[SPEAKER_07]: Once upon a time, there was a little village called Dear Hollow.
[SPEAKER_07]: That was very much like any other little village.
[SPEAKER_07]: It had a blacksmith and an inn and a bakery that all the citizens were quite proud of.
[SPEAKER_07]: Unlike other villages, however, Dear Hollow was nestled in the heart of the wild and magical, tangled wood.
[SPEAKER_07]: Rumors abounded on the source of the Tanglewood's magic.
[SPEAKER_07]: Some say it was enchanted by a powerful fae, others say the blood of a great magical beast was spilled in the wood.
[SPEAKER_07]: All that's known for certain is that the Tanglewood is extremely dangerous to traverse, and things that enter don't always leave.
[SPEAKER_07]: And those that do don't return unchanged.
[SPEAKER_07]: The Braver citizens of Deer Hollow entered the Tanglewood as needed to hunt and to forage, but not even the bravest of the villagers dared go near the tower of the witch, Dool Sinia, for there is bravery, and there is foolishness.
[SPEAKER_07]: And as everyone knows, there is nothing more foolish than entering the domain of a witch
[SPEAKER_07]: You all have memories of Deer Hollow.
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course, years ago you all spent a summer together there with your dear friend Saline, the princess of that quaint village.
[SPEAKER_07]: But back then, you had an escort to keep you safe along the journey and somehow you don't remember the tango would be in quite this dark.
[SPEAKER_07]: In the years since that memorable summer, you've all stayed in touch through the princess
[SPEAKER_07]: And if sent letters back and forth via the quick and quick-witted career, Connie West, who can always be counted on for a speedy delivery.
[SPEAKER_07]: But the last letter you received from Celine spoke of disappearing children and an impending battle with an evil witch.
[SPEAKER_07]: But that was months ago.
[SPEAKER_07]: You all sent letters, of course, but you don't even know if they arrived, because the ever-dependable Connie West disappeared.
[SPEAKER_07]: And that's how you all found yourselves here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Reunited, deep in the Tangledwood walking gingerly along the overgrown trail to Deer Hollow.
[SPEAKER_07]: You are all familiar with the dark scary things that hide in the dark scary places.
[SPEAKER_07]: Your princesses, after all.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the Tangledwood Forest is one of the darkest and scariest places you've ever experienced.
[SPEAKER_07]: And mixed in with the sounds of unfamiliar cicadas and unidentifiable animals you hear one sound, you recognize, very well.
[SPEAKER_07]: You hear a child scream.
[SPEAKER_07]: Princesses are not defined by their words, they are defined by their actions.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I need everyone to roll for initiative.
[UNKNOWN]: Wow!
[SPEAKER_00]: You are right out of here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Straight out of here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Two minutes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Straight out of the gate, baby.
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, hey.
[SPEAKER_13]: OK, strong writers.
[SPEAKER_13]: We've been doing this for a long time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Welcome to Perils and Princesses, everybody.
[SPEAKER_10]: Woo!
[SPEAKER_07]: Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo!
[SPEAKER_07]: We're gonna be meeting your characters invented, but let's roll for some initiative.
[SPEAKER_07]: In this game, we are rolling D20s for initiative.
[SPEAKER_07]: Your initiative is testing your wits.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's one of your three stats.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you roll at or below your wits, you will act in front of an enemy.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you roll above it, you will act afterwards.
[SPEAKER_07]: If we'll go ahead and roll, and let me know if you succeed.
[SPEAKER_07]: Abby, what'd you get?
[SPEAKER_19]: I got a one!
[SPEAKER_19]: Woo!
[SPEAKER_13]: That's a critical sense, good.
[SPEAKER_13]: He-he-he.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, Bridget, what'd you get?
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, I hit a 14 over my nine, I failed.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, okay, it's fail.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm going after, I'll say.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, Danielle, what'd you got?
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, my wits are 12, I rolled a 14.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oof.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, over to be acting afterwards, and Shenu, what'd you get?
[SPEAKER_04]: My wits are seven, which is bullshit.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't listen.
[SPEAKER_04]: Roll the roll to seven.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're acting before.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey!
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go!
[SPEAKER_07]: Abby and Shinu, your characters, here this sound of a screaming child off in the distance, you move forward, starting with Abby, because you're running a natural one, and you're going to be obsessed in this game, why don't you introduce us to your character and tell me what your character does as you hear the sound of a child screaming.
[SPEAKER_19]: I am Geraldine of glittering thicket.
[SPEAKER_16]: I am a sprightly agility is my skill which is surprising because I'm a 73-year-old.
[SPEAKER_16]: And I'm still kicking, what are you doing?
[SPEAKER_14]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
[SPEAKER_19]: Her talent is foraging, which I want to just add the flavor for foraging of saying that it also gives her an ability to sort of like tell where this is coming from that is coming from is the ground been trampled whatever, you know, looking at the mushrooms, what are the mushrooms say?
[SPEAKER_07]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_19]: So she's going to try to look around just to see like what where this is coming from and is the threat immediately visible in a parent.
[SPEAKER_07]: you look around around the ground.
[SPEAKER_07]: You are very familiar with the floor and fauna of this forest.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've been here before and you're familiar with the floor and fauna from everywhere and you recognize on the ground in front of you because this is a skill that you have.
[SPEAKER_07]: You recognize tracks.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see larger than your foot, larger than your head.
[SPEAKER_07]: what you recognize as bear tracks.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's some weird substance that is kind of like inserted or like stuck inside of the bear tracks.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see, it's just kind of like weird green blue, goopy stuff, but you can't think about that because you look up where the bear tracks are looking and you see a small child hanging from a tree with a large brown bear roaring up and trying to grab up the tree to get to this child.
[SPEAKER_07]: From this distance, something is off with this bear and you can't quite tell it is, but you recognize this.
[SPEAKER_07]: This isn't quite a bear that you, I don't know, this is something off about this bear from this distance, you're not quite sure, but you see what is happening.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's a small child holding on to a branch about 12, 13 feet up and a bear trying to climb up this tree to get it this child.
[SPEAKER_18]: Uh, hell no, I'm gonna leap.
[SPEAKER_18]: Ooh, I'm gonna peer a wet.
[SPEAKER_19]: says on your turn, in addition to your action, you can attempt an additional attack in the form of a spinning kick or acrobatic maneuver of your invention.
[SPEAKER_19]: So I want to run over and first try to attack this bear with my kitchen knife and for so many things more than cooking and then I'm going to do a pirouette on top of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm so delighted right now, you are going to make an attack.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you go to make this attack, you are moving forward.
[SPEAKER_07]: Before I get your attack, well, I want to meet Shenukh's characters.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, because this is a game where initiative is a little bit more fluid.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is before your enemies act and after your enemies act, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: So let's meet Shenukh's character.
[SPEAKER_07]: Please introduce us to your character and what you are doing as you see.
[SPEAKER_07]: Geraldine rush off into the distance,
[SPEAKER_19]: She's like part-coring off of trees as she goes down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm playing a mirror of equine hollow.
[SPEAKER_04]: A mirror is a dark skin, brown skin, black hair, noble, with a very heavy cape.
[SPEAKER_04]: They are petite and without this cape a wind could blow them away.
[SPEAKER_04]: very slight, very slight and they're writing, they're they're writing their horse mat
[SPEAKER_04]: Black and white, horse, very good horse, love this horse, 10 to 10.
[SPEAKER_19]: Dependable.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dependable horse.
[SPEAKER_04]: Matt's great.
[SPEAKER_04]: I never thought I would be a horse gal, but here, here, mirror is loving this horse.
[SPEAKER_04]: And Geraldine, like, skitters off in the mirror is like,
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that lady loves children and kind of like goes Matt pip pip and like Matt starts charging forward and you're just yells at child is the person that loves and my loyal to the person that do I do I know who your parents are
[SPEAKER_07]: Stop screaming shit, it's just kicking as a bear is charging up this thing to say is a child the son of a witch You don't immediately recognize this child.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is something just a little bit off about the child, but the forest is so dark
[SPEAKER_07]: You, I think, in this moment, you recognize real terror and fear in this child, but also there is something about the way this child looks that you can't recognize.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can't quite tell what it is just because it's so dark getting closer, you may be able to understand, but there is something a little bit off about this child.
[SPEAKER_10]: What the hell?
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just gonna, I'm gonna let Geraldine attack the bear.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just gonna get a bit closer to kind of figure out what's going on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Am I in the bear side of the child's side?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm still trying to figure this out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Act first, think later, Mira.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank God.
[SPEAKER_07]: Amir, you move closer on mat, kind of like strafing around the outside, see like trying to get a glimpse of this landscape.
[SPEAKER_07]: Geraldine, I need you to roll your first attack.
[SPEAKER_13]: First attack of the game, guys, let's attack on the game.
[SPEAKER_13]: Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, guys, let's go, guys, let's go, guys, let's go, guys, let's go, guys, let's go, guys.
[SPEAKER_19]: So I roll a D20.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, for this game, it is a roll under system.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're going to be rolling your D20.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're always, I'm not going to be setting a DC.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's not a DC or a AC for the creatures.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're always comparing it to your stats.
[SPEAKER_07]: And for a physical attack, you'll be testing resolve, which is one of your three stats.
[SPEAKER_07]: So what's your resolve's number?
[SPEAKER_19]: My resolve number is the 13, so pretty good.
[SPEAKER_19]: Pretty good.
[SPEAKER_07]: You just got a roll at around the 13.
[SPEAKER_19]: And because I'm using my cooking knife, critical hits are a one or a two.
[SPEAKER_19]: Nice, excellent.
[SPEAKER_19]: So let's see, how's Jeremy doing today?
[SPEAKER_19]: No.
[SPEAKER_19]: Wow, I really, I really did a wide straddle for my first two rolls of the game.
[SPEAKER_19]: I got a 20.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm really wide on those dice.
[SPEAKER_19]: We're just going to keep inch and inward.
[SPEAKER_19]: That's the key.
[SPEAKER_19]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Five, five.
[SPEAKER_07]: Cutting you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Two, two, two.
[SPEAKER_07]: parcoring off of trees swinging and swinging around like grabbing onto vines.
[SPEAKER_07]: This isn't a vine like for us, but somehow there are vines here.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can hear them swinging and finally do a diving leap onto the back of this bear grab onto it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And as you do, you lunge a knife into its shoulders.
[SPEAKER_07]: and you feel a strange consistency meet your dad.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh-uh.
[SPEAKER_07]: You pull out, and rather than blood or viscera coming out, a bit of it hits your mouth.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you taste sweet sugar.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hate how much I like this.
[SPEAKER_05]: You like the blood, Geraldine?
[SPEAKER_19]: I feel like you all just see.
[SPEAKER_19]: It's the kombucha girl meme, the range of emotions, the big one, Cheryl, do you think it's right now or as wide as the rolls?
[SPEAKER_07]: You see a preflash of light through this forest and that same weird goopy blue green substance that you saw near the bear tracks is the entirety of this bear shoulder and creeping up at the side of its head And entirely coming up over one of its ears.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see that this bear has is partially some kind of the best you can tell Gummy material
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, what are you doing?
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it a gummy bear?
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you shedding me?
[SPEAKER_07]: You see?
[SPEAKER_07]: A bear in the midst of becoming a gummy bear.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wow, Brian.
[SPEAKER_15]: You started halfway, but you didn't.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's terrible.
[SPEAKER_15]: I hate it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Amira, as you stray for round on your noble steed mat, you get a little closer, you see Geraldine stab into this bear, a glint of light off of her kitchen knife, and then you see a bit of light on this boy who's dangling, and you see the reason he looked strange was because you see him holding on with one arm, kind of like the Crocova's elbow over top of the branch, trying to hold on as much as he can, because the other arm is hanging kind of loose.
[SPEAKER_07]: you see that his arm is like cracked and almost brittle, you see it looks to be made of some kind of like sound strange to say but like cookie material.
[SPEAKER_04]: It did a gingerbread.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see a little gingerbread boy holding his arm to do this three as a gummy bear is a temp thing to eat him I can't paint yep, let's go Yep, that's how you start one.
[SPEAKER_13]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_19]: Let's do it.
[SPEAKER_19]: Jody and you have your second attack if you want to take it It turns out I was wrong.
[SPEAKER_19]: I don't get to pirouette until we are level two
[SPEAKER_07]: Ah, copy that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, we'll learn more about pirouetting at Level 2, but for now, Amira is there anything else you want to do with your turn as your approach closer?
[SPEAKER_04]: Can I try and lure the bear away with trail food?
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you have trail food?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Six units of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will say trail food.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is something so just so you know for this game.
[SPEAKER_07]: In order to do a long rest, you have to sleep eight hours and also have a meal.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you can definitely use this, but you'll be burning at least one of your food rations.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can likely get more, but it's just it's a limited resource.
[SPEAKER_07]: I want to make sure you understand the full weight of using.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, we have 10 episodes.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's not that much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, fine, more food, and get up before you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Gerald, you can forge, that's what we're doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we're in that child.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: The child, maybe only the child.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, Amira, explain to me how you use this trail food to try to entice this bear away.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because the bear has its scent on a gingerbread board and you're using like meal rations.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is not quite as appetizing to something to a gummy bear, but if you tell me how you're doing this, I will let you do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, you've said this word once like you know when like kids when we from home in like cartoons They like have a little stick with all their belongs.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, a bindle.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, bindle.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I like pull out a little like a bindle that I have like on mats
[SPEAKER_04]: course bag, and wrap, oh, well, some self-putted it, and then I take my little bear claw necklace off.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it's, it's an extra nice one.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I, I put it at the end of the bindle, and I'm going to use it like a carrot on a stick to like, the angle in front of the, the bear, and then like, lead it away from gingerbread boy.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will absolutely let you do this.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm also I'm not going to make you roll for this is going to be a game that has a few less roles in it than usual.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will let you do this, but I'll tell you the consequences of it up front.
[SPEAKER_07]: You tell me if you want to do it.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can absolutely do this.
[SPEAKER_07]: It will absolutely distract the kid.
[SPEAKER_07]: You have to get dangerous they close to this bear.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'll do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wait.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ha ha, you say well, wait, wait.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, Matt get hurt.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, you're putting Matt right in the thick of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm giving you the options.
[SPEAKER_07]: You tell me what you wanted to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you want to jump off of Matt, you're right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Heard a horse on episode one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but the first 10 minutes of episode one, let's kill that fucking horse.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can't horse, how do you?
[SPEAKER_19]: It's actually just a revenge story.
[SPEAKER_19]: The whole thing's gone mad.
[SPEAKER_19]: Yeah, I'll put Matt in danger.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's do it.
[SPEAKER_07]: you move forward, putting this bindle, stretching it out like a carrot on the stick.
[SPEAKER_07]: As if it was for Matt, that's the best boy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Matt has been trained well, knows this is in frame nose, the deal, and gets close to this bear and starts like trying to move it away.
[SPEAKER_07]: The bear, and slowly claws down off the thing, and then turns to you and Matt.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I made a mistake.
[SPEAKER_00]: That horse is one day from a time.
[SPEAKER_10]: This was going to be in my last place.
[SPEAKER_09]: Go on to my family.
[SPEAKER_09]: I just meant one more adventure.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then I was going to join my wife.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's the car.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a very long cigar.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's going to be the same cigar for the whole adventure.
[SPEAKER_19]: Yeah, it just gets building.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ash keeps building.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bridget and Danielle, you both failed your initiative orders.
[SPEAKER_07]: That means you'll act after the enemy in this case.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which means, yeah, okay, we get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we got it the first time.
[SPEAKER_07]: We didn't put mad up there.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just saying, listen, I'm saying that less for you too.
[SPEAKER_07]: And more for, I'm here now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my god, who has attracted this bear, the bear is going to take a swipe at you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Remember this child?
[SPEAKER_04]: Remember what I've done for you?
[SPEAKER_07]: So attacks in this game rather than me rolling to hit, you are going to be rolling to evade.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: So for this, you're going to be testing your grace.
[SPEAKER_07]: So what's your grace number, uh, Mira, it's 10.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you're going to be getting attacked twice by this gummy bear, uh, so roll twice.
[SPEAKER_07]: Five, pretty good.
[SPEAKER_07]: Five, that's enough.
[SPEAKER_07]: You first, the first attack is a bite attack.
[SPEAKER_07]: This bear tries to lean forward and bite you to grab like the edge of this bindo.
[SPEAKER_07]: Matt instinctively, like side steps, like very show pony-esque move.
[SPEAKER_07]: Come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come,
[SPEAKER_07]: 18.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will remind everybody, this is the thing that won't help in this case, but it might help in the future.
[SPEAKER_07]: Everyone here currently has one heart die.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is a D4 in your possession, which you can use during short rest to add some additional hit points, or if one of your allies fails a test by just a little bit, you can potentially expend that D4, roll it and reduce their roll by that amount.
[SPEAKER_19]: So, in this case, it wouldn't help to roll it, because it's not, it's not gonna help.
[SPEAKER_19]: Okay, right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Also, short rest in this game are called picnics, which is lovely.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's adorable.
[SPEAKER_07]: Love it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Amira, you see the claws of this bear move forward and slash the crop dealing with three points of damage.
[SPEAKER_04]: What, D?
[SPEAKER_04]: What is my armor, do you hear nothing?
[SPEAKER_07]: What is your armor amount?
[SPEAKER_07]: One.
[SPEAKER_07]: So armor in this game is a damage soak so rather than taking three points of damage you'll take three minus one so you are taking two points of damage
[SPEAKER_07]: as you feel these claws slash across your armor and kind of dig into you, pushing you and mat back.
[SPEAKER_07]: But this bear, this gummy bear, is very much in your presence.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see some of this gooey gummy material has been left on its claws and is slashed across your body.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see for a moment that the gummy nest of it begins to wiggle and rise as if they are worms.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm like padding it off me.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
[SPEAKER_07]: Bridget and Danielle, you see your friends make this first attack on this gummy bear, you see this small child is still dangling and screaming kicking his legs from this tree.
[SPEAKER_07]: So both of you can act now, which one of you would like to move first?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'll go first.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Adelaide, she, her, Adelaide, you know, is, I don't know, like, five, seven, five, eight?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, normal height, average height, regular height, she is also kind of a deeper brown skin curly hair.
[SPEAKER_00]: and so she comes out, she sees sugar horrors like beyond anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I am going to use one of my special abilities, which is a simple song, and I am going to sing a lullaby, because when I sing a lullaby, near by creatures with HP, less than or equal to, it just has some falls asleep.
[SPEAKER_00]: this awful thing to sleep with some kind of song, so Adelaide kind of rocks up sees a mat is very upset and is done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go to sleep, stupid bear, you're a bear, you're a gummy, this is gross, and you are dumb.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want you to kill my horse friend, go to sleep, stupid bear, seriously fucking go to sleep.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now go to sleep, stupid bear, please don't kill my super nice horse friend.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's Matt's favorite song.
[SPEAKER_13]: Well, every landing stuck, every one, every single landing, all of them.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, Adley, this is the first instance of us using a special ability or anyone using their gift dice.
[SPEAKER_07]: Gift dice in this game are things that we're using to use magical abilities or special abilities.
[SPEAKER_07]: In this case, you're using your Lullaby.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, gift dice are D6s.
[SPEAKER_07]: Currently, all of you have one, you will gain more as you gain more levels.
[SPEAKER_07]: The interesting thing about gift dice in this game is when you use them if you roll a 1, 2, or 3, you get to keep using them.
[SPEAKER_07]: They come back to your pool and you can keep rolling them.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you roll a 4, 5, or 6, the more desirable numbers, the ones that will like do more damage or affect more things, those gift dice are expended and cannot be used again until your next long rest.
[SPEAKER_07]: Adelaide, I will say that this bear has yet to be injured.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll just tell you off the bat that this bear has six hit points.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: You are going to have to roll a six in order to put this thing to sleep.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do I get to use because one of my innate abilities is a luring where I gain advantage on virtue tests to calm, escalate, soothe, or delight a person or creature through song reverse?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to say no, only because they are, in this game, a virtue test is like rolling your D20, so if you want to do that to just try to like calm the bear, you can definitely do that.
[SPEAKER_07]: But if you want to like put this bear to sleep using a special ability, that's going to be a separate thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, so can I, can my song instead just be to like get the bear to chill out and like go away from that?
[SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will say the bear definitely won't fall asleep, but it might like chill and calm and give you guys a moment to like regroup and figure out what's going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna go ahead and roll for that now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Adelaide is hoping that that works and also kind of curious, journaling said she was gonna see what the mushroom said.
[SPEAKER_00]: So maybe that can help.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this is magic land.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I rolled a nine.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's call this a widest test.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wow, what's your, what's your widest step?
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, my widest is 12.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so you rolled a nine already succeeded.
[SPEAKER_07]: Woo!
[SPEAKER_07]: You're going to roll it again just to see if you crit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just for fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's fish for those crits just in case.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on, baby.
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a 14.
[SPEAKER_00]: Started to think this dice is way too late.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I only roll 14.
[SPEAKER_07]: But with a nine that is a success, you have this alluring song called out into the wilderness.
[SPEAKER_07]: Having been here before, you've sung in this wilderness before and often like, more like creatures will kind of gather and things will like hear your song and get interested.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't see that as much as you expect.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see like a squirrel here or a pigeon.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're kind of Titter and twist their head, but then very quickly fly off.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see this bear turn and was immediately like slashing at a mirror going for this spindle.
[SPEAKER_07]: pulls back and kind of twists its head slowly to you and as you see the snout turned towards you you see dripping from its teeth are like just pure gelatinous sugar as if it's full you see a full like half of its face is turned to like blue yellow green gummy its ear seems to have like a bite taken out of it as if like something had been nibbling on it like a child
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, I would say, well, like, I think you're seeing, I think you're seeing like a lot of like birds and like squirrels and like like small things, but all of the birds and squirrels and stuff are just like totally icing me out everything this forest is icing you out that's creepy This forest used to feel alive at least when you were younger and every forest you've been in feels alive and creatures feel like this forest feels darker
[SPEAKER_00]: um obviously like I notice I'm getting ghosted by all of the squirrels and everything but like just kind of happy that the bear is
[SPEAKER_00]: There, I don't know, normally this would be a thing called a bonus action, but I want to see because I have another ability where I can imitate a voice or a sound.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that something I'd be able to do on this turn or what I need to wait until my next turn?
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, I will let you do a little something here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so Adelaide sees crazy gummy zombie bear, doesn't know, and starts just like can you make a bear sound for me, friend.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Adelaide doing her best impression of that bear's mama.
[SPEAKER_13]: Disappointed bear mama game over.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm gonna stop it so displeased.
[SPEAKER_07]: That mama is displeased, honey I'm gonna roll this into your previous like successful.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's check.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think the bear stops and then you see It's tail kind of like go down between it's like This like little poofball tail.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see like foot.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's whole butt like curls around so this actually
[SPEAKER_07]: And the bear looks very chastise is looking confused bear is still a threat in this moment.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is still here, but you recognize it is looking around.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is very curious and afraid as only a son could be of the Yeah I'm gonna say because of this the next check made against this bear will have advantage because of this
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, nice.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_07]: Adelaide, you do this impression of this mama bear and you're standing face-to-face with this thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bridget.
[SPEAKER_13]: So I am playing Winnie by no means it does the top of my head hit five feet.
[SPEAKER_13]: I am a very, very, very slim dark skin brown woman with one eye that is Hazel and the other one is partially silver.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'll get to that description in a moment with nothing but like this blooming bouquet of dreadlocks that are either pulled up until ponytail or wrapped up into our bun or completely down right now because we're traveling.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's up in a massive bun and
[SPEAKER_13]: My skin is a canvas of one of two things, either scars.
[SPEAKER_13]: Everything about my skin looks like I have been absolutely through it, rough and tumbles, bite marks, scratch marks, tears, just a canvas of wounds that I wear very proudly.
[SPEAKER_13]: And then the other part of it that is it, marked by history, this tapestry of whatever it is I do in my free time, it's nothing but tattoos.
[SPEAKER_13]: So I'm telling you, nice.
[SPEAKER_13]: group of princesses were approaching the situation that child screamed out.
[SPEAKER_13]: I think if I looked down and saw the bear tracks, I thought that there was something in it.
[SPEAKER_13]: My central nervous system first went, oh, a child endangered.
[SPEAKER_13]: Then I looked down and I was like, no, something's wrong with an animal.
[SPEAKER_13]: What hurt this bear?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: So while the rest of the party is running up, I think I have to kneel and just bring some of that fluid between my fingers and sniff it.
[SPEAKER_13]: and try to just reconcile what I'm seeing in front of me and what I'm processing here in ultimately GM if I may.
[SPEAKER_13]: I am wildhearted by nature.
[SPEAKER_13]: Everyone knows after being around me from more than five minutes that I absolutely belong more in the animal kingdom than I do in any human kingdom.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm also a natural climber.
[SPEAKER_13]: So if I'm watching my party and and Matt, who I like Matt most more than most of these women here, um,
[SPEAKER_13]: If I see them all charging into the situation with the injured bear, I'm gonna have to focus on the child.
[SPEAKER_13]: So GM, if I may, I would love to use my natural climber ability to get up the first tree and just branched by branched by branched to get myself to the kid, because the bear is still a threat.
[SPEAKER_07]: 100%.
[SPEAKER_13]: I don't want this child to fall and break something.
[SPEAKER_13]: If I can at least grab onto this child and pull it out of danger, then the rest of the princess can kind of deal with whatever the situation is on the ground floor.
[SPEAKER_07]: Winnie, you feel this, this gummy substance to win your finger.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is indistinguishable from a candy.
[SPEAKER_07]: You would find it a complexion shop.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you running through the woods start climbing up this tree.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because of your natural climate, you have to vanish on virtue test, involving climbing your tricky train.
[SPEAKER_07]: Go ahead and roll that test for me.
[SPEAKER_13]: Okay, coming at you, this is a D20.
[SPEAKER_13]: I wrote a four beneath my, what would you want on this one?
[SPEAKER_07]: This would be a grace.
[SPEAKER_13]: Okay, this would be a four beneath my nine.
[SPEAKER_07]: Woo!
[SPEAKER_07]: You effortlessly climb up this thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you're climbing like we see flashes of your skin, like covered in tattoos and scars.
[SPEAKER_07]: I imagine what those things like, when you get a new scar, your pissed, not because you're hurt, but because there's less canvas for tattoos.
[SPEAKER_13]: Do you break?
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm sorry, telling is very important in the animal kingdom, and I am a walking story.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yes, I absolutely agree with that assessment.
[SPEAKER_07]: You effortlessly with this bear being distracted by Adelaide, with Amirah, with the Bindle and Geraldine, like kind of like still medicine this bear, you effortlessly climb up the street and see this little boy up close, you see that the entire right side of his body is turning to gingerbread.
[SPEAKER_07]: His hand still has like all of its prehensionist, it can still move and stuff, but every time it does it cracks and you see like dust kind of fall out,
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, so he's very actively like using one side of his body and less the other side big, you know, tears in his eyes like freaking out like short kind of like bowl cut hair type thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay, like a like a cookie ball like a cookie ball cut.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like a cookie boat and this, this kid, it was brave.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was brave.
[SPEAKER_07]: I had it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I had it covered.
[SPEAKER_07]: But if you want to help you can help.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_13]: So yeah, I'm going to approach as quickly and dexterously as possible.
[SPEAKER_13]: I think towards the tail end of my approach, I go from being
[SPEAKER_13]: that rock yes you see the bear sees you do this he goes I mirror that response back to the bear because I'd rather be talking to the bear than this kid the bear go up and those the head tone I'll mirror I think I think the bear gives you like the up nod
[SPEAKER_13]: We know we've been here before.
[SPEAKER_13]: I slow on my approach right before I get to the boy and I hear him with the self-aggrandizing and the bravery and the whore and all of that is just going over my head because he smells funny.
[SPEAKER_13]: So I think I stop and I'll
[SPEAKER_13]: Like he looks funny, he smells funny, like something's wrong with this kit too, and I'm just going to reach down and I will be very intentional to grab onto the healthy side of this boy and then just try to lift him back up onto the branch with me.
[SPEAKER_13]: I don't speak to him, I'm just going to reach down and grab him.
[SPEAKER_07]: These small boy that's not a problem, you kind of like gingerly rap gingerly.
[SPEAKER_07]: You hook your arm around underneath his like non-transformed healthy arm and begin to- Are you staying up in the tree you climbing down?
[SPEAKER_13]: No, the idea will be to just slowly start back peddling.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'll quadrupe it with this kid locked under one arm, so I actually am doing it on threes and just back myself to the trunk and then slowly bring myself down.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you bring yourself down the trunk.
[SPEAKER_07]: This kid is, for a moment, it's like whimpering in your shoulder.
[SPEAKER_07]: But then very quickly, it's like, you know, it's kind of wiping, it's not going.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let me add them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let me, but you can get them first.
[SPEAKER_07]: But let me add them.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm a brave guy.
[SPEAKER_07]: I got kidnapped by a witch and I didn't cry once.
[SPEAKER_07]: and you begin to back up moving to the top of the order.
[SPEAKER_07]: Amirah and Geraldine, you see this bear is chill for a moment.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is a moment you guys could choose to attack or you could choose to retreat.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I feel like either could be functional in this moment because the bear has been slightly subdued by Adelaide, which path you want to take here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is there a way we can make this bear a pet?
[SPEAKER_04]: A third, third, third, third.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, we wanted a pet bear.
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[SPEAKER_19]: Brian, don't even.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will certainly let you try.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I believe you're so clear.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you try this, you are either going to get a bear pet or get attacked by a bear.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's been the option the entire time.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, there's there's now a retreat option that you are saying.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's no, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_07]: There was a retreat option.
[SPEAKER_19]: That was what Geraldine was going to do, but the balls in York corner, Mira.
[SPEAKER_07]: Quickly moving to the past tense here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, what if?
[SPEAKER_04]: I have my special ability, smooth.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can tenderly kiss a hostile creature.
[SPEAKER_04]: if they have like some of the HP or less they are overcome with tenderness and lose their will to fight.
[SPEAKER_19]: He want a bear boy friend.
[SPEAKER_19]: No, I don't want a bang the bear.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm just like a little, you have to go away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, I mean, you know, just think a little smooch on the snooch, just think a little smooch on the snooch.
[SPEAKER_04]: Little smooch on the snooch on the, on the nose.
[SPEAKER_04]: Or I can try and use my healing touch to heal this little curse thing that's happening to the bear.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then the bear will forever be indebted to me.
[SPEAKER_19]: That's how bears work.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's how bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it's bear it
[SPEAKER_19]: Friendship loss.
[SPEAKER_19]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm going to tell you you guys have not done any damage to this barrier.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you're going to be rolling.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is a special ability you're going to be using and be rolling your gift dice if you want to do it.
[SPEAKER_07]: In order for your smooth ability to be effective, you have to get at or at or above the number of hit points this bear has.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I have an ability where I can do a happy working song and anyone who hears it can modify a virtue test role.
[SPEAKER_07]: So a virtue test are separate from gift dice.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so I want to give it to you, but I want to make sure we keep it separate.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep, so I'm here.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you want to, if you want to use your switchability in order for it to succeed, you would have to roll a six on this.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will also point out that this effect only lasts for 10 minutes.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, it's it's D. It's dice times 10 minutes and you're going to be rolling one dice.
[SPEAKER_07]: So 10 minutes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now you're more the welcome to do this.
[SPEAKER_07]: You would have to roll a six for it to be effective.
[SPEAKER_07]: The touch ability you could use kind of regardless and try to heal this thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think as you get close to this, especially as you are a healing your your gift is of healing touch.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see this thing not as a thing that can be cured with simple healing magic.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is a curse.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not saying that that offering a healing touch wouldn't help in some way, but it definitely would not be cured.
[SPEAKER_11]: It won't be dehumid.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's a curse.
[SPEAKER_11]: Not an inflection.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, fine Brian, I'm not going to kiss the bear.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll just be tripped to bear.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm going to tell you, you caught a mystical reference.
[SPEAKER_13]: I got it.
[SPEAKER_13]: Right here, man.
[SPEAKER_13]: This is why we go together.
[SPEAKER_13]: I love you.
[SPEAKER_13]: If you see me in a fight with a bear, it's just a bear.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'll say you guys the clip if you don't know where to go.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know where to go.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's a really good clip.
[SPEAKER_07]: Jody and Amira, as you see each other, as you are figuring out what you're doing this moment.
[SPEAKER_07]: Jody, what do you say to Amira as this tense moment happens?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is you are deciding whether to fight or to flee?
[SPEAKER_02]: Amira, I'm pretty sure we gotta get out of here.
[SPEAKER_02]: This bear looking fucked.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm so sorry, Geraldine.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you say that one more time for us?
[SPEAKER_12]: I don't think we got to get out of here here.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's out of the wood that flavor was, but that would bear us both to taste like it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I regret making you taste it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I regret it.
[SPEAKER_19]: get a hot Geraldine for the rest of time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, I will be interested to hear how Geraldine knows what bear tastes like, but we can just put a pin in that.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can put a pin in that coming later.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get through it.
[SPEAKER_07]: We got 10 episodes, baby.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll come back.
[SPEAKER_04]: Amira is holding the like scratch that the bear gave her and she's like seathing with anger and just kind of like nods to Geraldine and like uses her healing touch on herself not to heal her but to like take the rage out of her her like head and then she pulls a bottle out of Matt's little horse peg and then puts it in the bottle and then caps it and she bottles her rage that way
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that's dope.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really thought you were going to hit that bear with the bottle.
[SPEAKER_19]: I thought you were about to hit that bear with the bottle.
[SPEAKER_07]: We play rough in this birdie.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to write you bottle up your rage.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just curious on the saddle that is on the flanks of Matt.
[SPEAKER_07]: How many bottles of rage are there?
[SPEAKER_04]: Like 300.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that was so loud everyone that hear us coming You would just hear it It's like it is silent So we are not a silent group Feel like Adelaide has learned how to turn this into a song It's like it is Yeah, these are instruments You've like pulled out different measures of rage and you can like play it like Oh, yeah Full like I can do a Bobby McFaire and just like with my voice Yes, yes
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a reference for no one in the world.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm Erin Chaudine, you guys begin to slowly move backwards from the spare Adelaide and Winnie, what are you guys doing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, I'm going to defer to Winnie on this one because you got, you got that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got to bury you.
[SPEAKER_04]: You got to bury you.
[SPEAKER_13]: So tactically, I know the smart thing to do would be to flee.
[SPEAKER_13]: But what I'm going to do is put my hand directly on like the face of this kid, like a sweat and just push him back into the face of the free.
[SPEAKER_13]: I don't say stay, but everything my body language is like the state.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's not articulated, it's just, you know, face palm to the face and push and I'm just going to very slowly walk up in front of the bear with both of my palms up and I have whisper You can speak with animals and intuit their feelings and just as I like cross in front of this bear in full knowledge that this could very easily backfire on me.
[SPEAKER_13]: I just don't care I'm going to look directly in this bear's like, what hurt you?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, but that comes off with a Yeah, all of you here
[SPEAKER_07]: Winny you hear a bear.
[SPEAKER_01]: My mom's mad at me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was just hungry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't feel so good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh god, we were going to kill this bear.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm gonna continue to make poor decisions.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm gonna close the distance on this bear and if I can reach up, because even if it's sitting down from that low, I'm four foot nothing.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm gonna reach up the palm of my hands to try to cup its snout.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm just gonna drop my forehead onto its nose, and I'm just going to soothingly say back to you or say back to it.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm sorry that you're hurting.
[SPEAKER_07]: Please let us help.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You're not quite sure what ambits some Claude animal.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you see that the gummy material seems to be almost like seeping out of this wound.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see those like almost like gummy worms coming out of this thing as like a infection.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see these gummy worms like almost like very slowly writhing out of this unclosed wound.
[SPEAKER_07]: you see that this is clearly spreading and I think as you see this thing you see that something some kind of clawed animal cut it you're not quite sure what it doesn't even look like a particularly substantial cut it could have been a smaller animal but something about it infected this bear and I think
[SPEAKER_07]: At this distance seeing this up close you for a moment see the claws of this bear as it's just kind of like got its arms up in the air and you see little bits of these like gummy worms hanging off of its claws and you recognize that there is a potential for some kind of infection should you get too badly wounded by these claws
[SPEAKER_07]: So you recognize this bear is dangerous because it's a bear and it is dangerous because something is wrong with it.
[SPEAKER_13]: Okay, as this thing is up-stretched above me.
[SPEAKER_13]: I am unapologetically taking my hands and just running through its fur.
[SPEAKER_13]: Like if my right hand is trying to do soothing and calming and comforting gestures to it, my left hand is unapologetically just shoving fingers into this spaghetti bowl of maggots or gummy worms.
[SPEAKER_13]: And we lean it out and flickin' it to the ground.
[SPEAKER_13]: Like things like this just don't particularly bother me on normal circumstances, but this is horrific, this is something new, this is something terrible,
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_13]: I don't think you have long.
[SPEAKER_13]: Can you tell us where your mom is?
[SPEAKER_13]: Can you tell me what did this to you?
[SPEAKER_13]: And then I'm gonna look over at Adelaide and this is still grunting grunting grunting.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm just gonna look over at Adelaide and just flash her heart broken face.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm just an expression where it's just squenched up and it just, I look hurt.
[SPEAKER_13]: And then I'm just gonna face back to the bear.
[SPEAKER_13]: Where's your mom?
[SPEAKER_13]: And where did you get this start?
[SPEAKER_13]: Or where did you get this wound?
[SPEAKER_01]: Mom's at home and I was just wrestling with my buddy the fox and he was looking a little bunny and he scratched me a little bit but it was just play it wasn't his fault.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then I started feeling weird and yucky, and now I'm all wippily wobbly.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't like it.
[SPEAKER_09]: The forest is darker.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's not as fun as it used to be.
[SPEAKER_13]: I know.
[SPEAKER_08]: Can you really help?
[SPEAKER_08]: She just told me he was gonna die.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'll find us about it.
[SPEAKER_13]: Listen.
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_13]: I can try.
[SPEAKER_13]: We can try.
[SPEAKER_13]: Can you come down?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know I'm a bit intimidating sometimes.
[SPEAKER_07]: forest shakes around you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Amira Adelaide and joded literally like bounce off the ground.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm like, you guys also see Winnie having this conversation and you're getting the body language of what is happening here.
[SPEAKER_07]: You recognize this connection.
[SPEAKER_07]: You recognize that for all intents and purposes, the danger of this encounter has passed, but you see Winnie's hand is like covered in these like gummy worms, not in a way that seems infectious, just in a way that seems curious.
[SPEAKER_07]: Winnie, you don't feel like you've been infected anyway by this thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: but you see that this bear is in pain.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe not necessarily in pain for this infection, but just kind of in emotional pain.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And is scared and confused and recognizes that the forest feels a little off.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I think as you guys are seeing this, you hear footsteps.
[SPEAKER_09]: Let me out of, let me out of it!
[SPEAKER_07]: A small boy, a small gingerbread boy starts banging into the side of this bear with his arms.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got him!
[SPEAKER_01]: You, don't worry!
[SPEAKER_01]: I got him!
[SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna die, bear!
[SPEAKER_01]: Bang, bang, bang, bang!
[SPEAKER_19]: I got you!
[SPEAKER_19]: Conjarding tackle the table.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you tackle the child.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, this job is goes, hey, I had him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like we were saying that to the bear, but he's saying it nice Hey, I had him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm the bravest boy and all of the are all of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me out of here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure, sure, sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're just gonna go over here now Can I have this small gingerbread boy?
[SPEAKER_00]: The whole time he's just trying to let me out of here I think it's gonna go over and just kind of go up next to winning just do like a little sidebar like hey
[SPEAKER_00]: So how long, how long we think, uh, pop a bear over there, God?
[SPEAKER_07]: We need one, she actually go ahead and roll me a, uh, a wits check.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, and I'll say go ahead and do this, uh, with the advantage.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that means it gets a roll twice, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a roll twice.
[SPEAKER_07]: Take the lower.
[SPEAKER_13]: Bless the Lord on high.
[SPEAKER_13]: My first roll was an 18, and my next one was a seven.
[SPEAKER_13]: I need to nine.
[SPEAKER_07]: I need to nine.
[SPEAKER_07]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see, even as you were looking at it, this infection was spreading.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like you saw the worms kind of moving through its fur.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's in the realm of days.
[SPEAKER_07]: This seems to be barely fast moving, and it seems that this has been like this for a while.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the bear event tells you like, yeah, this was about a month ago, and usually when the fox scratches me, it just kind of goes away.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's almost like a tickle, but this one felt weird.
[SPEAKER_13]: But at a light I look up to you and I look to the wound and I just unroll my fist and just count backwards from five and then I count backwards from four and then maybe count backwards from two and that just kind of shrug at you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to let this bear die alone in a cold forest and suffer because I can't imagine it's going to be really fun to slowly turn into sucrose.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you guys are having this conversation, you begin to hear back in the forest kind of
[SPEAKER_01]: When you hear Boris, Boris, where are you?
[SPEAKER_01]: Get back here, you're a late-for-gender!
[SPEAKER_01]: And you see, where are you?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, mama bear with a bow in her hair, coming through to express gender.
[SPEAKER_13]: To express gender.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, go get those.
[SPEAKER_07]: Go get those.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're gonna lie or be greener her bow, dammit.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, are you assuming that Boris didn't have a boat?
[SPEAKER_07]: Because he's my little boat.
[SPEAKER_19]: You don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's for a boat.
[SPEAKER_07]: Boris didn't have a boat.
[SPEAKER_20]: Did Boris have a boat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Boris didn't have a boat.
[SPEAKER_00]: He can't.
[SPEAKER_20]: He could if he wanted to.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he got eight out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you see this mama bear starts like sourcing through the woods and sees her little bear son.
[SPEAKER_07]: I say the fully grown bear son.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's still living at home, you know, he's figuring that his life out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just her margin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't son.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a large loss.
[SPEAKER_06]: Son is living in the basement in the cave.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, but he pays rent.
[SPEAKER_10]: So.
[SPEAKER_07]: Trapes this over sees this whole conglomeration and momentarily you see are like her heckles go up and then Boris was oh Mom, it's it's okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're they're my new bodies.
[SPEAKER_01]: I Almost ate that one, but they said no And my brother is kind of looking over you guys going Are you all okay?
[SPEAKER_04]: The scary time in the woods We need what's you saying
[SPEAKER_13]: That's what I want clarity.
[SPEAKER_13]: Does Mama Barrett has an ability to actually articulate out loud?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mama Barrett is just speaking there.
[SPEAKER_07]: I guess Malibu are made some assumptions about the communication of this group.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's fair.
[SPEAKER_00]: Her kid did say that we were Fred.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, she was like, I must be fair.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which is true.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we have a translator.
[SPEAKER_13]: We have translator.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, so I will re-articulate that to the group.
[SPEAKER_13]: And then just for a sake for ease, can I just say I translate everything until the moment I don't.
[SPEAKER_07]: You translate everything.
[SPEAKER_07]: You notice Malibu does not seem to have any infection of any kind of this like gummy infection.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see her look at you guys and goes,
[SPEAKER_07]: before it's just gotten much darker these days.
[SPEAKER_09]: You should be careful on this path that used to be safe, but nothing is safe in this woods anymore.
[SPEAKER_09]: The fairies, the fae, all gone to ground.
[SPEAKER_09]: The dark night still hunts these woods.
[SPEAKER_09]: Much is happening and you should be careful.
[SPEAKER_09]: Where are you headed in these woods?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we were going to deer, hallow?
[UNKNOWN]: Nah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Would you like an escort?
[SPEAKER_03]: But they're just down to the light, honey.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, hi, my bear hi, nice to meet you, Emily.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to want to be super careful of your kids' claws.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, you don't want to accidentally get scratched by it, because your your baby's kind of sick.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'd recommend smooching him every 10 minutes.
[SPEAKER_07]: She looks at America's ice-mooching way more than that.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she's just giving like mama kisses.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mama kisses.
[SPEAKER_06]: Wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, everybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: Calm down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Little smooches on this newter for Marcia Dalton.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can see, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: You see this mama bear comes over and gives like a bunch of kisses to her son.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're saying it's mom.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mom, no, not in front of my friend.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not embarrassing, it's from calm down.
[SPEAKER_07]: with these two in tow.
[SPEAKER_07]: They begin to lead you along this path.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys know that this path used to be clear and well lit, and the trees had been cleared in such a way that there was like sunlight that would come through and light the path, and those trees have grown over vines, have grown over top of them.
[SPEAKER_07]: And even though there is gaps in the tree, it almost seems like the sun is getting sucked into the shadows.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's intense.
[SPEAKER_07]: It feels visceral to you guys.
[SPEAKER_07]: You feel it in your core, not just in your senses.
[SPEAKER_07]: And at these two bears start to move through the woods and begin to guide you along this path.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you guys are making your way to Deer Hollow, you have this small child who is overjoyed in Snowdor, and it's kind of like, was kicking and screaming for a second and then kind of got the gist, um, and it's just kind of jabbering your ear off gelatin.
[SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, I'm the bravest boy in all of Deer Hollow, my name's Roy, Roy the Brave, that's what they call me.
[SPEAKER_07]: I got kidnapped by a witch one time, and I didn't cry once.
[SPEAKER_07]: I made it, I defeated the witch by myself, basically,
[SPEAKER_07]: And then, um, yeah, and then I came home and it was a hero because I'm Rory, the Brave, that's what they call me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Rory, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew, whew
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, Chef.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, no, that someone, um, um, Celine, uh, the princess of the town, well, she opened the door for me.
[SPEAKER_07]: And, like, I guess some people say that she defeated the witch, but like, I think I did most of the legwork.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then I got to ride on her horse back home.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_20]: She'd be suffocated to witch.
[SPEAKER_20]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_20]: Yes, was she also on the horse?
[SPEAKER_20]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_20]: She had a horse.
[SPEAKER_04]: What was her horse's name?
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: What did the horse look like?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, the horse was majestic.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was like white with little brown fleckles.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was really cool.
[SPEAKER_07]: We called it spotting.
[SPEAKER_07]: Spot?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_20]: Amira, do you know spot?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, of course I know spot.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, as you are moving through this, you are constantly glancing around the woods for various tracks, and I think this is the thing that you have kind of been unconsciously doing since you were here, not looking for bear tracks, you've been looking for not even off Prince, but when you were here as a young child, you swear you saw it, I wouldn't even say you swear you saw it, you did see it, and no one else believes you.
[SPEAKER_07]: But the first time you were in these woods as a small child, off in the distance, oh my god.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_07]: A majestic unicorn.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_07]: And every time you've come back here, you've looked for it and you've looked for those hoof prints, those slightly like almost like three toad hoof prints, you've never seen them again, but you're always constantly looking for them.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't see them now, but you're just like glancing around and you see various other tracks, some of them laid in with like strange, confectionary things, some not.
[SPEAKER_07]: Rory continues kind of like, you know, braggadosiously telling you about his exploits.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's very clear that this kid was kidnapped by a witch and it was rescued and has a tone of self-a story.
[SPEAKER_07]: Rory, where's spot now?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, um, well, uh, spots in the stable, but spots, spots doesn't let anyone ride him anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why?
[SPEAKER_07]: Only Celine could ride him.
[SPEAKER_03]: And where's she lean?
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, you see that this woman, Rory who was like only infectious and bubbly and bragatocious, like is now like kind of shuffles off your shoulders walking, it's kind of like kicking rocks and looking down to see.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, um, she's she's she's gone now.
[SPEAKER_18]: God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, that she went on a trip.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, my dad said that she was really brave, but then she died.
[SPEAKER_13]: I immediately step in front of this child and just put a hand on this chest and stop them because that's our friend that we were coming to see.
[SPEAKER_13]: That was the friend that we were chasing down, right?
[SPEAKER_19]: This is just a little bit of a heartbroken, but was going to make an attempt to like hold it in for the kid.
[SPEAKER_19]: You know, she knows that's not when he's back.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, by any means, not at all.
[SPEAKER_07]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: Each of you feel this bit of information hit you deep as the friend that you have been corresponding with for years that you met on a magical summer many, many years ago.
[SPEAKER_07]: You hear that they have died and it's a tough thing to try to keep a certain kind of face in a front of a child, but how to each of you react to this information.
[SPEAKER_04]: Matt is crying.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, Matt.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm like petting Matt silently and then I take out one of the bottles of rage and I like open it and you hear like a scream kind of like pop out of it and like a huge force of energy in the glass kind of shatters.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Adelaide also takes out a bottle of rage, except rage is just a kind of wine.
[SPEAKER_00]: And open Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja, Raja.
[SPEAKER_00]: If it does it, it's just sparkling anger, she takes like a, she takes like a big glug, and then looks at it, and then takes like another big glug, and then offers some to the kid, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, is that, like, dead spicy juice?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's dead spicy juice.
[SPEAKER_06]: Roy, Emily grabs the wine skin, takes a big sip, and then goes,
[SPEAKER_07]: And like slowly swells and then like six out of tongue in that way you do I remember the first time I ever tasted like hard alcohol I was like yeah, I never had a liquid exploded in my mouth.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, it's not even the taste.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's the sensation This this kid's eyes bug out his ear like steam comes out of his ears because I
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like- I don't like-
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'm a man now, Rory, the man, the brave.
[SPEAKER_07]: Off in the distance you see, the forest is beginning to open up.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see, like, specks of light off in the distance that you know will eventually lead out to a clearing that will lead out to some rolling hills that will lead out to the village.
[SPEAKER_07]: of deer hollow.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you approach, you see that the forest doesn't seem to dissipate in the way that forest do.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you get to the edges of them, they kind of become less dense, they become sparse, so you can see more light through them.
[SPEAKER_07]: You get that dabble to fact that sitting on just the edge of a forest is always the most beautiful spot in the forest because you're in the forest, but also outside of it, there's that beautiful light coming through and none of that is present here.
[SPEAKER_07]: The forest simply ends, and there is a stark divisive line between the darkness of the forest, and the solemn light of day of the hills that lead in to Deer Hollow.
[SPEAKER_07]: And as you approach over these rolling hills, you see often distance the village of Deer Hollow,
[SPEAKER_07]: a place you guys haven't been for some time, but you see a number of very, uh, for lack of a better term, gingerbread house like houses, uh, certainly not made of gingerbread, but then they hate, they have that look to them.
[SPEAKER_07]: They have the very, like, brown, kind of like, um, tired roof tops.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like, like, white, stucco walls with, like, the beat across beams through them.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, stone, smoke, stacks, a bunch of like smoke coming out.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see off in the distance, you know the village is in and the blacksmith with the big plumes of smoke coming from at the bakery.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can almost smell the sweet breads coming from even this distance and out in front of the town by the the well at the front of the town.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see a crowd all growing.
[SPEAKER_07]: And even from this distance, you hear one person at the front is being like yellow orders to everybody, everyone else is kind of like falling into line and you hear a familiar voice who you guys probably heard before but hadn't talked too much, you hear Gerald Foster.
[SPEAKER_07]: elements of gingerbreadification across his body.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's beginning to yell.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, everybody.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're going to take this in turns.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're going to take some ways.
[SPEAKER_07]: We have to do this safely and effectively.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, Rory was taken before and we searched the woods.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we found him and thank God for Celine.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank God for defeating Dolcenia, but we don't.
[SPEAKER_07]: have her anymore.
[SPEAKER_07]: So we're gonna have to do this ourselves.
[SPEAKER_07]: I need everyone here to be brave and they need you to work correctly and we need to take this in a grid-like situation.
[SPEAKER_07]: We need to do the body system and all times make sure I want to get my boy back.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is the most important thing to me.
[SPEAKER_07]: However, I don't want to lose anyone else.
[SPEAKER_07]: So everyone needs to find a buddy, do it in turn and then you're here, Roy go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dad, I'm the bravest boy ever and I beat a bear!
[SPEAKER_07]: The whole town, you hear a collective groan.
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, someone saved him.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's one kind of crotch to the old lady in the back going bang it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she's the homeies.
[SPEAKER_07]: We like her.
[SPEAKER_13]: I would say I would get her.
[SPEAKER_13]: Right.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, name that NPC.
[SPEAKER_07]: From the distance, you see the whole town turn around and you see Gerald Foster, Roy is dead.
[SPEAKER_07]: Run up, pick his son in a big bear hug.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like being tender around the right side that have been ginger-bedified.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you see him just like pulling into...
[SPEAKER_07]: I told you you have to stay close.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, the woods are not safe and what is going dead I was just trying to find my dog.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, brownie was lost and I had to go find the mention of the dog Where's the dog?
[SPEAKER_04]: What do you mean you had a dog?
[SPEAKER_07]: I was focused on beating a bear and then you guys kidnapped me and now I'm here and now we've got the whole town together This is great and now we can all go looking for brownie But didn't did the bear to mama bear and Boris leave us at the woods or they also with the mother and Boris left you at the woods You see them kind of like waving to a witty like
[SPEAKER_07]: Bye, Winnie.
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, really fast.
[SPEAKER_13]: If there's a separation from there, can I pull Mama Bear away from Boris for just a moment?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you see Mama Bear porous I can.
[SPEAKER_13]: Thank you for the escort.
[SPEAKER_13]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_13]: In exchange, I'm going to give you something that a lot of people don't have.
[SPEAKER_13]: And that's a time frame.
[SPEAKER_13]: You should spend as much time as you can with your son.
[SPEAKER_04]: with the hell, it's episode one.
[SPEAKER_13]: They knew when they brought me on their show that came to hurt.
[SPEAKER_13]: That's y'all's fun.
[SPEAKER_13]: Y'all know my story tell the style.
[SPEAKER_13]: I blame both of you.
[SPEAKER_13]: Don't say shit to us, you're new.
[SPEAKER_13]: You know you know, you know.
[SPEAKER_13]: You have a lot of people now.
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you see?
[SPEAKER_07]: Mama Bear kind of look at you.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she sees her son Boris is kind of like playing around behind her.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's kind of like looking for Barry's stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: He didn't get his boy snacks.
[SPEAKER_07]: So now he's got to find other things to eat.
[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't like how I said that.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's playing around the background.
[SPEAKER_07]: He didn't get to eat this small child, so now he's going to find some berries and things to eat.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think Amira, he's actually stolen the bindle that you had before.
[SPEAKER_07]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's eating through that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mom, bear looks at you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Very solemnly moves forward and rests her forehead against your forehead.
[SPEAKER_07]: It looks down to you and goes,
[SPEAKER_09]: Have you ever been a mother yourself?
[SPEAKER_13]: And just for hate, for hate, connection.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm just gonna shake my head, no.
[SPEAKER_09]: I pray that you never feel what I'm feeling now.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is indeed a gift.
[SPEAKER_09]: If you ever need us,
[SPEAKER_09]: wide wood, but if we're near, and we hear you call, we will come.
[SPEAKER_13]: And I can feel that chop, that soft, choke up in the back of my throat, as I'm trying to grunt, but really it just kind of fades into a very human, feral soft.
[SPEAKER_13]: And I'm going to reach back, I'm going to kiss her on the top of the nose, enjoy your time with your son.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see like a little tear in the corner of her eyes that she kind of like brushes away very much putting on a strong face, pulls you close and just goes I have to be strong for him I have to be around and I don't want him see me cry so if you can do me one more favor
[SPEAKER_09]: You cry for me.
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, that's not what I want it.
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, Jesus, Brian.
[SPEAKER_13]: I look up her and I not.
[SPEAKER_13]: I will cry for you.
[SPEAKER_13]: And I will make whoever did this suffer.
[SPEAKER_13]: And that is going to immediately enact my what really motivates me is getting revenge.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, I'm embarrassed sees the glint of fire in your eyes.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see her eyes, I haven't really looked at you before, but now they look down your entire body and they see the scars and the tattoos and the story, the tapestry of you written across your skin and just nods.
[SPEAKER_07]: In turns back into the forest.
[SPEAKER_07]: And as she does, you see her kind of like playfully jump on Boris and just like they start wrestling and having fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you see these two go back off into the forest.
[SPEAKER_07]: you hear the town is beginning to like, disperse a little bit now that Roy has been either kidnapped or saved depending on the version that you hear.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see the entire town is kind of looking at this reunited father and son, they're hugging and Roy is telling about all of the, the great in Noble Deeds he did in this forest adventure that he just had while looking for his lost dog, Brownie, which this is the first you guys have heard of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Communication skills are not great.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_14]: I don't like this chair.
[SPEAKER_07]: You kind of, you kind of hear through the, the, uh, uh, bragadotiousness of lost dog when looking for it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Got, uh, scared by a bear and then defeated the bear, singlehandling, and then these four people came along and helped guide him with the help of bearers to the, it's all very convoluted story.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is, it made worse because I may have gotten this child drop.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, 100%, there's a point in it where it's like, yeah, and then I got then now I'm a man because I drink wine I keep shooting him looks Adelaide keeps shooting him looks and like making these knock it off gesture with like her hand And then if the father starts making eye contact just like drops it and shoots him like a big like a big desolate smile within as soon as like
[SPEAKER_00]: he looks away, she looks back at the kid, takes her two fingers, points them at her own eyes, and directs them at the kid's eyes so that he is aware that she is watching him.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see, boy goes, yeah, that one, the one that's pointing at her eyes and then at me, and then making the slashing, it was this across her throne, and has the line skin, like on her belt.
[SPEAKER_19]: Actually, Gerald, I got it.
[SPEAKER_19]: I have a question.
[SPEAKER_19]: Gerald needs to try desperately to like leave him in and well, he's like, what?
[SPEAKER_07]: Gerald is flustered at this point because he was just like going along with the sun and now there's like information that he has a father needs to be aware of.
[SPEAKER_19]: Right, he's like, no way.
[SPEAKER_19]: Gerald is literally doing the thing where she's like leaping to the other side of him so that he has to turn his back so that he's not looking at Adelaide.
[SPEAKER_07]: Where she's like jumping around to distract him and yet you're a 73-year-old woman who is doing backflips Everyone looks at you So no test needed a girly hey, I got a I got a lot of energy to get out.
[SPEAKER_16]: I got a question for you Oh, Geraldine, how have you been?
[SPEAKER_16]: Not great What what happened to sleep
[SPEAKER_07]: You see he gets a little bit dower just like his son did and you see the crowd around you as you kind of glance at this crowd You see all of this crowd all of the townspeople many of whom you recognize either Knowing intimately or just like have remember seeing in a part of a memory that way that you recognize a face But don't know anything about it.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see all of them have various different
[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, there are various stages of infection of this kind of Andy curse.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see, there's like one of the bald baker, his whole head looks like he is turning into a jawbreaker.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see, there's a one with like what were like long dreadlocks and are now nodded together in like black liquorice.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, you see, everyone in various forms of this affliction, some only a little bit, some probably shouldn't even be out as part of this would be search party.
[SPEAKER_07]: as you ask what happened here.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see a elderly man steps forward that you recognize as the mayor of the town Theo Everston.
[SPEAKER_07]: The last you saw him he was probably in his like late 50s was very spy and energetic was like showing age but wasn't old in any way.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah you recognize
[SPEAKER_07]: in a way that he has been weathered and you recognize that this is a weathering that is not happened over the course of years but rather over the course of just a few months and he walks forward and sees all of you see the town with your presence most of these people recognize you recognize that you are princesses you were friends with Celine after all you visited the town at various points in your lives the mayor Theo walks up to you guys and goes
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, much has happened since you were here last, and very little of it, or good.
[SPEAKER_08]: Why don't we get you inside, get you some drinks and some food and allow you to rest from your travels, and I will tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not gonna lie.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't look great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, how long have you been dealing with the leprosy rub or whatever that is?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I can't be here.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's bad.
[SPEAKER_08]: I made a cotton candy now and I got to be honest.
[SPEAKER_08]: I've had a sweet tooth for my entire life and it's real.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's like I used to chew in my beard.
[SPEAKER_08]: Just kind of a habit and now it dissolves and then I just diggy.
[SPEAKER_08]: That it's a real bummer.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can I?
[SPEAKER_04]: Can I try something?
[SPEAKER_04]: Can I just can you try something really quick?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, sure.
[SPEAKER_04]: I take a glass of water and I throw it on his beard.
[SPEAKER_04]: Does it dissolve?
[SPEAKER_07]: You see, uh, as you do this, the whole town reacts.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, Theo moves back some of this water splashes on him.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see, the beard dissolves in some of his skin as well.
[SPEAKER_07]: Whoa.
[SPEAKER_04]: You see, this is crazy.
[SPEAKER_07]: The water.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, he'll touch him calm down.
[SPEAKER_07]: For his type of infection has been significantly, in game terms, this is a very effective attack.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_04]: This town can't have water.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see that like the parts of his skin that were like regular don't seem to be affected.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's only like the candy section of him the candy part of him.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so they're not showering is what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_19]: but also smell like cotton candy, it's sort of like a ballad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I imagine it's like, if you ever go to the gym and there's a bunch of people there wearing those thick gormond perfume.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's just like a sweaty cupcake.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, sweaty cupcake, that's the middle image I didn't need.
[SPEAKER_19]: Oh, I like it.
[SPEAKER_19]: I like it.
[SPEAKER_19]: If a bath in body works, it's also a gym.
[SPEAKER_19]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Amir, I think as you throw this water on an evil kind of freaks out, you see his beard is most effective because it's like a cotton candy beard and it's skin like, I wouldn't think the skin like burns off for anything but it does have like an effect is if it's like a hive almost, you recognize that like regular water and regular amounts of it are going to be uncomfortable if you had more water or particularly think if this water was like boiling, that would maybe have a significant effect.
[SPEAKER_07]: But you recognize the town sees this and freaks out just kind of recognizing that this is a danger that is now present to them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Theo immediately like, back, so it goes, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, why?
[SPEAKER_08]: Why, you have to be careful with water and you have to be careful with fire around here, okay?
[SPEAKER_04]: Sorry, no, sorry, sorry about that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's something usual.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can I try and heal some of the, like can I see if I can heal
[SPEAKER_04]: the water damage part of his candy body?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, go ahead and you want to use your gift ice?
[SPEAKER_07]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, go ahead and roll your gift ice.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll remind you if you roll one, two, or three.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's less effective, but you get to keep it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Four, five, or six, you will expend that gift dye until your next long rest.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright Brian, I'll play your little game.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's what we're all doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: The little game of him almost being dead.
[SPEAKER_07]: I rolled the five.
[SPEAKER_07]: Five you touch the other shoulder and you see the like this is skin that had been affected like this like kind of like hive outbreak that had happened because this touch of the water quickly yields and you recognize that the wound that was caused by this has healed the infection the curse has not.
[SPEAKER_07]: But like the damage that was done is healed.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see, he kind of breathes, I don't believe.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that's much better.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then he looks down just beard and it's still kind of pretty messed up.
[SPEAKER_07]: The beard as a cotton candy beard was kind of a bummer already.
[SPEAKER_07]: And now it looks like someone just took a weird weed like her to it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's got to be in a long beard way, which you really don't have.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna go back, I
[SPEAKER_07]: you guys you guys see on the like public notice board there are like some various like wanted posters basically and Amira's photo is up there at least seven times just having been like they had from various establishments they're they're they're old it seems like they've probably lapsed but they've left the pictures there I'm going to walk in front of Amira after she does the healing I'm just going to hit set or just keep walking
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, am I still banned at Tony's Paguishes?
[SPEAKER_00]: Tony's Paguishes?
[SPEAKER_00]: They're the best Paguishes.
[SPEAKER_08]: The best Paguishes in town.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm afraid you are still banned at Tony's Tony's.
[SPEAKER_08]: Tony's because she has a very long memory.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you gotta be careful with that one.
[SPEAKER_20]: So yes, you won't be able to get any of the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she's, the good she
[SPEAKER_04]: I actually, I implore you all the go-to-s-figures without it.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you guys debate, the sameness or not sameness of staguishes, you guys are led by Theo to the mayoral man's of every fine house kind of near the center of town as you pass the well in town, which it kind of towards the entrance of the town, which has been decorated with a number of like charms and things that you hadn't noticed before, you don't, they don't seem religious or anything, they just kind of seem
[SPEAKER_07]: almost like good luck charms.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they need warning charms.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like is there like a real active symbol that we can grow up there?
[SPEAKER_00]: No way.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is no place of honor.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then you think it'd be fair.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys are led to the mayor's mans.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you go in and you're given a seat and you're given some refreshments and small cakes that the mayor's wife comes down like gives you a bunch of stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the mayor sits you down
[SPEAKER_08]: So, we've had an interesting few months, and I'm afraid it's only getting more.
[SPEAKER_08]: I say, I'm trying to keep a brave face for the town, but I won't lie to you, it's dire, after we lost Celine and after the witch, and after, I'm sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself.
[SPEAKER_07]: Can you see, you see months of carrying the town's weight on his shoulders and he's letting it down a little bit recognizing that you are princesses that you can help that you are known to him, but you have been friendly with him before.
[SPEAKER_08]: Are you able to help?
[SPEAKER_08]: Did you come to help?
[SPEAKER_08]: Because we desperately need help.
[SPEAKER_00]: We, uh, didn't know about your sugar problem, but we did come to see what was going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've been trying to get in touch with Celine for months.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we haven't gotten any of our princess mail.
[SPEAKER_00]: And do you have anything that isn't made out of sugar or cakes?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I am now worried that this used to be one of your neighbors.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have like a meat?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've, oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: This does seem a little bit macabre now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[SPEAKER_04]: So us eating the other foods is taking food away from your people.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah, I'm eating all the vegan food and then the vegan still get to eat it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: GOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
[SPEAKER_04]: I like I like move a glass of water if it's to Adelaide if you want to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can Sort of like edge it closer.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like just like just like drinks the water, but clearly holds it Like like like a cup does their gun when they pull over a black person
[SPEAKER_07]: You see his wife Alice comes in her hair is like slowly turning like candy corn bits like she had very short cropped hair And it's like becoming this kind of like spiky candy corn and her skin is turning this like orange is you know segmented bits of like orange white and The other color of candy corn yellow yellow And she kind of goes behind her husband and like wax him upside of a head and you know puts down a cheese plate and various other things and goes
[SPEAKER_07]: If you need me to kick his ass, I'll kick his ass, okay?
[SPEAKER_17]: I know you can, Darlin.
[SPEAKER_17]: Thanks, Ray.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she gives you the first in a series of a very long handshake between two very old.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
[SPEAKER_06]: And it's not because of the speed, they're both quick.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's just a long and complicated thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not only too fast.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're like, how is this happening?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like amazed at your hands, aren't you, Grandpa?
[SPEAKER_13]: Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
[SPEAKER_07]: As this handshake is happening in the background, the rest for the rest of the episode know that this handshake is happening in the background.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's too hot in the background.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm not sure.
[SPEAKER_08]: Much has happened.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, I know that Celine wrote to all of you about the, the witch, you know, forced.
[SPEAKER_08]: But Delciniah, she had been a nuisance for a long time, but not a real terror, you know?
[SPEAKER_08]: Just a, a benign evil deep in our woods.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then something changed, she began kidnapping the children of our town.
[SPEAKER_08]: one by one they were disappearing and she was she had this terrifying night on a horse made of dark chocolate the horse had a long spiral horn on the center of its head and what?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, that was a night that was made of dark chocolate in a goop, a horse with a with a long one of those like lolly pops But as a spike on the center, it's forehead and okay, what did it have a name?
[SPEAKER_08]: I never had the pleasure it, the nights and the horse, I suppose it's a unicorn.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm kind of dancing around the word unicorn, he gets a unicorn.
[SPEAKER_19]: At the word unicorn, I think Geraldine gets super distracted and misses the next beat of the handshake and as a result, gets like full karate kick in the face.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's a group!
[SPEAKER_15]: I said, we have to pause.
[SPEAKER_15]: It should press the heretic unicorn.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, there was a... She had somehow animated a massive night made of dark chocolate, wielding a giant sword and a maze in the shield, an arm-a-made of dark chocolate, and this unicorn made of white chocolate and candy swirl horn that was slowly kidnapping the children of this town.
[SPEAKER_08]: We tried to mount an offensive against it, and nothing was working, and then the lean took the lead, and that wonderful woman flew the witch, flew the dark chocolate night, and rescued the children of the town.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, dear, dear, did.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she killed the unicorn as what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, the unicorn went free.
[SPEAKER_04]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_08]: I will say the unicorn used it's horn to spear through the chests of two or three villagers.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I'm just I'm sensing the tone and it was majestic but there was some evil in it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Were the villagers manned or?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, what were they wearing?
[SPEAKER_04]: They probably pissed the unicorn off.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's, that's their fault.
[SPEAKER_07]: Number one, that's true.
[SPEAKER_07]: They were, they were wearing red shirts and they were rather billowy.
[SPEAKER_04]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_04]: The same way they're gonna be unicorn and kind of a bull, Toria door sense.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my God.
[SPEAKER_04]: Unicorn 101.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm mirror with no.
[SPEAKER_08]: We were so sure that our troubles were over.
[SPEAKER_08]: The witch dead, the dark chocolate night dead, our children returned to us, but then,
[SPEAKER_08]: We found out that the witch had one more trick of her terrible slave she cursed this forest with this candy curse.
[SPEAKER_08]: I heard from Celine, after we begin to see the first of these transformations, they started slow a few months ago, but after that happened, she told me what the witch's last words were and they didn't make sense at the time and they didn't know that she said her magic will infect the land that it will infect the animals that will infect our very bones.
[SPEAKER_08]: She said that her death would be only the beginning of our problems and that we would never
[SPEAKER_08]: And then, I made my mistake.
[SPEAKER_08]: I have an item in my possession.
[SPEAKER_08]: The Malafik Mirror.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's a cursed item I was given by the face some time ago when I visited the Eternal Ball as a child.
[SPEAKER_08]: It warned me never to use it that it was... Something only to be used the darkest of hours because, yes, it will tell you the truth, but it'll exact a terrible toll.
[SPEAKER_08]: And so for 50 years, I never used it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thalene convinced me to let her borrow the mirror.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sounds like Thalene.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lean.
[SPEAKER_08]: She's the bravest woman I ever know.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I didn't think that I... She asked the mirror how we could break the curse.
[SPEAKER_08]: And the mirror gave us back a response.
[SPEAKER_08]: It echoes in my head every night, and I can't escape it, and it's said, before the curse breaking too succeed, three different items you will need.
[SPEAKER_08]: The tale of the King of the Pixies land, a ring of gold from the Earl King's hand.
[SPEAKER_08]: The final thing, not least, but last, a treasure from the castes past,
[SPEAKER_08]: Together dropped into the well, this item's three will break the spell.
[SPEAKER_09]: But time is short, so move your feet, or you will find revenge is sweet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, hot damn.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's a good rhyme.
[SPEAKER_11]: That is a dope one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, just like ends on a very strong strong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, or just three, what are three items again?
[SPEAKER_07]: You want to just get through the way thing, but the tail of the three things that were listed in this are the tale of the King of the Pixies land, a ring of gold from the Earl King's hand, and the final treasure, the final thing, a treasure from the Castor's past, and that they need to be dropped into the well together to break the curse.
[SPEAKER_07]: the mayor kind of sits back, and you see his eyes kind of closes.
[SPEAKER_07]: He and it tilts his head back remembering a moment.
[SPEAKER_07]: And to this moment, you had heard they spoke to a mirror, the mirror gave them the answer.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you see that there's a moment that is sitting behind his lips that he is.
[SPEAKER_07]: Doesn't want to speak into existence because saying it makes it all the more real.
[SPEAKER_13]: Did the mirror say something else?
[SPEAKER_13]: How's about to say so?
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm going to try to bridge the gap on that.
[SPEAKER_13]: How
[SPEAKER_10]: The mirror, exacted its price, she heard the words of the mirror.
[SPEAKER_08]: She asked it for its help and then she dissolved into dust.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_08]: Kind of stained the floor and it kind of melted and it cleaned it up and we had to use different solvents and I'm sorry, you You solvented sleep We kind of gathered up the quote-unquote ashes for a burial and then we couldn't get it all up because the floor was a bit warm and it melted the I know That's why I'd never used it and and I just saw it no other way and she was so convincing she was so sure she was always so sure and she had
[SPEAKER_08]: defeated the witch and she had defeated the dark chocolate knights and she'd save the children and she had done so much and she You know she was so alive Did she say have ever stared you wrong?
[SPEAKER_08]: She did say that she's never stood me wrong and she was right.
[SPEAKER_08]: She had never stood me wrong and She had done so much.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, well, that's how I got banned from all those places in deer hollow.
[SPEAKER_15]: He did live a birdie
[SPEAKER_04]: She steered me wrong plenty of times.
[SPEAKER_07]: He- he- he's a smile kind of cracks and stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: She was- she was wild one.
[SPEAKER_08]: She was rembunkedress and I looked- the old town loved it about her and- but no one likes it about me.
[SPEAKER_16]: Mirra, I don't really think this moment's about you.
[SPEAKER_19]: Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
[SPEAKER_07]: Maddie comes down and like rests his head on your shoulder and kind of like nudges into you in a way that you recognize it's being like chill Without saline The listen the the forest has always been incredibly perilous even when the road was
[SPEAKER_08]: And it's best, and anywhere else in the forest with Delsinia and so many of the animals have been infected and become more vicious and it's just, it's a dark scary place and there are so many dark scary things in dark scary places.
[SPEAKER_08]: The lane was a shining light in a princess and she could venture into the dark scary places
[SPEAKER_07]: Not for lack of trying, but you see him kind of like slow down again and his wife comes over puts her hand on a shoulder goes.
[SPEAKER_08]: We've been studying the town's folk in town.
[SPEAKER_07]: She kind of walks over to a door and you see often the distance there's a double door that has been guarded oddly enough by a couple of I want to say soldiers, but really villagers with pitchforks and machetes and like kind of makeshift weaponry
[SPEAKER_07]: and oddly enough like also a lot of like at their feet are a number of like rat traps and a lot of like uh cage like small cages and things and you see um she kind of waves to them and they kind of nod solemnly and they open the door to what you knew once a very large banquet hall and I suppose it still is but inside standing like terracotta soldiers is about half of the town
[SPEAKER_07]: Completely transformed into candy hard candy hard candy soft candy you recognize that the reason people are here are not too Guard things from getting in they are to catch a vermin that are trying to get into eat The can to find villagers
[SPEAKER_07]: You see a number of pastries and confections, hard candy, chewy candy muffins and donuts and cakes and pastries and all faces that you, some of them you recognize, some of them you don't, some of them were friends or you played with at one time were parents of friends that you played with or you saw around town.
[SPEAKER_07]: Quickly, they close the doors as you see, like, you hear a scurrying off the distance and everyone kind of braces back to protect this portion of the town.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've been doing our maths on our vignette thick, and we think time is not on our side.
[SPEAKER_07]: If our calculations are correct, and every day they prove to be so we have,
[SPEAKER_07]: 10 days before everyone is candy.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not much.
[SPEAKER_07]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: Our potion master is working diligently to try to find a cure but so far no luck.
[SPEAKER_07]: Even that is a long shot.
[SPEAKER_07]: The only hope we think we have is breaking this curse.
[SPEAKER_07]: And there are so few people left.
[SPEAKER_07]: And those that are barely in a position to leave the town or protect the road and it, no one has escaped it.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's where some of the lucky ones.
[SPEAKER_07]: We think we have days left.
[SPEAKER_19]: Some people will be Andy by tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_19]: In a, we've been friends long enough to have known each other long enough, it's that unspoken thing of, of being like, I think it's us.
[SPEAKER_19]: Yeah, I think.
[SPEAKER_17]: I think we're the one sure gonna do it if anyone can.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the first item, the awful creepy mirror said, was that we've got to go to the Pixies land?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, the Pixies land, a ring from the Oral King's hand.
[SPEAKER_07]: And treasure from the cast just passed, which probably means dalsinius tower.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I,
[SPEAKER_07]: Who knows what kind of magical traps in a femur are there?
[SPEAKER_07]: The pixies have hidden themselves in the woods ever since this has started.
[SPEAKER_07]: They haven't had much help trying to find them in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that part of why the woods are so dark?
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe.
[SPEAKER_07]: They were always a brightness in the dark, but I think they could only ever be a small light in the darkness.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think Dulcinias caused the darkness.
[SPEAKER_07]: And this forest is very much infected to its core.
[SPEAKER_13]: the tail of the king from the pixie's land, and I have a pointed finger that's just slightly clawed at the end, and I'm just going to like wave it.
[SPEAKER_13]: Is that a tail like a story or a tail like a tail?
[SPEAKER_08]: When we were told this by the mirror, it wrote down all of the things on its reflection.
[SPEAKER_08]: We saw it just come up and it's a tail, like the the the behind of an animal, but
[SPEAKER_08]: The thing is, there is no king of the Pixies land.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's, they have a queen and she's not had a husband at some time.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I, we were lost at that one as well.
[SPEAKER_13]: And just point of clarity, when he did that questioning, because you guys know that she can't read.
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, he couldn't do phonetically or spelling.
[SPEAKER_13]: And definitely the best you could do is I can't let story or tell.
[SPEAKER_13]: You know, sure, sure, sure.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, I can't spell it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to let's go kick that ass.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're happy to point you to, towards Barry Brook where the pixie's are, but getting into their village is always difficult, and we can point you to Dulcinius, tower, wish you luck getting there and traversing her tower, who knows, kind of magical.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's when you'll have to find on your own.
[SPEAKER_00]: Before all of this happened, do we know why she suddenly went from being this benign, as you say, evil to, you know, creating these evil nights and candy folk did something happen, was there some kind of trigger or did something change in the time that we've been gone?
[SPEAKER_07]: And Lady, I believe one of your skills is history.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is that correct?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think all of you are aware of Dulcini.
[SPEAKER_07]: She was a witch that lived in the forest, but it was a kind of boogie-man story.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like you stay out of this area of the woods because there's a scary witch there.
[SPEAKER_07]: But she disappeared for some time, kind of mysteriously like 50 or 60 years ago came back.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think what you recognize is that, I think there's something that Geraldine and the mayor and his wife recognize is that she was getting hold.
[SPEAKER_13]: And I'm so sorry, Jody doesn't recognize this at all.
[SPEAKER_06]: Jody is like, Jody will outlive us all.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think it's not lost on you that she was kidnapping children, which is our strange beings.
[SPEAKER_07]: And their spellcraft is unknown to you.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is difficult to research without getting, without becoming a witch yourself, without giving yourself over to that kind of art form.
[SPEAKER_07]: But you recognize that the confluence of events are likely that she was looking to do something with these children to help prolong her life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Throw them a huge party with all of their friends.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Definitely.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think the thing that is interesting you in this moment though is you recognize, okay, kids, great.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's, you know, font of youth.
[SPEAKER_07]: That makes sense to you.
[SPEAKER_07]: The candy aspect doesn't quite yet.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I think, I don't think the mayor's wife have any guidance for you on that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think it's a question that kind of lingers in your mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm nosy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I never change.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want the tea.
[SPEAKER_00]: You could have told me anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's great, guys.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not gossiping.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is being inquisitive, darling.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, come through April.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm very inquisitive about everybody else's business.
[SPEAKER_13]: When he rolls her eyes in acknowledgement,
[SPEAKER_04]: Should we call our fairy god mother to ask for some help?
[SPEAKER_17]: I can use some more wine.
[SPEAKER_17]: I think that might be good.
[SPEAKER_17]: The O and the April we're going to do our damnedest.
[SPEAKER_18]: And we'll do it for Selene.
[SPEAKER_18]: I mean, we're doing it for the whole town, but we're going to be thinking about it.
[SPEAKER_18]: Like a lot, can you?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, I get it.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, it was a great moment.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then you, you're kind of backped a little bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, every kind of took the air out of it a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, Adela, it's going to grab her water and like put it up in a cheer.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, first to lean.
[SPEAKER_01]: They all, they all go back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, ah, ah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoa.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it'll, ah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I should get the fuck out of here.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: We took us some time to get used to as well.
[SPEAKER_17]: It's their room we could maybe confer with our group and rest it before we hit out.
[SPEAKER_08]: You certainly find some room at the end.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's many rooms for you.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't even think they'll charge you.
[SPEAKER_04]: What's the point?
[SPEAKER_04]: It's the end.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's depressing.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, there's a point.
[SPEAKER_04]: Click your money.
[SPEAKER_13]: Listen, when capitalism dies, you know it's the end.
[SPEAKER_08]: Head to the end, they'll find you a room and gather provisions throughout the town and let us know how we can be of help.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're happy to help because we, that's all we have.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's all help.
[SPEAKER_08]: So please, thank you so much.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys leave the mayoral man's and you make your way to the inn.
[SPEAKER_07]: You find what was once a jovial place filled with.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's like a large bar and there was flaggons of things.
[SPEAKER_07]: A very large individual space was a space for a band.
[SPEAKER_07]: And lots of tables and chairs and sawdust on the ground.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you see that it is the ground rather than being sticky and wet is dry.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the bar is empty.
[SPEAKER_07]: you quickly get a couple of rooms and you find your way to your rooms and as you do in your minds begin to call to your fairy godmother once you can tell me how do you reach out to your fairy godmother
[SPEAKER_00]: Adelaide takes what's kind of like left of the little swig of like one that she's got and much like a song I can't sing because we don't have the rights She opens it up and like pour some on the ground as you just imagine.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know maybe like four
[SPEAKER_00]: Young fellas from Philly wearing preppy clothes, being about how they had to say goodbye to someone and it was really difficult.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if they're singing this song, because she can bring forth her very God mother by singing some in-champments, by showing like true feelings.
[SPEAKER_00]: So as she sings the song and pours out some wine for her dear departed friend, Celine, that is what she will do to bring forth her very God mother.
[SPEAKER_07]: as you pour one out for your friend and pour one out for your fairy godmother.
[SPEAKER_07]: You hear off in the distance.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys find yourself in the like, heaven room of this inn.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you hear from down the streets some kind of sound.
[SPEAKER_07]: You hear a bunch of people kind of like,
[SPEAKER_07]: You hear like cries or like shouts, as people seem to be diving out of the lion, something you hear.
[SPEAKER_07]: What the hell!
[SPEAKER_07]: And first thing through the door, running on top of a massive keg of ale.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a small squad woman in a like ankle length purple polka dot address with a big cigar in her mouth.
[SPEAKER_07]: rides forward literally like kicking on top of this this cask of ale into the room and then stop short on the cask and continue to stay on top of it as if this is her mode of transportation yeah that's so much pulls out the cigar from out of the goes it's what you need no no
[SPEAKER_07]: And that is the end of this episode of My First Dungeon, Parals and Princesses.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh my god!
[SPEAKER_07]: To the next week, as we meet the fairy godmother in all of her glory, and we begin our adventure to the tango wood.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, I've heard of her.
[SPEAKER_04]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_04]: She need is a crazy line to end on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, I did 100% almost say when you said it 10 days until they all turn into candies.
[SPEAKER_00]: I almost said 10 candies.
[SPEAKER_00]: There wasn't time.
[SPEAKER_00]: You were doing your own moaning.
[SPEAKER_07]: Tune in next week to see how our pretty and gritty princesses begin their adventure into the tank would and if we can stop the evil Dulcinius candy curse and as always remember if you're having fun You're already doing it right, but bye everybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bye Gritty and pretty Hell yeah Hell yeah, it's brilliant.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's great.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a great first episode
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[SPEAKER_10]: I was like, go!
[SPEAKER_04]: Triple for off.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, why would I do that?
[SPEAKER_10]: I would.
[SPEAKER_04]: And so, I was like, oh, actually, his wife's name is Amira, and Amira means Princess, and it's like Arabic origin.
[SPEAKER_04]: So go, I'll play his wife.
[SPEAKER_04]: Fuck you, Matt.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm gonna make you my horse.
[SPEAKER_13]: And I'm gonna make you my horse.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: Best change ever.
[SPEAKER_19]: Well, it's amazing.
[SPEAKER_19]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_19]: Shout out to Matt and Amira.
[SPEAKER_07]: Shout out to Matt and Amira.
[SPEAKER_19]: Shout out to Matt and Amira.
[SPEAKER_19]: Yeah, it's amazing.
[SPEAKER_07]: And remember, if you're having fun, you're already doing it right.