Episode 29 – The Tower

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It's Tuck gets really triggered when he sees a pile of garbage. It's the garbage kid inside of him. Yeah, that makes sense. My garbage. Whenever Tuck sees a pile of anything, he has one solitary thought. And instinctually, it's like there's probably a pizza crust in there. No matter what it is. Or maybe a whole pizza that someone threw at him. Oh my God. Because that happened one time. That one thought is followed by the other one thought is, that's mine. Yeah.

I still think of that pizza that someone abandoned. A whole butter chicken pizza. Oh, yeah. Unbelievable. You got to pick up a pizza that someone leaves on the ground. It was so good. It was an expensive one from the joint. Oh, yeah. It was a large from the joint. It was probably like $45. What if it was abandoned? Like just left on a planter. Like out in the courtyard. Just a pizza. Do you think it's still there? It was there for three days. It's gone now. This is recent? Three days.

Like a raccoon didn't even touch it. It was a few weeks ago. Yeah. Oh, it's very well guarded in there. Yeah. That's how safe your building is. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. Not even a raccoon. To get a butter chicken pizza. Oh, God. It looks so good. Do you guys remember when I lost a pizza to a skunk once? Yeah. Right. Yeah. That skunk had such a good day. You fucking believe this? This is sad. That's so sad. It was insane because I was editing the podcast and I was almost done.

And then I got the notification that the pizza arrived and it was like 1 a.m. And I was like, I got to get this out. So I spent another 45 minutes finishing it and then publishing it. And then I went downstairs and pizza wasn't there. And then I looked over the fence and there was just a skunk in the box. So he had pulled, he dragged it over the fence. Whoa. Powerful. Yeah. Oh, that's so fucking funny. Oh. Okay.

So then after that, you entered this chamber, the infinity of the night sky stars, as far as the eye can see, glittering through the ice tunnels, winding away into infinity and an old stone watch base guard post of some kind smashed and frozen into the ice. Tuck and Ving had a little comp. Well, Tuck had a competition with Ving. Yeah. It was a one sided competition. For sure. Perel tried to take part in it and push himself to the ground. He slid across the chamber. Yeah.

Ving hopped down into the ice through a hole that Tuck revealed, finding a chest frozen into the ice, using a little elemental mastery to melt things so he could swim down and grab it, losing control and melting the ice in the entirety of the guard chamber, revealing twisted humanoid corpses. We grabbed the chest. We booked as the tunnel began to melt around the guard post and escaped into the last tunnel, which, uh, ended up being the entrance or an entrance to Addernack All Waters Tower.

We arrived at a gate made of frozen stalactites and stalagmites. Victor, the wolf said, I, it's time for me to go, but I will stay because I want to. Uh, he was easily swayed with a comfy bed and a kind word to stick around while you guys go inside. We spoke to Maggie briefly about how to get into the tower. She revealed that she's never actually been inside it, just that she is aware of it. And then Ving got through it. Yeah.

By waving his hands around and brushing the gate and saying some elven words. Mm hmm. And that is where we find our heroes now inside the tower of Addernack All Water. The room that you're in seems to be like a sitting room. Almost. Is it made out of ice? Yes, it is made out of ice. This whole place appears to be carved out of ice and that it's ornamented in a way that seems very natural and organic. Yeah.

There's like icicles that grow up and around things creating like sculptures and chandeliers and things that like funnel and amplify light. Cool. So it has the vibe of like a very fine home. Oh. Like 19th century, like a very fine place to live, but completely made out of ice. Like when you go to your rich friend's house and you're like, wow. A whole different dining room. Yeah, exactly. If you were to go to your rich friend's grandma's house. Yeah. Where it's like.

It's like a little bit of a like through the walls of the place. Like if you look really hard. You can see the corridors and chambers beyond. Oh, cool. And you can see it goes above you a ways where it gets a little bit brighter as you go up. And then the light is like, you can almost, you can see it through the walls as well that the light is filtering down and reflecting off like crystalline structures within the walls so that this whole place is quite brightly lit. Whoa.

And you can see it descending far, far below you. Holy shit. Oh. Should I just like discern realities? I want to know if there's like books or something. I want to know if there's like books or something. Yeah, totally. Yeah. Oh, boy. Oh, God. Damn. Garbage roll. Garbage. Those dice are shit. They are, but sometimes they're good. I don't know. I think it's that one specifically because I can see that it's like missing a chunk. Yeah, you little piece of shit. Sorry, that one.

You stay in the bucket. Yeah. So you get a point of experience for that. But you do see there's a little bookshelf, but it looks like a welcome guests bookshelf where there's like novels. Yeah. And nonfiction history. Oh, holy shit. Wait, like an Airbnb? Kind of. Yeah. It's kind of got an Airbnb bookshelf vibe out here. Brochures of local oddities and things to do. All the nice restaurants. Yeah. Yeah. So there's some books and you can grab them if you want.

There's a fucking Dirk Adventureman book here. Yeah. There's a book right there. It's Dirk Adventureman and the Adventure of the Ice Princess. Whoa. Have you read that one? No. I've never even heard of it. Now, when you make this gesture, does that mean you've picked up a book? Yeah. Grab the book. Okay. Show it to everybody. It immediately flips open from the cover and starts snapping at your hand. I punched the book in the face. Okay. Roll a hack and slash. Okay. Fucking sneak up on me, book.

13. Okay. Roll your damage. I fucking hate books. I've been waiting for this forever. And when I get a 10 plus, I can inflict damage twice if I put myself at risk, right? Yes, you can. Yeah. Okay, cool. And I think it's an additional D6. Yeah. It's not twice. So that's seven plus two is nine. Nine. Okay. Well, it's a book. So you just punch it and it just explodes. Like pages everywhere. Like you're holding one side of the cover and you just hammer this thing.

But as you do that, you hear like, and all the other books start like clamoring off the shelf. Holy shit. And like hopping across the floor like clams. And there's just like a dozen and they're like, like flapping across it. I'm kind of like not. I'm scared of them. So I start like stomping on it. I can't read. I can't read. What are they? They're teeth. But roll a roll a D8. Okay. Five. So you take nine damage. Holy God. Why? Because you get swarmed by books. Oh, okay.

Is it just like a bunch of paper cuts? Oh, yeah. Because their pages are folding in the way that make them like teeth. And they're just like. Shit. Whoa. As Tuck is being swarmed by books. Oh, God. I'll do something. I will. Oh, one sec. Sorry. Guys, he's fucking books. Billy's never been more scared than Tuck being attacked by actual books. Yeah. Like, I'm just like, the nerds are winning. So he does. I don't know. He like rolls around a ball trying to squish as many as possible. Yeah, totally.

Nice. Roll your hack and slash. Six. Would you like to aid? I would love to aid. Yeah. Beautiful. I'm lawn bowling you. Yes. Okay. Two D six plus bond. Well, we're so bad at four. Holy fuck. Dude, you only have four HP right now. Oh, God. That's true. Right. That was just an aid. I'm going to. But you failed. Huh? We're all taking damage right now. So Ving rolled Billy at Tuck in an attempt to help with the books, but he was not. I used my arm that time. Stab through. Oh, yeah. That's a failure.

Yeah. Maybe the aim is wrong and I hit a bookshelf. Yeah. Yeah, totally. Yeah. You're hitting down more books. You hit a different bookshelf. And yeah, so you get rolled past to like the bookshelf on the other side of the love seat. I think that he's rolling around. All these books are flying. Oh, these are just books. I'm going to use fairy child to turn my failed roll into a seven to nine. Perfect. So roll your damage. Five. Okay. And roll a D six. Two. Two. Okay.

So you're just going to take two damage because they're not going to swarm you. Okay. Because they're not going to swarm you. Okay. Okay. So they're still swarming tuck. Yeah. They seem to really be piling on me. And you hear me go, guys, I don't have my glasses. I don't know what these books are doing. But Billy, you like rip a couple books off of tuck and stomp on them and they go like and then flatten out on the ground. Okay.

Ving, you pitched Billy the wrong way, but he was able to get back up and grab some of the books. Maggie has rushed forward. Perel is kind of running around the outside of the fight. Like a crab. Back and forth. Like, okay, what am I doing? I'm going to get involved any moment now. Bro, they're just books. Yeah. But they're not just books. Are they? Knowledge is power. He's like gently kicking out at one of the books. Ving, what do you do? I'm going to use a fight with honor and get some chi.

Yep. Ten. So I get three hold. Okay. So I'm going to cross the distance between myself and a foe. And I'm going to use a three hold. Okay. So I'm going to use a three hold. Okay. So I'm going to use a three hold. Okay. So I'm going to use a three hold. Okay. So I'm going to use a three hold. Okay. So I'm going to use a three hold. There's a four hold. There's a four hold. There's a four hold. There's a four hold. There's a four hold. There's a four hold. There's a four hold. There's a four hold.

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That is that's the one that is chomping on your nuts it couldn't resist yeah and then another book called uh dude where's my horse yeah it is uh on your elbow yeah that's a western yeah it's got two confused cowboys on the front what do you do I elbow the one book into the other book but I end up elbowing myself okay in the deck yeah roll it to roll it hack and slash eight okay perfect so roll your damage okay my damage four and then roll your damage again nine so you uh crush the two books that are left for sure yeah and then deliver nine points of damage to your own dick and balls you really overestimate the the force required to kill two books I mean the elbow is like the hardest bone in the body it is yeah hitting the second hardest bone in the body you got there first I was like how can I make a boner reference it's just like a shock wave of energy as tuck connects with his own balls okay cool guys I got those books off of me I'm gonna lay down here for a little bit okay yeah maybe we should uh I mean hopefully this is the only threat here but maybe we should rest up a little bit I'm gonna use a poultice okay just to get me is there anything anyone can do to maybe close off this room um billy starts shoving some of the like chairs into like the doorways yeah totally he's scared to touch anything he's like no books do not touch any paper no more books uh yeah go make uh defy danger intelligence seven okay great you start pushing the furniture in the room into the doorway and you're pretty sure that that will hold and I do like the like wiping off my hands like I did a pretty great job I'm protecting the family from the doorways and I'm like I'm gonna do a pretty great job I'm gonna do a pretty great job I'm gonna do a pretty great job yeah exactly that's a job well done for billy uh a job well done for billy how many poultices do you have uh three more well now you guys would have the opportunity to make camp okay if you so choose yeah because I have eight hit points yeah that's not a lot rest up let's see make camp when you settle into rest consume a ration if you're somewhere dangerous decide the watch order so you'll have to do a watch order if you want to like rest rest okay if you have enough you may level up when you wake from at least a few uninterrupted hours of sleep heal damage equal to half your max hp billy what's your hp at right now I'm at 13 so I'm doing okay okay I'm at eight so you should sleep I'll sleep ving sleeps and then I will guard you guard and then I'll take second watch and then ving you take third watch yeah I mean I don't really sleep but yeah I know I got you I'll chill out okay I'm gonna commune with the whispers of this place which means probably the ice specifically yeah I'm gonna commune with the ice yeah the resident spirits of the ice all right so I'm gonna roll it come on whiz 10 okay you sit down cross your legs do your whole meditative stance body scan body scan put your palms flat on the ice here and you move a beautifully woven rug to the side so you can touch the ice underneath and uh you extend your perception into the ice itself um I move the ice to the side so you can touch the ice underneath and you move your face to the side so you can starts to glow glowing that frozen sound and a little bit of ice steam is like like dry ice is coming out of it and falling onto my lap oh cool yeah you look like one of those cool incense holders that's like a dragon or something yeah you look like that fuck yeah and uh you feel the immensity of like this glacier but you feel your senses extend past the bounds of this building and you feel the into the ice itself.

And you realize wherever water has come to rest in this place and has frozen, it has joined the immensity of the North. And that this whole place is connected, woven together from the tapestry of life itself. And you feel below you an expanse, concentrated life energy, like a boiling, roiling pool of pure being. Whoa. But you feel for sure that it is beneath you. Great. That is helpful. Yeah. We go down. Well, you rest first. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We go down.

That was a question Ving asked everybody. We go down after nap. Yeah. Tuck is like, Oh, he's down. Yeah. So there is a watch. So Tuck is going to sleep. I guess that means if you're bedding down in a dangerous land, decide on a watch order. Then the GM chooses one person on watch during the night to roll plus nothing. Ooh. Billy. Okay. 2D6 plus nothing. We can do it. 2D6 plus nothing. No big deal. That's going to be a 12. Close enough. 10. Okay. Holy shit. Yes. Awesome roll, Billy.

The night passes without incident. Billy's doing a lot of walking around. Like patrolling. Nobody's getting in this room. So seriously. Perfect. And yeah. At a certain point in the night, you see a dark figure, but it's just Vic who came in here because he was lonely outside. And he's dragged his furs in. Oh, look at this. That's so cute. This room is far too nice to be purely inhabited by the likes of you. You're a pathetic creature. This is where I shall rest.

I mean, this is definitely where the finest of people lay down. And the finest of wolf. Yes. Yes. The very finest of wolf. The very goodest of boys. And he leans his head down a little bit as you're petting him. Yes. The finest of wolf. The most howling of dog. I will sleep now. Okay. And if so happens, half moon shape. Okay. Half moon shape in my belly section is revealed. Perhaps creature wish to rest there as well. Wow. Oh boy. And he says, I'm willing to sleep now.

Not because I am surrendering to sleep, but because I have dominion over the domain of sleep and dreams. I feel like that's how you fall asleep. I must go crush this slow death of slumber now. Make victorious the slumber. Make victorious the slumber. Make victorious the slumber. It's a time of night. Yeah. The night passes without incident. So everybody gets a decent sleep. When you wake from at least a few hours of uninterrupted sleep, heel damage equal to half your max HP.

Can you do some Holtas on me too. While you're sleeping because you would not. He wouldn't. Oh, I'm fine. It's not. L şu. So while he's passed out. What do I do is. I roll them over and put his balls directly on the ice. To cool them off. They're so purple. It does not look good. So gross. Billy, what is your HP and what's your max HP? I'm at 13. My max is 21. Oh. I'm okay. That's not too bad. I'll be fine. I don't get hurt a lot. But do you want a poultice? How many poultices do you have left?

I have four. Okay, I'll take one. Yeah. So many. I bought, remember I bought, I spent mucho money. Right. I get a lot of band-aids for all my paper cuts. Right, it's mostly paper cuts. God. He has really sensitive skin. It's all on his joints too, so whenever he moves, they like hurt again. And also it stings when Ving does it, so that's why he's like, no, I don't want, no. I don't want, no. Ving's a little too clinical with it. Yeah. I'm back to 20. Yeah. We're doing good. Thank you.

I'm back up to 26. Hell yeah. Holy shit. You guys are basically full strength. What are you concerned about? It's the next day. Do you get fair? Child? Yeah. Nine. So I get three hold for today then, seven to nine. And you feel it's a little hard to get like the full effect of the sunrise down here because it's filtering through. Yeah. That said, it's still beautiful and glittery. It's like a palace, but made of like living ice almost.

And now you are faced with a doorway basically directly across from the entrance that you came through with about a knee high barricade of furniture. That Billy created the night before. Oh, wow. Good job, Billy. And Billy puffs those chest like, thanks. I mean, no one got in here, right? So yeah, obviously it was amazing. I bet there's so much trying to get in and then tuck goes up to it and he like very like God. Okay. Oh my God. Be careful. Don't hurt yourself. Talk.

I know you guys are faking it. I know what you're pretending. And Perel goes up to one. Of the furniture pieces and goes, no, Billy, really. It's so heavy. Oh my God. Billy puffs up his chest a bit again. He's like, okay, what the fuck did he do to this? And he flexes. It doesn't look any different. Tuck didn't realize it because he's so strong. It's like Billy like stuck it to the ground or something. Tuck just ripped it off. Billy looks back and he's like, I don't think we can fit the trunk.

Oh yeah. Tuck's been dragging the trunk this whole time. Maggie's like, finally, somebody said it. I think it's time to open the trunk. And Tuck's like, oh yeah, okay. And he smashes the lock open with his axe. Yep. Smash brittle ancient steel just shatters and the chest is openable. Oh my God. Oh boy. Dice time. Chest time. Yeah. Roll. Go ahead and roll a D 20, I guess. D 20? Finally. Holy shit. Oh wait, sorry, sorry, sorry. 3D6. 3D6. 3D6? 3D. Wow. Sum them up or what? Uh, yeah, sum them up.

Oh my God. Sum 41. 7. 8. 13. Okay. So this is interesting. So the first thing that you see is there is a sculpture made of jade. Oh. A carved sculpture of a woman on horseback. Dibs. Holding a spear and a shield. Ooh. Like charging into battle. Cool. Like a carved jade statue. Can the shield and spear be made out of ivory? Yeah, sure. So yeah, it's a small jade statue with a small ivory spear and shield, but carved with almost like lifelike intricacy. Whoa, cool. Yeah. That's very cool.

And you would estimate it to be worth roll 4D4. Uh, 7. So you would estimate, based on the fact that you guys have stolen lots of stuff and sold it, that you could probably sell this for 700 coins. Whoa! Holy shit! Wow. Based on its age and the fact that it's so beautifully carved. Uh, the other thing you find is like a really beautiful gold like necklace. It's like, it doesn't bend at all. It's like a hard piece of metal in like a half moon shape. Oh, I like those ones. Yeah. Yeah.

And it's very, again, beautifully made. Though more, maybe, rustic in its craftsmanship. But it's made of pure gold. Oh, cool. Uh, and the last thing you find is a little bag made of cloth that when you pick it up, it kind of jangles. Jangles a little bit. There's something in it? Yeah. Open it up. We'll see what's in there. You pour into your hand six obsidian coins. Oh, I get this one. Whoa! Holy mackerel. Are they all black? Yep. All black obsidian. Sick! I got six more of these things.

Oh, wow. We're definitely going to have demons soon. Does that mean I get the necklace? Yeah, you get the necklace, Billy. Oh, boy. I figured you'd get this because you were most excited about it. Oh, Billy, roll 2d6. Five. Okay. Yeah. Probably 500 coins. Okay. Wow. But, you know, mostly just a very beautifully made necklace and some coins. Can I roll for these obsidian coins to see how much they're worth? Uh, functionally valueless. Oh. And then you can see Tuck become Surly. Oh, no! I don't.

But to Tuck, they're priceless. Yeah. In that they have no price. Tuck, you can have the necklace back. No. And Billy's, like, trying to get off his fat head. No, Billy, that's yours. I am awarded with things that are as valueless as me. Whoa. No, I'm not gonna say it. That's really striking deep. I like, I like this. Yeah. Surely there's nothing to, like, glean from this chest of random valuables, is there? What do you mean?

Nah, it's just, like, we've got some valuables that were recovered in a fort and then six obsidian coins that we know to be used by a terrible secret society. Oh, shit. Do you think these belong to the Dark Guard? Well, I think that it's a little convenient if they didn't, that they're in a little pouch altogether. Holy shit. So all of this shit might have belonged to someone in the Dark Guard. Uh-oh, do you think this has Dark Guard energy? Ah, poof. Billy's, like, tugging the necklace off.

Get it off, Billy, get it off! It's getting tighter! It comes off. Yeah, it pops eventually. Ugh. So the Dark Guard was in the north? Do you think they were trying to track down Addernack, too? Mm-hmm. I mean, if I had to guess, I and I was a mercenary for a good number of years. The boys that we met in that tower, rest their souls, might have just been looters. Uh. But maybe at the behest of the Dark Guard. Okay. You know, maybe so in Discord? I don't know.

Because that's what the coins are for, right? They, like, use them to mark people that are potential subjects for possession. Right, yeah. And who better than a bunch of greedy backstabbing mercenaries? Right. Just a thought. Huh. You guys do this as a job, right? This is like your profession is adventuring? No, our profession is stupid. Alright. Well, let's go up or down in this terrible wizard's tower. Down! Uh, yeah, and you cross through a very ornately iced…

Iced doorway into what seems to be a dining room. Oh. A long banquet. Like a really, sorry, nice brass doorknob. Yeah. In, set in an ice door. Totally. In a door made of ice. It swings off on, like, hinges of ice. Like, cranking of ice, hard ice on ice. Yeah, so when you, actually, when you open it, it, like, cracks. Oh. Oh, great. And then you open it and it swings open a little smoother. And inside is, like, a big beautiful banquet table. With, like, gilt chairs. So nice in here.

And, oddly enough, plants. Like, living centerpieces. Whoa. Billy goes and tastes one to see if it's real. Well, it tastes like a flower. But, yeah, it's real. It's real. Yeah, you just eat, like, a chrysanthemum. Like, yep, that's a chrysanthemum. Tuck wants to go, like, touch the soil and see if they've been watered recently. Ooh. Actually, okay, so you reach in to touch the soil. Doink. No soil. What? Yeah. Not, not a scrap. Hydroponic. Hydroponic.

No, like, this is a beautiful holder that it's being kept in. It is made of ice. Okay. So maybe that's something to do with it. But, like, the plants have no soil. Weird. Magic this way comes. What are they rooted in? Are they just sitting in ice? They're just, they're not rooted in anything. They actually don't have roots. Hmm. Is there any dust on any of this? Um, no, because there's nothing to make dust. Oh. But you can roll to certain realities. I should have not said that.

And I shouldn't have said the flower thing. But, Tuck touched. But, so that makes sense. Yeah, 2d6 plus wisdom. Uh, 11. Okay. Three questions. Uh, everybody pick one. Okay. What here is not what it appears to be. Great. Mine's what's valuable. Who's really in control here? Great. Cool. Um, yeah, there's a banquet table. There looks to be, like, a fireplace carved out of ice. Oh, that's weird. It is weird, isn't it? Um, I mean, maybe that's what not, what is not what it appears to be.

Billy's, like, thief sense. Is like, that's weird. And then also, I bet there's a secret passage in that fireplace. Yeah, so he starts, like, rummaging. Yeah, and you feel like the smallest, most imperceptible of seams inside the fireplace. His fingers are trying to open it up a bit. Click. As it starts to slide aside. Uh, yours was… What's valuable here? What is useful or valuable to me? So, yeah, you hear the click, and you hear Billy do his, uh, his secret door gasp. And you think…

Secret door. We look at each other. Secret door. Secret door. No, it's my door. I found it first. Yes, you did. Amazing. And, uh, Tuck, you're still looking at the flowers, like, what the fuck is going on here? Yeah. And, uh, you realize with your increasing, not expertise, but canniness about the nature of magic Yeah. That it must just be, like, pure vitality keeping these things alive. Hmm. Like, it's not soil, it's not water. It's life. It's just life. There's just, life energy in these?

Just fucking coursing. Oh, cool. Absolutely pumping through this place. Okay. Oh, Perel, just easy, buddy. It's just, can you guys not feel it? I can feel it. I'm just not freaking out like you are. I'm amped up. Do your shirt back up. I gotta sit down. Tuck realizes that, and he just takes one of the plants and just starts eating it. I take an entire centerpiece out of the middle. I start eating it like a, big flowery apple. Yeah.

You, so you eat it and the wounds on your body from the books that bit you, you feel like your body, you kind of go like, ooh, it's your body like, like you just vibrate for a second. Uh-huh. And then you looked at, you feel something on your skin and you look down and the blood in your cuts is like bubbling up like it's been touched by hydrogen peroxide. Whoa. Oh, God. And, uh, you feel it like start bubbling down your arms. What the fuck? And as it bubbles away, the wound, the wounds are gone.

Oh, shit. Yeah. I want to eat one. Yeah. Oh, God. And you heal a little bit too. Huh. Pumping yourself up. So do we have a plus one? Yeah, you get plus one health. I'm maxed. You can't have more than max health. You just let me. Oh my God. He's right. I did. Okay. You get plus one. Okay. I was also at max. I'm going to take a 20. Oh, fun. Billy, what are you at? Um, I'm at 20 so I have one left. You want a bite? Oh, wait. I already ate one. Oh, yeah, you ate one. But it's not enough.

Yeah, you need to eat a whole one. Billy, you need to eat a whole one of these. Fine. And he's so upset about it because he's like, I don't want to eat a vegetable. And Perel was like looking around and was so like Billy. He hears Billy say that he doesn't want to eat a vegetable and he turns around and sees you all eating flowers out of this pot. He's like, what are you fucking doing? We're like, look, it's healing us. We're juicing.

Did we not literally just have a conversation about not ingesting magic shit? Yeah, but look what happens. And I take off the band-aid and it's all healed. I'm like, oh. Oh, in that case, if you ate it and your wounds miraculously disappeared, never mind. Billy goes, magic. And then when he does that, Tuck goes, magic. And he does jazz hands. And Bing slides in on his feet. Magic. Wow. I mean, even Maggie's eating them. I just wanted to see what it tasted like. It's kind of good.

It tastes like a lemon chicken soup. Isn't that weird? Mine tastes like garbage pizza. What? Oh, do they all have? And Perel walks up and grabs a leaf and he slowly puts it in his mouth and chews thoughtfully. That's beef stroganoff. Is it like all of our favorite foods? We got a bit of a Willy Wonka situation going on here. Bing's like, my favorite food is black licorice? That's a hard way to find that out. That's kind of embarrassing. I do love it. What was yours?

Oh, I didn't really taste anything. That tracks 100%. I tasted everything. Everything, everywhere, all at once. And then everybody suddenly remembers that Billy found a secret passage. Yeah, he's like pretty upset that no one paid attention. So he's like, I think I'm just going to go in here alone. And he starts closing the door. Wait, where's Billy? Not that anyone cares. You guys see a secret door in the fireplace start to swing shut. I jumped to put my axe in it. Defy danger dexterity. Eight.

Okay, yeah. You catch your fingers in it. You take two damage. Oh no. I have three over. You have three. Never mind. It just hurts a lot. Ow. Billy, god damn. And I think it's just like wine and cheese. Back here? Yeah. Holy shit. It's the fridge. Oh wow. Oh no, Billy found the walk-in. So Billy, you enter this darkness and you take the barest sniff and you know you're in a pantry. I'm very quiet at this point. So, he found food.

And you just see a wheel of cheese be kind of pushed towards the opening and then another wheel. And then I'm like as I push the biggest wheel. The biggest wheel. Yeah, so Billy's just, it's only wine and cheese. That's the only thing. You know, a log rolling these wheel of cheeses. And Billy's completely ignored the wine. Like, he's just pushing cheese out this door. But yeah, there's now a bunch of wheels of cheese. Tuck's eating one of the wheels of cheese.

Yeah, Billy's got a chunk and he's walking around touching more stuff. Yeah, Maggie's eating a big ol' hunk as well. Should we, is there like which, where are we going right now? Yeah, that's the thing is you don't know the layout of the tower. So you're kind of forced to explore. Bing, what direction do you think we should go? The strongest feeling was from below us. That's where it feels like I think it's where the plants are being kept alive. It's probably where this cheese was made. Okay.

Everything is coming from below us. Alright. Yeah. Can we go down? Is there a way to go down from here? Yeah, there's a bit of wandering. You find like a kitchen that just looks like a straight up like old school. Like 18th century kitchen with like big stoves and Cool. All that shit. Some of it's made of ice, some of it's not. And I call back, Guys, there's a kitchen in here. Oh, do they have like some food? I look, I start opening cupboards to see if there's food. There is a bit of food.

There's a little bit of food. Oh my gosh. Do they have turnips and apples? I actually do have turnips, yeah. There's a big, holy shit. Oh boy. Oh boy, oh boy. Oh boy. Yeah, and I walk back into like the dining room chamber and I'm like, yeah, there's like a whole bushel of really alive turnips here. Well, Billy scrambles up like a squirrel. And he like bites Tuck's hand and Tuck's like, whoa. Sorry, I know I'm excited. I haven't had a turnip in years. Do you like them raw? Yeah. Crunch.

And they're so fresh. Yeah. Oh my God. They taste so dirty. There's still dirt on them and Billy's like, yeah. This is how you know they're good. They're disgusting. Like you pulled them out of Farmer Bill's field just a couple of seconds ago and you're still running away from Farmer Bill. Yeah. That hot mud on your mouth, you know. You know the feeling. And you kind of explore a little bit more and there's like, this seems very much like it's, this is the entertaining people spot.

But you come to a door, again, made of ice with the brass doorknobs and this one is locked. Okay, I'm going to try to unlock it. Using tricks of the trade, if that's cool. Yeah, of course. Yeah. 2d6 plus dexterity? A 10. 10. Yeah, how do you unlock it? Okay. I found a key. Yeah, totally. That absolutely makes sense. I'll just take this, rolls out his. Yeah, like while I've been snacking, I've been opening everything. Every drawer, every cupboard. So I've got a lot of stuff.

You found a lot of keys. There's a lot of keys. He's just going through all of the keys he found. One of these has got to be it. One's a sour key. Yeah. Just mushes in there. Take it out, eat it. Click. Click. Door swings open and reveals a staircase carved out of the ice that it's a curving staircase and you see that like where you are on this landing, it goes up into your right and down into your left. That looks dangerous. The curving staircase? Why? Because it's made out of ice.

Most people die falling down the stairs. Oh, is that true? In this world and in ours. Yeah. People die falling down the stairs? Yes. It's the number one. It's a killer, stairs. That's the number one cause of death? In our universe and theirs. All right. Let's go down. Let's follow the energy. Yeah, very well. So you begin to walk down the stairs and you find that they are not slippery at all. Just very nicely carved ice stairs that are easy to walk down, thank God.

Probably by design or by magic. So this is nothing. Like home alone. Thankfully not. Although the wizard Kevin McAllister has come. And you get down to another door to the next landing. And the door keeps going down, but you're like, you're passing a door basically. You can go in if you want. What's in there? Creek. This looks to be more like a, like a ballroom almost. Like a ball pit? Oh, like a dancing. Like a ballroom. Oh. Like a Chuck E. Cheese ballroom? What the fuck?

I genuinely thought, it was a ball pit. Oh man. That's so fucking funny. One of us is a dad. So funny. So cute. And Tuck says, someone says, oh, it's a ballroom. And you hear Tuck like shuffle down. What? You run a ball and Lance gets it. And it does like a cannonball. Yeah, and he looks in and he's like, fuck. Fuck. This sucks. You got my hopes up for nothing, Perel. I got what? You just sounded so excited. I'm so excited. As he picks himself up from the floor. What are you talking about?

Who assumes a ball pit when they hear ballroom? We raise our hands. Everybody raises their hands. So what do you guys do? You see this big old ballroom in front of you. There's, there looks to be a piano made of ice. Wow. A few like music stands. Some tables around the sides. Can you discern realities? You absolutely can. Two V six plus wisdom. Nine. Nine. So you go. Oh, uh, uh, assist. Hey, what? Uh, yeah, go ahead and roll to the six.

I was going to say for the listeners, what they don't know is every time somebody rolls a nine, I dart my eyes between the two remaining players. 12, 12. Beautiful. Holy shit. Making it a 10. Nice. He's down low and he, uh, like, I don't know. It was like spinning around the ballroom. Looking around. I was thinking that we both, we were like, let's run a slide. Yeah. Uh, uh, spinning, spinning, sliding, taking it all in like a Google scan. Nice. So what are your questions?

Um, what here's not what it appears to be. Excellent. So, okay. So you and Billy start spinning around as you run into the middle of the room and start spinning, you grab onto each other. You're kind of twirling across the ice. We're sound of music in here. Yeah. And as you spin across the floor, music begins to swell. Whoa. A beautiful waltz just starts to play on instruments that can't be seen. And then as you, that sound. Sound of a record player. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, totally.

And then we slowed down and every time you move, it's, well, it seems like you've activated something because as you're watching this music play, as you're listening to this music, as you're watching this music play with your ears, you see, uh, it looks like for a second, you're like, are there other people dancing here? And you see two exact copies of Ving and Billy. Yeah. Yeah. And then you realize on the floor. Whoa.

They kind of come from the ground up like boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop being built. And as this is happening in front of you, this sort of like printing thing, like strands from the bottom up, you see like strands of bone and flesh, like knitting themselves. Oh my God. Like in the fifth element. Kind of. Yeah. Yeah. There's like two people being built in front of you. Holy shit.

And then as tuck Maggie and Perel are standing there across the room from them, their mirror three people that look like tuck Maggie and Perel, they're dancing partners come to being across the room and they start at least the two that, uh, you guys are mirrored are dancing with each other. And you see the tuck Maggie and Perel mirrors start to walk over to you three. Okay. Tuck waves. He's like, hi, tuck. Hi tuck. Whoa. Cool. Oh yeah, buddy. That's awesome. It is awesome. Cool. Yeah.

Hi, I'm thing. Hi, I'm thing. I don't like this place. I like it a lot. Oh, I don't, I don't like what's going on here. I love it. Says little Billy. No you don't. Yeah, I do. I want to dance. I don't want to dance, but I want to dance. And Billy starts backing out of the room. I want to dance. I don't want to dance with you. And he pulls a little knife out. I pull my little knife out. Yeah. And the big tuck pulls. His ax off his back. I pull up my spear.

And Maggie draws her sword and Perel holds his hands up and goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What does the other Perel do? He backs away. He's like, whoa, no, no, no, no. And they attack. Oh shit. Yeah. What do you do? Um, can I, uh, use an ear for magic to figure out what's going on? Yeah. So tuck brain. We go back to the mind palace. Yeah. And we're like, we're going to the pizza hut on fourth or whatever. Yeah.

There's a tuck wearing a pizza hut uniform, holding a hot, fresh tray of Hawaiian baby. And tuck takes a slice of it and he's like, what the fuck is going on here? Well, it's like a dance, right? Yeah. So maybe this place is made to like make a dance partner for guests, but if you're not a guest, then your dance partner is actually the bouncer. Oh shit. So if you're supposed to be at a party in this room, it seems like this place creates a dance partner for you as like a fun little gag.

Oh, okay. But if you're not invited. Then the thing it creates is to get you out of here. Oh yeah. Okay. Okay. And then tuck talks to the other tech and he's like, do you think it is related to the music that started when they started the thing? That sounds like you're trying to get two answers for one question, bro. And then tucks like, fuck, why don't I have more mental capacity for this? Yeah. He's like, yeah, you're right. My brain is tired of thinking now. Yeah.

I had to guess as you're leaving the sit down pizza hut. If I had to guess, I think it's probably not on theme and the door swings shut. Okay. And you're back in the ballroom, your dance partners attack. What do you do? I dance. I like, I grab him. I move his energy. I started doing like Tai Chi. Yeah, totally. Like a fight with honor and like kind of doing a fight dance. Oh yeah, absolutely. This is a real, um, like capoeira sort of situation. Yeah.

I was thinking more like in that old music video when they are like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like have knives and their hands are tied together, like beat it or whatever it is. Yeah. Pretty cool. Yeah. So V comes at me and I, uh, I beat it. Wow. And he stops. I'm just going to put the A plus B stops dead in his tracks and he's like, no way bro. That's awesome.

Uh, yeah. So go ahead and roll. This is a fight with honor. Yes. Wow. Great. I got 12. Okay.

That's a whole shit ton of holds spend one yes I would love to I guess I just want to distract him by dancing like twirling him around and then I'll leap over across a physical obstacle and like we're in a real sense there's a real sense of danger in this room I'm trying to get that feeling too or is it no I honestly can't tell like the vibe of stuff because it was very friendly yeah it was very friendly at first and then it turned sinister yeah but it was because we turned sinister that's why I'm wondering if we go back to dancing that's why I wanted to dance it's a great question that is a that is a good theory to oh wait you get one more question oh yeah what's about to happen so what's about to happen is you notice as you like lunge at your dance partner he is pulling away from you it seems like ving is the only one that's not being attacked but he's the only one that's trying to dance right now guys start dancing really yeah dance okay and tuck uh did you guys realize you've never seen tuck try to actually dance oh my god I can't dance uh he goes uh you see him like do the weird like white guy dance or it's like okay are you biting your lip uh okay roll 2d6 plus charisma I guess that's really all dancing is yeah arms up doesn't matter if you're good at dancing just it matters if you believe you're good at dancing 13 wow yeah so you start doing like your your mirror like pulls his mirror larry terry and chad down from his back and is like dance bro and tuck's like I am dancing and he does like one of those ladder moves he's like can you do one of these then he starts bobbing his head a little bit and then tuck goes dance competition bro oh my god and he puts the axe back on his back and he's like you're fucking on bro you!

And just starts like breaking it down in front of you but with the exact level of skill that tuck has so it looks like shit you get to see how bad of a dancer you are yeah it looks terrible tuck is like he he could feel an explosion of embarrassment in his chest when he's like oh my god no that's what I've always looked like it's like when elaine videotapes herself yeah but the you is having a grand old time and keeps dancing away and then tucks like he's does it starts doing body rolls and he has not practiced them billy what do you do uh billy does billy ever dance like not really I've never seen billy dance billy like stops and he like tucks his knife away and then he's like is there a snack table there is a snack table you're gonna love it quick while everybody's dancing let's go wait sorry you I gotta make you roll that's okay so 2d6 plus charisma eight eight okay perfect uh so you run over with uh the mirror you who's like tripping over himself trying to get to the ice tables at the back and he uh it's like listening to two bowling balls smash their ladder across the floor that sound effect of the bull on strike yeah there's one of those insane strike videos on the tv above uh and he climbs up on the table's like come on up here I'm never that agile slowly up he's like oh come on he doesn't know what kind of snacks are on the table maybe yeah and he's like I'm so tired and then he opens his eyes and what does he see it's like meats and cheeses and there's gravy for gravy everything fresh fruit and hot chocolate yeah hot chocolate and you can tell this billy even immediately avoids the meat uh-huh and you're like oh fuck he is a copy of me because he's like going straight for like vegetables and fruits and cheeses and shit like that and then he goes right for the gravy that's my boy but there's something that you notice just before hurricane billy 2 right hits the snack table what is it it looks like someone ate some of this food ving what do you do um I start going to uh perel and maggie and like grabbing them and twirling them around you when you force somebody to dance yeah so I'm grabbing them as a music partner and maggie tries really hard she's stumbling around and she's like I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this a little bit and her copy looks really mad when she stumbles and then maggie's like stop stop stop stop I know what to do and she listens for the beat for a little bit and she hooks her thumbs into the belt of her pants oh my god she starts square dancing oh no and the other one lines up it's a line dance they're doing a line dance oh wow and it took like ashamed for maggie averts his eyes because for him it's like seeing his aunt like totally at like like dirty old johns or whatever what's that bar called big bad johns big bad johns yeah you see somebody in your family and big bad johns you're having a bad night oh god uh and perel you see perel has walked up to the copy of himself he's got a whole routine extreme swing dancing like oh yeah between each other's legs I thought you were gonna say like napoleon dynamite oh I mean oh yeah but like like tag teaming it yeah it's it's definitely a uh routine that he has memorized that his copy was just given and he's like yes finally uh but ving remains the matter of what do you do oh yeah um uh he starts going through all different movements of animals he's going through like oh yeah dancing like a caterpillar he's swinging around and like moving his little butt um then yeah you copy you goes through the exact same thing and then you're like oh my god I'm gonna do this animal movements mirrors them perfectly or complements them perfectly it predicts kind of what you would have wanted to go with a specific move and executes it flawlessly and abdul's been dancing this whole time it should be said abdul's been dancing for like 10 minutes so much energy and uh as tuck thinks I can't possibly continue this much cardio for this long what he actually thinks is I don't think I can handle watching myself embarrass myself for this long and in his head tuck is like maybe I have to kiss him to make him go away wow okay roll 2d6 plus wisdom oh the thing I have negative one on yeah three three uh so you think oh my god I think I definitely have to kiss this version of myself so you see tuck's dance become a lot less elaine from seinfeld and a lot more magic mike he starts like what like rubbing his chest and the copy mimics you exactly but has like a oh kind of look on his face and is gyrating around and you get closer and closer he reaches out to you I reach out to him you pull each other close you've never felt this close to another man I yeah I kiss him and just as your lips are like a millimeter away from touching the song ends and he backs away and he's like oh my god I can't do this and he's like oh my god I can't do this and he's like oh my god I can't do this and he's like oh my god and he bows and a tuck also bows but his you can tell that his hands are in front of his crotch and all of the copies back away billy your little snack buddy backs away with like handfuls of snacks and bows dropping a bunch billy bows his head and ving backs away and gives you a very delicate bow I nod and uh maggie and parell's both that parell one has tears in his eyes and the maggie one's gotta look in her face and he's like oh my god I can't do this I can't do this that says you goddamn son of a bitch you did it again parell's one puts a finger on parell's lips he's walking away no I just want don't speak and then they they melt into the floor and they disappear and then tuck looks around to see if anyone's I'm trying to make out with himself billy's just looking around and inspecting the food really closely billy looks very detective like he's got his magnifying glass out he's just got his little deerstalker cap on like what foods did they eat the meats and cheeses okay um oh wait no discern realities what am I fucking thinking oh six well somebody can aid billy for sure I can yeah I can go over and because I noticed that billy was looking pretty detective-y over there great and I'm like ving I think billy found something nine perfect yeah so that makes yours a seven to nine which means you get one question from discern realities what happened here recently what happened here recently uh you noticed when the books came alive that you felt like buzzing in the air almost like just a little kind of ozony like electrification kind of vibe I feel like it was from like the bottom up like from her feet up like yeah like that vitality is coming from oh yeah the ice and you felt a similar feeling when you ate the flowers and you felt a similar feeling in this room when the the copies uh when the dance partners appeared yeah when tuck was about to kiss himself no yeah we should talk about his hands it's okay I thought that that was the only way to get rid of them is it that's a bold jump I thought you had to kiss them and if that wasn't gonna work I was gonna try and fuck them I would go so far for this family you don't want to know how far I'll take this but you realize that you actually felt it during the time that you were in the room and you felt like you were in the room and you felt like you were in the room and you felt like you were in the room and you felt like your watch like the night before you felt that like which leads you to believe that these canapes are also a spell basically that someone activated last night oh so someone else might be in here with us someone watching us who's really in control here oh yes finally because you still had one more left over right I did fuck yeah you're god damn it I shouldn't have asked you that second question that third question uh so you look around and everyone is now now that billy's like something's up because you guys know billy's senses are near supernatural um and he's near food which doubles doubles the range and efficacy of his senses so whenever billy's like something's up everybody goes on high alert and you're looking around this room and you get to a part of the floor because like the dance floor is kind of ice and tile like it's a very nice place to be and you're like oh nice like mosaic kind of pattern cool but uh ving you're looking down at the mosaic and through the ice you see a shadow move one floor down two floors down you're not sure but something below you moves there's somebody down there and tuck takes his axe and tries to smash through the floor okay 2d6 plus strength okay nine and okay sorry and but I I also used an ear for magic and I get a plus one forward okay so you raise the mighty larry terry and chad into the sky above you and you bring it down with a huge crash a roar and as you're doing that you like make this connection you're like it's going to try and heal itself and sure enough you smash through the floor and immediately it starts knitting back together so you just hammer and hammer and hammer cool and you you cut through it you'll be able to get through to the next floor for sure but you guys are gonna have to rush because this ice is like filling in behind tuck billy bolts for the stairs and you're like oh my god I'm gonna oh you're gonna head them off at the door to the room below smart smart smart billy thing follow me yep six shitty this is my aid okay yeah go for it too six bond yeah slide down the stairs oh lord I get six as well oh lord tuck you like crash through the floor yeah superhero landing yeah slam into the ground and you see on the other side of the room the door slam shut fuck you are in a chamber of this looks more like a workspace than anywhere else you've been what's what's around me roll discern realities uh okay eight eight so you get one question what just happened here what happened here recently yeah someone you see like a little like glass it looks like a candle made of ice that like has been placed on a table also made of ice that is like refracted and amplified some light at a workbench and there's like books open and like a quill in a pot of ink but the book has been knocked over oh so they left here really quick so I grabbed that candle because it tuck can't tell if it's important or not and he grabs the book and then he runs after the person yeah totally uh billy and ving you both failed yeah um so you're just stuck at the door for a while as billy tries all the keys because the door locked behind you when the when the trap activated it locked behind you hurry hurry hurry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry we're fighting each other for the keyhole the keys keep falling and uh perel's like go go go go go go go but uh maggie tuck you hear like a pat like on the ground behind you and maggie's landed in this like cat stance basically oh and she comes sprinting after you nice uh and you guys hit a locked door tuck kicks it okay 2d6 plus strength fuck you wizard nine nine um so you kick it off the ice hinges for sure I still have the book that I took and the candle which one do you drop oh the candle wrong choice fucker no way uh and the candle you actually kick the door so hard and like slam into the rubble behind it that the the candle shatters in your hand it cuts me up a lot I mean it's it's ice so it does poke you pretty fucking hard okay but uh you hear like another door slam below you just as billy and ving burst through the door one level up oh yeah ving backs up the other side of the room and he's like I'm just gonna ram in then I just start like train running out of that with my shoulder as billy like I got it why right into the door uh and you guys are gonna tuck and maggie are going to be alone for the immediate whatever happens next but you will catch up um and yeah you keep going down the stairs yeah I pursue hard because it's we've been in danger too many times and someone else is in here pulling these strings and tuck he got really mad scared mad he got scared mad that his family was in danger and he also got like idiot mad that a smart person was like was bullying him with their knowledge and embarrassed mad that somebody else saw him smooch himself yeah and also ashamed mad that he had to watch himself and his terrible dancing and apparently all these years he thought he was a good dancer it was a bad dancer all of these years all of these years all these many many years everything is going through tuck's head he's like how dare you make me watch myself dance and uh you get down to these doors the doors are locked billy has the keys tuck just barrels through the runs yeah two to six plus strength again 10 okay yeah bang this one doesn't shatter you just like slam it open through you break whatever lock but the door itself is still intact and you enter into a wide circular chamber ringed by shelves and on the shelves are a variety of objects that have no discernible connection there's some crates in one corner and then like a glass orb a vial with a single rose in it a glove a mask and tuck walks up and he grabs the glass orb and then he yells if you don't come out right now I'm starting to smash this shit and man he's like I'm gonna kill you I'm gonna kill you I'm gonna kill you I'm gonna kill you I'm gonna kill you I'm gonna kill you I'm gonna kill you I'm gonna kill you I'm gonna kill you I'm gonna kill you and she goes tuck no I put it down no I'm done tuck it's gonna kill us I don't fucking care wait no yes I do wait it's gonna kill us you're like holding it like what don't you see what this is you lunatic what this is the vault put it down and then tuck uh realizes that he might be holding the magical equivalent of a nuclear bomb and he's like okay puts it down okay all right let's just wait for the others I feel like whoever we were chasing they outplayed us we shouldn't have come in here this is dangerous and billy and ving you arrive at the door that has been broken and tuck is gingerly putting a glass orb back on a shelf and actually perel walks through the door because he's like I'm gonna get there first oh my god I'm an adventurer too and he gets through the door and he kind of stops and goes whoa what like he gets light-headed like he almost falls over he's like oh I grab him what's going on magic is everywhere and he's like immediately drawn to the shelves and starts picking his way through whoa ving feels very spread thin here oh right because you're all spirit guy yeah so the magic is like fucking with you yeah does billy feel anything yeah this is like an old like font of power and uh billy tries to push perel away from the shelves yeah and he like kind of absent-mindedly like nudges you out of the way no no not yet he close he snaps himself out of it we're not ready for that yet okay okay can I go into shadow world yeah will that do anything I don't know I want to find this person yeah totally midnight waltz bring somebody else oh oh should I bring should I bring perel you could bring perel yeah how many fairy holds you have left because remember you have to use two three okay yep so you'd be really running yourself ragged if there are any super dangerous things I'm scared you can just use your eyes too you know you can peep around yeah but we haven't discerned realities in here yet it's true but also it's a cool fucking it is very cool and I don't trust because I'm like we've we've been discerning realities all over this place yeah yeah I feel like I need to see through everything totally absolutely makes sense uh so for the listener if you haven't heard the level up uh billy has a new move called midnight waltz um when he uses shadow dance for every additional fairy hold he spends he can bring someone or something with him perel do you want to come with me yeah it's gonna feel weird and you have to hold on to me you can't let go okay all right billy I trust you nine so I'll spend two of my fairy child to bring perel with me yeah but because of the because I got a nine I only get one hold yeah totally so you enter the fairy from this place what does it look like it is light and shadow like a lot of light and it's very geometric ish looking just because of like how like all the sharp angles of the ice there's a lot of magic in here there's a lot of magic so it's probably not a lot of fairies yeah there's no fairies I'm the only one and it's very like echoey because it's so empty to me yeah yeah oh cool yeah like really I'm just seeing the ice and like you guys yeah maybe ving's faint ving is very faint you're the faintest of all what do I look like um you just look like like I like billy's just like that that's a shadow but it's warm like warm in like in terms of like his emotions oh nice can you see the the shards in my chest um yes those are dark oh cool like dark like like it's like sucks in light you know yeah little black holes and with my hold I just want to like try to talk to whoever it is or find them yeah so identify them somehow it's a very confusing feeling because you know someone is in here you can feel it yeah like you can count the presences in this room and you know there's at least one more but you can't see them perl can you see them and you look over at perl's like spirit fairy form he's glowing like a star holy shit like he is just brilliant right perl can you see who's here perl is unresponsive can you hear me I see everything and he's like extending his arms like he's basking in this energy that he's feeling and you see that his fairy form is growing brighter and brighter but dangerously bright uh-oh you can tell that this is too much okay um I'm sorry perl I have to let you go I am the universe and I let him go and he slams back into his body and he's just like what happened you were convulsing yeah what he maybe he comes to and like like we're doing cpr yeah ving's got his fingers in his mouth to keep him from biting his tongue I put my wallet in his mouth yeah barack is president but he like he spits out your hand and the wallet and he gets up and he starts like wandering kind of side to side looking at the shelves what happened in there perl are you okay I just and he holds up his hands and he billy you see this like you see his form get up like the body kind of through the mist and I follow him and he's like I'm not gonna let you go I'm not gonna let him yeah and he's leading you to one section of the shelf and you're feeling this pulse like okay there's someone else here there's someone else here but your body's also like or your mind logically is like this doesn't make sense and it looks like he's walking towards a rolled up piece of fabric what so I touched the fabric and perl like I can't really feel anything you can't feel anything but as you reach out you see perl reach out like in sync with you okay and he grabs this rolled up piece of fabric it's probably about a piece of fabric and he's like I can't feel anything I can't feel anything I can't feel anything I can't feel anything I can't feel anything I can't feel anything I can't feel anything a meter wide and he unrolls it and he's like god is back to all of you but you just hear him say morris and he like turns and he's looking at a portrait of like a rugged older like maybe 60s kind of squat burly man with mutton chop sideburns but no mustache or beard holy shit long gray hair and you're looking at this portrait of him looking very regal and the portrait blinks and that's where we're gonna end it for this week holy shit I'm your game master Sean O'Hara thank you for joining me joining me as always playing tacoma dome the barbarian abdulaziz wow holy shit playing ving the half-elf druid paul hoppers haunted painting playing fat billy the halfling thief jessica wow exciting thank you to aaron reed for our intro and outro music you can find aaron's original music at aaronreed.bandcamp.com and all of the songs produced for the show written by abdul and myself very occasionally myself and performed by aaron reed at uh soundcloud just search Spout Lore I would say the best song was written by you oh please terry not so good you're too kind you wrote the the druid and the drowned man it was yeah terry not's like a real song that you would hear in the witcher and that is my benchmark for what good music I would say that is all aaron he made that song so fucking cool we should we should listen to all those songs while we eat chicken yeah chicken and that's right to victoria's chicken world and thank you to me for ordering chicken world thank you to abdul and congratulations you guys did a good enough job at this episode that I will let you eat this chicken thank you and I won't throw it directly into the garbage in front of you like I do every episode that you don't do a good enough job thank you sir thank you thank you to the the the chickens for 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ends the tale of adventures three who tried the best they can though dumb and scared and lost they be for times abreast in revelry and though our journey may be like a conclusion we will not leave you without a resolution return next week to hear some more whilst you commute or do your chores and for you I'd gladly you!