Episode 1 – Everyone’s Doing Espionage

Spout Lore is made possible by contributions from our listeners if you would like to support us go to patreon.com Spout Lore where you can get extra bonus special content 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 max the largest heart best and brightest they may not be but their friendship outweighs their smarts so gather round friends and listen you for the tales about to start hello there 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 hello there and playing fat billy the halfling thief jessica tie hello everyone when last we left our heroes they were being informed by perel last name unknown about uh the identity of the wizard reputed to live in the glacial tower that one of the two potential wizard boxes is being kept in we learned that it was the residence of a mysterious wizard named adernick all water whose area of specialty was unknown but she was known to be of great power and great influence as the leader of what the wizards called the gathering we then said goodbye to a number of library characters and we were able to get to the end of the episode and we're going to get to the end of the episode and we're going to get to the end of the episode louise the chef in the cafeteria we avoided saying goodbye to birdie the night shift chef in the cafeteria tuck and ving said goodbye to maresh elnor and learned that uh the capture of roth and the study of his connection to the spirit world by maresh and the medical wing of the margani library had yielded information that the spirit world and the material are perhaps a bit more intermingled than many specialists at the time of the episode so we're going to get to the first believed so we now know that there's a little bit of the material in the spirit and a little bit of the spirit in the material whatever that might mean we then prepared for a going away party grec owner of the bar that tuck used to work in in mccall brought blood feet for musical entertainments uh we saw zane and uma shusha talked to zane troubled young man and current vessel of the icon of wrath uh ving and shia yeah had a little moment yeah said goodbye said they wish they had more time together uh to kind of really get into the brother-sister relationship well maybe someday they will maybe someday they will they did learn that they both had been told an identical children's rhyme lullaby uh called the arrow's path that potentially very very likely has a connection to their father because the very first line starts with the ranger king so it's probably him and honestly he probably is the ranger king wrote it about himself yeah so who knows what uh mysteries are contained within those lines uh oh ving snapped his unbreakable spear oh yeah in half and gave one half to shia yeah yeah that spear is really not unbreakable it has been broken more times than not honestly at this point and we finish things off with tuck approaching ama margani after learning that um zane vessel for the icon of wrath zane vessel for the icon of wrath is able to draw upon his icon's powers while retaining his own personhood and uh agency so tuck approached ama and asked him to look once more into the truth of tuck and ama once more saw nothing then in a desperate gamble to try and understand what tuck's deal is ama attempted to look forward to the truth of tuck's future and delivered the prophecy it will end for you beneath a burning tree and the last thing you say will be a lie and that is where we find ourselves now fireworks arc through the skies above people are hooting and hollering as the fireworks are led off into the sky you can see uh pops and bursts of light in the direction of the city of mccall and people are starting to uh take part in the secondary purpose of the fireworks festival as they begin to fire fireworks at one another oh shit just a couple people here in the city of mccall people here and there.

The library is pretty good, but there's a lot of academic rivals in the library. Just shooting Roman candles at each other. Yeah, so you just hear like Virgil, you fuck! It gets really smoky when you shoot Roman candles back and forth, so it's like starting to get pretty smoky. Oh yeah, Billy's laying low to the ground. Trying to scuttle away. And Tuck lost Amma because he was going to be like, what the fuck does that mean? But like, it got smoky so fast. Well, Tuck got hit in the face a lot.

I think a lot of people don't like Tuck, actually. He's a huge target. Yeah, so that's what's going on. The fireworks festival has well and truly begun. I seek shelter under the party sub table. Safe here. He says as he grabs another. Yeah, just pull us up down. I said that's still connected to the top. Like an elephant. If anyone was looking, they would see that all subs lead to Billy and Billy. Your solitude is broken as a burst of sand heralds the arrival of Perel.

Hey, man, they almost got me there. Yeah. A couple of people have a real problem with me. It would seem. Oh, I wonder why. Why? Oh, I don't know. Hey, Tuck, what are you doing down here? God, I got hit in the face like seven times.

Where's being we could maybe things in the square with like a Roman candle sticking out of every like Wolverine and he's flipping them around just like when he was a bartender like he was doing like cocktails and dreams moves with them and he's he's getting hit everywhere, but he's just laughing and shooting him because he can't be hurt by flame. That's true. His hair is a little bit on fire. His clothes are on fire. Yeah, the fire won't even touch your skin. Yeah.

I guess Perel's just like, should we just hang out under here? Should wait for this to die down. Yeah. Does anyone have any scores they want to settle? Did I hate anyone? Billy says. Yeah. Actually, Perel goes, no, I don't. Actually, and he crawls out of the table and he comes back with a Roman candle in his hand and he tucks it into his robe and goes, I'm gonna hold on to that for later. Wait, why? I have plans for it. What? You can only do it now, though.

Oh, I'm not McCallin, so I can do it whenever I want. Actually, I like that. He's like, I'll be saving this for later stuff in his shirt, and it's like, it's a little wick. It just goes off under his chin. You see it go slowly burning as it goes under his shirt. Is the universe being like, no, I know who you hate the most. It's you. And we can just honestly, we can just cut forward unless Tuck has somebody he wants to go deal with. We sent an invitation to Fadum. Did he show up?

Oh, did Fadum show up? I don't think so. Okay, fair enough. Oh, man. I think that Fadum is out there somewhere beneath the pale moonlight. Tuck and Fadum looking at the moon singing that song. There's a world beneath the pale moonlight. And then it's just Tuck and Fadum whacking each other in the nuts every once in a while. It's my, I'm singing. Shut up. Shut the fuck up. I have the deeper register. Yeah, and you're gonna have the higher register if you don't shut the fuck up right now.

Sick bird. Like we can, we already, we talked about it earlier. We could just jump forward to. Yeah, I don't have any scores I need to settle. We cut to next morning. Did everyone sleep above ground in Elaine Springs or did you go back downstairs? Um, I did sleep under the party sub table, but I'm in the library now. Yeah, I also slept under the party sub table. Okay. And you're still there? Yeah. Uh, and we cut forward a little bit more and you guys are, I guess, packing up your room.

Yeah, I already, um, packed up and I'm clinging to Farrah's leg. Like, I don't want to be here because it's so hot, but I also don't want to go. You are such a nice grandma and I don't want to go on the road. I don't want to go in the sea again. Billy, it's okay. She, like, kneels down and tries to get you off her leg, but she, like, holds you. It's alright.

It was, and I can say this, one of the greatest pleasures of my life to meet you and the lessons that the three of you have imparted on me, in me, and around me will be of great importance to me for my remaining days. May they be long and endless because, as I said, I am already quite old and I plan on getting much older. Okay, that's good. Um, if you hear from Erk, uh, just, like, send a little moth or whatever it is that you guys use. I will.

Um, I wish that I could have tied this up neater for you, but he hasn't. We haven't been able to retrieve the text yet. That's okay. I'll know if it doesn't work out, I guess. And then I let go and I, like, kick a pebble. Billy. It's fine. No, the pursuit- No, it's fine. No, Billy, the pursuit of knowledge is a long and arduous road, but the destination is always worth the journey. Whatever. Okay. That does sound like a nerd. I don't really know what else to say.

I just want you to know that I'm going to miss you. I'll miss you, too. Bye! Billy is embarrassed and runs away. Yeah, she doesn't call after you. She lets you be embarrassed. Yeah, she lets you sit in your feelings. Thank you for being so good to us. You didn't have to do that. We kind of forced you to be good to us. You did, in a way. I recall you smashing into the library via secret entrance the first time you came here. Yeah. What good memories those were. Oh, man. That was so us.

I look forward to hearing of your exploits. The ability to travel and see the things that the three of you, four of you, she nods at Perel, who nods back and goes, hey, that the four of you have seen and will see is incredible. Gift. And sharing it with me and thus with the world is an incredible kindness. I wish that there was a way that we could easier correspond, but I understand your location will be up in the air. So perhaps this may help in an emergency situation.

And she, like, pokes a bookshelf and beep boop beep boop beep boop beep boop boop. A little bookworm crawls onto her finger. Okay. She says, um, she will find her way back to me regardless, so if you have a message, unfortunately, a single message, then she will bring it to me. Oh, super important. Beep boop beep boop beep boop beep boop. And she transfers from Farah's finger to Tuck's finger. And Tuck's like, one message. What would it be? Bing, make sure that he doesn't use it right away.

I mean, I'll do my best. I'm fucking responsible, okay, guys? I've grown a lot since the beginning of this show, okay? I won't, but burn this immediately, okay? Actually, you know what? Beep boop beep boop beep boop. Take two. Yeah, you give it to me. Tee-doo, tee-doo, onto Bing's finger. Hey, buddy, what's your name? Bing asks the worm. Uh, goes, Mahmood. Hey, Mahmood. And he has markings around his eyes that look like little glasses. Cute. That's the only thing that distinguishes him.

And she shakes your hands. I shake Farrah's hand. I'll miss you. Bing shakes both of their hands, shaking. I'll miss you as well. Thank you. Maybe someday people will write about what happens next, and you'll find out when it comes to your library after being published and then distributed and then making its way through the history of knowledge through books. And then back to you, the keeper of knowledge of books and nerdy things like this.

Don't let this go to your heads, but some people already are writing about you. What? Who? I can't share others' work before it's finished. Fuck, what are they writing? Your histories. Okay, well, let them know that I am in a book phase, but I will be in a cut phase eventually. So if they have any, like, you know, like, drawings they need to do, get in touch whenever that happens, I guess. Let them know a few months in advance. Yeah, and I will dehydrate like crazy for whatever the…

Thing that we're, like, the painting. I don't know how people paint things in our world. I just know that pictures exist, so whatever process to make pictures happen. She shakes her head and says, Tuck, don't dehydrate, please. That's not… It seems like a good idea because you see it in the plays and in the moving pictures, but it's a terrible idea for both health reasons and other… Reasons. Anyways, good luck on your journeys. I hope to hear from you soon.

Hey, maybe this can help you or at least add it to your collection. I have a book about magical storms. It was in the offices of a wizard. Oh, it was from Aquarius. Study from a gajillion years ago. Actually, we might need that. We're going to a magical storm. Actually, probably is a good idea. I'll hang on to that. Okay. It looks cool, huh? It does. It has pop-ups. Oh, don't show me that. Just take it away. And then Tuck's like, I do have this first edition Love and Lust.

It's a choose-your-own-adventure, although you know, we might need that. Yeah, we might want to show it. You can keep that one, actually. That's for jerk-off purposes. And Perel leans forward and says, I have nothing to add, but thank you for taking me in and keeping me safe. And she nods and goes, we would have it no other way. Good luck on your journeys. Bye. Thank you. Goodbye. And she goes into her office and closes the door. Should we go say bye to Black Spire? Yeah.

You find Billy clinging to Black Spire's leg. We go down into the mine. You're already there. It's okay, bro. It's okay. I'll see you guys sometime. Make sure you write lots of letters that Tuck and Ving can read to me. There is no step of that that I am capable of. No worries. How about you write a letter in your head and then I write a letter in my head and then we pretend like we send them and respond that way. Yeah, I could do that. That's actually a very sweet way.

I think about missing someone. Yeah, so I will definitely do that and you're going to be cool like you're look. I'm going to live forever and so are all of you. So we will see each other soon. I hope so. Yeah, and Tuck in his head remembers that he just received a prophecy that he was going to die. He's like, yeah, man. Yeah, we all will live forever. Certainly fairy elf elf. Whatever I am orphan. Yeah, so I'll be good. I got crunch here and look I've been getting I've been making gains.

Look at me. Yeah, you're so big and strong and you actually do notice he is he's bigger. He's noticeably larger. What? Yeah, getting bigger. I've been fucking chowing on the crunch. Look at the size of this place, man. I got room to grow. Holy shit. So proud of you Black Spire. Hey, I'm proud of you. I am not in touch with my emotions for trauma reasons, but I just want to say thank you for showing me the world and thanks for being who you are. Whoa.

Yeah, it's been a long day thing and thanks for showing us the world that you see what? No, I get it man. I get it being is taking this many attempts at the goodbye actually and thanks for thanks for helping out with our our thanks for helping out with our Billy's doing like the stretch it out motion to being like keep going man. I hate I hate long goodbyes. Thanks for being such a good pal to our friends. Yeah, thanks for being a good boy. Oh, yeah. Mama. Uh-huh.

He's got some some big bright crunch for you tight. Yeah, Fran. He's got some for you to say. Yeah, I love those old dudes. Yeah, you're gonna love hanging out with them. Cool. And thanks for giving me one of your scales and tuck. You actually noticed there is an obsidian coin in the middle of his forehead. Oh, hey, anytime. I think they grow back. Yeah, he shrugs who knows.

Hey, also, I don't know if this is going to help and he whips his tail a couple times and then smacks it against a rock and he reaches back with his little claw and like shoves forward a long shard of obsidian. Whoa, holy shit. He's like that will cut anything once what yeah, things slowly careful. You're gonna want to pick it up with like a with an iron. Oh, yeah, I know that should be fine. Plank. Thank you. You put that on your spear as well. I was thinking pal. You do need to use.

Okay, you're gonna hear some big words from me. Okay. Okay, it will need to be wielded with intention, but it will cut anything. So you have to want to cut it. Yeah, like if you pick it up, it's not going to slice your fucking fingers off. Okay, but like if you got to like he does like a bunch of stabbing, you know like that. Oh, but only one time not three times. No, it's the biggest word I've ever heard three grunts. That was a fun ride. Thank you.

Cause I'm holding onto his arms the whole time. Yeah, so I don't know. I heard you say put it on your spear. Yeah, I'd save it. Oh, okay. Well, I'll make sure it gets used when it needs to. Yeah. Thank you. Hey, anytime you're my bros. Come here. Bring it in. I go and I hug him around the neck. Yeah. And he wraps you in his big giant forearms and he gets it gets tighter. I'm gonna miss you bro so much. I'm gonna miss you guys so much. You're a good boy. You're a good boy. Okay.

Catch you on the flip side, bros. And he does a back. He tries to do a back flip. He jumps up and back and lands on his back and then rolls over his wings, scrabbling under and he flips over onto his front and he runs off into the cave. Yeah. He jumps off a cliff and you hear him go Black Spire. Oh, fuck. I'm fine. I'm fine. I landed it. I landed it. I landed it. And you hear Black Spire gallop off into the darkness. I guess that's it then. I know this is hard. He meant a lot to you.

Me and Black Spire got you this. I don't know if you noticed in the middle of his forehead, your obsidian coin. What? Yeah. What? Here, him and I got you this and Ving hands Tuck an obsidian guitar pick. Oh, whoa. Holy shit. Wait, what was in the middle of his forehead? I traded him the obsidian coin for one of his scales. This has been imbued with the mark of the eyes of the tiger. Oh. So that if you ever want, you can see through the coin. Holy shit. Seriously?

If you ever want to visit your spirit animal, you can. So wait, what do I, explain more. How does this work? Ving has removed his eye of the tiger mark from Ama and imbued it into the pick so you can see through the eye of Black Spire. Oh no fucking way. Don't know if it's gonna work or if it'll be a comfort to you in a time of great darkness or loneliness. Who knows? But when you need it, he'll be a friend for you. So he has the obsidian coin with him? Yeah. Oh shit. That's fucking rad. Man.

It's a really weird way of bringing it up. Yeah. I don't know if I'd play guitar with that I'd probably cut through the stream. But you know what? Shred, bro. Yeah, man. Fucking sick. Billy has like the secret smile on his face. He's like, finally the secret is revealed. Did you guys record a thing while I was gone? Yeah. Of us like talking about it. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Cool. Fucking sick. So now you have a spirit animal with a jewel in his forehead like Ving does. Yeah.

He's got the coin in his forehead. Yeah. Fucking rad. So he has a little third eye obsidian coin. I wonder what it'll imbue to him. Yeah. Can he talk to me? Can he see through my eyes? Who knows? Can I try it now? Yeah. It's a hard process for Tuck because he doesn't quite understand how the theory and the practices. So it's hard to connect. You don't really feel it right now. I put it on my forehead. It's cold. I think he's cold. We should go back. No, he's cold blooded. It's okay. It's okay.

It's fine. And then Tuck puts it in his leather wrist strap like an asshole in a college quad. Oh, yeah. So sick. So you guys just head back to the motor pool to meet Maggie. Yeah. Get out of here. And Maggie is there. She's got her stuff such as it is packed up on the retrofitted boat that you guys wrote in on. Yeah. You see, the Balco slouched on the couch, beet red and panting. What? And Maggie's like, all right, we ready to go. What the fuck happened to Balco? Oh, you know how it is.

Hop in, everybody. No, no. Balco, what happened? Billy? He's fine. What happened to him? She gives you all a look. Come on. Fist pump speed master. She fist bumps thing. Do I really need to talk about it? Did you guys fuck? Let's just go. All right. S&M and S&M. I don't know how it is with the three of you, four of you per rail. I'm sorry. I keep forgetting you're there. That's fine. Everybody does. His mouth has been full of granola this whole time is why he hasn't been talking.

He's been eating leftover party sub from the night before. Yeah, we don't. Let's just get out of here and you load up into the sand boat. Do you guys really want to belabor this point? Okay, they fucked a fucking visual gag. Okay, that's so funny that you guys are like, no, don't be vague with me. Don't try and play coy details and you load up your shit and head out. Yeah, and we cut forward to the city of Wickport. So did they fuck on the couch right before we walked in?

I think as we were walking in. Why was he so red right away? I'm not red after sex. I mean, Balco is red most of the time, so he's maybe just a little extra red. So they fucked right before we walked into the motorhome. No, he's a big dude. He doesn't have great cardio. It could have been half an hour before. Shun didn't say, his face was red. It's a good point. You are at the harbor of Wickport standing before the clear water.

People have very frustrated looks on their faces as the stevedores that only days ago finished unloading the boat are now loading it back up and they keep seeing that they pass the three of you and they like spit on the boards. Dude, come on. It's a union job. I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't for the pennies and he walks up. The boat. Isn't that what you wanted? Do you want to find us? We just made your jobs easier.

The guy stops at the top and looks back down and he goes, pennies, and he keeps walking onto the boat. It's weird that he's working for Eggs Benedict. I mean, I guess I would work for Eggs Benedict. It's just we never ask for them. We'll work for brunch for five Eggs Benedict a day plus expenses. So Greg comes down the gangplank with another kind of older, shrimpy looking old man with like glass. On his nose and long gray hair in a ponytail.

He's like everybody just, you know, we're just getting loaded up, but I just wanted to introduce you to the bosun Eggs Benedict. He's going to be sort of in charge of the deck crew. So you might want to get familiar. What's a bosun? He's going to be in charge of the deck crew. So you might want to get familiar. What's a deck crew? Yeah, a crew. I don't want to have to explain all the parts of a boat and the life upon the boat.

So a bosun is a person who is in charge of the deck crew and the general maintenance of the ship. What is deck crew do? They crew the deck. Yeah. What's a stevedore again? Stevedore is a person that loads and unloads a ship. Huh? You guys have been on boats before, right? Yeah. How'd you get here? We got we got on a little boat and you just didn't on little boat. I got a little one and then the patron of sailors just dropped us off here.

You know, you can be on a boat without naming things a bunch of stupid names, right? Yeah. And when you say the patron of sailors got us here, eggs like leans around Greg is like, what did you say? Chimes, you know chimes, like guy with like kind of like bald, lots of tattoos like long beard with like rings in it used to be married to the moon. Yeah. Sales a little boat with a bunch of runes on it. He calls it the calm. Yeah. Sales like the sea of graves for all of eternity. Yeah.

Pretty magical guy. He gave us this knife pulls out the waning knife that he stole from Billy the night before. Hey, we've been stealing it back and forth. It's kind of like a fucking elf on the shelf game. It's like, where's the waning knife today? Old tattoos, long beard, gray hair. Yeah. Yeah. I can't, you know, doesn't doesn't ring a bell as eight people matching that description walk past him onto the ship chimes.

Oh, no, that's not just you described basically ninety percent of the sailors that I've ever worked with. So anyways, yeah, eggs Benedict pleased to be at your service. Don't get in my way. Okay, where's our bedroom? Oh my God and he just walks up onto the ship and Greg is like just don't he's he's he's a courier sailor. He's a real ornery folk kind of kind of folk. But yeah, you got you guys got hammocks. It's all good. Okay, cool. Come on.

Let's get you settled and he takes you up top and then down below with all your stuff and you are struck by the size of the clear water. Like you have only been in this thing when it was a shattered piece of shit that was half buried in the mud, right? But this is like a big-ass boat multiple decks dozens of crew shit piled everywhere because there's no wasted space on a boat. Yeah, some people would say it's big enough to fit a small elephant or hippopotamus made out of rocks.

A couple big dogs or very small dragon and you're looking around and you're like, yeah where I can't see any space that would be able to fit a 15,000 pound dragon that was only getting larger by the day. But you do see some people do have pets on the ship like somebody somebody has like a bird and there's like a dog, you know, just like sea pets and Greg takes you down to the where that looks like. The crew sleeps and he kind of gestures to an area around him.

Okay, and he's like, yeah, you can sling your hammocks here sometime between or I want to say you're not really crew. So you're going to get the worst sleeping slots. It's probably going to be like, I don't know between 4 and 10 p.m. I'd like to nominate that we sleep whenever we want to agreed agreed seconded. Yeah majority votes. Yeah three to one. Yeah.

Yeah, you guys are going to love life on a ship motion past and he takes you to Maggie's cabin the captain's quarters as she is settling in with her shit. She's unpacking her bags and she's like, ah, yeah. Hi, what do you think of the ship been a while since you've been on here? Huh? Was a no small undertaking to get this thing floating again. It's pretty good. Yeah. All right. So we got a crew of pretty decent sailors a lot of career folk.

We picked up in the principalities in between but you three are pretty exceptional in each of your own ways. So Billy you got those you got those peepers my eyes. Yeah, you got a good way of seeing a good distance. Uh-huh. All right, you're going to be up in the crow's nest. They're going to be keeping an eye out with the crows with their crow is up there. Yeah, and you're going to be helping him keep an eye on things. Okay thing. Yes, you've got control over a certain elemental abilities.

Control is a very loose word in my mind. You're going to be what I call wind boy. Bing looks off into the distance and a little bit of breeze races his wild gray hair and he goes wind boy. I like the sounds of that and tuck. Hey you carry whatever anyone tells you to carry. Oh sick. I'm so good at that sucks. I have to sit up with the crows while you guys do fun things Billy. Do you not want to you don't have I'm not going to make you your little kid. I'm not going to make you do stuff.

I can trade you if you want to carry everything it's fine. I'll just I'll sit with the birds and I've just now decided that the perilous journey role will still be the perilous journey role, but it will be to determine how much trouble you three make during this journey and how it affects the jobs of those around you sweet. Okay, so first leg of the journey which is going to be from Wickport to to an island like a group of islands further that to the north where it starts getting cold.

Okay, I go yeah, an archipelago an Arctic archipelago and then from there. We'll kind of see what happens because maybe this this will be the whole episode. So who can say so perilous journey it's all plus wisdom and what is our individual roles carrying wind, boy, crows, and okay, so it's not the same roles as you know, because they have a quartermaster, you know, it's just kind of like do you guys fuck somebody else up enough? Okay, we get into trouble. Do I see something really dangerous?

Exactly plus wisdom. I got twelve three nice plus was my got eleven. Okay, so wind boy doing a great job great. Basically the trailblazer, you know helping carry the ship along. Billy the Scout did a great job and tuck fucked up somehow so Billy will be able to spot any sort of danger before it arrives.

So you see, you know, you head out from Wickport early in the day as the sun rises you sail for a good few hours like half a day and Billy you see ships here and they're passing by of all make and model. Yeah, the climb up to the bird's nest zone was harrowing to say the least. Um, they eventually had to wrap a rope around Billy and call him up. Yeah, and he was like staying here the whole time not leaving now and you get to the top and there is a man up there who is skin and bones.

He's so skinny and he's got ragged shorts on Oh, no, like a tank top and he's got huge glasses that magnify his eyes so big in his head. Cool. He's just like, hey, kid. Are you okay? Oh, yeah, I'm better than I've ever been. I'm Crow. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. I'm Fat Billy. Oh, your name's Fat? Actually, you know what? You fit right in on a ship crew. Everybody's got fucked up names. Thank you. I'm good. They call me Crow for God's sake. What's your real name? My name's Bernard.

Oh, Bernard. I kind of like that name better. Don't let anybody hear you call me Bernard. Okay. Do you want a snack? Yes. What do you got? I have, okay, I have a lot to choose from. I have dried fruit, mostly persimmons and waffles, and I have dried wapple nuts and something, I don't know what kind of nuts these are, but they're really long. And then I also have jerky and I have a baggie of gumbo. Gosh, that winded. I have protein drinks and protein powder and protein candy. I have cubes.

I have a bag of moss. You can have it. I don't want it. As you're looking through your bag, talking about all the foods that you have, a drip of saliva hits the wood in front of you. And he's like, kid, you're going to have to be very careful with that food. They're extremely strict about when people eat on a boat, but I would love some of your wapple nuts right now. Do they starve him? No, they don't starve anybody. It's just if you run out of food on a ship, then things get really bad.

Okay, well, you can have it all. Oh, thank you. Yeah, I'm really concerned about how skinny he is. Oh, no, this is just a genetic thing. And he starts shoving wapple nuts in his mouth. I'll keep first watch. And yeah, a couple hours pass and you see some ships here and there passing by. Nothing out of the ordinary, it would seem. You see like a spray of water off in the distance. And just as you swing your binoculars, a tail flips beneath the water. Is that a dragon? Was it Siri? Oh, my gosh.

How big was it? Big. It was big? It was really big. Pretty big. Didn't get a good look at what the tail actually looked like. No. Just movement and water. But you do notice that one ship seems to be following you. At a distance, but following you. Discern realities. Plus wisdom. Seven. Okay, so you get one question off the list. I would like to know, What is the most dangerous thing in the world? What is the most dangerous thing in the world? What is the most dangerous thing in the world?

What is about to happen? What is about to happen is a general period of time. Not within the next few seconds, just because of how ships work. But this ship is going to try and get as close to you as possible until you are in what they hope to be a vulnerable position. And then they're going to attack and board you. Oh, shit. Hey, Bernard. Yeah. Look over there. And he grabs his, he picks up a little tiny spyglass. And it unfolds to be like, a meter and a half long.

I have to move out of the way for that. And he clings it against his already huge glasses and goes, Oh, yeah. Pirates. Is there an alarm to sound? Oh, we don't got to worry about them. Not right now. Okay. They're pretty far away. Old Clearwater, she's got some surprises in her. So, yeah, just keep an eye out. Okay. I keep watching them, I guess. Yeah. They're just, it's just good to know that they're out there, but it's not like we're going to get you. What does their ship look like?

It looks pretty nondescript, nondescript to the point of being suspicious. Like there's no flag. It doesn't fly a flag. Yeah. They painted the hull the color of the sky behind it. Yeah. It's just a very beautiful area, like blues and whites. A fog bank rolls in behind them. And you see these, this guy in the deck yelling and screaming. And all these guys like, oh, and they go over the sides, start painting the side of the boat. It must be wasting a fortune on paint.

And if you look really, really close, you can just make out the name along the side says Blue Period. And you know what? They probably would have been okay catching you if it wasn't for Windboy Ving, who does a great job of calling up just a nice, healthy breeze. Yeah. Yep. So. So you are what? Just, I guess you're just standing on the deck doing your thing. Yeah, totally. Just, he's got ropes in his hands. Maybe they don't go anywhere just to make him feel important.

And he's up on the front, king of the world. Nice. On the bow. And just having the effect I desire come to pass. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And the breeze keeps up for a good long while and you're able to push the ship along a little bit faster than it would have been able to go anyways. Mm-hmm. So, maybe a probably four or five day journey to this town is gonna be like three and a half. Wow. And there's so many sailors gathered on the deck behind you not doing their jobs that are just like, wow. So cool.

What does Ving look like while he does this? He's like out on the bow, right? He's out on the bow. Yeah. Like standing on the, yeah. Strip to the waist. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, with really billowy blue linen, like three quarter pants. Where'd these come from? He ripped down the mizzen. He ripped down the mizzen. And he's made built pants out of them. His hair is blowing full forward like a windsock. Whoa. And he's following the direction of his hair. So cool.

And when there's a bunch of people looking and just like gawking at him, he like calls up a big gust and blows all their hats off and says like, you know, get back to work, you scallywags. Leave the blow job to me. And they're not even mad. They're like, wow, what a man. Ha. That might be. Dot, dot, dot. And tuck, you've been holding the same box for two hours and no one's told you where to put it. Sweating, quivering. Actually, it's not that bad. I've kind of just been holding this box. Yeah.

A guy told me to pick it up two and a half hours ago. And I haven't put it down. Really? I'm really, really bored. But other than that, I'm just holding this box. Yeah. You kind of have actually, you know what? It's a lot of scrabbling coming from inside of it. Yeah, totally. It's a lot of scrabbling. He keeps it every time someone passes him. He's just like this box is scrabbling a lot. And nobody responds. I feel like someone should take this more seriously. It's making a lot of noise.

Can someone please pay attention to me? Does anyone see the guy who looks like he wants this box to be anywhere? And you just kind of have time. You just have this box there. It's making noises. You notice there are a couple holes in it. I tried to look in there and like a talon came out one time. Oh, I wonder what's in here then. So yeah, Tuck, no one's telling you what to do with this box, man. I need an adult. And after a long time of saying, I need an adult. I need an adult. Over and over.

Eggs Benedict comes up to you and is like, come, come here. Come here. What? What are you doing standing around for someone told me to pick up this box and it's getting mad at me now. Why? You thought you got just hold the box on the deck. You thought that's what we do with boxes here on the ship. I've been asking people what to do for so long. I don't know anything. And he puts his finger to his lips. Be quiet. Okay, come with me. Okay. And he takes you down the steps down below decks. What?

Down below decks. Okay. Down below decks. Are you going to beat me? No, just be quiet. What? You're so paranoid. I mean, I've never been on a ship before. I don't know. Is there an initiation? Well, I mean, actually, yeah, when you cross the equator for the first time there is, but we're not going to do that. Okay. Well, actually, no, we're not going to do that. We're about the equator. Okay. Come with me. Okay. And he takes you down to where the cargo is.

And then you go past where the cargo is to like a weird kind of out of the way closet almost. With like a door with a heavy lock on it. Whoa. And he opens up, he grabs a key off his belt, but not off the ring that has all of the other keys on it. He grabs a different key and he unlocks the lock and he opens it and there's one other box in there, but not a lot of other stuff. Weird that there's unused space basically. And he's like, put it in there. Okay, man. Why are you so mad at me?

Just put the box in there. Fuck you, dude. And I put it in. Okay, get out of here. Go on. Okay. Go on. What are you being so rude about? And he closes the door and he locks it. What the fuck is going on with you? Get above deck. It's about horror. Oh yeah. I wanted to discern realities. Or discern reality. Figure out why the fuck this guy's being so rude. Okay. 2d6 plus wisdom. Eight. So you get one question. What here is not what it appears to be. Smart.

You notice that as you go back above, are you going to stay here? No, I think this is as you're leaving. Yeah. You walk back up and you're walking through the cargo hold and you see all the boxes they have loaded up are all stamped specific sigil and you realize the one that you carry down there was not stamped at all.

Oh, and neither was the other one in the in that little zone smugglers Texas out loud and just behind tuck almost out of frame a pair of eyes pop up as he says smugglers and goes back to. Yeah. So take of that what you will. Okay. There's some sort of unmarked cargo being moved around. Okay. A mystery is a foot. This also Texas is so loud. Talk is going to get fucking stabbed. Well, I suppose it's up to the greatest detective on earth.

Then he pulls out a like a little cowboy hat and he puts it on and he's like Dirk Adventure Boy and you head back above decks and you see. Perel lounging at the back of the ship with like three paneled mirror thing pretty much smoked glass lenses over his eyes just showing fucking kidding me. Hey buddy, why do you not have a job turns out if you don't say anything nobody doesn't think so. I just didn't ask any questions. All you guys asked Maggie. Hey, what can we do?

What can we do and I just shut up. Wow. Oh shit. I'm a genius. I've been hard for you being shut up. I can't hear you. Yeah, it's too windy. So yeah, how you like in sale life? I mean, it's pretty boring so far, but there's definitely they're smuggling something on deck. What? Yeah, man. There's like two on Mark boxes downstairs and one of them had a very angry thing inside of it was trying to get out. Perel folds up his reflector thing that he was using to tan his face.

His sunglasses off and goes. This sounds like a mystery for dirt adventure. Boy, I said it already man. That's what the hat is. Okay, fine. You can be card. I'll be cardamom the smartest horse in the world in the world. I already said it. That's right. Oh man, does that mean I got to be Judy? No, Judy's pretty cool. Who's Judy? She was in the shoes in the third book. There's more than one of these. Yeah, testament of night. Yes, she's a falcon. Yeah, Judy, Judy, the falconer.

She was a lady who becomes a falcon. Yeah, I'll be Judy. The falconer sick. Have you only read the first book? Bringers of the black flame. I've only read the first one. There's more than one. Yeah, it's a series. Dumb dumb. Why do you think it said number one on it? I thought it was the best book in the world. It's one in a series. I have them all with me. Oh shit. Yeah, give me those other books. Yeah. Okay, cool. You can have the second one if you want. Yeah, it's just down in my in my cabin.

Okay, I have a cabin. Are you fucking kidding me? Your personal cabin? How did that happen? Come with me and he takes you to a broom closet. Oh, yeah, it's like nobody looks in here. Okay, that makes him make it attached to the ceiling in the floor. He playing is leaving. He just hangs there like a zucchini any he grabs his bag and he pulls out a book with you know. I have Dirk adventureman on the cover riding cardamom off a cliff. Holy shit. It's the best you made your own cover.

Yeah, they all the other ones were ripped off. I got these in used bookstores and this one is called Dirk adventureman measure of doom the end the fissure of doom. So cool. Yeah. So this one is pretty cool because there's a fissure of doom in it. Oh, yeah. So don't dog. You're it or anything like that. Don't bend the spine because I made it. Okay, and then just puts in his little backpack sick. Thanks man. Yeah, no problem.

Don't tell anybody I'm in here and then he closes the door and Billy we cut back up top. Yeah, I stopped watching the pirate ship because it were really going fast. Yeah, and I'm looking around elsewhere now. You just trying to kind of see what's going on around you. Well, there's like not much except the coastline. So I've been I've just been spying on the on the deck. Interesting. Is this a roller? Sure. Yeah, give me a discern realities. Yeah. With wisdom. Yes. 10. Oh, 10. All right.

Three questions. Okay, who's really in control here? Because those fucking smugglers. Yeah. So the secrets. So you see you see Maggie and Greg and Caroline like walking around. And from what you gathered, this is like a mender vessel like Maggie is supposed to be the captain, but a lot of the crew seems to defer to eggs Benedict and it kind of makes sense because he's the boson like it makes sense. They'd be like, oh yeah eggs.

He's the guy, but there's a way both like what the fuck does that word mean? Okay, do you want me to tell you what a boson is? Just tell me what a boson is. I like to spell lower on the word boson. A boson is a petty officer on a merchant ship having charge of hall maintenance and related work. A naval warrant officer in charge of the hall and all related equipment. I might have been thinking of a different word and you know why? Because my dad was a boson. That's why I said boson.

I was thinking of a warrant officer. Oh, yeah, I got that. Yeah, I definitely got the word wrong, but now I'm wondering if it's more interesting that the boson is the one that seems to be pulling the strings. Pretty cool. Yeah, and you've already said boson a bunch. Yeah, so you realize that Greg definitely got it wrong because the boson from what Crow has told you is in charge of like the maintenance of the ship.

But Greg must have thought that he was in charge of the crew because a lot of them defer to Eggs Benedict. Oh. And you see a number of the crew members, not all of them, but a core number seem to be really chummy. And there's a lot of like whispering and like going and talking off to the side. Hey, Bernard. Yeah. Do you know much of those people? Who? Oh, Eggs and all those? Uh-huh. Yeah, no, I don't know too many. You know, I spend most of my time up here. I guess so.

Yeah, with all of my things. And he's like jangling all these like keepsakes that he brings up here with him. A lot of stuff in jars. I do. It's people just leave shiny things around and I grab them and I bring them up here. You know, I bet you and my friend Ving would really get along. Oh, is that Ving down there? Yeah, he has a lot of jars with stuff in them. Oh, he's a good guy. Yeah, he's a good guy. Yeah, he's a good guy. Yeah, he's a good guy. Yeah, he's a good guy.

Oh, he's quite a specimen, that one. Just a real sailor sailor. Yeah, totally. Anyway, okay, my second question is what here is not what it appears to be? Okay, so the people that Eggs seems to be connecting to are the people that have been playing around with him for a long time. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right.

Kind of speaking with more and like handing stuff off you watching at the beginning it's kind of quiet but the further out you get to see there's a lot more of it and they seem to be like oh yeah totally we're working no problem this is all good but there's a lot of planning it looks like going on right now okay what is about to happen um billy being a person who is a being familiar with cycles and ebbs and flows in nature and uh the the cycles of uh predator and prey you would guess that in probably two days just before you get to where you're going eggs and his crew are going to attempt a mutiny whoa whoa fucking shit that's very useful information you're the adventure boy now billy I'm the adventure boy cool do you tell any of this to crow um no I just crow is still talking about it I'm not talking about it I'm not talking about it I'm not talking about it talking about thing he's just the delts they're just so carved no he's he's been working out for a while um listen I have to go to the bathroom okay let fly my boy whoa welcome to ship life what in the crow's nest the world is your toilet isn't it beautiful I thought this was just dirt I thought it was just so dirty up here just the regular dirt I'm gonna go I'll be right back and as you go you see the an arc of liquid start sailing down from the crow's nest and crow going I'm free free as a bird I'm the king of the world I I scurry thing looks really busy right now I don't know billy is like standing on the deck like what do I do you do see tuck and perel at the back of the deck okay yeah I'm gonna run after tuck yeah billy what the fuck is going on I why are you covered in shit I didn't know I'm stuck up there with a very nice man named bernard and it's close quarters and weird stuff happens there anyways something else anyways I was looking around doing some spying stuff and I noticed that eggs and some other crew seem to be like really friendly with each other and like they like and like they have like the secret smile on their face like they're sharing secrets and I think I don't know I feel like they're gonna do something what do you think they're gonna do billy I don't know like a mutiny or something like what what is it on a ship when they try to take control a mutiny or something and perel nods and goes ah yes the mystery is afoot yeah benedict was really weird to me was he yeah he made me fucking hide a box full of what sounded like an angry bird or something what yeah should we tell you tell me what the ving stand there and you look at the battle of the deck there's two guys like holding on the ropes like it looks like they're gonna be sucked off the front of the boat I got these jerkoffs holding the boat those jerkoffs that are gonna get sucked off the front of the boat as you put it oh no that's what you call a guy who holds the rope of the sail you've never been on a ship before I've never been on a ship before oh I'm sorry man I don't know if we could do this blow job I feel like we're gonna get sucked off listen you jerkoffs you can do this blow job all day I have faith in you you're the men um sorry thing you looked really busy up there um anyway I told I tell ving what I told tuck and perel how long do you think we have I don't know maybe a day or two should we tell maggie yes I feel like we should tell maggie we should tell her very secretly so they don't get suspicious yeah do it really smooth like hey no secrets here we're just a couple of friends hanging out hey everyone it's just a couple of friends hanging out okay okay 2d6 plus charisma billy sorry you're yelling on the deck trying not to be suspicious nice eight plus two is ten okay and the helmsman that was giving you a side long glance goes okay then continues to use fairy something on him yeah for sure he got charmed uh yeah so you're gonna head down and tell maggie yeah but also kind of want to know what's in that ball yeah for sure yeah here's the here's the thing to consider and perel says here's the thing to consider I forgot I have a point of view character that I can use to describe my ideas this is working out great if we go to maggie too soon we might tip them off that's what I'm wondering they'll have the element of surprise but if we wait and see what they're up to maybe whatever is in the box we can use as leverage can ving communicate with caroline I was thinking as a former speaker of the silent word because ving knows the silent word maybe he can use some of the silent language that's an interesting unspoken language of the librarians to kind of let her know that something's up but not to act but to put her on sort of watchful yeah right is caroline on the ship yes caroline is on the ship she's like maggie's right hand like she she sticks around yeah how do we know we can trust caroline oh she has been shady in the past she was spying on us for a long time she was spying on us for maggie though but wait can we really trust maggie perl starts to look around and is like what the fuck are we doing on this boat we might have trusted too fast too soon we do this all the time oh my god what if they wanted me what if you just delivered me to them oh oh no oh no perl's a really good way for sean to see descent on this boat what if you can't trust me what if I'm the mutineer and then I uh I lead in and I put my fingers in the back of perl's pants pocket and I pull out all of your halfling pipe leaf and I'm like he's paranoid he's paranoid as fuck because he's just been smoking wheat he's rubbing his eyes a lot well I mean I don't think that's all of it yeah it's definitely not you smoked a lot of it dude no I that's not what I okay that's for ceremonial purposes yeah and it's for sarah moi okay uh anyways okay yeah no no you're right okay okay maybe I'm being paranoid okay but yeah I think yeah I mean a little bit you're right we know that there there's something shifty going on well let's try and gather as much information as we can before bringing it forward but without talking to anybody we can't just go to caroline no okay okay who can go find out what's in that box well billy's a fucking thief yeah that's true I am the most skilled okay at this all right billy you sneak below deck okay you go find out what's in that box I'll show you where it is oh yeah and then I'll like stand watch I guess yeah I I tuck you and I have a lot of problems with each other but what the fuck are you talking I thought we're friends we are friends we are friends but I've you rag on me I rag on you I don't make fun of you are you fucking kidding me never mind I'm not even gonna say the thing I was gonna say what were you going out below deck what were you gonna say I was gonna say that if anybody chooses to pick a fight with you they're fucking stupid oh okay yeah that's nice of you to say so you're it's good for you to stay in guard because anybody they'd have to be dumb to try and be like that's the guy I'm gonna take on yeah totally this whole crew might be able to beat the three of you so wait what are we afraid of again you need to take a nap I'm gonna go lay down go let me know what's in that crate we have some coffee or something I'll go see what I can do and he goes over to the side of the boat and he hurls uh yeah so that's the plan billy's gonna sneak down yeah I'll come with you okay okay okay I'll stay up here I'll run to distraction on deck oh also what distraction are you gonna do I was gonna give him a display of my prowess I guess he says as he's like running backwards all right we'll start with this display of prowess okay he uh uh oh no uh he's running backwards and he leaps up into the air through the space between the mass and the in the boom uh and grabs it with his feet with his knee pits and spins around a bunch and then hangs upside down with his arms crossed in between these two guys who are having a conversation and he's like oh what's up me sailor boys whoa and he drops to the deck floor and then pulls out a concertina and starts so instead of choosing your physical prowess which we've established for the last two seasons or all of your spirit abilities which we've introduced over the last seven seasons yeah introduce musical prowess okay that ving plays the concertina badly uh so you're gonna have to roll I was gonna say defy danger dexterity uh-huh because of all your flipping and then I was gonna say defy danger charisma because of the concertina and then I decided you're gonna roll both because you went too far on that description my friend all right so 2d6 plus dexterity this is real like uh disney live action from the 60s scene all right dexterity first okay I got uh eight uh eight great okay so yeah you do your little flip and everybody goes and there's a bunch of people like dancing around as you start doing your thing you hear crow like high-pitched scream from like a girl at a rock concert and a pair of underwear flop down on the deck they flop with weight they splat down uh and now 2d6 plus charisma for your concertina performance okay which you definitely just swiped from somebody on the ship oh yeah on my way back I found it seven all right and you break into a rendition of a sailing song that ving heard after first leaving the frozen north you caught a boat down to the principalities cool so tell me about this song it's a song that he uh learned when he was taken captive once it's a pirate song oh so it's like fucking up merchant ships nice which maybe is not like bringing a lot of good luck to the so it's about um but depending on how into it these guys are uh-huh it like would really like suss out like yeah that's it it's a smuggler song oh yeah I like that so he's trying to get it the captain knows not what you bring oh the captain knows not below the deck is all sorts of things I brought them secretly on board when the captain sleeps I'll cut her throat his name is maggie her name is maggie I'll cut her throat when she sleeps at night he's singing nobody's really specific yeah it was like when you were like that captain knows not what you bring then people were singing along and then you were like I snuck stuff on the ship and I'm gonna kill maggie cole at night everybody's like what the fuck is he talking about let's cut that part the sea is wet and the sky is bright okay they all yeah they're like yeah yeah it is nice I know this part yeah yeah and people start taking up the uh they're actually yeah so that's a good way to to think about it there are one or two people in the crowd that take up the song with their own verses like sea shanty style and there are a couple of them and you're like why do you know this song you know what I mean yeah so there's like a a halfling woman who takes up the song and you're like okay noted and then there is a human probably about 21 years old a boy with real thick arms and he's like oh my god I'm gonna kill maggie cole at night and then he's like oh my god and he also takes up the song and he's got a tattoo of a bear across his chest and you're like noted so that's some information that you get from that and they're distracted for now yeah there's a whole uh song going on we cut to tuck and billy sneaking below decks we are adventure boys sneaking down the stairs we are adventure boys uh nobody can fit fucking shit billy you're doing great no I'm not doing great I'm not doing great I'm not doing great I'm not doing great I'm not doing great No, I'm not good at this.

It's fine. It's just all, it's all about the rhythm. Sneaking down the stairs. We are adventure boys. Sneaking down the stairs. We are adventure boys. Sneaking down the stairs. Okay. 2d6 plus dexterity to sneak. And you both have to roll it because I really like one of these. I really like something that might happen. A 10. 10. Fuck. I really, I'm just going to say it because I really like the idea of Tuck being like, we are adventure boys. Sneaking down the stairs. We are adventure boys.

Sneaking down the stairs. Way into it. In the meantime, the guy that would have noticed us if I did, that is like elbow deep in like a plate of pasta. Like so into it. He doesn't notice us chanting and going to. Yeah. He's elbow deep in a barrel of pasta. Like he cracked open one of the barrels and was like, everybody's distracted upstairs. I'm going to get me some pasta. Oh my God. He could get his hand chopped off of that. Everyone is doing espionage. Everybody's working for themselves.

Let me tell you about the golden age of sale. Everybody was a dirt bag. It was like the worst people in the world. So yeah, you guys creep right past him and you head down. You got a 10. So you're not going to, I'm not going to make you roll multiple times. So you make it down to the spot that Tuck was forced to hide the crate in. You hear a scrabbling through the door. This is it. Secret room. Oh yeah. Okay. It's locked. Tricks of the trade to pick the lock. Okay.

And I'll, I'll, I'll like block him with my body and look around. Plus dexterity. That's nine. Okay. You want eight? Yeah. I ate by blocking him with my body. Yeah, totally. And I may be like, cause the lock is kind of high for him. So I put them on the shelf that is my butt. And then so he has like a better purchase. Tuck's dump comes in handy once again. Seven. Okay. Great. Yes. Uh, so that makes Billy's nine to 10, which means you do it. No problem. Yeah.

So I, I just have that copper spoon that I keep in my hair now since I don't have the copper pin anymore. Yeah. And I click, click, click. And you pop it right off. All right. So let's, let's get in there. All right. Here we go. All right. Sleep. Yeah. And the crate is where Tuck left it. Uh, there's another box in there and the, the crate with the scrabbling is nailed shut for sure. Can I use fairy dust? To make it fall asleep? Yes. 26 plus charisma. Oh yeah. Seven plus two is nine. Okay.

So you just blow it through the hole. Yeah. And you hear like, and you hear like a clacking, like weird. Huh? Huh? Tuck takes the waning knife and he jams it in between. Yeah. And he like wriggles it open and then he rips the top off the box. Nice. Um, inside is a very strange little creature. It's front half has a taloned claws and bright, vibrant plumage and a head ending in like a hooked black beak.

And the back end is the feathers transition into silky brown fur and very grippy hand looking back limbs and a long tail with a little tuft of white on the end. What? Like a bird monkey thing. Yeah. It looks like it looks like a bird monkey in my head. Like a parrot, half parrot, half monkey. Yeah. Are you serious? Roll a spell or something about it maybe. Oh yeah. Yeah. Billy roll a Spout Lore about this. 2d6 plus intelligence. Holy shit. Did we just succeed? 10. Oh, it's good.

Cause I have zero intelligence. Okay. Perfect. Oh yeah. Beautiful. Uh, interesting and useful. So Billy, you've been around a while. Uh huh. This is an exceptionally rare animal called a Griffin. Oh, Oh, Whoa. And it is a little unusual cause you've only heard of like certain kinds of Griffins like regional, but they're always very rare. And this one appears to be like half Macaw and half monkey. Wow. I've only ever seen paintings of these. They're very, very rare.

And you know, as somebody that has seen value, uh, traded many, many times, extremely valuable. Wow. Okay. Wow. And now you're struck by the fact that you've, you've ripped the top off this crate that contained secret smuggled merchandise. And you hear footsteps quickly approaching. Fucking shit. Oh no. And that's where we're going to end it for this week. I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara. Joining me as always playing Tacoma dome, the barbarian, Abdul Aziz. So long.

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