Episode 2 – Mr Dhaume Goes To Town


It’s a busy day in the village of Mudlark, with preparations for the Hot Dog Festival in full swing.

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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. Last time on Spoutlore. You are traveling to the village of Mudlark. Sorry, Blugblark? Oh, it's real. Piece of shit. It's a hot dog festival. It's kind of like Burning Man. So you guys are traveling in a big cart full of food supplies? Anybody got a name for this food guy? Colonel Dan.

Oh man, we're not getting any further with this tree in the road. A spear blade, like, hammered out. It's a sheared spear. This didn't fall naturally. This was pushed into the road. If I fought the horse, would I win? The horse can get past without getting stuck in the mud. Dan would probably have to leave some of his supplies. He's behind if he wants to get the cart through at all. Okay, well, I'm fine with that.

I guarantee you that if you leave that barrel of shitty sweet meat in the middle of this bog for a hundred years, no one would take it. If you have a single person ask you… Yeah, for sweet meat. For sweet schloss meat, I will give you this amulet with a picture of a horse in it. You know what? No, I'm going to hold on to this, actually. The festival is in, like, a day and a half. I got a bunch of meat. Got a lot of things riding on this. All right, hop in, everybody. Next stop, Mudlark.

Welcome to Spout Lore. I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara. And with me today are players Jessica. My character is Fat Billy. Paul. My character is Ving. And Abdul. At Tacoma Dome. Today we're continuing our Dungeon World game. When do we… Get to our… The hot dog festival? Hot dogs. You travel down along the road. It's not as bad. It's like the fog is starting to let up a little bit. There's, like, bug sounds. It's pretty swampy sounds. But then, as you can see, more signs for, like, Mudlark.

One mile. From the swamp, you just hear, like, a… So it's a croak? It's, like, a big croaky, wet-sounding, just, like, gross noise. Do you know anything about gross? Wet-sounding noises? Yes. Are you trying to remember something about gross croaks? Well, I've experienced a lot of gross wet noises. Croaks. Brokes. Burps. Do I recognize it? It's maybe of an animal? It could be an animal, yeah. That sounds like a Spout Lore. I would like to try and Spout Lore to see if it's an animal.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. 2D6 plus intelligence. 6. It's just, like, Vayne's number one skill is remembering stuff. I want to help him. All right. Sounds great. Plus your bond. 7. 7. All right, great. So you open yourself up to danger, retribution, or cost. Didn't he get 7? Yes. But by aiding, you're also including yourself in this. But isn't this a partial success? Yeah, partial success for him. But you also got 7 to 9. An 8 or interfere.

On a 7 to 9, you also expose yourself to danger, retribution, or cost. But we got partial. So partial success for Spout Lore is that I will tell you something interesting about But not useful. The subject. Okay. Yeah. So something interesting that you remember hearing about the mud fields and the bogs that surround Mudlark in this sort of region is that there are amphibians in the area that get a lot larger. Hmm. Like, a lot larger than your average. Frog or toad. Okay.

Like, there have been stories of frogs that are, like, cow-sized. Man-eaters. Yeah, just, like, gigantic man-eating frogs. Cow-sized frogs? Can you milk them? Meyer frog. Yeah. So you've heard of Meyer frogs, which are, like, just beefy, big-ass frogs. Guys, it could be a Meyer frog. I've heard of those. Fat Billy does not like this. I've also heard of that. I want to leave. Yeah. Billy's, like, 2 feet tall. Like, that's more than small enough to get swallowed whole by a regular-sized frog.

I'm, like, a delicious appetizer. I need to scurry. You're like a house fly to this guy. So is Billy just, like, what does Billy do? Billy, get in this Bjorn. Billy does not want to get into a Bjorn. Billy wants to run. Get on my shoulders. Is Billy going to run? Billy. No, we need you here. We can't see too far. Billy's eyes are wide. I don't know what to do. That says, all right, you know what? It's fine. The town's pretty close. We'll just keep going. We'll keep going.

We'll just stay on the road, and we'll hustle up. Billy climbs into one of the satchels that's hung on the horse. Yeah. No way. In a saddlebag? Yeah. That's a good idea. Should we light some torches? Maybe scare away this frog? Yeah. This giant, possibly giant frog. It sounded like it could be pretty far away. I mean, it could be really close. The trees kind of throw sound in a weird way, so you're not sure if it's, like, closer. God damn these fucking trees. They're ruining this trip.

You break through that swampy, disgusting. Forest. And you just come out onto a nice, big, clear, still disgusting, swampy field. But there's less trees. Did we go the wrong way? Nope. This is the right way. You see, as the sun's starting to, like, fall a little bit through the fog, so it's just a nice gray, bright gray. You see a collection of buildings further down closer. Are we passing peasants as we're driving? Yeah. You're, like, passing through farmland. Can I talk to one of the peasants?

Sure. Yeah. There's just a guy with, like… Kind of a gap-toothed look, like, digging in the mud. Hey, peasant. What? Do you know… Have you guys been having troubles with mire frogs recently? Oh, man. When haven't we been having troubles with mire frogs? When? Yes. Oh, yes. This is valuable information. Hold on. Let me think for a second. Your turn of phrase is confusing to me. Nothing… Nothing lately. A couple of months ago, I heard the… The thugman's kid was pulled off into the woods.

Oh, it's terrible that his name is Thugman. He was eaten by a frog? No, he just… They got him back, but he was just missing a bit. Thugman's, I will have you know, are a proud mudlark family. They've been tending these slop fields for generations, the thugmans. What is your last name? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. Well, I can't say to lay claim to a name as auspicious as the thugman's. My name is… My name is… Well, I can't… My name's Dick Foulsmouth. Do you want me to do a take on Dick Foulsmouth? Yes, please. All right, fine. I can't say that I could lay claim to a name as fine as the thugman's. I'm old Dick Foulsmouth. Fowl's mouth? Fowl's mouth. Fowl's mouth. Fowl's mouth. It's like Fowl's. You gotta loosen up your cheeks. Fowl's mouth. Fowl's mouth. So your first name is Dick.

Dick. And your middle name is Fowl. No, my last name is Fowl's mouth. My middle name is Veronica. Wow. That's beautiful. It's my mother's name. Oh, wow. As is the custom of your land. God rest her soul. I'm dragged off into the woods by my frog. Anyways, I got work to do. Is there anything I can help you find folks with? We're just heading into town for the festival. Oh, the hot dog festival. Yes. The finest event in all of Mudlark, second only to Mud Christmas. When is Mud Christmas?

I don't want you to tell me about that. Oh. Do you want to hear about Mud Christmas? I think we should probably get to the hot dog festival. Wait, but should we find lodgings for the night? Fat Billy, I don't really want to go anywhere in the dark with these frogs. Are we just going to camp out? We're going to party all night. Do we actually need to sleep? Oh, if you're looking for a place to stay, there ain't no finer accommodations in all of Mudlark than the wallow inside. The wallow inside?

The wallow inside. Like a lady pig. Wait, the swallowing cell? The wallow inside. Wow. Okay. Okay. I like the sound of that. You just head on into town. Yes. Get a room from Maggie Cole. Tell her old Dick Fousman sent you. Okay. Thank you, sir. Will she give us a discount or she'll just know that we talked to you? Well, she'll know. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I thought. You tell her. I ain't forgotten. We'll tell her. Okay. See you later, folks, at the hot dog festival. Okay, bye. Bye, Veronica.

All right. Bye. Digging in the mud again. And Dan whips the horse. Not whips the horse. You know, jangles the reins and the horse carries on. Okay. Into the town of Mudlark. Wow. That guy made me so sad to listen to him. You wanted to stop and talk to him. I appreciate that. At least we know where we're going to stay. We don't have to stay, but I'm feeling a little shiver me timbers right now about this whole Meyer frog situation. But we're heading into town.

They shouldn't bother us in the festival or the town. There's a lot of people around. All right. Yes. And there's. Yeah, exactly. There's a lot of people. So more likely someone else will get taken. If I die, I will curse you. So let's continue. Okay. That's a bond. That's a bond. Yeah. I mean, I will curse you. That's a common thing that halflings say. It's really intense every time. Yeah. I don't know what it means, but I picked it up from a family that I wanted to join once.

A family of halfling warlocks. Yeah. I've been cursing people. For years. So you guys carry on into the town of Mudlark. How big of a town is it? It's probably like, you know, two or three hundred people. It's not huge, but it's not like a village. Human people? What's the race like? I mean, probably mostly human. Yeah. That dick vagina guy seemed pretty much human. I see a few halflings. You see a few halflings? I do. Yeah. From my little coach. What are they doing? They're also digging.

Some of them are carrying things between shops. Oh. And I'm… Is this the lot of halflings? Are they like laborers? They don't like own a lot? Halflings don't own a lot. They like to live with and from the land. And they don't learn much. They just do simple things. Interesting. Because they are small, too. They are literally closer to the land. They are. It's in the spirit of the halfling. It is what defines you. They have many sayings. What's one of them? What's one more?

One saying is the closer to the ground, the more… I can't remember because no one really said them to me. I just had to hear them from passing. So what about being closer to the ground and then something more happened? And then in my mind, I was like, that's a good thing. To be closer to the ground? Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. Interesting. Interesting. The closer to the ground, the more you will be… Loved. In my mind. The more love you will find in the dirt. In the dirt. Love in the dirt. Hmm.

Is Billy just… His mind is just full of half-remembered halfling turns of phrases? Yeah, Billy is very sad right now. Oh, man. There's many tears that he wishes to let out, but he has to be strong. Jeez. Jeez. It's okay. Man. Okay. Hey, Billy, do you want this granola bar? I was saving it. No, I don't. Are you sure? Yes. It's dipped in chocolate. Okay. Okay. Here you go. Oh. Oh, man. So, you guys, yeah, you roll into the main square, like the center of Mudlark.

And it's like, you know, when you think of like a town square, it's that sort of thing. There's like a little kind of plinthy dais thing in the center with some cobbly stones. It's mostly muddy dirt roads around. There are a lot of people. There's a lot of activity. People are setting up for the hot dog festival. There's a lot of carts going up, and there's a stage. They're putting up a stage near… Hmm. The center for like, you know, whatever stages are used for in this town.

There's a lot of effluent youths. A lot of effluent, like… Affluent. Affluent. Effluent means feces? Bunch of shitty kids. So, there's effluent and affluent youths. Yes. So, yeah, there's like some finer dressed people, but… In town for the festival. It's a pretty dirty town. It's a hot dog festival. But it's a big hot dog festival. It's popular. Okay. It's actually something that we could talk about. Why do people come from all around? Is it just the food is so good?

I think also it has to do with that it's a really shitty place to get to. It's dangerous. Yeah. And it sucks, and it's far away. So, it's about the act of the people who actually go there. It's like a pilgrimage. It's almost like a pilgrimage. And like, it got really cool amongst the affluent teens because they wanted to really like dirty up. They wanted to really like, you know, live like the other half-lives. Yeah. Okay. So, it's a lot of rich people that just want to have… Yeah.

It's a lot of rich people that just want to have… Hang out around poor people to make them feel like they've done something with their lives. Mm-hmm. Okay. So, it is like Burning Man. It's just like… It's just Burning Man. Awesome. Okay. Cool. Yeah. So, you see like… There's a giant hot dog sculpture in the middle that gets burned at the end of the weekend. The Oscar Mayer guy. You see a lot of…

So, you see a lot of like who you assume are like the villagers of Mudlark, like the townspeople. And they look like how you would expect people that have had hard lives. And then you see people that look like they're wearing the costume of like a hard life. Like things that are ripped but like very deliberately. And like they have like mud on their faces but like in interesting patterns instead of just like where mud would fall on your face if you were digging in the river. Okay.

So, one thing that you have heard about Mudlark is the river that was Mudlark runs up to one of the bigger cities. And treasure and equipment and all this sort of like cool… You know, some of these small valuable stuff would wash down the river and get stuck in the soil and the mud. So, this town was founded by Mudlarks which are people that dig through the muddy basis of rivers to find valuable things to sell. So, Mudlarking is a thing that people still do in Mudlark.

It's mostly farmers but people still will dig in the river. Is that what Dick Veronica was doing? Veronica was just a farmer. You were farming. Yeah. Just trying to tend crops. The town. So, there's a cluster of like big buildings. That is like… Like the center of the town of Mudlark. And then there's farms on either side and further up and down the actual bed of the river. There are people where people will Mudlark dig through the mud for valuable things.

And that I think is probably where, what we talked about earlier, the town of like boats that just kind of were left from the river. So there's clusters of old boats, big boats, like galleons and river boats and that sort of stuff that are just stuck in the mud forever. And people have just turned those into their homes. So there's like the boat towns on either side. And then the central village of Mudlark. I had a thought. I think Fat Billy's parents might've tried to do this earlier on.

And that's where, not where, but probably when he was orphaned. Tried to do. Mudlarking. Because it was like a method of like gaining wealth. Oh, so they died mudlarking? Or like maybe on the route. He doesn't know. He doesn't know what happened to his parents. They went to Mudlark to dig in the river. If it's something that people travel, for it must, there must be rumors of like actual, some big deal stuff in the, in the river. Like that there's still something there. Not that it's all been.

Yeah. That's like, you know, that makes sense why they like people still dig all the time. Yeah. Yes. Also why this festival is here. Yeah. Do you think people come to Mudlark as well as the hot dog festival? Well, traditionally that's what the hot dogs is. The traditional food. Oh, the mudlark. So is it a mud? So it's a hot dog festival, but it's also a mudlarking festival. So it's like, people will come in, like eat the food. No, I thought it was like the people who live there. Mudlark.

And then I think the people that come to the festival, they play at mudlarking. Or maybe they come with the guys of festival, but they really want to. Oh, so it's people that come for the festival and they're like, oh yeah, I'm just here for these sweet hot dogs, but they're actually here to like, try and find their treasure of their lifetimes. And the locals don't like it. Don't. Cause you're not. So what, if you're not, is that, is everybody allowed to dig?

I think the locals probably don't allow non-locals to dig. There's a, there's a unwritten rule that it's very rude to go to mudlark and. And dig in the mud. Yes. It's like working in Australia. Awesome. Okay. So non-locals aren't allowed. Yeah. It's probably some kind of like mafioso. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a crime boss that like controls all the mudlarking. Yeah. Yeah. I guess. Permits. I mean, it makes you probably live on like a big, like a big, like ship sometime somewhere out in the ship.

Maybe there's no Meyer frog. Maybe they. Wait, maybe there's no, what? Maybe the Meyer frogs are like a way of scaring people. Anyway, these are all rumors. This is all hearsay. Yes. Cool. Yeah. So yeah, the village is being set up and you can see a sign on a, on a, one of the bigger buildings in town. And you can see that there's like smoke coming out of the chimneys. It all looks very cozy. And there's like a stable to the side and you see a sign. And the sign is just a cutout of a pig.

With its legs out. And it's like covered in mud up to its eyes. And you, you take that to be the wallowing Sal. Oh yeah. Yeah. Should we go get a room? Oh, so Dan's like, all right, I guess this is a, I guess this is me. I'm going to set up you guys. Are you guys, you guys are sticking around for the festival, right? And then you're going to take me back. That's the plan. Yeah. That was the deal we had. So yeah. All right. Yeah.

What are you guys going to, what are you guys getting paid by the way? What do you think is a fair payment? Seems weird to negotiate it now. We all just sleep on it. What do you guys think? Well, I just figured we didn't set out the terms. Really. I just said that I'd pay you and I'm a man of my word. So what do you guys think is fair? Five, five coins a piece, five coins a piece. Done. There and done. Five coins a piece. What? Done. See you later guys. I'm going to go set up. No. Okay.

This is a parlay. Wow. No, this is a parlay situation. Billy, you fucked us so hard. Oh, okay. We need money, Billy. This is, we came three days in. Forget what you heard. 20 coins a piece. That seems pretty steep. You did say five and we agreed on five and now you're saying 20 a piece? I didn't say five. All right. I don't remember that. So this is a parlay. What's your leverage? Well, it's a parlay if you have leverage. Can I? I found a nice rock.

It's like, look, kid, that's a beautiful rock doing great. We'll, we'll advertise for you. We'll do one. We'll do walk around and do some flaring for you. Yeah. We'll tell people that your schloss meat's better than the crab cakes. We can tell rumors about how, about the other schloss meats. Yeah. It's like aphrodisiac schloss meat. This gorilla jerky gets you hard as fuck. All right. If you guys want to do a little bit of advertising, for me. Okay. Roll the, roll the parlay.

This is a Billy rolling it. Yeah. Billy's the it's, it's charisma, right? Yeah. Damn. Yes. 12. Jessica's rolling like a pro. Yeah, man. All right. So he says, all right, you know what? If you guys are going to advertise for me, uh, we'll agree on 20 coins a piece, I suppose. Uh, it seems fair, but that's 20 coins a piece for the whole deal. Taking me to my Larkin, taking me back. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. 20 coins a piece at the end of the festival. When we get back to town, you get 20.

How much does a sword cost here? Oh, that's a great question. Actually. I was thinking about that because Jessica started with 10, which is like not nothing. Yeah. It seems 20 seems like a good amount of money for a job. Yeah. Uh, yeah. So coin is sort of like valuables. Like that's like the loose definition. Cause you can find like, say you find a gem, the gem could be worth 10 coin. Yeah. Uh, so that is basically 10 coin worth of money. 10 coin worth of gems.

So weapons are actually pretty cheap. Uh, like a dagger is two coins. Oh, okay. Five coins. Okay. But then when you get to like pricier stuff, like a dueling rapier, which is like a nice, fancy, expensive rapier, that's 50 coins. Like stuff can be really expensive. Armor is especially expensive. If you want like a suit of plate mail, that's 350 coins. Wow. Stuff can be really expensive or really cheap. The usual stuff that you'll find, like you can find a sword on any, any schlub. Yeah.

That's going to be like three or four coins, you know? So yeah. So it's 20 coins is not an unreasonable sum of money for dragging somebody's ass through a huge swamp and then dragging it back. So that's fair. 20 coins. Here's some pamphlets. Dan slosh meat, schloss meat. Okay. And uh, yeah, just hand them out and I'll see you guys at the end of the festival and we'll head back home. And uh, and he, and he hustles it off to his like area of the town square to start setting up.

And you see like, there's this like kind of ragged, looking like middle aged man. He's got like, he's like kind of young, but he's still got like graying facial hair and graying hair. It's kind of long. He's wearing like a fine coat for somebody in mud Lark. And he's got like a big shiny badge. Is it a black coat? It's like a, like a purple, like a purpley sort of super fine. Yeah. But it's like kind of ragged. He's got this big shiny badge on his chest and he's running around.

He's like, don't put that there. You're supposed to put that over there. We got to get these banners up on the stage. If we don't get them up soon, this whole festival could be garbage. It could be garbage. And he's running around and he's freaking out. Wow. Real Niles crane over here. He kind of like hustles up to you guys. He's like, this horse can't, the horse can't be where it is. The horse has to move. The cart has to move. The horse, you have to move these things now. Okay.

Dan's moving them. He's yeah. Move them quickly. I am. You don't just stand around. I am the mayor of this village. Oh, you're the mayor. Yeah. I offer that information freely. This is my town. Hello, mayor. My name is Bing. I'd like to know your name. I don't care. I don't care what your name is. My name wants to hug the mayor. He's just going to hug the mayor. It's like, what is this thing? What, what, what is this small thing? Is this a child? Yes. That kind of pushes you away.

Nice to meet you. Okay. His eyes kind of soften a little bit. He's like, hello, welcome to the village of mud log, but I need to get ready for this festival. And my, my accent is going in and out of various things. I'm having trouble sticking on one voice. Should we try and make some more money and see if we can offer help? I think that's a good idea. Do you, um, Hey, we're, we're mercenaries for hire. Mercenaries in mud log. Yeah. So we can like move boxes or whatever you need.

Is that what mercenaries do? Yeah, man. Like we, anything for money, mostly labor. I can turn into bees. You could turn into what? Bees. Like the bug, like the bunch of bugs. What is this nonsense? Turning into bees. I've been meaning to ask you about that. When you turn into a hive of bees, yeah, hive mind. Yeah. It was, it is like, like, does your dick, is your dick some of the bees? My dick turns into a multiple bees. It turns into a dick's weight of bees. Wow. This is ridiculous.

I have things to do. People talking about turning into bees, small children hugging me. You're very sweet, but you need anything. Can we help? Can we, do you need this festival to go off without a hitch? Can you, can you, can you make that happen? No, I didn't think so. Bee man. Well, what if we, what do you, do you need, like, security? Yeah. I mean, I suppose so. We heard a mire frog on the way into town. People are going to be freaking out. You heard a what? I don't know, but we've been told.

I've heard of mire frogs, and we heard this awful sound. What is a, what is a what? What? A what? Is there a danger? No, it's probably fine. It was in the bog. It's probably, it's the bog, the bog that I can see from where I stand in the center of town. Well, you might want somebody. You're telling me there's a large frog outside? It could be. That's what. And it's going to be fine? It could be fine. And we don't know. That's what we're saying. Maybe you want us to help. I just, I don't know.

Okay. He like, come, come, come, come, come, come, come. And he like walks into an alley. Do you guys follow him? Yeah. Yes. Jessica's making it like. I took something from him though. You took something from him? Oh, you hugged him. Okay, roll. I want it. I want this to happen, but you need to roll a defy danger dexterity. Seven. Seven. So, so the mayor is not looking. He will not see you take this thing, but someone in the village will. Byrie took it when I hugged him.

Oh, is that why you hugged him? Yeah. Oh, you sneaky little. All right. So what did you take? I took a little metallic wallet, sort of very small, sort of like the size of like a business card. Like that. That sort of thing. Oh, like a little metal case. Yeah. Okay. And you just slipped it in? All right. From his pocket. Yeah. Okay. So someone in town did see that. And, okay. So the mayor leads you, um, into the alley.

And, uh, he is just kind of like looking around, making sure that nobody's paying attention. There's like, he like waves over a guard and like a raggedy sort of thing with the club. And he's standing at the alley, making sure nobody comes past into the alley. He's like, it is of the utmost importance to me and my office in the very sanctity of the hot dog festival, that things go off without a hitch.

I'm, I'm willing in this situation, to deputize the three of you as official enforcers of the mayor's office of mudlark to ensure that everything goes the way it should. Does this interest you? The way it should, or the way you want it to? Is there a difference? Well, I'm the mayor of this town. I have only the interests of this town and its townspeople at heart. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Well, what is it? What does deputy pay?

Well, I am willing to set you up with the finest lodgings in mudlark for free, for free room and board and a front row festival or a front row seat for each of you to the hot dog parade. VIP. If there were a VIP section, I assure you, you would be included. What say you? You didn't say how much we'd get paid. Hmm. I believe I said the lodgings would be free. I believe that we are going to need to see some gold as well or coin.

Well, I don't understand how you are in a position to do bargain right now. Well, I just think we need like a per diem. Okay, fine. Five coins per day per diem for expenses. Yeah. Per person. Per person. Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah, we'll do it. Yeah. All right. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Just, uh, let's shake on it. Shake all of our hands. Touch our Billy. Touch Billy. Oh, he does all of those things. I suppose I'm a desperate man.

And then you hear like a, like a horn, sort of like raggedy horn sound. And he stops and he goes, what, what, what is that? And everybody's starting to hustle around. You hear some like weird screams. And, um, you see some figures push their way into the center of town. And you hear a bunch of croaks. And as they like get closer and people start like, like backing away, it's four frogs standing on their hind legs with spears and like ragged, muddy armor.

And they're carrying like banners that are just like crappy brown pieces. Of fabric. Like the front two are each carrying a banner. The two behind them are carrying spears. And like one of them is holding like a bent beat up metal horn. Their chests are all puffed up and they're like walking really importantly. And they're like kind of snapping at people and making like croaking, like, like as people walk by, they walk right up to the middle, like stone central dice.

And one hops up and he goes like, everyone. I represent. The king of all these swamps, all the mud. You see. Emperor. More gulch. Lord of frogs. Wow. People here have terrible names. All right. This has been Spout Lore. We have been playing Dungeon World by Adam Coble and stage Latour, which you can find at dungeon hyphen world.com and apocalypse world by D Vincent Baker, which you can find at apocalypse hyphen world.com. We've been playing with Jessica. So patronizing. Paul.

20 side of die to see if I can catch the bus on time. And Abdul. Billy wanted to like drop a drop, a smooth beat. And our producer was Lord. Thanks Wes. And thank you to Aaron Reed for our amazing theme music. Uh, I've been your game master, Sean O'Hara and. Oh, and thanks to hecklers for letting us use the upstairs hecklers lounge for recording. And yeah, thanks for listening. And so ends the day. Tale of adventures. Three who tried the best. They can. Dumb and scared and lost.

Maybe for times of breast in. And though our journey may be. We will not leave you. Without resolution. Return next week to hear some more. Whilst you commute or do your chores. And for you, I gladly. Spout. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.