MotW Liminal Code 1.5: The Feeling Of Yay In Forginia

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Speaker: Cass, do the intro. you I don't think you've done it in a long time. Wow. Me? Yeah, do the intro to the show. Oh, no, I wasn't ready. um get your time shiling to ah Good afternoon. Good morning and good evening. Just kidding. Good over good morning. Good afternoon. and Good evening. Welcome back to role players, everybody.

Speaker: and all universes, all known and unknown. I'm sure this is how Adam says it totallyly I love it. um I know I missed out something about all binaries and all that jazz. um you did We're inclusive here. It's okay. We're inclusive. We don't care. We we love you all and exactly how you are. And ah take it away, Adam. That's all I got for you.

Speaker: Nice. Thank you so much for that wonderful introduction. You're welcome. Yeah. So, hey, last time what happened on Roleplayers was you guys went and auctioned off a bunch of weapons for this big arena fight that's going on at the Allianz Arena, which we found out from Adrian means alliance and doesn't mean aliens, which I didn't think it what it did, I just thought it was funny to call it that.

Speaker: um so um But we learned something that that's what that word means. um And ah so you guys locked off a bunch of weapons, caused a little bit of havoc, tested out a bunch of stuff, made some good money.

Speaker: And on the way out, you finished your job. A guy in a trench coat approached you about competing in the tournament and winning a bunch of money. And instead of choosing to participate in the tournament and do any more side quests, you guys decided to shake this guy down, in a manner of speaking,

Speaker: and convince him to give you his life savings, which is upwards of 500,000 US dollars. So between the three of you, you can split that up however you want. and um And at the end of the episode, David said not to feed your cats. And that was kind of where the episode ended.

Speaker: um He said only feed your cat salami or something like that, I think was actually the... Yeah, yeah, as a treat. It's a good note, turn it on. What's that? That's a good note to end on. I agree. I think it's a good message. Don't only feed your cats the good salami, I think is what he said. Don't feed Feed them the good stuff. um And so you guys are just in Germany. You just like walked away. I'm assuming walking away from this guy. He he said he's going to go get a job in Germany. So he just left.

Speaker: So you guys are in Germany. You have your stones to return back to base if you want to go back to Buster. If there's anything else you want to do in Germany while you're here. I'm just going to kind of let the flow take us from here. So take it away, Bill Gravy and rock.

Speaker: could visit my house. Your house.

Speaker: Did you say your house? Yeah, your house. and Not really. um So now that we have like all this money and we are kind of done with our main quest and side quests, what do we do? What is this adventuring goal?

Speaker: Well, I mean, I need it i need to pay rent.

Speaker: That's good for you. yeah Can I have some money? Can I use some of this money? Yeah, we should like split that like evenly. Yeah, that sounds right. That sounds good.

Speaker: Right. Somebody do the math. Divide 500,000 by three. Fuck. is a hard problem. You can just give my half to blue, okay?

Speaker: Why? Okay, that makes it easier. Because I don't need You take two parts and I take one part. This math is still hard. Let's just split it. Yeah.

Speaker: just So you want me to just like cut the money in half and I give you the account? Yeah, here. Cut it in half. Okay. Oh, wait. Hang on. Hang on. Another $100,000 is coming in. It's $600,000. No, no, no, no. It's too late. It's too late. It's too late.

Speaker: I think it's about $166,000 you it three ways. We're going to be off a penny, and that's not fair. Just put it in the give a penny, leave a penny jar at the Aliens Arena.

Speaker: The blues mean blue would be like, but I really wanted that penny, though. Yeah. You know how much a penny is worth in the blue world? With 100 blue bucks or something. Yeah, it's 100 blue pennies. It's crazy. I'll just give you like, I don't know, like $350,000.

Speaker: No, just let's just split it here. Just cut it in half. Here, turn it into a scythe. You know, it does kind of choke. If we cut it, then we can really use it.

Speaker: Well, well maybe maybe Gravy and Blue can share a bank account. No. i don't I don't need the money. I'm dead. But don't you guys not need to be married for us before you can share an account?

Speaker: That's not how that works. okay Lots of married people don't share their bank account. all right That's not true. you know i don't know I don't even know if that's true or not. That's true. if you're Tell us in the comments if you're married and you don't share a bank account or you do or you just want to leave a comment.

Speaker: Leave a comment saying your bank account status. You can also put your numbers in there. My husband and I do not, just for an immediate whoa answer for you. You hate each other?

Speaker: No. Wait, is this Gravy or Cass talking? What's going on? This Cass. That out of character. was out of character. okay. I just didn't know who was talking. like, I just imagined that Rock and Bill and Gravy are just like sitting on a couch with some microphones in front of them, and doing a podcast the middle of the street.

Speaker: Right. Yeah. I mean, that should be the, what we should do next. We should make a podcast within the podcast. Yeah, podcast within podcast, dude. I would fucking love a pod within a pod. That'd be so funny. worth or But you guys had to stay in character the whole time. You just had to be your actual characters the entire time. That'd be impossible. Deal.

Speaker: It's like, so what's, it you know, what what's it like? And what are politics like on the blue world? Um, OK, so whatever you guys have split the money in some way that makes sense. You guys all have access to it, so you guys can just move from it. All you have to do is high five one another if you want to give some money.

Speaker: First, you feel it's going catch me before you can. me yeah All your money is stored inside your palm. Bill spends all this money on a house. On a house i in the in the current world or in the blue world?

Speaker: Great question. yeah Probably the blue world because everyone here, actually no one's really commented on the fact that he's blue. You can always go to my world if you want to. Which world is that? I thought that was, guess you're right. It's not this one, is it?

Speaker: No, it's not this one. It's the creator's world where you're all left together in harmony. um Can I see what that looks like? Sure. right. You're going to open a window to that world.

Speaker: you guys want to go to You guys want to go to Rock's world? You can do that, too. It's fine. I just want to check it out. I want to dip my toes. so much See what kind of house I can get there. I absolutely love the idea that this episode turns into house shopping in different universes. It's built.

Speaker: right This is the kind of content that role players is made for. Do i need to roll? Do I need to roll to open ah open a portal? Well, Buster is the one that has the portals, so you'd have to go back and he would let you in. Can you just hand wave back to Buster?

Speaker: Yeah, let's say you chucked your stones into the air and you boot you bamped back to... It's almost like back in Stalkmoor. It's almost like Dragon's Dogma. Yeah. or um Terrible game. So then. Oh, no. Shots fired. If you if you love Dragon's Dogma, tell us in the comments. Tell me why I'm wrong in the comments. Dragon's Dogma dick. I'm just kidding. I don't know what that means. OK, so you guys are back at Buster's house and Buster has, you know, everything is clean. He's been he's been busy. He has automatons that are running around bipedal automatons.

Speaker: that are fixing things, improving the teleporter as you guys show back up. um He's actually sitting in a chair with several books floating in front of him, and his glasses are floating off his face and just hovering in front of each book and then going back to his face intermittently, and they start to glow.

Speaker: And he's just kind of in his own little world over there. This guy has some serious issues, man. I mean, yeah. I think know you want to be here. i Yeah, you're right. You know, um you're right. Don't have gotten this opportunity.

Speaker: Hey, ah Buster. Huh? Yeah. Wow. you look familiar. What's up, man? You cooked your brain, didn't you? ah I'm not going to lie. I did take a piece of it and try to do some stuff with it.

Speaker: It's not delicious. I don't recommend it. Zombies are crazy.

Speaker: All right. um Can we get a portal to rocks world when you get a chance? Oh, is there something bad happening there? I haven't gotten any alerts. Yes.

Speaker: Oh, shit. Okay. I haven't really been paying attention over there because I thought all the bad stuff came here, bro. Oh, well, no, I just want to, I really just want to buy a house. I lied. I'm sorry.

Speaker: Oh, hey, man. No harm, no foul. I forgot what your name is. So, like, we're cool. All right, well. Okay, well, you need help medically, so we're just going to... Can you just open the portal?

Speaker: ah Yeah, bro, whatever. Okay. And he does a little hand wave and just a little kind of circle starts to gradually like open up a little bit wider. And just it's just like this kind of weird, colorful, swirly, orange, goopy-looking portal. Looks like ah like a sideways pool of orange liquid.

Speaker: I swear to God, if this takes us back to Germany...

Speaker: And he goes, oh, wait wait, wait, wait, wait. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I thought you said Germany. Hang on. And he waves it. All the roads lead to Germany. Yeah. All roads lead to Germany. All roads all roads lead to Munich. um So he had waves in a turn. It looks like a blue sideways portal. looks like just a swimming pool that's sideways.

Speaker: He says, no, no, That one's rocks world. I promise. Okay. Let's stick my head in. Stick your head in. Adrian, describe what Rock's world looks like.

Speaker: Well, it works where Rock's world looks like, depends if you're outside it like a settlement or a city or not, but the cities look like they're mostly built out of stone and you have like not super big houses, kind of like normal to...

Speaker: What's that again? Like what are two story houses? Right, they're story houses, yeah. And you see like fountains and like each house has like their own forge.

Speaker: I was going to say is the whole like place a giant forge? Yeah. It's not a giant forge, but each house is their own forge. Oh, okay.

Speaker: What kind of people are walking around? People, they're like all pretty humor-looking, mean, they're like not transformed. And they were, I imagine, more like ancient Greek kind of clothes.

Speaker: Okay. right. Last question about, from my perspective, everybody else can feel free to ask, but the the mannerisms of the people, as he sees, like, do they have vehicles? Do they interact a lot?

Speaker: um Like just generally, like what, ah what kind of like hustle and bustle do you see from the residents there? There aren't really a lot of like, motorized vehicles people rely more so on like just walking to places taking bikes or like riding somewhere oh it's a very green place yeah as opposed to a blue place okay so yeah that's what you say you see a big stone place looks like there's forges built into the homes a few people are all pretty much on foot traffic or bike traffic

Speaker: Pull my head out. Pull your head out. Okay. This is just Europe. i don't know if it's Germany, but there's just like Europe but plus there's like forges. It's really not been a long time that I've been gone.

Speaker: Yeah. Okay. Well, yeah. anyways So it sounds better than. Where the hell this place is. So, yeah, I'm going to go in and I just jump in. Oh, shit. Okay.

Speaker: Good luck. Jumps into the blue pool. um You guys also go in. Yeah, I'll tell you often. Yep. okay i I see a house for sale. How much is it?

Speaker: The moment you jump in, you see a house for sale? Yeah, I'm assuming you're not. What is the pricing unit for ah just anything ah in your world, Brock?

Speaker: That's a very good question. um There isn't really a pricing unit. It's more so trade. We don't really use money. It's all trade. Ah, so you trade. Okay.

Speaker: So the house doesn't say for sale. It says for trade. Right. Yeah. All right. I'm going to knock on the door. See if anyone's there. yeah Yeah. You knock on the door and someone opens and they're wearing like a flowy. It's like a flowy robe, but they have a necktie as well.

Speaker: And um the as a gentleman goes, he goes, hello, are you here for the house viewing? Yeah. Is this house for trade? so Yes, it is for trade. I see you have seen my sign.

Speaker: Do you sell the people who, I mean, i mean trade with? We do not sell people here. we know trade people. I mean, so I mean, so i mean church only when they become their their tool form do we trade them.

Speaker: It's still fucked up, but are well they asked for it? They want to find a new family. OK, whatever is between consensual tools. Yeah. ah OK, consenting tools.

Speaker: do Do you trade with people who are not from this universe? ah You are the first person I have met not from this universe, but I am not alarmed as I have seen the portals in the sky. Oh, well, you take a this much money for the house and I pull the wheelbarrow up.

Speaker: yeah Yeah, he just puts a wheelbarrow up of money. Wait, are you are you offering a wheelbarrow are you offering money inside the wheelbarrow? i was offered the money, but you can take the wheelbarrow too. I'll put that in.

Speaker: Ah, well, I must appraise it first. um What is this paper that you are? Two hundred and two hundred fifty thousand.

Speaker: it's you know Is it USD or what is it? Yeah, they're United States dollars. Yeah. Ah, yes, the United States. We have heard many a tale across the multiverse of this country.

Speaker: The dollar is strong with this one, yes? Ha ha but Yes, he has many mid-a-dollar-ins in his blood.

Speaker: Yeah. um Yes, ah you know, I think... What do you think is a good value? like Is it common to spend this much money on a home in your universe?

Speaker: If it's a shithouse, yes. A shithouse? Like where one uses... you know Where one excretes waste? Oh, no, uh... That's called an outhouse effect. Yeah, that is called an outhouse, you're right.

Speaker: Oh, hey, Rock. Hey. How are you? I'm good. How's that sight form? Hey. you doing ah Is it doing all right? it's It's gotten some action, finally, and it's been working great.

Speaker: Wow. Can I see it? I'll show you mine if you show me yours. Sure, you can see it. Somebody catch me and I jump up in the air.

Speaker: I'll catch them. right. And he goes all right, someone catch me. And he jumps up in the air and turns into a machine gun. Oh, I that, baby. He just drops rock and catches him. Yeah. He's just a big ass machine gun that probably should have a tripod.

Speaker: I use rock to like hold up a a leaning tower or something, you know. he's like he's just a ah You just hear a thought that goes, what do you think? Do you like my size?

Speaker: ah Well, I did. Until you made it weird. it's um meaning um Yes, I'm a cooler.

Speaker: You want me to cock you next? Yes, would you please tool pull that lever? Pull back the hammer action. See what happens. The what?

Speaker: Just pull back on this little thingy right here, and it starts, let you see like a little like a little like lever action. can't do that yourself? Yeah, I can do it, but it's better if you do it. i'm not go to I don't want to do that. so This is sounded sexual now. It's right, though. I promise this isn this is not how we mate here on our world.

Speaker: We go to a forge with another construct. I pull it, I pop it, I twist it, whatever he wants me to do. my And he goes, click. money Neat, huh?

Speaker: I pull the trigger. And you Oh, you hear like you hear like half the the town chair.

Speaker: Nice. All right. They're all very supportive community. Hoping and hit anybody. ah He like jumps out of your arms and turns into his humanoid form again. He goes, oh, no, no, please. I was just firing blanks.

Speaker: man You can see a doctor. but you I would never fire live rounds into a community. ah All right. Oh, fuck. I'm dead. ah Yes, you do look like you are dead, ma'am. Are you OK? Would you like a glass of water?

Speaker: No, no, I've been dead for centuries. It's okay. That's it. Ah, yes. You smell of the ravens. Mm-hmm. Gravy, can you hold I'm feeling kind of lonely here.

Speaker: Who's holding you? you want You want me to hold you? Yeah. Okay. Okay. They'll drop me.

Speaker: Drop him. I set him down. What the slander.

Speaker: She'll pick him up and just like hold it like a baby. You hold him like a baby and you feel like oh your body just get real warm as if this is like a connection that is just so right between the two of you.

Speaker: Who feels warm? Yay. You feel like you're feeding a who? You're feeding a feeling of yay. A feeling of yay. Yes, that's what it's called when a construct is held by someone who is meant to hold them. You get a feeling of yay.

Speaker: i knew it. Like on the fucking episode title. just feeling of yay. okay Sometimes they just, you know, sometimes they just happen.

Speaker: um ah So, yeah, he says, well, Rock and Company. like Sorry, I did not get your name, Mr. Blue. Excuse me. Stranger. You call me Bill.

Speaker: Bill. bill Bill, it's nice to meet you. Bill, Bill. They call me Steel.

Speaker: Cold Steel. Nope, just Steel. Cold Steel was my father. if That was a joke. I always made blueberry muffins for me.

Speaker: Cold always made blue steel muffins for would you? What'd you say? Blueberry muffins. Oh, blueberry muffins. Yes. He is. He was quite the cook. Still is. He lives in he lives in Construct, California.

Speaker: so

Speaker: Anyway, Mr. Bill and ah your dead friend here, you are. I'm Gravy. Gravy, yes, I have heard of gravy. um You are not what we imagined gravy was.

Speaker: But it is lovely. You've heard of gravy? Yes, I heard you put it on the, um what do you call it? The squished potatoes. the us The squished spuds. Oh, I see what you're saying. No, I'm not that kind of gravy.

Speaker: Oh, are you like chicken gravy? No, I'm a grave. I'm a grave reaper. i'm a oh right. Of course. Of the ravens. a grim reaper. Forgive me.

Speaker: Yes. Well, it's lovely to meet you and I love your punk rock outfit. I wish I were so bold to wear something like that. Well, i you know, I found it in the dumpster behind the thrift store in this one town outside of ah this place in Indiana. And so I, I thought it looked really cute.

Speaker: Oh, i've been to that one place outside that thrift store in that place near the dumpster in Indiana. I knew you did. yeah That's where the Smolder Ravens comes from. That's where the what? That's where the Smolder Ravens comes from. Smolder Ravens. Yeah, it's true. Ah, yes. Well, I would be happy to sell you this home for um but the wheelbarrow and let's call it 100,000 of your American US dollars.

Speaker: Done. Sweet. now I mean, haven't even given you a tour. Would you you just want to buy the house? oh Let me let check it out. Yeah, I'm assuming it looks really nice before we sign anything. And we so we we sign with um with a handshake.

Speaker: So once the handshake is official, then the house is yours. All right. i put my hands my pockets. it's Very good. I see you. so You've tried to purchase homes on our world before.

Speaker: Yes. There are. There are some salesmen who will just try to get a handshake right away when they meet you. And then the house is yours. You have to buy it. Hmm.

Speaker: well But we try to throw them into the into the forge and make them better people when we discover that about them. Oh, okay. Wow, that's that's awful. No, it's great. They like it. It's kind normal.

Speaker: Yeah, see, Rock, you tell them. So can I live here if I can't be thrown into a forge? Because I'll die? i mean, you can still be thrown into the forge. yeah But I'll die.

Speaker: No, you'll just be reforged as a new. Right. I don't. i No, I won't. I don't have.

Speaker: But don't worry. This house has a forge if you wish to experiment with it. All homes have a forge. All right. i'm go I want to go inside and check it out. all right, let's go inside. yes right this way. How bathrooms and how many baths does this have? It has two bathrooms, one in the basement and one upstairs.

Speaker: Two full baths? Yeah, two full bathrooms because sometimes you want an extra tub in case someone just got out of the forge and they need to get into water very quickly. And five ovens.

Speaker: Yes, we have five ovens as we like to keep it very warm. And you never know when guests are going to want blueberries. Blueberry muffins specifically. Well, that's a little bit too much for me, but that's all right. I mean, it's your house to renovate once it becomes yours. The price is right.

Speaker: How many bedrooms? um Pardon? How many bedrooms? How many bedrooms do you want? Well, at least one. Well, there is at least one, maybe even more. If you check upstairs.

Speaker: I check upstairs. There's more than one bedroom up here. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Get yourself a deal, Buster. Your Buster goes, did you call, bro?

Speaker: Hello? No, yes. Oh, all right. see I don't know. um All right. Well, is it a deal? You have five ovens, two bathrooms, multiple bedrooms up here. As many as you can think of you have.

Speaker: What more could you want? ah and Nothing really. all right. It's sold. i'm This is my house. Thank you Handshake time. All right. He reaches out of his hand and shakes it. And then a little a little deed and shows up on your on your palm that you own the you own the house.

Speaker: um And he says, oh, well, that's that's neat. That's not usually how that goes. But welcome to your new home. If you have any questions, go talk to the mayor, I guess.

Speaker: um I'm just a salesman. Sweet. All right. Yeah. All right. And I call my landlord and I break my lease and tell to fuck off. You call him from here? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: Hey, you've been you're so behind on your rent. I'm not paying, bitch. What? Why?

Speaker: You've raised my rent by ten blue bucks every year since I've been there. You know, it's it for inflation. It's not for inflation. The thing is the balloon spill. Oh, my God.

Speaker: I'm not paying the rent. You can kiss ass. You kiss my blue ass. My livelihood. don't care. I'm not tipping you either. What? I rely on those to pay for my kids' school. No, I'm not tipping you.

Speaker: Oh, I'm just a person trying to get by. hang up. I love you. um ah So you're just not going to go back to your world and live there? Oh, fuck it. I'm done with that place, man. This place is sick.

Speaker: Adrian, did you ever tell us what your world is called? No, because I have never really thought of a name. You don't know what the world is called? No. Virginia. Right.

Speaker: Let's go with that. do you say Virginia? No, For-gin-ia. Oh, For-gin-ia. That's really good. Yeah. you at West Virginia. West For-gin-ia. New Virginia.

Speaker: ah I don't know why West Virginia is so funny to me. All right. Welcome to whatever direction, for virginia whatever direction and um newer old Virginia. But everyone just calls it Virginia for short.

Speaker: welcome to Now it makes me think of the show Raising Hope. And I i don't know if you guys ever saw that love that show. I love that show so much. And especially when like the parents always have like those um shirts. And then I guess I'd rather be in Virginia.

Speaker: Yes. And then she had a shirt right next to him that said Virginia. Yeah. This is I love this show so much. The guy's wife's name is Virginia and he has a shirt that says I'd rather be in Virginia than just wear it. I fucking love that show so much. That's great.

Speaker: Um, So, ah yeah, so you've purchased a home in Virginia um while you guys are doing that. Gravy, is there anything else that you want to do? or Any place you want to go explore while Bill's finalizing his house? He also has to move his shit in eventually.

Speaker: She's going to see if she can find somebody who is willing to be her sight or another another weapon for her. Oh, you're trying to go find a friend to be another weapon.

Speaker: Mm-hmm. Oh. In addition to rock? Yep. You got a machine gun right there. Yeah. It's pretty cool right there. that's It's too big, and I can't carry it in my Hello Kitty purse, so... So we need someone for, like, ah we need like a pocket pistol type...

Speaker: um Well, I've got a nine millimeter. i really just want like um a karambit. Oh. Like a knife. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Crabbits are cool. Little bear claw. She's like, I got this nine millimeter and she pulls it out and points it at that Bill.

Speaker: I got this thing already, you know. I got this thing. She's like waving it around. Yeah. Very dangerously. you see nova You see Steel just like looks at your gun and goes, hey, I've never seen you around here before. are you are you Are you new? Do you want to go to the forge later and like hang out or?

Speaker: You know, the forge with a capital F. Are you talking to my gun, weirdo? Yeah, yeah. Very attractive. What's their name? Her name's Betsy.

Speaker: Oh, Betsy, hello, I'm Steel. Nice to meet you. um Anyway, do you want to go to the Capital Forge later? Me and you? Capital D Forge. Capital D Forge. Steel.

Speaker: Yeah. Get the fuck out of my house and stop hitting on my friend's weapons.

Speaker: I thought we were all just hanging out. Okay, fine. can go to the house. All right, fine. Forge and chill later. Yeah, you forge and chill. You overstage your welcome.

Speaker: I guess it wouldn't be chill. It would be like forge and cook. Right. Forge and bake. Forge and bake, yes. Forge and quench. Forge and quench later. Forge and quench. So, yeah, he's like, okay, fine. I mean, right, well, he he does like the call me symbol as he walks out to your gun.

Speaker: <unk> Forge around and discover. I'm sorry. I love when Cass gets little like glimmer of something funny and she just has to just like shout so proud of herself so funny i'm gonna play on this forge for a while but i heard the light bulb above your head go off i heard it um you get me yeah yeah i heard it right away um okay so you're gonna go try to find a friend to

Speaker: to essentially have be have as a weapon friend. um Bill has his new house. I'm assuming you're going to be dealing with that. um um And then, Rock, where are you what are you going to do? well I want to build on top of Bill's house and lift as well.

Speaker: You're going what? want to build on top of Bill's house. You're going to build on top of Bill's house?

Speaker: Well, you have to talk to Bill about that. ah Yeah, you can you can have a room.

Speaker: i'll I'll have my own floor on top of your house, if that's all right. Why? why What? Just build an extension just the side. Right. It's an extension.

Speaker: Not on top. That make sense. Why not? It doesn't. What do you mean? It's just that's not how houses work. I can also have like a fire call that goes down to your place.

Speaker: That's not how works, man. That's not how. No, I don't want this. No. You're in our world, so you gotta apply to our culture. Is that how that works? You're just making this up, I think. I don't see any other house like that as fire poles. You might have caught me that made this up, but I still want a fire pole.

Speaker: Bill's just like looking at the neighbors like, no one else has this going on. He's like, what you talking about? It's a build on the side, man.

Speaker: Please, bro. All right. So you're going to build an addition onto... if Don't you already have a house here in Virginia? No, I was so far living from my parents.

Speaker: youre living me ah So this is you moving out. Yeah. but yeah but Okay. All right. like So ah while you guys are figuring out that arrangement, ah Gravy, you go out into the town and try to find someone to be your friend and be a weapon for you? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: Okay. um Rock, what kind of events happen around Virginia these days that Gravy might find herself, like, maybe where the people gather? um There could be a festival where they frolic around and they do a competition for shooting.

Speaker: ah All the people who are, like, bows or, like, ah guns or anything, they, like, do competition shooting. Oh, so you just happen to show up on International Follicking and Shooting Week Day, Day Week.

Speaker: um So, um so many festivals going on in these. It's like all these festivals are happening at the same time in different parts of the multiverse. Must be everybody's summertime. Yeah. So you walk in and you see a lot of people in different kind of different colored robes dancing around. They're frolicking. There's lots of frolicking.

Speaker: um and you can see the different like targets and like ah little like breakable constructs are being placed for people to shoot at. You see someone's tossing like a glass plates into the air, and someone's quickly turning into a weapon, and someone's grabbing them and shooting it, and then throwing them up in the air, and they turn back into a person.

Speaker: um So what do you do? How do you how do you go schmooze?

Speaker: um I feel like she would... go end up frolicking with the ones that are frolicking because she doesn't really want a shooting weapon. She wants a knife. So she's going to go to, um, I imagine there, there's like a huge bonfire in the middle of the forge area of the festival. And then,

Speaker: Yeah, and they have like the, you know, like people that are like transformed into drums and then they're all playing like some sort of drum beat and there's a bunch of people just like naked frolicking around the bonfire.

Speaker: Yeah, there's lots of frolicking and then it's every now and then like you see somebody's turn. Someone's turning into a rake and then someone is like putting like some marshmallows on their tips of their rake.

Speaker: So they do that and then like they're cooking some marshmallows over the big bonfire. um And then the guy turns back into his naked human self and he has a bunch of nice toasty marshmallows in his hands.

Speaker: um And they're just dancing around and you see like you see this um this kind of purple mohawked ah female kind of just starts dancing over to you. She is very just like thin, mostly see translucent robes on as she frolics over to you and she grabs your hands immediately and tries to spin you around like a twirl.

Speaker: Oh, she definitely dances with her. Yeah. And she's just like, you are different. Where are you from, my dear?

Speaker: Uh, the afterlife. Ah, yes, of course, the afterlife. So many, wait, do you mean you've been dead and came back to life? Or do you mean that you're from another realm?

Speaker: no I'm from another realm. I'm actually dead. Oh, you smell like the ravens. I knew it. hu That's actually Indiana. You smell like the Ravens of Indiana.

Speaker: You smell like... and Wait, is that Indiana? Thrift store? Is that what I'm spelling upon you? Good nose. Good nose. Thank you. I made it myself.

Speaker: I'm a construct, you know. You are Yes, of course. Most of us are, at least at this party. Oh, kind of like my friend over there. she points at rock.

Speaker: Ah, yes, I see him currently engaging in our custom of building additions onto our friend's homes. Yeah, I think he just moved into that guy's house or something. I don't know. I got tired of listening to them bicker, so I decided to come find a new friend.

Speaker: Ah, yes. Well, there's plenty of friendship here to be had. What kind of friends are you seeking, my dear?

Speaker: Well, I was kind of hoping to find somebody who would want to, you know, not only be my friend, but also want to like accompany me as my weapon. um i'm specifically looking for like a knife or a karambit form of person because I know that my buddy Rock over there, he turns into a scythe and I mean, as much as I love being a Grim Reaper, i just, you know, I got really tired of like killing people with ah my my touch. And so I would just really like to do it with a knife instead.

Speaker: We have very few deaths here in Virginia and we are very grateful for this. um but Yes, you are seeking someone who is of the bladed ones Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah. Yes. Well, I will say it could be a bit more challenging here as this is the shooting festival of frolicking and and such. that's That's its official name. um oh and But perhaps perhaps some bladed ones have accompanied the shooting ones.

Speaker: um You know, the best way to find a friend is to just go frolic. And ah just as we've met. ah My name is Marble, by the way. oh hi, Marble.

Speaker: Yes, and you are I'm gravy. Ah, gravy like graves of the raven's world. Yes. Exactly. i love that. It's very exotic and pure and beautiful.

Speaker: Thank you. Yes. Well, i can I can show you around if you like, but the best way to do it is to, you know, a way to attract the bladed ones is the same way to attract the shooting ones and the construct ones and the destruction ones is you must engage in the thing that they are the best at.

Speaker: And that is how you attract them as they wish to be around those that understand them. oh I thought so. yes I just wasn't sure where to find them.

Speaker: Well, you just have to go somewhere and do bladey things and attract, you know, we call them bladies and gentlemen. um You know, you must attract the bladies. Well, I figured you would know, like, the best event for me to go to.

Speaker: Well, the best event to go to would be the the the Stabby Slashy ah Frolicking Day Festival. So that's when? Tomorrow? That's in like 45 minutes. We're we wrapping up here, Zoom.

Speaker: Oh, okay, okay. Okay, well, um thank you for that. And um it was really great to meet you, Marble. And you know what? Even if I don't get to wield you as my weapon, I'd still like you as a friend. And she pulls out her toy phone and she like pretends to press on buttons. She's like, what's your number?

Speaker: It's six. Okay. Okay. Yes, just dial six and you'll get me anytime. Marble. All right. Thank you, Marble. You're most welcome. If you know anybody um who needs, yeah I believe in your world, that it would probably be called a crossbow.

Speaker: um That is what I can turn into. A large one, mind you. I mean, mice don't let my size fool you. I'm practically a ballista when I transform.

Speaker: Excellent. I will. i You know what? I'll let my friend know because I'm pretty sure he's into that kind of thing. Yes, and please make sure that rock comes to the festival as having a bladed one with you is a good way to attract other bladed ones.

Speaker: ah Oh, good point. All right, thanks. Yes, see it's not, I want to be clear, it's not a racist thing or a constructist thing, um you know, it's ah or an architectist thing. It's just, you know, it's sometimes there are just certain barriers of understanding that we encounter. And so the shooting ones understand the shooting ones better. No matter how many times, how many minutes we spend with a bladed one, we'll never truly understand what it's like to be a bladed one, you know?

Speaker: Yeah, you're right. Yes, so just I want to be clear. We all love each other very much. I love Rocky. He's great. But I'll never understand what it's like to fire a massive pointy thing out of your body.

Speaker: That's like a lot of information. Yes, sorry. We tend to overshare here in Virginia. Anyway, enjoy the rest of the festival.

Speaker: Yes, yes. Follick away, am my dear. I will. Frolicking away. so She skips away. Okay. Roll a frolicking roll, please. Just, ah you know, make it be... You know what? Since you're trying to attract bladed people, make it a sharp roll. Okay. That fits so well.

Speaker: Get it? Because it's sharp. Nine.

Speaker: And you get a plus one for hanging out with Rock. So that makes it a perfect 10. um Yes. So ah while you are. So tell me how you prepare for the festival. You have 45 minutes. We'll do a jump cut here in a minute. Once we see what Bill and Rock are up to.

Speaker: How do you prepare? Like, what are you doing to get into the spirit of this festival? She reaches into her Hello Kitty bag. And she pulls out.

Speaker: a leopard leotard oh shit okay and then she has like these strappy sandals that like they're they've got where they like just cover like her toes and her heel and then they've got like the leather straps that wind up to her knee and um tucks a

Speaker: black and white checkered mask back into the bag nice you've You've used this outfit before. Yes. um Okay, so while you're getting ready, let's go to Rock. Rock, you're currently trying to do an addition onto Bill's brand new house that he just got.

Speaker: Yes. How's that going? I shall try and get and content in contact with Stone and Hammer so that he can help me build this like addition to the house.

Speaker: ah Yeah, sure. You could probably get them on on a quick call, Stone and Hammer. Do they work together, I assume? They do work together, yes. Yeah. So, um yeah, they they show up pretty much with within a couple of minutes. Whenever they're needed, they're just they just... In the same way that you can summon yourself, like guide yourself to whoever wields you, they can guide themselves to whoever needs them.

Speaker: So they just essentially just come like soaring across as pretty much a sledgehammer and... um And as essentially like ah looks kind of like almost like a gavel.

Speaker: um And they just kind of like come flinging towards you and then like reappear in their humanoid form just as they're about to land on you. And they're like, yes, brothers, hammer and stone. What can we do for a rock? Hey, buddy. Hey, I finally moved out of my parents' house and I need you guys. Do your parents know?

Speaker: They do not yet know. Oh, the word. It's a good thing that Stone here doesn't talk, because he can be a bit of a tattletale. Put your phone down, Stone. um So ah what are we doing here? Did you buy this? it's Oh, it's lovely.

Speaker: Yes, it's a newly traded home. How hot does your forge get in there? We haven't tried it out yet, but it's probably pretty hot. Oh, yes. How many ovens?

Speaker: There's five whole ovens. Whoa, five ovens. You hear that? Stone, stone put your phone away. We are in the company of a client. You hear a bunch of noise in the background, and it's Bill unhooking one of the five stoves. Make that four. Make that four stoves.

Speaker: He's just like, don't need this. You can make so many blueberry muffins with this. Oh, yes. Five times the blueberry muffins. The favorite delicacy of our town.

Speaker: Oh, so sick of blueberries. ah I have my planet. All of them are blueberries. Bill, can you roll a sharp roll to see how how good you are at dismantling and removing all the connections to this? I don't want to be good.

Speaker: i just want to turn off the gas if there is gas. And then... Rip it the fuck out of the whole house. All right. You want to instant fail and not be good at it? I will spend edge or whatever you call it in this game five to not be good at it to to ah succeed in ripping one of the stoves out if necessary, by the way, you're going to spend a lock. Yeah. All right. Well, roll it first. see if You get it. Shadow run. Is that anything? Yeah, you're thinking a different game. Luck is what we have in this. We have four. i have three harm.

Speaker: I think you took harm from when you were fighting um the little gremlins. going to heal that. Is that cool? Yeah, yeah, it's probably fine. You guys are OK. Once you do universal travel, you're healed. you're heel That's how it works. OK, that's how it works. Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah. You feel as if you've been touched by the healing hands of an angel. You need me to sharp roll? ah Yes, please. That's great. I just upgraded my sharp in the last session. Sick. That's a nine. That's more than plenty to do it. It just takes you a little bit longer. You get a plus one.

Speaker: Yeah, when you're with Rock, you get a plus one. Anytime that you're with Rock and you make a roll, you get a plus one in this world. So it's a 10. You did it. Because he's sharp. Yeah, I get Because he's sharp. Yeah. Is there a native roll? Every sharp roll while in this world and with Rock, it gets you a plus one.

Speaker: But what's the downside? Is it that you have to hang with Rock? Boom. Got Yeah, the downside is that you you have to get used to whatever customs that Rock makes up while you're here because he's never brought friends here before. Okay. Yeah, yeah. All right. Well...

Speaker: All right, I just I carefully dismantled the stove and just rip it the fuck out. And then yeah you just hear just like just drag it against the floor as he just pulls it away from the wall. um So, yeah, hammer. Yeah.

Speaker: Hammer goes on to say, like, oh, do you have a have a roommate? It sounds like there's a roommate in that. No, I only roommate. Oh, hello, sir. i ah you ah ah you the owner of this place?

Speaker: Yeah. And he was trying to build a house or another floor on top. And I'm like looking around like no way, man. That's no one else does that. Just build on the side, please. I'm begging you, bro.

Speaker: So please, bro, whatever your name is, do not build on top. Just both on the side for the Lord God. Rock, are you trying to swindle this newcomer to our establishment, to which are to our home, and tell them that you... He cannot swindle me.

Speaker: wouldn't know if swindle him. Rock? Rock, do we have to send you to the forge? No. Are you sure?

Speaker: Are you threatening him? Are you threatening Rock right now? No, it's just a little bit of be-teasing. Yes. That's normal, yeah. Yeah, we're here to help you build your addition as long as the the owner of the home is okay with that rock. We can't just build without him saying it's fine.

Speaker: i mean, we're practically already roommates. It's fine. Just don't build on top. Just build on the side. All right. If you build top, i will I will send you to the forge. oh so ho How about we start to the side of the building and build upwards and then to the left?

Speaker: As long as it's not overhang, as long as I don't go to bed and I have to worry about you sliding down in my room with ah with a ah fire pole, I will allll be okay. but All right. I can live with that.

Speaker: Done. All right. Get started, boys. All right, Ed, we're done. Looks good. Hell yeah. Let's go find gravy and meet up. It's just in time for the festival for for slicing and and stabbing.

Speaker: Oh, that's perfect for you, Rock. Let's go. Yeah. and but they in a while You see you see ah Stone, the the silent one, is like holding out his hand to you, Rock, because he's like asking for whatever the trade is to finish this job.

Speaker: Like, oh, yes, he's the one that handles all of the trade. i You know, I hate doing it. He he he says all the right things. Don't you, Stone? Stone just has his hand held out to you. I'll just transfer the money we have to him.

Speaker: All of it? We don't really use money, but since like Bill used money, I'm like, maybe he'll take that. ah He takes it and then like, you know, at materializes some of it into his hands and just starts throwing it up in the air like he's just giving himself like a money shower.

Speaker: Okay. He's pretty happy about it. He gets it. Yeah. I'm fine that. And ah yeah, Hammer's just like, well, he seems jovial as shit. So um I guess um he reaches out of his hand to shake your hand at the that the deal is done.

Speaker: Okay. Thanks, boys. All right. Yes, congratulations on your new home. And don't worry. Instead of ah a fireman's pole, we gave you a little slide instead.

Speaker: That's quite a thing. What the hell put this slide in here? What ah time to go? stone Let's go. it um So ah gravy, you're getting ready for the festival. The other boys were just told about the festival.

Speaker: And do you guys go into the festival right away? Do you stop anywhere else before you meet up with gravy? No, you go straight there. i yeah, I built a um ah slide out of ice to be and we surf over there like silver surfer or some shit.

Speaker: Oh, that's some good shit. I dig that. Everyone claps. They're like so fucking amazed. do You want to roll for that to see how well it is? Yeah. Let's do it. That'll be plus. Close my character sheet again. So once. There's an X button on it because he wants to look at this terrible fuck AI map.

Speaker: That's why. holy shit bill you're a 12 damn i was gonna say i bet it all melts instantly that's a plus one because i'm with i'm scared it's a yeah you so yeah man you do some fucking like ice man silver surfer shit uh and just leave a trail of ice showing where you've where you went and where you came from um ah To a just like, ah just thunderous applause as you land towards where the square is, where they've already constructed all the necessary things for the blade and stab contest.

Speaker: um Why is everyone clapping? Well, sir, y'all, I would never seen such magic.

Speaker: What? You magic? Yes, magique. not Do you not do that here? It's not as common for the magique, only you can do it in the way that you do it.

Speaker: Well, it seems like your forge and shit is all magique, which is crazy. No, it's it's it's it's labor. It's natural. It's natural, my friend. it's natural it's oh natural my friend

Speaker: I look at him like I put on sunglasses and I tilt my head down and look up like with the sunglasses at him and like raise my eyebrows. And he goes, that's cool, man. You're a cool guy.

Speaker: i nod and I just go, all right. Yeah, sure. The magic. and Well, hey, that was great. Thank you for the show. You've inspired me to practice magic. All right, I'll trade for lessons.

Speaker: You see my address. You see where i live, right? Oh, yes, I've seen hammer and stones. Fine work for a new addition. Yes. Very good. All right, I will trade you for... I will trade you... ah what what what do you want to me What do you want to learn from me to trade?

Speaker: Money. ah We don't really do money. we do... um I'll think about it. Could I interest you? You know what? Sometimes when we are smashing into the mountains and trying to find new materials for building, we find these like shiny, um oh they're like, I don't know, they're diamond shaped. I don't really know what to call them though.

Speaker: um But we find like a bunch of these and he holds out just like a fistful of diamonds that are just like really nice and beautiful. Oh, okay. Yeah. You know, we have the, we don't really have a use for them most of the time. They're just kind of collectibles.

Speaker: What if I give you some of these? Okay. Yeah. I feel bad taking that. All right. I feel bad. You feel bad? What? It's junk. I feel bad offering it to you. This isn't junk.

Speaker: It's junk to me. Okay, well, I'll think about it. I have thousands of them at my home. I don't know what to do with them. How easy is it to spot Gravy in the crowd? ah Gravy is the only one wearing a leopard leotard. so gra Is there a leopard leotard?

Speaker: yeah What? Are you looking for what you call it? A lapard? Oh, my God. Rock. Does everyone on your planet have a speech impediment?

Speaker: No, we just. It's not a speech impediment. some Yes, Rock gets it. Sometimes we do we have a different emphasis on syllables than you. No. yeah Yeah. You'll get used to it.

Speaker: Yes, not not everybody talks this way. Just it's here in Virginia. Especially the western part. If you go more down south, people talk way differently. Yes.

Speaker: Righto. They say tomato. Right. No one says tomato. Yeah. They do. They would say chif, even though I say potato. All right. So let's go. We say gif here in our town. They say jif down south.

Speaker: Yes. The down the southerners are strange. It's so strange. i tell you what. We still love them, though, but they're a little wacko.

Speaker: All right. i love south South Virginia anyway. we don't have to talk about them.

Speaker: anyway Gravy, is gravy are you what are you doing now that the festival started?

Speaker: friends are trying to find you. dancing with her arms above her head and just like uh doing don't know how to she like the spaghetti wave you know don't know how this is ah like the wacky flammable thingies i don't know say yes yes exactly um and just being her freaky self next to a bunch of other people that are dancing

Speaker: You know, roll roll plus charm to see if ah if you convince other people like if other people feel like they're inspired to dance like you.

Speaker: that's a She gets a plus one. that's this You only get a plus one if you roll sharp rolls in this world. If you a plus one, you should roll charm because you're with Bill. You should roll with Bill. The most charismatic man in all. Can I roll help out? You want to roll by also dancing with Gravy? No, I want to be like, oh, wow, look at those moves, man. Wow. You know what? Sure. Roll plus cool to help out. Cool. All right.

Speaker: no for but even even worse Now everyone's making fun of me. Thanks a lot. yeah everyone just like Everyone just steps away from Bill. They go, wow, this guy does not know good dancing when you see his dressy. I slowly will you walk away from Bill.

Speaker: Yeah. I don't know this guy. I don't know this guy. He's like, no one's doing the spaghetti arm wave at all. They're all just kind of doing their own Very robotic, kind of like dancing together as like the ones that aren't frolicking are very robotic in their movements, but it's considered very sexy there.

Speaker: yeah Very stiff. The stiffer you are, the better, they say. Right. Oh, sure. Sure. Yeah. yes

Speaker: I got stiff. Should have stiffed our contractors earlier. Yeah, should you should have. know what? I can be so stiff. No, no, no.

Speaker: ah That is such an Adrian thing to say. You know, I can be so stiff. i could be Guys, you don't even know. so um You know what, Adrian? Rock, roll for stiff.

Speaker: Roll plus charm for your own stiff. I would have rolled sharp. You know what? That's fair. You know what? Go ahead and roll sharp for stiff. I'll let you do sharp. That makes sense. He is so stiff.

Speaker: i'm so and my god Everyone's crowding around rock. They're just like, go rock, go rock. You're so stiff. He's probably not even moving at this point. He's so stiff. I'm not even moving and now cheering.

Speaker: He looks like a damn statue. Like, oh my God. um And then um you see, you hear like the loud sound of like a shing.

Speaker: And everybody just gets really quiet. The music stops. People transform from drums and guitars back into their normal selves. um Can I assume people can also turn themselves into guitars in this world? I don't know. Makes sense to me.

Speaker: um And you see there's like this massive um like like Zvi Hander, essentially, like just like up on a stage somewhere, like and it's stabbed into the stage. Yeah.

Speaker: And then it transforms into this just fucking giant man. Just like, he's probably like eight feet fucking tall. Um, and he has like black robes with kind of like red, uh, strips on it that like just light up every so often as if there are some sort of fluorescent lighting that are going off.

Speaker: Um, And he says, people of Forginia, welcome to the Stabby Stabby Slicey Slicey Festival. And everybody goes nuts. They cheer.

Speaker: um And he says, it's not too late to sign up for the slashing competition over here. And he gestures off to one side of the stage. All the stabby competition over here.

Speaker: Winner wins a new forge. And everybody goes, woo, my fucking god, a forge, holy shit. You're going to take part in this competition. Who wants to slice me?

Speaker: Or slice with me? You see you see like another, you see like a kind of slightly taller like female walks up to you. She has really long kind of golden hair.

Speaker: ah She stands up and she goes, hey, Rocky, I'll swing you around. hi Hey, sure, Margaret. That would be great. Oh, please. all my My parents called me Margaret. Please call me Marg. Okay, sure, Marg.

Speaker: Let's let' finish mr together. I'll swing you around real good. Here's the thing. i I'm going to need you to really help guide my hands on Akana. I'm not actually a slashing weapon. I'm a stabbing weapon.

Speaker: I mean, that's fine. You slash me and I'll stab with you. Okay. So, well yeah, so I'll swing you and then later maybe you can swing over at him so much. Thrust me, not swing me.

Speaker: I'll thrust it really hard, I'll promise. Stop it. Bill cases himself in a block of ice. He faces himself.

Speaker: And everybody claps again and goes, wow, oh my god, that's so cool, the magic. What's my stiff score? You know what? It's 0 or 9,000. Yeah. You have to roll plus weird to see your stiff score.

Speaker: Whatever you roll is your stiff score. You have a 9 stiff score. yeah You have three three people. One holds up a 10 and two hold up 9. um That's pretty good. Yeah, so you have an average of mind stiff.

Speaker: So not too shabby. All right, so Rock is going to hang out with Marg and go do the slashing competition. Gravy, you're here to look for friends.

Speaker: Are you going to go to the stabby or the slashy competition? To, well, I guess Karambits are more slashy, but. That's true. I say they're stabby, right?

Speaker: They can be stabby, but they're mostly slashed. They can be stabby, but they're mostly slashed. Yeah, they're kind of... I'm also going to find it at the slashy competition. Yeah, they're created more like a bear claw, case you don't know what a kureni is.

Speaker: Yeah. I have one. That's why they're my favorite. Yeah, me too. Yeah, they're great. They're great. ah I think we're going to go to the slashy, because I feel like it would be more of slashy's knife.

Speaker: Okay. um And that's to say if you meet somebody who's a Karambit, but you're much more likely to run into somebody like that because they'll be but competing in the slashing competition. um Yeah, she's going to be mostly watching.

Speaker: So you are currently in a block of ice. Do you want us to do what I'm doing? I want to go sign up for the both the Slabby and the Oh, Slashy.

Speaker: The secret Slabby competition that you you didn't know was going on. The both the Stabby and the Slashy. Yeah. So there. So do you want to do the Stabby first or the Slashy first? Yeah, but I want to use my ice magic.

Speaker: That's probably better for you in the Stabby. If you have ice magic, you can probably do like icicles and shit. The Stabby is great. Yeah, the Slashy is that'll be fun. That'll be interesting. I feel like the Stabby is no problem for me, though.

Speaker: Okay, so you're going do the Stabby first? Yeah, do the Stabby. Okay, so you go over to the Stabby competition, the other two in the Slashy. Now, Gravy, you said you're just watching. You're not actually participating.

Speaker: Yeah, she's because she wants to see who is the best Slasher. Gotcha. um And then, ah Bill, you're actually competing in the competition. Yeah, fuck it.

Speaker: Okay. I'll see they'll let me. ah Yeah, um you know you when you go over to where the sign-up booth is, um the person at the register at like the registration table is just like, all right, name?

Speaker: a Bill. Bill. ah Construct and all weapon. ah Ice magic.

Speaker: Uh-huh. It's pronounced Majik, by the way. Well, I'm from the West. Oh, you far you're from here from West Virginia? ah Yeah, I'm from West Virginia.

Speaker: So sorry to ah to discriminate. Borders by borders with Forge, Hyo. Yes, you're Maj-ic. Yeah. yeah like your mad ick yeah um Okay. for me Am I giving it the ick?

Speaker: Yes. ah Will you be competing in the duos or in the singles? ah What does duos mean? Duos means you have a partner and you work together.

Speaker: Oh. I look around. Neither Rock or Gravy are there. I'm by myself. Okay. All good. Most people are. I hope you find someone someday, young man. yeah Thank you. See you too.

Speaker: I mean, if you're if you're not doing anything later, do you want to go to the lodge? What are trying to? Wouldn't you like to know? ah Yeah, I would. What are you? Could you tell me?

Speaker: um She turns into a harpoon gun. That's sick.

Speaker: She's like, you just like you just see this like a harpoon and like the like the gun and the harpoon is like kind of angled a little bit because she's leaning against the table and you just hear in your head. She goes, So what do you think, fella?

Speaker: Well, I'm going to try with my magic. It sounds like you're going you might be like a smoker. I don't really date smokers, so I'm sorry. I don't wield smokers. Yeah, that's fair. I do like to go to my forge in my house and just huff it. That's how you smoke in those. It's really bad for you. It's good for me.

Speaker: How do you think I get so stiff? I see. I see. All right. Well, going to. Thanks. um' I'm signed up, right? I'm good. All right. Cool. Thanks. Bye. Yeah. You're cool, buddy. See you, Bill of the Magique.

Speaker: It's. ah so Yeah. Okay. yeah You're not into harpoon guns? Yeah, yeah. Are you into harpoons? I mean, that's pretty cool. i'd be pretty cool have, but, you know.

Speaker: and don't want to know what it was. So the what you see is they essentially have different setups. So they have um a setup for targets for people who are essentially throwing bladed weapons, like a throwing knife or like a nail gun.

Speaker: They count as technically a stabby, even though it's a shooty. um They have like ninja stars and like chakrams and stuff that they do for like since it sticks into something, they call it a stabby.

Speaker: And then they have another setup for people who are wielded where they have to just like engage in some sort of melee with whatever targets or setups that they have. Are you looking to do something that's more aiming at a target from range or something that you're going to be doing up close?

Speaker: ah He just wants to do everything. He just wants to fuck around, have fun. OK, well, let's do a little montage to see how well you do against your competition. All right. All right. So this is probably going to be mostly weird rolls, but if you want to put any flavor on any of them. So um tell me what you do. You know, you're you're at like a booth where there's three other people who are being wielded. And so you see at like the throwing competition, you see there's kind of like a more burly looking dude who's holding a friend of his who is just like a really pristine silver throwing knife.

Speaker: um And he's kind of like your competition in your particular booth. um And the goal is to hit as close to the center of a target as you can. ah But there's bonus points if you do it with style.

Speaker: And so he's kind of like nudging you on the shoulder. He's like, hey, little man, wait till you see my new trick with how going to throw my friend here into that there target. Make sure you look cool, buddy.

Speaker: Okay. You seem him cool. I could feel like a draft coming from you. Yeah, I'm like temperature cool. I'm Musk. Yeah, you're like the coolest cool around. It's fucking cold here. Yeah. you know i make four You know, I have four and a half stoves at home. So, yeah, you have four and a half. So wait, I have a stove.

Speaker: I took I i put, you I installed one. I'm moving it. We'll figure it out. Oh, man. I only have one stove where I live. All right, let's put a wager.

Speaker: Oh, i make it interesting. If you win, I'll give you a stove. He yeah he like holds up the little um the little knife it to his ear and he goes, what's that, buddy?

Speaker: i mean, we could use another stove. um All right, well, then you have to give me your one of your stoves if I win. That's what I was saying. Yeah. if If I win or if you win, you get one of my stoves and then what would you ante up?

Speaker: ah Well, I really don't want to risk the only stove that we have. How about that knife? Well, this is my friend. like I what's that? You'll break up with me to hang out with him if we lose.

Speaker: Is it a karambit? i dont No, it's just a throwing knife. It's a silver throwing knife. All right. guys No, he's not giving consent to that. How about. um Oh, do you ever like these things? And he like reaches into his pocket and he says, I just kind of throw these out to kids and stuff. And he just holds out like five or six rubies in his hand.

Speaker: He says, this is like garbage. It's just toys that kids play with. It's like probably like these thousands of dollars. OK, yeah. You want these? Yep. and What a chump. I would give these away for free. I'm thinking I don't need fo any more than one stove, idiot. Oh, OK, okay so ah you have a target. Tell me what you're going to do to try to out ah out style and out this guy's attack.

Speaker: Man, I feel like i should roll with cool, but I'm not going to. Well, you can do a couple of rolls if you want to combine them and then we'll kind of just take an average of them and see what it is. Um.

Speaker: Are there any rules on how many projectiles I can use? They don't say that right. No, it's just would hit the target with in the coolest way possible and the most accurate way possible. All I want to take out the water bottle that I have. Okay.

Speaker: Unscrew the cap.

Speaker: And then fling just like like a priest like blessing people with holy water. i want to just like... flick of the wrist little bit of water comes out and then midair and then i do like a palm i push it and all of ah all of them turn into like ice shards and then so shoot at the target six so you're just doing like like the old shard of bless shard of blessing yeah yeah uh blessed shard if you will um okay let's call that how about we do

Speaker: Plus weird for the magic and then plus cool for the coolness. And we'll see kind of get an idea. Oh, shit. And it's a five for the weird. So you got to roll really well on your cool. But I rolled a 10. You rolled a 10, which is which is pretty solid. So.

Speaker: ah so That would be right around a seven and a half or an eight average for the roll. So I'd say it does pretty all right. I'd say maybe a couple of your shards miss. um But like I'd say, the majority of them hit the target and everybody goes, wow, that's cool. What's that bottle he's holding? That's made of something I've never seen before. um oh yeah, this is plastic.

Speaker: Yeah, so no one there has anything plastic. So okay the fact that you brought this into the world and you're using it are just is already impressive. So they're they're pretty... They're pretty excited what you're doing. it has a bunch of particles that get in your bloodstream.

Speaker: Ah, yeah, microplastics. Good stuff. Yep. um So, like, the big burly dude goes, okay, okay, all right, listen, I'm not'm not gonna lie, I'm a little intimidated. That's... I wasn't expecting that. I thought maybe you were just gonna, I don't know, run up there and shank it with a nail or something, but Okay.

Speaker: Um, so he does this really big kind of flourishy spin. He does a cartwheel, a lot of unnecessary acrobatics for how large he is. And then after he completes a full round off, he just like puts his arm in like a full straight ah position and then just like straight arm throws his friend at the target.

Speaker: Um, so I'm just going to roll two D sixes. Um, now I'm going to roll four D sixes. Uh, because that's what you rolled. And he got an average of 13. Well, he got a 13 overall, so it's already going to a lower average than yours.

Speaker: Um, so, uh, you have, so he throws it and he hits it like right on the outside ring. He put a little bit too much stank on it. Uh, and his friend yanks himself out, uh, in Lansdowne. He's just like a little kind of almost like dwarven sized guy.

Speaker: And he's like, dude, we practice this all day. You let water boy beat us. Uh, and someone comes over and puts a big green flag next to you. And they announced it like you're the winner of that round.

Speaker: And the guy's just like, well, shit. And he gives you a handful of rubies and walks away in a harumph. I pocket those motherfuckers. Let's go. What's that? I pocket them. Let's go. Hell yeah. You're you're doing great. um So then ah so then the next round is the the stabby stabby. So like you're in pretty much like a little obstacle course where you have to kind of like jump over walls, like dodge around like little kind of overhangs and stuff like that.

Speaker: And there are these kind of mannequin looking things that like they're mostly made of metal, but there's some sort of like cloth in the middle where you can either ah aim at like the soft spots on their face or their stomach or whatever.

Speaker: And you have to pretty much hit all the targets as many as many as you can, as fast as you can and get to the end of the obstacle course. Okay. So, and you have actually the little guy, um, who was the knife before is there again, but he has a different person wielding him and he's like, I'm better at being in a stabber anyway. I don't, it makes me sick, sick to get thrown.

Speaker: So this is going be way better. Um, but you see, there's also other people that are there. One has something that looks like a switch blade. Um, someone else has their, they just kind of have like, um, what do you call those, ah like a Katar that they just like, it's like wraps around their knuckle and it's just got like a big triangular blade at the end of it It's very Wolverine-esque, but it's just a singular point on each hand.

Speaker: um And so he's wielding two of his friends that are have that are identical twins um and they're lining up to go do some stabby-stabbies with you. So how do you run this obstacle course? I'm going to surf through it.

Speaker: You're going to surf or s serve? Surf. You're going to surf? And just ah like casually like yawning almost. Just cause icicles to come up from the ground and stab all the talk all the dummies.

Speaker: Sweet. ah By the way, did you give yourself XP for that? Yeah, I did. Don't worry. um Okay, so let's call that a weird roll. And then um if you're looking for kind of Are you just looking to look extra cool? because that would be another cool roll.

Speaker: But you do get a bonus for Sharp if you find a way to implement Sharp into there. I think it has to be cool. Okay. I failed again. Another. Come on. Cool. Oh, I crashed. Oh, You're all the five on his back roll and a five on his school roll. I leveled up.

Speaker: Wow. That's what Bill says. You like totally spend shit on the obstacle course. I could spend luck, but it's an obstacle course. don't really give a fuck. yeah there's not a lot of stakes here. it's just for fun. would say I crash. just want to give you reasons to roll.

Speaker: I say I start to do the obstacle course, and I just underestimate how good I am at surfing on ice, and I smash into a wall, and all the gems I had in my pocket spill all over the place. Like Sonic the Hedgehog style with his rings. Yeah, and I can't pick it up because I'm too flustered.

Speaker: And yeah, like as you're as you're kind of like collecting yourself, you see these guys are like ninja level fast and agile. They're just doing flips over you. You hear as they're just like stabbing every single fucking target multiple times with blinding speed.

Speaker: um And then the judge puts a green flag next to the one that has the two guitars in his hands. And he throws them up and like the two twin people, the two twin girls pop up and they all bow.

Speaker: um But hey, you won, you won, you know, 50% of the game. So it's still pretty good. And you leveled up. So pretty, pretty good stuff. um And you see that big guy comes over to you again. He goes, not fun to lose, is it there, in their buddy?

Speaker: Huh? Oh, who are you? What you talking about? am i You just did the you got my my rubies. Oh, I have a head injury. So ah it's OK, buddy. You know what? It's all right. And he kind of like he tries to help you like steady yourself. And he he says, do you want can I get you anything? do you want to drink? We love drinking here.

Speaker: know I'm OK. You sure? going to go find my ah partners. All right, man. Well, hey, just you know what? Come back next year. You are a blast. Thanks for showing us all this cool magic that you do.

Speaker: Yeah, no problem. Yeah, we don't see it much up here, so, you know, really inspiring. Uh-huh. Cool. Yeah, man. um And he just got he just about faces and walks away.

Speaker: Cool. All right. Cool, yeah. Cool, yeah. So you level up, which is exciting. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Did you pick what you what your level up is? Not yet. I will. All right, so while you're deciding what your level up is...

Speaker: Gravy, you are watching people in the competition. um And so, you know, you see all sorts of slashy people. Like, you see a bunch of ah different people are showing up.

Speaker: There's actually another scythe, but it's more of a sickle that somebody's holding on to. It's just like a single-handed sickle. Someone's carrying, and they're, like, whispering, like, kind of affirmations to it. um You see people with, like, large, like...

Speaker: double bladed axes. You see people with like broad swords like this set is decked out way more compared to the stabbing competition. There's so many slashing weapons that can be used here.

Speaker: There's even a fucking chainsaw that somehow made it in. um And so, and you do see there are different people who sort of knives. You see like, um ah you see, what the fuck are those? um Like kind of machete-like weapons. You see a few people that have small slashing ah knives, ah very serrated, very, like something that you would win at like a like a festival, ah like the Ring Toss Festival, a lot of serrated little utility knives and stuff like that.

Speaker: um But I'm going to have you roll plus sharp to see if you can clock maybe something that fits closest to what you're looking for. And you get a plus one bonus because rock is not that far away.

Speaker: Eight. Seven, plus eight. um I would say that you see... um You see that there is one girl who has essentially like a karambit tattooed on the back of her neck. And she has like a low lower cut robes that hang like down over her neck and her back.

Speaker: And you see just kind of like this kind of this tattoo. No one is transformed into one, but she's the only person that you spotted that looks like she has some representation of what you're looking for. But she doesn't look like she's in the competition. She looks like she's also watching. She's a few people ahead of you, kind of just cheering as people get into position to go and do this competition.

Speaker: Hmm.

Speaker: What do you do?

Speaker: Trying to figure out the best way to not be creepy, but she's just going to be creepy and just like walk up be like, hey, can I wield you? Wiggles her eyebrows.

Speaker: smooth Smooth. Some of us are stiff, some of us are smooth, but never both. yeah um So, ah you know what? but I'm going to say just a role, a straight charm role and see like just how she receives that.

Speaker: It's a seven. So just just a notch above failure. She turns around and she she she just kind of like brushes her hair back a little bit and she goes, huh? Can you what me?

Speaker: What did you say to me? Hello? Are you from here? Can I wield you? Race the eyebrow, okay? You can't. Yep. you you You keep saying that and then doing something with your eyebrows, I don't understand. What?

Speaker: Wield me? What? what he I just like want to be your friend and like carry you and like use you to like slash people's bellies open because like i just you know i I'm a grim reaper and I just like just need a new friend and I just want a slashy friend like you and something small you know that I can hide in my hand and you know you're just so beautiful and I think that we could be best friends and you know like I'm trying not to be a creepy man but that's the only thing I can be right now I'm sorry I'm trying not to be creepy, man. This is the only thing i can be.

Speaker: but Dude, I thought I was bad at talking to ah ah David, you just got to open with that line. I mean, that was powerful. Look, I'm trying not to be creepy, man, but it's the only thing I can be. I'm a grim reaper. i don't know. It's fucking hilarious, dude. mean, she told the truth.

Speaker: Yeah, i love it. You see, she has a long pause. She just kind of like stares at you. And then weirdly, when her eyebrow starts to wiggle a little bit and she goes, huh, that's weird. I'm not doing that on purpose. um You know what? Do one more charm roll to see. Because that was a pretty good, that was a pretty good speed.

Speaker: Five. ah She goes. i'm going I'm going to use luck. You're going to. Yep. I'm going to use luck.

Speaker: All right. Keep in mind whatever your luck special is. We'll have to use that later. um Okay. So.

Speaker: My dark side's needs get nastier. Yeah. Your dark side's needs. your dark side's right now. Depression, a dark bargain, and solace.

Speaker: Uh-huh. Um, okay. So I think I'm going to lean into the dark bargain at some point. So she goes, ah you know, at first I was, I was going to say, thank you for your honesty, but go away creep. But I don't know why, but something all of a sudden just kind of came over me and i feel like,

Speaker: I feel like I want you to wield me, even though I don't even know you. Although we need to get to know each other more because it's not, we should go hang out by the forge a little bit like really understand one another because to truly wield me, you have to understand me.

Speaker: And for me to be the most effective I can be with you is I have to understand you. That is the nature of our people. That is a nature of forging.

Speaker: oh

Speaker: Well, I will forge around and find out. Yeah. Yeah. And then maybe, you know, maybe I'll, I'll bake you a cake later and instead of butter, I'll use forgerin to make it extra good for you.

Speaker: Yeah. Sounds delicious. Oh, for sure. you know how many fairies I had to kill to make it that delicious? How many? Oh, man. If I say it out loud, I'll get arrested.

Speaker: Are you sure? Because I won't tell anybody. You, I know, I am a Grim Reaper. 67. So close to the magic number, though.

Speaker: yeah I know. so I know 66 is the best number, but... did that's the That is a magic number. Yeah. But anyway, you know what? fine Do you know what weapon I am? Like, how do you know?

Speaker: I just, I was reading the tattoo on the back of your neck and I just, i figured it out. So see, my parents told me it was a bad idea to get that put on my back, but I knew that someone would see it and go, yeah,

Speaker: Because so many people ask, you know, they say, they say, you know, what's your, know, what's your, what's your blade type? What's your weapon type? What what kind of construct are you? And it's just, it's such a weird way to start a conversation where if they already know that, then like you can get right down to brass tacks, you know?

Speaker: Yeah, exactly. okay Well, I suppose, well, I guess you have to try me out first. I don't want you to think, That I'm not good for you, you know, that we're a bad fit.

Speaker: That is a good point. You know, that's that's why we always say date before you marry, because you never know if you're going to get what you're going to get, you know. That's true. um So she says, all right, catch me.

Speaker: And she jumps up in the air and turns into this kind of like black and orange kind of bear claw shaped karambit that has like like a brass knuckle like grip where you can put four of your fingers in around the inside of it.

Speaker: So it's not only as a slashing, but she's also a striking where you can pummel something with the brass knuckles or slash with the blade in. Excellent. Excellent. Yeah, and she has like a little charm dangling off her because she was wearing a set of earrings that um that look like just like little little diamonds.

Speaker: um And so like there's like a little charm that dangles off of the handle of the karambit that is kind of representation of her of her earring. um And you hear a voice in your head that says, Okay, we just don't hurt anybody here, okay?

Speaker: Maybe go practice on the targets or something.

Speaker: You're such a buzzkill... Well, yes, I would rather you go kill the buzzes than kill our community. Fine, I'll go practice on the dummies, and then we're going to go kill some dummies later.

Speaker: Well, you know, maybe maybe if there's some sort of intruders or monsters, but we typically don't commit violent acts against our own people. You're freaking me out little Well, no, not here.

Speaker: We're going to go, like, to other places where there's bad guys. Oh, we don't have a lot of bad guys here in Virginia, so... I know, we're going to go to a different universe. Oh, why didn't you open with that? I've never left this universe.

Speaker: Well, see, like, I figured you would have known that I'm not from this universe and that I'm just visiting and that, you know, you would have put that together, but don't worry.

Speaker: Don't worry. That's what I'm here for. going to teach you the ways. Well, that's wonderful. um Okay, well, ah let's go practice on some dummies and ah see how well you do.

Speaker: Also, I saw you hanging out with Rock earlier. see is he still all right? i'm I mean, define all right. No. I ran into Steel earlier and he told me that you guys were wheeling him around and stuff, so i just assumed you're already you already had it ah someone that you were paired with.

Speaker: Well, between you and me, I think he has an addiction to um extending. Oh, I see. Yeah, some guy constructs do have that problem.

Speaker: Yeah, he's always like, gravy, wield me so that you can hit the extend button. And I'm like, rock. This is not the time and place. God, that is so like rock.

Speaker: that is That is so like him. Yeah. I keep trying to like find him a girlfriend, but you know, he's just like, it's not for it.

Speaker: He's, yeah. He always did have wanderlust, you know, so good for him for getting out there. But, you know, maybe maybe his forge mate is not here.

Speaker: Maybe. well either way. Oh, I'm Jem, by the way. or You can call me Jemmy, Gemma, whatever. Just Jem is my name. Excellent. My name is Gravy.

Speaker: Gravy and Jem. I like it. I like it, too. Okay, well just make sure that you get me home sometimes and that you get my parents' phone numbers so I can call them and make to let them know I'm okay. Like when we leave the universe, I mean.

Speaker: Sure. Okay, now let's go slice with me, mommy.

Speaker: That's right. So while you're practicing on the dummies, ah you know what? Let's have you do one, ah just a straight kick some ass roll with um with the with with Jem Jem the Karambit.

Speaker: Eight. Eight. So you're getting used to it. So you're still getting there. um But she's trying to coach you that way. Like she can kind of guide your hand as you slash, ah kind of give you give you like a little bit of encouragement or like maybe give you like a little bit of like an energy of which way to swing. So that's kind of how you practice for a while.

Speaker: um So last but not least, we have Rock. Mr. Rock, you are being wielded by Marg, who is stepping up to the plate in the slashing competition.

Speaker: um Do you say anything to her? So what's your plan for this? Well, um I was hoping you would just guide my hand and I swing away.

Speaker: I was thinking maybe you can make it like more theatrical. In what way? Do you think you can like spin me around and then throw me up? Then I could teleport back to you and then you can slash me.

Speaker: Oh, kind of like like a boomerang action. Right. I mean, I can certainly give it a try. I mean, know. I also learned skill recently where I can like extend myself. Then I can hit multiple targets at once.

Speaker: Oh, interesting. um I guess we could do that. ah Are you in your scythe form right now, or are you still in human form? I think I would still be in human form. Okay.

Speaker: So she's like, oh, you know, I was wondering, because I know some of the other guys who turn into longer weapons or tools become a little interested in the extension parts. I was curious if you figured out how to do it.

Speaker: I did, yes. Quite recently, actually. You're fighting a bunch of like weird had goblin things. Oh, well, how big are you? You know, I need to know how far I can throw you and how far I can twirl. Because if you're too big, I'm just going to hit the ground.

Speaker: Right. Yeah. I mean, let's say I'm five big. You're five big. Okay. Yes. Yes. We measure things in singular numbers here. So five big is pretty good because I'm about six and a half big.

Speaker: So you're you're almost as tall as me in weapon form. I kind of wish that's how we measured people on earth. What size you? I'm five big.

Speaker: Right. For real. I'm six big.

Speaker: I'm this mini. I'm 10. Yeah. I'm this mini big. um Okay. So you see someone else steps up. You see um a guy and a girl and they're standing together ah but a little bit taller than you guys, a little bit of a taller couple.

Speaker: um And the woman turns into a, Like just a giant ass broadsword, um like a little bit bigger than what she is. So she's about seven big compared to you.

Speaker: um And the guy who's wielding her is also about seven big. So she's about his size and he looks over at you and he winks, ah but doesn't say a thing and just like starts holding onto the hilt, getting ready to run into the to the obstacle course and just start cutting away.

Speaker: What do you do? wink back, menacingly. Oh, you menacingly wink? And he looks back and then he winks even harder at you. I wink even harder. And you guys just get into a wink off until at least a judge comes over goes, hey hey hey, hey, save the winks for the battlefield, guys. Come on.

Speaker: I'll extend my winks. So you extend your winks? Yes. And the guy goes, okay, fine. Like, we're cool. Okay, geez, chill.

Speaker: um Mr. Steal Your Girl over there? God damn. um um And then they, so essentially you guys are on the running obstacle course. So you have to run through, cut different things. You can definitely get thrown if you like, but you're in the just, you're in the run and slash, the hack and slash ah obstacle course.

Speaker: So they call for the go bell and the guy next to you, the big seven big guy, runs out with his lady in hand and just starts like clobbering onto the first dummy that he sees. What do you what do as you turn into, like as you're about to turn into yourself and you talk to Marg who is wielding you?

Speaker: Right. So I believe in you. Just or run in as fast as you can through there and I'll help you with like getting the swing. She picks you up by your legs, like before you even transform and just starts running into the obstacle course.

Speaker: She goes, you better get ready. You better get ready. Extend for me, daddy. like i Extend. Extendo. Do you transform into a scythe?

Speaker: Yes. Uh, she picks you up by your feet and you turn into a scythe in her hands. Uh, and she does, like you said earlier, she twirls you around a few times and then like so throws you.

Speaker: And then you use your ability to come back to her like Mjolnir style. And she just cleaves one of the dummies completely in half, uh, with confetti bursting out of it. Um, and, uh, you see you guys are neck and neck with the guy who's wielding his girl cutting into another, um into another dummy. What do you do?

Speaker: I use my telepathic abilities and say in his brain, look over there. hot weapon All right. So let's have you do, um since I didn't have you do it for this first one, let's have you do a weird roll plus a charm roll for this next one.

Speaker: Because a charm roll is to see if you can fuck with this guy while he's running with his girl. Or 8 out of 9. You got an 8 out of 9. Okay. um I'm just going to roll 4d6s for him and then see what happens.

Speaker: So he rolled an average of 15. You have an average of 17. ah So you do a little bit better than him. So you do kind of throw him off a little bit. He looks at you again, but he has his eyes closed because he thinks that you're going to wink at him and then he forgets that you're not in human form him anymore. um And he goes, ah, dang it. And so he slows down a little bit and you can hear his wife's thoughts. She's like, you idiot, focus or I'm not going to the forge with you later.

Speaker: And he goes, oh, damn it. And so he falls a little bit behind. So you get first dibs at the slash. So describe what this next dummy looks like, what you do to this next dummy as you instruct Marg on what to do.

Speaker: So this next dummy that's like in the middle, um I want you to throw me again because that's way faster than running. And then I'll slice it them in half.

Speaker: Okay, I'm going to throw you real hard. You want me to throw you horizontal or perpendicular or horizontal or vertical? Whatever you like. All right, i'm want to throw you straight up so you can slice him right down the... right down the... split his brain in half.

Speaker: Good idea. So she just, like, she does she does a little bit of flourish on her own. She jumps up and clicks her heels and then throws you before she hits the ground. um And, yeah, you cut right through the middle of this thing, and then you swing back. And scream with a mouth of fatality.

Speaker: Fatality! Everybody goes, woo! Verbal points! um and ah And his brain explodes in more confetti, ah raining a bunch of, like... uh just like different colored jewels and gems all over the ground um and then you see uh the guy who's in competition with you takes his his lady broadsword and then just like heaves it with both hands overhead at the final target at the back of the obstacle course it's like a big kind of orc looking monster uh it's a big target and he just wants to destroy it in one fell swoop and he just chucks

Speaker: the broadsword uh and you have another one and so the goal is to hit the same target so that's the last one and he's trying to get it before you what do you do um i thought it was already last one that's why i said throw me but and no you have one more to go guess i'll teleport back to her then and then do reverse teleportation so she's here no that doesn't work um Just throw me again, but even harder.

Speaker: Just throw me harder is your instruction. Right. She says, this isn't much of a slashing thing. Like, even if we get there late, I could do a cool combo or something. Come on. I mean, if you can get there in time, then you can do that as well.

Speaker: Okay. So, you know what? What if I do this? What if I throw it and try to deflect her, you know, the lady sword? You know, that's a good thing. That's a good idea. Let's try and deflect them. All right. I'm going rely on you to steer it, though.

Speaker: Yes. So she just kind of blindly throws it and then just like kicks in the high gear, the flash style and just like sprints towards the um the orc statue, the orc figure and just yells out to you. She goes, get back here quick, baby. Because she already has her hands ready to receive you like once you deflect. So let's have you roll a sharp roll and then a kick some ass roll.

Speaker: A sharp roll. o Oh, no, a four. And a five. Oh, no. So I'll use a lock on which one.

Speaker: um Because the the sharp role is to deflect, ah to interfere, and the tough role is to like lean in and like really do damage to the target.

Speaker: um Let's do to the deflect role because that seems more... important right now. That's a good call. That's a good call. I like that. Okay, so it looks like you miss. Like, you fly... you She throws you too hard.

Speaker: You fly past. You miss the sword, but right before she connects, you summon yourself back towards her, ah and you deflect her back onto the ground. And you hear her go, ugh!

Speaker: Dick. um And then you land in Marg's hands and she goes to swing and she accidentally hits the target with your um with your um shaft instead of with your blade.

Speaker: So I'll turn back and into human form, jump into the air, and then try to ah rain down onto the target.

Speaker: Oh, you just kind of like wield yourself. Right. that's Okay. Don't think it says anything in the rules that it is not allowed. It's true. It doesn't say you can't. um And then you see the sword lady goes, oh, yeah. And she turns back into herself and like starts trying to climb up the thing.

Speaker: um And the guy's like, what are you doing? And they start arguing in the middle of the battlefield. um Sorry. All right. Let's just give it a straight. I'll let you pick the stat that you want to wield. Let's roll a weird.

Speaker: With weird. All right. Go for your weird, buddy. weird action. Okay. An 11. An 11. Holy shit. So you jump up in the air and you swing yourself down and Marg grabs the base. She's like crazy strong and she grabs the base of this orc figure and chucks it up in the air like while you come down and the combined energy of her lift and your drop in gravity just cleaves this thing in half and just a bunch of gems come spewing out of it. Fireworks start erupting.

Speaker: Everybody goes absolutely fucking nuts and just starts chanting your name. Um... And then I wink at my competitor. Huh? Then I wink at my competitor. You wink you wink in scythe.

Speaker: um And ah you see they look a little bit forlorn, but then they go, ah, we had fun. And they walk off. They're not that pissed off about it. And then Marg like picks you up and says, all right, show me your face, little guy.

Speaker: Turn back into human. We did it. And she like presses her forehead against yours, and you feel like kind of like a a fiery 4G warmth between the two of you as she does it. um Yay. And she goes, oh, i I too am having the feeling of yay.

Speaker: It's great feeling. I really like it. Ah, it is. Let's do this again sometime. Yeah, we should. I can also invite you to my new home that I have now. Oh, you got a pad? Let's go. do you have a forge in there?

Speaker: Sick. party at Rock's house. Somebody goes, yeah, party at Rock's house. Hell yeah. All these people line up to follow you to your house. Hey guys, what's going on? You hear somebody goes, party at Rock's house.

Speaker: Oh, seriously? Yeah, let's all get it. Wait a second. Wait a second. Robots. Robots.

Speaker: ah References I get. Oh my God. All right. We're going to keep track of your, um, your spend of luck, which yours is a flaw or burden comes up later, Adrian. So i have to talk about that later since you use some luck.

Speaker: Mm hmm. So everybody goes back to Bill slash Rock's house. so Well, they all just file pile into ah rocks part of the addition.

Speaker: um But they have to go through Bill's place to get to it. Hey, hey stop. Stop hooking that that that. that Stop hooking up the ah stove up.

Speaker: Yeah, and effect but we need it. There's not enough for all of us. Oh, my God. Hey, no, put those letters down. But I need to light it up. Blueberry muffins, anyone? No, put them Put them down. Put them down.

Speaker: I'll take a blueberry muffin. Excuse me, you're blue. Do you have any more muffins, blueberries, sir? Wait, you got blue? i got muffins? I got blueberry muffins?

Speaker: Everybody just stops and like there's like a record scratch and I go, yes, I don't. Oh, and then usually kicks back on and they start jumping and flailing and everybody does what they call the gravy where they start doing like the arm flails.

Speaker: Wait, oh, you like it now, huh? We like it ironically.

Speaker: um And so you guys all have a party at Rock's house. Good job. That's what we're in the session for today, folks. Good job, everyone. This was all improvised, by the way. None of this was planned.

Speaker: I gave them three options before this episode started, and it wasn't this one. um was kind of none of the none of the options. It was none of the options, and it turned out beautiful. That just goes to show the power of how good these guys are at improvising silly shit for your entertainment.

Speaker: um So you too, Adam. Thanks, man. Party at Bill's house. Party at Bill's house. Party at Rock's house. we got so much done today. Somebody got a new weapon. Somebody got a new house. Somebody got a new addition.

Speaker: Rock kind of has a little girlfriend thing going on. um That's cute. And a couple of luck specials were triggered. So I just need to remember that you did them so I can make them come into play next time.

Speaker: um So, hey, anyway, folks, we're just going to cut this really short because we're almost at two hours, if you can believe it. So ah thank you all for listening. If you want to support the show, go to Kofi.com slash fun installers if you want to give us a little something something. There's also commissions you can do on there if you want some music, if you want some art pieces.

Speaker: And go to funnestallersnetwork.biz if you know somebody who's a voice actor and they want to do some practices. I put in some characters and some images on there if you want to practice some lines. Or if you just want to say hi to the people on the show, we have a little message button as well. And links to all of our fun friends from Role Players Guild to um pretty much everything Cass has been up to you with the narration and the podcast. And she's just fucking all over the place, dog.

Speaker: And then you yoga you can see a really handsome picture of Adrian on there if you want to like see how cute he is. um Yeah. You know, we're all there. um And David's been coaching me on how to like maybe make a better version of the website down the road. So you'll see some additions eventually. So um that's it. And so to end the episode, we're going to have Adrian say something really inspiring to send us out.

Speaker: Go ahead, Adrian. Take this alone. It takes you. It's dangerous to go alone. Take this with you. It's dangerous to go alone. That's exactly how it goes.

Speaker: Does it look good already?