Episode 7 – You’re Thinking About The End, And the Lie That Waits There For You

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. Hello everybody and welcome to Spout Lore. I'm your game master Sean O'Hara. Joining me as always playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian Abdulaziz. Hello everybody, I'm gonna fucking kill Colm Blackhammer. Playing Ving the Half-Elf Druid Paul Hoppers. I'm probably gonna fail at killing Colm Blackhammer.

And playing Fat Billy the Halfling Thief Jessica Tai. I'm probably gonna die trying to kill Colm Blackhammer. We're like running through, we're running through a fucking war. And we're just holding you together with our hands. Yeah. How much of me is knife right now? It's 33%. No way, that's a lot. That's so much knife. When last we left our heroes they had in earnest entered a battlefield. A war between the High Spear and Riverways Principality which we have called the Alliance.

Which is such a tropey name. It's a cool name. The Coalition. Ew. Okay, the Union, no not the Union. I feel like no one was ever called the Union. Well except during the Civil War. Oh right, American history is quite fra- Uh, the Alliance is fine. Yeah. If I decide a cooler name. I think this is a conversation that happens a lot. Oh yeah. Should we call ourselves the Alliance? It's pretty rote at this point. There's been a lot of alliances.

When history looks back on this will they know they're talking about us? I mean what are we aligning with? Just us? Yeah we're just what, we're allying together? That's stupid. Frankly. I think we're coalitioning more than we're allying. Guys there's potstickers in the main room. Holy shit, potstickers. They keep running out of those. Uh, they entered a battlefield between the Riverways and the High Spear Principality and the Firefields.

On the field of battle, Colm Blackhammer of the Blackhammer Twins, one of the Princeps of the Firefields. Billy Tuck and Ving did a whole bunch of really cool fantasy fighting posing. To varying levels of success. Hey. Paul, you're so mad about the outcome of last one. Man, the dice tell a story. That's true. You know, and sometimes that story is a ha ha. Ha ha. Welcome to Flopsville. But the party did manage to take down a war machine. We've just been calling them mechs.

I think that's the shorthand that people use in the war. But it's M-A-C-H. War Machine. Oh man. Because it's the shorthand. Oh man. Because it's the shorthand part. Oh, mechs. Yeah, mechs. Oh, I like that. That's cool. They're called mechs. I like that. Oof. Because then it's also kind of Celtic. Yeah. They took down a mech, basically on there, a big mech. Oh, big mech. Big mech. It's bad now. It sucks now. They took down a mech, mostly by themselves, helping turn the tide of battle.

And through some flat rolls, the battle turned in favor of the alliance, which is incredible. Taking this opportunity to really grab the battle by the balls, Tuck charged Colm Blackhammer of the Blackhammer Twins. Because he ran away from me, and it activated my bully instinct to chase. Tuck tried so hard to use his new move, Demonize, to find out if there was demonic influence on the field, and it caused Colm to flee.

Billion Vang followed Tuck, stopping Colm and engaging in a battle with the basically power armor wearing warlord, and he fucking mopped the floor with you guys. He was like Batman in Batman Vs. Batman. Batman in Batman Vs. Superman. Yeah, where he's gotta wear the anti-Superman suit. Yeah. Yeah, totally. The fight was cool. It was very cinematic. We discovered that the demonic influence was not from Colm, but from his sword. Yeah.

Billy and Vang, both at different times, held the blade and were filled with cold animal rage, and a lust for battle. This was planted, this blade planted like a sapling in the shoulder of Colm Blackhammer, which seemed to damage, but not dismay him. He removed the blade, and Billy switcherooed it, which was a great move, choosing to charge Colm, was stopped dead in his tracks, and stabbed in the chest with a steak knife. And it was at this point that the two dads decided the fight was over.

It was one of those moments on the playground where you're just like, no, we're done. We're going home. We're done. And I'm arguing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And Tuck disabled Colm's armor by destroying the steam engine on the back of it. Yeah. I used a scrap of ass. Yeah. To fight dirty and escape, leaving Colm in his immobilized armor, laughing maniacally, saying he can't wait to do this again. And you ran off into the night, holding your bleeding son. And that is where we find our heroes now.

Are we still running? Yes. We got to get back to Hither and Yon. It's the safest place, right? Toilet. Yeah. Are you going back to the outhouse? We'll have to run through the remnants of a battle to go through there. It's the closest door, right? Totally. That's probably just where you're running. Yeah. Not even thinking. Yeah. And you come up this hill that you chased Colm down. I'm rolling a flat check. I'm rolling 2d6 and then I'm adding modifiers based on the battle's conditions.

You get pluses to these flat checks depending on how you succeed and help the fight. Plus one because you took down the Mac, plus one because Colm fled. So 2d6 plus two. 2d6 plus two to see how this is going for the Alliance forces up here. Okay. Hey, that's a 10. Nice. Hell yeah. You come up the hill and they are mopping up the last, like a lot of them have fled. You're like running past people.

It's like that Tom Cruise, War of the Worlds thing where everyone's running away from danger and you're running towards it. So you're passing people that are just fleeing. They've thrown down their weapons. Officers are like yelling at people, trying to get them rallied back up. And you hear, all right, sharp boys, time to fall back. Archers, come on. Archers do your thing. I don't know why he says it like that, but he does.

And you hear a twang, twang, twang, twang, twang, twang, twang, and a rush of arrows as the absolute fucking sharpshooters of the Riverways Archers just clean out a bunch of guys. Yeah. These are guys that can like shoot arrows at fish kind of thing. Yeah, exactly. And it looks like the field of battle is one. You hear cheering as the Alliance forces see the last of their foes run down the hill and they see you coming up the hill. What do you do? I don't give a fuck about them.

I'm going to the outhouse. So a bunch of people like start rushing up to you, like cheering as you bowl through them. I push their face into the ground. Yeah. I just go fuck off. And you run towards this almost destroyed outhouse. The door is just hanging there. I close the door and stick my key in whatever closest thing there is to a keyhole. Oh, maybe it's like as you put the key towards the knob, like a lock forms. Oh, cool. And you click, click, open, hither and yon. Pile in.

Pile in, door closes, shutter slam. You are safe. That's so cool. That's awesome. That's so sick. The shutter slamming. It's like a spaceship is like. Oh yeah, totally. Yeah. Yeah. The blast door is closing. Yeah. Yeah. And Morrison, Perel and Mears are here. Ving just clears off the bar. Drinks food. Everything smashes it to the ground. Mears is like, I'm going to the bar. Yeah. And he goes, whoa. Throw Billy down. And he goes, whoa. I'm fine. Don't even worry about it. I'm still mostly boy.

Sure, I'm a little knife. That's okay. A little bit of knife. We could have fought. I'm fine. I'm still mostly boys. Billy, you are still in your winter form. Yeah. So I think there is like the bar starts to open. Starts to frost over where Billy is placed on it, melting only because his blood warms the frost. Is Billy fighting back the negative influences of winter? I mean, Billy is just like, why are we leaving? There's still so much left to do out there.

Billy, there's a time when even the strongest warrior has to run, and that time is when he has a steak knife sticking out of his fucking chest. But I'm no more important than the rest of them out there. You're 30% knife right now, Billy. You gotta let us take it out of you. I'll take it out then. No, no, no, no, no, no. What does Billy do? He takes it out. Whoa, and he starts bleeding. Ving puts a pulse down, does whatever he can to strap and tuck.

Billy is doing a defy danger to remove the blade without killing himself. Dexterity? 11. Okay. You know, I've done this before. Yeah, he's pulled blades out of himself plenty of times. So he like wiggles it out. It's frozen. So maybe in the same way that it would cauterize, it's frozen. It's like a frozen. Yeah. So it won't gurgle as much blood. Yeah, but there's still like a slushy red blood like rising in his chest. It'll be fine. Yeah, it will be fine.

With this poultice that I use, Ving uses. So Billy just heals seven damage, but it will take, you know, a few hours. We have time. Yeah. And Mears is like, what happened out there? Tech guys, we won a war. We won the whole war, guys. He has no idea the scale of the conflict. Ving's specifically picturing the entire field. Yeah, all the tents we saw. The scope of the war. Yeah. We got in there. We fucking killed the mech. We fucking fucked up. Culling Blackhammer. War's done.

This is when Ving starts to clock that maybe Tuck needs a poultice as well. Yeah. Uh-oh. Sorry, Gibbous Man. Did we destroy your war and save the High Spirit? Maybe try harder next time not to be a little dildo. This is what PTSD does to somebody with weaponized dissociation. Tuck is actively passing out, it sounds like. Yeah. He is shutting down in front of the fire. Like, he sat down in a chair and is just falling asleep. Like Abdul hanging out with a friend.

Thanks for the pizza chicken, Jessica. So, Billy, you are wrapped in bandages and given a poultice, and you're just… Being asked to lie on the table for a while. What are we doing now? I want to ask Perel and Morris about the sword. Um, well, I personally have not had much experience with enchanting. I think it is a coward's art. Um, I think you either make a thing good or you don't. You don't have to make a magic thing, but that's beside the point. Are you jealous, Perel?

I would not be jealous in a million years. Making swords is for babies and apprentices. Um, anyway… Morris, do you know anything? One of my exes was an enchanter. Oh. We don't really need to get into it now, but, um, he's quite jealous. Uh, but it sounds like instead of… I mean, again, I am a spatial thaumaturge, but it sounds like instead of using a coin to possess a person, this sword has been constructed to possess whoever bears it?

And Tuck comes up and he's like, I think Colm might have been a warlock. What makes you say that? I don't know. I felt something around him. It was like he was talking to the sword. When he saw me, he was listening to something. And then he ran away. Whoa. Interesting. And if what you say about the wound that Ving dealt him is true, it had no effect on him? Very little. Interesting. Yeah, those things are so fucking sharp. It went through steel until it reached his flesh. Wow.

And he like leans back on his stool. That is an interesting theory. What do you guys know about warlocks? Can I roll? Uh, yeah, 2d6 plus intelligence to Spout Lore. Can someone else roll? You don't get to do that. You asked if you could. Minus two? I have minus one. Oh, yeah, okay. We can't help you. Maybe mine. You can aid and stuff. Aid and stuff? Oh, God. Yeah, we can aid. I know stuff. I know I know stuff. Come on, Tuck. You know you know stuff sometimes. Whoa, look at how much you know.

Six. Whoa. Uh, yeah, I'll aid. 2d6 plus bond. Mm-hmm. 11. 11? So that's a seven to nine. Seven to nine. Yeah. So a warlock is someone who attempts to serve an icon and by doing so takes on an aspect of their power. Yeah. But retains their individuality. He's a warlock warlord. Oh, yeah. That makes so much more sense. Tuck says, these words are the same. So it has to be true. Bing, you're so smart. I know. Where do you think I got these glasses?

Morris is like, so remind me again what you felt when you held the blade? Blind animal rage from every species I've ever seen. I've never felt. Blind rage. Billy, what did you feel? Yeah, rage. Like it just took over and like I wanted to kill him. The only thing that could fill the insatiable emptiness in my heart was somebody else's blood. Hmm. And I didn't wield it. So I don't know. Hmm. So that sounds like an icon for sure. Which one specifically? I can't say. I have theories.

Does your theory in the book? No. Involve it maybe being rage? Well, that's an emotion. That's not a human concept. Oh. Everything feels rage. War, battle, conquest. Okay. But I would guess it's one of those probably. And especially if he is waging a war, it would make sense that he would make a deal with an icon that would be able to help him do such and that the creation of more situations in which war or battle could flourish would give him more power. Well, at least there's two of them.

Oh, fuck. Right. His fucking brother. They're working in tandem. Yes. Who knows what his weapon is? Oh, yeah. He could have a magical clipboard full of all sorts of powers. Yeah. Or magical pair of like nerd glasses or something. Oh, yeah. He could have binoculars to see our weaknesses. Oh. Don't worry. I'll cut that out. Magic. Magic. Magic. Magic. Magic. Magic. Magic. Magic. Magic. Magic. There's a ton of magical binoculars to see your weakness. I like it. It is kind of a cool idea.

It's also a really funny that you said that. All right. Well, I can't deny that my mind is mostly on the fact that our fanny pack has been left in the wind. But we have to get to the Hyspia. Perry and I. So we can do our part. What is your plan with the Hyspia. We're going to investigate it however we can and attempt to use the equipment there to. There. Do something wizard-like magic. And he starts twiddling his fingers in front of you. You have no idea. I mean, I've got some ideas.

I escaped from an extra plane or space. I escaped from the trap that was set for all wizard kind. Yeah. Do we remember what the original thought we had for them coming here was? I thought they were going to boost it and then bring all the wizards back. That was their thought, is they might be able to use the sort of broadcasting technology to connect with the people that are stuck in other spaces, the wizards that have been trapped. He's hoping, because it is going to be a great undertaking.

It is like… It'll take a long time. A long time. Maybe months of work. So they got some road ahead. But you need the fanny pack for this. We do. That's all of our fucking equipment is in the fanny pack. We actually can't go to the high spear unless we have that stuff. Why can't we go back straight to the fanny pack? Because it is in an extra plane or space and it is hard, almost impossible to connect two extra plane or spaces like that. It's like um… What's a good way?

It's like connecting two fishing lines under the water with two different rods. What if we try? Can we roll for it? We could certainly try. Yeah, Mir said that he was like getting better at like making the bar do what he wanted. Yeah, that's true. And if it if Hither and Yon has connected to the fanny pack before, then it might have that sort of like a taste for it. Yeah. Got the scent. Would a communion of whispers do any good in this liminal space reaching out to the whispers of the other?

Uh… You might be able to connect to… You think you might be able to connect to the Hither and Yon, but it could be a way to try and be like hey, could you please go back to our fanny pack? That's a good idea. Or a way that you could get there, like it could give you an option. I'm gonna do it. Alright. I'm gonna commune with the whispers of the Hither and Yon. Roll plus wisdom. Ten. Nice. Okay. Yeah. So what is the vision here? You reach out to the Hither and Yon.

Do you connect with like a… I don't think it's quite like a spirit like you've spoken to in the past. Like it doesn't have a personage really, but you have this overwhelming sense of like… You know when you get into bed and you just wash the sheets? You just dried them. You just put them on the bed. That like ooh settling in feeling. Yeah. You get an overwhelming feeling of hospitality. I like this.

And that they're also you're cozy and quiet and safe, but there's a big friendly party happening downstairs in the house. Yeah. Oh, the sound of a party in an adjacent room. Yeah. And you reach out to that feeling. And what is the vision that… Because I'm honestly, Sean O'Hara is not sure how this would work. So let's talk about it. What if Francis and Victor are like waiting at the door? At the guest door. Oh. Like he's like pawing at it. He's doing the dog thing. Yeah.

They're both doing the dog thing. Uh-huh. And they're trying to work together now. Like they fought for a while. Yeah. But they're like we both want the same thing. They fought for a while and then got sad that no one was watching them. And Victor was going… It's quite alright old boy. They'll be back in no time. It's just that what if their pathetic nature causes them to come to harm? And I, in my greatness, are not there to save them. They are so weak. And pathetic.

I just can't bear to think about all of the ways they can fail when I am not there. Where they are, hither and yon, there is my home. It is a place of safety. A place of comfort. They will not come to harm when within its walls… And then Victor starts to cry. And then Francis licks the tears off of him. And he licks and goes Don't cry old friend. Don't cry old boy. Don't cry old boy, old chap. Stiff upper lip. Stiff upper lip. Hello. What's all this then? He's like okay. I will be strong.

And he starts bawling at the bottom of the door. And that is the vision that Ving is filled with. He's bawling his eyes out. And you're like no. What I need more than anything is to get those animals somewhere safe. You have to help me hither and yon. Please. Oh you funnel the need that you get from them into the bar. You supercharge the need. So you connecting with them with that vision, your need creates like one side and their need creates the other side.

The fishing line in the water is drawn to the other fishing line. Doot doot doot doot. And they dock. Yeah. And you hear downstairs like where is Ving doing this? There's a hammock upstairs. Oh and he's just chilling in a hammock. And he's in the room that his key is for. Tuck and Billy are on the ground. Tuck is like cross-legged. In the room? Yeah. He's making sure Billy stops like picking the poultice out of his word. Yeah. You guys strap me to a cutting board.

He keeps eating it because there's molasses in there. Yeah. You ever had a cone on? Billy. Yeah. Oh that's what it is. We put a cone on you. He's got a cone. You keep getting stuck in corners. Yeah. Help me! And you hear a crash downstairs. An absolute just slamming. And there's a bunch of stuff getting knocked over and you hear Mears go, oh I'm so glad! I'm so glad! Yay! Francis! And he runs up and like you can hear thumping and crashing. And you go, oh Mears! Young lad, my chap, Master Mears!

I'm so happy to see you again! Victor comes in and doesn't see us and just assumes that we're murdered. Yeah. They've perished! I am too late to save them! I know! Wait a second. I smell little boys and he runs upstairs. I smell little boys. Say that a different way. I smell little boys. Sean O'Hara. Cut that! Why is there an S on that? From the show. That's a new fan favorite. Wait a second. I smell sticky. I smell blood? No! And you charge.

And cramming his way through this hallway, you see the massive shoulders and head of Victor pop into the door. Oh! Thank the moon! And he pushes his way into the room. And he starts licking everybody. Gross. I can only imagine how many dangers you have faced with my absence. You have no idea, Victor, how much you were needed. I see here you were almost destroyed as I knew you would be. Yeah, Billy had this steak knife through him and then I hold it up.

And his eyes narrow on the knife and he takes the knife in his jaws and he starts shaking it back and forth. You bastard knife! You almost killed boy! I mean, yeah, it was the man to well, yeah. He puts it on the ground and he does that thing where they like hop up and pound on it with like their front two paws. You stupid blade! I cut myself. Oh, did you cut me? It's trying to kill us all! And he bats it out of the room and he starts chasing it up and down the halls.

He tries to bury it in a bed. He goes to another room. He's nosing it under a bed. And he noses it finally under the bed and he goes, alright, the danger has passed. It is unreachable. It is under a piece of furniture. Nothing returns from under furniture. And your animals have returned. You have reconnected with the fanny pack. Perel comes into the room and he's like, we've now been faced with another challenge. How do we wrap up the fanny pack and stay connected to hither and yon?

I got a solution to that. Tuck raises his axe. And Mears goes, no. No, no, no, no. And Morris is like, no. We've been over this. You can't just cut through the wall of an interdimensional building. I've done it before. I know. And you shouldn't have. But I could. I could potentially. I guess, okay. Alright, I have an idea. Oh my god, I'm a genius. I will build outside the fanny pack in the glade a shed. Yes. A shed? A shed. I will build a shed. A shed. S-H-E-D.

You could just build a shed in here. The hither and yon's got a head. I have no time to bandy about. I'm building a shed right now. Just eating pepperonis. I have no time to bandy about with those of lower intellect than me. I have a shed to build. We all do. We all got a shed brewing inside of us. And he leaves. And he walks off into the fanny pack. We just have to like idiot him out of the room. We know how to get rid of him.

And unless you guys have anything that you want, you can follow Mars if you want. You can stay here and do other stuff. But he's got a task he's gonna undertake. Should we rest a little bit? We gotta rest. We're all fucked up. Oh, so we're doing a recover. And do we get a bonus because it's hither and yon? I would say that there isn't necessarily a bonus you would need because recover is just it takes time. But any time that you spend in hither and yon means there is less time passing outside.

Oh, okay. Because I think what we said a long time ago is that every day that passes in hither and yon feels like three days. Oh, yeah. Which developed because people were like, man, I feel like I was really able to just relax in there. Right. And I still got to work the next day. Yeah. So I think all that means is that timelines for you aren't as strict in here as they are elsewhere. Right. So you can totally rest. You've got time. Cool. Yeah, let's do it. We need to heal.

And also Billy's being a little fucking asshole right now. How long is he gonna be in the winter form, Billy? Billy was fine. But now that he's bored, not fighting, he's just like taken to kicking at the wall and saying mean things to you guys. And he's got a cone on. He's got a cone on. What are some mean little kid things that Billy says? Your face is bad. I know, Billy. That's why I have the beard. Billy, you've never been in a cut phase. You're just kidding to yourself. I have been in a…

Billy, what are you talking about? I have been in a cut phase. Remember when we were… Remember those six months that happened off screen? Remember those six months where we were in Cash's apartment and I… It was before season seven started. I was in a cut phase. I don't remember. Billy, I was. What does Billy say to Vig? Billy, be nicer. A backbone thing. Stand up for yourself. Jesus Christ. I don't have to. I love how hard it is for Jessica to be mean to you guys. I don't like this.

Not to editorialize, but just by way of reminding people the resources we have available, Billy does have the reason for the season where he can change his season. Oh, that's true. And also a day has passed. Billy's trying that. Because he knows deep down this sucks. It was a long, dark, cold day. It was. And he was having bad sleep. And he was really groggy from it. Did you have a dream? I had a lot of dreams. Can we hear a dream? Yeah, let's hear one.

There was one where someone betrayed him one time when he was in his winter form. And he hunted them down and stabbed them to death. And he knew that that was a really bad thing. But what's happening outside of Billy's head is that he came into Tuck's room and then was just kicking the whole night. Why are you taking up all the room? Because I'm big. The bed is small for me. Yeah, well, get out then. Billy, you have your own bed. I don't want that bed. I want your bed and your bed. Get out.

That's totally what I can't wait. I can't sleep because you guys keep making sounds. Sound like this. You know what? I'm going to leave. And when you learn a little bit of fucking respect, you can come talk to me. And Billy wants to cry, but he's so mad. He's like, I'll never talk to you again. Well, then I am very angry with you. Billy rips off his cone and he storms out of the room. And he starts biting at his stitches right away. He's going to eat his scab.

So he throws the cone on the ground and walks out? Yeah. Damn it. He goes to chug a bunch of milk. Whoa. Oh my God. He's hitting the bottle. Oh, wow. It's a bad day. It's a bad day. Is he going to try and change his form or are you holding on to it? No. Okay. As he's chugging this milk, he's sitting there melancholically drinking some milk. What have I become? Talking to Mears. Mears, what have I become? And he's cleaning a glass with a rag. He goes, it's a tough, tough break, kid.

I never wanted to fight again. Not like that. You know, at the end of the day, every warrior's got to know when to put down the sword. I'm not a warrior. I just didn't want him to get hurt. Should I roll fairy child first? Yeah, you get to roll your fairy child and then you get to change your season. Seven. So I get three holds. Perfect. And Ving, I can see you. I'm going to, because it's a new day roll, what the bones know. Yeah. That's a five. Holy shit.

Better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better. So Ving, you like go to sleep thinking about how bad things were. Like how Colm absolutely wiped the fucking floor with you. Yeah. Like, well, it can only go up from here. Yeah. Tomorrow is probably going to be a better day. Plus I'm comforted because I switched out all the cream in the fridge for oat milk. So Billy's drinking oat milk thinking he's getting drunk. He's doing the thing the kids do. I think I feel it.

I'm really feeling it now. I'm feeling it. I had beer battered fish. I'm wasted. There's rum in this chocolate. I've never been drunker in my life. And now to change the form. Let's see where it goes. Let's see where we go. Four. Four. Four. Oh, geez. Dang it. I hate this. I hate everything. I push all my drinks off the counter. And they smash on the ground. And freeze in place. Oh, yeah. And freeze the ice crackling across the ground. Billy regrets everything. He runs to his room.

Slams the door. Oh, seals it shut. Oh, yeah. Freezes it. Oh, freezes it shut. And he sits there and thinks. He thinks. What's he thinking about? He's just thinking about what a bad guy he is. Oh. And how poorly he's acting. He's distracted. I like that it's snowing in his room. I remember it so well. Oh, yeah. He's regretting so many things. Oh, God. I should have just been a good person while I had the chance. Wow. The winter form really took hold of him.

Well, he's been holding back for so long. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Man. Okay. So, yeah. The ice is like filling. If you walk past Billy's room, it's freezing. Duck and Bing, what are you doing? Hmm. What are we doing? Bing, what do you want to do? I don't know. I was thinking about maybe. Are you guys laying in bed right now? Yeah. No, I have a hammock.

It's like a bunk bed, but I'm in a hammock on the side, and I just hang out in a hammock when we're chatting and decompressing about our piece of shit kid. God, he's just such a little piece of shit when he's in his winter form. It is unbearable. I understand the concept of adoption. Like putting a child up for adoption? Yeah. Growing a child. Really extreme. What do you think would happen if I put this on Francis and I have the razor tusk helmet? Oh my God. What the fuck? What?

I'm just making casual conversation. He would become like a war pig. You think so? Yeah. He would start to control other pigs. That's pretty sick. You would start the hogpocalypse again. All over again. All over again. Yeah. We would be heroes with really cool moves there. What? Bing's thinking back to when he was really cool during the hogpocalypse. He's like, man, I'm fucking up fighting people. I'm so good at fighting pigs though. Gotta go back to that. I'll put this back on.

He should probably keep it out of his sight. Bing. Yeah. People died during the hogpocalypse. Yeah, but it would be cool to fulfill its purpose. The pig helmet's talking to Bing like the green goblin mask. Yes, Bing. Put the helmet on the pig. Fulfill the purpose. Be cool again. You look like shit in that fight back there. You're probably right. You're probably right. Take up the power. Oh my God. It's just hanging on the back of a chair every time Bing goes to sleep it like glints at him.

Every time Tuck walks past his room he sees him like sitting in the dark looking at the helmet. Looking over his eyebrows. We cut back to Billy's room. Billy has opened a bottle of emo music. Oh right. Because Billy's and Billy's tips get frosted when he's in his winter form. Oh yeah. It's all drooping across his eyes. And they're kind of drooping across his eyes a little bit. Big bags under his eyes. Yeah. Vindicated. I'm selfish. I'm wrong. I'm right. I swear I'm right.

And he has a bottle of oat milk I guess. And he's chugging it. Drinking it. He's doing the like drunk teen from the early 2000s thing where he's like, and I'm flawed. And he smashes it on the ground. Put a thumb on it. And he's like, I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. And he's like, and I'm flawed. And he smashes it on the ground. I put thumb holes in all of his sweater sleeves. Billy comes out totally emo. As an emo.

Two days later. The next day the door cracked, the ice cracks, a snow drift blows out of his room. And you just hear ding, ding, ding, ding. As Billy emerges and he's got his bangs plastered to his forehead. And he's like, I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. I'm a fool. And he's got his bangs plastered to his forehead.

He's got a long sweater, thumbs poking through the sleeves. It's one of those striped ones. Stripey ones, black and white stripes. And Billy grabs a piece of paper and starts writing poetry by the fireplace. But it's in Billy language so he gets fucking scribbles. And Mears comes over, he's like, hey buddy, can I get you anything? You want some croissants? Do you want a hot dog? I can make anything. I feel nothing anymore. You want some breakfast? No.

Go give breakfast to someone who deserves it. Holy shit. Oh, God. Jeez. Fierce just walks away like, wow. You don't have to pretend you like me. I don't even like me. Billy. No, and he comes back over and he sits down. I like you. Of course I like you. No, you don't. And that's fine. I'm in a magic bar that traveled to you because you needed me. I don't need you anymore. Is that? Come on. Is that true? She starts being mean.

Spending as much time as I have as the barkeeper, Fither and Yawn, has taught me a few things about the heart. I know that stressful times, scary times, can make us feel strange, make us feel not like ourselves. Mirrors, what if I'm stuck like this forever? I shouldn't have changed over. You did it because you had to protect the people you love. And the next time you need to change, you'll change. I want to use. Yeah, don't you have a fairy? Yeah. Yeah. Reason for the season.

You just melt in front of the fire with the heart. Yeah. Mirrors is trying so hard. I'm like, I can do this. I can, I can be a good guy. Yeah. So you just, you just get to do it one more time. You spend a fairy hold and you can change. Two. So what does two make you? Summer. Oh, okay. Oh my God. I immediately break out into a sweat. Why am I wearing a sweater? I look like shit. Mirrors is just like, what is going on? As the ice just melts off of you. And sheets. And mirrors is getting hot.

Oh yeah. Oh my God. It's so warm in here now. I'm going to turn. I'm going to put the fire out. Yeah. Oh, the fire lit lights. Oh yeah. Sorry about that. I will definitely. Have breakfast. Oh, okay. All right. I'm going to get some breakfast started. Is summer Billy normal, Billy? No spring. Billy is normal. Summer is like more mischievous. Yeah. I'm normal again. Trust me. It's a little trickster now and he's cut his emo thing into a crop into like one of those. Oh yeah.

His little summertime boy. Yeah. Yeah. It's one of the spring break tanks from Daytona. It says Daytona sleeves up. He's rolled his pants up into little shorts. Yeah. They're too tight. So like the fat is like just bunched around. And uh, yeah. Mirrors makes you a very wonderful breakfast. I guess. Are we waiting for Morris's task to be finished? Yeah. Um, so that night tuck has a dream and I think like you basically just stand in this void. You're like sick. This is great. There's nothing here.

They're here. My head is empty. Uh huh. Huh? I feel like I probably should be more concerned. I'm sorry about that. Why am I here? Yeah. If there's nothing in my head, why am I in my head? I nothing. Oh, he tries to call up the pizza hut. Mine palace. Yeah. Nothing. He can't get it. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, Oh my God. Sit down. Pizza. Delight kind of shimmers. That's not quite right. Did the Onero phage destroy the pizza palace? Might have. Whoa. That's a huge loss. Yeah. And you hear the words.

How can I help you? He took turns around in the void. He was like, who's there? You need my help. They all need your help. Can I roll to see what this is? Yeah, totally. Defy danger. Wisdom. Okay. Ooh, nice. Ooh, boy. Wow. 11. Okay. Holy shit. You feel in your sleeping body reflected in this void that is now empty. Void that is now your mind. Mm-hmm. Like a tugging. Like a tingling in your chest. And you just immediately are like, ah, fuck. It's a demon. Oh, no. You just know.

It's not even a like, oh, what is this? You're just like, servitude. And Tuck is like, are you possessing me right now? Stop. Don't do it. He jumps around. No. He's like, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. But if you let me, I could help you. Release me. What would you do? How would you help me? I live to serve. You're thinking about it. No, I'm not. I'm in your mind. I know what you're thinking about.

Well, tell me what I'm thinking about. Tits, tits, tits, tits, tits. You're thinking about tits, aren't you? Fuck! I'm thinking of a number between one and a thousand. No, you're not. You're thinking about tits. Anyone would have guessed that. But everybody knows. Everybody knows I like tits. You're thinking that you'll fail them. You're thinking about the end and the lie that waits there for you. Tuck, in the dream, materializes a knife in his hand and cuts his hand and wakes up. Oh. Yeah.

Cool. And he shoots up in bed. He shoots up into the butt of Ving, who's hanging a hammock above him. Whose hammock is right above the bed. Sorry. Sorry. Oh, my God. Where did you put the hammock above my bed? I wanted it. It's cold in here. Billy's form is too cold. And you guys smell cooking breakfast. You smell some eggs. You smell some sausages. Probably some sort of gruel. But it's good gruel that Mears has devised. He calls it ghoul because it's good gruel. Ghoul? Ghoul. G-O-O-L. Okay.

Okay. It's good. G-O-O-L. Ghoul. Because it's good gruel. He's been explaining this to everybody for a few minutes. Hey, you want some ghoul? Ew, no. But it's good gruel. Okay. Give me ghoul. Here you go. And he slides it down the bar to you. Tuck has two tampons in his nose because his nose broke when he woke up. He broke it on Ving's firm buttocks. It's the firmest ass I've ever smashed my face against. And let me tell you, I've smashed my face against a lot of asses. A lot. And it went in.

You got it right in the middle. It went in. That's all you got to say. And let me tell you, it went in. My crack is in a cut face. I'm telling this to Perel who's like, just picks up his breakfast and goes to a different table. You guys are just in a restaurant now, basically. You just have a restaurant to yourselves. And let me tell you, it went right. And Billy, you find Billy downstairs in a fucking crop top and shorts. Hey, guys. Oh, my God. Holy shit. I'm better now. Little surfer Billy.

I'm so sorry. It's the risk. You know, when you live it up and you try something new. I mean, you did save our butts out there in the war fields. Are you feeling better? I feel great. I feel pretty good, honestly. Yeah? Kind of hot in here, though. You look different. I know. I made a shirt. Your hair is kind of like bleach blonde now. Oh, cool. Yeah. It's got a good wave to it. It's not as curly as it used to be. Swishes around. Pretty cool look. Thanks. Yeah.

I'm going to gobble down a bunch of food now. Okay, go for it. Uh-huh. I might steal Perel's food. Yeah, do it. While he's not looking. Oh, Summer Billy's trying to do a prank. He walks by, accidentally tips over a bunch of salt onto Perel's plate. Perel goes, Oh, oh. Hi, Billy. Hi. Are you going to be reasonable now? Why are you talking to me like that? It's just that you were a little rude to me the other day. So many apologies.

You said that my bald head looked bad, and I am suffering from male pattern baldness. When my thalmic field activated, I lost all my hair. Wait, you had hair? I had beautiful hair. And now it's gone because I'm magical. Becoming a wizard made you bald? Yeah, it made me bald. Morris, why did it make you bald? Because I have such a powerful brain that it creates a lush environment for the hairs growing. The follicles are empowered by my great intellect.

Anyway, everybody, I have completed phase one of my project. Thanks. I would love if you would all join me in the spooky glade to see what I have constructed. Is it safe? Oh, is it safe? What do you mean, is it safe? Is it safe in the glade? Do you want me to make a little fairy ring? Oh, this scary little lady that chased everyone. Yeah. Yeah, okay, maybe do a fairy ring pretty quick. Seven. The ring requires my constant attention. Okay, great.

So Billy's just like doing a cool summer boy, like strut around the glade. He's just like vibing. Like he's, it's so slow. And he, cause you're trying to find like beach wood to do it with. Oh, you're trying to get cool driftwood looking with sticks. I'm saying like, you can't like rush this. It's like chill stuff. So we're all sitting at the door of the tent, just eating our ghoul. Uh-huh.

But eventually the fairy ring does get completed and Morris goes, all right, attention has been off of me long enough. Everybody look at me again. As I reveal. And he's got a big sheet that's over something in the glade. Behold. And he pulls the sheet off. What is just a very simple wooden shed. There's a pause. And then he's like eyebrows. Oh, thank you. And this has solved a major problem. How we have a door. Now we have a door now.

So everybody can get back in the fanny pack and I, and he takes his room key out. And he steps very exaggeratedly over to the door. And then I, and he puts the key towards the door. And then I come through the back door with the fanny pack. And people don't notice this, but tuck has disappeared. And then he like pushes the door open and scares. He went back into the back door. And he's just like, I knew that was going. You should have seen your face. You should have seen your face.

It's a fucking prank, bro. Yeah. Chill out. Billy's summer form is rubbing off on all of us. Oh yeah. Everybody's been a little shit at a thing. He's a little bit angrier now. God damn it. When you do that. God damn it. You scared me. I told you not to do that. You scared me in front of people. I'm embarrassed. I told you I pee when I get scared and a little bit came out. All right.

I think that that absolutely disrespectful move on Tuck's part means that he is the one that gets to fold up the fanny pack and go back through the back door. Oh no. You want me to go through the back door? I am going inside now and you get to be in the spooky glade by yourself, mister. I have to stay out here for the ring. All right. Fine. I'm going inside. My shed is complete. I am a genius. You're welcome. Oh, also, and he turns back.

I realized I gave this to the two most reckless people out of the three of you, which is saying something. We cannot under any circumstances open the fanny pack inside hither and yon. Why? It is just an accepted rule in thaumaturgy, special thaumaturgy especially. You cannot open a limited space. Why? Because it is a liminal space inside a liminal space. What will happen? They collapse in on each other. They both meld together. They fold outwards. It's horrible. Do not do it.

Many a special thaumaturge has lost life and limb. Should we lock it when we're in the hither and yon? I will take it. How about? Oh, like he'll wear it? I'll wear it myself. So, Morris and Perel, you guys are going to be hanging out in hither and yon with the fanny pack once we pack it up and go through the back door. Makes sense. I'm going to go through the back door. I'm going to go through the back door. I'm going to go through the back door. I'm going to go through the back door.

And then hither and yon goes to Hyspere. We drop you off. You take the fanny pack. Do your bullshit there. And then we'll go fight a war, I guess. Yeah, that's great. That's great. That's the plan. Okay, that's a great plan. We're going to do it. All right, we're going to do it. Everybody put your hands in. Hands in. One, two, three. We will. What? We will. We will. We will. We will. We will. We will. We will. We will. We will. We will. We will. We will. We will. We will.

You should have seen your face, man. And we cut forward into the hither and yon. The fanny pack's packed up. And everybody's just chilling. Morris and Perell have gone up to their room. I think everyone's just kind of settling into this new status quo. Am I healed yet? Like all the way? Yeah, you had a night of rest. Or wait, no. Billy stayed up drinking oat milk. Oh, right. Oh, fuck, dude. So the poultice is like, you know, you've got nine hit points or whatever. Okay.

Am I healed cause I slept? Yes.

End of the day I will roll another what the bones know that's a one oh boy bing you get as you're like ending this as you're getting ready for bed on that second day you get another sinking feeling oh tomorrow is going to be worse somehow my bones don't know shit today was pretty fun it started with me getting rammed in the ass by tux nose at least I think that was his nose and is there anything in particular that we want to handle on that day or do we just jump ahead where where did chimes go is he still in hither and yon oh yeah I know he left okay yeah like when we went to fight the war yeah he comes and goes as he pleases he's got a room key oh right yeah so he'll just fuck off yeah okay cool is there anything we want to know about things because I could use night moves while we're hanging out in the glade oh yeah and then we have to ask sean a question something about the gibbous man like does he know that we met the or like about colm maybe what the black hammer twins are getting out of this deal yeah that's not bad because they're he's giving of himself to use the the wrath the war blade yeah okay I'm gonna use night moves roll plus wisdom and 10 plus a gm will answer one question so for night moves to work you need the night sky uh everyone's settling in going to sleep hither and yon it's the end of the day the tent's been packed up the fanny pack has been prepared for transport to high spear city but you head out the back door of hither and yon emerging from the shed that morris constructed in the clearing and you look up at the night sky um I got a 10 okay so you look up at the night sky and you're trying to read the movement of the stars yeah and gain a little bit of knowledge about the black hammers what they're getting out of this what the plan is how to kill it's just something and you hear a voice say you know you could just ask me I turn the gibbous man stands on the edge of the glade black traveling cloak wide brimmed hat leaning on his staff and he takes a step forward through the remnants of billy's old fairy ring are you afraid yes that's good so you want to know what what the twins are getting out of this deal yeah I mean what all humans want power status you all want the same thing to matter and he starts walking around the glade just taking it in some kid you got he like stops and looks at you he's uh powerful powerful powerful I'm going to roll fight with honor.

Whoa. Holy shit. That's sick. All right, 2d6 plus constitution. That's fucking sick. I got 10. Whoa. So that gives you three hold, four hold? Three chi. That's so cool. And he sees you square up like in the- He just like thinks back. His right foot cocks like five degrees. Uh-huh. And the gibbous man sees that. He goes, oh. All right. This is how you want to do this. And I want to use weaponize association to spend one chi to predict his next move. Oh. Whoa. So sick. Awesome.

Oh, and this is the thing that like gets you to get them to give something up basically. That's fucking rad. And that means that you get to tell me what he does next. Like you know what he's going to do. And you're telling me what he does. Yeah. This is like one of those like samurai fights where like they're both perfectly still and it seems totally chill. But they're like in a war right now. They're predicting each other's moves in their mind right now.

It's like they're playing chess in their head. Yeah. Totally. Battle chess. You move throughout the night. You are the night. You feel the shroud of darkness wherever you go. You feel like that shields you. But I see you. What does this cause him to do? I think he goes for the door. Oh. Oh shit. Why wouldn't he? Interesting. Yeah. Because if he destroyed the shed, then we would be stuck. Bing would be stuck. Bing would be stuck.

So like he knows that the door is your lifeline to your family and he is going to shatter the shed. But you know he's going to step towards you. And swing behind you. And as he's swinging his stick towards the shed, you step forward and you like shove him backwards. And he goes, oh, and he steps back a few steps. I see. I noticed that I can hit him. You just pushed him. Oh, like he's made. He's material. Is that what you're trying? Yeah.

He's he's presented himself as this like mysterious, all knowing, like invulnerable being. But you just pushed him. I look in his eyes. And he sees that you know what that means. I smirk and I start sprinting at him. He disappears. Oh, sick. And you're alone. Guys. Damn it. Yeah. I feel I feel like I feel I feel it on me like a chill. There's oh, the runes on my shoulder are all distorted. Oh, they're like bleeding out into where my veins are. Like blood. Blood.

Poisoning from ink that was once a shape. Oh, that's so sick. It's distorted the knowledge of when I touched him. Yeah. When I touched him. Ving turns around like excited, but calmly walks back inside and closes the door. And the door like closes and swings back open and reveals an empty shed. The next day morning or does Ving go and wake everybody up? I think we weren't asleep. I think we were just hanging out. I think we were just hanging out inside. Okay. Yeah.

So everyone's just chilling in the fanny pack and or hither and yon. I was asleep. Okay. Then I missed that. We need to heal. Billy was asleep in in in front of the fireplace. With Victor, maybe. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like sandwiched between Francis and Victor. Yeah. Mouth wide open. Head back. Yeah. And you come through the back door into hither and yon. I think Tuck is probably the one that's awake. Mears has gone to bed. Morrison Perrella is asleep. Billy is sleeping in front of the fire.

Can I show you something? Yes. I pull my tunic down. Tuck goes, oh, my God, it's happening. My perfectly sculpted shoulder. Slender, but strong. Tuck touches you on the shoulder and he's like, doesn't matter how much the fans are asking for this. We cannot do it. Bro, check out my tattoo, bro. Oh, that's what you're. Okay. Never mind. Tuck, look at this. What? Pulls his pants down. Look at the runes on the underside of my shirt. Sack.

Tuck laughs really hard because this is a game we play when Billy's not around. You just show each other your dick. Yeah. It's like we'll hide and then the other person will come around the corner. We'll be like, it looks like a bat wing. One of these things. Yeah. But we only do it when Billy's not around because it's incredibly inappropriate. Oh, yeah. So immature. Yeah. And I'm like, you got me. Okay. You got me. You're ahead. You're ahead by two now. Yes. We're back.

We've been playing this the whole entirety of the campaign. Oh, my God. And Ving's been down for a long time. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because Tuck, it's really easy. He's got really easy access to it. It's just under the flap. Yeah. It's so easy. That's why Ving was doing so much like yoga and like mobility training. That's why. I'm going to get him. I'm going to get this fucking. That'd be fast. I'm going to fucking do this. I'm going to get him one day. I've got too many flaps.

That's what he kept saying. He's going, I've got so many fucking flaps. It's so hard to get it out. Yeah. He did some tailoring to his pants so that it was easy access. Tear away. And then there is also a thing where it's like if you see the other person's doing it and you do it back before they can get their dick and balls out. They get two. You get two. Yeah. Still there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So there were a couple of times where Ving was like, got like his, he was trying to undo the knot on his pants. And then Tuck was just like, boom. Gotcha. Double. Damn it. So Ving shows you a distorted tattoo. What? How? What happened? He was there. Who? Him. Call him? The gibbous man. What? Outside? When Billy went inside, his fairy ring diminished and he appeared. I hit him, Tuck, and he reeled and I saw fear in his eyes. He can be hurt. I saw his weakness. And it's. A man's weakness.

His dick? His dick and balls? His balls. His balls. His inability to think about anything else. His weakness is his balls. It's so obvious. A man's weakness. It's so clear now. I shouldered him right in the balls. I can't believe. You shouldered him right in the balls? Ugh. Ugh. So. That means. He has a physical body. Mm-hmm. And the physical body can be interacted with. And we can hurt him. Very much so. Yeah. And he can be surprised. Because he didn't see you coming.

He didn't like that I knew that. That I found that. That I did that. Yeah. Which means he can't see the future. Hmm. Like if he couldn't see Ving coming at him. Can I Spout Lore on this? Sure. Yeah, nice. Intelligence. Intelligence. Uh, yeah. So that's a three. Mm-hmm. Fuck. Mm-hmm. So you get a point of experience. Uh-huh. I think the failure is. Is something that Tuck realizes. Uh-huh. In this you're like. Okay. The Gibbous man just had revealed to Ving. That he has a physical material body.

Mm-hmm. There's no way he. Makes himself that easy to get to. Ever again. Right. He would only work through proxies now. He wouldn't want to get physically close to any of you. Fuck. But that also means. If he now knows that you know. He can be hurt. He's going to be coming at you even harder. Right. Because he's trying to destroy. Any information about himself. Mm-hmm. So we're. We. Uh. No. Oh. Before you were just a nuisance. Now you might be his number one target. Oh no Ving.

No I didn't fuck up. No you didn't fuck up. The thing you did was so cool. It was pretty cool. It was too cool. And now he thinks we're too cool. Yeah. And he's going to come at us hard as fuck dude. He's hard as fuck for us now. Does Billy wake up at any point during this conversation? Yeah I wake up when Tuck goes. Oh no. Who is it? Who is it? Billy. What? I saw the gibbous man. No way. That's not cool. Oh no. And he knows we're in here. Yeah. Can he get here? Actually.

I think considering the information that you have. You would think he probably couldn't get inside Heather and Jan. Why? Places of significant power seem to be inaccessible to him. So we're actually safe in here. And also like Heather and Jan moves around so much. And that is a thing he also is kind of weak to. Because like Ving's mom put the knowledge seat in him. So that the gibbous man could never get a beat on him. Right. So because Heather and Jan moves. It's kind of safe. So I can sleep.

You can sleep. You can go back to sleep. Yeah. But. Billy. Billy. That was quick. You passed out really hard there. Okay. Well this is good to know. It is. But. I have a feeling that things are going to get a lot harder from here. The next morning. Unless. Unless. We have another dream. Maybe Billy has a dream from the gibbous man. Tell me about this. So this is Billy in his oak tree form. The one on the hill. So yeah. He's just in the forest. Taking in the scenery that surrounds him.

And has surrounded him for so much time. It's a dream of a memory. Is this like the version of the tree that Billy is that has like the offerings hanging from it? Like it's got the ribbons and bottles and bells hanging from the branches. Yeah. And you're in Lone Tree Hill, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a very big old oak tree. Yeah. Pretty big oak tree. I haven't had anyone visit me for a few days. It's very quiet tonight. And Billy's just doing what he always does. And he just thinks.

Because you're in your autumn form here, right? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, this is the reflective phase before the winter comes. Yeah. Yeah. He's thinking about the things people have asked of him. One of them is. Please let my radishes be absolutely huge this year. And also. I really want smart William to like me back. And then another person who goes. Farmer bills keeps making fun of me for how small my radishes are. You please make mine bigger. Please. This year.

I cannot handle him making fun of me for another year. And then another one comes and is like. No one's even talking about my radishes at all. Make my radishes talk about old bull. She's so obsessed. Like the fruit's going to be the way it's going to be. So one night on this night, this wonderful night, Billy is thinking about his life here on this hill, being a tree, thinking about. Thinking about the promise he made to protect this place. Yeah.

He's listening to the mycelium network underneath. The promise he made to protect this place. And from deep in the forest, coming towards Lone Tree Hill through the trees is a man in a black cape. The wide brimmed black hat and a walking stick. And he threads his way through the trunks and comes to you and begins to walk past you. And then it stopped dead in his tracks in the network that you are a part of that protects this place.

And he kind of like tests the barrier and he looks up at the tree at you. Let me pass. I will not. You can't protect them forever. Yes, I can. The river will run dry one day. I'll make sure of it. Get out. This isn't over. Get out. And he turns and walks back into the trees. And the forest shakes. Yeah. Like at the oak tree demanding him to leave. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. And you wake. Do I remember? Do you? No. You don't? For a moment? He remembers for a second. Like he remembers for a second.

The harder he tries to remember, he loses it. Yeah. He's like, uh, I'm so hungry. And you hear mirrors downstairs going, ghoul, ghoul, ghoul, ghoul, ghoul, making some ghoul for all my friends. Oh, so you guys all get you get your what the bones know you if you want to do it, you get your fairy child sick and you can try and change your form. Six. Girl. Beautiful. Hold on to a six. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah, dude. Amazing. I'm fully healed. Um, my fairy child. I got 11. Sweet. Okay. I get five folds.

And you can try and change your season if you so choose, or you could stay summer. I'm going to stay summer. Okay. Cool. Yeah. In the summer, you're like, everything's awesome. Fucking sick, bro. I had a great sleep last night. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You should always be sleeping on the floor. You're sleeping on the floor? Bruh. So good for your back. You know, you just like touch the earth and it holds you. Yeah. Pretty chill. We're going to live forever. It's going to be summer forever.

It's going to be forever young, you guys. Billy's got a puka shell necklace on. Where'd you get that? He's progressively getting more and more bro. He's got some zinc on his nose. I got a little tan from the fireplace. Just a one side of your body. Yeah. A really orange tan. You don't have rosacea anymore. You're just tan. And that morning, Morris and Perel come back downstairs and they've got backpacks. They've got all the effects that they brought with them.

And Morris has the fanny pack around his waist. And they go, all right. This is going to be it for a little bit, I think. I guess we'll see you guys when the war is over. That long? Yeah. We'll tell Aquarius to say hi when we finish the… Finish the wireframe. If you can, can you ask her what she meant when she said I was touched by the darkness? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll ask her what the darkness is. Morris is like, Perry, you're so sentimental.

We have magical keys that can bring us back here. Oh, right. Yeah. You can just visit. Anytime. He's like, oh, yeah. But you know, it just won't be the same. We've been living together for, it feels like years now. Bye, guys. And Morris is nodding and patting Perel on the shoulder. As he opens the door to like the bustling streets of Highspear City. Holy shit. People are just walking past. I really want to get a good look out here. Yeah, it's bright and sunny. There's people walking by.

There's like a demonstration going on in a square. Oh. Where they're like, the Firefields Principality is encroaching on the sovereignty of the Highspear people. And there's only one person that can protect you. Yeah. Protect the interests of you and your families. And your business. And that is why in the upcoming mayoral election, you must elect Etienne Boggins. Holy shit. You see a poster behind them that's Etienne Boggins giving a big thumbs up. Yeah.

And underneath it says, the savior of Mudlark. He's totally spun it into like. I saved the Riverways and I can save you. Amazing. Oh, no. Yeah. This is bad. I want to stay here. We have to kill Etienne Boggins. Yeah. Real danger. Oh, man. All right. I've been your Game Master, Sean O'Hara. Joining me as always, playing Tacoma Dome, the Barbarian, Abdul Aziz. So long. Playing Ving, the Half-Elf Druid, Paul Hoppers. Take care. Playing Fat Billy, the Halfling Thief, Jessica Tai. Bye, everyone.

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And so 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 finish. You are gladly speltlore. Thank you.