HALLOWEEN BOO-NANZA PART 1: Cider Haunted House Rules

Hey, everybody. Abdul here with the Spout Lore crew. Got Paul. Yeah, hey. Jessica. Hello. And Sean. Hi. And I've taken over the podcast. That's why I'm doing the announcement. Finally. Thank you. But we just wanted to drop a quick announcement here at the beginning of this episode, because this is a very special episode that we did a crossover, a special Halloween crossover with the crew over at Dungeons and Dragons.

We played an episode where our group and their group met up, and we had a spooky Halloween time adventure. And spooky it was. The first half of the adventure is going to be over here on our feed. And if you want to hear the conclusion, you're going to want to head over to the Dungeons and Dragons feed, where we, for the first time, play D&D 5th edition. Is that what that was? It was. It was. I know it was a lot more dice and numbers than you are all used to. Yeah.

In the second half, we are at a middle school dance. So you get to see exactly how awkward we all were in middle school. It was pretty fun. And you should be able to find a link to that episode and their feed in the show notes. So yeah, enjoy the episode and head over to Dungeons and Dragons for the conclusion. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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 Thing is half-elf, he shifts his shape And wields a spear with great might Billy's a thief His tiny size does max 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, I am Tacoma Dome I am a human barbarian My pronouns are He, him, and so are tux And I am Seven foot tall Five foot wide Probably like three feet deep I wear Kind of like a loose Kind of loin guard and boots I've got a loot with me most of the time Like a little backpack I'm bald of head and thick Of thigh And I have Like brown skin And Yeah, that's just what I look like Most of the time And now the character?

Yeah, also this is what the player Abdul also looks like Just scaled down by about 75% Playing Ving, the half-elf druid Paul Oppers Hello, my name is Paul Pronouns are he, him And I play Ving Vang Zumba A half-elf druid Pronouns He, they And he's a shapeshifter With wild gray long hair And a big puffy fur collar Flaps, lots of leather flaps Clothing flaps And waist flaps Knee flaps I got some dainty little boots on To help me Move through the forest silently And I have a spear And I'm tall and thin And wild gray eyes Pointy ears and I got gills Go on And playing Ving Fat Billy the Halfling Thief Jessica Tai Hello, I'm Jessica She, her I play Billy Who is a halfling child thief His pronouns are he, him He is two feet tall And two feet wide A little beach ball baby Rosy cheeks And red ginger hair He's cloaked in a little raccoon skin Cape hat thingy And wears little like I don't know, earthy tones Little baby boots Just a little guy in general Very hungry all the time And not joining me as always Playing Nrixius Acra A.K.A.

Glim the Dragonborn Paladin Carla Maxted Hi, I'm Carla I play Glim Glim is a Dragonborn paladin So Dragonborn is very tall She's about six foot five Looks like a bipedal dragon Covered in scales That are kind of different hues Of metallic brass and rose gold And platinum Her hands are Have talons with claws at the end She has a really long tail Big long horns And she is real into Bahamut Her main god Number one Love Playing Sullivan Slight The halfling rogue Amy Hey I'm Amy Moore And I play Sullivan Slight A lightfoot halfling rogue Sully has He's a He's a halfling So he's a shorter person He's a shorter person His pronouns are he him He's got this like Kind of like mid-length haircut With like half up bun situations Kind of a half man bun going on there And he's got deep dark skin And likes to dress in leathers And earth tones And he's pretty ballin' I'm playing Moot the half-orc sorcerer Tom Laird Yeah hello I'm Tom he him I'm playing Moot He is a half-orc sorcerer Has a wild magic background So occasionally he funds me out of my life Occasionally fun things happen when he casts spells He's got dark green eyes He's about five foot five Dark gray kind of green skin He's got a couple like lower fangs That kind of jut out from his mouth And yeah he kind of Just rocks like a messenger bag And you know Tunic and pants and boots That's so funny That he's just got a messenger bag He's got a little laptop in there Right I wish If you haven't guessed yet We've got sort of a crossover situation going on folks We've got the fine fine people at Dungeons and Dragons joining us today And also co-gming Russ Moore Hey that's me Co-gming gonna have a fun time It's like what we're doing here is like a Saturday morning cartoons crossover You know of the days of old 90s when Spider-man would go visit the X-Men And we'll let you determine Who's Spider-man and who's the X-Men in that scenario But if you don't choose Russ as Spider-man He'll hunt you down Yeah he will be personally offended When Abdul was last on our podcast he called people out to come to his lawn Now's the time when I drop my address and call you to my lawn Did I give out my address?

Yeah and your phone number buddy And your phone number Don't worry I edited it out But you did scream don't edit this out right after that But it is still up for patrons so You know you pay money you know You can go harass him too hard Well I'll give it out again My phone number is And my address is And after this crossover you come to my house And you tell me which one of The two shows you thought was better Which one of the cast was better And if you don't pick Spout Lore I'll Bite you on my front lawn Those are all fair things All fair you can pick Spout Lore when you're talking to me I'm not talking to Abdul but we know in your heart Of hearts that it's No competition because we're all friends here No competition because we're all here to have fun Why is it so competitiony?

Alright stop me talking You're the GM Wonderful then we'll get down to A game of Dungeon World A game that you all have not played before Once Sweet once Alright Tuck, Billy and Ving Two days ago you were resting At an inn called The Pluck Chicken Having a Just a nice meal on the road waiting for You know night to fall and Sleep to take you when you noticed a Poster on the side of The wall next to the fireplace That said to all seeking Riches and glory Please come To the midnight fair And then smaller underneath Ancider festival To take part in the challenge set up by my uncle, Count Murphy Vengabus.

And if thou art successful, his riches and inheritance thou shalt gain. And you found yourselves unable to resist the challenge. Let's see a second of how unable to resist that challenge you were. What does the poster say? It says, if to all seeking riches and glory, my uncle, Count Murphy Vengabus, has set up a challenge at the Midnight Fair and Cider Festival. And if thou art successful, his estate and inheritance thou shalt gain. How big is this fucking poster?

Yeah, it's actually a guy standing next to a poster who is telling you, this is the guy, I'm the guy, this is what's going on. Can you just read it? Can you say it in regular words instead of like literary languages? Okay, if you can just give me a fucking second. So the Vengabus is coming. No, yeah, this guy, Count Murphy Vengabus died. And his inheritance is available to whoever succeeds at a series of challenges. Are the challenges haunted?

The challenges are spending a night in a haunted house. That's the challenge. At the Cider Festival? The Cider Festival is a… Adjacent to a haunted house. So do you want to undertake these challenges or not? Hey Edgar, have you put up the sign yet? I'm trying. These guys keep fucking bothering me. Well, look, the boss told you if they ask too many questions, just move on to the next schlubs. Yeah, if you don't want it, that's fine. I'll see you guys later. No, no, no, no.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Is there free food at the Cider Festival and Midnight Show? Yeah, it's like a fair. There's like, there's food, there's games. Is there food better than the plucked chicken though? This stuff's delicious. I mean, it depends on how you feel about plucked chickens versus like a churro or an elephanty or a mini donut, which are all the same foods in different shapes. Wow, I've never eaten any of those animals. I would love to. I would love to go.

All right, then just see me. Come meet me outside tomorrow morning and I'll take you there. What time? Whatever, 7.30. You're going to be there? You're going to be here at the restaurant at 7.30? Do they do breakfast here too? Is it like a brunch? Yeah, they have a continental breakfast that doesn't start until 7.30. Because the unplugged chicken did not have an uncontinental breakfast. Look, that's when the carriage shows up and takes you to the venue.

So you don't have to, you can drink while you're there and then we bring you back home. It's very straightforward. Dougie, this was before I found out there was a continental breakfast. We will be leaving at 8 a.m. Oh, okay. Okay, 8 a.m. We can hold up. Yeah, I need that. I'm getting a little bowl of cereal. I need a bowl of cereal and a cold waffle. That's why I need that. And for my sanity, we cut forward 12 hours. I'm still at the inn eating, I don't know, my seventh helping.

I haven't slept at all. The driver realizes Billy is still there, turns around, goes back to the inn, grabs Billy. We cut forward another four hours. Billy is still eating. He's standing on the dead body of… Eating, finishing the bucket of chicken. And then we're going to cut forward an indeterminate amount of time that I'm in control of. And the cart that you three have been riding on for the better part of a day enters a forest. The sun is sitting low in the sky.

The gnarled, dark trees of the forest form an impenetrable tunnel ahead of you. The tunnel itself is not impenetrable. Yeah, how are we going to get through this tunnel? Yeah. It's a tunnel. Oh my God. It's one of those Roadrunner Wile E. Coyote tunnels that's just painted on. But a train comes out of it, really? Yeah. You enter the forest through the impenetrable tunnel and you hear in the, you know, the forest is quiet. You hear whoo, whoo.

And eventually the sounds of the forest give way to what sounds like calliope music. So it's kind of like… Like a… Like a jack in the box. That is not what a jack in the box sounds like. Okay. By show of hands, who thought that that was a jack in the box? I mean, organ grinder is pretty close. It's like… Right. Yeah. An organ grinder and a jack in the box are different things. Very close though. They are. Can I ask the owl where that music's coming from? Hey, who, who, who? What's up?

Oh, you can talk to animals. I always forget. 45 minutes later. Yeah. There's an owl sitting on the branches above you. What? What? Hey, what's going on? Where's that music coming from? How's this cider festival? Seriously. Is there anybody there? Is it worth it? I'm an owl. I have very little frame of reference for cider festivals, but there's people there. All right. Goodbye. And you ride a little bit further into the forest and come out into a clearing mercifully at last.

And the lights of this fairground fill the center of this forest clearing. There's stands everywhere with like black and yellow striped tents. There are people making and serving different kinds of fried foods. There's games. You can hear people yelling and laughing, having a great time, bells and whistles going off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Haunted mansion of some kind.

It's kind of got like this rough and shabby painted wood facade. And there's a small line of people standing outside of it. And the guy driving the cart stops and says, okay, just get off of my cart. We're here. And if you want to do the thing, do the thing. But I just got to get away from you. Is it because I farted so much? I'm really sorry about that. It's just like the chicken made me so gassy. And I'm not supposed to hold it in. I don't think it was the chicken.

I think it was the sheer quantity of chicken that might have done that for you, my child. All right, noted. Now, please get off my cart and I will see you never again, hopefully. Okay, bye. Bye. Okay, hopefully never. Thank you, help me down. Yeah, of course, bud. There you go. Whoa. Sorry. You are getting a plump, my friend. Thank you. You're very welcome.

And then Tuck leans over to Ving and he's like, we should maybe start like teaching a portion control because an entire inn's worth of continental breakfast is maybe too much. He cleared out a generation of chickens. I know. You told me that those chickens like started a myth about him after he left. Yeah, they were talking about him. There was one who was carving in the ground an image of him that they were supposed to avoid.

For their children to be hatched because they knew they weren't going to be there when they did hatch. They called him the hunger. So, yeah, what do you guys do? Do you see what you believe to be the haunted mansion of Count Murafu Vengabus in the distance and a number of tents and stalls around you? Cool. Do you guys want some cider? I can get some cider. Yeah, I'll have some cider. Great. Let's get some cider. Hey, cider guy. Yeah. Hey, I'm not the same. I'm the same guy. That's for sure.

And I'm also selling cider. What can I get you? Selling? No, thank you. Adieu, my good man. I thought this was a free cider festival. Yeah, there's a booth a few stalls down that says free cider. Shit, sorry. This guy. There's a booth that's selling cider and then another booth that's just free cider. Several down from it. Yeah. Yeah. Good luck, buddy. We go up to the free cider guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Good luck, buddy. We go up to the free cider guy and we're like, okay, you, what's wrong with this cider that it's free when other people are selling cider? This guy has an eye patch and he's breathing kind of hard. I don't know what you're talking about. I've got this cider. I found, I steal from the booth three stalls down and I sell my I'll-gotten booty from this stall. No, sorry. I don't sell. I give it away for free. Did the cider seller hurt you, sir?

Um, that is a past that I keep within me. Do you want some cider or not? Heck yeah. We'll take three. Okay. Here you go. And he gives you, um, three cups of cider. Hmm. How's it taste? I never actually had me. Wait. I already drank mine. I don't know what's going to happen. What is your business model, sir? What's your name? My name. My name is, uh, is, uh, is tillium. Yup. That's it. It's tillium. Tillium. Yup. I think it's tillium. Yup. It's a really nice name. It's really similar to mine.

What's your name? It's fat. Billy is short for fat. William. Oh, they, your first name is fat or they call you fat. It's just, you know, everyone has one of them. Skinny. Billy. Old Billy. They were all taken. You know. Is this your kid? Do you call your kid fat Billy? He came with that name. Yeah. I mean, what's a name? My name is Ving Vang Zumba. I don't care. Like, what am I going to do is change somebody's name. I guess. My name is Tillium. Yup.

I don't really have any, uh, leg to stand on here. Anyways, you guys should go check out that haunted mansion. That seems to be sort of the focal point of the fair. And that's probably a good place to start. See what's going on. We'll work our way to it eventually. Ooh. Is that wiener drop? Uh, it actually is. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Shit. There's a wiener drop. Yes. A wiener drop.

As you were talking to Tillium Yup, three, for you, very interesting looking figures come walking down the sort of, uh, cider row. Uh, one is a halfling, not unlike Billy, but seems to be, um, a lot taller and leaner, though still not very tall or lean, uh, for a person. Uh, a person that appears to be partially orc. Like, but not, uh, the gray of the Macallan orcs that you're used to seeing. And a full-on bipedal dragon. Oh! Oh!

I hide behind, I hide behind Tuck, I guess, because he's the biggest. Oh my God. Look at how tall that halfling is. They're beautiful. Guys, I don't think we should drink the cider from, from this booth. Can't be worse than the pickle lemonade. And, and it says it's free, so. Okay. Yeah. Sully, Moot, and Glim, you seem to have three individuals staring aghast at the three of you. What do you do? Look, look at the, I mean the stare, I mean the staring.

Well, they, they're just looking at my cool ranch Dorito corn dog that I got right over there. Fuck, I want a cool ranch Dorito corn dog. That's fucking great. God damn it, Tom! My brain parsed that so weird, because I thought it was a cool. Cool. Ranch Dorito. Ranch Dorito. Hot dog. And then I realized what I was actually. No, no, no, no. It's cool ranch. Excuse me, people in front of us. Oh my God. Is this cider, is, is the free cider poison? Yeah, that's the question.

I mean, it's not immediate poison. We're still here. This one's on me. Oh, this free cider's on you? I, thank you. That's great. Thank you. That's so nice. Well, you guys, I don't know. Like. That's a good idea, man. Oh, that's okay. I'll see what I can do. Will you about to give us a price for these ciders? That, it says free? Oh no, it's free. Okay. No, I'm, I just, hey, can I, and he leans over and he tries to get one of your cups back. Oh, you can have mine.

Is this just a little bit of backwash? So you can just dump it out. Yeah, that's fine. I'll dump it out. And he dumps it out on the ground and he wipes it out with a shirt and he comes back up with six cups full of cider. Okay, that one might be poison. He mixes that with a little bit of cider. That's better. That's better. That's better. Dumps it out on the ground and he wipes it out with a shirt and he comes back up with six cups full of cider. Okay, that one might be poison.

He mixes them up before you can take them out. Of course. I want everybody to have the same experience with the cider. Anyways, it's not poison. Nothing instills confidence like someone saying it's not poison. Well, cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Sully does that thing where you pretend to drink but then just pours it down his back. Like Cookie Monster. I catch that in my empty cup which I had already drank. I'm like, I'm not going to waste this. What does this cider taste like, guys? Like kombucha.

Oh, kind of fizzy? Yeah, it's a little young maybe I would have said. A little green, a little fresh. Is it just apple juice? Well, it's not quite apple juice and it's not quite cider. It's somewhere tillium yuppling and it goes, ya close. Hey, maybe sometime do you guys want to pay for cider? Yeah, can we shuffle down and pay for some cider? Yeah, let's go to the paid cider. Just to compare. This one's on you guys. I'm sorry, what? No, totally. This one's on us. No problem.

Hold on, because he got the free ones? Just to be nice. It's fine. So, six ciders, my good person? This one has a monocle on. The opposite of an iPad. Just the same guy? Did he just come three boots over? He's also breathing kind of heavy. Welcome to my paid cider cart. All the cider costs money here. Why does everyone in this village seem to have the same sort of loose New Jersey accent? That's a great question. And some kind of eye? Is there… You know what?

Now that you mention it, we all do kind of have an eye thing. You know what I mean? Anyway, six ciders, that'll be one coin, please. Here you go, my good man. Thank you very much. He gives you the cider. One for six? I know, one coin? How much is a coin? The Dungeon World economy is very loose. I'll give you guys a quick… Let me take a quick… Because I can honestly never remember how much stuff costs. I mean, D&D has serious real money and we don't care about that at all.

There are silvers and coppers and… Russ tries every once in a while, but… I made them get a bank account. Wow. So here's an interesting thing. Bandages, which have three uses and cost five coins and heal four damage. That's five coins. A healing potion, which heals ten damage, is fifty coins. It's exponential growth. Yeah. A week's stay at a peasant inn is fourteen coins minus your charisma. Right, because you can be like, hey… What about a week's stay at a holiday inn? Hmm.

That's a civilized inn. They do have that. A week's stay at a civilized inn is thirty coins minus charisma. But if you stay there for two months, you get kind of a deal, because they don't have to clean as often, so it's a little bit less. Now what if you just want it hourly? Because you just enjoy jumping up and down on the beds. Yep. But you don't want to make your own bed. That actually costs a little bit more for discretion. You add your charisma score onto the price for that one.

God, can't a halfling just bounce on a bed? Only because I know what that means I'll say no. I've been to the halfling lands. I know what's up. I don't know. Where are halflings from in Faerun? It doesn't matter. Everywhere. Everywhere and nowhere. Oh. Interesting. Oh, yeah. They're kind of like a diaspora. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. They're all over the place. Got them in the hills, in the mountains. Under the ground. No, those are gnomes. In the trees. You can't tell me where I can live.

Sully starts digging. Are you going to halfling-splain? Yes. That's right. Sorry, I'll go back to my corner over here. You're the guy at the bartered cider booth. Oh, there's a bartered cider booth. It's in between the free cider and the paid cider. Hey, who's got a deal? Oh. Yeah, I got a bunch of this cheap, shitty cider. I'll give you this. Free cider for a bit of your ha-cider? Oh, yeah. We got the ha-cider over here. You can take it and you can trade it for funnel cakes later.

Billy, what do you think, bud? Oh, I would eat any kind of cake for sure. A funnel. Whatever other shapes exist. Cup? Great. As long as you give them the cup, they put the funnel cake in the cup. But then does it make it a cupcake? You're onto something. You're onto something. Yeah, so you kind of got the run of this fair. There's games. From what you can hear, there's a cider competition going on. Some sort of judge all the ciders deal and, you know, just general fair stuff.

Hey, what are you guys doing here? Well, you know, we heard that Murphy Vengabus bit the biscuit and well, the sign was a little confusing because someone read it to me but they said, my uncle? And so I'm like, hold on a second. We're going to have to fight someone for his uncle's stuff. That's what I think. So just be on your toes. We came to see the haunted house. Yeah, what he said.

In a more general sense, we're going to save the world and this is just like one stop in our grand scheme to save the world. But Glim, have you told him about Bahamut yet? Oh my God, you guys know about Bahamut? We've known you for five minutes and I can't believe she hasn't bonded up yet. Well, I mean, cider and I can talk about Bahamut if you guys want. Yeah. Oh yeah, please. I would like to a quick primer on Bahamut. Okay.

There's this really cool guy and his name's Bahamut and he basically like makes the world full of truth and justice and make sure all the good people are punished. No, no opposite that. Oh my God, this cider is going into my head. This is so embarrassing for Glim. Wow. Can we still record this forever? Look, look, that guy's doing caricatures. We need a picture of Glim fucking up a speech.

I guess the thing is usually people have walked away by now, so I don't usually get this far into my whole spiel about Bahamut, but you know, rewards the good, punishes the bad, maintains an equilibrium of truth and justice in the world. Is it like a dragon god? Yeah, well, I mean, he's a dragon, but sometimes he's an old man. You know gods. Totally. Yeah. Super chill. Totally. He's a really cool guy. Do you guys want to get one of those like potato potatoes? Yes, I do.

Do they do blooming onions here? Does anyone know? Oh, yeah. They saw blooming onions in the next row over. I'll go get a blooming onion with you. Yeah, they just grow in the ground honestly. They're just picked by a British guy. Blooming. Just rummage around in the ground and find a blooming onion. That's like a Mario 2 situation. Yeah, you pull it out. If you pull it quick enough, they're still warm. And if you lift it above your head, you get 20 gold.

Yeah, there's so you head to the food court area. There are all of the fried foods that you could imagine. There are rotato potatoes. There's regular potatoes, french fried potatoes, a variety of rats. Get your rats. There's a rat booth. Is he saying rats? It's a raps. Rat raps, I believe. Yeah, it looks like a rat inside a wrap. It's a rat. A rat wrap. Can you rap about the rat rap, please? In West Philadelphia, born and raised on the playgrounds where I learned rat raps. Yeah.

I can't use that. Just behind a paywall. This is on their show. Will Smith, if you got a problem, with us, Abdul will fight you on his front lawn. His address is Yeah. Get over here, Fresh Prince, and I will do you dirty. Fuck, I shouldn't have said that. I mean, he might come over now. Can I discern realities or spell Laura? Absolutely. Oh my God. It feels weird. Yeah, it does, doesn't it? Go ahead. So Spout Lore. Well, no, I guess discern realities.

We'll do a discern realities, which is 2d6 plus your wisdom modifier. Okay. Shit. Five. Straight up failure. Yeah. Okay. So your failure is you look around and you're like, man, something is fucking up with this place. And you notice that the the edge of the forest that your cart came through. You can't seem to find the path that brought you into this place. And the more you look around, you realize you can't really see a path that will bring you out of this place. Oh, fuck.

It's a side, isn't it? It's churning in here. No, it's not that it's do you guys see where the entrance where we came in was? Yeah, it was right over the what? Are we trapped here? Well, you know, I'm not totally surprised. It was an impenetrable tunnel. So that was the weird part. Yeah. Yeah. The fact we got in here is just completely amazing as it is. We should probably just enjoy it. That owl fucked with me. I make it what? Sorry, that owl. I think he had something to do with it. Okay.

Sully looks at Moonglum like this guy, a guy with a guy with a top hat and a coat with tails walks up to you and he's got like a domino mask across his eyes like one of those straight up black masks. It's like, hey, are you guys enjoying the midnight fair inside a festival? Yeah, but it's only like 8 p.m. So I think you need to get your time in. Or is it for mystery? It's more of a mystery kind of thing. It's like a branding operation. Anyways, would you guys like to play a game?

Can I see if he's like suspicious in any way? Yeah, you can discern realities. The man in the top hat and the mask? It doesn't seem suspicious at all. This guy seems normal. And I roll it with 2d6 plus wisdom. Six and then two. So that's nine total. All right. So that means you get one question out of the discern realities list. Okay. You just fully covered your camera like that to look at. And it's not on any of these sheets. I don't remember. It's fine.

The questions for discern realities are what here is useful or valuable to me? Who is really in control here? What here is not what it appears to be? That one. What here is not what it appears to be? Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. Okay. I'm using my binoculars mentally. Oh, the binoculars? Yeah, my mental binoculars. You realize that it's not that everybody in the different booths seems to be vaguely similar.

It's that they are all the same guy and he is running from booth to booth and putting on different disguises because he seems to be panting nonstop. I already knew that. All right. Billy is like Billy tells him he's just like, I'm sorry. I don't have anything new for you guys. But if you would let me finish if you would let me finish my sentence. All right. All of the sounds that you've been hearing people laughing people having a good time all the games being played bells and whistles.

You can see that there's a series of music bottles left all over the place and anything that you saw that you thought was people was like tricks of the light. So you're as far as you can tell the only ones here. Oh my gosh, you guys look over there but like not obviously those aren't empty cider bottles. It's a trap and tucked as a slow turnaround to discreetly look. It's like this. So this is weird. Super discreet. Great visual gag on an audio. It's perfect. Yeah. Yeah.

Dungeon fans will like that. They get it a lot. They get it. But what you do see is closer to the wooden painted facade of the haunted mansion. You see two figures and the guy standing in front of you who's like, do you want to play a game? Is it okay? You know what? Just bring out the nephew. I'll fight him and solve this whole thing. That is not the situation that you find yourself in my fine fellow. The game is not nephew fight. The game is not nephew fight. It's Sully's favorite game.

The nephew fight takes place at the midday festival, a midday fair and beer fest. Oh, yes. Brawling during midday is my favorite. That's when people fight the most we found. That's right. When the sun is its highest in the sky. That is the best time because you make a public scene. Yeah. There's no shadows. No one gets an unfair advantage. Do you guys have uncle race here? Uncle. I'm unfamiliar with that. What race is your uncle? What race is your uncle? Yeah.

It's where you try and guess what race an uncle is. I thought that was the one where you put the uncles in wheelbarrows and just go for it. I mean, that's what it is in the halfling lands. Right? Throw a bunch of halflings in a barrel or in a wheelbarrow. Yes. The uncles and all the nephews and nieces. You get to the river, you dump them in. Whoever dumps their uncles first. It's called dump-a-nunk. Exactly. You've played it before. You know what? Yeah. It's been so…

I haven't talked with another halfling in forever. It's been both so long and too soon. Yes. He didn't mean that. Yeah. Now I'm realizing that the halflings that are looking at each other look very different from one another. Yeah. Because Sully's kind of like slight and like lean and what? How tall would you say? Like three, three and a half? Three foot five. Wow. You are just absolutely… I'm towering above him. I love you. Statuesque. Thanks. You know, come from a tall family, I think.

So these are lifts a little bit too. So yeah. Oh, very nice. Some newspaper in there. Sully, correct me if I'm wrong, but do halflings have kind of a hobbit foot situation going on? Yeah. They're a little furry feet. Yeah. So Billy, this halfling also has large furry feet. You can't see him though. I put them in boots. Oh. I don't flaunt my foot situation. Oh, I love it. You can ask me about it if you want. You also got that on your certain reality. You could see through boots.

It's just right there. The Billnoculars have achieved an x-ray quality. I have to close them off because I'm like, well, I'm seeing too much now. Yeah, that's right. Be careful where you point those. Yeah. Just to clarify, you don't have to fight anybody's uncle. You merely have to spend a night in the haunted mansion of Count Murphy Vangabus. Are you Vangabus? Are you Vangabus? No, I'm not Vangabus. Prove it. Vangabus is dead, one. Vangabus is dead. Vang pokes him in the face.

He's trying to see if he's corporeal. I'm corporeal. Don't you worry. You get him in the eye once or twice. And two, the Count's nephew, Dremel Vangabus, is right over there. Sorry. We look over there. There's a guy in a dark robe with long, dark hair standing with another person who looks… Russ? Who looks very dapper. He's got tails, full tails, and a top hat, and a very pronounced beard. And he's panting. And it's the same guy you were just talking to. I've seen this guy before.

Okay, guys, there's something… I mean, obviously, we are going on here. Excuse me, sir, do you mind? I'm having a private conversation. Who, me? Yeah, you. I saw you leaning in. It wasn't anything weird I was trying to do. I was just trying to listen to your conversation. Is that a strange thing? If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean. Now, shoot. Oh, goddamn, you're right. I got 50 booths I gotta clean. Somebody spilled cider all over there and peed on that barrel over there.

Don't ask me how I know. And he's off. Guys, something weird's going on. Something weird's going on here. Oh, yeah. Because, like, number one, you know, all the weird stuff that Billy said. But then, also, if the nephew's here, why is he giving away his uncle's fortune? And number three, what was the dress code for this festival? Because I feel like we kind of went, like, festival casual and, like, they're wearing top hats and tails. And I just…

I mean, I could have dressed up, but I didn't know. It's inconsiderate not to include it on the poster. Just put the dress code on the poster. If it's going to be black tie, that's fine. But just, like… But also, yeah, everything's totally weird. And, like, why is the nephew want us to… I guess we could go ask. Should we just go… I mean, are we doing anything? We just spend the night here? There's also, like, no way out, right? Like, we're trapped… That's a good point.

That's a great point. We're trapped in here, Mirror Dimension style. Anyone see the most recent What If episode for the Marvel What If series? I skipped it. He's doing fantasy shit. He's doing fantasy shit. He's doing fantasy shit. He's doing fantasy shit. The guy with the top hat and the domino mask is like, there's just too much Marvel stuff now. You know what I mean? It's kind of hard to keep up with everything. He saturated the market is what it has done.

It's like, I like an Avenger as much as the next guy, but do I really want to know what fucking Bucky's up to once he gets a haircut? I don't think so. He's very mopey, sir. Oh, as you guys are wandering over, that's not Dremel Vangabus. It's the guy with the top hat and the other guy. So many guys with top hats. Right? It's hard to keep track of all of them. Yeah. Okay. Man in front of the haunted mansion with a dark robe and a long, slick hair. Top hat, we know. No, no top hat.

His fingers are steepled in front of him, standing next to a dapper man in a top hat. Okay, wait. What are his nails like? Oh, good question. Perfectly manicured. Long, sharp. Serial killer. Yeah, right? Fuck this guy. Jesus. Yeah. This guy's a serial killer. Tuck says to the guy. I hear moot whisper in, and then I'm like, yeah, you're right. This guy is a serial killer. He presses his hand to his chest, and he goes, what? Me? A serial killer? Look, he's even got this serial killer accent.

I can assure you, fine folks, we are not serial killers. Why have you trapped us here? Where's the way out? I know not what you mean. You are not trapped. You have merely come to take advantage of an opportunity. I have no opportunity. Yeah, we already had the free cider. Ah, well, then there is a second opportunity. I had the Bloomin' Onion, man. The batter was quite wet. The guy said, let me fry it for you, and I said, no need, my friend. So it is a raw onion with a lot of wet beer back.

Tuck, you look over, and Tuck's beard is like caked. Just in dirt. Like cemented to your face. Now it's beard batter. What? It's beard batter. Oh, sorry. The man with the top hat leans in to what you can presume is the nephew and says, but why did we choose these people? It was not a choice, my good man. It was an opportunity presented to many. Anyone brave enough to take it has the chance of a lifetime. Unfortunately, few have taken that chance. So we are forced to accept whoever arrives.

Whoever arrives. I, Dremel, Dremel, I have to ask, why do you not just take your uncle's estate? Ah, my uncle, the Count Murfew Vengabus was a troubled man. He had many aspirations, which saw to his early end. I, myself, Dremel Vengabus, a lesser noble in the Vengabus family. I am wealthy beyond your wildest dreams, but what I love more than money. Is a spectacle. And so gross. From behind the nephew, two symbols clash together. Confetti cannon. Please tell them the rules of tonight.

Well, first you must enter the haunted house. Okay. Then you must spend the night in the haunted house. Okay. Uh-huh. Then, if you make it, you win. What was it they win? All of it? The haunted mansion. The haunted mansion. As well as the riches contained within. Yeah, hold on. This is a real estate situation. Like, okay, are we in a pocket dimension or does this mansion actually exist somewhere? I don't want a fucking house. I got to take up. The upkeep of this thing is going to be absolutely.

It's in the middle of a forest. I mean, come on. That guy over there, he will clean it for you. Ah, so it's more like a vacation home. Okay. Yeah, there's a guy with horn-rimmed glasses and a full-on janitor's jumpsuit and a mop and he's panting really hard and he gives you a thumbs up. Yeah, I'm going to clean the shit out of this place. Don't you worry. It comes with it. You know what? Why don't you just give the mansion to this guy? He's the hardest working guy in your crew.

He's working so hard. Yeah, small one. I have a question. What is the house haunted? Oh, that's a great question. Great question. The ghost. Thank you. I mean, not the ghost. No, the mansion is haunted by ghosts. Okay, that was kind of a given. That's it. That's it. Thank you, Edmund. But like, what kind of ghosts? Just a sort of general ghost. Ah, fuck this guy.

Edmund, as you've said, whoever stays one full evening inside my uncle's mansion receives the entire state as well as the inheritance contained and the riches contained within. Can we Spout Lore on the ghosts? Yeah, totally. You can Spout Lore about this whole situation. All right. So 2d6 plus intelligence, which is none of your strong suits. None. One. And one. Woo! You roll like me. Jessica. You guys can roll dice too, you know. Yeah, you know what though? I don't understand this game.

Oh, yeah. So I'm just gonna RP the shit out of this. That's the thing. Literally, if you tell me, just tell me something you wanna do. Okay. And I will tell you what move that is. And then you will roll it and I will tell you what happens after that result. Excellent. So I will just explain it to you as we go. Nice. So if your character has something they would like to achieve, let me know and we'll figure it out. You are so much more accommodating than Russ is gonna be.

I'm so sorry for your players. You know, I didn't wanna say anything, but… He's gonna make you play D&D. Okay, good to know. Thanks, Sean. Yeah. So yeah, actually, great question. So Moot, Glim, Sully, anything you wanna try and figure out while we're here? Not yet. Okay. I'm gonna wait till it's D&D before I start rolling things. No. Wait till we're on my home tour. And the minute we step through the door, is it gonna become D&D? D&D town? Pretty quick. Damn it.

The way it's gonna work is I'm gonna do the initial chunk of the house and then we'll switch and then Russ will take it home. Yeah, I think that sounds good. Unless we dick around on the front steps for a while. That's right. Unless we sample cider at like every booth in the hall. When he hears you say that, the guy in the janitor's outfit is like, please, no. He starts unzipping like real sad. He's just chugging a Gatorade trying to replenish his stomach. He does electrolytes.

He does a line of halfling white powder. All right. Okay, hold on. You said we're not trapped in here. No. But you've taken out the exits. No. I do not know what you speak of. We did nothing. You guys want to stay in the haunted house? I mean, you guys look like a bunch of accomplished, you know, useful weirdos. Yeah. Oh, sorry. I'm talking to my, the Sully moot and glim here. Oh, sorry. Yes, we will. We will go converse in the foyer.

They both sweep up the staircase, which I should say, they're talking about this place as if it's a grand palace, but it is very much a wooden painted facade of a mansion. I mean, you guys look like you can handle yourself. We know that we're down for whatever. What do you, like what? They're not letting us go. They're not giving us any information. Let's just sleep in this haunted mansion. Yeah. And then, okay. So, I mean, let's say we all come out alive. Well, yeah. Let's say that. Well, yeah.

No, that's what I'm saying. I'm saying it. Let's assume, let's assume we're all going to make it out alive. Are we going to work this thing like a timeshare or like? Yeah. How do we split the money? I mean, our daily rate is five gold coins a day. Yeah. Plus dental. So. So as long as we come out with at least that much, I think we're fine. 15 gold for the night. And then you guys can take the rest. I mean, your math is confusing, but okay. I mean, it doesn't.

Uh, hey, Hey, uh, Butler, whoever you are. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Uh, how, how many coins are in the prize bag in the inheritance? Well, I mean, did we count the coins? Uh, no, there's a, there, there's a vault. Uh, there's a paintings. There's a. So it's not just one bag with a dollar sign on it. No, no. We kept everything. Can I ask a related question? Yes. I don't really care about like worldly goods. I'm wondering if there's any sort of like pure of heart reason why we would be doing this.

Like, do the ghosts need to be free to go on to the great beyond or like any sort of. Sure. Oh, I mean, okay. Then I'm, I'm totally in. What do you guys think? I mean. Why did you put a facade up? I, I don't know what you mean. This is the, this is the mansion of count. The Murphy. You think of us? If, uh, if one of you want to, wants to maybe learn something about the situation. You can go ahead and roll a discern reality. I want it. I want to roll. All right. I want to discern reality.

So discern realities is 2d six plus your wisdom modifier. Of course. Russ gave me negative one. I mean, I did this sheet myself and I have a zero Tom. Let's just a quick check in on wisdom for our characters. Uh, wisdom got a solid zero. I made the match your D and D characters. Okay. Uh, I rolled a six minus one, six minus six minus one total. Yeah. Uh, that's a five and that's a failure.

So go ahead and take a point of experience that will, uh, evaporate into thin air at the end of our crossover. I was going to say, I don't even know where to put it on my sheet. Just put a check Mark there. And, uh, as you are trying to like, you're like kind of looking at everything, like something seems even more off about this place. Um, you're just like, nah, they've really, they've really got it together. I don't know. I don't know why, but this seems legit to me. Guys, I'm on board.

I don't know what it is about this place. Is it the facade gives me those, you know, nostalgic feelings of the way that fairs were when parents would probably take children there or something like that. We should definitely go inside. I agree. Let's go. Can we just walk? Like I start going up the there's steps. Hey. Yeah. There's like, there's front steps. It's about, you know, like 30, 40 steps. It's nothing huge. Uh, I mean, it seems like a lot of steps. There's a lot of stairs.

There you go, Billy. And, uh, something you notice as you're going up these steps is they're certainly moving a lot. Like they're definitely like, rickety as hell. Yeah. They feel like they're kind of bouncing a little bit as you're going up and the closer you get, you start hearing like, I don't know what you're doing. Cause Zoom's Yeah. Zoom did not want you to make that noise. Okay. Then you're kind of hearing this, like, like, wind. Wow. So can you stand?

It's so breezy up here from inside the house. It's definitely feels like it's coming from like the, basically the entryway, like Billy, Tuck and Bing, you're more familiar with this kind of technology. As you get closer to the front door, you see kind of like in a potted plant next to the doorway, you see another music bottle, like jammed in the dirt. And then you see a little bit of a cork off, and that's definitely where this like, wind sound is coming from. Can I take it? I want it.

Okay, sure. I'm taking the wind. We'll stay the night, but I'm taking the wind. You can just jam a cork in there and then, the wind sound stops completely. Right. Tuck steals the potted plant too. Great. So now you're just carrying- I mean, it's all going to be ours- Yup. At the end of the night, right? That's a positivity I love. That's a positivity I love.

And as you get up to the doorway, you hear like, creak, and the doors swing inward, revealing the yawning portal of the entryway to the mansion of Count Murphy Vengabus. Is it an actual portal? No, it's a doorway. Oh, okay. Can I discern realities? Yep, absolutely. One of you is going to get to discern realities eventually. Okay. Five failed. Jesus fucking Christ. Okay. It's dark in here. Yeah, it is. The three of you. Okay. So the three plus three, the six. I'm used to saying the three.

The six of you walk through the doorway, and as you get inside, you're struck by the deep gloom inside the entryway. And once the last of you steps through, the doors slam shut behind you. Boom. And complete pitch black darkness. And after a few seconds, a light starts to rise in the room, and you see, you know, one of those like double stairways that goes up to like a second floor door. You see one of those. You see a table covered in candelabras. Covered in candelabras. How many candelabras?

Give us one of these. Many menorahs? A table absolutely sagging under the weight of the candelabras that sit atop it. You see bookcases. You see a bookcase. You see a bookcase. You see a grandfather clock. Paintings on the wall. Two rooms to either side of you. And all of this is lit by what very much seems to be a series of black lights. Black lights? Wow. Yeah. Like there's white cobwebs on everything, and they're glowing bright under the light.

And there's like sticky spiders all over the place. Like plastic green glowing spiders. I'm starting to have the feeling that maybe this is a movie. Maybe this place isn't haunted at all. Yeah. Billy's gonna go. I'm going over to the cobwebs, and I start wrapping myself up in them. I'm like, dibs. I have this for my blanket. Billy, you don't even realize they're cobwebs, because you just grab them, because they look so soft. And it feels like the softest cotton.

Maybe a little artificial, but just such soft, like spun cotton. That's nice. And you get a little plastic spider. There's a little plastic spider wrapped up in it, too. Nice. So yeah, what do you all do? Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello! In response, you hear, Hello. Show yourself. Leave this place now before it's too late. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you there, ghost. It's okay. I left a long enough gap between my initial ooh and when I started speaking. I just wasn't sure of you.

I'm gonna continue. But now, again, you must leave this place, place, place. Do you have like unfinished business we could help with? Or I'd really like to set your soul free. In life, I was a great, um… Fuck. This is what it actually sounds like. In life, I was an influential… Oh, fuck. Carpenter. I was a carpenter. And I was… As I constructed a home for my beloved and I to live in, I was crushed by a support beam. And that is my tragic backstory. That's really like a multiple person job.

I agree. It was not up to code. I mean, I'm willing to help whoever, but like between us, that doesn't really… Just like a safety standard issue, more than like a tragic backstory. But I mean… I mean, even if you really think about it, it's not something you can help me with. Instead, perhaps help me with this task. Ooh. Inside this room contains our three keys. The hands. The hands. Jazz hands. I know. I only see the one hand. So it's just… You start to… You start to…

At the top of the staircase behind the banister, you start to see a couple hands pop up doing like these twiddly fingers. That's some spirit fingers you got going on there. Inside this chamber, these chambers, three are contained keys. Also three required to unlock the door behind me. So there are three keys in each room or one key in each of the three rooms? Yes. Yes. Oh my God. That's not the same number. Moose, does that math add up to you? I don't even know what's going on.

All I know is this guy liked to party. Find the keys if you wish to continue or your fate shall be sealed like mine. And then it stands up behind the banister at the top of the staircase, glowing bright white. The brightest blinding white is a white sheet of a white sheet of white. And then it's like, I don't know what's going on. I don't know. It's a white sheet with holes cut in the eyes and two hands underneath. Doing this movement, this twiddly kind of sixties dance move.

I want to go- Find the keys- No, please go you first. I'm so sorry. No, please. I've done my thing. It's now your turn. I want to go up the stairs and just see how many keyholes are up there. Cause I don't know if we're looking for six keys or three keys. No, don't. Don't come back. Come up the stairs. Not yet. Can I dash up there and grab off his blanket? You certainly can. Okay. Try. So 2d6 plus dexterity. That'll be a defy danger.

I'm going to try and throw my spear and take the blanket off of him and just put the spear in the wall behind him. Not to the man, but you know. That's okay. No, no, no, no, no, no. But what you're saying is a thing that would be extremely difficult to do. The other thing that you would do, likely, is throw a spear into a man. Uh, whatever. He's a ghost. Yeah. He's a ghost, Sean. Ghosts can't feel spears. Yeah. And I said that. Oh, a ghost, eh? All right.

I don't think you know much about ghosts. Ghosts can't feel spears, Sean. Ghosts are impervious to spears. But they can lift sheets. We all know that. That's the thing. Everybody knows about ghosts is they're impervious to spears. I'm going to spear it. Okay. 2d6 plus. Spear. Plus your dexterity. Nice. My dexterity is 2, I think. Yeah. I got 9 in total. Okay. Use a little aid here. So I don't spear a man who's clearly not a ghost. Actually, let's see.

So aid in Dungeon World is you roll 2d6 plus your bond, which is another stat that Dungeon World has reflecting how close people are. I'm going to give you, I'm just going to say everybody's got a plus 1 in this because you've been palling around. You're in a situation now. We've been drinking together. Yeah, exactly. So if one of you wants to aid Ving in his spear throwing, tell me how you do it and then we will roll. I will go behind him.

I don't know how tall you are, but this is going to be awkward. I go behind him and like, like put my hand on his hand and like guide the spear. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right, so 2d6 plus bond, which will be plus one. So that's a 2d6, Amy. Ooh, that's a nine plus one is 10. Yes! Whoa! Finally! That makes it a plus 10. Thank you, Sully!

And that is a perfect aid. You're fitting right into the Spout Lore. No, you. So through the absolutely borderline sensual guidance of Sully, Ving, your spear flies true. And as the hands are raising up, creating sort of like a, you know, a bridge between the hand and the top of the head in the spear, your spear catches right in that shoulder area, ripping the sheet fully off. And you see a human body duck down beneath the banister and go, what are you doing? And then they go, huh?

And you hear somebody stumble through the back door. The doors at the top of the staircase swing open for a second and then slam shut. Seems like we don't need. We don't need any keys, so. You hear a, you hear a wonk and like a crackle. And then a voice seems to emanate from the room itself. It goes, just find the keys. It's totally normal to do that. I thought we were just supposed to sleep in this house. Yeah. There's slightly more to the situation. There always is.

Yeah, I wanted to go upstairs, but as I do, I want to play the game. Slightly. And I want to initiate trap expert. Oh, perfect. Yes. A trap expert is 2d6 plus dexterity. Okay. That's a seven. Okay. So you get one point of hold, which you can spend on trap expert to ask one of those questions. Okay. What else is hidden here? Ah, brilliant. You start like walking towards the staircase and you're looking around like this place is fucking weird.

And as you start walking towards the staircase, you see the grandfather clock has two regular clock hands, but one of the hands looks very strange. Oh, I go up to it. Is it a key? It's a key. Hey guys, I found a key. Wow. Oh, wow. Only two or five to go. One or the other. I guess if we're going to also play the game, I need to do quest, which means I dedicate myself to this mission. Oh, is Bahamut going to be jealous? No, no. Cause I do this by commuting with Bahamut.

I pull up that tool, keep the letter and I'm like, Bahamut, come on man. Just like help me out a little bit. We're staying in this place or maybe we're finding keys. I don't really know like exactly what the situation is. Something about a bad support beam. Either way, if you could just like do me a solid and get us through this, that would be dope. I forgot about quest. This could be a real, real problem for me. Oh, that's okay. I don't know how it works. So quest here's, this is fun.

We've never had a paladin in the game and our game is very low magic. So this is an interesting move. The paladin has the move quest. When you dedicate, actually, you know what, Carla, why don't you read it out? Sure. When you dedicate yourself to a mission through prayer and ritual cleansing, state what you set out to do. So I have some options with some blanks, slay blank, defend blank from blank, discover the truth of blank, which is maybe more what we're doing here. Yeah.

Then choose up to two boons, an unwavering sense of direction to blank invulnerability to pick one, a mark of divine authority senses that pierce lies. I don't even know what that means. It's very poetic though. A voice that transcends language, freedom from hunger, thirst, and sleep. So Carla's about to just end the game. I was going to say, anytime you need to pull the rip cord, just say, and now it's dungeons and drag.

I'm feeling it's about to, it's about to end, but cause I, there's one I'm looking at that's just like, well, yeah. Okay. So what do you, what would you choose for your two boons? Um, I don't care about freedom from hunger, thirst, and sleep. I mean, there's so much free cider, right? Exactly. I still have a lot of blooming onion with me. Yeah. Things looking, talks beard in a platonic way. Oh yeah. Open mouth though.

Uh, I probably want senses that Pierce lies and probably an unwavering sense of direction to keys. Yep. That'll do it. That'll do it. Wow. No wonder you never showed us this move before. Sorry. I shouldn't have read the sheet. Maybe that was your first mistake. Maybe I've ruined everything. An unwavering sense of direction to keys. God damn it. Uh, so, yeah, you pray to Bahamut. You say, Hey Bahamut, I'm in a haunted house. Can you help me out? Then you hear the voice of Bahamut in your ear.

That's like been there. No problem. And your eyes take on the sites in a new light and you see just how fucking shabby this place is for the first time. The craft in this place is of middling to poor quality. It's all covered with like an overabundance of Halloween ish. Decorations and the black light makes things scarier than they would look normally because it's all like plywood and paint. You look over at tuck and he's eating a bowl of peeled grapes. That's the eyeballs on the side.

The witch's eyeballs. Yeah. Oh, these are just grapes. Fuck. I wanted these to be eyeballs. That would have been so metal. Yeah. Billy's like arm deep in a bowl that says brains, but it's just spaghetti. Yeah. I'm really going to town even though I'm really full. So, I'm panting. I'm also panting a lot. Gotta make room for all this. Be a hero, Billy. Be a hero. I'm just like talking to myself, talking myself up. Try and make myself feel better about this haunted night we're going to have.

That's what heroes do. Yeah. And your eyes are drawn. Bahamut whispering in your ear. Hey, go to the dining room. He's just playing hot and cold. He's like, warmer, warmer, colder, colder. No, that's exactly what's happening. Bahamut doesn't get a lot of prayers that involve haunted houses. So, he's into this one. Pretty good time. Yeah. Go to the dining room. Yeah. I'm just going to, I'm just going to head into the dining room. I got a bit of a feeling.

Bahamut's kind of giving me some key vibes. Okay. From in there. All right. So, where do you think it is? There's, I'm going to pull out the chair at the head of the table. Oh, you're close. Okay. And then kind of duck under the table. No, cold, cold. Oh, oh. Cold. I pull out each chair and look at the seat. As you get closer to the middle of the table, where the table settings are, there's like a serving dish in the middle with like the silver, like kind of lid.

And Bahamut's like, hot, hot, burning hot. So fucking, it's right. It's, you're so close. You're so close. And I lift it up. Ta-da. There it is. And there's a key underneath. I like the Bahamut's coming to you as like a surfer dude. It's kind of right. This is. Bahamut. No spoilers, but this is what every dragon we've ever met has sounded like. So this is. Fair enough. This is as close as I've gotten. I love it. And yeah, so Glim has found another key under the serving dish. That's two keys.

And Bahamut is also like, look, let's just fucking speed run this. There's, go to the library. Okay. Library. Let's go. I feel like we're all following behind her. Yeah. Yeah. We're bored. I'm just like, Oh God, I'm fingers rolling as hard. So he's shape-shifting his eyes to roll so hard. See, I told you guys about him. It was so cool. Just go to the library and here you go. Look, where do you think it is? Oh, nevermind.

And, uh, Bahamut seeing through your eyes, sees a ghost, a sheet ghost sitting on a chair with a cup of cider in its hand with like the sheet lifted up and you can see a mouth underneath. And then it looks like, oh, everybody goes, Oh fuck. Ooh. Got this asshole again. It's, uh, another. Is it Dremel? Do we recognize him? No, you actually don't recognize the face underneath. Is this Tillium Yup? There's no way to know for sure. That's a yes. And Bahamut's like, uh, that dude just has the key.

Oh, um, excuse me. Excuse. Do you have a key? Do you have a key? Do you have a key? Do you have a key? Do you have a key? Do you have a key? Do you have a key? Do you have a key? Do you have a key? Do you have a key? Do you have a key? Could just have, I mean, maybe, maybe you forgot to hide it or something. Like I won't tell your boss or anything. It's totally fine. Like just. No, the keys are, are hidden amongst the. Oh fuck. Yeah. Shit. Could you turn around for a second? Yeah. Yeah. Totally.

Totally. Yeah. All six of us turn around like, I'll leave this guy's dignity a little bit, I guess. And can Tuck do the look behind again? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. He does another one of these. Oh, God. We got to watch him go through this whole thing. False start. False start, everyone. No, he wants to look extra hard. Oh, my God. Tuck, as you're turning around, stretching your eyelids open so you can see extra hard, you hear a quick shuffling.

And as you turn back, you see the ghost twiddling its hands. So much. Of course it hurts, Abdul. You're stretching your eyes out. I cannot look. Oh, my God. You look like a vizier. You look like a vizier. Abdul, we're trying to make a good impression. You look like Jafar. You look like Jafar. He's locked into it now. He can't look. No. Give me your secrets, ghost man. Give me your secrets. Someone patted him on the back when he was doing this. Now he's stuck like this.

His eyes are going to fall out if you hit him too hard. No. I hope he doesn't sneeze. Oh, my God. It hurts. Shit. I know. It's hurting my heart. I can't. Abdul. I can't look at it. You got to stop, dude. I hate this. Now say, seek thee out the diamond in the rough. Just say it. The diamond in the rough. It is. Why, it's the vizier. Why, that would be me. Okay, Jossie. Jossie's going to get us. Stop it. I'll show you just how snake-like I can be. There is a… Someone fucking screeched.

I already did. It's already… Oh, my God. Imagine that made me go blind. So, as when you turn around, Tuck, after you hear a quick shuffling, you turn around and you see the ghost standing next to the bookcase, twiddling its hands, and one of the books is like halfway out of the shelf. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's like, wherever could the third key be?

Tuck walks up and smashes up the shelf with his axe and grabs the book. The ghost jumps to the side to avoid the cascade of books that you knock off the shelf. Oh, you found the third key. I found it. It's in this copy of Love and Lust. Congratulations. Now, continue on into the mansion you made. Yay. We do. Yeah, and we're all, goodbye. See you later. And this ghost ducks out the door behind him and slams it shut.

And when you go out into the foyer, there's another ghost standing at the top of the staircase. Well done. Now, through this door, you can walk deeper into the mansion of Count Murphy Vangerbosch. Is his sheet ripped? It's a little ripped. But they're standing right in front of him. They're standing right in front of you as you get to the top of the stairs. Congratulations. What now will you do? You gotta, you're like, right. If we could just scooch. We're just gonna.

And we awkwardly, like, walk too close to you around you. It's like, do I go, like, on the front? Or do I go in the back? Is it back to back? Is it front to front? I don't know. As you're walking through, Tuck, you step on the sheet. Like, full on. Just right on top of the sheet. Yeah. And there's a book. A bit of a, oh, whoa. And the sheet comes fully off. And there's no one there. What? Well, that was pretty cool. And that's where we're gonna end it for this week.

I've been your Game Master, Sean O'Hara. Joining me as always, playing Tacoma Dome, the Barbarian of Dual Aziz. And Tuck is eating, like, the grapes. And he's like, no, fuck it. Playing Ving, the half-elf druid, Paul Hoppers. He's like, Ving's really scared. And he puts the blanket that he got, like, over his head. Like, hold on. Hold it up. Like, oh, my God. He's a ghost. Playing Fat Billy, the Halfling Thief, Jessica Tai. And Billy got so scared that he fell all the way down the stairs.

And he's gonna have to climb back up. Oh, no. And playing Nerexius Acra, a.k.a. Glim, the Dragonborn Paladin, Carla Maxted. And Glim's like, kisses her hands and kind of puts them to the sky. Like, thanks, Bob. I'm mad. I knew you'd have your girl. Playing Sullivan Slight, the Halfling Rogue, Amy. Sully walks up to the door, looks at it, and goes, I could just pick these lots. It's, like, not a problem. Why the hell? Playing Moot, the Half-Orc Sorcerer, Tom Laird.

Moot picked up the Forgotten About Spaghetti and is just going to town on it. And joining me is Mr. Edmund Tour, manservant to Dremel Murphy, Russ Moore. Edmund's sitting in a back room somewhere being like, I thought we planned a haunted house. Well, Dungeons and Dragons. Dungeons and Dragons is going to be very different. And that is it for this half of the Dungeons and Dragons slash Spell Lord crossover.

If you want to check out the other half and see how the haunted mansion of Count Murphy Vengabus ends, head over to Dungeons and Dragons for the rest of the adventure. We'll see you next time. Ha ha ha! And so ends the tale of Adventures Three, 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 spell Lord. Hey Spellorians, Abdul here with an end of episode reminder that if you want to get over to the Dungeons and Dragons feed to hear the rest of their episode, the link is in the show notes. Thanks so much for listening everybody. Goodbye.