Not Another D&D Podcast - C3 Ep. 41: Giant King's Contest (Legends of Irondeep)

Episode Date: August 11, 2023

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Bahumia! Yeah. I'm your dungeon master, Brian Murphy, joined by Jake Herwitz. Hard one, short foot. Emily Axford. Ready to avenge Mauser as the Jooling Jouster. The Lion P-Petra.

Oh! Justice for Mauser. Justice for Mauser. Justice for Mauser. Who is fine? Who is okay now? Who is being rebuilt? Who is healed? Yeah, who is, yeah, healed.

The shell, the shell is healed. The insides, I don't know. We need to make sure that mentally Mauser is okay. Yeah. We need to be talking to Mauser a lot next time. Yeah. That's a good call. We each get a one-on-one scene with Mausing.

And everyone gets their Mauser scene. And each of us, the wrong gets their mouth, or scene. And then of course, called a little Tanner. No gather round children and take you a knee. I'll tell you the tale of the jousters three. One juicy, one jangling, and one full of jukes. They travel so bravely through flame and smoke. Oh, and search of their long lost frills and friend,

These jolly jowsdows will give you a grin. And now, with the turnie, they fight for their lives, And the hopes of wedding a giant test-white. Woo! Yeah! I've ever seen Merck Shoe, they're so high up towards his ears. You were standing up and clapping. Oh, I'm glad you liked it. ears. You were standing up. You were standing up and clapping. Oh, I'm not good. I'm not good for the mics.

Jake is standing up and clapping. Oh, no one is here. Oh, I'm overwhelmed. I'm of course, solo bufo, the musical clone of Salpuffo. You're being a lot from me. You're gonna be hearing a lot from you. This is the character in the whole episode. That's right.

Peek behind the recording. Right before we started today, I was like, Caldwell, you can turn your mic up a little bit because you're a little echoey because we're picking you up on M's mic. And then as soon as we turn him up, be fucking sings for a minute and a half. You unleashed me, bud.

Yeah, there you go. You told him he was quiet. I literally said, I think you're quieter than you think you are, but I take it back. I take it back, turn it down. To me, that was like my high school director saying that. And like, I'm his hand on my shoulder. I'd be like, hey, you're quieter than you.

Hey, you can go deeper. Do you mean it? Turn it down. Volume at personnel, be quiet. Turn it all down. Like, it turned it down. Volume-ed personnel, the one. Turn it all down. Like, it turned it off. I'll never, I'll never log off.

Fugging reboot. Yeah, let's go ahead and reboot. And you know what, with that, let's go ahead and do a little recap. Yes. So last time, Calder spoke to Jaina Bronzebeard inside the prison of Ultras' helm. Jaina revealed that she had nearly escaped the original force cage she was captured in and was likely moved there because it was more difficult to get out. She explained that she had been caught by a device during a battle against the hot-headed

prince Ektar of the Fire Giants, before being transferred by some kind of ritual. With the help of Jaina's magical Kingshammer, she and Calder got to work trying to figure a way out. Meanwhile, Kali, Saul, Hardwan, and Kenna followed the bronze serpent to the giant city of Malskirial, where you encountered your old friend, Jorb, bullying a fire giant artificer named Winch. You stepped in to defend Winch, who declared you as his enemies to create a loophole, so you'd be allowed in the city without being attacked by more guards. An act which you took great offense to. As you traveled through the city square, you noticed a lot of giants wearing black and Winch revealed to you that the king had been killed a couple nights ago under suspicious circumstances, passing the crown to the young Prince Ektar. Back at his place, Winsh showed off his magitech probes, along with some communication he's

had with fellow hackers like the boy wizard of Ezri about the mother ship submersible. When you revealed that you traveled to Mulskirial to rescue Jaina and Calder, Winsh revealed an opportunity. During Ektar's coronation, there will be tournaments and duels, and the winners can make a request of the new king. If you were to challenge him to a trial by steal in front of everyone, there's a good chance that he would have to accept to save face. Armed with this information, you headed to the coronation, and signed up for a tournament

of hedge knights, narrowly avoiding being placed in a giant battle royale by endearing yourself to the registrar. I will say that's the first time that I've had to greatly change my plans for the next episode. Based on you guys all dressing up in a trench coat, fighting and pretending to be one giant. I was like, well, I guess I had to throw out this battle royale. We should play that on a short rest. Yeah. But you guys got by, by endearing yourself to the registrar,

you watched the crowning of King Ektar, where he revealed to the populace that he had captured Jane of Bronzebeard. The audience dubious at first of the new King's sudden rise begin enthusiastically celebrating him. And just as he disappeared back to his quarters, you saw a familiar frozen visage lurking in the shadows. And that's where we are now.

Okay. So you are in front of the castle gates here. There's a big celebration. People are toasting to the capture of Jane of Bronzebeard to the tiny tyrant, the tiny tyrant. Is anyone on Kinechek, duty? Yeah, Kanna is just... a bronze beard to the tiny tyrant, the tiny tyrant. Is anyone on Kinnah check, duty? Yeah, Kinnah is just...

I just, yeah, I've got my hand on. Holding Kallie's hand and just branching your fingers. Kinnah, have you ever come up with a different name to pretend like you're a different person to trick people? Yes, well, not to trick people, just to have a different glass of Abe then. Okay, but what if right now, you came, have a different glass of Abe than. Okay, but like, what if right now, you came up with a character that wasn't as angry,

just for the sake of getting through? What if instead of being angry, I was furious because he didn't actually capture her, he cheated, she was winning. She was winning. She started shouting. Can I, can I, can I, can I, she's singing, She's singing!

She's singing an old fire giant song about a glorious jousting fire giant test. I put my arm around, canna, just start also drunkenly singing and laughing. Canna, canna, canna, canna, cover her up, cover her, her kind of outburst here. And you see Winch, this tall, lanky fire giant, does look kind of uncomfortable amongst all of this, like sort of militaristic revelry and sees that maybe you guys aren't gonna fit in great here and goes, should we go back to my place and get you all set up for tomorrow?

Let's get one more refill in these cups. Yeah, I am gonna just kind of, can I slight of hand a caterer's tray away from them? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you see, yeah, there's a fire goblin walking around with cocktail weenies. A fire goblin? Hey, hey, how much for that entire tray? Well, each bruise is just about to take.

Yeah, you see they are regular size hot dogs, which is cocktail weenies to giants. Well, just like two or three each, okay? Okay. We'll be greedy. Two or three hot dogs each. Just two or three. I thought this was a coronation.

All right, fine, you can have four. Okay, take four hot dogs. You guys take four hot dogs. It's very normal. You see other giants bend over. Oh, you're looking out for five. All right, take five. Yeah, you guys take five. Well, so I'm gonna have a fucking five.

You know what, I'm gonna take, I will take the tray. There's a bunch of people back there. I'll have, I'll be these out for you. Okay, he's tray is kind of mirrored and that's kind of fun. Yeah, he's already done a couple laps. I appreciate it. Yeah, so I'll just shoving hot dogs into foster. Foster just never stops eating hot dogs at the infinite room. You see, Canada takes great comfort

in watching foster eat hot dogs. It just really focuses on that. That's right. You know, I put foster in her arms. Yeah, foster cozy's up and she kind of clutches foster and looks like she's kind of taking some comfort there. But yeah, we should probably head back. Okay, yeah. Can I actually, on the way back, do we know who we're fighting tomorrow? You don't know who you're fighting tomorrow.

Actually, the only person you go to is back guy with a bag over his head. Chain talk back man. Chain talk back man. You don't know who you're fighting tomorrow. Actually, the only person you know you're fighting tomorrow. Is Bag Guy? Guy with Bag over his head. Jane's not Bag Guy. Jane's not Bag Guy. So Bag Guy. Jane's not Bag Guy. Bag with you.

I don't know if you're still looking for an alias. Yeah. Jane's not Bag Man. Jane's not Bag Man. So we're the big Bag Guy. His name is actually, you caught it, the registrar originally put Bag Guy in the battle Royaleale because he just screamed that he wanted to hurt people But then you guys kept asking him questions

So he said he was just gonna put bag guy and your guys bracket in the tournament Of course so that guy is in your tournament now and his name is Chainsaw McGraw Okay, I kind of prefer Chainsaw bag guy Well, yeah, that name's open so Kim it can have prefer Chainsaw Bag Guy. Well, yeah, that name's open, so Kim, I can have it. Chainsaw Bag Grah. Is he here? He's like, oh, he's fucking farting. But he's farting.

He's supposed to go over and get in his head. Yeah. That was like a mountain. And maybe I should go like flirt with him. Oh, then we'll get in his head when he fights you to him. Yeah, exactly. You see, okay. Chainsaw McGraw is acting like a cast member at Universal Studios Horror Nights.

It just has a chainsaw, except it's a real chainsaw instead of a fake one. And it's just turning it on and buzzing it at people's feet. Just rage and carnage going, hurt people, hurt everyone. This is actually my type. Apparently you can change him. You're giving him a hot dog.

Yeah, people are taking a wide-earth around Chainsaw McGrott. It's not seem to have a lot of friends here. I try to like hop scotch over the Chainsaw. He attacks you. Really? Yeah. I love it.

That just a 14 to hit. So you see, chain saw swings over your head. He swings over my head and I'm like, thank you for keeping me spry. Oh! My name is Jane. Jane saw. Jane saw.

My name is Jane saw back. Jane saw. It's all a whisper to a hard one. Do you think we're gonna be your best men? I think she's got a chance, yeah. Give me a persuasion check. All right, I'm gonna use my Amazonian beads. Okay, shout out to the call for,

but in 18, I become an 18. Okay, so you got an 18 total? Yeah. Okay, so you got an 18 total. Yeah. Okay, so you see, Chainsaw McGraw in a sort of friendly way, buzzes the Chainsaw close to you and leans in and goes, Give me someone hurt! Did I get hurt too? Give me someone hurt, yeah!

I let him attack me. Great. He's got a call. That thing is so rusted. Does 27 damage to you? Slashes across your armor? Okay. I saw like that.

These guys are starting to make a scene. She's absolutely bombing. We have to step this. We got to come and man. I say thank you. That was thrilling. And I wink at him as I Chainsaw McGraw you hear an intrigued sound comes out of chainsaw McGraw's chainsaw

She's not interested in you she's trying to make me jealous. I Did not think this would be the Glenn rebound, but here it is Chainsaw McGraw is a bad man. And a bag man. And a bag man. And a bag man. Yeah, you see. I drip flirty blood.

Great. You like bread crumbs of flirty blood. After he attacks everyone around him and he starts eating hot dogs through the bag without taking the bag off. All right. I give him something to think about and I run away, scampo, away. You guys head back to Winch's workshop.

And you are one of the few groups that leaves this growing celebration outside of the castle. And you guys eventually get to his home, this small circular dome structure with all kinds of scrap metal and half finished machines outside of it. And Winch brings you guys inside and begins pressing various buttons to reveal hidden like murphy beds and seats and tables out of the walls and floors. Is he like a... So is any button just like a free for all? We just press some buttons.

I just feel like you guys really want to press a button. You're setting up a world where pressing buttons means something really fun happens and now I want to press them all. Right, because some of the buttons might like to pull a lever if I'm being... Oh, okay. Some of it controls the match attack and stuff in here. Yeah, so you should really... You should really clearly label those because right now they just look fun. Okay. When should I see who to be caught in a roomba?

Yeah, you see, could you rescue me? A giant robot that's eating up the crumb's ass. I snite the roomba. Yeah, has giant soul in the tank. Can I do a attack on a roomba? Okay, 17 to hit. 17 of course hits the roomba. Okay, do I get the feeling that we're going to bed for the night?

Yeah, you'll go to bed. I'm going to be Kelly. I'm going to be in four levels. We know! We're looking at 34 damage. 34 damage, okay. You destroy the Rumba. Great, not only do you shatter a bunch of pieces

of mechanical therapists. So, Kelly, I was so scared. The saltless spit out a team of this giant lipub that flops over in dirt upside down. I'm just passed out in Kelly's arms. So you guys sit down and you guys take spots at this table that he's raised from the floor. You see, Winch begins kind of tinkering, fixing up Mauser, talks to you guys as he kind of looks down. He's got these goggles on as he's kind of welding and he goes

All right, so we should probably clarify a few things like if you win your tournament tomorrow You'll have an opportunity to Request something from the king. So how are you planning on wording it? Because if you just ask for a fight with him, that might be- I want to say, give me the helm of Ultras. Yeah. Ah, dead on, helm of Ultras.

Okay, okay. So you're asking for like a price from his treasury, essentially. Should we convey Rictus's message, you know, accused the king of fighting without honor and say that we want to avenge Richtus, then his people will see that he's not an honor king. Yeah, you see Kenna Chimes and he goes, yeah, he's lag about what happened. He was losing the fight.

If you call it, maybe if you call it to question his otter and tell him to prove himself if you ask for a fight to get General Broad speared back. Which do the people of Mulscariel know that he's working with a frost giant? What is everyone's opinion of ice giants here? People generally don't have a problem with ice giants, generally giants have kinship with each other. There aren't many frost giants around here. In fact, most would have a really hard time in this climate.

So it's almost like a non-issue just because they couldn't live here. Right. But Ultras is a different thing. If Ultras is from a very long time ago, so the fact that he's still around means that he's sort of... Debbie God-esque? Uh-huh. So you think he doesn't have to wear one of these outfits? I would doubt it. Ah, that's a shame. I would have loved to shadow it on his body. I just... I don't know if I see a world where we don't end up fighting Ultras if we win. Yeah.

No, I-I-I think I know that. Hmm. Yeah, this guy's always having other people fight his battles for him. When we first ran into the Giants, Prince Ektar tried to have one of his footbed fight general broad speared, but he was eventually shamed into doing it himself, and he only got out of it alive by cheating. So I think there's a good chance he'll send it a champion to fight you guys anyway. Would that not be seen as dishonorable in front of the crowd though?

How will we gain any sort of like trust that we're not just making up some fable? Just like you saw with the King just now, there are devices that would allow you to project a memory or an image. I could set something up for you so that you guys could essentially project a memory to the entire crowd and that would leave it to scrutiny by anyone who could cast a zone of truth type spell anyone who had enough insight if we could if we could project the memory of Richter saying it in Richter's words. Yeah, I think we have a better chance of winning over the crowd and really bump the audio Maybe put some music underneath. I think we could do that. Yeah

To drive the point home. This might not be helpful, but I did also absorb a little bit of rictus as essence as I helped him transfer over to the other side. So if you need that as some sort of like catalyst for your machine, I'm happy to just plug me up, I guess is what I'm saying. Yeah. If that's the case, that'll make this quite easy. OK.

Solch is like hands over his arms. Great. Yeah. I know stranger to being experimented on. Yeah. Winch takes a little bit of time. Has these like bracer devices that you saw like the King use, which is something that you like essentially click together. You hold your hands out and it allows you to be like made into this like big projection. And you see he takes one of those and connects them to like a bunch of electrodes and places them on your

body, and you feel as your muscles and stuff jolt and you get a little bit of muscle memory, you do feel it jogging your memory back to this moment with Rick Dis and sort of working with you to record this memory that you had. It's asking you to think of this and you're able to think of it and begin recording it. It's like a spiritual mocap. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. By literally a spiritual mocap is a great way to think of it.

That's our home brew 5-E spell. Spiritual mocap. I'm gonna look on the comment section. Oh, people don't like it. It's very unbalanced. Yes, so you guys begin recording this and Winch goes, okay, so presented with this, you'll essentially be calling it a question

the King's Honor. You can request a trial by combat, the crime being him cheating in this other fight. And then the hope is that he sends out Ultras as his champion. And if he has to pull any of his tricks, he'll have to pull them in front of all of his people. I guess that's what I'm saying is that I want to make sure that we have a plan for getting colder and I'm worried that he'll send out someone else and then we've, we'll have gone

through all this trouble and Codra will still be stuck. Well, the result of the trial, if you're calling into question, Ektar's victory against Jaina Bronzebeard, the result of you winning that trial would be Jaina Bronzebeard being freed. Okay. Okay. So even if he sends out a champion on his honor, he needs to release J of Bronzebeard, because he never beat her to begin with. So, let's talk now. What is the size of the stadium that we're going to be fighting in? Because it sounds like we're going to be going from one fight directly into another.

And I know that the two of you can bounce back after a short rest, but I can't. I'm trying to figure out my role in these earlier fights so that I can save more. There are several days of celebration here and fights. It is unlikely that Prince Echdarr is going to jump down into the pit to fight you. I can't promise that that won't happen, but he would try to snake his way out of this. He might even try to send like assassins to quietly kill you. Right, you know.

I see. Okay, that's kind of fun. If we're talking about stadiums, will there be full-size hot dogs there? It's a great question. Yeah. So those hot dogs that you guys ate are cocktail we need to us. Those were cocktail we need. Yes, there will be hot dogs that are 10 times the size of that.

What? Oh my god, yeah. Got dodged your dog? What? Speak to me of the pretzels. Hard one sits down, cross-legged on the floor. And the bathtubs of cheese, you dip them in. Soft pretzels as big as your head.

What? Sing songs of the al to me, brother. And the size of the salt grain on those pretzels. Tears in hard ones eyes. Because your fingertips. What? What do you guys do instead of ice cream down here? Is it just like hot porridge or something like that?

Hot porridge, yep, hot porridge cones. You do porridge, you do. Hot porridge cones. You'll miss me out. Yeah. We do have ways to have sort of frozen treats and whatnot. They do have to be magically enchanted obviously, but yeah, you can get something like that.

I'm looking for a collectible little helmet that I can eat ice cream out of, and then wear it on my head afterwards. Ooh, that's so cute. Well, I'm glad you got the book. You can get nachos. You can get nachos in there. How big are your nachos?

Like dry corn hats. Oh, they gotta be like surfboards. That's because of dry corn hats, certainly. I slam them against the wall. Can you tell me the truth? Yeah, I swear, I swear. The last potato skins we had were at lay lantern. Do you understand?

People, you speak. I prefer my purpose today. It's to see my heart will break. Okay, no, I'm not. Yeah, I weep and hug him. Okay. Look. Yay, the whole bloom in my heart.

Before you guys settle down for the night, is there anything you need me to run out and get you? I can brew potions. I just might need a little bit of cash for supplies. I could essentially get you potions on the cheap if you think you need something like that. What is our healing potion situation like? I

Ebb out. Okay, according to my records, we have one 2d4 plus 2 and five 44 plus 4s and seven grenades great. We've also got one fly potion one poison potion one polymorph apparently there's a temptation to me to use the poison on someone that we might. I changed my bag, man. I think I've got him in the back. If you know, I mean, you're right, nice, sorry. Oh, salt dapter up.

All right, well, let me know I can brew up some potions tonight if you want to invest in some. What sort of potions can you brew up? I can do greater healing potions, 100 gold to pop. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Let's load up. Let's get 10.

Great. It's going to be 10 easy. Yeah. Yeah. He can make 10 in a night, we'll say. That's a thousand. Yeah, so add that to your inventory, but he's going to be busy now going out and getting supplies and then brewing that stuff all night.

So when she goes to head out and he goes, well, I'm gone. Feel free to make yourself at home. Touch whatever buttons you want within reason, within reason. Well, you haven't labeled pens, so. Okay, hard one puts pushes up a lever. Wait, not that one. You see the whole dome begins to grow feet and begins walking away.

Wait, wait, wait. And he goes, there's also a balcony out back that looks out onto the lava moat if you guys feel like hanging out back there at all. Oh. Yeah, that sounds absolutely sick. How big you say it. I'm wondering if I could set up a Liam and Tony hut out there.

Yeah, it's a giant balcony, so you'd be able to set up a Liam and Tony. Oh right, you guys are huge. Yeah, we're gonna be sleeping in a dollhouse under a balcony. Even if it's a Juliet balcony, it'd be huge to us. So, Winch heads out, and you guys head back to this little area behind Winch's workshop, and you see that there are more kind of half finished projects out here, and scrap metal and everything, and beyond the art of trinkets, you see the crusty earth dips down to a far off river of magma. There's a bunch of chairs out here.

But off to the side, you see this sort of ongoing project that Winch has out here that is a circular platform with spell components and runes placed around it. And it has an arcane battery, but it looks to be an older one that's been reused, recharged, whatever he actually needs here would be too expensive for him to obtain right now, so it doesn't look actually powerful enough to fully operate it, but this looks like a like a teleporter in progress, and a hard one you clock it as

being similar to things you've seen on the astroplane. Wow, looks like Winch was serious about wanting to visit the astroplane. Are you saying that this could take you there? Not in its current state, but by God, I think the guys close. What does it look like it needs? It looks like it needs a more powerful arcane battery. Winch is doing the equivalent of plugging a million search protectors into each other. It just looks like he has a battery powering battery and stuff. He doesn't have the components for it.

Okay, this is a fire hazard. I'm going to call it a fire hazard. We can't put the tin near this. Yeah, you see Kenna begins setting up cones with Helma Foster. And hard one, as you are near this platform, you do see that some of the old magitech bits and bobbles that are kind of amongst your adventurers gear begins to react. Most of the channels used for communication

amongst the astral alliance are usually closed in the material plane, but here close to this like half finished teleporter, the barriers are a bit weaker and you see that some of your like old communication devices and stuff make a buzz as if they turn on. You're blowing up. Whoa, hard one, Pats's pockets and take something buzzing out of them.

Yeah, you pull out this little receiver that you would have used while you're on the astro plane to communicate with soldiers under, like you were a general. You and Bev and moonshine led your own forces, and you guys also all worked together. So occasionally you'd go on missions where it was just the three of you or you'd have your soldiers support their soldiers or things like that, or do you'd communicate with the HQ,

you'd communicate with Alonus or something like that. And yeah, you've got this communicator here. I hold it to my ear, but away from my mouth. Just to see if I can hear any chatter. I cover the receiver with my hand. Great. Hard one, go ahead and give me a perception check with advantage. Did he have a walk in this whole time?

He's so okay. You have to tell us if you have any new toys. Shh, quiet. It's 17. It's 17. Hard one, you open up this little transmitter and it is not fully operational because like I said, the channels are mostly kind of closed off from the material plane but you do see that the last setting that you

had on it was like a private channel with you and Bev and moonshine and you hear a crackly voice on loop sending out a message to not only this channel, but likely other members of the Astral Alliance. And Emily, would you like to tell me what that message is? Oh, fuck. Okay, so essentially what you hear, hard one is a distress signal from moonshine. Hard one. I don't know if you're out there, but... Grumps.

He's getting stronger than ever. And we're doing the best we can on his skirt, but they've got us backed into chords, great hall, and chord. Our chord has been wounded. So I think if I don't know where you went to, but if he can come back, things are bad. I think we've all got maybe another week. Oh, I gotta go. Hard one, please. Hello, hello, hello, I'm coming.

Mochai. Mochai. Hello. You pick up the transmitter and her channel is off. Okay, this thing just needs a little more juice. Hard one gets into the transporter and tries to Jerry break something. Yeah, he starts.

Go ahead and give me God. I mean, okay, roll an intelligence check with disadvantage. I'll tell you if you get two net 20s, hard one will just actually get it. Wait, two Nats, okay. Can my Botics help him? Okay, he has to beat a 30. Okay, I can be well on.

With an Intelligence check. Wait, oh, okay. Is that even? I still give you a Botics. I'm gonna give him guidance. Okay, okay, let's, that is a, where's my Intelligence? Where could it be? Never a good sign. Okay, let's, that is a, where's my intelligence? Where could it be? Never a good sign.

Yeah, so that 15 becomes a 14, I guess I won't use the bardic. Okay, yeah. Hard one, you begin trying to put this stuff together. You do manage to find like, you get sort of this focus and you get really serious hearing moonshine and distress and you go over

and you do figure out how to turn it on but you see that as this arcane battery powers up you see glows shines bright and then poofs out and you hear the whole thing just charges down. Hard one just starts pacing with his hand on his head. He's like hitting himself in the side of the head. Fuck. You okay, Mr. Short?

What was that? Yeah, no, they need me. Yeah, they need me. They need me in the astral plane. Who chai needs me? Beverly needs me. Okay. Yeah, too.

Okay. So, what do we do? How do we help? I just don't know. I don't know. How did you get here from the astroplane? Because you can use that to get back, right? Uh-huh. We're... we're days... days weeks away from the prick. I... they don't have... they don't have that kind of time.

So you need an arcane battery. We need this machine working. Yes. Yes. Like a big magical power source. But is there anything? I mean, we're right next to like a kingdom of like relics. Wait, it's got to be something. Wait a second. I look at the little serpent. Was he doing lightening damage and stuff? He was not the silver serpents was. Okay, I can only summon an effigy of him, but I will cast my fine serpent. Okay. Yeah. Bring out this little guy. I don't know, maybe. Yeah, you see, um, the silver serpent and the bronze serpent. First kind of like look to you, Cali, like confused.

Like the silver one has these like big expressive eyes. I think I look at them and I'm like, I'm so sorry, but may I ask you a favor? We are trying to send this man to where he needs to be and we need tremendous power. And you two are most powerful creatures I know and if I may ask you a favour and you can say no I just want you to know that because everyone else wants to use you and I've really tried not to do that.

So will you breathe lightning and the magic of Oberon's wildness into this teleporter? Oh no, no. You're actually quite destructive. We might want to keep you away from it. Yeah, you see that. The silver serpents and the bronze serpents begin slithering around the outside of this broken-down teleporter and arcane battery. Bits of lightning shooting off of the silver serpent. And you see starfire coming off of the bronze serpent.

And you do see that it is beginning to, it looks like it's power, it's starting to power this arcane battery, but you don't know that it's gonna like, instantly work right away, but this does look like it's a powerful source that maybe Winch could figure out in like a couple days. Okay, so that's something, right? Because they're kind of from the stars, they're like constellations made, can't it? Okay, I think seeing this hard one feels a bit better. He's able to calm down because it feels like there's a glimmer

of hope. Yeah. I'll say hard one as you're kind of like panicking, listening to moonshines, message and stuff, as you go through your transmitter and check the different channels and listen for other like to stress signals and stuff. You hear one from Alonus that's giving kind of a more like kind of macro read on the situation and essentially what has happened is Bev and Moonshine's forces are under siege and Quartz-Great Hall. So they are not yet in danger of being killed. They are currently holding their position, but they are trapped there, and they need more help, essentially breaking

the siege so that they're not stuck there, and so that they can leave the planet. Okay. Can you use this amount of power to like get a message back to them? Oh yeah, maybe. Let's try. Yeah, I may have. Do we need to like, massage the serpents or plug them together?

Feel like them like dancing around, getting circles, getting like the story, electricity going. There's a bicycle over there. Should I start riding that? I think it's all started by the bicycle. We need it. We need it so fast.

It's all just like the Kermit bicycle, right? Yeah. Yeah, as the serpents ride around, and you see Starfire joining this arcane battery, normally, a hard one, when these teleporters work, you see almost like a planar rip that lets you see from one dimension to another. And you're seeing like little bits of purple lightning, that lets you see from one dimension to another.

And you're seeing like, you know, little bits of purple lightning, like the little sparks before a fire, not quite getting there yet, but you do feel like your transmitter seems to work even better now. Okay. I guess I'll try to send a message.

Great. What would you like your message to be? Okay. Hard one turns away from everybody. He does like a one finger. Absolutely. Why don't I cast silence on us so we can't hear you? And all rip ass just a case.

Hit call. Hard one nods deeply. Okay. Moonshine. I'm sorry. I'm... I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I left, but that's... that's not important. I'm... I hear you. I'm coming, girl. Tell Beverly that I'll be there soon. You guys... you can hold your own and...

And I won't think of myself as a liability ever again. Ciao, or by... or later, whatever. See you soon. Did he say ciao? Ha ha ha ha ha! Shit! I'm sorry, Mr. Jorvan, I didn't fart loud enough. Fine, yeah, it was just a high-end-by-message anyway. You click like send on the message and in sort of the ebb and flow of the arcane battery

charging, you feel right as there's like a big charge that the message gets sent out and you feel that it has been received. Can I, can I, can I mention a response? Yeah. It's just a quick message, and it's really quiet, and she says, her one is damn good to hear your voice, and it'll be even better to see your face. Get here. That's all.

Shhh. And the static breaks up. Hard one, smiles. Any hot dogs left? Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Yeah, they're all. I think the serpent ate them all.

I'm gonna run. Collibus is hoarding a bunch of hot dogs. I'm gonna say. Sometime later, whench comes back and gets to work brewing the potions, and sees the transporter starting to work, this is a massive source of magic power. This is incredible.

Uh-huh. Yeah, is it okay that we did this? Yes. Okay. Yes, you figured it out. I haven't been able to power this thing. Right. Did you have a frog on a bicycle before?

Yeah, that was sort of the thing that I was. You were a very important part of this. I was just saying that it was going really well and then so gone the bicycle. And it's all almost stood over the edge. Yeah, it's all still going. Now that it's actually up and mostly powered, I can actually, I can actually troubleshoot

what's not working about it. I could have this baby running in a few days. Yeah, and good news, you get to test it on me, okay. Oh, okay, you got it, Bradley. Yes, right. It's hard when it turns around briefly. But then Maves gotta get home, right? Back to the astral plane.

You know, I'm actually really enjoying the material plane, so I'm sort of taking a gap year from Astral University, so I'm sticking around. Actually, no, no, I'm just gonna tell I'm the truth. Which, I'm so sorry, when we first met you, I lied about my name. My name is Clipibi Petracore, and I'm from the Feywild. Wait, but Kalees, what they call friends. So your name is Friend Petracore? I lie again.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, my mother named me Friend. Friend of Petracore, I like it. Friend, smell of rain, yep. Yeah. Yeah, and he gets to work brewing all of your stuff. And is there anything you guys want to do before you go to bed for the night?

Can I check the messages on Winch's computer? Yeah. You go over to Winch's computer and try to play it cool. I say like, I'm just going to see if you have any games on here. Yeah. And such a game. It's only been a few hours you have not gotten a message back from Boy Wizard yet. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Hunkai Star Rail. I've heard good things. Anyway. I think I'm just going to check in on Hard one. See how he's doing. Walk over. Hard one's shadow

boxing in the corner. Do you want a real box? Yeah, let's see if I can hit you with that cloak of displacement, huh? Oh yeah, he's got the scarf back. Saul inflates his arms using like the frogs in technique so that they turn into those like punch pads, the boxers, he's sweet. See what you can do? Go ahead and make an attack with disadvantage, hard one.

Buck. That is a net 20. Whoa! Yeah! Oh, right, with disadvantage hard one. Fuck. That is a net 20. Whoa! Yeah! Oh, right, with disadvantage. My second roll. 21. Salt.

Like braces gets pushed back like two feet. So that's pretty good, but you're gonna need to do better if you're going to the astroplane. Uh, and then you would like sweep some. I'm going to make it a tag. So, a dirty 20-hit? Yes, it does. Fuck. Yes damage Two six points of damage to you. Yeah, I'll do my ankle Brutally

Responsibilities what are you doing? Yeah, I thought I needed to work some out to injure people and you spar I need a nice back. We got make ice outside my neck For the children, dude somebody get him some enchanted ice cream. I lay on hands with my winchery Alladron fingers He'll have to call it. Thanks Kelly. It needs to be elevated Prussian Like a funny thing of a boxy trainer holding up the pads and then kicking I was trying to teach you the Jeff to be ready for anything. You know what I'm saying?

I know that now. Thank you. Thank you for the brutally hard lessons. You got this man, okay? I'm just... I'll miss you, okay? It's... there haven't been many people that I've met that have stuck around and meant something to me and you're one of them now. Thanks for staying that, Salam. I made the mistake of leaving my friends when they needed me once and I'm actually glad that we have a few days before this machine works because you deserve me here to see this one through. It's not going through without you. Leg sweet.

Ah! Oh, that's hot. Breathe. Just casually hop over it. I pulled it, yeah, I pulled the heavy. Yeah, I just start kind of like casually boxing with them now. And after a bit, I kind of take them aside and ask them one more question.

I don't know if you would need to clear this with someone up there. Seems like there's like a whole chain of command, but if possible, do you think you could take swag with you? He looks like he's still searching for something, and I think maybe the astral plane is where he needs to be. I mean, he gets certainly helped the cause. That's... it's an interesting idea. He's... he's found nothing but trouble here.

And I know there are good people that could use a man like swag up in the astral plane. I'll put in a good word with Alonus as soon as I get back. Thanks hard one. Upper cut. Ow. Damn, dude. You're fast. Yeah, you guys have this moment and yeah, Saul, I think you intuitively, you feel based on this sort of shared meditation moment that you had with swag that this is maybe a change that he would need. Like, he has been looking for a cause, something that is maybe a little simpler than a lot of the situations that he's found himself in. So truly kind of a way to help swag.

Finally, find out what's out there. You can't find a bigger pond than the astral plane. There you go. And as you guys are kind of going to bed for the night, preparing for your fight tomorrow, Callie, where do you think you're trancing tonight? Well, I'm making a Liam and Tiny Hut for us so we can sleep on the balcony, but also just to protect us from any spells or assassins.

I think I'll probably trance in there, but I think I want to ask Kenna. Kenna, I'm making the hut. Yeah. Obviously a home can be a place of respite, relief, comfort. And I feel like you could use some comfort. So I wondered if you had any input into what you'd like it to look like. If there's a place that's nostalgic for you you that you wouldn't mind spending a night in.

Yeah, if you could make it look like the training yards of Iron Deep Castle. Oh, okay. The dites prepared to go into battle. All right, I make like a real medieval time. It's just, it just looks like medieval time. It's actually so appropriate. I've always wanted to have a sleep over

in the sparring yard. Greetings, my squires. It comes with a king. And you go out your, um, uh, trancing there. And I'll say, maybe you even, yeah, you know that the, the serpents are out there getting the, um, the gem powered up.

So maybe even spend a little bit of time out there. Yeah. Um, and Kenna goes out there and sits maybe even spend a little bit of time out there. Yeah. And Kenna goes out there and sits with you for a little bit. She conveys that she can't sleep yet because she's too mad about the general pronunciation. I know. You know what, your anger is totally justified, but is it serving you? It was, it was, it was always the past.

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You see? You're just asking a kid question. You see that the ice dagger at your side is growing cold, um, specifically the symbol that you carved in. Um, my mother's sigil and I are re-access sigil. Yeah, they're like snowflake that you put on the side of a called her's dagger here. I put this sigil on my sword and and it's my mother's family crest.

Oh. And she was a winter alladron. I'm a winter alladron, you're right now, right? Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, and I think that maybe the proximity to Calder, who is from the frigid north, is, you know, sort of in liveening a. Also, it's the, it's the sigil of, have you heard of Aureox? Aureox, the Eladrid, who fought alongside the Giants.

Yeah. I took history three or one. Three of, yeah. You're allowed to do this stuff without weapons a lot earlier. So I was able to kind of take the fast track of that, but when it comes to hebers and stuff, a boldly onto a wood. That's okay. I mean, honestly, you need the knowledge

to know what to hit, right? That's a good call. Yeah. Well, this is also a reoxy symbol. So maybe it's being around these giants that's sort of also bringing out some power in it. Yeah, you see, Callie, the sort of also bringing out some power in it. Yeah, you see, Callie, the sort of connection to your mother

and this deal that you made with Oberon, that you would help with these serpents to sort of maybe be able to bring your mother back into existence or undo her erasure. You see the sort of power emanating off of it is starfire. You don't know how much of this is being powered by being close to Calder and how much of this is being powered by the serpents working together and the sort of little power source that you have created.

Okay, actually, I take that all back. It might be sort of a flaming representation of a promise I made. Well, God, promise did you bake. My mother did some bad things in life, and I am trying to redeem her name. Why would you want to do that? Because I think our parents have had longer lives than us so they've had a lot more time to fuck up and so their accumulated fuck ups are just bigger than ours. I think I have empathy for that, and I also think I still really love her. I think maybe it's a way of me forgiving her as well. Yeah.

I was like, do you before, but I do. A poor father crooked his by dad. Is he? Yeah. Well, I don't know where I'm at as far as that, but you know, I have general broads beard now, and for now, honestly, it feels good that I get to help somebody like you who's been through the same thing. I respect everything that you're saying. I will tell you that I wish I had a chance

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I think I look at the little bronze serpent and I know that Gromdol is tethered to him in some way, right? And I think about how it might be good to give him some tethers to me if he wants them. I do for him what I did not have the guts to do for Foster originally, and I'd say, little one. Would you like a name? Or just a nickname obviously just a little something tethering me to you like I promise that I'm going to take care of you. Kind of looks at you curiously. Perks up Okay, well I saw you in the cave.

No, no, no. You're very spirited. No, no, no, no. And I saw your bronze scales and the way that you caused little landslides and cave-ins. And I thought maybe you could use some nice strong roots. No, no. And there was a flower in my mother's garden that had really strong roots and really good for soil erosion and it was yellowish orangey. So I was thinking of calling you honey suckle.

Just sort of gestures around like he's like the serpent's thinking about it. Honey-suckle? It begins winding around you. Yeah, you also have a name picked out for you if you would like it. Well, you remind me of the moon, and I think of my mother's moon garden, and a silverish plant that really sparkles in the moon night. And I was wondering if I could call you the Khrish. Perks up almost like a cobra or a rattlesnake or something, and then sluice around you. The Khrish and honey, so cool.

Again, they're only nicknames. You know, your mother can call you ever she wants to. They join you kind of in your trance. As you see, they continue to charge up this transporter here. That winch works on kind of late into the night. The next morning, you guys all awake and winch has several homunculi, cooking breakfast, frying eggs, flipping flapjacks on little robo grittles.

Oh, does one of these do coffee. Great old me, play. You see that there's a little steaming pot robot that walks over to you really labor. God. Is boiling, like their voice sounds like a boiling teaket. I'll just... Hahahaha.

Put it out of his misery. I'd hate to trouble you for a cream and sugar. It seems like you're in a lot of pain. You see, Ben's over. A hatch opens up like where the robot's butt would be. And a bunch of brown, thick brown coffee pours out into a mug, turns around, throws up a bunch of milk into the cup.

It overflows. The rumba is not operational anymore, Throws up a bunch of milk into the cup. It overflows, the rumba is not operational anymore, so this is a mess all over the floor. It slips and falls on the ground and begins spewing coffee everywhere. Hard one delicate. Guys, I'm stuck in the juicer, I'm stuck in the juicer. I spotted the juicer!

Can I try to soft boil an egg in the lava? Yeah. I do that. Yeah, nice. Go ahead and give me a slight of hand check. Yeah. That is a 21 to try to slide to try to soft boil an egg in the lava. Yeah, I use successfully soft boiled an egg on.

Who wants runny, oak, hard boiled eggs? Lee. Yeah. Do you have any toast? I'd love to dip little soldiers sticks into this thing I saw the toast earlier and it looks depressed Put bread in my head What bread in my head? Are you in pain? Yeah, I am fucking why doesn't this guy just have normal

Why'd you make them all sentient, which? I'm trying to have little friends and stuff, but they all then become really sad that their appliances. So yeah, it's got to be. You should investigate that within yourself. I will. What about you? Oh, you're a wizard. That sounds like the wizard.

I've been an art officer. I guess an art officer is kind of a wizard. But yeah, Winch packs up his stuff for the day. All right, are you guys ready to get going? Yeah, I scoop coffee off the floor into a thermos and get ready. Let's start strategy. I'm thinking I try and stay scarce. I guess bless on all of us.

And I think you guys do the heavy lifting so I can save my spells in case we get into it. Are you trying to stay scarce because you have like a history with the bag guy? Yeah. No, I was thinking more like so that he can't break my concentration. That's nice. Okay.

Right, yeah. As long as you didn't catch feelings. You know, because I have a history with him. Yeah, all right. We don't know what he looks like under that mask and that could be bad if he kicks it off. Yeah, just dangerous to fall for someone on a trip as well. It's also hard because it's like,

I'm picturing what he looks like under the bag and you know that I'm coming up with my dream guy. Yeah. And then the bag is gonna come off and he's gonna look different. I'm gonna, I'm gonna de-bag him for sure. Well, I mean, why else would he wear a bag if not to hide how beautiful he is? Is there a reason you guys are so into chinsalba groh?

He just made an impression of someone. He just seemed, he wears a, he eats through a bag like as a choice it seems. Yeah. And it was swinging a chinsalat a crowd. Gena. Yeah, it was swinging, it changed a lot of crowd. Yeah, yeah. Someday when you enter the dating pool, you'll find out how fucked up you really are. I don't know.

Ken, you're very young. You're very young. Very good. Great, yeah. You'll find out the precise ways in which you're fucked up once you start dating. OK, let's go for it. So you guys join a throng of people heading towards the Great Fortress. once we stop dating. Okay, let's go for it. Sweet.

So you guys join a throng of people heading towards the great fortress. In off trench coat. In your trench coat, you'll walk against one big giant. Hard one is much more grave than his jolly makeup would let it seem. Oh yeah, you guys are the jolly jolly. The jolly josters.

The jolly josters or the jousting justers? Well, we're the jolly justers. josters the jolly josters or the jousting justers Well, we're the jostling justers, but I'm the julling joster. He's the the juicy joster The juicy joster and then hard and I'm the jester jester, but that will be revealed during the performance Currently, we're just the jolly joster people think they were just singular This all happened before I knew my friends were immortal danger Just clown makeup on so seriously now I have to do a jig I think I've dread I think since I'm standing on your shoulders Or I guess like maybe I'm piggybacking on your shoulders. I'm like giving you a little shoulder rub being like

We're gonna get you that baby. We are gonna get you into the stars into the sky You are going to fucking outer space after this. So I was like hit bull My shoulders are shaking because I'm I'm not crying, but watching. And my shoulders are shaking because I'm not crying, but I'm just, my muscles are tense because I'm amped. It's all. Yeah, you guys see the castle gates are open now. So it's not just people outside of the castle. There are trumpeters greeting the mostly giant citizens

that are filing in. And you see beyond the black iron keep, there's a huge colosseum with the same aesthetic, very brutal and sharp architecture with pointy spires. You can see exhibition battles have already begun, and they're being projected with magitech, so they appear even bigger above the arena. So you can actually see what's happening

from the outside here. You see people cheering, throwing up their drinks, celebrating, holding like tickets, because they're betting on different fighters and stuff. And you see, as the revelers begin walking in through the main entrance, you see a tent nearby that funnels into the Colosseum from a side entry, and this one is labeled for gladiators.

You see winch kind of gestures over there for you guys and goes, well, good luck, I guess I'll, I'll see you all on the other side. And, oh, here you go. I was able to finish working on this. Hands you saw the bracers that'll let you essentially like transmit your memory into a projection over the Colosseum when you guys are giving your platform if you win the tournament. Got you, the hollow hands.

Okay, I got them. Great. What? Why do you call them the hollow hands? It's like a hollow gram, the hollow hands. Okay, I got him, great. What? Why do you call them the hollow hands? It gives us like a hollow gram, but hollow hands. Oh, okay, okay. I like that now. Alright, don't get a name everything. Winch, I want some.

I see you say that, Clyde, you look so brilliant, Barry. Did you, you used pee by me? No, I didn't. Did you fucking use pee by me? No, I did it. I was, what? You're such a fucking spy. Oh, Winch! I'm not even. Did you fucking eat people? I did it. I was. What? You such a fucking spy.

A winch. Saw kicks him. Poo-poo-poo-poo-poo-poo-poo-poo-poo-poo. You see, Mauser tried to around you. Oh, yeah, Mauser. How was it? Mauser, were you spying on the last night? Boop, when I was naming this happen.

Boop, boop. Your name's a serpent? Bullscanrel. Yeah. What are your names? Well, the nicknames, right? Well, I also, no one needs to use them. Stupid, it's whatever.

I don't know, one of them is honey, suckle, and the other ones, the grish. I love them. That's beautiful. Okay, good. Yeah, you see, um, Winch walks off. And at the Gladiator entrance, you see that there's a fire giant

attendant in a black ceremonial robe with red trim. Looks like some kind of like major acolytes. As you guys approach in your trench coat, he goes, Jolly Joster, was it? Ha ha. Shut up torso. I open up the torso.

Oh shit. This is that hard one, can't speak. Or I guess no, no. We're in the- Hard one's the face of the- Oh hard one of the face? Okay. That hard ones of the middle.

So he's wearing clown, oh that makes me. He's wearing makeup, but he's in the middle. I mean, you guys are dumb as hell. It makes that makes sense, I guess. Yeah, we're committing to that. Okay, we're committing to that, that hard ones in the middle.

So I think hard one speaks, but I move my mouth as if I'm one transmitting it. Oh, it is I, the Jolly Jelster, watch me do a merry jig, and then I tap Saul, go. I have his just all the way too much. Saul's legs are sweating so bad, all of his muscles are shpraying, as for some reason the smallest dude is on the bottom.

I'm punctuating every single word. He thought, like played jazz hands. Zoo. Yeah, but skimmy cats, you do know that small folk are allowed to compete in teams. So you don't have to, if you were a small folk, you wouldn't have to put on a giant transfer. I love him.

Ah. Ah. OK. Well, you're competing in the Hedge Knight tournament. It's going to be very, very exciting this year. Follow me inside. You guys never heard of a gimmick before. The attendant leads you into the service entrance.

I mean, you hear the stomping of feet and cheering through the stone, a ceiling above you, but down here it is quiet and tense. The giants you're passing down here are mostly fellow warriors, or people, you know, working with those warriors, so the mood is very serious. You are brought to a private locker room area for you to prepare yourselves. You see

there are magic tech, you know, literally like showers and like places to sharpen your weapons, seats and tables for you to rest your rehab on, and the attendant goes, we'll be back for you when the time is ready, but in the meantime feel free to watch the other contests. You see he lowers the projection screen and shows the battles that are happening in the pit. And you see that there are two fire giants fighting, but it is far from a regular battle. You see instead of the normal kind of sand pit that you'd expect in a coliseum like this,

you see these magical platforms underneath them and barriers surrounding them that change the weather and conditions of the battle. You see, as time passes, you see there's a fight where there's like heavy winds that throw competitors off of the platforms into dangerous pits and traps, other ones where there's like orbs summoning random minions, there are fights taking place in different climates. Okay, I have a question. Should we bring honey suckle with us, or should we leave honey suckle to do the teleportation thing?

My only thought is that, I mean, I'm trying to keep him safe. Yeah, I don't, I don't want them to come, I target again. Okay, so we'll leave honey suckle. Yeah, do you want to bring, I'll bring licorice. Okay, okay, licorice suckle. Because, so we'll leave Hunt all. Leave Hunt all. Yeah, do you wanna bring... I'll bring Lickrish. Okay, okay.

Lickrish, come on. Lickrish is just a summon. Honey Suckle in the morning was still kind of working on powering this battery with Starfire. I was called on Omnom and Sparky in my head. This is way better. Honestly, it's a nickname. Everyone can have their own name.

I just wanted a tether to him just to sort of counteract the tether that Gromdall has. That's smart. She get a little bumper sticker that says, I love my honey suckle or something like that. Things got a little like silhouette of a worm on it. Clipy hides one that she already made up. I'll talk it. Yeah, this is a really good idea.

So should we hit the buffet? Yeah. Yeah, you see that there is food left out. Lots of, you know, for the gladiators, disappointingly clean meats. You go there, there's a bunch of like grilled chicken and salads and things like that. Nothing on a bone that I can know on that.

This chicken breast is the size of a roast chicken. Yeah, it's pretty big. It's kind of exciting. Kind of exciting, I guess. See, Kenneth sneaks off and comes back with a bunch of jumbo hot dogs that are 10 times the size of a normal, hot dog. Oh, thank you, my squire.

God. We've done well. Oh, we're gonna bring Kenneth in with us. I mean, we have to, right? I mean, it's up to her, but I don't know. So, yes, yes, yes. Kenneth wants to fight. Of course, of course.

Okay, let's do it then. All right. Hey, look, this hot dog says, longs my tongue. Right. I lost my appetite. Why, look, this hot dog is as long as my tongue. Brat. I lost my appetite. Why did you lick the hot dog to show us how long your tongue was? Do you guys have any postions that you want to give me

or anything, or do we have any spells? We want to be in a pod. Let's give you how many potions can you hold? That is you can give me. Okay, shall we give you all but we'll show you nine? I could hold 23. Without her billy. Is that your record?

That's my record. You are a caguerre of potion, healing. We'll give you nine. See Foster looks jealous. Let's do it. You get the hot dogs little one. And then we each keep two. Oh yeah, that's a good idea.

We each keep two, kinda gets nine. Great. Okay, Kenna loads up on potions. Is there any way for us to find out who are, Oh yeah. Chainsaw McGraw. Is who we're fighting? Yeah.

To me, okay, this is so stupid. And you guys can say no, we should have tried to do this. I'm already saying yes. But we could try to like toast him to say, hey, good match. And then try to poison his drink. Or his hot dog. OK, so that I think thinks it may be a step too far.

Put it in my hot dog, maybe. I thought this was like a blue sky session, but all right. I just worry that if I give someone, I guess you could maybe inject it with a needle. Yeah, we could like, we could douse his mask with poison. So he's breathing in the fumes. Okay.

But I think the drink is probably good. I, yeah, my thought was, because I have purified food and drink, so I could always poison it and then purify ours. Oh, what's that? You know, like toast him. Yeah, then he won't suspect anything. But I also, we were drinking the same.

I don't know that chainsaw bag man even would drink or entertain any sort of cordial approach. Right. You do get so the other, you don't know who the other competitors are because like a lot of them have other nights that are with them or like maybe they'll have a squire or something, and they're in their kind of closed locker rooms.

You do hear him freaking out in his locker room and the chain saw going off. I gotta be honest, I think this move is maybe for someone else. I just can't see, we need a knight who wants to, who wants to entertain formalities, and I don't think he's our guy He might just not be bright at all though and we could just kind of put the poison Yeah, last with anything just near him last pitch last pitch. I love it all right

We we get some red food coloring and we make it seem like it's the blood of his enemies and he drinks that Can I do an insurgent or like a check to see if I remember seeing him drink blood at all? Sure, yeah. Okay. They did briefly date, so I feel like yeah. Six. Six? Here's the problem with chainsaw McGraw.

Is chainsaw wears a bag over his head so you don't know how much gets in there, but you can assume he does drink blood. Is there a way to get it essentially to get the poison in the bag, so he's essentially huffing poison? That's what I'm saying. Mouse it, mouse it. Which you can sit in. No, I can't put your arms back.

Let's just fight about it. I'm just letting his mind of water. Great. That's right. That's right. This is fight about it. You're gonna play around with this. This is fight about it. Hopefully. Great. You guys decide against it, and after a little bit of the attendant returns, it goes, Jolly Jelsters, we're ready for you.

Okay. Okay. Let's go Jj's. Do it. So you guys are assured through the darkness of the lower Colosseum, but see a bright light at the end of the tunnel, and when you enter into the pit,

you feel a rush of heat Not only from the various lava pits and magma moats But the sea of humanoids that are screaming from the teard stands above as you are brought out with the other competitors you are hit with Jeers from the crowd Hey, this this fighting pit must look pretty big to you guys, huh? We don't know what you're talking about. We are put one jolly giant. Oh, I'm so sorry. Hey, asshole, face your eyes on this and I open the trench coat like a rude gesture, but it reveals all of us. We got you.

We got you. You fell for it. Some people do start cheering. They like that showmanship. I will, God bless on all of our due. All right, yeah, yeah, yeah. You cast bless as you go in. I'll do it second level so that I hit Kenneth as well. Rad, you guys see several other accolades

in these black and red robes approach and begin separating the competitors into quadrants dividing the battlefield into four. You see some accolades shepherding the contestants while others are setting up magitech equipment. Across the field, you can see your fellow competitors. There are seven, besides yourselves. It's a pretty eclectic crew of giants. Some outsiders try to make a name for themselves and others fire giants that lack the old family

name who aren't able to get themselves into the more prestigious tournaments or duels. Directly across from you is, of course, Chainsaw McGraw, who is this absurdly ripped giant in tiny shorts with a bagel for his head. I give him a flirty look. He just goes, huh, huh, you, hurt everyone. You see, Fully doesn't understand the etiquette of fighting in the tournament and is being held back by several guards, not just fight. You see, he is trying to eat blood.

So passionate. He's so passionate. Look at that. It would have worked. And as these guards are holding him back, you do see an MC, this senior attendant in fine robes, approaches the middle of the pit and clicks together his bracers to create a magical projection that projects his voice, and an image of his body as he gestures to the crowd and the crowd roars in response. He goes,

Welcome to the Battle of the Hedge Knights, where even the lolliest have a chance to earn the royal favor of the glorious King. I look at the most regal person here. It's Chainsaw McGraw. What family do you come from You see, the MC gestures up to the King's seat atop a balcony, where he is surrounded by attendance, pouring him wine and bringing him food. See, the King kind of just waves for him to get on with it. We begin with eight giants, or in this case, seven giants and one squad of small folk.

You see the acolytes. Oh, my God, we're a swarm to them. A swarm of small folk. You see the accolades. Oh my God, we're a swarm to them. A swarm of small folks. That's right, yeah, we would like to use one stab block. No money. You see the accolades that we're setting with the Magitech back off and activate the devices. And you see they glow and create barriers

locking off the individual quadrant. So locking you in here with chainsaw McGraw. And the MC continues. Each giant is paired off against one opponent for the first round. Once your opponent is bested, a barrier will drop and you'll be connected to another quadrant. This will continue until the entire battlefield is open and one giant is left standing. Each quadrant has its own set of environmental challenges that will compound as more sections open up. And now

without further ado, please give it up for your hedge nights. In the bottom right corner it's Snowden Scaldor versus Iscar Hardshell the Dragon Tornalborn. You see Snowden Scaldor is just a generic fire giant fighter and cheap leather armor waving to the crowd to a tepid response. While this giant turtle man with an iron shell draws a huge reaction and he points at Snowden and goes, I'll see you in shell.

Everyone was fucking wild. Okay, so they do know a good gimmick when they see it. In the top right corner, we've got two hometown boys, Heluk Skurge vs. Jorb Grundel. Oh, no. And you see Jorb, but you see two young fire giant knights wave to the crowd and Jorb looks across the battlefield at you guys and goes, once I'm done with him, we finish this.

If we don't get killed first. Cute. Chainsaw McGraw, Rampus, Chainsaw. And the MC goes with it and goes, and of course in the top left corner, crowd favorite, Chainsaw McGraw. And there's like cheers, but if you were a little worried and concerned.

Oh. Vers the Jolly Jousters. I take out my jewel sugar and start smoking. You see, yeah, tap the response at first, but as you start vaping, you get a few cheers in the crown. And of course, in the bottom right corner, it's Borg Snib Fax, Vers the original Jlly jowster

What? What? What? Borg is another fire giant warrior, but the other jolly jowster is a cloud giant in Clown makeup that kind of looks like Jared let us Joker and you guys lock size with you guys so fucking steam It was a case of parallel thinking I swear to God Hey, whoever wins this keeps the name. That's what's really at stake Nods, and you hear the MC goes well. I hope that guy doesn't hold any resentment towards these small folks stealing his gimmick No, let the tournament begin. Look at this happen. Our gimmick was so original everyone go ahead and roll initiative Let the tournament begin! Look at this happen, our gimmick was so original.

Everyone go ahead and roll initiative. Woo! 23. 25. 26. Jesus. Oh my god. Yeah.

Us. Yeah, yeah. OK, at the start of the fight in your quadrant, you see a pedestal with a sphere atop it rises from the platform below you. It radiates some kind of electricity, and you see lightning begin shooting off of it, connecting with the arcane barriers around you

and electrifying them. It begins also radiating wind around it and creating a storm inside your quadrant as rain and hail crashes down. This quadrant that you guys are stuck in is 60 feet wide and 60 feet long. You are standing near the middle, 10 feet from Chainsaw McGraw, who holds this chainsaw over his head, that's about 20 feet long.

And you guys are about 20 feet from the back wall at this juncture. At the start of the round, Cali, you are first to act. At the start of your turn, give me a strength saving throw. As you feel, this wind beginning to pull you towards the arcane barriers behind you that are electrified. You see like as some rocks and debris and stuff picks up, you see it hits the arcane barrier and is shocked and disperses. 13. 13.

Fails by one. So you move one d10 back. You only fall three feet back. So you are still quite a distance from the arcane wall. You don't have to worry about it yet. Okay, I'm mounted. Likersh is gonna use his movement to get us to train some McGraw.

To get us to train some McGraw. And then after I attack, he's gonna take a detour. Kill a worm. No. Kill your worm. Kill your worm. Kill your worm. Okay, first attack is a 29. Change Samagra is wearing no shirt and very little pants. Second attack is 29 again.

It's the skin. Okay. It's the skin. Okay. It's the skin. I'm gonna do a flourish and I will do two first double smites. Great. Okay. So, yeah, Cali, you ride up on licorice. You see, Chainsaw McGraw's quite clumsy. Pulls back, starts revving the Chainsaw.

As he leaves his big open exposed chest, you dart in on licorice and stab into his exposed flesh twice quickly. I go plus eight to my AC and then 35 plus eight becomes 43. Yeah, you fuck chainsaw magross right up a stab into a burst of starfire. And then I'm going to licorice is going to take disengage. Okay. Can we go 30 feet? And then I'm going to, uh, Likris is gonna take disengage. Okay. Can we go 30 feet? You can get 30 feet from him, but you'll be next to the wall.

So if you fail, if you get knocked above five feet, you'll get knocked into the wall. Oh, okay. So then you know what? We will stay within range and I will cast bonus action sanctuary. It's not concentration on licorice. Great, nice. After Cali's turn, that is Saul's turn. And I'm blessed.

Yeah, six. So that's attacks and saves. Great, attacks and saves, that's very fun. Oh, start of your turn, strength save. Oh, right. 19? 19 passes. Yes, Saul, you dig deep, get low.

Most of the wind is going over your head. You do feel rain pouring down and stuff, but the wind tunnel is just starting to pick up. You're able to kind of use your sticky membrane to stay stuck to the ground here. Yeah, I was at a permanent squat the entire walk over here, so I'm like really steady. Cool.

I'm just gonna like hope that the fact that I'm small and I have a displacement scarf means that he's gonna have a hard time hitting me with a chainsaw that is five times my size. That's right, yeah. I'm just gonna hold onto that hope and I'm just gonna get up there and just wail on his kneecaps.

So I'm gonna do two attacks. Great. That's a natural one and a natural three. Okay, he's kneecaps for real hard. What are those add up to three. Okay. He's the natural three. What are those add up to? Yeah, because he's not wearing much. Shit, this is a good point. Oh, not wearing pants.

So, 11? 11 does not hit. Okay, but then. So you see, his knees are quite hard. 13? 13 hits. Oh, yeah. Punches knee one time and just hit bone,

but then you get behind him and sort of buckle his leg. There we go Always go for the soft parts It's an eight on my poison damage, so that is going to be 18 points of damage I poison is knee real bad So your rash begins to form there was already rash there it gets worse Starts picking up the boys and I be back there. Here. Oh.

Ah. Okay. Where are you from? I'm across from you anyway. I'm from the woods. Okay, actually I'm across from you again. And then I'm going to go ahead and do flurry of blows while I'm here. Okay, well, here.

Why not? Yeah, you keep punching down. Kill a frog. So you've got like Terminator vision, that's just like the wet parts of his knee. Yeah, when did you discover this passion? Making bags out of people. You wait, it's the back on your head made of human skin.

It's my dream to someday make a bag out of school. Oh, you haven't done it yet. Not yet. Oh, okay. 20 and 25, both hit. Okay, great. It's all appears. Not yet. Okay. 20 and 25, both hit. Okay, great. Saul appears before his vision, briefly turns into a frog purse.

That's beautiful. 17 more damage. Six. You. Great, yeah. I keep hitting into Chainsaw McGraw's legs, causing him to buckle. He keeps trying to wind up to get ready to attack,

but you guys are too quick for him at the moment. Anything at the end of your turn, any bonus actions or anything? You flurried. I flurried, so I'm good. I just run around in a circle around him. Great. He buzzes his chainsaw.

No, no, no. The only thing that's ever bothered him. No! Hard one that's returned. Okay, so Strengthsave. Strengthsave, just kick it off. Okay, that's 18. 18 passes?

Great. Sweet, so you weather the storm and you are not pushed into any of the fences here? Okay, then I guess I just, I'm gonna take a step towards Chainsaw McGraw and say, I don't care how beautiful you are under that bag. I'm gonna fuck you right up, and it's not gonna be pretty like I imagine you are. I just create. Right.

Yeah. So the create will also cat us a perception check. You see, under the bag, which is really more of kind of a stocking. You do see that chainsaw McGraw is maybe super handsome. Oh my god. I thought me. Okay, that is 25 damage. Nice.

I'll take my second attack, and that one is a 19 hit. 19 hits, of course. I'll use a superiority die. I think this a goading attack. Ooh! That's another 26 damage. Shit. And now he's got a role a wisdom saving throw.

And if he fails, he has disadvantage on all attack roles against targets other than me. Okay. Yeah. Chainsaw McGraw does not have good wisdom and absolutely fails. Yeah. Wow.

He's a strict charisma bill. You're hot dumb. Just like I thought. Ah, sweet. Okay, so he looks quite injured after a hard one's turn. Some of the other competitors are launching into fight each other.

The barriers between you guys are translucent. It is kind of hard to see what's going on there. You can't really see who's getting the better of who. Any terrain that we clock. So you do clock some terrain. You do see that in the lower left, that is the Jolly Jouster's fight, the original Jolly Jouster. You see, he's fighting someone on a platform

surrounded by water. So it looks like their quadrant is filling up with water. And you see the one that Jorb is fighting with. Can't really see what's going on there. It looks like just kind of a raised platform like they're having just like a gladiator joust. And you see, bottom right, the Iskhar, the dragon, total born is fighting someone.

And there's also a giant octopus monster in the quadrant with them, but it is on dry land, so it's just kind of like uselessly snapping out at 10 seconds for now. After a couple of the other guys turns, that is Chainsaw McGraw's turn. Chainsaw McGraw is going to roll a strength save and passes comfortably, is going to run over

to hard one and go, you're my favorite. Oh, lucky me. I understand. Rebs the chain soft. 19 gonna hit? Ah, yes. Yes it will. 26 damage on the first attack with the chain soft.

Okay, yeah, that thing's actually kind of painful. I am actually going to have a reaction. Ooh. I'm going to turn it back on him, repute the violin. Whoa. Yeah. So he takes half the damage. No, no, no, he does a wisdom save

or it takes all of the damage. Whoa. Let me see precisely the, okay. Immediately after an attacker within 30 feet deals damage with an attack against a creature other than you, you can use your reaction to force the attacker to make a wisdom saving throw on a failure. The attacker takes radiant damage equal to the damage it just dealt or half damage on this.

Yeah, he takes full damage. You see, yeah, Chainsaw hits into hard one, cuts through some of his armor, but you see there's an explosion out of hard ones wound that hits, Chainsaw McGraw. Oh, you're magic. 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, time. Okay. And then has a third, he's wielding the chain salt with like one hand. Whoa. And then he makes a grapple attempt.

So go ahead and give me a contested athletics check. 21. Okay, he got a 17. So you see he grabs onto you with one hand, but you go two on one, you use two hands on his big meaty wrist, and you're able to like, stalemate him as you see he tries to push your head into the barrier. Lightning!

To the lightning! I don't think so, it's done muffin, not today. As he tries to push you near the barrier, you smell his minty breath. Did you use binoculars? as he tries to push you near the barrier, you smell his minty breath. He takes care of himself. Did you use binoculars? I saw you drinking blood, how is it? How is it minty? After a chainsaw McGraw's turn,

we cut pretty far down the initiative order to get to Kenna. Kenna, you're blessed. You see Kenna looks at you and surveys the situation. Do you want me to support you or do you guys want me to take the shot? I want you to take the shot. I want you to finish the shot. Take your shot. Yeah. Great. She pulls the hammer off her back and she's like,

I've been holding it a lot of rage. These last couple of days. Can I look at Saul and be like, get your holo hands going? Because we are going to want to show this to Jaina. And you see, she walks forward. I've only taken hammers, what a wood, but I have a lot of experience in the field. And she's going to take a couple cracks at Chainsaw McGraw.

She's blessed. Natural 18. Yeah. And then with bless, she more than easily hits. at Chainsaw McGraw. She's blessed. Natural 18. Yeah. And then with bless, she more than easily hits. He has let his guard down. Literally is wrestling with hard one with one hand, trying to use a chainsaw with the other hand.

She does nine damage to him, which brings him to Death's Door. Yes, yes, yes. And then it manages to hit again, and with the minimum amount of damage, is able to finish him off. So you see she cracks him once across the face. You see blood shoots out from under the bag

as he grabs his face. You see she smashes his chest with the war hammer, hitting him into one of the barriers. You see it electrocutes him. You see all of this lightning damage going into this giant Who begins to sizzle and pop and cook from the inside as you see his muscles inflate Save that beautiful face and change the job of Explode

As the audience goes craze First round kill. And you see as chainsaw McGraw goes down, the southern barrier of your quadrant goes down. And you see the original Jolly Jouster is in the middle of a fight. You see, they're atop platforms as water breaks in

from the destroyed barrier and begins filling up your quadrant Everyone the platform below you Cracks and begins to float up, but it is inconsistent And you see that there are gaps in the platform here under which you can see water And you see that the electrical sphere that was causing the weather submerges under the water and ends shooting lightning and electricity through the water and the wind kind of changes

from wind to a whirlpool. As you feel yourselves beginning to get sucked into it as two giants lock eyes on you, and that's where we'll end our session. Yeah, let's go down. You guys absolutely fucked up chainsaw. That felt good. Kind of how it had to go.

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for the lead singer of the mountain crows. Yeah, winter slayed. Forest H-A-K-A life is like a box of Martha Togold's sticky buns. You never know which one you're gonna get, but they're always really good. Thanks, mom. Riley S. FICO. Angry Wheat. Thraft. The Demon Lord of Spite. Anthony, the Radits, thrath, the demon lord of spite. Anthony, the ratest of dudes, who secured his Carnegie Hall tickets for himself and his lovely partner Josh, the finest of dudes, congrats dudes, see you there. Josh H. Mango and Pannadas, Clementine T. Caleb L. Ferries followers say hi. Hashtag, Cullder, will come cold again. Can't trip Dumbledore the bear ones you wearing barbarian?

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