Chapter 10: Finally—A Quest!

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It's night in the city of Fells Keep your party is sleeping soundly in the attic room of the ragtag Except for one of you, Zan you wake up too warm and not because you're squeezed into a twin bed with jasmine but because the air is too stale, too thick. You gather your purse with hat the rat and your jumpsuit and slip out through the little door to the balcony attached to your room. Outside, under a sea of twinkling stars, ribbons of pink light and twin crescent moons. You can breathe easy. You spread out your jumpsuit, lay down and quickly fall back asleep. Max, you wake up to the sound of colored pencils scratching on paper. You blink your eyes open and see a tiny attic room filled with pale dawn light. Cody is sitting up on his top bunk coloring. Erica and Jasmine are still asleep in their beds. San is

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gone. What do you

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do? Um, Max is just gonna kind of set up. And I could I could see Cody from around that, right? Yeah. Okay. So I'm just gonna give us Cody a little wave.

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Cody, look up. And the little waving back to coloring. Ignored.

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Okay. Yeah. Uh, and then, uh, I'll get out of bed and there's a There's a balcony in this room, right? Yes. Eso you go out on the balcony and just sit there for a little while,

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okay? Yeah. You open the

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balcony door and make a perception check.

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That's a one.

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How you stepped right on san. Who's sleeping on? Oh, God. Oh, Uh, sorry. Yeah. You trip and fall Euro tangled and jumpsuit. It's very awkward.

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Uh, I'm so sorry I didn't see you out there

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with a What do you doing? He's

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high. Was still stuffy in there. What time

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is it? I don't know. Morning. Yeah. Why would any of us know what time it is? Your right? Oh, probably like pink oclock, quarter toe raspberries or something.

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Ones that just let me get update, My lord, that a economical times, it's quarter

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to respiratory. Oh,

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Cody, hear the commotion that happened?

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Yeah, definitely. Okay. Only saw Max open the

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door and then just beef

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it. You can call you

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see this scene from the top. But maybe you just over. Okay, so now he's officially like called Overlooked Over

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Area. Okay, okay out there.

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Yeah, I'm okay. Are Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine. I didn't, like step on your face or anything today. I didn't need that spleen. Anyway, it's fine

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growing up New one, Cody. A quote on the ladder and slip outside with them.

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The three of you cram onto this, uh, tidy balcony and below you can see the city of fellas keep like a pretty small city with a big stone tower at the end of it. You can't see too much, cause you're building Isn't that high, But you can kind of hear the sounds of people waking up. Now, it's stuffy out here to

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not a very big balcony. This

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is a

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pretty big place, huh? Yeah, The balcony, Cody, This shoots a look at san as like, are you stupid

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thing? This child just gave you the dirtiest look.

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Oh, all right. I deserved that.

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I'm a Memphis

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city dough. All right? Yeah. Obviously, it's It's a lot of people here. Yeah, I mean, I guess like a city Where

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you from again? Well, I'm from Kansas

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City, but, like, I mean, ever since we got here,

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it was an empty building in a place that looked like a I don't know. Ah, Dead city. And we just found people in the woods. I don't know. I just kind of didn't know there were fists. Many people anywhere in this place, right? Yeah. It's just weird to kind of, you know, see it all laid out

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like this. Fair enough. Yeah. We haven't met very many people here, have we?

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Please don't

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try to meet every person in the city. I beg of you. Please.

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Dialogue. Well, you just gave me a new goal.

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Talk to everyone. 100% fells. Keep. Okay, Okay. I'll start a list of everyone we

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meet and will make sure that we meet everybody. Okay,

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we got it.

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We talking to them until they circle around

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to the first thing that they said.

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Okay, five

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people in a row

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were all going to say the same thing. Wow. I sure do love my bulbous or by potions at the apothecary. Fine

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for food crusts for more. I like shorts cause they're comfy and easy to wear also

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glad every other video game in the world can help you right here in this campaign. Oliver,

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you think we

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should go. You know, like we get sailors and could do something or

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sure, Mommy, just, like, throw hat up there, see what happens.

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I could go stuff on them, too.

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Yeah, that's great. Lets you spread that around.

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Yeah, sure, Max. Good idea. Go to that.

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Could split the difference and throw Cody on him.

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Whatever. I

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didn't hear it. No. So,

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yeah. Yeah. Wait. Just

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wants I just want to get just one second.

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Any cast light on the 21st.

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Okay. Okay. You to pick up Cody, and And what are you doing with,

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uh, we're gonna throw him onto Erica? All

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right, great. How much weight? But if you look like

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£90 okay

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for middle? Yeah. I have a pretty

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good memories of having weird conversations about how much we held. Weighed in middle school.

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90. Seems about right, player here. We've

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done some stupid stuff thing. Take a big, really lovely Oh, I've

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definitely had my parents drop my sister on me toe. Wake me up before, Not albeit at the age of 12 but, you know, it's

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a

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legitimate alarm clock method. You pick up

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the 12 year old and you drop of on Erica Food.

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What? So

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what? Why

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you up, Jasmine, You're also now awake.

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Why? I'm glowing. Good morning. Why? Why would you Did I take any

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damage from that? No, he's He's soft

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and rubbery. Got stepped on a wake up.

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Okay, cool. This seems cooler somehow. Are we under attack? Um, just

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me. I think I just just I am under attack from this small boy.

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No, they threw being

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basically just points. Find him

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dance now, looking up at the ceiling like I I wasn't here. Yeah, Maxis student science. I just I just woke up. What's going on?

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Erica gets out of bed. Okay. Um, so what's what's going on? That you felt the need to drop a child on me?

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How? It's Ah, it's morning raspberry time. Hungry, Hungry, Hungry. Can we get breakfast here? Well, always hungry.

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Oh, yeah. You all feel pretty hungry. You didn't eat yesterday?

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Yeah, I'm kind of starving, actually.

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Cody's tummy rumbles

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don't things You have to remind your player can t Once you guys have established a way of getting food,

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I won't make you keep

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track of how hungry you are. But Holy shit, We haven't eaten you haven't eaten

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in, like, 24 hours. I think

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all of a sudden some point Oliver's could be like and

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all of you

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suddenly die because in a month you all waste away it, Ash, you're all dead.

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You look over and Cody's eating the last granola bar in his backpack from that he had in the beginning,

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surreptitiously or just like, openly jumping. Well, just reminded he

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was hungry. So he went over. He just got it. Just didn't even think to offer any. Just kind of starts. That kind of takes one big bite That's pretty loud in the quiet room. And she looks up. It's like Ohio. Uh, wants

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up. Yeah. Between between, uh,

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Cody's chopping, your rumbling stomachs and the still open balcony door

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suddenly very loud,

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you can actually smell

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the maybe, like, fresh bread of

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some sort

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wafting in through the open door. I don't know. You also faintly hear the sound of someone yelling,

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Uh, what what's that?

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I don't know. But the food smells really good. Food smells good. People are always

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yelling. Ah, yeah. I mean, this is a city. Yeah, It's like, you know, people just yell reminded just stubbed their

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toe or gotten robbed there

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is gonna run outside on the balcony. See if this if the yelling is outside, if you can hear it better,

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it sounds like it's below you. It's

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not out here. Must be inside

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somewhere. Well, let's go downstairs.

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Yeah, sure. We go, like, see if Ah, Dan's girlfriend has some food weaken by or something.

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Yeah, I don't think we have toe establish a core him to go downstairs.

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Zan leaves and goes downstairs. I go

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down the first there. Should we? You want to go down another one to stand? No, no. All right, we're good here.

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Way. Stay on stair to for another hour. Then we go to three.

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All of us were all

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on the second stair. Yes, Macon acrobatics. Check all of us. Yeah, You're all the fucking America.

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Actually wants to pick up Cody mining that she's gonna throw him down the stairs.

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Things much worse than what

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we did. Think I said, mind not actually going to do it? You could make an athletics check that perfect chills will make it deception. Jack, if Cody things, he's going to get thrown down stairs. That's a 19 okay? Yeah. You're all convinced that Erica

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is gonna hunt Cody down the stairs.

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E o

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I put him down. Okay.

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Already, Dom isn is

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Come on. You coulda hit Jasmine.

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Make your way down three

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narrow flights of stairs. And as you reach the cafe part part of the ragtag, you hear a sound of someone like frantically asking for help.

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Hey, UK. Well,

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gather restive. You make it down the stairs. And you see, the cafe is empty. Except for Tula, the maroon T fling who owns the ragtag and ah, short person wearing a beautiful cloak pattern with iridescent greens and browns. The stranger has her back to you, and she's pulling onto little his hand.

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Please, you have to help. There's no one else I can ask.

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Jack, This is the first time in weeks I've had customers. I can't run off into the growth by myself.

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Ah, Good morning.

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Hey. Is everything all right down here?

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It's the guest list. Five of you cut a peek Your head around the corner, Scooby de style.

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Cody's on top. Somehow,

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somehow Erica's holding it. Yeah, this stranger

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turns and her cloak flares a little in, surprised her eyes air, jet black and she adds, feathered antenna spreading out from her short hair.

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Who could cook?

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You recognize now that her cloak isn't a cloak at all, but a pair of beautiful moth wings. You'll also see that she's dressed in all black. And there are two silver crescent moons embroidered on her shirt to Lula kind of size when she sees you and puts on a smile.

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Good morning. Um, did you sleep OK? This is Jack.

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She her and Jack kind of waves at you,

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huh? Yeah. Deals, fineness every. You okay?

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Yeah. Zan at that. Jack rushes up to you and grabs one of your hands in both of hers and says,

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Are you mercenaries? I can pay? I just really need help.

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We look like mercenaries. We could be mercenaries.

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You can 00 my gosh. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, So there's this flower that blooms out in the growth, the great flower, and we need

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it. There's a family that sick. And Dana said that the great flower is the only cure. But Charlie and Ash went out to get it

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yesterday, and they were supposed to be back by sundown, but they aren't fight. I'm just a teacher. And to Lewis retired. And at

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this point she's, like crying and kind of like grieving Garm up and down

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who's Zam like? Looks over her shoulder for help. There's suddenly somebody crying and Glink clutching at her. And she is. Erica shrugs.

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Hey, don't don't be don't be still be scared. Were more friendly. Uh, I'm I'm Cody. He him. It's nice to meet you, Jack. Is that what I heard? Yeah. My name's Jack. Are you're a child? Oh, no, I I'm with them.

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Just points behind these four adults.

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Oh, okay. I guess. Um, and toe Lula

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comes over and puts her hand on Jack's shoulder and, like, pulls her back a little. So she's no longer like basically climbing on you, zan and is like Jack. Um please don't send my only customers to their deaths. Deaths?

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What kind of flower is

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this? Totally was like it's out in the growth. So I mean, you know,

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we've been in the growth before,

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and Jack, like, brightens when you say this and she's

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like, they do it, they do it a little. If I could do it.

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I mean, are the people that are missing Are they

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fighters? Ah, I mean, yeah, um uh, Charlie and ash are like are only too, uh, adventurers left in fells keep. And they went out yesterday and they're really big. And they have, like, swords and magic and stuff, and I don't know why they didn't come back.

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Cody has been squinting, kind of look over Jack and see what she's all about. And he just consist there and thinks he goes

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Are you someone's daughter? I have a friend. He had a dragon, and he told me about people who were black

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with circles on it and said their daughters are And so they're nice people are Are you a

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daughter? And Jack is like, Oh, yeah. And she, like,

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wipes her cheeks away and straightens her uniform. And she's like,

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I am daughter Jack. I am a daughter of the twin moon. So our daughters, Charlie and daughter Ash, um and yeah, we protect people. I'm not very good at that part. I just teach at the school

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teachings way scarier to me.

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Oh, no. The kids are wonderful. I love them.

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Cody lights about the idea of the school and other kids. He's like, I know what that is like. He's like, I got that.

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Looks like they're not occult after all.

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What the coal. Hurry about it. Okay. Can you help me? Rid me? Said they were friendly and she looks like she needs help. Can't we Can help. Right? I

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think we should help. I

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have no problem helping. Let's get out

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there. I'm down. Can we eat something first? Yeah.

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And Jax, Like, what about breakfast?

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And she, like, goes over to the counter where she's got, like, this big box. Um, and there's, like, a bunch of, like, fresh break bread and cheeses and jams and like these, like interesting root vegetables.

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I brought food for too little because I thought maybe she I could private with food, you can have it. So

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I will always

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be bribed with food. Max is already over at the bucks, OK? He has bread and cheese

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already in his mouth. Yeah, the two food groups

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Erica is pulling out like a scrap of paper and trying to kind of ask for more information about where they might have gone and like where we're supposed to go. Okay. Great.

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Jack actually pulls out from the box. There's this, like, poster tube thing and she pops it open and pulls out a map of the area you see Fells keep. And then the outline of the burn

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ring

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the like, burned down flat area all the way around the wall. And there's like a river on one side. And then there's the growth, which is this massive forest that you guys have walked through a bunch and she shows you the spot marked on the map where the gray flowers supposedly grow

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Perfect. Can I Can we bring this with us? Yes, definitely here.

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And she, like, sticks it back in the tube and gives it to you.

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Erica puts that in her backpack. Ate

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robot. Is Max just like eating like with

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his hands double visting.

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I mean, it's like bread and

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cheese. What are you gonna dio

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You look over. Zan also just has a handful of bread and a handful of cheats. No

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food? No. You know what? Your old four car I think jasmine was like in the middle of making a plate for herself looks over

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and sees this and like, grabs two more plates and pushes them into the

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hand. What? What What kind of

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cheese is this?

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It's go cheese

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Ice. Okay, for good, Tila

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like size and takes a plate from you. Jasmine of normal people. Food like cut into reasonable slices and eats that Well, kind of watching you all

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gorge yourself. Yeah, you're no longer starving. Congratulations. You're going to write that down on my character. She's starving.

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I'm just gonna put a big note at the bottom that says, Fucking eat something.

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Forget I'm sorry for them. Who soluna we be didn't actually eat yesterday.

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Ah, okay. I mean, sure

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on. She, like, looks

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around this like, completely empty cafe and you

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can see, like,

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outside their like people walking down the streets and stuff. But it doesn't look like anybody's been in here. And Tallulah looks over it. You, Erica And she's like,

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Can I see the map? Yeah. Here we go.

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Yeah, you spread it out and total takes a look at it. And Jack is like,

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Are you gonna go to Are you gonna help to?

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And then she like stage whispers to all of you. And she's like,

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Tola is very strong. That's why I asked her to go. Maybe you're all strong to

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Erica elbows Zam. And like doesn't like a little like hair, huh?

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Maxes Max is on the other side of Zen. Like doing the same thing. Yeah,

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great.

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Somehow trying to hide, like, behind a piece of bread eating

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it. Right? I'm sure. You all look extremely dignified. Uh, are we gonna ask San's girlfriend to go with us? Is that what we're doing? Have Cody, uh, did you, um what?

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Don't forget to run. You run your fingers through your hair. It's getting kind of messy. Too little is busy

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studying the map. What? Eventually looks up and is like All right, well, it's not like there's anybody in here, so yeah, okay with him and Jack is like,

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Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Thank you.

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And she, like, gives to Lula like a big hug. And

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she's, like,

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pretty tiny. So it's basically just, like around to Lula's waste and then goes around

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hugging each of you,

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which, when she gets it, gets to Max. Max squats down and, like, full body hugs and picks up.

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Oh, she loves that. Oh, she's like, Hey, This is okay. What a good day. Except for the part where my boss is missing. But hey, okay. I gotta go back to the kids. Okay. Bye.

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And then she just, like, runs out the door.

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Don't worry, Jack. Yesterday we lured a cat from a pond. Everything will be Oh,

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yeah, we all know. Almost died.

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Well, Jack was far enough. She didn't hear you. And to lily turns and like, sizes. The five of you up. Do you

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have gear? Yeah.

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Uh, I mean, we have we have weapons. Okay. Um, armor? No, not really. Cat jumpsuits.

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Cody pulls his jumpsuit out of his bags like this. Have a cape to Lulu like,

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looks at that. No. Um, Okay. Uh, okay. We'll stop by the tower to get you kitted up. Let me grab my stuff. Um, and she, like, takes off her apron and, like, hangs it behind the counter and then clumps up the stairs.

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I want armor. Okay? Yeah, yeah. She goes upstairs

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for a minute and then comes back down wearing a set of chain mail armour, and she has a battle axe strapped to her

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back. What? Wow. What? It is just a room full of stuff up there.

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I mean, I mean, yeah, my room.

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That's how people's rooms

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were. Cody, I My room is full of

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stuff. My room doesn't have an X. This is new. I'm I'm not

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going to give you an axe. Oh, you're

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no worries. Gotta stick.

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Okay. Are we

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bringing the kid? Yeah,

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that's a good

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question. He does have a play date. Cody, are you Do you want to go on your playdate or do you want to come with us?

spk_5:   23:07
Let me think. Go sit around with a

spk_3:   23:09
kid or shoot spells at something.

spk_9:   23:12
Um,

spk_4:   23:14
spells. Oh, should be stopped by to let them know you're not coming or just like ghost. Um,

spk_5:   23:21
um, I don't

spk_2:   23:22
Did we ever say that Cody was going or just that it would happen at some point in the

spk_5:   23:29
future? Pretty

spk_6:   23:30
strongly implied. They told us that their day office today

spk_5:   23:34
we'll hear. We'll just go do this real quick, and then we'll come back by later

spk_7:   23:38
the evening before.

spk_8:   23:39
Yeah. Um, hi. I actually, I mean, Cody can stay back and actually would feel more comfortable if he was with us. Just because we don't know anyone else in this town? Yeah, that You know, we can't just hand him off to the first people we meet who aren't complete idiots.

spk_3:   23:59
I would like to stay like dollar. Everyone I know, really? So I don't be afraid that I lose track of you. Great. Settled. Let's go.

spk_0:   24:10
Okay. Tila has been awkwardly standing by the door, and it's like,

spk_6:   24:13
Okay, let's go. Better to die with us than stay here alone.

spk_4:   24:20
Sounds good to me. Yeah.

spk_0:   24:22
So you follow toe lula through the streets of fells Keep the town is waking up E c Shopkeepers putting out their wares A large orc woman wheels by you with the cart of fresh fish A gaggle of Children following an elf man with a big smile and a clipboard You also pass by Jason and Clara's townhouse And they are actually unloading something from the shed. Next warehouse and they see you and they wave.

spk_5:   24:50
Hey, it's, um,

spk_3:   24:51
Cody waves back and then

spk_2:   24:53
should let him know.

spk_3:   24:55
Yeah, and Cody will run over toe Jason

spk_5:   24:58
High, are I? I can't do playdate today cause we had to go. We have to go down to the market again. I'm sorry. Um oh, but oh, maybe I could place some other time. Yeah, that's fine. I exercise. Gonna tell you, we just made a new friend who needed some help. And so we're gonna go help them today. Yeah, We'll do it later. Right? Okay. Yeah. Same hat.

spk_4:   25:22
And he, like, gives you a hug. And I was like,

spk_5:   25:24
OK, advice to you later

spk_0:   25:26
and then runs

spk_4:   25:26
off. What is Jason wearing today? Jason is wearing a vest and a button up shirt and a skirt. Hell,

spk_3:   25:36
yeah. Awesome. Jason watch. He runs back into the group and says

spk_5:   25:40
we're good, but, uh, I'm not wearing a hat and he

spk_3:   25:43
said, Same hat. I'm confused, but okay, were good,

spk_7:   25:46
but let's go, Aziz.

spk_0:   25:49
You keep following Tallulah through the streets, you turn a corner and see a beautiful building made of black glass with two silver crescent moons on the front. There is a grass yard around it, and a group of like six kindergarten age Children are sitting around a woman kneeling in the grass, wearing a black uniform. The woman is talking quietly and fiddling with some plants while the Children watch with rapt attention.

spk_4:   26:16
When the kids see

spk_0:   26:17
you all approaching. They jump up and run towards

spk_5:   26:21
Cholula, yelling doctors looking my flower crown and may all by myself and

spk_0:   26:26
then another ones like

spk_5:   26:28
judge thokozile your back, pick me up big me up

spk_0:   26:31
And the other ones like who are you? Why were these people here? And another? Sounds like

spk_5:   26:36
we're daughter Ash. Go

spk_6:   26:38
cause she's that she would read me a book.

spk_0:   26:41
You just swarmed with very small Children.

spk_5:   26:44
Uh huh. Whoa! Hi, everybody. Oh, my God. You're glowing

spk_0:   26:50
and he starts pulling at your sweater. Oh,

spk_2:   26:52
my God. Koteas look glowing.

spk_7:   26:54
I love it. I want I

spk_5:   26:56
want to wear

spk_0:   26:57
it in. This small child with cat years is trying to crawl inside of your sweater,

spk_5:   27:04
but I'm busy wearing it. Hey, what? Hey, it makes letter glow

spk_8:   27:09
vans holding her arms and her purse And just like everything, like at shoulder level, Like you're waiting through a

spk_3:   27:17
river. Yeah, Cody makes her sweater glow, which turns off his

spk_5:   27:23
here. Okay, I love it.

spk_2:   27:27
Okay. Yeah. Now all of the

spk_0:   27:28
Children are swarming that child. Congratulations.

spk_7:   27:31
You allow a child

spk_3:   27:38
to solve those child bubbles.

spk_0:   27:40
The woman who is sitting on the grass making flower crowns with the kids comes over and Kurds the back over and awkwardly waves that to Lula is like, Hey, are just getting some armor. That doesn't matter. And she, like, marches right past them and into the black glass building. She sees you all kind of lagging behind and gets

spk_8:   28:01
Come on, we need to get going. Okay. You

spk_5:   28:04
are there always this many kids here? Um, I

spk_0:   28:08
don't know. Yeah, usually a couple more. Jack must have taken three older ones out on a field trip. You go inside and inside this tower, you pass through a large circular room and then down a flight of stone stairs, toluene waves her hand at the wall and a ring of torches flare toe life revealing a small armory, and she turns and looks at you. OK, you got weapons. Did you bring

spk_8:   28:34
them? Yeah. Yeah. Are they very small? No, no, no. It's It's, um, like this, uh, opens menu. Someone sort

spk_4:   28:45
OK? Yeah. A short sword appears in your hand

spk_0:   28:48
until Lula's like what? The ah

spk_3:   28:51
quarter staff appears.

spk_4:   28:53
Okay, great. Yeah. She comes over and touches it

spk_0:   28:55
and, like, drinks or thumb along the blade and it draws a little blood. And she's like, All right, Not the weirdest thing I've seen. Sure. Okay, let's put you in something better than whatever that cloth you're wearing. There's a weird clothes. Sorry. You do have weird clothes. I'm sure you know that. Right?

spk_8:   29:13
Months tandem. I thought they were quite nice, but, um thanks.

spk_4:   29:17
Yes. You look, uh, OK, we don't have

spk_0:   29:20
much, but we can make do. And she likes sizes. Each of you up and starts pulling pieces of armor off the wall. Yes, they're going to need this back after, but I'm pretty sure they won't mind us borrowing it. There aren't many adventures at this chapter. And she

spk_5:   29:37
looks at

spk_0:   29:37
you, Erica, with your jumpsuit and is like, Do you

spk_5:   29:40
want some

spk_0:   29:40
normal clothes that get up isn't going to fit under leather armor?

spk_5:   29:46
Yeah, that'll be cool. I mean, I have

spk_6:   29:48
some other clothes, but they're kind of bloody and ripped. That would be great.

spk_0:   29:53
Okay, great. Yeah. She goes in like grandma just threw a bin of scrap cloth and clothes and stuff and, like, pulls out a simple create tunic and some leggings. Here, put this on

spk_6:   30:06
Erica as she looks for a place to change, says, I'm

spk_5:   30:10
really

spk_6:   30:10
glad this isn't like a fantasy world work. Women were like bikini armor. That's neat.

spk_2:   30:17
I shouldn't think so little. It's

spk_0:   30:18
like, Oh, the titty windows. Yeah, those went out of fashion a couple of years ago, but I think people in the capital still wear them.

spk_8:   30:26
Max had one for a bit, and

spk_2:   30:28
she looks at Max and she's like,

spk_5:   30:30
actually, you know

spk_4:   30:31
what? And she's handed each of you a set

spk_0:   30:35
of studded leather armor on and you get plus two a. C.

spk_4:   30:39
Please. I'm so excited. She looks at Max, and then she pulls some likely layers of stuff aside

spk_0:   30:48
and pulls out a set of chain mail armor that similar to her own. As long as you don't mind being out of fashion. I think you're strong enough that you can wear this and she gives you a set of chain mail armor that will change your base A C to 16. You're

spk_5:   31:05
all just kind of

spk_0:   31:06
like standing in like a relatively open room. And to Lula kind of turns and watches you and waits So you

spk_4:   31:12
get changed. Yeah. All right. Great. Most of

spk_2:   31:15
you It's just

spk_0:   31:16
like pulling it on over your armor. And Tola comes around and, like, tightens it in the right places and readjusts it. And she actually, like, takes Cody's back off and then turns it around and puts it back on him like, Okay, there you go.

spk_8:   31:31
Pagels Better san struggling with a buckle, going like, yeah, Cody, come on. She comes

spk_0:   31:38
over and, like, swat your hand out of the way and, like, out grabs the buckle eight. Your waist and just, like, cinches it. It's like Here you go.

spk_8:   31:47
Thanks. Can I dig through the barrel of, like, cloth thing that she got stuff from? Sure. Yeah. Make an investigation Check. Four plus to fix

spk_5:   32:01
six. All right. Yeah. You find

spk_4:   32:03
him a bunch of clothes

spk_0:   32:05
for small Children and for someone who is much bigger than you What

spk_6:   32:10
were you looking

spk_8:   32:11
for? I was looking for, like, a robe or something to put over the

spk_6:   32:16
armor. Um, yeah. With the six. Yeah. You're just kind

spk_0:   32:20
of digging through it. You're very

spk_4:   32:22
lost. There's a lot

spk_2:   32:24
of clothes with like, too many

spk_0:   32:25
holes in them. And you're like, I can't tell if they're ripped or if therefore like, right spines or something. And toe Lillis sees you, and she comes over. Um Do you need something, Teoh?

spk_8:   32:38
No, it's just I thought I could get something. Something warm to wear over the armor, maybe.

spk_0:   32:47
Mm. I don't think we have anything down here. This is the leftover spring clothes. Ah, uh, but, um, it's gonna be warm out in the growth it gets. Ah, kind of muggy out there. You'll be fine. She, like, collapse you on the shoulder, and Yeah, the five of you now have armor on. And Erica is no longer wearing a ridiculous jumpsuit. And you turn and

spk_4:   33:15
look at Max and his chain mail has a city with No. Yes, yes, yes. OK,

spk_3:   33:23
Can I wrote a slight of hand check against max? Sure. Yeah. Please. Oh, never mind. To natural. One

spk_7:   33:31
for May. Think it's Max. What did

spk_5:   33:35
you try? Todo

spk_3:   33:36
Maxie's Cody reaching a hand to touch his chain mail.

spk_4:   33:40
Cody, you Riccio And you accidentally touch it right on the But you got a

spk_7:   33:45
natural one. That's true. But I

spk_3:   33:49
hate to tell you this, but it's but it's not glowing. E doesn't make his chain mail glow on about one

spk_2:   33:59
100 feet away. You hear a bunch of

spk_3:   34:00
kids go,

spk_7:   34:01
Oh, Meyer flying it up over here.

spk_2:   34:08
Okay. Is it just my? But that's going Or is it all of my pants?

spk_3:   34:12
I think it's your pants by the object. Okay,

spk_4:   34:16
this isn't this stealth mission, is it? I know

spk_5:   34:19
I feel like there's, like a leather, or there's, like part

spk_2:   34:22
of the chain meal that kind of like flops

spk_0:   34:24
down over your butt. And

spk_2:   34:25
so it's just your but that's glowing on. You have a city

spk_0:   34:28
window. Excellent. Good luck. Excellent.

spk_5:   34:31
I wanted to be like leather chaps that he has over is and

spk_2:   34:37
she gave me a chain mail chest piece that has a titty window and ass less

spk_7:   34:41
chaps goes over your pants, you know? Yeah.

spk_2:   34:47
Ashleigh's chaps that went over my dean.

spk_4:   34:51
And so your genes air glowing. But you could only see the but yes, because the jobs I really want to know how you get chain mail with a titty window trying to imagine it's amazing. Great. You look at it and you're like, Damn, that's some fine craftsmanship. All right, toe, toe. Little is like,

spk_0:   35:10
we better go and heads back up the stairs. We follow. Yeah, as you come back up the stairs. You actually see that? Jack is standing in that circular room

spk_6:   35:21
that you passed through.

spk_0:   35:22
And she has a group of, like, you know, like, 45 teenagers with her who all just kind of like, look at you as you come up the stairs and Jack is like,

spk_5:   35:34
Oh, yeah. Oh, you got armor. Okay. Um uh, don't die, please. Okay. Thank you. And

spk_0:   35:42
she gives you each a hug again, And the teenagers, like, awkwardly stand their

spk_5:   35:47
moons. Blessings on all of you, by red by.

spk_8:   35:52
I have a very important question for a robot real quick. Are you wearing a shirt

spk_2:   35:57
underneath the chain mail with the titty when? No, no, Absolutely.

spk_4:   36:01
That's a terrible idea. But I'm so happy. Thief

spk_5:   36:05
Chain mail comes

spk_4:   36:06
with, like that padding stuff. Um, that is cut to fit a gambits in,

spk_2:   36:11
Gets cut to fit the titty window. Yeah. Is his skin in the titty window? Yes. Good,

spk_8:   36:16
Good, good, good. Still a little little doodle.

spk_2:   36:18
Is there any sort of reflective surface nearby?

spk_4:   36:22
Uh, yeah. There's actually

spk_0:   36:24
a bunch of circular mirrors around this big round room on the walls.

spk_2:   36:29
Max is standing in front of the in front of one of the mirrors looking at the titty window and doing that thing where you flex each peck one of the time back and

spk_7:   36:39
forth that's going through that. Uh huh. Theo, teenagers

spk_6:   36:45
are all blushing.

spk_4:   36:48
Jax, like, has her back to you and is talking to them, and

spk_0:   36:51
they're, like, all, like, kind of nodding at her, but totally staring at next.

spk_4:   36:55
I want to do that. She has been looks at this.

spk_8:   36:59
And when kind of approaches over his shoulder, digs into ah, pocket his pocket, know her pocket and pulls out the necklace that she got from the moves room of a and puts it around his neck for into the titty window. Yes,

spk_2:   37:18
I'm into this.

spk_4:   37:18
Great. Good. Okay, that's that is absolutely what this outfit needed. Another except our podcast. That's just been digging. Max look amazing. Yes, Max now has that

spk_0:   37:33
gold chained blue sapphire heart pendant necklace. So I really hope that's not cursed or anything.

spk_4:   37:41
It's worth it. True. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Um, you all follow to Lula back out of the the building and she leads you

spk_0:   37:53
out to the eastern gate, which you haven't been out yet. And you passed through this simple gate out into the burn ring. This like charred wasteland outside of the city wall off

spk_6:   38:06
to the north, actually

spk_0:   38:07
near the edge of the growth. You see, some people would gather there, and every so often, like a spurt of flame comes out. But to Lula leads you east and then says, Okay, here. Looks like a good spot. And she turns and looks at all of you. We're going to go in, find Charlie, and Ash grabs many gray flowers as we can carry. And then she unhooks her battle axe from her back and twirls it a few times we stick together, but if I tell you to run, you run. If I go down, you run. Got it? And she points her acts at each of you looking, each of you in the eye.

spk_6:   38:45
Erica gives the thumbs up.

spk_8:   38:47
Yeah, sure. Um, what do your colleagues look like? Oh, um, Charlie's

spk_0:   38:55
a big fella. Broad shoulders,

spk_2:   38:58
pointed ears, though. Probably be happy to see you. Uh, ash is kind of a scrawny

spk_0:   39:04
one, but don't let that fool you she don't hold her own God, I don't know Creasy hair. I don't like ash very

spk_2:   39:12
much Anyway. Roasted Let's Ah, go be heroes. Great. And she turns and marches into the

spk_3:   39:22
brush. Hello. Welcome back to dice Disasters. This is the part of the show where we stop pretending to be other people and start pretending to be ourselves. They got Alison and Oliver back with us

spk_5:   39:50
again. Hello? Hi. Hey. Party

spk_3:   39:54
time. Can't get rid of us. Never. And I never would want Teoh to. Perfect. Hey, Allison. Hi. You gave us good news today.

spk_6:   40:04
I sure did. So we got an email this morning that we were number 101 uncommonly fiction chart for Apple, which is pretty cool.

spk_3:   40:17
I don't I can't comprehend that one. Like

spk_6:   40:20
how me neither Makes my brain melt. What? Well, I think the crazier news that we got later on in the day that Oliver gave us was that on April 1st. And this is not a joke. That was the day that we've gotten the most downloads ever in one day. And we were number 13 on the Apple comedy fiction chart. So that's wild

spk_3:   40:47
does not compute does not compute

spk_6:   40:50
and like, that's all you guys were listening like we we can't boost that except for people who are sharing it and getting their friends download it and writing reviews. So thank you so much. Thank you, everyone.

spk_3:   41:06
Yes. Thank so much. Oh, that's just Ah, mind blown.

spk_0:   41:11
We can only listen to our own podcast so many

spk_2:   41:14
times to boost. We have

spk_6:   41:17
reached the level that is too ready for that. There's only so much the Oliver's catfish can

spk_3:   41:23
dio. So yeah. Please. If you haven't yet reviewed our podcast or rated us or followed us on whatever platform you use, please do that. It literally helps in a very measurable way

spk_6:   41:39
that I, as some people have seen this, but I want to say it again. If you leave a review, make sure to write your name because every single share on on a social media platform that we can see and all reviews get you in the pool for being getting an NPC

spk_5:   41:57
named

spk_6:   41:57
after you, Which we had a couple this episode. We

spk_5:   42:01
did? Yeah.

spk_6:   42:02
So, um, we have to. So you met daughter Jack, who is the moth girl who gave our party. The quest to go out and find the flowers and Jack is actually named after Jack, who, you might know as people need goals.

spk_5:   42:18
Who writes the music for the show? Yeah,

spk_3:   42:22
I love Jack. They're so good.

spk_6:   42:23
Really, really good. Yes, we're very excited. Daughter Jack is a great MPC. And then, of course, the quest is to go retrieve two of the other daughters as well as some gray flowers. And those flowers Air gray for a reason. We had someone

spk_5:   42:41
on Twitter

spk_6:   42:41
named Gray. Their user name is a lot of numbers at grey 8589 to 308 Those flowers are named for you. So thank you for sharing. The podcast is well,

spk_0:   42:51
yeah. Next episode, I think, is when you'll find the actual flowers. But

spk_5:   42:56
they're they're cute. Little flowers. Yes. There's something a

spk_6:   42:59
little bit special to them that we will not give away. But yet no spoilers. No spoilers.

spk_3:   43:05
Yeah, we thank you all so much for listening and sharing and be excited about the show. And we hope that having you involved in a little bit away, you know, this way will makes you smile. It makes it makes us happy to have you all along for the ride.

spk_0:   43:17
Yeah, Every time we get a new review or someone says something nice about the podcast, we like screenshot it and send it to each other and just, like, sit around and yell for a while And you

spk_4:   43:29
just make us feel so special. Really sad that you like this thing we made.

spk_3:   43:33
Oh, highlight of my day week.

spk_4:   43:36
It's the best thing, not the podcast. You sharing that happy feelings? No, this is the best fought guess I have to die.

spk_5:   43:47
Oh, okay. Well, we're gonna

spk_4:   43:50
find us, um, Oliver, So, yeah, you can go to

spk_0:   43:53
dice disaster stock. Com to find links to where you can listen to the show on a variety of different platforms. So say your friend uses Google podcasts. You can send them over door website, and they can clicky click on there, get to the podcast. You can also find us on Twitter at dice disasters and on instagram. That one's dice dot disasters

spk_6:   44:17
for some variety in our user. Dave, it's the spice of

spk_3:   44:22
life. And if you go on social media, make sure you include the hashtag dice disasters. So we can see your your post and add you to our list for over to pick from for in PC's.

spk_6:   44:32
And if you share on your instagram stories, we won't be able to see it unless you add us. So just go ahead and and tag us in that and we'll be able to see and get you on our list for NPC names.

spk_3:   44:42
And if you have a really good idea foreign item for our party to maybe come across, you go our websites, dice disasters dot com. And there is a place to submit items for Oliver to look at and maybe add to our list of tools.

spk_6:   44:57
Also on her site. You'll find a link to our discord and our character sheets, so

spk_5:   45:02
take

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a look. It's It's in a book reading, writing. Both people have

spk_0:   45:07
actually been submitting items, and I am so excited for the next time you get

spk_4:   45:13
to go to a place where you could buy things shopping, shopping, shopping, shopping, shopping. I'm excited,

spk_3:   45:20
but it's also first money. We need the money part. That's what we're working on

spk_4:   45:23
this episode. But after that? Shopping, shopping, shopping, shopping, shopping. Yeah, I guess it won't

spk_2:   45:27
be this this time. It will be like the next time because we were recorded

spk_4:   45:31
these episodes in the past. But next time next

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time you were a little bit of heads. But we're working through a backlog, so you'll see everything

spk_3:   45:40
soon. We love you. I love you way. We all love you so much. Thanks for listening, and we'll let you get back to the story. Enjoy. Bye bye,

spk_2:   46:07
guys. Hike for like an hour or so, moving slowly and carefully through the growth A few times, Zan.

spk_0:   46:14
Actually, you sense a danger ahead, and you, like quietly communicate that to tell Lula, then adjusts your path accordingly. The tree branches overhead every time you've been out here in the forest have always seemed like they're like, intertwining with each other, kind of making a solid canopy. And as you move further east, this canopy gets denser and denser. And even though it's like mid morning, the sunlight isn't really reaching you down here and the forest grows darker. But in the dim light, you can see a bunch of what look like fireflies buzzing around you. He passed clumps of glowing mushrooms, and it looks like There's a few like bioluminescent things growing out here.

spk_8:   47:00
Zan points it. The fireflies and ghosts. Lux Max

spk_4:   47:03
here. Relatives buts. Glowing like the

spk_2:   47:09
bugs. Ah, all right. That's pretty good joke. Thank

spk_5:   47:14
you.

spk_0:   47:17
That goes sh And she, like, holds up a hand motioning you to stop. Do you hear that? Hear what? Role? A perception check.

spk_8:   47:28
16 8 Natural one

spk_3:   47:31
nine plus to 11. 17

spk_0:   47:34
Max and Zan, you hear a buzzing noise that

spk_4:   47:39
takes you

spk_0:   47:40
a second to place But you realize it sounds a lot like the electric wall from that underground facility. You slowly look up and there among the trees are four furry spiders about the size of microwaves that air glowing and crackling with blue electricity.

spk_8:   48:00
This time I'm not gonna run and jump

spk_0:   48:02
it, Tola. Here's you say that and kind of like turns and follows your eyes upward and is like Rechner volts And like, pushes that say, Cody behind her role initiative

spk_1:   48:15
Yeah,

spk_8:   48:18
more! Ah, wait. We're in the forest. I get to reroll 13 15 8 rolled a four And then I rolled again

spk_2:   48:29
and I got a five. It's technically better. Do you have a plus on

spk_4:   48:34
your initiative? No, do not Jesus. Okay. Uh, surprise. The spiders all go twice before any of trip and

spk_6:   48:46
fall up your own

spk_0:   48:47
butts. I get toe play as a character for the first time. Who is on your side?

spk_6:   48:53
All right. Yep. The board spiders

spk_0:   48:57
kind of watched you all just stand there and shock and descend on

spk_6:   49:02
to you who They all

spk_0:   49:04
kind of slide down a glowing blue web. The 1st 1 is going to land on San on and try to

spk_4:   49:14
bite you cooking spiders. Why don't every fantasy world have giant fucking spiders

spk_0:   49:20
and it got a 11?

spk_8:   49:22
It does not hit. Well, I'm really glad we got this armor made all the difference.

spk_0:   49:28
Okay? Yeah. Zan you kind of whack the spider off of you, and it lands at your feet and stays there.

spk_7:   49:34
Ha, ha.

spk_4:   49:36
Another one's going to land

spk_0:   49:38
on mass. And it got a 16. No. All right, great. Yeah. Maxie, flex under

spk_6:   49:45
your titty window chain

spk_0:   49:46
mail and, uh, just brush the spider off. It lands at your feet. One's going to land on Erica. Jesus. Then it got a

spk_6:   49:54
seven. That's not a hit. Great.

spk_0:   49:57
And then the last one is gonna land on to Lula. And it got a 12. Which,

spk_2:   50:03
if she's wearing chain Milton, there's no way. Oh, yeah,

spk_0:   50:06
chain mails, like 16. Okay, No.

spk_6:   50:08
All right, all if the spiders land on you, and you all brushed them off

spk_4:   50:13
and they do no damage dying fuckin spiders. Pitfall. Next in the order is Max. What is

spk_0:   50:22
your dexterity? Zero. Sure. You go

spk_2:   50:25
first. I am going to click Marist together, take out the sword and shield, and then sit down with your Nintendo switch. Yep. And play some animal crossing

spk_7:   50:41
animal crossing on the switch. Yeah, I didn't really eyes.

spk_5:   50:47
It's true that they of stairs maxes Uncle works at Nintendo. Yeah,

spk_2:   50:51
I have an uncle that working Nintendo

spk_5:   50:53
Uncle Nintendo's.

spk_2:   50:55
Okay, I'm gonna attack the spider that landed on me.

spk_4:   50:58
Role to attack 20. Yeah, that hits.

spk_2:   51:04
All right, dammit. Well, shit, that's three damage.

spk_0:   51:09
Yeah, you cut one of its free little legs

spk_2:   51:11
off. Ah, and that's about it, cause I have one thing I can do is a bonus action, and it is not useful to

spk_0:   51:19
Lula's gonna go next. She's going to attack the spider closest to her. She swings her battle ax and hits the spider. And she does eight damage.

spk_4:   51:33
Yeah, she, um, chops a chunk off of

spk_0:   51:37
this little spider and then

spk_4:   51:40
can she's gonna attack that its fighter again. Haste. He sings or acts again and chops the things clean and half too little has killed the spider. Hell, yeah.

spk_2:   51:54
She kind of, like flicks her battle

spk_0:   51:56
ax and gets the gunk off of it. And next up is Jasmine's

spk_8:   52:00
turn. Uh, Jasmine is going Teoh back up to get some distance between her and the spitters. Yep. And then she is going to throw some fire and great. So spell attack plus 5 16 plus 5 21 hits. Okay, so that's 28 damage. Well, that would be you. A one that I rolls. Okay.

spk_2:   52:29
I also rolled a one on the D eight.

spk_4:   52:33
Jasmine conjures of ball of lavender fire, hurls it at the spider, and it just kind of grease

spk_0:   52:42
is over the top. Um, singeing. It's for cost. Smells like burning hair grows.

spk_4:   52:49
Next up is Cody.

spk_3:   52:51
So can you kind of give me an idea of where all these spiders are compared to all my friends?

spk_0:   52:56
Yes. There's one in front of Max one in front of Xan and one in front of Erica.

spk_8:   53:01
We all have our own bespoke

spk_0:   53:02
spiders. Yes. Um, yeah. The one in front of Jalula is dead.

spk_3:   53:07
Okay. Cody moves to a spot where he can get a cone in front of him. That includes all three spiders, but not one of his friends.

spk_0:   53:16
But but no

spk_5:   53:17
friends.

spk_3:   53:18
No, but But that includes two of his friends.

spk_5:   53:22
Okay, Yeah. Yeah, you can

spk_0:   53:23
do that.

spk_2:   53:23
Three spiders to friends. Yeah. Yeah,

spk_0:   53:25
you can move over and kind of just, like clip in front of Erica so that you she's not in the cone. It all. And then you'll have three spiders as well as Max and Sam. Okay? In your cone,

spk_3:   53:39
Cody pulls out his card. He looks on the ghost. Okay? Spunk. We've been waiting on this one and holds his hands out, and he cast burning hands. Oh, no.

spk_5:   53:51
Are Are Are you shaping it around us? I am. Oh, good.

spk_3:   53:55
I can save two people. And so I am thinking the two of you all just sculpt around you on de. So there's no it's a deck save for the spider. So it's not enough on attack roll.

spk_0:   54:07
Oh, great. Let's see. I got three spiders making a deck save.

spk_4:   54:13
Yeah, just three spiders making a decked

spk_0:   54:17
save. I've been a good time in the forest. One got in 19 one got a nine and one. Got a critical failure.

spk_3:   54:27
Remind me. What's that? Are they rolling against

spk_2:   54:30
their rolling this year? Spell D C

spk_3:   54:33
get 12.

spk_4:   54:33
Two of them failed

spk_3:   54:35
out of Cody's hands. You see, the normal energy erupts, and as a Z energy kind starts forming into a fireball, you could swear blinking, you miss it sees where you see a little furry creature with a tail kind of shape form, and it turned in its tail lifts and then erupts into a huge burning cone of fire.

spk_5:   54:56
Cody wearing the way

spk_4:   54:56
Oh, guess Oh, van and Max. You like

spk_3:   54:59
duck? Yep. Three D six. That's a 455 So that's 14 points of damage. Half damage for the one that did safe.

spk_4:   55:12
Great. Yeah, this giant plume of fire

spk_0:   55:17
just erupts from this like you can use

spk_5:   55:20
where there

spk_0:   55:21
was some sort of, like, creature in the flame. Jasmine and Erica, you watches. Cody aims this and you're like

spk_5:   55:27
Oh, shit.

spk_4:   55:29
Because it's heading straight for Max and Zan. But as the fire comes

spk_0:   55:34
out molds around them almost like a wind tunnel. And as the flames clear, the grass and trees behind you are smoking a little bit. And all three spiders have been just decimated.

spk_4:   55:50
Pan, I didn't get to hit them at all. Cody's

spk_3:   55:54
eyes are slight. Really big. Like he did not know it. That was gonna do

spk_7:   55:59
exactly that. And he looked at

spk_3:   56:00
this card. It goes, Oh, is

spk_5:   56:05
everybody OK?

spk_8:   56:06
It's like a little man does

spk_5:   56:07
everybody? I'm sorry. Did I? Did I sit anybody?

spk_8:   56:11
Fine. But I wish I had gotten ahead of Spider.

spk_6:   56:14
But up, up, up, up. But But ah, you have defeated the Iraq

spk_0:   56:19
No Volts. E guess. Take a few minutes to collect

spk_4:   56:22
yourselves. Uh, I

spk_6:   56:25
want to know what to Lula's reaction was to Cody decimating the spiders.

spk_4:   56:29
Glad we took him along. Now, Cody, you look up and to Lula is looking at you with,

spk_0:   56:34
like, a big smile, and she's like, got it. That's why we brought the kid. All right, Uh,

spk_3:   56:44
and he just he just hold on this card says my

spk_7:   56:47
friend, it she like

spk_0:   56:49
Patsy on the shoulder and she's like, You did

spk_5:   56:52
that? Yeah, I guess so.

spk_3:   56:54
Cody runs over, kind of make sure everyone's OK and just kind of, you know, checks on all with friends. Zant's kind of

spk_2:   57:01
grumpily kicking one of the spider corpses. Max is doing the same. Didn't get

spk_4:   57:10
to jocks. Didn't get to play te my try and sneak Lee scan one. Uh, yeah. Do you want to make a slight of hand check?

spk_0:   57:21
See if you can do it without too little noticing?

spk_8:   57:24
Uh, no. She she goes to try and do it, then looks at Jalula and this like, 00 maybe this idea. But she tries to do its d Klay. I will try this light, which I have a minus three I in total. I have a minus forever. I have a minus three modifier and had minus one great minus one decks. She doesn't have to know why you're doing it. I rolled 15 so that's an 11 toe.

spk_4:   57:58
Lula's passive perception isn't 11 and I'll say that she's

spk_0:   58:02
slightly distracted. So yeah, you wait until she she, like, ask you for the map again. Erica. And then the two of you are looking at it. Will Jasmine

spk_4:   58:13
crouches down behind you scans a spider.

spk_8:   58:16
I'm not looking forward to you doing the thing that you do. You do that with those? Yeah, all of the like. So far, 50% of Jasmine's transformation options are adorable but completely useless in a fight. And the other 50 are terrible, terrible, bad.

spk_2:   58:35
Don't get right on my shoulder if you turn into that.

spk_5:   58:38
Okay, Great

spk_0:   58:40
Erica Jalula. And you look at the map and to Lula points to where you are. And she's like were close gray flowers should just be across a river that way. And then she points off into the brush. You all ready to go? I don't think any of you got hit you up, all right?

spk_6:   58:58
No, we're professionals. City spiders.

spk_0:   59:02
And you follow her through the trees to the edge of a small river. The water is flowing pretty quickly. It's about 15 feet across. Jalula kind of looks at it and then backs up a few feet and then sprints towards it and leaps. And she makes it safe and sound to the other side of the river without getting wet.

spk_2:   59:26
Ah, Max is going. No questions.

spk_4:   59:29
All right. Great.

spk_2:   59:30
Just going for it. You

spk_0:   59:32
can roll either. Athletics, er, acrobatics.

spk_2:   59:36
I am absolutely rolling athletics. So 14 plus 4 18

spk_0:   59:42
Great. You see Max also back up a bit and run and jump, and he makes it easily over the river. And the two of them are kind of standing side by side, looking at the rest of you.

spk_7:   59:54
Why

spk_8:   59:55
can I walk forward a bit and hold out my hands and cast shape? Water? Yes, you can So shape water. It says Choose 11 Move change flow of water or to water. Makes simple shapes. Animation for one hour. That's probably not

spk_5:   1:0:15
jazz. And make some little squirrels at a water that do it dance.

spk_8:   1:0:20
Change water. Rapacity for one hour. Probably also not what I want. The river gets darker. Three. Freeze unoccupied water for an hour. Because I couldn't move the water. I could move part of it away. So I have more land to Yes. Um,

spk_0:   1:0:37
yeah. Jasmine extends her hands and he watches that fluttery purple energy ripples across her arms down to her hands. And then, just like an unseen force, pushes the river in a little bit on one side and in a little bit on the other side. It's now a very deep chunk in the middle because you've kind of, like, diverted the water to make it much narrower. But it's only, like five feet across.

spk_8:   1:1:05
Yes, now I will try to jump up with

spk_3:   1:1:08
and Cody jump along with Yeah, okay.

spk_0:   1:1:10
Make your acrobatics or athletics checks.

spk_3:   1:1:13
They're equally bad. I got a 15.

spk_4:   1:1:19
Yeah, Cody, you leap across.

spk_8:   1:1:21
I rolled the natural 20.

spk_4:   1:1:23
Oh, you guys watch Jasmine Kind of like collect herself back up a few steps Run, leap And it's just the

spk_0:   1:1:34
most graceful jump you have ever seen. And

spk_5:   1:1:38
she let she

spk_0:   1:1:39
clears this river by a good another 10 feet and kind of like stutter steps to a stop just beyond you

spk_4:   1:1:46
Better steps way No, she's really an ai Shut up, maxes clapping. It's

spk_5:   1:1:53
feel like funky gravity. Years is also

spk_2:   1:1:57
going to jump, I guess. Sorry.

spk_8:   1:1:58
The water thing is still there, by the way, but space for an hour or so? Um um that's Ah, 16. Great.

spk_0:   1:2:05
Yet you easily jump across. Okay, Erica, I think

spk_6:   1:2:08
you're the only one left. Yeah, Eric is looking very nervous, uh, and is looking at it. And, um, she pulls open her menu, and she's so nervous about it that she's start singing yourself a little

spk_5:   1:2:23
song. Okay, I believe I can fly through this guy.

spk_6:   1:2:32
So using my bardic inspiration on myself Well, I might not have to use it, but

spk_7:   1:2:38
I

spk_5:   1:2:40
got a 14. Yeah, you jump across. Okay. Only five feet is it was

spk_6:   1:2:45
unnecessary. But Eric was very scared.

spk_5:   1:2:48
Kind of like

spk_4:   1:2:48
Look down at the ground and

spk_0:   1:2:50
imagine what five feet iss look. Yes, not very far, is it? But you

spk_4:   1:2:54
played true to your

spk_0:   1:2:55
character, and we got a song. And that's the important part.

spk_4:   1:2:59
All right. Yeah. You all make it past the river. Nice and dry.

spk_8:   1:3:03
Jasmine releases the spell once everyone is across.

spk_0:   1:3:06
Okay, Foolish. The river is normal again. And as you're creeping through the bushes toe, Lula pauses. Listening for something.

spk_8:   1:3:16
Charlie Nash, Can you hear me?

spk_0:   1:3:19
And then you hear another voice

spk_5:   1:3:21
daughter to lutalyse that you shut up, You great oaf. Be careful on your approach.

spk_4:   1:3:29
There's a big web and it's very sticky. Quiet! We will come back quiet

spk_0:   1:3:36
and you all carefully moved through the trees and into a clearing where you find an enormous glowing blue spider web with two people stuck to it. They're both wrapped from their next to their ankles in webbing. One is a hulking human with pointed ears who smiles when they see you and continues shouting,

spk_4:   1:3:55
Hello there, travelers. It seems we found ourselves in

spk_0:   1:3:58
a bit of a sticky situation. Ha ha ha!

spk_8:   1:4:03
Really? In a bind.

spk_4:   1:4:07
Brought some good friends, started to lie.

spk_0:   1:4:10
I'm not a daughter, Charlie. Can you stop that? The half work woman a wrapped up next to them tries to shushed them. Charlie, for the last time.

spk_5:   1:4:21
Shut up! They'll be back and eat

spk_4:   1:4:23
you. If you carry on like that,

spk_8:   1:4:25
who will be

spk_0:   1:4:25
back? Jalula walks up to the Web and begins cutting Charlie down. And Charlie's like,

spk_4:   1:4:33
Ah, you've brought friends. Pleased to make your acquaintance. I'm Dr Charlie. They them and my companion years. Dr Ash, She her

spk_0:   1:4:43
on Charlie nods towards the half Orc Google hours at you

spk_5:   1:4:47
Jalula, Did you bring fucking

spk_4:   1:4:50
Children with you? That seems dumb. Just kidding! No, it really does seem dumb. I

spk_8:   1:4:57
do not know how to get a beat on this person.

spk_5:   1:5:01
That's not very nice.

spk_4:   1:5:02
Oh, sorry. I am. I'm feeling a little loopy. I think it's all of the webbing. It's making my body all

spk_0:   1:5:11
tingly and ash wiggles again and is like, Okay, um, to Lula There's a big spider. Oh, I can't feel my legs or my, but okay, then some is her shorts or

spk_2:   1:5:26
in starts, going toe helps a little up, but focusing on getting ASHA.

spk_6:   1:5:30
Okay, great. Yeah. The two of

spk_0:   1:5:32
you are like cutting away the webbing and a tous point to Lula has cut Charlie down and they land with, like, a big thump on the forest floor. She then reaches out kind of like pull off the webbing with her hands, but jerks her hand back with a start, and she's like, Ouch. Um, Charlie says, Oh, yes. Don't touch

spk_5:   1:5:55
the webbing seems to be electrified. Whole

spk_0:   1:5:58
body is

spk_4:   1:5:59
numb. I can't feel my toes. Do I still have toes?

spk_3:   1:6:04
Upon hearing about a big spider? Cody's gonna start looking around like a perception. Check this to see

spk_0:   1:6:11
Good. Yeah, go ahead, roll a perception check.

spk_8:   1:6:13
I think I'm doing that to

spk_0:   1:6:15
you. Can you troll

spk_3:   1:6:17
a 19 plus 2 21

spk_0:   1:6:19
um,

spk_8:   1:6:20
18 plus 4 22

spk_0:   1:6:23
All

spk_6:   1:6:23
right, great. Yeah. The two of you

spk_0:   1:6:25
kind of like, spread out over this clearing and look into the bushes. And it's

spk_4:   1:6:30
kind of

spk_0:   1:6:31
hard Teoh here because Charlie and Ash seem like they're, like, kind of babbling incoherently at two. Lula and san who are like, trying to cut them free. But you hear that same buzzing that those little spiders were admitting. And you look up and see a furry, glowing blue spider descending from the treetops on a line of web. This one is much bigger than the tiny ones you fought earlier. It's close to the size of a grizzly bear, and it is descending onto where to? Lula is leaning over. Charlie,

spk_3:   1:7:07
uh, Cody's gonna fire burning hands at it. Just with

spk_8:   1:7:10
is going to fire. Also a flame at it, but the tiny one. Okay, you get

spk_0:   1:7:19
a surprise around on this spider.

spk_3:   1:7:21
Okay, so it does a deck save.

spk_0:   1:7:25
Oh, no, It failed.

spk_3:   1:7:26
Okay. Sense of three D 622 and two. So six fire damage.

spk_4:   1:7:35
Six. Yeah,

spk_8:   1:7:37
I ruled the seven plus five. So 12 to hit.

spk_0:   1:7:40
That does not hit? Yeah. Figures. Yeah. Your ball of flame Kind of like bounces off this things. Furry exterior.

spk_8:   1:7:49
Continuing the trend of Cody Flex ago.

spk_4:   1:7:51
Does try not firebase stuff, huh? Jasmine hits it with this tiny ball of flame. That balance is off to lose. Like, Hey, what do you and then full sh could He sets out a giant cone of flame, they washes

spk_0:   1:8:13
over this giant spider and deals six damage.

spk_3:   1:8:17
Cody looks over it Xan and says hes a And how was that for a draw? And then winks. Yeah, everyone.

spk_6:   1:8:25
Role initiative natural. 20. And for me,

spk_3:   1:8:32
18 for Cody,

spk_2:   1:8:33
17. Max got a five

spk_5:   1:8:37
over. How long did

spk_6:   1:8:38
it take us? Toe walk to this clearing from the river? Um, from the river,

spk_0:   1:8:43
Like, five minutes. Hell, yeah. You still have your body's

spk_2:   1:8:46
still got it.

spk_0:   1:8:47
Absolutely got

spk_4:   1:8:48
15. First up is then. Yeah, I'm

spk_8:   1:8:53
gonna run over and hit it with my sword. Okay?

spk_4:   1:8:56
Yeah. This spider

spk_0:   1:8:57
is dangling like, right above Jalula so you can easily run over and just kind of pin yata style. Hit it with

spk_4:   1:9:06
your sword. Yeah, that's a

spk_8:   1:9:09
four, but I have an advantage because it hasn't gone yet. That's an eight,

spk_4:   1:9:16
uh, applies to 10 That does not hit Buck. You jump and you try to hit it. And it kind of like, curls

spk_2:   1:9:24
its legs in a little bit and hisses

spk_0:   1:9:26
at you.

spk_7:   1:9:26
Fucking goddamn spires!

spk_4:   1:9:28
All right, Next toughest. Cody.

spk_3:   1:9:31
Um, I'm going to shoot array of frost at its

spk_0:   1:9:35
great. All actually say that since you and Jasmine rolled so well, new identify that this spider is making a buzzing noise. But you hear another buzzing in like the woods behind you. OK,

spk_5:   1:9:49
that's another one behind us.

spk_3:   1:9:50
Great, huh? Put it in, like, mid Yes, shooting this at this at that while while he's realizing this. Um, so that is a 15 plus four and 19 at hits. Okay, D age that is a six and its speed reduced by 10 feet.

spk_0:   1:10:11
Oh, yes. Cool. Cody hits it with a big blast of frigid air and the spider kind of recoils a little bit. Jasmine, your

spk_8:   1:10:20
next, Um can I old tell where the one behind us is?

spk_6:   1:10:25
You could roll

spk_0:   1:10:26
a perception check and try to find it.

spk_8:   1:10:28
Okay, It's Ah, 15 11 plus four. Yeah, you kind of

spk_0:   1:10:33
like back up a couple steps from the edge of the forest and scan your eyes over and you see this like glowing blue shape. And it's probably only, like, 10 feet into the forest and again, like, kind of like up in the

spk_8:   1:10:45
trees. Okay, Jasmine is going to turn around on, like with her shield up. I imagine it's kind of like she and Cody were standing next to each other and then Jasmine rotates around to play. Could be at Cody's back. Great. Hold up her shield and try and throw a flame at this one. Too. Cool. Uh, 16 plus 5 21

spk_4:   1:11:08
Yeah, that hits you. Laba ball of flame through the trees

spk_0:   1:11:12
And he

spk_4:   1:11:12
smacked the spider on the face to Then it goes to David. All right, next up is to Lula,

spk_0:   1:11:26
who is right underneath this spider, and she picks up her battle ax and is going to try to chop it down. And she does hit it. And yes, she to hand hits this thing takes a good chunk of it, does eight damage, and then she's just going to pull her acts back and hit it again. Damn strong, strong big hits and she does hit it, all right. And she hits it for another nine damage. The spiders actually looking pretty bad off.

spk_5:   1:12:00
Got Tim. I'm not gonna get hit this spider again.

spk_8:   1:12:05
Another one?

spk_5:   1:12:06
Don't worry. This other one common. Yes. Next up is the spider

spk_0:   1:12:13
that is going Teoh. Just keep descending right onto Lula, since it was right on top of her and try to take a bite out of her and it it hits and yeah, it takes a bite out of her shoulder and you see it crackle with electricity and to Lula kind of tense up for a sec before, like jerking her shoulder away. Next up, the other spider scurries in from the woods and is gonna try to take a bite of jasmine gets Ah, 11. Nope. No. Yeah. You block it with your shield, and then that spider is also going to rear back and try to hit Was out here. Um, Cody's right there.

spk_3:   1:13:04
That I was right next to Jackson.

spk_8:   1:13:05
Yeah, I am in front of Cody, though. I was trying to protect Cody. Yeah, it sees

spk_0:   1:13:11
that it couldn't bite Jasmine because she's got this shield up and and she's like kind of body balking from Cody. So the spider turns and is going to rear up and then fire a sticky glob of web at Lula.

spk_4:   1:13:27
It's identified the threat it Critz on.

spk_0:   1:13:33
And this, like giant clump of sticky blue Web slams into Tha Lula and she goes flying backwards and lands on the ground. And she is restrained. Is Erika's turn

spk_6:   1:13:48
okay? Erica is going to cast dissonant whispers on the spider that just kind of entered the fray.

spk_0:   1:13:56
Okay, great. What is dissonant whispers do

spk_6:   1:13:59
It is a wisdom saving throw severe. Or make that

spk_0:   1:14:03
Let's make a wisdom saving or throw

spk_6:   1:14:05
for a spider. It got any? That's a failure,

spk_0:   1:14:10
not a very wide.

spk_6:   1:14:11
So it's gonna take three D six psychic damage. Okay. In its little spider brain, it will hear Erika's voice. Just say I'm in your

spk_5:   1:14:20
heads. Find your I didn't like

spk_6:   1:14:28
and, um, the spider is going to take three d six psychic damage, and it also has to run away at full speed from me. Let's see. That is

spk_5:   1:14:38
so

spk_4:   1:14:39
damn. That's 12 12. Jesus Christ. Okay, you guys watch the second spider, enter the clearing, and then kind of like air raises her hand and mutter something under her breath. And this spider just like

spk_5:   1:14:52
tenses. And like curls, body and treasure Peace wall and then makes a little like noise and discourages back off into the forest. Jasmine, you also

spk_4:   1:15:07
get to make an opportunity attack because it was right next to you.

spk_8:   1:15:11
Okay, I will try to clumsily stab at it with a sword. Great. That that's the first time jazz would is used. Purse word two plus 13

spk_7:   1:15:21
uh, miss e like

spk_4:   1:15:26
swipe out slowly, as despite

spk_0:   1:15:29
her runs off. And you're like, Oh,

spk_6:   1:15:31
well, okay, great. Erica looks does and and just kind of shrugs. This is sorry.

spk_5:   1:15:38
All I wanted from today was to hit something.

spk_4:   1:15:42
Ah, Max, it's your turn. Ah, you've got a spider dangling

spk_0:   1:15:47
over Tola who is restrained by webbing. And Zan who was, I think, within Maley range of the dangling spider and then another spider that ran off into the woods.

spk_2:   1:15:58
How far away into the woods? It's

spk_0:   1:16:00
30 feet away from Jasmine. So

spk_2:   1:16:03
And I'm what, like 10 feet from Jasmine? Yeah, like 30 40 for me. Okay.

spk_5:   1:16:08
You could I think

spk_0:   1:16:09
you could make it over there like

spk_2:   1:16:13
it's like just outside Japan range, though. So I'm gonna go hit the the almost dead one. Okay, great. 18 heads. Okay, a 2nd 1 on the die. So it's another three damage.

spk_5:   1:16:26
Great. Yeah. You, uh you

spk_0:   1:16:29
swing your sword and jam it into this spider, and it actually falls and crumples down on top of Tola who is restrained. You have killed the spider. Well,

spk_4:   1:16:43
fuck yeah. Fucking fucking Buck and you here, I guess. Like another buzzing noise. This this time

spk_0:   1:16:53
it feels like almost like an itch in your ears and in your body. And you look up and descending from the treetops is a spider that is maybe, like, 15 feet across and it is coming down into your little clearing towards you.

spk_4:   1:17:12
This'll giant spider descends right into the middle of the clearing, sees

spk_0:   1:17:18
its dead crumpled baby and is going to reach out and try to bite Zan who is right there in the middle.

spk_4:   1:17:28
Come at me, motherfucker. 13 just hits justice

spk_8:   1:17:32
and with my cool new armor,

spk_0:   1:17:34
All right, the sending from above you a giant spider comes down and takes a bite at a your arm and it. Seven points of lightning damage.

spk_8:   1:17:47
All right, I'm gonna activate my absorb elements.

spk_0:   1:17:51
Great. So, yeah, Xan is now crackling with electric energy, and next up, it gets another turn.

spk_5:   1:17:58
Actually, it's just gonna buy you again,

spk_0:   1:18:00
since you're right there, that's fair. And it got a 16. That'll do it. And Jesus, it does. Eight lightning damage.

spk_8:   1:18:12
Eight lightning damage. All right, well,

spk_4:   1:18:14
sure, half that again. So just take a

spk_5:   1:18:19
little eat junk off taking the late chunk

spk_4:   1:18:22
off. Okay, Now it's Amster. All right, I'm gonna hit it again. Go for it. Is this the only thing I can dio this? I've Hopefully if I hit

spk_8:   1:18:31
it, I'll use my thingy. I got a 18. You

spk_5:   1:18:35
might be flanking

spk_4:   1:18:36
with Max. That hits. Yeah, but yes, I think the two of

spk_0:   1:18:41
you are flanking so you could roll it. Advantage. Go ahead and roll damage. All right.

spk_2:   1:18:45
You should roll again just to see if you create.

spk_8:   1:18:48
No, I didn't. Okay, Roll damage. OK, that's one D six plus two. So 13 plus 96 to

spk_4:   1:19:02
all right. That's five. Damage is at five

spk_0:   1:19:05
of your damage, and then you also add your lightning damage on

spk_8:   1:19:09
top. That was with the lightning damage. I did very little damage. Say sorry. Which part was Ah, son of a bitch. That was to with lightning damage. So that's three points.

spk_5:   1:19:20
Okay? Yeah. You

spk_0:   1:19:21
reach up and slash it. And as you drag your sword across it, it kind of starts using this like green blood. And as you're like, electric current pulses up into it to give it another shock, that

spk_6:   1:19:35
cut actually heals up

spk_0:   1:19:36
a little bit.

spk_5:   1:19:37
Fucking

spk_4:   1:19:39
Do you like having the worst day? It's great. So spiders eyes Cody's turn.

spk_3:   1:19:50
Cody has been relatively protected by jasmine and kind of surveying the scene looks back and forth. Sees that two people are on the big spider looks around. It looks over to Lula and going to shoot Raya Frost at these stuff. Restraining Jalula. Great.

spk_0:   1:20:05
Make a e. Think he's arranged? Spell

spk_4:   1:20:09
attack. That's Frost. Gonna

spk_3:   1:20:11
dio put out a lot, but I got a four plus four. So eight was not moving.

spk_0:   1:20:16
It's a C is 10. The

spk_4:   1:20:18
wedding's a C is 10. Well, never mind. So just nothing happens. Yeah, you shoot Cem Frost

spk_0:   1:20:26
over there and you're

spk_4:   1:20:27
getting kind of freaked out by how big the spiders air getting, and it misses. Uh, next life is Jasmine.

spk_8:   1:20:34
Okay? Justin first up looks at how many hits San just took and is going to stop her sordid to the ground to get and hold up her hand and cast bulb off the summer court. Okay, that is six you. He'll six hit points. Nice.

spk_0:   1:20:54
You all watch as some little flowers bloom in Zanzi hair and she

spk_8:   1:21:01
looks a little healthier. Um, And then, uh, there isn't a way I can hit. Only the spider with thunder wave is there is thunder wave like a cone. That's Ah, yeah, it's a 15 foot cube from you. It's starting at you. Yes.

spk_5:   1:21:18
If you ran

spk_0:   1:21:19
right up to it, then yes. I think if you're any distance away, you would have to hit also.

spk_5:   1:21:26
Well, I guess if you

spk_0:   1:21:27
aim up, it's like above you, and it's, like, 15 feet wide. Yeah, you could hit it in like the but

spk_8:   1:21:32
Okay, I will do that. Jasmine will run over and try and do thunder wave. I think it's also like running over and then a stomping the ground and then holding up her hand eso that is a Constitution safe for this speeder Thunder, but got a seven. Nope. Okay, so two d eight. That's a seven and a two. So nine thunder damage and they're pushed 10 feet away from me. Nice.

spk_5:   1:22:08
Who? How would

spk_0:   1:22:10
this work? The spider is dangling by some web and push it 10 feet. And I'm

spk_5:   1:22:18
going to say that

spk_2:   1:22:18
between the spider is now a pendulum,

spk_5:   1:22:21
right? E? Like

spk_4:   1:22:23
a swinging spider doesn't help you guys. So yeah, you blast it with how much damage? Wasn't sorry.

spk_8:   1:22:29
999 thunder damage.

spk_4:   1:22:31
Nine thunder damage.

spk_0:   1:22:32
And it is recoils and, like starts to swing away. And then the cuts the thread and just lands lit a thump on the ground. So it's taking up like a big chunk of this clearing. And it's still, like in the open space and is a probably about 10 feet away from Zan Jasmine and Max. No,

spk_8:   1:22:50
the circuit maxims on the attack of opportunity.

spk_4:   1:22:53
Yes, As it flies over our heads, it got pushed

spk_0:   1:22:57
away from you. Sure,

spk_8:   1:22:58
you both swinging at the pinata grave That was good 16

spk_2:   1:23:05
that hits 15 plus 4 19

spk_4:   1:23:07
That hits also get

spk_7:   1:23:08
ahead again. Let's do another

spk_4:   1:23:10
slash it this big spider,

spk_8:   1:23:13
The pendulum spider by five

spk_2:   1:23:15
I have improved. That is a two on the dice Eso four

spk_0:   1:23:19
or damage? Uh, yeah. You give some slashes to this big spider and it kind of like roars at you. Hahaha! Next up is toe Lula, who is still restrained. She's gonna try toe make a strength check to get out of it. She got a 16 So yeah, tha lula just like flexes and fucking bursts out of this web.

spk_4:   1:23:43
Jesus Christ, like yeah, bro. Yes, and she looks pissed. She picks up her battle ax and gives it

spk_0:   1:23:51
a twirl and brings it down right on the spider shit. And yeah, she gives it one shop and then a second chop and they both hit

spk_5:   1:24:02
on

spk_6:   1:24:02
hit twice. I know, right? You should be level

spk_0:   1:24:04
five and she's going to do 11 splashing damage. Now. This spider looks pretty bad off now, and it's fucking enormous.

spk_4:   1:24:14
She's actually pissed enough. She's going toe action search and hit it again. Yeah, fighters. And she swings her acts again, brings it down and does Jesus. Another nine damage with that hit and she kind of like not sure you're supposed to make the MPC this much more confident way she kind of like

spk_0:   1:24:38
peels her, acts back out of its side and flicks off that green gunk and is just like burning with anger. It is the spider in the forests turn that can now turn around and come back. So it's going to turn around and run back and it's going to

spk_4:   1:24:53
guess. Take a bite at a Cody could

spk_0:   1:24:55
seize the one left over there on it gets a 14 to hit. Yes, it hits, you know, right? It bites you for eight points of damage. Lightning damage

spk_3:   1:25:10
coated, feeling fantastic. And then not fantastic kind of

spk_4:   1:25:15
squishy boy, it bites

spk_0:   1:25:17
you and Cody. Your whole body kind of like tenses for a sec as that electricity courses through you and the spider is going to rear back and then try to

spk_4:   1:25:29
It's gonna Web Cody. It creates. So, Cody, you are now covered

spk_0:   1:25:36
in blue webbing. That is just feels awful. It's like like holding your tongue to a battery level of uncomfortable and you fall to the ground. You are restrained.

spk_5:   1:25:49
Okay? Oh, Jesus, Cody! Cody

spk_6:   1:25:59
Neck. Since Erica's turn. Erica is going to cast dissonant whispers again on that same spider.

spk_4:   1:26:05
OK, Thea Spyder turns its

spk_0:   1:26:08
eight eyes on Eric. And it's kind of like,

spk_6:   1:26:11
uh, it rolls a wisdom save right? Got in eight again. That is not a save. Okay, case

spk_5:   1:26:24
that was

spk_6:   1:26:24
not as good. But it's 9.9 points of psychic damage. And I have to tell you what it hears.

spk_0:   1:26:31
You need to get the hell out

spk_4:   1:26:33
of here, you bastard. Squyres Yeah, that spider. Kind of like Tuck's. It's but under like a tale, and it's like on runs back

spk_5:   1:26:47
off into the forest. Erica

spk_3:   1:26:49
is now the most frightening character in our entire

spk_4:   1:26:52
campaign. You just see Erica turn and like, look at the spider and then the spider runs and you have no idea why. ISAT looking pretty bad off. Yes, that spiders like

spk_0:   1:27:09
limping off through the forest. It has a really bad headache, I guess.

spk_7:   1:27:12
Yes, you give me a break, Max.

spk_0:   1:27:18
It's your turn. You are next to the 15 foot tall spider, which you could flank with to Lula. Or there's another spider that has run back off into the woods.

spk_2:   1:27:29
Um, if I move away. Okay. Also,

spk_0:   1:27:33
Cody is restrained on the

spk_2:   1:27:34
ground that has to hit points. How far away is Cody?

spk_5:   1:27:38
Cody is

spk_0:   1:27:39
like, 15 feet from you.

spk_2:   1:27:41
If I move away, Spider gets reaction. Uh, my friends can handle Cody. Right? I'm gonna swing at the big one.

spk_4:   1:27:50
Okay. Making a sack,

spk_2:   1:27:52
E 17 plus four.

spk_0:   1:27:54
Okay. Yep. You hit rolled average.

spk_2:   1:27:56
Come on. Not a one or two. Yes, that's Ah, nine damage.

spk_0:   1:28:01
Damn. All right. Yeah. Max rears back and slash is this. Giant spider and the spider, like slumps onto the ground and then, like, picks itself back up. But it looks really bad off it roars again in your face. Next up is

spk_4:   1:28:19
oh, the giant spider. Cool. It's gonna bite. Max.

spk_2:   1:28:23
Hell, yah, Bring it. Bastard gets a

spk_4:   1:28:25
21. Who? Uh, I guess that hits. I'm pretty sure that

spk_8:   1:28:31
means it bites exactly in the titty with

spk_7:   1:28:33
Yeah, get one thing

spk_4:   1:28:35
right in the titty. I know. Until it was

spk_2:   1:28:37
like, God damn it. That's why those went out of

spk_4:   1:28:39
style specifically because of giant spiders. And it does 16 damage.

spk_5:   1:28:47
Holy she

spk_7:   1:28:48
Why, Okay, Yeah. The spiders

spk_4:   1:28:50
been rolling pretty bad until now. Yeah, and the giant spider is going to bite again. No.

spk_2:   1:28:58
Hell, yeah. Bringing backs. Hell, yeah.

spk_5:   1:29:01
And it gets a 22. It does nine points of damage. Bye

spk_4:   1:29:11
bye. Yeah, this spider in its last last legs reaches forward and bites Max again. And Max just goes down hard Shit. Uh, and it is Zan Stern.

spk_8:   1:29:25
So then is standing there with her sword, and she looks at the big spider that she really, really wants to hit. But then she looks down at Max and just says, God damn it and turned in cask your wounds on him.

spk_0:   1:29:43
Wow! All right, Zan facing down this enormous spider reaches out a hand, puts it on Max's chest and a burst of yellow light just comes out of her hand And you basically like defibrillate, Max, back into

spk_8:   1:29:58
life. All right, that's eight points.

spk_4:   1:30:00
Damn! All right. Yeah. Maxie, come back up. Pretty hardy, Uh, of good. You owe me. I could have hit the spider again. Next up is Cody, who is restrained. Question. Yes.

spk_3:   1:30:15
In standard dnd, I would believe I still could cast a spell, but my hands cannot touch each other. I'm assuming restrained. Correct is so I can not

spk_0:   1:30:24
In homebrew world, Anything in your menu. You got to be able to move your arms. Yeah, e So, Cody, try to make a strength check to wiggle free. That's basically your only

spk_2:   1:30:39
option. Know Cody's gonna pull it to Lula and flex after their

spk_4:   1:30:43
okay, Yes. I want to see this. Cody. You watch to Lula Flex that of Irvine's getting great idea.

spk_3:   1:30:51
Yeah, I think that's what I'm going to do. Make a strength check, please. Dice for once in your to hear more. Ah, that is a 12 minus two a 10.

spk_5:   1:31:02
Cody, you flex your skinny little arms as hard as you

spk_4:   1:31:07
can and close your eyes and you okay there, kid, you need to go. The bathroom after the Cody is also like bleeding profusely. It's like leaking out from the spider webbing, trying to lighten the mood. The child is not doing so good. Next up is Jasmine. The adjustment looks at this entire situation,

spk_8:   1:31:40
and it was really regretting ever abandoned. And Cody in the first place. She tosses away her shield, which there's no reason to believe that it is anyway. Looks cool and runs back. Teoh Cody and drops to her knees next to Cody

spk_7:   1:31:55
High. Just good.

spk_8:   1:31:57
Opens up her menu, and she casts good, very

spk_7:   1:32:01
starts showing that

spk_4:   1:32:14
work action wise. Like, how many can she shoved into his mouth? I could create some Berries. They're Berries. I could shove 10 buries. It is It takes an action to pour like a potion down someone's throat. Very, very Zara potion. Yeah, I know. But if she also has to make them Yeah,

spk_5:   1:32:34
all right. Are you say you

spk_4:   1:32:36
get a good four Berries, and since you had to cast the spell and serve feeding it

spk_5:   1:32:42
because you feel like

spk_6:   1:32:43
throws something to someone is a free action. So Jasmine is just like slapping him into

spk_7:   1:32:48
itself. Yeah. Yeah. She took

spk_6:   1:32:50
the whole handful and put them in their Cody. You eat all 10 good

spk_0:   1:32:54
Berries and are hell 10 whole points.

spk_3:   1:32:56
But that also means you just 8 10 days worth of, like, satisfying food. So I do think he doesn't keep them all down

spk_7:   1:33:04
afterwards because that's a lot of food that could be after the I feel better, but also All

spk_4:   1:33:22
right. Um, it is too little astern.

spk_0:   1:33:25
She kind of looks at Xan, whose taking care of Max. And at Jasmine, who's taking care of Cody? And at Erica, who just stands there silently

spk_4:   1:33:35
and not even discuss lairs. She's gonna hit the big Spider. Oh, but she whiffs. She's so distracted by

spk_0:   1:33:45
all of you she misses and gonna hit

spk_4:   1:33:49
again and be a little better now. His Christ also Mrs. She's just very upset. Hey, it's that Spider in the Woods is turn, and it's gonna come back and sees Jasmine coaching

spk_0:   1:34:06
over its dinner. And so it's going Teoh try to bite her and gets a 10.

spk_8:   1:34:13
No, even even with even with my shield gun, that does not

spk_4:   1:34:18
fit. Okay? And then it's going to give up on that. Try to buy Cody, who is restrained. So I think it gets advantage.

spk_3:   1:34:27
It gets advantage. Yes.

spk_0:   1:34:28
Okay. It gets a

spk_4:   1:34:30
16. Yes, it's takes a bite.

spk_5:   1:34:34
Good. 10 points of damage. Oh,

spk_3:   1:34:39
my God. I Cody's

spk_5:   1:34:43
like fights, Cody. Cody goes unconscious and oh, my God. Air quits your turn at the spider. Kind of like Lexi you like?

spk_6:   1:34:59
Hmm? Trying to send with best thing to do in this moment is yes. So you've got Cody who

spk_0:   1:35:05
is unconscious and restrained with bear sized spider over

spk_4:   1:35:10
him. That looks pretty bad off.

spk_0:   1:35:12
And then the giant spider is next to Max to Lula and Zan and looks really bad off.

spk_6:   1:35:18
I think I'm gonna stab the one above Cody with my rapier

spk_0:   1:35:22
great. Yet run up there and make an attack.

spk_6:   1:35:25
Okay, uh, I'm gonna use my bardic inspirations. That was 15. So that's a 17.

spk_0:   1:35:35
Nice. Yet you hit it. Um, And roll

spk_1:   1:35:38
damage

spk_6:   1:35:39
that is eight.

spk_0:   1:35:40
And your rapier is piercing damage, right? Yeah. You slide that in, like, between two of its like joints and just your this spider and it fucking dies.

spk_6:   1:35:53
You should have listened to me,

spk_4:   1:35:54
you little son of a bitch. And it looks at the lightly was its eyes. And this just like,

spk_7:   1:36:02
ah,

spk_6:   1:36:03
I'm gonna use my bonus action to cast healing word on

spk_0:   1:36:07
Cody. Okay, what do you say?

spk_5:   1:36:09
Hey, Cody.

spk_6:   1:36:10
I'm sorry. Didn't kill that things sooner. Okay? So it's 24 plus podcasting. Who that is a two. You get two points. It's

spk_8:   1:36:23
still useful. Two points. And it means I don't have to bring up the questionable logistics of force feeding someone who is unconscious.

spk_5:   1:36:35
Oh, hey, Hair. Uh, you didn't do anything scary. Did you know nothing.

spk_4:   1:36:43
Do you like I'll tell Cody's head away from the giant dead spider, like, two feet from How's

spk_5:   1:36:50
it going? Imagine

spk_6:   1:36:52
Cody just looks like he's in like, a little electrified sleeping bag.

spk_4:   1:36:56
Yes, Next of his nexus turn. You've got one very bad looking

spk_2:   1:37:01
spider. Uh, Max is going to stand up and just try to finish off this God bam Giant spider kick. Great role attack. Ah, yes. Ah, 15 plus 4 19 Yep. You

spk_6:   1:37:14
hit it. Roll damage.

spk_2:   1:37:16
I'm also going to use divine smite on this one. Oh, plus two d eight. OK,

spk_4:   1:37:21
do this. Jesus.

spk_8:   1:37:24
You spend this spell slot for it, though. It's very good. I

spk_5:   1:37:28
spent a spell slot. Nothing happens. I'm so how do you guys do

spk_8:   1:37:32
all this cool stuff? No wonder I nobody likes being a ranger. That

spk_2:   1:37:36
is 13 40 15 damage. Jesus

spk_4:   1:37:39
Christ. All right, Max, you're about to kill this spider. What do you dio?

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So I stand up on my eye, look over Zan and give her a nod. I raised my sword. I'm like, Fuck you. You can find us on Twitter

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at dice disasters, and we have more information about the show and the cast at dice disasters dot com are Beautiful. Website

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was made by Alison Hodding, who plays Eric Deis. Disasters is edited by Alan Brazil, who plays Cody.

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a little while. Dice Disasters is weekly podcast If you're enjoying the show, it would be incredible if he subscribed and left her of you. Thank you so much. I told you Sand was on the balcony. No, Max didn't know that. Forget that. Why would Why would Max know that? Okay, good. Great. But you both those good. There's a balcony, right? About three seconds after I said it was established, I was sleeping on the balcony. Look, Max doesn't know it. Maybe I didn't know it. Character look temporarily possessed, Robot.

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Maybe I was stuffing my face with Girl Scout cookies.

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Look bored of that audio.

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Maybe the plastic in those is a little too critically. And I couldn't hear the exposition. The Kirstie is thin mints