C03 - Ep. 15 - Brig of Endridge Bay - Old Faces, New Faces, Dead Faces

Summary

Podcast Summary: Tales from the Stinky Dragon
Episode: C03 - Ep. 15 - Brig of Endridge Bay - Old Faces, New Faces, Dead Faces
Release Date: April 16, 2025

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Introduction

In Episode 15 of Tales from the Stinky Dragon, titled "Brig of Endridge Bay - Old Faces, New Faces, Dead Faces," the adventurers find themselves back in the infamous Brig of Endridge Bay. This episode weaves together elements of camaraderie, past confrontations, and new mysteries, all infused with the signature comedic flair of the Stinky Dragon crew.

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Recap and Setting the Scene (00:25 - 02:49)

Gustavo Sorola, the Dungeon Master (DM), sets the stage by referencing the group's previous adventure involving fierce pirate battles and familiarizing themselves with local factions: the Council of Conservation, Troop, and Rabble. As tensions settle, Toale confronts a formidable figure from his past—Captain Jarl Ironclad.

Gustavo Sorola [00:26]: "It's been a while, you intellect of ours. Claw your way into the Stinky Dragon and partake in our latest potation drain on your parade."

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Arrow Question Segment: Olympic Events (02:49 - 14:28)

The episode features the recurring Arrow Question segment, where players detail which Olympic events their characters would excel in, submitted by a listener, Crazy Mage524.

1. Tolv the Orc Barbarian (Blaine Gibson) [04:08]:

   • Event: Power Walking
   • Quote: "I could participate in so many things, you know, shot putting and rowing and, like, archery maybe. But my biggest one would be power walking."

2. Natty Wonder the Drow Warlock (John Reisinger) [07:53]:

   • Event: Figure Skating
   • Quote: "I'd just love to compete in figure skating. Mostly because I just love how all the moves sound."

3. Doug Boone the Bugbear Leader (Barbara Dunkelman) [09:05]:

   • Event: Curling
   • Quote: "I think the one that Doug could compete in is curling."

4. Gunther the Male Croak Folk Fighter (Chris Demarais) [12:31]:

   • Event: Cricket Eating
   • Quote: "I would like to win the Golden Cricket because I think they're delicious."

The segment allows for character development and adds a humorous twist as players creatively align their D&D personas with Olympic sports.

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Encounter with Captain Ironclad (02:49 - 18:05)

Upon re-entering the brig, the adventurers unexpectedly cross paths with Captain Jarl Ironclad, a menacing figure from Toale’s past. Tensions quickly escalate as Blaine Gibson’s character attempts to attack Ironclad with a javelin but fails tragically.

Blaine Gibson [17:32]: "I'll pull out your javelin and make an attack roll with disadvantage because you're in melee range."

Ironclad effortlessly breaks the javelin and exits, leaving the party frustrated and on edge.

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Interlude and Player Interactions (18:05 - 32:20)

The DM introduces Sam Riegel's character, the elderly bartender, who offers the group discounted drinks and lodging. This interaction provides a breather from the tension, allowing players to discuss their past with Ironclad and delve deeper into their characters' backstories.

Blaine Gibson [34:13]: "Doug, how's leadership going? How are you enjoying it?"

During this segment, players explore their relationships and histories, particularly focusing on Doug Boone's troubled past with Ironclad, revealing layers of loyalty, betrayal, and survival.

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Introduction of New Quest: Kaylee and Pancake (34:06 - 53:16)

The adventurers engage in a meaningful conversation with Kaylee Herzberg’s character, Ramonda, who seeks their help to find her partner, Pancake, who has been exhibiting strange behavior—including removing their face. Kaylee provides a map to the Cursed Catacombs beneath town, setting the stage for the next leg of their quest.

Kaylee Herzberg [49:09]: "Pancake started acting strangely about two weeks ago. I heard strange voices, and when I turned a corner, I saw Pancake remove their face."

The DM seamlessly integrates player-driven storytelling, enhancing the narrative with personal stakes and new objectives.

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Gameplay Mechanics: Deck-Based Navigation (53:16 - 65:02)

Gustavo Sorola introduces a new gameplay mechanic involving a deck of cards representing paths, obstacles, wanderers, monsters, and items. This system adds a strategic layer to the adventure, dictating the challenges and opportunities the party will face as they navigate the catacombs.

Gustavo Sorola [61:35]: "Clear Path Cards represent making a good choice. So move you closer to your goal... the goal is to get five Clear Path cards."

Players actively engage with these mechanics, making decisions that influence their journey and encounter outcomes.

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Navigating the Catacombs: Encounters and Challenges (65:02 - 78:10)

As the party delves into the catacombs, they encounter various obstacles:

• Fungus Barrier: Natural, aggressive fungus that reacts to magical presence.
• Pirate Ghost Duel: A ghostly pirate, Raymonda, challenges the group to a duel, which inadvertently clears the fungal obstacle.

Through strategic actions and teamwork, the adventurers overcome these challenges, steadily progressing toward finding Pancake.

Barbara Dunkelman [70:35]: "I think he's just very internally contemplative."

These encounters highlight character strengths and foster collaborative problem-solving.

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Climactic Confrontation and Revelation (78:10 - 80:36)

The culmination of their efforts leads the adventurers to a secure, weathered stone box adorned with an anchor. As John Reisinger’s character, Natty Wonder, opens the box, the episode takes a meta twist, symbolizing the end of the current adventure and teasing future episodes.

John Reisinger [80:15]: "You open the box, and to your surprise and horror, it's the end of this episode of Tales from the Stinky Trailer."

This creative exit leaves listeners eager for the next installment, maintaining engagement and anticipation.

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Conclusion

Episode 15 masterfully blends character development, strategic gameplay, and engaging storytelling. The adventurers' quest to find Pancake amidst past rivalries and new challenges exemplifies the rich, comedic, and adventurous spirit of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. With the introduction of innovative gameplay mechanics and heartfelt character interactions, this episode stands out as a memorable journey through Endridge Bay’s mysterious catacombs.

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Notable Quotes

• Blaine Gibson as Tolv [04:08]:

  "I could participate in so many things, you know, shot putting and rowing and, like, archery maybe. But my biggest one would be power walking."

• John Reisinger as Natty Wonder [07:53]:

  "I'd just love to compete in figure skating. Mostly because I just love how all the moves sound."

• Barbara Dunkelman as Doug Boone [35:43]:

  "He's an awful, awful person. And he put my lives and in the lives of my brothers and sisters at risk all the time."

• Kaylee Herzberg as Ramonda [49:09]:

  "Pancake started acting strangely about two weeks ago. I heard strange voices, and when I turned a corner, I saw Pancake remove their face."

• Gustavo Sorola [61:35]:

  "Clear Path Cards represent making a good choice. So move you closer to your goal... the goal is to get five Clear Path cards."

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Final Thoughts

Brig of Endridge Bay - Old Faces, New Faces, Dead Faces offers listeners a blend of humor, strategy, and heartfelt moments. The intricate interactions and well-paced adventure ensure that both seasoned D&D enthusiasts and newcomers find the episode enjoyable and immersive.

Transcript

[Gustavo Sorola]

Location the lab. Quentin only has 24 hours to sell his car. Is that even possible? He goes to Carvana.com what is this, a movie trailer? He ignores the doubters, enters his license plate.

[Blaine Gibson]

Wow, that's a great offer. The car is sold, but will Carvana.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Pick it up in time for it? They'll literally pick it up tomorrow morning. Done with the dramatics. Car selling in record time.

[John Reisinger]

Save your time.

[Gustavo Sorola]

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[Blaine Gibson]

Best warranty and three years or 36,000.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Miles of limited complimentary maintenance. Don't think you can get away with all that.

[Chris Demarais]

Think again.

[Gustavo Sorola]

The Hyundai Getaway sales event.

[Blaine Gibson]

Visit your local Hyundai dealer today.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's a great day for a new Hyundai.

[John Reisinger]

It's been a while, you intellect of ours. Claw your way into the Stinky Dragon and partake in our latest potation drain on your parade. It's a mixture of teleportee leaves, a squeeze of cranial juices, fresh slices of gray matter, and topped with mindless molasses. One brain backwash of this whistle wetter and you'll see the lights are on, but no one's home. Previously, our adventurers fell into a fenced off fight of fearsome pirates. While fending off this frenzy of foes, they familiarize themselves with three local factions. Council of Conservation. Troop. Troop. And the Rabble. But once the feud finished, Toale faces a formidable figure from his foggy past. Ironclad. Pour yourself a potation and let's proceed with this pungent pot boiler.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Tales from the Stinky Dragon. I'm your stinky dungeon master, Gustavo Sorola, and I'm gonna hit our four players with an arrow. No.

[John Reisinger]

Why do you sound like you're so happy to do it every single time? I just don't think you should be happy about that.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I don't know. I'm a happy guy, John. You know me, I'm just, like, happy. Go lucky. The sun's always shining.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Stereotypically happy guy.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, that's. That's. That's my deal. This week's arrow question is, for which Olympic event would your character be a contender for gold, and why? That's submitted by Crazy Mage524.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Roll for initiative.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Make that initiative role.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I just wanted to say that for the first time.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I was not shocked by it this week. I kind of remembered that we did that. I feel like every week I'm like, oh, yeah, we do that one.

[John Reisinger]

Oh, 13, 7, 11.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So I got a 13. 11. 71 is the order, so that means 12. Step on up. I believe you're first.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

What an odd group.

[Blaine Gibson]

What?

[John Reisinger]

Barb, what an odd group.

[Gustavo Sorola]

No, that's good. That's good. We're all odd. Numbers, numbers.

[John Reisinger]

I got a math joke before Gus did. Let the record show.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It's good.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Good.

[Blaine Gibson]

Quiet down, nerds. Hello, it's me, Blaine, and I am playing to.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Sorry. I'm not in my prime.

[John Reisinger]

Hey, that's bad.

[Blaine Gibson]

Should I.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Should I leave? Sorry. We're talking about.

[Blaine Gibson]

Do you.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Side. Side. Arrow. Mini arrow, Crossbow bolt for you to. Do you like math?

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, you know, I. I will partake in a little bit of pie from time to time.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, okay. I'm sorry to. I don't mean to interrupt you. Let's. Let's get. Let's dig into that arrow question.

[Blaine Gibson]

No, it's okay. We'll. You know, we'll. We're talking about mathletes now. Let's talk about athletes. My name is Tolv. I am a male orc Barbarian. Level 5. That's a new development. Ooh. Oh, the Olympics. I love the Olympics. I could participate in so many things, you know, shot putting and rowing and, like, archery maybe. I don't know. But my biggest one would be power walking. Oh, yeah. There's, like, something about, you know, walking on a ship that's out in the ocean. Out in the sea when the water is raging, you. You get a really good gait. You will make sure that you always have one foot down. And it's. I'm incredible on land. I can power walk for days.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Interesting. So would you just, like, do laps around the ship? How does that work?

[Blaine Gibson]

You know, you got to stay active. You got to keep moving, keep grooving, you know, and you're not murdering people. You got to do something to keep you busy. Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Is that an Olympic sport? I. I wasn't aware that Power walking wasn't Olympic.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I think it is.

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, it was and then unfortunately they took it away.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I thought I remembered seeing it in Tokyo or someplace. I think I thought they had it. The Tokyo Olympics. I could be wrong.

[Blaine Gibson]

Race walking first appeared in the Olympics in 1904 and then in 1912 and.

[John Reisinger]

1934 shopped a different name than that.

[Blaine Gibson]

20 kilometer race walk for women was introduced in 1992, but still going. Wait, they still did it in 2024 in Paris.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

50 kilometers race walk.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, look at that.

[Gustavo Sorola]

50 kilometer 50.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah. Wow, that's not bad. I could do that. Hey, Blaine, here. Hey, I can work here. I could do that.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Hey, To. I was going to ask you a follow up question.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's more than a marathon. Sorry, I just looked that up.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's. It's like 30 miles. It's a lot.

[Chris Demarais]

You're just walking it. You can go pretty far when you're just walking.

[Gustavo Sorola]

To. Do you know my friend Chip Haney? Have you ever, have you ever encountered someone named Chip Haney in your travels?

[Blaine Gibson]

He sounds like a pleasant fellow. Why do you ask?

[Gustavo Sorola]

I think he might have also been into power walking. Seems like something that was up his alley. I thought maybe you encountered him like at a race or something.

[Blaine Gibson]

Perhaps. I would take silver and Chip would take gold.

[Gustavo Sorola]

All right, well, thanks to. I think that's a, that's a good one. I, I enjoy a good, A good power walk.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I believe next up was natty with an 11, if I'm remembering properly.

[John Reisinger]

Something extra fun about Blaine wearing an orange beanie and saying silver and gold.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You.

[Blaine Gibson]

I was gonna build a Yukon Cornelius character. Yukon Cornelius rules. Oh, that'd be great.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

What's the reference?

[John Reisinger]

Yukon Cornelius.

[Blaine Gibson]

You know those terrifying claymation figure. Stop.

[John Reisinger]

Terrifying. That's just you projecting Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, gotcha.

[Gustavo Sorola]

He sings a terrible song about silver and gold.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Terrifying. Terrible.

[Blaine Gibson]

Awful.

[John Reisinger]

So terrible. You remember him this many years later. Hi, I'm John Reisinger and I play Natty Wonder, who is a drow warlock. And the Olympics. If I was to be in the Olympics and get a gold medal. You know, I actually don't know much about this sport, but I think I would love to compete in figure skating. Mostly because I just love how all the moves sound. They got such cute little names like Lutz and, and Axel and bunny hops and, and all that. It's just I, I don't know how to do any of them, but it'd just be so fun to hear someone say, oh, look, Natty Did a triple lutz. That just sounds cool, doesn't it?

[Blaine Gibson]

There goes daddy doing a death spiral. It's her favorite move.

[John Reisinger]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're just so graceful. And you love the costumes. And there are sequins everywhere.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

A lot of wine stones.

[John Reisinger]

Yes.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It almost sounded like you said there were a lot of limestones, Doug. I was. I was confused for a brief second.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. So many limestones in figure skating below the ice. Can't really dig into it in the basement.

[John Reisinger]

So that's my answer.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay, just quick follow up. Do you have much experience with ice?

[John Reisinger]

Not at all. Not at all. Not a lick. But it just seems fun.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay.

[John Reisinger]

How hard can it be?

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's probably easy.

[John Reisinger]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. Thanks, daddy. And then I believe with a seven, was it Gunther?

[Chris Demarais]

One.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay, Doug, you have the seven.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Doug's next. Yes, seven is greater than one. Hello. Hello, everyone. I'm Doug Boone the Bugbear. Artificial voiced by Barbara Dunkelman. And Doug thought long and hard on this one because there's so many sports to choose from, so many of which Doug would be absolutely terrible at. But I think the one that Doug could compete in is curling.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, cooling.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Cooling. Like where you slide the. The big old puck on the ice and people have the brooms and they go, hoey, Hoey.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Hold, hold.

[John Reisinger]

That's. That's the game my grandma would play on her. Her cruise that she go on.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, you're thinking of shuffleboard.

[John Reisinger]

Oh, shuffleboard. That's. That's. That's like mini curling.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Exactly. Very similar mechanics, actually. Yeah, y.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Just make sure you're not curling while Natty's out there on the ice. Doug. That might be disastrous.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Doug will be curling while Natty is curling. Hoho.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, hey.

[John Reisinger]

Why would you be good at curling anyways?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I just, you know, I feel like Doug has, like, a gentle touch when it comes to, like, calculating the exact motion for something.

[John Reisinger]

Oh, that does make sense.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Also, Doug's really good at math, and so he knows, like, what number will beat another number and all that stuff.

[John Reisinger]

You handy with a broom?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, actually, I. I am. I. I did a lot of cleaning back in my day.

[Blaine Gibson]

I was going to say, if you need an assist, I. You know, I used to scrub the poop deck quite vigorously. I could definitely be the scrubber guy.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I don't think there's any monkeys there.

[John Reisinger]

Is that the sound they make? I've never heard them mic'd up, so.

[Blaine Gibson]

That'S what I would imagine. Podcast. John, I have to.

[John Reisinger]

You know, that was a legitimate question that I Just like, I've never heard how they sound like, is that because, like, it just looks like one of the most absurd things they're doing. And so that sounds like of a track with like. Oh, yeah. If you breathe this way, it actually helps you keep going. I don't know. I'm not a curler.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Well, Micah comments that Tove might be more used to bicep curling. So we want to be clear it's. It's not the same thing.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

How many calls?

[Gustavo Sorola]

So the same follow up question for you, Doug. Do you have much experience with ice?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

No, not really. But, you know, I got like shop toenails, so I feel like I could dig in real good. If I need to stabilize myself, though, that would be problematic.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Well, it'll keep you warm.

[John Reisinger]

I don't know. I've seen a lot of videos of golden retrievers on ice rinks and they seem pretty happy.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That would be like me.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Frolicking.

[Blaine Gibson]

Sorry. Barb. Mini dart. Arrow. Side arrow. Did you ever figure skaters ice skate when you lived in Canada, did you.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Really not figure skating? I did do ice skating, yes.

[John Reisinger]

It's required of all children in Canada.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

That sounds awesome.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

A photo of me that I could try to find. I think I'm like maybe 6 or 7 years old and I'm on the ice. Like, my parents are taking pictures of me. I think it was like one of my first skating lessons. And I'm wearing a goalie helmet. Like, it's like one of those things.

[John Reisinger]

With the like full face cages in.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Front of my face.

[John Reisinger]

Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Just in case. Which I think a lot of kids did wear when they went skating because they didn't want to fall on their face.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I think that we should. I don't want to cut you off, Barbara, but I think we should talk about that more in the Second Wind for this episode.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, yes, we should.

[Blaine Gibson]

Maybe we could provide the photo in the Second Wind episode.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. Which is available for people who support us@stinky dragonpod.com or if you listen over at Beacon, you should be able to get that episode. So check it out and you get some. Some more content.

[Blaine Gibson]

I have a prediction for Gunther's. I don't know what to say. I don't want to take a glory.

[John Reisinger]

Once you write it down in a note.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay, well, we'll pause for a second while Blaine, slash Toll writes on a piece of paper to hold it up to the camera. And then we'll. We'll get to Gunther, who rolled a one today. Hopefully that's. That's the extent of your bad roles, Gunther. Hopefully getting it out of your system. Why don't you start introducing yourself?

[Chris Demarais]

Hi, I'm Chris dimaris and I play Gunther, the male croak folk level five fighter. And I think there are lots of. Lots of sports that I have heard of. You might think that I might be good at the high jump or long jump, but I do not think I would win the gold because my. My friend Bunlap, he is much better at jumping. He always beat me in jumping.

[Blaine Gibson]

You killed Bunlap. Was that. Am I imagining this or no?

[Chris Demarais]

He is my bestest friend. And you might also think that I would take the golden fencing, but maybe not. I don't know yet.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

Bunlap.

[Chris Demarais]

Bunlap. He is a very good fighter too, so maybe he would win that. So I would like to win the Golden Cricket because I think they're delicious.

[Blaine Gibson]

That's good. That's good.

[Gustavo Sorola]

That's a good one. That's a really good one.

[Blaine Gibson]

I did a long jump.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I don't think you can read the other one on this podcast.

[John Reisinger]

You wrote a naughty word.

[Blaine Gibson]

That was for you guys.

[Gustavo Sorola]

That's not an Olympic sport. I don't think. Maybe. Maybe by the next time, though.

[Chris Demarais]

Blaine has been training for.

[Gustavo Sorola]

For it.

[John Reisinger]

Find out what Blaine said in second win.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So, Gunther, do you imagine that cricket is just like, who can eat the most cricket? Okay. Okay. I think. I think we can probably arrange. We'll try to arrange for you to. To be able to try that out at some point in this campaign.

[Chris Demarais]

I can't wait to play this game.

[Gustavo Sorola]

All right. I learned a bit.

[Blaine Gibson]

I didn't.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I think I also learned that cricket's an Olympic sport. I may not have realized that it's gotta be. Yeah, I imagine it is. Okay. Thanks, everyone, for participating in the Arrow.

[Blaine Gibson]

If.

[John Reisinger]

If power walking is an Olympic sport, cricket has to be.

[Blaine Gibson]

Gus, what would your Olympic sport be if you. If you could, like, excel at one thing or, you know, you take your innate abilities, would it be.

[Gustavo Sorola]

What would it be? Yeah, what's the Olympic sport you can do when you're the oldest?

[John Reisinger]

I was like, let's a.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

What's it called? The gun one where you like.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I'd be like that. That old guy from Turkey who just shows up, like, disheveled with the gun and just like, no equipment. Just like, it looks like you walked in off the street.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Was that the Winter Olympics?

[Gustavo Sorola]

That was summer. I was in Paris, I think.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. Okay.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Not.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Not the biathlon. No. Because he got to ski for that one, too. No, just like show up off the street with a gun, shoot a target and walk out.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I mean, you're. You're from Texas.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I'm from Texas.

[John Reisinger]

Ready to go.

[Gustavo Sorola]

As you know, you all are making your way to the staircase. You know, Gunther's chatting with this pirate and shaking hands. Tolve in the corner of your eye, something hooks your attention like a fish to the lure. A shadowy silhouette looms just past the heads of the exiting crowd. The menacing figures wearing a minotaur horned helmet, wielding a mace spiked with scores of shark teeth. Uh oh.

[Blaine Gibson]

Don't know this guy.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You turn to face the figure and lock eyes with none other than Captain Jarl Ironclad.

[Blaine Gibson]

Ironclad.

[Sam Riegel]

I know that.

[Blaine Gibson]

Warhammer.

[Sam Riegel]

Is that you, Tolf? Almost didn't recognize you.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Getting a little sling blade there. I'm sorry, these kids are mustard.

[Sam Riegel]

What are you wearing?

[Chris Demarais]

I've heard whispers on the wind. They say there are imposters among us.

[Sam Riegel]

A dangerous thing, deceit. You wouldn't know anything about that, would you, Tove?

[John Reisinger]

What'd you do? Tove?

[Blaine Gibson]

This is like the worst day ever. You know, this is ironclad. Everyone say boo. Cuz he's like the worst. What are you even doing here? I left you. In fact, you left me.

[Gustavo Sorola]

He's looking around. It seems like almost he's. He's only half listening as he's scanning around, looking around the room. Then his head turns back to you.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, if you're here, perhaps the rumors are true. It would seem your brothers and sisters are stronger than I thought. Perhaps my children do hold the secrets I've been searching for.

[Gustavo Sorola]

And it's almost like he realizes you're traveling with people at this moment. He looks over the rest of B team.

[Sam Riegel]

They don't even know, do they? They're more blind than the blood bloaters. Oh, have I said too much? Am I getting under your skin, Toles? Now, if you'll excuse me, eternity awaits.

[Gustavo Sorola]

He tries to make an exit.

[Blaine Gibson]

I want to throw a javelin. I want to throw a javelin.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay, pull out your javelin and make an attack roll with disadvantage because you're in melee range.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, there's a 24 and a 16.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Your aim is true. And as you're about to thrust it into his armor, he catches the shaft of the javelin. His grip breaks the weapon in half and splintered pieces crumble to the ground. And he brushes past and walks off.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I know you don't like this guy, but that was pretty cool.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, no, he. Nothing is Cool about Ironclad. Let me tell you that, okay? This guy is like the worst of the worst.

[Chris Demarais]

So is your dad your father?

[Blaine Gibson]

Yes, you could say that. Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's your dad?

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, like, yes and no. You know, I mean, he was like a father figure and was like my former captain. Captain.

[John Reisinger]

Did he adopt you?

[Blaine Gibson]

No, not exactly.

[John Reisinger]

So he's. He's like. He's like a father figure?

[Blaine Gibson]

We could put it that way, yeah.

[John Reisinger]

You gotta give us a straight answer.

[Blaine Gibson]

To one of these questions. It's a very.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

The name. Toll, vine, cloud.

[Gustavo Sorola]

That's a good question.

[Blaine Gibson]

No, it is not. Ironclad.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I mean, Tolv. Ironclad would be pretty cool.

[Blaine Gibson]

No, it would not be cool. Ironclad is a terrible name.

[John Reisinger]

Okay?

[Gustavo Sorola]

I've got Gunther in my to.

[John Reisinger]

So he likes to act like he's a daddy, but he's not good at it. What's the hold up here? We should all be open books. We're a team.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Did he kidnap you?

[Gustavo Sorola]

As you all are questioning Tolv, the bartender from upstairs who pulled the lever comes rushing down the stairs and sees you all and he begins shaking Gunther's hand very enthusiastically.

[Chris Demarais]

Hi.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh, it's a huge misunderstanding. Got a lot of strange folks in Endrich Bay these days.

[Chris Demarais]

So you did not intentionally send us down here?

[Sam Riegel]

I misunderstood. I thought you were looking for the fighting pit.

[Chris Demarais]

No, you may.

[Sam Riegel]

May I offer discounted drinks, please? I'd like to make it up for you.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, yep, sorry. That's right. I'm doing the voice wrong there. I don't know what half of that means.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm sorry. I love to make it up to you.

[Chris Demarais]

In what way? Free lodging and food, Discounted drinks and meals and lodging.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, yes, sure. Yeah, we can work that out.

[Blaine Gibson]

Like. Okay, just quick question. If someone say a family was to be coming by to visit, like the local water park, you know, and then you mistake. Mistake in the ocean. Yeah, but would you have you sent like, families to the fighting pits by mistake or anything?

[Sam Riegel]

Only if they asked.

[John Reisinger]

That's.

[Blaine Gibson]

That's not good for business.

[Gustavo Sorola]

But here he begins leading you up the stairs. Gunther.

[Sam Riegel]

Allow me.

[Chris Demarais]

Okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Shall we follow you?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He motions for all of you to. To follow upstairs.

[Sam Riegel]

You were looking for. For Fizmum, correct?

[Chris Demarais]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

She'll be back shortly. She's on an errand. She'll be back in less than an hour. Here, here. Come. Easier.

[Gustavo Sorola]

He leads you back up to the. The main floor that you walked in on.

[Sam Riegel]

Sit, Sit. If you want you can go upstairs to the dining hall and I can bring you whatever you want.

[John Reisinger]

Something wrong with you?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

Are you, like, afraid of Fizmum or something?

[Sam Riegel]

I'm just very old, and I speak like a magician, and I don't know what that means.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Now, I don't want us to get a voice actor for this character.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It has to be Gus. That's why I said.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Magician.

[John Reisinger]

Hey, given me a million years, I could not have come up with that answer to that question.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

What does that mean?

[John Reisinger]

I don't know.

[Chris Demarais]

It means whatever Gus is doing.

[John Reisinger]

But I love Gus's translation.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Sometimes you just gotta go with it.

[Chris Demarais]

I like how you're like, wait, that's not the right voice.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Because I saw it. And I was. Because I realized it. Then I saw it, I was like, well, I don't know what that means.

[John Reisinger]

And to be honest, the voice changed a little bit and then turned into a scared person. So that's why we were like, what is going on?

[Gustavo Sorola]

That's why I wanted to be upfront with you. There's a Lost in Translation moment here.

[John Reisinger]

Hey, do you know magic?

[Gustavo Sorola]

He begins doing that thing where he acts like he's separating his thumb from his hand.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, my goodness. Okay.

[John Reisinger]

Gigi's eyes are like saucers.

[Blaine Gibson]

Gus started doing that in the webcam. It was pretty cool.

[Chris Demarais]

So, Fizzmum, what can you do? Are you friends well with them?

[Sam Riegel]

Friends well with them? Oh, Fizzmum runs the high three. I work for Fismum.

[Blaine Gibson]

So you are afraid of Fizzmom.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

When's the high three? Is Fizz mom. Is he an actual mom or just. That's just a name.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, that's. That's her name. Fizzmum. F I Z Z M U M.

[Chris Demarais]

How did she come to run the i3?

[Sam Riegel]

That's an interesting story.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You know, sets up behind the bar.

[Sam Riegel]

But, you know, it's best told by Fismum herself. She'll be back soon. You can ask her all about it.

[Chris Demarais]

What does she look like?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, you know, she's a thoad. She's got warty cheeks, some big old broad shoulders, and she's always wearing her patchwork surcoat. Can't miss her.

[Chris Demarais]

I'm sorry, I do not know. What is a toad?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, you know, a toad.

[Chris Demarais]

A toad.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Toad.

[Sam Riegel]

Toad. You see him every now and then, you know, not too uncommon.

[Blaine Gibson]

My name's Tove. Is that what you're trying to say, Toad?

[Sam Riegel]

I'm saying it wrong. You got in my head.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, is it like a. What's a race that has a th.

[Sam Riegel]

She looks kind of like you, Gunther. Just, you know, a little bit bigger.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Like a something toad.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, I didn't know Gunther's name.

[Gustavo Sorola]

We met, remember? He introduced himself.

[Blaine Gibson]

Ah, okay.

[Gustavo Sorola]

They had a conversation.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, so I guess we'll keep our eyes out for Fizz Mom. But in the meantime, could we like get into lodgings like you mentioned? We could get free room and board.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, you see, we mainly have a bar and a dining hall here. I guess we could try to work something out for lodging, but yeah, yeah, we can, we can work it out. Why don't you get some food and drink for now and I'll go dig up some cots for you guys.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, before we do that, can I like give him a silver piece and say, what can you tell me about Ironclad? You know where he's staying?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, you know, lots of strange folk in Entrich Bay these days. Very peculiar. Hard to say, but he's, he's here as of recently. Hasn't been around too long.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Do you know a maybe brought him heel? Like why he would be in town?

[Sam Riegel]

No, doesn't talk much to me.

[Blaine Gibson]

I give him a gold piece and I say if you see him around or get more information, you come to me first.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, absolutely.

[Chris Demarais]

I give him a gold piece and say any or is any food? Make it yucky.

[Sam Riegel]

You got it. Any special kind of yuck you want me to do?

[Chris Demarais]

Gunther looks at.

[Blaine Gibson]

I'm on a diet. Hold the yuck for me, please.

[Chris Demarais]

You just make a yucky.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, will do.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You know, like instead of like boiling his pasta noodles in wado, maybe boil it in toilet. Watto.

[John Reisinger]

Evil Gigi walks up to him, gives that guy a rock and just garbles a bunch of random.

[Blaine Gibson]

He sees the adults doing it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I just want to take a moment to redescribe this room. So you're back up on the ground floor that you walked in on. You know, this building has a pretty compact floor plan with multiple stories. It's dimly torch lit with weathered shiplap architecture. There's coral stools sliding around a bit on a flooded floor. And this person you're talking to is an elderly human. And there's a small seafood menu and an ascending spiral staircase and an iron banded wooden door to the south which is the door you all initially walked in from.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

And that seems to be the only door in and out.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, that's the only door. And of course their spiral staircase goes up. So I would say that's another way to leave. But it's not a door where's the staircase? Yeah, on the northern end of the room.

[John Reisinger]

Okay, Natty finds a seat.

[Chris Demarais]

Yeah, I'll sit down. Why are you in the army?

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, after my time on Under Ironclad, I kind of lost direction. You know, I lost a close friend of mine, a family member, and just needed to find a way to right some of the wrongs from my past. And so I joined the Mortalion, hoping to, you know, find retribution in some sort of service to the people, in helping find peace. So how about that yucky stew, huh? You know?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. So at this point, if you all want, you know, from a metagame perspective, you can count this as a short rest since you have an opportunity to sit down and relax and, you know, get any food and drink if you wish.

[John Reisinger]

What's on the menu?

[Gustavo Sorola]

As you say that, you see a small menu floating by on a thin puddle of water that seems to be seeping in from the door.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Is it laminated so that it doesn't get all, like, damaged by the waddle?

[Gustavo Sorola]

No, it's pretty. It's pretty soggy.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, is this like a revolving sushi bar of some sort?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Well, it's. It's raining pretty hard outside.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh. Oh, the vibes. I'm gonna. I'm gonna cuddle into my sweater a little bit more.

[John Reisinger]

Anything on the menu fried with gravy?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Well, you see some food, a few different dishes. You see the signature dish, which is at the very top of the menu, is the blubber bisque. There's also some stale carp and some piranha porridge.

[John Reisinger]

I gotta be honest, none of that sounds too appetizing, but I'm kind of hungry, so I'm gonna take my bets and put them on the porridge. Bring me out two bowls of porridge, one kid size.

[Gustavo Sorola]

That's two of the piranha porridge. They are two copper each, so four copper total.

[John Reisinger]

You got any crayons? And, like, any. Anything that Gigi could, like, play with.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Crayons, the old man says.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, not really. Don't normally get visitors his age around here. Sorry. If you want, we can put some extra gravy on his porridge, maybe make him like it a little more.

[John Reisinger]

Sure, why not?

[Chris Demarais]

All right, I will take whatever you think is good. Magician.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Now you're just mocking me.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, in that case, you definitely want to get the blubber bisque. Mmm, so good.

[Chris Demarais]

Okay, thank you.

[Sam Riegel]

The bisque tastes like bacon wrapped nutmeg.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Mmm. Delicious.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Doug's ears perk up. Can I potentially have one of each?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, absolutely.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I got A yeah, a lot Lot of. Lot of potion to feed you. And Doug motions to his entire body and his stomach.

[Sam Riegel]

Understood. And you, sailor.

[Gustavo Sorola]

He looks at you Toll I've lost.

[Blaine Gibson]

My appetite for the day. Thanks.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, understood. All right. So that is two blubber bisques, one stale carp and three piranha porridge. Interest any of you in a drink? We've got octopus.

[John Reisinger]

No, that's not a drink, sir.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Like blended octopus or like octopus ink?

[Blaine Gibson]

Do octopus have ink?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I think that's a squid.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Let me reread that.

[Sam Riegel]

Can I offer you anything? A drink? We've got octopus.

[John Reisinger]

Octopus.

[Blaine Gibson]

Octopus.

[Chris Demarais]

Okay, I will take some.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I'd rather have the octopus, actually.

[John Reisinger]

Do you perhaps have like sweet tea or something instead?

[Sam Riegel]

I can figure something out.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You know what? When in Rome, give me a big old honking glass of that octopus.

[Sam Riegel]

You got it.

[Blaine Gibson]

We're not in womb. We're an injured 20 bay. By the way. Just, you know, just to let you.

[John Reisinger]

Know, leave the literalness to Gunther, okay?

[Blaine Gibson]

That's not my joke, truly.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I got. I got Gunther in my to today. So was that only two of you getting octopus? Gunther and Doug, I believe, and sweet tea. Oh yeah. And t got to figure out a tea for. For Natty. Okay. The old man writes it all down and shuffles out back behind the bar. Foreign this episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon is brought to you by Shopify. When you think about businesses that are selling through the roof, like aloe or Allbirds or skims, sure, think about a great product, cool brand, brilliant marketing. But an often overlooked secret is actually the business behind the business that makes selling. And for shoppers, buying simple. And for millions of businesses, that business is Shopify. Nobody does selling better than Shopify. It's home of the number one checkout on the planet and the not so secret secret with shop pay that boosts conversions up to 50%. Meaning way less carts going abandoned and way more sales going. So if you're into growing your business, your commerce platform better be ready to sell wherever your customers are scrolling or strolling on the web or in your store, in their feed and everywhere in between. Businesses that sell more sell with Shopify. Upgrade your business and get the same checkout that Allbirds and skims use. Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at shopify.com that's all lowercase. Go to shopify.comdragon to upgrade your selling today. Shopify.com dragon hey y'all.

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[Chris Demarais]

Can I ask private parts?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, yeah. Private parts.

[Blaine Gibson]

Private parts.

[Chris Demarais]

Why are we looking for Fizzbum? What do they need?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Fizbum has information about potential imposters in the area. That's all we have to do. It's our orders from a Mortalion to make contact with Fizbum and investigate these rumors to determine if they're true.

[John Reisinger]

Reconnaissance.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, in a way.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

What kind of sauce?

[Blaine Gibson]

So, Doug, how's leadership going? How are you enjoying it?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It's great. I'm really happy with the direction of our team right now. You know, I think it's very important that we stop and have a meal and get some nutrition going. You know, fuel up for the day ahead.

[John Reisinger]

Yeah, I feel like this is a apt time for you to maybe fill us in on what to expect from Ironclad, seeing as how he is a player in the space now. I like to know what I'm. What I'm kind of dealing with here.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, as Delito, let me explain Ironclad.

[Blaine Gibson]

Please. Like, go on.

[John Reisinger]

Please do.

[Blaine Gibson]

So.

[John Reisinger]

What do you know about Ironclad, Doug?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Ironclad is scary.

[Blaine Gibson]

There it is.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

He's a big guy. Not Tov's dad by bus. No. But kind of told his dad by. By.

[Blaine Gibson]

Ironclad is a very intelligent and ruthless animal. I would not even call him a man. I've seen him do things to people not deserving of his rage and his wrath. He's an awful, awful person. And he put my lives and in the lives of my brothers and sisters at risk all the time. I mean, he's just a. He's an awful person.

[John Reisinger]

That does beg the question, how did you become associated with him if he's such a baddie?

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, I mean, not entirely sure I mean, maybe it was some sort of, like, magic curse. It was something that was beyond my control. I didn't really have any say in the matter.

[John Reisinger]

Wait, what. What's your, like, earliest memory? Were you with a different family before or. If you do, all you can remember is ironclad time.

[Blaine Gibson]

All I've ever known is war and ironclad. That's my earliest memories, being on a ship serving under him.

[John Reisinger]

Can Doug turn to. Can. Can Natty turn to Doug real quick?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. Hello, Doug.

[John Reisinger]

I spent a lot of time in my village, and I understand that my village is a little remote. And so I don't know about how everybody does everybody, like, out in the real world just talking, like, mystery and symbology about their. Is that. Is that just. Is that just the norm? I just feel like I'm.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I'm like, you know, Natty, let's take.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

A pause here and look at. Look at our buddy Tov.

[Blaine Gibson]

Hello.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

He's kind of like a crap, you know, like, hard on the outside, soft on the inside. But we're still working on. On penetrating that hard exterior.

[John Reisinger]

We gotta crack that shell.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[John Reisinger]

Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

Hard b. I think I'm the opposite. In fact, I think I'm, like, nice and cushy and soft and bearded on the outside.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Maybe it's the opposite, then. Maybe he's soft on the outside, hot on the inside, so you kind of get through a little bit, but then you can't really get really through.

[John Reisinger]

It's like an avocado.

[Blaine Gibson]

I prefer pineapple. Wait, no, no, no. That's hard and scoochy. You're right. Avocado. Let's go with that. Yeah.

[John Reisinger]

Okay. All right. All right. Thank you, Doug. Sorry to. Yeah. Please tell us about your traumatic childhood more.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, I don't really want to.

[Chris Demarais]

You know, if we are to fight him again. Do you have any suggestions on attack?

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, I don't have his character sheet pulled up, but.

[John Reisinger]

Is he allergic to anything?

[Blaine Gibson]

Not that I'm aware of.

[John Reisinger]

Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

Like, fire, joy, love, salt.

[Chris Demarais]

So he does not like love.

[Blaine Gibson]

He's not a loving person.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

No, it's just kind of like a Tarzan situation where you a baby, and all of a sudden you, like, got picked up by Ironclad and his clan, and you had no choice but to be part of their family, and they kind of like, you know, you tried to be like them, but you were never really quite like them.

[John Reisinger]

Two worlds, one family.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Exactly.

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, I definitely didn't have a choice in the matter, but, you know, let's just put it this way. I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and we were all indoctrinated and controlled by this man. And then eventually one day, we kind of snapped out of it and realized what we were doing was not good, so we turned on him. And then. And then he, you know, slaughtered a lot of us. And I was left out in the middle of the ocean.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, my goodness.

[Chris Demarais]

I'm sorry.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, for what it's worth, Tov, I know what it's like to lose a sibling.

[Blaine Gibson]

As Wolf it is Wolf. Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Right about now, the. The old man comes back carrying a bunch of plates of food and drinks and begins passing it out to you all.

[Sam Riegel]

Now, you all take the food upstairs and eat in the dining hall, but here it is.

[John Reisinger]

Oh, we're not in the dining hall.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You're in like a bar area.

[Blaine Gibson]

So the spiral staircase is the dining hall?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, right up over there.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

How much I owe you for. For all these meals?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, it's. It's on the house for.

[Gustavo Sorola]

For the trouble.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Wow.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Here, Natty. He hands you a cup and says.

[Sam Riegel]

Ooh, some steeped seaweed tea sweetened with a touch of molasses.

[John Reisinger]

Ooh, yeah, that'll do.

[Blaine Gibson]

What does that taste like? Seaweed tea. I'm gonna look that up. Is that a thing?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I'm sure it is.

[Gustavo Sorola]

In Andridge Bay.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Chris Demarais]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Whoa.

[Blaine Gibson]

It is.

[Chris Demarais]

So should we go up?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah. Yes, you should.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, let's go up here. Doug precariously carries his multiple plates upstairs.

[Blaine Gibson]

I'll carry a Giggy.

[John Reisinger]

You got Gigi?

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, why not?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay, you all go up the stairs. And again, this room is dimly torchlit and has clamshell banquet tables and coral stools sliding on a wet floor. There's a couple of pirate clad patrons, and there's spiral staircases that both ascend and descend. And of course, you came up the descending one. And a portcullis style door blocks continuing up the ascending staircase.

[Blaine Gibson]

So there's another staircase that's blocked by a portcullis style door.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, gotcha. Okay. It's like all one staircase. I don't know if I was clear on that.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, like, it keeps spiraling up?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, it's like it continues up, but the portcullis right there stops you from continuing to ascend.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

So is it like a portcullis kind of like on a roof type thing?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Like, it's like almost, you know, what is it you would call almost like a port call? It's almost like a gate, you know?

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, I see. I see.

[Blaine Gibson]

You remember Stinky Dragon Adventures? That stupid thing that we had to puppet. Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Thing that kept not opening and breaking.

[Blaine Gibson]

The wires that we had with the pirates. Are they from any of the recognizable clans? The Council of conservation, the rabble, or the troop? Troop. If you want to give me an inspiration, die for remembering those. I'll take it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You know, why don't you make me?

[John Reisinger]

You can.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You can pick a investigation or perception check. I'll leave it up to you.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, perception plus three. Wow. Let's do that. That's a seven. Lucky number.

[Gustavo Sorola]

No, these just appear to be a mishmash of various pirates. In fact, two of them seem to be arguing with each other. It seems to be getting pretty heated. A balding elf and a scrawny human are beginning to raise their voices angrily with each other.

[Chris Demarais]

Can we hear them?

[Blaine Gibson]

Gus? Gus, are the pirates arguing?

[Gustavo Sorola]

All right, take an inspiration. Die. Gunther, make me a perception check.

[Chris Demarais]

It's gonna be a two.

[Gustavo Sorola]

No, you can't quite make it. Maybe they're arguing about money. They're on the other end of the room, so it's kind of hard to make out.

[Chris Demarais]

Well, I guess. Can I try the food?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. I assume you want to find a place to sit first.

[Chris Demarais]

Oh, yes. Can we sit close to where they.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Argue so we could listen in?

[Chris Demarais]

Yes.

[Blaine Gibson]

I can go ask them for napkins.

[Chris Demarais]

That's a good idea.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Maybe Natty could go over and tip over her glass and say, oh, sorry, I just happened to spill the tea.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, well, you're hoping they spill the tea at this moment.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Maybe Natty spilling her tea will make them feel comfortable to spill the tea.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, true.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You know what I'm saying?

[John Reisinger]

I could just go talk to him. It's just a couple of fellas.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, that's actually good.

[Chris Demarais]

You must follow the leader. Oh, you've been given an order.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

How about we go sit down at the table right next to them? And Natty, then whenever it feels natural, you go and just have a little conversation with them while we listen in intently.

[John Reisinger]

Sure.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

We're just a couple patrons eating our meals, right, guys?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Absolutely. Yeah.

[John Reisinger]

Natty just immediately takes her bowl and goes sits next to the pirates.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Doug sits at the table next to them.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Chris Demarais]

Gunther's joins Doug.

[John Reisinger]

Howdy, y'all. My name's Natty.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Real fast to do. You sit with Doug and Gunther.

[Blaine Gibson]

I'll sit next to the pirates. We'll just surround the pirates. Let's just be friendly around them.

[Gustavo Sorola]

All right, Natty, you begin addressing them.

[John Reisinger]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

They seem almost a little startled, like they didn't see you there. The balding Elf looks at you, Natty.

[Chris Demarais]

And says, yar ibi a nagi. You can call me Fisheye.

[Gustavo Sorola]

This over here. He points at the scrawny female human and says, I her.

[Chris Demarais]

That be Clarissa, but you can call her Puffball.

[John Reisinger]

I'm Natty. You can just call me Natty.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Chris Demarais]

Oh, Natty.

[John Reisinger]

This is my. This is my baby boy. His name is Gigi. And the tall drink of water next to me, his name is Tov.

[Blaine Gibson]

But you can call me Tov.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Mm.

[Blaine Gibson]

Tov.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Natty. Giggy.

[John Reisinger]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

The pirate nods at you three.

[John Reisinger]

You guys seem to be having a little bit of a scuffle here. What's going on? What's the hubbub?

[Gustavo Sorola]

At this point, the scrawny female human jumps in and interrupts Fisheye.

[Blaine Gibson]

Ah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You see, we're arguing about when this storm's gonna end. I say, any day now. And Fisheye says, we have weeks of storm left.

[Blaine Gibson]

You know, Fisheye, I could, if you're in the market for a gentleman, hook you up with Sergeant Steel Eye. I think you might enjoy him. You have very much in common.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I'm Puffball.

[John Reisinger]

I'm that Fisheye.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Ah.

[John Reisinger]

Oh, I almost forgot. Grumble sits down next to me as well.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, right. Grumbles.

[Blaine Gibson]

Who's Grumbles?

[John Reisinger]

Captain Grumbles.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, my God, the dead Captain guy. Yeah, the zombie. Hell yeah. I forgot about that dude.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, because you animated the dead, right?

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, God.

[Chris Demarais]

Do people notice the dead corpse or.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That he is dead?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, yeah. So many NPCs.

[John Reisinger]

Yes.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I think they would notice him, but he's still recently dead, so it's not like, super weird because it just happened a few minutes ago at this point.

[John Reisinger]

And I'm so sorry, pardon my manners, but this is my newest compatriot, Captain Grumbles.

[Blaine Gibson]

Say hello, Captain Grumbles.

[Chris Demarais]

Captain Grumbles?

[John Reisinger]

Yeah, he's new to the party.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You make the Captain Grumbles sounds, Jon.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, someone's hungry.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Is that Giggy or is that Captain Grumbles?

[John Reisinger]

No, Grumbles is clearly. And Gigi is.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

The pitch.

[John Reisinger]

Yes.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, very similar. They would love to hear their conversation. Conversations.

[Blaine Gibson]

You said scrawny female human. Can I, like, take a close look at Clarissa, aka puffball, and see if they are in fact Sergeant Steel Eye?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Make a investigation check.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay. It's a 10.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You lean in to kind of like nonchalantly take a look at Puffball, but in doing so, you spill Natty's tea.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

The tea.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Spill the tea off the table onto the ground, and the cup begins clattering. Very loudly between them.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, so sorry, Natty. I'll go get you another one.

[John Reisinger]

Thank you. Now fellas, we're new in town. Why you guys find yourself in the high three.

[Blaine Gibson]

Also if you. If you'll allow me, I'm gonna go get another one for the bartender Magician.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Chris Demarais]

Ah, the storms. No ship has made it safely into port for a month now. The westward winds and storms haven't lit up. We be stuck here.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[John Reisinger]

Oh, so we're in a bottle episode.

[Chris Demarais]

I don't know what that is, but I Sorry, sorry.

[John Reisinger]

Some of the toll have gotten my Natty.

[Gustavo Sorola]

At this point, 12 is real quick to run down, get some more tea and you come back up piping fresh hot seaweed tea.

[John Reisinger]

Do you guys know I'll use my indoor voice? Puffball. What's that? This is an indoor voice, just FYI. And holy crap. With crisp turned off. You are so loud in discord.

[Blaine Gibson]

I'm sorry.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Loving this episode.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I'm going to read you something here, okay? Penetrating voice so high or loud it makes you uncomfortable.

[John Reisinger]

I need that to go higher, not louder.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

But does he sound like a magician?

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's hard for me to go high. No magician here.

[Blaine Gibson]

You fill me in. I feel like I'm missing something. Did we make a joke about him magician in the Bartender last episode or am I missing something?

[Gustavo Sorola]

No, no, A little earlier I said that was my direction for his voice.

[Blaine Gibson]

Was like a weird magician.

[John Reisinger]

That was Gus's translation of magician.

[Blaine Gibson]

Gotcha.

[John Reisinger]

So we heard a little scuttle about like people who aren't actually the people being around here, like imposters. Have you guys run across any kind of circumstances like that?

[Gustavo Sorola]

They look at you and look at each other and they. They look a little wide eyed. Yeah.

[Chris Demarais]

What do you mean?

[John Reisinger]

Nothing.

[Gustavo Sorola]

They. They kind of like scoot away a little bit. Actually, you know what? They pick up their bowls and move to another table.

[John Reisinger]

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Come back, come back, come back. I'll tell you. I'll tell you.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, what?

[John Reisinger]

So I guess your answer is you guys haven't like run into people pretending to be other people maybe Andarians?

[Chris Demarais]

Well, if I am being honest, Captain Grumbles over there looks like someone that I used to know. But I don't think he's quite the same if I'm being perfectly honest with you.

[John Reisinger]

So yeah, this seems about right. What was. What was that fella's name when he that you say looks like my friend.

[Chris Demarais]

Here Never met him, but I ate next to him a few times and I remember him Talking a little more than that.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Right at that moment, a toad wearing a patchwork surcoat walks up the stairs, scans the room, and makes a beeline straight for you.

[Sam Riegel]

4.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, guys, this person is a third. And they're wearing a patchwork circle. That's what the guy downstairs said that fizzy mom looked like.

[John Reisinger]

Oh, all right, well, our friend came here, so we're gonna go have a chat. But it was really lovely getting to know you, Fisheye and Puffball. I hope we meet again.

[Blaine Gibson]

Army two.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Sorry, Blaine.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I knew it was coming, and I still was like, yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So, yeah, the thoad in the surcoat spots YOLO, makes a beeline straight to you.

[Kaylee Herzberg]

Are you the four looking for me?

[Chris Demarais]

We are D5 looking for you. Yes.

[Blaine Gibson]

Technically, we're seven, but yeah.

[Kaylee Herzberg]

Oh, five, six, seven. Are you the seven looking for me?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes, we are the seven. Seven.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, wait. Quick head count. Yeah. Seven. Yeah, yeah. Private parts. And then. And then Yagigi, and then Captain Grumbles.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You know, eight gambot, so.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, okay, no, let's. We're the eight looking for you.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Just keep adding them on, keep throwing them on.

[Blaine Gibson]

Are you the one looking for us?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes.

[Kaylee Herzberg]

Oh, thank you. It's about time. I've been waiting for you guys for two weeks now.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Two weeks?

[Blaine Gibson]

We're taking that long?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Private parts, I guess would probably chime in and say sometimes it could take.

[John Reisinger]

A little bit of time for the.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Mortality bureaucracy to receive these reports and.

[John Reisinger]

Dole them out for action.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, sorry to keep you waiting for so long for his mom.

[Kaylee Herzberg]

Oh, I'm so worried. My partner Pancake started acting strangely about two weeks ago.

[Chris Demarais]

Pancake?

[Kaylee Herzberg]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

P A, N, C A, C, K.

[Kaylee Herzberg]

You see, Pancake would be gone for long hours, both during the day and at night, and never explain anything. Finally, I decided to follow Pancak, and I ended up in what we call the cursed catacombs beneath town. I heard strange voices, and when I turned a corner, to my horror, I saw Pancake remove their face. I screamed and ran away before I could even think. I got turned around in the catacombs, but eventually I found my way to the surface.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Has your partner Pancake ever removed your face before? Or is this a first?

[Kaylee Herzberg]

That's what was shocking. No, and I feel like I would have known that.

[Chris Demarais]

And what mission are you on? What are you and Pancake supposed to be doing?

[Kaylee Herzberg]

Living our lives.

[Blaine Gibson]

They're just people. So what was under Pancak's face? What did they look like?

[Kaylee Herzberg]

I couldn't bear to look. I recoiled in horror and ran away.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Did you see anyone else down there with them?

[Kaylee Herzberg]

I heard voices, but I did not see anyone else.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

What kind of voices?

[Kaylee Herzberg]

Scary voices.

[John Reisinger]

Oh, magicians not scared voices.

[Chris Demarais]

What does Pancak look like, or supposed to look like, with face?

[Kaylee Herzberg]

Pancak is a stout halfling. They have magenta hair with a top knot. Half of their left leg is missing. So pancake has crutches. And they wear a necklace made of purple heart wood.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Could I do a history check on something?

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

The leg we found in the wall way back when, was that a left leg?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Do you all still have it?

[Chris Demarais]

Yeah, I don't think we ever took it.

[Blaine Gibson]

I thought it was stuck in the wall.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Did we dig it out?

[Gustavo Sorola]

I thought someone dug it out and took it. Yeah, Tolv, I thought you took it.

[Blaine Gibson]

Let me check my inventory. I mean, I don't have it listed.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Maybe you didn't add it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I'm pretty sure you took it, so I'm gonna say just make me a wisdom check. With advantage, Doug.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. Yay. 12 is with advantage.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You remember finding a whole left leg, not half of one. Like Fizmo misdescribing.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, well, carry on your mind. Sorry, continue describing.

[Kaylee Herzberg]

You don't know Pancak, But Pancak's a chatterbox. You can't get them to stop talking.

[Blaine Gibson]

Like old pancake or, like, like the new pancake.

[Kaylee Herzberg]

My pancake.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Has their, like, type of speech changed ever since? This behavior has been weird. Like, are they talking less or more?

[Kaylee Herzberg]

No, seems totally the same, except for the face removal part.

[Chris Demarais]

Does panak have any enemies?

[Kaylee Herzberg]

Not that I know of.

[Blaine Gibson]

Had pancake gone, like, missing, and then they showed back up, and that was, like. Was there, like, anything, any event that happened between their new behavior and their old behavior?

[Kaylee Herzberg]

That's the scary part. Not that I know of. So I think at some point, Pancake's been replaced by an imposter. And I didn't even know. I'm not sure where my real partner is, but I'm ever so worried.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

How do we get to these catacombs? Maybe we can help you out.

[Kaylee Herzberg]

Oh, I would love that. I'm in desperate need of help. If you go to the cursed catacombs, I'm sure you can find answers. Please find pancake for me and bring this imposter to justice.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, that's what we're here to do.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, guys, we gotta, you know, take a pause from our meal here and maybe go see if we could rescue this pancake.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yes, sir.

[Chris Demarais]

Do you have any Advice about navigating the catacombs.

[Kaylee Herzberg]

It's very confusing. So make sure you keep track of where you are and keep your wits about you, okay?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Aye, aye. Phase my. Now how do we get there?

[Gustavo Sorola]

She draws you a quick map and.

[Kaylee Herzberg]

Says once you leave the high three, just take a left, go down and there's a stoned archway that's draped in strands of seaweed. You can't miss it.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You get more tea, Natty.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Doug, as Fizmum is telling you this and drawing the map, you see like strange colors starting to appear in your vision, sprouting off of the map.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Could I take the map and look at it closer?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, you grab the map and look at it closer and it's the most beautiful map you've ever seen.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Could I use my spyglass of Zodia to look at it?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, you pull out the spyglass and look at it. And it's almost like as you're looking at it, the colors amplify and it's like flowers growing out of it.

[John Reisinger]

Uh oh.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Gunther. You see, Doug pull out the spyglass and there's something about the lens. It sparkles extra bright and shiny.

[John Reisinger]

Uh oh.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's the most beautiful rainbow lights shining off of it that you've ever seen.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Gunto, I don't want to alarm you.

[Chris Demarais]

Oh my goodness.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I think we've been drugged.

[Chris Demarais]

No, we have not been drugged. We are seeing beautiful things. Do you see this? Can Gunther hold up his. His hand and look at it?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, it's Gunther. Have you ever really looked at your hand before? It's amazing all the things your hand can do.

[Chris Demarais]

Oh my goodness.

[Blaine Gibson]

Can I do like a medicine check to see if they've actually something. They've eaten something?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, we both had. What was the thing?

[Gustavo Sorola]

The carp?

[Chris Demarais]

The octopus?

[John Reisinger]

No. Oh, the.

[Blaine Gibson]

The.

[John Reisinger]

We both had the octopus or was it the. You both had both. The blubber thing.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, because I had all three meals.

[Chris Demarais]

And the drink got their poles in close to to. Have you ever looked at my hand?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It's like this big upon the space.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's so small.

[Blaine Gibson]

It's just on my nose.

[Chris Demarais]

Have you ever looked at it?

[Blaine Gibson]

You're freaking out, man.

[Chris Demarais]

The hand can do so many things. Look what it can do.

[Blaine Gibson]

Why does it smell so bad?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Fizz. Mom looks at them and then turns to you, Tova and Natty and says.

[Kaylee Herzberg]

They had the octopus, didn't they?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kaylee Herzberg]

They'll be fine. They'll enjoy the ride.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

What are you talking about, you beautiful flower over there. Your eyes are like rainbows Yeah, I.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Like just like rainbows just shooting out.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Anyway, can we take this map with us?

[Chris Demarais]

It is very pretty.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It's so pretty.

[Chris Demarais]

Can we take my hands with us?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Doug, as you're looking at Fismum, it's almost like the room becomes dark and you look down and you see yourself working on a new invention.

[John Reisinger]

Oh, wait, question. What do we see happening right now?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Doug's just staring off into space.

[John Reisinger]

Okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I like to think it's that picture of Lisa Simpson where she's going.

[Blaine Gibson]

Just.

[John Reisinger]

Mouth agape, eyes open.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, I'm picture. It's like Lisa Simpson when she drinks the water, when she goes to the theme park and she's all. She's a lizard queen. Yeah, yeah. You feel like you're back in the woods of woe working on that new invention of yours. You see a husky bugbear wearing an eyepatch wielding a two sided pipe sneak up on you? It's your dad, Pierce. He looks upset with you. Doug Rosdin, what does your invention look like, Doug?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I would say it's like this thing that's on this triangular platform and it's like a ball on top that's kind of glowing.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay, that sounds cool.

[Blaine Gibson]

Doug, I told you, don't get distracted by your contraptions.

[Gustavo Sorola]

We're on a hunt. A twig snaps nearby and you see a wild boar. Your father says, doug, it's your turn.

[Blaine Gibson]

Kill the boar.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Do I know if this is a memory or like a vision?

[Gustavo Sorola]

It feels like a memory. Well, you right now know it's a memory. In the moment, Doug may be experiencing it. Yeah, a little confused.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I don't want to have to kill the bull. I mean, it's not doing anything to harm us. It's just living his life.

[Blaine Gibson]

Ugh.

[Chris Demarais]

Doug, what can I do with you?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Your father grabs your hand and puts a weapon into it. A small axe.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Doug kind of closes his eyes and throws the axe just in the general direction of the boar.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You close your eyes and as you pull your arm back to get ready to release the axe, your brother Phil steps in, jumping off of a nearby tree, pulls down a hand axe and kills the boar in one fell swoop. Oh, Doug, one of these days you're.

[Blaine Gibson]

Going to get blood in your hands.

[Gustavo Sorola]

With that, your father walks away to retrieve the boar. Phil just kind of waves him off and turns to talk to you, Doug. Ah, don't listen to him.

[Chris Demarais]

I've seen what your hands can do. They were meant for building up, not tearing down.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Don't worry about it, Doug.

[John Reisinger]

I Have faith in that big old brain of yours.

[Blaine Gibson]

With a mind like that, you can figure it out. Aw.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Doug starts crying and gives his brother a big hug.

[Gustavo Sorola]

He returns the hug, and with that, the vision fades away again.

[John Reisinger]

What are we seeing?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Doug, you're putting your arms around Tolph and just giving him a really big hug.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I love you so much. I'm so sorry. I love you so much.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, they're there. It's okay. I would return the hug when Doug.

[Chris Demarais]

Went to do throw the ax. Did he punch anyone?

[Blaine Gibson]

I'd say no.

[Gustavo Sorola]

He was just kind of standing there. That would be funny, though.

[Blaine Gibson]

Wow, what a crazy series of events. We're all having, like, dramatic emotional flashbacks and things. Okay, Gunther, your turn.

[Chris Demarais]

My turn for what?

[Blaine Gibson]

You're freaking out, man. You were drunk, Gunther.

[Chris Demarais]

Doug, why are you. You wiggly.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Don't let him look in any mirrors. Fizzmum says.

[Kaylee Herzberg]

Okay. It's probably best that you go look for pancake now.

[Chris Demarais]

I think. Yes, it is probably best we go look for pancake now.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Thank you, Rainbow Unicorn. We will be right back. I promise.

[Gustavo Sorola]

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[Gustavo Sorola]

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[Blaine Gibson]

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[Gustavo Sorola]

30 seconds of carefree bliss. Like winding your hair.

[John Reisinger]

Carefree. Oh.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Like using Clorox disinfecting all purpose cleaner in the home.

[John Reisinger]

Carefree.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yes. Like dog slobbing on the coffee table.

[Blaine Gibson]

And cleaning it with Clorox.

[John Reisinger]

Carefree. He's on a roll now.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Spit toothpaste on the faucet.

[Blaine Gibson]

You got it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You got it.

[John Reisinger]

Peanut butter on the light switch. Oh.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Spritz, spritz, spritz, spritz. Clorox, man. Clean. Feels good.

[John Reisinger]

K We're back.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Use as directed. You all go back downstairs and head out into the flooded streets of Endridge Bay amidst an unrelenting thunderstorm. After a few minutes, trudging through briny water and torrential winds, you find the entrance that Bismum drew a map for and told you about. It's a stoned archway draped with strands of seaweed.

[John Reisinger]

All right. Are we entering these catacombs? From what direction?

[Gustavo Sorola]

You're going to the west to enter. Okay, okay. If you're a new listener for Tales of the Stinky Dragon, sometimes we do this where we use maze cards to kind of deal with.

[John Reisinger]

They're made out of corn mazes like this.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So I have a deck of cards that represents the progress and perils that are waiting for the players in the paths that lie ahead and gameplay. Play is based on world initiative, so all are going to take one turn per round. And if there's an ally NPC accompanying you, which we just covered. There are. They may help along the way. On each player's turn, I'm going to deal out three cards face down in the river, left, center, and right. This represents a juncture of different paths you can take while traveling. On each player's turn, they can take one action, then pick one card from the river, and we'll go over the actions in a bit. There's five different cards in the deck. Clear Path Cards, Obstacle cards, Wanderer cards, Monster cards, and Item cards. Whenever a player picks a card in the river, it will not be revealed explicitly to the players. Rather, I will present the party with a scenario that represents the card chosen.

[John Reisinger]

Ooh, a twist.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, we're doing a little different, so if you heard us do this in previous campaigns, we're doing it a little bit different this time. And Clear Path Cards represent making a good choice. So move you closer to your goal, and when you pick a Clear Path Cards card, you get one point towards reaching your destination, and the goal is to get five Clear Path cards. If you do this, you reach your goal. Obstacle Cards represent taking a path that's impeded by a hazard, trap, mystery, or puzzle. Obstacle cards stay in the river until they're resolved. On each player's turn, they may use their action to attempt to resolve the obstacle instead of rolling on the actions table. If three obstacle cards fill the river, they are all removed and an additional monster card is added to the discard pile. Wanderer. Wanderer cards represent travelers or lost souls you may meet along your journey. They may need help, offer guidance, or they're looking to Trade. It's up to you to figure out if they're a friend or foe. Some Wanderer cards may stay in the river, while others may leave at their leisure. Monster cards represent menacing individuals or creatures lurking in the shadows, drawing closer to the party. When picked, the monster card is discarded, but the party receives one strike. Strike represents your presence being made known to monsters nearby. Once you receive two strikes, you may encounter. Encounter a threatening monster. Once the threat is present, everyone re rolls initiative. The party is successful in the encounter. One monster card is removed from the deck, which lowers your chances of finding one. And lastly, we have an item card which represent curious objects that catch your eye while traveling. They could be mundane or magical, helpful or harmful. Choice is yours to keep it or discard it. Either way, once the choice is made, the card is added to the discard pile. Last little bit. The actions you can take. You can forge a path which uses your strength. And that allows you to add two additional clear path cards to the discard pile. You can scout ahead, which uses your dexterity. Draw three cards from the deck. Choose one to place on top of the deck. The other two are shuffled back into the deck. Trust your gut with its constitution. Discard all three cards in the river and draw three new cards. It's elementary, which is intelligence. Draw two cards from the deck. Choose one to replace a card in the river. Shuffle the remaining cards and place them on top of the deck. Careful consideration, which is wisdom. Reveal two cards in the river. Choose one to discard. Shuffle the two remaining cards and place them face down in the river. And the last one is boost morale. Just choose a player to give advantage to on their next check or save. I know for the listener, it sounds like it's gonna be really confusing. Trust me, we're gonna play through it. We're gonna have fun. It's gonna be great.

[Blaine Gibson]

Going to be a good time. Take my hand. Come with me.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So, to kick off, everyone go enroll initiative. Just so we know how we're playing.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Approaching these also, Doug holds soul's hand.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh.

[John Reisinger]

Five.

[Chris Demarais]

1912, eight.

[Gustavo Sorola]

We'll deal with your NPCs on your turns, but I am going to roll for Private Parts.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I love that that's a character we have with us that you have to say every single episode. Private Parts.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, Private parts. Got a nat 20.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Wow. He's back, baby. Feeling better than ever.

[Gustavo Sorola]

All right, so Private Parts is first. He's going to help. He'll support. He'll give aid to. I'm gonna roll a D4 just to randomly pick one of you one. He's gonna help Doug out. Whenever you do your roll, he'll assist you so you get a slightly better roll. Wee. So that's private parts. Gunther, you're a 19. Gunther, you're up first.

[Chris Demarais]

So we do the actions first.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So you take one turn per round. You do your action first and then pick right, left, or center.

[Chris Demarais]

Okay.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Chris Demarais]

Then I shall scout ahead.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Scout ahead, which is a dexterity based check. So go ahead and roll a dex check for me, Christopher.

[Chris Demarais]

It's a 19.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, that's pretty good. Gunther feels at home for some reason in these tunnels and stealthily moves ahead and manages to draw MetaGame wise. Draws three cards from the deck and you can choose one to place on top of the deck and the other two cards are shuffled back into the deck.

[Chris Demarais]

Okay, and I see what the three cards are.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You see an obstacle card, you see an item card, and you see a clear path card.

[Chris Demarais]

Okay, I'll put the clear path on top and discard the other two.

[Gustavo Sorola]

All right.

[Blaine Gibson]

Very proud of you, Chris. I feel like Chris of days past would have said item card, item card, items.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Now that you've done that, you have left, center and right to pick from.

[Chris Demarais]

So I don't know which of the clear path ones was put.

[John Reisinger]

That's also just on top of the deck.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, it's over on the deck now. So now you're dealing with the ones that are in front of you.

[Chris Demarais]

I shall go left.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You scout ahead, you figure you have, you know the path to take. And as you're trying to find like a little quiet shortcut, you find that it's overgrown with some undergrowth. And as you're moving your way through the undergrowth, it turns it to a trail of fungus that begins screaming.

[Blaine Gibson]

No fun. Gush. Be quiet.

[Chris Demarais]

Is it like screaming, like, as an alarm or like, and more like it's about to attack kind of thing?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Make a nature check for me, Gunther15. You think that this is almost like a just an automatic response. Like, not that it was put here for any reason, but it's just like a natural response response of this type of fungus.

[Chris Demarais]

And with that nature check, do I think this fungus is like poisonous or has any properties I would know of?

[Gustavo Sorola]

That's a pretty good check. So I'll give you that. You think that this fungus, now that it knows you're there, it's going to try to follow you and it wants to attach itself to anything that has magical properties.

[Chris Demarais]

Okay. Is there a way past the fungus or is it like A dead end.

[Gustavo Sorola]

With a fungus, the path continues. Continues. It's up to you. You could continue down the path or try to backtrack a bit.

[Chris Demarais]

Can I try and, like, I don't know, take out the fungus? Like, is it coming at me where I could, like, stab it?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, you could try to stab at it, but, you know, it's. It's fungus.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You could, like, slash at it maybe.

[Chris Demarais]

Yeah. All right, well, how about this? Can I pull out my longbow and try and shoot it back?

[John Reisinger]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Make me an attack roll with. With it. All right.

[Chris Demarais]

I'm going to use my longbow for the first time.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I didn't even know you had one longbow of craft.

[Blaine Gibson]

He went left. He's using a longbow. Do I know you from somewhere?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Blame this. I don't get.

[Chris Demarais]

Oh, Nat 20, 28.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, yeah. You hit it. Roll me some. Some damage.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's a hard modifier.

[Chris Demarais]

That's a seven and a three. But then I also with my piercer, I get an extra dice in addition to extra crit dice.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. So roll two of them, and then we'll add another one at full damage. Wait, does a piercer work with your bow too? That's not just with your.

[Chris Demarais]

Yeah, because it's right. Because it's piercing damage, right?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Chris Demarais]

And so that was a six, a seven, and then you said one at full damage, which would be eight, right. 28 damage plus seven.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. 28 points of damage. Yeah. Your arrow flies out and hits some of the fungus and scrapes it away. Clear. Clearing a small path for you. There's a lot of fungus, so there is still some, but you do clear a little bit.

[Chris Demarais]

Be careful. There is screaming fungus.

[Blaine Gibson]

Would we consider this path blocked still?

[Chris Demarais]

Well, can I take another shot then?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Well, let's say, like, that's dealt with. It's like one action. Let's just.

[Chris Demarais]

Gotcha.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Consider it an obstacle. It is still there, but it's something that you will have to deal with, and that may be potentially blocking your path. Yeah. And if you want on a turn, someone can use an action to deal with it instead of rolling one of the other actions you have access to.

[Blaine Gibson]

I see.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Doug, you're up and you have center and right available to you. And left has an obstacle.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

So do I do my action first?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yes.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I'm going to do careful consideration.

[Gustavo Sorola]

How very dug of you.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Thought it was on brand.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. So careful consideration. You get to reveal two cards in the river. You choose one to discard and shuffle the two remaining cards and place them face down. In the river. There's only two cards left in the river, so you get to reveal both of them. Oh, actually, you need to make main with a wisdom check. Duh.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes. Oh, 10.

[Chris Demarais]

Oh, but you have someone to help.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, yeah. You do have private parts assisting.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Let's say you would get advantage on that to roll another one.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

19.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. You're looking over all of the options available to you. Is there something special Doug would do to try to do that?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I think he's just very internally contemplative.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. Like his paw scratching at his chin and next to him, I would think private parts is like mimicking, doing the exact same thing. Kind of like Gigi trying to mimic someone.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

And you know what they say, imitation is the highest form of flattery. And so Doug feels confident, which is why he was able to roll better.

[Gustavo Sorola]

True. Okay. Yeah. You see what's available to you and you feel like to the right could be potentially dangerous terrain, but you feel like it might make more sense to go center. That appears to be a more direct path.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. So for that I would, I guess, discard the one on the right.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. The one on the right is discarded just to let the audience know. Micah has a camera set up and is letting me see the cards and the players can't see them. So I get to watch Micah deal.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

With the cards, staring at an icon that has a red camera with a line through it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, you all have it turned off.

[Blaine Gibson]

So.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So now you have two options available to you. The center, which you previously knew, and the right since we reshuffled that one.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

But I don't know what the card is on the right now.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Correct.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, I'm still gonna go center.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. You consider that center path, and as you're looking at it more closely, you find halfling sized footprints that appear to lead further into the catacombs.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, guys. Hankak was a halfling. I think this is the right way.

[John Reisinger]

Good job, Doug.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You did it, Doug. Yeah, you. You bravely lead the way. And that is one clear path card for you guys Tolve. You are up.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yoo hoo. Let's do. No one's done forge a path yet, right? No, I'm going to forge a path.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So that adds two additional clear path cards into the discard pile.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. You need to make your strength. Check.

[Blaine Gibson]

19. Oh.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. Yeah. You're walking down the path and you find some rubble blocking the way. But using your big strong toll muscles, you're able to help clear them and make a way for you and your friends to all pass through.

[Blaine Gibson]

We so much progress. We're doing it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So you're left with two options in front of you. Center or right.

[Blaine Gibson]

Center.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I like how you have to. You have to think about it.

[Blaine Gibson]

I can't go left to do what is right. So it would go center.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You could go like do its way.

[Blaine Gibson]

No, never.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You go walking down that path. You feel like you hear a noise. You hear what might be like mumbling.

[Blaine Gibson]

Mumbling? Okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I mean, they did say that Pancake was a chatterbox.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, they also said that the cursed catacombs. They heard strange voices and stuff. Scary voices.

[Chris Demarais]

Be quiet, Captain Crumbles.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I like that. You see the path open up into some kind of workshop with paint peeling off of the walls. And you see what appears to be a woman standing in the room.

[Blaine Gibson]

What kind of woman?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Make me an investigation check.

[Blaine Gibson]

Does she have a necklace with a purple heart? Wood investigation. Oh, not my strongest. We're gonna try our best though. What kind of woman?

[John Reisinger]

No, the choice of to say it that way.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I just love it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It appears to be a pirate woman, but it also appears like she's floating ever so gingerly above the ground.

[Blaine Gibson]

I go over and I say Yoo hoo. Floating pirates. My name is Tove. Can I help you not float? Or do you like floating? Do we all float down here?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I was waiting for it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You are not floating. She spins around and looks at you. You can see it's a beautiful female pirate ghost.

[John Reisinger]

To. I'm Ramonda. Are you here to duel?

[Blaine Gibson]

I did not bring my Yu Gi oh deck. No. I am here to find someone that we are looking for.

[John Reisinger]

Oh, will they want to duel?

[Blaine Gibson]

I can't speak for them, but they might be open to it. Is when you say duel, do you mean like a sword fight where the. You know, you fight to the death? Or can you. Can you tell me what dueling means to you?

[John Reisinger]

Ah, a testing of skills. One versus another to determine who is best. You told you should do it because if you win, maybe she'll help us.

[Blaine Gibson]

Raymonda. Let's do. Let's do a duel.

[John Reisinger]

I thought you didn't bring your Yu Gi oh deck.

[Blaine Gibson]

No, I didn't. But you know, we'll come up with some other form of dueling.

[John Reisinger]

At this point, some techno music starts playing. And just like you hear this voice saying, test your might.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Roll me an initiative toll just for this.

[Blaine Gibson]

Nine.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I'm rolling mine.

[John Reisinger]

You should.

[Blaine Gibson]

Or worse than me. That would be great.

[Gustavo Sorola]

9. Oh wait. But I have a plus 2. 11 fall.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I was about to say meets it beats it. But then you eat it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. She bows and then pulls out a rapier and strikes at you to and.

[John Reisinger]

Says, one strike each. I hit with my best shot. And you hit with your best shot.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Ooh.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay. Fun.

[Gustavo Sorola]

She lashes out with the rapier, hitting a C10. Ten plus six. That's a 16.

[Blaine Gibson]

That does not hit. I'm so sorry. It doesn't hit? No.

[Chris Demarais]

Oh, wow.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Your turn then. So you can strike back at her.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, my turn. I'm going to take out my warhammer. Here it comes. Open wide. 15. I have an inspiration die, though. Do I need to know what the outcome is before I use it?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yes.

[Blaine Gibson]

So I have to use it now. Not knowing the outcome is what you mean?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yes, that is correct. Okay.

[John Reisinger]

Use it.

[Blaine Gibson]

Use my inspiration die. We're gonna hit again. Take another shot. That's a lot better. Oh, Raymonda, that's a 24.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. Go ahead and do your damage.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, I'm doing one handed. 12.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. You bring your warhammer down and strike her. And even though you know she's a ghost and it goes through her, she still has a look of pain and anguish on her face.

[John Reisinger]

Oh, I've been bested.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, chin up. It's okay, Raymonda, you tried. I'm sure you're a great swordswoman.

[John Reisinger]

I will honor your martial prowess. And I shall assist you, sir.

[Gustavo Sorola]

And she floats over to the fungus, which is still kind of blocking the way and creeping along after you guys. And she. With a wave of her arms, she makes it all dissipate and go away.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, thank you, Raymond.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, maybe we should take along with us.

[John Reisinger]

Now that my duel is complete, it is time for rest.

[Gustavo Sorola]

And with that, she fades away. Oh, okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

Goodbye. I was going to say if you want to join us, or if, you know, if you wanted company.

[Gustavo Sorola]

She fades back in and says, no, I'm good. And then fades away.

[Chris Demarais]

Maybe you came on too strong.

[Blaine Gibson]

I blew it, guys. I'm so embarrassed.

[John Reisinger]

Just the visual of the. Just like a head popping through the ether, just like. No, I'm good. Just fading back.

[Gustavo Sorola]

All right, that's. That's a nice little encounter there, mana wise.

[John Reisinger]

What happened with the result of that.

[Gustavo Sorola]

To the card game that clears the obstacle that was still there, the fungus that Gunther had found earlier. Okay, so now all options are available. Left, center, and right are available to you again. And you still have one clear path card that you have discovered along the way.

[John Reisinger]

And it saves us from getting three obstacles, which makes a monster card.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Correct.

[Blaine Gibson]

Was that considered a wanderer that we just encountered.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yes. Metagame wise. Yeah, that was a wanderer.

[Blaine Gibson]

Ah, fun.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So, Natty, it's your turn. And now that Ramonda has cleared the fungus obstacle, you have left center and right available to you, and you can take your action first.

[John Reisinger]

Snazzy. I'm gonna do what I do best, and I'm gonna boost morale.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Again. That's very on brand.

[John Reisinger]

Yeah, I'm all about Brandon.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So you roll a charisma check for that, and if you're successful, you can choose a player to give advantage to on their next check or save 17. Oh, yeah? Who do you pick and what do you say to them to boost their morale?

[John Reisinger]

Hmm. Gunther.

[Chris Demarais]

Yes.

[John Reisinger]

What was that?

[Blaine Gibson]

Yes.

[Chris Demarais]

Yes.

[John Reisinger]

Gunther, I feel like you should really lean into the subterranean nature of where we are.

[Chris Demarais]

Yes.

[John Reisinger]

And. And maybe use that to your advantage. Now, I'm saying, in like, do the croak folk hang out underground? I hang out underground all the time. Are croak Folk underground folk?

[Chris Demarais]

Yeah, we like to burrow.

[John Reisinger]

Yeah, I'm just pointing out we're in your space, so use that to your advantage. You have power here.

[Chris Demarais]

I have power here.

[John Reisinger]

There you go.

[Chris Demarais]

Okay.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You feel empowered, Gunther.

[John Reisinger]

There you go.

[Gustavo Sorola]

All right, Natty, you've got three paths in front of you. Left, center, and right.

[John Reisinger]

Right.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You go down, and you know, it's. It's still subterranean. It's very damp, and as you're walking, making your way down the right path. Natty, make me a dexterity check.

[John Reisinger]

That's a natural one. That's a critical fail.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, congratulations.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You stub your toe and stumble and fall over on something on the ground.

[John Reisinger]

What in tarnation was that?

[Gustavo Sorola]

You look, and there's a small box on the ground.

[John Reisinger]

What's in the box?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

What's in the box?

[Gustavo Sorola]

It seems to be a very secure box made of some kind of weathered stone. And on the top of it, etched into the stone, is what appears to be an anchor.

[John Reisinger]

I shake it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You shake it. And it feels very heavy. And it sounds like there's something small rattling around inside of it.

[John Reisinger]

You know what? I opened the box.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You open the box, and to your surprise and horror, it's the end of this episode of Tales from the Stinky Trailer.

[Blaine Gibson]

Forge a path.

[John Reisinger]

Gigi, eat the box.

[Gustavo Sorola]

To find out what's in the box, you're gonna have to tune into next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon.

[John Reisinger]

This is bull honky there.

[Blaine Gibson]

Language, John. This is family friendly.

[Gustavo Sorola]

All right, well, thanks for listening, everyone. I always love when we do these. These mace cards.

[John Reisinger]

Yeah, I'm glad we're doing it and.

[Gustavo Sorola]

We'Ll get to continue it next time. Hey you, don't Forget go to store.stinkydragonpod.com for all your Stinky merch needs like our newest item, the Action Surge Tea. Also available is the tank top sticker and hat. Again, that's store.stinkydragonpod.com New episodes of Tales from Stinky Dragon premiere every other Wednesday wherever you stream podcasts and on The Stinky Dragon YouTube channel. Support the show and listen to episodes 48 hours early and ad free by becoming a patron@stinky dragonpod.com or a member of Beacon at Beacon TV. Members of both platforms also receive access to our exclusive bonus series Second Wind and a member only Discord. Become a patron and get access even more exclusive bonus content Stink and join Community and Discord events and hey you get your name shouted out Just like Minring Nova 6900, Valerie Horton, henightingale, Gwen Abbott and JamieGunn jgunn008 support the show on Patreon and get exclusive patron benefits like ad free episodes, access to the patron only Discord server, and bonus content like Second Wind and Tavern Tales. In fact, here's a quick peek at a Tavern tale. One shot dropping this week Journey to the center of Gum Gum's Brain When Gum Gum consumes a cursed soul stone, Bart, Kyborg and Mudd must journey deep into the illogical labyrinth of his mind to extract it before their friend becomes a vessel for pure evil.

[Chris Demarais]

The Doctor nods his head ready and lowers his hand towards the large butt, and then glances at the dreamery, humming loudly, and then wheels himself back about 20ft.

[Blaine Gibson]

Ready? Yeah. Yeah. Let her rip, dog.

[Chris Demarais]

His hand slams down on the button. There's a sharp hiss, like a dozen whispers exhaling at once. The machine jolts to life. The world around you lurches. Your bodies go weightless. Your vision fractures, breaking apart like shards of colored glass, each piece reflecting a different memory, a different thought, a different fear.

[Gustavo Sorola]

And then silence.

[Chris Demarais]

A sinking sensation like falling through warm, endless water.

[Blaine Gibson]

That's the bee.

[Chris Demarais]

And then, all at once, impact. The dreamery has done its work.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Are we in Gum Gum's brain?

[John Reisinger]

Hello?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Visit stinkydragonpod.com to show your support and help keep us making this show. We're incredibly grateful for your help, listeners who interacted with us on the Stinky dragon. Discord had NPCs named after them in this episode. Like Doug's brother, voiced By Andrew Rosas, DrewRosas IG from Midnight Snack TV Inagi Fisheye, named after Inagi Mimic, voiced by Jacob Fullerton Jacob Fullerton of Astro Goblin Fizmum, named after Kim Karls voiced by Aaron Zeck Aaron Zec Jarl Ironclad, voiced by Adam Ellis Adam E. Ellis Pierce, voiced by Sam Riegel at Ram Siegel of Critical Role. Additionally, Private Private Parts, voiced by Ben Ernst at HalcyonBen and Raymonda voiced by Kaylee Herzberg. This week's error question was submitted by CrazyMage524. This episode of Tales from the Sting Dragons, produced by Ben Ernest, written, edited and composed by Michael Reisinger, with additional editing work by Katherine Arnold. Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Tired of spills and stains on your sofa?

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