Episode 14 – The Dustbowl

Sorry, I'm really full of pizza. I'm feeling a little sluggish mentally. Don't, whoa, where is that? Oh, on my stomach, okay. Abdul just started reaching under the picnic table that we, poker table. I know how to get that pizza out. Where? Okay. Welcome to Spout Lore, everybody. Gather round, friends, let me tell you a tale of three heroes, noble and bold. A brute, a druid, and a thief who is but nine years old. You know them by name, you know them by deed. Their quests are famously daring.

So here I sit, singing to you an adventure that is worth sharing. Tuck is the brute, he knows not his home. He loves to sing and fight. Fingers half-elf, he shifts his shape and wields a spear with great might. Billy's a thief, his tiny size does mask the largest heart. Best and brightest, they may not be, but their friendship outweighs their smarts. So gather round, friends, and listen close. For the tale's about to start. Welcome back. I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara.

And with me, as always, it's a full house. Again, for the first time in a long time, players Abdul. Hello, everyone. Today playing the spirit of Elk, Jessica. Oh, hi. Playing the spirit of Polar Bear, Mark Robertson. Hello. Playing the spirit of Owl and Paul Ops. Hello. Playing Ving Vang Zumba. And in the house, West Lord. Happy to be back. Well, we're happy to have you back. He's given me about as much as he usually does. One thumb up. We're continuing our journeys.

When last we left our heroes. Ving Vang Zumba, the druid, remains trapped in the spirit realm and is in the presence. Of the spirits that he most often takes the shapes of Owl, Polar Bear, and Elk. At the end of last session, you were trapped in the Dust Bowl by the spirit of fire. After an I'll-fated attempt to contact Wind to get some information to aid Ving in his journey back to the physical world. And that is where we find our characters. Just sort of in the Dust Bowl.

This dusty, craggy, horrid place. A place that Polar Bear remembers as being Tundra at one point in time. So you find yourself in the Dust Bowl. Which you also know is the realm of Wasp. A particularly aggressive spirit. So what's Ving's plan? So Ving is walking ahead. Yeah, going towards the place to find the smuggler. To ride the wind back to the real world. Right, so the plan is just… Get to the smuggler. Yeah, if it's on the other side, cut through. Yeah, totally. Great. And also to…

He's troubled by the fact that he offended the eagle. Because he uses the spirits. He convenes with them to walk in the spirit world, right? So he didn't know that he was enslaving these poor things. Right. He didn't know. He didn't think about that. He thought it was a cool collaboration that he had this power. But now he sees that… You know, it's a lot darker than that. Right. So is this changing how he feels? So we've talked about it a little bit the last session.

How this changed how he feels about shapeshifting. Yeah. Is he hesitant to? I think so at this point, yeah. Yeah, interesting. Yeah, so okay. So you're walking through the rocky ridges of the tundra that were filled with ice and snow. And all that has gone away, leaving a very craggy, twisty, turny series of canyons. The high walls of these canyons rise up on either side. And you are… If you're basically… If you're going to force your way through this, it's probably going to be a…

Undertake a perilous journey role. Which is a move, obviously, that is used… When you travel through hostile territory, choose one member of the party to act as a trailblazer, one to scout ahead, and one to quartermaster. So this is pretty hostile territory, knowing that this is the haunt of Wasp. So yeah, who's going to be the scout? Who's going to be the trailblazer? Who's going to be the quartermaster? I'll be the trailblazer. Okay. Yeah. I think scout, because I can fly. Yeah. Yeah.

I'll quartermast. Great. Yeah, you're technically the only one that needs to eat. Yeah. Really. Yeah. Can you… What am I eating here? Yeah, are you sustained by the… Yeah, this environment. Yeah. Well, yeah, you do forage, but it is weirder. Vapors. Yeah. Okay. He's in a lot of vaping. You're vaping? Okay. Holy shit. Yeah, so what sort of stuff has Ving been eating? Not much, I don't think. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, being… He's really slimmed down. Being in the spirit world might…

Because when you're in the physical world, you're picking berries, and roots, and stuff like that as you go. But in the spirit world, yeah, it is a weirder feeling. Maybe the spirits of foraging, the things come to him. Oh. Like a little… Yeah, reindeer moss comes. Hey, man. What's up? It's me. Like a little blackberry spirit. It's like, hey, Ving. Yeah. Okay, yeah. I like that off-screen that's been happening. Every once in a while, a little like apple spirit. It's like, hey, man, what's up?

You feeling a little peckish? Takes an apple off his head. Oh. Thank you. Is this why you're starting to think about your shape-shifting and how it affects other people? Yeah, just eating all the spirits. So elk, owl, and Ving roll a 2d6 plus wisdom. 11. Nine. Six. Six. Wonderful. So you got a nine? Yep. So you're eating as normal. Yeah. You find that it is not a big deal. Great. You would think the dust bowl would be a little harder to find food in. Yeah, but dust is, you know, doable.

So you're just eating dust. Yeah. Or as you're walking along in the canyons, you hear behind you suddenly a little and it's a carrot. Prickly pear, is that you? Yeah. A little like vegetable spirit runs around the corner like, Ving, Ving. Oh, like a screw in the Iron Giant. Yeah, exactly. Tumbles along the ground. Hey, buddy, here you go. Oh, thanks. Just in time. I don't know. What's that? Sorry. That's the voice you use when you talk to your spirit.

That's the only accent the spirits understand. That's your nurturing voice. The prickly pear just like runs up and into his mouth. Hey, hey, hey. Prickles off. The nature, you know, we've talked about how spirits act according to their nature and the nature of food is to be eaten. It's true. I know. You hear that food? It's grim. That's right. For any food that's listening, we're coming for you. I'm just doing this. I hope they know your food.

Okay, so Elk, you know, the way you think your innate ability to find the path is leading you through canyons. You stop at junctures and go, oh, I should turn this way. And then you lead people down another way. How do I know? You just feel it, man. Yeah. And you feel a little, how do you feel it? I feel like it's, if I look at two paths that I can possibly go down, I feel a warmth in the direction that I should go. So yeah, you feel a warmth down this path, a warmth down that path.

Owl, you're up above. Yeah, everything looks good up here. I don't, I don't see any, there's nothing. You guys were good. What distracts Owl away from keeping an eye out for threats? Well, there's a lot. You're flying around just the scenery in general. Just looks, whoa, whales. Look at the whales today, guys. Now everything's fine and up ahead. Wait, there's whales? Sky whales, remember? We talked about sky whales. There's sky whales? They still throw me off. There's whales in the sky.

I'm allowed to be alarmed by this. I've never seen this before. What's Polar Bear doing during all this? He's saying, uh, uh, looks good also, but he's just looking at the ground like right in front of him. He's more saying it to himself to, I guess, boost his confidence and bring some calm and peace into his soul. Wow. That's beautiful. Thanks. And as you're all bringing calm and peace into your soul, you turn around a corner in the path, like around a craggy part of this canyon wall.

Before you, you see a pretty, startling sight. There is a large spirit, a boar, quite tall, maybe up to Ving's shoulder, like at his head. It's a big old, big old boar boy. The spirit of boar is being accosted by a large swarm of wasps. Oh no. And, uh, boar is snorting and stamping and getting stung and swarmed all over and just trying to buck these wasps off, but they are incorrigible. What do you do? Get out of here, boar. Leave those wasps alone. No. Are we saving the wrong person? Okay. Ow!

He's also got a voice. Do the wasps notice us? Uh, not immediately. Can I go in swinging? I mean, yeah, you can just go nuts. Let's get these wasps. Let's save this boar. Ew. Yeah. I'm gonna disguise myself. What? Well, I gotta blend in, so I roll around. Okay. So Polar Raider starts rolling around in the dust? Yeah. That's the first, all right. What's the goal here? To become brown like the rest of the zone, so the wasps don't see me coming. All right. I'll allow this.

I feel like this is very similar to something I've done before. Polar bears are all about camouflage. Yeah. There's no snow. You gotta find a new way. Do I have to roll first? Yeah. Let's defy danger wisdom. Okay. Well, five. Five. That is a failure. So as you turn the corner, you see boar getting attacked by wasps, and Polar Bear's immediate thought is, I know, and starts rolling, and starts running around in the dirt, and starts kicking up a cloud of dust.

The dust starts to float over to the wasp swarm, and they are tipped off, and they turn right around, and a big chunk of them splits off, and starts swarming Polar Bear, stinging and biting, getting all in your fur. Big jumps in, and windmills his staff. Okay, yeah. That could be a defend roll. We've never, we don't, we've almost never used defend. We've literally never used defend. And it's a pretty cool move. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like Polar Bear, you get stung a bunch.

You feel all these little spirit wasps biting into your fur. But Ving jumps in with the defend move. So defend, when you stand in defense of a person, item, or location, roll plus constitution. On a 10 plus, hold three. On a seven to nine, hold one. Seven. Seven. So you get to hold one. And so at any time, while you're defending that thing, so in this case, Polar Bear, you can choose to spend hold one for one for these options.

You can redirect an attack from the side, the thing you defend to yourself, have the attacks affect or damage, open up the attacker or ally, giving that ally a plus one forward against the attacker or deal damage equal to your level. I think, yeah, he's going to go for damage. Okay, great. So it is equal to your level and your current level is four. Four. Four. Yeah.

So yeah, so that's four damage to these spirits, which for a spirit, it's quite a lot because you're like, like we've talked about, you're a physical force. You're not like other spirits. So you get in there with your staff, spear, whatever it ends up actually being at any one time. Psych staff. Sex staff? Psych. Like, like a mind staff, spirit staff. Oh. Yeah. P-S. Gotcha. All right. No, I'm on board. He wheels, wheels in a windmill, sort of like a sex staff.

He gets in a windmill, is a sex staff. What do you think I was talking about? Ah, you know. And so you, I was peeing with, yes. Go on. The way you twirl your penis in front of me. Yeah, when you're trying to get wasps out of there. They're attacking your polar bear. You gotta do something. Who hasn't been in this position before? D&D's all about learning how to solve problems that you encounter in the real world. Yeah. In the game, you only do four damage, though. Yeah, exactly.

Instead of destroying the entire wasp. 69 damage. Yeah. So Ving starts going nuts on this swarm of wasps and, uh… Guys. Air quotes. So Ving starts going crazy on this swarm. On this swarm. Just going to town. Can we play crazy on you at this point? Yeah, give it. Yep. Sorry. You swing your staff into this swarm of wasps. Never done this before. And, uh… You swing your staff into this swarm of wasps. And, uh… You start… We gotta get through this description. Close your eyes, polar bear!

You don't want to see what's about to happen. Okay. All right. Whatever it takes. Okay. Everybody cool? With whatever meat saying next potentially sounding like a sex name? Uh, oops. So Ving fucks this swarm of wasps. All right. All right. Up. Up. Okay. So you attack this swarm of wasps and you're just batting huge, like, clumps of them. You know, like, when you see, like, a person wearing, like, a beard of bees? Yeah.

And they've just, like, you can just grab a handful of bees and pull them off? Oh, yeah. It's like that. You're just whacking them off. Sean, a little professionalism, please. This man's time is not free. You understand that kids listen to this show, right? Yeah. I'm starting to realize why it took us so long to record again. It's just a deep subconscious desire to not put myself in this position anymore. What position would that be, Sean? Oh. Okay. All right. Okay. Whacking.

You're attacking the wasps, knocking them off of Polar Bear. There are a few that are sticking around here and there that you can't get out of the fur, but overall, you're starting to… You basically, you smash a few. You just kind of indiscriminately whip your staff through this cloud of wasps and you see piles, piles of them just hitting the ground. Something about your physical body interacting with their spirit matter is just absolutely fucking them up. Oh my gosh. This is great knowledge.

Yeah. It's good to know, right? It's at this point that the Polar Bear, you feel the swarm lift off of you and you see this triumphant figure standing before you just spinning his staff around. Wow. Hair blowing in the wind. This is the druid. Oh my God. And meanwhile, owl and elk, boar is still getting stung to hell by the larger, the lion's share of this swarm of wasps. What do you do?

I'm going to do one of those bird lands on the ground and then whip my wings and try and get a big cloud of dust and wind and, you know, do it. Druids are really looking good. I'm going to try and try and show them up. Yeah. Are you trying to hurt them or are you just trying to try to some if I can hurt them fine, but if I can just get enough wind, like the ones that you've knocked off in chunks and the ones that might still be on there, just disorient them.

Any of the ones that are flying around, just push them back away to get a little bit of relief. I mean, this is probably also a defend move because you're defending boar. So yeah, give me a 2d6 plus. I mean, it is constitution, which I don't imagine is a bird's highest stat. Zero. Yeah. All right. Give me that 2d6 plus zero. Seven. Hey, you still get one. So yeah, you can choose one of these options. Redirect an attack from the thing you defend to yourself. Have the attacks affect or damage.

Open up the attacker, giving that ally a plus one. Deal damage to the attacker equal to your level. What was the second option? Sorry. Have the attacks affect or damage. H-A-L-V-E. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Option B, please. Yeah, great. So you start whipping your wings, blowing up a big cloud of dust and air, and you buffet this big swarm of wasps. A big chunk of them can't hold up to the wind. No, they can't. Yeah, they can't. They can't stand before the air. They can't stand before the owl.

And they blow off a little bit further into the canyon. Boar isn't out of the woods yet, but now they've got enough room to move around and they start hurrying over to your side. Still getting bit and stung, but safer than they were a few minutes ago. Elk, you see all this happen from the sidelines. What's Elk's plan? I'm inspired by Fang and how cool he looks. So I'm gonna like, I'm gonna trot up a little rise and I'm gonna rear up on two legs and do like an elk scream.

Have you heard what an elk sounds like? They're like, scream like a dying person, right? Yeah, they do. Yeah. So I back up off the mic and give us one of those. Okay. I said, back off. You got so close. Your beard was like touching my lips right on here and then I'll scream. Okay. And I blow morning steam out of my nose and I stay standing up on two legs with my like front legs just in front of me and I look down at the swarm and I'm like, leave. What's your what's your plan here?

Just to scare them away. You're trying to scare them. Okay. I don't know what else I can do. I know that's funny. That's pretty funny. That I mean, I want to, I want to just say that that wouldn't work, but I also want to honor this decision. So if you want to try, so how, how intimidation is often at least based on the fact that the fighter is able to take a move called intimidate that augments parlay to being like, you can always just promise to hurt somebody if they don't listen to you.

Or is that basically what elk is offering wasp the choice like leave or we're going to destroy you? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Give me a 2d6 plus charisma. Okay. Seven, seven. So you offer the choice leave or we'll destroy you and on a seven to nine with a parlay, they will do what you ask, but need some concrete assurance of your promise right now.

And what that means is they take that as a threat and as a challenge and all of the wasps in this area just ball up into a big swarm and come straight at elk. Okay. He runs. Yeah. And just books it. Yeah, but he's on two legs. He's way slower than he would be slipping. He's here. And I do the scream again, but it doesn't sound as majestic because you're trying to stick. All right. Give me a defy danger. See, give me a defy danger dexterity. Hey, so you are running on your hind legs.

I like that being around thing is making want to be more human. Well, that's what happened with the rocks when we were hanging out. Yeah, that's true. Being around people makes spirits want to be like people. Spirits are so dumb. They shouldn't want to be like us. This cloud of wasps. Are they in the form of like a fist or a big hammer or a hammer? Or an arrow? Funny you should ask the big swarm takes the form of a hand and snaps a couple times and waves the other swarm over.

And then they they turn over onto their index and middle finger and start running like the hamburger helper glove. That's not what I thought it would be. That's perfect. No, they fly. They fly. No, sorry. They're running on legs. Like the hamburger helper glove.

So, yeah, Ving, polar bear, owl, you see elk sprint off and all the wasps all the wasps that were in this area nice take off owl and polar bear, you know, from your experiences with wasp, but this isn't all of them by a long shot, but this is a sizable chunk and elk. You're committing to the hind legs thing. Yeah, I guess I already did. Okay, so you're running on your hind legs and you realize that running on your hind legs is really hard when you're a quadruped. Mm-hmm.

Designed to run horizontally as opposed to vertically and you hit a rock and you like go down on both of your knees, your back knees because you have four, not two. Uh-huh. And you skid on the ground and before you're able to get I skid my knees. Oh, geez, it hurts so much. But he's secretly proud and like, I scraped my knees. I did it. Like a man. And before you are able to get back up and keep running the front, part of the wasps catch up and they start stinging you and you take one damage.

So remember now you're supposed to take minus one because like your spiritual essence is being leeched away so you're less good at things basically. It's harder for you to operate. Okay. When you take enough damage. Okay. And yeah, what's your long-term plan here? Um, so I get up and I, uh, I give him a a good old one too. You're fighting them now? Is there any other option? Ooh, can I come barge in? Yeah, please. Yeah, totally. Yeah, that works.

So when you see elk run off, polar bear is just like, I'm coming. I'm coming, my brother. He's slow at first. Takes him a sec to rev up, but he's, he charges. Awesome. And the wind is very majestic in his fur and he feels pretty cool because he's like, I'm going to be a hero. When you said the wind is very majestic, I imagined him with long hair on his head. Like Fabio? He also imagined himself with long hair. The dust blows out and he's like, that's what I meant.

The blonde, the blue leaves and he's back to white. Oh yeah. It just slowly flows out and turns from golden to white. Leaving a cloud of dust behind you like a drag racer. It's truly beautiful. That's sweet. So I RuPaul myself through. So fierce. So fierce. I sashay away. To save, to save elk. To save the day. So proud of her run. Okay, give me a, give me a 2d6 plus. I'm going to use strength. I'm going to use strength. I mean, yeah, strength to like get there on pure speed alone.

From my thighs. Yeah. Your thighs. Ooh, okay. Hold on. 11. Oh, sweet. Yeah. Yeah. So that is just a success. So we'll say that this is happening. Like elk, you don't know that polar bear is taken off almost immediately and took the time to kind of rev up and you hit the ground and the wasps sting you and you get up and you square up with your hooves in front of you like an old timey boxer. And you're like, okay, it's come to this. This is it. This is when I finally. Bam. And I eat.

Well, I smashed through the fist or whatever. And into me. And of the bees, of the wasps. And I eat some. Okay. Give me a hack and slash. Okay. So 2d6 plus your strength. Wow. I'm so powerful. 14. It's off the scale. I ate so many. Yeah. Oh, you're just eating wasps. Well, I just took, I just took the biggest bite and also inhaled. So they're like, Phil, I'm just getting super full of wasps and I can handle it. And then I crash into.

Oh, you just open your mouth and run into this form like, oh, and then. All right. You swallow a bunch of wasps. Oh, what happens when a spirit consumes another spirit? Probably not something helpful. Or maybe, we get stripes. I don't know why I said it like that. Let's just get collaborative for a second guys. Yeah.

So what, what we were talking about just now, Wes was off mic for it was, um, the consumption of a spirit by a spirit has no effect in the spirit world, but in the real world, it has very strange and long lasting consequences. So in the physical world, these two animals basically became one leading to the spontaneous arrival of like polar bees because bees are small. And when you're in a, when wasps are small and easy to consume by other spirits. So it probably happens a lot.

Like fires probably consumed some more. They're so cute. They're white and fuzzy. They are. And they have fur. And they have little black noses and they like to help people. Their honey comes out like in crystals, like crystallized honey. They eat seals. Guys, is it? They try real hard. There's shores in the frozen North where there's just swarms of polar bees eating seals on the beach. Yeah. And, yeah, like you said, explains the fire bees and it also explains the bumble slave. Oh, yeah.

Bumble snake. All the different stupid bees. The bumble snake, the water bees. Those still might be fish. Isn't it? I mean, I like bees a lot, but we sure have a lot of bees in our game. Yeah. The wasps should be. Finally, we know why. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Now we know why because bees get eaten a lot in the spirit world. I think maybe we're doing this because in our own world, bees are dying at such a rate that we don't know why. Yeah. We don't know why. Yeah.

That in our fantasy world, we want there to be more than enough bees for everybody. Let's call them instinction. Nice. Yeah. Polar bear has effectively chased off this chunk of bees with a resounding success, consuming some, having effects unknown to polar bear in the real world, and then completely just barrels into elk. So there's just a huge pile. Sorry. That's okay. And I take a hoof and I'm like, I put it down his face. That's okay. That's all covered in bee stings. Under the fur.

So the fur is just sticking up a lot. Owl and Ving, you're back in this little canyon with boar. And after all the wasps leave, boar is on their knees and just breathing heavily and snuffling around and just looks up and is like, oh, hurts a lot. Can Ving just do like a tuck style because he's trying to impress tuck always, even though tuck's not there and be like, with like a little bit of a tuck style.

Like a movie saying, because he just killed a bunch of, of like, did someone just open a window? Because it got a whole lot less swarm in here. Sorry. He just cuts boar off. Yeah, yeah. Boar's like, what? What do you think? I am very thankful for you. Know of my phrase. What do you think? Oh, I have very little frame of reference for it. Hmm. Is that a window joke? Window. I don't know them. We got a real dumb boar on our hands, guys. I knew it. Boar gets up on all fours. It's like, oh.

Anyway, thanks a lot for helping me out back there. I was having a lot of trouble. Yeah, no problem. It's my pleasure. Just wandered in here rooting around, just looking for whatever like I do. And man, wasp is real ornery. How'd you get here? Like I said, I was just looking for something to eat. I was just looking for something to eat. And just looking for the good stuff, you know, trying to dig up some nice things. Rooting around. Rooting around.

And that's, you know that that is, that's boar's nature is to root around, looking for valuable things, basically like food or whatever. Boar has a tendency to dig up a lot of shit and gets them into trouble more often than not because they just can't stop snuffling around. Tell me about it. This little boar is just getting into trouble. Getting into truffle. Hey, getting into truffle. Pretty good. That's the name of the podcast. It's fun getting into truffle. Spinoff podcast.

It's like a cooking podcast. Yeah, it is. Hmm. This one also tastes truffly. All right. So yeah, boar's like, no, I was just rooting around per usual. I hear that. And he high fives him. He tries to return it. So what do we do now? We got to find a way out of here. I guess we got to see if we can get our friends back. Oh, we're just walking back together. Hey guys. We're holding hands. Yeah. Yeah. What happened to the wasps? A bear killed them. He ate them. You ate them. Yeah. Yeah.

Also, we're in love now. And then I lift our hands. For now, for now. Yeah. Oh, okay. And I, we're both walking on two legs. Guys, what is happening? I'm going to look at Ving and say, I don't think that really. I love. Do you support this? Polar bear is kind of up for most things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. God damn it. Bore's like, wow, thanks a lot. Thanks again for saving me.

And you see them looking at Elkin polar bear on the hind legs. And you see bore kind of like hop up a couple of times, but then land back down and just like, Hey, don't just anyway, be, be you boy. Yeah, no, I'm just, oh yeah, no, boys just doing board. Don't, don't you worry. No, no, no, I got it. I got it. It's not totally cool. Wait, are you homophobic? What? What's not cool? No, you're turning into people. So people, I guess technically, sorry, I'm just confused. I guess.

Yeah, that is technically what that means. We all got real quiet. Oh, wait, Mark's a homophobe. Only when it's animals turning into people and on microphone. Oh boy. We got to get to the wind. We need to find this. Do you, have you ever heard, have you ever heard of the scoundrel bore? Have you ever heard of the smuggler smuggler? He's a real scoundrel. Yeah. Some people know him as a ghost pirate. Uh, nope. Don't doesn't ring any bells. Sorry. Sorry, folks.

What about the wind, the wind sailor, the wind pirate? No, I feel like the wind bandit. Have you seen a wind bandit? Uh, not that I, uh, no, I, what's the coolest thing you found this month? Coolest thing I found this month. Oh, I'm glad you asked. Uh, so, so bore, uh, snuffles around a little bit is like, you want to see the coolest thing I found lately? Check it out. Yeah. You're like, Oh, and, uh, it like just opens its mouth and this chunk of wood and metal just slides out. Oh geez.

Hits the dirt. And it is, um, it picks it up immediately. Yeah. It is a little burnished brass and wood magnifying glass. Oh, where did you find this? I was just digging around in the dirt outside and, uh, it just, it was just right there. You know what it tastes like? It's tasted like a childhood memory.

I will remind from the last session when our heroes three and Perel were floating through wasps domain in the actual hive, there were human bodies and piles of equipment and items and stuff like that. Just kind of strewn about, but Boris kind of like, uh, well, uh, could I, uh, get that back? Do you mind if I hang it onto it? I'll carry it. You don't have to hang it onto it. You just think of what else you could fit in there without this in there. I don't know. It's still yours.

You're going to have to make a roll. Boris greedy. Do you want to make a trade? Oh, what are you offering? I just dropped a handful of reindeer moss on the ground. Well, I mean, what kind of kicks it closer to him is what you're getting pal. Boris like, I don't know that magnifier glass. It's pretty cool. You don't have to, you don't have to make me a, an offer. Hmm. What do you got? I've got a friendship companionship. I've got, um, you know what? Why don't I hang onto this?

You take us to the field of where you found it and I'll help you look for more things. That's not a terrible, I mean, unless you got me Mooney. Mooney. I'm sorry. I don't understand your accent. A little bit of Mooney. A little bit of the, a little bit of the dough. Ray me. If you know what he's talking about, he's an elk. Some, some, some corns. I think you know what I'm talking about. I've got bunions. Is that what I was talking about?

If, if, if bunions are small and circular and clink, clink around when you folks come tramp through here. Kind of. I think we could maybe make a deal if you got a little bit of corns on you. Oh, money. Money. Yeah. Money. You like money. Oh, capital M money. Yeah. I love money. Hmm. I only found it. I've got a couple of times, but boy, when I do, oh, it's just a, that's a good time. What would you let this thing go for? I got two coin. I'll give you one of those coin. Two coin. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, they're all, they're all wooden. You've got these two wooden coins. No, no metal, metal. Never heard of them. Never touched a stuff. Wood coins, cheapest chips. Okay. Roll a roll of parlay parlay. 11 plus my charisma. Yeah. That's not, that's not bad. Um, well, damn. Yeah. So bore is like, what's in between his fingers and clacks him on his knee. Like a spoon. I start like, kind of like dancing around to it. I'm like, Oh, Oh, look at that beat. And I'm looking at poor.

I'm like, Oh, this beat. You guys are an owl in polar bear. You were watching elk convulse in a way that you have never witnessed before. Polar bear is going to do it too. I don't really like what's happening. Hey, come on, get into it. Yeah. It's a good beat. And I opened my eyes. I'm like, do it. It's a great beat. Fucking dance, man. Oh yeah. And then the owl just starts kind of clawing at the dirt a little bit. Kind of just doing a little weird bird hop thing. He's like, Whoa. Okay. Yeah.

Spectacular. Okay. And then we'll just settle down a little bit. Bore does the same little like hop thing. Bring in its front, front hooves up in the air. Yeah. And then we chant. We're like, yeah, bore, bore, bore, bore, bore, bore, bore, bore, You hear that buddy? That's for you, pal. All right. All right. All right. All right. Spins the wooden coins on his tusk. Fidget spinner. All right. All right. Fine. Fine. Fine. You know what?

If you, if you don't got metal, I'm not one to turn down any moonies. You pop those in here, buddy. And he opens up his mouth. Nope. I'm going to take these back to the herd. Oh, they are just going to lose their minds. You hold onto that thing, man. No problem. If you ever want to use it, let me know. The number of, the number of times we have chanted in this podcast is insane. Insane. Insane. Insane. Insane. Insane. Insane. Insane. To be clear, those were the hot dog festival coins? Yeah.

Is that the? Yeah. Yeah. He still had those tokens. Good. At least they came in handy for something. And then he goes, wait, those were the hot dog festival? Shit. Just like patting his pouches. Wait, wait, wait. No, no, I had four of those. Oh, no. Cool. So, you know where we can get some more stuff like this? Oh, yeah, totally. Can we go there now? Yeah. Oh, we can go there now if you want to go. Yeah, greedy owl is getting into it. We could all get some stuff. It sounds like it'd be cool.

And then maybe on the way we can maybe get some ideas about how to find your pirate. If these, this looks like it came from the human world. It doesn't look like it's from here. I know. Wherever you got this, we could probably, there might be a way back for him. Take us to where you found this. Oh, I never, ever thought about that. Yeah, let's, let's go. Yeah.

So, Boar leads you off to, um, leads you through some canyons and is talking about like, oh, yeah, when I came this way, wasp never used to bother me. I don't know what it is, but yeah, they're, they're getting real aggressive lately. I wasn't even really doing anything. Just kind of snuffling around like I do, you know, and, uh, got all, got all uppity about it.

And, uh, Boar takes you through some twisty turny bits and, uh, comes to like, what looks like a dead end in, uh, in a canyon, like the two walls just close at the, at the other end. There's sort of weird piles of debris and Ving. You see some things that might look human made, like physical items here and there. So you, you guys are free to just dig around a little bit. Do you guys just dig around in the piles? Can I do a trap? Look for a trap. This would be like a discern realities. Yeah.

Yeah. So give me a, yeah. Plus wisdom nine, nine. So that means that you get one question off the discern, realities list, which is what happened here recently. What is about to happen? What should I be on the lookout for? What here is useful or valuable to me? Who's really in control here? What here is not what it appears to be. What should I be on the lookout for? Boar immediately is just digging around in piles of stuff like dirt and rocks and pulling up old clumps of dead grass.

You start poking around in a pile of rocks and sticks. You sort of poke it with your staff and some chunks fall off and you see what looks like some cloth or leather or something like that. You know, Oh yeah, this must be what he's talking about. And you brush some dirt away and some, some rocks and you brush your hand down this one clump of debris. And as you clear the debris in front of you, it reveals a human face. Oh, that looks like you. Thanks for listening to spell Laura, everybody.

I've been your game master, Sean O'Hara with me as always players of dual. I skin my knees, Jessica. So I Ru Paul myself, Paul. We got a real dumb bore on our hands guys. And Mark. No, I don't really like what's happening. Thanks to, uh, our technical producer, Wes Lord back in the saddle again. I want to be a cowboy, baby, double guns. And thanks to Aaron Reed for our intro and outro music. Thank you to Mark and MP for letting us be in their house again and for buying us pizza.

And, uh, yeah, you've been listening to Spout Lore. See you next time. And so ends the tale of adventures. Three who tried the best. They can dumb and scared and lost. Maybe for times of breast in revelry. And though our journey may be like a conclusion, we will not leave you without a resolution. Return next week to hear some more. Whilst you come you or do your chores. And for you, I gladly. Spelt. No.