Episode 4 – War is Coming. Bad. :-)

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 Spoutlord. I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara. Joining me as always, playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian, Abdul Aziz. Hello everybody. Playing Ving the Half-Elf Druid, Paul Oppers. Good day. And playing Fat Billy the Halfling Thief, Jessica Tai. Hello.

When last we left our heroes, they were deep, deep in the mental subconscious of Fat Billy the Halfling Thief. In Billy's dream, the party was accosted by a, for a short time, invisible and hard to pin down creature that Tuck used his ability to kill. To dissociate from any situation, anywhere, anytime. To discover the presence of what is known as an aneurophage. A half physical, half mental creature that consumes the dreams of the people that it inhabits.

To escape the flooding and the aneurophage, Billy used escape route to turn the dreamscape into a muddy slide that he effortlessly coasted down. Tuck attempted to effortlessly coast down this slide as well. Landing on his face at a dead stop until Ving rode him like a skateboard down the hill. Sick. Surely a tried and tested escape tactic for the party. Kick flipped him through the backstage area and directly into Ving's dream. Did a manual on his face. Yeah.

Right into Ving's dream, which took place high, high in a tree canopy and featured his mother, Ileana, observing a wide and far reaching dream. The dream was a spider web, the nodes of which created the night sky and constellations. And as she touched the spider's web, she was being cautioned against it by a dream version of Hummingbird that she batted away. But every step she took, every touch she made on the web alerted the great spider that lurked in the canopy above.

From this we gleaned the fact that Ileana must have known about the Gibbous Man during her time on this earth. And may have conceived Ving as a method of protecting the knowledge of the druids for future generations. That was so cool. It was pretty sick. And during this, Billy and Tuck attempted to keep the Onerophage at bay. Ending with Billy entering the fairy world via shadow dance to negotiate with the Onerophage to leave them alone in exchange for fully consuming Tuck's cataclysm dream.

Which is a pretty powerful negotiation. Yeah. A negotiation tactic. It was pretty good. Yeah. Getting what the party wanted and having a temporary ally or at least a truce, a ceasefire with the Onerophage. They carried on to Tuck's cataclysm dream, which Tuck got to see the entirety of for the very first time. And the last time. And the last time. Yeah. Oh man, the dream is gone. Yeah. That's such a huge consequence.

I also established that the side effect of this is that Tuck just doesn't dream anymore. Oh shit. Right, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was what I think Perel suggested was that if this works this way, then you just will never dream again. Mm-hmm. Oof. Tuck carried on up the hill alone following his dream self while Ving and Billy stayed behind. Billy sending up the bill of the wisp, the light cat, to give Tuck some companionship on his way. And Ving throwing a heart-shaped rock at him.

And Ving, as Tuck crested the hill himself, and for the very first time was able to see the figure which lurks beneath the tree at the top of the hill in his dream, finding Fadum Adam. Yeah. Yeah. With his sunstone eye and his red tracksuit. Which is an interesting thing because that means that in the dream is a modern version of Fadum. Yeah. One that Tuck doesn't have knowledge of. Yeah. Yeah. And he's surprised and impressed by the tracksuit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Did you get that on T-Mu?

And what Tuck observed from there was his dream self approaching Fadum and the two of them just laying into each other. Yeah. A very brutal fight which ended with Tuck losing an eye before Fadum snaps Larry, Terry, and Chad, taking the broken ax and smashing an obsidian coin with it. Oh, and during the fight, Tuck was able to see the figure. Oh, and during the fight, Tuck in the real world was taking very serious real damage. Yeah. It took 10 points of damage. Oh, good God. It's armor defeating.

Yeah. A lot of damage. But the coin then consumed the dream, landing in the backstage area which was consumed by the oneirophage. The dream ended and the party returned to the waking world, finding themselves in a very stressful ER situation as Morris and Pharrell were just certain that they were going to die. Yeah. We're just certain that the three of you were going to die. But that is where we find our heroes now.

Are we coming to right in the middle of this situation or are we jumping forward a little bit? Maybe we've got like, you know, you all have the foil emergency blankets around your shoulders. Oh, yes. Yeah. Hot cocoa. We're all drinking cocoa. Yeah. We're roasting marshmallows in the fireplace. Yes. Nice. Yeah. Vince made a little mini foil hat. Yeah. Like a sailor's hat out of foil. You think it looks like a sailor's hat. You look like one of those crazy guys. Yeah.

Good luck getting into my mind, Gibbous man. Oneirophage. Stay away from me, GM. It's keeping the oneirophage out, you think? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's so funny. And Pharrell's flipping through a book and he's like, I actually think that since the egg was in your mind that if you keep the foil on it might actually keep the oneirophage in. He smacks the book out of his hand. Okay. All right. That's the problem, man. I'm so proud of them, man. What's in this cocoa, man?

By the way, I have six hit points. Okay. Yeah. We're going to take a rest today. Every time we've tried to make camp, we've ended up… Because we got into the dream thing because Jessica was like, I have an idea for a way that we can earn back our hit points while also getting information. And we were like, that's a great idea, Jessica. Let's do it. You're decimated. I'm like, that's not… Oh, no. Oh, no. I'm like, I'm not going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it.

I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I threw dream rocks at you. I'm so sorry. That's what did it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So I guess, yeah, I guess what I'm wondering is what now? What is the point we find the heroes at? Yeah. Tuck has some questions. Yes. That he wants answered. So Tuck is, he's been furiously drawing on a giant pad and then he turns around and you see what light is coming out of it.

And then he's like, I can't see anything. I can't see anything. I can't see anything. I can't see anything. I can't see anything. I can't see anything. I can't see anything. I can't see anything. I can't see anything. I can't see anything.

And then he's like, he's been furiously drawing on a giant pad and then he turns around and you see what looks like a child's drawing of Fatim and he's like, this is what he looked like for some reason he was wearing this sick track suit and he had his awesome braid through his hair and a lot of detail in the crotch. It's very prominent ball looks like it's straining against the fabric. Why is there only curious Kuro here? Am I? Am I in love with Fatum?

But yeah, it's weird that this is not how I remember Fatum. Yeah, so Perel's like making notes on a little notepad that he has. What are you writing down? Oh, uh, I don't want to say. Let me see that. It's just a drawing. It's a better drawing of Fatum? Yeah, but the bulge is even more prominent in this one. It's so much hotter. It's detailed. You can see his abs straining against the fabric of his tracksuit. Yeah, the tracksuit is open and in like an early 2000s.

Like an early 2000s R&B music video. So cool. Morris is also drawing. They're drawing each other now. Alright, everyone just stop drawing for a second. Morris has got a plate of mashed potatoes in front of him and he's holding his hands up on either side and the potatoes are kind of morphing. You can see them folding themselves into a statue of Fatum. The encounters of the third kind. This Fatum guy is sounding pretty cool. Now Perel's getting jealous.

Perel sees that and he's like, alright, everybody stop. Stop, stop, stop. Okay, so what? That's troubling. Wolf, you know, I wouldn't burden yourself with trying to think about what that might mean. The other thing that was weird was that the dream got sucked into an obsidian coin. I mean, that could be weird or it could just be a dream construct. Could be something that you've been thinking about because you have experience with the coins. So that it could just be part of the subconscious.

You guys, uh, you guys can talk to Aquaria, right? Yes. Yeah. And Morris goes, why? Why? What have you heard? What? You haven't been in our workshop, have you? No. What? Uh, and Perel like puts a hand on Morris's shoulder. It's not important. We look at each other and run for the workshop. No, no, no. Push Morris to the ground. Can I roll? You do not have to roll to push Morris to the ground. No. Don't roll because if you… You're gonna get experience and you're gonna level up too fast.

There is no reason… Stay guys. Yeah, great. Well, it's too bad that you didn't say what move you were using. It was a six and a five. I succeeded. Awesome. I think Morris does at one point. Like as Tuck starts running away, he throws his hand out and the floor just like jerks back under Tuck's feet. Tuck tripped like one of those toddlers that runs too fast. But he gets up so quickly and he keeps running. Just a full body slam. Yeah, you don't…

Like this is definitely something that the consequences of you failing or succeeding are… Do not matter. It's such a good success. I get out out of the living room before everyone else and I… And I close the door and I wedge with the axe. Ving jumps into the umbrella holder, which is a chute into the other room. It comes up and… How does Billy get in? He starts… He gets a spoon and he starts digging at the door. I'm in! The fabric wall is tearing. He's shoving his face through. Please!

I also want to look! His little hands are coming like under the crack of the door. He's swiping under the door. Like a cat. And Morris and Perel start banging on the door from the other side. No, don't, don't, don't. It's not ready. It's not ready. I grab Billy and I try and pull him under the seat of the door. Ving unlocks the door and opens the door. So you burst into Perel and Morris' workshop. It's huge. I think it's the same workshop that we did the volcano stuff in.

It's like that huge room that has all their thaumaturgical equipment. A wall full of blue ribbons. Yeah, exactly. I imagine it as like a huge… A huge warehouse. Like an airplane hangar almost. I wouldn't say that big, but we're in the same realm. It's quite large. In the middle distance you see a 20 foot tall volcano. It's not ready! It looks like the arc reactor from Iron Man. There's a bunch of pages with little click boards around it doing readings.

Like if the arc reactor was made out of paper mache. Yeah, exactly. So actually when you get into the room and Morris and Perel stop each other and they're like, wait. They don't know what they're looking for. Ving's like, and yeah. Again, Billy, you totally can roll. I want to discern realities, I guess. Nine. Oh. Eight. Okay. Yeah, the sniffing is Ving-ating. I got seven. Okay, so that makes it a ten. Three questions. What here is not what it appears to be? Ah, okay.

So I mean, that answers the question right off the bat really, is you're looking around, you're like, okay, alright, here's a bunch of crap. And you're like looking at Morris and Perel as their eyes dart around. You're like, what are they freaking out at when I get close to it? Yeah, I'm like doing the hot-cold game. Yeah, exactly. And you get close to something and you see their eyes start widening. And you get closer to it and their eyes are bugging out of their heads.

They're fucking terrible poker players. They're so bad at this game. But it looks like a wireframe like dress form kind of. Oh. Like it's like a torso shape and then there are some like there are unfinished limbs. And then there's a place that looks like it's gonna be a head at some point. But it's made of like thin brass and copper. Well. Like not wire. It's thicker than that. It's more like thin bars that create this cage shape almost. And then there's like a housing in the chest.

Are you guys making a maquette to put Aquaria in so she can walk and talk around? Yes. Yes. That's what we're doing. Oh, so cool. Why didn't you tell us? Well, because we're not sure it's gonna work. It will work. My designs always work. We just don't know how the moss is gonna react to it. So we just, we didn't want to get anybody's hopes up. Oh, yeah. And then Tuck is looking at the female form they've constructed. Abdul picked up dice for this.

Can I roll to see how big the tits are on this thing? No. No. No. There's still questions left. There's two questions left. Go for it. How big are the tits? That was hard to say the T word, wasn't it? Alright. I will. I should say it is a pretty androgynous body. It's pretty neutral. I thought he was gonna say ample. They are fucking fat. No, it's like a pretty neutral human form, but it's unfit. Like one of the legs is like mid shin. The other's like mid thigh.

And then there's like one finished arm and one is like barely started and the head is not complete yet either. Cool. What should I be on the lookout for? The tits question didn't count. It did count. Sorry. You only have one question left. Fair. How are you gonna get Aquaria here? Well, Morris at this point, he walks over to a table nearby and he picks up the little glass housing that Ving had. The ball of moss. We're not gonna get her here, but she'll be able to act through this.

With Morris's mechanical know-how, Aquaria's connection to the moss and her understanding of how it works biologically and chemically and my observance, we've been able to work on what we think will be a way for Aquaria to move around in the outside world a little bit. Cool. Is the automaton or whatever like a clockwork person?

No, what we think is gonna happen is the moss, Aquaria thinks that she can exert the right influence through it, and I've sort of, through transmutation, chemically prepared the body that the moss should be able to form around it and create a sort of moss-like body. Okay. But then it uses the structural integrity of the frame. Cool. Yeah. Building a girlfriend. I've done that. Cuts back to Tuck being 13. I thought I was gonna cut back to the gourd. The butternut squash.

It is a butternut squash also. It's another butternut squash. Slash pocket pussy. Carving a hole out of it. Yeah, it's the same thing if you work hard enough. Putting it in the microwave. Yeah. You gotta watch out for the seeds. Those are big seeds. Yeah, I guess we're in a situation where you could keep looking around the workshop for other stuff, or you could learn more about the Aquaria situation or about the automaton frame.

The question that I was gonna ask before we came in here was the, like, if you guys can talk to Aquaria through that moss, can we ask her a question? Because when we talked to her, she said that I was touched by the darkness, and I don't know what that means. It seems relevant now. Well, our concern is that even communicating through the moss is quite draining for Aquaria. And with everything that's going on in the Sea of Graves right now, the connection is also difficult to maintain.

What's going on in the Sea of Graves? Well, the storm. Oh, right. It's out of control. And it's disrupting her ability to communicate. Is she safe? For now. The tower she's in is Wardstone, so she should be safer than most. Oh. Did we even talk about the vision when you did the communion of whispers in the mason jar? That was the episode that just came out. Yeah, so you guys haven't talked about it. No. Well, actually, you guys watched it happen, and then you went, whoa. Sick. Sick.

So I've been trying to figure out my dream. Right, yeah. We didn't talk about that at all. You didn't address it at all. But Chimes created the Sea of Graves a thousand or more years ago. Right, and he fought the Gibbous Man. And he fought the Gibbous Man, and he tricked Mother Never Was, stole her ink, got her to teach him the secrets of the runes, and then betrayed her. Yeah. I'm trying to think of a way that we could communicate with Chimes.

Because I feel like if we got Chimes there, we could all huddle. Yeah. You just need to get to the ocean. Do I still have the bookworm? Can I send it to him? I think you do have a bookworm. You do have a bookworm. Yeah. How far away are we from the ocean? Pretty far. Can we send a message through? Can I commune with the Thunderbirds to get a message to Chimes, perhaps, and do their best? Potentially, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. And then he can come to us when he gets the message? Yeah.

It will be, probably, faster than the moth. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Thunderbirds are way faster than bookworms. Yeah. If Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers taught us anything, it's that the eagles are faster. Yeah, it goes Hobbit, moth, bird, in terms of speed. The moth is faster than Hobbit? Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. They're tiny little legs. The only ones a day. The moth is flying everywhere. Yeah. The eagles only show up at the end.

Yeah, I don't even think you need to really, like, you can just communicate with the cloudpiercer, right? Yeah. Well, I mean, I marked him. Yeah, long ago. And he's got the little amulet thing. Yeah, I gave him that, right? Mm-hmm. What if we set up a fun seance while we do all this? Yeah, totally. Yeah. Just for fun. Yeah. Funties. Yeah. Billy says that. Well, you know, like Morrison Pearl said, the storm makes communication of this kind more difficult for people. Oh, yeah.

So, maybe you do need to, yeah, you try. Maybe I try. You try, and it's like, It's always been so easy. Yeah. Ding! Etch! Gale! Annoying! Nope. So, yeah, you're like, it's not connecting. Maybe you need to do something to reinforce the spiritual connection. Hmm. Hmm. Would this count to roll my What the Bones Know for later on, at the end of the day? Yeah, sure. You haven't rolled it yet. Can you read that move? Because you've never used it. Oh, I'm going to use my new move, What the Bones Know.

Roll a d6 at the end of the day, and hold that roll for the next day to replace a roll. Hmm. Yeah. So, it's if you've ever played D&D, I realized afterwards I basically stole it from that. But things prescient nature now with his knowledge of the patterns of the world allows him to predict how he will act in a certain situation later in the day. Okay, great. I got a four. Okay. So, remember that four. Everyone's sitting in a circle, cross-legged. Morrison Perel are here, too.

Victor is padding around the outside. Very confused. This is kind of like what Cartwin did when she sent us into the spirit realm. Oh, yeah. Might be connected to that sort of thing. Like ghost root? Oh, yeah. We need a little ghost root. And, like, we need someone to undulate and let their, like, sexy sash drop down. Morrison Perel start fighting over who gets to be that person. Remember how horny we got at Sean's screen? Yeah, I hated it. You kept making it so sexy, though. Yeah.

I was just describing it. You were finding it sexy. No, you were like, her robe slips off. I was like, whoa, it's a porno now. I didn't say that. You did. Did I? Yeah. Because you needed to reveal the pin. Oh, the tat, yes. Oh, part, and it was clothing underneath. It wasn't her naked shoulder. Well, we don't know that. You didn't tell us about the clothing until afterwards. You weren't there. It was. You were on a commune in California. Growing weed. I was also horny at the time.

Because you were fucking your cousin. We were not fucking. That's why he was horny. He was just shooting ropes in the weed fields at the end of the day. Oh, the harvest was great. That's what they ever saw. Paul, this leaf kind of looks like you. It's so weird. Okay, so everybody's sitting in a circle. Victor's walking around the outside going, what are you doing? We're having a seance. Why am I not in the circle? Make room. I wish to be in the circle.

He does the thing that dogs do, where he just comes in and then puts his back legs on your lap as you're sitting on the ground. Forcing the circle to be much larger. Tuck has to, like, lean around. He's on Tuck's lap. Yes, make room. Okay. Your circle is now stronger. Your asshole is, like, on my leg. It is the strongest asshole. It's so hot. It's like the heat is radiating off of it. Do we need to have, do we need to express it again? Oh, God. No, not again.

Flashback to the one, one time we had to express his anal glands. Yes, I feel myself become stronger. Every expression makes me more powerful. Oh, my God. Next time you have to express yourself. And Perel's standing nearby like, make sure you get it all in the jar. He's keeping it. It's very valuable. I don't want you to ask me how I know this, but the anal secretions of a liar wolf are very potent. Oh, I hate it. What a great show we have. It's a great show. Greatest episode of all time.

But do we need ghost root before we do any of this? I mean, I have juridic lore. When you consult the trove of ancient knowledge within you to examine the world, rule plus wisdom. That kind of counts as a seance. I guess so. Yeah, totally. So, like, we just sit in a circle. Billy tries to form everyone into basically a fairy ring. He's like, this is how magic happens, you guys. Cool. That's cool.

So you're making, like, a physical ring with, like, Ving in the middle, but everyone else is forming, you know, around Ving. Yeah, Victor also wants to be in the middle, but I say no. Right. That makes sense, because ghost root was, like, kind of like the way that we pierced into the spirit realm, but Ving is a constant conduit into it. So we don't need the ghost root. So Billy's fairy ring, even if he's not necessarily meaning it to do this, because he's like, this is how you do magic.

But it's, like, focusing. Like, it's keeping out interference. It's like a satellite dish. Yeah, totally. That's cool. So I guess Billy's got a roll. Oh, sure. Fairy ring. Eight. Eight. Great. So that means that it is successful. Yeah, it just requires my constant attention, which is fine. So Billy's, like, pushing everybody, like, move, move, touch, here, hold your hands. Yeah. My constant attention is, I'm sitting in the circle, but I keep peeking my eye open.

I'm like, everyone else, keep your eyes closed. They're open. Morris. I want to see the magic happen. I have to feel it. Okay, I'll use druidic lore. Roll plus wisdom. Uh-oh. Seven. I'd like to use a roll and replace my one with a four. Wait, hold on. Is your wisdom not plus three? Yeah, so that's a ten anyway. But you did burn the four. You changed it from a ten to a thirteen. Which is a way better roll, numerically. How does it feel when Ving is reaching out to the clapper?

Well, with the fairy circle and everybody around, like, the satellite dish, like, it's, like, everybody's knowledge. Oh. So we get, like, weird ancient Perel and Morris stuff. Whoa. Liar, like, ancient liar, you know, the old stories of them chasing the sun. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Everything from everybody. It's like, nothing from Tuck. There's, like, a blank spot. It's like a dead space. Yeah, it's a dead space. He's like the double zero on a roulette board. That's so weird.

It's almost like I'm eating information. Or it's just, like, a tit. Yeah. Tits, tits, tits, tits. You just hear the word tits over and over again. You don't even see a picture of boobs. No. Just the word tits. Tits, tits. And then you see him readjust. He's like, God, his asshole's so hot. Titty, titty, titty, titty. And you make a connection. Okay. On a ten plus? The GM will ask you a question about the subject. Whatever you say is true. Mm. You make the connection. Yeah. Bing.

It is I, Cloud Piercer. Where are you? How are you? I am high above the principalities, waging war with the forces of Thronebreaker's flock. Your wings are so strong and your mind is so true. The war has forged me into a weapon of the natural world. I am the wind's blade. You are the point of lightning that strikes the earth. I am the piercer of Cloud. Clouds. What do you require of me? And he like dives and does a spin.

And Bing, like, you know, his stomach jumps like when you're on a roller coaster. He's like, in it. Whoa. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You see his hair flutter a little bit. Oh, his hair's like lifting up in the wind. I need you to get a message to the one they call Chimes. Ah, the sailor. Yes. The stepfather. Ah, what? Of our group. The stepfather of storms and seas. The uncle of the waves. Yeah. Big daddy sailor himself. Yes, I will. What message do you wish me to convey? We need a view. Very well.

This message I will convey. Bing. Yes. Are you safe? I'm safe for now. How goes your quest? The quest goes all over the place. It's really muddled at times. And there's a, it's very tangential. Do you need to reestablish what your quest is with me? Would it help you if you told me what you think the quest is right now? Not at all. I will not out myself in such a circle. For my knowledge. We can all hear what is going on. One eye peeks open and Billy yells at him. Yeah. Stop it. Focus.

No, the quest is clear for all of us. But why don't you just tell me anyway? You're asking Cloudpiercer? I shall tell you. Why don't you tell me what you think? The quest is. I don't know what your quest is, Bing. I have my own quest. Defeating Thronebreaker. That is my quest. Working towards the bigger quest, which affects us all. Yes. And that is. To take down the Gizmoz man. Chop him down where he stands. To stop him from distorting the knowledge of the world. And so warm. You're so close.

Yeah. Yeah. And how is it that you plan on doing that in the most end of the road way? Well, I think that our friend Chimes is a bit of a fighter for him. Against him. You have no idea. I forget right now. Is it the High Spear? Yeah. Oh, he's going. I thought that was just a middle quest. I mean, it's your most direct thing right now. Oh, that's very overarching. Is to get Morrison Perel to the High Spear. So you guys can go and try and fight the fight. Yeah. There's a ton of fire fields.

So right now he's fighting over the principalities. What do you see of the High Spear? What is there now? Allow me to cast my eagle eyes far and wide. And you feel his eyes widen as he looks around. What does Cloud Piercer see from where he is. That gives you information on. How closely give his man his spear. Yeah. Or what your next steps could be. Yeah. Like how close is he. He's moving in. Not close. Oh yeah. Like his. So.

Spear is already shrinking it is shrinking yes but it's coming from like beyond mccall and beyond panusia yes like the far-reaching corners of the world have started to lose the effects of the high spear like turvor where aquaria and that one uh husky chef yeah or from like it no longer interprets out there yeah and also past mccall in like the lands of the horse tribes like those have probably fallen as well yeah those are already the dominion of the gibbous man we assume because like the map morris's map couldn't couldn't see them and we also know that the princeps of the higher firefields principality are the gibbous man's agents he incited them to go to war with the high spear which interestingly suggests that there's some reason the gibbous man couldn't just do this himself he needed to incite this war so he could get closer to his goal but he for some reason he cannot do it oh shit the reason why he put dathaniel underneath the heart tree was he couldn't get you into the great forest while the knowledge trees were still healthy he can't get into the principal like into the high spear while the high spear is communicating is it like it might be that like these these these epicenters of great power and knowledge and understanding like that he wants to distort they refuse him entry the high spear might have a similar effect to the knowledge trees where because it is like it's all about an epicenter of understanding and knowledge and translation yeah that it rebuffs his influence naturally he also couldn't enter all waters caverns right uh yeah it seems like places of power whether spiritual or magical keep him at bay somehow and we were also going to use the high spirit to try and like bring the wizards back too yeah that was morrison perel's idea was if we get there then we might be able to find some way to break whatever's keeping them out but your guys's job is basically drop them off on the bus route which is uh you know you guys are sharing an uber basically morrison perel are getting out at high spear and then you guys are going to the war front because uh dathaniel I think was like if you stop the fire fields yeah you will really fuck up the gibbous man so that's why that was the plan yeah yeah so what does cloud piercer see in this and how many princeps are there that we'd establish there are two there's only two there's only two the fire fields principality has two rulers they're brothers and there's they still rule yeah they do still rule yeah do they like each other we haven't established that I think we established that they're lovers the brothers brother lovers we actually don't know anything and I mean anything about the political figures of the principalities we know zero because your guys's adventures have had nothing to do with the political we only look for mayors like we're only working on municipal level yeah because that's where you can affect the most change yeah we're on the ground heroes yeah grassroots yeah we show up at high spear we're like take us to your mayor oh just a gun take us to the mayor right now it's like this is kind of a big city we kind of don't have one mayor you can't be the mayor where's your hat we have kind of a bureaucratic council it's like take us to that then oh my god they have like a hundred mayors to the barbecue council so powerful and they're all in charge of not the whole thing but like one aspect you just do trash recycling what the fuck uh yeah there's like there are five principalities so I guess there's six princeps and they all have relationships and shit and it's just never come up cloud piercer shows that one of the princeps is on the front and he's leaving the front there is cool and you actually on the front you nailed it there is a brother one of the brothers is the warrior he is he leads his men from the front and there's one other brother that will never go near the front and that's a point of contention between them you fucking nailed how I was imagining these guys there's there's like the there's the politician and there's the warrior yeah yeah and he can kind of see like there's some hidden events happening from the brother on the back line oh interesting like he's he's doing some stuff yeah at home that the brother on the front doesn't know distressed sewing between the two princeps oh yeah cloud piercer sees with his incredible thunderbird vision like the brother fighting from the front the warrior and in his hands he wields a black bladed sword oh obsidian just a black blade black blade what does he look like I saw him with red hair okay oh fire fields yeah right yes they're kind of like celtic the celtic beautiful ginger red hair dark skin dark skin red hair very tanned yeah very dark yeah so red hair powerful build armor metal armor yeah black black black black metal armor black bladed sword he's got like a family suit of armor basically I like this cast iron just really thin yeah it's been fighting yeah iron armor he's so jacked yeah you gotta be strong to wear that yeah he's got like a war hammer that's like huge oh wait you said he has a black bladed sword yeah he's got like a war hammer that's like huge oh wait you said he has a black bladed sword yeah but I think he used to fight with a hammer uh-huh but recently he's been fighting with this black bladed sword maybe it's like a thing of because like the the firefields principality they're like the engineers like that's where black glass is they make like automatons and robots and stuff so it could be like that traditionally the leader of the firefields principality fights with a hammer yeah to honor like their blacksmithing traditions that's really cool yeah that he has a big uh hammer on his chest yeah oh that his emblem is a hammer yes that's really cool like his banners are like red with a black hammer on them yeah that's fucking sick I just like the idea that his because you know like leaders have especially warriors have like their nicknames and I think his is black hammer oh cool hammer so cool are there mechs in the ranks around him cool I actually I think there I don't think there are people in them I think they are full-on automatons okay and they're less common it's like one automaton for every like hundred foot foot soldiers so it's like you have it's like the tree feller yeah oh but I like the thought that they're like the front of the line yes oh totally yeah they're the shock troops like you send in a few of these big robots and it scares the shit out of people you have like cross the crossbows but you know like spring loaded and they shoot little bull like it's almost like in a bullet but totally a full gun and you have like a column of men behind each of them like they're for each battalion there is like one of these massive mechs and you've got like the war engineers who are like clearly there to maintain these giant robots yeah oh yeah they're warrior mechanics yeah I love that oh and they're like the warrior librarians big wrenches and like goggles and they just are like beating people with wrenches and then like fixing shit yeah yeah okay we can't keep talking about this I'll talk about it for the rest of the day the guy who has the oil he has oil tanks and then like he's like greasing up and lubing and you'll have to do on big machinery yeah right and then once in a while like somebody come over and he'll like crack a a match out his chin and then light his oil and oh he has a flamethrower oh so sick we're just describing a battle now let's keep going so what cloud pierce is just like hovering like whoa this is pretty sick thing can you see this this is pretty cool so what are the what are the forces like a dvr this so I think what I said is the high spear and the riverway principalities have like come together to try and hold back the fire fields okay what do their forces look like do we need to get into this yes yes I gotta see it I mean the high spears of course of course they have a lot of spearmen uh-huh yeah like spears yeah uh oh I bet they have a long range like uh what do you call them catapulting things arrow people in the mountains like oh yeah snipers maybe they're mechanized like yeah oh ballistas yeah they have a lot of like ballistas firing from the back ranks yeah trying to to fell like one of them like automatons yeah totally and the yeah I think they their disadvantage is that the fire fields are much more dangerous than the high spears yeah I think they're much more dangerous than the high spears yeah they're much more mechanically advanced than they are right they're like just throwing masses of foot soldiers at these things and maybe they're lighter and like they're more nimble like a river finds the way you know I mean totally kind of the what do you call it fencing to the broadsword yeah totally like skirmishers and some cavalry that makes sense because the high spear historically was like a bureaucratic center so they're using doing like intelligence missions probably mostly and then yeah the riverways are all like the high spear and the high spear like fishermen and stuff yeah so it's like guerrilla forces probably yeah the riverways they sent people but like infrastructure wise they're the least developed out of probably all of the principalities yeah so they're sending like yeah militias full of just regular people they're kind they're losing yeah they're slower than they thought I think that's the thing that cloud piercer sees is they are holding the fire fields back for now but they will lose they'll run out of people yeah I will pass on your message to the one they call chimes thank you so much it has been a while since I have last lain eyes upon chimes but from what I have heard his battle on the sea of graves is fraught he works to contain the storm but he is only one man though a powerful man he be thing feels the guilt of the storm starter hmm thank you please stay safe you stay safe as well thing if in any way when we arrive we can help I'll reach out your aid would be greatly appreciated but your quest is important and just so we're a hundred percent clear what's the quest gotta stop that gibbous man from disrupting all the knowledge and then you hear you hear perel go oh I got his name right this time that's good and the connection you feel the connection uh and then you are back in the circle I love you I love you as well I love you too damn it no you know I'm just glad that we're finally staying in front of other people and it's so loud that the rest of us are like break the circle break the circle and you're back in the fanny pack that was a lot what do we do we gotta continue on our quest of course jess you forgot the quest maybe I certainly did not and the quest is as we all know jessica take it away get to the mall the mall to do sales and stuff to be clear the city with the mall in it yeah not the mall itself a spear I thought we were going the mall all right yep we're going we're going near the mall the high spear is above the mall though right not directly oh!

High spear is a city that has a mall in it okay well we all pictured it on the I thought we were all going to the mall yeah is the high spear let's read let's do you guys still want to go if the high spear is not above why would I go there if there's if I can't also go the the water slide yeah there's a cinnabon in the mall is there a cinnabon kiosk near the high spear maybe there's a cinnabon in the mall I'm gonna take that as a no there is not a cinnabon in the mall okay yeah there's a cinnabon in the mall there's a cinnabon at the high spear so let's go to the mall just think it's three against one the quest can be whatever we say yeah absolutely I just want to be clear that as established the high spear is not directly above the mall it's on a mountainside over the city remember fair okay so we're going we're going to high spear yeah we're going to the mountain we were originally going to do that through the riverways right but like now it's now it's scary we we had originally had a plan to use the cover of mother never was to get there yeah right then the other potential that we learned in your dream was that there are tunnels underneath the entirety of the principalities that water is running through which is another way to disguise ourselves from the gibbous man she could be in there she could she will probably be in there yeah at least her watchers will be it feels like we kind of have to deal with her either way yeah and maybe okay this is a big swing but maybe do you guys think we could convince her to help us I know she's scary I mean she does have a vendetta against chimes she hates chimes so much yes we could convince her some way that helping this situation is bad for him she's got skin in the game that she probably doesn't want the world destroyed right what's her connection to the gibbous man he's scared of her unknown that's it we don't know yeah we don't know that the gibbous man is afraid of mother never was is there any way we could get the ink that chimes stole back to her like maybe that could be yep he'd have to give up all of the runes on his body I don't know if he could or would do that it's what is keeping him alive I think it would kill him for sure well I mean I say that not knowing for sure it would at least kill the god in him yeah yeah he'd just be a man and then the storm would take over maybe yeah!

Yeah these are all great ideas so what are we trying to do this episode we have to rest because your hit points are six we need three days of rest too we had a full rest yeah we did yeah we can definitely skip forward three days okay that will just mean that three days passes what about the hilarious minutiae that happens in the three days it's so funny what if we made tits or dicks jokes I mean we can do three days but we can do it like we did you know like the library episodes where it's like you each have three days well depending on who needs to rest seriously needs to rest tuck is fucked I'm fine okay then we'll just skip that won't heal or get rid of any debilities.

No, no, no, no, no. I was going to say, I don't have any debilities anymore because the dream being gone gets rid of my wisdom debility. Does it? Yep. Yeah, that was the whole point. Oh, I guess you ate it. Right. But you still need to get your hit points. I have six left. You do still need to recover. I should say. I should exert my authority a little bit. You don't just get to decide. Yeah, recover is great. Vote. Recover. Recover. Abdul aggressively put his arms down.

Abdul's arms are straining at how far they're going down. I'll go. I'll recover. Oh, we bullied you. I'm sorry. No, no, no. I'm way too high status to be bullied. Yeah, you're right. You are the self-proclaimed richest member of the podcast. In saying that he cannot be bullied, he actually bullied us in his explanation of why he can't be bullied. Oh, I get it. I get how you see us. The whores that do your podcast for you. Sorry. What you guys say to me does not impact me in any way.

I don't think you're talking to Jessica at her most politically active. She's furious. Yeah. So now the reason for your debility is gone. I believe you still need to recover from the debility. It doesn't just disappear. Okay. So that'd be three days. This means that if we take three days, Tuck will be doing nothing but resting and talking to people, but nothing high stress or high effort. Oh, my God. So annoying. All right. Let's do it. What if we just give him more of the liquid?

I do have oil of tag it. Just knock him out. Just drag him. Yeah. We're doing like breakfast for dinner buffet. And like Billy, like spikes all the pancakes. That's funny. And you're like, pancakes. Pancakes. Pancakes. I had a vision of putting oil of tag it on the bottom of a cast iron frying pan and hitting him on the top of it. That's so good. I've got the perfect idea. You guys do both of those things. But Tuck eats like four. He eats like 40 pancakes and is still fine.

And he's like, I'm getting kind of sleepy a little bit. Are you guys getting sleepy? Do you hear that? He's too strong. He's too strong to sleep. Yeah. I guess you guys tranquilize him. He sleeps. The only way is to keep him knocked out for three days. Yeah. I order Victor to like. Lay on Tuck to be cozy. Yeah. I will do this thing because I also want to sleep for three days. For some reason, my asshole must be on something.

Ever since I have not been sitting on him, my asshole has been too cold. I must warm it. And he just presses it right against Tuck's chest. While he's asleep. Against the obsidian coins. Yeah. I did not know what my asshole was missing. And now I do. Okay. So Tuck, after three days, we'll have all of his hit points back. And his debilities cleared. Well, his debility cleared. Okay. And I'll also gain my health points back. Yeah.

Billy and Ving will regain all their hit points after one day, which means you have two days to do something if you want to. Oh boy. You sure do. Do we ever. What is this thing that you want to do? Billy is, he's like being an annoying assistant in their workroom while they're building the moss thing. Oh yeah. Yeah. Aquarius. It is. Armature. Armature thing. Yeah. Yeah. What are you doing? Well, we're just trying to finish the, uh, the leg mechanisms for this, for the left leg. Wow. Can I help?

I don't know. I don't see how you could. Uh, Billy starts rummaging around in the moss piles. No, don't do, no, don't do that. This one? No, that's just, I don't need moss right now. We're trying to remember we're making a metal frame for it. Oh, I can help you. All right. Here, why don't you take this? And he gives you like two pieces of metal. Uh huh. Just make sure that those don't touch. Oh, but they want to. I want to touch them. Don't do it. Don't let them touch. Okay.

I'll be really, I, I'll make sure I'm the guardians of these metals. They will not touch. No, you will not touch. Starts doing voices for the metal. No, you can't touch me. I'm going over here. And you hear Morris go, all right, there we go. He just starts working again as Billy's walking around with two pieces of metal in his hand. And he's like waving them in front of Tuck's sleeping face. He's like, I'm going to touch you with them. You can't tell. Because you're asleep. Such a piece of shit.

Just poke, poke, poke, poke. Yeah. And then Tuck goes, Alison, your fingers are so cool. Victor starts licking his face. Alison, oh my God. You're so wet. Also, considering the fact that Tuck now cannot dream, that suggests that he's kind of awake right now. He's sort of semi-conscious. Yeah. He'll like wake up and do the John McClane thing where he rips all the IVs. They'll come in and have to dose him even harder. Good blue. Let me see my wife. Having to give him higher and higher doses.

But Billy, as you're walking around with your metal, making sure that nothing touches. Because Morris and Perel do. You see that they're like 80% of the way done to finishing this mechanical body. After two days, they're almost there. I knew it. It's because these weren't touching. Very good, Billy. Thank you. You made sure they didn't touch. Yeah. They never touched once? No. Even when they wanted to, I said, no way. Incredible. You know what, Billy? Here you go.

And he gives you a bag of marbles. Don't tell Tuck and Bing that I gave you these. And make sure you put them in slowly so they don't realize that they're all there at once. Yeah. So I go do that. Great. Yeah. And your jar is filled significantly. It's so full, I can't even put the lid on. Yeah. But now I'm scared Victor's going to find out. You hear, like, you see one of the marbles start to roll to the edge and start falling to the floor. No, I try to catch it. All right. 2D6 plus six.

It's the highest stakes. Nine. Yeah. As we see the marbles start to fall towards the ground and where Victor is sitting on Tuck, his ears go up. Oh, yeah. But, poof. Billy catches it. My little palm. I get it. And Victor lowers his head and starts licking Tuck's face again. Yeah. So Billy tiptoes down the hallway. Billy, why are you tiptoeing right now? What? I'm walking normally. It's just to not wake Tuck. You hear pizzicato strings as he's walking.

The pages there, like, with a harp, like, plucking little strings as you sneak. Tuck's on four gallons of oil of tegut. He's not waking up. That's not why you're tiptoeing. You got a little secret. No. I don't have a secret. You know what? Have your secret, Billy. Okay. Finn comes over and is like, Billy, I have something for you. What is it? It's a slightly bigger jar. Takes it off his belt. Hands it to Billy. Here. Thank you. The new jar. And so Billy starts. This is his new activity.

He's just moving the marbles slowly from one to the other. Mm-hmm. And that's what he spends the last minute on. Last day doing. Day and a half. Day and a half. Whoa, so slow. So slow. He has naps in between. Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not realizing now that because the jar is bigger, that means that it's longer until he achieves his goal. Yeah, exactly. He doesn't understand that. So he fills the big jar. He's like, I had more than this. So he empties it and it's full again. He's like, what?

What am I doing wrong? The first jar was like a pint. We just keep getting bigger and bigger jars. Just two different sized containers. He's like, what the fuck is happening? Yeah. Billy's like, am I switcherooing without knowing I'm doing it? That must be what's happening. All right. Now I just got to make sure I do it extra slow. This is such a thing that will drive Billy fucking crazy. Yeah, this is his laser. He's going to be so angry. He's furious. He wakes up mad. He sleeps like this.

He's like. I can't figure it out. Yeah, he's goodwill hunting on a chalkboard, but none of it makes sense. Trying to figure out the equation of these two fucking jars. He's gone into their workroom again. This time he doesn't bother Pearl and Morris, but he is using chalk. Can't write properly. They walk up. They're like, you there. What are you writing? Boy, get back here. He fronts off with a mop in a bunch of overalls. Where did he get that mop? Go fuck yourself. Whoa, Jesus. Billy language.

He's language. He's. But he's trying to use. The mop to figure it out. He's like slamming the marbles with the mop. He's cleaning the floor around the mop because he's like, are they getting lost in the dirt? It's too dirty. What's being doing for the two days? You do some spell lores. If there's some research you want to do, you could talk to people. I've got this mother of Pearl dragon scale that maybe has some magical abilities. Yeah, I guess we've never come.

I just realized that you could potentially commune. With the scale to talk to us really in depth. Yeah, because that's from. That's from Syria, right? Yeah. Oh, cool. I could find out more about the sea. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. I wonder. Definitely do that. Okay. I'm going to reach out using the scale to see if Cerulean has any interactions with chimes, which she definitely will. Yeah. Communion whispers with the scale. Siri. I got five plus. Oh, eight. Oh, the vision is unclear.

So I think even the communion. You feel the connection, though it is difficult to make. You feel like a shock as you connect with the spirit of Cerulean depths. And also, I think Ving has to shut it off a little bit because the pure raw power of connecting to a dragon this old and this powerful, you're like, whoa, I got to limit this, mitigate this connection. I think we see through Siri's eyes deep, deep.

In the depths of the Sea of Graves, her long serpentine sinewy body weaving through the depths of the ocean. I like that she's. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. It must be almost pitch black down there. Yeah. I was going to say that. But she sees in bioluminescent vision, almost like she can see as the water touches things, it lights up shapes and everything. So it's this shimmering, glittering bottom of the ocean and creatures jittering around and ghost fish shooting off like a meteor away from her. Yeah.

That could be like, cause she's got those really flowy webbed wings and stuff like that. That could be like how she sees down there. Oh, totally. As it grazes the bottom. Cool. That's so cool. She disturbs the surfaces. Yeah. The glow. Yeah. So she's just like swimming along the ocean floor. Cause that's where she feeds mostly. She's finding like massive abalone. A shell is like the size of like the side of a house.

You feel through like the electromagnetic sense that she has, the bioluminescence that she navigates with, that she feels some sort of disturbance and she swims closer to a grave, which you see buried into the bedrock at the bottom of the ocean. But as she gets closer, the runes start to resolve themselves on the surface of the wardstone and she sees cracks have begun to form in the pillars. Connecting the runes in almost constellation like images of cracks. Yeah.

Reflected as Ving has seen them night in and night out in the night sky. Does anything come out of the cracks? Alice. Scarf. Scarf comes out of that. Scarf. Scarf. There's a red scarf down there. Scarf. Alice's scarf. Cracks. Alice's scarf. And Tuck. You cut to Tuck and he's like. Alice, what are you doing? And I think what this is actually what I was thinking as we see this, this is the end of day three. Tuck is like having the last moment. Of possible dreams.

Like the dreaming part of Tuck's brain is disappearing at the end of this sleep. And as where somebody would go and wake from a dream, it just ends for Tuck. Okay. His eyes open. Can I do one thing? Well, it depends on what the thing is. So as like the kind of like the last of like the pieces of my mind that can dream like kind of dissipate, it's just black, basically like empty mind. And then like he sees eyes. And then his eyes open and it's Black Spire. Oh. Cause he's connected to him. Right.

Through the, through the pick. So it kind of just like that shunts in there. You talk to him. Is that okay? Yeah. That's a, I think it's very interesting. Isn't this a thing I can always do? Cause he, the guitar pick is always like underneath his leather bracer. It was a gift that Ving gave him was like constant. Yes. Yeah. I do remember that. Yeah. Yeah. So he like, I think it's like he accidentally calls out. Yeah. Maybe that's the, it's dream replacement therapy. Yeah.

And Tuck's like, no, I always said Black Spire's here. Not in front of the dog. Yeah. Shoo boy, shoo. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, you are connecting to Black Spire. Okay. You see like two circles of light, which you realize are being seen through the eyes of your dragon bro. Okay. So he's just looking around. But then he feels you connect. He's like, Tuck. Black Spire. Oh. My noble steed. What? Yeah. What time? I'm sorry. You're my noble steed. What's up? Sorry, dude. I'm really fucked up.

They gave me so much oil of tag. No, that sounds so much cooler than bro. What's up? Noble steed. Well, noble steed. I've, I've had a lot of adventures and I've missed you every second of every day. I miss you every day too, man. I will never forgive Oleander for not letting you on that ship. I don't even, you know what? I did the math myself and I think if I know how to math and I do, I could have fit on that boat for sure. Yeah. A hundred percent. You could have.

So what brings you to my mind palace? I, well, I was just asleep and I felt you. I felt you out in the darkness and I reached out and I found you. Yeah. I'm just here in the lab. Just chilling out. How are things at the library? Oh, it's fine. They're feeding me a lot of stuff. I got to say, and I never thought I would say this. I'm getting pretty cooped up. What? I'm just kind of like bored, man. I'm hanging out with all these. Nerds all the time. What do you look like now? Oh, just a sec.

And you see him start to move and a bunch of librarians get knocked out of the way. Took laughs really hard. Excuse me, nerds. I also like that when they hear him go like, oh, yeah, tuck. And then they're like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, They have an alarm. He's communing with talk. We have to get that. He's not going to pay attention to anything in the room. Everybody get out. They're like, send a runner for Farrah. He's in one of his moods. Oh, my gosh.

And he like shoulders his way through. And you do realize he's gotten a bit bigger for sure. And he looks into a shiny piece of metal that they have put in here because he kept clearly forcing his way towards reflective surfaces. So like he wants to look at himself, I guess, at some point. And he looks shape wise much the same that you remember him, but a bit bulkier. He's larger. And his black scales are now. Like streaked with white. Almost.

There are like lines of white scales that have formed on his body. Dude, you look fucking sick. No, it's highlights. You like it? I love. I frosted my teeth. It's a little spikes on his head. Look like frosted tips. Just the tips of the spikes. Yeah, I frosted him. I'm all frosted now. He like pushes his hair down and it's like a little emo. He like whips his hair. He does the emo whip. Yeah, I'm looking pretty cool. Oh, you want to see something sick? Yeah.

And he like hunches down on his massive because his front legs are huge. Yeah. Bulky biceps. And you see, as he starts to hunch down, all of the librarians in the room are like, fucking move. They're like a cartoon, like slipping over the papers. Exactly. Somebody felt like cartoon, like legs pinwheel through the air, throws a bunch of papers in the air. The guy with the German accent. Yeah. Yeah. The zoologist. Yeah. Everybody out. He is preparing to do this thing. And they all run out.

And you actually, he looks to his big head moves to the side and you see like shutters come down on entrances and he opens his mouth and he starts like tensing all of his muscles. Whoa. Like you remember how he, and it looks like he's trying to expel his like magma breath. Yeah. And there's like a clink, clink, clink, clink. Yeah. As his, his, his scales start to align. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And you see the sunstone scales start to illuminate. Whoa.

And he opens his mouth and he, ah, here it comes. Here we go. Check it out. I'm getting shit. I'm getting shit. I'm getting shit. And then you just see, and it's not that impressive, but a flash of light comes from inside his mouth. Whoa. Like a flashball breaking. Holy shit. Whoa. Do you fucking see that? Yeah, I did. That's fucking rad. That's new. I can't do the magma thing anymore, which I'm kind of bummed about. But now whenever I try and barf magma, that happens. That's so awesome.

I'll do it again. Do it again. Do, do, do, do, do. Here I go. I'm going to fucking do it. I'm going to fucking do it. Such a little. And the, like some of the scientists have, I don't know. They come back in the room and they have like black, like welders goggles, basically. And they've got like the little like flash burns on their face. Oh yeah. It is pretty potent. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, and they're in there with like different kinds of rock.

Like they're trying to hypercharge sunstone and see how it like. Maybe they have. There are sunstone like hanging from the ceilings. Oh yeah. In different things. Cause clearly he's been doing this for a little bit now and they're using it to charge sunstone. Cool. In the room. In the room. And we see like. As I, as I see him like looking around, I see there's a bunch of sketches of him in the draw me like one of your French girls.

Cause whatever he notices someone drawing him, he moves into that pose. And they're trying to get like clean zoological like diagrams of him, but he keeps doing poses from behind and him like peeking at him. The Instagram shot. He's looking over his shoulder with a claw over his lips. Like, yeah, I got an injection in my lips. And he's like, oh, this must be hat man. Having a dragon in the library must've blown the study of them wide open. They're like, they're fucking smart.

Cause every time we try to draw him, he starts doing stuff. Yeah. Every time Tuxy's the word smart, it's in quotation marks. He's clearly intelligent, but he's not smart. You know what I mean? They also play like there's tons of music bottles cause they're always playing music for him. Oh yeah. It's the only way to keep them. Like, oh, I'm going to do this. He's like pacified. Oh yeah. Like he said, he's getting fucking bored. And it's like druidic death metal. Yeah.

That's his favorite they found out. It's like Zane is in there all the time. Is Zane in the room? I think Zane's in there. Yeah. He's one of the ones wearing the goggles. He's like fucking so sick. Flash burn to hell. Hair spiked back. Yeah. Is this permanently now? Yeah. Yeah. Tuck, you see, you see Zane, the teenager that you spoke with, the former, uh, or I guess current vessel for the icon of wrath. Oh. Oh shit. Yeah. Is the sunstone flashes having an impact on him?

Oh, actually maybe he would not be in there during that. He comes back in later. He's been in behind a shield. Yeah. If black spire is doing any sort of sunstone related stuff, Zane is not in the room. Is there anything we want to tell Farrah? We ran into mother never was. Oh yeah. How do I get? How would you get this information to her? Through Zane? Through black crunch? I mean, through black spear? Zane can't. Black Spire? Zane can't understand black spire in that way.

Does anyone in the library can any of it? No, it's just you guys. Shit. Technically it's just Bing. Yeah. And then Ving makes it possible for you to understand. Hmm. Okay. Or it could even be a thing where you like, it would take a long time. Yeah. If you're like, okay, black spire, take your claw line down. Now do a circle. Now do a squiggly shape. Yeah. Get him to like write a message. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Librarians come back in and go what and then I just tell black spy I was like make sure pharah sees this okay this is important okay great I don't know what this says but I will make sure that she looks at this thing that I did make sure she looks at it she's smart she'll get it okay I'll do it okay cool tell everybody I also miss them and I just wish that I could be out there fucking on an adventure with you guys right now I wish you were here too it was one of the greatest betrayals of my life that you are not here with us you know man all right I didn't want to have I don't want to okay hey getting close make sure you're listening really hard right now I lean I lean in in the empty negative space that now exists in tux heads what if I broke out of here you should tux doesn't even take a breath oh you should break out and come find us okay all you have to do is get to wickport steal a ship and sail across the sea of graves okay okay you could do it I think I could do that look at me look at your reflection okay he looks in the reflection into his own eyes and he says and then tux says you can do this black spire don't let anybody stand in your way kill them if you have to I'm gonna break out of here I'm gonna break out of here and it's gonna be fucking sick kill every librarian burn the place to the ground these guys are pretty cool these are pretty cool do I want to be clear just make sure the stakes are clear do you want me to kill everybody in here yes if it tux says if it gets you back to me I would burn the world to the ground okay black spire I'm I'm not gonna kill everybody okay I don't do whatever you feel is right I'm just gonna I don't think they can actually stop me if I try to leave okay if I'm being totally honest I think that I I think that I've been kind of taking it for granted the fact that I'm way stronger than everybody in this place okay and then tux goes I need you to write another message under here I'm gonna kill everybody in this place okay and then tux goes I need you to the first one okay and he like shuffles back and knocks over a table and then I coach him again for another like 45 to 65 to 75 minutes through like scratching out another message that says bring back black spire to me or else okay is this gonna be like inflammatory or anything like that nah she'll love it all right great and then and then I I would go I actually need you to write one more thing and then I get him to scratch beneath it war is coming bad okay so I just want to be clear the whole message says hi farrah tits tuck bring black spire back to me or else war is coming bad and then he goes ah fuck threatening he's threatening he's he's like we're we're bringing her a war and then he puts a happy face at the bottom of it colon and then a bracket he does the the text version of a happy face yeah okay cool so this is going to clearly convey the message that you want conveyed uh and he goes okay one more thing and then he after another 25 minutes this is why it takes three days to heal after another 25 minutes it says never was ah okay is it still a clear mother never was ah okay sorry and then okay below it it says high spirit war and then a guy says what's what's the last thing I should put on here guys well we were gonna tell her about mother never was yeah yeah it's up to you and then it says g okay so underneath he puts gm is afraid of never was yeah okay so it's the lab is fucked right now black spire's knocked over everything in the room the letters are really big too because black spire writes like a child yeah he's got big hands yeah high pharah tits tuck bring black black spire to me or war is coming bad or else or else war is coming bad smiley face never was and then mother crammed in above never was never was gm gm is afraid of never was yeah high spear high spear war war love tuck yeah okay cool then yeah I do I do a hard at the end to just try and drive the tone home right okay three x's no hugs for some reason just the x's too hard I just I draw a dick for you for good measure yeah okay great anything else no I think that's it okay cool I think they'll help you get to me and now I sure hope so and if they don't you need to kill everyone and break out of there well I hope to talk to you again soon I hope you come back to my brain I love you I will come back and then your eyes open and when I open my eyes the fragments of coin in my chest are glowing so bright like the ones in his yeah when he was doing the sunset something cool you wake up and you see like the end of the glow you're like oh what and then your eyes are open and your debility is gone this is your ability to dream and back to 26 hit points good lord your hit points are back sick so I mean first things first tuck you come out of the room that you were drugged in for three days and where do we find the rest of the party are we making more oil of tag it yeah we have to do oh yeah we're boiling it up yeah there's a page there with a recipe book and we're like and we're all like you know it looks like we've been slaving around yeah we're really sweaty because it's really humid so you you uh look up from your tag it operation and you see tuck emerging from the room looking pretty good he's dragging himself down the hallway because his bottom half is still paralyzed basically an iv stick behind him whoa are you okay now I'm okay now I'm all better there's like six bags of ivs that he's just dragging behind him that he just didn't bother to pull out uh great so you all come back together and uh I mean are you guys talking to each other yeah yeah for sure we're always talking together I'd tell you guys that I talked to black spire yeah oh so is he on his way then I hope so I hope he kills every librarian in there oh my gosh I hope your note was legible I think it was really clear I told farah everything that was going on with us all of this stuff it's almost like you forgot what our quest was tuck yeah it was really clear anyway what are you guys not murky at all like your fucking thing uh I had a secret project they tell them about the marbles I don't know something the math isn't mathing up oh you're telling us to get help with it okay well billy I appreciate that you did tell us about this because you remember we're not allowed to keep secrets surprises are good secrets are bad I also like that you attempted to do it on your own thank you that's fun too that is good I will say that I appreciate your honesty so much I'm gonna let you keep all the marbles oh yes that perel gave you yes as a reward here's a bigger jar no I'm so hungry when do I get to use it this is becoming like uh not a good thing yeah you're kind of torturing billy a little bit I tell the most serenity of the depths and the cracking of the of the graves well that's not good do you think the storm is trying to destroy the graves so it can be stronger like you know when wind blows are unobstructed if it's a magical storm and it gets rid of the ward stone possibly oh shit right they're a ward stone too yeah fuck okay yeah that is a problem it might be containing the storm to the sea what if without the graves the storm is unleashed and increased across the entire planet I thought you already did that remember I'm the problem we weren't gonna bring it up anymore tuck I thought he already feels bad enough about it already I thought he seems to have forgotten it though billy I thought we were just driving images for fans to paint I thought that was draw this this is the motivation of most of our moves we cut back to when vink threw the storm out of the sea of graves and we didn't hear it because of the sound of the storm I saw his mouth go they went draw this yeah what else is in the sea what else is contained there lillian well lillian is the storm right so she brings down the ward stone that keeps her prism oh fuck did you guys forget that the the blood moon lily is buried yes in a tomb beneath the sea of graves shit yeah that's kind of a wild card too because if she gets out she could either attack us because humans killed rian or she could go for the gibbous man because he he locked her away or she could go for chimes because chimes also locked her away opening lillian's box is a real pandora's box it really is yeah it absolutely is we have no idea what will come out we're gonna have to wait until we get to the end of the show and we'll see you in the next video you want to keep that cat in the bag if that's what chimes is dealing with I feel like he might not have time to help us yeah he's dealing with his ex he's he's our uncle who's dealing with his toxic ex yeah um it's interesting you're all sort of like marooned right now you're in between all of these things that you need to address you don't know what to do next and you hear a knocking down the hallway we go down the hall yeah and as you walk down the hallway you hear another faint knock at the door that used to go that went to dathaniel's room and you walk up to the door and all of the rooms have these like little brass plates beside them and like dathaniel's used to say like guest bedroom and tuck's like perot probably got himself stuck in there again and as you approach I think ving you notice is tuck is going right beelining for the room that dathaniel used to be in for some reason uh maybe hopeful he's back oh my god he licks his lips and skittering after uh ving you notice that the brass plate next to the door now says hither and yawn and that's where we're gonna end today's episode oh fuck yeah I'm your game master Sean O'Hara joining me as always tacoma dome the barbarian abdulaziz so long everybody being the half elf druid Paul Oppers take care and fat billy the halfling thief jessica tie goodbye oh this is the first one we've recorded since smallbrats has come out and since the all that shit right number one yeah let's I just want to give a quick let's just give a quick thank you so much to all of you for all of your support during the launch of Mall Brats which is now available anywhere you get your podcasts uh we were for a brief beautiful period in time the number one comedy fiction podcast in canada the number one and guys canada's huge I think it's based on land mass it stores so many podcasts in it there's so many servers here yeah Mall Brats is going to be alternate schedule to Spout Lore so every week you're going to get some hot fresh content from your friends at Spout Lore studios and Mall Brats is available in its most intense form also on patreon you can get years worth of Mall Brats content two seasons of a show at patreon.com slash Spout Lore or Spout Lore.com slash money please and thank you to aaron reed for our intro and outro music which you can find all of the music produced for the show on spotify and all of aaron's original music at aaron reed.com thank you so much finally to all of you for listening we'll see you next time and so ends the tale of 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