Geodepolitics (w/ Becca Scott) | Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode | Episode 16

Summary

Podcast Summary: Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry – "Geodepolitics" (Episode 16, Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode)

Introduction

Welcome to "Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry," Geek & Sundry’s acclaimed actual play podcast that brings tabletop role-playing games to life through improvised storytelling across diverse multiverses. In the current season, Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode, episode 16 titled "Geodepolitics", the narrative centers around three goblin minions who, in the absence of their ominous necromancer master Unzuog, find themselves navigating newfound authority and the complexities of leadership within their realm.

Setting the Scene

The episode opens in the bustling Goblin swamp of Meyerfen, following the conclusion of the Goblin Hero Challenge. Tippi, portrayed by Jason Nguyen, emerges victorious, earning accolades and rewards from the elder judge, Glomgen Moss Pronk. The atmosphere is electric with celebration as goblins cheer and lift their champion into the air.

Key Plot Points

1. Tippi’s Triumph and Rewards [03:00 - 20:43]

   • Victory Announcement: As Unzuog announces Tippi as the winner, Tippi grapples with the sudden recognition. "Tippi, you won. It's you," Danielle Radford’s character, Busy, exclaims, embracing Tippi and igniting a heartfelt moment.

   • Reward Presentation: Unzuog presents Tippi with a mysterious scope and a wolf's head crown, bestowing magical enhancements. Tippi’s speech highlights teamwork, saying, "I did it with two of my best friends in the whole wide world. Busy and Fibs."

   • Interaction with Unzuog: Tippi addresses Unzuog, expressing gratitude and curiosity: "My dark lord, King of the Void, Master of the dead. Where were you?" Unzuog responds earnestly, emphasizing his role in their quests and hinting at larger cosmic responsibilities.

2. Meeting Crandall and Wendt Cudgegloom [21:03 - 35:22]

   • Crandall’s Intervention: As Unzuog departs, Crandall Greckleworth, portrayed by Amy Vorpahl, joins the scene, expressing urgency for a meeting. "You've done well," Crandall praises, while bestowing additional gold as a token of appreciation.

   • Introduction to Wendt Cudgegloom: Wendt, the brother-in-law of Gwent Fummicrust, offers further rewards and mentions future collaborations, reinforcing the interconnectedness of goblin politics and alliances.

3. Journey to Fitfetteddelve [35:22 - 73:13]

   • Invitation to the Palace: Unzuog invites Tippi and his allies to his pocket dimension palace, initiating their journey to Fitfetteddelve, a dwarven gem mine steeped in ancient magic and lore.

   • Encounter with Berygnius Burfist [54:55 - 70:52]: Upon arrival, the group meets Berygnius Burfist, a Runeshaper, who offers tours and shares a controversial theory about the isolation of Fitfetteddelve. "More powerful beings walking through these caverns would supercharge this place," Berygnius posits, hinting at a hidden agenda to revitalize the mine's magical prowess.

4. Exploration of the Ritual Room and Cliffhanger [73:13 - 75:00]

   • Ritual Room Discovery: Driven by curiosity and the promise of uncovering the mine's secrets, the trio, alongside Berygnius, ventures into the long-abandoned Ritual Room. The chamber is described as vast and ominous, filled with decaying remnants and a looming mound of flesh monsters.

   • Cliffhanger Ending: As they delve deeper, tension mounts with the emergence of numerous flesh monsters, culminating in a suspenseful moment where the goblins face overwhelming odds. The episode concludes on this gripping cliffhanger, setting the stage for future confrontations. "You hear smacking sounds... it's hundreds of eyes staring at you," narrates Danielle Radford.

Notable Quotes

• Tippi's Reflection on Victory [05:07]:

  "Are you sure you didn't win?"

• Tippi’s Heartfelt Speech [19:01]:

  "I never thought I could be up here with a wolf hat and a cool scope. But just know that I didn't do it alone. Busy and Fibs."

• Crandall on the Dynasty [22:05]:

  "You should have been told that many times throughout your life."

• Berygnius Burfist's Revelation [66:05]:

  "More and more often, beings and creatures of evil and darkness are moving towards the sanctity here. I call it isolation."

• Cliffhanger Tease [75:00]:

  "At this gruesome sight, that is where we will end this episode of Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode."

Character Development

• Tippi (Jason Nguyen): From a playful competitor, Tippi evolves into a heroic figure grappling with leadership and his burgeoning responsibilities. His interactions reflect growth and the weight of newfound power.

• Busy (Danielle Radford): Busy remains the steadfast support, showcasing versatility as both a bard and rogue. Her strategic thinking and emotional intelligence are pivotal in navigating complex situations.

• Fibs (Dan Casey): As the skeleton wizard, Fibs provides both comic relief and magical prowess, contributing significantly to the team’s successes and facing his own transformations.

Conclusion

"Geodepolitics" masterfully intertwines goblin merriment with dark, political intrigue, setting up a multifaceted narrative that explores leadership, loyalty, and the enigmatic forces shaping their world. The episode's abrupt ending leaves listeners eager for the next installment, anticipating the heroes' confrontation with the flesh monsters and the deeper mysteries of Fitfetteddelve.

Stay tuned for the next episode of Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode, where our champions may encounter fiendish foes and uncover more about the intricate geopolics of their realm.

Transcript

[Amy Vorpahl]

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[Dan Casey]

I can say to my new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, hey, find a keto.

[Danielle Radford]

Friendly restaurant nearby and text it to Beth and Steve.

[Dan Casey]

And it does without me lifting a.

[Danielle Radford]

Finger so I can get in more.

[Dan Casey]

Squats anywhere I can.

[Danielle Radford]

1, 2, 3.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Will that be cash or credit?

[Jason Nguyen]

Credit.

[Amy Vorpahl]

4 Galaxy S25 Ultra, the AI companion that does the heavy lifting.

[Jason Nguyen]

So you can do. You get [e-mail] compatible with select apps.

[Danielle Radford]

Requires Google Gemini account.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Results may vary based on input.

[Danielle Radford]

Check responses for accuracy. Hello everyone, and welcome back to Sagas of Sundry Goblin Mode. I am your dungeon master, Amy Vorpahl, and with me, as always, are your Minions of Mayhem, your favorite terror squad.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Hi, I'm Dan Casey and I play Fibs, a skeleton wizard who's a big old fan of Unzoog.

[Becca Sky]

I'm Danielle Radford. I play Busy, a skeleton bard slash rogue multiclass for the win. Who is the biggest fan of Unzuk? Like, maybe too big.

[Amy Vorpahl]

That's fair. That's fair.

[Becca Sky]

Way too big.

[Jason Nguyen]

Hey, I'm Jason Nguyen. I play Tippy, a Goblin artificer who is now the Goblin Games champion. So, you know.

[Danielle Radford]

Ooh, okay, some big superlatives in those intros. So, with all of that said, it is now time to part the veil of reality, and we are no longer in a place that looks way bigger on camera than it is in real life. We are actually in Meyerfen at the culmination of the Goblin Hero Challenge with the winner in hand. And this is a dirty, swampy, muddy, joyous, and safe Goblin swamp for all Goblinkind. It has just ended, this Goblin Hero Challenge, and there are some goblins who are left behind who definitely need some attendance, who definitely need some help and maybe some resurrection, and maybe all that's left of them is their nose.

[Jason Nguyen]

They're all okay, right?

[Danielle Radford]

They're all okay. They're all okay. We have nothing to worry about for Mudja Bhamfra. Nothing. Nothing.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, perfect. She says that, but he's very.

[Jason Nguyen]

We did bad things to Mudja.

[Becca Sky]

Super vaporized.

[Danielle Radford]

I'm glad we remember that. Okay, but where we stand now is Tippi. You are on the muddy floor of the arena, standing in front of the stands, and you're with Pakara, arguable love interest, as well as Yonk Jagger.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, no.

[Danielle Radford]

And Nurgherfladurg.

[Jason Nguyen]

I rocked him.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, four Goblins stand in the middle of this arena, facing up where Unzoog has just appeared, and read off Tippi Terror Squad's name as the winner of the Goblin Games. Off to the side near Tippi, for sure. In the crowd and witnessing your friend's revelatory moment, are our two skeletons busy in fibs. And. And you also very clearly can see Unzuk standing next to Glomgen Glomgen Moss.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Moss Pronk.

[Jason Nguyen]

Moss Pronk.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Judge Glomgen Moss Pronk the elder judge.

[Becca Sky]

The honorable.

[Jason Nguyen]

The honorable.

[Danielle Radford]

The honorable Judge Glomgen Mosspronk standing next to Unzug, who is also sandwiched by Crandall P. Greckleworth. Damn it.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Crandall.

[Danielle Radford]

As he appears and reads off Tippi's name as the winner. Describe your feelings. I just want to know where you're at.

[Jason Nguyen]

Well, Tippi can't believe it. You know, he was so focused on just making sure Picaro is safe and also literally just maybe just having a little bit of fun and getting lost making a dungeon with his two best friends that he forgot there was a challenge to be had. So he's like, Awad. He's, like, asking people around, like, oh, wait, did they say my name? Or was that, like, the reject list?

[Danielle Radford]

Tibby, you won. You won. It's you.

[Becca Sky]

Are you sure you didn't win?

[Jason Nguyen]

Because you were kicking ass with me.

[Danielle Radford]

Tibby, you won. And she takes you in an embrace and kisses your cheek and is just like, tibi, I'm so proud of you. And, you know, we were a great team out there.

[Jason Nguyen]

The hardest a Goblin could ever blush is happening right now. I'm blushing.

[Danielle Radford]

Does he need to make a wisdom saving?

[Jason Nguyen]

I need to make a wisdom saving.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Is he still a werebird, though? Cause he birded out during the day.

[Jason Nguyen]

He still birded out, right? Did that go away? Did it wear off?

[Danielle Radford]

It would have been up to you. We were so into the dungeon. I don't know. Were you aware of in the elation.

[Jason Nguyen]

Of me blasting, I may have resumed my goblin form.

[Danielle Radford]

Resumed a goblin form.

[Jason Nguyen]

So I will roll a wisdom.

[Amy Vorpahl]

That usually happens during the elation.

[Jason Nguyen]

Getting a kiss from my biggest crush of all time. I'm gonna roll a wisdom. And that's a three. That's a three.

[Danielle Radford]

A three.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. So you pry and you turn into your were swallow with the wings coming out of your head. She's still got her goblin lips on your cheek. And she goes, oh, don't mind. And she turns right into a were marmot herself on purpose. And you look like a couple of freaks out there.

[Jason Nguyen]

Can you describe what she looks like? Cause I know what I look like.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes, a were marmot. So if you remember, a marmot is basically like a weird rodent that looks like a chubby squirrel. And she just grows a little snout, some buck teeth, two of them at the front. Big glassy eyes, extremely rodent like, and just furry cheeks. Everything, everything, everything begins to be covered in floofy fur. Really, really adorable, actually.

[Jason Nguyen]

So Tippi was covering his eyes with his own ear wings. And so he kind of unfurls them and he goes, you don't care that I look like this?

[Danielle Radford]

You have to understand, I've been around these lycanthropes for three years now. And I'm one of you too. So no, all things equal, I don't care.

[Jason Nguyen]

Cause I don't mind how you look. I kind of like it. And apparently this changes my voice.

[Danielle Radford]

I don't know where you learned how to talk to women, but you know how to do it better in this form than you do in a goblin form.

[Dan Casey]

Wow.

[Jason Nguyen]

Thanks. I'm a werebird. Goblin champion.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, so. Okay, so he's just having his moment. Actually, as far as Unzug appearing, you're just overwhelmed. You're more concerned with this thing that's way more personal to me.

[Jason Nguyen]

And Unzug's far. Is he far, far off? Like, how far is he? Can we see him or is that a. Oh, absolutely.

[Danielle Radford]

No, no. There's no nosebleeds. It's really goblin built stadium seating. So I would say think of a five Year old soccer tournament stand.

[Jason Nguyen]

Got it.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. Got it. He's pretty much right there. He's within reach.

[Jason Nguyen]

I think Tippi is so just enamored by Pokara and that he's won. He can't believe it. I don't think he's noticing too much.

[Danielle Radford]

I don't think so either. Yeah. He got a smooch and he's a were bird. Yeah. There's a lot going on with Tippi. But as far as our skeletons, you've met your maker. Or you at least can finally see your maker.

[Becca Sky]

Busy starts looking for her blanket, like, immediately. She's looking for her sheet.

[Danielle Radford]

The bed sheet.

[Becca Sky]

Busy's like, grabbing her bed sheet. And she, like, looks at it, looks up at Undouk. Looks at it, looks up at Undoug. Fibs, buddy. Pal. Do you.

[Amy Vorpahl]

That's him.

[Becca Sky]

That's him.

[Amy Vorpahl]

He's here. No way.

[Becca Sky]

Do you think he wants us back?

[Amy Vorpahl]

I guess. Why else would he be here, right?

[Becca Sky]

He came for us. And then also to get his sheep back. There's no other reason for him to be here right in this moment. We could probably just go up to him and say, I bet he'd be so excited to see us.

[Amy Vorpahl]

More excited to see us than Crandall.

[Becca Sky]

More excited. No one's excited to see Crandall.

[Danielle Radford]

You actually see that Crandall has pulled him close and is whispering in his ear and actually pointing at. At Tippi and pointing actually at you.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh my God.

[Danielle Radford]

And Unzoog like, looks over and if you're looking at him. Yeah. He makes eye contact and he gives you a wink and like, goes back to whispering to Cram Sibs.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Jawbone falls off.

[Becca Sky]

Busy is a pile of bones. Just a second.

[Danielle Radford]

Pile of bones. Amazing.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

You turn into a pile of bones. And that's just as well because there's been this silence, this gasp of recognition and revelation. And all of a sudden it breaks. And the entire goblin community just floods the arena. And people are lifting you up into the air. Goblins watch the wings. Yeah. Are lifting you up. Someone has also lifted Pekara up. And Yonk and. Who's the other one? Nurg, Hurflederg, Herfladurg. All of these goblins being lifted up into the air. And it is a huge moment of victory. Tippi, you see your adoptive brother and sister off to the side. Juck and Tog. You actually see Lump, your father full of piercings and tattoos and drool and spit and sharp teeth. And he starts whomping on him. But you're torn away as you're just, like, trounced and carried through the crowd. Before you go, Lump has an eye out on you. Unzu clocks you, too. If you're looking up at him, he sees you. He's making out the skeletons in the crowd. He actually has an enormous smile on his face. He looks genuinely happy. And, yeah, you're carried around for a.

[Jason Nguyen]

Little while in this mania of being lifted up. I look around for my trusty bannerman in Yellerhauler. I go, guys, Busy. Fibs, they're going crazy over here. Where are you guys?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Fibs picks his jawbone up off the ground and snaps it back into place.

[Jason Nguyen]

Hey, he's over.

[Amy Vorpahl]

He's over. We should go. We should go after him. We should go after Hippie.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah.

[Becca Sky]

Busy. Puts herself together. Head rolls up, snaps into place. Yeah, let's go. Let's go. And starts walking over to where Tippi is. See, we told y'all. Who told y'all? We told y'all. Some of y'all are looking a little funny right now. Some of y'all said our boy couldn't do it. Haters to the left. Haters to the left.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Fibs moves to the right.

[Danielle Radford]

Perfect. Okay. It's a grand celebration and super soon enough, you hear a war horn being blown. As Glomgen Mosskronk says, well, everyone, calm down, calm down. We do have to give the reward. And everyone calms down, and you're set back down. And the stadium parts ways so you can climb up to Glomgen and Undzugenkrandl.

[Jason Nguyen]

I walk back over to Fibs and Busy. I'm like, guys, I couldn't have done this without you. Will you walk up there with me?

[Becca Sky]

Sure, if you want to. But I just want you to know from the bottom, the bottom of my spine, like, you did this mostly on your own. This took so much less cheating than I thought it was going to. I thought it was gonna take so much cheating.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I was prepared to cheat so hard.

[Becca Sky]

I was gonna cheat so hard for you. And then it was hard.

[Jason Nguyen]

I was gonna cheat, too.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah.

[Becca Sky]

And then it mostly wasn't necessary because you are just. You are just that good.

[Jason Nguyen]

I did grease the floor so that everybody would slip in the beginning. I don't know if that's cheating or not.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You did kill a lot of people.

[Jason Nguyen]

Well, they were healed, right? They were healed, yeah. That's why it was blasted, because I knew they were gonna get healed.

[Amy Vorpahl]

They wouldn't lie about something like that.

[Jason Nguyen]

Not something that important because we did some terrible things to them.

[Danielle Radford]

In that day. And Picara's nearby, and she gives you, like, a punch on the shoulder and goes, go up there and get your thing.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, Come on, guys. Let's do this. Okay, but look, let's try to look her relic. No, let's try to look terrible. Terror.

[Becca Sky]

All right, you're the winner. If you want us to look terror, that's what we're gonna do. And Bizzy puts her hands up, almost into claws. Just goes, grr. Scary, gir. I'm big scary.

[Jason Nguyen]

So as they're doing that, flanking me on the sides, trying to scare people, Tippi is walking up with a swagger that doesn't quite. You know what I mean? He's kind of walking to.

[Danielle Radford]

And are you a wereswallow, or have you goblind back?

[Jason Nguyen]

I goblin back. Have I goblin back? You tell me.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah, you goblin back. I have goblin back.

[Jason Nguyen]

I have goblin back. I can't have Unzuk seeing me as a were bird.

[Danielle Radford]

I mean, he's seen it.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It's too late. He's seen it.

[Jason Nguyen]

I'm gonna pretend he hasn't.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

So I walk up there. I walk up there, big old swag swinging my arms left and right like I'm about to start an MMA champion.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah, perfect. Perfect. And you've got your skeleton friends behind you. What you're walking up to is just a beaming Unzu. And remember, he's decked out in his black and red robes, his human skull pauldrons. He's got his python staff and exquisite facial hair, as well as a white stripe in his dark black.

[Jason Nguyen]

That's crazy. They got an Unzuk impersonator for this boss.

[Danielle Radford]

That's insane.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah, no expense spared, I think. Should we tell him or should we?

[Jason Nguyen]

Wow, he looks just like Unzu. Oh, it's probably, like, disguised self. Cause you guys are so good at that. Somebody's probably doing that.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It's. That's him.

[Becca Sky]

Busy. Busy shoves the blanket under his nose. And then. It smells like him.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, it does.

[Danielle Radford]

It is my greatest honor.

[Jason Nguyen]

Unzuk Tippy. Immediately, all the swagger he had just dissipates. And it's just pure fear. Unsure what's gonna happen next. And he hides behind Busy.

[Becca Sky]

Her bones come apart and then go around him and back around, where she begins propping him up and is now essentially holding him up like a puppet. Like, he has fantastic posture. He might be kind of hanging off of her a little bit, but she's, like, holding him up to get him to look like he's back in swagger. Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

Are you going to allow this to happen? Yeah. Yes. Okay. You do. Then let's see how successful you actually are. This is gonna be performance with advantage since Tippy's helping you.

[Becca Sky]

Oh, fantastic. So that is going to be a 21.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, beautiful.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. Thank God you are able to scurry behind. Busy. But it looks as though you just had a plan. So you were just gonna come out like, oh, okay. So now I'm gonna be who I actually am. And even though Bizzy's puppeting you, it looks just like you walk with the extreme confidence. Chest puffed out even more than before. And Unzoog says, it is my greatest honor to present the Goblin Hero Award to Tippi Terror Squad. And I have a story for all of you Goblins. As it turns out, Crandall has just told me that Tippi's from my dungeon. Can you believe it? I had every chance to work with this young Goblin, but I had nothing to do with the win. I really didn't. I just read the piece of paper. But it's just one of those things, you know, just a fun story to tell you. And everyone's, like, chuckling and going, oh, yeah, of course. So true. Yeah, so true. And he says, so, Tippy, I have this for you as a reward. He holds out. It looks just like a round cylinder, but he says, this is a scope.

[Jason Nguyen]

For your pistol, my lord. Darkest of all lords, the evilest of Zeus.

[Danielle Radford]

Stand.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

Stand, goblin.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

Today is your day.

[Jason Nguyen]

Thank you. Thank you, great dark lord Unzoog. And I grab the scope.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes. You take it from him. And the only thing really that you notice is that his hands are pretty cold.

[Jason Nguyen]

Unzoog, would you like a hand warmer? I could build you one of these. We haven't talked in a while. Okay. Okay. I'm looking at the ground, not looking at your eyes.

[Danielle Radford]

And the other presentation. And he gestures to Glomgon. And Glomgon picks up a wolf's head that still has the fur on it, just the top of it, not the lower jaw. And he places it on your head. And Glomgen says, this is our Goblin hero crown. The head of a wolf. Don't worry, you'll grow into it.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, it's huge.

[Danielle Radford]

Or you're tiny.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, okay. I'm just glad he didn't call me a baby. But I'll take tidy for those.

[Danielle Radford]

Just so you know, the scope adds plus one to attack and damage rolls. It's a plus one scope for your pistol. And when you are actively Using the scope on a DC16 perception check versus one creature as a bonus action, you can find out a creature's armor class. Oh, and. Or weakness. And. Or Ask me a secret.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, okay. Amazing.

[Amy Vorpahl]

When's the last time they cried?

[Jason Nguyen]

They like me.

[Danielle Radford]

And then the crown of the wolf's head. If you wear it, you have advantage on intelligence, wisdom and charisma saving throws.

[Becca Sky]

Oh, damn.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You thought this was a gross hat.

[Danielle Radford]

It is gross. It also is pretty effective.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

You also have resistance to psychic damage. Wow. Which means any psychic damage will be halved.

[Jason Nguyen]

Thank you, Eunjug. And thank you, honorable Judge Globgood.

[Danielle Radford]

Speech. Speech.

[Jason Nguyen]

Speech. Speech.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Speech.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, God.

[Becca Sky]

Speech.

[Danielle Radford]

Speech.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, God. I turn to address the crowd.

[Amy Vorpahl]

My fellow goblins, I cast prestidigitation. So his voice starts booming.

[Danielle Radford]

Yay.

[Jason Nguyen]

My fellow goblins, please know that I'm no champion. I'm no hero. I'm just a. I'm just a goblin like you. You guys don't know this, but I worked for Unzoog's lair.

[Danielle Radford]

Unzug? Unzoog.

[Becca Sky]

No, no, we do.

[Danielle Radford]

He just told us.

[Jason Nguyen]

I know, I know. I'm not good at this. I'm not good at this, but hear me out. When I started at Unzug's lair, I was just a guy making traps and honestly, just trying to fit in and talk to my friend Maxwell, who you guys would love it. Anyways, I never thought I could be a champion. I never thought I could be up here with a wolf hat and a cool scope. But just know that I didn't do it alone. I did it with two of my best friends in the whole wide world. Busy and fibs. And if everybody could give them a hand, I would appreciate it. Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

The crowd goes wild. You hear shouts of fizz, shouts for busy. And of course, shouts for Tippy. And Unzoog leans down, gives you a nod of approval and shakes your hand.

[Jason Nguyen]

I shakily go and shake his hand.

[Danielle Radford]

And he says, good job. Good job, Tippi. Terror Quest. What? That's your name? Tippi. To be Terror Quest.

[Jason Nguyen]

Good job, you said yes.

[Danielle Radford]

Well done. Now go celebrate.

[Jason Nguyen]

My dark lord said good job to me. That's crazy.

[Danielle Radford]

And he looks at the rest of. He's like in a zone. So he looks over at you and says, when you are finished celebrating, I'd like for you three to join me in my palanquin.

[Jason Nguyen]

He said, good job.

[Danielle Radford]

And he looks over. He points off in the distance where there's a really ornate black palanquin.

[Becca Sky]

Should I make an agenda for the meeting number one.

[Danielle Radford]

Catch up.

[Becca Sky]

Catch up.

[Danielle Radford]

I'm going to ask you some questions about your journey.

[Becca Sky]

Unload and talk about.

[Danielle Radford]

Anyway, that looks like an amazing agenda.

[Jason Nguyen]

Tippy snaps out of this weird little trance he had just put himself in and turns to address Unzug. And he bows deeply and goes. My dark lord. King of the Void, Master of the. Did I already say dark?

[Danielle Radford]

The dead. Master of the dead.

[Jason Nguyen]

Master of the dead. May I just ask a simple question from a humble goblin? Where were you?

[Danielle Radford]

That will be covered in the agenda of Catch up.

[Jason Nguyen]

Well then, can I do a new question? Because you're gonna answer that anyways.

[Danielle Radford]

Yep.

[Jason Nguyen]

When you said good job, did you mean it?

[Danielle Radford]

Roll an insight check.

[Jason Nguyen]

Ah, that's gonna be a 19.

[Danielle Radford]

You think he's earnest. You absolutely think he's earnest. And he looks at you and says. I don't know what you think goblin have been through and who your family or what your upbringing was, but you should have been told that many times throughout your life.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh wow. Unzuk is the best.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, so he's gonna at that. He's going to climb down and shake some goblins hands and move away to the palanquin. And Crandall's going to go with him and says no. Don't make him wait too long.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, obviously. Crandall.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, Crandall.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah.

[Becca Sky]

We're gonna catch up with undo. Crandall.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah.

[Jason Nguyen]

Crandall. We've got a catch up. Crandall. Do you?

[Danielle Radford]

No, that's just a way of doing things. Even though he shook your hand?

[Jason Nguyen]

He didn't just shake my hand. He said good job.

[Danielle Radford]

Amen. I knew. But just because that doesn't mean that you are of a station.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It looks like he's getting ahead of.

[Danielle Radford]

You, so you might want to catch up. Crandall. Five minutes. Five minutes. You see him run off and he's got just the quirk of a smile on his lips. Wendt comes up and hands you 2,000 gold pieces.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Let's go.

[Danielle Radford]

Wendt comes up and hands you 2,000 gold pieces.

[Jason Nguyen]

More gold.

[Danielle Radford]

And he says it's so heavy. Well, you got it right, didn't you?

[Amy Vorpahl]

I told you, Wendt. I knew what I was doing. And I definitely understand the value of money. So for your troubles, here's 100 gold.

[Danielle Radford]

You're tipping the house, Arya. Well, we won't say no to that. Now you know who to come to whenever you need mushroom or just some general.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, you better believe I did fibs. Who is this guy?

[Amy Vorpahl]

This is Wendt Cudgegloom. He's the brother in law to Gwent Fummichrust.

[Danielle Radford]

We're real brothers. But I married into the Kudjglam.

[Amy Vorpahl]

He's the brother of Gwent Fummicrust.

[Jason Nguyen]

Your maiden name would be Fummicrust?

[Danielle Radford]

Matrilineal. No, because also, Gwent married into the funny.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, okay, right. You're so.

[Amy Vorpahl]

So what would your matrilineal family name be before it was funny crust and pudge glue?

[Jason Nguyen]

Please. I would like to know.

[Becca Sky]

Just want to know who your people are.

[Jason Nguyen]

You know, we just. It's a respect thing for us.

[Danielle Radford]

You know, we know first and last, it's Pard Formk. Pard Formk.

[Jason Nguyen]

Was that a K at the end of that?

[Danielle Radford]

A P K? A P K. An mpk.

[Jason Nguyen]

Mpk.

[Danielle Radford]

It's Pard Pard.

[Jason Nguyen]

Pard.

[Danielle Radford]

Pard Formk. Pard Formk part four. All right, well, it's been an honor, and I'll go away from this one, Rich bookie. Okay. Is there anything else y'all would like to do before heading to Unzuk? Ooh, the Goblins are making merry. The band is playing, people are dancing.

[Jason Nguyen]

When is our appointment with Unzu? Like, can we sleep? Can we rest before we meet?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Did he say five minutes?

[Jason Nguyen]

That's my bad. Did he say five minutes?

[Danielle Radford]

Crandall was like, yeah, five minutes.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, can't sleep.

[Becca Sky]

So, I mean, unless you want to talk to Pekara again before we go. That's busy saying that, not Danielle.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, let's go talk to Picara.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah, I want to go. Pekara did such a good job. I want to let her know.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, so Pekara's hanging out with Plixie and Thug and Thug.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And they're just circles, man.

[Danielle Radford]

And the girls are attracting a lot of attention, especially after Pokara's very, very good Humbaba.

[Becca Sky]

Damn. Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

But you're able to squeeze in and she just looks up and goes, oh, it's Tippy. Hi. Great job. I'm so proud of you.

[Jason Nguyen]

I'm proud of you, too. When you were up there on the Frog behemoth, it really felt like. I don't know, you really knew what you were doing.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah, no, I knew us together. We were great. We were great.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, we were a great team.

[Danielle Radford]

I think so, too.

[Jason Nguyen]

A great partnership, maybe.

[Danielle Radford]

I know.

[Jason Nguyen]

A great coupling.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes, Tibby.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yes.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

So what are you gonna do about it, Mr. Winner?

[Jason Nguyen]

Ah, well, how about. How about I do a sidebar? Can I do a sidebar real quick?

[Becca Sky]

Sorry, we're just gonna Do a sidebar really quick. Really back you. Hi.

[Jason Nguyen]

I wanna ask her out, but I feel like I'm gonna puke.

[Becca Sky]

If you want me to, I can do it for you. I'll do the voiceover. Move the mouth.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yes.

[Becca Sky]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

Hi, Pakara. Hi, Pekara.

[Becca Sky]

Hi, Pekara. Don't look at me. Look at. Hi, Pekara. I just wanted to say my name's Tippi. And you know, Pekara, I. Tippi.

[Danielle Radford]

This is so sad.

[Jason Nguyen]

What?

[Danielle Radford]

This is so sad.

[Jason Nguyen]

What? I just. Okay. Why is it sad?

[Danielle Radford]

Just. I can't anymore. You're going to. If you're going to do something, just do it.

[Jason Nguyen]

I want to go out with you. I want to go out with you.

[Danielle Radford]

Do you really want to?

[Jason Nguyen]

I really want to.

[Danielle Radford]

Well, I want you too.

[Jason Nguyen]

Well, great. Well, great.

[Danielle Radford]

Well, cool then. Fine.

[Jason Nguyen]

I grab Pakora and I kiss her.

[Becca Sky]

Ah, okay.

[Danielle Radford]

So you do call to attack. And she allows it. And Plixie goes. Oh, my God, finally, girl.

[Becca Sky]

I know, right?

[Danielle Radford]

Oh my God, it's been like 10 episodes.

[Jason Nguyen]

As I kiss her, I want to, as gently as possible, transform into a werebird and sort of just hover us both in a sort of sweet moment where we're just hovering and turning, but only centimeters up.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Imagine you're kissing someone, then suddenly their mouth turned into a beak because that's what just happened.

[Jason Nguyen]

I'm going full tongue, all beak for sure.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. Yeah. Pakara is into it. You flip above the crowd. You're getting a lot of attention. And there's even more. There's just a soft applause as people are just melting with romance.

[Becca Sky]

Lizzie's like ripping up like, any moss or flowers and like floating it so it like floats in the air around.

[Danielle Radford]

Amazing. Yeah, it's beautiful. And Plixie goes. You get yours, girl. This is great. Congrats, Prakara. I never thought he was gonna actually do it. You said he had some balls to grow. But I. I'm glad you did.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah, it had to happen.

[Jason Nguyen]

How's Fug looking? Fog's like, okay. Perfectly okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Perfectly round.

[Jason Nguyen]

Alright.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Jason Nguyen]

All right. Fugged into it. Perfect.

[Danielle Radford]

And so you set yourselves down and Pekara says, you know what? I'd kind of like to meet Undu.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, hold on. Let me ask. Can Pokara come?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, I guess.

[Becca Sky]

I don't see why we can.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I mean, they didn't say no plus ones.

[Becca Sky]

They didn't say no plus one.

[Amy Vorpahl]

They didn't say plus ones. But they didn't say no plus ones.

[Becca Sky]

I feel like if Crandall's invited, he's a minus one.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah.

[Becca Sky]

Then we have to make up with.

[Jason Nguyen]

A whole other person.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Basic math dictates.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, I think it's okay.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. If you're ready, you make your way over to unzoog with Pakara in tow. You enter the palanquin and you just kind of open it up and there's unzu sitting there lounging crandalls against the other side.

[Becca Sky]

Before we get in, Busy's going to use her mask medallion to cast disguise self, where Bizzy is now wearing a very tidy blouse with like a little neckerchief, which is tucked into a very tidy skirt. Her hair is up in a very professional looking bun. And I don't know, she's boned, so you can't really do makeup, but you do notice there's like, maybe like a little bit of flush on her cheeks and she is wearing a really nice blazer over it. So she basically looks like a 1960s flight attendant.

[Danielle Radford]

Amazing.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You look so professional.

[Jason Nguyen]

Wow.

[Danielle Radford]

I think even. Yeah. With the bones, you can always add some lashes.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah, you always had a lash.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, come on. What are we? So as you enter, he says, thank you for dressing up for me.

[Becca Sky]

Thank you. You know, I take these meetings very seriously, and I think that this is a chance for us to have a very good Crandall.

[Danielle Radford]

Where has she been?

[Becca Sky]

Dialogue.

[Danielle Radford]

And Crandall goes, oh, oh, yes. Well, she's not always been this effective. And he just kind of dismisses it and gives you a nod of approval and says, and it looks as though we have another goblin.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yes, my sweet dark lord, this is Pakara. My. What are we already.

[Becca Sky]

Damn, you go fast when you go.

[Jason Nguyen]

What are we? Well, we just recently smooched my most recent smooch.

[Danielle Radford]

My dark lord, he says, a fellow champion. I see that if there were second place, he would have been second. And you are welcome here. So he sits back and he says, I imagine you have some questions for me.

[Becca Sky]

I have so many. And busy pulls out a clipboard.

[F]

Click, click.

[Becca Sky]

First of all, I just want to say again, thank you so much for scheduling this meeting. This is really fantastic. I do want to do kind of a post mortem on what happened in the dungeon. I'm not sure if you heard about the dungeon and everything that's been going on.

[Danielle Radford]

Well, I do know that I gave that up to a reputable company.

[Becca Sky]

You gave the dungeon?

[Amy Vorpahl]

You gave it up?

[Danielle Radford]

I sold the dungeon.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh. Was there like a memo we missed? Was there supposed to be a memo?

[Becca Sky]

I do not.

[Jason Nguyen]

He's going through a thing I don't.

[Becca Sky]

Think I was meant to tell you.

[Jason Nguyen]

We were still there.

[Becca Sky]

A corner conversation on any memo.

[Jason Nguyen]

They killed everybody. They killed everyone.

[Danielle Radford]

I don't know what.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, the Gallantlings came, they wiped everyone out. And there was the Fiends Union.

[Danielle Radford]

The last I checked, the dungeon was fully populated. And Crandall goes, well, you did tell me I could leave just the way you did. And he says, but you were the order of operations, so you made sure things were in order. Colonel says, oh, I just. I just kind of took your example. And I also left. No, everyone was killed except these three. And so that's the reason to celebrate. And he says, the fey spiders. He is gone.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Excuse me, my lord. They're not all gone. Aloof. Come eat. Come meet the Dark Lord Unzuk.

[Danielle Radford]

And she creeps out and says, you will perish immediately from my might.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Whoa. Don't die.

[Jason Nguyen]

Chill out.

[Danielle Radford]

Chill it out.

[Becca Sky]

She's just showing Dark Lord undoug. She's just showing you how she is attractive.

[Dan Casey]

I'm a cancer in the world.

[Danielle Radford]

I am the worst thing you've ever dreamt of and the last thing you'll.

[Dan Casey]

Think of before you go to sleep.

[Jason Nguyen]

Anyway, I step in front of Fibs, trying to muffle her being like she's learning a lot. She's just a baby. Unlike me. I'm not a baby.

[Danielle Radford]

So he says, that is a fascinating creature. That's what's left of my phase spiders thing.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, the last surviving phase spider from Eulaire, the daughter of my best friend, Bloodweaver Grendel.

[Danielle Radford]

What have you been doing with my lair minions? And he says, well, you know, I came from the Exo Hags lair and I just took practices with me and you haven't really wanted to get to know anyone, so I didn't introduce you to anyone. And he says, you don't think I have a vested interest in. No. If there are certain minions who are more apt than others. And Crandall says, isn't it a mute point? They're mostly all gone anyway. And he says, you don't have to leave now, but I'm relieving you of your duty. Oh my gosh.

[Becca Sky]

You don't have to get home, but you gotta get the hell outta here.

[Danielle Radford]

This is unacceptable. These are not the reports I was given. And Crandall says, you've been off Mugella venting. And he goes, silence. I have been doing wonders for this world. Say that one more time, Crandel Greckleworth. And he says, I'm sorry, my lord. You are saving the world. And from what I hear, so are the rest of you.

[Becca Sky]

Yes, we've been doing some great work saving the world. How have you been working on saving the world? Because we know that there's a lot going on and it's kind of dangerous right now. There's.

[Amy Vorpahl]

The Scythe of Aurelia is involved.

[Danielle Radford]

The Scythe?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

That is how I am saving the world. They need to perish.

[Jason Nguyen]

I agree.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

And I think they're number one weakness is how much they are reliant on many. Their community is overflowing and they simultaneously love killing. It also slows them down. Whereas I as one elf, can move throughout the world almost undetected.

[Jason Nguyen]

My dark Lord, if I may ask, the Scythe of Aurelia. You're so powerful and your tales of unbound power and might go so far. Why have you not crushed them single handedly with your great dark powerful might?

[Danielle Radford]

I am not powerful enough. Yet while I have grown in power over these last centuries, so have they. I have set them on a quest that they do not know. I orchestrated the seeking out of the Five Articles of the Sundari.

[Jason Nguyen]

Wow, okay, we were kind of on that question.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, we.

[Danielle Radford]

They will not find them all. For here I have one. His staff fibs. You see him squint his eyes and it's very clear. He's casting detect magic. And I see you have some magic items of your own, two of which are Articles of the Sundari.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, I thought you were asking about gun Tippy. I hold up my Eldritch cannon and it kind of winks at him. Pretty cool, huh? I'm probably gonna put the scope on this one.

[Danielle Radford]

It's not as impressive as the other two articles that you have on your person.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, he wants to see the chalice.

[Dan Casey]

He wants to see the chalice.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yes, I'll show him the chalice.

[Amy Vorpahl]

So you've got the Staff of Rolbear. We have the chalice. What was the chalice?

[Danielle Radford]

The Chalice of Kirk.

[Becca Sky]

Chalice of Kirkin.

[Danielle Radford]

May I see it?

[Becca Sky]

Of course, anything. And Z reaches in, grabs the chalice and hands it over to Unzug.

[Danielle Radford]

Now he just looks at it and goes, that is a beautiful work of art. You may keep it.

[Amy Vorpahl]

What was the third item?

[Danielle Radford]

Well, you have it, don't you?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Don't I? Do I?

[Danielle Radford]

And he just nods up at the top of your head.

[Amy Vorpahl]

What this former top hat that belongs to a gelatinous cube from a different time that's been since turned into a hat of wizardry by my dear pal Tippy.

[Becca Sky]

No, the extensions. And busy. Just starts grabbing the fake hair.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes. Now, be gentle. It's real hair as you grab it. He says you did not know you carried the tattoo of Krass.

[Jason Nguyen]

The what?

[Amy Vorpahl]

The tattoo of Kress.

[Danielle Radford]

How was this not activated? The way that I'm detecting this, it seems as though a Sundara did appear to you.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, yeah, yeah. The goat lady. Yeah. Helped save a goat.

[Danielle Radford]

Arsena.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, Arsena. She was very doubtful. In fact, I would say everyone around me was very doubtful that I was gonna save that goat.

[Jason Nguyen]

Deer. The deer.

[Amy Vorpahl]

To the point where it felt kind of hurtful at after the fact.

[Danielle Radford]

Do you think that a Sundara just appears to anyone?

[Amy Vorpahl]

You know? I don't know.

[Becca Sky]

It was like our first day out of the dungeon, and she was one of the first people we'd actually really seen. And of course, now we are much learned of the ways of the outside world, but at the time, yeah, we just kind of thought, you go on a road and then just a person shows up.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. And then there's like a. A magical trolley problem involving a lady and a goat.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. Wow. That's a lot.

[Jason Nguyen]

She disarmed me, I'm afraid to say, and pushed my face into the ground. I am forever ashamed by that.

[Danielle Radford]

You are okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You didn't have to tell me.

[Danielle Radford]

Sorry.

[Jason Nguyen]

It felt like I had to.

[Becca Sky]

No, you didn't.

[Danielle Radford]

No, I. We are going to go over every second of the adventure that you've had since the last time I've been in your presence. We will not have time, because I have something to ask of you.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It's okay. We'll record these someday and play them back for you.

[Becca Sky]

Busy. Just goes through and starts taking off line items under ketchup.

[Amy Vorpahl]

So many items.

[Danielle Radford]

You must understand is that the Sundari are at the core of this all. And I know that while those minions like you who have been in my lair have been naive, unaware of the outside world they are driving all of Sunderos, the Scytheva really are distracted by them. There is a secret there to uncover. And all I know is the ravings of a madman Isajar have been my guiding light. There is a last step of my journey that I do need help with. First of all, what I will say is, while you bear and are attuned to your tattoo of Krass, you are the champion of Arcina. And while you are attuned to and bear the chalice of Kirkin, you are the champion of Ordenf. Those might have Little weight at the moment, as the Sundari are all beings and presences on different planes of existence. They're mere bones on our plane. But I can see that this tattoo did bring Orcina, at least for a time, onto our material plane.

[Becca Sky]

And, I mean, mere bones could actually make kind of a lot of stuff happen. Yeah, you can actually do a lot.

[Amy Vorpahl]

We got this far with mere bones.

[Danielle Radford]

I have been a champion of the undead for as long as I can remember.

[Jason Nguyen]

And goblins.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes. I mean, obviously.

[Jason Nguyen]

No, I'm saying I stand with the undead, too.

[Danielle Radford]

As a goblin, I sponsored the oud do, too.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. But I did sponsor the Goblin Hero challenge, so obviously I support goblins.

[Jason Nguyen]

You're right. Everything you say is right, my dark lord.

[Danielle Radford]

Good.

[Becca Sky]

I have a question. You mentioned is ajar.

[Danielle Radford]

I did.

[Becca Sky]

So we were talking with someone, and they kept saying something about a throat bone. Like a bone and a throat. Throat bone?

[Danielle Radford]

Yes. I am not sure what that could mean.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You mean the scorlitohyoid?

[Danielle Radford]

The scorlatohyoid. He writes about that often.

[Jason Nguyen]

What's that?

[Danielle Radford]

Well, your skeleton friends know it's a bone in your throat unconnected to any other bone in your body.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, what's that first part mean?

[Danielle Radford]

Scurrily to has many different meanings. One of them is goblin.

[Jason Nguyen]

A goblin throat bone. I mean, surely I've got one of those.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes.

[Jason Nguyen]

Wait, you don't need it, do you?

[Danielle Radford]

No.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay. Thank God.

[Danielle Radford]

Scurrilita has other meanings, the most common of which is coward.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh. Huh. Yeah, I don't have that one, so.

[Danielle Radford]

I would assume it's coward bone either. Yes, but this is where Isajar's writings all meander. However, there is one clue that I do have that I've yet to be able to accomplish, and that is accessing Fitfettel Delve. And I, by all rights, should be able to get in there. But there is a force so powerful preventing beings like myself of great power from entering. Fitfettel Delve, as you know, is the Dwarven gem mine that has been in existence since before the Searing. It is where the Fatekeepers of old held their meetings. And they have a wealth of gems, all magic stones or magic amplifiers. And I can only assume in the last centuries that they have put up so much defense to isolate themselves and prevent others from gaining that power.

[Becca Sky]

Um, busy puts her hand up.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes, yes, busy.

[Becca Sky]

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for calling on me. Just, I wanted to add a note quickly. I think I might be able to get in there to the dwarf Gem place. Okay, so I haven't mapped this out yet. This isn't like. This is just, you know, blue sky thinking.

[Danielle Radford]

Blue sky thinking.

[Becca Sky]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. All ideas are good ideas. All ideas are good ideas. No wrong things in a brainstorm. So I was a dwarf before I was.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, I did recognize a bit of that bone structure.

[Becca Sky]

And it seems as though I was one of the Fatekeepers.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, my.

[Becca Sky]

When I was a different kind of alive.

[Danielle Radford]

Do you remember the biggest question of all was, who was your source? There was a source of the Fatekeepers who told them who to write down? A magical being or a deity of power or an energy, if the lore is correct.

[Becca Sky]

I don't think I got to that part yet. My flashbacks. I have been seeing more of my past life lately.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Your Lordship, I think that we should probably take her there and, you know, sometimes retracing your steps helps jog memories back into place. Even if you did burn them down in some sort of etheric goo palace.

[Danielle Radford]

I'm going to have to get that story from you. Just not right now.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Of course.

[Dan Casey]

Really?

[Jason Nguyen]

I'm willing to tell you the whole thing from start to finish right now.

[Danielle Radford]

Don't you dare. I'm excited to hear this. If you on some level, could, I don't know, convinced the High Council of Fitfettedelve or determine the source of this isolationism and be rid of it, then I might be able to gain the power I need to take out the entire scythe of a rilly, which I believe is my full purpose. He does say that. You have the chalice. You have the tattoo.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Where is my tattoo?

[Danielle Radford]

It is. Okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Is it underneath my hat? And I take it off, the hair dangles down.

[Danielle Radford]

It's on the scalp. Yeah. It's like on the skin that the hair is attached to.

[Jason Nguyen]

I never noticed it.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Is there anything written underneath?

[Danielle Radford]

Yes, it is an eight pointed star.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, wow.

[Danielle Radford]

And he says, I don't know that anyone would have been able to find it. Everyone has been looking for this tattoo, thinking it's a magical tattoo that transfers from person to person.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Wow.

[Danielle Radford]

This might be a little.

[Jason Nguyen]

It's on the scalp.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, it's in my hat.

[Jason Nguyen]

Wait, Maxwell's hat?

[Becca Sky]

It's the hair. The scalp that the hair is.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You gave me the hat. I added the hair. Because.

[Jason Nguyen]

What a lucky find.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, I guess.

[Danielle Radford]

Wow. When you wear it. So this is what this magic item does. This is the tattoo of krass k r a s s. Sure. You can cast the scrying spell. Spell. Save DC17 concentration up to 10 minutes. But you can cast it on any plane of existence.

[Jason Nguyen]

Amazing.

[Danielle Radford]

During this 10 minutes of concentration, you actually have true sight on. On this plane.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Wow.

[Danielle Radford]

The truesight also can be on the plane that you're experiencing Scrying.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

You can alternate between seeing and hearing on the planes in those 10 minutes, but you can't do both at once. And it's an unlimited use of the spell. But Each time takes 10 minutes to cast it.

[Amy Vorpahl]

So treat it like I'm doing kind of like a ritual almost.

[Danielle Radford]

It's a ritual. And the rules for failing and saving this wisdom saving throw are the same as the SCRY spell.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

A little broken, but you're welcome.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Thank you.

[Becca Sky]

So it works on all planes, Even spirit, Even goo.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It costs extra. I need more components.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. And he says so you have your chalice and you have your tattoo. My hair. This staff may come in handy.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, maybe that's a fibs thing because I got these bad boys.

[Danielle Radford]

And he goes ahead, hands you the staff of roll Bear.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh my gosh.

[Danielle Radford]

It is a two quarter staff which is going to give you plus two on attacks and damage rolls. It can take four forms.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It's got a cool snake head.

[Danielle Radford]

You can use an action to turn it into one of the four forms. A full birch tree. Excuse me, 40ft tall.

[Becca Sky]

What?

[Danielle Radford]

A giant constrictor snake, which is a huge creature. Or a poisonous snake, which is extremely tiny, real little garden snake. You use an action to take a form and then use a bonus action to turn back into you whole holding the staff.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

You also can turn into the staff itself. Damn.

[Becca Sky]

And then just for anybody who might like, who's listening or watching and might have forgotten what the chalice does and how that works, maybe we should just like go ahead.

[Danielle Radford]

I think the chalice is really great. Actually. The chalice is really cool.

[Becca Sky]

So we should probably.

[Danielle Radford]

So you use an action to name a liquid. It causes this to produce the chosen liquid when it's full. The liquid may be drunk by a creature. You can say any liquid that you like. But the ones that I listed for you are healing potions. And the highest one, supreme healing, takes 20 minutes or a short rest for that to fill up. And that is 10d4 20. But you can go regular healing and that takes 12 seconds. 2d4 2. And you can name other potions if you know their names and qualities. Poisons, that kind of thing.

[Becca Sky]

Okay, perfect.

[Danielle Radford]

You could just spin an action right now and name a potion.

[Becca Sky]

Well, let's see. How are you Doing on your health?

[Jason Nguyen]

I feel okay. I'm at an age I feel okay.

[Danielle Radford]

It doesn't spill. It'll hold. It'll hold for until it's drunk.

[Becca Sky]

Oh great. I would love to fill this chalice with healing potion.

[Danielle Radford]

Would you like the 20 minute one? The supreme healing. That's 10d4 plus 20.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah, I super want supreme healing.

[Danielle Radford]

Perfect. So you start filling it up, you've got your staffs. And he says, I'll take you to where my palace is. Now. I've been moving around a lot, but I've got a little pocket dimension palace.

[Jason Nguyen]

It's in your pocket.

[Danielle Radford]

It's. It is not in my pocket. I'll just considered that sneaky putting it in my pocket.

[Becca Sky]

I've got lots of things in my pocket. It's really useful.

[Danielle Radford]

So that's just not how the spell works. When you are. And when you would just have an answer for me about how to get into Fitfetteddelve, please return there. And he says, and so with that Crandall, I think you can arrange for us to be taken to the palace. And Crandall says, it would be my pleasure as my last duty for you, my liege. And he leans out. You actually see Lump, Captain Lump running towards this palanquin just yelling, you got my stupid son. You got this. And Unzu leans out and goes, ah, Captain Lump, so nice of you to join us. You can be at the front of the palanquin guard, carrying your very capable son and myself to my mansion.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh yeah, dad.

[Danielle Radford]

And he shuts out.

[Jason Nguyen]

Take that, Dad.

[Danielle Radford]

A very notable honor.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Roll up the window of the palanquin.

[Danielle Radford]

Exactly. And you just see goblins. Most of them are. I mean everyone except Lump is extremely honored to be carrying this fairly large palanquin full of a bunch of people.

[Jason Nguyen]

So we're all in there with him. It's very spacious for palanquin Pekara in there.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah. Picara's with you. And he takes you to the entrance outside of Meirfin of the palace. You can see that it's marked by two statues of bones wrapped around pillars. And he says, this won't leave for another 24 hours. And I will await you here.

[Jason Nguyen]

Thank you for inviting us to your pocket, Idark Lord.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Well, into your dimension.

[Danielle Radford]

Into my dimension? Yes. Thank you, my pocket dimension. And you will be welcome. There will be plenty of food and drink for you.

[Jason Nguyen]

I have a couple questions more.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes.

[Jason Nguyen]

Is there a vacancy now for your. I don't even know what Crandall is doing. But like my coo I know I have a great recommendation for a coo and I. Nudge. Busy. Sort of.

[Becca Sky]

I would be most honored to take over and be part of the C suite.

[Danielle Radford]

And he takes your clipboard. It is excellent penmanship. The scrolls make a lot of sense. You've taken notes during the meeting and he says I would need more information. Obviously all I know is hearsay, but do this for me and there actually is a vacancy. And this looks very proficient.

[Becca Sky]

Thank you. I'll send you over my cv.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh. What? Oh, that's very cool. Good. Yeah. Whatever you want to write on there, I'm open.

[Jason Nguyen]

Thank you.

[Danielle Radford]

You make your way to Fitfettel Delve. He's given you a map. You can head there. It's not very. Not far. About half an hour's walk to the entrance of Fitfettel Delve, which as you know, is a dwarven gem mine with an entrance at the base of Fitfettel Mountain. And as you approach, there are several different beings. You are not the only undead. Goblins, skeletons. There also are gallantlings, Dwarves and elves and tieflings and drow and halflings. Humans too. This is a hub for gem trade. It is almost eerily silent as people when they make their business deals are whispering. And inside the mountain it's. It seems that there is more activity even as you approach. You blend in and you have a dwarf catch up to you. And these dwarves, they wear armor. They also wear robes over their armor. Their insignia is a geometric shape of a cut diamond. And this dwarf very solemnly says what brings you here to Fitfuddle Delf?

[Amy Vorpahl]

We've come to see the Council.

[Jason Nguyen]

We've got official business from our Dark.

[Becca Sky]

Lord and I would like to speak to the Council and take a look around at my ancestral homeland.

[Danielle Radford]

I recognize that accent. Your ancestor homeland is fit Fatal delve?

[Becca Sky]

I believe so.

[Danielle Radford]

I so in life you were a dwarf. I. Ah. That's so interesting. I think a tour we could do as far as speaking with the High Council, it's not going to happen. And what you see is there's one dwarf who is locked in on you, like pretending like she's not looking at you, but she definitely is looking at you like you are sparking this person's attention. She's maintaining a very solemn. But she's almost like getting rid of the people that she's talking to and making it clear like she would rather be your assistant in this matter. And he. And he just goes. So that is something that no one talks to the High Council. I Can't even get into the High Council. But are you here for some gems as well?

[Becca Sky]

I'm mostly here on official business. I believe I should only bring that to the Council.

[Amy Vorpahl]

We could deal some gems on the side. Maybe on the way out.

[Becca Sky]

I'll definitely look at a gem.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah, of course.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah. They're so pretty. Look at them. They're all shiny and stuff.

[Danielle Radford]

Well then let's start with a tour. And so this is kind of going back and forth and he says we start with a tour. But he's kind of looking for advice. And at that moment is when the dwarf overtakes him to become your guide. And that dwarf is played by Becca Sky.

[Dan Casey]

It's their ray. Any tours are happening in fit fettle delve. I be given the tours. So that I practiced.

[Danielle Radford]

Exactly, Joseph, that you've established all dwarves.

[Jason Nguyen]

No, no.

[Danielle Radford]

I just said you. Yes. Hi Becca.

[Jason Nguyen]

Hi Becca.

[Danielle Radford]

Thanks for having me.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yes.

[Danielle Radford]

And as you approach these two skeletons and a goblin, will you describe to them what they see?

[Dan Casey]

Well, they see standing at a thick 4ft stout frame of a dwarf. She has fiery red hair, thickly braided. But it seems like the braids are always undoing themselves. But somehow braiding themselves back up again. Very orderly. It's like the hair is fighting it. But the order must be maintained. She's got this under bitten snaggletooth coming up. And she's wearing the same diamond insignia on a very beat up thin metal armor with some chain underneath. And really fashionable fur covered shoulders.

[Danielle Radford]

Ooh, beautiful.

[Dan Casey]

I heard talk of a Dark lord. Perhaps. Perhaps I could give you the tour myself.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh you. Ms. Budfus, you don't have to. We know you're busy with your runeshaping.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Hush.

[Dan Casey]

I am a Runeshaper. And as such I hold certain status here.

[Becca Sky]

This is how this accent works.

[Danielle Radford]

Cultivated.

[Dan Casey]

Now, two seconds ago. The name's Berygnius Burfist vi.

[Danielle Radford]

You will be so taken care of. This is unprecedented. Ms. Burfis does not just give tours these days. She's a Runeshaper. She is one of the people responsible for putting magic in the gems.

[Jason Nguyen]

Berygnius. Does that sound familiar?

[Becca Sky]

Didn't Maxwell, I just think that there's probably. Berygnius is probably a common dwarf.

[Danielle Radford]

Well, it's not a common dwarf. No. There is high lore around our Berygneus Burfus.

[Dan Casey]

Yes, yes, we all know the lore of Berygneus. I am the sixth out of six. There are no other Berygnius.

[Danielle Radford]

Don't be reductive here. It's quite an honor.

[Jason Nguyen]

Well, hello, Berygnius. Tippy puts out his hand.

[Dan Casey]

Great pleasure. I sense something in the three of you. Eventually.

[Jason Nguyen]

Tippy. Terror Squad the first. This is fibs. The first. And this is busy. The first.

[Dan Casey]

Something about your bone structure is quite striking. Busy.

[Becca Sky]

Thank you, lassie.

[Dan Casey]

It's just right out there for everyone to see. That's why I felt okay constantly.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah, no secrets in these at all.

[Danielle Radford]

If you have it all under control, I'll go assist another group.

[Dan Casey]

But you've done well.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, well. Think good job.

[Dan Casey]

We say that a lot here in Wingman Forge.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It's so nice to see a place with positive reinforcement.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah, it's fantastic.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And before you go, what is your first and last name?

[Danielle Radford]

My first name is Boone Boon. Ruby throat. Bone Throat.

[Becca Sky]

Ruby throat.

[Jason Nguyen]

Ruby throat.

[Becca Sky]

How do you spell the oons?

[Danielle Radford]

Ruby.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It's cause there's a ruby in his throat.

[Becca Sky]

Oh, it's cause the ruby's in the throat.

[Jason Nguyen]

Ruby throat.

[Dan Casey]

Oof. I'm proud of you.

[Danielle Radford]

What? Ms. Burfist.

[Dan Casey]

Bow deeper next time, if you don't mind.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, a Ms. Burfist.

[Dan Casey]

Yes, a hearty bow.

[Jason Nguyen]

That's a good bow.

[Becca Sky]

That's a great bow. That was some really good bowing and scraping.

[Danielle Radford]

And I have seen some great badge. This dwarf moves on to assist a halfling who's just showed up.

[Dan Casey]

Act casual. Step this way. We've much to speak about.

[Jason Nguyen]

Thanks for helping us.

[Dan Casey]

Casually, casually.

[Becca Sky]

Busy. Starts walking casually.

[Danielle Radford]

As you walk casually, where Berygnis takes you is within the delve itself. Right into the mountain. With her status, she is able to bypass any security that would be there. And this version where Unzuk isn't able to enter, you just don't feel anything like that. The one thing that you as casters do feel is the entire cavern of this place is thrumming with magic. Just like Erntkr Fathom was. It feels different. It's not as mysterious. It's more accessible magic. And what you see as you wander in, as Berygnes leads you in. This is her home. It's normal to her. But what you see is just an enormous cavern. It's as if an entire neighborhood block was dropped down the center of this shaft. Scaffolding, dwarven buildings. It's empty in the center, but on the outside there's spiral staircases, spiral platforms that move around. Also, it seems as though there are rooms built into the dirt and stone. Torchlight lights it up, but not as much as so many different colored gems. It is glistening and Shining and twinkling reds and blues, greens, dark purples, light purples. The gems themselves are inlaid into this stone cavern, into the walls, and they themselves are producing light as well. It looks a bit chaotic, unstructured, left natural. But there is an order to the stones that were left in the wall.

[Becca Sky]

Busy's just gonna walk up, put her hand on one of the stones. Does any of this feel familiar? Is there anything that she kind of feels while looking at this, or.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes. Although you did burn down your memory pallas, so technically it was flesh fibs. You do sense a familiar feeling of comfort. And it's like your bardic magic is normally channeled through the attention of others. But when you touch this gem, it feels as though you are being being watched by an audience. It is like you just have magic at your fingertips, and it feels like this. It feels like coming home.

[Jason Nguyen]

You good over there? Busy? You touching the rock? Are we all supposed to touch the rock?

[Amy Vorpahl]

It feels pretty crazy in here. I can only imagine what she's experiencing.

[Becca Sky]

I feel like I am floating right now. Like, I just feel so. Just in the air. Just like. Just high. I just feel like I am very hot.

[Dan Casey]

You need to build up your tolerance for gems, you see?

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, I touched the rock.

[Danielle Radford]

So Busy touched a red ruby gem that is poking out, uncut, and you touch.

[Jason Nguyen]

I want to touch a rock.

[Danielle Radford]

You want to touch a rock.

[Jason Nguyen]

Not understanding.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, you touch a rock, and you do not experience the same glory that she did.

[Jason Nguyen]

Not really getting a hit. Not really feeling anything.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, that's not. No, that's not. To the left.

[Danielle Radford]

What?

[Dan Casey]

To the left.

[Danielle Radford]

And as you move your hand to the left and it comes to rest on a bit of turquoise, you are inundated with the feeling of being able to communicate with inanimate objects. Like, they. They're not communicating with you, but it's like they're wanting.

[Becca Sky]

They're welcoming the machines.

[Jason Nguyen]

I can talk to them. They hear me.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh.

[Danielle Radford]

Whoa.

[Jason Nguyen]

That stone was real good.

[Danielle Radford]

You hear a dwarf more casual than the other dwarves. Like, really lackadaisical, kind of shooting winks at people and just not as. Doesn't have the decorum as these other dwarfs. And she comes out and goes, var ignias. Who are your friends? You on the job? Are you on the clock right now?

[Dan Casey]

Yes, I'm on the clock. Well, Godfrieda, pull it together.

[Danielle Radford]

Your button's unbuttoned. What? Oh, sorry. So, okay, just when I know friends, right now I don't want to do my rune shaping at the Moment. Don't tell me, boss. Which is you?

[Dan Casey]

God, Frida. You know, I should make you do your rune shaping anyway. Because sometimes we have to do it when we don't want to do it. But yeah, you could have the afternoon off. We have a fun adventure.

[Danielle Radford]

But don't tell anyone. No, I'm not gonna tell anyone.

[Dan Casey]

I have to have people think my apprentice is working hard.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You got a pretty chill boss. Don't mess this up.

[Danielle Radford]

She's my best friend. She doesn't want this job anyway.

[Dan Casey]

You see behind the back, Berygnius does like a little finger waggle handshake.

[Danielle Radford]

There we go.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, so fun here. It's so fun.

[Danielle Radford]

No, it's not. Oh, we're the only fun ones here.

[Dan Casey]

It's very strict, very efficient. Do you see these gems? They must be mined at all hours of the day.

[Jason Nguyen]

Well, what are you mining them for?

[Danielle Radford]

Mining them for magic of course. And power. And it's our main gross export.

[Dan Casey]

You see, I'm a pretty good apprentice.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Really good.

[Dan Casey]

Can't rune shape for crap.

[Danielle Radford]

But I put a little spell that made someone a mildly bit more happier just the other day.

[Dan Casey]

Okay. Yeah. So could it like a mint or you know just.

[Danielle Radford]

It has the same effect as a snack.

[Amy Vorpahl]

But this one's a stone that you.

[Danielle Radford]

Can'T eat calorie free, so.

[Dan Casey]

Well, keep trying.

[Danielle Radford]

I know who I am. The other things that you see are friezes and statues of what you remember your being on the ethereal plane.

[Becca Sky]

Looks like of Berygnius.

[Danielle Radford]

Of Berygnius.

[Becca Sky]

First.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes.

[Becca Sky]

Tight and busy's like looking at all of these statues and busy looks over at and. I'm sorry, Derry, what was your name?

[Danielle Radford]

Gottfrieda.

[Becca Sky]

Gottfrieda. And your family is also obviously from here.

[Danielle Radford]

Opelborn.

[Becca Sky]

Opelborn. Cool. I know what that means.

[Dan Casey]

That's the last name.

[Becca Sky]

Opelborn.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yep, yep, yep.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, thank you for coming.

[Dan Casey]

We do things differently in here in Fitfettel.

[Becca Sky]

Fantastic.

[Dan Casey]

We have two names. A first name and a last name. And if you're special enough, you get a number. I have a number. There's the first up there.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah. What? I'm curious. Just out of curiosity. What do people think about the first? I've heard some stories, but greatly in awe.

[Dan Casey]

It gets old. Everybody wants to come up to me and talk to me. I'm famous because the first was, you know, the fatekeeper. The one in the settling.

[Becca Sky]

In the settling?

[Danielle Radford]

The searing. Sometimes we call it the settling here.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

Because it didn't really flatten anything here. It just all the gems, I presume.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Settled into place after the Searing shook the world.

[Danielle Radford]

It did seem as though after the searing, as the lore goes, everything did settle into place. Things just got better for us.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah. Untouched, in fact, until recently. Everything was quite peaceful.

[Becca Sky]

What happened recently?

[Dan Casey]

Oh, well, recently meaning hundreds of years.

[Becca Sky]

Okay, we have a different definition of reason.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I imagine you folks use more of a geologic Darwin scale down here.

[Dan Casey]

That's right.

[Becca Sky]

You have rock clock.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

Well, speaking of recently, of what's going on, it does seem as though Berygnius has a weird theory that no one really believes, but I'm inclined to. But it sounds mad.

[Dan Casey]

Gofrieda. You think I should tell them about the theory?

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, should I not have told them?

[Dan Casey]

Well, you did open your big mouth. I keep things buttoned up. I've told you this.

[Danielle Radford]

I am so sorry. I don't think I belong.

[Jason Nguyen]

I know the feeling.

[Dan Casey]

Keep it together, Godfrey. You do belong. I'm a good boss.

[Jason Nguyen]

What's your theory?

[Dan Casey]

Well, recently, hundreds of years ago, the safety of the mind seems to be threatened. More and more often, beings and creatures of evil and darkness are moving towards the sanctity here. That's the story the Elders will have you believe. Anyway, what I think is we've been cloistered in a bubble, not letting enough people in. I mean, of course, less powerful beings like yourselves, sure. Walk right in the front door, have a tour. We have tours by the hour, but.

[Jason Nguyen]

Lesser beings, gonna pocket that one.

[Dan Casey]

Powerful beings have been kept out by this fear of. I call it isolation. The Elders put this out, and some of us, right now, me and Godfrieda are starting a revolution to open the minds and the minds to bring back.

[Becca Sky]

You just blew my mind.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Incredible message.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah, that's what we think. We've been brainstorming, workshopping.

[Danielle Radford]

Well, every time we bring it up, they silence us. So maybe it's true, maybe it isn't. But, you know, I read about the Sundari and the Fatekeepers. Like, they're just my favorite stories. I read this version and that version. I draw little pictures. I love the lore. And it seems that back in the day, the Fitfiddle Delve was a haven of greatness. And we had all kinds of beautiful beings of great power come in and out, and they would almost use the gems to charge up and then leave. And so there are just fewer and fewer visitors of that caliber.

[Dan Casey]

That's right. To power up these gyms. I mean, I didn't want to say it, but I think maybe a slight decrease in the gym power these recently past hundred years. And I think more powerful beings walking through these caverns. Now that would be like leaving your quartz in the moonlight. You know.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And we are supposed to leave our quartz in the moonlight to recharge it.

[Danielle Radford]

Correct.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Just double checking.

[Becca Sky]

Did like any moonlight. Like a full moon.

[Dan Casey]

This is for non magical beings. What they think this is the magical version of that.

[Jason Nguyen]

So let me get this straight. If a powerful being walks in here, it'll supercharge this place or.

[Dan Casey]

That's what we believe. That's the working theory.

[Danielle Radford]

It's symbiotic. Like it would recharge the. The being and also fit fettledelve.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I mean that makes sense to us.

[Dan Casey]

It could be fitter and fettler and Delver. Yeah.

[Becca Sky]

Much Delver.

[Danielle Radford]

Ah.

[Jason Nguyen]

And it would be a good thing.

[Danielle Radford]

That's how it was in the olden days.

[Jason Nguyen]

Well, you guys sound trustworthy. And it seems like it's a good thing of a powerful being came in here. It was fairly obvious that we were probably gonna resort to some sort of skullduggery. Some sort of like gunpowder situation. But I think this time we'll have to. Right.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Unless you want a rager. We can orchestrate that.

[Dan Casey]

I don't.

[Becca Sky]

I feel that it's just fine. If we go and discuss with the Council. We might have a powerful being we can. That we would be able to arrange to bring in here.

[Jason Nguyen]

We work for what? A really powerful one?

[Becca Sky]

The most powerful one. Like the most powerful God.

[Dan Casey]

Frida. They could. They could be the ones. We could just take them straight to the ritual room.

[Danielle Radford]

The Fatekeeper's ritual room.

[Dan Casey]

Look, don't tell anyone on the High Council about any of this. They've been calling us insane. Which is really bad around here.

[Danielle Radford]

We actually think that they've reinforced the isolation sphere. So maybe we don't go to the High Council. But the Fate Keeper's ritual room. Do you really think that's the source of all of this? I do.

[Dan Casey]

That's my true secret theory. The source.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Isn't that what you read about when you translated that Abyssal?

[Becca Sky]

Yeah. I guess we've got to go to the Fatekeeper's ritual room and just. Just so you know, it's probably fine. And I don't think it happens anymore. But occasionally if I do this thing where my tongue comes out and my eyes blink over. I just have a migraine.

[Amy Vorpahl]

She's definitely not experiencing an out of body flashback to a life that she once lived.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah, definitely not.

[Jason Nguyen]

Why is she having a flashback?

[Amy Vorpahl]

In case that was your immediate assumption?

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah.

[Becca Sky]

Don't assume that. Just assume that like it's actually my brain.

[Danielle Radford]

So you're a wild.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah, yeah, I'm wild. Unpredictable.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Being busy like a lapis lazuli when you're expecting an emerald.

[Danielle Radford]

Mm.

[Dan Casey]

Speaking my language.

[Becca Sky]

I would love to go to the ritual. Boom. Just out of curiosity. And busy starts looking around. Do you have any notes? Maybe you've taken on any of this?

[Dan Casey]

Scrolls and scrolls of them. And you see Berygnius pulls out the neatest scrolls you've ever seen. Like a spreadsheet level quality handwritten notes.

[Becca Sky]

Oh, this is the index. This is just the index of what? Others scrolls to find all of the information.

[Dan Casey]

That's right.

[Becca Sky]

This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

[Dan Casey]

Are you crying? Please don't get your tears on the scroll.

[Danielle Radford]

I worked for a while.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It's okay. There's no moisture in there.

[Becca Sky]

There's no moisture.

[Jason Nguyen]

They just seem like they're crying, but it's not. It's magic. It's no moisture.

[Becca Sky]

Busy very tightly rolls the scroll up. Ties a perfect bow.

[Dan Casey]

I've been planning to laminate anyway.

[Becca Sky]

Laminate? I want to see the ritual room. Is the ritual room more as organized as this?

[Dan Casey]

Everything in the whole delve is as organized as this.

[Becca Sky]

I must go. I must go there. Let's go. Let's go to the ritual room right now.

[Danielle Radford]

So you do make your way to the ritual room. And the way there has been long abandoned. They explain to you on the way that no one has really accessed this. Maybe since 500 years ago, since the searing and the settling and the ways through are completely abandoned. Things start echoing the silence of Fitfetteddelve. And their decorum is even more pronounced here because there's just nothing going on. And you wind your way through.

[Amy Vorpahl]

There's still gems like down here everywhere.

[Danielle Radford]

Every wall has just gems stuck in them. More like instead of stuck in them, they're actually left in there. So they're carved. The walls and the architecture is carved around these gems. And as Berygneus takes you through this meandering anthill like tunnel system, you come across this caved in doorway. Just lots of stones, not gems that are blocking this area. And got Frieda and Brignis go. Well, it's beyond here. But as you can see, it is blocked off.

[Dan Casey]

So it would be really violating. I wouldn't want to lie if someone asked if we did it.

[Danielle Radford]

What if?

[Becca Sky]

Oh, you mean open this thing?

[Amy Vorpahl]

We can.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah, we'll just do it.

[Amy Vorpahl]

We can do it. We'll take the blame.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, we'll probably blast at it.

[Amy Vorpahl]

We're just on it. We're just on a tour.

[Becca Sky]

Yeah, we're on a tour. And like, oops, our cannon went off.

[Dan Casey]

Okay, but any blast, you'll sweep up the dust afterwards.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes, hundred percent, of course.

[Becca Sky]

Oh, yeah. We are not gonna leave dust all around.

[Danielle Radford]

Ugh. Ugh.

[Becca Sky]

Disgusting.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay.

[Dan Casey]

Seems so.

[Danielle Radford]

All right. I think we have to. I think this is our time.

[Dan Casey]

It's happening.

[Danielle Radford]

They bring out some explosives. And he's excited about that.

[Jason Nguyen]

I'm also excited about that.

[Danielle Radford]

It's, of course, measured to the exact amount that they would need to get this opening blasted. And they draw the fibrous line gunpowder around a corner, Light the match, it goes. The stones do explode, you see. The dwarves themselves get very excited as they creep in. And as they palpable as you enter.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Just he ing the whole way.

[Danielle Radford]

As you enter this incredibly old sanctum, you smell the smell of decay and rot, cobwebs, old, old, old earth. You are stepping on stone tiles that are incredibly ornate. Like, each one of them was handcrafted to be identical to these other stone tiles that they're right next to. Some of them are cracked. In fact, many of them are. But the room feels vast. It feels like it goes up 100ft. The radius of the room easily is 50 foot in diameter across to the other side. There's no light. There's no natural light. But with dark vision, you are able to tell that within the center is a huge mound. Just a big pile of something. Dome shaped like a small hill of many different things. Not gems. Nothing's reflecting in that way. Is it alive? You can't tell, but you hear smacking sound. But it does sound like many are making that sound. And as you get a little closer, this dome looks like it actually is really, really high. 15, 20ft high. And almost as big around. As you get closer, you see it's hundreds upon hundreds, maybe thousands of little flesh monsters about two or three feet across, all of them piled onto each other, each trying to get to the center. As you look up, you actually see more are along the walls. As you walk in, one of them looks at you, utters this wretched screech. That's when hundreds of eyes clock you. And at this gruesome sight, that is where we will end this episode of Sagas of Sundry. Goblin mode. Thank you so much for tuning in. And stay tuned for next time when we might encounter a fiendish fight.

[Amy Vorpahl]

All right, Amy, roll 1,000 things of.

[Jason Nguyen]

An Intro.

[Danielle Radford]

Sagas of Sundry Goblin Mode is a Geek and Sundry production made in partnership with Realm. I'm Amy Warpol, your Dungeon Master. Danielle Radford plays Busy, Jason Nguyen is Tippy, and Fibs is played by Dan Casey. Goblin Mode is directed and produced by Graham Ehler Sheldon, executive produced by Dan Casey, story produced by Rin Ayler Sheldon and Shawan Edward, with creative producing by Adam Murray and editing by Matt Caron. Our theme music is composed by Alex Winkler and our production coordinator is Tara Goldsborough. Platform support and logo design provided by Alison Mattingly, with additional writing support from Rin Ayler Sheldon, Dan Casey and Amy Ratcliffe. Audio recorded by Jim Funicelli and social media support from Lee Travis. Additional production support from Alex Niknajad, Patrick McElroy, and Grant Semayoa. Visit Geek and Sundry on YouTube or geekandsundry.com for video versions of Sagas of Goblin Mode. Even since the Searing and the Settling.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Thank you for respecting local tradition.

[Danielle Radford]

Omniscient Narrator that's going to be what it's called when I get married. Hello, I am Kristen Russo.

[Becca Sky]

And I am Jenny Owen Youngs.

[Danielle Radford]

We are the hosts of Buffering the Vampire Slayer. Once more with spoilers. A rewatch podcast covering all 144 episodes.

[Becca Sky]

Of you guessed it, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We are here to humbly invite you to join us for our fifth Buffy Prom, which, if you can believe it, we are hosting at the actual Sunnydale High School. That's right. On April 4th and 5th, we will be descending upon the campus of Torrance High School, which was the filming location for Buffy's Sunnydale High, to dance the night away to 90s music in the iconic courtyard, to sip on punch right next to the Sunnydale High fountain, and to nerd out together in our prom best inside of the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

[Danielle Radford]

All information and tickets can be [e-mail] prom come join us.

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[Danielle Radford]

From the podcast that brought you to.

[Dan Casey]

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[Danielle Radford]

The sapphic history that shaped them, comes.

[Dan Casey]

A brand new season of Cruising beyond the Bars.

[Danielle Radford]

This is your host, Sarah Gabrielli, and.

[Dan Casey]

I've spent the past year interviewing history.

[Danielle Radford]

Making lesbians and queer folks about all kinds of queer spaces, from bookstores to farms to line dancing and much more. For 11 years, every night women slept illegally on the Common. We would move down to the West Indies to form a lesbian nation. Meg Kristen coined the phrase women's music.

[Becca Sky]

But she would have liked to say.

[Jason Nguyen]

It was lesbian music.

[Danielle Radford]

And that's kind of the origins of the combo Huber Collective. You can listen to Cruising on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Dan Casey]

New episodes air every other Tuesday starting February 4th.