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[2.2s] I'm gonna need, I'm gonna need some time.
[4.2s] Send up a signal when you're ready. We'll, we'll go out.
[6.6s] But it looks like Orcus!
[8.3s] This, it was hard to miss.
[10.2s] You wanna punch that face?
[12.6s] Oh, I don't think you should punch him right now. That seems like a bad idea.
[16.6s] Unlike you, I have no desire to be near the loins of any god.
[21.3s] But you know your mission. It's to warn Bahamut before this happens.
[26.2s] Yeah, aye aye, captain. Let's go.
[28.0s] Yeah.
[28.2s] We can do it.
[28.9s] Yeah, Celestia sounds like a walk in the fucking park compared to what's going on out here, so.
[33.8s] This explosion of sound, you land in this lush green field at the basin of this massive wide mouth river.
[42.4s] There's a waterfall that's pouring over.
[44.6s] And you turn and you look up and you see this huge mountain range that stretches high above the clouds.
[51.1s] You guys, this is, this is it.
[53.3s] That's awesome. Did you guys see how I landed? My fist was on the ground.
[57.6s] We're going up a mountain, guys, so I'm glad we've all been in training.
[62.1s] Oh, are you sure it's pulling you up the mountain and not around the mountain, through the mountain?
[67.7s] And Agatha just starts walking towards the mountain.
[69.8s] Follow you, just like a trail of like, misfit, like, has no business being there, people.
[76.1s] Behind the only person who looks qualified and glim.
[79.1s] Goliaths do love mountains.
[80.4s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[88.0s] I'm your Dungeon Master Russ More.
[89.7s] He, him, also with me today is Amy More.
[92.4s] Yeah, I'm here too.
[93.4s] She, her and I play Sullivan Sleight, a lightfoot halfling rogue.
[100.1s] He, him, I said the whole thing, you guys.
[103.6s] I was going to say, do we all have to say the whole thing?
[105.4s] Yeah, you've really set a precedent now.
[107.8s] I set a very high intensity awkwardness that I expect everyone to match.
[113.3s] Tom, go!
[114.6s] Yeah, that's me.
[115.9s] He, him, I am playing Moot.
[117.8s] He's a half orc, wild magic sorcerer who also goes by He, him.
[123.4s] Is that what your anxiety sounds like?
[125.0s] I know, it was still so long.
[126.0s] Everybody's anxiety sounds the same.
[127.9s] I mean, I was sequestered away today for budget day all day,
[131.8s] so I'm just excited to talk to people.
[135.2s] Doesn't matter what it's about.
[136.8s] Fair enough.
[137.4s] Carla Max dead.
[138.7s] She, her, I'm playing Glim, dragonborn pAlydin, also she, her.
[144.7s] And Kristen Flemmons.
[146.3s] Hello, I am playing Agath once again.
[150.6s] And for your information, Agath is a mixed class cleric fighter
[155.3s] with level five in cleric and 13 levels in fighter.
[158.3s] Sounds right.
[158.9s] Boom.
[159.3s] So much fighter.
[160.1s] And like a hundred percent badass.
[163.9s] See, we're the same person.
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[170.2s] Yes.
[170.4s] You know where you can find badasses?
[172.6s] There it is.
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[177.0s] Slash dumb dragon.
[177.8s] Slash badass.
[179.3s] No, badasses.
[180.5s] I don't know what's over there.
[182.7s] I'm going to look right now.
[185.0s] We're going to check out to see where we've sent you
[187.2s] and see if we can get that URL.
[188.6s] See who has badass.
[189.6s] Yeah, bad ass.
[190.9s] Oh, we're going badasses.
[192.2s] Oh, it's cat.
[192.8s] Oh, you got to be 18 plus.
[195.4s] Sorry, everybody.
[196.5s] Naughty.
[197.3s] And I'm not sure what they're doing over there.
[198.9s] Don't know.
[199.6s] Slash badasses.
[200.9s] But I'm not willing to click.
[202.6s] We can probably guess.
[204.0s] Don't go there.
[204.9s] Go to where Carla said.
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[216.6s] That's right.
[217.8s] It's newish.
[218.6s] That's newish.
[219.7s] I say ish because it's probably been out for a few weeks
[221.9s] by the time we get to this episode, but it's newish.
[223.8s] The patrons asked and we answered.
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[239.0s] Bad ass.
[240.2s] Bad ass, Justin.
[242.0s] Justin badass Johnson.
[243.6s] Oh, I like it.
[246.2s] And now, fuck it.
[248.0s] Let's play.
[249.3s] Harp gliss.
[250.1s] Harp gliss.
[250.9s] Harp gliss.
[251.8s] I'm assuming.
[252.6s] I don't know where the gods live.
[254.6s] It's probably like, I don't know.
[257.3s] Zydeco music.
[258.1s] Zydeco music.
[258.9s] Oh, that'd be so much.
[260.2s] Polka, polka, polka.
[261.6s] That's such a different vibe and I love it.
[266.7s] We can make our own world, you guys.
[269.2s] I'm into it.
[274.0s] It's a beautiful and sunny and warm day
[277.2s] as you wake up in your makeshift camp
[281.7s] in the middle of a clearing.
[283.0s] There's a trickle from a creek nearby.
[287.7s] There's birds chirping high in the trees.
[291.0s] You hear the scuttling of wildlife through the forest
[294.8s] and everybody is just opening their eyes
[298.6s] on this picture-perfect morning.
[305.5s] Ah, God, does anybody else have to pee like 24-7
[309.7s] because of that creek over there?
[311.7s] Guys, I know sometimes I can be a downer
[314.2s] but isn't this place like the best ever
[320.2s] and also the most beautiful
[322.0s] and somehow it smells so good.
[325.8s] Like warm vanilla but also sandalwood
[329.7s] but also like fresh cut grass.
[332.1s] Yeah, it kind of smells like my childhood.
[334.2s] Like, you know, like campfires
[337.7s] and, you know, just a little bit of disappointment
[340.6s] because I wasn't sure what I was going to walk into
[342.6s] but, you know.
[347.3s] Yeah, really good.
[348.2s] Like that, that's sort of sad.
[352.3s] Like maybe the smell is different for everybody
[354.2s] because-
[355.0s] Oh, I see what you're saying.
[357.1s] Yeah, because-
[357.5s] What's it smell like for you?
[360.1s] Freshly sharpened swords.
[367.9s] Mostly that.
[369.5s] Oh, so just your favorite smell, I assume?
[374.1s] It is pleasant.
[375.9s] Moot, you got a scent up there in your sniffer?
[379.4s] Mostly just cinnamon buns.
[382.3s] Oh, sorry, that one's me.
[383.7s] Delicious.
[384.4s] Oh, do you have cinnamon buns?
[386.1s] I would love one.
[387.0s] Well, it depends how we want to answer that question.
[390.6s] Do I have cinnamon buns?
[392.2s] No.
[392.8s] Do I smell like cinnamon buns?
[394.7s] A little bit.
[396.4s] Oh, okay.
[398.5s] That's super fun.
[400.5s] Why-
[400.6s] Would it be-
[401.0s] No, what-
[402.2s] Would it be root-
[404.1s] I don't-
[404.6s] I don't-
[405.0s] I want to ask, but I don't want to ask.
[406.6s] Could I just-
[408.4s] Is it-
[410.8s] Like your natural-
[412.9s] Do goblins smell like cinnamon buns
[414.5s] or is that like a you thing?
[415.9s] It's a regional thing
[417.9s] and it comes out in this here,
[419.5s] the not the darkest timeline.
[421.2s] Before the darkest timeline, it kind-
[423.0s] Well, when we're in the darkest timeline,
[424.5s] it kind of smells like rotten sour milk.
[427.5s] You might have noticed that aroma following everybody around.
[431.7s] It was in the vicinity.
[432.7s] Nobody can pinpoint exactly who or where it was coming from.
[436.5s] But now it seems,
[438.6s] because everything is beautiful and pristine,
[441.0s] that the cinnamon buns are back, baby.
[444.4s] You didn't-
[445.0s] You didn't have to grab yourself like that.
[446.8s] You just-
[447.8s] You did it.
[448.3s] Some-
[449.0s] Well, when you have to know where it's coming from,
[451.3s] you have to point it out.
[452.5s] Okay.
[455.8s] Some people's buns are more down than others with cinnamon.
[459.2s] Perhaps we should have a different conversation.
[464.4s] Agatha is like packing the last thing into the saddlebags
[470.2s] and I was just like,
[472.4s] so we are leaving, yes?
[474.4s] This is concluding?
[476.3s] Oh, we weren't going to take like just a little dip in the stream?
[479.4s] No?
[479.9s] Okay, yeah, yeah.
[481.0s] I got my things packed too.
[483.6s] Oh, you packed them already.
[484.9s] Okay, yeah, let's rock and roll.
[487.6s] Everybody follows Agatha.
[489.7s] I'm like, what?
[490.9s] Is there a path or is it just like open enough?
[495.0s] Right, I kind of feel like that's it.
[496.2s] Everyone knows where they're going in Celestia
[498.1s] or you're already where you need to be now.
[499.8s] Or just when you start going,
[501.4s] you are magically put upon the right path for you.
[503.9s] As we start walking, does the Zydeco music swell?
[507.6s] It does, it does, yes.
[509.8s] It's as if it's coming from everywhere and nowhere
[512.2s] all at the same time.
[513.2s] It's coming from within, I think.
[515.1s] Like the cinnamon buns.
[519.4s] It's not Kristin's face.
[523.4s] Just a disappointment.
[525.0s] For some scenes, I just wish we were a visual medium
[528.2s] for Kristin and Agatha.
[530.1s] The look of disappointment on everyone's face
[534.3s] at the same time.
[535.3s] It's really a shared experience
[536.6s] we wish the listener could get in on.
[538.2s] You set off back through the forest
[540.6s] and in the direction of Mount Celestia,
[542.8s] which is looming in presence ahead of you.
[548.5s] You crest down through some hills
[552.6s] and are following along this path.
[557.1s] And Flamigan skips up to Agatha,
[561.2s] who is ahead, a ways perhaps, a scouting position.
[567.9s] So, you kill any, you kill any undeads?
[575.0s] Oh, was that not a joke?
[576.9s] Well, I'm just trying to relate.
[578.5s] It seems like we got off on the wrong foot.
[580.6s] Maybe we start again.
[581.8s] I'm trying to talk about something
[583.2s] that maybe is in a little more in your wheelhouse.
[585.7s] I killed many an undeads,
[587.1s] but I just wanted to hear about your favorite one.
[590.8s] Nundeads.
[592.3s] They're undead nuns.
[593.6s] That's right.
[594.4s] It's a real problem.
[596.4s] They're one of the worst.
[598.3s] Yes, I have lost count.
[602.2s] Although I have found that when you cleave them vertically,
[605.8s] it is quite entertaining to watch the two halves separate,
[610.2s] but have the limbs still going for a little while.
[613.9s] It's kind of like the chicken in the head thing
[616.1s] where it runs around a little bit.
[617.3s] Exactly.
[618.1s] Yes.
[618.6s] Interesting.
[619.4s] It is a great source of comedy where I am from.
[624.3s] Very cool.
[624.9s] I'd normally try and put explosives in them somewhere
[629.0s] and have them just missed.
[631.5s] Do you not find the missed...
[636.1s] The acre?
[637.3s] ...unpleasant?
[638.8s] Well...
[639.0s] It gets in the nose and the eyes.
[641.0s] It does get in the orifices.
[643.7s] The smell lingers.
[645.6s] That's probably that sour milk smell
[647.2s] that we was talking about earlier.
[649.9s] Could be a component.
[651.0s] Yeah.
[651.4s] No, I mean, it's really when you're trying
[653.4s] to blend in with them though,
[655.4s] doesn't it seem like maybe it's good to be covered
[658.9s] in the icker of your enemies?
[662.3s] I have rarely succeeded in blending in anywhere.
[666.5s] You are very tall.
[667.7s] I am.
[668.2s] And I'm on the top of your horse.
[671.1s] You are.
[673.0s] Is...
[674.9s] Is that okay?
[679.8s] Roll for rags.
[681.8s] Roll for is it okay?
[684.2s] It's like, is that good or bad in this circumstance?
[688.7s] I'm going to say he's rolling tolerance.
[690.9s] Okay.
[691.4s] He rolled like a 16, so...
[693.9s] So he's tolerant?
[695.3s] His eyes are like watching
[698.6s] and maybe some like huffing, but he's not acting.
[701.8s] Blamekens is like running her fingers
[704.1s] through his long luxurious mane.
[707.1s] That is his weakness.
[708.3s] Yeah.
[708.8s] Just, oh, see, we're gonna...
[711.0s] I feel it.
[711.6s] We're gonna be the best of buds.
[713.2s] Right, everybody?
[715.0s] Yeah.
[715.4s] Yeah, I know.
[716.2s] I know what you're talking about.
[717.9s] The three of you who are not distracted
[720.7s] is specifically by Blamekens at this moment.
[722.9s] Roll per...
[724.6s] Yeah, roll perception.
[727.0s] Oh, yeah.
[728.8s] All right.
[730.8s] So 15.
[732.0s] That one.
[733.5s] Okay.
[734.1s] Is that my pass?
[734.8s] Let's see this one.
[735.6s] Yes, 15.
[737.3s] That's your passive perception.
[738.5s] That's your roll perception.
[740.1s] Oh, well, that's just a five.
[742.8s] 12 for me, Russ.
[744.3s] Okay.
[744.9s] Oh, we're perceptive as fuck.
[746.4s] Yeah.
[747.0s] What's happening, you guys?
[748.6s] It seems like you've been traveling for a while and
[753.1s] it doesn't seem like you're getting closer to your destination.
[758.2s] Like, you've been here for probably
[760.6s] better part of a day and a half
[762.4s] walking in the solid direction towards the mountain,
[767.0s] but it doesn't seem like you're making specific headway.
[772.0s] Guys, is it just me?
[773.8s] And it might just be me.
[777.0s] Yeah, it's probably just you.
[778.2s] I don't think the mountain has changed size.
[781.2s] Shouldn't we be getting...
[782.2s] Shouldn't it be bigger?
[783.1s] Shouldn't we be getting closer to it as we go?
[785.7s] Well, when I used to be a drawist,
[789.2s] we had something called perspective
[792.2s] and that is when you get closer to something
[795.7s] and it does get bigger in size, but like not really,
[799.4s] because everything is usually not you, Moot.
[802.2s] Sometimes you're bigger, sometimes you're smaller,
[804.4s] but usually things stay the same size,
[807.4s] but when you move your body closer to something,
[810.9s] it oftentimes not you, Moot, not always.
[814.3s] Sorry, what are you saying?
[815.2s] Well, I'm just saying that we've been walking for a while
[818.6s] and we seem to be walking towards the mountain,
[821.8s] but it's not getting any...
[823.8s] We're not getting closer to it.
[825.9s] It's not following the rules of perspective.
[828.9s] We could be right upon it and we would not even know
[831.6s] because perhaps it is changing sizes as we are...
[835.5s] Maybe it is shrinking as we are walking to it.
[838.3s] Eventually when we get there,
[839.4s] it could be nothing but the tiniest mountain.
[842.1s] Perhaps it is a tiny mountain.
[844.7s] Glim, stop me.
[846.2s] I think I've talked to myself in a circle now
[848.1s] and I'm not entirely sure.
[849.2s] So, I mean, Moot, now that you bring it up,
[852.1s] I definitely...
[853.0s] Okay, so I'm pretty aware of my pacing
[857.0s] and how quick I can move even if I have other,
[861.6s] not quite as fast people with me,
[863.4s] but you're right.
[865.0s] We've been going for a long time.
[867.0s] We've just been walking and walking
[870.0s] and it's beautiful and it smells great
[871.8s] and everything is pretty fantastic,
[875.1s] but we really...
[877.1s] We should have been at the mountain,
[879.3s] at least closer to the mountain, right?
[881.4s] I feel like it looks like it's still as far away as it was.
[884.2s] As someone who's proficient in mountains,
[889.1s] I'm just assuming that's a thing.
[890.6s] Sure, totally tracked.
[892.4s] But it's so well on the mountains last time.
[895.8s] So, would I have had a sense of maybe
[899.3s] how long it would have taken,
[901.0s] it should have taken to reach said mountain
[903.6s] based on where it looked like it was when we started?
[906.7s] Yeah, Goth would probably have a very good idea
[911.0s] of probably would have taken, in general,
[915.6s] a couple of days based on where you started
[917.7s] to get to the base, at least the base of the mountain.
[920.6s] So you two, in the midst of trying to make sure
[925.3s] that Rax is okay and that Flamikin's isn't smelling
[928.6s] in any particular vicinity.
[933.0s] I'm trying to avoid all knowledge about Flamikin's smells.
[936.6s] Yeah, that's the best way to live your life.
[939.2s] Good luck.
[940.1s] But also, yeah, you two would likely have picked up
[944.3s] on the fact that you're not gaining on this mountain
[948.5s] in any rate whatsoever.
[952.6s] And as you kind of clue into that
[956.2s] and are trying to figure it out,
[957.7s] you notice that it's getting to be dusk again.
[961.0s] And there is a forest up ahead
[963.9s] that looks like it could make a good camp.
[967.7s] Is Celestia like the fae realm,
[971.4s] where maybe sometimes you have to walk away
[974.9s] from things to get closer to them?
[976.9s] Is that one of, I'm not well versed in?
[980.3s] Well, you and Glim can talk to your gods and stuff, right?
[986.2s] Not anymore.
[988.8s] But now, because we're not in the bad place.
[992.2s] So I'm just thinking, could you guys maybe phone a friend?
[996.7s] Like a god, like a phone a god.
[998.8s] Can you like talk to a god and just be like,
[1001.1s] can you pick us up?
[1007.5s] Divine Uber?
[1008.4s] Yeah, yeah, it's the god Uber.
[1010.2s] It's the goober.
[1012.6s] Yeah, so maybe that's something that,
[1014.6s] because I mean, it's supposed to be helpful, right?
[1016.9s] Like it's a whole reason.
[1018.7s] You commune with your god, you help them, they help you.
[1023.7s] Character sheets are being scoured at this moment.
[1027.1s] I haven't talked to my god in so long.
[1029.7s] Yeah, but also like for a goth,
[1033.4s] like correct me if I'm wrong, because I don't,
[1035.9s] have these characters hopped back and forth
[1039.0s] between these timelines a bit,
[1041.5s] or have they been stuck in the worst timeline
[1043.1s] for a long time as well?
[1044.3s] We've lived through, we didn't get-
[1046.6s] Continuous characters.
[1047.4s] Yeah, we lived through the good and the bad.
[1051.5s] Right, okay.
[1052.9s] So I feel like, yeah, for a goth,
[1055.6s] like maybe this, like maybe her face kind of glazes
[1059.5s] over for a second, because it's been so long
[1061.7s] since she even thought about the ability
[1065.4s] of connecting with her, like actually speaking
[1069.0s] to her god and having that be a possibility.
[1073.3s] It's been 13 levels since she ever did it.
[1076.5s] Four score and 13 levels ago.
[1078.2s] So much has happened.
[1080.7s] Like I think if you're paying attention,
[1082.8s] it might actually look like a flash of fear
[1085.2s] across her face of like, holy shit.
[1089.1s] Am I paying attention?
[1090.3s] I want to know.
[1092.8s] Are you paying attention, sure?
[1094.0s] Yeah, can I-
[1094.7s] Roll attention.
[1096.2s] What? Is that just perception?
[1098.4s] Yeah.
[1099.0s] 15.
[1100.6s] Yeah, you're paying attention, I think.
[1102.5s] Well, it's all right,
[1103.7s] because I'm pretty sure they'll answer.
[1109.5s] Right.
[1111.0s] Great.
[1118.5s] Said a lot of hurtful things.
[1125.0s] God doesn't know that yet.
[1126.3s] Or do the gods know?
[1128.0s] Do they exist outside of time?
[1130.9s] I'm not going to add layers to this.
[1132.5s] Forget I said that.
[1133.9s] Forget it.
[1134.3s] I mean, Bahamut doesn't know what's about
[1139.5s] to happen, and we have to warn,
[1140.8s] so he can't fully exist outside of time.
[1143.0s] Is that right?
[1144.8s] She solved it.
[1145.8s] Yeah, no, absolutely.
[1146.7s] You've solved my god puzzle.
[1148.3s] Thank you.
[1153.3s] We should make camp, perhaps,
[1155.4s] and consider the existential quandary after shelter has.
[1163.9s] Yeah, I mean, darkness means camp,
[1165.7s] but I swear to Bahamut,
[1168.2s] didn't we just?
[1171.5s] This hasn't been a whole day of-
[1172.6s] Well, we didn't even stop to eat lunch,
[1174.7s] and I know, because Moot hasn't said anything yet,
[1179.0s] and he's usually poking me, asking me
[1180.8s] when we're going to stop for lunch.
[1182.5s] Well, it's kind of gotten to the point
[1183.9s] where I'm just cranky now,
[1185.8s] so it's best to not.
[1187.1s] Yeah, we've noticed.
[1187.9s] Okay, all right.
[1189.1s] So it's almost lunchtime then.
[1191.1s] We're like an hour past.
[1192.2s] Hangry Moot means almost lunch.
[1195.0s] Good.
[1195.6s] Now we have an idea based on your stomach timeline,
[1198.6s] kind of what time it is,
[1199.7s] but also darkness falling,
[1201.2s] so make camp-
[1203.0s] Eat lunch?
[1204.2s] But then eat lunch-
[1206.7s] Sleep?
[1207.1s] And then figure out what is going on here?
[1209.6s] That's probably good,
[1211.5s] but also maybe call your gods, maybe,
[1218.0s] just for a hint, right?
[1219.1s] Because I mean,
[1220.0s] gods don't like to tell you all the things, right?
[1221.9s] They're going to be like,
[1223.0s] oh, the answer is within you,
[1225.6s] or something stupid like that.
[1227.6s] I don't really
[1231.8s] try to find-
[1232.2s] Like a commune with-
[1233.4s] Thing, because you're right.
[1234.3s] Do you have the book on you still?
[1235.9s] Yeah, but-
[1237.2s] Maybe there's like a hint.
[1238.3s] Maybe it's like a choose your own adventure.
[1240.0s] You should really be reading
[1241.0s] to the very bottom of the page.
[1245.1s] Well, if you just hold your thumb
[1246.5s] on the page that you turn from,
[1247.9s] you can go back.
[1248.7s] It's fine.
[1249.2s] Oh, that's-
[1250.7s] Amy does not like that.
[1252.1s] That is cheating.
[1253.8s] Oh, I always did that.
[1255.1s] Yeah, 100%.
[1256.4s] Carla, I see you trying to find something on your page.
[1259.0s] Would you like us to hold to find something,
[1261.1s] or do you all want to go
[1263.0s] at least start making camp?
[1265.1s] Oh, Agath is definitely making camp.
[1267.1s] Okay.
[1268.7s] Yeah, I think we're making camp
[1271.1s] and like, okay, I guess it's night,
[1272.7s] but we know it's not really,
[1274.0s] but let's set up camp and then figure it out.
[1277.1s] Agath is setting up camp
[1279.5s] with the fevered energy of somebody
[1281.6s] who must work in order to avoid their own mind.
[1287.6s] Yeah, you make your way into this grove of trees
[1291.3s] ahead of you and find a clearing
[1294.1s] and it's quickly dark and you set up tents
[1297.1s] and make a bit of a fire in the center.
[1301.9s] You're preparing lunch or dinner
[1304.1s] or any sort of snack in between
[1306.7s] to satisfy Moot's hangriness.
[1309.3s] And all of you begin to feel tired,
[1314.0s] like it's nighttime.
[1317.5s] Hey, I was thinking, you guys,
[1320.3s] has anyone seen any animals?
[1324.3s] Like I heard some animals.
[1325.9s] I thought I heard some animals,
[1327.3s] but I don't think I've actually ever seen animals.
[1330.4s] A squirrel runs through the clearing.
[1332.7s] Never mind, look at that squirrel go.
[1334.3s] Looks at you, gives you like two thumbs up
[1337.4s] and then heads back into the tree.
[1339.0s] Oh, excuse me, squirrel.
[1340.1s] You're gonna try and shoot it.
[1341.1s] Oh shit, I'm like, excuse me, squirrel.
[1343.9s] You're like, dinner.
[1347.6s] What are you hitting it with and roll to hit?
[1349.2s] I don't know, a bow.
[1350.2s] Sure.
[1351.4s] I'm pretty sure, yeah, I've got a light crossbow.
[1353.2s] Okay.
[1354.4s] You throw a war hammer at it, no big deal.
[1359.0s] It's stupid.
[1360.5s] 22.
[1361.2s] Oh shit.
[1362.0s] Yeah, at a good distance, it cleaves through it
[1365.9s] and the two thumbs up squirrel just looks
[1369.1s] two thumbs down as it goes, as it goes limp.
[1372.2s] It's slitted in half vertically.
[1373.6s] It's somehow.
[1375.1s] It's just, thumbs are going all over the place.
[1377.6s] Oh, poor Sully.
[1378.3s] It's like, excuse me, Mrs. Squirrel.
[1382.7s] Oh my God.
[1383.9s] That escalated quickly.
[1385.2s] What if there was a talking squirrel
[1386.7s] who could have got us into trouble?
[1388.1s] Sully, you was asking about a squirrel or an animal
[1390.7s] and then there was a squirrel there
[1391.9s] and then the Goth was like,
[1392.8s] I can't deal with existential gods crisis.
[1395.2s] I need to kill something and now we have a snack.
[1398.8s] Gosh, I'm tired.
[1399.9s] But also, if it was a talking squirrel,
[1401.9s] wouldn't it have just talked to us
[1403.1s] and not given us the two thumbs up?
[1404.7s] I don't know.
[1405.1s] Would you talk to us?
[1405.9s] We're kind of like.
[1406.3s] Would you talk to a squirrel?
[1407.5s] Wait, I, what?
[1410.1s] If I was a talking squirrel,
[1411.6s] I might talk to other people.
[1413.1s] Maybe he's an introverted talking squirrel
[1414.9s] and he just.
[1415.3s] You know what though?
[1416.1s] Remember that time that we met that fire elemental
[1419.6s] that was and I juggled for them?
[1421.9s] Oh, the earth elemental.
[1423.9s] Yeah, I wasn't there, but I heard that story.
[1426.3s] Yeah, so I'm very tired.
[1428.4s] It's so nighttime.
[1431.6s] It's so nighttime.
[1432.7s] It is so nighttime.
[1434.0s] And I juggled for it and like made a connection.
[1438.1s] You know, maybe I could have been like take
[1440.2s] like squirrel friends.
[1441.3s] Can you take us to the secret place?
[1443.0s] But a Goth eating it already.
[1445.3s] I see that.
[1445.9s] I was going to say she's cleaning it
[1447.9s] just like ripping the skin off
[1449.1s] and spitting it over the fire the whole.
[1451.6s] You know, listen, I know she's not like part
[1453.9s] of a trio usually, but like I think we gotta like calm down.
[1459.1s] I got the UK.
[1460.6s] I mean, we talk about we're a quartet.
[1463.9s] Just gnawing on the squirrel raw.
[1467.7s] You're a corn.
[1468.3s] No, no, it cooked fast.
[1470.3s] There's not much meat on there.
[1471.8s] It's really lean.
[1472.9s] You can overcook it.
[1474.6s] It's really tough.
[1475.5s] You can see 30 seconds on each side.
[1477.8s] You're good to go.
[1478.7s] Oh, I haven't even done my nighttime workout.
[1481.5s] I'm so tired.
[1483.5s] Do some of that yoga.
[1485.9s] You know, stretch it out.
[1487.9s] Just weird.
[1488.7s] I usually.
[1491.8s] Because we oh.
[1496.4s] Flame McKinsey's asleep.
[1498.1s] You see racks curling up in the corner.
[1502.1s] Going to sleep.
[1502.8s] It's really something strange going on with.
[1508.7s] Time.
[1509.0s] Do you think when we traveled in time, we made the day shorter?
[1511.8s] I don't think we could fuck up Celestia like that.
[1516.7s] Well, you all find yourselves crawling into your respective bedrolls.
[1525.2s] I'll see you guys in the morning.
[1532.9s] You wake up the next morning and it's a beautiful morning.
[1538.9s] You hear the sound of birds.
[1540.6s] There's a crickling stream going down the side.
[1545.6s] A crickling stream?
[1547.5s] A crickling.
[1548.1s] I have never heard a stream be described as crickling.
[1552.3s] Well, you haven't lived, Amy.
[1553.6s] Right?
[1554.3s] There's a crickling creek just off to the side.
[1558.6s] No, it's not.
[1559.2s] It wasn't stream or creek that had an issue with its crickling.
[1563.1s] Crackling?
[1564.7s] I mean, it seems like.
[1566.1s] Now I'm really noticing that crickling.
[1568.1s] It seems.
[1568.6s] Scream.
[1569.5s] I know.
[1570.3s] Oh, God.
[1572.3s] There's a group of squirrel family members who are gathered around.
[1578.3s] Their respects.
[1579.1s] The carcass.
[1581.7s] Just tiny screams being heard, but also it's a picture perfect day,
[1587.3s] which is what I'm trying to get at here.
[1590.2s] You all stretch and wake up.
[1592.8s] The squirrel family is carrying off the carcass of their deceased family member.
[1598.0s] Was there a crickling stream when we went to sleep?
[1603.2s] Or are we back at the same crickling stream that we woke up at yesterday?
[1607.9s] Make an investigation check.
[1612.1s] Anyone who wants to.
[1613.0s] I'll investigate that.
[1615.1s] It's an eight minus one, so.
[1617.8s] That's brand new.
[1618.8s] That's an 18 minus one.
[1620.7s] It could have some similarities.
[1622.9s] Yeah, I think this might be the same stream that made me have to pee last time.
[1627.1s] How's it making you feel this time?
[1628.7s] I gotta pee.
[1630.3s] Oh, it's probably the same stream then.
[1632.2s] Oh, well, maybe we could take a dip in it this time
[1634.9s] and clean off some of the smell of the day.
[1641.9s] I think.
[1642.5s] Why do I always shut down conversations?
[1644.7s] I'm going to look in my book and see if there's anything.
[1651.2s] I mean, I can try and commune with Bahamut.
[1653.7s] But if I do that, am I going to?
[1655.2s] I'll be talking to Bahamut here.
[1657.3s] And like, is that going to mess up us warning him?
[1660.1s] And then are we?
[1661.6s] Oh, my gosh.
[1662.3s] What if you just commune with him?
[1663.9s] What if you just commune?
[1664.8s] Well, like, what if we are doing too much work right now?
[1667.7s] You could just be like, warning, warning, Bahamut.
[1672.7s] I was sent here from the future by future you.
[1677.5s] Watch out.
[1678.3s] And then like, it's done.
[1681.5s] OK, well, Plan B.
[1683.6s] So Plan A, I'm just going to look in the book.
[1686.4s] Maybe there's like a map or something.
[1688.0s] Yeah.
[1688.5s] What's in the book, Russ?
[1689.6s] Tell me.
[1690.3s] Anything?
[1690.8s] Anything new in my book?
[1692.1s] Is there a reading rainbow?
[1693.8s] There's nothing new in your book if you're looking for new entries.
[1697.5s] No new entries.
[1699.8s] OK.
[1700.2s] All looks the same.
[1701.1s] No previous map of Celestia was ever mentioned.
[1703.9s] There is no map currently.
[1706.3s] But out of Flameykin's backpack, there's just like this, I'm a map.
[1710.1s] I'm a map.
[1711.0s] I'm a map.
[1711.8s] And then, Russ, get back in there.
[1714.7s] Not you singing map.
[1716.0s] You don't have any place here.
[1717.6s] We talked about this earlier.
[1721.8s] Well, I'm going to go investigate this river here that keeps making me pee.
[1727.9s] I want to walk over to the creek, the stream, the river.
[1731.9s] I'm unsure of how big it is.
[1735.0s] It's big enough.
[1736.0s] It's big enough.
[1737.1s] Yeah.
[1737.5s] You walk over to it and it's crystal clear water.
[1740.4s] It's nice, cool.
[1742.1s] Looks like it's coming down from some sort of glacial stream.
[1745.1s] I want to put my hand in it.
[1746.5s] It's crisp on the skin.
[1748.7s] Seriously, it's hot.
[1749.4s] It's hot spray.
[1750.0s] It's hot.
[1751.2s] It's confusing.
[1753.1s] It's coming down from a glacier.
[1754.3s] It's boiling hot.
[1755.5s] Rover damage.
[1758.3s] No, you put it in.
[1759.8s] It feels like it's washing off the smell of the day.
[1766.2s] Guys, I'm just going to take a quick dip.
[1768.5s] Wait, we recollect that we have been walking toward a mountain that is
[1773.5s] getting no closer, right?
[1775.8s] You know that you are in Celestia trying to make it to the mountain to Warren Bahama.
[1780.8s] But are we aware of the conversations that we had the previous night about how
[1786.3s] dang it, this mountain don't seem to be getting no closer.
[1789.7s] Okay, okay.
[1790.9s] I'm just going to take a quick dip.
[1792.3s] If we're not getting to the mountain anyway, I mean, it's not like we're in a rush.
[1797.0s] And I'm going to take out-
[1797.5s] He strips down.
[1800.1s] Hops in.
[1801.3s] He doesn't have modesty.
[1803.1s] No, we've all been around each other for a long time.
[1806.4s] I don't have a specific spell that would be helpful in this case.
[1812.9s] Okay.
[1813.9s] But I will take out my holy symbol and try to commune.
[1821.1s] You know, like, I don't know.
[1825.8s] You know, there's like spells where you can ask your god questions and stuff.
[1829.5s] I don't have those.
[1830.4s] I didn't make those choices.
[1832.2s] Okay, but you want to talk to your god.
[1833.7s] You can commune with your god.
[1836.0s] Roll religion.
[1838.8s] And let's see if you can commune with your god.
[1840.9s] I can't, guys.
[1843.2s] This is a 13.
[1844.7s] A little rusty.
[1845.5s] Oh, yeah.
[1846.7s] I'm also rusty.
[1848.5s] Describe to me the scene, though.
[1850.7s] 13 doesn't necessarily mean a fail.
[1852.9s] You're in a magical religious place.
[1856.2s] True.
[1857.4s] I think that I am going to...
[1861.5s] Yeah, I have my holy symbol, which is like a small tool piece of leather
[1865.8s] that I focus and I kind of sit crisscross applesauce
[1869.6s] and just meditating, thinking about Bahamut and trying to, you know,
[1874.5s] express my love for him and see if he can give me a sign.
[1879.4s] What is a goth doing, thinking, or feeling as Glim is attempting to commune with her god,
[1887.1s] who previously had, you know, made an appearance in the darkest timeline,
[1892.7s] but is now trying to do so actively in this new timeline?
[1897.0s] Oh, I think a goth is as far away from this as possible.
[1915.3s] Guys, I knew we should have fixed that giant pit we had in the recording studio,
[1918.7s] but we didn't.
[1919.5s] And that's just kind of what happened.
[1921.4s] As someone who is on the Zoom call that that was happening on,
[1927.0s] it did not transfer well for us.
[1928.7s] It did not, but I bet it sounded so good in your actual recording.
[1930.7s] I bet it's great on your end, but ours was like very like...
[1933.8s] It was like a mime.
[1934.3s] It started out okay, disappeared.
[1935.1s] It was just us doing a mime act.
[1937.1s] Yeah.
[1938.3s] But I bet it recorded perfectly.
[1940.3s] Yeah.
[1941.1s] Anyway, here we are in the middle.
[1943.0s] And it will make more sense now that we're in the middle and we can say why I did that.
[1948.3s] Why did you do that?
[1950.1s] Well, let me tell you a story about myself, Amy, and Tom.
[1956.2s] Oh, I thought it was going to be about how your life got flipped upside down.
[1959.8s] I thought about it, but then I was like, that's not where we're going with this.
[1964.4s] Tom, Amy, and I, Carla was busy and didn't want to.
[1969.5s] That's not true.
[1973.5s] No, she didn't want to.
[1975.5s] I mean, rumor has it Carla had no interest.
[1979.4s] No, we wanted to have Carla there, but we could only have three of us
[1981.9s] because that's what made sense for this game that we played over on RPG.
[1985.2s] That's realms of peril and glory.
[1987.5s] Great.
[1987.9s] How can I describe the game that we played without giving too much away?
[1994.6s] Detective Noir.
[1997.4s] Okay.
[1998.4s] Trebuchets.
[2000.2s] That was the sound.
[2001.1s] That was me being shot by a trebuchet.
[2003.3s] Right.
[2003.5s] It had nothing to do with the pit in the studio.
[2007.5s] Maybe the trebuchet into the pit in the studio.
[2009.8s] Oh, there we go.
[2010.3s] Yeah.
[2010.7s] We're bringing the ideas together.
[2012.7s] And baby factory.
[2015.8s] Yes.
[2016.3s] Yeah.
[2016.5s] Those are three things that are wholly unrelated.
[2019.1s] And fits perfectly.
[2021.6s] You nailed it, honey.
[2022.8s] Carla looks so confused.
[2024.4s] I know.
[2024.8s] I love it because I have so many questions.
[2027.1s] Well, we can't answer any of them.
[2028.3s] I just have to listen to the episode to figure out how,
[2031.9s] I mean, just even the first two seem very anachronistic, so I can't wait.
[2035.6s] Well, you can listen to it right now because it released on Monday,
[2039.4s] March 21st as we're recording this because now it's the 23rd or beyond because of how
[2045.5s] podcasts work.
[2047.3s] You can go over to realms of peril and glory.
[2050.5s] Search for them in your favorite podcast app or lightandtragic.com
[2055.4s] YASP, Y-A-S-P, which is the game we played.
[2059.2s] You arrive in a strange place or you awaken strangely place.
[2063.7s] You awake.
[2065.5s] Strange.
[2066.7s] You also.
[2069.5s] You awake in a strange place.
[2074.5s] You awaken strange place.
[2076.4s] In a strange.
[2077.2s] You don't, you don't use the I from in and the A-
[2080.1s] Oh yeah, but that would be Y-A-I-A-S-P, Y-A-A-S-P.
[2086.1s] Yes, you arrive in a strange place or you awaken in a strange place.
[2091.4s] But just go download it.
[2094.0s] There's a link in the description.
[2095.7s] It's easy enough.
[2096.7s] It's real good.
[2097.3s] And it's so funny run by the great James Barbarossa, who you might remember from
[2103.6s] Facing Fate, Off World, who is also over there.
[2107.9s] So go check it out.
[2110.0s] Okay, that's the end of the middle.
[2112.7s] Do we get back in that trebuchet or?
[2114.5s] Okay, yeah, ready?
[2115.5s] Here we go.
[2115.9s] Okay.
[2119.3s] Okay, somebody pull it.
[2120.3s] Pull the switch.
[2121.1s] Okay.
[2121.5s] What?
[2122.0s] Isn't it a lever?
[2126.4s] Because I'm like pulling it.
[2127.3s] It's a circular switch is what they, yeah.
[2129.6s] Yeah, I'm confused about the seatbelt.
[2135.5s] That's a great question.
[2137.8s] Also robot.
[2138.8s] He's strapped into the ground now.
[2142.2s] Clink.
[2146.0s] That's what, yeah, it's just a dainty clink.
[2149.2s] And just the smallest of clinks.
[2150.6s] And now that Russ is gone, why don't you just get back to the episode and we'll,
[2155.6s] I don't know, find him.
[2156.5s] Which we wouldn't really have to do because you seatbelted yourself to this.
[2160.6s] Is he strapped in?
[2165.2s] I love it.
[2168.4s] Oh, I think a goth is as far away from this as possible.
[2171.7s] Distinctly the most awkward looking, uncomfortable Goliath that you've ever seen.
[2177.7s] Just like doing up and like undoing and then redoing all the bags on Rex's like saddle,
[2185.2s] like packing them, unpacking them, rearranging them, packing them again.
[2189.2s] Like just like fiddling with bridles, like trying to find anything else to focus on.
[2195.6s] Doesn't really want to go for a bath with the Flamikins and Sully.
[2200.0s] Just Sully said they went for a bath.
[2201.7s] Yeah, I know.
[2201.8s] Just me.
[2202.6s] Flamikins actually.
[2202.8s] Just when clothes came off, everyone assumed Flamikins also got in there.
[2206.8s] I suppose so, yeah.
[2207.9s] Fair assumption.
[2209.6s] From the other side of Rex, like propped up, like hands across the saddle,
[2214.3s] like if Flamikins pops up, you can see that she's clearly not wearing clothes,
[2218.6s] but isn't exposing herself at this moment.
[2222.0s] But is pressing herself against your horse.
[2224.0s] Against the saddle of your horse, not the horse itself.
[2227.6s] There's boundaries, okay?
[2228.9s] It's been a while, I mean, maybe.
[2232.3s] Hey, you okay?
[2234.4s] I'm fine.
[2237.5s] No, you're not.
[2239.2s] You know, look at, look at you.
[2243.2s] Look at just, she pulls from somewhere, a mirror, like a piece of glass.
[2249.8s] A mirror, and then you said a piece of glass.
[2253.3s] So yeah, that's what we said, and that's what we're sticking to.
[2257.6s] Look at yourself in this mirror glass.
[2261.2s] I'd rather not.
[2262.0s] You're doing it because you're looking at me.
[2264.6s] Open your eyes.
[2266.2s] There's something up with you.
[2268.8s] You've been off since we've been here.
[2270.4s] You're not the usual goth that I've come to know and love here.
[2274.5s] We was connecting back in the dark times, and now there's something separating us.
[2281.0s] Like if you, if it was a cartoon and you could sort of see like that red coloration,
[2286.4s] like filling up the character as the smoke starts to go off the ears,
[2289.9s] like you can just sort of see like the pale like Goliath skin like turning.
[2294.5s] And like she grits her teeth, fine.
[2299.7s] My god was dead.
[2304.0s] And since she was dead, I turned to vengeance.
[2310.1s] Yeah, tell me about it.
[2314.3s] If she is not dead, I have betrayed everything she stands for.
[2320.6s] So you didn't pick like one of them benevolent gods?
[2323.5s] It was like, oh, you made a choice based on the situation that you were in.
[2327.0s] And I understand that now I'm going to smote thee.
[2330.0s] I doubt Eldath would ever smote.
[2336.0s] It's more of like one of those like, I'm not mad.
[2337.9s] I'm disappointed.
[2339.6s] But then, I mean, like, like, like, parents get over that,
[2344.4s] like gods could probably get over that too, especially because you came back here trying to,
[2348.6s] you know, not necessarily crush things, but warn things.
[2353.6s] Right?
[2355.2s] Look at Glim.
[2356.0s] Glim's having a grand old time just rubbing that leather between her fingers,
[2359.4s] being like, hey, Bahamut, you're such a cool guy.
[2365.1s] I think you wear the best underpants.
[2369.5s] I get the sense that Glim's relationship with Bahamut is not the same
[2377.9s] as perhaps my relationship with Eldath.
[2384.8s] Well, let's just watch for a second here.
[2386.4s] Just turn, turn your head.
[2388.4s] Just face your demons.
[2391.6s] I'm just imagining like Flamingon's like grabbing Eld,
[2394.8s] like a Goth's face and just like turning her head with like the smoochy cheeks.
[2399.8s] Open your eyes.
[2400.8s] You are.
[2404.0s] What's Glim doing at this moment?
[2406.4s] Yeah.
[2406.6s] Still sitting crisscross.
[2408.4s] I was imagining her on her like front with her, like,
[2412.5s] like she's got a magazine in front of her and her legs are kicking.
[2415.5s] And she's just like, like, gabbing with the gal.
[2418.5s] That's so funny.
[2419.6s] I already said I was, I was crisscross applesauce,
[2422.6s] but I think for sure there probably is some like kind of little tune in my head.
[2427.6s] Maybe still the Zydego music has inspired me that I'm hearing everywhere.
[2432.1s] I'm just kind of like grooving along, quietly smiling.
[2435.8s] So happy.
[2436.8s] Just like big smile.
[2440.0s] Wrinkles seem to be disappearing.
[2442.2s] Just like feeling the love of a totally still alive god.
[2450.0s] And although you don't hear anything back,
[2455.6s] you do feel a sense of like empowerment and warmth.
[2460.4s] Like even as Bahamut came back in the darkest timeline, it was different, right?
[2466.4s] Like you felt the power come back, but you didn't feel perhaps the innocence of it
[2474.6s] that you felt all that time back, back when times were simpler.
[2482.0s] Yeah, before I gave up on him,
[2484.0s] before I hurt my friend and finally gave up on Bahamut's return.
[2488.9s] So although there's no direct communication, there's no writing in the book,
[2494.6s] you do feel a sense of connection to Bahamut.
[2501.6s] Moot, where are you in this moment?
[2503.9s] Good question.
[2505.6s] Are you standing on the side of the bank with the towel open going,
[2508.5s] you're getting prunies?
[2511.3s] I am doing a drawing of Sully splashing in the water.
[2516.2s] Oh, inappropriate.
[2518.6s] But he's posing, like he's into it.
[2521.8s] He was jumping up to like be like, I'm a mermaid.
[2525.1s] I'm a dolphin.
[2526.6s] Don't forget my deck.
[2528.2s] And I for sure have like a like a like I'd have a swimming cap,
[2533.0s] but like as an eye patch, you know,
[2534.7s] because I don't want to get my good leather one all wet.
[2537.6s] You're doing this and the scene behind you,
[2540.9s] which you're not really paying too much attention to,
[2544.0s] is playing out behind you and you see like this creeping blackness
[2553.0s] beginning to roll down this crickling creek.
[2556.8s] There, I said it three times.
[2558.0s] It's a thing.
[2558.4s] I love it.
[2558.9s] It's a word now.
[2559.7s] Yeah, something creeks do.
[2562.4s] And it's moving down this stream and towards Sully who's splashing carefree.
[2568.9s] Make sure you get my best side.
[2570.8s] Oh, yeah.
[2571.4s] Yeah, maybe maybe your best side is out of the water, though.
[2576.0s] Well, yeah, but then it doesn't leave very much to the imagination,
[2578.7s] does it?
[2579.0s] Because if I put these these these river rocks in a particular like placement,
[2584.9s] I could get really autistic with this.
[2586.7s] Well, yeah, you definitely could.
[2588.8s] But also there's I don't think that's supposed to be in Celestia.
[2593.2s] And he points behind you at the blackness that's coming down the creek.
[2598.5s] Sorry, the crickling creek.
[2599.8s] Sully turns around.
[2602.0s] He's like, oh, well, that doesn't seem like that's going to wash off.
[2606.2s] And he clamors out of the out of the creek.
[2609.5s] As you clamor, it feels slipperier as you're climbing up these rocks
[2614.8s] and you feel something grab at your foot, Sully.
[2617.8s] Oh, no.
[2618.8s] It's pulling you back.
[2620.8s] Moot, you don't specifically see anything grabbing at him.
[2623.6s] OK, Moot, Moot.
[2625.1s] Something's got me.
[2625.9s] Something's got me.
[2626.9s] It's got me.
[2627.5s] All right.
[2628.0s] OK, yeah, I'll be right there.
[2630.0s] Get it.
[2631.7s] Where are you going?
[2635.6s] Just got to get these last couple lines in.
[2637.5s] Yeah, as you're getting the last couple lines in.
[2642.4s] Sully, you get you get pulled down and you're like up to your waist
[2648.4s] and being pulled deeper into like whatever this sludge is down beneath the river.
[2653.4s] Oh, it's a gross, slippy stuff.
[2655.2s] They don't put my toes on because it's that gross stuff I want to take.
[2658.9s] I have nothing.
[2660.0s] I want to take a river rock that I had in my hand that I was strategically placing on my junk
[2664.3s] and I want to like hit at whatever has me.
[2669.1s] Slam down on top of whatever this is that's got you by the foot
[2672.4s] and is pulling you deeper and your hand gets clasped by it now.
[2676.5s] Oh, fuck.
[2677.5s] And your arm gets pulled down.
[2679.0s] I assume I'm like face underwater now.
[2681.2s] I am reminded of Homer Simpson trying to grab his legs
[2684.7s] from the quicksand and pull them up.
[2689.2s] That's where I'm at.
[2690.3s] So at this moment, I think Glim's like, oh, and gets up like, guys, guys, fantastic news.
[2697.9s] Bahamut is definitely here.
[2699.6s] I communed.
[2700.5s] I felt his presence.
[2702.2s] I'm so invigorated.
[2704.0s] I can't imagine a more incredible, beautiful, perfect day.
[2708.0s] We're going to.
[2708.6s] Oh, Mike.
[2710.4s] Sully, are you okay?
[2712.0s] No, no, we're not okay over here.
[2713.8s] You better be recording this moat.
[2715.7s] I'm going to try and rush into the water.
[2719.6s] Yeah, I'm right there.
[2721.2s] Let's all leap into action.
[2723.0s] Okay.
[2723.5s] Everybody rushes over and Glim is first into the water.
[2726.5s] And Glim, you feel your feet being like suctioned down into this creek.
[2730.8s] Oh, this is it's so why is it so slimy?
[2734.3s] You feel like it's almost like hands that are grabbing at your feet
[2738.8s] and then now pulling you deeper into this sludge.
[2742.1s] Okay.
[2742.7s] No, no, no.
[2744.8s] Are you still standing at the side?
[2746.2s] Did you go into the water too?
[2748.2s] I'm trying to figure out something to like pass Glim that she can grab onto
[2754.1s] and like pull herself out.
[2755.1s] There's tree branches, there's sticks, there's ropes, there's everything.
[2759.7s] I'm under the water.
[2760.5s] I think at this point.
[2762.0s] Yeah, you've gone under.
[2763.2s] I guess it wrenches her face from Flemington's pants.
[2767.6s] Oh, wait, we should be watching that.
[2769.1s] Okay, let's go.
[2770.0s] Wait, I'm going to get clothes on first.
[2772.0s] That's probably.
[2772.8s] Really?
[2773.6s] Whatever.
[2774.3s] We've all seen it.
[2775.5s] Here we go.
[2776.8s] Fight naked.
[2777.4s] Rush over.
[2778.6s] Toss a rope because I know exactly where it is because I've been really reorganizing.
[2783.8s] Yeah, you've done a good job.
[2785.1s] You toss a rope.
[2786.5s] So organized.
[2787.5s] You toss the rope and it goes and it floats on top of the surface of the creek.
[2792.9s] Glim, it's just drifting down just slightly beside you.
[2796.6s] Okay, I think I'm going to grab the rope and maybe tie it around me
[2801.6s] and then like guys, I've got to get Sully.
[2806.1s] Maybe like time to do a tree or something.
[2808.2s] I will start fixing the other end of the rope to actually, you know what?
[2812.7s] I'm going to attach it to Brax's saddle so that he can pull out when the moment is ready.
[2821.2s] And I think I will be like, I'm not going to stick my hand in because I saw that that
[2828.0s] was a bad idea.
[2829.7s] So I'm like lifting my leg or trying to like knee around where I think Sully is so that.
[2836.2s] Yeah, you're like sinking deeper the more you go.
[2839.0s] You try and lift your leg and it's like it's suctioned to the ground.
[2842.0s] You can't lift it.
[2844.2s] Rope is drifting down.
[2845.5s] Glim, you're tying it around yourself.
[2848.0s] Yes, being tied around Rax.
[2850.5s] Moot, you've tossed another rope.
[2852.1s] The two ropes moving around.
[2854.2s] Glim, you're reaching for Sully.
[2856.0s] As you reach for where Sully is, your hands get suctioned into the schmuck.
[2864.5s] Oh, this seems bad.
[2865.7s] Into the schmuck.
[2866.7s] There's just some jabroni down there just being a complete asshole.
[2870.4s] Hey, oh, I got him.
[2871.6s] I got another couple.
[2872.9s] They came back to the crickling creek.
[2874.9s] Oh, fucking schmuck.
[2876.6s] Next time on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
[2878.9s] And we'll see you next time.
[2880.9s] No, Guy Fieri.
[2881.9s] Your go-to schmuck is Guy Fieri.
[2885.2s] He's a saint, okay?
[2886.3s] He's a saint.
[2886.9s] I will take it back.
[2888.2s] We don't say a single bad word about him.
[2890.0s] So where my hands are now submerged, can I feel Sully or do I just feel like the
[2898.8s] creepy slime phantom hands grabbing me?
[2902.1s] Like the creek around you is now all of this.
[2905.2s] There is no clear blue stream.
[2908.3s] Moot, from where you're standing and you've got ropes going and are being tied to the
[2914.3s] horse, you hear specifically, you hear movement up in the trees.
[2919.5s] Do I see anything to go along with this movement?
[2922.4s] You turn and look and you think you see a figure move quickly up through the trees,
[2926.9s] like a small humanoid figure.
[2931.5s] You can't make out any distinct features and it bolts through the trees.
[2934.9s] Okay.
[2935.9s] Yeah, I want to throw a magic missile or three in this case into this sludge water
[2943.6s] to see what happens.
[2947.4s] Into the sludge water.
[2948.4s] Okay, cool.
[2949.1s] Love it.
[2949.7s] Yeah, because, well, it's got my friends.
[2952.8s] And maybe it'll cause a momentary reprieve.
[2956.0s] Everybody else who can see a Glimer, you're being sucked down, pulled under.
[2960.2s] Sully, you can't see any of this.
[2961.6s] Everybody else you see these three magic missiles go and hit this ooze.
[2966.8s] And this eruption of blackness explodes up and over everything.
[2974.0s] Hmm.
[2977.9s] And you all wake up the next morning and it's a beautiful sunny day.
[2983.2s] There's the sound of birds chirping up in the trees and there's this crinkling creek
[2989.0s] that's going off and somewhere to the side.
[2992.8s] Everybody stretches and the dew just kind of rolls off the grass beside you.
[2998.8s] It's such a beautiful, lovely day.
[3003.6s] Dumbgeons and Dragons, Season 2, Episode 117.
[3009.9s] Starring Amy More as Sullivan Sleight, Carla Maxted as Glim, Tom Laird as Moot,
[3015.6s] Kristen Flemmons as a Goth, and Russ More as your dungeon master.
[3019.3s] Editing, production, and sound design by Russ More.
[3022.0s] This episode featured music from Epidemic Sound and sound effects from Epidemic Sound,
[3026.3s] Boom Library, and Sound Ideas.
[3028.4s] A huge thank you to our supporting producers, Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babyok,
[3032.3s] Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden, Christian Brown, Devin Michaels,
[3035.9s] Craig Zeiss, Aaron Stevens, Darylith, Lulahan, Charlie Warley, and L.A. Branton.
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[3061.3s] Have a great week. We'll talk again soon.