C03 - Ep. 18 - Brig of Endridge Bay - Pvt. Conversation with The Privateer

Summary

Tales from the Stinky Dragon: Episode 18 - "Brig of Endridge Bay - Pvt. Conversation with The Privateer"

Release Date: May 28, 2025

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Introduction

In Episode 18 of "Tales from the Stinky Dragon," titled "Brig of Endridge Bay - Pvt. Conversation with The Privateer," the adventure takes our four foolish friends deeper into a comedic Dungeons & Dragons escapade. Hosted by Gustavo Sorola, the dungeon master, the episode promises immersive storytelling, rich character interactions, and the signature humor that fans adore.

Setting the Scene

The episode kicks off in the grim yet whimsical setting of the Brig of Endridge Bay. The adventurers find themselves amidst a sandy grotto illuminated by hanging lanterns, with a beached ship occupying the cavern. Guarded brigs flank the gangplank leading to the ship, setting the stage for an intense rescue mission.

Gustavo Sorola (Dungeon Master):
"Hello everyone. Welcome to Tales from the St Dragon. I'm your dungeon master, Gustavo Sorola."
[02:53]

The Mission Unfolds

The players—Barbara Dunkelman as Doug Boone, Chris Damaris as Tolf, John Rice as Natty Wonder, and others—are tasked with rescuing prisoners, including a pivotal character named Pancake. The conversation begins with the team strategizing their approach to confront the privateer and free the captives.

John Rice (Natty Wonder):
"Hello, Stinky Dragon fam. What's up on to this good whatever day you're listening to this podcast."
[04:00]

Encounter with The Privateer

As the team delves into the brig, they encounter the privateer, a humanoid fiend described as wearing a tricorn hat with a parrot perched atop. The tension rises when Natty Wonder discovers information about the privateer’s dealings with Infernus, a formidable entity.

Natty Wonder:
"Natty has nestled her way into overhearing a fiery face to face with Infernus."
[15:00]

The dialogue reveals that the privateer has been instructing the team to eliminate the "sea drinker," adding layers to the mission’s complexity.

Rescuing Pancake

A significant portion of the episode revolves around distinguishing the real Pancake from an impostor shapeshifter. The team employs various tactics, including deception and telepathy, to verify Pancake's identity.

Barbara Dunkelman (as Doug Boone):
"I'm the captain, aren't I?"
[32:00]

Through clever role-playing and critical thinking, highlighted by Barbara’s character uncovering inconsistencies in Pancake’s appearance, the team successfully identifies the real Pancake.

Natty Wonder:
"Time for number two."
[26:22]

Escaping the Brig

With Pancake identified and rescued, the team faces the challenge of escaping the brig amidst a raging storm. They employ a mix of magical abilities and strategic planning to block the entrance and make their getaway.

Natty Wonder:
"Let us go. But the water drinker. What is it? The water drinker."
[67:35]

The escape sequence is a blend of humor and tension, showcasing the players' improvisational skills and the dungeon master's adeptness at weaving spontaneous plots.

Reunion and Future Ventures

Upon returning to Endridge Bay, the team is greeted by Fismum, who expresses gratitude for rescuing Pancake. This reunion hints at future adventures and deeper lore surrounding the "sea drinker" and other mythical elements within the campaign.

Fismum:
"Oh Pancake, I thought I'd never see you again. It's so great to see you."
[78:36]

Character Highlights and Development

Throughout the episode, character dynamics are explored, particularly highlighting Barbara Dunkelman's Doug Boone and Chris Damaris's Tolf. Their interactions bring forth both comedic relief and genuine camaraderie, essential for the group's cohesion.

Chris Damaris (Tolf):
"Honestly, I'd say we're actively telling you to go take advantage of them, so I don't feel bad about it."
[05:25]

Notable Quotes

• Barbara Dunkelman (Doug Boone):
  "Why would that surprise us?"
  [04:26]

• John Rice (Natty Wonder):
  "I'm taking him."
  [40:02]

• Chris Damaris (Tolf):
  "Are we moving? Are we grooving?"
  [57:41]

Conclusion

Episode 18 delivers a robust blend of humor, strategy, and character-driven storytelling. The successful rescue of Pancake and the team's dynamic interactions set the stage for more enthralling adventures. Listeners are left eagerly anticipating the next installment, where the mysteries of the sea drinker and the fishing house of Bjorn Boger will unfold.

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Transcript

[Natty Wonder]

Location the lab.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Quentin only has 24 hours to sell his car. Is that even possible?

[Natty Wonder]

He goes to Carvana.com what is this?

[Gustavo Sorola]

A movie trailer?

[Natty Wonder]

He ignores the doubters, enters his license plate.

[Chris Damaris]

Wow, that's a great offer.

[Elise Willems]

The car is sold.

[Natty Wonder]

But will Carvana pick it up in time for it?

[Gustavo Sorola]

They'll literally pick it up tomorrow morning. Done with the dramatics.

[Natty Wonder]

Car selling in record time.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Save your time. Go to Carvana.com and sell your car today. Pickup fees may apply. Put us in a box.

[Natty Wonder]

Go ahead. That just gives us something to break out of.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Because the next generation 2025 GMC terrain.

[Chris Damaris]

Elevation is raising the standard of what comes standard.

[Gustavo Sorola]

As far as expectations go, why meet.

[Natty Wonder]

Them when you can shatter them? What we choose to challenge, we challenge completely.

[Gustavo Sorola]

We are professional grade.

[Natty Wonder]

Visit gmc.com to learn more. Up, up. Down, down. Left, right, left, right. Ba Start. Oh hi, it's me. Gum Gum from Tales from Sticky Dragon. Sorry, I was playing some video games. Hey, did you know that our Patreon followers have access to gameplay videos? That's right. Me and the other Infinites are playing Baldur's Gate 3. So come on over to sneakydragonpod.com to become a Patreon member and watch me, Kyborg, Bart and Mutt go on more video game Adventures. That's Sticky Dragonpod.com Sign up today please.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Compliments to all you kitty widgets. Activate your anthropodic legs into the stinky dragon and guzzle our latest gulp, La Cucarachampe. It's a mixture of 10 day tail growth tea leaves, autonomous mango rings, lightning wired water and topped with a munching of mint condition leaves. One wash of this widget whistle wetter and you'll feel like a kitty again. Previously, our adventurers cruised through the COVID of lost holes in search of Pancak and their impostor. After nullifying some gnolls and absconding with a sandwich bell, they bluff their way to a beached boat's brig. Now Natty has nestled her way into overhearing a fiery face to face with Infernus. Grab a guzzler and let's get back to this gassy gauze.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Hello everyone. Welcome to Tales from the St Dragon. I'm your dungeon master, Gustavo Sorola. I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow.

[Natty Wonder]

Okay?

[John Rice]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

There's a lot more gruff in your voice that time.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Me?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, I'm going to hit those four.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Little little spoiler little behind the scenes peek I did some pickup audio right before this in a voice I haven't done in a long time, which may be affecting my. My. My intro here. This week's arrow question is, what would be your character's coffee order? And that is submitted by Queen Chartreuse.

[John Rice]

Oh, thank you, Queen.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, let everyone roll some initiative.

[Natty Wonder]

I already rolled a one, so I'll talk to you guys in, like, five minutes.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

All right.

[Chris Damaris]

16, 18, 16.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, you're tied.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

12. I know.

[Chris Damaris]

Who's a higher dexterity?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

16, 17.

[Chris Damaris]

I'm doing the loser sign for John.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Very aggro.

[Chris Damaris]

Great energy today. John.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Barbara, Blaine, John, Chris.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, we. Doug, Toll, Natty, and then Gunther.

[John Rice]

Well, hello, Stinky Dragon fam. What's up on to this good whatever day you're listening to this podcast.

[Chris Damaris]

Not much.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It could be Mondays. If you support us@stinky dragonpod.com it could.

[John Rice]

You get it 48 hours early and with no ads. Wow. Crazy. But, hello, I'm Barbara Dunkelman, and I play Doug Boone, the male bugbear artificer who is currently a level five.

[Bernie Burns]

And this may surprise you, but Doug is a big fan of coffee. Very big fan of coffee.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Why would that surprise us?

[Bernie Burns]

I don't know. I just want to. I want to be mysterious.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That was a legitimate question. You said this may surprise you. I was just curious. The reason behind that.

[Bernie Burns]

Well, because, you know, you don't have a, like, the Doug seems to be pretty even killed guy, and so he's, you know, never seems to be too jacked up on caffeine or anything like that or too low energy. So it may surprise you. I just want to be mysterious.

[Chris Damaris]

He does have to poop a lot, though. I have noticed that that would happen.

[Bernie Burns]

Regardless, let's be honest. But something I did, actually. I created my own espresso machine back at my home. And so I'd make cappuccinos. I'd make lattes. I'd make different espresso drinks, but I think my favorite one, you know, I just like a nice, big Americano. Nice hot Americano. Just. Just black, no cream or sugar. Just. Just nice. But sometimes if Doug wants to tweet himself, he'll have one of those, like, big old, like, cookie frappuccino, you know, cream. I think it's called the. The demeois.

[Natty Wonder]

To get everything in it, only on your birthday, we need to post a.

[John Rice]

Picture of that drink at some point in our Patreon.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I forgot about that.

[Chris Damaris]

That monster.

[Natty Wonder]

For context, on your birthday, you can you get a free drink from Starbucks. And by free, you could put anything you want in it. So if you put everything in it and you do the biggest drink ever, then you get the Damaris.

[Chris Damaris]

I would say we shouldn't be advertising for them, but we're actively telling you to go take advantage of them, so I don't feel bad about it.

[John Rice]

This also was a few years ago. I think you got it right back maybe two years ago.

[Natty Wonder]

Well, I get it every year.

[John Rice]

Oh, you do?

[Chris Damaris]

It's traditional.

[Natty Wonder]

Yeah.

[John Rice]

The Damaris.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Wasn't that an episode in, like, the Office was like, waffle day, Pretzel, Pretzel day. And Michael got everything.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I feel like maybe we could delve a little more into Chris's birthday drink tradition on Second Wind, which people can get access to once again if they Support us. Sneaky. Drunkenpot.com.

[John Rice]

Oh, yeah. Delicious drink. So bad.

[Elise Willems]

It's not.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's not. I don't know if I'm on the next second one, but I think I took a photo of it or maybe a video. One year. Anyway, we can talk about it later.

[Bernie Burns]

But that's it for me.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Thanks, Doug.

[Bernie Burns]

Thank you. Thanks for the question, Queen.

[Chris Damaris]

Gus or.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So truce Chartreuse. Obviously, we had Tove up next, I believe, right?

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah, that's me.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yoo hoo.

[Chris Damaris]

It's me, Tolf. Played by Plane. And as far as coffee, I only became a coffee drinker very recently. It's very good for, you know, regulating my body temperature, making sure I don't do overheat, and, you know, in a way to make me feel nostalgic. What I like to do is have a cold brew. But with my coffee, I, I, you know, because we're out on the oceans, we might be out up, like in the, the colder sea regions with the icebergs and things, but I like having my coffee in the shape of like a Popsicle. Just a frozen block of coffee.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. Interesting.

[Natty Wonder]

It's good.

[Chris Damaris]

That's it. That's my answer.

[Bernie Burns]

Yeah, that sounds really good, actually.

[Natty Wonder]

Yeah, it does.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So for you, coffee is a cold drink? Because I think, I feel like most people wouldn't say they drink coffee to regulate their temperature to keep them cool. Most people would say, like, they drink coffee to warm themselves up. So for you, Tove, it's exclusively cold coffee. No warm coffee ever?

[Chris Damaris]

Oh, no warm coffee. No, I like the cold.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[John Rice]

Isn't it true, though, that, like, if you're hot and you have a warm drink, it actually regulates your temperature to be cooler? Because it's like.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Is that true?

[John Rice]

It's Some. There's something about like, if it's really hot outside and you drink a hot beverage, it's supposed to cool you down. I don't know the science.

[Chris Damaris]

Maybe Tolv is built different.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, I'm. I'm going to be honest. I'm not going to try that this summer in Austin. I will not drink a hot beverage on a 105 degree day to test that out.

[Chris Damaris]

Is 100% true. It just goes against human nature because like, when I'm. It's December and I'm ordering a cold brew, I'll. It's like, it feels wrong, you know, you want to do the opposite of the weather, but do some research.

[John Rice]

Let me get Doug in here to actually explain it.

[Bernie Burns]

He says, you know, in hot, dry weather, drinking a hot beverage could actually help cool down by twiggling your body's natural cooling response. Sweating and allowing the sweat to evaporate, which absorbs heat and lowers the body temperature.

[Chris Damaris]

So you make yourself more hot to sweat to then cool down something.

[John Rice]

Something like that.

[Chris Damaris]

That's a lot of steps. In addition to having to need to poop already, you know, I just put.

[Gustavo Sorola]

A bunch of ice in my tummy and be done.

[John Rice]

Jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Thanks toll y' all moving on. Next, I believe we are at Natty Howdy, everybody.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I'm John Rice here and I play Natty Wonder, who is a drow, warlock, mother, single mother, wife making her way in the world. Yeah. So, yeah, I love a good cup of coffee and I'm normally not very picky. I kind of just, you know, what, what if someone's going to fix me a cup? It's like whatever they got around, I. I'll take it. But as. As a mama who's often just trying to quickly make sure that I get my nutritional needs met while also taking care of a quite rambunctious little angel. I love just a good old shot of espresso. I love that because then you can just. You can just down it. You get all the effects. It's kind of tasty. And if you want to go a little special. If I'm, you know, every. Every mama needs moments to treat themselves. You need a little. A little treat, you know, to kind of like take the edge off from the day. I love me an affogata. You know, I love just a little bit. A little bit of ice cream in there. Oh, that's just. That's just like, you know, sinful, but the good kind.

[Bernie Burns]

It's like a coffee float.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Chris Damaris]

Oh, and what does Giggy like? Does he get coffee, or is he more of a cake pop kind of guy?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Gigi mostly. He subsides on a very strict, you know, a diet and controlled nutritional intake of energy drinks. That's all he drinks. Just pounds those back. Probably an average of a couple dozen a day. That seems to keep him happy.

[John Rice]

He does not need those.

[Chris Damaris]

He's a growing boy.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I like the idea of, like, Natty going to, like, a Starbucks and getting a pop cup and just, like, sticking his whole head into it and like, just like the cream being everywhere.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, yeah. Kind of like what Tove said. Sometimes I'll just toss Gigi some frozen cubes of coffee just to kind of tide him over till he can get to his next monster.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You are what you drink.

[John Rice]

What's the HP on that monster?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's a good one.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Thank you, Natty. Once again, the paragon of parenting over here. Really appreciate the insight.

[Natty Wonder]

Hello.

[Gustavo Sorola]

What? Gunther, you're next.

[Natty Wonder]

Yes. I'm Chris Damaris, and I play the male croak folk fighter. And for me, the coffee is something very special. You see, because what we do in my village, there are sometimes small puddles near the. Near the oasis where the water will. Will puddle up in a neat, nice little spring. And then what you will do is you'll take the coffee beans and you will grind them into little pieces.

[Gustavo Sorola]

And then you. Then you.

[Natty Wonder]

Then you will. Then you will. Into the water and you will sit in it and then rest and let it up. Let it absorb your skin.

[John Rice]

Oh, like a. A coffee bath.

[Natty Wonder]

Yes. Did you also absorb through osmosis?

[Bernie Burns]

No.

[Chris Damaris]

Can't say I do know.

[Natty Wonder]

No.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

If I might say, that's a big word for Gunther.

[Natty Wonder]

It is how we say it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So is this just a Gunther specific?

[Natty Wonder]

No.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Or just the whole vil.

[Natty Wonder]

Well, it is a se. It is a special time. So not very common.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That sounds like prison coffee.

[Natty Wonder]

But is that coffee? Prisoners, they do not receive coffee.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's why. That's why that sounds like prison coffee.

[Natty Wonder]

So it is relaxful and then you leave the. You leave and then you go jump so high.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Is this also how Bundlap would do it? Or did Bundlap have any special bundluff coffee?

[Natty Wonder]

Oh, we would sometimes sit and become so rambunctious.

[John Rice]

I was just re. Listening to that episode where he talks about Bunlap. So you're bringing it up now.

[Chris Damaris]

Is funny. Oh, Bun lap.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Bun Lap's like my favorite person. We've never met. I can't wait. Hopefully one day we can Meet Bundlap. I want to see what this is all about.

[Chris Damaris]

This legend, this king.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I just realized his name is the amalgamation of two anatomical parts.

[Chris Damaris]

Buns and lap.

[Natty Wonder]

I do not have buns.

[Bernie Burns]

I can't wait to meet cheek Groin.

[John Rice]

No way.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You stealthily sneak in and luckily what kind of works to your advantage is the sound of the water kind of over. Like it's louder than your footsteps. So you're able to kind of sneakily, stealthily crouch up, you know, crawl up and see, peek into the cavern. And inside you see a small smoky cavern that appears to be very brightly lit. There's a rushing waterfall made of fire, or I guess a firefall. And in the cavern, there's a one foot high fire on the floor. And there's a raised circular platform in the middle of all this made of red gemstone marked with blazing rooms. On the platform, you see someone kneeling, talking with someone who appears to be inside the firefall itself.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. And they're the only person in the room.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Well, the person kneeling on the platform and then the other person in the firefall.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, but the only person in the room is that person who's kneeling.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yes.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. Do I see enough of them turn into them?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yes, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay.

[John Rice]

Gus kept it simple.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Thank you for your enthusiastic reply. Yeah, yeah. So now he turns into the privateer or into that person and hopes it's the privateer.

[Chris Damaris]

Let's go.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You get a pretty good look at this person who's kneeling on the platform. And then as you look around, you realize you recognize the creature in Inside.

[Chris Damaris]

The Firefall who's in demon Skype conversations.

[Gustavo Sorola]

The demon Skype conversation is with none other than Infernus.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

No.

[Gustavo Sorola]

What has Nyorder told you?

[Natty Wonder]

Ah, yes. The so called sea drinker resisted our initial method for some time. She may be gentle in demeanor, but her resolve is to be commended. Once we threatened the well being of Fire Eater, she Do not waste my time.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

What did she tell you?

[Natty Wonder]

Of course, my Overlord, she told us she knows not where the Pathfinder resides. But there is one who may yet. Speaking of, no one has discovered where we are keeping the sea drinker, so that secret remains safe.

[Gustavo Sorola]

At that point, the firefall's flames burn brighter and hotter and steam and smoke consume the cavern.

[Natty Wonder]

Get to the point pit. A thousand apologies. She says the Pathfinder serves under the veiled eye, that forgetful enigma. This is the vital information you've summoned me for? No, of course not, my overlord. I simply desired to keep you apprised of our fateful progress in opening the gates of. Enough.

[Gustavo Sorola]

With a whoosh in furnaces, abyssal black blade pierces the firefall, reaching the privateer's thick throat.

[Natty Wonder]

Dry up the seadrinker for all she's.

[Bernie Burns]

Worth and then discard her.

[Gustavo Sorola]

The next time I hear from you.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You better have the pathfinder in shackles.

[Natty Wonder]

Yes, my overlord. Ghaeira shall soon tremble at your sight. And may I say, you're looking particularly.

[Gustavo Sorola]

And with that, the blade retreats into the firefall, which snuffs out like a candle. The room is left in near blackness, but the quiet is abruptly replaced by the rushing of water that fills the falls and washes the floor.

[Natty Wonder]

Well done, privateer. Your attention to detail and persuasive prowess are to be commended. Well, kind of you to notice it. Furnace. I humbly agree. Yar.

[Chris Damaris]

It's good.

[John Rice]

Is this the first time we've heard Infernus talk?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

The real one?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. You previously encountered Infernus in the seesaw during your training?

[John Rice]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

When you first in immortalion.

[John Rice]

I just don't remember if we heard them speak or not, but I. Okay.

[Chris Damaris]

Also, it's interesting to note for combat reasons that they seem like these holograms have physical powers because she just threatened the privateer with like a fire blade and then disappeared. Yeah. Spooky.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Just a. A quick clarification. This is a different voice than what you heard in the seesaw.

[John Rice]

Okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, interesting.

[Chris Damaris]

Did we get like, a bigger score? Did we. Did we get a bigger voice actor or.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, you're never gonna believe it, man. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hey, Ben, get on that. Get Arnold's people on the phone.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I'm pretty sure in furnaces. Is she her?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

All right.

[Chris Damaris]

Schwarzenegger has range. John.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

All right, John.

[Natty Wonder]

Aren't you. Aren't you He. Him?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. It's true.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So the privateer has turned to exit the room and is walking straight at United.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. That means I should probably do something, right?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yep.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Man. Wish I had an idea. I wasn't expecting him coming straight at me. Hmm.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Life comes at you fast. You gotta be ready.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It does. Could you give me a physical description of the privateer?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yes, I can.

[John Rice]

And did she say his name was Pit?

[Gustavo Sorola]

She did at one point refer to him as Pit. The privateer appears to be a soft bodied humanoid fiend. Seems to have maybe a balding head covered by a tricorn hat with a parrot on top. And he's wearing a pea coat to that is made of some kind of maybe like an otter skin.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

How big is this guy?

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's a humanoid size, you know, humanoid fiend. So a medium size, but maybe, you know, a little pudgy. I'm not sure if you mean, like, is he large or is he wide or, like.

[John Rice]

Like medium.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. Imposing physically, is what I'm prodding for.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It seems like, you know, he has seen his share of combat, but he is a little. A little soft.

[Chris Damaris]

And he has a parrot.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, he's got a parrot on top of his hat.

[Chris Damaris]

Interesting.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Like a live one.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It appears to be moving. Yes.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I'm gonna turn into one of the guys that was guarding the Briggs.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

The one that we talked to. Let's just say that guy. And I'm going to walk in that guy's way and get his. And get his attention.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

And I'm gonna be frantic. Okay.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. Remind me, how are you able to change your appearance like that?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Again, I'm special. That's all you need to know.

[John Rice]

Fair enough.

[Gustavo Sorola]

For me.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

One of my Eldritch invocations is Mask of Many Faces. And I can cast disguised self at will without expending a spell slot. And I also have a feature and trait called mimicry, where I can mimic the sounds of other creatures, including speech. A creature that hears the mimicry must succeed on a wisdom check to determine the effect is fake. So I guess if they want to check if it's faked, that's. There is a check for it, but I don't know if it means automatically you check that.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Sure.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

But also, I have impersonation, which gives me advantage on charisma checks while I'm doing this.

[Chris Damaris]

Nice.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. And the sky self. So you make yourself, including your clothing, armor, weapons, look different until the spell ends. You seem one foot shorter or taller, and can appear thin, fat, or in between. Can't change your body type, so same basic arrangement of limbs, blah, blah, blah. The changes wrought by the spell fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, if you use the spell to add a hat to your outfit, objects pass through the hat so it just looks like it, but no physical aspect to it, Correct?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Correct. Upon physical inspection. It'd be like a. Like a Star Trek holodeck thing.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Illusion.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. I just wanted to lay all the ground rules before we start playing.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. I'm gonna talk as Natty because I don't know how that person, the whoever voice actor, is doing the null sounds like. Okay? So I apologize, but I'm gonna come out.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Sir.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Sir. I'm glad. I'm glad I caught you. You're gonna want to stay in here for just a. Just a tick. Okay. Because we got a situation out there that I don't think you want to be a.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Of. Part.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Part of. All of the prisoners, they rally together and they've decided to create. Well, the easiest way to say is some sort of fecal fight where they're just throwing poo everywhere.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It is.

[John Rice]

Oh, my God.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It is everywhere. It is. All. All of the. All of the guys who are. Who are the other guys who are. In fact, Gus, I'm gonna say that my visage. I've got poo all over me. Okay.

[John Rice]

Oh, my God.

[Chris Damaris]

Good call, Good call.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

And go ahead and go. Blaine and Christy, if you want to mark this to be animated later, that would probably be good. Sure.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, man. It's just. I didn't even know they. They must have been saving it up because they had so much to give. Okay. And then the other guys, they. They upon. You know, seeing of this. This. This array of. Of, you know, matter. They're vomiting as well, so there's vomit and poop everywhere. The smell is unique. Unique, I can say. Okay, so I'm gonna save you from that problem and say, could you stay in here for a little more and clean this up? We don't want you to have to deal with this. Okay.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. I wasn't sure where you were gonna go, but I like it. Just. Just for fun, make me a deception check.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I would love to, and I am not surprised by that at all. What is my deception modifier plus seven? I rolled a 12, so 19.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, that's good.

[Chris Damaris]

Nice.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, and I get advantage.

[Gustavo Sorola]

No.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, I get advantage. Let's see how nice. Nope, that was a two. We're going with 19.

[Natty Wonder]

Nice.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Wish it was the two to begin with, but. Okay, we'll go with this.

[Chris Damaris]

Oh, there's no reason.

[John Rice]

Yeah, I was waiting. I was waiting so much for that.

[Natty Wonder]

Me and Blaine at the same time.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

The privateer first of all seems startled by you just appearing there seemingly out of nowhere to him. And second of all, he does take a step back a little disgusted, and maybe gives you a slightly wary eye.

[Natty Wonder]

And says, ugh, disgusting. Wash yourself off here in the water.

[Gustavo Sorola]

He points at the stream in front of. That's between you all.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I'm gonna finish that cleanup before I clean up myself. I don't feel like I should have to clean up here and then go get it all over me again. You know, get that fresh poo feeling on me.

[John Rice]

Fresh poo feeling.

[Chris Damaris]

John, would it help if we made, like, barf Noises in the distance to help your point.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

If we're over here, I'm saying this loud, so if you guys want to assist. I can't. I can't advise otherwise.

[Chris Damaris]

Told just is going.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, God.

[Chris Damaris]

What is all of this?

[Bernie Burns]

Oh, so gross. I never seen anything like this in my life.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, well.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

This is testing Gus's improvisational skill.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I had an idea for how this would go, and this is not in any of the directions I thought it would go.

[Natty Wonder]

You should probably know us better.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, well, in that case, let me make a check on my own Rocket 5.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It's working. It's.

[Natty Wonder]

This is pod racing.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Poop racing.

[Natty Wonder]

Well, be quick about it. I have much to do. Very important work to be done. How long will it take you to clean yar?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, first, I mean, I gotta get the fight to stop. They're still producing again. I don't know how. We might want to look into what we're putting into rations for the prisoners in the future. Okay. But yes, I will get the this done. Toot sweet and give you a holler. Why don't you just. You just kick back a little bit while we take care of the dirty business.

[Natty Wonder]

Okay, well, eliminate the unnecessary prisoners if need be. That will put the others in line. Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Make an example. Summon. Sir, yes, sir.

[Gustavo Sorola]

The privateer, I guess would turn around and sit down on the circular raised platform there. Make me a perception check.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Natty can do that. Was only five plus perception is plus three, so eight.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. Yeah, you can't see too much because it's, you know, it's pretty dark in that room. But you hear, like, some muttering under his breath.

[Natty Wonder]

Nobody appreciates what I do.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. I will exit the room.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. Just to rejoin your party.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. Because where they are is not visible by the brig.

[Gustavo Sorola]

People.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah.

[Natty Wonder]

Guards.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Brick people. I come up and I just start. I go. Hey, good job, everybody. Good job. High fives all around. Good, good job.

[Chris Damaris]

As Natty approaches, Told just gives one big silent handshake. Well done. My goodness. Your best work yet.

[Bernie Burns]

Like, is there actually poop anywhere? Do we should be. I was so convinced.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

No, Gigi's got that covered. Natty turns into the privateer and goes. Okay, shall we. Shall we try phase two of this well thought out plan?

[Bernie Burns]

You tell us.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah.

[Natty Wonder]

Time for number two.

[Chris Damaris]

Initiate number two.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Bernie Burns]

Phase two of plan two.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, this is John asking again. I know it was. Gunther had a conversation with the guard, and I think the result of that conversation was like, we need to get approval by the privateer to take the prisoners for more torturing.

[Gustavo Sorola]

To torture the prisoners here, I believe is how he had framed it. You all were here to torture the prisoners?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay.

[Natty Wonder]

Like we were the hired contractors to torture.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Correct.

[Chris Damaris]

They outsourced torturing to subcontractors. Yeah.

[John Rice]

This is the group that they would hire.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. Naturally, then the group needs to come with me.

[Gustavo Sorola]

This is the Halliburton of this world.

[John Rice]

Yeah. I think Doug would try to look really intimidating. So he, you know, kind of, I would think, goes into more of his Bugbear personality. So he kind of like hunches and the bear.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

The bear part of Bugbear.

[John Rice]

He's like doing like the stalking kind of motion, whereas usually he walks pretty upright.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

This is good. This is good.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I like. Yeah, you can't see it, but Barbara's kind of pantomiming it and I'm a little scared. I'm going to turn off your camera, Barbara. I don't want to see you right now. I'm a little frightened.

[Bernie Burns]

I'm intimidating.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, let's go talk to that guard again.

[Bernie Burns]

Okay.

[Gustavo Sorola]

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Yeah.

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[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. I walk up.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. You said you're walking up to one of the knolls outside of the. The brig door, right?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Natty Wonder]

Gunther follows with arms crossed, like, see?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. You walk up to one of those. Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Natty walks up and walks up to that guard and just puts arms together and just stares at the guard. Ooh.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. The guard just kind of looks straight at you, seemingly, like, with like, a blank expression.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I'm waiting. Attention.

[John Rice]

Snaps fingers.

[Gustavo Sorola]

The null looks a little confused and says, yes, you have my attention.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I'm the captain, aren't I?

[Natty Wonder]

Are you asking?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yes. No.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

This is John asking.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, well, I mean, you. You. The privateer is who they said was their boss, Right?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. I guess these guys don't. Don't follow. I don't know. Military decorum.

[Chris Damaris]

They just seem just dull, I think. I think you have to spell it out.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Your mortality in a showing.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, sure. So do you care to explain to me why you made my contractors come and bug me while I was having an important conversation?

[Chris Damaris]

Nice.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Make an intimidation check for me.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Intimidation. Charisma base it is. I get advanced. That first one was an 11, plus four is 15. Oh, that was a sweet old Nat 20.

[Chris Damaris]

This guy's pooping his pants for real.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

So 24 if you want the full.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I finally had a good roll. I rolled an 18, and it's still insufficient.

[Natty Wonder]

Well, your orders weren't. Nobody succeeded prisoner without your authorization. So I'm following orders.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Right. Which I gave these gentlemen my authorization. So again I ask, why are you bugging me when I got other stuff to do than worry about your shenanigans?

[Natty Wonder]

Because the authorization was not giving to me.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Are you arguing with me?

[Chris Damaris]

I'm explaining.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I feel. I feel a little insubordination creeping up in here. You might want to watch yourself again. I rolled a nat 20.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, the Noel kind of grumbles and says, okay, so these alternates are allowed in?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes.

[Natty Wonder]

Time to torture.

[John Rice]

Doug growls.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Torture does to do anything. Oh.

[Chris Damaris]

He pops his knuckles. Pop, pop, pop.

[John Rice]

I like how you're a barbarian. Who is like, actually really violent. But you're like, ARR. My knuckles look high.

[Chris Damaris]

Very well then.

[Natty Wonder]

Gunther moves forward towards the. The Brigadier.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Towards the what?

[Natty Wonder]

Towards the brigadier.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Nope. What is it?

[Natty Wonder]

What is the word?

[Chris Damaris]

Brig. The brig.

[Natty Wonder]

The brig, the brig, the brig.

[John Rice]

What's a brigadier?

[Natty Wonder]

Brigadier is someone who guards a brigadier. A brig. Right. What's a brigadier?

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's like. It's like a. It's like a title.

[Chris Damaris]

A general, isn't it?

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's like a brigadier general. It's. Isn't that like a.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's like a military unit.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Right, right.

[Natty Wonder]

All right, let's not get into, you know, semantics, John.

[John Rice]

Brigadiers is also a restaurant, an Indian restaurant in London.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Our audio podcast, where all we do is talk and use words. Let's not mince over those.

[John Rice]

Okay.

[Natty Wonder]

Yes.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

They don't mean anything.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So a brigadier is a rank of officer in the British army. And I do. These gnolls do not strike me as Brits or army. Thank you, Micah, for telling me that. I don't want to feel like I knew that. Okay, so the gnoll pulls out some keys and unlocks the door and steps aside.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You know what? I want you to go to your quarters. I'm going to talk to you in a little bit, okay?

[Chris Damaris]

Oh, Natty's killing.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

We're gonna. We're gonna have a talk. I don't appreciate your attitude. We need to have a discussion in private.

[Natty Wonder]

He's in trouble.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Get him. The gnoll looks a little confused.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

My quarters, wherever you shack up. I don't care. I don't even pay attention to what you guys do at night. Just go somewhere. I don't have to say, see you.

[Gustavo Sorola]

He walks off, leaving the grotto out to the southwest.

[Chris Damaris]

Okay.

[John Rice]

Hopefully the real pit. Is this mean to them? What if he's, like, actually really nice to them? Yeah, this guy's acting really weird.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, I know myself that if I had just gotten that kind of a conversation with my boss. Usually you pass that down because you're not processing it like a healthy person. And you pay that. You pay that back to those who are your instruments. Subordinates or your subordinates.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah. Gus used to have these talks with me all the time.

[Natty Wonder]

We're getting insight into John as a manager.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

We're getting insight into John if he didn't have any healthy, you know, therapeutic skills or coping mechanism.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah, yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I take medication and I talk to a therapist.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. You work it out.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. Yeah. That knoll leads to the southwest, and the. The two knolls up on the top on the main deck of the ship seem to be stifling laughter.

[Chris Damaris]

Can we step into the brig so I can once again give a handshake to Natty? That was something.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Not right now. Not right now.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I'm sorry.

[Chris Damaris]

Scary.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, I'm gonna take a little break, rest on my laurels, and let Gunther do whatever he planned on doing.

[Natty Wonder]

Time to torture.

[Bernie Burns]

He's crazy.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

We aren't fear torturers.

[Chris Damaris]

We are not here to actually torture. This is called role play, okay?

[Natty Wonder]

Sometimes I get on to the imagination.

[Chris Damaris]

I forget. I love the enthusiasm.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Natty Wonder]

When we were outside, we saw the. Where Pancake was.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Right, Pancake.

[Natty Wonder]

Pancake.

[Chris Damaris]

It's the.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. Whoever was in the right brig was described as pancakes, look like pink hair or something.

[Chris Damaris]

And based on the conversation with Infernus, they have Njorda, who's I guess my deity, which is the sea drinker. So I guess they're here as well.

[John Rice]

It sounds like it.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Somewhere. Yeah. They seem to be sounding like they are captured.

[John Rice]

They definitely have her captured.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Chris Damaris]

Okay, I'm about to beat my deity.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. So you walk in to this room and what are we gonna do? Gunther up.

[Natty Wonder]

Go to where Pancak was. Because we saw Pancak while walking past. So go there first.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay, so you went in here to the eastern cell. And in this cell, you see a handsome half gnoll wearing a corduroy vest who looks up at you.

[Chris Damaris]

Wait, what is he a prisoner?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Well, this person's in the brig.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Am I wrong that you had previously described the person in this brig as being. Looking like Pancake?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, shapeshifter, I believe when we said that, I said that person was in the west cell.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, okay, never mind. I took bad notes then. That was the whole reason that I wanted to approach the guy.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I see. I thought you were just coming to the one that was closest to where you were.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

No, I was trying to approach the one that was guarding Pancake.

[Bernie Burns]

Okay, well, in here now. So why don't we just see what's up with this guy?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Sure. And the guard unlocked the door.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay.

[John Rice]

Does this guy look familiar?

[Gustavo Sorola]

No, but this person looks up at you with kind of a smile on their face and says, oh, visitors.

[Elise Willems]

I'm never allowed those in here.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I nudge Gunther, and I'm like, sir, retrieve the prisoner.

[Natty Wonder]

Yes, yes, yes. And then Gunther goes and. All right, grabs them and then maybe takes a rope and pretend at least sort of binds them as they walk.

[Elise Willems]

Oh, there's no need for that, friend. I'll come along willingly.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay.

[Natty Wonder]

I'm new here for torture. Why are you here?

[Elise Willems]

Well, if you're with him, they nod.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Over to the privateer.

[Elise Willems]

You should be all over that.

[Natty Wonder]

It's just not my job to for your to be disrespectful.

[Elise Willems]

I'm not sure what language you're speaking, friend, but when you come back around to common, let me know.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I smack Gunther and I go, no fraternizing with the prisoners. And I walk over to the other guard and say, we gonna have a problem like your other chap?

[Gustavo Sorola]

That Noel just shakes his head no.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, open up the door.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Since you're dealing with a new person, just make me a deception check here. Even though you're good at them.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, 13 plus 7. 20 dirty. 20 or 12.

[Chris Damaris]

Nice.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Rolled an 18 again, but 20 beats it. Yes.

[Chris Damaris]

You're doing it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. The gnoll unlocks the door and steps aside.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

All right. I do the little like when you like bite your lip, it can make that whistle sound that John can actually.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Do and it sounds just like.

[Chris Damaris]

You can't do it.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I think any attempt at whistling would just be lost on these microphones. And I, I, I motion the biggins over.

[Bernie Burns]

Is that us?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, that's two big boys. That's two big boys.

[Bernie Burns]

Oh, I will deal with you later.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Who'd you say that to?

[Bernie Burns]

The guy in here.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, Gunther's got that one.

[Natty Wonder]

I'm taking him.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, Gunther's got that one.

[Bernie Burns]

We'll deal with you now simultaneously.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Get over here and walk over. Okay. Okay. Then what do you guys do with the prisoner? Or who's it? Who's in this cell?

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah, who is this? Because I know that the handsome nol isn't here, but who's this other guy?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, I see. So you. Everyone goes into the cell here and takes a look and. Yeah, inside here.

[Chris Damaris]

Should we, should we not all be in here in case they trap us? They could spring a trap on us.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, I don't think Gunther needs to walk in here.

[Natty Wonder]

Yeah, I'm waiting. The hallway with the handsome.

[Gustavo Sorola]

No, no hallway.

[Natty Wonder]

Okay, I'm waiting.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You stand there at the end of the gangplank.

[Natty Wonder]

Yes.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

There you go.

[John Rice]

Even if we get trapped, we'll figure it out.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay?

[Chris Damaris]

Okay.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. Yeah. You walk into this room and you see a halfling with magenta hair missing half of their left leg, wearing a wooden necklace.

[Chris Damaris]

Okay. This is fake pancake. Okay. May I?

[John Rice]

Is it?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Why would it be fake?

[Chris Damaris]

Is it not? Well, okay, all right, real quick meta talk. We know that Pancak is missing, but we also Know that at some point they were shapeshifted. So we don't know if this is the shapeshifter or if this is the real one. If this is the real one, it makes sense. Because then someone's been going in and out of the cave as Pancake and they just needed to have the fake one locked up. Right.

[Natty Wonder]

I forgot that they were shape shifting.

[Gustavo Sorola]

But that's the whole reason you were here.

[John Rice]

They said they were acting weird. They followed them and ended up in the cursed catacombs. And they removed their face and heard the voices. That's what a fizz mum's recollection of it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[John Rice]

Is because their partner is Pancake.

[Natty Wonder]

Presumably this is the real Pancake, not the shape shifting one. Because the shape shifting one was pretending to be them.

[Chris Damaris]

I think what we have to do is ask them something only Pancake would know.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You mean the person we've never met?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Bernie Burns]

I got this.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. Go Doug.

[Natty Wonder]

Hello.

[Bernie Burns]

They're prisoner.

[H]

Oh, hello. You look very big and scary.

[Bernie Burns]

What's your name?

[H]

I'm Pancake. What's your name?

[John Rice]

Hey guys, it's Pancake.

[Bernie Burns]

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Follow up question.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I just laughed so hard I farted.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I want to say the comedic timing on that was perfect.

[Bernie Burns]

Follow up question. Cuz you got that one right. Excellent job.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Pancake says what?

[Gustavo Sorola]

What?

[Bernie Burns]

So you. You seeing anybody? This is not. This is not me coming on to you or anything like that. I promise. It's just a. Just a question.

[H]

Yes. And who are you? Why are you here?

[Bernie Burns]

Oh, we'll get to that in a moment. But what. What is. What's your partner's name?

[H]

I'll never talk. Why would I say anything to you?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Ah, this one's being difficult. We're gonna take this one to our private space.

[Bernie Burns]

I just think that you should give us the answers to the questions we were asking. Cause then we'll be extra nice to you.

[H]

And what is being extra nice?

[Bernie Burns]

Huh?

[H]

Not locking my door and forcing me to be a prisoner here.

[Bernie Burns]

Yes.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Pancake just has a puzzled look on their face.

[H]

I think that you should just let me go and return me back to Endridge Bay.

[Bernie Burns]

And back to who as well?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I think we should restrain the prisoner and have this discussion in a private space.

[John Rice]

Could I do something real quick?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Go for it.

[John Rice]

Oh yeah, go for it with my new feet. I'm telepathic. Could I, ah. Could I cast detect thoughts?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, good spell.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I'm gonna look that up.

[Natty Wonder]

You could do that?

[Chris Damaris]

Barb.

[Natty Wonder]

I thought you were doing such a good job of Figuring everything out through discussion.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. Why do you need this?

[John Rice]

It's also a second level spell that I have.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, it would help if I'm not looking at Gunther's character sheet. That's why I couldn't do it.

[Natty Wonder]

I had that spell.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Nope.

[Bernie Burns]

There's something.

[John Rice]

I don't know why, but Doug and Gunther feel like it's like the same flavor of name.

[Chris Damaris]

I keep mixing up the. Yeah, it's the same thing as gum. Gum and mud had the same kind of thing going.

[Natty Wonder]

See, I have that with Tolvin and Doug in my head. But maybe that's of kind because I'm Gunther. Single syllable.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So you can read the thoughts of certain creatures and focus your mind on any creature you see within 30ft. You initially learn the surface thoughts of the creature. What is most on its mind at the moment. As an action, you can shift it to another creature. If you probe deeper, the target makes a wisdom saving throw. Okay, so you were asking about their partner. So I'm going to say those are the thoughts at the surface of this creature's head. Yeah. Through your telepathy, the thoughts you're getting are.

[H]

I'll die before I tell them about Fizz. Mom.

[John Rice]

A little tear shut goes down Doug's face.

[Bernie Burns]

Oh, this is the real pancake.

[Chris Damaris]

Okay, I think we should do what Natty said and take them elsewhere under the guise of torture.

[Natty Wonder]

Yes, we shall take them to.

[Chris Damaris]

You're outside.

[Bernie Burns]

How about no, that we know it's the real pancake. We let them in on the way.

[Chris Damaris]

We're trying to help them to looks to see if the other gnoll is being distracted by Gunther.

[Natty Wonder]

Yes.

[Chris Damaris]

What's Gunther doing?

[Natty Wonder]

Gunther is pulling out different weapons and showing him.

[Gustavo Sorola]

What weapons are you. Are you showing?

[Natty Wonder]

Well, he had that flail he picked up. So he's kind of like doing some like. Like jump ropes with it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Jump ropes, dude.

[Natty Wonder]

Like showing. You know, like trying to show off how good he is with the flail.

[Gustavo Sorola]

And then you're intimidating Booger there.

[Chris Damaris]

Toll gives thumbs up.

[Bernie Burns]

Keep it going.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Keep going.

[Natty Wonder]

And then also taking his sword and wrapping the flail around it and then going. And also kind of looking up at the other gnolls. Be like, see how look good. I am.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I like that you're adding a weapon to a weapon to like make something new.

[Chris Damaris]

So it looks like good. Gunther has them distracted. Do we have any sort of invisibility or anything we could get them out of here with?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Let's just escort them. Like I just procured the opportunity to.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Do so before you get to that, the half gnoll that Gunther is with has something to say about all of Gunther's fancy, fancy flailings.

[Elise Willems]

Oh, I'm not so much into weapons, but I'm no stranger to backstabbing.

[Natty Wonder]

And who have you backstabbed?

[Elise Willems]

And why do you think it's me doing the backstabbing? Why do you think I'm in here?

[Natty Wonder]

Because you have stabbed in the back.

[Elise Willems]

You're a smart one. I'm gonna keep my eye on you.

[Natty Wonder]

Why should I not torture you?

[Elise Willems]

Because that would be mean, wouldn't it? You don't seem like a mean guy.

[Natty Wonder]

I am very mean. Come look at this. And I show my jump rope.

[Gustavo Sorola]

All right.

[John Rice]

The meanest jump roping you've ever seen.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Natty Wonder]

Wow.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Aggressively jumping rope. Make me an intimidation check for your aggressive jump roping, Gunther.

[Chris Damaris]

This is where the band falls apart.

[Natty Wonder]

It's a three.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. I picture it's like, just. I mean, no one's gonna do anything. You're. All your checks have been fine. It's just I wanted to paint the mental picture of what this looked like. And I picture it's like Gunther's trying to jump rope and he drops the flail and, like, very quickly picks it up and, like, tries to act like it's all part of the bit and incorporates it in there.

[Chris Damaris]

It's all intense eye contact while he does it. You know, even when he falls, he's still maintaining eye contact.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. A little bit of sand gets in his eye, and it's like real water when he's trying to blink it out.

[Natty Wonder]

Well, because I also have Doug's hair all over my face.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh, right.

[Chris Damaris]

I forgot about that detail.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. Yeah, sorry. I wanted to build a little bit of. A little bit of flavor outside.

[John Rice]

So I think at this point, Doug would go over to Pancake and be.

[Bernie Burns]

Like, okay, don't give anything away, but we're here to help you and we're here to save you. But we gotta pretend like we're taking you away and we're evil, so you gotta play into it. Okay. But we're gonna get you out.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Pancake looks confused and says, well, I.

[H]

Guess I've got nothing to lose. It's either follow you or stay in here.

[Bernie Burns]

Exactly.

[Chris Damaris]

If it makes you feel more comfortable, Fizzmum sent us.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay.

[H]

Oh, how is Fizmum?

[Chris Damaris]

We'll talk about it later. We have to get you out right now.

[Bernie Burns]

Yes. But they care very much about you and want you to get out to safety.

[H]

Of course. Right away.

[Bernie Burns]

Okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Natty. Walks out of the cell and goes over to the guard that opened up the door and said, you. You got good instincts. I appreciate your aptitude. You keep this up, there's a promotion in the future for you. Okay.

[Gustavo Sorola]

The gnoll just kind of smiles and stands up straight.

[Natty Wonder]

Yeah, yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You wear that with honor. All right, let's. Let's head out with these people prisoners. We'll bring them back in a lick. But in the meantime, you guys, the.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Nole raises his hand for you, Privateer.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

The guard. Yeah, okay. Yeah. What you want?

[Gustavo Sorola]

What's a promotion?

[Chris Damaris]

Okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

All right, we'll talk about this later. Okay, we'll talk. It's. I. I'll. I'll give you a hint. It's a good thing.

[Gustavo Sorola]

He smiles and begins nodding.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It's a good thing.

[Bernie Burns]

Come with us.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Prisoner Pencac starts pulling at your.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Your arm, Doug, in a listen to me way, or it is a defiant.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Way, like, trying to get your attention, pull you down to, like, their level.

[Bernie Burns]

I guess you're allowed to speak to me briefly. What is it?

[H]

I need to go slow because of my crutch. Someone took my leg.

[Natty Wonder]

Didn't we pick up the crutch in the cave?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, I think Pancake at this point is just saying that they're going slow because they don't have half of their leg. Oh, it got taken.

[Bernie Burns]

Who took your leg? Just out of curiosity.

[H]

I don't know. She's around here somewhere, and she's in for a hell of a payback.

[Natty Wonder]

Are there more prisoners?

[Gustavo Sorola]

These are the only two brigs you've seen so far, and these are the only two people you saw in them.

[John Rice]

So there was a female who took their leg?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Seemingly, yes.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay.

[Chris Damaris]

And it seems like they have Njorda, but Yorda's probably in a different holding area, so. Yeah, I would. Natty, I think we've got to get out of here with the handsome Nolan. Pancake.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay.

[Chris Damaris]

Can I offer assistance to Pancake?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, you tell me.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah, if they want to put, like, an arm over my shoulder or something, I can help move.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Pancake's a halfling or a dwarf. What was it? Yeah, just throw Pancake over your shoulder.

[Chris Damaris]

Pancake, I don't mean this to be demeaning. I'm going to, in the spirit of role play, throw you over my shoulder. Like you are going to get, you know, so pummeled and beaten up. That's cool with you?

[Bernie Burns]

Yeah, just, like, kick around like you don't want to, like you don't want it to happen or something.

[H]

Yeah, normally, no, but. Okay. Yeah, I get it.

[Chris Damaris]

Okay, great. Is this. It's all good to get you out of here faster. Okay. Oh, come with me, you prisoner.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, no.

[H]

Anything but this. Not the torture. No. Putting you over my shoulder now wo is me. This is the worst thing that's ever happened in my life.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Natty Wonder]

Gunther looks at his null prisoner like if he should do the same.

[Gustavo Sorola]

They look at you almost like they can tell what you're thinking, and they just kind of shake their head and.

[Elise Willems]

Say, I think you're a little small for that one, big guy.

[Natty Wonder]

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[Gustavo Sorola]

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[Natty Wonder]

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[Gustavo Sorola]

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[Gustavo Sorola]

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[John Rice]

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[Gustavo Sorola]

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[John Rice]

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[Gustavo Sorola]

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[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, so if we could exit south, that would take us to that large room with the. The sword and the stone. And could we then lead the prisoners into the room with the desk?

[Natty Wonder]

Wait, that was a dead end, wasn't it?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. Or do we want to just leave?

[Natty Wonder]

I think we should leave.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay, cool. So you guys are going to go to the south and are you going to stop off at that room with the desk or are you just going to continue and head out, retracing your steps?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I think we need a game plan on our exit.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Who's the leader? Who's in charge?

[Bernie Burns]

Doug, you know, I've been leading for a while now. I think. I think it's time the last member of our team take the lead. Gunther.

[Natty Wonder]

Oh.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh.

[Natty Wonder]

Gunther was looking at private parts.

[John Rice]

Because I. I just want to confirm. Tolva and Natty have both been leaders so far, right?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay.

[Chris Damaris]

I had the shortest reign, but I was very proud of my time in command.

[Bernie Burns]

Well, knowing that maybe I give it to Tov.

[Gustavo Sorola]

What?

[Chris Damaris]

No, no, no. I don't want it.

[Bernie Burns]

While you are ahead, Gunto, putting you in coach.

[Natty Wonder]

Okay. We shall make a big cover up our whole exit. And then so we're exiting out the thing. It's like a skull, right?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. So just to be clear, you're gonna leave the grotto with the ship in it, kind of head to the south to the room that had like kind of the lake with the stone in the middle with the sword in it, go past the room with the desk in it and continue all the way south to the skull.

[Natty Wonder]

There was that room that opened up when you pulled the sword, right?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Correct. That was out to the east from that room. The grate opened up, but we're just trying to leave.

[Natty Wonder]

Do we see what's in that grate that opens up whenever we were walking by?

[Gustavo Sorola]

No, because it kind of like it's on the east side of the room. And then it kind of. The way it opens up is kind of to the north. It kind of turns a little to the northeast. So you'd have to go up to it and look to see what's beyond it, because otherwise there's like a rock Wall kind of blocking the line of sight.

[Natty Wonder]

Okay. You shall hurry her out. And then we go to where the skull. The entrance to the skull is. Is there some way to block the exit?

[Bernie Burns]

I'm also wondering if we need to find tankax leg before we go.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah, we might have to retrace her steps. That was also the place where we found the shield, I think.

[Natty Wonder]

Wait, Bulgaria's leg? I thought they had a crutch, but.

[John Rice]

I'm missing a leg. Some female took their leg.

[Natty Wonder]

Like a prosthetic leg?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yes.

[Natty Wonder]

Okay, that makes more sense in my notes.

[Chris Damaris]

I don't know that we found their leg. I know that we found the crutch. And this is right around the time we made the. We found the crystal shield made in Vulgaria.

[Natty Wonder]

We shall try to escape first.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It's not the leg that we found in the wall, right?

[John Rice]

No, we asked it. It's a different leg.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah. Okay.

[John Rice]

They are missing their left one. And I think the one we saw on the wall was a right leg.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Correct.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Wow. That's detail.

[Chris Damaris]

We take notes.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I think you all had asked about that specifically, like, two episodes ago.

[Natty Wonder]

Yeah.

[Chris Damaris]

And also, according to my notes, I believe the crutch might have been in the room or area before we found the skull place. So it could be very soon. So.

[Natty Wonder]

Yeah.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah. If we want to start making our way towards that.

[Natty Wonder]

Yeah. Can we exit where the skull is and then see if there's some way we can block the entrance of the skull so that they can't follow us?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Natty Wonder]

Does anyone have a blocking thing? Blocking thing for the exit or entrance?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. You all get down there, and as you're getting close to the skull, you see that same knoll that fake privateer had sent off earlier relieved him of his guard duty. And he's walking around with someone who looks really familiar. Everyone make a perception check.

[Natty Wonder]

7:14, not 2011.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's almost like that gnoll is walking with pancake.

[Chris Damaris]

Oh, it's the shapeshifter imposter.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Walking with like, as in, like, they're just kind of strolling with them?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. Seems like they're kind of meandering slowly in your direction.

[Chris Damaris]

Okay. I have a cape. Could I put pancak under the cape? I said pancak. I need you to hold on tight to the back of my back and under my cape as tight as you can.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's almost like a pan back cac.

[Chris Damaris]

Yes.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. Why not try it? Yeah. You get your cape out, and while pancak is on, I guess like a piggyback ride. With you. You put your cape over them.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Chris Damaris]

So I look a little hunched backed, but I mean they. I'm a very large person and they're a very. They're a. They're a halfling. So this in theory should be okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I don't know.

[Chris Damaris]

We'll see.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. They continue walking and then they kind of see you and they begin walking towards your group.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

We just keep walking. That's what you do.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bernie Burns]

Nothing to see here.

[Natty Wonder]

Don't there nods like, you know, like that. Kind of like nod while you're walking through a hallway.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Like acknowledging a co worker that you kind of vaguely know.

[Natty Wonder]

Yeah.

[John Rice]

Does that other pancake have both?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Like this pancake has magenta hair and is missing half the left leg.

[Chris Damaris]

How are they getting around with a crutch?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You've read that like that wasn't there.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's not there. I was reading something else.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, sorry.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Normally I'm like saying something and reading something and. Yeah, it's a whole deal.

[John Rice]

The master of multitask.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Apparently not master if you can tell. Yeah. Walking around with a crutch.

[Natty Wonder]

Yeah. We just walk past.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's what Natty's doing. Natty's gonna walk past. Natty's not even gonna look at this lolling Tolv.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Make me a. Let's just call it a deception check.

[Chris Damaris]

Okie dokie. That is a five. Very good. I think that passes.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, great.

[John Rice]

Could I give him my inspiration die?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh yeah, you can.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Sure you may.

[Chris Damaris]

Thank you. Such a good friend. That's a 17.

[John Rice]

Oh, much better.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. You're walking by the gnoll returns your nod. Gunther. But the pancake looks at you, the.

[H]

Privateer, and asks, how did the conversation with Infernus go?

[John Rice]

I mean, you know, because we saw it.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. Natty goes. I will divulge more details later. But we can just say it did not go well.

[H]

Infernus was not pleased with our progress.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

No. I'd be in a much better mood, you imagine if it did go well. Right. Thanks for rubbing salt in a bad situation.

[H]

So we should keep the sea drinker where they are then.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

They actually said to now John's gotta think on his feet.

[Chris Damaris]

Gotta freeze.

[Gustavo Sorola]

The sea drinker.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Natty Wonder]

Bring him to us. Bring him to us.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Actually, Infernus ordered me to re question the sea drinker. So could you bring the sea drinker to the skull entrance?

[Chris Damaris]

Perfect.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Nailed it.

[H]

Bring the sea drinker to the entrance to this grotto.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes. I have a plan. Don't question it.

[H]

Surely you understand the amount of resources it would take to do that. It will take a little while. Do you want to review the map?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes. I lost mine.

[Chris Damaris]

I'm starting to worry that this drinker is like a whale or something.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Natty wouldn't say that. Natty wouldn't say that.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's just John wanting to be stupid because it's funny.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Pancake would begin walking and says, okay.

[H]

Okay, let's head back to the main deck. We can review the map where it lies.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I will be right there.

[H]

So just to be clear, are we leaving the sea drinker where they are, or are we bringing the sea drinker here despite the resources and time?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Now, see, this is not what I wanted to do right now. I got other business deals. I said I'd give you more details later. I would go to the map and I will talk to you at the map. Okay? Gosh, we already had a problem today with this one. Points to the. No. Okay, so I'm. I'm already in a testy mood, so just give me a second.

[Bernie Burns]

Testy.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Nice.

[Chris Damaris]

So good.

[H]

This one gave you trouble.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Pack hack points at the knoll.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Panac kicks that knoll squarely in the back into the water below and says, trouble no more.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Thank you.

[H]

You, I believe, were the one asking to see the map. So don't take that tone with me. Don't take out your frustration with it furnace on me.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You know what? I will admit when I'm wrong. You're right. I was taking my frustrate.

[Chris Damaris]

That.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Thank you. That helped so much. You kicking that was like a bomb on my soul. And I appreciate it. Okay? I needed that moment, okay? And I. I will apologize. I raised my voice in an unnecessary way. Okay? Let me deal with the situation I got going on right here, right now, and then I will meet you at the map. Okay? We good?

[H]

We're good. But don't listen to last skill too much. You know how they can talk their way out of just about anything.

[John Rice]

What did they say last gil?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, talking about, I'm assuming, the half knoll.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, this Pancake motioned over towards the half null. That being led by Gunther.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I put my finger to my nose and I say heard.

[John Rice]

Could I telepathically speak to Natty right now?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Please, Please do.

[John Rice]

So I have telepathic utterance, which means I could speak telepathically to any creature I could see within 60ft of myself. It's in a language that I know. And the creature understands you? Only if it knows that language, which I'm just speaking common. And the creature cannot Respond to you telepathically with this speed.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay.

[Bernie Burns]

Natty, it's me, Doug. I'm speaking to you telepathically. Is there any maybe reason that we should maybe tell this fake pancake? Like, oh, hey, you could take off the face. You know, you're just around colleagues. You don't have to pretend to be this other person. And maybe we reveal who it is.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Natty puts a hand behind her back and a thumbs up and goes, hey, actually, I gotta ask. Is that hard to keep that up? And just Natty motions to, like, their whole body. Does that get tiring?

[H]

It is quite time consuming to apply the disguise and the makeup, so it.

[Chris Damaris]

Seems like it's a physical thing and not like a magical thing.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

How long does that take to get off?

[H]

Taking it off is much faster than applying.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Do you need to use it for the rest of the day or you want to let your hair down? Because I'm fine with it if you're fine with it. It.

[H]

I may need to return to Endridge Bay shortly, so.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay.

[H]

It'll be more efficient to maintain this for now.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Is there any check that I could do to see if I can see through this deception at all? Just anything noticeable?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Just make an investigation check. We'll call it.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, good. I'm really good at those. Well, I rolled a 19 and that got a plus one, so that's a dirty 20.

[Chris Damaris]

Nice. Sean's on fire.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, you'd look a little more close closely at this pancake that's standing in front of you. And you realize that this person's hair appears to be a wig.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh.

[Gustavo Sorola]

This one also is not wearing a wooden necklace. And the upper half of this one's left leg is stuffed with hay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

What?

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's like this one is missing its entire leg, not just half of it. And it's. It's. So half of it is being. Is actually hay. It's like a part of disguise.

[John Rice]

But the real pancake, their entire left leg is gone.

[Gustavo Sorola]

The real pancake is just missing half.

[H]

Half.

[John Rice]

Sorry, that's what I meant.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Chris Damaris]

And fake pancake, which leg is missing? Is it the same missing leg as the real pancake?

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's the left leg.

[Chris Damaris]

Okay, okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, I got to ask. How. How do you get that whole thing to work down there?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, I assume you're. You're pointing to, like, the. The leg.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

This fake pancake says, well, I don't.

[H]

Have that leg, so whether half or the hole is missing, most people just overlook it.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's true. That's true. People are not very perceptive. Okay. And Natty just kind of gives a little wink and pats the fake cat on the shoulder and goes, all right, I'll meet you at the map. Okay.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. This pancat kind of, like, furrows their brow and then just kind of nods and then continues walking past to make me a perception check.

[Chris Damaris]

Perception check.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Chris Damaris]

That is a six.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay.

[Chris Damaris]

What do I see, Gus?

[Gustavo Sorola]

You just feel the pancake on your back, like, shuffling and just kind of, like, uncomfortable and, like, mumbling.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay.

[Chris Damaris]

With Natty having exited that conversation, I start making my way towards the entrance of the skull and maybe adjusting kind of like my shoulder straps that, like, my shield and my hammer would be on to just kind of give them a little bit of extra leverage and, you know.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Sure.

[Natty Wonder]

And last goal was on the half. No, that was with me.

[Chris Damaris]

Last skill.

[Natty Wonder]

Last skill.

[Chris Damaris]

How do you mess up names so.

[John Rice]

Bad every time you write them down?

[Natty Wonder]

And that's what I did. I read it because I forgot what it sounded like, so I read wrong. Anyway. Are they in the water now?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

No. The guards in the water?

[Gustavo Sorola]

No, it was the guard knoll who got kicked into the water.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Chris Damaris]

There's still bubbles coming up. Or are they just kind of floating there, swimming? Listening.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You peek over and take a look, and. Yeah. You see the gnoll swimming for the shore.

[John Rice]

Okay.

[Chris Damaris]

All right, great.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah.

[John Rice]

Did that fake pancake have any type of accent that we could sense?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. Were they talking like pancake, or were they using a different voice?

[John Rice]

Because we've now spoken to both of them.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So it sounded to you like very similar to new actual pancake.

[Chris Damaris]

Okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Method.

[Natty Wonder]

Okay, so have they left?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, Fake Pancake has continued proceeding to the north.

[Natty Wonder]

Pancake, can you get home on your own?

[Chris Damaris]

We should probably exit. We should get to the cave entrance.

[Natty Wonder]

Exit? Yes.

[H]

I'm not sure how to navigate the passage here.

[Natty Wonder]

Oh, no, don't worry.

[Bernie Burns]

We know where to go.

[Gustavo Sorola]

All of you make a perception check.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

14, 4, 5.

[John Rice]

18.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. The first 14 and the 18 were. Okay. That was Doug and Natty. Natty. Off in the distance from the north, you hear a booming voice calling out.

[Natty Wonder]

Is the poop clean? Is it safe to come out now?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, God.

[Natty Wonder]

Hello?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Natty shifts her voice to the guard and could Natty, like, I don't know, because I. I don't have a good idea of, like, where the fake pancake is now. Where the one that's in the water and so could. Where did the fake pancake go? Do they go towards the brig?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Up towards the North. Yeah, in that direction.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Because if you remember, the fake Pancake said they were going to the deck to look at the map.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, then you know what, Natty, go. That's our cue to get out of here. As much as I want to know what's on that map, I also want to know what tomorrow looks like.

[Bernie Burns]

I think that sounds like a good plan.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Natty Wonder]

Yes. Let us go. But the water drink. What is it? The water drinker.

[Chris Damaris]

The sea drinker Drinker.

[John Rice]

Water drinker.

[Natty Wonder]

Let us go very quickly. Is there a way to bar, like, stop the entrance of the school that they're coming in and out of the, like, any sort of thing that we could put in front of it or.

[Gustavo Sorola]

It's pretty big. If you had explosives, maybe you could, like, collapse it because it's all carved out of stone. I mean, I think it's up to you to try to figure out, like, how you would want to do it. But it is really large. A really large, like, carving.

[Natty Wonder]

Does anyone have a way to bar the entrance to this school?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Is this something that, like, if Natty were to just. Rapid fire eldritch blast, it would cause a cave in.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You could try it. Couldn't hurt.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Natty would try that.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Okay. Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I can hear Micah's brain going. They didn't check half of what I made out for this place.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah. We have to go back for the sea drinker. And I'm wondering how we can do that.

[Gustavo Sorola]

A beam of crackling energy strikes towards a creature within range.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It's force damage.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Force damage. You only have one beam, not two beams. Right. Oh, you're fifth level. So you do get two beams.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

No, but it's. It is. What do you call it? Cantrip. So I can just do it over and over again if I'm not in combat. Oh, I do have two beams. What does that mean? I didn't see that.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, so it's two beams at fifth level. So you get two of them. Two D10.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, well, learn something new.

[Natty Wonder]

What do you send private parts back with Pancake and we shall go back for sea drinker.

[Chris Damaris]

Pancake.

[Natty Wonder]

Yeah, Pancake.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I feel like here's what's going to happen, Gunther, is that that fake Pancake is going to go towards the ship. They're going to then hear the real privateer asking about Pooh. What that is going to result in is them understanding that there is a fake privateer that just walked past them and that there was a ruse that was concocted in order for us to Escape. So if we want to go back in, I'm not opposed to that. We're probably going to need to go in with force this time. I don't think stealth or deception's on our side.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I think your leader should make a. A battle plan here.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

There you go. That's me just divulging information that I have deduced with critical thinking.

[Natty Wonder]

Here's what we shall do. Private parts, take real pancake and escape as quickly as possible. We shall hide back and attack and slow them down and then get real. Sea drinker.

[Bernie Burns]

Are you sure we shouldn't all just stay together? I don't know if we should send private parts off. He kind of has to be monitoring us.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Right, Sir Mate. I see. Suggest an alternative.

[Natty Wonder]

What is that?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. In that room where we met the dude that was on his lunch break, I think he ate a sandwich or something.

[Gustavo Sorola]

He rang the bell for sandwiches? Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. Gus, correct me if I'm wrong. There were piles of, like, cannonballs or something next to a cannon.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. There were supplies up there. Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Could we hide pancake there whilst we attempt a more aggressive approach? That's just my suggestion, but I'm open to. I'm open to any option at this point. I'm tired.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Last skill raises their hand.

[Elise Willems]

Oh, if we're scheming, can I take part?

[Natty Wonder]

Yes, please.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

What you in here for?

[John Rice]

Is this the new hairless hutch of this campaign?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Maybe.

[Chris Damaris]

What is this guy's deal?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

What you in here for?

[Elise Willems]

I like taking things. I've got very sticky things.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You Joe. You're Joe Pesky from Home Alone.

[John Rice]

Sticky Bandit.

[Gustavo Sorola]

They reach into their pocket and it seems like they really get a lot of their arm into their pocket. It's bizarre. Like, it's really, really a deep pocket.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

My friend Julie Andrews did that once.

[John Rice]

Oh, I was gonna say it's a pocket of holding.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Sorola]

And they pull out a rolled up piece of parchment.

[Elise Willems]

Perhaps this could assist you.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Ooh.

[Natty Wonder]

Oh, is it a map?

[Elise Willems]

It is a map.

[Chris Damaris]

Oh, is this the map that they wanted to review with us?

[Elise Willems]

They're going to be very mad very soon.

[Natty Wonder]

Could we take a look at it?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, yeah. It's a map that depicts the coast of Andritch Bay and the Saline Sea. There's a triangle drawn in the middle of the sea marked with a few X's and one word next to it. It says brig.

[Chris Damaris]

Does this look like anything? Like what the brig. Brig and the area we're in, or is this a separate location?

[Gustavo Sorola]

It seems like it's a separate Location? Because it's off in the beach, off the bay, in the sea.

[Chris Damaris]

Laskil.

[Elise Willems]

Laskil, yes.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Chris Damaris]

That's your name? Yeah. They were talking about the sea drinker earlier. Do you have any information while you've been locked up? Have you seen them in a brig in this area, or are they elsewhere?

[Elise Willems]

Oh, no. The sea drinker's not here. The sea drinker is on Nanimo Non.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Nemo Non your business.

[Natty Wonder]

Is this the map to the sea drinker?

[Elise Willems]

It's their attempt at a map.

[Natty Wonder]

Let's go.

[Bernie Burns]

I guess we haven't considered that maybe, like, the people we're looking for aren't downhill.

[Elise Willems]

The problem is no one knows how to get there.

[Chris Damaris]

That's a problem for later, I think.

[Elise Willems]

No one except for me.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Come on.

[John Rice]

Just type it out phonetically. How it said last Gil. Last kill.

[Chris Damaris]

You called him Nazgul.

[Elise Willems]

Perhaps we can arrange a trade of some kind. And I can give you the information you desire. And I could also so get something out of it.

[Bernie Burns]

How about the twait is us getting you out of here.

[Elise Willems]

Oh, that's a very compelling offer.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Gigi right now is aggressively trying to get into that pocket and, like, reaching in with Gigi's full hand. Because Gigi is. Is just all over that.

[Elise Willems]

You better watch that little one. He might get lost in there.

[Gustavo Sorola]

And then last kill kind of, like, unlatches Gigi from his pocket. And, you know, I feel like holding him very gingerly with the tips of his fingers and, like, puts him down on the ground.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I find telling that. That little something something. No, doesn't turn out so well.

[Natty Wonder]

We need to go now.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

All right.

[Natty Wonder]

If we have map, we shall go. Let's go. Last. Last year.

[Elise Willems]

Oh, you learned my name.

[Chris Damaris]

You did it to Gunther. Yes.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Last kill pats you on the head very gingerly, Gunther.

[Elise Willems]

Oh, I like this one. He's a little slimy.

[Chris Damaris]

Are we moving? Are we grooving?

[Bernie Burns]

Okay, let's get out of here.

[Natty Wonder]

Daddy make boom boom. What, are you gonna try and block the entrance, right?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's not what that means to me.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I thought you were telling Giggy to make boom boom, and you said natty by accident.

[John Rice]

It's a elder splash, right?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Natty Wonder]

Did we figure out if that was gonna happen?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

We haven't tried it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, we'll try it.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, in my head. But you tell me if this is not possible because we're not in. We're not in combat and Eldritch blast is at will, would I just be able to go over and over and over again?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah, so we won't get too pedantic about it, but it's, like, around. Like, should be able to do it once around. So you should do it, like, once every six seconds. But let's just say you do it over and over again.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Sure.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Let me just make a roll here just to see. This is a roll for me.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Go for it.

[Chris Damaris]

For figuring out this demolition plan, I want to move real Pancake. I give them the option of either being on the ground, or I could put them on my shoulder if they would prefer.

[Gustavo Sorola]

When you uncover Pancake, they seem very.

[H]

Agitated and say, that was the impostor, wasn't it? They were here.

[Chris Damaris]

They were, Yeah.

[H]

I should have killed that faker.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah.

[Chris Damaris]

Well, if you want to get out of here alive, I don't think we should.

[Natty Wonder]

Alive.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. Pancake seems very upset and agitated.

[Chris Damaris]

We will get your revenge soon. Patent cactor. Where we first. First things first, we gotta get you back to Fizzbum. Fizzbum. Sorry.

[Gustavo Sorola]

What are you.

[Natty Wonder]

Chris. So easy.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. So, Natty, you begin launching eldritch blasts at will. And the first couple seem to have no effect on the boulder. But then after that, you start to see cracks appear that grow larger and begin to connect. And right over the, like, the right eye hole, the cracks all seem to come together, and that part of the boulder collapses into itself, and the whole thing kind of shifts and collapses down on the right side, blocking the entrance to the cavern that you were just in.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Natty brings her fingers to her mouth and just goes.

[Natty Wonder]

Now we go. Bye. Bye. Quickly, can we make our way out?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. As you begin making your way out, you see Gigi has a small bell in his hand, and he's. He starts wreaking it.

[Elise Willems]

Lastiel says, oh, he's got sticky fingers. That belongs in my pocket. Here, let me get that little one.

[Gustavo Sorola]

And he reaches over to try to get the bell from Kiki.

[Natty Wonder]

Can Gunther try and grab it with his tongue?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Sure. Make your what? However you do that for your tongue.

[Natty Wonder]

Gunther, they need to make a dex grapple check with it.

[John Rice]

It would be an unarmed strike, would it not?

[Gustavo Sorola]

So who, Giggy?

[Natty Wonder]

Yeah, I guess.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Do you mind rolling me a dex check for Giggy, Natty?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, he actually has a dex modifier plus three. And I rolled an 18. That's 21. My dude.

[Natty Wonder]

That wins.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yeah. So you try to grab the bell, and I feel like Giggy would see it coming and then, you know, moves it out of the way and it. I. I imagine this is like the ax all over again. Now, we are not getting that back at all from Giggy, are we?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes. Who? He still has the axe.

[Gustavo Sorola]

So dragging the axe in one hand and the bell in the other.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yep.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I guess at that last kill would look at the bell and look at the axe and say well, he can.

[Elise Willems]

Keep it for now, I guess.

[Chris Damaris]

Last, you. This is a rite of passage.

[Natty Wonder]

You are part of the party now.

[Elise Willems]

No, I don't want that. I definitely don't want that.

[Chris Damaris]

No, no, you're here to stay. Okay, post haste.

[Natty Wonder]

Let us go.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

We have so many NPs, PCs with us.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah, we do.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Gunther, you lead your team out of here.

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah.

[Natty Wonder]

Can we try and to our best of our knowledge, exit back the way we've discovered that successful?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Sure.

[Natty Wonder]

Oh, and picking up the crutch crotch on the way out, if we didn't already have it.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I thought you did, but okay, you make your way. You retrace your steps back through the passage you came. Luckily you dropped breadcrumbs along the way and you're able to find your way back. And you make it back to the high 3 in enter rich Bay.

[Chris Damaris]

That was much faster than how the journey invent. Am I right? That was so fast travel.

[John Rice]

We knew where we were going.

[Gustavo Sorola]

We know the way this time.

[Natty Wonder]

Yeah, it's great.

[Chris Damaris]

No, no, no complaints.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I assume you enter the high three here.

[Chris Damaris]

Yes, yes.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You enter and you see Fismum on the ground floor who looks up when the door opens and sees you all and sees Pancake and she lets out a cry and runs forward embracing. Pancake, is it really you? Looks up at you four and says, you found them.

[Bernie Burns]

Yes, you sure did.

[Chris Damaris]

It's the real deal.

[Natty Wonder]

And Last Gill.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I don't know who that is, but.

[Natty Wonder]

Okay, they're our new party member.

[Chris Damaris]

I nudge Last gill, right?

[Elise Willems]

Oh yes, you guys. So great.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Oh Pancake, I thought I'd never see you again. It's so great to see you. How can I ever thank you four for bringing my Pancake back?

[Chris Damaris]

Well, technically there's seven of us because we've got Giggy and we've got Private Parts and we also have Last Kill and Ancap Mumbles. Don't forget we got eight of us. Captain Mumbles Grumbles.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I always get that wrong. What did I do?

[Gustavo Sorola]

Dead grumbles.

[Natty Wonder]

Okay, Grumbles, you can help us get to here and holds out the map.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Well, you'll need a boat and hopefully some better seas for a journey like that.

[Natty Wonder]

Better than this weather we're having.

[Gustavo Sorola]

But for now, as a thank you, I can Provide you some lodging if you'd like.

[Natty Wonder]

Yes.

[Bernie Burns]

Oh, you know, I think we could use some of that.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

How many beds you got?

[Gustavo Sorola]

There's a house the docks that no one's using that I can put you all up in.

[Bernie Burns]

That sounds great.

[Natty Wonder]

Sounds great.

[Bernie Burns]

Are there bunk beds in this house? So what's the deal?

[Chris Damaris]

Yeah, what's the bunk bed situation?

[Gustavo Sorola]

No bunk beds, just regular beds. And I can reward you monetarily as well.

[Natty Wonder]

Oh, that would be nice.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

My mom always said a job well done is its own reward.

[Bernie Burns]

Okay, I'll take Natty's two gold pieces.

[Chris Damaris]

Was your mother unemployed?

[John Rice]

Oh, you were also so wonderful to talk with. Here, let us discuss as we make.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Our way to the house, Fismum leads you outside and begins walking through the streets of Enrique Bay out towards the docks. And you know there's the storm continues to rage outside, just raining non stop. And of course this is what Fismum was referring to about the weather needing to be better before you could depart. As the storm rages on, you know, you. You wonder how long you're going to have to walk in it. Fismo, almost sensing it, says it's not much further. And she points just ahead onto the docks. Told you. Follow her outstretched hand and finger to the docks and you see something familiar.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh no.

[Gustavo Sorola]

You recognize the fishing house in the distance that Fismum is pointing at. You recognize it as the fishing house of your mentor, Bjorn Boger.

[John Rice]

Oh, home sweet home, Sam.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Find out what that means and what the future has in store for us. On the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon.

[Chris Damaris]

Oh my gosh, I hope I cleaned up before I left.

[Natty Wonder]

On the adventures of Last Gill and the rest.

[Chris Damaris]

Welcome to Stinky dragon Cribs.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Yo.

[Chris Damaris]

This is my house. Over here is where I hang. This is where I listen to music I like.

[John Rice]

How now Chris is going to try to say last kill as many times as possible to prove that he knows the name.

[Gustavo Sorola]

What's funny to me is I know when he's going to say it because his eyes look up. We're going to talk about Laskiel. And then he like looks back down to continue what he's saying. All right. But yeah, find out what this means. We explore the fishing house of Bjorn, see what Tol's memories are of the place and find out what rewards Fisma may offer all in the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Greetings, gallant guests and giddy gatherers. Guzzler, the goblet giver here with a grand and glorious gospel. Behold my Bargain Bin Bonanza. It's a bodacious blowout bash, brimming with brilliant buys and bellow worthy bargains for a brief but blazing bout till May 31st. Our storage stash at store.stinkydragonpot.com is bursting with nearly 30 beloved baubles, each chopped with a beefy 20% off. But beware, brave buyer. When the bell tolls midnight on the final day of May, these valuables vanish into the void forever. Final finito. So sling some silver, snag some spoils, and sip from the stein of sweet savings before this clearance crusade is nothing but a ghostly glimmer in Guzzler's grimoire. Get going, get grabbing, and for the love of all things diet, don't dawdle. Visit store.stinkydragonpod.com today new episodes of Tales from the Stinky Dragon premiere every other Wednesday wherever you stream podcasts and on The Stinky Dragon YouTube channel. Want to listen to show 48 hours early and ad free? Become a [e-mail] or become a member of Beacon at Beacon TV. Both memberships support the show and receive access to our exclusive bonus series Second Wind and the Member Only Discord for their respective platform. Become a patron, you get access to even more exclusive bonus content, Stinky Drawing Community and Discord events and get your name shouted out like Dale Lewis, Michael Christensen, Patty Johnson, Silver HC and Brandon Harris. These patrons directly support the show and get ad free episodes, access to our Patron Only Discord Server bonus content like Second Wind and Behind the Screen and much more. In fact, here's a quick peek from Second Wind.

[Chris Damaris]

There was a I felt like a missed opportunity. You caught it really quick, but almost too quick where Natty did a great job by saying they were prefacing why Captain Grumbles doesn't speak. So when the guys were walking up and Daddy had transformed into a pirate, she was like oh, and that's how you lost your tongue and can't talk.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Blaine, that is on my list of things to talk about that I wish I had done. I wrote I should have given John grief about the pirate Captain not having a tongue. You're right in the moment and as the NPCs, I should have caught him and called him out. That should have been an escalation. Like I say it in passing as me because I think if I remember right at the time, I think Micah slacked that to me, but I should have pivoted it to an NPC dialogue.

[Chris Damaris]

This isn't a favorites thing But I feel like you have caught me with my pants down like that several times during the roleplay. And then I'm like. Like, when I lie in D and D, you guys throw roadblock after roadblock after roadblock, and I am just stumbling my way through conversation. And it's always very fun.

[Gustavo Sorola]

I love that, though, because that kind of gives space for improv. Yeah. And gives opportunity to, like, just increase the storytelling. And you're like, in a way, you're like, no ending. Someone, like, catching them in lies like that. And just, like, it builds and builds on top of itself. And I think. I think that's a lot of fun. Yeah.

[Chris Damaris]

I like the. The element of just digging my hole deeper and deeper. And it is funny because you keep asking questions and it keeps eliciting responses in a way that makes John, in particular, tear his hair out because he's like, just stop talking. Like, I didn't have that moment this week, but I feel like it has happened this campaign and it will happen again where Jon is just like, just stop opening your mouth. Just shut your mouth. It's really fun.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Again. That's stinky. Dragonpod.com we can't thank you enough for your support that lets us make this show. Listeners who interacted with us on the Sticky Dragon Discord had NPCs named after them in this episode. Like Fizz mom, named after Kim Karras, voiced by Aaron Zek at Aaron Zek. Noel Guard 1, voiced by Patrick at Ragar Lousy Last Guild, named after AlexB007, voiced by Chad James. ChadjamesRT from Death Battle Infernus, voiced by Laurel at Laurel Rothamill privateer, named after Pitfam 3, voiced by Bernie Burns at Bernie from Rooster Teeth Slash Morning Somewhere Pancake, named after Atomic Pancake, voiced by Elise Willems at Elise Willems from Answer for it podcast. This week's arrow question was submitted by Queen Chartreuse. This episode of Tales of Mystique Drama is produced by Ben Ernst, written, edited and composed by Michael Reisinger, with additional editing work by Catherine Arnold and David Sonier. Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I just. I don't think I've ever heard Arnold do a. Anything like a voice. Has Arnold done a voice?

[John Rice]

Just pitch him up. He'll just do his normal voice.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Anything other than his voice for anything.

[Chris Damaris]

He doesn't need to.

[John Rice]

Doesn't need to.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's pretty great.

[Gustavo Sorola]

Ben says he reached out to them and his team just said, I'll be back and they aren't returning his calls anymore. Packages by Expedia.

[Natty Wonder]

You were made to be rechargeable. We were made to package flights, hotels.

[Gustavo Sorola]

And hammocks for less. Expedia. Made to travel.