[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_10]: Though it may have been swallowed by the sorrow of an impending saccharine doom, Deer Hollow is still a bastion of your memories of a better time.
[SPEAKER_10]: And despite its current paler, the town still retains a tenuous hold on life.
[SPEAKER_10]: A hold bolstered only slightly by the hope that you for represent.
[SPEAKER_10]: The Tanglewood, however,
[SPEAKER_10]: retains none of the whimsy of memory.
[SPEAKER_10]: It is stark and jagged.
[SPEAKER_10]: The shadows are harsh and the darkness rumbles with hunger.
[SPEAKER_10]: The dark scary things often hide in dark scary places and the tangal wood is the darkest and scariest place you have ever seen.
[SPEAKER_10]: So what must that mean you wonder for the things that hide inside?
[SPEAKER_10]: The four of you spend the night in Deer Hollow, resting up this counts as a long rest for all of you.
[SPEAKER_10]: So any hit points that you expended are regained, any gift dice that were expended as Amira had are regained.
[SPEAKER_10]: And you find yourselves early in the morning, all four of you near the edge of the Tangledwood Forest that harsh and stark cut off from light into darkness of the forest with the four of you
[SPEAKER_13]: Spot, Matt Sleeps, and the bed next to me.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm here for this.
[SPEAKER_10]: The proprietor of the in Hannah initially didn't love seeing a horse going up stairs, but then like walked in and saw how cute you guys were together and realized this is this is wonderful.
[SPEAKER_10]: This is lovely.
[SPEAKER_10]: This has to happen.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm not going to make a mirror sleep out in the stables with Matt, Matt must sleep inside with the
[SPEAKER_10]: and you also have Saline's horse spot, a very regal white and spotted horse that has a plot to make nificent.
[SPEAKER_07]: Spot the magnificent.
[SPEAKER_10]: Full name is Sir Spot the Magnificent first of his name, champion of the West and seeker of the horizon.
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[SPEAKER_10]: It's a surm.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was lightning.
[SPEAKER_06]: You basically died.
[SPEAKER_06]: Wait, so how does that work with the nighting of the, are we assumed in this world with the nighting?
[SPEAKER_06]: It is protection, doing great deeds, was there, was there ceremony?
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, there was certainly, I think you actually, as you guys are walking to the edge of the Tangwood Force, you had casually, like, ass spot, something, and spot very quickly, for actually, it is actually a surf spot.
[SPEAKER_10]: First of his day, I'm champion of the West Bank and Siko of the Horizon.
[SPEAKER_10]: I was knighted by Celine when I was merely three years old, barely a coat myself, and
[SPEAKER_10]: I must tell you, I have earned every title I've found.
[SPEAKER_10]: I run faster, I jump higher, and quite frankly, I'm one of the most impressive horses that there is.
[SPEAKER_10]: And so humble as well.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Top stuff, humility, honey.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, do they give you, do they night you for humbleness?
[SPEAKER_06]: Is there a night, night you for humbleness?
[SPEAKER_10]: They did, and they gave me a title for it too, but I'm so humble that I don't include that title.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: As you guys make it to the edge of the tankwood forest, you see a small party there to kind of greet you and see you all.
[SPEAKER_10]: If you see Mayor Theo, you see Roxy with a big stack of papers looking kind of anxiously at Amira who had recently drank that potential inoculation that, oh, what was, oh my god, what was the word, the snack scene, a potential snack scene to this candy curse.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see Roxy there with a big stack of papers.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see Rory, the small boy you had rescued, who's, you know, kind of double hand waving edge guys.
[SPEAKER_10]: Guys, you're gonna be so great.
[SPEAKER_12]: I, it's never, remember everybody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact, don
[SPEAKER_06]: Adelaide just kind of like looks down and she's she's like looking at her thumbs But Adelaide's not super great at focus So the core that Marie is kind of yelling and waving his arms like the harder it is for Adelaide to not just like look over I know you're gonna look at me
[SPEAKER_12]: You know you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh my god, I just forgot my dog's name.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Um, it's gonna be a normal dog.
[SPEAKER_13]: Are you gonna?
[SPEAKER_13]: Is this dog gonna attack us?
[SPEAKER_12]: Honestly, Brownie never turned to candy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, so we're just looking for any brown dog.
[SPEAKER_06]: We just bring you any brown dog.
[SPEAKER_06]: Adelaide is writing down any brown dog.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, my specific dog has a big red collar and a little Doohiki on the bottom this made of metal that says brownie and then on the back it says my address one two three the street
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm going to kill you.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's okay, mirage.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_13]: Take out rage from my head.
[SPEAKER_13]: Put it to the bottom.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's only if we happen to run across a dog.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wouldn't we think the odds are there?
[SPEAKER_13]: I don't like children.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm here.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see next to you, um, a big arm, like kind of flops on your shoulder and you see Connie next to you clearly like still a bit drunk from another night of just Drinking the tavern.
[SPEAKER_10]: She's found a way to pass the time.
[SPEAKER_10]: And she goes, man, me too.
[SPEAKER_10]: Listen, I mostly hang out at the tavern because this kid isn't allowed in.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's why it's because it's because of the kid.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, there's other reasons, too, but that was what drove me there.
[SPEAKER_10]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_10]: That's fair.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see, Emery, she is holding tied together by the laces or her boots, which you see kind of had this like slightly magical twinkle to them.
[SPEAKER_10]: And she hands them over to you and goes, so since you guys are gonna be delivering some letters and stuff, and you're gonna be out in the woods and maybe you have a chance at this.
[SPEAKER_10]: These are my boots and they've been, they've been magical for a while, um, if you want to use them, you're more than welcome to I haven't been able to use much of them here.
[SPEAKER_13]: What makes them magic?
[SPEAKER_13]: What do they do?
[SPEAKER_10]: So these are my wayfaring boots.
[SPEAKER_10]: Pretty easy.
[SPEAKER_10]: If you are using them and you try to like go for too long, you won't have to do any kind of like you won't be weary the next day.
[SPEAKER_10]: And for every 60 miles you like they're not charged right now, but if you walk 60 miles, they charge up and you can have a one-time teleport.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, thank you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Can you take any bites of you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's sure Amira's question first.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's you and anyone you're holding.
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: Even your holding hands with.
[SPEAKER_13]: So if Matt wears them and we're all riding Matt.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: We all.
[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, I've never put them on a horse before, but I guess you could certainly try.
[SPEAKER_06]: And that means that we'd all be riding Matt though.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're right in my mind.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't want this anymore, Adelaide.
[SPEAKER_13]: I don't want this anymore, Adelaide.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want this anymore, Adelaide.
[SPEAKER_13]: I don't want this anymore, Adelaide.
[UNKNOWN]: I don't want this anymore, Adelaide.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want this anymore, Adelaide.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want this anymore
[SPEAKER_10]: mechanically these boots uh you will not have to make a wits check to see if you are weird after pushing it during travel and every 60 miles you walk these boots will recharge and they will allow you to teleport with aim when you're touching to a location in your memory you will have to make some kind of check to see how close you get even if you fail that check you are going to be within a couple of miles of where you want to be.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a good escape ability, like if things hit the fan and we gotta get out fast, that's good.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's extremely powerful.
[SPEAKER_10]: It is a thing that you have to recharge by walking in them for 60 miles, so it is a use when needed.
[SPEAKER_15]: So is this the kind of thing that, because only one person can wear them?
[SPEAKER_15]: So if I guess somebody has a low width that they're unlikely to roll under, it would be best for that person to wear them.
[SPEAKER_10]: I will let you choose how you want to, who you want to have where them if you want anyone to wear them.
[SPEAKER_10]: So ultimately, that will help that person not do wear it if you guys push hard and travel.
[SPEAKER_10]: They will also be the least likely to succeed on like the teleportation check if, even when you use that.
[SPEAKER_13]: Cocoa, Cocoa, question.
[SPEAKER_13]: So we can teleport anywhere within someone's memory.
[SPEAKER_13]: So if someone remembers a place we can get there.
[SPEAKER_13]: Let me look at the book.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's a cool girl.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that asking?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just a step-up question.
[SPEAKER_10]: It seems specific enough that I need to retreat back into text.
[SPEAKER_15]: Where I'm like, where have we been?
[SPEAKER_10]: All right.
[SPEAKER_10]: When charged, click your heels together and test widths to attempt to instantly transport yourself in any friends that are joining hands with you to a chosen familiar location.
[SPEAKER_10]: A failed test takes you within six miles of that intended destination.
[SPEAKER_13]: Okay, great.
[SPEAKER_13]: So we all need to be holding hands.
[SPEAKER_13]: I can go to a familiar location, meaning like a place that you've been to maybe a few times or have frequented in recent memory, perhaps.
[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, yes, but the way you're saying it, it makes me nervous.
[SPEAKER_13]: No, Brian, just let me know if it's true.
[SPEAKER_13]: If we put the boots and they're charged, right?
[SPEAKER_13]: They're not charged.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're not charged.
[SPEAKER_07]: What the hell is it?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's 60 miles.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're right.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're on one charge.
[SPEAKER_03]: You think of you just cut the system right now?
[SPEAKER_13]: Connie wasn't even using them.
[SPEAKER_13]: I was like, we could teleport to wherever we want.
[SPEAKER_13]: You can go to the castle or very parker.
[SPEAKER_13]: whatever.
[SPEAKER_10]: They are uncharged at the moment.
[SPEAKER_10]: Connie hands these tea and goes, listen if you can get good use out of them, please use them because you know, I've been stuck here I can't get any miles in so, and also it's just tough to get out of this place.
[SPEAKER_02]: So generous of you, Connie, thanks.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you, Connie.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thanks, Connie.
[SPEAKER_06]: We appreciate that.
[SPEAKER_06]: What are these boots look like?
[SPEAKER_06]: I know we talked about, like, all of the mechanics and all that stuff.
[SPEAKER_06]: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
[SPEAKER_10]: These are, these are, these are, these are definitely like, these boots are made for walking.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, it's right there.
[SPEAKER_10]: Are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they, are they
[SPEAKER_10]: All parts of them are very workmen like they are meant to be walked in.
[SPEAKER_10]: They are very purposeful and rugged, but also there's like a little bit of flare to them.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's clear that Connie has had these for a long time and it's customized them.
[SPEAKER_10]: So there's like flashes of like someone who has like gone in and painted different parts has added like little tag bits to them.
[SPEAKER_10]: So there are some kind of like DIY hearts and lightning bugs on them, but also some like personalized like embroidery type stuff in them.
[SPEAKER_07]: They have like crack charms on them.
[SPEAKER_07]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, I like when you used to like draw on your on your checks.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, cool So like So like rain boots like R-E-I and the G Got to stop encouraging me when I do that.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's like two funds and one it's terrible
[SPEAKER_10]: you all get to head out.
[SPEAKER_10]: Roxie is there.
[SPEAKER_10]: She looks at the miracles.
[SPEAKER_10]: So just make sure I have a separate section of forms.
[SPEAKER_09]: In case you lose the first section of forms that you got to make sure to fill out.
[SPEAKER_09]: So the first night you haven't seen any symptoms yet, you will know for sure within 72 hours.
[SPEAKER_09]: So within the next two days, if you start to see any sprinkling,
[SPEAKER_10]: or if you start to see any licoriceification or any kind of hardening or canification, just make sure you note that very clearly in these pages.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, all of this will be incredibly helpful in me being able to find a tour.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_13]: Okay, and do you need my princess security numbers that can I just keep that blank?
[SPEAKER_10]: Ah, I guess you can leave a blank.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't need no, want, yes.
[SPEAKER_10]: For what purpose it is?
[SPEAKER_10]: And finally, Mayor Theo just kind of looks a dozen.
[SPEAKER_08]: Good luck.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're certainly gonna try.
[SPEAKER_08]: Take care of yourself.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's all we can do.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's all you can, D, I gotta go.
[SPEAKER_13]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_13]: All right, time to go, everybody on the Madden spot.
[SPEAKER_10]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_10]: It is now that I'm going to explain how the candy curse works in this game.
[SPEAKER_10]: Why, I don't think we need to do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's happening?
[SPEAKER_02]: Why are you saying it?
[SPEAKER_10]: Why, rather than explaining what will happen to each of you should this curse progress?
[SPEAKER_10]: Because we still don't quite know yet if Amira has been infected with this candy case.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's why I like to hear it.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: Rather, I want to tell you how this candy curse may and likely will affect the people that you've met already.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_10]: Uh-oh.
[SPEAKER_10]: At the end of every day,
[SPEAKER_10]: We will roll the candy curse dice.
[SPEAKER_10]: That dice starts at a D8.
[SPEAKER_10]: If you roll a 1, 2 things will happen.
[SPEAKER_10]: The first is that a villager will succumb to the curse.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ugh!
[SPEAKER_10]: And the second is that dice will shrink to the next lowest polyhedral size.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, so D8 will become a D6.
[SPEAKER_10]: If you then roll another one, that will become a D4.
[SPEAKER_10]: One say does that a D4, it will stay at a D4.
[SPEAKER_10]: Making every time a day passes, a 25% chance that someone you have met will turn fully to candy.
[SPEAKER_15]: Is it just Rory?
[SPEAKER_15]: Cause I'm okay with that.
[SPEAKER_10]: What I need right now, Amira.
[SPEAKER_10]: No.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think so.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is good.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: We're going to do it.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're going to do it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Amira, this past night, you have felt very aware of your body.
[SPEAKER_10]: Just looking for any different changes that could be perceived as becoming a puberty again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God.
[SPEAKER_10]: I need you to roll a D8.
[SPEAKER_10]: I want you to know that if you roll a two through eight, no one will have changed.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: If you roll a one, the mayor will return to find his wife has turned to candy.
[SPEAKER_13]: Ooh, A-B-D-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A-B-D-A
[SPEAKER_10]: town makes it another night as you all turn into the forest and begin to find your way through the paths and trails that slowly or rather quickly begin to fade from view and from existence and you find yourselves moving through a harsh and a wild terrain.
[SPEAKER_10]: We are going to do some of the traveling rules for this game now.
[SPEAKER_10]: You guys are making your way towards Barry Brook.
[SPEAKER_10]: You have a pretty clear idea of where you are going.
[SPEAKER_10]: You know, it is to the northwest of Deer Hollow.
[SPEAKER_10]: You have some good directions, not great directions.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's always a chance you can get lost.
[SPEAKER_10]: You know that it is a total of 18 miles away.
[SPEAKER_13]: Who's wearing the boots?
[SPEAKER_13]: I smell them and I'm like, this is not as disgusting.
[SPEAKER_07]: My eyebrows pull and I'm gonna take the boots and two fingers, turn them around and I'm literally just gonna Mealy pull out of my current boots and slip into them, and then time out of the boots to my backpack.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nice, I need a stretch out in them, stretch my heels.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna go quadrupe, gallop around a couple of times, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet, check my feet,
[SPEAKER_10]: incredibly comfortable and squishy.
[SPEAKER_10]: It feels like even after just a few steps, you feel your feet are not going to get tired in these things.
[SPEAKER_10]: They seem almost rejuvenating as you walk.
[SPEAKER_10]: And on the sides, you see a little six-part clock that slowly begins to tick up with each mile that you walk.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, interesting.
[SPEAKER_07]: I love that those are on the moon.
[SPEAKER_07]: So funny.
[SPEAKER_07]: I like it.
[SPEAKER_06]: That is Kunti.
[SPEAKER_07]: Kunti, Kunti, Kunti, Kunti, Kunti.
[SPEAKER_10]: You guys know that Barry Brook where you are headed to this area of the Pixies where you expect to find the tail of the king of the Pixies land.
[SPEAKER_10]: Though you're not quite sure exactly what that means because there is no king of the Pixies land.
[SPEAKER_10]: is 18 miles away.
[SPEAKER_10]: You can travel six miles per day through wilderness, 12 miles per day along the road.
[SPEAKER_10]: And to either of those, you can push an additional six miles if you then test resolve the next day to see if you are weary.
[SPEAKER_07]: OK, is it an individual wearing this check or a group check?
[SPEAKER_10]: It is always individual for that.
[SPEAKER_10]: OK.
[SPEAKER_10]: I will say traveling on horseback is similar.
[SPEAKER_10]: You can travel 18 miles a day on roads, or 24 miles a day if you can push it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Horses do not give you any additional speed on rough terrain.
[SPEAKER_10]: They can travel six miles through rough terrain or 12 miles if you push it.
[SPEAKER_10]: OK.
[SPEAKER_10]: So kind of no matter what here, you are riding through rough terrain.
[SPEAKER_10]: You will spend at least one night in the Tanglewood.
[SPEAKER_10]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_10]: On this first night, how would you like to travel?
[SPEAKER_10]: Would you like to travel just six miles?
[SPEAKER_10]: Would you like to push it to travel 12?
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, if we have to spend the night there anyway and get tight tight, I don't see why we wouldn't do 12.
[SPEAKER_06]: But I'm sure someone here smarter than me has good reasoning.
[SPEAKER_15]: No, I also like, I think we should just push it.
[SPEAKER_13]: Because we need to do 12, but we're still in the forest.
[SPEAKER_13]: And then we do another six the next day, correct?
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: So we can just rest after the 12.
[SPEAKER_13]: And then just do a regular six.
[SPEAKER_13]: So not be tired.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we get to the math math.
[SPEAKER_13]: Right?
[SPEAKER_13]: OK. Yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: Brian, this can't go wrong.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're going to go wrong.
[SPEAKER_06]: We've got this.
[SPEAKER_06]: We will absolutely get along rest.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's no reason why we wouldn't.
[SPEAKER_13]: No reason why we wouldn't.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's fun to go.
[SPEAKER_13]: Danielle's correct.
[SPEAKER_13]: We have to honor that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Respect to her thoughts, huh?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm picturing when he's doing it.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's like an end.
[SPEAKER_13]: South Park is kidding in it.
[SPEAKER_06]: He is apparently a huge fan.
[SPEAKER_06]: They need jeans for all to do.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm imagining you whittling like little Cartman, like the hardest part of life.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's like an action figure, like a pop.
[SPEAKER_11]: Like a fun go pop thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, like a fun go pop.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, they make those brads.
[SPEAKER_11]: They totally make those here.
[SPEAKER_07]: They make those here.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's killing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, it's cannon.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ship it.
[SPEAKER_10]: As you guys push it through this first day, you travel rough and difficult through a terrain that is wild and unknown to you.
[SPEAKER_10]: There are clearly paths that existed in this area that have been grown over very quickly.
[SPEAKER_10]: You begin to try to take paths, making a little bit easier to travel, and quickly you realize those paths are circling back on themselves in a way that no one would have built them that way, but that the forest has been corrupting with this curse.
[SPEAKER_10]: You move slow but steadily throughout the day pushing hard into the evening when it gets dark outside.
[SPEAKER_10]: It doesn't really get particularly darker in here.
[SPEAKER_10]: You just feel a change in the temperature and the pressure and the feel of this place as you move from day in near darkness to night in near darkness.
[SPEAKER_10]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_10]: For every day that you guys travel or any time that you guys spend time, we are going to roll a potential wrinkle.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, for wrinkles, if it is unfamiliar territory, you will roll a D8, if it is wild territory, you will roll a D6, and if it is dangerous territory, you will roll a D4.
[SPEAKER_10]: For this, I'm going to say it is a D6.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: 2-6.
[SPEAKER_10]: Nothing happens if you roll a 1, there is a wrinkle that you will experience.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think you should do all groups.
[SPEAKER_07]: No!
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like you should be a church with that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Clarity is equity.
[SPEAKER_07]: I like this.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm going to tell you, it was on the tip of my tongue to give it to Adelaide.
[SPEAKER_10]: But now it's way funnier to give it to Amanda.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, come on.
[SPEAKER_07]: I support this.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is good.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's good.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is ridiculous.
[SPEAKER_07]: I like this.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, dish is spad on.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got it, girl.
[SPEAKER_10]: Um, I'm here.
[SPEAKER_10]: I go ahead and roll me a D6 anything but a one you're fine with the one that we will roll on the wrinkle table.
[SPEAKER_10]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, round with a cup of ringers.
[SPEAKER_13]: All right.
[SPEAKER_13]: D6.
[SPEAKER_02]: Would you get, babe?
[SPEAKER_06]: Hold on, come on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, I will tell you, wrinkles can be good, they can be bad, they can be neutral, but I'm gonna have a mirror, continue to roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us, can you roll for us,
[SPEAKER_10]: As you guys make your way through the woods, you find a decent place to camp.
[SPEAKER_10]: It is not a good place to camp.
[SPEAKER_10]: You never saw a good place to camp, but you found a spot that was good as any, which is to say, quite bad.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, good for us.
[SPEAKER_10]: You guys set up a rotation to keep watch, and you make sure that the horses are fed, you eat yourself, and then you slowly drift off to sleep.
[SPEAKER_10]: Amirah, during your watch.
[SPEAKER_10]: Good!
[SPEAKER_10]: Aminus whispers.
[SPEAKER_10]: Begin to fill your ears.
[SPEAKER_10]: Matt?
[SPEAKER_10]: You're not sure if this is the tango wood, or your own mind, or potentially the curse.
[SPEAKER_10]: As a sickly sweet smell begins to permeate the air.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh-oh.
[SPEAKER_13]: Is that a unicorn?
[SPEAKER_13]: Hello?
[SPEAKER_10]: Amir, do you stay right where you're or do you move about the campsite even just a little bit?
[SPEAKER_13]: Uh-oh.
[SPEAKER_13]: I mean, I mean, if this was real life, I would just pretend to be asleep, but...
[SPEAKER_10]: I think Amira is very cognizant of how dangerous this forest is and you know not to straight too far from the camp.
[SPEAKER_10]: This isn't a moment where you go off deep into the woods and get lost rather this is a moment of just smelling something and trying to figure out where it comes from.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think one of your first thoughts is probably, is it me?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: This sickly sweet smell.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, do I have, I have a torch, right?
[SPEAKER_13]: I can kind of light up.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, you light up a torch.
[SPEAKER_10]: The darkness illuminates, but not nearly as far as this torch light should go.
[SPEAKER_10]: And you kind of move just around the perimeter of the campsite.
[SPEAKER_10]: And as you do, you hear a faint hum, it's very consistent.
[SPEAKER_10]: And you get a little bit closer to it.
[SPEAKER_10]: You kind of follow it.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then you hear it.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's not a hum, rather.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a a buzzing.
[SPEAKER_10]: And as you get a little bit closer to it, you see a rather large beehive.
[SPEAKER_10]: Uh-uh, with bees working very quickly, they don't seem particularly to notice you or anything.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think they see you, they see the light and they recognize it, but they don't recognize you as a threat.
[SPEAKER_10]: But you see these bees working and the franticness with which they are working is strange.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's tough to put your finger on, but it just looks a little wrong.
[SPEAKER_10]: And the honey's color just looks a little bit wrong.
[SPEAKER_10]: And with torchlight, it's tough to tell, but there is something just a little bit off with these bees.
[SPEAKER_13]: Those bees are fucked up.
[SPEAKER_13]: All right, I'm gonna put a little sign in the ground that says,
[SPEAKER_13]: Messed fucked up bees don't go any further.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's a little spake up.
[SPEAKER_02]: You write a note in the dark ground at night.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just see what is your handwriting?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, what is your handwriting look like?
[SPEAKER_06]: Because it's like very swirly or...
[SPEAKER_13]: It's like all like, like, illegible cursive is what they're saying.
[SPEAKER_13]: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
[SPEAKER_13]: Like a doctor writing prescription like that.
[SPEAKER_10]: A few days later, mom and bear, and Boris will stumble upon this and see a completely indesireful bit of scribble scratch on the ground and wonder what it could possibly meant.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm here at you, see these bees and you see this strange honey and you see the way in which they're working that seems, if you were referring to a different animal, you might say feral, but to say that about bees is strange.
[SPEAKER_13]: I slowly just back away from the beehive, and whoever's got it has the next watch, I'll just tell them, hey, there's a weird beehive thing over there, so be here anyways, it's...
[SPEAKER_13]: It's weird, though, I don't like it.
[SPEAKER_10]: you make everyone aware of this beehive.
[SPEAKER_10]: Everyone kind of like maybe jumps over and looks at it.
[SPEAKER_10]: And you all see the same thing.
[SPEAKER_10]: This isn't just something that Amirah is seeing.
[SPEAKER_10]: It is the strange movements of these beas and the honey totally off-colored.
[SPEAKER_10]: Amirah, as you fall asleep during your watch, you feel
[SPEAKER_10]: A little odd, but maybe that's the travel.
[SPEAKER_10]: You feel a little bit of something, and as you are falling asleep, you see as you're kind of like laying down on your arm on your no wrist and correct.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see it a small little purple something.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, in the flickering light of the torch, it looks like it may be a sprinkle.
[SPEAKER_13]: No, no, I just, I just cover it up and I'm like, that's not real.
[SPEAKER_13]: That's not it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Not that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_13]: Amir was, Amir would, would cover the zombie.
[SPEAKER_13]: Not tell anybody about a zombie, but it's when I'm learning.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're that person.
[SPEAKER_10]: You guys pass the rest of the night and wake up in the morning.
[SPEAKER_10]: And Amira, as you wake up, the first thing you think to do is look down at your arm.
[SPEAKER_10]: And when you look down at your arm, that purple sprinkle size thing isn't there.
[SPEAKER_10]: But I'm here at another day as past and the candy curse will progress nonetheless for the town of Deer Hollow.
[SPEAKER_10]: I need you to roll another D8.
[SPEAKER_02]: 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
[SPEAKER_07]: This is terrible.
[SPEAKER_07]: Brian, before we proceed forward, am I able to go back to the B-hive and just make an inquiry with them to see if they're okay?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, sure.
[SPEAKER_10]: You make you way over the B-hive and you're just able to talk to them as you don't have to expand any resources, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's explore this together.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just to make sure I'm not abused in this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Inatabilities use any time whisper you can speak with animals and into it their feelings.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_07]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_10]: What do you say to this B-hive as you approach it?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I think I'm going to just make my way there right before we leave and I'm going to drop to all four so look at some nonsense as in the ground.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I don't know what that is.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know that gift that mean where it's like, it's like it's speaking to me.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know it from like, uh, what, oh, guys, what does that aquatic Disney film?
[SPEAKER_07]: So my help me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nemo, finding Nemo is one of them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sure, sure, sure.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like the text is speaking to me, but I have no idea what's happening.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's kind of like my relationship with a mirror on a regular day basis too.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm just gonna squat the side it and I'm gonna look at the bees and I'm just gonna ask I'm gonna And it's just a gentle inquiry.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you guys okay?
[SPEAKER_10]: You send this gentle inquiry to the bees and immediately get a furious buzzing back
[SPEAKER_10]: that is ages constant refrain that you like you've talked to be as before and be as or worker like you know their worker bees they are constantly thinking about working and moving and creating honey but this is to a degree you have never seen before all they are saying is honey honey honey for the queen for the queen honey honey honey honey honey for the queen for the queen for the queen
[SPEAKER_10]: going round and round, flying off and flooding to flowers and in the daylight now, with little bits of light pulling through the tank of wood forest, you see that the flowers that they are heading to are all slowly turning to candy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is this like the candy curse version of it's got airborne?
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh-huh, that's seeping into the ecosystem.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think until now you didn't realize quite how much of the ecosystem was affected.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: But before it seemed like Delsonius curse went out and boom, people got affected.
[SPEAKER_10]: and like maybe some more people got infected through like wounds or bites or things.
[SPEAKER_10]: You're realizing this is permeating a little bit deeper than you thought and it's beginning to affect systems rather than just individual animals.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, I think I circle the hive listening to that frantic energy and I'm going to follow a few of the beads on I realized that the flowers are being corrupted.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, which means that this equal system has been corrupted and like you know, when it was attacking people, that was
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, bad.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not saying I don't feel grief or humor is being infected.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like that was bad.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, mostly, but that was bad.
[SPEAKER_07]: But that was an isolated.
[SPEAKER_07]: that was an isolated group of people that was just a village problem, but at this point now I'm recognizing that it's an ecosystem problem and I think that's just a moment of panic for me as I'm going to like backpedal probably you know bump into a bush and start on myself and look at a tree and then I wonder like is this bark infected?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is the ground infected?
[SPEAKER_07]: Does this mean the rain is going to become infected?
[SPEAKER_07]: You know everything is in a balance.
[SPEAKER_07]: Everything works in a harmony and I realize that now like whatever this
[SPEAKER_07]: We thought it was just, you know, the people, or if you got infected through a wound.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I think just the party somewhere here is this very angry, feral series of, I'm not going to call them a house, but probably like costs or barks, as I just alleviate that stress from my nervous system, the best that I can't, and then I'm just going to bound back.
[SPEAKER_07]: We need to move faster.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, this curse isn't just affecting the people, it's actually affecting the environment, the entire ecosystem is suffering from this curse.
[SPEAKER_07]: We need to move faster.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, dear.
[SPEAKER_07]: Please.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it was, I think we're only about a day's trek away.
[SPEAKER_13]: Well, yeah, it's tough.
[SPEAKER_13]: tough.
[SPEAKER_13]: That's tough.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm probably immune, but that's tough.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, we should get out of here.
[SPEAKER_06]: You said it was a Winnie's, let us know that it's the flowers and things.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, I mean, if anyone, if the horse is eat any flowers or hay or anything like that, or drink from water, or it rains on us or anything that we consume.
[SPEAKER_10]: Matt, you guys do have provisions with you that you brought.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, we got a spot in Matt.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do we got to eat only the things we brought?
[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't look like it's safe to eat right now.
[SPEAKER_10]: Don't eat the grass, Matt.
[SPEAKER_10]: I am going to remind all of you that this is a game that we will be tracking supplies.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: You guys each started with 10 provisions.
[SPEAKER_10]: Amira, it is important to know 10.
[SPEAKER_10]: You had 10 each.
[SPEAKER_10]: I believe at the start of the game.
[SPEAKER_10]: OK.
[SPEAKER_10]: When you're in town, though, people will feed you for free, essentially you don't use your provisions.
[SPEAKER_10]: You need to eat one provision a day or like one ration a day in order to gain the benefits of a long rest.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: Each of your horses needs to eat three.
[SPEAKER_13]: Whoa.
[SPEAKER_13]: All right.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'll be honest.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think the number probably should be higher, but I have to say, for example.
[SPEAKER_07]: Don't beat that person in a day, babe.
[SPEAKER_07]: Come on now.
[SPEAKER_06]: Horace, expert Brian.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think I could be a horse amateur for that, for that couch, I think I got it.
[SPEAKER_15]: I did it, I did it.
[SPEAKER_15]: Our provisions somewhere on our character sheet.
[SPEAKER_10]: It should be in your inventory.
[SPEAKER_10]: Everyone was started with 10.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, um, there's a good chance this will never come into play, but there's also a chance that it might that it might Okay, and one for myself.
[SPEAKER_14]: So a beer is down four.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, should we spread spots out around?
[SPEAKER_13]: Probably distribute spot out.
[SPEAKER_13]: I stupidly use a trail food on the bear thing.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: So I think I'm down five.
[SPEAKER_13]: That is correct.
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, would we have stocked back up in the village?
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm going to say no for now.
[SPEAKER_10]: You're welcome to do that next time you're going to feel it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Feels more interesting to some of you feel it's more interesting.
[SPEAKER_13]: Is anyone feeling spot?
[SPEAKER_06]: Despite having a spot is a surre, a spot should be able to take care of his own.
[SPEAKER_06]: And really, a spot's got his own provisions now.
[SPEAKER_10]: You guys wake up and see a spot with a fork and a knife somehow in his head and waiting to be fed.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that works for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, I've feedsed back today that you've gained, well, I'll take turns.
[SPEAKER_10]: So Markov III for spot.
[SPEAKER_10]: Last thing I need you to do as you guys pushed it last night.
[SPEAKER_10]: I need everyone to make a check for potential weariness.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that's right.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've grown weary.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've grown weary today.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've grown weary.
[SPEAKER_10]: Because you traveled in additional six miles, you were pushing it.
[SPEAKER_10]: You will need to test your resolve.
[SPEAKER_10]: If you fail that test, soon be rolling into 20 in comparing it to your resolve stat, if you fail it, you will be weary.
[SPEAKER_13]: And if I want to use a heart dice, I do that before or after my roll.
[SPEAKER_10]: Heart dice, you can only use on allies.
[SPEAKER_10]: You cannot use it on yourself.
[SPEAKER_13]: So if I want to use that, I can use it after they roll.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes, you can always use heart dice after you roll.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: If you fail on this test, you'll become weary, which means you will have disadvantage on all resolve checks until you have a long rest.
[SPEAKER_13]: But when he's wearing the boot, so she doesn't get with this.
[SPEAKER_10]: That is correct.
[SPEAKER_10]: But when he, you will not have to make test.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, it go, Winnie.
[SPEAKER_10]: So everyone go to make your virtue test.
[SPEAKER_10]: Let me know if you succeed or if you fail.
[SPEAKER_10]: And we're doing resolve resolve.
[SPEAKER_10]: 18 on a 10 resolve 18 that is a failure we read and we'll have disadvantage on all your resolve checks until you have a long rest Geraldine It's a three are the 13 Geraldine is Spray as Morning princess She didn't even need coffee, but she likes it
[SPEAKER_13]: and Amira, how you looking?
[SPEAKER_13]: 17 on a nine.
[SPEAKER_10]: Amira and Adelaide, both of you, Adelaide, I think you just didn't sleep well, but Amira was truly haunted the entire night by that potential sprinkle that she saw on her arm.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, Geraldine says good morning and I'm like, I'm not candy, I'm not candy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not candy, I'm okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know, and since you were a babe.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yep, right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, feelin'.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bad, good.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, yeah, yes, yes, I thought the forms leave me alone.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm just checking, I'm just checking.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know you're not a morning princess, so I'll let you get yourself setters.
[SPEAKER_13]: Okay, you're not a morning princess.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're not a morning princess.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your tea is fully doing like calisthenics, off in like a small, whatever small clearing she could find.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shoulder board agreed.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm really imagining that your morning routine starts off like old lady calisthenics and then quickly becomes like, you know, muscle ups.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Brian, just a reconcile really fast.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was a mirror and Adelaide that failed, right?
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, that is great.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: How close were you guys in your, uh, within your fill your range?
[SPEAKER_07]: Not close at all.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're not, not close.
[SPEAKER_06]: I know that teen on a 10 resolve.
[SPEAKER_06]: So he did a heart diet.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think it would get you guys.
[SPEAKER_06]: It would be nice if you said, yeah, I think I'd leave like wakes up.
[SPEAKER_06]: But thank you.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've made wakes up realizing that she forgot her, like, sleeping mask.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think she locks everything out and so throughout the night she'd been trying to use like her own hair and I just like take a link and getting hair like in her eyes and nose and just like waking up sneezing.
[SPEAKER_06]: So she gets up bleary eyed, goes to look to see if she's got the energy to put on like a morning beat or like wash or face or anything which she is like exhausted.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hmm, you try to do that morning routine.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's just, ah, I mean, you're in the tango wood.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's so dark in here.
[SPEAKER_10]: Like, is it even worth it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Ah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, I'm like, wow, no one will see the bags because like, no one will see anything.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's probably fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can't find my color character.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, it's just a bad day.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to bound over to spot while he's eating and I'm just going to whisper something into his ear and then use my nose to point it out a little bit and then bounce away.
[SPEAKER_07]: Basically when I'm going to whisper to spot is like, I need you to let my sister ride on you today.
[SPEAKER_10]: Spot immediately like inclines his hand goes, it would be an honor to have any friends of Celine ride upon the back of Sir Spots, first of his name champion of the Western Sikka of the Horizon.
[SPEAKER_07]: Then I freeze, and then I'm gonna turn around.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, but you can't tell or I'm, no, don't say, just make the offer.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can't be affiliated with the offer, just make the offer.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, you want, this is, this is kind of a secret.
[SPEAKER_10]: Tent a tent, and then I should do it as if I'm the person doing it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because it was a great idea that you came up with spot, it makes sense that you're so magnificent.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yes, as well.
[SPEAKER_13]: But we can all hear you, and spot like trances on.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, Adelaide is like, just like, kind of, oh my god, like shit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Adelaide's like trying to see if she has any like serum or like anything because like wake her up.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, and she sees spot with spots like head down and it's like anybody going to, anybody get on the head, but he got to jump on this.
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, tell you.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, so she just, like, goes over, tries to get up and is like, so, so tie tie, so just like drapes herself across and it's like way in kind of like face down almost like starfish on top of, on top of spot.
[SPEAKER_13]: How are you writing?
[SPEAKER_04]: I thought you were going to say she was like, we'll did like an old Hollywood drama queen, but this is really good.
[SPEAKER_10]: This is so much better, but it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun,
[SPEAKER_11]: No, no, it's fine, it's just, you know, I like to be seen as regal and when I'm carrying kind of a limp body kind of tough.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, not spot, she likes to be seen as regal too, but you know what, sometimes we don't always have regal moments in it.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good horse.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good horse.
[SPEAKER_15]: We break it.
[SPEAKER_15]: I ask a question really quick.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_15]: I can't remember from last session.
[SPEAKER_15]: Can is Winnie the only person who could communicate with Spot or can is can spot talk?
[SPEAKER_10]: I can't remember.
[SPEAKER_10]: Winnie, Winnie is feeling first in the community.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: So we can actually agree with this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just like, maybe this is the one talking horse.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm excited to have one animal in the future.
[SPEAKER_10]: Turn out to be the talking animal.
[SPEAKER_07]: The talking animal is coming.
[SPEAKER_10]: you guys continue on, you know, you have another six miles today.
[SPEAKER_10]: Before you get to Barry Brook, that time pass is pretty quickly.
[SPEAKER_10]: However, as you travel, I do need an additional check to see if there is a wrinkle.
[SPEAKER_10]: And since we've been having a mirror to do it, I think.
[SPEAKER_10]: They would just stick with that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know if that's a great thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's in it.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can do it.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a story telling right there.
[SPEAKER_07]: You'll see that.
[SPEAKER_10]: Listen, Amira, it's a D6.
[SPEAKER_10]: The dice have gotten the joke.
[SPEAKER_10]: They know that you got the D6 already.
[SPEAKER_10]: They're not going to do it again.
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a kind of story.
[SPEAKER_13]: The dice are vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla,
[SPEAKER_13]: Okay, I rolled, I rolled a three, okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: As you guys move further through the tango wood, the darkness and the
[SPEAKER_10]: As you are nearing the end of the day, you see the darkness gets a little bit darker, and the shadows get a little bit more hungry, and you are on constant lookout for changes in the landscape for anything that might lead to a clearing or something that would have a settlement or a civilization or something, and it comes up on you extremely quickly.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, not what you were necessarily expecting.
[SPEAKER_10]: You were looking for some kind of house or building or settlement or something.
[SPEAKER_10]: Rather, you come upon a very thick fog.
[SPEAKER_15]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_15]: Is it the kind of fog where it's like...
[SPEAKER_15]: It's woods and then it feels like it's a wall.
[SPEAKER_10]: very much so you see this spot and I think you guys look at this fog and even kind of see the edge of it.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's not a fog that stretches into the distance.
[SPEAKER_10]: This is not a fog that, you know, encapsulates an entire area.
[SPEAKER_10]: It is a fog surrounding a small section of forest.
[SPEAKER_06]: Adelaide feels it more than anything because Adelaide did rip off like a tiny piece of the hem of her outfit and was using it to like shield her eyes During her her leisurely walk was spot, but Adelaide does feel kind of the the moistness and the heaviness if you've ever
[SPEAKER_06]: uh, flown a plane from like Los Angeles to Seattle or anywhere else is moist.
[SPEAKER_06]: And as soon as you enter the airport, it's just like being hit with thousands of people's hot breath because of how warm and humid it is.
[SPEAKER_06]: I imagine it's like something like that where all of a sudden you just like feel that like that warmth.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, Adelaide kind of removes her makeshift, um, I am asked.
[SPEAKER_06]: And
[SPEAKER_06]: attempts to look around how far like if if I stretch my hand out in front of my face how far until I like lose my hand.
[SPEAKER_10]: Good question.
[SPEAKER_10]: Almost immediately into this.
[SPEAKER_10]: It is it is a very thick fog.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think in the realm of a foot before you cannot even see a shadow of your hand.
[SPEAKER_13]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_13]: Do we just camp here for the night?
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: Still working on those survival skills, I see.
[SPEAKER_13]: I don't know what to do in the fog.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let me see how far it goes if I can't tell.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we're just going to scamper up the closest tree that I can't get onto.
[SPEAKER_07]: If I can get, and see if I can get some overhead visibility on how far it goes back or how wide or how dense it is.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, you scamper up without too much problem.
[SPEAKER_10]: Um, and you look, and you see that it is maybe, maybe like, maybe like a hundred feet in diameter.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's not particularly big, and it only goes up maybe 20, 25 feet, something like that.
[SPEAKER_10]: So it's big, but not like forest size, not like super massive.
[SPEAKER_10]: It is a surprisingly specific section of the forest.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's so interesting.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I think Winnie from your vantage point, you see around this area something that you haven't seen in a while, which is you see a significant amount of mushrooms and vegetation that are notably not infected with this candy curse, specifically you're seeing a lot of mushrooms kind of on the just outskirts of this fog.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll scamper down and I'll relay that to everyone very quickly.
[SPEAKER_07]: It looks like maybe, and that just started like very quickly running off numbers on my hand until I think I get to 10, that far across, and I see mushrooms that don't look like they you've been can't afford.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, are they the edible kind?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_02]: Would no, she's a forager.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah, give me the exact description.
[SPEAKER_10]: Jody and you are very strongly with these kind of mushrooms.
[SPEAKER_10]: They are.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was why you didn't make you sit I still am.
[SPEAKER_10]: Jordan, I think the thing that you know about these mushrooms, they are edible, they can be eaten with food.
[SPEAKER_10]: You could certainly cross pollinate them pretty easily to make them edible in a different way.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, nice.
[SPEAKER_10]: Most importantly, most importantly, these mushrooms are cultivated almost exclusively by Pixies.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, everyone, these are pixie mushrooms.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're delicious, a rarity.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wonder if this fog might be a protective measure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, they don't want anybody else to get their stash.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, they don't want the curse.
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't want anyone to wander in with the curse or come and steal more ones or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, so so we, um, so it's still some of these mushrooms.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think if we pick a few, we might find that we have some guests and maybe we can chat with them.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, see, I was just thinking about getting high as fuck off the mushrooms.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, we can do that.
[SPEAKER_06]: We could do that later, please.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, later.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll make some special teas.
[SPEAKER_02]: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
[SPEAKER_15]: Geraldine is going to forge the mushrooms, yes.
[SPEAKER_15]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_10]: You very quickly forge the mushrooms.
[SPEAKER_10]: You pick these things and cultivate them in a way that will not totally kill the entire fungi, but just take off the bits that you want.
[SPEAKER_10]: As you do, you see above you, a couple of birds fly into the fog and then seem to vanish into it.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then a moment later, you see something come out.
[SPEAKER_10]: And you hear rather before you heard a flapping of wings that was very, from when the birds flew in, as something comes out you hear a much quicker rapid flapping of wings as if a hummingbird, but immediately you recognize it as being pixie wings.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I took exactly me having incoming.
[SPEAKER_10]: You very quickly see a sharply dressed pixie man who is wielding like a very small pixie sword.
[SPEAKER_10]: Everything about him screams guard or like in charge, you know, protector.
[SPEAKER_10]: But then he has very bright yellow dragonfly wings that seem to be pretty much at contrast with the entire vibe that he's trying to set.
[SPEAKER_10]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_10]: Are the pixie's our size or tiny?
[SPEAKER_10]: Pixie's tiny.
[SPEAKER_10]: Uh, maybe six inches tall.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, they're very small.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hey, they're cutie.
[SPEAKER_10]: And immediately flies up to Geraldine and his whole body, essentially right in front of your face.
[SPEAKER_10]: What do you think you're doing?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, hello.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where are we, we're just forging first and food.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I know that these are going to be forging our mushrooms.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think not we've been cultivating these for generations.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you know, it's for you to say that because I, I know these are delicacy there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't going to take too many.
[SPEAKER_10]: We are having a difficulty with our food supply right now, so everything that we can get is very important, so I will thank you kindly to hand those to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so, so sorry to hear that it's incredibly stressful.
[SPEAKER_02]: I might apologize if I could apologize, you know, perhaps to the queen herself, I would be more than happy to do so.
[SPEAKER_10]: the queen?
[SPEAKER_10]: You think this is worth the queen?
[SPEAKER_10]: No, she does not trust humans and frankly, neither do I.
[SPEAKER_10]: So I will be taking these and he runs down and grabs on to debush rooms in your hands and taking them back to Barrybrook and immediately flies backwards into the fog.
[SPEAKER_15]: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
[SPEAKER_15]: Quickly though, do a test to... Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because one of my innate abilities is cat-like.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have advantage on virtue tests that involve stealth.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I do like a magic trick when someone is like sending something between both of their hands and then they pull it out from behind your ear and it's like, where did he go?
[SPEAKER_02]: Who do you think I'm sharing to you?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sharing it to my friends.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I'm a magic to play keep away with the mushrooms.
[SPEAKER_10]: Absolutely, and I think because you've described it explicitly as close-up magic, it's you know how much that tickles me specifically, go ahead and take advantage of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, so I'm rolling 2d6.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you're rolling 2d20?
[SPEAKER_10]: Who do you take in the lower of the two, and testing your grace?
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, my grace is nine, not a decrease for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, come on baby, you got it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got it?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's a 19 and a 10.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now you ain't got it.
[SPEAKER_13]: Okay, I can give you a heart dice.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just a baby feel worth it for a heart dice.
[SPEAKER_13]: No, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_13]: I have to.
[SPEAKER_10]: Amira, how are you using your hard disk?
[SPEAKER_10]: So you can roll for it.
[SPEAKER_10]: But before you do, let me know how you're using that hard disk to help in this moment.
[SPEAKER_10]: As Jody is passing this back and forth, trying to slide a hand, keep away this mushroom from this pixie guard.
[SPEAKER_13]: I slightly distract him because I have like one of my rage bottles that's empty open because I'm trying to catch the pixie in my bottle.
[SPEAKER_10]: As you are like trying to capture the pixie in the bottle, he is constantly like, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, who
[SPEAKER_10]: Do you quickly go back and forth?
[SPEAKER_10]: And after a minute the the pixie just kind of stops goes Wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_11]: What what whoa?
[SPEAKER_11]: Do that again.
[SPEAKER_11]: What?
[SPEAKER_11]: Do it again.
[SPEAKER_11]: Where could they be?
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh!
[SPEAKER_11]: 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_10]: I'm responsible for the security of Barry Brook and all of its denticins.
[SPEAKER_02]: Patrol leader Chestnut, well, we actually were head here to Barry Brook.
[SPEAKER_02]: We had a query for the Queen's way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have you heard of this candy curse?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes, we're all too aware of it.
[SPEAKER_10]: It says,
[SPEAKER_10]: infected some of our bees and our honey and it's driven is at the cause of many of our problems in our current food shortages.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we're trying to break it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there's there's something I feel may perhaps Queen could help us in our quest to track down the things to break the curse and and hopefully return, you know, remedy some of that food scarcity for you.
[SPEAKER_10]: See his eyes kind of like narrow at you.
[SPEAKER_10]: The thing you realize about this person in this moment as he's kind of like looking the four of you over, you sense an inherent distrust, but also a recognition of someone at similar purposes and so you see him softening but not quite yet in agreement with you.
[SPEAKER_06]: So Adelaide just looks over.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was like, so is there like a Mrs. Patrol leader chestnut?
[SPEAKER_10]: You see, this, this varies straightly.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's actually the wings that were yellow, gold, bright red.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, it's very clear that he is keeping his face not from blushing, and he cannot control the wings.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, you know, my, my job keeps me pretty occupied.
[SPEAKER_10]: I have a pet glow worm though.
[SPEAKER_10]: And, uh,
[SPEAKER_10]: You know, that is my companion.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, one is my companion.
[SPEAKER_06]: That seems like a very important job, huh?
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, yes, well, it's kind of like looking away from you.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's like, even if I wanted to bring you and you are as far as much to large, to enter Barry Brook, and also the fog would repel you at your size.
[SPEAKER_10]: So unless you can become, you know, kind of like,
[SPEAKER_10]: Squirrel-sized, not much I can do for you.
[SPEAKER_10]: Though, enchanting isn't maybe to bring you to the town.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't think it's necessarily a good idea.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, did you just call me enchanting?
[SPEAKER_11]: No!
[SPEAKER_11]: No, no, no, I see what you did there.
[SPEAKER_11]: I said some things and you twisted them.
[SPEAKER_06]: I said something as she kind of trails that enchanting.
[SPEAKER_06]: She kind of let's go part of her her ability, which is the alluring.
[SPEAKER_06]: where I would get advantage.
[SPEAKER_06]: So just kind of like putting it out there in case we need to to de-escalate or anything like that, but also looks over because I think all of the princesses at the same time remembered that we got a little tiny people potion.
[SPEAKER_06]: We do.
[SPEAKER_10]: You do have a shrinking potion that you got from Roxy.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I'm just, you know, if if the issue is that we are quite grand with our enchantingness, what if we were a little bit more petite?
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, seeing as that's not a possibility with humans of your size, even make it past the barrier of this fog, I think if by some happens, you re-arrived at some point in the distant future as pixie-sized people, we would happily let you.
[SPEAKER_10]: speak to the queen about your queries.
[SPEAKER_10]: But since that's not immediately happening, we need to worry about it.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I should be on my way, I think.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, why don't you just let's just put a pin in that.
[SPEAKER_06]: And Adelaide's going to take me to the thing.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's got the thing here.
[SPEAKER_13]: Okay, here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Adelaide just hold right there, sailor.
[SPEAKER_06]: And take just like a little nip like whatever the amount is that
[SPEAKER_10]: Uh, Ellie, can you be favorite and roll a D4 for me?
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, come on.
[SPEAKER_13]: He's drinking the potion that's supposed to do the thing.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a good deal.
[SPEAKER_13]: That's a good deal for it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, good, because it's a one.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a one.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, so this is slightly important thing to consider.
[SPEAKER_10]: There are enough shots in this potion for the four party members plus one D4.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_10]: To be four.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you have enough for four of you and one of the horses.
[SPEAKER_10]: Could be spotted.
[SPEAKER_02]: Could be spotted.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Somebody's going to have to do patrol anyway.
[SPEAKER_02]: Show.
[SPEAKER_10]: Adelaide, you take a little hit of this potion and immediately you feel a bubbling in your stomach and then you feel everything starting at your feet begins to shrink.
[SPEAKER_10]: So all of you see rather than everything shrink in proportion, you see it starts at Adelaide's feet and Adelaide's feet get tiny and then everything else, like top down like a scanner starts to get tiny in that size.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's kind of the most disturbing way to turn tidy.
[SPEAKER_06]: it's weird.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like stumbling because like I no longer have the weight distribution on the thing.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I'm tired.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I'm like stumbling around a little bit as everything.
[SPEAKER_06]: I guess the tiny version of where Wolf of London just like body horror my way down to Pixie says.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think Adelaide, you become very aware there is no cute way to do this.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just what's up?
[SPEAKER_06]: Just have you kind of just what?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god, I'm just being so old.
[SPEAKER_13]: We're all watching the entire time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, dialed in, fascinated.
[SPEAKER_04]: We were all in a little group watching you do your thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like flirt with him.
[SPEAKER_04]: We love to see it happen.
[SPEAKER_04]: We get so excited.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now we're all just sitting there being like, oh no.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh wow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, there goes the arm.
[SPEAKER_04]: There goes the arm.
[SPEAKER_06]: You do hear a couple of like bones like snapping and like being put back together.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah Yeah, it's not totally pleasant.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's it's not painful.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's just really weird.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah You find yourself pixie-sized and you see a chest of oxycos Father Yep, well, how do you like them chest nuts?
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's eat a goose
[SPEAKER_13]: I assume everyone's going in.
[SPEAKER_13]: I like like, we need to go first and I take my sip and I look at Matt and Spot and I just give it a matter really quick.
[SPEAKER_13]: Sorry Spot.
[SPEAKER_11]: So Spot goes, I would have volunteered anyways.
[SPEAKER_11]: The most noble thing to do, you kind of took that from me.
[SPEAKER_13]: I don't know what you're saying, your horse.
[UNKNOWN]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_10]: Adelaide as you kind of like get your faculties together getting kind of like, you know, brush off your your clothes and stuff You look over and see Winnie Geraldine Amira and Matt all shrink in a totally different way They shrink totally at regular size and it is actually pretty cute.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh The disrespect continues.
[SPEAKER_06]: My voice is tiny, but you
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a great moment where all of you are hearing Adelaide's voice at high pitch and as you shrink down, it is going back to a normal, right?
[SPEAKER_10]: No, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's totally absolutely fucking bullshit!
[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
[SPEAKER_07]: Like we have discussed honesty as a family so many times.
[SPEAKER_13]: Sometimes, Adelaide's tired.
[SPEAKER_13]: You don't want to be honest with you when she's tired.
[SPEAKER_13]: She's going to yell at us.
[SPEAKER_06]: We over are honesty.
[SPEAKER_06]: Adelaide does stop the tiniest little pixie foot and my cuffs.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you'll take us to the queen, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: That's the agreement that you made with Adelaide.
[SPEAKER_10]: Chestnut looks at you and says, well, it seems you've tricked me in a very predictable way that I probably should have seen coming.
[SPEAKER_11]: But, well, quite frankly, this one was enchanting.
[SPEAKER_10]: She wasn't chanting, and I was seduced by it in a moment, and a board of weakness I gave it to her.
[SPEAKER_10]: What?
[SPEAKER_02]: Was it enchanting?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's really true.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_11]: The wings go neon red.
[SPEAKER_11]: Just follow me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I hold.
[SPEAKER_04]: I had doubt a mushroom to chestnut that is like a fan shape or my care.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why did you hold this one?
[SPEAKER_02]: You can cover, cover up those wings, baby.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see, he looks behind and recognizes now that his wings ring goes, oh, damn it.
[SPEAKER_10]: And he's reaching behind himself to try to talk his wings a little.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god, yeah, like a kid in a binder.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like in school, having to present up.
[SPEAKER_06]: You just lead the way, patrol leader Chishnet.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, fiddle sticks.
[SPEAKER_07]: It all sticks.
[SPEAKER_06]: So as I was, as we were saying about a Mrs. Patrol leader Chessnet,
[SPEAKER_13]: he says is they kind of are walking to go you guys are walking he is moving the fan mushroom from being a fan covering things to a fan literally fanning himself oh my god and Adelaide you have to ask the you have to ask red flag questions hey just not how much do you tip which stuff
[SPEAKER_06]: very important he looks very proudly a minimum 20% there is nothing more vital to this economy than the way it's that all right I approve well I already know you would love me if I was a worm
[SPEAKER_10]: As you guys begin to walk through this fog, you see the interesting thing about this fog that you can see from inside it is that at your size of like six inches, looking up, you can see there is almost like a low level fog that is just water vapor and a above like a foot.
[SPEAKER_10]: There is a fog that seems to have like a magical element to it.
[SPEAKER_10]: So anything bigger than say a small fox or a squirrel would have a difficult time getting into this thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: But you pass under this magical barrier and walking through very confidently through this fog that begins to dissipate rather quickly.
[SPEAKER_10]: You can see a couple of feet in front of you which in this space, a couple of feet means it feels like a couple of yards or meters or something with the relative scale and then very quickly the fog dissipates and you see surrounded almost
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, look at this beautiful place.
[SPEAKER_10]: We've never been here before, right?
[SPEAKER_10]: You would've never been here before, but the town of Barrybrook is a very lovely little pixie village that looks as if all of the houses and buildings have been worked into the landscape as naturally as possible.
[SPEAKER_15]: Ah, I love it.
[SPEAKER_10]: almost as if like the rocks and the trees and the things just grew around or rather themselves grew into houses for these pixies to use.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see a very delicate and clear craftsmanship of mushrooms and bark and trees and rocks and like little hills of mountains of dirt and things.
[SPEAKER_10]: And the entire village is very quaint and lively and you see a number of pixies all around
[SPEAKER_10]: Moving all around.
[SPEAKER_10]: I ain't you with a bit of particular note as they move around.
[SPEAKER_10]: Often, in a distance you see a number of houses that are similar in size and stature and one a very large Oak tree that has running up the entirety for probably like 15 feet in the air which in this world feels like a sky scraper almost
[SPEAKER_10]: A number of rooms and buildings that seem to equate to the entirety of a castle.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: As you guys walk towards this area, uh, chestnut looks like us.
[SPEAKER_10]: We've had a difficult go of it, as I know much of the forest has, and I'd be happy to introduce you to the queen if you think you can help.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, do you know how to break the curse?
[SPEAKER_10]: We've tried our magic so on.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's an old we've been able to do is just...
[SPEAKER_10]: keep a little ring around us, but even we've been affected with our bees getting, you know, this kind of poison honey and poison a lot of our food supply, essentially.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yes, we, uh, did you, did your queen ever get to meet Princess Celine by any chance?
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm not sure of all of her acquaintances.
[SPEAKER_10]: Princess human?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's possible, but unlikely.
[SPEAKER_10]: The queen
[SPEAKER_10]: made friends with humans ever since, uh, the, which Dulcinia came some years ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, well, there are friends to Celine found perhaps the answer to breaking the curse and it involves collecting some stuff and then thrown it down well.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're here to see if perhaps your your queen can help us find one of the things is somewhere here in Barry Brook in the
[SPEAKER_10]: Really?
[SPEAKER_10]: You see his eyes kind of go wide and he goes, I'll be honest.
[SPEAKER_10]: They don't put much stuck in Fairy tales and prophecies, but at this point any hope is hope that we haven't found yet What are the things that you think you'll find in here?
[SPEAKER_10]: We don't have any magical items or particularly potent things You got tales?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, is there a Mr. the Queen of the Pixies?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, I should board a way to ask that question.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see there's a moment of coming from you where he seems a little disappointed as if oh, are you going for the queen now?
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're looking Has there ever been a king a king, but not not for those purposes for They the king has something I need no that's not
[SPEAKER_06]: There's if there's something we're looking for you know, I'm really interested in that King's tail.
[SPEAKER_06]: No Give her a minute.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just give her a minute.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just let her cook.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let her cook.
[UNKNOWN]: Let her cook.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let her cook.
[SPEAKER_13]: Let her cook.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let her cook.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let her cook.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let her cook.
[UNKNOWN]: Let her cook
[SPEAKER_06]: the queen, but obviously if it was the king, I would never impede on the queen and then try to get with the king.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're cute, put it to song.
[SPEAKER_13]: Nice, good save.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I like Adelaide starts thinking as she's spitting it and she's just like, I like your wings.
[SPEAKER_06]: They make me think of rings.
[SPEAKER_06]: The rings in the sky, you're the apple of my eye.
[SPEAKER_06]: I like to get to know you better, but that will have to wait until we're no longer cursed in this.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're so good with the rhymes letter.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, there we go.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just landed.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just make her smile.
[SPEAKER_06]: You make me, you make me very nervous.
[SPEAKER_06]: But we do have a bigger purpose.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I will see you later.
[SPEAKER_06]: Tiny applicator.
[SPEAKER_10]: Holy shit, you did it!
[SPEAKER_10]: Whoo!
[SPEAKER_10]: Good job.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see Chestnut looks at you.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's like the whole time he's just been seeing Gerald into the mirror on your shoulders.
[SPEAKER_10]: Like, show it on.
[SPEAKER_10]: I was gonna say angel and devil, both shoulder devils.
[SPEAKER_10]: No angel is just in your arms.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't take that trick.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'll give her a heart dice.
[SPEAKER_10]: As you were saying this, you see his face just slowly slacken.
[SPEAKER_10]: And by the end of it, he starts crying just a little bit.
[SPEAKER_10]: And towards at the very end, he just grabs your fingers.
[SPEAKER_10]: Never.
[SPEAKER_11]: In my entire life has anyone written a song just for me.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's, I mean, it's also like spoken word.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a new thing called rap.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm working on it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm working on it.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's even better.
[SPEAKER_11]: The rhyme scheme was so clear and potent and the message... Super tight.
[SPEAKER_11]: Directly to my heart.
[SPEAKER_07]: Winnie is looking around like, is anyone else experiencing this moment other than me?
[SPEAKER_07]: We're all on the same page, this literally narrative we're going with.
[SPEAKER_07]: Winnie is incomplete disbelief that this is actually what's happening.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see, he looks at you, and here's kind of stolen as I was.
[SPEAKER_11]: Ever since I lost my pegglow, where am I thought I would never find love again?
[SPEAKER_11]: But, we got seeing you now, hearing your words, there's a lowering, dulls at tones, I know.
[SPEAKER_11]: I will find love again.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'll find it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: Right here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yay!
[SPEAKER_06]: I shall away my love, and we shall go to the Queen.
[SPEAKER_06]: But you stay here, and we'll be like right back.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, really chestnut, I think you should come with us.
[SPEAKER_07]: You need to make the introduction to the queen, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah, destroy it, add a little bit of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I think we need him, add a little bit of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do it.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because she has the cure to the curse, like it all rests on her convincing to Clint.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you should stay as close as possible.
[SPEAKER_07]: She did make you a rap song.
[SPEAKER_11]: I will stay directly by your side.
[SPEAKER_11]: Never to be parted from you again from this moment on.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right, Tony, Tony, that's great.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is good.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's awake now.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, you know, for this, because I give you such a disadvantage for this guy, you're wearing this as immediately gone.
[SPEAKER_06]: My wearing this is turned awareness.
[SPEAKER_07]: As a good pendulum swing baby, we're just wearing this now.
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_10]: You walk with Chestnut Adelaide.
[SPEAKER_10]: He kind of like puts out his arm in a very like gentlemanly, you know, hook your arm through the
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, and Adley does take it up.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, hey, tell me everything that happens here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, I want to know all of it, like, who's popular, who's bangin' who, who's bangin' who's right.
[SPEAKER_06]: We've got to know everything.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, let me dish.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, faaaaaay!
[SPEAKER_10]: He begins to tell you everything about this town.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a bunch of pixie drama that is happening.
[SPEAKER_10]: A lot of it has been...
[SPEAKER_10]: kind of push to the side by the fact that they are quickly running out of food.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: They had a storehouse where they stored a bunch of food as well as they kept a beehive that like helped to make honey.
[SPEAKER_10]: They're honey similar to the beehive that you saw got infected by this kind of infected pollen from infected flowers.
[SPEAKER_10]: And the animals that ate from that honey became feral and also cursed as well.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, bees.
[SPEAKER_10]: Or babies?
[SPEAKER_10]: the worst of them.
[SPEAKER_10]: There are a number of things that seem to find their way down into the the store room seller that where they house much of their food.
[SPEAKER_10]: Small animals things but still feral and vicious and ultimately even a small animal to a pixie is a very dangerous thing indeed.
[SPEAKER_10]: The worst of which was a collection of rats.
[SPEAKER_10]: And as he's telling you this, you guys are approaching the door to the castle.
[SPEAKER_10]: He kind of knocks
[SPEAKER_10]: I did battle with them as well.
[SPEAKER_10]: Seven rats all bound together by the tail and this horrible concoction, making all's one terrifying creature.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_10]: Ever since then, we haven't been able to get anywhere near the place.
[SPEAKER_10]: And that's where all of our food is.
[SPEAKER_10]: We're on strict rations now.
[SPEAKER_06]: Wait, seven rats.
[SPEAKER_06]: Adelaide doesn't know a lot of things, but there are some things that she kind of remembers.
[SPEAKER_06]: Seven rats all together,
[SPEAKER_06]: by the tail, there's a name for that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mouth's monarch, no.
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_08]: That sounds pretty close.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_06]: Road into rain, no, no.
[SPEAKER_06]: You got this, you got this, you just came out.
[UNKNOWN]: You could, ah.
[SPEAKER_10]: you hear from the distance.
[SPEAKER_10]: The word you're looking for is rat king my darling.
[SPEAKER_10]: It was on the tip of her tongue.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I had that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that was the word.
[SPEAKER_06]: And as you say, rat king, like as she said, like as the one saying at the same time, which you I obviously had not been.
[SPEAKER_10]: Floating towards you on Grand Monarch butterfly winds, illustrious is Queen Gardinia.
[SPEAKER_10]: Just to look at her, it is a parent who she is and the regal power that she possess.
[SPEAKER_10]: She is like a very big updo of like thick locks all pulled together and this very flowy white dress that comes down to the floor and glitz along the floor, even as she is flying a couple of inches above the floor.
[SPEAKER_10]: even further than her feet, and she is like staying, you know, a certain amount above the floor, in this very ethereal and kind of almost spooky way, uh, the way she glides, and this dress just touches the floor as she goes.
[SPEAKER_10]: And who are you who has entered my humble berrybrook?
[SPEAKER_02]: Hello Queen Gertinia, it is an honor and a pleasure to make your acquaintance and I'm sorry that it is under such a stressful time for you and your people.
[SPEAKER_10]: Thank you very much for your kind concern towards my people.
[SPEAKER_10]: I ask again.
[SPEAKER_10]: What are four humans doing in the land of the pixie?
[SPEAKER_06]: Right, totally.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, in the horse, we brought a horse in.
[SPEAKER_06]: Small now.
[SPEAKER_06]: See, at that human kind of heart, huh?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a heartache.
[SPEAKER_02]: What age?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we're a pre-adcesses in our own human domains.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we are in a quest to acquire some things so that we can try to break the candy curse
[SPEAKER_02]: Dersinia, unfortunately, spread across the land.
[SPEAKER_10]: As you say, Dersinia, her gaze narrows immediately.
[SPEAKER_10]: Dersinia, you say.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, well, she's dead, but unfortunately, her handy work is not.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see, at the, at the thought of her being dead, you see, a true big, wide-eyed smile crosses this place.
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: satisfy.
[SPEAKER_10]: For bringing me this wonderful news, I will happily allow you into my chambers.
[SPEAKER_10]: Please follow me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, thank you, Shoma.
[SPEAKER_10]: And she pulls you into a very grand receiving room where there's a large throne.
[SPEAKER_10]: Sitting, the throne seems to be like elevated a number of feet in the air so that she can sit on it and literally be like looking out over top of people.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a weird thing because a lot of pixies are flying around and you guys are walking on the ground.
[SPEAKER_10]: So this, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think to a normal pixie, this is not like a super intimidating thing, but to you, it is now a person really looming over you.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it's literally uncomfortable way.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a great, uh,
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I do get on my tiptoes.
[SPEAKER_13]: I do think that's it.
[SPEAKER_13]: So we'll just get on Matt and get a little elevation.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's doing a little standing acrobatics on Matt.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm here standing on top of Matt.
[SPEAKER_10]: You're still only at like, I don't know, knee height with this woman.
[SPEAKER_13]: Someone wanna get on my shoulders.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, yeah, we could be like a circus.
[SPEAKER_03]: Geraldine does not think about this twice.
[SPEAKER_03]: She leaps up.
[SPEAKER_03]: She does a whole bunch of clips and twists and gets on your shoulders.
[SPEAKER_03]: And now we do look like we're in a circus.
[SPEAKER_10]: You boom, boom, boom up to the shoulders.
[SPEAKER_10]: Immediately there's a bunch of like corticins around and all of them go,
[SPEAKER_10]: or the court since the three words like court people hangers on.
[SPEAKER_07]: Courtesan I believe is no, what's the one I'm looking for?
[SPEAKER_15]: Courtesan is I think we can give this a word for a word.
[SPEAKER_15]: 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_10]: As you jump up there all the members of the court that are around this area that are like watching this grand viewing chamber, all begins to go And Queen Gardini gives a small smile at the kind of like axe that is happening in front of her and quickly waves them off with a small wave of her hand and they all begin to chatter amongst themselves And she looks at you and goes
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, yes, we heard that she took your wand.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's again kind of a mumble, a murmur around from all the people of the court.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes, she did.
[SPEAKER_10]: Take my wand.
[SPEAKER_10]: Sometime ago, I thought she was a dear friend for some time.
[SPEAKER_10]: She was researching the...
[SPEAKER_10]: aspects of honey for a number of years with us.
[SPEAKER_10]: She was very interested in its ability to never spoil.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then the person I called a dear friend stole my honey deeper wand and artifact given to me
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's, um, so we have a lot we're trying to, uh, a lot of information we want to get from you and, um, part of what we're willing to exchange for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we're attempting to break the curse so there's that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we are headed, I believe, to Justinia's castle and hope very much to recover this wound for you and return it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We can't promise it, but it is something that we very much hope to accomplish in our quest to break this curse.
[SPEAKER_10]: It feels like you kind of narrow-eyed and goes, if you should return such a treasured item to me.
[SPEAKER_08]: I would be forever in your debt.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I would accept you in my court forever as friend.
[SPEAKER_15]: At that, I Geraldine sort of winked at Adelaide, like, yeah, you could visit Petroliter.
[SPEAKER_15]: He'd be so good.
[SPEAKER_04]: The patrol chestnut looks that you and goes It's just like a little thumbs up.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, you know, like Queen Gardinia, you're you're floating To this more about this rat king that we both knew the words of it exactly the same time
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes, it is a collection of rats gone feral after having eaten some of our poisoned and cursed honey.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is it still here?
[SPEAKER_10]: It has taken up residents in the deepest parts of our food store room.
[SPEAKER_10]: We've attempted a number of times to eradicate this terrifying beast.
[SPEAKER_10]: And each time we've been buffeted back,
[SPEAKER_10]: so much so that we've had to finally, unfortunately, cut our losses.
[SPEAKER_10]: Brash in the fruit that we do have above ground, and seal away this dungeon that it has become.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, do you, do you mind if I,
[SPEAKER_06]: just take like a quick hot second and Adelaide gently removes her arm from the crook of his arm and just like gives him a little kiss on the cheek.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you mind if we confer for like a quick hot second?
[SPEAKER_06]: What does be right back?
[SPEAKER_10]: I would not be a hospitable host if I did not allow you a brief recess.
[SPEAKER_06]: Gorgeous.
[SPEAKER_10]: And she claps her hands and immediately a bunch of people come up with, like, teas and cakes both for her.
[SPEAKER_10]: And for you guys, like, seats are set around you in a small table.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's given to you.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you, now, are, like, find yourself seated at a small, essentially, like, conference table.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then everyone quickly gives you, like, your own space.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's clear that this is,
[SPEAKER_10]: a relatively standard request, and they like know how to deal with it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Like, these people need some time to confront their own, boom, let's make them as comfortable as possible.
[SPEAKER_15]: Oh, Geraldine, backslip soft of the mirror shoulders.
[SPEAKER_10]: And directly into a chair.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, Adelaide sits down, grabs a napkin and starts filling, and as she's talking, she's grabbing little bits of food and wrapping it up and putting it like in her bag.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, so it sounds like we're gonna have to, she grabs another piece of food, wraps it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sounds like we're gonna have to go
[SPEAKER_06]: I guess get the tails off of this, off of the seven, you know, this rat king thing is part of part of what we're grabbing, the tail of the king.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you know much about rats?
[SPEAKER_02]: Was there like a specific question?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd like to think if we just ask real nice, they can give them, they'll give it to us.
[SPEAKER_07]: Not if they're feral and defending food like this.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're probably hostile and may have to be put down.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, and then we could extract the tails that way.
[SPEAKER_07]: We could try to talk to them, but I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know their situation enough.
[SPEAKER_07]: Seven of them combined by the tails.
[SPEAKER_07]: That sounds bad.
[SPEAKER_07]: Beers chaotic.
[SPEAKER_06]: it does.
[SPEAKER_06]: Adelaide like grabs like a huge knife and is like checking her hair and like checking the bags in her eyes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I guess we just have to, uh, she puts it also in her bag like this knife.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is not the cutiest chance.
[SPEAKER_06]: I then she grabs a fork and also puts that in her bag.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a nice force.
[SPEAKER_02]: You never know when you might need a fork.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see nearby there's like a small like member of the court who's clearly some kind of like like like almost like butler I think and it's just making check marks of all the things that you're attaining Adelaide this woman has already been stolen from I'll give these back That's her entire distrust of humans.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'll give them back.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just don't have anything to cut a rat tail off with
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, we've got my cooking knife and Geraldine like flips it out of her.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's like twist to get in her hands.
[SPEAKER_13]: I haven't that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I've got a slingshot.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think that this is a, I think it's true.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've got a slingshot.
[SPEAKER_06]: You've got them hands.
[SPEAKER_06]: They've got sharp objects.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think this is all hands on deck for these all tails on deck kind of situation.
[SPEAKER_10]: The butler runs over and goes, um, don't mean to interrupt, um, I am the court butler and also the court eavesdropper.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, that's a job.
[SPEAKER_07]: You get paid for that?
[SPEAKER_07]: No, you're gonna try and get paid for that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Can somebody.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Adelaide's moving it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Just wanted to let you know, all of the accoutrement at this table, we assume it will be stolen.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's kind of almost like a gift.
[SPEAKER_10]: Anything that you leave is actually in.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll just get souvenirs in this particular court.
[SPEAKER_10]: It would be considered rude if you don't take it.
[SPEAKER_06]: See, it's considered rude if we don't take it at it.
[SPEAKER_06]: It starts grabbing everything.
[SPEAKER_06]: I look so mad at her and take it.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, we've like fun to take the tablecloth off, like tie it up with it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just like have to make a bindle.
[SPEAKER_02]: We take the table, all the chairs.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can't even wrap the hot tea off of it first, so it doesn't still all over everything.
[SPEAKER_07]: Did you get it on this?
[SPEAKER_07]: Stick, so my guy.
[SPEAKER_13]: What do you want when?
[SPEAKER_13]: Do you want anything?
[SPEAKER_07]: No, I don't want anything.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see, the little table that Queen Virginia has also been given, she is also putting forks into her pocket.
[SPEAKER_02]: 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_10]: As you guys are discussing what to do with this potential racking, you flick back to your your brief conversation with the bees in the forest and the radical difference you saw between a conversation with normal bees in a conversation with these feral cursed bees.
[SPEAKER_10]: You recognize that bees are relatively docile species.
[SPEAKER_10]: in a way that you're like, oh, this was extreme.
[SPEAKER_10]: This is an extreme change.
[SPEAKER_10]: To think of that with a bunch of rats tied with a tail, you see this as an extremely dangerous enemy.
[SPEAKER_10]: If it has been found to be like, feral because of this cursed honey.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I guess we go in and just ask them like, we can do this the easy way or we could do this the hard way.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would love the easy way of just winning, being like, give us your tails.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's gonna be the hard way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you think that's even worth the try, or do you think we'll reach better, just surprise attack?
[SPEAKER_07]: Winnie, what would you morally feel better about?
[SPEAKER_07]: making the attempt at an negotiation, and then making the death as quick and painless as possible.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so you go in and you're like, you know, give us your tails and we're like, or else, I think a plate can sound a good situation.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_13]: What if we were just like sneak attack?
[SPEAKER_13]: We were just like, we sent in Winnie, and then the rest was wait for a signal, in case it doesn't go the way we wanted to go.
[SPEAKER_10]: Amir, you look down at your fingertips, and you see icing all over your fingers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow!
[SPEAKER_02]: Whoop!
[SPEAKER_10]: Nobody look at me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Amir, why did you scream?
[SPEAKER_10]: But Amir, you see there were a number of cupcakes that were on the table.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, I'm shit.
[SPEAKER_13]: Sorry, I'm not surprising.
[SPEAKER_13]: Amir, I think he's from the cupcakes.
[SPEAKER_13]: Let me just write it out of people.
[SPEAKER_13]: It does, like, does off.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't get being somewhere before jeez.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is why you kid got kicked out of Tony Spaguishes.
[SPEAKER_13]: This is a good one, okay?
[SPEAKER_13]: No.
[SPEAKER_13]: No, it's not why you're talking.
[SPEAKER_13]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just crazy to be here.
[SPEAKER_13]: Tony Spaguishes just mad that I'm so good at this Spaguish challenge.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_07]: It does make Tony read it and you are really good at this Spaguish challenge.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, she really is.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, okay, we don't have a lot of time.
[SPEAKER_07]: We should probably go address the situation soon.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, I feel like if if direct King is stuck in there with a food source I mean, it's really only a matter of time before they escape anyway.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we better go get this turn quick
[SPEAKER_15]: And then I think Geraldine is going to step away from the table and attempt to do an awkward thing of both like bowing to Queen Gardinha except that she's like three feet hot like her.
[SPEAKER_04]: I bow like her is weird because I also have to look up at her so she's doing this very weird.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like her body is contorted into a way where you're like, bones shouldn't go like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like a McQueen, we would like an attempt to read you of this problem and if you would be so kind as to allow us access to this food store area, we're going to see what we can do about this pest.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see an advisor comes over and like chatter center ear for a moment and then she
[SPEAKER_10]: I would be happy to grant you access to our store room that has been sealed off ever since we were attacked by the Radking.
[SPEAKER_10]: However, I cannot risk the safety of my citizens.
[SPEAKER_10]: If you wish to enter in, we will seal it behind you until you knock again.
[SPEAKER_02]: That seems like a fair and wise move.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it does.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, totally.
[SPEAKER_07]: Emily.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's starting to get married.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_13]: When we come back, can you tell us if you've seen the unicorn or something recently?
[SPEAKER_13]: You don't do that now, but you just circle back to that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Don't have to do it.
[SPEAKER_07]: We ain't gotta do it now.
[SPEAKER_07]: We find it to the gas.
[SPEAKER_13]: You know, maybe, maybe ask the court folks if they... She looks to her advisor and snaps.
[SPEAKER_10]: If the advisor immediately makes a note of it, and that chairs off something and hands you an appointment card for a late-in-the-next day.
[SPEAKER_13]: Don't!
[SPEAKER_13]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_13]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_07]: Your grace, just a quick question.
[SPEAKER_07]: What did DeWan do?
[SPEAKER_07]: What does DeWan do?
[SPEAKER_07]: DeWan, the Delciniestle.
[SPEAKER_10]: The wand is a family heirloom first and foremost, something that my mother got from her mother and from hers before her.
[SPEAKER_10]: But largely, it is a source of immense powers, a very powerful magical item that allowed me to better protect my people.
[SPEAKER_10]: And it was helpful.
[SPEAKER_10]: Now we have to rely on this cursed fog to protect us when a queen should be stronger.
[SPEAKER_07]: OK, thank you.
[SPEAKER_10]: Of course, I'd be happy, elated, to have it returned.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to try our best.
[SPEAKER_08]: We promise you that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, we're going to make sure a mirror makes that appointment.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_13]: We're coming back.
[SPEAKER_13]: So don't forget about the unicorns.
[SPEAKER_13]: We need that's important and part of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We all care about that equally.
[SPEAKER_10]: The court eavesdropper comes over us.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_10]: It is actually very important that you are on time for this meeting.
[SPEAKER_10]: Being late is honestly more offensive than pretty much anything else you can do.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's almost worse than stealing from the queen.
[SPEAKER_08]: What about being early?
[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,
[SPEAKER_07]: That's very punctual.
[SPEAKER_10]: You are guided out of the chamber of Quingardini gives you a small nod of her head and they're very quickly moves to other court business.
[SPEAKER_10]: And Chestnut begins to lead you Adelaide by the arm and the rest of you over to this.
[SPEAKER_10]: What is a former store room now?
[SPEAKER_10]: Something closer to the dungeon of the Rat King.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_10]: It has been boarded over.
[SPEAKER_10]: All of the boards have been nailed shut very thoroughly.
[SPEAKER_10]: And he gets a crowbar and slowly begins to undo this massive door that has been erected around this, essentially whole in the ground.
[SPEAKER_10]: And it quickly
[SPEAKER_10]: is opened and you see a dark damp cool chasm below you and somewhere off deep in the tunnels you hear an echoing sound of a chittering swarm of rats and a single roar.
[SPEAKER_13]: We're not inside of it, we're just, the door is still open, we can turn around if you want.
[SPEAKER_07]: Amirah.
[SPEAKER_10]: And that is where we'll end this episode.
[SPEAKER_10]: No!
[SPEAKER_10]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's good, that's good, that's good, that's good, that's good, that's good, that's good.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, body form before our horror.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_06]: I see Brian.
[SPEAKER_07]: Three times the horror.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's so fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: Don't cry here too.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: So many horrors.
[SPEAKER_07]: Otohorse.
[SPEAKER_10]: Tune in next time as these four princesses delve deep into the layer of the rat king.
[SPEAKER_10]: Woo!
[SPEAKER_10]: Don't tell them.
[SPEAKER_06]: Bridget, those are the courtes, it's not horror.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, my bad, my bad, my bad.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're going with this, this level of poop.
[SPEAKER_07]: He has the mind of standing out being the same page, same page.
[SPEAKER_10]: And as always, if you're having fun, you're already doing it right.
[SPEAKER_10]: Bye-bye everybody.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bye-bye.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That was stressful.
[SPEAKER_07]: That was good though.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was stressful.
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, was it stressful for you for the three of you because you were an only guy?
[SPEAKER_06]: I do want to say, I do want to say thank you so much for volunteering.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that's all of you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Fuck you, Daniel.
[SPEAKER_05]: 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_10]: And remember, if you're having fun, you're already doing it right.
[SPEAKER_10]: As I was saying, and I knew cortisol is the wrong random, like what the fuck is the word up I do?
[SPEAKER_04]: I was dipping because it paid did a very specific picture.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm telling you, like that's not what this is.
[SPEAKER_04]: I kind of dug, but I was like, oh okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, come to the court, we're in.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I see why she never remarried.
[SPEAKER_07]: She doesn't have to be like, for a side of like, she got a did a whole lot of rusion.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was super into it.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.