The Glass Cannon Podcast - Strange Aeons Episode 69 – Wishing Impossible

Episode Date: April 4, 2023

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Now playing only in theaters. You are listening to the Glass Cannon Network. The premier source for role-playing game entertainment. welcome back to the show so fine that if you saw this show walking down the street, you'd be like, damn, that show fine. Damn, damn that show fine. I didn't mention this last week, but last week was the first show of the spring. It's spring now. It's officially spring as of about a week and a half ago, two weeks ago. Let me ask you this.

Spring, overrated or underrated or rated? Let's start with Matthew Capricasa I think rated right like it's great the winter thaws crocuses are bursting out of the ground

people get a little a little antsy they're out in the street but also you know allergies so I think it's pretty

pretty I think it's pretty on the money people's estimations of it rated um Sydney So I think it's pretty on the money, people's estimations of it. Rated. Sydney. I think I'm biased.

My birthday is next week. I am a spring baby. Oh. So I love the spring, I think, because my birthday is in it, but also because it kind of has that theme of like, you know, bursting through everything's like coming back to life. It makes me feel much better about the incoming summer because, you know, everybody gets a little bit of the seasonal depression. So spring is just very nice. It feels refreshing. But I do think I'm going to say underrated. I am biased, but I say underrated because I think people hate how mixed the weather is in spring and they complain a lot about the rain

and how it's still cold. But I think it's beautiful. I love the rain. I love the flowers and everything slowly blooming because of the mixed weather. So I say underrated and people should enjoy the spring more. Yeah, there is a problem with spring. One day it's 72 and the next day it's 38.

Yeah. Get it together, spring. Get it together, spring. You're having an identity crisis. If that wasn't happening, we'd have nothing to talk about amongst work with our coworkers. So it's good. It's true. Around the water cooler.

Skid, you're a big spring guy, think right rated overrated i love spring i think you know spring has great publicity they have a great spring has an amazing publicist because everyone seems to like spring spring has a great reputation among the seasons. Among voters 18 to 45. Yeah. In the target, like the most, the key demos, it does very well. It does. Spring tests very well. It does.

But I still think it's somehow underrated because I feel like I've heard too many people complaining about spring, which lately. complaining about spring uh which lately and i think it's just that you you people need uh they there's plenty of bad things to complain about i think without complaining about spring i mean the guy to say no we're gonna stop with this bullcrap and we're gonna stop complaining about spring we're gonna give it the approbation it deserves i'm I'm putting a moratorium out on this needless denigration of spring, and it's good. Wow. A lot of spring hate out there. Too much spring

hate. Let's see if it's going to get piled on here with Kate. It's going to go anyway. Spring, Kate. What's your favorite spring movie? What's your favorite movie? Midsommar, actually, because I watched it for a themed bridal shower that I'm going to because I love my friends.

Wait, what movie? What movie? Midsommar. Oh, that's a summer movie. There you go. You thought you were going to get me, Skid? Well, you didn't. That's a summer movie.

That's a summer movie. That's a summer movie. And secondly, what in the fuck kind of shower are you going to? I have really fun friends who like horror movies with love. I want to come to this bridal party. Does one of the bridesmaids get consumed? Who gets lit on fire? The groom.

I'm having a hard time for two reasons. One being that I didn't make a new year's resolution this year, but I made one in February. I don't fucking talk about the weather anymore. I'm done. People just talk about the weather and no matter what they complain, they're just like, Oh,

they like, that's what I'm saying. You're planning all year about, Oh, it's so dark out. And then daily savings come. Everyone complains for like two weeks about how off they are. I'm so tired.

I live in the mountains and people are like, oh, I hope it doesn't snow again. And it's like, it might. It's gonna be fine. Also, number two, it's been, what, four minutes since we started recording

and the episode number has not been mentioned. Oh, my gosh. It's a disgrace, frankly. It is a disgrace. And I'm having just a lot of hard times. Can I tell you why? Why? Because it's hack.

What? The joke was in episode 67 when I talked about episode 69. You don't talk about episode 69 in episode 69. That's Bushley, kid. That's what we call hack. Because as soon as you turned on everything, you were like, ooh, this episode, I can't call you. And I thought it was going to go that way.

And then you started talking about the weather. I know. Yeah, honestly, Troy, I think you wimped out. I think you forgot I bet you no I thought about it I was like no that's hack I'm not gonna do it I bet you the whole chat

was like oh can't wait to see what they're gonna talk about 69 we're not because we're above that the joke was talking about it two weeks early

we didn't even talk about it though we didn't we didn't even get to we talked around it we didn't make any jokes there was nothing funny well we're not doing it now either yes not we're talking about unbelievable No, we didn't. We didn't even get to- We talked around it. We didn't make any jokes. There was nothing funny.

Well, we're not doing it now either. Yes, we're not. Unbelievable. We're talking about spring. Which, incidentally, is the best time to say spring. I know how we've done this. All the trees start 69 and you show up. The bees start 69 and like crazy. So would you say overrated?

It's fine. It's rated. Rated. Yeah fine it's rated rated yeah it's rated um I just want to take a moment to observe like let the word go forth that we finally have found the pitch in the dirt that Troy won't swing at that's true

he'll foul off anything it's just it's just it's just hack O'Brien rated overrated underrated I mean really I think you're the guy that Skid was talking about uh no

stop trying to drive a wedge between us Troy just consider the moratorium just consider the moratorium I Just consider them moratorium. I thought – I didn't – I never thought about this before, but when you brought it up, I started digging in and I think I'm going to go with underrated. I think it is underrated because I'll tell you why. Because whenever there's like a list of favorite seasons discussion, nobody ever mentions spring.

It's always summer, fall, or winter. With fall obviously winning, weirdos like Troy latching on to winter. And then people that are young love summer. And people that are young and in great shape love summer. And spring never gets mentioned. It's just sort of like this neutral thing. But the fact is that like the joy that I feel on that first like 69 degree day, you know, that first 74 degree day when it's not too hot, but it's breezy. And it's just like, it's not to me as good as the cool down in fall. Well, I love the whole season of fall more than spring. That first time that you'd like don't need a jacket when you go

outside. It's such an incredible feeling. And it is such a rare thing in spring, because I think the whole season will fall more than spring. That first time that you like don't need a jacket when you go outside, it's such an incredible feeling. And it is such a rare thing in spring because I think generally in the Northeast, there are years where you're like, we got four good days in spring. Like it either poured or was cold. And then it was 90 degrees.

It was like this year we got a real crappy spring, but when you, those four days are so miraculous, they're amazing. So yeah, i think it gets a little underrated it is a not to mention just the whole concept of rebirth it's such a wonderful time all that is dead is rising again i love it yeah and like all of the animals are 69ing and making babies that's not i think you might want to check the anatomy on that one.

That's how babies are made. I know about that stuff. Animal sex stuff? Is that what you're saying? Is that the stuff that you meant? Let me say 69 in this episode. Let me talk about it. I have a lot to say about it. I can't remember. Have we talked about giraffe sex on the podcast before? Matthewew what i imagine it's come up

fair enough no no you have to tell me what you were gonna say no troy just invoked what we in high school called the walter cronkite clause which is if you're telling a story amongst a group and one member of the group has heard it before and does not wish to hear the story again, they just invoke the clause and you must immediately stop. So you're telling me you were friends with the cool kids

in high school. The Cronkites. The ones that had ever heard of Walter Cronkite. He went to school in 1972. What did your friends feel about the moon landing? How they feel about Cronkite's coverage versus Jules Bergman. I mean, when he started crying during the moon landing, they were like, we're so fucking

done with Cronkite. We're so done with Cronkite. Cronkite overrated. Before you ask, Troy. Cronkite. We're so done with Cronkite. Cronkite overrated before you asked, Troy. Cronkite's overrated. Troy, your thoughts on spring. You're a spring hater from what I remember. No, no, no, no. I agree with Skid. There's far too much

spring hate. It's a very new thing. It's like a post-COVID hate. Because COVID started really in the spring, and I think people just like, because they hate COVID, they hate spring now. Which to me is also so silly because you couldn't have a better season for that quarantine to have begun. You know what I mean? Like if it was the dead of winter and you were all trapped inside, nobody could even go outside.

If it was summer and you had to like, you know, you were stuck inside and you had to have AC or going outside would be a million degrees. It was like, that was the best time to have it. Yeah, I mean, for me, it was always, fall was my number one. Why don't people remember the good things about COVID? That's what Josh was going to say. COVID talks about the good COVID things. Rated, overrated, underrated Matthew, your thought. Perfect timing. Sorry, I'm still

remembering that first spring of 2020 in Queens when it was just sirens and helicopters. I was just like, people are dying. People are just dying. Yeah.

It was not great. Sorry. I interrupted you. No, no, it wasn't that interesting. I was just saying that, uh,

I used to be fall was my number one, but like spring was a close second and then winter and hate summer. Always hated summer. That is hate of hatred of summer is not changed, especially in the East Coast. It's brutal. But winter has turned into my favorite with like fall a close second. But spring is right there.

Like I love spring. Love baseball. Nobody's mentioned baseball. Like there's nothing better. Crack of the bat. I never watch more baseball than I do in April and, you know, in September. Yeah, exactly. Because then you're like, do they need to play 130 more games before the playoffs? Like, really?

It's a great time. And, yeah, the weather when it's nice, it's really so hot and cold. It's great to just go out. And, I mean, the kids were outside all day today. I'm like, thank God they're getting some fresh air. But, you know, there's so many other great seasons. Fall, phenomenal. I'm going to be outside all day today. I'm like, thank God they're getting some fresh air. But, you know, there's so many other great seasons. Fall is phenomenal, and winter has Christmas.

And that trumps off. Yeah. I don't agree. I don't agree. So it's the best holiday season, that's for sure. It's the best. I just love it. But it doesn't turn the whole solstice or whatever, the whole season into a great thing to be a part of. I don't know.

I disagree. The problem with winter that makes winter bad is it's got January, February, which unless you're like skiing and snowboarding, it kind of takes away from the winter experience. Whereas fall is just always great. Yeah. And that's true, though. For skiers, like for the ski people out there of which i am not like they're depressed when march comes around they're just like oh it's about to end you know they love that two months of snowfall and skiing and snowboarding yeah well i'm glad

we talked about this it's good to know where everybody stands now what is your favorite season to 69 in yes yes it ain't summer sweaty down there nobody wants to go chowing on a sweat sandwich

winter might be nice but also a little cold I knew you weren't too good for this. Fall, you might be picking leaves out of your teeth. Spring is the best for 69. Spring is the best. A cool spring 69. Follow the bees. Windows open.

Unless, again, I have to be the Debbie Downer and bring up pollen. No. Ah, yes. No, get out of here, Matthew. You don't want to sneeze while you're down there. Something's 69 in every season. 69.

365. Just most things do it in spring. I think. Yeah. Birds do it. Bees do it. Bees do it. Exactly. Bears do it. Yeah. Yeah. Cole Porter says so. See the way they hold onto those flowers? It's upside down.

Yeah. Good for them. Good for them. Is that a pistol in your mouth or are you just happy to see me? Sound off in the chat. Who's 69ing right now? If you're watching our show or have ever watched our show while 69ing, call us. Leave a comment below.

Drop a one in chat. Drop a 69 in chat. Drop a 69 in chat. Drop a 69 in chat. Throw up a poll in the chat. Oh, my gosh. Don't even put summer on the poll. Just stay away. Stay away.

That's gross. What's also gross is the situation you find yourselves in right now. It really is. You were here to retrieve the Yellow King. You were going to find him, and he was going to take you to the Mad Poet. Well, you come here, and things are different. Things are different. The original denizens of the Caravan Sarai are gone.

And they're replaced with actual denizens of Leng. And you kill them. And it takes several episodes. But now you see the Yellow King is gone. Last episode, Atticus conjured an image, a very controversial image of the Yellow King, and elicited a response from the Denizens of the Land. It's like, you're supposed to be with Wayrile. We took you in chains. What are you doing here? And they tried to recapture him. So was the Yellow King captured? How is Wayrile involved? You heard Mr. Wanderlust mention Way Raleigh as well.

Have you heard that name elsewhere? I do not know. However, right now, outside on this one remaining platform of what was once the second floor of the Caravanserai, stands a flying dinosaur of some sort. And as you're gathering yourselves post-combat, post-coitus, last ep, a voice echoes. Who are you? Oh, man. It is this creature, as far as you know.

What do you do? Atticus will, he's going to speak to it. He's going to step in. Now, the voice work from Troy implies this is not a parlay kind of creature. Why? Because you don't think he wants to do that voice for two hours? Exactly.

He doesn't seem to want to do that voice for a long conversation. It's a short-term voice. Joe, also, question, though. How long does the illusory Yellow King that you made last? Is he still there, or it's like the combat has ended and he's going to disappear soon?

He lasts as long as I want to up, I think up until 10 minutes. But I have to spend an action sustaining. I was going to see if you want to up, I think up until 10 minutes, but I have to spend an action sustaining. I was going to see if you want to sustain it to like use it. If you're going to talk to the creature, like try to trick it. But like that's, I was just pointing it out.

Cause I remember that you did that. Yeah. I don't think so. Okay. I don't, I don't like it. Um, I thought about it,

but I was like, it's then I don't really talk and I don't want to try to talk as the yellow king they'll just see through it and then it's like too deceptive so he's just going to step in front of it and he's just going to look up at this thing again very fearful but he's going to be like we seek an audience with the yellow king we heard he was here. Were travelers passing through this cow of Ansarai? Is he at home? The Yellow King! There was a man dressed all in yellow?

Yes, yes, that would be him. Have you seen him? Yes, he went with Weyrale. Are you with Wehrale? Well, no, but we have met a friend of Wehrale's downstairs, some sort of acquaintance, who said that Wehrale was looking for something. Perhaps we could help. We've been here before. She departed on my brother. Taking this man dressed in yellow

whom you call the king. She rode on my brother on ahead. Who is this other person you speak of? Oh, the gentleman downstairs working through the accounting books.

Very long fingers. Tall. Slim. I do not know of this man. Mr. Wanderlust. Never heard of him. But he is with Raylarley and you are not. I am confused.

This is a caravanserai, indeed. There are many different... And he'll step forward a little bit. There are many different strangers that pass through a place such as this, and we sought the Yellow King. If your brother has flown him elsewhere, perhaps you could fly us there? I don't know if I have permission to do so

You say you are not with Weraale Are you against her? And he turns towards you and this thing is 50 times the size of you It could just eat you in one bite Certainly not We are not against her We are all travelers on the road in this dreamscape. We are all passing through. There is a code among travelers, is there not?

She is looking for something, as are we. Perhaps we could help each other. We could come to an arrangement. I don't know if she would approve of me taking you where she went. She didn't mention that others would come seeking passage. Well, perhaps there is something we could do for you. Is there anything you need? A favor, perhaps? What's your favorite food? Rat.

Oh. Suki comes in behind, turning back into her form. She's out of her bear form. I'd like to aid Atticus using my wild empathy. I can make an impression on animals and make very simple requests of them using my diplomacy. Which is not high! Huh, did not put a lot of points in that. But she

basically is also saying like if it's not far and they've only recently left perhaps we can catch up to them and we can clear this all up. And Ethel will step forward and be like, hey do you

like whittling? and Ethel will step forward and be like hey um do you um do you like uh whittling what looks at Ethel I just thought maybe you'd like to you know burn things like wood they kindle very nicely

I could whittle you something you could burn keep your fires away from me! You'll burn my howdah! Oh, no, no, no. I could also, I'm a good woodworker, if you needed any repairs done to your howdah, I could help you out.

Does it look as if it need of repairs? No, indeed, it looks rather splendid. I'd be quite inclined to take a closer look. Why, may I ask, were you left behind? What... for what purpose did your brother leave and you stay? If not to take more travelers.

Weir Ali came with others, and she has ferried some back and forth. Ah, Well, perhaps she could ferry us. For a prize. We don't look for a free ride. So, you know, you're at this point now where you could do some sort of diplomacy, or

there's also been some deception here. You know, obviously some people are aiding, but let's do a check here. Let's turn this into a roll. Because it doesn't seem like she's going to come after you, per se, but

she doesn't know you to be with Weyrale, so there is some danger here. Are you going to roll? Because you're doing most of the talking, but I can aid you using that wild empathy if you want. I think wild empathy is for, like, animals. Yeah, it's for, like, creatures that...

This creature has a language. Yeah. Are you doing deception or diplomacy, Joe? I was going to do deception. Just sort of saying that, like, you know... I mean, he knows that when Weyrigh sees them they she is going to or they are going to want to kill us um so probably but uh he wants to try to talk his way into following the yellow king because if we lose him i mean that's it you know what i mean so um he's willing

to say anything so he's definitely willing to lie. Yeah. And just sort of say, I'm sure Wawerale would be happy to see us. She doesn't know us per se, but we could aid her. I could aid with deception. Yeah, I'm also aiding with deception. If you need. I aid as well.

Oh. Okay. I can't remember the sort of hard and fast rules and how many people can aid, but everybody roll. It's a DC uh It's DC 20, you know, to aid. So let's see if you get any bonuses here. You get it from me. I roll a 22. It's a plus one. You get it from me.

31. I got a 21. Okay. You do not aid from, get aid from me. Eris, how do you contribute to this? Thanks for nothing, Aldo. I come up behind you and just put my, like, hand on the back of your neck, and I'm just like,

and I just whisper stuff in your ear. I don't know what the hell I whisper, but I'm just like, say, say, say, say, don't talk about the weather. That's lame. Don't talk about the weather

don't talk about the weather or 69ing keep focused we don't know where he stands on 69 alright so that is a plus 3 to my check here we go ah beautiful beautiful team

that is a 30 deception. They have been gone longer than I expected, and you say you wish to aid her? Yes, she was looking for something, and I'm sure we could help. We have a lot of skill in the various arts of finding things in the Dreamlands. We've been doing it for quite some time, actually. It keeps looking, like, behind it and back to you.

How many are you? Well, there's five of us. It looks like you're... What's the word of that thing? Howda! It looks like you're Howda. There's plenty of thing? Howdah! It looks like you're howdah. There's plenty of room, and as you can tell, I'm rather small. I take up very little room and would be of no threat to Waverally.

He'll, yeah, just walk forward, his hands empty. Start walking slowly. All right. All right. All right. Yes. Yes. If you wish to aid her, then come. Climb aboard my

howdah. So, what? Ethel will give you a boost. She lowers a wing down and creates a sort of rampway up into the howdah, and she crouches down her massive side. The whole thing shakes, and you see some parts of the rubble falling off where that area of the caravanserai collapsed. But she provides a ramp all the way into her howdah.

It's amazing. May I ask, as he's climbing up, may I ask your name? My name? Sybil. Sybil, we are greatly appreciative. I'm picturing him like, it's like getting

on a ride, like a rollercoaster. It's like sliding up. Is there a buckle of some kind, a strap? No, no. That won't be necessary. The Hauder has powers beyond measure and will provide you with all the protection you need. He'll detect magic. Yeah, the Hauder itself is giving off significant magic.

Could I roll a recall knowledge or identify magic? Yeah. Arcana? Arcana, yeah. 35. Yeah, so this is known as a howda of leisurely travel. And you notice as all of you are getting on, it's like resizing itself automatically

to perfectly fit your group nice and this one I mean some howders are constructed for war this one is constructed more for ceremony there's these bronze posts that support the silk roof above. And you know that it would

protect you from severe elements. So if you're traveling in an area that would have severe colds, severe heat, or something like that, you'd be protected from that. And if you rest while you're in the howda, you heal double the usual hit points when resting.

Oh, yes. So cool. Can we rest in the howda? Depending on how long your trip is, you certainly can. Yeah. Are you all settled in? Ethel, wake up. When Suki gets on also,

she touches this creature's leathery... Would she have any idea what this creature is? You could roll... I think it would be... I would say occultism. You could do occultism. You could do nature. I'll do occultism.

That's a 29. Or dream lore. 29. It's a creature known as a Shantok. Okay. Kind of like a dragon-y, dinosaur-y. Yeah, it's a dragon-y,

dinosaur-y. They're not just native to the Dimension of Dreams, although plenty of them are here. They can fly through space. Whoa. They're like these creatures that can fly through space. Whoa. They're like these creatures that can fly through space. Yeah, they're not affected by.

Yeah, I think Suki is like recognizing what it is. She's in awe. She's just like, I've never seen one of these. And she's kind of touching its leathery wing as she climbs in. And she says, Sibyl, you have such a beautiful color for Shantok. Thank you so much for this trip. You're very welcome. Ah, you're loud, quite loud.

Yes, I have a large vocal cord. Shut up. It echoes in the howder quite a lot. Yes, well, get comfortable. It is a long journey where we are going. Should take about ten hours. And where's that again? She turns and looks up to the sky and says,

Why, to the moon, of course. And her wings start to go. Long rest, please. Her wings start to flap, and she lifts off of the thing and starts flying in the direction of the moon! I wonder, are these things like a holdover from Spelljammer or something?

I wonder. This sounds like... This feels like something that has some legacy, but I don't know. It's really cool. That's so cool. Yeah. Yeah, I'd have to look that up. I'm just right now looking

on Pathfinder 2E. I'm sure they existed in 1E as well. But you guys are flying to the moon and it's going to be about a 10 hour trip which should be just enough time for you to

level up. Oh! Snap skiggity! Snap skiggity! The howda does that as well? The howda automatically levels you up regardless of where you are in XP.

Yep. And it's set all the time that is taken to describe your level up is set aside for the adventure. Thanks to this magical howda. That's awesome! So you're flying to the moon. You're flying to the moon. It's going to take about 10 hours so you have time to rest. You're going to heal double the hit points while you're resting and you're going to the moon. You're flying to the moon. It's going to take about 10 hours so you have time to rest. You're going to heal double the hit points while you're resting and you're going to level up.

I want to talk about these level ups right after a quick break. I mentioned to you a couple weeks ago, start preparing your level ups. I think we're going to get there pretty soon. And here we are. Level nine. Level nine. Level nine. The nine. Level nine. The last of the single digis.

Yes, yes. Have you ever played anyone here higher than level nine 2E character? Nine or higher? Did we ever play any of the Thunder Company characters that are higher than level nine? I'm thinking maybe seven tops. Even nine? I think it may be seven tops. Even that around. I think we started at seven. I think we did play them higher once.

We also played them lower. Yeah. But we started at seven. Yeah. I don't remember. I don't remember either. We definitely did in the play test. Yeah, in the play test we did.

I don't know how far we got because we didn't finish the whole thing. But that was meant to let go, jump up a few levels every different session. Right. But let's talk about your level nines here. Who wants to start? Love a good level up sesh. Me too, I love it. Kate is ducking.

Whoever wants to start Tsuki, by all means I can start if no one's ready It's not a ton for me But I do get access to My two 5th level spells Which is super exciting Super exciting

Oh wow, so you only had 4th level spells up until now? Yeah And I've been so careful with my spell casting. You want to conserve spells. It's hard playing, you know, a caster, but I have these two awesome. And Lemon Law. I mean, I can change my spells out and stuff, but I did choose another feat, which I gain access to otherworldly Akumen magic because of my elven ancestry.

ugly akumen magic um because of my elven ancestry so i do have access to like a second level spell that i wouldn't normally have access to and i can choose from like this big list uh i might change that out i i have to look more into the my ancestry feats the elven ones are kind of hard because i'm a druid but a lot of them are for like, you know, if you're fighting with a bow and you want like range, and I'm like it doesn't really apply to me. But other than that, nothing really

as a druid. Pepsi doesn't get anything, and I thought maybe Pepsi would get something cool, but nothing for Pepsi. Well, a couple fifth level spells are pretty sweet. It's dope. It's dope. In 2E, I think the spell's significantly more powerful. So I'm curious what you're going to be rocking out there.

Who's next? Joey, what do you got? Also, yeah, ninth level's a big ancestry feat level. This really put me, for the first time, not for the first time, but this put me at a major decision point for Atticus, where, to me, the clear ancestry feat that I needed to take because of its mechanical bonuses and potential for us, storytelling-wise, I didn't take because of who atticus is as a character and that was at ninth level of rat folk get access to rat form and i can just turn into pest form size basically so a tiny little rat and i can you know get all kinds you get huge stealth bonuses and stuff like that and you can scout and do all kinds of sneaking and everything and I would

do that in a heartbeat. I built this character all based on the psyche that he tries to not be a rat and hates being a rat and I was like I just can't see him embracing this ability. So I didn't do it and I took a step toward

a feat that will pay off at 13th level, if we ever reach 13th level. So I took a feat called Overcrowd, which is a special rat foot feat that would allow me to hold the same space as another small creature. So I can be in the same space of another small creature, a small ally. So, uh, you know, it might come up if we were in a jam and there was like,

um, what's your, uh, pop, pop, it's name. Um, so yeah,

Kate's doing her level up currently, but, uh, I could like maybe, you know, hold that square if we needed to in a desperate situation, right? Something like that. But the build is to 13th level where I could share the square of any medium creature ally.

I can finish my move in their same square. And that might have tactical advantages at that time. It's like Small World, right? Can't rats? Isn't there a rat ability in small world well i haven't thought about small world in a long time their rats are wild in that game they just like keep multiplying and multiplying yeah they're right it was i always loved like it was the i can't remember what i would what what modifier was my favorite but rat people so many rat folks yeah well that was the

thing with rats a small world each different, for lack of a better term, or animal, whatever they were, had a little fun power. Like, rats didn't have any power. Their power was there was a million of them. You just got a ton of them. Also, got access to fifth-level spells. So, fifth-level wizard spells. And, you know, normally I'd save it for air but uh shit man we're having a good time and this is a level up session if i don't talk about this i'm gonna have

nothing to talk about took a classic spell fifth level so psyched for atticus to be able to bust this out i've never had it as a pc. It is a PC killer. It's a little spell called Cone of Cold. I knew it. I knew it. As soon as you said PC killer, I was like. Oh, no. And that can be heightened. It can be heightened.

But even in its current form at fifth level, it is a 60-foot cone that does 12d6 damage. Wow. Oh, my gosh. At fifth level. Dude, I can remember, like, Jade Regent. You fought so many Oni, and they all had Kona Cold. So deadly.

And it was just, like, so... You catch so many PCs in that. It was only, like, 5d6 back then. There was no heightening and shit. And, man, brutal. Brutal. Yeah. So every level level you can heighten it every level and every level it's another 2d6 so when i can cast six level spells i'll prepare it and it'll be 14d6 dude this party needed it you needed like i know i needed i needed damage um and then there's one other spell that I'll mention when it comes up.

But it's my illusion spell. My illusion school spell and I'll mention that when it comes up. And it's not in the tradition of what we've had. It is not like something you have to roll a will save against seeing or whatever. It's a new illusion spell that's actually a reaction. So I'll do that if and when it

comes up. Ethel, what do you got? Ethel's got a pretty boring level up. Basically I got do that if and when it comes up. Ethel, what do you got? Ethel's got a pretty boring level up. Basically, I got one ancestry feat and some skill increases. So for my ancestry feat, I took natural skill, which basically gives me an additional first level fighter feat. Oh, that's cool. With that, I took sudden charge, which is a classic. It feels like a classic Chewie.

Yeah, now it's a classic. It's a classic. It's a new classic. And then I got a skill increase to Master, and I put it in Intimidation. Oh, wow. Oh, cool. You're a Master Intimidator. I forgot.

I also got that skill increase to Master, and I put it in occultism. So just to follow along with the storyline. So Atticus is now a master of arcana and occultism as he spends more and more time in these horrible places. Yeah. Ethel is now a master of athletics and intimidation. Oh, that's cool. So he's like Larry Bird. Does that give you any bonuses when you try to demoralize,

or is it just a higher... It just boosts my intimidation. It's a plus two. I imagine there are some things on your end where you have to be a master to do X, Y, or Z, but that's as far as I'm concerned. This creature could only be intimidated by a master. By a master intimidation.

Like Larry Bird just struts onto the court. It's amazing. That's it, though. It's all right. I bet your damage went up, right? Or not your damage, your hit? Yeah, everything goes up, man. Your AC is up, right?

That's good. How many times did you miss by one in the last four combats? Yeah, I bet. At least the enemies don't get any harder Skid talk to me about Aldo is this the level no

I really yeah nothing exciting I get another couple of formulas I get I can make moderate elixirs of life, which is nice. Ooh. Start handing those out in the hoda.

Oh, yeah. And I think I'm going to take a ghost charge, which is a bomb that you throw, and this ghostly spirit emerges from it and frightens things in its vicinity. Oh, that's fun.

Um, so, uh, yeah, but that's pretty much it. Nice. All right. Um,

Kate, I know you've been working on this for weeks. Uh, no, listen, the thing is, I went, as soon as you were like level nine,

I was like sick. I went to the sheet, changed it to level nine. And I was like, I totally forgot about spells. And I was like sick i went to the sheet changed it to level nine and i was like i totally forgot about spells and i was like fifth level but so what i've been going back and forth on is well i do the skill increase and i i'm also intimidation master and occult so hey oh um and for the ancestry feat i was like I was, like, struggling with this. Because there's, like, this Fae stuff, where, like, if I unlock Fae influence, I unlock, like, a bunch of other stuff for being a flesh warp. But what I wanted to do was something where I'm like, Troy's going to have to tell me that I can do this, because I'm kind of stretching the rules of the game.

Here we go. Oh, boy. And what it is, is for Fae influence i could um take on what is it oh my god bane there it is i have long bat like ears and i gained bane the thing is bane is like a weapon uh rune but my eldritch nails function like hand wrap of mighty blows in that they can have runes on them. Oh. But can hand wraps of mighty blows have bane? And I spent like a few hours doing work today trying to figure that out.

Iris, you have beautiful chicken hands. Why would you want to wrap them up? No, no, they're not wrapped up. It's my nails. I have to go get my nails done. Or do them while we're on this ride. Maybe I just whip something out. Yeah, I don't see why not. If it can have runes,

there is a Bane rune. So what's to say you couldn't put a Bane rune on there? And unlike a rune, it doesn't seem like the Bane would take up a rune slot, right? In this fey influence? Is it a magical thing, or is it taking up the rune, it doesn't seem like the Bane would take up a rune slot, right? In this Fae influence? Is it a magical thing or is it taking up the rune slot?

It just says I gained Bane. You gained Bane. I think you get it. That'd be cool because, you know, Will-O-Wisp and stuff. If it functions like those hand wraps and those hand wraps can have runes, there isn't such thing as a Bane rune. So I don't see why you couldn't.

It's also not game-breaking. So it's just kind of fun. And it's also going to be very, very specific. You're going to have Bane against one type of creature, which if you want to think about, you can. You just can't fight the next creature and be like, I have Bane against that. Right. I was thinking about choosing aberrations because that seems like what we fight. Am I wrong?

Yeah. I mean you certainly in the you know with all these creatures that you're fighting from the dreamlands you have been up against a lot of aberrations. I'm thinking even these denizens of Lang that you've been fighting. Those are all considered aberrations. So yeah.

I think that's going to have legs. I was debating between that and Slip the Grasp, which hasn't happened to me yet, but I see happen I feel like. I don't know, but the Bane and the nails is way more fun. That's cool. Is that an extra damage?

Like extra 2d6? Hold on, sorry. The Bane thing, that's not what you think it is. Bane is a spell. It's like a cleric spell, but it could be a cultish. But it's an emanation that just gives enemies a minus one to hit. That's what Bane is in 2e. You're not getting, like, a weapon property rune.

You're gaining access to the innate spell Bane from that particular one. You have long, bath-like ears and gain Bane, the spell. Yeah, each one of those choices for fey influence is a spell that you gain. Okay, enemies in the area will save a negative one attack rolls against me. And that lasts for a minute. Yeah, so you get the free Bane spell, but you still have to spend two actions to use it, and then it emanates five feet around you,

and everybody takes it. Yeah, and if you spend an action each round, you can increase the emanation to like 10 feet in another round, and I think you can do it again and make it like 15 feet emanation. Basically, it's going to be more valuable if you are in melee combat with enemies. If you're up in there, getting after it.

If you want to think about it in Lemon Lot later, you can. We always give a couple I'm leaning towards Slip the Grass, but one spell that I did choose, level 5 blood feast do you want to hear what the description is?

yes please that sounds good your head splits vertically into an enormous maw which feasts upon the target's blood dealing 12 d6 piercing damage depending on your spell attack roll after the spell your head sews back together

as if it had never split apart, and you gain temporary hit points for one minute equal to half the piercing damage the target takes. Oh, gross. Isn't that nuts? That was like, oh, don't, yeah. Put that in my cart. Put that in my cart.

And then I'm torn between two for the second spell slap that i get but i hope we don't have to fight anything that's very cool wow i didn't realize you guys are good in fifth level spells okay so you know i didn't either for whatever reason it makes sense i mean you you always i think in 2e you get spells at half your level rounded up i'm'm pretty sure that's how the spell levels equate. That's when you unlock them.

So I should have known you get fifth level at nine, but I didn't know it. When I did the level up, it was like, fifth level spells! Whole new world. That's crazy that three of you now have access to these. And it's good that you guys are taking some damaging spells. Yeah, need to lay out some damage.

That's what's making These combats last forever. So that's cool. Great. You are taking turns resting here. Can I speak to it? Yeah, as we fly? Just let me finish this, and then you can do whatever you want. I was going to say, as you're flying up, you see that its wings have like

icicles starting to form on it. But you guys feel completely protected inside the Howdah, but you're breaking the atmospheric barrier here as you head towards the moon. And the moon, if you remember, I mentioned right when you came

to the Caravanserai, it was hanging really low in the sky. It kind of looked like a video game. Well, now it's just like this huge sphere that you are going toward. But yeah, you can talk to our Sybil or you can talk amongst yourselves. You have a lot of time here, so I kind of wanted to check in with you and see what you guys are doing. Well, I think that I'll talk to Sybil. Are we going to be able to breathe on the moon? Is that something any of us would know?

Roll maybe a dream lore check. I think somebody has that. I could roll... My dream lore is really high now. I think you're the only one with dream lore, I think. Ethel asks and Suki says, let me think about it. Let me think about it. Shit, I rolled a natural 10.

But my dream lore is... Oh, you'll be fine. Plus 14. Plus 14. Yeah. Like most things in the dream lands, they don't follow the same rules as the material planes, so you think that you'll be just fine. She goes, it's going to be so awesome when we get there, actually.

You're really going to enjoy it, I think. Great, thanks. He woke up just to ask that question. Can we breathe on the moon? Wait a minute, should anybody think about this? Am I the only one? Atticus would lean forward a little over the front. Oh, Sybil, can you hear me?

Yes, I can! Would you mind so much speaking while you fly, or is that too distracting? It's a little distracting, but what question do you have, Mouse? I'm sorry, just most of my companions here have fallen asleep, and I'm just getting rather bored. I was wondering

how you and your brother came to know Weyralli. My kind, many of us live here in the dreamlands, and we are oftentimes bought and sold to be used for transportation. This slaver, Weraille, purchased my brother and I, and she treats us well enough, and she uses us to fly all around the cosmos. And how long ago is that? How long have you been working with her?

About seven and a half months. Tomorrow. Hmm, all over the cosmos. That sounds rather thrilling. Well, yes, that is what we Shantaks do. I can't wait to see my brother. So what sort of stops have you made? As I said, we are travelers. We are eager to hear of such places. Well, the moon, obviously, is one. The caravans are I.

And then those are the last two. I've also been to Barbados. Barbados. Barbados. Oh, a dreamland indeed. Yes, it was quite lovely. And other such places. Beyond the scope of this adventure?

Yes, yes. Ah, indeed. And on the moon, what is Wehrali's business on the moon, do you know? I do not know. She took that man dressed in yellow, who you deemed the king, there. But for what reason, I know not. Well, he deems himself a king, not I.

Yes, well, he did not seem any friend to Wehrale. Oh, indeed. Did he put up a fight? No, if he did, he failed. He was in fetters when she put him in my brother's howder. Against his will? Have you seen her do this often? Take people against their will to the moon? Not to the moon, no. But back in the Plateau of Leng,

she does all sorts of things to people against their will. Oh, is that where she's from originally, Leng? Yes. Ah, thank you so much. My pleasure. There are some bottles of water in a small fridge in the back. There should be enough for all of you. Is that a feature of the how-to? Suki is giving it five stars. Suki is a very good driver.

Excellent job. Clean interior. Friendly conversation. It talks a little too much. So do you fly to the moon often? No, this is a first for us. It's lovely this time of year, especially in spring.

I've heard, spring on the moon, it's miraculous. Yes, oh, you haven't lived until you've been to the moon in spring. I don't know, I think I feel there's a lot of hate going around for the moon in spring. Ah, yes. Well, anyway. I don't listen to that jibber jabber. I just, I love that sentence. There's a lot of hate going around for the moon in spring. It's just like, where did that come from?

Ethel is keyed into a lot of what people are saying. Yeah, he listens. He knows all the rumors. Yeah, clearly. When you're being hired to be the muscle, sometimes you just got to sit there and whittle, and you just take things in. You work as a freelancer,

you have to have a ear to the street at all times, so you pick certain things up and one of the things I'm picking up is that people are not too keen on the moon and spring they don't like the moon and spring maybe

unfairly Atticus will then turn to the group and lower his voice so that Sybil can't hear obviously and just sort of remark on the situation. Well, this way Raleigh is indeed... A foe, it appears, but I'm not sure exactly what to expect. And we will indeed be on her turf.

I'm not sure how we should approach this. Eris, what do you think? Can we just pretend to be her friend? Until we can't anymore? Could we say we were also trying to capture and kill the Yellow King? Maybe we say, no, you don't get to go first. Like, we can show up and be like, oh, thank goodness you caught him. Right, right, the enemy of my enemy and all that. Yeah.

Interesting. Aldo, what do you think? I'm a bit worried about going to the moon. Indeed. I agree. I mean, there's a lot to worry about right now, but that is

among my concerns. Survival on the moon. Right, but it is a dream. Is it not? Yeah, no, true. It's one of those dreams that you forget and you just... Oh, right. I seriously had one of these the other day.

I had a dream that was so real I sort of woke up and thought that it was still real, kind of, but I wasn't awake. I was still dreaming and didn't know I was dreaming, right? In that wake-up state. And the dream

was that I killed a guy. The fuck? I didn't actually dream the killing. I just knew that I killed a guy. The fuck? And I don't have any, like, I didn't actually dream the killing. I just knew that, like, I had killed somebody, and I was, like, trying to lay low. That's awful. I know. And I was like, I think I'll get away with it.

Like, I don't think they know. I don't think I left any evidence. It was like one of those. And I woke up and was like, oh, my God. Like, I wish that that was a dream, but it wasn't. Like, I really did do that. Like, I got to figure this shit out. And then, like, hours later, I actually woke up and was like, wow, for a really long time last night, I thought I killed somebody.

Dude, I had one the other day, too, but it was like I was late somewhere and I was, like, so bummed about it. When I was waking up, I was like, can't believe I slept in. I couldn't imagine was waking up I was like can't believe I slept in I couldn't imagine waking up being like I can't believe I killed someone the weirdest is have you guys ever been crying in a dream and you wake up and you actually like have

cried no it's never happened to you oh that's what's called a wet dream it doesn't usually happen in your age dream Sydney's called a wet dream. It doesn't usually happen in your age group. Sydney, you had a wet dream. Sydney, you had a wet dream. Guys, I have a lot of wet dreams, but why are they so sad? They didn't say they were so sad. I didn't think that's how they're supposed to be.

I got a lot to think about. Why are they so sad? Episode 69. I'm writing it down. Episode 69. Talked about my wet dreams today. Got a lot to think about. You know, I was listening actually to this really fascinating podcast.

Let me just plug another podcast. But they were talking about this woman interviews people of all different professions, every different ology. It's called ologies. Oh, that's a good podcast. It's called Ologies. Oh, that's a good podcast. It's so good. She's such a good interviewer. The one she did about gorillas was awesome.

Yeah, I know that podcast. Oh, what? You guys know this podcast? You guys heard about this? I listened to one about dreams. It's about dreamology, which has a more, it's called phantasmalology. It's something ridiculous that nobody says But the guy who she was interviewing Was basically like yeah

There's like no relation between anything in dreams Like just straight up He was like there's really nothing Like things that happen in your dream Unrelated there's no symbolism Things like when you're kicking or running That content really sells I was like This is so not fun.

I mean, he's a scientist. But I thought about this one thing of like you cry in your dream or, you know, you're running in your dream. And he's like, rarely in dreams do you have the body movements that are happening in real life. Like rarely does that happen. But I think we've all experienced the falling dream where you wake up and you're like, like, moving your whole body. So I don't know.

I'm going to have to Snopes this guy's interview. Yeah, this guy's just a charlatan. I think that guy's a liar. I think he's a liar. But no, I totally... The guy who said that dreams aren't magic is full of shit, man. Don't bring that into our dream world.

It's very real. He's not allowed to play our game with us. But I totally know what you mean, Joe. I've had really realistic dreams before. And I've woken up and it throws you off. It throws off your whole day. Like your whole morning routine. You're like, did I kill a guy?

Yeah. And when I was doing that, I was actually dreaming. It was so weird. Did I bang a guy? Yeah. And when I was doing that, I was actually dreaming. Like, it was so weird. Did I bang my cousin? Oh, no. Why do I feel like I banged my cousin? Do I have to call my cousin? I should call her.

I should call them. It was a dream, right? Oh, man. You guys are talking about your wet dreams. So we're talking about how to approach this way Raleigh situation. I think treating him is like, oh, thank you for imprisoning our hated enemy. I think that was that one. Okay.

We could go with that. But we'll definitely need to be on guard. And what is our objective? Look, whether we are deceptive with the Yellow King or not, or her, or whatever, Wei Raleigh, whatever, we need to make sure we at least get some time

with the Yellow King. The briefest of moments, right? We just need to know how to find the Mad Poet. At least... Where? She never told you who The briefest of moments, right? We just need to know how to find the mad poet. Atlus, she never told you who Wei Raleigh was, correct? We don't know if she's a human or... Lower your voice! Sorry.

I just woke up. Sorry. No, no, indeed. I did not want to seem like we didn't have some familiarity with her of course but i don't know maybe i could can can i do like an occultism or something on way rally to know if it's you know like the boogeyman like that type of thing if it's yeah for sure okay like a famous creature of the dreamlands yeah what do you think t think, Troy? Like a dream lore or a cultism? I think a cultism because you're looking for a more general, like, is that name ring a bell and sort of all lore? Yeah.

What about society? I think if that name rings a bell. But anyway. That's going to be a 36. Hold on. Matt, 18. So you're crushing it on the knowledges. Yeah.

No, it's a proper name for a very specific person. And it doesn't really ring a bell to you. But, like, it seems very, like, there's just this little, like, tickle in the back of Aldo and Atticus's mind every time that name comes up. And you just can't... can't place it. But why? Because we, the players, are forgetting something

that we heard in book one? No, the characters have this sort of tickle. So this is something from our previous lives. From our lost... Memory loss. Yeah, our lost memory. Aldo, you're doing like a thousand-yard stare. No, it's just there's something about that name.

I don't know. I can't place it. You know, I think so too, Aldo. I'm having the same response. Sybil. Sorry, another question did you find the water acceptable

the water was delicious yes very fresh five stars yes you're getting great ratings back here I filled the bottles myself yesterday uh you mentioned you mentioned that

I had to drink a lot of water first we already had a throw up episode we can't do that again Ethel not so subtly spits all the water he has in his mouth out the side of the hoda I drank so much

Dr. Pepper oh god the side of the hoda. I drank so much Dr. Pepper. Oh, God. You mentioned that Wayrali had traveled with several different folks back and forth in the hodion. You are your brother. Do you ever recall hearing the name

Hastet and Laos? Oh, no. No. No. She was mostly traveling with her own kind. And her own kind meaning... denizens of Leng? Yes. Yes.

Thank you. I didn't know if we perhaps, on the off chance, had a mutual friend. That's all. No, I don't recall that name, but i don't really pay attention i'm terrible with names um what about like numbers what's that margaret margaret what about like numbers like how many people do you think are with uh raleigh right now i the list. I'm not sure. I think she took three or four, but then maybe I brought

some as well. I'm not sure. I've lost count from who my brother took and who I took. Oh, exciting. It's going to be a party, and then she lowers her breath. She's like, okay, listen, I can group co-hearse if we need to when we're there, up to ten people.

So we can still go with our plan of tomfoolery. Sybil, remind me again, sorry, what was your brother's name? Tonka. Tonka, of course. Tonka Marmalade. Tonka Marmalade. And I, Sybil Marmalade. It's a famous family in this game.

There's so many Marmalades. Marmalade. Yes. I do believe we know each other. Sybil, question for you. Yes, Jimmy. Jimmy. I'm sorry, I'm terrible with names.

We never even told you our names have you ever considered going out on your own you and your brother just starting a business for yourself nonsense freelancing as it's called I don't understand

well instead of working for someone you work for yourselves is this some kind of pyramid scheme for someone, you work for yourselves. Is this some kind of pyramid scheme? No, it's what most people do. You know, Ethel, you really do come across as a pyramid scheme guy. Do I? I never thought I would seem like that.

With all the rah-rah and that bit. You wear it all over you. I think it's nice. With all the rah-rah and it's a bit, you wear it all over you. I think it's nice. I will gain nothing from this. That's what they say. That's what they say. You sound exactly like that. I don't feel like you're trying to sell me your goods.

I feel like you're trying to sell me the business. No, no, no. I'm just saying it. I'm just trying to offer you a pathway to help yourself. God, that's exactly what you said. I'm just saying it. I'm just trying to offer you a pathway to help yourself. God, that's exactly what he said. I'm not interested. Thank you. Really?

I mean, just torpedoed that interaction. Once pyramid scheme got into Sybil's head, you couldn't possibly. She checked out hard. Yeah. Then there's just no way to transfer any truth. Aren't you sick and tired of working for that bad boss of yours? God, that too.

Let me guess, all you need to do is invest in some tools and stuff, right? She's already got all the tools she needs. Oh. She's already got all the tools she needs. Oh. So anybody else doing anything of import? Oh, you mean anything important at all? Just resting, preparing. Yeah, so you can all get W or HP back that you would normally get.

And then, yeah, prepare a different spell. Yeah, we're going to the moon so I'm gonna re-look at my spell list here let's go to the moon I'm going to hand to out to everybody a moderate elixir of life

ah thank you Aldo oh my goodness you're welcome this Aldo Brand new recipe A bit more potent than the old one Let me know how it tastes Excellent Still tweaking that And the last ones that you gave us

I still have one Are useless after your next rest They just last until Wait what? I have an elixir of life lesser That you gave us before. Yeah, those are good until I prepare my next batch, I think. Yeah, I think that that's right.

That sounds right to me. Okay, cool. Good thing I used mine. She's smart. She's smart. Alright, so You take some time to Relax after Some surprising encounters

In the Caravanserai You heal up a little bit, you make some light conversation Amongst yourselves and with Sybil Marmalade And you look up At this moon, which is getting larger And larger, and you have no reason to believe That the moon that hangs over the dreamlands And you look up at this moon, which is getting larger and larger. And you have no reason to believe that the moon that hangs over the Dreamlands is any larger than the moon or moons of Galarian. But as you look up, the Dreamlands moon takes up now like five-sixths of the sky because of how close you are.

sky because of how close you are and do we see anything on the moon well like from this distance or is does it still just look like the moon or do we do we see that there's like a whole civilization on the moon or something you don't see a whole civilization you're kind of honing on on one area and then as you're coming in you see the surface of the moon rising up to greet you. And the Shantak starts descending. And as she descends, you see that the terrain below is very stony and barren. You don't really see anything. Except for the area where you're flying into specifically.

There's some hills that are rising over a dark, viscous lake of some sort. And just at the edge of the lake is a large windowless building just standing there. And it's really the only structure that you see in this particular area that you're flying into. It looks like it's constructed of enormous blocks that are made of the same stone that the moon is formed from. You see that the largest entrance pierces one end of the structure, and there's a little, like maybe a smaller entrance to the side. It's becoming clearer and clearer as you come in. And

the far end of the structure rises above the level of the lake, kind of like the humped back of a great stone beast. And the Shantak comes in just to the north and lands in a large, empty paddock a few hundred yards away from the building.

And are the wings kicking up dust, like moon dust? Does it look like our moon or is it like John Carter moon? I think the way I picture it is more like our moon, but the surface is like stone. And maybe that's what the moon is. I haven't been up there. I haven't read extensively. But it's kind of like concrete as opposed to earthen terrain. But there's air?

There's air that you can breathe. Yeah, and so it does kick up some dust, but it's like chalk almost. And you're in this wide open paddock right on the shores of this dark lake. And the building is about a mile away to the south. Well, I mean, just water being there at all, right? Highly unusual. That seems unexpected. Yeah, this is not like

our moon. No, there's some significant differences. Are there any other creatures in the paddock? Are we completely alone with Sybil in the paddock? Ah, you are. And in fact, you see Sybil looking around. Ah, I am surprised my brother is not here.

Oh, this is what I feared. That perhaps Wayrali is already gone. I should return from whence we came. that perhaps Wayrale is already gone. I should return from whence we came. If Wayrale took a different way back and I'm not there, I could be in trouble. And you think to yourself, if she

leaves, you'll be stranded on the moon. Yeah, but we can just wake up. So, well, maybe. We don't know. What if they lock you in your dreams forever? How scary would that be?'t know what if they lock you in your dreams forever how scary would that be and then what if you needed to come back to the moon right Sybil perhaps you should stay

if if your brother's not here I mean perhaps something went wrong shouldn't we check I hope he's alright this is where we were told to land he left with where I lay and that man. He should be here. Sybil, why

don't you just wait here and we can go to that building I assume. Tonka! Stop yelling for Tonka. Tonka Marmalade! Yeah, usually when I call for my siblings, I use their first and last name. Yes, right.

Mr. Talk-a-mommalade! Oh, this is formal. Sybil, he is clearly not in earshot, but we could possibly find him or we rally inside in the complex here and we will report back to you. Don't leave yet. If you leave, your brother could still be here. Don't rush away. We'll get the information and come back and tell you right away.

All right. You have been nothing but truthful to me thus far. I will wait, but I am nervous. Are you hungry? Yes. Ethel, please give our friends some food thank you okay so uh

I can I can make you uh some eggs I can give you a little bit of a little tack a little uh what do you need to move for what do you need to move for lasagna I want a homemade lasagna incredibly specific

I wait there's something about there isn't there a thing to the dreamlands where you can attempt one impossible thing is that true I feel like I read this I think we should use it on making lasagna that sounds awesome I kind of love that you will lasagna into existence

because you're dreaming. It's like lucid dreaming. It should be called the lucid dreaming trait. In fact, Suki says, Ethel, if you think hard enough about lasagna, you can make it happen. Yeah, so Ethel is going to- But you have to believe in the lasagna.

You have to smell it, feel it. Ethel is going to close his eyes and he's like, oh, you know, my ex-wife, she, I always tried to cook for her, but she didn't love my cooking, so now. Don't think about your ex-wife when you make this lasagna. This is a delicious lasagna. It's not about her.

It's not about her. Jared Gahoover, Jared Gahoover will appear and destroy us. We only have one shot at this. Think about the lasagna. Okay. We only have one shot at this. Oh, no, I'm thinking about the Michelin Man again. No about the lasagna. Okay. I only have one shot at this. I'm thinking about the Michelin man again. No, no, no.

I gotta clear my mind. Okay. No, no. I am good at some things. Okay. And he closes his eyes and he tries really hard to manifest the lasagna. Perfect, well cooked lasagna that would be a suitable portion size for it.

Yeah, like a disturbingly large tray of lasagna. Like dinosaur size. Perfectly golden and brown. Golden brown around the edges. And I'll tell you another thing. It's an impossible lasagna. So no matter how you cut it and what piece you get, you always get

your desired piece. Either an end or a corner or an interior piece. And it has the exact amount of, yeah, meat, cheese, whatever you wanted in the exact proportions. It could even be eggplant instead of noodles. Can I roll something for this?

Yes. Roll D100. What was that? Sorry. D100. I have a feeling I know which numbers this exists. Yes. All right.

Here we go. 28. That's pretty good. That is. That's better than I expected. Didn't think you'd roll a 28. I wasn't prepared for that 28. I wasn't ready.

Let me just look through my notes real quick. 28. I wasn't ready. Let me just look through my notes real quick. 28, okay. Your eyes aren't even open and you feel warmth in your hands. The warmth, perhaps, of a giant tray.

Smells of your nana's cooking waft to your nose. The smell of fresh plum tomatoes, oregano, basil, and ricotta. Ricotta. You open your eyes and sure enough, there is a party-sized tray. A carmine tray of lasagna a carmine size lasagna

in your hands what do you do I present it to Sybil to Sybil what's her last name Marmalade I get down and I lower it before her Sybil Marmalade. I get down and I lower it before her. Civil Marmalade,

I present you with a lasagna. Oh, this, I'm shocked that you happen to have this on your purse, and thank you. And she reaches down and takes one huge bite.

And then you see her recoil. Is this an impossible lasagna? I thought you didn't literally make an impossible lasagna, did you? There's nothing more disgusting. Yes? Why did she vomit? Ah. Yes. Why did she vomit? I'm allergic to tofu.

It's pea protein. It's pea protein. I'm going to be sick. There's no tofu. Take your filthy lasagna and get out of here. And we leave. And we go towards the building. She flips the lasagna. I shouldn't have rolled that 28. Yep.

But not before Atticus turns to Ethel and says, There's more to you than meets the eye, Mr. Norman. I know. I'm a complex person. I can't believe you produced lasagna from your mind. Let's go in there and kill this way, Ronnie.

So what do you do? We'll start walking toward the John. And I'm just going to do a classic seek action. Just sort of like looking around, see if I see any danger as we start walking. Well, I'm going to do that first. And I just rolled a natural two, so it's going to be garbagio. But what I will do in exploration mode is just cast detect magic constantly. Okay.

Is anybody else doing any checks or spells? I also did a seek action that is a 29 perception. Okay. So as you're gathering up to head in that direction, you, Aldo,

feel like another Shantok must have landed here like less than a week ago, a few days ago. And it looks like, what did you roll, 29? Yeah. Looks like it stayed for a few hours, then departed. It's kind of Sybil's fear that maybe something happened.

That wasn't part of the plan, it doesn't seem. But another Shantok came here a few days ago, remained for a few hours, then departed. I found it, by the way. It's the highly morphic trait for the Dimension of Dreams,

and as a standard action, you can attempt one impossible action, like casting a spell or gaining the ineffective spells that were cast or conjuring a magic item. It requires a successful charisma check. Oh, that's so cool. Wow. That's crazy.

That's really cool. It's based totally on the idea of lucid dreaming. That's really great. You rolled a 28 charisma. Does it look like there were other people around? Like a struggle or like there were people that left maybe also with the thing? Give me a perception check or survival.

Survival. I have survival, but my perception is better. Yeah, roll perception. I mean, Aldo rolled a 29. It's pretty good. It's natural two. So we're going to say no. It's pretty good. It's a natural two, so we're going to say no. It's a 14.

Okay. Hmm. Yeah, so you just see that there was this other Shantak. Yes, we would just be speculating. Did she send it away? Is she still here? Have they already left? We won't know until we go in.

Let's go. Ethel, lead the way. Ethel's still smarting from the lasagna incident, but he uh, alright, alright, yeah. He draws his weapons, and he uh, I will lead the way. You start walking in the direction

of this building, and you see it in the distance. Looks like there's a closed metal portcullis about 15 feet wide, 15 feet high, blocking a long hallway that leads into the building. But you do see just to the north of that a squat guard post, like standing just to the north right of it as though it's just like budding from the building

it has three square windows that sort of look like eye sockets and as you approach you hear a voice emerge who goes there uh it's us of voice emerge. Who goes there?

Uh. It's us. Ethel looks around. Oh? Us who? Travelers, we've come to see where are they? There are no trespassers allowed on the premises.

Sorry, you must have misheard. We got a ride from Sybil. Please see yourself away. I do not know who this Sybil is, but you are not allowed here. Sybil Marmalade, sister of Tonka Marmalade, who just escorted Ray Wale here. Never heard of her. Leave this instant. What is this place?

This is a prison. A lunar prison, if you will. And no visitors are allowed. Do you happen to have a guy wearing all yellow there by any chance? There are many prisoners. What sort of crimes would you have to do to get into a prison like this? Horrible crimes, like providing the incorrect lasagna. Well, as luck would have it, I did just that.

So you have to arrest me and take me into custody immediately. A couple of sexy cops come out and take you away. Ethel buries his hatchet into each of the jokes. What were we talking about? Dreams are weird. Dreams are weird. It's a prison. No visitors are allowed.

There are many prisoners. I'm afraid we must try to speak with one. Well, unless you'd like to be the next occupants, I suggest you carry on. This place is owned and operated by two moon beast wardens with the support of their very large staff. This is not a place. Like members of the staff, like people, or they just have one big stick? Members.

Great. And what are you? Trouble. If you continue to tarry here. Just, does it like suck to be in there? Does it like hurt? Yeah. Does it suck to be in there? Does it hurt? Yeah, does it suck to be in there? I might have done some things

to get me in there is what I'm trying to say. I kind of want to go in there to see if my friend is in there. Yes, we're bringing this person here to be arrested. As I said, no visitors. Can we see this person at all?

You know what? Why don't we go to the map? Oh, thank you. Why don't we go to the map? Oh, boy. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Oh! Okay.

We're up in the northeastern corner of the map right now, but where is the... The voice is emerging from this little guardhouse. In fact, I can reveal the guardhouse to you.

Boop. That reveal? No. No. At least it takes two reveals. Nope, I'm still not doing it. It's alright, can't reveal. But anyways, there's a little guard house there. Ethel is going to walk up to the guard house. Alright. Okay. Do I see

anybody within? Do I see anybody within? Do I see who I'm talking to? So as you start to, you get about ten feet away, he says, not any further! And you look and you see this, like, green skinned creature with sharp features and long fangs

just kind of peeking out from this tiny window. You don't see any doors or any way of getting in there. Come no further! Listen. We're here to talk to this guy. And you can either let us in or not, but we're going to find our way in.

And maybe, yeah, the moonbeasts will get us. Maybe they won't. But we're dreaming. And I'll just keep coming back. I'll keep coming back until I run you through with this scimitar and cave in your skull with this war hammer, or you can just let us in. What do you say?

I would love to roll intimidate on that. Okay. Uh, that sounded like a master of intimidation to me. Yeah, it was pretty masterful. Thank you. Thank you. I just, I just, uh, feeling a little bit more masterful.

Okay. Tweener. Uh, that'll be a 30. 30. And it is against his what? Will DC? Yeah. Yep.

Alright! Alright! I don't want any trouble! There's only one of me, and more of you! Fine! Fine! Fine! Come around here

to the front yes Ethel yes alright I'm following wherever Ethel goes but I will not walk ahead of him no uh okay

moving up to the door oh it's like a vault door Oh neat Really locked in there Here Alright Excellent Stay right

There And all of a sudden you see this like Fire start to rise up And come flying out. Oh, no. And we'll see you next week. No, you can't do that, Sheppus. We are such words, guys.

We waited until we were all together. Everyone stand right there. Right there. I'm going to let you in. Sookie's just thinking, great job, Ethel. Oh, great job, Ethel. Oh, great job, Ethel. Really intimidating. Really scared that guy.

Ethel's confidence. Should have made real lasagna. This is a punishment for the lasagna. Thanks for listening to the glass cannon network for more podcasts and live streams visit glasscanonnetwork.com and for exclusive shows and content you can't find anywhere else subscribe today at patreon.com slash glass cannon