Episode 10 – Wedding Cake

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

I'm your game master Sean O'Hara, joining me as always playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian, Abdul Aziz Hello! Where were you?

All I saw was Abdul move the curtain aside and then Jessica on the TV And then Abdul sheepishly whipped around when I said his name Nothing Playing Ving the half-elf druid, Paul Oppers Hello Sean And playing Fat Billy the halfling thief, Jessica Tai Hello Paul When last we left our heroes, they were being pursued by the orchestra A terrifying mechanical construct made up of any number of self-playing instruments Patrolling the streets of Blackglass and coordinating the capture of the various wedding attendees in the city They, through a cunning series of maneuvers, tricked the orchestra into falling into a disused building and escaped Down onto the street level Where the orchestra continued its mag- uh, its magical, terrible pursuit Ving the half-elf druid summoning a horse out of I believe it was a- I believe it was a Clydesdale?

It was a powerful Clydesdale made out of building rubble and cobblestones to fight off the orchestra You also made the horse cock That does not sound like me I said it, I said it Thank you, thank you very much There we go!

It all becomes clear Uh, and escaped into the tunnels, the sewers beneath Blackglass with the help of Billy's lockpicking skill Once in the tunnels, Billy found a number of thief signs leading you to a safe house controlled by the Brass Castle Gang Containing, uh, crates and crates of I'll-gotten goods And within, Brass Castle Gang leader, the aforementioned Samuel Deering A squat Imagine Bob Hoskins Looking guy Who, along with his crew, sat kind of hiding out, waiting out the entire affair Smoking tobacco laced with saffron That was the vibe, was he was just down there waiting for the world to finish ending Yeah, and then he was gonna come out and start selling stuff to people that needed it That was his plan Uh, but a deal was struck between our crew and the Brass Castle Gang in which Deering would offer Uh, three of his Uh, three of his Uh, three of his boys To help you infiltrate Blackhammer Palace To find his already lost crew The party agreed And took some of Deering's saffron-laced tobacco into the palace Emerging from a hidden grate in the floor of the palace that the Brass Castle Boys led you to Ving then negotiated with so many rats You mock my rat negotiations They will help I assume At some point I'll bet you one thousand dollars that it won't come back up Watch your man, I have the biggest shoehorn in my mind right now Just gonna make a note real quick To lose Abdul a thousand dollars Sean?

To lose Abdul A thousand dollars Uh, Billy That's a clock Billy Switcherood a bad day Billy Switcherood a bag of grain into delicious cheeses Helping with the negotiations In which the rats then agreed to allow you passage into their chamber of the palace And also to help With pandemonium Unbridled chaos at the giving of a signal Which also was not Decided on, I don't believe You said when we say the word Unleash chaos The good word, the good word I meant I think all rats are born knowing the word The word, yeah I think if I scream now rats now Go get it He looks like a man but he screams He speaks the rat tongues Screams like a rat Uh, in the lower levels of the palace They found a disused Bricked up chamber Leading to aquifers and Channels beneath The courtyard One, two and three headed off into the palace on their own To try and track down their lost members While Mears, Ving, Billy and Tuck Coalesced their plan Using the waters beneath Billy and Ving are going to create a fairy ring To trap Callum and Victoria Before they summon the Gibbous Man to keep him out of the picture While Tuck will use the icon of servitude in his chest To make the appearance of being possessed And bring up an illusory version of Ving Pretending to be betraying the party And delivering Ving to Callum and Victoria Yeah And then the rats swoop in and save the day Sounds like a plan boys Let's go And…

Rats Uh, everybody took a drag off a saffron cigarette Billy being made to smoke for the first time Being made to And immediately taking a shine to it Cause I mean It's so cool It's simply too cool That's right And to begin the plan Tuck took a trip within To the sit down pizza hut in his heart Yes To speak with the demon of servitude In the form of Habibi Margani They made their deal Habibi letting Tuck know that for this to work He had to be let through just a little bit Uh huh Tuck agreed Before he went in letting the party know that he would Return to his one liner about classical music If it was him Uh huh He closed his eyes Opened them Eyes white Chest eyes open And said I said I don't like classical music Yes Oh my gosh Do I look fucked up?

Do I look super weird and fucked up? Yeah, a little bit Mears is just kind of staring at you wide-eyed Mears, here, check it out Oh no no no no no no I'm okay I make the eyes like look in different directions Like flexing your pecs? Yeah, I think I'm doing it by flexing my abs Can you get them to do cross-eyes? Yeah, here, check it out Oh Oh Stop looking at your dick Gross So gross Yeah yeah You look great You look horrible Thanks Can you see with those? I can't Can I?

Uh, that's a good question Cause aren't my eyes also white?

Yeah, I think that's We've talked about how they're um They roll back Yeah, I feel like it's like How Daredevil sees Right, it's like a perception Yeah, of like Rather than sight It's sort of like the shadow realm But the opposite Like where Billy can see the Fae And it kind of looks like a shadow It's sort of the opposite of that Yeah Where everything's like Maybe everything's super bright Yeah, like Yeah, it's like the world on fire thing Or whatever they describe it as Yes Where it's like outlines of light On everything Yeah Instead of the actual things Totally So Mears is uh Looking kind of jumpy And he's kind of like Looking at you with his eyes squinting Yeah And he's like He's like He's like He's like He's like He's looking at you with his eyes squinting It's like We're really taking this Classical music thing At face value, huh I mean, yeah Okay Alright Well he said he has control So he has at least enough control Yeah To remember that Okay Alright Very Sure Yeah Okay So Anything else we need to figure out Before we engage With the plan Yeah I don't think so No Well I think we're running out of time soon The shuffling is quieting Yeah We can see that they're gathering a circle Mm-hmm So, Billie, I think you have to make the illusion, right?

Yes. And then I can take it up top and you can start working on the fairy circle. Okay. So I will use fairy child then. What season are you in right now? I'm in a spring. Oh. So with my spring season, I can create a convincing illusion without spending a hold. I guess I just don't have to use a fairy child for this. Yep. The spring form is very tricky. So they are able to make their illusions just at will. Yeah. Great.

I would like to do a sort of like a bit of like a Cinderella fairy godmother thing. I'm like walking around Vang and I'm doing the like. But more like Gus doing it. Yeah. Like Gus doing it. Gus, Gus. Yeah. I fall over a few times because I'm not looking. This dress is a lot of corn. It's mostly corn. Giant corn kernels. But I got to get him just right. Sometimes I don't get your proportions right. That's true. His ass is huge. His ass. Huge. Legs really skinny. It's like when a kid draws it.

Yeah. Arms like no joints. Stick arms. Fingers straight out. Eyelashes like this. I look like a house. Yeah. There's always like a little corner sun following me around. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. That's very funny. Yeah. It looks like a drawing all the time. Yeah. So I'm like, I got to erase it. I'm like, no, no, no. I got to make this real life. Oh, God. That feels weird. That feels weird. Be careful. Those little like V birds are just floating around his head. A flower with a smiley face. Yeah. Okay.

So does the, well, it says convincing illusion. So it does the illusion after some editing. Yeah. Looks like Ving. Yeah. Yeah. And then I teach the illusion. Like I mimic a lot of Ving's moves and I'll watch you. Yeah. Yeah. So actually I want to try and clear this up. The illusion will be away from Billy. Yeah. Out of sight. Mm-hmm. How does it act when it is not within view? Because he's creating a convincing illusion. He's not necessarily creating a set, like a living thing.

You know what I mean? Yeah. What if I like do like a communion of whispers down here with Billy? Oh. I have to tap him in to what's going on up there. Yeah. Yeah. Does that make sense? That does make sense. Yeah. Yeah. Billy can make illusions, but basically like once they get too far away from him or if he can't like perceive them, they're not in his control anymore. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That makes sense and then a community of whispers could also be a way to make that happen yeah yeah I would think the ring I think the chamberlain ring because I feel like you and I could like watch each other really closely for this okay so we're connecting through the rings to be able to like use tuck as a way to keep the illusion going I like that staying connected with the illusion through tuck so how are we establishing that now like what does that look like like tapping in through the rings to make sure that it works waiting until tuck is up there and then like trying to keep it going yeah I think it's a community of whispers role on using the rings in this space okay great yeah go ahead and 2d6 plus wisdom for communion of whispers I got 10 okay so you all you get a boon or a vision that is pertinent to your current situation clear clear clear clear Communion of whispers.

I got 10. Okay, so you all, you get a boon or a vision that is pertinent to your current situation. Clear and helpful. Clear and helpful. So we're all looking inside each other's minds using the Chamberlain rings for a moment. Yeah. What do they see? You guys see Tuck trapped in the pizza hut in his head, fists bloody, trying to punch his way out the front door. Whoa. So what is the reaction once the Demon of Servitude realizes that Billy and Ving have seen this?

The Demon of Servitude would try to break through the floor above them using TLC to expose Billy and Ving. This was a trap? The Demon hates classical music too? I turn on Tuck and I'm going to make… I'm going to do a ring around the Rosie. Oh, shit. So what we're going to do is a defy danger. Okay. Because I think the second you make this connection, the Demon starts moving. Okay. Okay. Like you see Tuck draw TLC and start swinging, like start trying to swing at the ceiling.

Sorry I had to lie to you. No, it's very cool. I noticed you didn't apologize to me. Because we're not friends, Paul. Jesus Christ. Oh. Take that back. I like to assume only friends can make that kind of joke. That's true. That's true. That's true. But it did hurt. I'm sorry. It stings just like when you lie to us. So many betrayals. I am so glad. Because the… Oh, man. All right. We'll talk about it after. Okay.

So Billy is doing a defy danger to act quick enough to do this before the Demon can do what it's trying to do. Right. Because you have shoot first. Right. I do. I do. Billy, Billy. If the question is ever who acts first, the answer is Billy. Yeah. So what I was going to say was that the defy danger was to see if you can act first. Oh, okay. But shoot first says that you act first. Yes. Yeah. So you can just try and make your ring around him.

Maybe instead of the ring, I will do I'm a bad guy now. Oh. Oh. And just fucking gloves off. Yeah. Because I'm pissed. I'm pissed. Like how did this Demon know? And your dad lied to you. And he lied to me. All right. I'm sorry. He said he never lied to me. I know. I'm sorry. Can you read out how I'm a bad guy now works? Okay. So I call upon my winter form to fight in a flurry. I'll roll plus wisdom. Okay. Great. So 2d6 plus wisdom. Please. Nine plus one is 10. Okay. Okay.

So on a 10 plus, I get three holds. I can terrify an enemy, deal damage to an enemy within reach and freeze someone or something in place. Oh, God. This move is so powerful. I really. I really fucked up with this one. To be totally honest, the freezing thing's insane. So yeah. What do you do? I'm going to freeze him in place. Okay. Yeah. Tuck draws TLC. As you're coming out of the connection into the pizza hut, he's drawing the axe. He's going to throw it at the ceiling.

I spring on to talk and I clamp down on his hand, like wrapping it tight around the blade. Oh, yeah. Oh, and then it just like ice surrounds the hand and the blade. And I'm angry. So it's like the ice shoots down. It pierces like into the floor. Oh, yeah. It's like sharp. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And what is the reaction from the demon? Shit. Okay. What is this guy like? So all it wants to be right now is the perfect servant. Right? Yeah. So he, as in Habibi, it, as in the demon. Yes.

Is probably recognizing Callum as the most powerful person here and is like, I am going to serve that Callum Blackhammer. And the reason that it wanted to take control because it wasn't trying to serve you. It wanted control. It wanted control of your body so it could engage in its programming. Right. So there's like icicles going through my legs into the ground. Not through your legs, but like it's like anchoring your upper body to the ground. Okay.

So when, when you do that, the eyes look at you, but Tuck's head doesn't move and Tuck doesn't speak, but you hear in your mind, my master is not ready to see you yet, little boy. Yeah. Creepy. Very creepy. Hmm. Great. Can I try and break out of this? Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. So this would be 2d6 plus strength. Okay. Uh, so that's, yeah. 10. Sorry. So, um. Do I have a debility? You're trying to act against the wishes of the dice. Fuck.

Uh, so you, yeah, Billy, you'd launch onto Tuck who you now know is not Tuck. This ice encases him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Massive body. Mm-hmm. Just strain against the ice and shatter it. And it bends the axe Because he was holding the axe That handle's made of stone Is it?

Yeah, it's always been made of stone Oh Yeah, the demon doesn't care about TLC Would it be able to break TLC?

I don't know You tell me Okay, I don't think so Okay Because the reason that Tuck has been able to break stuff in the past Is because of his inherent nature Okay This is not his nature acting It is a demon Okay So it can't tap into that part of him Okay Yet Okay But it's still figuring out Tuck's situation Okay So it tries to snap TLC Okay But fails Yes But the ice is broken And that gives Ving You have a moment to act here I want to go within the Mind Pizza Palace Yeah And charge at the door Yeah, so you're in the parking lot Outside the Mind Pizza Palace Just so many, many minutes Like a 1965 Bluebird bus pulls up And Ving gets off and is like Tuck!

And you just see like Boom, boom, boom, boom There's a sign on the front that says Closed, we'll be back in five minutes And behind that Call tomorrow And behind that Tuck is just pounding this door Bloody fists Ving, the door is fucking jammed or something He shoved a bunch of gum into the lock, I think It's just locked We need to find the right key I want to manifest a key to the door Oh, interesting You try to break it down maybe And you can see that this is just not happening Yeah, you can see that this is just not happening So, 2d6 plus wisdom to summon this key Okay Ooh Plus wisdom?

Yeah Ooh, 12 12 Oh, sick So you find You pull a zip You have a big like ring of keys on your belt Yes You look down, you're actually dressed like a janitor Yeah And you're going through this ring of keys The other tucks in the place are like freaking out They're like The fryer's is broken Is that the maintenance guy?

There's a fire in the kitchen There's one of the tucks has a big dishcloth And he's waving at a fire The soft serve is too soft It's just cream Cushing out of the nozzle Slipping and falling all over, covered in cream And you find the key And click into the door Open the door Fly it open Back to the real world, Billy You're hanging on to Tuck, the demon shatters this ice Mirrors is kind of moving around the outside Trying to get an answer to that question He's here to help If you attack, he can help you with that But what do you do?

I'd like to try to terrify an enemy I want to try to terrify the demon of servitude Oh, sick That's so cool Hell yeah, what does this look like?

Billy's in like full winter rage mode And he's screaming at the demon like You're obeying the wrong master Whoa Sick, that's so fucking cool I am the strongest one here Okay, you will terrify it By spending a hold Sure I want you to roll this though Because if Billy presents himself As significantly powerful The demon's allegiance might change Yeah Right That's wild Sick 2d6 plus charisma, I guess To like force of personality Nine Can I aid?

You have been released from the pizza palace So you're trying to get out Yeah What does this look like?

I think it's sort of like what happened At the battle for Lance Springs When The icon of Zealotry Zealotry Like showed everyone what they believed in the most Like what Oh yeah Yeah It kind of showed everybody Like their Yeah, what they're devoted to Yeah Yeah Tux was just memories of Billy and Bing Because there's like nothing else in there So I'm trying to like line up the thing that Billy is doing Where he's trying to like tap into the servitude thing And then line it up with what my personal allegiance is Yeah So Ving gets the door open And all of the Tux come running out They're like Oh They're freaking out That's like That is an expression of Tux internal repressed anxiety Yes Yes He's Released from a pizza hut And One of them is like a dark wet stain on his pants Front and back Front and back Front and back And Tux prime Yeah You come out with Ving And as you're like Hands bloody and torn Yeah Outside the pizza palace It starts to snow Whoa Billy Yeah You can feel the winter fairy Being impressed upon this place Is Billy here or no?

No, not right now No, not in the mind palace Okay But his presence is known Okay So Tux He wants to take the memory From when we went to the To the pool And we had to like Fight through that snow storm Cause we were going to the pool To like dunk Billy, right?

Oh yeah Yeah To T-Bag him Yeah You always laugh when you say that Yeah I don't get it There So there is this memory that Tux has Of him holding on to The polar bear version of Ving And like holding Billy In the crook of his arm And fighting through The winter storm That he's just gonna like Bring him back Yeah To this place And like feed it into This like It's almost like A framework for devotion Is being created inside of the mind Of the icon Yeah So he's like He's trying to nest These like feelings of like Familial devotion Inside of it Interesting Yeah This, oh okay This is cool Cause like metaphysically In our world What does that do to an icon?

Does it shift the icon? Does it become a different icon?

I don't Oh maybe yeah Cause it's Could do Well cause I think the way I've always thought about it Is like certain icons Are like mixtures of other Baser icons Right That create like more complex ideas Yeah So I can see the Servitude and Devotion Devotion So what happens when you combine Servitude with like Devotion I mean that's very Very powerful Loyalty Because it gives purpose to Loyalty Like the Like maybe Okay let's just Let's roll in See what happens That's cool Wait is this not your aid?

This is my aid Yeah Right This was Just an aid I haven't rolled anything No This is just the aid This was just a description of an aid It's very cool Okay I wanted to highlight that Wow We're good at telling stories Someone's really fucking Chewing up the landscape in here Or whatever Scenery or whatever Yeah it's 14 tux Yeah so that says Seven Plus one Eight Oh thank god Yeah That would have been So embarrassing Oh god The memory gets deleted From tux head Okay so Tux Thinks about All of the times that He has lived his life In service Of Ving and Billy Uh huh Familial bond Familial bond The strength of that bond The strength of your devotion And how that informs your service Mmhmm Then we'll jump back out Billy you're like On tux head But you're like Holding his face And screaming at him Tux body is like Starting to kneel Oh Almost like against his will Oh Six Fucking awesome That's so crazy Yeah Oh that's And Billy's just screaming Obey me Yeah Yeah It's kind of like Do you think I am a conjurer Of cheap tricks Where like Yeah Oh I think so The perspective changes And Billy seems huge Yeah Yeah Though it could be also ice Yeah Physically is like All like lifting Billy Off the ground Yeah Like sheathed in ice Yeah And with a heavy Thud Yeah!

Tux body Kneels On the stones In this ancient Castle complex Mmhmm And you can feel Whatever iconic power Is Inhabiting Tux body Shifts its allegiance From whatever is going on Above Mmhmm To you And I'm very curious If we think This has changed it From the icon of servitude To the icon of loyalty Yeah Cause you When we Shifted the bar Like the Coins Kind of came loose Mmhmm And the coins In his chest Are always Have always been like The constellation Oh Of servitude So they're shifting Yeah I think so So it's like fresh Fresh cuts Scars Yeah So the Yeah the power The power of Billy's Personality In this Moment Is shifting the coin chunks In Tux chest As they form a new Constellation Representing The icon of loyalty Do I take any damage For any of this?

I guess You're asking No! What do you think You're rolling? I'm so sorry Is it my damage? Or Billy's?

I guess it might be mine D6 I guess it would be a D6 Because this is something That Billy's Fairy power Is doing to you But you get extra damage When you get 2 D6 When you're in winter I do That means it could be 2 Or it could be 12 Maybe it's Maybe it's snake eyes No it could be So we're rolling 2 D6 here No And this makes sense As a price to pay For changing the icon In Tux chest Yeah I'm gonna roll Shittier dice Not your magic lucky dice Find the virginity dice Where are they?

This is Sean's Why are we still Calling him that? Virginity dice Let's go 6 Okay Sounds like bad Yeah 6 damage Ooh all the eyes Look at me now Oh yeah That's so fucking gross Yeah So nasty So the demon And I can just Feed this to you Because now This is a different Situation entirely Yeah It looks at It looks at Billy And it asks What would you have of me?

Let him out And then tuck his back So every Mears is now looking Mears has got his sword out Still in the wax case Still in the wax case Yeah But he's still He's holding it I like that he's like Ah And he's kind of like He swings it at Ving a little bit Like ah Whoa whoa whoa No no no He swings it at Billy Put it down Put it down Okay It's fine Boo He drops the sword What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What?

Okay Everything's okay It's fine Right Tuck? Yes I'm okay I'm better now How do we know?

Mears point the sword at him He picks up the sword He points it in your direction Okay okay okay Ask me a thing That you That you think I would only know How cool was that jump You did off the roof The other day Dude I was a fucking Night spider He's back It's him It's him He's back And Tuck is bleeding heavily out of his chest Yeah But the eyes are still there Oh yeah The demon of loyalty fulfilled the deal that I tried to make Which was to make me look possessed Right yes he honored the deal Yeah I'm really sorry It's okay buddy it's not your fault Tempers happen Yeah Sometimes people get mad and that's okay And sometimes your dad gets possessed by the demon of servitude By accident right And it's an accident And when stuff is an accident it's nobody's fault That's right Right Sometimes your other dad just stands there and does nothing And things work out You did nothing You did stuff You just didn't You didn't do the last thing I didn't do the last thing And it kills me We can wreck on everything you do the last thing Let's do it Let's do it So perfect Let's do it We'll do a What are they called when we have to do a pickup We'll do a pickup where Ving actually solves Yeah Yeah!

What happens is like Ving comes in and he does like the thing that like a boyfriend does Where he like drapes over my arms Yeah As I'm holding Billy and asking if he's okay He's like yeah Yeah Are you though big guy?

I do like that he just kind of comes behind Billy like Shh Mm-hmm Like wipes the Yeah Like tries to brush the icicles off of him Get a little schmutz there Yeah Yeah Crackle crackle as the ice hits the ground Yeah Okay Says Mears So plan is then the plan is the plan again I think so I think I have control of this thing now And can I check in with it?

Yeah you guys can all pop into the memory palace now Oh sure yeah Yeah Let's see how he's doing Yeah Ding ding We're in the pizza hut It's kind of smoldering inside a little bit Oh Help wanted signs everywhere It's a big help wanted sign It's just like the manager left like mopping everything up Yeah Yeah It's just a tuck in one of those Still the loincloth is in there It's a loincloth but tucked into the loincloth is like a button down short sleeve shirt With a clip on tie Yeah Yeah I feel like I might have lost a lot of my subcruise Just leave your resume on the counter Just take a seat wherever you want We sit in a booth And uh Habibi comes out From the back All sooty Whoa Hello Hi Hey How's it going?

Much better I'm good I'm good Um I just want to say And he like slides into the booth across from you I imagine you're all crammed into the Yeah we One side of the booth Yes Yeah We have three giant cokes in red In the red plastic cups Plastic cups Yeah He's eating a sundae Like a Like an old school In the glass bowl Yeah I just want to say I'm so sorry For the deception My loyalty Now Lies with you Wait is it just Billy or is it Ving and Billy?

I guess it would be Billy and Ving You are my priority now I will do anything that I can do To protect you How do we maintain your loyalty? Who's to say it won't just Go to the next person? That's a great question What makes you feel loyal to us?

Specifically He There's like a TV in the corner Oh It's like playing family video Yes Style memories Yeah With like the VHS like scan lines Yeah yeah yeah And stuff like that On the wrong date You know how there's lots of Oh yeah The wrong date It's all 1990 Well it's like whatever It's like September 1st 1991 Like whatever it all is All resets too Yeah All the pictures on the wall Have been replaced with family photos Oh yeah The menu Is like little That's all your favorite items It's like all Tuck's favorite I mean Ving's favorite items And all Billy's favorite items Yeah Do not accept checks From these people It's all pictures of Ving And Billy What?

What? Wall Dine and Dash Wall of Fame It's all Billy It's all Billy It's all Billy It's all Billy It's all Billy It's all Billy It's all Billy It's all Billy It's all Billy It's all Billy It's all Billy It's all him running away With different foods Blurry Is it running?

Those blurry photos Where he's moving too fast They're kind of in order He's like he's got a cookie And he's got a cookie And a banana He's got a cookie And a banana And a pizza He's got a cookie And a banana And a pizza And a sundae It feels like he just Kept coming back And stealing I kind of like This is maybe too big a change But it's thematically I think makes sense That it's no longer Like a sit down pizza hut But it's like a family style restaurant Oh yeah Where it's like now Like a family style buffet Yeah Really nice The jello The jello buffet Yeah The jello's in the buffet It's the all you can eat Husky breakfast place Oh it's changed To the husky diner That's different It's still winter outside Yeah Cause like the Like the winter aspect Maintained And it's the It is the all you can eat diner The truck stop On Christmas Eve Yeah Family dinner And you can see that Oleg in the back Oh yeah He's like Cooking It's now just fully a memory That Tuck has Of a really wonderful time At a diner Yeah While you were A fugitive on the run I tried to fuck that cop Tried to blow a cop At a truck stop Didn't you try something With like a cucumber I did I did a thing where I I think I sucked on Yeah You did You sucked on a cucumber Yeah The cucumber Yeah I'm still unclear Where the line was In terms of A trick And a genuine Attempt At seduction But yeah On the TV It's like Billy in the ocean At Crystal Bay Yeah What else What are other memories That we've had together Oh uh All of us in our like Dress up costumes Oh yeah Undercover Right You on my shoulder For chickens Yeah Oh yeah You guys in the pool At the Crystal Bay Hotel Right A lot of Crystal Bay stuff It's a lot of Crystal Bay That was honestly One of the times That you guys Got to like Kind of relax for a while Right Instead of being like Constantly on the job There's probably a lot of memories From like the time You all lived together In McCall In the library too For like a year In the library Yeah There's a huge oil painting Of Ving Writing the Thunderbirds The Thunderbirds Yeah That's great That's so good A metal style Oil portrait of Ving On the wall I like that Letters from Gale Put up on the fridge In the back Yep Explicit bird drawings Explicit Oh my god She included them Full cloaca Oh my god Holy shit Holy shit Shit Um So yeah Habibi The name now makes Much more sense Right For this situation Yeah I would not do anything To betray you And I'm so sorry That I was forced to It was just my nature I understand Okay buddy We all have I pat him on the On the shoulder Kind of like In a way that Sexually repressed Stepdads Pat each other Sure yeah Like You just had an off day But I am Prepared To aid you In your current plan Okay I think the plan Is the same then If you can make it look Like I'm possessed And stop Callum From detecting That I'm not Then I think I can go up And be the distraction And you guys can do The fairy ring thing Do you mind if we Just stay here For a little bit longer I like it here It's nice in here It's cozy Yeah time Passes very very slowly In the pizza palace So you guys You know you guys Spend like a nice meal Getting some Imaginary pizzas And imaginary fried chicken We're all sitting around Going like My eyes got Yeah Yours is not in here Yours is just out there like Oh my god Are they having canapes now Yours is like Pulling and sorting Slowly pulling and sorting Just kind of Drawing back A rat A rat skitter Spying He goes Oh Drops his sword again King king Bling bling bling Looks up at the glass roof To make sure no one heard And after a nice Calming meal Does this count as a make camp Can we recover some Hit points from this You said time moves differently I like that a lot So Yes I'd say This time And this time only Yes Okay Yeah So you can all heal Up to half your hit points Yeah it's fine I'm at full hit points That brings me back up to full Yes Great Uh Which is perfect For what's coming Well that doesn't sound ominous I think you said it by accident At the restaurant Billy was eating all the The little jam The individual jam things Peeling them open Did you have the Also the individual creamers as well Um I tried And you guys were like No no no no Right He's getting you drunk No no Yeah Creaming your mouth Creaming your mouth Your mind is worse Yes I love that the individual creamers Are just like shooters For half way Exactly God damn Keep them coming Keep them coming Uh what in What is your complimentary sir?

What did Ming have in the In the mind husky?

Um He ate a A full Salad Nice Yeah with a With a grilled Arctic char Oh nice On it A nice A nice meal And uh A poutine Oh Oh Nice For dessert And he had a Cutlet A pork cutlet He kept ordering Where Every time the server Would try and give us The bill He would just be like I'll ask him If you don't mind I guess he realizes It's a million moments On my lips Zero on my hips This is amazing I'm gonna stuff my Face in this place Sorry for not cursing You guys spent Eight years In the mind husky Meanwhile 30 seconds Passes in real life Yeah Uh what did Tuck have?

A bowl of malteasers Oh cool Mmm How big are we talking? Oh like a Like a salad bowl Like a wooden 70's salad bowl Yeah Specifically full of malteasers Got a big ladle He was eating He keeps mixing them up Like it's a salad Mmm Uh and you Your eyes Flutter back open You feel rejuvenated Okay What Are you Are we good now?

No Oh my god He jumps when you jump I just haven't seen you In a long time years I forgot what you look like Oh you've aged So horribly He bats your hand away From his Shitty mustache Time is rabbit You young Once beautiful And yet he's still here He waited for us He waited for us Your loyalty Will not go unnoticed This is We're all gonna die here Might be true We're all gonna die Right there's like an Eldritch ceremony Yeah Do you think we could Get back on track perhaps?

Yeah Okay Can we roll for something To kind of like get a A sense of what What stage they're at up there? Oh Discern realities 2d6 plus whiz Uh 12 Okay Three questions off Discern realities Okay What happened here recently?

Uh yeah totally So There is a Aren't so many people You're like watching The feet Uh the shadows up above And um You're not really seeing So many people being Dragged in anymore Okay It seems like Whoever is here Are the ones that are Gonna be here for this You do notice that the Feet have multiplied Quite significantly It's hard to get a close Like an actual accurate count Without taking the time to count You would say there's Upwards of a hundred people Upstairs And they seem to have Stopped their shuffling Like their walk Or waiting for something And I imagine I can see Like a spot Where they're surrounding An altar Yeah so you can see From before Where the circle of chairs is With a heavy Shadow in the center That you would assume Is the altar Around the edges of the shadow Is flickering of light Filtering through Like candles have been lit Oh Oh sweet Yeah Very cool Oh can we hear Chanting at all?

You can hear string music Oh the string music Is the music The orchestra Haunted Melodies Like droning Yeah It's almost got a beautiful Yeah Quality to it But not quite What is about to happen?

Now that you've watched it For a bit And you've seen Sort of the people Up above Like in the streets You've got a good idea Of what the Afflicted Congregants Look like When they move And you see Two pairs of feet That are not moving In the same way So it would appear That two people That are not afflicted In the same way Have arrived I gotta try and see What I can see Whatever they're wearing Stand right below Not helpful Can I see anything? Can I see anything? Can we have flashlights?

We're still doing That would be A discern reality Which we are in the middle of It's okay You can do it after Yeah Okay Can I see beef? Oh my god You can barely see feet We talked about this You can barely see the shoes Okay but if they were Sitting on the floor Yeah Horrible people Oh so what can I see? What kind of feet Are we talking here? No Is she wearing shoes?

Found the line Found the line Don't wanna do that So the vibe That you're getting Based off those Last two questions The fact that all the Afflicted congregants Are kind of standing around And that Callum and Victoria Have arrived What is about to happen Is They hope The ceremony Okay But it is clear That they are waiting Okay Okay Okay What here Is the ceremony Is not what it appears To be So you're standing down here You're looking up You're trying to just kind of Glean any information About what is going on There's the music There's music There's the droning Of the strings And you feel A reverberation Through the stone Whoa Like a Whoa And it like Rumbles through The palace And then you hear like Like a thrashing Almost somewhere Like Boom boom boom boom Boom boom boom Upstairs or Up somewhere That's the only thing That you're not really Getting is exactly Where this is But it is somewhere And you would assume Somewhere within the palace Can I Connect with Black Spire?

Uh sure yeah Do I have to roll to do it? Uh I can't remember It should be on your sheet I don't think I do actually It's not a move It's the You just tap in now? Cause I have the Pick The pick still Right yeah Did we just do this as like a It's basically Eye of the Tiger It's Eye of the Tiger Yeah Yeah you tap in To Black Spire And You see darkness Like you can't You can't You can't see But you do feel That Black Spire Is thrashing around And slamming against Restraints Buddy is that you?

Oh my god Fucking dog Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god But you hear it In your mind Okay You don't hear him Speaking these words Okay Do we hear anything In the Space of the palace? You just hear thrashing And slamming Buddy can you Make a big roar For me? I can't They got a fucking Muzzle on me dude Oh no They got a fucking Muzzle on me man Are you in a place That's all black Black glass? They got a Big thing on my head I can't see Where did they get you bud?

I was on the beach And And I was Scared Oh no And then a bunch Of whales Came and helped me And then I was on the beach And then I just Started wandering around And then I was trying to Find you guys And then And then I found I was so hungry And I found a bunch of Shiny crunch in the woods And I ate it And then I fell asleep And then when I woke up I had a big thing on my head And I was like Oh my god I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry Oh my god Okay Okay We're gonna get you Out of this buddy Okay Can you do like a big whip With your tail for me?

Okay Here we go Oh I got my tail too And he just Just a second And he You hear him thinking The sound of exertion The sound of exertion And then you hear like a big Boom And do we hear it in the Palace where we are? It is in the palace Okay Oh my god I see her Okay I come We're gonna get you bud Okay Okay What should I do?

Just hang tight We'll find you Okay I love you I hung up before Say it back Say it back Say it back Oh fuck Talk I said I like you And the thrashing stops Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck They have Black Spire Fuck He must be Part of the ceremony Yeah it makes It kind of makes sense I was thinking about this A few months ago And then I texted Sean But Black Spire You texted me? About this?

A few months ago Wait let me check I think you actually did I did I Cause it was I was listening to the episodes Where We were talking about How he was turning into Um Oh the like a Like patchy white And stuff like that Yeah Yeah Yeah! The converted Obsidian And he had Like there's like An element now Of Black Spire Where he's like Part of both worlds Oh yep Where he Kind of represents Sort of both sides Of the Gibbous Man Cause the shiny crunch Is the sun Distilled Sort of right?

Yeah that's kind of What it's become Obsidian is the dark Outer dark Representative Yeah cause yeah Obsidian we've discovered Is If the stories are to be Believed Which many stories That we've told Are true in this world Is the night sky That fell to earth Yeah Um Sunstone But Sunstone's the stuff That he eats It's not what he's Turning into No he was He used to eat Obsidian when he was In the cave And then he found Shiny crunch Where we gave him Shiny crunch Yeah He ate Giant bones Yes Which has Obsidian Which are made of Obsidian They're made of obsidian But they also have The capacity to connect With Oh yeah The iconic realm Yeah And Blackspire's kind of Becoming like a Metaphysical analog For a coin Cause he's like Part Like he's both Types of coin He's the white coin That contains a demon And then Both sides He's both sides And he has like An intrinsic connection To the iconic realm So the only thing Is He is in fact Turning white Because of the Sunstone Uh huh He is Because dragons Metabolize whatever Minerals they primarily Consume And that just gets Like worked Into their body He's He's an obsidian dragon Who is kind of Morphing into a Sunstone dragon Okay Which is why His breath weapon Has changed From the like Molten obsidian That it used to be To beams of light Because he is He is becoming More sunstone Than he is obsidian Have we really Established the Makeup of The Coins when they Turn white It's just white It's a white obsidian That's all we know Do you think What changes Is that Cause obsidian Is a Conduit to The outer dark Uh huh That allows Icons to Basically hone in On them and come through Uh huh White obsidian Traps them Yeah It'd be like Close It's what happens When you close the door That obsidian Creates It loses that darkness Either way You would assume That Black spire Being in the palace Means Callum has Some sort of Designs Yeah What those are You don't know But you do know That he is here Yeah I think That the That black spire The fact that black spire Was being studied By the library Is like an indication That he is kind of Important to whatever The end game is here And I think The fact that he is Sort of both kinds Of obsidian Is important Very much so So that's what I'm saying Is he's not both kinds Of obsidian He's not He's obsidian and sunstone Right Oh I didn't know that But the fact that he's Obsidian and sunstone Is important Yeah It is Cause they are like Almost like Uh conflicting Yeah Materials Obsidian and white obsidian Are functionally The same substance Right Obsidian and sunstone Are antithesis to each other Right And there is some I feel like there is some Connection to the gibbous man Maybe Cause the gibbous man We We only see the one aspect Of him Right Like we only see The dark version of him Yeah He's been cut off from The what His day The day sky Yeah Right So it makes sense That he would be Interested And maybe we don't know why In something that is Combining The day and the dark Because he is trying To re-assimilate himself Right He might need to use Whatever that weirdness is That is in dragons Yeah When we first met Black Spire In the cave Didn't he tell us That like he once Had a human Yeah He said he was Carried around by a guy And we saw We found him in A church of the Black flame Right And we saw One of the coins There This is true Do you think he might Have been left there Intentionally To like Turn him into Maybe Maybe And maybe it was like The gibbous man Who carried him Yeah Or a servant of The gibbous man Oh yep And left with a store Of obsidian to feed on And turn into This obsidian thing Uh huh That's a great Those are lots of good thoughts Well whatever we gotta do It feels like Black Spire Is an important part of this plan We gotta get him out of here Yeah And even if he wasn't He's just our boy He's our boy We can't let him Yeah Be part of this In this way Sean finally let him Get onto this side of the world I'll be damned If we let Sean Take him away from us now So does that change The plan at all The other Ving Comes up and says You bet it does Holy shit He's been down here The whole time Look how you were here You're so convincing Billy that's a really good I've been talking to this one I thought this was The real Ving I guess it's working I'm getting really good at it The Ving says Now I'm over here I guess The only difference is His ass does look A little fatter What My ass My ass or his Hey what's He's wearing Little lemon pants So what's it like Do the little Contour They go into the butt Into the crack Those have gotta be Uncomfortable right No They don't have to be I'll dare say I'll dare say I'm gonna be the one To say it I don't think so I don't think they have To be uncomfortable I'll dare say Okay but real Real talk Says Mears Does that change the plan Yeah No It I don't Does it Do you guys think It changes the plan I'm trying to think Of how it would I mean Then this is gonna be my Mears is my window Into discussing the plan I mean if the plan Is to trap Callum and Victoria And also Rescue Blackspire One could be achieved By the other Cause then I mean I mean there's I guess there's the Magi And then whoever Whatever else But like If they're trapped In the circle They can't stop us From freeing Blackspire Okay Then we'll do that We can do this We can save you We can save our boy We can save him So What is the first step I go up with the Illusion The illusion version of it No I'm the real one That's the illusion He starts grabbing No no no no I'm gonna take this one up Look at my ass Look at my ass Look at my ass Look at this ass It's so flat Where's the other one No mine's the big one It's big right That's the fake thing Yeah And then I go I go over to the fake thing And I'm like Come on Bring your junk over here Buddy Come on Back it up Beep beep Let me check out That wagon you're dragging Let's go And then I have a hard sex scene But only with the all Yeah yeah yeah Amazing It's so But it's a lot of like Just looking at each other And the moment The moment you're about to It disappears Oh man Oof Just colored smoke And reveals Tuck's penis And jizz He's just It's true He jizzes He jizzes Damn So dumb How horrible It's such a close up It's just the head of his dick Paul's crying No I'll grow up I'll grow up That's fine That's fine I'll grow up Okay Okay So you Get close enough To the illusion Without touching it Yeah That it looks like You're leading it Without touching it Well because if he touches it It'll be If he can't touch it He'll be clear He'll come He'll finally get to Enterving in some way He'll come immediately Yeah And you Take the path That the You go back out Through the The broken Doorway Yeah And you take the path That the brass castle's Laid out to you Yeah And you're going up Tuck Take this I want to give him The saffron cigarette Just in case Yeah Something weird happens With the demon He's loyal now I don't trust a demon I tuck it into the Band of my cowboy hat Right Because I'm still Dressing You're wearing a cowboy hat Okay cowboy I forgot Yeah And you head up Into the ballroom Yep And You open the door And it creaks In that way That doors Creak in a big Open area Ooh Like so loudly Echoey As the droning Of the orchestra Continues You see its long Spidery arms Playing Instrument after Instrument There's a crescendo As he enters the room Every once in a while A little like Snag someone From the crowd Oh Yeah If they get If they wander too close It just drags The end of the orchestra Yeah To eat?

Yeah Question mark Question mark I think they are They are out of sight And because they're so Take Like they're The people are afflicted It's just silent And there are a number of Very ragged looking people In finery And masquerade masks Identities Disguised from you Torn Suits And gowns Covered in blood And dirt Yeah Milling about And they're kind of like Some of them are still Slowly dancing With one another They're sort of like A spinning waltz That's happening Around The orchestra And that's what it is When a dancing partner Gets too close To the orchestra It snatches them out Drags them into the machinery You can see some of them Have like Their nails Are like bleeding Yeah And like broken And like the bottoms Of their feet Because they've been Dancing so long Arcing like designs Of blood on the floor Oh That are mirroring Like the constellations Above Oh They're drawing a pattern With the way that they walk And dance And you see On the far side of the room Because if we remember It's like If this is If we're looking sideways At the room From here It's like the entrance hall And the food And then like a dance floor Uh huh And then on the far end The congregation And as soon as the door opens The orchestra changes it To like The marriage waltz Oh yeah And The illusory vang And like tuck Mmhmm Are like walking Down the aisle Yeah To like the tune of the waltz Perfect And at the Altar On the other end In their wedding finery Are Callum Blackhammer And Victoria LeBlanc Callum This is the first time You're seeing him I think Face to face Yeah He is Shorter Than Colm He's a little bit leaner Still very handsome Still the same like Dark Skin of someone Of like Macaulayne descent But a bit of a Oh a bit of like A curled mustache Not too much Just a little bit Yeah just a touch of it Mmhmm And then the goatee underneath He's wearing like a black suit In sort of I can't I don't know how to describe Like Victoria Like old Timey clothes But it's not a suit Like we would imagine Of course It's one of those like Full breasted Doublet things With like the vest And like the shirt underneath Yeah He's got a cravat And like some ruffles Yes Yes Mmhmm And Victoria Is next to him Taller than She's quite tall Mmhmm Whip lean Like razor sharp In like a wet A red Wedding gown Wet Red In a Wet Wet from what?

Yeah Sorry In a red Baseball Baseball Baseball Think about baseball Baseball If you get a boner now They'll know you're not possessed Come on Tetherball Tetherball Tetherball Think about tetherball Tetherball Come on I try not to look at Ving's illusory ass Yeah Oh no the ass Oh no Victoria Just ping ponging Between the two Demon Why do you tempt me?

This is what you want Master Loyalty to that ass Oh my god Um Yeah Victoria's wearing A red wedding gown She's got long Straight blonde hair Very straightened Uh she's wearing Her saber on her side In sort of a ceremonial capacity And you can see Even like Cause her It goes up to The you know Shoulders And then the shoulders Are bare and you can see Marks from fresh tattoos Mmhmm Yeah And Callum has his hands Kind of clasped Behind his back Yeah And he sees you approaching And I I think that like The ass is The action of this Ceremony Is very much like I'm giving away Thing Yeah In the way that a father Of a bride Would give away a bride And I Uh I go Your quarry is waiting For you master And I I have like My eyes are like White Yeah And the coin Bits in my chest All look like Gross disgusting eyes Yeah Um And I don't have a boner The demon of loyalty Straight Reigning to suppress The boner Using all of his Iconic All the strength Of the outer dark Bent towards This task And Callum's eyes Or his eyebrows Raise Well This is quite a surprise He gestures you forward What is the Illusion doing?

I think the illusion Is acting Because of the Like Billy's kind of Watching through The chamberlain rings It is acting It's like It's like Exactly as it needs to So what does it sound like It's saying Because this is your voice I mean I think I think that we Roughed We roughed him up a lot To make it look like He's weakened And bloodied Oh right Yeah Quite significantly Yeah So he's got like A swollen Eye And blood Leaking from his mouth He's limping Yeah His My uh Rope is like Tying his hands together Maybe something is torn We made him crying So it's like He's true defeated That dark is turning Him in It may We made it look like The uh The seed within your chest Is gone And there's just a hollow there Oh Yeah Oh yeah I like that a lot Truly defeated Yeah And Yeah He looks At you And sort of You feel Through the demon of loyalty Like uh Harmonizing Almost as if he's Like connecting With the demon Uh huh Who puts up the Display of Servitude Servitude Yeah And then he looks At you and says Where's the boy It won't work Without all three of you And we'll cut back Downstairs So Billy and Ving And Mears Are down here And the The ring making Is beginning So what does this look like We need the water first I imagine Yeah Ving is Bringing in The water from the aquifer Okay Uh which is condensed In drips And atmospheric Drips in In this old Uh underground Area Pulling water From the ceiling And Seeping it up Through the ground So it's like Foaming almost Like coming through The rock in the ground Cool And Dripping from the ceiling In a ring All around us The drips are Coming Almost like a cage Of drips from the ceiling As it comes Seeps up From the ground That's so sick To bring to Billy Creating like a shower Like a ring of Showering water Around you That's so fucking cool So you're gonna have to Roll elemental mastery For this 2d6 plus con Institution Oh A one and a Three Oh no What's your con My cons plus two So that's six I'd like to use Throw me a bone To use my Five that I had rolled From the previous day And replace the one With a five Excellent Saving This current situation Quite handily Thank god So That it happens As you described Water wells up From this ancient aquifer These old old canals Drips down from the ceiling Creating this Large ring That encompasses What are we trying to do The whole of the ballroom Just the Altar area The altar area And I want to contain Where Tuck is standing If it's possible If he's standing close enough He's very close To the altar Yeah He's not like Right up on it But he's within the ring Of chairs Right So just that area Yeah So Billy This power Yes Contained within this water You can feel As a fairy You can feel the power Moving through this water And this is Prime Circle making I will say That I have to I have to pick two Remember Correct So What two are you choosing I will choose the effect I desire comes to pass And I will retain control Okay So you are paying Nature's price What do we think Nature's price is In this situation You're summoning Ancient water What part of Lillian Is it connected to Yeah part of the moon Oh right The moon chunk Down here Yeah We have talked about Other moon chunks That we know The one Under Adonach's tower Was sacrifice Mmhmm The one In port For frost Was Betrayal Like the sense of betrayal Yeah Those are the only ones That we've discussed so far Cause there's one In Hibernia That we talked about Yeah And There's one down here So what do we think this is It's all aspects Of Lillian's Basically I mean I don't know if we Explicitly described it Like this They are all aspects Of what Lillian was feeling Mmhmm When Rian was killed Her shattered psyche Yeah And what I guess Is a part of The clue to what it is The type of City City That built on top of it I guess so Ooh It's a steamy city It is a steamy city You know what I mean There's a lot of pressure Yeah So there's a lot of activity Cause what happened when it When he died One of the things that Of course Came from that Was the grieving Mmhmm Where she decided Alright I'm wiping this place clean Yeah They killed my son This world doesn't deserve To live anymore Great I like anger and rage Yeah it could be rage Yeah Ving you tap into this water And you start pulling it up And it's you know And it's It comes up Like it's easy Once I let it Oh yeah Oh yeah You're pulling water up From these ancient hot springs Like from these ancient Thermal vents beneath The firefield's principality The vents that give it its name Mmhmm Old volcanic activity Mmhmm And so the room is like Filling with this Pungent steam As you're pulling this water out And you feel the steam Entering your lungs And filling you with this like Hot Burning energy Mmhmm And then you're thinking about The people above you Mmhmm And you're like Mmhmm Mmhmm Mmhmm Callum Blackhammer And Victoria LaBlanche All of these people That have threatened your family Mmhmm Threatened the people That you care most about And I'm imagining the bad things That they're about to do to Tuck Yeah Possibly to us Mmhmm And the best way That you could stop that Is if you beat them bloody And they don't get back up I like thinking about the steam Condensing above the glass ceiling Yeah And then that's where The water's coming down Oh yeah It's dripping off of the glass Like and collecting maybe Some of that energy That's up there Yeah Yeah That's great And as you're trying to like Control this rage That's building inside you Billy You are Doing some fairy stuff Yeah Billy is Kind of doing his little like Dance Like Making the ring But it's in like a So his fairy ring Like the first kind Where it just protects us Is like a fun easy thing And this one Because I'm trapping people Mmhmm Is he has to like Pull from like this like Rageful Like winter energy for it Oh cool So he's like Almost like hunched over And like Angry as he does it Uh huh And he almost looks like In pain too Ooh Yeah Like it's really uncomfortable For him to tap into this And build these things Yeah Is it still a dance But you're kind of in pain Yeah like maybe he It was like Easy at first And now he's on like His however many Rounds of it And he's like crawling And it's painful Oh yeah Yeah Okay That sucks It does suck Fuck Yeah So uh I believe it is 2d6 plus dexterity Yeah To build a ring Yes And then you And then I do pay A fairy child for this And you have enough To pay for it Yes I do I still I have three left now Okay So I had five to start Excellent Wow It's also like so hot in here too It's so hot Yeah Oh I'm so sweaty Oh yeah An eight Okay Yeah So this is why Billy's doing it like Repeatedly Cause it It requires my Constant attention To maintain this You can't stop I can't stop And he's also repeating Is it Is it allowed If he says The ring around the rosy Pumper Oh yeah Oh yeah Okay yeah But I'm like Trying to think If I can make it cool Yeah you can Yeah I would love if you wrote Like a kind of spooky Spout Lore one Ring around the rosy House is warm And cozy Eyes closed Eyes closed We'll all sleep now And so he just repeats it Cause that's the song They used to sing In the halfling Lands When they would have Their autumn festival Yep I like it I picture him sleeping Under a A pile of leaves Outside of a Window of A child's room Where the mother Is singing that to them Just basically Yeah Yeah Yeah So fucking sad But the As Billy is crawling And weaving And Repeating this poem Over and over The water does Start to swirl In a circle And the dripping Starts to like Wave Whoa Kind of in this Circular motion I think like As Parts of it Are completing You can see Parts of the mist Kind of Get trapped Within the boundary Of the ring Like It becomes Instead of just like Mist moving It freezes Yeah And so mirrors Is just kind of Like a bystander In a magical Situation In all of them He's kind of Looking around At everything That's happening But silently observing Yeah he's got This sword out Yeah it's just In front of him Like he's kind of Got it rested The tip resting On the ground And you can hear His metal hand Kind of like Creaking On the handle Is it still in the He's still got it Wrapped in the wax Yeah okay But he's just You can hear it creaking On the leather wrap Cool On the handle And we cut back upstairs To the ballroom What was the last thing I was asked?

Where's the boy It doesn't work Without all three Oh Shit Okay I'm gonna try something Okay He's dead 2d6 plus charisma 11 Callum Closes his eyes Damn I'm sorry I had him cornered But he looks like He looks like He looks like He left And the boy's body died He grunts And you see him like Clench his fist And look up And his eyes Kind of like how tux are His eyes roll back A second And then he comes back We'll proceed Bring him forward And uh Victoria like Looks over And she's kind of Got herself like Draped On Callum's shoulder My love is this Wise He is very powerful And even with one such With one sir Patent Estacomadon Doug is trying sir Not to get a bar Oh my god I still have a chance Still Technically Married I fear that even Your great mind Will not be able to Outfox A god And he like Reaches over And kind of Like brushes Her cheek He's like Don't worry my love All will be well soon Now go And she kind of Just like Walks around The altar She's slinking Around the altar Long legs Clacking Boots Tapping on the stone floor Tetherball Tetherball Tetherball Tetherball Tetherball Tetherball And she's approaching Tacoma Dome Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god And The illusory Ving And she says Standing in front of The Ving illusion She stays far enough And she kind of Leans back Against the altar Hands on the altar Oh my god And she's looking Up and down I suppose If we add a couple tattoos To this one We'll make things A bit faster Him first And she gets up And Moves to the side And gets you to Or gestures for you To put Ving on the altar And Tuck Goes Oh man I hope Billy's paying attention Oh man He goes He goes to like Pick up Like the illusory Ving Oh Oh Okay Billy has to Uh huh Pay constant attention To the ring now Right So now you're gonna have to roll To make sure That the illusion Is doing what you want What do I roll with?

Charisma Do do do do do Twelve Yes So you freak out For a second Realizing what you're Gonna have to do Uh huh But the Illusion Moves to the altar And lays down And uh See this is gonna get Really tough Because Callum Like turns to like a A side table That is kind of Arrayed next to the chair That has a box on it And he lifts the lid Of the box And he removes Ink And a needle He's Unquestionably About to touch This illusion Okay I have a plan Is it rats?

Cause I have a plan too We can put our rats together Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah I'm so close To screaming rats Yeah The rats are just Waiting in the wings Going They're in They're in those little Like cartoon Like holes Yeah On the wall But they're like Hold Hold I was wondering If I could create An elemental form In place of my Fake Ving Cause you and I Are very much in tune Right now Like we're like Really in each other's minds I feel like you could do this Yeah man Do it Okay I'm gonna use elemental form To create a form For myself Oh Sorry So this elemental form Is the one that creates A suit around you Yeah You're thinking So the one that you're Actually wanting to use Is call of nature Cause you're creating An elemental body That is not yours Oh sorry sorry Yes Sorry I just wanted to Just so we weren't Looking at the wrong move Great Yes That's exactly what I want Okay So you're like Watching through the ring And at the like Trying to At the last moment Make like a physical Thing underneath The illusion So it feels tangible Yes Yeah Okay This is interesting I like this I wanna use Call of nature And call upon the aid Of a spirit In place of where The fake Ving is Yeah To um Prolong the illusion Great And I'll use Rats Well well!

Well well Unleash the rats Let loose the rats of all You will never take Our not rats Okay I'm gonna use Call of nature To call upon the aid Of a spirit And I'm gonna put it In place Where Ving's Illusion is So I'm gonna use The water that I'm uh Gathered for Billy In the ring And uh Ving casts his hand up As the water That's in the ceiling Seeps up through the floor Up through the glass And runs through All the cracks in the floor We see it Coiling up through The cracks in the altar And filling in place Around the illusionary Ving Great So now it's a Hopefully It's a spiritual body Made of water That is wreathed in an illusion So it looks like the real Ving Interesting Cool It's made it somewhat corporeal So you're rolling 2d6 plus Con Con Nine So on a seven to nine Can I aid?

Uh ooh I don't know You're pretty well I can roll two aid He's up there Though Tuck can aid too Oh true I can also aid Oh yeah Cause I'm I've been trying to like Facilitate the illusion Yeah so you see Tuck You see the water start creeping up The edges of the altar Yeah Like running Flowing to the top And I I go Stop And then I Smash Like Ving's hand Oh Like the illusion's hand And I go He was getting ready To make a move Okay Oh to distract them Yeah Yeah To like give Ving Enough time to like Fill the body with water Alright Yeah 2d6 plus bond Yeah Oh shit Six Oh no Billy Plus a bond Plus a bond Can I aid?

Can I aid?

Okay I do think Billy can aid He's under a lot of pressure right now I am but I'm also like Really tuned in I can see everything You can kind of do two things at once Oh you can aid from any distance Right Cause they're just lucky Okay yeah So 2d6 plus bond Okay Help me help me Come on Seven Okay So that seven Just Makes that a six Seven Seven Makes that a ten Yes So that's two partial successes Yep Which do complicate things in some way Yeah And then a success The body gets made So there is a seven to nine here In play And I think what happens So the body fills in Tuck you see the water filling up Like coming up the altar Yeah Through the glass Running to the edge And you can kind of tell What's happening You can see the water forming This solid-ish body underneath Yeah And you punch this hand Yeah Boom Yeah!

And then your fist creates Like a massive Thud Yeah Through the strength of the punch A bunch of the rock of the altar Shatters off Yeah And like This was how Billy helped me He made like It looked like I basically broke Ving's Forearms Yeah Screamed and pained And writhing and grabbing Totally Yeah It's like broken backwards And like bleeding And you can see the bones Billy did that like By like Yeah freezing his fist up And then like Breaking through the ice Oh yeah Smart That's sick And as he As Callum Is about to He like reaches down And he Opens The illusory Ving's chest Uh huh Not chest But like the shirt On his chest To expose the flesh Uh huh The flesh Quote unquote Yeah And you can see that his hands connect And he does not seem Any the wiser Uh huh With his illusory body And as the needle is about to connect Just as it's about to be Touch The illusory Ving's skin Uh huh You hear from the crowd Callum!

Onky white no longer! Oh! Oh! Mumsy!

And with her saffron face mask Mumsy Who's been sitting in the congregation This whole time Stands up Dressed Showing everything Cause it goes out It goes out Barely Barely a dress And she says Callum Blackhammer I love you And that's where we're gonna end it For this week Oh my god Oh god I mean You're a game master Sean O'Hara Joining me as always Tacoma Dome The Barbarian Abdul Aziz Ving the Half-Elf Druid Paul Oppers Take care And Fat Billy The Halfling Thief Jessica Tai Bye everyone Thank you to all of our Patreon supporters Around the world If you would like to Support the show And get access to The up-to-date Mall Brats feed Merchandise Gift boxes I just started doing A choose your own adventure Novel I guess Uh And A whole bunch of other shit You can find us at Patreon.com Slash Spoutlore Or Spoutlore.com Slash Money please Thank you to Aaron Reed For our intro and outro music If you would like Aaron's original music You can check that out At AaronReed.Bandcamp.com And all of the music Produced for the show Is on Spotify And other places And thank you finally And most of all To all of you For listening We'll see you next time And so ends the tale Of adventures three Who tried the best they could Though don't you know That some are scared And lost they be For time's abreast In revelry And though our journey May be like A conclusion We will not leave you Without a resolution Return next week To hear some more Whilst you commute Or do something To your chores And for you I gladly Spoutlore