Not Another D&D Podcast - C3 Ep. 39: Hang On! (Legends of Irondeep)

Episode Date: July 14, 2023

Duck Team hitches a ride on the serpent's scales and battles for its fate! Hardwon tries a new delicacy, Sol bonds with Swag, and Callie faces her archenemy: Bean Rat. Support us at Patreon.com/Naddpod to get access to the after-show and a bunch of other Naddpod content! Get tickets to our upcoming live shows at naddpod.com/live.Music/Sound Effects Include:"A Wizard Tournament" by Emily Axford."Kingshammer" by Emily Axford."Melora's Boon" by Emily Axford."Bronzebeard Baddies" by Emily Axford."Hospitable" by Emily Axford."Gunslinger's Girl" by Emily Axford."Balnor the Brave" by Emily Axford."Bittersweet Sixteen" by Emily Axford."Hardwon Takes the Wheel" by Emily Axford."Twinkling Lights of Galaderon" by Emily Axford."Jolene the Green" by Emily Axford."Winter's Mantle" by Emily Axford."Tundra Trudge" by Emily Axford."Calling the Elementals" by Emily Axford."Winter Sprite" by Emily Axford.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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This is not another D&D podcast. Welcome back to Bahumya, everybody. Bahumya. Bahumya. I'm Om your dungeon master Brian Murphy joined by the returning Jake her with If you've only been listening to the campaign you even notice that he was gone That's right you fool you know know anything. No shit a lot has changed for me Yeah, he's freshly fathered and we banked a bunch of episodes You know, no anything. You don't know shit. A lot has changed for me. Yeah. He's freshly fathered.

And we've banked a bunch of episodes. Thanks for, baby. You didn't know we could plan. Did you? Take that. Take that. In your face. But now I have an infant, and I'll never plan again.

Yeah. Oh, our schedules are sand. There we go. And of course, we also have Emily Axford. Ready to smack a fucking bean rat. Oh, bean rat. It's gonna be hard, but we do have to kill him. Yeah, bean rat puts on his falls. I made him like, unmade. Deep down. And then of course we've got Caldwell Tanner. Hey, Saul Buffet here. You know, we talked about spit a lot less episode. And speaking of spit, did you know frog spit

is a non-Newtonian liquid, which means it's a liquid in the mouth and a solid when it makes contact with bugs and insects. What the fuck? That is such a fucking crazy fact. It's a really good-ass frog fact. And I want to thank Maker Mariah on Patreon and At Simple Biologist on TikTok

for providing me with that fact. That is such a good fact. Yeah. I so much. I need to visually see that because I can't even understand. It looks like goo. Imagine if your spit was goo. It honestly sounds delicious.

I don't know what else to say. We're veering, veering dangerously close to DS territory. That was the FS baby. We have tored so carefully. Speaking of trading carefully, why don't we go ahead and do a little recap? Yes please. So last time you did battle with Bronra and Mortis Bronzebeard at the start of the fight, Swag attacked Kali for commandeering his ship

but she won him over by refusing to fight and explaining that she had a way to pacify the Serpent. After a hard one was blown up by self-destructing mech, oh yeah, and kept alive by Kenna's quick squiring, swag called for a ceasefire and the mothership crew at temporarily agreed. However, when the Serpent appeared, Bronro went on the attack, her first blast was absorbed by hard one, but she was able to use magical trickery

to make it look like she was the one attacking. I really like the one that was a really good moment. Yeah, what about the major image when she made it look like hard one was attacking. That was a pretty good way to do it. That was a classic. I don't remember. I forgot that.

I do remember hard one saving his action to jump in the way. Yeah, from like a top five great mums of the last step, that doesn't make it. That doesn't crack the mums. OK. I think from this side of the screaming was, after the beast swallowed hard one, a foster flew off after him.

Meanwhile, Saul and Swag held off Mordus while Cali pacified the serpent. Once she realized Swag was no longer on her side, a Bronra stole the Force Cage capsule and attempted to use it. Just as it looked like hard one in the serpent were about to be captured, Callie was able to use a well-timed, dispel magic

to destroy the device. Another great moan. Soul of Moom. And that's exactly what it sounded like. Boom. Just the tiniest little fart laser coming out of Kali's hand, stopping this ultra-powerful most epic move in the capsule. BOOM!

From there, Foster and Hardwan escaped the belly of the beast and the dust settled, but as Kali approached the subdued serpent, it was suddenly mounted by Beanrat possessed by Gromdall Bronzebeard. Gromdall hissed at Callie about stealing another one of his quote unquote pets and expressed bitterness towards his niece and nephew for not breaking him out of the dungeon sooner. He commanded Beanrat to bite the serpent,

sending it into an angry spiral up towards the Iron Deep Dungeons, and that's where we are now. So we are still in combat. You guys have grabbed onto the scales of the serpent as it launches up at the rats above. Essentially, the rats have created like a trail of breadcrumbs leading to Gromdahl up in the dungeons underneath the city.

Kali, you have established a bond with it and it is focusing on killing these rats and not showing aggression towards you guys you guys are kind of just along for the ride. Okay, but that doesn't mean... That's right kill the rats. I'm fucking agree with you in this situation actually. I am going to unleash your eye that I've tried to fucking contain. We trusted you bean rat. Yeah bean rat doused in beans uh, begins skittering towards you, Callie. Getting ready to bite your fingers. I smite it. We thought you had an honor. Clearly so. I'm gonna smite the beans off of you. You see, you don't deserve to wear them. Kenna is hanging on, um, and is like way far down.

She rolled pretty bad on her initiative, uh, is like way far down the server from you guys. You just here are going, I can't exactly see what's going on up there but I just from my magic one-to-one class I think that it's not the rat's fault entirely I don't know I don't know if that's necessarily you're too young to understand we find this red door home it's shared our beans okay you can goods. I gave it a bean bat for tinsob, and this is how it repays me. I'm gonna try to take notes, but I need to add it onto the scales.

I will continue to remember this. So you guys have boulders and rocks flying everywhere, and again, we are still in combat, so everybody go ahead and roll a new initiative. Ooh. Okay. Shout out to the two crew. Oh, dear.

Shout out to the three crew, but it becomes a 10. Shout out to 23 rats, which I shall all punch. Nice. Damn. Mine becomes a six. 10. So here's how this is going to work. OK.

Gromdahl's essentially doing the bad version of what Kali is doing. So what? You need to beat Gromdahl's essentially doing the bad version of what Kali is doing. So you need to beat Gromdahl's animal intimidation, two turns in a row, before you fall off, or else it's gonna go ride off to the city and try to free him. The first time you beat it, you essentially break his influence over it, you break the spell. The second time you beat it, you're able to pass it by the serpent again. Kali, you can use your persuasion, like you've been using, and Foster can't give the help action

because he's focusing on keeping everyone alive. But other people can give help actions on their turns, they can do whatever they want. At the start of everyone's turns, you'll make a strength or deck save to avoid falling rocks. You can also do acrobatics or athletics if you'd prefer, and I will set the DC at the top of each round.

It's gonna be a DC 13 plus 1D4. So, let's start at the top of the first round. As all of the combatants grab onto these serpent scales and follow this thing up as a bunch of rats begin leaping onto the serpent and the serpent begins flying up towards the city and swallowing all these rats, just breadcrumbs going towards Gromdol.

Ooh, bad roll. That's a DC 17 save at the start. Saul, at the top of the round, you are the first one. You are the quickest to act and grab onto a scale. You see a bunch of rocks and boulders falling above you as you ride to this thing. Go ahead and give me a dexay. Or worse worse Nemesis

Yeah, you guys have a bad track record you dare show your head here We got rocks I'm going to do an acrobatics check. Is that okay? Yep That's going to be a 27 you pass. I'm gonna say you should probably do a dexay because your virulities You won't be able to take half damage. Oh pass. I'm going to say you should probably do a deck save because of your abilities. You won't be able to take half damage. Oh, interesting. OK. 26. There you go.

OK, so that is, would be 23 damage. You would take half if you were not a monk, but you are a monk. So you're able to use your acrobatics and essentially swing from scale to scale. So you jump from one side to the other and avoid a giant falling boulder and then you are free to take your turn. You do see that mortis and

Bronra have jumped onto the serpent with you guys but you don't know what they're up to. Okay, they're not fighting yet. I'm not going to turn. We just want to ride back home. Yeah. Bronzebeard's beans and boulders. Yeah, we're not fucking co-pooling with you, okay? Yeah, I'm just on Braunwatch at this point. Great. So you want to prepare a reaction to see Braunra doesn't kick their ass off of this serpent.

Great. I'm going to say you got to pick one mortis or Braunra. Ooh, who do we choose? You know what, I feel like Braunra has been more of a threat, so I'm going to switch aim toera. Ooh, who do we choose? You know what? I feel like braunera has been more of a threat, so I'm gonna switch aim to her. Okay, great. So also you are keeping an eye on braunera. Let's hold for Emily pouring tea. You can't even hear it! It's she kept it real far away. She was quite respectful. I'm gonna take a solidarity slurp. Ugh. Disgusting.

After, God if only it was non-Newtonian. After Saul's turn, that is Mortis' turn. No! Oh, he chose the wrong one. No, he's so chastised. Take your eyes off one of us and the other shall play. Is this because I said you didn't have any good mums? Yeah. You see, Mortis is going to pull out his bolt pistol.

He is already cast like a, effectively like a maychan type thing. So he's going to use a bonus action to use an ability called distracting hand. As a bonus action, while the Master Arcane Trickster has the may Hand active, it can designate a creature within five feet of the spectral hand.

The Arcane Trifter has advantage on his attack rolls against the creature until the end of the turn so that he can get sneak attack. He's going to do this on swag. Shit, I knew you were a sucker, but I didn't know you were a traitor. And it's been a very confusing half hour. Oh, see, swag, this is them showing their true colors.

And does manage to hit swag. You see a blast from mortises pistol that rips into swag's back as he clings to the side of the serpent here. After mortises turn, mortises already used the bonus action, cannot hide, it's just hanging on. And I'm going to say if you don't use range stuff if you're

Going to try to move across you have to redo the dexay to be able to essentially move around After Mortis's turn that is swags turn swag at the oh wait actually Mortis at the start of his turn has to do a dexay And Mortis fails So Mortis is fucking clocked for 19 damage by that exact rock that saw moved out of the way from. Ah, you're blocking my vision! That's right, we're suckers, we're duck team suckers. I have no context for that.

Swag does his save and passes with flying colors as the same thing you did, Saul moves out of the way, like a mirror image. Oh you think I'm a sucker huh? And is going to do a deck save to be able to successfully move down to Mordus and it's just gonna start fucking whaling on him. Oh no wait! Yeah you see Swag inflates a one-fist. Mordus is going to throw up a shield So you do see that swag misses on the first attack still hits on the second attack But misses on the third attack so you see gets a punch off on mortis Bashes into mortis's head his head hits off the side of the serpent as you guys are all flying up

But swag does 17 damage to him that's cool Yeah Sweet 17. And then he has to do a con-saving throw. Fuck yeah. Get his liver. That he fails. So he now has disadvantage on checks.

That's like that's helpful for when he hides. That's very helpful for when he hides. I know. Probably not going to be able to hide. I'm so tired. So I'll give us a big thumbs up but can't decide whether to call swag dad or bro so he says great job, Brad. Ha ha ha.

Ha ha ha. It's swag actually. Right, my mistake. Ha ha ha. I like that, Brad. I really like that. That's a really interesting name. I just really visually saw you're a split screen one,

like bro, question mark, dad, question mark, just slamming it into each other to make that. I guess if mothership's trying to kill me again, I probably will have to take on a new identity. Brad Daniels. That's not Daniels. Surprise, that's really normal. Yeah, no.

You're normally tied under the radar with that one, yeah. You can speak with me. How can name,. He's right under the radar with that one. Yeah. You can speak. How can name too. I know. I'm free from the head. You know three, Brad Day.

You know three. Yeah. It's such a boring matter. Brad Lee and Brad Steen. Brad Steen, that's fun. Yeah. I'd like to name a lot. Hell, I might go by Brad.

Well, now you're making a much fun. That's a really good idea, HOD. Well, and when did you come up with that? Brad, yeah, Brad is sure for that. I had another friend who stole names from me. Love game. After swag, that is initiative 20. You see four packs of rats skitter down at Cali and begin biting at her fingers.

Oh. Wait, stop it, stop it. I'm a friend to the beast. I'm a friend to the beast. Let your ass traitors the lot of you. Nats 20 to hit on the first one, which would only be a 22 to hit. Yeah, that is. Okay, that is 14 damage, Callie.

These rats are fucking me on. What the fuck? Oh my God, another Nats 20? Oh my God. Stop it. 14 damage, Callie, they're just? No! Oh my god. Stop it! 14 damage, Cali. They're just biting you directly on the neck. I need you to take care of these rats

because I have to use my action to work with you. Wait, wait, wait. I held a reaction. Can I stop the rats? We said you were kind of waiting for Bronbre. So I think we do have to. I do think we have to honor the rats crate in test.

I'll take my rats. I'll take my rats along with my dips bits. Sorry, I'm sorry, I said itely good. I'll take my rat crits. I'll take my rat crits. Along with my dips bits. Sorry, I'm sorry, I said it. No! I said it. I'm so full. Tread so carefully.

Yeah, you see, I'm bean rats. Gets in with a crits. I'll really bite into your neck. I fucking made you. Did you fool me at them out so possessed. Before you met me, you would just a rat. I added the beans to your part.

You're speaking in Gromdol Grombs' beard's voice. I am not a rat. You are a rat. I am not a rat. Do you not live in the fucking ground, in the prison? I am imprisoned here. Yeah. Just like a fucking rat.

Rats are not imprisoned in the ground. They're in the ground by choice. And do you like beans? Be honest, how many beans do you have right now? Of course I enjoy beans. He admitted it. After... What is your favorite food?

I mean, probably beans, but... Okay. After the rat swarms enter, that is BronRIS turn. And she points a bolt pistol up a hard one. Solving me act. Yeah, I'm gonna jump right in front of that bolt pistol. Great. Can I deflect missiles even though it's a bolt pistol?

Yeah, I would allow that. Okay, it's like a projectile. I'm like moving the wind around it to change its course. Go ahead and do a deck save to make sure that you can move in the first place. Okay. She passes her save. That's gonna be a 23, that does it. Or 22. to make sure that you can move in the first place. Okay. She passes her save.

That's gonna be a 23, that does it, or 22. Okay, so you jump in the way, she's gonna do the same trick as a Mage Hand as a bonus action, so you see a spectral hand grabs at you kind of keeping you in place and goes to shoot at you. Actually, no, you know what? Let's go ahead and do deception

versus her insight to see if she is able to clock that you're the one that's going to take it. So she got on her insights a 14. So go ahead and give me deception. Reception. 18. 18. Okay.

So she does not clock you springing forward getting ready to jump out. Yeah. I go full shadow clone. I forgot there were two of you. She goes to blast into you. She only gets the one shot. 19 hit, misses. OK, misses.

Yeah, you see the bolt. All right. She gets a little startled, seeing a solid jump out in front of her, and she blasts in the wrong direction and completely misses hard one. I just slapped the bolt away with my tongue. Save the bowl. Thanks a lot, Saul. I can't believe she was trying to shoot me, Brad.

I'm not the nerd. Well, now I can't be Brad, right? We can both be Brad. I can't be Brad. We barely ever hang out. This is like the first time. Yeah, I have to warn you, I'm also thinking of becoming Brad. Okay.

Brad Petricle. Okay. Brad Petricle. Okay. That's pretty cool. One of the fun things about being swag band deals was I was the only one I thought. Brad Bufo, BB. Okay. Interest date.

All right. BB, BB, BB, and BS. That's not sure how much I love this. The band of Brad. Callering. Callie, start of your turn. The band of Brett. It's Cali. Cali, start of your turn. Go ahead and give me athletics or acrobatics. Do you acrobatics?

The rat pack versus the bread pack. Ooh, I got a 29. Okay, 29 passes, however, you're not amongst. So you still take half. You take 10 damage, Cali. Ooh. Okay, I'm gonna use this. I'm gonna use this. Okay.

I'm getting bloodied up and I think I try to get the serpent's attention and I think I want it to see me who it's like been talking to, like weakened. Okay. And I think I'm just gonna say, please, please, I freely, I can't do this for much longer. The window is closing. This can can't do this for much longer. The window is closing. This can't go on for that much longer.

And I just let it see me being really weak. Go ahead and give me your persuasion check. And we are going to be competing against Gromdall. You see bean rats eyes glow red. Do not listen to her, my pet. You must come home. 18 on the dice. Plus my 14 from my emissary of peace. He got a 27. I got a 32. Wow. Okay. Okay. Okay, okay, Kelly, you see as you plead to the serpent, a blood drops off of your wounds as all these rats descend on you

and as being rats, aka, gromdolts. And I wanted to see, I wanted to see him to see that I'm not fighting the rats, they're fighting me. You see, yeah, starfire joining the blood, coming out of your wounds, begin leaking in between the scales on the serpent and you see that it glitters with starfire and begins slowing down, stopping its ascent towards the city. It's still in danger of being charmed by Gromdol again, but it starts like lashing out

at nearby rats. For now, it is no longer headed towards iron deep. It's just mad now. And if anything, you get the sense it's kind of trying to defend you. And they like misplaced way. And you see Foster just like, brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, as it, as the worm is like crashing the rats into the wall.

Okay. Okay, okay. They're like thighs. You just need to swat them. There's, there's a need to be so big actually actually I will also bonus action give a bar to inspiration to hard one great Okay, so I look at him and I wink at him with sorry give a born a brad to who hard on to Brad a brad of Inspiration yeah, I'm sorry

I give a brad of Inspiration I don't know that I want to be Brad with everyone. It's too late. Okay, just too late. I'm sorry, it's too late. It's too late. It always steals my name. I'm sorry, it's like.

There's really no other way. Do people steal your names too? Every time I come up with a cool nickname, my friends just want to take it from me. What the heck is that? Yeah, I don't know. It's what's just for various people. We know that they will give them the names

if we come up with the names. Exactly. I don't see a world where the four of us aren't Brad. I'm sorry. Ha ha ha ha. I just said to also be Brad. I love that for you. I love that for you.

Brad the Squire. What's her last name? Kenna? My last name is Iardborn. Brad Ionborn. And you clock that forged father Kruegen is his last name is Kruegen. So this isn't oh it is she's choosing not to have his name. Oh my. So in this very stupid bit you learned something very special.

That's it. Too bad his BK would have been really good initials. I'm gonna say yeah this serpent is trying to smash the rats that are around Cali. So they're gonna have to do saves. They weren't doing saves because they're like small enough that they're kind of inconsequential. One pack of them saves. You see like gets in between the scales that are getting crushed. One other one gets like halved and two other ones get crushed and are just gone. Okay, okay, we've taken out all revenge, now we need to make our escape, okay? Because do you see what this world does to people like us? Serpent continues to freak out

as you see at an initiative 10, three more packs of rats jump down and begin going after Callie. Okay, where are all these rats like sleeping in the cell with you? What are you doing with all these rats? Being rat looks up, you spoke to the rats. We established that there's a network of rats

in the underground, did we not? Yeah, no, I know, but do they all come to you? Are you sleeping on a bed of rats or are they just all over? Sometimes they come to me and- Are you the rat king? Yes. Do you have a tail? No.

When I wild sheep, sometimes I have a tail. Does that tail get tangled up with other tails? Occasionally, if I have many rats inside of my room, sometimes, if I'm talking to many rats at once, our tails will get caught. Sometimes do I just, for ease of conversation, so I don't have to get to speak with animals, turn into a rat to speak with them easier.

Uh-huh. Yes. Does that make it more likely that our tails get tangled? Uh-huh. Also, yes. Are you currently tangled up with a couple of rats? A couple, no. One, yes.

Wow. How's this happened with this rat before? Is this a problematic rat? Yes. Get off of me, Raymond. There are three more rat packs, not rat packs, not singing greeners. They tell you to do the moon. Let me feed you the problem, bean.

You need to fly these rats to the moon, okay? These three do not manage to do damage to you. Get up, bite into you, but are literally biting into your armor, which is way too hard to get through. The other, the rats are literally a numbers game. The rats before crit on you twice. That's the only way they're doing major damage. Just sounds like someone at Vegas

playing a weird game involving rats on a crap stable. So numbers game, man. After, I mean, that's what the rap hacks are doing. After the rats, that is hard once turned. Okay, so I need to do a Dex save or an... You do athletics checks. Okay, I'll do athletics. Great.

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Okay, I think I'm gonna go after Bronra because she tried to shoot me in the head. What, it wasn't personal. It was just because our families have history and I blame you for my cousin's death and also because I don't like you personally. Well, yeah, that's actually fun. You should blame me for your cousin's. and also because I don't like you personally. Well, yeah, that's actually something you should blame me for your cousins. Yeah, I think I want to just knock her off this serpent.

Okay, so here's the deal with that. That requires you to redo the role and if you fail, that stops your movement. So you can't move. But go ahead and give it another try. It's DC 17 to make a movement. All right. 24. OK.

You get up to her and you're going to try to do a shove attack. Essentially have her go five feet off the serpent. Yeah. But a drop kick more than a shove. Great. OK. So you drop down. I'll say you let go and you grab on like a rock climber

onto a scale right next to her. She turns next to you, shocked. Go ahead and make a shove attack. Go get her Brad. Come on Brad. You have a Braddock if you need it. I do have a Braddock. Good God.

As she got, I'll tell you, you're trying to be to 16. Okay, I have a 14, so I'll use my Braddock. It's a D.A. Nobody puts Bratik in the corner. That's a dirty 20. Oh, okay. Hard one. Describe what it looks like as she is not killed,

but Bronra is thrown from the serpent. I think I just hang onto, I hang onto the scales. I keep my legs back, kick her off the serpent, and then I make eyes at bean rat, and I go, I point at my eyes, and I point at bean rat's eyes. You see, the clearly possessed rat does not respond to you,

mortis of the sibling does point at gun at you though. What the hell did I do? What did you do? You threw my sister off gun at you, though. What the hell did I do? What would you do? You threw my sister off the fucking serpent, dude. That's what did I do to you, I say. That's a great question, actually. You do see, yeah, Bronra disappears into the dirt. This isn't over, short-vot.

Is she gonna take falling damage? She will take falling damage, but you don't see, that it is, there's too much going on right now to clock where she ended up. So Bronra disappears after Hardwin's turn. That is Kenna's turn. Kenna kicks it off by absolutely failing her check. Okay.

Oh no. And she takes 18 damage. And she's actually, she's taken some damage from rocks before she's hardy for a squire, but she is still a squire, so she is looking pretty hurt, right? Because her squire attire probably can't be dazzled through.

Pretty close to time for the squire. To retire, I ab injured. Oh, and yet I have one potion left. This petrachol, I bought my way. You see, she's going to attempt to make an athletics check. And she does. She succeeds. She's able to use her movement. She crawls up to you, and you see, she like a mountain climber,

like secures a carabiner on the side of the surface. We're all about safety at Squire School, and then pulls out a potion as she has like her hands freed and pours it into your mouth. As I'm gargling the potion, I say, cannot you really should come with us down to the fire giants? I plan on it. I need to get General Brogg's beard back.

Can I tell that up a square for higher? Consider yourself higher. She gives you 20 HP. Woo! Right. After Kennis turn, that is top of the round, new DC for the rocks. Rocks are now DC 16, so not as bad.

That's it. Things have come down a little bit. The serpent is no longer going directly up, is just slamming in every witch direction. Kind of like it was originally, except not trying to eat you, which is nice. Okay. Mortis sees that the deck is completely stacked against him,

has way less conviction with this than Bronrodus, so is going to, you see, pulls out like a data pad on his Bracer, types something and either cast invisible or some kind of misty step or something and disappears from the battlefield. That is Swag's turn, Swag is going to roll to CV saves, does manage to save from the falling rocks, is just going to go over and just start pounding on the rats that go next. Yeah. Stun him.

He does not even need to stun them. He crits. Yeah. Makes minced meat of a bunch of these rats with his big inflated fists, destroys them. Damn dude, you just kicked the shit out of those rats. Yeah. Let it out.

He doesn't feel that great. Frogs versus rats. After they all made their choice. They were totally with clear minds. I don't know that they... When you were at mothership, do they do classes and stuff on magic? Yeah, I went to barely any of them. I was busy washing towels for all the liquidage games. I don't know what any of those things are. After the rats turned, that got destroyed. Callie, that is your turn. You have.

Oh wait, sorry. Saul, could I give you? Yeah. We skipped you. All right, so Mortis is out of the picture. Broner has been kicked off. I'm still a little worried. He might be hiding somewhere, but I'm

going to focus on Callie. I'm going to go over to her and give her the help action. Thank you. Right. So, yeah, Saul, Crawls over next to you, Rock climbing on the side of these giant scales, glittering with starfire, but also there's something like orange and glowing and fiery and angry here. That is the manifestation of Gromdahl's sort of anger and intimidation. Yeah. He is going to roll and I'll tell you the base.

The base is a dirty 20. You have to be a dirty 20. OK. I just freely, delicately pet it's scales. I sort of like pet around the places that have been hit or hurt. And I just say, it's time to go home. That is a 31. A 31.

Kali, as you and Saul connect with this creature, and I'll say Saul even uses some of his spores and whatnot in his connection to nature and the network. And the beastlands too. You guys are able to pacify this creature. You see that the serpent is now surrounded by starfire, which begins repelling the nearby rats banishing the charm condition from them. So they go from having these like red glowing eyes to suddenly looking normal, being terrified of this giant monster and skittering

away with the exception of Benrat who stays possessed for a little bit longer and looks at you, Kali, and goes, Count your blessings for now. I will not rot in these dungeons. Oh, I'm coming for you. I'm going to get my friends, and as soon as I get him, I'm coming for you. I'm going to get my friends and as soon as I got him I'm gonna pay you back for everything you've done to all these beasts See to it that you do you see eyes flash from red to Just regular rat eyes and then bean rat just begins rolling around in beans Can I just try to shove I want all these rats to get teleported to the beastlands Yeah, you just put the rats on top of life Being rat we can't stay mad at you

Come here you can betray me anytime You know what your Brad rat now Connolly with you guys. Okay, if there's gonna be this many Brad's, it's just not fun anymore, right? It's hatefully sof, Brad. Although, wait, if I'm a Brad and a sea of Brad's, it would be so much easier to hide.

Yeah, exactly. Not a Brad idea. Yeah. Now you're getting it. There it is. So, yeah, you see these rats, their eyes return to normal, and most of them skitter away, and some of them stay on the serpent to be banished.

And you see that the serpent begins carving out a cave for you, and then places you guys down and begins examining you closely. And you see fosters there, red eyes connected with it. And as Starfire collects around it, you see that the beast begins to shrink. The scale is compressed, and its body moves inward, smaller and smaller, until it ceases to fill the space of the tunnel

and flops down to Earth next to you, causing a small tremor, like knocking you back, you see Kenna's like, ugh, falls over, clanks with like heavy armor on. You see the beast continues to shrink until it is roughly the size of a horse, kind of much like the silver serpent size. This one still has bronze scales, and a moth like a giant great worm with rows of teeth, but it is now the sort of, you know,

manageable size of like a familiar and begins to wrap around your legs. All right, you did it. Can I try to understand, like does this mean that it's back in the Beastlands? Hi little guy, are you sort of like a holographic representation of that which has already been transported to the Beaslands? You see the little bronze serpent looks up at you, still has this terrifying maw, even though

it's much smaller and just begins going, no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no Aficia shrimp out of my pocket and throw it in. Just absolute eats it, but eats like a bunch of stirr with it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, deep. Kelly, if you've been hoarding shrimp, you have to tell me if you've been hoarding shrimp. Can I fish in my pocket to see about another shrimp? Yeah, if you've been hoarding shrimp, go ahead and roll the D4 to see how many shrimps you have. I've got one left. One left.

Oh, sorry, it's the D4 times five. Wait, you know this four. Four times five, see 20 shrimps. I've been a for like a night, a pretty nice goblet of shrimp cocktail. Okay, well, all right. I have 19. Let's, let's, what are whistles just, just to get to food.

Interesting. Okay. I did be taking notes of how nights prepare their feasts while they're traveling. I didn't realize the shrimp kept so well. Esri shrimp are famously well preserved. Yeah. Yeah, they're like, they basically feed on farms I didn't realize the shrimp kept so well. Esri Shrimp are famously well preserved. It just stayed. Yeah, they basically feed on farms of like preservatives.

Yeah, it was from TGI Sky Day, so you're probably concerned at how pink the shrimp is. This looks too good. It has painted. This looks fine. Before Alba got promoted to toilet paper division, he was a shrimp preserver. Ow.

Yeah, but Callie, as you ask about, is this just a reflection of something that is safe in the Beeslands? You suddenly see almost like fungi, like roots begin appearing in nearby dirt and connect to form a face that looks like Obron. Obran? Yes.

Have you received the serpent I sent you? We sent you. I have not. But I've been watching. You have quilt the serpent's rage and earned its trust. How? Yeah. But it will remain here by your side for now.

Oh, this angry worm is ours. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Yeah, just consume it with a ton of dirt from the gay floor. Hard one has to eat dirt to be able to get the shrimp before the serpent. And you see the serpent begins aggressively, sort of taking almost like a cobra stance, like a rattlesnake stance with hard enough. I actually said 19. Oh no! Yeah, you see O'Brien looks at you, Cali, and goes, The serpent cannot ascend until Gromdol Bronsbeard has been dealt with. He has a magical claim to it. Having marked it as his familiar, it will only be safe when he is killed or broken his bond. Is that because he hatched it? That and by magical means he is anchoring it

here. Okay. Well, is it safe in this form? Could we bring it with us to the Giants? I think you have no choice but to bring it with you. The serpent is tough. It can quite literally chew through rocks. Its scales are as strong as rocks, but it is not invincible in its current state. Okay. So it could potentially be in danger?

Okay, I looked at everyone. We can keep this little serpent alive, right? Yeah. I mean, I think it'll help keep us alive. I think we've been really spoiled by how indestructible foster is. Oh, the two of you willing to take on some more vulnerable dependency. I'm willing to protect this serpent.

I will, I'll need just a little bit of fortification, I think. In the form of a crustacean or sharpish. Just some kind of... I throw a shrimp, just a little bit closer to the shrimp. But still in between them, but like an inch closer to the shrimp. Hard one contested at Athletics Track, you have disadvantage because you're a little closer. Oh fuck, well, with this advantage, I'm definitely gonna have to use this Nath1 that I just rolled. The Serpent also rolled in that one, so you see this rock, serpent, and a hard one, Batchets.

Oh fuck! Oh my god, okay, I'll protect it starting now. And you see, Kenna salutes. I but a humble servant do the serpent. And you see, yeah, Kenna salutes. I but a humble servant do the serpent. And you saw? I looked swag for Brad and I say swag. It's swag, it's swag. Okay.

Everyone deserves a home. Everyone deserves a place where they feel safe and they're surrounded by those they know and love. Let's get this serpent home. Okay, we're gonna take a little detour, but we will get this serpent home. I shall watch your progress. Okay, well,

great, but only the progress. You really don't have to. You're the ones who make it weird. Do you want a shrimp before we go? Yes, of course. Just put it in the root. Careful, I only have like 14 left at this point. You see that Obran eats it in a really weird way where the roots come out and he like eats

around like the outside like eats the skin. What? I don't want to eat the bone. Why are you wasting it? There's no bone. There's no bone in the shrimp. What? You are like the master of beasts and you don't know that shrimp.

I don't know when the water very often. Oh god. You have to tell me if there's bones or not. There's no bones. That's why I made that's why I made foster. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, you guys are left with, you got Kenna here, you got Swag here, the Bronzebeard siblings have disappeared. They are just somewhere in the caves now.

There's kind of the chaos of the serpent. Now you guys are just in this big sort of burrowing ground. But you have not, you guys only went two rounds up and you guys are kind of headed in the right direction towards the fire giant city. You guys have not lost that much ground. You sort of made even more of an enemy of Gromdall bronze beard, but all things considered, you have your serpent.

Well, I feel like Bronwyn Mortis wouldn't be stupid enough to follow us down into the fire giant kingdom. I don't know. They're, oh God, they're so petty. I'm so screwed. Yeah, you say, hey, let's try. Let's try to find them. I insist down.

I lost my job. I lost my life. Listen, I gotta go on the run again. We're all unemployed and on the run. We need a job for it. We have 14 shrimp lift. Yeah. Shrimp rich.

No, I know. I actually 12 by eight, too, while we were talking. Oh, we're write that down. I respect that, actually. Can I do a perception check to try to find Bronra and Mortis? Yeah, sure. Oh, that's a good idea.

14. You don't see any sign of... Oh, give it a bar, I mean, a bar to solve. OK, OK. All he looks. Yeah, I swivel my eyes, independently, and look around. Great. 17. Okay, okay. Yeah, I swivel my eyes independently and look around great 17 you you don't see any any sign of them

Okay, um, so they're probably gonna try and I mean we can just keep doing perception Here's here's what here's what I can say as someone who knows Bronra mortis I'm absolutely fucked in my life because I work with mother ship and I have a life here And they're just gonna come after me again, but Bronra and Mortis don't like to fight unless they have the upper hand those two are not sneaking up on us If anything they're probably concerned at the how they're gonna get home. They've got their work cut out for them Yeah, they're probably concerned at the how they're going to get home. They've got their work cut out for them. Yeah. They're going to gather their forces.

Yes. They will come for us. They're going to retreat and then they're going to kill you with like a tank or a dry plasma cannon or something fun. But if we were able to return with Jaina, yeah. You see, um, Kenna, uh, Salutes and goes, if we have General Broad's beard, she will definitely have a plan in place.

Okay. Yeah. And the people, we can make it a public thing, so like the people support her. Right? Of course, everybody loves General Bronzebeard. All right. Everyone, Suag goes, well.

All right. All right. All right. All right, Brad. Brad, no, it's just hard with that. Yeah, look, I've got to undo a lot of mothership stuff right now. Oh, yeah.

You know, I was being told that, you know, she's stopping the innovation of mothership and everything. And now I'm seeing, you know, yeah, I've seen what's going on here. Yeah, can I ask you a question? Uh-huh. So do we get the sense that we can chat for a second without being an active danger?

Yeah, you see that the serpent just goes over and starts grazing with rocks. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I think I want to encourage Kenna to try getting mounted on the serpent. Right. You see Kenna goes over, she's going to do an animal handling check.

You got this. I see. Just goes, gets on one side, flops over, hits the ground. But you know, she's got a great attitude. It's not about how many times you fall off the serpite. It's about how many tubs you get back on. That's right. It's actually right, Brad. She keeps jumping back on and falling off, jumping back on and falling off.

But I want to ask Swag. Swag, do you know what the mother ship's plans or designs are up north? Uh, Swag will do a history check, uh, and guess a natural 17. You see, he thinks about it and he goes, I know back when Esri was kind of the main HQ that they were talking about spreading to these different cities. There are magitech companies up there, but mothership doesn't really have a big base there. In fact, there... What sort of magic are they specializing in?

Up north. I mean, is it just ice or is there another type of magic that they're specializing in? They actually aren't as reliant on Magitech as we are down here. They use it for more of the practical purposes, like literally keeping the city warm, right, but not no plows, snow plows and whatnot. Here, in Esri, they had the mothership area. Here we have a giant submersible vehicle

that's about as big as the area that was in Esri. And what sort of like vehicle do they have up north? They don't have one. Nothing. Not from Esri. Okay. I think they had plans to expand and they probably still do have plans to expand, but they haven't been active yet. All right. Well, let's deliver them another setback. How does that sound? Yeah, that sounds really good. Yeah! This episode of NADPOT has brought to you by Bird Dogs.

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Okay. Yeah, swag. How do you feel about joining up with us for a bit and just trying to do some damage to Mother Ship? Yeah. Right. Yeah, I guess I spent so long trying to convince myself that it was okay to work for Mother Ship because I'd work for the Bronze Beards. But yeah, I'm still pretty damn mad at Mother Ship. They captured me.

Patina Glenbottle held me hostage for months and tested on me. Yeah, that's really fucked up. Yeah, do you want to talk about that? We've got like one and a half mullsins and 12 shrimp in our backpack. So I'll say this a little too eagerly. Yeah, mullsins. Come on.

I see you've been holding out on. 10 shrimp, 5e and 2. Great. Can someone else hold the shrimp? Can somebody else hold them? Hamilton's come on. I see you've been holding out on him trim by V in twos Great. Yeah, can someone else hold the shrimp. Can somebody else hold them? Let's just put them in foster that seems fair Me a pezzed dispenser for shrimp. Okay, give them to me and I'll put them in foster See foster begins doing weirdly the same thing Obron did Chewing the outside of the shrimp. So. We're lost in her shrugs.

He doesn't know what to do. He doesn't know what to do. We're in a mortal hunter. You think you'd know about the bone. Okay. But yeah. Yeah, you're right. You think he's dressed in animal before and come to close contact with bones.

But yeah, you guys have time to kind of take a long rest if you guys want to like essentially like camp in this cave. Yeah, cave camping. Or you guys can keep moving. It's kind of take a long rest if you guys want to like essentially like camp in this cave. Yeah, cave camping. Or you guys can keep moving, it's kind of up to you. cave. I think I like to take a rest. Kenna.

Yes. You suggested maybe you needed a minute. A square of iron deep, never tires of iron deep. Would you like a long rest? If you guys did what, but if it were up to me, I'd keep going. Okay, let's keep going then. Yeah, you see, Kenna is drenched in sweat as is incredibly injured from the battle that just happened.

Yes. Let's keep going. All right, we probably shouldn't, is to be able to fire down here. Oh Can you build a fire and a cave? Can a can a squire build a fire? Yeah, I could build a fire and a cave five that you all have we all have fire resistor Arbron I don't oh Yeah, how are you doing? It's really hot. It's pretty hot down here But we're not near the fire giant city yet, so. Oh.

What are we gonna do about that when we get down to the fire giant? Oh, I'm not. I can't go down to any kind of fire giant city, I'll burn up. That's true. Oh, I think I'm gonna be like, can I? Let me, let me teach you how to ride this serpent and give swag and, uh, Great. Swag and solve some space.

Cool. Oh, wait, I can make us a Liam and, uh, great. Swag and solve some space. Yeah, see. Oh, wait, I can make us a Liam and Tiny Hut. Great. Ooh. What does it look like now? I mean, what, in a cave, I want to make like a really cavey one.

Ooh. Yeah. Great. I'll say, yeah, you might want to make one that like the entrance looks like a serpent mouth. There's little fangs that hang, but they're like little lights, like welcoming lights. Oh, it're like little lights like welcoming light.

It looks like a fun house. Yeah, we're gonna do like a real serpent theme. You guys go inside the serpent themed. It's gonna look like Meow Wolf made it. Very cool. Yeah, you guys get inside the Liam and Steini Hut. Yeah, you see the serpent follows you guys in. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Just eating rocks all around you. That was good by the way You try one hard one tries a rock Chips your tooth Don't do that Is there a reason that Hero the serpent was eating it so I Cosmic sense is that you go too is it that bad hard ones? The server was eating it so I Cosmetics and so you guys Yeah, yeah, I mean it's like I could I could put a straw on your mouth without your opening

Right on the front can a whisper to Kali and Salin goes whatever Jetta Roblox beer talked about hardwood shortfoot, she was mostly very forever-regial, but also would kind of like with some caveats and now he's, he just ate rocks. Maybe I'll try a smaller one, that was the issue. No, no, no, no. You see the serpent begins treating things that are the ones a baby serpent and starts crushing So it's crushing rocks and leaving leaving dust for you So cute I doubt it's a rough. Yeah hard one eats dust

I mean it's it's finally come to eat it You have to adjust your expectations a little bit. Yeah, yeah. I mean, what birds with ganna have everything? I also feel like it's the courage and bravery to eat rocks that translate over to other stuffy-stun. Hard one smiles with the chiptooth. You've chipped a couple more. Really? It's true.

Sometimes you've got to be willing to eat a few rocks. Yeah. To make an oblet, a rock obliot. Mm-hmm. Don't say that in front of all to one. You don't want one. No, no, no, no, no side with Swag here. You guys have a couple of ails. Yeah, I think, I think you know most of my story, but the mothership brought me in.

They were promising me that I'd be leading a squad amongst and then they captured me and they started to do this strange cloning experiment. I don't know why it had to be me in particular. Maybe it was as simple as they wanted it to be a monk. Somebody with a trained body and then they wouldn't have to supply them with weapons. Huh, I think it'd be deployed anywhere. Yeah, but yeah, anyway, I broke out of the lab and Patina was sending me all kinds of threatening messages and saying that she'd track me down and how I'd better not run my mouth about out of the lab and Patina was sending me all kinds of threatening messages and saying that she'd track me down and how I'd better not run my mouth about all of this.

And this was back before Mother Ship had all these crazy military contracts and everything. This was when they were, you know, just starting spreading magitech throughout Bahumia. So, you know, something like this getting out could potentially be very bad for them. So I went into hiding and I didn't want to draw them to Moonstone, and you know while I was in the Iron Deep Mountains, I've had clones track me down. What are the other clones like? Are they like me or are they different? They I was really surprised to see you saw because They all showed up within the first few years of me going in hiding and they should have been like

Little kids, but they were they must have been kids, but they were, they must have been genetically tampered with or something. They were fully grown. They looked like me, but they were completely brainwashed. There was no reasoning with them. There was no talking to them. They were just programmed to kill. I don't remember anything about my early childhood. I just remember being left at the the water park and just kind of having to fin for myself Maybe that's a blessing in disguise I mean Maybe they gave up on the program and

Some of the tadpoles were put in water or something and that's that's how you ended up there Oh, it's you know, I guess every family's got a couple of bad clones. Oh, I've seen bad clones. You are not a bad clone, my friend. Oh, yeah. Thanks, Brad. Yeah. But what are you gonna do now? I mean, you can't go back to mothership. Your spot's been kind of blown up. You can't go back to mothership, your spots been kind of blown up, you can't go down to the firejans with us, but I hope this isn't the last time I see you. Yeah, no, um,

I mean, look, I've told you about myself, but how did you get mixed up in all this mothership stuff? Well, I guess, you know, we're destined in a way to end up back there. I got abducted from the water park and was recruited to launch pad, the academy. And then I met Alvin, who's kind of like the one bright point and what otherwise was a false illusion of an existence for a couple of years. And then after that, I met these guys. We were all D-class knights. From there, we fought Petin Glend bottle and killed her.

She was also a clone, nice. Strangely enough. Interesting. Uh-huh. God damn it, maybe she was testing stuff on us so that she could do it on herself safely. That's so fucked up. That's a really fucked up.

She's so fucking scary and bad. Do you think she's still cloned and alive or something? It is gonna come for us? You know, I didn't think about that until you said it, and now I'm really worried about it. But we really fucked over like the central HQ of Mother Ship Ezra. Yeah, yeah.

Over here at Bronzebeard Industries, when suddenly that giant ship fell out of the sky, people were pretty concerned. But then also, I don't know, I guess some of the higher ups might have been excited to become the new powerhouse in town. As Saul thinks, he kind of like is recollecting his thoughts about everything that's happening, says, oh yeah, I should mention, and he relates everything

about B. Alexander, right? I was just thinking that I was like, fuck, we haven't looked in on what's going on about. So yeah, we definitely destabilized Mother Ship, but there's kind of this weird little just remaining modicum of a problem. And I explain how there's a mechanical octopus monster made of computers somewhere in the ocean. Yeah. You see, he hears somewhere in the ocean and sort of eyebrow cocks up and goes,

well, that's not good, because the HQ of Mother Ship Bronze is under the water. But obviously, Mother Ship hasn't been sharing everything with me. I don't know that they know everything about that or I guess if they do, they might not want the sort of rank and file to know about it.

Yeah, I mean, the last we saw, this thing was just swimming out into the depths and it seemed like it wanted to acquire more tech. So, God, I think like the nearest chance we get, we should check in and see how that submersible is doing. All right. Because I don't wish them well, but I don't know if I want whatever B. Alexander right is to acquire any more magic tech.

Yeah, God. Yeah, you see, swag just looks out in Shakespeare's head. How did we work for these guys? I think we just wanted to be connected to something, you know? I mean, why did you leave Moonstone? You had a family, you had a life. Yeah, it's true. Moonstone was, you know, it was wonderful. It's warm days, cold water, star-filled skies,

but when that's your whole life, when that's your whole world, you wanna go out and you wanna see what else it has to offer. You want a bigger pond. Unfortunately, I've learned that there's a lot more sharks in the pond than I thought there were. There shouldn't be sharks in a pond. Shouldn't be sharks in a pond. I usually saltwater creatures.

I did, I went to that class at Launchpad. Right, that's good. That's good. Mostly magic and marine biology. I don't know what the curriculum is, but it's varied, crazy. Say, do you guys want a stone omelette? Yeah, you guys, I want good rock omelettes.

Rock omelettes are, you know, I do. I think I do what one. You know what? I think I'm going to take an omelette. I'm going to take one too. And can I like before each bite cast Shatter on it? Yeah. Just like break it up a bit.

Wow. Can a, can a co-sus up next to you, Callie? He goes, why are we eating rocks? He needs this. Because friendship is about compromise. Okay. He may eat rocks, but his ego is fragile. He's the ego is as fragile as his teeth.

I'm going to Homs happily. It's all does that thing that frog to do where they squish their eyes down to swallow. Oh, good. I think it's not bad, right? Can I tell you something? I'm scared you might be mad at me for. Okay.

I'm friends with your dad. I don't know who you're talking about. Okay. Yeah. If you don't know who I'm talking about then maybe I've got the wrong little girl I've friends you do because I'm a Holy Grail Squire Okay, forgive me my friend Krugan told me about his very spirited very brave daughter and I thought maybe you were her but I've

Miss took Go ahead and give me a persuasion check But I've mistook. Go ahead and give me a persuasion check. Not 20. Yes! Can I kind of look away? Okay, yeah, sure. But what did he say?

He was talking about this girl who isn't you, just talking about how much he loves her and he had a picture of her that I used to see him looking at quite longingly. And he said that he did her wrong and he was full of so much regret for it. And I just really, really wanted to see him get a second chance with her because his love was stronger than his regret and his regret was a lot. Well, but obviously that's nothing to do with you. You don't think to with fear of anything. Yeah.

Even if it was, that's really nice to hear but it'd be nicer to hear from Hibb not that I care And you see can I get up and go and sits in the corner? But does look affected by that for sure We're not sending in postcards periodically. We have that interest you Nope, okay Oh, of course it wouldn't interest her, is she has nothing to do with that. Right, exactly. It's different, Kenna.

Yeah, it's being a pen pal with like a random... Yeah, I'd be so weird. Even if that random guy is pretty cool and has helped us a lot. Yeah, he's really saved us skin quite a few times. Yeah. I just want to repay him. Somebody who works with the Iron Deep Underground and people like Gromdall, Bronzebeard, to put small businesses out of business, be helping you guys who are a Getz Gromdall Bronzebeard that doesn't make any sense.

He, oh, I think this is a guy who made some mistakes, and he's not doing that anymore. And he hasn't in a while, and he's done some re- he was living in... Esri. And he did some pretty fucking badass stuff against a mothership. Yeah, we've all done things in our lives that we regret. We lived lives that we regret. Not me, but I get your point. He's lost another tooth.

I miss point, we have more chip teeth and shrimp. I say yes, I finish off with another shrimp. Yeah, you see Kenna is, you know, this is something that she'll have to iron out with her dad. Yeah, I'm trying to fully pretend like I don't know her. What you guys have done is gotten her kind of like, you see throughout the night as you guys like eat actual dinner, you don't just eat fucking Roxy maniacs.

Um, like as the night goes on, she just like randomly kind of asks you questions about like, Krugan and stuff like that. So like, she's kind of still in love with her first. I tell her about like the Bell Tower and all his little end time mothership. I tell her about like the underground in Esri and how he was helping them and working with them and I make him sound like, as cool as a comic book character. So it makes meatballs and tells hard one

but they're more rocks. Ha ha ha. Damn, these soft rocks are pretty more rocks. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha And pointy teeth look right on you. Yeah. Sweet. Is there anything else you guys would like to do before you go to bed? Not me. I'm so excited to sleep. I want my luck points back. Very bad.

Yeah. Yeah, I guess I asked swag if he wants to try and do a little meditation. Try and commune with frogs. Yeah, let's do it. Go ahead and give me a, let's say, like a wisdom saver, a survival check with advantage. At 22. 22. Yeah, you guys both take some time.

You go to like the corner of the room, or I'll say you even like leave the Liam and tiny duck. You guys both commune with the nature around you, this kind of like, you know, very sparse like fungal network and everything that's down here, probably the only living things that are down here. But you much kind of like when Oberon appeared, you do see like little root networks of like fungi and stuff begin to kind of appear near the rocks. And as you guys sit out here next to each other. You have what is essentially the equivalent of a deep conversation, free of any kind of, you know, you're both kind of like holding back, you both kind of don't

know what to share with each other. You've got this like awkward relationship that you don't kind of, you don't really know what this is. You guys basically have a conversation without talking and having the same kind of like genetic makeup and having this connection to this fungal network and everything and you guys are in this deep meditative state and you begin having essentially memories as if you were swag and you get the sense that he's having memories as if he were you. You're sharing with him like you at like launch Pat Academy and like growing up the water park and your relationship with Albin and this sort of like big betrayal of mothership that all of a sudden kind of pulled the rug out from under you and

you see images of him as a young frog at Moonstone Bay, his childhood is ideal, like he's got a bunch of other frogs that he's running around with. There's this mushroom patch, like this mushroom garden in the center of town that he runs around and he plays with. There's a trident at the bottom of the bay with a magical enchantment on it that attracts all kinds of sea animals, so they always have plenty to eat there. And swimming there is a experience that you can't get anywhere else, because again, this trident is bringing in life from all around it. So you get you get these feelings like like you almost lived that. But you also feel this like longing to see, you know, what else is out there. Like,

you see him looking up at like the stars and the sky and the moon and everything and wondering, like, what's out over those mountains? Like, what's down this dirt road, you know, and a lot of the other people around him are maybe content to stay there. And then he goes through kind of a lot of the same parallels as you, where he's tricked into, he's basically given an offer by mothership to come work for them to get to go to the big city and everything, and then he's used and he's thrown out and he has to run away, and there's moments of deep fear

and paranoia, but then there's nice moments where he's bonding with people in the mountains, he meets bumpy, he's at with people in the mountains. He meets bumpy He's at the creek for for a moment there and then you even see He is maybe so desperate for friends when he first moves to iron deep that he doesn't see through brawnra and mortises Like mask and so he makes friends with a lot of the mothership people there, which is why he kind of allowed himself to

be tricked in that way and be loyal to them until this moment when when you showed up and there's this moment of of he scared, but he's relieved and he's confused and you get the sense that he knew that there were these other confused and you get the sense that he knew that there were these other souls out there but he feared that they would be like the ones that had come after him that were just like agents of patina and that he had always kind of hoped that there would be someone like you and then you guys kind of break from this trance We say that we started like meditating in front of each other and then when we wake up we're hugging. Yeah, you're just hugging and crying

We're gonna find that we're gonna find what's beyond the stars I know we're gonna find it God launch pad. I can't believe they did that to us. I can't believe it man Oh, it's so fucked god. I miss Albin. I don't believe they did that to us. I can't believe it, man. It's fucked. It's so fucked. God, I miss Albin. I don't even know Albin, but I miss him. I know, it'll be okay.

Oh, God. I haven't been able to talk to him so long. I had to surrender the Twillipaper that he made for me. You heard about the Twillipaper. Of course I heard about the Twillipaper. I know exactly what you're talking about. Oh, my God, you get me. Yeah, listen, I know you said before that when I look at you,

that it must be like a cracked mirror and that I must be reminded of everything bad that happened in my life. But you're more like a regular mirror. You remind me of All the good stuff too and that's why Seeing you on the other side of this issue made it harder There's also something I've been wanting to ask you for a long time

Are we secretly really attractive because I've been looking at you and you look look like, yeah, you look great. Do I look that good? I actually did some modeling when I first got to Ireland. I do. Ha! See, you're a little bit younger than me, so right now you're kind of denying it, but you just need to lean into it, Betty. Well, because I've been doing a little acting with Callie,

mostly to get out of life and death situations. But I feel like maybe I've got a calling there. I think I think you do You see puts his hand on your shoulder brawn I'm proud to be your Brad And I'm proud to be your broad Swag gives you a big hug We hug it out for just a little too long.

Yeah. I think I just have one more thing that I want to do, which is just I want to take out Colder's Ice Dagger. And I want to carve my mother and R-A-A-X's like crest into it as I like make a resolve that we're coming for you, Ultras. Yeah. That will be coming for you, Ultras. Yeah, you feel a chill around your hand as you hold this dagger. And Kali, you see the bronze serpent slithers over to you and looks at it. Mom, mom, mom.

This belonged to a very important person to me, and we are going to retrieve him. No, no, no. You see, begins biting into the ground. No, no, no. That's the direction we're going. You're going to be sick of rocks by the time we get there. No, no, no. And you're just having this weird conversation in the corner with Foster and the serpent. As it gets really chatty, I start talking about a book I read. No, no, no. But yeah, Kelly, you get the sense that the serpent knows this mountain. Can you take us to the fire giants?

No, no, no. Okay, I think I know what we're doing tomorrow. No, no. Called it, I hope you like serpents. Hard one, as you're getting ready for bed, you see, Kenna pulls up like her sleeping role, kind of close to you and keeps making noises to kind of keep you up but is too shy to talk.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Big day. Night, Kenna.

Yep. Up. Sorry. Mr. Shurfoot. Can I ask you a question? Oh, yeah. Hard one sits up. Burps a rock.

Of course. Call me Brad. Could I call you hard one? Brad one. Um, I guess whatever, you know, I know that you're sort of the hero of Iron Deep and we all talk about you a lot, but we talk about your friends too. We talk about Moody Chide side that had Beverly Toe cold, and I guess I was wondering if they're okay, because from what I heard, you guys were always together.

Yeah, well, you know, Moonshine and Beverly, they'll always be okay. We were the heroes of Bohumia together, but now they're the heroes of the universe. They're stronger than I could ever be. They're ageless. They're badasses. So I kind of... I'm enjoying my retirement, my golden years, the twilight of my life.

LAUGHTER But... But yeah, the three of us, we had some great times, we had some great adventures, and now I'm just happy to know they're onto the next big thing. I think they probably think you're a badass, that I think they probably miss you, because I miss General Bronzebeard, and it's all they've been like a day. Yeah. It's, you know, it's real, it's tough to be away

from your friends, and right now, General Bronzebeard does need you. But Beverly and Moonshine, it don't need me. And I have to be okay with that. Hmm. You hear her just kind of make a dubious sound. Alright, Mr. Shorefoot. Yep.

Well, I don't know if I'm going to go directly to bed now, because I've kind of lost and thought heavy with rocks. Can I thank you, even though it's hard for reminding me about my friends. It's nice to think of them. Well, I don't know. You said like that they don't need you, but maybe they just want you around. Like, I thought that when I was down in the mines that I needed General Bronzebeard, and then we got lost, and then I found you guys,

so maybe I don't need General Bronzebeard right now, but I sure as heck do water around. Well, I guess if I'm being honest with myself, I do really miss my friends. And I wonder if they miss me too. It's a dance to reason they might. I think it would be safe to assume that they probably do. Yeah, well, let me sleep on it because you know I wish it were that easy. There's some stuff that I feel like I have to own up to and can be tough. But I'll tell you what, I really have to use the bathroom. And yeah, you might hear some sounds that would make you think that I need help, but no matter how much I yell, I don't think anyone should go in there. Okay.

I understand. Do you want me to fart really loud so that nobody can hear you? I'd like some cover, yeah. I, yeah, hard one, you get some privacy. And you guys just hear Canada's ripping ass. I remember the song. The fuck did that girl?? Incredible squalter.

It's definitely not genetic because I have to tell you, Gruegan never falls into. Derox make you fart. This girl would 100% fall on a grenade for anyone in the field. I know this now. Yeah, so yeah, you guys all go to bed for the night. You wake up the next day or whatever time it is.

You don't really know you're in a cave, but you take some time to patch up your wounds. I think Kaliah is quite taken with Kenna partially because of crew game, but also partially because she's just like so. So I think she's gonna like get breakfast ready for her. See Kenna rolls out of bed trying to be the first one up. Squire needs to prepare the serpents for the night. It's okay, I'm just trying.

I just trying. You're so hard to wake up before. Kenna will bronze be in the wake of so much sleep. I only need to translate for four hours. Anyways, I've made you breakfast and there's no rush in there. I can only sleep for three hours and 50 minutes now because I need to get better. No, I'm not. I'm not going to work. No, I'm not going to work.

Please accept I've made a little breakfast for you. Okay, thank you. There, just, you know, let so be your age for just breakfast Okay, yeah, you see kind of pulls up next to you and immediately kind of like gets down to business Trying to learn more about like being a night and stuff. So how'd you get the serpent? What did I get? Yeah, I How did I get? I said really long story, but basically I owed a favour to a giant serpent in the sky. Taking notes.

Located in the beastlands, which is how I got the first serpent. And then actually I've got a second serpent, like cast of five steed. It goes five serpent. So yeah, that one's actually kind of a representation of what's back in the beastlands. Okay. So yeah, oh, this is just of a representation of what's back in the beast then. Okay. So yeah, all this is just sort of like a big cosmic deck that I found in the o's because they are lads and, you know. What is your family o?

Just keeps going into it. Yeah, and you explain to her and everything, but I think, yes, swag does, as you guys are like packing up and getting ready for the day,ag goes, I think I might have to make my way back up to the surface. I don't think I can make it inside of the fire giant settlement. Yeah. Well, you should make contact with Krugin. I think that, yes, there.

Yeah, make contact with Krugin. Oh, should I go to that address that you guys gave me before? Yeah. Did you guys have giving that to someone? Yeah. So it's probably, hey, you killed him, right? You killed him, right?

Oh, we killed Kruegen? No, the hippo. The hippo. Yeah. Yeah. He killed him. He was kind of a dick. We literally met him as he was trying to help a war criminal.

OK. Like recruit a war criminal, yeah. Oh, you're welcome, by the way. You never thanked us for killing him in the ass. Yeah. Yes. Sort of a sort of a work friend, but we were bad, I guess.

How close for you? Like, not near a permanent or like, yeah, but it was like a party where I invited everyone. Oh, yeah. Wow, I'd love to go to a swat. And he brought, he was like plus three, which was like not okay. That's all asking a lot.

He brought plus three. He plus three people. Three people. Okay, so they were, they were mean. You have to understand what that meant. It meant that you invited him to a party and he said to three of his friends, I don't really know this guy.

Would you come with me because I'm bad, you don't know this guy. You don't think. I know. Certainly. Wow. Did with me because I'm bad? You don't think. I know. Certainly. Wow. Did they like, were they good at the party, or were they eating all your food?

They mostly ate all my food and sort of held court and told a lot of stories and made fun of you. Did they bring anything, like even paper plates? No, no. Really? Hey, I said, come hungry, bring your appetite. And okay, that's what I did. Okay, you're a good host. All right. I have a question swag. Would you consider? I mean

Does he look you know, does the amphibian aspects feel like he can go underwater? Yeah? Would you consider checking up on the Alexander? Yeah, if you're up for it, little reconnaissance. I'm saying like bottom of the ocean floor, probably no one knows you there. I can go on a little swim and I guess I think if this thing disappeared in Esri and is just somewhere on the ocean floor, I think I have a pretty slim chance of finding it, but I don't know, maybe I can go talk to your friend Kruggen and see if there's anyone on like the underground

that might know more about it. Yeah. I think I'm a little concerned that maybe be Alexandra, might absorb this. Mother's hub. Yeah, this mother's hub. All the other way around. All right, yeah, I'll look into it, but this place you think it'll be safe. You think I should hide out there

Don't know that it will be safe But I think that honestly Seeing what you can do Crew can deduce your help if you're looking for safe. Maybe you could just go back to moonstone No, I I I want to help. I've caused enough trouble for you all. And you guys took out the guy who brought a plus three to my apartment. You're welcome. What was the bathroom situation after? It was a mess. It was a mess. They also clogged it.

They clogged one of the plus three clogged it. A friend of a friend clogged my toilet. Geez. Yeah. And I drank too much because I was nervous socially and I had to throw up in the sink. I don't know. You're lying. Yeah.

So all this remembering an exact time has happened to him. He went out of the back and launched that. It's about the magic toilet guy clogged. Just screaming out there. We're magic dyer. Fix it. I'm gonna spew. You said we too much spaghetti salad, Saul.

I told you. I'm sorry, I'm nervous. I'm insane. So anyway, we can stay in contact with you. I guess at the very least second, second like trying to give you like a little mushroom and if you die it'll die I don't know. Yeah I think that's how it works maybe. I think we would know at this point if something happened to the other one but yeah I'll go meet up with your friend I won't share the address this time.

There you go. Good idea. Yeah I'll try to make my way back up. If you are going to see Krugin I I'm going to do a quick postcard with a little picture of Kenna. Okay. With a little picture of Kenna doing something brave, like hanging onto the serpent. Great. We're farting while I was in the bathroom. Hanging onto the serpent and batting a boulder away from hard ones. Yeah, you give this postcard to swag.

Maybe just on the postcard I'll say, she's wonderful. Get in touch. I think she might be coming around. Hi, you hand that to swag. Exo, exo, exo, exo, collide. Wow, that's a lot of exos. You actually pee. Yes, exo, exo, exo, exo, exO, Collide. Wow, that's a lot of XOs. You actually put your stuff on. Yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly,

exactly, oh, oh, oh, oh. I've got a lot of post-carpet. I guess I'll sign my name really. Yeah, I'll be here. And yeah, Swag gives you guys a hug, gives you a big hug, Saul, and goes, let's get a drink, not at Layland Turn. Once you get back.

I actually kind of liked it. I kind of liked it too. They used to like... He's supposed ceiling was really cool. He's supposed ceilings was cool. All the unnecessary cogs. I loved it. The fixtures.

Oh, God. Why would just go there with like a leather jacket with no shirt on it was awesome. Dude, that's such a good look for us. I know. I've got a Laylo. All right, anyway, I give him a little like bracelet of yarn, just to where, just like we can feel connected.

Yeah, you see, yeah, he's got like a bracer on. That was probably something that would help him get into mothership HQ and stuff like that. And you see he rips that off and puts on the little yarn bracelet and he salutes you guys and begins hopping up towards and I'll say he conveys that he has like a device on him That will allow him to kind of track where he's at so that he can get back safely. That's my brat Bye, brawn Bye, brawn. I'd love it.

He heads off. And you see, yeah, Callie, as the Lehman's tiny duck disperses, you see the serpent. I think I let the serpent eat it all. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Whoa, this thing was edible. Why didn't anyone tell me? I bet it. Goes and eats the whole tiny hut. Yeah, and you see the serpent looks ready to go, looks ready to lead the way, kind of like Foster was doing before, and can I stand at the ready, has all of your guys like equipment ready? So what do you say? Should we head deeper? Are you ready to? and canna stands at the ready, has all of your guys like equipment ready? Sweaty say, should we head deeper? Are you ready to maybe meet Ultras?

I'm ready to fucking be Ultras. Yes! What's up? Let's go down. Wait, should we, cause although we'll probably get down there, get like a lay of the land. The question is like, do we try to free Jaina first then get colder?

Do we try to get colder to help us free Jaina? I think once we're down there, we'll get a better idea. Yeah, it seemed like there was like a really complex political situation. Some serious factions that contend with, so lay the land for sure, but I think Jaina's our first move. Okay. Great. Let's go. So you guys follow this bronze serpent that begins eating up all of the dirt and rocks around you. And as it blew them out, it does not poop them out, it just seems to like just absorb them. Where does it go?

Where does it go? You haven't said this. It's just, there are big viala rocks in the beast list. Rom nom nom. Rom nom nom. Rom nom nom. You see, it looks confused and it's now having an existential crisis. Never mind, you're so pretty, don't think about it.

Rom nom. And then continues going, and this thing is big enough that essentially what it's doing is like swiveling through the mountain up and down, creating like a tunnel so that you guys can walk behind him. And he is essentially taking you on a direct path to the fire giant city, and hardwood would know this, the name of this place is Malskirial. You're on the way to Malskirial. And as you make your way there,

you begin to feel intense heat around you. But as you're talking about Ultras and Calder and Cali, you've just added some sigils to this sword that Calder gave you. You begin to feel it cold at your side. And with that, we're going to cut over to someone. Oh! Jake! Oh wow.

I have a question for you. Oh, yes. What do you think Calder has been doing in the nebulous time since you were trapped in the demi plane? I think Calder would have felt like the surroundings inside the helm were familiar to him. It felt far away, but in its own way it felt like home. So he probably built himself a little shelter, just like his mom and brothers would have showed him how. They probably would have always done it for him. So he tried to remember everything he watched to do it by himself. And I think he's just been sitting by the fire, whittling, whistling, and getting very, very, very angry. Yeah, Calder, as you sit there,

stewing over this fire, just sharpening your sword and whittling on various projects and everything to keep yourself busy in front of this little like homestead that you've made I made a little sign that says ultra sucks Call there's whittling tiny little figurines for For solid Cali You are in this wintery landscape, um, whittling these little figures for your friends.

That's the way you've kind of kept your sanity, the way you've been like hanging on. And you find yourself sometimes getting weird deja vu, just like, it feels like home here. Where is home? When's the last time you've been home? Days, months, years, seconds? Feels like only a moment ago you were with Saul and Cali, you're looking at these little figures that you've made for them. Saul and Cali, old friends of yours from way, way back. Why, you remember just the other day with them, just the other day? No, no, no, no, no.

Old friends, Sal, and Cassie was it? No, Sal and Cali, you just saw them, you just saw them yesterday. And as you're contemplating the strange conundrum, you perceive something you haven't seen in a long time, a change, something different. You're on this icy waste, you've got this little home that you've made, you've made this fire, you're whittling in front of it. Sort of dips down over a frozen lake, and then there's more mountains in the distance.

And across the icy waste, you see a short, cloaked figure making their way towards you across the snow. Go ahead and give me a perception check. 16. Just kind of looks like a dot from here. You do see that they're giving off some kind of aura. Some kind of like intense heat that looks like it is sort of melting some of the ice behind them. You see like chunks breaking off behind them as they walk across this frozen lake. And otherwise you just see this hooded cloaked figure heading in your direction. You hear them shout, are you the jailer or are you a prisoner? I'm trapped here. I'm a prisoner. Who are you? Or are you stranger?

Who are you? Who are you stranger? I'm a prisoner as well. You see the cloak figure as they get close, takes off her hood, revealing the thick neck and chiseled jaw of a dwarven warrior. She has long white hair parted to one side and the other is shaved down, revealing battle scars.

She is emanating a strange orange bronze glow behind her eyes. My name is General Jaina Bronzebeard and you're going to help me get the fuck out of here. And that's where we'll end our session. Oh, Oh, she'll be jailbreak. Yes. Oh my God. That's fuck. That's fun that's fun stuff oh man there were some all-time mooms and now over yeah fun one gang seriously fun one holy shit I'm so excited to hang with Jaina let us in the hell we want to hang we'll see we'll see yes we'll talk about this more over in our

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