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SPEAKER_03: So what do you have since I don't have anything?
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SPEAKER_01: Um what you what you do have is a fantastic research strategy that you talked about um a couple episodes ago, which is just finding a compilation of all of the uh issues of Dragon Magazine that have ecology of articles, because that's what I did this time.
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SPEAKER_01: I was like, I I don't I have no idea what I want to do right now.
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SPEAKER_01: So I'm just gonna go scroll through all of the ecology articles and just pick something out.
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SPEAKER_01: Hey, you know what?
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SPEAKER_01: It's a viable strategy.
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SPEAKER_01: So uh today, which I guess I've already spoiled what's usually the most exciting part of the episode is when we talk about ecology articles.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, but we're gonna be talking about purple worms.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Purple worms.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, a very uh very iconic DD monster.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh and very um, I say this in the in the best way possible, very simple.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh if if you you well, you know what I mean though.
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SPEAKER_02: Like there's not a lot of complexity to it.
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SPEAKER_02: Um or there's like not a lot of nuance to them.
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SPEAKER_03: Or are they just simple-minded?
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SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, very like that's not even a spoiler, they're stupid as fuck.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, no, just like uh I guess simple is like, you know, there's there's some things that it's like, you know, you took an owl and a bear and you put them together, and you know, okay, so simple in concept.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and there's like, you know, it's like liches.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like an undead skeleton person, but it's not actually a skeleton person because it's all about the gemstone that their soul is in, blah, blah, blah.
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SPEAKER_03: See, that does not seem simple.
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SPEAKER_01: But no, but I'm saying, but purple worms are like, it's a big worm and it's purple.
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SPEAKER_01: You know what it doesn't.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, okay.
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SPEAKER_02: So your your your definition of a lich was uh the opposite of Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: In in terms of iconic DD monsters.
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SPEAKER_01: Ruffy.
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SPEAKER_01: I was I was pulling some other ones.
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SPEAKER_01: But yeah, it's a big worm and it's purple.
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SPEAKER_01: I like it.
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SPEAKER_01: Straight to the point.
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SPEAKER_03: Okay, it's a big purple worm.
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SPEAKER_01: All right.
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SPEAKER_01: That's it, guys.
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SPEAKER_01: See you next week.
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SPEAKER_01: No, I'm kidding.
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SPEAKER_01: So uh purple worms were first introduced in the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual, which was released in 1977.
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SPEAKER_01: So they've been here for a while.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: They're iconic for a reason.
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SPEAKER_01: A good amount of time.
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SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, so they their appearance remains pretty consistent.
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SPEAKER_01: They're big purple worms.
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SPEAKER_01: Um noted.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so they uh there's some details that change.
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SPEAKER_01: Um they were large segmented worms with large lamprey-like mouths that were large and purple.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm sensing a theme here.
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SPEAKER_01: They're big and they're purple.
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SPEAKER_01: And I love them.
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SPEAKER_01: Hey, take a shot every time we say purple in this episode.
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SPEAKER_01: No, you'll die.
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SPEAKER_01: And then go to the hospital with alcohol poisoning.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, do not do that.
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SPEAKER_01: So adults were eight to nine feet in diameter and forty to fifty feet in length, and were more commonly encountered than young purple worms.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: So, like, they're they are very large.
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SPEAKER_01: An average clutch of purple worm eggs yielded about 10 to 20 hatchlings, which were one foot in diameter and five feet in length at birth.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Hmm.
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SPEAKER_01: Yep.
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SPEAKER_03: I mean still pretty big.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's still a pretty big uh That's a big baby.
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SPEAKER_02: That's a big baby.
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SPEAKER_01: They burrowed underground in a constant search for food, which they detected using their 60-foot range of Tremor Sense.
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SPEAKER_01: Granted, in Advanced Legends of Dragons it was not yet referred to as Tremorsense, but it's Tremor Sense.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was Pre-Tremor Sense.
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SPEAKER_01: Pre-Tremor Sense.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was just what was it called back then?
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SPEAKER_03: Now I'm trying to remember.
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SPEAKER_01: Um you know, I don't think it even I don't think it even had a name, like in the stat block.
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SPEAKER_01: Was it blind sense?
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SPEAKER_01: No, it was not blind sense.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, blind sense is another thing, I'm sure.
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SPEAKER_01: Blind sense is different.
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SPEAKER_01: It it literally, I believe, in the dis they're like the text portion of their description just said that they can sense vibrations up to 60 feet.
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SPEAKER_01: Like it didn't even have a name.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't believe.
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SPEAKER_01: Bam.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and they returned to their layers to rest and spit up indigestible materials such as metal and crystals.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Their int their intelligence was even lower than animal intelligence.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh no.
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SPEAKER_01: At a non-classification.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh no.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh, these poor things.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because in uh in advanced dungeons and dragons, it's not necessarily just like numbers.
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SPEAKER_01: It's it's like, you know, intelligence.
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SPEAKER_01: You have like super genius.
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SPEAKER_01: Intelligence.
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SPEAKER_01: No.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you have like super genius, uh, average, whatever, uh, animal.
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SPEAKER_01: And purple worms are at a non.
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SPEAKER_03: Non.
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SPEAKER_03: Non.
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SPEAKER_03: Just just non.
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SPEAKER_01: Which they share with creatures such as the Portuguese man of war that's listed like a little above them because that's the alphabet.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So they're as intelligent as the Portuguese man of war, which is to say not very much.
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SPEAKER_01: That's that's a creature that doesn't even really have a brain.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and their alignment was neutral.
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SPEAKER_01: Because again, in the They're too stupid to Yeah, in a situation like the Tarask.
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SPEAKER_03: So we're starting off great with these things.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um we're starting off with all the things that make them bad.
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SPEAKER_01: We're dunking on them, basically.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're dunking on them really hard, and then we're gonna talk about the things that make them good.
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SPEAKER_01: Um they have a poisonous, that's the word of the monster manual, not mine, because technically it's venomous.
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SPEAKER_01: Um stinger on their tail, which they can use for back attacks or in spacious little areas that allow them to coil their bodies.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, if a target is stung and fails their save against poison, they die.
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SPEAKER_01: Just straight up.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they just die?
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SPEAKER_01: They die.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they die.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh.
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SPEAKER_01: So fuck you.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, you know, we've we've talked about balancing in in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: How they later went back and were like, maybe we should eat this a little different.
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SPEAKER_03: Maybe a little different way here.
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SPEAKER_03: Like maybe just as much.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, so Purple Worms had a simple but very powerful bite attack, and I d I feel like just directly quoting this is the best way to put it.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
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SPEAKER_01: Quote, and any uh hit twenty percent over the required score, that is four or more over the required number, or a 100%, which is a dice roll of 20, score in any case indicates that the creature has engulfed its victim.
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Vor Zone.
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SPEAKER_03: What the hell?
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SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: So a natural 20 just like you get eaten.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: You have been eaten.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: I I decided to pull that quote because you know, Thacko and stuff, it's confusing.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um still.
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SPEAKER_01: An adult worm could swallow a target up to eight feet tall and six feet wide, or vice versa.
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SPEAKER_01: So if it's like an animal.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh any creature swallowed will die in six rounds and will be completely digested in twelve.
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SPEAKER_01: Aka, they cannot be brought back to life at this point.
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SPEAKER_01: A target can attempt to cut their way out of the worm's stomach.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, the AC of the stomach is a nine, um, the AC of the outside is a six, which remember, higher is worse.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: So obviously it's really easy to hit at that point.
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SPEAKER_01: It's easy to hit the surface of the area you're in.
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SPEAKER_01: You know.
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SPEAKER_01: Turns out.
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SPEAKER_01: Turns out.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that makes sense.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and each round inside the worm's stomach, the damage able to be dealt is cumulatively reduced by one.
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SPEAKER_01: I e on the second round, the damage dealt suffers in negative two, on the third, it suffers in negative three, and so on.
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SPEAKER_01: So the longer you're in there, the harder it is to get out.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Because, you know, stomach acid.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: Because you're gradually getting weakened.
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SPEAKER_03: You will gradually die dissolved and in like 36 seconds.
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SPEAKER_03: Limiting your movement.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Don't worry about it.
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SPEAKER_03: And consciousness, probably.
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SPEAKER_02: That's limiting your consciousness.
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SPEAKER_02: Yep.
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SPEAKER_03: I mean, you're not wrong.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I've been playing Grim World.
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SPEAKER_03: Consciousness is a thing.
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SPEAKER_03: It's that's just what my brain went to.
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SPEAKER_03: Anyway.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, there was a variety of purple worm called a mottled worm that shares all the same characteristics with purple worms, but instead lives underwater in shallow muck.
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SPEAKER_01: They swim now, fuck you.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: That's nice.
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SPEAKER_01: Could you could you just imagine just like being on the ocean and just like a purple worm?
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SPEAKER_02: Just no.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I could not, actually.
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SPEAKER_02: I would rather not, actually.
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SPEAKER_03: You sure?
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SPEAKER_03: I already do not like the ocean.
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SPEAKER_03: I don't want purple worms added into that.
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SPEAKER_03: Thanks.
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SPEAKER_03: Thanks though.
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SPEAKER_01: You're welcome.
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SPEAKER_01: So next we're going to move into Advanced Dungeons and Dragons second edition.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, purple worms have many of the same characteristics that they have in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons first edition, with a few notable changes and variants that have been added.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yay, variants.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, no, these are actually kind of cool.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, they are now up to 140 to 150 feet in length.
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SPEAKER_02: You said these were gonna be cool.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, don't worry about it.
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SPEAKER_01: So, okay, so this is interesting.
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SPEAKER_01: This that is what was said in the text, like the description.
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SPEAKER_01: Like adult purple worms can be up to 140 to 150 feet in length.
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SPEAKER_01: But their stat block lists them as being, I think, huge creatures at 25 feet in length.
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SPEAKER_01: So what is the truth?
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SPEAKER_01: Because that's a big difference there.
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SPEAKER_03: That is a big difference.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, no, I don't I don't know if that's meant to be very notable examples, but like the average one that you would encounter is 25 feet long.
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SPEAKER_01: But I don't think that was how it was put.
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SPEAKER_01: Anyway, like if I were a DM, like my purple worm's gonna be 150 feet long.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
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SPEAKER_03: Like it's gonna be like the biggest it can fucking get.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, literally.
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SPEAKER_03: Maybe, I guess, depending on the situation, I suppose.
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SPEAKER_03: But yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: No, no, any situation.
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SPEAKER_01: Bigger's better.
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SPEAKER_03: Just okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Bigger, longer, and purple.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, and targets that have been swallowed now take two hours to digest instead of 12 melee rounds.
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SPEAKER_01: So, you know, even if you die.
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SPEAKER_03: That does make a little bit more sense.
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SPEAKER_03: Because like biology.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like something digesting in that fast.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, pretty much unheard of.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it seems a little out there.
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SPEAKER_01: I wish I could digest things that fast.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, so purple worms are solitary and only come together to mate.
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SPEAKER_01: We'll talk about that later.
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SPEAKER_01: And baby purple worms burrow away immediately after hatching.
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SPEAKER_01: They're not a social.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they're not social.
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SPEAKER_01: They don't care for their young.
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SPEAKER_01: They're just kind of, you know, which I mean makes sense.
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SPEAKER_01: They're worms.
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SPEAKER_01: You you're not wrong.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, if there is a social worm variety out there or worms that care for their babies, I would actually love to hear about them, but they're worms.
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SPEAKER_03: They're yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: And their intelligence is low, so their intelligence is sad.
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SPEAKER_01: Their intelligence is no.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, their intelligence is literally uh, well, it's not because it was literally like non with a hyphen, but in my mind it was like the French word for no.
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SPEAKER_01: Non.
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SPEAKER_01: Non.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh so the model worm variant exists unchanged, but a variant called the Thunder Herder was introduced.
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SPEAKER_01: The Thunder Herder?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh Thunder Herders were smaller than uh other purple worms, uh, at about three to five feet in diameter and five to ten feet in length, which let me say is a chonky boy.
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SPEAKER_01: Like when you consider like the ratio, that's a that's a somewhat short, somewhat thick boy.
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SPEAKER_01: So big and round.
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SPEAKER_01: Big and round.
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SPEAKER_01: Um and they traveled in herds, so these are social, of 10 to 20, or pardon me, 10 to 100 individuals shallowly under desert sands.
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SPEAKER_03: I'm sorry.
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SPEAKER_03: 10 to 100?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: See, I said 10 to 20 because that's what I wanted it to be.
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SPEAKER_03: Ten to one hundred is a lot.
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SPEAKER_02: That's a lot of worms.
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SPEAKER_01: That's a lot of worms.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Um I I I don't have the words for that, actually.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's kind of absurd.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, kind of upsetting.
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SPEAKER_01: Um they fed on small desert creatures and ejected the sand.
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SPEAKER_01: They could not digest sand.
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SPEAKER_01: And they could not inflict damage with their bite, but they caused small earthquakes in the areas they traveled under.
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SPEAKER_01: So imagine just a herd of a hundred of these things just coming through and just no causing a massive fucking earthquake.
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SPEAKER_03: But they can't digest sand, so yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Just throw some sand on their face, clearly.
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SPEAKER_01: Pocket sand.
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SPEAKER_03: Pocket sand.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, it's uh coarse and rough and irritating to the digestive.
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SPEAKER_03: A lot of pocket sand for that.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, they like they like swim through it and they eat it.
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SPEAKER_01: They just eject it.
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SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_01: Like their bodies don't Yeah, yeah.
16:42
SPEAKER_01: I I know what you mean.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, their bodies don't do anything with it.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_03: It just kind of goes and it's still sand when it comes out.
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SPEAKER_03: Or probably more like mud at that point, but still.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we'll uh leave that up to the viewers to decide.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, we'll talk about m a little bit more about their digestion later.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
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SPEAKER_03: Um that's cool.
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SPEAKER_03: That that's cool.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: That's nice.
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SPEAKER_01: So these that was the well, okay.
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SPEAKER_01: The those that the Thunder Herder was the actual variant of purple worm because the way this one was set up was like worm.
17:16
SPEAKER_01: Like the creature category was worm.
17:18
SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
17:19
SPEAKER_01: And then it was like purple worm, mottled worm.
17:21
SPEAKER_01: Um, but I decided to talk about these guys alongside the purple worm because they're right there and they're kind of cool.
17:25
SPEAKER_01: So, you know.
17:27
SPEAKER_01: Um, so several types of worm were included alongside the purple worm.
17:31
SPEAKER_01: The giant blood worm was a mottled slimy green worm with a brown underbelly that hid underneath muck and attacked anyone who stepped on it.
17:40
SPEAKER_01: Oh.
17:41
SPEAKER_01: Which I mean, like, I would too.
17:43
SPEAKER_03: I would be a little mad if you stepped on me, I won't lie.
17:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, it would attempt to fasten itself onto a target to drain their blood, causing 1d8 points of damage until removed, which you remove it with an open doors check.
17:57
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
17:58
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
17:59
SPEAKER_01: I love the incredibly hyper-specific skills.
18:03
SPEAKER_01: The mouth is a door.
18:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
18:07
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's a door to something.
18:09
SPEAKER_01: You're not.
18:10
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm not wrong, but I'm not also not right.
18:14
SPEAKER_01: But um, they were also very weak to fire damage, and they were apparently supposed to be 20 feet long, but for some reason, and no no diameter was given.
18:25
SPEAKER_01: But for some reason, I feel like something that's 20 feet long would be doing more than 1d8 points of damage if it was attached to you.
18:34
SPEAKER_03: Well, I mean But it's also called giant, so I'm not really Unless its diameter is literally that of like an actual like groundworm.
18:43
SPEAKER_01: Like very, very small.
18:44
SPEAKER_03: Or leech and then.
18:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, or even like a few inches.
18:48
SPEAKER_01: And it's just really long.
18:49
SPEAKER_03: Really long tapeworming at that point.
18:52
SPEAKER_01: Maybe.
18:52
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
18:54
SPEAKER_01: But in any case, they're they're called giant and supposed to be 20 feet long, but I don't know.
19:00
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that that seems a little weird and maybe not completely thought through.
19:06
SPEAKER_02: It's fine.
19:06
SPEAKER_03: Don't worry about it.
19:07
SPEAKER_02: Again, uh, sometimes I feel like there are probably too many cooks in the kitchen.
19:11
SPEAKER_02: It happens.
19:12
SPEAKER_01: Uh so next we have the bookworm, which was a one-inch long worm that inhabited libraries and could change its normally gray color to match its surroundings.
19:24
SPEAKER_01: It's a literal bookworm.
19:27
SPEAKER_01: I love it.
19:28
SPEAKER_01: I love it so much.
19:29
SPEAKER_01: Someone they saw an opportunity and they took it.
19:32
SPEAKER_03: I love it.
19:33
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
19:34
SPEAKER_01: Um, so they could not consume living matter, but ate through all manner of material used to make books at a rate of three inches per round, which let me say is very fast.
19:45
SPEAKER_02: You know, yeah, you're right.
19:47
SPEAKER_02: That is pretty pretty damn fast, actually.
19:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
19:50
SPEAKER_01: Um, they move very quickly and always try to escape combat.
19:54
SPEAKER_01: So they're just little wormy guys that like to eat books.
20:00
SPEAKER_03: I like I want to say I can't believe they made an actual bookworm.
20:05
SPEAKER_01: But you can't.
20:06
SPEAKER_01: You know, you you know you believe that they did.
20:09
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
20:09
SPEAKER_03: It's like it seems so bizarre, but then I'm just like, yeah, no, that makes sense.
20:14
SPEAKER_02: No, that checks out.
20:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that sounds about right.
20:17
SPEAKER_01: Um, so the final type introduced alongside uh these other ones was the rot grub, which is a half inch to two inch long maggot-like worm that lived in trash.
20:28
SPEAKER_01: Same.
20:29
SPEAKER_01: Uh, if they touched exposed skin, they would burrow into the flesh and secrete a mild toxin that deadened the area.
20:36
SPEAKER_01: The target had to make a successful wisdom check to notice the rot grub.
20:40
SPEAKER_01: Um, so next I'm gonna pull another quote because I feel like this is the easiest way to explain this.
20:46
SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
20:46
SPEAKER_01: Um quote Fire kills two d10 grubs per application to infested flesh, but after one d6 rounds, they are too deep to be burned.
20:55
SPEAKER_01: A cure disease will kill the rot grubs.
20:57
SPEAKER_01: If the worms are not stopped, they reach the heart in one d three turns, killing the victim.
21:05
SPEAKER_03: These things burrow fast as hell.
21:09
SPEAKER_03: No, Joe.
21:10
SPEAKER_01: So okay, I I am assuming that the 1D3 comes after the initial 1d6, but that's still very fast.
21:19
SPEAKER_02: That is still very fast.
21:21
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's still just a really fast burrow.
21:24
SPEAKER_01: Also, like fuck you.
21:26
SPEAKER_03: Fuck you, dude.
21:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like that's crazy.
21:30
SPEAKER_01: Because that's what like let's say that it's like max on each of them is like 9d6, which is like 54 seconds.
21:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
21:38
SPEAKER_01: So like literally after first touch, if you don't notice it 54 seconds later, you're dead.
21:44
SPEAKER_02: Which is insane to think about, actually.
21:46
SPEAKER_01: I will say you do get you do get a wisdom check every round.
21:50
SPEAKER_03: So you just better hope that your wisdom is not shit too low, yeah.
21:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so that or so that's like something.
21:59
SPEAKER_01: But Like barely.
22:01
SPEAKER_01: Literally, like 54 seconds later, you're dead.
22:04
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's still not great because that's just it it it just burrows so fast.
22:10
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like there's no Also, if something is burrowing through you that fast, you would think you would notice.
22:16
SPEAKER_03: Right?
22:16
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
22:17
SPEAKER_03: What's the difficulty check on that wisdom?
22:20
SPEAKER_03: I'm not sure.
22:20
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
22:21
SPEAKER_01: I do not have that handy.
22:23
SPEAKER_03: But um because I feel like it should be fairly high, at least after a couple rounds, because like pain.
22:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
22:30
SPEAKER_01: Well remember, they they they deaden the area.
22:33
SPEAKER_01: I'm assuming that they would continually do that even as they're eating through your inside.
22:38
SPEAKER_01: Right.
22:39
SPEAKER_02: I forgot about that part.
22:40
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
22:41
SPEAKER_03: I was so focused on just the fact that it bursts so fast and yeah, and I forgot about the numbingness.
22:49
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
22:49
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
22:50
SPEAKER_03: Ugh.
22:51
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's a little upsetti.
22:54
SPEAKER_03: Upsetti spaghetti.
22:55
SPEAKER_01: Upsetti spaghetti.
22:57
SPEAKER_01: That's what that's so that's the name of this episode.
23:00
SPEAKER_01: That's what we should call purple worms upsetti spaghetti.
23:03
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
23:04
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
23:05
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
23:05
SPEAKER_01: You're kind of right.
23:07
SPEAKER_01: Oh, they don't make me upset.
23:09
SPEAKER_01: So next we're gonna go to third edition.
23:12
SPEAKER_01: Yay! I don't know why I said that so excitedly.
23:17
SPEAKER_03: No, but you you you didn't I wasn't quite sure if we were supposed to be excited with you or not.
23:24
SPEAKER_03: There was a bit of hesitation, but I don't know.
23:25
SPEAKER_01: But but I'm excited.
23:26
SPEAKER_01: We're here now.
23:27
SPEAKER_01: So purpleworms in third edition are classified as gargantuan magical beasts.
23:31
SPEAKER_01: Uh adults are five feet in diameter and eighty feet long.
23:35
SPEAKER_01: So they were shrunk a little bit.
23:37
SPEAKER_02: Oh good, thank you.
23:39
SPEAKER_01: Or maybe expanded because they used to be maybe twenty-five feet long, but maybe a hundred and fifty feet long.
23:46
SPEAKER_01: Who knows?
23:47
SPEAKER_03: Anywhere between that ridiculous range, you know.
23:50
SPEAKER_03: Right.
23:50
SPEAKER_01: That's not a crazy difference.
23:52
SPEAKER_01: Um, they remain always neutral in alignment and now have an intelligence of one.
23:57
SPEAKER_01: So they're moving up in the world.
23:59
SPEAKER_01: Damn.
24:02
SPEAKER_02: Jesus, these things are getting just absolutely fucking destroyed.
24:07
SPEAKER_03: That's an improvement, is the worst part.
24:09
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was gonna say, but their intelligence did increase technology.
24:13
SPEAKER_02: You're not wrong.
24:14
SPEAKER_01: Oh, so um references made to their gizzards, which produce their stomach acid and sometimes hold acid-resistant resistant things consumed by the worms, such as gems and ores.
24:27
SPEAKER_01: So it's a it's a gizzard specifically, which in real animals is like a specific section of the stomach.
24:35
SPEAKER_01: Right.
24:36
SPEAKER_01: So they've they got gizzards.
24:39
SPEAKER_01: Worms have gizzards, this just in.
24:41
SPEAKER_01: Um so in combat, their usual posture is to coil into a 20-foot diameter shape, so you know, it's more up.
24:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
24:51
SPEAKER_01: I'm making gestures with my hands that you guys can't see.
24:55
SPEAKER_01: Um, that allows both the use of their stinging tail and bite attack.
24:59
SPEAKER_01: Um, their poison, venom, now does strength damage on a failed fortitude save, which is 1d6 initially and 2d6 on the second round.
25:09
SPEAKER_01: So not not as broken as if you fail your your save against poison, you die.
25:15
SPEAKER_01: But strength damage is still scary to me.
25:18
SPEAKER_02: Strength damage is scary.
25:20
SPEAKER_01: One time Travis did strength damage in a fight with my character who has seven points of strength, and I was like, oh god, I'm gonna die to a bunch of stupid bees.
25:29
SPEAKER_03: Bees.
25:30
SPEAKER_03: Not the bees damage.
25:32
SPEAKER_03: Not the bees! And out of all the times I could have not done strength damage, I decided to do it that time.
25:39
SPEAKER_03: I'm still not mad.
25:40
SPEAKER_01: It's uh I'm still mad.
25:42
SPEAKER_01: I'm a little mad.
25:43
SPEAKER_01: I'm mostly over it though.
25:45
SPEAKER_01: So to swallow a target, it's now harder.
25:49
SPEAKER_01: Um a purple worm must hit I'm sorry, I tried to.
25:56
SPEAKER_01: I was just gonna I was being serious over here.
25:59
SPEAKER_02: It's just bad.
26:00
SPEAKER_02: It's just bad.
26:01
SPEAKER_01: Bad.
26:02
SPEAKER_01: So a purple worm must hit a bite attack, succeed on a grapple check to get a hold of the target in its jaws, and then succeed on a subsequent grapple check to swallow the target.
26:12
SPEAKER_02: You know, at least it's more difficult.
26:14
SPEAKER_01: Like At least it isn't just like what, like a fourth of the time.
26:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, or just eats you automatically.
26:20
SPEAKER_01: Just swallowing you automatically.
26:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, at least they have to actually work for it.
26:24
SPEAKER_01: Pretty much.
26:25
SPEAKER_03: Make them work for it.
26:27
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
26:27
SPEAKER_01: Make make them work to swallow you.
26:30
SPEAKER_01: Um, so once inside the worm, the target takes two d8 plus twelve crushing and eight acid damage.
26:36
SPEAKER_01: So a lot of damage.
26:37
SPEAKER_01: Um, they can cut their way out by inflicting 25 slashing or piercing damage to the gizzard, which has an AC of 17.
26:44
SPEAKER_01: So, like, that's pr like okay, that's pretty high, but remember, third edition does have really inflated numbers.
26:51
SPEAKER_01: And these are also like high-level encounters.
26:54
SPEAKER_01: Right, like so you probably wouldn't be you probably wouldn't have too much trouble hitting an AC of 17.
27:00
SPEAKER_01: And also, like, you're literally inside something's stomach.
27:03
SPEAKER_01: I would probably have a hard time doing combat inside something's stomach.
27:07
SPEAKER_01: Probably.
27:08
SPEAKER_03: Start blasting fireballs everywhere.
27:10
SPEAKER_01: Because I would be freaking out.
27:11
SPEAKER_01: Uh mind, man.
27:14
SPEAKER_03: Fireball.
27:16
SPEAKER_01: So, uh, however, after the target cuts their way out of the gizzard, the muscles of the worm close the hole, which means that another target must cut their own way out.
27:28
SPEAKER_01: So you can't make a hole in the side of the worm and just like everyone pile out.
27:33
SPEAKER_03: It has a weird sort of regeneration thing.
27:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
27:36
SPEAKER_03: Hmm.
27:37
SPEAKER_01: We'll we'll talk about that later.
27:38
SPEAKER_02: That is kind of cool.
27:39
SPEAKER_02: I I do I don't like it when you say something upsetting and then say, we'll talk about that later.
27:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
27:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, so we're gonna finish off third edition with another quote.
27:49
SPEAKER_01: Um, I feel kind of bad for pulling so many direct quotes, but there's only so many ways you can rephrase some of these things.
27:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
27:56
SPEAKER_01: And also for earlier edition stuff, it's just sometimes I honestly don't know how to parse it.
28:01
SPEAKER_01: Well, I know how to parse third edition, but you know, like first and second, whatever.
28:04
SPEAKER_01: So, quote, a gargantuan worm's interior.
28:07
SPEAKER_01: Yes, the word interior was used, can hold two large, eight medium, thirty-two small, one hundred and twenty-eight tiny, five hundred and twelve diminutive or smaller opponents.
28:20
SPEAKER_03: Wow.
28:21
SPEAKER_03: That's a lot.
28:22
SPEAKER_03: That um that that is a lot.
28:25
SPEAKER_03: That Jesus, okay.
28:26
SPEAKER_03: That's a lot of stomach real estate.
28:29
SPEAKER_03: I mean, I know they're big.
28:31
SPEAKER_03: Like, I know that they're big.
28:33
SPEAKER_03: That just I know it puts it in a different perspective, it really does.
28:36
SPEAKER_01: Also, I want to know I wanna know what kind of combination you could have of these.
28:42
SPEAKER_03: Uh, there's a lot of math involved in that.
28:44
SPEAKER_01: Like, like, is that two large, eight medium, thirty-two small, hundred twenty-eight tiny, five hundred and twelve, and f and five hundred and twelve diminutive?
28:51
SPEAKER_01: Or is it like one large and four medium?
28:54
SPEAKER_01: Or is it four medium and sixteen small?
28:57
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
28:58
SPEAKER_01: I wanna know.
28:59
SPEAKER_01: I wanna know exactly how many adventures we can fit in this bad boy.
29:03
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
29:04
SPEAKER_01: Slams hand on top of purple worm.
29:07
SPEAKER_01: I'm so hip with the kids.
29:11
SPEAKER_01: Same.
29:13
SPEAKER_01: So I mentioned that ecology article.
29:16
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
29:17
SPEAKER_01: Um I decided that since it's the most exciting part of the episode, because it is, we're gonna be talking about that last.
29:26
SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna go to fourth edition and fifth edition, get some more kind of boring stuff out of the way before we talk about the juicy details in the ecology article.
29:36
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
29:37
SPEAKER_01: But before we do any of that, we're gonna take a quick break.
29:40
SPEAKER_03: You're just gonna make this like go on forever, aren't you?
29:44
SPEAKER_03: Just like a purple worm.
29:45
SPEAKER_01: Oh.
29:48
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29:53
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's been uh pretty interesting so far.
29:57
SPEAKER_02: I I'm surprised by how much information there is about these guys.
29:59
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30:00
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SPEAKER_03: That's just kind of how it goes.
34:43
SPEAKER_03: But yes, spread the word, tell your friends, family, whoever might be interested, and uh you know, just give us that little boost as well.
34:51
SPEAKER_02: And again, if you just want to use this episode to torture your friends, we totally get it.
34:54
SPEAKER_03: We we do get that too, yes.
34:56
SPEAKER_02: Um, you know what else we get?
34:58
SPEAKER_02: What?
34:59
SPEAKER_02: How much we love uh Alexander Nakarata for our theme song, Blacksmith?
35:02
SPEAKER_02: That is true.
35:03
SPEAKER_03: That is very true.
35:04
SPEAKER_01: We do understand that.
35:05
SPEAKER_01: Yes, sorry.
35:06
SPEAKER_01: So much.
35:07
SPEAKER_03: But enough of that.
35:09
SPEAKER_03: Let's get back to the uh purple worms and see what other interesting things you have.
35:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we just gotta we just gotta get through fourth edition first.
35:18
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I can't lie, I'm a little scared, but let's go find out.
35:21
SPEAKER_03: It's not too bad.
35:22
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so we're gonna breeze through fourth edition, I promise.
35:26
SPEAKER_01: Okay, you know, I will say, to their credit, oh boy.
35:30
SPEAKER_01: Fourth edition didn't do anything crazy with their alignment.
35:32
SPEAKER_01: They are unaligned.
35:34
SPEAKER_01: And you know, spoiler alert, that actually doesn't change ever.
35:37
SPEAKER_01: Their alignment has always been neutral across the board.
35:41
SPEAKER_01: I'm okay with that.
35:41
SPEAKER_01: No, I am too, because literally nothing else makes sense.
35:44
SPEAKER_01: Now, granted, that has not stopped fourth edition more from fucking around with alignments.
35:48
SPEAKER_01: Well, yeah, but it literally like what else would it be?
35:52
SPEAKER_02: It literally nothing else fits.
35:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like anyway, so uh I know I'm selling this.
36:00
SPEAKER_01: Fourth edition's kind of boring uh in this instance.
36:03
SPEAKER_01: Um, so mention is made that purple worms can eat anything, which contrasts their previous need to eject things like gems.
36:10
SPEAKER_01: Right.
36:11
SPEAKER_01: Um, and also that they are blind, relying on blind sight and tremor sense, which is 10 and 20 respectively.
36:18
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if that's 10 feet and 20 feet, because I know fourth edition does something weird with like squares.
36:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
36:24
SPEAKER_01: That might be that might be 10 and 20 squares, respectively, which would be 50 and 100 feet, which sounds closer to that.
36:31
SPEAKER_01: That sounds about right.
36:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
36:33
SPEAKER_01: But like whatever, it's fine.
36:35
SPEAKER_01: Um It's just fourth edition.
36:37
SPEAKER_01: It yeah, it's not like their um blind sight and tremor sense matter in a combat simulator.
36:43
SPEAKER_01: Oh, wait.
36:45
SPEAKER_01: Anyway.
36:46
SPEAKER_01: Not at all.
36:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, so swallowed targets now take ten points of damage and ten points of acid damage at the start of the worm's turns and can escape as a move action if the purple worm dies.
36:56
SPEAKER_01: Um, there was no real way described to get out any other way.
37:02
SPEAKER_01: So I guess you're just SOL until your buddies kill it.
37:06
SPEAKER_03: So, you know.
37:07
SPEAKER_03: Now they just took away the whole don't cut yourself out.
37:11
SPEAKER_01: The whole the whole thing, yeah.
37:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
37:14
SPEAKER_01: But I guess at least like you're at a little bit less risk of actually dying in there because it does.
37:20
SPEAKER_01: I mean, 20 points of damage is a lot of damage, but at least it isn't like Absurd levels.
37:25
SPEAKER_01: And then you'll be digested in two hours.
37:27
SPEAKER_02: Like So like it it's certainly livable.
37:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
37:31
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
37:32
SPEAKER_03: I hope that your buddies can kill it before you drop below zero.
37:35
SPEAKER_01: I guess.
37:36
SPEAKER_01: Um, so they are unaligned and have an intelligence of two.
37:41
SPEAKER_01: They're getting hey, you know what?
37:42
SPEAKER_01: Getting smarter.
37:43
SPEAKER_03: They've gotten a little smarter.
37:44
SPEAKER_02: They're getting more nervous now.
37:47
SPEAKER_01: Right?
37:47
SPEAKER_01: Next thing you know, they're gonna be on like the level of the Tarask with his like, what, three?
37:52
SPEAKER_01: I think he has.
37:54
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, they've matched the bigger guy now.
37:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
37:57
SPEAKER_01: These these do remind me very much of the Tarask, just that unaligned stupid.
38:03
SPEAKER_01: Unaligned hunger, you know?
38:05
SPEAKER_01: All they do is eat.
38:07
SPEAKER_01: Unaligned stupid.
38:08
SPEAKER_01: Unaligned stupid.
38:09
SPEAKER_01: That's my alignment.
38:10
SPEAKER_01: I like it.
38:11
SPEAKER_01: Um, they are still solitary hunters, they are sometimes drawn to the vibrations caused by battling, uh, leading to them surprising the combatants by blasting out of the wall or up from the ground.
38:24
SPEAKER_04: Can you imagine?
38:27
SPEAKER_01: You're just like.
38:29
SPEAKER_01: And I use this example because they're noted to specifically be a common problem in the underdog.
38:33
SPEAKER_01: But imagine you're like in the underdark fighting like some Lolth cultists or something like that.
38:38
SPEAKER_01: Right.
38:39
SPEAKER_01: And a purple worm just shoots out of the wall because it came to because of the vibrations.
38:45
SPEAKER_03: Um yep, I would probably run.
38:49
SPEAKER_01: That would be one of those instances- probably just die.
38:51
SPEAKER_01: That would be that, yeah.
38:52
SPEAKER_01: That would be one of those instances where it's like, okay, I know we were just fighting a second ago, but we like have to team up now to take this thing down because this is now a bigger problem.
39:00
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this is like, and then you like you you kind of like bond a little bit, and then the villains come over to the good side, but they're like really awkward.
39:08
SPEAKER_02: Are you just rewriting Avatar the Lost Airbender?
39:11
SPEAKER_03: Maybe.
39:12
SPEAKER_03: You know, I didn't think we would actually have an Avatar reference in this episode, and somehow we still managed to do it.
39:19
SPEAKER_01: I'm proud of us.
39:20
SPEAKER_01: While we're here, obligatory the Adventure Zone reference because Purple Worm.
39:24
SPEAKER_01: Anyway.
39:25
SPEAKER_01: That too, yeah.
39:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
39:28
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna I'm gonna like ask Griffin if I can put the purple worm song underneath this episode, because that's an underrated song on that soundtrack.
39:36
SPEAKER_01: Go listen to the Adventure Zone.
39:38
SPEAKER_01: Anyway.
39:39
SPEAKER_01: Also note that this is the first explicit mention of Purple Worms being blind.
39:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
39:46
SPEAKER_01: It was never it it was stated previously that they felt vibrations, but it was never specifically stated that they were blind.
39:54
SPEAKER_01: Remember that.
39:55
SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
39:56
SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah.
39:57
SPEAKER_01: So this is the first mention of them being blind, therefore having tremor sense and blind sense.
40:01
SPEAKER_01: They do have blind sense.
40:02
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
40:03
SPEAKER_01: Which is like, if I remember correctly, if I'm describing it correctly, blind sense is like um like uh feeling like air currents and shit.
40:11
SPEAKER_01: Um if I remember correctly.
40:14
SPEAKER_03: Um I cannot recall.
40:17
SPEAKER_01: Or just kind of like having a like a like a sense of of of a certain area surrounding you.
40:23
SPEAKER_01: Um using non-visual senses such as acute smell or hearing, a creature with blind sense notices things it cannot see.
40:30
SPEAKER_01: So it's like a a Matthew Murdoch, you know?
40:33
SPEAKER_01: Toffbefon.
40:34
SPEAKER_01: Well, t no, toff bayfong is a few.
40:36
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
40:37
SPEAKER_03: I was like, no, no, she straight has tremor sense.
40:40
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
40:41
SPEAKER_03: Just like her fucking daughter.
40:43
SPEAKER_01: You know, so it's kind of they have a further range of tremor sense than blind sense, but they do have both.
40:50
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
40:50
SPEAKER_01: Um, so fifth edition, we're in fifth edition.
40:53
SPEAKER_01: Hello.
40:54
SPEAKER_01: Hello.
40:54
SPEAKER_01: Um, I don't know why I sounded so much more excited about third edition than fifth edition.
40:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't either.
41:00
SPEAKER_01: That's it's whatever.
41:01
SPEAKER_01: They're both exciting.
41:02
SPEAKER_01: So fifth edition gives a little back and a little bit more to the worms.
41:06
SPEAKER_01: Oh, good.
41:07
SPEAKER_01: That fourth edition kind of left out.
41:09
SPEAKER_01: Um, they have their tail stingers back because fourth edition made no mention of them, though targets simply take poison damage.
41:16
SPEAKER_01: It's nothing crazy.
41:16
SPEAKER_01: No strength, no strength damage, no instant dying, just poison damage.
41:21
SPEAKER_01: Um, so God, I can barely read this sentence that I wrote seriously.
41:26
SPEAKER_01: Some mechanics of their swallowing have been changed.
41:29
SPEAKER_01: God, I don't know why that's so funny to me.
41:31
SPEAKER_01: Uh targets now make a dexterity save, as opposed to the worm having to make a check.
41:37
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
41:38
SPEAKER_01: Because prior it had always been like a grapple check, you know?
41:41
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
41:41
SPEAKER_01: Um, and each time uh sorry, targets make a dexterity save each time they are bitten to avoid being swallowed.
41:48
SPEAKER_01: Um, targets who have been swallowed are blinded and restrained.
41:51
SPEAKER_01: And if a worm receives 30 damage in one turn from something within it, it must succeed on a DC twenty-one constitution save or regurgitate everything in its stomach.
42:01
SPEAKER_01: Huh.
42:02
SPEAKER_01: So it's a lot more which let me say, it's very hard to do 30 points of damage when you're blinded and restrained.
42:09
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
42:10
SPEAKER_01: Yes, which seems like an oversight.
42:15
SPEAKER_03: Or I I don't think it's an oversight.
42:18
SPEAKER_01: Maybe intentional.
42:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
42:20
SPEAKER_01: Like, how can you do that much damage when you're restrained?
42:23
SPEAKER_01: I guess it would be like verbal component spells only.
42:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
42:27
SPEAKER_01: Right?
42:27
SPEAKER_01: That's all I can think of.
42:29
SPEAKER_01: But I'm just a barbarian, so if I was blinded and restrained, I'd be fucked.
42:33
SPEAKER_01: So, um Like you Lewin or you Dahlia?
42:38
SPEAKER_01: Uh Dahlia.
42:40
SPEAKER_01: I would just be I would already be dead if I were in that position.
42:44
SPEAKER_01: Um, and also note that it's it th you make it throw you up instead of cut your way out.
42:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
42:51
SPEAKER_01: I don't know why I'm so interested in these.
42:53
SPEAKER_01: Or why I'm making a note like it's so interesting about oh, this time it throws you up instead of you cutting your way out of it.
42:59
SPEAKER_01: I don't know why I'm making a note like that's super interesting.
43:02
SPEAKER_02: I mean it kind of is, but it's mostly just disgusting.
43:06
SPEAKER_03: So being restrained doesn't actually limit you from making an attack at all.
43:11
SPEAKER_03: Okay, good.
43:12
SPEAKER_03: It just gives you disadvantage.
43:15
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it just gives you disadvantage on attack rolls.
43:17
SPEAKER_01: Okay, well that still makes it hard to do 30 points of damage.
43:20
SPEAKER_01: But better.
43:21
SPEAKER_01: But better, yeah.
43:22
SPEAKER_01: So purple worms have a 30-foot range of blind sense and a 60-foot range of tremor sense and remained unaligned.
43:29
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
43:30
SPEAKER_03: So it's also good because they're worms that just eat.
43:33
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
43:34
SPEAKER_03: They're they're just they don't have any agenda.
43:36
SPEAKER_04: Mm-hmm.
43:37
SPEAKER_03: They just are hungry.
43:39
SPEAKER_01: They're just vibing.
43:43
SPEAKER_01: So because they are a common problem in the Underdark, the Drau Duargar I don't know how that's pronounced.
43:51
SPEAKER_01: Uh it looks like uh my my brain rearranges it to Draugur.
43:57
SPEAKER_01: Like Draugur from Skyrim.
43:59
SPEAKER_01: It might be.
44:00
SPEAKER_01: D-U-E-R-G-A-R.
44:02
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, those guys.
44:03
SPEAKER_01: And the Ilithid.
44:04
SPEAKER_01: Doriger?
44:06
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
44:06
SPEAKER_01: Anyway.
44:07
SPEAKER_01: And the Illithid uh civilizations all have special wards around their settlements to ward off purple worms because you know they're bad for the economy.
44:19
SPEAKER_01: The economy.
44:21
SPEAKER_03: They're just a little bad.
44:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
44:24
SPEAKER_01: It would be hard to have a city and just like a purple worm, just like ch chillin'.
44:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
44:32
SPEAKER_01: Uh so they can also be found topside in rocky mountainous areas.
44:37
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
44:37
SPEAKER_01: Which makes sense.
44:38
SPEAKER_01: Um they uh this is an interesting, interesting to me detail.
44:42
SPEAKER_01: Um they move by contracting and expanding their segmented bodies like real worms.
44:48
SPEAKER_01: That is pretty cool.
44:49
SPEAKER_01: Which I mean, like, I guess it's like that's like duh, that's how they would have to.
44:54
SPEAKER_02: But I guess it's like oh they paid attention to like how real worms work, and that's really neat.
45:00
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, instead of like snakes, I guess, because that's like a different anyway.
45:05
SPEAKER_01: I just thought that was interesting.
45:06
SPEAKER_01: Um, so they have a burrow speed of 30 feet and can burrow through solid rock at half that, leaving a 10-foot diameter tunnel in their wake.
45:14
SPEAKER_01: Um, they are described as breaking down and constantly excreting rock and earth, which to me sounds like they digest it.
45:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
45:22
SPEAKER_01: Because it's like so the specific phrasing of breaking down.
45:25
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, breaking down does read the context of digestion.
45:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, then let's just like they just throw it up.
45:33
SPEAKER_01: Um so additionally, the tunnels created by purple worms are usually used by people in the underdark because they they sort of end up creating this interconnected series of them.
45:46
SPEAKER_01: And also uh the worms rarely return to their old tunnels, which means they're actually usually pretty safe from purple worms.
45:53
SPEAKER_01: Oh, well, that's good.
45:54
SPEAKER_01: So now that we've gotten all that out of the way, we're gonna take a trip to Dragon Magazine in the ecology of the purple worm.
46:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
46:02
SPEAKER_01: So this uh article was released in 2001 in Dragon Article 282.
46:11
SPEAKER_01: Sorry, I had that written in like my bibliography section, but not in the actual body of text.
46:16
SPEAKER_01: Uh so um note that like I decided to talk about this last because it's I think the most exciting part.
46:23
SPEAKER_01: But this was released in 2001, thus, some of the information contrasts with changes that were made in fourth and fifth edition.
46:30
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
46:30
SPEAKER_03: Um makes sense, I mean.
46:32
SPEAKER_03: So time works.
46:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's how time works.
46:35
SPEAKER_01: So this article was written by Jonathan M.
46:37
SPEAKER_01: Richards and illustrated by Dennis Kramer.
46:39
SPEAKER_01: And I make a note of who it was illustrated by because the illustrations in this article are fucking awesome.
46:44
SPEAKER_01: Oh man, I'll have to go look at that later.
46:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, go go go look at it.
46:47
SPEAKER_01: And also, like, this is another one of those ecology articles.
46:51
SPEAKER_01: Well, I think they're actually maybe all like this, but it's written like a story.
46:56
SPEAKER_02: Not all of them, at the time.
46:58
SPEAKER_01: Not all of them.
46:58
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
46:59
SPEAKER_01: But not all of them.
47:00
SPEAKER_01: But the best ones always are.
47:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this one is written like a story of the um uh is it Monster Hunter Skilled?
47:07
SPEAKER_01: Uh yes.
47:08
SPEAKER_01: Drilix and Co.
47:09
SPEAKER_01: Um, it's written a story about them, and then the actual information is in like the you know, the hard information is in the margins.
47:19
SPEAKER_01: Um, and it's it's really good.
47:20
SPEAKER_01: Go read it.
47:21
SPEAKER_01: Then the illustrations are fucking awesome.
47:24
SPEAKER_01: Um, so this article gives a sample size for colossal purple worms.
47:28
SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
47:29
SPEAKER_01: Uh, which are 10 feet in diameter and 150 feet long, and this was in third edition, so they're supposed to be like 80 feet long, uh, with 33 to 45 hit dice.
47:40
SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
47:41
SPEAKER_03: Yep.
47:41
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
47:42
SPEAKER_03: Massive, massive creatures.
47:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
47:45
SPEAKER_01: Um, so purple worms are made out of five distinct layers.
47:49
SPEAKER_01: The outermost layer is the mucus-covered skin.
47:52
SPEAKER_01: The next is a series of rings of muscle, which make up each individual segment.
47:58
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
47:59
SPEAKER_01: The next is a series of long muscles that connect each segment.
48:03
SPEAKER_01: The next is a hollow space called the coum that is filled with fluid that buffers the innermost layer, which is their digestive tract, and also where their brain is located.
48:12
SPEAKER_01: Um, so the coolum allows the worm to be constantly digesting food regardless of what the outermost layers of muscle are doing.
48:19
SPEAKER_01: So basically, their their digestive tract is always working because it has that fluid buffer so it can like be burrowing around at very rapid speeds and not disturb its digestive tract.
48:32
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
48:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
48:33
SPEAKER_01: That's interesting.
48:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
48:35
SPEAKER_01: So just like onions, worms have layers.
48:39
SPEAKER_03: Worms have layers.
48:40
SPEAKER_01: You heard it here first, folks.
48:42
SPEAKER_01: Um, the digester tract is described as simple, but able to extract all the nutrients the word the word uh needs from dirt and stone.
48:53
SPEAKER_01: Therefore, despite being very opportunistic and eager hunters, they don't go out of their way to eat living creatures because they technically don't need to.
49:00
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
49:01
SPEAKER_01: Why they do is a mystery, but they do.
49:03
SPEAKER_01: I mean, anything that's in the way.
49:05
SPEAKER_03: Maybe they just like the taste.
49:06
SPEAKER_01: I I guess.
49:08
SPEAKER_01: Um, so their outermost layer is covered in hairy bristles called set setae setae, uh, which help to grip and pull them along as they expand and contract their bodies.
49:19
SPEAKER_01: So they're hairy and mucusy.
49:22
SPEAKER_03: Well, aren't they isn't that just lovely?
49:25
SPEAKER_03: Not painting a pretty picture on that one.
49:27
SPEAKER_03: Oh, it's only gonna get worse.
49:28
SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
49:29
SPEAKER_01: Um, so they breathe through the pores of their skin.
49:32
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
49:32
SPEAKER_01: And this requires that their skin remains wet with mucus, kind of like aboleths, uh, which is why you rarely find them above the surface, aka in the sun, which would dry them out.
49:42
SPEAKER_01: Um, and they can extract oxygen equally well well from air and water, so they can swim.
49:47
SPEAKER_01: Fuck you.
49:51
SPEAKER_01: So that's uh that's an explanation for why they live underground, is because it's like damp.
49:57
SPEAKER_03: So strange.
49:59
SPEAKER_01: And dank.
50:00
SPEAKER_01: Um so dank.
50:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
50:03
SPEAKER_01: So uh this uh adds an opportunity uh for you to escape from their stomach in a slightly different way than cutting your way out.
50:10
SPEAKER_01: So targets may attempt to escape from the stomach by making two successful grapple checks to climb up to and then out of the mouth of the worm, which I gotta say feels more dangerous than just trying to get out the side.
50:24
SPEAKER_03: But also like more epic.
50:28
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I don't know.
50:29
SPEAKER_01: Cutting your way out of the side is pretty epic too.
50:32
SPEAKER_03: But how many people just crawl their way out of a worm?
50:35
SPEAKER_01: Not many, because the worm has a plus 32 to grapple, so it rarely succeeds.
50:40
SPEAKER_01: Oh well, that'll do her.
50:43
SPEAKER_01: That'll do her.
50:44
SPEAKER_01: And also their um their like weird musculature is why the hole is immediately closed up because they have like two layers of muscle.
50:53
SPEAKER_01: And that's all that's why, yeah.
50:55
SPEAKER_03: The muscle just kind of close closes back up layers and yeah.
51:00
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
51:00
SPEAKER_01: Um, so according to this article, attempting to carve your way out of the gizzard can only be done with natural claws or a light piercing slash slash slashing weapon.
51:12
SPEAKER_01: Uh the previous description from the monster manual is considered errata as a result.
51:16
SPEAKER_01: So this kind of changed that.
51:18
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
51:18
SPEAKER_01: Because I mean, and that makes sense to me that it would be like harder.
51:22
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
51:23
SPEAKER_01: And I mean, and you can only carve your way out with something that's sharp.
51:27
SPEAKER_01: That makes sense.
51:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you can't like hammer your way out of it.
51:31
SPEAKER_01: And it was not yet introduced that just doing enough damage would make it throw you up.
51:36
SPEAKER_01: So um, creature swallowed are considered grappled, uh, therefore you cannot use somatic components for spell casting, and any material components must have already been in hand.
51:47
SPEAKER_01: Oh.
51:48
SPEAKER_01: Uh, and casting any spell requires a concentration check with a DC of 20 plus the spell level plus the damage dealt to the caster by the purple worm on the turn of the casting of the spell.
52:00
SPEAKER_01: So fuck you.
52:02
SPEAKER_03: So casters are screwed.
52:03
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
52:04
SPEAKER_01: And in essence, screw you.
52:05
SPEAKER_01: What is humorously it states, quote, teleport has only a verbal component.
52:12
SPEAKER_01: So they're like, your best bet's to just teleport your way out.
52:15
SPEAKER_03: You better just teleport out.
52:16
SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's fair.
52:18
SPEAKER_02: That's fair.
52:19
SPEAKER_03: Now the question is, do you teleport back out to the fight or do you teleport back to fucking town?
52:24
SPEAKER_01: I teleport back to town because teleport has a bigger range.
52:28
SPEAKER_01: Teleport has a big enough range that I can do that.
52:30
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, sorry, guys.
52:32
SPEAKER_01: I got eaten.
52:33
SPEAKER_01: I'm done for the day.
52:34
SPEAKER_01: Oh god, what if you did that and then they like killed the worm?
52:37
SPEAKER_01: And tried to find you.
52:39
SPEAKER_01: And you weren't like in its guts, and they thought you'd already been dissolved.
52:43
SPEAKER_01: Oh no.
52:44
SPEAKER_02: And then you get back, they get back into town and you're like, hey guys.
52:48
unknown: Okay.
52:49
SPEAKER_03: I feel like I can still hear her voice.
52:52
SPEAKER_03: Would draw a weapon.
52:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
52:56
SPEAKER_01: Probably.
52:57
SPEAKER_01: I would be pretty pissed.
52:59
SPEAKER_03: That would be my guess anyway.
53:01
SPEAKER_01: Oh.
53:02
SPEAKER_01: So, um, this incarnation of the purple worm actually has eyes.
53:06
SPEAKER_01: Oh.
53:07
SPEAKER_01: So uh it's not it's not blind.
53:10
SPEAKER_01: Uh, there are four of them, all like directly forward-facing and placed equidistant around the head.
53:17
SPEAKER_01: So very predator setup.
53:19
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
53:20
SPEAKER_01: Uh they are lidless, but protected from rock and dirt by like these surrounding bony plates.
53:27
SPEAKER_01: So this incarnation of the purple worm has that less like flat lamprey looking mouth.
53:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
53:36
SPEAKER_01: You know, kind of.
53:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, I know what you mean.
53:38
SPEAKER_01: I mean, objectively, I think the lamprey mouth is grosser, but because lampreys are gross.
53:44
SPEAKER_01: But um, you know, so it's kind of more of a series of jagged points around its mouth.
53:49
SPEAKER_01: Um, their eyes stay open at all times due to the lack of lids, but their vision is so poor, they are unlikely to even be awoken by visual stimuli.
54:00
SPEAKER_01: So they can see, but not very good.
54:02
SPEAKER_04: Hmm.
54:03
SPEAKER_01: It's definitely not their main source of uh of of like sensory input.
54:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
54:10
SPEAKER_01: Speaking of of sensory inputs, uh, purple worms have a keen tremor sense but are actually deaf.
54:16
SPEAKER_01: So they can't like hear.
54:20
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like vibrations that travel through the air, they can't hear, but they have a very keen tremor sense, which I mean, like, sure.
54:27
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
54:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
54:28
SPEAKER_01: All right.
54:29
SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm with it.
54:30
SPEAKER_03: I yeah, I mean, I really don't see why not at that point.
54:34
SPEAKER_03: Sure.
54:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
54:35
SPEAKER_01: Um, purple worms have a prominent jaw spike at the bottom of their mouth area, um, that they first use to break out of their egg.
54:43
SPEAKER_01: Uh, it is not useful as a weapon because it's not very sharp, but is instead blunt and very strong and useful in burrowing.
54:51
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
54:52
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
54:52
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
54:52
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
54:52
SPEAKER_03: I thought that we were gonna get into this weird, like the worm just raises up and like chin bashes you with the spike.
54:58
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
54:59
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it kind of could.
55:01
unknown: It could.
55:02
SPEAKER_01: Like it could just like fall on you.
55:04
SPEAKER_01: And kill you instantaneously.
55:06
SPEAKER_01: Like, it doesn't even need to like eat you.
55:09
SPEAKER_01: I used to think that about like onyx in Pokemon.
55:12
SPEAKER_01: Like the first time I saw an onyx, I was like, this has got to be the strongest thing ever.
55:15
SPEAKER_01: Because it could just like fall on any other Pokemon and just kill it.
55:19
SPEAKER_01: But Onyx is actually kind of bad.
55:21
SPEAKER_01: So like a purple worm could just kind of fall on you and you'd you'd be SOL.
55:25
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I mean, it is big enough to just, you know, pin you down.
55:28
SPEAKER_03: Oh man, they never gave uh purple worms a like grind you against the ground as it's just like a bug.
55:37
SPEAKER_01: Ugh.
55:37
SPEAKER_01: Just like a worm.
55:39
SPEAKER_01: Hmm, hmm.
55:40
SPEAKER_03: Hmm.
55:41
SPEAKER_01: Interesting.
55:42
SPEAKER_01: So they like to feast on shrieker fungus, which we talked about.
55:46
SPEAKER_01: What did we talk about that?
55:48
SPEAKER_03: Uh shambling mounds.
55:49
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
55:50
SPEAKER_03: Because they shambling mounds like to eat the shriekers.
55:53
SPEAKER_01: Well, so do purple worms.
55:55
SPEAKER_01: Oh, though they cannot detect them by sound.
55:58
SPEAKER_01: Uh they instead like the smell, and purple worms actually have a decent sense of smell.
56:03
SPEAKER_03: Hmm.
56:04
SPEAKER_03: They like the smell.
56:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
56:06
SPEAKER_01: So they often find their way back to their layers from the smell of their own mucus.
56:10
SPEAKER_01: That's gross.
56:11
SPEAKER_03: Okay, yeah, that's a little nasty.
56:14
SPEAKER_01: It's fine.
56:15
SPEAKER_01: Um, so when injured, purple worms emit a scent that tells other purple worms to stay away, which lingers for weeks, kind of like um ants.
56:23
SPEAKER_01: Ants do that, right?
56:24
SPEAKER_01: I'm pretty sure ants do that.
56:26
SPEAKER_03: I'm not sure on that one.
56:28
SPEAKER_03: That sounds right.
56:28
SPEAKER_03: I don't know ants.
56:30
SPEAKER_01: That sounds right.
56:31
SPEAKER_01: Um, so some societies in the underdark harvest the gland that produces this scent from immature purple worms and use it to keep uh purple worms away from their settlements.
56:40
SPEAKER_01: Oh nice.
56:40
SPEAKER_01: So this would be that it wasn't stated that this was how it is in fourth and fifth edition, but I would imagine that this is the measure that like the drow and the illicit and stuff use to keep purple worms away from their settlements.
56:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
56:54
SPEAKER_02: That sounds right.
56:55
SPEAKER_03: I mean, yeah, it sounds like it would work just fine, honestly.
56:59
SPEAKER_01: Because that makes sense to me.
57:00
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
57:01
SPEAKER_01: Just my my favorite thing is to take things from earlier editions that maybe had something more interesting that doesn't directly contradict later editions and just like Yeah, same.
57:11
SPEAKER_02: I actually went there.
57:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what I love about these articles.
57:15
SPEAKER_01: It's because so many of them came out in like that third edition kind of time period.
57:20
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
57:20
SPEAKER_01: But, you know, if they have information that doesn't directly contradict later editions, then like I feel like you should be able to use it.
57:26
SPEAKER_01: I agree.
57:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
57:28
SPEAKER_01: So mottled worms that we talked about earlier in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons do not actually truly exist.
57:34
SPEAKER_01: Uh, instead, they are simply purple worms that live in the water.
57:38
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
57:39
SPEAKER_01: Um, they take on a mottled appearance because the water washes away sections of their mucus coating.
57:44
SPEAKER_01: So they're essentially just purple worms that live in the ocean.
57:48
SPEAKER_01: Well, I say ocean, water.
57:50
SPEAKER_01: Um a particular note is that they can live very far out to sea in environments such as coral reefs or deep trenches, which I find very compelling.
58:00
SPEAKER_01: Uh uh try horrifying.
58:02
SPEAKER_01: Right.
58:03
SPEAKER_01: You're just like trenches are scary enough.
58:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
58:07
SPEAKER_03: And like you can already have the chance of running into any of the other weird, bizarre, huge underwater creatures.
58:15
SPEAKER_03: Why add that?
58:17
SPEAKER_01: Why not?
58:19
SPEAKER_01: Um, so as with uh regular earthworms, purple worms can regenerate lost segments.
58:28
SPEAKER_03: I mean, okay.
58:29
SPEAKER_01: Yep, provided that this severance happens in either the first five segments or the last twelve.
58:34
SPEAKER_01: It didn't actually state how many pr segments they particularly have.
58:38
SPEAKER_01: I would imagine it it might similar to worms.
58:41
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it maybe it depends on their age, too.
58:44
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
58:45
SPEAKER_01: Maybe.
58:45
SPEAKER_01: But anyway, the the very first or the very the very first five or the very last twelve.
58:51
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
58:51
SPEAKER_01: Um, they still attack with whatever end they have left and will regenerate their lost segment in about a week.
58:58
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
58:59
SPEAKER_03: Uh yep.
59:01
SPEAKER_01: So losing their head does not impact their digestive tract as a whole or their brain, because their brain is worms.
59:09
SPEAKER_01: Well, it it's okay.
59:11
SPEAKER_02: That's their brain is worms.
59:13
SPEAKER_02: That was stupider than I intended it to be, but I'll say I like it though.
59:17
SPEAKER_02: Uh their brain is worms.
59:19
SPEAKER_02: Their brain is worms.
59:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, their brain is actually a nerve that runs down the whole length of their body, which I think real worms are like that too.
59:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that that that's what I was trying to imply that they operate like worms, but I just said they're because they are worms.
59:33
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I just said their brain is worms.
59:36
SPEAKER_03: I will have to say I didn't know that about actual worms.
59:39
SPEAKER_02: I think that's how it works.
59:40
SPEAKER_02: I'm pretty sure that's how it works.
59:42
SPEAKER_03: So when they regenerate segments, do they regenerate brain?
59:46
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
59:47
SPEAKER_01: I I think so, but it's like they didn't lose that much of it, so it's fine.
59:53
SPEAKER_01: I think.
59:54
SPEAKER_03: Interesting.
59:54
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
59:55
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, and the their digestive tract spans the entire length of their body, so losing their head does not affect that so much.
1:00:04
SPEAKER_01: But a headless worm obviously cannot eat or burrow, so it won't die, but it typically curls up into a defensive posture simply to await regeneration because it can't go anywhere because it can't burrow.
1:00:17
SPEAKER_01: Right.
1:00:18
SPEAKER_03: It's just kind of there until until its head grows back.
1:00:22
SPEAKER_01: Or it dies.
1:00:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, or it dies.
1:00:24
SPEAKER_01: So um I've I've saved the best part of this article for last.
1:00:30
SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
1:00:30
SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
1:00:31
SPEAKER_01: Uh purple worms are all hemophroditic uh and possess both male and female sex organs.
1:00:37
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
1:00:38
SPEAKER_01: So That's not bad.
1:00:40
SPEAKER_01: Oh, just wait.
1:00:41
SPEAKER_01: So I I I said earlier that I do feel bad about pulling so many direct quotes, but I feel like this next segment was just written in such a way that requires it.
1:00:53
SPEAKER_01: If I if I tried to paraphrase it, we would lose something.
1:00:56
SPEAKER_01: So quote, the male organs are several segments in front of the female organs toward the front of the worm's body.
1:01:03
SPEAKER_01: This arrangement allows any two purple worms to breed.
1:01:06
SPEAKER_01: They line up their bodies in opposite directions and fertilize each other's internal eggs.
1:01:10
SPEAKER_01: During the mating process, the worms produce a great amount of the slimy mucus their bodies normally exude.
1:01:16
SPEAKER_01: This thick coating actually adheres the worms to each other while they mate.
1:01:20
SPEAKER_01: The entire process often takes several hours.
1:01:22
SPEAKER_01: Afterward, each crawls away to its own layer where it secretes its eggs wrapped in a mucus cocoon.
1:01:28
SPEAKER_01: Purple worms mate only once per year.
1:01:34
SPEAKER_03: I okay.
1:01:35
SPEAKER_03: No, it got worse.
1:01:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know we had to talk about how they fuck.
1:01:43
SPEAKER_01: But there's just so many choice words.
1:01:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:01:46
SPEAKER_03: Fertilize, mucus, so so adheres, secretes.
1:01:52
SPEAKER_01: Stop it.
1:01:55
SPEAKER_03: No, you're grounded.
1:01:56
SPEAKER_01: Organs.
1:01:57
SPEAKER_02: You're a bad person.
1:01:59
SPEAKER_01: I'm so like I just there's so many, there were just so many choice words that to paraphrase it, I felt like we would lose something.
1:02:06
SPEAKER_01: So I just had to read that whole segment.
1:02:08
SPEAKER_02: I mean, unfortunately, I am inclined to agree with you.
1:02:12
SPEAKER_01: That doesn't mean I shouldn't I should have done it though, eh?
1:02:15
SPEAKER_01: Still not a fan.
1:02:17
SPEAKER_03: So if you ever wanted to know how purple worms mate, there you go.
1:02:21
SPEAKER_03: I mean, I didn't, but now you do.
1:02:24
SPEAKER_03: And I'm sure most of our listeners didn't, but now you do.
1:02:27
SPEAKER_01: And I'm sure you feel better for it.
1:02:29
SPEAKER_01: Hey, knowledge for knowledge's sake.
1:02:31
SPEAKER_01: That's the um that's the dogma of Sardior.
1:02:34
SPEAKER_01: And remember, we're all in the cult of Sardior now.
1:02:37
SPEAKER_01: So that means we have to talk about purple worm sex.
1:02:39
SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
1:02:40
SPEAKER_01: Right.
1:02:41
SPEAKER_03: I forgot about that.
1:02:42
SPEAKER_03: Is it too late to withdraw?
1:02:44
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:02:45
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:02:45
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
1:02:46
SPEAKER_01: You already you already paid too much money.
1:02:48
SPEAKER_01: You sunk too much money into this.
1:02:52
SPEAKER_01: So that's purple worms.
1:02:55
SPEAKER_02: I mean that that's something.
1:02:56
SPEAKER_02: That is something.
1:02:58
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:02:58
SPEAKER_03: I'm glad you saved that for the end.
1:03:00
SPEAKER_03: That's a good that's a good way to end that all on purple worm sex.
1:03:05
SPEAKER_01: Instead of 69, it's just like 11.
1:03:09
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
1:03:10
SPEAKER_01: Or it's like two parentheses.
1:03:11
SPEAKER_01: It's like it's like two uh purple sexes.
1:03:13
SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
1:03:14
SPEAKER_02: You're I'm doing a hand gesture.
1:03:18
SPEAKER_02: She's doing a lot of hand gestures.
1:03:20
SPEAKER_02: If she were if you were in public high school, you'd be suspended.
1:03:23
SPEAKER_01: They wouldn't even know what I'm trying to do, but they would be like, you shouldn't be doing that anyway.
1:03:28
SPEAKER_03: Like that's a gang sign.
1:03:29
SPEAKER_01: That yeah.
1:03:30
SPEAKER_01: Purple worm purple worm gang.
1:03:33
SPEAKER_01: So that's purple worms.
1:03:35
SPEAKER_03: Right.
1:03:35
SPEAKER_03: Well, I don't think we're gonna get any better than that.
1:03:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you would say it was quite a climax.
1:03:43
SPEAKER_02: Get out of my house.
1:03:45
SPEAKER_01: Okay, bye guys.
1:03:46
SPEAKER_03: Taylor and Travis are gonna do the outro by themselves.
1:03:49
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1:03:51
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1:03:54
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1:03:57
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1:03:58
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1:04:00
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1:04:08
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1:04:12
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1:04:12
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1:04:31
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1:04:36
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1:04:45
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1:04:47
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1:04:50
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1:04:52
SPEAKER_01: Hey, you know, they say a a burden shared is a burden have, then joy shared is joy doubled.
1:04:57
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1:05:00
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1:05:03
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1:05:07
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1:05:09
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1:05:17
SPEAKER_02: Probably not, though, it is us.
1:05:19
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:05:20
SPEAKER_03: Well, no, it'll be a little less gross.
1:05:23
SPEAKER_03: I mean, I don't think it was that bad.
1:05:26
SPEAKER_03: It it wasn't until the 11 part.
1:05:30
SPEAKER_01: I don't think it's an eleven, I think it's a parenthetical.
1:05:34
SPEAKER_02: You're all just none of you are free as then.