Not Another D&D Podcast - C3 Ep. 46: Goodbye, Goodbye (Legends of Irondeep)
Episode Date: October 20, 2023Duck Team celebrates their victory but faces a tough crowd! Callie befriends a giant rat, Calder steals Sol's style, and Hardwon moves on. Support us at Patreon.com/Naddpod to get a...ccess to the after-show and a bunch of other Naddpod content! Get tickets to our upcoming live shows at naddpod.com/live.Get tickets to Caldwell and Jake's Spooky D&D Livestream here! - https://www.moment.co/danddMusic / 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’s Tournament” by Emily Axford."A Friend for Life" by Emily Axford. "The Fairy" by Emily Axford. "Lilith Latrix" by Emily Axford."Malscurial" by Emily Axford. "Winch" by Emily Axford."Hospitable" by Emily Axford."Implicated" by Emily Axford."Winter Sprite" by Emily Axford."Hardwon Takes the Wheel" by Emily Axford."The Twinkling Lights of Galaderon" by Emily Axford."Shadowfell" by Emily Axford."Zelbuldar" by Emily Axford."Secret Basement" by Emily Axford."Spooky Shafts" by Emily Axford."Water World" by Emily Axford."Tarragon's Terrarium" by Emily Axford."A Fairy Remembers" by Emily Axford. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Welcome to the campaign after the campaign.
This is not another D&D podcast.
Welcome back to Bahumia, everybody.
Bahumia!
Bahumia!
I'm your dungeon master, Brian Murphy,
joined by Jake Herwitz.
Saying goodbye to playing two guys,
hard one short foot, and colder kill deck.
Oh.
That's it.
That's because you're gonna be playing three guys,
isn't it?
Right, just out of your other guy.
Let's get jivelin' back in here.
Oh, you're not emerging from the ashes. Right. We're just out of here. Let's get jivelin back in here. Oh, well, you see emerging from the ashes. Yes.
He looks old. What if I just threw a plot twist at you that you couldn't get hard
one out of here no matter what? I don't know. You just had to keep playing to do
the planer. The shift shifting to the extra so the actual plane is broken. I
really think they need me. Janna asks you really earnestly to stay please you have to for iron deep are you sure Murph? I mean Jaina
Yeah, really I'm trying to see if you're winking at me. You're not Jaina. Okay. Yeah, no, I'll stay. That's fine
Anyway, we also have Emily asked for looking to try playing to
Emily acts for looking to try playing to guys
Yeah, okay
You see fio boginia emerges from the lava I'm a bitch
And then of course we have called a Tanner excited to be back with my friends and I'm gonna play four amphibians. That's right, get over here,
here come all the clones.
What are their names?
We've got Saul, we've got Dylan.
I bet it, that's all I'm Dylan.
Yeah, they're two Saul Dylan.
Exactly, yeah.
Four of them, they're spelled differently.
The hesitation Dylan was perfect.
The station's very normal name.
I just realized though that Kawa's really good justification
for playing multiple guys.
We do have Kawa playing a monk in every single subclass.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, we do that.
I really like that.
Yeah, we should do that, Merv.
And they should all sing it should be a quintet situation.
I love.
Oh, yeah.
Anything that sacrifices the story for the purpose
of complicated mechanics.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
You can just quadruple my voice, so we all talk together at the same time.
Dylan, Dylan, Dylan.
Dylan.
All right.
Since we've forgotten what the podcast is about, let's go ahead and do a little recap.
Great.
So last time, Duck Team did battle with Ultras and his cultists, Callie joined, called her and Jaina in the Demi Plainar prison
with the help of the un-curseed necklace
while Saul, Hardwan and Kenna fought in the arena.
I just wanna say Ultras and the cultists
sounds like a really good band name.
A good band name.
Oh, definitely.
Good jam band.
Ultras was able to use his powers to trade places
with his followers and protect the prison barriers.
However, he failed to take down Saul at a pivotal moment.
The resilient frog was able to revive hard one and keep the fight going, as Ultras returns to
the demi plane to defend the last barrier. Kali echoed Saul's resiliency by fending off the
giant's attacks. Calder managed to launch forward and grapple him, allowing enough time for Jaina to throw the King's hammer,
Shattering the last arcane wall and putting the legendary weapon in Hardwan's hands.
Yeah!
Yeah!
As you all landed in the arena, you saw Ultras on his last legs, but before you could finish him off,
Lizar sacrificed himself to summon evil spirit guardians.
In response, Hardwan summoned his own,
calling not only the dwarf daddies,
but ancestors and kindred spirits of your entire party,
including Artyoc's The Winter Eladron.
Ooh.
Leading the Guardians was old Cobb,
who repeated the speech he gave to Hardwan
while he was knocked down on the astroplane.
Cobb asked Hardwan to let him leave the world
knowing that the kids were gonna to be alright and then charged.
As the spirits tangled, you were given an opportunity to banish Ultras, Callion Saul,
endured his attacks, eventually being saved by Kenna and Calder, and Hardwan finally managed
to capture the giant in the King's Hammer with the help of the distraction and some party inspiration. Ultras of Soul was sucked into the King's Hammer, which crashed into the earth
as the crowd went wild, and that's where we are now.
I give her getting there's a crowd.
Oh yeah.
Can I be struts around wearing her eye tamed the beast of I.O.S.
Shirt.
People are cheering.
Still don't know what that means. Still don't know what that means. high tames the beast of I. A. A. A.
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A. A. A. A. A. A. Keeps burning up and I have to keep replacing it. So right off the bat, the crowd is going crazy after seeing this insane battle.
You see Jaina and the injured Kenna are just kind of looking on in wonder.
They're in the middle of this colosseum full of giants.
And after a moment, the residual snow from Ultrasus summoning begins to melt away.
And the arena returns to its kind of oppressive heat.
Jaina doesn't look affected.
She seems to have some kind of resistance to fire,
but colder, you feel yourself burning up without a suit.
Oh, ow.
Oh, are you just shy and embarrassed with all the attention?
I'm really, I'm in a lot of pain.
Because your cheeks are blushing.
There is a sinching, I think I'm burning alive, yeah.
Can we get this guy a suit? Can we get this guy a suit?
Can we get this guy a suit, please?
Does the necklace I'm wearing have the capacity, right?
Your necklace does grant protection against fire.
The only thing different about it is that it's not cursed anymore.
Colder, I know that you're about to die,
but let's make this the jit.
Will you get to a knee, Sir Calder?
Calder falls to Indian hain.
Just so sweaty and red.
I unclasp the necklace.
Did you dab a dot at your time?
Let's say.
Make a moment of it, but let's make a second of it.
In the name of the serpent of the stars.
Finish the sentence, Calri Taldor.
I'm not.
He's so cold.
And I clasp it on.
Woo!
And yeah, you start to take damage.
You start to burn away.
As Callie puts the necklace over you,
you feel yourself restored.
And you are still injured from the battle that you had
with Ultras, but no longer taking damage from the heat.
It now feels hot and here, but it no longer is actively injuring you.
Thank you, Cali.
Cali stands up and puts an Armand Cali shoulder.
You're welcome, so call to Kilday.
Damn, this one feels more legit.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
I saw jumps right into Calder's face
and just like does like a full body face hug.
There he is.
I missed you so much, buddy.
I missed you too, Frog Bell.
Ha ha ha.
Frogton and Holmes back together.
Yeah, duck team embraces as Jaina starts walking over
towards a U-Hard one, Kenna runs forward
and crashes into U-Hard one, Kenna runs forward and crashes into
U-Hard one to give you a hug. I actually wanted to go over to Kenna and like
take her arm up and say enjoy this little one. This is your victory too and
like turn her towards the audience. Yeah you lift up Kenna's arm and you hear a
roar from the crowd and Jaina Patz Kenna on the shoulder and you see Kenna's arm and you hear a roar from the crowd.
And Jaina, Pat's on the shoulder
and you see Kenna looks on in wonder kind of
welling up in her eyes.
Seems like you might not be a squire forever.
Seems like there could be a promotion today.
Yeah, this is, I think I'm ready for Hebers 3 or what?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha. That's exactly what I was wondering.
And you see Jaina nods and goes,
I think you've had enough experience in the field at this point.
And yeah, Jaina gives Kenna a little hug,
very affectionate towards Kenna.
And then as the crowd continues to kind of cheer,
you see Jaina walks over to hard one.
Thought you were enjoying your
gold in years, hard one, shorefoot. You know, I didn't think you could eat too many beans,
but it turns out you can. She laughs, confused, but he gives you a predator handshake.
I predator handshake her back. She pulls you in. It's good to have you back. It's good to be back.
You see the fire giant judges, the ones that were kind of the the referees of this match. They have these expressionless masks on and they step forward and project to the crowd.
Yo winners, duck team! You hear cheers throughout the crowd.
No, thank you.
And the...
We suck, everybody!
We suck, we're too much and we don't know where to stop!
Who is the beast of Iron Deep? Why do they suck?
They suck, but we're cheering for that, okay?
I'm a sautant like a call in response.
Who sucks? We suck!
Hey, don't suck! You suck!
I'm suck! We suck! Who teamed the beast of Iron Deep? Who sucks, we suck, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, who sucks, Light cheering. Judge continues and goes, King Actors claim to victory is rescinded.
Jaina Bronzebeard is freed.
And with this,
there's a little bit of a turn in the crowd.
They got caught up in this fight,
but things immediately get a little tense.
You see that a lot of the giants,
some of them have been kind of one over by this,
see this as being like almost like a judgment of the all father, a fair contest.
They begin to stop their feet in agreement and others kind of begrudgingly join in.
So there is like a decent chorus, like a low rumble of people in agreement throughout the arena.
Up in the king's box, you see a tense
situation is mounting. King Aktar is trying to get away, but Mordigan and her crimson nights
are kind of blocking him. You see that the red nights are getting tangled up with the King's
own guards. Mordigan manages to separate herself from the escalating melee and pulls out this little
like handheld amplifier device that she puts to her helm to echo it out to the whole arena.
Listen up.
Enough chanting everybody.
And one more again looks down at you guys. Thank you.
She projects to the whole arena. My brother lied to you about defeating
Jaina Bronzebeard. He undermines our people. He undermines Moschurial and works against
the all father himself. And Morgan had, when the first wave of cultists had teleported to the demi plane to keep
Calder and Jaina in there Morgan had grabbed one of the dudes so you see she still has him like by the collar
Oh, yeah takes this guy and
Tosses him out of the king's box into the arena like 30 feet down the guy
I just go, oh my god, my ankle. Oh, boom, coming up.
You're gonna want to not walk that off.
He starts, he starts crawling, trying to get away.
And you see Morgan gestures to the judges
to kind of grab him and question him.
You see the judges, these grim mages
surround the cultist and begin casting a spell.
The cultist grabs begin casting a spell. The cultist raps his head and screams,
and after a moment begins levitating his eyes glowing.
Wow, I'm so glad we won.
This sucks.
Yeah, you see, Keta looks scared.
Okay.
Yay, the bad guys are caught.
But yeah, you see, this guy has essentially had like a zone of truth spell that is more
powerful, that looks like it compels you to speak the truth.
So the cultist begins to compulsively speak like he's trying to catch his breath after
holding it, just with each breath, when he tries to breathe, he has to speak words.
And he goes,
we are the order of the runny eye and we serve groups.
X-Dar is our ally.
He let us into the castle and Ultras led through him.
A war on the surface walls was not for the benefit of
the Moscheryl, but to appease our God
and to bring his champion to prominence.
Also, X-Dar was never poisoned.
We planned the whole thing so that there would be an incident at the dinner and he would
have a possible excuse he never planned to find and it is quite afraid of the small
folk I can tell by his body like what?
I'm going to break this guy's other ankle, excuse me.
You see the Goliath collapses and the spell breaks and the mages go and grab him and up in the king's box,
Ekdar is screaming.
That's not true.
I am so sick from the poison.
I just, ah!
I think it was this injustice they cheated.
It looked like it had to be true.
I don't think it helped it.
I was part of the fight.
I don't think she was part of the sectioned opponents
for all just one of it is a six on one.
That's not fair.
I'm just up in the stands like mingling
with all the giants being like,
oh, you're in this?
You're in this guy?
People are booing and jeering Echtar
and start calling for Morgan
as Echtar's own guards begin to arrest him
and take him in.
No, no, I am your king. I am your king, I was poisoned. I'm sick. I'm really sick. Actors own guards up begin to arrest him and take him in no
I'm sick
Yeah, yeah, prove your sick you right now
No, no, it's a dry he's a dry boy. Oh my god. I'm good. No, no, no, no, look how healthy this guy is. I'm not healthy. Look at this.
You see just like a lot of spit coming out of your tongue and gums honestly look great.
Yeah, I could see it when you dry you smoke.
Folks, I think it's time we reject are the act are I am I right? Am I right? Yeah, you see?
The nights grab back dark and pull him out as everyone kind of stomps in support of Morgan who
Once again addresses the crowd and we don't just have to worry about enemies in our own court
There are outside dangers too. I have been informed of troubling goings on within the mothership corporation
The pose of threats to not only iron deep,
but to moscurial.
Here, here.
It's true.
That is true, that is true.
You see, yeah, we jump into the zone of truth.
See, I can't lie.
It's true, I made a bunch of dolls
when I was in the office, this is hell.
Whoa.
I still masturbate to Glenn.
I'm not.
Me too much.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
More again, this goes, thank you.
Thank you.
I beg of you to stop.
I beg of you to stop.
Hard one takes a very wide burst from the trip.
Jaina and Ken Kenneth do as well.
They know, they know Joe Boyd.
Joe Boyd, over here.
You see, Morgan continues and goes, as you can see, Jaina
Bronzebeard and her allies have been opponents of
mothership in the past.
So we will allow her one last chance to deal with them.
If she does not, the giants will not hesitate
to rectify the problem.
You hear more stomping.
You see Morrigan looks down at Jaina.
Jaina nods.
Our fight with Jaina Bronzebeard is finished.
The gods have decided.
Let them go.
I can stomp to that.
All right, yeah.
Stomps are at the crowd.
And Morrigan gives you guys one last look, a respectful nod.
I lean over to Calder and I'm like this is so, this is so crazy. This is literally yesterday.
What? What happened yesterday? You gotta hear this. You gotta hear this call,
this is so fucked up Calder up called Kelly you feel the residual
The residuals out of truth begin bubbling in your throat you begin to feel bile in your throat
I'm about to tell this door back roads
What happened yesterday
So much crazy should happen today
So crazy
I can't even imagine. So crazy.
She'd like bit me.
She bit me.
Where? Why?
Like on my face.
Call her looks at Morrigan sideways.
That's bizarre.
It was so fucking weird.
I don't even think I could have made up something with her.
It's uncalled for uncouth.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm calling it to be work.
Morgan, up in the booth, can see you're talking about her.
And after giving your respectful nod, just shakes her head.
It joins a bunch of attendance and nights and walks off.
And you do see that some crimson nights jump down into the ash to escort you guys out,
but you do feel like there is a vibe of like,
some people aren't too happy here.
Jaina is not popular here, but you do see that,
as you guys are kind of like surrounded
in this kind of strange situation,
honey suckle begins burrowing into the ground.
Oh honey suckle. Honey suckle. Honey suckle begins burrowing into the ground. Oh honey suckle.
Honey suckle was wrong.
Is the astral plane shift mechanism working?
You see Kenna goes over and goes, oh I think maybe he wants to get us a safe way out.
Oh honey suckle you know a different path out of here.
Are you gonna eat us out of here. Run, run, run, run, run. Are you gonna eat us out of here? Run, run, run.
All right.
Let's just go into your mouth.
Oh, I see, I see, I see.
I see.
There's a car buried underneath the ground, and Honey Suckel is gonna undig it.
No.
I think you just want to burrow.
What's that called her?
Can I find like a little mouse and snap its neck and feed it to it?
We kind of goes oh my
Since it's in giant territory would it be I see you talking rat?
Yeah, you don't even manage to like you're like trying to do it quickly and you see this mouse just looks off at you so betrayed
This mouth just looks off at you so betrayed
If you sad do I I'm so sorry. I just realized he eats rocks
I let him go with you just sign his end. Yeah
You can go wait, you know bean rat
giant rat
Goes off and you see that honey suckle burrows a tunnel down into the arena.
Okay, yeah, I follow. Sweet. You guys all hop down there, Jaina and Kenna,
join you guys. Honey Suckle slithers ahead of you guys, creating a path just tall
enough for the taller members of the party to have to like just hunch down slightly.
And you guys are able to use torches and various other magical bobbles
so that you can see.
You hear the stomping and rumbling over you
as you traverse the underground.
And eventually you pass sort of the castle grounds
like the castle walls and get back into the city
until you can safely emerge and return to Winch's place.
And as you guys are walking,
Kenna is kind of tugging on Jaina Bronzbeard
and filling her in on everything.
Oh right, so the serpent is actually a good guy.
This is Hottie Suckle.
He's the one that was causing all of the sort of trebers
and earthquakes and everything.
It's a divided deep.
I think I go ahead and I just tell Jaina everything
about Obran, the eggs.
I think I just,
okay.
I mean, I see the kinship with hard one
and I think it's not, it's not privilege information.
Right.
Great, yeah, you share it all with Jaina
and Jaina's seen it all.
She's been on all these crazy adventures and everything
so she just looks at the serpent and goes,
okay, this was the beast that was terrifying,
iron deep, anything else that's happening?
Can I continue as it goes?
The mothership people are turning it to androids
because their cells are being replaced with allydins.
Oh yeah, that's huge, that's huge information.
And your family, your family, Jaina.
They're working with mothership.
Yeah, of course, yes. And Jaina. Oh, yeah. They're working with mothership. Yeah, of course.
Yes.
And Gromdol, yes.
Yes, I feel it in on Gromdol.
Yes, he's in our dungeon.
We'll get there and we'll sort out your situation.
Yeah, you've shared with the situation with Gromdol
having a claim over Honey Suckel,
essentially not allowing him to return to the beastlands. So we need to get the adoption papers from Gromdall having a claim over Honey Suckel, essentially not allowing him to return to the Beastlands.
So we need to get the adoption papers from Gromdall.
Right.
You see Jaina Dodds and goes,
I know exactly where he is,
so we can have a word with him when we get back to Iron Deep.
Good.
Also, Calder, we had a lot of jokes about beans.
I'll catch you up on all of that.
We were fling a lot of twister and wrestling
in a giant air stream shaped like a duck. Oh, yeah, no, I had a lot of fun. We were fling a lot of twister and wrestling in a giant air stream, she'd been in duck.
Oh, yeah, no, I had a lot of fun.
Yes, we have, Jaina turns to you.
Remember all the fun we had?
You see, she tries to bring up a inside joke.
Fredric is watching.
Fred, who again?
Oh, no.
Remember that one time?
Remember we were doing squats in the morning
and we woke up and we were eating our
Summit egg yolks. We didn't and then we thought that there was a snowman
And we said theoretically if we were to take a break and have some fun
What would we name the snowman? We said Fredrick we said I thought I said yeah, I thought I said Charles
But yeah, Fredrick would you better name for a snowman if it were I whisper to Cali
This is actually a huge relief
because I thought Jane was cool.
It was like a hard one situation again.
It was like how, like he's gonna be trading down
to come with us.
Yeah.
Thank God she's as weird and not cool as we are.
Yeah.
We almost had fun.
Yeah, we almost built the snowman.
Oh, almost.
We thought about it.
We thought about it.
And we didn't even have to.
Yeah, we were gonna do snow angels. but then I thought of like the chosen enemies
that we fought in the past.
And that wasn't as fun.
Yeah, we'd throw in like snow demons,
but then I was like, I don't know.
Demons I've had trouble with them as well.
So we had a lot of hard boiled eggs.
Snowman.
No really hard boiled eggs.
Wow.
Which were like a snow goose there.
We're getting the egg.
I really egg, we would forage for eggs.
And how would you hold on? Oh, that was,. I have the egg, we would forage for eggs.
And how would you want one?
Oh, that was, oh okay, well that was a bit of fun.
That was a joke because I have a little magic bag here
that constantly refills with hard boiled eggs.
Oh, you have a protein sack?
Yeah, so you see she opens it up and more hard boiled eggs come out.
Hey, JD, you been holding out on that?
Yeah, if you like an egg, you just ask for one.
Pass you an egg.
Okay, one. I'll take an egg. If you like an egg, you just ask for one. Pass you an egg. Okay, one.
I'll take an egg.
Pass you flavor with that.
Could you peel it for me, the I'm awful at peeling.
Oh, they're pre-peeled.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Whoa, I love to listen to the squeaky noises inside that bag.
Too many eggs, Frederick is watching.
Jaina laughs way too hard.
Like it's the first joke she's ever heard.
You should be a comedian, my god.
Really?
Yeah, you cannot look at you guys and go,
General Broad's beard isn't good at having fun.
Okay, we'll work on that.
But you guys, yeah, you guys get back to Winchester's place.
You see his messy home and all of his glowing equipment.
And after a bit, you see Winchester runs in,
runs up and like scoops you guys.
Guys, that was incredible, you did it.
You beat all of Tris, he's like a legendary monster.
Yeah, it's certainly a monster.
Were you watching?
Yes, of course.
They actually gave me really shitty seats.
Oh, yeah.
Well, honestly, that might be safe
because a couple of the audience members
got hit with rays. Oh, I did see that
Yeah, Darrison Jordan. Darrison was kind of shaking up his drink apparently spilled
Really? Yeah, he did there was a whole stink. Yeah, there was a thing. Yeah, that was part
It was kind of like Mordigan's guys versus
Dars guys plus Dareston's people.
Okay, so we were kind of competing with another.
There was, I think, a great reason for your guys' escape was just this third wild card
of children.
I'm seeing it on your computer screen.
It's a whole hashtag now, drinking.
This is like, yeah, dropped his drink.
Should they refund the drink?
Wow.
He dropped it.
Yeah, you see, uh, uh,
whench, uh, kind of rubs his hands together and goes,
okay, well, I can have the transporter
up and running by morning.
Uh, oh, oh.
Probably have to shut down everything in here
just to draw every last bit of power.
And, um, I don't know what the,
where the rest of you plan on going,
but with the residual conjuration magic,
I'll bet I could set a secondary destination
and get you guys back to Iron Deep.
Wow.
Wow.
I do want to go back to Iron Deep.
Well, as you see, Jaina nods.
I certainly need to get back to Iron Deep.
Yeah, that's where Bromthon is.
We got a resolve for that.
Yeah, Jaina nods and kind of looks worried.
I've been gone for too long.
I hope Zillene was able to cover for me
because the mothership vultures are after us.
Oh yeah, I've been meaning to ask you about Zillene.
Right. What's her deal?
Ah!
Does she?
Hard one.
Ah!
I lean in so interested.
Okay.
Because she was putting out by.
That's what Kelly said.
Really serious.
I was not really...
Yeah, I wasn't looking for anything, but I'm not opposed to...
Okay.
You might have spurred someone's advances.
I...
I just didn't want to.
Yeah.
That's not the vibe I got necessarily.
Well, you weren't there, but yeah.
Yeah, I wasn't there.
I wasn't there.
I don't...
Hard one, I'm really happy for you.
And I think it's gonna work out is...
Cool, yeah.
Yeah, well, I guess.
Celine is a
very good politician and she's very good at a lot of the things about leading
Iron Deep that I am not good at and she advised me against going off after the serpent myself which in retrospect I guess she was right. I will have to. Wow. So she would really balance you out.
She would be like the perfect, like, into your yang.
I look at the transport and I'm like,
hard one.
I don't know where your head is at,
but this is so romantic.
Just like I have one last night here,
before I have to go to this outer space.
One last night in the dark, I guess,
because we need to turn off all of the other powers.
She is just rubbing her head.
So she said that she was like,
it was more what she didn't say.
It was what she didn't say.
Right, okay.
I didn't get to the astral plane,
but I'm not gonna compromise that.
I'll write a note for you to give to her.
Okay, God.
Where?
Okay, no, good. Okay. guys. Where? Okay, no good.
Yeah, okay.
Hard one writes a really, really long letter.
Oh my god.
You see, Jaina keeps cringing as she looks at it.
I...
Oh.
Okay.
Do you think opening within a crossed poem is too much?
I think it's perfect.
It's perfect.
It's perfect.
If someone wrote me in a crossed poem, I poem, I'd be pudding their fingers.
Jaina is too honorable to lie to you.
So when you say, like, deliver this to Zaline,
she just doesn't nod, doesn't do anything.
She just takes the letter.
I will do my duty to you as a friend.
Sounds good, but I'd like to leave it at that.
Hard to win nods.
Yeah, so you see,
Winch goes ahead and powers down all of the equipment
and begins rigging together whatever power sources
that he can to the transporter.
This big circular platform structure,
the serpents are helping.
You see Honey Suckel and Likaris are going around
adding starfire to it.
And you guys are out on this little balcony
that honey circle has dug up.
Mostly, you see, which goes out,
oh my god, what happened to my hole?
Oh wow, we can see the balcony beneath you.
Oh no, no, no.
Oh my god.
Hope your neighbors are okay with that.
Yeah, god.
You guys see lava moats in the distance
and fires and stuff light up the cavern.
You see, Kenna goes over and starts making s'mores
in a little lava puddle.
What last leap over?
That's right, yeah.
Let's toss an egg in that thing.
Proteen s'more.
Oh, like a breakfast sandwich.
Yeah.
This is more of a s'most, I would say.
Yes.
You see Jaina laughs and tries to get it on the fun.
Look at me, I'm getting six grams of protein and squalos and eggs.
Look at me, I'm getting 12 grams of protein squalos to it.
Oh, wait.
It's just not that much.
It's just better.
I know, that's funny about it.
Funny about it.
Yeah, I mean... I liked it.
Okay.
How many do 18 grams of protein?
She eats three eggs.
Hard one, Chuck.
I can keep going.
I don't know.
Kaliapu whispers,
she is not sleeping in a tiny hut tonight.
So, yeah, you guys have this night.
You see, Winch is hard at work getting the transport already,
and he is chipper and kind of whistling to himself.
And as he's working, he kind of goes to you hard when he goes,
you know, just to make sure everything's safe and everything.
As an artificer, I should probably join you
to the most magic tech advanced society in the world,
and maybe go on a space adventure.
If just to be safe. Yeah. hey if you want to come you can go
Okay, do you want to try to let sublice your apartment? No, I think honey suckle destroyed it
We can just use this next time we come to Moscario. Yeah sure if no one else takes it. Okay, can we see giant rats are already starting to move in?
I really owe them
We see giant rats are already starting to move in. Oh, I really owe them.
I thought one on this.
Yeah, you see the one gives big, so eyes to galley.
Quack, quack.
I've had fun, you can have a hit.
Quack, quack, oh you.
A nest everywhere we go, that's the ductymoy.
Yeah, giant rat nest begins to form.
That was so fast.
Wow, they're so intelligent.
Salt puts them like glowing mushrooms around, so we can all see in the dark. Yeah
Yeah, you put a little bit of glowing mushrooms around I guess if we're growing things then I will give to colder
Oh, yeah, waiting to give this to you and I
Make like I guess it could be sort of like a like Greek laurels like one of those little like kind of crowns of
It's called glory of the snow and it's sort of like this light blue flower. Wow I I just I
thought of you and that's what came out. This is so much better than the last
thing I put on my head. Thank you Gally. It's a dabby bag. It's good to be back.
I missed you guys.
Yeah.
We definitely missed you.
So much.
It got really bleak there for a little bit.
Yeah, we had sort of like a dark night of the soul in a giant duck, a stream.
Warrr fostered nozzles in the caulder.
No.
I...
I gotta tell you guys, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry that I left.
Oh, no, no.
I just do what else to do.
Take that out of your vocabulary.
I don't want to hear any apologies.
You know what you can say? You're welcome. I'm back.
Fuck yeah.
I'm back. Here. I made these for you guys.
Oh!
Caulder gives them the two dolls that he made of
Makes the exact face that's on the doll. Yeah
Call they're going to give me a performance check. Oh wow
That's a 15 a 15 you guys see they're kind of disturbingly good
Like you look at it and you're like, huh?
This one has your freckles. It's not wet, but it seems like it's wet. How did you do that?
Yeah, that's, um, I just rubbed my thumb over, over and over to get a little bit of, you
know, the grease smudge. Oh my gosh. Wow.
Carter, I would love to see you in the farewell, because you are actually so secretively
deceptive in the artistic. I feel like some of your
talents are wasted in such barren wasteland like up north.
Yeah, I've always loved, you know, connecting with the nature that we do have up there.
Yeah, I think I'd love to see you blossom.
Oh, I'd really like to visit your own town.
Yeah. You guys see the whole time, called her saying this,
he has just like real bad helmet head.
He's like, you're just like, swearing a little over.
Yeah.
Have we figured out what needs to happen with your helmet?
Oh, God, yeah.
Well, call the delixited.
I mean, all traces in the hammer now, so I guess like,
is it your helmet?
Can I, can we do that?
Can I kinda check on it?
Yeah, yeah, you pull, I'll say,
when Ultras disappeared,
Calder's helmet kind of clatter to the ground there,
yeah, go ahead and give me a check.
Oh, I'll say with your pallid in,
you have like a divine sense.
Yeah.
The curse has been removed.
It's not cursed anymore.
Do you think you're gonna keep it?
I mean, I always thought it looked good on you, despite the nefarious being the lifting side of it.
I can take the glory of the snow and wrap it around one of the antlers.
Oh, wow.
I thought maybe this thing would be full of bad memories for me,
but I think every time I don it, I'll just remember how you guys came back for me.
And he puts it on.
Yeah, you put it on.
Kali wraps the glory of the snow, and you see as her hands go over it,
sort of magically grows and wraps around the horns.
And it feels different, called her.
When you put it on, it just feels lighter, and you can take it off.
It's easy, you no longer have alters.
It was bringing out.
It was it on and off a little bunch.
Yeah, it seems good.
Yeah, it's good.
Wow.
Plus, I would hate to give up my best seat
and so I'll jump up and sit in the antlers.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
Well, you've been trapped in a demi plane for a long time.
I mean, time's a little wonky as far as how long you were in there,
but is there anything you wanted to do? We need to have a celebration. I mean, time's a little walkie as far as how long you were in there, but is there anything
you wanted to do?
We need to have a celebration.
I can't wait till brunch tomorrow.
What are we going to do now?
Um, yeah.
Well, we have all the eggs that we could possibly need for brunch tomorrow.
I take out my bird pipes, ready to play.
We can, you see, Jaina comes over.
We could have a Spartan brunch.
A Spartan food.
What is a Spartan brunch. It's Spartan food. What is a Spartan brunch?
Heartball eggs.
Oh, um, interesting.
I'm picturing myself adventuring on a day full of heartboiled eggs.
I personally love it.
Alright, let's make it at least a little fun.
Let's try and like die some of them different colors. Let's go love it. All right, let's make it at least a little fun. Let's try and like die some of them different colors.
Let's get like, yeah, you guys have some food here.
Yeah, I can make a bunch of flour, die.
Yeah, you guys have some food here.
You have, Jane has never ending bag of eggs
as sort of a base, but then, you know,
a winch has some meat and everything.
Yeah, yes, some food here.
You guys put together a feast.
You guys have breakfast for dinner.
No! You! It's my favorite. you guys have breakfast for dinner.
No!
You!
It's my favorite.
Because it's a new beginning.
That's right.
It can't be insanely exciting.
Jaina goes, don't get used to this, okay?
This is all out of whack.
I'm gonna wake up tomorrow.
I'm not gonna know where I am.
Can I press the vegetation like an Olsen twins movie for Canada watch.
Can I close in the corner?
It takes two, wow.
Yeah, this one's great, they're detectives.
Yeah.
Are you with like that?
And yeah, as you guys eat breakfast for dinner and have this kind of nice night and winch
is kind of whistling to himself, super pumped to get to go to the astral plane working
You see at one point jena does pull you aside hard one and goes
So you're you're going back to the astral plane. Do you have you?
Cotton word from anyone out there. Do you know how it is? I
I heard I heard a message from moonshine.
It sounded like they were under attack, under siege,
and they were fending grooms and his men off,
but I don't know for how long.
You see, as you mentioned, moonshine,
Jaina's cheeks kind of redden and the nebbi.
Grasped out like a hammer at her side.
moonshine's in trouble.
Moonshine and Bev, yeah, and Bev be able to go on really what's going on?
Nothing nothing no that's
Right. Yeah, no moonshine side and isn't trouble. Okay. Yes, Harvard watches her face
Go ahead and give me an insight check
Can I I think the eggs aren't agreeing with Jaina?
It's a natural one hard natural
Hard one no idea The eggs aren't agreeing with Jaina. It's a natural one. A natural one.
Hard one, no idea.
The right-wing beef between the two.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just like, are they fighting?
I don't know.
Do you remember, right?
So actually, hard one goes in on it.
Hard one goes in.
Yeah, yeah.
She's not as cute as she gets.
She ain't as cute as the head.
She ain't as cute as the head.
She ain't as cute as the head.
She ain't as cute as the head.
She ain't as cute as the head.
Yeah, my old friend.
Yes, no, I know. I know.
I know.
I know.
I know.
OK, I know.
Yes.
OK, well, I'd like to join you out there someday.
But I think I messed up by going after the serpent myself.
I owe the people of iron deep my presence.
Yeah, we both messed up by leaving.
We both got to go back from the place that we came.
Jaina nods.
Yeah.
But you're a good leader, Jaina.
Chee smiles, puts her hand on your shoulder,
and you're a good friend, hard one. And hey, I think you're funny.
I know.
No, I'll say every-
No, I'll say every-
Are there people who don't think I'm funny?
No, I'm sorry.
You're a good leader, Jenna.
You're a good leader, Jenna.
She nods and goes someday.
We'll get this mothership situation sorted out
and I will join you on the astroplane.
And if Moon shines there, that's cool.
If she's not there, that's also fine.
I mean, she'll be there for sure.
Cool, and then I will as well.
Yeah, exactly.
And yeah, we'll all be there.
But we'll all be there.
OK, yeah, and that's fine.
Yes, that's good.
OK, all right. We'll see you there. I'll all be there. Okay, yeah. And that's fine. Yes, that's good. Okay, all right.
We'll see you there.
I'll see you there.
I'll see you there.
Ah, she is.
She wants me to say anything to her for you.
No?
Okay.
Tell her to save some fighting for me.
That's good.
Say that I'm doing good.
Right, I'll say.
Don't mention the part about the cap,
the me getting trapped in the capsule.
I will say anything.
Just don't be to bring up the egg thing
that you have endless eggs.
Yes.
Weirdly, yes.
Okay.
Bring up the eggs.
Don't bring up the capsule.
Yeah.
Lead with the eggs.
Oh, big capsule.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Lead with the eggs.
I lead with the eggs.
Not how many eggs. A bit of the capsule.
Unlimited.
I'm coming.
I, yeah.
And Jaina just kind of slaps you on the shoulder
and goes, leave some fighting for me, huh?
You got it.
Nate, take care of these kids.
They're, they're good ones.
So all this put several hard-boiled eggs in his mouth
to make it look like he's got big round veneers.
Where you guys think?
Eh, right here think.
Jaina laughs way too hard.
Egg humor.
It's all too much.
And yeah, you guys all go to bed for the night.
And the next morning, you see that Winch has rigged up
an insane system with dozens of wires and tubes
connecting to the teleportation circle, magiotech device.
You hear it worrying and see it shifting
the very fabric of reality around it.
Little bits of purple from the astroplane
seem to leak in from beyond.
Should we send like one of the big rats
through first just to test it?
Oh yeah, I know just the one.
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12.
You see, a Winch snaps and goes,
you're not gonna stop me from having a space adventure, okay?
No, I wasn't gonna go in and fish it.
I know, but it's because Winch has to sit.
Winch has to bite set off something.
Don't you need life.
Maybe we'll show up in the middle of Glynholm
with a giant rat.
Never go freak out.
Then I have to introduce Winch and a rat at the same time.
Right.
Okay, undercuts.
Do you really want to bring the rats?
I look at the rats.
Do you really want to go?
Nods.
He's not so want to go win.
I'm gonna get the rats of goggles and a little like scar.
He kind of goes, oh my God, I'm gonna make the rat goggles.
Okay, fine.
We can wait an hour for you to make the rat goggles,
but it's gonna lower our chance of success by 10%.
That's fine.
Yeah, we have that.
I'm sorry.
Are you okay with that?
Yeah, the rat's okay.
Let's go ahead.
I can't deny it if the rat wants to come.
Let's make you little goggles.
You're gonna need a pilot.
Yeah, Kenna goes over, starts rigging up little goggles for the rat.
I put them on them, which picks up the rat.
Okay, I guess I'm taking a rat with us.
All right, here you go.
Well, now you're not bringing it carry on, you know that.
Okay, yeah, Lisey has a giant bag full of all his equipment.
It kind of, yeah.
Well, I've had in the past this that's Ratt's Ride for free.
Oh, interesting.
Ratt's Ride news.
I hate you on reference.
Very good.
Very good for the main piece.
So, but to the end,
on which it says,
you're gonna have so much fun
in the sweet blue hole that is spilling.
It's great.
Really good.
Really good references.
Really good references.
I know it was coming.
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So is this, I think I look at a hard one.
So is this gonna be goodbye then?
Yeah, yeah, I think this is, I think this is goodbye.
I mean, I owe you such gratitude and thanks for,
I mean, putting up with us and helping us and,
I have a little parting gift for you,
and I hold out, it looks like almost like a dried fern,
like tumbleweed, and I say this is called
the Rose of Jericho, or the Resurrection Plant.
It can go dormant for years but with a little bit of moisture I thaw myself to moisten it up.
It becomes green and you see like little fern fronds unfurl. Whoa. It reminds me of maybe what you're going through.
It's beautiful.
I think the moisture in my life was you too.
We are very wet.
We are very wet and sticky.
You really are.
You're a lot of fun.
It starts with the tears, but it doesn't stop there.
It's all puts an arm on a shoulder.
It says, you know, I was going to give you some mushrooms
as well, but I kind of sense that you've already got some.
I know somebody that can never have enough mushrooms.
I'll take your shrooms.
I'd like to meet her too.
Listen, I thought it'd be sadder about this, but I don't know, lately I've been learning,
goodbyes aren't really goodby.
We'll see each other again, and even if we don't,
I'll always know you're out there, and you'll always be
a part of everything we've been.
I think we'll see each other just when we need it most,
just like how it happened this time.
You guys reminded me, win loser draw.
The most important thing is standing by your friends.
So thank you.
Janet, do you think Celine would like this
little plant?
Man, bro, don't.
Okay.
No, that's good.
Janet, just firmly goes,
I will do what must be done as your friend.
I'm gonna keep it, but the way she was like, yeah, the way she's doing it. As your friend, as your friend. I'm gonna keep it but the way she was like yeah
the way she's as your friend as your friend I'm just gonna have to tell you to keep that I'm just saying it was
moving from basic friendship thing just goes against everything you just said to try to give it away to get
leave. Hard one I'm gonna say that actually would be a bad move right because for you it's like you
had the spell of like retreating and hibernating. But if you give it in a romantic context,
it's gonna look like I've been having a dry spell.
Yeah, and it's wrong.
Which is kind of like emitting like,
hey, I haven't got laid in a while
and I'm looking for you to moisturize me.
Can you tell Zaline that I crushed?
Well, I was here.
I will say.
I will do what must be done with my friend.
Hard one look at me.
I'm gonna go fucking out to Iron Teap and I'm gonna tell you.
How many people you lay down here.
It's gonna be a big allegion than what really happens.
So we're gonna call you the giant layer.
Yeah.
So your mission is clear.
Yes sir.
And with that, I will see you to fight another day.
Yeah.
Colliope begins composing a song to perform at taverns
about how many giants, hard one fucked.
Romantically, of course.
As hard one gets into this teleporter with Winch and a giant rat and you guys are
writing stories about all the giants he fucked.
You see Kenna to kind of help her cope with hard one leaving.
Has been, she's got like certain like books and stuff with her, has been reading stuff
about the astral plane and goes, and we'll see you again, Mr. Shorefoot, because all
the astral plane you do not age, and thus as a champion of Mahubia,
trust that you will not die of the battlefield,
and so it will be okay, and I will see you again.
You don't die.
Hard one reaches out his hand for Kenna.
I'm a feeling next time I see you,
you'll be even stronger than you were this time.
But this time, you kicked a lot of fucking ass, didn't you kid?
Kenna nods excitedly, gives you a predator handshake
and then pulls you in, gives you a hug.
A hugger back.
And Jaina, patts you on the shoulder
and goes, keep that hammer warm for Kenna.
You got it.
I didn't get to say much to you, tall man,
but I'll catch you on the flip side.
Oomy.
Oh, there's so many eggs in your beard, Calder.
Wait, who guys have so much chemistry?
Are you sure you don't want to stay hard one?
I'm good.
Oh, I'm good.
Oh, I'm good.
Sweet, hard one steps into the device with Winch.
Winch waves to you guys.
I give you guys a really awkward thumbs up, I think.
I mirror the thumbs up and I say farewell.
Hard one, the giant layer.
Small folk, big fuck.
Oh wait, that's perfect.
You guys see the magic tech worlds and sputters as it powers up.
You guys feel intense heat and all the lights begin to brighten as the shapes of hard one and winch
Warp you see a rip in the material plane flash of purple and
They're gone. I'm gonna miss that rat
Did you know Jane goes did you know the rat before I just feel like I saw a future where we got along with the rat
The rat kind of like became like our fourth party member in a way.
Don't you ever sometimes wonder like in a different life where we best friends love us siblings.
Yes, yes.
Okay, okay, so you get what we're saying about the rat.
Yes, sort of, sort of, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, yeah, she nods and gives like a far off look into the astro plan And you see as they go and the teleporter sputters and powers down a moment later
It begins to flicker but so to do the lights and tech inside of winches home and you begin to hear a loud urgent beep
I
I'll go check on it. I'll follow the beep.
You guys run in. You see the lights are coming in and out as it's about to power up and do this like second teleportation for you guys.
But you see a wall of messages from last night or while everything was powered down from Albin.
You see things like, are you seeing this? Are your probes picking this up? Where did it go?
Are you getting a reading? Are you getting a reading?
Are you getting a reading?
Open a damn channel, man.
Just over and over again.
Yeah, I log in.
Sweet.
You frog in.
You frog in.
You click a button to accept Albin's incoming message
and see a flickering projection of him appears.
Again, power's going in and out.
You see, it looks like he was like a sleep at his desk
or something trying to work through the night, basically.
You see he's got like, drool,
crusted all along the side of his face,
like way, way too much.
Bed head on his goatee.
Yeah.
The goatee is so long that he does have a cow lick
in it somehow.
And you see as a beep wakes him up from you guys
accepting the message, he goes like,
oh, howdy!
Oh, it's frog pal, it's gone.
What's gone?
The mothership submersible.
It's just gone.
It's just gone.
It's just gone.
Is it just a looting detection?
You see, yeah, Jaina goes up, what do you mean it's gone?
It loaded up with people and they're gone.
They cloaked themselves somehow.
It's beyond our capabilities to track it.
Maybe they knew we were onto them.
Maybe they knew that you got Jaina Bronzebeard free.
Yeah.
Maybe that's your bestie callers here.
Hey.
I feel like I could open with a thank you
for all the help that I gave.
I don't know.
I was just saying that.
Look, I don't have time to deal with you, Calder. I don't have time to deal with you, Calder.
I don't have time to deal with you.
I'm happy it's not gonna be played for an equal month.
Yes, and you don't call.
Exactly.
Just look.
Besties don't misbeade it.
Again, I just, I don't know why they did it,
but whatever plan they were waiting to execute,
they've done it.
There's been a mass exodus in the city.
Okay, do you think they plan shifted away?
Do they teleport or are they just like in the ocean?
I'm not sure we're trying to, you see, continues to flicker.
I'm losing the connection. Find out what you can.
I'll find out what I can. I'll be in touch soon.
Okay, did you hear anything from swag?
Was he on board? I did flickers off.
Okay, whole thing. Somebody go on the roof.
Somebody go on the roof. Get the antenna. I go onto the roof of the antenna
and start waving it around like an air traffic controller. It's beautiful and dexterous.
Lots of rats appear too. Yeah, I think word got out. Yeah, they can squat here.
They're all looking up to the stars. Can it go as a big if we want to get back to I or Deep,
we got to do it now.
Right on, okay, let's go.
Yeah, you see this big charge from this absence
of power inside of the home has gone
into once again charging this device
and you see enough residual magic around it
for one last mini teleport.
But this thing does look like it's on its last legs.
You see the wires and tubes connecting to it are smoking and crack legs. You see the wires and tubes connecting to it
are smoking and crackling.
You see the air around it begins to shift,
and there's little bolts of magical lightning,
and in some of the flashes, you can see iron deep.
You see Jaina jumps in, Kenna jumps in right after.
I jump in.
Yeah, I scoop up some eggs for the road,
and I jump in, here goes nothing.
You guys all jump in, There's a quick flash.
And when your eyes settle, you have landed in Iron Deep.
You are all the outskirts of the city
on a cliff's edge overlooking it.
And you see that the city has gone dark.
There are some torches and regular lanterns lit up.
But Iron Deep has been, you guys saw last time you were here,
it was rigged up with all these trolley cars
and floating lanterns and everything
that have been here for some time,
and those are all gone.
You see that there are like soldiers
patrolling the streets, holding torches,
and you can hear people yelling out,
panicked and confused, and, Jane,
this is normal, it's just like a celebration. Like, so this is normal.
No, this isn't normal.
Okay.
I mean, it is nice to not see all that new
fangled magic technology everywhere.
It's nice to see like, yeah.
And normally old IRD pad, you know, like actually
you could see stuff like they'd have lanterns and stuff
up at the various, this is wrong.
This is bad.
This is not normal.
Where do you need to be?
At the castle.
I need to speak. Not to get there, that's right. I need bad. This is not normal. Where do you need to be? At the castle. I need to speak.
Not step back.
I need to speak with Zaline.
As we go, I'm gonna fish around in our bag or in foster
and eat goggles we got from Albin.
Right.
So you put on these goggles that you got
that will allow you to.
I'll say they also give you kind of like dark vision
and stuff, so you kind of just like blend in with some of the people
that are traveling here and called her.
You see, Iron Deep for the first time,
but it's way different than was advertised to you.
No, it's nice.
It's cool.
No, it's not normally like this.
Usually the trolley cars are usually running.
There's usually more people out in the street.
Well, one of them isn't running anymore.
Don't know the context for that,
but honestly, I don't know. No,'t running anymore. Don't know the context for that, but honestly,
I don't know.
No, do you need to.
They cut a cable car because his clode was in it.
Oh, okay.
I'll catch you up on the whole clone.
So you were trying to kill your clone.
Got it.
Yeah, we did successfully kill a hippo man.
Okay, you can't tell me this.
I'm a monocle of this.
You're going gonna get in trouble
Okay, um do you want us to escort you? Yeah, you see um she starts rushing ahead towards the castle
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You see, there are not nearly as many people
in the city as their word.
It looks like the population was like, haft.
Like, there's just not a lot of people here.
And the people that are out there are just like,
my wife, where is my wife?
We have to have this guy find us why?
Yeah, where do you know my wife?
What you look like, tell us everything.
What happened?
She's beautiful.
Okay, she's got beautiful brown hair.
She sounds beautiful.
Hold her, hold her, get your pin out.
Start drawing, okay.
I think I can remember everything.
Okay, okay. She got beautiful brown hair. her, hold her, get your pin out. Start drawing, okay. I think I can remember everything. Okay, okay.
She got beautiful brown hair.
Great, a beautiful short brown beard.
She likes to wear dangly earrings.
Okay, maybe I will write this down.
She was wearing green.
Okay, I was wearing green, what you left.
She left of what happened.
She just got up and left in the middle of the night.
Oh no, they've all been called back.
Yeah, we're looking at this guy with our goggles on.
We don't see anything.
You don't notice anything on this guy.
Did she work for mothership?
You see, he not.
Yeah, she worked on the stuff.
Okay, do you know what her boots look like?
Can you show me where?
I'll try to follow her tracks to see where she's gone to.
He gives you a description of her boots,
and you see there are a bunch of other people
that are experiencing the same thing.
They all have the same story.
Then people just got up,
people who worked for a mother ship,
got up in the middle of the night,
started crowding transporters,
and then there's a beer.
Oh, okay. Some, they're being called home.
Okay. Are the transporters deactivated now? They are deactivated. Okay, so you walk over to them
and stuff. And again, all of the magic tech stuff in the city has gone down. So you go over to one
of these like mothership teleporters. It is deactivated, it is not working, there's no magic. So we can assume they're all on that missing,
some person.
What was her name?
Your wife.
Charlotte.
Okay, we're gonna get Charlotte back to you.
Get Charlotte back.
I'm gonna get Charlotte back.
You're probably strong.
What's your name?
Mave Hey Penny.
Mave Hey Penny, okay.
Yeah.
Mave Hey Penny,
get my wife back. Mave Hey Penny. Mave Hey Penny, okay. Yeah. Mave Hey Penny is going to get my wife back.
Mave Hey Penny is making a lot of promises.
That's right.
Okay.
And I'm Dylan Greenwild.
Dylan, you absolute legend.
Please swear it.
Get Charlotte back.
Dylan delivers, buddy.
Don't worry about it.
Okay.
It gives you a hug.
Okay, let's get to the castle and try to get an update on what happened.
Right.
You guys get to the castle.
And sort of, as a matter of tradition
and a little bit, as a protection from mothership,
they don't use much magic tech here.
So this is one of the few places
that is actually properly lit up.
By like, everybody else has like torches,
it's just like a backup thing.
In front of the castle here,
there's actually like huge, huge bragers.
So the castle is built into the wall of the cavern here.
You see people coming and going.
It is chaos. Out in front is Zaline.
This gnome, oh, they're high collar behind her.
Goes up the back of her head.
She's directing traffic and speaking to people.
Yes, what are you laughing at?
Are you satisfied with yourself?
Collier B. As we're going is telling Coles about like,
and a hard one, just like any giant he was interested in reciprocated.
Really?
Yes.
Guess that's being a hero.
He had to rent, he had to rent an apartment.
He rented it.
He was standing so close to Zaline, who's speaking to people and being like, okay, we need to
get water down to the lower plates as you guys are just speaking about this insane shit.
And here's the crazy thing called her is like, he felt like he had just shot at all of
the...
Oh, shot at!
I'm wondering just like the logistics was it a furnished place or what? Of course, I mean, of course it Shut up! Shut up! I'm wondering, just like the logistics,
was it a furnished place or what?
Of course, I mean, of course it was unburnished,
because he needs all of the real estate
for his sexual escape.
What's your last name?
He uses the ceiling,
think about that.
That's ceilier.
Ah, our brave and fearless leader.
Jaina goes, yes, yes, Zilline,
what happened?
And Zilline goes, well, yes, Zilline, what happened?
And Zilline goes, well, good news, I don't need to cover for you anymore, because all of your enemies,
along with a bunch of random employees and innocents, have just up and disappeared.
So all of the bronze beards that were affiliated with Mother Ship?
Every Mother Ship employee, all of the politicians that did business with Mother Ship, anyone connected to them in any way suddenly went glossy-eyed
and crowded the trans.
What about Gromdol?
That's another interesting story.
So turns to Janet York.
Cousin Gromdol escaped the dungeons.
Seems that, of course.
It's only related to Mother's Ship in so much
that he used their absence to escape.
As you can see, there's a massive magitech outage.
And when the submersible left,
some of his restraints lost their power.
Okay, when did this happen?
Was it last night?
Okay.
Within the past few hours.
And you see, Krugen is helping out.
You see Krugen sees Ken and goes like,
Oh, Ken, yeah, my girl, you're okay.
Runs over, gives her a big hug,
just kind of, just no hesitation,
not thinking about the kind of awkwardness of it,
just because he's happy to see her.
You see Kenna kind of stiffens and goes, yes, father,
it is good to see you as well.
Glad to see that you are helping the people of Iardate
instead of lying and stealing from the,
and this is progress, this is good.
The fact that you were concerned about the whereabouts of your daughter is edit-proof bit
to your previous track record.
Let's go a bit training in the right direction.
I think it's still the right direction.
Okay, good.
And you see, Zaline kind of coldly goes to both of them.
Take a walk, you two. And you see Kenna nods at Krugin and you see they go off and they start having a talk.
I'm gonna give a bodhic inspiration to Krugin.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, you see Krugin has apologetic body language, but his nerves are making him less vulnerable and as your magic hits,
you see, he looks like he's opening up more.
I'm giving him a bardic inspiration to like get out of his head and just truly say how he feels
and let the defense is down. So that's what it looks like. And you see, you know, Kenna's given him
help as she should. She's allowed to. And you see that they're kind of beginning to start to work on it.
That's nice. Zillene, can you take us to the dungeons? My friend here is an ice cold investigator.
He will get to the bottom of anything that is going on. I do not have time to go to the dungeons,
but you are more than welcome to check it out. And you see, Jaina goes, right, you have access to
whatever you need. I owe you my life. Iron Deep owes you a great debt. Again, whatever you see, Jaina goes, right, you have access to whatever you need. I owe you my life, Iron Deep owes you a great debt.
Again, whatever you need, anywhere you need to go, anywhere you need to investigate,
go ahead, take a moment to figure out where you want to go, and I'll help you get there.
But for now, I need to be here for the city.
Yes, of course.
And also, we have the best blacksmiths in the world here.
So anything you need, fixed up, you want your sword sharper,
you want magic added to anything.
Oh, give it to me.
We'll help you anyway we can.
Yeah, I'm gonna take you up on that.
Sweet, she yells to some people nearby
and you see some guards come over
and grab your guys' weapons.
All right, cool.
Might just have a blade, but you could do something
of the hilt for sure.
Sweet, yeah, comes over and takes the blade from you.
And they get it to some blacksmiths and begin working on it.
I don't actually have any weapons, but if you want to make me
just a cool ring, just for aesthetic purposes, be kind of fun.
Yes, they can make you a ring, certainly.
Yeah, just to quote, maybe all rings for all of us, actually.
Yeah.
Yeah, we'll make you matching buddy rings.
Yeah, great.
OK, that'd be lovely.
Yeah, you see, she goes off and begins helping
to sort of calm down the populace,
begins like assembling people to like get them
to emergency resources and things like that
and to inspire them to help each other.
I'm curious to get my hands on some sort of like
personal writings or something like that.
One of the people that disappeared.
Oh.
I wonder if there's any information in there.
Yeah, yeah. We should maybe check that the Nobles apartment or maybe go down to the lower plate.
I wondered I was crookin' about this, but I can't really seem swag anymore.
I'm a little worried.
Well, I don't know. I don't even want to say it, but I'm worried about him.
Who's Swag?
Okay, I feel called her in on a lot of stuff.
Whoa.
It's so cool, right?
Yeah.
There might be another clone named Dag Swangles.
I don't know, it seems likely.
Do you want me to cast silence around you
so that you can meditate deeply to try to feel him?
Oh, yeah, that'd be great.
If you can create like a pillow fort for me to sit inside.
Yeah, pillow fort was sound.
Perfect.
Yeah, Cali cast the spell on you.
Get into this sound.
So all go ahead and give me, I'll say you can do perception or like a wisdom saving throw
to try to kind of connect to swag.
I think instead of the sound of rain, it's like the absolute empty void of the tundra.
Yeah, just the sound of void of the tundra.
Yeah, just the sound of wind hitting the snow.
Great.
That's gonna be a 16.
16?
Yeah.
Saul.
Could I have given him a bardic as well?
Yeah, you can give him a bardic.
Ooh, that's a seven.
So 23.
Nice.
Okay, Saul, you sense a bit of swag, huh? On the lower plate. Okay, Saul You sense a bit of swag, huh on the lower plate. Okay, but it's not swag himself
But you've sent some of his essence essence
Maybe he left his wig it could be another clone
Well, there's some part of him down there. I have to go check this out. Is that okay? Absolutely? All right
They're they're replacing pieces of swag with pieces of mothership.
That's what I'm worried about.
Maybe the pieces of...
Did he use the transponder?
I don't know. I mean, he was involved with mothership,
but I don't know if he ever went to the actual submarine,
and that's how they would have gotten his DNA sample.
Yeah.
So we gotta go check it out.
Okay, let's go check it out.
All right.
So you guys see the trolley cars are not working,
but they do have the old fashioned,
like the dwarves used to just like take like a hook
and jump on the wires and like zip line down.
I take out an umbrella and I ride down.
Yeah, so I'll just like jumps onto the back of Calder
and rides along.
Sweet, you guys ride down to the lower plate here and see that
things are just kind of as dire here.
There's actually more people that live down here.
So down here, there's more people like out
talking to their neighbors and stuff about.
There are various family members and stuff
that just kind of got up and left town.
And you guys follow Saul's senses and get to a block of condos for
mothership employees called the captains quarters. You see these extreme.
Yeah, so Saul thinks this is very cool. You guys can see from the outside that
is very not cool. Wow, but it's just the the young professional vibe that
Swag gives off is like that's what it is. You see these extremely blocky uniform condos that are built into the cave wall, lights
are off in all of them.
Swag!
Swag!
I'm gonna throw up at detect thoughts.
You detect no thoughts from people.
No presence of anyone here.
But you guys do see there's a big, pneumatic tube type elevator at the base,
and next to it are kind of mailboxes
and directories and things like that.
Let's take a look at this.
Do we see Daniel's S anywhere?
You do, you see Daniel's S in condo 5A.
5A, all right, I'm gonna punch the mailbox
and see if there's any mail inside.
Great, you punch the mailbox,
and you see that swag is very classy.
So of course he has a
Esquire he has an he has an Esquire and GQ
Wow, this makes sense. Yeah, this is I'm gonna pocket these for later
But you don't see anything like damning or anything inside of the mail
And the sense that you're getting is up in the apartment
Colorsies the GQ has like a cover issue with somebody with a glory of the snow wrapped around their head.
Damn.
I'm on trend.
Yeah, I saw just like runs up the side of the tube
and jumps into the apartment.
Yeah, you guys were run up.
Yeah, you had to climb up
because like the elevator thing is not working right now.
But you guys climb up, takes a little while
and you get two swags apartment
and find the door unlocked.
And inside is a well-maintained
but kind of cookie cutter apartment,
nice little art pieces and candelabras,
just like tasteful nudes of frogs.
So tasteful.
This is really tasteful.
It's really tasteful.
Oh yeah, it's so big.
Everybody go ahead and give me investigation checks. I think I'm just gonna maybe give the help
action to Codder. 22. Great. 18. Sweet. Okay, so Saul, you feel drawn to his like bedroom and you guys go in there. You guys see a
made bed, nothing out of place, but called her with your check. It's all is
able to communicate to you like, hey, there's something special about this. The
sense that I'm getting from the leftover pieces of swag are here. And you begin
investigating like the dresser and you pull a dresser drawer open.
And as you reach like the top of it, you feel some like little mushroom, some like spores in there.
And along with it, you see there is a note taped to the top of the drawer. I handed it to Saul.
What?
I'd like look back and forth between Calline Calder.
Gonna give a shrug and then I read the note.
Yeah, you see the note reads simply the frigid north.
And it looks like it was written with a shaky hand.
I do have bad handwriting.
And these spores were left over.
It looks like from your guys like shared meditation,
these are like some of your own sports.
Hmm.
So he's gone to the bridge at now.
Or is he telling us where the submersible is heading?
That must be where it's heading.
Yeah, when Calder says that to you Saul
and you see the kind of shaky hand,
it looks like because swag is a monk
and because he has a connection to the earth and everything,
it has basically a superior ability
to clear his mind and stuff.
Looks like he may have been under some kind of mind control
or resisting it when he wrote this.
So left you guys a message and then joined everybody.
He can't be gone, he can't be a part of this, I just found him, I just got him back!
We have to go, we have to go to the north.
Okay.
Yeah, that's where my family is.
Then not to it?
Yeah.
Our families can finally meet.
We've talked about this a lot, I think that they would really get along.
Yeah, under these circumstances it might not be ideal, but I think we can figure out some kind of brunch at some point.
We absolutely have to have a brunch of some sort.
Okay. Sweet. And yeah, you guys leave Swags apartment, and where would you guys like to go from here?
Is there anything of Swags I can take from the apartment?
Yeah, you see he has, again, he's very meticulous and very clean. You see that there are very cool blue dusters and
things like that, like all of his cool swag clothes. You guys think I could pull this off?
You are as you have in a way. You're currently pulling it off. Yeah. It's all already wearing it.
Great. Can I just be practical and see if I can find any healing potions?
Yeah, you also borrow.
So Jaina gave you guys just like run of the castles.
So if you guys want to investigate anything and also if you guys need things like potions
like she can hook you up.
Okay, then I won't take them from swags and pop them. Then I think, I mean, I think we have to get up
to the frigid north, we have to warn the people up there,
but is there, should we look at Gromdol's
sell and see what happened?
Yeah, we should try to figure out where he's gone to
because a honey suckle is vulnerable until that is a
hate right we we don't want to bring that vulnerability to the
frigid north of the battle and thought that scared yeah it's
okay honey suckle we're gonna figure it out you You've got you've got we are building stronger and stronger
Tethers by the day. We are gonna sever that
I give him a frog statue to eat
See you see as he
Spites into it. You see that it was like a very prestigious award
Yeah, but it's from other ships.
So it's fine.
Bites into it.
But, um, yeah, you guys, uh, leave Swag's apartment and go to the castle.
Um, and you ask around, uh, Jaina has told everybody who works there to kind of give you guys
run of the place. Uh, so a guard takes you guys to the dungeons below Iron Deep Castle.
And these look like they don't get very much use. You don't see anyone else down here, just dark,
dank dungeon, covered in spider web and dust. And as you reach the lower level where
Gromdall was capped, you see in the orange glow of your torches, the scene of his escape.
You see the prison bars look like they were enchanted
by some kind of magic that must have gone out
during the blackout.
So whatever was stopping him from casting spells
and doing all this druid stuff, that went away.
So it looks like Gromdall smashed through them.
You see the bars like broken and warped on the ground.
Everybody go ahead and give me investigation checks.
I'm going to once again give a call to...
Great, yeah, love it.
16. Cool.
9. Great.
You guys look around and you see...
Calder, you kind of clock right away. It looks like he wild-shaped
and turned into some kind of big animal
and pulled the bars apart before like pushing the whole thing off its hinges.
Okay, I will ritual cast, speak with animals and see if there are any animal witnesses.
Hello.
Yeah, you guys see there are blood streaks along the wall here consistent with like an animal's
claws going across somebody's body and you also hear like the chittering of far off rats in the walls and as you
cast beak with animals you hear a little rat go from sort of the shadows.
Oh somebody in the new to talk to.
Yes, I'm so curious.
I've got a Mars bar.
Oh yeah, so you don't know if that's good for me, but that's okay.
It's going to taste good no matter what. Who cares if it's good for me, but that's okay. It's gonna taste good no matter what.
Who cares if it's good for you when it tastes this good?
Right, yeah.
And I want to give it to you, but I just need a little something in return.
Okay.
I was wondering what kind of animal did he turn into?
He turned into like, he looked like he was like a baby, like more, like a baby more.
Like more bear. A more bear. Yeah, it's like a big like more like a big more like a more
a more bad like it
It's a bear like a more and then did he dig his way out of here?
Oh did he?
He smashed
He smashed his way out and then he started to dig through the wall
Yeah, and then he did start to dig the wall
I smashed and then dig
Point me in the direction of where
Yeah, you see runs over and you do see that I'm so sad. I'm so sad. I'm so sad. I'm so sad. I'm so sad. I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad.
I'm so sad. I'm so sad. I'm so sad. I'm so sad. I'm so sad. a hole into the cave wall down here and you see dripping like water coming from the source.
Can I, can we start to walk in and see where it goes?
Yeah, you walk in and you see that there is a complicated series of tunnels here,
but as you guys are going through, you recognize just by the layout of Iron Deep that he was going
towards like the sea, like going out of the cave into the water.
Was he being called some other ship?
Do you think he was compromised too?
I think he's... did he seem glassy-eyed?
Or did he seem absolutely normal?
He seemed really excited.
It all happened really fast
And dad just took his opportunity and he left. Did he did he say anything? Did he like proclaim anything as he's leaving?
Well, did he say his motivation or his plan? Well, he does yeah
I mean sometimes he talks to us and he says and he says that he has friends in the sea
He says he knows seals and he wanted us to find them for him,
but they're not here at Iron Deep.
We couldn't find them in Iron Deep,
and he keeps saying that we need to find the sea elves,
but they're really far away,
but then he got really excited with the magic went down.
And I think I see the water here,
and I think he went out, I think he found his friends,
and he's dad found his friends.
Oh, his sea elf friends from Marringate.
Did you ever hear him say Marringate?
Marringate.
Yeah, I've heard that.
Um, but Callie, you know that the criminal syndicate
that you were once a part of was a collaboration
of like a Lajren and CL's from Marringate, Marringate,
which is a port from the material plane to the Feywild.
But CL's don't limit themselves to just marangate.
That's basically just like a port city that's like quite small.
There are a lot of C.L.V.s cities and towns all over the ocean.
And the closest one to Iron Deep is not far.
It's a small city called Suner, and it is north.
It is on the way to the frigid north. Okay. Okay. Okay. So I
think we could maybe try to find him in Suner. Okay. intercept them. Yeah. Okay. So is he like
in league with like CLF pirates or something like that? Are there pirates in Marangate? I think it's
just I mean at least in Marangate it's there's a lot of respectable business people and then whatever there's respectable business people does really not respectable business people.
Certainly.
So I think they run that, they run that gamut.
So what you're telling me is we have to find a boat.
Maybe would that be the most expeditious way to get to the frigid north?
Well, it'd be the most expeditious way to get to Suner.
Yeah, it's underwater.
It is not.
Suner is underwater.
Wow.
It's, oh!
Wow.
Okay, so I think we need to,
we need more than about, we need like a submersible.
Yeah, wow.
Well, Janice said we had cart blanched everything we needed
from the castle.
Let's see if we have something.
It's out of submarine to the tab, huh?
Yeah.
Oh my.
Have I, what have I heard about Siné?
Sinére is...
Under water city.
I would say, go ahead and give me a history check.
Can I give you for Cali the hell of action?
Yeah.
18 becomes a 19.
Okay. Halle the hell of action. Yeah. 18 becomes a 19. Okay, so Marin Gate is a place where
C.L.V.S. interacts more with other humanoids.
Sunare is underwater, mostly just,
it's mostly just C.L.V.S. down there.
Although they do have, there are like devices and stuff
that allow you to breathe underwater.
That's not too hard to come by.
So it's not like a bubble underwater.
It's like actually underwater.
It's an actual underwater city.
They can breathe underwater.
Okay, we need more than a submersible.
I think we need like underwater suits or something.
Yeah, I think.
It's snorkel for sure.
Yeah, we definitely.
But a really long snorkel.
Yeah, I might ask for flippers.
Hahaha.
I'm going to ask for one of those floaties that has like a little cup holder.
Yeah, called it's really good to have you back, but like flippers are kind of my thing.
I know you always try and take my thing, but like the flippers are my thing.
I think I'm going to need that for expeditious retreat.
Damn it.
He makes a good point.
Okay.
All right.
Well, let's go.
Um, let's go and pose on Jay impose on Jaina then I guess right?
Yeah, um one last question for the rat. Did you did you ever see your daddy cry?
Yeah, sometimes
Do you remember what he cries about?
Yeah, he was he was frustrated that the soap in didn't come and help him
But he said there was another one so
we just get that one. There was another one. Okay. Did he say where that one was?
They wild. Yeah. So he's trying to get to the they wild now. Right. Fuck. We have to stop him.
Thank you so much. Here's your candy. Thanks. I don't know if it's like a dog thing or you're not supposed to have candy for a...
I wanted you to want it.
You know what? I'll have like, lay on hand, so why don't you eat it?
Just eat the whole candy bar and then just plops over and start to die.
I lay on hand to neutralize the poison of the candy.
I said ratcy trash, I'm sorry.
Yeah, it'll be okay.
Yeah.
Sweet. So you guys finish up here in the dungeons and you see that Jaina has gone out and
kind of addressed the people in the city and is sort of running point around the castle
now and sees you guys as you approach.
Did you learn what you need to learn?
I think we did, unfortunately, yeah. We did.
Okay.
Do you have a submersible underwater suits?
A really long snorkel.
Lip is for colder, a floaty with a cup holder for me.
So you're gonna be probably gonna be good.
And you're an element.
Just like, I feel like maybe if you could give me bigger flippers,
so that it's clear that I'm the guy with flippers, that's my thing
and it just look like it's a cul-dors thing.
Yeah, but it could be any size,
I feel like it'll inevitably be bigger than salt.
I'm feeling kinda left out when I get the biggest flippers.
Oh, so we can do, yeah.
I have a pool noodle.
Yeah, you see, Jaina thinks about it and goes,
well, I mean, the one area that we pretty much had to concede to
Mother Ship was the sea because of the Mother Ship's
immerseable.
It was difficult for us to keep up with that.
But we probably do have something in our old Navy art.
But I have to tell you, it's not up to code.
I don't make it like that anymore.
We're not really up to code, either. up to code. I don't make it like that anymore. We're not really up to code either.
Built to last.
Yeah, you see, Zaline approaches you.
And I'll handle the flippers you wanted.
And a full noodle.
And a flotation by.
Yes, it's a full noodle.
Really cool goggles.
Also, if you could point me in the direction of any taverns,
I have to go sing about how many giants, hard to one, the giant, they are small,
folk, big fuck.
Small folk, big, small up, big fuck.
Call their watches, Elaine's face.
He's absolutely, no insight check needed.
Face does not move, it doesn't even twitch.
What's crazy about it?
What crazy thing about all of this though
is that he was talking about how he had conquered the dance
and was looking for a new challenge.
Me, no, they say wide blackout.
Just so everyone is sleeping.
I think the crazy thing is everyone
proposed to him directly after.
Every single one.
I was held in the office.
Okay, he hoolahooped with the rest.
It's so legendary.
Okay, well, I won't go get to the flippers. Do you want us to say
anything for you, Tim? To what what would I want? I don't know. Why don't what would I want?
I don't know what that was anything. Okay, yeah, you're right. It doesn't need to be said.
Right. So clear. We'll tell him. We'll tell him you didn't say anything.
Excellent. Wow. You see, Zaline walks off.
I think it begins gathering stuff for you.
And you see, she returns a in short order
and has a bunch of stuff for you.
Has a bunch of specialized equipment,
stuff for you to be able to traverse the water better.
Has these little motorized devices
that will allow you to swim faster?
You hang onto them and they zip you along underwater.
There's flippers for Callie and Calder.
There's also these little things that you can put over your mouth.
It's just a mouthpiece that will give you essentially the water breathing smell
and allow you to speak underwater and project you.
Can we take extra of those?
Yes, yes, I suppose so.
Not exactly a snorkel, but I'll definitely do.
Zaline just goes, go fuck yourself.
I was just saying it's not a snorkel.
What more do you want?
What more do you want?
I'll have 10 healing potions, do you want those?
Yeah, we'll take those.
Yes, I thought you might.
Thank you.
Yes, and here's some cash for the road.
No fuck yourself.
What a Freudian slip from that.
I know, I think she's really
so hard because the general told me
to help you because you're allies of Iron D
and ultimately you will help us fight mothership,
but it's so hard to give you 10,000 gold,
but I'm going to give you 10,000 gold.
Now I see why you didn't want us to say anything for you.
I see why you want to say the wrong thing.
Yeah, I see, I see.
You see, Gina brings you guys down a pulley elevator deeper into the mountain and you guys dismount,
bringing torches to light the way. And after treading through a bit of darkness, you see a massive
iron door. And Jaina walks over to the side and begins manipulating a lever which opens the door with a massive creek and boom and
Beyond it you see an extraordinarily old looking
Submersible whoa and Jaina just nods and goes like huh, they don't make them like they used to I think I think I
Make this you see found it in yes, So it looks like basically just a big ball.
It's just like a big circular vehicle,
completely metal and rusted, held together by bolts.
It has a glass viewing window
and an antiquated like radar device above it,
along with a telescope.
Does she have a name, the vessel?
Yeah.
Pats it, it goes.
Oh, that's too hard.
Oh, ah, we used to call this baby the egg
Wow, yeah, okay, we had this it's hard to describe we had this joke
We we chased a dragon turtle away. It was like 240 years ago
A bunch of soldiers went down there and we just had a bag of eggs believe it or not.
But also, it leaves like eggs.
We would make jokes.
Just about sort of the protein content of the eggs.
Yeah, I, wow.
Yeah, it was fun.
If you were there, you guys were there.
I wasn't there in the middle.
Yes, general, hilarious.
But yes, it's solid.
It'll catch you there. It's watertight. Okay, it's watertight for sure.
Can we just give it one test run just to totally make sure? Yeah, you see you guys get inside
and enter and see a very rudimentary setup, very few levers and buttons, but the system does come
to life as soon as you like interact with it it. You see a flickering fluorescent light take over the cabin.
What color?
Just white light.
Okay, this is unflattering light.
Yes, everyone looks like very pale and wild out.
Dimmer or no.
I press the digitization to be more flattering.
Okay, great.
You turn it into this cool blue purple light.
Yeah, that's like an anthropology dressing room.
I take my own.
Okay.
Yeah, I thought it was more practical
when it was like, you know,
you don't need to see everything.
Yeah, okay.
Okay, does it have an Alexandra-like intelligence to it?
Or...
You know, it has good old fashioned know-how.
You press this button to go forward. You
see she moves the lever forward. You hear it creaks and we get rolling forward. And then
there's a telescope so you can look and see what's around. The radar doesn't really work
anymore because everything has gone sort of beyond this radar system, but it will, it'll be all too soon there.
It'll get you just in there.
Okay.
Can't ask for more.
Yeah.
Except I will ask for one more thing
and that is a lifeguard whistle
because I need to set myself apart
from these two and let them know that I'm the best swimmer
and I need to be in charge.
Oh, I will also take one.
That is bigger.
You want me to do me?
Have a whistle.
Yeah, I mean, if we're doing lifeguard stuff,
can I have some oak leaves?
Winning, it's like my thing.
As you guys are talking to me.
I can't wear oak leaves, and you know what's interesting
about that.
As you guys are talking to Jane,
and asking for whistles and ridiculous things,
she's just like, I don't know.
Why would I have a whistle?
You suddenly hear a whistle going off.
Oh, okay.
So you do have whistles. I don't have, unless, You suddenly hear a whistle going off. Oh, okay. So you do have whistles?
I don't have, unless, and you hear a voice yelling,
wait for me, I'm coming.
I'm coming.
Go Hannah!
Hannah has whistles.
Of course you would have whistles.
And you see, yeah, Kenna has a bunch of whistles
with her and was whistling to let you guys know
that she was coming. And she runs along the way,
and she salutes Jaina Bronzebeard and goes,
General, I've made my decision,
and I agree that I need more field experience.
Can I, what about see experience?
Oh!
You see, Jaina laughs at that.
Non-egg-based humor, but quite good.
Hi, how are you?
It feels really good to get a chain alive.
Yeah, we're cracking that.
Yeah, she laughs.
And, yes, Jaina looks at all of you guys.
Do you think you'll need a squire for your adventure?
If you could spare the squire.
Yeah, I'd be a liar if I said we didn't need a Squire.
Exactly.
You see, Kenna looks excited and Jane goes, although I will miss her greatly, both for personal
reasons and just the fact that she's the best damn Squire in Iron Deep, I can't in good
conscience make such a good adventurer stay with me and play politics.
She needs to be out adventuring and learning the ways of the warrior.
We'll look after her and I think she'll look after us.
Yeah.
That's right.
She salutes you guys and salutes Jaina.
And you see Jaina leans down and gives Kenna a big long hug.
And Kenna joins you guys
Inside you're submersible. All right. So are we doing it? I was just leaving right now. I mean
I think we always kind of have to leave in a hurry that seems to be our thing. It's not a moment to lose
Yeah, I think Kalaipi is gonna see this. I mean we're essentially on a beach, right?
No, no, no, you guys are like in like a hangar.
You guys are in like an airlock.
It's like an underwater cove, so it like seals off
the water from the city.
And then basically when Jaina leaves,
she'll open up the airlock and water will flow in
and you guys will go off into the water.
I think I'm gonna be like cold as back. I think this has served its purpose. And I wanna will go off into the water. I think I'm going to be like cold as back.
I think this has served its purpose.
And I want to put my hand into the sea water
and then turn back into a rainy day, a lot of drought.
Oh, oh, wow.
You see, Callie touches some of the salt water
that is dripping in from the outside.
And as it touches her, it thaws her skin and begins to turn it from this
very frosty, light blue to a deeper blue. And the bulbs in her hair begin to burst and turn
to flowers, very colorful again, and Callie once again becomes a spring alladrin, but the blossom after the rain.
I'm very impressionable,
and my environment really affects me.
Is it more like an ocean storm this time?
Yeah, I think so.
A bit more sea stormy.
You know, it might not be winter anymore,
but that was a pretty cool moment.
Thank you.
I'm sure once we get up north,
I might take it on again.
Jaina, waves to you guys. Thank you, I'm sure once we get up north I might take it on again. Jaina, waves to you guys.
Thank you again.
Jaina, I'll never forget the time that we almost built the snowman.
Fredrick is watching.
Fredrick is watching and then we later saw a snowman that was kind of like a mountain
to snow but it was basically like.
That was basically a snowman.
Yeah, God.
Yeah, that was kind of fun.
It was fun being in that family plan.
We'll get back.
We'll get back.
Yeah.
I know we'll have a lot of tales to tell you when we return.
That's right.
Jaina waves goodbye to you guys.
Embrace is, it gives like, called her a good hug.
And says goodbye to you guys.
Thank you.
She walks out with Zaline and closes the door behind her.
And as she does, you hear an alarm going off
and a red light going off as another door.
The one leading into the sea begins to open,
sending water rushing in.
And you guys feel the egg that you guys are in
begins to float up through the water.
I'm looking at all of the seams.
Yes, it all holds tight.
It's a little tight.
It's a little tight.
It is a high structural integrity.
There is not a single drip inside.
Kenna looks super excited.
You guys are finally completely submerged under water.
And you see lights of far off life in the distance,
coral and fish, all manners of sea beasts
and maybe a few humanoid interlopers.
And that's where we'll end our set.
Woo!
I thought that was.
Wow, I'm ready for this next adventure.
I'm ready to see you in an adventure.
Now, then I'm a sea storm Aladdin.
I need like a pirate outfit.
Yeah.
I've already got the duster.
Yeah, we're going for it.
You need a tricorn hat for sure.
So sick.
Sweet, yes, we'll talk more about this over on our Patreon, Patreon.com slash NAD pod.
That's NADD.POD, don't sing yet.
Don't do it. Does anyone have anything they'd like to play?
I'd like to plug just that it's easier than ever to listen to the short wrap.
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You hit the plus button on Apple.
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I think five years of content for you to discover.
Yeah.
And you'll get some of the jokes that otherwise you might not have.
Like rat ride loose.
There we go.
Oh, did.
Perfect.
That actually, maybe that was main feed, probably not.
Probably, who could ever know? Who knew? Because you'll listen. Perfect. That actually maybe that was main feed probably not probably who could ever know who knew because you'll listen
Yeah, I also mentioned that we have a lot of the the old 8-bit book club episodes from the archive
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Go check it out.
Sweet.
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Ooh.
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That's a good one to travel to, folks.
Oh yeah.
Now that we come up with that name,
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Sam, Sam.
Do we know that whether Denver or Sacramento is Trinityville
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On the exam?
On the exam?
In saying that, I didn't know that.
We make the decision.
Yeah.
Okay, we'll make the decision on the fly.
It's, um.
You can just play on it, whether we do boobs or anything.
Yeah, thank you.
Yeah.
Moonshine is sick.
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