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Returning to the Nest · Rotgrind - Narrative Declaration

• Where specifically are we going? I'm going home! Kind of give me homeless vibes, Oren. Whoa, okay, so what you want to do is you want to land, like, over there. I'm enjoying the fact that we're talking to Otto from The Simpsons. Even better, the first of many Ottos. Oh my god. We're going to Woodstock? Oren, my boy, give daddy a hug! All right, who wants to play some Rotgrind? Yeah! It's a secret! Hi everybody, I've been doing another exciting episode of Rotgrind. It's so good to be back. So you know, we have been away for about two months, so if we forget how to play, it's your fault. Well, actually, why didn't you remind me? True that. You should have been reading the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Core book. I always say Core rulebook, but now there's Player Core and GM Core and all various other books. You should have been reading that to me at night. Yeah, that's true. You should be reading all sorts of things to me. 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Do we remember where we left off? I remember. Okay, Vina. Okay, Vina. Where did we leave off? We left off on the epic battle with Captain Sharkskin. He had set up. We had gone chasing after him into the eye of the storm. Chasing after the magic hat that he was going to use to die. And he staged a grand battle between us and the fearsome Puppet crew. And we fought. He was kicking Vina's absolute ass for a little bit. The rest of the party was doing fine, though, as they tend to. And then we ended the battle by realizing that this was all sort of a child's game, a child's dream of what it means to be a pirate. And Vina came to the realization she, too, was sort of living this childish dream and that it was time for her to grow up. So she dropped her sword, stopped the fight, and Captain Sharkskin was no more. And we all hugged it out together. And we all hugged it. Who's driving the ship? And then we crashed and died. And we're all dead now, actually. Good game. Good game, everybody. Welcome back. We're done. Here, I'll give you... Yeah, I'll give you this excellent background of the sky. That's the last sight all of the players see before they fucking explode as they crash into. I have to say, it's much better that we're doing that than anything else. True. Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. Actually, no. You managed to survive because the loyal crunch was clearly at the helm. Loyal crunch holding on to things and really keeping the ship steady as the pirate crew of poppets is defeated. We're actually going to catch right back where we were with this. Veena, you have claimed the hat as all of the other poppets have sort of, like, fallen, I believe, straight down to the ground. Their animate force departing them, leaving you surrounded by several childlike toys on the deck of a battlefield where your allies are battered and bruised, but alive. Yeah, I'll turn around, hold up the hat. I think we're done here. Are we now? No. Yep. I think I understand what my sacrifice was. So, this should be exactly what we need. Was it? I hope so. I hope so. Well, I'm glad you hope so, but I asked what was it. Oh. It's the hat. And I'll gesture to where the storm was. This is, um... This is what we came here to get. This is the power we needed to reawaken Papa Storm. Orn's kind of, like, looking around at the hat. Kind of like a, you know, like an owl. I don't know. It looks normal. I don't know why this is so special. I don't know. Maybe Sharkskin ended up getting a little too close to all of this and bore the brunt of it. Or maybe it's just a somewhat unhappy coincidence. Well, regardless, we got the hat. Finish things up. That means they're not going to kill you, Miss Vina. Yeah. At least, maybe. That's the problem. I... I don't really know. And more than that, I'm not really even sure how much I want to go back. Not even to kill your mother. I mean, uh, that's why you didn't want to kill her. Uh, disprove your mother. Mr. Tannhauser, we're supposed to have the inside voices in. Remember what we've learned? Her mother is terrible. She's pretty awful. Oh, okay. I mean... Listen, I looked up to her for a long time, and she was incredible. Well, you had to. You were little then. That's true, Oren. Just like you look up to everyone. And I ruffle his hair. Hello? Oh, there's Crunch. He hasn't crashed yet. That's... That's pretty impressive. Ah, neat. My hands are in these gauntlets, and they're very cold. I don't think that's Crunch. But... Would you be wearing gloves with your gauntlets, or are you just wearing metal on bare skin? I... The ship is getting closer. Crunch, eyes on the road. Crunch, eyes on the road. Crunch, eyes on the road. Watch out, Crunch! Watch out, Crunch! Maybe if I... I need to take it off and check... Give me a moment. It just starts veering. Hold on to it. The ship starts like... What are you doing? Have you ever tried that? I don't know before? I'm trying to see if... I'm trying to see if I can take my gauntlet off to see if I'm wearing a glove. I have no feelings, so it's hard to tell. How don't you remember if you were wearing leather gloves under metal gauntlets? Do you not remember if you put on, like, underwear in the morning? You're all on the back of a whale. How am I supposed to keep in mind anything? That is a... Actually, he can't... Oren looks at Veena. What are we going to do about the whale? Like, is like... Is it... Was the whale part of the child's wish? And he looks over to potentially see the whale going, Oren was wishing to exist. Okay, I just assume... I assume, like, the camera angle is, like, you're on top of Nier's head, and, like, one eye is just kind of, like, angling back, like, with this, like, sad-looked words. You look... Like a sad dog? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you have any kind of, like, speak with animals ability? Oren? Yeah, those spells always seem fucking stupid until you need to talk to the goddamn Skywhale. Well, the problem with you, the Summoner, you're balling on a bunch of the spell slots, man. You ain't really getting shit, dude, if you're a Summoner. You know how it is. You get shit to get shit, all right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, when we fucking started here, you know, you were a druid. I bet a druid could talk to the Skywhale. Yeah, yeah, I'm fucking bad, too, man. You know, I'm working on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so all you have to see is the sad eye of the whale looking back up at you. Can I roll a nature check of handle animal or do something to best interpret him because, you know, body language. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll let you. Give me a nature check to interpret the sad Skywhale. Absolutely. Oh, natural 20. So he did remember how to talk with animals. This Skywhale fucking loved those puppets. They were, they were, like, the most raucous, like, treated him well crew, never had to worry about food or anything. Oh. I want to make a narrative declaration. All right. Yeah. Oh, no. The whale was part of the whale sitting begins to disappear, meaning we need to get off this ship. Holy shit. Holy shit. We don't have to worry about this. Wow. All right. All right. All right. Spend your hero point. Spend your hero point. I was hoping he was going to say. Spend it. All right. All right. He looks up and then, like, yeah, yeah. It's the very realization that their wish included giving the whale a peaceful, like, they love the whale so much that, like, even in the end of their existence, they wanted the whale to share with them that end of existence. And so, yeah, you can see that the whale begins to dissipate slightly. Like, you feel like sections of it begin to fade away under you. Well, you got to move. Okay. All right. All right. I think I found a way to hold it with my foot. Okay. All right. Don't have time. Is the other ship above us at this point? We got to go. It's like, it's like to the side. It's to the side, you know? All right. Let's go. I shoot my grappling hook. Later. Later, nerds. I hope I see you guys there. Give me an attack roll, please. Give me an attack roll. Give me an attack roll. Okay. Yeah, be awesome if I'm... Aldrick is going to wait for an opportunity to jump closer. It's a fucking bird flies away. I didn't know you were going to stop at the word until it gets closer. I sure hope there wasn't any loot on this ship that we could have taken. Yeah, exactly. None. Oh, see, you confirmed it. It's fine. It's fine. We're good. We're good. Yeah, it's good. Pirate ships famously lack treasure. Of course. Orin will... Their imaginary puppet treasure. They will... Okay. Every pirate also wants their treasure to come with them into death, so... True. That is true. That is true. Yeah, yeah. If re-watching the original Dragon Ball has taught me anything, having just gone through the pirate, it's that. And they leave a cool skeleton... It gives you superpowers. Yeah. Also, there's a skeleton... A skeleton robot that's a Chrono Trigger boss. You know, that's... Um... All right. All right. So you manage to return to your ship. Crunch. Could someone take the breath of a wheel and... Be appreciated. I got the wheel. All right. He's going to very quickly take the wheel as he's trying to drive with his knees. The dad handles. Yeah, literally. Oh. I wasn't. No? Not even a little? No, no, no. I wasn't wearing leather. That was the problem. Oh, yeah. That'll do it. Let me see your hands, Mr. Crunch. Oh, no. He needs lotion really bad. Dude, I'm... His hands have to be cut up. He's turned... He's turned away from you and has done this privately. But... But Crunch, if you've been having bare metal on your skin this entire time, you're like... It must have been really hurting. Think nothing of it. I am thinking of it. I... I... I appreciate it. But where are we going now? What adventures await us now? Ignore him. We need to get back to the city. Yeah. Might as well. Pointed his eyes, pointed his visor. I'm watching you. Baldrick is going to strike Oren with the empty, empty, empty, empty bucket. Ow! What are you doing that for? Stop antagonizing him. I want to know why his hands are that way. Because he's Crunch of Legibet. Let's move on. Everybody in Legibet needs lotion. This guy has done all kinds of questionable things, and you're choosing now to have a problem with how he does things. Why are you defending the guy in the middle hall in your wall? Because... No. Okay. Oren. Tannhauser just... Just low-beat, giving Noren a thumbs up. Great job, buddy. Oren. First off, that was Tannhauser. Second off, you helped him. Third off, you helped him. Fourth off, you helped him. You always did Tannhauser. That was crying. Don't think you can pull the wool over my eyes like this. I am very aware of who is responsible for damaging my hull. I was following instructions. No, no, no, no. None of that following orders business. Yeah, you can't take the Geneva Convention argument here. Geneva Convention doesn't exist, Oren. Now, listen to me. I'm yelling at you first. I'm yelling at you first. So, hold on. Oh, good. I'm safe for now. He has done all kinds of weird things on your dime. You can't just turn on him like that. That's unfair. That'd be like if you turned on Rahua because it was funny. Oren raises the hand. Which you have done. It would be pretty funny. Did it mean to... Yes, Oren. Wait, a dime. What's a dime? They exist. What's a dime? Rahua turns a Tannhauser. It's a coin. Are you supposed to be paying him? I'll roll a society to understand what a dime is. Thurston, I'd like to narratively declare that a dime is one of the most valuable coins in Outset. Okay, mark yourself down the hero point. 28. Okay, perfect. 28, you said? Yes. Yeah, one sec here. Okay. Thurston, I think I can handle this. Tannhauser, Tannhauser, Tannhauser, Tannhauser. Yes. A dime is one of the most valuable coins in Outset. You know, Bul... No, Bulgerk. Erndil, you're a Tynewriter expert. You may expound on the background with that 28. Please go ahead. Yeah, so a dime is something that was created. It usually has the visage of Uncle Blaze on it. And it is one of the smallest coins, but it has a fairly high value in terms of just being a coin. It's made of nickel, and it's very valuable. It's worth almost as much as a gold piece. It's also very small, and turning on a dime is considered to be an extremely precarious feat because it's so small. So if you had to turn a card on a dime, you are very skilled with that card. There, does that explain that for you? Tannhauser nods his head in understanding. I'm going to spend a hero point and say that the most valuable coin in Outset is called the Dime 2. And the Dime 2 is so important and notable. Actually, no one ever talks about the dime. They just talk about the Dime 2. Uh, Tannhauser, mark yourself down a hero point. Thank you, yay. Hey, can one of you spend a hero point to make a cryptocurrency in time? I have immediately checked out of this bit. I'm going to sleep. No more bets. Well, I'm sorry you're going to sleep, Erndel, because that hero point was spent. So now, uh, Speaker D is going to give us the history of the Dime 2. Please go ahead. No, I'm already asleep. Sorry. Well, as you can see, the Dime 2 was created in a, uh, in reaction to a largely debased currency. You see, they had been adding silver to the nickel to debase it. But then they figured out that silver is actually much more valuable than nickel. So they just started making dimes out of that. Thus, the Dime 2. So when you started talking about the dime, I'm thinking, uh, is this the Dime 2? No? And it wasn't. You were talking about the classic dime. Thurston, I'd spend Hulky's hero point. If you're going to declare something. Hulky, do you, uh, do you agree to this? What's your proposition, soldier? I'm going to make the, I'm going to make it so that in, like, 50 years ago, the Dime 2 was cast down for being entirely not communist enough for people. So they made the dime the regular symbol of communism again. Then all the vampires rebelled because, uh, they preferred the retro coin was their slogan. But I think it's for other reasons. I'm going to, I'm tired. Hulky? Hulky, you're, uh, you're willing to spend that, that air point? I will. Okay. But I will exact the debt from you. Okay. Mark yourself down the air point. Thurston, just whatever I just said, whatever. I don't want to be done at all. Wait, wait, we're not down here. Hulky. Yeah. Okay. Thank you for marking that down. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. Vina, as the, uh, sole survivor of the hero point wars. Give yourself an extra hero point. Good job. Yay! Yay! Odo, Odo won, Odo won this by way of the prisoner's dilemma. Vina is, like, staring off into the middle distance while, like, debates about nickels are happening. She goes, man, I just tried to admit it. You're like, I just killed my childhood. Yeah, I just killed my childhood. I didn't want to, I didn't want to take away from this, but it seemed like the direction we were going anyway, so I just fucking leaned into it. Exactly. We only know dysfunction. We're broken people. As we're having a good time. Speaking of good times, I assume we are, we've been flying off at this point, heading back either to, by Venus discretion, back to her mom or heading off somewhere else. Well, shell-shocked Vina, who's at the helm while the Dime Wars talk is going on. Vina, I assume there's, like, a low-key ringing as you stare off in the distance, instinctively flying this vessel. Where are you taking it? Yeah, exactly. I'm doing donuts, is what I'm doing, until the dime conversation has ended. Okay, so, so cutting the, cutting the crock, as you know, the legend bets at one point debated the dime three, and that's what's not. I'm tired of talking about the dime. I like the dime three. I, I thought that was a good thing. I think that was a good thing. Thirsten, as, as, as the secondary GM, I raise up my hand and I ask, can we propel the story forward? I'm waiting for Vina to take the ship somewhere. We're going, we will go back to Ayesa to, uh, inform everybody of what happened, and then, uh, Vina's just gonna say, once we've finished that, I think we need to take to the skies ASAP. We don't really have much time to dilly-dally, and frankly, if I'm not gonna redeem myself there, I'm not gonna redeem myself. I've made my peace with that. Vina. We have too much to do. And I'm not interested in playing pirate anymore. Vina, would you like my opinion? Tani, I always want your opinion. I will take that as an open invitation for the rest of your life, but very good. And, uh, I think, fuck these people and fuck your stupid mother. You should never come back here again. It's not worth your time. You're too good for them. Oh, Tani, that's so sweet of you. Yes, we have many more foes to put onto stakes and crucify, so, you know, it's really not that nice when you think about it like that. Tani, we haven't crucified a single person in the however long we've been doing this. It's been several years for some of us in character. I have no idea how long. I've not had a good opportunity. Who would you crucify? Just as an example. He looks at Orin. I think you should clip on your head. I'm sorry, I just have the most, I have the most sacrilegious vision of Rahua in my head right now. I was thinking the same thing. Are they just going to crucify him on me? Orin, we got to try something. Rahua walks in the room holding a cross. Looks very bad. Ted, how's it? What are we doing with this? You told me you wanted this? Every time he moves his arms, Orin's arms also move. Jers and chat is not helping. I already drew a T-posing Rahua. Now you know we have to add, Jers. It's not like this. Yeah, I, um, the quest started, they won't go when I go. I'll just, uh, glue Orin to Rahua. All right, that's good enough. I'm about to become both ways in Coulter. Give me a moment. So, I hear what you're saying, Tani, and frankly, we don't need to go back. We don't need to justify anything to anyone at this point. We're not being held back from doing what we needed to do here, and, I mean, I guess the rest is vanity, yeah? Just wanting to, you know, come back here at some point or another, but... I think... Where do we go next? Well, where do we have left? I believe we have Orin. Orin, you fall on your back. Your eyes gloss over to almost like a frosty white. All of you see this happen. Orin, in your space, what you suddenly see is an image that you have not seen in a long while. you see the great tips of the mountains of your distant homeland. Okay, okay. Please tell me this scene is visible to you. Yes. See the mountains? And you see this, you see this beautiful snow-capped mountaintop at the very tips of the mountain. And as you, as you see them, you, you, you recognize them. As peaks within the Fajal Mountains, that mountain range of your distant homeland, somewhat known to others as Bergg's Fingers. Uh, the, the mountains themselves look as though a titan's hand resting there with its fingers as the mountaintop. You see this, and, and as you, you see this vision, the tips of those fingers crack. And as they crack, a viscous, tumorous, black substance begins to ooze out of them, descending towards the forests below. And then you wake back up only 20 seconds or so later as your companions stand above you. Orrin immediately looks at the wheel and goes, we gotta go! He just rushes over, he grabs the wheel and by instinct just, just, just like, we gotta go this way! now! What on earth are you doing? Where specifically are we going? I'm going home! Uh, okay? Why? I saw it! Where's home? Are we going back to the outset? No. Yeah, I thought you were homeless. No! I have a home. Oh. You kind of give me homeless vibes, Oren. Elaborate. I have a home. It's Baldrick's house. My home, my home is out. No, it ain't. Fucking next scene airship crashes into fucking Baldrick's house. Uh, uh, Oren, Oren, though, as if he, he looks absolutely horrified of what he saw, uh, as he's just grasping onto the wheel, if anyone's trying to stop him, he's like, with a lot of his might, just like, I, we have to turn this way now. You don't know how to drive. Uh, as Oren goes, like, we have to go back to Berg's fingers. We have, we have to go. Okay. You know what? We don't need to go back to Ayessa. You just tell me what direction it is and we'll fly that way. Okay? But, uh, I'm gonna need you to get your hands off the wheel because I, you do not have, you've never done this before. Oren, uh, as he, he slowly begins to take his hands off, but you see he's a little, like, he's all shaky. You know, just like a, like a shaken chihuahua would probably be the best description. He's just like, and he points, uh, to the southwest. I think I got the direction right, relative of it. He points to where he goes, like, go to the northern peaks of Amari. Northern peaks of Amari. You got it. All right. Cross the ocean. And I'm gonna take my free hand and I'm gonna give him a little side hug, ruffle his hair again. You can feel he is trembling. Okay. All right. Here. You can stay right here if you need to. What did you see? Well, saw my home and then I saw that basically the tips of the mountains erupt with basically just horrid stuff and sweeping all down onto the forests and lands and taking over everybody and we gotta go. all right. Then, uh, let's head that away. While we're going, uh, Tanny, here, and I'm gonna, uh, toss the hat underhanded to him. Go ahead and give that a look-see. But, of course, I'll cast Object Whispers on the hat. Ooh, yeah. Uh, give me one sec here. I have a thing for this. I'm fairly certain. Yeah, um, sorry, you'll have to just give me one minute for this. discuss this amongst, talk amongst yourselves for a moment. Distraction. You saw a sort of vision. You see that Oren nods at you. You see that he's very fixated on the direction and very purposely staying near the wheel at all times. I put my hand on his shoulder. Now, Oren, you must realize this. we have been urged to sudden action before and each time we have prevailed. We fought through Golgotha. We defeated Captain Sharkskin. And now we will go to your home and save it from whatever threat that you beheld. Oren will look at you and you kind of see like he has like wet eyes. He's like bling, bling, bling. Oh, wet eyes. You see that he's obviously in a lot of distress as you put his hand on his shoulder. He just kind of like grabs it sort of like how like a kid would like kind of grasp onto something tightly. Oh, I'll give him a hug. Do you want me to explain dialectical materialism to you again? He nods. Mm hmm. Okay. He definitely did not understand that the first time. I didn't even pay attention. As you're explaining it, as you're explaining it in your other hand is casting magic to announcer. Of course, the verbal components are an essay on dialectical materialism. Level level nine spell a classless spell. You cast object whispers on the hat, the the shark tooth in the lined hat with the feather. The essence of the child. There's always a wish for something greater. Sometimes the wish comes at too high a price. A key to access the tumultuous storms of one's future. That's what you get off the... I get the sense there's puppets that wish of the forsaken child. Might have cost more than we might have been privy to. perhaps this dream of yours is one dream best left abandoned. But can we still go and check? But of course we're going to your place. No! Oh no! No, you saw some real shit! Yeah, no, if I were you I'd be worried. Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. Yeah. Everyone you know could be dead! They might already be dead! You left home! You let the rot take everything in the mountains! Is that all your fault? Of course, hide with anything! It's your fault, stupid bird! I know you know stupid bird! Get on the Mesa fix! No, no, no. Now listen, don't worry about it, Rua, because I'll tell you this, the first law of dialectics is about the unity and conflict of opposites. Okay? So for example, this unity and conflict is the negative and positive of the particle. So the screen begins to like dim into black as this starts and the airship like continues flying off into the distance. Yes, it continues to dim. However, as it is as it is doing this manner, it doesn't quite stop. Instead, what it does is it like there's a camera pan and the camera pans down towards Venus Home Land and Aesa and Melanza Ventacia. And as it pans, like it cuts to the city and within it, there's like jubilant celebration and happiness and they're like, there's all sorts of cheering and declarations of the great new Vicon and everyone is so excited for Veena to come back because she's going to be the new Vicon and everyone's so happy and there's fireworks going off and Veena never shows. Nope. Nope. A true party girl is fashionably late and by that I mean fashionably doesn't even show up. There's like fucking Ewoks down there and like there's like 18 different Wait, Veena, there are Ewoks down there. Oh shit, hold on. I do a U-turn. They don't shut up like they're going to eat people. She does a U-turn and then two unseen logs just smash into our ship from above time. Smash it into Veena's head specifically. I don't know. That fucking battlefront mode was just like a fucking survival horror with Ewoks. So good. Great mode. And you know what? It's thematically relevant that Veena does not attend this. She does not want to be Viconned. She is she's done playing pirate and whatever you had planned for that I'm really sorry Thurston. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. I just wanted to hurt you by letting you know that was planned. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Because you know I like this. This is for Veena. Veena has progressed. Veena has progressed. This is for Odo who gets to miss out on the you're like captain pirate. This is just a personal knife. I do. I do think it's really funny. He's attacking me. The last thing that happened was someone asked, all right, where are we going? And then Thurston was like, I'm taking the reins. I'm giving I'm giving Oren a conniption. We're going because we couldn't decide on going home because we made the dime bit too big. What? No, we're going to Oren's household. I mean, not Oren's household. I'm going back to the house. We're going. Speaker, I know where we're going. I'm saying you're going. The game that you're currently playing is Pathfinder second. Did you know that you're a wizard, motherfucker? He's a wizard? It's true. But it wasn't always. Let's revisit that in this cool one hour research video. Yeah. I'm going to take enough Tylenol to fall asleep. Good night. Do I have another hero point already? I have something stupid I want to do. Oh, well. You have nothing. You're still going to have a hero point. I'm worried. You had to one up me. You had to one up me. You don't get a hero point. But that's often how I get my hero points. It's true. We cut back in as several days of airship travel have passed. Speaker, you can continue with the latter part of your instruction to Orin. Right. So the third law, and this one's the tricky one, is the negation of the negation. So think about it like this. This is when you have two points that coalesce into a negative reaction, you will have a tertiary reaction that will again be able to interface with that negation. It negates the negation. Do you understand what I'm trying to say to you? You said Orin is still staring at the direction where we need to go. So like he's just still holding onto your hand anytime like throughout the times you've been like, hey, we need to let's go to a different location. He's like, I'm not leaving this will. Like he just plants himself down. Orin is not an inch. He hasn't eaten, he hasn't drank anything. Gorgamonger, you know, seems agitated about it. Orin, you haven't drank any of your blue juice. That's Windex. You haven't drank, you haven't drank any of your Windex. I don't want any. I want you. I want you to imagine. I want you to, let's go. I want you. All right. Thirsty in the RP. Distant scream of Erndil in agony. What is with you guys? I got up to put a dish away. I was like, I want you to imagine a moment. Don't, don't worry. Don't worry, Erndil. I'll recenter us. Don't worry. No, you will. Yes, I will. Bear with me. Trust me. I'm exacting a debt from you after all. That's true. He does have a debt. It's been three days of traveling. Oren has not moved an inch and probably has not heard most of what Tanhauser has said. But Rahua has been sad at rapt attention listening to three days of explaining whatever the fuck Tanhauser is explaining. Rahua doesn't know what he's talking about. For a one-eyed person, imagine two eyes, one of which slanted off to the side and half-lidded. At the mention of drinking Windex, Rahua gets up again, goes over to the Bombay doors, slams his hand on the button, and just falls through. Oh, there he goes. Okay. Okay. Just Kratos falling off the cliffs. So, Tani, is this a part of dialectical materialism? I was actually taking notes while we were driving. That's why we've been going in circles for the last three days. Dude, he's about to become his own antithesis. I jump off after him. I was going to, Ted Hauser, why are you, I have fly. I was going to come back. Can you just kill them? Ted Hauser just falls past him. Well, I guess the question is, Ted Hauser, do you have a message? I stopped Tan Hauser from dying. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Excellent. Excellent. You managed to cast fly on both of yourselves and return to the ship. Rahua, I seem to have somehow, without thinking about it, cast fly on myself and saved my own life. Wow. That's so cool, Tan Hauser. Can you tell me how you did that next time? Wow. And you saved me to end. You are so generous as to spend my spell slot for me as well. Isn't that so cool of you? I'm starting to get the implication that I might have misread the situation, Rahua. Hey, a person who works for a major sports team that's listening to this show that I asked to put us up on the Jumbotron when it's your last day, I take it back. Don't do it. It's not worth it. It's not worth it anymore. I'm so fucking tired, man. Rahua, what is the issue? I just don't like that. We've spent three days. I need to check something. of course here. Would you like to would you like to this is totally RP. I don't care. Just make yourself trained in society now. Why? Yeah. Why not? Why are you? Yeah. What are you doing? Because he sat there and he listened to it while Oren was spacing out. He told me he was being a good little studious tree boy. And I'm rewarding good role play. True. I understand Baldrick's depression a little bit more. Do you understand Erndl's depression a little bit more? Because that's the real kicker right now. Brother, I've understood your depression. Don't worry. Thank you. Let's drink Windex together. Yes, Tanhauser? What's wrong? We spent three days. What? No, go on. What? We spent three days. I don't know if Oren's really alive right now because he hasn't eaten or moved in three days. I hope he is. I don't feel alive. I'm not sure I really am anymore. Three days. How many parts are we real? Is this part I don't know Hegelian dialectics? No, no, but we are real. I think I'm real. I think you're real. Am I real? Is there something inside this armor? Is there nothing in I must go check? Crunch walks off? I don't out the Bombay doors as well? No, no, no. I don't know if he's actually house. We're real. You and I feel. You and I I don't know if he actually is real. I don't know either, but Rua, if you didn't want to hear me talk about dialectical materialism, you could have asked me to stop. OK, I'm going to come in here. I'm stepping in here. I'm stepping in here. OK, I'm stepping in here. I'm stepping in here. OK, OK, OK, Erndel, cover your ears. You're not going to like what I have to say. All right. All right. For this, you're making this worse and worse. This. Oh, yes, this triggers a flashback. Oh, OK, OK, this triggers a flashback to the the king of moths. explaining a very similar thing to Roa during their first time together in the swamp. Speaker, please roleplay as the king of moths briefly. The determination of the concept out of itself, the thing that must be considered in relation and in its development, the contradictory thing of itself or of another. Tendencies in each phenomenon, a union of analysis. This, this, this is the stuff, bureaucratic gobbledygook, attempting to recreate the marvels of magic. They'll never do it, but they'll always try. OK, Rahua, please remember that in this flashback, you are like the equivalent of a few days old. Baby. Rahua reaches up and is holding a small amphipede in his hands. I found a bug! That's great, Spawn. What were we talking about? Well, we were talking about Stafford Peter, have your pay grade, I think. That disappointing comment, that disappointing comment hits us back to the airship where Rahua's memory has now associated Tannhauser's speech with the first time there was disappointment in him. I don't think I want to be around anymore. Like, like what you mean? Like in general? I don't want to be around anymore. Like you want to die? Wait. Wait, no, I do want to be around. I don't want you to be around. I cast cast in the time. I believe that allows a save, right? Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Oh, good. Oh, good. Oh, good. Okay. I'm going to miss this everybody. Did you miss us everybody? Welcome back guys. Welcome back to All right. So you take a 74 points of damage. Holy shit. Wait, 74? Yeah, double damage and a crit fail. And he's sickened too. Okay, cool. Mark it on your feet. Absolutely. Oh my God. This is how we show off the new overlay. The opposite yourself special. Except for each other. I'm a terrific 78 damage. 74. That is 19 mental and 18 bludgeoning. So double both of those. If you have any resistances or weaknesses, take more or less. I'm down to 64. That's what my guy goes. Oh, I fall. I fall through time. Let me know when I return. Oh, you're here like instantly. Yeah. Yeah. You have like a brief moment where it's that who was it in the Simpsons who got like which one of the baseball team got sent to like the negative zone in that baseball team episode. I forget. Was it Ken Griffey Jr. One of them or was it Jose Canseco? One of them fell into the negative zone. That's where you are for a very brief period of time. Thank you old Simpsons fans. Only you will get that reference. and then you're back on the deck of the ship which as you reappear the clouds in almost almost you know storyline time to begin to part revealing the distant peaks of Berg's fingers. Oh. Oh. Orin. Hey, we're here. Those during up and at him, bud. During the time Orin's been like with you the entire time. If you leave the helm like he is like I'm going to make sure this keeps going this direction and now that you've been closer and closer to the mountains as Tannhäuser has been away. Orin's been like you need to go near those mountains. The air current will take you that way. He's giving you the best instructions to navigate through this because as you see it's just like a big hand is holding an entire civilization in there and he's just like the air current goes there but if you take that one you'll smash it to that rock. You need to go this way and he's like making sure you know he brings you to the right place. Oh yeah of course you got it and I will follow his instructions to the letter. Yeah. They begin to take you though it's it's clear an airship like this is not going to have an easy time landing in the mountains and and you you would know this. Yeah. Your best bet is one of the few clearings. which would take you close to the notable settlement in the region. It's like there Miss Vina kind of points down a bit of the mountain and forest surrounds the kind of clear and it's like we can kind of anchor in there and they have to go in by foot. They don't have anything for for sky docks like this. I guess that makes sense. Well I'm up for a hike. Is everybody out? Why is Tannhauser look all fucked up? They sent me through forever. I'm going to get really offended the next time. Okay. Gotcha. Hang in there blood. comes out with like a like a mug of something steaming wondering what the hell's been going on. What uh we here we there we're here is that coffee I need coffee it's not oh you wouldn't like it very much trust me what is it vinegar hang on let me check my let me check my crafting ability because I believe it is a steaming egg cream fizz oh egg cream fizz that don't sound too why is it creamy and fizzy containing containing neither eggs nor cream an egg cream fizz contains milk or nut milk sparkling water and flavored syrup it's also hot so don't drink it like that you know with a little bit of vodka I feel like that go pretty hard I think you need to stop putting alcohol on things you're probably right I'm supposed to be you dropped the sky pirate business I think it's time to drop the alcoholism too oh god the vena becomes an accountant arc is so real no I'll never become an accountant I'm just going to be a sober vagrant Thurston Thurston accountants also drink that is true oh yeah yes I know mine does he will he will swig the rest of the drink briefly and then put the mug aside all right I'm with you guys several projectiles emerge from the surface towards the ship son of a bitch oh god Oren could you tell them there are about two dozen projectiles that seem to be going around like crisscrossing paths darting like with strange turns in ways that are approaching you can somebody explain to them that we come in peace oh god I'm gonna have to explain to them that we come in peace somebody take the wheel Oren begins waving his hand up he begins to basically speak in something else completely just not common and he's just just yelling out into the sides because he's like hey it's like no no it's me they the the the figures stop darting as much as before and the projectiles resolve into humanoids who have antlered masks wooden masks with like branch like antlers coming out of them hoods covering their heads wreaths of leaves around them they are propelled by some sort of magic that gives them the appearance of almost insectile like butterfly wings of an incorporeal or semi translucent appearance and you can see these figures begin to move around the vessel getting very close to within to within eyeshot so all of you can see them there's about 24 of these figures in their hands each of them carry sort of a variety of equipment the most standard being some long spears with wooden shaft tops a few have bows and just a small number of them seem equipped with like cudgels like wooden cudgels kind of a shillelagh esque appearance oh we are very outnumbered can or roll a perception to confirm his assumptions yeah yeah give me a perception to confirm his assumptions oh that's bad it is a 3 total 24 it's kind of what you remember like they look they look like people you've seen before um they're a lot less um sprightly than you remember like this is very rigid um in terms of approach like they've been doing this a fair amount this type of maneuver yes it's practiced uh orn continues to yell uh having trying to have his voice carry uh along and as he begins to kind of gesture and say pretty much a bunch of unteligible words everyone else he kind of motions over to everybody else along with bringing gorgamonger up who roars at them and he starts to say more and more of just kind of like hey like he's like pretty much communicating with him he's like these are my friends i've returned back he's like because he's assuming who he thinks it is uh and he's like like please don't hurt them the sight of gorgamonger has them like very much um lower their their sort of uptight posture they become a bit more relaxed at the sight of gorgamonger um and you you rather than hearing the the sort of clipped words you would expect uh the response comes in in the common tongue from one of them whoa okay so what you want to do is you want to land like over there you motherfucker yeah they're all surfers let's go so i gave i told thurston go look man just do whatever you want first mistake last mistake hell yeah i mean look you established the societal norm for this location in your character maybe orc's just a weird guy man maybe he's just a weird guy chat did i make the right decision did i make the right decision chat oh yeah i'm rolling with you don't worry this wasn't really don't police inside of you yeah what all right the airship comes to a landing in a clearing baldrick is guiding it in because vena is with orrin there you go uh it it it you you're able to set it down very gently into a to a grassy field that's surrounded by trees on all sides the figures they their their magical wings sort of dissipate as as you uh as you land uh one of them comes up the probably the same one who talked to you before wow gnarly gnarly landon uh welcome it's like how's everything been it's like you know it has to i gotta like i like i did him for one time and then you've cursed me like i've changed him since then linguistic poison it's like his accent has changed over the adventure culture shock yeah exactly he adapted his speech now he's gonna like be back and like have to learn his speech patterns again yes now he sounds like too normal he's like you sound like dormy yeah what the hell happened you dude i thought you were cool did you forget the music used to be about the music that's not tubular bro it's all about the vibes man uh orin you're such a sellout orin you went to the big town you have free creative reign you knew he was gonna hurt you oh yeah i look i'm just following the canon that was established early in the campaign remembering the roots of rock grind i think we knew what we were doing at the roots of rock grind so i think we knew exactly what we were doing we know it's like we we noted it down actually uh orin will basically begin to uh he'll bring gorgamunga up and so like like like these are all my friends and stuff and i've well uh i'm here to come back home but is everything be okay here at the fingers like there's been like stuff going on uh i think you need to talk to your dad about that though orin kind of tenses up a little bit he's like oh no uh he kind of looks back to everybody and he kind of looks back to the guy and he's like the guard looks back to everybody as you look back to everybody like immediately locks contact with baldric whoa i like your mask okay the bird man paid you a compliment baldric sorry he's dissociating right now i just i'm enjoying the fact that we're talking to otto from the simpsons even better the first of many autos don't ruin it hulk baldric will step up with orin yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so anyways yeah uh so uh like come come to town how to talk with these guys there are a lot of them like this at outset usually college students we could like walk you there or something you know it looks like you're you're you're walkers yeah yeah yeah i mean kind of for 10 minutes a day i'm not yeah yeah i yeah yeah no yeah yeah he just turns and starts walking yeah so you guys are communists right to business hold on to your butts everywhere nope that's rechecked out again started talking about communism again and those checked out vena's gonna lean down to orin and just all right so um what's the deal with your dad that uh that a sore subject and i mean you know as you have recently learned i sympathized so are you saying this like super quietly or are you like yeah i'm like leaning down okay okay so people like can't hear you okay yes uh orin will whisper back uh and say like well i i they didn't know i left i kind of snuck away to go find gorgamonger and my dad's basically that orin kind of thinks a little bit because he's trying to find a way to describe it it's like he's like one of the you know i like how priests have a guy and he's like not quite the leader but he's leader of everybody around him and he's leader of kind of like what he does so he's like the forest pope i guess that'd be the closest i guess i know what catholicism is like him and my mom basically gotta help out with all the druids and stuff and there's the one who taught me how to be one and teach everyone else how to follow the greening way but i i don't know what he's gonna do especially when he finds out what happened to gorgomonger and he looks back and gorgomonger is just plodding along gorgomonger is nodding with some of the others like wait i mean wouldn't you say this is uh much better than how we found him i'd call it a success and you've managed to accomplish a lot while you're away i mean even if he's upset i'm sure he'll have more to be proud of than he will to be upset about i hope you're right miss vena but we're probably going to see something very different so it's not so much that we're communists but we're a community need vision on this one thurston i probably forgot to set it you guys are anarchists that's pretty cool i mean we don't like like the titles yeah you guys are anarchists i say nodding my head even more sure no that's cool yeah you guys we're cool yeah or your your your people are so chill yeah well being in nature all the time really relaxes the soul yeah i don't know anything about that i'm made pretty much eight ninety percent out of metal that's sad i don't think that's the reason he's not chill yeah yeah i think it's mostly a mentality thing the metal seems unrelated to the fact that you have trouble chilling yeah what are you talking about it's also a sign he didn't really go to college i did go to college i killed you i'll have you balderick is looking like really you know happy and like unbothered as tanhauser rants and raves next to him at the insinuation you can't see it but you spiritually feel him smiling so neatly at you he has been he has been depicted as chud hauser i win chud hauser chud hauser orin damn i gotta be honest with you with all of you and your lovely people who have come to accept me they all turn to you yeah yeah yeah yeah all right so basically until like i met you when i was when i was back in golgotha right i was like a wasteland raider savage marauder so i basically just hated nature i hated everything then afterwards i became a robot and as a robot man i've come to think that nature is you know entirely beneath me and honestly civilization should should rise up and grind nature to bits to create a more equitable and civilized world but you know yeah i'm not into that sort of thing anymore it's very clear i just don't understand the vibe all of our travels i've gone everywhere and tried to extol my virtues onto other people maybe i should be learning or kind of blanks a couple times going the expansion of people and settlements are okay mr townhouser to have civilization it's like the same thing of bees making beehives as long as they're not trying to corrupt and you know perverse the land then you know like they're just like every other animal they gotta have a place to live no i i completely agree with you though obviously i am not in the same definitional i didn't come to the i didn't come to the result the same way as you did um yeah it takes people a while yeah the greening way teaches us that as much as nature can provide it also takes away well you know what oran i put my hand on his shoulder i've taught you so much about communism right yeah you know you say that you know a lot about it right no that's fine tanhouser's gonna leave and just start staring out at the horizon reaching his hand forlornly out to the sun grasping at sunlight in his fist you were not particularly discerning with your students tanhouser this was doomed to happen can anyone in this party actually spell communism yes i can excuse me baltrick looks very incensed you know i can i can you can okay hit us with it oran k k o m wrong how do you spell it i'm not telling you don't be a cheater damn it i was hoping you can't see the thing i know but i'm not telling no no i did i changed it i thought i did it's so dark oh do we need to refresh no no no it's probably just a back end thingy yeah we're stalling for time yeah sorry to interrupt i was like no no no no it's good i don't want the background to be let's try that vena vena what the hell is wrong with you why would you assume you know how to spell something you know i just kind of assumed that at this point yes you did any anything relating to um to theory i'm not really sure where we're well who do you think i am you know what that is true you are a terrorist yeah of course i know how to spell otherwise the mail doesn't go where it's supposed to go true all right i take it back only to you yeah thanks eruhua minus 50 relations one of one of these people has been following you and just staring at you hi can i help you been tailing me for some time you can just like ask a question bro yeah you're are you a tree or person a little column a little column b but also neither column a or b okay you see this little thing rahul will point to the orb in his chest that's me it's a little version of me but i'm this and rahul will stretch out his arms and also like everything and everyone including you i like the universe experiencing itself because you're you're one of the anarchites the the the the the the ones that walk among us you're like the fourth i've seen the fourth usually they tend to not stick around very long i'm assuming you mean like a regular anarchite you know the ones that kind of go like and just kind of go crazy you're like one of them kanrasu like ones yes yes exactly like that think yeah seen seen you coming through here not you you different you wait do you mean like kanrasu or do you mean actual i thought i was the only one like a whole experiment gone wrong type deal there are others like you i've i've seen them yeah what yeah oh oh um i'll be right back who's just kind of gotta walk ahead and just pace for a little while this is this is very revelatory information to him uh-huh the rest of you would see like who are just like who is gonna kill the guy can can i roll my zero society to recall about kanrasu's and then relative uh yeah what are you yeah yeah yeah for sure for sure i have a plus zero here we go yeah do it you've certainly never heard of or known anything in this area about kanrasu's orange rugs keeps it on going uh yeah you continue on your way um eventually you find yourselves reaching the perimeter of what must be not a settlement in the traditional sense but some kind of area that has been been populate here uh there are temporary dwellings built out of uh out of tree trunks and other such things you you see that there are some citizens kind of not milling about but at at work um and and as you you approach uh you can see that they there are several uh individuals walking around all of them have sort of a a similar appearance in that they're all wearing masks so you can see that like many of them have like wood some of which has been like stapled or stitched together in some strange ways uh but they all they all wear masks as they walk between different locations uh performing whatever sort of duties they have one appears to have even just like a small like tree stump on their head with fungus growing out of it um you know for for our audio listeners uh i'm sorry you don't get to see this amazing art by uh by skill bean but you can thank you scully watch it live yes thank you scully uh like i love yeah and they're all just sort of like milling about talking in similar tones to uh the tone that orrin had when he was shouting off the side of the ship it's very quiet though like a lot of conversations and sort of like muffled whispers it's almost like murmuring is this what it's normally like murmuring and begins to look around it's like it's a lot more uh he kind of as he's pausing looking around i'm assuming he's by default seeing like doors are closed like like the description of like doors are closed shutters are shutters are brought in you know and he's like normally there's a lot more people and it well happiness really everyone seems recluse usually people you yeah stay in when it's winter but it's it's it's not it's the lizards the what huh the lizards the lizard men yeah oh they're causing problems but i didn't i didn't think there would be much of a problem when i left but oh yeah it became a real big problem after you left yeah it was like we were there and then you were gone and then they were here well is everyone okay though but they didn't do anything horrible yet right i mean we had to fight them a few times a couple people had died buried them downstream like you do horn frowns yeah it's not good that's why we're putting together for the festival we're hoping that if we put on a rad festival this year that the greening way is gonna gonna back us up oh my god ready the growth festival we're going to woodstock how did you know the name oh my god i tried to implore some lore thursday goes nah man you gave me rain it's woodstock it's woodstock they're taking us to fucking woodstock bro i've always wanted to go to tree broth i've been really i've been following this really cool stump stomp band recently i'm really hoping to put on our set this year i'm really into balsa core music right now i've been getting really into gnome core yeah don't say you know music until you know gnome core dark gnome core this is where i just have them be like whoa we don't ever talk about gnomes here like just like some dark twist to this just like oh my god awful wow players who were like everyone's great except the gnome no so you know what's gonna be the case is that the gnomes they're talking about are actually the dwarf fortress gnomes which are just nuisances also don't even they're not even sapient beings they're just little men that flit about and eat your beer and dig holes they often come in these skull shapes shut up shut up that's fine that's fine that's fine that's fine i understand yeah but i see you i wish i did not a little too far we're we're in we're in the settlement now this by the way since you're like new here this is fist reach fist reach yeah why do you call it that or it'll tell you because the mountain looks like a big hand oh yeah that's true oh so it was a joke i throw aside a large rock everyone like gives like a massive fucking side you caught me off guard i knew i had i had the lore ready and i was like oh no oh i i was absolutely when you gave me the settlement name of fist reach i'm like i'm making zoran explain this one i could have another better name just fuck off it's a good name it's a good name it's a good name it's a good name you had me in a second i looked a little afraid there a little uh what do you mean by the color that what do you mean i'm looking at you like jk i guess i'm very naive i don't have my head in the gutter 24-7 yeah i'm so i forgot i was cooked i'm chopped all right i'm gonna propose a new name for this location i think we should call it pig barter i agree we should call it pig barter do you have a narrative declaration to make sure don't exactly land to claim for a pig farm nope i don't know my blood so the lizard movement is hacking has anything else strange been happening in the area a natural phenomena um you know well storms earthquakes uh i don't know giant rivers of rot spooky yeah like scary ghost spooky or like giant animals that'll kill you spooky maybe both yeah sure why not both why not both that's just that's just our life yeah don't worry there's probably some kind of secret third thing too and it probably also wants us dead don't worry don't worry you've sent the best people with the spooky breast have they come back no how long have they been out there a while a while now i don't know why that just that just hit me really really hard did they come back no it's like cut off your laugh super hard look i'm trying to do new npcs these are like the chillest people i really like these people i think these people are enlightened i'm obsessed with them and you have to also understand that like i'm delivering it in like my voice but like obviously like like if this were like a fucking video game they'd be talking like some near automata slash replicant like oh yeah like come on yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah no they didn't come back have you heard from them not in a while but they're the best people we could send can i ask what their qualifications were just out of curiosity well it's orin's mom oh oh my mom went out yeah orin looks okay that's why it's gonna be okay hasn't gotten worse since she went out so i think she's doing something right can you please bring us to berg's hall oh yeah we're we're almost there it's just just a little bit in if you remember the way here i'll i'll leave just follow me um so uh gonna keep wearing that mask frandy's like talking to baldrick baldrick i just i'm sorry it comes and goes so you uh you're gonna wear that mask yeah it's kind of part of my business okay uh you like give some like clipped uh language words to someone else uh and one of the citizens sort of rushes off and runs into one of the closed homes and comes out carrying a bucket okay you're gonna have to paint the bucket brown fine works for me okay good and like there's like and then like the citizen starts like painting your bucket with like this this brown paint see and like this guard sort of like leans back to the rest of you you can only go in if you're wearing a wooden mask or you're maskless in the burks hall but we have some wood chips and paint that we put on and it kind of counts like you know i got it being respectful on all that yeah like we're respectful of you we wouldn't ask you to take it off so thanks for being chill about the paint yep besides camouflage yeah um zorn would you like to describe the burks hall to people here as you approach it burks hall is pretty much an elongated long house but as much as it would be more on viking theme by the definition of that name it's more of a collection of tree trunks bark leaves everything that nature has provided has pretty much been picked up as if from the ground and carefully but skillfully put together to where as you would probably understand a bundle of sticks would show gaps and holes if you try to make a wall or fence out of it this has been particularly placed and sealed with mud rocks everything else you would find in nature to make a fairly large but solid chamber that many people go in and out of to either you know talk to anybody who is in charge feast in general with the rest of the basically tribalistic folk that are around here or just for any big meetings that they can't kind of do it is a large and impressive structure I probably would call it not Sistine Chapel tall but like pretty tall of what it is because a lot of people will like especially leaders of various bits and parts of this place would house up in here they would like in the mentality of a bird's nest is probably what I would put it a lot of big feathers yeah you all see this as you're approaching I feel like I should I don't know take my hat off in respect or something that's like up to you oh it's fine feels like a holy place as the greeting way teaches us that in ways of predator or prey that you present you can present yourself to towards those that you see about you or you try to hide the ground slightly shakes ground continues to rumble something behind the door or kind of grabs on like the Venus arm oh no is that good what's that oh man he's coming why'd you say that who's he the door is the door is shaking that's that's my dad your how big is your dad the door opens he's a giant like a massive massive figure who has the skull of some large like similarly massive creature but wears it only as like a shoulder embellishment with fungi popping out of it like a like a full steel shield is nothing more than a buckle on his shoulder he wears what is clearly like tankard kegs as bracers these long beard coming down braided in many forms a belly that is likely the size of your entire party like crammed together and great brown eyes that stare down the nostrils of this figure let out almost gusts of wind which eat with each breath orin my boy give daddy a hug this immense figure just grabs orin and pulls him in and like all of you hear the distinct crack of bone as orin's like delicate bird like features are cracked slightly by the bear hug of this immense giant crushing him like I break my origami chicken yes I love you too okay I'm going to keep hugging you hello orin friends I make a fortitude save hi how much damage do I take cool well that's what she gets the complication first 20 and first one of the session all right well I'm going to throw this curveball at you I want to pick this one called thirsting hillman by orange shirt the situation I'll actually click it here and it shows up in chat you guys don't see a chat there you go complication thirsting hillman the situation is interrupted by the sudden arrival of a hermit who dwells in or around the local hill or approximate equivalent who demands that their thirst be a literal hydration or metaphorical blood thirst to be saved color okay complication all right thanks this is more of a thirst and complication but you know yeah you're punishing thirsting with this one it's fine it's fine it's fine it's it's it's cheater complication I'll allow it oh please sir I need water I need oh he turns around still clutching or in his orange face turns purple um oh you little hermit man you've come to the village for your your water yes please I would like some water of course the priority is the water here come come with me and my son inside you you are in friends you wait here I'll be with you in a moment come on Oren still clutching you in the death glick like pulls you inside all right do you want cold or not as cold water oh you need a cup too okay yes of course of course yes yes yes yes yes carrying Oren like a football the whole time yeah exactly yes yes yes his fucking like neck is just like popping I'll propose something to you I have to keep making fortitude saves I keep taking damage oh cracking your boat he loves me yep yeah yeah give me another fortitude save all right comes another one another one cool oh my god you're gonna die this is art this is art this is if only Wayne June were here for injury and despondence can set the stage for heroism or coward I was about to say man I bet it feels great to have a parent that loves you but at the same time I think he's just gonna kill you yeah I thought that's what parents are supposed to do at some point don't worry I mean I've been told that having a parent try to kill you builds character um what the fuck are you talking about yeah no your parents have never tried to kill you yeah my parents were architects oh oh my mom tried to kill me a handful of times growing up no I know that you people have issues with your parents I don't you know did your parents try to kill you I fucking love my dad oh did he try to kill you yeah oh yeah well there you go so for the complication the two I have kind of queued up aren't really going to fit well so we're going to roll the dice I have a buddy here that should just roll a random one so good luck oh okay okay okay complication by hey there's a long name your action angles oh my gosh the dread who are spectral forms that torment you the torment can be physical or emotional oh wait no you put it wrong you put your name where the compli yeah you put a complication where your name slot that's weird okay anyway it's suddenly rats whoever did suddenly rats sorry for some reason you're you put your the name there I think you miscite where it was regardless suddenly rats it's one of rats to sit upon you crawling everywhere all over you this might deal damage or they might just hamper your movement I would like to propose because he's a giant right that rats live in his beard and he's hugging me so the rats live in his beard by basically supplementing all the crumbs that he gets from his food so they think I'm food oh no okay okay yeah I like this oh my god because it's the print fail so yeah one sec one sec one sec I'm gonna pull up the rules for hazards here and I'm just gonna use the good old simple hazard damage table I think I think that's gonna be the I think that's gonna be the secret sauce of doing damage here so just one one sec as I build a hazard on the fly that's gonna damage you there's crit fail right you said because that's one awesome my favorites okay cool um so this is uh you know I'll do a level appropriate okay um cool okay yeah uh one sec I have the point for everyone as Oran's taking damage you see Gorgrmunker who's still outside like start to like twitch and flash you take 126 points of damage ouchies hello whoa that's that's that's more than all the blood in my body it's true hmm I have that many left oh my god oh do I do the roll damage on the first time he hugged me no no no we'll consider that like initiating a grapple um yeah but the rats are now in you and chewing on you if you can't get your way out uh after this it's good it's gonna be bad let me roll again oh of course of course of course the water yes yes yes let me oh you're going to need a mug for that yes please a mug oh I prefer black mugs if you have them they retain much more oh yes of course black mugs yes let me look through my shelves oh my fingers are so fat that we get one handed he spills some of it and I begin to drown another fortitude yeah yeah yeah 100% 100% 100% he's waterboarding you two yeah it's not a one but it's two ones together 11 for a total of 35 you managed to escape the death grip finally the water providing significant like lubrication to sneak out from the hands as it spills over you I collapsed out I love you dad all right here's your water thank you and the the wandering hill man sates their thirst and heads off and drinks whiskey and then we we cut to Oren's immense father exiting with Oren in tow sorry about that hospitality so important yeah dad you see Oren covered in rat wounds is he okay what happened did you guys get the fight there what no no no no no of course no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no with like vicious fucking red eyes like staring out so so thurston what you're saying is he pats his giant beard and like a bunch of fleas coming off the back of a cat there are nothing but black scary rats yes that sucks correct i'm sad correct uh oran as he comes out he kind of like makes a hand motion a little bit and you see that gorgamonger tries to off he tries to hide away oh come on wait what the what is that gorgamonger rules stealth did not be noticed yeah you can roll absolutely oh i saw that one it's the ones are scaring me today at 12 or 12 31 for please well i must be seeing things all right who wants another hug oran looks at all y'all it's nice knowing you guys uh i can take it or before we before we get into the the hugs and the family reunions and this is all very sweet and wonderful and you are a delightful man sir uh i believe we are here for a purpose right oran yeah oh oh is it is it happening it huh well i i'd always thought of this day when my son would return after leaving with a beautiful beautiful girl in tow ah he looks so like like big eyes ah big eyes expected big eyes big eyes expected he's like no no no she's a friend oh well then a a mad friend he turns to i don't know i think one is i'm gonna wait for him what i would return the look like he's so little uh uh that's fine i Yeah, Houser kind of, like, raises his eyebrows. A robot? I'm the universe. It's a small android. Oh. Oh, technically. I'm a cyborg. An android or cyborg people are people who, like, either lost body parts or let parts go, and they replaced it with metal parts. Wait. Wait. The booming voice wants to get white. It's even better. I bet this one's going to be wrong, too. No. It's better. You, bro, you found friends. Oh, I'm so happy you found friends, Oren. Come, tell me all about yourselves and why you're friends with my little boy. Oren kind of waves you guys in, like, come on. Oh, yeah, of course. Hi. Hello. We're Oren's friends. Hello. Okay. Again, since it's, like, Dragon Ball, I just assume that this guy is, like, the Ox King now. He does strike that exact size, right? I thought he was much larger. I thought he was a hill giant. Ox King's still pretty damn big, but... I was imagining, like, you know, the king of hell, you know, him with his mahogany table. Fair, fair, fair. Oh, yeah. Honestly, that's who I was thinking of, too. I think it just got them mixed up. Okay. Okay. Yeah. It's okay. I don't care either way. It's dragable. Oren beckons everyone's in, like, come on. Well, we might as well be comfy while we, you know, deliver the news. And as he says so, and as, like, assuming they're walking in, Oren, like, kind of pats his dad. Like, Dad? Yes, my son? Has everything been okay here? I... Everything is fine. It's even better now that you're back. Thank you, Dad. But some of the other guys told me something about lizard men, and Mom went to go deal with them. Who told you that? They're liars! Oren's kind of taken aback a little bit, and he's like, well, everything's fine. We're going to have the festival. Everything is fine. But I ran here as fast as I could because I also saw something. Everything is fine, my son. He, like, leans down to your level. Listen to Papa. Everything fine. Oren kind of nods, but then looks at the rest of his friends. Oren was just shaking his head. If there have been problems that would have impeded, perhaps, the festival in any way, really, then we're adventurers of some repute. We can help out, of course. No, it's... No, no, no. It's... Everything is fine. You know how these guards get, my son. They get a little, uh, scared. There's a big bird, and they're like, oh, look at that big shadow in the sky. Don't worry. But I had a vision, Dad, and due to that, I rushed here as fast as I could. Well, um, the vision wanted you to be at the festival. It knew you had to come home to party. But, Dad, the vision, I don't think horrible black goo and corruption in the forest being messed up is much of a festival, Dad. It's fine. The forest is fine. Don't worry. Okay, Dad. That's good. You're, like, inside the hall now. So, again, you're in this sort of large wooden structure that's been bored out of immense trees that have been put on their sides, uh, bored out. There's, like, tables and chairs out of fine wood sort of lining around the area. And you're being, like, ushered to sit. Mr. Baldrick's... No. Oh, my God. Mr. Oren's dad. Mr. Baldrick's dad. Could you please leave? I haven't even done anything. How did I get involved? No, I'm sorry. I'm Berdivar. Berdivar. That's a good, strong name. Yes. Berdivar. Could I ask you a small favor? Oh, you can ask me a big one. I'm a big guy. That's what we call a dad joke. I'm full of them. Would we speak to you alone for a bit? Just us five and you. Oh. Oh, uh, okay. Uh, uh, all right, Oren, go to your room. No, no, no. Oren, as well, can be here. Oh, oh, okay. Well, it's, it's the guards. You can go, go patrol. And I can look uneasy and then walk out. All right, what is it? My son's not paying you to be his friends, is he? No. No. Okay, very good. I was worried. Oren's a delight. We're just his regular friends. Of course he's a delight. He's my son. And what a good son he is. That's right. He grabs you in another hug. Give me a second. Oh my God. You've got to. I do this to Roshi all the time. True. And eight. He's more a total of 32. You're like, you're held, but you're not grappled or crushed or anything. Yeah, I am restrained. Yeah. I was like, I believe it. Bedvar. We have become Oren's friends as a group of mutual adventurers. We have traversed the city of Outset and the greater world of Tyne in search of glory, revolution, change, and a myriad of other goals. And in that time, we have come to be chosen. We have great tasks before us regarding the elemental powers. Papa Blaze, for instance. Uncle Blaze? That's what I said. Okay, yes, of course. Dude, I feel so fucking bad. We're on session 300, and I still fuck up the names of the principal deities of the entire setting. I'm such a rat. We also have- Sorry. I mean, in fairness, we did kind of- We did kind of- We also kind of, like, let them die sort of halfway through the campaign because of what happened. Yeah, that is true. Now, in our adventures, Oren has proven himself as an adept druid and summoner. And he has come to share our divine mandate. If our adventure is unsuccessful, then the elemental powers will never return, and the world will become engulfed in rot. Do you understand what I'm saying so far? Yes, yes, I do. Good, good. I think. Then you should know that the reason we have traveled here is that each of us have needed to complete a specific task in our home regions. I was born in the Badlands of Golgotha, and Captain- Oh, that place is a real shithole. Oh, yo. Yeah, it's pretty rough out there. Our beloved Captain Vina has just finished putting to bed a bevy of pirate crews and other sorted scallywag scoundrel situations. Where was that? Up the mountains of Zandazia. Yeah, I forgot the name. Oh, that place is a shithole. Yeah, it's kind of a shithole. In both of these places, we have encountered great things of power, things in the sway of the rot. And Orin, on cue, had one such vision of that exact same thing that led him here, which means that the rot is somewhere in the mountains. And perhaps, you know, of course, I understand what you are saying now. I must protect my boy. Give me another fortitude. I don't see, Tywin. We're fishing for once today, aren't we? Oh, no, sorry. That's Gorgamonger's roll. My bad. Kill Gorgamonger. There we go. Ten for a total of 34. That's not bad. Okay, okay. You continue to breathe normally. Um, all right. That's it. I have to look after my son. I can't trust you to go outside anymore. Not with that kind of stuff. Dad! And it's not the lesson you deserve, Dad. No, my little boy. It will be fine. He, like, pats you on your head. Oren has been an incredible asset in this adventure of ours. Your son, he's not just a little boy. He's a hero. He's saved countless people over the course of our journey and battled, I mean, aspects of the gods themselves. What did I tell you about battling the gods? That was a lesson. Dad, I won't, you know, whenever I have to fuck up Zeus sometimes. No. Why would you do this thing? Well, well, Dad, I, uh, Oren's, like, you see that he's very guilty even describing where he went because he was kind of hoping to be like, oh, I just got lost, you know, type of feeling. I didn't go anywhere. I just got, you know, somewhere else on the continent here. I didn't go on a globe-trotting adventure. Uh, he kind of stupidly says, like, I met them all and outset the... Outset his voice just is, like, even more booming. That's, that's the biggest shit hole. Outset his voice just is, like, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. We made it worse. And I went there to... Yes, you did. Ball trick's just, like, that's my home. No, no, no. I was waiting for them to say, yeah. And then Hulkie said, we made it worse. And I said, yeah, you did. And you helped. I didn't want a thing to do with it. Do you remember those people, Dad, that kept asking a bunch of questions and then broke in basically to the rookery at night? Yes, the ones who took Gorka Munker. I knew you were close, so you... I knew you went after them, but I never thought they would go to outset. Yeah, and Oren, uh, kind of sheepishly, he kind of looks to the door and he kind of sees Gorga Munker kind of, like, poking through the door a little bit. And he goes, like, I did find him, Dad. But, uh, Oren kind of, like, motions his hand and Gorga Munker walks in. And he's, like, please don't be mad. Please don't be mad. Please don't be mad. Please don't be mad. This is the ultimate Dad moment. Did you crush my dragon? He looks at the dragon. I don't know how Arendelle feels now. We just present a serious moment and go to go for it. Some fucker. So, you know, I'm not complaining. I'm not complaining. I'm loving it. No, I have resigned it. If you're okay with it, I'm okay with it. But it is very funny. They basically told Thurgeon, like, here's, like, here's some stuff, but I don't want to really know all that much. So, like, just fuck around with it. Right? So, have fun. Because I don't want to know it. So, I'm having a good time with it. Don't worry. It's okay. It's just a piece of scale. As long as you're okay. Oh, my God. That's what matters. Okay. Okay. I'm going to, like, wait, wait. Here's, like, here's Thurston Deep Lore. Okay? Okay. Let me tell you about the time I was just starting to date to tell. My father had just got a new van. I was in my, like, I don't know, mid-early 20s. I borrowed my dad's van after a family thing to go pick Jamie up. And someone sideswiped this new van. And it was new by, like, you know, a month. And I call my dad. And it's the first time I've been in, like, a real accident. And, like, calling my dad. And I'm like, no. And my father, he's just like. Because we'd been out for dinner in my family. And my dad is like, well, don't worry, son. It's just a piece of tin. Now, my sister, who is, like, six years my senior, is in the car. And she's like, what the fuck did you just say to him? Because she remembered when she crashed the car one time long ago at an intersection. And my father, who was like, what do you mean you crashed the car? Now, this was, like, you know, ten years prior to this. So, you know, my father was younger. Like, we were younger kids. My dad was like, what do you mean you crashed the car? Where were you going? And my sister was like, I was going to Dairy Queen. And my dad was like, I had to get your ice cream, didn't you? Piggy. So, any time, any time. Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, any time, any time, I will always just bring up the. It's just a piece of tin to my sister. It will fucking stare at me. Anyway, so, it's just a scale. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There, there, there's some, there's some, there's some deep, deep, thirsty lore there. Oh. That's, that's awful. That is so funny. I'm so happy. It's just, it's just a piece of scale. As long as you're okay, Oren, that's what matters. But Oren, Oren is kind of like looking at his dad, but he's looking at his face because in Oren's mind, he's like, he thinks he's going to be fucking mad because, because Oren, like, as much as it's like, yay, Oren got his friend back, to do something like this is an affront to nature. Like, this is like, you took a dead soul and forced it back. This is, you did not, you perverse nature. Like, this is not cool. Yeah. Well, and, and, and it's very clear that whilst your dad recognizes this, he is, he is so concerned about you in this. Yeah. Like there, there is just this element of like, you know, did you raise the dead? Okay. Are you okay? Perfect. And I don't really like, he is so focused on your safety in this, um, that like the guilt you have is kind of your own guilt at this point. Yeah. And Oren will look up. I'm giving you, I'm giving you a deep way to deal with this, Zorn, because it's not like, it's not daddy is coming down on you now that you've like, now that you've kind of like laid this out to him, he's like, oh, it's okay. As long as you're okay, my son. You're, you're not mad. Why would I be mad? You, you're my son. You have to learn things clearly. It is not what you wanted to happen. Um, certainly is it the most ideal thing? No, the ideal thing is you would have brought one of these back to Mary. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, but, uh, you, you know what I get at it. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's as long as you're okay. What? What? What are you talking about? Nothing. Veena? Rossi? Are you revealing something right now? No. Okay. Everyone wants the fucker who are. They do? That is true. Tanhauser? Yeah, Tanhauser does keep saying that. Yeah, it's true. Is there something you'd like to reveal? No, it's just, it's the nature. Have you seen him? Mr. Huo puts a hand on Tanhauser's shoulder. I want you. No, it's just, it's the nature. Have you seen him? Mr. Huo puts a hand on Tanhauser's shoulder. I want you. Tara's butt is one. Shut up. I, I, I, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't hear your bit. I'm so sorry. What? Ruhuo puts a hand on Tanhauser's shoulder, stares down at him in the eyes. He goes real serious. I want you. I'm so glad. Not again? This is the greatest day of my life. That's never happened. Yeah, roll it back. Roll it back. Are we, are we, are we, are we, are we, are we, are we, uh, are we having fun, Chatter? Aren't you glad that we got a two month break to build all of this into our system again? him again hey guys you know what this we need to focus on what's going on please blood we're getting no worries no worries we're just having a good time uh orna goes like dad like anyway just like but still where's mom she should be here for the festival at least so she went to the forest to get milk oh shit your mom's dead dude not a beat miss like oh yeah no i'm gonna waste the time i'm gonna introduce you buddy gotta get around with you champ yeah this ain't this ain't going well for you buddy uh how long has she been out there out of curiosity uh well you you know a little while a long while a while how many days dad well you see i kind of sit in here mostly so i don't see the sun as much um well two maybe eight weeks eight weeks eight weeks yes the one time she was gone for two years straight because she wanted to go see the mountains what was that two days hey have you not sent anyone dad of course i have have they come back no great i love these people this is my favorite fucking place we've been to we heart tree world like what is the society that bred oran here you go um so if i may make a proposal of course you're one of oran's friends yes of course mr you're warm um so call me bear okay mr bear so as you're making preparations for this very important festival don't you think it would sort of harsh the vibe if oran's mother wasn't also here yeah it's totally not bad he sort of he sort of looks he's like you know hey oran you know real quick could you go to your room and and get that map you had in there uh you know your room that's at the opposite end of this hall could you could you walk there and get yeah please tell me he has a race car bed no what he has he has that uh that log car from wacky races we'll hop down and of course with the distance he'll flap his wings a bit and uh he'll start okay pitter pattering over he he's now left so as soon as as soon as he turns around like and is like clearly out of your shot uh bared of our turns to all of you okay she's not getting milk it's really bad i gathered that say it ain't so i know it's it it is so there's bad things going on in the forest and those those guards i've sent they they've just sent their masks back okay they did things to those masks unspeakable things uh okay then don't you think it's imperative that somebody go and deal with this what do you think i'm doing that's why the festival's happening well how is the festival gonna help because most of the people here can't use their magics anymore what oh no oh no oh that's i see that's that's how that's affecting this oh shit and that's why i can't leave because i'm the biggest do you think the guys with their little pokey sticks are gonna work and those wings that they have to to fly in the sky that's that's that's that's magic in their masks it's not like they can do that like casting does like a hand gesture can do that when they want to okay so in that case i think it's doubly important that we go and fix this that's the reason why we're here to but we have to do the festival first if orange here it will make them all so happy it will be a bit of normalcy and then the festival if it goes well maybe we'll help the powers to to break through and and grant us a little bit of magic so that we can fight back against the lizards i have really bad news about the old powers uh what do you mean i know you said you you you had some one of oran's make-believe stories about oh you the the the powers are gone and whatever but but uh no no that is put on a real banger festival things have gotten better uh no the old powers have been sealed away who would do that a woman in outset named marlene has been hatching a plot for a very long time time to seal away the old powers and to expand outset into their territory and throw everything out of whack so we are making sure that we stop her we've already managed to get what we need from two of the the old powers papa storm and uncle blaze why didn't they thought tell me any of this uh you know i feel like a thon is busy well i guess we can't use the the green waste to talk ever since whatever happened happened okay okay yeah so what we need to do we have not been affected by this personally our abilities are still intact we can go and find oran's mom and while we do this we can find what we came here for this place of power this we don't know what it looks like yet but we'll know it when we see it all right now you know my son is a delicate flower he cannot know that his mom is in danger he must think she's looking for milk mr bird of our he looks pleadingly at all of you with like the biggest like pixar crying eyes i if we had time i would regale you top to bottom with everything that we have done since your son left home because your son is a lot tougher than you give him credit for like a lot a lot tougher like we would not of course he's not a delicate flower we us four would not be here without him he has gone through an amount of hardship that would both break your heart and make you the proudest dad on the face of time and would any of you add to that burden by telling him his mother could be in mortal danger he'll want to rush out there and then then things could get worse no we have to keep him here for the ritual it's the only way it's tomorrow morning we just do the ritual yes as a um master of arcane um or perhaps uh i i'm sorry i recently legendary arcane skill um i don't know if that's gonna come into play just yet um i happen to be quite knowledgeable about things esoteric could i make some sort of role to know what this celebration might do and if it would in fact work in any way to our advantage um you know typically i'd say this more nature check because of what they're doing but i'll let you do an arcana check just because you are so skilled at it you might have heard of like similar types of things so yeah give me a thank you that's very kind of you let's see how i do that is a 16 on the die for a 42. oh yeah yeah very nice yeah um okay so that is enough for you to to realize um fairly fairly quickly i would say um that this type of ritual is is practiced by some primal and religious organizations and also arcane organizations to effectively um try to commune uh with a higher power so in the case of like arcane it might be some like extra planner entity from you know the fundamental battlefield or something along those lines like that would that would be well that would be more religion you might you might take some things from from for like a variety of inter planner elements um it it can have some effect even when things are are sort of knocked off now the problem is is that it like it's it's a connection point and any connection point can often be fraught right like if it doesn't go well it could not go well in a really bad way um so there's there's a little bit of back and forth on it but generally yes it could be a huge help if it like it basically what you could tell is it would be enough to give them like i don't know their spell slots back for a day type of a thing for many of the casters here i see but none of them can cast magic anymore well yes so what it would be it could give them like a day worth of spell casting so something to effectively defend themselves with whereas right now they're kind of getting lower like the way it works even with like you know clerics if say your god stops answering you you would keep whatever spell slots you had because that's inner charge to you um but once like once you try to pray for more you won't get any um so theoretically like as long as you're holding on to some spells and theoretically some of the primal casters here held on to some of those spells uh but there probably aren't a lot left if it's been this long so i will um i will raise my hand to speak very polite thank you that's what they teach you in college now what you went to shut up are you a wizard i am you looked like a wizard oh thank you i don't i get that more often than you'd expect believe it or not now now your celebration has a chance of returning some of your lost power to you you of all people should know the relevance of our goal and task likely our quest is related to why you are losing your power so if nothing else allow us and orrin to at the very least run some sort of security for the celebration at least the lizard men decide to jump it and massacre the lot of you yes of course you could yes of course but orrin can participate in the ceremony that would be important um but the rest of you are strong of character hey oh thanks yeah my spidey sense just tingled sure yours too how would i go about attempting to understand more maybe uh read this person's intentions let's say uh yeah you want to know if they're going to like sacrifice orrin um sure sure i want to know if this guy is secretly a rot cultist he's having his abram moment give me a nature or religion check is what you're looking for here ah well it looks like orrin's gonna or sorry uh who is gonna have to be the one to figure this out all right let's see what i got 15 on the dice for 18 not good enough can i uh can i attempt to deserve my spinal senses also yeah yeah as your as your single eye narrows also i'd like to point out that during this like orrin found some old teenage ninja ninja turtle toys in his room and he's like fuck yeah um so me some the copyright dna's beauty awesome the technodrome uh oh fuck 26 i'm not gonna give you a pity point for this instead like if you really want like vena feels that this is an important role vena sitting on her mountain of hero points could allow you to use one of hers oh of course anything for my good friend rahua thank you i kneel at the altar of mount vena thank you thank you so much mount vena i'm gonna roll the damn dice i'm re-rolling there you roll it there you go oh much better 36 actually i think it would be like a 46 it's plus 10. uh it's only if you're old low oh gotcha gotcha forget all right one sec one sec one second i'm gonna gonna gonna dm you hulky oh cool i love these oh no i'm sure it's just to build up suspense for the party yeah we get nothing but good news in this party yeah you know our life has been so simple and easy it has been and it's gonna continue to be that way you know there you go you know simple and clean is the way you're making me feel oh i see oh no gotcha is that good there you go i mean there's the follow-up there's the follow-up is that good you know what you know yes if you want to run security that's fine that's you know what in fact we definitely don't need to be a part of it you're right you omnipotence yes thank you so much for just extending that courtesy to us no problem you know oren's probably found the teenage mutant ninja copyright i'm going to go find him i'll bring him back absolutely remember don't explain what what's going on with his mother okay i'll be back leaving you leaving you alone with the party okay so straight up that's he's a really cool guy that that was a really good move on his part he respects us uh they fucking eat people here yeah we know this yeah but the whole ritual they need to eat somebody specifically oren has to be the one to eat somebody that's why he doesn't want us to be a part of it so we don't die oh well that's cool that that's cool of him i mean the the whole cannibalism thing uh less cool but i i you know i i feel like that's a little bit of the pot call in the kettle after you just saw what kind of shithole my hometown was i mean like you are what you eat at the end of the day and that's what makes them people it's what makes you an alcoholic damn it you're right i'm not defined by what i eat do you eat sure you haven't he does eat this has been established yeah i eat all the time i love it what do you eat you know like steak and waste i think it's very interesting how's it we we've never been rich enough to afford steak you can't lie to me yeah i guess i just i have the quiet taste for all those weird bugs that keep feeding us oh you know the more i see of the outside world the more i am glad that all i have to do is depose a corrupt policing body in my home city yeah oh they definitely eat people in outset though oh yeah but it's not really yes yes i'm sure in the the plurality of cases yes but it's not cultural it can be that's not let's make it so yeah all right doran show your friends the toys you've brought i made these it's just like oh oh oh are turtles yeah oh here you guys could have these and he gives you all each of the turtles by affiliation of your character color thing like it's a blue or who gets yellow and henry gets red i'll cherish this for the rest of my life and i would die for you you know that yellow turtle was that socrates or or and why why does mine look so much more evil than all the other ones oh that's oh that's like holding up turtle you put mascara on it yeah oh my god it's a scar that's that's incredible this is it's awesome this is good copyright you know infringement when oren was young he built whole stories about the turtles there's a whole background lore he even made a war game about them yeah oh my god war turtle 30k i mean this without exaggeration you saying that i immediately felt reflux that was incredible how did you do that it's a good bit you do that one of my many one of my many talents is making you a massive reflex how did you do this to me all right guys new goal if we if we hit some i don't know zorn can determine an astronomical number zorn will write the rules for the the war turtles war game oh i thought you were going to say he's going i thought we were going i thought you were going to say zoran's going to get acid reflux yeah yeah oh wonder oran turns to his dad he's like well uh do you need any help with the festival yes yes yes i hope you have an appetite i have an i have an 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