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A brute, a druid, and a thief

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who is but nine years old. You

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is the brute, he knows not his home,

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he loves to sing and find. Vigors

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have health, he shifts his shape and

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wields his spear with great might. Pili's

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a thief, his tiny size does

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mask the largest part. Best in

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breads they may not be, but

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gather round friends and

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listen close for

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the tales about his

1:02

star. Hello

1:07

everybody and welcome to Spout Lore. I'm

1:09

your game master Sean O'Hara. Joining me

1:11

is always playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian,

1:13

Abdul Aziz. Hello everybody. Playing Ving

1:15

the Half-Elf Druid Paul offers. Hi there. And

1:18

playing Fat Billy the Halfling Thief Jessica Ty. Hello.

1:21

When last we left our heroes. They

1:23

confronted Malgath, first gardener and current holder

1:26

of the cutting of the heart

1:28

tree. It kicked her ass.

1:30

And it ended with the party realizing that

1:32

Malgath had been corrupted in some way by

1:34

the icon of greed that was

1:37

coursing through the tree for who knows

1:39

how long. Billy put

1:41

her to sleep with some oil of tagot.

1:43

Some might say too much oil of tagot.

1:46

Putting an old woman into a coma.

1:51

I don't regret it. I fucking deserved it.

1:53

Totally. But it is very funny

1:55

to just think about like a little kid just

1:57

like pouring a bunch of liquid on a. passed

2:00

out elderly women. That's because I know

2:02

in Billy's head he was like, I don't know if

2:04

I put enough, so he's really softened her

2:06

up. And we're just watching like, I don't

2:09

know, I think that's probably... Good

2:11

boy. Good job buddy, let's

2:13

go. You want to watch a video? Watch

2:17

this video of cats on surfboards

2:20

for a while. The

2:22

cutting was retrieved by Ving and spoken

2:24

to by Ving, given

2:26

the name Ollie, standing for

2:29

all names, and asked

2:31

if the tree knew where Elman was. The

2:33

tree had not seen Elman since it saw

2:35

you. So Billy went on a stealth mission

2:37

again to track down Elman, who is being

2:40

held for questioning in

2:43

some sort of manure laboratory. I

2:45

call it the Dunnery. The Dunnery.

2:47

Dunnery. Oh yeah, like the

2:49

shorts. Billy hid out in a trough of

2:52

hay while the guards questioned Elman, mostly showing

2:54

off a billowy cape that one of them

2:56

was very proud of. Or

2:58

Ving used his animal

3:01

speaking skills to foster a rebellion.

3:03

An animal farm. Yeah, an animal

3:05

farm style rebellion amongst the animals

3:07

who were being harvested for their

3:09

dung. It worked wonderfully,

3:12

tuck through a warthog at

3:14

the guards, knocking Elman unconscious immediately

3:17

after slipping in some shit. And

3:19

the party escaped, using

3:21

some disguises of questionable

3:24

quality. They escaped into the garden

3:26

and then faced off with members

3:28

of Dithaniel's Talon, Taurus, and Lysander,

3:31

Tuck and Ving taking one each as Billy was

3:33

tossed into the hole in the earth to

3:36

plant Ollie underneath the heart

3:38

tree. Billy and Elman arrived

3:40

in the chamber where the

3:43

heart tree is to be planted, only to find that

3:45

Hiddleston, the elf agent of

3:48

the Sun Peaks and recent loser of

3:50

an arm, was gone. And

3:53

that is where we find our heroes now, deep

3:55

beneath the earth. and

4:00

is no longer. And now there is like

4:02

a pool of kind of like dark, blood

4:05

soaked earth that drips off into the

4:07

shadows. Yeah, Billy walks up to the blood pool

4:09

and he's like, he looks at Elm and he's like,

4:11

that's blood. Pretty cool, huh? Elm

4:16

nods excitedly. Excitedly. He's

4:19

like, yeah, please. I'm

4:22

excited to watch you in

4:24

your natural adventures. He's a fan of you

4:26

guys. He's going a little bit

4:28

white, like a little pale. He's

4:31

never seen so much blood, I bet. The

4:33

trees, I mean, people are buried down here.

4:35

I feel like the blood is a good

4:37

fertilizer for these trees. It is the fertilizer.

4:39

Yeah, like they are given body. So, Elm

4:41

kind of looks up at the branches and

4:43

the roots and looks around and is like,

4:46

we're beneath the tree. We

4:48

are. And Billy

4:50

pulls out the little sapling from

4:53

the fanny pack and he says, I

4:55

think we know how to fix this. We

4:57

have to plant this little guy in

5:00

place of the knowledge tree. I

5:03

think it's the only way to heal the forest. He

5:06

nods. He looks at his cutting proudly.

5:10

I think you're right. He reads the

5:12

rune on it that says, my name is Ollie.

5:15

And taint. And also the word taint. Is

5:19

his name taint? Did

5:21

you name my cutting taint? Oh

5:23

no, that came up

5:25

after. And

5:28

he nods to himself and he looks around and goes,

5:30

yes, I think this is what

5:32

it was meant for. And in

5:34

several hundred, if not thousand years,

5:37

it will be ready to take its place

5:39

as a true knowledge tree. Oh no,

5:41

this is gonna happen fast. Vang

5:43

and I have special abilities.

5:46

I like that as a cut to

5:48

the top and Taurus and Tuck are

5:50

struggling with each other, wrestling on the

5:52

ground. And Tuck's like,

5:54

your breath smells like shit. Your breath smells like

5:56

fucking shit. He's just glaring at

5:58

you. Heh heh heh. I guess I target

6:01

to the head but this guy again as hard

6:03

as he can. Try. And make them

6:05

pass out. Yeah, hack and/ Adds.

6:08

Ten Okay, you can do your damage

6:10

and can I take more damage to

6:12

deal even more? The absolute another size

6:14

and in a d Six hundred bucks.

6:17

Do. That's. Eleven. Oh.

6:19

My god I love his

6:21

his head. On

6:24

But who is only humans? Humans

6:26

had pops off as far. As

6:29

far as abortions uses and takes it into

6:31

those as a bunch of peds spill out

6:33

as soon as always. You do not have

6:35

to kill him or yet charges or my

6:37

little but you'll take him out with us.

6:39

Yeah Organic sex. Targets.

6:42

To spouses a one inch punch

6:44

but with your head yeah, he

6:46

can hear your neck muscles like

6:48

straining backs. Yeah there's I guess

6:50

they were like Tux is grappling

6:52

with him and they're like going

6:54

back and forth A he like

6:56

remembers back Zelig in the library

6:58

and it's like an introductory likes

7:00

her for new librarians when they

7:02

were trying to get us to

7:04

actually take classes. And Pharaoh is

7:06

like the mind is the most

7:08

powerful weapon of our editors. His

7:10

legs of course, I

7:14

must use my mind. Cause

7:19

a be here. His eyes cross

7:22

so me a little birds total

7:24

around his head and he passes

7:26

out. And Tucker's welcome to Welcome

7:29

to my mind. Bits.

7:33

And he looks around to see if anybody

7:35

heard that the quickly turns have attended in

7:38

his. As

7:40

and speaking of voted to

7:43

Zang, yeah, he just had.

7:45

I hope you don't mind

7:47

that I did, did that.

7:50

I hope you don't mind. Would have been a good

7:52

line but of course Touch had to put a little

7:54

bit extra on the end of it. says.

7:57

Take knows I didn't hit exactly so

7:59

he dies. Reddit.

8:02

Users are your oh.

8:06

It seems like. The mind

8:08

is mightier than the pants.

8:12

Others as looks like years ahead

8:14

of the class. Size

8:19

Getting over it is vague as

8:21

you decide to previously before he

8:23

I tucked our i mean idiotic

8:25

Torres Torres Ios over there. so

8:28

you shoot it Taurus by day

8:30

he snatched about lie center says

8:32

you your father's boy. And.

8:34

You turn around Suited Taurus turned

8:36

back. Lysander gone bust. Cool. As

8:39

a his mother son. Ah

8:44

now now yes a deal with his the

8:46

other guards that are like kind of hustling

8:48

over. Like. The normal out our

8:50

normal regular heart would city Militia. I

8:53

wanna have a uses and all while

8:55

what are you waiting for in there

8:57

was one American scare the shit or

8:59

one was around the yard rusher. yeah,

9:02

that's right underneath. Were you waiting for

9:04

a surprise? Well I hope you don't

9:06

mind that I didn't see that I

9:09

see him as strongly as a catchphrase

9:11

of Windsor and. I

9:14

work I when you enter battle with a show

9:16

of force, a shout, a rallying cry, or a

9:18

battle dance. Rule. Plus charisma on

9:20

a ten plus your enemies feel fear

9:22

and act accordingly and you with the

9:24

other ah oh your allies are rallied

9:27

and take plus one for remote and

9:29

that's own it as is a you're

9:31

not you, it's everybody else out. attitudes

9:33

is vague down and then also potentially

9:36

building is t scream loudness yes still

9:38

he can hear you through the door

9:40

and I don't know losing as much

9:42

as a whole. oh he said there

9:45

were all. My

9:47

in the long as a tree? yeah sorry.

9:49

That are high and alright Alright. I've.

9:52

Been cowed at he said on a roll it. Ah

9:54

said. Ah

9:57

yep, that's it for that. I wrote a

9:59

song. But it always a

10:01

gathering. Yeah guys, plus charisma surge

10:03

through various seven. Oh yes, yeah,

10:06

so your allies rallied in take

10:08

plus one forward or your enemies

10:10

feel fear and act accordingly. Enemies

10:12

Hill Fear. Okay, so acting accordingly

10:15

in the case of trained. Soldiers

10:17

and it's be avoiding you like

10:20

they. Are kind of

10:22

circling around you, but they're all

10:24

keeping their distance. So what is

10:26

your war? prior? I say

10:28

guy late tax at a later after he

10:30

gets every like looks around looks around to

10:32

see if anybody hurt him during his lines.

10:35

yeah he get so mad that nobody heard

10:37

his sec line. Is like

10:39

Fox is so he wants to get

10:41

everyone's attention. So he picks up Taurus

10:43

by the front of his to next

10:45

and he lived with Sam Adams. Giant

10:47

group of guard on yeah and the

10:49

ones that don't get hit by this

10:51

massive else. the got tossed through the

10:53

air like a sack a rice, hold

10:56

out their spears and sort of like.

10:58

Spread. Out in front of you and

11:00

I do, What Are you waiting for us? So.

11:03

He has When you crowded sales, your enemies rule

11:05

plus constitutional ten plus they treat you as I'm

11:07

the most obvious threat to be dealt with. And

11:10

ignore your companions take plus do

11:12

damage ongoing aren't. Okay,

11:15

that's their fourteen ourselves as I look

11:17

insane because I just drew a giant

11:20

else at them and then I have

11:22

a huge acts and then there's just

11:24

an axe in my eyes. So what

11:27

is your what? it is Easy goes

11:29

out the mind of the extra comfy.

11:33

Seats yeah and then they are Billie

11:35

last summer. And

11:38

they all Russia. As. Much

11:40

as you skulking for. The

11:44

Circle. Skulking.

11:46

Yeah I. Saw.

11:54

this as if by the area message

11:56

that's a cool combo of of move

11:59

uses though like scaring them off

12:01

by throwing Taurus so they all kind of

12:03

spread out around you like it's a Bruce

12:05

Lee movie and then going come on and

12:08

they all rush in on you Sean can

12:10

I quickly roll because the fights about to

12:12

pop off another fight with honor? Yeah this

12:15

is something I've always wondered with fight with honor does it

12:17

count if you're like running up behind

12:19

somebody or is it a like you're facing down

12:21

people? I mean Samura's ran

12:24

up behind people and they fought with lots of honor.

12:26

Yeah and if you if you try and

12:28

make an argument that they didn't fight with honor.

12:30

Oh my god. You're not Japanese. At least

12:32

say the whole word Japanese

12:41

next time. I can't believe you

12:43

would tell it a half Chinese

12:45

woman that she's not Japanese that's

12:48

crazy if we said that you're not even

12:50

a little bit Scottish. We're not even

12:52

sure where my Chinese grandpa came from he

12:54

could come from Japan. That's true. I

12:57

don't know. That's true you're not wrong.

12:59

Oh my god you deleted her history.

13:01

Paul deleted my Scottish history I am

13:03

kind of Scottish. Well

13:07

there was once a man in 1943. And my

13:09

man was Schindler's List. Yeah.

13:17

Thanks a lot Schindler's List. Oh I

13:19

guess somebody wants to live in a

13:21

world without color. I gotta be honest

13:24

with you guys I don't even remember

13:26

what I said. I don't remember either

13:28

honestly. I'm so sorry. So

13:30

roll your fight with honor. Great I got 11. 3P.

13:34

Yeah so in my head

13:36

there's like. I just also realized

13:39

they don't have the context for why

13:41

the mind pun is funny. Oh of

13:43

course they don't. Only Taurus would know

13:45

that. Yeah. No he wouldn't know it

13:47

either because you knocked him unconscious and

13:50

then said it. Oh right. Oh wait

13:52

come on. Nevermind. Okay

13:55

so they're rushing in at Tuck and what thing Appears

13:58

behind them. No no no, they're. Rushing

14:00

into him so he's using their distracted

14:02

their focus on Tuck to take out

14:04

a couple guys yeah totally I like

14:07

do a deal damage to a foe

14:09

within sight as a running into Tuck

14:11

i without looking grab the accent of

14:13

trucks arm and nine hundred at the

14:15

leader of they're charging grew yeah totally

14:18

see only got a role he a

14:20

only utterly damage. Three. Three

14:22

it did digs deep into one of our

14:25

me I hit him in the legs and

14:27

he like stumbles as the rest of them

14:29

russia had of him but that guys he's

14:31

not dead bodies is wounded and slow the

14:34

earliest. Absolutely nice Tuck would either to they're

14:36

all running at me young lead guys down

14:38

the aisle. one is like stumbled and fallen

14:40

mind so when they start running at me

14:43

I start running it down here and then

14:45

add the ward hog is crossing my has

14:47

put your bag. Animal

14:51

as my homepage. I pick him

14:53

up and he was like a

14:55

teacup pig in my arms because

14:58

of the relatives diagrams. and I

15:00

like you failed me once before.

15:02

We're not again ever existed. I

15:04

know, as. Much.

15:09

As and I go fly through

15:11

my friends prisoners. a sister as

15:13

much as a specific wicked sit

15:16

at his face, ice as I'm

15:18

running at them, throw the word

15:20

hog and that I'm still. Running

15:22

so I can leg meet them

15:24

to. Chariots

15:28

Of I. Didn't it's

15:30

okay, Yeah, role of Molly, I

15:32

guess of. This

15:34

number is always isn't He throws thousand. And

15:38

nine, yeah, I saw a volley

15:41

on a seven to nominate. okay,

15:43

guess how are you waiting and

15:45

asked to appear young. Arms

15:48

up. You could

15:50

do this. You're free to. express

15:53

von i failed as sorry so that

15:55

pretty bad i feel they're really bad

15:57

a volley under seventy nine she's one

16:00

You have to move to get a shot, placing

16:02

you in danger. You have to take what you can

16:04

get, minus one D6 damage, or you have to

16:06

take several shots, which you can't do, because it's one

16:08

pig. I'll move myself into danger, obviously. Yeah, that's great.

16:10

You're basically already running into a group of people.

16:13

So roll your damage, plus two. Fuck

16:15

yes. Just run. Throw

16:17

the pig. Pigs up. For...

16:20

Yeah, you absolutely annihilate one guy

16:23

with a warthog. Like, you throw

16:25

it and you run. So

16:27

the pig is like basically above you, your

16:30

whole arc. You, you know, you

16:32

plant a fist in the face of the guy

16:34

that gets hit by the pig, making sure he

16:36

stays down. And now you are mobbed by

16:39

the rest of the guards. Except for the guy

16:41

that Ving hit with the axe, who

16:43

yanks it out of his leg and

16:45

throws it at Ving. Whoa. Roll

16:48

a D6. Me? From

16:50

your failure. Uh-oh. Two, two. So

16:52

you take two damage from this axe. I have armor

16:54

of two. Yep. Yeah, you just dodge it.

16:56

Oh sick, oh you do that with the cool legs. You

16:59

see the chest hair like, swing, dee, bing, bing,

17:01

bing, bing. Oh, gently, razor sharp. My

17:04

two chest hairs. You

17:06

just had the t I

17:26

don't know where to plant this. Where is

17:29

the best spot? Because we have to make sure that this,

17:31

like we only have one chance. Hmm,

17:33

roll a Daserne realities. Eight.

17:37

Okay, so you get one question. What here is

17:40

useful or valuable to me? Elmin

17:42

paces around. It's

17:44

hard for him to see, cause you know, there's

17:47

a little bit of light filtering from above, but

17:49

it's not terribly bright. Can I create a little

17:51

will of the wisp? Oh yeah, absolutely. Okay. A

17:54

light cat appears and paces around

17:56

the chamber with Elmin as he looks and

17:59

is like touching. And as

18:01

he like places a hand on sort of one of

18:03

the thicker roots of the tree you can see him

18:05

wince a little bit. Oh This

18:08

tree is sick but

18:10

the soil is good he

18:12

like kneels down and sort of Swirls

18:14

a hand on the soil like he pulls

18:17

up a handful of earth and a little

18:19

bit of rotted root Crumbles in

18:21

his hand. That's supposed to happen the

18:23

tree rotting not at this pace But

18:27

this soil still contains the remains the

18:29

memories the work hundreds

18:31

of gardeners. I Think we can

18:33

do it here. Okay, so

18:36

Billy starts digging Next

18:38

to where Elman cut the whole Billy's is like Small

18:42

hands. Yeah, totally I've built

18:44

many sand castles. So I'm really good at

18:47

digging. I Would like I

18:49

would like to see one of these sand castles one day. I

18:51

can do on right now And Elman takes Ollie

18:53

from you and gently So

19:03

gently removes like the pot. Okay, Billy. It

19:05

stops building. She's like, oh it was a

19:07

big deal And also he's

19:10

like there's my bucket Any

19:13

places the pot on the ground next to Billy

19:16

Billy takes it Literally

19:20

like an era defining moment in the history

19:22

of civilization and you're just like and there's

19:24

gonna be a little flag His

19:27

brain is split two ways. He's like

19:29

immense powerful moment and he's like sand Phenomenal

19:35

cosmic power And

19:39

he lowers the cutting with

19:41

its root ball into the earth and

19:44

you can see the tendrils already like

19:46

reaching into the soil as

19:48

he Mounds the soil back

19:50

in place Vincan feel it up top.

19:52

Whoa. Yeah Yeah, and as

19:54

you feel this like connection with the

19:56

soil that the cutting is making this

19:58

new knowledge tree taking root in this

20:01

ancient place. You suddenly feel

20:03

like a spike of anxiety in

20:06

your chest. You feel

20:08

the earth rumble a

20:10

little bit and you hear a

20:12

groaning and you realize that the

20:14

tree is resisting. Oh no. Oh

20:16

shit. What do you do? Billy

20:20

could defend. Whoa. Defend

20:23

Ollie? That's sick. That's

20:25

pretty fun. That's so cool. Yeah, let's do

20:27

it. So what does defend? Yeah,

20:29

defend. When you stand in

20:31

defense of a person, item,

20:33

or location, role plus constitution.

20:36

Yes. Okay. 2d6 plus

20:38

con. Oof.

20:41

Fuck. I got six. Oh,

20:43

this is bad. Okay, I can aid. Ving,

20:45

we already established his connection as well. He's

20:47

feeling it too. Oh. Oh yes.

20:49

Yes. Yes. Okay. Yes.

20:52

How do you aid? I hear Ollie. Mm.

20:55

Call out. Oh yeah.

20:57

Nice. Did he

21:00

say something? I think he says something, like it might

21:02

be kind of cliched, but I think he says something

21:04

like, it's too strong. You know, like that kind of

21:06

shit where he's like, I can't. I'm just a little

21:08

guy. I'm only small. And

21:11

you also hear like from the other tree,

21:13

this like massive chittering sound,

21:15

like not even words.

21:19

It's almost like the sound of

21:21

creatures coming. Yeah. Yeah. They're

21:23

claws. Yeah. So even the

21:25

creatures, evil murmurs from

21:28

the reaches of this rotten tree

21:30

are echoed through the wood to Ving. He

21:33

hears the echoes of the chirps, the rotten

21:35

chirps of the forest gone bad. Yeah, because

21:37

they would sense something new and pure and

21:39

they'd be like consumed. Yeah, totally. And like

21:41

we established last episode that like at the

21:44

edges of the woods, all the rotten things

21:46

that the tree is supporting, like are starting

21:48

to like wither. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I

21:51

feel like some of the really evil things, the

21:53

more sentient things would be dashing towards the heart.

21:55

Oh shit. To protect it. Yeah. That

21:58

would be a gathering of awful things. Right. Yeah, it's like wasps

22:01

returning to the hive. Gross. 2d6

22:03

plus bond. Yeah. Oh, five.

22:06

Oh. Oh no. Damn. What

22:09

did you get? I got a four plus

22:11

my bond is five. Fuck. Ah.

22:14

This is not okay. This is not how it's

22:16

supposed to be. Well, you know what? It

22:18

is a big fucking tree. Yeah, that's true.

22:20

Sorry for cursing everyone. No, it's okay. Okay.

22:24

So I think that Billy, you're

22:27

like reaching out against like greed, like this

22:29

field of greed that is washing

22:31

over you. The tree is resisting. This

22:33

place is like soaked in this iconic

22:35

influence. Yeah. The greed, it's reaching out

22:37

to you, but more specifically, it's

22:40

reaching out to the fairy. Oh.

22:42

And it's what do they want to

22:45

sleep? It wants to change to sleep. Yeah.

22:48

So it's like, do you think the fairy in

22:50

Billy is trying to shift

22:52

because after spring, of course comes summer or

22:55

is it trying to jump right to winter because it's been

22:57

so long? Oh,

22:59

that's a good question. Oh,

23:02

you know what? I

23:05

was saying this to Sean earlier, Billy has held

23:07

out for so long because he felt the

23:10

child like deserves the family and like,

23:12

that's what he like kept him alive

23:14

for. And he went a really long

23:16

time without it, but Billy's had that

23:19

family now. Yeah. With

23:21

a kid or whatever. The deal is fulfilled. It's like,

23:23

yeah, it's almost like the pinky promises the oath

23:25

has been fulfilled. Yeah. I

23:27

don't know how to explain it. The wheel

23:30

wants to turn now. You

23:33

lock the wheel, like the wheel of

23:35

like the season because you were like, you

23:37

made the deal. You made the fairy

23:40

deal with the kid where you're like, I'll get

23:42

you a family. And that's what was locking the

23:44

wheel for you. And now you have to. Yeah.

23:47

So it's like Billy has put his own

23:49

stopper into it. Yeah. It's

23:52

like a water wheel and you're not pouring the

23:54

water on it, but there's the water is now

23:57

flowing. Yeah. With your control.

24:00

Yeah, okay, so yeah, I

24:02

think this force is

24:04

like reaching out to you as you feel this wheel

24:07

turning inside you, as the fairy is like-

24:09

Is it like the stopper like- I think

24:11

it pops out and you breathe out and

24:14

your breath mists in front of you. Oh no.

24:16

And you see frost creeping out

24:19

around your feet. Oh shit. And your eyelids

24:21

feel heavy. What? Oh my

24:23

god. I'm fine. I'm

24:26

fine. Hey, don't come near me

24:28

or whatever. I don't know, just stand over

24:30

there, Elmond. Stand with the tree. I'll

24:33

back up. I'll back up. Yeah, and

24:35

you step behind and you feel the

24:37

ground like crisp and crunch underneath you.

24:40

I mean, did Ving go down

24:42

there? Was that- Ooh. Right? Because

24:44

you were trying to get down there. So then I guess

24:46

you wouldn't be able to. Yeah. You felt

24:49

something happening. I was gonna re-check. And you like reached out

24:51

to try and stop it. Okay. Yeah,

24:54

but you weren't able to. And now you

24:56

know Billy's down there. Something's wrong. I

24:58

could use both of my holds to cross

25:00

a distance between me and a foe. I

25:03

still have two holds for my fight with honor.

25:05

Yeah. So you feel Billy beneath

25:07

you in danger and you

25:10

just like slam into the ground? Gotta

25:12

go. Yeah. Oh,

25:14

that's so cool looking in my head. Yeah. Where

25:17

you're just like superman, like superhero landed

25:19

kind of thing. Like just shatter the

25:21

ground beneath you. Tuck. Billy.

25:24

Boom. Through the ground. Yeah.

25:28

Those are your holds. My two holds I spent. Yeah,

25:30

cross a distance and break through a physical obstacle. Yes.

25:33

Yeah. And the ceiling of the chamber opens

25:35

above you, Billy. Your eyes are like because

25:37

of, honestly, mainly because of

25:39

what Billy said when Greed asked what he wanted. I

25:41

feel like your eyelids are like getting angry. I know.

25:44

He's definitely like doing the sleepy thing like where he's

25:46

like, whoa. Yeah. That's fine. And

25:49

this feels nice. Feels good. But he's

25:52

got his eyelids open. He's like got

25:54

constant vigilance. Yeah. Like

25:56

propping his own eyelids open. Yeah. Where

25:58

your eyes are too open. I'm not

26:00

sleeping. I'm not, I am not

26:02

tired. So unfocused, you're not focused

26:04

on anything? Little kid saying that

26:07

he's not tired. Yeah. As the ceiling, like

26:09

you hear a crash above you and

26:11

sunlight like fills the chamber

26:13

as Ving plummets from above.

26:17

Ving, you land on the ground underneath

26:20

and you see Billy like frosting

26:22

over like a car in

26:24

a parking lot. Don't

26:27

worry about it. I just wouldn't touch

26:29

me. I'm not sleeping right now. I

26:31

don't know if it's contagious. I think I

26:33

just have a cold. Icyco,

26:37

like literal ice pouring out. I have

26:40

a little cold. Is

26:42

the boy shivering at this point? He

26:45

is shivering, but not because he's

26:47

cold. Oh, all right. I'd

26:49

like to use eye of the storm to exert my will

26:51

in a circle around me. Roll plus con on a hit.

26:53

The world calms. Seven to nine. The

26:56

effect only, it affects only what I touch as long

26:58

as I'm touching it. Can you use it to steal the wheel? I'm

27:02

wondering. Eye of the storm. Okay.

27:06

Okay. So I got 10. Okay.

27:10

So you exert your will around you. Yes. And

27:13

the world calms. I

27:15

would say you can either use it

27:17

to halt the tree in its

27:19

resistance or you can stop what's going on with

27:21

Billy. Yeah, I'm going to choose Billy. Okay. So

27:24

what does this look like? I

27:27

mean, in this very spiritually

27:31

loud and tumultuous moment

27:34

with the tree screaming that he's in

27:36

his home world and the stuff with

27:38

his dad, I kind of want to

27:40

land in this weird superhero move. And

27:43

somehow I would like to walk up

27:45

to Billy and pick up

27:47

his fairy child. Like from the body?

27:50

From the shadow dance. Oh, that

27:52

makes sense. Somehow in this

27:55

calming of this world and take him

27:57

just outside and try to calm him

27:59

and warm him up. him and comfort

28:01

him and let the boy Billy not

28:03

freeze to death. Yeah. Just

28:06

to put some distance between you and the fae. I

28:09

think you were bang on. Like I think that

28:11

Billy's, I think the body, the physical

28:13

body is maybe reacting poorly to this

28:16

situation. So removing the fairy from the

28:18

body saves both in this moment. Yeah,

28:20

and then holding the fairy and calming

28:22

it to like get the

28:24

wheel to stop turning before you put it back. Cause

28:27

like the body can survive without the fairy in

28:30

it. That's what shadow dance is. Yeah. So

28:32

what is the fairy look like when at this

28:34

point when the wheel is like turning inside it,

28:37

what does it look like when Ving removes

28:39

it? This is

28:41

like, it looks like the first snow. Oh,

28:45

really just like sparkly, soft,

28:48

cool, quiet. So

28:50

what does Ving do? He's

28:52

got this fairy in his hands. Ving

28:56

asks it if he wants to play a game. A

28:58

game? Yeah. What do you

29:00

want to do? You want to play some catch? You want to

29:02

hide and seek? What are you looking for? I like to

29:05

chase. Oh yeah? Yeah.

29:08

And then Ving starts kind of jauntly running backwards.

29:10

I bet you can't catch me. I bet I

29:12

can catch you. I bet you can't. I bet

29:14

I can. I turn. The

29:17

snow follows and the winds pick

29:19

up. And I'm running around being

29:21

chased and picked up by the wind and

29:23

put back down. And the flurries like

29:25

grow. I love to chase. My

29:28

hair's blowing all over the place. I bet

29:30

you're cold right now. I'm pretty cold. I'm

29:33

actually really, really cold. The

29:36

wind picks up more, the snow gets thicker and it's

29:38

like, you have to let me catch

29:40

you. Okay. And

29:43

Ving stops. And then the fairy swirls

29:46

around you and the ice starts

29:48

to form around you. In

29:53

this realm, can

29:55

I transmute

29:58

my body into a form made from the

30:00

raw elements in the spiritual

30:02

realm. I

30:04

wanted to turn into the ice

30:06

bear. Whoa. Okay. Yeah, 2D6 plus

30:08

constitution, I think, for elemental form.

30:14

I got a nine. Two hold.

30:18

Yeah. I gather

30:20

the wind. It's not a

30:22

solid bear. It's kind

30:24

of like a misty wind

30:27

and frosty. The

30:29

winter likes this, so he helps.

30:33

And he's, he starts frolicking

30:35

more just to get him to play, trying to

30:37

play him out a little bit. And

30:40

one of those holds will definitely go towards enduring

30:43

this bitter cold. Very

30:45

cold that winter is bringing to

30:47

you. And winter says, I know

30:50

what you're doing. You can't distract

30:52

me. I don't

30:55

want to distract you. I want

30:58

Billy to be safe. And

31:00

I wanted a chance to thank

31:02

you. For what? For

31:06

giving me the chance to get to know him and

31:08

you. Being

31:11

our friend and our family for all these years.

31:14

It might not mean to you what it means to me, but

31:17

it's important for me to say it to you. Thank

31:19

you. And winter like

31:21

bristles at that. I

31:23

don't do well with feelings. If

31:26

you want me to go, you have to trade. What

31:29

would you like? What

31:31

would you like? I know you want something from

31:33

me. Do you want time? I

31:37

would like some time. But

31:39

I can come back, right? I

31:42

don't think there's anything in this world

31:44

or any other that's going to stop you. Thing

31:48

takes a bit of his arm and throws it at

31:50

the fairy. The snowball. It

31:52

catches it. Playing

31:54

catch. So

31:57

yeah, the winter throws the snowball

31:59

back. Okay. I'll

32:02

leave for now. You know where to find

32:04

us. Yeah, it just

32:06

dissipates. And

32:08

the snow bear falls to the ground. Does

32:11

Billy wake? Yeah, and he's like... Billy

32:13

is like... Then

32:16

close the window. Just

32:18

fucking freeze in here. Why is it

32:20

so cold? I'm literally freezing.

32:24

It's so cold. Why

32:26

am I sitting in so much water? I'm

32:30

so bright. You're waking up

32:32

like an angry kid that hits the

32:34

bed. Yeah. I impede my pants. I

32:37

might impede my pants. What

32:40

did you do to me? Can

32:43

I ask you a question? Did

32:45

you give him time? Like...

32:47

It was very gifted in time. Was

32:50

it time for Billy

32:52

to continue to be Billy? Time with

32:54

Billy. But it wasn't crystallized time. Billy

32:57

is still required for that, but

33:00

he gave Vang the gift of more time with Billy. Which

33:02

he added to the body, yeah. The promise

33:04

of time. So the

33:06

fairy basically traded the game for time. Okay,

33:08

cool. And

33:11

as Billy and Vang as you sort of

33:13

reconnect, you hear Elman go,

33:16

Help! It's dying! The

33:19

tree! And

33:21

you turn and you see the sapling has begun. Oh

33:24

no! Ollie! They're

33:28

fighting you with fear-driven abandon, so a

33:30

lot of them have cast away their

33:32

weapons and are just wailing on you.

33:35

What do you do? Do I

33:37

feel anything that happened is going on

33:39

below? You don't feel a fucking thing.

33:42

Fucking stupid idiot! I

33:45

don't like that! I

33:48

mean, what you do feel is about half

33:51

a dozen pairs of fists and boots wailing

33:53

into your body. He

33:56

loses fucking my mold. Yeah, he would have chopped

33:58

down this tree already. That's

34:01

something we never considered. Is it just chopping the

34:04

tree there? Just chop the whole thing down. The

34:06

size of the house from home. Yeah, I know.

34:08

So much chopping. It's not that big. It wouldn't take

34:11

that long. Okay, what is

34:13

Tuck? Yeah, what do you do? I

34:15

think Tuck just goes into full-on close-quarters

34:17

fight mode. He threw the pig at

34:19

one of them. They all

34:22

tackled him. And it's just

34:24

a full-on Donnie Broke, where it's just

34:26

like everyone... A fucking bench-clearer. Yeah, everyone

34:28

just dropped their gloves and started fucking

34:31

wailing. And they kind of start fighting

34:33

each other too. Right. Yeah,

34:36

this is like street kid Tuck. This is

34:38

like fighting in an alley, life or death.

34:40

Totally. But yeah, he just

34:42

like... It's like punch, block, punch, kick

34:44

a guy into the tree. He leaves

34:47

a pretty bloody imprint. Yeah, totally. Yeah,

34:49

grab one guy, throw him into another

34:51

guy. This is hack and slash straight

34:53

up. Stomp, break a guy's leg. Jesus

34:56

Christ. It's really close... It's

34:58

just close-quarters fast fight. Yeah. It's

35:01

10. Okay, so you deal your damage.

35:03

And then I also do want to take more

35:05

damage. Okay. He's in the mosh

35:07

now. How much point do you have left? Yeah,

35:09

what do you have left? I have 13 left.

35:11

Okay, so... This is a long day.

35:13

What did I say earlier? It was a

35:16

D6 for one of these guys. Yeah.

35:18

So it's a D6, but there's a

35:20

ton of them. It usually adds like

35:23

guaranteed damage basically when you're being piled

35:25

on. And it's usually for

35:27

each one. Do it. I don't

35:29

think I can do it. It would be like, you know, D6 plus

35:32

guaranteed damage. Do it. This makes

35:34

sense. Okay. What did I say? Oh,

35:37

I did say half a dozen, didn't I? Okay, there's six

35:39

left. So I guess it would be plus five. Okay, great.

35:42

So it would 1 D6 plus five damage.

35:44

Okay, can I roll my damage first?

35:46

Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Okay.

35:50

Okey-doke. Yeah. Wow.

35:53

So D6 plus five. Six. And

35:56

then I have three armors, so I only take three.

35:58

Holy fuck. That's unreal. So

36:00

this is like, it's exactly like you described. Three

36:02

of them are just like, you just snap a

36:04

leg, you kick a dude into the tree, he

36:07

crumples to the ground. You reach out

36:09

and you grab and crush something. This

36:12

is kind of like a, this is a pure situation

36:14

for Tuck, because no matter where you swing, it's a

36:17

bad guy. So you just

36:19

go fucking buck wild. Yeah, and I think-

36:21

Berserker mode basically. Totally, yeah, I'm in Berserker

36:23

mode, and I think it's the kind of

36:25

thing where TLC are sort of like guiding

36:27

me, where it's like no matter where I

36:29

hit, I hit something. Yeah, totally. Great,

36:32

so yeah, you deal with three of these dudes,

36:34

you just rip them apart. And some of them

36:36

are stabbing me and stuff. Yeah. They

36:39

were like tiny knives. Yeah. Three

36:42

of them you don't feel. Great, so

36:44

yeah, you've dealt with three of these, like there

36:46

are three of these guys left, they're terrified. Some

36:49

of them are starting to consider, you can

36:52

see in their eyes, the animal fear of

36:54

like, run, run, run. So

36:56

some of them are starting to consider running away. Tuck's

36:58

just like, let's finish this. Yeah, totally.

37:01

Yeah. 2D6 plus strength. So

37:03

Tuck's like thing now is he's like, they're

37:05

the smart people are downstairs trying to figure

37:07

out what. Yeah, I'm gonna keep the dumb

37:09

ones up here. Yeah. I was thinking

37:11

the elso, it'll make sense, like overall because

37:14

with the spiritual stuff, and then Tuck

37:16

is like the mortal man, like

37:18

you're like the dad having to do this shit.

37:20

Yeah. Yeah, I mean you do a lot of

37:22

the emotional heavy lifting as well. He's

37:25

the step dads running out of the house with

37:27

the baseball bat across the street. Playing for

37:30

dad mode right now. Yeah, whereas I'm beating them

37:32

up, I'm like, I'm not a step dad, I'm

37:34

the dad that steps up. Oh my

37:36

god. Can

37:39

you tell me what Margaret said? Step

37:42

dads everywhere crying. They

37:46

lift up their shirts, it says Tuck on it. There's

37:49

only three of them. Yeah. There's

37:51

one guy, this is TU. Yeah. He's

37:54

late. He's late, he's

37:56

on the bus. He got a

37:58

DUI. He got a DUI, he can't drive. See

38:00

what's up with the shirt, it

38:02

says DUI. TU

38:06

to do it. I don't get it. To

38:09

do it. All right,

38:11

2D6 plus strength. But yeah, the

38:13

goal here is to clear the

38:15

garden so that no more guards

38:17

are left over so that Billy

38:19

and Vink can finish this. Yeah.

38:22

Wow. So that's 15. Wow.

38:25

Oh wait, yep, 15. Oh my god. That's a

38:27

lot. Oh, they dead. The boxcars

38:29

and then plus three. Yeah, there's fudge.

38:31

Okay, go ahead and roll your damage.

38:34

I assume you're going to take more damage. Yep. Yep.

38:38

That's 10 plus 2 is 12. Yep. And

38:41

then you're going to roll D6 plus 2, I guess.

38:43

I only take one damage. All right,

38:45

so you take care of the remaining three. What

38:48

does this look like? This is amazing. Tuck

38:50

is so deadly. He

38:52

just, he really doesn't. Thank god. He

38:54

just cruises around making dick jokes half the

38:56

time. He might be one of the greatest

38:59

living warriors. But he's just like, fucking look

39:01

at my balls, bro. Yeah,

39:03

he mooned the elven court literally like a

39:05

week ago. That was a week ago. Just

39:10

amazing. All right, yeah.

39:12

He punches one guy out, just

39:15

straight lays him out. Yeah. Another

39:17

guy he grabs and throws into the tree. And

39:20

then the last guy before Tuck

39:22

kills him, he's just like, hey,

39:25

not sure if you're possessed or not. But

39:28

if your demon goes back to the iconic

39:30

realm, tell the gibbous man I'm coming for

39:32

him. And then he kicks

39:34

his head off. What?

39:39

Holy fuck. Tuck

39:44

is very strong. And

39:47

yeah, you're just standing there surrounded by bodies.

39:50

Catch the head. It

39:52

goes over the wall of the cliff. And

39:55

then Finn is driving by in a

39:57

carriage outside. It

40:00

smashes through. And Lance

40:02

always laughs. And I was like, aww.

40:06

Mummy! We

40:08

harmonize that. That was

40:10

good. And

40:13

back below the earth, under

40:15

the tree, Elman is basically

40:17

moving his hands around the tree. He doesn't

40:19

know what to do. He's panicking. Thing

40:23

touches his arm. It's dying. Pulls

40:27

out the sunstone torch and the well

40:29

water from Hibernia. Nice.

40:33

And he reaches out and grasps those

40:35

things. Thing takes the ring off

40:37

and puts it on Elman so he can talk to Ollie. Oh.

40:43

Talk to him. This is

40:46

Ollie. Elman. Have

40:49

a conversation with yourself, Shost. I

40:53

think all Elman says, because he

40:56

understands in the moment what he is able to do

40:58

now. All he says

41:00

is, tell me what you need. And

41:03

Ollie does. He delicately

41:06

pours the water from Hibernia in

41:08

a circle around where

41:10

Ollie has been planted. And

41:13

smeared on the sack is a bunch of the shit from

41:15

the shit shack. Huh? Smeared

41:18

on the sack that he tumbled down the hole from.

41:21

Right. Smeared on the sack

41:23

is manure. The highest quality manure that the

41:25

garden... What'd I say? I

41:28

heard... You just said smeared on the sack is shit

41:30

from the shit shack. I thought it was a really

41:32

cool thing to build up. I thought you were like

41:34

a tongue twister. All of my

41:36

tunglers are tongue twisters. Smeared on the

41:39

shit shack. And he works some of the manure

41:41

into the soil using his

41:43

gardener experience to pick

41:45

out. He's smelling

41:47

it basically and rubbing it between his

41:49

fingers to find the highest quality stuff.

41:52

And then he's using the Sunstone torch. Almost

41:55

like it looks like he's like, wanding the

41:57

plant at the airport. Like he's kind

41:59

of... of like passing it over the

42:02

plants, which is helping. You can see some

42:04

of the leaves are returning

42:07

to a somewhat more vibrant

42:09

life with the protection

42:12

of the sunstone, but

42:15

it's not enough. Can Billy come in and try

42:17

lightening in a bottle? Which I think is what

42:19

I did in the spirit world. Yes,

42:21

absolutely. Yeah, and it's what you've done on Hybernia.

42:23

This is a thing that Billy has done before.

42:26

Okay, I roll plus dexterity. And

42:28

you're doing this to push time

42:30

into the tree? Yes, yeah, well,

42:32

I think so. But what

42:34

if it pushes, if he's not doing it and

42:36

we push time, then it could die faster.

42:39

Right, if I push, oh, right, because

42:41

it's like. Right, there's something that's not

42:44

thriving, so yeah. Knowledge, yeah,

42:46

I'm going to transfer the

42:48

ancient knowledge of the original knowledge

42:51

tree to Ollie, would that work?

42:55

Yeah, I guess you could pull the knowledge.

42:58

You could do that on the memories, like out of the soil,

43:00

yeah, and feed it to Ollie. Wow,

43:03

okay, yeah. There's

43:06

dexterity. Yes, 11. Okay.

43:09

So is there any water

43:11

left? Yeah, there's

43:14

a little bit in the container.

43:16

Yeah, Billy takes that and sort

43:18

of like how he knit the

43:21

withershins and the sunwise,

43:23

he does that between Ollie

43:25

and the original tree. Oh,

43:29

cool, so it creates this, you can see. Like

43:32

a pattern? Yeah, a little

43:34

like an infinite pattern flowing. Yeah,

43:37

and what does it look like once the knowledge

43:39

begins entering the water, what is the

43:41

physical manifestation of the knowledge? The

43:43

tree is like sucking up the water and

43:46

the runes are coming up in little, what

43:49

do you call it? Columns?

43:52

Columns, like little rivers that go up and

43:54

it's like writing itself up the tree. Oh,

43:57

that's really cool. Cool.

44:00

water passes over the sapling, like the

44:02

runes are forming behind the water. Oh,

44:04

that's really cool. That's really cool. That's

44:06

the bark. That's so cool. That's really

44:08

cool. And the tree is growing like

44:10

faster, it feels like, than it should

44:12

be, even though you haven't like put

44:14

time into it yet. You

44:16

can see like the layers, the rings

44:18

forming, like runes will go up and

44:20

then like... It's like writing a

44:22

book super speed. Right, yeah. The

44:24

bark grows over and over and over. It's

44:27

pressing the knowledge into itself. That's really cool.

44:29

So the knowledge begins pouring into the

44:32

sapling. Yeah, and the water like

44:35

gets pulled into the earth and then like

44:37

comes out in other parts and the

44:39

river grows bigger, I guess, around it

44:42

as the roots start to spread out.

44:44

That's sick. That's really cool. Yeah. Elman,

44:47

from where he was on his knees next to the sapling,

44:49

like gets up and starts to move away as the water

44:51

courses stronger around the sapling.

44:55

Is it working? It seems to

44:57

be. Yeah, something about like having this connection

44:59

to the ancient

45:01

knowledge of this place is

45:04

strengthening the sapling. And

45:06

Billy runs his fingers through the water, kind

45:08

of still guiding it, but then he'll flick

45:11

out sometimes like his hand as if he's

45:13

like removing the impure stuff. Oh,

45:15

cool. Cool. That's pretty cool.

45:17

That's sick. So yeah,

45:20

Billy weaves this infinite

45:23

current from the old knowledge tree

45:26

to the sapling Elman gets

45:28

up from his place next to the

45:30

cutting as the water starts to flow

45:33

stronger and stronger drawing the old knowledge

45:35

from the tree to the new growth.

45:39

And Billy is like hunched over the water sort of

45:41

removing impurities and

45:44

debris. And Billy

45:46

beckons Elman to come back and he's like,

45:48

it needs the sunstone. Oh,

45:50

so Elman crouches down next to Billy and

45:53

continues this sort of wanding. I

45:56

just wanted Ving to add because he

45:58

knows that the gardeners are so. So my

46:00

anchoring part of this tree, he takes

46:03

one of the arrows that he has

46:05

and cuts his palm and he knows

46:07

that he's got his mother's

46:09

blood as part of him.

46:12

It would recognize you then. Yeah.

46:15

It would recognize me and her

46:17

through me. Yeah. And he

46:19

gives some drops of his blood

46:21

and Eliana's blood. I know that he's something

46:24

else. No, but I think that

46:26

this works, this tracks for sure. Yeah. He

46:29

did tend the tree for a while. Yeah. So

46:31

it would recognize, yeah. The memory of him and his father.

46:33

Yeah. Yeah. He's

46:36

all of it. I do think I want like a wisdom, like

46:38

a 2D6 plus wisdom. Right.

46:40

To see sort of what this means. Yeah,

46:43

I got six. Ooh, I will aid. Thank

46:45

you. You're welcome. 2D6 plus

46:47

bond. Nice. Thank

46:51

you, Billy. Okay. All right.

46:55

Yeah, the drops hit the water and

46:57

are carried away and it's flowing. They join

46:59

the current. They do. And so that has

47:01

this red, red in

47:03

among the water. Red ribbons. Yeah,

47:06

red ribbons. You see like

47:08

a red streak start forming through

47:10

the tree. Yes. Cool.

47:14

Sick. And where Ving has cut

47:16

himself on the hand, Ving

47:18

doesn't know why, but his hand

47:21

heals in the rune that says

47:23

his mother's name. Cool. Sick.

47:26

And you feel whatever like tenuous connection

47:28

you felt to the old tree, you

47:31

feel a stronger connection to the

47:33

young one. And Elman looks up.

47:36

His eyes are glittering. It's like, it's

47:38

working. It's working. And

47:41

we cut above. Tuck. You

47:44

have a sea of corpses

47:47

around you. Did this hole

47:49

in the earth yawns before you? You

47:51

know Ving went down there. You

47:54

can assume. Yeah. Is

47:56

the earth still crumbling where Ving entered?

47:59

Oh, still crumbling. crumbling. Oh, because the tree is

48:01

still attempting to resist because like the

48:03

tree is still fighting. The tree is

48:05

still resisting, right? So I think as

48:07

you're standing up there, the hole that

48:10

Vin created begins to form a chasm,

48:12

like chunks of earth are falling in.

48:14

Yeah. In front of you. As Tuck

48:16

is watching this, he can feel sort

48:18

of like the resistive effects of the

48:20

ghost roots starting to wear off. Oh,

48:22

yeah. And like his like iron will

48:24

or whatever. Yeah. Sorry.

48:31

Like the table just lifted by seven

48:33

to eight inches. You feel

48:35

the effects of the ghost root begin to

48:38

leave you. And as the

48:41

lamplight hour arrives in

48:43

your mind now, time has passed.

48:45

Yeah. And time is being wended

48:47

in some way around you. As

48:50

the lamplight hour begins in your mind's

48:52

eye, flames begin to lick up the

48:54

tree in front of you. Engulfing

48:57

the branches above. So

49:00

Tuck takes this as like, you know, he

49:02

still knows he's fucked, right? Like he basically

49:04

hasn't slept in weeks. Yeah.

49:07

He's got a minus one constitution and he knows

49:09

that like this is like the effect of the

49:12

coin in his chest in the tree. He

49:14

knows the tree is doing something. Ooh.

49:18

And now that you said, I think you

49:20

hear sounds

49:22

in the earth and on top

49:25

of the walls around you. Imps.

49:28

Imps. Oh, are

49:30

you fucking kidding me? Begin crawling over

49:32

the wall. Whoa. One of them has the head of

49:34

the guy. Oh yeah. Oh

49:37

no. One of them has this guard's

49:39

head like in place of where like

49:41

a wolf's head should be. Oh geez.

49:43

And they're hauling themselves over the wall.

49:46

And then Tuck goes, I hope

49:49

you don't mind. I'll give you, I,

49:51

I'm, I'm happy. The

50:00

much earlier as I'm glad I

50:02

got to give you a little

50:04

piece of mind as a he

50:06

looks around to see as a

50:08

bus heard. Any only

50:10

people and heard it. Or

50:13

dead status. So what do

50:15

you do? I tucked.

50:17

I. Will add no wait, I won't add Soya I once

50:19

you know you're gonna have to do this or realities if

50:22

you want here. When I was gonna say been. Detected

50:25

it is a reality is to hear what

50:27

sonos about similar events know what I mean.

50:30

No one of the do now. I

50:32

want to hear. That. Of

50:34

five blood was embraces virus.

50:38

You don't see is nothing unusual

50:40

about the situation box not. Love

50:42

this idea of the ah and

50:44

it's not a ton. It

50:47

is a good like hand, like a

50:49

good amount of imps and we're not

50:51

like an overwhelming force. Yes, okay. Well.

50:54

They're also not very fast straight. Dnc.

50:56

Are quite fast and I think depending

50:59

on their configuration, the after. Death.

51:01

And would sorry what he does. served as a few

51:04

things I can do. I. Can defend

51:06

many staunch defender and defend. Yeah The

51:08

other thing I can do steel see

51:10

where I do a sacrifice in an

51:12

effort to like fight back against the

51:15

tree hugger. Like what end he wants

51:17

to like cut the tree asked by

51:19

He wants to silence the tree interesting

51:21

in it. If he does that it

51:24

might like to make the amps like

51:26

just not alive anymore. Yeah totally yeah.

51:29

Interesting. Yeah. I. Say circle,

51:31

do that. Yeah. It's almost like him

51:33

removing the head of shadow. Pero. Yes,

51:35

in a sack closer as it

51:38

in for it. Yeah he really

51:40

wants to use this. The axe

51:42

to legs sever the connection that

51:44

free has with plates. I guess

51:46

the metaphysical forces? cool yeah as

51:48

really cool. So. Taylor.

51:51

and sad you are initiated in

51:53

the old ways the way to

51:55

sacrifice to something your gods or

51:57

this ancestors spirits value blood gold

52:00

bones of the like when you sacrifice

52:02

those things as per your rights and

52:04

rituals, role plus wisdom. Fuck.

52:08

On a 10 plus, the GM will grant

52:10

you insight into your current trouble or a

52:12

boon to help you. On

52:14

a seven to nine, the sacrifice is not enough

52:16

and they take up your flesh as well, but

52:18

you still get the boon. On

52:20

a miss, you earn the ire of the fickle

52:23

spirits. Okay. Dv6

52:26

plus wisdom. Fuck. Four.

52:30

Four. Oh boy. Then

52:33

yeah, tell me what Tuck does. It

52:36

just doesn't do what you want it to do. Uh-oh.

52:41

So Tuck, we

52:43

put the obsidian coins like in

52:45

the all save, but then Tuck

52:47

had taken one from Elf Hiddleston

52:49

that he forgot about. Oh. Yeah.

52:53

So he's going to smash that. Oh

52:55

cool. Yeah. Except, except

52:57

it doesn't fucking work. Okay.

53:01

So Tuck, you have this coin in your hand

53:03

that you stole from Hiddleston. You

53:07

just kind of softball it like you've done in the past.

53:09

You toss it in the air in front of you. Yeah.

53:12

I flick it. You swing Terry, Larry and

53:14

Chad in a practiced arc

53:16

in front of you and the

53:18

blade connects and the coin

53:20

shatters into a million pieces. And

53:24

as it does, the realm rends

53:26

in front of you for a moment and

53:29

stepping through that void, the

53:31

gibbous man. Well,

53:33

well, well. Kind

53:36

of blew it, huh? And

53:40

I think that's where we're going to end it for this week. I've

53:42

been your game master Sean O'Hara. Joining me is

53:44

always playing Tacoma Dome, the Barbarian of Dual disease.

53:46

So long. Playing Ving, the half elf

53:48

druid, Paul Oppers. Take care. Playing

53:51

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53:53

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