TOQ-Back: Ep 28

The cast talks Ep. 28 "Temple of Death", Basilisks, gambling, and a cliffhanger snare

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:00

It's a talk bag.

SPEAKER_03 0:01

Hey everyone. It's a talk. It's a talk back. Wondering what the hell this is. It's a talk back. It's actually a talk back.

SPEAKER_02 0:08

Wait, what is it?

SPEAKER_03 0:09

I forgot.

SPEAKER_02 0:10

Actually, it's actually it's a talk back.

SPEAKER_03 0:14

I was spelling it T-A-L-K-B-A-C-K.

SPEAKER_01 0:17

Talk. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 0:19

But it's actually, you're saying it's a T L K it's a talk back, not a talk back. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 0:22

I think it depends on where you're from. T-A-L-K-B-A-L-K, like in baseball. Talk talk bulk. Talk ballback.

SPEAKER_02 0:28

I think it's T-A-L-Q-U-E.

unknown 0:30

Talk.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

Talkwab. Talkab.

SPEAKER_02 0:32

Talkwab ball.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Is it T-A-L-C?

unknown 0:35

Talc.

SPEAKER_02 0:36

Talc?

SPEAKER_00 0:36

Is it a talc back? Is it talc bulk? It's a talc bulk. Yeah. Okay. Now I understand. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 0:42

We're high on a spelling energy that you couldn't even understand. We've been spelling all morning.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

And a new one. It's one can say that there was a spell put on us.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

Fuck yeah. You could say that. We could say that.

SPEAKER_03 0:55

It's it's perhaps our W-L-H is S-P-E-L-L. Hey. Um I N. How do you spell the end of spelling?

unknown 1:07

G.

SPEAKER_02 1:07

I-N-G?

SPEAKER_03 1:08

Great. G.

SPEAKER_02 1:09

Uh the other day, I the other day. It's been like three days since we recorded. But in the in-betweening days, um I was in conversation with somebody and they said something funny, and I made it into an acronym and it didn't get a laugh. And I was like, oh, that's wrong group. Oh. That would have killed with my friends yesterday. Inside joke, you had to be there.

SPEAKER_03 1:33

Because we're too acronym mindset. We're acronym max.

SPEAKER_02 1:36

That was a IJ. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Yep.

unknown 1:39

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

Should we talk about Should we talk about what happened?

SPEAKER_01 1:43

We should. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:44

Spell some more.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

Spell. Should we T A W H? Talk about what happened.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

Let's talk about what happened. Talk to us.

SPEAKER_03 1:54

Um you guys woke up in the morning, you had a little bit of breakfast. Janice's dad made you pancakes. And Janice made those cute little superhero masks. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That was really cute.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

Yeah, I don't think we ever mentioned actually putting them on.

SPEAKER_00 2:09

I gave them to everyone and Janice like wept that nobody put them on. He's the only one out there. They're like little ninja turtle masks. Like they have like the little cloth with the eye holes on it, and he's the only one wearing his.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

I think that checks out.

SPEAKER_03 2:22

This is a question I do think, coincidentally, I have asked before, but of the four ninja turtles, who is who?

SPEAKER_04 2:29

I I am embarrassed. I'm embarrassed to say that.

SPEAKER_01 2:31

And we got mad at them last time because they don't know who the turtles were. I still don't know who the turtles are.

SPEAKER_00 2:36

And I'm just gonna say Donatello. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

No, Patch is Donatello.

SPEAKER_00 2:40

I think it's very obvious who they all are. Janice is Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

Right? That's the right answer.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:49

Which one is cool but rude? That one is That's Raphael. That's Raphael, which is Rex.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

The nerd is Donatello, which is Patch. I paint the ceiling. The funny one is Michelangelo. Rock on. And then uh Janice is the straight man.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Like the leader of the lawful good is. Damn, we really do.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

And you're our rat man.

SPEAKER_03 3:10

I'm fucking Master Splinter.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

Master Splinter.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

I always got Splinter and Shredder mixed up. I thought their names were too similar.

SPEAKER_03 3:17

I agree. Wait, are they different?

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Splinter is the rat, and Shredder's the main.

SPEAKER_03 3:22

Oh my god, I was trying to suggest that I was Shredder and I said Master Splinter. Those are too similar. Well you kind of play both. You know what? I have some notes for whoever made the Ninja Turtles.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

I mean, you are Angel and our Devil. Or Angle and our Devil.

SPEAKER_03 3:34

Yeah. Angle. Angle. Um, so now that we know, uh, are are your guys' superhero masks similarly colored to that?

SPEAKER_00 3:41

Um I had initially imagined um sort of like Janice's is gold and made of the gold fabric. Morning wood was green, um, Lucy's was blue to match her sweater. Oh, and then Patches. What color did I think Patches was? It was like orange in my head, I think.

SPEAKER_05 3:59

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 4:00

That makes sense because of the you know, uh you're in afternoon delight. Afternoon delight. That was it. Yeah. Yes. AKZ.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

That makes sense. Yeah. I was this might be jumping ahead way too much, but I was thinking about what color um Patch is gonna use as his accent color for the ball. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 4:19

Oh I think you should, I think we should wear a mask to the ball. Oh, yeah, make it a masquerade.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

Yes. It is mask of the red death.

SPEAKER_03 4:29

Yeah, I mean it is. I I do, I was fully planning on being like it is kind of a masquerade situation. So Incredible.

SPEAKER_04 4:35

Masquerade. Uh red. I masquerade. Thank you. I'm listening everyone at home. I'm not the musical theater guy, but then when I get to make a reference that I actually know, and then when one person says, Yes, that's a win for me. Yeah, that was crazy. Thank you.

unknown 4:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:53

I think for the rest of us, when we when we make musical theater references and no one else responds, that's our that's our cue zone. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:00

Yeah, we prefer it when we're the only one that knows the the niche song. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:05

I only know the big hits. What were you gonna say, Sarah?

SPEAKER_02 5:09

Um uh uh well, I've say I'm I'm back in the conversation now because we're off Ninja Turtles.

SPEAKER_03 5:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Um and um You know, gone but never forgotten.

SPEAKER_03 5:18

They might come back up.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

Well, so Sarah fully put her mic on.

unknown 5:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:24

Sarah hasn't I forgot. Wait, let me check your contract. Oh, no, it does say no ninja. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Yeah, I mean it says no ninja turtles.

SPEAKER_02 5:33

There's a lot of stuff I should have put in there that I didn't, but that I made sure to. And only blue MMs.

SPEAKER_01 5:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:37

Yes, yes, yeah. Um to match my blue mics. Um uh oh, I'm excited to uh rummage in the Apollon's uh basement for costumes. Yes. That is what I'm looking forward to.

SPEAKER_03 5:50

Because you know they have some gaudy costume jewelry.

SPEAKER_02 5:53

You know there's some crazy costumes of like the some ancestors like you know robe that's been in there for superpowers. Yeah, you never know. And you put it on and it's cursed. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:06

Cersei definitely went is the Phantom of the Opera for Halloween for like three years in a row.

SPEAKER_02 6:11

Oh, excellent. Good for her. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:14

Um, I really liked while you guys were still at the house, I liked Rex's imposition on Janice's dad. Yes. Oh, yeah. Just like, can you make me a whole gold coat?

SPEAKER_01 6:25

A chain, not just a gold coat, a chain mail relinked of gold. Yeah, not plated.

SPEAKER_04 6:32

Asking him for literally something that costs thousands and thousands of games.

SPEAKER_01 6:35

It's impractical. Gold is soft. It's true.

SPEAKER_04 6:38

I know, but that's why it's a show. It's you know, it's it's for show. It's not as it's not as attacked.

SPEAKER_02 6:43

He's already doing your belt buckle, and you're just going to wear it for the like ball, right?

SPEAKER_04 6:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

Yeah, it's just a single use only.

SPEAKER_04 6:50

Yeah, no, no, no. It's just my formal wear.

SPEAKER_03 6:52

Okay, because I was like, is Rex going to ask for this and get it? And then are we gonna have to once again update the podcast art? Because for the next hundred episodes, it's just no, it would just be a roof colour.

SPEAKER_04 7:02

Also, in Rex's mind, like it's just a one-time thing. He can repurpose the gold afterwards, it's not like something that he's gonna take with him.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

He's gonna squish it into a ball.

SPEAKER_04 7:10

But that was very funny when you were like, um, yeah, gold plated. Can we just do some gold plating on this? And I was like, no. It's gonna be all gold from scratch. I mean, that would take like a year to do or something. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

Also, are you paying for the materials? Like, it didn't seem like it.

SPEAKER_03 7:27

It did not seem like it.

SPEAKER_00 7:28

Yeah, I think you're gonna have to return that so we can melt it down. Exactly. Yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

Yeah. Yeah, very fun.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

Yeah, he can post it on his Insta for cloud. For the business. You're right. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's like rent the runway. Yes, it is rent the rent the runway.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

Midas now does rent the runway.

SPEAKER_03 7:45

The hard part is is Midas actually is doing this. There's like 12 other people who've asked him for this now. Yeah. He made the mistake of posting about it, and a lot of people like swiped up and were like, Etsy, Etsy, Etsy question mark?

SPEAKER_02 7:56

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then sorry for giving him business.

SPEAKER_00 8:01

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

I think he's doing okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

We did he has three Subarus. So many Subaros.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

We live in Sylvan Heights.

SPEAKER_00 8:08

Yes, we did we did set the wheels in motion for our uh party night. Yeah. So we're getting there's some party prep is happening. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

Um, which we're gonna need after after the day we've had. I've been stoned once. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

Is it our basilisk fight? Being stoned?

SPEAKER_00 8:26

Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_01 8:27

Yeah. How do you did he like it?

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Um no, it was sort of a nothingness. The darkness kind of just like happened.

SPEAKER_02 8:35

Yeah, that usually happens. That's why I don't do it anymore. Yeah, I get too anxious in my head about it.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:41

Yeah. You were saying you like the basilisk.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

Yeah. Well, yeah. I was saying that about getting stoned, but then I also uh jump into uh our what's that called? The temple that we were in at the basilisk fight. That was fun. That was a really fun fight.

SPEAKER_03 8:53

I I really liked I a little forehead kiss for the the mirror on the floor. Yeah, yeah. That was really smart because that was fully keeping them at bay. Like gave you a chance to like survey the room because their gaze specifically affects themselves if it's caught in a reflection. And it's like because it's something they have to activate, it's not like you know, always active. Yeah, they're not like they didn't just turn to stone, you know. Yeah, but um, yeah, they wanted to be able to use it on you, so they were like, Well, we're not gonna attack until the badge is on.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

That's interesting. That's cool.

SPEAKER_03 9:23

Yeah, that was a very smart move.

SPEAKER_04 9:25

That was so cool.

SPEAKER_02 9:26

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 9:27

Yeah. The basilisk is such an interesting enemy to have um because it I don't know why they were there still. Uh because they're not plague beasts, they're basilisks. So someone someone non-plague related potential or replaced them because we did find that that was callers.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

Well, they were from Eurathon's crew, which I want to say something, but I don't want to.

SPEAKER_02 9:54

Okay, Spencer, just um turn off your microphone so you won't hear this.

SPEAKER_03 9:58

Okay, I'm not l I'm not listening.

SPEAKER_01 10:00

I I put this in our secret group chat, but uh hasn't uh Janice's mom been talking about getting out an aid package from Ariac, which is where Eurifon is now in charge. And if he sent these plague beasts, you know. Was it they're going to get one or they got one from there? That's what I was uh wondering. Is is it like, are they receiving it? Are there because they're doing a vote at the at the ball. Right.

SPEAKER_00 10:28

Which I was like, I need to remember that. That's definitely going to be important. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

But I'm worried about a Trojan horse situation. Yeah, interesting. I was listening. Oh my god. I don't know why I fully thought that he couldn't hear us. I was really like, okay, guys, now he's gone.

SPEAKER_03 10:45

Um, interesting.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

A Trojan package? A Trojan pack.

SPEAKER_02 10:50

Hey oh. Whoa!

SPEAKER_01 10:52

Whoa. Whoa!

SPEAKER_02 10:53

Sarah, whoa! You wake up in the morning pack.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

Sponsored by Trojans.

SPEAKER_04 11:02

The spot yeah, we promote safe sex. We do.

SPEAKER_03 11:07

We promote safe sex on the uh the after show, but during during the actual show, we promote dangerous sex. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Um but anyway, that's what that's what the basilisk made. I take it back. The basilisk made me think about it.

SPEAKER_00 11:23

So and also the fact that the basilisks were just full of bile. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:28

Like the bile was fine. Put it in his mouth, that was good. Forehead kiss for that. That was good.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

No forehead kisses for that. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_03 11:35

Yeah, full fist in mouth.

SPEAKER_00 11:37

Just yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:38

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:39

It's what I get for freezing while saying my catchphrase. Yeah, yeah. Dana.

SPEAKER_03 11:43

Also, uh uh forehead kiss for freezing while saying your catchphrase. That's so fun. Yes, yes, that was funny. Oh, and Patch's first use of his mirror image.

SPEAKER_01 11:53

Um I wish that I hadn't used it on, or not, I don't wish that I hadn't, but I probably should have waited to use it. I thought that the basilisk were gonna be a lot more a lot bigger of a threat than it ended up being.

SPEAKER_02 12:07

Um well, you do have a one wish, so you could wish I could wish. I didn't do it.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

I wish I got my single daily use of my movement back.

SPEAKER_01 12:21

I wish I had the effects of a long rest to restore one power.

SPEAKER_03 12:26

I feel like that would be the hardest thing to monkey's paw. Oh my god. Like just something so small is like, I wish when I cast a spell three hours ago that I didn't cast it.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:36

Could it just be like, well, how the hell to be specific?

SPEAKER_01 12:38

You didn't do that, and then a meteor. Like, yeah, well, it's like you cast a you cast, I cast power would kill a movie.

SPEAKER_03 12:44

Like instead, you cast your other highest level spell, you know, like some other bullshit.

SPEAKER_04 12:48

I would be like, I would say like you could do, okay, well, that made that hard infinitely or that fight infinitely harder, so you all have one HP. Or something like that. Because you didn't cast that.

SPEAKER_03 12:59

Ah, I but I mean I don't think it even swung at patch once.

SPEAKER_02 13:03

No.

SPEAKER_03 13:03

No.

SPEAKER_04 13:04

But that was before.

SPEAKER_03 13:05

That was before, you're right.

SPEAKER_02 13:06

It was intimidated by the three. Yeah, I saw the match that, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:10

There was a lot of that. So so speaking of your wish, um, is there a so I know that I I feel like we should do like a wish check-in um as each episode goes and see.

SPEAKER_02 13:19

We do the little WC.

SPEAKER_03 13:21

Little WC. Little W C a little WC in the T A T T O Q T O. Fuck. In the TV?

SPEAKER_00 13:27

Do you need to use the WC? Let's take this over to the wishing. Let's have a wishing well moment and do a quick check-in on wishes.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

Well, uh we're wishing you well.

unknown 13:36

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 13:36

Damn, that's a waste of your bell. That's a waste of that. Janice feels moderately pleasant for a minute.

SPEAKER_01 13:42

He already has that.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

That's a well.

SPEAKER_02 13:44

Then Rex dies.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Janice becomes a well.

SPEAKER_03 13:49

Could happen.

SPEAKER_02 13:50

Janice has a well.

SPEAKER_03 13:52

Falls in it.

SPEAKER_02 13:53

Monkey's paw.

SPEAKER_03 13:54

Wishing well.

SPEAKER_02 13:56

Monkey's paw. Lassie's paw. Lassie's paw. Yeah. Like a consequence that you didn't expect, and it's like, monkey's paw.

SPEAKER_00 14:05

Spencer, all the NPCs that Spencer has is just gonna be yelling monkeys pop at us every time something bad happens.

SPEAKER_02 14:11

That's a sketch. Write that down.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

That's a sketch, write that down. That's a sketch, write that down. That's a sketch, write that down.

SPEAKER_03 14:16

Um, and of course, we're referring to you, the listener. Please write that down and send it to us via email. Yeah, if you can write it, we monitor our email.

SPEAKER_02 14:22

Yeah, write it for us. Yeah, put it in the comments so that we remember.

SPEAKER_00 14:25

Credit it to us because Yeah, I mean, we're gonna, I mean, you you're gonna write it, but we're gonna take credit because you can't keep doing like a ghostwriting situation. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:32

So we're sort of like um um James Patterson and you're everyone else. Uh, because we've never written a book in our lives, but you know, there's a little shot across the James Brow.

SPEAKER_02 14:45

Maximum Ryan, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:47

I really loved I really loved the gambling. Yes. I thought that I um I thought Lucy here like uh bartering with the guy was so funny of being like, and then just doubling down and doubling down and doubling down, yeah, yeah, and nothing. Because of your relationship with money as well.

SPEAKER_02 15:08

Yes, yeah, yeah. Yeah, forehead kiss spencer. I thought the gambling was very fun. Thank you, thank you. And it probably took me by surprise that I had to roll a die card. Sometimes I don't know why.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

This probably got cut out of the episode, will get cut have been cut out of the episode, but there was a point where you were rolling for something and you failed, and you were like, Can I have succeeded instead? I was like, no, what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_02 15:35

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 15:35

Same energy of just like, no, we're playing a game, too.

SPEAKER_02 15:38

Yeah, I have so much money, I have however much money I want. I can pick whatever roles I want to succeed.

SPEAKER_03 15:43

Um, that's a that's another several 20s. I got several 20s.

SPEAKER_02 15:47

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 15:48

Yeah, crazy.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

You just add those together.

SPEAKER_02 15:50

Yeah. I got a 40 on my uh my bullion score.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

A nat 40.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

A nat 40, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:56

A little bit of a what's the opposite of a forehead kiss?

SPEAKER_02 15:59

Forehead suck. Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

SPEAKER_00 16:01

A little bit of a little forehead hickey. Forehead.

SPEAKER_03 16:05

Oh, yeah. A little bit of an ear flick for myself. I uh made you roll sleight of hand for the magic dice, which in hindsight, what's the point of magic dice if you have to roll sleight of hand? Because that's what you would do if you didn't have magic dice. It's like a double roll. Like if you didn't have magic dice and you wanted to switch a roll, I'd make you roll sleight of hand.

SPEAKER_00 16:25

Right.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

But if you have magic dice, I thought you were doing sleight of hand for Rex handing them to her.

SPEAKER_03 16:32

Okay. Yes. So then the first time I guess makes sense. Yes. But the second time when I was like, oh, roll it for switching it this time. So then in the future, when you use them, you won't have to. You might have to roll like one broad deception check.

SPEAKER_02 16:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:43

But then you can't like you won't have to roll it multiple times.

SPEAKER_01 16:46

Yeah, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_03 16:47

Um so little little ear flick for myself.

SPEAKER_01 16:51

No, don't I don't think you can do that.

SPEAKER_03 16:52

Don't flick yourself.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

No, don't flick yourself.

SPEAKER_00 16:54

You're so fine. Stop flicking yourself. Stop flicking yourself. Um my gosh. Um, but also at that bar, we met the bartender and his random rowdy friends. Yeah. Yeah, the brothers and friends.

SPEAKER_03 17:09

He just sucked.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

They were just so everyone in that bar sucked.

SPEAKER_02 17:12

Uh four head kiss to Matt for um Rex. Anytime Rex bros out with some bros and like leans into his mo, frat mogus guy, I love that so much.

SPEAKER_04 17:21

And so I think I someone was trying to stop Rex from doing, I can't remember who it was Shirley Janice. And I was like, Janice, I think like you guys are at the top.

SPEAKER_02 17:30

We're at the Rex's comments.

unknown 17:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:34

So, bros, where are we going?

SPEAKER_03 17:36

What's going on with this guy? Um, tell me about the most recent nerd you pummeled. Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:41

Now I feel bad. Well, now I feel bad for P. Hercadius, maybe. Uh, because he got pummeled. He was he got pummeled right after crying alone at a bar.

SPEAKER_03 17:52

Yeah, at 10 a.m.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

At 10 a.m. And then he got wrapped up by a giant like mooring spider.

SPEAKER_02 17:59

I want to give if you get into profligation, that's what's gonna happen to you. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:03

If you're a profligate, that shit tends to find you, right?

SPEAKER_01 18:06

I want to give forehead kiss to Spencer for tricking us again.

SPEAKER_03 18:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

Oh, with the for sneaking us into his web. Well, some of you, I took it by the mouth. You didn't know. That's true.

SPEAKER_03 18:16

You did mouth of the mouth of the alley.

SPEAKER_01 18:18

Oh, I was looting him, but respectfully. Right.

SPEAKER_03 18:21

And you found a letter that had nothing in it.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

I was fully looking for an ID. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:28

Yeah. That that's smart.

SPEAKER_01 18:29

It's like, let's confirm identity.

SPEAKER_03 18:31

Um, yeah. Uh I that's I think I mentioned it briefly at the end of the episode, but that was fully just gonna be a room in the labyrinth. Yeah. Like you guys see like a body like against a wall, and if you like investigate it.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

Well, I'm excited to see what this spider's doing here. If he's like a plague spider or if he's just another Europhone plant, like what topolis is just real dangerous. Or if there's less stuff, this is a real bad phrase.

SPEAKER_03 18:56

I mean, you know, big city.

SPEAKER_02 18:57

I'm picturing the uh not to bring it back again, but the um the spider in Muppet Christmas Carol that's like selling uh Ebenezer Scrooge's curtains and bedge clothes. I feel like that's the Ali spider that I'm thinking of.

SPEAKER_03 19:09

Yeah, that's very cool.

SPEAKER_04 19:12

Spencer, did you want to talk about that thing that you referenced that that was kind of like that deep lore pole?

SPEAKER_03 19:16

Oh yeah, I so I've got actually two deep lore poles. Oh, wait. DLPs? Two DLPs. Um so you guys now know that Eurifon had something to do with at some point the box of many things.

SPEAKER_01 19:30

That's sorry, that's why I'm concerned about the Trojan horse. Because he has more things in the box that he could. Because he's more directly connected with the box itself. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:41

Yeah. Um he so you guys now know that he had some connection, which you got like clues towards last time, but but more firm uh confirmation this time. Um and that is something that in the first theatrical interlude, um, the guy who was writing a play was like, Yeah, I'm writing a play about Rylanus. Yeah, Rylanis.

SPEAKER_05 20:01

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_03 20:01

That's a DLE. I was gonna call him Marcus.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

I forgot what I forgot what he was Marcus Rylanis, Mark Ryland.

SPEAKER_03 20:11

Oh my god, Mark Ryland. Oh my god. Uh but hopefully not as much of an anti-Stratford, little bit of a I got beef with Mark Rylance.

SPEAKER_00 20:19

Who is Mark Ryland?

SPEAKER_03 20:20

He's the actor who is how he talks. Um, and of course, I'm an actor, and I mumble, of course, and stammer through my lines, and stammering makes you think that I'm being rr realistic.

SPEAKER_04 20:35

Oh, this guy plays the same character in every movie.

SPEAKER_03 20:37

He's he's a I think he's let me clarify, I think he's a fantastic actor, but he also is one of those people who believes that Shakespeare couldn't have written his own plays because he's poor. Oh and so that's my thing with him. Classist is is a great actor. I don't like him. He does do that.

SPEAKER_04 20:55

I've seen him in like I think I've only seen like two of his movies. Or I've seen more, but I only remember him from Don't Look Up and Ready Player One. Oh, he plays the exact same that's what you recognize him from?

SPEAKER_02 21:06

He was in Bones, Bones and All.

SPEAKER_04 21:09

I don't know that. He was in Bones?

SPEAKER_01 21:11

Bones and All.

SPEAKER_03 21:11

Oh god, I wish.

SPEAKER_04 21:12

Bones and All. Was that a Timothy Chalamet movie? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, I haven't seen that one.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

About the cannibals. Um It was fine.

SPEAKER_02 21:18

I wish I had married. Oh, Dun Kirk, that's where I recognize him from.

SPEAKER_03 21:22

Yes. He also played um in Twelfth Night, he played um, what's her name? Uh the Love Interest, not Olivia? Yeah, Olivia. Wait, yeah. Because Olivia is the Yes, yes, yes, he played Olivia. Olivia is the um Viola is the one who goes in disguise.

SPEAKER_02 21:43

Correct. Olivia's the one with the the the morning one with the other thing. Um played Richard II.

SPEAKER_04 21:48

What about Green Knight? Anyone see that movie?

SPEAKER_02 21:50

I did see that movie. I did see that movie. Oh, he's also in the other balloon. I also thought it was funny. Are we just talking about movies we've seen?

SPEAKER_03 21:58

But yeah, so uh uh Uh Ryland was working on Rylanis. Rylanis, thank you so much. Um, a play about Eurifon in the box of many things. Definitely a version of the story that is probably different. Whatever um Europhon said when he like came home and people were like talking about their adventures, like whatever, you know, mass-marketed version that is. Probably not recognizable as what's happening in Plutopolis. Yeah. But um, so that's a little thing. And then I also wanted to say when you guys found Rex's shield in the labyrinth, I had Janus roll a history check to see if he recognized General Trioctus on it. And he did not.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

Oh interesting. Because he was younger then. So that well, that's an a more interesting because that's not necessarily Europhon, that's Rex's parents, the Trioctus knows.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

Right.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

This is crazy.

SPEAKER_02 22:59

The shield is the parents.

SPEAKER_03 23:00

Yeah, I mean the shield is like it has your parents on it, and it's my mom. It's you know, just the war. It's it's the Hellian League versus the Quranic League, and you know good people who were in some ways on both sides.

SPEAKER_04 23:15

Yeah. Um that's crazy. I gotta ask this fucker about it. Um what else are they gonna say? Oh, the whole general uh trioctus, uh like reveal crazy.

SPEAKER_05 23:29

Yes, crazy.

SPEAKER_04 23:31

Yeah, because I think that someone was was very suspicious of him.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

It was me. It was you, it was one of those things where it was just like I I'm suspicious of anyone general of the Hellion League at this point. And and I was like, Ruby should know about the council, because they're all technically historical figures by being the current council with history. So uh I was like, let's let's do a quick background check from Ruby to just make sure that we know what's going on. And uh, but that's like a classic Greek story as far as like balls. That's Agamemnon.

SPEAKER_03 24:06

Agamemnon, um, in order to get his ships to sail to Troy, sacrificed his daughter to get wins.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

Um I mean, Chloe the player was suspicious of Trioctus and Ebenezer Bones just because of the nature of what they've told us about uh Trioctus taking over the study of the plague and then Bones working in the yeah Arconery where you know it's magic plague.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

I was suspicious, I wasn't suspicious of Bones, I was more suspicious that Bones was no longer in charge of researching it because he's like classically the researcher. Like being in charge of the Arconerry is like he's the research person. Um, so I thought it was strange that they changed it to like the military leadership.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

Yeah, always very suspicious.

SPEAKER_02 24:50

Also, anybody that's in charge when something bad is happening that's like this is how it is, we're we don't know, versus like I feel like Janice's mom is more like um active and like and clear in how she's trying to like fight and help versus like, yeah, there's just stuff we don't know about it. I don't know. Yeah, and like, but you're in power and you're the one that's in charge. And it's like suspicious.

SPEAKER_03 25:12

Suspicious.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

Suspicious.

SPEAKER_04 25:13

Suspicious. So we have we don't know about Ebenezer Bones. We feel like they can do no wrong. Yeah. I mean, I can't Ebenezer Bones. If Danger Bones is bad, then then if then I'm bad too.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

If Ebenezer Bones has no fans, then I'm dead. Then I'm switching. I'm not in.

SPEAKER_04 25:33

I'm not walking around. Um uh so we don't unclear. We know General Trioctus potentially bad. We still don't. That's not definite that General Trioctus is still working for them.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

Right. Yeah. We know that General Triactus got a bad deal and we know they're related.

SPEAKER_03 25:53

Yeah, you you know that he has a checkered past. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 25:55

Um and tragic. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Is it tragic checkered past, which may be motive for whatever is happening? Burned his son.

SPEAKER_02 26:03

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 26:04

And then like this Sarah just mouthed at me. What happened? Which is fair, fair.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

Burn his son to end war didn't work.

SPEAKER_03 26:16

Which could and his son's and his son's like immediate guard, too.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

Yeah, and wasn't it his wife too?

SPEAKER_03 26:23

Not his wife. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

Wait, Triactus' wife or the son's wife?

SPEAKER_03 26:26

Uh uh Triactus' wife. I think I think she died many years ago.

SPEAKER_02 26:31

His son was probably in love with someone in his like fighting core army, and they were like very sweet together.

SPEAKER_03 26:35

Oh, you're saying it's an Achilles Patroclus, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

Oh but there is still the uh, you know, perhaps motive to be angry at gods. Like this seems to be a direct attack on Erebos, um, potentially by the Hellian League, by Europhon, to like take care of that. Uh oh, interesting.

SPEAKER_04 26:55

What if General Trioctus is like what he's getting out of it of like abusing Erebos as he's trying to get Erebos to throw his son back up?

SPEAKER_02 27:03

Yes, yes, get his son back.

SPEAKER_04 27:05

Real world. And I do think I'm on to something. I know I have the worst luck or the worst history with predicting these things, but like I feel it in my Ebenezer Bones that that the um uh dire end is like the is like not a tower, but it's like a mirror image of the upside down. The river sticks at trick.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

Oh, I love that thing. Do an anagram, see if what it's spelled out.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

I mean diarrhea. Ivan does elicit necromancer and like secretly evil, but his last name is Bones. His last name is literally bones, but also uh I won't believe it.

SPEAKER_02 27:48

We're looking at the red herring bone.

unknown 27:51

Um yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:52

That was good.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

Yaw on not all necromancers are bad. Cersei's is Cersei technically a necromancer? Yeah. Yeah. Cersei technically a necromancer. Yeah. But if ever so here's the here's the one thing that will that uh will torture Janice for Ebenezer Bones. Yeah. He's 100% behind Ebenezer Bones unless he mission impossible like takes off his mask and it's Silas. That's the Spencer phone. Oh no, I don't even want to look at Spencer.

SPEAKER_04 28:20

I'm gonna spoil it for that because we would have smelled them.

SPEAKER_01 28:27

Reddened.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

Okay, so now look for look for a red tower.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

There's many colors in this tower.

SPEAKER_03 28:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:32

I will say uh Patch's wish check um back to the WC. Yeah. Uh I don't think Patch is thinking about it. But his best hope is that we solve all this here and then he can use it on something fun.

SPEAKER_04 28:46

Yeah, hell yeah. I yeah, I want that too.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

And uh uh Lucy's BC, her bean check.

SPEAKER_03 28:51

What's Lucy's bean check?

SPEAKER_02 28:53

I didn't think about that. Um it just she's not, she forgot that she has them.

SPEAKER_03 28:58

How often is she checking? How often is she checking her beans? Like you're referring, of course, to your magic, your patch of magic.

SPEAKER_00 29:08

Not beans.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

Her magical beans that she found in the vault.

SPEAKER_04 29:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:16

I don't want to hear about a magical bean in a vault.

SPEAKER_04 29:19

The only thing we could be referring to is. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. And we went there.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

Oh man.

SPEAKER_04 29:25

That's why you have to pay $3.

SPEAKER_02 29:26

I should have gone to church this morning.

SPEAKER_03 29:28

You should. We all did.

SPEAKER_02 29:29

We all went to church together and we're kissing and going to church without me at Eric. Yeah, yeah. We went to Erebos Church. Oh, yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_03 29:36

Yeah. Yeah. Oh wait, yeah. It was really somber. There's a lot of funerals. Oh.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

Mostly funerals. Orthodox Easter.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

It is Orthodox Easter.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

Oh, it is. Yep. Huh. Happy Orthodox Easter. We work in Erebos Church. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

Yeah. For that reason.

SPEAKER_02 29:50

What else? Anything?

SPEAKER_00 29:52

A little, well, just a bud for uh the spider monster.

SPEAKER_02 29:55

Yeah, big spider.

SPEAKER_00 29:57

Who who got who got P. Herc. Um but we'll finally get to meet him after we take care of the spider, though. I think it's Patch and I are in a bad position with the spider. No, you're in a horrible position. We fell right into the lore.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:11

But that's fun.

SPEAKER_00 30:12

Our friends will save us.

SPEAKER_02 30:13

Yeah. I also maybe you'll get stoned again. Maybe that, maybe that you'll get wrapped up.

SPEAKER_00 30:17

Maybe Lucy will blow us up and it'll be fun.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

Oh yeah. Firebolt. Spiders don't like fire. No one likes fire.

SPEAKER_04 30:24

When you're at the mouth of the That's you shooting it directly at us.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

So excited. It's it is a narrow uh alley if you just want to shoot a thunderbolt down there. Yeah, give a thunder thingy thing. Can I give one last kiss?

SPEAKER_04 30:40

Yeah, of course. There's always time for one last kiss. Oh yeah. Did not get to use them last episode, but maybe I will in this one. Yeah. I do not know how they work, and I don't want to know how they work until we're in the episode because I think Rex wouldn't fix this.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

I will say they're once a day for an hour. Um and that's all I'll tell you.

SPEAKER_03 31:07

I I also am gonna give Jonas a forehead kiss for that because a monk with a fly speed is hell. Is hell for me. I'm sure. Um so I'm really happy that someone else is holding those, right?

SPEAKER_00 31:18

Yeah, I definitely especially when I got to level, I don't remember if it was five or six, but my uh every so often my speed increases.

SPEAKER_03 31:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:24

So my current walking speed is 50 feet.

SPEAKER_03 31:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:28

Um, which means my dash speed is 100, which means my step of the wind is 150 feet.

SPEAKER_03 31:33

Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

I can I can go wherever I want. And if I can do it and fly, then nightmare.

SPEAKER_02 31:41

Um actually, and then another little forehead kiss for Spencer's timing at the end of the episode with the the dramatic like pause with the spider and then let's roll for initiative. And then we all went, whoa, we're still playing! And then Spencer went, and that's what we're in there. Oh my gosh! Very funny.

SPEAKER_00 31:59

Such a tease.

SPEAKER_02 32:00

Yeah, it was a little tease.

SPEAKER_00 32:01

Little tease.

SPEAKER_02 32:02

But then we get to pick up right then and there. Right in the fun. Right in there. Right in the fun.

SPEAKER_00 32:07

Right in the spider's web.

SPEAKER_03 32:10

I'm I'm so sorry, I should have told you guys this. We're gonna start with a three-hour extended flashback to the spider's best. Um into, well, no, it's uh Patch's grandfather.

SPEAKER_01 32:20

Oh, that would be interesting for me. Now that's yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:22

Um this will be this will be a flashback that none of us are in and we'll have no. I'm just gonna. You're just gonna read a 20-page novel that you wrote. Yeah, it's actually fun.

SPEAKER_02 32:31

And it's um wait, I'll get my dictionary. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:35

And you're gonna need it. And you're gonna need it. I get pretty grandiloquent. On that note, yeah. Thank you all so much for listening. Thank you very much for listening. I'm so excited to uh play and to talk to you next week.

SPEAKER_05 32:53

Yeah.