Welcome, Campers! | Wildemount Wildlings Episode 1 Part 1

Summary

Critical Role Podcast Summary: "Welcome, Campers! | Wildemount Wildlings Episode 1 Part 1"

Release Date: April 10, 2025
Duration: Approximately 95 minutes
Episode: Wildemount Wildlings Episode 1 Part 1
Host: Sam Riegel
Participants: Laura Bailey, Ashley Johnson, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Travis Willingham, Marisha Ray, Liam O'Brien, and others.

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1. Introduction to Wildemount Wildlings

In this inaugural episode of the "Wildemount Wildlings" miniseries, hosted by Sam Riegel, we are introduced to Exandria's premier sleepaway camp designed for aspiring adventurers. The camp serves as a training ground where young adventurers hone their skills in preparation for future quests, heroism, and battling dark forces.

Sam Riegel:
"Hey there, campers. It's game master Sam Riegel. And welcome to our new miniseries, Wildemount Wildlings."
[03:14]

2. Camp Overview and Structure

Camp Wildemount is depicted as a lively yet challenging environment where campers strive to earn merit badges across various disciplines such as Postmodern Necromancy, Arcana, Sleight of Handiness, and Potions. The camp's structure emphasizes both fun and the rigorous training required to succeed in the adventuring world.

Sam Riegel:
"The camp motto is wild out. That doesn't mean following the letter of the law. It means breaking locks and leaving fingerprints and being kids."
[48:03]

3. Character Introductions

The episode features detailed introductions of the main characters, each bringing their unique backgrounds and personal challenges to the camp.

• Kai (Ashley Johnson):
  A fashionable wood half-elf struggling with a tired demeanor and a desire to excel in magic despite his angsty nature.

  Kai:
  "I'm here at camp to learn magic after all. I'm just so excited to be here."
  [21:07]

• Sky (Marisha Ray):
  Previously known as Skullcrusher Bloodforge, Sky is a halfling apprentice wizard with a strong physical presence and a compassionate heart.

  Sky:
  "I want to give people unicorns. I'm going to work so hard and I'm going to get this merit badges in magic, I promise."
  [38:43]

• Jessop Nimblethorpe (Liam O'Brien):
  A highly intelligent and anxious character striving to meet high expectations set by his professor parents.

  Jessop:
  "Sometimes my anxiety takes hold. I just want to help others with my magic."
  [40:08]

• Padman Pondhope (Brennan Lee Mulligan):
  A bullywug apprentice wizard with a penchant for creating magical cards and a desire to emulate the Mighty Nein.

  Padman:
  "If you give me a half hour, there's nothing I can't do."
  [91:16]

4. The Olga Cabin and Merit Badge Failure

Unlike their peers, the four main characters—Kai, Sky, Jessop, and Padman—have failed to earn any merit badges throughout the summer, relegating them to the Olga cabin, an area designated for campers who did not meet camp expectations.

Sam Riegel:
"You failed. These thoughts weigh you down as Veth, the boisterous halfling camp director, concludes her speech."
[18:13]

5. The First Challenge: Knocking the Pinecone

To retain their place at the camp, the Olgas are tasked with earning at least one merit badge by the end of the day. The first challenge involves competing to knock a pinecone out of the hands of camp directors Yasha and Beauregard.

Sam Riegel:
"To earn your 3 below rank, you each need to earn one merit badge by the end of the day."
[31:00]

The challenge unfolds with each character employing different strategies:

• Kai successfully uses agility and teamwork to remove the pinecone, demonstrating his capability despite initial setbacks.

  Kai:
  "I’m wilding so hard right now."
  [54:07]

• Jessop attempts to use magic but faces difficulties due to stress and anxiety, leading to mixed results.

  Jessop:
  "Everyone thought it was really funny, but I was really upset that I did that to everyone."
  [40:04]

• Sky employs illusion magic to distract Yasha, showing ingenuity but ultimately failing to secure the pinecone.

  Sky:
  "It's gonna be so cute and makes a little song. It looks so soft. I think she's gonna want to touch it."
  [76:34]

• Padman leverages his spellcasting and strategic thinking, ultimately overcoming obstacles with preparation and teamwork.

  Padman:
  "A wizard’s secrets are his greatest strength."
  [89:16]

6. Character Dynamics and Development

Throughout the challenge, the characters' interactions reveal their personal struggles and growth:

• Sky's Backstory:
  Sky shares a pivotal moment from her past where witnessing bullying ignited her desire to protect others without resorting to violence.

  Sky:
  "I want to make people's dreams come true. That's why I'm here."
  [38:23]

• Jessop's Anxiety:
  Jessop discusses his anxiety and the unintended consequences of his spells, highlighting his internal conflicts.

  Jessop:
  "Sometimes my anxiety takes hold. I just want to help others with my magic."
  [40:04]

• Padman's Ambitions:
  Padman reveals his ambition to create a collectible card game inspired by the Mighty Nein, showcasing his creative and strategic mindset.

  Padman:
  "We started protecting the local merchants... at half the height and half the price."
  [34:04]

7. Camp Dynamics and Counselor Involvement

Yasha and Beauregard, seasoned members of the Mighty Nein, serve as cabin counselors tasked with guiding the Olgas through their challenges. Their interactions with the campers emphasize the camp's rigorous yet supportive environment.

BEAU:
"You think you're gonna give up that easy? Come on."
[66:17]

YASHA:
"I know how to control my strength. I can give it one more go."
[89:35]

8. Conclusion of Part 1

As the first challenge concludes, the Olgas make significant progress towards earning their merit badges, albeit with varying degrees of success. The episode sets the stage for further adventures and character development in the subsequent parts.

Sam Riegel:
"That was a lot of preparation. There are more tests of strength and speed that we're gonna have to get through."
[93:03]

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Sam Riegel:
  "Now let's wild out and get this adventure started."
  [04:25]

• Sky (Marisha Ray):
  "I want to give people unicorns."
  [38:32]

• Padman (Brennan Lee Mulligan):
  "If you give me a half hour, there's nothing I can't do."
  [91:16]

• Sam Riegel:
  "When you have a difficult task in front of you today, just remember, when in doubt, wild out."
  [31:00]

• Sam Riegel:
  "And I've told Yasha and Beau about your predicament. Yes, we're doing great."
  [26:52]

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Insights and Themes

• Perseverance and Redemption: The Olgas' journey underscores the themes of overcoming failure and striving for redemption through perseverance and teamwork.

• Personal Growth: Characters confront and navigate their personal challenges, such as anxiety, anger, and the desire to protect others, highlighting their growth throughout the camp's activities.

• Teamwork and Collaboration: Success in the challenges often hinges on the characters' ability to collaborate, leveraging each other's strengths to overcome obstacles.

• Mentorship: Yasha and Beauregard's roles as counselors illustrate the importance of mentorship in guiding young adventurers toward success.

Conclusion

"Welcome, Campers! | Wildemount Wildlings Episode 1 Part 1" serves as a compelling introduction to the miniseries, blending immersive storytelling with character-driven narratives. As the Olgas embark on their quest to earn merit badges, listeners are drawn into their struggles, triumphs, and the dynamic relationships that define their journey at Camp Wildemount.

Stay tuned for Part 2, set to release on the upcoming Tuesday, which will continue the adventure and further develop the characters' arcs and the camp's mysteries.

Transcript

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[Ashley Johnson]

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[Ashley Johnson]

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[Travis Willingham]

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[Laura Bailey]

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[Sam Riegel]

Hey there, campers. It's game master Sam Riegel. And welcome to our new miniseries, Wildemount Wildlings. In this three part adventure, we're making our way to Exandria's premier sleepaway camp for aspiring adventurers. And following the antics of four angsty team campers and their camp counselors, Beauregard Lyonette and Yasha Nidorin, new episodes of Wildemount Wildlings air on Thursdays at 6pm Pacific on Beacon, Twitch and YouTube, with the VOD uploaded to YouTube on the following Mondays at noon. Prefer your adventures in audio form? Well, the podcast version arrives here on the Critical Role Podcast Network with a one week delay from the original broadcast. You're listening to part one of this episode right now, and part two will be available this upcoming Tuesday. If you want instant access to podcast content and an ad free listening experience, check out Beacon and get access to the full audio version right when it airs at 6pm Pacific on Thursdays. Plus, you can also check out our Beacon exclusive show Critical Role Cooldown and experience the cast's post show reactions to each episode. Well, that should cover it. Now let's wild out and get this adventure started.

[Ashley Johnson]

Hello.

[Sam Riegel]

Wait, which camera do I look at? It's too late. I'm Sam Riegel. Welcome to the Wildemount Wildlings. I will be your GM for the next three shows as I take you on an adventure in a summer camp. Ashley, you're here to promote merch, Apparently. Oh, hello. Yay.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, that's how she does it.

[Ashley Johnson]

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[Sam Riegel]

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[Ashley Johnson]

This is cool.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, it's back. Wait, is this the old one? No, this is a new one.

[Ashley Johnson]

No, it's like a sleeveless. It's like a matte vest. Oh. The back features a large print beneath the hood of a raven skull, a a snake and three daggers with a. I'm so bad at this. With gold foil details. Oh, look at them right there. It's available now in all Critical Role shops.

[Sam Riegel]

Thanks, Ashley. Marisha, do you have something that you want to talk about?

[Travis Willingham]

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[Sam Riegel]

Wow, you guys are doing so many announcements.

[Laura Bailey]

We are.

[Ashley Johnson]

I don't do announcements.

[Sam Riegel]

No, no. And usually there's eight of us here to share. Yeah. You have another one, Ashley, tell us more.

[Ashley Johnson]

There is a new Critical Role themed concoction.

[Sam Riegel]

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[Ashley Johnson]

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[Travis Willingham]

Oh, it's gone now.

[Ashley Johnson]

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[Sam Riegel]

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[Ashley Johnson]

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[Sam Riegel]

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[Ashley Johnson]

We all.

[Marisha Ray]

I did.

[Travis Willingham]

We all did.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, I wasn't there.

[Travis Willingham]

We came in. I don't think you were there that day. But we all tasted.

[Ashley Johnson]

Look at this, baba.

[Travis Willingham]

We all made sure that we were happy with it. They like, they bring in their mixologists. What's also really cool about this one is it comes with a journal where all the founders like wrote little reflective thoughts about what courage means to us.

[Sam Riegel]

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[Travis Willingham]

And there's like spirit in there where you can also add to it and kind of build either with your party or if someone, if you lose somebody, if someone doesn't make all their death saving throws, they can.

[Sam Riegel]

Like in the game.

[Travis Willingham]

In the game or real life?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh boy.

[Travis Willingham]

I don't know. Your life? I don't know. Shit's bad. Okay, pour one out. Pour one out. Anyway, it's really cool. It's really cool. And you can just read us wax poetically about.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, thanks for bringing us down. And I think that's it for announcements. Yeah. It's time to get into this episode of Critical Role. Everybody, welcome. Thank you so much for helping me out. I am doing a show called Wildemount Wildlings. It's about campers who go on adventures and I need your help to pitch ideas for monsters, traps, potions, weapons, all sorts of stuff. So if we're all ready.

[Ashley Johnson]

Wait, are we gonna be the players?

[Sam Riegel]

You're not gonna be the players, but you are gonna help me with these wonderful ideas. So let's get started. Can you go around the table and just quickly introduce yourself?

[Marisha Ray]

Hello, my name is Cash Flow.

[Sam Riegel]

Very good. Next.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yo, my name is Greta.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

Hello, my name is Maximus.

[Sam Riegel]

Uh huh. And then over there.

[Ashley Johnson]

Hi.

[Sam Riegel]

Say that and do that.

[Ashley Johnson]

Hi, my name is Alan. Uh huh. Hello, my name is Marloo. Hi, I'm Penny.

[Liam O'Brien]

Hi, I'm Ronan.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, you are. You don't have to. What?

[Marisha Ray]

You don't have to say that.

[Ashley Johnson]

So it's like everyone else. Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, you're right.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, so here's what I need from you guys. The campers are going to be attacked by a monster early on in the show, and I need to know what that monster is. So does anyone have any ideas? Alan, your hand was up first. What do you got?

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, well, I actually drew an example.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, please tell me about your monster.

[Ashley Johnson]

I have no idea what it's called yet, but it's a flying pig, okay? It's got talons, so it can pick up multiple people or scratch them. It has four rows of teeth, okay. And it shoots acid sparkles from its eyes.

[Sam Riegel]

Acid sparkles.

[Marisha Ray]

So if you get hit with the.

[Ashley Johnson]

Sparkles, then your skin melts.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. I love it.

[Marisha Ray]

It's a nice idea.

[Ashley Johnson]

My idea is that it breathes smoky.

[Sam Riegel]

Fire out of its mouth and smoky fire. Okay, this is good. This is good. If it walks, does it have normal pig feet or does it have any different kind of feet? Oh, I'm not. Chicken feet. Chicken feet. Huge chicken feet, I assume. Or are they tiny?

[Liam O'Brien]

Like very big?

[Sam Riegel]

Very big. Okay. Okay, Penny, what do you got?

[Marisha Ray]

Tiny cat paws.

[Sam Riegel]

Wait, so it's got chicken feet and cat paws?

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

On the same feet or on different feet?

[Ashley Johnson]

It has like a million legs, and some of them are giant chicken feet and some of them are tiny cats.

[Sam Riegel]

That's very confusing, but I like it. All right, Greta, any thought, it leaves.

[Ashley Johnson]

A track in your mind. You're just immediately dumbfounded with depression.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, so you get like a sense of spookiness or confusion whenever you're around it.

[Ashley Johnson]

No, whenever it steps, you feel depression and that's why you.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, okay. So it leaves tracks of depression. That is so metaphysical. I like it. It makes a sound or a roar or it says something or it sings something. Do you have any ideas? Let's. Any ideas?

[Ashley Johnson]

Maybe it could sound like the sizzle of bacon.

[Sam Riegel]

The sizzle of bacon? Okay, sure. Yeah. It's like a hissing sizzle. I love it. I love it, Kessie. It grabs people. What does it grab people with?

[Ashley Johnson]

Tongue. A tongue stores them inside of its mouth.

[Sam Riegel]

Inside of its mouth. Okay, great. Last but not least for this guy. Does it have a name? Does it have a. What do you call this creature? Oh, Penny.

[Ashley Johnson]

Gub. Gub?

[Sam Riegel]

Yub. Yub. No.

[Travis Willingham]

Gub. Gub.

[Sam Riegel]

Gub. Gub. Okay, great.

[Ashley Johnson]

That's good.

[Sam Riegel]

Done. That's one done. Look. It's so easy. Okay, great. Wild Mount Wildlings I play the wildlings.

[Travis Willingham]

To learn adventuring mysters and more lost.

[Ashley Johnson]

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[Sam Riegel]

Welcome to the Wild Mountain Wildlings. I am Sam Riegel, your host for this evening. Before we get started, I wanted to introduce everybody at the table because there's some old faces. Sorry, sorry. Not by age, but there's some new faces as well. So just starting over here, we've got Marisha Ray.

[Travis Willingham]

Hi.

[Sam Riegel]

You guys know her?

[Travis Willingham]

Hi.

[Sam Riegel]

That's Alex Lee.

[H]

Hello. My name is Alex Lee.

[Sam Riegel]

This is my sister, Eden Riegel.

[Ashley Johnson]

Hello.

[Travis Willingham]

It's a family affair.

[Sam Riegel]

Over there is Liebe Varer.

[Ashley Johnson]

Hi.

[Sam Riegel]

Brennan Lee Mulligan.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hello.

[Sam Riegel]

And Ashley Johnson.

[Ashley Johnson]

Hello.

[Sam Riegel]

And we're gonna be playing a fun little camp game today. So if you guys are ready, we'll just dive right in. Pudding. Yes. Bon bons, fizzy sodas and all the goat dogs you could dream of await you at the wildling advancement feast. The dainty foot class, the lowest rank at this camp, is graduating up one level to become three belows. The mood is festive. It's a beautiful sunny day at the end of the month of Cindistar. I looked it up and campers are abuzz as they proudly show off their merit badges and stand alongside cabin mates ready to hear a speech from camp director Veth Branato. Except the four of you, Alex, Eden, Liebe, and Brennan. You guys are miserable. But more on that later.

[H]

What else is new?

[Sam Riegel]

Welcome to the Wild Mount. Welcome to the Wildemount Wildlings Camp for adventuring kids. You guys know this camp. You've been here all summer having fun, sure, but also learning all the skills you're going to need to join an adventuring party. Or become a sword or wand for hire. Or maybe someday save the realm from the forces of darkness. Alongside gifted warlocks, fighters, rangers and bards, you've been guided by Vethors, her husband Yeza, and their expert staff to earn merit badges like Postmodern Necromancy, the Spel. Yeah. Badge in Arcana, Sleight of Handiness, the Brood Awakening Badge for Potions, and see Brood. And you can even get a badge in death saving 101. But the four of you, Alex, Eden, Liebe, Brennan, you are the Olgas. You did not earn any badges this summer, which is why you were relegated to the Olga cabin. Olga stands for Oops. Let's go again. You were disgraced, held back, mocked by your peers, shunned by your parents. You failed.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Shunned by my parents?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Good God.

[Sam Riegel]

You get no pudding. You lose. These thoughts weigh you down as Veth, the boisterous halfling camp director, concludes her speech. So congratulations to almost all of you. And as an extra special treat for our new three belows, we're holding your celebration at the Do Not Hike Trail. At this news, the campers bustle with excitement. The Do Not Hike trail is shrouded in mystery and curiosity because, as the name implies, no campers are allowed to hike it. But today, we are going to reveal its tantalizing secrets. When you hear your cabin name called, line up for treats, games, and heck, any magic potion you want to try at this. Veth's husband, Yeza Bernato, a mousy halfling in spectacles, leaps forward. No, no, no, no, no, no. We will not be willy nilly drinking magical potions, darling. Remember, that's an insurance liability. Veth sighs. Insurance. The bane of my existence. Fine. Instead, each of you can take one weapon out of the armory and do whatever you want with it. Wild out on three, two, one. Wild Out. The campers all cheer in unison and break into the camp song as the counselors lead them out of the Hubbub Hub, which is the camp's central meeting point to forge down the Do Not Hike trail. Some of the campers even point and giggle at you on the way out. A tall jock named Drock Winterforge passes by, muttering, sorry, Trolgas. Better luck next year. As their joyful singing fades, you are left in silence. Yeza. The husband heads off to his workshop to finish a new potion. Veth remains behind, her face curling in a solemn expression. So obviously none of that applies to you, Olgas. I'm told the Quitter quartet here failed to earn even a single merit badge among you all summer. As she looks across the four of you judgmentally, what is she looking at? Will you please describe yourself? Alex?

[H]

My name is Kai. I'm a wood half elf. Got pointy little ears. My clothes, very fashionable. Lots of holes in them. Very cool. I chewed those myself.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Or not, maybe.

[H]

Who knows? I have short, kinda messy white hair. And yeah, I got a tired look on my face always.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, tired. Eden, what do you look like?

[Marisha Ray]

My name is Skullcrusher Bloodforge. But please, please don't call me Skullcrusher. I hate it, but I'd rather be known as Sky. So we got a Kai in a sky.

[Sam Riegel]

Kai in a sky.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[H]

This is gonna be great.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm about two and a half feet tall. Well, two feet, eight inches. Those two inches count. You know, if you're being technical, I'm a halfling. And I have wild red curly hair that I try to tame as best as I can. Tie it up in a bun. Get it off my face. I want to do some serious business here. And I got big glasses. If I'm being honest, I don't really need them, but I think they make me look really studious. And I'm here at camp to learn magic after all. I'm just so excited to be here. Oh, I have also pretty buff. I have giant muscles.

[Sam Riegel]

You do say so. Sure.

[Travis Willingham]

What's your routine?

[Marisha Ray]

It's genetic. I don't do anything. I just. If I pick up a tray in the cafeteria, they just. So I've got this flowing blue cave to try to cover them up a bit. And I've got my spellbook. I never leave the cabin without it. That's me. I'm Sky.

[Sam Riegel]

Leave.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm Jessop nimblethorpe. I'm almost 60ft. I'm five'eleven I identify as. I'm very tall and thin and a light blue with a dark aquamarine hair with some white growing at the roots from anxiety. I modeled my haircut after a 1930s inventor that I really liked, but I let it grow out because I Forgot about it. It took a little long. And my vibe is generally 1930s inventor, but some would say that it would look very chic if I wasn't so, you know, hadn't grown into myself quite yet. But I have a monocle that is constantly falling out of place that I'm just. I constantly put it back, back into place. I only have something wrong with this one eye and I. It's a little. It's bothersome to have both of my eyes covered.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing. 1930s, by the way, is hers zip code? Brennan, what are we looking at?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

My name is Padman Pondhope. That's my guy, Padmond. I'm Kai's friend. Kai's my closest friend in the camp. I also am happy to be in the Olga cabin with sky and Jessup. I am a apprentice wizard and a bullywug. So I'm a little frog boy and I have spectacles that sort of like Chucky Finster. My eyes fill up the whole glasses, so they're already sort of larger than normal frog eyes, but then they're even magnified by the glasses.

[H]

Tell us how tall you are, Padme.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, I think I'm a little shorty. I think I'm a shorty little guy. I think I'm like halfly sized. I think I'm a little shorty guy.

[H]

Two feet and six inches or eight inches?

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, I think.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let's go two foot eight. I'll go same height.

[Sam Riegel]

Same height.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wow. Same height, same height. And I was operating under the apprehension that this was an adventure themed summer camp for children interested in adventure conceptually and the sort of physical. The physical requirements are not what I'm interested in. I sort of thought this would be for enthusiasts of adventuring.

[Sam Riegel]

Sure, sure.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Not adventurers. And so space camp. Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

Not going to space.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, I sort of came for a space camp situation and then they're like launch in five. And I have sort of been rudely surprised with the level of odd hands trading against me. So I'm disappointed in myself. But also, I didn't that this would be what this was.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, disappointment is the theme as Veth looks at you with disappointed eyes. For the four of you, we have slightly a different activity planned for you today. Luke, bring him out. Huh? Okay, mom, sure. Luke Bernato, her Veth's pimply teenage son, also your cabin counselor, opens a door and invites two muscular women in whom you instantly realize these are Beauregard Lyonette and Yasha Nidoran, famed members of the Mighty Nein Padme.

[Travis Willingham]

Who are these this is the Beauregard Lionette.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She's expositor of the Kobold Soul.

[Sam Riegel]

And this is Yasha Nai Dori.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

They're members of the Mighty Knight. I also think that there might be an item.

[Sam Riegel]

I only see two of them.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What's that?

[H]

I only see two of them. You said there's nine of them.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, that's a very interesting. So, as it happens, nine in this case. Does that refer to the new.

[Sam Riegel]

Aunt Bo? Aunt Yasha, meet the Olgas. Kai Skull Crusher. Sorry, Sky Cadmund Jessop.

[Ashley Johnson]

Ladies. Hello.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Can I get your autograph?

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, sure. Yes.

[Travis Willingham]

Get it out of the way.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Veth sort of gives you a side eye, like. You know what?

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm sorry. We are not supposed to sign autographs at the moment. Maybe after.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, yeah. We're here on business.

[Ashley Johnson]

I am so sorry.

[Sam Riegel]

Yasha, please.

[Ashley Johnson]

I mean, just. I'm sorry. Maybe later.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

I've told Yasha and Beau about your predicament. Yes, we're doing great. I've told them a little bit about you, in fact. And you guys notice that they're carrying red file folders.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, yes.

[Sam Riegel]

That have some information about each of you. They would like to get to know you a little bit better before we tell you what's going to be going on today. Beau, Yasha, if you'd like to take it away.

[Travis Willingham]

Sure, sure. Yeah. I just want to say, even though I know you all are children, I believe you should speak to children like adults. So I'm going to be treating you like an adult, and I hope you.

[Ashley Johnson]

Act like adults, but like, you know, adults, but, you know, like light, you know.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, yeah, light adults, but, yeah, small adults.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You'll be paying us for our time.

[Travis Willingham]

Well, I think you're actually paying her for the tea. You know what? We're not gonna get into that right now.

[Marisha Ray]

I have to say, I'm a face scared.

[Liam O'Brien]

Me too.

[Travis Willingham]

Don't. Hey, secrets don't make friends. Okay. Can hear you.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, you're just speaking in halfling.

[Travis Willingham]

All right.

[Ashley Johnson]

We would love to learn a couple things about you all. Didn't realize there was going to be so much paperwork.

[Sam Riegel]

Bow, Bo, why don't you start us off?

[Travis Willingham]

I'll start. I'll start padmind. Yeah, I feel like maybe we should start with you since you seem very eager to jump in.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hey, frog humor.

[Travis Willingham]

Is that inappropriate?

[Sam Riegel]

I honestly don't know.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I mean, I've seen frogs. I look exactly like you. I'm a bullywug, technically.

[Travis Willingham]

Well, that's very Interesting.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

Where do you hail from, Padmond?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

By Bob and Dad's house.

[Travis Willingham]

Come from a.

[H]

It's very nice.

[Travis Willingham]

Is it nice?

[H]

Yeah, very nice.

[Travis Willingham]

Come from a loving family.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

Are you a rich boy?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Huh?

[Travis Willingham]

Are you a rich kid?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think we're comfortable.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay.

[H]

Three bedrooms. Pretty nice.

[Travis Willingham]

Three bedrooms.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We live in a three bedroom on the Menagerie Coast.

[Travis Willingham]

Love, Nage.

[Ashley Johnson]

Never been to the Menagerie Coast.

[Travis Willingham]

The Menagerie co. We've been there so.

[Ashley Johnson]

Much, I can't understand.

[Sam Riegel]

Me either.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, sorry I don't have nostrils.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yes, just straight across.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Straight shot.

[Sam Riegel]

Bo. Remember, tough love, Beau, please.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, well, that was the love part. I think I started pretty tough. All right. Apprentice wizard, eh?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Uh huh.

[Travis Willingham]

All right. Says here that you have quite a little bit of a fascination with the mighty Nein.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I do?

[Travis Willingham]

Yep.

[Ashley Johnson]

Go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm trying to start a collectible card game at camp. If you had to rate your strength on a scale from three to 20, what would you say it was?

[Travis Willingham]

Obviously 20.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah. I would be up there as well.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wow.

[Travis Willingham]

But hang on, Padme. I feel like we're already getting distracted here, and honestly, I feel like that is a very crystalline example of what maybe appears to be some of your issues here. Maybe you're a little distracted. Maybe that wasn't part of the assignment at all. Maybe you're a little bit too fascinated with us.

[H]

Tova, the holographic cards that you made, those are cool.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I use a spell known as illusory script that I can cast as a ritual to create holographic imprints artistically. Kai is an amazing artist and draws you guys. And then I can imprint them using a illusory script.

[Travis Willingham]

Do you have an example? We'll get to that later.

[Marisha Ray]

We've been trading them around the camp.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

And we've got a whole game going with them.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

That sounds very resourceful. I'm not mad about it. Okay. I just want to say, like, I'm.

[H]

Just saying, if you guys want to sign them, it could make the price go up.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay. Okay, so hang on, hold on.

[Ashley Johnson]

We could vest turned it into. Yeah, we'll sign.

[Travis Willingham]

Look, look, don't, don't. You're starting. You're. You're humoring them.

[Sam Riegel]

You'll have to earn, kids. Everything today you're gonna have to earn. All right? If you want signatures, fine, but you have to earn it. Just like you earn. You haven't earned a badge.

[Travis Willingham]

All right?

[Sam Riegel]

Now let's get serious here. You have. You haven't been focused or concentrating. You. You've barely made any headway at all this whole year. What? Why are you here?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm going to unfurl a massive flow sheet of how the game of the Mighty Nein would work.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And it has a bunch of things, so I just need some creative help with different ability names. If you had to characterize your attack mode in an onomatopoeia, wow, how would you do that? Because I need some more bow interruption cards.

[Travis Willingham]

It's. It's pop Pop, but that doesn't.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I was gonna go with Bip. Bip. Pop Pop is way you think these.

[Travis Willingham]

Guns produce a bit. Listen, Padman, this is.

[H]

Do you wanna be here at this camp?

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah. Do you wanna be here?

[Sam Riegel]

Because you have to actually do the activities in the assignments if you wanna stay at this camp.

[Travis Willingham]

Look, if you go home to mom and dad, and they're like, what did you learn at Adventure Camp? And you're like, nothing. I made a game. Then they'll be like, why didn't we send you to Games Camp?

[Sam Riegel]

And they paid full price. Most of the kids here are either partially or fully funded by grants and freebies. But you're actually paying for three of the campers here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I mean, my parents are comfortable. I think they do all right for themselves. I don't know that I'd say we're rich. You'd have to ask our servants about that.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, get serious, all right? You're going to need to get some serious today if you want to stay here.

[Travis Willingham]

Look, if you want to be. You want to be like the Mighty Nein.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

You want to be like us?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

Where do you think we started? Do you think we started trying to pretend to be like other people? Wait, I'm losing the thread. Look, the point is, if you want to be an adventurer, if you want to be a hero, if you want to. It doesn't even have to be an adventurer. But you got to be able to take care of yourself, okay? It's a cruel world out there, all right? Someone comes up to you, tries to bully you, what are you gonna do?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Run away?

[Sam Riegel]

There are other options, and we're gonna learn some of them. But, Yasha, tear another one of these guys a new butthole.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yasha pulls out her reading glasses. All right, so we have. Who is this here now?

[Travis Willingham]

You look so cute in your glasses, babe.

[Ashley Johnson]

Thank you, baby. Skull Crusher. Blood Forge.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, please. I'm so sorry. I don't mean to be rude, but would you please call me Sky?

[Sam Riegel]

Sky.

[Ashley Johnson]

Sky.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

So I was named Skullcrusher. By my family. They're halfling barbarians, if I'm being honest. Yeah. And they have a good business for themselves being this hired muscle around the various villages. And we'll. We protect people. We'll. We'll maraud. There's been some marauding from time to time.

[Ashley Johnson]

Marauding Needs to be done.

[Marisha Ray]

Sometimes you want. You want to be broken out of jail, you call us. You want us to protect your treasure? My. My dad likes to say, we'll do. We'll do the job. The same job with half the height at half the price.

[Ashley Johnson]

That's so good. I like it.

[Marisha Ray]

We started. We started. I was born in the town of. Oh, yes, yes. And we started protecting the local merchants who sold. Oh, I'm so sorry I wasn't including you. It's just. I was a little intimidated by you at first.

[Travis Willingham]

It's okay. I've been listening the whole time. You're good.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Ashley Johnson]

So.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Ashley Johnson]

So I see here that, yes, you come from a long line of barbarians, but you came here to study wizardry.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes, yes, that's right. Okay. So when I was a wee lass, I was about 10 years old, and we just started traveling around and doing our business.

[Travis Willingham]

How old are you now?

[Marisha Ray]

I'm 15.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

And this incredible thing happened. I was in a village, just sort of, you know, hanging out, seeing who I could meet. And I saw this little girl. She was only maybe about five or six, and cutest little girl. And she was being bullied by these older kids.

[Ashley Johnson]

See?

[Travis Willingham]

Bullies.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. And she had this beautiful carved unicorn. And you could tell it was her most prized possession. And these kids, they took this unicorn and they smashed it on the ground, broke it into pieces. She was weeping. And for the first time in my life, I felt this anger well up inside of me. And I just. I wanted. I. I wanted to rip these kids to shreds.

[Travis Willingham]

Did you?

[Marisha Ray]

I was gonna. I swear. I was gonna go to give them a piece of my mind and a piece of my fist, if you know what I mean. And I don't believe in that. I don't like violence. I don't like any of it.

[Travis Willingham]

Why not?

[Marisha Ray]

Because it's so rough and wrong. It just doesn't appeal to me. I'm not like my family. Anyway, just as I was about to approach, this man came out of nowhere. And at first I thought he was a vagrant. He was real dirty. And he had this long, reddish brown hair and this scruffy beard. And he comes up to this little girl and wipes her tear and Picks up this little unicorn and then he starts to do the most incredible, incredible thing. I see this energy and colors swirling around this unicorn and I think to myself, I should hang back for a second. And he's gonna fix this girl's unicorn. Well, no, I couldn't have been more wrong. This orb of energy around it grows and grows and grows until honest to God, before my eyes stands a full grown unicorn.

[Ashley Johnson]

And this girl. Shoot.

[Marisha Ray]

Looked it in the eye.

[Sam Riegel]

Sorry, there's no swearing here. So you're going to need to put in.

[Ashley Johnson]

What am I supposed to put in here?

[Sam Riegel]

American dollar.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, where's my wallet?

[Ashley Johnson]

What are we doing with this money in the end? Are we going to donate?

[Sam Riegel]

I think one of us gets the money at the end.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If you need, if you need, I can cover you.

[Ashley Johnson]

Thank you, Padman. But Padmond, Padmond Pabbud feel like it keeps changing. I'm gonna. And there we go. So it turned into a full unicorn.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

And she locked eyes with this unicorn and I knew they'd be friends for life. And he picked her up and he put her on the unicorn's back and they rolled off. And I know.

[H]

Yeah, that's what I can see. That sounds like a preventful life. The man and the little girl or.

[Sam Riegel]

The unicorn and the little girl. Of course.

[Travis Willingham]

Unicorns are actually very temperamental and can actually can be very violent.

[Ashley Johnson]

They're kind of mean.

[Sam Riegel]

I think the point of the story.

[Marisha Ray]

Is that unicorn was, was going to protect her anyway. It was my own.

[Ashley Johnson]

So you're, you're, you're, you're wanting very much to learn magic. You did not complete your prestidigitation badge because you snapped the magic wand in half. So you have some anger issues, which is wonderful thing to work with.

[Marisha Ray]

Well, it's just my muscles. I'm quite strong.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yes, I see you tested off the charts and strength and stamina. But you only signed up for magic courses. Why are you fighting against what you are?

[Marisha Ray]

Because I don't want to hurt people. I want to make people's dreams come true. That's why I'm here.

[Ashley Johnson]

I want to give people unicorns.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm going to work so hard and I'm going to get this. My friend is helping me. I'm going to get the merit badges in magic, I promise.

[Ashley Johnson]

Well, Jessop Nibblethorpe, you apparently came very highly recommended by your professor parents.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yes, my parents. We are both professors. I've gotten straight A's my whole life and so I'm really. It's upsetting to not have passed to the next level. But that's okay. That's okay. I have my friend here and I'm just gonna get better. Yeah, I'm get better.

[Travis Willingham]

Are you sick? Something wrong with you?

[Liam O'Brien]

No, no, I'm very healthy. I got my. No, I went to. I swear. I swear I'm not 17.

[H]

Last summer, it was a whole ordeal.

[Marisha Ray]

I just.

[Liam O'Brien]

Sometimes my anxiety takes hold. But I'm very healthy. I get physicals regularly. Probably too regularly. My doctor actually told me to stop going so often.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay.

[Ashley Johnson]

I understand health anxiety. Like sometimes you feel like you're dying all the time.

[Travis Willingham]

Yes, yes.

[Ashley Johnson]

Like you have a stomach ache and you're like, I have cancer. Exactly, we have cancer.

[H]

I had the other day.

[Ashley Johnson]

Sorry. Yes. Well, here it says in Spellcraft workshop, instead of casting guiding bolt, you apparently made your entire class's hair fall out.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yeah, I'm really not proud of that one. But sometimes when I get. Really?

[Travis Willingham]

That's funny.

[Liam O'Brien]

Everyone thought it was really funny, but I was really upset that I did that to everyone. I don't want to cause harm. I just want to help others with my magic. But when I get anxious, sometimes I go to cast a spell, and in trying to get it perfectly right, I accidentally cast the entirely wrong spell. And that's why you just get nervous. I get really nervous.

[Ashley Johnson]

You have nerves, you have anxiety.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

You have anger.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

These are things we can work through.

[Marisha Ray]

We can work with.

[Travis Willingham]

You have an unhealthy obsession.

[Ashley Johnson]

You have an unhealthy obsession.

[Travis Willingham]

We can work with that.

[Sam Riegel]

And what about this?

[Ashley Johnson]

What's happening over here?

[Sam Riegel]

You Bo, give him the, you know, rough him up.

[H]

I think I'm doing great, actually, so.

[Travis Willingham]

No, you think you're doing great.

[H]

I think I'm doing very good.

[Travis Willingham]

So you're self assured.

[H]

I'd say so. More or less.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay. You've had some good jokes. Little jokester sitting over here. All right.

[Sam Riegel]

All right.

[Travis Willingham]

Kai it is.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay. 16. So you're a little bit older than the rest of them.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

A little interesting.

[H]

Just a little bit.

[Travis Willingham]

Do you feel responsibility being the eldest?

[H]

Uh, not quite. I feel pretty laid back.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

Pretty good.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

No, I'm getting that.

[Ashley Johnson]

Very chill, very calm.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You got him on the ropes.

[Travis Willingham]

Kai, looks like had a bit of a tough childhood.

[H]

No, it was amazing.

[Travis Willingham]

You were an orphan. That you were raised by a gang of. Of bandits.

[H]

Oh, yes, that part.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah. I mean, that's one. Is that. Am I revealing? I'm not trying to put you on blast. Multiple arrests for petty thefts of a.

[H]

Bad Boy, you could say that.

[Travis Willingham]

You know, Kai, I was like you once when I was a kid.

[H]

I was also a lot of stomach issues.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, non.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yes.

[Travis Willingham]

I also participated in some, you know, some petty crime, a little bit of petty theft.

[H]

What was your most petty petty crime?

[Travis Willingham]

You know, mine was a little weird. It was mail fraud.

[H]

Okay, so that's where you get a guy.

[Travis Willingham]

A little bit of extortion.

[Ashley Johnson]

No.

[H]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

Like documents.

[H]

I see.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay. A little bit of embezzlement.

[H]

I don't know that word.

[Travis Willingham]

I have these counselors vetted.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes. Yes. I asked Beau and Yasha here to help. To help you all.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yes, we will help. We will help veth. We will help.

[Sam Riegel]

And so far they're doing a great job. Doing a great job.

[Travis Willingham]

I know.

[H]

Yeah, they're doing so good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Do you guys have a lot of history working with children?

[Ashley Johnson]

No, actually, none whatsoever. But this is.

[Travis Willingham]

But like I said, you're not children. You're young, light adults.

[Sam Riegel]

Right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, I would consider myself a child, but that's just me.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, we can work on that. You can grow out of that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, well, I hope so. Otherwise I've been killed.

[Travis Willingham]

Uh huh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's the only. Those are my two options. Stay alive and keep aging or stop aging. And there's only one way to do that.

[Ashley Johnson]

That is very true.

[Sam Riegel]

I can tell that it's already working. This sort of scared straight approach is definitely working.

[Travis Willingham]

Historically, it's always worked.

[H]

I'm waiting for the bad cop to come around.

[Travis Willingham]

So you're here for a court ordered rehabilitation plan?

[H]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

Looks like you failed your sleight of hand badge. Sleight of handiness badge. But not because you didn't succeed in stealing something thing. You stole a healing potion instead of what you were supposed to steal.

[H]

Which was?

[Travis Willingham]

I don't know, what was it? I was like a freaking trinket or something.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, it was. You got to put it in the swear jar. It was a. It was a badge. A merit badge. But you failed. You failed. You all failed. But we're going to fix this. Technically, because none of you earned any badges, the rules state that you have to leave camp in disgrace, never to be seen or heard from again. But. But you know how I feel about rules, right? The camp motto is wild out. That doesn't mean following the letter of the law. It means breaking locks and leaving fingerprints and being kids. So I have a soft spot for outcasts like you. And I want to offer you one more shot. To earn your 3 below rank, you each need to earn one merit badge. By the end of the day. End of the day today. That's it. So take the wyvern by the horns. And if you have a difficult task in front of you today, just remember, when in doubt, wild out. Come on, give me a wild out. One, two, three.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wild out.

[Sam Riegel]

Good, we'll work on that too.

[Liam O'Brien]

I have trouble wilding out.

[Sam Riegel]

Yasha and Beau are going to take you through some exercises today. My son Luke will help. And I mean, good luck to all of you. Do you want to stay here?

[Ashley Johnson]

Do you want to?

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

More than anything.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Absolutely.

[Liam O'Brien]

I can't fail.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

My parents are on vacation.

[H]

Nowhere to go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

They have a pleasure bar. So if I went home, I would have to find a way to get in the house.

[Travis Willingham]

Well, you know, if you learn some basic lock picking, that should be easy.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, your friend Kai here could help. Possibly help if he follows instructions. All right, Luke, take them to the training grounds. Luke, the teenage boy comes up and says, all right, everybody follow me. He leads you out of the hubbub hub and guides you through the camp.

[Travis Willingham]

I'll be right there. You guys go ahead. Veth, can I talk to you for a second?

[Sam Riegel]

Sure, sure, sure. As you walk through the camp, Beau, Yasha and Veth hang back a little. The four of you walk off in front with Luke and you get a glimpse of the camp. You guys know this, but for Bo and Yasha, this is your first glimpse of the facilities of the camp. It's ramshackle run down. The campers basically destroy it every summer and Veth and Yeza try to repair it in the off season. You pass locations like Salmon Lake, named for its color. It's a filthy lake the color of blood with some sort of enormous creature swimming around making massive bubbles.

[Ashley Johnson]

There are no salmon in there.

[Sam Riegel]

No, no, no.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Horribly polluted. We found it out the hard way. There's the do not hike trail. There's various cabins. You see the Nest, the Lion's Lodge, Rooster's Roost, all the different themed cabins. You see your cabin, the Olga cabin. You pass by the Gross, which is the eatery, a sun bleached cafeteria on stilts. And Phyllis the centaur lunch lady dumping out a pot of food behind it. You pass the medical tent, the curfew tower, where Mishi, the curfew creature stands vigilant Mishi. You pass the Magic Meadow, which is a proving ground for magic users. You also see a couple of different places. The String Can Network, which is a camp wide tin can telephone system. It's usually broken though. So sometimes calling one place to another can take longer than just walking there. But as they said, Veth, Beau, and Yasha hang back. So the four of you are in front if you guys wanted to talk about any. Anything amongst yourselves. But if not, Veth will talk to Bo and Yasha and say, all right. So that was sort of a rough start, you guys. I was expecting you to sort of scare them, intimidate them.

[Ashley Johnson]

Well, how do we know that that's the right route to take? They are children.

[Travis Willingham]

This is also light adults.

[Ashley Johnson]

This is also light adults.

[Travis Willingham]

What I wanted to talk to you about because I feel like there's a little bit of mixed messages going on here.

[Ashley Johnson]

Well, I do too. I do too.

[Travis Willingham]

Because you're like, oh, you know, you are children and want you to wild out and be like kids and there are no rules. But then you want us to bring in. Bring in here to try and force rules.

[Sam Riegel]

I know. Well, that's mostly yezza. I'm. I know it's a bit of mixed messaging, but the problem is they have to get comfortable before they can watch. They have to at least be good at their skills that they came here to learn. And then, you know, once you're good at something, you can sort of bend the rules and break the rules and have fun with it. But first they have to have a basic knowledge of something, anything. And they don't. They're really. They're losers.

[Ashley Johnson]

Well, well, we all were maybe losers at one point. Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

You know, we were part of 99.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Can I make a perception check to hear Vest say that we're losers?

[Sam Riegel]

Go ahead. A roll. No.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

14.

[Travis Willingham]

Sure.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Plus I think I have 14 plus 18.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, for sure. You heard it. Yeah. Yeah.

[H]

Put that in your card. No detail about them.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, it'll be a creature status. Loser. No Fresno hopes. No prospects card. Can't upgrade.

[H]

That's my favorite one yet.

[Travis Willingham]

Just, I just want to say, like, it's going to be a long ass day. You want us. You think we can whip these kids into shape in a day?

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, that, that's. I don't know if we can get them to get a merit badge by the end of the day.

[Sam Riegel]

You can do anything. Listen, I, I know that these aren't the greatest campers, but I see a lot of good in them. They have great promise. They're just not focusing in the right direction. I'm sorry I'm being so rude to you guys. You guys are here on vacation sort of, aren't you?

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, kind of.

[Ashley Johnson]

Weren't you talking Trial run.

[Travis Willingham]

Trial run. Oh, to see how we are with.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, that's right. You're thinking about having kids.

[Ashley Johnson]

Michelle, what have we been talking about?

[Travis Willingham]

We've been so busy.

[Sam Riegel]

Did you decide? Is one of you pregnant right now?

[Travis Willingham]

No. We don't know.

[Ashley Johnson]

We don't know. We don't.

[Sam Riegel]

Are both of you pregnant right now? No.

[Ashley Johnson]

No.

[Travis Willingham]

How would that work?

[Marisha Ray]

I don't know.

[Sam Riegel]

How does any of it work?

[Travis Willingham]

I don't know.

[Ashley Johnson]

I don't know.

[Travis Willingham]

We're trying to figure that out.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It works differently for my family. Well, I've seen it.

[H]

It's gruesome.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You have to do it in public because it needs a lot of space.

[Marisha Ray]

I'd rather not know that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

It's just true.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sorry.

[Sam Riegel]

So wait, are you both definitely gonna have. I mean, are you excited about this or.

[Travis Willingham]

I've been so busy with my work. I've been working so much with Caleb and everything with. Damn Cerberus assembly. So I've been promising Yasha this for a long time. So I'm taking a little bit of time off. I'm doing it. I'm doing something. It's self care. It's self care and investment in our relationship.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yes. And we're just going to see if maybe this is the time we might be too old. I don't know if it's time.

[Sam Riegel]

Just try it out. Spending time with these kids is going.

[Ashley Johnson]

To be spending time with kids at the worst time in their life when they're the most awful. And then we can decide if we could do it.

[Travis Willingham]

We're up for it. You know, we've been to the plane of the abyss and fought giant monsters with eyeballs. And our friends that have risen from the dead. This feels like the hardest thing I've ever gonna do in my entire life.

[Sam Riegel]

You're not wrong about that. You're not wrong about that.

[Ashley Johnson]

We'll do it. We'll figure it out.

[Travis Willingham]

I mean, what do you've. Got a teenage boy right now.

[Sam Riegel]

He's the most wonderful boy in the world and I want to kill him.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

He can drive me so crazy sometimes. He's a little shit, but.

[Ashley Johnson]

Shit, shit.

[Travis Willingham]

I keep saying three American dollars. I don't have my wallet on. Someone might have to run me my wallet.

[Ashley Johnson]

I don't know how much cash.

[Sam Riegel]

Whatever. It can be 20s.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm going to hold on to that.

[Travis Willingham]

Maybe it'll be like an advance. Yeah, maybe. Can you cover me?

[Ashley Johnson]

Babe, I'll cover you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Don't worry.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

I will say that having a kid is A wonderful experience. It teaches you a lot about yourself. And so I hope that ultimately you do decide to have kids, but I'm not going to force you to.

[Ashley Johnson]

Well, it's just like, I don't know if it's the selfish thing, you know? Like, you think about, if I had a kid, I'd give it a life that I didn't have, and then it would be so good. Yeah. But then it's like, is that selfish?

[Travis Willingham]

Is it pressure?

[Ashley Johnson]

Is it pressure?

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah. Are you gonna be trying to shape the kid into something that they don't wanna be?

[Ashley Johnson]

That they don't wanna be?

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah. And what if it's, like, egotistical? Like you're just trying to build a child in your image, you know?

[H]

Hold on. Is Luke with us right now?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[H]

Okay, so we're not there still.

[Sam Riegel]

You're just. You're about 20ft ahead.

[Marisha Ray]

We can tell that things are getting intense over here.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Luke sort of understands what's going on behind him and is like, I'm sorry about this. They. Sometimes they get like this for a long time.

[H]

Can I try to listen in on their conversation?

[Sam Riegel]

Sure, go ahead. Roll a perception check to see if a D20. Yeah.

[H]

Okay. 17.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. You can hear most of what they're saying. They're pretty loud.

[H]

Okay. Just taking notes.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, good. It's like they're not even trying to. As you listen to what they're talking about, you guys do reach the training grounds. It's a large amphitheater like space built into the woods with archery targets, an obstacle course, a rickety little bridge. All manner of test dummies strewn about. Pierced, slashed, even bludgeoned. This is where campers come to perfect physical combat of all sorts. All right, everyone, we're here. Today you'll be competing in tests of strength, dexterity, wisdom, intelligence. I don't really know the difference between those last two, but if you endure this, this test, this sort of championship, if you will, and if Bo and Yasha deem you successful, they will award you with a badge. Are you ready to show your all to these people today?

[H]

Wild out.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

Absolutely. We've got this.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

Wild out.

[Travis Willingham]

More enthusiasm, more passion.

[Ashley Johnson]

Get you your badges, Hype.

[Marisha Ray]

Wild out.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wild out.

[Marisha Ray]

Wild out.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah. There we go. That's more like it.

[H]

I'm wilding so hard right now, I.

[Sam Riegel]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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[Sam Riegel]

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[Ashley Johnson]

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[Travis Willingham]

I've never felt like this before. It's like you just get me. I feel like my true self with you. Does that sound crazy? And it doesn't hurt that you're gorgeous.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, that's it.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm taking you home with me. I mean, you can't find shoes this good just anywhere. Find a shoe for every you from brands you love, like Birkenstock, Nike, Adidas and more at your dsw store or dsw.com where did we.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, he's fake money.

[Sam Riegel]

But I want real money.

[Travis Willingham]

But these are fake hundreds. Rainy hundreds.

[Sam Riegel]

How are you feeling?

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm okay. I'm just really hoping that I don't have to do any strength things so that my twig like arms might snap in half. But.

[Ashley Johnson]

Well, we gotta work on those.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

No, I don't know if that's possible, but we'll try.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay. Leave it on a date.

[Travis Willingham]

You all are at rock fucking bottom. You're at rock bottom, okay. And you know what? Rock bottom's a good place to be.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

You know why? That wasn't a rhetorical question. Do you know why?

[Marisha Ray]

Well, because we have somewhere to go from rock bottom.

[Travis Willingham]

That's correct. That's correct. Skull crush. Sky. Not skull crusher. All right. That's correct. Sky can only go up. Right?

[Ashley Johnson]

Wild out.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Theoretically, you could also move laterally to a different area of rock bottom.

[Liam O'Brien]

Well, also, if the rocks slip, then you can fall between the rocks.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay. It's gonna go back to being a rhetorical question. Okay. Do you have these thoughts inside yourself?

[Sam Riegel]

Mo, start them off. Let's do the first activity.

[Travis Willingham]

You guys ready?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ready?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

This test is very simple.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay?

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, you see this? This is a pinecone. Oh, it is a pine cone. Use your imaginations. Okay.

[H]

Translucent pine cones.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah. It's a special rare variety of the pine trees here. They produce translucent.

[Sam Riegel]

They Do. It's true.

[Travis Willingham]

So you have one simple task. Knock this pinecone out of my hands by any means necessary. You can punch, you can kick, you can use magic cake. But all you gotta do, send this pine cone flying. All right?

[Sam Riegel]

All right. Sounds a good deal. Well, let's do it. I'm going to need each of the four of you to roll initiative to see what order we're going to be doing this in. Go ahead and roll.

[H]

It's also a 20, right?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, everything's a 20.

[H]

17, 18 again.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Liam O'Brien]

9, 7, 14.

[Sam Riegel]

So Kai first, Jessop second, I believe sky third, and Padmin last. And you will be competing at boy. Where's the thing? Is it back here? I don't do this.

[Travis Willingham]

What are you looking for.

[Sam Riegel]

Fun?

[Ashley Johnson]

Yay, you.

[Marisha Ray]

What a natural you are.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, my God, it's so heavy.

[Ashley Johnson]

You need a helmet.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You got it.

[Sam Riegel]

This it.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, my God.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, my God.

[Sam Riegel]

I think this is how I do it.

[Marisha Ray]

It's so beautiful.

[Ashley Johnson]

Gorgeous.

[Travis Willingham]

Look at this.

[Sam Riegel]

This is so cool.

[Travis Willingham]

Look at the cr.

[Sam Riegel]

You guys have minis. This is you, Padman.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Froggy.

[Sam Riegel]

This is you, Jessup.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, my God.

[Sam Riegel]

Taller and bluer. And this is miss Sky.

[Ashley Johnson]

So cool.

[Sam Riegel]

And here we go. Wait, where is.

[Travis Willingham]

Did you build this, Sam?

[Sam Riegel]

I certainly did.

[Ashley Johnson]

That's enough.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, here we go. Kai, this is you, I think. Yes. Look at that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So cool.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, and then we got your bow. And Yasha, Bo and Yasha. Where do you want to be on this map?

[Travis Willingham]

Well, I feel like I'm going to be right in the middle of the bridge.

[Sam Riegel]

Right. Right in the middle of the bridge.

[Travis Willingham]

That's part of the challenge. You gotta get a kid to the bridge.

[Ashley Johnson]

Sure.

[Sam Riegel]

And then, kids, where do you want to be? I guess you would all be sort of down below. And then, Kai, you're first. So you're gonna be up on the bridge with beautiful boy. How do I make. How do I make it battle? I don't know how to do this stuff. Okay, Sam, I got this.

[Marisha Ray]

You got this.

[Sam Riegel]

All right. Oh, hi. No, I think they did it for me backstage. Thank you, Brennan.

[Travis Willingham]

Thank you.

[Sam Riegel]

All right. As they get ready, a new voice joins. Joins the chorus of voices. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. It is a young blonde haired, 20 something, half elven counselor in a sundress who runs up, interrupting. Wait, wait, wait. Please, Veth, a moment, please. This is Beth Greenbloom, the camp cleric. She's responsible for all the healing seminars. She also runs the yoga and pilates workshop. Please, please, Veth. Your husband wanted me to Remind you about the potions. Oh, that's right. Says veth. Ah, freaking insurance. Beth hands veth two corked bottles of a swirling gray syrup. So Yaza thinks that Bo and Yasha here will hurt these children because they're so overpowered. So Caleb sent these potions for you. They will dampen your abilities just for 24 hours.

[Ashley Johnson]

Dampen our abilities?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes. Yes, because if you. We're worried that you're gonna one shot kill some of these campers.

[Ashley Johnson]

I know how to control my strength.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, we can pull our punches.

[Sam Riegel]

I don't think that you can. So it would really. It's for insurance. They want you to sweet these potions. It'll just make you weak for one day. It's fine if you don't do this. I'm sleeping on the couch tonight.

[Travis Willingham]

Why is that my problem?

[Ashley Johnson]

Same. I was gonna say the same. I don't care. I mean, we have to take these, right?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, please. Otherwise you're gonna kill my kids.

[H]

Admin has very brittle bones.

[Travis Willingham]

All right. Okay, fine.

[Sam Riegel]

Flip them over. It's a pungent elixir. It smells like tobacco and cheese. As you drink it down, you do feel a little bit dazed. And instantly you feel much, much weaker. This potion immediately reduces Beau and Yasha to level three.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Whoa.

[Ashley Johnson]

Dang.

[Travis Willingham]

Punch Caleb in the nuts next to.

[Sam Riegel]

You if you can. You're pretty weak.

[Travis Willingham]

Did we get those? Same.

[Sam Riegel]

I sure hope you got those stats.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yep, yep.

[Travis Willingham]

It's in the emails. You know what? We're gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonna pull that up right first.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm sure we can get it printed out for you.

[Travis Willingham]

My bs. That sounds great, Bren.

[Sam Riegel]

While you were gone, Beau and Yasha are now level three.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Did a magical effect.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, it did. Nerfed us a little so that they won't kill you. Copy that. Insta me.

[H]

You have very brittle bones.

[Sam Riegel]

And you're level one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

My bones are.

[Travis Willingham]

Do you even have bones?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, actually. Common misconception, but amphibians do, in fact, have skeletons.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Is your blood red like ours?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes. We are vertebrates. We're just. Stop. Bambles babbles. What? Bambles.

[Marisha Ray]

That's what I thought.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You are. To my knowledge, everyone I'm looking at is Babelian in nature. Oh, whereas I'm amphibious. What you think I said?

[Sam Riegel]

I. I don't know. Luke comes up to you guys just to give you a quick pep talk. All right, guys, I know that my mom was a little harsh. She's been drinking already, and I know that Bo and Yasha can be a little bit aggressive, but I really do believe in you guys, and I know that you guys can do this. Just. Just give it your all. All right? And you know, side note, Beau really doesn't like insults, so you might. You might be able to distract her with some insults. And Yasha gets distracted by shiny things or flowers. She keeps a little book on her where she sort of presses flowers into the. Into the pages and she does little cute little doodles and stuff. It's very cute. But anyway, just go up there and knock them dead. All right, Kai, you're up first.

[H]

Are they still drinking the potion right now?

[Sam Riegel]

They've just finished drinking it.

[Ashley Johnson]

Disgusting.

[Sam Riegel]

All right, we begin. Kai, I will let you go first. Okay, this is it. How would you like to snatch this pinecone out of Beau's hand?

[H]

I have a little whip on me.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, you do?

[H]

Okay, I do have my little whip. I would like to pick up a little rock and I want to throw it in the air and whip at the rock and see if I can.

[Sam Riegel]

You're going to throw the rock, whip the rock, and try to hit bow or to hit the pinecone.

[H]

The pine cone.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. Okay. This is going to be a pretty difficult roll, but if it works, it could work really great. Go ahead and roll a D20. And let's say, let's do an attack roll. So add your. Your whip attack modifier to it. Let's see if you have a whip up there.

[H]

I do.

[Sam Riegel]

Do you have a whip?

[Travis Willingham]

It'd probably be like Dex plus your proficiency.

[H]

Yeah, let's see.

[Sam Riegel]

You're Kai, right? Yeah. I see no whip. We're just gonna say it's plus five. Plus five.

[H]

Okay. Plus five. Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

11. 11. Plus five. 16. Beau, make a dexterity save, I guess.

[Travis Willingham]

Dexterity save. Not against my ac.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, because you're just trying to get the thing away.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay. Yeah. That's gonna miss with a 23 total.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes. So the roc. You actually do this really well. You whip the rock, it flies right at the pinecone. And you did it in a moment when Beau wasn't even looking at you. But she doesn't need to. She just sort of pulls it away by instinct and shakes her your finger at you. No, no, no, no, no.

[H]

I look at everyone else and I.

[Sam Riegel]

Go, well, you're still up there. You can still try again. Beau, you can also. It's your turn. If you want him to move away or do anything to make this harder for him, feel free.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm just going to sit down on the edge of the bridge, kind of dangle my feet.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, man.

[Travis Willingham]

Come on, kid. You're going to give up that easy? Come on.

[Sam Riegel]

Come on. Go ahead.

[H]

A little insulting.

[Ashley Johnson]

Get in there.

[H]

Okay, let's see, what else do I got in my little tools kit?

[Sam Riegel]

You can also just run and grab it.

[H]

Yeah. I'm just gonna straight up charge and then I'm gonna do a little flip.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[H]

To try and get behind.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[H]

Okay. So let's see.

[Sam Riegel]

I roll an acrobatics check to see how this flip works out for you.

[H]

That would be dexterity or acrobatic.

[Sam Riegel]

Acrobatics, yeah. 17amazing plus stuff, I assume, right?

[H]

Yeah. Acrobatics. Is that a plus? Seven right now.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, my God. Yes. This is an amazing flip that you do. You've landed behind Beau. It's right in front of you. You can grab it right out of her hand if you'd like.

[H]

Yes, I'd love to do that.

[Sam Riegel]

Let's make this a strength contested roll to see if you can pull it out of your hand.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Strength.

[Sam Riegel]

Both of you roll a D20, add your strength and we'll see what happens.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

What is this?

[Travis Willingham]

Is this a 20?

[Marisha Ray]

Is that a.

[Travis Willingham]

You might get a ring.

[Sam Riegel]

It's a wing.

[Ashley Johnson]

That's a 20.

[H]

That's a 20.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, my God.

[H]

Plus a one string.

[Sam Riegel]

No, no, 20 is all you need. Beauregard Lionette. You feel the pinecone removed from your hand deftly, as if you didn't even know what was happening.

[Ashley Johnson]

Where'd it go?

[H]

Yeah, it's a little see through, so it's hard to see, but it's right here.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, you got it.

[Travis Willingham]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Ashley Johnson]

That's what I'm talking about. That's pretty good. That's pretty good.

[Travis Willingham]

See what happens? That's so cool.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, that was great.

[Travis Willingham]

When you apply yourself.

[H]

I'm very good at flipping.

[Travis Willingham]

It's good. So inside baseball.

[Sam Riegel]

That is inside baseball. Luke. Luke. Cheers. Yeah, that's my boy. Way to go, Kai. Nicely done, man. Gives you a high five as you step off.

[Travis Willingham]

Good job.

[Sam Riegel]

All right, one down. Very good. Who's up next?

[Travis Willingham]

Produce another pine cone.

[Sam Riegel]

I think it's Jessup.

[H]

Pedman, where do you think she's getting those pine cones?

[Marisha Ray]

You got this, Jessup. You got this.

[Sam Riegel]

All right, Jessup.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We'll see it if we do.

[Ashley Johnson]

Let's go, Jessup.

[H]

There are no clear trees around here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's absolutely fascinating, actually.

[Sam Riegel]

Jessup, how would you like to do this?

[Liam O'Brien]

Well, my goal is to Attempt. I would like to use infestation and have a bunch of small birds come and knock the pine cone out of your hand to reach and grab.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing. How are you feeling stress wise right now?

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm pretty stressed. There's a lot that could go wrong there. There's a lot of, like, the birds could. I have to take into consideration their acceleration.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. I would say so. Jessup over here has a little bit of a stress problem. She gets anxious, and I would say that you are at level one stress now. Does that make sense to you? Okay, so she's feeling a little bit shaky. She's looking a little bit, like a little bit of sweat on her little mustache area. And so let's see if your spell. If your spell could work. Can you. You roll a D6 first to see how it works. It's a 6, so that works. The spell works. With all of your focus, you cast your spell. How does the spell look coming out of your body or where do you cast it from?

[Liam O'Brien]

So lots of small birds come. I attract all of the birds from around. Can I do that?

[Sam Riegel]

Sure you can.

[Liam O'Brien]

And all of these tiny birds come and swarm around you. And a couple of them and a couple of blue birds that match my ultramarine eyes come and they knock the pinecone out of your ear.

[Sam Riegel]

Or they tried to knock out.

[Liam O'Brien]

They tried to knock the pine cone.

[Sam Riegel]

Out of your pine cone. Let's see here. Let's do another contested strength roll, I guess birds versus yobo. Why not? Why don't you roll a D20 and both of you roll D20s and we'll see what we get.

[Travis Willingham]

Dude, it's not good. 14 better than me.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. The birds do knock it loose, but you're not there to get it, and the birds can't carry it. So it's loose. It's on the floor. You guys could both run for it. If you'd like to make an attempt for it.

[Liam O'Brien]

I would like to make an attempt for it.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm gonna make an attempt for it too.

[Sam Riegel]

All right, you're both diving for the pinecone to see who can get there first. Beau's pretty speedy. You're determined, though. Let's make. How are you gonna get there? With speed? Are you going to do flips? Are you going to try to push her out of the way? What are you gonna use to sort of beat her there?

[Liam O'Brien]

I don't think my nimble bones can handle flips, and so I think that all I can do is just make a dash for it.

[Sam Riegel]

Just A pure speed. Then let's both do athletics. Check to see if you're who's the faster of the 2. Roll a D20 step of the wind. Sure you are.

[Travis Willingham]

Double mine.

[Sam Riegel]

Athletics. It's the second one down, I think.

[Travis Willingham]

Third one down.

[Sam Riegel]

Third one down.

[Travis Willingham]

Fourth one down.

[Ashley Johnson]

Fourth one down.

[Sam Riegel]

Jesus. Lot of a's.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Athletics is right here. You have a minus one.

[Liam O'Brien]

Minus one. So I have a six.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, 12.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay? Yes. And you did. Step of the wind. All right? So you go, you dive to get that pinecone, and you've got it. It's in your hand and it's not. It's gone the second you thought you had it. It's as if a blur goes by and Bo is standing now, let's say 30ft away from you. Somehow she got that far away from you with the pinecone that fast. You get one more shot at this. What would you like to try?

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, I think I'm going to try my spells. I can only use once every. My charm person. I can only use once every.

[Sam Riegel]

That's true. Yes. But it's worth it to try.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna go for charm person.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, Charm person. I don't know how spells work. What does it say? Is that a charisma save? What is that? I'm looking.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, I think so. Charm person's right here.

[Sam Riegel]

Charm person. I've got it. Wisdom 13 Save. Go ahead.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And you can use your innate sorcery if you want to, to bump that up, but only if you want to.

[Liam O'Brien]

And I only get to.

[Sam Riegel]

Did you do that?

[Liam O'Brien]

How many times?

[Sam Riegel]

Twice. Twice? Twice until you rest.

[Liam O'Brien]

Until I rest? I think I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna use my sorcery.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. So as a bonus action, you invoke your innate sorcery, which just gives you even more focus. But you are stressed. Let's see if this spell even works. Roll a D6.

[Liam O'Brien]

I got a one.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. I'm sorry to say, the spell goes awry. The nerves, the people watching you. The intensity of the moment is just too much to bear.

[Travis Willingham]

Focus, Jessup.

[Sam Riegel]

Can you roll focus? Can you roll a D100? Brennan helper.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay. It's these two, right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, those two together.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And the tens is the first digit. So 6 and 62, that would be.

[Ashley Johnson]

Ooo.

[Sam Riegel]

So your spell shoots out and. And nothing seems to happen. It seems to dissipate with the wind and you just. Nothing happened until you speak.

[Liam O'Brien]

So nothing happened to my spell, but instead this.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. Yes.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, no.

[Liam O'Brien]

I Guess I have to shout when I speak now.

[Sam Riegel]

The spell seems to have dissipated and. And congealed in a strange way on her throat. And now, whenever Jessop is speaking, for the next minute, she is shouting as loud as she can.

[Travis Willingham]

I saw what I meant by focusing. You know that, right?

[Sam Riegel]

Unfortunately, it's failed. And that is a failure. I'm so sorry. Luke announces. Well, you gave it your best shot. I'm so sorry, Jess.

[Travis Willingham]

I was so set up for success.

[Sam Riegel]

With the last roll. Why are you yelling at me?

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, calm down.

[Ashley Johnson]

Calm down.

[Travis Willingham]

We don't need to keep escalating this.

[Ashley Johnson]

We don't need to keep yelling.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, Sorry. I'm sorry. Sorry.

[H]

Hey, you can have my pine cone if you want.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, that's.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's actually really sweet.

[Sam Riegel]

Thank you so much.

[Marisha Ray]

Ouch, my ears.

[Travis Willingham]

Beau takes the pinecone, the invisible pine cone, and kind of does a little hacky sack with it and hacky sacks.

[Sam Riegel]

It directly to Yasha. Who's up next? So the next two of you are gonna have to get this pinecone out of Yasha's hand.

[Ashley Johnson]

You probably have an easier time. I am just beefy.

[Sam Riegel]

Up next is Skye. Skullcrusher. Skye, you're up next. You're gonna have to get this pine cone out of Yasha's.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Nice.

[Ashley Johnson]

Love it.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, where's Yasha?

[Sam Riegel]

You're both on the bridge.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm up on the bridge now.

[Sam Riegel]

On the bridge. You're both on the bridge.

[Marisha Ray]

We're both on the bridge.

[Ashley Johnson]

We're both on the bridge.

[Sam Riegel]

We're both on the bridge.

[Marisha Ray]

We're both on the bridge.

[Ashley Johnson]

Come and get it. Come and get it.

[Marisha Ray]

You got a better chance of that. Thank you.

[Liam O'Brien]

How long does my strat. One minute in battle time is how long.

[Sam Riegel]

It'll probably be done by the time the next couple folks are done.

[Ashley Johnson]

You're like, how long do I have to be spurting?

[Marisha Ray]

Sorry. It's Yasha.

[Sam Riegel]

This is Yasha.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, okay. I'm just, like, spinning it like a basketball.

[Marisha Ray]

So I'd like to cast a minor illusion to distract our Yasha.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing. Using your innate barbarian skill to cast an illusion spell is quite difficult because while you have been studying wizard craft and you have a spell book and you've got all the correct components, it just doesn't come easy to you. It doesn't come natural to you. So to see if this spell has a chance of working, please flip a coin.

[Marisha Ray]

I've got this very fancy coin.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing. Which side is. You get to choose. Tell me. Heads or tails? Which one are you looking for?

[Marisha Ray]

I guess the heads is the guy's head, and the tails is the thing with the tail.

[Sam Riegel]

And which one will be the good one for you?

[Marisha Ray]

Heads is gonna be the good one for me.

[Sam Riegel]

Go ahead and find you can do it. Sky heads. Oh, my gosh. The spell works. So you're spelling, you're casting minor illusion. And what are you making appear?

[Marisha Ray]

I'd like to make a cute creature up here next to Yasha. It's gonna be.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, my goodness.

[Marisha Ray]

It's gonna be so, so, so cute. And it makes a little song, and it's got these cute little teeth and whiskers. It looks so soft. I think she's gonna want to touch it.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing. I think, Yasha, you're gonna have to roll to see if you believe this illusion or not.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Go ahead and roll a. Is it. Did a wisdom check. Jesus. How does this work?

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm doing wisdom. It's minus.

[Sam Riegel]

Do it.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, I'll do wisdom, babe.

[Travis Willingham]

Don't. Don't.

[Sam Riegel]

Wisdom.

[Ashley Johnson]

Save 15.

[Sam Riegel]

I think that works. Unfortunately, you have a very low spell dc, so. Yes, you are.

[Ashley Johnson]

I really wanted to, like, put the pine cone down.

[Sam Riegel]

You are able to see that this is an illusion, but it's very cute to you. It's just you can kind of see through it.

[Ashley Johnson]

This is darling, but I can tell it's not real.

[Marisha Ray]

Can. Can I. Can I make a run for it?

[Sam Riegel]

Sure, Go. Go ahead. What are you gonna try to do? Pull it out of the way?

[Marisha Ray]

As we were walking over here, a camper had just discarded their gum, and it's on the bottom of my shoe. I'm gonna grab it so that my hand is sticky.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

And I'm gonna try to go past her.

[Sam Riegel]

That's gross. I like it.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm try to stick it onto my hand.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, so you're gonna do this. Just sort of get by her as fast as you can. Let's see if you can hit it, because I think she's going to try to pull it away from you. Roll an attack. An unarmed strike attack. So this is 4D24 to see if you can strike and get it from yasha.

[Marisha Ray]

It's a 22.

[Sam Riegel]

Wow. I mean, you can go ahead to roll to see if you can pull it away from her. Let's try a dexterity save to see if. If you can pull it away in time, you have to beat a 22.

[Ashley Johnson]

I do not.

[Sam Riegel]

No. You do not?

[Ashley Johnson]

No.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. The gum sticks.

[Ashley Johnson]

I rolled a 21.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, my God. Yeah. For a second Both of you are holding the pinecone together, and it looks like it's not going to break free for a second. You can't help but notice the rippling muscles on this. This tiny 2 foot 8 frame. She's had to leap up to grab it from you, but for a second, it's like that predator handshake where it's just all muscles. It's pretty badass. And then a moment later. Rip. It rips out of your hand because something was holding onto it. Something that made her hands stickier than they should have been as she rips the pinecone free. Success. Yes.

[Ashley Johnson]

You did it.

[Sam Riegel]

Sorry. That was good.

[Ashley Johnson]

That was good.

[Travis Willingham]

Good work.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing. Amazing.

[Ashley Johnson]

And the strength of this one, we need. You're studying the wrong thing.

[Marisha Ray]

I think you were still a little distracted by the cute creature. You knew it wasn't real, but it was still very cute, right?

[Ashley Johnson]

It was. It actually was very cute. Woolenpack. Yeah. Yeah. Get into this.

[Sam Riegel]

There's one more person left to go. Padman, it is your turn.

[H]

Let's do what I told you.

[Ashley Johnson]

All right.

[Sam Riegel]

We've had a couple successes. We've had one failure, but I think you can do this. Padman, do you believe in yourself?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I do. I do believe in myself. It's time to go for broke the line.

[Travis Willingham]

You've got this.

[Sam Riegel]

Where would you like to Jessup.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm not gonna move up onto the bridge. I'm gonna stay down there for a second and I'm gonna say it begins. Jessup, may I see your pinecone?

[Liam O'Brien]

I didn't get the pinecone.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, but I thought did it. Where is it? Did you?

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, yes.

[Liam O'Brien]

He handed me the pine cone.

[Sam Riegel]

Here you go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You got it. Okay. By the nine secret algaes of the great pond of shadows. By the lily pad of the north wind, whose rippling leaf cascades over. And I'm gonna start to ritual cast identify.

[Sam Riegel]

How long does that take?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

10 minutes.

[H]

This is going great. I love her.

[Sam Riegel]

You're casting identify.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I want to see if the pine cone has any properties that may give some information as to how to best the challenge.

[H]

I thought you were just gonna see how it was made. That was my. My big history.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, that as well.

[Sam Riegel]

Everyone. Everyone is calmly waiting. Luke confides in the others that, I mean, technically there was no time limit that was placed on this.

[Ashley Johnson]

Maybe next time we do a time limit, I guess.

[Sam Riegel]

Next one we should probably do a time limit.

[Ashley Johnson]

So.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Nine and a half more minutes go by and you complete the ritual.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I call out all the great wizards that have come before me.

[Sam Riegel]

And sure enough, instantly, you have an innate knowledge of this pine cone. It does come from a very unusual tree that has translucent leaves, but it is simply a pine cone and nothing more.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What was the exact wording of the challenge that I had to get specifically the pine cone from Yasha's hand?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Very well. We've arrived at a dead end in our research.

[Sam Riegel]

Here we go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, very well. If I am to succeed at this challenge, I will have to call on forces far greater still. I call upon the nine secret algaes of the great pot, and I'm gonna start to ritually cast. Fine. Familiar. Which will be another 10 minutes.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing. Amazing. And everyone patiently waits. While they're waiting, Beth, the camp cleric, is just sort of hanging around, and Luke goes up to her and says, you're looking very pretty today, Beth. And Beth says, oh, that's nice, Luke. That's nice. You guys are just waiting and waiting and waiting. Nine and a half more minutes go by, and the casting is done.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm gonna look up. Cause I'm gonna look at Kai, who's my artist for my cards. At the last minute, I'm casting it. I realize I have no idea what I want my familiar to look like.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And I go, like, what do people have for familiars, like, most of the time?

[H]

Oh, I don't know. I was just busy drawing you in the last 10 minutes.

[Ashley Johnson]

That's so cute.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I conjure, I think, just a frog. I think my familiar is just. But I think I'm looking around at all these more humanoid mammals. So I think my frog has a full head of hair and human teeth.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, great, great, great. All right. So it's just a normal frog. Yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But it's a familiar that can now help me.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, There is a frog. It appears beside you, just as you've described, and it looks up at you with its big eyes and says, ribbit, ribbit. Do you speak frog? I assume you speak frog.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, I speak frog, but also, you are speaking.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, no.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's all right. It's exactly as I anticipated. Now, hello.

[Sam Riegel]

Hello. Now, with you here, what would you like me to do?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I want you to buckle up because we're about to get to work. I call upon the dying secret algaes of the great podge of shadows, and I'm going to start to ritually cast unseen servant. We're getting even more help.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing. Sure enough, 10 minutes go by. How long does find familiar last?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, find familiar. Nice. Now it's just Now I just have a familiar.

[Sam Riegel]

It's just there. Forever.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Instantaneous. I just have a little frog with hair and big white game show host teeth.

[Sam Riegel]

Now you also have an invisible servant with you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Been casting spells for a half hour. I have an unseen servant over here. And look at the unseen servant and go. If that little pineco pops up in the air, you know exactly what you have to do. You there?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wait, what's a good name for familiar?

[Liam O'Brien]

Well, you'd have to consider all the options. You'd have to consider their personality and their physical appearance.

[Sam Riegel]

I do have a name.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What's your name?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, yeah, My name's Archibald.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Archibald. Fantastic. All right, Archibald, look alive. You help me figure this out. I'm alive. All right. And I'm gonna walk up.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm not technically alive.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I know. I created you. You're not even real.

[Sam Riegel]

Wow.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You're my best friend.

[Sam Riegel]

It's the craziest day of my life.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's the first day of your life. There couldn't be a crazier one. Wow. And I'm gonna walk up on the bridge with my new familiar unseen servant. And I'm gonna approach Yasha.

[Ashley Johnson]

Hello.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Have at thee. And I'm going to cast gust.

[Sam Riegel]

And gust. You cast. A gust of wind emanates from you. Do you have a spell focus or do you just use your hands to cast your spell?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think I do have a spell focus. I think that I touch a small enamel pin and I think it's in a pin of the wildlings. Of the wild Mountain Wildlings. I think it's a camp pin. Because deep down, this camp matters more to me than anything.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, no.

[Sam Riegel]

And sure enough, an arcane blast of wind emanates from this pin towards Yasha. What are you attempting to do with this gust of wind?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This won't work. And so it's a strength saving throw. It's a strength saving throw. Or you're pushed from five feet away. There is no. I think Padmind has one attack spell and it's a completely non harmful gust of wind. And it will just. If it works, which it won't, it will push Yasha five feet back.

[Ashley Johnson]

What do I need to roll a straight saving throw?

[Sam Riegel]

Are you raging, Yasha, or are you just regular Yoshi?

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, my God. Yes, I'm raging.

[Sam Riegel]

All right, so roll with advantage.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yes, I will. It's cocked. Sorry.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, my God, I'm sorry.

[Ashley Johnson]

Cause I'm using the. Okay. I'm not gonna use this dice, actually. That'll take too long. Okay, okay, okay. That is 14.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

14. Yeah. That succeeds. My arcade blast was ineffective. Drop it.

[Ashley Johnson]

It just feels like in my face. He just went.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Very well. When magic fails, let bite avail. And I'm gonna walk up and say, you want an arm wrestle for it?

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

All right. Great. I have poisoned skin.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So I'm gonna need a constitution saving throw.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's DC12 or you're poisoned.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, my God.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, no. Wait, wait. What did you say? Constitution.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Constitution.

[Ashley Johnson]

I rolled a six.

[Sam Riegel]

Do you get any bonuses? Cause your raging to constitution is just strength, right? Strength.

[Ashley Johnson]

It's a strength, right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, so she takes poison damage, Is that right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, you have the poisoned condition.

[Ashley Johnson]

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Strange attacks the same throws, bonuses, strength.

[Sam Riegel]

No, the poison condition, which means with.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The poison condition, I have poisonous froggy skin. You are poisoned for one minute. That's the poisoned condition, which means you now have disadvantage on almost like all ability checks.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Amazing.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. That pine cone's just sitting there on the floor between you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. As you are poisoned, I want to make an opposed athletics to do the arm wrestling. I want advantage from Archibald, but I want that unseen servant, now that the pinecone is guarded, to go for the. My unseen servant's gonna grab the pinecone.

[Sam Riegel]

While you arm wrestle.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

While I arm wrestle. And Archibald's gonna help.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, great. So I guess roll to see who wins this arm wrestling match.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

You get advantage, but you get disadvantage. So it's a straight roll, I believe. Straight roll. Right.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

And you get advantage from the help of your Archibald friend who is crawling up on your hand and helping push.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is an 18.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, my gosh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And a 19. 19 plus 19. 18 plus 5 strength.

[Sam Riegel]

And you're a 2 foot 8 frog.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A 2 foot 8 frog. And you feel that? I have a strength score of 21.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay. And I did a. What did I do? 17.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

17. So with a 24, I go. There is a secret. Magic, cleverness and intellect avail you shall always.

[Travis Willingham]

What's happening?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A wizard's secrets are his greatest strength. Invisiboy. Get it?

[Sam Riegel]

And sure enough, the pinecone lifts away and starts to get away. Yasha, are you going to try to grab it or anything, or is it a lost cause?

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm going to try to grab it. I have to give it one more go.

[Sam Riegel]

You're locked in this armwrestling mechanism, so you can't really move that much. No. You could try to break this alcohol. This a grapple. You could try to break the grapple and reach at it with your Other hand.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, I'll try that.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Am I rolling this with advantage from the filling?

[Sam Riegel]

Of course you are.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great.

[Ashley Johnson]

And I'm just rolling a one.

[Sam Riegel]

Just one die.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm doing strength.

[Sam Riegel]

A strength. Yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

16.

[Ashley Johnson]

This is. Oh, this is a 20 total.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. So you do break the grapple. You can try, but it's getting away from you. You're gonna have to make a leap to try to get it. Because. Because the pinecone has now flown over the side of the bridge and is fleeing away. You're getting one shot at this.

[Ashley Johnson]

I put a toe out to try to, like, stop it.

[Sam Riegel]

Let's leap. Make an acrobatics check to see if you can beat the unseen servants. Acrobatics.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Acrobatics will be disadvantaged.

[Ashley Johnson]

Acrobatics.

[Sam Riegel]

That's right. Acrobatics.

[Ashley Johnson]

Use a disadvantage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Disadvantage. Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay. I've rolled both the same 16.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. I don't know what the unseen servants stats are, so this is a straight roll. He got an 18. Yes. So as you leap, you're pretty confident that you're gonna grab this pine cone. The unseen servant does a pirouette, which you don't see because he's invisible, and the pine cone gets away from you and flits off into the wilderness. Gone. Success. Wow, guys, you did it. That was amazing. Luke comes over to congratulate what just happened.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's crazy that you failed in the first place.

[Ashley Johnson]

Good job.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Thank you very much. With preparation, a wizard is unbeatable.

[Sam Riegel]

That was a lot of preparation.

[Ashley Johnson]

That's actually very true.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. If you give me a half hour. There's nothing I can't do.

[Ashley Johnson]

You must teach me that. We don't have that much time.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, we'll work on speeding that up, but, you know, I'm proud of you.

[H]

I drew this picture of you and architecture.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He's so wonderful. You got his human teeth perfect.

[H]

I spent a lot of time looking at him, so it's hard not to look at him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He's kind of upsetting.

[Sam Riegel]

As that test of skill comes to a close, Yasha and Beau, three of the four of them, actually succeeded, which is pretty impressive. Who was the failure? It was me.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, no.

[Sam Riegel]

Hey. Luke comes up to you to console you. I'm. I'm so sorry you failed, but that was incredible, you guys. That was amazing. I've never seen you do anything like that all summer. What got into you?

[Liam O'Brien]

Well, I did badly, so I. I'm not one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I don't think you did.

[Travis Willingham]

You didn't do badly. Okay. It's Just some of your weaknesses. We just got to focus them. Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

You know.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

You just gotta breathe. It's clear that you got, like some good potential in there.

[Liam O'Brien]

You know, the asthma stops me from breathing super well, but yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, well, that's a. I have a couple of theories.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

We've never. We've never been. We've never been teamed up like this before. I think maybe we worked well together.

[Sam Riegel]

I do too.

[Ashley Johnson]

I think, as we have learned that working as a team sometimes is the best way to work. Maybe you could be your own adventuring party, you know?

[Sam Riegel]

Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. No, no, no.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm just trying to give some excitement of the future.

[Sam Riegel]

Several more ranks to get through before.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yes, it's true.

[Sam Riegel]

As you all know, the ranks of the wildling ranks are dainty feet, three below greenhorn, just shies and wildling. So they have a long way to go before they're ready to be real.

[Ashley Johnson]

We're not at the bare feet yet or. What is the first one?

[Sam Riegel]

Dainty feet.

[Ashley Johnson]

The dainty feet.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm sorry, they are their dainty feet.

[Ashley Johnson]

Your dainty feet right now.

[Sam Riegel]

But that was incredible. There are more tests of strength and speed, though, that we're gonna have to get through. Yasha, you had a test. You know, you've worked so well as a team. This next one, I think you're going to work together as a team again.

[Travis Willingham]

Does anyone want like a juice box?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Travis Willingham]

Or a pudding cup? A piece of darling.

[Liam O'Brien]

I would like a juice box.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, pass out. You all did good. You did good.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, thank you.

[Travis Willingham]

Just one for each of you.

[Ashley Johnson]

Bo Pasio juice box. Very good.

[Travis Willingham]

That's a juice box. I've got pudding cups too, though, if anyone's feeling a little heck ish.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I had to spend a half hour casting my spells, so I need to submerge myself in water. I have to do it pretty much every few hours.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, okay.

[Ashley Johnson]

How long do you need to submerge?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, submerging is only a few minutes, but then I probably should clean off. Cause the pond water gets out of you. Salmon Lake is not that.

[Travis Willingham]

Salmon Lake is pretty bad. Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So I'll clean off after that and then normally I like to take a little quick nap.

[Sam Riegel]

I think we're going into the next activity right away. Is it going to take a while or do we.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I have a note for my mom that I have to be allowed to do this.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, you've shown us those notes before. They really carry no weight here.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm sorry.

[Sam Riegel]

Buddy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Outrageous.

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I tried to forge those notes for you. It just didn't work out fine.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, power through Padme Hey, I like you.

[Sam Riegel]

That's a wrap for part one of this podcast episode. Part two is heading your way this upcoming Tuesday at 5am Pacific, and we'll pick up this adventure right where we left off. Until next time. We'll be back at Camp Wildmount before you know it. The last thing you want to hear when you need your auto insurance most is a robot with countless irrelevant menu options.

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