Not Another D&D Podcast - C3 Ep. 40: Iron and Fire (Legends of Irondeep)

Episode Date: July 28, 2023

Duck Team enters the fire giant kingdom to search for Calder and Jaina! Hardwon takes a hard stance on bullying, Sol loses out on an alter-ego, and Callie befriends yet another goblin. 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:"Engine Room" by Zimbot at Freesound.org."Fanfare with Snare" by Vitovsky1 at Freesound.org."Crowd Cheering" by Gregor Quendel at Freesound.org."A Wizard Tournament" by Emily Axford."Forsaken" by Emily Axford."Implicated" by Emily Axford."Malscurial" by Emily Axford."Winch" by Emily Axford."Lucanus Aer'Tea" by Emily Axford."Mothership" by Emily Axford."Reynard" by Emily Axford."Spooky Shafts" by Emily Axford."Winter Sprite" by Emily Axford."Demigod" 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.

This is a headgun podcast. Welcome to the campaign after the campaign. This is not another D&D podcast. Welcome back to Bahumya everybody. Bahumya! I'm your dungeon master Brian Murphy joined by Jake Herwitz, hard one, Shorefoot, and or, colder kill day. Very good.

Now what's the rhyme for Calder? Oh, yeah, got it. Oh, right. Back in the hot seat. Cold seat. Feeling overwhelmed, coming up with a rhyme about a helmed. Yeah. Yeah.

It's all right. He's back. Not bad, I was kidding. Yeah. And then of course, Emily Axford. Feeling incompliant about these fucking fire giants. Can I be petrified? Oh, now that's how you do it, Jake.

That's how you do it. That's the rhyme, okay. Yeah, I was out of practice. Yeah, go ahead, take it again. Yeah, fuck. Two characters, two characters, two rhymes. Yeah, you try. No, totally. Two characters, two characters to rhyme. Yeah, two tries. No, totally.

Yeah. Call their kill day is having a silly day. Oh. Yeah. No, I like that one. Call their guy in the hell. Good. And then of course, we've got Call the Danner.

Oh, born in Esri, the pole of a tady trying to roll 20s and making them natty, all to impress my sweet little bratty it's all Bufo Yeah Gordon Amazing and I get three more tries right? Brad and Bronn

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And nadpod.com slash live. Take it to the Beyonce on next week. Yes. Anyway, let's go ahead and do a little recap. Yes. So last time you clung to the bronze serpent as it burrowed towards Gromdal bronze beard in the Iron Deep Dungeons.

You battled possessed rats that you insisted weren't possessed along with the two bronze beard siblings. They were pre-possessed to attack us. Oh, cool. Perhaps. Without their hiding spots, you quickly disposed of Bronra and Mortis sending them off into the caves, finally, Kali completed her pacifist run, and quelled the beast's rage,

dispelling Gromdol's control over it for the time being. Emissary of peace. Yes, after Emissary of Beasts' reign. Wooo! Stop! That is not the way what it is now. After being infused with Starfire, the bronze serpent shrank to familiar size and you received a visit from Oberon. He warned you that the serpent could not fully ascend until Grahmedal Bronzebeard's magical bond to it was broken.

You resolved to protect the beast, who would join you on the next leg of your quest towards Malskirial. The fire giant city were called or and Jaina are currently held captive. That night, you set up a Leamon's tiny hut and conversed with your fellow adventurers, Solenswag, bonded over their shared history of betrayal with mothership and entered a twin meditation that allowed them to experience each other's lives. Hard one spoke to Kenna about his friends on the astroplane, reluctantly admitting that he missed them. Callie drew her mother's sigil on Calder's ice-snife and made a quiet promise to her friend that she would get him back. The next morning, you said you're advised to swag, who could not join you on the next leg of your journey without a fire

suit. As you headed out towards Malskirial, with a serpent leading the way, Callie felt a chill from the ice dagger. And from there, we cut over to Calder, who was whittling alone in the middle of a frozen waste until he saw a distant figure. She asked if he was a jailer or a prisoner, and he said the latter, and she said she was the same, removing her cloak and revealing the visage of a hardened dwarf warrior she introduced herself as general. Jaina Bronzebeard, and that's where we are now. Right? So,

Calder, you are at your little campsite that you've set up, your shelter, and bonfire. Jaina, this warrior with a huge magical war hammer on her back. She's got her white hair parted to one side, almost to kind of show off the battle scars that she has on the other side. And as she gets close to you, you see she gestures to the figurines that you're working with. Spell components? Are you making tiny constructs so you can escape? I was Yes So you're a wizard then Great just a quick teleport

Fuck okay, I have to come clean. I was whittling new friends. I was whittling little General I was whittling little toys of my friends You're on her all right. Yeah, we all pass the time in different ways You see that she starts doing squats and goes, what's your name, soldier? Galdor, Galdor Kilday. I come from the Fritz at North and I know you, General Bronsbyard. Are you doing the squats to keep warm? I can add more wood to the fire. You see, she gestures to the hammer on her back, which seems to emanate a sort of firey power.

And she goes, no, I'm quite warmed up. I'm just staying limber, just try not to waste any time. Call their shuffles his feet for a few minutes and then feels awkward not doing squats, so we kind of start doing them half-heartedly. Yeah, you see, Jaina eases up a little bit as you start squatting with her. Seems like she needs to be kind of active to keep,

like you're doing your thing that's helping you deal with the fact that you're captured right now and she's doing her thing. You know what I mean? It's like, gotta prep, gotta prep. I'm still in this fight, I'm still doing this. And so she's doing her squats and stuff. And as you start exercising with her, she goes, and called her kill day.

What kind of prison have we found ourselves trapped in? As far as I know, this is the helm of Ultras. Do you know it? You see she nods and she goes, I don't know his helm in particular, but Ultras is from before my time, but I've heard of him. I know that he once led the Giants on some fool's quest to try to conquer Bohemia. Yeah, well, somebody who ever defeated him must have banished him into this helmet. I found it, picked it up, put it on my head, and then I spoke with him, we made a deal, then I made another deal, a much worse deal, and I traded

places with him. Okay, do you know how long he's been trapped here? Cal their tries to think how long he spent whittling those two little figurines, and he looks at the detail, and he says, a few days, weeks maybe, I'm not sure. Yeah, you see, she kind of asks you a little bit about yourself and about your last adventure and where you were at and everything, and she confirms for you, provided you feel comfortable telling her this stuff. But she confirms for you that she's heard of the stuff that went down in the living wood. And she goes, if you were there for that, I heard about the business in the living wood. Yes, it's only been a couple weeks. I was there. I was there for that business.

You killed an ancient dragon. Did, yeah. With some help, yes. From, from them, you see she points to the figurines. Yeah, with a little bit of help from my friends. Ha, ha, ha. Okay, well, I don't know exactly how I ended up here, but I was trapped by a giant as well. I was dueling

Prince Ektar of the Fire Giant. I was getting the best of him and he used some device to trap me, some kind of demi-planar prison, but it was much smaller than this. Sounds pretty duplicitous, not very honorable at all. Exactly. When you call for a 1v1, it should be a 1v1. Yeah, you're not allowed to cheat. Yes, but it's practically impossible to have a fair fight these days with all the magic techs and trap you in a capsule, put you in a helmet. Helms and jams. What the fuck? Starts doing burpees with you. Oh, yeah. Oh, got it. Goes down. As she holds a plank, she goes, I thought I was going to be able to escape from my original

prison. It was much smaller than this. But then I heard some kind of magical incantations, and I saw a flash, and then I was transported here. So, I'm guessing this has more security or is more difficult or more likely Prince Ektar probably was too cowardly to try to contain me himself and handed me off to someone who he thinks could handle the job. Yeah, I wish I could tell you that I've done more recon of this place, but I kind of just

built a fort and started whittling as soon as I got here. Day one, you were like, it's whittling time? Yeah, I guess I just, it was comfortable to go back to my old ways. I didn't really even take a very big walk. No, that's not even... You see, before you said I didn't even take a big walk, she was like about to hold her hand out to be like, it's all right, we all do with it in her own way. And she's like, well, you really should have taken a walk,

like just to scout around the place. I know I made a basket here. Look, this is, yeah, I will of this. Beautiful basket, much better than you're whittling if I can be blunt. Wow, okay. But no, I don't think you'd be able to get out of here without help.

The only reason I might have had a chance of getting out of the last prison I was in was because of this. And you see she pulls out this massive war hammer from her back and shows it to you. Wow. Has this like orange bronze glow that kind of crackles with energy and it feels hot near it. You even see the snow melting around her.

Is that the Queen Samor? Queen Samor, King Samor, whatever whichever you'd like to call it. But it's been passed down from the dwarves of old that was forged by the God Mord and himself. And it can break through magical barriers. I've heard of it. Do you know where the barrier to this place is? Call her looks over at like a sad little wooden table

that he built. Uh, all I know is that I would visit this place in my dreams and I would fight Ultras here. There were times that he was behind bars and a cage. I don't know if that meant anything to actually getting out of here for it was just a representation. All right. Well, let's go to where you think you saw the edges of this cage or this barrier and see if we can't get started trying to crack it down.

We may need some help from the other side, but we won't know until we try. Call their packs up his little wood figurines and breaks down camp. Sweet, yeah, you guys get to work hiking towards where the barrier was keeping Ultras out. And with that, we are going to cut over to our other party, who is also on a little hike

on the way to Mulscurial. You see the little serpent, the bronze serpent, is burrowing its way, chewing through the mountain as you follow behind on foot. Run, run, run, run, run. It just seems so happy. Run, run, run. chewing through the mountain as you follow behind on foot. Ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh, ruh to cavernous hallway. Everybody go heading to be perception checks. Nat one. Amazing. Good Lord. 14.

Nine. Okay, I'll say everyone except for Callie, I think you see the bronze serpent crash through the wall and sort of flop into the tunnel below and you think it's dead. He's dead, no, no, it's gone. Quick, get him or rock. Well, I don't, well, I don't.

Yeah, you see everybody else sees this like rock-scaled monster that is like damn near invincible just like crashes into the ground and immediately begins slithering, but Callie's having a hard time seeing it as her eyes kind of adjust to the torches around. I failed your mother. But yeah, you see the serpent does get up, the serpent is fine. And Saul, you notice that the rock walls around you guys, as you enter this new tunnel, they're supported by beams, wood and iron. So you are no longer in the serpent's burrowing ground.

This stuff looks to be made by humanoids, likely giants. This must be enchanted wood for not to be burning this deep. This is serious stuff. This is well-constructed. Good wood. If only Calder were here, he knows so much about constructing things. Be green, tables, all sorts. And down the one side of the hallway you see darkness and on the other side you see a dim glow of orange. And you can hear like a low rumble as well as, you can't tell what they're saying, but you do hear giants like voices shouting.

Well, however we proceed, we should do it as stealthily as possible because I don't think we're gonna be able to disguise ourselves in any way that's convincing. So we should try and make ourselves as scarce as possible for as long as possible, I'm thinking. I say we go towards the glow. Go for the glow, Go for the glow.

Go for the glow. Oh, actually, General Bradsbeard has had to be break this with us just in case we read it to Eddie Giants along the way. Oh, she pulls out a bunch of earrings or kind of like earpieces like little devices of magitech. And normally it looks like a person would put in two to have like one in each ear, but you see she only has like two pairs. So she just passes one out to each of you guys

to put in an ear and she goes, this will help you, is sort of like a comprehend language. So when you hear a giant, you'll be able to understand the, as if you understand the language. It's like a comprehend language specifically for one language. And you said you just swallow it? Or? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I brah. I get lost in my cleavage. Okay. My ears are whole, so I put it in my nose.

Well, I guess I'll be the only one to understand stuff. Also, does this help us to respond to them? Yes. Okay. How are you all right? All right, then I guess I'll do pass without trace. Great. You guys cast pass without trace.

And as you go towards the glow, everybody go ahead and give me stealth checks. What do a group stealth check? Fnack 20. Damn, yes. 23 for me. Okay, I just got a measly little 36. My Nack 20 becomes a 33 with Pass Without Trace.

A couple of beyond 30s as a hard one and can a kind of clank behind. A shameful 23. Yeah, a lot of combat roles from the two for the sons and daughters of Iron D. Hard one, can you get rid of some of those rocks in your pocket? I know you were saving them for later,

but it's making a lot of noise. I might need a snack. So. We see the serpent is just begging at hardwood's legs for more rocks. Get your own. Run, run. Fine here. Take one.

So damn cute. It's a rock. You guys sneak along. Keeping to the edges and there are torches up here, you can assume that a lot of the giants might have dark vision, but you know, these are getting near like the city gates and stuff, so you need to be able to see like further down the tunnels. You guys stay in the shadows of these torches

as you go down this tunnel, and eventually you see a black iron gate that takes up most of the huge hall here. It looks to be guarding an entrance to the city. Beyond it, you can see the glow of fire or lava. And atop the gate, you can see a tall, a lanky fire giant scout wearing like a metal skull cap. And in front of it, the main guard is a familiar giant

in black plate, at least 20 feet tall. You see a djorb, the guy you ran into in the drill car before that you scared off. But you see he is intimidating a smaller, skinnier giant who's in front of the gate. The scout that's like on top of the tower is kind of just laughing like, yeah, get him, djorb.

And it's just kind of distracted in talking up this bully. And you see that Jorb is intimidating a smaller skinnier giant who is on his hands and knees picking up metal scraps that looks like Jorb is kind of just like kicked out of his hands. You see that the little giant has long bushy red hair, a puffy red goatee, and welders goggles. You see he's got big gloves on and like an artificer's apron, along with like a large sack of trinkets.

That jorb has just spilled out, and jorb is pointing down at him going, you're a disgrace to your kind, wimpsh, out here playing with toys. You see the smaller giant scrambles? Um, it's winch, not w not winch, and they're not toys, they're probes, they're for scouting. See, Jorb grabs one of the little probes and goes, is that what you're doing? You're spying on me, winch.

And Jorb has this little probe that's like white plated with like a little bubble camera and tiny-tredded tires. And you hear it's making little sounds like beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, goes, sorry, can't allow any pests into the city. And crunches him. Okay, I feel vindicated about everything we did to Jorb. Uh, crunches him and just takes his bag and is stomping on all of the shit. Oh. No, no, no, no, please, please.

Oh, we have to, we gotta stop this. It's bullying guys, come on. I'll follow you, lead. Shit, okay, then let's go for it. Hardware chucks a rock at Jorb. He'd up, motherfucker. Go ahead and make an attack roll with advantage. 24, go ahead and do your damage.

That hits. What kind of damage would you say a rock is? Oh, a rock. I'll say D6. D6 plus my strength, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, I rolled a 6. 11 damage.

Sweet. Yeah, you peg this rock at Jorb, hit him directly in the eye. Oh, what the fuck was that? Jorb throws down winch and begins running down the hallway towards you guys. Everybody go ahead and roll initiative. Shit, okay. 15. 21, okay. Okay.

15. 21. 17. At the start of the round, that is Saul. So, hard one basically got his off on a surprise round. Hits this fire giant in the head. He angrily runs down the hall into the unknown and Saul, you are waiting there for him.

Looks at you. Oh, the fuck are you doing here, you little freak? Ah! We're just, ah, it just punched him right in the shin. I'm gonna make an attack. 21, 21 hits. Second attack. 15.

15 does not hit. Okay. 10 damage right there. Yeah, you pop out of nowhere. This dude sees you, kind of freaks out, his confuse, looks overseas, Callie, and realize it's kind of an ambush. You jump out and just like pop him directly

in the knee and kind of hyper extends it. Oh God! That's right! We didn't know that you were bad before, but now we do, and we're really gonna go hard on you. I'm not bad, you're bad! Thank you. Did the other giant up on the tower, CS?

He knows that something happened to Jorb. So you don't know what he's doing. Okay, we gotta make this quick then. I'm going to bonus action for your blows. Okay, sweet. That's going to be a 22 and a 21. Both hit. Okay.

16 more damage. Nice. Yeah, I'll say that after having fought him before and kind of trying to stun him and trying to grapple him and things like that, you're finally kind of figuring out how to fight giants. You're just down there just like punching him and his joints and like his ankle and the back of his knee

and stuff. You see he keeps buckling and almost falling over. Oh God, God! I figured it out. You gotta go for the tendons. Oh, you just have to hit him. Yeah, right in the bones in the tendons. After Saul's turn, that's hard once turn.

Okay, I'll take two attacks with an axe. Okay, you said the tendons. Uh huh, what if you find a good bow part? You think you guys are friends with Wimps? We love Wimps. It's Wimps. What's that, buddy? Wimps, if you can hear us, come help. Wimpsch. We love Wimpsch. It's Wimpsch. What's that buddy? Wimpsch, if you can hear us, come help. Wimpsch.

I'm actually, I prefer Mauser. That's a nice dead. A 19 to hit and I also crit. Whoa, six. 42 damage. 42 damage. Nice. Yeah, you fuck this guy right up.

Saul gets up behind him. Oh, and you know what? I think I might do a distracting strike. So I'll add my superiority die. Comes out to 45 damage. And now Cali has advantage on her attack. Nice. Yeah, so I'll say you hit him once

with like the head of the axe, then hit him with a butt of it, like right in the back of the knee. He buckles and starts to fall over. Oh! As setting him up for Cali and Cali or next in the initiative. Okay, I'm gonna attack him to 28 to hit.

28 for sure hits. And the second attack will be 23 to hit. Sick, yeah, you pull out the ice dagger, you feel the chill in your hand and stab into him. So I'm going to do two smites, one flourish. 70 damage with a third level smite and a second level smite. Christ. So Saul and a hard one absolutely beat the shit out of this dude

as he wanders around the corner of the tunnel. And then Callie just comes out and stabs him just in like open flesh, like between pieces of armor, and he starts bleeding, what the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck? Extra full to my AC.

Why? Yeah. We hate rats, but we love mouths. You shouldn't have been me and you teased our friend, Wimpsch. It's Wimpsch. For Mouser. For Mouser.

For Mouser. For Mouser. Wimpschch starts yelling we're gonna get mouse it back And next in the initiative you actually see winch runs over and Jorb has already been like greatly injured winch a steps in between Jorb and you guys and points to you guys and goes I Declare them as my enemies. I get first chance to kill them Wow, are you talking to who sorry? What just me?

No, no go go go. Are you serious? What are you getting at dude? Where's this even coming from? I feel like we helped you so much I I'm just I'm confused. I. Where's this even coming from? I feel like we helped you so much. I'm just, I'm confused. I need to take a lap. I'm a good, I'm just a master in the run. I'm a few and I'm taking a lap. I think it might be a move, guys. I'm moving the wrong direction of being a friend.

Yeah, it's a giant step backwards as a move. That's for sure. The only steps you can make are giant ones, but you see, Jorb is a mix of wanting to get out of this because you guys have more than three quarters killed him, but also is so mad so wants to take a swipe at you. So he's kind of holding his side the wound that where Cali just stabbed him and just like gets up on kind of wobbly legs after having been like slashed in the tendons. And starts to like push winch out of the way, but winch stands firm and goes, it's my job as an archivist to move our laws and tombs over to magitech. So I think I know them

pretty well. There's a penalty for stealing a kill. If you wanted to do it. You should have declared them right away I kind of want to finish the job, which Is that okay if we keep attacking him see I don't necessarily have a problem with that But if I declare you my enemy you are protected for a certain amount of days and no one can just attack you Oh, great. Oh bureaucracy work into a favor. This seems like a deep complex system of honor and laws and by-laws.

I'm wondering like if we kick his ass and kill him after you declare that, is that gonna make us look dishonorable? Yeah. Yeah. You see, Jorab turns to the guy at the gate. Sound the alarms! Oh.

Oh. Oh. There's more than one person here. All right, let's pin this we'll we'll table this for later Okay, yeah, you see a jorb holding his wound goes your damn right we'll table this for later Your look is how that you're declared because otherwise a declared you did really after seven days are up I'm gonna get myself a bunch of friends and a bunch of huge magical weapons and when you guys are sleeping I'm gonna come and I'm gonna kick your ass. Can I kick him in the shit one more time? Oh! I hide behind which?

Yeah. Oh hey, which do you want us to pretend to be super afraid of you for seven days? It could maybe boost your reputation around here. That might actually be kind of helpful. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Do you want to like to tie us up and parade us through the city? Maybe directly towards the king or the prince? We don't actually have to do that. You see, Winch pulls up a little data pad and shows a projection of some of the kind of bylaws

of Muscariel and goes, you're welcome to enter the city as long as you're not from somewhere that's indirect war with Muscariel. and goes, you're welcome to enter the city as long as you're not from somewhere that's indirect war with Malskiril. And even if you are a Missouri survivor deep, you're free to enter the city peacefully so long as you're escorted by a representative

of Malskiril, like a government agent, like an archivist, like me. Okay, so you're more security. That's a way to think of it. Malskiril, Malskiril, yeah. Right, George steps forward. No, I'm most security. That's the way to think of it. Most security. Yeah, got it. Right. Jorb steps forward.

No, I'm most security. I might, McGon. Oh, yeah. You see, Jorb is kind of happy to get out of this fight. So kind of leans back and yells up to the guy at the gate and goes, they got us on a technicality. Otherwise, we would have kicked these guys asses. Yeah, like we were a harmless robot or something.

You see, yeah, Winch picks up the crushed mouser. Can you fix him? You're gonna be okay, mouser. I think I can fix him. Okay. I lay my hands on mouser, and I lay on hands. Yeah, I'll say it kind of works like a mending. You can have it do not.

I'll say that it doesn't, it doesn't fix any of the electronics, but it does like start sealing some of the... Okay, I administer CPR. Yeah. It starts, it starts sealing up some of the cracks and which goes, actually that's gonna make it a lot harder for me because I need to be able to get it like the stuff inside.

I'm at work. Okay, you basically, you fix. I can breathe the life into it one second. Okay, that's even less effective. At least she's sort of curing the shell. This is just, you're just getting saliva all over my little robot. I'm just gonna put this duct tape away.

Clearly you've got this figure. Right, yeah. Yeah, you see, um, uh, takes Mouser and Gally sealed it. And I'll say like, for five. For five. You see that a lot of the cracks have healed up, so he's not crunched, but he's turned from like this robot that could go around to, uh, essentially like a stationary toy

that instead of like these kind of quick high beeps, which is, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,! BEEP! Oh no, I made another full stick. BEEP! Oh, Mell's are what are they doing? You guys are brought past the iron gate. You see the scout atop the wall, begrudgingly cracks the door at Jorbs Command, and beyond it, and you guys see the bustling city of Mosqueryl. But first, Winsh talks to you guys for a second, goes, well, I'm Winch, who are all of you?

Where are you from? Oh. Salpetho? We're all from Esri originally, I guess? Well, not originally originally, but I'm from Esri originally. And then, yeah, Cali. My name is May Pay Penny. I can't know.

Cali may pay many. Wait, I know we're originally Nickins. I'm from Astral Plane. Really? Like, you see, uh, go ahead and get me an insight check. Dirty 20. You see, he is so fascinated and interested by that. I have so many questions.

It's been my dream to go up and join all the heroes on the Astral Plane. Anything you want to know, I'm never firm answered. Oh, great. I'm basically made of Starlight. Great, why haven't we heard from Glade Home officially in several years? Because you haven't reached out, and that's on you.

Oh, and that's a faux pas. Okay, I actually have been building a teleporter trying to get up there, so I haven't tried to reach out, but it's okay. Wait, I'm getting an answer. You're missing a crucial piece of the teleport. I am, how did you know? Yeah, she communicates with the astral plane all the time.

Okay, she basically got the month speed down. I just feel like if we were gonna do aliases, we should have like talked about that beforehand. It's all before. Yeah, by the way, Brad Daniels. Brad Daniels. Brad Daniels. I'm a dammit. Brad Daniels.

Kelly may pay penny. May pay penny. Just may pay penny? Yeah. Okay, he called you Kelly, just kind of provides. That's sort of like a term of endearment in the astral plane. Really?

Yeah. Well, some people call me crunch-get-um though. If you wanna call me that, I don't think so. Okay. I don't think so okay I don't get that one solemn solemn book oh Hey, we're all callies here That's right yep, we are so yes, Kelly valleys

Winch takes you and it continues to ask questions about the astral plane It. And stuff seems like very interested in talking to him. I give him all really confident wrong answers. Great, he's talking to people from, he's excited to talk to people from outside the city. You guys enter and you see beautiful buildings built of shiny like volcanic rock, moats of lava with big magitech gondolas taking giant citizens from place to place. They're manned by these enormous sailors who dip these huge paddles into molten liquid.

And since the giants are immune to fire, they're also to a certain extent just completely immune to being hot. So as strange as it may seem, surrounded by all this lava, the populace is pretty bundled up in like, you know, cool armor and stuff like that. Like the dwarves of Iron Deep,

the giants are proud like blacksmiths and artisans and stuff. So you do see a lot of like gems and jewelry abilities. No, okay. A lot of like gorgeous armor and you do notice that a lot of people are wearing black. Are you mourning something down here? Yeah,, I don't know how I personally feel about it, but King Rallos died. The Prince's father. The Prince's brother. Prince Eckdars is becoming king. His coordination is tonight.

What happened to Rallos? So it was kind of mysterious circumstances. I love true crimes. Okay, why don't we get to somewhere a little more private before we talk about it? Yeah, do you have like a crew workshop full of like gears and levers and all sorts of tubes? Oh, Kali, you know I do. Good call, Kali. Let me go, Kali, Bufo.

Yeah, I just Kali like I see him, you know? Wait, I don't get that. That's friends. You walk along and you do see occasional fire goblins down here. You aren't the only small folk, but they are rare. So you do see, you don't stick out completely amongst the giants, like you're very clearly like not from here, but you can imagine that some other settlements and stuff

that may be at war with Iron Deep, maybe went and aligned with the giants or some may just be different fire resistant species that would rather live in a city than other parts of the cave. Or... I think I'm feeling quite affectionate about all the goblins we've met so I try to make eye contact and be congenial. Yeah you see a little fire goblin

wearing all black nods at you Cali. I nod at him. Yeah nice day. Nice day. It's just like it was just a little things feelings. It's just a king's feeling. She said have a nice day. It was just like, it was just a, it was just a, it was just a king's feeling. She said, she said, have a nice day. Have a nice day. Right. And I see and I feel like, I feel like the weather's conspiring to morning. Yeah. She actually, she said, I stay nice day for a funeral.

Isn't that what I was saying? Nice day to be sad because it's all so fitting because when tragedy happens, you have to be grateful for the little things and today the day is the little hug. Yeah, we're gonna That's a 17. That's a 17. That's a 17. Yeah, you see the goblin nods and goes, wow, you really love the king. Ha ha ha.

Are we wearing our armor isn't really black though. Yeah, it is, it's like black and red. Oh cool, yeah, yeah, so we're morning, yeah. Anyways, where's the lake gonna be? Where are you hanging out? The funeral was this morning. There's gonna be, uh, the coronation is tonight though. At the castle. Are you going? Of course. Are you pre-gaming? Am I pre-gaming? Yeah. I mean, the whole thing is kind of a party. So yeah, we will be party. That's gonna be pre-gaming. Outside, just drink it outside the castle. Like, everybody else. Outside of the day. It's a tailgate. Yeah, it's gonna.

Do you have a cup? Do you have a cup? Do you have a cup for us? Yeah, I can bring you guys cups. What are your names? I'm Amber. May. May even. Nice to meet you. Brad, this is Saul Bufo. Saul Bufo. Hey, some people call me Callie, I guess. Okay, I'll just call you Saul. I'm a guy I'm right. I'll see you guys at the party.

See you later. You really have been a ray of sunshine. I don't mean otherwise. Dark day. Thanks. Yeah, but a nice day all the same. It's not worth nice day. Yeah, I guess it's nice out in the cave that we're every day the weather's kind of the same.

Ember, Ember any tips on not getting stepped on while we're here? You know, Bob and weave. All right, Bob and weave. Can't do, can't do. Get it that. I just say, Ember almost gets crushed. All right, we picked a weird day to tour the city, but you know what? My condolences, long live the king, I guess.

Yeah. It seems like mixed emotions. Like there are some people that seem kind of not happy about it, but some people seem like pretty devastated. And some people don't seem all that bothered. And are in fact talking excitedly about the coronation tonight. Is there any distinctive differences

between the two groups? Yes. Actually, you know what, go ahead and you might be in perception checks. I've got to lay it all. 23. 17. 14.

I'll say you can't really tell any difference. It's kind of just like wild card of people who are upset about the king and the people who aren't that upset about the king aren't necessarily like plotting against the city or anything like that. It's more just they maybe don't care that they're like monarch died, they don't care.

But some of the people that are really pumped are saying things like, protect our will restore the glory of the giants. I think he's got that fire in him. There's a lot of people that are talking about him having that fire in him. Okay. Back at the water park,

we'd say you got that frog in you. I think this is a similar expression. And there's not like a class difference. It's not like, oh, looks like the aristocracy. He's like, no, you know what? I would say it's a lot of younger giants and a lot of ones who are sort of peacocking with their warrior guard.

The warriors that are wearing more sort of like the traditional things that you would see a fire giant wearing aren't like speaking that loudly or being that like braggadocious. But people that are like, you know, they have like giant train saw that are like, you know, they have like giant, train saw blades or just, you know,

it's normal without a scratch on it. Exactly. These things that are like kind of peacocking, those people are pumped about Prince Ektar, who seems to be based on kind of what you heard from Rick Dis, the giant who died, who you guys help give kind of peace to, from what you've heard,

this dude's kind of a hothead, so it would make sense that people would be kind of, some people would be kind of pumped about that. Which is it uncommon for them to have the coronation that, like, day of the funeral? Some would say it's a tad insensitive. Yeah, it's a little tacky. Yeah. So you see, which brings you guys over to a gondola. Tips the gondola here, this like tall,

lanky giant pushes off the dock and dips into the magma with a long row. I mean, begins taking you guys down the river. Damn, this is cool. It's like Venice on fire, right? Yeah. Yeah, as you guys, I'll say. I'm so great place to blow glass.

Whoa. Winch, should we go glass blowing? One other person on the boat with you is blowing glass. This is beautiful. We should do instead of a paint and sip of blowing sip. My lips get burned off instantly. Yeah, it's just fumes. I keep sitting by sipping the molten glass. It looks good. Your lips are fused to it. Is the worm drawing any attention? Or does it just kind of seem like a standard little pet now? No one would expect that the giant beast that was wrecking the whole mountain

is like the size of a small horse. Okay cool. Yeah, nobody's like, that's what's been causing all this trouble. The serpent is just going along with you guys. Yeah. I like your mouse. Yeah, that's just kind of our mouse.

Yeah, what is mouse's job by the way? Is it drone? Mouser, mouse is a probe. I actually have a bunch of scouting probes. That sort of was my job now on more of an archivist, but sort of what I do as a hobby is I like to build little machines so that I can see what's going on in the mountain and Some areas outside of the mountain

What if you've seen lately? Well, I've got some probes out on the mothership subversible Wow you you learned anything interesting from from those folks Supercible. What? You're interesting. Wow. You learned anything interesting from those folks. I feel like I feel like maybe sharing a lot of things from the Astral Plains.

Right. Yeah, that's true. It's only fair that, you know, I gave gifts from the sky. Give me some gifts from the same on there. Okay, yeah. I can show you guys something. I can show you guys some of the things I've seen. I've been, at first I was sort of collecting it

for the Mauskerians down here, but they haven't been as interested in my devices. But I did find someone who has been really interested in finding out on what's going on with the subversible, and I actually just sent them a bunch of footage and everything. They're actually from S-Re, points to you guys. Oh, are they?

I mean, we're sharing a lot, but you know, Maeve did give you the skinny on the sky. So I'm wondering, who did you give this information to? Well, they're a part of, they said they're a part of kind of a rebel group. So, he just had code name, boy wizard. Saul, like shivers a little bit. So, we've kind of been...

The information isn't good hands. Yeah, they've been helping me out. We've been kind of sharing information. I've had some footage from the ocean floor down there and checking out the mothership HQ. Some of the powers that be down here are more concerned with fighting over the mountain and not as worried about what else is going on out there and I don't trust mothership and anything they're doing. So I personally like to keep an eye on them. Smart.

I think that's a good move. I would say that we share the same hobby. Yeah. I meant to ask, I'm sorry, I haven't yet, but what brings you down to Mosqueryl? How did you get this far down? Let's wait till we get to your workshop right on right on right on Yeah, you guys get off the gondola and winch brings you to a small home on the edge of town So did the gondola and I sing it all You're a great question the gondola here goes. It's good. I'm So take off all your clothes

I want to take my clothes off. I don't. I don't. I follow the lyrics of the song, and then my scallops are scalding as I take off my fire. Ow. Ow. Yeah, Winch brings you to.

To see, for music. Never listen to it. Winch brings you guys to a small home on the edge of town. Like the other places here, it's built of smooth rock. But there's all kinds of clutter outside of the house, kind of half finished machines and scrap metal. Does it look like this tech is like scrapped mother ship tech, or does it look like he's making it on his own? It looks like he knows how to design his own tech, but that a lot of it is built out of scrap metal and stuff

And yeah, you know that you know they were able to some fire giants were able to get the force cage capsules and stuff out of The automaton's in the mountains and stuff like that So you can imagine this dude probably is scrapping a lot of Mother ship tech and things like that on the out from the outside. And you see, yeah, he brings you inside. And immediately inside, you guys see the glow of screens all across the room and you hear the hum of machinery. You see that books are stacked high. These seem to be the law books and stuff that winches in the process of archiving. You see as an enormous chair that leans back

and faces a bunch of projection screens with a keyboard and some other devices attached to it. And pulled up, you see a bunch of directories that seems to be his regular like day job stuff. And he also has video footage from his various probes that are going around. Some of them going throughout the mines. And he also has some undersea ones that you see

are going near the mothership mega-sub. Do we see anything interesting happening on those screens? Yeah, I think so now. Yeah, go ahead. We're all three sitting his chair at the same time. Of course. Yeah, amazing. You guys all rushing, oh, excuse me guys.

I called bottom. Great, middle. You guys excuse me, guys. I called bottom. Great. I don't know. Middle. You guys stack up for some reason. You know, I gotta go top. You guys all sit down and begin looking through some of this probe footage. You look at the submersible and it is less like a sub

and more like kind of the giant area that once hung over Esri. It just looks, it's basically just like a sub and more like kind of the giant area that once hung over Esri. It just looks, it's basically just like a giant underwater boat. At first glance, it, it almost looks like a shipwreck at the bottom of the ocean, but you do see that it is floating and it is operational. There are hundreds of windows and glass walls throughout all lit up by magitech lanterns and the glow of machinery. You also see powerful weapons, these big laser cannons,

and other attached submersibles that zip around the water nearby. Is there like a city adjacent to this as well, like in Esri? No. This is, I believe someone explained to you at some point when you guys first got to Iron Deep, that Jaina kept like a giant mothership HQ

from being built in Iron Deep, right? And this is their way of getting around it, is there in International Waters? Literally in International Waters. And that's why there were transporters taking mothership employees to their HQ. So they've got this giant essentially base that's not technically under the rule of Iron Deep.

Okay. And you see, Winch, as you guys are like relying this and talking about this goes, that's kind of what I'm concerned about, right? Mosqueryl and iron deep are so concerned with each other that they're not checking in on this giant, freaking underwater potential time bomb.

Winch, you have a good head on your shoulders, because honestly, yeah, we're on the same page here. This is a huge issue. We're very worried about it. We've actually been working with Boy Wizard and Magablan. I don't know if you've heard of her. Code name Magablan, I have. Okay, cool.

Actually, are you in communication with them currently? We do have to close our channels so that we can't be tracked specifically by mothership, but I could send them an alert and we could probably open a channel within the next day or two. Okay, yeah. If you could work on that, because I used to be in contact with Boy Wizard

and the crew via toilet paper, but that was compromised. Of course, just nods, no exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. And I just, the roll of decks. You know, you know, of course. I give him a high five. It's the very tightness. Super low five for him has to bend down.

Here's Backrock. Oh. And yeah, if you could do that, we need to come up with some sort of like secure code name so that it's not intercepted in any way. But we're pretty good to come up with. All Bufo. No, no, not Salt Bufo.

No, yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no and Maagoblin are trying to track what's going on with Alex Andrade and kind of the rogue AI that's down on the ocean floor, and clocked that this third party winch was looking down. So kind of reached out and was like, hey, do you wanna work together? Okay. And it looks like from their communication, it looks like they've taken some of his footage

that he's taken with his probes, and they're doing some type of scans or something with it with their technology. But you see that Winch types in that he'd like to open a channel whenever they're available in the next day or so and writes that in on writes code name a Saul Bufel. Rob's his temples. Right, well at least there won't be any confusion this way. Right, so sorry I couldn't tell you everything while we were out in the city, but there is some strange stuff going on in Mosqueryl. I wasn't a huge fan of King Rallos, but I'm even less of a fan of his brother Prince Echdarr. So Rallos was a young angry king who was super headstrong, but he was also a warrior and sort of a brave person to have in charge.

So like Rallos would respect the rules of combat and maybe Hector wouldn't. Rallos is the type of person that would declare war on everyone and then go out and fight himself and Prince Hector is the type that would make a deal with a deity, or somebody terrible or something to curse his enemies, or give himself some kind of unfair advantage. Speaking of deities and powerful beings, does the name Ultras mean anything to you? We ran into a fire giant on the way here who referenced someone named Ultras. I am aware of who Ultras is sort of a legendary figure amongst the giants, but I did not know anything about him being.

Well, let me ask you another question in the same vein. Is there any sort of like new play around the scene at the court, any sort of like advisor to the prince, anyone like that? Well, I think we can assume that something is going on behind closed doors because King Rallos died under extremely strange circumstances. The official story is that the monster in the mountain

caused a caven at the fortress, but that seems a little convenient. It's quite strange that his brother would go out to capture the serpent only to return unharmed. Meanwhile, his older brother, who's a better warrior than him is killed sitting at home. And the timeline, it's all very fast and you can't imagine Ektar would have this confidence without an ally. I think we can assume that Ultras and Ektar

work together. Yeah. I don't see any... there has to be some kind of explanation for how Ektar would be able to best his brother because by any sort of conventional means he wouldn't be able to do it without hope. Okay. What does this coronation mean? Well, Prince Ektar being in charge, he might just go after Iron Deep right now. He might command all of the giants to rise up out of the mountains and start raiding towns again or start raiding villages. I don't know exactly what he has planned, but Prince Echdarr is not smart or good or tactical. Okay.

Give a picture of Prince Echdarr just so we can like kind of like picture him in our heads. Yeah, you see he goes over, he types something up. You see a projection pops up of, you can assume when this information is updated and he's officially the king after the coronation, he'll have a bigger crown, but he's got like a little crown because he's a prince. It's a ruby and crusted gold crown. You see he's got a long black sleeveless robe with gold inlay and he's a prince. It's in a Ruby and Crusted Gold Crown. You see he's got a long black sleeveless robe with gold inlay and he's got powerful arms

but in kind of like a glamour muscle way. And the long red hair and a long red beard. And it's definitely like posing in a way where he's flexing. There's much more body builder than power. The sleeveless robe is kind of cool. We have to all admit that. We have to all admit that. Yeah, we look pretty badass. But he's kind of like doing like a three-quarters angle to like make his biceps look better. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, you can see that. Yeah, you can tell that someone's really been picky with light to emphasize contrast.

What does the king inherit? Like, is it just the power to dispatch armies or is there an artifact that they inherit as well? I'm sure there are, you know, various family heirlooms and things, but nothing exactly comes to mind. I think what Ektar would be looking for is power and recognition. Yeah, okay. But I sort of told you what I couldn't speak out in public, but what brings you all to Muscaril? Well, so you see this, it's a dwarven page that's with us here. She's been very quiet because she's a very respectful. Hi, she is.

I didn't just run up to your chair. Is it okay if I sit to chair and maybe have a snack? Oh yeah, do you have any ice water? It's very thirsty. Ice melts really quick, but I have some lukewarm water. Okay, I have a high dexteria. I can probably drink it pretty quickly. It goes over instantly melt as it goes in,

but it's so fast that it's just lukewarm instead of steaming. I think it's an ice cream headache. Okay, it might have evaporated. Yeah, Kenna has a little snack in the corner. It's very organized with it. It has two big cookies and a glass of milk and sits there and great methodically dips it.

Thank you. Yeah, so she is actually the squire. Kenna, can I reveal this? What do you want wanna say this? No, no, I'm not gonna tell anybody. Okay, everybody, I'm- I'm gonna see, she looks forward. I'm sorry, official Iron Deep business.

Yes, that's all you need to know. We are here to rescue our friend, who is last we heard trapped inside the helmet of Ultras the Demi God. Oh, and you think Ultras is here, so you think your friend could potentially be here. We thought it was here, and now now that we see everything that's going on, I think we know that he's here.

And I'm sorry for not being super honest with you. My name is actually Bradley Daniels. I should've said that up top. It's okay Bradley. We are also here because we heard from a fire giant who we laid to rest, respectfully, that the region of iron deep was dishonorably captured. Oh, I heard some rumors about that, but it hasn't been officially announced. Yeah. The rumors are real. This is confirmed fact. You see, my name is Bradley.

Can a crunch is a cookie as she goes to dip it and just looks so mad in the corner. Did she bring cookies for everyone or are those just for her? They're my cookies. She asked for a snack. Can I give her a snack? You just have to ask for stuff.

You guys just ran in my house and started going on my computer. She's the only one acting normal. I will, may I have a snack please, Winch? You just have to ask for stuff. You guys just ran in my house and started going on my computer She's the only one acting normal. I will may I have a snack, please, which of course Yeah, I have three cookies I Give you three giant cookies Do you have any tostito chips? Of course, but what would be a scoop to you is?

What would be a scoop to me is a restaurant size a scoop to me is restaurant size to you what I Was like a tortilla bowl Well, the restaurant the restaurant size to you right wait wait, sorry the restaurant has to me would be tortilla bowls to you Yeah, so I will take a taco salad Okay And I would like one taco salad and then when when Tolstito scooped a sleep in later. You are tough house guests. Go to work.

If we're doing Mexican, I'll do crunch wraps of cream. Oh, wow. Okay. Ooh, that'd be really comfy to sleep on. I'll try. I'll try, yeah. You see, yeah, Winch goes and gets to work. When he goes, if he goes to prepare that,

I'll look at Kenna and say, I'm sorry, but I think that this is the most direct route to save Jaina. I trust your instincts. And she silits you. Didn't feel very sincere. No, I just don't, I don't know whether I, I'm just a squire. Okay, I don't know. Yeah, no, I totally get it, I lie all the time. I just felt like this moment, like we could trust him. Yeah, yeah. There's a ticking clock here. We need to get close to Ektar before this coronation.

And I think we might need one ally. Yeah, in that case, if we're gonna, if we're gonna trust him, we should probably trust him all the way. I, I don't know if we'll be able to get to the new king on his coronation day without some help. Yeah. Yeah.

Or some insight. It does seem like Winch has a connection to the kingdom. He's like an archivist. So maybe he could smuggle us closer. I mean, there's probably going to need to be somebody there recording the events of the day. Maybe he could like pose as a cameraman and go, it's the reason that we have to do it at the coronation.

That's what I was trying to suss out. Like, do we have a bit of time? I just seemed like a good distraction, but I guess we could wait. Yeah, I mean, if you think it's, I thought it was that it would be everyone together and like maybe more likely that we would be fighting the whole city rather than... I guess like, but I think as soon as he ascends the throne, he can issue a command. Okay, all right, coronation is.

Yeah, pre-coronation. Maybe he's getting fitted for a suit or something. You know he's going to be very particular about his fit. As you guys are talking about this, which brings you guys your food and does over here, you guys talking and goes, well, I don't know if the answer is necessarily that you want to get him alone. You might want to get him in front of a lot of people so that you can essentially question his honor. I would like him to vote a trial of steel. He points at you and he goes, that's not a bad idea, but you can't just walk up and

demand a trial of steel to a member of the royal family or one of his counselors, but there is a way that you could earn that right. King Eckdars' coronation begins tonight, followed by a celebration tomorrow that includes duels and games, and the winners of those games can make a request from the king. And if you make a request publicly, the king would have no choice but to agree where else be labeled a coward. If you were to invoke a trial of steel after being a champion of these games at a time when the king is really supposed to honor any reasonable request. Most of their requests are petty things, solving grievances between houses and things like that.

If you were to use your platform to challenge the king, he would have to fight to your himself or choose a champion. Can I ask you, I mean, we're going to stick out a bit, is there a cover to say why we would be here and like participating in these games? This is all thrown together quite quickly, so official rosters have not been announced. We could sign you up tonight at the castle. So are you saying that we need to come up with like jousting personalities?

That could help. To attend like a group of wandering champions who go around winning Tony's I'll be the joking jouster Where clown makeup and huge shoes I'll be the jingling jouster and I'm covered in bells. Oh, that's great That's really good. I the juicy jouster for obvious reasons Yeah, having some kind of alter ego isn't a bad idea. There's nothing that says that someone from Iron Deep can't compete, although it might make you a target.

Can't imagine anybody ganging up on a clown and someone covered in bells and sounds covered in juicy, I want to say. But what was the name, the clown ju- The joking juu-sister. The joking juu-sister. The joking juu-sister in the juu-s-y. Yeah. The jaw. What about the jousting jester, can I?

Yeah, no. As long as I can swear the clown make up, I'm down to the name jay. I think, you know what, let's leave some work for the announcer, you know? Right. Okay. Justin Jester is actually it's actually phenomenal. It'll be the jewel-smoking gesture. Interesting. Oh, do you have that vape? Oh, vape, yeah. And I'm from the astral plane. Right. Yeah. You were telling me lots of stuff about it. Anyway, yeah, there is precedent for small folk being able to work together. Most giants wouldn't want to just do a duel with a much smaller opponent. There's really no glory in that fight. So it stands to reason that you might be able to have three or four of you on the same team.

Interesting. Yes. Would our junior jouster like to join us? I point to Kenneth. Kenneth is already at your side, polishing your weapons, and giving you a manicure saw. Thank you. You gave me fingernails.

Oh, I incredible. Yeah, these press-ons, they're fabulous. You get an extra D44 piercing damage when you're... Awesome, okay. So we can just go up and sign up. There's no like shenanigans involved. Like I said, a lot of these duels and stuff are between established nights, so they might give you a hard time, but technically there's no reason that you shouldn't be able to compete

in something. All right, let's go add our name to the list. I just realized Maeve Hay Penny is wanted, so I'm going to go Jennifer Sky Days. Jennifer Sky Days. Should we operate under one umbrella name? Interesting. You know, like the Jolly Jou- the Jolly Jousters or something like that, because then we have the jangling, we have the jester, and we have sort of a junior.

A traveling troop that fights giants. Yeah. This is the first time we've done it, but that is mission. Yeah. OK, yeah. Well, there's an announcement tonight. They're beginning the coronation tonight. And I assume you'll be able to sign up somewhere near the,

yeah. I just need time to knit a pair of juicy shorts that I'm going to wear, part of my gimmick. Knit two, we'll give you all the time you need. Make it three. All gets to work. All right, well, should we get going? Yeah, that was for me.

Sweet, yeah, you see, Winch brings a little travel pack with him and begins sort of tweaking with Mauser, kind of rebuilding him, and you hear the beeps getting higher and higher. Beep. Beep. Beep.

As he begins to tweak it and get Mauser back up and running, and you guys see a huge. Should be the Mauscoteers, in honor of Mauser. Sir Cateers. The three Mauscoteers, the four Mauscoteers. I believe that's a copyright Disney property. Well, you named it Mausah. I did it Mausah.

Mausah. Mausah, tears. Oh, Mausah's castle. Okay. She's already native to the shorts. It's the thing. I'm still down to where the shorts. All right, all right.

juicy joss as it is. The cool shorts regardless of the name. Yeah, as you guys walk towards the castle of Mulskuriel, you see a huge migration of people, the mountain tremors with the marching of giants as they approach the gates of the great fortress. And as you get there, you see black iron, twisted architecture, every part of this building looks like it would cut you.

Moats of popping magma, glowing orange waterfalls, pouring out of the walls. Atop the castle is a balcony that looks out over the crowd. All around, there are banners of the new king's flag, a black gauntlet covered in flame set on a red and gold background There are giant knights in gym in crusted armor wearing his colors and trumpeters on the balcony Preparing for the King's arrival, but down here down on the ground level You do see a bunch of people are celebrating there are people like drinking in the streets and stuff And you do see Ember the little goblin comes up to you as hey guys a bunch of people are celebrating. There are people like drinking in the streets and stuff. And you do see Ember, the little goblin comes up to you as, hey, that's a bunch of cups.

Oh, thank you, Ember. I'm so sorry. I've been gonna give him money. Oh, okay, I thought we were friends. Well, sometimes friends compensate. Oh, okay, so you were sort of giving me my, because I wouldn't bought the beer. Exactly, exactly. Okay, so you were trying to be my... Cause like I went bot the beer. Exactly, like I actually,

I want you to know that. It's like piping hot IPA. Ha ha ha. Actually, it's so fast. That's awesome. Begins pouring out of like a cagurator that's on his back. And you see it begins like evaporating very quickly.

Oh, it's like a steam. It's like a steam. This is boiling. I don't know if I'm gonna get it. Okay. I actually like it like this. Okay. How much damage do I take? No fire damage. You guys are immune to fire damage when you're while you're wearing the suits. Oh nice But you guys do see that there are outside of the gates here outside of all these like celebrating people

You do see that there are tents set up with lines of knights waiting to register for the tournament I'm gonna do a lap and see what competition is. Great, go ahead and give me a perception check. 16. Okay, I'll join on the lap. Great. But I did roll a net one, so I think I'm choking on the boiling beer.

Yeah, you're just trying. You're trying to be like casual, you're thinking like, I don't wanna get too drunk, so I don't want to get too drunk. So I don't want to drink it too fast. But now you just have boiling beer that is all of the alcohol is already burned off. And you're just drinking burning water. I also will say that I cast purify food and drink on. Oh, great. Okay. So now they're regular fresh beers. I stopped it today because I was feeling dodgy. Great. Yeah, I'll say the purified for these purposes, it makes the liquid, regular liquid. I'm gonna give Callie guidance,

but I am focusing primarily on painting the bronze worm to make it our mascot. Okay, great. You start painting the bronze worm in the way of the juicy jostles. Jolly jostles. Juicy jostles are jolly jostles. Jolly jostles.

Jolly, okay. It's a jolly on your pants. Jocke, juicy jocke or jolly jocke? Jolly jocke. Jolly, okay. It's a jolly on your pants. Yeah, okay, got it. Well, we all have our own unique branding under the jolly, god, bra. Oh, you are that you specifically are the juicy jocke. Yeah, you know what I do is I paint the bronze worm like a fun color and then I shape it into a J.

Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, Callie, you go ahead and you do a lap. As I take my lap, I'm gonna throw up a detect thoughts. Yes, detect thoughts. Okay. So I'm getting everyone's surface level thoughts. So if people are clocking each other, I'm getting the goss.

Great, okay. A lot of the nights in line are fighting for very petty grievances. You over here in their head, like a cacophony of things like, I'm challenging Diz those to a duel so that he'll have to take down that tower that blocks my view of the lake of fire. Like, it's literally like a lot of disputes between noble houses and things like that. I think that's all fun and I try, I want to like clock that, but I want to, if that's the norm, I want to try to listen to what's outside the norm. Great. Okay.

Most of it is these like petty grievances and then there are a few people that are like, I want to join the Kingsguard and prove myself, like put me against any of the best warriors. Like you over here, somebody saying that to the registrar. So you see that there are some people being set up in like tournament brackets where there's gonna be like a champion jowlster and things like that. There's some people that are just settling things

between houses or people with old slights that are like this family, hates this family, and so they're two strongest warriors are gonna fight each other just for the sake of honor. And a very unusual one. You see an insanely ripped giant with just a bag over his head. And enormous, and enormous chain saw is talking to the Registrar and is just

wanna wanna kill people. Okay, that's a really good gimmick and the Registrar goes of course place your name right here and in his head you hear him, some more meat for the battle royale. The registrar. Registrar, thanks. What is that? Is battle royale all the losers then fight in a battle royale? You get the sense that outside of all of these duels and things like that, knights of ill or no repute,

just get put in a giant battle royale. So this moron with a bag over his head in a chainsaw walks up and says, I want to kill people. And this guy says, all right, throw him in the battle royale. All right. Well, we want to be in, we want to be in a bracket, right? I want to, we want to be working our way up so we can win a tournament. We do not want to be in a battle royale. Can I use this attack thoughts? I'm curious since Colda is in Ultras' head if I can try to like detect Colda. Go ahead and give me a wisdom save, charisma check or religion check. I think that I want to, even though I only have a plus one

to religion, I wanted to be a religion. Okay. I think I want to like reach into the starry serpent stuff. Great. Give it to me with advantage. That's a nat one. And the 16 becomes the 17. All right, Kali, you see, as you make this religion check,

Starfire begins to shed from the serpent onto this ice dagger that called her gave you, you feel it, it cools, and you feel it begin shifting in the sheath at your side and point. Like a dousing rod, points towards the castle. Okay, so he's in the castle. Okay. Alright. Interesting.

Okay, shall we go put our names in? Yeah. You see that's all is planking on top of the serpent so that it looks like a capital J with a crossbar. You guys, uh, wait in the line. And as you get into the front, you see this rich looking, uh, snobby, uh, fire giant looks at you guys and goes, yes, how can I help you? Good day, sir. We are the Jolly Jousters. We travel the land in search of Jouists and challenges worldwide, and we are here to enter what games do you have available? You see, it just closes his eyes as soon as he hears the name Jolly Jousters and then opens them like a full minute later and goes

you small folk Angos, you small folk want to fight in front of King Ektar at his coronation celebration. Indeed. Jollily so. You think you're worthy of the core celebration? Yes. Yes, and even if we die and are trampled by fire giants, I think everyone will think it's pretty funny. And it'll make them Jollily.

And we'll be Jollily to go out in such a jovial fashion. That's a fair point. As you say, like, die us dying will be funny. He does like, you see, he does nod and turns to one of the registrars next to him in like a different line and they talk for a second and then he looks back over you guys and goes, well, most of the battles tomorrow will be duels between nights of high repute. I have not heard of the Jolly Jousters, but there is one fight that we might have a spot open for. Right.

Folks like you. Might that be? Yeah. It is a battle royale, 30 giants. Oh, we were actually thinking it'd be way funnier. We just took on one person. Yeah, we were thinking of coming out in a big trench coat pretending to be one big giant

and then revealing it. Look at us do the jing here. Everyone get on my shoulders. Yeah, yeah. Everyone, as you guys get up for a really important performance check, I need really important performance check, I need a group performance check from everyone. I give both of you Baudic.

Okay, and I'm gonna use Commanding Presence, which is a Battlemaster maneuver at a superior already died of this. Saul looks into the mirror of himself and sees Swag nodding at him. I got a Derby 20. Nice. You also have a Baudic, huh? I don't know if I'm gonna need it. I got a dirty 20. Nice. You also have a bar set, come on. I don't know if I'm gonna need it, I rolled a 32. Whoa.

Whoa. I am jolly, I am jovial. I got a 24. Okay, yeah, I'll say that you have borrowed some clothes from Winch. And you do stack yourselves in a trench coat, which is classic small folk appealing to giant humor. Even this stuffy registrar sort of snorts. And hard one starts river dancing. So it's good.

But hard one is in the middle, so it's really disoriented. So it does. Why are you moving around so much? I'm gonna fall. I'm gonna fall. Go with it. just go with it. Feel the music.

The register goes. Yes, I suppose you would be good for a laugh. All right, what were you thinking? Well, were we thinking? I mean, I think that whoever you think needs a win. All right, well, you see, he's a little bit charmed by you guys. And like, who do you think is gonna have kind of a boring fight and this will bring some space All right, well you see he's a little bit charmed by you guys and

Who do you think is gonna have kind of a boring fight and this will bring some spice to it make the audience go wild? Well the Jolly Jester's I know that you're a delight You know, I know you can bring the heat unfortunately everyone in the arena is not going to know that so I can't put you in like a high-profile Dual or something like that so I normally I would put you in the battle royale because you are a small folk and I'd love to see you get her. But I could also put you in a tournament amongst hedge knights and other sort of lower ranked knights that are looking to make a name for themselves.

See, and that normally seems like it's gonna be a filler round, but like when we're there, there's no filler, buddy. We could use the comedy round. All right. Great. Okay, yeah. Great. Yeah, you see the registrar pencils you guys in

as Holly Shigginshand. All right, Kelly. Which, yeah. Your Kelly, Saul. And yeah, the registrar nods and puts you guys down the Jolly Justers team of small folk that are going to be in this tournament and you see that there are seven other would be giant knights or hedge knights that are just basically unaffiliated that either want to as sort of some kind of penance to sort of reclaim their

honor or as you know young nights or outside nights trying to get in good with the new Royal family. It's all right, just to clarify, am I on the bottom? I think so, yeah. Okay, Crocs on the bottom, Hardlands in the middle. Yeah, so we have Frog feed. Yes. Can I lean in, Chommy, like, to the registrar? Who are you rooting for us to get put up against?

Well, there is a Rambunctious fellow named Iscar, who has shamed himself by stealing kills, kind of just a violent, crazy murderer who was exiled under. You have a bag on his head. He did not have a bag on his head. That was someone who- I can just ask you, because I'm not from around here. What's with the bag on the head?

Right, is that guy weird to you? That dude is strange. That's okay, so that's how you hold the bag. That's how I hold the bag on his head. Because I don't want to see what his deal is. I want to throw it in there. What happens if he wins the battle royale? He unfortunately will get to make a request to the king.

Okay. So you're saying I'm saying this through a muffled coat. So you're saying that if we defeat eggs are, then that'll be like really funny because everyone will be like, oh, we got put in his place by a couple of small folk. I stand there, please. And will we get to make a request to the king?

I say from the torso. Should you win your tournament? Yes, you can make a request from the king. And to me, I personally think it would be funny if XR would be to make penance by killing you. I think that would be kind of a later thing. So this was a win. And if we win, I'm thinking of making the request

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We are getting away from the questions we need to ask for which is do we talk to you to submit our walk on song? Or is that gonna be someone else because we are gonna want all the small things? Okay? Yeah, excellent. That's hilarious I was I was thinking the same exact thing. Okay, great. Okay, all right. So you've got that filed away. Great. Yeah, you see I had your wife. I got a wedding as a room party the night before. Just out here. Just out here.

Yeah, you see it is everyone's out there partying. Yeah, we've got cups already. So do we get like little like on bands to be like? Yeah, in the time. I'm sort of the registrar for, I'm the person who talked to about signups for the tournament tomorrow. I am so much work to do. I know you just're in a team in. I'm sort of the registrar for, I'm the person you talk to about signups for the tournament tomorrow. I am so much work to do.

I know you're just not doing a very good job. There's a huge line behind us. You're exactly. Right. So I feel like you're not doing a great job. I'm going to put you into that. I'm going to put you in the battle royale. I mean, if you keep talking to me,

I'm going to put you in the battle royale. I don't really do that to your bride console. Wait, you're my bride console? Do you validate parking? I do validate parking. I just want to know in case anyone else parks. Okay. Yeah.

In case anyone else parks. In case other people are parking, if anyone asks me, do they validate, I'd have to say, I don't know, but now I could say yes to you. Yeah, we're trying to help you right now. You have a huge line. You need a huge line. We're trying to help you. Okay, you have a huge line. You have a huge line.

Which one have you? I'm going to, okay. You know what? I'm putting chainsaw back guy in the tournament with you guys. Where's the bathroom? I'm moving him from the battle royale to be in the first round with you all. Good day.

Okay. Good day. Drink tickets. You have to bring your own. We get comps. Okay. Good day. Drink tickets. Oh. You have to bring your own. We get comps. No. Like for friends and family.

Right. You get a comp. Yes, all. I'm comp. I'm comp. I'm comp. I'm comp. Thank you.

I have souls. Hey. Yes, you can have you all kick some. I have two comps. I've got two comps. No, no, no, no, no. As a team. As a team. As a team. You get two comps. I'm selling two comps. I've got two cops. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. As a team, as a team, as a team, you get two cops.

Two cops, I'm selling two cops. Hard for me. Hard for me. Two cops. You guys leave the line. As you begin to hear trumpets going off, announcing the new king, you see the crowd stomps their feet on the ground, causing tremors.

The entire cave, like the entire city kind of rumbles as if there's like an earthquake from the stomping of giants. As you see the new King Ektar emerges onto the balcony flanked by attendance. You see the king now wears this big, much bigger ruby and cross-ed gold crown. He's got this like duster on with the gold inlay

and the big powerful arms, long red hair, long red beard. Curious, so he can't see his legs under that cloak. Yeah, might skip a leg day, we don't know. But you see he reaches his hands out and with like the flick of these like magical bracers that he has on creates this giant projection of himself that sort of hangs in the sky here and After the trumpets finish and there is there's some like murmurs amongst the crowd and even a little bit of like heckling here and there

I'm but mostly there are a lot of like cheers and things like that and you hear his voice booming over the crowd go Today we mourn the passing of my beloved brother King Rallos But tonight we celebrate the birth of new glory for the Giants I King XR ofar of Malskirial, have captured the tiny tyrant and ended the era of Iron D. You feel Kenna's hand is like clenches hard ones and callies. I steady I steady here by my side. Yeah I put like a maternal hand on a shoulder. And you see Ekdar using some kind of magical device shoots up a magical projection of Jaina Bronzebeard.

Trapped in some kind of prison, you see that she has her hammer out and is bashing it against a force field. Guys, go ahead guys getting me perception checks 12 22 15 I'll say hard one with a 22 you clock that Even though this is basically like a close-up projection of of Jaina being trapped in This demi plane

It's sort of like monocolor, like it's just sort of a red projection, but you see little dots going by her, and hard one, you clock that as snow, and you have no fucking clue why there would be snow inside of the force cage capsule that she was captured in. And Callie, I'll say with that perception check, and you were to take thoughts and stuff before,

you feel the dagger at your side, grow cold, and you can just see, like, in the foreground, another figure helping work to try to get out. She's in the helm. What does everybody see? Hot one. The coat is covering my vision. She's in the helm. What does everybody see? Hard one. The coat is covering my vision. It's all tough.

Yeah, we have like a cannon string. Also, where is Kanna? Is she like in the middle somewhere? Kanna, I think was next. I guess she could just be part. She's the backpack. So she's just hanging on piggyback style. Yeah, I just, I relate.

She's in the helm. She's with colder what And you guys do see that based on everything that Calder has like told you guys that he was always like on the one side of this force field you see that Jane has got this hammer that it looks like she is Doing some work, but there's always new barriers that come up So her and whoever she's with, you assume it's called her if you're seeing snow there, are breaking down barriers, but

new ones are popping up. But it looks like if they had a little help from the other side, that maybe they could get out without having to like fully kill Ultras. But as this projection of Jaina goes up, you hear roars amongst the crowd. People go nuts at this. Like the idea that the- Absolutely try to study Kenna. Kenna. Well, he's every whole Blackpac draft.

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Yeah, all right. Okay, I hear anymore. I kind of clap in front of myself, but I'm not actually connecting my hands. He's doing... I say, I hold up in cheers, and then I pretend to drink it, but I pour it over my shoulder.

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And I'll tell you. Okay. Try it, Tim Gov, once rule the air. I need to hear them again and throw it. I know you're a soldier. And Ektar continues and goes, and now begins the fighting and feasting giant stand tall! You look all around you guys at all of these giants all pounding their feet in lockstep

as King Ektar exits the balcony beyond which as you watch him you see two cool blue eyes waiting for him in the wings. Oh, and that's where we'll end our session. Fuck, it's a quiet one. So we just gotta do some quick Harlem Globetrotters ask stunts to work our way up. There you go, yep, easy. That easy. Yeah, you can hear us talk more about this over

on our patreon patreon.com slash nampod. That's any DDP what you don't sing yet. We are we don't do it stop stop Okay, let's go You can't do it does anyone have anything they like to plug No, Emily the name we are we are we are all say the things I got a plug okay okay we've got some live shows we've got September 13th will be in Minneapolis September 14th will be in Madison Wisconsin and 15th will be in Milwaukee September 16th will be in Chicago oh yes October 26th will be in Los Angeles October 27th

will be in Denver October 28th we will be in Sacramento Portland sold out all right November 10th will be in Las Vegas November 14th will be in Sacramento, Portland, so about. Sorry. November 10th will be in Las Vegas, November 14th will be in New Orleans, November 15th will be in Orlando, November 17th will be in Fort Lauderdale, and be sure to look out. Remember October 7th we have a big New York show,

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my Sarah Bellum, Opa Remi from Ratatouille style. Shelby C, Pawpaw Skydays, Meemaw Skydays, Haley the Human, Lord Damon Duke of the Dungeon, and of course Megan and thank you everybody. Everybody. That was a hit down podcast. Howdy friends, call well here letting you know that NADPOT is hitting the road again this fall for an all new live show tour. This time we're doing actual play sessions and a few D&D court lives. Tickets are available right now at nadpod.com slash live. For a full list of dates and venues, just listen to the words coming out of my mouth. On September 13th, we are going to be in Minneapolis, followed by Madison on the 14th,

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