Episode 12 – Dragon Anatomy 101

Do you like Spout Lore and want spout more? Go to patreon.com slash Spout Lore, where you can get access to a bonus game called spout more Mall Brats. You know what? I don't like the theme song anymore. What? Why not? I don't want to listen to it anymore. I'm changing the theme song. What? What is it now? It's going to be. Oh my God. I'm into it. I'm with the sickness. You can't do this to me now. I'm all thrown off. You got to finish the song. Okay. I'll start again for the week. Oh man.

If he plays. Yeah. That's me too fast. There's no way I could queue it up in time. Right? Like there's no possible way. In human time. That I could do it. So I'm just going to play. Abdul wasn't looking for a podcast. I was looking. I'm not even doing it. He's poking a bunch of stuff on his iPad. I'm not pooping anything. So maybe. Boops. He's beeping and booping. I'll tell. Fuck you guys. Okay. So here's. What are you doing? I'm sorry. Okay. Here it is. Here's the thing. This is so worth it.

No. Okay. So here's what just happened is I tried to play sabotage by the beast. Yes. Uh huh. Uh huh. But. I knew it. I knew it. But. Uh. It was definitely playing on Aaron's iPhone. And I'm pretty sure she was trying to get Khalil down for a nap. Oh no. She was definitely playing like a nice song to get him to go to sleep. And then you played your joke annoying loud. And then probably what turned on was. Wow. Oh my God. Followed by Khalil. Wow. Oh. Oh. And now the themes are great. Shut up.

So here I say This is the adventure that is with the sir Tuck is the brute, he knows not his home He loves to sing and fight Fingers half-elf, he shifts his shape And wields a spear with great might Billy's a thief, his tiny size Does mask the largest heart Best and brightest they may not be But their friendship outweighs their smarts So gather round, friends And listen close For the tale's about to start Hello, everybody, and welcome to Spout Lore. I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara.

And joining me as always, playing Tacoma Dome, the barbarian, Abdul Aziz. Hello, everybody. Playing Ving, the half-elf druid, Paul Oppers. Hi, how's it going? And playing Fat Billy, the halfling thief, Jessica Tai. Hi, everyone. When last we left our heroes, they returned. To the Margani Library, following an absolutely barn-burning fight with Medjay and threat untold, Roth, who was overcome by the teamwork of our three heroes and a number of differing poisons and drugs. Oh, yeah.

The party incapacitated Roth and returned to the Margani Library to return the book that Billy stole from the library. Infuriating master librarian, Farah Margani. And also to deliver their new prisoner, Roth, who may or may not become a problem. Mm-hmm. Following that, Tuck and Ving engaged in some sort of unasked-for romantic rivalry. Unasked-for, but appreciated. By? The audience.

And then we did a little bit of a study break, and everybody kind of took to the library, to take advantage of one of the benefits of having access to this repository of information, which is if you spend a whole day studying, you get a 10-plus on a Spout Lore. Mm-hmm. And what we learned during those spelt lores was, Jessica? We opened the artist joke puzzle, and inside was a seed for the Tree of Knowledge. Mm-hmm.

And what was written on the seed were basically kind of growing instructions for it. So cool. Mm-hmm. And it started, it started germinating a little bit. Yeah. So Billy is in possession of an extremely rare and extremely important seed for a tree that contains the collected knowledge of druids. Mm-hmm. What was the result of Ving's studying? I don't remember. You also took a sample of Roth's tattoos. Oh, Roth.

Yes, of Roth's tattoos, and we found out with LightSight, put it under the microscopic system they have, and found out that it was a tree. And it was a tree. And it was a tree. And it was a tree. And it was a tree. And it was a tree. And it was a tree. And it was a tree. And it was a tree. And it was animal blood, but the mixture of all the blood from the animals that were in the ritual. Yeah, that they stabbed. Yeah, it's the shapeshifter blood. Shapeshifter blood mixed with ghost root. Mm-hmm.

And some sort of other ritual. Yeah. And what we learned from that is that the Medi in their attempt to chain the elements to them kind of put themselves in this very dangerous halfway state between the spirit world and here, which Ving believes, eventually will kill them and knows that Roth is probably in extreme pain all the time because his arms are under, his arms especially are under tremendous strain. All the different forms are pulling in every different direction. Yeah. Exactly.

And Tuck. Tuck went and talked to Farah about the white coin and all the demon possessions that were happening. What did she say to me? She said that she thinks the coins may or may not, this is all a working theory, they may be used by some force to attract people that are candidates, good candidates for demonic possession. Oh, okay. She doesn't know if you found it randomly, if perhaps you are a candidate for demonic possession. Uh-huh.

And the idea is perhaps the coins themselves contain a fragment of an icon. Oh, yeah. Or a fragment of the outer dark, were we saying? Something like that. Yeah. Yeah. And after this, study sesh with Farah, Tuck was walking through the library and was stopped by a gruff voice that turned out to belong to Fatim, erstwhile bully and former member of the Lightguard who asked if he and Tuck could talk. Okay.

So as soon as I hear Fatim's voice, I knee jerk, grab a table from next to me and throw it at him. And then I start running at him. Oh my God. Okay. Hack and slash, I guess. Yeah. Shit. Yeah. Would you roll? Fuck. Five. Five. Failure. So mark a point of experience. Hell yeah, I'm gonna get to level seven so soon. So you're in a corridor. So you grab a tiny little side table that was in this corridor and throw it at Fatim and you start charging at him.

And you see as the table sails through the air towards him, he just punches it and shatters it. And by the time you get to him, he's ready and he does that sort of Hercules, style grab where he grabs both your fists and just stops you dead in the hallway. Yeah. And it's like, no, I just want to talk to you. You've said that so many times. So I go to knee him in the balls. All right. We're doing a fight scene now. Two to six plus strength again. Seven. Seven on this one. Okay. Yeah.

So you deal your damage, I guess. Okay. With D10. Oh my gosh. Is that six or nine? That's a nine. Nine. Yes. Yeah. Oh yeah. Shit. Oh my God. Oh my God. So you knee him. There's a little seven. You knee him and he goes, and he shoulder checks you and tries to push you away. Roll a D10. One. So yeah, he just shoulder checks you and you don't feel it because he is reeling from the fact that you hit him in the ball. Yeah. I've got victim rage. He's just like, stop. I just want to talk to you.

This isn't a trick. I can't trick anybody. You just shoot me in the nards. And then, so I get on top of him and I hold him down and I'm just like, okay, tell me what you want to say. Can we, I don't, it's going to take a while. Go ahead. Right here. Yeah. Do it with me holding you down. Oh my God. Okay. Oh God. I wanted to say that I'm sorry. It's not. I'm just, I'm sorry. There's more to it. Tuck. Let's go. Can we go like sit somewhere? Sure. And he gets up and he's like holding his balls.

It's like, my God, we can go somewhere that has ice. Okay. I guess the cafeteria. He's the answer for everything. For you three. It's always like, yeah, it's pretty good. So you're sitting at a bench at the end of a long table in the cafeteria. There are people having various meals and Fatima is sitting there with a huge bag of ice just all over because both of you guys are massive. So this bag of ice is like a pillow. He's just like, oh my God, did you really have to go right for my nards?

I mean, it was a knee jerk reaction. Literally. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. This is not easy. I don't know how to talk about it. I just like, I admit that I have not been a good person, but you don't know what it's like having to work for years and years at the right hand of someone who is like manipulating your emotions. And now that I, now that that's gone. I'm really trying to figure out like who I am and who that was. You know what I mean? It's been pretty bad for the last couple of years.

Like for you or in McCall? Just in general, I guess. Kind of everything. It was you. We thought you died. What? You just, when you left, nobody knew what happened to you. Well, nobody cared. Nobody cared about any of us. That was the point. And when you left, we thought that you died. I, and you know what?

I, there was a, there was a long time there where I was, you know, I thought maybe that I was responsible and you know, every once in a while you I'd see in a freight and I think, is that tuck? And then I saw you in crystal Bay and. Okay. I just got so mad cause I was like, he just left. You just left. We all stayed here. You got away. I'm not good at explaining this. I sang the tolling for you. Oh, whoa. Why did you think you did it? What? Why did you think you did it?

Well, I was like, I was really, really scared. I was like, I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. Really shitty to you. And I thought maybe that, you know, the way that I treated you caused you to kind of, you know, I don't know. Maybe you slipped up one night and you got stuck on, on a stone road at night. I don't know what happened to you, but I thought that, you know, maybe I had something to do with it. What happened to everyone else? What do you, what usually happens?

Some of us made it. Some of us didn't. I joined up the light guard the second I could. And spent, you know, whatever the last 10, 12 years, just kind of doing this. But, uh, not everybody was as lucky as me. Not everybody was as big and as strong as me and is valuable to an organization like that. Some people just, he kind of makes a gesture. That's just like nothing. Um, I'm sorry. I didn't tell you I was leaving.

And he like, he, he doesn't, it's like, he kind of like, he gets angry for a second, not angry, but he's like confused. What are you? I'm not saying that I, I'm not saying I want you to apologize to me. I know, but I, I, I, I, I didn't know it mattered. It does. It doesn't, it didn't matter. That's not what I, I'm sorry. I didn't know it mattered. It didn't matter. I don't whatever. Okay. All right, cool. So are we, what are we good? What do we do? I don't know.

I get, well, I mean, I guess we just kind of like live and then try to beat each other up less. Uh, I guess that's how casual acquaintances slash old friends, uh, uh, friends behave. All right, that's fine. What are you going to do next? I don't know. Like, what are you, are you going to stick around in the library? Are you going to, nah, nah, probably not. This isn't really my scene. Too many books. I know it's so quiet. They just want to read and drink tea all the time. Fuck. It sucks.

It does. People yell at you for not being quiet. Yeah. Doesn't make sense. Some of us, we can't be quiet. Some of us have huge chest cavities. Some people are just loud. We're screaming at each other. And the cat that turns around. This is a cafeteria. Please. This isn't the library. Shut up. I'm trying to have tea and read. This is the loud zone. You want to come over here and tell me to be quiet? Yeah. You come over here. Tell us to be quiet.

Closes the book, walks in with his tea, quietly sipping. God, I hate this place. Fuck. It sucks. So I'm probably going to go eventually. I don't know when, but, I don't know. Maybe I leave McCall entirely. I mean, there's a lot of world out there. That's what I keep hearing. And people love it when I, people used to love how big I was. Fucking loved it when I would break shit for them. So there's always work. There's always break shit kind of work out there. Well, that's good to know, but yeah.

All right. Well, I'm going to go. And he like pushes himself up off the table. So we're cool, right? Yeah. Yeah. So this is whatever. Is this fine? We're fine. Yeah, we're fine. Fine. Wow. Damn. You just got to apologize to people. Holy shit. Yeah, it's really easy. Fuck. All right. Well, I'm going to go apologize to some other people now. Oh, cool. And he starts, he sees the guy that's leaving with his book and his team. He's like, Hey man, wait up. Runs away faster. The guy starts sprinting.

It charges after him. It's just this, this like screaming mad dash through the library. He's like, come back here. He like knocks over a whole bookcase. He's like, come back. So what are Ving and Billy up to? Oh yeah. Ving's been keeping pretty, uh, hefty. What do you call it? Correspondence. Oh, Shia. Yeah. He's been sending, uh, like martial arts, like, uh, uh, like some of the forums and stuff like that. Like she's been cool. They're keeping up with her training. Over distance. Cool. Yeah.

And she's been sending you a coded, like they just seem like letters, but you've, you guys have determined a way to like read between the lines and it's her explaining, uh, kind of how things are going in the criminal underworld of McCall. So she has explained that. Yeah. She's got cliffside pretty well locked down.

The jackals have recruited to the extent that there aren't really any gangs that are comfortable pushing into that area, but she is dealing, uh, with a pretty powerful organized crime family, like traditional, like it's got a patriarch. Yeah, exactly. A godfather style, uh, criminal enterprise in stepside that is proving, uh, pretty difficult. So she is, uh, starting to plan moves into stepside, but this, uh, it's a camel or not a camel. Sorry. It's a centaur. It's a regular camel.

It's a regular camel with an eye patch. Uh, no, it's a centaur. Uh, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's like their front and it's an organized crime syndicate. Whoa. Yeah. Center's a great mob bus too. It's a real Tommy Supreme. Eat more kind of guy. Tommy Supremo. He also owns a pizza joint. You know what? His name's Tommy Supremo, the leader of the centaur family. Cause it's like a mob thing, right? They don't have aliases. They just use their names.

Well, that's, that could be an alias. Tommy Supremo. Yeah. Tommy Supremo. Tommy Supremo. A creator of the Supremo pizza. I saw a bunch of ducks one time. It really fucked me up. I'm seeing a therapist about it right now. A bunch of ducks killed my family. I had to go see a therapist. Uh, yeah. So it's, uh, Tommy Supremo, head of this centaur, uh, organized crime family who does have a chain of pizza places. Uh, it's not a trading company. It's a pizza place. Yeah.

And all of their, uh, stuff is run out of there. They smuggle a lot of things in and out of the city. Yes. He has contact. He has flat things, flat things in pizza boxes. That's how they do it. They smuggle things in. Cause he has a lot of contacts in the merchant trade and they transport them through the city via pizza delivery. Oh, so cool. But also very funny for them to have to deal with like problems where, or stuff that they're trying to deliver. That's larger than two inches in height.

Sometimes they'll stack boxes and cut holes. I know. Like more than one book. I don't know. That's the move. Uh, yeah. So, so that's kind of how things are going with her. She hasn't even just like thought about moving into the lower ward and you get the idea. She is very concerned about even trying to move into the lower ward where the rich people are. Yeah. Why?

Cause as far as she can tell, there are criminals in the upper reaches of society and they are, they have so much more in terms of resources and they are much more cutthroat. Oh, I just thought of one of those cutthroats. What's that? The barber from that salon. Oh, the perfumer's guild guy. The, the one that Ving met. Yeah. Actually, uh, Oh, that's a perfect cover for somebody who's going to cut your throat. Totally. Going for a shave. Hell yeah. Yeah.

He pretends to be this like kind of doting like servant that's like, allow me to perfume you and style your hair. But he's a, yeah. Hardcore criminal boss. Was Sweeney Todd. Yeah, totally. Okay, cool. I'll, yeah, that's sweet. Um, yeah. So that's kind of how things are going with Shia. And you've been sending her like mostly martial, art stuff or you, have you been talking to her about like personal things?

I think mostly the martial art things and she's been distancing herself from the rich family. Yeah. She's pretty much like just left the Siddell place, but she mentions that cash is still staying there. He's taken over her lot. What cash is still living with the Siddells. What a permissive family that is. I like the idea that his parents also moved in. So he's living with his family. He's living with his parents again, but in somebody else's parents. Yeah.

He's trying to pretend that he's like this rich, like a influential person on this balcony, like stunning himself, drinking cocktails. And his mom's like cash come inside, pick up your clothes, honey. Uh, sweet. And what's Billy been doing? Um, probably playing with that seed. Oh yeah. Yeah. Anything that he's learned from the seed in particular? Um, definitely likes wet stuff. So, um, so what kind of wet stuff is Billy been giving the seed? Just like water. Yeah.

I just, he's been like putting it in cups and stuff. Yeah. Like he's, he's grabbed a lot of cups from the cafeteria. It's like signs. There's cups of water, cups of water. And he just like kind of just jiggles it around. Nice. Like, yeah. Grow. Yeah. Do anything. Come on. Logan. Maybe Billy, he's done playing with the seed in the water cup. So he takes the seed and puts it in his pocket, goes and looks for Ving. Hey buddy, do you get that seed still? Yup. Give me the moist. Oh yeah. Attaboy.

Squelch. Do you want to look at it? I sure do. Oh, that's really grown much as it. No, I don't think it likes it here. Ving whispers at the seat. You're doing great buddy. And tuck arrives at this scene. Oh, it's we're talking to seeds again. Why are you always so mad about it? I'm not mad. I'm fully supportive of this. Hey, say something to the seed pal. Yeah. You look you. Whoa, buddy. Whisper. Whoa. Sorry. You know, I have a hard time with whoa, buddy. You've been working out recently.

Looking strong. You're like, I'm not fucking done. This is fucking Christ, dude. I'm engaging with this weird thing that you guys are doing. Please do. Oh yeah. You've been doing squats recently. I could tell your glutes are popping right out of that pot. No, I'm not done. Oh, what's that? Oh, look, let me turn you around. Ooh, look at those tries. So defined. No, dude, what the fuck? Looks like a fucking arrowhead on your back. Oh, it's so fucking defined.

Just pointing right at those juicy gloobies. That's what I call glutes when they're extra. You hear what are you guys doing? Oh, hi, Pearl. Hi, we're just talking to the seed. Oh, you're talking to the seed again. Say something to the fucking seed. Hey, little guy, I'm really proud of you. I know it's been tough because you're inside that artichoke for so long, but I think that you can do it. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie.

I know reclaiming power that you thought lost to you is a really difficult proposition, but I think that. Dude, don't put your own stuff on the seat. I'm just really proud that you've been trying so hard. Your breath fucking reeks. Shut up. Where are you getting hamburger helper? Nobody's making it anymore. I'm making it myself. Why aren't you telling me this? I've, I've been a hamburger helper so long.

I've been like this the last time, the last time I told you about my, my under the bed hamburger helper. You hamburger helper. I'm like, you think you're going to make a hamburger? Help yourself to way too much of it. You're being a hamburger keeper. You think I can stop myself? What goes? Hamburger helper? You can't even stop yourself. It's so good. It's so good. So salty. I had a fucked up conversation with better. He said, sorry for being me. Oh my God. I'm so glad you had the breakthrough.

Brill hugs you and he said, you're going to have to take a break. You're going to have to take a break. You're going to have to take a break. You're going to have to take a break. Sobbing into your chest. And then as Tug hugs Perel, he like dips his hand into one of his housecoat pockets and pulls a bunch of hamburger helper out and hands it to Billy. Billy takes it and like nods. Thank you. And eats it like nothing happened. Except for the smear of cheese and meat sauce on your face. Yeah.

Perel wipes his tears. Wow, guys. I really needed that. Thank you. No problem. You know, thinking about it, we should probably work on getting yours and or Ving's powers back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm feeling strong. I'm feeling healthy. I feel like I've recovered enough. We could, when we go back to the city and track this magi fucker down and give him the old one-two. Well, yeah. Ving, do you even want your shape-shifting abilities back? I mean, I haven't been missing it.

And since I know how it was taken, I don't know if it's mine to get back. Huh. Well, maybe the knife could have something to do with getting Perel's powers back. Oh, yeah. I don't know if it works the same with spirits and druids and magic. But it might. It could. Yeah, and there is definitely power imbued in the knife. Maybe. That's what Ark said, at least. Especially when mixed with the ghost root. And if you're powering… Powers are about, like, shifting your form.

And my magical focus was about… It might not be able to get you your magic back, but it could get you powers similar to your magic. Right. Because you were, like, a transfiguration dude or whatever. Transmutation, but yes. And Tuck just picks up one of Perel's books and throws it in a garbage bin. Out of spite. Don't fucking correct me. Don't misrepresent my work. So, wait. Yeah. Holy… Shit. Fuck. And he starts, like, he's swearing too much. He's like, Jesus fucking shit. Fuck.

I could just, if I just had the knife, I could just give myself powers. Well, hold on. We don't know this. Well, I mean, it's a good working theory, right, Billy? Maybe. I mean, but what kind of ritual did you go through when you became a wizard? Oh, yeah. I… That's a hard question to answer. I guess you don't have to. No, I feel… I guess it's… We've known each other for a long time now, and you all don't really know much about my past, do you? Don't know, don't care. Oh. Okay, well…

Wait, wait, wait. What? I care, and I, like, get some throw pillows, and I make a nice couch. I'm like, sit down with me, you guys. I sit down. I sit down with Billy. And I put Billy on my lap, and I put a pillow behind, between my ripped hard abs. Yeah, definitely. And Billy's back, because he complains about how lumpy it is. Sometimes. Thank you. You know that your muscles make me sore sometimes. Because of how hard they are. Thing's too bony, and he's too muscly.

I can't ride on anybody's shoulders. God! I, um… Yeah, I became a wizard, um… Suddenly, is how I would describe it. One day I wasn't, and then one day I was. And, um… Everything was different from then on out, and, uh, my old life was lost to me. It took me a while to get my feet under me, but then I had to make do with this new life. And it was, it's good. It's a good, it was a good life. I guess. What's the last thing you remember about your old life? Oh, I remember all of it.

Did I ever tell you guys that I grew up in, uh, in the Riverways Principality? No. No? Yeah. You stayed close to home. I did, yeah. That's where I built my tower. Um, afterwards. Uh, but… I… Alright, you know, I'll just say it. I, uh, I had a wife, I had kids. And, uh, sometime, I think I was in my early to mid-forties, um, was when it happened. Uh, I was a ferryman. That was kind of my job, as I was away from home a lot. I was working a ferry up and down the rivers.

I was away from home, uh, one day, and I got my powers, and, uh, I, uh, wasn't able to control them, and, uh, a town paid the price for that. Oh my god. And then I couldn't go home. So, you know, and then, that was that. Well, that's really vague. So, like, what happened to the town? Um, Flash Frozen? Whoa. Yeah. And do you remember how you got your powers? Like, did you, like, touch some thing, or eat something? Do you, like… What? At least I'm trying to figure it out. Yeah, no, Billy.

Uh, Thaumatological Theory states that there are a number of ways that people can be wizards. Theory the first. Theory the first is you're born a wizard. Theory the second is, um, you just become one by random happenstance, almost, and that's what happened to me. Some cosmic calculation, that I am not privy to, took place, and I was the solution. What, uh, like, what did it feel like? Oh, it hurt so much. Physically? Physically, yes. You've seen me work magic in the past.

Um, my physiology isn't strictly human. Yeah. Yeah, and it started human. So, the process of becoming a wizard, uh, becoming a person capable of manipulating Thaumic energy is excruciatingly painful. And the older, you are, the more it hurts, because the more use your body is to being the body that it is. So, it's just random. That's my understanding. Aquaria was, um, for example, she was, uh, just created, she just, uh, she just began her life as a wizard the way that she was.

That's how she always was. What? No. What? No. No. I know you've all got questions, but I have time to answer them all. We're all raising our hands. Yeah. You can go first. Billy, your hand's raised, though. You can't raise your hand. Bing and Tuck are fighting now. Okay, I'll go first. Yeah, Billy? Okay, so, what about Morris Wadge? How did he become a wizard? Morris was born, um, born a wizard. Born of human parents. And he was a wizard to begin with.

So, he had a longer period of time to harness his abilities. Is that why he was such a better wizard than you? Well, um, hold the fuck on. Yeah, that fanny pack was wide off the chain. And it felt like it was just something that he did in his spare time. Oh my god. It was so effortless. And the drawer was so comfortable. That was not, it was not effortless. It took for fucking ever. Whereas, like, your whole thing was frogs. My whole thing was creating an entire sentient species.

And then Bullywugs was the result of that. Yeah. How many sentient species have you made, Tuck? Shut the fuck up. And then he lifts the axe. You did. Dude, this thing did that. He's got you there, pal. But I gave them sentience with my love. Oh my god. Spirit stuff is cheating. It's not the same thing. Excuse me? Billy makes sentient species all the time. Whenever he plays with little grass figurines. Yeah, it's honestly pretty easy. Oh my god. I shit out a sentient being this morning.

For coffee. Ugh. Okay. I have another question. Uh-huh. Put my hand up. Yeah. Yeah. When you say that it was a cosmological, cosmological, cosmic event, did it come from the sky? Did something come down? That is a question that many a wizard has asked over the generations. And it's kind of just like, what's a good way to… Actually, I can see Billy picking up some dice. He wants to Spout Lore. Yeah, 2d6 plus intelligence, Billy. Oh, shit. Seven. Seven. Do I have any intelligence? No. Seven.

All right. It's the same. Yeah, it'll be nine no matter what. Fuck. Yeah. Can two people add? Shit. No, we can't. No. Can I add one… Nope. …point for being… Can you take a… So smart. Yeah. Bet you wish you fucking moved your stats around now when we leveled up. I do. I do. You promised everybody that we would never get one intelligence. I know. So once I… When I asked…

Paul, if he wanted to move any stats around for Vang, I was staring at the zero underneath his intelligence, and I was like, Willing it to be one. Please, please, please, please. You were like, No, I'm good. I was like, Fuck. He's a sage with no intelligence. I know. It's the best. So interesting, but not useful. He's trying to think of an analogy, and he's like, Okay, what's the best way to describe it?

You know how sometimes, like, on a side, a sidewalk, a paving stone, like a flower will grow from the crack. Yeah. So for that to happen, a seed had to end up somehow in the soil of the crack. Water had to somehow water it while the sun hit it in just the right way for that flower to grow. Yeah. And that's all kind of random, right? No, it follows the theory of nature. Okay. Not a great analogy. You know how, like, when I make my under the bed hamburger, helper, Yeah. It needs. Yes, I am.

There are ingredients. There's the hamburger. There is the helper, but it needs to be, like, just the perfect amount of musty in the room to kind of get that moisture attention. And it needs to be like the right amount of time, which is different every time you have to constantly check on it. And then eventually it is under the bed hamburger helper. You know that how it's kind of random how that happens. Well, yes, because you don't have a lot of cooking skill. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Okay.

You're absolutely right. And he's like not being mean at all. He's just he's like, yes. And Perel doesn't take that personally. He's like, correct. Exactly what I'm getting at. Mm hmm. That's why it's such a special thing. The under the bed hamburger helper, because it doesn't work out most of the time. And when it does, it's a gift from the universe. Well, I am the hamburger of the helper. Yes. Yes. There you go. Do you understand? Do you understand?

There was no choice made to make the hamburger helper under the bed, but I became the hamburger with the help of the helper. So what's the helper then? Tuck says, engaging in the analogy. And what's the must under the bed? Yeah. These are all great questions. There are theories abounding, but nobody knows. And why do why is there sometimes just tissues in the hamburger helper? Oh, that's a really crusty kind of tissue. Sometimes I find. Oh, my God. Who can we talk to about this? Farrah.

Farrah knows more. Farrah knows everything. All of the people that you could talk to about this subject are dead. That can't be true. We're in a library of internal knowledge. Yeah. And Aquaria is still alive. Wait, is Morris dead? I actually don't remember if you guys even ever talked to Perel about Aquaria being alive. No. Yeah. We always had the wizard notebook. Oh, right. So he knows that we're aware of Aquaria. Aware of Aquaria.

And he would have just assumed that it was because of the notebook that we could see. I see. Yeah. You guys never actually mentioned that you met her. We've never talked to him about meeting her in the tower. Oh. We haven't? Really? And maybe it happened off screen, but maybe it didn't. Yeah. Right. What the fuck do you mean Aquaria is alive? We met her. She's breathing. She was in her chamber. She survived? Yeah, kind of. In a way. Yeah. What? Do you tell me everything?

Well, there was a dumb frog room full of stupid puzzles. That's not… Okay. All right. So you were there for sure then. Yeah. Super easy thing to get through. So easy. Oh, man. But then there was Morris's wild room. That was inside the maze. That was fucking… There was almost literally no way out of it. Did you meet that stupid fucking accordion? Oh, God. Yeah. The golem. That was creepy. Oh, my God. Embarrassing. So scary. And then we found some fun books. Yeah.

We found some books in Aquaria's room, including some of your notebooks. Yeah. We found your notebook. That's what… I think Farrah has it now. Why did none of you ever tell me this? I don't know. I forgot. You forgot to mention that one of my best friends in the world survived when I thought that she was dead. We thought you were the one that put her there. Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Where? Where? Where? In the Sea of Graves? In the Sea of Graves. I have to go. In the Moss Tower.

I have to go there. Why? Because she is… And he's pointing at the three of you. You know? Wait. Can we give him… I want to give him the moss that we got from Aquaria's Tower. Oh, the moss. The moss. I have the moss. Can we give him the moss? He can talk with the moss and commute with the moss. I can see what… Yeah. So you have… Has he seen this moss before? I don't think so, because it's… It's like in… It's in a little crystal window. In his chest. In his chest. In his chest.

He may have just never really like… I mean, I have moss in my arms. He doesn't know that it's Aquarius. Okay. Yeah. She… She… She gave me this. And his little chest cave opens up. A piece of crystal kind of decrystallizes. You know, it goes back all crystal-y. Mm-hmm. And he pulls out the little chunk of blue moss and says, Here, this is a piece of Aquaria. And he lets you put it in his hand. And he very shakily… His hands are like vibrating.

And he's like, And he is just like holding it in his hand. And you can see it like spread out around his finger, kind of in a ring shape. Oh. And he stares out into the middle distance for a second. And he goes, Aquaria. And he just sinks down onto the floor. Oh. And you can see tears in his eyes. Oh. Uh-oh. Oh, no. I put my blue blanket over him. And he is just crying. But he… He's smiling. Oh. You can hear him talking. Oh. Yeah. He's communicating with her right now.

So the moss is connecting him with her? Mm-hmm. Whoa. Oh, my God. Maybe he's breathing deep like she was. Yeah. Yeah. You can hear the like… And he's just crying. He's gonna be like this for a while. Yeah. Can we hear what… Some of the stuff he says? I think this has been such a huge emotional shock for him just in a short amount of time. And he's right now, he's just sobbing. Aw. Maybe we should go… Yeah. And give him privacy. Mm-hmm. And then check back in with him later. Yeah.

That makes sense. Okay. So you leave Perel alone to his reunion. You can hear the quiet sobs like through the door to his quarters. And then like every once in a while, a soft laughter. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Reminiscing. All right. So should we… Like Perel doesn't seem to know much about like… The wizard stuff. But Farrah might. Because she was… Yeah. Remember last season, Tuxes? Back in the spring, Farrah was…

When she gave that talk about magic, she said that she was like the foremost scholar on wizard stuff in the world. Did she say that? Yeah. Fuck. That's good to know. It's a great idea. Mm-hmm. And we gave her Perel's journal. So she's probably like read it a few times. Yeah. She's probably been studying. Yeah. Yeah, probably. Probably should get that back for Perel. Plus, she might have an idea about the knife that was used on Roth. Mm-hmm. And me. It's a good idea. Yeah.

Might be a little bit outside her wheelhouse, but definitely worth asking. If studies of like wizard history and thaumaturgy are her like focuses, she still has like a gajillion minors, right? Like she's… Yeah. A master librarian. Yeah. So you find Farrah… What time of day is it? It's the morning. It's the morning. It's the morning. It's the morning. It's the morning. It's the morning. It's the morning. It's the morning. It's the morning. It's the morning.

She's actually giving a talk right now. Oh, yes. Cool. Shit. I shouldn't have said that. Yes. I was just like, what's a thing that she hasn't been doing for a while? But yeah, she's giving a talk in one of the primary auditoriums. Oh, and it's that thing that you see in movies sometimes where it's like someone like walks in and sits at the back of the room. Yeah. Or it's like you hear the door creak open. Yeah. And she's mid-sentence and she's got… There's rows of seating carved out.

That looks like this was, you know, maybe a sort of quarry situation when this was still a mine system. I like that. Yeah. So they're carved out in like a tiered shape and she's at the bottom facing the students, but she has one of those sunstone projectors and it's projecting images onto the wall. Whoa. And she's talking about… What's she talking about? Within the realm of, let's say, thaumaturgy. Is it basically a chance for us to cheat a spell or… Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Magic is bestowed upon wizards. Yeah. I know. How the cosmos… Yeah. Aligns. Aligns in such a way to create… It mixes with the environment. Shut up. Okay. How do you get wizards their magic back? Getting their magic… Wizards getting their magic back and how to do it right now. Yeah. For dummies. For dummies. You're going to need the Thumb Dumper. Okay. Okay.

I don't want to be the guy that like pulls the rug out from under you after I just said a thing. It might be too convenient if she's giving a talk.

Talk on thaumaturgy so what's an interesting subject that she could be giving a talk on maybe giants like giant history yeah the history of the giant empires that would be cool or dragons maybe just because of all this new stuff that they found out oh it might be a talk on like dragon biology now that they've had a chance to study black spire for a while oh yeah shit yeah like they're presenting new information what's touching touching you as far ah um the dragon thing I think probably makes the most sex sense uh yeah I said sex what do you want well now I want sex I know why do you think I said it we're all horny paul we've been stuck in this fucking house for hours we're all for one hour for one hours uh yeah so dragon biology she's giving a talk on dragon biology um and the mutable nature of dragons based on their uh mineral intake and environments yeah so she's actually projecting onto the wall a very detailed surprisingly detailed biology diagram of black spire oh and you can see him laid out um you know it's like a side view it's like a top down and then it's like him with his legs uh spread out what the fuck they weren't texas everybody stops and turns like everybody stops and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns and turns You hear that sound of like two dozen bodies shifting at once.

Sorry, fuck. Tuck's face goes so red. And Farah just, she's wearing little glasses and she just adjusts them a little bit and looks at you. And Tuck shrinks down in his chair a little bit and points at Ving. And he says, please continue. Thank you. And she continues talking. And she's saying, we discovered this specimen that had hatched in another location but found itself in a giant tomb for, we believe, upwards of a hundred years.

And in that time, it fed extensively and exclusively on the bones of the giants interred within. Over time, that mineral intake and the lack of size in its environment led to it developing a smaller but stockier physiological state. Pretty. And I just, it's kind of fucked up for her to like show those nudie pics of Black Spire and then call him fat in front of everybody. Well, you're saying it like it's a bad thing. No, Billy, no. Obviously, I don't mean it like a bad thing.

But I mean, I've never announced that you are fat in front of a group of 200 people. I just don't think that he would want to be splayed out and displayed. Yeah, you can see his balls-os. Look at him, he looks upset in those photos. You hear that? You hear, shh. You shush, shh. You shush. And there's like a 17-year-old librarian in front of you with a notebook going, shh. And I go, tell me your name. No, tell me. Shut up. And I put my foot up on the back of his chair.

I'm like, tell me your name. Why? I just don't want to know. I'm trying to learn. I don't fucking care. Tell me your name. Fuck. Learn with ears, not with your shush. No. Come on, tell me your name. Okay. Okay. Fuck you. Fuck you. That's my name. Okay, fine. And then Tuck pushes his leg forward and reclines with his legs up on the back of this guy's chair. And he pushes back against it. Doesn't move it at all, of course, because you're literally 10 times this guy's size.

The Tuck is, his first time in a classroom, he's immediately found the perfect role as a bully. He's like, oh, this is what classrooms are. I'm at the back of the room. I can't believe Fatim was so mean to me. All that. I'm at time. I just got closure. So now I get to pay it forward. Closure. Oh, that's what closure means. And this kid will just like scoot forward in his seat and try and like hunch over and continue writing notes. And this talk will continue. I want to ask questions. Oh, yeah.

Okay. So what she's saying right now, because you guys listen to Tuck bully a kid for a little bit, is she is saying most incredibly, one of the more, striking changes in this giant's physiology is, uh, it's, oh, fuck. Giant? I'm sorry. I believe you mean dragon, madam. Please continue. You see her breathe in very deeply, calmingly. One of the more striking changes in this dragon's biology is, uh, how its environment affected the application of its breath weapon.

Whereas most dragons tend to expel superheated air, or flame. This one is capable of storing molten stone derived from its mineral intake in a specialized sack inside of its belly that it can then expel in an offensive and defensive ways. Is Billy going to ask a question? Billy wanted to, but he's all embarrassed now. No, ask Billy, Billy, ask your question. There's no silly questions. Just stupid people. It's okay to ask questions. I actually, Jessica don't know what to ask it. Oh, that's fine.

Reflex. Yeah. You lift your hand up. And her goes, yes, nothing. And most of this is something that tuck and, and Ving might notice most of the librarians that turn around and see Billy, they go, ah, like they get like excited. Billy's become in the last few months, like sort of a minor celebrity in the library because people think he's really cute and he's a fairy. So they're like, interest. This is amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Are people been like asking you, probably? Oh yeah. Oh my God.

And he doesn't even realize it. Billy's been the subject of study for months. Yeah. Slides of splayed Billy up here. Oh, probably. Oh, yeah. It's it cuts to a slide another time. And it's a picture of Billy, like, ha doing poses in the shower. When you, you know, when you're like, uh, have the towel on your butt, when you're scrubbing your butt, just doing like little dances, like for all intents and purposes, he appears to be a regular, if not precocious and very, very, very, very, very, Yes.

Billy. Hi Farrah. I have a question. My question is where do dragons come from? That's an interesting question. Uh, from what we have discovered, dragons have been found and recorded all over the world. Do you guys want me to talk or do you want to do this sex? Joe Farrah says that at me cause I'm laughing. I'm like, sorry, big as doing a, penis in vagina motion at me. Vink stands up, sorry, and he shows the class to be demonstrative. I would say 20% of them laugh when you do the sex move.

20% not bad. Pretty good. I high five them. There's dozens. You are more than welcome to audit this talk, but if you choose to be disruptive, I'd have to ask you to leave. And there goes Farrah. I'm sorry. I'm genuinely sorry. Tell us more about his molten sack or whatever. We'd moved on from that. Thank you. Please pay attention or leave.

From what we have discovered, dragons, of course, have not been cited in great numbers for over a hundred years, but they have been recorded and found all over the world. But from what we can tell, most dragon species are indigenous to a mountain range far to the north known as the White Cloud Mountains. Wow. And perhaps a thousand years ago, trade in dragon eggs became quite popular, which led to populations across the globe. Yes. That is terribly interesting. Ving here. Druid. Elementalist.

And he puts his little glasses on Sage. Takes his glasses off. Oh my God. I was wondering. Yes, we all know of the dragon eggs in distribution, but where does the eggs come from? From whence what hole from whence? So there's eggs. Yes. Where are these eggs coming from? Dragons. So they come out of clack them. Is it much like a chicken? Most dragons do do breed with a sort of cloacal system similar to birds. Yes. So like birds do dragons have no penises?

Like I said, most dragons do breed with a cloacal system similar to birds. That answers the question. No, no, no. Tuck says we saw his balls. We saw him. I find that extremely difficult to believe. No, actually, Mrs. Abdulna, we explicitly said that we saw his balls when? That's fine. Like episode four of season eight. Why would a dragon have balls? Well, he did. He did. Oh my God. Unless there's something else like those lava sacks, but they looked like balls. Yeah, they look like balls.

Okay, so they can still have external testes, but maybe their mating system is still a cloacal. Oh, yeah, that would make sense. Most male dragons, the testes are external because the great internal temperatures in a dragon do potentially lead to damage of the reproductive organs. So they are air cooled in most cases, but in terms of actual reproduction and mating, it is a system quite strikingly similar to avian life forms. Do the dragons only… Hi, Ving Sage, librarian.

Friend to speaker of the word people. And other librarians are putting up their hands and then one of you fucking assholes talks and they put their hands back down. So do you know anything about the mating habits? In terms of mating rituals? Mating rituals and habits of dragons leading up… Do they… Is it interspecies play? Like, do different dragons make different dragons? Oh, I see what you mean.

All dragons start from an almost identical infant form and then based on their environment become exceptionally different through their lifestyle. Oh, beautiful. It's similar to domestic cats, whereas breeds are hard to track because the parentage of cats doesn't necessarily lead to similar breeding. You know what I mean? She says very casually. Do you understand? Yes. All dragon eggs, begin the same, but you never know what dragon you're going to have through its pubescent stages. Yes, Billy.

I have a second question, Farrah. Does the little dragon fly? So cute. That is the cutest question. Everybody… I know that like 99% of the librarians in the room go, oh my god, he's so fucking cute. And even Farrah's like, not initially, not right away. It's not immediately after hatching that they are capable of flight, but usually within 7 to 10 days they are capable of using their wings to find sources of food. Yes, Billy. What I meant is, does that little dragon fly?

And I point to the pictures of Black Spire. Oh, Black Spire. This dragon, who's… His name, through extremely convenient means, we have determined to be from Night's Embrace of Black Spire Rises. And a few librarians… You hear Bulko in the audience here go, that's fucking sick. Metal is fuck. It's fucking cool as hell. Yeah. I'm changing my book's tattoo. That's sick. This guy is going to get a tattoo. I do love Bulko.

Because his environment from infancy to adult hood was contained and quite restrictive. His body never developed the support structure muscularity-wise to enable flight. So his wings are mostly used in a type of threat display, which is fascinating. Cool. Thank you. You're welcome. And the talk continues. More people ask questions about, you know, like… I'm going to say, two people get a question in before Tuck has another question. Tuck was busy drawing this. Pretty cool.

This is Tuck on the back of Black Spire, but there wasn't enough room, so I drew his face here and I tried to draw him sitting up here, but it ended up just looking like Tuck. I started saying this to the guy sitting next to me. Oh, you're saying this to the guy sitting next to you? Or sitting… Bing? Or the guy… No, the guy on the other side of me. Whoa, that's, uh… Really distracting. Thank you. Yeah, no problem. Just wanted to, you know, share my fucking art with someone for once.

Okay, alright. And I push his papers on his chest. Whoa, hey, hey, hey. Okay, fine. And he pushes one of his papers in your direction and you see a little drawing of Black Spire. Oh, sick. Yeah, right? Yeah, you got his balls in that one. That was good. I thought it was important. And they're funny. Okay, yeah. Unless you guys have any other questions, I do have a question. Okay, alright. That's why I raised my hand. Uh-huh. Okay, Farrah? Yes.

You said that he ate giant bones and now he's, like, made of giant bones, right? In not so many words. Sort of a simplification, but sure. You know how you and me were talking about how, like, giants were… Yeah, I do recall you and I had that sort of lunchtime meeting where we were discussing dragon physiology. Uh… Okay. Okay. Well, then… Uh… My follow-up on that… She's, like, she basically… She stopped you. Okay. Yeah, she stopped you from talking about the coins. Okay. Yeah.

Oh, no. I wasn't gonna ask about the coins. Well, you're asking about, uh, giants and their ability to, like, mitigate demon possession and stuff like that? Yeah. She stops you from talking about that. Okay, okay. Because that was gonna be my question. She's like, is he immune to demons? Yeah, she stops you 100%. Okay. She sees what your question is gonna be and stops you. Okay, and I'm like, alrighty. Draw an X through this question.

I'm like, okay, my other question is what happened 100 years ago that made all the dragons go away? Ah, that is a sad business. Um, as dragons became more prolific, the value inherent in their mineral scales became very apparent to organizations and nations around the world and dragon hunting was a very successful and sought-after business.

So many dragons found themselves on the unfortunate end of warrior prospectors, which led to dragons not being able to find mates, not being able to lay their own clutches, and not growing to sizes sufficient necessary to defend themselves. Oh. Bummer. She ignores that. And yeah, unless you guys have any other questions, the talk will… Is there anything else that you three want to know? I'm just kind of waiting to talk to her after the thing. Yeah.

Smash cut to that thing you've seen in a million school movies where the students are filtering out and she's addressing some final questions as people are leaving. I saw it as like everybody's leaving and everyone's standing up and like slowly the crowd parts and she sees us at the back of the room with our hands with our hands still up. Um, just one more thing. And she rubs the bridge of her nose in stress and then cut to her office. Why did you stop me from asking that demon question?

She closes her door. I'm sure that you are well aware of the fact that it was just discovered that the leader of the militant arm of the Church of the Flame had been possessed by a demon for who knows how long and that there is some sort of conspiracy involving demons and those who wish their power, theirs, to chain the world, I believe was the quote. Right. The dark guard. So stop talking about it. Okay, I will. I'm… I'm… I'm sorry. It's… I'm sorry. It's just I've been under a lot of…

I've… A lot of stress lately. Our discussion the other day has left me with a lot to think about. This information remains within our circles. And I don't mean the library. I mean us. Okay. Me and you. And Perel, I suppose. If vital. Okay. I promise I'll keep it under wraps. Thank you. Oh, we were… You probably let her know about Perel. Oh. I guess Perel is sort of… He… It is mandatory he knows all this stuff because he just found out that a wizard friend is alive.

And, you know, like how you have Aquaria in Perel's journal. Aquaria is alive. Yeah. She takes her glasses off and throws them on her desk. You should be really careful with your eyewear. Wow. The ability that you three have to walk into my office and change the course of history is truly staggering. Okay. Well, wonderful. She sits down. And she leans back in a very unfair way. Yeah. Where she's got her like hand… Her head resting on her hand. Oh.

So, our theory about the increase in demonic activity over the last several decades is directly linked to the lack of thaumaturgists currently living. And we also know now that there is one currently living. Oh, yeah. Good point. That could solve that problem. Solve? No. That could supplement the knowledge of perhaps. Wow. How is Perel taking it? They were close. Yeah. We weren't really aware of that. We're giving him time. It's all… She holds up.

She opens a drawer in her desk and picks up the journal that Perel, Aquaria, and Morris shared. It's all in. Did you never… Oh, you read that? Yes. It's handwritten by three wizards. Yeah. We look through. Dude, there's mostly just pictures of frogs. It didn't seem that interesting. There are formulae in here that are of untold value. Oh, you sound like Perel right now. It's amazing that you three live in a fucking library. Well, it's not my fault. I can't really read. So, I did my best.

You do get a pass, Billy. You do get a pass on this. All right. Be that as it may, Aquaria, Perel, and Morris were extremely close. Like how close? Like, manaja? Are they close? There's not direct… Like, of course, it's not their extensively transcribed backstories or anything like that. It's mostly correspondence.

But I get the idea that the three of them were very close friends to the point where they frequently had vicious arguments about philosophy and their stances on life, but still held a great respect for one another. I believe there may have been some romantic overtones in some aspects of… Some of the relationships. But I believe that is a question that you should leave to Perel himself. I think his sobbing spoke volumes in that direction. Billy, I believe you had a question? Yeah.

In the book, is there anything that says how Perel became a wizard? Does he talk about that at all? He does. He makes passing references to the event. From what I can tell, it holds fairly true with a number of accounts that I've read over the years. Mm-hmm. The creation of some wizards, or the… Creation isn't even the correct word. Bestowment? Bestowment, appearance, emergence is maddeningly random from all that I can tell.

Some wizards are, like we have said, born as infants with their abilities. There are some stories which I don't believe hold much weight of people gaining the powers after a mighty… Feats of heroism or sacrifice. After near-death experiences. Near-death experiences. There is a pretty striking story about that. Some are sprung fully formed. No parents to speak of. Just appear one day. And others, like Perel, their powers emerge at seemingly random times.

Perel, of course, a man in his early to mid-40s, from what I can tell. There are stories of people in late, late stages of life. There's a story of a dwarf who was nearly 900 years old who suddenly became a wizard. Some of an 11-year-old human child who gained these abilities suddenly. And from what adherents to the study of thaumaturgy have discovered, those events nearly escape explanation. In all the accounts that you've heard, you haven't noticed a pattern.

There's no correlation between individuals. People have attempted everything. The movement of the planetary spheres. The life and death of stars. Seasonal changes. Environmental effects. There must be a leading theory. The theory is that they are bestowed those powers when their presence is required. If there is an imbalance elsewhere, that power is used to set the scales. That's the only theory we have. Nature finds a way. In a sense, yes. So a need. It's not a need. It's more of a void.

It's water rushing to fill a space. And if that were an event that was capable of reproduction, why has it not happened now? Right. Wizards left and no new ones have happened. As far as we're aware. Perhaps they have happened. And perhaps those individuals remain hidden and out of sight. Perhaps they do not understand what they are. If there was a way to… To… To force that sort of event. I do not know what it is. Well, yeah.

I guess this is important to us because we need to help Perel get his power back. It seemed… That he's lost everything. Right, yeah. He's told us that he lost his family. And I guess without that, all he had was his power. So it's important to us to find a way to help him get it back. Yeah. I understand. And if I could… I would… Like, don't mistake me.

I have been poring over volume after volume of thaumatological theory in an attempt to find even a shred of a clue of an inkling to point you in the right direction. But thus far, I've come up nothing. There is maybe an alternate way that we've found… Yes? What do you know of the knife used to transform Roth? Very little. The ways of the Magi are secret even by librarian standards. The texts that they record their rituals and beliefs in are, from what we can tell, one of a kind. Unreproduced.

Any records of what they do are singular, and I imagine aggressively guarded. Should we tell her? Yeah. Yeah, we should tell her. Should we say this to each other? Should we tell her? Yeah. We should tell her, probably. Tell me what? Well, okay. So with my pinky promise that I made with Roth, or was it Roth? No, the other one, Urk. So with the pinky promise that I made with Urk, he said that he was going to bring us a book from the Magi that was used during… The ritual that Ving went through.

And so far, he has not betrayed me, and he promised with his life and his soul that he would bring it back to us and not tell anybody or betray me, or else I would know. You have someone attempting to recover one-of-a-kind manuscripts recording ancient and lost rituals and ceremonial beliefs. Yes. I will give you whatever you need to recover those books and bring them to me. Oh, okay. I will think about this. Five dollars a day. Yeah. Plus expense. Each. Each. And dental. And health…

Extend health benefits. Whoa, Billy, where did you learn those words? I don't know. Ving at work, he's always saying those. Yes. Nice. Fist bump. Fist bump. Yeah, so she is like, I will, whatever resources you require, I will make available to you. We just have to like hang out here for a little longer, I think. Do you know perhaps where they might have met? Do you have any ideas of locations that the Magi have undertaken rituals or meeting places? Yes. Where? How have you not told me this?

I mean, Farrah, I don't know if you noticed, but whenever we want to talk to you, you act like we're annoying. So maybe we just don't want to talk to you sometimes. Yes. You're kind of doing it right now. That is fair. I don't know if you're getting as tired as we are of having your mind blown every time we have a conversation. I am. I am. Okay. Well, okay. Tell me, tell me everything. And she sits down and she grabs a notepad and she opens it up and grabs a pen.

And then Ving takes an iPod and pulls up, it's a few episodes ago of Spellor, and puts his headphones, puts his headphones on. And he's like, I'll just, yeah, you just get it from what we said before. And I think that's, I think that's where we're going to end it. Okay. Right now. I've been your game master, Sean O'Hara. Thank you for joining us for this extremely exposition heavy episode of Spellor. Joining me as always playing Tacoma Dome, the barbarian, Abdul Aziz. So long, everybody.

Playing Ving, the half elf druid, elementalist, sage, Paul Loppers. Take care. And playing Fat Billy, the halfling thief, Jessica Tai. Bye everyone. Thank you to Aaron Reed of Vancouver Sunday Service for his incredible intro and outro music. And thank you to all of you, our amazing Patreon supporters and just new supporters. Thanks for listening.

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