Episode 17 – The Reckoning

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 Billy's a thief, his tiny size does mask the largest heart Best and brightest they may not be, but their friendship outweighs their smarts So gather round friends and listen close For the tale's about to start Hello everybody and welcome!

To Spout Lore! I'm your Game Master Sean O'Hara And joining me as always playing Ving the Half-Elf Druid Paul Oppers Hey everybody! Playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian Abdulaziz Hi everybody! And playing Fat Billy the Halfling Thief Jessica Tai Hello!

When last we left our heroes Let's all go through it together It's been a while It's been a few months We were in the later period of preparations for the Lightguard's siege upon the Margani Library Mmhmm And with that preparation involved Uh, Shia went back to the Siddel Estate to get our shit And to also get us winewood healing potion So now you have some healing wine Some research was done in which Ving did some looking into his family history We learned that the island of Hibernia was the origin place of magical tradition And we learned that Ving's mother's name, Ileana Yep Is in fact a family name So Ving's family name, I guess on that side, is Ileana Yep Yeah Shia fixed up Ving's unbreakable spear Yeah with the ironwood Yeah, so now it is truly unbreakable Ving used the spear, you did a commune Oh yeah, I communed with the whispers of the spear and to connect to my family Also I carved Tuck and Billy into the spear Aww Right, yes And now the family's whole Hmm, so sweet Some suiting up occurred So you saw the limited edition wartime action figure of each character as you suited up for the siege Let's describe it real quick Ving had a bandolier of all different elements for using in the field And a silver gauntlet that he got in the tomb And the necklace of a cloud piercer Right His necklace And he put it on like a big fat chain It's like a big chain, like big giant links, iron links Big gold chain Yeah And it's like a little chain that you put into your chest hair And it has, no it has chest hair on it as part of the chain Oh cool Oh yeah It has a curtain of chest hair that is behind it No Not everyone has chest hair I know So you look like Italian Flava Flav Yeah Flava Flav Cut that, cut that I'm sorry to the Italian listeners Mi marinara s'imbresciuto You sound like Geoffrey Rush in Pirates of the Caribbean You best start believing in marinara on this turn Cause you're in one You're in a Subway sandwich shop The most Italian of all shops My favorite Italian sandwich shop is Subway sandwich shop Cause of the Italian herb and cheese That's the only reason you said that Jessica laughed into the mic She laughs quietly My favorite video they used to show I hate my laugh I just don't wanna hear it anymore My favorite video they used to show was the one that was like, I hate my laugh, I just don't wanna hear it anymore I hate my laugh, I just don't wanna hear it anymore My favorite video they used to show us in social studies Was when the first Subway sandwich shop opened in Italy after World War II Are you kidding me?

And it was just like they were all holding hands outside of it Welcoming and maritaly Like we are the world in it? Yeah Oh my god This is like not real right?

Yes of course it's not real Oh my god I didn't think that it wasn't I didn't consider that it wasn't real It was after Benito Mussolini was executed The new leader of Italy came out with a marinara sub held over his head And everybody cheered I have to know I believe a lot of stuff I know, I know you do Yeah That's why it's fun to tell you things that didn't happen They actually learned the imperial system from the sandwich Cause oh this is a foot Ah Si Si a foot One half a sandwich is less than a foot Ah Jesus Christ lost my train of thought A foot is two six inch party subs Yeah Obviously We all know this You can't call it a party sub right?

A party sub can't be six inches I don't know why I keep calling them party subs It's half of a regular sub It's half of a regular sub I just like how they're delivered like in sections you know Are they? Yeah On a bus?

Cause you can't have like six feet of sandwich Well that's why all of them are delivered in hearses It basically The party sub hearse The sandwich hearse Like the Oscar Mayer Wiener car Yes But it's a sub It's a sub And it's accurate Most of the inside is a sandwich It's a sub Yeah The horn plays like Cougaraja What you do is there's a lever inside that the driver pulls and it tilts the inside back a little bit And then you just lay the sub on the ground Drive forward Bloop Yeah They come in like It comes in like a suitcase basically Oh my gosh Like a bunch of suitcases That's so funny Yeah And they have to reconstruct it there Yeah That's fucking hilarious and stupid Yeah No it's great It's the best Okay So that's what Ving was wearing Was this Was this a cinch party sub?

Glory Foot Drive Glory Foot Driving Party Sub Glory Foot World War II Commemorative Party Sub That was driven to the library in a van What did Tuck look like? He had like re-outfitted himself with everything he got from Lillian's tomb So like he had that greave, the silver greave on his arm That like I think it repels magic? It's got ward stone in it?

Oh yes He's also got the chainmail shirt on Chainmail crop top He's got the waning knife tucked in to his greave And he grabbed a war hammer He grabbed a war hammer as well Can you describe the war hammer just a little bit?

The haft is made of ironwood and then The haft is like four feet long And then the head of it is like It's like two feet wide It's like two feet long Like half a party sub Yeah it's like a half a party sub Wide and deep Nice Yeah and it's like kind of like a square shape Yeah like two party subs next to each other Yeah Yeah Cool What's Billy's wartime outfit? I don't remember I have the cool knife Did I fill it with that poison that Shia gave me?

Oh yeah Shia's like paralytic venom And you also took throwing daggers Yeah some throwing daggers Cool deadly to Billy's back Yeah Do I have a cool outfit?

You did not you just wore the thing that you wore You can describe Billy making himself a cool outfit He did not make a cool outfit He thought of it too late he saw a tuck in thing and he's like fuck Outfits I didn't know we were doing outfits I didn't know we were allowed to dress up He's just when we walk up to him he's just sulking for some reason Yeah he saw us coming and started sulking The last thing of significance that we learned was Tuck was racing around the Margani library As they locked down the stacks for the coming siege And read a bunch of books on demonology and discovered in his research that he is almost certain beyond the shadow of a doubt That the tortured McCall is a demon of zealotry Yeah so he's kind of feeding off of the religion of the flame like a parasite Yeah like he this icon has connected itself to the belief system of the church of the flame And made itself and its vessel the like perfect servant of that religion Does that also make like the people who follow the religion more fanatical as well?

I think so I think the power of that icon allows him to like whip up fanaticism in people Man this is gonna be a really hard battle Yeah you're basically going up against a bunch of people that are fighting to the death probably And that is where we find our heroes now on the morning of the first of two potential days of the beginning of the siege of the Margani library Tuck is still awake He has not slept I slept maybe a little bit like after I figured out the zealotry thing I think I maybe went to sleep for a couple hours Uh huh I'm still pretty tight Yeah it's more like you sleep in 30 second bursts every couple minutes Yeah Uh Billy does Billy wakes up under a table Oh yeah Yeah how's he feeling?

Pretty good Is he rattled at all from this war dream that he had?

No but he should probably tell them Right yeah So that okay that's where we that's where the camera is focused on is Billy like rumbling to life underneath this table There's legs rushing all over the place People talking to each other Checking weapons making sure that the the stacks are locked down You see people going through martial arts forms in the hallway There's an air of tense stillness where everybody's anticipating something that if it hasn't happened now maybe it'll never happen You know that feeling where you're like it could happen at any time or never Uh huh Um and that's where Billy is right now so Billy goes off to find Billy's going off to find Tuck and Ving Uh huh Okay Uh so where is Ving Tuck and Ving have found each other where?

I think we would be like in the cafeteria Cafeteria Yeah Nice Eating a six inch party so Yeah A six inch breakfast burrito It's a Party burrito Yeah Breakfast party burrito Yeah yeah How and how's Ving feeling after his uh it's probably pretty relaxing communing with your spear all night right like that's a Yeah and and yeah finding connection with everybody he's just so stoked and you know terrified I think maybe a little bit more than that Yeah I think maybe a little bit more scared because a slight feeling of more to lose now Yeah More connected to everyone I guess that's true and Shia's found you guys too she's drinking uh some sort of hot tea eyes like half closed leaning against uh slippers three A real chill kind of vibe More like if I don't lean against this huge wolf I'm gonna fall over What did she stay up partying all night?

She's just been stressed like you get the idea that she she's a thief she's not a warrior So the idea that there's a battle coming is really stressing her out Oh Like this is not her element her if she had her druthers no one would ever see her she would never be perceived Uh huh Uh so she's just bags under her eyes maybe the most stressed out you've ever seen her but trying to stay calm I go up and give her a piece of my burrito Oh This'll help Thank you So this is like you're this you're like used to this?

No This is kind of new for us Yeah Oh okay well that's you know that's kind of reassuring actually this is a day of firsts for both of us all three the three of us I mean if the fact that none of us know what we're doing comforts you Well you know what I shouldn't have pointed that out It did I'm sorry I shouldn't have pointed you look stressed enough It did up until yeah like two seconds ago when you said that for the first time that nobody knows what we're doing but Just think you gotta just reframe it in your head just think about it like we're all about to steal lives Lives from a bunch of enemies who are trying to steal our lives with swords and the power of God Fire Yeah She nods a little bit you know that actually does help Yeah Does help it's like pickpocketing but instead of going into their pouch you're going into their neck with a knife And taking out Your knife Yeah And also their blood and heart And also their blood and hopes and dreams and the futures that they might have had Doesn't help anymore Wow I'm not gonna talk to any of you anymore I'm gonna prepare on my own so please shut up and she closes her eyes And Billy you find them all sitting at a long table eating six inch party breakfast burritos Guys I looked everywhere for you Billy you look so tired I am I ran like oh hundred feet or something like that Why did you run you know it's bad for your constitution I know I know so far Here have some of my six inch party burrito Thank you Thank you Okay I had to run cause like it was a dream and like if I don't tell you really fast I'm gonna forget it all I dreamt about the time I fought the winter wars and like it was against it was the druids and the elves Halflings were there I think the elves were like they looked like evil almost or something or maybe it was just my dream But they were like on horses and on like elks and stuff like that and then some of the druids they like changed into animals and stuff And then they started doing these things where it was like they all chant the same thing and this like wall I don't even know if you could really see it but you could see like the snow blowing off of it and there was trees And there was like little thingies hanging off of it and like I was like oh my god I'm gonna die And there was like little thingies hanging off of them like little bottles of milk It was so cold it was snowing so much you guys so much swords There was fire too That sounds really scary do you think it's a dream or do you think it's a memory Bill No I remember it The winter war is what it was called Yeah it was a long time ago like a really long time ago Shia, Vang did you guys have you guys heard of a winter war Mmhmm There's a Spout Lore about it Yeah is this a Spout Lore Oh yeah yeah oh yeah definitely if we wanna glean some useful information we could do it as a Spout Lore Okay So who's role in it 2d6 plus intelligence I mean it's it has a druid and a half elf Mmhmm Um if it's a historical thing I can use my wisdom Yeah and it makes sense cause it could be something that Vang learned about when he was like a young prince Yeah Yeah Oh yeah Yeah oh there was a like you know you have capture the flag there was a game called the winter war Yeah And it was like a kids game and you'd be like okay this time you're the elves and we're the druids And the druids don't wear shirts Yeah Yeah It's fucking winter every day out here Yeah and there's one creepo kid that we're like I don't wear pants cause that's my choice I'm the dank elf Okay uh Spout Lore Yeah 2d6 plus intelligence Damn nice Wisdom Yeah wisdom Wisdom Plus wisdom That's nine Alright Holy shit aid aid How?

With your memory dream Cause you're helping Oh right Uh so yeah 2d6 plus bond to aid Oh And we all have one bond right? Yeah Yeah Ayyyy Eight Nice There you go so that's a ten Great Something interesting and useful so what's like a a That fucking wall thing is interesting Yeah something that Vang could try Mmhmm Later some sort of Oh that's true Calling on the earth Yeah Yeah Is there warlocks maybe in this war? Maybe Maybe Could be Could there be like a thing about how to defend against them?

Mmhmm Or like nullify their power or something?

Mmhmm Cause we're gonna constantly be contending with the fact that like the torch of macal is magically aiding That's a good point yeah Like maybe that wall is like blocking that flow of like magic Yeah Yeah Neutrall- like it basically like neutralizes whatever the effect Yeah Or like magic or like demons Oh Or spirit or whatever Yeah They just bring the even ground Yeah Yeah it's like a cleansing force Yeah Yeah Maybe it's something that we we we now know instead of being like here's your your silver bullet it's a thing that we can play on later Mmhmm Like if we can't nail something down right now it's something that we can keep in mind Just the idea that he's fueling his like force with like this like Yeah Fanaticism Out of an like I need the same thing we were saying before I don't know if it was on mic but about How the druids were about being and like this is a thing Right And then the wizards were about use and same as this he's the the demon of zealotry is trying to gain all this use and spread Mmhmm So there's a lot of like point to it Yeah But that Yeah it's for power Yeah the druid that thing is like you said I really like that it's more of a nullifying Yeah This is like a chill like this is like no bee it's a bee wall Yeah It's just like what is wall Yeah Yeah Stopping all this this this It's a wall of bees And And Thing has learned the spell wall of bees I'm I'm fucking writing that down you jerk ass I'm a bee I'm a bee I'm a I'm a I'm a bee A fourth level conjuration spell Yeah Uh okay that's awesome I okay we landed on something really cool Do we have two more questions No it's Spout Lore not discern realities nice try Fine Yeah No that's great Sweet so Billy's like That's what are you upset about I don't know No that's just Billy that's all Billy yeah Anyway um it probably wasn't very important anyway but this party sub um can I have some more Yeah Bing gives you his whole meal because he's lost in thought he's like Okay Thank you I also like the fact that we're the only people eating like everyone's like The cafeteria was closed we went we got the chef and we're like we're hungry so can you start making food Just anything party themed please I'm starving And it's that big guy with the little chef's hat and he goes run away Saul He's really excited that you guys want food cause he's like I got nothing to do here Yeah exactly Everyone else is too nervous When they said we have to prepare he just like prepped a lot of vegetables Ain't do we sausage you ever had a good gumbo his name's Louise He's a cool guy Great yeah so you're all sitting in an empty cafeteria just chatting chilling and Farah comes to find you in the cafeteria and she looks concerned She approaches your table and says Do you want some of these party burritos Louise has been going nuts in the kitchen I couldn't possibly I had five feet myself this morning Five feet She ate five feet of burrito I'm a nervous eater Also I burn a lot more calories than you would expect for a woman my age And Tuck is just like I'll bet you do And then he's like I'm gonna go eat some burritos He realizes what he said he leans into Bing and he's like I don't know why I said that Well you said it out loud pal she also heard that When you say that even Shia opens her eyes and is like ew This is an unprecedented situation I think we'll all agree that it's okay to be kind of weird the day before a battle right Shia And Farah says Slippers agree with me somebody nods Slippers nod And Farah says He grabs Slippers head and nods I'm sweating so much And Farah says I agree with everything that you say with the exception of the day before part the light guard are here What do you mean I dropped my party sub I hand you another one They have arrived in the town their force is above What But they have not attacked They wish to speak Cowards Huh with you Oh shit Tell them we're busy we're having lunch Which one of us specifically and I push Billy forward Tuck is very scared He just pushes puts his hand on Billy's back while he's sitting on the table and just squeaks him across the table top Which one And Billy's like I will do it I have to Salute very shakily I will do it Put on your mayor voice Billy Yeah I can't I'm too scared Oh no I pick Billy back Oh my god Um Uh They simply said that they wish to speak We do not know their terms but If you are willing We have forces out of sight on our side of the city and we are not going to let them get away with it We have forces out of sight on our side of the city and we are not going to let them get away with it We have forces out of sight above ground that will be watching How many of them are there She actually knows like almost specifically and I kind of wrote it down And it's I don't think you guys are going to love it Oh no Um That number divide by two Six units of swordsmen Six units of archers Sappers Siege engines A mounted cavalry Their special forces the immolators and the torch himself I don't know what any of that means Holy shit Tuck goes to the bathroom Why are he sitting Yeah He leaves to go to the bathroom Oh I thought you meant Tuck pisses his shit Does the bathroom things He can feel it coming and he's like Excuse me And you see him walk to the bathroom or the cafeteria Clenching his buns Yeah And then he sits down You're a pretty fat shit And then you also hear a You were on such a roll And then you're like no I need to specify that he takes a fat shit That's amazing And then everybody's listening to it happen I'm gonna make like small talk with Farrah So um Like help me out with the counting cause I'm not very good at math So like six plus six is twelve people No no no no no What Six units How many's in it Of how many Thirty What What Why Why Because of light guard battles in the past Suggest that they utilize overwhelming force In almost all cases Of what A number Well if you're asking Shawn O'Hare to do quick math Yes Oh fuck Okay A hundred and eighty swordsman A hundred and eighty archers A hundred and eighty archers Sappers So units of probably four but they're like What's a sapper They set explosives Oh fuck Ballista is what I wrote down The siege engines they usually use are ballista filled with explosive oil and catapults that fire fire barrels.

Mounted cavalry. Mounted on what? This is a question I had. Because horses in the desert doesn't always make sense. Could be camels. Could be something cool that we are making up. We could just not have centaurs. No, they're there. Sandworms. Sandworms are docile and enormous. Maybe there's like a war, like ones that were specifically bred. They breed them to be small. Yeah, gross. Worms. Worm riders. Yeah, worm riders. Dune style, like they have the hooks under the plates. Maybe worms.

Billy is zoned out and he's like thinking about better days. Billy, I would like to remind you that you specifically asked me for these details and now you are treating me like an asshole. I'm not. I just wish you weren't being one. He does shoot the messenger. Tuck comes back and he was like he spent the time in the bathroom thinking about something he could say. He's like six units of swordsman hair. Well, I got three units in my pants for them.

That was too long of a shit for such a shitty joke. You're sitting on that one for a long time as well as the toilet. So will you if you are not, if you don't feel comfortable addressing them directly, we can send someone else or we can. Can we sit somebody like impersonators of us? Just look like us to make them think that it's us. I don't think that I could find anyone within a thousand miles that looks like the three of you. Thank you. That's really nice.

Yeah, we're really complimented by that. Shit. Okay, we will talk to them. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? Let's go talk to these assholes. Yeah, let's go. Tuck is genuinely very scary. Sean, are we gonna like we're not gonna die. That would be lame for the podcast. Is that Billy asking for let the dice talk baby Jessica. We're not gonna do okay. Also Billy. I after we've got after Vegas like let's go up and talk to these assholes. I'm like so we're like walking. I'm like we're not gonna die.

Are we we're not gonna die. You're immortal thing is half immortal. I'm gonna bulk phase can't die. So they send you up like you're like, let's do it. Let's talk to him. Yeah, let's do it. Also. We can't let someone else go up and face that dickhead. Plus we gotta see if Adam has the axe. Yeah, I need that fucking axe back. All I have is this stupid thing and he smashes a table next to actually works pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty cool to be a table.

It's just like a fucking microwave on a stick. Of course it works. Just wait so you go up through not the like truck like sand boat entrance. They send you up through a different way. And you come out like in a textile shop like there's bolts of fabric hanging all over the walls. It's dark. The sun hasn't quite risen all the way yet. Oh, check it out. Marina. Oh, wow. Oh, that's soft. Wow. And once you come above ground, you hear like, you know, the quiet coolness of the pre dawn.

But then you also hear like a lot of clanking and a really huge group of like murmured voices. Before we come out of the shop, can we like scout it a bit? Yeah. Oh, yeah. The windows. You can sneak up if you want through the fabrics. Yeah. Like our heads on top of each other. Don't don't can album been in the chip. Yeah. Some fine gauze. We're looking through. You know what? You don't have to sneak because they've asked to speak. Yeah. So you can.

Yeah, you can peek through and you see hundreds of armed light guard. Farah mentioned a ballista and catapults. You don't see them. You assume they're at the outskirts and you don't see the worm riders either, but you do see probably circling the town. Yeah. Hauling ass. Yeah. Feeding their worms a bunch of sand. Jesus. Oh, they're sandworms because they eat sand. I don't. I guess I'm a chips man.

I think I said they're filter feeders like they swallow a bunch of sand and then filter out the nutrients that poop out sand and they poop out glass. Yeah, they poop out that like fluorescent sand. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, there are hundreds of armed light guard all with like the curving swords that you saw earlier. Some with shields. It's fair. I'm out there.

You see a big person with a cloak on and a hood who knows who it could be, but they're this is the first time you're seeing the actual immolators themselves and it's a bunch of scary fucking people. Whereas the rank and file members of the light guard are like generally wearing the same kind of armor carrying the same kind of weapons.

These are very specialized in individual fighters like you see one with a huge spear one with two swords one that is carrying what looks like a really long handled staff with a metal ball on top like all that kind of weird shit. One just looks like it has a chain with a weight on the end of it and a huge cloaked figure. What was the immolators thing? Did they have like any kind of magical power? Like no, they're just like special forces. Basically, they're the most badass of the badass.

They're decked out with gadgets, fire gadgets. Yeah, there's probably one that has like little fucking like hand bombs or whatever, all that kind of shit like a flamethrower. Ooh, cool. I don't know why I'm adding to their arsenal. It's fucking shit. So guys just like shut up. Yeah, wait, this army is so cool. Like there's like a gun, just a big gun that shoots us and we die and at the front of this huge group of people you see looking very like plucky having a nice morning.

The torch of McCall just drinking a tea. Yeah, he's got like a little cup of steaming tea. His long white robe, his gray beard and hair just enjoying the predawn sun. What do you do? Look around. Are you guys just not going to come out? Wait, wait, wait. No, we're thinking I'm thinking I'm thinking of what I might do. Yeah, I thought we were gonna like roll the the looky Lou. Oh, discern realities. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's great. Oh, I thought that's what we're doing.

Well, nobody's said that, but then this is also a good opportunity to describe the actual area. Totally. Yeah. May I discern reality indeed to the six plus wisdom eight. Oh, sorry. One question. One question. What here is useful or valuable to us? Well, I'll describe sort of what I'm imagining the scene to be and then you guys can tell me what you think is what here is useful or valuable.

So I think that the shop that you're in is basically right on the edge of the square, but still kind of a side street. Like just the very end of a side street. And then it opens up onto what is considered the town square of Elaine Springs, which is right on the edge of the actual oasis pool spring itself. So there's this big open area that they're all standing in and the pool hems in one side and the rest is surrounded by buildings. So there's water here. Yes. It's a square on a beach.

Yeah, pretty much square beach building. Yeah. What is the thing that is useful? I'm asking you, what do you think the useful thing is? Um, well, we have like the librarians will have access to a ton of water like from the beach from that river that runs underneath. Is this pool that is in the middle? Is it any way attached to that river? Yeah, I think Jessica's idea is that there's like a river that runs underneath that the spring is fed from. Well, that we came in on, right? Yeah.

So it's an exit for us. If it goes really bad, we can dive down into the That's a cool idea. Yeah, we can flush ourselves out of here. Yeah, we could if it goes really wrong. If things go to shit, it's a way out. Also, if one of you were able to call on the elements, you'd have a massive source of water nearby. Oh, right. That's what I said when we first got here. So there's a bunch of water here.

So the oasis is the oasis is the thing that's useful is you've got this thing that is also probably an exit. Ving could just fucking whip an oasis at them. Yeah, so that's sort of what you know. We're in a fabric shop. Yeah, I want to look for a specific bolt of fabric that fire moth bolts. Is there any way that I can roll for that to see if there's some so cool butter moth, not fire moth. Thank you. Do I have to roll? I have to roll. That would be to like, yeah, look what I found.

I know what it's a fabric store from everywhere in the world. Discern realities. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Discern realities are taking on seven. Oh, okay. So is there butter moth here? What here is useful or valuable to me? How much butter moth? Like that? I'd say like a bolt, like a good amount. Few yards. Yep. So you can use those yards sparingly or you can give it to talk. Oh, Billy has a butter moth cloak. Oh, I do. Yeah, butter moth cape that he got from years ago. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, right. Okay. I just wear it all the time. Yeah, because it's like flowing fabric and that's what cash told you to wear. Yeah. Yeah. Billy has a fireproof cape. I forgot about that. So there's enough. We're fine. It was like touching this. He's like, okay. Like my cloak. Oh, yeah. That's how you find it. That's great. You're like, oh my God, this is butter moth silk. Great. So tuck is enormous and you're really tall.

So it's either enough to protect you fully protect tuck fully or half protect both of you. A hundred percent I make tuck whatever dress he wants. Oh, can I get like one of those belted sundresses? Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Strapless or yeah. It's basically like a fucking like wrap around the waist. You don't have time to actually make clothing like a toga thing. Yeah. Is it a toga?

Well, it's like, yeah, you pretty much are just able to like wrap it around your waist over the shoulder or something like that because this isn't like pretty woman like you don't have a montage to get ready like there is an army outside. I mean, I was picturing a cloak like to have a clasp here and a bit of a hood a rough hood. It's kind of cloaky. Yeah, and then that's nice because then I can be dressed the same as fat. Oh, yeah. That's what I was going to think. Okay.

I believe he's wearing the same thing as me. Okay, and that's honestly it's a it's a fucking Cinderella scene where these guys are making the cloak look like Billy's like now he's got more ruffles at the bottom peeking out and with us by Knox. Yeah. And Billy you look at a couple times and there's a point where you realize the torch is finished his tea and is standing around and then you look again. He's got another tea like man. We're sure taking a lot of time. Oh, no.

The torch is not looking like he's enjoying this second tea like maybe he's been waiting a while. How do I look? How do I look? Do I look like that? Do I look fucking cool? Yeah, you think just like Fatim sick and put the hood up that you Fatim and then I go, yeah, I'm fucking stupid. I'm fat. Nailed it. I'm so small. I say that I'm in a cut fez, but I'm actually just little one time. I ate a sandwich in there's a piece of shit in it because that's what tuck put in there.

I tried to pretend that I didn't mind it, but then I didn't realize until later that would suggest I'd like the taste of shit. One time I insulted talk and I said I pieces of shit like you for breakfast and then he was like you piece of shit for breakfast. He's like, I know I made you evil be so funny if the torch is like I know you guys are there sneaking in like this tiny shack is like really farting and like laughing that laugh laugh after after like so sketches.

Yes, it's so funny after like 10 minutes of you guys in the shack making a cloak and doing bits. You hear a voice call out. Can we please end this charade and then the door bursts open and tuck whips the cloak out and he's like the charade has just begun and Bing says enter stage right that really got me just just oh man and yeah, so you just tried out in your cape. Yeah, and the three of you totally and the torch hands is teacup to somebody that runs off back into the crowd sweet.

That's one less guy. He's going to be dealing with the cup. It's going to take him at least five minutes to wash that thing. We should strike now our odds are going to get better than this whispering to each other. I'm walking right behind talk to a fucking just start swinging, but I don't think I should get close enough to the torch of the colonies like thank you for come way and the face. I hammer microwave you. Yeah, you approach the torch and McCall. How do you get closer?

Do you kind of know? Yeah, I think it's like a pool's distance away. Where is the pool relative to us? Is it on your left hand side? So do we have to go past the lake or to get to it? Are they in the way? No, you'd at least have to get next to them. Okay, and the torch says thank you for coming. Thank you for speaking. Hopefully we can finish this without us. Unnecessary bloodshed stuff. Your thank yous in a sack. He takes a deep breath in through his nose, a steadying breath.

I had forgotten how trying you could be. Thank you. We do try our best. I have called you to speak because you have taken things that belong to me. Oh yeah, and what were those things? Those things, you know quite well. Tell me say it demons. The danger they present is unfathomable to you to the world and you have removed them from the only place capable of containing them and for that you must face judgment as well containing them or using them.

I don't know what foolish thoughts have entered your heads. I don't think you know what has entered yours. Oh right. We're hinting at what's inside of him. Yeah, let's try to like like air him out in front of his army. Yeah, this is part of it. Because they're not all like super indoctrinated. Yeah. So we're talking loud. Yeah, and he says what I know is that all I do is in service to the God of the flame and to McCall. And you threaten that balance that security.

Yeah, we threaten that security. We threaten that zealotry, don't we? If you have no faith, that is none of my concern, but I will not allow you to threaten the faith of hundreds of thousands of souls. Return what you have taken, face judgment, and we will allow the library to stand. What do you mean to do with them? Contain them. Keep the people. Keep the people of this city safe from their influence. From Mercy? Have you not seen a demon in action? I think we're seeing one right now.

If this is something that you want to like have an effect, I would love you to roll like a defy danger charisma. Sure. Yeah, do it. But what is the effect? Is it to destabilize him or to let everyone know? Let everyone know. Okay. Yeah, to like sew a little bit of discord. See discords. Yeah. Charisma. You're the mayor of Charisma Town, Billy. See. Nervant. Talent. Nine. Eight. And I will aid him. Yeah. And it's pretty clear how you're aiding him. Yeah. You're all talking at the same time. Yeah.

You're all talking over each other. Yeah. And it's very annoying to the torch. Nice. Eight, nine. Okay, ten. Woohoo. So the effect is that you… Yeah. Okay. So as you're talking and you're goading the torch being like, hey, you're a demon, like subtly. The more you talk and you see… Some side eyes, a little bit of like creaking as people in the units of sword fighters and archers start looking at each other and whispering a little bit. What is he talking about?

And the torch raises his hand and they go quiet. Yes, you in the stupid dress. You have a question, fuck face. And he… When you say that, you can see his face clouds for a second and he's furious. Yeah. When Tuck sees his face cloud over, he's like, there you are. That's the real you. And he drops his hand and he says, I gave you the opportunity to do the honorable thing and surrender. If you refuse, we can move forward as planned. Because I mean, what is your goal right now?

You're basically… I have a feeling you guys are gonna say no, fuck off. Yeah. Yeah. But I really want to turn like a bunch of his army against him. Yeah. I think we're in a good place. Yeah. I think we're in a good place. Yeah. I think we're in a good place. Yeah. I think we're in a good place. Yeah. Yeah. But I really want to turn like a bunch of his army against him. Yeah. I think we're addressing the jury now. Yeah. Yeah. His army. Yeah. Men and women of the army.

Good people of McCall, we have something to tell you about your fearless leader. Does anyone here remember the Torch of McCall joining the Lightguard? Does anyone remember him aging? I'm sure… I'm sure your fathers and your mothers and your grandfathers and grandmothers before you fought for him, didn't they? Do you ever think of that? How far back do the tales of his might go? How many battles, how many hundreds of years of bloodshed are attributed to this one man?

Do you really think that's a human? Ving's giving air quotes when he says man. The Torch of McCall is a demon. There's silence for a good stretch and then the Torch just laughs. Foolery, lies, deceptions. What an outlandish story. And you see behind him people looking at each other. The murmuring is getting a little… Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Parlay what's it called what's it not a parlay is the parlay was like okay we'll go with you if you we'll go with you well you can have the demons back everything if you eat this saffron oh fucking good move yeah that's all you have to do is prove you're not a demon oh you're not a demon lies laughs good we're stupid fucking morons we don't know what we're talking about eat this and prove it to your people it is still a role that you have to make yeah yeah yeah yeah 2d6 plus charisma oh uh it's you bud you did it yeah well good thing oh and you know what plus one because of your saffron pouch we already said oh yes dealing with uh demonic influence so I just picked up some charisma so mark it mark use of that six wow six could use an aid um yeah let's aid um what do I do maybe just like yeah and I bet you won't you fucking bitch just the most annoying little kid yeah nine there you go tip it over to a seven save the failure beautiful thanks bill no problem this wouldn't work if he didn't if those seed hasn't been planted in totally because now he's like I have to do something yeah because I can already tell that my influence is waning on some of them yeah so yeah thing you walk forward with the saffron toward the torch who's smiling trying to smile idly like haha what an amusement but you can see this like concern in his eyes rage too yeah the fire behind his eyes yeah the absolute fury at being questioned like this I am giving him the coldest eye stare like walking dead eye towards him and tuck he clued in a second too late when ving started walking forward so he like is getting ready just in case something goes wrong yeah he was like this we're putting ourselves at risk yeah thing you walk forward and just before he lets you place the saffron in his hand he grabs you by the wrist and he gets really close to your face and says loud enough for everybody here I don't take orders from you heretic and your body is engulfed in flames tuck runs tuck runs can I defend uh yeah I guess you're trying to defend 2d6 plus constitution god we never use defend I don't even remember what it is fucking six four five wait constitution's three is it I look at the fucking six seven is it constitution eight eight okay so you get one hold from defend okay yeah so tuck you just saw your best friend and husband turned into turned into a pillar of flame I yeah so I run forward to try and distract the torch away to give ving a chance to use like one of his moves so I want to use open up an attacker to an ally giving that ally plus one forward against to let ving do something if he's not dead in there yeah yeah this works so would it work with a last breath roll if he had a last breath roll it could yeah okay okay so you so what tuck just runs forward pulls his hammer out and makes a wild swing yeah just jumps at the torch okay great it's that iron man sun is behind him oh yeah turn up yeah the sun rises behind tuck comes over the horizon just as he makes the jump eagle flies by and that's the sound that beautiful morning everybody that surprised me and tuck makes the jumps through the air and uh tuck brings the hammer down and uh the torch jumps backwards out of the way and the hammer slams into the ground and there's a moment of stillness and then the pillar of fire that was being like wolf engulfs and rises up into the air is big massive uh like fire ball like whoa curling up mushrooming up into the air and then the fireball into the sky slowly takes as it comes off of ving are you just narrating your own death right now give him a second okay it rises up and spreads out wings of fire come out a head of fire comes out and it's this big beautiful shape of a bird a fire bird and as the tail lifts up and it rises up into the air ving is there unharmed what move did you use uh during the advanced level two I took born of fire you are no longer harmed by the touch of fire nor are you vulnerable to heat so wait was this the secret move that he took that we were yeah therefore okay yeah he told this to me while you guys were like in the bathroom or something I was like that's pretty tight so ving is invulnerable to the touch of fire so there's this huge fire phoenix in the shape of cloud piercer basically it's the shape of his spirit animal of fire does that mean cloud piercer is there or no okay I think it was just a flare on ving's part yeah cool uh so again it's quiet everybody sees this happen they see the torch immolate somebody they see that person not die but they also realize that the torch did not take the saffron eat the saffron he like his hand is still in the air and he's like oh my god I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die he's still outreached and he opens his hand eat it prove to us cool yeah fucking way to turn the tide of this this is sick I did not know how this was gonna go and see this is why I didn't prepare a huge board game because I did not expect this at all um so yeah ving you're standing there with your hand outstretched saying eat the saffron and the torch looks at you he's just silent you can tell he doesn't know what to do right now he was not expecting this uh but behind him in the group of widz widz widz widz widz widz widz widz widz widz widz widz widz widz widz widz widz widz widz their weapons more start running and then pandemonium starts breaking out in the ranks where people start to run and then others grab them and are like what are you doing yeah and fights are breaking out within the ranks themselves and stuff it's it's a fight now it's a melee like people are people are panicking running all over town the immolators start freaking out they're grabbing people uh where the librarians in this and the librarians at that very moment arrive and vink said that where the fucking life I thought the fuck is everybody people in the white robes of the librarians of the margani library start pouring out of like side streets some are jumping off buildings like you see as one of the immolators is running forward to a group that's disbanding trying to grab them um you see burke the dwarf librarian in his robe leap off the top of a building and land on this immolator like knees to the chest and take them down to the ground sick that's happening all over the place librarians are pouring out of buildings and the fight is on it's kind of confusing because they're trying to figure out who's trying to escape yeah who's still fighting us so there's a lot of confusion this is what we wanted and the torch stands up and looks at ving and being winks at him oh and he just like he grimaces and basically just roars at you like yeah and starts firing more gouts of flame I don't think that's a good thing I don't think that's a good thing I don't think that's a good thing I don't think he fully realizes what happened so he's still he's just trying to fight the three of you now billy what are you doing uh billy is having a little like flashbacks to that memory so he hasn't really done anything yet oh yeah you hear like the clash of like sword on sword and it's just bringing you back to all these terrible times well here's something that might draw you out of it you see the cloaked figure from the immolators tuck isn't looking he's like swinging his hammer at the torch still you see the cloaked figure from the immolators charge tuck what do you do oh does the hooded figure have like a sword or anything oh is it is it tlc oh yeah you see the hand go up underneath like the cape yeah and remove the light glints off yeah a copper blade and an amethyst spike I'm gonna use the fairy child roll now eight um so on an eight I get three holds so do you want to spend one of those right now can I just use backstab oh yeah like you can use one of those holds and just try and yeah I'll hold on to those holds and I'm gonna try to attack a surprised enemy cool oh I'm actually gonna hurl I'm gonna use that cool knife I got full of that paralyzing potion and I'm going to throw it at that figure oh all right okay so that is 2d6 plus dexterity seven plus so it's nine and then do I get a plus one yeah because you're a halfling throwing thing right oh god damn it um yeah okay so billy you throw your dagger this fancy poison dagger out in front of you it arcs through the air and jabs this cloaked figure right in the side and they come to a halt almost immediately tipping forward on their locked arms and legs and they're like oh my god legs tlc clatters out on the sand in front of them and as you run up to like grab your dagger the cloak has fallen back and it is not fathom what it's just a buff guy it's just another buff dude so now I whip around looking for fathom it's fevin fat evan oh wait no it's another one of tux bullies from the old days that fathom and him it's feeder so yeah you grab your dagger you whip around you don't see fathom but you know that this isn't him shit uh tuck ving is alive and everything's going crazy what are you doing and the torch has just attacked ving he's concentrated on me I think yeah yeah he wants to make it easier for the librarians to know which of the light guards are like the guys that are escaping and which ones are the ones that are attacking so I'm gonna do what are you waiting for to the army of people like everyone like to just get them out of here and then I'm gonna do what are you waiting for to the army of people like to just get them out of here and then I'm gonna do what are you waiting for to the to be like fight me now right yeah oh that's really risky so all these just like a a rain of arrows oh lots of the sun yeah yeah billy just one huge burning barrel comes in bullseye stuck oh right there's still all the artillery and stuff yeah it's hard to say what's going on with that though because there's no one really like the torch is in here so whoever's commanding the shit outside yeah and I wonder who that guy is could be third fathom fathom fathom could be anybody what are you waiting for oh my holy shit 13 wow wow so what happens on the 10 plus on what are you waiting for they treat you as the most obvious threat to be dealt with and ignore your companions take plus two damage ongoing against plus two damage ongoing that's what you wrote sick whoa so does that mean I get plus two damage against the whole army yeah yeah cool that's a lot of damage that said a bunch of them have run away a bunch of them are fighting other ones of them yeah and a bunch of them are fighting librarians yeah so it's not like you're gonna have 90 people trying to kick your shit in total but yeah basically everybody in this square that isn't already fighting somebody is gonna be trying to fight you yeah okay so what is your what are you waiting for look like uh he takes his warhammer and while the torch is focused on ving he fucking slams him in the face and then he hits him in the face and then he hits him in the face and then he him in the back like cheap shots him and I like I then thrust my hips and like like do the thing we do this suck it yeah I do the second move thrust my hips like put my like I slam my hands on my thighs all right and you see all of these light guard watch you cheap shot the torch of McCall and then do the suck it move towards their God and yeah a bunch of them turn towards you and start running at you fucking shit so what do you do I run yourself I run I guess I give me a hack and slash yeah I run at them and I just I try and deal with the first ones that come 12 so you just deal damage roll your damage plus two with your huge ass hammer seven well describe yourself destroying three people I throw the hammer at three guys that are going to lie like the closest guys like that start sprinting at me I just whip the hammer at them yeah and then I'm like that's my hammer gone that's my hammer and we'll cut to being for a sec cuz he's fighting the torch right now so yeah thing you're fighting the torch of McCall he's just yelling at you and now I'm the one who's laughing at him cuz he's hitting me with fire you said he's hitting me with bolts of fire yeah but as he sees you like initially start turning it aside he's just getting close to you I'm gonna roll um I'm gonna roll a roll um uh fart with honor to get my whole fight fight with honor what did I say fart with honor did I actually say fart with honor you know what you didn't do that on purpose I'm gonna turn around and fart with honor and because he's shooting fire me a little blue flame comes out fart with I think I got seven yay okay seven so you get one hold from that yeah okay are you spending it I guess not I mean like he's not here yet I still have a moment I don't want to see what billy's doing okay yeah so this is just you squaring up yeah like you're trading a couple blows with them getting ready to fart with honor yeah okay pretty good and he's just he's just yelling in your face like heretic heretic over and over foaming at the mouth and we cut to billy billy you've picked up your knife this is not fathom it's not fathom but I'm looking around and all these people are charging at tuck and I like brace myself but they run past me so I like cover up the axe like you see a bunch running I like it yeah so as they run past cover up the axe like oh nothing here to see yeah nothing here to see and then and then I'm like and then I grab the axe and I want to bring it to tuck okay uh I feel like it's defy danger strike sure really heavy I know and I even asked I'm like tlc are you guys in there come on help me what do they say nothing right now they don't say anything they're spirits but billy can talk to them can he can talk to fairies oh they're not fairies yet quite yet they're in there they're in the fairy oven but they're not quite done with what strength strength doesn't matter I still got 11 so you know what I've changed my mind because that role was so high yeah I think you're like tugging on the axe and you're you know kicking your feet trying to drag it backwards it's going really slow and you feel as you feel the axe like vibrate a little bit in your hands you guys can you hear me I'm taking you back to tuck I hope that makes you guys really happy he missed you a lot he didn't really want to say anything because he gets really embarrassed but I can hear him cry at night and I think that's why he didn't want to go to bed because he's so sad you guys are really heavy still cut back to that to a couple nights ago in the library that was very funny and billy you feel the same way I do I feel like I'm like oh my god I'm like oh my god I'm like oh my god I'm like oh my god I'm like oh my god I'm like oh my god I'm like oh my god You can just hear them.

That's what we know right now. Oh, you know what? Okay, tell me if this is stupid. So you hear like, what's up, little dude? And then behind on the other side of the axe, you see three little dudes, one made of copper, one made of crystal, and one made of stone start pushing the axe on the other side. I love this. I'm so happy to see you. And you see all three of them are pushing it and they're like, what up?

And you see all three of them at the same time lift up a hand and put out a thumb and a pinky and go, yeah, bro. Whoa. They hang loose. They hang loose. They do the haka and then they start pushing the axe and you're moving now. Heck yeah, heck yeah. Oh, God. That's great. Cut back to Tuck, I guess. You are weaponless. You threw your hammer instantaneously. Does he have enough clearance to go running at the hammer or is he being mobbed?

I mean, he's being mobbed, but you could probably just punch the shit out of people. Oh, you also have the waning knife. Yeah, I don't know what that does. So I'm just going to start punching the shit out of people. Okay. I'm going to say, I will say though that because they all have weapons, you're going to need to roll a defy danger to deal with the fact that they've got reach on you. Yeah, fair enough. So how are you doing it? I don't know. I guess I'm just barreling through them.

Constitution. Yeah. Yeah. 13. Fuck me. Yeah. And then now hack and slash. Yeah. 10. Oh my God. Roll your fucking damage. Plus train tuck for. Okay. Yeah. You take one and a half. Yeah. So one and a half, I guess that means I punch one dude and I like it knocks him out and then I kick another guy in the nuts. He's not not dead, but he wishes he was dead. Yes.

And you're like, you feel the heat on your back as the torch of McCall is whipping gouts of flame and through the crowd passing through one of the side streets. You see Fatim. Oh, enter the square. Oh, no, he's, he's maybe 60 feet away. You see him wearing his full armor, no helmet. You see his stupid little braid that he used to have is gone and one side of his face, the side that, that you took the eye out of is covered in a web of burn scars. Whoa, fuck. Holy shit.

You see a glint inside that eye. Like, what kind of glint? Fiery glint? It looks to you like a small piece of sunstone has been set into the side of his face. Jesus. He's cyborg. Oh, shit. Oh my God. He sees you and there is no change in the emotion on his face and he starts walking towards you and then picks up a gun. He picks it up to a run and then he's just barreling. Oh my God. Tuck does the same thing. Oh my God.

Give me defying your strength to get through this crowd and then we'll cut away because this is, that's fucking, that's a sick image. Holy shit. Yeah. Oh my God. Eight. Constitution? Plus strength. Strength to push through. Yeah. Eight? Yeah. What do we think the half failure is? I. Oh, it's that you're running away from Billy. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Yeah. Tuck. Cause I don't know that he has the ax. I haven't seen it. Billy's just running like, where the fuck is he going? I like that.

Billy's like, you know, that scene, you know, that scene in Wally where Wally's stuck in the, the like road of all the other robots and he's like, oh fuck. It's just Billy running through legs with this ax. Like, oh no. And he's like, oh, so close, so close. And then Tuck's like, sprints away from you. Okay. So yeah, to complete the image, it's like, Tuck, you, you just sweep your arms and shoulder through this crowd. Yeah.

And then it's just an open stretch between you and Fatim as you're pounding across the sand at each other. Yeah. Just two total fucking idiots. Oh my God. They're rocking hard plays. And then we cut back to Ving. Ving, what are you doing? Okay. I think I'm just gonna, like, he's just so pissed. I'm just gonna walk up and headbutt him. Yeah. So you're dealing your damage. So you're just rolling. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just walking up to him and he's like, wow, you're so frustrated.

And I just get close enough and I, dome him with my dome. Four. Four. Cool. What animal style? He says, Ving Chi. Face first, motherfucker. I got an open face, face sandwich. No, he just says, Ving Chi. You're saying all this stuff and in the, in his head, the torch slash the demon. I just came up with that with a, off the top of my dome. Dong. And then he headbutts him. Oh man, I like the image that he's like, still fighting.

Like, like gouts of flame at you and you just push through them with your hands and grab both of his hands. Yeah. And then slam him in the head. Yeah. And he reels back. Like you get him real good. Bloody nose. Oh yeah. Okay. Okay. But it's, so it's like a fucking Thanos thing. Like you headbutt him and you, it's like headbutting a fucking brick wall and he's looking at you in the eyes and you see a little trickle of blood start pouring out of his nose. And we cut back to Billy.

Billy, you're, your tuck is running away from you. I'm just like, oh no. Tuck. You hear Terry, Larry, Chad be like, where is he going? Oh no. Turn around. Turn around you guys. Oh my God. Okay. Really push it. All right. Heave. Heave. Ho. Heave. Ho. Terry, Larry, Chad, I don't know if we're going to make it in time. These are so fast. He's so much faster than us.

And so I decided to switch a room and see if, if I can get TLC in Tuck's hand and grab the, like the bracer with the ward stone on his wrist instead. Awesome. Fucking sick. So cool. And then now Billy will have that shield too. Oh yeah. It'll be huge for me. Two D6 plus charisma. Oh, so good. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Yeah. Okay, great. So here's something to consider.

So the first thing that we're going to do is that his bracer is made out of ward stone or not made out of, but has an inlay of ward stone. So you reach out and you're like, ah, I'm going to swap it. I'm not magic. Oh wait. Yes, I am. It is kind of magic. It sort of has the same effect, but so you reach out like you, you know, you can feel the little beam of energy or whatever beam of magic, you know, wind like the tunnel. Yeah. Oh, cool.

And then it connects and you feel the switch happen and Larry, Terry, and Chad go like, whoop, they're gone. Yeah. And in your hand is the waning knife that Tuck stole from you in Lillian's tomb. You just stole it back, Billy. He wears it inside the bracer. Oh, cool. Oh, what? That Tuck stole from you all those months ago. Hello again. Don't kiss the poison blade. We cut to Tuck.

And Tuck, you're running, like your arms are pumping and your right hand or what brace, what arm do you wear the bracer on? Uh, left. So your left fist like pumps in front of your face, swings back, pumps in front of your face, swings back. Terry, Larry, and Chad are in your hands. And Fatim, as you run faster, he gets his speed. But as Fatim is running towards you and he sees a fucking axe appear in your hands, you see his, you see in his face like, oh, fuck. I keep running.

It's just, as I'm running him to Terry, Larry, Chad, I'm like, you're back. I missed you so much. Uh, do they say anything? Not to you. What? I can talk to them. Oh, only during for the blood God. Yeah. Okay. Uh, but you feel, you feel a familiar vibration in your hand. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm running and as I'm advancing, like we're getting pretty close. Tuck takes the axe and he slices through a bit of rock. That's like, he's like running past and flicks it up in the air.

And like baseball bats it into Fadum's head. Oh, yeah. Cool. 2d6 plus dexterity. Seven. What's my decks? It's zero. So seven. Okay. So yeah. Describe what it looks like to knock a Fadum down. Yeah. So the piece of rock is like kind of like fist size and it kind of like nails him in the eye that was replaced in the sunstone. I kind of just like legs go out from under him. Yeah. His head, stays in the same place.

He's horizontal for a little bit and then just like hits the ground that you could feel a tremor because he's so fucking big and then he slides for a bit to Tuck's feet. And then I go, who's the chunky monkey now? You chunky monkey now. You really wrapped that up at the end. Uh, and oh my God. Yeah. And Fadum looks up at you with just absolute hate in his eyes. I. I. Absolute hate in his eyes. Does the sunstone thing flare or anything? Well, now it catches the rising light and it's brightening.

Yeah. And he smiles. There's a little bit of blood on his teeth and he points up behind you. I turn around. And arcing, through the air from the edge of town are three balls of fire. Oh. And that's where we're gonna end it for this week. I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara. Thanks for listening, everybody. Joining me is always playing Ving the half-elf druid, Paul Oppers. Goodbye, everyone. Playing Tacoma Dome the barbarian, Abdul Aziz. So long.

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