Episode 13 – Break In 2: Demonic Boogaloo

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 Spout Lore!

I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara And joining me, as always, playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian, Abdul Aziz! Hello everybody! Playing Ving the Half-Elf Druid, Paul Oppers! Hiya! And playing Fat Billy the Halfling Thief, Jessica Tai! Hello! When last we left our heroes, we started with some emotional fallout Following a sharing of memories between Tacoma, Shia the Garden Snake, and Fat Billy And then…

And then we had a three foot party sub We split between like five people The actual length of the sub changed quite a few times As is with all party subs Exactly Yeah, sometimes you come into a room after everyone's been eating the party sub for a while And it's longer than it was when it was delivered Hold on, what the fuck? You come in the room, I thought we were having a party here! Have you been adding to the sub? What the fuck's going on?

An anomalous party sub that just keeps changing its length and consistency And then… That was my party sub! Yeah, that was your contribution, you started with the party sub, that's what you get Ving was playing cards with a wolf, I think Right, we had a whole day of day off activities Yeah, totally He had a good chat with the Timberwolf God, his history When the emotional realm was over, they were crying together and talking about the Arctic North Hell yeah What did Billy do on his day off?

I can't remember Oh, I napped Oh, right Yeah Okay, and then… And then… We made a plan… We made a plan, which included going to the urchins And getting them to put… Sprinkle a bunch of like poison powder on the…

On the bread that goes to the hearth every day So that all the guards would fall asleep And then decided that the next step in the plan was for Shia to inform, quote unquote, on the three of you To the Light Guard Yeah Giving them your location, which they accepted heartily Yeah And then whooped Tuck's ass and arrested Ving and Billy and then arrested Tuck Yeah, they found us at the McCall Motor Inn Yeah What was it called? The Moat The Moat The Moat Yeah Oh yeah Yeah And then…

And then we were taken into the hearth Yes Not before we were paraded through the streets and people were shaming us and throwing tomatoes at our head For being heretics You've been accused of heresy Yeah And we were just like, fuck you guys You guys are lame, stop fucking pretending that you're mad at us Well, I believe everything I read on a poster like you guys And then we arrived at the imposing and indomitable hearth itself You were taken on a circuitous route to the deepest…

Well, some of the deepest cells And placed individually in cells in total darkness And through a variety of chicanery, broke out of your various methods of confinement Uh huh Ving had a bunch of metal iron manacles grab into his arms Shit, but also cool As his way of breaking down the door of his cell, Tuck goaded a bunch of guys into a fight Just one guy, the other guy passed out Yes, because the poison took effect Yeah And Billy was able to get out of his room And you all met in front of the cell that Tuck was in And then you were spotted by another guard who screamed up the stairs, jailbreak And then we ran down the hall Yes Which we are still running, I guess Yes, that is where we find you now, is running down a hallway What do you do?

Run! Run as fast as we can Run fast! Can I discern realities? Yeah, totally 2 to 6 plus wisdom Here we go Also tell me how you're discerning realities instead of saying… Can I press A to discern realities? I'm just looking around trying to find like one of those little wall plates that's like, you are here Yeah Here's where the toilets are Here's where the fire exits are Fire exits are here Absolutely not Oh, okay Maybe there's a little play…

A doormat in front of one of the cells that has all the instructions for how to break out Yeah, that could be it No, you know what I think it is? I think at the end of the hallway there's an information booth with a very helpful receptionist that's willing to give you the history of the heart Hi, can you tell me everything? Yeah, what kind of… Are you looking for facilities? Are you looking for…

Like no, fucking of course not Okay, Tuck opens his eyes so fucking wide and looks around And they come out of his head And he wants to find stairs that go down to the deepest cells to where Amma is Okay Yeah Yes, so roll discern realities What did you get? I got seven, yeah Okay, great, so that's one question off the discern realities list What is useful or valuable to me? Yeah, I mean that's probably it, right?

Like you just run for long enough with guards hot on your ass and you find stairs that turn sharply to the left and down and basically like spiral down Holy shit We go down Yeah Is there a way to like trap expert? 286 plus dexterity Nine plus two is eleven Alright, so that's three hold off trap expert Cool Is there a trap here and if so what activates it?

Yes, there is a trap in that as we discussed the lower levels being the more dangerous cells are also more commonly staffed So there are guards down here and if you come down here they will see you Okay, cool Well, I guess what does the trap do when activated? The trap draws its sword I don't care, I'm gonna ask all these Yeah, totally Because I earned that role Okay, this is useful, what else is hidden here? Okay, what else is hidden here?

Maybe there's a bookshelf and then behind it there's a secret passage Perfect It says demon jail cells and where to find them You pulled it off What if there is a secret passage though?

I don't think it's that there's a secret passage But I think that if I had a prison and I was attempting to contain a demon I wouldn't just be putting it in a regular ass jail cell No Oh So I think that you are low enough down because they took you very low I think you're low enough down that somewhere on this floor Billy gets this like thief sense Where you're like there's a hidden door here for sure Yeah, I feel my spidey senses tingling Yeah So what you see in front of you when you get down here is a secret passage And what you see in front of you when you get down here is you see a lantern Like halfway down a long hallway with cells along one wall And you see what was at one time four guards And two of them are slumped over against the wall And the other two are like hey get up Hey what's going on?

I'm gonna run in and clothesline these two fuckers Okay cool My iron hands Is this what is this a hack and slash a fight with honor?

Yeah it's a fight with honor Fight with honor 2d6 plus whatever Oh nice Doesn't matter really Strength 11 Alright So I got three hold Three hold for fight with honor I will cross the distance between myself and a foe And deal my damage to one of them Yeah Five Oh you fucking knock this dude out The first one Clang Yeah absolutely Man with the iron fist style And you cross the distance so fast Like if Tuck is attracted to Ving's physicality This gets you going a tiny bit Oh bet the flame in the lantern flicks Oh yeah Cause of my chub?

No!

Cause Ving runs so fast Oh so fast The air displacement of Ving passing you Okay yeah And then yeah the flame goes I like the idea that he's like I'm gonna go get him And then Ving just goes like Runs past you Wong Rings like a bell And then Tuck like comes huffing and puffing up behind him Where he's like oh yeah good teamwork Good job both of us we did it Well as you're running down the hallway to do this There's another guy here Yeah He hears the bell ringing off his friend's skull And turns around and goes What the fuck?

And Tuck's like we're medics And then he punches him in the face Okay Nice Hack and slash 2d6 plus strike Wow 12 Deal your damage 7 Yeah you fucking club this dude He feels bad he feels really bad How hard it connects Yeah I imagine that like Ving's punch Like you punch the guy straight on his legs flip up In front of him and he lands on the ground Tuck just slams the dude into a wall Oh And he crumples to the ground Yeah So you still hear footsteps coming behind you Like there is activity But you have a moment to check if you want to I wanna feel with my fairy vibes Like Billy's wondering if like if he's hidden from mortal view If it's sort of a thing where it's like you have to release him via like magic Or like spirit energy He would okay roll for this Oh 2d6 I'm gonna say charisma This is definitely more Billy's like fairiness than it is Cause it'd be kinda cool if all the guards like generally they were like we know the demons like they know where they're stationed But they don't know where the demon is Totally Oh to keep it a secret even from the people inside smart Oh that wasn't very good Plus charisma It doesn't matter I only got 6 7 Yes I aid Oh sick Wait no you aid Yeah I'm the spirit guy Yeah totally yeah I'm like Ving what do I do he's here And I just like Billy it doesn't matter about where you are in your Billy body Okay this isn't important you don't have to worry about here You're remember you walk between the worlds You're not here you're also everywhere You don't need to see it Right You don't need to to feel it You can just go 2d6 plus bond Okay Do it And that plus one tips Billy over into a 7 And you You see what It looks like stone wall you know but It's kind of almost like water like if you look through it It's like there is a cell and that's where the demon is Okay so I think that like that this barrier is the door there's no other door Yeah Like Billy can see through the barrier and it goes like into an open chamber Yeah but it's a small chamber Yeah it's small Oh it's very sad And you smell the overwhelming odor of burning saffron And sitting in the middle of the cell with a small incense brazier at each corner of this tiny little cell Is an old tired looking man sitting cross legged on the ground I'm gonna go to him Mm-hmm And I will say that Billy attempts to cross the threshold Yeah You're like okay time to time to leave my body And I walk right into the wall Yeah And your body passes through What?

Your whole body? His whole body and spirit They're imprisoning Ama's physical body as well Whoa But the presence of the demon inside him makes it impossible for him to pass the threshold Cut to Tuck and Ving what else is going on? Well I guess I'm defending from people that are coming down Okay Or I'm just waiting Oh geez Yeah Yeah Okay and I wanna like use my metal make create a barrier Yeah At the other end of the hallway So when you say use your metal to create a barrier what do you mean?

Yeah I just mean punch some of the wall and try and use some of my fists Cool Yeah I guess it would make sense for Ving to try and create rubble to stop everybody And anyone that gets through then has to deal with Tuck Yeah Totally Yeah And I just like the image of Ving standing in the middle of the hallway like an arms reach from either side and just going like clank clank clank Like trying to break the Oh yeah Doing very like flourishy like Tai Chi you know like two hands to one side and then up in the air Oh yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah elope style orangutan style penguin style polar bear penguin marmoset janitor chi power of puffer fish uh okay so what is this you physically trying to break the wall or is this an elemental mastery no this is uh hack and slash oh no plus my what strength I guess yeah okay so just five okay I think what it is is that some people arrive at the bottom of the stairs you didn't have time to create a barrier and there are like four more light guard guards we just look like total spazzes like just standing there watching his friend who's like just punching a wall being like marmoset marmoset marmoset marmoset marmoset penguin and it's basically he's effectively ringing a bell with every punch yeah like where are they clang clang clang clang I think we might know we're the sticky kids of this jail aren't we totally uh a group of light guard arrive at the bottom of the stairs and charge you what do you do tuck I do war cry I'm gonna like try and intimidate the fuck out of them okay what what does the staircase look like uh it's just hewn out of the stone is it like uh is it one of those like narrow stairs where it's just stairs in the like and wall on either side or is it like a big no kind of cylinder and goes like no it's like yeah right angles, very low ceilings.

The width of the hallway is barely enough for you to walk down it. They can get maybe two people abreast. It's interesting because you guys are kind of fucked, but you're also in a pretty great defensible position. You can wedge yourself in there with all your strength. You'll be able to get to Billy at least. What do I have with me that I could use? There's doors. Are there doors? Yeah, there's cells along one wall. You're on the cell floor that was below you. What about the four guards?

They probably have weapons on them. The ones that you guys knocked out. That's a good idea. We didn't go for their bodies. Should we check their bodies? I completely forgot that they were there. I grab the four guards and I whip them into their friends that are coming at us. You're not going to do damage with this, like with Warcry, but it's going to be like he's just throwing people. He's throwing people real hard and it fucking hurts. Okay, 2d6 plus, what is it? Constitution? Constitution.

Yeah. Oh, wow. Holy shit. I got a two plus constitution is five. Yeah, there's nothing I can do. Wow, snake eyes. Unbelievable. I think that you are throwing these guards and the other guards are like, what the fuck? Like it's a full-on melee, but in the distance somewhere in this complex you hear very heavy footsteps like ringing through the halls. Thunk. Thunk. That's not Fatim. That's something else. Fatim's the heaviest guy I know. That's not Fatim.

Yeah, so I'm going to say introducing that is the failure. Okay. Billy, you're face to face with an old man. He slowly raises his eyes and looks at you. Alma, we're here to free you and we don't have much time. There is no freedom. Yes, there is. I know you think you can't leave, but there is a way. What way could there be? I mean, I just walked through the wall and I'm sure if he came with me we could head out together. No. I'll just put out the embers so I start stomping. Don't. Why?

You see his body starts flickering, like the shape of his body starts flickering and Billy, you see bursts of vegetation like his flowers. And you remember, you're reminded, of the image that you saw when you looked at the truth demon. Okay. Is there a way I can talk to the demon? That's a great idea. Let's roll a Spout Lore, maybe. 2d6 plus intelligence. Eight. Okay, so yeah, that is something interesting. It's up to you to make it useful. The saffron, the smoke, it keeps the demon in me.

It suppresses it. If I leave, it will escape. Oh. Um. Hmm. I don't know how to… We could try, because I think we could collectively come up with a solution to this. Well, there is the thing where we remember in episode two or three we forced Billy to take saffron and have it around his neck. Oh, uh-huh. Oh, yeah, I still… Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I pull the saffron, like the pouch of saffron from under my shirt. I'm like, well, eating fixes a lot of my problems.

Alma, I have some saffron, and I'm kind of thinking maybe you should eat it. I will say that he's been in prison for a really long time. He's very beaten down. Yeah. You're gonna have to convince him somehow. Alma, look at me. It takes him a while, but he does. He looks at you. Um. There's one of your family members who asked us to come get you. She wants to bring you back to the library. The library still stands? It does. And your great great… I don't know how old you are.

Great granddaughter. She runs it. It's still yours. The Marganis still live. They do. I thought I failed them. No. No, she's still there and she's super boss. Roll a defy danger. Charisma. Charisma 10. 10. Okay. Yeah. So, um. Does he need help? Yeah. His physical body is very weak. Yeah. Um. So he very shakily raises a hand. Actually, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna chew on it a bit. Uh-huh. I know it's gross. No. I think it's actually kind of nice.

Billy remembers, like, William doing this for Billa when he was really sick one time. Yeah. Too sick to eat. Mm-hmm. So he chews it a bit and then he puts it in Alma's mouth. Mm-hmm. A little bit of the, like, saffron-colored juice, like, dribbles out of his mouth. And Billy tries to wipe it or push it back in. He's like, it's okay. Gets mashed into his, like, little, like, his scraggly old man beard that he has, but he swallows it and he takes a deep breath and it rattles out of his chest.

Like, he's so old, but he looks at you and is like, I will see the library again. You will. Creep. Creep. A lot of grunting and straining. How do I leave? I have escape route. Okay, so my ferry… Yeah. I think escape route applies. Escape route makes sense. 2d6 plus dex. Okay, 10. And so on 10 plus, I'm gone. Yeah, you press against this barrier that looks like stone and moves like water and you pass through with Alma behind you. Yeah.

You feel, just for a second, you feel Alma's body, like, tug against the barrier, but you guide him through. And you come out to the sound of crazy fighting. Cut to Tuck and Ving. And Tuck has actually, uh, he's popped one of the music bottles that he stole and when you come out, all you hear is this. Oh my God. Oh my God. Ving and Tuck are going nuts on the light guard that are out here. Oh shit. Okay. Well, you do have to roll dice to determine whether or not that's true.

Ving, I rolled to play air guitar. Really awesome. Do it. No. He just does it. If you choose to do air guitar, you're gonna do it. Sick. You can't fail at air guitar. Uh, so yeah, what's going on in the hallway? Air guitar? I'm glad we're all treating this with the weight that it deserves. I'm using fists of fury. I'm never unarmed. And especially now that I have these iron fists and I'm gonna clang away into, uh, at least a couple of these guys.

Okay, so is this fight with honor or just hack and slash? Hack and slash. Okay. 2d6 plus strength. 7-8. Okay, so, uh, you roll a d6. And roll your damage. Uh-oh. 6. Okay. So you, um, wade forward with your iron-clad arms. You smoke a dude in the jaw. He just hits the ground. And, uh, as you're like, you follow through with the punch and a sword comes down and clangs off your armor but slices a little bit into the exposed flesh. You take 5 damage. Oh, fuck. Yeah.

We need to find a way out of here. Yeah, you get cut. We need to find a way out of here. You backhand the other guy and you deal him a little bit of damage too. And that, that thunking is still coming down the hallway. Yeah, the loud thing. Oh, that's scary. So that is, like, like I say, that noise is coming from a very far distance. They're not like, at the top of the stairs, I'm coming for you.

Uh, but what you do hear at the top of the stairs is a bunch of shouting and yelling and smashing as banging down the hallway, biting, snapping, flipping around is a 30-foot-long cobra. Holy shit. Oh! Fuck! Yeah. Remember? She said she was gonna help you get out. I forgot! Sick! She said, I'm not, I cannot change back or they'll know that it's me. That's fine. You keep doing you. Let's try and get you out of here. Let's try.

And she, like, slithers in between the legs of the two guys that are like, what the fuck? Like, freaking out. Bingo's full snake chi. What does that mean? He starts doing this and he'll stick his tongue out. He puts his fingers up in a V and he faces out. Oh, yeah. There is even snake-style martial arts. You're not even using those as a reference point. It's fucking pussy-licking style martial arts is what we're doing. Oh, my God. Tuck's doing it, too. Yeah. Great.

Remember when people say that, like, they listen to this with their kids? That's fun. Nobody says that. Anyone that fucking said that is a bad parent. If you got this far and you were fine with it and that was the line, I guess you're kind of fucked up. Maybe they listen to the theme song. Okay. So, yeah. What is Tuck doing? Tuck wants to create a barrier between the light guard and us as we escape down the stairs.

So, he's gonna, like, open one of those, like, slats into the cells, like, put his hand in, rip the door off, and then, like, just put it between him and them as we run down. Okay. That's really cool. Divide into strength. Whoa. Twelve. Yeah. Big boy. You just, like, it's not even the, like, slow wrenching of the door. You just grab it, yank, and the whole thing comes out of the wall.

And there's a couple of guys that are, like, sprinting down after the snake and I just, like, ram it right into them. Yeah, totally. And then, like, anyone who comes against us will hit that door. Yeah. The two scraggly bearded guys go, we're free! Hot damn! It's a prison break! And it's the two old dudes from, uh… Stett and Walden from Bull Rush Village. Bull Rush. Oh, my God. This isn't the worst jailbreak I've ever been a part of, but it's close! Oh! And they all run down.

And Tuck turns to these guys, he's like, that wasn't even a fucking joke! Oh, man. Great. So, yeah, this isn't gonna keep them forever, but you've got a good, like, gap of time. And you just book down the hallway, I guess. Yeah, I guess I wedge the door across the hall and then we run. It's definitely a barrier. Like, they'll be able to get it down eventually, but not right now. Yeah. You hear, yeah, banging and yelling and that thunking in the distance. Did she bring anything for us? No.

She's just snaking. She's a snake. Well, actually, once you run further into the hallway, like, once you take that corner where Amasel was, she… Whoop! There's a lady! Instead of a snake. Oh, shit. And she's like, what happened? What? This was the plan, wasn't it? The plan was to go crazy right away? Yeah, usually. Where's your stuff? They took it. They have it. What are you gonna… How are you gonna get it back? Oh, fuck. Yeah, plans. Plans. Have you guys ever broken out of jail before? Yes.

Where? When? How? It was Crystal Bay. Uh-huh. We were in a holding cell. A holding cell. Oh, yeah. That's breaking out of prison. It's kind of drunk to break out of those things. We were in that stick box on the Sea of Graves that had us sort of in a prison. Oh, yeah. Like a little shack. Yeah, a little shack. Right. Yeah. Yeah. They wedged us in into a bedroom or whatever. Into a bedroom. Yeah. Oh, no. A bedroom. It was made out of clapboard, okay? So, pretty… Drafty. Yeah.

So, what I'm hearing is, no, you have never broken out of prison before. Fine prison genius. Tell us what we're supposed to do. Well, didn't we find out that there's a supposed exit point? Wait, what was the escape route? Well, the escape route was that, like… Cavernous. Yeah. It's all, like, salt down here. And some of the salt or stone or whatever has been cracking down below. Okay. And that would lead out to the Broken Shores. To the Broken Shores, right. Yeah.

That's one of your potential outs is the Broken Shores. Right. I have my axe, though. Oh, no. They do have your axe. Can we commune with it? No, it's from a distance. What about… I have commune… I wish so bad that you listened to me and took the signature weapon move. Fine. Okay. I take signature weapon. He did it. He did it, folks. This would be such a dope moment to manifest, like, a Mjolnir style. It starts cutting through the stone. Okay, yeah. It's… Wang! Cool. I manifest that power.

No, unfortunately, you don't. Okay, Tuck tries really hard, though. He rolls his arm out. Yeah. Come on! And he's thinking about Larry Terry and Chad. He's like, Guys, come on. I know you can hear me. Come to daddy! Okay, so what? Roll, what, Wisdom? I guess so. Okay, 2d6 plus Wisdom. Nine. Nine. Okay. Further up in the hearth, in a storage room, there's a single trainee, overweight, probably 45 years old. Looks like he's been on the job a long time. He's reading a magazine.

And on a table beside him, there's an crazy magic ornate axe. It cuts back to me for a second. I'm straining so hard. And we cut back. He hears a sound, a rattle, and he looks over. That was probably nothing. And it cuts back to me. I'm like, I don't think it's gonna work! We gotta go! Shit. But… Can I call in the primal spirits of the amethyst? It's fine. It's fine. Larry Terence, I can take care of themselves for a while. I can go back for them later. Fuck.

So yeah, I guess you guys are just gonna try and run down. I guess, but we have Alma, and he's slow. I can carry him. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Actually, Alma. Yes. Do you know of any other way up? Up. Or out? Roll, uh, Discern Reality. He says. 2d6 plus Wisdom. It's nine. Okay. Okay, so I know what's valuable to me, which is a way out. Um, we know who's in control. Mm-hmm. We know we're about to get beat up. Mm-hmm. I don't know. Like, should I ask, what here is not what it appears to be? Yes! Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Um, I think that it could be the sort of thing where, when they put the truth demon to use, they don't want to just take him out the front door. So I think inside there could be another way up, maybe out through the wall. Out through the wall. Like, maybe there's a… Oh. An exit that winds through the wall itself. Oh. Like in the Matrix, when they were in the wall of the… Yeah. That's what we were talking about.

And the only person that would know about it is question mark, question mark, question mark. The light guard! More specifically… Lord of the Flame. More specifically… Torch of McCall? There we go. Yeah. That's the guy. Yeah. Torch of McCall. Um, and perhaps one other. Dunk. Dunk. Oh. Dunk. Fatim? No. That's not Fatim. I'm sorry, I don't know. No. No, no, no. I'm just, this is all mysterious foreshadowing. That's it. Ama's like, they would take me out of a side passage in the wall itself.

And Billy, what else is hidden here as a little side thing? You see along the wall that had the shimmering of Ama's cell a few other spots that shimmer in a similar way. Oh God. Is there anything in them? Other people. There's other demons? Billy, if, yeah, because Billy can just peek through it. There are other people. And the smell of more saffron. Oh my God. Do you want to check on them before we go? Do we have time? Uh, I mean, what do you guys think?

It depends on how many more demons you want to drag out of this place. I don't know. We can't leave. Shia's like, we gotta go now. Leave them. They're not who we came for. Hey, and I poke her in the chest, and I accidentally poked her tit. Oh, come on. No, I feel bad about it. Yeah, because you're undermining a dramatic moment? No, but I poke her in the chest. I'm like, you, these are people who fucking were kidnapped by the light guard.

Who had nobody look for the, we don't leave that kind of person behind. Okay, your funeral. Does she leave? Then she turns into a snake and goes, uh, actually, you see her think about it. Please, Shia, please. I can do it really fast. She's like bouncing up and down like, I know it's been a long time since you've had family, but family sticks together and they do what they do. And we're doing this to bring back a family member. A family member and some random. She's bouncing up and down a lot.

She's fighting with a lot of emotions. Okay, okay, okay, fine. Fuck. I'll try and hold them off. Turns into a giant snake. I want to fight with the snake. So you're going to go to the barrier with her. Yeah, she's going back to the door. Yeah, she's she moves fucking fast in her snake form. She's like, bam, bam, bam, bam tux huffing and puffing. Not good for running. So yeah, there's a barrier and it's quieter than you thought it would be.

But the thunking is very loud shit and uh, it's getting kind of warm. To shit. Oh, fuck. Tuck takes his loincloth off. Man, I gotta air this thing out. It's getting spicy down here. That's bad. Now there's two snakes in this battle. The gigantic head of Shia snake form looks back rolls its eyes and looks towards the barrier. Guys, that was a pretty funny joke. Was it? It was a dick reference. It was a funny joke. We can all agree. It was a great joke. We'll put it on the board.

The chalkboard that we use for a dual's dick jokes. I just got to flip it over because we've run out of space. And then we cut back to Billy. I kind of want to be able to, can I bring down all the walls in between them? Yeah, that'd be cool. Oh yeah, sure. Try that. Then we kind of just have everyone in one big room. Yeah. Okay. He's going to stand in between all of them and raise his hands up and then lower them down and try and lower all the barriers in between all the demon cages. Oh, nice.

Yeah. Plus my wisdom. Yep. No problem to six there. Oh, I help you. I hold your hand and I touch the door. The door. Yeah. Yeah. 2d6 plus bond. Okay. Giving him some of that fairy magic. 11. Huge. We succeed. Yeah. Tell me about elemental mastery again. Yeah. So on success 709, I can choose one. I will have the effect come to pass. Okay. Yeah. The walls come down for sure. You lower the salt in between the cells.

Crumbles creating one large chamber out of four smaller ones, including Amma's original chamber. I'm like, fuck you salt and salts like, oh, fuck me. Fuck me. Fuck you, buddy. And you know, you brought down a bunch of walls in a cavern. There's more chunks of salt and on the far right of the four cells. A bunch of salt crumbles in off the wall, smashing the braziers, putting out the saffron fire and a young like maybe 17 year old boy who was kept in that starts to like writhe. Oh shit.

And his body is flickering in a different in different forms. I shove a fistful of saffron into his into his mouth. Okay. Defy danger dexterity. Holy shit. Whoa. 10. Holy okay. Fuck. Never mind my dramatic twist. He just runs up. Grabs a pile of half burnt saffron out of the brazier and punches his fist into this kid's mouth and he goes. I shove it so far. It's like in his throat. Yeah, walls it. No problem. Reflex. This is going to hurt you when I let go. Yeah. Yeah.

And the kid actually like yells a little bit and like smoke pours out of it. I know it hurts, but come on and he is he looks at you like thank you and you get a but yeah, you have like three other people with you. It might be a cool consequence of the ingestion that it makes them weaker. So it yeah, make our escape harder. Yeah, because theoretically definitely with Alma. The only thing that's kept him alive has been his possession. So now that it's being suppressed, he's like fucking fuck.

I gotta walk on my bones again and we don't know when the last time these guys like ate or drank was. Yeah. So like if they're human physiology is reconstituting itself, they might be like pretty fucked up. Totally surviving. On the smoke from saffron. Yeah. Okay, so cut back to the barrier with tucking Shia and now it's like sweltering hot down here.

Oh no, it's right in my fucking dick off down here and the Cobra actually backs up like coils into herself a little bit and gets away from the barrier. The heat peaks for a moment and then a red hot blade cleaves through the center of the door Jesus and step up and get away from the barrier. Stepping through you see a very tall humanoid shape made out of what looks like fired clay. Its body is very ornate and covered in images that talk you recognize as religious.

It has a face that is a wide open grimacing mouth and two blank eyes. The right side of its face plate is cracked and shattered in places and inside behind the eyes and mouth. You can see a flickering fire with the glowing red of the flames through the joints in its body. Is there smoke like pouring out of the eyes? No. Oh, it's smokeless fire. Okay. So is that a djinn or a golem? No, this is a djinn. Oh, it's a djinn. Yeah. So what I will tell you is that you've heard the stories of the djinn.

This is a djinn called Third and it is the third of eleven djinns that were bound by the god of the flame. And this djinn is known in most stories as being the djinn that killed eleventh. Oh. Fuck. And for many, many years it has been responsible for in some ways the security of the hearth and the martial training of the light guard. Oh, shit. Yeah. Oh, wow. So it's not an idiot. In terms of weakness, what would a weakness be for something like this? It's not fire? I mean, it's not water?

Unfortunately, it's not water. It's not as simple as water. Tuck puts his dick back in his pants. I mean, the only thing that Tuck has heard as for sure having killed a djinn is another djinn. Oh, man. Well, I'm no djinn. This would be a great time for you to reveal that you're a djinn, Tuck. Can you just rub, like, empty one of the music bottles and then put it in a bottle and it's stuck? Yeah. No? Is his weakness the Beastie Boys? It's Sean's weakness, that's for sure.

No, his weakness is if you say, I wish, and he stops in his tracks. No, no, no, no. So, Tuck, I think he's gonna try and talk to it first. Okay. What does he say? Well, he's just, he recognizes it and he sees that it's third and he's like, I'm gonna die. And then it's like, he's like, wow, holy shit. It's third. Big fan. I'm a big fan of yours. Huge fan. He says this as he's kind of, like, inching away. Yeah. He's like, great to meet you in person. I'm, I'm Tickleman Tome. The barbarian.

The barbarian. I don't know if you've heard of me. Look, man, we came in here to free a slave. We're not heretics. We got no beef with you, man. The torch is keeping slaves. He's made slaves of demons. And we just came in here to get someone and we'll leave. I guess I'm trying to, like, appeal to the fact that, like, He was bound to service. Yeah. It was like, look, dude, I'm sure you can relate. Being trapped and enslaved and forced to do a bunch of shit you don't want to do.

That's an interesting tack to take for sure. I think before I'm going to let you convince Third, you're just going to roll a Defy Danger Charisma to make sure that he doesn't kill you outright. So, yeah, the djinn is just standing there in the hallway. Great sword in one hand, the blade burning white hot. And he just doesn't move for a moment. Cut back to Billy and Ving with the other rescues. Yeah, we're further back. Like, holy shit. Who are the other two demons? Can we talk to them? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. You're going to tell me who they were. Yeah, I was. I was going to tell you who they were. So what do we think these other demons could be? What kind of demons would the light guard want at their disposal? So truth for interrogation. I'm going to say punishment is one of them. I'm going to say something that exploits his weakness. They have Umashusha here. Umashusha? Oh, like the original Umashusha? Yeah, I guess. Oh, the Afrit? No. So Umashusha.

So that was the other demon that the urchin kids were afraid of. It was the Afrit. Okay. Like the little demons made of night and hate that like tore you apart if you didn't have saffron. But then there was Umashusha who was like this woman who would like, it's actually like an Arabic folktale. In Egypt, it's like if you walk too close to a creek at night, Umashusha will come out and drag you into the water. And she's basically like she punishes small boys for like being reckless. Yeah.

For disobeying. For disobeying. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's associated with water because she's probably drowned kids in the past or whatever. In Makal, she comes out of the wells. But she uses water as a form of punishment. Yes, she does. But she herself is punishment incarnate. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. Okay.

So punishment, Umashusha. So there were three other ones, right? Four total. Oh, shit. I'm going to say her name is Uma. Uma. And then the boy and a fourth one who looks like. A little girl. Oh, like a young girl. Like a five-year-old? Yazut. Yazut. Holy shit. Oh, Yazut? Yazut is a good name. Yeah. Yazut. So truth, punishment. What are the seven deadly sins? Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride. Wrath. I would love it if it was. Oh, the teen boy. Yeah. The teen boy is wrath.

The demon of wrath. That's cool. What's the teen boy's name? I don't know. Why not Yazut? Oh, did you want that? No, Yazut. Zane. Zane. Yeah, I like that. Yazut. We need one more demon for Yazut. Oh, mercy. Oh. Oh. That's cool. That's really cool. It's a little girl. They use it to contain punishment. Oh. She contains the rest. Like you've got like truth, wrath. She's containment. She's the containment system. Yeah. She compels mercy in the icons that are possessing the other people. Yeah.

Interesting. Also, mercy is like if like he would want to control it. Yeah. He doesn't want to give it freely. That's so cool that he like he wants to control who is merciful. He wants to be the most merciful. And who receives it. Fuck yes. Cool. Okay. So that is what we learn of these demons. Cut back to Tacoma Dome and Shia standing in front of a djinn. And tucks in that stance from Crocodile Dundee where he's like, he's got his pinky and thumb out. Yeah. Pinky and thumb out.

And he's like, the djinn has not said anything for a full minute. He's just like, tucks just like. He leans over to Shia and he's like, I saw this one time in a movie. Her little snake tongue flicks out. Sounding as echoing infinitely from some celestial well, you hear thirds. His voice rumble up out of his ceramic form. And he just says, my patience wears thin fool. And I'm like, I am sorry about that. But my point stands.

Are you going to stand by and let the torch keep a bunch of fucking slaves? Service is all. They serve the God of the flame as I do. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Oh, hilt with two hands wait um uh I'd look at the little girl can you can you do something can you talk to him it's like I I don't know I just ate that I ate that stuff I don't know if I can right now um I know that we freed you but I really need you to call upon mercy and talk to the jinn I'm so scared though I'll go with you and if they try anything I'll fight them back roll a defy danger charisma so plus charisma is eight okay great partial success that's perfect so she um she nods and goes okay okay here come with me and I I hold her hand and I walk up yeah she takes your hand and I go I walk in front of tuck with her yeah it's really warm here billy yeah my face is hot it's like standing in front of a blast oven yeah it sucks yeah yeah billy's hair just gets poofy immediately his volume increases by a factor of two billy your volume thanks maybe he's born with it yeah maybe it's smokeless flame and she stands in front of third who's tilts like it's gigantic clay head like just tilts down and looks at her and then she is not there anymore and instead there is the form of mercy what do we think a demon of mercy looks like uh uh like a white flag like white yeah I'm imagining like a cloudy like a white robed woman and I think contrasting this uh serene countenance she's pierced through with a number of blades like and there's blood staining her white robes whoa cool yeah and she is now face to face like eye to eye with third and she reaches up her hand and places it on his cheek and and a little bit of glaze on his terracotta yeah white glaze where she strokes him it's frost yeah oh interesting yeah and the room cools a little bit around her and his flame dims a tiny bit and she looks back at all of you and says go go wait she can't come with you I cannot why not mercy is a sacrifice and one that I will make for you go how can we make it up to you be kind this is your opportunity go okay oh fuck it was a seven to nine yeah yeah I feel so bad I start crying tech picks billy up and you just book I'll grab the old man and the other kid grab his hand great I start running around and I'm like oh my god I'm gonna die I'm gonna run and I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die down the hallway yeah and um I think shia turns back into her like human form and she grabs the hand of like uma and you just you just run you run and then you get to the place that you were told was here is this like uh very non-descript door like if you weren't looking for it you would miss it and it turns into a spot where ving you can kind of feel through the essence of the stone that this is like the end of the foundation of the hearth like you're now inside the wall itself this is different stone yeah you turn into this door pass through the foundation of the hearth into the cool damp air and I think that's where we're gonna end it for this week I've been your game master Sean O'Hara joining me as always playing tacoma dome the barbarian abdulaziz so long playing ving the half-elf druid Paul Oppers take care guys playing fat bully the halfling thief jessica tie bye everyone thanks to aaron reed for our incredible intro and outro music and thanks to our amazing supporters you folks out there listening right now you can find us online at Spout Lore most places we'll catch you next time and so ends the tale of adventures three who tried the best they can though dumb and scared and lost they be for times of breast 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 your chores and for you I'm gladly is billy just crying quietly yeah yeah whoa that's the saddest fucking thing like just picking up your kid as they quietly cry a kid crying quietly is like so sad.

Because a kid cries loud when they're like I want you to comfort me. A kid cries quiet when they don't think anyone cares. They don't think anyone can comfort them. Well I told her she would be free. I told her I would fight for her. Can I, I mean like I don't know if it would undercut this like emotional sacrifice but can I tell you like an image that I was thinking like after you left Mercy? I think it's like she compels Mercy in third who steps aside and is like I will not kill you.

And I imagine her very serenely like hands in front of her walking through the hearth and everybody that she passes just drops their weapon. She's able to basically walk right out of the hearth. And into the Broken Shores. She goes to the Broken Shores. Why would she go back to McCall? She's a fucking demon. Oh right. So cool. What about the little girl? Maybe they have adventures on their own. Maybe it's the peace loving version of the Incredible Hulk.

She has her adventures traveling from town to town. This is a huge loss. This is like collateral damage max. Yeah. That we've ever incurred I feel like. But she's free. I guess so. I want to say that you all made this happen. I know. It's not your fault. It's just sad. It's just sad because either way she has still been in that jail. Cool up guys. Thanks for watching.