D&D is For Nerds - Hus Firma Pride #1 Hus Firma Pride!
Episode Date: September 24, 2016Hus Firma PrideIn which our heroes are introduced. We get some sinister foreshadowing, learn about the world around us and discuss a great name. Cassius just wanted to fight, Zillie reincarnates as wh...at she hated the most and Edrik was just writing war down. So join us as we refuse to respect the remains of elves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Previously.
You needed a good scrub.
I haven't been clean in years.
You won't be clean again for years.
I'm that pale.
You'll see a tattoo.
Oh, I did get that.
That's far.
Who the hell is Daniel?
What the fuck is that about?
I'm the best cannon.
I have a Daniel tattoo on my arm.
You look lovely, darling.
I'll see you at the ceremony.
Thank you, Cassius.
Your beard looks clean.
It's all right.
Who's Daniel?
I have no idea.
It would be anyone.
All right, so Cassius, what's our next move?
What's your next move? I don't know.
I've got to be honest with you.
I'm kind of curious as to who Daniel is.
Thinking of maybe investigating that some.
That's fair enough.
I don't know where that'll take me.
You're welcome to join me, Leo.
Good luck in finding out who Daniel is.
I'm out of here.
All right, Leo.
Is this a goodbye?
Or is it a new beginning?
So, we're going to focus on Cassius.
That's right.
Cassius, after you leave your companions,
you're going to go find out who Daniel was.
Was?
Was!
Is!
Is!
Is!
I'm foreshadowing on him.
Relax.
He's still alive.
We'll get to that in a minute.
Is! Oh, no! I'm worried either way. Yeah, I don't know. Relax. He's still alive. We'll get to that in a minute. He is.
Oh, no!
I'm worried either way.
It's going to be a little difficult because we've turned out all the lights in the studio here.
A little D&D after dark right now.
A little bit of mood lighting.
We've lit some candles and dropped some bath bombs on the floor.
Not water, though.
There's just some dirty...
I would like to think our listeners are clever enough that there's no water in the studio.
So if I show you the map, can you actually see it from where you're sitting?
Yeah, I can.
Yep.
Okay.
So you're up here near Lockfort in Hus Firma.
It's a typical...
Well, it's actually Nordic humans, but that's basically where you were raised.
Is that where...
That's where Markov comes from, isn't it?
No.
He comes from Husgra.
If I'd met Markov, I would have punched him in the mouth.
A Husgra?
Yes. comes from, isn't it? No, Husqvarna. If I'd met Markov, I would have punched him in the mouth. Husqvarna? Yes, Husqvarna and Husfirma have a long-standing ancient feud,
which is based on the religion that both of them sort of share,
in a manner of speaking.
Basically, it's a long story, but their gods hate each other.
Husqvarna filth!
All right, then.
So anyway.
That's the way of it.
Goodness.
Yeah, all right.
You come from a town or you were born.
Well, you don't know where you were born,
but you were raised in a town called Lormacane,
population about 750 people.
Lormacane.
As far as small cities go, it's sort of large.
All right.
Compared to small cities, I guess.
You were raised by one-eyed mistra, who is like a shaman to that town.
Let me write that down because I forget it.
One-eyed mistra.
One-eyed mistra.
Mistra.
Mistra.
M-Y-S-T-R-A.
Mistra.
Mistra.
Adam, can we play?
No.
I'm just giving Cassius a little bit of background stuff
and then I'll jump to you guys.
Just learning who I am, where I came from.
You actually might want to pay attention
because your backstory is tied into this as well.
I was like a little baby left on a doorstep.
A little angry baby.
Pretty much, yeah.
You were a little angry baby left on a doorstep.
Because for those joining in at home,
me and Ali are playing new characters.
Yeah, that's right.
Yes, this is true.
Because I didn't introduce that.
That's fine.
I'll fix it in post.
I won't.
We never do.
Nope.
We always say we will.
Never do.
Never, never do.
Well, how can we fix it in post?
Because it's live.
It's live, Adam.
Our favorite game.
Yeah, it's live.
So many times.
It's nighttime where we are playing this
It's always night time somewhere in the world
There you go
We're up at 3 in the morning
Ruining this joke
Okay
So you're returning back to that town
Presumably to find this
Daniel character
I figure he's probably around here.
I'm just backtracing my steps.
Pretty much, yeah.
Now I'm going to give Ali, we're going to jump to you.
Your character's name is?
Well, you let me choose my own name.
My name is Zilli Hexvard.
This is not how you say it.
Hexvard. Hexvard. Don't is not how you say it. Hexavard.
Hexavard.
Don't tell me how to say my fucking name.
Hexavard.
I have Hexavard written down as well.
It's kind of funny because I think when you said Ainsley's name,
we had an argument over that as well.
Yeah, we did.
History has regretted itself.
Well, because this is what I did.
I put it into the Google, and then the Google gave me a translation,
so now I'm changing all my mind.
So it's Hexavad now?
I don't know.
Whatever you want.
Whatever.
Zilli Hexvad.
Yeah, Hexvad.
It's happened.
Hexvad.
Hexvad.
Hexvad.
Zilli Hexvad.
You were also a baby on a, maybe not as angry a baby,
but you were also a baby on a doorstep.
All right.
And you were also raised baby on a doorstep all right and you were also uh raised by one-eyed
mistress she was basically like the give me give me all of the unwanted and i'll raise them in uh
in the best way i know house yeah you were basically you grew up as orphans together
um because uh cassius is a dwarf i should let you know that um she matured a lot slower than you did
but you would have met like uh you would have matured a lot slower than you did. This is not surprising.
You would have matured, you would have come of age at about the same time.
Oh, right.
Go off.
Yeah, we did good.
We met together at that point.
We got by.
I feel like I started as your little sister and then became your older sister.
Yeah, that's true.
As you were growing up, Cassius was raised basically to take over from One-Eyed Mister.
She wanted Cassius to take her place.
One-Eyed Mister recognized as well that you had magical talent,
but separate from the magical talent she had.
You're a sorceress.
Better magic?
Different.
All magic is equal.
I read Animal Farm. I don't know if that's the way it goes. Some magic is equal. I read Animal Farm.
I don't know if that's the way it goes. Some magic is more equal than others.
Four legs good, two legs bad.
Four legs good, two legs better?
I forget Animal Farm.
That's how it goes.
A pig ruled in that.
That's great.
Fucking Napoleon.
That's like a manual for you, isn't it?
Enough pig kings and literature.
I'm sorry, Adam.
Carry on.
So the Nordic people of Lor-Makain,
while they tolerate the type of mystical and spiritual magic
that Arcassius and Mystra practice,
the arcane magic that you are adept at is pretty much,
not so much frowned on, but openly hated around here.
I have a question, Adam.
Myself, as an individual,
have I become who I hate? Because we killed a lot of wizards.
Did I come back in D&D life
as what I hated?
You reincarnated as what you hated
most.
In an ironic turn of events.
Yeah, when Cassius dies,son will come back as a fuck boy
oh no yeah so um because of this you you've spent a lot of your life ostracized oh me straight
still like loves you as a child and so you're safe with her whenever you still have like a sunday roast together um yeah every you're basically tolerated back in town every now and then when
you're like with mistra adam on my character sheet it says i have a charisma of 21 which
is my highest stat does that mean the people in the town only like me because i'm super hot
um is that why they love me, Adam?
I always consider charisma to be
a measure of not just physical attractiveness
but also force of personality.
So charisma isn't just
some people
might interpret it like that.
Some people
might interpret it like that, yes.
Some people like me, Adam?
Yes! You've also got a magic cape that ups your charisma. Some people might interpret it like that, yes. Some people like me? Yes. Yes.
You've also got a magic cape that ups your charisma.
Yes.
So your raw charisma is 21.
And then you chuck in that cape. No, no, no, no, no.
Her raw charisma is 19.
Then she chucks on the chape.
The chape.
It's like a regular cape, but it's like monkey fern.
It chafes a lot.
No, I thought the chape was from improving charisma. 19, I thought that chair was from like Improvising Charisma.
19, she puts on the cape, it becomes 21.
All right.
I also love that when you take off that cape, people are like,
ah, bitch.
I feel like you were more attractive with the cape on.
You were a lot more charming with that cape.
Two is not that much, though.
I think you should put on that cape.
Two is not that much.
Two is like if I take the cape off, they realize I haven't done my hair.
Yeah, something like that.
Like, oh, she's got a twig in her hair.
Or it could be just a fucking nice cape I guess it's like you're fine but that cape's so good I love
that silly person but when she wears that okay oh something extra like just adds a little bit
from like an 8 to an 11 Adam almost like a 19 to a 21 I would also like to reiterate
that I'm very career driven so despite my
amazing attractive and
great charisma
Are you Belle from Beauty and the Beast?
Is that what you're doing?
You're just book smart
You're the most attractive lady in town
but you don't give a shit about that
I'm like Hermione Granger
Belle wasn't book smart. Belle just read
a lot of books. No, she was pretty smart.
She was not book smart. Belle wasn't reading history books.
She was reading Jack and the Beanstalk, was she?
If I read like 20 fairy tales, I'm not like,
damn, I'm well read.
Well read compared
to that town who are like, books!
She was literal. Let's say that.
Yeah, there you go. Anyway.
Where the fuck even were we?
Talking about,
and she's ostracized,
she goes back to town for Sunday roasts.
Right, right, right, right.
Sunday seal roasts.
Sunday seal.
Every now and then,
they tolerate you being in town
because Mistro basically,
you're under her protection,
but for the most of the time,
you would spend outside of town
in a home or like a basic lodging.
Yes. I'm a sexy sorceress on the outside.
It's like even just a cave that you've made homely.
I guess. Witch. Witch.
We don't like you. What? No, I'm a sorceress.
It says on my page. We don't have that word here.
What? In Husfermo. You don't even
have a character yet, Sam.
This is true.
And speaking of witch.
Speaking of witches.
Joel, what's your character's name?
My name is Edric Gvaldason.
Edric Gvaldason.
Gvaldason.
Yes.
And every time I want you to say my full name.
That's not going to happen.
If Jackson wanted me to say Griff Pompom Griff, that didn't happen.
And I wanted him to spell my name correctly
None of us are getting what we want
You put in a request
You wait 6-8 weeks and see what you get
Adam's the DJ at the club
Where you're like
DJ please play Tay Tay
And they're like yeah no we will
I think we should play some Green Day
Well I'm afraid all I have
Are CDs from the 90s,
so I guess that's what we're listening to.
We can play Green Day.
I was talking about the D&D game. Guys, I didn't have any
game prepared. We're just going to listen to some
90s music. We're just going to sit around and listen to some 90s tunes.
Chat about it.
I am
a fighter.
Am I a soldier, Adam?
You got soul, but you ain't a soldier.
Look at that!
I think that was the noughties, though.
Whatever.
Yes, that's right. You grew up with them
as well. You might not have been...
You can actually choose if you want to be an orphan.
Yes.
Orphan pals.
For the town's backstory, it doesn't matter too much.
But yeah, you were also... you all basically were raised together.
What's your character's age, Edric?
33.
33.
Okay.
So you're a bit older than Zilli, but not as old as Cassius.
How old's Cassius?
Cassius is 50.
What?
Dwarves, we mature slow.
Yeah, that would have been super weird for you. Yep. Because
dwarves come of age at about 40, which is about when you would
have gotten your first period and that sort of stuff would have started happening to you.
But you would have been like 18 and kids around town or like, you know,
humans around town who don't understand how dwarves work are like,
hey, hey. i had a strange
childhood you didn't even have a beard as well by then because you were so young very attractive
young lady yeah and i would have been like i'm six for a dwarf and then you grew up
everyone's like wow oh oh no yeah that would have been super weird i grew out mr probably
knows a little bit about dwarves and so it was like, hey, don't do these things.
Like, guys will ask you.
But don't.
No.
Don't go into the van.
Cassius.
Yeah, it's just super weird.
Even if it says stuff on the outside.
The wagon.
Mistra really liked it.
The wagon.
The candy wagon.
She's like the linchpin that held you all together as kids.
You would have grown up.
It's like a proper, pretty much orphanage that she ran.
So you guys would have known a lot of kids growing up.
Super good.
Also, Zilly, you have a weasel.
A what?
Yes, a weasel.
It's your animal familiar.
Is that what all that shit on page two is?
I think it's page three.
But good.
Page two is not that.
I have a weasel guy.
You could have found him the same time I found Mr. Fists.
What color is Mr. Fists again? Mr. Fists is brown. You could have found him at the same time I found Mr. Fist. What color is Mr. Fist again?
Mr. Fist is brown now.
You did not find him in a cold tundra.
I did.
He got lost.
You're not the right color for the snow.
This is not my hunting ground.
That's so cute.
Little Mr. Fist being like, I'm cold.
That's why I call him a beanie.
I know he gets chilly.
I don't think weasels live in Tundra land.
Yeah, you get like snow, like, not snow weasels.
Arctic weasels.
Like an Arctic fox.
I think Arctic weasels are a thing.
Arctic halflings are a thing.
Thanks, D&D.
Don't even ask. Don't worry&D. Don't even ask.
Don't worry about it.
Don't you get like white weasels?
Yeah.
I've seen a picture of that.
Yeah.
Or it might be a stoat.
Whatever.
It's D&D.
Bunnies.
I'm human as well.
Did I mention that?
Whatever.
I'm human as well.
Weasel for me.
What's your weasel called?
What's your weasel called?
What's your weasel called?
What a wonderful sentence.
I shall name him Wesley.
Wesley the weasel? I would like when I ask him to do things to respond with as you wish as you wish but like super sarcastic yeah as you wish
i'll even just cut out the first part and just say you wish. Boss. I'll even just cut out the first part and just say
you wish.
Wesley, get your shit together.
Edric, yes, you were a soldier
in the war.
There was a war?
Yes, there was. I was about to get into that
until you literally interrupted me with
literally what I was about to explain.
So, your people
just recently finished a war with the
elves just south of you.
It was a war over...
Do you want me to really get into the minutiae? You don't have
to listen to this if you don't want. It was just a war with the elves.
I was writing war down.
So what happened was your people were
incurring on old elven
territory, and so
your people had been setting up towns and stuff like that on old elven territory and so uh your people have like been setting up towns and stuff
like that on like old elven burial grounds and that sort of stuff and the elves were super salty
about that like you weren't your people were not respecting their remains at all and so the elves
are like we don't even care that you've taken old elven lands. Just stop doing that. And your people are super proud.
And so they're like, no, we're going to keep doing it.
Hoss firmer pride!
A war broke out, but the elves who have no real central government
or anything like that did super poorly because they don't fight wars.
That's a victory for us!
So we just desecrated
their graves, their ancestors,
and they were like, we don't care that you're getting
land, just don't desecrate our ancestors.
And we're like, no, fuck you!
And then we defeated them in a war.
That they didn't want to fight.
They lay siege to
the nearby capital of Lockfort, so this
war happened very close to where you guys
live.
But like I said, elven troops are not accustomed or not experienced in war.
So they lay siege.
But winter was about to hit.
Your people, who know how winter works,
just locked up the doors and let the elves
slowly starve to death at the city gates.
Plasforma pride!
The elven
people were just decimated
by this war. Absolutely destroyed.
Like, of the
uh, like,
if you were to give it percentage,
it would be like
60% of
the elves were killed. You gotta protect your own
people! Actually, it would have been more
if it weren't for the intense pride of your people because a lot of the people inside lockfort
were like no let's ride out and attack them and the leader is like no that's what they
that literally gives away all of our advantages and he held them off for a time allowing the
elves to starve out a bit but then eventually they were like no we're riding out and he's like
do all the soldiers know this reasons why we went to war?
This horrible atrocity?
Pretty much, yeah.
Hoss firmer, pry!
A whole mess of people would have been
conscripted from your town to fight in this war.
You probably didn't have a choice.
I'm an orphan. I've got no parents
to be like, I'm 33. Nobody taught you right from wrong!
But I'm 33, though.
You signed your own consent form.
I'm 33.
I don't blame it on being an orphan anymore.
I'm old enough.
You would have been taken away from your wife.
You decided you wanted a wife, right?
Seriously, you want to cut all...
Okay!
We're cutting that out, then.
Hang on, let me just tear this part of the paper off.
Did you full-on write on that?
No, I didn't do anything.
Oh, Adam's tearing up these parts.
Nope.
Nope.
No, never mind.
It's gone.
It's gone.
I was thinking I could be an uncle, but never mind.
See you later, Herja.
Oh, no, keep it in there.
I like it.
No, put it back in.
I want you to keep this in so the listeners know what you do to me.
No, leave it back in.
I don't have a wife to do it.
Whatever.
What was my wife?
Herja.
Let's find out
about what could have been.
Don't let anyone know, Adam.
Don't let anyone know.
Eat the paper.
Eat the paper, Adam.
I'm not gonna eat paper.
We'll screw it up.
It's kind of funny
because I had a diagram
and also I had
like a paragraph on it
and so I had to tear
both of them out separately
and I fucked over
the rest of this.
Worth it.
I think there was stuff
written on the back.
I got hasty.
You did.
You got emotional, I understand.
Anyway, yeah, you were conscripted,
and also, where is his name?
Here, Karl Hoff,
who was the local blacksmith,
was also conscripted.
Karl Hoff.
You, yeah, you served together.
He's an older man,
and you would have considered him, You're a chaotic good, right?
Yeah.
Very honorable man.
All right.
Come on.
He also is connected to you one other way, where he adopted...
Where is it?
Daniel.
Oh!
What?
It's Daniel!
You guys grew up with Daniel.
What?
He was one of the kids at the orphanage.
Do you remember this?
Clearly not. Did we not get adopted? one of the kids at the orphanage. Do you remember this? Clearly not.
Did we not get adopted?
Daniel's the only one who got adopted.
Well, everyone except Cassius knows who he is quite vividly.
Actually, you usually know him pretty well because you were kids together.
His people are super prejudiced against arcane magic and that sort of stuff,
but he knows you personally.
Does he like me?
Yeah.
You see him more regularly than me. I do have so much charisma.
Especially with that cape.
I'm so excited.
You see him like, you know, you get like a town, right?
Like it's like a country town in the middle of like the South
for our American listeners, the middle of Australia
for our Australian listeners.
And I don't know where it's rough.
Yeah, probably Scotland.
The borders?
Anyway.
Spain.
Spain.
Where it's like we're a super like tight-knit, prejudiced community. We've got a lot of like, oh, we're rough and bring the borders. Spain. Spain. Where it's like, we're a super like tight knit prejudice community.
We've got a lot of like, we're rough and tumble.
But then there's like one Indian guy and you're like, he's all right though.
Don't want any of the Indians in, but he's all right.
He's ours.
He's good.
Don't want any sorcerers, but Zilli's okay.
She's like the good kind of sorcerer.
Yeah.
We're like, hey, she's our mate though.
Yeah.
Right?
You probably see Daniel more often than you see, like, Mistra
because he comes out to your, like, little lodgings pretty regularly with supplies.
Tuesday, Thursday roast, guys.
You have a lot of roasts.
He comes to meet you, though.
You don't come to meet him.
Oh, okay.
And he was taking, oh, son slash apprentice.
And he was taking... Oh, son slash apprentice.
So when the blacksmith Carl left,
he took up the blacksmith's position in town.
Oh, okay.
Carl Hoff.
Carl Hoff.
And...
Carl Hoff.
Edric, just jumping back to you,
because you've got some more backstory stuff.
So the war is over, right?
The pretty decisive victory against the elves.
You were on your way back.
Awesome, I fought in the war,
how good. Now I'm not happy
I fought in the war, Adam.
Hust firm of pride!
I like how we turned into a college football
team. It's just like, it doesn't matter
how we win, because it's
pride. Did I kill an elf? How many
elves did I kill? Probably a few.
Hey, hey, mate, look me in the eye
Husperma pride, you do it for your people
Roll how many elves did I kill
Oh my god
Are you doing this to me?
Nah, d20
I like the most elves you could have conceivably killed is 20
It was a war
You killed 8 elves
That's not a great
You could have killed 20
You could have killed more elves
Shut up Eight elves. That's not a great, like... You could have killed 20. You could have killed more elves.
Just saying.
You were focused not so much on that siege, though,
but you and Kyle were actually helping out.
There's, like, some elves are, like, better skilled at war than others, and some of those elves were put together into specialised groups
that would harass the countryside.
Okay, cool.
So it wasn't just, like, we're slaughtering puppies.
No, no, no.
Or in this case, clubbing seals.
These people were like, maybe not necessarily veteran warriors,
but knew how to fight and knew a little bit enough about war
to strike at weakened positions.
Like guerrilla warfare?
Yeah, kind of guerrilla warfare.
Basically, I drink for the Viet Cong.
Is that what happened?
They jumped us and I had to kill them in self-defense.
That's how I'm justifying it to myself and the people who are drinking around me.
Eight of them in self-defense.
Primarily.
Just saying.
Several war parties in self-defense.
Some were sleeping.
Got to justify it to yourself somehow.
They had weapons of mass destruction.
That's what happened.
Weapons of mass destruction.
Fine.
The Husfirma war in Iraq.
Come on.
Husfirma pride.
Primarily, you fought against a group led by an elf called Pabernet Farrowind.
That's a great name.
Pabernet.
Pabernet.
Pabernet.
Pabernet, like, yeah, so on your way back, it was you and Carl traveling together.
Carl Hoff. Probably, like, Carl Hoff. With probably, like was you and Carl traveling together. Carl Hoff.
Carl Hoff.
With probably like a handful of other people.
All right.
Pabonet is, you know a little bit about him from like news from surrounding towns and stuff like that.
When the war ended, Pabonet refused to let go.
The why?
The majority of the Elven forces have returned to Elven lands except Pabonet and his crew. Pabonet refused to let go. The why? The majority of the elven forces have returned to elven lands,
except Pabonet and his crew.
Pabonet.
Cabonet.
He's continuing to harass the countryside,
and as an act of revenge for what you did to his group,
he attacked you as you were heading back to Lormacane,
and he captured alive the blacksmith, Karl Hoff.
Oh, Karl Hoff.
Not Karl Hoff.
You're returning to town to deliver the news.
Oh, no.
Mate.
Also, the captain of the city guard is named Herja.
Good to know.
I'm not writing that down.
Did someone else write that down?
I just remembered Zeekstra.
That's not even the name.
Who's going to be your wife?
Meestra.
She has two kids.
Liam and...
Children you'll never have, John.
Children you were meant to have until the Terminator came back.
She's actually made a bit of a name for herself
because one of those small elven tribes attacked Lormacain
or was near Lormacain and she led a party to kill them.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
So that's all the setup I basically had.
We'll start
Sorry about the massive dump
but you guys, you know, intersected it
every now and then with your own little shit.
Backstory's good to know. I also like to think that me and Zamet
had a little fling at some point.
Yeah, I've got that written down here.
I've written you just like
arrows going to everyone everyone spent the night with
Yeah
We're over it now we were young
I like to think I was appropriately
Aged for a dwarf
You like to hope
He was 23 when you came
Like sort of of age
Oh okay that's fine
I was a little young for me
Five year thing there where it's sort of not weird
During that period of time
Something happened
What's Daniel?
Daniel is a man
Yeah Daniel is also human
I don't remember why I have him tattooed on my arm
I guess I kind of left
You might have had a night with him as well
I thought that five years was that
We'll find out
What do I know?
Can I get to highs or lows?
Okay
I guess it's that
Dragons! Dragons attack the town!
Oh no!
What did you say? I forget
Lows
Lows, okay
Did I?
So, Lor M'Kane, like I said
Is a small town
Large compared to small towns But still a small town, large compared to small towns,
but still a small town.
Small enough that as Cassius and fucking Edric,
as you both enter town, you spot each other.
You're all childhood friends.
Edric!
Cassius!
As I live and breathe!
I haven't seen you in an age.
I'm going to run over and give you a big old powerful hug
around the middle. Squeeze you
just super tight. Well, you're probably gonna get his
like thighs. Yeah, I'm gonna squeeze your
thighs super tight. I'm gonna
bend down, pick you up and hug you.
Yes! Because we have to because
she's tiny. She's not tiny.
She's four foot something. That's tiny.
Compared to you, I guess, yeah. I know.
And I keep saying, you're tiny. Weren't you at war?
Yeah. Mr. Fists, you're tiny. Weren't you at war? Yeah.
Yeah.
Mr. Fists, who's uncomfortably?
I put you down.
Yeah, we were at war with some elves.
We won?
Yeah.
Hust firm a pride.
Hust firm a pride.
Hust firm a pride.
But I've been We were jumped
When we were coming back
By a group of elves
And does he know the blacksmith?
Do you know Hoff?
He knew
You would have known who Carl Hoff was
They weren't particularly well connected
Do you remember Carl Hoff, the blacksmith?
Yeah, I remember the blacksmith
He's been captured
Not Carl Hoff!
Yes, the Karl Hoff.
And a few of other people and I just barely escaped.
Did I just barely escape?
I barely escaped.
It would have been like a raid in the night.
So you weren't actually part of...
Like their goal was to capture prisoners, but you didn't end up being one of those.
I escaped in the night.
Whatever.
I escaped and and i'm reality is what you make i escaped from those evil elves evil evil elves um does everyone know no i'm i'm here to
tell the town god uh well probably the first protocol is Daniel.
Yeah, Daniel.
I need to tell the...
The adopted son slash...
Daniel.
Daniel!
Daniel.
I'll, like, hold out my arm and show you the tattoo.
Who the hell is Daniel?
When did you get that?
I don't know.
Huh.
I was washing off mud in a spa.
Huh. I've been living a life outside a hospital
I tell you what
Impressive needle work
Who was, is Daniel?
Daniel, we grew up together
In the, do you remember
Do I remember Daniel Adam?
No you don't obviously, we've been over there
Several times
I mean I believe you, but...
Come with me.
I was going to go see him before and then go tell the town guards.
This was a lot easier than I was expecting.
He was the adopted son of Karl Hoff.
I'm just giving you a look of incomprehension.
Karl Hoff, he was just...
I remember Karl Hoff.
Let's go inside.
He's adopted Daniel.
You say that, I'm with you.
Karl Hoff, remember him.
The Karl Hoff.
Yes.
Daniel, blanked.
Nope.
Okay, all right.
Let's go to Jeff on to Daniel.
Maybe he can shed some light onto this nonsense here.
But where you been?
What you been up to?
How's things?
I detail my adventures.
I was picked up as a mercenary.
I left.
The town wasn't for me.
I was destined for bigger things.
They wanted me to be a druid.
I just wanted to fight shit.
He's fighting shit.
Oh, my God.
It's the best.
Let's film a pro.
We're going to have a fight at some point tonight.
Let's get a ball.
Let's get good.
I've missed it.
I have missed it.
You get to the smithy, and there's a young boy there.
He's way too young to be anyone.
Is this Daniel?
No, this isn't Daniel.
This is Gregory.
Gregory, how are you going?
Sure it is.
This is Gregory now.
Gregory nods his head.
Hello, Edric.
Are you here looking for Daniel?
Yeah, I've got some grave news.
He's gone off to see Zilly.
Oh.
Zilly?
You remember Zilly?
You remember Zilly.
I remember Zilly.
Keep your voice down.
You're still a witch.
Sorceress.
Witch. Sorceress. Witch.
I remember.
Mistra will want to speak to you now that you're back
in town. Both of you, really.
I was gonna go to her first. Can we
stop at Mistra before we go to Zilli?
I'm trying to give her a big old, oh, yeah, alright, let's do that.
Are you gonna fight her? Maybe.
I'm acting way too cheerful for someone
who is lost there.
Yeah, alright, let's go see her,
and then we'll kind of hopefully get to town.
Let's do that.
I don't really remember my way around town.
You lead the way.
I'll lead the way.
Okay, so One-Eyed Miestra owns a large building
at the edge of town.
It's two stories.
The second story is essentially the orphanage
where all the kids live,
and then the bottom level is where she orphanage where all the kids live. And then the bottom
level is where she does her potions
and mystical stuff.
You walk in there. She looks like she's giving some
sort of lesson to a bunch of like three
or four kids. They're
varying ages between 10 and 15.
When you come in...
She's replacing us.
Mama doesn't love us anymore.
When you come in, her ancient love us anymore When you come in
Her ancient face lights up with joy
I'm gonna go over and
Give her a tender hug
Not as tough as I gave to Edric but
It'll still be a good old squeeze
She speaks in like a thick
You're about as tall as she is
She's like stood over and super short
When you hug her you're like
It's been a while since you've seen her,
and she's gotten a lot frailer in the time that you've last seen her.
I like kind of mouth,
be gentle, be gentle.
She's pushing a hundred.
Give you a little, like,
okay, fair enough.
I gently, I go in for a big hug,
and then I'm like,
I'll just pat you on the back.
She says in, like, a wispy voice,
it's good to meet you again.
It's good to see you too.
How you been?
What's, you know, it's been so long.
How about it? Same old.
Where have your travels taken you?
Again, I give her like the detailed, you know,
went to help some people get married.
It's been great.
You know, she seems super happy.
Went on some cruises.
I went on a couple of cruises.
I fought a couple of wizards. You know, that seems super happy. Went on some cruises. I went on a couple of cruises. I fought a couple of wizards.
You know, that's bloody good.
Killed a dragon.
Killed a dragon.
Zombie dragon.
Is that Edric I see?
It is.
She like looks past you, Cassius.
Come here, Edric.
Kneel so that I can look you in the eye.
Because I'm tall.
Yeah, you have to like get down almost onto your hands and knees.
Crouch. I'm going to kick you in the eye. Because I'm tall. Yeah, you have to like get down almost onto your hands and knees. Just crouch.
She like grabs either side of your head and just looks you deep in the eyes.
And she's got like, like the name suggests, she's got one good eye and one not good eye.
Have I just not been seeing her while I've been in Husford?
You've been at war, mate.
Yeah, you were at war.
How long was war?
Wars take a while.
It was about three years. All right then. I've been gone about like maybe, you know. You might not have been gone war, mate. How long was war? Wars take a while. It was about three years.
All right then.
I've been gone about like maybe, you know.
You might not have been gone the entire time.
You might not have been conscripted until a year in.
Let's say three years.
It's still nice to see you again.
Eight L's over three years.
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
I can deal with that.
Anyway.
She like grabs either side of your head and she, with her one good eye, stares into your two eyes.
And she does this every now and then.
Or she did this actually when you left as well.
You would have come to see her and she came and held you and was like,
when you left, she said, I don't want to see the light leave these eyes.
And she's checking.
She finishes up and she's like, checked, light's still there.
She says with a bit of a chuckle.
I have a big old hearty laugh.
And then I look at the kids like, how good is she?
They obviously realize that they've got a bit of a break right now
and they look like they're trying to sneak out the back or something.
I'll let them go.
I remember being a kid sneaking out.
I'd have a look at you and be like, look at these kids go.
You were like 20 at the time.
I had a weird childhood.
When I had Mixtra, it basically looks like Yoda with slightly more hair.
I just realized in my head, that's how I'm sort of picturing her.
I'm imagining her with this wrecked spine.
One that just basically loops back around.
Like an old Nana, just completely giant hump in it.
Yeah, sort of. It's pretty close. I want a Dijkstra. Not D old Nana, just a giant hump in her. Yeah, it's pretty close.
I want a Dijkstra.
Not Dijkstra, a Miestra.
She leads you back into where she prepares potions and stuff like that.
And you can see there's something bubbling in a pot.
You smell like a coffee sort of smell from it.
It's cold outside, it'd be nice.
Yeah, it is just straight up coffee. She makes you both coffee as you're talking.
As you're like, you basically
just chat and catch up over your
little coffee. She tells you the minutia
of stuff around town. I'm so interested.
She tells you about
some of the boys or kids.
Three years I've been away or ten for you.
Some of the new kids that she's gotten in.
Did you mention me? Oh yeah. We'd mention you. Some of the new kids that she's gotten in. Did you mention me?
Oh, yeah.
We'd imagine you.
We'd be like, where's Zilly?
We need to talk to Daniel.
We're chuffing off.
Zilly probably would have moved out after you did, Cassius.
So, Mistress has to explain that she's been ostracized almost from the town.
That's such a shame.
Is it because I was so pretty?
Are you like, oh, it's because she's so pretty?
It's such a shame she was ostracized because she's so pretty?
Is that what you're saying?
Zilly was all right.
Stuck up, but fine.
A little bit, but you know what?
That's witches for you.
That's Zilly.
All right, let's do this.
I'm making a conscious effort to call you witch.
We'll leave you there and we'll jump back to,
we'll jump not back.
I'm a simple folk that does not know about souls.
When you're ready.
Yeah.
Zilly.
It's already so tight.
I've aged 10 years.
Zilly, what sort of like lodging would you have created for yourself?
Bloody good one. Okay. Would you have created for yourself? A bloody good one
Okay
Would you have built this?
No, a really good one
Like it started off to be like a little hut sort of thing
Because that's all I could get
But then over the years
Because I've been ostracised for so long
It's a nice little cabin
You know, a cabin in the woods
Not that movie though
That's a bad movie
It's scary
Okay, I'll die
I'll die first
You'll get et by...
Anything and everything.
Problems.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I think it's going to be a nice little lodge, like very cosy, kind of like a, like
you've got a separate bedroom and then a living area so that I can have my Tuesday, Thursday
roast with Daniel.
What do you do with your time?
Learn spells, I guess.
Study magic.
Wesley.
Yeah, play with Wesley.
All right. Okay, play with Wesley. All right.
He's probably like,
sort of at the back,
there's maybe like a bunch of scorch marks
from where you've practiced
by the learned spells.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, that's what I do.
You hear like the telltale rap on the door
that means Daniel's come over for his...
Like the secret knock?
Bi-weekly.
Sure, secret knock if you want.
for his bi-weekly. Like the secret knock?
Sure, secret knock if you want.
Very convoluted secret knock.
Wait, hang on.
Knock again.
That's it.
I want to hear, hang on.
You had a super girly knock.
Jackson Bailey's got a woman's knock. Jackson Bailey's knock a woman's knock
Jackson Bailey's knock
Adam's knock
it is a different wood though
yeah it's probably
I think you're on like
hold on
hold on
no I
no that's a girly knock
oh wait
no
no it is
no
no I'll tell you why
it's because we knock
with our
our knuckle
not our knuckles but our the joint in the middle of the finger.
But they knock with the flat.
No, I'm knocking with knuckles.
Oh, that one.
I was doing these.
Yeah, they just punch the table.
You're going to get cut from the podcast.
That's just my suggestion.
People need to know how girly my knock is.
You got super, you like laughed super hard when I was just like, girly knock.
It's just such a funny thing to it.
It was just good.
I was proud of you.
Anyway.
Yes.
Daniel is at the door.
He's like, before you even get to the door, you can smell roast.
Oh, yes.
Silly roast time.
I know. I'd like to have roast
pumpkin, potato and peas down pat.
I don't know if you can get those.
I feel like it's going to be hard to find potatoes
and pumpkins in House Firm.
He makes like big thick slabs of meat as well
because he's got the forge to cook it on.
That sounds so good.
We're good friends.
Yeah, you and Daniel.
It's like, it's almost. Yeah, you and Daniel. Yeah. Yeah.
All right.
It's like, it's almost like literally, you know, in the cartoons, they have that thick T-bone steak.
That's like that thick as well.
You can have a good steak.
That's what he's got.
He like, he's got it on a plate and he puts it down.
You've got maybe a threadbare table or something like that.
Or an amazing table.
Or whatever.
Or a mental as fuck.
Jesus Christ.
Fine. It's like pure silver. You went too far. I. Or an amazing table. Ornamental as fuck. Whatever, Jesus Christ, fine. It's-
Like pure silver.
You went too far.
I just want a nice table.
It's a pretty shitty table.
It's hard to get a table when you're ostracized from the town, Ali.
It's hard to get a table when there's no, like, wood available.
Yeah, that's true.
Bloody magic.
You probably, like, built the hut around, like around a stone slab that you just saw on the ground.
That's awesome.
Pretty good.
It's a cool house.
He's using that as a table.
Yeah, so he puts that down, and maybe he's brought vegetables and some other stuff so that you're not just eating meat.
It's probably for the best.
Anything new, he says.
There's probably only one answer to that question well um wesley
can now deliver spells that's nice um apparently spell on him yeah would you like to know non-harmful
yeah oh actually that's a good question does how does he feel about magic is there anything that
um he's like super uncomfortable whenever you cast a spell around him.
Then I will not do that because otherwise I was going to do ghost sounds.
Just spook him.
It doesn't spook him necessarily, but he's like, oh, oh, good.
You do magic.
Okay.
Yeah.
Hooray.
Wonderful.
Yeah.
No, and probably not much.
Say I got a letter.
I don't know.
Maybe.
I'm very lonely, Daniel.
I've worked my whole life to go on great adventures,
but I can't get out of this town, you know.
This podunk town.
I feel like I'm locked in this shit hut instead of a tower.
At least towers are up high and they can see other land.
Just a small town sorcerer.
Living in a small town husk river.
In a lonely world.
Take the midnight cart going anywhere.
This is probably a conversation you have a lot with Daniel.
Why won't he take me somewhere?
Daniel is super happy where he is.
He just wants to be the blacksmith's apprentice.
He's found his niche in life and he enjoys it.
Be your own woman.
Go on your own adventure
No one will take me
You don't have to be taken
No I need them to set stuff up
No I'm not a princess anymore
He actually
I don't know
Why aren't I going on adventures Adam?
You tell me
Good question
You
Why
What's keeping you here?
Maybe I'm not confident about my magic
Because the shaman's always like
It's the wrong magic
You're doing the right magic, child.
It's not the right.
Maybe, maybe Cassius promised to come back and get you
because Cassius left before.
Oh, that's super funny.
I have to leave this podunk town.
It's smothering me.
I hate everyone.
I'll come back for you in five years.
And then I didn't.
Because Cassius left before you came of age.
So Cassius might have been like, hey, I'll come back for you.
Just wait for me.
Broken promises with Cassius.
Maybe that's part of the reason you did come back.
Maybe.
That's a good reason to, you know, hit two birds with one stone.
I'll sort of like, and when I get there, I'll be like, I can just say that.
I'll be like, oh shit, Zilly.
Oh no, that's right.
When they're like, oh, Daniel will be with Zilly.
Zilly!
It's also like a little partially like this is all the family you've ever known.
Like Daniel's basically a brother to you.
No one's told me that my magic's going to be any good for anything because they keep kicking me out of places.
I don't know if I can survive as well.
If you've never left Osfermo, you don't know what's out there.
Do elves have magic?
Some? Yeah. So we would have been for fighting yeah elves are a little bit more adept with and comfortable with magic than your people i'm gonna tell zilly tales of the magic the elves cast
they're about to kill
it's just so funny to imagine you Sitting at like a tavern
After a skirmish
And there's all these like
Husferman Nordic guys being like
You're just like sitting there with your mead
Like what have we done
Today we are all sons of bitches
One of those elves must have been 18
Only a boy
Only a boy
I was only 19
He had dreams and hopes I didn't even sing properly been 18. Only a boy. Only a boy. I was only 19.
That's a song.
He had dreams and hopes.
I didn't even sing properly.
No one's going to get that.
I'm so surprised.
Also, elves come of age at like 100, so you did not kill an 18-year-old elf.
An 18-year-old elf would have real had a shit one. You would have had to have broken into a crib to get to an 18-year-old elf.
That's why I killed eight of them.
You just killed eight babies, effectively.
Please let's not make that canon.
You killed soldiers in self-defense.
Anyway.
Where the fuck were we?
Sunday roast.
Sunday roast, right.
Daniel starts talking to you about,
hey, we've got news that like the
Siege has been broken
Pretty recently so
Jack and Ed will be back?
Yeah probably sometime soon
If not today
I left pretty early so maybe I might have missed them
We haven't seen him in so long
Like three years
I haven't seen Carl in three years either
Carl
You should see.
Okay.
Every time, the last like two months, every time Daniel comes here, he's like, check out
this fucking chain I made.
I'm so proud of him.
I'm not even kidding.
Like, seriously, he comes in and it's a, it's kind of an impressive looking chain.
It looks like it's made for combat as well.
It's got like spikes on one end of it. And like this big hucking ball on it.
Oh, Daniel's rad.
He's like, I've been practicing.
I can use this as a weapon.
How cool is this thing?
Rad.
Good job.
I've never heard him all like, yeah, great job.
I don't know.
I can like make fucking fire out of my hands, but good chain, Daniel.
Kyle is like super proud of it. And he out of my hands, but good chain, Daniel. Carl is super proud of it.
Not Carl, sorry, Daniel is super proud of it.
I can probably make that out of thin fucking air,
but you know, whatever, it's fine.
I get ostracized, you take a fucking knee to do it,
it's fine, whatever.
We parade him as our new king of the town.
Daniel puts the chain down, I'm sorry.
No, no, no, I didn't, no.
I mean, I think that on the inside.
I mean, I've got a high charisma, so everyone loves me, no, no, I didn't. I mean, I think that on the inside. I've got a high charisma
so everyone loves me, apparently.
Kind of, not really.
I don't think that's how that works.
That's not how it works in my head.
How long are you going to have this meal with him?
Like, he's happy to sit
all day if you want to...
Because he knows you don't get a lot of contacts
so he's like... Sweet guys.
Wish I could remember who he was. Like I said, he considers you basically a sister. Yeah, he's like sweet guys yeah like i said he considers
you basically a sister yeah that's cool it's cool yeah no i want to hear all about like in the girls
he's been seeing oh boys he's been seeing oh boys what if we don't judge in hospital if you're
letting him pick the topic i'm not kidding it's going to be about the chain i will let him go on
for the chain as long as possible. You could basically make one yourself.
He goes into so much detail.
I have a cough.
From the way he describes it,
you think he might have magically imbued it with something as well?
Now he's crossing over to the magic side.
In an amazing display of not racism, but what's the prejudice? I cannot wait to get out of this fucking town
they literally just hate the magic
like if you made a magical weapon
they're cool with that
hold on
they're not a good people
in some ways
really not
you know social relativism
guys
different strokes for different folks.
Hey, they're pretty progressive when it comes to, like,
Captain of the City Guard is a woman.
Yeah, hey, good on them.
Pretty progressive.
You know, we went to some rough places last season.
We did.
So good on you, Husferma.
I feel like it's part of the reason I left as well.
There's some issues.
So Mima, or whatever your name is, Mismra.
Mima.
Mistra.
Mistra. Mima. Mistra. Mistra.
Not Mima.
How long are you going to stay with Mistra? I want to catch up.
It's been ten years.
Five minutes. It's been three.
Love to stay back. We'll come back later.
I have to go see Daniel, though. He's off with Zilli, apparently. I've got some grave news.
Cassius, you're more than
welcome to come with us. I'd love to see
Zilli.
I have some unfinished business with her I feel like I'm going to have to apologise for something
I feel like you should roll to remember
I think I should
Oh, Cassius
When you're back, I'm like
Punch her in the face
Part of me wants to hit you, like with a fireball
To the face Nah, of me wants to hit you, like with a fireball, to the face.
Nah, you remember the promise you made.
Before I left, I somewhat promised Zilli that I'd come back for her.
Mistra nods, like in a pained knowing sort of way.
That explains so much.
I have a lot of guilt in this town.
No way. No way. I'm sure she'll think nothing of it.
Let's go.
Before we head off, I turn to Mistra.
I'm like, did Zilli ever bring that off board?
No, she just kind of was quiet about it, didn't talk about it at all.
Mistra just continues that pained expression.
And you sort of gather what she means.
She kept mentioning she wanted to leave, but she kept saying she had to stay here.
I never really bothered checking that. you sort of you can gather what she kept mentioning she wanted to leave but she kept saying she had to stay here I don't
never really
bothered checking that
so
anywho
let's just
go to there
she'll be fine
you can meet
you can
you don't remember
I reluctantly follow you
to Zilly's
I do a manly knock
Daniel says
oh it sounds like
a man's at the door
and the woman is with him you're manly enough to go Daniel says, oh, it sounds like a man's at the door.
And the woman is with him.
What do you think about it, though?
That is correct. Slap the desk.
Who would be coming at this hour of the night?
Who would be coming?
Here he is.
I'm the only person who visits.
You took it to the dirty place.
I thought it was a sex joke.
I was like, Adam, honestly, really?
And then I was like, oh, that's right.
No one likes me.
Really?
You're not...
Well, there are...
Like, a lot of the kids you grew up with are like, okay.
It's just the...
The general feel of the town.
The general folk, but like...
Love the cape, but the person wearing it...
Wait, is it like night time?
Is that...
What time is it?
It's probably not night time. I don't know
why you're assuming. It's like maybe
uh
Yeah, because it's D&D after Dark Eyes.
Lights are all out. Literally, because
we turned the lights off, Ali's like, I guess it's
night time. Are you Mr. Fist?
She's like a falcon.
Yeah.
She just tried to fly then and drop
shit.
Ali, Kathleen, you champion. I dropped my eraser.
Ali, Kathleen, you champion.
I am.
Anyway, knock Manly on the door and somewhat ladylike.
I can't.
That just hurt my hands.
If you're not opening the door, Daniel does.
Oh, yeah, I guess so.
I open the door. I'd like to open the door, see Cassius, and then jump and hug her,
and then run back in and just talk so fast.
She kind of went, thank God you're here.
I'm so excited.
I've been waiting.
I've been practicing my math.
You're everywhere.
And then I'd like to start packing a bag.
I'd like to start packing a bag real quick.
And I'd be like, thank God you're here.
Tell me everything.
I'm ready to pack.
I've got everything done.
I've got Wesley here.
You've got to meet him.
He's so good.
He delivers so fast.
Just one second.
One second.
Daniel stands up and smiles. Just one second. One second. Would you like a cup of tea?
Daniel stands up and smiles.
Daniel's back.
Carl's back.
That's great.
Can we sit down for a second?
Do you guys want a cup of tea?
Sit down.
Cup of tea?
Zilly, just in a sec.
Sure.
Zilly, if it'll keep you.
You make that cup of tea.
I would like to brew a cup of tea.
Is that a separate room of the house?
Is that a separate room of the house? I feel you only have one room. Yeah, Zilly. Just make some tea. I would like to brew a cup of tea. Is that a separate room of the house? Is that a separate room of the house?
I feel you only have one room.
Yeah, just make some tea.
I need to, sorry.
So Daniel, we'll get to this in a second.
Carl's been kidnapped.
What?
Carl?
From the other side of the room.
What?
Making a tea.
Without like, the smile doesn't leave his face.
Because he almost like, he's like sort of.
Ah, yeah.
No, we would jump by some fucking cab sap son of a bitch.
What?
What was his name?
Pumpernickel?
Pumpernickel.
Pabonet.
I don't know.
Fairwind.
Fairwind.
You know, we've been keeping up with the war.
I know what I hear.
Did the name Pumpernickel Featherwind ever...
Hey, I like that you guys are like,
fuck you, Adam, here's some really hard to go names.
I'm like, I fucking did that perfectly.
And then I'm like, Pabernet Fairwind,
and you guys are like, Pumpernickel,
Griff Pum Pum Griff, how do you say that? Maybe Pumpernickel put Griffpumpumgriff how do you say that?
maybe Pumpernickel Featherwind is like
the cruel name that they gave him
like everybody in town is like
Pumpernickel Featherwind
he's like no!
they're trying to pass this off, you can't say the name
I like to think that
whilst they're having this discussion I'm standing by
a fire just like looking at Daniel
like
this is a fucking guy
oh right you see him
hang on
I do I do
hang on hang on
you remember roses
you remember roses
this is Ali
not Billy
I'm just going like this
look at him
the fuck
every time he's talking
I'm like
what the the fuck is this?
You don't remember the look of it.
You just like roses.
The word roses just jumps into your head.
Does he look like he remembers me?
He's giving you a funny eye.
You're not sure what it means.
I'm looking back at him like, what?
He's almost like, what are you doing here?
I wish I knew.
So, yeah, this particular leader of elves,
he jumped our troop and kidnapped a bunch of us,
including Carl.
Kidnapped?
So he's still alive?
Yeah, yeah, I think.
I don't know.
Maybe.
I assumed they left a no.
You just know that he was kidnapped.
You saw him be kidnapped.
I saw him be kidnapped.
I have no idea.
He might be dead.
But elves are pretty good people, man.
They don't just kill us willy-nilly.
I'm sorry, what?
Half-Femme of Pride.
You can name the crossroads.
The crossroads that had happened.
No, you can. Anyway. I can name them. P The crossroads that had happened No you can Anyway
The Pumpernickel Crossroad
Are you fucking for real
This is what happens
When you give me control
I listen to Jackson
I have literally never had a good idea
In my life
The Pumpernickel Crossroads.
My favorite question of Adam's is, are you fucking for real?
And we're like, yes!
We double down.
It's the best.
The Pumpernickel Crossroads.
We were camping.
It was nighttime.
And we were sleeping.
That's about all Daniel listens to.
He picks up the chain that he brought.
He picks up a sack.
He picks up a sack with some personal effects, and then he's out the door. Wait, Daniel. Sorry. He picks up the chain that he brought. He picks up the, like, a sack. That's a sick chain.
He picks up a sack with some personal effects,
and then he's out the door.
Wait, Daniel, wait.
Sorry, wait.
I follow.
Okay, Daniel's walking back to town in a hurry.
Zilly, I kind of came... I feel like I should stay here and sort this out.
I kind of, like, open the door.
I'm like, I'll catch up with you
in a bit
I'll just in town
I'll give you tea and ask you to explain all of your
adventures in great detail and then ask where we're
going next all the time and be like I can't wait to go there
who is this
Grayson character
I don't know why you're so nervous you totally get
in the way with this
what you can't take her with you
at some point I could just lie and be like that's why i'm back
that's what i'm trying to figure out am i like yeah we're going on an adventure too
yeah i'm gonna say i'm gonna be like every time you tell me a story about people i'm gonna be
like that's so awesome yeah i can't wait to see it we're gonna go there yeah there's a lot of
people died, but...
Fighting an underdragon, you'd probably lose your shit, I imagine.
I would, I would.
You can't explain that very well, though, because you were blind!
Just explain the sounds I heard.
I like to imagine that, okay, like, after I finish, and you're like, where are we going?
I'm like, we're going...
Well, I have come back for you, Zilly.
Yay! I'm so ready for you, Zilly. Yay.
I'm so ready for this.
I've been waiting.
Look at all these spells.
And I'd like to go into really quick detail about all the spells that I know.
Feel free.
Sweet.
I'm not going to list them.
Oh, because you had the spell sheet out.
I thought you were actually going to.
Oh, no.
It's dark.
I can't read.
That's great.
So, Wesley, explain that thing to him.
The whole Wesley thing.
Yeah, explain, like, everything.
Wesley was probably one of the first things being a sorcerer you got.
So Cassius might already be familiar with Wesley.
At the same time as I got Mr. Fists, did you get Wesley?
Are they mates?
Is Mr. Fists like, hoot, hoot, hoot?
Pretty sure in nature Mr. Fists was trying to eat Wesley.
No, I wish he was a weasel, not like a newt.
Excuse me?
I don't know. I don't know how ow wasteland. I'm not like a newt. Excuse me? I don't know.
That ain't how owls work.
I'm super excited.
But I'm like, I gotta do some stuff in town first.
Let me come with you.
Well, you can.
I'm trying to find...
That was Daniel from before.
Yeah, of course.
He's here every Tuesday and Thursday.
We have roast night.
And we grew up with Daniel.
Yeah, how do you not know?
So I gathered.
What's going on?
From Daniel's, like, age, Zilly, you know that, like,
Cassius probably only knew him for, like, one or two years,
ten years ago.
Oh.
Well, I mean, like, I know that you kind of left soon after we got close.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, like, don't you not remember him?
Well, I can just point to the tattoo on my arm.
Why did you have his name tattooed on your arm?
I don't know.
Again, I explained I was having a shower and there it was.
What?
How often do you shower?
Rarely.
Obviously.
First time since you left town.
Yeah.
Obviously.
But after that, I'll take you.
Can you roll and just put a dice somewhere on the map?
I'm just going to lie and choose the first thing that comes into my head.
I really want to meet this Ainsley character.
She seems super cool.
Ainsley's done.
Don't talk about her.
The middle of the ocean.
I'll take you to the middle of the ocean.
Oh, if I knocked a person.
Look for it.
Isn't that where we are?
Yeah, you're pretty close.
You're in Lorne McCain, which is...
Hang on, let me try.
Let me roll in the other direction.
Yeah, this may be a better idea.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Husker, you're natural enemies.
No, Husker.
I'll say Husker.
That'll be the first one that jumps into my head.
Husker. Yeah. You'reker. That'll be the first one that jumps into my head. Husker.
Yeah.
You're probably not feeling too like.
I think I look at you and I'm like, that's not a good idea.
You probably don't feel Hus-firmer pride that much, though.
Yeah, but I mean, they kind of hate me.
It's been really hard since you left.
Oh, God.
Look, we should see where Daniel's off to.
We don't want to...
Thank you for the tea.
Let's go catch up with him.
We'll figure out where we're going next.
Love your work.
Yeah, I'll get up and I'll head out to...
To Chufon.
To Chufon.
Chufon to Chufon.
Off your fuck.
I like that as an expression.
That's great.
Off we'll fuck to find Edric.
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