred years. Whoa. [00:17:28] Speaker G: You guys are all like Jimmy Patterson about this shit. Just killing the worst salesman every year or every month. [00:17:37] Speaker H: Rise to the top. [00:17:38] Speaker E: BC insider joke. [00:17:46] Speaker A: But, yeah, you also get the message that there is a reckoning. [00:17:53] Speaker G: Perry, why did you come here? I've been living as a Beleg in way less stressful circumstances than you're in right now. [00:18:03] Speaker A: I tried, but, well, I joined the army and... [00:18:07] Speaker G: Yeah, me too. [00:18:08] Speaker A: Oh, where? [00:18:12] Speaker G: Beleg rolls history. [00:18:13] Speaker A: Yeah, Beleg, you can roll history. And says, well, wherever it was, I. I got pointed out, I got picked up and. [00:18:21] Speaker G: Jesus, fuck, it's a seven. What is wrong with these dice? [00:18:27] Speaker A: You cannot remember your time spent in, it was an eastern town. [00:18:35] Speaker G: I know. It was an eastern town I can picture it on a map. [00:18:39] Speaker A: But, yeah, Beleg. I was nabbed. I was pointed out. And one of these brown cloaks came harvesting anybody with magic in their veins or some such. And, yeah, sack over my head about two years ago. And now surrounded by moops. Well, what can I do? I'm doing pretty well, Praetor. And he sort of taps his robe like it's something special [00:19:07] Speaker G: I guess that's cool, man. [00:19:09] Speaker A: So. [00:19:09] Speaker G: Doesn't seem like the life for a Beleg, though. [00:19:12] Speaker A: Oh, I've left that life behind me, man. The call of Anansewa, constant whispering. Put that all behind me. And now he's, you know, put on his, like, his dressing gown version of his sorcerer's cloak, and he's kind of left you alone in the spa and says, cheerio, I'm off to find my bunk. Long rest, spell slots. [00:19:39] Speaker G: I feel that my brother. Says the sorcerer, who's got a fucking bazillion spell slots. [00:19:48] Speaker A: But most things, and most people seem to be turning down for the long rest. [00:19:55] Speaker B: Rook is eyeing up in a comfy corner for a long rest. [00:20:00] Speaker E: I guess Steve has got to go reset the little leg trick, the chain trick. [00:20:08] Speaker B: I think the only thing is Rook wants to be in a position that's close to somewhere he can tuck out as fast as possible, when or prior to everybody else waking up. [00:20:22] Speaker A: Well, there's the six windows on this level. There's the hatch down to the noontime room. But other than that, it's one of these brass towers that feels very kind of enclosed and claustrophobic - if you weren't in the Dansion, you know, which is huge and expansive, but it does share that with one layer of reality with the edge of the brass tower so, where do you think you're situating yourself, Rook? [00:20:52] Speaker B: Close to the hatch. [00:20:54] Speaker A: Close to the hatch. Okay. There's a little kid. Oh, it's that little Tabaxi girl that Steve almost threw a dagger at. [00:21:04] Speaker H: She comes up to you and says I'm very shy, autograph? [00:21:10] Speaker B: Rook's gonna do his fanciest big E that he can do. [00:21:16] Speaker A: Oh. [00:21:17] Speaker H: Oh, that's wonderful. But can you write your whole title? I'm. I'm a fan. [00:21:24] Speaker G: Sure. [00:21:25] Speaker B: Then scribble it out. [00:21:28] Speaker A: She looks down at the inscription and reads to herself, Royal Highness, Prince Ekurook Punschlaye of Ponchen - that's right - Duke of Shen and Umpin - yeah - Vice General Governor of The Reach - yes - Protector of the Mainland Realms. Oh! [00:21:43] Speaker A: And she, like, is so thrilled with this, she closes the book, even though it's full of wet ink. And Rook, you find yourself off in the corner trying to be scarce, but near the hatch. [00:21:56] Speaker B: I'm gonna be like I guess do like 10 circles like a dog, and then curl up in a little ball and cozy in. [00:22:12] Speaker A: And yeah, the, even though, like, the Dansion provides like these huge, lush bedrooms if you want, Rook is sort of, he's camping out like Johawk is down on his level. And then. So Johawk will quickly go back to you. There's like a strange amount of birds this late at night. What are you doing down there? [00:22:34] Speaker F: After I finish the chicken, eating the bones. I'm gonna go shooting at the birds. [00:22:41] Speaker A: Hmm. As you look out. Oh, boy. They're not birds at all. These are those tiny gargoyles that you guys remarked before in the western tower. These appear to be what you guys remember were called the Grist's minions. And these are like small animalesque and like pet sized gargoyles. And they are just having a field day now with that goat carcass. [00:23:07] Speaker F: I'm gonna hold up the Grist head, see if they react to that. [00:23:13] Speaker A: You're intentionally trying to get their attention? [00:23:16] Speaker G: Yep. [00:23:18] Speaker A: Johawk, you have attracted the attention of ten little stone gargoyles. They were all over that goat. They just rolled a five in initiative. What are you gonna roll? [00:23:33] Speaker F: Higher than five, I'm pretty sure. [00:23:36] Speaker G: Famous last words. [00:23:38] Speaker F: 17. [00:23:40] Speaker A: Well, they are upon you. [00:23:42] Speaker F: They're attacking me? [00:23:44] Speaker A: Yeah, but the moment you held up the head of the Grist, I mean, it's like they were looking for this thing. And they are upon you. You're in Initiative and they have swarmed within your five feet, but you actually get higher in initiative. Party, if only you knew what was happening right now. But Johawk, what are you doing? [00:24:06] Speaker F: Fuck shooting. Pull out the maul. [00:24:10] Speaker E: I'm gonna. I'm gonna swing at two of them. First one is dirty 20. [00:24:18] Speaker A: That hits. This impish looking gargoyle rolled a two [00:24:21] Speaker F: Rolled a two and a one on the damage die so I rerolled both of those. Eight. Bludgeoning damage. [00:24:29] Speaker A: You smash it into oblivion and rocks fly everywhere. [00:24:33] Speaker F: And I swing at another one. 19. Hits. 12 bludgeoning damage again. [00:24:43] Speaker A: Smashes. And there's like a dust explosion - gone. [00:24:49] Speaker G: I'm gonna say I'm your leader now! And that'll be my turn. [00:24:56] Speaker A: There is no reaction. These fierce little creatures are. Yeah, one of them is kind of impish looking. Some of them look like kind of forest creatures with clawed wings. But they seem intent on attacking you, Johawk. [00:25:13] Speaker G: Okay. [00:25:13] Speaker A: Rest of the party, Rook, we know is curling up like a dog in the corner, ignoring the fineries of the Dansion. Beleg, you know, you're there, there's some nice soft towels there. The invisible staff here is constantly bringing people shit. And Rook, it also appears like your guy on the couch, your unseen servant. He is getting along with the staff here in the Dansion. [00:25:39] Speaker B: Oh, nice. As long as he's gettin me some food, I'm good for it. And of course an ale. [00:25:46] Speaker A: Yeah. And you have a nice frosty pop. A bedtime pop. [00:25:50] Speaker G: Yeah. What's the drinking age here? [00:25:53] Speaker A: Perry is getting sauced and he says, praetors only. Clearly he's had a lot to drink. [00:26:02] Speaker G: How drunk is Perry? [00:26:05] Speaker A: I mean, there's only four people up. There's Perry, looking a little stumbly. There's the wizardess in Mint, who seems to be close to retiring with her kind of wizard students over to one side. There's Raymer, who is just fascinated, still looking in the mirror at his horn. And he's changed into like some really debonair pajamas with piping. And then the Corgi, who is intently looking in his spell book. All the other kids are down. So that's it. [00:26:38] Speaker D: Zozo. Zozo tracks down Steve, kind of comes up close to him and says, do you mind if I just. Here, just a sec. And then she starts to ruffle through his hair until she finds a fragment of the broken window that they smashed through. [00:26:56] Speaker E: Says, oh, perfect. [00:26:58] Speaker D: And she takes that and she walks off. And she wants to find like some kind of workshop or something in the Dansion. [00:27:09] Speaker A: Of course, in the Dansion, almost whatever you seek is going to be there. And you're looking for a bit of that transparent like perspex. Yeah. Okay. She wants to figure out. Roll a 1D four. [00:27:23] Speaker E: Okay. [00:27:24] Speaker D: That's a four. [00:27:26] Speaker A: So you find exactly what you were looking for right there in the part of Steve's oily head. You find. [00:27:36] Speaker E: Thanks, Steve. [00:27:37] Speaker A: Just a sliver that has gone unnoticed. And you get a little bit of Steve blood on there. But this sliver is clearly - it's like transparent brass. [00:27:49] Speaker D: Yeah. She wants to go and figure out how to make this stuff. [00:27:53] Speaker A: There is a potionary styled room. There's flasks of different sizes. They're clearly a bunch of mixing areas. Mortars, pestles, dosers, droppers. But there aren't any components. But you stumble upon this laboratory right in the edge of the Dansion. [00:28:17] Speaker G: Okay. [00:28:18] Speaker D: Yeah. She puts it down on a table, a light over it, and kind of starts inspecting it and figuring out how to, like she figures it's probably transmuted somehow. She wants to figure out what the process is. She could use some of this. [00:28:33] Speaker A: Okay. As you do so it appears like Raymer has sort of wandered in after you. And standing at the doorway there, Zozo. So that's kind of where we'll leave your scene. And we'll assume that that's what Zozo does. And Raymer says, oh, night owl eh? Huh. And you will surely get in some experimentation with the long rest. Okay, Zozo, Rook. Kaitoa, what are you doing here? As you clearly have your party's numbers dwindling. [00:29:09] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm gonna wander around. I. I really want to see if there's something I can use for a bowstring. So I'm gonna kind of be snooping around looking for like, magic ingredients or... The Dansion Provides. [00:29:23] Speaker A: There is this wonderful sort of arcane armory where you can actually make weapons. And in the fletchery area, there seems to be a vat of some sort over in the fletchery department. [00:29:43] Speaker C: All right, can I go over and inspect it? [00:29:45] Speaker A: Well roll investigation. 14. 14. It seems like bubbling wax of some type. You're not sure what its purpose is. So, yeah, you have your bow. You're trying to replace a string. And there's clearly forms and jigs along which to bend a bow. But you don't see any string material. [00:30:09] Speaker C: Is there any kind of components kicking around? Is there anything that could be, like, woven. [00:30:15] Speaker A: And perhaps in this moment, you begin to intuit that you could dip something in that waxy substance. [00:30:25] Speaker C: All right, well, yeah, I'm gonna, I guess take some of my homemade rope and, yeah, I'm gonna try and dip it in that wax and stretch it out and basically wind it as like strong as I can get it. Hmm. [00:30:44] Speaker A: Beleg, let's come back to you. Anything final for the evening here and Steve, anything finally for the evening as now, I mean, it is actually wearing into the middle of the night. [00:30:56] Speaker E: I'm gonna reset back to being captured chained Steve. But I also want to take a minute to boop Stolas in and see if I can get any information as to what he thinks about what's coming. [00:31:13] Speaker A: Oh my. [00:31:17] Speaker I: What is always found in the past, you can make it in the present, but is never in the future, Steven? [00:31:28] Speaker G: Everything. He just. He says everything just. It's so obvious all the time. [00:31:35] Speaker E: He always speaks so directly. [00:31:37] Speaker G: So directly. Nope. No questions. No mystery [00:31:45] Speaker I: History, Steve. Mmm, it's good to be back. [00:31:52] Speaker E: So he's. I'm getting. I'm getting the feeling that Stolas is not in sort of. He's. He's enjoying the situation. He's not worried about where we are? [00:32:05] Speaker A: Oh, my. Just fine. [00:32:10] Speaker E: Well, I'll ask him if he wants to be here when they show up or not. I'll give him the option. [00:32:15] Speaker I: Oh, yes. Oh, my. Asking about the writing, they will be. [00:32:26] Speaker E: Well, that's uh... [00:32:27] Speaker I: Thank you, Steven, for bringing me back. [00:32:33] Speaker E: Maybe I don't want him there. [00:32:36] Speaker G: Is this where we fight Stolas? [00:32:42] Speaker E: I want to. I want to use insight. [00:32:45] Speaker A: Okay. [00:32:47] Speaker E: Is there. I mean, can I. Can I glean whether or not this is good for me? Good for me, good for him, or good for him, bad for me? [00:32:59] Speaker A: Yeah, go for it. [00:33:00] Speaker E: Does he have my best intentions in mind? Oh, fuck. That's a natural 20. [00:33:09] Speaker A: Well, then you would know. And so is it good or bad for Steve? Well, you sense mischief, maybe beneath some of Stolas's words that are sort of present in your mind. Does that answer it? [00:33:25] Speaker E: Yeah, I'm trying to. I'm trying to figure out if, like, this is gonna add to my problems or not. And I do remember the writing. It was the stuff that he told me to write when he was killed. [00:33:36] Speaker A: Oh, my. Sounds like time for the last riddle. What's easy to get into but hard to get out of? Oh, my. [00:33:47] Speaker G: Your mom. [00:33:51] Speaker I: What do you say, Steve? [00:33:53] Speaker E: What's easy to get into but hard to get out of? [00:33:57] Speaker I: Everybody knows it in this party. Oh, my. [00:34:02] Speaker F: Out of character. A trap? [00:34:06] Speaker A: Trouble. [00:34:09] Speaker G: Yeah. Trouble is. [00:34:10] Speaker C: Yeah, it's fun getting in trouble. [00:34:14] Speaker F: I know, right? [00:34:16] Speaker E: We're very good at it. [00:34:18] Speaker G: And that's a good at burning it and leaving. [00:34:22] Speaker A: And that, friends and adventures, is where we're sort of leaving you tonight. Unless you guys have anything else to kind of declare, you seem to have struck a truce. And you even see the Corgi and Frosty here, they seem to have gone to sleep. You are left to your own devices in the Dansion. [00:34:45] Speaker G: Did I have any opportunity. I wanted to ask one more question of Perry before he left. [00:34:51] Speaker A: Well, you see, he is in one of these kind of overlooking alcoves and he's got his like, you know, dozen or so younger kids kind of in view. [00:35:04] Speaker G: In, yeah, but they're all asleep, right? [00:35:06] Speaker A: Oh yeah. He's snoring away. And he has like a spilled glass of perry beside his bunk. [00:35:13] Speaker G: He's asleep. I don't want to wake him. [00:35:18] Speaker E: Should I. Should I keep the owl out or should I put the owl away? [00:35:23] Speaker G: I don't know. Wait. No, I do wake him. I want to ask a question. [00:35:29] Speaker A: Okay. How do you wake him up? [00:35:32] Speaker G: Gently. Very gently. Little like little little touch on the shoulder. Little - Perry, Perry. [00:35:42] Speaker A: Oh, sweep the leg. [00:35:43] Speaker D: What? Oh, uh. Yeah, he's up. [00:35:50] Speaker G: What should we expect tomorrow? [00:35:54] Speaker A: Number one, Ossifer. Very old. Great memory. Number two, Nim. You have his hat. [00:36:04] Speaker G: Mim? [00:36:05] Speaker A: Nim. And he's sort of a little bit slurring his words and he's like pointing at you every time he makes, says a word. Nim, the friendly wizard loves riddles. Very old. All three of them are old. And you'll only really hear Ossifer and Nim say anything. Yllato hasn't said a word since 632. And nobody sees Rube very concerned about the cube thing. [00:36:39] Speaker G: Well, back to sleep with you. [00:36:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, well, just wait until they drag in all the witnesses and evidence. [00:36:49] Speaker G: Are they gonna kill us? [00:36:51] Speaker A: Well, I don't think so. They want things. They want to know information. Information. [00:37:00] Speaker E: Maybe I will put Stolas away. [00:37:07] Speaker A: Yeah, what to expect. Hmm. [00:37:09] Speaker G: Yeah, that works. Beleg finds a safe place to long rest near one of his comrades for the rest of the evening. [00:37:19] Speaker A: Okay, we see Kaitoa entering into some menial task. You're aware that Steve, now, Steve, did you mention you were going back down to rejoin your illusionary effigy? [00:37:31] Speaker G: Yep. [00:37:32] Speaker E: Yeah, I am. Okay, I'm reinstating the illusion that I've not been let loose. Still chained. [00:37:42] Speaker G: I'll probably stick with Kaitoa. [00:37:45] Speaker A: Okay, the hatch is open. You see Rook curled up there in the corner. Okay, Zozo, you're in the lab there, but you're gonna get eight hours in. Okay, guys. [00:37:53] Speaker D: I'm gonna sleep under a desk between. [00:37:56] Speaker F: I'm gonna kill all the gargoyles, then take a power nap. [00:38:01] Speaker A: Well, Steve, you're gonna roll Initiative. The moment you come down the hatch, you hear the swinging of a maul, a maul swinging through the air and connecting with stone. And then. Zozo, you said you're making a little hidey hole under a desk? [00:38:14] Speaker E: Yeah. Yeah. [00:38:15] Speaker D: She's gonna nap and then go back to work and nap a little bit and. Love it. Yeah. [00:38:22] Speaker A: Steve, why don't you roll Initiative? I'll jot that down. [00:38:26] Speaker G: Initiative. [00:38:27] Speaker E: That is a 18 plus 3. [00:38:31] Speaker F: 21. [00:38:34] Speaker A: So Johawk came first. You struck two of them. You're having one last encounter before the long rest. [00:38:41] Speaker G: Yep. [00:38:42] Speaker F: I didn't think they'd aggro. I thought they would fucking listen to me. [00:38:46] Speaker A: You held the head of their master up. [00:38:50] Speaker G: Yeah, I'm gonna instead, like, call that a lack of thought there. [00:38:56] Speaker F: Eight intelligence, guys. Eight intelligence. [00:39:02] Speaker G: It shows. [00:39:05] Speaker E: Oh, man. How many of those little things do you think that there are? [00:39:09] Speaker F: 10 now 8? [00:39:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:12] Speaker G: This is going to be just like the Kenku tower. [00:39:15] Speaker F: They're all on one dead goat. How many could there possibly be? [00:39:23] Speaker A: And that is where we will have to leave you until the next time on Dungeons and Blaggards. [00:40:43] Speaker F: I've got 76 and 11 temporary hit points, so I can take this all by myself. [00:40:50] Speaker E: I think [00:40:52] Speaker G: Ever since we've talked about English idioms being translated, like the. The foreign equivalent of English idioms, everything sounds, sounds like an idiom to me. [00:41:01] Speaker G: And, you know, you look like a bunch of tiny gargoyles surrounding a dead goat. Just sounds like the weirdest idiom in my mind. That's just a bunch of gargoyles surrounding a dead goat right there. [00:41:20] Speaker A: Oh, man. [00:41:22] Speaker E: Was there, was there a magical bandolier in the Dansion? [00:41:29] Speaker D: Yeah, I think Zozo's gonna just, like, pat, like, just grab a whole bunch of bottles because she goes through them pretty fast. I don't keep track of bottles. [00:41:38] Speaker G: That sounds like my character in Skyrim. [00:41:40] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:41:41] Speaker G: Oh, empty bottle. Empty bottle. Empty bottle. Empty bottle. [00:41:46] Speaker D: I've got alchemist supplies, which includes bottles, but she breaks a bottle almost every time she attacks, so I think she's, she kind of needs to stock up. [00:41:55] Speaker G: I got to be the first person to solve a riddle, so the riddles were a blast for me. I just got to sit back and watch. [00:42:01] Speaker D: Zozo's still sore about failing her riddle. [00:42:05] Speaker A: Oh, the Gnoll getting it, too, on the. On the plates. [00:42:07] Speaker G: And cutlery. Oh, that's an extra jab. Yeah. [00:42:12] Speaker F: Jogawk's not intelligent, but he's a smart cookie. [00:42:15] Speaker D: Yeah. Plus, it was a riddle about eating things, so [00:42:21] Speaker G: if there's one riddle that Johawk will get. [00:42:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:25] Speaker D: Don't eat it? That doesn't make any sense to me. Yeah. [00:42:31] Speaker G: What else don't I use? Cutlery! [00:42:34] Speaker F: Yeah.