Episode 2 – Beach Day

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 have health, he shifts his shape, and wields a spear with great might Peely'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 to Spout Lore everybody, I'm your Game Master Sean Welcome to Spout Lore everybody, I'm your Game Master Sean With me as always, playing Fat Billy the Halfling Thief Jessica Tai Good morning Playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian Abdul Aziz Hi And playing Ving the Half-Elf Druid Paul Oppers Go fuck yourself!

Hey, energy up! Boom, early morning recording session Yeah! Early morning recording, Abdul and I were awake at 7am We have a lot of the residual bullshit that we're dealing with in our dreams That we are still working through Let's talk about it, dream energy, Abdul, what were you dreaming about?

I don't remember but I woke up with an erection Paul I was dreaming about Abdul with a big heart on Woke Up Classic And Jessica I didn't dream but when I woke up I saw Abdul sleeping on the couch and I was like, he has an erection Did you see my erection? No Okay But I knew it was there I saw somebody see my erection once What was that like?

They were turning and laughing And running back into their room as on the couch And I think we all know who that person is too which is really funny When last we left our heroes, they were reunited with the physical form of Perel And spent a little bit of time having some magical debates of various kinds They talked to Perel about the possibility that the Menders would track them down now that they have released them The only living wizard And Perel has agreed in an attempt to cover their tracks He resurrected Chamberlain and created Chamberlain's urge to cover for the party And created a fake box out of normal stone that looks like the Wardstone box And they have decided to hit the road to still follow up on a lead that the Menders gave them Yeah I think To go to the Halfling Lands We're going to that We're going to the Halfling Lands eventually but I think we're gonna stop at a vacation down Yeah somebody's going to like volunteer at a church but they stop off at a playground first Yeah well and also there's apparently a tram of some kind that you can catch in Crystal Bay That goes straight to the Halfling Lands Yeah We're gonna spend all our money on it And that is where we meet up with everybody So Tuck, Vang, Billy and Mears are riding the cart pulled by Francis the Woolly Pig Who happily trundles along On a muddy road And after a few uneventful days of travel with Perel sitting snugly in the fanny pack Wrapped up around Tuck's waist Uh yeah maybe I have it in the backpack Like where the box used to be Wear it Yeah I have it in my backpack Oh he's wearing it like a millennial it's strapped to his like torso No I'm not It's strapped crossways across the front No You're wearing it like a babysitter I don't wanna do that He keeps his phone and his credit cards in there Fuck you guys Why do you have more than one credit card Tuck?

That's dangerous And he keeps his airpods in there Cause he doesn't want- he keeps losing them It's like his third pair Fuck Really costing him a lot Yeah and after a few uneventful days of travel you exit the more thickly forested section of the Firefields Principality that you've been traveling through And uh you come out of the trees the sun is shining and before you lies the sea of graves Steely stormy water stretch off the trees You come up to the horizon And spaced out evenly massive stone pillars rise up into the clouds Woah This is the first time I think most of you have seen the sea of graves at the very least for a long time Billie you've never seen the ocean before right I've never seen it You've never seen the ocean No it's so spooky What's spooky about it Billie All the pillars all the stones How far away are the pillars from the beach a few like two miles maybe oh I thought they were like right there no not right there I'm less scared now I mean you can still see them and they're still really big do things live up there are we spelt luring oh yeah sure yeah somebody give me a Spout Lore 2d6 plus intelligence eight all right on an eight with a Spout Lore I give you something interesting it's up to you to make it useful uh there are many stories about the pillars of the sea of graves some say that they rise up into the clouds and beyond that they just rise infinitely those people are stupid a lot of people do think that that's stupid yeah um but there are stories of things that make their homes at the top of the pillars past the cloud cover and some say that further in the pillars vary more widely in height and there are stories of ships uh being attacked from above by great beasts that nest at the top of the pillars or being uh dragged underneath by things that swarm out of the pillars as people are pretty uh wary of traveling within them the stories are hard to confirm yeah cool yeah the pillars are part of uh the the religion of the flame oh are they yeah okay yeah let's let's tell me a little bit about tuck's knowledge of the of the religion of the flame they say that the pillars are were created by the lord of the flame to trap a sea monster that lives underneath like a sea serpent like so it tangled them yeah in the pillars does tuck believe that uh yeah sure it's like it's like one of those things that like people always said when you're a kid is like hey don't go to the sea of graves or else like the world serpent will get you like it's like and then it's like it kind of just becomes like an idiom it's like hey world serpent will get you yeah if you're like getting too drunk at the festival they're like uh world serpent will get you and then it comes deep in the sea of graze and then it just becomes like an analogy for like bad fate or bad luck is like the world serpent druids believe that the beasts the great beasts on the top are are born of the runes that are carved by ancient druids oh are there runes on the on the pillars yeah some people that have gotten closer to the pillars have said that there are things carved on them yeah whoa yeah and there's uh meant to be a lord of beasts above on one of the pillars fuck yeah they kind of control control some of them they think cool that's that's one of the tales ancient tales does ving believe that ving uh yeah wants to believe it yes he doesn't believe much but he wants to believe a lot what is what has billy heard about the sea of graves pillars or the sea of graves in general the halflings believe that thunderbirds live above the sea of graves and they they create storms yeah oh maybe the thunderbirds are the reason for the storms in the sea of graves okay yep so I bet the halflings at home are probably really thinking about the thunderbirds right now with all their rivers topsy-turvy maybe the thunderbirds are angry with them for some reason yeah do they have do they do sacrifices sort of ritually kind of they can't they can't they can't sacrifice but they will offer their harvests to the waters any sort of yeah it's like I imagine it being like we can't kill an animal but like we'll leave like a bowl of milk or honey ear of corn and yeah yeah killing an ear of corn exactly drip over the yeah they get their beats and they do that and everyone's like whoa look all the blood flowing into the river it's just everyone's just like yeah pretending they're like that's fun or halflings think that we're halflings think that we're halflings think that we're halflings think that we're halflings think that we're all full of beet juice would billy ever take those offerings yeah he'd go back for sure no like when you were living there and hungry and like homeless like would you like yeah no especially because like usually the whole town would have to gather for a sacrifice over there yeah by the river and like you know families will talk for a bit and leave and then billy just waits it out and he goes into the river and eats whatever they threw in um um I saw somebody throw an ear of corn in there.

I'm going for it. Cool, yeah. And so that's what you're all thinking about when you see these massive pillars stretching off into the horizon. So do the halflings think that all waters are connected? Yep. So that's why they're like, oh, the storms in the Sea of Graves must be affecting the Wittershins and the Sunwise? Yeah. Cool. I love them. Yeah, I'm excited to get to the halfling lands. It's pretty sweet. But first, Beach Party Summer! Hashtag Hot Girl Summer. Hot Summer.

And Mears is just sitting next to you as you're all thinking about these stories that you've heard wide-eyed. I've never seen anything like this before. What have you heard about the Sea of Graves? Oh, it's spooky. It's all spooky stuff. I heard that if you die on the Sea of Graves, your ghost wanders all waterways for the rest of time. Whoa. I heard that the pillars are actually prisons that hold monsters.

I heard that there's one big whale that lives in the Sea of Graves and that every once in a while, somebody sees him. And if you see the whale, it means that you're going to be famous. Can you keep doing them as we're walking down? What? Yeah, there's a big whale. The Whale of Graves. It's going to make you famous? He makes you famous. If you see him, you become rich and famous. They say he's a chunk of one of the pillars that broke off. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. I'm going to tell people that.

He's made out of stone. He's a stone whale. That's pretty cool, huh? That's pretty cool. And he's just chattering away as you're riding down the coast. Wait, have you ever seen the ocean? No. Thing, have you? Not this ocean. I've seen the ocean, the frozen north. Oh, yeah. Part of it, but I haven't seen the Sea of Graves. Do you guys want to go in? Okay. Yeah. Do we? Do we have time? Well, I guess we're not on a schedule, are we? No. Is it dangerous? Is it? Is it? Parole.

Is this how we call him now? He has to get out of the bag now. Well, I'm just going to go in. I don't need anyone telling me which way and what or whatever. Going into danger without a plan. Let's go put our feet in the water. All right. Yeah. And you ride down to the beach. And what do we think the beach at the Sea of Graves looks like? Is the sand just sand colored sand? It's the same colors of pillars. Yeah. Cool. Cool. Yeah, because the pillars have been there for eons, potentially.

So the storms have worn the surfaces of the pillars and then sand will slough off and then go to the beach. All the beaches around that ocean are black. Sweet. Yeah. Yeah. And as you get closer to the coast, the land clears out. It gets pretty flat as you get closer to the water. And then it's just… Yeah. The blue grass. Blue grass. Yeah. There's blue grasses. Yeah. There's a dude sitting on the edge just playing a banjo. Yeah. Yeah. The blue grass.

The blue grasses give way to black sand beaches. And there's just black sand stretching along the coast on either side for miles and miles. Are we alone or are there other travelers? There's a couple people here and there, but not many. They're not fucking Panusians, are they? Yeah. I'm going to beat their asses. Yeah. I like that we're all racist now. Now we're all areas. No Panusians. Just travelers, like regular people. And there's a town a little bit further down the coast.

So you think some of them are just villagers. Oh, cool. Yeah. Oh. I'm running in the water. I will also run in the water, but at a much slower pace. I run in the water, but I've taken my loincloth off, so I'm completely… Of course. Billy covers his eyes. He keeps running. Runs into the ocean. Billy's running with his hands over his eyes. Yeah. Slowly running. And Mears is hustling along behind very trepidatiously. And you're all just kind of kicking it. And the water now? Yeah.

It tastes weird. Yeah. Where's the water like? I think it moves not just like regular waves. Like it doesn't just move like a tide, like pushing you against the shore. It kind of tugs you around in different directions. Like there's weird like cross currents and stuff? Even close to the shore. It's like you're being pushed towards the shore, pulled away side to side, kind of around. Like it feels like you're feeling multiple currents and tides at once. Like it's not responding to the wind? No.

Whoa. Yeah. Cool. And you have a very weird, when you look at the pillars this close, especially when you're touching the water, you get this kind of weird numb feeling almost. Like some part of your mind is smoothed away. Bing puts his head under and breathes deep through his gills. Whoa. So cool. It's been a while since he's soaked up. And new waters allows him to study the essence a little bit more. Oh my God. Oh. Oh. Oh. So he's. Getting in that. So what. Yeah.

What form is Bing looking to be able to take? He's not. He's just. He just wants to commune with the sea of graves. I think he's just about getting vibes these days. Look at the danger room. Yeah. Trying to pick things up. So he's just breathing it in and seeing what it feels like. And it feels very ancient. Oh. Yeah. Oh yeah. What do you. Yeah. What do you. Like is there anything that Bing is trying to accomplish or is it just a vibe? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bing is. Would love to see one of the Thunderbirds. He would love to see one and possibly meet the Lord of all Thunderbirds. It's fucking sick. Yeah. It's fucking sick. It is very cool. I'm trying to see if I can have a better sense of where the Lord of the Thunderbirds is in the sea of graves. That's what I'm asking of the. So. So. Basically. Communing with the sea of graves to get information. Yeah. Yeah. Of some kind. That sounds like a communion of whispers.

So could you give me a 2D6 plus wisdom? Okay. Communion of whispers with the sea of graves in my gills. Oh yeah. Seven. On a seven to nine. The vision is unclear meaning murky. Sorry. The vision is unclear. It's meaning murky. The vision is unclear, which means murky. So the water is like a murky kind of like a, kind of like a little shitty, like a little like brown and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a little brown and stuff.

And then you look over, you realize Billy still has diarrhea. It's in my gills. It's in my gills. He's washing it off. Yeah. Billy's cleaning himself in the sea. That's so funny. Like we're like, we're like kind of like splashing around and we look over and Billy's like 20 feet away and he's like, God is wet. You know that thing where kids like dunk their butts in the water and he's like looking into the distance and we're like, Billy, are you taking a shit? No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No. No. No. But he doesn't count on the weird tides here. So it's just like, like an oopy ball of poop coming towards us. Poopy, oopy. And the cloud of the diarrhea, thanks to the strange currents, forms symbols of strange meaning. Billy is surrounded by runes, a ring forms, and a light pours from the circle and disappears. Billy, you need less iron. I'm sorry. I do like the idea that that's a thing. I'm sorry. I do like the idea that that did happen.

Billy had wicked diarrhea and then like you just saw a bunch of runes, but because he can't read, he's like, weird. Oh yeah, that's a little trippy, man. Well, I'm going to go. Hey, that one looks like a dog. See ya. See ya, poopsie. Yeah, I'd cry with that. You can make cartoons out of your shit. Yeah. It's like child's play. Like Alpha Getty or Dunkaroos. Don't eat your poops. Bye. Dunkaroos is a good name for shitting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dunkaroos. Yeah.

Got to go Dunkaroo. Yeah. And we're just like, Billy, you can't shit in the ocean. Why? It's then I'm clean too. I know, but there's other people in here. You're like, but I'm clean. And we're all like knees down in poop. Yeah, you're clean, pal. I mean, keep in mind, the Thunderbirds are a myth. Yes. As far as Ving's concerned. He's never even seen one. He's trying to see if it maybe isn't. But you open your side. You're like, I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't.

I can't. I can't. I'm just trying to see if it maybe isn't. But you open yourself up to the spirits in the Sea of Graves and you feel this ancient weight. The spirits here are ancient and knowledgeable and their essence is heavy with the wisdom of ages. It's kind of acting like a bit of an antidepressant for Ving at this moment. He needed this. Yeah. It's like a rebirth for his depression. Cool. Right. Because he spent so many days contemplating. He's like, I'm going to die. I'm going to die.

I'm going to die. I'm going to die. There's a woman. Since he left the spiritual world. And your eyes cloud over with this vision that the ocean bestows on you. And you are flying. You see the pillars. You're soaring in between them. Your mighty wing beats pounding against the currents of the air and the cloud. And you tip up and you start flapping through the cloud cover and just iron gray clouds all around you.

And just before you crest the top of the cloud cover, your vision returns to normal. Heading through thick cloud and you can see it being light. Just about to break through the light of the cloud. Damn. Yeah. But something Ving is pretty certain of now at least is Thunderbirds are real, at the very least. Or the spirits, at the Sea of Graves, were trying to trick you, but you don't think they'd do that. Whatever. Trick away. That was awesome. Guys, I tripped hard. Yeah, that is kind of the vibe.

It's that Ving just got high. And I'm dancing back. I'm like, Thunderbirds are real. Splashing, splashing. Thunderbirds are real. Thunderbirds are real. He's so excited and dancing around in circles. We have no idea what you're talking about. I'll do the same. Always get in. Thunderbirds. Thunderbirds are real. I saw them. Billy's just flapping around saying, Thunderbirds are real. Thunderbirds are real. Yeah. And he asked what they look like. I couldn't see. I was the Thunderbird. Whoa. Yeah.

Billy has a new respect for Ving. It's a new bond. Erase it. Billy has a new respect for Ving. No, we'll do that next time. What did Tuck want to know? So I wanted to kind of like, because I know Billy is magic, right? And one of the things that Tuck is concerned with now is like being like, oh, it's like Billy's magic. I'm going to kill him. Remember? Whereas like, Perel's like, I don't know what the effects are going to be.

So I kind of just wanted to like, as we're at the beach, like close to the Sea of Graves, I wanted to see if like the water or the beach or anything is responding in a strange way to Billy. Yeah. Or if like his presence here is like changing something. So do we get, we get Perel out, right? Would we use Perel for this? Or would I just, do a, you could do a discern realities. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah. We could do a discern realities. I think Jessica is going to give you some answers though.

Oh yeah. Sure. I'll do my best. So yeah. All right. 2d6 plus wisdom. Whoa. Damn. What's my wisdom? It doesn't matter. Plus one, 12. I got 12. So you get three questions from the discern realities list. Sick. So three. Ugh. Whoa. So it's two hang loose hands and a tongue on the microphone. And you know, it makes sense that you get a, a 12 on this. You're basically just watching your kid play at the beach. Yeah. And you're like, what's he doing? Yeah. I'm like, I'm standing on the beach.

I was like, that's great. And then I noticed that he's shitting. I'm like, Billy, don't do that. I'm not. He keeps doing. Every once in a while, like I'll see him walk. And then like, I'll see him look around surreptitiously. And then slowly. Dunk. Like, Billy, just don't do that. Get it out. But it's like a netty pot for his butt. Just get it out of your pal. That's what big is. Yeah. Just let him let him. He needs to. Billy's going to anyway. Yeah, exactly.

Figured I were on the shore watching mirrors and Billy. It's just like, no. Yeah. Yeah. Mears is, he took his boots off and he rolled his pants up to like mid calf. So he can walk in the water. And every time, he sees Billy. He goes, ah, and he does that. Like slap, slap, slap, slap, slap. As he's like kicking up high above the water to run away. Yeah. Also mirrors is very excited to be swimming around. Cause he used to love swimming. And then he lost his arm and he hasn't been able to swim.

Yeah. His arm. And he's trying to get, he's still, he's still having a little bit of trouble. You can see, cause he's swimming with a limb that's made out of metal and wood. Yeah. So he's like, well, I could dive better. I can dive better, but it's hard coming back. Back up. That's for sure. You get three questions off the discern realities list. So yeah. What happened here recently? What is it about? I'm not kidding. Abdul, pay attention, please. What? This isn't even me. Is it? Yes. Oh yeah.

I succeeded in the role. Let's move on. Oh my God. Okay. So just so we understand the situation, Jessica is going to be giving you answers to these discern reality questions because it's what Billy's doing at the beach. And if the, the beach is reacting to him at all. Okay. Okay. And I'm just going to roll with whatever answers Jessica gives. Cool. So 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. Now, not all of these necessarily have to apply to Billy. Cause the beaches on the sea of graves are sort of well known for having a lot of weird detritus wash up. Cause there are so many ships that crash in the pillars that, that people find interesting things on the beach. Uh, so that might come into play, but there's no something actually that you notice is there's no driftwood like zero driftwood. Huh? Yeah. That's weird.

It is weird. And the trees stop long before they get to the beach, but you'd think that wood would wash up at some point from somewhere. Yeah, but it don't. Huh? Yeah. I guess I am kind of just doing a general discern realities about this area. Yeah. And also being like, is Billy okay? He keeps having diarrhea in the ocean. Um, can actually, can we do, can we do a thing where I asked Billy two of the questions and Perel one question? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. So I've like, kind of like set up the tent.

Yeah. As Billy's been playing in the ocean and like, I've just like, it's just, yeah. And you've been learning to set it up in a way that's not overly suspicious. So it's not just like a fanny pack. That's the size of like a pocket book that whips out into a huge tent. You set it up and it kind of just looks like a regular tent. Okay. Cause I mean, it's a magical artifact and those don't really exist. So you don't, you don't want to draw too much attention. And there's other people on the beach.

Yeah. There's a couple of people here and there and on the roads and stuff like that. So you just want to be kind of, kind of careful. So just don't drag your like enormous pig into your tent in front of people. Oh, right. Francis is there too. Yeah. Francis is, he's padded up to the edge of the water. He doesn't like it though. Cause it's, it's saltwater. He doesn't want to go in saltwater. Poor Francis. And he's getting kind of warm cause it's sunny on the beach and he's covered in hair.

Billy's getting warm too. Is it warm? I imagine it being like, kind of like, cause the storms, like it being kind of, is it, I guess I imagine it being really windy. Uh, but it could be hot wind. Yeah. Sand holds that heat. Oh, cause it's black sand. Yeah. Super hot. So it's like just super hot wind coming off of the waves. So Francis went down onto the beach and padded around a little bit and was like, and then walked back up to the grass. Like he doesn't even want to be on the sand.

Things set up the vestibule for people who want shade. Oh, the tent. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. The, yeah, cool. Then Francis is like nosing at the, the opening of the tent. I'm sitting there. I'm like, no, stay out. He's trying to push, but he's really strong. Yeah. He's like trying to push past you. I'm like smacking his cheeks. I'm like, no, I'll put you in the danger room. Slapping his cheeks. Like, no, stay back. And he's like, oh man, I love this stupid pig. Uh, okay. Yeah.

So that's, what's going on right now. Um, yeah. So I'm, I guess I'm sitting in the, uh, stabula of the tent. Uh, and is Perel, Perel's inside. Yeah. He'll be inside. Yeah. So I look, I look at Billy playing in the waves and I'm just like watching him for anything. Mm. That is an indication of like something strange with his abilities. Mm. So I'm just like, what should I be on the lookout for? So what's Billy doing right now? Uh, Billy's, uh, done shitting and he's just, he's waiting.

He's just waiting around to try to clean himself off. What? And how do we think that Billy's, uh, natural magic might be interacting with the strange waters of the sea of graves? Um, well, the water, he wants to see what's under the water. So there's like light coming out of his hands and like, there's a little glow in the water. It reflects off some like little stones in there, like sea glass. Oh, phosphorescent. Yeah. And he's picking them up.

Oh, so he's trying to pick up sea glass at the bottom and to make it easier. He's brightening the water around his hands. He doesn't usually do this. No, he did it in the pool. He was able to cast that magic beam using the crystal. Cause the water of the pool was like letting him do that, right? The water and the crystal. It makes it easier. And the crystal, the, maybe the sea glass is little bits of crystal. Yeah, maybe, but the water is making it easier for him. Oh, okay. Yeah.

He's doing, he's doing just, just a bit more magic than he's usually able to. Okay. Yeah. Cause Billy can't do the light very easily without it. So is there like magic in the water then? No, I think the water just strengthens what I have. Cause I feel comfortable in the water. What? Yeah. What does it feel like when you go, do you feel like stronger or do you feel, I just feel comfortable like, cause it's hot out there. And so, but the water is like not as hot. It feels like a warm bath. Uh huh.

And so he's just cozy. Nice. I mean, that makes sense if, if, especially if Billy's all about comfort, like the fact that whenever he's more comfortable, he's better at magic. Yeah. Is the water warm to me? Probably not as warm. Like it's a deep old ocean. Yeah. The water's always perfect for Billy. Yeah. It's always like Goldilocks temperature. So like Billy is splashing around in it. Like there's nothing. And then I go to the edge and I'm like, Oh yeah. Yeah. It's cold. Yeah. It's chilly.

No, it's not. It's good. Warm. It feels like a nice little tub. Okay. Rub a dub tub in the tub of love. Rub a dub tub in the tub of love. He's just on his back, kicking around, like singing to himself. Jingling. Yeah. That was like a motel that we passed a little while back. The tub of love. Yeah. It said rub a dub tub in the tub of love. And Bing was trying to help him read. He was like trying to teach him how to, and he's like, okay, read that sign.

And Billy's like, uh, rub a dub tub in the tub of love. And Billy has not stopped saying it for like three days. Rub a dub tub in the tub of love. It is driving us fucking crazy. It's driving us insane. It's a pretty good earworm though. Bing has it too. That's so fucking funny. Rub a dub dub in the tub of love. For three days, Billy's just been like, rub a dub dub in the tub of love. People are like, you gotta stop saying that. You have to stop saying that, Billy. Fuck.

Are you talking to Perel about this kind of stuff? Yeah, I guess we're kind of just sitting in the vestibule. Yeah. And Perel is watching Billy do this, like lighting up the water and pulling things out of it. And he asks you when you fought the water monster that killed Bing, Billy, uh, exhibited some pretty intense magical ability in the pool. Correct? Yeah. He made like a magic beam of like something to kill that dick monster. And he had, he had those crystals with him. Yeah.

He had the, I think he, yeah, he had the crystal with him and he was capable of similar magic in the spirit world, which is a whole conversation unto itself that I would not even try to have, uh, with somebody as little with his little magical knowledge as you. Are you fucking serious? It's an academic thing. I literally broke you out of an unbreakable prison. Are you fucking talking down to me right now? I'm not talking down to you.

I'm just saying that if I need to talk to somebody about smash, smashing something, I'll absolutely come to you. The neck beard of this guy. Fucking shit. I feel like you're maybe taking this the wrong way. Like if he with us right now, I don't know. Yeah. What? He's in the sun just outside. Yeah. Just setting himself next to Francis. Yeah. Um, he's like, I, I look, I didn't mean any of it. Anyways, the point is, is that with the crystals, Billy seems capable of much more versatile magic.

Also, it seems like in the water, he, he's, yeah. Yes. Uh, this is something that maybe I want to pursue with Billy, with your blessing, of course. Yeah. I mean, we trust you because our magic might not be as dissimilar as I thought at first. The energy of wizards, the Thalmic energy is just a, it's a fuel source that we can use to power frog people. We got it. Yeah. We know your amazing magical abilities of making angry frogs. Yeah. Your whole thing is like, Oh, look at me. I built a frog.

Doesn't feel good. Does it, Peral being talked down to? Just watch your two dude. Rub a dub, dub in the tub. It's just something that I think that maybe we should pursue because the, yeah, the Thalmic energy fields that wizards have can be used to power big frogs, uh, amongst other things. Whereas, uh, young Billy's more innate fairy magic allows him to affect the natural world.

And the, in ways that he finds enjoyable, but he might be able to use it for other things with the proper training and the proper tools. Well, the question I'm using is what, here's not what it appears to be. And I guess that one's for, for that one's probably for Perel. So he's like, so the crystals were destroyed following your return from the spirit world, right? Oh yeah.

We don't have any of them anymore, but Billy's capable of similar, the less powerful versions of the magic that he was capable of with the crystals. So what, what has he acquired recently that might be making this easier for him? Oh, the ring Chamberlain's ring. Oh, and Perel like kind of rubs his chin, like, Hmm, not, uh, sarcastically, but he's like, cause it seems sarcastic. He goes, Oh really? The ring. You think, but he says, you know, Chamberlain was made of magically resonant glass.

That could be, part of this puzzle. The glass that Billy's carries with him could be making magic easier and being on vacation. Nice and relaxed, extreme emotion of some kind, whether it be contentment or a fear for the lives of his loved ones seems to be the key. Yeah. And then the last one is, uh, for Billy, who's really in control here. I am. I mean, yeah, that's a fine answer, right? Like it's like, there's no outside force. Exerting on Billy. Like Billy's just coming into his own.

That's totally what I, what I'm worried about is like, cause the, with what happened in the pool, it was like an uncontrolled force. I guess that element of control is something that I'm worried about with Billy is like, is magic able to control him and make him something else? Or is he in control of it? And he just looks so fancy free, like kicking it in the beach. Like he can turn off the light. He can turn it back on. Beep, beep, boop. I see him doing that.

Where he's just like, yeah, cause he's like, I think I see a big shell. There's an even bigger glass. So he drops the smaller glass and gets the bigger glass. As he's reaching out to the glass, all the other glasses collected has fallen out of his hands and he doesn't even think about it. He's just like, Oh, big one. Uh, and Perel at watching Billy does that. He does mention magic is not a common thing anymore and it's something that people don't trust. So.

Maybe have a conversation with Billy about being a little more subtle with his magical abilities. Hmm. Maybe you have, have that conversation. Yeah. We leave the magic talk up to you. Yeah. Hmm. We don't like to discipline our Billy. Yeah. Very much. We have like kind of a free range parenting model where we let him do his thing. You see him pooping in the ocean. Yeah. Yeah. You've got a real Montessori style rearing technique. And then we yelled to Billy. Great job, bud. Thank you.

I'm done now. You want to come out? Do you want a cheese sandwich? Yes, please. I, um, I've so, wow, it's so hot here. The ground. Ah, get in the tent. And he just waddles up and mirrors heads in after him. Like I'll make some lunch. And that's how you pass the next couple hours is making food. And then gathers up some of the sea, grave sand and water in a jar. Jesus. Hell yeah. He's like a scientist. Yeah. And now he's got unlimited liminal energy. Yeah. Yeah.

He's got a whole space to keep Mason jars in. And he's excited about that. Yeah. Oh, uh, has anybody, do you guys want to maybe explore, try and explore the fanny pack anymore? No. Are you just happy with the way that it's too beautiful? Yeah. This Perel asks us that literally every time we're in there. Yeah. I've been, uh, I've been thinking maybe we could try and deal with the danger room scenario. Blah, blah, blah. You can do it if you want, but I took a good look. Eh. I'm just kidding.

I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm not touching that danger room. Very well. We'll keep sleeping on Shay's lounges then. Cool. Wonderful. I love being back in the physical world and sleeping on a small couch. And so you guys have lunch and. Spoiled brat. What a piece of shit. It's like we're living with like, A prince. Yeah. Like a French aristocrat. Yeah. That's exactly what I was going to say. Or like he used to know the prince.

I used to know the prince, you know. Yeah. He's like an old, he's like a boy. Yeah. He's like a butler almost. Like a fancy butler that likes to talk it down to regular people. I'm sleeping in a drawer of dishes. I didn't know there was dishes in there. I figured at least tablecloths. There's tablecloths, but he also did put a few cups and bowls in there. Some forks. He put dishes in there? Yeah, he did. To sleep on? No. Well, he just like, anything he has or uses, he leaves in there. Yeah.

Yeah. There's a bunch of like used plates in there that he won't let. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you pack up later on and you continue down the road. Is there any shops along the beach? I want to pick up some stuff. Oh, what are you looking to pick up?

I want to buy some more poultices and herbs. You guys want to do a shopping? Okay. You said there was a town a little way down the road. Yeah, okay. A small little beach shantytown. Yeah, you camp out. You basically get there at the end of the day and you camp outside. Is that what you've kind of been doing lately now that you have the tent? Yeah, any kind of area that's sort of off the road that we won't be disturbed in. Yeah.

So you do that at night and the next morning you get to a small town named… Little Sir. Little Sir. And there's a painting next to the sign that says Little Sir that's like a little cat with a hat on. And it's kind of… It's waving hello. What kind of hat? Like a bowler hat. It's a little cat with a bowler hat. He's like… Black and white striped. And he's waving. Oh, like this guy. Who's this? No, that's on the sign. I know. Who's this? Do you ask somebody? Yeah. Who are you asking? Us.

You guys, do you know who this little… Is this the mascot that says? Is this the mayor? I think that's its name. I just point to Little Sir. Little Sir. So has Billy been learning to read? No, I don't know what it says. I just assume… That the words next to the cat are the cat's name. Who's this Little Sir? And somebody passing by has like a bundle of firewood. And they're like, well, that's the town mayor. Holy shit. Oh, my God. Little Sir. The mayor of Little Sir. Come on in.

Take us to him. And he's like, well, I mean, you'll find him in City Hall. Why is our first move to always talk to the mayor of whatever town we're in? That's not a normal thing for travelers. Hey, where's your mayor? Hey, we need to talk to your mayor. We're mercenaries. Why? I don't know. We're just kind of drifting through. It sort of seems to work out for us. But there are various shops. There are shops opening in Little Sir. And there's townspeople moving about.

It's got like a real beach town kind of vibe. Because the sand, like it goes right down to the beach. Some people live on the beach. Some people live on the grass. It's not huge. Is the town mostly like kind of a tourist town? Yeah, it seems that way. This time of year. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're not really sure what the industry would be. Because there's no trees that close by. Are the monsoons? Still happening? Are we still in monsoons? No, monsoon season is sort of past. Okay.

Well, the monsoon time has passed like for this chunk. Okay. Yeah. There's a lot of artisans who make glass. They melt down the sand, the black sand. They make black glass stuff. Oh, cool. Yeah, there we go. It's a glass blowing town. Yeah. Yeah. That's their main industry. Does black glass use this sand? I think Paul, at least when we talked about black glass, was talking about how it's called that because they use a lot of obsidian. Yeah. From the like thermal volcanoes and stuff like that.

Okay. But that's… This stuff. But there's also black sand and the black sand makes black glass. Yeah. Yeah. Does it make obsidian? It doesn't make obsidian obsidian, but it makes black glass that is very strong. It's like… Yeah. It's like a false obsidian. Yeah. It's like a man-made obsidian. Cool. So you see a lot of like glass bottles hanging from doorways and pipes and jars and stuff like that. Mostly bongs. Mostly huge bongs. So everybody's got a real like, what's cracking, bro?

Everybody's pretty chilled out. Yeah. Pipe leaf isn't legal here, but it's decriminalized. And pretty much everybody sells it. Yeah. It smells stinky. Smells like old Bill's house. Yeah. Old Bill. Yeah. Wasn't that the name of the guy that looked after Billy? Yeah. Yeah. That tracks, I guess. The kind of guy that would just pick up a magic kit in the woods and adopt him is a stoner. Totally. Yeah. So what's your plan? There's like stores opening. How much are poultices and herbs?

They go to the herb store. There is an herbalist. Okay. And they are open. What's your name? My name? Brody. Brody? Yeah. You guys looking for some herb? We'll just poultices. Oh, you just need like healing herb? Yeah. Sick. Tight. We got that. Cool. For sure. Can I have four? Four poultice? Please. So how poultice? I'm looking at the dungeon. Yes. I'm looking at the dungeon. I'm looking at the dungeon gear sheet right here.

And it'll be normal price because they have access to all the stuff that they need for it. Let's see. It gets two uses per and there are 10 coins each because it's just like big bundles of herbs and jars and stuff. Is this economy? It sounds like it's a shit ton of herbs because it's one weight as well. Oh, you guys cool with this? Yeah. I'll buy four. Yeah. Just throw it in the cart. We have 400 coins. It's kind of like you just bought a brick of hash. Yeah. Yeah. Brody.

Brody comes out with like a bail. Hey, here you go. Smells like skunk cabbage. This is some of the dankest healing herbs that you will ever need. Okay. Thanks, bro. You can really get fucked up in a pinch. No, I don't need to. Okay. This is sort of for the office. Yeah. Okay. You guys like to party? This is a fucking kid. I'm not talking to the kid, bro. I'm talking to you, bro. Talking near the kid. Okay. Hey, kid. Turn around. Okay. Hey. You guys like to fucking party? No, we're good.

All right. We're okay. Well, if you do like to party, you come find your bud bro. I'll take one. All right. Does he buy acid off of him? No, he gives you halfling pipe leaf. Nice. It's five coins. You get six uses. Oh, fine. Cool. The last time we smoked weed was in that mayor's house in Mudlark. Brody's like, don't smoke weed in this mayor's house. I'll tell you that much. He's so small. It affects him real bad. We're not allowed to smoke in the mayor's house anymore. Hey, Brody.

Yeah, little guy. What's this? That is… This is what you do to us all the time, by the way. That's true. Oh, that is an all black glass rendition of my girlfriend, Viola. Yeah, it's like abstract. And you can smoke out of it. No, thanks. Hey, Brody, what's this? That, like, look at it. That's a home… You guys ever heard of Tetherball? Oh, yeah. It's like a tight game from somewhere. They played in black glass. Huh. Oh.

And that's like a little, like, home version of the glass figurine that you have to smash. Oh, cool. They're really hard to smash, though, because the black glass is so strong. Can I… What do you do when you're looking around? You look around. Discern realities? Yeah, I try to discern realities. About what? I don't know. I just want to take something. I want to have something, because I'm jealous. Are you going to steal something? Yeah, because I'm jealous that Brody excluded me.

So when he made you go over to somewhere else, you stole something? I'm looking at all the other things. Oh, you know what's great? What? Because this is an herbalist, so there's probably some tight poisons in here. Sweet. Yeah. I go to the aisle that has, like, the skull face with the X's on it. Oh. And I'm like, Brody can't tell me what to do. I'm going to take… I'm going to get some dank weed, too.

I feel like since you're just in a store looking around, you don't really have to roll discern realities. Okay. You can comfortably get the four poisons that are on this list. Cool. But you're going to have to roll the steel one. That's for sure. I'm going to steal oil of Taggett. Oil of Taggett? Oh, cool. Cool. So oil of Taggett is a poison that makes… Makes the target fall into a light sleep. Oh, cool. Okay. So you're going to roll, what? Tricks of the trade, probably?

Because that's your, like, stealing shit move? Sure. Cool. Do it. 2d6 plus dexterity. I only got five. So Billy is rummaging. Everything's in jars, glass jars. And the most deadliest one is, like, an inch out of his reach. Oh, no. The most dangerous one is an inch out of his reach? Yeah. But he's going for oil of Taggett? Yeah. So you grab this jar, and you pick it up, and you tip it back without thinking, and the lid comes off, and you just pour all this oil right on your face. And some…

It gets in your nose and your mouth and stuff like that. And you're just like… And then you are asleep. Oh, no. Like, you hear, like, a crash, and Billy's… You come around the aisle, and Billy's just lying on the floor covered in oil, dead asleep. What's happening? He looks dead. What is this? Oh. Oh, no. And he, like, Brody runs up. And he gets really close to the super dangerous poison that was right next to oil of Taggett. And he's like, oh, okay. That's great. What's great?

What the fuck is happening right now? He's… Cool out, man. Cool out. He's not dead. He's not dead. I can tell he's breathing, you idiot. What is happening to our friend? He is merely super fucking asleep. Like, way asleep. How long is he going to be asleep for? Well, I mean, one drop will usually knock somebody out for, like, 15 minutes. And he poured, like, a liter on his whole shit. Wow. So, hmm. That's not great. He's going to be asleep for a while, is what you're saying.

He could be asleep for… I don't know. I've never seen anybody take this much. He could be asleep… Oh, no. It's usually a thing that you do if you, like, have trouble sleeping. You put, like, a little bit in some tea. This is, like, the worst possible… Like, medical situation where the medical practitioner's like, I don't know. I've never seen this before. Yeah. Doctor, what's wrong with me? You know, I've taken some time to look at it, and I've come to the conclusion, fuck if I know.

And Brody's like, the good news is I've probably got some shit that can get him out of this pretty quick. The bad news is… And he starts doing that thing where he rubs his thumb on his forefinger. Just to… Tell us how much it costs. I mean, I could get in a lot of trouble, too. Stop dragging it out. Oh, my God. Just say the number that you're thinking of. 100 coins. Okay. How about this? I'll beat the shit out of you, or you get him out of this. Oh, yeah?

You're gonna beat the shit out of me? Yes. Okay, which one is it? Where is it? Where is the one that'll wake him up? Why would I tell you that? That was a good try, though. What kind of negotiation is that, bro? I said 100 coins, and you said, how about you just tell me how to do it? Hey, don't look at where it is. His eyes are wide. His pupils are, like, vibrating in his head. Is Mears just somewhere else? Mears saw a cooking supply store.

He saw, like, a little market, and he's like, oh, I'm gonna go get some stuff for dinner. This is gonna be great. Can we cut to Mears for a second? What's happening with him? Mears is, like, looking at bell peppers, going like… He's just, like, squeezing peppers and sniffing them, like… He's saying that… Yeah, he's saying that… He's got two… Yeah, he's got an orange pepper and a red pepper, and he's slowly moving them together. And he throws them in a basket.

Is he pretending that one of them's Cam and the other's him? And he goes, yeah, he goes, and then he waits for a second. He thinks for a second. He goes… And he says, I told you I'd see you again. Yeah, yeah. He makes him kiss and goes, I told you I'd see you first. And then he, like, he looks at the… There's, like, a big older lady standing behind the counter looking at him, like, you okay? But she's got the look in her eye, like, mm, you got a little lover back home, huh?

And he blushes, and he throws the peppers in the thing, and he runs down another aisle. Cut back to… I'll fucking destroy your store and kill you if you don't get rid of this thing. Yeah? Well, guess what? I believe that you would do that. Yeah, and I have the axe in my hand, right? Well, think about this. If you fucking kill me, he'll be asleep forever. Okay, can I roll to intimidate him? Yeah, of course. Yeah. He's not just gonna be like, okay, fine. So it's probably defy danger charisma?

Or a parlay, I guess? What about war cry? When you enter the battle with a show of force? No. No? Okay. That'd be like, if you were outside town, you're like, I'm gonna beat the shit out of Brody. And you kicked in the door, and you were like, Brody! But this is more like, I'm gonna kill you. It's unfortunate, because the fighter does have a move called intimidate that would be very useful for Tuck. What about my love for you is like a truck? When you perform a…

A feat of strength, name someone present whom you have impressed, and take plus one forward to parlay with them. Yeah. So you gotta do something fucking nuts. Okay. And you're gonna have to roll for it. It's gonna be a defy danger strength. But you gotta… No, don't just roll. Tell me what you're doing. It's a feat of strength? Yeah. Okay, here's what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna walk outside and pick up Francis and walk inside and be like, I'm gonna fucking throw this pig at your fucking store if you… I'm gonna throw this pig outside the door. Yeah, you can't get inside with Francis. So you're gonna be standing on the street. Brody! I'm gonna throw this fucking pig. I'm doing this on the street. I'm yelling into the store. Okay, okay, okay, okay. But you gotta roll for it. You gotta roll for it. Okay. Eight plus two is ten. There's the boy.

There's the strong boy. So what, you just go up to Francis, get underneath him, and heft him over your shoulders? Yeah, pick him up. This is… Insane to watch. Yeah. Because, I mean, Tuck is a monster person. Like, he's seven feet tall, five feet wide, but he literally just picked up a hippopotamus. Just cords… The cords of his muscles are bulging. Veins are popping out all over his body. Yeah. And you're screaming in exertion. Yeah. And I'm like… The name Brody. Brody!

You're gonna have to have an accident! Have to. And I say that to myself. Yeah, have to. Because I'm not good at thinking… Of this kind of stuff on the fly. Yeah. Or maybe you will! For sure! If Billy doesn't wake up in the next ten seconds! And Brody's like, what are you gonna do? Wait, did he just ask, what are you gonna do? Yeah. When I had a pig over my head? He literally said, you're gonna have to have an accident, or maybe you will for sure.

Like, he doesn't understand what your threat is. It's gonna be bad! So I have to roll the parlay now, right? Yeah. Because that was… So parlay, 2d6 plus charisma, and the leverage is, I'm gonna throw this big ass pig at your stupid store. So roll, yeah, roll the parlay, 2d6 plus charisma. You get a plus one. Five. So that's six. Plus charisma… Is two. So that's… Seven. Eight. Eight. Sorry, yeah. Okay, yeah. He looks back at you, Vang, because you stayed in the store, I assume.

Yeah, I'm with Billo. Well, Tuck went and did his insane shit. He's like, is he gonna throw that big pig at my store? I don't know on purpose, but it looks like you might be having an axe wind in. I can't have people throwing pigs in my store. I'm already on such thin ice with Lil Sur. He does what he does. He's just worried about his friend. Look, I just… Can you give it to us for a cost? I mean, yeah, I gotta replace the oil, right? Your little… Fibering at the front door. Oh, there's…

It's really hard to keep this up for this long. Francis is kicking his legs. I'm smacking it and I'm like, fucking stop it. Stop moving around. Go rigid. He's like, okay, okay, okay. That was a lot of oil. You understand that? Yes. That's a lot of pig out there. I just like… And I don't wanna… I could lose my license for giving a bunch of oil at Taggett to a little kid. Sure. Okay. We can keep it on the DL. Okay.

So if you don't tell anybody and your friend gets the fuck out of here with that big ass pig, what is that thing even? Francis is a woolly pig? I mean, he looks pretty sick. I'm gonna look up woolly pigs later. Right here, buddy. Right here. Okay, look. Here's what you gotta do. And from outside I'm like, they're also called Meyerhawks. That's a great name. Okay, here's what I'm gonna do for you. You take the kid. Yeah. Give me 20 coins. Okay. And just give him…

Get him to chew on some of that. That pipe leaf that I gave you. Okay. Yes. Here. Thank you. 20 coins. Okay, get out of here. You get out of here, you little scamp. Just get out of here, man. I'm freaking out. Tell that guy to get that pig out of here. Hey, get your pig out of here, bro. I don't know what's happening. Did we reach a deal or something? We got a pretty good discount, bud. You can put Francis down. What was the discount? Down to 20. Okay, that's pretty reasonable.

And then I would just walk down the street with Francis. And yeah, you just grab Billy and drag him out of there? Yeah. When we get back to the tent, Ving is wringing out Billy's clothes and getting some of that oil of Taggart. Oh, yeah. I guess he… Nice. So that he actually did get some. Yeah, that's true. So Billy has some oil of Taggart now. Three uses. Sick. Because he poured a liter on himself. So there was a little bit left over. Is Billy having any dreams right now?

That's a great question. What's Billy dreaming about? Billy is back on… On the farm. He just finished eating a storage of yams. A storage of yams? It's not a big storage. It was just like a crate. A small crate. Just a small crate of yams. But it's like nearing the end of the spring. So there's not a lot of yams left. But he ate them all. And Billy knows he's in Trubb's. Because they weren't even… They weren't even old Bill's yams. They were someone else's yams.

So he's hiding behind one of the grain silos. Because one leg Bill is screaming out. Because he saw that his yams are all eaten up. And he's like, I know it's you, fat Billy. You can't hide from me that long. And Billy is going to piss himself. And then that's when the grain silo… It just sets on fire. Oh, whoa. So like a little Tinder stuff? Starts next to Billy. And Billy's like, oh no, oh no. And so he starts blowing on it. Trying to blow it out. But it gets bigger. And he's like, oh no.

And then he starts fanning at it to make it go away. It just goes up the legs of the grain silo. And he's like, oh shit. And then you see like around the corner of the barn. On your side of the grain silo. One leg Bill pads around with his tiny little leg. And he sees it burning. And he goes, Billy, what did you do? Yeah, he looks at me in the eyes across the flames. And I'm like, this was an accident. I'm so sorry. And I start spitting on it. But it's not enough.

And then you see the face of skinny Bill. And he goes, what did you do? And you see the face of old Bill. And he looks sad. He said, what did you do? Yeah. And then… Fancy Bill. Fancy Bill, who's got a monocle and a top hat. Short Bill. What did you do? And short Bill's like, what did you do? And like the ladies too. Like Fancy Bill. Fancy Bill-o-mina. And regular Bill-o-mina. Two-legged Bill-o-mina. So Billy's just surrounded by these faces of, what did you do? What did you do?

What did you do? And that's when you start coming to. And you're looking up into the face of your good friend thing. There's a big ball of leaves in your mouth. He like starts to cough them all out. He's got a little bit of tears in his eyes. And you wipe them away. Yeah. Because I'm a strong boy. What'd you do? Huh? What's going on? I don't know. Nothing. How do you feel? What did I do? You poured a bunch of shit in your face and made you fall asleep. I'm sorry. That's okay.

You guys weren't supposed to see that. You guys weren't supposed to see that. I'm sorry that I stole, but in my defense, you weren't supposed to know. Yeah. In my defense, I wanted it. Okay. And that's where we're going to end it for this week. My name is Sean. I'm Sean O'Hara. I've been your game master. With me as always, playing Fat Billy the Halfling Thief, Jessica Tai. Bye, everyone. Tacoma Dome the Barbarian, played by Abdul Aziz. So long. And Ving the Half-Elf Druid by Paul Oppers.

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