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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 half-elf, 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 Previously on Spoutmore Uh, have you guys been having troubles with Meyer frogs recently?

Oh man When haven't we been having troubles with Meyer frogs? We're just heading into town for the festival Oh, the hot dog festival! Yes Oh, if you're looking for a place to stay, there ain't no finer accommodations in all of Mudlock than the wallow in the south We're mercenaries for hire Mercenaries? In Mudlock? I am the mayor of this village Oh, you're the mayor? Yeah Fat Billy wants to hug the mayor I took a little metallic wallet, that sort of thing Oh, like a little…

A little metal case Yeah Can we help? Can we… I need this festival to go off without a hitch I'm willing, in this situation, to deputize the three of you as official enforcers Welcome to Spoutmore We're continuing our Dungeon World game I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara, and joining me are players Jessica Hey Paul Hi And Abdul Hey guys Oh, something that we didn't do?

Ask some questions, because the thing that I'm supposed to do with the Barbarian is ask you about the place that you came from I ask you a detail of the thing in the Newmark experience if you give me an answer Okay So last time we talked about your favorite festival that you missed from McCall Oh, yeah And you talked about Fireworks Festival in reverence of the Prophet of Fire Yes Yeah And you mentioned the God of the Flame Yeah Tell me… Okay, so what is the…

What is the most common way of worshiping the God of Flame? Like, a lot of people shave their pubes Oh, Jesus What? The world… Other cultures are just different sometimes You're totally right You're totally right If it has… If there's, like, grooming… Are there other methods of grooming that… Maybe in your culture, pubes are something else What if… What if, like, they're all naturally hairless on their head and so their pubes are, like… Their hairdos? Their pubedues? Yeah Every…

Wear, like, really, like, v-neck pants Yep Go right down to the crest Like, really low… Low riders Mm-hmm So you still can't see the dick or balls Okay, let me just… Ask me again Let's start again from the beginning Because this topic, like, went in a weird direction It's off, it's off Ask me another question Okay How did… What is the origin of the worship of the God of the Flame? A million years ago… Uh… There was… There was a man… And a woman… And they… Fucked… Hard…

Um… And while they were fucking, they were struck by lightning… And the lightning was the dick of the God of the Sky… And… So it was like a three-way… And this chick got pregnant… And… There was a woman with a baby…

Baby came out of and he looked normal at first but then when he hit puberty there so like kid was normal until puberty and then his voice changed and he started having like all these weird feelings and then his dad died of a coughing fit and and the kid was filled with such sorrow that his lightning his his dormant lightning genes activated and he set himself on fire and he was a combination of lightning and man and then he became a fireman and he elevated to the position of a god over the course of his life because he dried out one of the largest seas in the world with his fire one time see that's okay yeah but that's the that's the boring part of the story the cool god stuff he does that was boring I what I really liked it but okay mark an experience for that just one I read that's the thing is you got a limit of one my friend what I really like is is there's a lot of stuff in there that if you if you think about it could be like a biblical like a like a religious text and that's the thing that I really like is that there's a lot of stuff in there that's just tuck trying to explain it yeah he's just like there's a man in a woman and they fucked lightning I guess but it's like you know a man and a woman conceived the child of the sky like the book is actually really moral and beautiful but tux is just trying to explain it and he doesn't know enough all right cool and there's so there's a sea that dried up somewhere yeah cool I wanted to ask this too is mccall like really far away it's um it's on the it's on the other side of the uh sea of graves the sea of graves yeah it's boring I don't want to talk about the sea of graves the ocean that the god of the flame dried up no no is that past the sea of graves is still a sea um the the ocean that the god of the flame dried up it was um is this is the is the dried up ocean now a place do people live there it um they do uh it's like salt flats now cool so they do like land speed record tests there it's mostly racing and yeah it's it's pretty barren now nothing grows there because it was it was glanced by holy fire because he dried it up with himself man that explains all the salt yeah yeah all right sweet um who was explaining this to the whole time me sean oh yeah I just asked you a question you could have did it in your regular voice I should have really done it where the fuck were we uh all right yeah so the mayor is like if you do this for me you will be in the good graces of the people of mudlock including myself why did your voice change so quick I'm sorry why did your voice change what's the deal is this the voice you're doing now uh and as he's like please just do this for me and I will I will be in your debt well I'm paying you so I suppose we will it will be square it's an exchange it's an exchange of money for goods and services yes you've hired us yes you are hired five coins a day starting tomorrow and wait wait as he says that wait you're not getting a free day bitch as he says that there's like a a commotion you hear like Kind of a bunch of people.

I keep saying commotion because it's the easiest way to describe it. I hope it's a train. A train rips through the center of town. No tracks. Oh, no. I think we're in my dreams. We've been incepted. It's a locomotion. You hear like a kind of really overly loud series of like wet croaks. Just like you're walking through a swamp at night. And there are people kind of like shouting. And you see the town guards running around and pointing at things and yelling and trying to organize.

And the crowd on the edge of the square moves aside. And four large frogs on their hind legs walk into the square. Two are carrying banners. And two are carrying spears. And one has like a busted up brass horn. And it's kind of being like boop, boop. Like it's like tooting into the horn. Wow. That horn is making a dumb sound. Toot, toot. But then the frogs' voices are slightly more intimidating. Because they're just, you know, loud and gross. And they're speaking frogs. Yeah, they're just like.

And they're like walking and kind of snapping at people and pushing people out of the way. How rare are frog people in this world? That's a great question that you can answer by rolling a Spout Lore. So that is, you would roll 2d6 plus intelligence. Which I think you've tried to do a bunch of times and are exceptionally bad at. Yeah. I'm going to give you the sheet. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead.

Seven. Plus your intelligence? Zero. Oh, you're zero. Okay, so it is a seven. Seven. Seven to nine. So with a seven to nine for Spout Lore, I tell you something interesting about the. But not useful. Yeah, but not useful. So what you know is that frog people are fairly, not fairly common, but they're known. Okay. These creatures are commonly called Bullywugs. And, yeah, they're just kind of bipedal frog people that live in swampy areas. And that's all you know. That's.

I also heard like a stereotype about them where they like they're really cheap. That's like could very well. Yeah. Frugal is good, though. Yeah. It's about quality. Do it. Do it. I'm not going to say frog. Spout Lore. So the. The Bullywugs, as you now was. Ving. Remembers they are called. Walked in the center of the square. And one of them hops up on the dais in the center of town and pulls like a little rolled piece of fabric out of its pocket and like opens it in front of it.

And is like, here you hear you. We come on behalf of the Lord of these swamps and the king of all frogs. Emperor Borgulch. And the mayor is like, what the what? No. What is. What is. My deputies, please. You are now on the clock. I will pay you today. Ah, cool. Deal with this. And he like kind of starts pushing you towards. The frog. The frog people. Go, go, please, please, please. All right. Who wants to talk to the frog people? I don't want anything to do with this. You're intimidating. Yeah.

But I feel like diplomacy is probably best to start with. I do have gills. Yeah. I walk up and show them my gills and say, well, we. We represent the mayor in this city. So. All right. Should we start talking to him? Yeah. What did you say? What did he say? He says. He said, we represent the Lord of these swamps and the king of all frogs. Emperor Borgulch. He says that again. He says. Yeah, he says it twice. And he says it. He does his best to say it in the exact same tone. Oh, OK.

What do you want? We demand envoy. With the leadership of this town. Wow. OK. Well, we were kind of like standing in. We're deputized. We've been deputized by the mayor. He's too busy. Wait. No, let's. Let's ask the mayor if he wants to talk to these guys. Did he leave? He's gone. Yeah. As you turn around to look in the in the the alleyway that he was, you just see like a mayor shaped cloud of dust dissipates. You almost never see that in real life. If we do not.

If Emperor Borgulch does not have audience and his demands are not meant. Met. But. It will be war. But. OK. All right. Nobody wants a war here, especially against frog people. Borgulch wants war. OK, we'll get you a meeting with the mayor, but he's not here right now. So we need time. Where's can we. Can we like. Make a scheme. Is that what you call plan? Plan a trick. Yeah. I can. One of us pretend. I like this. Is Billy saying this? Yes. Can we make a scheme? Yes.

Billy wants to know, can we make a scheme? OK. What's the scheme, Billy? Well, the mayor is not going to meet with this guy. Can one of us be the mayor? Yeah, Billy's the mayor. OK. Oh, yeah. I didn't. I did not volunteer for this. Well, yeah. Did I? That's what the. I mean, it happens with the mayor. OK. You're nominated by your people. OK. Yeah. The mayor's right here. It's this fat, supple boy.

Somebody's going to have to roll a defy danger like charisma or something to convince them that you're not. Who's got who's going to who's going to go for it? I think because I lied. OK. And if anybody wants to aid, you can you can. I'll aid with bond. Well, how are you aiding? It might make sense if Billy aids because trying to look mayoral in any way. So he wears a raccoon skin. Plus your charisma. Is that. Yeah. Two of those. Yeah. So eight. Yeah. Great. So no.

As long as as long as long as Tacoma succeeds. I rolled a ten. Oh, yeah. So that's great. OK. Um, yeah. So you kind of point you're like, this is this fat job is our mayor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This tiny. Fat halfling is our mayor. And he will meet with your emperor. So he goes very well. His name is Rascal. Flats. Mayor Rascal Flats. Very well, Mayor Flats. You will meet with more gulch.

Emperor of the swamps. King of frogs. Lord of these still waters. Prince of flies. Other. He's like looking frantically frantically his cloth and like trying to remember. He's like, yeah, you will meet by tomorrow at sunrise or it will be war. Wait, can you can you say his name again? I spaced. I'm sorry. Emperor Borg. Oh, does he have any nomenclature? Uh huh. Does he have any nomenclature? Do you have any letters? No. I do not understand. Well, worship. Where do you want to meet?

Where will the emperor be? In his palace? The Palace of Reeds above the swamps? We will find you at the edge of town. Which edge? This. Sunrise tomorrow. Right? Just these two. Okay. Now we all have to stand on one of the edges of town. Great. They hop down, and he toots his little horn again, and he rolls up his ratty piece of cloth and shoves it. What does the horn sound like? Toot, toot. Oh. It's a very cute horn. It's got a little smiley face.

Well, it's a good thing I'm standing hip deep in mud because I peed myself. They start walking away, and the two frogs with the banners, which are just shitty brown pieces of cloth. There's nothing on them. They're just raggedy. They start walking away, and they push their way out of town, and they're gone. They just recede through the buildings, and they are off into the distance. Man, that emperor has a pretty fucking tragic name. Or Gulch. It's almost as bad as his banners.

Sounds like the sound that pudding in a boot makes. If you fill a boot with pudding, and you put your foot in it. I'm familiar. Yeah. I know what that's like. I'm familiar. So, you know, almost as if from thin air, the mayor is at your shoulder. Says, what was that? What happened? What did they want? Dude, where did you go? I had mayoral business to attend to. Fuck. What happened? Well, you weren't here, so we told them that Billy's the… Actually, we're just… Do we need to…

Should we tell him? How big of a… How deep do we want the scheme? How deep do we want the scheme to go? Are we just scheming against the frogs? Are we scheming against the whole town? Girl, let's keep it secret. Yeah, I think it's secret. Let's keep it secret. What did he say? He wants you to wait in a closet for five to ten days. Maybe. You can roll into by danger charisma. Is five to ten days excessive? Yeah. What should I… Okay, maybe until sunset tomorrow. That sounds more fantasy. Okay.

He wants you to wait in a closet until sunset tomorrow. For what reason? He didn't give one. He was a man of few words. Okay, go ahead and roll it. Roll to ten. Yeah. Billy is very good at lying, apparently. Somehow. The mayor goes, Very well, I will remain in my quarters until whatever it is you need to attend to is… Dude, are you fucking deaf? What? Is that a clock? Closet. You can't just be in your room. Your entire quarters is… Like my closet? Like where my clothes are? Yes. Or shoes.

Or linens. He also said that your quarters were to be lent to us for the night. And I just stay in the closet? Yes. That's what he said. Get in the closet, man. Don't come out of the closet. Okay. I am mayor of this town and I will do what is required for my people. Yes. I will be in the closet. And you are free to… I will be in the closet. I will be in the closet. I will be in the closet. I will be in the closet. I will be in the closet. I will be in the closet. I will be in the closet.

And you are free to stay in my quarters, I suppose. Or it's war, they said. War? Well then, I am a patriot if nothing else. And I will be in the closet until sunset tomorrow. Goodbye. Cool. Billy. What? Good lie. Thanks. It's really out of our hair. Do we want him in our hair? It feels like we can run this town now. I think we're… You're the mayor now. Yeah, I feel like we're kind of the mayor until tomorrow at sunset. Heck yeah. Heck yes. Mayor. Yeah, so you have until sunrise tomorrow.

And you're supposed to meet more Gulch. Yeah, should we change some municipal laws before we do stuff? Yeah, what? Let's talk to the sanitation department. This place is disgusting. All right. Wait, can the mayor… Can the mayor make an announcement to everyone before he goes? That's like, these guys are going to be taking care of shit for right now? Yeah, that's a good idea. Do you ask him that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe I'll… He's like, that seems a little excessive.

I'll just be away for the day. But you don't want this town to fall apart while you're gone and this festival? Somebody's got to be in charge while you're gone. And these frog people are threatening war, but they want you in this closet. I just think that you should make somebody in charge and I will be us. I trust my God. I trust the militia. I am a little hesitant to leave the reins of my town in the hands of three strangers. You can make a roll.

You can make a roll to try and convince them again. No, it's fair. We don't need control of your town. We can just scheme them. Very well. If you have any questions, I need to come up with a name. Let's say it at the same time. One, two, three. Billy Corrigan. Wait, what did you say? If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the captain of the guard, Armando. Oh, hot. And he will set you up with anything you require. Till then, I will be in my closet, I guess. Yeah, bring a bucket.

I will find a bucket. And a book. I have many books. And? A turkey. A turkey? A whole. Wait. Is this? For you to bring? Billy's thinking this is good again. This will be for me, but if you require food, there will be food at the… Mansion? At my estate. Quarters. My quarters. My mouth touched the microphone because my lips went out when I said quarters. Quarters. Four quarters and a dollar. Until then, I will see you on the morrow. What's your name again, Mayor? Ah.

Allow me to acquaint you with me. Self. My name is Etienne Boggins. I can't say it. Etienne. Etienne. Is it Etienne? Like Eddie and then the letter N? No, like Etienne. Etienne. Sounds like a French Canadian name. Boggins. Where are you from? Ah, thank you for asking. You can tell by my patois that I'm not from this town. I am from… That's okay. Let's see. I think… Sometimes I can't remember where I'm from. I like… I come from a town to the west called Vertigras.

On the beautiful shores of the Sapphire Sea. Well, that sounds nice. It's wonderful. You really should go. But make sure you come in the summer. The water is particularly vibrant. My voice is getting more and more eloquent. It's because you're heading deep in that closet. I will be in the closet and I will speak to you on the morrow. Good luck. You… The fate of the hot dog festival… I forgot that's what the stakes are. The hot dog festival goes well. It's like 95% of the economy, isn't it?

Yeah, it's true. Like, this doubles the city's revenue, at least. Or the town's revenue. The fate of this hot dog festival and the people within lies firmly on your three sets of shoulders. Okay, thank you for bestowing us with this responsibility. Goodbye. And he… And he… Storms away. Alright, I think we should call light of the card about us being in charge now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where's Armando? You guys want to go find Armando? Yeah. Alright. Um…

I want to grab the nearest scared-looking person and yell in their face, Where's Armando? Where is he? Talk, talk, talk, talk. Answer me! It's just like a kid. It's like a 13-year-old boy. You better answer him, kid. Uh… You don't even have to, like… Like, what is… This is a roll? Why wouldn't you just ask somebody? Alright, fine. He just goes, He's over there! And he just points, and there's like a portly gent with a big flowing mustache. Be more specific about what he looks like.

He's the portly gent with the flowing mustache. Okay! Thanks for the information. You're welcome! Cool, here's a coin for you. Thank you, that's very generous. Put him down, Tuck. Mark, take a coin away. You gave this kid a coin. No, you don't have any coins! I gave him just a bag of dirt. He gave him a bunch of dirt. He's like, thank you! And he runs. Yeah. He runs away. He's gone. Oh, man. So there's a man named Armando. I left… Ah, damn it. You gave him your dirt? Yeah, I…

That was the wrong bag of dirt. What bag of dirt did you give him? That was the bag of dirt that had all of my guitar picks in it. Why do you have so many guitar picks? Just in case I needed to jam, man. They're cheap as chips. Yeah. Wait, do you have a guitar? Or do you just have the picks hoping you'll find a guitar? I like carrying them around and then, like, taking them out. And just having people see that you have guitar picks. Yeah, I feel like it creates a cool aesthetic.

Sometimes I'll, like, slip one into one of my leather wrist straps. Cool. And I'll pull one out. It's… It gets gross. But let's go talk to Mark. Let's talk to Armando. So there's just, you know, the… We talked about how the center of town is fairly busy. It's a lot of people, like, getting stalls ready for the Hot Dog Festival. And there's, like, a stage going up. And the man that you believe to be named Armando is there. And he's, like, kind of directing people around.

You know, there are guards walking around, like, carrying crates for people and helping stuff get set up. Excuse me, sir. Yes. Is your name Armando? Well, you could… Yes. I am Armando. All right. Well, we're supposed to help with this, the Hot Dog Festival. The mayor has deputized us. Oh, great. You can just take those crates over there. No, no, no. We don't lift crates. What are you… The mayor has deputized this young man as the mayor. He, like, scrunches his face up and he goes, what?

This young boy is the mayor now. This little tiny kid? Yeah, this little kid is the mayor now. The mayor caught VD and he has to spend two days in a closet. He has to be in the dark for his VD not to take hold. He, like, crosses his arms. He caught vampire disease, man. Oh, my God. Yeah, it's important. Serious. I ain't been a vampire in these parts for a couple years now. I don't know about this. Who are you? He's from the Sapphire Sea. He caught it on the shores of the Sapphire Sea.

I am aware of where I find Mayor Etienne Bonner. Boggins is from. Yeah. Boggins, that's it. Yeah, Boggins. Right, that guy. Somebody's got to roll something. You can't just be like, he's got a vampire disease and his child is the mayor now. Billy, convince him you're the mayor. Here. Hey, little boy. This seems… You can't be… He, like, crouches down because you're, like, two feet tall. So he's, like, squatting and he's like… Billy tries really hard to not blink at all.

And he's like, yes, everything they say is true. In fact, the mayor… Bestowed upon me his personal belongings to take care of while he's recovering from the VD. All right, you're going to have to roll a Defy Danger Charisma. And I help. Six. Six? I help. Oh, okay. Yep, six. All right, so Tuck's going to help. Roll plus your bond. I rolled a nine. Plus your… I rolled a nine. Plus two is 11. Okay, so that puts it at a seven for you.

So you pull out the little thing and it's just, like, a nice little, like, kind of silver metal case. And you show it to him and say, yep, it's all true. And he looks at you and goes… Well, all right then, young man. That sounds great to me. If you're going to be taking over for the mayor, then you will have no problem giving the keynote speech. At the beginning of the festival tomorrow. I think that's great.

We've got anything you need, we can help you with to get you ready for this big speaking engagement. Everybody in the festival is going to be here in the square and you're just going to go up on the stage. Does that sound good to you? Yeah, that sounds great. That sounds perfect. Thank you. What time is the speech supposed to be? The speech is… The speech will be roughly noon. Just after noon. Okay. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow. So after sunrise. After sun. Yeah, after.

That is generally when noon is, is after sunrise. I wasn't sure how that happened here. The sun happens. Yeah. Just… The way… Well, it's different. How do they tell time in your town? The sun. Okay, cool. So just when it's generally in the middle of the sky. So it's like our other towns. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. It's basically the same. He says, that's great. We'll just, you know, I'll let the boars know not to give you any hard time, Mr. Mayor. And he kind of like ruffles your hair.

Please don't touch the mayor. Yeah. He's, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah. Deputy mayor. It's fine. He suffered more than I did, so I'm covered in piss. The mayor said that you were going to give us some walking around money. He was also going to give us some lunches, portable lunches. Lunchables, I think they're called. Lunch. Lunch. Okay. How much was the? Five bucks. Five gold. Five coins. Five coin each. Five coins.

That's something that the mayor's attache would deal with, not the captain of the guard. Okay. We'll just take the key to the city then. Key to the city. He says, you know what? Good point. He pulls out a giant novelty key that says, 2017 key to the city, and he hands it to you. Thank you. That doesn't happen. It doesn't fit in any locks. It fits in one giant lock, the secret lock that only comes out when the moon is high in the sky. Okay. This is exciting. Yeah, right?

I heard that lock is alive, and it's kind of like a vagina. When you said that lock is alive, I was like, cool. And then you were like, it's like a vagina. I was like, dual. Fantasy stuff is weird sometimes. Sometimes you got to fuck a living lock. With a key that is also kind of like a dick. Every lock's like a vagina. Is this two people having sex? Everything's two people having sex. All right. Cool.

He says, if you're looking for food, you can head to the Wallow and Sal and the old Maggie Cole. She'll set you up. Cool. Yeah. Free probably because we're the mayor and his entourage. Yes. You also, I think I overheard you have access to the mayor's estate. Yeah. Yeah. Up in the. Yeah. Up a ways. Up a ways on Cardinal Street. Cardinal Street. Cardinal Street. Yeah. Thanks for the information. No problem. Have a good time. And he turns around and starts pointing at stuff. Okay. That's all.

He just silently is like, point, point, point, point. All right. Cool. We've done it. Pretty good. Good job of taking over this town. Yeah. Yeah. We have this town at least still sun up. Yeah. So, shall we do something about the frog war? Yeah. That's probably a good idea. And that's the game for this week. Thanks for listening. This has been Spout Lore. I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara. With me as always, players Paul. The mayor said that you were going to give us some walking around money.

Abdul. What? Other cultures are just different. Different sometimes. And Jessica. Hello. I'm sorry. I'm eating. And as always, our technical producer, West Lord. Thanks to Hecklers for letting us record in the upstairs Ratfish Lounge. Hecklers upstairs. Thanks to Aaron Reed for our amazing intro and outro music. And we have been playing Dungeon World, a game by Adam Coble and Sage LaTorah, which is a hack of a game called Apocalypse World by D. Vincent Baker.

You can find all of that stuff on the internet. If you want it. Thanks for listening. And we'll see you next week. And so ends the tale of Adventures 3. Who tried the best they can. Though dumb and scared and lost they be. For time's abreast in revelry. And though our journey may be like a conclusion. We will not leave. 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 spout no. No.

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. Last time on Spoutlore. You are traveling to the village of Mudlark. Sorry, Blugblark? Oh, it's real. Piece of shit. It's a hot dog festival. It's kind of like Burning Man. So you guys are traveling in a big cart full of food supplies? Anybody got a name for this food guy? Colonel Dan.

Oh man, we're not getting any further with this tree in the road. A spear blade, like, hammered out. It's a sheared spear. This didn't fall naturally. This was pushed into the road. If I fought the horse, would I win? The horse can get past without getting stuck in the mud. Dan would probably have to leave some of his supplies. He's behind if he wants to get the cart through at all. Okay, well, I'm fine with that.

I guarantee you that if you leave that barrel of shitty sweet meat in the middle of this bog for a hundred years, no one would take it. If you have a single person ask you… Yeah, for sweet meat. For sweet schloss meat, I will give you this amulet with a picture of a horse in it. You know what? No, I'm going to hold on to this, actually. The festival is in, like, a day and a half. I got a bunch of meat. Got a lot of things riding on this. All right, hop in, everybody. Next stop, Mudlark.

Welcome to Spout Lore. I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara. And with me today are players Jessica. My character is Fat Billy. Paul. My character is Ving. And Abdul. At Tacoma Dome. Today we're continuing our Dungeon World game. When do we… Get to our… The hot dog festival? Hot dogs. You travel down along the road. It's not as bad. It's like the fog is starting to let up a little bit. There's, like, bug sounds. It's pretty swampy sounds. But then, as you can see, more signs for, like, Mudlark.

One mile. From the swamp, you just hear, like, a… So it's a croak? It's, like, a big croaky, wet-sounding, just, like, gross noise. Do you know anything about gross? Wet-sounding noises? Yes. Are you trying to remember something about gross croaks? Well, I've experienced a lot of gross wet noises. Croaks. Brokes. Burps. Do I recognize it? It's maybe of an animal? It could be an animal, yeah. That sounds like a Spout Lore. I would like to try and Spout Lore to see if it's an animal.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. 2D6 plus intelligence. 6. It's just, like, Vayne's number one skill is remembering stuff. I want to help him. All right. Sounds great. Plus your bond. 7. 7. All right, great. So you open yourself up to danger, retribution, or cost. Didn't he get 7? Yes. But by aiding, you're also including yourself in this. But isn't this a partial success? Yeah, partial success for him. But you also got 7 to 9. An 8 or interfere.

On a 7 to 9, you also expose yourself to danger, retribution, or cost. But we got partial. So partial success for Spout Lore is that I will tell you something interesting about But not useful. The subject. Okay. Yeah. So something interesting that you remember hearing about the mud fields and the bogs that surround Mudlark in this sort of region is that there are amphibians in the area that get a lot larger. Hmm. Like, a lot larger than your average. Frog or toad. Okay.

Like, there have been stories of frogs that are, like, cow-sized. Man-eaters. Yeah, just, like, gigantic man-eating frogs. Cow-sized frogs? Can you milk them? Meyer frog. Yeah. So you've heard of Meyer frogs, which are, like, just beefy, big-ass frogs. Guys, it could be a Meyer frog. I've heard of those. Fat Billy does not like this. I've also heard of that. I want to leave. Yeah. Billy's, like, 2 feet tall. Like, that's more than small enough to get swallowed whole by a regular-sized frog.

I'm, like, a delicious appetizer. I need to scurry. You're like a house fly to this guy. So is Billy just, like, what does Billy do? Billy, get in this Bjorn. Billy does not want to get into a Bjorn. Billy wants to run. Get on my shoulders. Is Billy going to run? Billy. No, we need you here. We can't see too far. Billy's eyes are wide. I don't know what to do. That says, all right, you know what? It's fine. The town's pretty close. We'll just keep going. We'll keep going.

We'll just stay on the road, and we'll hustle up. Billy climbs into one of the satchels that's hung on the horse. Yeah. No way. In a saddlebag? Yeah. That's a good idea. Should we light some torches? Maybe scare away this frog? Yeah. This giant, possibly giant frog. It sounded like it could be pretty far away. I mean, it could be really close. The trees kind of throw sound in a weird way, so you're not sure if it's, like, closer. God damn these fucking trees. They're ruining this trip.

You break through that swampy, disgusting. Forest. And you just come out onto a nice, big, clear, still disgusting, swampy field. But there's less trees. Did we go the wrong way? Nope. This is the right way. You see, as the sun's starting to, like, fall a little bit through the fog, so it's just a nice gray, bright gray. You see a collection of buildings further down closer. Are we passing peasants as we're driving? Yeah. You're, like, passing through farmland. Can I talk to one of the peasants?

Sure. Yeah. There's just a guy with, like… Kind of a gap-toothed look, like, digging in the mud. Hey, peasant. What? Do you know… Have you guys been having troubles with mire frogs recently? Oh, man. When haven't we been having troubles with mire frogs? When? Yes. Oh, yes. This is valuable information. Hold on. Let me think for a second. Your turn of phrase is confusing to me. Nothing… Nothing lately. A couple of months ago, I heard the… The thugman's kid was pulled off into the woods.

Oh, it's terrible that his name is Thugman. He was eaten by a frog? No, he just… They got him back, but he was just missing a bit. Thugman's, I will have you know, are a proud mudlark family. They've been tending these slop fields for generations, the thugmans. What is your last name? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. Well, I can't say to lay claim to a name as auspicious as the thugman's. My name is… My name is… Well, I can't… My name's Dick Foulsmouth. Do you want me to do a take on Dick Foulsmouth? Yes, please. All right, fine. I can't say that I could lay claim to a name as fine as the thugman's. I'm old Dick Foulsmouth. Fowl's mouth? Fowl's mouth. Fowl's mouth. Fowl's mouth. It's like Fowl's. You gotta loosen up your cheeks. Fowl's mouth. Fowl's mouth. So your first name is Dick.

Dick. And your middle name is Fowl. No, my last name is Fowl's mouth. My middle name is Veronica. Wow. That's beautiful. It's my mother's name. Oh, wow. As is the custom of your land. God rest her soul. I'm dragged off into the woods by my frog. Anyways, I got work to do. Is there anything I can help you find folks with? We're just heading into town for the festival. Oh, the hot dog festival. Yes. The finest event in all of Mudlark, second only to Mud Christmas. When is Mud Christmas?

I don't want you to tell me about that. Oh. Do you want to hear about Mud Christmas? I think we should probably get to the hot dog festival. Wait, but should we find lodgings for the night? Fat Billy, I don't really want to go anywhere in the dark with these frogs. Are we just going to camp out? We're going to party all night. Do we actually need to sleep? Oh, if you're looking for a place to stay, there ain't no finer accommodations in all of Mudlark than the wallow inside. The wallow inside?

The wallow inside. Like a lady pig. Wait, the swallowing cell? The wallow inside. Wow. Okay. Okay. I like the sound of that. You just head on into town. Yes. Get a room from Maggie Cole. Tell her old Dick Fousman sent you. Okay. Thank you, sir. Will she give us a discount or she'll just know that we talked to you? Well, she'll know. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I thought. You tell her. I ain't forgotten. We'll tell her. Okay. See you later, folks, at the hot dog festival. Okay, bye. Bye, Veronica.

All right. Bye. Digging in the mud again. And Dan whips the horse. Not whips the horse. You know, jangles the reins and the horse carries on. Okay. Into the town of Mudlark. Wow. That guy made me so sad to listen to him. You wanted to stop and talk to him. I appreciate that. At least we know where we're going to stay. We don't have to stay, but I'm feeling a little shiver me timbers right now about this whole Meyer frog situation. But we're heading into town.

They shouldn't bother us in the festival or the town. There's a lot of people around. All right. Yes. And there's. Yeah, exactly. There's a lot of people. So more likely someone else will get taken. If I die, I will curse you. So let's continue. Okay. That's a bond. That's a bond. Yeah. I mean, I will curse you. That's a common thing that halflings say. It's really intense every time. Yeah. I don't know what it means, but I picked it up from a family that I wanted to join once.

A family of halfling warlocks. Yeah. I've been cursing people. For years. So you guys carry on into the town of Mudlark. How big of a town is it? It's probably like, you know, two or three hundred people. It's not huge, but it's not like a village. Human people? What's the race like? I mean, probably mostly human. Yeah. That dick vagina guy seemed pretty much human. I see a few halflings. You see a few halflings? I do. Yeah. From my little coach. What are they doing? They're also digging.

Some of them are carrying things between shops. Oh. And I'm… Is this the lot of halflings? Are they like laborers? They don't like own a lot? Halflings don't own a lot. They like to live with and from the land. And they don't learn much. They just do simple things. Interesting. Because they are small, too. They are literally closer to the land. They are. It's in the spirit of the halfling. It is what defines you. They have many sayings. What's one of them? What's one more?

One saying is the closer to the ground, the more… I can't remember because no one really said them to me. I just had to hear them from passing. So what about being closer to the ground and then something more happened? And then in my mind, I was like, that's a good thing. To be closer to the ground? Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. Interesting. Interesting. The closer to the ground, the more you will be… Loved. In my mind. The more love you will find in the dirt. In the dirt. Love in the dirt. Hmm.

Is Billy just… His mind is just full of half-remembered halfling turns of phrases? Yeah, Billy is very sad right now. Oh, man. There's many tears that he wishes to let out, but he has to be strong. Jeez. Jeez. It's okay. Man. Okay. Hey, Billy, do you want this granola bar? I was saving it. No, I don't. Are you sure? Yes. It's dipped in chocolate. Okay. Okay. Here you go. Oh. Oh, man. So, you guys, yeah, you roll into the main square, like the center of Mudlark.

And it's like, you know, when you think of like a town square, it's that sort of thing. There's like a little kind of plinthy dais thing in the center with some cobbly stones. It's mostly muddy dirt roads around. There are a lot of people. There's a lot of activity. People are setting up for the hot dog festival. There's a lot of carts going up, and there's a stage. They're putting up a stage near… Hmm. The center for like, you know, whatever stages are used for in this town.

There's a lot of effluent youths. A lot of effluent, like… Affluent. Affluent. Effluent means feces? Bunch of shitty kids. So, there's effluent and affluent youths. Yes. So, yeah, there's like some finer dressed people, but… In town for the festival. It's a pretty dirty town. It's a hot dog festival. But it's a big hot dog festival. It's popular. Okay. It's actually something that we could talk about. Why do people come from all around? Is it just the food is so good?

I think also it has to do with that it's a really shitty place to get to. It's dangerous. Yeah. And it sucks, and it's far away. So, it's about the act of the people who actually go there. It's like a pilgrimage. It's almost like a pilgrimage. And like, it got really cool amongst the affluent teens because they wanted to really like dirty up. They wanted to really like, you know, live like the other half-lives. Yeah. Okay. So, it's a lot of rich people that just want to have… Yeah.

It's a lot of rich people that just want to have… Hang out around poor people to make them feel like they've done something with their lives. Mm-hmm. Okay. So, it is like Burning Man. It's just like… It's just Burning Man. Awesome. Okay. Cool. Yeah. So, you see like… There's a giant hot dog sculpture in the middle that gets burned at the end of the weekend. The Oscar Mayer guy. You see a lot of…

So, you see a lot of like who you assume are like the villagers of Mudlark, like the townspeople. And they look like how you would expect people that have had hard lives. And then you see people that look like they're wearing the costume of like a hard life. Like things that are ripped but like very deliberately. And like they have like mud on their faces but like in interesting patterns instead of just like where mud would fall on your face if you were digging in the river. Okay.

So, one thing that you have heard about Mudlark is the river that was Mudlark runs up to one of the bigger cities. And treasure and equipment and all this sort of like cool… You know, some of these small valuable stuff would wash down the river and get stuck in the soil and the mud. So, this town was founded by Mudlarks which are people that dig through the muddy basis of rivers to find valuable things to sell. So, Mudlarking is a thing that people still do in Mudlark.

It's mostly farmers but people still will dig in the river. Is that what Dick Veronica was doing? Veronica was just a farmer. You were farming. Yeah. Just trying to tend crops. The town. So, there's a cluster of like big buildings. That is like… Like the center of the town of Mudlark. And then there's farms on either side and further up and down the actual bed of the river. There are people where people will Mudlark dig through the mud for valuable things.

And that I think is probably where, what we talked about earlier, the town of like boats that just kind of were left from the river. So there's clusters of old boats, big boats, like galleons and river boats and that sort of stuff that are just stuck in the mud forever. And people have just turned those into their homes. So there's like the boat towns on either side. And then the central village of Mudlark. I had a thought. I think Fat Billy's parents might've tried to do this earlier on.

And that's where, not where, but probably when he was orphaned. Tried to do. Mudlarking. Because it was like a method of like gaining wealth. Oh, so they died mudlarking? Or like maybe on the route. He doesn't know. He doesn't know what happened to his parents. They went to Mudlark to dig in the river. If it's something that people travel, for it must, there must be rumors of like actual, some big deal stuff in the, in the river. Like that there's still something there. Not that it's all been.

Yeah. That's like, you know, that makes sense why they like people still dig all the time. Yeah. Yes. Also why this festival is here. Yeah. Do you think people come to Mudlark as well as the hot dog festival? Well, traditionally that's what the hot dogs is. The traditional food. Oh, the mudlark. So is it a mud? So it's a hot dog festival, but it's also a mudlarking festival. So it's like, people will come in, like eat the food. No, I thought it was like the people who live there. Mudlark.

And then I think the people that come to the festival, they play at mudlarking. Or maybe they come with the guys of festival, but they really want to. Oh, so it's people that come for the festival and they're like, oh yeah, I'm just here for these sweet hot dogs, but they're actually here to like, try and find their treasure of their lifetimes. And the locals don't like it. Don't. Cause you're not. So what, if you're not, is that, is everybody allowed to dig?

I think the locals probably don't allow non-locals to dig. There's a, there's a unwritten rule that it's very rude to go to mudlark and. And dig in the mud. Yes. It's like working in Australia. Awesome. Okay. So non-locals aren't allowed. Yeah. It's probably some kind of like mafioso. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a crime boss that like controls all the mudlarking. Yeah. Yeah. I guess. Permits. I mean, it makes you probably live on like a big, like a big, like ship sometime somewhere out in the ship.

Maybe there's no Meyer frog. Maybe they. Wait, maybe there's no, what? Maybe the Meyer frogs are like a way of scaring people. Anyway, these are all rumors. This is all hearsay. Yes. Cool. Yeah. So yeah, the village is being set up and you can see a sign on a, on a, one of the bigger buildings in town. And you can see that there's like smoke coming out of the chimneys. It all looks very cozy. And there's like a stable to the side and you see a sign. And the sign is just a cutout of a pig.

With its legs out. And it's like covered in mud up to its eyes. And you, you take that to be the wallowing Sal. Oh yeah. Yeah. Should we go get a room? Oh, so Dan's like, all right, I guess this is a, I guess this is me. I'm going to set up you guys. Are you guys, you guys are sticking around for the festival, right? And then you're going to take me back. That's the plan. Yeah. That was the deal we had. So yeah. All right. Yeah.

What are you guys going to, what are you guys getting paid by the way? What do you think is a fair payment? Seems weird to negotiate it now. We all just sleep on it. What do you guys think? Well, I just figured we didn't set out the terms. Really. I just said that I'd pay you and I'm a man of my word. So what do you guys think is fair? Five, five coins a piece, five coins a piece. Done. There and done. Five coins a piece. What? Done. See you later guys. I'm going to go set up. No. Okay.

This is a parlay. Wow. No, this is a parlay situation. Billy, you fucked us so hard. Oh, okay. We need money, Billy. This is, we came three days in. Forget what you heard. 20 coins a piece. That seems pretty steep. You did say five and we agreed on five and now you're saying 20 a piece? I didn't say five. All right. I don't remember that. So this is a parlay. What's your leverage? Well, it's a parlay if you have leverage. Can I? I found a nice rock.

It's like, look, kid, that's a beautiful rock doing great. We'll, we'll advertise for you. We'll do one. We'll do walk around and do some flaring for you. Yeah. We'll tell people that your schloss meat's better than the crab cakes. We can tell rumors about how, about the other schloss meats. Yeah. It's like aphrodisiac schloss meat. This gorilla jerky gets you hard as fuck. All right. If you guys want to do a little bit of advertising, for me. Okay. Roll the, roll the parlay.

This is a Billy rolling it. Yeah. Billy's the it's, it's charisma, right? Yeah. Damn. Yes. 12. Jessica's rolling like a pro. Yeah, man. All right. So he says, all right, you know what? If you guys are going to advertise for me, uh, we'll agree on 20 coins a piece, I suppose. Uh, it seems fair, but that's 20 coins a piece for the whole deal. Taking me to my Larkin, taking me back. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. 20 coins a piece at the end of the festival. When we get back to town, you get 20.

How much does a sword cost here? Oh, that's a great question. Actually. I was thinking about that because Jessica started with 10, which is like not nothing. Yeah. It seems 20 seems like a good amount of money for a job. Yeah. Uh, yeah. So coin is sort of like valuables. Like that's like the loose definition. Cause you can find like, say you find a gem, the gem could be worth 10 coin. Yeah. Uh, so that is basically 10 coin worth of money. 10 coin worth of gems.

So weapons are actually pretty cheap. Uh, like a dagger is two coins. Oh, okay. Five coins. Okay. But then when you get to like pricier stuff, like a dueling rapier, which is like a nice, fancy, expensive rapier, that's 50 coins. Like stuff can be really expensive. Armor is especially expensive. If you want like a suit of plate mail, that's 350 coins. Wow. Stuff can be really expensive or really cheap. The usual stuff that you'll find, like you can find a sword on any, any schlub. Yeah.

That's going to be like three or four coins, you know? So yeah. So it's 20 coins is not an unreasonable sum of money for dragging somebody's ass through a huge swamp and then dragging it back. So that's fair. 20 coins. Here's some pamphlets. Dan slosh meat, schloss meat. Okay. And uh, yeah, just hand them out and I'll see you guys at the end of the festival and we'll head back home. And uh, and he, and he hustles it off to his like area of the town square to start setting up.

And you see like, there's this like kind of ragged, looking like middle aged man. He's got like, he's like kind of young, but he's still got like graying facial hair and graying hair. It's kind of long. He's wearing like a fine coat for somebody in mud Lark. And he's got like a big shiny badge. Is it a black coat? It's like a, like a purple, like a purpley sort of super fine. Yeah. But it's like kind of ragged. He's got this big shiny badge on his chest and he's running around.

He's like, don't put that there. You're supposed to put that over there. We got to get these banners up on the stage. If we don't get them up soon, this whole festival could be garbage. It could be garbage. And he's running around and he's freaking out. Wow. Real Niles crane over here. He kind of like hustles up to you guys. He's like, this horse can't, the horse can't be where it is. The horse has to move. The cart has to move. The horse, you have to move these things now. Okay.

Dan's moving them. He's yeah. Move them quickly. I am. You don't just stand around. I am the mayor of this village. Oh, you're the mayor. Yeah. I offer that information freely. This is my town. Hello, mayor. My name is Bing. I'd like to know your name. I don't care. I don't care what your name is. My name wants to hug the mayor. He's just going to hug the mayor. It's like, what is this thing? What, what, what is this small thing? Is this a child? Yes. That kind of pushes you away.

Nice to meet you. Okay. His eyes kind of soften a little bit. He's like, hello, welcome to the village of mud log, but I need to get ready for this festival. And my, my accent is going in and out of various things. I'm having trouble sticking on one voice. Should we try and make some more money and see if we can offer help? I think that's a good idea. Do you, um, Hey, we're, we're mercenaries for hire. Mercenaries in mud log. Yeah. So we can like move boxes or whatever you need.

Is that what mercenaries do? Yeah, man. Like we, anything for money, mostly labor. I can turn into bees. You could turn into what? Bees. Like the bug, like the bunch of bugs. What is this nonsense? Turning into bees. I've been meaning to ask you about that. When you turn into a hive of bees, yeah, hive mind. Yeah. It was, it is like, like, does your dick, is your dick some of the bees? My dick turns into a multiple bees. It turns into a dick's weight of bees. Wow. This is ridiculous.

I have things to do. People talking about turning into bees, small children hugging me. You're very sweet, but you need anything. Can we help? Can we, do you need this festival to go off without a hitch? Can you, can you, can you make that happen? No, I didn't think so. Bee man. Well, what if we, what do you, do you need, like, security? Yeah. I mean, I suppose so. We heard a mire frog on the way into town. People are going to be freaking out. You heard a what? I don't know, but we've been told.

I've heard of mire frogs, and we heard this awful sound. What is a, what is a what? What? A what? Is there a danger? No, it's probably fine. It was in the bog. It's probably, it's the bog, the bog that I can see from where I stand in the center of town. Well, you might want somebody. You're telling me there's a large frog outside? It could be. That's what. And it's going to be fine? It could be fine. And we don't know. That's what we're saying. Maybe you want us to help. I just, I don't know.

Okay. He like, come, come, come, come, come, come, come. And he like walks into an alley. Do you guys follow him? Yeah. Yes. Jessica's making it like. I took something from him though. You took something from him? Oh, you hugged him. Okay, roll. I want it. I want this to happen, but you need to roll a defy danger dexterity. Seven. Seven. So, so the mayor is not looking. He will not see you take this thing, but someone in the village will. Byrie took it when I hugged him.

Oh, is that why you hugged him? Yeah. Oh, you sneaky little. All right. So what did you take? I took a little metallic wallet, sort of very small, sort of like the size of like a business card. Like that. That sort of thing. Oh, like a little metal case. Yeah. Okay. And you just slipped it in? All right. From his pocket. Yeah. Okay. So someone in town did see that. And, okay. So the mayor leads you, um, into the alley.

And, uh, he is just kind of like looking around, making sure that nobody's paying attention. There's like, he like waves over a guard and like a raggedy sort of thing with the club. And he's standing at the alley, making sure nobody comes past into the alley. He's like, it is of the utmost importance to me and my office in the very sanctity of the hot dog festival, that things go off without a hitch.

I'm, I'm willing in this situation, to deputize the three of you as official enforcers of the mayor's office of mudlark to ensure that everything goes the way it should. Does this interest you? The way it should, or the way you want it to? Is there a difference? Well, I'm the mayor of this town. I have only the interests of this town and its townspeople at heart. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Well, what is it? What does deputy pay?

Well, I am willing to set you up with the finest lodgings in mudlark for free, for free room and board and a front row festival or a front row seat for each of you to the hot dog parade. VIP. If there were a VIP section, I assure you, you would be included. What say you? You didn't say how much we'd get paid. Hmm. I believe I said the lodgings would be free. I believe that we are going to need to see some gold as well or coin.

Well, I don't understand how you are in a position to do bargain right now. Well, I just think we need like a per diem. Okay, fine. Five coins per day per diem for expenses. Yeah. Per person. Per person. Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah, we'll do it. Yeah. All right. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Just, uh, let's shake on it. Shake all of our hands. Touch our Billy. Touch Billy. Oh, he does all of those things. I suppose I'm a desperate man.

And then you hear like a, like a horn, sort of like raggedy horn sound. And he stops and he goes, what, what, what is that? And everybody's starting to hustle around. You hear some like weird screams. And, um, you see some figures push their way into the center of town. And you hear a bunch of croaks. And as they like get closer and people start like, like backing away, it's four frogs standing on their hind legs with spears and like ragged, muddy armor.

And they're carrying like banners that are just like crappy brown pieces. Of fabric. Like the front two are each carrying a banner. The two behind them are carrying spears. And like one of them is holding like a bent beat up metal horn. Their chests are all puffed up and they're like walking really importantly. And they're like kind of snapping at people and making like croaking, like, like as people walk by, they walk right up to the middle, like stone central dice.

And one hops up and he goes like, everyone. I represent. The king of all these swamps, all the mud. You see. Emperor. More gulch. Lord of frogs. Wow. People here have terrible names. All right. This has been Spout Lore. We have been playing Dungeon World by Adam Coble and stage Latour, which you can find at dungeon hyphen world.com and apocalypse world by D Vincent Baker, which you can find at apocalypse hyphen world.com. We've been playing with Jessica. So patronizing. Paul.

20 side of die to see if I can catch the bus on time. And Abdul. Billy wanted to like drop a drop, a smooth beat. And our producer was Lord. Thanks Wes. And thank you to Aaron Reed for our amazing theme music. Uh, I've been your game master, Sean O'Hara and. Oh, and thanks to hecklers for letting us use the upstairs hecklers lounge for recording. And yeah, thanks for listening. And so ends the day. Tale of adventures. Three who tried the best. They can. Dumb and scared and lost.

Maybe for times of breast in. And though our journey may be. We will not leave you. Without resolution. Return next week to hear some more. Whilst you commute or do your chores. And for you, I gladly. Spout. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

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. Welcome to Spout Lore, a Dungeon World podcast where we are playing the Dungeon World RPG by Adam Kovach. It's available in Sage Latoura. It is a hack of a game called Apocalypse World by D. Vincent Baker. I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara. We're here with the players. Hi, how's it going? Good, how are you? I'm very good, I'm very excited.

Paul, tell me about your character. My character is Ving Zumba. I'm a druid, human, neutral good, change shifter, shapeshift. Yeah, druid shapeshift. Yeah, I'm hailing from those frozen plains, let me hear you. Do we have anybody from the frozen plains here? This guy knows what I'm talking about. I got a staff, a bunch of flaps, poultices. Ving's got wild, crazy kind of grayish hair, lots of pelts, different hides, almost like a skirt of hides, and then hides around his forearms.

And also he has gills. He has gills? Yeah. Why does he have gills? Well, that's what defines him. Oh. Oh, right. When he changes his… Druids. Yeah, they have to have it. Druids always have a tail that sticks with them as they change shapes, so… Like an arctic char. Yeah, like an arctic char. Like an arctic char. So Ving has gills like an arctic char, and if you were to turn into a polar bear, that polar bear would also have gills like an arctic char.

He puts his crazy wild hair over his gills, so nobody sees him, like Kevin Costner would if he ever made a movie about that. All right, yeah, I like it. I assume that we'll know more about them as we go. Yep, that is one of the tenets of Dungeon World, is play to find out what happens. Just like real life. Just like real life. And next, Abdul Aziz. Hey. Hey, Abdul. Tell me about your character. I play Tacoma Dome. He's a barbarian who has a lot of emotional problems.

He was abandoned as a baby, and he blames himself for that. But he was raised by… A used cart dealer in the city of McCall. His name was Bruce Spruce. And he instilled good values in me until he died when I was four. And then I left, me as Tacoma. Tacoma left town because he was chased out of town. And then he lived as a man of the world, a child of the world, for years. Like as a sword for hire for a while. And then he was part of a… A band for a little while. Like a band?

Like a music band? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What does… Does he play an instrument? He played the bass. Oh, okay. That makes sense. Yeah. And he got really into opium for a couple of years. And then he found barbarism again. He rediscovered it. And he's kind of been… Like kind of rediscovering himself through the violence that he inflicts on people that he thinks deserve it. Describe Tacoma. What does Tacoma look like? I, uh… I'm tan of skin and large of thigh. Uh, I'm bald of head by choice.

I'm wearing a leather loin guard. Uh, I have an axe strapped across my back. I'm very… Very large. Yeah, like large for a person. Like too large. Yes, I'm maybe… I'm like seven feet tall. Whoa. Wowzers. That's a big boy. Yes. I'm a muscular seven foot. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. I'm in a bulk phase right now. Uh, I do a lot of, uh… Plyometric exercises. Is that a thing? Is that a fantasy thing? Um, yes and no. Hmm. Is that why you stopped… Wearing pants? Because they always wore out in the crotch?

They wore out in the middle where it would… It would rub. Hmm. Um, so… And it was constricting for barbarism. I didn't… I didn't get a good range of motion. You could probably light a match off your inner thigh. You could. If you put a match there, I could probably light it. What is a festival that Tuck remembers from McCall that he misses? Oh, there was the fireworks festival. Mm-hmm. Uh, everyone would buy fireworks and go into balconies and then fire them into other balconies. Ha ha ha!

Uh… What was the purpose of this festival? Was it to, like, settle scores with other families? It… Officially, it was to celebrate the birth of the prophet of fire. So that officially is it, and then unofficially, yes, it is to settle scores with your neighbors. Ha ha ha! Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Most of the, uh, structures in Macau are made of straw or wood. Oh, shit. Mm.

So once every four months, the whole city burns to the ground. Mm. Uh, and, uh, that was always a very, uh, heartwarming time. Quite literally. Yes. Uh, many die. Ha ha ha! It's a beautiful festival. Mm-hmm. That's nice. The prophet of fire. I want to, we're going to explore more of that later. That's, does, is, is Tuck religious at all? I acknowledge the possibility of the existence of the prophet of fire and the, the god of the flame, but I also… God of the flame, you're really laying it on.

God of the flame. I also have seen no conclusive evidence for it. If he is truly a vengeful and hateful god, I don't believe the god of the flame would care if you believed in him or not. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That the most logical position is to just be an agnostic. Mm-hmm. Ving, you travel with an ag, with a guy that's, spirits might exist, but Ving knows they exist. Yeah. Right?

Is that, is that the, that's the source of… Well, I think most elves know of the spirit world, right? Well, I believe in ghosts. I've fought ghosts. Fought ghosts. Yes. It's the same thing, right? The spirit world's what lets me travel between bodies. So that's what, you travel into the spirit world. Yeah. And then you come back in a different body. I'm traveling within the spirit world, but yeah. Okay. And that's what allows Ving to like change shape? Yeah. That's pretty dope.

How, how old is Tacoma? Cause this is a lot of… Like mid twenties now. He's had a long life. He's, well, like he did, he lost the only father he had ever known in that freak cart accident. Yeah. There's, there's a stack of carts that fell over. Hello. Hi, Jessica. Tell me about your character. My character is Fat Billy and he is very, he's very fat. Fat Billy is a halfling kid. He's very small, very round. I think he's about seven to nine. Seven to nine. Maybe nine to 10. Is that?

Can we go seven to 10? It's true. I guess nobody would really tell him how old he is. No one knows. Billy doesn't know. So how big is that for a halfling? It's small. Like two feet, you know? Cause he's a big boy. Well, he's the same size lying down. Yeah, exactly. He's very dirty. He has small feet and hands. A very rosy face. Does he have a bulbous nose? No, it's very small. Oh. So he's just small and like chubby and has like tiny hands. He's just little.

The thing about halflings is it's hard to tell their age. Tuck is right. Is this something Tuck's had experience with? Yeah. Well, it's hard to tell, you know? You meet a halfling and you're like… Hey, do you want to come on a quest? And then the halfling goes, yes. And then turns out you have a child with you. We thought he was in his forties. Is that how Tuck and Fat Billy met up? Is you assumed that he was older? Well, that's more how our fellowship formed. All three of you?

We have a child with us. And we thought we are happy with him now. When we recruited him originally. We thought that he'd be helping. I did nothing to dissuade… No, no, yeah. To convince you of my age. It was assumptions. Yes. And now look at us. Yeah, it's just hard to tell halflings. What class is Fat Billy? He's a thief. What sort of stuff does the thief do? Like what does Fat Billy do? Yeah, what's his life like? His life is lonely. It's lonely. He's on the road a lot.

On the road with his friends? No. No? Not until now. Until now. Oh, but before this he was alone. Before this, yeah. So we are friends. I hope so. Where halflings come from, water is scarce? It was a lot of farming, but I think it was mostly scarce because no one would let Fat Billy have water. Oh, like Billy, it was scarce to Billy. Yes. Oh, okay. What's the halfling country like? Is it pretty farmy? A little bit, some parts, but they're like little farms. Okay. Everyone has their own.

They have their own farm. Oh. But they share, families will share, but I didn't have a family, so no one shared with Fat Billy. So he left? No, he was kicked out. Oh, right, because he burned down grain silos. He might have built, maybe. Allegedly. Allegedly. He might have burned down something. Accidentally, deliberately, who knows? Was it an accident? Always. Yes. For real, though. This is me. You're talking to Tacoma. Yes, it was. Yes. Huh. Still some denial, I see. No. Fat Billy's ashamed.

Billy, if I light this match on my thighs and I hand it to you, what will you do with it? I might drop it. I don't really know how to handle flames. Okay. But I'll do my best. Don't do it, Tac. I won't. I'm not going to give it to him. I'm a small child. Why would you give me an open flame? Yes. I'm just, I wanted to see how he would react. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

The three of you have been on the road for a couple days, and you are traveling to the village of Mudlark. Sorry, Blugblark? Bloodblark. Yeah, it's a lot of Ys. No, it's just Mudlark. Mudlark. It's a small town, and I want you guys to tell me what the environment around Mudlark is like. Oh, it's a real piece of shit. Boggish. Yeah, it's… Pretty boggy. It is muddy. It's mud. I can't tell if it's steam or if it's fog. I can't see through it. It's a mud fog. It's a red mud fog. The mud is red?

Yeah, but there's birds. Yes, mud birds. It is definitely a bit of a stinking mire. Stinking mire. Yes. The old stinking mire. Great. It reminds me of a woman I knew. Her name was Janine. And she shoplifted a lot because there was an emptiness inside of her. And she needed the thrill of theft to fill that emptiness. I know. Yeah. I know what that's like. That's what this place feels like. It's like you're hanging out with Janine. Like you're looking in Janine's empty eyes. Her blue…

Muddy eyes. Great. So as you were saying that for 45 unbroken minutes, you hear next to you just a painful just… Because you guys are escorting somebody to the village of Mudlark for a festival. Who are you escorting? I'm… Paul. Ving, who are you escorting? Paul. The food cart guy. It's a food cart guy. Yeah, he's in charge of all the meals. Oh, heck yes. Okay. So is it a cart with food in it? Or is it a cart that is just going… No, with ingredients in it. It's not food. Ingredients.

Okay, what kind of food is this guy going to be making? All sorts of fantasy food. Schloss steaks. Schloss steaks. Smoked schlarken and ribs. Mustards. Mustard. Many mustards. All right, so it's just like… I don't know why he's in such a panic, but he is. This guy's really worked up. Yeah, okay. Over his food. This guy. So do we have a name for this guy? Dan. Dan. Colonel Dan. Colonel Dan. Is his first name Colonel or was he a Colonel? I think that they just call him the Colonel.

Oh, they call him the Colonel. Colonel is his title. Yeah. Colonel Dan. No last name. Fosse. Fosse. Dan Fosse. Is Dan Fosse a guy that we know? I don't know. It sounds like it, doesn't it? Sounds good. Is that the guy that made all those musicals? No, he hung out with gorillas in the mist. That's the one. Oh, Diane Fosse. There you go. That's who we're thinking about. Great. So you're taking Colonel Dan Fosse to the village of Mudlark with his cart full of food. It's meat that has been…

Kebabbed. Yes. Kebabbed, then pulled, then kebabbed again. It's just a lot… Is that what a schloss is? It is. It is. This is what you guys… You guys have been learning all about this over the last couple of days as Colonel Dan's been like… It's a real Bubba Gump kind of thing. Where he's just like schloss parfait, schloss salad, schloss sandwiches. Yes. Schloss salad. Real schloss. Boiled schloss. It's just for two full days.

And the one of the other things that I want you guys to tell me is what is the festival in Mudlark? Why is everybody going to Mudlark? Jessica. Fat Billy. It's a hot dog. It's a hot dog festival. It's a hot dog festival? Yes. That's what all the mustards are for. Okay. Yeah. Oh, so is he taking the schloss stuff as like… Is there a type of hot dog that's made out of this meat? That's what a hot dog is called in this town. The pulled meat gets reformed into a hot dog formation.

It's served on a bun with many condiments. And people love it. People just love hot schloss. There is… It's so good. It's so good. It's so good. It's so good. That's why they come to this nasty hellhole. I'm excited. I'm excited. Okay, yeah. It's kind of like Burning Man. So describe to me how it is. It's kind of like Burning Man? Yeah. Yes. But with like hot dogs? Yeah. And Stinking Mire. Yeah. People come a long ways away and they don't know why they're there and everyone's got flaps on.

Yeah. Well, because all the steam and or fog and or mist, you have to like aerate the air. There's a ton of air. Oh, it gets, like, swampy? Yeah. It's like a test to see who would go the distance. That acts as a filter, so you only get like-minded people at this hot dog festival. Oh, I see. So people will stop before they get to Mudlark because it's so gross. Yeah, so there's going to be a lot more annoying people at this festival. If Colonel Dan's anything.

Festival has its own economy that is based on free love. And hot dog meat. Yeah. Tubular dudes. Yes. There's a, I hear sometimes that there's a pirate ship. I've heard of the pirate ship. Yes. So there's, wait, is there a pirate ship just in the mud, or does a river go through Mudlark? A river runs through it, yes. I thought Mudlark was the river, and the river dried up, and now Mudlark lies within the dried up river. Oh, yeah. Gotcha.

So it's like it was once a river, and now it's just a big mud field. Follow the mud. Delta land. Yeah, like in The Wizard of Oz, except the Golden Road is mud. And poo. I heard that people live in boats that are stuck in the mud. Yeah. That's pretty dope. Yes. Boats stuck in the mud. All right. So you guys are escorting Colonel Dan to Mudlark for the hot dog festival. He's probably like in his like- 110. He's 110 years old. Whoa. Because he is- He's an elf. He's an elf? Yes.

So 110 is like a smooth 30, 30, 40? Yeah, he was younger. Not a lot of elderly elves will own a food cart. That's true. It's more of like an early in life sort of thing. Before enlightenment. Now, is Ving not part elf? Ving is part elf. Okay. So how are Ving and Dan getting along? Well, I'm embarrassed by that connection. Also, Ving really likes to cook. Oh. Right? He's a good poultice. He can make things from the land. So this guy going on about hot dogs. It's just a little too close to home.

And he's an elf. So he doesn't want to be identified with this guy. Okay. But he feels a kinship nonetheless. Like a family thing. You know, like a cousin who comes up to you at a bar and rubs your back before you know who's there. Fat Billy doesn't know what this is like to have family. Yes, neither does Tacoma. Well, it's annoying. Oh, would that I knew the frustration of the touch of family. Of the familiar blood. Yes. Of the- Comforting caress. Yes. Well, I think you're lucky.

The touch of skin that covers blood that is like mine. I have never known. That's fair. I've never seen anyone like you, Tac. I have- A brown person? Yeah. I'm from the frozen north elf man. That's true. So what are Tac and Fat Billy doing in the cart while they're- I've eaten a lot. I have also eaten a lot and I don't want them to know. So you've just been like- You've stolen a lot. Maybe. You've just in the back like gorging like a raccoon. Yes. Yes. But how's Fat Billy feeling about this?

Well, pretty good. Because he- He doesn't know. He's just like, why not? So Tacoma is in the back with Fat Billy, I guess, eating. What is- Describe Tacoma. What does Tacoma look like? I'm lying on the ground in the back of the cart with a pile of jerky on my tummy. And I- What I'm- I'm- I'm- I'm- I'm flicking it up into the air and catching it in my mouth. And I'm going, woohoo. And Billy's- Billy's back there with Tacoma eating the jerky? Yeah. Great.

It's like I'm eating the ones that he's missing. So I just run around him and I collect the rest. Well, Fat Billy doesn't believe in waste, so. Yes. That's reasonable. Yes. The halflings are very- They believe in balance. Yes. And vulturism. Yes. Scavengers, traditionally. So Ving, you're up front with Dan while these two are in the back and you're kind of having conversations through the hole in the cart in this covered wagon. And it's very foggy to either side.

You're on a muddy road going into the boggy region surrounding Mudlark. And there's thick, white, smelly, kind of like gaseous fog. You can't really see that far in front of you. And so the horse is kind of struggling along in the mud. Yanking the cart along and out of the fog on the road. There's just a big fallen tree right across the road. And Dan kind of pulls over. He's like, whoa. Oh, man. We're not getting any further with this tree in the road.

You guys want to take care of this or something? My knees are tired. I don't want to get up. There's no way around. It's just swamp on either side. Like just right into swamp. I'll just hop right out. I'll take it. Take a crack at what's happening. Yeah. All right. Billy, do you want to come? I'll let you ride on my shoulders. Okay, I'll do that then. So Tuck and Billy jump out of the cart. Billy riding on Tuck's shoulders like the kid from the Iron Giant.

And right into the slimy mud and the fog. And you walk around to the front of the cart. And there's just like a big, huge, like probably four feet across. Just a big tree trunk right across the road. Can his axe take care of it? Can you give her a chop? I mean, that would probably take a long time to cut through. What if we leave the cart? Dan says, no way. This got all my schloss meat in it. I'm not leaving this cart behind.

Also, there's no way we'd make it through the rest of this fog without shelter. We can't move. It's too heavy to move. You haven't tried moving it yet. Oh, let's try and move it. I was going to just throw the horse over the tree. Oh, yeah. Instead of moving the tree, you were going to pick a horse up? Yes. I bet the tree weighs more than a horse. I guess so. Yeah. I mean, it seems like the easier thing to do. Can I assess the situation? How would Billy be assessing the situation?

Like, maybe he can… Let's gravel up that tree, see what's going on. Yeah. What's on the other side? Yeah, what's on the other side? Sounds great. Is there a way through here that I can't see? Yeah. All right. That sounds like a discern realities. All right. So you're going to roll 2d6 plus wisdom. Okay. 12. 12. Damn. Yes. Unmitigated success. That's incredible.

So on a 12, you get three questions from this list, and you take plus one forward when you're acting on the answers that you get from these questions. So the questions you can choose from are what happened here recently, what is about to happen, what should I be on the lookout for, what here is useful or valuable to me, or who's really in control here, and what here is not what it appears to be. Can I do what happened here recently? What happened here recently?

What happened here recently is this tree. You can see sort of like by the way the roots like came out of the mud, like on the far end. This didn't fall naturally. This was pushed into the road. Okay. So Fat Billy scratches his little chin, and he's like, what should I be on the lookout for then? All right. You think that you should probably be on the lookout for whatever pushed this over, whatever or whoever. No, seriously. I know. It's not going to give you all the answers.

You want, but a lot of the times this isn't going to give you the answers that you need. So something pushed this over. So you think that if they're not here now, that they might be here soon. Okay. What else? What else is Fat Billy wondering? So there's, yeah, the other ones you haven't asked are what is about to happen, what here is useful or valuable to me, who's really in control here, what here is not what it appears to be. Okay. Fat Billy wants to know what here is valuable or useful.

Um, okay. So Fat Billy's kind of scrabbling around on top of the log, looking around, going like, oh, somebody, something pushed this over. And in the mud, um, near the base of the tree off the side of the road, you can see something shiny sticking out of, oh, of the mud just a little bit. Get it, Billy. Okay. I'm going to try to get it out. Okay. Wait, but what is it? At first, Billy's like, oh, yeah. Shiny stuff. I'm into this.

Billy digs it out of the mud and it's a spear blade, like hammered out. So it's not like professionally forged or if it was, it's been used a lot. Cause it's been like repaired really haphazardly kind of just like smashed with something hard, like a hammer or a rock. And it snapped off just below the blade. So there's a sheared spear, sheared spear, spear was sheared. So it's pretty small then if it's a spearhead. Yeah. It's about like eight or nine inches long. Yeah.

And it's just like a, like a kind of roughly adhered to a broken piece of shaft. Can I see that? Can I look at it? Yes. All right. I want to, I want to look at it. I want to see if I can recognize the make or the material or anything. If I know anything about it. Yeah. So that'll be a Spout Lore, which you will roll 2d6 plus intelligence. Okay. Six. Oh, a six? Six. Six. Six. Six. Six. Six. Six. Six. Six. Six. Six. Oh, that's a, that's a failure. So you mark an experience point.

Cause you're in Dungeon World. You always get an experience point when you fail. That's like one of the main ways to get experiences to fail something. Okay. Uh, let me see the spear. Well, no, no, no. Actually. Yeah.

Maybe that, no, like maybe that's the failure is that instead of you getting a good look at it, I'll look at it, but I feel like the failure should probably be on faith instead of, Oh, we can't just, we can't just, we can't just, we can't just, we can't just, we can't just pass it around. Well, anyway, so you're like trying to like, you're looking at the spear and you're like, where, what do I know about this? And you realize, I don't know a lot about this spears.

Uh, but it looks like it was made, uh, like this is probably just something that somebody lost on the way. There's no chunks of wood on it. I guess I failed. You did fail. So what you, what, what Ving believes is that, Oh, this is not important. Probably somebody just found this. Like it was just somebody's spear that broke and they lost it in the mud and it's just made. This is going to help us with this tree situation. This is nothing at all. All right. Yeah. Nothing to worry about here.

You can have this back, Billy. Wait, I do want to examine that. It's not really how the game, like if somebody fails a role, it's not just like, I can't look at it. Okay. No one else looks at it. What you can do is you can aid or interfere. Ving owns the fucking spear now. It's not important. Okay. It doesn't matter. Fine. If you want to help somebody, you can roll plus your bond with them to aid or interfere. And if you succeed, they get a plus one.

And if you get a seven to nine, uh, you expose yourself to danger, retribution or cost. And if you fail, then a hard move happens. So he already failed. Yes. But you can help somebody after a failure. Oh, but it only adds a plus one, which would make it a seven, which is a partial success and not a failure. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yes. I'll do that. All right. Let me help you examine that spear. Get that spear out, big boy. Let me take a look. I get up. I come up behind him.

My head is above his head because I'm so tall and I put my arms on his arms while he's examining the spear. And I say, let's look at it together. Do you remember what your bond with, how many bonds you have with Ving? Two. Two. I think I had the max. I think he, yeah, he had two with me and he had two with Ving. Okay, great. So yeah. So you'll be rolling. I'm rolling 2d6 plus two. Okay. To help Ving. All right. Let's look at this. I don't think it's anything. I don't see anything.

Let's take a second. Look, I rolled a seven. Plus two is nine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. Great. That's a, so you succeed. Well, it's a partial success. So it's a plus one, which makes your roll a seven instead of a six. So it's not a failure. So erase that experience point, my dude. Huh. Thanks. Uh, I will on a seven to nine. I will tell you something interesting. It's only, it's on you to make it useful. Okay.

So what you do see is that this was in fact of like human make, like it is, it was made by humanoid hands, dwarf elf, human, whatever. Somebody made this in a town, in a village, probably not far from here, but this blade was not originally attached to this and it's been hammered by rough unskilled hands. To like keep it in shape and to sharpen it and stuff like that. So it's, it's not, it wasn't being used in the way that it was made to be used.

Still a spear, but not maintained by a skilled or intelligent person. Somebody chopped down the tree with the spear maybe? No, I don't think so. Hmm. What does Billy think? Billy thinks we should get out of here. Yeah. I can just throw the horse over the tree. Leave the cart. It was always my, I'll throw the cart over the tree too. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Try and move the tree. Like it's. Does anyone have a large, a long lever arm?

I have a staff. I have a staff. Okay. Is it unbreakable? Sure it is. Okay. Can I just claim that? Because I just did my unbreakable staff. Yeah. Your unbreakable staff. It's made of wood. It's never, it hasn't broken yet. Yeah. As far as you know, it is unbreakable. Oh no. There, so there, yeah. Like how would you guys go about, do you want to try and move the tree? Well, yeah. I'm thinking about how I would do. Well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean things are shape shifting Can we hook the horse up to it maybe And lug it out of there Is there another tree nearby Are there other trees A simple pulley system Yeah if we like throw We throw up a pulley And then we attach the horse to it Why don't we wrap the rope we have In our packs And then we toss that rope Over a tree and then we use that to like Pull up the tree up With the horse Or with the tuck Oh yes I can also do that If I fought the horse Would I win It's hard to say it's a tough horse Can I work together with the horse Sure yeah that sounds good You can also help each other So somebody mark off a point Of their adventuring pack I will use mine So just mark one of those off to get a rope And yeah I guess this will be Like a defy danger To make a pulley system Yeah and I mean defy danger Is in a way it's a pretty catch all Sort of move So you're going to be rolling a defy danger strength Most likely And Does anybody want to aid I'd like to aid but I have Pretty I can You guys will all I can tie the knots because I am very dexterous Great there you go I'm light footed so I can go out into the bog And attach it to the trees and stuff 2d6 plus however many bonds you have 13 Dang So you're going to get a plus one to this You'll get a plus one to your defy danger strength Okay Nice so Billy's just like tying sick ass knots and stuff Oh yeah Did you roll your defy I haven't rolled Okay yeah so roll your defy danger strength 2d6 plus your strength 4 plus 2 is 6 Plus an extra 2 is 8 Yeah great alright so That's a 7 to 9 So you'll be able to Mostly move the log You'll be able to move it enough That the horse can get through But you won't be able to get the whole Cart through What proportion of the cart do we get through It's like half It's like The horse can get past Without getting stuck in the mud But Dan would probably have to leave Some of his supplies behind if he wants to get the cart through At all Oh Okay well I'm fine with that We have to do this Dan are you okay with it Oh jeez guys I don't know Let me I got a lot of good meat in here and I just I don't know what to leave Leave them Why don't we go to the festival and see if we can get Some people to come back and move the log Well just tell us what's in the What's in the cart that is the heaviest And the thing that people hate The most It's true Pickled egg Probably like the sweet schloss meat It's like sweet But it's still like savory But like not in a complimentary way Like a mince meat Like a mince meat A mince schloss meat How much of that did you bring Like 200 pounds Yeah leave that I don't know guys I don't think I wanna I don't think I'm comfortable to leave Anything behind You're gonna have to find another way I guarantee you that if you leave That barrel of shitty sweet meat In the middle of this bog For a hundred years no one would take it So it sounds like you're trying to parlay To convince Dan to leave his shit behind Oh yes So what is the leverage that you have on Dan The horse If you're trying to convince him We're gonna help him Or we can walk and he can carry all of his shit Stuff Why don't we just take him to the bar And he can take his horse with us If he doesn't wanna leave his gross meat Alright yeah We already have his horse Somebody roll 2d6 plus charisma The leverage is like We'll just leave you here in the swamp I have plus one charisma That's you You're the most And you got good rolls We'll see about that It's still good Nine So on a seven to nine They'll do what you want But they need concrete assurance Of your They'll need concrete assurance Of your promise Right now And your promise is that you'll continue to protect him I guess Oh yeah for sure We'll get him to the thing Okay great So um Dan that's the Fuck That's the whole fucking point Of this So Dan says Okay fine whatever But uh If I'm gonna leave this stuff behind I need you guys to cover the cost How much is this shit worth I was gonna I was probably gonna make You know 30, 40, 50 coins No one was gonna buy this You don't know You don't know that You haven't been to this festival before How long have you been lugging this around for I've been lugging this around For six months Now I understand That that's a long time But I just haven't found the right market And the hot dog festival in Mudlark Is the right market for this And I'm gonna be taking a huge loss Okay I'll I'll tell you this If If you have a single person Ask you Yeah For sweet meat For sweet schloss meat I will give you I will give you This amulet With a picture of a horse in it Let me take a look at that amulet Here you go That's a pretty good Is this a horse That No that one is my mother The other is the horse Oh the mane The mane threw me off She has like a long Sort of mohawk-y Kind of deal Yes Why the long face I'm sorry It says alright You know what Is it a valuable amulet by the way Like is it made of valuable materials I It was left In my basket When I was a child I am asking you Sean O'Hara Is asking Abdulaziz Is the amulet made out of like Valuable stuff It is not made out of wood Or metal So he's like Alright sounds You know what It is made out of Nobody knows It's a It's Wait I'm It's forming It's made out I can picture it in my mind It's like It's almost like volcanic rock Or like It's almost like a load Instead of Like burnished Metallic material That is like Like copper Yeah No No no no Like grayish Gray Gray kind of Old fireworks Yeah Kind of like Like volcanic rock Sort of Or like A meteor rock It's Or It's He says You know what Fine Whatever Let me just finish Describing this To everyone I can see it I'm holding it It's gray It's shiny I like it Here is it back And if If somebody You know what No I'm gonna hold on to this Actually No you should give it No I'm gonna hold on to this And if somebody asks me about Schlossmeat This is mine I don't like that And he tucks it He tucks it into his shirt Let's go I don't like that disrespect What are you gonna do about it Kid I'm brewing An idea Jesus Dan You're turning into A real dickhead right now Yeah I don't understand How this is our problem Well because I You guys are gonna get paid For getting me to this room For this festival And you're acting like Real wieners We had an agreement I walked in the bog for you I got red mud on my shoes And I lifted a whole God damn tree Well great But let's just look Let's just get I'm sorry I'm sorry guys I'm sorry You take two steps back Dan Yeah okay Alright fine These are wolfs wade Look I'm sorry I'm stressed out The festival Is in like a day and a half I got a bunch of meat Got a lot of Things riding on this Okay I'm sorry Dan we all understand That you wanna Succeed At this festival Yeah it's important So that you can tell All of the other Food cart owners How awesome a time You had At this festival Well you know what Tim is acting like A real hot shot Back in town He thinks Griddle cakes Way of the future I'm trying to tell him No schloss meat Will be And will remain Always the most popular And I think that this festival Is a great way to tell Tim To take his hot cakes And shove them up The old behind Yes Okay Okay Well let's take everything That we can That's not too Bogged down Alright Load up his horse Dan you're carrying most of it I don't Okay fine Fine fine fine fine So he actually is able to Like dump out The sweet schloss meat Which makes like The cart like light enough On one side That it doesn't totally Get stuck in the mud So you can kinda Wiggle it around The cart Around the log And the horse gets through And you guys are on the road And Back ready to go Nice Alright hop in everybody Next stop Mudlark Yeah that's the end of The session for today We've been playing Dungeon World Role playing game By Adam Kobol And Sage LaTorah Based on Apocalypse World By D.

Vincent Baker My name is Sean O'Hara I've been the Game master Paul Oppers My dick turns into Multiple B's Jessica O'Hara I found a nice rock And Abdul Aziz It's almost like a Loden stone And our producer Wes Lord Thanks Wes And Goodbye 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 With a single word Without a resolution Return next week To hear some more Whilst you commute Or do your chores And for you I'd gladly Spout more