1.9 The Rain of Fritters

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Isaac Allen Burns (00:31):
Hey, everybody. It's your GM, Isaac
Allen Burns, here on a not sogreat mic editing this podcast.
Just wanted to let y'all knowthat the DodoBorne crew is going
to Gen Con this year, 2025, endof July into August. We'll be
there. I'll be running a coupletables, and if you come to
those, you might be able to playwith either Joe, Rowan, or

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Annie, and even myself.
So keep a lookout for that. Seeyou at GenCon. Okay. On with the
episode. Hey.
It's a podcast. Hey. Come on in,everybody. It's me, your GM,
your host, your MC, your,favorite artist.

Joe Diametti (01:10):
Your birthday boy.

Your birthday boy. That's right, everybody.
It's my birthday. I'm officially25. Hey, yo.
Isn't that exciting?

Rowan Collins (01:16):
I believe we. Actually, I believe we
established the first episodethat we're all in our thirties.

No. No. No. You can't use them actually.
That's, oh, that's right.
We did say that, didn't we?Yeah. So I'm I'm, yeah, I'm 35
now, everybody. Anyways, enoughabout that. Chell, I'm looking
on the agenda for our meetingtoday, and I think that we first
need to start with anintroduction of the person
sitting to my right, RowanCollins, playing Pistachio.

Squawk

A and then, across the table from Rowan, we
have Joe Diametti playing Kapi.

Squawk. No. You know what? Hello. Just hello.

And an aged fine wine across the table from
Joe, we've got Annie Hawthorneplaying crank the clank.

Annie Hawthorne (02:01):
Tweet tweet.

Yeah. It's gotta do it.

If you've just started in this episode,
hey, that's really crazy becausethis is a later episode. You
should go back to our lastepisode to get that joke. That
was kind of an inside joke forthose who have listened to the
last episode. Anyways, welcomein everybody. I think let's
start our session by talkingabout where we've been and where
we came from.

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Last time on Dodo Born, ourheroes and our dodos.

Literally dodos.

They traveled around the city doing a little
bit of investigation based onthe events of the night prior.
Kapi had a heart to heart withCyrus. Scarlet broke down in
front of Crank and Pistachio,and the party found out that
Ash, the blue inferni wasactually the one who broke to
Nathaniel's leg much to hisdismay and his, denials.

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Eventually making their way intothe forest, they were accosted
perhaps, or greeted by onepercival anachronisms, the
apparent caretaker of a dais inthe middle of the forest that
was apparently a sage's grove, aplace of power once tied to the

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gods themselves. The partylearned the secrets of the dodo
born individuals that fate hasbrought together in moments of
crisis and in moments of peril.
And as we recall, this awesomebombshell that was dropped on
our party that had justincredible implications.

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Percival's voice travels up intothe air and echoes. And I wanna
follow that voice for a secondbecause instead of starting with
our party, I wanna startsomewhere else for a second. Oh,
what? We go back a ways thenight before.
We see a man standing at theedge of an encampment. It is
nighttime. Currently, ourprotagonists are having very

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chill, relaxing, lucid dreams,all very snuggled away in
Pistachio Droop's home. Thisman, however, stands underneath
the stars that twinkle throughthe canopy of the trees above
him. This man is known ascommander Glenn.
He is a lithe build Simia whowalks around with two swords

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strapped to his back, some dirtyred fur, peeking out through
some of his armor. Hisbattalion, his squad, his
soldiers are here encamped, andhe can tell always how his
people feel about a missionbased on how they act the day
before. If they're dangerous orperhaps people are unsure of how

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it's gonna go, you can feel thetension in the air. People laugh
a little too loud. They snap alittle too quick.
They eat a little too little.However, the opposite feeling is
in the camp tonight.Conversation flows as smoothly
as the ale at the corner oftheir lips. Mirth can be heard

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inside and outside of the tents.He is not one for mirth tonight,
though, for he has the hardestjob.
Him and his squad of three newrecruits. He strides over to the
other edge of camp and plopsdown at a campfire where three
of his more recent soldiers aresitting, sharpening their brand

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new weapons. As a note, as aneditor's note here, what I think
would be really fun is if welook to the person on our left
and introduce them each timewith a name. So you get to name
the person to your left.Commander Glenn, I have taken
the moment to name Rowan'scharacter, Buckeye.
So Buckeye, how do you like yournew tools? Rowan, can you

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describe Buckeye for us? And theother thing I wanna know the two
things I really wanna know aboutthis character are, one, what is
their most defining feature? Andtwo, what kind of weapon do they
have? Tell us about Buckeye.

Alright. So Buckeye is a fawn, with giant
deer like antlers coming upabove, like, his head, and one,
like,

very

again, he's kind of got, like, brownish, like,
skin with, like, one white pieceright over his eye. So, like,
you know, it gives, like, acircle right around his eye. His
weapon is a, a slingshot.

Nice.

Yeah. He looks over back at the commander and
goes, yeah. I suppose this willwork.

You like the weight of it?

It's pretty, it's pretty heavier than your, like,
typical, like, slingshots thatI'm used to, but it's alright.
I'll just two hand this one and,you know, rub some spit in it,
and it'll be fine.

This is somewhat brand new technology
from at the lab. So Right.Right. Good notes. Okay?

Yeah. Is that what these, like, little blue
things are on it?

That's right. You look down at the slingshot,
and you do notice three of younotice. There are these small
blue indents in your weapons.See that commander Glenn says
they gave us some instructionson how to power them up as it
were, so we need to make sure wedo that beforehand. I'll let
y'all know tomorrow.

Well, I'll take a couple of practice pitch shots
over here at Chomsky.

Okay. I'm Chomsky. Okay. You can be a

little more confident.

Yeah. No. I'm I'm, I'm Chomsky.

Uh-huh. Tell me about Chomsky.

Yeah. So the thing about Chomsky is he didn't wanna
join the stupid war in the firstplace, but now he's here. And he
has a boomerang.

Oh, a boomerang.

What does Chomsky look like? What can you
tell me about Chomsky?

Yeah. So Chomsky is a, also a, can he can he be a
blue Simia?

Absolutely. He can be any color you want
him.

Alright. He's a blue Simia, but he's, like, not
very Donkey Kong. He's very,he's more ditty than he is
Donkey Kong.

Yes. Yes. Oh my god.

And blue.

Nice. Yeah. Commander Glenn feels a certain
kinship with you. Same question,Chaunsky. That boomerang come
back to you okay?

Yeah. I think so. You know, I I think it's gonna
depend

on the field, you know,

things like weather and wind and
circumference, woods like that.

Do you even know what circumference means?

Buckeye, what do you think circumference
means?

Circumference means it comes back to you in a
circle, you ding dongs.

Oh, I see. I made sure the labs provided a
short range combat option oneach of these weapons. So just
make sure that you practiceswitching between the two of
them. You should have a goodclub in that slingshot, and I
believe that boomerang shouldhave a blade on it as well. So

Yeah. The boomerang detaches into two. Oh,
that's sweet. Each of them,like, have the blade that, like,
sticks out.

Well done.

That's super sweet.

Yeah. I'm a big fan.

Yeah. It, it suits you.

Thanks, Buckeye.

You're welcome, Chomsky.

But I'm more interested in how sunset feels.

Andy, tell us about sunset.

Sunset is a ribbit and is bright orange

Yes.

And is tall and very lanky and is sitting kinda
high up on a tree branch,probably keeping watch right
now. She's very twitchy. Like,she hasn't slept in, like, two
weeks and has just been livingoff of caffeine and cigarettes.
And she's, like, sitting upthere, kinda perched on this

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tree branch with her knees,like, way like, you know, like a
frog sits. Yeah.
And she's, like, licking hereyeballs like a gecko because
she's really twitchy. And, herweapon is a blow gun with poison
darts that she uses her own skinto poison.

Everyone picked a long way.

I feel like none of us picked a weapon that Isaac
wanted us to pick.

It was really good, actually.

Well, we're all long rangers because we're all
snipers.

That's right. That's why the three of you were
specifically chosen for thismission. You see that, Glenn
reaches into a pocket and pullsout a light, pulls out a
cigarette, and asks, Sunset, yougot a light? I got

a light somewhere. Let me where was it?
I, like, pat down my entire,like, body thinking that maybe I
have pockets, but I don't knowif I have pockets. And I finally
find a lighter, and I just throwit at you.

Link catches it and, lights a cigarette.

I'm gonna need that back, man. I'm gonna need
that back.

He he, he gets done. You see, he was about
to say something. I love

this sunset. I know it's just, like, tweaking.

It's just tweaking.

Just a tweaking frog.

He, he laughs the lighter up to you

I try to catch it.

And just fumbles it. Like,

You see, Glenn, takes that big big puff
and then blows it out and looksat you sunset and says, these
things will kill you one day ifyou're not careful.

Something's gotta kill me.

Well, hopefully, it won't be this
mission coming up in a few days.We got more intel from the
golden rat, more, info on theirdefenses. As it stands,
peacekeepers are a joke. Thevets are lazy, and the young
guns are careless. Apparently,the only doctor is a priest.

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Shouldn't have any issues aslong as we can hold down the
guild. Now Scarlet Flash isgonna be there, but you just
leave him to me. You proveyourself in this, you'll be set
for your time in here. Do youunderstand?

Are you telling me? What was that? Are you
trying to tell me that we getcushy office job perks?

I don't know about office jobs, but this job
pays real well. If we do well,well, you may not have to lift
your weapon again.

Why is everyone talking so slow?

Commander Glenn turns around, and he takes
his step away. Another figurecomes into view. The three of
you see a man step out from theshadows. He's wearing a purple
vest. He's got blue skin andhorns.
Looks like a blue Inferni. Hesays, just so you three know I
wouldn't underestimate the otherguild members. Hi. We haven't

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met yet. My name is Ash.
I'm tagging along on this littlemission of yours.

Who the fuck are you? You got a cigarette?

Can't say I do. I quit the stuff a while
back.

Nobody ever smokes anymore.

I can

get you the good stuff, though.

The good stuff? Yeah. Hand it over. Hand it
over.

Okay. But it's not for the faint of heart.

That looks faint of heart to you.

Can't say you do, Orange. He, pulls out what
looks like a little vial andthrows it to you and says, one
drop of that stuff in your eye,you'll be seeing circles below,
friend.

Alright. I'm gonna take it like a like,
Gollum. Like, it's the one ring.It's just gonna, like, run off
into the shadows.

Sunset sunset dashes off into the shadows,
and, you see Ash just kindachuckle and look at you two. And
I just wanna say I'm just tryingnot to get in your way too much
during this mission, but ourlittle ally shit might last a
little longer after this. Okay?So after that vignette, we cut
forward in time. The three ofyou, Kapi, Pistachio, and Crank

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are standing on the dais.
Percival anachronisms has justtold you the secret of dodo
barns, and he looks and says,that's right. We call him dodo
born after the brave dodos.

Pistachio's hand shoots up.

Oh, you have a question. Yes. Sure. He spins
around, and suddenly he'swearing, like, a professor's
robe, and there's a a chalkboardbehind him.

Okay. Alright. So, if I understand this
properly, you, you're sayingthat we're chosen ones because
the dodos were, like, spiritsand fairs of the gods. Does that
mean that we're gonna turn intoI mean, I already turned into a
dough. But are these two gonnaturn into dodos?

Well, what would that be? Be magic?

That would be magic. That would be quite odd.

I should turn into a dodo.

Oh. I I need to I need to be very clear to both of
you. I do not want to turn intoa dodo. What is happening on
this No.

No. No.

Little altar here?

I see. There's been a bit of a
misunderstanding. Let me let metry this again. So, you're not
really chosen ones as much asyou're more like weird freaks,
weird little mutants who goaround, you scare small
children, they run away fromyou. That's more what you are.
See? Because there are somepeople who are dodo born, and
they don't even know. Right?It's just the ephemeral
lingering of the ific energiesthat surround the world that

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often gets more concentrated intimes of peril and great
upheaval is more really what I'msaying to you. Percival.
Yes. Of course. That's what

I mean. I just I I I need you to level with me
here. Okay? Yeah. Are youtelling me that I'm bound by
eight to these two?

Please say yes. Please say yes.

Please say no.

Please say no. Please say no. Would it make
you feel better if I said yes,or would it make you feel better
if I said no? Yes. No.
Alright. Well, then, Craig, yougotta be the one to break the
tie on this one.

I I think this means we're best friends
forever, guys. Yes.

Then, yes, you are bound together for life.
You're basically married. Yes.

Married. You're the man.

You're basically now a, as it were.

Oh oh, I really hope we don't have to populate
this marriage.

Me too. I don't want that.

This little freak is just messing with us. He
popped out of nowhere on atabernacle, and we're supposed
to believe that we are mysticaldodos. I just listen. Here's the
inner peace.

Okay. Not a dodo. Anyways, continue.

Yeah. I'm a dodo.

Well, you're you're not a dodo. Alright. Just
to be clear, I feel like therewas a miscommunication here.
You're a dodo board. Alright?
You have the spirit of a dodo.If I said anything that made you
think that you would turn into adodo, you know, that's not me. I
need to work on, like,communication skills, I think,
which you're not gonna turn intoa dodo. The dodos are all gone
and dead and extinct. Alright?

Pistachio blinks and turns into a dodo.

Are you telling me that I have a spirit?

You mean, yeah.

Where is it?

Well, you know, that's a good question.
You know, the science is stillout. If you ask the priests,
they'll tell you one thing, andthen if he asks, you know, the
the researchers, they'll tellyou another thing. But, you
know, again, you're you are adodo right now. However, I will
say you're more of a simile ofwhat you believe a dodo to be
rather than an actual dodo.
Like, if I cut you open, youwouldn't have a dodo inside you.

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I

don't know.

I opened my hatch, and I looked

inside it.

You look inside your hatch? What's inside
the hatch right now, Annie?

A rotten turnip, an old book, a soft of
rope. Whatever coin that I haveleft after paying my adventuring
guild dues, not a lot.

Not anything up in that hat?

I picked the hat up off of my head, and it's
it's the stuffed rabbit. It's onmy head underneath.

Oh. Oh.

A rabbit on a hat. Never heard that one
before.

Look. It's magic.

There's magic right there.

Did I do magic? Yeah.

You know,

I You pulled a rabbit out of a hat.

Oh, I just put it there for safekeeping. How is
that magic?

I don't know. That's just magic.

Oh, I don't think I did magic. Oh, but No.
You didn't. Oh.

But that's okay. You're still very special.

What?

As fun as this little adventure's been It's
been fun. Yeah.

I've had a great time.

It's been a long I just stick my hand out as if to,
like, like, kinda in Percival'sface. It's been a long day.
Alright? The town is still introuble.

Uh-huh.

We're still out looking for Ash. Alright. And
somehow, we are again beingdistracted by being here.

Oh, I guess that's

right. So little Percival guy

That's right. That's my name. How you doing?

Can you help us save the town of Breckenridge?
There is a horrible, twistedconspiracy that we all believe
goes all the way to the top. Oh.And we need to get to the bottom
of it, and it starts with theblue guy with the horns. His

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name is Ash.
Can you help us with your God oryour magic or your annoying
little tricks? Find Ash.

You see that he, kind of puts a puts a finger
on his chin and kinda strokeshis little beard, and he's
tapping his foot. Says, let melook through the Rolodex. And he
spins around, and he's nowbehind a desk, and there's a big
Rolodex. He's kinda thumbingthrough it. Well, you know, it
it seems like I don't know of anash.
I also don't know really whatthe top of what is, but I can

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tell you this at least justbased on observation. You were
brought here probably for somereason. I you know? I can't make
comment on what the reason is,but I can tell you that perhaps
your next step should be to findthe relic that was lost from
this place many, many years ago.

The what?

Is that the missing thing from the altar?

Indeed it is, my good sir. You are quite the
investigative journalist, I seewith those eyes, none of them
get past you. He spins and nowhe's in like a big trench coat
with a big old magnifying glass.It says, if you look close at
this here, also you'll noticethere's a divot in it. You see,
this is probably something theydon't teach you in the history
books.
So keep this close to your chestkids. When the gods left, they

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didn't leave fully. They leftbehind pieces of their power in
the form of relics. One suchrelic was held here, the sage's
relic. It was verdant staff iswhat it was called.
Beautiful jade encrusted quarterstaff of sorts. He would always
hold it up when speaking goodwisdom. Like, if the ball is too

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big for your mouth, maybe it'snot yours. That was some good
wisdom, he would say.

That's good wisdom.

Now Oh, boy. It's gone from here. However,
the fact that I'm still here,the fact this is still here, it
suggests that it's somewhatclose. So perhaps if you find
your relic, maybe you'll findsome answers.

Can you define somewhat?

You know, far enough away that maybe a pigeon
could get there in a day or so.

Do I know how far a pigeon can fly in a day?

Make a knowledge check for me.

13 with fear.

13 with fear. I'm gonna use that fear right
now. And on a 13, you know, asthe pigeon flies quite a far
away, it's about twenty fourhours worth of a pigeon flying.
And as you think that toyourself, you see that, the man
in front of you, the littlegnome, turns into a pigeon and
flies in your face and, like,starts pecking your head and

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says, think, metal man. Think.
How far can I fly? Ask yourselfthat. Is your precious
Breckenridge in this area?

I grab it.

Oh, you got me.

Throw it again.

What are you gonna do to me? You gonna throw
me?

I'm gonna say, show me how far you can fly. I'm
gonna throw it towards the town.

You see the pigeon flies towards the town
and then plummets to the earthand lands with a thickening
crunch. You hear him say, oh, Ican't actually fly. Even though
I'm a pigeon, I'm still just agnome. Oh, I'm broken.

I wonder.

If only someone could tend to my wounds.

Not at this point, little pigeon may have

Only okay. Fine. He turns back into a gnome
and, comes back.

Can I perceive here's what I want? I wanna try
to send some ill meaning. Illintent? Ill intent. I meaning.
Intention. Here's what I'mnervous about. I'm nervous about
as a player. Mhmm. I'm nervousabout going to find a weapon of
a god and bringing it back to aplace that it's not anymore and

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bad things happening.
Mhmm. This is all starting tofeel very Indiana Jones in the
boulder.

Go ahead and make a we're gonna say an
instinct to roll for me.

Alright. My instinct's plus zero.

There we go.

That is a 15 with fear. 15 with fear. Do we ever
roll with hope in this case?

That's a great question, actually. You
know what? I'm gonna choose tobank that one. I wanna bank that
fear.

Do I get a hope?

No. You don't. You don't get a hope. I
just get to keep that fear forlater. And for those keeping
watch at home, I haven't beengood about telling everyone how
much fear I have, but Icurrently now have six fear
banked up.
Uh-oh. Hi. It's me, your GM,Isaac Allen Burn. I haven't
stopped by in a while. Sorry.
Oh, I've been so busy. Am Iright? I'm just here to tell you
that just a reminder is that asa GM, whenever your players roll

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with fear, it is encouraged foryou to take a GM move right then
and there to perhaps maybeinterrupt the flow of play for
some big story moment or to pushsomething in a different
direction. But sometimes if youdon't feel like there's a good
way to go about it or not a waythat would serve the story, you
can just bank those bad boys up.So keep that in mind, fellow

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GMs.
Anyways, back to the story. SoKapi is looking at this little
gnome who's currently doingcartwheels, and Kapi reads the
very, I think, is something soclear to Kapi is that this guy
is not telling you everything.There's a lot this guy is not

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saying, but what he says aboutthe relic could perhaps make
sense to Kapi. Maybe somethingwas brought here. Perhaps it was
the gods.
Perhaps it was something else,but it's definitely pointing
towards that relic. And that'swhat Kapi gains. But Kapi gets
the sense this guy is nottelling you everything.

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Ruputtle?

Yes.

The three

of you huddle together, and you see that,
Percival comes in between yourlegs and says, what are we
talking about? Person I can helpwith? Yeah. Buzz off.

There'll be a pigeon or something.

He turns into a bee and then buzzes away.

So what are we thinking?

Sounds like we need to go find this branch or
whatever it is.

Yeah. But what happens when we find this
branch?

I don't know. We bring it back here, and then
we get what we need.

What what do we need?

To find Ash.

And bringing a relic to a temple is going to
help us find someone.

This guy says.

I think Kathy's right. I think this is a little
bit of a distraction, but Iwonder if there's this guy says
he doesn't know Ash, but itthere's been so many weird
things going on. I feel likethis could be a distraction for
us, or it could be more of theplot to get something to, like,

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blow up the town or something.Like, what is this for?

Well, maybe we find it and we use it against
whatever's threatening the town.

As the leader of this little party

Uh-huh.

I vote we do find this relic.

Okay. Seconded. Thirded.

Perfect. Fourth. Ugh. Sorry.

I was listening. Yeah.

I pick up the nom and I throw him again.

He flies off into the sky.

Let's see. Most magic things have, like, a smell
to them, so let's see if I getany whiffs of anything from the
dice itself. I'm already in adonut form, so this shouldn't
take too long. And, Pistachiowill, like, waddle over to the
little, like, hole and
just, like, stick their beak into it.

That's how dare you? First question, what
the hell? Pistachio, you get awhiff. And, I mean, no role
necessary. That's a great idea.
Pistachio and, you know, as aGM, some you know, sometimes you
don't have to make your playersroll for things. Sometimes, it's
just goal work, and you knowit's gonna work. How could this

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possibly fail? It definitelywon't. This is awesome.
Pistachio, I think for the nexttwenty four hours, any instinct
roll that you're gonna make totry and sniff this thing out
while in your little dodo sniffyform is gonna have advantage.
Pistachios, your head issniffing. It smells like lilacs.

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It smells like an old book. Itsmells like trees.
Oh, and what else does it smelllike? Give me one more smell
that this thing smells like.

It smells like little old ladies that you can
call mother.

That's so beautiful. As you take in these
smells, the gnome lands on thealtar having been thrown up in
the air, and he's in the LionelRichie pose. He says, so you got
a good idea of what you're gonnado to find it?

We're going to the library. Oh.
And then almost an instinct, they're gonna just
start marching towards thedirection that they think the
library is.

Nice. That's awesome. You start walking away.
The three of you head off awayfrom the well, I don't know if
you do that. What do you two do?
Do you follow the dodo walkingin a direction away from the
dice, or is there anything elseyou wanna do?

Follow the dodo, but as I go, I have 14
scans of every book about magicin that library in my brain.
Yeah. So I'm like, oh, you know,when they go to the library and
they're looking through, like,really old new stuff, it's just
like flip flip flip flip flipflip on the, like, the screen?
Yeah. It's that.
Like and I'm looking for anymention of a staffer, like, a

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magic, like

Cool.

Yeah. Crank has been reading these books.
And as we established, a lot ofthese are, like, children's book
about magic. However, one of thebooks was a history of the town
because a lot of myths obviouslyhave historical backing to them.
And I think that's somethingthat catches your eye is that

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there is an old picture, maybe acouple hundred years ago, of a
fawn man standing in front ofwhat looks like an apple tree.
He's got a walking stick, butthat walking stick is very big,
and the old picture makes itlook really knotted, like it's
got a bunch of knots all overit. But, Crank, your eyes stop

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on it again, and you kinda zoomin. And you see this kindly old
looking fawn man holding thisstaff. And on closer inspection
with what you heard Percivalsay, maybe those knots are
actually some kind of gemencrusted staff.

Does this fawn look familiar to me at all?
Like, do they have anyresemblance to, say, Scarlett or
to, say, the the patriarch ofthe droop family?

So you actually do know who this fawn
is. His name is written in thebook. This is the equivalent of
Scarlett's great grandfather.What? His name is Augustus Apple
People.
Y'all established in, like,episode one that it's the Apple

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people. Scarlet Apple people isfor

fun. Alright.

I'll I'll, like, reach out, and I'll try to
put a hand on on the dodosomehow and just get their
attention. And I'll be like, Ifound something. And I'm gonna
find somewhere. I'm gonna find,like, a big tree or, like,
something that I can, like,project this image onto.

Woah. Woah.

That's, like, through my eyes.

That's cool. Is that magic?

No. It's just a projector.
Oh.
But look. That that's Scarlett's great
grandfather. And that is hisstaff. Yeah. Augustus apple
people.
Yeah. I yeah. So you're standingin front of an apple tree,
Kathy.

You think that's the staff we're after?

That is the staff we're after. Look at it.
Those knots that's jade. Yeah. Iwill,

like, try

to magnify the image.

It enhances. You zoom in a little bit, and it
the resolution increasessomehow. It gets even more
resolution.

Oh, gosh.

You know what, guys? Actually, I I don't like
this anymore.

Why? Because I

think maybe time out. Right? Time out. Kapi's
don't like the time out with hishands. Alright.
I don't I don't know where thisis going anymore. It's kinda
right? Right?

Well, well If

I just wanna make sure that we do not put Scarlet
in danger. Okay?

As you say that, I would like one person
here to make an instinct role.

Mine's alright. You said with advantage. Right?

This will not be with advantage. This is
something different.

Eight with fear. Or, sorry, 12 with fear.

Oh, this is perfect. This is amazing. I'm so
happy you're old with fear.Gosh. So as can't be you say the
word danger and in an ironictwist of fate, you, Pistachio,
you're wrestling.
And at this point, Pistachio,you sort of realize something.
Since the moment you all leftthe dais and stopped talking to

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Percival and were kinda talkingamongst yourselves, You have not
heard sounds from the forest.Birds have not been chirping.
The underbrush has not beenwrestling. The wind doesn't even
seem to be blowing, and itcertainly catches your attention
when suddenly there's a snappingof a twig nearby.

Guys, we're in danger. There's a there's no
bird sounds. There's no nothing.There was a snap of a twig. K.

What do you wanna do?

Can I do I hear, like, what how big?

On a 12, certainly wasn't small.
Certainly wasn't huge, but itwasn't small.

It wasn't a tiny thing either.

Do we know what direction I came from?

I point like a pointer dog using my giant dodo
snout.

How does hide work?

Oh, I'm so glad you asked. So, Joe, Rogue
has a class feature, calledhide, which is when you move
into a location where no enemiescan see you, you can use an
action to become hidden, where,basically, any roles against you
are gonna have disadvantage.Targets can't see you, and if

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you move into line of sight,though, they will be able to see
you. But if you try and gethidden when no one's looking at
you, you're hiding, essentially,which as it stands right now,
you don't see anything. So ifKapi wants to attempt to hide,
he certainly can.
Not to give the game away, buteveryone can do one thing before
something happens.

Yeah. I wanna hide behind a tree.

Very good. Make a well, it just says when
you move into a location. SoKapi's gonna move behind there.
And as long as the thing can'tsee you, I'm gonna say you're
hidden.

I'm just gonna step in front of the dodo and
assume, like, a defensiveposture in the direction where
the sound came from.

Okay.

I believe, Pistachio is going to they do a
thing, like, in their fawn or,like, fawns have a thing called,
like, leap. So they'll just,like, leap up onto Frank and
just, like, sit, perch onFrank's shoulder, and, like,
nestle a little bit into thelittle cape so that they can

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peek out.

You do so. Now Kathy's feeling real lame
right now. Kathy, you're hidingbehind a tree. The other two are
just kind of standing at theready. You see a bush get pushed
out of the way and then anotheras leaping, the underbrush is a
large creature.
Smaller than that acid burrower,of course, but this thing looks

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like a bear. However, it has thetusks of a boar. That's right.
This is a boar.

Boar.

It's attacking y'all. It leaps out.
And because we rolled fearearlier, the move that I am
choosing to do is that thisthing is going to attack the
first thing that it sees tostart this off. I'm gonna roll a
dice to see if this Boire canget you with these massive jaws.
It tries to clamp down on you.
It rolled a 14 to hit you.

Mhmm. Nice.

Oh, don't you hate that? Oh my gosh.

My evasion is really low. I'm outside of a
barn over here.

So this thing bites into you. It has some
powerful jaws that grabs ontoyour arm. There's a total of 16
damage, and you are restrainedto you. You can attempt a
strength roll to escape. Rightnow, it's it's, teeth just
crunch onto the metal of yourarm, and you see one of its paws

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coming up.
It's definitely gonna swipe atyou in just a moment. Pistachio,
you've been holding on for dearlife on Crank shoulders as this
thing is just thrashing intopoor Crank. Is there anything
you would like to do?

So Pistachio being in a beast form is going
to use something that is as anorder born trait, which is
called order born dedications.So one of the things that you
can do is you can before thegame started, I had to write
down three values that myupbringing instilled in me.

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One's for short rest. When Idescribe how I'm about to embody
one of those principles throughmy current action, I can roll a
d 20 as a hope dice instead of ad 12. So the three order form
dedications I put down is to dogood is to be good, everybody
does their share, and a singlesoft save many.
In this case, I'm going to useeverybody does their share, and

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they're going to jump off andtry and poke this thing in the
eyes and just, like, try and getit off of Greg.

Uh-oh. Do it up. So

yeah. Uh-oh. How does that

My forb where? No. It. Don't kill it so
quickly.

How does a 29 with hope sound? Another hard
one.

It doesn't sound good to my forb where. Oh
my goodness. Gracious sakes.

Yeah. And it's just like I'm going straight for
the eyes.

Wow. So

it just says, like, a d four and then plus
that. So is it's five damage,but I'm just trying to poke it
in the eye, like, straight inthe eye with my, like, thing to
get it off of crank.

That was with Hope. Right?

Yes.

Cool. So it screams in pain. It does a big
guttural growl of pain. Thisthing is hurt. This thing is not
happy.
Kathy you're behind a tree. Ireally, yeah. Kathy, Kathy, what
do you do? You're behind a treeand currently your two friends
who you're now, entwined destinywith. What do you do?

Yeah. So Kathy's has his back up against the
tree, and he's like, we have toomuch going on. And now he's
upset that, he wasn't there forthem because that would upset
him. So he goes like, and he,like, quickly looks left behind
the tree, looks right behind thetree. Crank, you still got any

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fritters left?

Yeah. I have fritters left.

Alright. When I say three, throw the fritters.
Okay?

Am I still, like, clamped when those things
draw?

Or Yes.

You are. You're still restrained. Okay. Can't
but can Crank can't open thechest at least?

Yeah. You still can.

That's all. I just gotta get the

I still get all of them.

No. No.

I do wanna make a strength roll, though.

Yeah. Try and break out your strength roll.

13 with hope.

13 with hope. That just barely fails. I'm so
sorry. You try and pull off ofit, but it's still just too
strong. You're still stuckthere.

I feel like it's it's biting onto my my
right hand. So with my lefthand, I'm gonna try to, like,
hold it over here and, like,open my my thing and try to get
a fritter up. It's it's not mydominant hand. So Yeah.

Alright. And what I wanna do is, so, you know,
don't forget, Kapi has that ringthat does some slight magic,
with rain of blades. So I canspend a hope to conjure throwing
blades. But I also wanna use myexperience, which is how do you
like dumb apples.

Okay.

And I essentially want to treat the fritter as a
blade, but instead of throwingit at the, just throw it way out
into the distance so that thebluer is distracted and
hopefully goes after the food.

Oh. Oh.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. We're gonna say in this
case, rather than an attackroll, I'll let you tell me what
kind of skill you would likethis to be.

I think I don't know. I'm I'm open to without
telling you what my scores are,do we think this is more of a
strength or a finesse role?

Throwing stars? Finesse.

Okay. So my finesse is plus two. K. Yeah.
Two Which is the higher one.

That makes sense to me. I can I can see
either way, but I'll let you dofinesse? Yeah. Go for finesse.

So that is an 18 with fear still. Oh, okay. And
wait. Sorry. Plus two for my howdo you like damn apples
experience, which is 20.

20 is really good. Okay. So, Kathy, you shoot
this out.

So I wanna wait. I like, so, like, I go and I run
and I move. I step right infront of pistachios, the dodo.
Yeah. And I, like, use my ringand I hold it out, and it starts
glowing red, more specificallyscarlet.
And Oh, beautiful. I go, cranknow, and Crank throws it.

Yeah. I'll throw it.

And I use the ring to, like, almost grab it in,
like, a force field, hold it infront of the, and hopefully get
his distraction, and then usemy, you know, hand with the ring
clench to throw the magicforward so that the fritter
soars.

Oh, I love that.

That was really good. The fritter you see
this thing's eyes were locked upas dashio, and then the
delicious smell of applefritters assaults its nostrils
and gets flung in the distance.You see that this thing looks
over at it. Because you're overfear, I'm gonna let it have a
chance to do something for us.

That's fair.

So here's exactly what happens. This thing
watches it. You see it like itlike a like a dog that notices
something while it's likeplaying tug of war, and it just
kinda like lets the rope kindadangle in its mouth for a
second. You see it looks over atit and then looks back at you,
crank, and then spits out yourarm. It kinda, like, pushes you
a little bit with its paw andthen runs off after the
fritters.

Good thinking, Kathy.

Great thinking, boss. That was so great.

Can't believe we wasted a fritter.

Well, another reason to go see Scarlet, I
guess.

Yeah.

Unless we would've go talk to her father
without her.

No. Let's see what she knows first.

A pistachio.

Yep.

Can you make a knowledge roll for me?

Yeah. That is an yeah. 20 with beer.
Uh-oh. Has

There been a single hope roll?

I rolled

a game. I rolled a game. Okay. Oh, okay.

There's just a couple of hopes rolled around.

Oh, okay.

Just a good day. It was a good day for me,
Jim. Yeah. Yeah. Just Joe'shaving

a It is your birthday.

Birthday. It's my birthday.

I'm glad you're I'm glad you're rolling.

A good time. My bear got absolutely
brutalized, but that's okay. Mybuer, pistachio. You've heard of
buers before. It's not unusualthat they would be out in the
middle of the woods.
You are pretty far in the woods.But that buer was really
aggressive, like, almost moreaggressive. Normally, it only
goes after small animals. Thefact it was attacking all of you

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seemed less like it was goingfor food and more like it's just
incredibly aggressive.

You know, thinking about it, players are
scared of wads of all, like,humanoid kind of people. The
that one was really, reallyaggressive. I don't like this.

Do we think there are more?

I think well, okay. So we had the acid
burrower near town, and then wehave this boar. I wonder if
they're running from something.

What would they be running from?

Whatever is, and, and pistachio will point up
gorge the direction that it camethat way.

Is is, pistachio pointing towards the
mountains right now?

Yes. Pistachio is pointing deeper
towards the mountains.

What if it's not what if they're not running away
from something, but they arebeing forced our way?

Either way, there's something up there that
is not good. We could go get thestaff, or we could go check out
what that is.

I mean, I've been in those mountains.

What's in those mountains?

Nothing. It's just, like, desolate land
between here and Justine. But ifsomething is coming that
direction, then it would lead meto believe that it's coming from
Justine.

I vote. I don't know what I vote.

Well, should we find the staff and then go back
towards the mountains?

Or is the staff something to throw us off?

Or are the mountains and these animals
something to throw us off?

I don't think the animals have the capacity of
trying to throw us off.

Maybe not them, but maybe people releasing them,
maybe people that are bringingthem to us, maybe people that
are making them more aggravatedthan they should be.

I still I don't know. I don't know.
I think either way, we're better off with that
staff

if we don't get it. I agree with robot.

Okay. Alright. Well, then To the bakery.

To the bakery.

To the bakery.

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