Nightmare Party

Nightmare Party - The Tunnel

Ryan Beil, Mark Little, Kevin Lee, and Mark Chavez Season 1 Episode 11

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A new batch of heroes escape prison through a tunnel.

SPEAKER_10

Welcome back to Nightmare Party, all you Nightmare Party heads out there. And you know what? We're I'm just so, so ecstatic. I'm excited because I think you know how like uh the political pundits will be like, today's the day Donald Trump finally became the president of the United States. Last episode was finally the day. Finally, a time to get excited, everybody. Finally.

SPEAKER_05

Finally, everybody, let's get excited. Because this is how we wanted things to be.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, last episode was finally the episode where we s we started playing DD, and I'm just I I'm through the moon. How are you guys all feeling? We'll do a little bit of a channel.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I think I get it now. It's like I understand it a little bit better now.

SPEAKER_15

Dungeons and characters and creatures and grounded, grounded in fantasy stuff.

SPEAKER_10

Fantasy stuff, you know? Like it's just sort of like you have monsters and traps and I I'm just I'm tingling. I'm just I'm just gonna be. I'm feeling quite sexual about it all. No, I'm not. I'm feeling just excited. I'm just feeling excited. And so just a quick recap. Uh so your three characters who met in prison for doing nefarious things. Will Pumpkin, played by Mark L. Stole the pig. Mark C. A guy named Shane, a rough and tumble human guy, as we called it. Um you hit like the town watch. You hit a cop in the face. And then Kevin, you're playing um a character named Ryan Beal, who is a dwarf who is a prankster. But his main prank is kind of sort of flashing people.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, I mean he's in he's in jail for indecent exposure, but he's looking to branch out. Um and he also, I just want everyone to know he also cheats on his taxes. Nice. On his Canadian taxes. Pranking the system. No, remember, no, no, remember.

SPEAKER_05

We are Brian Beale cheats on his Canadian taxes. That's what I want to do. Please I don't need the CRA.

SPEAKER_07

Any more down my neck than they already are. So do we have Canadian taxes in the system? No, right.

SPEAKER_10

No, no, no. So well, we have we have taxes, but remember, we're really trying to keep keeping the taxes. How does the taxes work? Okay, well, taxes well, like in Robin Hood or or other stuff. A guy comes around and is like, gimme your taxes. Yeah, I think so. I think you know, like the local lords and ladies will demand their taxes.

SPEAKER_15

Taxes is kind of protection money, isn't it? Because we pay the government like protection money, so we have like cops that come around and be like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_10

Kevin's gone woke. Yeah. It's a systematic.

SPEAKER_05

Starting off with this ideal scenario where Trump gets voted into office and now calling me out for going woke. What's going on with you, Ryan? Where have you been? Taxes are woke. No, I'm teasing, of course, Kevin.

SPEAKER_10

Kevin isn't Kevin's nowhere near woke. What? Where am I? We're having fun here, guys. Go asleep. Um you're all wonderful. Kevin, you're wonderful. You're the most wonderful.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, it's enough. It's enough. We're alright. We're all this fantasy. Let's fantasy this out.

SPEAKER_10

So we're fantasy. So there are taxes, but it's not necessarily Canadian taxes, remember? So we're gonna do our best to be fantasy oriented. Okay? Do our best. We're gonna do our best to keep that uh uh as best we can. Okay, so we're in the tunnel. I think you knocked out the guard. You did something with the guard, you got his keys. Uh and now you're you're in this like this tunnel, it's a very dark ahead. It's dusty. Um drip, drip, drip of condensation on the walls.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, you in front of me or behind me? You're pushing me. Oh, that's you? I thought I had my hand in a in a bowl of of jello. What's going on? I'm loose.

SPEAKER_03

I'm loose, I'm soft. I'm barely solid.

SPEAKER_15

Hey, wanna see what else is barely solid? Check this out. That's actually my butt. That's awesome. Just flasted butt. That's my flat. It takes a lot to get my butt on.

SPEAKER_07

You know what? You know what, Will Pumpkin? I got a nickname for you. I'm gonna start calling you pudding because you're so soft. Wait, wait. Right.

SPEAKER_15

And the way you keep hitting them up the up the fairway there, I'm gonna start calling you gold neck.

SPEAKER_11

We did a hard reset.

SPEAKER_10

I like this little, like, this is maybe just like a little bit for the audience because they've been following along, but we're not we're not going back to this character, so characters are gone.

SPEAKER_15

And the way that my pubic hair is shaved in a crucifix. I'm gonna call myself Jesus Christ. Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_10

Up ahead, in the darkness, you see two bright eyes. And then they're gone. Oh. You know when you see like uh a cat in the nighttime or something? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I saw something. I think we should go back to the dungeon.

SPEAKER_07

What? No, we got one direction to go, and that's this way. I can't go back. I'm not going back to jail. Keep moving forward.

SPEAKER_03

Something up there, something ferocious. Could be a cat, dog, mouse, could be a guy. Oi, I've got social anxiety. Come on. Don't make me talk to a guy.

SPEAKER_06

Just move forward. Come on. Go forward.

SPEAKER_10

I'm just I'm back here. Am I in the middle? You can you decide how how what's your because it is kind of a single file tunnel. It's quite cramped. It's tight. You're kind of like you're slouching down a little bit, like it's not a lot of room in there. Well, we can kind of walk we're but we're not like crawling. You're not crawling, but you're like you're in a crouch position, which is probably bad for you. Like if you have bad knees or if you're like you know, for bad knees. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it.

SPEAKER_03

I don't have caps on them. You don't have kneecaps. No caps. How'd it happen? You never forgot to be.

SPEAKER_10

You hear uh ahead of you where the eyes were, now you hear some scurrying movement back and forth. You for sure there's for sure something ahead in the darkness about I would say 20 or 30 meters out of it.

SPEAKER_03

I'm going back to the dungeon. How dark is it in here?

SPEAKER_10

So dark. It's like pitch black.

SPEAKER_15

I want to reach around to pick up a rock to defend myself. Can I like roll to do that?

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, roll to pick up a rock. That's gr that's a great roll. Roll to pick up a rock. A great roll. I rolled a two. You do not find a rock. Okay, I actually grab Chain some.

SPEAKER_15

I grabbed Chain's butt cheek instead. Okay, yeah. And I'm like, uh this rock's soft kind of hard, and it's got a it's got a hole in the side.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, so we're we've we're finding out that checking my oil. You've got a hole in the side of your buttons. Is that true? Are they injun? What's that? Is that true, Chain? Do you have a hole in the side of your butt?

SPEAKER_15

I just thought meant like the butthole. I think he was just one cheek. Oh, I see. You put your finger up the butthole, I see. Okay.

SPEAKER_10

Maybe you have a big dimple or something like that.

SPEAKER_15

Did I roll it to see if I did that? Yep.

SPEAKER_10

Eight. Yeah, you put your finger. Okay. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_05

I mean this is DD, baby. We're playing it pure now.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, I'm gonna pull out my sword.

SPEAKER_10

What? You have a sword? In jail? Did you take that from the the prison guard? Yes. Or did you hide it? I hid it.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. Okay, no, I'm gonna reach.

SPEAKER_15

I'll uh I'm gonna Well, what's like a DD like prison shiv like style thing? Like what what did you maybe you made some D virtually?

SPEAKER_10

Okay, once you roll for what kind of shiv you have, and I'll tell you how good or bad it is and what it's kind of made of and what it looks like. Give me a roll. My virtual seven. Seven? Okay, it's not great. Um what's um what's worse than a spoon? Yeah. A butt. A butt? A butt. It's a spatula. Or a or a ladle. It's a ladle. It's a ladle. It's a ladle that's a little bent. Yeah, and you've sort of you've sort of like tried to sharpen the top of the ladle as best you can, but it's mostly just a ladle still.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

In my former life, I was a waiter, so I found this ladle. Come on, pudding. Keep moving forward.

SPEAKER_15

Obviously, the oldest. And then I st and I start I start being like, oh, something's wrong with my butt. And I start skidding it on the ground, like scooting it, you know.

SPEAKER_07

I'm like, uh like a dog? Yeah, like a dog. Nice. So do you do you move forward towards the bad sound? Where I'm I'm pushing um Will for like a because you want Will to you're trying to get Will to be more confident. And and and I I don't want to go, I'm not going back to jail. You know, we gotta get out of here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

I mean, I just gotta find somebody to expose myself to who hasn't seen it already. Like these guys have seen my one prank. I'm like, uh, I'm out of material. So I I want to keep going forward.

SPEAKER_10

Okay. And so you guys push forward.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, I guess we just go forward.

SPEAKER_10

And as you go forward 20 meters, Will, you're in front. Yeah. A large rat, the size of maybe, I don't know, a golden doodle dog or a sort of meter.

SPEAKER_08

Jumps out of the darkness and bites Will's arm.

SPEAKER_07

Does he die? No, no, no, no. No. Okay.

unknown

Oh.

SPEAKER_07

I hit the rat with my spatula. Nice. Roll shiv. Okay, here we go. Rolling. Silado.

SPEAKER_10

Five. Doesn't it it kind of misses and hits Ryan Beale.

SPEAKER_15

Ow!

SPEAKER_10

Okay, I want to swing um Chain's butt cheek. So you're gonna use Chain's butt as a weapon.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, because that's what I had to make. Because you thought it was a rock this whole time. Oh, you've been holding.

SPEAKER_10

You thought, because his butt is quite quite like he's quite athletic, I guess. Yeah, he's like a warrior man. Yeah, he's quite like okay, great. So yeah, you okay, great. That's great. I love that. So yeah, that's that makes sense. Okay, I rolled a 13. That's good. Yeah, so you push it, it could push a chain onto the rat. Push it real good. And it knocks the rat off of Will Pumpkin's arm, but Will Pumpkin, you do have a gash in your arm. A gas.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Oh I I want to roll to give up.

SPEAKER_10

Okay, roll.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, I rolled a 14.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, that's pretty good. So you just lie down, kind of like a corpse, and you put your arms.

SPEAKER_03

Come on, I've got a gash on me. You promised me I'd get more confident. Instead, I got a gash. I've got nowhere to go now. You've experienced this and you survived.

SPEAKER_10

No, no, the rather biting his leg kind of. The rat goes for my ladle. Can I take another swipe? Of course, yes, absolutely. But the rat's going for the guy on the floor, of course. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So I'm trying to- He's going for me! He's going inside now!

SPEAKER_10

I'm gonna hit him. I'm gonna hit I'm rolling.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, he's inside me. Would you roll? One five.

SPEAKER_10

Okay, boom. You knock you knock him. You don't kill him, but you knock the rat unconscious, and it's nice. It slumps onto the legs of Will Pumpkin.

SPEAKER_03

But he's half in me. Like he's going backwards. He backed into me, but halfway in. You knocked him out when he was halfway in.

SPEAKER_07

So that's that's bad news. That's what's happening. Okay, I'm gonna have to pull him out.

SPEAKER_03

Don't just leave him.

SPEAKER_07

Ryan Beal, come here, help me out. Alright, alright. You hold on, you hold on to to Wheel Pumpkin. I'll pull the rat out. I don't know which one's which. Yeah, just find the smoother, more mashy body.

SPEAKER_15

I start grabbing, I start grabbing Chain's body.

SPEAKER_07

No, no, it's smoother, more mashy.

SPEAKER_15

Oh, mashy. Oh, alright, alright.

SPEAKER_07

There you go. Now I'll grab the rat, the hairy one. Alright. And I'll pull.

SPEAKER_15

Pull.

SPEAKER_10

Easy.

SPEAKER_15

Reroll. Rat out.

SPEAKER_10

No, no roll. You're just you're too strong in body. Yep.

SPEAKER_15

I really imagine Will Pumpkin is like a bag with like cottage cheese in it. It's like that's a full guy. There's no bones. So Will pumped.

SPEAKER_03

Mark, what's your what's your guy's what's your guy's name again, Mark? Chain. Chain. Chain.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, what is it, Will?

SPEAKER_03

I miss the rat.

SPEAKER_07

Look, once we get out of here, you're gonna be free and you can find all the rats you want. But right now I need you to be tough, alright? We got a long way to go. And it looks like there's a lot of different tunnels up ahead and we have to figure out which direction we're going.

SPEAKER_03

Are you gonna hit me?

SPEAKER_07

No. Do you want me to? No. No. You got close. It's because I couldn't f it's so dark in here. I had to see your face.

SPEAKER_03

Ah It's okay. You wanna hit me. Don't! Don't hit him! I'm not hitting him!

SPEAKER_07

He's a little boy, he's a bag of cheese. You're the lead alone!

SPEAKER_15

I'm not hitting this bag of cheese. Alright? I pick I pick a I pick a uh Will Pumpkin up on my back. I'm like, come on, you we're getting out of here. We're getting away from chain this main old bass.

SPEAKER_03

You wanted to hit me. He wants a backpack. That's right.

SPEAKER_10

I want a backpack. What's nice too is you're a dwarf, uh uh Ryan Beals. So you're kind of Will Pumpkin's legs are dragging on the ground. Yeah, well Will Pumpkin's a man? Will Pumpkin's an elf, so I think elves are at least Oh, an elf, oh yeah. So yeah, yeah, long human height, if not uh maybe a little bit taller. Yeah, kind of Lord of the Rings stuff. You know what I mean? You know, the tall, slender. And this one's quite um kind of what doughy and what do you call it? Cottage cheesy or just you know, just kind of like a bag of cottage cheeses.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, great.

SPEAKER_10

So you draped them over your shoulders, you got a little thing. Um Chain, you're kinda like dumbfounded, like you were just trying to help, and now what the heck's going on? You're the one who even knocked out the rat.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Yeah. But I kind of don't care because as long as we're moving forward, you know.

SPEAKER_10

Back behind you in the uh prison cell, you start to hear steel and like people and mumbling voices and stuff.

SPEAKER_02

Oh no, there's a claim, claim, claim, call it.

SPEAKER_10

Steel claim, clock, clean. Where's my ladle? Oh gotta keep me ladle, Black!

SPEAKER_07

Wait a second.

SPEAKER_10

Wait, look at this. This has a hole in the in the wall.

SPEAKER_03

Hole in the frickin' wall.

SPEAKER_10

Oh, you guys are doing the prison guard scene? Okay, let's see it. Let's see it. All three of you do the little prison guard stuff.

SPEAKER_13

There's a hole in the frickin' wall here. Look at this crap.

SPEAKER_07

Should probably get that fixed.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, let's fix that. All right, let's go tell. Okay, guys, can we just make a bargain here? A deal together. Let's make a bargain. Let's do a bargain. Let's not tell the warden that there's a hole in his frickin' wall, because he's gonna bite our heads off.

SPEAKER_10

What a deal. Okay, sounds good. Now you see one of your friends unconscious on the floor.

SPEAKER_15

Let's stuff him in the hole and then seal it up.

SPEAKER_10

Good idea. What? No. What?

SPEAKER_15

Oh, not a good idea. I thought we were trying to hide this thing. I thought you wanted us to hide. But you want us to not get in trouble.

SPEAKER_03

Wake him up.

SPEAKER_11

Wake up. Wake him up. Oh, they hit me on the head, they did. And they escaped into a hoe in the woe.

SPEAKER_07

How did you know that? How'd you know that second part? You were unconscious.

SPEAKER_11

Um, I guess I just sort of used seductive reasoning. Okay. All right. It's like, where else could they go? Did you did you see them go out the front door? I didn't see anything. I didn't see nothing. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02

What's going on in here? Something under the wall. And I'm sleeping with his wife. What? Oh. No, no, no. Angela! He runs back. Warden runs home to Angela. Knocks on his own door. Angela, let me in.

SPEAKER_04

I have said yes twice. Hello. Would you eat home for lunch?

SPEAKER_02

You're sleeping with the prison guards again. We talked about this.

SPEAKER_04

No, I mean how dare you! Absolutely not. I know it took a long time to rebuild our trust, but I am not sleeping with any of your prison guards.

SPEAKER_02

I left for work. I come home in the middle of the day. You weren't expecting me, but you're in a sexy robe, and there's two meals laid out on the table. Someone else is here or expected here.

SPEAKER_04

Absolutely not. I'm a little hungover. That's why I'm in my robe still, and I have two meals because it's just that type of fucking hangover, you know.

SPEAKER_07

And tomorrow. I'm coming out of the bathroom now.

SPEAKER_04

Oh no. It's the mayor.

SPEAKER_02

My God. It's the mayor.

SPEAKER_04

I'm so sorry. Please don't kill him. Please don't kill Mayor Elmore.

SPEAKER_02

The fuck?

SPEAKER_04

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02

Seems to be a miscarriage. How did I get it? I'm gonna tell him what I think.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02

I'll tell you right now, Maestor Mayor, I don't think much of you. And I don't think much of my wife either.

unknown

Oh no, darling, no.

SPEAKER_02

And honestly, I don't think much of myself.

SPEAKER_15

Tears start the rain starts to fall. And the warden runs off into the dark.

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_15

We cut to a tavern in in in Tenthir where the where the warden drowns his sorrows. Okay.

SPEAKER_10

We are gonna meet at we're gonna go to a tavern later once you guys, if you guys get out of the the the prison tunnels. So yeah, let's um uh uh Mira, the tavern keeper, and the the tavern's called the um First Stop Tavern. First stop. Okay. And Mira comes and goes, like, wait a yeah. She's uh she's she's uh covered in flour, because she's also a baker, I guess. And uh, you know, she's uh but she's no nonsense, and she runs the tavern and she comes up to Donovan, the warden, and goes, Well, I I I don't want to give you another ale, but it looks like you couldn't need one.

SPEAKER_02

Pulling double duty again today, Mira. Bakery and bartend. And a bartend.

SPEAKER_12

Someone's gonna serve the ale.

SPEAKER_02

Every morning.

SPEAKER_12

Every fucking morning. And I get up and I bake yeah, I bake bread and I make I make ale and I serve it. Every morning. I mean, yeah, like most a lot of morning. A lot of morning. I I have a lot on my plate. You know, my my no-good uh partner left me on adventuring in the Edgewood Forest outside of town where they started a dragon. Okay. Well, yeah. Gotcha. Like a cool DD for them.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah. So well, yeah, but maybe that'll come up later.

SPEAKER_02

There's an orc in the in the corner who goes, give me another ale, or I'll tear this place apart.

SPEAKER_12

Okay, Terrence. I'll you calm down.

SPEAKER_11

Please.

SPEAKER_02

Terence? Oh, Donovan. Terence, do you ever wake up in the morning and wonder if it's even worth going on? Every morning. Every morning. What a lot on my plate. It feels overwhelming, you know? Ha. So you both have said that, but I mean, I'm busy too. That's not the reason I'm let me tell you what I've got going on. My no-good partner, uh Kranga. She's gone off into the Edgewood Forest to adventure where they sighted a dragon. Leaving me to raise the children.

SPEAKER_15

And then in another corner, there's a dragon. Give me some bread.

SPEAKER_12

This fucking guy just wants bread. Okay. Hey, honey. Here's a sourdough for you.

SPEAKER_15

Oh man, my life's a living hell. We talk about sourdough. I'm like sourdough, my life!

SPEAKER_12

Truly a collection of the brokenhearted here in the first stop tavern.

SPEAKER_02

That's right.

SPEAKER_12

I guess you could say that again.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Well, there's always room for everyone at the bar. Ever there's always a bar stool or a table for whoever needs it. The mayor comes in.

SPEAKER_01

Oh shit!

SPEAKER_12

Donovan. Mayorworm. Mayor Elmworm. Mayor Elmworm.

SPEAKER_07

Mayor Elmworm. Look. I know you were seeing me at your house. Unexpected.

SPEAKER_00

Awkward.

SPEAKER_07

Is that the dragon? Is that a dragon?

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Is there a fucking dragon in this town? He goes, oh, I'm excited!

SPEAKER_02

And he finds it all shit. He is funny. He's funny. Awkward. He just keeps doing it.

SPEAKER_12

No one's ever said that before in this fancy. Like, that's the first time I've ever heard that. And that's so awkward. Psych? What?

SPEAKER_06

Psych?

SPEAKER_07

Mayor, you were saying. Not I just want to make things right. So I've uh giving you a raise, and uh we'll see about getting you some upward movement in the uh in the government system here in uh giving your wife some upward movement, if you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, dragon, listen. You're crossing a line. You're crossing a line.

SPEAKER_02

Dragon, you are so close to put you're on my last nerve.

SPEAKER_15

I'm putting the dragon dragon, everybody, because I'm dragging his ass.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. I've got I'm gonna fight that guy. I'm still waiting for my ale. I got you. Here you go.

SPEAKER_15

So he's offered a promotion and money.

SPEAKER_02

Barely fits in my tiny it's so tiny in my big hands. Anyway.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah. Okay, we this is the this is the glass where we have, okay?

SPEAKER_02

It's so tiny in my big hands. Mayor, if you think that you can pay me off with a promotion and a raise and make me forget about the heartbreak you've caused, you are absolutely right. Okay, okay. Let's wrap this up. Okay.

SPEAKER_07

So what what comes after? Like what it what's what's the next job above warden? Huh?

SPEAKER_10

Maybe you may you want to be like town, you want to come, you know, I guess it would be maybe like the the chief of police, but unless it would be like the the the head of the town watch kind of thing, maybe. Like, you know, that might be an upgrade.

SPEAKER_07

I want to be head of the town watch. Yeah. Well it's gonna be awkward because the orc over there is the head of the town watch currently, but uh, you know, I think I can get you know what, orc? You've been on my nerves, so uh, you're out. And uh you're in.

SPEAKER_15

Why don't they settle it with an arm wrestle?

SPEAKER_11

I love this guy.

SPEAKER_02

Fucking dragon. I can get dragon. You know what? You know what? I'm gonna I'm gonna check this dragon's record. I'm gonna I'm gonna see if we got any outstanding warrants for this dragon's record. I knew that! Alright, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna. You made me laugh again.

SPEAKER_07

Meanwhile, back in the back in the tunnel. Oh yeah. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00

Oh shit, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Nice. Hey guys, come on. I wasn't trying to hit Will, okay? Come on. Look! It's sunlight. Okay, now we can go that way towards the sunlight, or we can go this way towards the everlasting dark.

SPEAKER_10

There's two there's you're definitely at a crosswords, and there's also a skeleton.

SPEAKER_03

Come on, roll to Can I roll to pee myself?

SPEAKER_15

Okay, roll. Hey, wait a minute. He's on my back. Yeah, you've rolled. Well, you're but you're I I am dragging you, so I imagine that you're like genitals and all that. Your p your your piss factory is. It's gonna get on you a bit.

SPEAKER_10

We'll see how much it gets on you, but yeah. Okay. I rolled an eight. Yeah, so yeah, it you do. But you also you're wearing pants, so mostly in your pants, but you do feel something a little bit on your back. It's got a dumb and dumber style.

SPEAKER_15

Oh, what the heck? You nimdude.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, it's a slur from shots.

SPEAKER_03

Chine.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, what is it?

SPEAKER_03

Ryan Bill called me a nimdo.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, that's the baddest, meanest word in all in this town.

SPEAKER_03

I'm sorry!

SPEAKER_07

Trying to better you watch your mouth, alright. Even I'm a bit offended by that.

SPEAKER_15

Sorry, sorry. I'm a rough and tumble guy, alright? I think a joke is making people look at my my penis. It's very narrow at the at the base and very wide at the tip.

SPEAKER_07

That's right. It's a wonder it stays on.

SPEAKER_15

I know. It looks like a it looks like a drop. It looks like a skeleton.

SPEAKER_10

It's a skeleton of the crossroads. It's a skeleton. He's he's wearing prison garb, so like, you know, whatever. Because you're all wearing prison garb too. They put you in prison garb.

SPEAKER_03

A skeleton!

SPEAKER_15

Do you want a change of pants there, pumpkin? A roll to poo myself. Okay, I got I won't get him off my back. A roll to me is coming. Another eight! Another eight.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, yeah, you you do, but you pooed yourself, you nim goot. You pooped a couple- Oh, you did it now!

SPEAKER_03

Ryan Bale! That was a mini! That was Chinese called me a nimbo!

SPEAKER_07

It's not Nimboo, it's Nim, it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_15

I go, look, Chinese, let's grab the pants off this skeleton and put it on old pumpkin and skeleton. He's seeing it again. What's he gonna put out of his bottom now? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna roll to gum. No, no. I rolled an eighteen.

SPEAKER_11

Yeah, gosh. Huge, I guess.

SPEAKER_10

It just absolutely pumpkin bone no more like bodily function. So that can happen. So we've seen the skeleton. Now you said, Chain, you said you were gonna search the skeleton. Yeah, I want to search. Great, great idea. Classic DD idea. You do search a skeleton, you find his journal.

SPEAKER_15

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_10

A journal. Look for my name. Can can you all read?

SPEAKER_15

Can I roll to read? Roll to just have the ability to read. Nice. I'll do that. I won! So yeah, so Ryan Beale can't read, which is 15 again.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, you can read. You can read. Yeah, you will pumpkin and chain can read. But uh just canonically uh Ryan Beale can't read.

SPEAKER_07

Dear Diary, I have been living my life as a living skeleton. It's very hard for me. Okay, no. I'm just gonna jump.

SPEAKER_10

Thank you. Thank you. The one thing you do ascertain Actually, I think I want to uh are you gonna read the diary? Yeah, I'm gonna open it. So give me a roll to see, because you it's like full of writings and stuff. I just want to see if you find something uh uh pertinent to what's gonna happen to you. You know what I mean? Like kind of an investigation. Okay, 13? Good, yeah. In the diary on the last page, you find something that says Beware of the light.

SPEAKER_03

Oi, I wanna read it.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Hey, here you go. Have a read. Okay. Dear diary. My life as a living skeleton has been hell. Every day. Every day I wonder if it's worth it to go on. This time pressed me. My partner left me.

SPEAKER_07

My bones hurt. Wait, so I'm gonna I'm gonna route I'm gonna push the skeleton and see if it's actually still alive.

SPEAKER_10

I guess we have had the skeleton is uh living. So yeah, he goes, I was asleep. It's hard to say.

SPEAKER_09

The thing about DMing, you know, you have to do all these voices in the fly, so uh, uh, ooh, uh, I was asleep a skeleton!

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_15

Oh no, and then the skeleton poop put bones his pants. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_09

He's uh uh Mr.

SPEAKER_07

Skeleton, Mr. Skeleton, what you mean? We read your diary, sorry. I thought you were dead. Yeah, I didn't realise you was alive. But I read it. And in the end it said beware the light.

SPEAKER_09

Yes?

SPEAKER_07

It says beware the light. Yeah. What's that about?

SPEAKER_09

So yeah, great. It was gonna be kind of a trap situation, but the light is actually a living fungus that would eat you up. But the real way out is the dark way. Go down the dark tunnel.

SPEAKER_03

I don't believe him.

SPEAKER_12

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Well And are you just living?

SPEAKER_09

Like why aren't you a st no one accepts me above ground? I'm destined to be here in the tunnel. I don't need to eat. I I just need a place to do my little dances and kinda have a little nap. I hate him.

SPEAKER_07

I hate this one. Well, you gotta be nice, okay? You gotta be. I hate him. He's a stranger. We don't know him.

SPEAKER_09

I don't understand I'm the only living skeleton in all of Tantha.

SPEAKER_07

Well, why don't you come with us and join our party?

SPEAKER_09

No!

SPEAKER_07

We're an adventuring party.

SPEAKER_15

We actually have a guy in need of bones and a skeleton. It's just a bag of cottage cheese.

SPEAKER_09

So you're expressing the idea that maybe I fuse with your friend here.

SPEAKER_07

I think Will Pumpkin could wrap his self around you and finally have some bone, you know, someone's voice.

SPEAKER_03

Just mech or something like that. I won't do it. I'm going back to the dungeon. I don't want any of this. But they've already sealed up the wall.

SPEAKER_05

That's right.

SPEAKER_03

Well, I'm gonna try. He rolls a 20. He goes back. Okay, I'm gonna roll to go back to the dungeon. Okay, there was a lot of things. I rolled an 18.

SPEAKER_10

You break through a freshly sealed wall. We probably didn't go that far down. You didn't go that far down, and it's like they only recently uh uh still wet splashed it up, so like he pushed through.

SPEAKER_15

I can also imagine this character from like T1000ing like bleeding through the wall and it's like blobbing into the room. Like he's secretly the most powerful character in Earth.

SPEAKER_05

What do you two do? No design.

SPEAKER_10

Do you chase Will Pumpkin? Chain, are you how do you feel about do you want to you're kind of he's gonna be like I'm also trying to kind of protect him, so I'm gonna go run and get him.

SPEAKER_07

So this is the wrong decision. So I go back to the room.

SPEAKER_10

So you grab him? I go back.

SPEAKER_07

No, I'm gonna I'm gonna try to follow coax him.

SPEAKER_10

Okay, let's hear a little scene. Let's do a little coaxing scene between and you can go.

SPEAKER_03

I made it back to the dungeon. I'm safe here. I got my three squares.

SPEAKER_07

They're gonna they're gonna execute you. What yeah, that's what they do here. That's why we're trying to escape.

SPEAKER_01

Come on, there's nowhere to go.

SPEAKER_07

Come on. The dark hole. Come on! The skeleton told us.

SPEAKER_03

Can I confess something to you? Yeah? I've never been brave.

SPEAKER_07

Will. I don't believe that. You wrestled with the rat, you had it inside you, you had it taken out, you saw a skeleton three different times, and you pee-pooed and ejaculated. That's brave. Come on, I want to see you be more brave. Look, you have a wound on your arm. That's a battle scar. That's exciting, right? I guess. Come on, Will. Let's go.

SPEAKER_10

Does that convince you, Will Pumpkin?

SPEAKER_03

I rolled to see if it convinced me, and I rolled a five.

SPEAKER_11

So it did not convince him.

SPEAKER_03

You're good at talking, but I don't believe you.

SPEAKER_10

So Ryan Beale, do you want to have a try?

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, for sure. I come back. I'm like Will. You're brave because you stole a pumpkin. I mean a pig.

SPEAKER_10

It was a pig, yeah. A whole pig.

SPEAKER_15

You stole a pig! Who steals a pig? That's brave. Pigs are big. It's obvious when you're stealing a pig. You could have stolen something smaller. You could have shown someone your peca. Hidden it right away. Right away. Like a coward. That's what I do. I don't steal a pig. If I were you, I could have been brave enough to steal a pig, put it under my coat, and then flash people with it.

SPEAKER_03

I rolled a one.

unknown

Damn it!

SPEAKER_15

I thought I was doing pretty well for a second there.

SPEAKER_10

So uh verbal uh uh persuasion is not gonna work on Will Pumpkin. If you want Will Pumpkin to come with you, I think you're gonna have to physically drag him. Or I guess you could leave him in the prison and some.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I'm taking him. We hope this is for your own good. I'm gonna pick him up and just grab him.

SPEAKER_10

He's so pathetic and you're so strong, Chang. We've established you're like a very strong muscular body. You just drag Will Pumpkin with you. Awesome. I love this fantasy.

SPEAKER_07

Let's go. So I carry him, and we go through to the dark tunnel.

SPEAKER_15

Maybe like a s maybe like a sweater, you actually like tie his like arms like around your shoulders, you know what I mean? Like when you pull the sweater around your side, and then you're gonna get away. You're on a yacht. Yeah, his arms are tied around like the arms of a sweater.

SPEAKER_10

You you walk down the hallway, uh, you're following to uh Ryan Beal.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, I think I'm actually ahead because I think he went he went back.

SPEAKER_09

And the skeleton's like, I'm not gonna come with you guys. I'm happy down here. Believe me, they don't like me up there.

SPEAKER_15

And I go, Okay. Uh as a parting gift, thank you so much, and I give them a thank you flash. Ooh.

SPEAKER_07

And I say, Skeleton, this is for your own good. And I grab the skeleton. You call shit. What the hell?

SPEAKER_15

But do you fuse him into uh tie him around my body?

SPEAKER_10

I'm gonna also I I know you're strong, but now it's two people, so I I'm gonna need a roll for if you can so grab the skeleton. The skeleton's not as pathetic as Will Pumpkin. Natural one. Okay, yeah, you don't. You you it goes, you grab his arm and then you do a little joke about how you grabbed his arm and it came off his skeleton body.

SPEAKER_07

I say, um, God, I hand it to you. Yes. You you are uh you're you're an armful. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Uh let's kill how about we keep him out of arm's way and let's get going.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, that's very humorous.

SPEAKER_15

That's a leg.

SPEAKER_07

That's very no, femur is the leg.

SPEAKER_15

Isn't humorous? Oh, yeah. Uh yeah, I don't think. So you go to the skeleton! Oh no.

SPEAKER_07

And then he There's nothing left here we just gets blasts out of his ears.

SPEAKER_10

Um, you've peed, you pooed. Do you throw up? Yeah. Oh, we forgot about throw up. So roll the throw up.

SPEAKER_03

I wrote to throw up. I roll to 19. It's big, huge, it's tangent.

SPEAKER_10

It's nuts. It's fucking nuts. It's all over to every it's uh everywhere. Everyone's covered in vomit.

SPEAKER_07

Ah sorry. Oh, it's a mess. You got it all over the skeleton, you got it in Ryan Beal's mouth. So that's just gonna be this. Oh shit, I'm attacked.

SPEAKER_10

Like you're all covered in vomit. Oh god. So like whatever happens in the next little while, like until you clean yourself up, you have kind of the distinct stench.

SPEAKER_07

So I'm you're gonna roll the throw up now?

SPEAKER_10

Well, because of the smell and like you're one of those. Okay, roll I guess. Oh, chain is. Me, I like thank you for playing your character. Yeah. Me, you like you said you like you rolled six. You're able to not throw up. Okay.

SPEAKER_15

All right.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god, you almost threw up. That's gonna make me throw up.

SPEAKER_15

He says that's like barf still kind of leaking out of his mouth and stuff. Like you're barely throwing up. Which way are we going? Are we heading into the dark? Is that what we're doing?

SPEAKER_10

We're gonna allow one more throw-up roll from a roll to one. Did did not throw up. Okay, good. Oh, that would that would have been awful. So you remember it was a crossroads, there's the light and then the dark tunnel in in Skeleton Guy's uh journal, and he also admitted um there's the there's the it's he claims it to be a trap going towards the light. He's saying like to get out here you gotta go down the dark tunnel and you'll find a hatch to get out of the I don't know why we've gone this way.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know why we trusted the skeleton.

SPEAKER_07

Cuz what we got to lose? What's it what's in it for him? You know? What's in it for you?

SPEAKER_03

And where they feast on us and take our flesh, and then the skeletons can walk among the living again.

SPEAKER_07

That's actually quite quite convincing. Yeah, it's actually a pretty good one. We should go for the light. Let's go to the city. It's me again. Uh the hell?

SPEAKER_10

No, it's just me. I'm the only one. So now you are coming with us. I just heard I heard someone speak about me, and I'd like to respond. So I think that's well within my rights. That if I hear you talking about me, I can respond.

SPEAKER_12

And I gotta tell you, there's no community. It's just me.

SPEAKER_09

I live down here in the in the prison tunnels. I know which way is right. You gotta go down the dark tunnel. Skeleton! Oh no, Skeleton, you've gotta get out of here, guy. Dang it. You already barfed. Now what?

SPEAKER_15

His hair falls out uh like a like a pup like a porcupine. Maybe he loses his hair. A roll to nate.

SPEAKER_10

Oh, a little bit of hair, a little bit of like some hair. You're kind of like, you're kind of like, you know, it's more like you're kind of like going through your hair. So you rip a little bit of your hair out. But he's telling us.

SPEAKER_07

Rip a bit of my hair. Yeah. He's been through it. Okay, what what do you guys think?

SPEAKER_15

I say we we flip a coin or flip a That's a good idea.

SPEAKER_07

You're gonna flip a coin?

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, I reach into my pocket and I pull out a coin. Great. You have a coin on you. You've hidden a coin.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, here I go. Heads.

SPEAKER_10

You're actually gonna flip a coin? Yeah. Oh, nice mark. Heads. Heads.

SPEAKER_07

It's like a silver. No, it's a Cassani. Uh, it's from Costa Rica. Cass. Cassano. Cassani. Uh that's tails. Butterflies, tails.

SPEAKER_13

But in this world, it's called uh Tetherino. Tetherino. Tetherino, I don't know. I got this Tetherino.

SPEAKER_10

Thank you, Mark L. That's great. Of course.

SPEAKER_03

And on one side it's the qu it's the king. Yeah, the king.

SPEAKER_10

What's the king's name? Guys, this might come up later. What's the king's name? Ricky Tenthorino. Ricky Tenthorino. He's named after the currency. The currency is named Ricky Dollar. Ricky Dollar. Ricky dollars.

SPEAKER_07

Our own Robert De Niro. Okay. King Ricky. King Ricky. King Ricky. Ricky.

SPEAKER_10

I like King Ricky. I think that kind of works in the fantasy filter. King Ricky spelled a little bit differently than our like.

SPEAKER_07

So King's King's Head, which is in this world, the 50, is we is we go to the dark tunnel. The butterfly, or the Queen's head, is light.

SPEAKER_10

I just want to say you do have a lot of evidence that the light way is wrong. Like you're worried about that being alive.

SPEAKER_07

There's this like walking talking skeleton. Okay, fair enough.

SPEAKER_10

Fair enough. Why should we talk about that? I just want to let you know from a DM's perspective, it was never supposed to be a walking talking skeleton. Yeah, but we don't know that.

SPEAKER_07

That would be gaming the system, you know? Like we can't game it.

SPEAKER_15

Fair enough. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_07

He did walk. He did talk. That's meta-knowledge that we as characters have confirmation four times over.

SPEAKER_15

Piss, shit, and hair loss.

SPEAKER_07

Bar five. Yeah. For real. That's a little bit. For real. Okay, for real. Flip your coin. Flipping the coin. Oh, I caught it too. It's the king's head. Which way is that? So that was the light.

SPEAKER_00

Oh shit. Good. Yes. That's what I wanted. Awesome.

SPEAKER_10

We rolled a tethering.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah. Let's go to the light.

SPEAKER_10

You go towards the light. You go down the end of the hallway, and there is like what looks like just like a bright light opening at the top of the opening of the tunnel. This is clearly the right way. Yeah, I'll reach up. Okay. Ryan Beale reaches up. These seven or eight kind of bioluminescent tentacles come out, go and suddenly like, remember how before you were like stuck with a your handcuffed to a wall. Now Ryan Beel's hand is being sucked and you're being pulled up into this weird kind of now. It's like a bright light mouth.

SPEAKER_07

It's going, hmm mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm. Oh no. I grab his leg.

SPEAKER_15

It's an awkward time to admit this, but I cheat on my taxes every year.

SPEAKER_07

I try to pull him out.

SPEAKER_10

He haven't been pulled up yet. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Or may you know I I grab his arm and I try to like yank.

SPEAKER_10

So you're trying to yank him? Yeah. Absolutely. Okay, let's still let's let's hear a roll. I rolled a 16. Come on, Chain. Oh, nice. Okay, great. You get him up, but he's still he's he's been held by his fingertips like this these three days.

SPEAKER_07

I take the label and I start hitting the bioluminescent.

SPEAKER_13

I'd like I'd like to roll to mourn him prematurely. Give me a roll. Okay. I rolled a 15.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, you start you start doing an obituary while Chain is like trying to save his life.

SPEAKER_03

Ryan Bale was a good man. I didn't know him that well, but what I knew I liked. He was mischievous. He gave of himself to the world and made us laugh. He showed himself. Do you hit with him with your ladle there, uh?

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, here I go. Give me it. Here we go. Ten. Yeah, he's still cut.

SPEAKER_03

He died horribly. What? Yanked into the netherworld by a creature none of us could have foreseen.

SPEAKER_10

The skeleton comes down the hall. Remember the living talking skeleton? He comes down the hall and he has a little knife and he cuts the tentacles. He goes, Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It's a trap. The skeleton's trying to take us to his community. Quick into the tentacles. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_10

That's where I call alive. So the skeleton has saved you, Ryan Beal, but you look at your head and it's kind of glowing in a weird way. Oh, what's going on?

SPEAKER_15

What the hell? I wish I had this on my penis, and then if I flashed people, it would be a real flash.

SPEAKER_06

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_15

You probably could.

SPEAKER_10

Oh, I got I got we'll poke it with that one. Journal was true. You gotta go down the dark hallway if you want to get out of here. Otherwise you can live down here with me, and that's fine.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Maybe. I don't trust you, skeleton. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Thank you, Chain.

SPEAKER_15

You're welcome.

SPEAKER_12

Skeleton, what's your name? Eh. Eh.

SPEAKER_15

Nice to meet you, eh?

SPEAKER_07

I opened the journal and looked for his name. Uh If lost, please return to Bonesy McRaddles.

SPEAKER_15

Wow, that's a lucky name.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_10

Thanks, Bonesy.

SPEAKER_15

What happened to my hand? What does this mean?

SPEAKER_10

It's a mystery. But your ha your hand is like glowing like wow.

SPEAKER_07

We've got to get that checked out.

SPEAKER_10

Kind of like a black light, sort of like, you know, like it's a very bright, very neon, very like.

SPEAKER_07

I would say we should go into a clinic where they can see you, but you don't pay your taxes, you know. Like very nice.

SPEAKER_03

I've got two I think we've got two options.

SPEAKER_07

What is it?

SPEAKER_03

One. One. We persist in pursuing the exit through the light. Hoping that that was a one-off snag. I could see the mouth. Two, we return to the dungeon and just accept our fate.

SPEAKER_07

Because it's not as scary. It's quite scary, and they're gonna be extra mad at us for trying to escape, and then they'll torture you.

SPEAKER_15

Execute us real hard.

SPEAKER_07

They'll torture you and then execute you. We gotta go. We gotta s we gotta get out of this tunnel. Okay, then let's go into the light. No, it it's a mouth. It's a living creature that wants to eat us.

SPEAKER_10

We can use my hand as a light source to get down into the tunnel. That's true. You do have this kind of like built-in flashlight now in your hand, Ryan Biork.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, but promise me one thing. What? If it's a community of skeletons, and they try to take our skin so they can re-enter the land of the living. Uh-huh. Let me say I told you so. Laura! I think that would be only fair.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah. Yeah. That would be actually really cool. I actually wish I thought of that. That would be really fun. I can be your skeletons looking too. Well, it could still happen. No, no. Okay. I plan this. I'm gonna stick to my plan. I'm gonna be a good DM.

SPEAKER_07

With um with Ryan Beal in the lead, we go into the dark tunnel.

SPEAKER_10

And is um is uh Will Pumpkin still tied to you like uh like a sweater?

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Okay, just unless Will has something to say about that.

SPEAKER_15

No, I like it.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

He's comfortable now.

SPEAKER_10

Okay, great. So you go down the dark tunnel.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, we're going down the tunnel. What was the skeleton's name against Ray and right? Something stupid.

SPEAKER_07

Bonesy McRattles.

SPEAKER_15

Oh, Bonesy McRattles. Bonesy McRattles said something. Bye guys. That's you needed the name. Okay. Bonesy McGrath. Okay.

SPEAKER_05

So Bonesy McRattle says, Bye guys. Hi, Tanks.

SPEAKER_14

Hello, gentlemen. Welcome to Skeleton Village. Absolutely done.

SPEAKER_11

Absolutely done. Absolutely done. I'm rolling.

SPEAKER_10

I'm rolling to see if Skeleton Village exists. Okay, you all have to roll. Okay. Oh. You all have to roll. Okay, I'm rolling two. It has to be a big group roll to see if the I rolled 11. I rolled a nine. So so for a total of 20. So yeah, no, it doesn't exist. Alright. Goodbye, gentlemen. I was just kidding. You find a hatch, and uh, Ryan Beale's hand lights up a hatch, and it it's like you could just twist it once, and then clearly you can open it up and it leads to somewhere. So that's where you're at. Okay.

SPEAKER_07

There's a hatch. Ryan Beale, your hand illuminated it. You can open it up, it'll lead to somewhere.

SPEAKER_15

I'm gonna touch it to see if it's hot in case there's a fire.

SPEAKER_07

That's a good idea. Have you ever seen Aft uh uh Backdraft?

SPEAKER_10

Aftraft? Nope. Backdraft doesn't exist. Make it fantasy. Make it fantasy. Do you ever see ever see the the firewatch play? Firewatch play. Describe it. And and do you know the story of Backdraft?

SPEAKER_03

Is that that movie about firefighters?

SPEAKER_10

There's no movie. It's maybe a play or a traveling company of entertainers, but they do the the plot of backdraft.

SPEAKER_03

Just kidding.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I do remember the plot of backdraft. Looks like you're looking it up. Oh yeah. It was an action drama about a Chicago, or in this case, a shy Gigo. Shygo. Firefighter brothers, Stephen and Brian McAfee, who grapple with sibling rivalry while hunting a serial arsonist using a deadly oxygen-induced chemical, uh, which is called tri trichitochlorate.

SPEAKER_10

Was the pig that Will Pumpkin stole in that as well?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, great. That pig is famous. In Firewatch? Yeah. Firewatch. Yeah, yeah. Is the in universe version of Backdraft.

SPEAKER_03

Maybe I stole the pig to ransom him. Yeah. Hold hostage.

SPEAKER_07

I think famous pig.

SPEAKER_10

You might have that pig held haunted somewhere, maybe. In the real world.

SPEAKER_07

Still got him. I think I think Will Pumpkin is a long he's doing a long con. That's just my theory. Interesting. No.

SPEAKER_15

Little Kaiser Soze action? Yeah. Interesting. No. Do you open the hatch? Does anyone open the hatch?

SPEAKER_10

It's not hot. It's not fire. It's there's no home aloneing happening.

SPEAKER_15

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_10

Okay. And you come up into the dogstone tavern.

SPEAKER_07

Right into the tavern?

SPEAKER_10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Just the hatch in the middle of the mirror. It's like, what the hell's going on back here?

SPEAKER_15

Well, we're back. We're back in the uh bakery area. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

And then you hear, you hear out in the bar area, you hear, you damn dragon, I should knock your lights out for what? Uh no, wait. Who am I mad at? Who's the warden mad at? The the mayor head of the warden.

SPEAKER_07

Yes. He was mad at the dragon.

SPEAKER_10

Terrence the Orc, who was the former head of the watch. Yeah. The mayor promoted the warden. And the dragon's just there doing classic kind of 90s catchphrases that nobody You got it, dude!

unknown

You got it.

SPEAKER_02

I I told you once, I told you a hundred times, Dragon, stop chiming in. This is serious business. And the orc, what? The orc's like, how could you demote me to warden of prison? I was a good uh head of the watch.

SPEAKER_10

And these ale cups are so small in my big hands. Do you guys so Mira just goes like she kind of gives you a wink and goes like, Yeah, might want to get out there. Get out there? I don't know. I think she's like, she's used to people coming up through this tunnel. Yeah. I think this is not new to her, and she's also kind of like, you know, she's a woman who wears many hats. And so I think maybe she knows about this tunnel and she's cool with the fact that prisoners escaped there. I don't know. She's maybe she maybe she's a little bit on the black market, you know what I mean? Right. Maybe she's a little bit outside of the uh the the rules and laws of the town. And she's she kind of nods towards the fight happening. She goes, like, you three look like three strong boys. You might want to get out there. I look at my ass kicked.

SPEAKER_07

I look at Miracle. Let's go back in the hole. Hey, honey. How are the kids?

SPEAKER_04

You're married to Mira?

SPEAKER_12

Oh shit, Jane! But my partner was supposed to go to the Edgewood forest. She says the dragon. Oh, maybe she's my ex.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah. Yeah. My new partner. He's way better than you.

SPEAKER_03

His name's two exes.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Acrimony.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah. Oh man. This is like a flash of personal trauma.

SPEAKER_07

I see you've made classic a couple new friends. Yeah, this sweater vest guy I'm wearing. This is Will Pumpkin. He's got no bones. Uh he's a bit mashy. I'm trying to teach him the ropes of how to be cool and strong. And this guy over here is working.

SPEAKER_11

Yeah, I hope you have a good teacher system because that's not going to help.

SPEAKER_07

Well, you know. Would you say? It's work in progress.

SPEAKER_11

I just know this guy.

SPEAKER_10

We're intimate.

SPEAKER_11

We have kids. Yeah. He's not he's not cool. He's not good. I'm good, I'm cool, I'm good.

SPEAKER_07

I've changed a lot since we broke up. And this here, this is a prankster. Ryan, be careful. He's gonna flash you.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, maybe if maybe maybe you've seen this baguette and it'll give you a rise. And I flash.

SPEAKER_12

Hey, yay, yay.

SPEAKER_15

Sorry, this dough is a little soft right now.

SPEAKER_12

Looks like you've got yourself a nice fun new little group there, Chain.

SPEAKER_07

Yes, my new crew. Yeah, we don't know if not yet, but I'm gonna get us together. We're gonna go on adventure.

SPEAKER_12

If you want to help me, your ex-wife, can you get out there and stop this fight between the ex-warden, now head of the town watch, and this dragon that's trying to get away? Talk to the warden? Oh, yeah, right. We're just getting prison.

unknown

It's a good point.

SPEAKER_07

She was trying to trick us back into the hole. No, no. Will, we've made it out. I have a hideout place that I'm gonna take us.

SPEAKER_03

I think we should go back to the light. Will's in love.

SPEAKER_15

Will, look at what it did to my hand. It's pretty cool. I think we should all should go back there and get a little bit of light. It's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_10

I don't know, it's pretty cool so far. Could be bad, but it's pretty cool. So you you're at a crossroads. You have you can go back down into the dead tunnels, which was what Will Pumpkin wants you to do, and also go towards the light. You can try to escape quietly from the tavern. I love Mark C that you have this uh former relationship and kids with Myra or Mira. I can't remember, the the bar, the bar turner, and maker. Or you can go out and confront and see what's going on in the tavern proper and maybe help this fight that's happening between the ward and and the um the dragon, which is obviously um precarious for you all because you just escaped from prison. But when the here's here's what we hear in the bar.

SPEAKER_02

I know what'll solve this between now that I'm the new head of the watch.

SPEAKER_10

Yep.

SPEAKER_02

I want bread. I'm going into the bakery. You're coming back here.

SPEAKER_12

You better make a decision right now. They're coming right back here.

SPEAKER_10

What do we do? We'll cover ourselves in flour. You have ten seconds. They're gonna give you ten seconds as a group to decide what you do. Ten. Nine. We cover ourselves in flour to look like seven. I dunno. That's a great idea.

SPEAKER_07

Six. No. Five. Oh, we go back in the tunnel.

SPEAKER_03

I don't want to do that.

SPEAKER_10

Three.

SPEAKER_07

Let's go back in the tunnel. Two. You go back in the tunnel. No, let's go back. No!

SPEAKER_00

You go back to the tunnel.

SPEAKER_10

So you're back in the tunnel. Yeah, we closed the ladder. We're just high like the bottom. Okay, so you're back down there. You hear like over top, you hear like how are you?

SPEAKER_12

Ow. Will.

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We'll be quiet.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, you're hurting me. How?

SPEAKER_07

What am I doing?

SPEAKER_03

Neither of you took my adv neither of you considered what I wanted when we were deciding how to how to move next. We can still go to the light.

SPEAKER_07

Is that what you want?

SPEAKER_03

I don't know what I want.

SPEAKER_15

That's why we didn't really consult you. We'd we we didn't know we thought you didn't know what you wanted.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, you didn't really say anything. We had ten seconds. He was counting down as he was walking to the room. Can I confess something to you?

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, confess, mate. Confession's always good in DD. I love this.

SPEAKER_03

I've never been brave. Okay. That's not a confession. If we've heard it before, it's not a confession anymore, mate. Can I confess a different thing?

SPEAKER_12

That's how you hear it. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03

When my mother gave birth to me, it was arduous. She was in labour for two weeks. Oh wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_07

I didn't want to leave. Wow. You wanted to stay in the comfort of the cozy womb. You didn't want to pull it out. That's hard.

SPEAKER_03

And then when they finally pulled me out, I was miserable.

SPEAKER_15

That's why you wanted the rat inside you. Because you remembered that feeling. You didn't want to pull it out, re- re-traumatizing it.

SPEAKER_07

Good point, Rhyme Beal.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah man, because I cheat on my taxes.

SPEAKER_07

We know. You you did a weird scared confession when you were when your hand was. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I poops on something else. When I was in school, I was bullied. You? Oh, I get it. Sarcasm for the loose man. No, I you're not a loose man.

SPEAKER_10

I am you do hear up top that it's kind of quieted down above the hatch. I'm not gonna tell you what to do. But like the the bread getting is probably gone. You don't hear any voices up there, no footsteps. So you're at the hatch. The skeleton. What's his name again? R uh rattles.

SPEAKER_07

Bonesy McGee Rattle.

SPEAKER_10

He goes, hi. Um again, his name doesn't matter. Oh no. The skeleton! And then there's light, and there's the light. What what do you do? We're kind of coming up again. We need a like a nice maybe cliffhanger or period on this adventure. So I really thought you got out of the tunnels within the first ten minutes, but we're back in the tunnels.

SPEAKER_15

So we're going up to the fungus again?

SPEAKER_07

Well what's on the table? I suggested I suggest we go to my hideout. Yeah. Right. That's my that's what I put on the on the let's all talk talk it out.

SPEAKER_08

Talk it out.

SPEAKER_07

You're a party, your group, your crew. We can because the go through through the hatch anymore. No, we can.

SPEAKER_10

I would just not to be like the leading leading the question here a little bit or leading the the the the ideas, but like you don't hear any I think the warden's come and gone.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, okay. So we have the hatch, we go back to the fungus and see if there's some other way there. We go back to the prison. We could we could see if there's other tunnels to go deeper, because I mean we did meet another skeleton who's welcome to the skeleton village, but then was like, never mind, I made a mistake and like I did put the kibosh on that. I put the kibosh on the back exists. But the skeleton existed though. So there's something.

SPEAKER_07

He was there. I saw him.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, we saw him. Okay, yeah. So you are some.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. There is I think there is a skeleton community somewhere. But I don't think we should go there. They want to take our skin.

SPEAKER_02

Never mind. I could offer you a fourth way.

SPEAKER_07

Oh's this skeleton.

SPEAKER_15

I'm a skeleton.

SPEAKER_03

It's called the X the Skeleton Express Passage. And this will lead you to the other side of the kingdom where the skeletons live. Not in a village, but in a town.

SPEAKER_07

There's a town at the end of the at the end of this town where they live. The kingdom, I believe, yeah, right. At the end of the kingdom. I think we have no reason to not distrust. I think we should go with this because that seems like a nice little escape. We don't want to get right where the warden is. Let's follow this skeleton guy.

SPEAKER_15

Get right out of his jurisdiction.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Should I roll to see if everything I said exists?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Let's see if you're lying or not.

SPEAKER_03

I rolled a five. Okay, so you're lying. He disappears again? Does he just go away?

SPEAKER_10

He's told you this, but he is lying. So like no he's lying.

SPEAKER_15

Can I can can I roll to see if I like could detect? Because the five's pretty low. Can I roll to see if I like pick that up? Sure.

SPEAKER_10

Oh, I rolled a 19. Yeah, so you, Ryan Beale, you know something lying. Up with this guy. Up with the skeleton.

SPEAKER_15

Something's wrong with this guy. What do you think? I think he's telling us a fib. He might be pulling off Femus.

SPEAKER_03

I don't trust him. I promise I'm not. I want to take you to Skeleton Town. It's a wonderful place.

SPEAKER_15

Can't you see his little hands? Like, even though he's not holding them up, his fingers keep doing little air quotes. Everything I'm saying is true. It's this village, but he's like his hands are down by his sides. We can see him doing little air quotes.

SPEAKER_03

It's a nervous tick. I swear. Skeleton town is real. He just did it on real. He did it on Swear. Everything you like is there.

SPEAKER_15

Every beat of that. Just every beat of it.

SPEAKER_03

Everything you guys like is there. What's your favorite stuff? Quoted stuff. It's your favorite stuff.

SPEAKER_10

We need a distinction here because we're going to come up right up against the end of our session here. Okay, you know what?

SPEAKER_03

I don't want to take you to skeleton town. Okay. You don't deserve to be in skeleton town.

SPEAKER_15

Can I roll to see if this reverse psychology works on me? I rolled a 10 straight down the middle. It does work.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. It's not so good. It does. I mean, all our favorite stuff is there? Let's go. We can't take two. What do you think, Will?

SPEAKER_03

I've trusted him.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Okay. The double cat's.

SPEAKER_00

So I think we I think as a group we decide to go to where we think Skeleton Village. Okay, you know what?

SPEAKER_10

I was really hopeful you would just go up into the town tenther, which I did a lot of work on, much like Crabakis. Again, we're avoiding your town.

SPEAKER_11

At least we made it into the town tenth.

SPEAKER_10

We were there very briefly, yeah. You are going to, so we're going to find out at the beginning of next episode. That's going to be where we start. You're you're following en route with this nefarious other skeleton, walking talking skeleton, who's promised you safe passage to skeleton town at the edge of the kingdom.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_10

Maybe it'll turn out bad right away, or maybe it'll be a place where you can kind of like, you know, reassess your your goals and um and figure out. Start new lives.

SPEAKER_15

Start a new life. Open up a uh puppy boosters.

SPEAKER_11

If this turns into the mayor shows up and the mayor has to do a thing, swear to God.

SPEAKER_13

Can I do one last beat with the skeleton that's leading them? Sure. So he he gets on a skeleton phone. Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Yes. He gets in his four bronco.

SPEAKER_13

I want to hear it. He gets in his skeleton phone and he goes.

SPEAKER_10

So it's kind of a magical skeleton communicator. He goes.

SPEAKER_03

I've recruited three more. Soon our restaurant will have all the help we need.

SPEAKER_10

Well, thanks again for joining us. A nightmare party. Um we almost got out of the tunnels. We spent most of the time in the tunnels. Couldn't couldn't help ourselves to get out of these blocking tunnels. But next week we'll find out what's going on in Skeleton Town. Does it exist? If it's different, is it is it maybe maybe there's another nefarious plot going on under or are they going to get their skin stolen? Who knows? We'll find out uh on the further adventures of Chain, Ryan Beale, and Will Pumpkin. This new uh swarthy lying skeleton and this fascinating deep dive into DD. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_13

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SPEAKER_10

Let us know what you think if you got ideas for the show or how we should um should have progress it. You know, this is the first time we've asked, but like let's get some uh audience interaction out there. So thank you so much. I appreciate you guys trying to your best to be fantasy oriented. Again, I really thought we'd get to tenth. We didn't. I really thought we'd get to that Edward Forrest thing. The dragon is just in the bar. So I mean, we did pre pretty fantasy oriented. We had a talking skeleton and the dragon. We did. There was a trap, there was kind of a fight with the rats. Like, you know, it's good. It was good, it was good. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. So uh we'll see where this goes next week. Thanks again. Love you. Nightmare party.