Episode 15 – You Gotta Go In To Get Out

Gather round friends, let me tell you a tale of three heroes, noble and bold A brute, a druid, and a thief who is but nine years old You know them by name, you know them by deed, their quests are famously daring So here I sit, singing to you an adventure that is worth sharing Tuck is the brute, he knows not his home, he loves to sing and fight Fingers have health, he shifts his shape, and wields a spear with great might Billy's a thief, his tiny size does mask the largest heart Best and brightest they may not be, but their friendship outweighs their smarts So gather round friends, and listen close For the tale's about to start Welcome to Spout Lore!

I'm your Game Master, Sean. I'm your Game Master, Sean O'Hara. And with me, as always, players and dear friends. Abdul. Hey everybody. Playing the spirit of Elk, Jessica. Hi. Playing the spirit of Polar Bear, Mark. Hi. In my brain I was saying, playing the spirit of Elk. Sorry. Playing the spirit of Elk, Mark. Hi. Well, you know what? Fuck it. Playing Big Bang Zumba, the druid. Hi friends. Paul. And Westlord, here, back at home. Westlord, here, back in the saddle again. Back in the saddle again.

Second time today again. ACDC gets you where you want to be in your life. Wait. Is this ACDC, but they're like a bus company? They're a trucking company. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Always carrying… Saddles. Yeah. When last we left our heroes. Uh. Yeah. Ving, Elk, Owl, and Polar Bear had met up with Boar, who had been attacked by the spirit of Wasp. A big swarm of Wasps. And Ving fought them off with the help of Elk and Polar Bear.

And we have watched as Elk and Polar Bear slowly become interested in being human, which mostly takes the form of walking on their hind legs and proclaiming love for one another. As humans are wont to do. Yeah. Humans love to be in love. It's true. And in the Dust Bowl, the realm of Wasp, Boar had said that they found some human detritus, some objects. And Ving is now in possession of a beaten up magnifying glass. And Boar led them to where he found the magnifying glass.

And while digging through the debris, Ving found, amongst other rubble, a human body. Ew. So yeah, Ving, you dig up a human corpse. At least you see the face of it. What do you do? Keep digging like Jurassic Park. Around it. Oh yeah. Gently. Great. Tell me about what do you think this person looks like? Their teeth are pulled back. The lips have dried out. Eyes are wide open, sunken black, demonic holes of death. Wait, just like no eyes or that's where their eyes were? Yeah. Yeah.

But you can't see the inside of their skull. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. With a jester's hat on. What? 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.

Well it's a game of the frozen north of course um it's played mostly with um sticks uh-huh um with the big daggers attached to the your feet are we just going to distract describe hockey how far are you gonna let me go here is there a twist some fantasy twist yeah it's that the puck is actually alive yeah it's this gelatinous like very fat kind of it's almost like a squirrel but it's all fat it curls up it's called flop it's called a flob wow all right it does what it wants yeah you can't be good at the game yeah because the squirrel go it runs all over the place the flub is and there weren't always squirrels like that like they just kind of showed up one day yeah it's weird they kind of look like uh I don't know like a frog and a squirrel yeah I don't know what happened there uh great so flob hockey player in a jester outfit uniform yeah and the skates uh the daggers yep wow anybody want these daggers oh this I like those bells those are cool I like those bells cool just gonna start picking up the bells well no if nobody else is getting his bells these are I like these that's a little morbid jingle yeah they start jingling around yeah you just bite yeah pick at them bite one of them yeah I'm just gonna pick at them and bite one of them yeah I'm just gonna pick at them and kind of wiggle it around and swallow it also uh elk you know how like elk have that thing where if there's like a twig that snaps or danger nearby they like freeze and look it's that's the feeling that I have now yeah or this is the voice that's the feeling that I have now and it's not helping that owl is sitting there jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle with their bell I look at all I'm like hit shit stop it it's bells these are cool jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle I lumber over there and then I just lay on L to shut him up.

Just going to do this really gentle. So, Fig's going on to all the mounds and digging them up. Yeah, like while this is happening, my ears are like satelliting around to try and like hear something. Yeah. So, I guess discern realities? Yeah, sure. See if your survival instincts are picking anything else. Plus what? Wisdom. Wisdom. Ooh, which one? Six plus one, seven. Ooh. In under the wire. So, you get one question from the discern realities list, which is, what happened here recently?

What is about to happen? What should I be on the lookout for? What here is useful or valuable to me? Who's really in control here? What here is not what it appears to be? Who's really in control here? I'm trying to listen for someone. Yeah. For the shape of something. Yeah. So, Boar suggested when you were coming this way, that wasp didn't really bother them when they would come out and dig around. But for some reason, they got really uppity this time.

Suggesting almost that, oh, they don't come over here. But looking around, listening, you're hearing humming of some kind, like a vibration. You're looking around and listening, looking up in the sky, looking around bushes and stuff like that. Like, are there wasps here? And you realize that you're hearing them inside the walls of the canyon. So, I tell that to everyone. I'm like, guys, there's something here. There's something here. I'm digging the walls of the canyon. I can hear it.

And it's getting louder. It's coming. What's it sound like? It sounds like humming. We're in danger. Yes. It sounds like danger. Boar, what have you done? Hey, hold on a second. I was just digging around. I don't know what you guys are… But if they're… If wasp is coming back, we gotta go. I don't know that it's wasp, but it's definitely in all of these walls. Oh, boy. Boar's like stamping around and is looking at all the piles like, quick! Quick! And then just starts digging.

And eating everything he finds. Eating everything that like, there's… You see a glint of metal. You see like, what looks like a book of some kind, like a ripped up book. Eat it all, Boar! Get it all! Put it in ya! Boar's just going nuts. We gotta find somewhere to hide. This… We're fucked if whatever is coming is coming. Uh, yeah, so… Elemental mastery! Oh, what do you do? Build a wall of looking at like, dust. Gather the dust so it looks like it's a false wall of the canyon.

We all line up against the canyon. Up against the canyon! Up against the canyon! Up against the canyon! Up against the canyon! Up against the canyon! And I make a wall of dust to emulate rock. Cool. Like a shield. So this is a new… Camouflage. This is a new thing that Bing can do. Uh, for the… For the listeners at home, why don't you tell me a little bit about elemental mastery? Uh, I can call on the primal spirits of fire, water, earth, or air to perform a task.

You do that by rolling plus wisdom. Yep. Let's roll it. 2d6 plus wisdom. Okay. Nine. Cool. What does it look like while Bing is doing this? Because this is the first time Bing has done this. He… It takes his staff and like a long outdrawn arm and draws a circle around.

He spins around running around in a circle and the dust is picking up and goes swirling around him and flattening out thin along him but the same width of his body and the tornado is wide across him and encumbers them up against the wall and encases them and the wall shifts and it settles as exactly the cliff wall. Wow. Kind of shimmers as like just dust and then… Yeah. Settles as… Oh, so… And we're inside looking at the opposite image.

Now, keep in mind you get to choose one of three outcomes. Okay. So the three choices you get to choose one of on the seven to nine are the effect you desire comes to pass, you avoid paying nature's price, or you retain control. Hmm. I only get to choose one? Yeah. Hmm. So if you were to lose control it could be something like the spirit of dust does that, and more, but on their terms, like, or if you were to… Say you're like, oh, I want to call up a fire to block the way.

So the fire does block the way, but then you lose control of the fire and the fire just starts going nuts. Yeah. Or if you avoid paying nature's price, that means you don't get burned or that the spirits don't try and take something from you in return for their services. The effect you desire comes to pass. Okay. Let's just make it happen. Yeah. So in this case, you do not avoid paying nature's price and you do not retain control. So you spin this bowl, this dust bowl, upside down dust bowl.

It flattens into a wall. Yeah. Oh, so is it… Are you blocking yourself in against… Up against the wall with the rock at our backs. Yeah. Okay, great. So you do that. You hear the spirit of dust in the air. Like, I will do this for you. And you start… They start spinning up around you and the dust wall forms in front of you. So the wall closes up around you, boar, elk, and you're like, polar bear and owl.

And dust says, like, hisses in your ear, I have done this, but my services are not free. The dust starts pouring into your mouth and your nose and pushing down your throat. And in your gills. Yeah, dust is delighted to find out you've got more breathing holes. And starts pouring in. Roll a d6. Five. Boy, oh boy. You take five damage. Yoinks. How much do you have left? Three. Oh. So you're just, like, coughing and choking and owl, elk, and polar bear, you hear Ving choking and coughing.

Oh my god. I pat him on the back really hard. Oh, don't do that. Oh, sorry. I'll be at the front. Oh. Pat him on the front a little bit. Water. I'd like to, but I'm kind of stuck under a polar bear. What's happening? I go up to him and I lick inside of his mouth to get it moist again. Yeah, there's a big wet tongue coming out of your mouth. Keep it coming. Keep it coming. Keep it coming. Oh my god. So dust, does that, dust pours down your throat and in your gills and in your nose. Oh, dust.

And then, through the wall of dust that you've created, you hear grit blowing up against the wall and blowing against the walls of the canyon and whipping up more and more as the spirit of dust just spins. And you can just feel through the air a big twisting vortex outside. And things are banging against one another and debris is getting thrown around. It sounds like skulls and leg bones are flying around. Dust is just Sounds gross. Going nuts. Good. Yeah. Except for the dust in my lungs.

Yeah, that's not so great. Spirit dust in real lungs. Yeah. So dust does leave but they're going somewhere. Mm-hmm. Yeah. They seem emboldened. So you still hear the humming. You hear the like through the walls and through the floor. And boar is stamping around nervously. Boar's snuffling around like we can't stay in here forever. Maybe we're safer now. But like, what are we going to do after? How do we get out of this place? Did you eat anything useful? Oh, that's a great question.

I was just kind of blindly chowing down. Let me see. Let's see your contents. And does the same thing and barfs up four items. And those items are a mirror, but it's all black. Oh, like a blackened out mirror? No, it's there's no there's nothing on the surface of it. Like it's it's a mirror. It's got a very ornate frame. But instead of seeing yourself, you just see blackness. Whoa. And there's nothing in there's nothing like covering it. Yeah. It's just the glass is black. Spooky.

And the second item is anything at all. Oh my God. An artichoke. No, no. An artichoke. It could be an artichoke. No. Stick the landing. Stick the landing. Okay. Just first object comes to mind. Three, two, one. An artichoke. I don't know. Okay. Now modify it somehow. Yeah. Okay. It's not a real artichoke. Yeah. What is it? It is a puzzle. Oh, like a wooden like artichoke puzzle. Like a puzzle box? Made out of brass and glass.

No, it's a real artichoke, but it's a very rare kind that acts as a puzzle and never blooms until you figure out its workings, its patterns, and then it holds it grows something inside that's useful. What the hell? That's so cool. That's awesome. Thanks. All right. A puzzle artichoke. It just looks like an artichoke to you, but it's weird that it hasn't rotted or anything. And the third item is a small clock. Yeah. Is it ticking or not ticking? It's not ticking yet. Oh. What? Now it's ticking.

Oh, what the hell? Bore's like, oh! Something in my tongue must have activated this little thingy over here. It wasn't doing that when I swallowed it. It's a water clock. It runs on your saliva spit. Ew. And the fourth item is? A little fabric pouch. Looks kind of rotten. The top's kind of looks like it was all sewn up, but some stuff's spilling out of the top now. I can't really tell. I can't really tell. I can't really tell. I can't really tell. I can't really tell.

Some shiny, like, glistening, like, powder, maybe, like. Ooh. Like, shiny sand or something like that. Oh. Glitter. Love it. And he goes, oh, wait. One more. The fifth item is? This is Wes, technical producer on the hot mic. I don't appreciate being included in this. A block. We can cut that. Yeah. Make it four items. Would you prefer that? No. I mean, that's up to me. I can just, I can just, yeah. Would you? Yeah, let's. Okay.

So, yeah, Borg goes, I don't know if any of these are useful, but they're pretty cool. Huh? Yeah. Can I stick my head out so I can see if the wasps are in the area, if they're just around? He wants to see, make a little rock window. You would have to, like, dig through it. Yeah, poke a little hole to look out. Yeah. Do you see through one section of the wall near where you found the body, which you now see has been like thrown across this section of the canyon and is now splayed out.

It's a little jester hat is all askew. Near where you found the body, you see a small opening, maybe about the size of a basketball, but you do see some wasps pouring out of that hole and they are probing around, flying around in little swarms, hither and yon, searching. What do you do? We need to plug that hole. Can I run out and belly flop as a rock slab onto the wall? The hole? You're going to shape shift? Yeah. All right. 2d6 plus your wisdom. Nine. Nine. So that means you get one hole.

One hold. And you get to form craft yourself. So plus one to one stat minus one to another stat. Plus one to I guess strength. Minus one to dexterity because you are rock. And so as we have described, when you call upon the spirits of rock, to change your shape, little rocks start like rumbling in the canyon. And then they just whip towards you and start pelting you. And it doesn't feel good. No. But they're like digging into your flesh, sinking into your body.

And then it's like, it's not a complete transformation. No, more like the thing. Yeah. You're just kind of a lumpy rock man. But it gets the job done and you slam across. Oh, sorry. No, what are you going to do? I'm going to use my newfound arms. Um, now they don't have to always walk on them. And I'm going to pick up a bunch of the rocks and start filling in that hole. Okay, great. Uh, so we can make that a defy danger. And an aid. And an aid, yeah. Cool. Well, not very good.

Not very good as in? Um, well, I rolled three. Yeah, that's very not good. Yeah. Wow. Her failure doesn't necessarily mean you fail. Okay. So defy danger. What do we think? Okay. Okay. So if you're just trying not to get, let them get through your body, maybe constitution. I'm just falling on top of it. I was thinking strength. Yeah, strength works. Ten. Ten. Okay. You slam your body on this hole. You're like, I did it. They're not getting through now. And polar bears like, I'm coming.

I'll help you. And the arm full of rocks. Yeah, yeah. And starts like picking up rocks and, um, picks up a pretty huge one being a big, strong polar bear and steps on a section of the canyon floor that just crumbles away. And polar bear tumbles into a tunnel. I run and I catch him with my hoof. How? This is a failure. Polar bears in the hole. All right. Can I run and catch? You run and scream. Polar bears fallen out of sight is what I mean. Can I run up and try and catch him?

You can run after him. Can I run up and try and catch him in the hole? It's a failure. Do I try? Do I? If I try, you try to do it. You run up. You stick your hoof out already out of already at arm's reach. PB. See you again. My nickname. My nickname form is PP. Like peanut butter. Peanut butter. PB. Oh, okay. PP. Oh, polar bear. PP. But there's like, if you hear polar bear like, wham. Oh. How far down are you? I don't know. Like five seconds of falling.

And you hear like, falling, falling, falling. Owl, can you go down and see if he's okay? I'll go have a look. You guys just hang on a second and I'll just hop over to the hole and then try and gently flutter down in there and see what's going on. Yeah, great. Owl superior night vision. Yeah. Exactly. And also wings. And wings. You flutter down into the hole. Ving, you're like holding against this hole like you feel wasps stinging and probing like you're getting inside. You'll never get out.

And then you look over and you see there's just a big hole in the ground wherever it used to be. Jumping down. Like, wait a second. What about me? Can I look around? Yeah. Like, does it look like we might all want to go down in here? Does that look like it might be a good way to get out of this? Yeah, it might be. You don't hear as much buzzing, quite as much buzzing in this area at least. You don't know if it's totally devoid of wasps, but it's definitely less immediately full of wasps.

Polar bear seems okay. A little worse for wear. No, I'm fine. Yes, Sean. Don't speak for me. I speak for everybody. Not me. Okay, well, you do not. You definitely don't take any damage, but the issue is that you're not going to be able to get back out. Yeah, but I'm fine with it. You know how I go with the flow of things. So it's like polar bear crumbled down into like basically a ramp and just hit this ramp and started rolling.

And at the base of this ramp, quite far down, it just levels out into a pretty large tunnel, large enough for polar bear to not stand on the ground. Not stand on their hind legs, but, you know, walk around comfortably. I think we're probably going to be better down here. Yeah, boar walks up to elk and looks down the hole. Oh, boy, that's quite a tumble. Yeah. And I push boar in. Oh, boy. And then just skids down. Polar bear, you hear some and then just right next to you. Boar bumps into you.

It's cool. You're fine, buddy. Boar fell down. And gets back up on their hooves. I run over to Vang and I'm like, fucking turn back into regular and get on my back. Yo, get out of here. Leave me behind. You're way more important. There's literally no reason to sacrifice yourself right now. There's another way out. Oh, it hurts so much. Then just stop doing it. They're stinging me. Okay, then turn back normal. Oh, what is normal?

An owl pops back up out of the hole to see elk very calmly talking to Vang who's screaming. What are you doing here? Get out of here. She's like, oh my God. And I just, I grab him with my hooves. Can I lift him up? No, you don't have thumbs. But I can just wedge him. Wedge him. Can I? Sure. You're getting weirdly human. Got a lot of dexterity in your hooves now. Yeah, so I pry him up and I just put him on my back. But I'm not walking like an elk.

I have him like fireman throw it over my shoulder. Yeah. Yeah. And I run to the hole and I jump in. And owl, as elk grabs Vang and jumps, starts running down the hole, you see that nobody picked up those objects. I mean, just barfed him onto the ground. Can't just leave those here. We got to, so I run over there and I kind of pick around and I just scoop as much as I can up with my little, with my little claws and try and. You get one. But it appears I can only pick up one of my little claws.

So I'm having a look at them and trying to quickly decide which one was the coolest. Or remember, actually, what they all were. So there's the mirror. There is the artichoke, the puzzle artichoke. Which is awesome. But there is the water clock, the water clock that is now ticking. And there was a small bag that looks like it has shiny powder in it. I think the shiny powder. I don't really know what the clock thing is. It's just, I don't know what it would do. Okay. Everybody hates.

I definitely pick shiny powder. I can see what owl is looking at as I jump into the hole and I was like, don't be a fucking idiot. Get the artichoke. And I jump in. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. So I'm just standing there and I got an artichoke in one hand. Just bees everywhere. And then I got this little shiny powder and I throw the powder away. No. Into a big cloud up in the air and I grab this artichoke and I hop over. You throw it up in the air? Yeah.

And I hop over to the hole and I jump back down with the artichoke. Does the powder do anything? Yeah. It starts to like catch the sunlight and it's got a little rainbow hue which I look at as I fall backwards into the hole. That's tight. Ving opens the hole and runs off and you throw the powder in the air and it shimmers in a cloud and the wasps all go straight for the powder. You flip off the wasps as you fall. He doesn't have fingers. I've got talons and so I can… Oh, Jesus.

I just learned the longest feather. Yeah, that's what I thought it was going to be. Oh, no, no, no. It was my feet. Okay. And you tumble down the hole and the wasps that were coming out of that tunnel all approach the… Start swirling around this shiny dust and you get away. Cool. You idiots somehow get away every time using the tools that you have at your disposal and random luck based on if I think something would be funny. Ving asks him, now, where's that water clock? That thing was cool.

I have no idea what time it is. So you're at the bottom of this tunnel and you're all kind of in a pile. You do hear the buzzing now at the mouth of this hole. You don't have much time you assume before the wasps realize this is just a bunch of shiny powder. So what do you do? We book it. We go. Is there a way down? In? Up? It goes deeper into like the walls of the canyon basically. Can I use my elk knows the ways? Yeah. Yeah, so I feel the right way to go is deeper in. Yeah.

I was like, we have to go in to get out. Yeah, you gotta go in to get out. So you go deeper into the tunnels and it is dark in the humming. The humming is fairly present around here, but you feel fairly safe right now. But we're going to maybe make this another undertake a perilous journey. Okay. So does anybody have any roles they would like to take for the journey? Trailblazer again, I guess. Scout might not be so good for owl. Yeah, I'm just kind of paddling along. I'll do scout. I'll hit it.

He's feeling, Bing's feeling very brave. I can quartermaster about how to do the roles. Okay, sure. Okay, so everybody with a role, 2d6 plus wisdom. 10. 10. 6. Okay. I got 12. Good job. I'm not bragging. I'm just explaining that I got 12. Yeah. It sounded like a brag, but I'm just… So you… I had a lot of shitty roles and it just felt good to hit a 12. Well done, Mark. Congratulations. You're like, you dig around in the dirt a little bit in the tunnel and you're like, hey, a bunch of worms.

Yeah, nice. Bing. You like worms, right? You want to hit up these worms? Yeah, I love worms. Elk, you're feeling… You're trying to feel the way like you usually do. It's hard down here because like directions are very difficult because the tunnels sort of dip and turn and twist on each other. You think you've got the right way.

You're not 100% confident in it and it's not until you turn a bend in the tunnel and you come out into a wide open chamber much, much bigger than it should be and there's light pouring in from holes in the ceiling of the chamber.

Further in, there's a massive cloud of wasps and they're buzzing around all these like papered up areas of the hive and there's piles of debris and detritus and you see bodies here and there and this appears to be like you've wandered right into the central area of wasps' hive. Oh, fuck. I went the wrong way. Yeah, no shit. Okay, so you've wandered headfirst into the central chamber of wasps' nest basically. What do you do? I've got control over all this water in here.

Could I run across the top of the water? Water? Isn't there water in this cave? No, there's like light and there's debris like piles of stuff. I'm so thirsty. It's just dust. Yeah. I mean, you can control a lot of like all the primal elements basically. It does say fire, water, earth or air. Like it's not super loose. Mm-hmm. You could do air. Yeah. Yeah, I could really create a vacuum on the other side of the hole in the roof and start sucking bees up. Okay. All right. Yeah.

Give me a 2d6 plus wisdom for elemental mastery. Nine. Nine. So again, the effect you desire comes to pass. You avoid paying nature's price. You retain control. This is a pretty dangerous situation. And also you only have three HP left. Yeah. Should we get, should we, maybe head back or can I aid him? What did you roll in nine? Nine. You could definitely try. Yeah. So I like, I go behind him and as he's focusing, I like do like a really deep humming. And I say deeper.

And then I go deeper and I'm like, it's working. Seven. Plus? Plus what? Plus your bond, but you don't have any really. So you succeed. Yeah. It's a seven. It's a seven and a nine success. So you take it to a 10. So you get two. Effect I desire comes to pass and retain control. Okay. So you still pay nature's price. Of suck. Nature's price of vacuum suck. How do you call? Suck it. I say. So you scream suck it at the top of your lungs. This one's for Tacoma Dome. Suck it.

And where I am in the corporeal, I can feel somebody sucking it. Yeah. I could feel someone screaming suck it. And I just slowly high five nothing. Yeah. And I don't know why I'm doing it, but I chuckle a little bit and I'm like, good one. And I high five nothing. Billy, you see Tuck high fiving the air. I don't know why. So I do it too. Flashback to the spirit realm and things going down low. Okay. So I'm going to go to the spirit realm. So I'm going to go to the spirit realm.

So yeah, I also go down low. So I'm in the middle of the cavern with my hair. Yeah. So there's a lot of wasps. So are you thinking you're going to be able to get all of them or are you just… Most. Most. And then we can at least see where they are. Is this the dead end? Is there another way? I mean, Elk, you do feel that there would be a way through to the surface like in this chamber. So at least get the wasp up to the ceiling.

I look at all the different openings and one of them, I don't know, I can feel like pulsing coming from it. I'm like, there's one. There's one way out of here. Yeah. So it's like all the way across. Like you basically have to cut diagonal across this whole thing. But air starts blowing wasps out of the ceiling and stuff starts popping off because they're not used to a big spirit like air throwing its weight around in here. So things start buffeting to and fro.

Stuff starts blowing around the room including wasps and they start getting blown out the top. And the rest of the wasps that are left in here start freaking out. What do you do? Beeline it for that hole. Beeline it. You like it? Wasp line it. Wasp line it. Please. All right. Everybody give me a defy danger. Explain how you're avoiding danger and then tell me what stat you're using. Polar bear? All right. What's your plan? I'm going to use strength. Tell me how.

I'm going to charge because it's the fastest way I can power through movements of the air. Yeah. So that's an eight. No, that makes sense. Yeah. All right. Okay. Elk? I watch polar bear run and I'm like, God, he's beautiful. And then I roll. Six plus constitution. How's that work? I'm just like muscling through because I can feel the wind like pulling me up. So I put my front two hooves on the ground for the first time in a little while.

And I'm like digging them into the ground and I'm like, you will not take me air. And then I'm like, really just like, you can see like my neck is like, there's a lot of veins in it. I'm like, I'm going to get through this. And I'm moving through methodically and I shit a little bit. And I keep going. That is not a little bit. Yeah. So that's how I do it. Pounding through. How's Al doing it? I use my magical mastery of the air.

The air is a beautiful flying creature and look at that wind currents and try and figure out the most efficient way to get through there and avoid any risks. And but it's quite a quite an exertion. So I poop a little bit too. So defy danger dexterity. I think. Yeah, that makes sense. Minus one for pooping. Nine. Cool. Then I'm going to run full force forward while twirling my staff. All right. So defy danger. You're a human like physical person. Yeah.

And you're not like massively strong dexterity. You'd be kind of dodging the wind, I guess. Yeah, I think dexterity makes sense. I think we can we can do that. All right. Yeah. Six. Six. Yeah. So you lead the way for polar bear and elk and and owl helping them get ahead of you through the wind as they move towards the opening that elk pointed out as the wind starts to pick up around you and buffet you more and more. You find that you can't move forward and this is you paying nature's price.

It's at this point that you see your spirit friends move forward out of danger up into the hole. Once you realize that they're safe, the wind suddenly dies and through the holes in the ceiling and the holes in the wall, the wasps start pouring back in. They come in, they swarm around you in a cloud, a huge cloud. And here's the thing. You can roll damage right now, but you can't or you can just let the wasps do what they're going to do. You can fight it or you can just let it happen.

I'm going to welcome it arms up. Just let them overtake you. So the wasps pour in your vision clouds, you feel stings and bites and your vision goes black and you wake up here and there for a while like in and out of consciousness. You fade in, you're being dragged bodily across the floor by a swarm of wasps. You fade back out. You fade back in, you're freezing cold. You fade back out. Fade back in, you're soaking wet for some reason. You don't know why. It's honey. You fade back out.

You fade back in and you're upside down hanging by your leg on something against the wall. You fade back out. And you open your eyes at one point blearily and see that you've been papered into the wall of this massive hive. You fade back out. And you fade in and out a little bit longer. You don't know how much time passes. It could be hours, days, weeks, I don't know.

And you open your eyes at one point because you feel a commotion in the air and the wasps are buzzing around you more than you have felt since you've been on this cavern wall. And the wasps part a little bit. It seems like they're distracted for a moment by something else. And the cloud thins. And you see what looks like a cloud. And you see what looks like a cloud. And you see what looks like a cloud. And you see what looks like a cloud. And you see what looks like a cloud.

And you see what looks like a gray ball of cloth bobbing through the air. Through the cavern, this little pierogi of cloth starts to float through the air ahead of you. And you see the end of this, like, mass that's facing you part a little bit. And through it, you see a brown-skinned face, a big bushy beard, and a chubby little boy looking at you. Take cover! Take cover! Take cover! Take cover! Take cover! Take cover! Billy! Billy! Back out. And that's where we'll end it.

Thanks for listening to Spout Lore. Everybody. I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara with me as always players of dual. And he would give me red bulls for free. You guys, Jessica, imagine you come up with like five cake pops. Paul dumps like a tuck, tuck, tuck all night long. And Mark, honestly, that's my dream. And our technical producer, Wes Lord. Thanks to Aaron Reed from Vancouver Sunday service for our awesome intro and outro music.

Thank you to Mark and MP for graciously allowing us to play in their home. And thank you to you for listening. And we'll see you next time. And so ends the tale of adventures. Three who tried the best they can. Dumb and scared and lost. They be for times of breast in. Reveal. 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 gladly Spout Lore.

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