The Goblin Games | Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode | Episode 15

Summary

Podcast Summary: Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry – "The Goblin Games" (Episode 15)

Release Date: January 27, 2025

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Introduction

In Episode 15 of Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode, hosted by Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl and featuring players Jason Nguyen (Tippy), Danielle Radford (Bizzy), and Dan Casey (Fibs), listeners are transported to the chaotic and competitive world of the Goblin Games. As monstrous minions step into the spotlight in the absence of their evil necromancer overlord, they navigate a series of challenges designed to test their cunning, strength, and adaptability.

Setting the Stage

The adventure unfolds in Mirefen Swamp, specifically near Fitfettel Delve, a hotspot now hosting approximately a thousand goblins from various tribes and clans across Tsundaros. These goblins gather to compete in the Goblin Hero Challenge, a prestigious contest where the victor earns the title of Goblin Hero. Our protagonists find themselves in the Fummi Crest camp, preparing for the imminent games.

Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl [02:58]: "We find ourselves in Mirefen Swamp...participate and compete and support their champions in the Goblin Games."

Preparing for the Games

As the minions gear up, they perform perception checks to gauge their environment:

• Dan Casey (Fibs) rolls a critical perception, uncovering key elements of the games.

  Dan Casey [03:52]: "Hell yeah. That's a dirty 20."

• Bizzy warms up for her role, focusing on her bardic and rogue skills.

  Danielle Radford [03:36]: "She is a skeleton bard rogue...probably also some of those mushrooms."

• Tippy investigates potential threats, expressing uncertainty about his first Goblin Games experience.

  Jason Nguyen (Tippy) [03:36]: "Can I look around and see what the other camps are doing?"

The Goblin Games Commence

The competition kicks off with the announcement from Glomgen, the judge, and Crandall, who stands beside him in elaborate robes. The minions are required to perform in the umbaba dance, a test of agility and performance skills unique to the Goblin Games.

• Bizzy engages in a tense exchange with Zipper, another goblin, invoking her ability to cast Vicious Mockery.

  Danielle Radford [10:32]: "You don't mind. Great. So something that I noticed while you were doing this is that unfortunately it just looks like you're really bad at it..."

• Tippy strategically befriends Mr. Fummy Crust, gaining an ally who provides a Force bead for potential use during the games.

  Jason Nguyen (Tippy) [17:18]: "I give this to Mr. Fummy Crust."

Intensifying Competition

As the games progress, the minions employ a mix of strategy and sheer force to eliminate competitors:

• Tippy uses his Eldritch Cannon and spells like Grease to incapacitate other goblins, demonstrating both creativity and tactical acumen.

  Jason Nguyen (Tippy) [31:21]: "I cast grease in the split second...knock out another couple."

• Fibs sets traps using mage hand and strategically casts Prestidigitation, enhancing the dungeon's defenses.

  Dan Casey (Fibs) [35:26]: "I'll cast mage hand and have it slink along the ground..."

• Bizzy showcases her planning prowess by constructing intricate traps within their assigned dungeon, aiming to capture or eliminate as many goblins as possible.

  Danielle Radford [86:15]: "So if I know goblins, I know that their hunger for snacks is impeccable..."

Climactic Battles and Strategy

One of the pivotal moments involves Tippy and Picara facing the formidable Froghemoth. Through a combination of quick thinking, spellcasting, and sheer bravado, they manage to tame the beast and use it to their advantage:

• Tippy transforms into a weresparrow to intimidate both the Froghemoth and rival goblins, showcasing his adaptability under pressure.

  Jason Nguyen (Tippy) [49:17]: "You turn into a were sparrow."

• Collaboration between the players leads to the effective dismantling of opposing goblins, with Tippy unleashing his Eldritch Cannon to devastating effect.

  Jason Nguyen (Tippy) [70:44]: "I unload my entire arsenal on Mudja Bumphra... blasts this goblin into smithereens."

Triumph and Conclusion

Ultimately, Tippy, Picara, and Nurg Herfla Durg emerge victorious in the Goblin Hero Challenge. Their innovative strategies, combined with timely magical interventions and teamwork, secure them the win. The episode culminates with the appearance of their evil overlord, Unzug, setting the stage for future adventures.

Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl [100:43]: "This man has long black elven hair with a very severe widow's peak... and a big smile with just gorgeous. And a manicured goatee."

Notable Quotes

• Tippy [03:36]: "Can I look around and see what the other camps are doing?"
• Dan Casey (Fibs) [35:26]: "I'll cast mage hand and have it slink along the ground..."
• Danielle Radford (Bizzy) [10:32]: "You don't mind. Great."

Final Thoughts

"The Goblin Games" showcases a blend of strategy, role-playing, and creative problem-solving, highlighting the players' ability to adapt and overcome challenges. With dynamic character interactions and intense competition, Episode 15 sets a high bar for future adventures in the Sagas of Sundry series.

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Stay tuned for the next episode, where our heroes confront their former overlord and navigate the intricate web of alliances and rivalries within the Goblin Games.

Transcript

[Tippy]

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[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

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[Tippy]

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[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

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[Tippy]

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[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Sagas of Sundry Goblin Mode. I'm your dungeon master, Amy Vorpahl, and with me, as always, are your minions of mayhem, your terror squad, and they are played by.

[Dan Casey]

Hi, I'm Dan Casey. I play fibs. He's a skeleton wizard who's going to fill his friends full of mushrooms.

[Danielle Radford]

I'm Danielle Radford. I play busy. She is a skeleton bard rogue who is going to fill her friends full of confidence and probably also some of those mushrooms.

[Tippy]

Hey. I'm Jason Nguyen. I play Tippy, a goblin artificer who's gonna fill his enemies full of lead.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Amazing. And with all of those declarations, it is now time to part the veil of reality. Ooh. Yes, yes, yes. We are no longer among friends, just here hanging out, playing a game. No, no, no. In fact, we are playing a much more sinister game and a little bit goofier game of the Goblin Games. We find ourselves in Mirefen Swamp near Fitfettel Delve. And in Mirefen Swamp these days hosts about, ooh, a thousand goblins as they come from all manners of tribes and clans across Tsundaros to participate and compete and support their champions in the Goblin Games. The Goblin Hero Challenge. Only one will be named the Goblin Hero when we open our eyes for the day you all have taken a long rest.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, thank goodness.

[Tippy]

Thank the Lord above.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Thank the lord above. You know that Pakara donknozzle.

[Tippy]

Yes.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Has received favor from Glomgen, the judge.

[Tippy]

That's right.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Of the Goblin Hero Games, when you wake up, you are in the Fummi Crest camp.

[Dan Casey]

Of course I am.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes.

[Dan Casey]

Where else would I be?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Supported by that entire family of famicrusts. You have a little bit of time before the Goblin Games begin.

[Tippy]

We're gonna handle this really well today.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I think it's gonna be a good day.

[Dan Casey]

Focus up. Lock in.

[Tippy]

We're Gommy Loc. Let's get serious. Funny crust.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So, as you do prepare for the beginning of the Goblin Games. Is there anything you'd like to do?

[Tippy]

Can I look around and see what the other camps are doing? Or can I see any other champions getting ready? Cause Tippy has never done a Goblin game, so he has no idea what he should be doing right now.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

All three of you roll a perception check. Oh, there.

[Dan Casey]

Hell yeah. That's a dirty 20.

[Tippy]

21.

[Dan Casey]

That's a fummy crust 20.

[Tippy]

Uh oh.

[Danielle Radford]

That is a big old critical one. So that means that's a three. I did it.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. Awesome. So busy. You are spending a lot of your time warming up because as the Yeller holler, you're gonna be doing a lot of yellerin and hollerin. And for the other two fibs, you notice that in the Go Night night game, of course, there is a hollow log nearby that looks like that's going to be erected almost like a maypole in the middle of the Go Night night circle. And you see some of the other champions, bannermen and yellerhaulers kind of going near that log, probably doing some shenanigans to it. There are other goblins that seem a little more official. They're trying to keep everyone away from it, but that's what's happening. The other thing that you see actually, Tippi, you see off in the distance, large piles of materials. There's guards around there, but it doesn't seem to be in play at the moment. You see the piles of materials look different in composition. Like everything has some sticks and dirt and fiber. But one of them looks a little bit more like it has animal pelts and leathers. One of them has more like metallic scraps, one of them bricks and stones, one of them more wood, wooden planks and flats and that kind of thing. But there are four piles off in the distance.

[Tippy]

Can I go investigate those piles?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

There's no real other bannermen or yeller haulers going over there, but these piles are guarded.

[Tippy]

I don't know why, but there's something going on with those piles.

[Dan Casey]

Same thing with that maypole over there. This is beautiful.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

It's so dead busy.

[Tippy]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, thank you.

[Danielle Radford]

I've been practicing.

[Dan Casey]

I can check out either one. You should probably stay close. You got some stuff you got to handle.

[Tippy]

Tell you what. Oh, why don't I do this? I spend some time prep my homunculus back to life.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay.

[Tippy]

And I'm like, robo tippy, go ahead. Go ahead and hug. Busy. I know that's what you want to do.

[Danielle Radford]

Busy just immediately is like, oh, my God, I missed you so much. I missed you so much. Who's the best homunculus?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Does the homunculus talk? No talk. Okay. Well, it does reach its hands up for uppies.

[Tippy]

All right. Okay. Well, you could hang out with Bizzy after you do this task for me, but I need you to go check out those piles. And it sort of nods and.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, yeah, I'm send it off to.

[Tippy]

Go see the piles.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, cool.

[Dan Casey]

Let's check out that maple.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dan Casey]

I don't trust it. It looks like some maybe shenanigans are at work here, and if so, maybe we can get in on them.

[Tippy]

Yeah, I think that sounds like a good idea. I'll stay back here and prep my eldritch cannon so that it's ready to go.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Tippy]

And that's what I'll do. So I'll let you check it out. And Robo tippy, check out the other thing.

[Dan Casey]

Sounds good.

[Tippy]

And busy. I guess you're gonna keep practicing.

[Danielle Radford]

Tip of the toe, the tip, the lips. The tip of the toe. She doesn't have.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Is there anything else you'd like to do?

[Danielle Radford]

What else? What can I kind of see around me?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Anything at all?

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah. Is there, like, what can I see now that I'm, like, out of my practice zone?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You're wandering around the cam, and you run into your pal again from last night.

[Dan Casey]

Zipper, zipper, swamp spit.

[Danielle Radford]

Zipper, swamp spit.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Zipper, swamp spit.

[Tippy]

Zipper, swamp spit.

[Danielle Radford]

Zipper. Big Zib.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, yes.

[Danielle Radford]

He, like, walks over. Hey, how's it going?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, it's you. Yes, from last night. It's going well. I have chosen my champion. Seems as though Pakara Donknozzle is the chosen of the Glomgen. But I have instead chosen mine, and it is Tog busflog.

[Danielle Radford]

Tog busflog. What do you possibly see in Tog Busflog?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

She is a nimble creature, isn't she? For the bulk of her muscles, she sure does emit a fun energy.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, you think that she's quick.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Quick on her feet?

[Danielle Radford]

I think she's quick.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I think she'll score very well in the go night night. And as well as the umbaba dance. Hmm.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. All right.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Sorry.

[Dan Casey]

She'll score very well in the go night night is just Killing me, that's all. As you work.

[Danielle Radford]

So I haven't been able to actually see. I would love to see a nimble goblin. I haven't really seen one. Do you happen to know where she might be?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, yes, she's just over there. Although, is this for your personal gains?

[Danielle Radford]

No, I'm just nosy.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. Deception.

[Danielle Radford]

Uh huh. 21.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, 21. Yeah. I can understand how a skeleton would be very, very interested in an baba dance. I might show you one myself. So, yeah, he takes you over to tog and convinces her to do an umbaba dance. And she says, I don't know if this is exactly what I'm going to do for the fight, but it's something like this. And she kind of gets on the ground. She gets in a break dancing pose on her neck and then starts twerking with her legs up in. That's kind of a.

[Tippy]

That's the handful.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

A big move that she's up to. And then your pal Zibber does his version of it. And it is like a puppet that you were controlling back and forth and just waving his head opposite.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, that's really well done. That's so amazing. Hey, Zipper, I actually, I think I see the judge over there somewhere being a super duper hater. Would you mind going and checking that out for me? Cause he doesn't really me, but he knows you.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You just want me to check out the judge. Glongan.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah, just go like, look at him. Just like make sure that he's, you know, still being Haiti, still being a hater.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. Persuasion.

[Danielle Radford]

Persuasion. Sixteen.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. And he says, oh, it would be pretty good to see what the judge is about because I know that he's not without his own shenanigans.

[Danielle Radford]

Mm, exactly.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Well, it's been a lovely morning. And he goes off tog.

[Danielle Radford]

That was like. That was like so good. I just have a couple of notes for you, if you don't mind.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I don't mind.

[Danielle Radford]

You don't mind. Great. So something that I noticed while you were doing this is that unfortunately it just looks like you're really bad at it and probably bad at everything you've ever done in your entire life. And it seems like you're probably a really mean person and maybe if you weren't so mean and so terrible and not such a complete waste of goblin flesh and space and smell and holes, it would be different. But you are. And Bizzy casts vicious mockery.

[Dan Casey]

Oh my God.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh my gosh. Is that a wisdom saving throw?

[Danielle Radford]

That is a wisdom saving throw DC11.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

My gosh. Okay. She does save. She says, well, I don't even know what I did to you, Skeleton. But for the record, you're kind of a. You're kind of a dirt clawed yourself.

[Danielle Radford]

Don't you guys like dirt?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

So then, thank you.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, man. Okay, look, I boggled that, but get out of here. Get out of my head.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, fine. I'm just. You know, you're right. You did so good. I bet everyone will really love what you did. And at that moment, Busy casts the innate. This is not a spell. This is just the innate ability to mean girl. This is not a spell Busy performs. Mean girl.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, I think that lands completely. So, yeah, I think you can just see easily that she kind of gets in her head. She gets up from her shoulder, neck position and is just kind of like, whoa. I don't even know where that came from.

[Danielle Radford]

All right, bye. Do such a good job. You're so talented.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. You definitely had an effect on her. You don't know what it was, but after seeing her brother get thrown by Tippi and then your random verbal attack, yeah, she's just got kind of a frown on her face, and she went from this kind of shadow boxing to going just real still and kind of sitting on a stump and going, what was that? So, yeah, if you look back, she's not as confident as she used to be. Your homunculus is going over to investigate the piles. Huh?

[Tippy]

I love that.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes.

[Tippy]

Thank you.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You got in her head. You got in her head.

[Dan Casey]

Go talk to Tippy, sister.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So your homunculus goes over to the piles. What he kind of reports back is that there are four, and it is as you saw before. But beyond the piles, there seem to be four entrances to caves that are also guarded, hidden a bit by the swamp. But he goes unnoticed and is able to just kind of wander around. This does seem like the secret fourth challenge.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And when he comes back, he's able to at least communicate enough information for you to understand that. The secret fourth challenge involves four piles of materials and. And four entrances to a cave.

[Tippy]

Amazing.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And then, Dan, what you see with the maypole, it is a hollow log. And very clearly, this is going to be this pillar in the center of the Go Night Night games, where the people who are outside the pillar. The way that the top of the maypole looks is that the darts will come from the tops of the maypoles, and they're aimed right outside of the circle where people are meant to throw themselves in the circle itself. When you see it drawn. It does not seem as though all 20 goblins can fit. Although many of them can, especially if they pile on top of each other. But you can definitely tell the angle of the dart. Holes are aimed outside of this circle.

[Dan Casey]

You mentioned shenanigans before. Does it look like anyone's tampered with this? Or perhaps stashed something inside?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. As you approach. Go ahead and investigation check.

[Dan Casey]

Don't mind if I do. Actually, I do. That is a seven.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

A seven.

[Dan Casey]

Looks like a pole to me, boss.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, it does look like a pull. As far as what's been done to it, you can't really tell. But you would just know that goblins would have done maybe something even with the guards around it trying to keep the game a fair fight.

[Dan Casey]

Fibs is scratching his head and he pokes the maypole with his quarter staff.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. Yeah, you do. And nothing really happens except the goblin comes over and goes, hey, get off of that.

[Dan Casey]

Sorry, I'm texting. Structural integrity.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

It's integrally struct.

[Dan Casey]

Okay, if you say how do. Wait, who are you? What is your full name?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, my full name is.

[Danielle Radford]

Huh.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Doug Zug Glizzy.

[Dan Casey]

Doug Zug Glizzy Dug Zug Glizzy Dug Zug Glizzy.

[Tippy]

Okay. Okay.

[Dan Casey]

And I'd like to understand the process. Now, this means that your mother's family.

[Tippy]

Name was Glizzy Glizzy from the Glizzy clan.

[Dan Casey]

This is a matrilineal society.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes. What's it to you?

[Dan Casey]

I just want to know what is your glizness here?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I'm in charge of Go Night Night. I built the structure and I'm going to be one of the runner. The runners for the games. The referees.

[Dan Casey]

Well, you've done a fantastic job. I just have to say. Very impressed. This is integrally struck. As you said to me so eloquently. I just wanted the flag for you as someone who has a vested interest in this game that I saw some other competitors perhaps trying to sabotage.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

What? The poll. Oh, and he goes over to the top and makes his way examining every inch of it. And at the top he goes, you're right. A couple of these have been plugged with just disgusting dirt. And he starts clearing out.

[Dan Casey]

I thought you guys liked dirt.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I do like dirt, but not in my little machine.

[Dan Casey]

That's fair.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And he starts clearing out. Thank you so much. That would have given an advantage to anyone who had seen where the clogs were. They just wouldn't have gotten sleep darted.

[Dan Casey]

What's the point? Of that? I thought it was the Go Night Night, not the Stay Wake. Wait.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

No. Thank you. Someone said it.

[Dan Casey]

Have a great day.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Ok. Thank you for checking in on us. And he tells the guards to keep a keep a firmer grip on the scum that might approach without further ado. Is there anything else?

[Tippy]

Yeah. So just so we all know, Tippy has made his Eldritch Cannon. Except this time it's tinier than before. It's hand sized, but it still has legs and still has eyes. Because you can either make the Eldritch Cannon small or tiny.

[Dan Casey]

Dang, tiny hand cannon.

[Tippy]

Yeah, like a little Darren. It would look like another gun.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, nice.

[Tippy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The only thing Tippi wants to do is Tippy wants to go up. Is Old man Fummycrust around?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Sure. Yeah.

[Tippy]

I want to go up to Old man Fummy Crust. There you go. Mr. Fummycrust. I want to just say thank you for taking us in here.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Well, of course we will. Yes, yes.

[Tippy]

And thank you for believing me as your champion. I want to ask, what can the Frummycrust help me with when the Games begin? I'm going to need all the help I can get.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

We might influence the Games in some way. Again, we don't know how it's going to go, but let's just say I don't want to let you know too much about what we're up to. Because if you know, you could be at risk for disqualification. But we might, let's say, throw some things into the mix. Obviously, this would only be if you.

[Tippy]

Needed our help and you could throw anything.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Absolutely.

[Tippy]

So Tippy reaches into his pack and he produces a Force bead. And he's like, if things get rough.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, I know what that is.

[Tippy]

Please don't throw this at me. But throw this at them. It'll hurt. And I give this to Mr. Fummy Crust.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

All right. I'll keep this in my back pocket. Beat a Force, huh? I bet I could come up with a. A few different ways to use this.

[Tippy]

And one final thing. If I were to die in these games, I need you to deliver a message. I need you to tell Pekora. I know, Pekara, but I like to.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Say Pekora of the Donk Nozzle family.

[Tippy]

Of the Donk Nozzle Clan. Yeah. I'm still getting used to that. Donk nozzle. Donk nozzle. Mr. And Mrs. Donk nozzle. It'll take time. Just tell her. I mean, I already told her I love her. Just tell her. I can't think of a new thing. Just tell her I think she's cute.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

She knows you love her, and you want me to tell her that you think she's cute?

[Tippy]

If I were to perish.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, if you are to perish. I'm gonna put all of that into my own words.

[Tippy]

Okay, that's fine. You can.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I have been married 60 years.

[Tippy]

Well, congratulations, Mr. Funny Crust.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I know my way around a lady.

[Tippy]

Great. I don't.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I know. So with your grace, I'll do what I know is best.

[Dan Casey]

After Tippy's done chatting with Mr. Fummy Crust, fibs walks over and says, look, I gotta give you something. I alluded to this previously, okay? And he opens up his robe and pulls out a little bandolier with some little pouches. In each pouch, he's put one of each type of the mushrooms that he purchased from Went Cudgegloom. And as a reminder, there are four different kinds of mushrooms. There are one called Hardy Truffle, which restores your health to full.

[Tippy]

Amazing.

[Dan Casey]

There is. Why did I write it like this?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

What does this say?

[Tippy]

Who's so confident?

[Dan Casey]

Krunger. I don't know what this. The second one says.

[Tippy]

What was it?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Clover?

[Dan Casey]

Clover?

[Tippy]

Krunger? Can it be Krungger, please?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

It's not Krunger.

[Dan Casey]

I think it's a Krunger, but maybe it's Clover.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Does it say Krunger?

[Tippy]

Are you sure it's called Krunger?

[Dan Casey]

Look, I wasn't really paying attention. I was busy gambling. Krunger Shroom gives you an advantage on a D20 attack roll.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, yeah. On next D, any D20 roll.

[Dan Casey]

There's also blush room, which is a one to strength checks in advantage on Constitution saves.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dan Casey]

And then there's Brawler's Button, which gives you an additional 1d6 damage to your attack. Oh, and resistance to bludgeoning.

[Tippy]

Good job. These seem really useful.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah, I know you were doubtful.

[Tippy]

No, I never doubt you. Fibs. Busy's like counting down Krunger a little bit, but that just seems like you're not sure about it. I just.

[Dan Casey]

I may not be sure, but I did just meet someone named Doug Zug. Glizzy. So you're right. There are weirder names in there.

[Tippy]

You're right about that. Okay, busy. What did you find out?

[Danielle Radford]

I just went and talked to your dumb sister and I told her she was dumb and her face is dumb and her dance moves are dumb.

[Tippy]

Busy.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I know.

[Tippy]

That is so bad. You're such a mean girl.

[Danielle Radford]

I didn't think I would be. And normally I don't think I would be, but I don't like. And she bullied my friend, and so she gotta go.

[Tippy]

Well, thank you for bullying her, I guess.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah, I'm just merely showing a mirror to her, to her own actions. And, you know, it doesn't just help us in this moment. It will also hopefully help her to know about the pain that she inflicts upon others. But if it doesn't, that's totally cool. Cause she sucks.

[Tippy]

And just by the way, I gave Old Man. Old Man Fummy Crust. How could I forget? Of course, I gave Old Man Flemmycrust a bead of force. And he said if things get rough. You gave him what? Yeah, a beat of force.

[Dan Casey]

Okay.

[Tippy]

We got a purpose to throw them at my enemies if things get hard.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, okay, okay. And with that, as you're all aware, I believe you also relay the information about the four piles and that maybe the fourth.

[Tippy]

Yes, that's right.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, the fourth challenge.

[Tippy]

And tell them about the fourth challenge and what's beyond the piles.

[Dan Casey]

I wonder what those piles are leading to and what lies within that cave.

[Tippy]

If you guys can find out anything more during the games, let me know.

[Dan Casey]

I'll do some dig zugging of my own.

[Tippy]

I'm busy. I. I'm going to entrust my Homunculus Robo Tippy to you.

[Danielle Radford]

I shall cherish him as my own.

[Tippy]

Okay?

[Danielle Radford]

I love you, son.

[Tippy]

You have to put him down at some point. You can't just hold him and hug him 24 7. He's got to be able to do things well.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Son's time's to go. Everyone's getting her ready. And the thing is, Yellerhaller Bannerman, you're ready because you've got to announce your guy. Our guy. Tippy Tibby, Terror Squad up to Lomgan up there at the top of the stand. So I think you all are last. So prepare a little speech to get the audience going for you.

[Dan Casey]

All right?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And he corrals you into a space where the other contestants are. Everyone's getting a little elbowy and, like, hyped up and their way at the top of the stands, you do see that Glomgen is at the very top of these makeshift stands that were built. They're basically made out of wood. They look like they could come down at any second. But standing on them and stomping are about only 150, 200 goblins. The rest of the goblins are spread out to see as best as they can. More like a golf match. The other Person who's at the top with Glomgon is actually Crandall, and he's looking mighty fine. He's found himself not only goblin robes, but some really nice velour type robes that you're used to seeing him in. That's interesting that he's standing up next to Glomgen. The contestants move out and you hear the yellerhaulers announce why the audience should love them and gets them all riled up. And of note, Plixie comes out and starts getting the audience all riled and says, and this beautiful, juicy goblin has been a member of the mark since she got bit only three years ago. She's a were marmot and she'll go full rodent on anyone who crosses her. It's Pakara Donknozzle.

[Tippy]

Everybody clap.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Clap.

[Tippy]

Clap for her. Clap for her. Pekara, you're so cool.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

A few of the others jock bus flog, tog bus flog. They get through, you've got Palba slampers and then a few others go through. Until now. It's Tippy's turn.

[Dan Casey]

I'm a slamper.

[Tippy]

Forgot.

[Danielle Radford]

Good luck.

[Dan Casey]

Go Palba.

[Tippy]

Okay, rile em up, Bizzy. Rile em up.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

All right.

[Tippy]

I'm gonna look cool. I start leaning on stuff. As Bizzy winds her up, her speech.

[Danielle Radford]

Goblins and other goblins. Are you ready? I said, are you ready?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

We are bringing to you.

[Danielle Radford]

Hailing from a swamp, coming out at three foot something. A bunch of hundreds and pounds. A grown ass man.

[Tippy]

Not a baby.

[Danielle Radford]

Not a baby. He is the defeater of Death. He is the mocker of the Scythe of Aurelia. He is Tippetera Squad.

[Tippy]

I.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Trip.

[Tippy]

I fall on my face and I just quickly brush the dirt off my knees and I stand back up.

[Dan Casey]

I'm casting dancing lights. So there's four like torches flying around Tippy's head.

[Tippy]

Y'all ready for tips?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, I need you hear the comments. Are you going? Booyah. Booyah. Everyone's getting super interested. Roll a performance check just real quick with advantage because of the health action with Dan.

[Danielle Radford]

Well, I mean, I'll do it because it's fun, but I did just roll 19, so. Oh, yeah. And that was performance.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

Great. So it's a 21.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

A 21? Heck yeah. So the entire arena actually is getting into the spirit of it. It's almost as if they're like, wait, what? How did who. Where'd this guy come from? And they feel like everyone else was, except you are the main act. So, you know, you've Got the funny crust on your side. But you also see other people whispering. You see Wendt being called over. People might be changing bets, that kind of thing.

[Tippy]

Tempe is standing in a power stance with two of his guns across his chest.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Tippy]

His legs as wide as me.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You look awesome. And specifically juck and tog. But all of the other contestants are looking a little bit worried they might have underestimated this 20th contestant. You're cleared out of the way. And Gomglin Glomgan begins the ceremony by just going, let the Goblin hero challenge begin. And everyone's clapping. It's just a little less.

[Dan Casey]

One Judge Moss plug.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, it's less. It's less enthusiastic. So the games have begun. You see some runners arranging you and the other 19 contestants around. Go night night again. This is a circle. It is a 15 foot radius circle. And in the middle is now erected the hollow log Maypole. You know the rules. When the music stops, you're going to need to get inside of the circle. They have you all stationed around and you see that Pekara actually gets to choose. And she's looking up at the different dart holes and she picks her stance. Everyone's whispering like, does that mean anything? But she picks where she's going to stand. It's right up against the circle. There are some goblins on the outside. Let's see where your stance is. So you're either going to be pretty close to the circle and have a pretty good shot. Maybe you'll have to fight your way through, but you might also be on the outside. Do you want to be near or far from Pekara?

[Tippy]

Near Pekara.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Near Pekara. Perfect. Go ahead and just make a straight up intelligence.

[Tippy]

Oh, we got that. Okay, well, let's see. Oh, that's a six.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

A six. Okay. You actually think the best position is near Pekara?

[Dan Casey]

Of course you do.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

But you're actually gonna strategically let some people in front of you as well. Okay, so let's get this started. The music. Yes.

[Tippy]

Before. Is there referee nearby?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, there, absolutely.

[Tippy]

So just quickly, the rules, the rules. So anything goes. Spells, guns, teeth, claws.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

We've seen it all.

[Tippy]

Okay, okay.

[Danielle Radford]

Is it possible I'm just gonna yell out one last, like, let's go. Big tip and cast. Inspiration, Bardock, inspiration.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You have Bardic inspiration.

[Tippy]

I need that.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so this first round, the same band from last night's gonna strike up and start playing. People are starting to move. No one's crossing the line yet, but they're muscling their way in to get closer to the edge of the circle.

[Tippy]

Hang on, wait your turn.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Is there anything you'd like to do?

[Tippy]

Not yet. Not yet.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Not yet.

[Tippy]

Not until we go. Not until we go. So I'm just readying myself.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So all of a sudden the music stops and everyone throws themselves into the center.

[Tippy]

Okay. Because imagine everybody starts dashing right at once.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tippy]

So I'm going to dash towards the center and I just want to know if I'm in the lead behind, like where am I? So I start going.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Dexterity saving throw.

[Tippy]

All right, Dexterity saving throw. That's going to be a 22.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

22, yeah. So if it wasn't clear, you're just on the outside of a 15 foot radius circle and all you have to do is be within the circle so there's no running involved. You might just have to throw yourself and you definitely make it. So at the end of this first round, you've got a couple of people knocked off. But not Pekara. She had a murdered.

[Tippy]

I want to. As I'm in the lead in front and I make this mad dash to the middle. I want to turn around and wait till. To see Pekara to see if she is right behind me or not or part of the crowd.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

She would be in front of you.

[Tippy]

She's in front of me. Great. Yeah, even better. So then I turn around and I cast grease on the floor where all of the other runners are running.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay? Okay. Okay, perfect. So about three of them were already not going to make it and get put to sleep, but as you cast grease in the split second, they're able to get within the 15 foot radius circle, but they also slide through. So you knock out another couple. That leaves you with 15 contestants left, all in the first round. Hikara's still in. I want to see. I want to see if Juck makes it. Juc feels like he should make this, but let's see.

[Tippy]

So their ground is now difficult terrain. It's a 10 foot square centered on the point that I cast it in and they have to make a dex saving throw of 13.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, well, yeah, let's see if Juk was one of those. So a deck Saving throw of 13, huh? Juck does not make it. Juc's out. Oh yeah. Juck was one of the five that were out. So as three of them aren't quick enough to jump on the pile, the sleep darts get them. They're knocked unconscious. Juc and another goblin are barreling through the other side and trying to scramble to hold on within the circle. But as they Move through. It's just too fast. Juck and the other Goblin.

[Tippy]

I go night night.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Jack Juck went night night. Okay.

[Dan Casey]

Tranquilized.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

The announcer announces Duck Bus Slug is out. And he also names out some other names who are out of the.

[Dan Casey]

Do you know what other names?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes. Yes, I do.

[Tippy]

Can you name them all so we know?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Hey, first and last episode I can name, okay?

[Dan Casey]

It's important for the lore.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes. Jug. Buzzflog is out. Did I say. Oh, Erki. Flood. Gunk. No, it's not.

[Tippy]

Herpes Turkey. Floodgunk. No.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Krunger. Munchstrom.

[Tippy]

Krunger.

[Dan Casey]

That's where I heard Krunger.

[Danielle Radford]

That's where Krunger came from. That Munch.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Blink's Mudmire Blinks.

[Dan Casey]

Mudmire is out. And I think there was one more.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

There were two more.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, even better.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Snargle Sludgepaw is out. Snargle and Blimps Slime Grin is out.

[Dan Casey]

Fibs looks over towards Gwent Cudgegloom to see what the betters are doing around him.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

He is surrounded by people, so he's looking like he's having the time of his life. His mustache is. His mustache is twitching. He's in his element.

[Dan Casey]

Cool.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

But yeah, people are waving pouches of gold coins at him. Plenty are pointing at Tippi. Some others are pointing at Papa Cara. Some are pointing at Tog, too. You three are gaining some notice, but that's the first round, so you've only got 15. They're gonna play until they're down to 12, which might happen in the next round. So let's see. Okay, so they clear the area. We actually have some booyah goblins coming in to clear out the magic dispelling the grease as well. And they put you all on the outside once more. Pekara chooses a similar spot.

[Tippy]

Okay, I choose a spot next to Pekora again.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so you've got 15. You're gonna go down to 12. Let's see if that happens. So the music starts up again, and then all of a sudden, it stops. Everyone jumps to the center. Let's see if you make it.

[Tippy]

Awesome. Nervous.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

This is make a DC16 dexterity saving throw.

[Tippy]

Okay. Okay. Okay, roll to 16. So that's 20. Dirty 20.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Dirty 20. Yeah, you're in the circle. So let's see. Picara. No problem. And Tog. No problem. I'm not gonna roll for every single one of them, but let's see how many we go through. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Yeah, everyone makes it, actually.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, that's full 15 they start setting up again. Same thing. Music starts.

[Dan Casey]

Before the next round starts, Fibs wants to subtly try and cast his mage hand and have it slink along the ground on the outskirts of the circle, waiting to grab someone's shirt and hold them back.

[Tippy]

It's great.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. Yes. Your mage hand is cast as you're.

[Dan Casey]

Going to wait till after the grounds crew sweeps any magical hogslop.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Absolutely. So they come in, they look around, everything's reset, and the music starts up again. Your mage hand is conjured. And you can see. Yeah, you're not the only one getting just a little closer to the action. But still, will you either roll a sleight of hand or a stealth check to make sure that this mage hand goes undetected?

[Danielle Radford]

Buddy, that's a good one.

[Dan Casey]

That's a natural one.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

No Fibs. Fibs.

[Tippy]

Did you give me all the mushrooms?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I would say that even as it's going like, one of the referees just stomps on the mage hand and is just like, get out of here. Booyah. And just.

[Dan Casey]

How'd that get over there?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So it's looking for the source of it. Can't really find the source of it.

[Danielle Radford]

That's wild. What a cheater.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Mage hand is completely dissipated. Yeah, it's gonna be all you. So one more time, the music starts.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

The music stops, everyone bounces in and. Ooh.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Perfect. Actually, you see that Pekara might not make it this time.

[Tippy]

What? Okay. Pakura might not make it. No.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And while you're looking at yourself, go ahead and make a DC.

[Tippy]

So I rolled that first, and that's gonna be 19, not a dirty 20.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I rolled one last. Okay. I was gonna make it a DC17, so that saves. You're able to make it inside the circle.

[Tippy]

So as I make it inside the circle, can I put a hand out to help Picorra?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You can. Yes, you can, actually. Yeah.

[Tippy]

So I turn around like Korra grab.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. It's like people moved past her, and before she could get in, there were just people on top of her. So you can use your hand and swing her up.

[Tippy]

I swing her up.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Let's see if you do. This is going to be an athletics check. And you do have bardic inspiration.

[Tippy]

Oh, that's right. Okay, I might need it on this one. Or not. That's going to be 16.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

We're going to need a 17 for this.

[Tippy]

Okay, I'll roll the bark inspiration. That's going to be plus six.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So 16 plus six. Yeah, 22. Great. Okay, Picard's on the top of the pile. But there were plenty of others who did not make it. And they are.

[Tippy]

Who are they? What's their first and last name?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Well, unfortunately for all of us, Palbaslampers is out.

[Tippy]

Oh no, Slappers.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Palbaslampers is out.

[Tippy]

I'll always forget you, Palba Slampers.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I'll let him get you. Pull it up, Grib. Snagglewort.

[Tippy]

Not Drib is out.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Snagglewort and Snickle. Bogbottom is out.

[Danielle Radford]

Stickle Bog Bottom. Good family.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So that's. Is that eight?

[Tippy]

It's nine Goblins out, right?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

That's nine Goblins, yeah. Because it actually includes Juck Juck Bus Flog. Juck Bus Flog is out. So still in is Tippy and Kakara and Tog Bust Flog.

[Dan Casey]

As far as you know, this means 11 are left.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

That means eight others who you don't know the names of are still there.

[Tippy]

Great.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So we've got Glomgen at the top. And he goes the go Night night is over. And everyone cheers, you know, politely claps for him. Yes. And the referees move the remaining contestants, all 12 of you, over to this area where each one of you has basically a 10 foot by 10 foot platform, square platform on which to perform your umbaba dance. Okay, the only thing you know about this is that Tog probably got in her head about it based on what Bizzy told you. Okay, each person is going to have a minute to display their moves. Except it is made apparent that Picaro with the favor, is able to have 30 seconds, one minute or a minute and a half. So she gets to choose if she goes longer or less time. She's whispering with Plixie and you don't know what she's chosen. But the rest, everyone else is going to have to perform for one minute.

[Tippy]

I'm assuming I can see where my friends are.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. Yes. Bannermen.

[Tippy]

Just cause she has plexi near her.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, yes. You're able to have your Bannerman and yellow holler next to you.

[Tippy]

Sidebar, sidebar. I'm not very confident in dancing, so what should I do?

[Dan Casey]

Sounds to me kind of like you're supposed to dance without rhythm.

[Tippy]

Without rhythm. Well, I could do that.

[Dan Casey]

It won't attract the scraps.

[Tippy]

Okay. Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

You want to dance with that rhythm. Like chaotic. A lot of flailing.

[Tippy]

A lot of flailing.

[Danielle Radford]

So you want to play unpredictable, but big energy. Big, big energy.

[Tippy]

Do you think you can inspire me again or.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, dude, you're going to do this. So great. You're fantastic. And if nothing else, you're going to do so much better than your sister.

[Tippy]

Thank you.

[Danielle Radford]

Then I cast bardic inspiration again, and I look up.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Can she see Tog? Yeah. Yes.

[Danielle Radford]

I just look at Tog and I go, you're doing great.

[Dan Casey]

My God, I felt the shiver.

[Tippy]

Wow, that's really cold. Busy, but I like it. Terror.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Tippy]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You can tell that she's back in her head. Okay, the way this is going to work, as far as you all are concerned, is we're going to go around. Normally, this would be 10 rounds per minute, but each one of you is going to go around twice and tell me a description of what Tippi does, and then we'll roll for it and see how well he performs it. Depending on what they are, probably most likely it'll be an acrobatics check. But you know what to be strongest in intelligence. So if you can convince me that there's a move that requires intelligence, I'm happy to let you roll that these will be ability checks. What we're looking for is a four out of six.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Also fib and busy. You are able to influence this in any cheater way that you.

[Dan Casey]

What are you accusing us of?

[Tippy]

We don't cheat.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

If you also think that mushrooms will help you, bonus action, you can go ahead and do that as well. So we'll take six rounds. Okay. So the music starts. It is out of control. It's like each goblin is using two instruments to bang on and make sounds from. Many of the goblins are blowing through something. Harmonicas or other kind of recorder. But it is the most chaotic music, and goblins love. Okay, the first round. Tippy, what move are you performing?

[Tippy]

Tippi thinks about what to do and then sort of panics and he's like, what moves have I seen? I've seen. Somebody tried to do the worm one time, and he tries to do the worm, but it's gonna look like he's, like, inchworming across the floor, but flailing his arms around as he. Like inchworms.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Kind of a baby move, actually.

[Tippy]

A little bit of a baby move.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. How the butt comes and then the baby comes up. Yeah. Okay. I think that'll be completely a acrobatics check.

[Tippy]

Okay. All right.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Acrobatics and. Sorry. This will be DC13 all the way through.

[Tippy]

DC13. All right, let's try it. Let's see what we got. We got a. You said acrobatics. I did 16.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

16, everyone. Tibby's dance starts off a little tame, a little mellow. Just Scooting. For lack of a better term, he's just scooting. The next move he tries.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, so the next move that Tippi tries, Tippi turns and he looks over directly at his sister, and he does a move that is just doing, like, finger guns. So it's like a gun in the air and then, like, up, like, pew, pew, pew, pew.

[Tippy]

You like that.

[Danielle Radford]

As a reminder of how he just fully took his gun out on their brother. Like, another way for him to, like, psych her out.

[Tippy]

Psychotic.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. Yeah, pretty psychotic. So he actually. Yeah, he dons this in this truly, truly obnoxious face. You've never wanted to punch him more in the face. So actually, this will be. This will be an intelli. If you're Tog. Ikir Tog. Okay, go ahead and roll an intimidation check. This is a charismatic. Check.

[Tippy]

Intimidation check. Oh, Lord. With D minus 2. 17 minus 2 is 15.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

D.C. 13. Yeah. You make it. Yeah, no problem. Okay. And I would say that Tog is sufficiently intimidated as well. So.

[Tippy]

Bang, bang, sister.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, Great. Yeah. You successfully rendered her a little scared. Okay, Fibs, what does Tibby do next?

[Dan Casey]

Fibs does not participate in psychological warfare against the members of the Bust Flug family. Instead, he pauses a moment, licks his finger and holds it up to calculate the direction of the breeze. And then, remembering how he incorporated this with underground breezes from the caves to determine what direction to release poison gases and things like that, he winds up and then attempts a front flip.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, okay.

[Tippy]

Yeah, I'm gonna do that.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, you are. Okay. This is dexterity saving through acrobatics.

[Tippy]

Acrobatics. Okay, that's gonna be 18, and I wanna add a little flourish in the middle of the air. When I'm upside down, I want to spread my little goblin legs and do a quick little fart before I land on the ground.

[Dan Casey]

When he does that, Fibs casts prestidigitation to make a shower of sparks erupt from his tails.

[Danielle Radford]

Good job.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And I'm an 18. Like a gymnast, the goblins go wild. No one has ever choreographed a fart into their dance, into their umbaba dance. And much less a glittery fart. At this moment, the foamy crusts are going to assist you. And it's hard for you to know what they're doing. But just so you know, they've taken a bit of your scent, a bit of your clothes the night before. They show it to some caged animals. They are sort of more of a predatory bat situation.

[Dan Casey]

Don't worry, they're Helping.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And they fly directly towards you. And so, well, you don't really know. I'm not hungry. I'm not hungry. I'm not hungry. But the bats surround you. And this next bit, it's subconscious, but you're gonna make them with advantage because you're also gonna be trying to bat the bats away. And it does look insanely chaotic. As your fear, Tippi, is triggered. The fummy crust did some math, and we're like, I think fear will help him, and his fear and insecurity will help him in this dance thing.

[Dan Casey]

I think if we give him West Nile Virus, it'll help him dance better.

[Tippy]

It's a bat.

[Danielle Radford]

He gonna be okay while he don't get bit.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

What?

[Danielle Radford]

Them bats?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And so this next round, as you describe what you're up to, you're gonna be rolling with advantage. And don't forget, you still do have the Bardic inspiration.

[Tippy]

Okay? Okay. Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So, Tippi, what would you like to do?

[Tippy]

I think it's just the most flailing a goblin could possibly do. Almost in, like, a pirouette sort of way, where I'm spinning around right in my head. It's graceful, but really, it's like. And I like trying to punch them off of my body as that's happening.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. And that's all you do?

[Tippy]

That's all I do.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Great. This is with advantage. I think this is just more of a performance check. I think so.

[Tippy]

Okay. Performance with advantage. Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

With advantage.

[Tippy]

Oh, my God. That would have been bad. I rolled the exact same thing. So I want to, as a bonus action, eat one of the mushrooms. I believe it's the Krunger.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, your next roll has advantage. So you want double advantage on this. You wanna roll again? Yeah.

[Tippy]

Can I roll?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, go ahead. Yeah.

[Tippy]

Okay, so I'm gonna roll again. Not good. Oh, my God. Okay, better. 14.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

14 will do it. DC 13 all the way through. And remember, so you have four out of the six, but let's see if you get a full six on here. Yeah, you just go nuts. The fummy crust were right. Your little scaredy goblin. And it seems to work in your favor. Your limbs are flailing.

[Danielle Radford]

Are the bats still batting?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

The bats are still batting this whole time.

[Danielle Radford]

So as Tippi is flailing around with the bats, he keeps missing, and he, like, flings, and a bat, like, starts hitting people in the face.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

He could. He could do that. Yeah. He could disadvantage other people while he's doing that. Sure, his limbs are flailing, but. Yeah, let's say this is going to target Someone other than Tog who's nearby you. So this is more of an attack roll. I think we have ranged attack for bat thrust.

[Tippy]

Okay. I go the bat. They have me. And then I throw one as far away from my face as possible.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And this is with advantage.

[Tippy]

With advantage. All right, so even better. So that's going to be 23.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

A 23. Yeah. You're able to throw your bat at a nearby contestant. It knocks them to the ground, but not in a chaotic way. It actually looks kind of boring the way that they're hit out of the ground by a bat. And you feel. Yeah. Super confident in your. This last turn before it happens, you actually catch a glimpse of Pakara, and she chose a full minute and a half. This girl is rocking it. It's like each of her limbs has a mind of its own. Each ass cheek has a mind of its own.

[Danielle Radford]

Yo, is she throwing in a circle?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Each ass cheek can hit the numbers on a clock.

[Dan Casey]

That donk be Nausen.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yo.

[Tippy]

What that thing doing back there?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Her head and her hips are just swaying as well as her limbs. They're chaotically moving, but very skilled. It's like Pekara was hiding something from you.

[Tippy]

Let me ask you something. Do I roll Wisdom saving?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You absolutely roll Wisdom saving throw.

[Tippy]

Okay. It's a nat 20.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

It's a nat 20 with disadvantage. Okay.

[Tippy]

Disadvantage, Disadvantage, damage. That's going to be a 10.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Just a solid 10.

[Tippy]

Just a solid 10.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You are overcome watching this beautiful, juicy goblin do her thing. And you.

[Tippy]

Yeah. Whoa.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You turn into a were sparrow.

[Tippy]

Oh, no. It's so painful. What am I? Abomination? Disgusting.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You hear the crowd go completely silent and you actually see Pekara look over at you too and kind of look in horror. That's not what I thought.

[Danielle Radford]

That wisdom roll for Dan.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

What is his final move in his wares? Sparrow form.

[Dan Casey]

As Tippy starts freaking out as a weresparrow, he tries to cover his face with his little head feathers.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Don't look at me.

[Dan Casey]

And the bats are freaking out. They do not like this. So they all start descending on him. And it's like he's encased in bats. And slowly Tippy starts to rise as they all carry him up. And all at once, Tippi. Spread eagles or spread sparrows. And all the bats fly off. And he drops to hopefully strike a pose when he lands.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes. What is that pose that you strike? Tippy.

[Tippy]

Tippy with his ears flapping, hovering down. Looks like he's about to strike a gymnast pose, but really goes and covers his privates in case he was rolling for a boner. Okay. He lands and he's like, oh, my.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

It just looks like you have to go to the bathroom. Like a baby has to go to the bathroom. Yes, yes, yes. Okay. Okay. So this is going to be a performance. Check with advantage.

[Tippy]

Okay with advantage.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Don't forget your Bardrick inspiration.

[Tippy]

And okay with advantage. No, really good. That's going to be a 16.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

A 16. GC 13 is all you need. You got a full six points. And the second you knew that, the silence that the crowd has felt actually eroded erupts into roars of approval as this goblin, the weirdest goblin they've ever seen.

[Tippy]

Look at me.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Has farted. Glitter has landed with his hands covering his privates. Has turned into a weresparrow, for goodness sakes. And everyone is cheering. The music does keep going because Hikara is the last one performing and she just. She's eternal. Okay. Like, she is just killing it. So good job, Pakara. Let's see how Tock does. I think I will roll for this because she will be at disadvantage. So this will be three different moves that Tog Tog does. Is that her name?

[Tippy]

Tog.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Tog.

[Tippy]

Tog. Tog Bustflog. Tog Bustflog.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Tippy]

A prison of your own design.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Why made this bed? Why have I made this bed? Tog Bustflog is performing and we're going to roll to see how she does. The first couple are going to be with disadvantage based on the smolder from Tippy and the mean girl from Busy. Disadvantage. Let's see. Okay, already pretty bad. So, yeah, she got a seven. That's not going to do it for her. She's going to do another one. Well, what she tries to do is her kind of twerk moves. So she's going to try to lay on her shoulder again and twerk. And it just. It's not chaotic enough. It actually is pretty smooth and calculated. She's working in fear. The second one, six plus two is eight. Yeah, eight's not going to do it either. So Tog is doing a really abrupt and stunted dance where she throws her arms backwards while her hips are thrusting forwards. Like the other thing she does, she stands on her neck and shoulder and twerks.

[Dan Casey]

That sounds painful.

[Tippy]

Yeah, that's a big.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

It's like a B boy move.

[Tippy]

I don't know if is twerking a B boy move?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I mean, in the air. Well, with their legs up in the air, they can do anything. Yeah.

[Tippy]

B stands for butts.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, yeah.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

I Have actually seen people do that. And then you just make it clap.

[Tippy]

Where can I see that?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

She. So Tog. Tog does a thrusting motion, but because you are staring at her dead in the eyes, it's just not as energetic or thrusting as she would have liked it to be.

[Tippy]

That's weird. That's my sister.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

The weird results are in. And we must cut three of these contestants. Okay, so three others other than Tog did worse than Tog. And you're gonna tell me what their names are. I think we know the vibe of how goblins are named.

[Tippy]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So who's first? Who's out first?

[Tippy]

I'll go. That's gonna be Spizzy Bubble Butt.

[Danielle Radford]

Spizzy.

[Tippy]

Spizzy Bubble Butt.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Spizzy Bubble Butt. Yeah. Spizzy Bubble Butt is out.

[Tippy]

Sorry.

[Danielle Radford]

Spizzy, Skip, Skap, Scallywop.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Great.

[Danielle Radford]

Droolington the third.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Skip's got Scallywop Droolington the third. Great.

[Dan Casey]

And Chunkstopher Sinclair.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, Chunkstopfer. Sinclair is out, and you are left with nine competitors, including Tog and Pekara. Move on to the third game. This game, if you remember, is frog busting. There's a frog busting.

[Tippy]

Frog busting.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

They line you up, all nine of you. You can see the frog, Hemoth. And this creature is really big. He is easily as tall as a tree, as they said, 15ft by 15ft. He's got tentacles, he's got few eyes. Other than that, he does just look like a frog. He's got a body that's just kind of a. Of a thing that his body contains both eyes, mouth, and when he's scrunched up his legs, too, it just looks like a frog shape.

[Tippy]

That's a frog behemoth, all right.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

The only thing you can note is when he does spit out his tongue, there's just these barbed tentacle at the end of it. And it does look like a few of you goblins could fit inside of him very easily. These kind of snake people, Naga, are corralling him and they whip him and he runs off into the swamp. And you see that Pekara gets a 12 second head start. So she heads off into the.

[Dan Casey]

It's two whole rounds.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

The swamp as well. Yeah, two whole rounds to track. And the goal of it, if you remember, is to track, hunt and ride the frog behemoth back across this line that is drawn where you're starting from.

[Tippy]

Okay?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And right now there are nine of you left, including you and Picara.

[Tippy]

And the frog has run off out of sight. I assume into the swamp now.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And the two Naga who are corralling this guy are nearby. After 12 seconds, you are released.

[Tippy]

I want to immediately roll investigation to see if I can pick up some tracks.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. And that will be a survival check.

[Tippy]

Okay, Sure. A survival check. That's gonna be 17.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

17. Yeah. You can not only track the frog Heemoth, you can also track Pekara. And at this point in the game, the others are moving kind of in that direction as well. So we've got Pekara and Tippi and the seven others.

[Danielle Radford]

So Tippi is already on the trail of the froggy myth.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Well, unless there was something that you wanted to prep.

[Danielle Radford]

What I would like to do is if, since Bacara and Tippi already have a head start, I want to do it so that there's a second trail of footprints to hopefully confuse. So I would cast my image and there's another trail of footprints to confuse everyone.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, my gosh. Okay. You do this very quickly because, you see, the froghemoth kind of has these webbed feet, claws, almost like hooves. They're flat, but they do have toes. You just can do this. So I'm going to have some people roll to see how confused they are by them. And this will just be straight up intelligence check. And what is Your spell save DC?

[Danielle Radford]

My spell save DC is 11.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Is there something you're doing to let Tippi know that these aren't real?

[Danielle Radford]

The tracks?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. To help him out.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah. And each one of the tracks, if you look, and Tippi obviously, like, he's intelligent, like, he can see things very well. It's like the very tiniest version of the emblem that we are using for the banner.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Go ahead. And you will make this intelligence saving throw with advantage.

[Tippy]

Gotcha.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Tippy]

With advantage. That's going to be 15.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, cool. No. Yes. No. No. And then yes and yes. Okay. Four out of the other seven are confused, at least at first. So now it's you. Picara and three others seem to be on the correct trail. You track your way through. You're following this guy. He moves way faster than you, as a goblin does, but he is loud, and he breaks through some of the branches and the trees. The other goblins are right on your heels. Is there anything you do as these other three are kind of right up against you?

[Tippy]

As they're right up against me. I'm going to cast launch strider on myself.

[Dan Casey]

Damn.

[Tippy]

To run faster than them, so it increases my movement speed.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. As you do that. Look, they're out of range. From lots of things that are going on. So one of them is going to try to attack you, hit you with a Scimitar, does an 18 hit.

[Tippy]

It hits.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. As you leave their range, they actually do four slashing damage to you. I'm going to say another one. Another one attempts to reach out to you, but let's see, they go ahead and miss you.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

But you are.

[Tippy]

I'm bounding ahead. I don't want to stood up for anything.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. You two. Notice that some of the fummy crests come up to you, and they're, like, doing hand signals to each other. And with the bats in play, you kind of get the sense that these famicrusts might have a way with animals, something that many goblins do. Not many. Not every single tribe has this. But many goblin clans do have an affinity towards at least things like rats and wolves, bats, that kind of thing. And they're making hand signals, and it looks like they're going to edge themselves into the forest on the sides. Is there anything you'd like to do now that you see them doing that?

[Dan Casey]

I'd like to follow the foamy crusts to the edge of the forest.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. They know that you're the bannerman and they'll allow you to do that. They're going to just tell you to be very quiet.

[Dan Casey]

I will.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Dan Casey]

I'll be super quiet.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. And you enter the swamp as well. You don't know where they're going, but they seem to know where they're going. You go ahead and follow them. All right.

[Danielle Radford]

Busy's gonna go in a little bit, but she also wants to kind of watch to see if anybody else is gonna try to enter the swampy area. Aside from these.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, absolutely. Yes. The funnycrusts are not the only ones who are trying to cheat right now. There are plenty of other goblins, I would say. At first glance, it seems as though less stealthy than the famicrusts are. You can see about four different goblins kind of doing the same tactic. And just to be clear, it's outside of the game area. It just. It's a little bit further out. But, yeah, four goblins are trying to make their way in.

[Danielle Radford]

Can I tell who they are for or are they just, like, who they're trying to help?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Well, let's roll for it.

[Dan Casey]

So that Wilhelm donk nozzle.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Go ahead and make a perception check.

[Danielle Radford]

That's a 20.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, okay.

[Danielle Radford]

So that's a 22.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. Okay. So they're helping a couple of goblins numby gum trunk.

[Danielle Radford]

Numby gum trunk. Gum trunk.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

Gum's like a truck.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Gum trunk.

[Tippy]

Gum trunk trunk.

[Dan Casey]

Trunk's like a gum, gum, gum.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, man. That's all we can afford. Nergum Nerg herfladurg.

[Dan Casey]

Nerg herfladurg.

[Tippy]

Nerg herfladurg.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Herfla Derg.

[Tippy]

Let me just make sure I'm writing that right. Nerg.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, so I'm gonna just to the same basic arrangement. Okay, so.

[Tippy]

Got it.

[Danielle Radford]

I wrote Herfla durg because I can. Goblins are close enough. I think I can use disguise self. So I am going to. I'm gonna disguise myself to look like. What was it?

[Dan Casey]

Nerg herfla Derg.

[Tippy]

Nerg herfla durk.

[Danielle Radford]

Derk.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Nerg herfla durk. You definitely can disguise yourself as the Goblin competitor. Nerg Herfla Durg.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah, so I just look like Nerf. Herfla Durg. And I'm like, from Goblin.

[Tippy]

Octoberfest.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Of the Swedish.

[Danielle Radford]

Of the Swedish.

[Tippy]

The Swedish Gobs.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

The Swedish Gobs.

[Danielle Radford]

So I. Yeah. So Bizzy goes up to Nerfs people. Nerg Nerg's people. Nerg her people.

[Tippy]

Sorry.

[Danielle Radford]

Sorry. And just acts, like, really out of breath. I lost. I lost it. I lost it. I lost the.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Whoa. Oh.

[Danielle Radford]

Sorry. I lost it.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I lost it. Deception. Oh, God. With advantage, because you look just like her.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay.

[Tippy]

I think Nerd probably has a Swedish accent.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Great.

[Danielle Radford]

So that was deception.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

So that is 17.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

17.

[Danielle Radford]

I lost him.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I lost.

[Tippy]

I lost the frog. I think Nurk sounds Swedish, doesn't it?

[Danielle Radford]

I lost the frog.

[Dan Casey]

Frog.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

No, no. You lost.

[Danielle Radford]

I lost the frog.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Why didn't you do it? I looked at the frog.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I think we can safely say Nerg hervla durg eventually will be out when we see them coming. Or actually, we don't know if Nergarflodurg is out, but we do know that Nergarflodurg's people consider her. They're gonna keep talking to her and get her just be distracted.

[Dan Casey]

When you say out, do you mean out of the competition or openly Swedish narc?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Herfla Derg's help.

[Tippy]

It's a safe place. Safe place.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Nar Herfla Derg's helpers are going to be completely distracted by you for maybe this entire match.

[Danielle Radford]

I've written to the Herflgerdurgar name.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, no. What are worshippers and doom bird dudes?

[Danielle Radford]

I know.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

We have to find a frog.

[Tippy]

The nightmare corner of this tournament.

[Danielle Radford]

We have to find the frog.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. Okay. Perfect. Okay. Oh, My God. Okay, so, Tippi, you do come across the froghemoth. And let's see how Pekara does with the froghemoth. Pekara is actually in the middle of getting attacked by the frog hemoth. And she goes, oh, this froggy made this more than I bargained for. And she's, like, trying to dance out of the way. But the frog hemoth, let's see if he lands an attack. Yeah, he does. And you see her take a hit as this guy just kind of tries to munch on her.

[Tippy]

How is Pokara looking?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Uh.

[Tippy]

Oh, Looking worse for wear or.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, it looks like it wouldn't be long before the froghemoth actually swallows her up.

[Tippy]

So. So I know this would be a perfect time for Tippi to just run up and hop on the frog behemoth and ride away. But it's Picara, so he's gonna go and run to Picara and he's gonna go, pekara, open your mouth. Eat this. And I toss a hearty truffle into her mouth.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. You spend your hearty truffle. And she is back to full health. You can see that that motivates her. And she says, more than one of us can fit on this. It doesn't have to be just one person. And run across the finish line. If we can tame this beast, then it might be all of us. If we can get there and the other goblins are coming up and going, I'd be down with that. I don't.

[Danielle Radford]

No, you're not part of our group.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, okay, well, okay, fine. Get away from us. So they're gonna do their own trying to get up on the Froghemoth's back themselves. But she says, I don't think this thing's meant to be fought. I think we're supposed to be part of some version of the Naga world. It's friends.

[Tippy]

We gotta get on top of it and become its friend. But you know what we can fight is these other gobs.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Tippy.

[Tippy]

I'm just saying it should be me and me across.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so as the goblins are trying to get on top of the frog behemoth, what would you like to do?

[Tippy]

I would like Pecari to use her gun.

[Dan Casey]

One in the chest and two in the back.

[Tippy]

Yes, exactly.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so she's gonna aim it not. Not right at the frog behemoth, but at one of the goblins.

[Tippy]

Well, we want to do like action movie line ourselves, gun to gun. And, you know, okay, she's gonna be.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Able to roll with advantage because you're helping her. No problem. She gets one of the goblins, and all's fair in love and goblin war. So let's see. She doesn't do that much damage, but yeah, she nicks one of them, and he falls off the frog behemoth. What about you?

[Tippy]

I'm gonna go. Hey, makora, I've got a gun too. But you haven't seen this one. And the little googly eyes sort of pop up and look at her and wink. And I'm gonna fire it at the goblin.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. Awesome. Make an attack roll.

[Tippy]

Okay, that's gonna be a 15.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

15 hits.

[Tippy]

Okay, 15 hits.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes.

[Tippy]

This thing is going to take two D8 damage and get moved back five feet.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Tippy]

Sorry. The goblin is gonna take that much damage, and that's gonna be seven damage, plus my proficiency.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So go ahead and describe how this goblin dies. Oh, damn.

[Tippy]

So out of this tiny gun, the googly eyes pop up and they wink at Picara. And then almost like a cartoon, like a big, giant cannonball inside starts moving as if it. It was like, going up the esophagus of something, right? And it just regurgitates a giant cannonball and just blasts. Honestly, just blasts this goblin into smithereens.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Tippy]

I'm like, oh, no.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Whoa. Tiffy, I didn't know you had it in you.

[Tippy]

I'm just saying it's the first time that worked. I genuinely just miss with this.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I'm so excited. Excited by this. You're still in wear sparrow form. You haven't changed yet.

[Tippy]

Oh, I am. Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, you haven't changed. So we're gonna say that numby gum trunk is dead.

[Tippy]

Oh, no.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, God. Oh, my God. Nerve Herrfladorg is still alive, but she's up there. Maybe she was the one who just got knocked off. So there's still one with you, and then there's a few other stragglers, she says. I think even if these guys get on top, I feel like now's our chance to get.

[Tippy]

Let's go.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, great. Get up on there. So because you're helping each other, you go ahead and roll on animal handling.

[Tippy]

Oh, animal handling. Okay, let's see.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, with advantage.

[Tippy]

With advantage. Let's see.

[Dan Casey]

Roll, intimidate frog.

[Tippy]

16 plus animal handling is 17.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

17 is gonna tame the animal enough so that you are able to get up there. Now you're gonna need to get up on its back without the tentacles swiping you. So this is going to be a dexterity saving throw. And Picara's going to make one as well, okay.

[Tippy]

I can do that.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Ooh, yeah. She gets a 16.

[Tippy]

I get an 8.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so she's able to make it up. You're not.

[Tippy]

I have bardic inspiration. Let's see what I get. That's nine.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Nine. Yeah. You're still not able to get up. And she's trying to straddle this big frog, and she sees that you haven't made it up there. She tosses you a rope, and you're gonna use your acrobatic. She's gonna use her strength to get up there, but she's not very strong.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Still though, she do well. Yes, she did. Okay, a 14.

[Tippy]

I did 14.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

A 14. I'm gonna say she's able to lift you on with her, but these other goblins are gonna make a try, too.

[Dan Casey]

Your ear wings working overtime.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

One of them is going to actually slash at your leg, Tippy. And for four slashing damage.

[Tippy]

Oh, it hits. Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yep.

[Tippy]

Four slashing damage.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, you've got a slash on your leg. You've got two goblins coming up. The frog Heemoth is actually going to be very irritated and swallow the first goblin in front of it. And there are still a few hanging around who aren't able to get on it. Pecora says if you know anything about this, we've got to get it across the finish line before it does any more damage to us. What? So all these goblins.

[Tippy]

Okay, you get it moving. I'm gonna hold off these other goblins.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Perfect. Great. So she's gonna roll animal handling, which I think is a wisdom saving. That's correct. Okay, let's see, Picara, how much wisdom do you have? Not good. Minus two. Actually, no. Oh, my God. Yeah. Three. Okay, so she. She does not do well. However, the Fummy Crush are nearby.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

The frog Hemeth rears back on its legs.

[Tippy]

So I would imagine at the same time, I've told her to drive the frog hemoth while I hold off the goblin. So Tippy turns around and fires at any goblin he sees.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, roll two attacks.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You actually are looking for an AC or to meter bead an AC of 15.

[Tippy]

Meter beat an AC of 15. Cakewalk. That's 25. Yeah, for the first shot. And the other shot will be with the Eldritch cannon because it is a bonus action. Damn.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, fine. Brutal.

[Tippy]

That's gonna be another 21, so.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, my God. Okay, roll damage for those two.

[Tippy]

So just for the normal pistol, that's just. That's gonna be. Oh, that's gonna be 8 plus 4. So 12.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

12 will kill the goblin.

[Tippy]

So I put one right between his eyes.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Tippy]

And I'm like, oh, man. I'm usually not very accurate. And then with the other one, I kind of like lean back and I'm like. Cause I'm still a werebird. And that one does another 12 points of damage and blasts whoever that is five feet back.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Well, who it is, is.

[Tippy]

No, no, I keep forgetting.

[Dan Casey]

No, not Nerg.

[Tippy]

Herplatonna.

[Danielle Radford]

Nerd.

[Tippy]

Not Nerg. Anybody but Nerg.

[Dan Casey]

What two lives did Tibby just take?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You killed Clack Crust Monk.

[Tippy]

Clapped Crust Monk.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And he got clapped and Lurt. Naga Flab. Naga Flab Flap or Flab Flabba with a B.

[Tippy]

Don't come any closer. Cause if you come up here, I'll blast ya.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, stop killing. She's got the lust now. I don't want. I wouldn't do it, but I will. Kerr Flederg is on the back now with you. She was the one. Maybe one of the ones who hit you. And you also have another person on the back too.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. So you've got a couple of goblins up there with you and Fibs. You arrive with the fummycrusts and you see the froghemoth bucking like a bronco. Is there anything you'd like to do to help?

[Dan Casey]

How far away am I?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You're gonna really clearly overhear the Thammy Crest whispering together that say, like, we've gotta zonk him out. We've gotta zonk him out. The best way to zonk him out is gonna be is lightning. Apparently lightning just zonks him. Just gives him a full almost lobotomy. It's nuts. They don't tell this to everybody. But I got on Wentz good graces.

[Dan Casey]

All right, I am gonna try and sneak up and get within 15ft. And fibs is gonna point and say, oh, my God, is that another. Is that another froghemoth over there? And cast lightning lure using the hat of wizardry to send out a rope of pure lightning to try and pull the froghemoth towards him.

[Tippy]

Yes.

[Dan Casey]

Okay, that is going to be a strength saving throw of, I believe 1313.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And he is corralled. So he'll be rolling with a disadvantage. But he still has a high strength. But he got a natural one.

[Dan Casey]

Let's go.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Let's go.

[Tippy]

He fails. Idiot.

[Danielle Radford]

Stupid frog.

[Tippy]

Stupid fog.

[Dan Casey]

He pulled 10ft towards me and then takes 1d8 lightning damage. Roll that. Now he takes one lightning damage.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

He takes one lightning damage. Okay, so you See that this damage does not do that much to him. However, it's as the foamy crest said. And you can see that his eyes just kind of go and, like, he's suffering. I think. I think he is. This being made of mostly water. So you and Picara might take one lightning damage as well.

[Tippy]

We can do that.

[Dan Casey]

And after that, Fibs is going to try and withdraw because he doesn't want.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

To get out of there. Okay, cool. Yeah. You were trying to roll a stealth check because we do have some goblins around.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, that's not my strong suit. That's a six.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

A six. You are going to attract one of the goblins, and they are going to attack you. They're going to shoot a shortbow at you with a 22 to hit.

[Dan Casey]

I get that. That hits by 10.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, cool. You take five piercing damage as you move your way into the swamp. But the funmiquests are on you. Going. That was amazing. That was so good. That was so good. I wish you just did. Yeah, the lightning. That's what we were thinking, but we're not booyahgs like you. The frog behemoth is cowed a little. Go ahead and make an animal handling check with advantage.

[Tippy]

Okay, hold on, Pekara, Let me try. And I go. And with advantage, I'd be 16.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

16. Yeah. You're gonna need to do this a couple more times in order to get it across the finish line.

[Tippy]

Was that my action to corral the.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, if you want it to be. I think so.

[Tippy]

Let me know.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, yeah. That'll be your action with Picaro.

[Tippy]

So as a bonus action, because I need my hands to rein this thing. Cause does it have reins or. When we do the anima handling, what does it look like for this frog?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You're kind of grabbing onto someone. Warts on its back.

[Tippy]

I'm grabbing the warts.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Dan Casey]

Just rat tattooing.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tippy]

And because I got a rat tatooey, this frog, I go gun tippy. Do your thing, and I drop. I drop him and the legs come out like, all right. And he just turns his whole head at the first goblin he sees and blasts.

[Dan Casey]

Goodbye, Nerg.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, like, who's on there? Okay, it's Yunk Jagger.

[Tippy]

Yunk Jagger. I aim at Yunk Jagger.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I don't.

[Tippy]

I don't know why. I have a soft spot for Nurg Hurflajurg. I don't know why Nerg is trying to kill me. I'm disarmed by how Swedish Nurgh is. I've never seen a Swedish Goblin. It feels wrong to kill her.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so Yanka Jagger.

[Tippy]

Yeah. Okay, roll the hit. Yank Jagger. And that will be like, 23.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, that hits.

[Tippy]

That hits. I'm rolling well today somehow. So that is gonna be six plus six. 12 points of damage.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

12 points of damage. Okay. That normally would kill most of your competitors. However, you get the sense that yunk Jagger can take a few punches. This guy is in line to be a captain Goblin.

[Tippy]

Now it pushes them back five feet.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, here's what happens. So he does get pushed off of the froghemoth. The froghemoth, however, losing a bit of his prey, is going to get distracted by that, and he's going to try to swallow yonk.

[Tippy]

Yonk.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. Easy, easy.

[Dan Casey]

Yonk Jagger.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yonk Jagger. Yank Jagger is gobbled up. You've got nurg purflo Durg left. There are some other goblins still in the race, but they're just not on your level. The froghemoth is moving a little bit too fast.

[Tippy]

All right, So I don't see busier fibs at all.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

No, because busy looks like another nurg. Okay, okay. So another animal handling just to get the frog behemoth go in.

[Tippy]

You got it. With advantage, without advantage.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Well, Picard's helping you, so. With advantage.

[Tippy]

With advantage. Nice. Okay. With advantage. I rolled a 19, so that's gonna be dirty 20.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

A dirty 20. Yeah. You're able to get the froghemoth in the right direction.

[Tippy]

Whoa, boy. And I dig my fingernails into its warts. Come on, boy. Heal, heal.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Let's see if any of these other ones catch up with you. No, they don't. But Nerg is gonna be holding on. No problem. Yunk is swallowed. I'm gonna say at this point, you do run right across the line, and it's you, Pekara, Nurg herflodurg. And as nurg herflo durg crosses the line, the other goblins who were talking to you go. We're finish line. Oh, no. Who are you? We're friends. No, I.

[Tippy]

Sister.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You're not two twins.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, no.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh. Nervous. The guys is up.

[Danielle Radford]

Busy doesn't want to drop it because obviously, like, busy doesn't want anything to happen. So busy just goes like, oh, no, the game's a fort. And like. And, like, runs off and then goes and hides behind a tree and then stealthily un gobs and sneaks back over to where the crowd is.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, Roll a stealth check. See if this happens.

[Danielle Radford]

11.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

11. Okay. You're actually gonna get attacked by these goblins. Oh, no, they do not like that. They got hoodwinked by you. Oh. Ooh, pretty good.

[Tippy]

Two hurtful dergs.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

That is a 19 to hit. And that is a 21 to hit. They're gonna do a lot of damage. They're gonna do 13 slashing damage to you.

[Dan Casey]

Total or total?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Total.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dan Casey]

Thank God.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

All right.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And they're actually gonna chase you. The Nergarflurdergs are on your butt now. Nergluck nurse. This is gonna become antics for the crowd. They're gonna see that you're running from these Nerg Herflurgs, but they're gonna be cheering for the Nerg Herfla Durg supporters.

[Danielle Radford]

So they're cheering against me. Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, they just love it. Chase. Yeah, they love it.

[Danielle Radford]

So I am going to cast because I still have it. I am going to cast dancing lights to make it so they can't see. Like, just put the dancing lights.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, to blind their face. Yeah. Okay, great.

[Danielle Radford]

It's four torch sized lights within range. Blah, blah, blah.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. You're just doing this to surprise them, but I'm down to make this a roll for them. They're going to make a wisdom saving throw to see if they're actually blinded or can move through the light. One of them makes it. The. The other one. What is your DC again?

[Danielle Radford]

My DC is 11.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So a 10 no longer works. Yes. So one of them is still on your butt.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And the other one just goes. What is this? I don't know anymore. Yeah. So he's surprised, but the other one is still on your butt. The funicrusts and fibs are coming back. And you on the froghemoth run across the line with Picara and Nerg. Nerg, as it turns out, with Yonk Jagger in the belly.

[Tippy]

I have my eldritch cannon run up my body and perch on my shoulder like a parrot.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, perfect. You see the Nagas, what they do is as they're corralling this beast one more time, they jab its gut and it vomits up Yunk Jagger. And you see the referee rule that that counts. That being inside of his gut actually counts as.

[Tippy]

Didn't it swallow some other gobs or are they dead?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I think it was almost Pekara and then just Yun. Got it.

[Tippy]

Got it.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Clack. Crestmonk and Lurk. Nagaflab. They're dead.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah, they both got obliterated by Tippi's cannon.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so the other ones who are out but still alive.

[Dan Casey]

Who's out but still alive.

[Tippy]

Their first and last Name.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So thank you.

[Tippy]

Real quick, just really quick, really quick.

[Dan Casey]

Just for posterity, if you don't mind.

[Tippy]

Go ahead and give me their first and last name. Go ahead.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

These are the last two Goblin names I have to make up too. Thank God.

[Dan Casey]

For now.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

For now. Okay.

[Dan Casey]

Do we meet literally anyone else?

[Tippy]

I mean, this is my favorite. This is my absolute.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

We should have come here immediately.

[Tippy]

This is better than anything that's happened.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I had a. A game plan, and all you want to do is play this other game of making every name Goblins. It is Nag Nug Yort. Okay.

[Tippy]

I mean, it's fantastic.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Still alive. That didn't make it out of the competition.

[Tippy]

Magnug, Magnug.

[Dan Casey]

You're disqualified.

[Tippy]

And out of the match is Nagnugn.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, you hate to see it. Nagnug Yort was a fan favorite coming into this year at the comedy Games.

[Danielle Radford]

You know, really, really, really promising. Coming out of. Coming out of the college of Swords.

[Tippy]

He really thought Young Jagger would make it a little bit further, but it seems like he's met his ass. Young Jagger still is a real champion. Yellow.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And the other one who's alive but didn't make it quite is Rart.

[Dan Casey]

And Rart's last name.

[Tippy]

And is that a R, a W.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

R T R A R T R A R T. Rart and Huffmanp.

[Tippy]

Huffman.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Huffman.

[Tippy]

Huffman. Man, I mean, these are incredible.

[Dan Casey]

That's a tough break for Rod Huffman. His rookie season comes to a close.

[Danielle Radford]

He came out of a good G1 school. Oh, my God.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Beautiful. Guys, guys. Okay, so, okay.

[Tippy]

On the frog behemoth.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

On the frog behemoth, you and Picara, they're not going to get their frog behemoth under control. And Picara, Donknuzzle, Tippy, Terror Squad, Yonk Jagger and Nurg Hervladurg, Nurgarvludurg are all declared ready to go to the fourth challenge.

[Dan Casey]

Wow.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So you move on to the fourth challenge. This is fast and furious. They're moving through. Goblins don't have much attention span. And the last four of you are shown the four piles. Again. You are told that your job is to build a dungeon. You have an hour, and at the end of it, they're going to send 20 goblins in. No one will die. If anyone dies, they're going to give them healing potions. But the goal is to have 20 goblins go through your dungeon. And the dungeon that captures or kills the most goblins will be the winner of the goblin hero challenge. So you see that Picara and Nurg and Yank all get separated from you. Pekara actually gets the choice of her first pile. She does choose the metal scrap pile, being a tinkerer herself. Dang it. Yeah.

[Tippy]

I thought I was gonna go for.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I know. But she gave Glomgan a wet willy, and she gets the favorite roll, a D6 and 1 and 2 gets you a first choice after Picara. 3 and 4 gets you second, and 5 and 6 gets you the third choice.

[Tippy]

Okay, 3.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

3. Okay, so you get second choice. Okay, so Nurgh Herfladurg is going to choose the pile of animal material, leathers and furs. You have a choice between the pile that contains bricks and stones or wooden planks and flats and boards. And all the piles have plant fiber, like, made as ropes and dirt clods.

[Tippy]

Sidebar. Really quick. Yeah, guys, which pile? Which pile?

[Dan Casey]

Well, if you're going for optimal trapability and stuff that can collapse in on itself, maybe easier to maneuver. I'd probably say the wood, but if you're looking for something that's more durable, obviously the stone.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah.

[Tippy]

So should we go for durable or should we go for flexibility?

[Dan Casey]

I'd say look inside and go for what?

[Tippy]

You know, I look deep inside myself and I flash back to putting bullets in the heads of enemy goblins, and I go, we need to create a dungeon that's gonna kill the most goblins.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tippy]

That's going to absolutely maim and destroy them, of course. And I think we need to be creative and we need to be flexible. So let's go with the wood.

[Dan Casey]

All right.

[Danielle Radford]

All right.

[Tippy]

Tippy goes and goes. I want the wood pile.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. You get the wood pile. You get some goblins to help you move all of this towards your. And what you see at the end is that you have basically a tunnel that's about 40ft long that has one curve, and on the curve it goes another 20ft, and it culminates in a bit of a cave that's about 25 foot radius. That's what you get to build. So what I'm going to do is any ideas you have, let me know what you would like to do. Again, the goal is going to be to kill or capture 20 goblins who come through this. And you basically have an hour. So as you come up with ideas, I'll tell you about how long it would take to build that.

[Tippy]

Okay. Because of my artificer's ability, the right tools for the job, I have a woodcarver's tool kit.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, amazing.

[Tippy]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. So anything that would be Built with wood. I'll let you roll for advantage. Okay, great Fibs. And busy is also casters. You know that there are also magic traps that can be made as well. You'll probably have ideas for that yourself. But, Tippi, you would have more of the functional mechanical traps. I guess what we'll go around and do is all four of us, me included with Luff, are going to have ideas of what we can do. So, Tippi, do you have any ideas at first.

[Tippy]

So if I know goblins, I know that their hunger for snacks is impeccable. So I think the first trap should look innocuous. Maybe a bat burger lying greedily in the light. And boom. Gets him with something right away. Maybe a pit to start.

[Danielle Radford]

Busy can take her great sword and use that to whittle from some of the wood and make those into pointed spikes.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Tippy]

So it's like a spike pitch, your classic spike pit.

[Dan Casey]

So we make a pressure plate. When the last person rounds the corner, it detonates a bead of force to cave in the tunnel behind them. Meanwhile, down the hall in front of them, we will have Luff, who will blast her webs to entangle everyone. And then from the wall, we have these little panels that come out and blast the burning hands.

[Tippy]

And as they're on fire at the very, very end of the hallway will be gun typing blood, blasting anybody who survives the flaming horrific traps. And to put the icing on top, I want to create a wooden false wall on wheels with gun ports where the homunculus and gun, Tippy and Tippy will shoot through.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

A dungeon blind.

[Tippy]

Yeah, yeah, A dungeon blind that sort of pushes forward so as if the wall is closing in on them, but the wall is actually closing in on them and shooting at them as they try to remove.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Brutal. Brutal. Okay, cool.

[Tippy]

With my last spell slot, I carve, like, a wooden, Small, wooden kegger. We'll do another kegger.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Tippy]

I'm going to imbue it with Tasha's caustic brew. So it'll also detonate with another pressure plate behind them that they'll step on that triggers a giant barrel of this stuff to drop from the ceiling on top of it.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. And let me run how I think you want this to go first. A few goblins come in. They get a bat burger. A couple of them fall into a pit with spikes, unable to get out. Then the others figure this out. They go around the pit or are able to figure out a way over it. Once they get there, they're going to keep going Run up against a pressure plate, and once the last one is through, the entire ceiling is going to fall in on them. As they keep going. They can't, because luff is going to entangle most of them. Even those that aren't entangled are gonna take some fire damage. Even those that aren't are gonna get slammed by the homunculus and the cannon. And if they make it through, you want one more pressure plate so that a Tasha's caustic brew will fall on some of them.

[Danielle Radford]

And also, just to add it, busy is going to be also using her clipboard to waft the smell of the rat burger. Like, we want to make sure that they are going.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

It's irresistible, that protein smell in the air.

[Danielle Radford]

We got to get the protein smell in the air.

[Dan Casey]

Use the sheet.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. It's filled with protein.

[Tippy]

Use the sheet.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

So let's say you took about 10 minutes of planning and brainstorming. 10 minutes for the pit with busy at the helm along with the homunculus help. And then the pressure plates are going to spend the rest of the time. And busy, I'm going to say, because you are such a good planner, everything's going to be able to get done, but we're going to see how well it gets done. This is all going to be straight up intelligence checks, easy. And you'll be able to roll them with advantage since Bizzy's got a organizer's line item brain. Okay, let's roll for the pit first. Bizzy, will you roll? Yeah. Just a straight up intelligence check.

[Danielle Radford]

Straight up intelligence.

[Tippy]

We're all rolling that right now.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I think we should do a group check. Yeah.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

It'll be a pretty high gc. Well, it's gonna be on a sliding scale. We'll see how you roll. And I'll make a mark of that.

[Tippy]

So I just rolled an 18.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

An 18 and 12. Well, actually, everybody with advantage though, cause remember. Oh, right. Okay, go ahead.

[Danielle Radford]

The 12 stays also a 12.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, perfect. Okay, so now let's roll for the first pressure plate. This is going to be a. Oh, boy. Ceiling cave in.

[Tippy]

Nat. 20.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

16.

[Dan Casey]

Unnatural 21.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, that one's gonna work very well. Then we've got the Tasha's pressure plate.

[Tippy]

Amazing. That's gonna be 23.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

17. 13. 17 and 13. And the last thing is it's gonna be the blind. The wooden blind.

[Tippy]

Wooden blind. Oh, my gosh. With advantage, that's gonna be 18 again.

[Dan Casey]

15.

[Danielle Radford]

15.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Everyone feels really confident about the pressure plates and the pits and wooden blinds are going to be Less effective. Let's send in some goblins.

[Tippy]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You're going to hear a horn blow and 20 goblins are being sent in. The first couple are going to be inspired by this pit. So let's see this pit. It's going to be a little easier to overcome a DC13. But these goblins, I wouldn't say are necessarily too intelligent and they are very motivated by a burger.

[Tippy]

Izzy wafted the burger smell.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

They do not sense the trap. So 1d. Four goblins fall into the trap. Three, you can hear the screams of.

[Dan Casey]

Certain goblins fooled by one burger.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, three. They're nearby. They're in a clump. They're kind of in a line. And yeah, you hear them scream and fall into the pit. You can hear them contemplate how to get past this. And they build a goblin bridge as they cross over this pit very easily. And they come up against the pressure cave. So you have 17 left. You hear a couple koochunk over a couple kachunk over a few more. We're getting to the last ones. They do not sense the pressure plate. Oh, yes. And this one is actually the reason is because you guys got a 20, a 16 and a 21. This one works very, very well. The ceiling is going to cave in and they need to make a really strong DC God. DC18 dexterity saving throw in order to not be smushed by just the ceiling. So you've got seven who were able to get out of the way. The rest take full damage. They are not dead, but they are. All of those are at half hit points at this point.

[Tippy]

So so far the goblins have walked in. They're like, mm, Bat burger fell into a spike pit. And they're like, ah, built a bridge over it, stepped on a plate. And now it seems like where they came in has imploded.

[Dan Casey]

Beat a force detonated to bring the ceiling down on them.

[Tippy]

Bring the ceiling down on them and covered a lot of them up in the rubble.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes. And they also can't get out the way they came now, which is will you go ahead and make the web attack?

[Dan Casey]

Yes. That's a natural 20.

[Danielle Radford]

Yes.

[Tippy]

Yes.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Louf.

[Tippy]

That's my girl.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so they actually get to make strength saving throws to make sure that they do not get captured in Loof's web web. So the 10 who got crushed will automatically fail. The other seven are going to fail and very fail. And one more roll for a final two to see. And two are going to save the front five are going to be completely webbed. The Back five won't be webbed, but it's gonna be like basically between a rock and a hard place. They're gonna be all jammed up. Two of them are going to make it through, and they've taken no damage so far. But Lou's feeling very good about herself. TABOR Second pressure plate. This one's going to be a DC17. But let's see if they get caught by the pressure plate. One will and the other one will save. That leaves one more. So the brew falls down from the ceiling.

[Tippy]

The brew falls down and it emanates a five foot wide, 30ft long. Oh, yeah, it kind of just. And engulfs them in acid. Any creature covered in acid, it takes 2d4 damage on each of the start of their turn.

[Dan Casey]

Don't forget about the burning hands after the.

[Tippy]

And the burning hands is about to come.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

It's coming.

[Tippy]

It's coming.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, that's gonna knock out several of the Goblins. You can't really tell how many just yet, but yeah, everyone's covered in acid. The wooden blind is holding up, but because I'm gonna say that y'all need to roll a DC16 dexterity saving throw just to make sure you're not all also blasted with acid.

[Tippy]

Okay, let's do it. Let's do it.

[Dan Casey]

17.

[Tippy]

Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and eat my last Krunger and I'm gonna try to roll with advantage. And that's gonna be a 16.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

DC 16, you save. Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

Dirty 20.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Dirty 20. So all of you save. Yeah, with the blind, you're able to block that and dodge out of the way. You saw it coming, no problem. Yeah. Several Goblins are completely down. You do have one Goblin who hasn't taken any damage yet, but that seems like your cue. Fibs.

[Tippy]

Fibs, light him up.

[Dan Casey]

You're in the wrong part of town, little goddy. And then Fibs puts his hands together and from it the fingertips erupt torrents of flame that engulf this poor bastard.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, how many points of damage do they take?

[Dan Casey]

Are you gonna make a Dex saving throw for DC 13?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

No, that is a four.

[Dan Casey]

Okay, that is going to be 13 points of fire damage. And anything flammable around him catches on fire.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Definitely the web. He's also been covered in acid. This one goes down. Busy. Is there anything you'd like to do to this sad bit of Goblin meat?

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, so he is currently on.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

On fire.

[Danielle Radford]

On fire.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Burning with acid, Burning with acid, Burning with acid.

[Danielle Radford]

Do we know which Goblin this is?

[Dan Casey]

First and last, please.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

What's the last name for this last goblin. So technically, you wouldn't know this goblin's name. However, I think tell my relatives, in his final words, Mudja bumfra.

[Tippy]

Mudja bum.

[Danielle Radford]

Mudja bumfra. Okay.

[Tippy]

Get a load of this.

[Dan Casey]

Mudja bumfra.

[Danielle Radford]

And so Bizzy is going to cast. Just comprehend languages.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. To see what that means, what his name means.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, that was his name. I thought that was, like, his last word to him.

[Tippy]

Is it a language?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Actually, though, I love that as an action. So that is what you do. And you know that this goblin's name means butterfly who holds the morning.

[Tippy]

Okay. Matcha umbrella. Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

But that's it. Like, he's dying. Like, it's done.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, yeah. But you get this poetic sense that, like, actually, maybe these goblin names have a deeper meaning to them. Oh, yes. Amazing. Okay, so you're playing their final round.

[Tippy]

So as busy makes fake trumpet noise, I go, that's right. Bizzy's giving us the signal to fire. I unload my entire arsenal on Mudja Bumphra. As I shoot my gun, Eldritch Cannon shoots his gun. And the Mahomakulus has a force projectile attack as well. And so it's just like a. Oh, my God.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Guys, I don't know if these goblins are gobbled to be able to be brought back to life.

[Dan Casey]

They're going to give him a single health potion.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Mucha Vampra is totally annihilated. Fire and will. Guys, Guys. It all happened so fast. This happened so fast. This is about just a few seconds later after they sent the goblins in. You are different people than you were when you hosted Unzug's lair. And you have become masters of Dungeon Makers. There's a lot of smoke. The acid's still burning the ground. You can hear a goblin go. Can we dig you out now? Hello? Any survivors?

[Tippy]

You're gonna bring them back, right? Cause they're pretty chopped up in here. Like, it's bad.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Is that Tippy Terror Squad?

[Tippy]

Yes, Tippy Terror Squad.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so you have 20 goblins decimated. Really?

[Dan Casey]

Because they want a burger.

[Tippy]

Yeah. Oh, would you guys like a bat burger?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

No. I see the trap. It's out in the open. Good job. So we'll send someone to get you out. And after some.

[Tippy]

Okay, you're sure the healing potion's gonna work? Because we poured acid on them, burned them, dropped them in a pit, lit them on fire with web, and I shot them a lot.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, Like, a lot. We'll have the judges come in and do their due diligence. On.

[Tippy]

Okay. There's a Mudjub bum fra. That just. There's pieces of him everywhere. Yeah, there's pieces of him everywhere.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

That's not mudjub.

[Tippy]

You're gonna heal him, right?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

My jabone frog. You said you would heal him.

[Danielle Radford]

I said everyone was gonna get healed. Maybe you shouldn't have these.

[Tippy]

We wouldn't have gone as hard if we didn't think they were gonna get healed.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

I'm gonna go get some people.

[Dan Casey]

That went pretty well.

[Tippy]

Wow. That was perfect.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

That was the first time anything went.

[Dan Casey]

Great job, Luff.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Anytime. I finally. I finally have gotten to be a part of the Terror for the Terror Squad.

[Tippy]

You're always part of the Terror Squad, Loof.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, but. But in action now, not just in theory.

[Tippy]

Your niece is really grown up.

[Dan Casey]

She sure is.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

And the goblins come in, dig you out, clean up the place, examine what's going on.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, you hold on.

[Tippy]

You got some mud. Oh, you too busy Got some mudge on.

[Danielle Radford]

You let them do the Post Fordham or whatever it is they do.

[Tippy]

Now step over this corpse.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

You and Yunk and Nurg and Pakara are now displayed in front of the entire Goblin Arena. You see that? Glomgen next to Crandall are once more at the top of the stands.

[Dan Casey]

What the hell is he doing up there?

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Glomgen announces. I hold the winner in my hand and a piece of paper. But it is not mine to read. It is our special guest judge. This announcer comes from very far, all the way from the Desolation to announce the Goblin Hero champion. Please welcome. And the music starts playing. Some goblins next to him move away. A form starts to appear in mist swirling with red accents. Also swirling black and red smoke. This person takes form. The first thing you notice is shoulder pauldrons made of human skulls. Exquisite bone structure in the face, severely angled eyebrows. A big smile with just gorgeous. And a manicured goatee. This man has long black elven hair with a very severe widow's peak. And it has a refined white stripe. His black robes have red detailing on them, including his sigil, an anvil with three tendrils of smoke coming off of it. He grabs the letter that Glomgan hands him and he says, congratulations, Tippy Terror Squad. And as you behold your evil Overlord Unzug, that is where we will end this episode. Oh, my gosh. Sogas of Sundry Goblin mode.

[Tippy]

Wow.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

Tune in next time to see our Terror Squad meet their proverbial daddy.

[Dan Casey]

It's him.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

He's here. Saga dances of Sundry Goblin mode. Is a Geek and Sundry production made in partnership with Realm. I'm Amy Vorpahl, your Dungeon Master. Danielle Radford plays Bizzy, 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. I 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. Visigika Geek and Sundry on YouTube or geekandsundry.com for video versions of Sagas of Sundry. Goblin Mode yeah.

[Tippy]

Whoa.

[E]

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[E]

Welcome to the ultimate social deduction game.

[Tippy]

Blood on the Clock Tower.

[E]

The Evil team must stalk the street streets at night, hunting down members of the Good team one by one. Meanwhile, the Good team must outmaneuver the Evil team using their unique abilities.

[Tippy]

I'd like to kick things off by telling you all that I'm possibly the demon.

[E]

Our players can mislead and manipulate others with absolute freedom. I didn't like hearing my name in the same sentence as demon. That was very upsetting for me. Emily and I will be your storytellers, guiding you through every labyrinthian torture, twist and turn.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

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[E]

Bard, the Pandemonium Institute, and Oxventure? You won't be able to stop listening.

[Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl]

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