Episode 1 – Shambles

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 That was like a season Okay, no, we'll do seasons if I'm outvoted, that's fine Seasons it is Season Alright My name's Sean and welcome to Spout Lore Season 2 We're continuing our Dungeon World game Dungeon World is a game by Adam Coble and Sage LaTorah Based on the hack of Apocalypse World by D.

Vincent Baker And joining me as always are our players Jessica Hi As Fat Billy the thief Paul Hello As Ving Vang Zumba the druid And Abdul Wassup And as the!!

And as the town's leader, the town You were left with the care of the stone box Which you have been asked to take the box to a place called the vault for safekeeping Because whatever magic is keeping whatever is inside the box inside the box is starting to fail And the vault is apparently a place that will keep that from happening And you have also been given a brown and black cat named Wicker who will apparently lead the way And as you left the town, Wicker told Ving Because Ving can speak to animals That they were going the wrong way So apparently she knows the way You don't know how, you don't know why Maybe Ving's full of shit Maybe Ving's lying Dude, his cat says go that way I wanna go this way Uh, so We come upon you The stinking mire is very very big Very big Uh, you traveled for several days Walking sometimes Riding Ving in the form of an elk Dan, Colonel Dan Fosse Uh, would give up his horse Horse every once in a while for Billy Because Billy's like a foot and a half tall and can't really walk for that long or that far Or uh, or Wicker Because Wicker has made it pretty clear that she doesn't like the mud At all She almost refuses to walk So she has only been kind of riding on the shoulders of one or more people throughout the day Or on the back of Daisy And it's been uneventful The first and second day you were still kind of nervous You still heard croaks in the distance The third day the croaks Kind of went away Fourth day Food ran out Fifth day, here we are You have no food Dan is starting to look a little worse for wear I'm an expert forager Yeah, you, because you have a trait called by nature sustained Which means you just always find food for yourself Yeah, there's smarty root everywhere around here Smarty root?

What's a smarty root?

Uh, it's this root that tastes really gross But also a little bit like chocolate Uh, so I'm just trying to get my mind off of it I've been sustaining Billy and Tuck mostly on smarty roots But it's not very nutritious for long Yeah, if you want to sustain them you're going to have to probably make a roll for that Because you can find food and water for yourself Oh But you could roll maybe a defy danger wisdom Okay So that's 2d6 plus your wisdom modifier Hey guys, we got nine, so Nine That means one of you can get food Well, Billy, you're a growing boy That's very generous of you Okay, so I'm going to roll a nine I'm going to give all the smarty root to Billy Also, I don't like smarty root Why not?

Nobody likes smarty root It gives me the toots Oh, the smarty root toots I think it might be giving me something too Billy's not feeling so hot Billy is really sweaty right now Like he's just like tucked into a little bag Into a bag?

Yeah, cause I've been carrying a backpack with Billy inside it Like a little armadillo And I'm just like, ugh So Billy's been eating enough that you're not hurt Tuck, however, is hungry Yeah Like painfully so Yeah, I hide it well You also just need more food than the average person Cause you're seven feet tall And like, what would you say? 300? 325 pounds?

I'm like a tight 375 This is the best shape you've ever been in Well, starving really does lean you down Okay, so Yeah, you're gonna We're gonna have to remember that you are starving Yeah, I'm really hungry Yeah, I mean, five days without food is doable Are my hit points returned to zero? Yeah, you guys have rested Okay So you're all clear And it is on this fifth day as the sun starts to set over the trees That you realize you are being followed Who do you think catches a glimpse of it?

Who has the sharpest eyes? Well, why don't I go up into the air and check it out? Can I do that? Shape-Shift Eagle 2d6 plus wisdom Nine Nine, so you get one hold and you take the form of An eagle Eyesight Sweet, so you flap up into the sky You catch a glimpse of something or someone in the trees What is it?

A group, looks like, under cover They're keeping very close, I can't tell the numbers They're using camouflage of the forest and swamp Oh It could be magic I can't tell My eyesight looks exactly like the swamp It looks like a section of the swamp is following us Oh, it's a section, it's a group of things Or people Under cover or are made of the swamp Look like a, okay Alright Weird That's fucked up Also while you're up in the sky Now you see for sure What you believe to be the edge Of the swamp forest It's like a two days walk?

It's like two days away, yeah So you still got a couple days but you see An end So yeah, you know that the edge of the swamp is nearby You're also being followed by Something That does not look good So yeah Ving comes back down and yeah You tell him about that I don't Good news or bad news?

Bad news first I guess There might be a piece of the Swamp itself Oh It looks like a mystical monster made of the land That we hate is on our tail Cool Good news is there's only two more days In the muck That's kinda also bad news Oh I'm not good at this Um Well I found some more smarty root I can't eat that I'm smarty root intolerant I get the smarty root toots Like every I can eat some mushrooms if you guys want that instead Billy those are poisonous What?

Don't eat those, did you eat any of those? Oh yeah, ate a lot of them How long ago? Like the last three days You've been eating them constantly? Yeah every time we make camp I just Have a couple pounds of it How's your tummy feeling? Not very good Oh not so Yeah you sweat through this backpack you're in I have, it's very wet There's like a foot of sweat in here It's a water tight backpack It's really water tight I've got a bunch of poultices and herbs Can I use something to ease his stomach?

Oh yeah probably Okay I'll grind you up It's gonna take some time Okay Basically you can't use poultices and herbs during like a fight Or when you're running like you need to take time and tend them So Dan is on top of Daisy And Wicker is sitting on Daisy's head Just kinda like loafed up like cats do And then I'm like oh I'm gonna have to go to the bathroom She's out of the cage She's out of the cage yeah After a couple days you realize that she's pretty Obedient?

Not obedient I don't know if this matters sorry but she told me Her actual name is Courtney But we can call her Wicker if you want Oh man I mean Courtney We can call the cat Courtney No I don't want to Wicker's a great name Okay either way the cat Is sitting on top of Daisy's head Wicker is its slave name guys I did not want to say that specifically That's exactly what I thought and I did not want to say it And you said it Well low hanging fruit that's what they call me They call me Abdul Easy punchlines Aziz Azizi punchlines I was gonna say that but I didn't They call me Sean Low hanging fruit There's no way to work my name into that Alright moving on So Dan pulls Daisy around And goes hey what's going on what's the problem Um there's like A swamp monster What That's following us How long has it been following us for Also Billy's sick cause he's He's been eating Poison intentionally Those were poison Oh have you been eating them too I mean I thought That they were rations I'm making medicine Well what are we gonna do about the swamp monster What is it what is it what does it look like Is it over there it looks like a chunk of the swamp I can't see it from the ground but when in the air It's like a moving Piece of swamp glummed together What do we do It's moving sporadically stopping and starting and Moving quickly and zig zagging So what do but what do we do though We could try and kill it and eat it I am crazy hungry Right now he's crazy I am crazy for some nay nays What's a nay nay I call it's what I call bananas You think this thing has bananas in it maybe What do you okay what do you Do you guys um should we like Lay you down cause I'm getting really motion sick That's maybe what it is That's maybe what it is You've just been sitting in a backpack Looking at stuff and trying not to barf the whole time Is that poultice ready for his tummy Do we eat it is that what we do with it Uh how do you treat this Uh it's uh it comes in a dropper form You have to put it in your nose Oh okay You're just shoving oils into their noses Yeah I get you to lie down on the ground and tilt your head back And I just put a few drops in your nose Yeah so mark a mark a U softener And uh Your tummy starts to right itself Uh so Yeah if you guys want to know more about Whatever this thing is Uh that's uh Spout Lore Oral Spout Lore Okay so that's 2d6 plus intelligence Spout Lore little tm Little tm We can't we can't trade the game's already trademarked Spout Lore little tm Nope can't do it It's ours it belongs to us Don't sue us Adam coble and sage latour please Sage latour More like sage lick my balls This is a bad Feud to start Sage latour come to my house I live at Fort street victoria bc Apartment He he lives in like Washington Yeah He could get here Adam coble lives in vancouver Adam coble come to my vancouver home It is Main street apartment Buzzer number I assume we're cutting this because we don't want abdul to be Uh harassed by some weirdo that listens to this show Buzz in Buzz in fans and talk to me And I'll fucking Uh so 2d6 plus intelligence Oh I rolled a nine I rolled a nine Intelligence is Zero So you rolled a nine It was a negative one right Yeah I've worked up to no High fives guys Ow ow Okay so on a Seven to nine on spelt lores The gm will tell you something interesting It's on you to make it useful Okay You have somehow heard of these things before They are called swamp shamblers They're sort of like an Elemental And I imagine tuck has probably encountered elementals in his travels Yeah tons of times So elementals are I beeped a fire uh I beeped a fire Fire hog Uh hold on A fire hog A fire hog Are you just saying fire hog Cause it sounds like mire frog and that's the last monster You guys came up with Oh yeah that's what I banged a mire frog So it's a big pig made out of fire So it's a big pig made out of fire Yeah Well you guys don't have to be fucking dicks about it It's just freaking so You can barely hear him over his own stomach Yeah I'm just screaming and freaking out about this pig Alright man we fucked a fire hog Everybody had to fuck one weird elemental one time It's part of being an adventurer Understood Understood Moving on So this is what tuck tells us about The swamp monster Is nothing except this fire pig Yeah he tells you zero about the swamp shambler And almost 15 straight minutes of bellowing That he had sex with a pig And then he's like I'm so hungry While he's slowly getting hard and starving I'm so hungry Okay so basically Elementals they're mostly Conjured in some way Swamp shamblers kinda happen by accident And they are made of Living pieces of the swamp Like vines and water and wet leaves And twigs kinda pull themselves Into a humanoid shape And they just kinda wander looking for things to Like consume basically I heard that I heard that you can get high by eating a little bit of them So he Dan is like okay so you're gonna fight this thing That's your plan I guess so Do you guys need any help You could lure it away for us or distract it Yeah do you wanna be bait Yeah please bait Colonel bait I'm just down for letting myself be Consumed I've given up entirely I don't really I don't really wanna be bait Grab a sword or be bait Those are your two options What about the cat We gotta keep the cat safe too I can't just run in there with this cat This cat's important Well leave cat with Daisy You just want me to run past it No we wanna walk Well we should come up with a plan I think we're doing that Yeah wait on the path and then we'll ambush from the sides Run up on its back Alright so you just want me to stand over here Well yeah I mean yeah Okay now That was as good as time as ever Yeah um so what are we doing Maybe I should shape shift into Oh an element You can turn into Plants and rocks and stuff Yeah a bunch of vines to try and bangle them up It is In here somewhere What's it called Thing talker You may apply your spirit tongue shape shifting And studied essence to inanimate natural objects Plants and rocks or creatures made there Of as well as animals Vaguely humanoid shaped entities You'd look a lot like this thing actually Maybe smaller but a lot like the swan shambler What if I try and confront it straight up So have we talked about I think we've mentioned in the past but I'm curious Like when Ving changes shape Is it like a werewolf like Animorph like morphing Or is it just like Ving is there and then a pile of plants is there No it comes over like Like a water dripping over his head And it's slow Slow sort of like eugh yeah When Dan sees that and is like Oh Oh god what is happening to him Look away Is this normal Yes this is Actually I've never turned into anything like this before Yeah that's rough He doesn't like that Do you need me to be bait still Yeah We need attention on you So yeah Dan starts walking forward and you're gonna like I'm gonna slink behind him a ways But slowly and in the path of this thing And Dan starts going like Hey Hey I'm over here Hello I'm bait Come and get me God this guy is Purely talentless Just don't Hey hi and he starts kind of throwing Sticks near it Jesus Waving his arms in the air He throws like an eagle would throw if it tried to throw with its wing And yeah that's the situation The swamp shambler sort of shifts And starts slinking towards Dan I guess I slink into the bull rushes Okay Next to where Dan is Yeah So you're trying to sneak up I'm gonna wait for them to get a little bit closer And then join them in their approach to Dan You're gonna okay roll 2d6 plus dexterity Defy danger yeah Tuck yeah tuck and Billy if you want to aid It would be like 2d6 plus bond I have five plus dexterity Is Zero Yeah I know you're just gonna fail I failed You're creeping through the trees and sort of the wet muddy Ponds trying to Get around the shambler As you see it moving towards Dan And Ving creeping up as a Plant slug behind it I guess I'm just too weak Yeah you're like trying to be really sneaky And you step on a branch And it snaps really loudly and you put your foot Right into like a deep Thing of mud that starts sucking at your leg And the swamp shambler It was going away from you And now it's just you don't even see it turn It's just coming towards you now Okay Ving I'm bait now the plan changed Dan goes great I'm gonna go back to the horse No Dan you sand fight you piece of shit He's running you fucking asshole Coward Yeah he's running away I'm gonna throw Billy clear of danger Oh okay Really this will be a defy danger Strength I guess Ugh Does Tuck just throw me into the mud Like two feet in front of him Yeah exactly you're like Straight down basically right in front of you I poo for sure Billy craps himself And hits the mud And is just like up to his neck I get in between Billy, Tuck and the swamp I'm so sorry I uh I try my best to To ask what it wants Uh I can't It rumbles It makes the same You hear it making the same noise that you hear Ving making basically You do that voice I can't do it But what it's saying is Intruders We mean you no harm We merely want to pass through your land It just repeats it It's intruders We mean you no harm Escort us out Uh It says intruders a third time If you're gonna want to try and convince it to do something You're gonna have to roll I'm gonna convince it to do something by Uh Standing up and pulling my swamp thing Into a form of a big gigantic man Uh huh It's flat so I can go up and out more Oh I see It's a big man with hands on his hips Uh huh Like a big tuck looking thing You look like the Marlboro guy Yeah I turned into Marlboro man In front of this hunk of moss Yeah so this is What do you think a parlay And the leverages leave or all Or wolf fight Or do you want the leverage to be seduction I think we were going in a good direction Hahaha I'm gonna tap on my viney shoulder Like trying to seduce it So basically this is gonna be a parlay But you're basically trying to outfit Yeah Like get out of here or we'll fight Uh so roll a parlay 2d6 plus your charisma Oh no 10 Yeah 10 When you like rise up It kinda shrinks it's big But you make yourself pretty Yeah a lot bigger than If it were to look to the side This dude's made out of paper mache But uh it still says Intruders But it's receding Where it once was it just sinks Into the swamp into a pond Parts of it break off And it disappears Whew Thank god I shrink back down Thanks thing Can I use my last hold to just Pluck tuck out of the mud I grab Billy A big viney A big viney like hand comes down And engulfs you And wraps around you and pulls you out of the pond So that's the last hold you turn back into Ving I am Ving Billy gets hauled out of the mud Yeah I'm naked now though Yeah he pulled me by my hair and I just fell on my pooey suit Where is it you're still wearing your raccoon skin No No it's stuck in the mud So what does Billy look like Without his raccoon He has copper hair and he's very Pink and white and tubby and naked So Billy is Well I mean the raccoon skin is in the mud Yeah It's just in that pond if you wanted to pull it out I'm just gonna grab it But I might just stay like this for a while It's kinda nice to have air on my butt Okay I'm just gonna put it in my pack okay Thank you You hear Dan from the tree line just calling Do you are you is it good It's good a pesto Okay Okay Thanks This is probably a good point for you guys to make camp How do you how do you Cause I mean you still are in a dangerous swamp Does anyone set a watch or anything like that I feel better so I can stay up with Wicker Yeah You and Wicker Are sitting watching Yeah So Wicker stays up with you And you're sitting on a log Fire is crackling a little bit She's like kinda keeping her distance for a while Does Billy like cats at all Oh yeah I don't think Billy's never seen a cat though Before Wicker so He's very interested Okay Wicker is not interested in Billy What do you do I make her interested How I just like waddle up to her and I like pat her cause I don't know what else to do Oh when you like walk up she like moves away Okay so I'm gonna do a dance cause I A dance Well I've seen other animals do dances So I like do a little dance And I wave my arms around and like shake my butt a bit Everyone's asleep by the way Yeah Silently shaking your butt She doesn't leave But she still doesn't let you pet her What if I like Do you have anything on your My tricks I just have poisons But what does the poison do Oh it makes you friends The poison that you have is golden root Whoever ingests it is your friend For a period of time Yeah I'll use it Sure I have no one else to use this on What does golden root look like Like the poison It's just like a bunch of ginger that I ground up So it's just like a mash Yeah but you just have to mash it for a long long time And like I have to do it until I get really sweaty Otherwise it just doesn't seem to work so So she uh she kinda sniffs Yeah and so I wipe it on her nose really quick She lips it Okay so I'm gonna do it now She just licks it up a little bit Oh and I'm like I don't know if you should eat it but Her eyes widen Okay And she kinda walks up and Nice Nuzzles up with you So we cuddle Yeah and your watch passes mostly uneventfully Who takes next watch I'll take next one I'm exhausted Yeah Vink should probably sleep Tuck is just kinda staring into the fire And you're reflecting on You know your time in the swamp Your time in Mudlark and you're thinking about your past So the swamp is gross you hate the swamp Tuck hates the swamp?

That's the worst thing that's happened here Yeah totally so what is in your past What is a gross place that Tuck has been to What is the grossest place in McCall What's the grossest place in McCall Well that's an interesting question Has a lot of answers Depending on What you mean by gross Cause there's like dirty Like from like a filth perspective But also There's things that make you feel dirty inside of you So I'm staring into the fire thinking this place is gross I'm like covered in shit and mud but it's not nearly as bad as that music festival that happens in mccall every year like it's punks it's mostly punks which we've talked about punk is barbaric barbarism it's barbarism yeah so tuck is basically just a punk musician I'm a I like I used to be heavy into the punk scene I would go to the shit slingers festival with like a huge bag of shit with a bunch of other barbarians like this is a barbarian festival it was a barbarian festival it would show up we'd have a big bag of shit and well we like we would just like fucking whip it and like strangers and like people not at the festival people at the festival and then we would like when we whip it we would go amazing and we're gonna you got shit sling um and then there'd be like a huge concert in the end you're like dump into a mosh pit and just fucking rage great so you take a point of experience for that because of your outsider thing remember I just kind of roll over and say to yourself tuck you all right and your your watch also passes thankfully uneventfully uh and next watch ding yeah I'm up yeah and you're just chilling yeah I'm just chilling and uh there's a russell by one of the bedrolls and dan is also up hey dan what's up he just sits down and he's poking at the fire like a real camp sort of scenario oh he's one of those is he yeah he's one of those he's like I wanted to you know we came all the way to mudlark together you never know when you're gonna be in a camp and you're gonna be like oh my god I'm gonna he's like I wanted to you know we came all the way to mudlark together and you never know when you're gonna be in a camp and you're gonna be like oh my god I'm gonna be like oh my god I'm gonna be like oh my god I'm gonna ever mentioned to me that you're half elf yeah so why did you feel the need to hide that from me I didn't necessarily hide it from you specifically I just not something I talk about I just feel like maybe I don't see a ton of elves out this way you know in this part of the principalities there's not there's not a lot of us and this might be why I'm here what happened man it's not gonna be that easy to get me open up dan we've been through some shit but I've got my reasons I've got my reasons I've got my reasons but I think a lot of it could be signed up by just talk about my parents yeah you mentioned your your your father's an elf did you spend much time in the in the in the forest or was it mostly with your mom I spent uh most of the years with my mother and then when I finally struck out on my own I went to go find my father to confront him because she talked some shit about him and then he found another uh woman and left with her leaving my mom with myself and then my mom died oh yeah I'm really you really got me humans I'm opening right up yeah yeah it's crazy right it's like you spend a lot of time around elves you get used to you you spend a lot of time around elves you get used to uh just things being the way they are and then you start spending time with the humans and they move so fast they just they're there and then they're gone it's like flowers man yeah it's the worst wither you ever miss it the forest yeah yeah believe it or not this stinking mire reminds me of home the forest part I imagine not the tundra part yeah the forest part yeah tundra is maybe a little starker I imagine I've never been there hope to make it one day it's dangerous my family's mostly from the lower parts oh my god I don't care okay good point you know what I thought we had a good talk I thought we had a good talk we did thank you and it's hard I'm sorry I'm lashing it's hard for me to know I hear you man I I haven't been back yeah I don't know if I'll ever go back but you know it's nice to run into somebody that has a bit of a shared experience you know what actually this feels nice dan yeah you got the watch bud you got the watch bud yeah I got it I got it the rest of the watch passes uneventfully you wake up the next day yeah you guys are just packing up your tents and your bedrolls and stuff you probably don't have much actually you're kind of left with nothing yeah but you have adventurer's gear you know it comprises the basics like a water skin uh a bedroll and then a pillow basically attached to a mat and you're just rolling that up yeah well I just slept in the mud so it's still nude yep yep this is like god intended just like the halfling god intended yeah what's that halfling god's name did halfling oh man we can't get I love this stuff too no I want to know do halflings have a religion kind of but it's like they mostly worship like the earth not really like a god specifically it's very like animistic is that the right word paganistic yeah like more like they worship the elements less so than animals animistic cool and they worship the river as well okay so yeah just like the the river intended now that we got that out of the way so yeah you're packing up you guys billy billy what'd you feel great that's awesome yeah I had weird turning into that swamp monster give me weird dreams what I turned into that swamp monster yesterday and I had really strange dreams what was your dream I was a boat uh uh on a sea of salt hardened salt and I couldn't on a sea of salt, hardened salt, and I couldn't go anywhere, and I was just stuck.

It was very, very frustrating. You guys… Do you guys not dream the same dream every night? What's your dream, Tuck? I dream of a giant cataclysm that destroys an entire nation. Every single night? Oh, my God. Is that not normal? Dan steps forward and is like, I had the same dream. Oh, yeah? No, I'm fucking with you. Fuck you, Dan. Do you guys seriously not have the same dream every night? I dreamt about a cake. I dreamt about cakes. Really? I don't want to tell you guys. Whoa.

Billy, that's not safe. Mysteries. Billy gets embarrassed, and he goes rooting through the bag for his raccoon skin and puts it back on, but doesn't put on pants. Wait. So you guys are seriously telling me that every person in the world just doesn't dream this dream every night? No, Tuck, that's weird. You thought that the word dream meant a cataclysm that swallows the earth. I thought everyone went to sleep.

They had nightmarish visions of an island being swallowed into the ocean and everybody dying, and then you wake up, and then your day starts. You never tried talking to anyone about this before. I thought everyone had this. That's a hell of an assumption. Yeah, that's weird, man. Damn. No, I have different dreams. Sometimes I have a recurring dream, but it's mostly just that I am drowning in pudding. Dessert-based dreams. Yeah, like a pudding. Yeah, it's mostly dessert-based.

That's a good point. Huh. Anyways, and he starts packing his stuff up again. Well, I mean, I'm not going to shoo it off. I guess, I mean, we can revisit it later. It could be a vision. Yeah, maybe we should hit the road. Okay. Okay. And Wicker kind of meows from Daisy's rump. She's sitting on the rump. I join her. Yeah. And I put my arm around her. You know that the golden root's worn off by now, but she's definitely warmed up to you. Billy, she said she likes you. Thanks. Yeah.

And I have a little tear on my face. Yeah, she… Just a little clean part of your face. Yeah. She meows in you here. Like, she makes a couple of cat sounds in you here that she's saying, like, I like the small one. And she sits with you on the back of the horse. Uh, so what we are going to do now, and I imagine that technically this is what has been happening for the last several days, you guys are going to make a Undertake a Perilous Journey role.

Uh, so how Undertake a Perilous Journey works is when you travel through hostile territory, choose one member of the party to act as a trailblazer, one to act as scout, and one to act as quartermaster. So who's going to act as scout? Who's going to act as quartermaster? Who's going to act as trailblazer? I should maybe be a scout and bird up. I could do quartermaster. I'll be a trailblazer. I think that's what we did last time. Yep. A role is, you know, a general role is forming.

Oh, and also dice rolls. Yeah, go ahead. Roll your dice. Uh, nine. Great. Eleven. Great. Four. Trailblazer, total failure. Complete failure. You're lagging behind. I, at this point, have not eaten in three days. I'm going to go for a little walk just off the trail. Yeah. And you find some more smarty root. Find some smarty root. I see the mushrooms and I kick them. Yeah, you say, no. No! You can't. But I look at them a little too long. But I still walk away. I have to be strong.

So you find enough food for you to eat a bit. Still not enough for Tacoma. Uh, Tuck failed miserably. What's up? Which, okay, so you're on the trail. What is a trailblazer supposed to do? It's not listening. The trailblazer is supposed to find a trail to go. They're supposed to lead the way. Okay. So you're on the trail. What is a trailblazer supposed to do? It's not listening. The trailblazer is supposed to find a trail to go. There's supposed to lead the way.

You guys come up on me and I'm just hacking at a tree with an ax. I'm just hacking at a tree with an axe. And I'm like, this tree's in the way. Get the trails on the other side of this tree. He's cutting down a tree. Tuck, you don't have the energy. Just wasting valuable calories. You can also go around the tree. Yeah, but I'm so hungry and tired. You guys see a trail on the other side of the tree. Can the cat… She's sniffing the air. And she is looking around. And she's meowing a lot.

Are you listening to… I'm scouting. Yeah, she's meowing a bunch. But she looks confused. Tuck. What? I think we can go this way. And so I urge the horse forward the other way. Around the tree. Around the tree? So you go around the tree. And the cat's still meowing every once in a while. Looking around. And you're kind of keeping an eye on them from the air. Yeah. Like you're following. And it's at this point that you get to a point where the… You see that the trees break a little bit ahead.

And the trail almost disappears. Like it washes away from the air. You see ruined houses. Like rotting wood and tumbled stone. And a crumbled… What looks like the remnants of a tower. In that ruined clump of buildings you see figures scrambling about. Oh, there's people in there. Yeah. Yeah, well I'm going to go back and tell them that they were coming up on a settlement that looks to be in active turmoil. Mm-hmm. They might have food. We need food. Yeah. I think we should try…

First of all, I ask Wicker what's going on. This is not the right way. And so ends the tale of Adventures 3. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.