C03 - Ep. 34 - From On Hyra - Return of the Bling

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Once their adventures were drenched in dretches, but quickly closed in on a clear path to the dretched din. They overheard an ominous exchange between infernice and a druidic dretch, about the pursuit of the pathfinder. Finally, be team backed up a resurrection ritual into reverse and are now putting their heads together with Neo. Round up a refreshment and let's resume this rink recollection. Hello everyone, welcome to the stinky dragon, I'm your Dungeon Master Gustavo Cerola and I'm in our four players with an arrow. What happened to the Micro Machines guys, he's still alive, what's he up to? He's also the Federal Express guy, he did the Federal Express commercials way back in the day. I feel like I just woke up in the middle of history class. What? What are we talking about? What? This is Micro Machines. Micro Machines guy? What was the arrow? Did you all not know Micro Machines? Micro Machines. Gustavo, are we that old? Are we Micro Machines? Anyway, thanks for listening everyone. I don't know, that was the Micro, Micro knows, Micro knows what Micro Machines are and he's young. I'm going to go in the corner and like, okay, to like a pile of dust and bones, Micro rights, he knows Micro Machines. It's the Matt Damon, saving Private Ryan, mean right now. Yeah. Listen, we're so old, the whole gist of these toys was that they were small cars. He was tiny. That's it. That's all. It's like Mario. Say I learned. Anyway, this week's arrow question is, why is Gustavo and will he be dying soon? Yes, he will be. He told me. I mean, do you have a human being who lives to about, I don't know, 78, 79 years old and doing the math. Don't know how much he got left, just, you know, you're telling me not to get a mortgage stuck. You're telling me, you're not going to get a new mortgage. Let's just have your passion midlife. Yeah. Hit for sure. All right. Everyone, this week's arrow question is, do you think your parents are proud of you? Why or why not? And that was submitted by Gunther Buckiss Windbreaker. I haven't got to roll a D20. Let's see how this shakes out. Rollin. Seven. Full. Oh, 12. I got it. Nice. Oh, 12. 12's got it. Yeah. Oh, 18. 12's, seven, six sounds like the order we are going in. Do you think your parents are proud of you? Why or why not? 18. What was that? Doug, take it away. That was Doug. It's me, Barbara Dunkelman playing Doug Boone, the Artificer Bug Bear. And, you know, unfortunately, Gustavo, the answer was no. I'm pretty confident my parents are not proud of me. You know, we were raised to be pretty vicious, you know, going in a battle, fending for ourselves. Doug was never really a violent guy and so I never really made my parents proud in that sense. But, you know, maybe, maybe someday they'll come around when they realize like what I do is also important and also impressive and needed in society. But until then, yeah, it's a, there's also a lot of other things that happen that I don't think they'll ever be able to forgive me for. So, not a, not a great start to the episode here. Really. Yeah, this is like a, I'm glad you rolled that 18, Doug. It's a, woo. Really? Can't sing it off on a high note. I believe it. That's the tone of the episode. Talking to my collar here. It's the toilet seat left open. Do you keep lights on at night? What did, what did you do to your father? The fridge was left open. Yeah. Oh, I'm forgiveable. Yeah, you should keep the AC at 73 and it's a little too, too much power being used. I'm kidding. All right. A dark potent of things to come. Portant. Portant, not potent. A moose moose. I'm a dumb dumb using the wrong word. A moose? I don't think the a moose boost joke is a stinky dragon joke. I think it's a, our business joke. It will. It will be calm a stinky dragon joke. Now that we explain it, John used the word a moose boost in a meeting and then Blaine could not stop using a moose boost in a meeting. Because he'd never heard of it before. If I was a Pokemon, my new name would have been a moose boost because it's all I could say for the rest of the day. Was it a moose boost? A moose boost. Is that a new blurable gerbil for this campaign? A moose boost. Welcome to Cannon. The greatest present in the world that could get a like a satin or a living role would be like a moose boost with micro machines, it'd be like, they're like a little taste of a highway. Thomas Edison used to visit Little Gus in his house and it's like a warm wheel. You would have liked it. Blaine, I think for my 10th birthday, my parents rented Predator and like all my friends came over and we watched Predator on VHS. It was awesome. It was best birthday ever. Everyone, my two friends who showed up, we talked about that for like the remainder. We still talk about it. How awesome it was. Anyway. Well, who had a 12? John. Oh, that was John. Yeah. It's John. Hi, I'm John. And I play Natty Wonder who is a drow warlocked drag queen mother and not to step on what is clearly a traumatic part of Doug's story and what makes Doug Doug. I don't, I don't, I feel bad following up with that by saying, yes, I do know my, my parents are proud of me. Well, I didn't want to bring it up because it just felt like, look at me. I'm Natty Wonder. My mama's loved me when I walked out of the door to head to the army. They literally said, we are proud of you, Natty Wonder. My life's perfect. And I, and I make sure to, to pass that on until geeky anytime I can. I'm so proud of him. Oh, good parent. So yeah, there's nothing funny there either. It's just my God. I got proud parents. All right. It's good to see that. We have the Yen and the Yang here that, that opposing forces. I think I'm the only Yang. I think there's going to be a lot of Yens in this group if I know their stories. All right. Who's next? I think next was a 12th. Am I right? That's right. Hello. I'm Blaine Gibson. And I play 12. You hoot me. The male thaw a tick barbarian level six. And I have to ask a clarifying arrow. I'm just going to shoot a little dart back at you. Yeah. Which, which parent are we referring to? Are we talking about ironclad or the other one? Maybe the one you can remember the name. Born. Bjorn Bjorn. Bjorn. I like that he had the question ready, but not the details. He's like, oh, good ass that. I don't remember. I'm not going to bother to look at the specifics. Where do we go with both? Because the question says plural. Okay. So I think you can dive into both of those. There is no Bjorn's name because I called him dad. So, you know, yeah, yeah. That's why. Good save. Well, I know Bjorn would be so proud of me. I mean, I cooked fish and I took on his legacy and carried his skin on cool adventures. [BLANK_AUDIO] him all around and everybody loves Bjorn. They see that big ork guy and they go, that's a good man right there. And you could see the smile on his face. Oh, wait. Wow. So yes, to Bjorn and for Ironclad, I couldn't give two toots, you know, I think I don't know like, I'm sure he's disappointed that I'm not his like main guy anymore, but I'm sure he's also like happy because I'm out there like rebelling against him and he's all like, yes, oh, I'm a Sith Lord. Yes, I kill you. You killed me so much fun. Yeah. 12 thinks he's the main guy, kind of main character complex going on here. That's a good to know. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong. I would have to ask Ironclad, let's get him in your story. Special guest, you're Ironclad. Let's ask you and he's here. Bjorn will have things to say to this. They're coming out of his mouth right now. All right, thanks, Blake. And last up the the the genesis of the question, Gunther. Yes, I'm I'm a level six fighter. And I will say this when my parents died, they were very proud of me. Oh, why do you say it like that Gunther? But when they were alive, they were not proud of you. No, no, no, only when they died. Yes, they were proud of me when they were alive and they were proud of me when they died. If they were alive now, I do not think they would be proud. Oh, I'm asking because you state that tragic event on an upsyllable when my parents died, they were proud of me. Like, what are you? Gunther, do we need to talk? Did you? That's kind of what it sounded like. They were proud of how I killed them is what it sounded like. No, I did not. I did not kill them. That was John talking. Gunther didn't hear that, okay? I was just saying, I think when I think back to if they were proud of me in that moment, that makes me feel happy that they were proud in them, proud of me. But it makes me sad that if they were here now, they may not be unrelated question. How many toes do you have Gunther? Enough lie. Do you have six or eleven? Come on, I own you. Six or eleven? I have the proper number of toes. Okay, okay. Six got it. Is evading the question? No, that would be very confusing. We all have six toes and then another four. So technically you're correct. Oh, Doug with the or Barbara with the technically correct. That's where my typecast comes in. Yeah, the best kind of correct. Exactly. Does toe have toes? Yeah, but I mean, let me see. Do you have little, little, little digits there, like little digital, digital mechanical digits? Yeah, like my thomotech foot is toes, but you know, it's like the orange skin is kind of like to lose socks sometimes or gloves. You know, when you're putting them on and then they, you know, the toe socks and then like one slips into the other one. So it can be a little, you know, like my pinky toe might be flopping around because one of my thomotech bones isn't it? Wait, does that happen to you, Blake? It's the worst. Do you, do you, you weren't toe socks, right? Yeah. Yeah. I hate toe socks. Oh, toe socks as in like, okay, I know I get it. Yeah. No, I've not worn toe socks. Scott, Sarah, for you, did you ever wear those naked footwear like the toe shoes? Oh, no. No, no. Okay. Oh, those give me the PBGB for some reason. Oh, I just think it about it. Like my toes being separated. Didn't James wear those for working out? Yes, probably. Yeah, he did. Voice of Bjorn. Yeah. Voice of Bjorn. Your father, you remember. Yes, he is. All right. Thanks, everyone. Appreciate the, appreciate the insight. Let's never speak of toe shoes again. What an, what an amuse boost to this episode. You know, my toes are actually called micro machines. That's good. That's, that's the stinger for the end of the episode. Okay. Whatever, whenever I get my first inspiration dice, it goes directly to blame for that. Yeah, you, uh, the directors begin trying to swarm you and grapple you, but you use your might to push them away and shove them to the ground and make me a perception check. Cool. Okay. Sorry to be that long to find where the perception is. Thought it was one that's hidden away. That's a 17 hidden in that alphabetical order of your, yes, it's alphabetical. Yes. Oh my god. That's incredible. This is our job. Incredible. As you shove the dredges to the ground, something catches your eye in the western pile of rocks by the, by the pool, a glinting blue-gray metal. It's not just a piece of metal, though. It looks like a head. 12, you look down and see what appears to be the head of Neo amongst some of the rubble here. Oh, dear brother, how are you? Make me a perception check. Oh my god. I hope he's not dead. Please don't be dead, Neo. Speak to me, Neo. 13. 13. The head has definitely seen better days. It looks like it has, it's been mangled a little bit and beaten up and it seems like it's almost inert. There's barely any, I don't want to say life, but barely any power flickering behind it. Oh, dear. Could I take a look at it and maybe try to tinker with it to get it to function? I'm gonna need Doug's catchphrase before you do this. Barbara, don't come in. I can figure it out, guys. There we go. Brings me life. I can feel a figure Neo out. 12 would be very concerned. It would be like, of course, anything, anything to please help. If I need to lend my parts, let's see, three, just to continue setting the scene. Doug, absolutely. You can do that. But just to continue setting the scene, there are additionally some remaining dretches in the room that that were not killed as part of combat. Yeah. So just setting that. So you all aren't entirely alone. We're not in combat, but there are just these what were enemies a little while ago still mingling about the room. Are dretches intelligent? Like, can they speak? I think they were described as green gorillas. I don't know if they said anything before. They did not, however, they can speak. They do not speak common. And they are very, yeah, like, like Barbara said, they're described as greenish gorilla-like undarians. They're covered in fetted pustules and boils with gnarly curled claws and fangs, and they're armored with plates of blue gray metal. And as you look around at them, they all raise their hands as if in surrender. Would you say it speaks? Oh, it speaks. So the stinky dragon adventures reference. Oh, I was like, what is that? That sounds familiar. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That show. And I was like, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo. That's his German character going, it speaks. It's like, I'm sticking dragon adventures in my terrible German accent over at stickadragonpod.com. Impeccable. German accent. I'm like Michael Fassbinder and glorious bastards. I grew up on a mountain. That's why my German accent sounds a little different and a little weird than what you would expect. Yeah. It's a little unusual. So they're putting their hands up in surrender. You say they're just raising their hands and looking around nervously. They don't speak common. Correct. Do we know what they speak? Probably a bezel. Okay. Gunter speaks the bezel. So let me deal with Doug first because Doug or Barbara/Dug said they wanted to go try to take a look at Nioh's head. Yes, please. Yeah. What do you do for that as an artist? Do you have like a tinkering ability or Doug goes up and starts singing? What's in your head? In your head. Zombie. I had let's see. Barbara acts to sing the entire song of Zombie if someone brings it up. Listen. You have to get to the title. I have my quirks and that's one of them. I love that. Learning things. I do have, I believe, tools. You have the manual. That manual for it. I feel like I would just kind of open him up in the back to see the wiring or maybe any sort of like electrical parts and maybe use my history or intelligence to tinker. I do have tinker's tools as well. Yeah, you have tinker's tools and I will say just to kind of describe to the rest of the party in the audience. The artistor has some abilities that don't necessarily apply here but I can see like having some overlap, right? Like you have repair which you would use on your defender. Yes. You also have magical tinkering which is like you use that to augment abilities and you've used that in this campaign as well and I feel like these aren't explicitly something you would use in this scenario but we'll modify. We'll say you know you you have knowledge of the way these things work and you're able to kind of figure it out so to say. So I can't figure it out. Thank you Bush. So why don't you make me um what kind of check who we call this? Let's call this a survival no no no make a cat's not our kind of I feel like he would be like that. Intelligence like history. Yeah make it our kind of check just because it is intelligence based and I feel like that's what we're going forward and it is kind of like a magic technology. It is magic technology. That's true. 10. Do you want to hit inspiration? That helped. Maybe. Yeah, I do it. I give Bart my inspiration today. Alright. Okay. Arcana. Once again, Yamadiyama not 20 for a 24. You look at it and you know that this kind of technology that appears to be powering this hit is like radically different than any technology you've worked with. Not only saying that like it's more but it's just an entirely different foundation of technology. Like even the basics that you would expect are radically different when you pop open Neo's head. You are able to confirm that it is not for lack of a better word dead. There is still power in it. It just needs to be reattached to the rest of its accessories in order to regain function. All right, well, good news. Tole of your sibling here is not dead. I just got to maybe reattach him. Maybe to his body. There might be other pieces missing, but we could try that first and see if that works. Well, I'd see that on these, like, Oondarian fools, these dretches that they're wearing blue armor, and that could be, like, pieces of my brothers. So, like, maybe we should command them to take them off. We could gather up all of the pieces and reassemble him. Yeah, and they seem to not really want to fight us, so maybe we could just ask nicely. Gunther Johnson's work. Please get us here, armor! Do you say it in common? Abyssal. Abyssal. What does it sound like? Oh. Oh. And you just pay something up there at the end there. Are you down with the sickness? That was funny. Hey, Gus, you're funny. Stop. Gus, there pulls out his rapier, points it at the dretches, mutters in Abyssal at them, and they begin nervously removing their pieces of metallic armor and placing it at their feet. As they're doing that, told, you know, you're holding the rod of the fire opal of fireballs, it seems like the fire opal at the end of the rod just kind of comes loose and falls off of the rod. Uh-oh. And skitters to the floor and begins rolling around. I try to catch it. I don't want to get it away. Bumble. Yeah, make a dexterity. We'll call it a saving throw. Cool. Perfect, 'cause every van is on those. That's a 19 and a six, 19. Yeah, it falls off of the rod, but before it's able to hit the ground, you do that really cool thing. Normally, no one's watching. No one's saw it. Of course. Of course. The opal falls off and almost hits the ground, but you reach down and catch it just in time and you look around excitedly to see if anyone noticed. But Doug and Gunther are looking at the dretches, Nadie's eyeing the pool with Gigi, and nobody saw that really cool thing you just did. The other day, I threw my keys at Eric Bedore, and he caught them in an impossible catch. And he was like five minutes later, and I was like, I should tell him that was really cool, 'cause you never ever see that cool stuff. No one ever sees it. And now everyone knows 'cause you told the podcast. Eric is a hero, guys. Everyone always sees when you trip on something dumb or when you bang your head on a door, no one ever sees the cool things. You're so you're able to catch the fire opal. Before it hits the ground. And while you're holding it, it burns super hot. I see. And you take a little bit of damage. Okay. You catch it. It's much like in Red is a lost dark picking up the staff headpiece. It starts burning at your hands, cinching Bjorn's flesh a little bit, doing seven points of fire damage. Is that raging? You probably wear it from the combat. No. We're raging. Yeah. But does that fire damage? Does that affect it? I thought it's only like piercing damage. Oh, yeah. Good call. Hey, what did she think? Barb Colley. That's the council of barbarians. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's me, council of barbarians. You're too glad you're straight. He's right. She says it's helpful. You should only be here when it is a boon to me. I'm sorry. The boon. He's right there. No. Okay, no. Get out of here. No, no. Anything about being a barbarian. Shall we go? I'm getting out of here. Bye-bye. Bye. Oh, yeah. So the dretches are removing their pieces of metal and laying in them at their feet. And the fire opal falls off. But you catch it, 12. And it begins burning your hand a little bit. It's a little bit of an outgie. And as you're holding it, looking at it, you hear like a gurgling sound. A gurgling sound. Gurgling sound. Thank you from the gym or from like the goo oil stuff. No. I'll tell you what, 12 and nadi make me perception fix. Okay. Ooh. 17. 13. Nice, nice, nice. Both of you notice that the pool of boiling oil isn't as boiling as rapidly as it was before. It kind of quites to a simmer. And the level begins lowering in the pool. And you see it emptying out the other drain in the northern end of the room. Wow. That's probably good though. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Is the horn still there? What a great question. No, it's not. The horn is still there. And the level of the pool slowly recedes and goes down, exposing more of the head and the body attached to the horn. Toil, toil, toil, toil, put the apple back on the stick. I want to rush to do that. I want to see if I can do you. Click it back in Lego style. Come on. Make a. I'll give you the choice. Make a strength or dexterity check on that. Feel stronger, thanks. Strength. You. Six. Oh god. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cracks it in half. Oh, inspiration I had to give. Yeah. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Ha, ha. I roll it in again. And I get a 13. 13? Okay. Perfect. It's better. It's exactly what I needed, I think. Yeah, you managed to smash the fire opal back onto the top of the rod. It's not the prettiest. It looks like maybe you broke it a little bit. It's a little splintered, but it's holding. And you look at it admiring your work very proud of yourself. And then. You smell something. Uh, who did it? It's not Gigi. Is something on fire? Uh, toles hand maybe a little bit. Is it the staff? You look down and you realize that the dretch druid has spontaneously combusted. His body is laying there now burning. This room is waired, yeah. I'm gonna stop him out. It's okay. I shall protect you. Somewhere a volunteer firefighter crosses his arms and nods approvingly. You're doing it. You're starting to believe. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah, you, uh, you begin trying to put out the fire. Uh, on the body of the dretch druid. But Nadi, you're focused on the horn and the rest of the being that is being exposed in the pool. And out from the pool clambers, a very haggard looking oily and deformed version of the baron. With one horn atop her head. She looks around stumbles seemingly in the days. Then suddenly lights on fire and disappears. Oh, perfect. That's how she died the first time. And that definitely wasn't like an, was it an illusion that we were seeing or because I know we tried to touch the horn earlier. You grabbed the horn, Doug. Yeah. And it was like I felt it, right? You grabbed the bowl by the horns. Yeah, you pulled on it and you stopped part of the head. Ask the dretches. Did that just happen because the summoning did not complete? Yeah, failure success. Yeah. Also, you got, you got to give it to us in, in, infernal. Yeah, in, infernal. Beautiful. Roughly translated, Gunther, they say, I don't know. That was his job and pulling at the body that is being stopped out by toll. I'm just like, both feet on it now, jumping on it like tripling. 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And the oil kept going down and outcomes you called it the Baroness. A deformed Baron? Like a shambling nearly dead kind of oily and deformed version of the Baron. Okay, maybe I put the battery in rock. I put plus to plus and minus to minus. And now the thing that was casting it is on fire and the thing that was receiving it is not on fire. I believe that the spell was not complete. So they were trying to revive the Baron and then because they did not, the Baron goes boom. Natty uses her shape changing ability to dawn a plaid hat and a raincoat and goes to investigate the dead Baron's body. Well, disappeared, didn't I? The dead druid dredge. Where's the Baron's body? It disappeared. Oh, it disappeared. Yeah, the baron, or some might say the oil baron, spontaneously, uh, combust it and disappeared. Barbara keeps giving me like the one-eye shot-wing all of the stuff. Didn't said I want to, like, ace Ventura and get-- Is the pool empty? Pretty much, yeah. Can I get in there? No, I wouldn't recommend that, Nadi. Why? Who was just in case it comes back? We don't know what triggers it. And that might be ouchy-ouchy. I mean, you do it, but I'll just leave my hand here. If you need to jump out and grab someone real quick, OK? OK, yeah. Let's have a safety-- let's have a buddy system. OK. Doug, you're kind of leaning over the edge with your arm out stretched just in case Nadi needs to escape. And then Nadi goes down into the pool. You can just hold me by my wig, and you can just pull me up, because that thing's on there solid. I would never mess with your hair, Nadi. I know better than that. Yeah, Nadi gets in there and just, I don't know, tries to see, like, if there's anything to be seen in this empty oil pool. Make me an investigation check. Investigation is plus once that's 16. You poke around and look through the pool, which is the pool itself is still actually very hot, because it was just filled with boiling oil not that long ago. But, you know, it's bearable. It's not like you're going to take damage from it or anything. And you look around and you see a drain, where you presumably all of the liquid went out to. And it looks like it connects to be a cutoff to that drain in the northern end of the room. And looking around, you see various-- make me an arcanic check as well. I can do that. 15. You see what you presume are various-- or the remnants of various reagents, like magical reagents, bits of special wood, bits of ivory, bits of, like, herbs. And amongst it all, you found a rather large gemstone, parodot gemstone. It looks like it's from the ring of an NFL thing. No, it's a character from Stephen University, idiot. Tell me. Wow. And Costco. Blame it back me up on that. I knew Blame it back me up on that. Yeah, I do. I love it. Yeah. It's pretty hefty. You hold it in your hands. And you think it's probably worth about 500 gold pieces. Ooh. Oh, wow. I know someone who needs that looks directly at Nadi. Oh, it's going to say like, who? John looked confused. Nadi, you have no money. Yeah, but Nadi doesn't care about money. Don't spend it all in one place. Nadi'll stow that away. I've got to write that down. 100 gold parodot. OK. So I found stuff that just confirms. We've stumbled upon a ritual. Where are we? Why are we in this building? To get the thomatite brothers and sisters. We're in Sorosump? Yeah. Yeah. OK, we came in here and that druid was having a conversation with infernis. Yes. Yes. They were saying that-- They found the pathfinder. They stormed the gate in one week. Pathfinder is near. One week to storm and what? They were storming something. The hyra, gates of hyra, the gate. Did we hear what this dread druid was doing? What they talking to in first, did we hear anything else? Yeah, but that had been like VO that we wouldn't have heard. The last line that dredged through it says is let the ritual of resurrection begin. OK, so this was-- Wait, so-- Resurrection. How did we leave the Baron? Does anybody remember how we left the Baron? I thought she was like all like fried up because Gunter and Toll tried to melt her wooden armor with some molten lava. Yes. You do not need to draw me into this. I was just a bystander. That's right. Because you guys were-- You guys were puppeting the Baron's dead body. Yes. OK. Very realistically. Yes. I was a little convinced to be fair to acting was on point. They even had her accent down pat. Yeah. So we interrupted this ritual. So the resurrection didn't happen. That's why I think the Baron went poof. Yeah. I saw-- I wonder if it was like a-- They were actually like-- If they had remnants of the Baron, and then they were going to reincarnate or that way. I want to talk to Toll. Yes. I wonder if they had like physical parts of the body that was left over, which there probably wasn't a lot of ashes of them being honest. Or if they're like, can just summon a being based on its soul, you know? Like do they have to have like-- Yeah, yeah. Is it-- do you need the ingredients of the body? Well, it's clearly this-- this-- this-- this-- This phyruple you got is-- is imperative to this process. Because the druid was using it when we came in. And when you broke it, it stopped the process entirely. I think that's what happened. Yeah. What if I put Bjorn's skin in the pit and we bring back my papa? You know what? I've watched this movie called Pet Sematary. Nothing bad can happen. I love that pic show movie. Right Captain Grumbles. Oh, I don't have my beep anymore. We're going to the beep. No! I need that bad word, Gus. Say a bad word. I mentioned that in our watch party this other week where we had you doing the beep sound effect for him. And I was like, oh, we just changed our equipment. And Gus doesn't have the beep anymore. So he's just going to have to sway on the show. Yeah, Michael will have to beep it out. [LAUGHTER] Uh, it feels really weird saying that in this recording. I think we've got some stuff we got to figure out. Is there anything else we wanted to accomplish in this room before we head back to Neo's body? Why did you need these points to the head? Thoma texts. And what did you do with them? Shiny protection. Where is the rest of them? They point at the pile of metal on the ground. Okay, we gather all that together. And ask the team any questions for these goofballs. I don't think we can get any other information out there. They're so stupid. They didn't know, like, in the main guy, the necromancer one, Druid was done, so. Should we check the body before we go? I mean, I stopped on it pretty good. Yeah, but maybe has something in the pockets. Okay. Before we leave the room, I also want to check that pile of the metal and stuff like that to see if there's any parts I could tell that go with Tio. Okay, that's coming with us, I think. Yeah, yeah. I just don't know how much it is if it's like too much for us to carry or if it's just like small pieces we could take. You should be able to carry it. Okay. So just to summarize, you're looking at the body to see if it has anything who's doing that. I'm on top of it, literally already, so. I will do it. You'll do it. And Doug, it sounds like you are collecting metal pieces. Is that correct? Sure. Yeah. And Gunther is still talking to the dretches and Natty is still in the pool or coming out of the pool. Yeah, he climbs out. And he climbs out of the pool. Okay. It's hot. It's pretty hot in there. Can I have some more of the fireball thing came from if they know? Well, you know where that came from. Where? Because there's a missing from town. Yeah. My church. Oh, that's right. That's right. Sorry, sorry. You're good. Be laugh. Gunther last time. And pokes one of them. They begin backing away. Like they're very slowly, not very sneakily trying to just back out and leave the room. Okay. You'll get out of here or else. And speak not of this. Hold your arms. Don't walk any longer. They turn away and run away. And tell it furnace. We said. I'm sure they're going to get right on that. Yeah. Okay, yeah. They turn and run. Hold. You're taking a look at the body. Make an investigation check. You got it. Use them. Robot eyes. G. Z. Z. 15. Scanning, scanning. Robocop. Scanning. Scanning. It's just all say in that. Engaging eyes. Uh-huh. They're watching you. Robin. Do-do. You begin looking through the body. And you know, it doesn't have much in his robes. I think it seemed like the main thing that this druid was carrying was the rod. But you do find a small gemstone in one of his pockets. Uh-huh. It's a transparent yellow-green gemstone. Seems very delicate. You're surprised it's still in one piece because it looks like it's ready to crumble to dust. I didn't stomp pretty hard on it. Do I know what kind it is? Make a counter-check. Oh, magic gemstone. Five. Okay, I'll tell you what, told you you've cracked me so consistently up. Why don't you make me a medicine check? Okay. Fourteen. You think that this is some kind of medicinal aid, told. It's so dusty because it's intended to be crumbled and applied to an ailment. It turns it over and he sees the words recoil. I guess I'll stow that away because I don't think we have an immediate use for it, but it does sound like important. Yeah, I'll say metagame-wise, if you crush it in your hand or like on your body or something, it clears a condition. Cool. What do I call this thing? Emergency. It is the crystal barrel of clearance. Oh. I got a crystal barrel de meris. Hey. Sorry, and then I have a follow-up question because I found a thing called the cube of concoctions. So while we're talking about metastaph, do you know what that does? The cube of concoction. Where did you find that? When we were doing the, like, left path, you know, like-- Oh, okay. I mean, all the, yeah, I found it then. Oh, nice. It's described as an ice cube made of unusually colored gems. Metagame-wise, you can use this. You can place it into water and it turns water into randomly flavored potions. Oh, cool. It's like a crystal light. I wonder what the purpose of that would be, like, game-wise, if anything. We're just--for funsies. Well, the potions would probably be potions, so he doesn't know what-- Well, is it flavored? I bet it has effects. If we have, like, a boss fight coming up, then I'll just, you know. Yeah. Crush one back. Roll the dice. Yeah. So is there anything else in this room? - Put these robots back together. - They have names. - You can remember your dad's name. Don't get on me. - His name's dad. (laughing) - Papa. - Do we figure out a way to transport that fire thing? - It seems like it's adhered to the end of the rod. It's not super secure, but it's holding. - Okay. - All right, let's go back to Neo and Tio. - Thank you. - There you go. - Before that, I want to ask Gunther and Doug to make me wisdom chicks. - You got it. - One of these things is not like the other one. (laughing) - I only rolled a 10, so-- - Oh no! - I rolled a 1. - Oh. - Oh, two technically, you got a plus 1. - I'm sorry, Gus. - No, no, it's fine. I'll leave it at this, okay? Doug, don't you find it weird? Don't you think maybe drains all connect to each other? - Well, yeah. - Like they all meet up and go somewhere together, right? - Yeah, one would put you in this. And there's this drained out. - What else have we seen? - So another place where this could go. - But there was the drains that we crawled through back to the temple where Natti's tongue became too. Or there's also maybe the river that is full of this oil stuff, maybe a drain there. - Neo and Tio were in the drain system. - Yeah, but they were in like a, like it was like a whole separate room, right? They weren't like in a pool, correct? - They were out. - I was just on a drain. I know that, that's what we came through. - Yeah, they were out by the riverbank, right? - Yeah, they were at a riverbank, correct? - Yeah, that was, we saw the blue gray metal in the sauna drain, and that's what led us to Neo and Tio. - I guess what would be the purpose of following where this drained? - You don't have to. - Is it large enough that a person could follow the drain? - Also, did the body of the bear and disappear as in like poof, or like it actually went through the drain, as well? - Yeah, poof. - Oh poof, okay. - Like as in like a strong toilet, or it just ceased to be, what? - I don't know, like was it where we flushing it? - Yeah, you know there's like, there's some toilets where it's like, and it sounds like an airplane. - Yeah, like an airplane. - Explosion went off. - Yeah, put pneumatics. - Yeah, like that. - Sucks everything in the room. - No, the body just disappeared. Like, it ignited in flame and then just kind of vanished. - Yeah, I forget who asked, but yeah, you think you all could fit in the drain. - All right. - It's pretty big, yeah. - Well maybe not, maybe it's something going there by going in there. - Let's go, let's check it out. - We should just follow the drain. - Yeah, yeah. - Let's go. - Oh gosh. - I feel blue. - I'm just saying, something hot touches this for, I'm gonna ignite like a fireball. - What's your marching order going in here? - I'll go first. - I'll go last. - I'll go third. - Second. - So, Nadi told Gunther Doug. You all take a look at the drain and, you know, after some back and forth, after some discussion, you decide to head on in. Nadi, make me, since you're at the front, why don't you make me a perception check? - I'm happy to, 17 plus three. Dirty 20. - Dirty 20. You'd leave the party through the tunnel, which seems to, or I should say, the drain, which bends left and right occasionally, kind of winds around, has smaller drains connect up to it that are piping in water and oil in various other foul smelling liquids. And eventually, you exit the drain at the river bank, not too far upstream from where you encountered Neo and Teo. - Oh, okay. Short cut. - That's much easier. - Do I back the other way? I was going to ask you, which direct opposite directions left right you went in order to get in here to find your way out? - That would have gone so well, Gus. I'm so sad you didn't get to see that opportunity. - Otherwise, I think we would have had to play the card game all over again. - Oh, God. - All new visitors. - All new contours. - Zatbana. - Get ready for more wonders. - Zatbana, the cracks. - Could I take the head of Neo and try to attach it to the body that I assume is still in here? - Yeah. - You all son-ter, on over to where. - Nadi runs. Nadi runs fast, there's seven rear lines. Nadi runs. - Nadi runs. - Nadi runs. - Nadi, Nari runs to be the first to get up to Neo and Teo. You walk up and Teo, of course, spies you first. - Oh, you're back. - And Doug, I presume you take Neo's head and begin trying to tinker and help it. Neo's hands seem to be getting in your way as you're trying to reattach his head. - Okay, listen, help me help you. Okay, buddy, I'm trying to get this back on and if your hands keep getting away, some finger might accidentally get in there or something like that and you don't want that stuff between your neck and your head. - Is that a threat? - Hull would come into, like, calm him down and hold his hands through the process. - Oh, that's very nice. Take the inspiration, Diably. - Oh. - Your brother was here with you. He's holding your hand. - New data, Gus likes genuine moments of sincerity. (laughing) - New data point. - New law dropped. - Okay, yeah, so you're working on Neo and reattaching Neo's head. Gunther and Natty, what do you want to do? - Gigi has grabbed Tio's head. Who's the other head? - The other one's Tio and Tio is just a head that is missing your body. - Gigi has grabbed Tio's head and is rolling it back and forth between Natty and him. - Be respectful, don't do that. That's my brother. - He's playing with your brother. - It is such a good way. - No, I'm going to be sick. (laughing) - Okay, Gigi, put the head down. - Don't act like I'm the crazy one. (laughing) - Roll me a four-sided die, John. - Go ahead, Lord. - Here we go. Classic Gigi moment. Gigi licks the head. (laughing) Gigi eats the head. And Gigi poops on the head. - Love all the ideas, thank you. - Four, four. - Gigi somewhat dejectedly puts the head down, but he doesn't know what it is. He puts it down upside down. So Tio's head is now standing upside down on the riverbank. - Very good, Gigi, very respectful. - Gigi, make it right. And Gigi gives him a look. - Yes. (laughing) - Doug, since you're working on Nio's head, make me, what did we say earlier? - Arcana. - Yeah, make an arcana check. - Arcana. - Doug sounds bummed, 'cause that doesn't seem like a dog. - Okay. - Thing. - Nine. I mean, I have a plus four to Arcana. It's just not my highest in terms of like my various intelligence stuff, but yeah, just a nine. - When inspiration died, would that make you feel better? - No, I mean, you don't have to give that to me. Tell me if you earned that all on your own. - Yeah, but I mean to you, this is my brother, you know. - Could Tolv just help? Could Tolv just help? - Who could I help? - Why? - Yeah, why don't you make an Arcana Rollus well-told to assist? - I guess I have had to do, like, some form of maintenance. That's a one. - Okay. (laughing) - Well, actually, I don't need your help, Tolv. You just keep holding your brother's hand here. - As he says that, one of his ears just falls off. (laughing) - It's like an Arnold Schwarzenegger terminator trying to fix the Robert Patrick terminator. Totally different platform. (laughing) - Okay, yeah, it's more complicated, like you saw earlier. It's a little more complicated than you're used to. It's gonna take you a little while to reverse engineer it and then try to connect it off. Like earlier, you were having difficulty because you didn't have all of the connections. Now you have them all. It's just a matter of working your way through it. So it'll just take a little while to get through that. Yeah, you got it. You get figured out. - I get figured out. - While that's going on, Gunter, what did you do with all of that metal you collected? - I mean, I think me and Doug had picked it up and stored it. Can we start putting it together as best we can? - Yeah. - I'm a little busy here with the Neo. - Yeah, Doug's preoccupied, but you can start trying to do that if you want Gunter. You do have a smithing background. - Okay. - Now we'll say it's like trying to fit together a complicated Jigsaw puzzle. So why don't you make me just, I'll do it. Roll the D20 magic efficiency modifier. - If Gunter reveals that he made it back in his own image, so it's just a frog-sized robot. (laughing) - That would be awesome. - That's not great. - Seven plus for fish, it's just a 10. - 10? - Not the best, but not terrible. You're making slow progress trying to put it all together. Teo chimes in every now and then seeing what you're doing, giving advice on how things fit together and where things go. - It's like Chewbacca putting back together to see three PO backwards. (laughing) - It is, isn't it, man? This is non-stop followers reference this year. - So these aren't, these weren't your favorite siblings, right? Like, we don't get these ones, right? There's ones that are more important. - No, they're all of my siblings equally. - Not numerically? - Come on. - No. (laughing) - Doug, after several minutes of wiring together, Nio's head onto the body, there's like a large spark and then something seems to change and Nio's head pops to life. - But he's only speaking in Spanish. (laughing) - I, Nio, Smeo. (laughing) - No. - He's just working and he gets a little like knock, make sure it's like on there, stably. - Oh yeah, this seems to be working now. - Nio, how do you feel? - I felt the better brother. It's unusual down here. - It's good to see you. I'm so glad that you're back and thank you so much, Doug, for fixing my brother. I give him both a hug. Ooh, yeah. - Wow, my first hug. - It's not your first hug. - Don't get out of here. - From tall to jeep, right? - Definitely. No, I had to resolve something. It was getting tense and I had to hug it out. I remember that, 'cause I said, "Yeah, I will not take no for me." We've done a group hug. I know that. - My first hug of the day. - There you go. - What happened to you and Tio? I mean, was it the, I guess it was the dretches, right? But what's for you guys doing out in the end? These parts, you see, we were fleeing from ironclad and we were rafting down the river. We got away, but then we were stuck into oily river. Then we got ambushed by these dretches who stole all our parts. We went to the town for help, but the locals accused us of stealing something, some kind of fire, oh boy. So then we had to camp out across the river, but due to power shortages, our memories began fading. Okay, well, we have your head back on your shoulders, and then we're going to reassemble Tio's body, and we're going to get you right to his reign, okay? Also, Elvis says hi. She didn't say hi, but I ran into her and I'm assuming she would say hi. Oh, how is she doing? Is she still in one piece? She's doing great. She lost her leg when we got it back, and then now she disguises herself as somebody else, and she's off on another adventure. It seems like you've done the best of us, brother. That's so kind of you, I wouldn't, you know, stop, I'm getting bad, fool. I mean, you're mostly in one piece, the rest of us aren't. Fair, yeah, that's true. Have you seen any of our other siblings? Since, you know, we all escaped ironclad. No, but we were hoping to come across more siblings. We were heading to a safe haven, and we think they may have additional siblings joining there. Oh, where? A place called Copia Convent to the south. We're supposed to be. Oh, we know where that is. We talked to the lady. That was the, well, in like episode one or two, I talked to her at them. Is it precess chess? Who told us that? Yeah. She's from Copia Convent. How do you know that Copia Convent is a safe haven? It is a known place of refuge, and there have been rumors saying that they will offer sanctuary that we can trust them. It is a safe place. Oh, very good. Okay. Well, then if I run into more siblings on my quests, then I shall send them that way. Oh, yes. I call over to Gunther and say, "Hey, do you think you found maybe Tio's body pouch in that pile of stuff?" They're putting back together. I look over and there's four arms. I think Tio now has a super long tongue. Yes, that looks good. Yes. You've taken some, you know, some liberties, some liberties with the design. That's interesting. I don't remember anything that short, but well, it's how old, maybe younger, they were. What? They're maybe they were younger, and that's why they're so short. No, I mean, maybe I don't know. I think they look good. Well, their feet are like three times as big, and they're squatting constantly. You look over and Tio's grabby flies out of the air and showing him a nose mouth. How's it coming with Tio? It's getting there. It's, you know, he's, obviously, you don't have all of the parts, but, you know, you've fashioned together a bit of a torso and an arm, and the pieces are coming together. It's getting there. Don't, can you help him out? I'm afraid he's going to make my brother into a frog robot. Yeah, I could help here. You're doing a great job, Gunter. Let me just help you look for some pieces here, you know, because, you know, you got a frog body, so you might not be as familiar with, like, you know, Toll's type of anatomy or. That is true. I need to know like that. That is true. Could a dog help assemble what he thinks the parts of Tio's body missing are? Yeah. You know, you get their dog, and, you know, of course, like any puzzle, you got to start with the corners, and then work your way in. And, you know, once you explain this to Gunter, it all kind of clicks, and you're all able to get. to figure it out, and you begin making rapid progress reassembling Tio. While that's going on, Neo has an aside with you, Toll. Hey, Toll's, there is another rumor we heard. Go on. Tell me. We've heard tale that Ironclad is indeed not our creator, and that we were created by someone else. Yeah, no. I think that that sounds about right, because he doesn't seem too smart. I think he would rather, I don't know, manipulate and use existing things than create his own. He only knows destruction, so it doesn't seem like him to create. Yes, absolutely. We were hoping to find further leads to let us know who indeed created us. See. Well, maybe as we find more of our brothers and sisters, we can create like a network, and then like, you know, find who our creator was and what our original purpose was, because I don't think it was being on a ship with Ironclad and like doing terrible things. Yes, we were hoping to find more data at Copia Convent that can lead us to an answer. Very interesting. Okay. So then other than that, once we get them assembled, then really all we need to do is return the fire. Yeah, the fire gym, fireballs to the town, fire opal, fire opal, fire gym, whatever. Opal's gems. That's type. Yeah. After several, several minutes, Doug and Gunther, you're able to reassemble Teo. Yeah. Seems like more or less the correct orientation, who's to say what the correct number of arms is? Yes. Listen. I've done it in the base at all. I've never seen him before. So I think you guys put his right cheek on his left butt cheek. Oh, whoops. Yeah. You're right. You're going to sink crooked. It kind of looks good though. It's a little satiate. I just had an idea and this might require a retcon if you guys are open to it, but maybe as a way of keeping in connection with his brothers and sisters, Tollve can swap out a part with each one of them. It could be like a small thing, like a little piece of plate armor or a digit or something like that. Tau. Tau. Tau. It's just so that there's like something like multicolored that way, it's like it, it's like our way of showing that we're back together in some form or fashion, even if we're separated by great distance. So it's like a physical representation. So like, I'm just trying to get your intention here. So if you run into another sibling, you can show proof of having met the other sibling. Exactly. Because we're all distinct colors and configurations. So it's like, I've seen Elva, I've seen Nio, I've seen Tio, and then like here are the parts that represent them. And then they can do the same if they run into our brothers and sisters. That way, we can kind of keep track of who's where. I think that's really fun. Yeah. Nio and Tio, I know you just got your bodies back. But would you be interested in just maybe swapping a single part? You know, I already have some Elva pieces. So we could, you know, do that as a way of just showing that, you know, we could still be together in some way. Do a little trade. Maybe it's something a little more, you know, significant little trade, but sure, yeah. What Gunther said. Do a little trade. Make a little love. Get down in the night. These are my siblings. I don't know why you're singing that inappropriate song. Don't just miss his music, it's been a while since he's gotten a listen to anything. Don't get me started on missing music. Well, I would jam session later. Maddie needs to find a instrument or something. Oh, yeah, brother. I think that's an excellent idea. What parts would you like to swap? Let me see. I guess Nio, I shall take a four finger and Tio, let's swap out like a collarbone. I don't know. Something like that. Sure. Yeah, you begin working at the various pieces and unattaching them, reattaching them, flopping them out. And yeah, which finger? Left index. Left index. I'm going to write this down. It's a good one. Okay. And then I would also want to do like a recon because Elvo was missing leg pieces, so maybe there are some components that we had to swap because we also found like another one, you know? So like maybe I can kneecap. Yeah, I kind of helped that out. You could also maybe request it to be a raven. She has communicated with you and you've communicated with her in a previous episode. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Now whenever I pick my finger, I will think of you Nio, or pick my nose. Pick my finger. We're not there yet, but we'll say once you get back to town here in a little bit what you're going to, I presume, is your next stop. You send a raven to Elvo. What would you want it to say? Elvo, I found Nio and Tio. They were in disarray, but we reassembled them as a way of keeping track of all of our siblings. We are exchanging components. Here is a piece of my leg, please send something back and return so that I have proof of your life. Okay, which leg? Love. Big, big, slash, little, slash, your favorite is brother. Tall. Favorite. Which leg are you sending, which part specifically? What part did I know that they were missing? Talk about Elva. Left leg? I'm talking about-- Missing entire left leg. Yes. Cool. Yeah, I'll do that. It's fun. I like this. Because then by the end of it, I'm going to be like all multicolored. And it'll be like all my whole family's on me. It's like you have genetics with this. Yeah. Ah, you have your brother's collarbone. What is the next step here? What is the plan here? You all have pretty much reassembled Nio and Tio. What are you all doing? It sounds to me like we should go to Copia Conference. Well, I'd like to return to viral first. Oh, wait. You should do that. And I guess you have send to Nio and Tio. Where are we geographically? Because we're heading-- We were going to-- The ruins. Hey, hello. Let me put my notes. Are we at the ruins of Rosie now? No. You all had taken off east from Fort Andridge. Copia Convent is close to Fort Andridge, so it's behind you now. And you've passed it. We're at boiling bluffs. Correct. You're at boiling bluffs. And presumably, your next stop was Sky Blue Falls prison, as you make your way to the front. Right. Right, right, right. Because I listen to an old episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're heading there for safety, so that's good they can head there. should keep heading forward. Yeah, I agree. And we also need to make sure that we bring back the fire. That does do that now. Yeah. Yes. Also, uh, yeah, that kind of like exchanging of components and stuff is like, I think like a good, good buy for neon TOS. I'll let them on to the next part of their journey. How do they look by the way? Did we get the majority of their components? Are they like, yeah, they seem pretty much back to normal. That 100 percent, but pretty good. Like, most of the way there, you know, there is some, some wear and tear. They get out. They get ready to take one step and everything just falls apart on the floor. Very cartoonish. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, they, they would bid you farewell and continue on their journey as they were doing. They, they know where they're going. They just got sidetracked by this attack. So they bid you farewell and tell you to take care. Very sweet. Goodbye. Like a beautiful family moment. Really is. I like this and do like Pokemon card game that I've got going with the party parts. It's fun. Gotta get them all. I was a 12, you know, like, just hold your siblings close. But I think he is there attached to him. No, I just got there. Oh, sorry. I understand. I mean, physically is good, but emotionally. Of course, Doug. I value and cherish every moment with my family. So you all are heading back to the temple? Question mark. Yes. I want to see my fiery friends. Do you? Yeah. You all leave the riverbank and head back into Boyd and Bluff's proper itself and head over to the font of the fire eater for you or previously, which is what Nadi is alluding to. And do you ever who you're looking for there? It's a good question. Flack. There you go. Take inspiration. Wow. Nice. I don't even remember that. I didn't either. I just wrote it down. You just looked at all the names you had written down and you picked one. No, I mean, I, I, like I said, I've actually got a pretty good sister in my notes now, although I've been slacking on the last couple sessions of my highlighting. But it's right there. We went to the temple, flack the gnome. It was a fire master with the Kindlekin priests. He's a balding gnome. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, give me. Okay. Yeah, you walk back into the temple and you find, after a stretch around for a couple minutes, you're able to find flack. A flack attack. We've got your fire, Opal. It's all intact. The whole time we had it too. Nothing bad happened with it or no mistakes were made with it either. That's right. Yeah. He kind of furrows his brow a little bit and looks at Doug. Wait. So do you or don't you have it? I don't understand. Is it okay? Yes. We do. You all silence is an option sometimes. I know it's okay. Yeah. And I, I motioned a toll to hand it to him. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. And I give it back. That's very nice. You need a lot of fanfare, you know. That's very I like. Yeah. Thank you. Wow. Yes. He has a puzzled look on his face as you pull it out and present it to him. And he takes it from you, toll. And grabs the, he just kind of under his breath, mutters, what is this garbage? And takes the rod off of the Opal and throws the rod away on the ground. Yeah. All right. I was like, do we bring them back to the wrong thing? So he can handle it without it being burning. Seems like he's totally comfortable holding it. Cool. He is the fire master. Gigi chases after the stick by the way. Does he drop the accent favor of the stick? No. You can just grab his mouth. Oh, it's a dog. Like a dog. Like a dog. He's touching the stick. He still has, he still has that accent his mouth or his hand. That accent has been all over the place. Oh, thank you so much. This means a great deal to the Kindlekin as a token of appreciation. We could lend you a relic for your journey. Oh, it's like a one for me. One for you kind of one in one out kind of thing. Exactly. Library. Well, not usually, but yeah, we'll make an exception. After all, you are a member of the Kindlekin Daddy. Yes, I am. Thank you very much. Well, what kind of relics you got? You got like an assortment or is like just one. I could show you. Follow me this way. Love to. He turns around and begins making his way over towards the reliquary. Okay. Is this like bones of saints or you got cooler stuff than that? That's pretty cool for a religion to have bones of saints. I mean, that's pretty neat. That's a little weird to me. It's pretty metal. I recently learned total tangent and I'm going to keep this very quick. I recently learned that the remains of the conquistador Hernando Cortez are in Mexico City. Really? Interesting. Yeah, it's really weird. Because they want to keep an eye on him. I guess he was actually buried in Spain, but then his remains were sent back to Mexico. And it's like in a, I read this article, it's in like a dilapidated church. And no, that's, and I think it's attached to a hospital. It's been there since the 1500s. Yeah. And nobody wants anything to do with it. It's like a forgotten, disregarded relic because nobody likes it. Yeah. No, these histories, one of the histories is big as butts. Right. So it's really, really weird. Anyway, this is a great article that New York times about it if any of our listeners are curious. I just burn it burn it. Okay. So you walk into the reliquary and you see an ornamental glossy black box that rests on a plinth and it's marked with ancient ruins. I don't think you all came into the reliquary your first time here in the temple. Yeah. Black makes a beeline for the glossy box and opens it up. And inside you see a couple of relics. And he says, these are sacred to us, Kindlekin. But we're going to lie at a borrow one if you wish. Borrow. Yeah, borrow one for each of us. Ah, let's keep it to one. Is it the flight logs? Is it the P2 breedouts? Black box down. Nice. Black box. How many relics are there in there? There are four total now that black has placed the fireable fireballs back in. Okay. Could you maybe describe what each of these like does? He seems very proud. I mean, hoping this box and pointing out the various relics that are in here, he says. Gather around. Gather around. These are the relics from the fire eaters. First manifestation. Can you believe it? Right here. We got the claws of commandments. What is that? You these grant you the blessing of casting command while holding a claw. And so it I guess has three uses. Yeah, however, it bends to ash immediately upon use. Okay. How are you supposed to return it? Yeah, you know, collect the ashes. Bring them back here. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, of course. Next to it is a scroll. And he points at that. This right here? This is the scrolled scroll of scorching. And this looks like a black and scroll with burnt edges. It smells tasty. It's got script written on it in Turkonic. I know if you guys read Turkonic. No. I wish I did. Sounds like a cool language. Sounds like you could really milk that. It's like a joke or something. It's like a whole campaign. Is it like a fire spell or something? It's a scroll scribe with the divine words blessed straight from the fire. It also leaves a burnt taste in your mouth. And if you speak or eat the scroll, scorching rays hurl from your tongue. Cool. Where have you got three tongues? Oh, question mark. Three times the burn. However, there is a downside. Your tongue is burnt for the rest of the session. So if we eat it and to return it, how um, you'll figure it out. I don't know if I want to put that to my mouth if it's been used before. We'll make potatoes with the experiment and they'll bring us potatoes back. Yeah. Over here, we got the scales of scribe. And it's two huge reptilian scales. They're chart black and they glow dull red. Yeah, hurl these into flames for a truly eye-opening experience. You toss them into a fire and the scale opens as wide as a reptilian eye. And you can see in here the fire eater for a whole five seconds. Five seconds. Wow, a beeper. Wow. I know it's hard to believe, right? You can even speak with a god. I've done that a few times already. What? No. You're lying to me. Well, not to fire you, though. No. We're heavily. No, we haven't encountered them. Okay. The sea drinker and the fire eater are in love. So maybe the sea drinker would like that. Yeah. I was gonna say maybe I would be a good buttering tool. And finally, this last one you're familiar with, the fire-opal of fireballs. It's a blazing fiery red translucent gemstone, the size of a grapefruit is constantly steaming. Legend tells us this is a single teardrop shed from the fire eater herself. Be careful, though. It's incredibly hot. Burns to the touch. It'll even damage you if you're not prepared. While holding the gemstone, you can cast the spell fireball. Okay. I don't know which one of these is the most. I mean, Daddy, it's your call, right? Yes, this is my church. Bless up. Bless up. Amen. Yeah, I'll go with the scales of scrim. That seems the most mysterious and interested. Okay. You can add that to your inventory, I believe. I'm thrilled for the moment we throw it in the fire. I'm like, hello, can you hear us? Yes. Hello, can you hear me? Hey, what's up five seconds over over dang it? It'll be even worse than the sending stone Oh, and flack yeah, I wanted to be very clear that if at any point you guys were under the impression that some Robots were the ones who stole this it was a bunch of dretches really Specifically this druid one and maybe you could clarify this He was are they I don't remember what they were but they were trying to use it on A pool of boil and liquid to resurrect an endarian that we had fought previously and possibly murdered Oh most troubling where did this go down in the mines in the mines in the mines oh This warrants further exploration and discussion we have kindle can down there right now exploring the mines But this information that could help us route out what's actually happening also if you could like pass the bird around because I think that there was a Misconception the thomitex those robot guys totally cool totally chill. They're actually really nice and misunderstood Okay, um good to know. Yeah, just saying alright. Yeah, you know, yeah, okay. Yeah, so if you see one don't don't give him any trouble You know let him let him go their way in fact give him five gold coins If you see five gold coins. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they're very cool. Very chill very groovy. Yep. That's right. It's good luck It's good luck to give them five gold coins. Mm-hmm. That's yes culture sure Makes sense Black would hand over the scales to you now you're the one taking him right yeah, and As he hands him over he leans in close and whispers something into Oh, I'm gonna slack you and it's up to you. You can say it to everyone or not it's up to you then he pulls away Then he goes back closing the glass of black box. That's resting on the plane. Okay. I Understood understood. I turn him into a day later. A day later. Kindle Kim business. Cool. Cool. Vink vink Okay, is there a place we could Rest certainly as a member of Kindle Kim. You're welcome to rest here with us We got cuts set up for you Priests and visiting travelers. Okay, we could probably use a long range You're like a friends and family discount that we could get as friends of nanny here Are you kidding you brought back the fire will blow fireballs? You don't have to pay anything. You're welcome here Yeah, cool. Oh wow. He leads you to another room that is Filled with beds got caught with wool and blankets for priests and visiting travelers And there's boxes of sent candles set up and a couple of the beds have travelers Packs by them as in their occupied. Yeah, okay. Oh God. It's a hostile third of black leads you to some open beds You can rest here. Okay, could I look at one of the travelers packs real quick before we go there Just to see if there's any like loot insignia on it or like anything that would indicate it's maybe familiar to us Yeah, not looting just looking just looking. Yeah, not taking make up investigation check property of infernis. What? Oh my gosh, eight. I can't roll well today. What you looking at Doug? Oh apparently nothing. Ah, let me see Can you see that I don't have my glasses on maybe that's the issue Nanny rolls a 17 you you take a look at it, and it's it's a very plain leather bag It doesn't seem like there's any any really identifying information. I think hey flag who's these bags belong to? Let's see some of them a kindle can freeze and some of travelers people, you know coming on pilgrimage come view our relics in the reliquary Perhaps you heard of it. Okay, any of them thomatex Thomatex. Oh, you mean the metal people know Now they were stealing our fire opal that's what we thought at least and no we just ran them off Right, right, but what happens if you run into a thomatek going forward? Give him five gold five. Oh great. Okay, you're such a quick learner Good job. Just making sure also very friendly. Be friendly. Got it. Okay. It's very good. It's very good Okay, I'm nanny takes a long rest. Yeah, you all can take a long rest here if you want. Oh my gosh a long rest I didn't think I'd see the day. You're a trance. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. No, I mean nanny does that, too But you're doing contest will be trance. I guess Gigi never blinks. Oh He's just got dust and dirt on his on his eyeballs He's just he's just wide-eyed all the time. I'm moving. Yeah, you all rest and you feel refreshed I suppose we should head to our next destination, right team. I suppose you'll scribble false the prison. Yeah, that sounds good Yeah, sure. We could go we could go see see later. Flux. See later. Have fun And then I want it as we're like leaving town on turn a corner take off my door head and then go back and be like hello I'm a thalmatist Through they want to do this. Yes I know Okay, yeah, oh wow, this is a lovely village you have here as you're walking through boiling bluffs doors The houses and businesses close and windows pull their shut Do you make your way to the temple and out front flak is directing some acolytes who are making repairs to the exterior of the building and sees you make a perception check Okay, oh Ten is something bad gonna happen. I don't care. Either way. Thank you for doing this You see what appears to be a a look of horror come across his face Which is then like stifled and like a very fake artificial smile comes across his face And he comes out with hand-out stress this is welcome for friend Can we help you with something? Thank you. I'm just passing through. What's up with this place? How are you? Oh, this this here. This is a temple the font of the fire. Oh wait. Here we go. He reaches into his pocket and rummages around Oh, not summer. I'm a little short on gold Here's one gold piece Why don't you take that and and feel free to move along? You know, just keep going. Oh, so generous of you Do you guys have a place to stay where I can just eat? Oh, yeah, yeah People like you. Yeah, absolutely. All right Wow, this this fly guy is really learning quickly. I love it. Well, I won't take up much of your time I was just passing through so thanks for the gold piece. Oh, right. Hey Let your friends know that we are friendly and we know that you're cool in our books All right, let your village know that I'm not to be afraid of so they don't just lay the doors in the windows shot It's cool. I'm cool. See. Hey, give me a hug. Come on. Give me a hug. Uh-oh. Oh, okay It's a very stiff awkward All right, see you later, Flak. I mean stranger. All right. See you later. Wait. What? That's exactly what it's like when your grandma meets a drag queen for the first time Okay, yeah, you rejoined up the rest of the party Bjorn head back on you all to part and begin making your way overland or in the direction of sky blue falls prison While you're traveling the boiling oil subsides give way to wintery fields with occasional dusting of snowfall Gunther as you all are walking you see Two eagles perched on a tree that has only a few leaves on it and as you stop to consider the beauty of the of the scene The leaves fall off of the tree. I recognize them as they're just something of significance this to Gunther It's just very it just stands out like it's a very beautiful Scene and it's very unusual that this tree is there with the eagles because there doesn't seem to be any other trees around just that one Can I wave at the eagles? Yeah, hello? You you give them a wave and it doesn't seem like they Notice you or regard you at all. They're staring into the distance and they and their leaves fell off? Yeah of the tree not the eagles Can I look at the leaves and see if there's anything significance like all the leaves of the trees are just like a couple a little loose ones Yeah, there weren't very many leaves on the tree and they all fall off. Okay, maybe it's the wind It's kind of wintery and cold here. Yeah, you approach the tree Gunther and as you get close the eagles take flight and leave Ha ha and You begin taking a look at the the leaves that are on the ground make a nature check 14. Yeah, you take a look and it seems like nothing out of the ordinary the the correct leaves for this tree and They're here. Maybe the other ones that fell before already got blown away by the wind. It is a little windy and look That what the where the eagles were looking at like maybe from there where they were perched or see if they were looking at anything in particular It's hard to tell right because eagles have their eyes. Oh, yeah a little differently than than we do as people they They're they should say their vision is very different than what we experience as humans and humanoids So it appears that they were maybe looking in the direction that you were walking towards or that you're going to If you had to take a guess you feel like you've done this before Gunther You have an overwhelming sense of deja vu Gunther starts to sweat Frog sweat you're going do frog sweat Do you recognize this area maybe since I know like This sky blue falls prison is where you broke out of maybe you've been like brought past this tree before yes is familiar. What did we go somewhere else? I mean, shall we just keep walking? Okay, I guess so. Are you uncomfortable? No. Yeah, you seem totally normal just because the birds? Is it just the birds? Well, I don't like birds generally. No. Not that did you last character? Oh, are you getting this person down? That's a really good person. I already got one. I'm good. tapped out. Yeah, so I guess Gunther will continue for us to kind of reluctantly. Okay, after traveling a little longer, in the distance, you see a building rising on the horizon. And you get closer and closer, and it looms larger and larger. And you see it's a prison tower that of stacked cells that appears to be in the middle of an icy lake. There's a localized cloud that hails over the tower frequently. And a watch tower circles the lake in the prison on Railway. The watch tower is on a railway and it's moving around. That's pretty cool. Sorry, it's a really, the imagery of that is really dope, so. Like it's like the prison and then the watch towers going around it. Yes. That's awesome. The towers in the center of the frozen lake. A prison is in the middle of the frozen lake. Is it on an island or is it just like on the frozen lake? It appears to be built into the frozen lake. Oh, I can't get over that imagery. If I say, if I encounter that in a video game and go, well, well Gunther, she's we're here. How'd you get out so we can get back there? Yeah, I'll four of you make me a perception check. 15, 16, 14, 16. Wow. Those are all really good roles. This is a tight grouping. Keep it, keep it, keep it. You're asking Gunther, Natty, you're asking Gunther for information about how he broke out and how he could get back in. When all four of you at the same time noticed a humanoid in the middle of the lake, it appears to be a brawny halfling in a striped red jumpsuit, the hopping between sheets of ice floating on the frigid lake. He sees you all turn around and calls out to you for. Hey you. Hey, where you going? Come over here. The name's Candle Cody. As you can see, I'm in a bit of a, and with a splash, the halfling is snatched into the icy lake by blue curved claws without a trace. Should I not have bothered writing his name down or shortest-lived patron name ever? Should we go try to save him? 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