C03 - Ep. 41 - Under Oondar Fire - Swinging into Whacktion

Summary

Tales from the Stinky Dragon

Campaign 3, Episode 41: "Under Oondar Fire – Swinging into Whacktion"
April 15, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon drops the party squarely into the bizarre and dangerous Veiled Vale, where darkness, moonlight, and mysterious antlered feline creatures set the stage for a cascade of chaos, investigation, and comedy. The players must sneak, bluff, and improvise their way through a glacial fortress swarming with Undarian forces as the ongoing hunt for various gods heats up—quite literally.

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Cast & Characters

• Gustavo Sorolla (“A”) – Dungeon Master
• Jon Reisinger (“E”) – Natty Wonder (drow warlock, drag queen, bringer of the apocalypse, wife of Death)
• Chris Damaris (“G”) – Gunther (male folk fighter)
• Blaine Gibson (“F”) – Tolve (male thicc barbarian, wears his predecessor’s skin)
• Barbara Dunkelman (“D”) – Doug Boon (artificer bugbear)
• Other voices: “C”, “H” – various

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Notable Opening Moments

• Fruit Discussion (04:11–13:45): Each player answers a whimsical “favorite fruit” question, which derails into musings about weird berries, apple varieties, and fruit pie disasters—establishing the tone and camaraderie before action kicks in.
  • “Honestly, my favorite fruit is any fruit that you bake into a pie… I don’t think I’ve met one that I don’t like.” (Jon, 05:10)
  • “Of course, the sludgeberry. …It is only found at the bottom of the water. You swim down… see, you find it, and then it’s like a treat. I love my sludgeberries.” (Chris, as Gunther, 07:12)
  • “Is a coconut a fruit? …It has a hard exterior—you know, very protective, very strong. But when you get into the insides and it’s gooey and nice and refreshing and it’s just so lovely. And I feel like I relate to coconuts in that way…” (Blaine, as Tolve, 09:21)

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Key Plot Points & Segments

1. Into the Veiled Vale (14:46–18:56)

• The party is ambushed by strange tent-shaped, six-antlered, gold-flaked feline beasts emitting a glowing, golden mist.
  • Natty gets outlined by the mist, making her unable to become invisible; the rest avoid full effect.
  • Cat Etiquette: Natty’s “slow blink” (18:00) is returned by the felines—a sign of peace.

2. Doug's Vision (19:19–22:27)

• While in a trance, Doug is transported to a snowy white void and sees a haunting vision of his dead brother Phil.
  • “I saw my brother. And it was the moment he died.” (Barbara/Doug, 22:24)
• Shaken back to reality by Gunther; speculation ensues about gods being in the wrong places.

3. Observing the Fortress (24:01–32:30)

• The valley reveals a glacial fortress dripping with water, a suspended spherical building, and a labyrinth outlined by golden mist.
• The party—disguised as Undarians—opts to investigate the fortress, bypassing rest due to urgency after loud ice cracking sounds.

4. Infiltrating as Undarians (33:09–44:23)

• The crew approaches the ice fortress walls, manned by Dretch guards with “Frostbiter” breastplates.
• Hilarious, fumbling attempts at bluffing occur (“We’re all dretches… we’re all cool with dretches.” – Tolve, 38:51).
• Natty cleverly fabricates a fake badge using magic to match the guards’ sigil:
  • “Sorry, I forgot to be wearing my pass to get in. You guys are doing such a good job—keen eyes, you two.” (Natty, 42:25)

5. Looting the Armory (48:08–54:44)

• Party boards a floating igloo to the armory, finding:
  • Ice shirts and helms (very cold, “like a piece of cloth… frozen”)
  • The “Wafting War Pick” (warm, magical pick/hybrid weapon; 52:10)
  • Frostbiter breastplates, critical for blending in.
• Debate and puns about the usefulness and discomfort of freezing gear ensue.

6. Inspecting the Dragon Furnace (54:59–58:44)

• They examine a massive tungsten dragon statue, its innards acting as a furnace, flames and smoke venting constantly.
• Doug’s research recalls “the only god that looks like a dragon is the Fire Eater.”
  • “You know, you’re not 100% certain, but in the past you’ve heard rumors that the only god that looks like a dragon is the Fire Eater.” (Gustavo, 57:17)

7. Piecing Together Godly Drama (58:44–60:40)

• The group speculates about the strange musical-chairs arrangement of gods: Veiled Eye, Fire Eater, Sea Drinker, and a possible “God Swap” scenario.
  • “It feels like the gods are playing musical chairs right now, and we’re all very confused.” (F, 59:56)

8. Crane and Suspended Storage (63:05–66:18)

• The fortress houses a huge stone crane with platforms high above, loaded with supplies.
• Natty’s “Ghostly Gaze” reveals stash contents: loot and weapon crates.
• Theory: Suspended storage supports the military occupation; dragon engine is melting the whole fortress.

9. Observation & Espionage (66:24–72:03)

• Infernus, escorted by minions, inspects the fortress. The party eavesdrops.
• Key info: The Undarians are actively searching for the Veiled Eye and other missing gods (“reports are coming in of four more Mortalion soldiers missing from the front” – 69:47; “the ultimate goal is to find the Pathfinder” – 71:09).

10. Breaking Open the Dragon (72:06–96:40)

• Confirming their suspicions, the crew plans to cause a commotion (using the crane to drop crates) while Tolve and Gunther break into the dragon furnace.
• Key Checks:
  • Natty uses “time stop” to peek inside—sees a mysterious fiery being trapped.
  • Doug, using armory tools, and Gunther and Tolve with a wedge and war pick, wait for the distraction.
• Execution:
  • Crates are dropped; Tolve and Gunther synchronize their blows as the fortress descends into chaos.
  • “With a mighty bang… you hit the wedge…and the fissure opens up…cleaving it in two. And it falls apart in two giant pieces, freeing what appears to be a dragon.” (Gustavo, 95:12)
• The freed dragon (presumably the Fire Eater) bursts forth, spewing flames, collapsing the melting fortress, and sending panicked Undarians fleeing.

11. Cliffhanger (96:34–)

• The party realizes the magnitude of their actions:
  • “Did we mess up? I feel like we messed up.” (F, 96:38)
  • The episode ends as chaos reigns and the party contemplates their next move.

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Memorable Quotes

• “I feel like this is the part of the movie where you’re watching the serial killer do unhinged things, and you’re like, that is disturbing.” (Gustavo/A, 10:52)
• “Some people just like to watch the world melt.” (G, 41:56)
• “It feels like the gods are playing musical chairs right now and we’re all very confused.” (F, 59:56)
• “Should we just continue to hide as they—because they’re walking and having a conversation?” (C, 71:52)
• “With a mighty bang…you hit the wedge…and the fissure opens up…freeing what appears to be a dragon.” (A, 95:12)
• “Did we mess up? I feel like we messed up.” (F, 96:38)

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Important Timestamps

| Timeline | Segment | Description | |----------------|-----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------| | 04:11–13:45 | Fruit Q&A and Player Banter | Character intros, fruit chat, in-character humor | | 14:46–18:56 | Antlered Cat Ambush | Magical feline encounter, Natty’s animal skills | | 19:19–22:27 | Doug’s Vision | Doug's trance and vision of his brother’s death | | 24:01–32:30 | Surveying the Fortress | Describing the Veiled Vale and planning | | 33:09–44:23 | Disguised Entry | Party bluffs past dretch guards as Undarians | | 48:08–54:44 | Armory Shenanigans | Equipping icy gear, magic items, banter | | 54:59–60:40 | Furnace/Dragon Puzzle | Dragon statue, godly mysteries | | 63:05–66:18 | Crane Mechanism | Storage crane, supplies, Natty’s Ghostly Gaze | | 66:24–72:03 | Recon and Intel Gathering | Spying on Infernus, enemy plans | | 72:06–96:40 | The Big Breakout | Diverting, breaking into the statue, dragon freed | | 96:34– | Cliffhanger & Debrief | Realization and chaos as fortress collapses |

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Episode Highlights & Analysis

• Blending Humor with High Stakes: The hosts seamlessly interweave absurdity (e.g., describing fruit pies and “sludgeberries”) with genuinely tense D&D moments—balancing humor with bursts of dramatic action.
• Character Chemistry: Group improvisation and meta-conversation create genuinely unpredictable (and hilarious) outcomes, particularly during infiltration and distraction sequences.
• Layered Mysteries: The gods’ locations (and apparent body swap), military occupation, and environmental manipulation of the glacial fortress all point toward a complex, overarching narrative, with each clue wrapped in playful banter.
• Tactical Failures & Successes: The players’ slapdash infiltration and diversion plans work out—barely—culminating in the freeing of a rampaging fire dragon, with possible severe consequences.
• Self-Awareness: Players frequently joke about their own D&D logic, poor bluffing, and standard episode “mistakes,” reinforcing the show’s “foolish friends” identity.

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Final Thoughts

This episode offers a quintessential Stinky Dragon experience: equal parts D&D chaos, character-driven comedy, and immersive worldbuilding. It leaves the party (and listeners) on a literal cliffhanger—with the fortress collapsing, a god on the loose, and a war’s outcome potentially irrevocably changed.

Next Time:
What will become of the newly freed (and possibly vengeful) Fire Eater? Can the party extricate themselves from collapsing icy carnage—and outwit the Undarians as the divine game of cat-and-mouse continues?

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For full laughs and heart-pounding action, catch the next episode of “Tales from the Stinky Dragon”!

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Quick Reference

• Main Theme: Infiltration, improvisation, and accidental mass destruction in the Veiled Vale.
• Major Reveal: The Fire Eater god was entombed in a dragon furnace; now unleashed.
• Most Chaotic Moment: Simultaneous dropping of war supplies, timed blacksmith strike, and unleashing of a burning god—collapsing the ice fortress.
• Best Quote:
  • “Did we mess up? I feel like we messed up.” (F, 96:38)

Transcript

[A]

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[C]

Mom, can you tell me a story? Sure. Once upon a time, a mom needed a new car.

[D]

Was she brave?

[C]

She was tired mostly. But she went to Carvana.com and found a great car at a great price. No secret treasure map required.

[D]

Did you have to fight a dragon?

[C]

Nope. She bought it 100% online from her bed, actually.

[D]

Was it scary?

[C]

Honey, it was as unscary as car buying could be.

[D]

Did the car have a sunroof?

[C]

It did actually. Okay, good story. Car buying. You'll want to tell stories about. Buy your car today on car. Delivery fees may apply.

[E]

Felicitations, all you fated shakers. Fly on into the stinky dragon and throw back our latest thirst quencher, hail and well debt. It's a mixture of water under the bridge, mincing of minty words, novelty gravel,

[F]

tea bag, bolt of radiant orange juice

[E]

and topped with a mage hand squeeze of lemon. One mouthful of this money making mixer is like a splash of cash in your mustache.

[F]

Previously, our Adventurers beheld a bellowing from

[E]

the bloodbather, avoided a vanguard of undarians, made their way into the morbid mire of Mido and catapulted out of the canyon into the veiled vale, now assailed by antlered animals. Will they prevail or fail? Bring over a brew for this bedtime tale.

[A]

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Tails from the Stinky Dragon. My name is Gustavo Serrola, and I'm your dungeon master. And I'm gonna hit our four players with an arrow.

[E]

I'm gonna need to see some ID before you shoot an arrow at me. I'm starting to believe you're not the real Gustavo. And these are. These are not proper arrows.

[A]

I've been replaced.

[F]

Sir, did you register these arrows?

[C]

They're not licensed.

[E]

Yeah. Audience, if you'll listen back to the last 20 episodes of our show, you'll notice Gus has been acting differently.

[A]

I did say that intro backwards. Normally I say, I'm your dungeon master, Gustavo Sola. And I said, I'm Gustavo Sorolla, your dungeon master today.

[E]

So

[F]

can you follow this captcha, please? Prove me you're not a robot.

[E]

I got a 12.

[D]

Oh, right.

[C]

Oh, my gosh. I'm like, for what?

[F]

Come on, guys, get with the program. It's the stinky dragon.

[E]

15:17 for John 4.

[A]

This week's arrow question is, what is your favorite fruit? And that was submitted by Riley Frenchie. Riley Frenchie. Something like that.

[E]

Hi, I'm Jon Reisinger and I play Natty Wonder, the drow warlock, drag queen, mother of the bringer of the apocalypse, wife of death.

[F]

You're a member of that cult. Keep going.

[E]

Member of the Flame People? Something like that. Or player. The special auto harp that I got. Auto Harp of Autotune? Caretaker of Captain Grumbles.

[A]

Yeah, gotta do something about that. Take care of that.

[E]

I kill something that I bring back from the dead?

[A]

Find a way.

[E]

I know you will.

[A]

I know you will.

[E]

My favorite fruit. This is a little bit of a cop out answer, but I think it speaks true to who I am. Honestly, My favorite fruit is any fruit that you bake into a pie, because.

[C]

Good answer.

[E]

Good lord, do I love a fruit pie. And I don't think I've met one that I don't like thus far.

[A]

What about when the fruit pies, you know, sometimes they're too liquidy. That's my one complaint about fruit pies.

[E]

Like they're not, like, gelatinous enough and that kind of thing.

[A]

Yeah, like you.

[E]

Well, that's just a bad Bake, Right.

[A]

Yeah. Other than that. Delicious.

[E]

No, I mean, that's just a bad bake. And that ain't anything about the actual pie itself. That's about the baker themselves.

[C]

True.

[E]

But, yeah. No, I mean apple, blueberry, rhubarb, peaches. Just. Any pies, cobblers, anything like that. Just good times.

[A]

The rhubarb lady. Rhubarb.

[F]

Sorry, there was like, a fleeting Internet thing. The rhubarb lady.

[E]

It's. It rings a bell slightly, but I think I've forgotten it. Okay.

[F]

Okay. It's fine.

[E]

Never mind. Sorry. I'm. I'm trying. I always want to.

[F]

Yes.

[E]

And any memes or inside jokes, but if they go over my head, I can't do anything.

[A]

One of the most renowned bakers of our land, the great baker Hebb, not known for necessarily the best quality, but maybe the best and price in the land.

[E]

Indeed. Yeah. Yeah, I would agree with that.

[A]

All right. Any fruit that goes in a pie, which I think is pretty much all of them, for the most part.

[G]

Not pineapple.

[A]

You make a pineapple pie very often.

[F]

Pineapple pie sounds amazing.

[C]

I don't know if the texture would be great because, like, what would a baked pineapple taste like?

[D]

It's very stringy, usually.

[C]

Right.

[F]

Kind of like a pear.

[E]

Right.

[G]

Well, it'd be like a pineapple. Pineapple turnovers. Peaches.

[F]

Peaches are pretty common. That's a pretty.

[C]

I can't that. That word is synonymous now with saying it that way.

[A]

Speaking of peaches, you should check out C Squad Season 2 over at sneakydragonpod.com available for all levels of Patreon supporters. All right, thanks, John. Next up was 16.

[G]

I believe it's technically 15, but.

[A]

15. Okay.

[G]

Hi, I'm Chris Damaris, and I play Gunther, the male folk fighter. And my favorite type of food is, of course, the sludgeberry. So delicious. It is only found at the bottom of the water. You swim down and you look through the smudge. See, you find it, and then it's like a treat. I love my sludgeberries.

[A]

I like to think that for Gunther, sludgeberries are. You know how normally cranberries are, like, grown in a bog and all of them float up top and they get them. All of the bad ones that sink to the bottom get stuck in the mud. Those are sludgeberries.

[F]

Sludgeberries.

[A]

And it's like garbage. It's left behind. But, Gus, that's Gunther's favorite.

[C]

Why is it that so many of Gunther's arrow answers are like him beckoning you into A dark cave. To tell you a little secret I'm

[F]

about to say, because it's Chris getting into the voice and he starts as if he's whispering.

[E]

There's a character from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and he's trying to find the kids. Do you guys remember that character? Anybody? He's just like. He's just. He's this weird little fellow who's trying, like, there's not supposed to be any kids for some reason in this village. And so it's like Pied Piper, but just k. And you just pulled that memory out when you were describing how Gunther sounds at the beginning of the movies.

[A]

I don't think I've seen that movie in 35 years. It has been a long time.

[E]

Chi Chi Bing bang Chi Chi Bing Bing. We love you.

[C]

Come find me.

[D]

Come find me.

[C]

Come.

[A]

All right. Thanks, Gunther. We'll look for sludgeberries at our local shop.

[E]

No, we won't.

[C]

What do those taste like?

[A]

Yeah, what do those taste like?

[G]

What do they taste? There's like a sweetness and a grittiness, and that is like Gl on the tongue. Very refreshing.

[C]

And you have a lot of tongue.

[E]

You want?

[A]

All right, thanks, Gunther. All right, who is up next?

[F]

Thinks me.

[E]

Hello.

[F]

Blaine Gibson here reporting for Tales and Sea Dragon. And I play to you. I'm the male thick barbarian, level eight. I'm not going to whisper into your

[A]

ear as if I'm luring you into a trap.

[F]

I'm going to say my favorite fruit and I'm going to say this with full confidence, not knowing if it is a fruit or not. Is a coconut? It's a coconut.

[A]

A fruit?

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Is it?

[F]

Okay? Thank God. I was going to Google it, but I was like, no confidence or it's a seed. Either way, I love a coconut. Okay. It's got a hard exterior, you know, very protective, very strong. It doesn't look very appetizing or friendly. But when you get into the insides and it's gooey and nice and refreshing and it's just so lovely. And I feel like I relate to coconuts in that way. I have the hard robot exterior and then the inside, I'm just a nice dude.

[C]

Gooey exterior? Yeah, just like you told.

[E]

So the meat's inside?

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

I feel like you're the opposite. You're gooey on the exterior and hard on the interior.

[F]

It's true. Only when I'm wearing the skin of my predecessor am I gooey on the outside. Should I do an arrow question for Bjorn? Yeah, like a sock puppet. I used to love apples before I died and got skinned by my young son, Tolv, and he started wearing me around.

[A]

Tolv, Isn't that traumatic for you?

[F]

No, it helps me cope. It's nice. I get to see my dad in the mirror every day.

[G]

You know, it's weird coping.

[A]

I feel like. No, no, I mean, you using him as a sock puppet just, like two seconds ago is what I'm talking about.

[F]

I am always very lonely, and it's a nice way to just keep myself, you, company.

[A]

I feel like this is the part of the movie where you're watching the serial killer do unhinged things, and you're like, that is disturbing.

[F]

I can't believe I know what you're talking about.

[A]

To kill Kos.

[C]

Do it.

[F]

It's me, Bjorn.

[A]

Okay, gonna close the door on that one. But to answer your question, I looked it up. Yes, a coconut is botanically classified as a fruit.

[F]

Nailed it.

[C]

Wow. Today I learned.

[A]

Okay, thanks for that disturbing imagery. Toll. Remind me never to call on you again. You're wel up. I believe we got Barbara.

[D]

Hello, everyone.

[C]

I am Barbara Dunkelman, and I play Doug Boon, the artificer bugbear.

[D]

And fun fact for you, Gustavo, I actually like quite a few fruits.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

They're really good for you. I would say, though, that my favorite ones are apples, apparently, just like Bjorn for a number of reasons. You know, we were able to grow them on trees back in my village, so they were very plentiful. But also, they're pretty much, like, the best bang for your buck in terms of nutrition. Great fiber. Just really good for you. And you know what they say, Apple date keeps the doctor away. It's truly true. You know, Doug doesn't get sick very often, and I like to attribute that to my apples.

[A]

Okay, that's a hot take. Do you have a specific kind of apple? I don't know if you have different varieties or if there's just, like, generic apple that grows in your village.

[D]

Oh, well, of course. Red Delicious. It's in the name.

[F]

I'm constantly shocked by how many apples

[E]

there are, you know, and how expensive they're getting.

[A]

Yes.

[F]

Way to bring it down. This is a fantasy. People come to here to escape the reality.

[E]

Sorry. Yeah, I eat apples a lot because. And for a lot of the same reasons that Doug listed, and so I appreciate that. And they're very filling. They're a good, like, filling snack if you want to just, like, supplement in the middle of a meal. But I find that my favorite apples are, like, oh, this one's $3 a pound.

[A]

Yeah, cool.

[D]

Free back in my hometown, if you want to swing by John Reisinger.

[E]

Yeah, I'll do it.

[A]

Swing by the land of Costco and buy your apples in bulk. You get a much better deal.

[E]

There was like an apple picking festival in California we used to go to as a family, like up in the mountains. It was really fun. Get cider, stuff like that.

[A]

I swear, California sounds like some kind of made up fantasy land.

[E]

It has a place called Fantasyland inside of California.

[F]

One time I tried to eat a horse apple. You were taking a bite out of one of those bad boys?

[A]

No. Oh. How was it?

[F]

Well, it wasn't good, tell you that much.

[A]

They're like little and gross, right?

[F]

They're like the size of an apple, but they're all. They look like it's covered in worms. Like green worms, all squiggly.

[E]

Why'd you eat it?

[F]

Because I was a kid and I thought it was a yummy, yummy fruit and I wanted to live off the land like a wild boy.

[E]

Sure, sure, sure, sure.

[A]

Need to grow big and strong like a horse.

[F]

Yeah, do horse makes sense.

[E]

Lain is a horse girl. Oh, God.

[F]

We're getting to the bottom of my origin story.

[A]

Those worms infected his brain and now he's a.

[D]

And where might you be at this moment?

[F]

Not where I should be.

[D]

And what do you see? Could you describe your location for me at all?

[A]

As soon as you ask that, Doug, your vision goes stark white. Everything around you is blank, colorless void. It's all quite unnerving, perhaps even paralyzing. And for the rest of the party, you see Doug's body go stiff and his eyes turn milky white. But that's not all immediate. Amidst the darkness, your eyes catch shifting shadows approaching and the padding of footsteps. Three beasts swiftly flank your position. They look feline, but their bodies are shaped like tents and their fur is flaked with gold. Their heads bear six antlers and their tails are short like a bobcat. The darkness is suddenly pierced with light as golden mist spews from each of the felines mouths right into your. All right, everyone, go ahead and make me dexterity saving throws. Doug, you have disadvantage, disadvantage, disadvantage.

[E]

Well, well, well.

[G]

23.

[C]

I rolled a 19 twice. You're welcome.

[A]

Wow. I rolled a five.

[F]

But then I have advantage. And I got a 22. Whoop, whoop. Whoa.

[E]

13. What? Hit me.

[A]

Okay, everyone makes the save except for Natty. This golden mist, it's like a. How can you say it? Like a Luminescent, glowing golden mist of light oozes out and seems to blanket all of you like pixie dust. Yeah, I guess. Kind of like that. But for you, Natty, it kind of. It almost like sticks to you and it bathes you in a glowing light.

[E]

Well, this ain't so bad.

[F]

Yeah, you die instantly. Oh, God.

[E]

Her last words.

[A]

This glowing mist of light illuminates within a ten foot radius.

[F]

Okay, well, we're fighting by World War I rules then, huh? Gas warfare. Chemical.

[G]

Right.

[F]

Is looking at me like I'm a maniac.

[A]

Well, I mean, it's not wrong. He's not wrong. From a meta perspective, you cannot turn invisible or you cannot benefit from the invisible condition because you're outlined in light and attack rolls against you have advantage.

[F]

Oh, oh, I thought they were like blessing us with like something nice.

[E]

They're here to kill us, Pop. Pop. Possibly, yeah, we don't know yet.

[A]

I'll reread that description in case you, you need it. But these are tent shaped felines with golden flaked fur and they have, you know, six antlered head and a little bobcat tail.

[F]

When you say tent shaped, are we talking like a one or two or eight person tent? Like, you know, is it, it's all

[A]

the same shape, isn't it?

[E]

I mean, is it like a teepee?

[F]

There's so many different variations and sizes of tents. You know, you have your like classic two posts at either end. You know, like Snoopy would sleep in.

[E]

Is it a circus tent?

[F]

The circus. Very good, very good. There's like the new ones that have like the crossing poles.

[A]

Those are new.

[F]

There's you know, all sorts of what

[A]

let's say like a Snoopy house tent. Let's keep it easy.

[E]

Yeah. Okay. Okay, so this is like cat bus, but it's cat tent.

[A]

Yes.

[E]

With antlers and a bobcat tail.

[A]

Yes.

[E]

Okay. Natty, glowing in more ways than one, as she usually is glowing, regardless, would step forward and go, hello, local feline fauna. My name is Natty and we are here as guests of your land.

[A]

Make a animal handling check. And Doug, I haven't forgotten about you. We'll get back to you in just a second here.

[E]

Oh, shoot. Did I step on Doug?

[G]

No, no.

[F]

Doug is standing over there.

[E]

He's stiff, right? 17.

[A]

The animal begins looking at you curiously. It does that thing, you know, that some animals do, where it kind of cocks its head and turns it to the side and you hear almost like a purring sound emanate from it.

[E]

That's usually A good sign from them kitties. Yeah. I would slow blink at them.

[F]

Ooh, very good.

[E]

Gus might not know what that means for cats.

[A]

I mean, I know, but the audience might not know. So you need to explain for the audience. What does a slow blink mean to a cat?

[F]

I'm betting that the Tales from the Stinky Dragon audience knows cat stuff. I'm just taking a guess.

[C]

That's a good guess.

[E]

Yeah, we got major cats lady energy from our audience, and I'm here for it. Yeah, slow. When your cat slow blinks at you, that means it's like it's calmed, it's. It's happy, it likes you. All those things could be. It's just. It's a good sign from a cat if they slow blink.

[G]

As a dog person, I'm like, dogs just wag their tails. It's easier, right?

[E]

Different animals communicate different ways.

[F]

See, my cats will slow blink on me and drool on me, which is the ultimate sign of either a tooth

[E]

infection or love or just being relaxed. So, yeah, I slow blink at them.

[A]

Yeah. You know, these are.

[E]

What you gonna do with that? Guys, come on.

[A]

These are felines. They know what that means. They also return a slow blink.

[E]

Okay. Hey, group, I don't think we're in imminent danger from them. However, we do have a team member who seems to be having a bit of a conniption.

[F]

Doug. Looks fun to me. Their eyes are just white.

[G]

Shout out.

[E]

How about, might someone try to rouse our artificer? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Before you rouse, I want to give Doug a little bit of information here.

[E]

How much HP has he lost?

[C]

This gold mist gives us a long rest.

[E]

Right, Gus?

[A]

Doug, you see, you know, in your. What would you say in your communication. In your. In your communication with the Veiled Eye? In your. I know there's a better word for it when you're talking to a deity in your communion.

[G]

The.

[A]

The communion.

[E]

Yeah, yeah. She's communing with the God.

[A]

Yeah. In your communion with the Veiled Eye, you can see what appears to be a white field covered in snow, stretching as far as you can see.

[F]

Hey, guys, Doug's got a gold mist on his crotch.

[A]

All right. Take a. Take a desperation die. I don't know. That's going to keep it.

[E]

I don't get this joke.

[C]

Like, I peed myself.

[A]

Probably not going to stay in the episode, but it made me laugh.

[C]

I wouldn't look like mist. You ever peed yourself? It's just a dark circle.

[A]

Yeah. So you see what appears to be an expansive field as far as you can see, that's, like, covered in white snow. Okay.

[C]

Is this familiar to me?

[A]

No. I'll just say no. No need for a roll.

[C]

Okay. Could I try walking around?

[A]

Yeah. You begin walking, and it's just. It seems like it's endless. Nothing is different than anything else. It's as far as you can see. It almost seems like you're not even walking. Like there's no progress being made in any direction.

[C]

Oh, like a. Like one of those liminal spaces or something like that.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

Can Doug hear Pink Floyd?

[E]

Hello?

[G]

Is there anybody in there?

[C]

Did Doug accidentally eat some vegetable from the ground that he did not eat?

[G]

Some sludgeberries.

[A]

If you eat too many.

[C]

Could I try calling out?

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Oh, could anybody hear me? This is Dog Boon.

[D]

I don't know where I am.

[G]

What's happening on our side,

[A]

Doug? You received no reply, and it. Your voice doesn't even echo. It's like it's being.

[C]

I hate that.

[A]

Absorbed. You know, like when you're, like, in a soundproof room and you. You know, you're doing something, you're recording something, and it's just like, the walls are dead. There's no. No reverb. Almost like a vacuum.

[C]

I hate that. It makes me feel so claustrophobic.

[A]

Chris, to your question, Doug's just standing there. His eyes are, you know, milky white, and he just seems like he's totally seized up and tensed up.

[G]

Can we go to Doug and, like, kind of. Doug, shake him and be like, doug, are you okay? Shaky.

[A]

Shaky. Yeah. When you shake Doug, he instantly snaps to and rejoins you. Doug, from your perspective. You know, you're in this white void, and all of a sudden, it's almost like a jump scare. You see a ghastly glimpse of your brother Phil reaching out to you, his chest pierced with a familiar ax. And then his apparition quickly fades as Gunther shakes you back to this reality.

[G]

Is that your God?

[D]

I saw my brother.

[G]

Oh, that's nice.

[D]

And it was the moment he died.

[G]

Oh, that was not nice then.

[F]

That's not nice at all.

[D]

But I don't know. I just saw white, and there was no one around, and it felt like I was kind of trapped. I don't know what it was.

[G]

Well, you're back now.

[E]

Here, Natty takes the headphones we put on Doug that was playing climbing up that hill off of him now. Beep, beep. Wait.

[F]

Do we know that the veiled eye was communicating with one of us, or has this been completely in the mind of one of our.

[E]

I Don't think we saw any of that. But we did. Like, we suggested that Doug do a prayer. And so this happened, like, mid prayer. Okay, so externally, Doug went from praying to having a bit of an issue.

[F]

So maybe this has something to do with you praying to the veiled eye?

[D]

Yes, maybe. But also, strangely enough, like, the veiled eyes said that they're not where they're supposed to be, but they're where we should be. But I also don't know where he was.

[F]

Who's on first?

[D]

That's a great question.

[G]

That is perplexing for certain.

[A]

All four of you make me a perception check with advantage.

[E]

Got it.

[G]

Also, look at the kitties.

[C]

Oh, God.

[F]

15.

[E]

That was a 10.

[C]

23.

[G]

16.

[A]

All of you roll decent enough. So all of you hear, like, a loud crack in the distance from what appears to be that fortress that you all saw in the veiled veil.

[G]

That was, like, hanging, like, on a rope or something, Right?

[A]

That was a separate building.

[E]

Glacial fortress.

[A]

Yeah, I'll redescribe that for you here in a second. But as you hear that crash, all of these feline creatures that were out around you take off running like a bolt into the distance.

[E]

Oh.

[G]

Bye. Bye.

[F]

We weren't done with you.

[D]

Someone put a cucumber.

[F]

That's how I communicate with my cats.

[C]

Your cat's right behind you right now.

[A]

See?

[F]

It works.

[E]

Your cat didn't react at all when you made that noise, by the way.

[A]

Just learn to ignore.

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[A]

So just to recap the scene here, since Chris asked about it, in the valley in the Veiled Vale. It's a valley that's blanketed with darkness except for moonlight. In it you see a glacial fortress which was the source of this sound. Besides that, or in addition to that, you see a spherical building that sways between two dead trees. I think that's what you were talking about, Chris. And then on top of that as well, not literally. In addition to that, you also see a labyrinth gated by a familiar looking golden mist labyrinth.

[E]

Hey, you said there was a crack.

[A]

Yeah, like a loud cracking sound like ice cracking.

[F]

Or like a. Like a.

[A]

Like a.

[F]

Like, you know, some sort of archaeologist on the hunt.

[A]

It's hard to say because of the reverb from the veil and the distance. But it sounded like it was very. Like it was something very big. Not like a small. Not like a whip crack, but like a. A more thunderous sounding crack.

[F]

So it's a glacial palace or fortress. So ice. Maybe it was like the cracking of. Cracking of ice, Movement of. Yeah, I don't know.

[G]

Could we move to investigate?

[A]

Yeah. At this point, it's up to you guys. You have these three different areas that are here in the Veiled Vale that are available for investigation.

[E]

Should we take maybe a short rest for our friend Doug to recover from his little issue? Or should we proceed with haste because the sound just happened?

[C]

Probably we should go with haste.

[E]

Okay.

[C]

I still have half my hp. I should be okay.

[E]

Yeah. Then we're good. I just wanted to check on my buddy Doug, you know.

[D]

Oh, thanks, Natty. It's nice to have a mother figure around.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

And a father figure in.

[E]

You tried.

[F]

You tried. Okay.

[G]

Yes.

[F]

I mean, Bjorn's here too, you know.

[A]

You claim the Bjorn skin, the father figure that he's.

[G]

Is that to me it's wearing.

[E]

Okay then.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

I guess Natty with probably the group would start walking towards the fortress.

[F]

Sounds good.

[G]

Species be sneaky like. And maybe Natty, you should stay in the back because you're glowing.

[E]

Yeah, sure. That way if they shoot something at me, it'll hit you guys first as it travels through our group.

[G]

Exactly.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Let's go to where we heard the crack.

[F]

Found a new curse word. Mother figure.

[C]

Mother figure. Go figure.

[A]

And I know I mentioned it at the top, but just as a quick reminder, because I think I said it very quickly in passing. You all had also disguised yourselves.

[G]

That's right.

[A]

To look like Undarians. Yeah, I mean, except I think, Natty, you may not have disguised yourself. I think you went into the ring for that portion.

[E]

Yeah, I can turn into an Undarian.

[A]

You've got the skills for that.

[F]

But do we know if this is Udarian controlled though? I mean, well. Okay, sorry. We have a lot of investigating to do.

[A]

So remind me, you said you were going to investigate the fortress.

[G]

Is that correct where the crack came from?

[A]

That's what seems like it came from.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

You get closer and you walk in that direction and you see what appears to be a castle sized glacier dripping with water. And there's two large solid ice doors. A pair of armored drenched guards on either side. The of of it.

[G]

Armored Dretch, that. Those are Andarian.

[A]

Yeah, you encountered these before.

[E]

Oh, wait, Dredches are Andarians?

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Oh, they are.

[C]

I'M curious why, like the Veiled Veil, which is, you know, the. The place of the Veiled Eye would be under Andarian control.

[E]

Well, there's a war going on.

[D]

Yeah.

[G]

And also, I don't like it. The places the gods are are not where they should be deep.

[E]

Okay, well, since we're all in garb of Lycan Andarian, we could approach us and try to talk to these guys.

[C]

Yeah, if our disguises are convincing enough.

[E]

Well, maybe. I mean, I don't want to butt in front, but I am a charming individual and I myself can actually change my visage to be like, convincing Andarian. And I have a baby that. Well, the baby is on your shoulders. Are on your head.

[A]

Right?

[D]

Oh, right.

[E]

We can put him back on.

[C]

Was he on my shoulders and head the whole time I was in my trance?

[E]

Yeah, we could put him.

[A]

Oh, he had no idea what was going on.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's asleep.

[D]

Yeah, I think that's a good idea. I think maybe you should talk to them. We'll stand here and, you know, be on guard.

[E]

Yeah. So now listen real quick again, I know I'm not in charge, but I have picked up on the pattern of our group of individuals. Silence is an option. When asked a question that would require some sort of lie and deceptive answer. Mate. Mate.

[F]

Is there something on my face?

[E]

Maybe. Maybe we don't opt for that so we don't give away our game right away. Let's like maybe wait till we get inside the fortress till we let them know they should point their swords at us.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

Yeah. You guys hear that?

[A]

Tell that to Munther.

[E]

I don't want to stifle you all participating, so don't take it that way, please. I welcome your addition to our ruse. I just mean maybe if you don't have the best poker face, don't fib.

[A]

That's a valuable life lesson in general.

[F]

Cole's just looking around.

[D]

I feel like this is targeted at all three of us somehow.

[E]

Natty is trying to say this in the most caring way possible because I don't actually. John actually doesn't want to actually tell you guys don't talk at all, but Natty would pick up on this pattern of what we do.

[A]

All right, so.

[E]

All right, yeah, let's talk. Hello, fellas.

[A]

Neddy. Just to build the scene, let's say why don't you describe how you make yourself look?

[E]

I would look.

[A]

Let me. Before you answer that, let me reread you a description of what the dredges look like in case that influences your decision at all.

[E]

Sure. It probably won't. Yeah.

[A]

So the dretches are greenish gorilla like Undarians that are covered in fested.

[E]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Fetid pustules and boils. They have gnarly curled claws and fangs, and they're armored with plates.

[E]

Okay. And actually, now that you bring it up, Gus, when we were looking out at that army that Infernus was with, did we see those kind of fellows, or were there other kinds of Andarians? I'm just curious, because I think the dretches are the last time I've heard you describe the Andarians.

[A]

Yeah, there were multiple types of creatures, among which were dretches as well.

[E]

Okay.

[A]

And real fast. Yeah. Micah brings up a point. I just want to clarify real fast. There have been a few others we've described, like the Grilps Demongrals. So there have been a few, but which were in the column that were marching, as well as other types of Undarians that you have not seen before.

[F]

The dretches were the ones that were attacking Neo and Tio.

[A]

Yes.

[E]

They stole their. Their bits.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

And wasn't one of the prisoners a dretcher in the. Yeah, yeah.

[F]

Oh, what was his name?

[D]

Stitches.

[G]

Wait, prisoner in the prison?

[C]

Yeah, when we were in the Sky Blue Falls.

[A]

Oh, that prisoner.

[D]

The place we broke you out, Kunto.

[G]

Or there was another prison.

[C]

There was in his campaign, in the

[G]

first cave we explored.

[A]

Oh, way back under.

[G]

And we put a creature in it, like a wolf or something.

[A]

Oh, I don't know if that was. Yeah.

[C]

Oh, wasn't.

[A]

I don't think it was strictly a prison. It was a daemon girl that you put in there. But yeah. Anyway. Yeah, we're like, down the rabbit hole there.

[F]

I know.

[A]

I was like, what does Natty look like here?

[E]

Natty would want to look like Demona from Gargoyles. So, like, you know Gus. Huh?

[F]

So you know Gus.

[E]

You know Gus. Desdemona Demona. What's her name? It's the girl.

[F]

Yeah. The red hair.

[E]

Is it Demona?

[A]

Demona, yeah, yeah, yeah. I looked her up.

[E]

I thought I was getting gaslit in the chat and. But. But maybe hairier, like the dretches.

[C]

Demona?

[E]

Yeah, the Italian gargoyle from Disney's Gargoyles.

[G]

Okay.

[A]

I never saw gargoyles, but I just did a quick Google search here. I got you. I see.

[E]

Okay.

[A]

Gargoyle, tail, wings, red hair, harrier.

[E]

Yeah. And she would be hairy, but like. Yeah, a little bit of, like, a tattered clothing. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

You approach the. And Glowing, of course. Can't forget that very important detail.

[E]

And glowing.

[A]

You approach the gate, and as you do, the dretches step forward and block you. Almost in unison, they both say, hold.

[E]

I have an idea. Yeah. Tolk, please share your idea with class.

[A]

I like how you say, if you're not good at bluffing, don't say anything. And the first bit of communication. Tolv, what do you want to say?

[E]

Is this something Tolv needs to share in game, or is this something meta speak you want to share?

[F]

I mean, I kind of want to let it play, but I also don't want to take command.

[E]

Okay, okay. Hey, you know what? I'm not here to stifle anybody. That's not my job.

[A]

So they say, halt. And Tol bravely steps forward and.

[F]

Yep, it's cool. Our friend Stitches sent us here. You know, maybe you know him as Smiley, old pal of ours. Maybe you know him. He's a dretch. We're all dretches.

[G]

We're all cool.

[A]

We're all dretches.

[F]

We're all cool with dretches.

[E]

Yeah. That's why I said stop lying. That's why you don't look like a dretch. You look like someone's skin inside out on a robot.

[F]

We're all like. We're all cool.

[E]

We're all cool. We're just.

[C]

Well, I think we're all in disguise, too.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah, you are in disguise.

[F]

Yeah. Couldn't even wait.

[A]

Could just.

[E]

Just out the gate.

[A]

One of them steps forward and kinda puts a finger in your chest toll and taps at your chest and just says, access denied.

[E]

Oh.

[F]

I pull his finger and I go, come on, man. We're all pals here. We're all undarians.

[A]

Tolve you specifically, make me a perception check. Okay.

[F]

All right, 14.

[C]

Nice.

[A]

You know, you look down at where he was tapping you in the chest, and then you look at the dretch, and then you look at the other dretch, and you realize that the two of them are wearing breastplates that look that have the same sigil on the front.

[F]

Do I recognize the sigil?

[A]

Make me a religion check.

[G]

Ooh.

[A]

Okay,

[F]

that's a one. I'm gonna use my inspiration dice. Oh, I just had it. It wasn't even warm in my pocket yet.

[A]

It wasn't even warm in your pocket?

[F]

Yeah, just put it in there.

[A]

Oh. Because it was cold. Okay, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

[F]

Yeah, that's a seven.

[A]

Both those breastplates on the dretches are frosty fangs on blue breastplate. But you don't recognize them. They do not ring a bell to you. And then the dretch points at his own breastplate and says, access granted.

[C]

Oh, so it's like a symbol they have.

[F]

Mmm.

[A]

Seems like it's just a symbol on both of their breastplates.

[C]

You said frosty fangs.

[A]

Yeah, on blue breastplate.

[C]

On blue.

[A]

Okay, Natty, since you're also there and you're in the front, I want you to make me a perception check as well.

[F]

I warmed them up for you. Thank you.

[E]

Thank you so much. 16.

[A]

He's so pleased with himself. Just as you know, this is going on, and Tolv is talking to these dreads is. You know, you kind of take in this. What would you call it, this glacier, this. This fortress that's in front of you. And like I mentioned earlier, you. You notice that all of the. The walls appear to be dripping. And, you know, water runs down the front of the well, actually runs out all sides. But you're. What you're looking at. You can see water's running down the front of the glacier, and it's pulling up and causing there to be almost like. Like rivers and canals of water that flow out from and into the glacier, depending on the elevation.

[E]

You guys having some sort of heating problem? It seems like your domicile is disintegrating.

[A]

Oh, that's an excellent point. What would they say to that? I think to that they both would laugh and nod and then, like, give each other a high five.

[C]

It's like, if that's. That's something like they want to be happening kind of thing.

[A]

I'm thinking more like just happy to see something destroyed or like, indifference about it all.

[G]

Some people just like to watch the world melt.

[A]

Very classic.

[E]

Okay, here's what Natty's gonna try to do. Natty's going to turn around as though she's reaching for something in her bag, you know, and by doing that, she would cover her chest, and then while she turns around, she would change her image to have that breastplate on her that they have and kind of make a little motion, like she was pulling something out of her bag and putting it on her chest.

[A]

Sure.

[E]

And then go, sorry, I forgot to be wearing my pass to get in. You guys are doing such a good job. Keen eyes, you two. Right. All right, so. Access granted. Correctamundo.

[A]

Just for fun, make me a persuasion check, Natty.

[C]

Just for fun.

[E]

Natty makes persuasion checks for fun. 16 plus 4, dirty. 20.

[A]

All right, so dirty Okay. I think when they see that, they would kind of ease up and they would. You know, one of them would say, access granted. And then the reason I had you make a persuasion check was to see if I was to be difficult about your party members not having the same thing.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it. You know, when you. You pull up to the club and you're the only one on the list and you're trying to vouch for yourself.

[F]

Yeah. John knows that feeling.

[E]

Yeah, yeah. 100%. Been to so many clubs.

[F]

Yeah, man.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

But. And to the rest of you, to the other three of you, they'll wave you in. And then one of them would say,

[H]

put on the breastplate of the Frostbiter right away.

[E]

Oh, Frostbiter.

[F]

That's a new one.

[E]

Yeah. Where, Where, Where. Hey, remind me, where are those? Once we get inside, have you moved them?

[A]

They would just kind of point in and say, armory.

[E]

That makes sense.

[D]

Oh, that makes sense. Yeah.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense. All right.

[D]

I probably could have figured that one out, Daddy.

[E]

Thank you. Thank you, Dougie. Need to write that one down.

[A]

A R M O R Y

[F]

Does Tolve recognize this place? Cause it being a glacial sort of environment, and that's. He's been to a lot of those places and things.

[A]

This particular place does not seem familiar to you?

[C]

Okay.

[A]

But, yeah, this is like a place Tolve may have haunted at some point in the past. No, not that. May have visited at some point in the past.

[E]

Do the doors open?

[A]

Yeah, the doors open up. They swing wide open, and you all can walk into this fortress.

[E]

And he starts humming. Let it go. And just kind of walks in.

[F]

You guys see Smiley, Tell him we said, hey.

[A]

You walk into the fortress, and you see a few different points of interest inside. Within the fortress is. Are contained what appear to be an enormous dragon statue. Furnace. In addition to that, you see floating ice rafts and igloos on some of those canals, like I mentioned earlier, that are going through the fortress here.

[G]

Like, floating in the air?

[A]

No, in the canals. Like in those. Those water canals, like from the. The water that's. That's dripping down.

[G]

That makes more sense, you know.

[E]

Air canals.

[A]

Yeah, making canals. And they're floating in that. And in addition to that, you see some kind of giant crane mechanism that appears to be controlled by some spinning wheels. And inside this fortress, the air is very warm and humid from, I guess, not only the furnace, but from smaller fires throughout.

[F]

Does the giant crane mechanism or whatever's creating that heat does that seem like a foreign object that isn't typically here? Does it seem out of place in the kind of aesthetic of this land?

[A]

I would say all of this seems like it should be. Aside from the glacier, all of this seems like this shouldn't be here.

[G]

Okay.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Because I imagine. I don't imagine the Undarians live in an ice climate, and this is something maybe they've taken over.

[G]

They're doing because they are more natural. They need the heat. They're inclined, and so they're heating it so they can stay here.

[F]

What's that term called? Where you're acclimating? Yeah. No, they did it in Superman.

[E]

John.

[F]

What did they do?

[E]

Terraforming. Yeah.

[A]

I just want to real fast, before we get too far from it. Barbara, take an inspiration. Die. That was some good sleuthing you did there.

[D]

Oh, yay. Good. Well, by the help of the whole team.

[E]

And so there's dretches all milling around.

[A]

Like there's more, you know, seems like they're coming to and fro and moving around, doing various tasks.

[E]

I put my hand out to stop the closest one and be like, hey, Chum, where's the army armory?

[A]

Without saying anything, the dretch turns around and points at one of the igloos that's floating down the canal.

[E]

Perfect.

[F]

How did you know Chum's name?

[C]

Mr.

[D]

Chum.

[E]

Natty's skilled in cold reads, then. Yeah. Can we walk towards the army? Because I want to get these guys their passes to the rides.

[A]

Sure. You walk over to it, and it's, you know, big. It's floating down the canal, so you have to move kind of quickly to catch up to it.

[E]

Just like Frogger.

[A]

Yeah. What the wave.

[G]

Oh, I can do good.

[C]

There you go. Put it in coach.

[A]

I. The way I think of it. And again, for anyone who is new to the show, which I can't imagine you'd be new jumping in at this episode.

[C]

If you are, leave a comment. I'm so curious.

[A]

Michael writes the modules and the. There's so much detail in them, and I'm just a conduit for the story that Mike is creating and these worlds that he imagines.

[E]

You're the prophet.

[A]

But in my mind's eye, thinking about the layout and the way that these igloos and these rafts are floating through the fortress, it's like a lazy river, like at a water park. We're just very slowly moving through. And there's no drunk people in tubes here. Instead, it's just ice rafts and small My favorite part. And igloos that are slowly floating around through the. Through the area. Okay.

[E]

Okay.

[F]

Looks like San Antonio on a cold day.

[A]

You are pretty. It's pretty easy to catch up to the igloo that the dredge pointed at. And I guess you want to, like, try to hop over. Hop in. What's your. What's your play here?

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I imagine that would be the only way we be able to get inside, right?

[A]

Yeah. The igloo is domed and enclosed, and if you had to estimate, it's probably 10ft by 10ft. And there's, like, an oar sticking out of it that appears to be guiding it and maybe giving it a little propulsion.

[E]

Okay.

[A]

That's fun. I won't make you make checks or anything. It's. But yeah, you hop over into or onto this platform with the igloo and step inside. And inside you see a wooden rack holding breastplates of the frostbider and a couple of other various items.

[E]

I'm asking this to Gus, but also the rest of the group. We have frost spider. That a term we've heard previously or. No?

[A]

I don't think so.

[C]

It doesn't ring a bell to me. No.

[E]

Okay. Okay.

[G]

Could I equip my breastplate? And then also. What are the other items? Various items.

[A]

I'll tell you what. I'm gonna put this on you. Chris, roll me a D 4.

[G]

With pleasure.

[E]

3.

[F]

With pleasure. Kind of like with advantage or disadvantage?

[E]

Yeah. No, it just means you're happy to roll. Oh.

[C]

It's with both so that it ends up just canceling each other out.

[E]

Okay.

[F]

Okay.

[A]

It appears to be a shirt made of ice. Is one of the items there a

[G]

shirt made of ice?

[E]

Would you call it an ice tea?

[C]

Group inspiration Die for John.

[A]

Take an inspiration. Die here. That's good. That's really good. Yes.

[E]

Just to be clear, I didn't want to make that joke because I don't like puns, but I.

[C]

Listen, John, I get it. It's a. It's a compulsion. When a good one hits, you have to, like, vomit.

[F]

You just can't hold it back. You just got to get it out. You should.

[E]

You should let it come out, not hold it in.

[C]

I see.

[G]

Okay. Can I try and put one on? Is it actually cold?

[A]

Yeah. You grab it and. And put it on. It's very stiff. It's almost like a piece of cloth that got wet and then frozen.

[D]

Do you think this one goes in a dryer or do you have to hang to dry?

[A]

But yeah, you you managed to put it on.

[E]

I think it goes in the fridge.

[A]

It's very crinkly and cracked.

[G]

I do not care for this coldness.

[A]

It's a good look on you, though.

[F]

You look very cool.

[G]

Yeah. I've also donned my. What is it called? Eel skin hat.

[F]

Oh, thank God.

[E]

Who could forget?

[F]

Wait, is that the bicorn hat?

[G]

Yeah.

[E]

There's no one else in the armory, right?

[A]

No.

[E]

Okay. It's just a. It's just like a coat rack kind of place.

[A]

Yeah. There are more items if you want to keep looking. Gunther.

[G]

Yeah. Is there a weapon or something?

[A]

Let's keep finding out. This time, I want you to roll me a D10.

[C]

Oh, with pleasure.

[E]

That was implied by his weird laugh. Yeah, yeah.

[G]

T's a five.

[A]

And roll me a D4.

[G]

That is a four.

[A]

You see on the racks, you also notice that there's an ice helm.

[E]

Oh.

[A]

Like a helmet made of ice. It seems like it goes well with your shirts.

[G]

Oh, I guess I have to take my hat off that I just put on the helmet and the shirt and the armor. Do I look properly disguised?

[A]

I mean, you were already wearing a disguise before. You just, like, changed your disguise.

[E]

No, it was.

[G]

No, I was in. I was in Toll's back.

[A]

Oh, right. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. It definitely looks like you're wearing a weird, icy disguise at this point.

[E]

All right.

[G]

I feel good, but cold.

[D]

Aren't you, like, used to warm climates, Gunther? Isn't this incredibly uncomfortable for you?

[G]

It is very uncomfortable. This cold. Things that are. Get wet, I do not like.

[D]

Well, good thing you put them on your body for the ultimate torture.

[A]

There's one more item on the rack there, Gunther.

[G]

Oh, that I sell me.

[F]

What? Ice underwear.

[G]

Shall I roll me a D100 with displeasure. 49.

[A]

Oh, and then roll me a D4.

[G]

1.

[A]

You see a war pick or pick.

[E]

Like a weapon. Like a pickaxe.

[A]

Yeah. But instead of for mining or geological purposes, this one's intended to create ouchies.

[G]

Like how big?

[A]

Like big. The size of a sword or an axe.

[G]

Too big for me.

[A]

It's got a pointed spike on one side and a hammerhead on the other. And it seems like steam is wafting off of it.

[G]

Oh, like it's hot.

[A]

Yeah, it's a little warm to the touch. I wouldn't say it's hot, but it's definitely a little warm to the touch.

[G]

Can't pick it up and check it out and see if it has any. Why it might be so hot.

[A]

Yeah. Make a. What do we call it just call a narcotic check.

[D]

Call the police and a fireman.

[E]

Too hot.

[G]

11.

[F]

Gosh darn.

[C]

I was like. Can't say that.

[A]

It seems like it's. It's maybe got some kind of magical imbuement that makes it warm and it causes it to steam.

[G]

I guess I'll take that. Can I take it and put an inventory?

[A]

Yeah, call it.

[G]

Maybe I put it in my back so I stay warm.

[A]

Smart. You can call it the Wafting War Pick.

[D]

Wow.

[G]

Wow.

[F]

Can't wait to never hear about that again.

[C]

While this is happening, could Doug just grab a breastplate and put it on?

[A]

Absolutely.

[F]

Same with tolls.

[A]

Absolutely. But there you're gonna get a breastplate as well. Cover up your ice shirt.

[G]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

Also, Natty, I don't know if you want to keep the illusion going up to breastplate or if you want to grab an actual real one, but, yeah,

[E]

I'll grab a real one. And also put one on Cap' n Grumbles.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[F]

Does Giggy need one?

[E]

I think Giggy is going to continue to be Doug's face. Or unless Doug wants to try to rough this.

[D]

No, it's fine. He could stay.

[E]

It's up to you. I'm just trying to keep us disguised, but if you feel like we've made it in.

[D]

I'm getting increasingly paranoid, though, because he hasn't gone boom boom yet, and I fear that he's holding up for a real big one.

[E]

He usually saves it either for me or for battle. He likes those two scenarios. Perfect.

[A]

All right.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

So you found your breastplates, Gunther. There's no other items here. You feel like you've found everything that was on the racks.

[E]

Would the party be okay? Hey, would you all be okay if we go check out that dragon statue? I feel like that wasn't here when they built this place.

[D]

Nice.

[F]

I'm down. That sounds cool.

[G]

Yes.

[D]

And I could use a little bit of warmth, so that'd be nice.

[F]

I'd like to admire the local art scene. Yes.

[A]

Okay. You all emerge from this igloo to find yourself in a slightly different location within the fortress. You've drifted a little bit down. Yeah, you drifted a little bit down the canal. You moved a little bit, but, you know, you still have your bearings. You still have the lay of the land. And you all said you wanted to head over in the direction of the statue. Is that correct? Yes.

[F]

Maybe we could hit the concession stands before we go on our next ride.

[A]

Okay. Yeah. You hop off of the. IGLOO and make your way over to the dragon statue furnace. And as you get closer, you get a better idea. You get a better look at it. And you see that it's a statue that's made of some kind of thick gray metal. And flames and smoke pour out of it of exhaust grates all over it.

[F]

Do I recognize this metal?

[A]

Make a God. What would that be? Armor? Some kind of metal? Not that it's armor. I'm just trying to think of metal things. I don't want to put ideas in your head.

[C]

He wears it.

[A]

Perception instead of that. Make me an investigation. Check

[F]

the stat that I have four points less than. Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

[E]

Yes. Thirteen.

[A]

You know, you're. You're. You're familiar with exotic metals tolf. So you take a look at it and you identify the metal as being tungsten. It. You know, it's. And you, it makes sense to you because you know, it's. That makes it able to withstand high temperatures. And you know, when you get close to it and you're. You're investigating it and you know, looking at this metal, it almost seems like. Or it sounds like the statue's breathing with the intake of air and the exhaust of all the hot air and smoke.

[F]

So it's like an engine or something maybe is inside of it.

[A]

Maybe. Or maybe it's something to like. Like a bellow maybe to like suck in fresh air and then exhaust the smoke.

[G]

Do we see what's fueling it?

[A]

No. No, it doesn't. You're not able to see what's fueling it. Doesn't seem like, aside from the grates for the exhaust, it doesn't seem like there's any other openings on the statue.

[C]

And you said it's a dragon, right? Right.

[G]

Yeah.

[C]

This is a maybe a silly question, but do any like, Undarians resemble dragons? Or like, is there any history there with Undarians, like worshiping dragons or having that be some type of, I don't know, connection?

[A]

I thought you were going to ask if it was stinky.

[F]

I was going to ask that. Dang it, Gus.

[A]

Why don't you make a religion check to try to figure that out?

[C]

Religion?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Dirty 20.

[A]

Oh, that's pretty good. Duck normally does pretty good at religion checks. Do you have like, like proficiency in that or is that. Do you have like extra.

[C]

It's intelligent based and I have some good intelligence, but I am proficient in religion.

[A]

You're not 100% certain, but in the past you've heard rumors that the only God that looks like a dragon Is the fire eater.

[F]

Oh, wait a second, we've seen the fire eater.

[E]

That's my people. That's my church.

[A]

You tell me.

[E]

Yes, that's my people. That's my church.

[A]

I thought it was sounded like a question. I was like, I'm pretty sure it is. Is.

[C]

Okay, the Kindle?

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Is that what it was called?

[A]

I don't remember. Yeah, yeah, it was, it was.

[E]

There's no one like manning this at all.

[A]

No, it just seems like it's, it's operating autonomously on its own.

[E]

Okay, well I, I think there's a good chance that this was brought in by the Andarian Army. If they're not the original locales, you know, locals of, of this locale, then they probably like, like they're messing with stuff.

[D]

Yeah, I don't know, it seems like they, they brought their own stuff in here to keep it warm for them. Maybe they're looking for something here.

[F]

Oh, some sort of like mining operation. I think we should take note of all of the different things that we could possibly like, destroy to make it, you know, return back to normal. Global warming is a big issue for me.

[E]

John has a meta question.

[A]

Proceed.

[E]

We headed the this direction because we were trying to get away from the Keep and the Andarian Army. Correct. Was there any other reason why we were going this direction? To remind me of.

[A]

Doug's looking for the Veiled Eye and they should be somewhere out over here. Okay. In this direction.

[E]

Thank you. I just needed my. I just need to be straightened out. Well, I don't know, is there anything else that you think we should figure out about this first or should we continue to explore this place?

[D]

I don't really see anything else that we could really glean from it. But you know, it's interesting. That fire eater is, you know, someone that does resemble a dragon and he's here and you know, Andarians are here. I don't know, there's gotta be some connection.

[F]

Didn't the fire eaters steal like the tear of the fire eaters from the Kindlekin? Like I can't figure out the relation, relationship that they have with him, you know, Fire opal.

[E]

Well, I think Doug saying that actually tracks considering we found something of the Veiled Eye inside of the, the Blood Bathers temple place?

[G]

Yeah.

[E]

And so maybe this was the Kindle can fire eater place and, and it's been fro. I don't know, maybe.

[D]

Here's what happened.

[F]

Okay.

[D]

Have you guys ever seen the movie the Holiday where they do a, a little house swap? Well, Maybe.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

The gods are all trying out each other's places. Get away for a little bit, escape, you know, their daily life.

[E]

It's like wife swap, but it's God swap. Yeah.

[F]

It feels like the gods are playing like musical chairs right now and we're all very confused.

[A]

There was a. A quick reminder from Micah in chat. Fire eater. Is she her.

[E]

Thank you. I need like a diagram of our pantheon thus far. Like they, they, they, they unlock as we find them. Okay, well then the other. We could head over to that giant crane if you guys think that's worth investigating.

[D]

Yeah, definitely.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

And we can move around freely, cuz we got these brush plates.

[A]

Yep. Doug's so proud. You know, I think it would be neat to see some fan art on the discord of the pantheon. I feel like I've seen some attempts at that, like trying to connect everything every now and then. It'd be. It'd be neat to see an updated version of it.

[C]

That would be very cool.

[F]

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[E]

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[F]

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[A]

So y' all are heading over towards the crane?

[E]

Yeah, why not?

[A]

Yeah, sure. You all head in the the direction of the the spinning wheel's crane mechanism. And as you get closer, you can see it appears like there's two stone wheels, one vertical and one horizontal and a stone pedestal with a crimson button. And on the far end, there's a crane arm mechanism with a claw. And there are two suspended wooden platforms that are hanging high that it seems like the crane is able to reach.

[E]

Anybody operating it?

[A]

No.

[C]

No hamsters.

[A]

No hamsters.

[F]

And so the crane, what does it seem like it was built here to do? So it's got the claw. Was it just so that it could reach those suspended platforms? Or is that what is being held

[E]

up by the crane?

[A]

It seems like the crane is designed to take things and put things on those platforms. Almost like some storage of some kind.

[E]

Can we see what's on this platform? Yeah.

[A]

No, they're too high. You can only see the boss bottoms of them.

[E]

I probably shouldn't blow this for just this stupid thing, but Natty uses ghostly gaze and sees through the floor to see what's on those platforms. Cool.

[D]

I love that.

[A]

And that's your new ability that we talked about last episode, right? It's like X ray vision kind of thing.

[E]

Yeah. Do I get something special for using all of my new abilities?

[A]

First you get a punch. You get like a punch card going.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do I get a free feat?

[F]

Yeah, it's called spell slots.

[A]

As an action, you gain the ability to see through solid objects with dark vision. To a range of 30ft for one minute. These might be beyond 30ft, but I'm gonna. I'm gonna play lock. I don't want to. I don't want to, like, quash your. You're using the new ability. You know, you use ghostly gaze to look through the bottoms of these platforms, and you see various crates on top of the platform. Can you then use ghostly gaze to see beyond those through those traits as well? Okay.

[C]

Yeah. Nice, nice, nice, nice.

[A]

In various crates, you see different kinds of valuables. Let's say, like coins, gems, jewelry, art pieces. And additionally on the other side, on the other platform, you see various supplies. Whether it's like weapons or provisions, like lamps and things that an army might use.

[E]

I'm having a hard time understanding what is the purpose of these. These hanging platforms. Are they, like attached to a building or are they.

[A]

They're just hanging from, like, the top of the glacier, if you had to guess. Most likely this is how they supply things. Like the barracks that are in. In the canal. They can either take items from here and put them in the barracks or take items from the barracks. I'm not sorry. They say barracks, armory, and then put them up there.

[E]

Weird.

[A]

So it's like a way to. To store things. Things out of the way and then bring them down for use, or then take those things back up and put

[F]

them away because things are moving.

[D]

That's how they built the pyramids.

[E]

I don't think it was.

[G]

And then, like, put them in the river or the. The little floating things and stuff and send them away.

[A]

Exactly.

[E]

And it keeps their food safe. If bears come around, things can come

[A]

in and then be loaded up there for storage, or things can be taken down and then put down for use. So, okay, think of like, you know, this is an army. This is a conflict thing of things like pillaging and loot.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

[A]

That might be stored. Or provisions, food, breastplates, supplies that an army might need.

[E]

Okay, well, team, I feel like we've been investigating for a bit, and I'm not close to any sort of answers of what this place's deal is. Should we try and find someone to talk about? Talk to?

[G]

Yes, you could do that.

[E]

Or does anybody else have a suggestion of net next steps inside of this glacier?

[F]

The only other place I can think is the one that's on the outside

[A]

hanging from the two trees.

[F]

But we never did get to the bottom of what that crack was coming from here.

[G]

I think the crack was the ice cracking, splitting the glacier down the middle. Because of the dragon.

[C]

Do we see any big cracks in this ice fortress area?

[A]

Yeah, you definitely see fissures and cracks forming within the glacier, presumably from the heat, especially from that dragon statue that's causing it to melt.

[G]

You know what? We may not be good in here. As in it could collapse.

[F]

Yeah. This is like a ticking time bomb.

[A]

As you all are up here looking at the, you know, the wheels and the mechanism for the crane, you hear a shout in the distance and a voice calls out, give me an update on the vanguard. And you see Infernus walking by, followed by a horde of Bulgarians who seem to be catering to her and trying to take care of her.

[F]

I guess it's time to introduce ourselves. I kind of want to.

[E]

I kind of want to, like. I didn't want to, like, make a choice for the group, but my instinct was like, I think Natty will go up and talk to Infernus.

[A]

Listening to the intrusive thoughts somehow feel

[C]

like Infernus would have a better idea of, like, who is actually an undarian.

[G]

Yeah. Is there a way we can stealthily assassinate them?

[A]

Oh, I don't know.

[G]

Spy on them?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Like maybe stay where we are, but stay hidden so we could listen to the conversation happening.

[A]

Yeah, I guess that's what I was going to ask. Like, what. What do you mean by spy? Like, stay here and kind of like tune in. And where are they exactly? There, like off in. In the distance? I'd say probably, let's say 60, 70ft away. Let's call it 80. 80ft away.

[G]

Is there anything we could do, like, based in the space? I don't know. What, are they just standing there?

[A]

No, it's just like, moving by quickly walking through with this port of attendance,

[G]

the other dudes that we've seen milling about, what are they? Do they have busy jobs that we could pretend to be doing as well so that we don't stand out?

[A]

It seems like no one's doing a job, per se. People are just walking to and from the igloos.

[F]

I have a way that we could give it up on that crane for a better vantage point.

[E]

I don't know if we want to

[A]

do that, but to answer your more immediate question, Barbara, you hear the Undarians kind of replying to Infernus about the status of the vanguard. Why don't you make me a. I'm trying to debate here. Either like an investigation perception, or maybe a stealth. Let's call it a stealth check to see, you know, how much you're able to garner from this.

[C]

Okay. Dirty 20.

[A]

Oh, nice.

[E]

Dirty 20.

[D]

Dirty 20.

[A]

My pleasure. You hear various voices answering in. Furnace. Reporting in.

[G]

Fort Medo was easily overtaken. However, there are no signs of the Veiled Eye. So they were looking for the Veiled Eye.

[C]

So it seems like the Indarins are just taking over all these different places.

[G]

Oh, so reports are coming in of four more Mortalion soldiers missing from the front.

[F]

There's a heck of a lot more missing than that. Their data's wrong. They're missing all the humans too.

[A]

It's a field. It's the field of war. You know, the information, it's key and it's hard to get, hard to come by.

[F]

Okay, so to like, keep track. Right now they're looking for the Veiled Eye and they're also looking for the sea drinker. Or maybe was the sea drinker just being chased by. Oh my God, who's my big bad.

[D]

Oh, they're looking for the Pathfinder.

[A]

They're looking for the Pathfinder.

[F]

Pathfinder? Yes.

[G]

Pathfinder serves under the Veiled Eye.

[F]

Yeah. But then Also Stinky Butt McNutt, whatever his name was. The guy that I hate.

[E]

I've.

[F]

I've.

[E]

You can never remember the important people in your life.

[F]

No, no, it's just not. It's not as cool as quad. I was. I was looking it up. Ironclad was looking for the sea drinker.

[E]

So I forgot Bjorn the other day too.

[F]

Everybody's looking for these gods. So like, what's, what's. Why, why, why are they looking for all these people? Why are. Why are the Gods playing hide and go seek with us? What's the deal?

[D]

Maybe they know danger is coming and so they're protecting themselves.

[A]

As a. As a quick flashback, you all discovered that the sea drinker had been interrogated. Let's just call it interrogated. Tortured. And she had let it slip that the Veiled Eye might know where the Pathfinder is.

[G]

Yes, that's right.

[A]

So they're all.

[F]

The ultimate goal is to find the Pathfinder. Right.

[A]

And that the. And that the fire eater was being held captive and that was being used as leverage over the sea drinker.

[E]

Yes, their girlfriends.

[H]

Right.

[G]

Could the fire eater be inside of the dragon?

[C]

Oh,

[G]

that could be. What is making it so hot.

[F]

Oh, dude, very cool. Oh, man, we should. So hot. Oh, sorry.

[E]

We should blow up that dragon.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I wonder if we could like destroy the statue and free the fire eater.

[F]

Yeah, I mean, that would definitely clean things up for this area because it's made of ice and they're probably miserable. But then they're also melting everything, which is making this place miserable, I guess.

[C]

Should we just continue to hide as they. Because they're walking and having a conversation.

[A]

Correct.

[C]

Or are they stopped?

[A]

No, they kept walking. Yeah. And they're at this point, like, you can't make anything else out because they're walking further away into the distance.

[F]

Okay, how far away are we from the dragon statue?

[A]

It's not that far. I mean, let's say 80ft in the other direction.

[F]

You mentioned that there was, like, vents and things, and it was like smoke was coming out.

[A]

Right.

[F]

Can I head back over there and take a look? Look on the inside and see if I can, like, spot something.

[C]

Yeah, maybe you could try to, like, talking to him or talk. Talking to her?

[F]

Yeah, yeah, something like that.

[A]

Are all of you going or just toll.

[G]

Yeah, we'll go.

[D]

I would like to go.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[A]

You know, classic natty.

[C]

Classic natty.

[F]

Actually, before I do anything, I want to go up to it and knock, as such, like, so with the following. Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock.

[D]

Who is there?

[A]

You hear a reverberating response.

[E]

Clong.

[A]

Clong.

[F]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yeah, there's definitely somebody in there. Then.

[G]

Hello, fire eater.

[E]

Oh, oh, oh.

[F]

I'll do this.

[A]

And as you're doing that, a strange looking, let's say, udarin, a strange looking being comes walking by and sees you. It looks like this creature's like, it's got a giant owl body with frosty feathers, and it's got. However, it's got a polar bear head.

[E]

Dang. Y' all come in all kinds of shapes and colors.

[A]

And it sees you knocking on the statue and asks, what are you doing?

[E]

Well, you see my friend here? What do you see, my friend here? We have been brought into repairs to the furnace as it was reported that it had taken some sort of damage somewhere, and so he was checking it for any sort of faults, repairs.

[F]

No, no, no. There are no faults.

[E]

Well, how can I ask why you would be the expert on this?

[F]

This statue is under my domain.

[A]

I have overseen the creation and implementation

[E]

of this for my records. What's your name?

[F]

You call me the Frostbiter

[D]

on the

[E]

armor, as in, like this frostbiter Nanny points to her chest. Mm, that's me.

[A]

Big fan.

[D]

The cold slowing down your ability to talk at a normal pace.

[C]

Mmm.

[G]

I hate the cold.

[E]

Oh, okay.

[D]

Ironic. Oh.

[E]

Oh.

[D]

If he's biting the frost, that means he's attacking it.

[A]

That's why I oversaw the creation of

[E]

this so you're telling me that someone else put in a requisition for us and it was for a joke and we came all the way over here for not actually having to repair something?

[A]

Something.

[F]

Oh, so frustrating.

[A]

I guess.

[E]

Well, since we're here and we're such. And we're such fans and aficionados, this kind of stuff, you. This is kind of impressive that this is running inside of such a icy area. What sort of fuel source did you find was best for this location?

[G]

The eternal kind.

[E]

Yeah, that tracks.

[G]

Fire eater.

[F]

Lucky for you, we're in the neighborhood offering free inspections and we're willing to do a free inspection.

[A]

That's homeowner talk right there. People have been at your door.

[C]

Is there like a weird connection between like the frostbite, the fire eater and the sea drinker?

[F]

Like they're all like consumption based temperature things?

[A]

You can make a religion check if you want.

[F]

Where's the lukewarm sipper?

[C]

I'll make a religion trick.

[F]

Yeah, I said where's the lukewarm sipper?

[A]

Just get, get out of here. Inspiration day.

[C]

I rolled a Nat 20 for 27 with my modifier.

[A]

You're on fire with these checks lately, Barbara.

[D]

Thank God I got some good rolls today.

[A]

You've heard rumor in the past of some kind of. How can I put it? You've heard rumor of some kind of jealousy between the three of them in the past between the fire eater, the sea drinker and the frostbiter.

[C]

So have we determined the frostbiter is the one inside the dragon? Is that what.

[A]

No, you're talking to the frostbider.

[C]

Oh, okay.

[G]

But we suspect the fire eater is inside the thing causing heat. Yeah, probably though if the frostbiter likes things hot, the fire eater might be something that likes things cold.

[C]

That's what I'm thinking. Like it could be a weird reverse, but I don't know.

[A]

Well, just to clarify what Chris said there, the frostbiter said that he does not like the cold.

[G]

Yeah. So frostbiter likes hot hot. So that means fire eater might like cold.

[C]

Yeah. Like if the frost bites and the

[A]

fire eats when the shark bites, which one?

[F]

Swallow.

[G]

It might be reverse of what you

[C]

think and the sea drinks.

[E]

I don't, I don't think so necessarily. I don't think it's like it has to go that way as well.

[D]

There's a lot of eater bite or drinker.

[C]

Like that's what we got. Yeah, yum, yum, yum.

[F]

We're. Where does the lukewarm sipper fill into all this.

[E]

I think you broke the party, Gus.

[C]

Earth muncher. Where's one of those?

[A]

Anyway, move along.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, we'll move along. Thank you so much. Last question. Where are. Since we've come so far, where are the barracks? So we might be able to find some place for rest for the evening?

[A]

With a groan, the Frost Frostbiter turns and points one of his feathery arms at one of the igloos that's floating by on the canal.

[F]

Okay, just missed it. Darn.

[G]

Wait for it to come back around. Yes.

[E]

So, yeah, can I pull my party to the side so we're not talking in front of the frost spider?

[A]

Sure. I assume you move away a little distance and he stands there. He turns his back to you and begins inspecting where Tolve was knocking.

[E]

I don't want to jump to conclusions, but I feel like we might have found an objective for us inside of this place. So does it get dark, Gus, or is the sun not moving again still? And it never gets dark?

[A]

Oh, yeah, that's right. It's always dark here because you're in the veil and it was lit by moonlight.

[E]

Oh, okay. So then again, that leads me to another meta question. Is there a point where people go to bed? Like, is there like a midnight shift?

[A]

I won't even make you roll for this just because presumably from your experience in the mortalion, you know that there really isn't a downtime, especially being so close to a front of war, that there are. There are definitely shifts and people rotate in and out, but there are always people milling about as they either go on, watch, come off, watch, go out to battle, come back from battle. It's a constant stream of Undarians in various directions. Okay.

[E]

All right, team, stop me if you think this is dumb, but I think we should try to cause some sort of commotion, like a diversion, to give ourselves a chance to maybe abscond with a God.

[D]

Yes, it's a tall order.

[G]

Which God?

[E]

The one. The one inside the dragon. Gunther?

[G]

Yeah, yeah, we don't know for certain. And that he's got in there.

[F]

We're pretty sure.

[H]

I.

[F]

You know, it's. It makes sense because they were able to interrogate, right?

[G]

Yeah.

[E]

Hey, actually, I have an answer for this. Gus, you said those vents were opening and closing, right?

[A]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, sure, yeah, that makes sense. As heat and exhaust hits a vent, it opens up and releases it. And then as air is drawn in, those vents open up as well.

[E]

Okay, Natty needs a moment to think.

[G]

I have a saying too.

[E]

Why don't you let me do mine first, and if it doesn't work, you can do yours.

[A]

Think, think, think, think, think, think.

[E]

No, Natty's using the spell. A moment of think.

[A]

I thought you. I thought you were saying Natty's stopping time needed a moment to think.

[C]

I thought John needed, like.

[F]

All right, John, let's go.

[E]

Okay, so Natty stops time when the vents are open. And I'm not an expert on thermodynamics, but I think when the particles stop moving, the heat isn't as strong. Like, while you're in stopped time, heat shouldn't work the same way.

[A]

Yeah, let's see where this goes. Let's follow this line of thinking.

[E]

Okay. All I'm asking is then that would allow Natty to put her face up extra close to these vents with flames not moving anymore and be able to look in and see if she sees a person.

[A]

Okay.

[F]

Flames around my face.

[C]

Is the fire eater like a humanoid type?

[E]

I don't know.

[C]

Okay. I just don't know what you'd be looking for.

[A]

Just to clarify. Okay, I did say we had clarified that you all had moved away and the frost spider was looking at it, but you stopped time, which would allow you to go there, look, and then come back without anyone noticing. Yes, I'm just trying to think through.

[E]

Yes.

[A]

All of these complicated things. Because stopping time is so easy.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've read a lot of Flash comics. Okay? So I know how this works.

[A]

Why don't you make me a advantage? Advanced physics check with advantage.

[F]

What's an advanced physics check?

[A]

I don't know. We're talking about thermodynamics and all of this. Oh, no, no, no.

[C]

I'm kidding.

[E]

Okay.

[A]

You're able to stop time. You take a look into the event, and, yeah, you do see what appears to be some kind of creature inside of the statue.

[E]

And then. So Natty would use the remainder of her time to think to then come back to the group so that she hasn't, like, to the rest of the world, she has a move.

[A]

It's like you never left.

[E]

And Natty goes time in and tells the groups, like, well, I just checked, and there is someone inside of that statue.

[F]

Oh, should we, like, slip them, like, a shiv or some sort of tool?

[G]

What did they look like?

[E]

A person on fire? Perpetually.

[D]

It's probably the fire eater in there.

[G]

Probably.

[E]

Fire eater.

[F]

It's gotta be the fire eater.

[D]

Yeah. Were they eating any fire by any chance? That's a dead giveaway.

[E]

Nanny's A time to think.

[F]

So Natty goes back and sees if they're eating anything.

[E]

Utensils, a plate, an oven.

[A]

Shawarma.

[E]

Yeah, shawarma. Okay.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Natty comes back, they're eating shawarma.

[D]

Oh, yeah, that's fine.

[F]

I'm glad that they're taken care of. I have a potential plan for a diversion.

[E]

Does it involve the crane and the button?

[F]

How did you know? Natty, are we, like, same wavelengths? Crazy.

[E]

See, it's like we're finishing each other's schwarma missions.

[F]

So anyways, I just realized. I just realized. I. I cut line. Chris had something. Gunther had something.

[G]

No, no, no. But John did something better.

[F]

Okay. I have the spider silk, and I'm also sure that there's a ladder, too. But we could do something where we drop. Okay, what if we went onto the cray and then repositioned the, you know, all of that stuff that's up there to then drop, causing a big commotion. And then while that's happening, you guys rush while everybody's heading in the other direction, and then free the fire eater from the dragon.

[G]

How do we. But how do we free the fire eater from dragon?

[D]

Oh, and they got like a. I don't know, a vacuum.

[E]

What?

[F]

I could drop the crane thing on the dragon.

[G]

Yes, yes.

[F]

And that's probably going to kill the fire eater.

[G]

Or tip it over.

[F]

That's something. Yeah.

[D]

Natty, did it look like the.

[E]

The.

[D]

The person inside there could fit through the vent?

[E]

I don't. I didn't check. Natty does another time and checks one more times and sees the scale of this person.

[A]

Yeah, I'm going to say no. Most. Most likely not. No, that would not work.

[C]

Most likely not. How big is the dragon statue?

[A]

It's pretty big. I don't remember if I gave an exact scale of it. Let me. I think you would say it would be classified as maybe huge. Like, so really big.

[C]

Okay, so not something we could just carry out.

[A]

No. Plus, on top of that, it's like Tolv discovered it's made of tungsten. And tungsten is a very heavy metal, too, so it's a huge chunk of heavy metal. Heavy metal.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Last time I'm gonna do this trick. But Daddy will actually use time to think to go. Could I do a quick check to see if there's any sort of, like, doors, hatches, screws, cracks, seams, anything? What's a door?

[D]

I'm scared of it. It sounds hard.

[F]

I don't like this.

[A]

Yeah, but. Yeah, just for my own memory here, timing that's like. It lasts for, like six seconds, right?

[E]

It's.

[A]

It's. It's specifically, you take one additional action

[E]

used as a bonus action. That gives me another action time.

[A]

So, yeah, at most it's six seconds. So we'll. You can make an investigation check, but it's not enough time to investigate the entire thing. Okay.

[E]

Because it's depending on how good my check is.

[A]

It's huge, right? Yeah, we'll get. You know, we'll give you a chance. Yeah. Just make a check and we'll go from there. We're kind of playing this by ear. That's how we do it.

[E]

Hey. Yeah.

[D]

That was a four.

[E]

Oh, I do have inspiration dice. Why not use it or lose it? That one's a 19.

[A]

Lucky you. How inspiring. Yeah, inspired.

[E]

I was inspired by Barbara remembering. We have those in this game.

[A]

You go over and take a look, and yeah, you do find a crack in the tungsten near where the vent was where you were peeking before. It appears that there's a fissure that might go all the way through the statue.

[F]

It's got a weak spot.

[G]

That could have been the crack that we heard.

[F]

Oh, smart boy. Clever boy. I guess a special tolve inspiration.

[E]

It's worthless, but it actually steals your inspiration. I would say then that it'd probably be best if there's a crack in it. We're gonna have to break open that crack. So then whoever's doing the. Whoever's gotta do that's gotta be strong. Maybe has, like, a big old hammer. Mm.

[A]

Mm.

[E]

Maybe has, like, robot strength.

[C]

Mm.

[E]

Mm.

[D]

All right, Captain Grumbles, you're in.

[A]

Love it.

[F]

Perfect.

[E]

I mean, even that little warpick might be helpful.

[D]

Well, I mean, Tove also had the idea for the diversion.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's all right. Thank you.

[F]

You.

[E]

I'll connect the dot. The dots. We should To. Should not do the diversion if we need to. To then try to get into the statue.

[A]

Yes.

[G]

So perhaps maybe the. You, since you are so good at machinery, do the crane. And then. And then from.

[E]

And I'm not very. Why are you looking at me? I'm not very good at machinery.

[G]

I was looking at Barbara.

[A]

Doug was standing behind you. Natty, you look like a gunther was looking at you, but he was actually looking at Doug.

[E]

Natty's just like, well, you know what? I appreciate the confidence. I'm not normally into this.

[C]

There's a moment Doug is going, what the hell?

[D]

My whole entire life, she turns around,

[E]

she goes, hey, Doug, could I borrow your tools? For a little bit.

[F]

Wait. Going off of that idea. So if Doug goes. Operates the machinery. Natty, does your ring fit other people that are not just you into it? Because you could create a disguise that. No, you're shaking your head.

[D]

I think we should just go forward with trying to get this portion out.

[E]

Okay. I'm gonna go with Doug and help with the diversion since I'm good at those and we got the two strong lads to try to get this thing open and get that fire eater out. Okay.

[F]

Okay. Maybe what we'll do is the diversion will be my cue to take a big old quack right at this crack.

[E]

Yes.

[F]

That way the noise is kind of covered up.

[E]

You know, I'm gonna leave Gigi and Grumbles with you too, because you guys need all the manpower you can get.

[F]

Why would you do that to us? I don't want to. Danny started walking away with Doug. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. He left him with us. She left him with us.

[A]

Blaine was physically acting as to there and had, like, started shaking and looking around very nervously. It was inspired. That was really good. Take inspiration by Blaine. That was. That was. That was really good roleplay. I like it.

[F]

That means that I'm about to help a bad roll, and I need that.

[G]

Okay.

[C]

The dice gods know.

[A]

So we have team distraction and team action.

[E]

Yeah, Cool.

[C]

Nice.

[A]

Let's head. We'll start with team distraction because that needs to happen first. Team waxion. That's really good, Micah. Micah. You get an inspiration. Die. Okay, so Natty and Doug, you walk up to the crane and the mechanism and everything. What's your. What's your approach?

[D]

I don't know. I guess we could just start moving it and, you know, making noise with it. Moving stuff around, make people look at it.

[F]

Could.

[E]

Could. Does. Does Doug's mechanical engineer expertise give him any sort of insight into how this working so that Doug could make it do whatever he wants?

[A]

Yeah. Doug, why don't you make me an investigation check with advantage.

[C]

Okay. That's a seven.

[E]

That's your best one with advantage.

[C]

But, you know, I'm having a flash of genius, so I'm gonna add plus four to that.

[E]

Oh, nice, nice, nice.

[D]

So that's an 11.

[A]

Yeah, that's good enough. I was looking for a 10. So you got it. You very quickly are able to figure out how this works. One of these stone wheels, like I say, the horizontal wheel seems to move. Move the crane along the x axis left and right, and the vertical wheel seems to move it along the X axis. I'm sorry. The Z axis closer to you and further away from you. And then you feel like if you push that large button, it'll drop the crane down and make it grab things.

[F]

Z axis up and down.

[E]

That's why that's the Y.

[A]

It depends how you're looking at it. So if you're looking top down, it's X and Y and then Z coming up and down. So it's like whether you look at. From your perspective or from an overhead perspective. We've argued.

[C]

I'm picturing this, like, a crane game where you move things.

[A]

It's exactly what it's like.

[E]

Okay, so, Doug, there's.

[G]

With my.

[E]

With my lovely eyes, I was able to see that in those, like, wood things up there, those little platforms. There's a lot of stuff you can make a mess with.

[D]

Oh, excellent.

[E]

And it's, like, important. Like, some is treasure and some is supplies, and they need both.

[A]

It seemed like, based on when you were looking, like the platform on the left was primarily treasure and loot, and the platform on the right was more like items of some kind. Like various items.

[E]

Okay.

[C]

I mean, should I just try to swing it around to knock all this stuff over? Yeah, I think I might just do that. Like, just trying to make a mess of it.

[E]

Maximum effort.

[F]

Just so that, you know, I'm prepping with both hands my gavel of Gaelstrom. Like, I'm waiting for the queue.

[E]

Okay.

[F]

Just so I'm not just like, oh, to. You're surprised by this?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[F]

Like, I'm watching that thing.

[A]

This is the plan. Yeah. You're. You're. You're doing it. You go up there and begin rolling the wheels. Is there a particular platform you want to try to knock over? What's your. Your. Your approach here?

[C]

Probably the items actually. Do the items look like it's like. Like weapons and metal and stuff like that. That would make a clang kind of thing if it was knocked.

[A]

Yeah. So that's the platform on. On the right is the one with the various items. You see lanterns, hatchets, bracers, belts, harpoons, drums, mugs. I mean, it's just all kinds of various things.

[C]

Okay. Yeah, I want to go for that section.

[F]

Mugs, jugs, drugs,

[A]

Uggs.

[C]

Oh, those are nice and soft.

[G]

Boots.

[A]

Yeah, Those won't make a sound when you drop them.

[C]

Yeah, boots with the fur.

[A]

All right, you begin manipulation, manipulating the giant wheels to move the. The crane around. Why don't you roll me a D20 to see how accurate this is?

[E]

Can I help?

[C]

15.

[E]

Like, can I offer the assist action?

[A]

Sure, why not? Roll me a D20 as well.

[E]

That's a one. How much did I help?

[A]

Negative two.

[E]

Okay.

[C]

Doug just, like, pushes Natty away.

[D]

I'm focused. Stop it.

[A]

That's like when two people try to play the crane game. Like, one's in one direction, the other in the other. It's like, what this is. This seems like this should work, but it's actually harder.

[D]

I really want this Kirby plush. Hold on. Give me a second.

[A]

We'll call that a 13 in the end.

[D]

What?

[A]

Well, because after Natty's assistance, I.

[F]

Critical.

[E]

Failed. I'm sorry. Icritical Failed.

[C]

Guys, help.

[A]

However, that's not necessarily the worst thing in the world. You're not looking for super accuracy. You're not trying to grab a particular thing. You're just trying to kind of mash it around and knock boxes off, and you're successful in that. You know, if you were trying to get a particular box, that probably wouldn't have worked. But since you're just trying to knock crates off from that platform. Yeah, you're able to do that. And Tov. You see this? You see these? We'll say two crates begin falling off of the platform and racing towards the ground.

[G]

Can I also add my Smith's tools? I want to get, like, one of the wedge.

[A]

A pick.

[G]

Yeah, so that. And kind of have it wedge it in there so there's, like, a focal point for him to hit with the warhammer.

[A]

Sure. Yeah. I like that.

[F]

I was just looking in my inventory for something similar to that, and then I was like, well, what's in the party inventory?

[E]

And then it's four farts.

[F]

That's what's in the party inventory.

[D]

I used one of those already, so I wish you take one.

[F]

All right, I'll mark one down, then.

[G]

And I'll duel both hands, hold that new wafting warpick and be ready to laugh back afterwards.

[C]

Are you holding the thing or.

[A]

Yeah, I thought you were holding the wedge. Oh, I stuck the.

[G]

I stuck the wedge in.

[A]

Oh, I see.

[G]

I didn't want to get my. My arm smashed, so I wedged it in.

[C]

You don't have faith in Toll. Should be accurate and is.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

What the heck, man?

[A]

Okay, so you. You wedge the piece in there, and you ready yourself to act along with toll. And, yeah, you. You see those boxes coming down, and you strike right at the same moment that those boxes or those crates hit the ground. Make me, let's say, an attack roll with advantage tolf.

[F]

Okay,

[E]

15.

[F]

I could use my inspiration.

[E]

Die.

[D]

You might.

[C]

15 might be good enough. But I could also have a flash of genius for you.

[E]

What is that?

[C]

Although you're not within 30ft of me, are you?

[A]

No, I think he's a little further than me.

[E]

I have, I have.

[C]

Okay, never mind.

[F]

I have inspiration, so I could use that.

[E]

Use it. It's important.

[C]

Fifteen might be enough.

[E]

Okay.

[F]

All right, I'm gonna do that.

[E]

Oh, my God. 14.

[F]

So 15 is my highest.

[A]

15. All right. And, Gunther, you want to also make a roll there?

[G]

Sure. Fifteen.

[C]

All right.

[G]

Oh, do I have advantage? I don't have advantage.

[A]

Yeah, you also have advantage. Yeah, you both were, like, kind of anticipating that this and. And preparing yourself.

[C]

They're prepped.

[G]

Fifteen. Okay.

[A]

I'll say. It's like a 1:1 to strike. You ever see, like, in blacksmithing when, like, there's multiple people. Yeah. On either side of an anvil, and they're both, like, hitting and they're timing it. That's exactly what's going on here.

[E]

And Gigi's gonna be the third head,

[F]

so it's just his head, though. He just goes.

[A]

So then one right after the other, almost perfectly synced up with the sounds of the two crates hitting the the ground in the distance with a mighty bang.

[E]

Bang.

[A]

Hit the wedge that's been driven into the crack in the tungsten. And with that, you see the fissure open up and run along the length of the statue, cleaving it in two. And it falls apart in two giant pieces, freeing what appears to be a dragon. Emerging from the ruins of the statue, you see a dragon with cracked black scales. The cracks between the scales glow a dull red. And as you're looking at it, the bright orange flames become brighter and brighter until they burst out into actual, like, roaring flames shooting out from these cracks. On the dragon with lets out a loud roar, looks around and begins breathing fire, melting all of the keep around it. You see the walls falling down and people running around, Udarians running around screaming. Some on fire, some not.

[E]

And.

[A]

And the entire place just seems to erupt into chaos.

[D]

Oh, my God. I didn't mean to knock it over.

[A]

We'll see if they believe your excuses on the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon.

[F]

Did we mess up? I feel like we messed up.

[E]

No, that's probably the fire eater.

[F]

But I was like, we should preserve this beautiful ice castle. And then the dragon just goes all over it.

[A]

Find out if mistakes were made on the next episode.

[F]

Oh, man.

[E]

Spoiler. Mistakes are always made. And every episode, the brand new Tavern Tale Sea Squad Season two is finally out for our patrons. Follow Barb, Blaine, Chris and Gus as your favorite new soul teen struggle through the ongoing chaos of puberty, powers and pop quizzes. All well guided by their awesome dm, myself, John Risinger. Time to hit the books, get caught up on season one and jump into season two by cruising over to our Patreon. Attention all interns. Another Infinite has just hit plushie form and will be available for pre order very soon. Mud, Bramble, Crack, the fearless Fearball Bud and his adorable companion Gumbo will be available to pre order as collectible plush [e-mail] mud starting April 17th. That's Friday y'. All. This Druid and his badge are only available for a limited time and they will disappear back to the swamps of the Babayu on May 1, so get your favorite green hair prints while supplies last. New episodes of Tales from Sneaky Dragon premiere every other Wednesday wherever you stream podcasts and on the Sneaky Dragon YouTube channel. But want to listen to the show 48 hours early and ad free? You can support us by becoming a [e-mail] or join as a member on Beacon TV. Both give you early ad free access and a members only Discord for their respective platforms. Looking for even more stinky content and community perks? Well, our Patreon offers exclusive bonus shows, behind the scenes content, access to the really cool Stinky Dragon, Discord members Only livestream, stinky community events and a shout out on the show. Just like Terses, Shaelin Fancher, Nomi C and Nick Atkins. These patrons, they directly support the show. They get ad free episodes, access to our patron only Discord server, bonus content like like Second Wind and Behind the Screen and other stinky perks. Here's a quick peek from the latest episode of C squad season 2. Is there something that you would do to like convince them that there's a reason you need to leave earlier than usual?

[F]

Mom, dad, I'm going to be so very honest with you. You know how much I struggle making friends. I have heard that there is meetup. I very much want to go. Please let me go. Mondet, please. I have such hard time making friends. They all say I smell so bad. Please Preeti, please.

[E]

Okay. And since your parents are actually like doting and loving and involved parents, I'm gonna give you another stealth check. But this is without advantage so you have to roll with disadvantage.

[F]

Well good because that's a four. Oh wait, no, hold on.

[C]

That's a zero hey, guys, Alexei's not gonna be joining us for this campaign. He's stuck at home.

[E]

Okay, I'm prepared for this then. Misty, since you have succeeded, I'm gonna give you a chance to assist Alexi. How would you help Alexi get out of the house?

[F]

She does not come to poor part of town.

[E]

Do you have. Do you have anything that you could lend to help him?

[C]

Yes. I will ring the doorbell.

[E]

Oh, okay. Hello, little girl. Why are you here so late at night?

[C]

Um, hello, Mr. And Mrs. Chettle.

[E]

That's close enough.

[C]

My name's Madeline and you might know my parents. They are big donors of the school. And your son Alexei, he's like become a really good friend of mine. And there's this really important birthday party

[D]

that a friend of ours is having,

[C]

but because of their schedule and their job and their parents job, the only time they could have it is overnight.

[D]

And so it'd be really great if

[C]

you could let your son join us. It would mean so much to me and also so much to my parents.

[E]

Yeah, I like that.

[F]

That's good enough.

[E]

Give me a stealth check. Bimmy stealth.

[F]

Okay, not from me. You do not want to give me.

[E]

Since you're talking to his parents, do a persuasion. How about that?

[A]

How about that?

[C]

So that would be a 17 because I got a plus five persuasion.

[E]

They're like, oh, we are so excited that Alexi has friend and he's not kao. So yes, be sure to bring him back in one piece. Ha ha. He's strong. That's not going to be a problem. Okay, bye.

[F]

Bye, mom and dad.

[D]

All right, come on, best friend.

[E]

Give us kiss.

[F]

Give us kiss. Right thumb lips.

[A]

I hate it.

[F]

Say good. Hey, give me you've kissed to Bessie cow for me.

[E]

Do you want to take Bessie Cow with you?

[F]

God, can she come along? Can Bessie Cow come with us?

[E]

Ask Bessie never gets out. Once Again, that'[e-mail] We are incredibly grateful for your support which makes this show possible. Some of Our friends voiced NPCs in this episode and listeners who interacted with us us on the Stinky Dragon Discord had NPCs named after them like the Dretchguard and Undaring Guard voiced by Ben Ernst at HalcyonBen and Infernus voiced by Laura Rothamol Oralrothamol and the Frostbiter named after Robert Toast, voiced by Miles Luna Hemiles Luna on Instagram and Milesluna BSKY Social on Blue Sky. Or check out his YouTube channel, YouTube.com ackwards compatible. This week's arrow question was submitted by Relay Frenchy. This episode of Tales of Sticky Dragon was produced by Ben Ernst and Michael Risinger, written and composed by Michael Risinger and edited by Alina lakorcic. Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Frostbiter.

[A]

That's good.

[F]

Frostbite. That's good.

[A]

I always wanted that as a kid.

[G]

Yeah.

[E]

Best commercial for probably the dumbest toy.

[A]

I don't think I knew anyone who had that.

[G]

No, I had a friend who had one and it was not as fun as it. Yeah, seen this in the commercials.

[C]

Living in Canada, I had plenty of frost spiders.

[E]

Oh, there you go.

[A]

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