Nightmare Party

Nightmare Party - Chonkoville

Ryan Beil, Mark Little, Kevin Lee, and Mark Chavez Season 1 Episode 14

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Chain is dead, Ryan Biel (the dwarf) visits a family of beavers, and Will Pumpkin brings a pile of dead bodies to Chonkoville.

SPEAKER_15

Welcome back to Nightmare Party, a DD adjacent comedy podcast where I, Ryan Beale, have convinced some of my very funny, very cool friends to finally play DD. A version of DD, our version of DD, where we're just rolling D20s, focusing on story and fun and our imagination. Before we get to a little light recap, uh Mark C, Mark L, and Kevin L, how are you all doing? Ready to get fantasy?

SPEAKER_03

I'm really excited. I can't wait to see what what you know what what this uh episode has in store for me as a player. You as a man. Me as a man. You as a father. Me as a father. Thank you, Kevin. Yes. All of that's going on for you. A son? Me as a son. And a holy ghost.

SPEAKER_15

Ghost. Okay, fantastic. Well, that's great. So we're here we are. The party of uh Will Pumpkin Chain and Ryan Beale, the Prankster Dwarf, played by Kevin. Ums uh to say the least last episode. Um there was a lot of death, a lot of death last last episode. It was a big dead episode. Um uh the uh NPC characters, the Eel Brothers twins who finished each other's sentences were killed. They were great. They were great. Uh a turtle. Uh he was either Mr. Turtle or Mr. Shell or just turtle guy. Uh he was just trying to swim away. He was killed.

SPEAKER_13

Little top hat on.

SPEAKER_15

Little top hat and such. And then a beaver. A beaver was almost killed, uh, but uh you all threatened his life and told him you knew where he lived, you knew where his lodge was, so he went. We did see a little snippet of the beaver at home with his children. He was quite traumatized by it.

SPEAKER_12

Ryan, could you remind us what the beaver sounds like? He kind of sounds like this kind of guy.

SPEAKER_15

He's kind of a cute little guy, he's kind of classic beaver. And he's like, I think they fucking died. They fucking died. We're in the land of the river folk. A lot of river, you know, like eel guys, beaver guys, turtle guys. Um we're on the river here.

SPEAKER_13

Are turtles in the river?

SPEAKER_15

Sure, some are. Absolutely. Yeah, river top. Rivers, lakes, they they left elevators.

SPEAKER_12

Turtle sanctuaries, exactly.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, sewers.

SPEAKER_15

And so you made the decision to try to revive these. All you were like, maybe obviously felt some regret uh for the murdering, and so you decided to go to Choncoville, a sort of nearby river town, to try to find a wizard or someone familiar with the dark arts to revive these dead people, to bring them back to life.

SPEAKER_16

And Chonkoville is like a neighboring town to Wizardville.

SPEAKER_17

Wizardopolis. You could between Wizardopolis and he's the reason our entire party fell apart.

SPEAKER_13

Exactly. That's the story of the back of the brother.

SPEAKER_15

But things real speaking of falling apart, things took a turn for the worst. I don't remember the uh incident that uh but I see what why, but Will Pumpkin did kill.

SPEAKER_14

Will Pumpkin's brother named Doppelulus?

SPEAKER_03

That he that he was uh in the war with Doppelus the coward.

SPEAKER_14

Oh yeah, all about the war memories. Then some pervert came in and def and left of himself on the body, and that turned out to be Ryan Beal. That turned out to be Ryan Beal, who as a prank was doing that, and then it was revealed that Mark uh Chain had gone to war with Doppolis, and Doppelis was such a whiny coward.

SPEAKER_12

They ripped him to shreds and said sent him home. I think the big picture is that I kill I killed my I killed Chain. Will Pumpkin killed Chain out of uh furious vengeance feelings. Yeah. Defending the memory of his brother. And then tried to get away.

SPEAKER_15

Killed Chain Beatle and uh you would you also attacked Ryan Beal. Yeah. Attempted murder. Uh Ryan Beal got away, ran into the forest. So now everyone's all over the map here.

SPEAKER_14

But then Will Pumpkin was like seemed remorseful somewhat and like took Chain's body and put it in the pile of bodies that we have in a in a big net uh to resurrect. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Try and bring that one back too.

SPEAKER_15

So we're gonna start in many different places, you know, at least two. One still on the raft, Will Pumpkin, two, Ryan Beal, somewhere hiding in the forest or downriver, upriver, somewhere else. And finally, but we have to start with you, Mark C. Chain died. Your beloved Chain, uh the tough human guy who we met in the prison who was trying to teach Will Pumpkin to be less of a coward, was killed by Will Pumpkin. It did work, it worked too well, some would say. So now we we're hopeful that Chain can be resurrected if we find a wizard. And knowing you guys, you'll probably just find a guy with within seconds and demand that he brings it back to life. So I'm sure that'll happen. But in the meantime, before that happens, there might be sort of some bumps along the way. I do want you to be able to play a character, Mark, uh, for this episode. Uh and maybe multiple episodes, depending on how long it takes. So I did you have an idea you want to jump right into? I also had some rapid fire questions if you want to go that route or some pre-made ones. Whatever you want to do. It's up to you.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Because we're we're fractured as it is. If I pitch a character and then I don't and then I'm just on my own, you know, so maybe we should figure out what's happening. You know, and then I could maybe come in. But what what are your what are your questions or what what are you?

SPEAKER_15

I have five rapid fire questions you would answer within five seconds of each question, and then that's your character. I have two pre-made characters you could just roll for one or the other. Right. Or you could just decide on which character. I think we should decide on your character off the top, and then we can like get into everyone's little uh separate storylines because I hope hopefully we all reunite pretty quickly because that's where it's the most fun.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_15

Did you have an idea?

SPEAKER_03

Well, I thought I a portal could open and I could come out from a different dimension. Go on. As a uh an alien from a different planet.

SPEAKER_14

Um from another dimension, but an alien from a different planet in that dimension. In that dimension. So get the line of succession here.

SPEAKER_03

You know, a rift of sorts. And you're like, I'm not from there, I'm definitely not from here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Mark pitching basically everything but the character at this point. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Well, he or he or they or she is a uh uh is uh um made of you know untouchable kind of light. And they come in and they can't be killed. Okay, and like, you know. Okay, you know what? I love it. Yes, I want to hear that.

SPEAKER_15

I actually I love this, and I think actually we can if you're made of light, maybe we can link you the reason let's let's start with you and the forest with your glowing hand, you know what I mean? Um yeah, so something that attracts you. So we'll start there. Okay we'll we'll start with that scene. We'll get back to the raft with um uh Will Pumpkin in a bit. But Mark L, feel free to be a passerby or uh anything like NPC in this opening scene. But we'll see, we'll start with we'll start with Ryan Beale running into the forest alone, and he encounters an alien, this new character uh played by Mark C, and we'll see what happens. Welcome to episode 13 of Nightmare Party. Okay, so let's start with you, Kevin.

SPEAKER_14

Okay, so I'm like, uh going through the going through the wilderness and like wait, like before I like I but wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I do it from my hand. How about my hand does it? Because it's like connected to the hand.

SPEAKER_15

Do whatever you want. Let's hear it.

SPEAKER_14

So like, oh like I'm all I'm all stressed out. My hand starts like glowing and going crazy because of like stress, uh, you know, and I'm like, oh, I need to do some MBSR, I need to do some mindfulness-based stress reduction. So I sit down and I start like meditating, uh, and then I start like lifting off the ground, and the hand like goes, like, and and out of my hand comes Mark's character. Wow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Hello. Who are you?

SPEAKER_14

I've scottish now.

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_04

Hello. What happened? Are you my son? Uh I am Snykon 2. Snyclone? Stickone too? Scyclone? Stikon two. What part of Stykon two? Don't you understand? I'm from another dimension and another planet from a different dimension.

SPEAKER_03

You called me with your hand of light. What is it you need? I can bring people back to life.

SPEAKER_06

Really? Oh my god, perfect. I'll allow it.

SPEAKER_14

Oh my one of my friends just killed my other friend. I I can't remember my accent, it's it's uh British, right? There we go. Yeah. A friend just died. Yeah. Killed by another friend, and now I'm in the woods alone and sounds difficult for you.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. I just left my dimension and my planet because you called me here.

SPEAKER_07

Another thing that's my fault.

SPEAKER_03

Yes.

SPEAKER_12

A voice, a voice emanates from uh deep within the hand, sort of beyond the hand.

SPEAKER_05

It goes Cyclone truo.

SPEAKER_03

Oh no. Oh no, oh no, oh no. Put your hand up your pocket.

SPEAKER_05

Put your hand in your pocket.

SPEAKER_14

I said I put my hand in my pocket. Roll to put my hand in my pocket.

SPEAKER_15

Sure. Okay. Yeah. It'd be a pretty easy roll.

SPEAKER_14

Ah, roll the 19. Perfect. Really goes in the end. You really put it in there. Don't do it.

SPEAKER_15

In fact, you put it in so hard you rip your pants so the pocket's not a pocket anymore.

SPEAKER_13

And the hand comes back out again.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05

You owe me a lunch.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, yes. Yeah, I'll get that soon.

SPEAKER_04

I'm helping a friend out over here on another planet in a different dimension now, but I'll get with you soon. Did you want to come here? Okay.

SPEAKER_14

Okay. Don't meditate again. Okay, here we go.

SPEAKER_05

Cyclone two.

SPEAKER_12

Who comes out?

SPEAKER_13

What does this look like?

SPEAKER_12

I bought Okay, this guy's he looks identical to Cyclone 2, but smaller. And he's and he's wearing and he's got like uh he's got a he's and he's um that and that's it. He's smaller. Okay. Right.

SPEAKER_05

And he goes, I bought you lunch yesterday.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, thank you. I recall it was nice. We had delicious Rayglons and fantastic pork rands. Pork rinds? Yeah, pork rands.

SPEAKER_04

You owe me. I want lunch. Let me just see. I oh okay. Let me look on my apology.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah. What's your name? I want to do a bird swooping down to snatch the character I just created and take it away. Okay, well that's a roll. That's a roll. That has to be a roll. Okay, I don't want that guy around anymore. Oh, okay. Rolled an 18.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah. Okay, great. Yeah, his bird's small enough. A kind of large eagle comes and snatches up this poor. I guess. Now, Mark, but Mark, you did Mark C, you did say you're made of light and you can't be touched. Yeah. My guy can. Roll something like another guy smaller.

SPEAKER_12

Roll to see if I can be touched? Yes, you'll roll to see if you can be touched. Okay, I rolled a 16.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, okay. Your guy can be touched. You know what it is? I think maybe something about the coming out of Kevin's hand, and this will be new information for you, Cyclone too, as you watch this happen. Because you are a being made of pure light, but then you watch your small little friend positive. You don't have to buy a lunch for him. Oh gets swooped up by kind of a larger eagle. The talons grab him by the shoulders. Take him up into the sky.

SPEAKER_03

Oh he has gone back to the light. Hmm. No lunch for him, haha. Now, where were we?

SPEAKER_14

Ho ho name's rotten pill. All these friends they died.

SPEAKER_03

You understand your hand is deeply connected to all of my people, yes?

SPEAKER_14

No. I tell you, I'm not sure. How did your hand turn this way?

SPEAKER_03

It is a door. Your hand is a door. It was a door. In your point of view, if you saw somebody walking down the street with a door for a hand, you would think that's strange, right? Yeah, but I wouldn't immediately think I should go through it.

SPEAKER_14

That's what why? Because it's their door hand. Consent, my brother.

SPEAKER_03

We don't have that. We don't have that. Ew, sticklone. Everything is everyone's.

SPEAKER_14

Okay.

SPEAKER_12

As they're talking as they're talking, can they be walking toward uh through the marsh? Yes, absolutely. It's a walking and talking. It's a walking and talking. Maybe they're coming maybe they start to see uh a little lodge.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, maybe we could take some shelter there, see if someone's in there.

SPEAKER_03

Is this a a lodge of some kind?

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, and it's not yours. Things everything here belongs to someone else.

SPEAKER_03

You will mine. Okay. No. All right.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, look, I knocked on the door of my door.

SPEAKER_00

How's that trip you out there? Style? Oh shit. Oh fuck, oh shit. Oh shit, oh fuck is you. Oh, I didn't know where this is. I'm just trying to get my kids out the door to go to school. Please, God, please don't. Listen, listen, please don't fucking do anything. You gotta let me in, you gotta let me in. Who the fuck is this guy? Who the fuck is this guy?

SPEAKER_04

I am Cyclone 2.

SPEAKER_00

What? Cyclone 2?

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10

I thought it was Cyclone. It was common usage.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_10

Look, please, whatever you want. Okay, I just I just try and send my kids to school. Okay, I'm just trying to make their lunches at school. What are kids? Well anything. Offspring. They're my uh uh little beavers that I've made. You've made these? Well through a process of what Explain beaver sex to him.

SPEAKER_14

He doesn't know shit. I see lots of it.

SPEAKER_10

I see lots of it. I know what the tails do. Do you would you want money? Do you want you say what do you want? Do you want money? No. I just want I just want to hide out.

SPEAKER_01

Hide out? You can't hide out in here. My kids are in here, man. So what? Tell them I'm your friend from work.

SPEAKER_10

I'm at the dam. Okay, okay, okay. Just come in. Just be cool. You can hang out and they'll tell him after school. Hey guys, here's a couple of friends of mine from work. Oh, disgusting. Hello.

SPEAKER_12

Oh Ryan, I don't want to be the guy who says roll, but do you want to roll to see how convincing this is?

SPEAKER_14

To the kids?

SPEAKER_15

Oh yeah. Actually, you know what? If you're gonna play a kid, Mark, Mark Little, why don't you see if you're convinced? Okay.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah, we'll see about this.

SPEAKER_15

I rolled it too. You are not convinced. You're that you're pretty sure your your poor father is lying. And you've also he did tell you that he had a harrowing day, so you might you might connect some dots here. Dad is my friend what?

SPEAKER_00

Daddy's dad is the guys that want to fucking kill you. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Daddy's the guys that want to fucking kill you.

SPEAKER_10

Hey, Harold, no, okay, these are my friend from work. Um, and well, my one friend from work, and this is his friend. So they're just gonna be here for a bit, and we're gonna die. Oh fuck. Oh fuck, we're all gonna fucking die. No, we're not.

SPEAKER_00

Harold, Harold, this is so much I wanted to do, still. Please, Harold. It's okay, guys. It's okay.

SPEAKER_12

We will we gotta get the fuck out of here, Dad.

SPEAKER_00

I'm not staying school then.

SPEAKER_03

Why are they so concerned, Ryan Beale?

SPEAKER_14

Uh it's a long story uh related to the one I tried to tell you earlier that you wouldn't really listen to because you had a guy.

SPEAKER_03

That a friend of yours was killed? Yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Oh god, they're conspiring, they're conspiring to fucking kill us today. We gotta get the fucking out of here today.

SPEAKER_01

Here's some wood and some leaves and a berry, and just get out of here with the battery.

SPEAKER_06

I can't go to the can't go. Okay. Oh, what are you doing? I'm dying!

SPEAKER_07

Oh my god, the burning up! What the hell? Stop doing that!

SPEAKER_12

A little baby, little baby beaver, I want to roll to attack Stiplone 2.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_12

I rolled a 17.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, so you get up in him and he's be he's you're able to touch him here.

SPEAKER_14

Get away from my dad! Oh, other baby beaver tries to uh only a nine.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, you kind of uh you jump but you miss.

SPEAKER_14

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Ah, oh shit! Weewa! Ow! We wa! That's my name! Thanks, PP!

SPEAKER_03

Does Cyclone 2 die? I don't know. He got attacked pretty good.

SPEAKER_15

He did, but he's an alien from another dimension, and you were doing what were you in your mind cyclone or cyclone? Was it Cyclone?

SPEAKER_03

Here's it's originally it was Cyclone. Common use had started being Cyclone.

SPEAKER_15

Okay. What do you prefer?

SPEAKER_03

I kind of prefer Cyclone now. Cyclone. Cyclone. Cyclone 2. Okay. So Cyclone 2, he as all the noise was going into his body from from all the the cacophonous kind of stuff, it was emanating out as light. And apparently this light was hurting the beaver dead. It hurt the beaver. Not my intention.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_03

So as as more sound goes in, it's just a natural reaction. He can control it, but it was just something that was happening right there.

SPEAKER_15

Maybe I think the the the attack from the little beaver gets you to stop and you're you didn't realize what was going, so you stopped doing this. Excuse me. And you got a little beaver on your on your shoulders and throat. Like hitting around.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, no, no, no, no, no. That is stop it. Ow.

SPEAKER_15

Roll to push him off you.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Rolling a D20. Get down up. Here we go. Roll. 18.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, you push him off pretty hard. Ow, guys.

SPEAKER_11

Oh my god, he hit his head on the bookshelf. Oh my god. He's bleeding.

SPEAKER_16

Peter, you're bleeding.

SPEAKER_03

I'm gonna leave. Can I just leave? I I I've come. Yeah, I think it's okay if you just leave. Just go outside for a minute. Yeah, no, I mean through your hand door. Oh, you actually just want to leave, Leave. I I got called here. What happens is in my dimension, when there is a great calling for a return to life, that's where I go. And now I feel like we've we've gotten sidetracked and No, but I leave you help.

SPEAKER_14

No, I need your help. It's it's I've got to get your help. I just have to find a way to find my friend and make him not kill me long enough for you to help.

SPEAKER_03

I'm here to bring people back to life and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of bubblegum.

SPEAKER_14

Alright. But I need to make sure my friends I need to make sure they live. My friends, I need to make sure they live.

SPEAKER_10

Can I say something? Dad? Yes. This guy's awesome. It's kind of awesome. Yeah, tell me you don't want any. It's kind of awesome. I mean, he was burning me alive, I think.

SPEAKER_15

Yes, and I apologize. That was a natural reaction to a sound. The beaver looks down and he he appears to have no wounds or anything. It was just crazy pain that emitted from your light. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12

And when he threw me across the room into the bookshelf, it fixed that little pain in my neck.

SPEAKER_10

Wow. You'd be dealing with that. Maybe now you can try out for varsity beaver football.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah, and me he's I'm still under sized.

SPEAKER_03

Can we cut the varsity beaver football? Dad, I'm not you. Tryouts.

SPEAKER_13

Yes, cut to quickly cut relative to all these other people, this beaver dad is like tiny, but in the beaver realm, he's like a linebacker.

SPEAKER_15

He had a really good high school. Yeah. Beaver football career. His son is forever in the shadow, and his son is now trying out at the varsity. Mark C. I love this cutaway to the beaver football tryouts. Is this after this incident or before this incident? Before, I think. So this is a little bit of a flashback. Give me a little bit of a flashback.

SPEAKER_16

So, Marksy, do you want to play the coach? I'll play the coach. Nice.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, great.

SPEAKER_17

All right, guys, let's line up. Can you do a little bit of a beaver with that? Yes, all right, guys, let's line up. Okay, uh, let's see here. Um let's go on going in order of sides. Uh okay, we got Bill, we got Brachton, we got Blacks. Yeah, we got uh Fillmore. We're gonna go to Beaver State this year. We're gonna go to Beaver State. That's right, okay, behind. Okay, oh, oh, Henry. Uh Henry.

SPEAKER_12

He's Harold, aka P P.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, Harold, Harold. How's it going? You lost?

SPEAKER_12

No, my dad made me come try out for the scene.

SPEAKER_17

Your dad is a great player, great linebacker, one of the biggest beavers we've ever had. I know. Fat face statue of him in the middle of the school. I have to walk by it every day and look at it. Yeah, he's he's he's a real star. You, on the other hand, you're uh you're a bit uh undersized for the uh varsity uh beaver football team. I know. Uh but you can try out if you want, you just might get hurt. All right.

SPEAKER_12

No, don't just tackle me right out of the cake.

SPEAKER_09

Hey, coach. Yeah, what is it? Um, I thought this team was beavers only. Because I feel like we all just tackled a pussy.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah. Yeah, you know, I tend to agree. Yeah, there we do have a sign on the wall. You know, beavers on the pussy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, can we cut back?

SPEAKER_13

This is called Friday Night Bites.

SPEAKER_06

Nice.

SPEAKER_03

We cut back. We cut back. So we know the Herald. To kill your coach. It would be the first kill I've ever done.

SPEAKER_12

Oh my god. Oh my god. That would be so awesome for me.

SPEAKER_03

You can't kill Cloak Joke. He's a staple. You traumatized your son, can't you see?

SPEAKER_10

My son just needs you need to get in there and dig deep and try hard. Right, Harold?

SPEAKER_03

Your son is different than you. He has a different path. Not everyone plays football. Some people have to do that. You shut the hell up to Cloak Hill, okay?

SPEAKER_10

You're in my fucking house.

SPEAKER_14

That's right. I mean, but I mean some kids, they don't they don't do sports. They do things like pranks. And they do things like uh being bandits and whatnot.

SPEAKER_15

So you're holding Beaver Mr. Beaver in pain. You release? I've released.

SPEAKER_10

Again, no just turn up a wound. Just pain.

SPEAKER_13

So so fascinating. Did you have do you have are you getting wounds in between these things that are getting cleaned up?

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, I think like when he's burnt, he feels like, yeah, and like maybe you know, like the Gom Jabbar in uh in Dune, like he he imagines in his mind's eye that he's like burning up, it's so painful. But then when he's released, it's like fascinating.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, okay, I gotcha. I thought it was like healing him every time.

SPEAKER_15

No, it's just cool. We'll we'll just go with that.

SPEAKER_12

When uh when these two leave, oh I don't want to jump, I don't want to jump the gun.

SPEAKER_15

Well, we don't know if they're gonna leave, but yeah, if they leave and when they leave, we can we can do a little family beaver. You wanna do a family beavers thing thing?

SPEAKER_12

I wanna I wanna I wanna be I wanna follow them. Oh cute. Great idea.

SPEAKER_14

Well we're gonna we stayed in here long enough. I I think maybe he the eight go down and I do. Let's let's hang out for a bit. Oh, I think maybe we ought to go, eh? I think we've done enough. You're about to murder. I was trying to do the opposite of murder.

SPEAKER_03

I would like to leave. I don't like this beaver and the way he raises his children.

SPEAKER_14

Alright, fine. Well, sorry, Beav. Uh thanks so much for letting us hide out. Um lovely home.

SPEAKER_01

Hide out from what? What are you hiding from?

SPEAKER_15

I saw you and your friend, you and your friend kill little eel brothers and Mr. Turtle.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah. Well, about that, i it's mostly motivated by my friend and his murder, even though I think my murder kicked off. Maybe killing people's murder kicked off everything, but you know what?

SPEAKER_10

Just get out of my lodge.

SPEAKER_03

I gotta get my kids to school, okay? All right, all right, and I like to write wrongs. And the first right of the wrongs I need to do is to bring something back to life. But I've got my sights on you and your son. Hmm. Maybe this is my mission. You're a quantum leap. I'm kind of quantum leaping right now.

SPEAKER_12

As they're talking, uh Kevin's just leading him outside. Yeah, just like grabbing him by the scruff of his light and pulling him back. Quantum leap.

SPEAKER_14

Come on, here we go. All right then. There we go. Oh, thank you, bye boy. Slam, slam the door.

SPEAKER_10

Okay, guys, get to school already. Both of you. Sorry about that excitement. I mean, I didn't do anything, but.

unknown

Dad.

SPEAKER_00

You gotta cool out. Your friends are so stressful, but they're cool. We like them, but stressful. Ah, Jeremy, shut the hell up. Okay.

SPEAKER_14

Damn, I thought I I'm not a pushy, I'm big like you.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you're big like me.

SPEAKER_14

But I'm also I'm also a bit of a lunkhead. You gotta bop me on the head sometimes. Uh I have a I turned out to be a terrible guy.

SPEAKER_12

Okay, and and maybe and and now as the beaver looks at at Jeremy, aka Weewa, um Harold, aka Pee-Pee, is no longer there.

SPEAKER_10

Must have gone to school. Oh well. Jeremy. But to school. Where you should go to. I know you got a C plus average.

SPEAKER_11

Yeah, we'll average that. I'll get a scholarship. Yeah, you will. I'll get a scholarship though.

SPEAKER_10

You can get scholarship.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, so Wood Woodrow University. That's right.

SPEAKER_10

Oh god, I love you, kid. I love you too, Dad. I love you, buddy. I love you too, Dad. You wanna hey, you know what? This is a bit weird, but you want to crack a beer before you go to school?

SPEAKER_11

Yeah, Dad. You want to crack a beer. Dad, I'd love that. I've been waiting for this thing.

SPEAKER_15

I go over the fridge, I get two beers out. Here you go. We've been waiting for you for a long time. You're you're you're you're awesome. You're a good kid. You're a good one.

SPEAKER_10

Thanks.

SPEAKER_11

You're awesome too, Dad.

SPEAKER_14

I love getting a little buzz on before I go to school.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_11

Yeah, you did too. I know you did. I heard about you, Dad.

SPEAKER_10

I like a fucking statue built to me in the fucking.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, well, that's why there's this there's a tradition where we always go and put the beer can in the statue's hand because we know you should drink it.

SPEAKER_10

That's right. Yeah, if I can crash that. Like follow like son. If I can crash that, get out of here.

SPEAKER_14

The stump doesn't fall too far from the stump. God damn it. You want to have another one?

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I'd love to, Dad. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_10

Let's do it. I fucking love you, dude. I really love you, dude. Oh, that's good stuff.

SPEAKER_07

It goes down clean. And half the calories of a regular beer.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, I love light beer.

SPEAKER_07

I love light beers.

SPEAKER_10

Okay, get the hell out of here.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, but Dad, do you want to have one more? Six pack. Gotta finish the six pack. Yeah, I mean, when we're gonna leave them in there, they're gonna go bad. Come on.

SPEAKER_12

Later, but not now. I want to see Jeremy at school. Yeah, I would have to see Jeremy at school.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, so they've been drinking in the house. Let's follow. We know Harold is sneaking behind, you know, classic, like little guy, you know, maybe hiding behind shrubs, keeping a distance, but not too far, as Cyclone 2 and Ryan Beale walk out of the lodge and back down the river. Now, do we want to check in with Will Pumpkin, see what's going on with the raft?

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, I definitely should.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, so we know maybe you're heading in that direction, the two of you.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, like we're heading towards the river to try and find him again, but we're gonna go.

SPEAKER_15

Now, Will Pumpkin, you're at the city gates with a net full of bodies.

SPEAKER_12

Oh get in there. Chunko uh it's Chonkopolis.

SPEAKER_15

Absolutely. I was just gonna suggest I think there should be guards. You should have to sort of trick your way inside or at least try to make sure they don't see what you have, your cargo, as you go into the the city gates here. So is it Chonkopolis? What is it?

SPEAKER_03

Hello, welcome to Choncoville.

SPEAKER_12

Um no, just a catch of fish. Um I'm here as a vendor.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, what kind of fish are you vending today, young man?

SPEAKER_12

Big ones and some magic trout and some fantasy salmon.

SPEAKER_03

Fantasy salmon? My favorite. Ah. Fantastic. We haven't had a fantasy salmon vendor for quite a while. Hmm. Could I have a sample of your fantasy salmon? Uh oh.

SPEAKER_12

Oh, pumpkin, you've done it now.

SPEAKER_03

You scratch my back and it'll go a long way while you're in town, I tell you.

SPEAKER_12

Oh I'm worried that I've talked to myself now. What have I done? Uh talking to Chain's body. Oh, Chain, what would you do? Big and brave.

SPEAKER_17

You know. It's hard for you. You're I've got I've got to bring you back to life.

SPEAKER_12

I'm worried and I'm sad about what I've done.

SPEAKER_02

Excuse me, young man. What are you talking about? Are you there?

SPEAKER_12

Uh what's one more? Stab.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, so let's roll for the stab.

SPEAKER_15

So you do have you do have sort of sneak attack because he's just peering over you. He maybe gets advantage then. I think so. So it's gonna be an easier roll.

SPEAKER_12

Okay, well, it better be really easy because I rolled a three.

SPEAKER_15

No, it's unfortunately it's not good enough. So you do you turn around, you you kind of you you stab like you do hurt him, but you just kind of like what does he call a glancing wound on his stomach. You don't stick him, you just sort of uh slice him a little bit.

SPEAKER_06

Oh no!

SPEAKER_16

So right, I mean I'm kind of an NPC kind of uh Yeah, I'll tell you what to do. So you attack. Okay, okay. Well roll with a sword.

SPEAKER_15

I think you would you I think you would try to like get him on the ground. Wrestle him down. You're gonna wrestle him down. Yeah, here I go.

SPEAKER_09

Onto my bones.

SPEAKER_15

Only six. Okay, so you terrible guard. Long, terrible fight.

SPEAKER_13

I'm somebody else in line at the gates just watching this really bad fight going on.

SPEAKER_15

I'll be like so you try to get him, but he's wet and slippery, and you kind of slip off and fall on the ground yourself. You're so slippery. Oof. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Reset. Do I attack again or what happens?

SPEAKER_12

I think I get a turn. I think you should go now.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, let's go back and forth. Let's go tit for tat here.

SPEAKER_12

Club you in the head with a bone.

SPEAKER_15

Okay.

SPEAKER_12

Sixteen!

SPEAKER_15

You get him. He's unconscious for sure. He's unconscious. And like he's he's cut pretty bad. He's still alive.

SPEAKER_12

Okay, well, finish him off then. 20!

SPEAKER_06

Oh my god. Fuck. What's more? Another one.

SPEAKER_15

Yes, it's a bit of overkill, but yeah, you hit him on the head like two or three times.

SPEAKER_12

Then I noticed there's a line behind me, and I was witnessing. Yes, some people have witnessed this.

SPEAKER_06

I says, Wait, we can all go in.

SPEAKER_15

So we're we're at like a bit of a crossroads. There are a bunch of people who saw this. Right? There's a line of people.

SPEAKER_12

I'm gonna make my way through them and try to kill them all. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_15

Just in a row. Okay, let's say there's let's say there's six people.

SPEAKER_16

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

And there are like can you just describe this a bit? Because he was on a raft. Is it a are they is it a river going into Chonkoville?

SPEAKER_15

Yes, it's a river going into Chonkoville. So it's like if you ever cross the border by car, you know, you're coming up to like the guard gate and the gate. Right. And so behind him are six other rafts boats or rafts or boats or crafts or whatnot lined up.

SPEAKER_16

Okay.

SPEAKER_15

Um maybe there's so there's two on one, one on the and then there's two. So it's one, two, three, four, five, six. Two, one, one, two.

SPEAKER_14

One one person on one raft, and then a family of five. Okay. Yeah, let's make it easier. Single kids.

SPEAKER_15

No, they're older. They're older. So it's older kids, yeah. It's a part of the five. They're all 20 and up, the kids. And uh and they're on like a fun, like, yeah, they're just like reconnecting uh uh after college. So you start with a single person.

SPEAKER_12

Oh my god. You saw too much. I'm sorry. What the heck? I'm gonna roll.

SPEAKER_15

Yep.

SPEAKER_12

Roll the three.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, so yeah, right away you fall down. Uh Kevin, you want to play this guy you attacked?

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, yeah. So I was gonna say I pick up my anchor of my boat and I try and hit him with it, but I rolled a four.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, so I swing and like put a hole in my boat. I'm like, oh shit!

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, and your boat's sinking now. Okay, back to you.

SPEAKER_12

Hey, time to club him with a bone. A nine.

SPEAKER_15

You hit him, but it's like he's still on his feet. It's not enough. You sort of get you sort of like uh give him a black eye.

SPEAKER_14

I rolled a strong skull. And I try to hit him, I roll eleven.

SPEAKER_15

Eleven, okay. You you hit you hit him. He's he's knocked on his butt. He's knocked on his keister, so you give him a punch, clock him in the face. Will pumpkin's now on his own.

SPEAKER_07

I don't like gods, I don't like them. I want to get in here. I'm smuggling things too, alright?

SPEAKER_12

Just let me in. Alright. I just gotta ensure that the next boat's in the same sort of mindset. I'll back you up, I'll I'll fight with you. Alright, let's go kill them or hit them. Okay. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03

Mark's you'll play all five family members.

SPEAKER_12

What's going on?

SPEAKER_03

I don't know.

SPEAKER_04

That's not very nice.

SPEAKER_12

They're all from the same family.

SPEAKER_04

Help me.

SPEAKER_12

That one man is making a lot of different voices, but I can't wait to hear from the rest of them.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, what's with all the voices, guy? I don't know. It's what happens when I get scared.

SPEAKER_05

What's going on?

SPEAKER_12

Nice. Um I'm gonna I'm gonna what do I so I'll I'll roll to leap at the Are you gonna attack them right away?

SPEAKER_15

Are you gonna like engage with them to sort of maybe uh threaten them? Or you've got an ally now. Yeah, I'll try and I'll try and engage.

SPEAKER_12

Nice, okay.

SPEAKER_03

Hey, what's going on, man? What's with the crazy femur swinging you're doing?

SPEAKER_12

So I rolled a seven.

SPEAKER_15

So you do a pretty bad explanation.

SPEAKER_12

Right, here's the situation. I've got a lot of my friend died, and I'm just trying to get into the city to bring him back. I killed him. No, don't say that, Will.

SPEAKER_16

I don't know what the I think I would attack Ryan. What do you think?

SPEAKER_15

Or I would Well, yeah, I mean you're your family, you saw this fight happen. Yeah. No one died. So you're not the guard died. Holy guard, God, is that the guard died, yeah. So you attack him.

SPEAKER_16

Okay. I take uh I I have um You're the man with five voices? Yeah. Yeah. So I have a pencil that I'm gonna try to scatter him with.

SPEAKER_04

I'm gonna you Okay, I'm rolling.

SPEAKER_15

Five. Yeah, okay. So there's a lot of you you try to, you know, you you throw you thrust with your pencil and it kind of gets them a little bit in the pant leg, but it doesn't uh pierce any skin. Yeah, uh but it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_12

I want to scare them so bad.

SPEAKER_15

Okay.

SPEAKER_12

I want to get big and scary and scream at them until they flee.

SPEAKER_15

You want to find something deep inside yourself that really Okay, let's roll for that.

SPEAKER_12

Okay, I roll a nine.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, so you try your best, but it doesn't sound like we see it? Yeah, I want to see it, but it doesn't work.

SPEAKER_05

LEAFS PLE No Dammit.

SPEAKER_15

Uh so yeah, I think you attack him again.

SPEAKER_16

Okay, here I go. I'm rolling. Seven. Yeah, okay, so you I'm the guy that decided.

SPEAKER_14

I'm like, I'm like, alright, this is not this isn't going well. I'm gonna I'm gonna try.

SPEAKER_15

Nice.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, I rolled an 18.

SPEAKER_15

What are you trying to do? Attack?

SPEAKER_14

I'm gonna try and push their boat away.

SPEAKER_15

Push their boat away? Yes. Okay, get out of there. You rolled an 18, so you know what you do? You flip the boat. Oh, you flip it and they all fly into the water. It's a pretty impressive display of strength. And I go, I turn to Will Pumpkin.

SPEAKER_14

I turn to Will Pumpkin and I go, listen, nobody believes anyone wet in this town in Chuncoville. No one will give them a second. Now no one will believe us.

SPEAKER_12

Dang it. Alright, that's fine. Let's go, let's go. We've got to get in.

SPEAKER_14

Alright.

SPEAKER_15

You go back to your raps. Do you say goodbye to this guy?

SPEAKER_03

I just want to say the character that did the boat flipping, his boat was sinking, so presumably he's also unbelievable just for his future. Yeah, he's wet too.

SPEAKER_14

I believe in you. Uh what was your name, little boy? Will Pumpkin. Will Pumpkin, you're gonna do something amazing. But don't believe me. I'm sopping wet. Goodbye.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, you get into the town. You get into the town, Will Pumpkin. You are wet too, because I think you would have done some fighting in the river, you know what I mean? I'm not entirely sure.

SPEAKER_12

Or did you get dry before I ask for help? I've got dry myself.

SPEAKER_15

To Choncoville. You're in Choncoville. A bustling river town with people going with this way and that. There's a one big fancy bridge at the end of town that has a few um market uh stalls on it. And other than that, it's just kind of like a classic people fishing. In the distance, you do see a being of uh full uh made of full light walking with your ex uh party member Ryan Beale. You do see them in the distance.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, so we're already in town.

SPEAKER_15

Let's say you're like making your way. You like with the Lodge of the Beaver, you made your way in the back side of town. So you're up on the bridge, the market stall with the market stalls. You've you've come in the back way.

SPEAKER_12

That looks like my friend. But I've scared him. He thinks I'm gonna kill him. I better not approach. Not until I've got Chain back.

SPEAKER_15

That's so good. That the irony is he could get Chain back if he did approach. Okay, let's cut back in at the market soul. So maybe Mark L. You can be a vendor that um Cyclone 2 and Ryan Beal are dealing with. Maybe the two of you are trying to buy some food. Do you think?

SPEAKER_14

I'm trying to buy Cyclone a uh a cloak because he's just too conspicuous.

SPEAKER_15

Oh, great idea. I guess that's a good idea.

SPEAKER_14

Uh you got any uh got any like cloaks, like oh, light blocking cloaks or anything like that.

SPEAKER_03

Quite conspicuous. Yeah, I got it.

SPEAKER_14

Can we see some? Some options, you know. I think this guy is.

SPEAKER_03

Blackout curtains. Very good.

SPEAKER_17

Some blue one, yeah. Oh, I like blue.

SPEAKER_03

I got a yellow one here. No yellow for me. No, thank you. Red one. Red, no, no. Welcome to Capitalism Cyclone 2. Lots of options. Yes, purple cloak. I like the purple, I like the blue. What do you think?

SPEAKER_14

I think I think purple.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, the royal purple. I like that. Meanwhile, just up at another vendor stall, you hear this. Thief! You little beaver thief! He's got herald by his little beaver hand because he was trying to get like a little apple off of a cart, and he's like, You little beaver, you're dead!

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna throw you off the bridge and you'll die!

SPEAKER_03

Wait, that's that beaver's boy.

SPEAKER_01

Come here. Don't don't hurt me.

SPEAKER_15

You're pretty small for a beaver. Undersized, somewhat.

SPEAKER_03

Go pay his go pay for him. That's our beaver. What the hell?

SPEAKER_14

All right. Oh, hey, hold up, hold up. Who are you? Uh my name's Brian Real. Okay, okay. And I and uh this is my stepson.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, I'm his stepson.

SPEAKER_14

No, not well, yeah. He's my stepson, and that little beaver is my stepson's best friend. Play football together.

SPEAKER_12

Cloaks with uh dragon uh embroidery here.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, market guy, you can just hang out. We'll be right there.

SPEAKER_03

We'll be right with you, vendor. Um can I offer you Gecko. Uh Gecko sounds good. Can I offer you excuse me, other vendor? Yeah. Can I offer you some money?

SPEAKER_01

Money?

SPEAKER_15

We have a very strict no stealing policy in the bridge uh marketplace.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, but surely money solves everything, isn't it? Anything how much are you willing to pay? Cyclone too?

SPEAKER_03

I don't have money. I'm from a different dimension. Okay, well here he goes.

SPEAKER_14

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hey, how about this? Uh you ever seen this before? And then I I I I pull up my my little girkin, my little jerk in there, and you see my little like uh penis, but it's like I forgot to take it out all the way, so it's sort of just like the bent like uh coming out of the room. Give me a roll, Kevin.

SPEAKER_16

Give me a roll, give me a roll.

SPEAKER_15

I rolled a seven. So seven to reactor something. Vendor reacts uh not well to this. He's like, ew! What the fuck are you doing?

SPEAKER_11

I'm doing my comedy, I'm doing my jokes, but probably call that comedy.

SPEAKER_15

I don't like that style of comedy.

SPEAKER_12

I like stand-ups and punch lines. I can do one of those. I study stand-up comedy. I'm like that's my dream. Okay, if you can make me laugh, I won't throw you off the bridge.

SPEAKER_03

Just then a bird flies over and drops the other being of light into the town score. There's two of you freaks. Oh, you are fine. I guess I owe you lunch still.

SPEAKER_04

Uh remember me to my wife. I okay. I will. I'm dying from the impact. Oh, I can bring you back to life.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it's alright.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, you can? Yes.

SPEAKER_03

Go ahead and die.

SPEAKER_04

Alright.

SPEAKER_14

Uh Wow. His light's gone out. Oh, his lights come back on. You owe me lunch!

SPEAKER_15

I do, I do. Yes. The vendor drops the little beaver, not off the bridge, but everyone that's silent in the marketplace, everyone saw this happen. Number one, there are these beings they've never seen before that are emitting like mostly light. They saw him drop and die in front of their eyes, and then you did this kind of like procedure, went ah and you came back to life. So they're all freaked out, but they're sh in shocked silence.

SPEAKER_07

Bow before you, I bow before you. Please, please, uh bring bring my uncle back to life, please.

SPEAKER_12

No, no, no, please. Oh I can't believe I was gonna charge you for any of these cloaks. Uh please, take all of them. Take my finest cloaks. You're a god to me.

SPEAKER_15

Please, I'm the guy who's gonna throw the beaver off. Uh my my my my cousin died. Please, can you bring him back to life? We buried him last week, please. You're a god to me. You're a god to me.

SPEAKER_03

Uh another vendor comes up. Please, please, take this fantasy salmon on me, please. Also, my dad, he died recently. Can you bring him back to life?

SPEAKER_14

Excuse me, please, please. Somebody took my fantasy salmon and killed it. Can you bring it back to life?

SPEAKER_12

Bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro. Bro, alright. Here's the situation. Oh no. My okay, so my fucking guy? Like my guy. Let me see your door hand. My guy. This guy. We I was on, so my buddies and I were.

SPEAKER_03

I go into the hand, I exit. I go into the hand. What?

SPEAKER_14

He's got a glowy hand?

SPEAKER_03

No, your glowy hand.

SPEAKER_14

Well, you go into my glowing hand. I want to get out of here.

SPEAKER_16

No, my guy, my guy. I leave. I'm gone.

SPEAKER_15

But it's still a swarm. Everyone's swarming around you, Ryan Beal. They're swarming and screaming. They're screaming for help. They're pleading for help. They're grabbing your clothes. They're shaking you.

SPEAKER_11

Stop it, Harold. Stop it. My penis is gonna go back in.

SPEAKER_15

What is it?

SPEAKER_12

Come on. I know some secret roots from uh my studies. I I know the secret path back door to the stand-up comedy club. That's my dream. My dream has always been to do stand-up comedy. I almost had a chance to show you what I had right there, but we can save that for another day. Sort of a cherry on top of the Sunday. I'm so excited to be with you guys. I'm such a big fan of everything you do. I'm more of a bookish boy. Let's go.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, you mean the green room? Oh, that's a holy place for us comics. No one else is allowed in there. That's where really that's where the real show is.

SPEAKER_15

Oh, you're both comedians. It's beautiful. Yes, you just do different styles of comedy. That's great. So Harold does kind of run run down your little thing. He grabs you by the hand, he's little, and he leaves you uh uh kind of under the under the people, they sort of start swarming you, you get under their arms and stuff, and you go down down onto the bridge where there's like a little sort of like and then inside you go inside the bridge, it's like a little bit of a lot of here, yeah. You're running through the bridge, and you go through a little tunnel, and then you pop up into a stand-up comedy club where Mark C is just finishing a set as a different character.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so I said afterwards I was like, not tonight. Tonight I'm gonna get plastered. Thank you very much. My name is Deck. All right. We got a great night of comedy for you. I'm the MC also. It's uh it's it's uh amateur hour. If anybody wants to step up to the mic, you're more than welcome to. This is just come to me sign up. We got a couple people coming up first. Uh up next is uh Roger.

unknown

Oh right, man, fine, tough.

SPEAKER_15

Deck goes and sits down uh kind of the back of the bar, uh starts sipping a mead. It's a it's a stand-up club, but it's like a DD stand-up club. So you know what I mean. It's like uh, you know, your orcs, the microphone is some kind of magical crowd work or um Deck.

SPEAKER_03

Who is that? What it's me, Harold. Oh, hey, hey, uh what's up? Oh hey, Harold, the beaver.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah. Yeah, the sort of young guy who comes around, don't allow to drink yet, but stop my dad from getting my older brother plastered.

SPEAKER_03

You got some good you got some good jokes, man. I mean, you you're still pretty green, you you know, but uh do you want some time tonight?

SPEAKER_12

Oh well, I was gonna ask you to get me and this my friend here out of here, um to see if we could borrow your car and get out of town, but um I think we can wait.

SPEAKER_03

Some sort of trouble?

SPEAKER_12

Well, I mean, here's the situation. My buddy here, I I didn't get your name.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, mate, uh, it's uh Scryon Greel.

SPEAKER_03

Scry and Greel?

SPEAKER_14

Yes, not that famous comedian Ryan Beale, who doesn't use tests.

SPEAKER_12

Ryan Beale, Ryan Beale, Ryan Beale.

SPEAKER_14

Ryan Beale. Ryan Beale. Oh, Ryan Beale's here? No, no, he's not.

SPEAKER_03

Such a great prankster, Ryan Beale.

SPEAKER_14

Uh Grian Freel is here.

SPEAKER_03

Wait, wait, Dek would know who Ryan Beal was. Deck is rolling to understand. Two. Okay, so no. Yeah, Deck doesn't know.

SPEAKER_12

Wait, but I I probably know. I'm Harold. I'm the biggest comedy fan in the world.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, you are, yeah. So it'd be an easier roll for you. Ryan Beale, I know you. 16.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah, you know I know you. You're Ryan Beale? Oh my gosh. I've watched your uh pranks v uh c clips in a on the potion uh surface of the surface of the cauldron uh view.

SPEAKER_14

I don't know. He's kind of evolved since then, you know.

SPEAKER_12

You gotta show us. We we'll have plenty of time to escape after.

SPEAKER_14

You gotta go up.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I mean, if you want time, Ryan Beal or Scryin' Real or whatever the fuck your name is, we got time.

SPEAKER_14

Alright, Deck, don't try and big time me. I've been on the potion surface of the cauldron and your mom's fucking s sniz.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I've seen you on the potion surface of the cauldron before. Thought I recognized you. Yeah, it's right. I try not to watch too much potion surface though on the cauldron, because it's not great.

SPEAKER_14

You got to, man. That's the future.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, but I think it rots your brain. Too much too much potion surface on the cauldron.

SPEAKER_14

Sure thing, Bill Bill Shakespeare. Fucking SO.

SPEAKER_12

What?

SPEAKER_14

What?

SPEAKER_12

What'd you say? Hey! I'm in the middle of a setup here. Sorry. It's it's the joke orc. I'm the joke orc.

SPEAKER_16

Go on.

SPEAKER_12

Let's hear some. Okay, I'm in the middle. We only get three minutes, and already this guy's eating into my time. The host, no less. Yeah. Apologize, man. Call him the host, but he's starting to feel more like a parasite.

SPEAKER_05

Whoa! Nice. I'm the joke orc.

SPEAKER_12

Boom, bang, boom, bang, boom.

SPEAKER_14

That's catchphrase.

SPEAKER_12

What?

SPEAKER_14

Well, I mean, he says his catchphrase, you know it's time to laugh.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, that's right. I love the joke.

SPEAKER_14

Bang, boom, bang, boom.

SPEAKER_12

Two orcs walk into a bar. Love this one. The bartender says, we don't serve orcs here. They tear him limb from limb. Yeah, joke. Yeah, Joe Cark. Wait, wait for it.

SPEAKER_11

Boom, bang.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, it's going crazy. This is all happening. Meanwhile, outside you hear a scuffle. You hear something happening outside. It's sort of like uh Unhand Man. Clamoring around. Exactly. You hear clamoring around. Do you go investigate?

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, I'm like, well, that voice sounds familiar. Sounds like maybe like a like a some drippy, some like drippy uh like treacle falling on a dis un untuned piano. I don't know why I took so much time to come up with that. You run outside and you see two guys. I know I creak the door open a little bit.

SPEAKER_15

Great uh thank that's good, Kevin. That's good, that's nice. You don't want to get seen yourself. But you see Will Pumpkin being dragged away by two guards, and they're also taking away the net full of bodies. They're dragging him away to prison, maybe.

SPEAKER_14

Um my god, and in the in the net I see the dead bodies. Like I see Chain in there and stuff. Oh, Will, he wanted to bring Chain back to life.

SPEAKER_03

I peek my head. Oh sorry, um Cyclone 2 peeks his head out of uh the hand door.

SPEAKER_04

What's happening now?

SPEAKER_14

That's the that's the guy who used to be my friend who killed my other friend. The one I wanted you to bring back to life, but he's getting dragged away.

SPEAKER_03

This is my calling. This is why I'm here. I know what I'll do.

SPEAKER_12

Am I talking to a wall? What part of don't talk during my set was hard to understand.

SPEAKER_14

I got an idea. I'm gonna do some interference, do my comedy routine in front of in front of the guards, and then you raise them back to life. Hey, come on, find them.

SPEAKER_03

Joke orc is gonna do his last joke. Come on, give him some space. Go ahead. Alright, alright.

SPEAKER_14

We've got a minute. They're really taking their time dragging Will.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, they're taking him, but he's outside the club, so he's being dragged away. Well, let's see how long Joke Orc's joke is, and then I'll let you know at the end if he's still uh inside. Okay.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, I can't not see Joke Orc's last joke. Joke Orc's one of the one of the one of uh one of uh fantasy time's top 50 comedians under 50. I gotta say him.

SPEAKER_12

He's really good. Australian again. An orc walks into a bar. I love that. He says to the bartender, I'll get a whiskey and ginger root. The bartender says, whiskey and ginger root, that's a classic order, of course, you can have that, but why the big paws? Orc says I was cursed by a sorcerer. He gave me paws instead of hands. They're huge. The orc says, if I find that sorcerer, I will tear him limb from limb.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Boom bang boom bang. Yeah, like a whole crazy.

SPEAKER_15

Do you peek back out the door?

SPEAKER_14

Yep.

SPEAKER_15

They're gone.

SPEAKER_14

Damn it! We gotta find them, Cyclone 2 and Herold. Erold, any idea where those gods would have taken him? I'll find them.

SPEAKER_12

I don't don't don't worry. I know all the passages in this town.

SPEAKER_03

They have taken him to the prison, the jail, which is not far from here. Cyclone 2.

SPEAKER_14

Okay, you know. Guess you can go home, Erold. Cyclone 2 knows everything. You had a purpose, you had a robe, but it's been usurped. Cyclone 2, don't go out there. They're gonna mob you again.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, that's true. That's right.

SPEAKER_14

That's cute. That's the palace. Let's go. Okay. I'm following him.

SPEAKER_15

So you're heading towards the heading towards the prison? Yeah. It's crowded, crowded street. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Come on. Oh, we gotta cut through my school. Oh, I hope I don't run into my frickin' coach. He's gonna make make my life a living hell again.

SPEAKER_15

So they've not only do they run into your coach, they run into the drunk uh Jeremy. What are you doing? Oh, please! What are you doing here?

SPEAKER_14

Give me a shoe and show it home, little brother.

SPEAKER_17

What's your brother doing here, man?

SPEAKER_14

Check it out. I'm doing the fucking fantasy moonwalk. Oh, I pissed myself.

SPEAKER_17

Jeremy, I smell alcohol on your breath, man.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, and you'll smell it on your breath too when I start pissing in his mouth. What the fuck? Smell that?

SPEAKER_11

Oh my god, weewa. What the hell are you doing? I'm doing a weewah with my PPP. The principal comes out and goes, excuse me. This moment came from.

SPEAKER_10

You're expelled.

SPEAKER_07

Oh my god, you can't expel my little brother. He didn't piss me out. Woo!

SPEAKER_12

Alright, let's keep going. I got a scholarship. Let's keep going. Come on, this way. Oh, just the statue of my stupid dad.

SPEAKER_03

Press the button on it. Press the button on the statue.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, I've got to push a button.

SPEAKER_12

Button on a statue.

SPEAKER_15

Don't worry about me. I'll get the touchdown.

SPEAKER_06

So quiet, too. That's like a belly hit. Don't worry about me.

SPEAKER_12

According to legend. According to legend, that's what he said in the huddle before he scored the touchdown in the big game. The touchdown that basically ruined my life.

SPEAKER_14

What? Let's cut to that.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, so 30 years ago in the huddle. Okay.

SPEAKER_10

Now look. I know I broke my arm, but don't worry about me. I'll get a touch here. Okay. Cut back. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11

Whoa, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_12

That's the story anyway. But I haven't been able to live down that legend my entire life. Everyone who looks at me just sees me as a disappointing son of a star, a hero.

SPEAKER_14

Listen, listen, Harold. I d when I look at you, I don't I don't see a disappointing son of a star. I see a star on the rise. What a star in a bigger sky than just some high school football. The sky of potion surfaces everywhere across the little lands that we've got here. You're gonna be a star, I could tell. Bigger than a joke, bigger than even me. But you haven't even heard one of my jokes. You got more than what needs than jokes. You've got a dumb voice and a stupid face. And that's all that really matters in comedy.

SPEAKER_12

Wow. I've been spending my entire time on the open mic circuit trying to run away from those aspects of myself. I've been trying deadpan comedy, anything to make people think that I take it to take me seriously. But are you saying I should lean into my silliness?

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, I'm saying that's exactly what you should do. You think I'm flashing my dick because it's beautiful. No, it's because I get laughs. Wow.

SPEAKER_12

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_14

Do what works and drive it into the ground until everybody hates you. That was what I did, and then I turned to a life of crime and pervertery.

SPEAKER_12

I do have this bit where it's stupid.

SPEAKER_14

Come on. Do it to me. Come on. Do it right here in front of your dead statue. It'll be a cathar. Oh my god, it's just Scoo Crush, the gazelle.

unknown

Wait, what?

SPEAKER_13

Oh, you're cycling. I thought you were a different character. No, they're all beavers. They're all beavers. Her name's Gazelle. Oh no, I can't do it.

SPEAKER_01

You're another one. Gazelle's down the hall. Hey, hey, hey, Harold. What's going on? I haven't seen you in first period. Harold?

SPEAKER_12

What do you think? You look like you're working up to something. I can't clue it. I can't clue it. Not in front of Gazelle. Harold, come on.

SPEAKER_03

Comedy.

SPEAKER_14

Come on.

SPEAKER_03

Come on.

SPEAKER_14

He's from a different galaxy or whatever.

SPEAKER_03

A different dimension and a different planet. And I'm just poking my head through.

SPEAKER_14

That's cute.

SPEAKER_03

Do it.

SPEAKER_10

What's going on? Should I stay or leave?

SPEAKER_12

Okay, look at this apple. Look at me when I eat this apple.

SPEAKER_04

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_12

I guess I'm not getting scurvy today. Gone.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, the gold!

SPEAKER_12

That's a great catchphrase.

SPEAKER_03

That's almost as good as Joke Orks, boom bang, boom, bang.

SPEAKER_10

Well, I gotta get I've I have study block, so I gotta go. That's pretty funny.

SPEAKER_12

I humiliated myself. That's why there was no setup, there was no punchline, I just ate an apple.

SPEAKER_03

You ate the whole core, too.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, that was amazing, but maybe there's something that should workshop it. That was the core. Let's workshop it. Let's workshop it. Let's workshop it.

SPEAKER_03

It's funny that you go num num nom nom you eat the whole thing. You eat the core and the s and the stem, so maybe there's something there.

SPEAKER_14

Maybe you maybe you maybe you cough out a little apple tree or something. Like a madly crick. I mean a bit.

SPEAKER_03

Or maybe you say, um I eat the whole apple. What does that mean? I I don't I'm not a comedian.

SPEAKER_14

You could say, oh, that was easy. I wonder why people call me hardcore.

SPEAKER_12

Oh, that's good. Oh, that's really good. What if I said something like, what if I said something like, My dad's a doctor? Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom. That oughta keep him away.

SPEAKER_03

That's oh, that's really good.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, that's really good. Because it implies something like your dad maybe touches you or something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, that's a remarkable joke.

SPEAKER_15

A rush of people walks by and you hear from the mob of people, hang him. They're gonna hang him. They're gonna hang him.

SPEAKER_01

He's a murderer. They caught him and they're a murderer. They're gonna hang him.

SPEAKER_15

Quick hanging him.

SPEAKER_01

They found him with a net of bodies.

SPEAKER_15

They're gonna hang him.

SPEAKER_01

They're gonna hang him, murder.

SPEAKER_15

There hasn't been a hanging in Kajunko villain so long.

SPEAKER_01

They're gonna hang him.

SPEAKER_15

I wonder what they're talking about. Anyway, let's get to the prison. Yeah, okay, great. You go to the prison, you go to the prison, you get there, there's a big crowd assembled, and I think we're gonna have to end it on this cliffhanger, okay? Because we're gonna see what you guys do next week. We're gonna see how you how you deal with this. Because on the gallows, with a noose around his neck, hands tied behind his little back, is Will Pumpkin. Oh my god. And an executioner is about to unravel a scroll and read out his crimes. They found the bodies, they found him, they've they connected him to the dead guard of the city gates, and it in a in a classic Choncoville quick uh trial and uh sentencing, they're gonna hang him.

SPEAKER_14

Maybe they can maybe the executioner with like the bag over his head is like can't get the scroll open because he's like trying to lick his fingers through the bag, and he's like, Yeah, so yeah, we'll start with that.

SPEAKER_15

He's having trouble licking his fingers to open the scroll. I'll remember that. Mark L. Did you have something? Or Mark C? Okay.

SPEAKER_12

Well, I was just gonna say uh because Harold the little beaver was leading them to the prison through a secret path, but it appears they just landed right in front of the prison in the crowd.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah. Well, I I I was under the impression you were still kind of hanging around the high school when that well, all this was happening. We saw Gazelle and the stuff. He was on his way to maybe a secret uh uh path to the prison. But yeah, you now you're just out front. You're just out front, got distracted with the jokes. And now we'll see if Will Pumpkin will live or die, if you'll be able, because they've got the bodies, I think, probably in the prison somewhere. That was my question. Where are they where they're gonna be? The bodies are all being hung too. The bodies are inside the prison. I'll I'll be a benevolent DM and let you know they're they're in the evidence locker. So they're in the evidence locker. You have to get the bodies and you have to free Will Pumpkin, and that is the Cliffhanger. We'll end this episode 13 of the Nightmare Party. We got to see more of the Beavers uh life. We got to see a Beaver High School, which is really cool. We got a new character who's along for the ride right now, Sticlone, then became Cyclone 2, who lives inside Ryan Beale's hand. We got to dabble in more stand-up comedy, which is nice. Uh I love I love the Joe Cork. I love the Joe Cork. Uh and we saw a lot, and you know, there was a bit more death, a bit more uh mayhem, some more fighting, and some uh attempt at um uh diplomacy as well. And and also people might think you're a god, Cyclone, too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Nice.

SPEAKER_15

A lot to deal with, a lot on our plate. That's the magic of DD. Thanks for listening. This has been Nightmare Party.