Gather round friends, let me tell you a tale of three heroes, noble and bold A brute, a druid, and a thief who is but nine years old You know them by name, you know them by deed, their quests are famously daring So here I sit, singing to you an adventure that is worth sharing Tuck is the brute, he knows not his home, he loves to sing and fight Fingers have health, he shifts his shape, and wields a spear with great might Billy's a thief, his tiny size does mask the largest heart Best and brightest they may not be, but their friendship outweighs their smarts So gather round friends, and listen close For the tale's about to start Hello everybody, and welcome to Spout Lore I'm your game master Sean O'Hara, and joining me as always, playing Fat Billy the Halfling Thief Jessica Tai Hello Playing Ving the Half-Elf Druid Paul Loppers Hello there And playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian Abdul Aziz When last we left our heroes, they had arrived at the eye of the storm I can't not talk, it would be weird I am amazed that you went that long without letting people know you were here Yeah It would be weird because I have to engage in the rap out, in the, yeah Yeah, actually that's what I was going to say Is there is a lot of stuff that happens, I kind of want to wrap it up together Yeah I get exhausted by recapping what happened in the previous episode Yeah, okay So, you arrived at the eye of the storm Wait, wait, can you reintroduce me and I'll say hello?
This is all part of the intro Yes it is Yeah, bad news, this is all part of the intro Okay Jessica, you do it this time Welcome to Spout Lore, as always playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian Abdul Aziz Hello everybody Playing the Halfling Thief Jessica Tai Me And playing Ving the Half-Elf Druid Paul Oppers Hey, what's the next thing I say? When last we left our heroes Oh It's cool, cool, cool They were in some hot shit Whoa You know what I didn't think about until just now?
When last we left our heroes is probably well known by our listeners as a thing that I say Yeah I think so, yeah, at this point Holy shit It's a staple of our podcast now It's also, it's a staple of fantasy I did not come up with when last we left our heroes, but I like saying it a lot No, the original fantasy writer of all time came up with it Jesus Christ I'm talking about the big man upstairs Yeah God Um, yeah, when last we left our heroes, they'd arrived at the eye of the storm They, end of the previous episode, had found an entryway into the pillar Finding a very recent A very recently dead Bullywug Who had apparently been killed by a Thunderbird Mortally wounded before dragging itself into the pillar itself And after fucking up quite a lot at first for sure The party was alerted to a very much alive Bullywug In a corner, rooting around in some garbage Disrespectfully rummaging Disrespectfully rummaging What happened next?
I found a fancy knife and then Tuck took it And that's fine, he deserved it Describe the knife, what was the knife like? The knife was in a leather thing, a baggy, what do you call them? A leather baggy No, sword baggy Knife baggy A daggy baggy What are they called? Dagger baggy Sheath, leather sheath?
Yeah Sheath Wow, we dove on Jessica for saying baggy I'm sorry No, no, I'm sorry It's self conscious that we know the words and you are cool and you don't know the words No, I don't, I just, I just, it's like when I read and it's like, oh, I don't know the words I don't know the words It's like when I read and it's a word I don't understand, just glaze over it Yeah Every word I don't understand is just the word pudding I replace it with pudding Anyway, on the leather was a moon symbol embossed and when you open, like pull the dagger out, it's bright like the moon And we discovered something about the architecture It's a prison Yeah It's a prison Appeared to be built as a prison There's spiral stairs that lead all the way down Mm-hmm And on the walls are…
Or were like engravings that we can't read anymore just due to age Mm-hmm And we determined that the only reason anyone would break into a place that looked like a prison is to break something out Yeah Paul, on to Paul, what happened next?
Wait, we were on the big platform, Chimes woke up and told us the history of what this place was Mm-hmm That it was the tomb and jail of his grieving and slash dead wife Mm-hmm Who was the moon goddess Mm-hmm And lost her mind when they lost their son, Rian, and was imprisoned at the bottom of this place And would be very dangerous to be let out Mm-hmm In her state Mm-hmm What happened next?
We started going down the stairs Mm-hmm And as we were descending, Billy turned into a flower boy He started, yeah, blossoming more flowers in his hair, kind of reverting to his spiritual self And we realized that the further down we went, the closer to the spirit realm we'd be And we realized that the further down we went, the closer to the spirit realm we'd be Which was dangerous for Billy And it's also dangerous for Vang Because it makes it harder for him to shape-shift And made it dangerous for the axe, because Larry, Terry, and Chad are, they're They become closer to the aspect of, the truest aspect of rock So they start leaving the axe if we go too far down Mm-hmm And then we didn't even know where Perel was or what was happening Mm-hmm And so we used his magic and sent a pulse through all of the dripping water And felt Perel, and then when he was gonna reach out to him He realized that something was wrong with Perel Mm-hmm And that it was bad Perel Mm-hmm And that the piss monster had taken over Perel's body And was surrounded by frogs And he was Bollywogs Oh yeah He was surrounded by Bollywogs Yeah And they were doing something Mm-hmm At the bottom of the pillar Mm-hmm And after determining that, the party came up with a plan In which Billy and Chimes would go to the top of the pillar with Tuck's axe Open a hole in the ceiling And Ving, atop his thunderbird, would call a bolt of lightning Which we determined is pure magic this close to the eye of the storm Into the tower to lead to a separation of Perel and the water monster Mm-hmm Yeah, same as it was in the season two finale Yes We dunked Billy in the pool Mm-hmm And the magic of the pool drew out the water monster Yes And Tuck's role in this is grab Perel Mm-hmm Once that separation occurs, grab Perel and fucking beat feet Yeah Yeah And Billy's role in it is to go up top with Chimes And smash an opening in the top of the pillar with Mm-hmm Yeah, Tuck gave Chimes his axe Yeah, with the axe Yeah So that the storm can enter Yeah And so that Ving and the thunderbird can come through Mm-hmm And you outfitted yourselves with ancient equipment from an offering room in the tomb Which Chimes was not psyched about but understands the necessity of Mm-hmm And then we had a very sad and heartfelt goodbye Temporarily, as everybody went to their part of the plan Tuck descended the stairs into darkness Yep On some level it was a if I die kind of goodbye Yeah I'm not gonna die Nah Yeah, I told these guys I wasn't gonna die Might die I might die I told you you were not gonna die Yeah Great, and that is where we come into the action Billy and Ving exit onto the wooden wastes Yeah, huffing and puffing Mm-hmm Cause we're, no time to lose Mm-hmm The rain is lashing you Yeah, whatever, let's just, where's the bird?
Ving's trying to call the bird Yeah Ring the bird Let's have the bird Uh-huh Just, sorry, sometimes he's late Just hold his hand He holds his arm up Where are ya? Land here, buddy, I got a little mouse for ya Yeah Land here, buddy, I got a little mouse for you Usually comes right away Hey, Paul slash Ving Yeah I have a question for you Mm-hmm What would being this close to the roost of the king of the thunderbirds do to your thunderbird?
It would make him obedient to the, the king of the thunderbirds Ooh Wow So I think He can't get out of that pecking order Yeah, I think you look through the eyes of your thunderbird and before you is the king of thunderbirds Oh Like you're staring up this enormous specimen What does it look like?
I was gonna say because yours is so dark, I kind of wanted the king to be white Wow Like white feathers Like Gandalf the white Like Gandalf the white Cool, yeah That makes sense, cause anything superior is white Oh, God What I was thinking was gold Sean, be careful Oh, no, my biases They're leaking into reality He's got a big comb on the top of his head Oh, no, my biases They're leaking into reality Oh, no, my biases They're leaking into reality Oh, no, my biases He's got a big comb on the top of his head Cool A bigger comb and a longer tail, very long tail Ooh And yeah, all white and very, very powerful giant beak, more ravenous than the rest Mm-hmm Does he have a stone in his head too?
No Whoa He has three Whoa Oh Yeah I didn't know they can have more than one, that's cool Yeah They're different colors, yeah His three are different colors? Mm-hmm Mm-hmm Ving's learning this now Wow All right, that's pretty cool So yeah, you can feel like fear and reverence in your Thunderbird as it's just like, all right, this is big daddy, I don't know what to do, I want to go save my friends, but this is the big boy Yeah What do you do?
What I'm thinking is the amount of power can't come from the bird Mm-hmm And it needs to come from the king. We need to convince the king to help us out. All right. So problem numero uno. How are you getting up the tower? Is it crazy to try and turn into a Thunderbird? No. That's sick. This is the time. The time has come. Okay, Vink's going to try and turn into a Thunderbird. Wow. And walk into the court of the king of Thunderbirds. Ooh, baby. Nine. Okay. Can I aid? Yes. I'm still blossomed.
Yeah. I'm, like, really close to the spirit world right now. Good point. It's true. I'm going to aid you. What's the aid? I just hold your hand, and I let the spirit, like, flow through you. Oh, so lame. Could have been so cool. 26 plus bond? What is that? I can't see. Tuck. Can you aid Billy from hell? Yeah. It cuts away to me. It cuts away to me for a second, and I'm just like, baby, they're doing something cool up there. Okay. So one hold. One hold. That's fine. Billy still fails.
Mark a point of experience. Yeah. Okay. I can't forget. Yeah. Oh. Billy's shaking it off. Yeah. You see this massive Thunderbird in front of you now, and you go, oh, a bird. Yeah. Like, there's no conception for a few moments that that's Vink. A pretty bird. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Wow. And, whew. Up into the air. He's got silver talons. Yeah. What does Vink look like as a Thunderbird? His hair goes into this beautiful gray collar of feathers. His wings are jet black. Wow.
With a streak of white feathers in the middle of them. His tail is multi-flapped with a big red streak going from the tip of his beak. Oh, cool. All the way down the back of his head. Oh, cool. And then, yeah, because he has those silver gauntlets on, he's got big silver talons. And he's got the gills, of course. Always has the gills. The gills of a chair. Do you have the amethyst? Amethyst in the forehead. Amethyst. Sorry, amethyst. That's his gem. That's the gem. The amethyst floats up.
That's so cool. Oh, sick. The gem is the amethyst. Thank you. And inside the amethyst is a small crystal cabinet with a little blue ball of moss. Oh, so cool. We haven't even used the moss yet. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You guys went through all of that for a moss you haven't even referenced. Fuck. Yeah.
And you take to the skies. Woof. Woof. Woof. And you alight at the top of the Eye of the Storm. An absolutely massive roost sits at the very top, made of vessels new and old. A jumble of woodwork you see in one spot. The wooden visage of a dragon jutting from a pile of sharpened stakes. You see the prow of a mighty warship. And on top of that warship prow sits Shipbreaker, the king of the Thunderbirds. Wow. Oh, cool. Fucking cool name. Wow.
I've been thinking about Shipbreaker for three fucking years. Sorry. Cut that. I'm just so glad. No. Complexed both of his bice. If they were any bigger, it would have technically been toxic masculinity. Oh, man. Okay. I'm glad you guys like the name Shipbreaker. Yeah. So the king of the Thunderbirds stands before you. He bows low with his wings. They decide. You're trying to mimic the bow that your Thunderbird is doing. And what does the king of the Thunderbirds sound like? Thunder. Why?
Why come you here? Yeah. I come representing the world. The world outside of your great kingdom. The world, the land beyond the sea of graves is in trouble and threatened. But what lies beneath your kingdom? You take our shape. You have not earned it. Yes, I have. No. No. No. No. No. No. You just weren't there to see it. No, you haven't. And you can see his eyes widen. His head cocks his eyes. He turns his head. His huge eye looks right at you.
And I think your Thunderbird steps forward a little bit as the bird is like, how dare you speak back to me? Your bird steps forward and says, my leash. He does walk the land, but he is pure of heart. He takes this form. He takes this form not as an insult, but as a bridge between our peoples. Please, if this is any befouling of our ways, place the blame on me, not on him. And you hear like thunder roll. Like, very well. Oh, such a good opportunity for the shipbreaker to be like, I will allow it.
I will allow it. But if anything happens, it is on your head, Cloudpiercer. Oh! Yes. Or a cool name. That is a cool name. And Cloudpiercer nods his head and steps back next to you. Thank you. Thank you. We cut back to Billy and Chimes. Yeah, so Billy is blooming even more. Hmm. And Chimes is just sitting on a beam. Billy's very quiet. How you feeling, kid? I feel so far away. What do you mean? I mean, you see me. I do. This is my form, I guess.
This would be what I would have been if I had stayed in the spirit world. I think so. Or a shadow of it, at least. Is this not what you want to be? No. No, I want to live. And I don't want to forget. I'm just trying not to. What do you want to remember? Who do you want to remember? I want to remember Tuck. I want to remember Ving. What about them do you want to remember? Their friendship. And family. What about them has made you stay with them for so long? You could have been anywhere.
You could have done anything. And you stayed with them. I've done everything. I've done everything. I don't need anymore. And Chimes leans forward from where he's sitting on the beam. Like, leans way forward. Like he's at a beach bonfire. And he taps you on the chest. And he says, let that anchor you. Right. You don't have to go. I don't want to go. There's power in you. You know it. You feel it. Yeah. You just going to let this slip away? I just don't know. The child. It's so small.
And it's hard for him. But you've made it easier over the years. That doesn't have to change. Fairies embody change. Sure. They embody the turning of the seasons. I know. I know about myself. Because right now, like, this is just Jessica talking. Because right now, Billy is like very clear about the, the thing. What he is. Yeah. And the nature of that. And. And he's starting to see, like, his body as separate from him. Mm-hmm. So he's just trying to keep them together. No.
Like you saying it's hard for him. Yeah. Fucking bang on. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, you know what? I've met Faye before. You got strength. You want to stay? Stay. But make that decision. I am. I am. It's just. It's just. There's so much here. And it's been so long since I've come into contact with this. And I'm like, okay, I just. I hope he's quick. Bing. Bing. I hope Bing is quick. Key. Chimes. Can you hold me? Of course. Okay. And he gathers you up. And are you just, like, leaning against him? Mm-hmm.
And can you help me with my memory? Anytime. Okay. And he reaches up and he touches the side of your head. Mm-hmm. And you remember a time with Tuck and Bing that you felt safe and happy. Yeah. What is that memory? Um. I remember the spa day at the Emerald Hotel. And I pulled the cucumbers off my eyes and I was like. But also people weren't naked. So I was like, oh, they wouldn't want me to see that. But pulling that off, you see, like, Tuck playing that game with the people in the pool.
Chicken fight. Yeah. Chicken fight. With. What was that guy's name? That I'm your dad. Ron. Ron. It was Ron. Yeah. Tuck is fighting Ron in the pool. Yeah. Yeah. And what was Bing doing during the spa day? Because I want Billy to be able to, like, throw to Bing to see, to get a memory of him as well. Was he there? Yeah. You were getting a facial. Oh. Yeah. And so I remember seeing you laying there, like, telling all your life stories to the. And bragging about my friend. Yes.
That's my friend over there. That's my friend over there. Yeah. That's my good buddy kid. Yeah. And he hears Ron go, I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad. I'm your dad.
And you see Tuck laughing so hard as Ron's screaming, I'm your dad. And then Billy laughs so hard and says, you're my dad. But he's thinking of Tuck. Yeah. And you open your eyes and you see rose petals falling in front of you. Yeah. Onto the ground. Mm-hmm. Your hair's going back to normal? Well, it's like growing and shedding. Like, it comes and goes. Oh, okay. Yeah. Cut to Tuck, I guess. Yeah. What's Tuck doing? He's just waiting? He's walking down the stairs. Yeah.
But is it the sort of thing where Tuck's like, okay, the signal is the ceiling explodes. So until that happens, I guess I'm just killing time. I guess he's walking down the stairs and he's like, all right, I got the armor. I got this knife. I got the billhook, which is the most important thing. And he's starting to see a light. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. From down below. It's still pretty far, but he's starting to see it. Mm-hmm. And you're starting to hear like…
And yeah, he's like, all right, the signal we agreed upon is ceiling explodes. And then I'll jump down. But he wants to kind of know what he's getting into. And at that moment, he's like looking down. He's like, what the fuck am I getting into? And he like makes Billy's binocular hands. And he like, because he held it for a second. Yeah. Last episode. And he like holds it up to his eyes to try and get a better view of what's going on down there. I love that. Yes.
2D6 plus wisdom to certain realities. To certain realities. And I think it's only a thing he can do because he's so close to Billy's like power source. Tuck's not magic anymore. He's like the opposite of that. Yeah. Plus what? Wisdom. Seven. Okay. Ooh, baby. Holy shit. Nice. So you get one question. Only one. What is about to happen here? So what you see is a robed figure with a bald head. A ton of fucking frogs.
It looks like the stone at the bottom of the tower has been molded up and then over and then down into a lantern. And there's a small yellow flame burning in it. And the robed figure is still. Standing on top of what looks like a huge. Like plug kind of. A plug. So the floor, there's a huge circle of a stone of a different color. Oh. And he's standing on top of it. It's a stone door basically. And he's just looking at this thing. And he extends his hands every once in a while.
And it looks like you can see his body tensing. And then he drops his hands and he like swears. You see his mouth move. And he's basically just like, fuck. Yeah. And you hear it come up the chamber like after. Yeah. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Tuck laughs because Perel curse. And then he also sees Perel take his giant hat with the giant feather in it and put it back on and go. No, you know what? You don't. Whoa.
Something that you do notice, even though your only question was what is about to happen, is his body language is all over the fucking place. Like you've hung out with Perel enough to know what he looks like when he moves around. And it is totally throwing. You off. Mm hmm. But what? I mean, I'm sure you can. Put together what's happening. Mm hmm. He is trying to open this seal. And he's trying to transmute it. And he can't. OK. Not yet. But he just he's not able to.
Fuck with the word stone plug. Well, and I mean, we've established that the lower you get in the tower, the more big more becomes a spirit realm. So he's having trouble accessing. Magic. Yeah. That's what Tuck sees. Yeah. Oh, he didn't understand that when he came down here because he didn't know what this place was. And now he's like, son of a bitch. Like, I can't. Is that why all of his like more gulches are with him? Maybe. That's an interesting idea that he's using them as like capacitors.
Yeah. He's using them to amplify his power. Totally. I just thought, too, if we send in a huge bolt of magic down there, if it doesn't destroy him, it's going to make his power insane. He'll become so powerful. God, it would be really great if Tuck could communicate that to you somehow. Yeah. And actually, Tuck is just like putting this all together in his head. And he's like, fuck. And he starts like running up the stairs a little. He does. I don't know that he is actually like, yeah. Oh, shit.
He's going up. He's going up. He's coming back down. He's like, what the fuck am I going to do? He's trying to, like, do all the logic. Yeah. He's trying to logic it out. And all he can think is the word think. Yeah. The word think 50 feet tall. Just in neon lights. What are those? Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. So we cut to Ving on top of the tower, kneeling, bowing before Shipbreaker. What's your next play here? So he agreed to help, right?
He agreed to keep listening to you. Okay. Okay. Yeah. What did Ving say last time? That he, like, his home and his throne. Is threatened. Yeah. But there are forces here that I'm afraid even the great Shipbreaker might not be able to contend with. Roll. Because that absolutely fucking goads him. Saying, like, I don't know if you can deal with this, Shipbreaker. So 2d6 plus charisma. There you go. I got 10. Holy fucking shit. Yes. I got 10. And, yeah.
So Shipbreaker, like, straightens himself up, stands even taller. As the lightning cracks, you see flocks of Thunderbirds overhead in the clouds swirling above. And he says, I am the storm incarnate. You are the storm above all men. And a man is down there right now. I am the wind that has dashed a thousand ships against the cliffs. I am the bolt that has brought the cities of man low. You are the boom that brings the world to its knees. I am the gas. Gale that shakes the trees from the earth.
I am Shipbreaker. And his wings open wide. And there's a huge crack of thunder. As the bolts crackle through the air. He says, I will do this, but not for you. For me. Like, what do you… So he's asking, like, what do you want? I need you to bring everything you have. Down on the top of this pillar. Upon my home. Upon your home. Upon my throne. Upon your throne. The wind has no throne. There will be many more ships to build many more thrones. Your destruction is endless.
And he's getting, like, psyched on this now. As imperious as he's trying to be, he's like, yes, destruction unbounded. And he brings his wings wide and pounds them down. And the wind just… He buffets you. And you get the idea. Maybe it's time to, like, move. Like, get the fuck out? Like, get the fuck off the top of this tower. Oh, yeah. Oh, they shall call you Thronebreaker! Oh, my God. That's so cool. So you fly away, I assume. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I dip off the edge. Yeah. The winds pick up.
The vortex at the top of the tower starts to spin faster and faster. The lightning is cracking. The thunder is… It's rolling. And we cut back to Chimes and Billy. The storm has started to… Like, you were hearing crazy, like, bird shrieks and, like, thunder cracks. Oh, man. I guess they're gonna be here soon. Yeah, and Chimes looks up and he says, I hope those are good sounds. It feels weird. Are you gonna be… Are you good? Can you get through this? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
I will be fine in some way. And Chimes, like, hefts up the axe and goes, I guess we didn't need this. What? I have a feeling Matt's gonna take care of what this was gonna take care of. That's true. I'll hold on to this, though. Unless we should bring it back to him. Oh, yeah. No, we'll give it back to him when it's safe. No, we'll give it back to him now. Chimes is like, I told Tuck I was gonna keep you safe. I aim to keep my promise. I'm not a child. I can do what I want. And I…
I wanna grab the axe. Yeah. Honestly, I'm gonna let you do it. He's surprised. Okay. Okay. Yeah, you could roll Defy Danger Dexterity. Sure. 2d6 plus Dexterity. This is cool, man. Oh, God. Wow. 12. Fuck! 12. Sorry. No! Yes! I'll be fine. So Chimes is like, you know when a kid really starts kicking in your arms and you're like, what the fuck? What do I do? I don't wanna hurt him. Just remember for me. And you… What, you hit the wood and you start running into the tower? Yeah, down the stairs.
With the axe. Yeah, with the axe. And for some… And I think it's like my spirit. I can carry it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's light for me. Mm-hmm. And Chimes starts running after you. And we cut back to Tuck. You hear thunder rumbling. Fucking shit! What? That's a good one. Oh, no, I can't… No, no, no, no. This is a perfect character choice. This is genuinely my reaction as your character's dad. If I knew what just happened, I would be fucking furious. Yeah, Billy jumps into danger without a plan.
Yeah. He's chaotic. And now this close to the spirit world, he's more chaotic than ever. Yeah. So you feel thunder rumbling. I was doing the run up, run down thing. And I can feel static charge start to build up in the air. I hear the boom, boom, boom of the thunder that is the precursor to the big one that's coming. Yeah. And I kind of just look around me and there's sparks of static energy starting to come off the… And I'm like, I'm fucking out of time.
And in my mind, I'm like, okay, if I can incapacitate Dark Perel, like, knock him the fuck out. Oh, just one punch him? Yeah. Just like, if I could surprise him, maybe he won't be conscious to open the prison. Yeah. This is what he's logicked out in his panic. Yeah. Tuck jumps. Hot damn. Oh my God. Okay. And as your feet leave the platform. Yeah. The ceiling caves in. Yeah. A roll defy danger constitution. Constitution. Because it's just like, I hope this… Yeah.
I hope this doesn't fucking kill me. Yeah. Okay. When I jump, I want to tap into my Herculean appetites. Oh. Whoa. Whoa. Which I've never done before. But it says… Suing one of your appetites, if you would roll for a move, instead of rolling 2d6, roll 1d6 and 1d8. And my appetites are for friendship and acceptance and revenge against the piss monster. Oh. Cool. I just got… Ultimate. I just got goosebumps and I felt tears well in my eyes. Yeah.
This is just such an amazing confluence of story and mechanic. You've literally… Not used this move in like two and a half years. Okay. I'm going to allow it. You better fucking allow it. Yeah. 1d6 and 1d8. And if the d6 is higher than the d8, you go too far. Plus constitution. Oh, fucking shit. Oh. 13. D8 is 8. D6 is 2. I have a 3 constitution. 13. Holy shit. Huge. Yeah! Huge! Oh my god. Okay. Your feet leave the platform.
You think of all of your friends above you, literally the two people you care about most in the world. Mm-hmm. And somehow all three of you have found yourselves at this confluence of history and mythology and magic at what could potentially mean the breaking of the world. And you think… No fucking way. Yeah. And your feet leave this platform as you fall… Slow-mo. Slow-mo… Slow-mo jump out like… Doves… Yeah. …appear above you. Arms and legs like splayed out, jumping like a skydiver.
Mm-hmm. Cool. Amethyst bale hook in one hand and the brace around the other. Yeah. And the ceiling caves in above you. Yeah. You're falling. The rocks are falling. Are falling. Yeah. And you land on a pile of opponents and then the ceiling falls in on top of you and your vision goes dark for a moment. And we're going to cut back to Billy and Chimes. Billy's running down the tunnel. Chimes is running after you and you just get to the mouth of the tunnel as the ceiling caves in.
There's a huge boom and there's tons of rock coming down at you. What do you do? Can I do the thing? Can I leave my body? Yeah, you could certainly. Would that be useful? I just feel like if Billy goes on the side of the spirit it might create an imbalance of spirit energy. Overpower the magic. That's a great idea. Billy's walking a fucking knife edge right now. Billy could lose himself forever with this kind of move. So what does this look like? I take a look at Chimes and then I just jump off.
Billy stands there but my spirit leaves me. I don't know if Chimes can see but it's like the shadow of a boy falling. So it's like Peter Pan's shadow leaving his body? I like the idea that as you jump in the spirit, the shadow leaves Billy's body. All the flower petals fall from the Billy body. Yeah, they do. And they're floating. Slowly, like with all this chaos and then it's just like soft rose petals fluttering behind the shadow. And then Billy's body just falls and he's asleep.
And the axe goes with? The shadow of the axe goes with Billy. And the real axe stays up top? The real axe stays but the lights are out. Oh, fuck. Cool. Okay, so you leave the body with the shadow of the axe and Chimes runs up to the edge and skids to a halt and yells, Billy! And he looks down at the shadow as it falls. And then he looks at the kid and you don't see what happens because the camera cuts away. Ving, what's Ving doing?
A massive column of bright blue electricity has just pulverized the top of the tower. You feel your ears as a thunderbird like do something when you hear the thunder crack so you're not deafened permanently. And he can see when the… He has this light sight. He can see as the lightning illuminates the entire column. Wow. And he's given vision of the shadow of Billy. Oh, yeah. And he sees him leave his boy body. And it scares him. And he knows that Billy has gone into his spiritual form.
And as the Thronebreaker releases the storm from the funnel, as it builds and builds and builds and releases it, Ving jumps in front of the bolt as the Thunderbird. And as the Thunderbird is the mix between magic and the spirit world, and the bolt being concentrated magic, and Ving being the spirit walker, becomes the front, the leading edge of the lightning bolt. Wow. Ving is functionally taking the shape of the storm. So is this, what is it called? World talker? I guess so.
Yeah, because you can take the shape of elements. Yeah. Yeah, this is a move for sure. You're spending your hold as the Thunderbird to get there. To get there, to fly as fast as he can, to fly as like a bolt. Yeah. And not be annihilated by a bolt of lightning. And now you're shape changing again. You're going from one shape right to the next. And he's in between. He's being a spirited buffer to the front of this magical bolt. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, so you're kind of trying to like create a shield to keep the magical energy from funneling into Perel and supercharging him. Because yeah, honestly, that's what it would do. Mm-hmm. 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. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Holy shit. Oh, sorry. Like, I almost imagine you controlling the lightning. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because they were slowing down.
Like, we were talking about flash. Yeah. Like, it's so slowed down. You don't see a whole lot of other things. Yeah. You drive through all of his army, basically. Yeah. That's some hold that you could spend, certainly. That's so cool. Fuck, this has to work. Please. Click out. Eight. Woof. Okay. That could have been. Really bad. Okay, so partial success. You get one hold. So that has happened. You feel your spirit meld with the spirit of the storm.
You feel yourself, like, lash to the bolt of lightning, as you did with the sea at the Storm of Graves a couple days ago. Oh, my God. Less than one week ago. It's been about a week. It's been about seven days. When, as before, you were at the mercy of the storm, the storm now feels to be at the mercy of you. You have one hold. You can use it for one thing, and then you're Ving again. Or you can roll a bunch of stuff and stay in this, like, storm shape. I'm going to use my strength.
I was a lightning man. 2d6 plus strength. Oh, God. So I want to land down there and just bounce off all the bullywugs. Sure thing. Are they all wearing metal helmets? Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. Sorry. Yeah, it's all tinfoil. They point straight up. This should be fucking easy. Holding up a bunch of umbrellas. Yeah. And when you strike them, all the umbrellas burned away, and they are all crispy. And they're like, whoa. Oh, man. Nine. Holy shit. I can aid. Billy is a spirit. Yeah.
I feel the spirit of lightning gathering its energy. Oh. What? Oh, I just got. I just got a little bit of Ving at the front of this bolt, like, coming down the thing and looking at Billy for the first time as his true self. Yeah. Oh, you're going to have to describe what Billy looks like in the spirit world. Billy just looks the way that he sees himself. He's got his copper hair. He's exactly the way that Ving and Tuck see him. Oh, like maybe his spirit has changed. Yeah.
And then when Ving sees him, he says, you're the Billy. You're the Billy boy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, he's so clean. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And children are dirty and they play in the dirt. Yeah. So he's like muddy and his cheeks are rosy from play. And he's got like leaves in his hair and grass stains and stuff like that on his knees. That's beautiful. Yeah. So 2D6 plus bond.
Oh, thank Christ. Oh, so what I do is actually like I see lightning and sort of like as if I was catching butterflies, I use the axe to guide the lightning. And I run through all of the Bollywugs and all the shadows and I slash away at them. Tosses like playing catch the lightning plane back. Yeah. And Billy's laughing as he does this. Oh, no. These Bollywugs are just. Yeah. But that was so many incredible roles and incredible ideas that all coalesced and worked. Yeah.
I don't want it to be robbed of its weight by a fucking one on a D8. I think. It's a massive bolt of lightning. I think the Bollywugs are dealt with. That would be how I feel about. Yeah. They're cool. Little stupid ass frogs. Yeah. There are. There will be other threats that you were unable to deal with in that way, but they've been annihilated. Yeah. Yeah. Billy just sees like one darker shadow, like shifting and like jerking around. You actually see two. We cut to tuck. What?
I love when Joseph makes that sound. Um, we cut to tuck, tuck. You jumped. You leapt into the air. There was a massive explosion. You hit a pile of assailants. Yeah. I actually aimed for Perel. Oh, yeah. And as I went right before I hit him, I was like, what's up, nerd? Oh my God. Yeah. All those amazing narrative choices. This is still spelled Lord. You heard it here. Your first listeners. Fuck all this. Fuck all this. But you hit the ground. You actually don't hit Perel. You tried to.
You thought you did, but you didn't. But, um, and you hit the ground and then the rocks come tumbling down. You survive it somehow. Yes. Your vision goes dark. And just as you're starting to come to, there's a huge thunder crack and you feel like that static charge ignite around you. You feel some of the Bullywugs that you landed on, like fucking liquefy underneath you. And it smells awful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you come to, and you're covered in rocks.
I tossed the rocks off of me. Yeah. This isn't, that's not a problem for you. And I look around for Perel. Where the fuck is this loser? He's right in front of you. This isn't a huge chamber. And Perel is standing, say 10, 12 feet away. And he has his hand above his head. And whereas you are pushing off huge, like chunks of stone all around Perel is a circle of sand. And he's standing like unscathed in the middle of it with his hand in the air.
I'm going to take, advantage of the fact that he is distracted right now and I'm gonna sucker punch him. Okay. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. I guess he's distracted. Yeah. Okay. Roll a hack and slash. Actually, can the WhatsApp nerd count as a war cry? Yeah. I mean, totally. What's your reservation? When you enter the battle with a show of four, I know what it is. Roll plus charisma on a 10 plus. But take two of the following list and on a seven to nine take one. Yes.
And the show of force was that I jumped 400 feet. No, the show of force is you proving to this, who, whatever it is, whoever it is that you literally don't care if you die. Yeah. That's scary. Yeah. In a fight. That's absolutely scary. Okay. I'm motherfuckers. Two D six plus charisma is seven. Okay. Wow. You just fucking made it. I want to choose. My allies are rallying. I'm going to take a plus one forward. Sick. So the next role that all of you do, we'll get a plus one. Okay, great. Yeah.
I try and sucker punch him now. One D six plus one D eight plus your strength. D six is three. D eight is two. Oh, five plus strength is seven. Since the D six is higher than the D eight. That means that he goes too far with her. Herculane. Herculane appetite. Oh, fuck. Oh no. Oh no. So you're so like, this is, this is like barbarian rage. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, barbarian rage. Like you're like, oh no, I'm putting it all on the table now. Yeah.
And I think you just don't think about what he might be able to do to you. Okay. And you, yeah. Roll your damage. 10. Oh fuck. Nice. Nice. Oh, I mean, this isn't going to be easy, but that's a lot of damage. Yes. Yes. I'm literally pulling every possible mechanical advantage. I can pull out of my character sheet. I've never looked at this character sheet so closely. You're actually reading it by yourself. Yeah. I'm reading it by myself. Okay. So what does this look like when you hit parole?
So I stand up, I toss the, the rock off and I just, he's got his hand up in the air. Yeah. Like the Hamilton logo. Yes, exactly. And I take a running jump at him and I like, I jump over the pile of sand that he's creating and I come down hard with a punch and I'm like, uh, Hey. And he doesn't finish the thought. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, Oh, because he couldn't think of a cool thing.
He's too mad right now. And you just fucking clock him. Yeah. You hit him really hard. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face. It's face.
Inside him oh fuck there's still damage done I want to be clear but it's going to be really hard to truly hurt the thing that's inside him and he jolts to the side facing away from you in the like flickering yellow light of the torch that he created and uh he stumbles looks away and turns back to you looking at this like pile of rubble and sand and bully wug sludge and turns to look at you and you just see crystal clear water pouring from his eyes oh he says I was wondering when you'd show up what's up piss bitch oh I should have said piss bitch and no I got there yeah I got there eventually I think we can all agree hey I think we can all agree that's pretty good I'm I'm referring to I'm talking to the dead bully wugs around us oh yeah I think we can all agree that I got there eventually and that was fine this guy knows what I'm talking about I tow a pile of organs oh my good god roll a d10 five so perel or whatever this is laughs kind of when you say piss bitch and oh I should have said piss bitch and all that stuff but it's such a derisive laugh that it gives you pause yeah you're like no I should have just said piss bitch I think we can all agree and he laughs and you go hey fuck you yeah I hurt my feelings yeah and um only because of your natural defense and this bracer that you have with the ward stone inlay you don't get the absolute full brunt of this and the presence of billy and the presence of the spiritual confluence but he throws out his hand and you feel your body start to change for a second and it hurts like a motherfucker you take eight damage and uh perel's body like cracks its neck around and rolls its shoulders what a voldemort move yeah I know right and he's doing that like you know he's swinging his arms back and forth stretching something out and he's like I've been waiting a long time for this and we're gonna cut to billy and bing your spirits what do you do I sense a man like apart from bing yeah I want to talk to him to perel yeah is that what the second shadow was was it perel that's what I thought yeah and sitting on the ground in this chamber with like his arms around his knees is perel and he looks so ragged and so tired and weak like sickly poor man I approach him he looks up very surprised billy who the fairy looks confused and he's like no I'm I'm the spring fairy and I'm here to help you I don't I don't think you can help me it's too late but you're still here he like gestures to himself he's like barely I think he I think he's taking it all I think he's taking it all billy what brought you here he looks behind you at the shadow says that after the crash you remember the crash right I do I drifted for a long time and uh it found me forced me out brought me here I'm sorry I just want to clear something up you're billy correct I don't know you look exactly like billy Well, I'm the spring fairy, but if I remind you of someone, then let it be a comfort to you.
Oh, I was going to ask, Ving is in a spirit form as well, correct? Oh, yeah, Ving is here too. What does Ving look like in this spirit form as the storm? I think the spirit form of lightning looks like the shipbreaker in lightning form. So just like a huge bird made of lightning? Mm-hmm. And he looks like, all right. And he turns and sees Ving in the storm form and goes, oh, my, and sort of tumbles back a little bit and goes, Ving? How are you doing, old friend? Not well. Not well. How are you?
Yeah, you know, I mean, I feel a little weird. Yeah, it's been a weird day. I mean, I look cool. You know, to be honest, it's a little, I like my Ving body. Yeah. Yeah. I like my body too. And I think we'll cut back. We'll cut to Tuck. And yeah, Tuck, you just had a bunch of magic course through your body, and you can see Perel like ramping up for another attack. What do you do? Tuck is like, he just got fucking nailed with magic energy, and he is like. He thinks he's going to die.
He's like, they're up there. Like, the magic came down. It killed everyone else, but this guy seems okay. So I think my plan fucked us. Right now, he's like, I'm either going to save my friend or I will die trying. So you're going to resist. You're going to have to resist whatever he's throwing at you first. So it'll be defied. Defied. What? Constitution, maybe? Yes. Yeah, you can do it. Yes. The D6 is four, and the D8 is. Seven? Seven. Wowzers. Holy fucking shit. Constitution is three.
So that's 14. Wowzers. Yeah. You haven't been using these appetites this whole time. Yeah. I just want to put that in. Somehow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you shrug it off. Mm-hmm. Like, maybe it's your anger. Maybe it's your resentment. Maybe it's your resolution to die protecting your friends. Mm-hmm. But you push through. You feel it start to take hold, and then it just sloughs off you. Okay. And you get right up in his fucking grill. Yeah. Roll. What are you doing? You're hitting him?
I'm conflicted about hurting Perel's body. Mm-hmm. And I don't want to. So I try to distract him. So if there's any aspect of Perel in there, he has the best chance. Oh, it's not worrying so much about controlling the body. Yeah. It's just like, I'm going to kill this fucking asshole. Yeah, I'm trying to make him as mad as possible. I like it. Okay. I'm trying to fucking piss him off. So what does that move? What are you waiting for? Oh. Yes. All right. 1D6 plus 1D8. Oh! Yeah. D8 is 8. D6 is 2.
Constitution is 3. 13. Wow. No negative consequences. So what do you do? I guess I make fun of him for being a nerd. What? What insults? What insults can I insult this guy with? Like the piss monster. Oh, yeah. You'd be like, what were you, a little dick? Like, get your little water dingling. Oh, yeah. I don't know. No, I like that. So Tuck is trying to fucking piss off the piss monster as much as possible. And I go, hey, piss monster, here's a reminder for you from Tuck with love. And I unzip.
No, I lift my flap. Unflip. And I take out my dick. And I am not discreet about it at all. He can see the full thing. But because he's been so exhausted, he's trying to, he's pushing as hard as he can to pee. And I, yeah, I really get into it. I do a strong stream. It goes out easily four feet, maybe five. Wow. Yeah. And I'm pissing all over the place. And I'm like, you like this? Remember this, buddy? I ate a lot of asparagus this morning. No, you didn't. I can tell. I cannot smell it.
It was moss. Fine. Fair. And I imagine. I imagine that. Okay. So it works. Of course, you get his attention. Actually, it was Italian urban cheese bread. It smells like Italian urban cheese. So it dribbles a bit on his shoes. Yes. There's the more piss jokes. I imagine that. I imagine that the dark aspect is feeling a lot of what I'm feeling right now, which is not genuine like anger or not feeling insulted. Just fucking annoyed. I also think that this is getting too much.
I think I'm getting a little bit. Because Tuck did genuinely piss inside of him. He doesn't care about that. I'll tell you that much. I pissed inside of you one time. He does genuinely not care about that. You're pretending to not care about it. I can see. But I can see also in your eyes that it bothers you. But he is fully paying attention to you. He's just saying shit like, you clown. And he's whipping his arm.
And you can feel the air in front of his arm like transmute into like a denser form. And he's trying to just pound you into the ground. Yeah. It's throwing rubble aside. It's pounding stone into dust. And he's just like, you insect. Yeah. All of this work. All of this time. You think I'm going to be derailed by you? Yeah. Smash. Getting out of the way of all of this shit. Yeah. Dodging, whipping and dodging. Pissing the whole time. The whole time. I'm literally exhausting.
I'm going to be honest with you. I'm getting a lot on myself. Mostly. Defense mechanism. Yeah. And we'll cut back. Back to Billy and Ving and Perel. Perel, right? That's your name? Yes, Billy. My name is Perel. You know, if you want to go back, we can help you. I really appreciate the help, but I don't know if the situation warrants. And then he pauses and he stands up on his feet. Yeah. And he looks behind you. Yeah. Yeah. He goes, is Tuck here? Who? Wait. Tuck. And I look up at Ving.
Do I know him? You did. You do. You will again. Okay. I'm going to spend my hold out of here. I have an idea. I have an idea too. No, Jessica, tell me your idea. I was going to say like Ving and I would basically like go with, like, hold on. Like, run to Perel. Yeah. And like literally run back to his body. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And push and like what that spirit energy would push out the piss monster. And then you could transform back. Sweet. That sounds great.
And Ving is made entirely of phomic energy right now. Yeah. Yeah. I'm magic. What if you spend your hold to infuse like Perel. Perel. Yeah. Perel. He's got as much magical energy as you can't discharge it all into him. Oh, wow. And Billy takes that spirit form, tries to jam him back in. Yeah. Great. That's a great idea. Okay. Those sound like some rolls and a hold. Yeah. So we're going to fire him as fast as we can. Basically, Perel, take our hands. Okay. And we're going to run together.
He smiles to himself and goes, okay. That's what I know how to do. I know. I remember. I remember. The two of you are running. Yeah. And the spirit lightning bird comes up behind and takes a big swoop around. And as you guys are running, faster and faster, comes in and scoops you up. Lifts gently underneath. Forward. Lightning bolt. Yeah. Spirit forward. Towards this dark shadow. Towards this dark shadow and trying to aim for the heart of the shadow. Wow. Yes. So fucking sick.
There's a red streak back with this lightning bird. And before Perel hits his body, I tell him, I want you to take this. Okay. I hand Perel the ax. You need to bring it with you to your world and use it there. Okay. I don't know if this is going to work, Billy. It should. It's telling me it will. And Billy, you hear and Perel hears just a little faint like, oh yeah, this is going to work, bro. See? Oh, right. As Perel is pushed towards his form. Yeah. Don't be afraid.
I'm your friend now and I have your back. And Perel's spirit, Thaumic form hits the dark shadow and you thing, you coalesce back into the material plane. You feel that shift happening. And Billy, you see the shape start to resolve into the shape of a man. Yeah. And he's a shadow again. Yeah. Tuck, you're dodging these like cauldrons. You're dodging these like columns of transmuted air. You're pulling your feet out of a stone as it transmutes into mud. Yeah. Like he's really working at it. Yeah.
And amazingly, you're not getting hit. I'm laughing so hard. Oh, that's, you hit it. Yeah. That's what pisses him off more than anything. And you are dodging out of the way of this air and the body stops for a second and you see its eyes snap up to you and the water stops pouring from them. And you hear Perel's voice. Uh-huh. In Perel's manner of speaking, say, tuck, catch. And he throws something towards you. And I instinctively reach out and catch it. And your hands close around solid shadow.
Whoa. This is way better than the frog shit. You can do it. And the water, as you said, he goes, ah, and the water starts pouring from his eyes again. And you hear in your head, let's fuck him up, bro. So can I use shadow acts to just fight the shadow aspect of Perel? Oh, I can't see why the fuck not. Okay, cool. I didn't even think about that. Okay. That's really tight. Because yeah, you're not going to be, it won't hurt his body. Yeah. It'll pass through him.
And it's the antithesis of the magical energy. Guys, we're doing it. Yeah. All of the rules of our world make perfect sense and they're beautiful in harmony. We're fantasying. Yeah. We're doing it, Peter. Hear that JR token? Eat my schnutz. From hell. Okay. Yeah. Great. This is fucking cool as hell. Yeah. But the water starts pouring from his eyes again and he brings his arm up and brings down a column of transmuted air. What do you do? I dodge out of the way. All right. Defy danger dexterity.
Fuck. The D8 is eight and the D6 is three, giving me 11 plus dexterity is 11. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. There's a ton of 11. It's just so crazy to me that now you're seeing why Herculean appetites are useful. I will never use them again. Useful doesn't have any use here. Yeah. Yeah. So this.
I don't know the meaning of the word. You feel the lighter air being parted by this pillar of air. And you dodge out of the way as it turns a pile of rubble to dust. Some bollywood guts splash up. Yeah. And you dodge right out of the way. Oh yeah, and Ving, you appear in the material plane. Yeah, I wanted to secure him and try and contain him somehow. Oh, sick. I was thinking of as he fires, because you came in with Perel, right? Yes. And as it happened, he used his hold.
So he launches out the other side, comes out like the body as a whole. Poop. Yeah. Rolls, does a diving roll. Rolls, roll, roll. And then- Comes up with one knee bent and one leg out in that anime slide. So cool. Sliding towards the wall behind him and does a little run up the wall. Whoa. Look at his fucking moves. And then runs and sprints back towards him and dives at him and clasps around his waist as a ward stone man. Whoa. Whoa. To lock him, to try and keep him. Yeah. Wow. Wow.
To try and keep him down, because we know that the only thing that can contain the piss monster is the ward stone, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Roll the shape shift. Okay. Fuck. Yes. Two to six plus wisdom. Whoa. Ten. And there it is. Fuck yeah. Yes. So as you're sprinting forward, your body is changing into ward stone? Yeah. Wow. So cool. Graying from the front to the back. Yeah. Yeah. And you hit him like a fucking- Yeah. Like a fucking truck. Boom.
And pin him down on the ground and keep him almost like starfish around his ankles and his wrists. Cool. Kind of like octopied around. Okay. He's made like a platform and he's holding him underneath. Oh, I see. Cool. Like a, what is it? Full Nelson or whatever? Yeah. Yeah. Cool. So we'll spend one of those hold to lock him down? Yeah. Okay. Tuck. Ving literally appeared out of nowhere and then ping ponged off a wall, turned into a stone man, and then spear tackled the wizard.
That you were fighting. And said, tuck him up. And so he tucks his dick back into his loincloth. You did learn something from that episode of RuPaul we watched. What's that? Forget it. Oh, right. Yeah. You've got a hack and slash opportunity. Yeah. He takes the spirit axe and he's like, hey, piss monster. This is for killing my fucking friend. And he does a running jump. Same thing. He's going to bring the spirit axe down across possessed Perel's chest. All right.
Roll a hack and slash plus strength. D eight is five and the D six is five. You lucky fuck. So that's 10. Wow. Yeah. Plus your strength. Is 12. Nice. So sick. Roll your damage. So six. You bring the axe down across his chest. And the whole body thing. You feel the body like convulse under the strike, even though there's no physical damage and a gout of crystal clear water just jets out of his mouth. And he's it's coming out of his eyes and his mouth now. And the body struggling. It's not dead.
Okay. Yeah. You didn't. You haven't killed that thing yet. It is hurting, but it can't get out of the ward stone because underneath it's just a man's body. I think you can hit him again. Like, that's the thing. Is he's kind of shackled, but we'll cut to Billy in the spirit world. Billy is just holding on to the shadow of Perel, I guess, because he said he would stay by his side. Yeah, totally. Oh, you know what? What? I think you're you're helping. You're like, I want to help these people.
I think they seem cool. They seem really nice. And you hear Billy. Billy. And. Up above. Like, you don't see the. You just see the aspect of an old man covered in tattoos with a long shadow or no. You see the full aspect of an old man with a big gray beard. Okay. And tattoos shirtless huffing and puffing. We run all the way down the stairs, aren't you? Down in like a spiral in a spiral pattern and just gets in front of you like. I can't believe you ran. I haven't run in 700 years.
It's a really long time. You should probably practice. Not a lot of opportunities to run on the sea. What are you doing? I'm helping this man. Oh, oh, good looking out. Chimes kneels on the other side of the spirit of Perel and is helping protect him and says, do you remember who I am? No. Well, don't worry. I remember. I remember for you. Thank you. I guess. And he reaches out and he touches your hand. And you're just flooded back with the memories of being Billy. Whoa. Gravy, gravy, bears.
Oh, my God. Farts, poop. Yeah. The bear in the chair out eating a bear. The bear is sad. Wicker. Yeah. You're flooded with all these these feelings of pleasure. Yeah. Like the things that you like to do. And then it's just like tuck thing. Tuck, tuck, tuck, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah. And I'm. And every once in a while. Perel. Yeah. I let go for a second. I'm like, I got it. No, my friends. And so I hold I hold on to Perel.
And I'm just like, this will help them. This will help them. Damn right it will, kid. And he holds he's he's holding down Perel on the other side. Yeah. And we cut back to the material plane. And I. Yeah. And the body's just like bucking. So I'm going to roll a hack and slash against him. But I'm going to roll two D6s because he doesn't feel an impetus towards revenge anymore. He just breathes out and feels all that tension. Leave him. Yeah. Two D6 plus strength. Seven. There we are. Wow.
Revenge tuck is a motherfucker. Yeah. Oh, God. Okay. So that's a seven. Again, it doesn't affect this current situation, but something somewhere is happening. Okay. Roll your damage. Four plus two is six. Describe how you kill it. Oh. I think I walk up to him and I'm just like, hey, he's crazy. I the water is pouring from his eyes, mouth, nose, ears. He sees the people in this room. He sees the people in the spirited realm. Yeah. He sees everyone all together, bringing them down. United.
He thought that he got you when he killed Ving. He thought that that was it. He knew what you were and he could take you down. And now you've all come back across time and fucking space to get your revenge. And I, I lean down to him. Like the final. The final scene of a Knight's Tale. Yeah. Everybody's head leans into frame. You have been weighed and you have been measured and you have been found wanting. No, we're absolutely not fucking nerd. Uh, that's just my favorite movie.
Um, so I lean over him Knight's Tale style and I go, I pay homage to the killer in dark of night. They are the blight who prune the broken bush of man. Whoa. That's awesome. Cut to chimes kneeling next to Perel spirit. He tilts his head to the side and goes, yeah, people don't usually pray. I'm sure it's, it's no, it's, it's thematically appropriate though. It's a big moment. Cut back to tuck and he brings the ax up and over and slices through Perel's neck. It's shadow X.
So he doesn't actually kill her. Just so everyone's clear. We didn't kill Perel. Uh, and yeah, as you bring the shadow X through, you feel the resistance of whatever's inside and then water just bubbles up out of his mouth. It's like he's choking for a second and it pours down the sides of his face and pools under his head and is totally still. And then Perel goes, fucking spat in my mouth, dude. I'm eating right in his face. Yeah. You get a, but you get a bunch of water in your face.
What the fuck? Thankfully, it's no, not no longer magically sentient. That could have been bad, huh? Puked in my mouth. I have not. My body has not breathed in weeks. Bing, let me go. Bing, let me go. It's you. Show me. Prove to me it's you. I can test him. What's the coolest kind of hat? I do not want to say. Tell us what you think. You are going to make fun of me. Tell us what you think. The coolest kind of hat.
It's the long floppy ones with the one side pinned up in a big flower on the top of it. Feather, feather, a feather. Flower. You said flower. You loser. Okay. Look, when I was young, flowers were the fashion. Now let me go. He flings him up on his feet and he very unceremoniously just gets to his feet and then falls right on his face. Yeah. He goes, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh, you know, blood hasn't moved these muscles for a while.
It was water. Can you fucking believe that? And he like jolts up. Where's Billy? Billy's in the spirit world. He's safe. He's with Chimes. What? Duck is getting this information for the first time. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Cut to the spirit world. Chimes is like getting up, dusting his hands off. There's no, there's like dust spirits go like, okay, bye. This is what we do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Hey what you did a good job kid oh thank you you want to go home I am home do you want a body again yeah I remember that gravy and he like I can't get here and he nods upwards let's go get you something to eat okay and he takes your hand and starts walking you up the stairs oh can you carry me and he grabs both your wrists and hefts you over his shoulder like a sack let's go what are you guys doing perel is like we gotta get out of here tuck has already started running up the stairs to try and find uh chimes and billy just to be like what the fuck where's my kid um he's not supposed to be down here it's and he's like stuck he's prel's limping up behind you it's that thing where you sit on the toilet for too long and your elbows are on your knees and then your legs are asleep and so he's just like waddling back and forth helping him up the stairs uh thank you thing thank you I think he's okay uh he seemed I'm very capable I'm gone and so he's talking to ving billy seemed very capable in the spirit world tuck is is very protective of him oh no I'm aware a little too protective maybe hmm he might need to let go a little bit you know when I first met you fucking clowns I thought that this like codependency was a weakness that I could frankly at some point exploit but now I see it is an unquestionable strength can you carry me you're such an asshole hop on and we cut to tuck he's getting to the top of the stairs but it's that thing where a kid is running up a stairs too fast and he trips the last bit face plant slides a little bit yeah yeah billy billy and he find his body yeah billy's body's just laying like kind of like crumpled on his side and I put the axe is the axe there too uh yeah yeah yeah terry larry and chad yeah I put the shadow axe like into the actual axe and I I pick up billy and I start flopping him around I'm like come on buddy get back don't shake the baby he's just flopping I take some italian urban cheese bread that I saved and I crack it in front of his nose like one of those salt things like one of those salad smelling salts I'm like come on buddy come back for the italian urban cheese from subway we're sponsored by subway now he doesn't do anything and chimes is walking with billy over his shoulder yeah huffing and puffing like I can't believe I get short of breath in the spirit world and I'm like oh my god I'm unbelievable yeah billy never get old I I won't I'm a spring baby and eventually you do get to the top of the stairs you see your friends you see tuck shaking the shit out of you is that what's the big one is that tuck you betcha oh and I assume that's me you betcha should probably get back in there yeah let's let's get you settled okay and you see um like on top of the pile of rubble that you've all ignored and you're like oh my god I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm trying to shake billy's body awake the reclined form of chimes with his like arms crossed and his legs crossed and his eyes closed and his eyeball tattoos and uh yeah billy you get settled back into your body chimes it picks you up under your armpits oh and settles you back into your body thank you and I wake up to violent shaking and I've got a piece of bread in his mouth and easy easy thing comes up and puts it on your shoulder both to your shoulder oh god just leave me alone put me down and yeah behind you you hear and as chimes stands up and is slapping his legs and chest and arms and perel and ving make it to the top of the stairs and the rain is pouring in from the sea uh oh or the rain has stopped the rain has stopped has stopped we go outside it is a beautiful inky black night brilliant star shining in the sky the full moon shining above and just around it the coronet the full moon because there is also a there's two moons yeah right and the and the coronet has basically crowned the moon as you as you see it from where you're standing billy turns the chimes um thank you for taking care of me anytime little guy is that lillian up there where's that rian he just looks up at the two moons and you can see the tears welling in his eyes and he says I'll tell you later and I guess that's where we're gonna end it this has been Spout Lore I'm your game master Sean O'Hara with me as always playing fat billy the halfling thief jessica tie see you later playing ving the half elf druid Paul Oppers thanks a lot guys I'm playing tacoma dome the barbarian abdulaziz goodbye thank you to aaron reed for our amazing intro and outro music thank you as always to our incredible supporters around the world uh whether you support us through patreon uh support us through listening or support us telling your friends we're so glad to have you this is my favorite thing to do in the whole world and I'm really glad that we've gotten to share it with you for uh lo these many years and hopefully uh Spout Lore 2045 in the far future we'll all be old by then I'm feeling very sentimental right now but thank you for joining us we'll see you next time in days of open tales we're told of a maiden fair and true of one whose heart when wandering it moved from me to you one night she sat atop the wall to the lands of here and fay but gibbous man had hatched a plan to steal her heart away a key a candle and a flame used to play the role then bars of iron stone and sun did close around her soul her heart was trapped her spirit chained by one who could not love and so began the paling of the nighttime sun above the gibbous man forgot her there for fickle is his way unable to go wandering she began to fade away and with the waning of her light the land began to howl for in the waxing shade of night the dark was free to prowl wind and water salt and stone the maiden's heart was far from home wind and water salt and stone the maiden's heart was far from home a simple man without a plan looked up and saw the plight of a fading moon and the growing bloom that overtook the night a thief by trade he stole a skiff and set upon the waves to find the cage of the waxing maid in an ocean full of grace for a thousand days he sailed the waves to the border of the fay where land and sea and sorrow meet and the maiden was betrayed the gibbous man was waiting there for the woman To strengthen all the graves.
To water he gave blood. To make the currents flow. And in the breaking of himself he felt his power grow. The sea was he and he the sea. It was the trade he made. And in the giving of himself he learned to save the made. Wind and water, salt and stone. The maiden's heart is coming home. The maiden's heart is coming home. The maiden's heart is coming home. The maiden's heart is coming home. The maiden's heart is coming home. Lyrics by
