Episode 16 – Listen All Y’all, it’s a Sabotage

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 O'Hara coming to you live from beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia As Jessica opens a pot of hand cream Are you kidding?

I have got to get some of that We literally just started recording You know what, let me get some of that Why did you start after the theme song?

Cause I, my hands are really, really dry Yeah, it's really cold And it'll show up on air And it was really bothering me And I, it's like getting to the point where if I make a fist my skin might crack Yeah, that's gross So I, it is gross I'm so sorry No, hey, I'm glad we're all moisturizing now except Abdul Who's never moisturized a day in his life I don't moisturize He's a moist boy And he's got such nice skin Thanks I'm white so I have to moisturize or I'm just gonna turn into like a salt flat It's cause I'm brown Is that actually though, that sounds not true Well, I think that a lot of guys tend not to think about moisturizing And I know that at least me have dry skin Yes, I also have dry skin But I also think about moisturizing a lot Your dick, you pointed down at his dick I didn't I was pointing to my feet you pervert I'm really sorry about the moisturizer No, don't be I'm just trying to be really quiet Jessica, the mics are picking it up so much It's just like This is unusable What are you doing?

Our character sheets Alright, I'm heading out you guys It's nice knowing you Jessica, our character sheets are so wet now Sorry, it's just the aloe vera And playing Ving Jones Playing the half-elf druid Paul Oppers Hello Playing Fat Billy the moisturized thief Jessica Tai Hi And playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian Dry as a Bone Abdulaziz Hard as a bone, sorry Oh fuck Oh fuck, cut that out You should do that again Nobody expects this of you at this point I know, that doesn't reflect well on my character I think Hard as a bone is pretty funny Thanks But just in case And playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian Abdulaziz Hard as a rock There we go Like a rock We did this last time too Chevy?

Oh that's Chevy not Dodge Yeah you did Sam Elliott's voice The episode began with the revelation that the mender slash bard known as Jaunter was actually being controlled in some fashion by an aspect of the water monster that killed Ving Perel showed up just in time sporting a beautiful new outfit that we can all agree is very stylish and cool He made himself look like a cross between a dark lord and You keep saying dark lord and I'm like You keep saying dark lord and I don't know what you mean You know like a dark lord Like a goth lord?

Yeah like a goth lord Voldemort wears like a robe and he's the darkest lord I can think of Well also lord like The musician?

Never be royal Yeah exactly so he looked like all black everything d'Artagnan Yeah And was able to freeze, kind of freeze the water puddle monster in its place Although it was fighting the freezing It was freezing and unfreezing itself though Billy and Perel were able to store it in a vase That's where it is now Puddle of monsters was one of my favorite bands from when Ving was a kid Yeah they played the frozen north mostly underground clubs Yeah literally under the ice Under the ice Igloo palooza Yeah And the fight became a problem once Ving decided to set fire to every book in the library That fire was then put out by the torch of McCall Who took Tuck, Mears, and Perel into custody Ving and Billy escaped on the back of Ving's Thunderbird yet to be named And as they were escaping they discovered that the eternal sunset of Crystal Bay exists in some sort of field Above the field it was dark as night And beneath the field beautiful sunset So who knows what that deal is cause you guys fucked up a Spout Lore Which means that me no no Me no no no either Yeah After leaving the vase and Thunderbird with Milton of the Crystal Bay Pirates for safe keeping Billy and Ving swam to the Purifier where Tuck, Mears, and Perel were being held by the torch of McCall for questioning We learned about the Purifier which is a pretty badass ship It's got a steam thruster Oh yeah It's got runes Crazy runes on it The captain of the ship appears to be perhaps a thousand years old And is an old sand blasted old man covered in runic tattoos Sand blast is the name of my favorite band It's from McCall And this old man apparently knew through some power unbeknownst to our heroes That one of the three of Mears, Perel, and Tuck was a wizard He wasn't sure who but he knew it was somebody Because of the clinking of the brass rings in his beard It was preceded by the clinking of the brass rings and the seashells in his beard And just before Tuck was about to take one for the team because Perel decided not to speak up Our young boy Mears Fousmuth became a man And said it was him And that is where we find ourselves now in the interrogation chamber With the torch of McCall and the ship's captain Mears has just confessed And I'm like thanks Mears I appreciate you taking one for the team But you know what I have to admit Tuck is not good at lying I have to admit it I'm the wizard not Boyd not Mears I'm the wizard not Boyd not Mears I'm the wizard not Boyd not Boyd over here This boy is my son I mean you can try and roll Defy Danger Charisma To get Mears out of this Six, seven, eight Seven, eight Okay so as they're getting ready to take Mears away And you start going no it's not Boyd it's me Magic is me boy not that boy The torch stops And kind of sighs a little bit And is like I'd hope this would have been easier Just simply have someone confess and then we can go about our procedures But now you've introduced more uncertainty into the matter So I didn't want to have to take these measures but we will Just sit tight and I'll return in a moment He nods to the sea captain And they go up to the brass door And Billy and Ving you are looking at this door From the other side from your place in the corridor Tuck you see the torch put his hand on the door in a certain pattern And Billy and Ving you see the brass door Bar thunk up out of place And the door starts to swing open Oh where do I hide where do I hide Hide hide Hide hide Two to six plus dexterity to hide from both of you Pretty good I got ten Oh Failed Oh no Oh shit I got three He got three plus dexterity which is four Oh no He's hopping back and forth Billy goes into the only There's a couple like wine crates and I jump in one And I'm like Ving you could It's so full of wine Okay And I'm like come on in Come on in I start And I push the wine out Can I can I Can I can I Can I can I do a failing like a fail safe Like he can't he's like looking around to hide he can't hide and then And like a survival mode he just transforms He's just like Yes And he's just stuck Because the failure doesn't have to be they see you It can just be something extremely complicating He might be stuck as something if that's what it is He's stuck as whatever instinctual shape he takes Oh cool Eight Six What do you feel in What do you what do you want I was thinking a huge arctic bat A bat That's your instinct I don't know why because it could go flat against the ceiling So how big is an arctic bat Huge four feet across Huge like the size of a man like we're trying to hide Yeah Like you're trying it so you're trying to hide so your ideas to turn into the largest possible bat A big white bat man There's like other animals like I don't know Like animals like skins and stuff on the wall and like butterflies tacked up on this like little center And somebody's one of the sailors He's a bot Yeah Naturalist Yeah And he just like whips into bat mode and Flats across the room and then flat up against the wall as a bat Okay Yeah I like that And like And it's been so long thing that since you've shape shifted I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm sorry What the fuck am I looking at his hands I'm a fucking bat I'm so sorry Oh shit Sorry bat But the torch and the sea captain walk away down another corridor and they don't see you they don't see Billy And you're like oh thank God I shape shifted and you try and change back and you can't And Billy there's a huge bat in front of you What Thank Billy What What are you Can you turn back to normal you look really scary Yeah no problem here let me Anything?

No. Okay, what about now? No. Fuck, I'm a bat. Okay. Fuck me, I'm a bat, Bella. You're drunk and I'm a bat. What the fuck? Oh, my God. All right, let's… It's fine. We'll figure it out later, but let's like… Okay, can you play it cool? We'll play… Play it cool? Yeah, you… No problem. Pretends to smoke a cigarette. All right, let's follow Mears. I know they left Mears in the room. Oh, did they? So he was like, we're going to come back with something.

I wish we didn't have to do this, but we're going to come back with something. So it's just the three of them. Oh, my God. But they thunked the bar down after them. Okay, I can open it with my lock powers. It's taller than Billy is. Lift me up, Vang, with your bat wings. This is insane. So this bat is four feet tall? Yeah. Okay. Wing band Zumba. Oh, I definitely fucked that up. Can I ate at all? No. As a bat. What'd you get? I got three, but I don't know what I'm rolling with.

Plus your dexterity. Yeah, you guys got to wait for me to tell you what to roll. Before you start rolling dice. It's been a while. Okay, I was going to try to pick the lock, obviously, but I only got five, so I cannot be helped. And it's covered in runes and different weird religious iconography. Oh, my God. I can't read any of it. And the two of you are just like, I have no fucking idea how to get this door open.

Well, you're like, I have no idea how to get this door open, and Ving's like, I'm a bat. He's just freaking out. Starts smacking on the door. Tuck. And Tuck, you do hear, slapping, and you hear a small voice on the other side of the door. Do I recognize it? Yeah, it's Billy. Hey, can you hear me? And I'm like, Billy, hey. Hey, can you open the door? Let me try, and then I want to see if I can get out of the manacles. Okay, that's going to be to fight injure strength. Okay.

So I'm going to try and just snap him? Through sheer strength, just try and pull the brass manacles apart. Katoma Dome special. I'm level 10. And it worked. I got 13. Holy shit. Yeah, so there is a great straining and a great flexing of muscles. You know what happens? You fart more. It was the pizza codes. The pizza codes are wreaking havoc with my digestion. Ving says to Billy, I think he might be celiac. I think so. I don't know what it is, but it sounds pretty bad.

But it is the kind of thing where you're straining so hard. And you're like, I can't break these things. There's no way these are going to break. And then snap. And you're free. Sick. Are we in a cage or were we just in chairs? You're in a very secure room. Okay. Yeah. You were manacled to chairs, three chairs. Okay. And where's the where's the axe? The axe is not in the room. Fuck. I go up to the door. I'm like, okay, guys, I'm going to try and break the door open. Oh, my God. Step back.

Oh, no. Okay. And the mirrors is like, what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? If you break the door, they're going to know that that were what? Escaping. Oh, yeah. You think it's going to be too loud? Yes. Okay. And then I, as he's saying that, I pick up the chair that Perel is in because I'm still pretty mad at him for not saying anything. And I smash it against the door. You rip it out of the ground with a 12. I'll say you've already done it. Okay.

You pull his chair out of whatever secured like bolts it has. And he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And I'm like, hey, this will make us even for you not doing anything. Okay. You weren't saying anything when we were being interrogated. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. And I hit it against the wall. Yeah. That's going to be a defiant interest strike as well. That you need to roll for separately. Nine. Nine. Are you just saying get out of the way? Yeah. I just told them. Oh, yeah.

We backed up. Yeah. And you pull Perel back like a baseball bat and you slam him into the brass door and the door doesn't dent or move, but you can see whatever it's set into start to crack. And after a few good slams, with Perel going, no, no, every time, eventually the door is smashed far enough out of its jam that you can see Billy's face poking through. Billy! Talk your scene. Where's Ving? Ving pops his head over top of Billy. Holy shit. I'm a bat right now. Oh my God. I fucked up.

I shot from the hip and now I'm a bat. I can't change back. And Perel's laying on the ground because the chair that he was in has been smashed to flinders. What do they do to Perel? And, Perel's laying there like, I had a plan. Look at this. And he holds up the chains that were holding his manacles together and it's really long and stretchy. Who cares? That's stupid. I was escaping. We have to be quiet. This is a prison, basically. Have none of you broken out of prison before?

Several times, but this is how we always do it. And look at us. Are we the ones in prison, Perel? And he's like, so upset that he's been smashed against this wall so many times. He reaches into his sleeve and pulls out this, like, blue-green handkerchief and mops his forehead. Oh, cool trick, man. My word. And he tucks it back into his sleeve. Whoa, it's disappeared. And Mears is like, yeah, great. What about me? And he's still tied to a chair. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'll help you, Mears.

Yeah, so Tuck's able to push the door out far enough that Billy can scurry into the room. Yeah, I come in with my lock powers. Nice. Fuck, I learned. Okay. I did really well here. Is it dexterity? 11. Yeah, perfect. Get you out of there, my baby boy. Yeah, Billy, this is a kind of lock you've never seen before. Yeah. It's almost like a puzzle box. It's a lot of sliding, like, slats in the metal. Yeah, and you just are, like, fucking around with it. And after a few seconds, it clacks open.

You're free. And Mears is, like, rubbing his wrists. Classic just got handcuffs taken off me style. He's like, my plan was to sacrifice myself so that the rest of you could escape. That's stupid. Let's go. I mean, your plan was to die. For all of you, my friends. I know, but the alternative is that none of us die. No, the alternative is that all of us die. Is anyone coming or anything? Yeah, you can start to hear voices being like, what the hell was that? Okay, we should get out of here.

Okay, let's go. Okay, it's going to be the three of you rolling individually. How are you getting out of here? Stealth, speed, just smashing? Just smashing through anybody that gets in your way? I do have holds as a bat, do I not? Yeah, the bat could probably just echolocate and know the layout of the ship. Oh, sick. I like that a lot. Okay, so yeah, you can spend your hold. Unfortunately, spending your last hold means that you do not turn back into Ving thus far. Damn it.

But you do let out a screech, I guess? Yeah, subsonic screech. You do get a pretty good idea of the layout of the purifier. He closes his ice blue eyes. Oh, bad eyes. So cool. Yeah. What's he seeing? You do see the exit. You can see rooms with cots in them and rooms with swords and spears underneath you, a hold full of crates, and your two decks down. So there's just like a work deck above you with maps and you think probably the captain's quarters and then above that is the top deck.

Can I see Tuck's axe anywhere? So above where you are right now, which seems to be like the captain's quarters and some just work rooms and stuff, you can see the very distinct shape of Larry, Terry, and Chad in a room with several bags that you would assume are the rest of your possessions. Our stuff's right above us. Should blast a hole through the ceiling. That's what I was thinking. Do you still have some of that? Oh, gunpowder. Gunpowder, yeah. Yeah, it's in here somewhere.

It says Pat and his little bat body. All his stuff transmutes with him. Perel is like, oh, oh, I bet I could. He's like, remember? Boing, boing, boing. I bet I could do that to the roof. Okay, yeah, do it. Okay, somebody lift me up. And I put Perel on the roof. On my shoulders. Yeah. And he wraps his legs around your neck. What a fucking motley crew we are right now. And he puts his palms on the floorboards above you and you see his muscles start to flex and move.

Tuck, you feel the muscles in his legs changing and shifting in ways that human muscles do not move. Yeah, it feels like a bag of snakes are on my back, which has happened before to me. And you feel this weird tingling in your body? I feel tingling? A little bit. Oh. Yeah, maybe it's just through his skin. But you feel this weird current almost. And the boards start to drip like water. And the wood starts to patter around you in this little rainfall of liquid wood. What does it taste like?

Very earthy. Kind of like sap. Oh, it's so gross. And I'm also, by the way, stained wine. Oh, yeah. Dripping with wine. And I'm just like, disgusting. Disgusting. To foot below. Yeah. You look like, what was that one kid from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Oh, yeah, the purple, the blueberry girl. Violet. Violet Beauregard. You're turning violet. Violet? Yeah.

Okay, so what's happening is the wood is starting to drip away, but you can hear footfalls as people start to frantically approach you. What do you do? Is there anybody in that hole up there? No. I go up there. Oh, that's the thing. Perel doesn't have it quite big enough for any one of you, but people are approaching. I can go, uh, cause a distraction or something. Yeah, Ving can also do that as a bat. That's true. They're all just like, what the fuck? I'll just go be a bat in front of them.

Yeah. Why don't you guys both do it? Okay. Oh my God, there's a bat. I'm a bat. I'm fucking, I'm gonna run. It's in my hair. It's in my hair. Ving's just on top of Billy's head like, oh. Get him off of me. Get him off me. Watch out. He's poisonous. He's sucking all the blood out of me. Look at me, covered in blood. My life's blood. Watch out. Okay. Save yourself. Billy's overacting so much. Yeah. Give me a 2d6 plus charisma. Nine. Okay. This is an aid for sure. So 2d6 plus your bond with Billy.

11. Wow. Sick. Okay. So this is a 10. So funny. So Billy, just you hear in the direction that you hear people coming, you just haul ass. That's a big bat. It's the kind of thing where it's like the corridor is dark and then they see this like little kid running. It was a big white ghost bat. Run for your lives. It's a ghost. Afreet. Afreet. Billy's remembering the one word that he heard him say. They are terrified. They all run away. They're like, no. Afreet. Afreet. It's working.

Keep screaming. Look at me. He's draining the blood from my body. It's all over me and you guys have such nice white clothes and it's going to get stained with all your blood. And you're saying this as you're chasing them, which is so funny. Yeah. So you have to run with them for a little bit. That's the thing is you've got to like keep them from. I run them until they're like up on the top deck. Some of them start running to boats. Oh, yeah. We got to get out of here. This is fucked up.

Jumping overboard. Some of them run to like the braziers. Like it's like they feel safer around the braziers. Actually. So yeah. Now Ving and, Billy are like on the deck. Should we get off the boat? You haven't communicated where you were going, but like you can assume that they might guess. Yeah. I'm going to like pretend to like fall off the side of the boat and I'm like looking at Ving like, are you going to follow me? Like I just wait. I'm just going to I can fly. Oh, fuck. I'm a bat.

I'm going to crawl back in through the hole. The window. Okay. Okay. Oh, goodbye. Splash. He yells splash. Yeah. Because I didn't fall in the water. And Billy and Ving have definitely gotten you guys a lot of time. Perel has like, he's reaching his hands up into the edge of the hole and pulling it out like mud. And he's like throwing these clumps of liquid wood on the ground. So gross. Yeah. And as he's doing that, I'm like Perel, your kind of magic is fucking gross.

Transmutation is a strange and powerful art to coma. And as he says that, he puts his hand in to grab another clump and it farts. Yeah. It's like a little floor queef. And it's like dripping, dripping on you and hardening. Yeah. Like the wood is starting to turn back into wood. But he's got a hole big enough for himself to get back up. So he pulls himself up and you can hear him smashing and crashing around in this room. And he says to coma and he just drops your axe through. I catch it. Yeah.

Snatch. And he throws down some bags. He's got all of your stuff basically. Okay. It's like, I can't find Ving's things. It's wait. He has. They didn't capture them. What am I talking about? Then whose stuff is this? And he just throws down like a burlap sack. I grab it too. And he pokes his head down. He's like, hey, Tacoma, I think we're robbing these guys now. Tacoma gets so excited because he's like, cool. I'm like, throw me everything that you could find.

If you want to take time and potentially have more guards. Yeah, I don't give a shit. Let's do it. Would it defy danger? What? Maybe dexterity to like fucking rifle through seven. Okay. So I think what it is, is Perel is throwing down bag after bag of stuff. And there's no fucking clue what it is. No idea. And you hear, hey, and you turn around and there's like a group of warriors running towards you. And mirrors is like, Perel, give me my sword. Give me my sword. Give me my sword.

What do you do? I take one of the bags and I like whip it as hard as possible at the front guy's face. Oh, this is your, this is Abdul Aziz's real life hot dog move. Oh, right. Yeah. Oh, this is perfect. Okay. Uh, 2d6 plus strength. Six, seven, eight. So you absolutely obliterate the person in the front. So you've now got two warriors running at you and Perel's like, that's it. And he jumps back down. Tuck might want to just avoid combat altogether because he doesn't want to hurt these guys.

So he's going to just try and smash through the side of the boat. Oh, the actual side of the boat. Yeah. 2d6 plus strength. 13. Oh, I was going to say it's going to take you a while. Yeah, but one smash and you've already got a small hole. I keep smash. I keep smash. I keep smash. Roll 1d6. Two. So you're smashing, smashing, smashing, and you've got a hole big enough for you to get through and Mears and Perel. So you're just jumping out. I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

So as you jump out, one of the warriors like swipes his sword at you and you get nicked on the arm. Ow. Two damage. Back to Billy and Ving. So what was Billy's plan? Billy had crawled back into a hole at the bottom of the ship and he's just wandering around right now. Like, well, I don't know when Ving's going to come back, but I'll just wait here. So you're just in the lower deck of the ship walking around. Yeah. I'm just whistling.

Is there anything that you would like Billy to accidentally achieve even? Yeah, I guess I'm kind of doing my like thiefy thing where I root around because they have like all their like, like, what do you call it? Cargo. Booty. Yeah. So yeah, give me a discern realities because there's a lot of activity on the upper deck. So no one's down here. Discern realities. I got nine. What am I discerning with? Wisdom. Oh, 10. Oh, tight. Okay. So you get three questions.

What here is useful or valuable to me? There's a bunch of hammocks strung all over the place because this seems to be where like rowers and stuff sleep. But in the far corner, you find a hammock that's woven out of a sort of silver thread. Like, it's a very shiny silver fiber. Have I seen it before? Well, you'd have to spell Laura about that. Okay. I got nine. Nine. Okay. So that's something interesting but not necessarily useful. Okay.

So full disclosure, I just said it was made of a silver material. I don't know what it is. What do we think it is? It's that same material that that blue blanket was made out of. Buttermoth silk. Yeah. It's made out of so you that is the thing. You notice that this looks a lot like the material that your like cloak slash blanket is made out of. Yeah. And you remember, oh shit, they said it was buttermoth silk. Yeah. So I'm rolling around in it. Yeah. Like a cat. Yeah.

But what I was going to say was that this seems to be the sleeping quarters of someone that's been here for a long time. There's like candles melted into beams and there's a little framed photograph of a woman and there is a small really beaten well-worn waterlogged almost journal. I want to take the journal because I know Tuck will like it. Does he see anything cool in there when he's flipping through? Yeah.

I see some drawings and he sees a lot of the same runes that are on the ship and all over and he's like and I think they're the same ones that are on that guy the old man. And there's like diagrams of a small boat and stuff like that. Yeah. And all these different weird drawings of things that you don't recognize at all. Like engineering drawings? Yeah. Like lots of gadgets. Lots of like math that I assume is math. Uh-huh. Numbers and stuff. Yeah.

I get bored because it reminds me of Perel a lot. And you're just flipping through quickly and on one page you see a rough drawing of a figure that feels very familiar to you, Billy. Oh, yeah. So I'm looking at that. That's what I've focused on. It's just a tall looking like lean figure with very angular features and a very you just can't place it. Something seems familiar and that's all you can get from that. Okay. So what am I on the lookout for?

I think something that I can say that Billy would definitely infer from previous conversations with Shathane about it is that hammock is at the very least very valuable. Mm-hmm. Because that's a lot of fucking butter moth silk. Mm-hmm. Because when Shathane saw your little patch of it, he was like, wow, that is a very special gift. So you know that this hammock is probably like primo coin. Okay. So I actually don't take the hammock. Yeah.

Are you just like, well, I don't think that they would like if I stole their hammock. Yeah, because I'm looking around and it's like, you know, I know that whoever lives here really cares about it. I'm like, I bet this is his boat and I kind of already like, owned a lot of it. That's very sweet. And took the book of his innermost secret. Yeah. So I'm going to be respectful. Closes the book, puts it in his own bag. Erases his name, puts Billy on it. Yeah.

Billy has no respect for books, but knows that Tuck likes them. Yeah, like I don't, yeah, exactly. Like I know what I respect and that's like comfort and like people's, like their treasures where they feel comfy. But I don't really think of books as like precious. Yeah. Yeah. Useful. Yeah. But I know, I know that they give you comfort and that you enjoy them. So I'm like, this is a present for Tuck. Yeah. Oh, so cute. Yeah. It's such a cute thing. Is there something I could steal for Vang?

There's like a knife. There is the framed photo that has a picture of a woman in it. Like a, like a watercolor painting almost. And the frame looks like it's pretty nice. But there's not a ton of stuff here, surprisingly. Like there doesn't seem like there's a lot of shit. Any jars of stuff? There's like a, kind of in the wall, like, you know, when they build walls. There's like, little bits of wood that stick out like a shelf. Yeah, totally.

Anyway, there's a few jars up there with some dried things and some liquid stuff. And I've grabbed something that looks like it might have something pickled in it. Cool. Perfect. A weird pickled thing. I love it. So yeah, there's a little jar and Billy grabs that. I grab that. As he can hear Tuck literally smashing through the side of the boat. Every once in a while you feel the boat lurch to the side. I look around and I'm like, okay, no one's coming. Just like, that's probably Tuck.

Well, he's probably gonna get me soon. Yeah. So what else? You get one more question. All right. What here is not what it appears to be? Ooh, okay. So yeah, ooh, okay. Yum, yum. You do hear footsteps approaching and you hear a voice that is the Torch of McCall. Hide in the straw pile under the hammock. Yeah. And the Torch and the Captain, pad down, say, they're making this so difficult. Like you can hear the Torch talking and the Captain's like muttering too quiet for you to hear.

And he's like, yes, well, they forced our hand. If one of them is a wizard, the potential danger is too great. This is something that we have to do. And they walk up to, like you're hiding and this hammock is in a corner. So along that wall, they walk up and the Torch does the same, same thing that he did on the brass door on a section of the wooden wall. Oh my God. And you hear it thunk and it moves aside, revealing a hidden room. And you hear something moving inside the room. Oh my God. Yeah.

What do you do? Yeah, I sneak up, of course. 2D6 plus dexterity. Nine. Okay. Oh shit. Okay. So Billy does sneak up and you, you creep up walking behind like benches that the rowers are on, like going from leg to leg and you can see past the Torch and the captain into the room. And here's a question that I want to ask you guys. What? What does a demon of truth look like? That it looks different for everyone. Ooh. Yeah. What does it look like for Billy? Okay.

So Billy sees himself, but like a very like wild thing, almost like, like a child, but like a child of like plants, like made of like, like there's like so much, like it's almost weird to look at because it's like human, but not. And like ghostly almost, but like, like vines and flowers and buds and like dead things. And. Like a forest thing. Like a forest thing. And, and it's like bright and shining, glowing. Yeah. Cool.

You can see, this creature that you don't, you don't understand what it is. And it looks at you past the torch and past the captain with eyes that look like blooming roses. Yeah. Whoa. And says, what are you? And you can feel yourself say without a second thought, I am a spring fae of the endless bows. Whoa. So truth demons can. Oh my God. They can demand truths from people. Oh shit. Yeah. And you put your hand, my hand over my mouth and the torch and the captain turn and look at you.

Uh, and we'll cut back to Ving. What's Ving doing? So when Ving and Billy jumped off the ship, Ving went up in the air to call the Thunderbird. Okay. So, uh, give me a defy danger wisdom. I got seven. So you fly up into the air and perch on the top of the mast of the purifier. Yeah.

And you can see through the eyes of the Thunderbird and you see, uh, Milton and another crystal Bay pirate, like terrified, like holding out pieces of meat from so far away that there's no way it could even reach it and kind of shuffling forward and shuffling back and talking to each other and like arguing and being like, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then moving forward every time it moves their head, they like duck. Yeah.

But, but you can, every once in a while, the Thunderbird is just like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, you hear that through your ears and then it feels you hear it through your ears and you can see it turn its head and look towards the purifier.

It can't see you specifically because its eyes aren't that sharp yet, but it knows that you're over there and it spreads its wings and starts flying across the Bay. Um, and the Thunder rolls and the lightning strikes. What a Milton in that other pirate. Oh, thank Christ. They, they fall over backwards when the Thunderbird takes off. Like people that are accidentally behind a jet engine at an air show, they tumble. Their hats fall off.

The one huge wing beat just sends up a cloud of sand and rocks and stuff. And the Thunderbird starts hauling ass to the purifier. Tuck, you've jumped into the ocean, I presume. Oh, no, I jumped out and started climbing up to the top deck because I didn't know where Billy and Vang were. Okay. Defy danger strength because that's some like gymnastic shit. And I was, I've also got Perel and mirrors on my back. Oh my God. Defy danger strength. And all the shit that we stole.

I'm tempted to say that if you don't get like a 13, you can't do this, but I want to see it happen anyways. There's so much at stake and we have no idea what it is. Yeah, totally. Oh, 11. Well, fuck me. That's an unmitigated success. So you, you do it. It's like, it's like Andre the giant in the princess bride. That's what I was imagining. Yeah. Climbing up the rope with, uh, that wall of Sean on his back. Yeah. And, and fucking everyone's complaining because I'm going back to the fight. Yeah.

Mirrors is like, no, we should escape. I was like, yeah, we should get out of here. What are you doing? Tacoma? I'm like, we got to find Billy and Ving or else the whole thing is going to be really narratively confusing. Isn't this exciting? Everybody at the very least hurry up. Gosh. And you eventually haul your ass up onto the deck with all these people. And it is pandemonium. And, but the thing is, is that everybody's running. They're running around and they don't even know why anymore.

Cause Billy disappeared over the side. Uh, Ving the bat is on the, the mast, but they just know that there was some sort of monster. And then they see you, you come over the deck, you flop over with two people in a bunch of their stuff. And I, I stand up and I'm like, I claim this ship. I am your captain now. And then I, I, I, I grab one of them. Who's running by me. And I'm like, I killed the torch of McCall. He's dead. Ooh. Don't you have a move? That's like intimidate or frighten your foes.

Oh yeah. Yeah. You're trying to intimidate or frighten your foes. And I think you have to do a show of strength. So what is the move? It's war cry. When you enter the battle with a show of force role plus charisma and on a 10 plus, you're at a 10 plus. Your allies are rallied and you take plus one forward and your enemies feel fear and act accordingly. Okay. Oh my God. It was like two sentences. So your work. So you're, what you're saying is that I've killed the torch of McCall. Yeah.

And this is my boat now. Yeah. This is my boat now. Wait. And I have to do a show of force, right? So what do you, what does your show of force? The show of force is that he drops everything and then like reaches into his own pack and then pops a music. Bottle of like screamo metal. Yeah. And, and then he's going to do a bunch of pretty wild acts. Move. Okay. All right.

And the song that's playing is the song from the beginning of the first new star Trek movies sabotaged by the beastie boys sabotaged by the, yeah, the song is playing a sabotage by the beastie boys. Yeah. And that was actually in the cargo hole. Great. Yeah. That's someone's personal music. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It belongs to the captain. Yeah. Do I have to roll? Yeah. For war cry. Oh yeah. Yeah. What is it? Plus charisma. Yeah. Eight. Okay. So you get one of one or the other.

Your enemies feel fear. Yeah. Okay. So they are, so they're, they're scared, but they are warriors. No, let describe my ax moves. How I look, you describe your ax. Okay. So it looks a lot like capoeira. Yeah. Zero precedent for this at all, but okay. Continue. No, he's a good dancer. Yeah. Based on, he thinks he's a good dancer. There's really no historical evidence, but okay. But he like really tunes into Larry, Terry and Chad.

He's like doing like flips around his neck and stuff and like throwing it really high and catching it. And in his mind, he's like, I've never pulled it off for this long. And I'd say half of them are too wary to approach you, but half of them are like, you can see psyching themselves up for it. It's sort of like a Kung Fu movie and that they sort of rush you one at a time. Oh, okay. So one, one comes at you with a sword and is screaming it and swinging it at you. What do you do?

Punch him in the face. Okay. Hack and slash. Nine. So he staggers back into the crowd again, like a Kung Fu movie. Okay, cool. And he goes, Ooh, and they pick him up and they put him back on his feet and they push him back towards you. Uh, and he runs up, it goes like, Ooh, and swings, but is so nervous and beat up that he swings too far and just punches you in the face with the pommel of his sword. Ow. So give a D six, three, three. Yeah. I take two. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Pops you right in the nose. You can feel blood start pouring out of your nose. That's the point when the song does that big scream. Yeah. And I join in with the song. Oh, and as this fight is continuing, the Thunderbird approaches. Bing, what are you doing? I dive bombing the group of sailors behind the other guy as a bat. Oh, like you've met up with the Thunderbird in the air, in the air. Yeah. Coming down a corkscrew. Uh huh. Sick. Cool. Screaming. That song. Yeah. Oh my God.

Oh, the sky starting to darken with clouds. Oh, it's yeah. As it's darkening and you're like, listen, no, y'all, it's a sabotage. Listen, no, y'all, it's a sabotage. Swirling of clouds. Yeah. Darkening of air. Yeah. Billowing of, of sales. And then the quiet stabbing stops and the hole appears. Yeah. Pretty sick. Pretty sick.

And tucks just tucks on the deck, just throwing punches and doing that thing where someone rushes you and you duck down, get your shoulder under them and just throw them over the side of the boat. Sick. Yeah. And, uh, there's a Thunderbird. Now the huge storm of wings, gray, gray is the sky. That's the bat. The Thunderbird is going to come down and swoop through the main sail and snip the wires and try and cover all the guys in the sale. Cool. Uh, okay. Yeah. So defy danger.

I want to say like dexterity for like precision. Yeah. Cause it's some like swashbuckler shit you're trying to pull off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Defy danger. Dexterity. Ooh. Plus dexterity. Ooh. Six. Oh, oh, oh, oh. And he aids. I think. Yeah, I can aid. Yeah. I think maybe tuck could like see what Vang is trying to pull off and like whip the ax. Yeah. Or like a shit slice through some of the lines. Like the Thunderbird maybe doesn't get all of them.

So I, I throw Terry Larry and Chad to like slice some of the lines too. Okay. So that's going to be two D six plus the bonds that you have between eight. Okay. So you both get a seven to nine. I think that means straight up tuck is stuck on the boat. Uh, and you're probably going to get smashed up a little bit more by the shit that's falling and by the people that are attacking you. Totally. Yeah. Basically you're going to distract most of the people on the boat. Tuck. Give me a hack and slash.

Uh, 12. Oh yeah. Uh, roll your damage for four. Okay. Yeah. So I'll, uh, Jackie Chan cinema, a few more light guard warriors rush you and you're kind of, you don't want to kill anybody. So you're just kind of boxing dudes that run up to you. It's a lot of punch, punch, get punched. They're not hitting you hard enough to get through your like natural toughness. And it's the sort of thing where you'll duck down. Someone will run at you.

You'll crouch, get your shoulder under them, whip them over the side of the boat. You suplex a guy through a barrel. You do the people's elbow. You just tap your arm and then you drop on him. And the Thunderbird starts flying through the lines on the ship, snapping sail lines. And you see the like one line that is not going to get snapped.

And you take Larry, Terry and Chad whip it overhand flips through the air, slams into the mast and cuts a line, but is now stuck in the mast, like 15 feet in the air maybe. And the whole sail just billows down and lands on a bunch of people. And you can hear him going, Oh, and then a lot of flopping around, but the deck is very well covered. Uh, there's not a huge amount of effective fighting going on anymore. What has been doing? What being goes up and he's purchased on the ax.

So he's got a lot of stuff to try and get it. Oh yeah. Okay. So give me a defy danger strength for your bat self to try and shake it loose. Uh, nine, nine. Okay. Um, you land on it. You grip it with your little bat feet and your bat wings, and you're kind of bouncing up and down on it and it comes loose and it just drags you down to the deck so fast. Uh, roll a D six to the bop your head pretty bad. Bam. And the Thunderbird has landed on the deck and we cut down into the hold of the ship.

It's a young fat Billy who has just divulged a truth. He doesn't understand. Yeah. Barely even know what half those things mean. Yeah, exactly. What did he say again? Said I am a spring Faye of the endless bows. Okay. And you're being stared at by the torch of McCall and the captain of the ship and whatever the hell that thing in the room is. What do you do? Hi, I'm just gonna go and I just try to run away. Cause I'm like, yeah, totally. Okay. Uh, two D six plus dexterity plus dexterity.

Oh, I failed. Doesn't matter. Six. Oh, a six. Yeah. So you start running through the decks and as you're running this sheet of heat, just courses over your head. And all of a sudden the bench that you were starting to run under is on fire in front of you. Oh shit. Uh, I turn around, like try to go around it. No, you skid to a halt. And like the captain is right next to you when you turn. And that you look behind you and the torch of McCall is there in this like fighter stance.

I know he looks kind of like an asshole, but it's very much a like karate kind of stance that you can guess. He just used to project that fire. And he says, you're not going to get away from me that easily. Young one. And he picks you up and the creature in the room has now stood up on its two legs and is walking out of the room. And we cut back to the deck. Tuck, you're pulling yourself out of this sail. And every once in a while, punching a face that becomes visible thing.

You're shaking yourself awake from your little concussion. And you hear the voice of the torch of McCall ring out. Cease this foolish fighting and tuck. You look over and being, you look over and the torch has Billy kind of by the scruff of his neck, like a cat that he found outside. Yeah. And he says, no one is going anywhere until the truth of this matter is determined. And it will be very soon. And this figure comes up behind the torch of McCall.

And it looks different to you, Ving than it does to tuck. What does it look like to Ving? It looks like a forest elf. Oh, made out of many different like chunks of animals all over this body. Ice, like an ice zombie made out of all different dead animals, piercing blue eyes. Spooky. Yeah. Weird legs, like behooved legs. Yeah. Yeah. And what does it look like to tuck? Tuck doesn't see anything. Whoa. So cool. I think maybe we'll end it there. That's a pretty cool revelation.

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