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Speaker 1: It’s Me Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show of conservation always wins. I am your guest host, Phil Taylor, and today we are joined by Ryan Callahan, Spencer Newhart, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, and Riva Hansen. This is normally a ten round quiz show with questions from meat eaters four verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking. But what will it be today? Who’s to say, but there will still be a prize, with one of the players donating five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of their choosing. For the stat of the week this week, we are looking at the number ten because that’s how many pieces of fish were once stolen from a freezer here at Meat Eater HQ, with a perpetrator never being caught. Jay, we have no IFAQ this week, but Spencer, we have a little bit of housekeeping. Why don’t you take that aways.
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Speaker 1: The grand opening of the Milwaukee med Eater stories Friday, September nineteenth, so just a couple of days after this is dropping. Doors open at four pm. Event goes until seven pm. There’s food and beer, plus free merch for the first one hundred people through the door. Me, Mark Kenyon and the Wisconsin native Chester Floyd will be there hanging out the stores located at the corners of Brookfield again four to seven pm this Friday. Come stump us with trivia. Tell us your hunting stories, show Chester your fishing pictures. Make really jealous with some musky pictures that you have on your phone. It’s going to be fun. And then the next day we will be in Madison for the tailgate tour. So a full weekend of Wisconsin Shenanigans happening soon.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I’m going to put on a couple of lbs on that loop.
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Speaker 1: It’ll be good.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Spencer, cheesekirds. Oh, we’ve got a lot to get to today. I don’t know how long it’s going to take, Ashley. So let’s get right into the game. Let’s play the drop.
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Speaker 3: Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick, a shadow on the wall.
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Speaker 2: Different, Phil, feel different. It’s Phil Trivia. Baby, You’re in the great game. Now, all great games terrifying.
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Speaker 1: We have no idea what to expect. Phil specifically asked for five people here and said, don’t snoop around the studio, so a lot of anticipation, Phil.
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Speaker 2: Let’s get to it. Our story opens in the mountain town of Bozeman, Montana, because once a humble hamlet of ski bums and college kids who like to fly fish, but now it’s filled with more than its fair share of celebrities, tech bros and Texas X paths looking to live out there Dutton ranch fantasies on the outskirts of Yellowstone, each playing their own role and really mucking up the housing market. But more importantly to our story, Bozeman is also home to Meat Eater HQ or every day outdoor loving people come together to produce videos, podcasts, books, and freeze dried stroganof all in the name of celebrating the pursuit of wild game and protecting the land that we all used to do that. Yes, Spencer Newhart, why don’t you remind the audience what you do here at Meat Eater and just kind of give us a brief look into a typical work day, specifically a trivia day when you’re hosting trivia.
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Speaker 1: I host trivia, So on a typical trivia day, I’m wrapping up any loose ends for the script, and yeah, then we show up here, prep the studio, which is mostly just passing out whiteboards and markers and then usually harassing count to see if he’s going to make it or not. And then it takes about an hour to record, and then Phil takes it away from there he does the rest. That’s what a day of hosting trivia is.
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Speaker 2: Like, awesome, Spencer, want you to put that whitboard away. You’re not gonna need it. Oh, I wouldn’t take this twenty sided Die. I want you to give that a roll eighteen eighteen Spencer, Holy crap, you had a great day of work today. Just the best trivia questions. You know, people complain that question number ten was a fishing question, but you know they was still just really well crafted. I’d say you had a great day, Brody, same thing. What do you do here? And what is a typical day for Brodie Henderson looked like.
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Speaker 4: Typical that I write books with this guy named Steven Ronello. He’s some people say he’s a good writer. So I write a lot and now I’m doing a lot of like visual graphics, like artwork for for artwork for a book that’s due and over a year.
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Speaker 2: Right on, there’s one for you, Brody, go ada and give that a role. That where’s this going? That’s an eight, Brodie, You’ve had better days. You woke up on the right side of the bed, but it didn’t last very long. He spilled some coffee on the front of your shirt. Steve came back to you with a bunch of revisions for the book that you didn’t really agree with. But hey, he’s the boss.
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Speaker 1: It seems like an out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Same for you, uh, senior photographer here at Meat Eater. I do a lot of product photography, shooting white background stuff, which is just, you know, super fun.
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Speaker 2: There is no average day for me. Honestly, every day is a little different.
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Speaker 5: I do trivia, I do uh all sorts of other photo shoots.
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Speaker 2: I’ll sit in them podcasts, you know.
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Speaker 5: Sometimes some days of mediting photos, some days I’m shooting photos, some days I’m shooting video. Steve caught a big giant piece of fat off a buffalo carcass.
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Speaker 2: Some days I’m flashing Beaver’s. You just never really know. Give that die a role, seth three. It’s been a rough week. U Karen asked you to film a podcast that you have nothing to do with. Really, it’s Phil’s job, but he was busy doing other stuff. There was a ton of wind. Some of the cameras died, and you film the video cards and said that you’d like them back on time, and he just totally forgot. I still don’t have him him. By the way, it sounds like last week for some reason. Cow same for you. Oh, this morning, I wrote an article on uh threat upcoming threats to public lance. I responded to several other things I wrote last week that were heavily revised, and then I was reminded of a lot of other things that I partially finished last week and and didn’t complete. And that’s kind of average, really, right.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I thought I was going to be the lowest count.
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Speaker 2: You accidentally some some raw meat the night before. It was a horrible night sushi. You and Snort both were up all night for for separate reasons. You got no sleep, You forgot to record your podcast, and Phil hounded you, and then you record the whole thing and then realize you forgot to hit the record button. You need to do it all over again. This is this is real life. Snort got so sick that I had to leave the door open so I could try to get some sleep and then uh in the morning when I woke up, Uh, she had tracked ship onto the bed. Oh oh no. And this was the one night where I was like, I’m gonna go to bed at like eight thirty so I can really get some sleep. So yeah, it’s one. That’s one. Yeah, Horribleva Your Turney.
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Speaker 7: I am on the podcast team with the one and only Phillium over here. I edit and sound design Bear Grease and This Country Life podcast. I publish all of the episodes of all the podcasts, all the places and YouTube and bug this guy about gain his ads recorded and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: Your turn, Riva.
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Speaker 1: Can’t be a worse day than cal.
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Speaker 2: Well twelve, not a bad day, you know. The render could have come in a little bit more on time, you know, but cal goatis ads. Wow, you finished your work early. It’s like one pm on a Friday. You just got to wait for the trivia game coming up today. Oh yeah, I like it.
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Speaker 8: Phil. I got a question.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what’s up, Brady?
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Speaker 4: Have these dice seen real action and dungeons and dragons?
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Speaker 2: This may be the first time. Oh wow, okay, where they purchased just for this purpose? I don’t know let’s see. Well, thanks, guys. Today’s an exciting day at the office because not only is it a Friday, but it’s also a trivia record day, and a couple of out of town colleagues, Clay and Chester, are in town as well. And you’ll bring. Being a Friday afternoon, most of your colleagues are out getting fueled by nature, so the office is pretty quiet, but you will make your way down to the podcast studio and run into Clay, who’s just coming in the front door, arriving for the day. He’s got a little meeting with Steve later, and he says, hey, hey, guys, how’s it going. It’s nice to be here. How are you good? Good? You guys playing trivia today?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: We Lay, I didn’t get the invite, you know. That’s that’s that’s all right. What are you gonna do about it?
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Speaker 1: Well, your accent is a little weird today too.
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Speaker 2: I don’t know what you’re talking about. It sounds exactly like I sounded every single day. Chester comes down to he says, oh, guys, hey, Clay, I didn’t get invited to play trivia either, but I think Seth and I are going to go up to the reservoir and get after some walleye after the game, right, yeah, absolutely yeah, Clay. Clay jumps in and he’s like, you guys have room on the boat for another and Chester turns to swim. Uh no, he gets kind of packed with with more than with more than two. I’m three specifically, So I don’t know why Chester just sounded like Clay that right now, But anyway, Clay seems a little offended. But at this time, Steve Ronella walks in holding a styrofoam cooler, comes walking by. Oh nice to run into you guys down here. You’re playing trivia?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, according at one o’clock.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you’re lucky. I’m not playing which your asses? Uh uh. Clay turns to Steve and says, Steve, what’s what’s in that that cooler there? It’s like, oh, well, Chester and I just got back from Louisiana. Got some reds uh gonna you know, blacking them up for the family, didn’t. I’m just gonna throw them in this freezer. I’m gonna run upstairs and take a call, but after my calm and to grab the fish and take off. But you guys, you guys have a have a fun game.
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Speaker 1: Okay, thanks Steve.
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Speaker 2: Yeah uh so, but before that, Steve asked Chester and Clay to help him get some more stuff out of his car and bring it to the freezer. Pretty standard. But now you all walk into the podcast studio, Spencer sits at the host seat, and you all play a game of trivia. What I want you to do now is to roll that same die if you got a ten or above earlier when you rolled, for what kind of a day you had? I want you to add a four to this role. If you had a bad day one through nine, got to subtract a four. This is crazy, but Cal, you still want the game of trivia despite shitting your pants all night. Yeah, keep turning your podcast in late so you know. Congratulations to Cal. You did. What conservation organization would you like to donate your five hundred dollars to. We’re gonna go back country hunters and anglers please, eh A great, great, typical typical. Okay, Well, after the game, y all head out into the hallway. Spencer. You have an early dinner reservation with Shelby tonight, and you know, since it’s already nearing five o’clock, she just decides to meet you at the office. You can roll over together and then you know you can head.
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Speaker 1: Oh, oh my goodness, oh my god, what you’re doing here?
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Speaker 2: Crazy? It was so nice of you to meet Spencer, right. I feel like Spencer looks a little nervous.
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Speaker 1: I did not know this was happening. My wife is now in this.
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Speaker 5: Studios the Crazy Craziest Trivia episode.
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Speaker 2: As you’ll get up and file out a studio. Those of you who have email notifications on your phone, you all get pings at the same time. You pull out your phone and check it, and you open your email to find this very real email. We once Scott from Steven Ronella. He says, Hi, all they are about tennis pieces of fish from the SRMI Louisiana shoot that were physically put into the freezer this afternoon but now are gone. Did anyone move items or take items for shoots? Maybe thinking of something else? Please let me know. We will offer a reward twenty dollars for any infom Well, the game is a foot, You’ll probably have better and more important things to do, but twenty dollars is twenty dollars. In with the office being mostly empty, the list of suspects does not stretch long. What do you want to do find them?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let’s get them.
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Speaker 2: You’ll take a stock of everyone in the office, and by your estimation, the only people you know who are in the office today are Clay Chester, all of you. You can look around the building. You can talk to the playing Chester. Okay, Chester’s allergic to fish.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he might have done it out of spite, because he is allergic and he’s always supplying people for fish fresh.
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Speaker 1: Let’s talk to Chester. I don’t think Chester can lie either. Clay can’t really lie. Let’s let’s talk to Chester.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You all head up to Chester’s office, and from down the hallway you hear some music playing. He’s practicing his good time, something like that’s why you don’t take your ex’s lover to your favorite hunting spot. You all file in and oh, hey guys, Oh hey, what’s the occasions? Hey guys, Yeah, how’s it going. Apologies to the entire state of Wisconsin. You go, what are you doing here? Well, some fish has gone missing and we’d like to come and ask if you know anything about it. You did help put fish in the freezer.
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Speaker 1: And there’s not many folks at the office to day. Chester, so it’s a short list of suspects.
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Speaker 8: Well, I saw it coming off the bat.
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Speaker 1: We’re just seeing what he knows.
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Speaker 2: Lots of opportunity for good cops here. Yeah, Chester turns to Seth like looking for a life.
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Speaker 9: Did you actually put it in the freezer? Because sometimes you forget to do things as you’re doing them. Yeah, I definitely I put it in the freezer. I mean you can ask Clay. I was there. He Clay can vouch for me. I’m Steve can vouch for me too.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, well yeah, maybe we should go talk to Clay then, or should we talk to Chester a little longer?
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Speaker 2: You think, Spencer, once you go ahead and roll that die for me?
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Speaker 1: I rolled a thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Okay. Uh, this is a little bit of an insight check into Chester. He’s telling you the truth, but he’s leaving something out.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay.
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Speaker 2: I I helped Steve bring in, bringing what he wanted, and then you know, I just came up here write some music, that’s all. Okay, So you brought in what he wanted, but not necessarily everything. Yeah, I don’t. I mean, guys, I’m I’m allergic to fish. I don’t know why you’re accusing me of of this?
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Speaker 8: Did you see someone else?
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Speaker 2: Fish? Just Clay? You know, I honestly if I if I were you, I would go talk to I would go talk to Clay. I don’t know who else is here.
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Speaker 10: Hey, Chester, maybe you wanna come with everyone to talk to Clay.
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Speaker 2: Maybe, yeah, I’ll do that. Let’s go Igay, see, I’ll get up. You go over to Clay’s office. Oh, what’s what’s the occasion? Is the Spanish inquisition or what’s going on here?
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Speaker 1: Well, Clay, some fish has gone missing. That Chester says he put in the freezer. So we’re just trying to figure out where it went.
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Speaker 2: And it sounded like you were there when Check put in the freezer and step go ahead and roll that die. You’re gonna make a perception check for me. Ten. That’s exactly what you needed. You Notice that Clay does a quick side glance to Chester at the mention of the freezer. Me and Chester helped Steve bring in his fish and a couple other things, put him in the freezer and a.
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Speaker 11: Couple other things. What else is going in the freezer?
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Speaker 2: Listen, guys, I don’t know what else to tell you. I mean, Chester can say we brought in the fish. Honestly, I’m a little offended this is even happening right now. I like to come into town and see you guys and not having a great time. To be honest, did you happen to notice anybody else around the freezer? Col go ahead and make an intimidation check. Fourteen play turns to Chester. They look at you. Okay, I’m sorry, I swear we didn’t take any fish. But Steve told us about some ice cream that was in the freezer that Dometic sent us as sort of like a promotional thing. He said he didn’t want us to take it, but it’s ice cream. We took the gosh dar and ice cream. Okay, I’m sorry. I can show you. We can bring you down there. I’ll help you look for the fish. There’s real sweet tooths in those mouths too. Just Chester, Chester looks incredibly shameful right now. Well, anyway, you guys, with the admission of the ice cream theft, Clay and Chester bring you down to the freezer. Cal I would like for you to make a perception check. Oh six, okay, Well you don’t notice everything, but one thing you absolutely do notice is that your dog Snort, who you haven’t seen for a couple of hours because you were playing trivia and working and she was kind of wandering around the office. You see her standing room by the freezer. The freezer door is open, and she her mouth is just full of bags of food, crackers, freeze, dried meats, jerky. She looks at you, and she looks different. She looks malnurish and kind of skinny, despite you just having seen her a couple hours ago, and upon seeing you, she immediately runs towards the freezer and jumps in.
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Speaker 11: We should follow her, should probably investigate.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, you’all congregate around the freezer and investigate. And looking in, you see no sign of Snort. But what you do see is a gaping hole at the bottom of the freezer, like kind of a faint teal glow around the edges of the hole. It’s about as deep as the freezer and four feet wide.
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Speaker 10: Okay, well, I’ve canceled our reservation. We have to check this out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we should investigate the freezer portal for sure.
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Speaker 2: So you guys are going to dive into the freezer, Yes, yes we are.
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Speaker 8: We’re gonna throw something in and see what happens.
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Speaker 2: Oh that’s a good idea, Brody. What would you like to pick up and throw in.
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Speaker 5: The fetuses that Krinn has freezer?
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Speaker 2: All right, take a pig fetus, throw it down. You’re kind of like a sound of just like friction, like something is sliding, and it gets quieter and quieter and quieter and then disappears.
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Speaker 4: I hope we should go get Steve and see if he wants to take a ride down the portal.
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Speaker 2: Well, Steve took off for the day. Yeah, I mean, let’s be honest, if that was in fact my dog, I’d be going down. So you all gear up to head just, you know, completely blind, into this hole that appeared in to a freezer. Seems like a stupid thing to do. But before you do, Clay stops. He says, well, hold on, it’s dangerous to go alone, and then goes to the gun safe that’s over there by the freezer and opens it up. You shouldn’t go in unarmed. And he opens the safe and you see kind of a strange assortment of five different weapons. You see a traditional recurve bow, a three to eight Winchester rifle, a massive just like axe for cutting down trees, two skinning knives, a machete, and then next to the gun safe leaning against it is the guitar signed by Co Wetzel that Co gave the chili. It’s crazy. There are six things you can take and there’s six of you. Wow, bizarre.
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Speaker 1: Okay, should we figure out who takes what weapon then?
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Speaker 4: So if we decided we can’t let Cal go alone now and we’re all going with him?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Cal, you’re probably the best traditional archery person in here.
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Speaker 2: I would say I can’t imagine that’s the best weapon for going into a whole. Cal’s taking the bow.
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Speaker 4: I want that big ass axe.
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Speaker 1: There we go as the winner of the sig shooting competition earlier this year, I should probably have the three O eight since I’m the best shot in the group.
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Speaker 8: You know how to use a couple of skin in there and the guitar.
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Speaker 9: I can use a skinny knife, I know, I don’t I don’t get Oh yeah.
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Speaker 10: Frankly, I don’t feel like a safe person with any of these options.
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Speaker 11: So maybe I’ll take the guitar.
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Speaker 1: Play but you can play what what was your instrument?
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Speaker 12: You never know when something needs to.
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Speaker 2: Perfect.
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Speaker 11: Thank you, Thank.
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Speaker 2: You, skinny knives.
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Speaker 1: Phil has now distributed some pieces of paper that have stats on them, so that goes along with the weapon.
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Speaker 2: We chose everything I like. I put information on the sheet, only pertinent information. Frankly, about only a quarter of this is anything. You’re gonna use it. Don’t be intimidated. I’m gonna try to make this as easy as possible. You know, after you, guys, I’ll take these weapons. You look down into the hole, give a salute to Clay and Chester, who are going to stay back. You know, someone’s got to guard the freezer. Yeah, and this ice cream is not going to eat itself, so they hang back, and you all take turns, heading feet first into this mysterious hole. And after sliding down a surprisingly smooth shoot of soil and loam for about twenty thirty feet, you can’t help but feel the air becoming thick with moisture, even as the fear of what may await you at the bottom of the slide begins to take over. And then do you land on an unexpectedly soft and foamy surface. Incomplete and total darkness of everyone around here could make a perception check for me. So you’re going to roll the twenty sided die the one that you’ve had the whole time. There is a stat listed in the blue highlighted section that says perception. I would like you to add that number to the die and tell me what you got.
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Speaker 1: In the blue area.
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Speaker 2: I don’t see intelligence, wisdom, charisma, constitution, dexterity, and strength is what I have. Those are the main ones, and then there are there’s some smaller texts under there.
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Speaker 11: Oh in the wisdom, Yes.
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Speaker 2: Under wisdom percept five.
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Speaker 8: So what do we add that number to our number?
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Speaker 2: Yep, to their number you got on the die.
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Speaker 1: I have a fourteen plus five, so in nineteen whoa dang?
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Speaker 8: I have an eighteen plus one nineteen.
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Speaker 2: Sixteen plus three nineteen I have eight total Riva.
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Speaker 11: Four were not very perceptive.
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Speaker 2: No, well, other than a thick humidity and a smell of rotting fermenting vegetation, you have really no perception of anything around you. I mean, you can’t even get a sense of the size of the space you’re in. Is there is essentially no reverberation of sound to give you any sort of kind of subconscious echo location. The one thing that you three notice is that you feel almost a glow throughout your entire bodies, you know, like you just chugged like a nitro cold brew, or like like a five milligram gummy is just kicking in something like that.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what’s that feel like?
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Speaker 2: Or Mount knops a night perhaps, Oh yeah, that as well. But Brody, you notice on the ground there just a very faint, pulsing purple light emanating from a tiny mushroom.
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Speaker 8: M Spencer, what kind of mushroom is that?
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Speaker 1: I have never seen a mushroom like that that pulsates. I mean the closest thing would maybe be like a fly at Garrick, but it doesn’t look too much like a fly a Gerrick.
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Speaker 2: I bet Shelby, Oh eat it?
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Speaker 10: Uh no, actually, don’t touch it. Spencer loves to touch a mushroom he’s investigating.
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Speaker 11: Don’t touch that. I don’t know what that is.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I would rather not touch it and maybe poke.
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Speaker 10: At it a little, not with your hand, maybe like with your.
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Speaker 1: Rifle, just in case it gets sure.
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Speaker 2: All right, you take your rifle and you give the little mushroom a poke, and then, almost immediately, like a ripple reverberating in a still pond, a wave of light emanates from the small mushroom and hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of mushrooms and fungal growths. A light in the space with an electric iridescence, bright at first, then dimming down into a soft glow. But it’s enough to light this entire area that you’re in. Okay, you stand inside a massive cavern, maybe four hundred feet high. You can see the ceiling because there’s also fungal growths along the ceiling that are lit up as well, But the space is so expansive you can’t see any sort of wall in any cardinal direction. Your only sense of where to go from here is a crudely cut trail right in front of you that’s carved through a section of this fungal forest. Could this be what’s having averse effects on my dog?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, snored around?
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Speaker 2: Have we call kay I? Why don’t you give me an investigation check with advantage? What that means is you roll that twenty sided die twice and you take the highest result that’s twelve or five. Take twelve. You are going to add your investigation score on there, which I believe is under intelligence. If you can read, I can bring the lights up well. Oddly enough, in both the intelligence and charisma categories. I have zero’s across the board, so well, you know what, that’s still enough. The number on the die was the number on the die was high enough. You only needed a twelve. All right, we’ll take it. You get down on your knees, and you notice. I mean it’s you can’t mistake it for anything else. Snorts tracks are right right down the stream.
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Speaker 12: We’re gonna have to follow it.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I think we better go investigate.
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Speaker 1: We should probably be strategic about who goes first, though, based on the weapons here.
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Speaker 2: No, I’m just saying this is a serious situation because this is abnormal behavior for that dog.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, maybe cal first or what then?
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Speaker 2: All right, dog called that a marching order spencer. You’re on it. I appreciate it. Col’s in front, y’all had in a single file line progress down the trail. Uh. I mean you’ve never seen anything like this before. No, just an expanse of insane fungal grows and mushrooms that some look familiar like a fla garrick or some sort of morale looking thing, but others that look completely alien with tendrils growing off of them kind of are drifting in a completely breezeless and sort of there’s no air movement in this space. Whatsoever?
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Speaker 1: What’s the Netflix show you like? Fill the that has the upside down in its stranger things? It feels like that a Lotte.
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Speaker 2: It kind of looks like it’s not too dissimilar.
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Speaker 4: I’d say for the last of us, we got to worry about effect us.
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Speaker 2: I don’t know what to find out. You know, even though there’s not a lot of sound in here, k usually when they get close enough you hear you only see just silhouettes of some animal you’ve never seen before. Looks something like a bat with just a wingspan of about seven or eight feet and a long tail like a fox.
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Speaker 8: Dangerous.
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Speaker 2: Some of the fungal vines that are growing on these trees recoil as you walk past, as if they can sense that you’re there and don’t want any part of you. But after about twenty minutes of following the trail, you hear a distant sound of rolling water, and several minutes later you arrive at a cliff’s edge, and the trail ends here. But you can tell it didn’t used to because you can spot the remains of a rope bridge hanging directly under you, and you can see posts at the other side of this canyon. It’s on the other side of this cliff, as if the rope bridge was attached there and was severed and fell towards your side of the canyon. You also, you know, you notice the source of the running water. There’s a relatively fast moving river that’s running through the canyon and kind of curves with the canyon in the direction of the trail across the canyon. And you also notice an overturned skiff down on the shore of this river in the canyon, and there’s kind of an embankment about thirty forty feet off to the side. If you wanted to get down there, you could. However, before you decide what to do about this impasse, it would be nearly impossible to miss the desecrated and mangled dead body about ten feet.
00:29:17
Speaker 1: To or left.
00:29:20
Speaker 2: I’m gonna be honest with your kids, I don’t think this is about the fish fillet is at this point. I was just gonna say, are we still looking for the.
00:29:24
Speaker 1: Fish the fishing sort?
00:29:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, and who’s dead? Well, keep in mind too, if I’m leaving the pack and we just walk for twenty minutes. We’re more than a mile underground. Seth and Brody, you guys are good skiff folks. We’re crossing this thing or what.
00:29:45
Speaker 8: How many people we got?
00:29:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should look at that dead?
00:29:48
Speaker 11: Are they too dead for healing?
00:29:49
Speaker 2: Word? At this point, they’re dead dead. I can smell, Shelby. Do you want to get closer and look?
00:29:56
Speaker 10: Yeah, I’ll get up there and like give them a little nudge with the guitar.
00:30:00
Speaker 2: I don’t care about to make an investigation check and if anyone would like to help her they love some help, then they can also roll. I’m not even gonna have you add your modifier there, because that is plenty. On A nineteen, you notice that he is almost chewed apart completely. All the fat and muscle from every single limb is just I mean, it’s just ripped off of his His body’s been probably dead for about two to three weeks, you’d guess. But even with his muscle mostly missing, you still see a very large claw scratch across his back deep, I mean, just like probably went through bone as well.
00:30:44
Speaker 11: Like that powerful guys, what could have done this? That’s a pretty crazy gah.
00:30:52
Speaker 1: Maybe that creature that was flying around before maybe the intimidate or the fake snort we saw. Either way, I don’t think we should hang around, though.
00:31:00
Speaker 2: Some things you do find though. He’s got a pack on him, or at least he used to. And in that pack is a letter, Shelby. Do you want to take that and read it out loud? Please?
00:31:09
Speaker 10: Yes? I found something addressed to X. The more mort Goth portal is compromise. The denizens of the material plane must not discover this truth. Defend the causeway with whatever magic you have at your disposal. I’ve been told you have a way with fauna and flora. Do not disappoint me again.
00:31:31
Speaker 1: Woo okay, and.
00:31:35
Speaker 2: Sort of mysterious missive And also with Zeth that incredibly high investigation check that you helped Shelby with. You also find two potions of healing. If you would like to take any of these, you can spread them out as you would like to. You find a potion of invulnerability, which makes you makes you take half damage from anything for an app for one minute, so that doesn’t seem the time to use this, all right, And you pass the check high enough to notice that there is a kind of nook in the stump of the tree that this man died near as if you’re trying to hide something, you see just like a little bit a piece of parchment kind of sticking out, and you pull out a scroll and it’s just got it’s got magic runes written all over it. I mean, if you were still up in Bozeman, you would not be able to read this. But something about the air, sort of like lay line magic that seems to be emanating in this space gives you the ability to read this script. And this is a magic scroll of remove curse, remove curse. And you also find this cloak of billowing seth. You can read that and tell me in anybody who wants it can have it. While wearing this cloak, you can use a bonus action to make it billow dramatically.
00:32:54
Speaker 4: Wow, you better hold onto that one.
00:33:00
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I mean you’ve picked this area clean. So now you stand at the edge of this cliff, a river unneath you, a boat on the shore, and a broken rope bridge out of you. Reva, what do you think?
00:33:13
Speaker 7: Ooh, I was thinking we hook up a rope here, That’s.
00:33:22
Speaker 8: What I was thinking.
00:33:24
Speaker 4: We could split up, send three across the rope and three down to the boat.
00:33:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, that’s a good idea, very good.
00:33:31
Speaker 2: Wow, it’s a little more complicated than but yeah, your guys call, what do you want to do?
00:33:39
Speaker 8: It’ll work for sure.
00:33:40
Speaker 2: Okay, let’s do it all right? So who’s who’s going to be firing? I mean, you’ve got the boat, I guess, yeah, I will shoot an arrow across the chasm. I’m going to attach your rope to the arrow and shoot it across the chasm. Yes. Great. I want you to give me something I’ve got much practice with. Yeah, I would like you to give you just a straight dexterity checks. Gonna roll the twenty sided die and add just the big dexterity number that is not that’s above all the other ones care. That’s twelve, and I get a plus two, So fourteen you only needed twelve. It hits kind of the post that was holding up the rope bridge before seems pretty sturdy. So who’s going first.
00:34:23
Speaker 4: I’ll climb across brod. I’ll use it for a zip line.
00:34:28
Speaker 2: Tie at the end of the rope too, Like I just kind of the stuff firm looking, Yeah, stuff where the dead body is and it seems like a pretty hot line. Who’s crossing? I’ll go first, all right, I’m not even gonna make your roll, Brody. It’s it’s not that tough. You hold on with both hands, you work your way across, and you make it to the other side. Got you guys all all gonna follow this way?
00:34:48
Speaker 1: He made that look easy.
00:34:50
Speaker 4: Someone’s got to run the boat.
00:34:54
Speaker 2: What kind of down to It’s kind of a beat up looking skiff.
00:34:58
Speaker 11: You can always go down afterwards.
00:35:01
Speaker 10: I think maybe we should stick together at least until we know what we’re facing here. Yeah, I think we should, you know we could. But also I think I might be the only healer in the adventuring party, So maybe I’ll just stick with everybody.
00:35:17
Speaker 2: Maybe just a yeah, let’s go across, all right, everyone takes turns crossing the road. Yeah, good job, guys. You make it over safe.
00:35:24
Speaker 1: That was easy.
00:35:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gave you you guys took the less obvious path, and you guys are.
00:35:32
Speaker 4: I was just worried that, you know, Snort wouldn’t have gone across that, so she might have gone.
00:35:37
Speaker 2: She’s a swimming son of a gun, but she’s.
00:35:40
Speaker 1: Also a good jumper. Though. She could have cleared that thing no problem, especially in this upside down world we’re in.
00:35:48
Speaker 2: You make your way down the trail now that you’re reconnected to it, and you see a large growth of these glowing mushrooms ahead of you in a massive clearing my head, and atop them like a throne is a massive black, humanoid looking house cat.
00:36:08
Speaker 1: Oh.
00:36:09
Speaker 2: It’s picking its teeth the claw of one pot, and it’s in its other pots holding kind of like a wriggling ball of leech like slugs all knotted together, kind of pulsing in this weird lavender color. Yep. The next thing you see is Snort sitting at the foot of this throne with just a vacant, empty look in the eyes.
00:36:37
Speaker 8: You’re gonna put an air between the things eyes.
00:36:40
Speaker 5: I think we get Spencer with the rifle to dispatch that cat.
00:36:45
Speaker 1: Well is that it looks like Set’s cat. I don’t want to shoot Set’s cat.
00:36:49
Speaker 10: Thing doesn’t know we’re in there yet. Have we like revealed ourselves? Has it found us?
00:36:55
Speaker 2: It’s interesting you say that because as soon as you enter the clearing, cat makes icon act with Wow, was it you who turned on the lights? I was trying to have a little rest, and apparently that’s not going to happen today. Come on, let’s get this over with. Come in, come in, m all right.
00:37:14
Speaker 11: We all file in, or at least I do to ca.
00:37:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a safe sounding cat. I don’t think we need to kill it quite yet.
00:37:20
Speaker 2: I’d put around in the chamber. Spencer’s going first.
00:37:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, my finger is on the safe, but I haven’t taken it off safe yet. I’m crap all with this cat.
00:37:34
Speaker 2: Well, I knew when the beast referring to Snort returned all panicked, I knew that something was a miss, and so I was just waiting for this moment. Let me explain. I was minding my own business up there where you all we all live, when a dreadfully ugly man in a cloak stole me away into the freezer, brought me down here and said some gobbledy gook and cursed me and turned me into this abomination and said that, you know, in exchange for supplying me with food down here, that I would guard this trail and kill anything that tried to pass. And he gave me the command, gave me this this thing holds a little ball of leeches in his hand, to command all of the yeah, freaky little dudes down here, and after you know, several days of him bringing me rotten fish, you know, birds with sharp wings and dry mushrooms, I decided that, you know, ugly man in the cloak looked rather tasty himself. Oh so you know, it turns out that despite his poor taste in mid day snacks, he was the only thing keeping me from starving. You know, I decided to create a new servant for myself after I you know, is he still there?
00:38:43
Speaker 11: Did you kill ex?
00:38:44
Speaker 2: Or?
00:38:45
Speaker 11: What was his name?
00:38:48
Speaker 2: Xana told I don’t know him. He didn’t tell me. I only heard from others.
00:38:52
Speaker 11: Does this look familiar to you, mister Catman.
00:38:55
Speaker 2: The dead guy? I killed him and I hate him and his face, of course. Yeah that’s what cads do.
00:39:02
Speaker 10: Yeah.
00:39:04
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it turns out he was quite useful to me, but I had to eat something.
00:39:09
Speaker 11: You see any fresh fish lately? Catman?
00:39:13
Speaker 2: Yeah? Funny you should say that. Normally, this little ball allows me to communicate with the things in this area. I’ve tried to reach out to, you know, humans like you above, and it’s never worked. But a couple of days ago I was able to connect with this thing pointing to snort. According to the Skinny Wizard, that wasn’t supposed to be possible. But this life form that I connected with had somehow been marked by a creature of this realm. And he points to you and turns out that whatever scarred your pup was much more than just a simple snake. I don’t know how all this works. I’m how new to this whole thing. I’ve only been here for a few weeks. But now he’s my servant. I’m sorry she she is my servant, and I’m not giving her back. And you can’t make m That fish was delicious, by the way, And from this perspective, you all look quite like mice. So what do you say? We cut to the chase. She hisses, runs up a tree, and that’s what we’re going to do a quick transition. During that quick break, we had everyone rolled the dye to see where they would go in the initiative order of combat. Here, first to go is Brody Henderson. Brody, you’ve got a giant axe. You may move thirty feet. Each one of these squares represents five feet, am I right here? Down forward? Five fifteen thirty. How’s that? Oh?
00:40:48
Speaker 12: Look a strong?
00:40:51
Speaker 2: Good story. We’re just sprinting towards each other maybe I should have put you guys closer together. Oh well, you’ll you’ll learn and you do better next time. The cat’s turn is next. He is going to hiss at you once again and then run up this tree here. He’s not going to do anything. Was pretend he’s on the tree. He’s going to be watching. Yes, he’s the cat is treed, and he’s actually going to take an action right now. He’s going to try to hide from you, which is something you can do as well.
00:41:17
Speaker 3: Uh.
00:41:19
Speaker 2: He succeeds, so as far as you know, he went behind that tree and disappeared un tell on the battlefield. Uh. But right before he ran into the tree, he squeezes a little leech ball and these mushrooms it’s kind of sprouted out of the ground and it came to life. Snort is also seemingly uh, your antagonist currently, but you can see kind of a lavender glow in her eyes, the same one emanating from that ball of leeches in the cat’s hand. Try to get that ball leach.
00:41:49
Speaker 11: Yes, and what did we do with that dispel curse? Scroll? Is sprout cursed or a snort curse?
00:41:59
Speaker 2: And maybe try to use it later if you want to or not. It’s up to you. Coming up next is Spencer. You’re up.
00:42:08
Speaker 1: I want to run closer to the cat while also trying to stay behind.
00:42:12
Speaker 11: You don’t know where the cat is.
00:42:13
Speaker 1: Well, we saw behind the tree, towards the tree. We want to go towards that tree.
00:42:19
Speaker 2: Okay, so you are here. You want to be as close as you can.
00:42:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I want to stay behind that tree too, So like, yeah, there we go.
00:42:28
Speaker 2: Take out this is This is just for scale and perspective. If you guess you guys aren’t actually sleeping or dead. You’re standing and you look proud and brave. Spencer, you have a long range hunting rifle, which means that you like I’m like Brody, you can attack things.
00:42:43
Speaker 1: From Okay, I I would like to take aim at that ball of leeches that has control of snort.
00:42:50
Speaker 2: Okay, First, because the cat is hiding, I need you to make a perception check to see if you can find the cat. If you do not, rolling Bubby seventeen, you do not find the cat. You see the cat, Yeah, he thinks he’s being sneaky, but he’s not. Okay, you’re better than he is. I will tell you right now. The cat’s armor class, which is the number you have to hit with your diet to hit the cat is a twelve, pretty low because you’re trying to shoot a specific part of its body. I’m going to add three to that, so you need to hit a fifteen. If you look at your yellow box, you’re gonna roll your D twenty and there’s a number next to that that you add to.
00:43:28
Speaker 1: It plus four and it’s a one, So five.
00:43:31
Speaker 2: Five and a that one means you miss no matter what.
00:43:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, bad shot, You’re all right.
00:43:37
Speaker 2: Next up is the one of the mushrooms. Here. This mushroom is gonna you can’t move very fast, so he’s only going here.
00:43:48
Speaker 1: Okay, seth, you’re up.
00:43:53
Speaker 2: So what do I do? You can move and you can attack, and if you want to do anything else, it’s ask me about it and I’ll tell you if you can or can’t.
00:43:59
Speaker 11: Those mush look pretty, uh, pretty dangerous.
00:44:03
Speaker 2: I guess I just moved to him. Eh, sounds like a plan.
00:44:07
Speaker 1: What’s your weapons?
00:44:08
Speaker 2: I don’t think there’s I don’t think now is the time. I do have some. I think I put a little dagger in here, but we’ll just keep going. You can get probably about this close.
00:44:20
Speaker 12: All right, that’s getting pretty close to that.
00:44:23
Speaker 1: I think you can throw those there, No, you.
00:44:25
Speaker 2: Can, but you can’t. They don’t come back to you. So I mean you can go pull you know, you can go recover it. Okay, So now what will I do? I’m just there. It turns basically over. Okay, it’s all you can do right now. Now it’s the big old bosses, not the cat, but that mushroom with the sprout out of its head, that is the leader of the mushroom pack. He is going to run towards so.
00:44:51
Speaker 8: But I don’t know if you can get close enough. Nope, he’s just gonna.
00:44:56
Speaker 2: Hang out there. Okay, So now it is your turn. Can I shoot that mushroom? You absolutely can? Which one are you gonna aim for? Here? The one next is closest to SETH one closer to SETH. Yeah, have about it. You need to go ahead and roll that the big one, the twenty sided die there, the red and blue one. Yep, and you are going to add a six to this roll. Come on, here we go. Fourteen done. Now you’re going to take that other pointy die you have there that is a D eight. It has eight sides on it. That’s that is your damage. Die, you’re going to roll that and add a two. You just say d D eight catching on pretty glad one one plus Let’s see you do three damage?
00:45:47
Speaker 11: There you go.
00:45:47
Speaker 2: It takes the hit.
00:45:48
Speaker 1: Do we know how much health he has? No?
00:45:51
Speaker 2: You do not?
00:45:52
Speaker 1: Okay?
00:45:53
Speaker 2: Coming up next gave him something to think about. That’s right, coming up next to this little dude, charge towards set Oh god, I should have went a different and make an attack against Seth. That is a fourteen seth.
00:46:09
Speaker 1: Oh.
00:46:09
Speaker 2: This is your armor class up here. You have a thirteen, which means this little guy hits you. But once you know these little mushrooms aren’t that strong, heels one damage. Here are your hit points you currently have seventeen. Go and erase that right of sixteen for me.
00:46:24
Speaker 1: You just like stuck your toe.
00:46:28
Speaker 2: Aracer. I brought pencils, pass them down so I got a sixteen? You got yep, you lost one hit point. Seventeen goes down to sixteen. Shelby, you’re up here, okay.
00:46:42
Speaker 10: In case I’m gonna try to get like hide behind the tree that’s closest to big bad mushroom, or I get as close as I can.
00:46:52
Speaker 11: Is that my whole turn, or can I like, ready.
00:46:55
Speaker 2: This is as far as you can go?
00:46:56
Speaker 10: Show Okay, I’ll hide behind that guy.
00:47:00
Speaker 2: Yeah you didn’t cover behind that tree? What about what happened to Reva? She’s last? Yeah, there you go, and then she’s smelling. No, you can cast a spell and you can actually take the hide action to hide more effectively behind that tree.
00:47:18
Speaker 11: I could I ready a spell instead? Just in case Seth?
00:47:24
Speaker 2: You absolutely can? What spell would you like to ready? Holy cow, Shelby, he’s in the lingo here, look at me.
00:47:31
Speaker 11: I would like to ready healing.
00:47:35
Speaker 2: Word all right and use it on Seth. Seth if he gets if he gets hit again, if he gets yeah, remember that. Awesome.
00:47:45
Speaker 1: I’ll just put Seth out of his misery. If this doesn’t work, I’ve got the rifle.
00:47:49
Speaker 2: Great, you guys have a plan. As this little guy’s turn, he only gets I think about this far can’t quite reach Seth. It just kind of rolls around there, looks it’s very pitiful doing it all right, Preva, you’re up?
00:48:05
Speaker 12: Who what do I do?
00:48:08
Speaker 2: You can now you can move thirty feet six squares or you and then you know you’re kind of far away. If I were to do this again, folks, I would have put the players closer to the combatants. So yeah, I’ll just have you move up. You probably roll okay, perfect? Nice? All right, we go back to the top of initiative. Brody, that’s you.
00:48:31
Speaker 4: I’m gonna run up and chop up that mushroom that cow put an arrow in.
00:48:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, we look like we’re getting our butts handed. Yeah, a big hole, a little little disarray, Brady, good and roll that twenty sided die for me. Thirteen thirteen. You think you add a four, that’s a seventeen. You absolutely hit. Now you’re gonna roll that deep the twelve sided die. They’re the one with the pentagon face, and you’ven added two to.
00:49:00
Speaker 8: This twelve plus two?
00:49:02
Speaker 2: Nice? Holy cow? Fourteen damage?
00:49:05
Speaker 8: That a dead mushroom.
00:49:06
Speaker 2: Not quite, he’s looking he’s looking rough. Now all right, it is now the cats turn. Oh no, the cat is going to come out of hiding. Even though it was spotted by Spencer. It can long jump twenty five feet. Oh wow. Oh no, it’s going to come around the side here Spencer cancer, and it’s going to take an attack. That is an eighteen spencer. I believe that hits you.
00:49:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does Oh wow, my armor class is a fifteen all.
00:49:47
Speaker 2: Right, that deals seven damage to you.
00:49:51
Speaker 1: Oh so seven off of the fifteen or seven off of my hit hit points? Okay, so fifteen off of that you said, Yep, got it?
00:49:59
Speaker 11: I have no not fa seven.
00:50:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, seven off of your hit points your current hit points?
00:50:04
Speaker 1: Got it? So then I’m at seventeen?
00:50:07
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, Spencer, it’s your turnt.
00:50:12
Speaker 1: Okay, I need to wheel around and aimed at this cat who now like has me in a huge glass grizzly bear situation, it’s like on top of me, and take aim at it.
00:50:23
Speaker 2: Okay, I will say, you have to be to get proper aim with your rifle. You need to get some distance on this cat. Otherwise you’re gonna be rolling with disadvantage, which means you roll twice and take the lower number. If you move out of its attack, it may try to swipe at you though.
00:50:37
Speaker 1: Okay, can I move to the other side of the tree that we’re around? Is that good enough or not? Uh?
00:50:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can do that, Okay, I will say, the cat will still take I mean you’re still moving out of his attack, ran, so he’s gonna attack you.
00:50:49
Speaker 1: M Okay, you know what you’ve convinced me film going to move further than I need. Get away from your cat. Move me. I’m gonna do all thirty. I’m just gonna get awa. I’m gonna get over in this scrum. I want to be by these guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay. We now have three of our fighters among all of the mushrooms.
00:51:07
Speaker 2: All taking a nap. The cat’s gonna again and he misses when he when you move out of the you gotta kill that big mushroom, sef. Yeah, but Spencer, you can still take your action, so you can. You can shoot at the cat now if you’d like.
00:51:22
Speaker 1: I’m going to finish off that big mush there. You go about, let’s do that.
00:51:24
Speaker 2: Okay, what happens here, go ahead and take take the show.
00:51:28
Speaker 1: D twenty twenty D twenty one. Spencer gave me this rifle.
00:51:37
Speaker 2: Now it’s gonna be this other big that’s so bad.
00:51:40
Speaker 1: Maybe I hit someone in our party.
00:51:43
Speaker 2: I’m not gonna be that. This mushroom runs over to I’m gonna say it runs over to Brody. It’s that big axe is freaking him out and he misses. So now it is seths turn. So what’s going on? With these mushrooms. Now, one there, just pretend all of your guys looks totally badass standing up and the mushrooms are coming at you. All right, So what’s the mushroom that’s hurt the most, the one with the stem. Yeah, you can absolutely stab. You can actually stab it twice because you.
00:52:21
Speaker 1: Are using SETH. Is gonna Julian the mushroom.
00:52:25
Speaker 2: I want to right at the base. All right, go ahead and roll that that D twenty, the big one you’ve been rolling. Can you double the amount of dice you roll? So, but for a knife, isn’t a lot of dice, but you can attack twice. So you’re gonna roll this really quick, which is a D four D four Yeah, that’s right.
00:52:48
Speaker 1: So this is his damage he’s doing.
00:52:49
Speaker 2: This is his damage he is doing, and he has to double it only A one that’s the tube plus two. That’s four damage. And then you can attack again with the D twenty, the big one. Roll that again again, and we’re not going to add anything to this one. That’s a two. It’s two more damage. Okay, so that is six damage. He is good. If he takes one more good hit, he will be toast.
00:53:18
Speaker 1: Speaking of toast, we should cook them though, once we kill one of the absolutely.
00:53:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So now it is the almost dead mushrooms turn. He is kind of freaked out. I think he’s gonna try to run away from you. Guys. He is surrounded on all sides, and so seth, you can take an opportunity attack as he moves away from you if you if you hit him, you could potentially kill him if you roll a four, roll the D twenty first. See if you hit him six. I do not believe you do. Nope, you miss. But he’s still just the Messroom’s gonna run away as far as possible. Cal it’s your turn. Can I shoot that mushroom? Absolutely? Roll the D twenty shit fire seven seven? Uh you still add six to that roll because you’ve got a totally no, no, you’ve got the bow. Oh yeah, you add a six so that that hits. You’re gonna roll that D eight and add two to it. You know, let’s see four six total. He had six hp left, goes through the cap on his head and he falls limpless.
00:54:26
Speaker 1: Can we cook that thing?
00:54:28
Speaker 2: We got it one? Uh yeah, we’ll put it in the.
00:54:30
Speaker 4: Cooler so his minions don’t when the leader dies, his minions don’t die apparently.
00:54:35
Speaker 2: Not No, but you are aware that the cat is holding a weird looking ball a goop in its hands that they have something to do with. I know, but I felt like we had needed to follow through on what we started. Honestly, I’m as smart as that mushroom could have really messed you guys up. Okay, there we go. It is now the sad little mushrooms.
00:54:56
Speaker 11: Turn snort up too. She’s been chilling.
00:54:59
Speaker 2: Seeing it’s it’s dad, yes, Nor it is just kind of staring there. Okay, Diary, it’s Dad die and know’s going to take revenge, but is going to come after Spencer because it is the closest target missus. Okay, it is now Shelby’s turn.
00:55:22
Speaker 10: Okay, I can’t really attack with anything except spells, so could I do vicious mockery?
00:55:30
Speaker 2: Yes? Vicious mockery is a lot of fun, and basically you just make fun of the enemy and make them feel bad about them.
00:55:37
Speaker 10: You up, you tasty little mushrooms. We’re going to fry you in a pan and gobble you down.
00:55:47
Speaker 2: Which mushroom you’re you gonna attack.
00:55:49
Speaker 10: The one that’s closest to me? I guess the guy going after Brody.
00:55:56
Speaker 2: The the big one. Great, he makes his saving throw. Uh so yeah, I believe it does not do anything.
00:56:08
Speaker 11: Okay, well I just made fun of a mushroom for fun.
00:56:12
Speaker 2: Okay, still he’s still blushing. Uh this little guy, here’s the other little guy here he is he is going to attack Seth because he’s right. There’s why not and uh Seth and missus Seth again, these guys are not rolling. Great, Reva, it’s your turn, Reva. Go chap that kitty’s pow.
00:56:35
Speaker 8: Yeah, someone’s got to engage the big bed.
00:56:38
Speaker 12: And think’s the machetes job?
00:56:41
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
00:56:42
Speaker 7: I was thinking the mushrooms sounded good for the machete sacrifice.
00:56:47
Speaker 2: No, I can give you. Can I give Riva a potion of invulnerability? Absolutely you can. You can drink that as a bonus action, Riva, so you can still do your whole turn if you’d like to. You can. It means you take half damage for the rest of the fight. But yeah, kill that cat, that’s the deal.
00:57:04
Speaker 12: Okay, let’s go for it.
00:57:05
Speaker 2: All right. Riva drinks the potion. She’s feeling her her skin quadruples in thickness. It’s really weird. She looks swollen, and then she charges the cat. Riva. Go ahead and roll that D twenty for me. You’re adding a four to this roll eight plus four twelve twelve and you’re attacking the lion. Are you going for the paw or the lion or the cat in general? Go for the throat, get the paw.
00:57:35
Speaker 12: Let’s go for the paw.
00:57:36
Speaker 2: Okay you do? Miss Oh sorry, Reva. I’m all right, Brodie, you’re up.
00:57:46
Speaker 4: I can’t move far enough to run over there and attack that cat, can I?
00:57:51
Speaker 2: Oh? Where are you right here?
00:57:56
Speaker 1: Yeah?
00:57:56
Speaker 2: He’s got it all right.
00:57:58
Speaker 8: I’m gonna yeah, you got Oh, yeah.
00:58:01
Speaker 1: I’m gonna The cat’s brought side to him.
00:58:04
Speaker 2: There you are. Go ahead and roll that D twenty Brody nineteen. Oh, that absolutely hits. You’re gonna roll that D twelve. You’re gonna add two to this role, and Brody, I will say that something about the magic in the air and watching snort just kind of skinny and lifeless on the other side of the cavern gives you a sense of rage you haven’t felt in a long time. You add two to this damage role? Yeah, six six plus two or is that with the plus two?
00:58:31
Speaker 8: No, it’s six total, so six plus two.
00:58:33
Speaker 2: But I’m gonna you get to add another plus plus two plus another two, so that’s eight. Don’t worry about it. I’m doing the math. The cat takes eight damage. Nice, all right, It is now the cat’s turn. He was not very happy about this, Brod. He’s gonna swipe at you twice. Okay, can handle this is the first one? Oh good, second one hits Uh, there’s nenty eight alright, deals six points of damage to Brody and go ahead, take away six points from your hits points.
00:59:19
Speaker 1: That was the cat’s turn.
00:59:20
Speaker 2: That was the cat’s turn. Spencer, euroupe Brody twenty one.
00:59:24
Speaker 1: These mushrooms are lined up. Nice. I’m gonna try to shoot both of them. I could with one shot. I could. I think I could get both.
00:59:30
Speaker 2: Absolutely can shot. You want to see you want to move around one?
00:59:35
Speaker 1: Yeah?
00:59:35
Speaker 2: Those two?
00:59:36
Speaker 1: I want to shoot both of them. I mean if I could probably move back here and go for a three fur.
00:59:41
Speaker 2: Yeah make that John Spencer, Yeah, yeah, I’m allowing all three mushrooms.
00:59:46
Speaker 1: It’s like imagine three Canadian peace, like a roll with advantage.
00:59:51
Speaker 11: Because he’s the the sig Champ two. Maybe we’re getting squirrely here, don’t get greedy.
00:59:59
Speaker 2: Backs up a line. I will say this is a very important role though, But Spencer, I will say same thing with Brody, something about what’s going on in this cabin right now? You mark these prey, I would say, one of them you can add. You can roll a D six to add to the damage. Roll, but first let’s see if you.
01:00:17
Speaker 1: Hit, so roll the D twenty. The D twenty is a twelve plus four sixteen.
01:00:22
Speaker 2: You hit every single one with a single bullet. Oh right, what’s the damage? Die on their spencer. I’m sorry for the for the rifle.
01:00:31
Speaker 1: Oh it’s plus four.
01:00:32
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, you hit I mean the the damage. So you’re gonna roll a D ten because I don’t think you’ve hit anything. It is your first time. You’re gonna add a D ten. You’re gonna add a two to this six thirty six, and then you’re gonna add the normal die the D six six twelve damage. These little guys vaporized. Yeah, two of.
01:00:52
Speaker 1: The three mushrooms have just died on the battlefield, and the.
01:00:56
Speaker 2: Other one is looking rough.
01:00:59
Speaker 1: Cow here out wounded.
01:01:00
Speaker 2: I’m gonna shoot that cat in the eyeball. Yeah, great, go ahead and roll the big guy, the big die. Oh oh four, Yeah, that’s not gonna hit hit Brody, I hit other dios, this guy, this guy totally dead, Shelby, it’s your turn.
01:01:19
Speaker 11: Okay, we’re getting down there.
01:01:22
Speaker 10: I’m gonna try vicious mockery again on this this medium sized mushroom. Uh, my husband just vaporized your buddies and now we’re gonna eat you.
01:01:32
Speaker 2: Great, he hates it, unfortunately, he saves. Oh sorry, Shelly, it’s a good mushroom. You’re up.
01:01:44
Speaker 12: Okay, let’s let’s go after the cat again.
01:01:47
Speaker 1: Do it?
01:01:47
Speaker 2: Roll the big die seven seven, you add a four to that, I believe. So you do not hit but something you feel like you might be able to swing again. It’s called an action surge nineteen that absolutely hits. So you’re gonna roll the damage that. You’re gonna roll a D six and you’re going to add two to this. Yeah, that’s three damage. The cat is looking rough, all right, mangy Brodie, you’re up.
01:02:25
Speaker 8: Is he still holding those slugs?
01:02:27
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
01:02:27
Speaker 8: I want to chop the hand off. That’s hold all right.
01:02:30
Speaker 2: I will say you need to head a fifteen to chop the hand off.
01:02:33
Speaker 8: I can do it.
01:02:34
Speaker 2: Let’s go. Oh yep, it’s not gonna do it.
01:02:40
Speaker 8: Uh.
01:02:41
Speaker 2: Who is up next? It is the cat’s turn, Brody. He doesn’t like you. He’s gonna swing you again. That misses, that hits you take four damage. I’m still good it.
01:02:55
Speaker 11: Brody’s tough.
01:02:57
Speaker 2: This is spencer.
01:03:00
Speaker 1: My turn. Okay, I’m gonna I’m gonna turn from where I’m standing and fire at the cat with my three oh eight.
01:03:06
Speaker 8: Don’t hit me, Spencer, you haven’t been hit much lately.
01:03:09
Speaker 1: Sixteen. That hits plus four, so that twenty.
01:03:15
Speaker 2: Then roll your damage die which is the eight or the ten? That’s a ten yet one? Dang you guys are really but then you add away yes, and you know what, I will let you move the your your hunter’s mark to the cat, so you can add a d six to this as well.
01:03:32
Speaker 1: Okay, so I’m rolling a regular dice A five.
01:03:36
Speaker 12: There you go.
01:03:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what’s the total? There?
01:03:38
Speaker 1: Oh six total?
01:03:40
Speaker 10: No?
01:03:40
Speaker 11: No, no, no, no, plus two eight?
01:03:44
Speaker 2: Cool about This cat is bleeding and looking horrible.
01:03:48
Speaker 1: It’s been shot in the liver.
01:03:52
Speaker 2: He’s sick. Yes, Who is up next? It is this mushroom’s turn, who’s not looking great? But it’s to come after Seth and is going to try to stun you. Seth. I need you to make a roll this the D twenty. You’re going to add a number to it. Go ahead and roll it first. You don’t even need to add the number. You succeed. You tried to. You see a puff of spores come out of the mushroom. Oh, and you hold your breath and turn your head, and you do not inhale. Maybe it’s time to billow your cloak dramatically. What’s that do? You’ll have to when you use a bonus action and do it.
01:04:35
Speaker 8: You got it.
01:04:36
Speaker 2: You throw on the cloak, and seemingly from out of nowhere, a magical gust of wind rolls behind you, whips the coat, makes a cracking noise, and this mushroom falls down prone. Yeah, knocked him out, Number one stunner. It’s not dead. It’s just lying down, which means whoever attacks it next gets advantage with a melee weapon. The radio life sounds again. I apologize that sounded that mushroom and distress cow. You’re up shooting the cat. Shoot the cat.
01:05:11
Speaker 11: Cow.
01:05:12
Speaker 2: If you shoot this cat is dead. I will let you know that right now. Three. Unfortunately, the handslam.
01:05:23
Speaker 8: You know cow with them trad bows. The idea is to get close first, you might, you might get closer.
01:05:30
Speaker 2: It’s a big kitty.
01:05:32
Speaker 10: Okay, Well, I don’t have a melee weapon, so I’m just gonna let someone else finish off that mushroom.
01:05:38
Speaker 11: And can I do dissonant whispers on the cat?
01:05:41
Speaker 2: Yeah?
01:05:42
Speaker 11: Yeah, do it?
01:05:43
Speaker 2: Do it? So let’s see. I think this cat needs to make a wisdom saving through. A saving throw is a roll of the dyeing which someone is something or someone is trying to protect itself. Save it, throw and eye to save yourself. Okay, thirteen, it succeeds, Sam. Sorry, I’m just these monsters are rolling pretty well when they’re trying to defend against things. Yeah, Reva, you’re up, Come on, Reva.
01:06:10
Speaker 1: One more hit on that cat, feel declared.
01:06:12
Speaker 12: Okay, okay, let’s go for it. Get him two.
01:06:20
Speaker 2: Not gonna do it, Brody.
01:06:21
Speaker 8: First off, I’m gonna sut down this potion of healing.
01:06:24
Speaker 2: Do it so you need well, I need a four year roll two deep roll twice an attitude to it. And that’s how much help you get back. That’s four nice plus seven get seven health points back. I’m right back, where I start, and that’s only a bonus action. So if you’d like to, uh, come at this cat again, you may do so.
01:06:44
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I’m going I’m gonna chop his hand off.
01:06:47
Speaker 2: Right, give me a t twenty year roll? Oh god, but you but I think you get to add some stuff to that.
01:06:56
Speaker 8: How do you tell if it’s a nine or six?
01:06:58
Speaker 2: If the if the period is the period shows you like the end of the sentence there, so if it’s at.
01:07:04
Speaker 8: The bottine plus, what do I add?
01:07:06
Speaker 2: Hit this with the axe? You add a force? That’s a thirteen? Are you going for the hand or the body?
01:07:13
Speaker 8: Let’s just finish him off? Just anywhere I can hit him.
01:07:17
Speaker 2: You raise your axe, and Brody described to me how you destroy this cat?
01:07:22
Speaker 4: Who has bank wishes the term I prefer, Yeah, who took our snort?
01:07:28
Speaker 8: Girl prisoner yep is off with his head? Can we take his head off?
01:07:33
Speaker 2: Definitely?
01:07:36
Speaker 1: Brody swung.
01:07:40
Speaker 2: Kap at that. The ball of leeches rolls out of the paw, The mushrooms fall limp and lifeless, and Snort seems to come back to attention. She hears the whistle runs to you with a fervor you’ve only seen maybe once or twice on a god on a good bird hunting day, dinner or dinner time, something else on your comforter. At the death of the cat, you hear a rumbling up above you. You see a bunch of morell looking fun guys fall from the ceiling. Boy, they’re not that heavy. One even hits Shelby on the head and she barely feels it. But they all open. A crevice opens from their sort of body and just shrieks whoa probably thirty or forty mushrooms screaming at some sort of banshee whale. It is deafening. It shakes the cavern. Rocks start to collapse. What are you gonna do? Grab and head for the skiff. Yeah, we’re going fishing the skiff. Good tagline, That is good. You all spread down the trail. You get back to the rope. The cow shot across the canyon. You make your way across. The cavern is collapsing before you and you get back and you see the hole that he came out of. You can’t get back up. Snory with some residual magic she still has left in heir barks and the appears. You guys are looking out the bottom of the meat eater freezer at the ceiling. What do you do? Can we flip the skiff over and see if the fish filazer? And you run back to the skin and whip it over. Oh like there’s a basket of redfish and drum and and you take it. You go back across and then you’ve jumped through the pearl. You all come pouring out back into the meat eater kitchen. Uh where clay and Chester covered ice cream? That’s right, you covered in blood and weird fungal grows and Clay and Chester covered and ice cream look at you completely bewildered. Clay turns to you and goes, what the and then you all, uh, it’s it’s insane to Clay explains that you you jump down there and came back only seconds later. Time must move more weird in that realm, and that describes why I just STEVIEX.
01:10:09
Speaker 8: Found your fish perfect.
01:10:12
Speaker 2: At that moment, you hear kind of some quick footsteps coming down the hallway and you see Corrin and she’s holding a kennel and she looks at you panics and goes, has anyone seen my cat? And that’s all for this episode of Spencer clay an Chester and the entire mediat podcast network. Thank you for watching. Wow Yes Spencer from South Dakota.
01:10:38
Speaker 11: He’s the host, using those smooth, mellow tones, he lays them questions down.
01:10:50
Speaker 2: He likes taking those two and three year old bucks. Amateur
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