Episode 9 – Storms

Hi everybody and welcome to Spout Lore. I'm your Game Master, Sean O'Hara. With me as always, players Paul, Abdul, and Jessica. Hi! Spout Lore Spout Lore What does that look like? He has a staff. I know it's broken, so he's repaired it many times. And he repairs it with sap and resin from trees. Cool. And then binds it with leathers, so it's all full of resin. And there's a groove that goes down it and he runs his fingers, like a rosemary, he runs his fingers down that groove.

And dips his toes in the memory pools of that animal's spirit. In the spirit realm, it's thick with water. Yeah. Yeah. He's calling to the spirit of the crocodile? Yeah, he goes into the spirit world where they are all dwelling. And he has to think about the dead version of it. So he goes to where the dead ones are. Oh, okay. There's a place where dead spirits are? Everything exists as they are, so there's the dead ones. Like, the real versions of them. Yeah. Rather than just the shadows.

His gills are very active in the spirit realm. Because that's how he survives. That's how he moves. By passing over, yeah. Yeah. And he finds them and he sits with them. And it's a contemplative time that he spends with the spirit of the crocodile. Do they speak? Do they talk to each other? Nope. They just sit? No, it's very silent. Wow. They be. I'm imagining Ving just on the other side, sitting cross-legged like he's sitting in front of the fire.

And this massive crocodile is swimming sort of in the air around him. Yeah, just circling. Yep. And that's, you just spend the whole night like that. Which I imagine in the spirit realm feels like a lot longer. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's timeless. Ooh. Yeah. So you come to the next morning. Has it been forever already? Oh, man. It's already been forever. Whoops. God, I'm going to be late. But you come to the next morning, passing back over to the material realm.

And you feel within you this connection to the crocodile spirit, which we've talked about that, right? How like the connections to these spirits on the other side are what let you turn into them. They come to trust me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not dishonoring their memory. Awesome. So yeah, you now just keep in mind, it's not Frozen North. It's not the Great Forest, but you can turn into a giant crocodile now.

Awesome. Hey, guys. Check it. In the middle of Lurm's house, you become… Jesus. Like a 15… Just wrecking tables. Oh, no. All the peanuts. Oh, my gosh. No. I can't imagine that that would be something Bing would do. Okay. Oh, no. He runs outside into the yard. Hey, guys. Check this out. Out in the yard on the other side of the window. Everyone's crowded around the window. I mean, I don't want to be that guy, but you do have to roll the sheets. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

Look what I learned last night while you suckers were sleeping. Eight plus ten. Yeah, you get three hold. Boom. And then he jumps and tries to do a flip. And you see Lurm out the top window like, ah! What the… We've really fucked up this guy's life. Yeah. He runs downstairs, slams, slams, slams, slams, slams, and bursts out the front door with like a rake. Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's like, what the… What is this?

I take the rake and I go over and I start pulling all the ripe waffles off the tree, just the ripe ones and like harvesting for him. Like, ah, showing him that it's okay. Jesus Christ. So after some time, he relaxes and you guys are outside as well? Yeah, I guess we walked outside. Yeah. So are you… You guys leaving? You leaving now? I guess so. Is all of our HP back to zero? Let me just… I think it's half your HP. Half your HP plus seven? No, half your HP maximum, I believe, is how you…

When you rest and consume a ration. Like, if you're at five, do you go back up to half HP? When you wake from at least a few uninterrupted hours of sleep, heal damage equal to half your maximum hit points. Twelve. So it's full. I'm back to full. If I'm an odd number, can I round up… No, no, like you're… Oh, I think you do round up, actually. Yes. And Lerm is standing around like, I'm, you know, sorry. I don't have more for you.

You know, you had a good opportunity to rest and take a load off for a night and I wish you well on your travels. Yeah, we appreciate it, man. Yeah. Yes, thank you. And can I kiss his hand? He lets it happen. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. You're welcome. And I pet it a little. Yeah, thank you. And also, give me that trust kiss, baby. It's not… You know, it's not going to happen. No. Okay. It's been nice to meet you, though. All right. Ving puckers up as a crocodile. Oh, you're still a crocodile?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'd maybe turn back into a person before you hit the road. You know what, Lerm? I never trusted you for coming here, but we really did our research and you seem like a square guy. Slowly, I extend a hand and turn it back into my actual hand. And as you shake it, do you shake it? Yeah. I shake it and I turn the rest back into Ving. Great. Great. This has been fun. Cool. Shake my hand, too, before we leave. Okay, here you go. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, you're strong. Yeah.

Do you want to see a feat of strength? No, I don't. I can do something. Like what? No, there's no… I don't know. Save your strength for the road. Okay. And then I lean down and kiss him. You got to keep a secret now. Okay. Well, it's been fun. Yeah. I kiss him on the head, the forehead. He shakes Houdir's hand, says you were a wonderful guest. I hope you all take it easy. Can I hold him? Hold up a huge waffle. Uh-huh. Can I have this?

Well, you ask if you can hold it up and then if you can have it. And he just looks at you. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. One waffle won't hurt anybody. Cool. Okay. We just stand there and he doesn't do anything so he slowly turns around and starts going back inside. Yeah, he just walks back into his house. Can we chant Lerm as he's going back inside and we're not moving? Yes. Please. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm.

Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. We turn and skip down the road. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Lerm. Who dear slowly walks after you. All right. And you guys hit the road. Back onto the main road. There's still the farmland rolling and there's the river going into the trees where Billy was attacked by the assassin vine and the trees spread out up this hilly region like away from the farm area. Who dear? Says we're close, I think.

We're close to where we need to turn into the woods. It is going to be a bit of a trek into the forest. Okay. Are you all just walking? Like you're just tramping along? A little bit. Billy, do you want to take turns resting in my beard? Maybe. Okay. All right. And Wicker is sitting on Who dear's shoulders like a boa, like a feather boa. And you get to a point. Can I? Wait. Can I? While we're walking, can I just. Can I just like pop granola into my beard for Billy? Yeah. Okay.

Where'd you get this? I stole it from Lerm. Oh, man. Yeah. It's really good. Yeah. Flash. Took all of it. Yeah. Flashback to him rolling. Flashback to Lerm like trying to make breakfast. What the fuck? Those sons of bitches stole my granola. God damn it. It's the last time I let travelers into my home. That's a, there's a, there's an IOU in the, in the jar. I owe you one jar of granola. XOXO. Tuck. And then I, I say, don't forget to keep a secret.

And then I drew a crude picture of myself winking. And Lerm throws it into the fire. He's angry. Now you've angered Lerm. When you get to a certain spot, Wicker perks up from where she was sitting on Who Deer's shoulders and starts meowing. Wicker, what do you see? What's going on? Oh, right. She's like, we're close. We're near. She says we're close. And she hops down off Who Deer's shoulders, right? Yeah. Yeah. And she runs to the forest edge and she right into the bush.

You can't see her anymore. You hear some rustling and you hear meow, meow, meow. Can I go after? Yeah, sure. And you find her sniffing at the base of a tree. And she is smelling a clump of those orange flowers that she was following through the swamp. Oh, yeah. Oh, can I sniff too? Yeah. It smells pretty nice. Smells like a flower. It's nice. Pet wicker. What was this cat looking for this whole time again? Anybody remember when you were when she was leading you out of the swamp?

She was following these orange flowers. But what? I want to gather some. But why did we have like, what were we? She was leading you to the vault, apparently. Oh, yeah. Are we close to a vault now? Wicker? Are we close to the vault? She sounds confused. I haven't smelled them in so long. So we seem like she and she's kind of looking around in a way that makes it seem like she's casting about for some sort of landmark. And she says, I don't think we're near to home.

Something's not right, but we're here. Okay. Like, I want to discern realities, but I wonder if that has anything to do with what Perel was saying to me. Oh, yeah. And you still haven't told anybody about Perel, have you? Can I? Can I talk to Ving? Yeah, absolutely. Oh, are you still in my view? No, I'm on the ground. So I'm going to go up to Ving. I'm going to like ask to be picked up. You do one of these. Yeah. When you reach up and. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Close your fist.

And I'm like, Ving, I have something to tell you, but I don't know if I should tell you. You're getting heavier, bud. Yeah. Shut up. Tuck fed me a bunch of granola this morning. Anyway, it doesn't matter. I had a dream last night and there was like a guy in it and he wanted me to do something. What kind of guy? Like, he had a nice robe anyway, and he was going to give me one. He said he was going to give me one if I did this thing for him. And obviously, I'm not wearing it. So he lied to me.

What did he want you to do, Billy? He wanted me to dispose of box of the box that we have. Did he look like anything? Can you describe him? Billy like tries to remember and he's like, oh, he had like a face and. I don't know if I can describe him. It's like looking at a star. You have to look beside it to see it. Oh. Just don't think of his face. Okay. Think of what you thought his face might look like. Okay. Is there anything?

So Billy closes his eyes and he thinks of the robe and he gets like kind of mad about it. But then he starts seeing the guy again a little bit. Sort of the corner of his eye, like in the side of his vision. And he's like, okay, he has like darker skin kind of. And I don't know how old he is. And he has a straight nose. I don't know. What do you think? What was your feeling of him? He wanted you to get rid of his box. This is what we're doing. How emphatic was he? He was.

He really wanted me to do it. But he. Didn't really want me to tell anyone. Well, I'm glad you told me. Okay. Instead of just get rid of the box. Okay. What do you think we should do? I don't know. But I'm kind of upset about it. Should we tell Tuck? I think we should. Okay. Tuck. Yeah. I have the. He's just doing crunches nearby. What up? No, I have a mouth full of grunt all the time. Yes. Billy had a dream in which somebody visited him and tried to get him to get rid of the box.

Who dear steps in for a sec. Hey, are we talking about something important? Maybe. Sure. Yeah. You could be involved in this. Oh, that would be great. Thank you. Okay. I'm late. Whatever. Continue. Sorry, Billy. What's going on? Tell him, Billy. Okay. So I had a dream last night and I've had before. So this is the second dream. And it was this guy who visited me and he had a really fancy coat or robe on. And he told me he wanted me to get rid of the box. And he said he'd give me a robe.

And he didn't. But he said he would. He said something about magic that I would come back. Or something like that. Wait, was he a wizard? I don't know. Billy, when was the first time you had this dream? Like after the crocodile fight? When you went nuts? Did I? I guess so. I don't really remember that part. You went nuts. Oh, what the fuck is going on? This might be, this could be a manifestation of the negative influence I feel in Billy. Also, my back is up a bit.

I'm getting mad because I don't know. Because my friend is in danger. This could be a manifestation of the negative influence. I felt in Billy. This could be whatever is contained in this box. Is it possible to contain a wizard in a box? Yeah, doy. That seems unusual. But then again, no one has really experienced anything like this in quite some time. Did they say that they were a wizard? Yes. Okay, well, I mean, could be lying. This could be a dream. Will the pool of cool water do anything?

That's my hope. My hope is that we'll be able to use. This place to expunge Billy of this negative influence. Should we dip the box in the water too, for good measure? I mean, it couldn't hurt. Yeah. Here, let me, let me take a look at the box. And I. It's on your back. You have it at all times. Just turning around in circles. Yeah. I'm like, I'm going to look at it. I'm doing a thing where a dog chases its tail. I'm like, let me hold on. And I'm, I'm, I'm trying to like. No, no, I go.

I'll get it. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. And I'm like, my muscles are too big. So I can't reach the part of my back. Yeah. I'm like. Like real life. You can't reach most of your back. Hold on. I got this. I got it. Is that one of those tiny little workout backpacks that has strings? Can somebody just help him? Can somebody just help him, please? I'll get the box. Here's the box. Here, here, here, here. And then I, I don't remember what I was going to do.

You said you were going to look at it. Okay. Yeah. I'm sorry. That was a really big act out for me. It was. So what do you want to do with this box? I just. I just like. I take it and I like shake it. And I'm like, are you a fucking wizard in there? You piece of shit. Are you a piece of shit wizard getting in my friend's head? And then I like. Well, okay now. I listen. You hear nothing. And then I shake it again. Is anything rattling? No. You fucking piece of shit. Get out. Come out.

Come out here. Get out of here, you fucking piece of shit. Asshole. This might be like a man. So I don't think that yelling at it is going to achieve anything. Oh, won't it? We'll see about that. I don't. I don't think. Oh, you fucking piece of shit. Tuck, I really want that robe. Don't do that. You give my friend his robe. You give my friend his robe. Wicker, where do we go? Wicker looks into the forest and says, this way. We go in the forest. We follow the cat. All right.

Let's get to this water. So what we are going to do now, because this is a thick forest. There's no roads in here that you can see. But you are all going to roll a make a perilous journey move. Is it these? Yeah. So, okay. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on now. Yeah. So there's things that we need to decide. So everybody's just like, okay, I'm going. Billy's a trailblazer. You choose one. Okay. Billy's the trailblazer. Okay. Yeah. Somebody has to be the scout. Somebody has to be the quartermaster.

I guess I'll be. What do you want to be? I could scout up as a falcon or something. Okay. Yeah. It is a wisdom role. Yeah. So yeah. Think about that. I have zero wisdom. I have 16 wisdom. Okay. Read the other number. Two. Okay. Okay. So yeah. So once you've decided your roles, everybody roll 2d6 plus your wisdom. Eight. Three. Six. What was yours? Quartermaster. Quartermaster. And wait, what was yours? The scout. And what was your role? Six. Okay. So two failures. And what was yours, Billy?

Eight. You're walking right alongside Wicker. Yeah. There's no problems with finding a path. Every hundred feet, 150 feet, basically, Wicker is finding another clump of flowers. Okay. And so she is following a path and Billy is keeping an eye on Wicker because, you know, it's pretty thick, the underbrush. So Billy is able to see where Wicker is better. So you're following Wicker. So that's not a problem. As you're traveling, you've been traveling and getting a little peckish.

Maybe Billy is feeling a little hungry. Yeah. I did eat that waffle pretty quickly. Yeah. Yeah. So, Tuck, you have been. Holding on to all the rations as the quartermaster for this trip. Yeah. And you reach in to get some rations and you put your hand right into just like a mushy, gross, slimy pile of stuff. What the fuck? What the hell is this? It was rations. And you pull all the rations out. They're all rotted. No. When you check them this morning, they were absolutely fine.

You were eating them on the way here. Yeah. All of the food in your bag is rotted. Guys, something is. Wrong with this place. Look at this. They show them the destroyed rations. Oh my God. Billy cries. This was all fine this morning. What is happening? Have you ever seen this before? This is. And she's going through her bag and she had like some jerky, some like dried fish. And that's mush. It's covered in mold. It's just disgusting. She throws it on the ground like this was.

I smoked this myself. You smoked. I smoked fish. That's how you preserve fish. You smoke it. Okay. I preserve my mind every night. And I mime a joint. Hilarious. But what I'm saying is we don't have, we don't have food now. I can forage. I can be sustained by the forest, but I'm sorry. I can only do it for myself. We ate this morning. Lerm was kind enough to feed us. So we don't need any food. But we should be keeping an eye out for. For food on the way. Okay. Okay. I found some reindeer moss.

It's edible. For us? Yeah. You're not going to like it. But so you are continuing along the trail after that and you're gathering moss and the reindeer moss. Is that what you said it was? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's sort of, it's that kind of forest. It's like piney. Yeah. Some Matsutake mushrooms. And it's getting pretty rugged. You push through the forest and you finally get to like the river. The river that you were following. Earlier. What? Who deer called the Bull Rush River.

It's getting a little bit easier if you're walking along the riverside and wicker is following flowers. And then next step and you're waist deep in snow. Whoa. What? What the fuck? So am I under all the snow then? You were a little bit closer to the water side. So it's not too bad, but you're like pretty deep in snow. If he goes under all the snow, I can just like scoop. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, it's and it's just blowing. There's snow in your face.

Everywhere you look, the river is frozen over. The trees are covered in snow. It's just howling winds. Howling winds. What do you guys do? Is I talk to you? Is this normal? She says, I'm going to guess not. Okay. She's like screaming over the wind and she's struggling through the snow. I want to turn into a polar bear and welcome people underneath him. And I can at least block them from the. Yeah. Well, you can totally turn into a polar bear. So yeah, go for it. Nine. Eleven. Shit. Eleven.

So you get three hold. Cool. And you turn into a gigantic polar bear. With gills. Yeah. With gills. Is it snow all around us? All around. Everywhere you look, there's snow. Everywhere. Where is the river? The river is next to you. Okay. It's frozen, but it's broken in places. So you can see. Can I Spout Lore about this? What does this move for again? Spout Lore is calling on knowledge that you have previously gathered. Okay.

So this doesn't seem like something Tuck would necessarily have knowledge of. I've listened to a lot of metal albums. This doesn't seem like something Tuck would. I can't think of a situation. In which you would have learned about this. Where the weather changes all of a sudden. Okay. Well. Maybe there's a metal song about it. This is something. You've talked to a lot of people. So yeah. Give me a 2d6 plus your intelligence. Ten. Ten. All right.

So you have heard that the way that the unstable magic works. Some places exist in multiple states at once. I heard a metal album once. That was. It was called the river ways. Are all things at once. Like it was about these things called the river wars. That like there was crazy high levels of magic involved in them. And they fucked up like space and time. And they made it so that all along this one river network. The everything existed all the time. I don't know how to explain it. I need.

How's the song go? I need like a bassist and drummer to really get. Get it across. But basically there are places in the world and this river network was one of them. Where there was such intense magical energy that it shifts rapidly. It's unstable and it can shift between seasons or states like the geography can change. It's crazy. I didn't think it was real. So the thing that's useful that you knew with a 10 plus is that these areas are usually localized. Yeah. It's.

If we push through I think we can get on the other side of this and get back to where it's normal. Okay. All right. So how are you guys doing this? Well I'll cling on to things but or something like that. Hang underneath. Yeah. Oh yeah. You're a polar bear. Right. Yeah. You could probably just spend a hold because pushing through snow is something that polar bears do. Definitely all the time. Great. Okay. So while there's Tuck there's Billy and there's Houdier.

So you'd probably have to spend all your hold to do it. Okay. But once you dragged all of these people through the snow you could probably just get through the other side. So if you want to spend all three and have to if anything else comes up have to shape shift again and potentially screw it up you can. Or if any of you think that like Houdier is kind of on her own not on her own but she's like an old she's a pretty old woman. She's not a hardened traveler like you. Well.

So she would need help for sure. Okay. So I'll help her not tuck because he's he already said that he's pretty good. So he can. So you can. Do you think you can push through on your own. I have. I have OK constitution. I can probably get through without taking too much damage. Okay. Maybe I ask him if he's gonna be warm enough he holds up his leather wristbands I'll be fine. What's that. What's Billy doing. I was clinging on to his underside belly. But if Tuck is cold I could try to warm him up.

How. Just like laying on his shoulder. So you're going to hang out with. Pick an arm. And I'll keep it warm. OK. Well do you want to get in my beard so you don't get cold. No I'm fine. I have a lot of layers. Do you. Yeah. Are you just wearing a top. Flesh layers I believe. Oh OK. Fair enough. Yes. So that could be. So you could spend one hold basically to help who dear. And she's clinging on to your fur desperately. As you push through the snow. I'm just muscling through.

Like just taking what comes. Yeah. I'm taking. I'm like I'm shivering pretty violently. Violently. You. Um. Can roll your. Yeah. Six plus seven eight. Constitution. OK. So. So what does happen. Is you're just. Pushing through behind in like the wake. That thing is making with his polar bear form. And the wind is hammering you. And there's like ice coming down from the trees. That's. Smashing against your skin. The wind picks up really hard. And Billy is swept off your shoulder. Oh no.

Hits the snow and is just under. Gone. Fuck. You're going to take a bit of damage. OK. D six. It's pretty bad out here. Three. Three. So you take three damage. And you are just buried. I can't see anything. I go back and I scoop them up. Yeah. It's this. It's basically snowing so bad that it's already covered where he hit. So you're going to have to dig around in here. So two D six plus wisdom. Yeah. So he flies off. And I'm like. Yeah. Exactly. And I start running back.

But I can't see anything. Six plus two is. Eight plus wisdom is zero. You see a slight depression in the snow. OK. It hasn't totally had time to cover up. I start digging. You feel a hard little ball under the snow. Yeah. And I lift him up in both hands. I'm spitting snow out of my mouth. Are you OK? Yeah. I'm fine. I guess. Actually, I could just swallow it. I guess. Just water. Yeah. It's good for you. OK. And then I just stuff him into my beer. OK. All right. Sorry. And thank you.

And then you are really struggling against the snow. But your polar bear form is helping you. And just when you think I'm never going to be able to get everybody out. You just hit dirt. The river is babbling beside you. The trees are thick to one side and in front of you. Guys, it's back to dirt. Get up here. You don't see him. Where's everybody? Billy. Tacoma. Can we hear him? No, you can't. You just hear the howling wind. OK. Can we keep pushing forward? Yeah, absolutely. OK.

Give me another defy danger constitution to slam through. Hold on, Billy. Should I aid? Four, five, six, seven. You're pushing through this snowbank and a pine tree ahead of you. A branch overhanging this side of the river cracks under the weight. Just crack, crack, crack. And then comes swinging down. And it's coming right down. And Billy is in the way. And you throw your arm up over your side and over Billy. And it hits you. And the splinters in the tree cut and stab into you.

And the ice is stinging. And you feel blood start to pour down one side of your arm before it starts to freeze very quickly. OK, cool. Yeah, you take six damage. All right, I took six damage. Yeah, and you power right through it. I guess I react to that? Yeah. Oh, fuck. Oh, God. Oh, what happened? Nothing. I'm fine. OK, I'm just going to rub his chin. I am crying. Yeah, keep making that noise. Oh, my God. And then you're charging back into where you hope the edge. Billy Tacoma.

Yeah, and Billy and Tacoma pop into existence right in front of you. Fuck. Oh, my God. You look ridiculous. Yeah. He's bleeding. Get off the ground. He's covered in ice and snow, and his arm is bleeding. I was attacked by a million ice beasts. Oh, my God. A million. You poor baby. Come here. I was attacked by a huge monster. He's scooping him up and putting him against his big bear chest. There, there. I think it might have hit his head, but it was just a tree branch. No, it was a giant monster.

No, I'm pretty sure Billy doesn't get it. No, Billy, it was a monster. There was a… It was 200 feet tall. Oh. Oh. And… It looked way smaller. It was using a lot of racial slurs. Oh, you poor baby. It sounds horrible. And I took a moral stand against him. You're so strong. I know. As he's petting his head, he's slowly turning back into Ving. Okay. And Houdir's sitting on the ground and just says, that was awful. Yeah, I know. I fought a monster.

I have never in my 65 years seen anything like that. Oh. This was a bad idea. What? You brought us here. Yeah, I know that. And I don't know if I can… No, no, no, no. I don't know if I can keep doing this. You gotta… We're so close. We just lost… We almost lost Wicker, too. Well, we didn't. Look, Wicker's fine. Wicker is looking a little shaken, but yeah, she's all right. This was… I guess… I guess… I guess… Here, have some reindeer moss. She takes some moss, puts it in her mouth.

This is awful as well. I don't like any of this anymore. Well, we gotta finish it, I guess. And she looks at Billy and is sort of softening around the face, like, you're right. She reaches out and rubs Billy's cheek. Okay, I also rub her cheek. We'll get you through this. Okay. Thanks for listening, everybody. This has been Spout Lore. I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara. With me, player is Paul. And he runs his fingers. Like a rosemary. Abdul. Sorry. That was a really big act out for me.

And Jessica. No, I'm fine. I have a lot of layers. With our technical producer, Westlord. Thanks to Aaron Magoo at Heckler's for letting us record in the upstairs. The Heckler's upstairs lounge, where we've recorded this entire time, is very gracious of him. We are grateful for his graciousness. Thanks to Aaron Reed for his amazing intro and outro music. And we have been playing Dungeon.

World, a game by Adam Coble and Sage LaTorah, which is a hack of a game called Apocalypse World by Devenson Baker, which you can find online for purchase and for research. And it's great. And you should check it out. Thanks for listening, everybody. We'll see you next week. And so ends the tale of Adventures 3, who tried the best they can. Though dumb and scared and lost they be, for time's 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 expound more. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.