Not Another D&D Podcast - Skaldova - Ep. 6: The Solar Knights

Episode Date: March 28, 2025

The Zu Crew continues to uncover the mysteries of The Dawn Hold as they go toe to toe with a wild beast, and an inanimate object.Sound Mixing and Editing by Brian Murphy and Faris MonshiMusic / Sound Effects Include:"Blackthorn Hall" by Emily Axford"Angels and Devils" by Emily Axford"The Children" by Emily Axford"Signal Boost" by Emily AxfordEXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https:// nordvpn.com/naddpod Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! 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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I'm your dungeon master, Jake Hurwitz, here with Brian Murphy. Floored by the appearance of a regular boar, Zodiac of the Murder. Ha ha ha ha. Emily Axford. From literal trash to sporting a new cloak clasp, it's Welly Hamdam.

Something seems different. Your show is just a haircut, I think. And of course, we've got Caldwell Tanner. Oh, who's that man tossing chairs at nerds and tripping big birds and acting absurd? Why, it's Boggy Rogers, haven't you heard? Ooh, that was good. Got a tripper bird. Got a trippable.

Got a trippable. Before we get too far along in that song, how about a little recap? Okay. No, thank you, Jake. Stop, dude, you're rude. Caldwell, you're outvoted. Okay, fair enough.

We're gonna do the recap. I respect democracy. Last time, our three weird warriors parlayed with Victus and Marvis, quote unquote, parlayed. Two members of these scared ones. They confirmed that the missing travelers you seek are in the depths of the castle before you hucked benches at them,

killed them, and stole their robes. You fought off a dexterous hook horror and Welly slyly outfitted herself in sunburst sigils and then you outsmarted an elevator to arrive in the lower levels of the castle. We're so fucking smart. Just imagining an archeologist is like putting on something they found

while digging everything up and the fellow archeologist not noticing. Did you put a raptor tooth in your mouth? Yeah. These are my teeth. However, upon prying open the door of the lift, you found yourselves directly in the path of a rampaging boar.

And that is where we are now. Oh, score, there's a boar. Stop, you're regular. You're a regular boar. That's right. That's right. That's good eating, friends. It's a boar hunt, a boar hunt.

Perhaps, or maybe this boar is kind. My god, I've left my boar pick at the camp. Zudy, let me borrow yours. Okay. Trying to go through my stuff as the boar runs at me. As Zudrik plunges his hand into his satchel, this hulking boar tears down the passage, its thick hide scraping against the stone.

The narrow corridor is barely able to contain the crazed animal as it barrels toward you, bashing its tusks against the wall, gouging the rock and sending jagged bits of it flying. Everybody go ahead and give me deck saves to avoid being trampled and or gored. How freaking huge is this boar? This is a giant boar.

Okay, so bigger than what a huge boar would be in real life. Right, exactly. It's like the size of a Volkswagen for those listening at home. Whoa! Whoa! Freaking golf? Oh no, I rolled so fucking bad.

You have heroic inspiration. Ooh, yeah, use it. I will use heroic inspiration. Oh, that's much better. That's an 18. Okay. Nice. And I got a 22. I slow motion dive as I scope the boar's flanks.

And well, he got an indecent 20. Amazing, all right. So you guys all save. You are, you're frozen for a second, but you dive back into the shaft as the boar thunders past you, a wall of muscle so close that you can feel the heat streaming from its body and smell its primal sweat.

Oh, gamey. Oh my God, primal sweat. How the hell did this boar get down here? Is this a regular boar, not a monster boar? Wait, so that's the sweat that all other sweat comes from. Indeed. The original sweat. The original sweat.

Divine sweat. Zudra, you can deduce that the scared monks have been kind of keeping animals down here to try to transform them and make them into monstrosities with black lace. And this boar was too strong to be contained. And now it's basically freaking out and it continues to storm through this dungeon. A breathing battering ram with tusks as strong as steel, it pummels its massive body against

all of the other barred doors. They begin to fracture and bend from the blows. You can hear unsettling screeches from the dark cells beyond with each clang against the barricades. And then a rustling from behind you. The lifeless monks, gored, trampled, deceased. They're standing up. Everyone roll initiative.

Ah, okay. Other people challenging for this meat. 15. I think they're hungry for something else six Zudrick. You should try to get that boar on our side Animals listen to you. I've seen I think Tabitha has a crush on you. What that's insane She's always preening you we're of the murder You're a crass The murder of the same murder. You're a crass, Wellie.

Is there no dating inside the murder? I appreciate blue humor, but this is crass, okay? I got an 18. Okay, with an 18, Boggy, you are first. You have this wild boar, which is regular ass, but in a rampage, and then there are six undead monks, undead scared ones who are rising and drawing their weapons. Sweet Ender.

Well, I certainly don't want them to get their grubby mitts on our sweet prize boar. So I will start- Who cares? We want the boar to fight them, right? Oh, but- Oh yeah, so it can tire itself out so that we can chase it down and stab it sure No, we need to release the boar. This whole adventure's been like four or five hours. I'm not starving right now

We just need to not die Maybe you come from a privileged place where you can pass up free boar This boar is the size of... Oh shit! I know we don't know what a Volkswagen is, but it's the size of some kind of wagon. Right, it's like a Volkswagen Golf, I see, yes. We all understand that, inherently.

Let's just get these zombies in the way of the boar and get ourselves out of the way of the boar. I'd rather use a mess amount. Whoa, interesting. Okay. We shall name you Jetta. All right. Zujik brings up a good point. Perhaps I should try to lure these zombies

into a singular column as if we're playing a game of nine pins. I don't think you can get all of these zombies into a big pile for the boar, but if you're trying to use your action, I'll let you try to grapple two and put them in the path of the trampling boar. Cool, yeah.

It's much more than meat, I'm coming to realize. We just eaten recently, I feel. Oh, the bog deer goes right through you. You're the one who's all about the bog, Boggy. Okay, Boggy, give me an athletics check. I'm gonna do it opposed, because these undead monks are gonna try to resist. All right, I might need to use my tactical mind

for this one. That's a 15. Okay, you beat their 14. Yes. You go toe to toe with these monks, their sickles glistening, and you wrap your arms around them and try to divert them into the path of the boar.

Wellie, that's your turn. Okay, I wanna try to knock the first one in the path prone, hoping that they'll all fall like dominoes. And then I wanna try to maybe jump up to the roof or up to the ceiling and hold myself like in an action movie. Oh, sick, like standing off the walls. Yeah.

Glorious. So I'll take my attack first. Okay. Does a 25 hit? Just barely hits this undead monk in a robe. This naked dead dude, yeah. You know these guys are naked under the road. What? It's confirmed.

That's 16 damage and then he has to make a con saving throw or fall prone. Okay, well he actually is dead, so he's definitely going to fall in the path of the boar. But these guys have zombie stats, so he's going to roll and see if he pops back up with one HP. Okay.

He certainly does not. Okay, okay. Welly just assumes that he's successfully prone and then I want to jump up to the ceiling and try and hold myself to be out of the way of the boar. The boar stomps on his head as it explodes. He was already dead, but Welly, you can definitely take credit for that.

All right, that is the boar's turn. I was planning on having the boar basically roll a luck check to see if it goes after you or these monks. And Boggy, since you grappled some of them, I'll have it roll with advantage to go after the monks. And there you go. The boar will go after a monk instead of you guys. I planted some kernels of corn in their pockets.

Oh my God, it got a 23 to hit and that is 11 damage. So this other zombie is already on death's door from the boar. And now I'm going to have one of you guys roll a death save for one of the barred doors. Basically if these doors get three fails, then the boar has gotten through one and another horror is going to come out.

Okay, I'll roll one. Eight. That is one fail. What the fuck are you doing Murph? From my elevated position, can I peek in through the bars to see what is starting to get loose? There are actually six different dungeon cells

and you're gonna roll randomly to see which one busts open. Oh. Wow. Each cell houses a different horrifying beast. And that is Zudrick's turn. Okay, can I look and see what is beyond this room? Because I don't necessarily need to have it out with this boar. I just look at the zombies and the boar killing each other

and I'm just like, let's keep going. So down this hallway, you see it's lit with torches and there is like a wide stone staircase that goes a short way down into a room that's like a glow with a light from a brazier. Okay. And behind you, there is a dark pathway that leads to like a sealed door. Oh boy. Should we check out a brazier. Okay. And behind you, there is a dark pathway that leads to a sealed door.

Oh boy. Should we check out this brazier room and then go to the sealed door? My only thought is that we should finish off the zombies so they don't administer black lace to this boar or any of the other creatures. All right. At this point, I guess I'll just stab the boar.

What? Yes, yes! I don't know. I'm gonna tell Tabitha about this. Tabitha knows, me and Tabitha eat meat. We're not vegetarians. Like on a date? No, we're not.

This humor is not okay. It's not humor, so I'm dead serious. I'm not. I'm dead serious. With the birds. You're in a polychrome, we understand. I'm not in any kind of poly poly you guys are pissing me off It's kill this poor okay go for it God damn it to a to to hit

Don't you know Murph has a negative two Everyone you know what? Zodra goes the butt of the joke. Zodric language. What? What? Okay, that misses the boar's AC. Okay, I'm gonna pretend I didn't attack the boar.

I just like, put my sword to the side and pretend I'm looking out at the brazier room. Feel like I should check out that brazier room. Can I run down to the brazier room and see what's going on in there? Sure, so you swung your sword and then placed it into the scouter. It's a land of 10 feet, so I poke that.

Hold on, can I do an insight check to see that? I'm gonna scout ahead. Can I do an insight check to try and see that Sutric? Yeah, you can roll, and Sutric, you can roll deception. I got a nat one. Oh. I got a nat one.

You are on the ceiling. I got a 17. Freaking, wow. It looked so intentional. Sutric, that fake out, that's so smart. Did you faint? Yeah, I need to scout ahead. Clever, clever.

Okay, what's in the brazier room? I use all my movement to go to the brazier room. Okay, so you're going to sprint ahead after intentionally missing the boar to the brazier room. All right, we'll resolve that on your turn. For now, that is the zombies. There are only five of them now. So three of them will go after,

are gonna stab up into the ceiling, trying to stab it at Wellie. Wellie, spider crawl. Well, you're just not that high up. You should've gone to the brazier room, clearly. A 12, a nine, and a nat one to hit Wellie. Wow. They all missed.

They're jumping weakly from the stone floor. That's right, I'm squirming up here. I'm like a ceiling fan. Swinging around. She's got no vertical whatsoever. Just out of reach. Her lat strength is incredible. Then two of them will go after Boggy.

That is an 18 and a 19 to hit. Okay. Turn around and crack Boggy with like perfect boxer form. Oh man, I am sorry. But that is only actually since they both hit that is 14 damage. Jesus. Oh, my breadbasket.

Why is it the plan was the brazier room. That's Boggy's turn. I'm going to try and skip back a bit. Fire an arrow at one of the zombies using a trip attack. Okay. All right. So make an attack on a one of these little monks. Is that a 21 hit?

Sure does. Okay. Do you want to be attacking the one that has 4 HP or full? Full. Okay. So that's 4 damage, but they are going to need to do a strength save. Okay. Absolutely crit.

Congratulations! Everyone's so dexterous and strong. Everyone just keep working on their balance down here. Let me see if there's anything else I can do. I'll go and use my second wind. Why not? That's a bonus action. Nice. I'll take a swig of this golden whiskey as I run.

Alright, you're getting a little bit buzzed. The hunt is on! Wellie, that's your turn. Okay, can I drop onto the boar's back and attack from there? Fuck. Just for fun. Not for any strategic advantage. Yeah, you can definitely do that. 14 to hit?

Does hit the zombies. I'm using my greataxe now, so I'll be able to cleave into the one. So I'm hitting the one next to the one that has four life left. Oh, okay. So the one that has full. You're just on a bucking giant board.

That's awesome. So 14 damage to the one that's full and then nine damage to the one with four hit points left. Amazing. They both fall down dead and they're going to make their zombie things. One rolled a seven, the other rolled a two. So they both stayed down.

And now you're on this bucking boar, which is thrashing. I think I'm gonna bonus action might of the gods and have advantage on strength checks and strength saving throws to stay on the boar. Oh, all right, great. So you grow in size as you drop down from the roof of the corridor, you land on the boar. It's almost like your legs extend wider than they should

to be able to mount the beast. How is she so good at straddling? Give me a strength save to stay mounted. 16. 16 just passed. I'll also let you give me a animal handling check to see if you can calm this boar down since you did just stab two of the people who were tormented.

Okay, okay, I get it. You're so energetic and you don't know where to put that energy because everywhere feels taboo. Calm it down till the meat is more tender, good idea. That is a nat one. Oh no! Okay, so this board did not buck you off, but it still is freaking the fuck out.

I've inflamed it! Jetta, please, we mean you no harm. And I will roll raw this time to see if it attacks you or the zombies. Okay. And there you go. It's going to attack the remaining three zombies and does another eight damage to one.

All right, so we have two full health monks and one very, very hurt monk. One who just got gored. Feel free to keep exploring. I think I've got the situation under control out here. That was the plan for me to faint and then run ahead. So yeah, agreed. Yeah, I know.

Tactical genius. And then lastly, there's going to be another death save for the door from the boar. Okay. Ooh, 16. Yeah. Okay, all right, that's a pass. And now let's resolve Zudrik,

who fainted at the boar and sprinted ahead. I just miss in one motion, turn around, and Neruda run out of the room. Did like a victory pose. Yeah. All right, your armor clangs down the hall, and at the end of the passage, you find a broad stairway of smooth-worn steps

where the warm glow of the brazier spills softly from the chamber below. A short descent down brings you into a wide guard room. Here you find two sagging cots and a worn round table and several crooked chairs. This room is empty. On the far wall is a once proud, now crumbling and defaced mosaic.

Half the tiles are cracked and fallen. And to your left is an opened steel door flanked by torches. To your right is a bulky wooden bookcase, mostly empty. God damn it, I thought there was gonna be someone I could kill in here. I start shaking the bookcase. Curse it, Buzzles. I'm gonna try to just fucking make up the bookcase

and toss it. Zutrick is so mad about me saying oh no. Zutrick, please. Tell me also the jokescase and toss it. Zudrick is so mad about missing. Oh no. Zudrick, tell me also the jokes about Tabitha. Ha ha ha. All right, Zudrick is angry, he's taking it out on a bookcase. You guys keep on fighting books. Roll a strength check.

You can give me an attack too. Okay. That's just a 12. Okay, you crack your fist into this bookcase. Oh! And it does not budge an inch. Okay, it doesn't budge. Is there any, I just scan the books furiously.

Yeah, sure, you have time to give me a perception check. You are pissed, but you're taking it all in. Okay, that's 19. So with a 19, you see the open door behind you looks like a small armory. There's clearly some story that you can deduce from the mosaic if you study it. With your 19, you also see above this bookcase,

the stone is arched. Oh yeah. It looks like all of the other doorways in this castle, but something is blocking it. The bookcase is blocking it, right? For sure. Yeah. Okay. He fucking blocking it. The bookcase is blocking it, right? For sure. Yeah.

Okay. He fucking thrashed at the bookcase. Zudrik, it's another scholar trap. Yes, it is. There's freaking bookworms down here. So Zudrik just pounds at the shelves, and that is the zombies. There are three of them left.

Okay. Two of them will attack. Oh, wow, Wellie's on this boar. So I think they're actually gonna back away from you. Ooh. All three of them are going to attack Boggy. What? That's a 14, a 16, and a 22 to hit.

The 16 and the 22 hit. Oh wow, they both hit. Friends, we can share this meat. There's plenty to go around. Okay, only seven damage for you. Okay. And that is back around to your turn. So there's three zombies left. A boar is fast approaching me in my position.

I am going to pull a small vial out from under my cloak and drizzle oil on the ground to try and make the boar slip as I proceed down into the brazier room as well. Okay. Wellie, hold on. Oh! So you're going to try to trip the boar with Wellie on its back,

and you're going to join Zudrik in the fight against the bookcase. Indeed. I've heard the rallying cry that scholars, dark magics are afoot. Fuck, fuck, fuck, I'm so mad. So Zedric sounds like he's in trouble and it alerts Boggy who leaves Wellie alone

with three zombies and a board. I can only imagine what righteous quest Zedric is on right now. The birds are going nuts. I'm trying to lift the bookcase wall being in front of it so books are just pouring out on me and I'm just screaming fuck. And that is Wellie's turn.

Okay, so I'm gonna try and attack one that's full, but next to the one that has five. Okay, nice. 18 to hit. Does. 16 damage and 11 damage to the other one. They are definitely both, they're both dead here. Who would know that you could do so much

by staying and pitting? As a bonus action, I want to clasp my hands together, clutch at my sunburst sigil and say, boat start guide me, help protect me, ender embrace me. And then I wanna try to whisper kind words into the ear of the boar. Awesome.

Okay, give me another animal handling check with advantage. 14. 14 is still not quite going to do it. This boar is very disturbed. It's very angry. And these zombies are going to roll to see if they pop back up one crit. So one remains down,

but the second zombie pops back up with one HP and that is the boar's turn. And Boggy, you splashed a bunch of oil before you fled. So I'll have the boar roll again with advantage. And it's going to go after the zombie. Yes. Yes. It knocks out that zombie with one HP. There's one final undead monk here.

And also now Wellie, I'm gonna need you to give me a door death save to see if these bar doors hold. Okay. 16, woo! 16, that's two passes. These monsters are still contained. The doors hold and the don hold. That is Zudrick v. Bookcase.

Oh my God. Zudrick URL. I just, oh yeah, I'm just attacking this bookcase. Come on now. 11 to hit? Wait, no, 12 to hit? You don't, you connect with the bookcase. It's a wood bookcase, how much AC does it have?

It doesn't budge. You can hit the wood, but it doesn't move. Zudrick, there's a limit to the amount of feints you should do. Yeah, I'll action search, I guess. Zudrick, did you try to feint the bookcase? No, things are bad down here. I've already fought like seven dudes. You can't outsmart the scholars.

I fought seven dudes, okay? Oh my. There was another boar down here, and he's dead, and I cleaned it up, yeah. You cleaned it up? I cleaned it up. Inder's backside down. Everyone shut up, yeah. You cleaned it up? I cleaned it up. Inder's back, Cyan. Everyone shut up.

I'll get an action surge and I'll do an athletics check, I guess, to try to lift it. Yeah. Fucking come on. I think he and the crows are on the rocks. 21. There you go, Zedric. Using all of your anger and might,

you drive your shoulder into the bookcase and press your shoulder into the bookcase and press your legs against the stone and it finally groans and creaks into life. You push it to the side and it reveals what it was hiding, a dark, hidden archway, a cold draft blows from the room beyond, carrying the scent of autumn and something older. Whoa, I Nerudo run in the room. Okay. Like a garbage truck, the amount of noise you make. Zedric disappears, clanging into the room.

I just need to do something this combat. And this final zombie is going to, you know, it's gonna just try to poke at the boar to see if it will buck Wellie off. It does hit the boar. It's going to do, I mean, a very insignificant amount of damage. But Wellie, give me an athletic save to not get bucked off.

Okay, okay, okay. I'll do this with advantage because I have the might of the gods. 23. 23, all right, you stay on top of this boar. Well-clenched. You and I, we have a dance yet to dance. And Boggy, that's your turn.

Keep the scholars at bay, Zudrik, I'm coming. I'll just go ahead and fire an arrow at this remaining zombie. Okay, give me an attack. Ooh, okay, 22. Whizzes by the bucking boar right under its hooves and plunges into the monk. Roll your damage.

Eight damage. This thing is already close to dead. And Welly, that is your turn. I'm gonna take out my maul and try to get it prone. Dirty 20, sorry, Indecent 20. Tawdry 20. It hits this monk. A blushing 20.

17 damage, nope, nope. Yeah, 17 damage, I rolled two sixes. Wow. Because of my Savage Attacker. Completely decimated and actually literally can't roll enough to get up from that. So your maul crashes into this monk's head, bashing it against the stone corridor.

You find yourself now on top of the boar, alone in the hallway. It is beginning to calm down so the DC has lowered twice now. You can roll one more animal handling check. I wrote it the first two lines of a sonnet but unfortunately I haven't gotten to any rhymes yet but I feel like this boar is the perfect chance to try. Oh that this life is an unending plight, but the sun and spring, a needed reprieve. Sorry it doesn't rhyme yet.

I've been in the heat of battle. So I've been trying to pen down sonnet lyrics whenever, like in between swings and whatnot. I know it's not there yet. It's stupid. I don't even know why I tried. You know what? I should just get off of you.

I tried. You know what? I should just get off of you. I suck. Wellie the boar whisperer, becoming these wild beasts. Give me an animal handling check with advantage. Okay. Okay, I'm gonna use my tactical mind because apparently I don't lose it unless it succeeds. 19. Wellie, as you whisper to this boar that you suck,

you grip its flanks, smelling its primal sweat, and you feel its muscles shudder and relax. Its breathing begins to slow, and it kneels down in the stone passageway. Maybe you don't suck after all. Wow. I think I bow down and I say thank you for it is from your sweat glands that all sweat flows. You are a river from whence the rest of us stink. But in a good way. You know how sometimes sweat smells kind of good, Mr. Boar? Sir Boar, sorry.

I didn't mean to drop your title. Gosh, I'm really floundering. Yeah, just one more second, Willie. The Boar gives you a satisfied snort and circles around and then lays down in the hall. Aw, that's really cute. I don't think I have anything to give him from my rucksack. We should just try to get him out, right?

Is there like, oh, that elevator's fake. Be careful with the elevator. It crushed you, but it did raise before. So theoretically you guys could. Okay. It'd be so heavy. I wanna try to lead him to the elevator and then... I'll come back on, I'll come back on.

I do have might of the gods right now that I can try and lift him up in the elevator. I come back. I don't know from whence you come, but return young Sir Boar. Sir Welly, are you sure about this? No, of course not, absolutely not. To say goodbye to a feast, that is a bold maneuver. Well, now that you're calling him a feast,

I formed a connection with him on his back. Okay, so the Boar rises, shakes its fur, Welly prods it into the elevator. Here, boy, here, boy. Just throwing bits of zombie meat out in the hallway. Yum yum. This boar's deep, deep eyes look at you, forming a connection as if saying thank you

as it settles onto the floor of the elevator. And since Zodrick came back, you guys can, and you're all working together to heave on these ropes. And I have might of the gods. Yeah. Okay. Zodrick, watch out for the oil, by the way. It's everywhere. Oh, jeez. Yeah, I didnrick, watch out for the oil, by the way. It's everywhere. Oh, jeez.

Yeah, I didn't fall when I came back up, just so everyone knows. Really? Then why do you have oil all over you? Because I put it all over me so I would slide. What a waste of cooking oil. All right, so let's go ahead and do the ultimate tricep pulldown.

Sorry, push down. That's right. Okay, keep your back straight, eyes straight ahead. Boggy's gonna grunt, but not help. Okay, Boggy's directing. Well, give me a strength check. Cedric's snapping at Boggy. Heave, shut up!

15! Someone's got to say heave. 15, that's going to get the lift in motion. It's moving, you're heaving and heaving. With 15, it's only to get the lift in motion. It's moving. You're heaving and heaving with 15. It's only going to get it halfway and you'll need to make another check that beats a 15 or it's going to fall. I'll give you, I'll give you a help.

Okay, okay. I have or leave. I can fly. I did worse that time. Can I use my tactical? Yeah, you're helping. Okay, so I'll use my tactical. So that's D10, right?

Yeah. Fuck, three. How much did you get. Okay, so I'll use my tactical. So that's D10, right? Yeah. Fuck. Three. How much did you get? Well, then that makes it better. I got a 14 plus three becomes a 17. Okay. There you go. Incredible. Yes. More with your back. So what?

It's not... That's a pulling muscle! Just like a proper tricep pushdown. Really feel it in the lower back. I think this is why you guys are dislocating your shoulders all the time. The boar is so heavy now we're just hanging upside down having to use our legs. Now he's right, now we have to pull. Wait, in the middle of it I just realized we have to do this all over again with the six other animals that are in the room. I go to pick the lock on the other one.

Let's check the condition first. Do we feel that the boar has escaped? Do we feel the weight lesson? Yes, so Wellie yanks this boar halfway up and her strength almost fails her. She steals herself getting pulled up the elevator shaft, the whole entire thing threatening to come down and Zudrik's hand after working out hard against the bookcase, the whole entire thing threatening to come down and Zudrik's hand

after working out hard against the bookcase grabs the rope. You have a palm. Hauls it down. A tucker. You feel the lift rise and then you hear a rumble as the boar leaps off, the weight shifts in your hands and you know that the boar has escaped and is charging about in the castle up above.

I suppose. The boar's on the third floor. It's definitely just gonna smash through a wall. Yes. We've given it the tools it needs to survive. I think that it's the boar's castle now, honestly. I agree. It's honestly, this is honestly boar castle.

I agree. Okay, now let's go to the other room and help the other animals. Songs will be sung of the boar, Prince. Here's the thing, I eat meat, but I respect nature, okay? Yeah, that's fine. And it is not natural to have a bunch of beasts in cages to then turn them into monsters. Yeah, exactly.

If we catch, if the boar is still up there and we want to eat the boar later, that's fair game. Yeah, if we catch him in the wild. That will make it taste even better. All right, let's poke our heads in this cage. Okay, so you guys approach these cells and as you do, the beast inside erupt into motion, hurling themselves against the bars with murderous ferocity. Claws and pincers lashing out between the iron gaps.

Pincers, huh? Oh, they're laced to the gills. Yeah, bizarre tendrils. Oh, there you goaced to the gills. Yeah, bizarre tendrils. Oh, there you go. Oh, tendrils. Okay, okay. These guys. Then, you know what?

I'm gonna try and, with my strength of the gods, like rip a cornerstone out of the doorway to try and collapse it so that they can't come out. Let's just pretend that cage never exists. Indeed. You're in the domain of the boar prince now. Yeah. So you guys are going to leave these animals alone.

Yeah. Wellie, do you wanna try to collapse part of the cavern here? You know what? We have to get back. We have to get back. I think I'm just gonna, I'm gonna leave them as an unknown quantity. Yeah, let's just take like another,

well let's board it up a little bit. I'll take some of the other bars. Board it up. Now you're having fun. Yeah. Now I'm in there, just trying to reinforce it up a little bit. I'll take some of the other bars. Boarded up. Now you're having fun. Nice. Maybe like, just try to reinforce it. Like kind of just say like,

we're zombies did this to you. If you do get out, you should be mad at them. We'll put the zombies, we'll put like a zombie. Yeah. We'll frame them. We'll have like bars in zombies hands. Maybe we should feed them some of the zombies. Yeah, we'll just toss some zombies in there.

They're probably hungry. Once they have a taste for it. Nice, yeah. I mean, they're already eating the black lace, right? All right. You carve an arrow, point it to a zombie body, it says this guy. As a tentacle whizzes by my ear, I just dust my hands off.

Welp, it solved this puzzle. Anyway, so downstairs. Okay, now take me to that dangerous subterranean fight you were going through. Yeah, okay, so it was like thisterranean fight you were going through. Yeah, okay. So it was like this cage except they were all out. There was like a tentacle monster and whatnot.

You fought a tentacle monster? I sure did, yeah. How did you best it? I just stabbed it with my lance and then I cleaned it up. Zujer, careful of the oil again. Yes, what? I slide. Okay, yeah, so I moved this bookcase

that was well guarded, I said and beyond it It was just a dark room that I was going to run into It's so crazy because usually when you fight you get blood everywhere, but right now It's like there's less blood on you than normal. There's no blood on the floor Okay, right and you might think that that's a some kind of strange cover story That's inconsistent with the way that I am. But did I not say that I cleaned up? Oh, sorry No, I was trying to compliment you saying like, oh, your technique is elevated.

Okay, I feel like everyone thinks I'm getting defensive here, but really I'm just defending myself, okay? Yeah. Is this, oh, I'm sorry, am I on trial here? No, it was a compliment. Great, yeah, good, yeah. I was clocking his throat. You cleaned up this week. We all did good last fight.

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Okay. Bravo, yes. Like I said, there was this bookcase. Guarded. Guarded. Yeah. Okay, so you guys find yourself in this wide guard room. So crudely splashed across this mosaic is a new sigil drawn in dark blood.

It's a black chalice. You recognize this, the clasps from the scared ones above. This is their sigil. Oh yeah. Behind it, you can still make out the mosaic and it's a sunburst, but instead of the rippling rays, it appears that each beam is a different weapon. You see a sword, a lance, an arrow,

and a streak of purple lightning. You might be able to deduce that that's a spell. Magic. Whoa, wait, is this our weapons? I see a bow, I see an arrow, I see. I use a maul and a greataxe. Oh, okay. Sorry, I saw a lance and I just jumped.

Yes. Yeah. You can give me a perception check. 10. Okay, with a 10, you see, those are the weapons that you see and there are plenty of these tiles that have chipped and fallen.

So it's totally possible that all of your weapons could have been represented here. And with your 10, you also see carved in the stone above the mosaic, the words, Gweth Barathraynor, which translates as Welly could tell you to kinship of the solar knights. Solar knights? There was an order of knights serving the Princess Lenark. She had mages in her. Is that what that strange purple snake is? Magics?

Oh, you mean the lightning? Yes. Oh, yeah. Have you not experienced lightning? For sure, see, there was a lightning storm. It's right here. It's just drawn like a purple snake. You were outside. I just thought, well, if you're fighting,

you fight with lightning? No, you'd throw a purple snake at someone. I don't know what your deal is, Vag. You live in a bog. All the other ones are weapons. Why would lightning isn't a weapon? Are you saying there are people that could harness lightning? Yes, that is from the Age of Stories.

There was a belief that magic was abundant and it was used and it was the disappearance of Princess Lanark that led to the disappearance of magic in this eye Snakes from your hands. It actually doesn't look like a snake now that I know that Boggy says Purple snake my head it's a purple. I mean, it's a purple snake now Yeah, and now looks like a tongue. Yeah, all I'm thinking about is that lightning is just snake strikes from the sky. The lodestar's pet snakes trying to nip us. What is it being electrocuted

if not being poisoned by the sky? Yeah, I guess I'll look at, wasn't there also just a regular open door? Does that seem like a hallway or does that seem like some sort of cache of weapons or something like that? Indeed, there is an open door to your left. And you guys can see through the open steel door

is a compact barrel vaulted armory. Whoa. And a long workbench runs the length of the room, its surface deeply scarred, mounting strips, ring bolts and hanging hooks adorn the walls once meant for weapons of worth. Now the scared ones have littered the space with crude spears, rusted sickles, and shipped short swords,

all lazily arranged. The far wall presents brackets for eight swords, each empty. Carved into the carrying beam above is a promise long forgotten. Min amarth gwer, we rise as one. Princess Lanark had an order of eight knights. The original Bargy buds. Indeed.

These must have been some truly legendary buds. Ah, the revelry that must have unfolded with this crew. I wonder what type of grim ends they all met. They probably all died in the God's War because that's when Princess Lenark either died or ran away or absconded or something happened to her. And they probably all died protecting her. As you guys have this conversation, you're drifting closer to the room. You can see that in the armory there's also a shield wall standing along one side of

the armory housing pathetic wooden planks, the makeshift defenses of the monks. But among them, one hulking shield stands apart, too heavy for any scared one to raise. The worn and chipped heraldry of House Summer remains on its broad front, faded but not erased, and opposite the shield wall. You can see here, above the rough workbench, the remains of a map are painted onto the stone. Whoa. A map?

Do you have any use for this shield? I am, I mean I'm assuming I still have my might of the gods. Well it only lasts for a minute. Would you say that my might of the gods could still be going to try to lift the shield? Well you're a lot stronger than the scared ones even when you're yourself. Yeah. Yes, well you see if you could heft the shield. Okay.

I clasped my cloak with my sun sigilry and I'm gonna walk towards the shield. Okay. The shield shimmers from torchlight as you approach and- The hilt's protection and body. And you can reach out and see if you can raise it. Okay, I do so. Give me a strength check with advantage.

Okay. The might of the gods still flowing through you. 23. Okay. This lead-in shield hanging so heavy on its hooks, looking like they can barely hold its weight, you reach out, brace yourself to try to lift it, and it feels feather light in your arms, Wellie. This isn't that heavy at all. Here, Zudrik.

I hand it to Zudrik. Oh, my shoulder! Oh, fuck! Pop it back in, pop it back in! Just do it, I got a random time, don't count down. Do not two, three, two, ah fuck! One, two, three, four. It's best to just count through it. Yes. Can I behold the shield?

Does it have any secrets behind its facade in the back where you hold it? Yeah, Welly. When you plunge your hand through the leather straps on its back, you see glinting in the firelight the inscription of the name of the knight who wielded it, Sir Leif Thornton. Sir Leif Thornton, a knight worthy of Princess Lanark,

Princess Lanark being a princess worthy of the gods. Oh, the chain of worthiness. How I wish to climb it. How I wish to climb it. Wellie. Yes. I need the corner. We haven't established a camp yet.

It's a round room. Yeah. It's a round room. Just hide behind the shield, honestly. I think I'd also like to take a peek at the map. We have a camp yet. It's a round room. Yeah. It's a round room. Just hide behind the shield, honestly. I think I'd also like to take a peek at the map. We have a map here. What is the map of? Great call. So there is a painted map in this armory

and everybody can give me investigation checks here or perception, whichever you prefer. I am going to, I have a stolen trinket from the Order of the Oaken Ore, and I thought it was just a little broken tchotchke. Okay. But seeing a map here, I'm going to take out the broken compass that I stole from the Oaken Ore and see if there's any symbols that are similar to this map.

A stolen trinket? Well, you've got more metal than I thought. Yes, I had a paroxysm of rebellion as I left. I got a 22 on my perception check. 22. I got a four. Okay. I got a three.

I just play with my toy. Willie and Boggie are like kids at Christmas. There is a map with so much useful information. Look at that. A map. Boggy's just shadow boxing the shield. And Zedrick, you take in all of the information on this map.

The first thing jumping out at you, it's kind of like a, you know, like a you are here point of reference. There's a tower representing the Dawnhold. It's painted with a sunburst on the front and perched on this tower is a green dragon. You also see in the bog land outside of Goodport there is a circle. You also, Zedrick, your eyes naturally drift to where you're from. The bays in the faraway fjords beside the village that you come from, Noro. All of those bays are full of ships.

And with your 22, you also see all along the bottom of the map of the country, almost encroaching towards the Dawnhold, there are little etchings, little drawings, the sign of the hilt on all of these different villages and woods, rivers and mountains. This seems like perhaps the division of the gods. Yeah, domains of the different gods carving up the world. And also there's this strange circle near where I used to live. And I have not seen that circle when I was there.

I don't know if it's made of paint or iron, but I do not remember seeing a massive circle. It might've been too big for me to see. The circle doesn't correspond with any of the sigils of the lodestar, the hill or the ender, right? No, it's like no sigil. Is it the union of all three? With a three, I think it's just a very big circle.

Or maybe it represents a sinkhole on a portal to somewhere else. That's wild thinking. That's purple snake brain right there. Or do all of these markings on this map represent someone tallying something? Is it less an official map and more someone saying, okay, we've actually done this, we've done this,

and we need to know to go here. Do you want wanna roll an insight and see if you can deduce anything? Oh, Todri 20, that's a 19 plus one becomes a 20. Wow, with the Koi 20. Knowing that this is in an armory and that these are checked, it almost seems like clinical. You get the idea that this might be labeling

an army's advance, opposing forces, marching toward the Dawnhold. Why is there a green dragon on, the green dragon's on the Dawnhold? On the Dawnhold. Do you think this is the very same dragon from the legend? Was the dragon on the princess's side? Do you perhaps think that the dragon stole the princess's side? Do you perhaps think that the dragon

stole the princess away to safety? Have I heard any stories in which that happens? The stories that you heard from the Oak and Ore were that during the God's war, all of the gods fought amongst each other and during the chaos, the princess fled the Dawnhold where one of her knights was killed by a dragon in the princess fled the dawn hold where one of her knights was killed by a dragon in the valley of the whispered oath and then she drowned in the

bay of steel. That's what you've heard. But this map does seem to conflict it. This dragon looks like a friend of the keep. Okay so this dragon yeah it does seem to contradict the stories. Perhaps the dragon was one of the buds. And then if the hill, if the images of the hilt are encroaching upon the dawn hold, were the gods at war? I always thought Princess Lanark was beloved by all three, but maybe not. Seems that if the age of magic and stories was to come to an end, it would be because the gods themselves clashed.

As you guys have this discussion, you're copying down the map maybe. Your eyes also clock where you started your journey. Mudtown, only it's not called that. What's it called? The original name for Mudtown is Soul Set. Soul Set. Yeah, soul like sun.

Sunset, sunset, yeah. But also related to Princess Lenark, the sunburst sigil. Yeah. The map also extends to a large swath of sea beyond. And in that corner is a star map drawn in the vast space and in the center of the star map, a tiny compass. No. I, is it the compass that I stole?

I hold up my broken compass. Is this compass supposed to be in the outer space? I have an orgasm. What the? Oh no, oh no. Use your shield, use your shield. New Roodle runs into the other room. As you leave Wellie in this carnal corner, Wellie, you raise your shaking hand

and realize that the compasses are the very same. Does that compass function, Wellie? No, it's broken, but perhaps it's because I've been in the wrong region. My goodness, of course you'd have a compass on you. Yeah, is it? Why? Because of the first syllable? I thought it not need be spoken, but yes. Compis? It all adds up. That's very crass and you like that, but I can't reference the sexual tension between you and Tabitha. Tabitha is a dear friend. Cover your ears, Tabitha.

What about Salem? What about the others? All of them are just my friends, god damn it. I think you need to have a long, hard talk with them. If you keep talking about my birds this way, I'm going to freak out more than you've seen me freak out before. You are a suit of armor full of freak outs, my friend. What you've seen is nothing compared to how hard I can freak out. If you would take your helmet off, we would be able to read your emotions better.

If you were down here when I was screaming at that bookcase. Do you understand the implications of this map? This means that Princess Lanark could have used that dragon to fly into the stars. Because if there is a compass for the sky and a beast with wings great enough to fly into the sky. Do you think that she left this land and returned to where the gods dwelled? Well then why would, if the gods came from the sky, why would they have come here on a boat?

Yeah, and all these boats around here. Wait a second, boat! I look at the banner with the skyboat, the airship. Are there any paddles on that banner? It does not have any paddles on that banner? It does not have any paddles. It is a massive airship with its sails full of wind gliding through the clouds. Do you think perhaps this boat was able to fly beyond the ends of the world and into the vastness beyond?

Maybe. Is the airship the quote unquote dragon? Is there any kind of imagery or anything on the airship the quote unquote dragon? Is there any kind of imagery or anything on the airship? The airship is just an airship with full sails. But as you talk about this airship, as you consider it, Wellie, you can feel the needle in your compass starting to spin wildly. What?

Oh my, I'll try to write myself and see if my position can give any sort of reason to the chaos of this compass needle. Hold on, I think Zudy is throwing off the reading because he's got so much metal on him. Oh my god. Yeah, maybe you should take your helmet off. You guys aren't funny. You're not funny. Should you take your helmet off? The helmet stuff and the bird stuff is just off limits. Okay, god, please.

So as you guys deduce the mysteries of the god and also bicker amongst yourself and talk about bestiality and cump. Well, you can give me an insight check on your compass. Okay. With advantage. Okay. The word is ruined for me.

I rolled two twos, shout out to the two crew. I cannot make heads or tails of it. Yes, okay. So the compass is too wild to understand at the moment, but perhaps when you get above the dungeon, that will be a time to figure out if you can find anything that you've copied from this map. If Bolrik doesn't butcher us,

perhaps we can climb to the top of the tower and get a reading there. Oh wow, I would love that. Yeah, that's where the green dragon is up there. And then Boggy, did you ever swim to the very bottom of the bog? Bogs are not much for swimming, but sometimes I would take off my boots and sink as far as I could go. And did your feet touch the bottom?

Well, there's no bottom to the bog, I don't think as far as I could go. And did your feet touch the bottom? There's no bottom to the bog, I don't think. Not that I could find. Oh, that's... that's strange. This circle does perplex me, I will say. The bogs, as I remember them, were to forgive the pun. They were rather bog standard, so... Bog standard? Bog standard?

Zudrik laughs. See, this is the type of humor I like She's like 12 revelations and three orgasms in the past day 12 revelations and three orgasms in the past day. No. No. No, you're right, you're right. You're absolutely right. I want you and Tabitha to be together for your sake. And that's not fair.

This is not funny. That's not okay. It's not, I'm not trying to be funny. I'm being so deeply and embarrassingly sincere. Chums, can we take a break to pull on these sword hooks? Cause I think there might be a secret task. Yeah, let's just make sure. Yeah, let's pull on the sword hooks.

Wait, but finish your bog. We got distracted by the bog standard pond. Oh, yes, of course. Well, it was a rather standard bog. Perfect for hiding out, and because of how thick the brush was and how deep the bog was. Littered with all sorts of animals and vegetation that could disguise you and sustain you as well.

If you were ailing, there was Jack of the Pulpit aplenty to thin out your blood, as it were. So there was really a womb-like fertility and protection to it. Indeed. I will say that the bog, despite outward appearances, was a welcoming place. I can almost hear Flute Boy's sultry tunes wafting over it. Oh. And Flute Boy's the one that died of old age in the stocks? Indeed, that was him, yes. Yeah, okay.

I remember the last words he sang. What were they? Pass the broken windmill, down the winding stream. That's where you'll find Boggy and his jolly team. That's so fun that the people on your team still considered it your team. That really speaks to like a kind leadership. It was a lot of pressure if I'm being honest. And you know, there was challenges to the direction at times. I feel like Longus Tom thought that maybe we should party a little less.

But you know, at the end of the day, we all agreed that it was all about stealing and partying and nothing more than that. And have I asked how long has Tom passed? Oh yes, remember he was hung. Okay, right. Right. Right. How could we forget? Okay. All right. Let's- I wonder if this circle, maybe that's where we use the compass. I wonder if the compass works there better. That's a wonderful idea. Oh, now everyone wants to listen to Zedric.. Now suddenly Zudgerich's smart as hell. You know what, Zudgerich, now I'm remembering,

I tried to compliment you earlier and you got mad at me. I get mad at everything, but especially the bird stuff, okay? Again, I tried to sincerely apologize, okay? That was me, I was shipping you and your best friend and that's not okay. That's not okay for me to have done The best friend is the problem. It's the fact that my birds are birds. Let's check out the other

There's a lot of stories from the past where a man befriends a bird wife and then the bird wife is secretly a woman in disguise There's also stories from some places where women marry birds. People are always marrying birds that turn into magicians. I'm not marrying a bird. The birds are. The hilt often went as a raptor. Alright, if you can't wrap your head around why I wouldn't want to mate with a bird. Let's think about it this way. Not in bird form, friend.

The birds don't change. They're just birds, right? Let's establish reality, right? The birds are birds, okay? The birds are, if we don't understand that birds and humans shouldn't do it, then let's understand that the birds are my murder. We are a family, okay? So let's think of it that way.

Okay, I was thinking of you as friends and that's where I went wrong it's more great you're even more than buds yeah sure I'm so sorry Tabitha. I'm so sorry I'm sorry Tabitha. I'm sorry Edgar. I'm sorry Salem. Yeah, Sabrina say sorry I'm sorry, Sabrina. Some serious apologies. I'm sorry, Salem. Yeah, Sabrina, say sorry to Sabrina. I'm sorry, Sabrina. Sorry, Sabrina. Sabrina, you forget about Sabrina sometimes, but really, you shouldn't. She's really interesting. Okay, let's go into this other room.

Yeah, the birds start hopping to the other room. Yeah, see, they know. It's called pacing, people, okay? The birds follow the cold drafts slash the story. Overwrite a draft that would be like a way out. The birds follow the cold draft slash the story. Oh, right, a draft. It would be like a way out. Maybe we didn't need the freaking pig

to take the elevator. That's his castle now. What don't you get? Pacing, everyone. Let's go, we have to leave this room. You cross the guard room and into this secret threshold where cast iron sconces, still house, ancient candles cracked and crumbling. You raise your torches, peering into this chamber,

their warm glow falls across a wall of tombs. Above you, the ceiling stretches into a vaulted dome, and looking up, you see the roof is blanketed with the twisting roots of a large tree. The stems spiral down the cold stone walls of the crypt, encircling the marble slabs of carved names and heraldry like a final embrace. All tales end, but not all endings are written in stone.

Only the names of the fallen solar knights laid here to rest. Oh, I would like to read all of their names. Yes, we should probably, you know, open up the tombs just to make sure that... Are you sure they're in there? Yeah. Because there's dead guys coming around. I would like to read all of their names. Yes, we should probably, you know, open up the tombs just to make sure that- Make sure they're in there because there's dead guys coming around.

Because they've been laid to rest properly. Let's make sure that these righteous remains have not been disturbed. Yeah, let's crack them. Gotta crack them. Wow, all right, cool. So you're gonna crack some of these tombs. One at a time, one at a time. Respectfully.

So much reverence. Whoever we think might be the strongest one, I'm gonna sit on that tomb to make sure nobody pops out. That's Sir Leafthorn, Sir Leafthorn is the strongest. I'm gonna just hold down Sir Leafthorn in case they try to pop out. I'm ready. Okay.

There's no Sir Leaf here, but you can just go through these tombs one at a time if you wanna crack them open. Let's get poppin'. Okay. Okay, you can give me a strength check with advantage, you guys are taking your time through these tombs one at a time if you wanna crack them open. Let's get poppin'. Okay. Okay, you can give me a strength check with advantage. You guys are taking your time and cracking tombs.

Oh, wow, okay, 22. Ooh, okay, cool. I'll let you breeze through these tombs. They're all fine. They're all disturbed. These are ancient royals predating even the God's War. They're in there long dead. As you go through all of them,

you turn to see in the center of the room, a round stone altar worn smooth with time and use. On either side of this altar are two shallow alcoves receding into the wall. One houses a sturdy stone pot and the other holds a single sarcophagus. Before it, a massive great sword is driven into the stone floor like a headstone.

The marble slab here bears a simple inscription. Sir Gunner Summer, the sun sword, buried by his kin. The wide blade, still sharp, half sunken in the floor, with a swirling opal sunburst on its pommel, bears the names of the knights who buried the one who wielded it. Should we try to... You gotta kinda try to take this... I'm trying to be as sort of respectful as possible here.

I thought there might be zombies in the tombs, but other than that I'm gonna not disturb them. But this sword, we kinda gotta yank it, right? It would be improper, immoral not to lift this sword and wield it once more. No, I don't think we should. A knight should be buried with his sword. I don't think we should take it. I'm gonna turn around right now

and I won't know what's happening behind me. Oh! Zudrik yanks it. Zudrik, as you go down to yank it, you read the names carved in the steel, seven of them, perhaps the remaining knights of the solar order. You see Sir Caspar Holborn, Sir Lachlan Boyd,

Sir Hilda Garnet, Sir Cassian Dane, Sir Leif Thornton, Sir Casian Dane, Sir Leif Thornton, Sir Radak Lachmaw, and lastly, Sir Wilma Hamdan. And that's where we'll end our episode. Oh! Oh! Oh my God! Oh my God, this is the best day of my life! So, so just looking at at it clearly for me.

Let's just pull it out. I'll take that opal. Yeah. Oh my God. So much more to be. So excited. Wait, Wellie doesn't even know yet. Wellie has her back turned.

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