Welcome, Campers! | Wildemount Wildlings Episode 1 Part 2

Summary

Summary of "Welcome, Campers! | Wildemount Wildlings Episode 1 Part 2"

Release Date: April 15, 2025

"Welcome, Campers! | Wildemount Wildlings Episode 1 Part 2" is the second installment of a three-episode miniseries hosted by Sam Riegel under the Critical Role banner. This episode continues the adventures of four teen campers—Kai, Sky, Padmund, and Jessop—under the guidance of their seasoned counselors, Beauregard Lionette and Yasha Nidorin. Set in the imaginative world of Exandria’s Wildemount, the episode blends elements of teamwork, magic, and personal growth as the campers strive to earn merit badges and navigate unexpected challenges.

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Recap of Part One

At [03:37], Laura Bailey begins with a recap:

"It's the last day at Wildemount Wildlings, and to camp director Veth's disappointment, the Olga cabin has yet to earn any merit badges."

In response, camp director Veth brings in her friends, Bo and Yasha from the Mighty Nein, to mentor the campers. The initial challenge presented is a creatively rebranded game of tug of war, humorously renamed "Pull of Peace" by Marisha Ray at [04:43]:

"Today we will call it the Pull of peace."

This sets the stage for the campers to engage in a series of team-building exercises to earn their badges and prove their worth.

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The Tug of War Challenge

Sam Riegel outlines the mechanics of the game at [05:36]:

"You can cast a spell, you can try to distract them, you can go punch one of them in the leg. Whatever you want to try to do."

The campers face off against Bo and Yasha, utilizing a mix of physical strength and magical tactics. Notable interactions during this challenge include:

• Jessop (Ashley Johnson) grapples with anxiety that affects her magical control:

  "Only when anxiety kicks in... I have no control over it." [06:07]

• Kai (Liam O'Brien) employs creative strategies, such as using a disguise kit and a whip to maneuver behind the counselors:

  "I'm gonna try to walk... using my whip to swing under the bridge." [16:34]

• Marisha Ray’s character showcases both determination and humor, attempting intimidation and unconventional moves:

  "I'm a dope monk, and I do dope monk stuff." [26:26]

Despite initial setbacks, including failed spells and missed attacks, the campers gradually find their rhythm, demonstrating growth in strategy and cooperation.

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Character Development and Teamwork

Throughout the episode, the campers confront personal challenges and support each other's growth:

• Taliesin Jaffe’s character (Padmund) exhibits self-awareness and leadership, especially when dealing with failures:

  "If she can walk on our heads, there's nothing she can't do." [30:18]

• Emotional bonds strengthen as characters express vulnerabilities:

  • Marisha Ray (Jessop) and Laura Bailey (Marisha) share moments of doubt and encouragement:

    "I wish that, too. That was really cool what you did." [06:24] "If you're thinking about quitting, don't do it." [30:34]

These interactions emphasize the importance of friendship, trust, and resilience among the campers.

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Introduction of Gub Gub the Flying Pig

A pivotal moment occurs towards the end of the episode with the introduction of a formidable new antagonist:

• Gub Gub is described as a "massive pig, 14ft tall, with wings and four rows of teeth" [68:58], who descends upon the camp, creating chaos by capturing Yasha in its mouth:

  "A massive pig... grasps Yasha with its talons." [69:10]

This unexpected threat heightens the stakes, forcing the campers to confront real dangers beyond merit badge challenges.

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Climactic Confrontations

As the episode progresses, the campers engage in intense confrontations with Gub Gub:

• Laura Bailey’s character takes decisive action to protect her friends:

  "I'm gonna run up a train and get myself between the kids and the thing." [71:43] "I just turn around, though, and go, did you just?" [77:53]

• Brennan Lee Mulligan’s character attempts to use spells under pressure:

  "I want to cast my Tasha's hideous laughter." [72:30]

Despite their efforts, the campers face significant challenges, including emotional strain and the physical threat posed by Gub Gub’s attacks.

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Emotional Resolution and Future Stakes

In the aftermath of the confrontations, the campers grapple with feelings of depression and doubt about their abilities:

• Marisha Ray (Jessop) and Laura Bailey (Marisha) express their struggles:

  "I feel so defeated." [82:48] "Maybe we don't deserve to be parents." [82:54]

Sam Riegel concludes the episode with foreboding remarks about the campers' future challenges:

"Gub Gub has taken away your two junior counselors and is somewhere loose in the camp. And it will be up to four outcasts for oddballs. Some might say losers. But maybe not only the camp director. The only things that are uniting you are your love for this camp and your desire to prove your worth. But I don't know if you have what it takes to do this." [83:16]

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Notable Quotes

• Marisha Ray (Jessop) at [04:43]:

  "Today we will call it the Pull of peace."

• Sam Riegel at [27:25]:

  "If you think that the worst thing in your life is gonna be me running on your heads or butter on a rope, or mustaches or two mustaches and a failed. I don't know what you were trying to do there at first."

• Sam Riegel at [83:16]:

  "We'll find out next time. Will you be kicked out of the camp or will you wild out instead?"

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Conclusion

"Welcome, Campers! | Wildemount Wildlings Episode 1 Part 2" masterfully weaves together elements of fantasy, humor, and heartfelt emotion. The campers evolve from apprehensive individuals into a cohesive team, facing both external threats and internal struggles. The introduction of Gub Gub the Flying Pig sets the stage for heightened adventures, promising further character development and exciting plot twists in the upcoming episodes. As the campers confront their fears and strive to earn their merit badges, the episode underscores themes of perseverance, friendship, and the quest for self-worth.

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Join the Adventure Next Time

Stay tuned for the final part of the miniseries, where the campers' journey reaches new heights, and their bonds are tested like never before. Will they overcome their challenges and solidify their place in Camp Wildemount, or will the looming threats prove insurmountable? Find out in the next episode of Wildemount Wildlings.

Transcript

[Sam Riegel]

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[Sam Riegel]

Howdy ho campers. It's game master Sam Riegel and you're listening to part two of this episode of Wildemount Wildlings. So if you haven't checked out part one yet, pause this now and head over there first. In this three episode miniseries, we're following the antics of four angsty teen campers and their legendary counselors, Beauregard Lionette and Yasha Nidorin, as an unexpected turn of events flings this unlikely band of adventurers into a quest of a lifetime. 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. 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. Now let's wild out and jump into the much anticipated second half of this episode. Wait, Sam.

[Laura Bailey]

The listeners need a part one recap.

[Sam Riegel]

It's the last day at Wildemount Wildlings, and to camp director Veth's disappointment, the Olga cabin has yet to earn any merit badges. Veth brings in her friends Bo and Yasha from the Mighty Nein to teach the kids Kai, Sky, Padmund, and Jessop some team building skills so they can earn a badge and stay at the camp. After a game of Snatch the Pinecone, Sasha is ready to lead the campers in a round of tug of war.

[Marisha Ray]

All right, we're gonna do a little game of strength. Okay. This is. Many people like to call this game tug of war, which I'm not really sure why it's called that because war is violent and bloody and and brutal. Where I'm from, if you lost, you would be stoned to death. But anyway, today we will call it the Pull of peace. And all of you are going to be against me and Beau.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, boy.

[Marisha Ray]

Work as a team, pull hard, and try to beat us.

[Laura Bailey]

You got this.

[Sam Riegel]

All right. Sure enough, a rope is strung out over that bridge. All of you take one side, Bo and Yasha on the other. They're very strong. Even though their abilities have been reduced a little bit, they're very strong athletes. So Luke comes over and explains to you that, hey, the rules are the same here. You guys can do whatever you want. You can cast a spell, you can try to distract them, you can go punch one of them in the leg. Whatever you want to try to do. Of course, if you spend your action doing something other than pulling, there will be a little bit of a disadvantage. However, that disadvantage might be made up for by the advantage that you get by messing up one of them. So plan wisely.

[Liam O'Brien]

Is Archibald still around?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Archibald will stay here for the rest of my natural born life unless he is dismissed or destroyed by magic.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's awesome. I love having this third guy around.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I want to turn over to Jessop as we're Heading to the next thing and just go. Hey, I noticed that your voice got extraordinarily loud after your spell fizzled.

[Ashley Johnson]

It did. It was really upsetting.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Do you have a hard time controlling your magic?

[Ashley Johnson]

Only when anxiety kicks in.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Got it.

[Sam Riegel]

It's very difficult.

[Ashley Johnson]

I actually have no control over it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Have you considered feeling different emotions than anxiety?

[Ashley Johnson]

You know, you make a good point, but I. I'll try that next time.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay. I wish you had gotten the pine code.

[Ashley Johnson]

Wow, that's really sweet. Thank you so much. Yeah, I wish that, too. That was really cool what you did, even though it took about 30 minutes, but it was.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. I don't know why we would be in a rush.

[Liam O'Brien]

While this is happening. Can I hand a little dagger to Archibald?

[Sam Riegel]

To the frog? Yeah, sure. You can hand an actual.

[Liam O'Brien]

I can communicate with him, right?

[Sam Riegel]

I mean, do you speak frog?

[Liam O'Brien]

I don't, but I just give him my dagger.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Liam O'Brien]

I give him a little wink.

[Sam Riegel]

He's gonna try to pick it up with his frog mouth. It's pretty heavy, and it's bigger than he is, but he kind of drags it away a little bit.

[Laura Bailey]

See this frog mouth?

[Sam Riegel]

Of course you do.

[Laura Bailey]

Kai.

[Sam Riegel]

That.

[Laura Bailey]

There's no way that that is approved equipment. Where did you get that?

[Liam O'Brien]

The frog had it, not me.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, I saw you giving.

[Liam O'Brien]

The frog, lent it to me, and.

[Sam Riegel]

Then I'm the frog.

[Laura Bailey]

The frog that's existed for 20 minutes lent it to you.

[Liam O'Brien]

He's very well equipped. Did you see his teeth?

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, I did.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's been a very expensive procedure.

[Laura Bailey]

It's disturbing. No, he's got the full. The full veneers going. Look, how about this? I gotta confiscate this dagger. I'll give it back to you if you win tug of war, all right? And then maybe I'll teach you some knife throwing.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

As you go to pick up the dagger out of the mouth of the frog, you see that? As you've been talking, the frog has, in the bottom of a tree trunk, has carved a little P, heart, A for Padman, loves Archibald. In the side of the tree trunk, Archibald.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We haven't established that. I'm not saying it's not true, but I'm saying you're jumping the gun.

[Sam Riegel]

I've only been alive for one day and I've never experienced love. I just thought I would try.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's such a short timeline by a.

[Sam Riegel]

Guy I know, but this might be it. This might be my only chance, you know? I just feel like this is the beginning and the end for me.

[Liam O'Brien]

This is beautiful, guys. I just want to say this is beautiful.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I appreciate it.

[Laura Bailey]

Dagger and kind of.

[Liam O'Brien]

No.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Archibald, relinquish the blade.

[Sam Riegel]

And relinquish it. He does. And hops back over to your side.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

All right, I'll put him up on my shoulder and I give him a little kiss.

[Sam Riegel]

I knew we had a special connection.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I created you.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm showing one end of the rope.

[Laura Bailey]

Kind of showing off a little bit. And take the dagger, and I flick it to the. To the. To the archery arrow right in the bullseye.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, perfect. Amazing. Guys, I think for this one, we should have a time limit. So we're just gonna say, how about if this doesn't end in the next 30 seconds or so, we call it? All right? Yeah, that's plenty of time. All right.

[Laura Bailey]

As long as it's under 10 minutes. You can't do any virtual casting, so honestly, it could be nine minutes and. Yeah, 59 seconds and we'd be okay.

[Sam Riegel]

So everybody grips the rope and is ready to pull. The rules here, guys, are that we'll just say there's an imaginary line, which I'm sure Matt has something, right? What does he have that I can use? God, he's got so much shit. Oh, no, I cursed.

[Laura Bailey]

Put it in the jar. Put a box in the jar.

[Marisha Ray]

Do you need some money?

[Sam Riegel]

I probably do.

[Marisha Ray]

I actually said the S word, so put another five in there. I said it, and it was.

[Sam Riegel]

I got two fives here. Okay. Go straight into the jar.

[Laura Bailey]

These are hard to shove in there. Like, harder than regular dollars.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, they are.

[Sam Riegel]

I don't know why. Let's just say that this is the centerpiece of the rope, and if you can move it 10ft in either direction, you win. You'll each get to to make strength rolls. If you're going to pull, I will average them out. So the four of your scores will be averaged out. The two of yours will be averaged out. If any one of you chooses to spend their turn doing something other than pulling, it will be a minus two to your strength score. However, it might give you a big advantage if you can deceive, distract, or injure. Do whatever you want to try to do to Beau and Yasha, and I guess let's just start it up, shall we? Why doesn't everybody, including Bo and Yasha, roll for initiative and we'll see what happens. Did anyone get more than 20? No, 15 to 20.

[Marisha Ray]

Wait, I got over 20. Hold on. What's my initiative? I got 21.

[Liam O'Brien]

Woo, doctor.

[Laura Bailey]

Woo, doctor.

[Sam Riegel]

And Padman got 15. Who? Anybody get from 10 to 5, 10 to 15?

[Laura Bailey]

12.

[Marisha Ray]

I rolled low 12.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Do we add our initiative?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, you do.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Modifier 12 for me.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. Okay. I'm really low. I got three. And Kai.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, you're off your game. Yeah, I got a nine then.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, great. No problem. Thank you. All right, so it looks like. You know what? Let's have the Yasha and bow side go first. So, Yasha, are you going to pull or do something else?

[Marisha Ray]

Yes, I am raging.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, you are. Let's have a strength check.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Go for it.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Are we allowed to manipulate the rope before the match begins?

[Sam Riegel]

No, the match has begun.

[Ashley Johnson]

Nice.

[Marisha Ray]

That is a 21.

[Laura Bailey]

Holy.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, Beau, are you going to pull or do something else?

[Laura Bailey]

I want to do something else because I have a very buff wife.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, you do.

[Laura Bailey]

So I think she got it. So I want to kind of like keep them on their toes.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, great.

[Laura Bailey]

Quite literally. So I'm going to take the rope and, you know in like, CrossFit, how people do the. This thing.

[Sam Riegel]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Laura Bailey]

So I want to flip the rope, see if I could just pop a couple of them in the mouth with it.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing.

[Marisha Ray]

A little pop, pop in the mouth.

[Sam Riegel]

They're flying, I guess. Roll an attack on your unarmed strike.

[Laura Bailey]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

And see what you get.

[Laura Bailey]

Unarmed strike. And then I'm gonna do a flurry of blows to do two more to try and get.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, my God. Hold on.

[Laura Bailey]

To get all four. I think it'll get all. Do I get two attacks at level three, and I haven't been level three in so long. I don't know. We're just gonna.

[Sam Riegel]

I don't know how D and D works. I don't know.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, that's bad. I rolled bad. That's gonna be 10 for the first one.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

Still really bad. That's gonna be eight for the second one. I rolled a two. Oh, my God. And a three. So a nine.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, so does anyone have an AC less than 10? No.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Wait, you do. Wait, no, no.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Your AC is 11.

[Ashley Johnson]

You're good to go. I'm just kidding. Yep.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing. So none of that works so bad. Yes. The rope definitely flips around a lot. Definitely could. Could have hit somebody, but you just didn't gauge the sizes right. They're very small, and he's very slippery. And Kai, how tall are you?

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm just like 5 9.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, but he's sort of. He's so aloof. He's just like. He's not even holding the rope yet, so he wasn't even near It. He tied it badly.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm like, it's hard to get the short people and the tall people at the same time.

[Laura Bailey]

It's true. You're a lot of different levels.

[Liam O'Brien]

What was that all about? What was that?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I was given to understand that you guys saved the world at one point.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

But this is different.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Fascinating.

[Sam Riegel]

Are you gonna be pulling, or are.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You pulling with all my might? And I like the hel from my familiar. Archibald.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing roll to see your strength.

[Laura Bailey]

Stupid potion. I feel so fatigued. Need electrolytes.

[Marisha Ray]

This is awful.

[Laura Bailey]

Gonna kill Caleb.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay, that's a 21.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing. Great. Who's next? Sky, are you pulling or are you doing something else?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I want to cast a spell.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, you do. Go ahead, wizard.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, at lunch, we didn't get to eat like the people who did well, but I did steal a pat of butter. And so I want to try my brand new grease spell to try to grease the rope. The rope so that they fall off of it.

[Sam Riegel]

That's great. I love it.

[Marisha Ray]

You're not feeding the children here properly.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm not in charge of the cafeteria.

[Laura Bailey]

Feeding them sticks of butter.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The feast was for the kids. Kids that got to move up that level.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, it's pretty sad. Flip your coin to see if your wizard spell works.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It does not.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. With your wizard spell, you have prepared your components. You've prepared your incantation. You do the greasy finger thing. Yes. You do the motions and make the sounds in all the correct order, or at least you think so. One misguided word and a fat thumb just bending just the wrong way makes the spell actually cast. It does cast. It just casts on the wrong side of the rope. So all of you guys have a greasy rope now that is going to be very, very hard to hold onto. I'm so sorry. That'll be minus five to your pole. Next up is Kai. What do you want to do?

[Liam O'Brien]

So I haven't even touched the rope yet.

[Sam Riegel]

You can. Or you can go and menace Yasha or do whatever you want to do.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm not touching the rope yet.

[Marisha Ray]

Little piece is really destroying. I'm feeling better about myself.

[Liam O'Brien]

I have a little disguise kit here.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes. And in 30 seconds. What are you gonna do with it?

[Liam O'Brien]

Well, while was doing the little rope move.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Liam O'Brien]

I was counting on them being distracted enough at the failure of that move to put my little disguise kit on.

[Sam Riegel]

It's a kit that's like a bunch of makeup and different fake mustaches and little fake wig and stuff. So are you just putting. What are you Putting on all of it.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm putting on all of it.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Okay, so like, a wig, fake mustache.

[Liam O'Brien]

I have a fake. Like, I have one mustache up here and then one mustache down here.

[Sam Riegel]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

The bottom one is typically called.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's still facing.

[Laura Bailey]

It's still facing my lower mustache.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. Okay. And what is your intention with this get up?

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm gonna try to walk. So I'm on that side of the bridge, right?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes. You have 30ft of movement, I believe. Okay, 30ft of movement.

[Liam O'Brien]

Now, I kind of want to get behind them without being seen, so I'm gonna.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm gonna.

[Liam O'Brien]

I wanna use. I wanna use my whip to swing under the bridge and land on the other side to get behind him.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

What in the.

[Sam Riegel]

Indiana Jones. Quite a move to try to do all in a few seconds. So you throw this wig and mustache on?

[Liam O'Brien]

Yeah, I throw it in the air, and then I'm gonna whip and then hopefully have how all the lone range.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Lands on the horse.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

Have all the disguises land on me.

[Sam Riegel]

I don't know if the cameras can see, but on this side, the side that you're going to try on, there are a bunch of spikes. So you're gonna.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'll try on the other side where there are no spikes.

[Sam Riegel]

That's fine. You're gonna try to swing across that way with your whip.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, it just goes. Yasha, are you seeing this?

[Sam Riegel]

The light is kind of splashing. I'm going to have you roll to see if this works. So roll an acrobatics check. This is a.

[Laura Bailey]

Do we pretend like we don't see this?

[Sam Riegel]

Sounds really good.

[Liam O'Brien]

Eighteen.

[Sam Riegel]

Not good enough. You do manage to do it. Everybody can see you. This is very, very obvious. And because, like, where you tied the. You whipped the whip right here. The way that it works is you swing down like a pendulum, but you don't quite make it all the way back up. So you're just kind of swinging back and forth. Fourth here at the bottom. You didn't quite make it back up again.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Watching Kai put this disguise on and watching sky cast grease on our side of the rope, I go. Did I misunderstand the objective?

[Liam O'Brien]

Did my disguise at least, like, land on me as I did that move?

[Sam Riegel]

You're wearing a wig and two mustaches.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Liam O'Brien]

Awesome. That's all I needed to know for now.

[Sam Riegel]

And you guys both see this?

[Laura Bailey]

I have a few questions, but we're gonna wait for after the pull apiece.

[Sam Riegel]

All right, Jessup, you're up. What do you want to do?

[Ashley Johnson]

I am going to use mage hand.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Ashley Johnson]

And I'm going to. It's going to come out of my. I twist my monocle and the hand comes out, and it's going to go to Yasha and tickle you really, really hard.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes. Are you feeling super stressed right now or did you calm down after the last event?

[Ashley Johnson]

I think also Padme's little pep talk made me. I think I'm feeling other emotions.

[Sam Riegel]

So then I'm going to say that this spell works and mage hand is cast. But in order to find her tickly bits, that's going to take a little bit of effort. Hey, hey, hey, hey.

[Marisha Ray]

Get out of there.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm going to say roll an insight check to see if you can glean what part of Yasha's body is both ticklish and available to be tickled. Cause she wears heavy leather armor.

[Ashley Johnson]

I think I got it.

[Sam Riegel]

No.

[Ashley Johnson]

I got a two plus two.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. Okay. What part of Yasha's body are you trying to tickle?

[Ashley Johnson]

I was going for the tummy.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. The tum tum and Yasha. Why doesn't that work?

[Marisha Ray]

By tummy is the only part of my body that is not ticklish because it is pure muscle, and I just flex against it and it just bounces off. The mage hand should have gone for the armpits.

[Sam Riegel]

The mage hand doesn't have a personality or a body, but if it did, it would be like, whoa, damn. When it touches this. It's a nine pack. It's not even an eight pack. There's an extra one. There's an extra one in there. Yeah. And it unfortunately has no effect.

[Ashley Johnson]

I really thought I had understanding of human anatomy.

[Sam Riegel]

She's an aasimar. That's the problem right there. That's great.

[Laura Bailey]

It makes like a little serving platter. You know, you could lay out a sushi platter.

[Sam Riegel]

The rope moves five feet this way. There's one more round of this to see if you guys can get somehow get it back or if they're gonna win. Top of the round. Yasha, Yasha, what do you want to do? Are you pulling again or.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm gonna keep pulling.

[Sam Riegel]

Great. Do your thing.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm really trying to get them off.

[Liam O'Brien]

Their feet for us.

[Marisha Ray]

No. Unless I roll bad. Not great.

[Sam Riegel]

Or wait.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm raging. Ooh.

[Laura Bailey]

Ooh.

[Marisha Ray]

Much better. That is.

[Sam Riegel]

21Amazing. Damn great. Beau, what are you doing this time? Or do you want to wait until somebody else goes? Technically, Padmind is next to declare what he's doing.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Padman, what are you Doing.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm going to look. I'm gonna look around the mage. I'm gonna go. The tickling attack was blocked by the obliques. And I'm going to go. And I look at my compatriots and I think Padme's gonna reach deep down inside and is going to, for the first time in his life, cast a spell non ritually actually burn a spell slap. Which he's never done before. He has never used a spell slap.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's always been like, but what if I need to avail myself of that magic later?

[Sam Riegel]

I'm doing it, Peter.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

He is going to cast the floating disk spell.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Which floating disk creates. It can hold up to 500 pounds of weight and it is, according to the spell, immobile unless I command it. And I would like to quickly tie our rope around the floating disc.

[Laura Bailey]

Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, what a cool idea.

[Sam Riegel]

It's a three foot wide rope. Three foot wide rope. I'm sorry, three foot wide disc. Disc, yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Of telekinetic energy.

[Sam Riegel]

It's like an invisible frisbee, basically.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yes, exactly.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. And you're going to try to tie your side of the rope around it. This is tie knotting skills. This is camp stuff. What knot are you gonna use?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I will look at it and I will go, remember rope tying class? And I flashback to a rope tying class in which I was busily statting out playing cards, listening to nothing that was said about tying knots. And I go, great. Wizards of ponds in the past guide my webbed hands. And I will make a non proficiency rope check. But I want Archibald to help me.

[Sam Riegel]

Sure.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

But I have no proficiency in this. So this is like.

[Sam Riegel]

I can almost guarantee that your familiar frog also doesn't have proficiency in rope time. But he will help.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Great.

[Sam Riegel]

You're gonna try to attempt a double fisherman knot. Great. And let's say either roll a history check to see if you remember from that class or a survival check to see if you can glean this knowledge from your knowledge of history.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'll do history to be like, come on. Certainly you osmo's something from that class. Chattering instructor bothering you in your card building time. And also I'll do history with advantage from Archibald.

[Sam Riegel]

Sure. Yes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's a 15 on the first.

[Sam Riegel]

Very good already.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And then 16 is my final win.

[Sam Riegel]

Incredible. Incredible. Sure enough, the double fisherman's knot goes around the floating disc. This floating disk, where is it? Do you have to move out of the way? I mean, it's a physical item.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm going to create it right in Front of me and tie the knot around it as quickly as I can.

[Sam Riegel]

So, like. Yeah, like right here?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. There is a floating disc right in front of you that.

[Marisha Ray]

So we're just watching him tie it.

[Sam Riegel]

It happens real fast.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. I'm going to leap. I'll leap into. As I'm summoning it, I'm like, throwing the rope around it to grab it and tie it again.

[Sam Riegel]

And you get across it by sort of like Dukes of Hazzard style, sliding across the top of it and leave.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

A loop in Archibald's mouth. So he's helping me.

[Marisha Ray]

Awesome.

[Sam Riegel]

We work so well together.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, we sure do, bud.

[Sam Riegel]

Life is great. It'll go on for a while, won't it?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You have to relax. You are brand new existential crises.

[Sam Riegel]

I just feel like this is fleeting somehow, and I want to cherish every moment, you know?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Does the thing have to last forever to be beautiful?

[Sam Riegel]

I mean, I'd like it to last for more than a day.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, it's not promised.

[Sam Riegel]

All right, the rope is set and it is taut. Marisha, bow, you're up.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. What am I going to do?

[Ashley Johnson]

Marisha?

[Sam Riegel]

Bo, you also don't have to follow the rules.

[Laura Bailey]

I don't. I don't. And I'm a dope monk, and I do dope monk stuff.

[Sam Riegel]

Thank you for not cursing.

[Laura Bailey]

You're welcome. So I am with the rope being taught. I'm going to vault myself onto the top of the rope and I'm going to walk across it. Kind of tightrope walk across it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Whoa.

[Laura Bailey]

And first I'm going to get to badminton. I'm gonna go, he's a very clever kid. And then I'm gonna go, boop, boop, boop. And bounce on top of all of their heads. I'm gonna do a little monk parkour over all their heads.

[Sam Riegel]

Easy enough. Are you trying to inflict damage or are you. What are you?

[Laura Bailey]

I just wanna throw them. Whoa.

[Sam Riegel]

I just wanna throw them off, Distracting them. Yeah. Okay, let's roll an intimidation check to see if they are intimidated by your feet on their faces.

[Liam O'Brien]

Not mine, though. I'm still hanging down there.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, you're hanging on a whip.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. Yeah, it's pretty good. 16.

[Sam Riegel]

16. This is against people's. Jesus. I don't know how D and D works. Is this against. Is this against something you have to roll to see if you are intimidated? Everybody roll a constitution saving throw.

[Liam O'Brien]

Even me?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. What would it be? A constitution saving throw?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Typically, there is not a mechanism for intimidating or persuading your fellow I know.

[Sam Riegel]

Where this is, where this is happening.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

But a wisdom save or something along those lines feels appropriate.

[Sam Riegel]

Wisdom, charisma. I will, I will. Yes. Let's do wisdom.

[Liam O'Brien]

Do I need to be intimidated, too? I'm still hanging down.

[Sam Riegel]

No, you're not affected by this because she's not hopping on your head. So the three of you roll a wisdom saving throw. It's a D20. And Brennan will point to where you add wisdom.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So you're in plus three.

[Sam Riegel]

Plus three.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yes. The saving throws are right.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I rolled a one, but I'm a halfling, so I have the luck.

[Sam Riegel]

I hate it. I hate it. I hate it so much.

[Laura Bailey]

Too bad.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, I got a five.

[Sam Riegel]

Padmund and Jessop, what did you roll?

[Ashley Johnson]

I rolled a seven plus two.

[Sam Riegel]

Not great.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. Plus a three for wisdom.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, three. Yes. So 10.

[Sam Riegel]

10. Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And what's the number we're trying to get?

[Sam Riegel]

16.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

My friend's so smart.

[Ashley Johnson]

Thank you so much.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I fail monstrously. I rolled a three plus seven.

[Sam Riegel]

Someone you respect, someone you admire, someone many of you have heard stories about, sung in songs of bards and written in legends and myths, is walking on your head now. And she's doing it in sort of a real bitchy way.

[Laura Bailey]

And it does look. I can be very athletic, a very light footed here. But it's pretty rude and you're trying.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

To put extra weight into your.

[Laura Bailey]

It's like someone booping you on the nose and you're like, what kind of.

[Sam Riegel]

Shoes does rude wear? Yeah, should be barefoot.

[Laura Bailey]

Not barefoot, but they're like soft canvas with wraps. Like little wraps. And then I'm going to kind of do my own little flip, kind of get me back to the middle. And I'm just gonna stand over the edge and look at Kai. Just confused. I don't say anything. I'm just looking down at Kai. You okay? Do you need help? Are you stuck?

[Liam O'Brien]

I won't say anything back. I'm just gonna keep looking for her.

[Marisha Ray]

Your feet are like six inches off of the ground.

[Laura Bailey]

No. Right.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'll look up on that seven. Wisdom save. I go. I forfeit.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh. What?

[Laura Bailey]

Wait.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No.

[Sam Riegel]

Padme.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, no, no, please, we need you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, this is trivial.

[Ashley Johnson]

You've actually been very good at all of this.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We're not a.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You've been doing such a good job.

[Sam Riegel]

We failed.

[Laura Bailey]

No.

[Sam Riegel]

I can't hear what you guys are.

[Liam O'Brien]

Saying up there, but if you're thinking about quitting, don't do it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

If she can walk on our heads, there's nothing she can't do. Is there anything we're being played with, like mice?

[Sam Riegel]

Sky, it's your turn. If you'd like to keep trying.

[Marisha Ray]

Keep trying, Keep trying.

[Sam Riegel]

Whatever you do, it's going to be at a disadvantage because you are intimidated right now.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is there anything I can do to inspire my friend not to do that?

[Sam Riegel]

Sure. You can talk to him. You can give him a gift. You can do whatever you would like to do. What a friend would do to inspire someone else. A hug? Anything.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wait, am I close to him?

[Sam Riegel]

You're.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, yeah. I'm sort of right behind you.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, you said you were on the disc, sort of tying it, so I'd say you're up here actually.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Yeah, I'm gonna give him a hug.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And I don't even care that he's poison.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, my skin is toxic.

[Sam Riegel]

All right, give him a hug because I think you get poisoned.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You're the constitution saving throw, Sky.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I have a pretty good constitution.

[Sam Riegel]

16 plus at disadvantage. Cause you're intimidated by Bo.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So I have to roll again.

[Sam Riegel]

Uh huh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You'll make it. You'll make it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

8 plus 3 is 11.

[Sam Riegel]

12.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You can't even do math.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

As you hug me and begin to get poisoned.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, no.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

What do you say?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I say it was all worth it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I heard everyone around me.

[Liam O'Brien]

I hope you guys are making progress up there.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

What was the mustache's plan? What?

[Laura Bailey]

Come on, you guys, focus. Focus. Are you gonna let petty little distractions stop you in real life?

[Sam Riegel]

That's Skye's turn. Come on, Kai, you're up.

[Liam O'Brien]

So how far away am I from the ground?

[Sam Riegel]

As you can see on the map, you're just 10ft down. It's not that bad.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, so it's not that steep.

[Sam Riegel]

Nope.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay. Hmm. I let go of the rope, you're.

[Sam Riegel]

You fall six inches to the ground.

[Liam O'Brien]

And I scream out.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh. Oh.

[Liam O'Brien]

Oh.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Help. Help.

[Liam O'Brien]

I think I broke something.

[Sam Riegel]

Ah. Help. Help me. Okay, I guess roll a deception check.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, that's pretty good.

[Marisha Ray]

That's pretty good. That's pretty good.

[Laura Bailey]

That's a pretty good idea.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, well, 12. Deception. Where is it? Plus six, that is 18.

[Sam Riegel]

And then I guess you guys roll to see if it works. What do they roll? Brennan with the poison.

[Marisha Ray]

Was I supposed to be rolling at disadvantage?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, you're not. Still poison.

[Laura Bailey]

Got it.

[Sam Riegel]

Got it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Was an earlier challenge. Oh, deception. Insight.

[Sam Riegel]

Insight. Thank you. Insight.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. Oh, natural one.

[Sam Riegel]

Wow.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm so sorry. Oh, it's a two. And I have a minus one insight. So one.

[Sam Riegel]

You both got ones.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's really Bad.

[Sam Riegel]

It's really bad. Both of you have never felt this before.

[Liam O'Brien]

You guys, you need to come down here right now. Both of you, please.

[Sam Riegel]

This is maternal instinct. My boy, my boy, my boy. You both instantly need to help this young man.

[Laura Bailey]

I broke it. I broke him. I broke him. We broke him.

[Marisha Ray]

I dropped the rope.

[Laura Bailey]

We're not ready for this.

[Marisha Ray]

We're not ready. This is too stressful to have a child responsibility.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You gotta come down here and look at it and help me.

[Laura Bailey]

No, I'm right next to you. Right next to you.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'll drop the rope, put my hand.

[Marisha Ray]

On top of the post, and leap over.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. That's the rest of your turn. The rope is free to move. You guys can move it back all the way if you'd like. Actually, Jessup, you're lasting. So this is your role.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, that's really stressful. This is really, really stressful.

[Laura Bailey]

Route this out. You gotta route this out.

[Sam Riegel]

Meaning while I'm stressed, I feel it. You've got one point of stress on you.

[Marisha Ray]

This is gonna be so mad.

[Sam Riegel]

What are you gonna try to do to get this rope 10ft your way, 15ft your way?

[Ashley Johnson]

Well, I was gonna go for a. I could do a just good old pull.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, sure.

[Ashley Johnson]

But I can't help but my impulse to do something magic. So I. I think it has to be the way. It has to work this time. I'm really stressed, but it has to work this time.

[Sam Riegel]

So what are you doing?

[Ashley Johnson]

So I'm. I'm going for a sorcerer's burst to make them let go of it entirely.

[Sam Riegel]

They've already let go. They've already let go of it.

[Liam O'Brien]

Completely free. You can just pull it back.

[Sam Riegel]

You can pull it.

[Liam O'Brien]

Nobody's on the other hand.

[Sam Riegel]

Pull the rope. It is a heavy rope. It's a thick, thick rope. And you're a small, but let's try it. Go ahead and roll. She walked in your head, so this is a disadvantage. Just do a simple strength roll to see if you by yourself, can pull all of the rope across in time. And so that's rolling two of two D 20s and take the lesser of the two.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, 16.

[Sam Riegel]

Very good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Nine.

[Sam Riegel]

Do you have any strength? Wait, six or nine? What is that? Nine? Nine instead.

[Ashley Johnson]

I don't have any strength. I'm really very weak. I have zero.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. Luckily, literally no one is contesting this. So sure enough, it's actually pretty hard. The hardest part of it isn't the strength part, it's the confusion. So much has gone on in the last few seconds. One of your friends has two mustaches on his face. Two of them. Your opponents have dropped the rope and are going to save him when clearly he's faking. One of your friends just poisoned the other friend because he's having an existential crisis.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, that's just extra. My skin poisons you automatically. Unrelated.

[Sam Riegel]

It's crazy, but yes, you manage to pull the rope, and, yes, you manage to succeed. Luke calls out victory. You guys did it. You did it.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. Are you okay?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Scotty, put out of the nurse's office. You attacked guy.

[Sam Riegel]

You killed him.

[Liam O'Brien]

We're children. I stand up, I take both of my mustache off, and I go. Works every time.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You were faking. You don't really have two mustaches.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wait, that was you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That was the disguise.

[Liam O'Brien]

It works every single time.

[Ashley Johnson]

Lower mustache is upsetting.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, I take my BO staff and I knock it right behind your knees to knock you on your ass.

[Sam Riegel]

And on your ass, you are knocked. No damage done. But you're on your keister for a moment.

[Laura Bailey]

Just get over top of him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I made a huge mistake. I should have done our chant. I should have done our chant for.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm sorry, what chance is this?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Instead of a hug, we do this thing, and it helps us to keep our focus.

[Ashley Johnson]

Do you want to tell the story?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We were doing a race, and we were really behind, and both of us were getting really upset about it. I was starting to feel the anger, and she was getting the anxiety. And then we saw this Zorbo, and it was so cute. It just made us laugh. And we came up with this chant. Should we do it?

[Ashley Johnson]

It was.

[Sam Riegel]

Did you?

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, it was Sorbo 1.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sorbos all. Let's all do the Sorbo call.

[Ashley Johnson]

And it really calmed me down for some reason.

[Sam Riegel]

Whoa.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. So I'm sorry. I should have. That would have cheered you up, wouldn't it?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. Well, yeah, would cheer me up.

[Sam Riegel]

Archibald is on your shoulder, and he looks up at you and just sort of with confusion. Well, what is this feeling that you're feeling?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I don't know, Archibald. I think I'm just sad. I know we just won the pull of peace, but for a second there, I thought that a camper I'd never met with two mustaches almost died. And then I found out it was Kai, and I thought Kai almost died. But then I found out Kai was fibbing about that, too, and I poisoned my friend, and. And I don't know. I don't know if any of you guys heard this, but Beth called us losers, and I think she's right, at least about me.

[Sam Riegel]

No, no.

[Laura Bailey]

Let him feel it for a second.

[Ashley Johnson]

I also feel like a loser. But you did so many cool things. You cast so many. We were all wrapped around your fingers for 30 whole minutes while you cast a thousand spells. You've been doing pretty good, I think.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And I. I've never seen magic like that. There's so much that I want you to teach me. I've been inspired by what you've done. I don't think you're a loser.

[Liam O'Brien]

While I'm knocked out and my face is on the ground, I go, I think we just won, like, two things. I think you're good, man.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, I guess so. Well, if we won, I guess that we can celebrate. But do we get lunch now, or is there more activities?

[Sam Riegel]

Veth. By the way, at the beginning of all this, she left to go take care of the other campers. Luke is still there. Luke approaches you with, congratulations. You guys did really great. It was an unorthodox tug of war, but you guys really did great. And, no, there's no lunch currently. It's. There's one more activity that they wanted to run you through before. Before awarding you a merit badge. Guys. Okay. Do you need a snack? I've got jerky.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I would love some jerky.

[Sam Riegel]

All right. He pulls out four pieces of jerky, passes it around.

[Laura Bailey]

I pulled Yasha aside. Did you see that?

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, I did.

[Laura Bailey]

They started to believe in themselves.

[Marisha Ray]

They started to believe. They started to work together as a team.

[Sam Riegel]

I think it's working.

[Marisha Ray]

I think it's working. And it actually inspired me so much.

[Laura Bailey]

Me too. Maybe we can be good moms, man.

[Marisha Ray]

I think we could. When you passed out those juke juice boss juice boxes, I forgot what they were called for a second. There was, like, I was filled with.

[Laura Bailey]

Did you, like, see it? Did you? Yeah, I did.

[Marisha Ray]

Were on, like, we were going to watch our kids at sports, and you were, like, passing in between giving them food and sustenance.

[Laura Bailey]

Wow. So I think the lesson is if you belittle and talk down to people, they eventually will rally to the occasion.

[Marisha Ray]

I mean, I would have said it in a different way, but I agree.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, is that okay? No, I agree.

[Sam Riegel]

I agree.

[Laura Bailey]

No, maybe it's amazing. Yeah, they're all amazing. They were so good. I'm so proud of them.

[Marisha Ray]

If they're all orphans, why don't we just adopt all of them?

[Laura Bailey]

They're not all orphans. Oh, that's right.

[Marisha Ray]

Cause Padman has parents.

[Laura Bailey]

They all have families. Except for maybe the weird shift. But I kind of.

[Marisha Ray]

He's like a mini you.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, he's like a mini me is what they say where it's like, you can, like, mold them in your image.

[Sam Riegel]

Maybe it is.

[Laura Bailey]

He's a mini Bow. Do you think I could just call him Mini Bo? Do you think he'd respond?

[Marisha Ray]

Well, probably.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay. While you're listening to them. Yeah, my jerk is. No, don't call me that.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, I forget that our voices carry. Yeah. Look, you all should feel good about what you did here today. It's not over. But you see what all just happened. If you think that the worst thing in your life is gonna be me running on your heads or butter on a rope, or mustaches or two mustaches and a failed. I don't know what you were trying to do there at first.

[Liam O'Brien]

I thought I succeeded, actually. It was all according to plan.

[Laura Bailey]

Or someone else calling you a loser. It's not the worst thing that's ever gonna happen to you all. Maybe the worst thing that's happened today, but did it stop any of you?

[Liam O'Brien]

It did. For, like, one or two.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, well, you know what, Kai? Just lean into the inspirational speech I'm trying to make, okay?

[Liam O'Brien]

You're doing great, okay?

[Laura Bailey]

You got each other. And you gotta believe in that, and believe in yourselves.

[Liam O'Brien]

I turn to them and I said, I think we got this in the bag, guys.

[Sam Riegel]

Great speech, Hansie Bo. That was really nice.

[Laura Bailey]

Thank you, Luke.

[Sam Riegel]

There's one last activity today to see if you guys are capable of earning yourself a merit badge. Some of you, seems like you're doing pretty good so far. We're gonna play a game of hide and seek.

[Marisha Ray]

Ooh, my favorite.

[Sam Riegel]

But Beau is pretty stealthy, so I think we're gonna have Yasha go hide. It's just a little bit easier. No offense, Auntie.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, man, I don't know. I understand. I'm easier to find.

[Sam Riegel]

Yasha's gonna go off into the camp, and we're gonna have until curfew to find her. She's gonna hide anywhere you guys can. This is gonna be using your tracking skills to try to find her. And if you do, I think that'll be a third success. And that'll be. That'll be the badge. So, Auntie Yasha, you wanna run off and hide?

[Marisha Ray]

Sure.

[Sam Riegel]

All right.

[Laura Bailey]

I'll be here to assist you, of course, give you any guidance you might need, encouragement. Use me, your elder, as a resource.

[Sam Riegel]

As Yasha goes off, I wish you.

[Marisha Ray]

All the best of luck. Come find me.

[Laura Bailey]

I love you.

[Marisha Ray]

I Love you a lot. I'm about to smack her on the ass, but I pat her on the back instead.

[Sam Riegel]

Smart. Smart. The cleric counselor. Beth hurries over to you guys. Hi, everybody. Hi. Seems like a rough day. Are any of you hurt or injured in any way?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I've been poisoned.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, all right. Yes. Why don't you all gather near? She gathers you near and casts a series of spells over all of you. All of you feel instantly rejuvenated and find that all of your health has been restored. If any of you lost any of it. And even your spell slots have been restored to full, as if you've taken a long rest. The poisoned condition is washed away. Beth wishes you luck. Well, I'm off to my afternoon meditation. Goodbye, everyone. Good luck. Oh, God, I hate her. Luke says goodbye to her. You look amazing today, Beth. Oh, yes, thank you, Luke. You're a wonderful friend. And she walks off.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Hamster.

[Sam Riegel]

Luke sighs and turns to the four of you. All right, so we're going to count. My mom asked us to count to 669. I don't know why. So we're gonna count to 669, and then we're gonna go find Yasha. So everybody start counting. As you guys start counting. Yasha, will you tell me where on the map you've gone to hide?

[Marisha Ray]

Yes. Do you want me to text you?

[Sam Riegel]

Just tell me the number of the code on the map. You don't have to text me. You can say it out loud. They don't have the number.

[Marisha Ray]

Seven.

[Sam Riegel]

I see it. Okay, you guys have your maps, right? Okay, Yasha, as you're making your way to that area and finding a hiding spot.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm just moving things around.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, yeah. Boxes, barrels and stuff like that. You hear. You know, roll a. Roll a perception.

[Marisha Ray]

14.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. You hear a strange banging coming from one of the cabins. Then a hiss. It's strange because nobody is at the cabins right now. They're all off at this party, this celebration thing. So the cabins are meant to be empty.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Are you going to keep going?

[Marisha Ray]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, great. As you walk by that cabin. Poof. A puff of gray smoke shoots out from a vent on the side of it. Roll. A dexterity save, if you don't mind.

[Marisha Ray]

Uh oh.

[Sam Riegel]

Uh oh.

[Marisha Ray]

Uh oh. Oh, that's not good. Nine.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, you take. Oh, nothing. Two points of damage.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh.

[Sam Riegel]

But also, moreover, you go dizzy for a moment. This gray smoke has shot you on the side of the face, and it just makes you groggy for a moment. You have trouble focusing your eyes. And just as you get your vision back, Yeza Veth's husband runs out of the cabin, adjusting a leather apron and removing safety goggles. Yasha, what are you doing here? Wait, did you leave Beau with those campers all by her? She's gonna kill them. No.

[Marisha Ray]

No, she won't. Cause you made us drink that shit.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, swear jar.

[Marisha Ray]

There's no kids around.

[Sam Riegel]

You still have to pay me money.

[Marisha Ray]

No, you had us drinking it. I can't.

[Sam Riegel]

I take actual American dollars.

[Marisha Ray]

All right, I'm just gonna have to do so. No, you gave us that, that, that. That potion, and it gave me a stomachache for one. But also, I'm hiding. They're gonna come find me.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, this is part of the thing.

[Marisha Ray]

This is part of the thing.

[Sam Riegel]

I understand. I understand. Wait, were you just standing out here right now?

[Marisha Ray]

Yes. And some poof came out.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, I'm so sorry about this. I'm in there working on some potions. I was brewing up a new elixir. This is called a Reneebriation elixir. It undoes the effects of drunkenness.

[Marisha Ray]

It's to help.

[Sam Riegel]

To help Veth sober up more quickly. But it's not done.

[Marisha Ray]

Renebriation?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, it's instead of inebriation, it's Renebriation.

[Marisha Ray]

So what does that mean?

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, I don't. I don't make the names. That's fine. Anyway, I was using an ingredient that Caleb sent, and so far it's been having the opposite effect. And sure enough, as he's saying this, you realize you do feel a little bit. Bit drunk right now. You might feel a little bit drunk for the next hour or so.

[Marisha Ray]

I feel a little funny.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. All of your ability checks and saves will be at disadvantage for the next hour. Because you are drunk. Because you were drunk. Well, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to keep you. I'm going to go back in and do more work. But don't you have to hide?

[Marisha Ray]

Yes, I have to go hide.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, go hide. Go hide.

[Marisha Ray]

Goodbye.

[Sam Riegel]

And find a hiding spot. You do. Why don't you roll a stealth CH to see how well you are hidden?

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, boy.

[Sam Riegel]

At disadvantage. Okay, I'm sorry.

[Marisha Ray]

I have diabetes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So awful to read.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, that's a five. Okay. Seven.

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[Sam Riegel]

Back with the kids. Back with the kids. And sure enough, the Olga camp here is just getting to 667. 668, 669. You may start your search whenever you guys want. Go find yasha.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Counting to 669. Eye of ritual Cast Unseen servant and then just count to 69.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, great. Great, great, great, great. You have an unseen servant.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm ready.

[Sam Riegel]

What would you like to do?

[Liam O'Brien]

So where are we right now?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, right now. It's weirdly, it didn't get added to the map, but see where that flag is? Yes, you are sort of in the woods behind that flag. Gotcha. Oh, I'm sorry. No, that's not true. See where the curfew creature tower is? You're to the left off the map. About 300 yards to the left off the map.

[Marisha Ray]

You Said I had disadvantage on saving everything. Everything.

[Sam Riegel]

You've been successfully nerfed. Great. All right, so you're in a wooded area. The training grounds is sort of in a remote area so that stray shots don't hurt people. But you're in a wooded area about 300 yards away from camp. There's paths and stuff that lead back to the campground. How would you like to find her?

[Liam O'Brien]

All right, guys, so obviously the best thing to do is for us to split up into teams of two. Okay? So, Padman, you go with me. Archibald can join too, and Jessop and Sky.

[Laura Bailey]

There's only one of me, and there's four of you, so. So maybe try and stay within eye shot of me, please, so I don't get in trouble. Supposed to be watching you.

[Liam O'Brien]

Sure, Kai, we'll do that. Kai, we'll do that.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Are we gonna do that?

[Liam O'Brien]

We're gonna do that.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay, we'll do that.

[Liam O'Brien]

We'll do that.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. And split up. You do. Where do you want? You all head back to the camp area. Cause that's where Yasha is going to go. Where does Team Kai and Padman want to head towards? Hmm.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm kind of leaning towards. So what's the difference between admin and counselor cabins here?

[Sam Riegel]

Admin is an office.

[Liam O'Brien]

Gotcha. And that's where all the documents and whatnot are stored.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, my God.

[Sam Riegel]

Correct.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, I think we should go to the admin.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You think? Oh, right, because the. Because Veth is the camp director, and clearly Yasha would be most familiar with the admin. At location is probably where whatever paperwork needed to decide to come on as an interim counselor. Yeah, good thinking.

[Liam O'Brien]

So let's head there.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Great. Let's head to Abbott.

[Sam Riegel]

All right. You're just walking there. You see nothing as you go. I guess you want to roll a perception check just to see if you spot anything on the way. All right.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's a 20 as well, right?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, everything's 20.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Archibald, keep an eye out.

[Sam Riegel]

I will keep two of them out, sir.

[Liam O'Brien]

So I got a 15.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's going to be a 16.

[Sam Riegel]

Great. 15 and 16. You don't see any people. That's not true. You do. See? You see Phyllis, the. The lunch lady, who is the centaur? She is walking around. You see where it says bard tent? Bard tent. She's walking around there with a bowl of slop, a bucket of slop that she's about to discard somewhere. That's it. That's all you see.

[Laura Bailey]

Beau is going to immediately run to the top of the curfew. Creature tower and just kind of perch just so I can have a better vantage on where these kids are going.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. As you reach the top of the curfew creature tower, you hear, hello.

[Laura Bailey]

Hi. Hi.

[Sam Riegel]

And you see before you a polar bear sized blue and purple furry creature with glowing eyes and floppy ears. She is lounging. She's brushing her hair with a giant platinum hairbrush, picking tiny specks out of her coat. Her feathery tail draped over one side. How can I help you?

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, you. You can't help me at all. You just keep doing you. If it's fine with you, I'm just gonna kinda be up here just so I can have a better, you know, keep my eyes on these.

[Sam Riegel]

This is my perch. I'm sorry.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. Oh, so I can't stay.

[Sam Riegel]

This is the curfew creature tower and I'm the curfew creature.

[Laura Bailey]

I understand that, but there's like a whole pitch of the roof here that you're not utilizing, so I thought I could maybe just.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, I can see enough from where I am.

[Laura Bailey]

No, I know, but can I just also stay up here just for a minute? I can go find another roof. You want me to find another roof?

[Sam Riegel]

I would.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. Okay. It was good meeting you. I've heard a lot about you.

[Sam Riegel]

Have a good day.

[Laura Bailey]

Do you eat children?

[Sam Riegel]

No.

[Laura Bailey]

What do you do? What happens if they're past curfew? What happens?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, if they are out past curfew? They get punished.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, lordy. Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

But no one's ever out past curfew.

[Laura Bailey]

I can see why. Yeah, it's great preventative measures.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes. Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

Do you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm gonna stop asking questions.

[Sam Riegel]

You're not one of the students here, are you?

[Laura Bailey]

No, no, I'm actually.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, a new counselor. What's your name?

[Laura Bailey]

Beau Overgaard.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm Mishi. Nice to meet you, Mishi.

[Marisha Ray]

Wow.

[Laura Bailey]

What, is it rude if. What are you. What's your deal?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Liam O'Brien]

Can we see them from where we are right now?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. The curfew creature tower overlooks all of camp, so from all of camp you can see. And she always is looking.

[Laura Bailey]

I just turned. Can I see the kids?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Roll a perception check. Yeah, they're pretty close. Pretty easy to see. Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

18.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, you can totally see them. They're near the bard tent, so I'm.

[Laura Bailey]

Kind of trying to do one of these where I'm still trying to keep a look in the kids. I catch Kai's eye for a second, I just go, okay. Yeah, if it's good, it's a good meeting.

[Sam Riegel]

If you'd like to stay, you could pay.

[Laura Bailey]

You know, I have had to fork over a lot of cash into the swear jar. What is the currency that you accept?

[Sam Riegel]

Anything shiny. Really?

[Laura Bailey]

Anything shiny?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Laura Bailey]

Wow. Well, I've got the short sword that I've had, I guess, for forever, and I don't know why. Do you want to see?

[Sam Riegel]

It's in your inventory.

[Laura Bailey]

It is my inventory. Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

No, no, I prefer more shiny things like coins and baubles and jewelry.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah. If I give you like, 50 silver, can I stay up here?

[Sam Riegel]

Sure.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. Here you go.

[Sam Riegel]

Thank you.

[Laura Bailey]

Wow. Okay. Is this like a side hustle for you?

[Sam Riegel]

I'm not paid.

[Laura Bailey]

You just enjoy doing it.

[Sam Riegel]

I do.

[Laura Bailey]

That's okay.

[Sam Riegel]

I love watching.

[Laura Bailey]

Does. Does insurance know about you for liability purposes?

[Sam Riegel]

For sure they do.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. All right. I'm just gonna get back to paying attention, if that's okay.

[Sam Riegel]

I'll just watch.

[Laura Bailey]

Can you. Are you watch me or watch them?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

All right. What are you two doing? Liebe and Eden McKay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, she's giving me a shoulder ride. Of course.

[Sam Riegel]

Of course.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's what we do. I thought about maybe checking out the camp store because I feel like Yasha's got good style.

[Ashley Johnson]

Maybe she wants to do a little.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Shopping while she's hiding. I don't know. Just a thought. Did you. With your abilities. Do you have a better idea?

[Ashley Johnson]

Well, I did have a thought. I do have a flying scroll. So my thought was perhaps if I fly, I keep you on my shoulder like as we do. And I can I do that while we.

[Sam Riegel]

Sure. Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

And I. If we fly around.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, wow.

[Ashley Johnson]

We can check out. We can cover so much more ground. We can find her.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing. So you're going to use your scroll of flying?

[Ashley Johnson]

I would like to use my scroll of flying.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. You read the incantation on the scroll of flying, and you cast. You cast. Fly on yourself and your little friend, and for the next minute, you can fly. The scroll disappears, though it can't be used again.

[Ashley Johnson]

It disappears. I have her perched on I. Actually, for the sake of flying, I have you on one shoulder.

[Sam Riegel]

Cool.

[Ashley Johnson]

A swirl of blue smoke swirls around us and it lifts us up into the air and we fly and search.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. Roll a perception check with advantage to see if you can find either. Either. Both of you can roll one, or Liebe, you can roll two. It's up to you.

[Ashley Johnson]

Why don't we do it as teams?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Each roll.

[Ashley Johnson]

11.

[Sam Riegel]

Eight plus reception, plus two plus two. Okay. 13. I'll say because of your High perched here you can see Yasha. What are you wearing today? Camp counselor shirt.

[Marisha Ray]

Camp counselor shirt. And then everything else is black as usual.

[Sam Riegel]

As usual, yes.

[Marisha Ray]

Still white, short hair.

[Sam Riegel]

So it's like a leather bodysuit but with an oversized T shirt over.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Cool.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes, yes.

[Sam Riegel]

You can see black leather legs. And it's over near where it says supplies on your map. And she's hiding behind some boxes and barrels. You can see her.

[Ashley Johnson]

There she is.

[Sam Riegel]

There she is.

[Ashley Johnson]

Behind the boxes and barrels.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I can't see it, but I trust you.

[Ashley Johnson]

Should we go over there? Can we?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think that's the objective, right to.

[Ashley Johnson]

So we fly over there and we.

[Sam Riegel]

As you're flying over there, I'll cut back to Brennan, you and Alex. I'll say that you've passed the bard tent. You're almost all the way to the admin building. Anything you want to do or try or be.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I think we look up and see Beau and you two fly overhead. And I go, whoa. There goes Jessup and Sky. They are airborne. They've mastered levitation. Incredible. And I'll look over and say, well, I guess they've got the grounds covered. Should we check out and see if Yasha's hiding in the Abbott building?

[Liam O'Brien]

I think we should. We definitely should go inside.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Great. Well, after you, Balfrere, you get to.

[Sam Riegel]

The front door of the admin building. The door is closed.

[Liam O'Brien]

Is it locked?

[Sam Riegel]

If you go and check, the door is locked, yes.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, so are we still within eyeshot of the tower? The creature tower?

[Sam Riegel]

The tower can see all.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yeah, the tower can see everything. Even if I were to go in the backside of the building, you could.

[Sam Riegel]

Go on the backside and you'd be hidden. Yes.

[Liam O'Brien]

All right, so we're gonna go to the backside of the building.

[Sam Riegel]

Alright.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, no.

[Sam Riegel]

What are they doing over there?

[Liam O'Brien]

So before we go, aren't you in charge of them?

[Marisha Ray]

Shit.

[Liam O'Brien]

We go to the backside of the building and I say to Patton, I think we should try and get in through one of the windows over there. Think you can crack that open for us?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

The windows on the Abbott building?

[Liam O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You think Yasha, I mean, she's a sturdy lady. I don't know if she got it through a window.

[Liam O'Brien]

Well, you never know. They are the Mighty Nein.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You never know. That's a great point.

[Liam O'Brien]

They are the Mighty Nein after all.

[Marisha Ray]

That's true.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

The Vidy died. I wouldn't put it past him. Geek.

[Sam Riegel]

And I'm going to try to open a window. It's locked. Hmm.

[Liam O'Brien]

Perhaps I grab Archibald and I throw him through the window.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

My frog.

[Sam Riegel]

Through the window.

[Liam O'Brien]

Through the window.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, it works. The glass breaks. How many hit points does. Does Archibald have? I believe one.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Let me see. How many hit points does this bad boy have? Probably has frog or toad stats. I think likely has a single hit point.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, there's no way I'm looking.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, no.

[Sam Riegel]

A frog has one hit point. As the frog flies through the window, Archie. He thinks, you know what? Maybe life isn't meant to go on forever. Maybe Padman was right. It was fleeting and short, but I got. I got to experience love, fear, confusion.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

A lot of confusion.

[Sam Riegel]

I got to see fights. I got to witness love and motherhood. I think it was worth it. And the shattering glass ends his existence.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

He immediately vanishes.

[Sam Riegel]

I will.

[Liam O'Brien]

I look over to Padman and I go, I'm so sorry. I did not know that was. I did not know he was gonna do that.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

He's a tiny little frog guy. He's just a little guy. Nobody's helping him out. And now he's dead until I summon him back, where he will be completely reconstituted and fine.

[Liam O'Brien]

Well, you heard the little speech he made, right? That was beautiful.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I guess so. Well, fine. I'll summon him back again in a second. But I just. You gotta be careful, okay? He's just a little guy. He's not cut out for all this adventure and stuff.

[Liam O'Brien]

I know, I know. I'm sorry. But look, the window is now accessible.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

All right? And I'm gonna clamber. I'm gonna hop up and jump through the window and extend a hand to great Mi Shi.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Laura Bailey]

Mi Shiji.

[Sam Riegel]

As you do. Yes.

[Laura Bailey]

Did you hear screaming? Did you hear that?

[Sam Riegel]

I did. It did not sound good.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm going to scurry down and start going over.

[Sam Riegel]

Have a good day. Be sure to be home by curfew.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

As we get through the window, I'll look and say, I'm sure that that glass breaking made a sound, but nothing that a little magic can't bend. And I'll cast mending on the window.

[Sam Riegel]

Nicely done. Sure enough, the glass is repaired as if it never was broken. Incredible.

[Liam O'Brien]

You didn't have a spell to break the window, but you had one to mend it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. Cause fixing things is a lot more helpful than breaking them, Kai. Because I don't want to be an adventurer. I want to be a helpful guy in my community. I want to live a normal life. I want to make a card game. I want to make a card game.

[Liam O'Brien]

Card game is pretty cool. I Will give you that one.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I disagree with some of the priors of this camp.

[Sam Riegel]

While you guys are having this intense conversation, sky and Jessop, you are nearing Yasha. You set down on the ground and start walking over her, and you could just go up and tag her. But as you walk up, you're about 20ft away. You hear the strangest sound. A muffled echoing across the camp that sounds like Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub. It's growing louder and louder and louder. Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub. Then a truly bizarre sight. A massive pig, 14ft tall, with wings and four rows of teeth, soars into the campground. It lands with a thud, making this giant rhythmic grunting noise that sounds like it's saying, gub, gub, gub, Gub, Gub, gub, gub, gub, Gub. I'll give you a little hint of what it looks like. Not a hint. This is what it looks like. This is the flying pig.

[Marisha Ray]

That's so many legs.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Unbelievable.

[Liam O'Brien]

That is the scary.

[Sam Riegel]

You'll notice that it has cat feet and chicken feet.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Whoa.

[Sam Riegel]

Whoa.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is that a human in a.

[Laura Bailey]

Does it. Does it breathe its breath?

[Sam Riegel]

It does look like there's a human in its grasp. And that is dark foreshadowing for. It lands on top of Yasha and grabs her with its talons.

[Marisha Ray]

I've just been sitting there sketching all.

[Sam Riegel]

Of the kids in my notebook as it grabs Yasha. Yasha, why don't you roll a dexterity save to see if you can resist its. Its mighty claw?

[Laura Bailey]

No.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, no.

[Sam Riegel]

Disadvantage.

[Marisha Ray]

Disadvantage. Oh, no. I don't know if that could get worse. I mean, I can. Okay, it's cocked. Still cocked. But the other one was bad. You said dexterity.

[Sam Riegel]

Uh huh. Four Cool. It for sure got you in its grasp, and it grabs you and shoves you in its mouth.

[Marisha Ray]

Wait, can I try to fight it in any way? I guess I just did.

[Sam Riegel]

Shoot, you're in there. You'll get a turn to try to get out soon. But right now, it is in its. Yasha is in its mouth. It turns to the two of you and snarls, gum, gum, gum, gum, gum, gum, gum, gum, gum, gum. What do you want to do?

[Laura Bailey]

Joseph? Sky, where are you right now? I'm running through the camp, looking for the camp.

[Sam Riegel]

Like, are you going roof to roof or what are you.

[Laura Bailey]

I've come off of the roof of the Creature. And I'm kind of around the bar tent in the arena.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. Okay, great. So you're near them.

[Laura Bailey]

Am I?

[Sam Riegel]

I don't know. If you're near the bar tent in the arena, you're about 50ft away from them. Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

I. You can hear the Gub Gub Gub gubbing going. You've set down, but you can take off again if you'd like.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay. I think we gotta get help.

[Sam Riegel]

I don't trust.

[Ashley Johnson]

I think we gotta fly. I don't trust myself.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But time is of the essence, isn't it? If we run off and get help, then. Amy, will this thing fly out?

[Sam Riegel]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Laura Bailey]

Kids.

[Sam Riegel]

Kids have to be here at this point. Bo has found you. She knew where you were, so she's running up to you, full sprint. And she has arrived.

[Laura Bailey]

Do I see the pig?

[Sam Riegel]

As you round the corner to get to them, you turn and see a gigantic 14 foot flying pig right in front of you. Gub Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub Gub.

[Laura Bailey]

What is with this girl?

[Sam Riegel]

Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub.

[Laura Bailey]

Get back, get back. I'm gonna run up a train and get myself between the kids and the thing.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, you also. I don't think that you know that Yasha is in there yet unless you're gonna tell her. But yes, you get between yourself and Gub Gub the flying pig, and it sends a long tongue out to try to grab you as well if you're within sort of 15ft of it.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, I'm running towards it.

[Sam Riegel]

Roll an attack. Terrible. It only rolled an eight.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. I just kind of sidestep really quick.

[Sam Riegel]

And kind of do a barrel roll. Tongue lashes out, hits nothing but dirt and retracts. It's your go. Any of you guys, if you want to go, I got it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I got to make a try for it. I want to cast my Tasha's hideous laughter.

[Sam Riegel]

Great. Do it. You cast. Flip a coin to see if your spell even works.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Please, please, please, please.

[Sam Riegel]

It works. Okay. You cast a spell. You use all the right components, your fingers expertly guiding around to make the somatic movements needed to includes a tiny cake. That's right. Tiny tarts. And a feather. You wave it in the air and cast this spell. Creatures of your curse. You see within range. Okay, great. Go ahead. How do you make it laugh? What are you trying to. How are you going to make it laugh?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I ask my friend to throw me so that I can take the feather that I Use for the. Oh, no, no. I've already used the feather I asked my friend to throw me, and I just try to do a big like.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And it's right in its face.

[Sam Riegel]

I love it. I love it. Your spell casting, D.C. oh, it only has to roll a nine to beat you natural 20. So it's hilarious what you're doing, but this creature, for whatever reason, doesn't get the same. It's not the same comedy. It's into different kind of humor. Yeah, it's more slapsticky, I think.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I think it's more into humor. You know, David Sedaris.

[Sam Riegel]

Reed's the New Yorker. Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Reed's the New Yorker.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. I'm sorry. It doesn't work.

[Ashley Johnson]

I don't get why it's not working. You're hilarious.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Thank you.

[Sam Riegel]

It's gonna lash out at the nearest creature to it again, which is beau Again. It's gonna roll to see if it hits you. This is much better. This is a 16 to hit.

[Laura Bailey]

Still miss.

[Sam Riegel]

Whoa. You're so. Oh, no, he cursed. Okay, that's another miss. This time that tongue hits you, but you shrug it off like it's nothing.

[Laura Bailey]

Go, go, go find the boys. Go get help. I'm gonna try and come down with my bow staff and, like, just do.

[Sam Riegel]

A little slap roll to hit roll. An attack. Yep, 21 definitely hits. Roll for damage.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. Okay. What is my damage when I'm so weak?

[Sam Riegel]

I don't know where's.

[Laura Bailey]

I need my D4s. Here we go. Five. Bludgeoning damage.

[Sam Riegel]

Great.

[Laura Bailey]

No, wait. I said my bow staff. That was a D8. I'm supposed to have a D8. That's much better. 10. Bludgeoning damage.

[Sam Riegel]

Amazing. It draws back in pain. And as it howls in pain, you can see in its mouth. Yasha. Hello.

[Laura Bailey]

What are you doing in there? I don't know.

[Marisha Ray]

I was just drawing, and then it ate me.

[Laura Bailey]

Did you choose to hide inside a pig?

[Sam Riegel]

No.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, that's a good idea. But I did not.

[Laura Bailey]

We gotta talk.

[Sam Riegel]

You're still in there. You can roll to see if you can get out. Roll a strength check with disadvantage. Everything's at disadvantage.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, 12.

[Sam Riegel]

Nope. It has you firmly and there's no damage or anything. It's just got you in there. You're behind two of its molars. Do pigs have molars? Sure they do.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Pig has chicken feet.

[Sam Riegel]

I don't care. What are you doing, Liebe? Are you running off? Are you getting help? What are you doing?

[Ashley Johnson]

I think I'm gonna. I'm. I'M really nervous, but I think I could use my Sorcerer's Burst. But I'm really starting to panic. But I really. I care about you. I've only known you for a second, but I care about you.

[Sam Riegel]

I think you probably are too stress at this point. Go ahead and cast your Sorcerer's Burst. But first, roll a D6 to see if it even works.

[Ashley Johnson]

A5.

[Sam Riegel]

That works. It works. Sorcerer's Burst comes out. All right, roll to see if you hit. Roll a D20 and add. I will look it up for you.

[Ashley Johnson]

A17.

[Sam Riegel]

That definitely hits. Roll for damage. This is a 1 D8 of damage. 1 OT8.

[Marisha Ray]

Which one is that?

[Sam Riegel]

That's you.

[Ashley Johnson]

That guy right there. I was gonna be, like, 19. 2.

[Sam Riegel]

You fight through the anxiety and the stress of it, knowing that your new friend is in danger, seeing the failure of your battle over there. Sky, you blast true a sorceress burst right at the pig's schnoz, and it howls in anger. I'll see if it releases Yasha. It does not.

[Laura Bailey]

I just turn around, though, and go, did you just? Did you do that?

[Ashley Johnson]

I did.

[Laura Bailey]

Fuck, yeah, you did it. No, you did it.

[Sam Riegel]

As you're distracted, it's gonna try another attack on you. This one's even better.

[Laura Bailey]

Eighteen plus something.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. It gets you, and it sucks you in next to Yasha. What would you guys like to do?

[Ashley Johnson]

We should get our friends.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think we've been running toward the guys screaming.

[Sam Riegel]

You don't know where they are? I don't think.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, we've been running through the camp.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm yelling, screaming, padwin, Kai.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, so you're just calling out, you guys. Let's see. Roll a perception check. You're indoors. I don't know if you can hear.

[Marisha Ray]

There's also. When Jessup made the nine, when she did the source six, I wanted to make sure that I saw it through the mouth just a little bit.

[Sam Riegel]

She did it. Okay, six and a nine.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wait, how high in this guy is. Is this. Is this pig?

[Sam Riegel]

Pig's 14ft high.

[Ashley Johnson]

14Ft high? 14ft high.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

Well, I have an eight.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. You guys are inside. You don't really hear anything. It's muffled.

[Liam O'Brien]

So I think to get the most research for your cards, we need to look around in the admin's office and see if we can find any interesting little documents. Does that sound cool?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Did I misunderstand the objective of the current 18?

[Sam Riegel]

I mean.

[Liam O'Brien]

I mean, I think they got it. You see them? They've been doing magic all day. I think they're gonna find her. Yeah, super fast.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay, well, they have been doing magic all day, but also I've watched Jessop have several panic attacks and I wanna make sure that we're good friends. But yeah, I guess we can simultaneously look for Yasha and accumulate documents to help with the card game. Yeah. You know, if you burn in the hand, you kill a bird with as many stones as you have.

[Liam O'Brien]

My dad always said that.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. Let's do it. Okay, I'll make an investigation check.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, go ahead and roll for investigation. What are you specifically looking for?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm looking for Yasha with a side effect of documents. So looking for Yasha and documents.

[Sam Riegel]

Great, great. So you're poring over this. It's a sort of clustered, cluttered administration office. There's file cabinets, there's a desk.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's an 18.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, I mean, you find files on various campers, receipts for tuition. You find some class plans.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Do I find any files on us?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, I mean, there's a camper file. And if you. If you wanted to search for your name specifically, you sure could.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, I'll look. I'll look through it.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, so as you're. As you're doing that, we're going to cut back to the other people overcome with fear and panic.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think I can cast jump on you and then you can jump up onto this horrific pig like creature and maybe do an attack on them.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm down to try that, but my arms are like noodles.

[Sam Riegel]

Before you attempt this, Guvgov. It's Guv Grub Sco. And Guvgov is going to release a belch of fiery smoke that spreads out about 30ft around it. Both of you, I think you need to make a constitution saving throw to see if this affects you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Ooh, seven.

[Ashley Johnson]

Is that a nine or.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That is a nine you can use. The little dot is the bottom nine.

[Sam Riegel]

Plus constitution.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And which one is constitution saves plus four.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Plus four.

[Ashley Johnson]

So 13.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

10 total.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. It affects both of you. This smoke, as it sort of envelops you, you were overcome with a sense of depression.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

What the hell kind of game is.

[Sam Riegel]

You have an overwhelming sense of crippling depression.

[Ashley Johnson]

I certainly don't see a point in any of this. And also my asthma is.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I've never felt so homesick before.

[Sam Riegel]

You are both sort of. You're both frozen in place for one round. And during that one round, Gub Gub, the flying pig is going to try to take to the air, but with the added weight, it can't quite lift off in. Instead, it stomps away, deeper into the campgrounds, leaving this thick cloud of smoke behind it, obscuring your vision. As it goes away, you can hear Gub Gub. Gub, Gub. Gub. Gub, Gub, Gub, Gub. Gub Gub.

[Laura Bailey]

From inside the pig. Are you drunk? Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

I did it. It was not on purpose. I did not take a detour.

[Sam Riegel]

It's just.

[Marisha Ray]

I was walking by Yes's cabin and there was a poof of smoke and it. It happened.

[Laura Bailey]

We're in a pig now, getting carried away.

[Marisha Ray]

They were starting to believe. I could see it through the mouth of this beast.

[Laura Bailey]

I feel so weak.

[Marisha Ray]

I do too. We were bested by a pig with cat legs and chick feet.

[Laura Bailey]

What have we become?

[Marisha Ray]

Maybe we don't deserve to be parents.

[Laura Bailey]

Maybe we shouldn't be parents.

[Marisha Ray]

Where are we even going?

[Laura Bailey]

I don't know.

[Marisha Ray]

Why are we not even trying to get out?

[Laura Bailey]

I don't know. The kids took it out of me.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh no, you're crying.

[Laura Bailey]

I feel so defeated.

[Marisha Ray]

I do too. And I feel like a little depressed as well.

[Laura Bailey]

I feel depressed too.

[Sam Riegel]

Beau and Yasha feeling depressed. Sky and Jessop feeling depressed. Padman and Kai have found their file folders. Awesome, dude. Good fight. But the things that they say about you are not good.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh no, I'm depressed.

[Sam Riegel]

We'll get into that next time. For now, Gub Gub has taken away your two junior counselors and is somewhere loose in the camp. And it will be up to four outcasts for oddballs. Some might say losers. But maybe not only the camp director. The only things that are uniting you are your love for this camp and your desire to prove your worth. But I don't know if you have what it takes to do this. I hope that you do. But we'll find out next time. Will you be kicked out of the camp or will you wild out in the instead? We'll find out on the next episode of Wildemount Wildlings. Until then, thanks for joining us tonight. I've been Sam Riegel. Special thanks to Toff Masry for art. Tal Levestas for his piano, Sabrina for the friendship bracelets, Kyle Shire for his amazing producing and the amazing kids. You don't know about them, but the audience does. The kids who helped come up with this monster Maximus kestrel, Alan, Penny, Marlo, Greta and Ronan Ronan for the amazing art of Gub Gub the flying pig. I hope you all wild out. And until next time, is it Thursday yet? Good night. If you like the adventure, you've been on so far, consider leaving a review on your podcast platform of choice. We're always looking for new campers to invite to Camp Wildemount, and your review may just be the ticket to bring in a new batch of wayward would be adventurers. Thanks for checking back in on this adventure and we'll see you soon this upcoming Thursday as we get ready for the next episode of Wildemount Wildlings. See you next time.