C03 - Ep. 03 - Mission Through Middrus - Liar, Liar, Fort’s on Fire
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Previously, our adventurers were startled by a sudden inspection of their stuff by Steelye, who found unfamiliar objects the party claimed were unclaimed. Next, they prepared themselves for passing out on the parade grounds of the Cortege with the promise of promotion from Colonel Boyi. But now it seems a fort fire drill has gotten out of hand and they dug themselves into a hole of hellish hounds. Grab a guzzler and let's get back to this gassy goss.

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Tales from the Stinky Dragon. I'm your Dungeon Master, Gustavo Sorolla. I'm joined by our four players. Hello, players. Hello. You said Doug, and it made me happy. Lowercase d, not uppercase d. It's a big difference. I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow. Oh!

I was preparing. I was bracing. He was singing his favorite part of Little Mermaid is what he was doing. If your character had access to a smart sending stone, a.k.a. a phone, what app would they use the most? And that was submitted to us by King of Cows. That's a great question. I'm Chris Demers and I play Gunther, the level three croak folk fighter, which is basically a frog humanoid fighter. A frog boy. And...

Chris never goes first. Here comes the voice. I don't know. Maybe. There are lots of apps that I like to use. One I like, it aggregates news articles and all sorts of different things. It's called Ribbit.

Is this a real app? Is this a real app? No, it's called, it's a play on Reddit. Oh. Wow. You know, that's just the one you have to explain. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You should have said Revit. Gunther's mom thinks he's funny. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That was so good. I'm in such a good mood now. Does Gunther have like a side hustle doing app development on the side? Like making apps? No, no, no, no. He doesn't understand how the sending stone works, but

He tries, you know, he had to get younger people to do it. It's funny because you like it's a reference to Reddit and you said like an aggregate of news and stuff like that, news articles. And for some reason, my brain doesn't equate Reddit to news, even though like that's where a ton of news is. And a lot of people use it for news. For me, it's just like silly pictures. And yeah, you know. Yeah, I guess it depends on how you use Reddit.

Also, you mentioned that because of his age, he has to have the younger kids. How old is Gunther? I mean, you know, you can't shrug your shoulders. This is your character. It's also an audio podcast. We can't hear a shrug.

We hear this around the middle aged. It was like last week. We were like, how do you spell? He's like, I don't know. Evasive. Micah commented that the problem with a ribbit is there's too many trolls living on that app. That's good. That's good. All right. Who's next? Sorry. I'm just still so thrown by the answer. First Chris thing. Uh, y'all go, uh, uh,

What does he say? Audio podcast. Seeing Blaine turn his head to the side. Shut up, John. It's me, Tove. Oh, good morning, everybody. I love Tove. Hello. I am a level three orc barbarian. And if I had to take any application, I think I would use the compass app.

Or perhaps a maps app.

because I, you know, it's sometimes when you're out on the seas, you get a little lost, you know, if there's like, you can't see the stars, you know, you need like, there's clouds in the way, you know, you might need a little help with the directions. So yeah, that's me. I want Tolv to do my like voicemail message. Ooh la la, it's me, Barbara. Please leave a message after the beep.

I was thinking it would be great to have a tall voice on your GPS, like telling you when to turn or what direction to take.

Take a right on Sanderson. It would be cardboard. You just sit up going in circles. Turn left. Go left. Go left. Take another left. Yeah, that'd be a great mode for a GPS. No right turns. If you're going to go right, it's three left. Oh my God. Every trip takes you three times as long. Yeah. Hell yeah.

Hello everyone, I'm Barbara Dunkelman and I play Doug Boone, the level three bugbear artificer. Fun fact, I was doing some research on how to play like an artificer just because I know so little about it. And there was this one person who was adamant, adamant about how it's pronounced artificer.

and i kept listening to it now official i don't even know like why what the reasoning was why he was saying it was pronounced artificer but probably like artifact maybe but i don't know now i'm i forget how to actually say it that's the one uh and you know doug

Doug would, I have an answer for both of these. Okay. So Doug would use one app the most and one app the least. Okay. So the app he would use the most is Spotify. Oh. Doug likes to, you know, when he walks, he likes to have some music on, some music in the background. He also listens to some podcasts every now and then. Uh, specifically shout out to Tales from a Stinky Dragon. Um,

Um, to our own podcast. I love it. So good. Uh, Doug likes listening to adventures. Uh,

And the app that Doug would listen to the least is obviously the calculator. Because Doug does not need a calculator. Doug has a calculator built into his mind. Doug is a calculator. Doug is a calculator. Exactly. Thank you, Gus. I can't wait to see this in action. I've also noticed that Doug and Tolv seek using words that have R's in them because we have such different pronunciations. I don't know what you're talking about. You know, R.

Can I say er? Calculator.

Calculator. Tor. Guess who gave a question. Yeah, I hate to derail us and I'm super sorry to say this. We've been so on track so far. Micah just sent me a message that that person you read is actually right about the pronunciation of artificer, Barbara. I know they probably were and I hate it. If you look it up in the dictionary, that's actually the phonetic pronunciation. Artificer.

Artificer. But the thing is, is that like there's other words involving artificer. Like artifice. Like artifice and art is something where artifice doesn't make sense. What if they are a lady? So is it artifice lady? Get out. Get out. What did I do? I just made it funny. I think it would be, is it not sir and madam?

Hey, there it is. That's quality. Artifamadam. No, I think Blaine's also right. Cause when ladies, isn't that also like a Royal, like, sir, it might be. Gentlemen and lady. I like madam more. Hello everyone. Uh, I'm John Reisinger. Uh,

I'm the one who's here to laugh at everybody's terrible jokes. And I am playing Natty Mateed, who is a level three warlock drow. Natty Mateed? Mateed?

Nanny Wonder. That's Nanny's name. Didn't you know that? My brain just broke. I was like, was that her actual last name? No. Uh, actually you broke my brain when I didn't, I don't think I remember you saying Doug's last name. And when, so you said Doug Boone, I was like, Oh, I don't remember that. Learn a little more about Doug. Doug Boone. Doug Boone. Um,

I play Natty Wonder, who is a drow warlock. And my favorite app on the Smartstone, it has to be Cantrips with Friends.

It's a game that me and all my friends in school, we used to do all play with all each other. And, and it would really help us remember our, our lessons. Cause you know, you kind of bring up stuff you learned about, and then it's also a little game. You get to play with your friends. It's so good. I want an actual app. Are you sure it's not the Jeremy Renner app?

What was that app called? I don't remember. It was like a social network. The Jeremy Renner app. I think it was just called the Jeremy Renner app. Yeah, it's great. And now I'm sad it doesn't exist anymore. I think we need the Jeremy Renner app again. Jeremy Renner official. Rest in peace.

Jeremy Rinder app. Not to Jeremy Rinder. I believe he's still alive. He's still alive. Hawkeye is the worst of the Marvel characters. Even though a snow blower tried to take him out. The one thing I was going to say is I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know if we got Gunther's level in class. I know he introduced himself as middle age, but I don't know if we got the rest of the details. That's his class. Middle age. Level three fighter. Yeah, you said fighter. You did? Okay. What's Gunther's last name?

No. Oh, he can't stop. He can't stop. I think Chris legitimately hasn't thought of a last name for him yet. I don't know because we just had a conversation in a second when we recorded yesterday. I was going to say the same thing. Where Chris was like, I don't want to be mysterious anymore. I want to tell people stuff. And then he... What it said?

I have a last name. Ooh. But you're not saying it? But Tolv is asking it right now. We also don't know Tolv's last name. Ooh.

I don't have a last name. You're like Madonna? Yeah. Madonna. Me and her. Except for I'm less mean. Apparently she was mean. Oh. Yeah. We'll use Beyonce as an example instead. Okay. Although she does have a last name. It's Knowles. Yeah, but no one ever says that. Told Knowles. What was your most used app?

Doug, I'm just noting all of these. Spotify. That's right, Spotify. We were looking at the pronunciation of artificer when you said that. So I just wanted to make sure I've got it all straight here. By the way, I'm going to keep saying artificer. I'm not going to say artificer just because it breaks my brain. I'm 46 years old.

I'm firmly set in my wrong ways. I think that's what happens when you get old. You just refuse to accept new things and you refuse to accept that you're wrong. And you become a cranky person because nobody agrees with you anymore. Oh, my God.

Gus, you were like my age when I met you. I need a moment. Yeah, Sunday will be that age. It'll happen to you. I think Gus was like 27 when I first met him. Yeah. It's wild. Yeah. I was young once a long time ago. All right. Natty, you finally managed to punch a hole in the ground.

and you see that there's a small cavern beneath. And when you look down, you see, this is a cat, so help me God. Always find a way to find a cat for John. You look down to see a pair of eyes glaring back at you with a vicious scarlet glow. Flames ignite the cavern, and you're suddenly staring at three blazing red hounds that bound out from the hole onto the surface with a thud.

As they bear their fangs and growl, your training floods back into your mind with the name of these fiery fiends, daemongrels. What? GG. What? GG? GG, Natty. Good one. Let's go ahead and kick off this episode by everyone rolling initiative for me. Okay. Woo!

Eight. For Natty. Sixteen. Seventeen. Twelve. Kind of sounds like Tove. Is that fun? It does. Maybe that's your last name. Tove Twelve. Oh, it's Tove the Cluck.

So in the order, we have Doug with 17, Gunther with 16, Tolv with 12, Natty with 8, and the Demongrels will act on 7. Other than Natty, we're all above with the buckets of water, right? I'm not down. I'm not below. Correct. Yeah, and Natty had not dropped down. Natty had just started digging. I think, and you Eldritch Blast, if I recall properly, to maybe open up some of the dirt.

- I did, that's how I found the hole. That's how I found these mean doggies. - A cool way to dig. - No such thing as a mean doggy, only mean owners. - Why dig when you can blast? All right, Doug, you are in the bucket brigade and I guess you would, you know, obviously the fire's in front of you at the mess hall and you would know, or you would see that Natty has been digging this hole and is now startled with what appeared to be like flaming hounds peeking up at her.

Okay, so is it safe to say that these are probably fire resistant? Uh, why don't you have Doug make a wisdom check? Okay.

Doug is going to do a wisdom. Does Doug have a Pokedex? I do not send out the Bulbasaur. Not 20 for a 23. Good Lord. Yeah, you would assume that this type... Doug's a very wise bugbear, and you would assume that this type of creature is probably immune to fire or very resistant to it at the very least.

Okay. And how far away am I from like the nearest creature? Where you are over to where Natty is, she probably only walked about 15 feet away to start digging. Okay.

Could I try to shoot my crossbow at the one closest to Natty? Sure. There's one that's head is barely peeking out above the ground and you can take aim at that one. Whack-a-mongrel. I want to take aim at that one. Right between the eyes or whatever type of vision things it has. Shoot your shot. Oh, gosh. That's a six.

Just a six. You can't add anything on that? Well, she rolled a two and added four. Yeah, I rolled a two. I don't have any sort of inspiration die or like re-roll feat. Okay. Oh, well, I think you're so shocked, Doug, that there's actual combat. You know, you pull your weapon out and fumble with it a little bit and you're a little shaky when you let your shot fly and it flies wide. Doug, maybe next time you shoot your crossbow, you keep your eyes open.

Oh, well, at least I didn't shoot you in the face, Natty, okay? That could have been more bad. I noticed you winced when you're doing, like, violence, and I get that, but maybe, you know, open your eyes. Okay, I'll try next time. It's funny you say that, because I was going to say, the shot flies wide, and then Priestess Chess has to duck to avoid getting hit by the crossbow bolt. Okay, oops.

And then question for you DMs, since I'm still so new to this. Yeah. The ability of magical tinkering...

Is that an action? Is that something I have to do not in combat? Is that a bonus action? So magical tinkering, I'm going to read what it says for everyone here. You can imbue a tiny non-magical object with a magical property of your choice. Five foot radius light, recorded message up to six seconds long, emits odor or nonverbal sound, static visual effect including up to 25 words of text.

you can affect a maximum of four objects at a time. And that is an action. And if you look at the bottom there, like on your character sheet under features and traits where it says that, there's like four little boxes you can click that denote the uses. And it says magical tinkering one action. So that would be an action to perform. Okay.

How long do they last after being imbued? I think it depends on what I imbue it with. So I imagine every long rest. So that's just kind of the summary description. The longer description says that the chosen property lasts indefinitely. Okay, so it is something that like in the morning, Doug could like prep indefinitely.

you know, up to four items to have these abilities. Yeah. If you want it, if you want it. Yes. Okay. But you can only ever have four at a time. It's not like you can make four new ones every day. So how do you undo it? I guess you use it. Yeah, you would use it if it gets expanded or if it's broken or if you just choose to like remove the effect so you can put it on another one. Okay.

We'll say like as part of your tinkering, you can also tinker with the object to disimbu it. That's not a word, but I just made it up. You can disimbu it. Disavow it. He's got disavow it. Disimbu it somewhere else. It's Mission Impossible rules. I guess since that didn't work, I'll just get a little bit closer to Natty so I can help out a little bit more. But still like not within like arm's reach of the melee. Yeah.

So you want to move like 10 feet that way you're like five feet away from them? Yeah. Okay. I feel like we should be challenging Gus more and being like, no, I want to move nine and a half feet. And he has to start keeping track of like fractions of distance. Yeah. I'm not sure what would happen, but it wouldn't be good for you. I would find a way to disincentivize that as quickly as possible. Have we not learned three campaigns that never sass Gus? Yeah.

I'll find a way. I've learned sass Gus until you get the point where Gus doesn't want to be sassed anymore and then step back just one step. Or maybe half a step or three quarters of a step. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly, Chris. You find that line and then you just take a step back. Yeah. It's like a little bonus game inside of D&D. Yeah. Okay. So is that it for your turn, Doug? That's my turn.

Okay. And I don't know, I didn't mention it at the top of this episode during the recap, but there was one other thing I felt maybe compelled to mention here. At the end of the previous episode as well, I believe you all, I made you all roll a perception check and some of you noticed that Colonel Boye was walking over to the barracks. Yeah. Thank you for that reminder. And that's not what's on, the mess hall's on fire. Correct. Mess hall's on fire. Barracks is where all the items were and stuff. All the items were, yeah. Yeah.

I thought, what's his name, took him, the drill sergeant. He took the contraband, but your foot lockers and the beds and all the other stuff is there. Drill sergeant, still, I just took your contraband. You said there was a hammer over the door. With a plaque. Wasn't that important? Didn't someone say a hammer was important? I thought one of us found some type of hammer as contraband. Yeah. Why doesn't everyone make me a wisdom check? Okay. Okay.

Oh, good roll. Seven. Three. No modifier. I plus zero. Fifteen. Sixteen. The wisest barbarian of them all. I need to get all my bad rolls out of the way. All right. Doug and Gunther, you can't quite recall exactly what the details of that were, but Tolva and Natty did roll well enough to remember that there was actually no hammer in the contraband.

I think Doug said that to Colonel Boy last episode, but that was Doug misremembering what actually happened. The hammer was actually mounted above the door in the barracks and had a plaque under it. Oh. So what was in Tol's footlocker? I had like a...

I believe it was like some sort of wrappings or something. It was like something that belonged to Steli. I think, yeah, you had said that Tolv had the hammer, but it was actually foot wraps that belonged to Drill Sergeant Steli. I could have sworn someone had some type of weapon. Gotta take better notes. I mean, I have a hammer, you know. Maybe you're mistaking me. You look at me, I have a hammer. You think, oh, hammer guy. I do look at you and think Hamill. Yeah. Stop. Stop.

It's because you nailed it. I didn't write down what our contraband was, but I did write down that the people at the Abbey of the convent are tanners. Does that give me some...

- Or maybe like hammer, tanner. - I don't know, let's move on. - All right. - Oh no, there's something there. - I'm so bad. - At this point, Doug, now that your turn is over, you also notice that Colonel Boy stops for a second at the door to the barracks and he begins like kind of scratching his head, like scratching his hair. And like slowly you see like he just rips all of his hair off of his head and it all comes off like a hair piece.

And as he does so, what you knew as Colonel Boy seems to fade away. Well, not fade away, like disappears. And instead, replacing Colonel Boy is some kind of cycloptic devil. Colonel Boy looks around with a sneer on his face, and he looks at the daemon girls that are looking at you, Natty, and you just hear one word escape his lips. Burn. And he turns and walks into the barracks. Burn.

Was it just a burp? Was he burping? Yeah, yeah. He's a little gassy. You know, brimstone and fire. No. Colonel Boy was really cool. We were all kind of suspicious with how cool he was. That dude was. He said he was a cycloptic. Yeah. So like one eye kind of thing. Correct. Colonel Boy. Oh, gosh. Now, if we're going to be dealing with like fake persons and stuff throughout this campaign, I'm not going to trust him.

I know. I thought we, like, got a good vibe on him. Did we not? Yeah. Yeah. That's funny because normally you all are so trusting of every NPC you meet. It's going to be a huge turnaround for you all. This was a big betrayal. I wanted to turn over a new leaf.

Gunther, you're up. Then after Gunther is told. Just to be clear, I didn't see Colonel Boy or hear the burn. No, but it's up to Doug whether or not he would have said something. Bye, Colonel Boy. Just turn into a cycloptic thing and say burn.

It's B-U-O-N in case you couldn't understand me saying born. Oh, I thought born like he was celebrating a birthday or something. Okay. Gunther would like to take the bucket of water he's holding and splash it on the dog that's got its head poking out. Oh, interesting. Okay. Or pour it on him. I don't know how we would do that, but make like an unarmed, like an unarmed strike or like a touch attack. Sure. One of those. I like that.

This was Bart. He'd be peeing on the door. Hey, what do you mean? 19. Yeah, that would hit. Yeah, so you take your bucket of water over. Just so I know, we're still early in this campaign, so I'm going to have questions about the characters. Yeah. When Gunther moves, does he walk or does he hop? Oh, good idea. Depends on how fast he's moving. If he's moving slow, I think he can walk. If he's dashing, I think he hops.

Cool. Okay, so in this case, he'd probably be hopping. He's got to hold the bucket. Yeah, I don't think so because he's holding the bucket. So walking. Yeah. I could hop with limbs, hold a bucket. Okay, yeah. So you walk over with the bucket and you toss it on there. Roll, let's call it a D8 for damage. Date? Five. Okay.

Yeah, you upend the bucket on top of the daemon girl's head and, you know, it very quickly starts dousing the fire and steam emanates everywhere, kind of surrounding you, the daemon girls, and Natty and rising up a bit. The daemon girl howls in pain and lashes out at you with a bite. Well, I was going to say I'm more like, you know,

Toss it like I wouldn't have gotten like right in front like within attack of opportunity. I'd love I love an after a thing Let me say let me say yeah, I like it when after thing happens you get a well from Chris That's such a classic You didn't say it in the future if you say it I'll allow it but this time I'm gonna say No, it lashes out when bites back at you

I love it. It's so good. It's so good. It's okay, Gunther. Because I know how this went down. It's Chris thought this, but Chris doesn't say everything he thinks. I miss when we were newer at D&D. And so I know Chris, like, I actually believe that Chris thought that this is what he wanted to do, but he doesn't vocalize it. So therefore Gus can't act on it. In my mind. Yeah. It was like walking up and pouring it on. All right. So it lashes out with the bite, hitting AC 17.

That's equal to mine. All right, so it hits. High AC. Yeah, you have very high AC. That is very high, geez. It clamps onto you, biting, doing eight points of damage. All right. What you gonna do? Well, I have a question. Was that my action to toss the water? Well, yeah, it's an attack, right? I don't know. To me, it was like a bucket toss, so that's what I was asking. Yeah, that would be like an attack since you made an attack roll. It's an attack action.

Okay. You have bonus actions. So the daemongrel bites at you, doing eight points of damage, and its mouth is so hot that it also burns where it latched onto you. Oh, God. Spicy tea. Doing an additional five points of fire damage. It's like the more you resist, the more hurt you get. It's like there's lessons being learned here. And it's like totally latched on, biting you, and it now has you grappled.

Oh dear. You can make a check to see if you can escape it since it is your turn right now. You can make either a strength or a dexterity check. You're giving me like reactions or something? Yeah, get out of it. Yeah, I'll do a dexterity check. Sure. Just roll me a dexterity check.

I'll do a dexterity check. Yeah, go ahead and roll me a dexterity check. Nine. And I want to give you a peek into my insight, into my thought process here, Barbara. Yeah. This is our third campaign and I frequently ask for checks and get saves and I frequently ask for saves and get checks. So that's why I say it.

over and over. He's parroting. He's parroting in order to reinforce. Yeah, reinforce. Okay, so Gunther rolls a nine, which is not, it's close, but it's not quite enough to get out. The demongrel's just like chomping down on you. What's the scale of this demongrel to our little croak folk guy?

Good question. Are you a medium-sized creature, Chris? I think I'm small. You're small? Okay, so the Demongrels are medium-sized. So it's pretty big. There's a bit of a size difference. Nice doggy. It's like when a dog gets a little frog toy in its mouth, and it's just like... That's what I'm imagining. I'm imagining that. So I want to use my maneuver, menacing attack. When you hit with a weapon attack...

You can expend one superiority die to add the total to the damage roll, and the target must make a wisdom saving throw, DC 14. On a failure, it is frightened of you until the end of your next turn. What's that called again? I want to read up on it. Menacing attack. Superiority die? Menacing. Yeah, superiority die.

So even though the bucket is not a weapon, you were using it as a weapon in this case, right? Since you were attacking with it. So yeah, we'll say, you know, it's not, I think normally it wouldn't work, but I think in this case, the way you were using it, sure, why not? It's a weapon attack. So you expend that one superiority die and add to the damage roll. Okay, so what is your superiority die? A D8? It's a D8, yeah. Okay, yeah. Go ahead and roll that. It's a five. Ooh. That's quite superior. I did not know such a dice existed. No.

Okay. And it needs to make a wisdom saving throw DC 14, correct? Mm-hmm. Its wisdom modifier is minus four. So I need an 18 or better on this. Oh, wow. You've got this in the bag, Gunther. I rolled a 16. Close, but not quite enough. That's still pretty high. Yeah. So it is now frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

I like the idea that it bites you and then goes, oh, God. Would it still be biting me?

So the way it all works, it would all happen at the same time. Its bite, just a peek behind the screen here, is a reaction, kind of like an attack of opportunity. So it kind of triggers at the same time as your thing. So it definitely bit. If it's frightened, let me see the frightened condition. It has disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls. It cannot move closer to you. I'm going to say it can hold on because it already happened at the same time, but now it has any disadvantage on any more rolls against you.

Okay. So I can't move because it's got me, right? It's got me crammed. All right. I am done. That's it for Gunther. I declare bankruptcy.

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Up next is Tolv, then Natty, then the daemongrels. Tolv, go for it. Okay, so we have the guy that's biting Gunther. Is there anybody else out right now? So there are a total of three daemongrels. Only one of them is kind of like partially emerging, and that's the one that's engaged with Gunther at the moment. There are two more you can see kind of in the hole that's been blasted open below there, but they're not fully emerged yet. Just cover the hole with your giant body.

Mr. President! Just take one for the team, yeah. It's like a grenade on the ground, just jump on it to save your team. Okay, first order of business. I am going to disengage my shield because I want to do two-handed attacks, okay? And I'm going to take my war- no. I'm going to rage. Ha ha ha ha ha!

There he goes. When you say disengage your shield, you mean like store it? Yeah. Okay, got it. Yeah. Then I'm going to rage. How again? Oh, spooky. So scary. Everyone very intimidated. And then I'm going to take my war hammer and I'm going to whack them all.

Who are you going to start with? Are you going to start with the one that's chomping on Gunther, or are you going to start with another one that has not been damaged yet? I'm going to ask this, and if you want to give me some grace, I'd appreciate it, because I'm so rusty at D&D, guys. It's been so long. If I were to attack that guy, you're not going to, like...

Gunther in the attack, right? No, no, no. You would be able to attack him without endangering Gunther. Okay, so then I'm going to attack the one that's attacking Gunther. Get him off my friend's butt. What do you say? No frog legs served in this restaurant. I rolled. Oh my god, that's a 24. Believe it or not, that's a hit. Yeah, it's a crazy hit. And then I'm going to use the bludgeoning

Oh, ciao. I was about to say this thing called Storm Aura. It's a 10-foot aura effect when you start your rage and as a bonus action on each of your turns. When activated, one creature of your choice in your aura takes lightning damage. So the way that I read this and the way this would work is I think this would happen before your attack.

So if you wanted this to hit the creature that's biting Gunther, you could. Or you could have it hit something else and then have your melee attack hit the one that is attacking Gunther. Are the other little dudes in the hole, are they in my range? Are they in my aura? If you stepped up, yes. I said they were about 15 feet away. So if you took like a five foot step and then raged, then yeah, they would all be in range.

Got it. It's one creature. Okay, then I will use my aura on the guy that's chomping on frog. Okay, so it needs to make a dexterity saving throw, DC.

And its dex check is minus one. So I need a 14 or better. Yeah. That is a 13, which is a failure. So it takes the full amount of lightning damage. Okay. So I'm going to roll my d6. It's a two. Not a lot. Yeah. You rage and like a small amount of storm clouds come in over you. Starts crackling. And Tolv asks, do you know what happens to a daemongrel when it gets struck by lightning? No.

No. For the record, canonically told. No, you know what? Yes, and. Just like everything else, it gets electrocuted, whatever Halle Berry's line was. Should use that line on Gunther. No.

That daemongrel gets zapped with electricity, seizes up and then falls over. It's flame extinguished. Gunther is no longer grappled. Which means that your attack on that one doesn't need to happen. You can target one of the other ones with that attack if you wanted to, because now you would run up and then do your warhammer attack.

Okay, and then I will whack 'em all. Yeah, and we can use that same roll you already did. That's fine. Yeah, I mean, I figured. You hit another one that's in the hole. So yeah, the one that's biting Gunther gets zapped with electricity, falls down, so then another daemon girl pops its head up ready to emerge, and just as it does, Tolf shows up to whack 'em all and hits it over the head doing four points of damage.

It'd be six because I got the plus two from the rage. You are correct. Six points of damage. I'm paying attention. All right. Is there anything else you can do there, Tolv? Has it already emerged from the hole or has it gone back down? I think its head is like popping up and that's when you hit it. Okay. It's like a diglet. Yes. I'm just going to throw this because I think it'd be a funny visual. It's not going to happen, but...

Nah, you know what? Never mind. Yeah, I'm just gonna stand at ready by that hole. Maybe, maybe a distance enough so that I can't feel like a surprise attack thing. You know, like within like five feet of it. I don't know.

I wanted to put my shield on the hole. I thought that would be funny. I mean, that might help. But I think it's too many actions. I think Gus would say no. Yeah, bonus action for the rage and then the attack. Yeah, we're getting a little much. That's fine. But yeah, you stand there at the ready. Okay. That's 12. Natty, you're up. Okay. Is the steam that came off of that one Demongrel, is it still surrounding us or is it dissipated?

It's starting to dissipate, but this is all happening very quickly at the same time, so it's still there. Okay, that's fine. Natty's standing there and is taking account of everything that's happening, and then all of a sudden, Natty's hand...

starts kind of like twitching and vibrating kind of like on its own and kind of like shaking like out from away from her a little bit and Natty takes an eye at it and goes uh oh looks like someone wants to come out to play what? out from Natty's ring pops a little creature ooh

What does it look like? What is it? Give me one second. I have to look up the name because it's a weird name. Did you not name it yourself? No, the name of the creature, type of creature. Uh-oh. We got Natty lore dropping. Yeah. Got through basic training and I'm just now meeting this little guy and or girl. Out pops out a little closet. Ooh.

Oh, did it come out of the closet? Inspiration die. Inspiration die for that one. That's so good. You can have mine.

That's the easy way to remember it now. Yeah, Natty goes, all right, all right, all right. You can have some fun. Go on. And this little creature lunges at the demongrel that Tov was fighting. Okay. I just looked up a closet and they are perfect balance of horrifying and cute. I can't explain. Actually, I should describe this little closet. I'll introduce you to him later. But he's actually...

He's actually a little shorter than a regular Quazit. He's kind of got like a little portly belly a little bit, and he's a little smaller than the typical Quazit. For those who aren't super familiar with Quazits, what's a typical Quazit size? They're like demonic looking little like gremlins. Almost look like gremlins, like the actual gremlins that the Mogwai turn into in gremlins. And that size is about appropriate? They're tiny fiends. That's what their actual designation is. And so...

And so he lets out a little scream of delight and does a claw action on the Demongrel. And I will roll for that. Does he sound like Salacious Crumb? A little bit, yeah. It looks like a cross between Salacious Crumb and the Gremlins. It does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The little guy rolls a 14 on attack. Wow.

You know what it reminds me of, Gus? Yeah, what? That episode, Treehouse of Horrors from The Simpsons, where there's like the little creature on the school bus. Yeah, that's totally what it looks like. Yeah. I got to start watching Simpsons to get all your guys' reference. When you guys talk about The Simpsons, it's like you dip into a different language and I'm like, oh, I don't know what they're talking about. Just right over my head every single time.

but it's fine i'm glad you guys have that connection rolling for damage that's a four plus three that's seven piercing damage and the target must succeed on a dc-10 constitution saving throw or take some poison damage

No, it doesn't because it's dead. Oh. I thought that was going to be like, they're immune to poise and shut up, John. Your closet emerges, lashes out at the daemongrel. And just like, I picture it's like it begins clawing at its face and just doesn't stop over and over until the daemongrel falls over or falls back into the hole, unmoving. And it's making sounds that you can only ascertain are like delight and joy. How do those sound like?

That does sound like a lot of delight.

And Natty turns to him and goes, such a good boy. Look what you did. Look what you did. That's a good little boy. Does it have a name? It does. Are we allowed to know yet? Or is that TBD? I'll introduce you after the combat. Okay. Because I want Natty to introduce it to you guys. Didn't always bring your closet to work, Dave. And that is my turn. Okay. It is now the Daymongrel's turn. There's only one of them left.

It does not like how this combat is going. Its friends have all been killed as soon as they popped their head out. This one has not popped its head out. It's going to try to run away through the underground passage. Anyone who's there in melee range can take an attack of opportunity, which would be Doug, Tolv, and Natty. And the Quazit. And the Quazit.

Wait, would I not be? I'm sorry. I said Doug. I meant Gunther. I'm still learning your names. I'm getting your names wrong. That's what I thought, but I didn't. Gunther, Tolv, and Natty. I looked at you, Chris, and I said Doug, which is obviously wrong. It's funny because you did that last one. I think you talked about it on Second Wind for last episode about how you accidentally did that. And then you just went with it. I just rolled with it. I pretended like it's what I meant. Yeah, no, it's Gunther, Tolv, and Natty.

I rolled a 14 for a warhammer. 21. Wow. Quazit did not hit. That was a nine. Okay. And then Natty can do an unarmed strike. Is that what it would be? Yeah. Or if you have a weapon you can use, you can do that too. It's up to you. I don't have a weapon. Or if you have another Quazit up your sleeve. 17 on a hit. Nice. Let's see. All of those hit. So everyone roll your damage. Eight. I need seven. One.

- It'd be 16 total if you're counting all of them up. - Look at that math go. - Thank you, Doug. - Doug with the calculations. - See what I tell you guys? No calculator needed. - And what did the closet roll to hit? - Nine, so it didn't hit. - No, that actually does hit. - Oh, it does? - Yeah. - Dang, these things ain't got nothing on them. - Yeah, go ahead and roll the damage on that.

That would be six piercing damage. So a total of 22 points of damage. 22 points. See, Doug does not need the calculator to figure that out. We already covered that. Yeah. Okay, yeah. The demongrel kind of turns around to try to run away and like all at once, the three of you in the closet all like pitted at the same time and it just explodes into bits.

and is no more. They're somehow still trying to impress Colonel Boy, who's not actually Colonel Boy. Yeah. No. Well, he still might be Colonel Boy. So we're out of combat? Yeah. At this point, you all look around at each other with, you know, a sense of satisfaction. You just, you know, handled some combat. The mess hall is still on fire, but, you know, you've at least stopped the demongrels for now. And as you look around with a sense of satisfaction, the

Cycloptic daemon walks back out from the barracks. The one who you previously knew as Colonel Boyd. Is he holding anything? Yeah, he does have something in his hand. He looks around at you four and sees, you know, the daemongrels have been dispatched. And you see in his hand he has a hammer. I told you. The daemongrels are of no matter. I have what I came for.

The claw hammer. That was a bad rhyme. You should workshop that if that was your intention. Well, that's not very nice. Why would you say that? Attack me, bro. I'm raging. Come on, you know you want to. Look at me. Hit the Tov. Come on. Enter combat. Let's go. We'll say he thinks about it. He looks at Tov and really gives it a thought.

Roll for persuasion. Yeah, make an intimidation check. Ooh. Let's see. I got a plus three to that. This could be good. 13. Yeah, his eyes fixate on you. Eye. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Ha ha ha ha.

He said "eye". His eye fixates on you. And a cloud of smoke begins crackling over your head, Toh. This is not the clouds you summoned. Make me a wisdom saving throw. Oh no. Seven. You suddenly become really frightened by this gaze and you feel like you can't hide anything.

and all your deepest, darkest secrets are laid bare before this demon, and you feel like you can only tell the truth, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. Okay, carry on. Never mind. I'll see you later. Please leave. Go.

The creature jumps forward and hits you all, wielding the hammer. Can Natty turn to the chest lady? Yeah. Is this normal? Is this like a thing he does? Priestess' chest is running away. She's trying to hide. I'm going to take that as a no. She's just sprinting for cover. The creature jumps forward. Instead of using the hammer that's in his hand, he pulls out a mallet and takes a swing at Toad with that. Aw.

All according to plan. I have a quick question while this is happening. Go ahead. So obviously like we encountered Colonel Boy or who we thought was Colonel Boy earlier. Is it clearly that like this is the same Colonel Boy that like took off his skin or whatever he did to turn into this creature? Or is there another Colonel Boy somewhere in this vicinity that we could see and someone else was disguised as him? Why don't you make me a wisdom check, Doug? A wisdom check. He didn't make you do a perception check.

You know what? I'm going to use my inspiration die already. I think it's worth it. What'd you roll? I rolled a three. Now I rolled a 15 plus three, so 18. Yeah. You think it's likely that this is an imposter. Okay. An imposter, but that there's not another boy-y-y.

Like basically I was trying to figure out if the one we were speaking to before was the real one and that it's like he's hiding somewhere. This is the same one you were talking to before. Same creature. That helps. Yeah. No, I think that's actually helpful to discern. And also based on his wording, a Colonel Boy exists.

Yes. Just not here. Yeah. Yeah. This was an imposter. Yeah. Yeah. So the demon takes a swing, rolls a 17. That's neat. Yeah. But he's got a plus with his weapon. Plus five. That's a 22. Oh, yeah. That hits. That's a good hit. He hits with his mallet doing... It's going to be bludgeoning damage. You're fine. Four points of bludgeoning damage. Bludgeoning damage.

That was so veeny of you. Would it be half of that? I'm raging right now. You cut that number in half. So go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw as well. Doug, give them the number. What's the real number? Let's see. So if my calculations are correct, four divided by two because you're waging would be... Two.

Thank you, Doug. Doug is the Vanna White of Toll's game show. Eight wisdom save. All right. You know, you think that you can shrug that off easily, but when the mallet hits you, you feel almost like it hits you metaphysically. Like you feel it damaging your soul. It hits your childhood. Oh, no. You take an additional five points of psychic damage. Oh, no.

So, it was originally four, docked down to two, plus the five, so seven. Seven, correct. Okay. I can do this all day. Oh, he sneers at that. No, Toph. And then rears back the mallet and swings at you again. Yeah, teach me a lesson. Come on, what are you going to do, big shot? We found Toph's kink.

22. Yeah, maybe that hits. I don't know. Go for it. Roll your damage. Doing four points of bludgeoning damage. So by my calculations again, that would be divided by two. It'll be two. Thank you, Doug. It's 100% the Zach Galifianakis gif of the numbers rolling around his head as he does that. And make me another wisdom saving throw.

Okay. Remember guys, I can figure it out. 16. Better. Okay, yeah, that's fine. I'll tell you what. What? He doesn't like that. He's going to force you to re-roll that wisdom saving throw. Oh my god. Did you give this guy lucky? You gave this guy lucky. You might have something like that. Wait, Gus is just smirking. Two campaigns of trolling have come to this point. Yeah.

But that's okay because I got a 17. Hey, dog, is 17 more than 16? Uh, let's see. So you take 17, you minus 16, and you get a 1. So yes, there's 1 more than 16, which means it is more. Take it. How many charges of lucky did Kyborg get? Like 3. I think, you know, on a good day, unless he, like, used them on other things. He liked to use them on dumb things just to make a point, right? Yeah. He's gonna do it. Why don't you re-roll that again? Oh, God, dog. Come on. No!

Oh, that's a not 20, dog. I don't know who's team I'm on. I don't know who's team I'm on because I do like that Blaine is thwarting this, but I also love how much Gus has like bulldog bitten into this. All right. Well, guess what? He's got one more. I know, yeah, do it. You want to do one more? One more time. Let's go for it. Come on.

I can roll one more! Yeah, you got this, Tove! Twelve! Uh-oh! Yes! Alright. That's a failure. You take an additional... All four? Yeah.

Eight points of psychic damage. Okay, so the eight plus the bludgeoning is ten damage. Booger's like up. He's like, what's going on? He has to be able to electricity in the room. I'm going to remember this. That is satisfying. I see why you do that now. Yeah, this demon looks at you, Tolv, straight in the eye, his eye, your eyes, and says, justice has been served. Oh.

Oh... You can't- what is this? Have we heard that before? And with that, he jumps into the hole that the daemon girls were in. Kulve dips his head into the hole like, "That was the lamest line! So stupid! I don't like you! We- you and I have created the opposite of a friendship! And I hate you now! And I don't use that word often, but I- I hate you!"

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Does Doug remember if we've heard that someone say that before? Make a wisdom check. I feel like Doug has a lot of very insightful questions. I'm going to be I feel like I'm already seeing a precedent. I'm going to be having Doug make a lot of wisdom checks this campaign. 17. Nice. It does not ring a bell at the moment. Doesn't sound like anything that sticks out necessarily.

Maybe just to Barbara. Was the mallet like a judge's mallet? Oh, is that? Maybe. Sawyer? Is that you? Maybe. Interesting. Could be. He did say justice has been served, so there is some type of maybe like law. I don't know. Can I roll a perception check to see if he had like a white powdered vig? He did rip.

his hair off. A wig wearing bandit. What did his hair look like? Well, before it looked like human hair, like Colonel Boy's hair. It wasn't a white powdered wig, but it was a wig of some kind. Anyway, yeah, the demon jumps into the underground caverns and then disappears from your sight.

And yeah, we're out of combat. So should we maybe finish putting this fire out, guys? Is the fire still going? Yeah, the fire's still going. The flames are burning at a constant rate. Doug just wants to grab like buckets of water and run back and forth himself. We talked about this. You want to do an assembly line again? We talked about this in the last second window. You guys went about this the most inefficient way possible. I was going to say we should get back into line.

Really inefficient bucket. And we talked about in the episode how it was you that started that idea. Just in that second when you mentioned that, the way when you do the line, you have to make four checks to get one successful bucket instead of four checks for four buckets. Anyway. I'm learning. Yes, Doug. You start getting some water and putting the, you begin putting the fire out, trying to get it under control. Maddie helps. Thank you. Yeah. Anybody else? Well, I,

Just to be clear, there's no way we're going to catch Judge, whatever his name, Cyclops. He's gone, gone. You could go into the underground passage if you want. You can try to help Doug and Natty put out the fire. You can go anywhere. You're still in the courtyard here, yeah? Yeah, you're your own man. Then I guess I would at least hop down and see how far away he is, if I could see him within that turn.

Sure. Uh, Tol, what do you want to do? Definitely don't want to go down the hole. I want to put out these fires. Okay, so you also grab a bucket and start putting out the fire. The three of you, you know, very...

Pretty quickly, you're able to get the fire under control, running back and forth with your buckets of water. Gunther, you hop down and look into the caverns. Why don't you make me, let's call it an investigation check. Nat 20. Whoa! For a 19. Nice. Yeah, you hop down and you can see that these seem to be ancient subterranean caves that are carved out. Like they're roughly hewn through the rock.

And it's very humid with steam permeating all throughout it. Yeah. It seems like you're in almost like a small passageway cavern and it kind of widens out and leads into maybe a slightly bigger room if you continue down the passageway.

Okay, but I don't see Judge Eyeball. You don't see him here. You presume there's only one way to go. You presume he continued down this passage into where it widens out. Judge Eyeball. Chris, please. It's the honorable Judge Eyeball. I hop back out. Yeah, you hop back out and you see that the rest of B team has the fire.

under control. I have to say, as dumb as it is to hop into the hole that the enemy escaped through, I do think that that's like a gunther, like, he's like stalking his prey, you know? Like, he's like a warrior. That seems pretty rad. It's very, very, uh, very brave. Yes, escape. But there is passages. Why did they build this army camp over here?

Over caves. Yeah, well like let's talk to the architect because like wow terrible decision Why would they build it here? At this point I'll say Drill Sergeant Steelye comes running up to you guys. Hey you, demon too! And he appears frustrated and flustered. He goes, "I'm gonna ignore that remark soldier!"

Where's the real Colonel Boy? What's going on here? So, let me break it down for you, Sergeant. Doug pulls up a chair, turns it around backwards, and sits in it in a wild way.

Let's wrap. Okay, so here's the thing. The real Colonel Boy, I don't think was ever here. I think the one that was here was an imposter. We saw him whip his hair and maybe his skin off and turn into this weird Cyclops guy. He also maybe got away with that hammer that...

was in the barracks. Cats are claw hammer. Yeah. You let him get away with it? So did you. Well, I think everyone here let him get away with it, technically. I mean, we're not the only soldiers here. Yeah, what were you doing, huh? Well, that's none of your business. You answer to me. I've got the stripes on my shoulders and you will address me as sergeant. That moment where Gus had to think about answering the question and then he was like, wait, I

I'm in charge. Wait a minute. You're kind of going to reverse me.

So is that hammer, is it important? That hammer is a relic from a pivotal battle of old fought in these grasslands from the Cornish Crusade. You got to say that word again. Cornish, like Cornish ham, Cornish bird? Cornish, C-O-U-R-T-E-G-E. We need subtitles when Gus is doing Sergeant Celia because Discord does not like you yelling.

Sorry. And neither does Esther. Yeah, I know. I'm sure, yeah, she's annoyed with it now. Courtage. Courtage. Cornish. It's probably pronounced the way you said it, Barbara, but my pronunciation guide, I think, says courtage. So, like, is this magic hammer, like, some sort of special, like, weapon of mass destruction? And if so, like, why were you having it hanging in, like, a door and not in, like, some cave or something? Yeah, she's

Kind of dangerous to leave it out in the open like that for anyone to just kind of grab. It's here because Fort Endridge is built on an old battleground from the Cornish Crusade. And that hammer was used by soldiers on this very battlefield where now that barrack stands. Also, this barrack stands on caves. I guess at this point he would look down and realize that there are caves down there and that there's the cave system. He would say, well, I'll be...

That must be the ancient subterranean battleground where the battle actually took place. I didn't realize it was still down there. Normally caves stay around. I don't know why you thought it was going to go away. Is that sass? Are you sassing me, Natty? Just stating geological facts. The battle was so ferocious, I thought it destroyed everything.

Okay. So how long ago was this battle? You, I'm assuming you weren't there. Oh, that battle was a hundred years ago. Your drill sergeant's old, but he's not that old. Okay. So are you familiar with this guy? He looks like a Cyclops kind of demon kind of guy. Um,

And if so, is it really bad that he took that hammer? Oh, I bet. He's an own Darian agent, probably sent by Infernus to collect that relic. I don't know who he is specifically, but I guarantee he's up to no good.

So, like, what could that hammer do? You know, like, what's, what, worst case scenario, what kind of advantage do they have now? I've never wielded a cat's claw hammer myself, but from what I understand, when a creature struck with the hammer, it causes chaos in their mind. Oh. Oh, dear. What is...

What if there's already a little bit of chaos in your mind? Then it's double. Oh, you. For you guys, that's times two. So...

I'm liking Doug. This is fun. Yeah, Doug, the mathematician, is fantastic. Nanny would be looking around to see if the priestess' chest is around at all still. I know she ran away. Yeah, she's still there. She's still kind of hiding behind some crates that came on the wagon along with the procession that she was riding on with Colonel Boy. And she arrived with the boy. Correct. Correct.

Okay. Her and Colonel Boy arrived together along with a procession of other people and supplies on the wagon and whatnot. Could I have a quick chat with her? Yeah. You walk over. Like I said, she's close to the wagon, but hiding behind some crates and some barrels. Miss Chess, I gotta ask, when did you meet up with Colonel Boy? Thank you. He picked me up at the Abbey just earlier today. Okay. So he came and picked you up? Yes. Yes.

The whole procession came from far away, and since the abbey's closed, we were the last stop before they arrived at Fort Endridge. Was he alone when he picked you up? No, we had all of this procession with us. There's like a gathering of processional people? Yeah, various soldiers and milling about. Any demon dogs? Demon dogs? No, I didn't see them until they burst out from the ground. Okay.

Can I turn to the procession people then? Sure. Yeah. There's a couple milling by nearby. Okay. They might be in disguise. Snatch their vigs. Do you have vigs?

Go around and start pulling people's hair. Villuvervix? Villuvervix? It's another good Lord of the Rings reference. Thank you. Okay, then Natty would turn to all of them and go, who's the first person that saw Colonel Boy-y? I'm just trying to figure out where the Cyclops begins and Colonel Boy ends. They all kind of look around at each other like,

questioning and shrugging and talking amongst themselves. No one seems to step forward to give you a straight answer. They all seem very passive in their responses. Okay, now I got a very important question. Are any of you demons? Go ahead, raise your hand.

And you have to tell the truth. I promise I won't be upset, okay? I just want honesty. That's all I want. Again, they all look around and start murmuring amongst each other and they all are shaking their heads. No one is verbally saying it or stepping forward to proclaim it, but they all seem confused by the question. And they're all shaking their head to claim that they're not demons. Okay, I'm going to take that as you all are claiming you're not. But I got to remind you, trust is an easy thing to break and a very hard thing to build back up, okay?

So if this is a moment where you need to rethink your answer, I'm going to give you one more chance, okay? Natty, why don't you make me a perception check? Natty's so generous. Vel said. I was a nat 20. Wow. Plus two, 22. Natty, 20. Natty, 20. Hey. You're standing by the cart close to Priestess Chess and you're addressing all of this procession of people and you think you hear sounds coming from the cart. Oh. All right. Hmm.

I go and investigate these sounds. Yeah, you lift up the tarp that's covering the tarp. You lift up the tarp that's covering the cart. There's a tart inside the cart? Yeah. There's more supplies, a box full of tarts. I love me a good tart. What kind of tart? Raspberry. Ooh. Mmm.

And it seems to you that one of the crates is shaking and you can hear like muffled sounds coming from it. Okay. Is there like a latch? Can I just open it? It's like a hammer down, like with nails, like you need to pry it open, but you can try to bust it open. You can try, you know, with your hands to pry it open. No, I'll turn to my party and go and look towards where Tolv is. Like I could use a very strong man with a big hammer right now. Oh.

that's me now he doesn't want to get her nails dirty i know this barb says having just done her nails while we're playing dnd total step up i'm also re-equipping my shield okay yeah you know speaking of shield i guess i'll kind of use it as a crowbar if it has like a sharper edge and i'll kind of whittle open the chest

Can you describe your shield a little bit for me? Is it like a big rectangular shield? Is it the kind that's like wide at the top and tapers down? Well, Tolv is, you know, as you know, kind of like a Viking. And so he has a circular shield. Ah, okay. Yeah, and it's got his crest on it. Okay.

What is that crest? Wouldn't you know it? I don't know off the top of my head. Quick. Funny enough, the crest is actually raspberry tarts. It's like three raspberry tarts and a little... Now I'm hungry. So Toad's crest is kind of like, it's a rune. So it's a... Best way to describe it is two right angles. One is like a less than symbol on one side and then a greater than symbol on the other. And they're kind of like meeting in the middle and in the negative space. It almost looks like an S.

is in between them. Yeah, you can get your shield and pry it under there. Just make me a... Let's just call it a strength check. Okay. And I'll give you advantage because you're using the shield to get leverage. Okay, great. That is... Oh, needed that advantage. That's a fun... Wow. And...

Uh, 12. The crate is hammered down pretty securely, but you're able to get a corner lifted up and you're able to peel the top off. And inside you see a gagged and restrained Colonel Boyd. Oh my goodness. Gunther does that salute with the kick up. That's amazing. That's great. I like to think that when Gunther does that kick,

He's so flexible because he's like a frog creature that his sticky foot like hits the side of his head and then stays. So he's like saluting from two sides, one with his hand, the other side with his foot. Yeah. Yeah.

That's funny. Oh, Colonel Boy, let me help you. And I'm going to take his gag off. Yeah, you remove his gag and Colonel Boy, he seems very somehow like angry and relieved at the same time. Help me out of here. Oh, yes, sir. Natty turns to all the procession and goes, none of you heard him in this crate. I'm really disappointed, y'all.

I will definitely be dealing with them. Oh. I can guarantee that. Is he in a bad mood? He is. He's cranky. Oh, he cranky. I would be too if I was stuck in a box. Probably not the same cheery Colonel Tove that we met before. Colonel Tove. Colonel Boy. Colonel Boy. Could Doug run over and try to help him out as well? Oh, thank you. I've been smelling tarts all day. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha.

No, I wouldn't say

I wouldn't say that's the worst thing you could have been smelling all day. Yeah, but smelling tarts and then not being able to eat them that entire time, I imagine that's got to be kind of torturous. Smelling farts? Tarts! I said tart! I got to give credit. That was a Micah joke. He sent it to me. I stole it right then. What happened to the imposter? Where's the magistrate? What's a magistrate? He's a devil with one eye. He captured me and put me in his box. Oh, so he is a judge-like dude. Oh, you've seen him? That was John. Oh, okay.

If you'll notice, John talks in a Californian deep voice. Dude. He said it was a magistrate? Yeah. Yeah, so like that guy was dressed as you. Very convincing. Okay, so don't get mad because I think you would have been fooled. You would have been like, what the heck is this? Some kind of a mirror? Anywho, he stole a big hammer and...

And ran away underground and started some fires, but we put out the fires. You're welcome. You stopped the fire from spreading? Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's good. And where exactly did he go underground? Hole. It went to there. The well-known battlefield caves? I saw in-person Blaine point it, so I'll assume that Toll pointed as well to the hole, and, you know, Colonel Boy's eyes follow where you're pointing and looks. Oh.

That must be the old battleground. Yeah, and he took that hammer as well that we had in the barracks, which I hear was bad news, Barracks. Yeah. Did he have any reinforcements, or was he just by himself? I don't know. He had some demongrels. Oh, demongrels.

What happened to them? We killed them. They're dead now, you know? At least three of them. Yeah. I see. But like, while you're here, you know, like because he snuck past us and he might have reinforcements, can you like look at your dudes and make sure they're not his dudes, you know? Because they were being really weird and kind of, you know, evasive to us. So maybe they'll listen to you. Could I do something real quick before he answers? Sure. So as Doug is helping him up,

I think Doug is going to just like gently tug on his hair just just to make sure it's real. Oh, my God. I fully support this. Is Doug trying to do it sneakily or like stealthily? In a way where he's like helping him. But like because he's like all big and clumsy, like maybe he accidentally like pulls on his hair a little bit as he's like lifting him. We'll call it a sleight of hand check because you're trying to like mask it as doing something else. That's how I pick up my kids, too.

Check the hair. 18. Oh, you do it and you give Colonel Boy's hair a bit of a tug stealthily and it does not seem to move. It seems to be firmly attached to his head. He kind of like yelps a little bit. Sorry, that's called the Doug tug. The Doug? I assume you're Doug? I'm Doug. Yeah, that was just I was just trying to help. Sorry, a little clumsy you. Okay. Doug bug tug. Yeah, it's part of his culture, you know.

In light of the occurrences today, I will commend you all for stopping the spread of the fire, for defeating the day mongrels, and for discovering the escape route of the magistrates.

Now, I don't think we have time for a full passing out parade, but I will say that you have proven yourselves worthy of the rank of private. Is there any chance that the sentence justice has been served? Does that ring a bell of why that magistrate would have said it?

He loves his catchphrase. What's a Colonel Boy? What is your catchphrase? Oh, my catchphrase? Well, it's a boy. Micah slacked the same thing at the exact same moment you said it. I hereby promote the four of you in brutality to the rank of private.

Congratulations. Oh, wow. Guys, we did it. Private wonder sounds good. I don't think anyone, any other team has maybe gone about getting their private in this kind of capacity, but good job team.

I'll take it. All right. Roll for high five. We'll call it a performance check. Okay. Oh, no. 17 from Natty. Also 17. I rolled a nat one. 14. That tracks. I think you all planned your high five too high and Gunther's not able to get up there. Oh.

So Gunther kind of tries to do the high five. But for you guys, it's a high five. For him, it's a high high five. Slaps Tov in the crotch. And he's not able to get all the way up there. And as he slaps Tov in the crotch, Private Lassick walks up, salutes Colonel Boyd and says, Allow me to introduce myself, sir. I'm Private Lassick.

If you'd like some actual skilled real privates to take care of this, we'd be happy to jump into the caverns and pursue the magistrate for you, sir. Wow. Natty turns to Lassik and goes, honey, you got a little something on your nose. You got a little something right there on your nose. Get him, Natty. Lassik just kind of doesn't turn his head and just turns his eyes to look at you, but tries to keep his eyes focused on Colonel Boy. Natty wets her like thumb and goes, I'll get it for you. I'll get it for you, okay? Okay.

Nani, I don't see anything on his nose, you know. I'll explain it to you later, Doug. Hey, Private Lassick, where were you when the camp was being attacked? You were, like, not here. Were you, like, doing something else in the mess hall, perhaps? A-Team was providing medical aid to the victims of the fire and the attack. Blah, blah, blah, whatever, dude. Securing the perimeter of Fort Enridge to prevent any further incursions by the enemy.

Colonel Boy sees that y'all are, you know, kind of going back and forth with each other. And he thinks for a moment and says, well, there's strength in numbers. Maybe both squads, A team and B team should be up to the task of pursuing the magistrate and returning the claw hammer. Yes, sir. Oh,

No, we got to take these guys with us. I mean, I think that's a good idea. Don't you guys? This is John. This is John saying, oh, no, we have to take these guys with us. Natty would just be like, oh, more the merrier. More the merrier. Yeah, like anyone have any like, you know, like healing potions or anything, you know, short rest, you know, magic food. I don't know. Private last success. Take all the time you want, Tolv.

A-Team will go out and scout ahead and clear the area for you. And he runs back to the rest of A-Team and they begin gathering their equipment together and proceeding down into the cavern. I sprint to the hole. I sprint. I beat them to the hole. We're going to find A-Team as like a bunch of corpses, aren't we? Do you have any peek for Burns? I've been burned. Oh, he's being free. I thought he was like setting up a big like this or something. I thought so too. No.

I was waiting for the ultimate insult. No, our poor frogman, he's actually burned. And very hurt. So no one has anything for Gunther? I'm asking for like the whole army camp, right? I mean, there's all a bunch of people around and there's a bunch of supplies. Seeing you guys discuss it, Colonel Boy watches and inquires. Which one of you is the sound medic in your squad? I probably, I guess would be me, maybe. My little closet raises his hand. Hey, what are you doing?

Well, Doug, maybe you should take care of your frog friend here and make sure he gets the medical care he needs. Could I cast Cure Wounds on Thunder? Sure. Oh, we do have a healer. I didn't know you actually had healing spells.

How much? You get 10 points of healing. Can I also get like heals? I can go to someplace else in the camp. I don't want to like burn through all of your spell slots or whatever. The little Quazit hears that and he goes over and he just like picks up dirt and starts just packing against your body. Oh, thank you, Quazit. Oh, dear. By the way, Natty, what is this little fella's name? Oh, this is my son. Oh, a baby boy? Ooh.

His whole name is a mouthful. It's actually Mr. Gigglesworth, the harbinger of the great and immortal keeper of souls, blood harvester of darkness, and generally just a good boy. Is there something perhaps for short we could call him? I just call him Gigi. Oh, Gigi. Gigi, come here. Give your uncle Tolv a hug. Oh, no. I have to roll a dice now. Oh, no. He's going to hurt you. Yeah, he attacks Tolv. Oh, no. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

I really need heals. How much damage do I take? He rolls a 19 on a claw attack. I have armor class of 19, but I guess that meets, so you still get the attack. Yeah, and he does five points of piercing damage. All right, so now we know. Consent, you know. Toph, that means he likes you. Great. So happy.

Do we have time for a little bit of a short rest or something? Giggy looks tired. But we're in pursuit. We're in pursuit, right? Well, they're going to go scout ahead. So we're letting them do that? Oh, yeah. A-Team's already in the cavern. So if you guys want to take a short rest, that's up to you. I think, I mean, let's take advantage of this. You know, A-Team wants to really prove something. So, you know, let's let them scout ahead for us. Yeah, sure.

Short rest. Yeah. Where do you all want to do that? Do you want to go do that in the barracks out here by the hole? I say in the barracks. We do have beds in there. In the barracks. I just got infiltrated, y'all. Yeah, you walk back into the barracks and the hammer that was hanging above the door is gone. But yeah, you can go in there and unwind. Is anything else missing? Make an investigation check. 17. You look around and it doesn't seem like anything else is missing. Okay.

Time to, uh, I guess call it a day. Oh, we're taking a long rest? I mean... Take a little nap. I don't know. I only need a little one. Yeah. What do we have time for? However much time we want to take. It's up to us. I thought y'all were taking a short rest. I mean, you tell me. I thought short rest. Take a short rest.

Do a short rest. All right. Yeah. All of you can take a short rest. I don't need it. I don't take it. I guess like spell slots aren't, it's less long rest, right? Depends on your class, but yes. Or if we find magic food.

As you all are taking your rest, Drill Sergeant Steel Eye bursts into the barracks. Why are you guys sleeping on the job? Oh no. A-Team's already ahead of you! You've been given a mission by Colonel Boy! Go! How do we snooze this alarm clock? You accidentally hit him on the head. Did he do this before or after our teammates get the effects of a short rest? After the effects of a short rest. Okay.

Uh, sorry, uh, Colonel. We were just, uh, really making sure we were mentally and physically prepared. Go! Yeah. Because, you know, sleep is the most important part of your health. We were debriefing about the, you know, last engagement with the amenemy encounter. Amenemy. Yeah, that's exactly... Amenemy. Cole said it exactly like that. Ha ha ha ha ha.

All right, let's go. All right, let's get, yeah, giddy up and go. Natty reaches over and attaches the little leash that she keeps on the harness of Gigi and takes him out of the barracks. Do you need to ever walk Gigi or? That's what we're doing right now. Oh, okay, okay. He's getting his energy out. He's getting his steps in. Yeah. Okay, yeah, you all walk out with the leash, Gigi, and.

And walk over to the hole that Natty blasted into the ground. What order do y'all want to hop down there in? I'll take lead. Oh, I was going to say, I'm the barbarian. I can do that if you want. But yeah, go ahead. It seems like Gigi's probably going to get their scent or something. All right, who's after Natty? I'll go next. Gunther? All right. I'll be last. I'll go third. I just don't want anybody, like, if I get stuck, I don't want anyone getting stuck behind me. Oh, because of your size? Yeah. I gotcha.

You all hop down, and it's, you know, Gunther, it's just like you saw before, where it's kind of a small chasm here that then widens out into what appears to be a large room at the other end. As you get closer, stifling steam wafts from a vent in the floor of this cavernous chamber. But what stands out the most to you is the sound of water dripping down the metal bars of six iron cells. ♪♪

Oh, like prison cells? Maybe we can answer that question in the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. I don't like that. I don't like that cliffhanger. We should more be like, like, will the steam affect Natty Wonder's hair? Find out next week. Will the steam affect Natty Wonder's hair? Find out next week. I can't wait to tune in.

Very spooky. Is Gigi going to catch the scent? What of 18? Yeah. Yeah. Same time. When do we find their bodies? Find out on the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Goodbye. So long. Farewell. Auf Wiedersehen. Auf Wiedersehen. Listen to this. Elga Bait Collection is releasing October 25th.

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Hey guys, just Doug here on the ones and twos. Just taking a little break here with Gustavo and the Wings. Does Doug want to be a podcaster? He does, yeah. I like to think he has like a morning show that he pretends to do as well. Good mornings with Doug. Good morning from Doug. We're here out in the field. Just finished battling some pretty spooky guys. Gus really had Blaine, you know,

run for his money with those luckies got really hairy yeah so um at this point sorry scrolling i'm trying to get everything done so i don't have to like get halfway through this and then for sure take a pause and start talking again let me know if you need any help with the math gustavo thank you that is uh four extra bonus uh inspiration dive for no get out of here doug