Nerd Poker - The Unstable Stable - Part One
Episode Date: April 22, 2020In this two-part Danger Room bonus adventure, all our regular cast is here to explore an old stable rumored to contain a treasure, guarded by dark magics. And who should be there to help but the charm...ing Mister Evelyn, portrayed by Paul F. Tompkins! Paul is playing a bard, so you better believe we are going to try and tempt him to sing within the first few minutes of the show.
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Hey guys, since we restarted the podcast three years ago, we've accumulated a lot of bonus
episodes for our Patreon supporters. We're trying to think of fun things to do with them,
and given that times are tough, we thought we'd share a couple of our recent bonus episodes that
we thought were especially fun with Paul F. Tompkins, recorded December of 2019. Paul plays a bard, and not only does he sing,
but he has a magic hat and things get really silly.
So we're putting both of these bonus adventures in our free public feed
so all of our fans can enjoy them.
And of course, we know times are tough, so we wanted to also say thanks,
big thanks, huge thanks to everyone who supported us on Patreon. By subscribing over
there, you keep the podcast going and we really, really, really appreciate you contributing that
way when and if you can, when we know it's not easy. So please enjoy this extra silliness and stay safe.
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When I was a kid, we got a Stretch Armstrong for Christmas.
My brothers and I, we immediately...
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And then we're like, I guess that's all this guy does.
Then we threw him out the window to see if he would make a perfect cartoon shape in the snow.
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they were like,
I loved to cut open Stretch Armstrong's
and eat it.
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Okay, well that actually makes me feel better
because when I read it,
I felt immediately like I was going to throw up.
It's Stretch Ware Strong
where you get the curse of Stretch Armstrong
for a lot of the nasty kind of blood.
It's like a gusher.
Wait, how many Stretch Armstrong's a lot of the Nasty Guns blood. It's like a gusher. Wait, how many
Stretch Armstrongs
were they going through?
I think they just kept
rebuying them to eat them.
I keep one on the nightstand.
The parents are like,
are you going to eat this one?
No.
All right, put it in the freezer.
Do you toast yours?
I toast mine.
She's just sweetening her coffee.
Well, we're going to play
Dungeons and Dragons.
Have you played Dungeons and Dragons
before, Paul? I have. It's been a very long time but i have yeah yes
can i ask i think our listeners would be very curious what did you do like what what do you
remember the adventure what character you played your character's name i don't remember the
character's name i think i was a thief maybe it was a long time ago. Playing high school or college? I'm an old person. Huh?
Yeah.
Soon I will be gone from this earth.
Oh.
I'm so glad we fit this in right before the end.
Yeah, I know.
Where you going?
The Oort cloud?
Do you remember if you, like, stabbed anything?
A little thief style?
Did you steal anything thief style?
Yeah, I think I stole some stuff thief style.
Where I was like...
I'm glad you remember the lingo.
I steal that.
And then they were like, you did it.
Did you roll dice for it?
Yes, that's how D&D works.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Now, who were you playing with?
I was playing with a guy named, I think a guy named Michael Leland was the DM.
And then maybe it was my friends Owen and Shane.
Cool.
Could be.
Well, they're here tonight.
What?
They're on the patio just like,
I hope he mentions us.
Like you don't see him.
We have our sort of main story that we do when it's just us.
But since we have a guest here, we like to do some one-off adventures.
A bottle episode.
A bottle?
You know what we're doing here.
Sure.
We call it a danger room in honor of the X-Men's training grounds.
And we've got a variety of characters.
And I, myself, am not 100% sure who everybody's playing.
So I would like to go around the room and have everyone say, Hey, Chris.
Yes.
Who will you be playing today?
Tonight I'll be playing Verdun Fel, the grave priest.
I claim the souls of the dead for Char.
Oh.
Rude.
Really?
But he's doing it for Char.
That's kind of selfless.
Who's Char?
She is the darkness.
She will come for you, Paul.
That doesn't sound not rude.
Blaine, who will you be today? Oh, it's come for you, Paul. That doesn't sound not rude. Blaine,
who will you be today?
It's me, Blackie Green.
Blackie Green. Now, would you tell Paul
what Blackie Green does?
He does.
Well, his player class, I think, would be
at least semi-interesting in the future, even if
Paul is disgusted by all this D&D talk
at this point. Let me look up what I was.
Just trying to do some introduction type stuff, Paul.
No, I'm not disgusted by anything.
Of course you're not.
You're not rude.
No, I'm an open-minded person.
I'm not like, sharp.
Well, I'm a half-elf.
Guess which half?
And I'm a warlock, but I don't like war,
so I'm more of a peace lock.
Brian, who will you be today?
I'm Bodhi. I'm a of a peace lock. Brian, who will you be today? I'm Bodhi.
I'm a half-orc barbarian.
Also an outlander. And I'm extreme.
You're on Outlander? No. Oh my gosh. I was going to say congratulations.
That was Sean Connery, right? Oh no, that was Outland.
Everyone, you should put your minis up here as you get into this.
We will soon be encountering creatures and stuff. Hey, Ken, who are you?
I am Chet.
What? The Hardy Boys friend?
You rolled up a new guy. A male.
Male, obviously, because I'm male.
Water Genasi sorcerer.
Amphibious. Genasi?
Yes, I can... Not Nazi.
Genasi. No one said that Genasi. No one said that.
No one said that.
You're 100%.
Everybody's always saying that to me, so I'm sorry to jump.
And I can breathe air and water.
Okay, cool.
I can too, but only one is bad.
Sarah, who will you be today?
I'm playing Grima today a stout halfling
small but
fierce
and
with her big
sword
that's
that's what I'm doing
Grima
fantastic
Paul
now
I know who you are
but please tell
I'd like to tell you
I'm playing as
Mr. Evelyn
and
he is a
bard
and he's a pretty cool dude.
Yeah.
Mr. Evelyn?
Mr. Evelyn.
Now, I told you that you could have a special magical item in advance.
Yes.
Would you like me to explain to the group, or would you like to give us a little?
Dan offered me a choice between two things, and the thing that really jumped out at me there was no contest was
a magical hat that could produce small animals that i can tell what to do because he also has
animal friendship as i got animal friendship yeah i feel like this is something you've always wanted
yeah i wouldn't mind it you know what i mean
is he also wearing a bowler is his hat a bowler no his hat is like sort of like a musketeer hat
it's a big fancy hat with huge plumes and stuff yes yes yes yes did you dream about this when
you were working at hats in the belfry in philadelphia is he like so he's like a fancy
bard he's kind of yeah yeah he's like kind of a fancy pants he's very theatrical fancy bard Yeah, yeah, yeah He's very theatrical
He's a bit of a dandy
This isn't something we always do
But sometimes when people play bards
They like to sing a little song
When they make their spells happen
Oh, I don't know if I'm going to do that
Come on, I think we could probably hear a couple of spells
We'll see
We'll see
So you guys are sort of doing the standard adventure beginning
when certain party members may not know each other
and the Dungeon Master has had mere moments
to figure out narratively how that's going to work.
So you're tracking down a lead.
You heard there is a very valuable treasure
in this place called the Mirror Bank Stable.
This is a horse stable
that failed many
years ago. It's built into the side of a
mountain, and I guess
horses don't like living in caves.
Or mountains. Yeah, yeah.
No, yeah, it didn't work out great for those horses.
But
there supposedly are
some dark creatures living in there guarding a powerful
treasure that have taken over the empty space inside this mountain um and uh you all met up
in a nearby town you kind of like trekked up the side of this mountain trail where horses used to
be dragged into this horrible cave ranch um and you all meet up outside this cave.
So now we know,
we already know each other.
Well,
I personally have never met Ken's new character
or Paul's character.
So at least,
although you four have gone on adventures
before there are two new party members.
I guess it's time for the meet cute.
As you go, you do see in the cave
there's like a space
where there used to be a sign that's fallen down.
The rock face is kind of like a big
arch and it goes into
darkness. What does the sign
say? It's gone.
There's like a big pale
square where the sun
darkened around it.
Is there like the shape of a foot on crutches by any chance?
Ah, no.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
That closed down.
Yeah, happy foot, sad foot.
It's now inside EK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If you want to make a pilgrimage to it.
Poor foot.
My kid's got a shirt with it on it.
He loves it.
I hope so.
He's very sad.
You got a shirt in time?
Yeah.
Did you get it online or did you go to the foot doctor?
No, we went to EK in exchange for this announcement.
It's kind of weird if you fuck up your kid's foot just for that shirt.
It's Y-Q-U-E.
If you're trying to figure out how to pronounce it, it's a store on Vermont.
Oh, it's Spanish.
And what?
S-O-C-K-S.
It's right next to a place called the
library. Am I pronouncing that right?
The library.
Alright, you are now outside
the cave. Let's go in the animal torture cave, right?
Animal torture cave?
That's what you invented.
Let's go exploring. Let's go check out what's inside here.
Roll to go home.
Who's sneaky?
Who can stealth in there and protect us?
Does anybody have a high stealth bonus that would like to check this out?
I don't know because my character's new.
I got a plus three.
Mr. Evelyn, I believe, has a plus four to stealth.
Sneak on in.
What an opportunity for you to ingratiate yourself with the rest of the group.
Oh, yeah, plus four.
So, Paul, it sounds like you have been nominated without your input to go and sneak into the cave.
That's all right, friends.
I'll go into the cave.
Thank you, perfect stranger.
I'm very stealthy.
We met at the tavern last night.
Although we had quite a few ales.
Will you roll a 20-sided dice for me
and add the plus four of your stealth modifier?
He's proficient also.
Well, then you get to roll twice and take the higher number
in addition to this.
I got 15.
All right, so you get up there and you hear
snorting sounds.
Sounds like a large, at least humanoid
size being is
sort of making loud grunting
noises as if it's eating something.
I feel like I hear grunts and snorts.
Almost as if
chewing is going on.
Each other? I say fellows.
Like lovemaking?
Not that kind of chewing.
What?
Just roll with it, Brian.
Just roll with it.
He means masticating.
I hope you don't misunderstand that one.
Can he talk to us right now or is he too far away?
I can say with that 15,
he can sneak back without having to re-roll his dice.
Hey, there's grunting and chewing going on.
Like ghost horses?
Can he see?
It doesn't seem like a horse.
It seems like a sort of a side
he didn't really peek
I mean you can
you can go back again
and do a stealth
and then a perception check
let me go back
let me go back
alright
roll your stealth again
and then
20
yep
should we ask all the questions
so he doesn't have to keep
coming back and forth
6
6
so we have dark vision
yeah
is there something
you want to tell him
to look for
while he's doing it?
Monsters.
What kind of monsters?
Murder monsters.
Okay.
Thank you.
That's helpful.
Anybody else request?
What were your roles, sir?
I'm going to go with a six, which was the higher of the two numbers.
Okay.
Wow.
Yeah.
And that's for your stealth.
Yeah.
Okay.
But you have a plus to that, right?
Don't you have plus?
Did you say it was plus four? Oh, yeah. So ten. Ten. All right. Well, that's for your stealth? Yeah. But you have a plus to that, right? Don't you have plus... Did you say it was plus four?
Oh, yeah. So ten?
Alright, well, that's not as bad.
A better outcome than if you
had had a six. Can I get that higher one here?
Oh, go ahead. What do you want to cast?
I'm going to cast Dark Vision.
You don't get this game.
So roll Perception now. He cast
Dark Vision on you, so now you can see in the dark.
Who did? I did. Oh, thank you.
You're welcome.
Indubitably
Same as a 20?
Yeah and
I'm looking up your bonus
For perception
It is a plus one
And let me apologize
To the listener
For all of my questions
About the dice
Oh no that's fine
That's totally
We ask them all the time
I've been playing for years
And I always ask questions
Well you only get to roll
Once this time.
Oh, sorry.
Well, then I got a 16.
Okay.
Very good.
All right.
Thank you.
Doesn't it feel good?
It does feel good.
You kind of slip for a second.
Get a picture of me with him in that roll.
With the 10, you kind of slip in the gravel for a second.
You don't make quite as sneaky an approach as you would like, but you don't make a loud noise.
Steady, Evelyn.
You get up around the corner and you peek.
And with your newfound dark vision ability,
you can see sitting on a stool by a door,
there is a humanoid-sized creature, bipedal.
It's like chewing.
Who's bipedal?
Huh?
Nothing.
It's cool.
The guy sitting next to me.
It's cool.
Whatever that happens, Paul,
it means in a week I will be listening to this and go, oh, that was a joke.
And so he's like just gnawing on bloody ribs.
He's got this hyena-like face.
Well, chaps, I'm afraid it's a.
Sneaking back to them and you're telling them.
It's a hyena face, man.
And he's eating some ribs and not like the kind you want him to be eating
what kind maybe like too big maybe he wants his baby back baby back baby baby
back baby back baby back baby he wants his baby they're probably not baby ribs
but they might be daddy ribs or horse ribs why is that worse than a human?
They're huge.
That's what they use for the Flintstones live action.
Means you gotta make a choice or else I will
move the narrative action forward whether you like it or not.
Should we go talk to that guy?
Talk to him? Let's talk to
him with our knives.
First we say hello. All he's doing is eating.
But he's eating a horse.
And he did see one. You got a pretty good look and you feel like he's like on guard duty by himself i just saw the one
guy oh he's on so now we heard this has there's treasure here is that you did hear there's that's
how it's pronounced treasure yeah yes okay so but it's supposed to be abandoned yeah but it's not
abandoned no okay there's a guy eating in it so do you want to go talk to him yeah let's do it i want to i i'm
bringing my sword obviously okay are you gonna draw the sword no i think we let's go say hi
okay you're not gonna leave the sword in the dirt outside we'll give this hyena man a chance oh all
right i'm going to cast invisibility on myself wonderful while you guys approach him and i'm
going to sort of walk past him to see that other guy go? Alright, so the rest of you guys
are just approaching. Are any of you trying to
look like scary?
Are you trying to scare this guy? Are you trying to be nice?
I'm trying to be nice. I'm very charismatic.
Not to brag.
But perhaps I should do the talking initially
and then we'll see. Love it.
Was that a breed of person or a race?
Do an insight check.
Okay.
Vaguely
offensive.
Truly, there is no
comfortable way to address this.
It's always like a one-shot in this game.
Are you a one-off or what?
Yes. You know it to be a gnoll.
That's G-N-O-L-L.
Oh, no!
They're very tall. They're like your size.
Can I use my face-changing amulet to disguise myself as a gnoll They're very tall, they're like your size Can I use my face changing amulet to
disguise myself as a gnoll?
Don't you only have that as your other character?
No, I have one
Every one of his characters has that
This is an amulet that Bodhi acquired
a long time ago
And it's been notarized
Will it work?
You're doing this right before you round the corner, right?
Do a deception check.
Okay.
Eleven.
Okay, so, you know, your face changes to what?
What do you want it to look like?
A knoll.
It looks more like a knoll than a half-orc, which you are.
Okay.
But your biology is a little off, perhaps.
It's a little dark in there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This will probably make him feel more comfortable
when Mr. Evelyn, was it?
Mr. Evelyn.
Mr. Evelyn.
Evelyn is a He-Man character, if I'm not mistaken.
You can also pronounce the name Evelyn.
That's true.
He's going to go talk to this gnoll, right?
Are you going to go together, though?
Yeah, with you guys.
Yeah, we're all going as a weird gnoll guy.
And I'm invisible!
Right, so you roll...
Not anymore.
I'm going to have you do with advantage, Blacky Green,
roll a stealth check.
So you get to roll twice.
I do?
You sure do.
Oh, man.
That's what advantage means.
Twelve?
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
I had the baby back rib song in my head now. It happens. That's what advantage means. Twelve. Sorry, let me check.
I have a baby back rib song in my head now.
It happens.
That's a fifteen.
And that's not a good, that's a six.
Alright, so
Blacky Green, you head ahead of the party
and you get over there. There's a lot of room.
It's like a big sort of open area once you
round the corner. It looks like maybe they used
to show off horses here
and this gate. Don't they? Huh?
Right?
But he is the only guy
and he's sitting on a tall stool.
There's also not a lot
of room here to hide behind things. It's
pretty open space, but you're able
to like maybe get behind him a little bit if you
sneak real close with that stealth role. You can
get pretty close.
Okay, so and there's nothing really past him except this big room no it's a gravel ground um on a very old sort of chiseled out rock this this gate is wood but
it's a it's a stone archway um and then it's stone walls you'll have to get through this gate and
pass this guy to get inside the stables. And he's got a
I think he's got a key or we can open
something. It looks like it's got a little keyhole
on there. You don't see a visible like ring
of keys on his belt unless you want to get
close and check. What is this fun home?
The rest of you guys approach.
The
Noel looks up from his ribs. Hello.
How do
you do?
My name is Mr. Evelyn.
Perhaps you've heard of me.
I'm a bard of some renowned song stories.
I don't like music.
Well, I'm not playing any at the moment, so out of respect.
Thank you. Do you mind if we, my friends and I, just sort of go a little further into the cave?
I don't know if you're employed here in a guarding fashion.
I mean, you look very impressive and very scary.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
And of course, we're all very terrified.
I like compliments.
Well, who doesn't?
And you deserve all of them
roll a persuasion check
19 and you have a bonus if i'm not mistaken you are not oh
he has a plus seven to persuasion you you guys. He is indeed very charismatic.
So that is a 26 on the persuasion roll,
about as high as you can get.
So he's kind of a little still tense,
but then he starts laughing.
He does that creepy ass hyena laugh.
He's like... What a melodious laugh.
You want to go in there?
We'd love to, if that's all right.
He stands up.
He walks over the door, unlocks it, sits back down,
starts eating his ribs, but he's looking at you like
you're going to fuck this up real bad.
Enjoy your ribs, my new friend.
Yes, exactly.
We'll see you on the way out.
He snorts.
Just goes back to his food.
Mr. Evelyn, maybe you want to ask him
if he can tell us what's coming up?
Perhaps he sees some murder down the hallway.
My friend.
Are there any...
Sorry, I just let the bloody meat in my mouth.
Please, no apologies necessary.
A hearty gentleman who enjoys his meal.
Let me ask you, can you by any chance tell us,
is there anything we need to be worried about?
Yeah, you're going to die for sure.
That's why I laid you in there.
There's demons in there.
They're watching over this magical thing.
I'm waiting for my boss to show up.
He's going to come get it.
It's been a few days, but he'll show up soon.
Demons, how many?
Bunch of them.
There's like this weird room where bad stuff happens.
I can't get past there myself.
But if you get past that room, I think there's more demons.
My friends went in there and they got all eaten up.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
No, it's okay.
Here they are.
It still tastes good.
I see. I see.
I see. Well,
thank you. You're welcome!
And
again, I bid you hearty eating.
I bid you a good dying.
Okay, okay.
Who's his boss?
His characters are a lot of fun.
Do you want to ask him? I whisper to Mr. Evelyn to ask
who's his boss
oh one more thing, I'm so sorry
one more thing
you mentioned your boss earlier
and who might that be?
who could possibly be your boss?
you should be the one in charge
oh 20
natural 20 he tells you his boss Oh, 20. 20 natural. Whoa. Natural 20.
It's very good.
He tells you his boss is a knight.
He doesn't know his name, but there is a dark flame.
Gale Gordon.
A dark flame that burns inside his helmet.
He carries it.
You see this through the eye holes?
Huh?
You see it through the eye holes?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and he yeah. And he
gets paid very well for
bringing him magical artifacts. Like a pilot light?
Yeah, kind of like he describes
like a black and blue kind of pilot light burning
inside this guy's helmet. Perhaps it could be
blown out. Alright,
that's good to know.
Well, thank you
very much. And
once again, let's get that compliment.
Good eating to you.
He just shoves the more like he swallows a bone.
It gets stuck in his throat for a second, but he's just laughing because of how pleased he is with all this good natured conversation.
So it's like he's gagging, but like happily.
And then he like punches his throat and breaks the bone up a bit. And kind of like, wow.
That was close.
We're going to have to take him to the vet.
Who said that?
Oh, shit.
You're invisible.
The door is unlocked.
All right.
Shall we?
Mr. Evelyn, that was great.
Well, thank you very much.
We were going to have to kill that guy,
but now not at all.
He's your bestie.
Yeah, we probably should have killed him.
Now that I think about it.
No, I think this was...
Should I kill him? I'm invisible.
No, no, no.
I don't want to kill anyone if we don't have to.
That's just my personal credo.
Especially if there's a demon around the corner.
Like, why make a lot of racket?
Yeah, that's a good point.
Are there any other doors around, or is that it?
There are two swinging wood doors.
One of them has a lock okay agreement
goes inside all right so agreement chart is in there there's a short hallway and then a
chamber up ahead um about 20 feet down the hallway uh there are stone uh walls ceiling
but it's high you can tell they could have gotten horses in and out of this gate pretty easily um and the the gate ahead uh into the bigger room
uh there's a large skeleton with a a sort of serpentine skull on top of it over the next door
you don't see any beings at the real skeleton or a fake or an artistic skeleton looks like it could
be a real old skeleton could we investigate investigate, like, Arcana check?
Well, you're all going to move inside this door, right?
So, like, it depends how close you want to get to this room.
When you say it, it makes me think I don't want to do that.
I want to go up and put my lips on it.
Conveniently enough for your dungeon master, the room is about this big.
He said there was a room where bad things happen, was really what he said, right?
Correct.
Maybe that's this room.
Is that room? Should we go back and ask? a room where bad things happen was really what he said, right? Maybe that's this room.
Should we go back and ask?
He made it seem like that would not be the first room
that we encountered.
Yeah, you're right.
Hey, Blaine.
Well, really, I'm waiting for you guys to decide what to do.
Please, not me, if you have that idea.
While Dan's going through his bag, we're brought
to you by Dunkin' Donuts.
We get it right.
Dunkin' Donuts.
I'm going to flip this because I'm
really waiting for you guys. You tell me what you want to do.
You can sneak up. You can get closer for
a better view. Should we throw something into
the room and see if it... Let's light some torches.
You know what I mean? Like throw like a...
Like a lit torch? Yeah, not like a person... Let's light some torches. You know what I mean? Like throw like a... Like a lit torch? Yeah.
Not like a person. Let's throw like a thing
into there. A rock.
Like a rock.
Okay. He knows what I'm talking about.
I imagine it's all very dark in here or no?
It is dark.
Are we in the hallway? Is that what you're saying?
Yeah. There are two torches on either side
of this door. I think I have a door I can
put there too. There's also a thermostat.
Didn't you cast a dark vision on Mr. Avalon?
Can Mr. Avalon get a better peep in there
because of his new magic dark vision?
Possibly.
Would you like to take a peek, Mr. Avalon?
Yeah, I would.
Roll a perception check?
I would.
This door will not stay shut.
Do I get to go again or no?
I'm afraid not. Six.
You can see farther, but yeah.
Hey, how far up is the ceiling
did you say? It is
about 25-30 feet high.
I also have dark vision. Can I
take a peek into the camera?
Where did that go? take a peek into the cabin. All right.
Where did that go?
Oh.
Oh.
22.
Okay, so Bodhi, you get right up here.
And without getting in the room,
you can see there is a lot of dried blood
and viscera on the floor.
At least it's dry.
It looks like the door that I,
the mini version of,
I cannot for the life of me get to stay closed.
I've been fumbling with it.
Well, I won't.
You're going to have to call the landlord.
I know, right?
Just leave it.
No, don't you like seeing me do this?
It's like there's a ghost trying to get
in that gate. Oh no, a ghost.
It is clearly a door.
Damn it.
I know, now Brian can't get it to close.
They're going to make me sing Doors Unlimited again. You got any gum?
Will you please sing Doors Unlimited?
No.
But here's the thing oh yeah paul you probably
i'll sing it's from the will you hate me if i sing it sarah because here it comes i won't hate
you no sarah's saying this in an episode and then it's a commercial yeah doors unlimited
unlimited doors yeah i did not put my full abilities into the singing. No, but I do remember that song.
It won't shut.
Anyway, it clearly is a door, Bodhi.
It clearly should open like that, but it is shut fast.
And you do notice there is a lot of blood and viscera on the ground right in front of the door.
And over this door, there is a large, a little bigger than your head.
Here, I'm going to do this.
It's fine.
We don't need to.
Yeah.
That looks so much more awkward, but okay.
It does.
Shove it under the thing. This is a comedy podcast, so awkward as gold, baby.
There's a big serpent skull with fangs over here
and then ribs going down either side.
The fangs didn't help him out much. So you have to go under the serpent skull to getangs over here and then ribs going down either side.
So you have to go under the serpent skull to get to the door.
Otherwise quiet.
There's a torch here and a torch here.
Are we going to throw something there? That was our first thing, right?
That's not a bad idea.
Thank you.
Let's see if there's a trap.
Is there like a stone or something around that I can just toss?
There's like small pebbles.
Can I go back and grab
one of the lesser eaten ribs?
You can try, sure.
Yeah, let's go back
and grab one of those little hunks.
All right, so you head back out.
You're going to take that guy's food?
Mention my name.
I have a torch.
Yeah, we're going to toss a torch.
Toss a torch in there.
All right, you toss a torch.
Trying to get it right in there.
In the center, yeah. Why don't you roll an athletics Trying to get it right in there? Center. Why don't you
roll an athletics check to get it right
in that viscera area?
13.
Alright, so it kind of lands in front of the skull
and nothing happens. It sits like about
five feet in front, like right
here. Okay.
I have a thing called Eyes of the Grave.
As an action,
if I do this, I can know
the location of any undead within 60
feet that isn't behind total cover and
isn't protected from divination magic.
So I'd like to do that and just go
undead.
As soon as you cast...
Then see if you can find some restaurant.
Eyes of the Grave.
You notice a pale, unholy green smoke writhing around the ribs and the skull
that's a monster it's a big monster okay and the skeleton the the sneaky thing above the he can see
that there is an aura in the skeleton.
So this,
this guy might be one of these skeletons that it is.
It tries to kill you.
Oh,
it is.
Okay.
Let's just shoot that.
Yeah.
Let's get it.
Get them from right here.
Shoot it.
Who's going to shoot it.
Um,
I have a crossbow.
I'll shoot it.
Yeah.
I also have a crossbow.
I have a crossbow too.
Let's go one, two, three guys. And then all your crossbow at the same time. I'll shoot it. Yeah, I also have a crossbow. I have a crossbow too. Let's go one, two, three guys
and then all shoot a crossbow
at the same time.
I like it.
Like those guitar playing triplets.
What?
One of those sisters.
Del Rubio's?
Yeah.
The Del Rubio's.
That's right.
All right.
Why don't all three of you
roll to attack
and whoever gets the highest number
it'll land first.
Everybody with a crossbow.
We're trying to land them
at the same time.
That's awesome. Yeah, it is awesome you know what just for the fuck of it why don't you
all all everybody with uh crossbow why don't you roll let's do a what is a good stat for this
hmm to try to land at the exact same time. Athletics.
Yeah, let's do an athletics check.
If everybody can get above a 10,
it'll basically land at the exact same time
as everybody else.
All right.
I had 19.
Wait, I got plus 4 or no?
Yeah, plus 2 to athletics.
Oh yeah, so I got a 10.
And I'm coming in hot
with a five.
All right. So
you three, all at the exact time,
let your
crossbow
fly, and then Verdon filled.
Oh, now?
Oh.
Great.
Everybody roll to attack.
I already rolled to attack, can I count my
Yes you may
17
What is that
23
That's a hit, Sarah
That's a hit, Verdon
3
I'm sorry, 7
You hit the wall
nice
I hit it really hard
his crossbow isn't on his sheet
is it a light crossbow
it would be a light crossbow because he's a bard
he wouldn't have a heavy weapon
under weapons it just says crossbow
it's fine it's just not equipped
Chris has got you for the numbers
it's your dexterity
plus your proficiency
so whatever your plus
for dexterity
my porn name
that wouldn't be
a very good
yeah plus two to dexterity
okay he's telling you
so plus two
so roll the 20 side
and that's what
we want to
what's your proficiency
I don't think he's proficient
I'm not seeing the word proficiency
oh you're not
okay so it's just plus two then.
So roll this.
Fifteen.
Great, that's also a hit.
Everybody who hit a fifteen or above,
you are going to land on the skull.
Roll your damage, please.
Chris, help him out.
Sorry, damage would be a d8
and then you would add your dexterity
modifier so you said your dexterity is plus 2
so you would roll a d8 and add 2 to that
so mine's 7 damage
mine's 3 and then I add what to it
add 2
so 5
I got 2
alright
so you guys all wait I get to add 1d6 I got two. All right.
So you guys all... Wait, I get to add 1d6.
That's right.
I'm adding, so it's nine actually total.
So Ken misses.
Verdenfels got a little goofy pause
before he gets his crossbow bolt locked.
But the three of you guys all land a bolt
right into the center of this thing's skull
and you hear a loud crack.
Suddenly, the ribs
kind of close together
and shut in front of
the door, and a spine extends
from the bottom of the skull
to connect them, and a large
serpent skeleton
starts charging towards everyone.
Please roll your initiative.
Roll.
20.
I have a feeling
Shoeva Crossbows was going to do something.
Paul, you have a plus 4 to initiative.
Okay, so I got an 18.
Plus 20.
So that's 20.
Here comes this guy.
Yikes.
Oh no, he looks like a snake.
Like a skeleton snake
I got a 21
I got an 8
There is a skeleton guarding the treasure
It looks like one of them human millipedes
What did you get?
13
Paul, what did you get?
I got a 20, right?
I think 22
Heavens to Betsy, Grima, what did you get?
An 8
Bodhi, what did you get?. Grima, what'd you get? An 8.
Bodhi, what'd you get? 7.
Blackie, what'd you get?
What did I get?
Nobody knows.
21. Awesome.
Verdunfell, what'd you get? 11.
Great.
This is a Bone Naga.
No.
It's a snake with a human skull.
I don't like the sound of that evil monster.
He rolled an 11 for his initiative.
Bone naga.
So.
Did you paint this one or did it come painted?
That came painted.
I don't like that name at all.
Bone naga.
There will not be any Dan.
I genuinely thought you were trying to eat that.
A Naga is a,
uh,
is a snake woman,
a magical evil snake woman.
And a bone Naga is an undead version of that.
Oh,
it makes it slightly less bad.
And it's covered in Naga.
I look,
Blaine has read the entire monster manual.
Like he's like several editions of it.
I love it.
He will be able to pull that sometimes.
Uh,
I have wonderful news.
Oh.
Mr. Evelyn, you are up first in the turn order.
This is where you are currently positioned.
You're kind of like in the middle of the party.
That's me.
There is a skeletal serpent that is taller than any of you charging in your direction.
What would you like to do?
Well, I don't know that talking is going to do any
good here.
And
he's a pretty big guy.
Should I try some magic
shit? Yeah.
Hell yeah.
Would you like me to help review what you've got
available to you right now? Yes, please. Thank you.
I would love to.
Here we go.
You put my watch in a handkerchief and smash it up with a hammer.
That's right.
Now, you have some support spells like dancing lights you can use to distract people.
You've got detect magic.
In this particular case, you could try blindness or deafness you could try vicious mockery
which is pretty fun
that one's a lot of fun
now
would you like me to go over what vicious mockery is
since that seemed to
it's kind of whenever you get a heckler that's not
very smart that's what vicious mockery is
what you do to them
right
so it is a fantastic spell I think it's bard specific too.
I played it in
Force Grey when I was a bard.
It was fucking a lot of fun.
In Zork there was a cruel puppet that would taunt you.
A cruel puppet?
Yeah, he was like a
ventriloquist dummy?
Yeah, he was like on the street.
You would lose hit points from him taunting you, as I recall.
Was there anyone that would say like, oh, be nice.
Stop talking that way.
He's a cruel puppet.
No, of course, the puppet's cruel.
He was scary.
So now, will Vicious Mockery work on a thing like this that barely has a brain?
Well, let me go over it and maybe you can decide for yourself.
I'm sorry I jumped ahead.
No, that's okay.
This is something that Mr. Evelyn is already familiar with,
but Paul the Player might want to acquaint himself.
Exactly right.
Vicious Mockery, you unleash a string of insults
laced with subtle enchantments
at a creature that you can see within range.
If the target can hear you,
though it need not understand you,
it must succeed a wisdom saving throw
or take 1d4 psychic
damage and
have disadvantage on its next attack
roll before it makes
it at the end of its next turn.
So like, not only will it take some psychic
damage, just a little bit really, it will
be so distracted by the insult that
it will have a harder time, like say, biting
everybody else. Would you like to give it
a shot? It's very vain.
Mock that bone snake.
Yeah, I'm going to mock your bone snake.
Mock that bone snake is my favorite Clash song.
Yeah, thank you.
So what you're going to do is wait for him to make his saving throw.
And then if he fails, you may affect him with the song of your choice.
Fair enough.
Rich.
Ooh.
You rolled a 19 on his saving throw.
What's your spell save DC?
I bet it's a little lower than that.
It is 15.
Okay.
So he's going to shake this one off, Paul.
I'm sorry to say.
But I got to do it anyway.
Would you like to?
Would you like to sing your vicious mockery song?
Sure.
Okay.
I mean, I came all this way.
To the bone snake.
I've got up my tambourine.
Let's go.
Okay, you want to jam?
Oh, no.
I want you to.
How does this song go?
A snake, a snake, you stepped on a rake.
Why don't you go and jump in a lake?
He does not jump in a lake.
Well, no, I blackie green.
You're up.
Oh, I'm going to cast fly myself.
I'm remaining invisible, and I'm going to fly above the thing,
and you're going to kind of like pause.
Yeah, I guess that's my my action, right?
Yeah, and that's you, right?
Yes, this is me but you position yourself
a little bit see me i'm invisible though i'll be i'll be floating over like this but i'm invisible
whoa do we know don't look up he would have told you i think because he went invisible a while ago
be visible you would have seen him go invisible while you were approaching the gate and the null
got it i'll just hang out here by this gate and stay closed.
Chet, you're up.
Oh, I will cast Create Bonfire.
What?
I don't know this.
Would you like to describe it to us?
Yes.
Like a beach bonfire?
You create a bonfire on the ground that you can see within range.
Until the spell ends, the magic bonfire fills a five-foot cube.
Any creature in the bonfire space when you cast a spell must
succeed on a dexterity throw,
saving throw, or take
3d8 fire damage. Creature must also
make the saving throw when it moves into the bonfire
space for the first time on a turn
or ends its turn there.
Alright, he's going to make a dexterity saving throw.
Void in Alaska and Hawaii.
Melanie made fun of the towers too
when she first saw them. No, I didn't know what they were.
I was asking Off-Mac.
I was asking what the towers were.
19.
They don't really help.
No, but it's fine.
So you create the fire.
Yes.
And he just sort of slithers around it.
Well, maybe he'll cross into it later.
That's the spirit.
This is a tough guy.
Yep.
A little bit.
You did get some arrows in up top, though.
Here he comes uh he doesn't
like the looks of bode so he is going to run this way uh however as he does that black green you
were floating above his head if you would like you may take a melee attack against him for free
however you will no longer be invisible uh i'm gonna hit it with a lightning bolt oh uh you
hmm let me double check you can do that. I
Don't know if you get an action so much as it's like a reaction so you can do like a physical attack I have to go this go attack. I think so. I'm gonna check
listeners who are super nerdy already know I
Don't can I use a spell to make an opportunity attack someone asked read it one time
Someone asked Reddit one time.
No, you need a thing called Warcaster, it sounds like.
Yeah, that's not standard.
You can use your melee weapon to thwack him, though.
Okay, so I can't do any spellcasting or anything.
It doesn't look like it. I'm not going to throw off the invisibility for that.
Okay.
In that case, he is going to attempt to bite Bodhi.
Like a
real romantic bite?
You are horny.
That's not me. That's Billy.
Billy?
Who's Billy?
Brian, what's that white dice say?
Chris is
expert.
He rolled a one
On an attack Paul
Which means he has to roll a 100 sided dice
Now to see how bad he screws himself up
A 100 sided dice
That's impossible
Two tens
I'm not a monster
Or four fives
So he is going to take
A 20
I gave you four fives
But I asked for
It's only a
He takes some damage as he
slams his skull into the wall next to you
Bodhi attempting to bite you in the face
Up next is Verdunfell
This creature's been injured right?
Yeah
And he looks ridiculous.
I, um, slam my cane against the ground and cast Toll of the Dead and a dolorous bell begins to ring throughout the corridor.
And, uh, your snake friend has to make a wisdom saving throw and beat a 17.
Otherwise, he takes 2d12 damage.
Damn.
He rolled a 21.
What is up with this snake?
He's not a nice snake.
Well, I flip him off and run away.
Do you run?
No.
You thought about it. I'm at the back.
I'm fine where I am.
I don't think that's it. Yeah? That's me. I'm fine where I am. I don't think that's it.
Yeah?
That's me.
Tis you.
I am going to swing my big sword at this guy.
Why don't you bring your little player up?
You going to sneak in front of Chet?
Call her little.
I meant because it's a mini, not because I am insulting her heritage.
Can I just fight him?
Yeah, you can totally just.
There we go.
All right.
Can I just like fight?
Yeah, you can totally just.
There we go.
All right.
16.
That's a hit.
Yeah.
Okay, so that's eight.
And I think I have.
Hang on.
Oh, yeah, I get one extra.
So that's 11.
Ooh.
And then I'm going to go ahead and... That's going to, yeah, knock a little bit of his ribs off.
I'm going to attack him again.
And this time I attacked him to the tune of 20.
Not a natural.
That is definitely a hit.
And I'm going to do 11.
Yeah, I call this adventure the ribs adventure.
16 points of damage on this guy.
Whoa. How much?
16. Nice. My great sword.
All right.
I get one more attack. Yeah, and he's howling.
I mean, you're fucking into him.
You're killing him.
Go jump in a lake, like the
man said.
That time I didn't hit him, though.
What did you roll? I rolled a 10 oh
yeah that would
unfortunately be a
miss however he's
looking bad he's he's
starting to get a
little yeah a little
like bone dust is
flying off of him
Bodhi you're up I'm
gonna frenzy all right
this guy's going nuts
kind of pissed off
have you ever seen
Brian frenzy before, Paul?
Not, I mean, in a game or in life?
In life.
In life, yes.
Yeah, a long time.
What makes Brian Frenzy?
I was real mad at Bill Odenkirk.
It was a sight terrible to behold.
No, I'm sure I spazzed out about something during Mr. Show.
Which weapon are you attacking him with?
We all did.
Yeah, we were kids.
I remember you threw that car at that guy once.
Halberd of the Dwarven Prince.
Go for it.
Do-da, do-da.
It's actually
fucking 25.
That's a hit.
Roll your damage.
Tower, don't lie.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Did you drop your dice?
Paul, can I say
I love it when you do
the I know I know it series
on Twitter.
It's one of my favorite things.
It's a problem
that I have with my brain.
Yeah, I have problems like that where it's like oh my brain automatically does this
thing i can't stop i started making a list of them yeah things that your brain does that you
can't stop 21 syllable collection all right yeah it is looking real bad it's looking real bad
cadence meter of three attacks uh it's a 26 on this next one.
Nice.
Oh, shit.
23 damage.
Whoa.
That's a lot of damage.
How would you like to end this monster?
Oh, sweet.
All right, sever his head. Sweet. I'm going to
sever his head.
Three weeks paid.
Get out.
Don't lose your
head or do.
Damn.
He is toast.
That's cold-blooded, Jay.
His bones skitter. Why am I falling?
Because your dungeon master is a clumsy-ass nerd.
And then, yep, his bones sweet-heat skitter.
Who's that little guy?
That's me.
Oh.
Hi.
Grima.
Hi.
Hi, Grima.
Bodhi's voice is real exciting.
Well, when he sees something little.
It's like when you start talking in an accent.
When I see a dog, my voice changes.
Yeah, yeah.
Hi, dog.
Or a little thing. A little adorable creature. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hi, dog. Or a little thing, a little adorable thing.
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I wasn't insulting her.
You shouldn't take it.
Fight, fight.
I'm trying to get him to fight you, and it's totally backfired.
Yeah, he is toast.
The doorway makes a quiet little noise as he dies.
Now it can open.
Yeah.
Yeah, finally the broke-ass door
can go boom.
I'm sorry.
Poor Blackie Green.
Are you still floating invisibly in the air?
I am.
You can just sit him on the ground.
Does he have a good view of the...
I was getting ready to...
He can't see him anyway.
I can't pretend he's going to have like 400 hit points.
Are you fucking kidding me?
He'll stay, right?
Nope.
Yep.
The door sounds
like it may have unlocked.
Let's go through the door.
Who wants to open it? I don't want to touch it,
but we should.
Can we push it open with a thing?
I'll use my quarterstaff.
You have a cane. We also have the ribs
of that creature. Why don't we just use its spine
as a lever? That would honor the creature.
To be of use.
Use every part of the nut.
Open the door he defended. Let's all hold him like a
battering ram. Let's pick up that snake like a
battering ram and then just use its skull to open the door.
Let's do it.
We could all get under the ribs and we could
pretend that we're like the ghost of a Chinese
parade. Sure, let's play him
like a xylophone while we're down there.
Okay, do a performance check.
Playing him like a xylophone while we're down there. Okay. Do a performance check. Playing him like a xylophone? Yeah, yeah. Okay.
Ten.
It's not quite Under the Sea
from The Little Mermaid,
but it's close. Should I roll?
Yes. Oh, he is the bard.
Yeah, yeah. I mean...
Roll your performance check. Play that Bonesnake.
Play us a song on the Bonesnake. Oh, dearake Play us a song On the Bonesnake
Oh dear
Play us a song
On the Bonesnake
Nine
Is that what you got?
Well his performance
Is probably
He has a bonus right?
He does
Plus eleven
Oh my god
Dang
That's a twenty
If I'm not mistaken
All the sea creatures
Come to life
The fluke is
The Duke of Soul tonight
And yes
You've managed
To get a nice little tune
Going on the
Bonesnake xylophone.
That's right.
That's right.
What's wrong with you, Grima?
He makes it look so easy.
Well, I've had years of practice.
You can't see me, but I'm sort of like nodding, thinking this is like Lionel Hampton.
Who is saying that?
Me, the invisible guy.
What would you guys like to do?
We were using his head to poke open the door. What would you guys like to do? Use the ribs to...
We were using his head to poke open the door.
So you take his skull and you kind of...
And it opens right up.
Okay.
Did anybody hear the music that will come and kill us?
You see inside this next room...
That was maybe not the best idea.
Like you got to have a good time
because otherwise what's this worth?
And we already made a bunch of noise.
This room is a bit larger.
It looks like horses were kept in this room and hardwood floors.
Yes.
Oh, nice.
Yes.
Old hardwood, dusty hardwood floors.
And we can deal with that.
Sitting on the ground is a small winged demon.
It's small.
And he is tossing some horseshoes.
And he looks over at you and he goes, oh, hi.
Hello.
Hi.
Hello there.
Welcome.
Oh, thank you very much.
We are most welcome indeed.
Oh, are you sent by the Dark Lord?
Yes.
And he says, you're doing a great job. Thank you. Well, don't thank me. Thank the Dark Lord. Oh, I will. All praise to the Dark Lord? Yes. And he says you're doing a great job. Thank you.
Well, don't thank me. Thank the Dark Lord.
Oh, I will. All praise to the Dark Lord.
Praise the Dark Lord. He's the best.
So, um,
you can go. You don't have to be here anymore.
No, I bowed to this place. Sorry.
What? Yeah. Well,
do you want to be? No.
But if I'm gonna rank up, I gotta, you know,
guard the territory. Well, that's just the thing. But if I'm going to rank up, I got to, you know, guard the territory.
Well, that's just the thing.
You've been promoted.
All right.
Well, let's hear it.
Lay the dark curse upon me that will empower me to become a larger demon.
You got it.
Let me just confer with everyone.
We rehearsed it earlier, but I just want to.
You're going to talk to your friends first? Yes, I just want to make sure
we're going to do it all together.
Oh! Yes.
To really maximize the effectiveness.
Do a deception check.
You get a plus
11 to deception. Okay, so 17.
You're a fantastic liar. Oh, you rolled
low? Only we had an invisible
thing that could... Still pretty good. He goes, alright, alright. Oh, you rolled low? Only we had an invisible thing that could be killed. Still pretty good.
He goes, all right, all right.
Yes, just one second.
Okay, so this guy, he's expecting some sort of spell to give him a promotion so he's not bound here anymore.
Don't you work, Verdon, don't you work with dark magic?
Yes, I do.
But he's a devil right a demon
I'm asking the yeah he's
he you know what do an insight check
you might know this
you have that Autobahn book
so 22
oh he drew every demon he saw
he's a lesser spined demon
okay devil excuse me lesser spined demon Okay
Devil, excuse me, lesser spined devil
I more have domain over like undead
And stuff like that, these guys are not undead
Correct, he is a fiend
Right, okay
Sure is
I mean, he's basically a hell monster
Can we just cast a damaging spell on him?
Oh yeah, oh I think we should
With that insight roll, too,
you know you guys could easily take this one guy.
Whatever we have that's the most powerful thing,
we should have him like,
here's your spell and fireball him or whatever.
I have a lightning bolt.
I think that's the...
Okay.
Okay.
Who said that?
Wait, should we ask him anything?
Me, the invisible guy.
Before we do anything, should we ask him anything? Me, the invisible guy. I'm over here.
Throw some paint on me.
Before we do anything, should we ask him what he's guarding? Yeah, ask him.
What is he guarding?
Same deal.
What's next?
Yeah, so we're just about ready.
What are you...
We need a transition plan.
What are you guarding again?
I just want to make sure we have the right guy.
Oh, there's a portal over here that leads to the treasure.
Leads to the treasure, yeah.
Okay, so you are the right guy.
Okay, that's...
Yeah, I opened the portal.
Right, right, right. Yes, of course. So we are in the right place.s to the treasure, yeah. Right, okay, so you are the right guy. Yeah, I opened the portal. Right, right, right.
Yes, of course.
So we are in the right place.
So we're just about ready.
Here's what I'm going to ask you to do.
Could you close your eyes?
Just close your eyes.
To make the spell work.
Are you going to kiss me?
Mr. Evelyn, before we start,
did he say he has to open the portal?
Let's make sure it works before we do this.
Oh yeah, I'm this. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
One more thing.
Did you say you are the one who opens the portal or you're just guarding the portal?
Both.
Well, this is a problem.
If we promote you and you're not here by the portal anymore, does that mean we won't be able to open it?
That's true.
Okay.
Unless you bind yourself to this place and become a demon. Right, right, right, right. I got you. here by the portal anymore does that mean we won't be able to open it that's true okay unless you
bind yourself to this place and become a demon right all right i got you i tell you what just
to make sure our devil excuse me i get the two confused all the time it's a modern world i mean
we you know things are changing all the time not what i meant but all right how about how about this
just to make sure we know everything works
because how long has it been since you've opened the portal two days a lot can happen in two days
could you just open it real quick just so we can make sure that everything's ship shape
do a perception check or a persuasion check the other p word there's only two
uh you do have a plus seven to persuasion well that brings me up to nine
he kind of like purses his lips and goes that seems like a tall order i'm uh
usually given you know some demon ichor to cast a spell.
I've only got a little bit here. If I use it
all right now, I can't let the boss man
through. So you don't want the promotion?
I don't think
you're in charge of the promotion, buddy.
Can one of us
try to help? Intimidation check?
You haven't tried intimidating
him yet. You've got one shot
someone's got to lead it and uh because you're in a group i will allow a uh if you want to lead the
intimidation someone to give you advantage okay so i'm going to step up with bodhi while he threatens
it's not me i'm sorry okay so uh you're just you don't get to roll two, Sarah. You can have your sword drawn or something.
Oh.
18. Did you roll twice?
No. Roll a second time to see if you get even better.
20.
Natural. What's your intimidation bonus?
I thought it was 42.
It's pretty high.
Three?
So you
fucking natural. So you... Fucking natural.
All right, so you and Grima go up,
and he drops the horseshoe.
He goes, all right, man.
All right.
I'll open the portal,
but I don't know if you guys are going to
have a great time on the other side of it.
So if you're going to be...
Don't worry about it.
You're going to be dicks about it.
That's all I'm saying.
Now, why are we not going
to have such a great time?
Well, you can't just take the treasure out of there.
Excuse me. Treasure.
I never said we were going to take the treasure
out of there. We just wanted the portal open, that's all.
Well, at least
you're being honest
and you only want to open the portal so you can look
at stuff. That's all we want to do.
Could you just give us a little idea of what's going to be inside there?
Yes.
There's going to be some demons.
This portal will, it opens this very sensitive area, magically speaking,
and it'll take you to a place in the nine hells,
and there'll be some devils or demons and stuff.
But it's anchored here so if you go
through this portal you can get this very special treasure okay thank you you're welcome and he
walks over to this little uh chalk circle that's behind where he was sitting in the ground um and
he uh splashes a few spell components on it and a big purple portal suddenly yanks open on the floor
and that is where we will end this first of the two bonus episodes.
Purple stuff.
It's not one of those big flying purple portal eaters, is it?
Nope.
Hey, Sam.
Sorry, I thought of that when I was working in a lab late one night.
Sam, what do you think happened on this episode?
I'd be happy to explain what happened on this episode.
Uh, it's very funny to me that this group would eat pounds of hot Skittles, but laughs
at the idea of eating the insides of a stretch Armstrong.
Paul has a magic hat.
There's a big snake bone head.
Uh, the Del Rubio triplets were a trio of performers.
They're all dead.
Uh, we're all shooting crossbows and there's a spooky skeleton.
You can literally attack somebody in this game
by making fun of them in a song.
Every time I feel I understand this game,
I don't.
Brian killed a snake
and then we opened a door.
A lot of this game is doors
and there's a demon doorman.
Thank you.
Here we go.
I've got the,
I've already plugged this
on like the last few episodes.
I've got the Dan Telfer and Friends shows
Mercury Lounge in Santa Barbara
On October 18th and then Laugh Seattle
October 24th and Curious Comedy
Theater in Portland October 26th
BrianPassine.com for my dates
Anybody else?
Paul yeah what you want to plug?
PaulFTomkins.com slash live for all my live dates
Comedy Bang Bang on tour on the West Coast in October
and the East Coast in November.
And also, I have a new podcast with the great Nicole Parker
called The Neighborhood Listen that's on Stitcher Premium
where we take actual posts from next door
and we use them for improv.
Awesome.
That's great.
Such a great premise.
Thanks, everybody.
I love you.
Do you got anything going?
You look like you have something.
Oh, no.
I'm going to be on a love boat this Saturday.
So now.
Yeah.
Me and Lauren Tweese gets into some trouble.
It's pretty funny.
I can't.
I've already said too much.
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