C03 - Ep. 37 - From On Hyra - Prison Break-In

Summary

Tales from the Stinky Dragon

Episode: C03 - Ep. 37 - From On Hyra - Prison Break-In

Release Date: February 18, 2026
Dungeon Master: Gustavo Sorolla
Main Cast: Blaine Gibson, Barbara Dunkelman, Chris Darius, John Rhys

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Episode Overview

This episode finds our band of adventurers embroiled in one of D&D’s classic tropes: the prison scenario—except that instead of a break-out, it’s a break-in gone wrong. After storming a heavily-guarded tower in search of Bunlap, the crew is overpowered by the warden and her guards. They’re separated and thrown into an imposing, vertical prison, each with a strange cellmate and a unique challenge. The episode masterfully blends comedic improv, clever planning, signature character banter, and classic D&D escalation, all culminating in a chilling encounter with the warden in a mysterious dungeon beneath the prison.

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Key Discussion Points & Episode Flow

1. Potato Dish Question (04:00–12:05)

• The hosts open with a whimsical Arrow Question: If your character were a potato dish, what would they be and why?
  • Gunther: “Stone-cooked fly juice potato” — a baked potato with a gross twist.

    Chris (as Gunther): “There’s a special dish where you sit out a potato in front of a hot stone... then you take some fly juice, squish it inside, and it becomes like a squishy, yummy thing inside.” (04:54)

  • Doug: Classic baked potato—efficient, wholesome, with plenty of puns (“you can butter Doug up”, “sometimes Doug can be a little cheesy”).

    Barbara (as Doug): “Doug would be a baked potato. Because Doug is all about efficiency." (05:51)

  • Tolve: Scalloped potatoes, tying to his aquatic side and cheesy jokes.

    Blaine (as Tolve): “I would be scalloped potatoes, because scallops are in the sea... and all my jokes are also cheesy.” (07:12)

  • Natty: Classic French fries—versatile and beloved by all.

    John (as Natty): “They’re so easy to make... they’re useful, they’re versatile, they’re yummy.” (09:27)

• The hosts riff on the versatility of potatoes, turning it into a (very on-brand) tangent about types of fries and the metaphysics of potato classification.

2. The Prison Break-In Setup (12:14–15:55)

• The party faces off against the warden after being captured during their failed infiltration.

• Memorable new NPC: The warden—intimidating, disciplined, and wielding mysterious powers, forces Gunther into a magical prayer pose.

  The Warden: “I believe in two things. Discipline and law. If you don’t believe in one, you’ll receive the other.” (14:10)

• Party is split and taken to separate cells on different floors in a forbidding 30-story, hexagonal tower.

3. Meet Your Cellmates (17:46–43:07)

• Each player meets their odd new cellmate, a scene with plenty of improv color:

  • Tolve (11th floor, north-facing): Duck Fog, a sad elven prisoner whose “superpower” is drinking heavily.

    Duck Fog: “Well, I’m in prison. I’m Duck Fog.” (22:38)

  • Gunther (7th floor, north-facing): Wiseau, a gruff orc, unfriendly but softens after learning Gunther’s broken out before.

    Wiseau: “You’re just gonna end up at the bottom of the lake sooner or later... No, no, no, but I’ll let you in on a little secret.” (24:36)

  • Natty (22nd floor, east-facing): Stitches (“Smiley Stitches”), a high-energy dretch with prestidigitation magic, who fills the cell with illusion kitchens/entertainment centers, and who has made a host of creepy dolls.

    Stitches: “My nickname around here is Smiley. You can call me Smiley Stitches if you want.” (30:55)

  • Doug (6th floor, south-facing): Kenjamin the grill, a small, toothless fiend obsessed with scratching through the walls and escaping.

    Kenjamin: “I’m gonna dig my way out.” (40:28)

• Doug investigates the dual key system—each cell has two locks, each worked by a different guard for security (20:23).

4. Prisoner Communications and Cell Life (43:07–55:57)

• Host-led improv connects the party—Doug, Tolve, and Gunther manage to communicate through the stone floors; Natty remains too far above.
• Gunther introduces a cellblock system for communicating guard presence—tapping on ceilings/floors as warning (43:48).
• Character banter and running gags include:
  • Poop bucket prison escapes (with Gus: “Chris, you have a fascination with throwing the poop bucket...”) (45:26).
  • Prison movie references and the absurdity of always ending up imprisoned in campaigns.

5. The Great Escape Attempts (55:57–65:06)

• Tolve enacts a plan: Uses his spider silk stockings to cling to the ceiling, while Duck Fog fakes a crisis to attract guards. Tolve successfully ambushes a hapless guard, arms himself, and orchestrates a breakout with Duck Fog (57:00–59:29).
  • “Duck Fog, get it together, man. We gotta get out of here.” (59:03)
• The reunited party quickly rescues Gunther and Doug (with some misadventures involving muddy/malfunctioning locks and avoiding freeing suspicious NPCs like Kenjamin the “unhinged, teethless Undarian spy”) (66:13–68:30).
• Discussion on whether to liberate other prisoners, or focus solely on finding Bunlap and acquiring the whole party's equipment.

6. Searching for Bunlap and Captain Grumbles (69:10–74:43)

• The party consults a conveniently located prisoner manifest in the Watchtower, revealing locations and charges for each prisoner's cell.
• Rescue of Captain Grumbles (Gunther’s beloved companion, 19th floor), with additional sea shanty singing and introduction of the comic “Baby Face Red.”

  "Captain Grumbles is leading his cellmate along in a rousing sea shanty." (71:35)

• On the 30th floor (Bunlap’s alleged cell), they discover the cell empty except for a mysterious skeleton hand with a key attached and subtle clues of a struggle (75:28–79:13).
  • Doug: “Could Doug look around and see if there’s any, like, footprints or any clues... to see if there’s a path [Bunlap] might have taken?” (78:54)
  • They find drag marks and hear distant pained screams from below, suggesting something sinister happened.

7. Descent into the Dungeon (80:07–89:17)

• The party uncovers a hidden central shaft running the height of the tower with a makeshift elevator/pulley system.

• They retrieve their equipment from the Watchtower before heading down.

• At the base, they discover a cavernous flooded chamber (60ft high, hexagonal, six numbered tapestries), fraught with chilling detail and bloodied water (86:28–87:02).

  • Tapestries depict ominous symbols: blue gradients, piles of limbs, bound hands, a tombstone, faces with eyes/ears covered, and a face with a question mark (89:04).

• They hear a muffled voice behind a tapestry just as the warden reveals herself in full, boasting power over “fear” and initiating a climactic confrontation (89:32).

  Warden (stepping out): “There’s no use hiding it. I can smell your fear.” (89:32) “In here, I am the queen of nightmares.” (90:40)

8. Episode Cliffhanger & Initiation of Combat (90:44–91:47)

• The warden triggers a deadly puzzle: the dungeon ceiling begins lowering as the party rolls initiative.
• Natty fails her charisma save and flees in magical panic; the others are forced prone by sheer terror.

  Gustavo: "You feel an all-consuming fear washing over you like an ice-cold wave... Metagame wise, you’re under the condition frightened." (90:05)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Chris (Gunther): “If your character was a potato dish, what potato dish would they be and why?” (04:46)
• Gustavo (Warden): “I believe in two things. Discipline and law. If you don’t believe in one, you’ll receive the other.” (14:10)
• Barbara (Doug, on efficient escape): “Doug would be a baked potato. Because Doug is all about efficiency. This way you’re using the entirety of the potato.” (05:51)
• John (Natty): “Although Gunther might have tried to get to that point. But if I was a potato dish... French fries. They’re versatile, they go with almost anything, almost everyone likes them.” (09:05)
• Prison Banter: “Me, Gunther and Natty… it is me, Gunther, and Natty!” (51:48)
• About Poop Buckets: “Chris, you have a fascination with throwing the poop bucket, I just want to point that out.” (45:26)
• On Prison Layout: “Is it like a Jenga tower that’s all weird, or…” – “No, it’s just one hexagon stacked on top of the other.” (41:02)
• Cliffhanger: “In here, no one can hear your screams. In here, I am the warden. In here, I am the queen of nightmares.” (90:40)

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Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment | |-----------|-------------------------------------------------| | 04:00–12:05 | Potato dish question & puns | | 12:14–15:55 | Prison break-in, warden introduced | | 17:46–43:07 | Meet the cellmates, learn about the tower | | 43:07–55:57 | Party inter-cell communication; escape plans| | 55:57–65:06 | Tolve’s rooftop escape plan in action | | 69:10–74:43 | Finding Captain Grumbles, scanning manifest | | 75:28–79:13 | Searching for Bunlap, mysterious clues | | 80:07–89:17 | Discovering dungeon, ominous tapestries | | 89:32–91:47 | Warden’s nightmare powers & initiative roll |

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Tone and Style

• The episode is brisk, clever, and frequently irreverent, mixing D&D problem-solving with improv comedy and ongoing character gags.
• The interplay between the patient DM and his “lovable idiots” (a running joke) keeps the pace lively, with each cell interaction feeling unique and building anticipation for the escape.
• Escalation from comedy to genuine tension is smooth, culminating in the suspenseful final act as the warden unleashes her nightmare magic.

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For New Listeners

This episode is a perfect example of Tales from the Stinky Dragon’s blend of goofball character comedy, tightly-woven dungeon design, and cinematic audio. Even if you’re new, you’ll quickly get attached to the crew’s foibles, and the episode sets up a classic D&D “boss room” cliffhanger—leaving you eager for the next release.

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Essential takeaway:
The party, separated across prison floors and thrown in with strange inmates, must outwit magical guards and the terrifying warden. Their fun, bumbling teamwork sees them reunite, investigate the mysterious absence of Bunlap, and descend into a horrific dungeon, just as the warden herself triggers a deadly trap and initiates a magical showdown.

Transcript

[Gustavo Soroll]

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[Blaine Gibson]

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[Gustavo Soroll]

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[Chris Darius]

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[Gustavo Soroll]

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[Blaine Gibson]

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[Barbara Dunkelman]

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[Blaine Gibson]

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[Barbara Dunkelman]

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[Blaine Gibson]

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[Barbara Dunkelman]

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[Gustavo Soroll]

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[Blaine Gibson]

Salutations all you centipede hags. Skid, run into the Stinky Dragon and quaff our latest cuppa. Last one's a rotten leg. It's a mixture of soapless water, sugar coated spider legs, bag of hag tea bags, grasp berry juice, caressing of lice cubes and heated up in the coven oven. One wash of this witchy whistle wetter brings out the best body parts of yourself and others. Previously, our adventurers were assaulted by a swarm of skyders while surrounded by an array of archers atop a train track tower. But Natty would have none of it and cast a net of nighttime that proved a nuisance. B Team battled amidst a bulwark of blindness and bested the border guards. But now are being ball and chained by the warden. Draw yourself a drip and let's dive into this dank drama.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Hello everyone. Welcome to Tales from the Stinky Dragon. I'm your Dungeon Master, Gustavo Soroll. I'm gonna hit our four players with an arrow.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Thanks.

[Blaine Gibson]

Sure you don't mean. Sorry, I didn't have a joke there.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Are you sure you don't mean anything else?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Take two.

[Blaine Gibson]

All right, here we go. Leave that second. Second shade. No, no, John and I. I. I ran out of pride, I think, at around, like, age of 33. And so I'm. I'm good now. I don't really have anything to prove anymore. Ten years ago, you ran out of pride. I'm in my 40s, fine with whatever you want to think I'm an idiot. I am, so go for it.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

A lovable idiot at least.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, sometimes.

[Gustavo Soroll]

All right, well, all of my lovable idiots roll a D20. And I'm going to ask you the question here, which is all of you, by the way. You're all lovable idiots.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, it's too late to change our company to that name.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Lovable Idiots.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Lovable Idiots.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Tales from the lovable idiots.

[Gustavo Soroll]

This week's Arrow question is, if your character was a potato dish, what potato dish would they be and why? And that was submitted by Abigail and Gabe Horacek.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I rolled a 19.

[Chris Darius]

19 roll off.

[Blaine Gibson]

Chris, you gotta just make it. You gotta make it so difficult.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Didn't you all have a roll off last week and the week before?

[Chris Darius]

6.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

5.

[Gustavo Soroll]

All right.

[Blaine Gibson]

7. Troy Aikman. Come on, Gus. He can do it.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Come on, say it.

[Blaine Gibson]

Eight.

[Gustavo Soroll]

There we go.

[Blaine Gibson]

What? You are gonna. Aww.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You gotta do it for the audience, Chris. Barbara Blaine. John. I'm from Texas.

[Blaine Gibson]

How cool would it have been if you were, like, all right, eight.

[Chris Darius]

Cool.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I know what it is that I've watched my share of.

[Chris Darius]

Of.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Of America's Team.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Here, let me do one for the kids. Six. Seven.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Stop. Merriam Webster's. Word of the year. Thank you, Barbara. All right, Chris, you look pained.

[Chris Darius]

I just don't understand what y' all are referencing.

[Blaine Gibson]

Don't even worry about it.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's okay. You're allowed to be old.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, sorry, old man. Don't worry about it.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Me and Blaine are the babies of the group.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, drink your prune juice, y old fart.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, Chris, you're leading us off.

[Chris Darius]

Hi, I'm Chris Darius. I play Gunther, the male croak fighter. And if I was a potato, here's what I would do. There's a special dish where you sit out a potato in front of a hot stone, and then it cooks itself. And then what you do is you take some juice. You take some fly juice, and then you squish it inside, and it becomes like a squishy, yummy thing inside. And that's what I would be.

[Blaine Gibson]

So is that what a baked potato?

[Gustavo Soroll]

A stone cooked fly juice potato.

[Chris Darius]

Yes, it is tasty.

[Blaine Gibson]

Sounds like Zelda.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Get it on the menu, ladies and gentlemen.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, it's what you put in the Zelda pot and then it comes down and just mush Monster guts. Now it Wendy's. This combo don't work, Link.

[Chris Darius]

It is delicious.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Maybe the gunther.

[Gustavo Soroll]

It's an acquired taste.

[Chris Darius]

You have not tasted it.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, maybe you can make it for us sometime, Gunther.

[Blaine Gibson]

Maybe not.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Thanks, Gunther, for that disgusting sounding. I mean, for that delicious sounding dish. Barbara Europe.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Hello, everyone. I'm Barbara Dunkelman and I play Doug Boone, the artificer Bugbear. And Doug thought long and hard about this one. So Doug would be a baked potato. Because Doug is all about efficiency. This way you're using the entirety of the potato. You could even eat the skin, which is actually quite healthy if you didn't know that. But also a little bit of jokes thrown in there. You could butter Doug up like you would a baked potato. Also, sometimes Doug could be a little cheesy. Also, sour cream is also tasty sometimes. So. And those are just some of my bacon bits.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You had all these puns, but not one for sour cream. You had one for every ingredient.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, I just like sour cream. But yeah, this is a baked potato. Delicious. No fly juice, though. Sour gun, though.

[Chris Darius]

What?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Side note, if you ever get. If you haven't had it, the baked potato at Rudy's is amazing.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, my God, Yes.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Such a good deal. Please, Rudy, sponsor us. Who's up next? I believe we got Troy Aikman over there.

[Blaine Gibson]

Hey, it's me, Blaine Gibson, AKA Troy Aikman. I actually, I don't know if I want to tether my name to Troy Aikman's name.

[Gustavo Soroll]

No, no, it's too late. You. You're Troy Aikman.

[Blaine Gibson]

He had a car dealership. Those are aspirations.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Dallas Cowboys quarterback from the mid to late 90s. Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

Anyways, yoo hoo, it's me, Tove Mill or Thaumatech Barbarian. I said orc. I didn't even need to do that anymore. But I still caught in the old brain. And as far as taters, I would be scalloped potatoes, because think about it, you know, scallops are in the sea.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You know, very, very aquatic.

[Blaine Gibson]

You know, and then all my jokes are also cheesy. But I didn't get that joke in before Doug, so it's not as funny this time.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That was a great joke.

[Chris Darius]

Thank you.

[Blaine Gibson]

His original same minds also side Note, my girlfriend Kristin makes the best scalloped potatoes. I think Chris and Barbara have tried them.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yes, very good. I refuse. Delicious.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, man, they're so good. Kristin also is just good at making anything. She made focaccia bread that we've been. Is it. No, not focaccia.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, focacca. Yeah, it makes. It's really good.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes, so good.

[Chris Darius]

Such a weird sounding bread. Anyway, sorry.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

She also made a sourdough, which was also delicious.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Now I'm just eating all her bread.

[Blaine Gibson]

Now I'm just hungry bread.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I like a good scalloped potato.

[Chris Darius]

All right.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Good, good. I like the. The tie into the C there. Pretty good. Nice tolls. All right. And last but definitely not least, we got Natty.

[Blaine Gibson]

Hello, everybody. I'm John Rhys here, and I play Natty Wonder, who is a drow warlock drag queen mother. And I'm calling it now. This is gonna be a weird episode. The vibes are. They're not off. They're not bad. They're just weird today.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

They're silly, goofy.

[Blaine Gibson]

Strap in, folks. You never know what's gonna happen when the lovely idiots get in front of the microphones. As Natty wonder if I were to pick which potatoes are, in my opinion, the perfect food. There's almost no wrong way to fix a potato. Although Gunther might have tried to get to that point. But if I. If I was a potato dish, which we all know, I'm already a dish, right?

[Chris Darius]

Oh.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes, she is. That's Barbara. That was Barbara.

[Blaine Gibson]

Not that I was not expecting that sound, but I love it.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I thought it was Doug. That was super weird to me.

[Blaine Gibson]

I think it started Doug, and then it went to Barb. I think it's because I had just.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

A genuine reaction, but my voice was.

[Blaine Gibson]

Still ready to do Doug.

[Chris Darius]

There you go.

[Blaine Gibson]

She hadn't shifted gears. A little bit of both vocal gears. If I was a potato dish, I would be French fries.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Excellent.

[Blaine Gibson]

Because they are just so versatile and they go with almost anything and almost everybody likes them. They're so easy to make. You just kind of cut up potatoes and then fry them, you know, and you can do them all kinds of ways. You know, they're just. They're. They're. They're useful, they're versatile, they're yummy. They're just a good, Good old, you know, standard French. I'm not French. Although I do like the French. Yeah. But honestly, any potato dish. Any potato, they're just perfect.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's right, ain't you?

[Blaine Gibson]

French fries are good.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Two things I was convinced Natty was gonna say potato salad, but two.

[Blaine Gibson]

Ooh, that's a good one.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Show me. Potato salad.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

Let me ask you, Gustavo, let ask you. Do you like fancy potato salad or just like plain potato salad? Do you like a bunch of stuff in your potato salad or you just want it like just plain?

[Gustavo Soroll]

I wish I liked potato salad.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, I've tried it with you.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I just cannot bring myself to enjoy it. I've tried it over and over my entire life, and I feel like I'm missing something.

[Blaine Gibson]

You are.

[Gustavo Soroll]

But French fries are interesting because I feel like you kind of touched on this. They run the gamut, right? Like, you can get french fries as fast food. You can also get french fries at like a high end steakhouse. It's like a side for your steak. It's like this french fry can chameleon itself into like a whole array of different cuisines.

[Blaine Gibson]

Crinkle cut, shoestream, skinny wedge.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I like curly. Fries are good curly.

[Chris Darius]

Honestly, I feel like a lot of potatoes are actually all fries, but they just have different names. Oh, wow. Like, you know, like, at what point is it because there's so many ways to make fries and still call them fries, but that you could just be like, yeah, this is like home fries.

[Gustavo Soroll]

What is that?

[Chris Darius]

Those are just potatoes.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, like a little broken up potatoes for breakfast. Yeah, yeah.

[Chris Darius]

How are those fries?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. And a potato is just a raw fry.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, yeah, we think.

[Chris Darius]

I don't. I have a lot of thoughts about fries, and I'm just going to end.

[Blaine Gibson]

It here because have those thoughts and we can have extensive conversation about potatoes. On second, win our show for our patrons.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, don't tempt me.

[Blaine Gibson]

Also, really quick, if you were heading southbound on Cameron Road in Austin on November 4th with a stinky dragon sweater, I was the one that screamed stinky dragon at you.

[Chris Darius]

It was.

[Blaine Gibson]

It was me. It was Kyborg. By the time this comes out, this.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Is would have been months ago.

[Blaine Gibson]

I know, but they looked very. I knew they heard me. I'm very loud. They looked concerned, but I don't know if they knew it was me. But anyways, I just had to shut that out. Thanks for wearing our sweater out in the wilds.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Shut up.

[Gustavo Soroll]

And if you want to be like them, you can go to store. Sneakydragonpod.com Everyone make me a perception check.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, something's happening. 5, 14, 24, 13.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Doug, as you're thinking this over and trying to figure out your move, you hear the sound of footsteps running. And you look up to see Bosco making a dash for the crank.

[Blaine Gibson]

No.

[Gustavo Soroll]

And he begins very quickly finishing extending the plank and it drops down to the prison.

[Blaine Gibson]

Natty shoots him. There you go.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. Make your attack roll.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Thanks for doing that for us. Now we don't have to do it.

[Blaine Gibson]

That's a 19 plus whatever her modifier is that hits.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. So go ahead and roll your damage.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah. Three plus four plus four plus three. So 14.

[Gustavo Soroll]

14. That's good. Yeah. The force, the blast hits Bosco in the back and he loses his footing and falls over the edge of the tower into the icy depths below.

[Blaine Gibson]

Natty leans over the edge and tries to shoot him again before he gets in the water.

[Gustavo Soroll]

With a loud slam. The gangplank finishes extending and then slams down onto the roof of the prison across the lake. And you see a horde of armor plated guards and a woman aboard the plank and quickly run across and accost you all.

[Blaine Gibson]

Natty starts pulling the crank up so that while they're crossing, retracts.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. And the woman commands the guards arrest.

[Blaine Gibson]

And incarcerate these invaders. We'll deal with them in the prison.

[Gustavo Soroll]

The sky is filled with stars as night is set and there's rays of the low sitting sun. Hail continuously falls onto to the top of the prison tower in the distance, from which bladed guards and the warden have run to accost you all. The guards, very deftly, seemingly with a lot of practice, disarm you all and begin stowing your weapons as the warden peers at all of you over her horn rimmed glasses.

[Blaine Gibson]

I am the warden.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You are military deserters. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. And that is something I will not tolerate. I believe in two things. Discipline and law.

[Blaine Gibson]

If you don't believe in one, you'll receive the other. What if I said I was a military appetizer?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Give me back your inspiration. Die. Give it over.

[Blaine Gibson]

I don't have one. Does that mean I get it?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

One negative, two negatives makes a positive.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Soroll]

The warden eyes you, Gunther. And she points at her pin on her lapel.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

See this, Gunther?

[Gustavo Soroll]

This means unlike you, I believe in a higher power. The final word.

[Blaine Gibson]

Perhaps they can help you like they helped me.

[Gustavo Soroll]

She clasps her hands together, interlacing her fingers as if praying. I think you need to pray more.

[Blaine Gibson]

Put your hands together in prayer.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Don't stop until I say otherwise. Her glasses flash with a dark light. Gunther, make me a wisdom saving throw.

[Chris Darius]

Okay. What is she pointing to exactly? A lapel.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah. Lapel pin.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

A pin.

[Gustavo Soroll]

She's got a pin.

[Chris Darius]

And what can I actually See what it is?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. It's a pin on her lapel. That shows balancing scales weighed down by serpent scales.

[Chris Darius]

6.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I feel like we've seen that image somewhere before.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah, a scale weighed down by six.

[Blaine Gibson]

Looking at my notes, your hands seem.

[Gustavo Soroll]

To act with a mind of their own, as if you can't control them. And your hands clasp together as if you're in prayer. And your fingers interlace. Welcome to Sky Blue Falls.

[Blaine Gibson]

Prison.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Guards put them in separate cells. These inmates are to be considered dangerous.

[Blaine Gibson]

I did look through my notes, and I found something for that. We found chests in the armory, and one was a scale of scales was the name. It was the relics, yes.

[Chris Darius]

Now, I just want to question, because Natty was in the visage of one of the guards. So is Natty. Do they recognize Natty, or is Natty, like, swept in with it as a guard?

[Gustavo Soroll]

They saw through the ruse and were quickly able to disarm everyone.

[Chris Darius]

Shucks.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You all are put into manacles, your weapons loaded into crates seemingly. And the warden exits to the left below. You all are guided across the gangplank into the prison tower and led to your individual cells. I need to roll to see where your cells are, so give me just a moment.

[Blaine Gibson]

Tolve is going to look for the nearest prisoner that he's going to make a fool out of with, like, a lunch plate or a lunch tray. You know you got to beat someone first day in prison, right? That's the rule.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I see you've seen prison movies before.

[Blaine Gibson]

It might have to be Gunther, actually. I don't know.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Could also, like. I don't know if I could do this, but as we're being, like, walked through, could Doug make note of, like, how the doors open and close and, like, the latches and how, like, all the mechanics work? That's smart for these cells.

[Blaine Gibson]

Sure.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Give me just a moment to get these rolls and we can deal with that.

[Chris Darius]

Am I still praying?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, Your hands are stuck together.

[Chris Darius]

I don't even need handcuffs.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's true.

[Blaine Gibson]

Don't tell the Wilder Flower about this. Oh, you'll know where the end of it. She's gonna be so mad. I'm gonna snap a picture of you.

[Chris Darius]

No, don't. Please don't tell her.

[Blaine Gibson]

Tall blinks with his. With his ocular things.

[Chris Darius]

Just. No, please don't.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, just wait. She's gonna get so mad.

[Chris Darius]

I was thinking of you the whole time.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, my God.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Well, maybe you're praying to the Wilderflower.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Chris Darius]

Yes. It meant nothing.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay. And, Doug, you wanted to pay Attention to the workings of the prison. So you all get closer. And you remember I had previously described this as like a spire that was sticking out of the lake. There was no land around it. It's just presumably, a column. That is the prison itself. It's 30 stories tall. You are led onto the roof and then led down into various levels where your cells are. Each floor is its own cell, and you are led down into each of the different levels. Tolv, you are placed onto the 11th floor.

[Blaine Gibson]

11Th floor, gang. Whoop, whoop. Let's go, guys. It's me, your newest member.

[Chris Darius]

Tove.

[Gustavo Soroll]

And the door to the 11th floor faces in the north direction. Gunther, you are placed down on the seventh floor. And the door for the seventh floor also faces into the north direction. Natty, you're placed on the 22nd floor. Ooh, you got a high rise. And the door to your cell faces in the eastern direction. And Doug, last but not least, you are placed on the sixth floor, and your door faces in the southerly direction.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, are there anybody else in these cells with us?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yes, there is. Let me deal with. Doug. Wanted to pay attention to the doors and all of that, and then I can get to you and the people who were asking.

[Blaine Gibson]

We've gone to prison. Every single campaign we have. It's our lot in life.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, we started Campaign two in a prison.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, guys, now we got to do it irl. Let's do tax fraud, huh? Come on, let's go Seeky dragon.

[Chris Darius]

We could go way bigger than tax fraud. Come on, think big.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Guys, I can't. I'm Canadian.

[Blaine Gibson]

I can't sign up for our patreon to bail us out.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay, Just to give a little more flavor, text. Each of these cells is a hexagonal cell that appears to be made of some kind of stone, probably granite. And there is a. I had mentioned this before an episode or two ago, but there's, like, a storm over the center of the lake, over this spire that causes, like, a hailstorm to form that pelts the tower seemingly relentlessly. Doug, why don't you make me a investigation check to see how much you glean from these cells and the way that all works.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

17.

[Blaine Gibson]

See, Doug's the guy you want to go to in prison because he's gonna make the shivs, all right? He's the crafter.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

We should say I don't already have a couple packed away just in case.

[Blaine Gibson]

Where are you hiding them?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I saw this prison. I already started whittling him out in the. You know, in the forest there.

[Blaine Gibson]

Contraband. Oh, I wonder how you got that in.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You see that? It seems like the guards use a dual key system to lock the doors where there's two keys that are used to activate two separate locks on the doors. And it locks with a very solid.

[Chris Darius]

Metallic sound, like they have to be turned at the same time. Like severance, not at the same time.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, yeah. They're not nuclear launch codes, but yeah, it is more secure than one.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

And it's two different people who have two different keys. Or one person with two keys.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Two people with two keys. Great. And these cells themselves, like I said, have a hexagonal layout and there's a. What you assume would be like a load bearing column in the center that is structural and holds the floors apart. In each of the cells is a cot and a bucket and there's a prisoner already in each of the cells when you are put into them. So that kind of answers your question, but we'll dig into it a little more here in a second, Blaine. Actually, since you asked that, Blaine, what else do you think would be in this? Or what else do you does tolve see in this cell, is there like a piece of furniture or a decor or something in here?

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, there's a lot of writing on the wall. Those tick marks where it's like dash, dash, dash, slash, you know, it's like a five. So that's just covering the wall. Some sort of like brown paint on smeared across the walls. I don't know if they got the good painting team in here, but it seems like they did a messy job. Ice poop. Oh, Some pinups of some orcs and elven women.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Wow.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

They're allowed to bring pictures in here. That's nice.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, crudely drawn.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Any fuzzy britches?

[Blaine Gibson]

What else would there be?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I don't know, like a bed or a toilet or anything like that.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, he said cot.

[Chris Darius]

It's a bucket.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, there is a cot and a bucket.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah. Well, they have like.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's a wap.

[Blaine Gibson]

They have some sort of armor, like a hat. That metal bucket might serve as a good helmet.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I like it. Yeah. As you are shoved into your cell tolve, there is a male elf standing there looking a little sad and forlorn, who lifts his head, looks at you, and then just looks back down at his feet.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yoo hoo. It's me, Tolv. Hello. Hello, fellow prison cellmate.

[Gustavo Soroll]

How are you today?

[Chris Darius]

Just sad.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yo. Yeah. What's got you down?

[Chris Darius]

Well, I'm in prison. I'm Duck Fog.

[Blaine Gibson]

Duck Fog. That's a cool name. Yeah, you hoots be told. Well, good news, Duck Fog, because we're breaking out today. You want to come with?

[Chris Darius]

Yeah. How are you breaking out? What are you in for?

[Blaine Gibson]

For breaking in. I don't know. It's kind of convoluted. It's kind of backwards, but, you know, so. But I'm with my crew. We're all kind of separated, by the way.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Duck Fog.

[Blaine Gibson]

Do you know what? Why we have different floors? Like, why they put us on different floors? The different floors mean different things. It's just for security purposes.

[Chris Darius]

They built the cell vertically instead of horizontally to save space, I guess.

[Blaine Gibson]

So. It's not like a power rating. So say I was, like, on the 22nd floor. I'm not twice as strong as someone on the 11th floor. Right.

[Chris Darius]

You know, I don't know. I've never met anyone from 22.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, probably not the case. But, you know, I'm just curious. Just asking for no reason.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Do. Oh, yeah. Do we know what floor each other are on?

[Gustavo Soroll]

I'll say that you got dropped off in descending order.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Descending.

[Gustavo Soroll]

So everyone knows that Natty's on 22. Gunther and Doug know that Tove's on 11. Doug knows that Gunther's on 7, but no one knows Doug is on 6 outside of Doug.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Just Doug's secret.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, I guess Gunther would know that Doug is below seven somewhere, but that's it.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That makes sense.

[Gustavo Soroll]

All right, if there's anything else you want to say, we do. Otherwise, I want to cut to someone else and have their interaction told.

[Blaine Gibson]

I'll want to communicate with the rest of the team, but I want to make sure that they settle in first.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay, we can circle back on that. We'll do Gunther next. I'm going. I just realized, instead of going down the list of the tower, I'm going by your old initiative from combat. So don't read too much into the order. I'm doing this. I'm just reusing the list of names I already have here.

[Blaine Gibson]

Right. Most powerful first. Got it.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Gunther, you're shoved into floor seven, which also faces to the north. And when you're there, you see an orc who is scowling at you as you. As you get shoved in.

[Chris Darius]

Just stay out of my way, little one. You can have that corner over there.

[Gustavo Soroll]

And he points at the bucket.

[Chris Darius]

The bucket. All right, I guess I get the bucket. What's yours? Is your name Big One? Why so. Why so short with your words? Yeah, there's no point in getting to know you. You're just gonna end up at the bottom of the lake sooner or later. Is that what happened to your last roommate? So it happens to most people around here. Actually, not just my roommates. How long have you been here? Oh, I've been here a long time. A week. A week. I have been here a long time too, but I've now come back again.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Oh, you were in before. He seems to like, soften a bit.

[Chris Darius]

How'd you get out? That depends. Do you want to get out again? Well, it would be a first time for me, but yes. Oh, yes, I would.

[Blaine Gibson]

Do you want to get out again?

[Chris Darius]

Do I? Okay, I have a question. Obviously I know how I got out, but how did I get out?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Gus, you can make it up, okay? If you want, I can make it up, but I mean, it's an opportunity for you to make it up. You also don't have to tell him.

[Chris Darius]

Okay, Yeah, I won't tell him because I don't know what it is yet. Okay, I would tell you, but first tell me everything you know about the routine of the guards. Well, they don't really seem to have a set routine. You see, they never come alone. It's always in groups. And whenever they're around, they put any prisoner into lockdown immediately. And fur and fur food. Do they ever let out for recess? Recess? Oh, that's. That's a good one. No, no, no, no. But I'll let you in a little secret though.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yes.

[Chris Darius]

Sometimes they don't lock all the cells. What? We can get out and move between cells and communicate with each other that way. Why do they do that? Why do they not lock all these cells? They know escape's impossible. But apparently not if you left. Apparently not. Yes. Gunther wants to look at his bucket, take stock of the room and see if there's any, you know.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, you look in the bucket and it's filled with some rather foul smelling liquids that you'd rather not investigate further. Tell me, what else do you see in the room, Gunther? Like is there an item of furniture or a decoration?

[Chris Darius]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so there's this, the cot and then. But I think Wiseau has taken. There were two cots and I think he took and double bunk. Like double stacked his so that there's no first other cot.

[Gustavo Soroll]

He's top and bottom bunk. Yeah.

[Chris Darius]

Like. So he has like double padding. And then I think. Are there windows?

[Gustavo Soroll]

There's no window. There's just that door that faces out to the northern side.

[Chris Darius]

I think there's like a running path. Like where inmates have been, like, to stay fit, like, would jog and circle. So there's, like, almost, like, where the stone itself is, like, weathered down from just, like, running in circles, trying to.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Like, in a circle around that support column, all in the middle of the hexagon.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

I like it cozy.

[Gustavo Soroll]

If there's nothing else with you, Gunther, I'm going to move on to the next person. We can always come back. Natty, you were the first to be dropped off. You're in cell 22, and your door faces out to the east. When you are put into your cell, Natty, there's an inmate already in there who's exercising what they look like. You recognize this kind of creature because you saw some not that long ago. It's a drench.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh.

[Gustavo Soroll]

He looks up at you as he's doing toe touches with a big smile on his face.

[Chris Darius]

It says, oh, welcome, friend.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, hi. My name's Natty. What's yours?

[Chris Darius]

The name? Stitches.

[Blaine Gibson]

Stitches.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Besides Stitches, the cot and the bucket, what else do you see in here, Natty?

[Blaine Gibson]

Natty turns to her left and sees a full kitchen with a refrigerator and a stove and a microwave and Penthouse espresso machine. Why have they got that in here? Yeah. And then there's a pantry that's fully stocked with, like, all kinds of food.

[Chris Darius]

Stitches says, oh, sorry about that. I was just practicing my prestidigitation. Here, let me get that for you.

[Gustavo Soroll]

And he snaps his fingers and it all disappears.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, you have the same brown paint, too. Yeah. Where there was the kitchen, there's a full entertainment center with video games.

[Chris Darius]

Just a butt.

[Blaine Gibson]

There are a bunch of little makeshift. Made from the straw of the cots and old pieces of food, bone or something. There's little dolls all over the cell that are everywhere.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, I like it. Stitches doesn't miss a step. He's still continually working out. And he asks, what are you in for?

[Blaine Gibson]

I don't rightfully know. I thought it was for. It'd be for one thing, but then we came in, the warden made up something else, and so I think. I think we're just kind of being held here because, I don't know, she's mad at us or something.

[Chris Darius]

Oh, you met the warden? Oh, yeah. It's a good thing you're still here.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah. Does she like. Is she bad?

[Chris Darius]

She likes to punish people. Better to be here than to be receiving punishment.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, okay. Do you know why you're here?

[Chris Darius]

Me?

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Chris Darius]

Well, yeah. It was a misunderstanding. I thought I was here for one thing, and then I made up something entirely different. I'm innocent.

[Blaine Gibson]

Stealing hair?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I was gonna say stealing hair, I think.

[Blaine Gibson]

Flashbacks. I don't care. Yeah, I believe you could be innocent. It doesn't seem to be a proper due process.

[Gustavo Soroll]

So.

[Blaine Gibson]

What? You said you thought you were here for one thing, but then they said you're here for other. What's those two things?

[Chris Darius]

I thought I was here for robbing a store, but when they got me here, they said I was an Undarian spy. Can you believe that?

[Blaine Gibson]

Me, Andarian aren't dretches Undarians.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's probably why they assumed.

[Chris Darius]

Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah. I mean, you know.

[Chris Darius]

You believe me, right?

[Blaine Gibson]

Sure. What's what? You know, why not? You know, I got no reason not to believe in you other than prejudice, and I don't want to be that kind of person, so.

[Chris Darius]

Oh, you're great, Natty. I'll tell you what. I'm gonna let you in on a little secret.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Oh.

[Chris Darius]

My nickname around here is Smiley. You can call me Smiley Stitches if you want.

[Blaine Gibson]

Your real name is Stitches, but your nickname is Smiley? Yeah, okay, sure. Why not?

[Chris Darius]

Smiley Stitches.

[Blaine Gibson]

I got that nickname in the Odarian military. Is Gigi with me? I was gonna ask, is Giggy in, like, a. What do they call that? Like a juvenile juvie? Like a juvie.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

He's in the playpen that they have for people's kids.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Little play area.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. We'll say Giggy's with you.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay. What about Captain Grumbles?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Oh, that's a good question.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, no.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

And has Gambot made his way back.

[Blaine Gibson]

As well from being. Gambot's just doing circles, like sad sounds as it can't find you.

[Gustavo Soroll]

That's actually a really good question. In the last episode, we said Gambot would reunite with you at the end of combat. So we'll say the way that the end of the previous episode played out, we'll say Gambot arrived as y' all were being accosted and taken. So you have Gambot back?

[Blaine Gibson]

What about my skin? One of my Bjorns. Wait, did they let her keep Gambot?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

Where does Gambot go when Gambot's not being used?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's for me and Gambot to know and no one else.

[Gustavo Soroll]

We'll say Gambot is with your equipment.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Dang it.

[Blaine Gibson]

Can it be like a service animal type arrangement?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, right.

[Blaine Gibson]

You know how they let prisoners have service animals in their cells?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, but Gigi is with Natty. We'll say Captain Grumbles is in A different cell.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, okay, it's the Darth Vader thing. Where's Padme? Is she safe? Where's Captain Grumbles? Well, as you can see, Smiley, I got myself a little demon here. And he's been accused of a lot of stuff, so, I mean, most of it's true, but I mean, he's been accused just like you. So how long you been here?

[Chris Darius]

Oh, me, I've been here for three years.

[Blaine Gibson]

Do you have a sentence or is it just like they put you in here and that's that?

[Chris Darius]

A sentence? You're funny, Natty. No, they just put me in here.

[Blaine Gibson]

This place seems to be a little loosey goosey.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah, you could say that. The warden does what she wants, you know, but you've got to listen to her. Don't disobey unless you want to disappear.

[Blaine Gibson]

Do you know where they disappear to when they disobey? Is there like a box?

[Chris Darius]

Rumor has it there's a dungeon somewhere here that the warden takes people to when they disobey.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, okay.

[Chris Darius]

I don't know where it is. I've actually never seen it, but that's what I'll hear.

[Blaine Gibson]

Hey, what are all these dolls around the sale?

[Chris Darius]

Oh, those things. Those are my friends. Let me introduce you here. This first one here, this is Grif. He's a good friend of mine.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah, he's orange, not yellow. Oh, this one over here, this is Simmons. They're good friends.

[Blaine Gibson]

Keep going.

[Chris Darius]

Foreign.

[Blaine Gibson]

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[Barbara Dunkelman]

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[Gustavo Soroll]

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[Gustavo Soroll]

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[Barbara Dunkelman]

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[Blaine Gibson]

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[Chris Darius]

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[Gustavo Soroll]

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[Chris Darius]

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[Gustavo Soroll]

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[Chris Darius]

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[Gustavo Soroll]

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[Chris Darius]

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[Gustavo Soroll]

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[Chris Darius]

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[Gustavo Soroll]

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[Chris Darius]

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[Gustavo Soroll]

Plus they only partner with factories that meet rigorous standards for craftsmanship and ethical production. The wool cashmere field jacket that I picked up is holding up way better.

[Chris Darius]

Than other coats I've bought that cost way more. Looks good, keeps me warm, didn't break the bank and it survived the holiday season.

[Gustavo Soroll]

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[Chris Darius]

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[Gustavo Soroll]

Doug, you are led to your cell on the sixth floor of which the door faces to the south. And as you are led into it, you see that there is a grill already in it. You saw Grilps before. I don't know if you remember this. You fought some with the fake gardeners way back like many episodes ago. They were like the little, I think it was with the fake gardeners. It was right around then. It was like little fiends, like little green skinned devils about the size of a house cat with wings.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. Yep, yep.

[Gustavo Soroll]

This grill as you walk in is just scratching at the walls that turns and looks at you over its shoulder and then just goes back to scratching the wall. What else do you see in here, Doug?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I think Doug would see in addition to the bucket, I think there's also a bucket of water and then maybe some dirt next to it. And then if he looks around, I think he would find some pieces of wood and a tiny little carver's knife.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay, sure.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Also, what's that in the corner? Are those two keys in the corner?

[Chris Darius]

It is.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Wow. Yeah. I think they both say master key one and master key two.

[Gustavo Soroll]

They do. Wow.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, perfect. And there doesn't seem to be any creature that could do any sort of prestidigitation or sort of illusions in here.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Well, there's the grill, but I don't know much. You haven't talked to him, so I don't know.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's crazy.

[Gustavo Soroll]

The grill looks at you and gives a menacing smile. And you see that there are no teeth in its mouth. And he goes back to scratching at the wall.

[Blaine Gibson]

He didn't have dental either.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Pleasure to meet you. I'm Doug Boone. What's your name?

[Chris Darius]

Kenjamin.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Penjamin. Tenjamin.

[Chris Darius]

Kenjamin with a K. Henjamin.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Sorry, I couldn't understand you because they like a teeth Kenjamin. All right, well, I see we're gonna be friends.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

How long you been in here, Kenjamin?

[Blaine Gibson]

I just got here.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, just got here's. Me too.

[Chris Darius]

Why are you here?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I imagine probably because we were trying to break in, so they put us in here, which seems kind of, you know, we were trying to get in here, and they put us in here, so maybe they should have kicked us out. That would have been real punishment. But.

[Chris Darius]

Oh, well, Congratulations.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

What? What? Thanks. What. What brought you in here?

[Chris Darius]

Oh, they. They caught me. I was an Undarian spy. Oh.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, that's. That's awkward. Yeah, but I'm glad they're locking you up.

[Gustavo Soroll]

What?

[Blaine Gibson]

What?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I mean, no. What are you doing over there? Scratching. Scratching the walls.

[Chris Darius]

I'm gonna dig my way out.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Which wall is he scratching at, by the way?

[Gustavo Soroll]

He is scratching at the northern wall.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. Let's face south.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Like, the opposite side from where you walked in. Your door was to the south. So he's scratching on the northern wall.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

So would one assume the northern wall would be the edge of the tower?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Well, they're all edges. There's no other structures. It's just one cell stacked on top of the other. So all of the walls are exterior walls.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

I'm so curious. I'm so cute. Like, I feel like I could draw this place, but I don't know.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

Does it look like a. Like a Jenga tower? That's all, like, weird. Like, there's, like, pieces jutting out, you know, from the center pole, or.

[Gustavo Soroll]

No, it's just one hexagon stacked on top of the other. It's just a hexagonal tower. And people can send us fan art if they want on Discord if they're members of our [e-mail] I would love.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

To see people's take on this, because, yeah, I'm the same way, where I'm like, I think I could picture this, but I also cannot for the life of me picture this. Okay, well, what makes you think you could dig out of there, Kenjamin? Is it you making progress there on your scratches?

[Gustavo Soroll]

No.

[Chris Darius]

Oh, but I got time.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's true. That's a good point.

[Chris Darius]

I like you, Doug. You seem easy to talk to.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, thank you. I. I pride myself at being easy to talk to. But thanks. Kenjamin have it happen to see any guards walk by, like, pretty often? Like, how often do they come around?

[Chris Darius]

I'm really not too certain. I only got here today, actually, but.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, very helpful.

[Chris Darius]

But I have heard a rumor.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, what's that?

[Chris Darius]

I saw you looking around, and maybe you're like, this rumor. I heard there's a skeleton key somewhere around here that works on every door, even secret ones.

[Blaine Gibson]

Whoa.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

But, like, I know you need two keys to open a door, so how would you do that?

[Chris Darius]

Well, maybe it works on both.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Or maybe not.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, so they don't have to be inside at the same time.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, that changes everything. What's the rumor on where it's hiding?

[Blaine Gibson]

I don't know.

[Chris Darius]

I wish I knew.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, that's great information. Well, Kenjamin, you know, I feel like we're buddies, so if you hear anything else, you just let Doug know.

[Chris Darius]

Okay, well, I'm a little bit bored, so I'm going to get back to work.

[Gustavo Soroll]

And he turns around and continues scratching the wall. Okay, so I guess I'll ask the group at large. You know, I just wanted to have everyone give a moment to, like, build their cell and kind of talk about that. What do y' all want to do? What's the plan here? If we can kind of figure this.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Out, should we, like, roll or anything or just kind of go one by one?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, why not? Roll, I guess.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Initiative. Or just a D20.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Just a D20.

[Blaine Gibson]

9.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

3.

[Chris Darius]

14.

[Blaine Gibson]

2.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

So I think that would be Gunther Tolve. Dug. Natty.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Gunther Tolve. That's what I got. Okay. Yeah. Gunther, do you have, like, inklings of a plan here or thoughts?

[Chris Darius]

So, from my mind, Gunther's previous experience, whenever guards come either up or down, the prisoners hit the ceiling or the floor as a warning. The number of taps means the number of guards.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Interesting. Interesting.

[Chris Darius]

Okay, so they have their kind of like a messaging, you know, system.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, you just gotta be sure not to get confused. Like when your upstairs neighbor drops a bunch of stuff on the floor and you're, like, banging on the. On the ceiling.

[Chris Darius]

Shut up.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Keep it down.

[Blaine Gibson]

14 guards. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Why are the guards coming at 2:30 in the morning? Get real.

[Chris Darius]

And then, let's see. I'm with. I'm with.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Why so?

[Chris Darius]

Why so? Why so. All right. Does magic work here?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yes, but most things have been taken from You. So, yes, with an asterisk if you have the ability to do it.

[Chris Darius]

Okay, can I see out the the cell?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. Your door faces out to the north, so you're able to look out in that direction and you see the icy lake below you. Then on the other side of the bank of the lake, it's just clear shoreline. We'd previously discussed this, but it seems like all the vegetation and brush has been cut back a significant distance, presumably to increase the sight lines for the watchtower.

[Chris Darius]

So here is my plan U I saw. Okay, we have several. Several. One is when the guards, they come, right? I need you to throw the poo. You throw the poo. That will disrupt them and blind them and. And make them not in a good mood. Right.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's how you got the brown walls, right?

[Chris Darius]

Yes. And then here's what I will do. I will misty step through the doors and then attack to hopefully get key. And they're so covered in poo, they don't even know what to do. And then we make a break.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Do. Do.

[Chris Darius]

Yes.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Chris, you have a fascination with throwing the poop bucket. I just want to point that out. I feel like we've done this before.

[Chris Darius]

It is a good way to use what you have.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I'm not talking to Gunther. I'm talking to Chris.

[Chris Darius]

Okay. Now why. So you tell me, what can we use as weapons or something? What do you got in your head?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Make a persuasion check for me, Gunther.

[Chris Darius]

Gus. It was only 8 Gus.

[Gustavo Soroll]

He looks around and says, okay, maybe.

[Chris Darius]

We can work together, little one.

[Gustavo Soroll]

He goes over to his bed, to the cot and reaches around inside of it and pulls out a piece of rock. Like a piece of granite that's been sharpened.

[Chris Darius]

I like it. I like it a lot. Wiseau. What else you got? You do not hold back on me. I am not weapon. Other than yes, I actually am weapon. But not like you think. Nah, I can throw you. Okay, but see, I need. Okay, you give me the stabby rock. What? No, no, no, no. Alright, then I will just misty step out and leave you. But what do I get out of this? You get me opening the gate when I leave. So why do you need me? I don't. Okay, Yeah.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I think Hwaiso's not the smartest person in the world. So I think all of this talk would probably throw his brain for a loop. So he would hand over the rock kind of without thinking and just kind of like a puzzled look on his face.

[Chris Darius]

Good.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Is that it for you? You want to move on to the next person?

[Chris Darius]

Yeah. I guess I'll. I'll hide during the poop throwing so it won't even know where I am. And then I'll be behind him. That's my plan.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, who's making all the poop?

[Chris Darius]

Well, Wise has already been working hard at that. Yeah, he's been preparing for this plan for days.

[Gustavo Soroll]

He's been training. He didn't know it, though.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

No, guys, he's been poo pairing.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh.

[Gustavo Soroll]

It'S like a Karate Kid. Show me. Paint the fence.

[Blaine Gibson]

Poop on, poop off. All right, Toll, first and foremost, after I give my neighboring cells up and down, some knocks, some greeting knocks, you know, as I've been hearing knocks here and there. So I'm just knocking back.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You're returning them? Yeah, yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

Without fully understanding what that does, I walk over to the door and I try it. What the heck?

[Gustavo Soroll]

You give the door a shake, and it is locked.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, do I have. Because they were, like, kind of components of Thaumatex, because they're like thaumatech, you know, like, pieces. Do I have my mittens of mushrooms or my stockings of spider silk?

[Gustavo Soroll]

We'll say that they took the mittens, assume, you know, because they slide on. But the stockings, I believe, are described as, like, they adhere really tightly, so they would probably appear to be part of your Thaumatek skeleton. So I'll say the mittens are gone, but the stockings are still adhered to your legs.

[Chris Darius]

They're like.

[Blaine Gibson]

They're like yoga pants. They're just skin tight.

[Chris Darius]

Perfect.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, and then. Duck fog.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Duck fog.

[Blaine Gibson]

You who?

[Chris Darius]

Yes.

[Blaine Gibson]

Do what? Do you have any, like, cool powers or anything like that?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Are you, like, Superman or.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah. I've got one superpower.

[Blaine Gibson]

It's not making paint for the walls, is it?

[Chris Darius]

I can rob people.

[Blaine Gibson]

Great. Okay. Love that.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Good skill.

[Blaine Gibson]

So the door is jammed. Okay, duck fog, I want you to try this. I want you to go on the. Let me see. I am on the.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Your cell is facing to the north. Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

My prison face north. Okay, so the door is on the north. Yeah.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Correct.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, duck fog, I want you to go to the south end of the cell. And then if you hear a guard coming, I want you to holler for their attention and say that I have escaped. And then while I'm saying this, Tolve is using the spider silks, the stocking of spider silk, to walk up the wall and be on the roof. And he's planted above the doorway, basically ready to pounce on whoever walks into the door.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay. Okay. I dig it. Duck fog says okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay.

[Chris Darius]

Let me get my superpower ready.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Hold on.

[Gustavo Soroll]

And he walks over to the cot and begins digging around inside the cot.

[Blaine Gibson]

What are you doing? What's in the cot? Oh, you'll see what's in the cot.

[Gustavo Soroll]

He pulls out a flask and opens it up and begins downing it.

[Blaine Gibson]

What does that superpower do? Is that some sort of super potion?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, it makes me drunk.

[Blaine Gibson]

Right to the point. I love it. All right, whatever you need, you know? Do you have any other cool things in that cart?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay, yeah, yeah.

[Chris Darius]

Hold. Hold on, hold on.

[Gustavo Soroll]

And he beats digging around again and pulls out another flask. Okay. And he immediately begins downing that one, too.

[Chris Darius]

Double the power.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Good, good.

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, it's showtime, so don't get too, you know, superpowered. I guess I'm getting into character. Great. Also, I would just try to see if I could connect with any Doug dog.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Doug, make a.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

So you're five floors away from me. Okay.

[Gustavo Soroll]

And also facing in the opposite direction. Doug, make a perception check. Mm.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

25. Gus.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Oh, you hear Tove's voice on the wind calling out to you.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Hello.

[Blaine Gibson]

Do I roll a perception at super disadvantage?

[Gustavo Soroll]

I love the. You know, that's an audio podcast that people can't see. But I love, like, how Barbara was playing it. Like she was actually in the. In the moment, like, looking around, confused.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Tov, is that you?

[Gustavo Soroll]

We'll say you're able to hear Doug because Doug was able to hear you.

[Chris Darius]

Oh, okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It's crazy that I could hear you all the way on the 11th floor when I'm on the sixth floor.

[Blaine Gibson]

Actually. Sound off, Natty.

[Chris Darius]

Gunther. I guess I would hear this. I'm right next.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Gunther. You would definitely hear this because you're on the seventh floor, so you're right. You're right by Doug.

[Chris Darius]

No, it is me, Gunther and Natty.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Just make a perception check to see if you hear it.

[Blaine Gibson]

It's a 10.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

We all know sound doesn't travel up.

[Gustavo Soroll]

So if you're screaming up too tall, I'll say you don't hear Doug. But no, you are further away. They're all, like, within five of each other. You're 11.

[Blaine Gibson]

Natty's just hanging out with Smiley and singing some prison songs and just having a good old time.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Maddie already has other voices inside her head, so, like, why add more?

[Gustavo Soroll]

What's that?

[Blaine Gibson]

What's that supposed to mean?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

In a good way, you know?

[Blaine Gibson]

What voices? But what do you mean in a good way?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You know, telling you to have people meet your wife and stuff like that.

[Blaine Gibson]

It's not A. I have a voice in my head.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You hear. In the distance, you hear another voice join your communication. Shut up.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Gosh.

[Blaine Gibson]

Simmons. So I never got a response back from Natty, though.

[Gustavo Soroll]

No, no Natty. But the other three of you can hear each other.

[Chris Darius]

Gigi. Gigi.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Make a perception check for Gigi.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yes. Okay, it's working. Eleven.

[Gustavo Soroll]

That's better. No. Still insufficient.

[Chris Darius]

Captain Grumbles.

[Blaine Gibson]

Captain Grumbles. Captain Grumbles.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Giggy's like a cat or a dog, like, sitting on their butt, one leg in the air, like, licking at their. At their leg.

[Blaine Gibson]

He's having a bath.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

Nothing from Captain Grumbles either.

[Gustavo Soroll]

No. No.

[Chris Darius]

Okay. Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

Now that I know at least where. Well, I would have already known this. And I already knew that Natty was on the 22nd floor because we were on the thing with them. And through echolocation, Tolv knows roughly where the others are below you.

[Gustavo Soroll]

The others can yell at you and tell you where they are.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay. Oh, where are you guys? Gunther, Dog.

[Chris Darius]

I'm in the prison.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, God. Oh, that's great. Yes. What floor?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

He's on the seventh floor. One above me. I'm on the sixth.

[Blaine Gibson]

Sixth. Sixth floor.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Good.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, great.

[Gustavo Soroll]

This sounds like a math problem. If Gunther is one floor above Doug, but Doug is four floors below Toll, what floor is Natty on?

[Blaine Gibson]

And I'm with Wiseau.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

And. What was the horse's name?

[Blaine Gibson]

Wait, wait, the one that died? Terry.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

No, it's just a. It's like the horse's name is Wednesday.

[Blaine Gibson]

Sorry, I don't know what my intent was with communication. I just want to see if I could establish comms. I'm sorry. Gus, get your head out of your hands. I've tried to the party splitting is breaking my brain. Okay, you had a plan. Just do your plan. Yeah, just do your plan. Yeah, I'm just gonna follow through with it. I. Well, I don't want to. I can't communicate with them what the plan is, because then I'm just gonna be like, oh, hey, I'm gonna be on the roof, and I'm gonna ambush whoever walks in. All right, so now I kind of roughly know where everybody is. I'm gonna. Spider Man. I'm gonna stay there on the roof waiting for the guard to come in and for Duck Fog to do his part.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay, sounds good. Doug, do you have any ideas here?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, what I was gonna try to do is make some clay, slash mud out of this dirt and water, and try to reach around and stick it in the keyhole to get the mold of the key and then make my own key with the conveniently placed wood pieces and whittling.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I was wondering what the point of all of that was.

[Blaine Gibson]

You agreed to it. We all heard. Hey, audience, you heard them.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's true.

[Gustavo Soroll]

It's there. Yeah, it's there.

[Blaine Gibson]

Sure. It's all there.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. You can begin working on that once it's recorded.

[Blaine Gibson]

It's legally binding.

[Gustavo Soroll]

There's no editing.

[Blaine Gibson]

That's right.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Like, leap on. Exactly. Because I assume we don't have any of our, like, tools, Right? Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

I have my yoga pants. My magic yoga pants.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Whoa.

[Blaine Gibson]

But that's about it. Yeah.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Lululemon. Yeah, we'll say it'll take you not that long, but it's gonna take you a couple minutes to. To get to work on that. We'll have you make like, a. A check for crafting or whatnot whenever we come back around.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Natty, it would be your turn, but duck fog starts screaming. Guards. Guards. He's gone. My best friend. He left me. And he begins crying like it's not. You don't think he's acting. You think that he's genuinely crying and sad.

[Chris Darius]

I'm all alone again.

[Blaine Gibson]

Upside down, looking at him, like, shrugging. But he's also, like, beckoning more out of him, like, yes, yes, he left.

[Chris Darius]

Me just like everyone always leaves me. I'm all alone. And he escaped and ran away.

[Gustavo Soroll]

And he took my juice.

[Chris Darius]

Good.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay. I don't know what the juice is, but that's good. Keep going. Keep going.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes.

[Blaine Gibson]

Kids. Juice.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You hear more of that greeting? Knocking coming on your ceiling. Two loud thumps.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, I hold.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

And he doesn't know what that means, right?

[Gustavo Soroll]

No, he has no idea what that means. It's greetings. They're saying hello.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, yes. They're being friendly.

[Gustavo Soroll]

And two guards show up at your cell and unlock the door and come rushing in.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay. All right. Now I have a choice here. Choice.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Do I gotta act fast?

[Blaine Gibson]

I know. I'm gonna stealthily drop on the one that's closest to the door while keeping my. Me closest. Like, I'm gonna put myself between the guards and the door, and I'm gonna try to grapple with the one that's closest to the door.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I got you. Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Soroll]

So you drop down to the ground atop the guard, and you try to grapple him. Make a strength check.

[Blaine Gibson]

Since this looks a surprise attack, do you even do anything? Like, sort of disadvantage?

[Gustavo Soroll]

You get advantage?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Sure.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay. Okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

All right.

[Blaine Gibson]

Strength check. All right. That's a. Come on. Gotta do better.

[Gustavo Soroll]

And as a barbarian, if you rage, don't you get advantage on that anyway?

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, my God, you're so right. It's great. I'm gonna go ahead and click that rage. I got a 17, but I'll do it. Do I do another or. I guess that was it. Right. Okay, so, 17. 17.

[Gustavo Soroll]

17. All right, I'm gonna make my roll here. Ooh, I rolled a 13. Yeah. So you land atop the guard and pin him to the ground.

[Blaine Gibson]

Can I disarm and take whatever weapon he has on him?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. He's got a longsword in his hand. Yeah. You're able to knock him to the ground, pin him, and pull the longsword out of his hand.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, and then that guy's prone. Right. Is he any sort of unconscious, or do I need to just finish him off here?

[Gustavo Soroll]

He's prone. He's probably not unconscious. Let me make a roll just to verify that he's awake. He's conscious. You've just pinned him to the ground and disarmed him.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, this is what I'll do. I'll pick him up and I'll put the sword to his neck, and I'm gonna hold him hostage, and I'm gonna get the other guard's attention and say, drop your sword and give it to the elf over there. The drunken elf.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Give your weapon to this drunk guy.

[Blaine Gibson]

Do as I say or this guy gets it.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. Make a intimidation check. Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

14.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. The other guard drops his sword to the ground and kicks it over towards Duck Fog.

[Blaine Gibson]

Duck Fog. It's okay. I'm here.

[Chris Darius]

I'm back.

[Blaine Gibson]

Make your way over to the door. We're gonna get out of here. Okay?

[Chris Darius]

What's the point?

[Blaine Gibson]

Duck Fog, get it together, man. We gotta get out of here.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Oh, he just begins shuffling towards the door.

[Chris Darius]

The sword.

[Blaine Gibson]

Pick up the sword.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Oh, the sword.

[Blaine Gibson]

That's the one. Yeah. Come on.

[Gustavo Soroll]

He grabs it, and he's just, like, dragging it like a little kid dragging, like a stuffed animal. He's holding onto the hilt, and the blade is just scraping along the floor.

[Blaine Gibson]

This gives a little bit more enthusiasm. Okay, we need to be, like. We need to be on point. All right? We're getting out of here. Okay. Is he out?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, he got to the door and.

[Blaine Gibson]

Whoa, whoa.

[Gustavo Soroll]

We're really, really high up here.

[Chris Darius]

Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

We're, like, midway up the tower, but we got a ways to go. I'm going to then push the other guard that I have in my grasp further into the cell and try to close the door and lock them in?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, you shove them into the. Into the cell and pull it out and close the door.

[Blaine Gibson]

Do we cut away to another person or do. Am I keeping this going? I don't know.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Well, it seems like you're making progress here.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, Duck fog. All right. Super serious. Look me in the eyes. Look at me.

[Gustavo Soroll]

He's looking at you. His eyes are glassy and bloodshot.

[Blaine Gibson]

Follow my finger. Duck fog, follow my finger.

[Gustavo Soroll]

He's following your finger with his eyes. And you see him start to lean backwards.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay. No, I grab duck fog and bring him in. All right, now. God, your breath is so bad. Duck fog. We've got to break my friends out of here.

[Chris Darius]

Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

The more people we break out, the stronger we'll be. The stronger we'll be, the better chance we have of getting everyone out.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

The of.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

Great. Okay.

[Chris Darius]

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[Blaine Gibson]

With someone saying, we take care of each other.

[Chris Darius]

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[Blaine Gibson]

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[Chris Darius]

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[Blaine Gibson]

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[Barbara Dunkelman]

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[Blaine Gibson]

It would make sense to go further, deeper if the exit is up so that we could get Doug and Gunther and then work our way up to Natty. Okay, so we're. I'm going to go. I'm going to go further down.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Why don't. Yeah. So you're gonna climb down. I guess the next person down from you would be Gunther on floor seven.

[Chris Darius]

Ready for his to spring his trap. Yes.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, no.

[Gustavo Soroll]

That being said, it is hailing and it's kind of treacherous climbing up and down you do have. Oh, you have those stockings, though.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, I guess. Maybe you should describe this to me. Are you thinking you would climb down or use like the gangplank? Because the gangplank is how the guards show up. It extends from the watchtower and then they come over and then go back.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, so like the gangplank also can move between floors. Got it. So there's no staircases connecting the actual places.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Correct. So you either have to use a gangplank or climb the face of the tower.

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, I can't do that without losing duck fog. And never leave a duck fog behind. So we're going to the gangplank.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay. You can cross the gangplank over to the watchtower. I guess from where this point is, you would be able to adjust what floor you go to without alerting the guards who are up on the top of the tower.

[Blaine Gibson]

I would slowly make my way down until I found Gunther.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay, why don't Blaine, you tell me what floor is Gunther on?

[Blaine Gibson]

I wouldn't know. I mean, I know that he's on the seventh floor.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Would you not have heard us say that?

[Blaine Gibson]

Doug said it.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah, Doug said it.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Doug said it. Yeah. Doug told you what they were.

[Blaine Gibson]

Doug said it. So then I know because of the math equation. Yes. Yes. I'll go to the seventh floor.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Seventh floor.

[Chris Darius]

Okay.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay. Yeah. You. You and your. Your note taking and your brain got the best of me today, Blaine.

[Blaine Gibson]

Aha. Aha.

[Gustavo Soroll]

How about thee you begin going to the seventh floor. Gunther, make a perception check.

[Chris Darius]

Okay. Get ready. Aim 14.

[Gustavo Soroll]

The guards are coming. Gunther.

[Chris Darius]

Get ready. Wiseau. We have. We have but seconds. Get ready. Activate.

[Gustavo Soroll]

The gangplank extends and connects to the door. And you hear footsteps approaching.

[Chris Darius]

Get ready.

[Blaine Gibson]

Whose turn is in this initiative?

[Chris Darius]

It's Wiso.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. The locking mechanism. You put this on the npc. The locking mechanism begins opening and Wiso throws the the bucket just like splam.

[Chris Darius]

Oh my God.

[Blaine Gibson]

Please give me a saving throw. Please let me try to.

[Gustavo Soroll]

We'll see if Weiss was even able to throw it correctly. First of all, he rolled an 11. He tries to toss the bucket, but the content just splatter all over the floor. Non hitting none hitting toll.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's a full bucket.

[Blaine Gibson]

I'm not listening to this episode for the Foley. I'm not doing it.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I'll help make the Foley if you want.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, but Gunther, you see that it's actually not a guard. As the. The filth hits the floor, you realize it's not a guard. But Your friend, Toll. Yoo hoo.

[Blaine Gibson]

It's me To Skywalker. I'm here to rescue you.

[Chris Darius]

Okay. So I saw Toll before I. I activated my plan.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, yeah. You only. The first part of your plan started, and then now. You see, it's Toll.

[Blaine Gibson]

Toll ventures. It slips around a little bit.

[Chris Darius]

When did you be? How? This is why.

[Blaine Gibson]

So, Duck Fog, this is my friend Gunther. Communication is not as strong. Soon. He's very surprised to see me right now.

[Chris Darius]

It's a pleasure to meet you. This is why. So we cannot leave him behind. I will not leave behind anyone this time.

[Blaine Gibson]

That's okay. We're gonna go rescue Doug after this. And then we're gonna make our way back up to Natty. Duck fog, how are you feeling about that sword? You wanna give it to my friend Gunther?

[Chris Darius]

He's great with the sword.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. Duck fog just kind of drops the sword.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay. I gingerly take it and hand it to Gunther. He just throws it off the gangplank into the water.

[Chris Darius]

Wait. Do you have a weapon? Do you have a weapon?

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, I have the other sword.

[Gustavo Soroll]

It's a long sword. Yeah.

[Chris Darius]

I hand the stabby rock to Wyso. Thanks for giving me back my stuff.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay, so I assume you all head back and readjust the gangplank to go to your next location.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yes. Or we have to go one floor down to get dug.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I hear you guys pretty good from up here.

[Chris Darius]

Do not throw the poo. It is us coming.

[Blaine Gibson]

Whatever you do, do not throw fecal matter. Okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Don't worry. Was to not even cross my mind.

[Blaine Gibson]

That wasn't part of your plan?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

No.

[Chris Darius]

Well, she never would have gotten out of here.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You go one floor lower and come up to the cell that's got dug inside of it.

[Blaine Gibson]

But the door doesn't open. It seems the lock is filled with mud.

[Chris Darius]

Oh.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Oh, actual mud.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I swear this mud is not poop.

[Blaine Gibson]

What is it with you people and feces? Why do you do this?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It's mud.

[Blaine Gibson]

I don't believe you.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It's mud. It's just a bunch of bramble crack, you know?

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay. All right.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, it takes a little bit of work to. To clear the mud. But you're able to get it cleared out and open up the door and reunite with your friend Doug.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Just in time for me to finish the key.

[Blaine Gibson]

That's great though, because we have a backup, you know, and we can. Here's the thing. We know that Natty is on the 22nd floor. We were all there when we dropped her off. Okay. Do we want to continue to go floor by floor and let everybody out or should we just go straight to Natty? What do you guys think?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Could Doug like bring him closer so that Henjamin can't hear?

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay. Yes, Hello.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I don't think we should be freeing some of these folks. This guy's kinda unhinged.

[Blaine Gibson]

You mean the one he has no teeth? That's on.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

He's scratching the walls. He hasn't stopped since I got here. Also, he's an Undarian spy.

[Blaine Gibson]

Can tolve quietly look over Doug's shoulder. What does he see?

[Gustavo Soroll]

You look over his shoulder and you see a grill who's clawing at the walls and then he takes a break and then opens up his mouth and begins like gumming at the walls. You see he's got no teeth. He's just like trying to dig into the walls with his gums.

[Blaine Gibson]

I quietly put a hand done Doug and just kind of guide him out and close the door. He's okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay. I already put stuffing under the sheets of my bed, so he thinks I'm still in here.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, that's great. Okay, well then in that case, maybe we should just go to. Wait. Oh wait. What are we doing? We. We.

[Chris Darius]

We need to find Bun Lap.

[Blaine Gibson]

Bun Lap? Where could Bun Lap be?

[Chris Darius]

Where in from memory. Did I know what floor he was on before?

[Gustavo Soroll]

You remember Bunlap being on the top of the tower? The top floor.

[Chris Darius]

The top floor.

[Blaine Gibson]

But would that hold up though? Because didn't one of our guys say that they change the towers freely? They can walk to and fro the cell blocks.

[Gustavo Soroll]

They can sometimes visit between them.

[Chris Darius]

I believe he was on the top floor. We shall check.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, on the gangplank, is there any sort of like documentation or anything listing off prisoners?

[Chris Darius]

That's a good idea.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, we'll say. Yes. There's a piece of parchment on the watchtower side that has all of the different floors and all of the different prisoners listed.

[Blaine Gibson]

I don't want to be too much of a stretch here. It's okay if it's not the case. But does it show anything about what they're in for or anything like that?

[Gustavo Soroll]

For some of them, yes. Not for all of them.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, how many of them are Undarian?

[Gustavo Soroll]

You see on the list there's about four Undarians who are currently captured.

[Blaine Gibson]

We could just go and release the people that aren't Undorian.

[Chris Darius]

Die from what? We do not know why they lock people up. They are not honest. Oh. Who are we to be judged a jury and not executioner? We're not killing people, but, you know, like prison war.

[Blaine Gibson]

Like Dean. Yeah, whatever that. Yeah. Were you gonna say Dean? I was gonna say Dean of the prison.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Dean of the prison.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Principal prison.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yes.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I majored in hooch making with a minor in shivs.

[Blaine Gibson]

I'm an inmate with honors.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, man.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, I mean, what do you guys think? Do you think we should just. We got to find Bunlap. We got to find Natty. We got to find Captain Grumbles.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I think you should at least get Natty back in the group.

[Chris Darius]

Yes.

[Gustavo Soroll]

If I were to give a suggestion and then make the decision.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, well, I mean, Gonzo did say that last he remembered, Bunlap was on the top floor. So we just start making our way up, maybe take a quick little glance as we go to get natty on the 22nd, and then keep going.

[Chris Darius]

As we go up, we will ask people if they should be in prison or not.

[Blaine Gibson]

That might take a while. Let's get the most important people out of here.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That'll happen between. There's, like, a cutscene, and then we'll be in the 22nd floor.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, yeah. Okay, so I want to refer to the list as Captain Grumbles.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Between us and Natty, Captain Grumbles will say. Yes, is on fire. Floor 19.

[Blaine Gibson]

We go to 19. All right, let's go. We got to go to 19. We got to get Captain Grumbles out. He's the most important member of this team.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

We leave him there.

[Blaine Gibson]

I mean, never leave a man behind.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, that's true.

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, Gunther, do you want to save Captain Grumbles?

[Chris Darius]

Yeah, I think we should save Captain Grumbles.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, I think that that's the tiebreaker, then. Let's go to floor 19.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You go to floor 19, and as you're approaching it, you hear the sound of sea shanties interspersed with bleeps as you approach.

[Blaine Gibson]

That's our man.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Hey, Captain Grumbles.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Captain Grumbles is leading his cellmate along in a rousing sea shanty.

[Blaine Gibson]

I open the door, this guy that I resurrected like. Like four months ago.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes.

[Chris Darius]

He's become our pet.

[Blaine Gibson]

He's the heart of the team, John. We need him.

[Chris Darius]

I love it.

[Blaine Gibson]

So, see, I say, Captain Grumbles, come to me. Okay, watch the language.

[Chris Darius]

Captain Grumbles, who's your new friend?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

Hey, you, new guy. What's your deal?

[Gustavo Soroll]

It's a human. He sticks out his hand. Says the name's Baby Face Red.

[Chris Darius]

Baby Face Red.

[Blaine Gibson]

You stay here, Baby Face.

[Gustavo Soroll]

No, no, I'm trying to get out of here.

[Chris Darius]

Let's go, Baby Fish. Red, have you seen one like me?

[Gustavo Soroll]

You did?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

You call him Baby Fish?

[Blaine Gibson]

Chris is what's it called when you.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You get like.

[Blaine Gibson]

He's allergic to names.

[Chris Darius]

Yes.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Baby Fish.

[Blaine Gibson]

Doo doo doo doo. Yes.

[Gustavo Soroll]

30Th floor.

[Chris Darius]

Perfect. Baby Face.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, Baby Face, you're cool.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Come on in.

[Chris Darius]

Don't throw high fives him.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Oh, right, yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

I'm just part of the gang.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Another military deserter like you guys.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, great. Yes. Can't wait to have more people along for this journey. That we have to remember.

[Chris Darius]

Do not judge one.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, let's make our way to. We go to the 22nd now we get Natty.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay, Natty and.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

And I assume also we didn't find Bunlap as we were going up, right?

[Gustavo Soroll]

No, but you don't think you would have found him by now. Okay, but yeah, you have not seen him him so far. Yeah. You go up to the 22nd floor and you see Natty and Giggy and Stitches in there. Smiley. Stitches.

[Chris Darius]

What are they doing?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Ditches is doing jumping jacks now. Natty, what are you doing?

[Blaine Gibson]

Just playing with dolls With Giggy.

[Gustavo Soroll]

What are the dolls saying?

[Blaine Gibson]

The doll. Hey.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah?

[Blaine Gibson]

You ever wonder why we're here? Oh, God, the prison madness is already taken.

[Chris Darius]

Natty.

[Blaine Gibson]

She's too far gone.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Who would come up with such a line?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Natty, your friends or not your friends, your travel companions are all at the door.

[Blaine Gibson]

Hey, they're Natty's friends. You're getting that mixed up with Matid. Okay, Smiley, we're saved.

[Chris Darius]

Amazing. Let's get out of here.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, let's get out of here. Hey, everybody, this is my friend, Smiley. Hi, Smiley.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, he's a dretch. And he goes around with an outstretched hand, shaking everyone's hand.

[Chris Darius]

Pleasure to meet you.

[Blaine Gibson]

You too. Hope you're not undarian.

[Chris Darius]

Oh, I am.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, good.

[Chris Darius]

Are we getting out of here? Oh, yeah, if you're not busy after this.

[Gustavo Soroll]

He puts his arm around you to hold.

[Chris Darius]

Would you like, want to hang out?

[Blaine Gibson]

You know, for now we're buds. Enemy of my enemy is my friend. So let's get out of here. We're looking for one more party member.

[Chris Darius]

Great.

[Blaine Gibson]

30Th floor. 30th floor.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Everybody is at the top?

[Chris Darius]

Yeah, based off the intel we have.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay, you all head to the top of the tower at the 30th floor. And you open up the door. All of you make a investigation check.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay.

[Chris Darius]

113 nat. 20 for 1910.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You open the door and look around and find that the cell is Empty. There is no prisoner inside.

[Blaine Gibson]

Dang it.

[Chris Darius]

God. Can I look in and look for any, I don't know, writings or signs or things I might find familiar?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. You begin searching the room. You had, like, a 19 on your investigation, right, Gunther?

[Chris Darius]

Yeah, I had a nat 20 that became a 19.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay. You begin searching the room, and in the cot, you find something hidden in the stuffing. It's a petite frozen manacle skeleton hand. It's attached to a key.

[Blaine Gibson]

Is it crook folk skeleton?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Could Doug take it and hold it up to Gunther's hand and see if it matches?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, you take a look at it, and it doesn't quite seem to match. It doesn't seem like it's a croakfolk hand.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Was Bunlap some other species?

[Chris Darius]

Mm, mm. Not his crowfolk.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

He was in a thoad.

[Blaine Gibson]

Uh, didn't you guys have a manifest of who's in the prison? Yeah, we found one on the gangplank thing. Is bun lap on there? I check it again.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, bunlep is on there. 30. Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

See, like invisible frogman Gunther, as you're.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Looking around, Gunther, since you know you rolled pretty well, you see that you're going through every corner of this room, which takes a little longer than normal because it's a hexagon and not just a square. So there's a few extra corners to deal with. But you see that the central column in the middle of the prison cell seems to have some kind of, like, it's uneven in its construction. It seems to be like there's a seam that runs along it.

[Chris Darius]

Could we try pushing it or pulling it or seeing if that key somehow activates it?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Make a strength check for me, gunther.

[Chris Darius]

But another nat 20 for 19. That's two 20s in a row. I did spit at my camera in excitement. I don't know if y' all saw that.

[Blaine Gibson]

Thrilled.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Well, two 20s in a row is. Is pretty good. So the dice are in your favor today. Yeah. You begin pulling at it a little bit, and you see that where the stone is uneven, there's, like, an adhesive holding it together. And as you pull at it, that begins stretching and giving, and you're able to pull more and more. And you see that there's a small hidden door in the central column that was being held by this adhesive. And you've now separated it.

[Blaine Gibson]

It's a brown adhesive.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. Maybe it's just my mud.

[Chris Darius]

Where does it go, this door?

[Gustavo Soroll]

You look and you see that there is indeed a hollow shaft in the center of this column. That seems to run, well, all the way up to the rooftop, which is pretty much where you're at. Then all the way down to the very depths of the dungeon. And there is a pulley system inside of it.

[Blaine Gibson]

I think Bunlap ain't here. I think we just broke into a prison for no reason.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Could Doug take the key that's in the hand?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

So he escaped. I don't know.

[Chris Darius]

We do not. We don't know.

[Blaine Gibson]

He didn't leave, like, any notes or anything or.

[Chris Darius]

We do not know. The only way to know would be to speak with the warden.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, I don't think that's the only option. I think it's fun to say things as absolutes, but it's not always true.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Also, we're kind of. You know, they tried.

[Blaine Gibson]

They.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

They arrested us, and then we're technically breaking out. So I don't know if we should just go find a warden to be like, hey, what's up? Put us back or whatever.

[Blaine Gibson]

Lol.

[Gustavo Soroll]

It's us.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Wid you guys have flaws in your.

[Blaine Gibson]

Prison question Police system. We're at the top, right?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. There is a roof at the. Obviously at the very top of the tower, but you are on the 30th floor, which is the top floor of the tower. And the pulley system seems to go all the way down.

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, I feel like this might be a way out of the prison without having to go through the watchtower.

[Chris Darius]

Yes.

[Blaine Gibson]

Which might be in our best interest.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

And maybe that's how Bunlap got out of here.

[Blaine Gibson]

That's what I'm thinking. So you think we should go down?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Do we know what Bunlap looked like or what kind of creature he was?

[Chris Darius]

Yeah, he was like Gunther, but bigger and stronger.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Could Doug look around and see if there's any, like, footprints or any clues of, like, something that was broken or, like, moved that he might have escaped through or, like, a path he might have taken in this cell.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Make a survival check for me, Nat.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

20 for 20 free.

[Chris Darius]

Oh, God.

[Blaine Gibson]

What is with you guys in these twenties? Amazing.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I know. The dice just glided.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You do see footprints. You see, like, three sets of footprints coming from the door. And then what appear to be, like, maybe a scuffle of some kind with another set of footprints and then drag marks that head to the shaft.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Okay, maybe. Maybe Bunlap pushed the guards down the shaft to their doom. Do we see any bodies down there?

[Blaine Gibson]

That's a nicer thing than I was gonna say. You thought of a nicer thing than what I thought, actually. Happened. We're just gonna go with that.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Oh, Doug, as you're following the tracks and, like, you know, following the drag marks to the shaft of you hear what appear to be pained screams echoing from below.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Could I look down?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, you look down and the shaft descends into darkness. You have darkvision, though, right?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Gustavo Soroll]

It extends beyond the range of your dark vision. It's 30 stories all the way down. So you can see what, like 30ft with darkvision? How far is darkvision?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes, but what if I imbued a little clump of mud with a radius light?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. How big's the radius on that?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It's only five feet. But if I drop it all the way to the bottom, it'll light up the bottom, which might, you know.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah, but then they'll know we are coming.

[Gustavo Soroll]

If you want, you tell me.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, I want to do that.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay. Yeah. Doug, you imbue a clump of mud with some light and drop it down the shaft. And you see it fall all the way down, presumably 30 floors down to the bottom. And then it stops. It seems to hit something at the bottom and stops.

[Blaine Gibson]

Natty wants to investigate the pulley system.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. Is there something specific you want to know about it?

[Blaine Gibson]

Is it, like, if Natty just starts, like, pulling it, does something sound like it's coming up?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. You begin pulling on it, and it sounds like something is. Is indeed coming up. And after pulling on it for a bit, like a small platform comes up.

[Blaine Gibson]

With a piece of mud that's glowing.

[Gustavo Soroll]

We'Ll say, no, you can still see the light down at the bottom. We'll say it bounced and fell off the platform. Just. Unless you. Hell, I'm trying to help you guys.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, I think I got a strong notion we should go to the bottom of this to get to the bottom of this.

[Chris Darius]

I do not. I do not want to leave without my friend. I have already done it once.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, we're not leaving. We're still technically in the area of this prison. We're just investigating because he's not here.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Chris Darius]

That was Gunther agreeing.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah. It's not clear when you talk like.

[Chris Darius]

That for clarification, like saying yes.

[Gustavo Soroll]

It sounded like you were disagreeing to me. Yeah.

[Chris Darius]

No, no, no. Sorry. That was him agreeing, wanting to investigate before leaving.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay.

[Chris Darius]

Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

The only thing I'll add to this, actually Tolve wants to look at the kind of prison manifest type thing and see if there's anything about gear, equipment, like things held from the prisoners on there.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. There's an inventory And a locker denoted by everyone. And it indicates where your equipment is being stored in the watchtower.

[Blaine Gibson]

What? Oh, the watchtower is in the thing that's separate. Like, that's outside of our.

[Gustavo Soroll]

On the other side of the gangplank.

[Chris Darius]

Farts.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, guys, you remember in.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I think it was the previous episode, Maybe the one before when you first walked into the watchtower? I said there were a bunch of crates. Yeah, all of those crates are numbered. And presumably it's in one of those crates.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, I mean, we're already on the gangplank. Is it across, like, close enough? Or is it, like. Do. I think it's where more guards are?

[Gustavo Soroll]

You've already been back and forth there a few times as you've been activating it, so. Oh, you think you'd be. All right.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay, before we go, gang, let's go get our equipment. It's over here. So let's go through these crates. Okay, we do that.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, you all find ourselves. Hey, Doug, it's Gambot Kill.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, I missed you, buddy.

[Blaine Gibson]

It's Bjorn's skin. Oh, I missed you, buddy.

[Chris Darius]

Can I look in box 30?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, they're not numbered by the cell. It's like. Oh, it's just random numbers. Presumably, for each crate, they number the crates starting from one instead of attached to the cell. It's a horribly inefficient system.

[Chris Darius]

All right, is there any way for me to search and see if I could find Bunlap's? See if. Yeah, they exist still? Because that would also give information as to whether or not he's here.

[Blaine Gibson]

Sure.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You see next to Bundlap's name on the manifest that there is a number next to Bundlap's name. So you find that box and open it up, and you see what you know to be Bunlap's gear in there. There's the familiar greenplate, armor, lance, longbow and shield.

[Chris Darius]

Yes, he is here.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Well, he wouldn't leave without taking his stuff, right?

[Chris Darius]

No.

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, that begs the question, Gunther, when you broke out the last time, did you take your stuff?

[Chris Darius]

I guess I didn't.

[Blaine Gibson]

Is your old crate somewhere here?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Oh, yeah, you probably would have because you had the sword hilt from your father.

[Chris Darius]

That's right, I did. So I must have.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. Yeah. So I would assume you did take your stuff.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yes.

[Blaine Gibson]

Sorry, Chris. I was trying to hook you up with, like, a cool, like, sword upgrade or something, but.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah. Yeah, I'll get you next time.

[Blaine Gibson]

All right. So should we take the shaft down? Yes, yes, please.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay.

[Chris Darius]

Quickly, baby. Face. Duck. Fog. Wiseau. Let's go. Oh, I. I think we're good. We're going to see our way out. There's no way we're going back to the prison fair.

[Blaine Gibson]

This actually. This actually works out because they can kind of be a distraction.

[Chris Darius]

Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

Best of luck. You can do it. We believe in you.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah. They just make their way out of the watchtower into the frozen waste.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I'm worried about what we just let loose on society.

[Blaine Gibson]

It's a necessary evil for us to get out of here and to find Bun Lap.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

As long as Kenjamin's still locked away.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Like, smash cut to Kendra. Just, like, looking around and realizing he's all alone.

[Blaine Gibson]

Poor Kenjamin. Kendran probably just thinks he imagined Doug or something.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay. Yeah. You all cross back over to the prison tower and make your way into the shaft and then make your way down to the very base of it. All of you make me. Perception checks.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay. Oh, my God.

[Chris Darius]

That's another 20.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Is that three in a row for you?

[Blaine Gibson]

I also got an A20.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

That's. That would be.

[Chris Darius]

That's three in a row.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Three, four, five 20s in a row from us collectively.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Deep dive on's broken today.

[Blaine Gibson]

Guess what, guys?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I got a critical failure balancing it out. I got a nine.

[Gustavo Soroll]

You got a nine. Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

Daddy just falls down.

[Gustavo Soroll]

As you all are descending, you can hear the muted sounds of screams and water droplets. And you notice that the air is becoming even colder. It's bitterly cold. And you come to the very bottom of the shaft, and you see Doug's little clump of illuminated mud here at the floor with you.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I'll grab that.

[Blaine Gibson]

Giggy eats it. You just see the light is your light, Doogie.

[Gustavo Soroll]

It's like you put, like, a red filter or red gel over the light. And Gigi's just like. There's, like, a dull red light illuminating this, the shaft.

[Chris Darius]

And then we see inside of Gigi and all the other things that Gigi's.

[Blaine Gibson]

Eating, like, floating around in there. Coins, rocks.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Oh, that's gonna be. All that stuff's gonna be so bad when it has to pass. He pooped once a year.

[Chris Darius]

There are my pebbles.

[Gustavo Soroll]

And on the floor here, you see a hatch with what's called a dog. It's like a wheel handle for the pulley.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay. I open the hatch.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Okay, you open up the hatch. And inside, on the other side of the hatch, I should say, you see a hexagonal room. A rather large hexagonal room. It's got a metal floor with walls and a ceiling that's 60ft high. The floor is flooded with a few feet of frigid, bloody water and patches of ice. Oh, there's a large and tall pedestal. It's about 30ft high in the center with shackles attached to the sides. Then there are also six tapestries, one hanging. Hanging on each wall.

[Blaine Gibson]

Are we at the top of this thing looking down into it?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, correct. You're at the ceiling, like, looking down into it.

[Blaine Gibson]

What's it lit by?

[Gustavo Soroll]

There are sconces with torches in them that appear to be illuminating the room.

[Blaine Gibson]

Anybody attached to the shackles?

[Gustavo Soroll]

No, Bundlap is not on the. On the platform.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I wonder whose skeleton hand that was in Bundlap's cell.

[Chris Darius]

I think that was a skeleton key.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

No, it was a key in a skeleton hand that was manacled. So I don't know whose hand that was, but it didn't look to be the size of what Buntlatts would be. So maybe just a guard or the other cellmate or something.

[Blaine Gibson]

I don't know. But I need to talk to this interior designer. I mean, I love what they've done with the place. Smiley talked about this place. He said there's a basement where. Where naughty people went to. I see. What are the tapestries? Should we drop down?

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah.

[Blaine Gibson]

Is there a way to get down that like someone would normally do, or is it like you just get. Normally just get thrown in?

[Gustavo Soroll]

It does not appear there's a way to let yourself down.

[Blaine Gibson]

Who's got rope? I have spider silk stockings that can help me walk walls. That doesn't help. That is not the question I asked. Well, I could take people down with me because I can walk on the walls.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I believe I have rope.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah, I have rope, too.

[Blaine Gibson]

Can we tie it off and lower it down?

[Chris Darius]

Sure.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Let me do my spirit special nautical knots that to taught me.

[Chris Darius]

Oh, I've read a book about this.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah. To's book.

[Blaine Gibson]

Keep mentioning it because every time you do, I get royalties.

[Gustavo Soroll]

As you're doing that, Doug, you feel like you hear a muffled voice calling out.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Doug would go towards the voice. Guys, I think I heard someone over here.

[Gustavo Soroll]

It seems like it's coming from behind one of the tapestries.

[Blaine Gibson]

Interesting. I asked earlier, but it kind of got glazed over. What are on the tapestries?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, there's six tapestries, one hanging on each wall. One of them is a gradient of blue colors. Another one appears to depict a pile of bloody limbs and bones. The next one is a pair of hands with fingers tied together. Another one is a tombstone Like a pizza. Yeah, exactly. Pepperoni.

[Blaine Gibson]

Pepperoni. Or like supreme.

[Gustavo Soroll]

The next one is two faces, one of which is covering its ears and the other is covering its eyes. And the final one is a face filled with a question mark. Okay.

[Blaine Gibson]

Yeah, that tells us a lot. How if you didn't.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

This is all within the prison area, huh?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yes. You're presumably like at the bottom or below the prison.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Yeah, potentially underground.

[Gustavo Soroll]

As you all are taking the room in, a faceless yet familiar voice reflects off the walls.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

There's no use hiding it.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I can smell your fear. The warden steps out from behind the tombstone tapestry and takes in a deep breath through her nose. You feel a tingle run down your spine. Everyone make a charisma. Saving throw.

[Chris Darius]

Oh.

[Blaine Gibson]

All right, let's get rizzy. That's a four.

[Chris Darius]

Okay.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

18.

[Gustavo Soroll]

16.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

20.

[Chris Darius]

Dirty 20.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Nice.

[Blaine Gibson]

Well, I'm glad one of us failed so we could see what's gonna happen. And I. Yeah, I did that for you guys.

[Chris Darius]

There you go.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Cold. You feel an all consuming fear washing over you like an ice cold wave. You immediately drop within your hands and take off, running in the opposite direction, away from the warden as fast as you can. Metagame wise, you're under the condition frightened the other three of you. You steel yourself as a deluge of fear crashes over you. But even though it doesn't take fully control, your knees buckle beneath you, forcing you to fall prone.

[Blaine Gibson]

Oh, okay. In here, no one can hear your screams. In here, I am the warden. In here, I am the queen of nightmares.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Her horn rimmed spectacles flash over her eyes and the tapestry behind her flaps from a gas. The thread work shifts from a tombstone into a crank. And all at once, the crank begins ratcheting with a click, click, click, click. And the ceiling rumbles to life, lowering menacingly toward the floor. And you.

[Chris Darius]

Everyone, roll initiative.

[Blaine Gibson]

We're never finding this stupid frog bun. Lap died years ago.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

It ain't easy being green.

[Gustavo Soroll]

We're dealing with the Shutter island situation here.

[Chris Darius]

Yeah, it's time for battle Toads.

[Gustavo Soroll]

Someone get Brian Garr on the phone. All right, thanks for listening, everybody. We'll see you next time.

[Blaine Gibson]

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[Gustavo Soroll]

What? I say.

[Blaine Gibson]

You said. You said. I don't know how to pronounce it. Skeleton. It's. It's Skellington, Gus.

[Chris Darius]

Oh.

[Gustavo Soroll]

A Skellington key. Got him, John.

[Blaine Gibson]

We got him. We got him, John.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

I was so confused. I was like. What did I hear?

[Gustavo Soroll]

Yeah, I was like. I could have sworn I said it right. I didn't think I said anything wrong.

[Chris Darius]

All right, all right.

[Gustavo Soroll]

I lose an inspiration. Die, everyone. It's a skellington. A Skellington key.

[Barbara Dunkelman]

Skellington key.

[Blaine Gibson]

Okay.