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[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hey, this is Tony URL telling you guys to go to tinyurl.com supportpfd and subscribe to the Pork Fried Dice Kofi, alright? They got bonus content like animated gifs, webcomic, and even like a super secret X Tree podcast that you can listen to. So fucking do it or I'll kill you.
[00:00:25] Speaker B: Thank you.
You're listening to the show about Puddles of Mustard. It's Pork Fried Dice.
I'm Eric and I'm the Dungeon Master.
[00:00:39] Speaker C: I'm Abby and I play Rafina.
[00:00:42] Speaker D: I'm Alex and I play Batwack.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: I'm KT and I play Will.
[00:00:49] Speaker E: I'm Adam and I play Roscoe.
[00:00:54] Speaker B: Hold on to your haversacks. Let's roll.
Will's worried because of the word pugilistic, which means, like, punishing.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: Yes.
We're not heading into Bear Toggle anymore. Land of a Thousand Hugs.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: Land of a.
[00:01:13] Speaker E: Land of a thousand Hug.
[00:01:23] Speaker B: I mean, should we.
Do we need to talk to Batwack about.
[00:01:27] Speaker A: No. He's gonna be all offended that I have a problem with Gilly's end. You know what? Whatever she me do whatever you want. Take the boots. Don't be scared.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: They're on my feet.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Stay away from danger.
[00:01:39] Speaker C: I think you're really, really arguing with reality here because Jamie keeps popping back up. The universe keeps trying to kill him and he just keeps like, he gets one eye back and, you know, his eye doesn't actually completely die and his foot isn't broken forever and all these things. And he just. He's a resilient kid and I think he's really entangled in our. In our journey. So you're just fighting with reality. It's pointless.
[00:02:12] Speaker A: I look at Shimmy. What does he think about all this? Is just smiling about it. All these people just tell him he should stay there.
[00:02:19] Speaker B: No, he's not smiling.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: No, he's not smiling.
What does he look like?
[00:02:25] Speaker B: Oh, he says, well, yeah, I mean, my foot did get broken, but that was. That was by Bat Thwack.
[00:02:36] Speaker D: But. But also he like really remembers that and doesn't remember it, right?
[00:02:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, right.
It was kind of. It was like, yeah, split. Like I kind of remember broken and what it might not have been or something. I remember it not being right.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Like, you guys said that Bathwack broke my foot.
Huh.
[00:02:57] Speaker C: Well, I could tell it wasn't really something that Bathwack was trying to do, but he wasn't very careful.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: Like, Rafina stopped being a bathwhack apologist.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Because, like, he does have this.
[00:03:10] Speaker E: Anyways, he accidentally killed a guy back in.
[00:03:18] Speaker A: This is Adam being mean to Rafina. Yeah.
Amazing.
[00:03:24] Speaker E: Well, they're the two features of my E. True Hollywood Stories parody recap. So they're very linked in my mind.
[00:03:34] Speaker B: So, like, I mean, and you said that when he broke my foot, it was because.
What was it again?
[00:03:43] Speaker A: He was like, he really wanted your boots.
[00:03:46] Speaker B: But, like, it wasn't completely. He wasn't in his right mind. Right.
[00:03:51] Speaker A: He seemed like it. But I don't know if we. Out of character. I don't know if we ever actually knew any reason why he was being like that. I think that was, like, his he. Something that Xantris had with him or something.
[00:04:03] Speaker B: It was out of character.
[00:04:04] Speaker A: I don't know if we knew that Xantris, like, had some kind of effect. Like, that was never spelled out to us. And Bathwack certainly wouldn't have, like, been like, I felt compelled to do this.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: Until I got my way out of character. It was when he couldn't be told no.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: Yes. And I don't think we ever heard that phrase or had that explained to us.
[00:04:21] Speaker B: Okay.
But also, like, you knew that there was.
Because soon after that was the scene in the courtyard with.
[00:04:32] Speaker A: Yeah. He was acting crazy.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: Xantris thing.
[00:04:37] Speaker A: This is all circling around to Xantris talk.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: Appropriately, I guess.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: Yeah, like. Like, when it was around then, like, I mean, I kind of remember, but kind of don't. Like, I'm just trying to, you know, master the puzzle that is our current situation and what we're talking about with.
[00:04:59] Speaker E: You know what shimmy. I think will spread. You should leave.
[00:05:04] Speaker B: Oh, Roscoe.
[00:05:05] Speaker A: Oh, Roscoe.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: You and I, the banter we have, it's delightful.
[00:05:13] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: But I'm just, like, so, like.
Cause, like, after that, you.
It was.
I don't know.
Yeah, I'll stay out of trouble.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: Oh, okay. So, like, I'm looking at your face, acting wise, and he seems, like, more worried than I've ever seen she me. Like, more trouble than I've ever seen she me be.
[00:05:34] Speaker B: That may be accurate.
[00:05:35] Speaker A: So I think Will would be like, you know, he'd be like, all right, that's the end of this conversation. And pretend like it's the end of the conversation and move away. And if nobody else says anything and we all go back to business, he'd eventually send him a message. But okay, that's all I'm gonna say. I don't want to end anything. And other people are free to say whatever they're gonna want. He'd be like, all right, fine, sure. Nobody's on my side. That's fine. And I walk away.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: I'm on your side, Will.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I know.
[00:06:02] Speaker C: So am I.
[00:06:04] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: Let's go, Will.
Let's go. Will.
[00:06:11] Speaker C: Will.
[00:06:12] Speaker B: Will, Will, Will.
[00:06:14] Speaker A: And then you. Look, Roscoe's just standing there like.
[00:06:17] Speaker C: I mean.
[00:06:21] Speaker B: What.
[00:06:22] Speaker E: I mean, he's. He's got a point.
Are you.
Are you really, you know, willing to potentially die for what we're doing?
[00:06:37] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I think it's a pretty important. Cause if it weren't.
[00:06:42] Speaker E: That's not what I asked you.
Have you really considered the reality of death?
[00:06:51] Speaker B: Well, I think ever since I left Morals Inlet, I've.
It's almost like I was dead before I left Morris Inlet. This is life.
So, yeah, it.
Either way, it's either certain death, as in go back to that life, or possible death, like actual dead death.
So, yeah, I mean, I'm staying out of trouble, in harm's way, kind of. Mostly. Like. I know.
I mean, as I said to Will, like, I've been knocked down way less than mo has, for example, so, like, I know my way around avoiding the sharp end of the blade and whatnot. There's probably some fancy schmancy, you know, adage people like to say about that kind of thing, and we'll just insert that here. Editor kt, can you put that in here for me? Look it up for me and do an impression of my voice and insert it in here. All right.
[00:08:08] Speaker A: Oh, sorry. That was Sean. That was Sean. Indigo. Yeah, I know, I know. I know you're talking about.
All right, I'm dead at the bottom of the. Whatever that was. The bay.
[00:08:19] Speaker B: The bay.
[00:08:20] Speaker A: The bay, mate.
[00:08:22] Speaker B: With the crocodiles.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: With the crocodile. Under the bay. With the crocodiles. Yes.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: Saltwater crocodiles.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: Nice. They live under the bay.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: Caymans.
[00:08:31] Speaker A: Holy.
[00:08:33] Speaker E: So, yeah, you know what, Jamie?
[00:08:35] Speaker B: What?
[00:08:38] Speaker E: You remind me of a boy I once knew.
[00:08:42] Speaker B: Oh. Yeah?
[00:08:44] Speaker E: He was the strongest boy in the world.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
That's a. That's a compliment.
Thanks. All right, bye.
[00:08:55] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:08:57] Speaker B: I'm kidding. He does not pay them.
[00:09:07] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. He was the strongest boy in the world until some witches ate him.
[00:09:15] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:09:16] Speaker E: So, you know. But for what it's worth, I do think that maybe that that title is officially yours.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
I mean, I don't know about that.
[00:09:32] Speaker E: Okay, bye.
[00:09:35] Speaker C: Until some witches eat you. Okay, bye.
[00:09:40] Speaker A: Amazing.
Oh, man.
[00:09:46] Speaker B: Oh, Rafina. And then it was just you and me.
[00:09:50] Speaker C: Can you pinch these right here? And then.
[00:09:53] Speaker B: Yeah, sure.
[00:09:53] Speaker C: Bring them around the corner.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: Yeah, like this.
[00:09:55] Speaker C: Through the hole.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: All right.
[00:09:58] Speaker C: Yeah. And then just spread the spread. Spread your fingers apart.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: Like that or like this?
[00:10:03] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:10:04] Speaker B: Okay. Yep.
[00:10:05] Speaker C: And then I'm going to jump inside.
[00:10:11] Speaker B: Yeah. I'll hold it open.
[00:10:13] Speaker C: Oh, she may.
[00:10:15] Speaker B: Oh, sorry. Sorry. I need to trim the nails.
[00:10:19] Speaker A: And.
[00:10:20] Speaker C: There. Now I have.
Now I have my pajamas on. Thank you.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: The string lays discarded on the ground.
[00:10:37] Speaker A: Adam, she said okay. Now I have my pajamas on. Thank you.
It's like some kind of string bikini, but it's on the ground.
[00:10:47] Speaker B: No, it's the str. That was. None of. That had to do with the string.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: She's fully nude. Okay, now I have.
[00:10:51] Speaker C: Fully nude.
[00:10:53] Speaker A: I have my pajamas on.
I sleep in the nude. You see? It's not safe, Shimi. It's not safe.
I'm just kidding. I don't say that. What?
[00:11:04] Speaker B: You haven't seen a little skin, Will?
[00:11:06] Speaker A: No, never. Thank you very much.
[00:11:11] Speaker C: So, Shimi, are you okay? It seems like this has been a lot of attention on you. You seem a little out of sorts.
[00:11:18] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:11:18] Speaker B: I mean, like, I consider you guys like my second family. And it's. I know Will's just trying to look out for me, but, like, it's still a little hard to hear him say that maybe I shouldn't be around.
I get why. I know. I know. It's not that he doesn't want me, like, right next to him. It's just about being next to him when there's danger on the other side of him kind of thing.
[00:11:47] Speaker C: Well, sure.
But I think that it also has to do with the fact that that is the only way that Will knows how to protect the ones he loves is to yell at them somewhere else. And yell at them and push them somewhere else.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: Exactly. Buy them things.
[00:12:05] Speaker C: Yeah, that's right. And so this is. This is how Will, in his own way, shows his love.
[00:12:13] Speaker E: Oh, did.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: Wait, did he. Did he say he loves me?
[00:12:18] Speaker A: Yes, he did.
[00:12:20] Speaker C: I heard it loud and clear.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:12:23] Speaker C: He said.
[00:12:24] Speaker B: Do I have to say it back?
[00:12:26] Speaker C: Nobody's on my side. And he stormed off.
That was how he does it.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: Oh.
Oh, you're still saying he said it metaphorically.
[00:12:37] Speaker C: Yeah, he did say it metaphorically.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Have you. Okay, I gotta be clear on this point. Have you literally heard him say that he loves me?
[00:12:47] Speaker C: Listen, Shimmy, I don't have to hear him say those words. I don't.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: I. I get what you say.
[00:12:53] Speaker C: Because he doesn't say those about anybody. At least not in our hearing.
[00:12:59] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true.
All right, well, I mean, how do you feel about going into this pugilistic place where you said. Now you. You. You think it's about boxing?
[00:13:16] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: You mean, like. Like fighting with the big loves? That kind of thing?
[00:13:22] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. I think that this is a land where people are ready to do that at a moment's notice.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: Oh, well, I don't want to do that.
[00:13:31] Speaker C: Really?
[00:13:31] Speaker B: No. Do you?
[00:13:32] Speaker C: Well, it's a good thing you have the rocket boots. Have you tried them out yet?
[00:13:35] Speaker B: Well, I've been hovering around a little bit. A couple steps there.
[00:13:39] Speaker C: Oh, I didn't even notice.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Trying to keep it. Keep it casual.
[00:13:43] Speaker C: Yeah, that's. Keep it cac.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: Keep it casual. It's floating a little bit.
[00:13:48] Speaker C: So they do work. Good.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: Yeah, they're good. They're good. I mean, are you up for some boxing? Is that something you're well versed in, Rafina?
[00:13:57] Speaker C: I mean, if I have to.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: I need to know this. I need to know this. I'm gonna ask you outright, and you're gonna have to give me a direct answer. Have you ever boxed before?
[00:14:07] Speaker C: Of course I've boxed before.
All bear toggle children must learn how to box before they start kindergarten.
[00:14:13] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, fuck.
I would love to see that. I gotta admit, that sounds awesome.
[00:14:22] Speaker C: It's really. There's. There's a lot of hair pulling, but the hair pulling doesn't hurt that much because the boxing gloves are over their hands, so they can't really pinch.
It's really interesting.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
All right, well, maybe. I mean, maybe you have to give me some lessons then. Just in case I happen to find myself getting pugilized.
[00:14:43] Speaker C: Yeah, sure, sure. Yeah.
[00:14:44] Speaker B: I mean, I'll try to fly away whenever I can, but just to have a backup, something. I don't know what I'm saying. It's late. I'm tired. One of the reasons we stopped is because I gotta sleep.
[00:14:56] Speaker C: You are the one who needs to sleep, aren't you?
[00:14:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Mo's already been snoring away over there. That's why he hasn't been in any of these conversations.
Yeah, he's cuddled up there right next to Reed, Thorin and Gnaw.
[00:15:10] Speaker C: All of those NPCs.
[00:15:12] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:15:12] Speaker C: You know, just perched in the way there. Sleeping? Yeah.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: With the chicken.
[00:15:18] Speaker C: With the chicken.
All right. Good night, Jimmy.
[00:15:21] Speaker B: Oh, good night, Rafina.
[00:15:22] Speaker C: Will loves you and so do the rest of us.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Thanks, Rafina.
[00:15:30] Speaker C: You're welcome.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: All right. It's Will. Will.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: I point at you and I say, you what? I point at you. I waited for. I pointed at Shimi.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:15:43] Speaker A: Send my message.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: What is your message?
[00:15:45] Speaker A: It's just like.
Just. Don't be stupid.
[00:15:50] Speaker B: He looks over at you and he gives you a solemn nod.
[00:15:56] Speaker C: I was really hoping he'd say, I love you too.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: I don't know if I heard that. Did I hear that conversation?
[00:16:02] Speaker E: No.
[00:16:02] Speaker B: She know Feemi would say that in response to you.
[00:16:06] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:16:10] Speaker A: So cute.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: He would never, never presume.
All right, Shimi turns in and the night, as I said, passes.
[00:16:26] Speaker D: Two more majestically boring things I have to do. I have to dump crap out of my backpack.
So I don't. I don't need all the part. The shredded up holy books and holy water anymore. I'm just going to dump them on the ground.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: I paid for that shit.
[00:16:45] Speaker D: Yeah, well, hopefully Will doesn't notice.
I'll like, bury it a little bit under a tree. I don't know under.
[00:16:52] Speaker A: Ow. You're so scared of me, Bathwack.
[00:16:54] Speaker D: You're so scared.
And I'm going to get rid of those bottles of youth and mother's milk. I don't know what they are, but.
[00:17:05] Speaker B: Mm.
[00:17:07] Speaker D: It's time to just let stuff go.
[00:17:10] Speaker B: Well, does it bring you joy?
[00:17:14] Speaker D: It makes my pack lighter.
And what else? The other thing I'm getting rid of is the.
The sooty gang knife.
I've been carrying that around forever. I don't know. Okay, so.
And then I'll pass the rest of the night working on the playing cards.
[00:17:39] Speaker C: Where do you put all the stuff?
[00:17:42] Speaker D: I just. Just like bury on the ground.
[00:17:46] Speaker E: You bury it burying a bone?
[00:17:50] Speaker D: No, I'm not actually burying them.
[00:17:51] Speaker C: He puts it all under one leaf.
[00:17:53] Speaker D: I'm just putting, you know, putting it somewhere to the side, kind of out of the way. I mean, this. We're on the. We're in the forest, so like kind of forest good as the next.
[00:18:01] Speaker B: It's again, it's not like a thick, thick, lush, leafy landscape. It's kind of almost Moorish in a way.
Scrubby undergrowth and small scraggly trees and bushes and things like that.
[00:18:19] Speaker A: Stay on the road, keep clear of the moor.
[00:18:23] Speaker D: Wait, what does Moorish mean?
[00:18:27] Speaker A: The more it's like.
Yeah, it's like the heath.
[00:18:31] Speaker B: The blasted heath.
[00:18:32] Speaker A: Yeah, like scraggly stuff, but mostly just like, you know, grass, dirt and rocks.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: Kevin Bacon. The blasted heath.
[00:18:40] Speaker A: Kevin Bacon.
[00:18:42] Speaker C: Oh, I think that Shakespeare wrote that.
[00:18:45] Speaker E: Francis Bacon, Gavin Bacon.
Oh, I get.
[00:18:51] Speaker C: Was a joke.
[00:18:53] Speaker B: A tract of open, uncultivated upland.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: Stay on the road, keep clear. The more. Does nobody know that movie? Guys, I'm so sad no, it's a ring.
[00:19:04] Speaker E: It's great.
[00:19:04] Speaker B: No. Is it American Werewolf in London.
[00:19:07] Speaker A: Yay.
How did you know that? I showed it to you one time.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: Like, 20 years ago. One of the only other instances of, like, a description of keep clear of the moor of, like, a moor and a heath.
[00:19:20] Speaker A: Oh, it's so scary. Mary. Such a good.
[00:19:22] Speaker C: Such a good thing that you guys are married.
[00:19:25] Speaker E: Yeah. Because otherwise.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: Horrible two other people's lives could be right now.
[00:19:34] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. Penhaligon's lasted heath.
[00:19:39] Speaker D: Yeah, I. I found a definition of blessed heath on the Internet. You can find it in the chat.
[00:19:45] Speaker A: Oh, what a fragrance for men. I want that. Oh, blasted heath. I bet that's so cool. Marine or aromatic wood. Aquatic green. Salty. I love it. I want it. That's so cool.
I want it. That's so.
[00:19:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:59] Speaker C: You know what to get for KT's birthday?
[00:20:01] Speaker A: Penhaligons.
Penhalig.
[00:20:04] Speaker C: That's the best part. Penhaligon.
[00:20:06] Speaker A: Oh, it's a brand.
[00:20:10] Speaker D: I thought it was gonna have a.
A deer head with antlers on top of it, because some of their other ones do.
[00:20:17] Speaker A: Oh, that's so sad.
But it doesn't. But it has a bow tie on it. Did I see that right? Was it a little bow tie on it?
[00:20:24] Speaker D: I think so.
[00:20:25] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: That is. It's amazing.
This bottle is fancy. Can you tell it has a bow tie?
[00:20:31] Speaker B: A bow tie.
So, yeah, the.
The sun begins to rise.
[00:20:41] Speaker A: We can reset our character. Yay.
[00:20:45] Speaker B: Yep, you can.
[00:20:47] Speaker A: Okay, cool. Thanks.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: And I see. I noticed just tonight that on the character sheet, there's a button that says long rest.
[00:20:55] Speaker A: Really?
[00:20:55] Speaker B: I don't know if it works or not, but it's on the right.
[00:20:58] Speaker C: Huh?
[00:20:59] Speaker A: Where?
Oh, like you. No, it doesn't do anything. No. Lame.
Okay, well, that's helpful.
[00:21:07] Speaker B: Anyway, so. Yeah, it's kind of a hazy early morning.
[00:21:13] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: Yeah. So we're talking about our surroundings again. And I'll remind you, this kind of the land is stretching away, sort of these rolling hills going gradually descending in elevation away from the top of the cliff that you came from towards ostensibly your ultimate goal of the capital of Gully's End, named Gullies End on the river. Gullies End.
[00:21:42] Speaker A: Holy crap.
[00:21:43] Speaker B: Gully crap, Gully crap.
And as people rise and start to get ready for the day, maybe cook up a few.
[00:21:56] Speaker A: That's Shimi's job. He's supposed to be the cook.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: Maybe Shimi grabbed a couple eggs from the chicken cages as they ran out and just frying them up.
[00:22:08] Speaker A: I feel like, we specifically did say that we got Shimmy some cooking stuff, didn't we? I think it's like one thing we ever did.
One thing.
[00:22:15] Speaker C: Got him a oven mitt.
[00:22:18] Speaker B: Yep. He makes us the shittiest paperware out of the. The cardboard packaging and threw it over his shoulder.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: Hey, that's good. Fire starter. What are you doing?
[00:22:28] Speaker B: Peels off the plastic coating.
[00:22:32] Speaker A: Does he make a good breakfast?
[00:22:34] Speaker B: We'll have to find out. I'll have to roll for it before that happens, though.
[00:22:37] Speaker A: Oh, no. Okay.
[00:22:39] Speaker B: A dragon eats you.
Bathwhack Gnar and Reed Thorin come up to you and kiss his ass again. Reed says, my liege, we.
We've decided we're going to set off right now. We're going to go on our. Our journey to communicate your message to your allies. To have them meet you at Chex's. Notes checks. My notes.
[00:23:18] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:23:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:23:20] Speaker B: Southwest of Gully's End in the wilds. There's a watchtower there.
[00:23:25] Speaker E: So, wait, they're still with us?
[00:23:30] Speaker B: They came up through the lighthouse and everything. There was really only one way to go.
[00:23:35] Speaker E: Oh, okay.
I thought we said goodbye back on.
Back on Dusqueen.
[00:23:41] Speaker C: For some reason, I think we just settled the plans. But they had to go with us. There was no other place. Other place for them to go.
[00:23:47] Speaker A: We could have just pushed them in the ocean.
[00:23:49] Speaker B: The settling of plans took a long time.
[00:23:51] Speaker C: We've just been ignoring them, though, if that makes you feel better.
[00:23:54] Speaker E: Yeah, no. I got into my head that we'd already parted ways and so.
But it kind of. I mean, it crossed my mind that, like, if we were to earnestly try to send Shimmy away, that it would be each. Price sent him with them and. But in my brain, I was like, well, too bad they're gone. We can't do that.
Interesting. I still. I think Roscoe Price still would have done and said what he. What he did.
[00:24:24] Speaker B: You. Have you stopped paying attention to them? Yeah, ever since the Dust.
[00:24:28] Speaker A: Nobody cares. They're boring.
[00:24:29] Speaker C: Anyway, I. I have a dumb rules question that I forget every time. How many. How many spells am I allowed to have prepared?
[00:24:39] Speaker B: It depends on your character.
[00:24:42] Speaker C: A hundred?
[00:24:44] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: No good.
[00:24:47] Speaker E: What?
[00:24:48] Speaker C: Eric's.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: I don't know. Level.
Whatever you are. Cleric.
What level are you guys? 11.
[00:24:56] Speaker C: Like, it hasn't gone up recently, right?
[00:24:58] Speaker B: I don't know.
What do you think I am? The TM?
Let's see. Level 11.
[00:25:08] Speaker C: I'm level 12.
[00:25:09] Speaker B: Oh. Level 12.
Choose a number of cleric spells equal to your wisdom modifier, plus your cleric level.
You get to prepare 16 spells. Whoa.
[00:25:24] Speaker C: I get to add some happy, happy, happy.
[00:25:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
So Rafina's doing a little dance over there.
And bathwack.
Yeah. Reed's like, we're going to set off.
I just wanted you to know. You guys take your time here, but we're gonna get on our way because I think we need to beat you guys there in order to accomplish what you want us to accomplish. Does that sound good, my lord?
[00:25:57] Speaker D: Yeah. So I'll just. Yeah, good. We'll meet you there. Good luck.
[00:26:02] Speaker B: Good.
All right, Gnar, let's go.
All right. Bye, guys.
[00:26:07] Speaker E: Bye.
[00:26:10] Speaker C: Oh, you're still herebye.
[00:26:16] Speaker A: I play dead. I hope nobody sees me.
[00:26:18] Speaker B: Aren't you in your tent?
[00:26:20] Speaker A: Leave me alone.
[00:26:20] Speaker B: I'm assuming you're in your tent.
[00:26:21] Speaker A: I just. If I wasn't, I'd just fall down on the ground and hope they don't see me.
[00:26:27] Speaker B: Oh, no.
What?
[00:26:32] Speaker E: This is your last chance to maybe find another path.
You sure you don't want to leave with them?
[00:26:39] Speaker B: I don't know. Do you?
[00:26:42] Speaker E: No. And also, they're headed also for Gully's End. Right?
[00:26:45] Speaker B: So, yeah, it's like, if I go with that, it would be like. Still getting into pugilism without you guys to protect me.
[00:26:55] Speaker E: Yeah. Nobody wants you heading into a polygism shame.
[00:26:59] Speaker C: Me?
[00:27:00] Speaker B: No, Definitely not.
[00:27:05] Speaker D: Is that like a syllogism?
[00:27:11] Speaker E: Can't tell you that. Pathway.
Some of these things you just gotta find out on your own.
Guys, I have to go to the bathroom.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: I was just about to suggest.
[00:27:24] Speaker E: Just need a bathroom break.
[00:27:26] Speaker A: Walk into a pool of jizza.
[00:27:29] Speaker C: Salicylic acid is what they had in the oxy pads that I used. That I used for, like, 25 years.
[00:27:34] Speaker A: Oh, oxy. Yeah. Like the.
[00:27:36] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:27:36] Speaker A: Oxy pads. Do they still make those Oxy pads?
[00:27:39] Speaker C: They have dry decks, but I can't find oxy.
[00:27:42] Speaker A: Wow. Buy oxy pads just, like, by now.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: By now.
[00:27:47] Speaker A: By now.
[00:27:50] Speaker B: All right.
[00:27:50] Speaker C: They're still here. Oh.
[00:27:51] Speaker A: Bye.
[00:27:51] Speaker B: Nope, they're not. They're gone. Yeah, I left 20 minutes ago.
[00:27:55] Speaker A: Phew.
Will breathes easier for the first time in two hours. That's all the time we've known each other, right? Two hours?
[00:28:03] Speaker B: I think it's about that. Maybe four.
[00:28:06] Speaker A: It's literally like 16 hours, isn't it? It's like, less than a day. Anyway.
[00:28:10] Speaker B: It's more than.
[00:28:11] Speaker A: All right. It's two whole days that we've known each other, but I haven't been breathing the whole time.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: Okay.
So, yeah, you guys can take your time. Oh, yeah. Shimmy's got a cook. Let's see how good Shimmy does at cooking.
[00:28:27] Speaker C: Yay. But does he have to roll something?
[00:28:28] Speaker B: Yeah, he does.
You guys don't get to see it.
[00:28:33] Speaker C: No.
[00:28:35] Speaker A: Leaf Shimmy makes breakfast.
[00:28:40] Speaker B: All right, the eggs are definitely overdone. Aw, sorry, guys.
[00:28:45] Speaker E: I don't like runny eggs anyway.
[00:28:49] Speaker B: Oh, good. Well, here you go, Roscoe.
[00:28:53] Speaker E: These are pretty overdone.
[00:28:55] Speaker B: Everybody eat up.
[00:28:57] Speaker E: Runnier would have been better.
[00:29:00] Speaker B: He's not listening. Fill your bellies.
[00:29:06] Speaker A: I eat it and I don't complain, says Will.
Yeah, I say it out loud.
[00:29:13] Speaker E: I. I don't complain.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: Sounds like Rafina. Something Rafina would have told Will to say. Like, just recite it to yourself. Just. I eat it and I don't complain. I eat it and I don't come. I eat it and I don't complain.
[00:29:36] Speaker B: So, yeah, you guys can have eggs if you want.
[00:29:38] Speaker A: We do.
[00:29:39] Speaker B: I forget this. Wait, we.
This came up long, long, long, long time ago. If Bathwhack eats eggs and I can't remember the answer, yeah, he eats fish.
[00:29:47] Speaker A: So he's got to eat eggs.
[00:29:48] Speaker B: That's not the same thing.
[00:29:50] Speaker A: It's the same pescatarian.
[00:29:52] Speaker E: We look over. Bathwack's eating caviar.
[00:29:58] Speaker B: She me cooked those up too.
[00:30:00] Speaker A: Oh, lucky.
[00:30:02] Speaker B: Hey, he does Bathwack.
[00:30:05] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:30:06] Speaker E: Okay, Bathwack while you're eating your eggs over there. Where were you last night? We all had sort of a group meeting with Shamey, talking to him about the dangers of traveling with our group, but you weren't around.
[00:30:21] Speaker D: I was here. I was here most of the time. Did you see me always making cards?
[00:30:25] Speaker E: I.
I didn't. That's why I'm asking.
[00:30:31] Speaker D: I must have just been around behind the tree.
Okay, I was here.
I just stepped away for a little bit.
[00:30:41] Speaker E: Any words for shaming? Any words of wisdom or encouragement?
[00:30:46] Speaker B: Yeah, you got any words for me, Batwack? Any words of wisdom, encouragement?
[00:30:53] Speaker A: Roll. Roll for perceiving this. Roll for perceiving this.
Roll for inciting this.
[00:31:01] Speaker D: So what was everyone talking about?
[00:31:04] Speaker B: All about, like, kicking me out of the group?
Not really. Like, for my safety. Like, I should. Like, you know, rather than worrying about the business of saving the whole world and getting myself in danger, I should just, you know, mind my own business.
[00:31:26] Speaker D: You're part of the group, Shimmy.
I'm sure we protect you.
[00:31:37] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:31:39] Speaker E: Weird energy in this conversation right now.
[00:31:42] Speaker A: What? I guess I don't even need to roll my 17 insight.
[00:31:46] Speaker C: We all need to tell Shimi that we love him. Shimi, I love you go next, somebody.
[00:31:56] Speaker D: Shimi, mind your own business. But we'll protect you.
[00:31:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:00] Speaker C: Is that really what you say?
[00:32:01] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:32:02] Speaker C: No, no, no, no, no.
[00:32:03] Speaker A: That was the wrong words.
[00:32:04] Speaker C: Bathwhack.
[00:32:05] Speaker D: Well, that's what he said. He said, oh, like I should mind my own business.
[00:32:09] Speaker C: So you're responding to him?
[00:32:10] Speaker D: Yeah, I was just echoing it back.
[00:32:12] Speaker C: But don't you also love him?
[00:32:16] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:32:18] Speaker C: Thank you, Bathwack. Well.
[00:32:23] Speaker A: I'm just looking back and forth like this between these guys.
[00:32:28] Speaker D: I want to know. I'm sure she means not happy.
[00:32:30] Speaker A: I rolled an insight. What do I learn?
Dm. You're the dm. I rolled it.
[00:32:37] Speaker B: Dm.
But I think that both Alex and I are accurately portraying the situation so that you, as a perceptive person, don't want to play D. And D can pick up on the weird vibes.
[00:32:59] Speaker D: I mean, I'm not, like, hostile.
[00:33:01] Speaker B: No, but.
[00:33:02] Speaker D: But it's definitely.
[00:33:03] Speaker A: No, but she me.
[00:33:04] Speaker E: But Shimi was, like, provoking.
[00:33:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:07] Speaker D: I mean, it's a little uncomfortable.
[00:33:14] Speaker A: She wants me to say, I love you, Shimmy. And Will's just looking at Shimi like this.
[00:33:21] Speaker D: This is nothing that Shimi and I are going to be able to work out right now.
[00:33:24] Speaker E: Well, if Will's not gonna go, I guess I will.
She me.
I have, you know, I have a lot of affection for you as a fellow member of the traveling party. And to the extent that I, you know, that I. I have feelings of. That you might describe as love or fellow fellow beings in this world, I would certainly portion off a part of those feelings.
[00:33:58] Speaker A: For you.
[00:34:03] Speaker B: I'll take it. Yay.
[00:34:07] Speaker C: Hey, Mo, do you love Shimi?
[00:34:09] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I do.
He's smart and he funny and he good at solving puzzles.
[00:34:16] Speaker C: But that's not why we love. We love him. We just love him because he's Shimi.
[00:34:19] Speaker B: Well, yeah. I was just describing some of the things I think of when I think of how much I love him.
[00:34:23] Speaker C: Yes. I appreciate that you did that.
That was great. That was great. I'm glad you highlighted those.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: Thanks, Rafina.
[00:34:32] Speaker C: Thank you, Mo.
[00:34:35] Speaker B: Right. Well, I guess that's everyone.
Let's get going.
Is everybody ready?
[00:34:44] Speaker C: Wait, where are we going?
[00:34:45] Speaker B: That way.
Are we just gonna live here?
[00:34:50] Speaker C: Oh, we're just walking. Okay.
[00:34:53] Speaker B: Or did you have a different thing in mind? Rafina?
[00:34:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:56] Speaker B: You know I can fly.
[00:34:58] Speaker C: I forgot that we're not on a moving piece of land.
[00:35:02] Speaker E: I mean, we could.
I guess we could ride in. Rudy.
It's something that Julian Rusher would certainly recognize from our battle with her.
But we're not trying to hide the fact that we're here, are we?
[00:35:23] Speaker A: I'd prefer to not have to deal with her at all, but I guess if she shows up, we can be prepared.
I mean, it would be nice if we try to travel undercover as much as possible, but I don't know how much cover is in this scraggly ass land. Scraggly ass?
[00:35:49] Speaker E: What do you think you've got a better sense of the land? Of the distances, of the geology and the geography?
[00:35:56] Speaker B: Should we.
[00:35:58] Speaker E: Should.
Should we? Ryan? Rudy, I'll leave it up to you. You've got 20 seconds to decide.
[00:36:08] Speaker D: Is that how long it takes Rudy to inflate?
[00:36:12] Speaker E: No, I'm just. It's an arbitrary amount of time that.
[00:36:15] Speaker C: I'm giving you, and it's up.
[00:36:20] Speaker D: Oh, I don't think it's up yet.
Yeah, let's ride, Rudy. Although Rudy's not very inconspicuous, but that's.
[00:36:26] Speaker A: What we were just talking about.
[00:36:29] Speaker E: Yeah, right, but. But we're not trying to hide the fact that we're here, right?
We're just trying to hide the fact that you're.
[00:36:38] Speaker D: I don't know. I don't know what's here.
[00:36:41] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. We don't even know.
[00:36:43] Speaker C: Do we need to do some reconfigures?
[00:36:45] Speaker D: I don't even know if this is going to be at all like I remember it.
I mean, it's kind of like I remember it. Like, it definitely has a lot.
A lot in common.
[00:36:56] Speaker A: Does it feel as pugilistic?
[00:36:58] Speaker D: Veritago was really different. Right?
As pugilistic. We haven't met anybody yet.
[00:37:03] Speaker A: Just saying. Does the air feel pugilistic to you? As pugilistic as it was where you're from?
Does it smell like that?
[00:37:14] Speaker E: Are you asking if it smells like come?
[00:37:16] Speaker A: No. What.
What does that mean, Roscoe?
[00:37:23] Speaker B: That smells like home to Will.
[00:37:26] Speaker A: Yeah, it's probably.
[00:37:28] Speaker C: Oh, as they come. I'm gonna dare you.
[00:37:31] Speaker E: Pool of Chisholm.
Look, I don't know what you guys are talking about. The question is, do we. Do we want to pray?
[00:37:41] Speaker D: Do we want to what?
[00:37:43] Speaker E: Do we want to prioritize? Speed or stealth?
[00:37:47] Speaker D: Stealth, yes. Stealth.
[00:37:50] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:37:57] Speaker A: Neither do I. Roscoe. I've done so much more walking here than I have in my whole life, but I still. I'd rather walk then get killed by Juliet Rusher. Potentially.
[00:38:09] Speaker B: Are there maybe wild beasts we can harness and mount?
[00:38:14] Speaker A: Sure. Mo, why don't you go hard wild beast for us?
[00:38:17] Speaker E: That's a great idea. Mo.
Could I ride on your back?
[00:38:21] Speaker B: Well, for a while, sure.
[00:38:25] Speaker E: All right.
[00:38:26] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:38:27] Speaker A: All right. Hop on.
[00:38:29] Speaker E: Well, I'll walk for a bit. When I get tired, I'll let you know.
[00:38:33] Speaker B: Okay. Just tell me.
[00:38:36] Speaker E: Okay, cool.
[00:38:41] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, it's cool.
[00:38:44] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep, yep, yep.
[00:38:48] Speaker B: Are we going?
[00:38:51] Speaker E: Weird energy in this conversation.
[00:38:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:55] Speaker B: What. What are you guys talking about?
What's weird?
[00:39:00] Speaker A: Nothing. Mo, let's walk.
[00:39:03] Speaker E: Let's walk and talk.
[00:39:04] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:39:06] Speaker E: Here we go.
[00:39:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Can I. Yeah.
[00:39:08] Speaker B: All right. And we'll.
[00:39:09] Speaker A: He tries. Yeah, he tries to walk near Shimi, by the way. Eventually. So we'll talk to Shimi. Yes.
[00:39:16] Speaker B: Floating.
[00:39:17] Speaker A: Okay, cool. Well, as long as Batwack isn't around. That would be. I'm just looking for that moment. It doesn't have to be now. Just looking for a moment where Batwack isn't there.
[00:39:26] Speaker B: And let's.
What does.
I'm assuming Bathwack looks like Kick.
Is that correct?
[00:39:33] Speaker D: That's right.
[00:39:33] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:39:34] Speaker D: That's correct.
[00:39:35] Speaker A: Looking like Bathwack.
[00:39:36] Speaker B: What?
[00:39:37] Speaker A: Oh, shit.
[00:39:39] Speaker B: Stealth.
[00:39:40] Speaker D: Yeah, like, you know. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the chainmail and the robe are on, but, yeah, he looks like Kick.
[00:39:46] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:39:47] Speaker D: And, I mean, he's.
I guess what I'm gonna do is I've still got my fishing rod in my pack, but I'm gonna be carrying the flail over my shoulder, but making it look like a fishing rod.
[00:40:01] Speaker B: Okay.
So you guys head down the road.
[00:40:08] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:40:10] Speaker B: You mentioned all of us are riding Mo in turns. Yeah. Or I guess you. Yeah, you could. What would be the stack?
I guess Bathwack would probably have to go next.
[00:40:21] Speaker E: This is a waste of our time, guys. We're playing dd, not doing some weird improv skit.
[00:40:30] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure I've said that multiple times since you said that. I'm like, what, are we just doing some. I thought we were just doing some weird improv thing.
So funny.
[00:40:39] Speaker E: It's so rich that I'm the one.
[00:40:41] Speaker D: Who'S like, guys.
[00:40:45] Speaker C: Adam, you've trained us so well.
[00:40:46] Speaker E: That's focus.
[00:40:50] Speaker B: So it's Moe, then Bathwack, then Roscoe's probably stronger than Will, but actually, maybe it doesn't matter. This is a waste of time.
[00:41:01] Speaker A: I don't know what you're talking.
[00:41:02] Speaker B: No, I'm saying if we're all. If everybody's riding Mo.
[00:41:05] Speaker A: But you said it's Moe, then, like, Mo's riding himself.
[00:41:08] Speaker B: No. Well, Moe's on the ground and then.
[00:41:12] Speaker A: I didn't realize we were all all riding at the same time. I thought you were saying we were taking turns writing.
[00:41:16] Speaker B: Well, I Did say that. But then I realized probably what Abby was joking was that everybody was on Mo's back at once.
[00:41:21] Speaker A: Oh, amazing. I missed that part. Sorry.
That's fantastic.
[00:41:25] Speaker E: Yeah. So I think Mo bathwack.
Roscoe.
[00:41:32] Speaker B: Rafina, Will, Shimi, Pippa.
[00:41:39] Speaker C: Pippa.
[00:41:39] Speaker B: Oscar.
[00:41:42] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:41:42] Speaker B: The myconid.
Clock face.
[00:41:47] Speaker E: Clock face with the mic.
[00:41:49] Speaker A: Clock face is riding the mic.
[00:41:51] Speaker B: You gonna draw this?
[00:41:52] Speaker A: Yes, I'm writing it down.
[00:41:53] Speaker B: Yay.
All right, so you're heading down. There's, like, a little. You make your way back. There's like, a little, like, footpath almost more than anything. You kind of made your way.
[00:42:05] Speaker A: We haven't even seen. Still gotten off his.
[00:42:07] Speaker B: No, no, I'm just describing what has happened as all of these discussions have happened or whatever. I'm just trying to remind you physically where we are.
[00:42:15] Speaker A: You're not.
[00:42:17] Speaker B: Suddenly, you're seven miles down the road.
[00:42:19] Speaker A: Holy sh.
[00:42:19] Speaker B: The trail. Okay.
[00:42:21] Speaker E: Thank God. No, without incident, Right?
[00:42:24] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:42:26] Speaker A: I'm just joking. I thought you were saying that we're. We're just starting down the footpath from where?
[00:42:30] Speaker B: Kind of. I'm just saying, you. You got. You unpacked the camp.
You got off out of the stuff. There was a little footpath that you were following. I'm reminding. Because that wasn't in the recap. The chickens did not mention the footpath.
[00:42:44] Speaker C: Sorry.
[00:42:45] Speaker B: And so.
[00:42:47] Speaker E: So that was seven miles.
[00:42:49] Speaker B: Yes, that was seven miles back. You've been traipsing down this footpath within those seven miles. Roscoe, do you take up Moe's offer to let you ride on his back?
[00:43:01] Speaker A: Seven miles. That's a long way.
[00:43:03] Speaker D: Oh. Oh, well, sorry, I. Actually, if we're. If we're starting to move, I.
[00:43:09] Speaker B: That was seven miles ago.
[00:43:11] Speaker E: Dare you, Alex.
[00:43:13] Speaker A: No, we've been moving.
[00:43:17] Speaker E: No, now we have to rewind.
[00:43:19] Speaker A: Oh, no, we're back here.
[00:43:21] Speaker E: We're just cleaning up the camp.
[00:43:24] Speaker B: All right, everybody, eat your eggs.
[00:43:27] Speaker C: Rafina's still looking for the string she dropped.
[00:43:32] Speaker E: We're almost out.
[00:43:33] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:43:33] Speaker D: I was just. No, I was just gonna say I'm.
[00:43:35] Speaker B: I'm.
[00:43:35] Speaker D: As are walking. I'm casting. Fine, Steed. I don't think there's anything preventing me from doing that while I'm walking.
And so Steed will be back in 10 minutes time.
[00:43:46] Speaker C: Yay, Steve.
[00:43:47] Speaker D: And then if Roscoe wants to. Has Roscoe. Roscoe's met Steve Steed, Right?
[00:43:52] Speaker C: I don't know.
Yeah. Yeah, that's right.
[00:43:55] Speaker B: It hasn't been around much lately.
[00:43:56] Speaker A: Has Steve been around with Julia? Rasher says will as soon as Steve pops up. Has this giant, glowing green horse been around?
I don't care. It looks like it's glowing. It's green. It stands out. Dm, why don't we move seven more miles down the road, for crying out loud?
[00:44:14] Speaker B: I mean, We've already moved seven. You want another seven?
[00:44:19] Speaker A: Is that when Steve shows up after seven miles?
[00:44:22] Speaker B: How long at 10 minutes? Seven miles.
It's pretty fast.
[00:44:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:26] Speaker B: That's seven times six. 42 miles an hour.
That's how fast you're walking.
[00:44:34] Speaker A: Nice. It's pretty fast.
[00:44:36] Speaker B: That is pretty fast.
[00:44:40] Speaker E: You know what, Mo? Now that I'm actually walking now, we've been walking for a few miles, at least.
My juices are flowing, my mustard is going.
I. I'm good. I just needed to get warmed up.
I'm in a groove here, and when I look at you and I think about the prospect of, like, climbing up on your back just as mostly a bit.
I just. I kind of feel like it would be a waste of time.
[00:45:10] Speaker B: I mean, like, I could effortlessly get you up on my back and, like, half of a fluid motion. Just so, you know, for the future, we wouldn't have to make it a bit.
It could just be something that happens, and then we move on.
Until then, Alex says, oh, are you getting on his back? Let me add this one thing.
[00:45:33] Speaker E: Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just giving serious consideration to the prospect of me actually riding on your back.
And I. I just. You know, there's a lot of things that I'll put up with in my. In my burgeoning characterization.
I think I draw the line there, and I. I'm not sure why, but.
[00:46:01] Speaker C: Especially since it was your idea characterization.
[00:46:05] Speaker B: What year did you join the Spot podcast?
[00:46:10] Speaker E: Look, I'm just saying now that I really consider it under the. The cold, hard sobriety of daylight, it seems to me like it could be fun, it could be misconstrued. It's fundamentally undignified.
[00:46:27] Speaker C: Amazing.
[00:46:28] Speaker B: I could see that.
All right, but if you get tired, I will do it.
[00:46:36] Speaker E: And then Roscoe twists his ankle and needs to be.
[00:46:42] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:46:42] Speaker B: I rolled it.
[00:46:43] Speaker E: Oh, I rolled it.
Oh, no.
[00:46:47] Speaker B: Well, then Steve walks, trots up next to you.
[00:46:49] Speaker A: Oh, useful. Just sling him over the back.
[00:46:54] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:46:56] Speaker E: Take a dead body.
[00:47:04] Speaker B: You insist you're more comfortable that way.
[00:47:06] Speaker A: By the way, was it your juices are flowing, your mustard is going? Or was it your juices are going, your mustard is flowing?
[00:47:12] Speaker E: Juices are flowing. Now that my juices are flowing, my mustard is Okay.
[00:47:17] Speaker A: I wrote it down. I want to make sure I can put that on the shirt.
[00:47:22] Speaker B: My juices are flowing on the floor.
My mustard is going on the back.
[00:47:28] Speaker C: It's like a Christmas carol.
[00:47:30] Speaker A: Yeah, it's perfect.
[00:47:33] Speaker C: Or wizard of Oz.
[00:47:34] Speaker B: My mustard is going, yes.
[00:47:39] Speaker C: We're out of the woods. We're out of. The juices are flowing.
[00:47:42] Speaker A: The mustard is going, Jesus Christ.
[00:47:47] Speaker B: So, yeah, you get seven miles down the road.
[00:47:50] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: You've been slowly making your way from the uplands to the downlands.
It's a very boring, drab, almost. Almost dreary, except it's not like to me, dreary.
It's too hot to be dreary.
[00:48:10] Speaker A: Oh, it's hot here.
[00:48:11] Speaker B: It's getting hot. Yeah. Like, it's awful. Yeah, it's just this.
[00:48:17] Speaker A: Exactly what I thought Gully's End would be.
[00:48:20] Speaker B: It's just been this hazy.
Like the sun is there, but there's no. It's not cloudy. It's hazy. Like it's. You can't even. Like the sun is just like a blur up in the sky and there's bugs buzzing around everywhere. Like the, like the. You know, like locusts and cicadas, like that buzz. Yeah, just like a constant like that that like varies a little bit, so you can't even really get used to it.
[00:48:49] Speaker A: I actually love that stuff, but I will. Would hate it, probably.
Like, I Don't you remember going camping and was it cicadas that go.
[00:49:01] Speaker E: That's a train.
[00:49:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
No, but you know what I'm talking about. It's literally that.
[00:49:08] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:49:10] Speaker C: I don't think it's cicadas because they just buzz.
[00:49:12] Speaker A: Yeah, there's. There's something that maybe it's. What the heck is that? It was. It's.
[00:49:16] Speaker B: Listeners leave a five star review. Tell us what go.
[00:49:18] Speaker A: I'm from New Jersey. That's when I heard that. It's probably here too. But we often have in the summer we have our fan going, steed is here.
[00:49:25] Speaker B: Steed is here. Steed's been here. Are you riding Steed Kick?
[00:49:32] Speaker D: No.
[00:49:33] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:49:35] Speaker A: Should the bones ride Steed? No.
Can I put the bones there?
[00:49:40] Speaker E: Roscoe's on Steed.
There's probably room for somebody else, but Roscoe's flopped on the back.
[00:49:45] Speaker B: Okay.
So, yeah, you crest one of those featureless, sort of not quite hill, hump mound in the road and all of a sudden the land kind of opens up below you. It's a bit of a further drop than what you've seen before.
And it's almost like.
Like you're looking at Something too bright for a second. Because down there at the bottom of this kind of valley, Ish, or just low spot, there is this riot of bright reds and oranges and yellows.
What comes into sight is this grove of trees covered in full, like autumn foliage.
And the path that you're on, which is a little closer to like a smallish road. Ish. It's not paved or anything, but just you could tell it's a method of travel.
It doesn't lead directly towards it, but you can see down there. There maybe is a little path that would lead over to it.
But yeah, it stands out immensely in front of you. Just amongst all this, just same.
[00:51:03] Speaker A: Whoa.
[00:51:04] Speaker B: Grayish, brownish.
[00:51:06] Speaker A: Like it looks like it doesn't even belong.
[00:51:09] Speaker B: It doesn't seem unreal. Yeah, it almost does in a way.
[00:51:12] Speaker A: Just because right there is what it feels like.
[00:51:16] Speaker B: Like, kind of. Yeah.
[00:51:17] Speaker C: Like, is there a source of water that we can see?
[00:51:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:20] Speaker B: You don't see one directly? No, I mean, there's life supported in general.
Like there's. There's stuff growing around you.
[00:51:27] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. No, but.
[00:51:29] Speaker B: Okay, but you haven't seen anything like this.
[00:51:33] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:51:34] Speaker C: I want some of those twigs.
[00:51:39] Speaker A: Okay, let's go.
[00:51:42] Speaker C: Wait, did you say it was, like, inaccessible or anything like that? No, it's just like on the path, right?
[00:51:46] Speaker B: Yeah, kind of. It's like you can see a way to it. The path goes down and then there's a little like sort of offshoot that leads over towards it.
[00:51:54] Speaker A: When you say grove, is it like. Is it huge?
[00:51:56] Speaker B: No, it's small.
[00:51:57] Speaker A: Oh, it's small. Yeah, sure, why not? I'll follow Rafina. Rafina's skipping on over there, probably.
[00:52:04] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:52:04] Speaker A: The terrarium skipping too.
[00:52:08] Speaker B: All right, so you head down the road and then you take this little path over towards the grove of trees.
You round sort of a little corner in the path, and before you sort of spreads out this small grove.
And it looks like it is the site of a small settlement.
You see structures in the shade beneath the trees. The shade looks delicious. With this sort of heat that's sort of oppressive all around you. You can't imagine it's too much cooler in there, but just getting out of this hazy, almost sunshine.
Sounds like a great place plan.
[00:52:49] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:52:50] Speaker B: There's looks like two structures closer to you, and then there's like this low.
It's not like a.
It's less than a fence, really. It's like this sort of wooden, like kind of like a cross. Like beams of wood that like make like X's. And then Then logs are laid across it, like sort of very. Not casual, but not.
And it's not like keeping enemy. Yeah, just almost maybe defining a border or perimeter. So you.
You approach, and out of the building to the right, specifically as Steed's hoofbeats approach, you hear some nickering and some low whinnies. So it sounds like that building over to your right houses some horses.
And then a figure steps out of this smaller building to the left.
He is a half orc male wearing basically a very simple orange tunic, like a long tunic that goes to, like, his knees and it's belted.
And he steps out, hearing you approach, and a smile lights his face and he says, hello, travelers well met.
Welcome to Burngate.
And we're gonna find out what happens next time on Pork Fried Dice.
Burngate and I'll.
I'll change our roll 20 thingy.
There you go.
[00:54:38] Speaker A: Oh, cool.
[00:54:42] Speaker E: Didn't we start a new chapter?
[00:54:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Gullies and shuffle.
[00:54:46] Speaker E: Gully shuffle, Gully shuffle.
[00:54:49] Speaker C: Which was in the recap. The word shuffle.
[00:54:51] Speaker A: Yeah, gushes. Gully shuffle, gully shuffle. Then I said it wrong in the recap.
[00:54:56] Speaker B: Well, but I thought it was poetic license.
[00:54:59] Speaker C: It was.
I was thinking like the chicken dance shuffle.
[00:55:04] Speaker A: Oh, but this art is really good.
[00:55:05] Speaker E: That started.
Gully shuffle started the last time we played.
[00:55:11] Speaker B: Yeah, it was like basically when you.
Yeah, it was at the end of the last session, but it was. It basically started once you got off of the Dust Queen.
[00:55:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:55:22] Speaker E: Okay. Gotcha.
[00:55:23] Speaker D: Yeah, I like that.
Burn gate has the word burn in it.
And it's on. The trees are on fire. Yeah, like the book.
[00:55:38] Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
[00:55:40] Speaker A: You do like it. You just want to spoilers friends with Xantris and betray everyone and set Gully's end on fire for some reason.
[00:55:49] Speaker D: As soon as I possibly can.
[00:55:50] Speaker A: Yeah, we all hear it.
We're such good role players that we didn't even do anything to interfere. You guys. High five.
Not you, Alex. You're betraying us all.
You maybe.
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