C01 - Ep. 77 - Of Life & Breath - Half And Halfling
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Previously, our adventurers arrived in a cosmic courtyard of draconic confusion. First, they were regaled with riddling repartee and relishable replies. Next, they pushed past deadly defenses and found a friend waiting to happen. Then, they swapped prized possessions with the silver-tongued sugar mama, finally fetched some missing lyrics to a debut of draconic ditty that led them to another diagen. Pluck yourself a potation, let's settle in for a stinky story.

Can we send someone over to Gus's house to make sure there's no gas leak? Flesh espresso. I'd read it. I hadn't tried to say it until I was in the moment. I got you, Gus. Hey, Gus. I want to say thank you for always getting the intros done in your first try. One take, Gus. That's you. Always perfect. Yeah, every time. Always perfect. Flesh espresso. Does Mud have an inspiration die? He does not. Inspiration die for Mud. Yeah, yeah. Go give yourself an inspiration die there. Yeah.

I have to break my back for those inspiration dies. And here he is handing them out. So maybe you were a little nicer, huh? How about that? Yeah. So Bart, as you hold the sapphire die gem in your hand, you don't notice any tear-shaped cavities appearing on your person as it did for Kyborg and Mud. Instead, your musician's eye notices the shape of the gemstone is a perfect fit and size for something that you've been missing. A plectrum, a guitar pick to strum your lute.

The gemstone wraps around your thumb perfectly and you feel an influx of vitality fill your body from head to toe. Meta-wise, while Bart is attuned to the Breath Diagem, his Charisma ability score increases by two. What? Gains advantage with Charisma ability checks and saving throws. What? And you gain a new ability called Silver Tongue.

- What? - You can mimic the speech of another person or the sounds made by other creatures. - What? - So will it automatically, when I do like a charisma check or something like that, it'll automatically add to it or do I have to do it manually? - It's not attuned, it looks like currently.

Oh yeah, you gotta do that button. Yeah. Uh oh. I guess I could only have three things attuned at a time. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I have Ring of Truth's Telling, Ring of Mind Shielding, and then I also had the Instrument of Illusions attuned, so. Uh oh. Which one are you gonna un-attune? Uh, Instrument of Illusions. 'Cause I could just cast Minor Illusion if I want, I think. Yeah. Alright. Just make sure you un-attune it, then you should be able to, uh, attune the, uh, die gem, and then we'll give it another test. Oh, I have attuned my, uh, pick. My loot pick.

Place a ditty, Bart. Oh, there once was a boy named Bart. And he rolled his charisma and testing it out. And it made him fart. Fart, fart. Isn't there a dragon right in the room? And we're like...

We'll get to that in a second. We're taking this as housekeeping before we get to that. Just playing a song while there's a dragon right in front of me. Yeah. Dragon, you do not have permission to interact right now. Dragon, oh dragon. Yeah, no, it looks like it changed everything on my sheet when I attuned it, so. So good, all right. I have an important question for Bart. Yes. But I want to do it in character. All right, Bart, I have a very important question to ask you. Hold on, let me just tune my loot real quick. Ding.

This involves your loot. You've got a brand new magical... How many strings do you have on that damn loot? 17. No pause. The thickest loot ever. No, it's a musical question. You have your brand new magical pick. What?

What is the first chord you play? The best chord, C. That's a chord, correct? It is a chord. It is a chord. E minor? That's a chord as well. Do a power chord. Micah suggests a bar major. A bar major.

Suddenly, you feel a tingling sensation tickle the nape of your neck. The sky grows dim and darkness cascades across the temple. You all hear something you'd hope never to hear again, the cry of the Shadow Dragon. Roar! Aye, brace for impact. Slam! The front door to the temple slams open and sailing through the air with grace and finesse is a bronze dragonborn wielding two daggers. He lands next to you all and bows. Hi, I am Elder Wanabe.

I see you have the breath diogen. I too am a Palladian. It was foreseen you would return, Bartholomew. Back to your home. But I'm afraid there's no time to- Smash! The roof of the temple explodes with a plume of black fire. Wooden shrapnel showers the courtyard all around you, and out from the dark flames appear two enormous, deep black wings and a pair of pale purple eyes behind a long snout. The scaly silhouette of Ladoria the Shadow Dragon emerges bathed in pale moonlight.

Hurry, my friends! We must make haste to Mount Sayamoto and summon the ancient dragons at once. The bronze dragonborn breathes in deeply and exhales a blast of thunder and lightning at the scaly beast. I cannot hold her at bay for long, and we won't be able to outrun her.

If only we had some horses or a wagon. Could we not just climb on top of you? Just a dragonborn. Dragonborns are our size. Yeah, I stare at Mud. My question remains. Mud's distracted and just looking and going, dragon fate, dragon fate, dragon. Bart jumps onto Mud's shoulders and yells, Calla!

Mud turns into a big ol' horse, war horse to be specific. A war horse. Yeah, and I guess the hem mobile is now extended and attached to me. Activated. A giant cart or something like that. And technically, Bart would still be riding you, right?

Oh, yeah. I guess. Yeah. Bart's on the big old Clydesdale. Cyborg hops into the hemobile. Elder Wanabe looks at it in disbelief. Where did that come from? I don't know. And Gum Gum hops in. I like that Gum Gum still doesn't understand it at all. It just shows up sometimes. Every time. He's like, whoa. How'd you do that? Is everybody in? Yeah. Mud turns around and eyes at everybody and goes, I live life.

One mile at a time. Go! And then zooms off. Bart is, since he's riding on top of Mud, who is now a war horse, since Bart's so short, his legs can't go over on either side of him. So he's doing the splits. Just sitting. Ow, ow, ow. You could also ride side saddle. Oh, like a lady.

Or anybody who rides side saddle. A dapper lady. Dapper. Elder Winabi says, Hurry, take a left at the eastern border of Sora province and head for the summit of Mount Sayamoto. I like this Winabi guy. No nonsense, huh? No, taking a left. Yeah, yeah. Oh, oh, gotcha. Mike puts his hoof out to signal his direction. Beep.

You bang left onto a gravel path that seems to snake up the misty mountain blanketed in the darkness of night. You turn back to see if you're being followed, and sure enough, Latoria's nearly on top of you, her wings beating feverishly. But she suddenly pulls back, and you hear, You spin back around towards the front and see Bolink and a throng of Shadrow cutting you off along the road, firing a shower of shadowy shards in your direction. What are you guys going to do about that? Um...

I want to fire back, but I also want to protect us. I have a shield, so I think I'm going to draw that and ready myself. And we will fight in the shade. Could I also, as that's happening, am I able to hop off Mud into the wagon that he's pulling? So I'm like at the back of the wagon facing the dragon.

So I take the brunt of everything in the front? Well, they're behind us, right? No, they're in front of us. The dragon's behind you. Dragon's behind. The dragon's behind us. Yes. Yeah. That's where I want to... You want to face the dragon and fight the dragon. Yes. Okay. Butterscotch the dragon, everybody. Parts on dragon duty, everyone. Can I jump to the front? Or can I rage and jump to the front? Oh, well, I was going to do a thing real quick, but... Oh, you've got more to do with dragon. I was going to try to see if I could cast Thunderwave behind us.

I love it. Sorry, I know we're not an initiative, so I didn't know if it was like a... Yeah, yeah. We can absolutely do it. We're going to lean into that. We're going to approach these kind of like the whole skill check thing where you all describe a scenario to evade or to deal with what's going on, and then we'll make some rolls. But all that being said, I love what's going on. I love this. Let's do it.

Let's, yeah, let's do a Thunder Wave. What's the range on Thunder Wave, Bart? It is... 2,000 feet. Looks like it is only 15 feet, though. Only 15 feet. A 15-foot cube or within... Yeah, the dragon's a little further than that because it's, like, flying. Right. Thunder Wave is very much an area of effect attack more so. Right. Like a local, a local area.

But before we get to that, I would say that, Bart, you probably need to make an acrobatics check to jump off of the horse to get back into the cart. I want to assist and catch little Bart. And then while he's casting Thunder Wave, I also want to put a shield over him. I thought you were getting up, moving up to the Ford onto the... Oh, that was me. That was Gum-Gum. Okay, that's good. Sorry. Yeah, let's deal with Bart's acrobatics check first. Acrobatics is a 15 I just rolled. Oh, good check. Bart, very nimble. And then Kyborg picks you up by the scruff of the neck, Kyborg.

Whatever the least embarrassing way for Bart would be. But I really, I mean, there's no way that this doesn't look like a dad catching his little baby boy in his arms. Not the beard. Could I like also like as, as Bart got to like the rear of the horse, like bump him up with my back even a little bit. So he's like really getting a look at why. This is where I got my nickname, Bucko Bart. Yeah.

Yeah, and then, Kaibork, why don't you go ahead and make an acrobatics check as well to, like, whip your shield out in time and shield little bucko Bart. All right. We're doing acrobatics. That's a...

17 plus 9, 26. Oh, yeah. They look so good. It's almost like slow motion out of an action movie. You catch Bart, help pick him up, prop him up, and then, you know, the shield seemingly slides out of nowhere, protecting you all from the inbound shards. Remember that idiot from Book of Boba Fett that did that unnecessary spin out from under Black Kersantan, the big Wookiee?

I want to do something like that. I want to add in some unnecessary zest and flair. Yeah. That's the kyborg way. That's indeed. And since Thunderwave is a lot less of a range than I thought, quick question. How much does a dragon weigh? Micah says a dragon doesn't tell. Well, is it under 500 pounds?

No, absolutely not. No. Okay. It's like an F-150 at least. A huge-sized dragon starts at about 20,000 pounds. Oh, my God. Okay. And can get up to about 80,000. Okay. So he's more like a submarine Mack truck. So do you know what you're going to do instead of Thunder Wave, Barbara? Or are you just going to wait there? Yes. Could I, instead of Thunder Wave, do a synaptic snap? A peaty pop.

Choose a point within range. Cause psychic energy to explode there. I don't know if it's like if we're moving and they're moving, if it's going to be too complicated of a spell to cast. You could make it work. Sure. Okay. I'm going to cast synaptic snap or synaptic static, not snap. I don't know how I read snap. Synaptic static. Let's kind of end there. Snap. All right. So it needs to make an intelligence saving throw. I'm going to do that right now. The intelligence saving throw. Ooh, this dragon's not very smart. Uh,

It's only plus three. That's not too bad. It's like a giant version of the vulture from Looney Tunes. No, no, no, no, no. 18. I'm going to assume that's a save. It's a save, yeah, the 17. There it is, 17. You are correct. So 18 is a save. And then I do 8d6, and you'll take half that since you successfully did it. Okay, go ahead and roll that. 8d6 is...

35, so half that. 17. 16? 17? Yeah, 17. We always round down, just to be consistent. 17 points of psychic damage cause Ladoria to howl in pain, and you see rage burning in her eyes. Yeah, that's right. Gum Gum, you said you wanted to do something as well? Yeah. I want to... Well, I'll do my rage. Six.

is until your agents you're surrounded by multicolored protective lights you gain plus one bonus ac and while within 10 feet of you your allies gain the same bonus pretty good in this situation since we're all within 10 feet go gum gum that was great maybe one of the best times that one ever to proc

Now we just look like a disco cart. Like we have all these cool lights surrounding us and there's electricity shooting out the back. I want to basically jump to the front of the horse or the front of Bud replacing Bart. Tell me if I can do this. I have a shield. Can I put my shield on my back and then...

get to the front of the horse. So I'm blocking like kind of Indiana Jones it where I'm in the front covering up mud, like taking the. So would you, would you say on the front, you mean like not riding on his back, but like holding onto my neck where your chest to chest. Yeah. Chest to horse chest. Let's be specific.

Uh, yeah, you could do that, why not? Yeah, chest to chest works, yeah. Like a gum gum battering ram. Yeah. Uh, sure, yeah, uh, make an athletics check, oh, sorry, uh, an acrobatics check to do that. Okay. A lot of acrobatics today.

It's a car chase. 26. Damn. That's a nat 20 with plus six. I didn't realize GumGum's acrobatics were that high. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he rolled a 20. I mean, a plus six modifier is pretty good. Yeah, it is pretty good. I think you jump out there and like you have one arm off to the side and it like hooks over the back of Mud's horse neck and then you like whip around and then like latch on with your other arm.

And pull yourself tight. I have to whip my shield in an appropriate place while I'm doing it. Yeah. It's basically the opposite, the reverse of what Legolas does in that one shot in Lord of the Rings where he like one-handed reverse mounted the horse. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's happening simultaneously while Bart's flying through the air. So I high-five Bart.

Yeah! Wait, high five? Yeah. And I'm not bothered at all by having a full-grown barbarian hanging onto my neck as I'm trying to pull this cart forward. You're strong. Would you rather the rain of arrows hit you? No, it's fine. It's fine. It's okay. I got this. What acrobatics check are you going to make, Mud? What's the one for breathing?

That's aerobics. Lucky for you, Gum-Gum protects your chest from the inbound shower of shards. Kyborg's shield provides cover for Bart and himself.

and Wanabe and Duncan take cover under Benches in the Ahem-mobile. Oh, Duncan. Oh, yeah, we should have said, they're fine. They got thick skin. They got that dragon scale. Mike wants to do something. Pop a wheelie. Everyone else got to do something cool, and so I want to do something that would be a little bit more helpful with what's ahead of me. I saw that I have another much more helpful animal that I want to turn into, so I'm going to go ahead and just spend a wild shape and turn again. I'm turning into a giant goat.

Oh, look at you. He's the goat. I am the goat. Greatest of all time. Can we get advantage on intimidation because of the yell? Yeah, it's just me screaming the entire time.

So, Gum-Gum, for some reason, when you grabbed onto Mud's chest, he turned from a horse into a goat. What did you do? Oh, no. Your wild magic must have done this. Oh, no. I made you... I gave you horns. I turn down and look at Gum-Gum, and I go, You did this to me!

I'm sorry. While you all continue your way up the mountainous gravel road, as the moon becomes enveloped by clouds overhead, the landscape dims drastically, making it difficult to see very far ahead of you. Elder Wanabe says, It's hard to say, but I think we are at the halfway point of the summit. Up ahead, there should be a... The road suddenly slopes to your right along a steep ridge, and boom! Vladoria swoops in from the darkness, flapping her vast wingspan, trying to blow you off the mountainside. What do you all do to stay on the mountain?

I want to take some shots at her with the longer bow of crystallina. We're falling off the mountain. Is that going to help us stabilize? Couldn't hurt. I have an idea. What's your idea? I have my sack of clumsy dust, which I can either do sticky or slippery, and I could, ahead of us, fling sticky dust down.

to make our terrain sticky. Traction? Yeah. To stick us to the, like, yeah, add traction to it. I like it. If that doesn't work, let me know. I have a secondary idea. Bart's also got those goggles that help see through, like, fog, so if you needed to navigate for mud...

It's a possibility as well. So we're trying to make a sharp turn and we're just not stable. Is that what's going on? Yeah, like the dragon comes down swooping with its wings, like trying to force you all to fall off the side. Well, then me taking pot shots is going to help make them stop swooping wings. And I forgot to mention, because of your successful ability checks in that first encounter or in that first check, Kyborg, Gum Gum, and Bart all gain advantage on the next scenario and five temporary hit points. Oh, nice. Nice.

Yeah, screw me. Yeah. You didn't make a check. Also, while I do that, I'll activate the immovable rod, which was loaned to me by Mud, and hold that. I was going to suggest that. Yeah, I see the description there, Chris. It's just, it says, it acts as though the grease spell has been applied. I'm looking up the grease spell. Oh.

Okay, yeah. So you create like a tacky surface on the road in front of the cart, causing the goat's hooves and the wheels of the Ahem-mobile to bite into the ground a little more solidly. And then what else did you say? Oh, you pulled out the immovable rod? And I'll activate the immovable rod and hold on to it. And I'm already holding on to mud.

Make two strength checks. First for the immovable rod and the second for your other arm holding onto mud. Okay. You should just throw the immovable rod out and not grab it with my teeth. And all your teeth break off. You're like Captain America holding onto the helicopter. Uh...

And holding on to the top of the building, trying to pull them both together. Do I need to turn into a helicopter? My first one was 18. So that's on the immovable rod. Yeah, you hold on tightly to that. And my second one was 20, because I have advantage on strength checks, because I rage. So you're raging? Yeah. So the ground becomes sticky and mud, I'm sorry, gum gum, pulls tightly to the immovable rod and mud, helping cause the cart to turn even more sharply.

Let's stay on the road. It's like the cartoonish, like the hand going out of the car, grabbing like a stop sign. And you're just doing a big old loop around. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Kyborg, you still want to take those, roll those attacks? See if you hit the dragon? Yeah. I mean, if they're still flapping their wings and making us go off course. Yeah, why not? It's just one dragon, right? It's just one dragon. That's enough. Yeah. No, I'm just making sure. Yeah. 30. Oh, yeah. Whoa. Let me check and make sure. Yeah, that does hit.

Okay, that's a 13. I'm just gonna roll 3 for my action, or, I mean, do we really need to go through? I mean, this doesn't seem like a classic combat scenario. It's up to you. Whatever you want. Why do you do 3? Do you have 3 turns? 3 attacks. Okay. So you just do the same thing 3 times, and then... Yeah, that's a 32, and then that's a 17. That hits, so 30 points so far. All right.

Eight. Eight? Eight damage. No. He didn't roll for a hit yet. What? Oh, I see. He rolled all of his two hits already. I see. I was just misunderstanding what was going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotcha. So I did eight and ten damage for those last two arrows. So eight, ten. What was that first one? Thirteen. So thirty-one? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! All right.

Should I action surge? No. Hold on, wait. One of your attacks was 17? Yes. That's a miss. Okay. Well, that was the 10. That was the 10. Yeah. So 8 and 13. So 21 points of damage. Guys, I could action surge. You totally could. Why not burn everything you have? You just had a long night's rest. He's taking note of the damage, which means that we will face his dragon later. How many action surges could you do right now? Could you do them all? Just the one? I could also lucky that other one, but never mind.

Bart, you want to do anything? Or Mud, you guys want to do anything? Or are you happy with where the party's at right now? We turn the corner? Yeah, you all turn the corner. But if you want to do anything, you can do it. I scream again. How does it sound, John? Give us a taste.

Discord cut it, but I'm sure it sounded great. Okay, so Mud... I'm sorry, not Mud. GumGum. I keep calling you Mud today. GumGum, you get advantage on your next check and five temporary hit points, which you already got five. I just don't get anything for the scream? You get five temporary hit points. Hey! Thank you. Yay.

Thanks for reminding me. That ferocious scream. It's because I couldn't hear it in Discord. That's why I forgot. You'll have to tune in to the episode after it releases to hear my scream. Here's a job for our audience. I'm going to need you guys to rate how good that scream was and add us on socials with how good on it. You can send us on Twitter. How good was the scream? I really hope Micah replaces it in post with you going like, ah, ah, ah, ah.

Can we get the listeners to send us their best goat screams, their best giant goat screams on social media? I'm going to need you to go to show me you showing your mom your best goat scream. It's best if she doesn't know you're doing it. Chris actually just sounded like a goat just now. It was really good.

I refuse to take part. Send us your best goat impression at StinkyDragonPod. No context, just post it on social media. Yeah, don't even tag us. We'll find it. Elder Wanabe turns to you all. Take heart, Paladins, for we are nearly there. Look, even now I see the entrance. You struggle to see up the mountain and catch a glimpse of a shimmering archway not too far in the distant night.

You also swivel your head around for any sign of Ladoria, but you find nothing. Perhaps Ladoria has retreated back to her. Slam! High up near the crest of the mountain, you spot the shadowy silhouette of a dragon tail strike the mountainside, and you begin to feel the earth rumble around you. Oh no, it's a landslide coming this way. What do you do? We should probably avoid the landslide. Is there a direction we could go in to avoid it? I avoid the landslide.

Sure. How do you avoid the landslide mud? I can help with this mud if you need. I have exploding arrows so I could like clear some of the rubble out of the way. You know, classic gold miner using dynamite. It's still all coming down. Yeah. I go, could I just like, is anybody chasing us at this point? No, just the dragon who is now moved up, up ahead to the side to cause the landslide. I stop and I just don't go towards the landslide. What?

When Avi says, don't slow down. We won't make it through. It'll block the way. I speed up. I have a question. Is the landslide, is it going to hit us from above or like? Or below? Well, like, is it rolling down the mountain? Is it falling on us or is it going to crumble? Yeah. It's like sliding down the mountain. Presumably, like, it wouldn't hit you over the top. It would like landslide down and then shove you off and then make the pass impassable.

And we're like going under where that is, yeah? Correct. It's like you're on the side of a mountain trail and this is all coming down. Bart, deploy a thousand mage hands. Well, a thunder wave maybe is what I was thinking. Could like push the stuff, but I didn't. I go fast. Maybe I could cast also a thunder wave at this point so that if anything, pieces of rubble get close to us, it'll also push them out. Push it away? Yeah. Yeah.

So could I cast Thunder Wave? Okay, I'll ready it. That way, if something does make it through and it looks like it's going to hit, you can be ready to Thunder Wave it. I don't know how to actually ready a spell other than have my mouse hovering over the button. That works. Just now I know if we come to a scenario where it looks like something fails, you're ready to act.

So, Mud, make an athletics check to see if you have enough gas in the tank to accelerate. Sure you don't want to do, like, a saving throw? No, I like athletics. Sure you don't want to do a saving throw? Nah. Gonna re-roll that with my inspiration dice. That was a one. 19. 19, that's excellent. Everyone who's in the cart almost, like, loses their footing because the acceleration is so fast. Yeah. The goat moves with...

The goat moves with blinding speed. Actually, yeah, the three of you make a dexterity check to make sure you stay on your feet. You keep calling Gum-Gum my name and you keep referring to me as the goat. The goat, yeah. I have a name. I'm not just a goat. I'm Mud. Yeah, you're the goat now. Actually, I take it back. Gum-Gum does not need to make a dexterity saving throw because he's attached to Mud. But we all do? Yeah, Bart and Kyborg make dexterity saving throws. Dexterity saving throws.

That's a 16. That's a 16 for me as well. Yeah, you all stumble a little bit, but you manage to keep your footing in the cart as the goat, a.k.a. Mud, accelerates to near light speed, evading the landslide. I'll roll for that.

Uh, here is for Wanabe. Oh, easily, 18. And for Duncan... Mmm... Oh! Let's double check. That's a 1. He's just like, "Bye, Duncan!" "Miss you!" "I didn't drink my coffee this morning!" "Help me!" Duncan falls prone in the cart, spilling his coffee everywhere and taking a point of damage.

He's just so scared that he's fault prone. My coffee! I'm just impressed he's had his coffee not spill his entire chase. That's very true. Everyone's going crazy and he's doing his best to stabilize a cup of Joe and he's just like, who's going to help him?

Like, help him back up? Oh, don't everyone go at once. Well, what do you, what do you, like, does he need healing? He's prone. Pick him up. Yeah, he just, like, fell, and he's got his coffee spilled everywhere. I'll pick him up by his little dragon scruff, and then I'll say something cool and draconic, like, I got you, bro. And that sounds like...

Bart, you speak Draconic too? Turns out Bart's just throwing up over the side of the cart. He's motion sickness. I just said something really terrible in your language. I like the idea of that happening behind Kyborg. Kyborg hears that and spins around to look at Bart, and Bart's just like, over the edge of the cart. Okay.

Mud, you get advantage on the next scenario for your successful check. You hear voices calling out. Hurry, my friends, this way. You strain your eyes to the other three elders standing near a shimmering archway made from various metals and gemstones. We're almost there. Elder Wanabe exclaims, Look out, Latoya is coming back around.

Ladoria circles around overhead and unleashes an inferno of blackness out of her mouth. Everyone make a dexterity saving throw. Ay ay ay ay ay. 18. I want to use my inspiration die to reroll that. Alright. 14. 23. 18. Queens. The advantage that I'd gotten previously, is that usable in this one? That was on ability checks. Okay.

All right, let's see. Everyone's going to take a little bit of damage. If you saved, you take half. Even a 23? Mm-hmm.

Bart, you are the only one who's saved, so you will take half. Oh. Phew. Good thing I used my inspiration die. Oh, wait. I failed? Yeah. Can I use... I think you got to get a 20 or up is what it sounds like. Lucky. No, I have... What was that? Dexterity saving throw? Yeah. Yes. Plus five. Okay. Got a 20 or up.

I could use my indomitable. You can use reroll saving throw that you fail. You must use the new roll. No, never mind. I'll take it. I'll take it. Okay. I'm rolling damage. Everyone takes this except for Bart. Bart, you take half. What kind of damage is it? Oh, wait, wait, wait. I rolled the wrong dice. My bad. And don't forget that you have some HP. Yes. Don't look at that number. Oh, my God. Oh. That was the wrong dice. Necrotic damage. Oh, no.

80 points of necrotic damage. Oh, that's a lot. It's a really good thing I re-rolled because that would have been like most of my health. So I take 40. It is most of my health. Goodbye, everybody. Still too late to roll Indomitable then, huh? I roll Indomitable too. And everyone except for Bart is now frightened. I know you said I'm not frightened, but I have resistance against being frightened. So I don't know if I also take less damage from that attack in general. Nope. Okay. Nope.

Can I try something? Yeah. So now that I have this breath diagem, I have silver tongue, which means I could mimic the sound made by other creatures. Could I try to mimic the dragon sound to like scare her or like think that there's like another big dragon here to like fight her? Ooh, I like the sound of that. Yeah, why not? What do you think a dragon like that sounds like? Uh...

Make a performance check. Me so hungry for little fighters. Performance. And I have advantage on performance, but I rolled a nat 20. That's a 33. So I don't think I get more than that. Holy crap. Bart becomes a dragon. Yeah, that is amazing. Latoria almost like turns on a dime in the air and circles away in the opposite direction away from where you are.

She turns around for a bit midair, confused as to where the other dragon might be. You hear Elder Wanabe yell out, All together now, we breathe as one! All four elders exhale a barrage of elemental breaths at Ladoria, bombarding the dragon with fire, frost, poison gas, and light. Ladoria roars in pain and is sent careening over the mountainside into the distant darkness below.

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Joke. Want to give you a heads up due to the holidays. Our next episode is going to be released just a few hours later than it normally does. So all you early risers that roll out of bed and partake in the daybreak stink, don't panic. The episode will be up in the afternoon. Thanks and happy holidays. I make myself throw up to contribute as well. I go. Oh,

What did you say about my mother? Elder Wanabe waves his scaly hand over the archway and a gate of shimmering energy appears in the entranceway. There, that should buy us some time. Everyone roll a perception check. 9. 26. 15. 9. Twins. All right, Kyborg and Gum-Gum, you're still catching your breath from escaping Ladoria and you swear your life briefly flashed before your eyes.

What did you all see when your life flashed before your eyes? I saw myself ascending to the ancient temple of wizards, which I don't know that exists, but I imagine it exists. Like, that's what Gum-Gum thinks all the wizards go when they die. So when Gus says your life flashed before your eyes, you make up...

A life that flashes before your eyes? Yeah, I think that's where I think I'm going when I'm dying. So it's not about like the life that you've already lived or anything that has already existed. You know what? Actually, Gum-Gum's life flashing before his eyes would in fact be just Gum-Gum's death flashing before his eyes because he is so confused he would get the opposite. Kyborg, what did you see when your life flashed before your eyes? Oh, wait, I have one more thing too. I also see a bunch of fuzzy hair and like a giant beard.

which would just be the goat in front of my face. Worth coming back to it for the joke, Chris. Worth coming back to it. I was picturing like the floating head from Zardoz.

What did Kyborg see when his life flashed before his eyes? I actually did some math and I realized just how much time I spend in the gym. This is both the character and Blaine. 1.5 hours a week, five days a week. That's, you know, 390 hours a year, 16 days out of my life that I spend in the gym. What could I have done with that time? Not perfecting my body with muscle, with weights and cardio. Worked out even more. Yeah.

I didn't work out enough. I start saying it to myself. You seem like nearly enough. I start vomiting. Does it sound like draconic as well? Mud, you actually rolled a little better, so you notice a little more. You take in your surroundings. You see you're in the bowels of what appears to be a dormant volcano.

There appears to be a massive cavernous chamber, but instead of a pool of scorching magma, in the center is a cool chromatic liquid shimmering from color to color, refracting light onto the surrounding igneous rock walls. Like the fountain water. Yeah, similar. Bart, you notice that floating atop the chromatic pool are four finely hewn tiles made of different materials, each with a unique glyph etched in the center.

The four tiles are respectively made of bronze, silver, jade, and jasper. Like the dragons, right? Dragonborns? Yeah. Furthermore, as you're looking into the shimmering pool, you swear you catch a glimpse of eyes looking back at you, but when you look again, they're not there. Oh. Creepy. What kind? How big of the eyes were they? Like human-sized eyes or like... Bigger. So like wolf-seeing pretty lady awooga eyes? Sure, yeah. Or like dragon eyes.

Those two. Elder Numido interrupts your staring at the fountain. We don't have much time, fellow elders. We must summon the ancient dragons if we are to stand any chance against Ladoria or the Shadrow. Estream replies. Agreed. But the ancients have never been summoned with...

Visitors in our midst. Gives you all a little side eye. I just wave. I just have that vacant stare that all goats have. Their eyes are looking in two different directions. Two different directions, yeah. Because their pupils are, like, weird. Yeah, they're like squares. Anyway, Shizu says... Our options are limited. After all, they did aid us in escaping the Shadrow and reaching the summit. Elder Wanabe turns to you all. I can vouch for their virtue and honor, but they can also speak for themselves.

I'm doing the dragon voice.

I like how your dragon voice is kind of like Gungan's from episode one. It's Jabba the Hutt meets Gungan's. Yeah. Boss Nass. Yeah, no, I say, it's cool. We're cool. We're on your side. We're totally bros. But I all say it in Draconic. So to really hit the point home. Yeah. And that sounds like...

And in order to undercut Kyborg's attempt at sounding cool, I just scream again as a goat. Which sounds like... Aw, yeah, needed it for us. We only had the very beginning. Yeah. Well, Elder Wanabe looks at Kyborg, then looks at the goat, then looks back at Kyborg and says...

Then it's settled. We summon the ancient ones now and plead for mercy on behalf of our visitors. They all bow in agreement. Elders Namedo, Estream, and Shizu begin wading into the pool, and as they do, uniquely colored waves ripple along from their bodies, green, red, and silver. No one told me this was a pool party. Are you guys sure you want to go in that pool? I saw eyes in there.

Elder Wanabe leans in toward you all. Have any of you ever been in the presence of ancient dragons before? Did the one that we just, that almost killed us count? No. I had one come to my fifth birthday party, but that's about it. Can I cannonball into that pool with him, or is this like a sacred ritual? Don't ruin the ceremony. If you want to. Well, I ask. I ask Wanabe. Holy water that is sacred to a people group. Cannonball!

Okay. Wanabe doesn't answer your question, Kaiborg. He just gives you kind of a look like he's doubting the choices he's made in his life so far. Okay, cool. I get that look a lot. Most interactions with Kaiborg end in that. Very well. Perhaps you should prepare gifts or reverent remarks to present the ancients.

Maybe this will assuage their disposition. Wanabe bows and he too enters the pool, causing bronze waves to ripple around him. Can I prepare my gift? Yeah. I want to make a dragon flower. What's a dragon flower? It's a dragon. It's just like red. It's something that's in Chris's recent search history. Yeah. It's like a big red flower with a dark black thread.

thing in the middle, kind of like a tongue. Okay. It looks pretty cool. I've never heard of dragonflower before right now. I assume you hadn't either until you Googled it three seconds ago. Uh-huh. Nope. Yep.

It bears a rich maroon flower that reaches up to 36 inches in length. What are you compensating for? Yeah, sure. And you do that with your staff? Yeah. All four dragonborn climb atop their respective tiles and chat together in Draconic. In suspira, yatusame, unago.

It's a different dialect of Draconic than you speak, Kyborg. But you get the gist of it. I see. Vroom! Brilliant beams of light shoot up out of the tiled glyphs, and the four Dragonborn drop to their knees, and each exhales out their distinct dragon breath. Lightning, crack, frost, poison, and fire. Vroom!

The elements fill the air and the elders fall prostrate on the tiles. The mountain violently quakes beneath your feet. Uh, everyone needs to make a dexterity saving throw because of the earth shifting under you. Was not prepared for the sound of poison. Oh my god. Ooh, it's only 14 for me. 14. 10!

15. Wow, pretty low rolls for everybody. Oh, wait, I get advantage on this. 20. Oh, wait, yeah, can we use that advantage? That was a check. No, that's on ability checks. This is saving throw. Done. RDSF. So I guess maybe it's because of your four legs, Mud. It is. You're able to keep your footing, your hoving. I'm a goat. Yep. Bart, Kyborg, and Gum-Gum all fall prone to the ground as it shifts beneath their feet. Dang.

So does that do anything to anything? You're just like, there's problems laying down. From the chromatic pool emerges four shimmering scaly dragons with wings larger than temples and tails as long as elder pine trees. As they each land on the rocky shores of the pool, the mound around you trembles and shudders. Crunch! Everyone make a constitution saving throw. Man, a lot of saving throws. This isn't frightened or poison, is it? No. Yes. It is? Yes.

So I have advantage on those. So I'm going to do it again. You can roll twice. I only got 11 still. I only have a plus two. 10. 26. 14 and 18. I have advantage on constitution saving throws because of my die jam. 18. So 18. All right. All of you failed. You are all up. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I'm going to use the, whatchamacallit. I'm going to use the...

Never mind, never mind. Yeah, go ahead. You're getting scared. You're getting scared right now. How could I be? The guy took 80 points away from me the last time I messed up. Everyone is just terrified. You all are frightened at the mere presence of these ancient dragons that have emerged in front of you. You've never seen anything this big or been in the presence of anything this powerful in your lives. One of the dragons leans its red spiked head down toward the elders and bellows in a gravelly tone.

Why have you summoned Ashiko to the material plane, mortals? The four elders continue to bow low and you notice each of them are quivering like jelly. Bart also bows. Or I guess he's on the floor. It's easy because you're already on the floor. He puts his head kind of in his, like, he goes fetal position. Like ducks his chin. Yeah. I would think you're just like already laying down in your arms, just like shoot out to the side. Boom. Boom.

The green dragon bellows, "Speak now, or face the wrath of Geo, you foolish!" But then he stops. His green gaze turns towards the four of you, and his cauldron-sized nostrils flare a noxious gas into the air. The third silver-skilled dragon cranes his neck with wide eyes to you all. "What is the meaning of this?"

This irreverence! Who dares to defile the presence of Sunam? All four towering dragons turn their attention to the four of you. Elder Domito asks, Please, ancient ones, allow me to- Silence, dragonborn!

I asked the heathens. Mudd just looks around looking for the heathens. For the heathens, yeah. Bart stays low to the ground. Still has a goat like chewing on something. Yeah. Like looking around. I'm the only one standing too. They're all on the ground and there's just a giant goat standing.

Feel free to say why we deserve to be here, team. We're here to help save the dragonborn people. There are bad guys coming to kill everyone and destroy all your temples. Are we allowed to say that we're paladins or is that going to be a...

bad news bears for us oh that's up to you well did it when abi said that they were a paladin as well so they're they're good with it the other elders might not be i think we should still follow the rule well it's namido that wanted us to get to summit to find the three ancient dragons correct but if you remember none of the elders and none of the people in the village when you first got here knew what a paladin was they were all confused by that yeah they never heard the word before

Wanabe did introduce himself as a paladin, but so far from your experience with this group of people, he's the only one who has even used that word. I see. Geo says, I'm here to go as an offering is not enough for ancient ones as us.

I'm not an offering, I'm a real boy. I bring this beautiful dragon flower. We basically, the Shadrow have invaded and, you know, they're looking for the Paladians, which is us, so we need help. The real me. Spoken with true confidence, right? I'm on the ground. I like your picture as Bard is saying this, he still has not raised his head. He's like talking into the ground. So we're the Paladians.

I just wanna go home!

I just want to go home to my bed and my musical instruments. Guys, I'm a great admirer of dragons. I myself speak Draconic. I am also married to a dragon, sort of. Lin-Mir, my beautiful wife. My beautiful dragon wife. Try to kiss one of them. I will prove to you how devoted I am to the dragon ways. And then I kiss Gum-Gum so that Lin-Mir can show up.

Are you okay with this, Gum-Gum? My first real kiss. Are you gonna kiss Gum-Gum on the cheek, on the lips? How's this gonna go? On the cheek. Okay, you lean in to kiss Gum-Gum on the cheek, but Gum-Gum's whole face doesn't turn into Lin-Mur. Lin-Mur's face just appears on Gum-Gum's cheek. So that her lips meet yours as you go to kiss Gum-Gum. Behold, Lin-Mur, my beautiful wife. That kiss is mine. That's right.

That's terrifying. Gum-Gum, make me a religion check since you're offering that flower. A religion check? Not charisma? Let me see. No, religion. Let me see. No. Gum-Gum comes from a charismatic church. Before I do this, I want to use my bolster magic thing. What's that do? It just gives me a D3 to boost. Oh, wait, and I have advantage on this. I'm finally using that. Religion? Why do you have advantage? Yeah, I got advantage on my next thing a while back. Oh.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I thought this whole time Gum Gums had advantage on religion checks for some reason. That would have been random. He went to seminary. Okay, so I got an eight. That's with my minus three. And then I'm going to roll an additional D3. What's that?

So that is 11 total. No, that's 10 total. No, because I rolled the D3, so it's plus three. You rolled a D6. So one and two is one, three and four is two, five and six is three. Oh, I was dumb. Yes. Yeah, it's a three, so I know why you would think of three, but it's the middle, so it'd be two.

Ten, then. So, a ten. I assume you hold the dragon flower up? Mm-hmm. All right. Since it's red, I guess Ashiko, the red dragon, would lean in close to inspect it. He inhales and takes a deep breath, which almost, it's like sucking all the air in front of you. It almost knocks you off your feet. Then Ashiko takes a bite and eats the dragon flower. You just hear him say, Disgusting! Well, that was rude. The green dragon says, This is most unorthodox.

But they seem to have some semblance of honor. Unorthodox, Geo. They're abominations and they should be snuffed out where they stand. Perhaps soon on. Then again, we have yet to hear from our sister Sora.

care to weigh in on the fate of these pagans? But Sora doesn't respond to Ashiko. She simply furrows her bronze brow and stares at Bart for a moment. Finally, she opens her mouth. Are you what they call a halfling? Are you talking to me? I can't see who she's looking at.

Could I like lift, put my head like I'm still bowing on the ground, but I tilt my head to look at them? Sure. Well played. Yeah. Yeah. If that's okay with you, ma'am. Only I.

I'm also a bard, if you want me to play you a little ditty. Elder Wanabe says, If I may, your grace. Sora nods her bronze head. I believe he is the one. That is, the one the legends speak of. The red dragon asks, Surely you don't mean the quarterling? Respectfully, your greatness, I do. Do you not sense it? Ashiko merely scoffs and blows a puff of smoke from his red snout. The bronze dragon says, I sense it too, my child.

But does he breathe as one? I fear not, your grace. Yet look what he wears upon his thumb. What's on your thumb? Bart sticks his thumb out and shows off the gem. Behold! Is it really the Brathaiagem? The blue, red, and silver dragons begin murmuring amongst themselves.

Impressive to say the least, halfling. But you still have yet to breathe as one. The silver dragon says, Indeed. Step into the primordial pool if you truly are the quarterling. Every eye in the cavern turns to Bart. All right, listen. I know I'm short for a halfling, but quarterling is a bit of a...

Am I able to get up or am I still like doing sure I'm gonna help me up Yeah, this thing where he like rolls over and like slowly gets up like yeah Took me a little bit his little butt crack is showing Truly the one I whispered a Bart. I go you're at least thirdly. Okay. Thank you Hold on

Bart pulls up his pant legs because he doesn't want them to get too wet because who likes wet pants? And then wades himself into the water or into the liquid. As you enter the pool, Bart, the liquid begins to fizzle and ripple with a spectrum of shimmering colors. You feel a tingling sensation in your toes and fingertips. Bart, make a charisma saving throw. Is this going to be like that scene from Beauty and the Beast where the beast becomes the prince? No.

I think it's more like it might be a Pokemon evolution phase. Which saving throw, sorry? Charisma. Which you have advantage on with the breath diagen. I do, yes. He grows half an inch. 20 would be my higher. Not where you expect, though.

He doesn't need more length there. His big toes already way too long. Yes, toes. A soothing and familiar voice echoes in everyone's heads. You recognize it in your heart as the voice of Dia. Oh, it's Dia. Celebrity. When darkness drapes the dragon's isle and shadows shroud the ground, one shall rise both half and half with voice of great resound.

A quarterling of small and tall, his breath shall reach the shores and cast the darkness far from here.

The tingling sensation surges throughout your body and reaches your throat. The bronze dragon says, "Recite the incantation." As soon as the words leave your lips, you feel that surge of energy leave your throat and explode into the cavern above. A rainbow array of elements showers into the air, filling the cavern with fire, frost, lightning, and more. Bart, you now can add a new feat to your character sheet.

Breath of the Quarterling. I'm the Quarterling. Vomiting rainbows.

Bart learned how to fuss Roda. I did. I also don't know if I said it exactly how Gus said it, but... You said it pretty good. I want to know what it does. Breath of the Quarterling. When you gain this feat, you gain the following benefits. The power to spew magical energy from your mouth. Hell yeah. Choose acid, cold, fire, force, healing, lightning, poison, or thunder. The creature can use an action to exhale energy of the chosen type in a 15-foot cone.

Each creature in that area must make a dexterity saving throw using your spell save DC, taking 12d6 damage of the chosen type on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

Heck yeah. How often can you do that? Once per long rest. It doesn't say on there, but it's once per long rest. Cool. Excellent. That's cool. It's an action. Super vomit. The bronze dragon asks, then it is true. Has darkness reached the shores of Tatora? Yeah, basically. It has. It has reached the shores of Tatora. I hate it. Gum Gum's dad's back. What? What?

Gum gum. Gum gum. You recognize that voice? Quick, look around. Bad dragon. The bronze dragon says, We will fly at once and provide aid to the people of Tatora. But I'm afraid the darkness must be defeated at its black heart.

The quarterling and his friends must enter the shadow main and dethrone the so-called queen. Do you know of what I speak? Uh, yeah. She basically was trying to kill us about five seconds ago. Yeah, Inku. There it is. Yeah, Inku. Inku no like us. Fear not. We can provide you temporary armor to protect you amongst the shadows. Sora nods to the dragons and each claw single scale from their hides and lay them before you all. Ooh.

You all should be able to see this if you want to add it to your inventory. It's called Ancient Dragon Scale. Like Power Rangers.

This dragon scale is roughly the size of a shield, and they all have one charge. You can expend a charge to use your reaction to either gain a plus five bonus to AC against a single attack made against you or temporarily gain immunity against being frightened for one round of combat. Cool. Oh. Okay. So it has to be equipped, though, so like for when I have a bow and arrow. Correct. Armed, I won't be, I got it. Micah just said, go, go, paladians, like the Power Ranger theme song. Go, go, paladians. Ding, ding, ding.

Really works. I have a question. Temporary gain immunity against being frightened. Can you use that if you're already frightened to negate it? I would say normally, no. You could use it. Well, sure. Why not? Why not? Yes. Oh, so we only have one charge and we can expand the charge. Got it. Yes. You can either buff your AC as a reaction, which is really handy. Or if you're frightened, you can dispel or undo being frightened with it.

Okay. The bronze dragon turns to the others and says, "Elders, come. It is time to protect the Torah from the shadows." All four elders exit the pool and as they do so, Sora recites something in Draconic.

Dorouetsu knocks. The pool suddenly dims in color and a small whirlpool of darkness appears in the center. When you and your friends are ready, quarterling, dive into the darkness. Elder Wanabe bows deep. May Diah be with you. The four dragons and four elders lower the primordial gate and exit the cavern into the night. Does anybody want to maybe look under there first? I saw a pair of eyes and a little bit afraid. Gum Gum, maybe that was your dad. I jump in.

Oh, by the way, everyone can count that as a short rest right there. Oh, nice. Oh, okay. Thank God. Not that I think it really does anything. I can expend hit die. Oh, to heal? Yeah. I'm down by a bit. Oh, 80 hit points. Wah, wah, wah. Am I able to do that on a short rest as a bard? Yeah. Yeah. Everyone should be able to do that. It's not like an automatic thing. I think you have to, it's like a separate area where you have to mark it off. How many are we allowed to? Your level of hit die. So you're 12. I have 12. Yeah. All right.

All right, back to full health. Hey, I have a question about timeline. Has it been a full day since we left for this place? It's nighttime right now. Since you left for this place? You mean since you left Boulderay? Yeah. Yes. Is that enough to attune to my other acts? It was 24 hours. I had to like balance with it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Could I do a quick thing for mud? Yeah, what's up? I use my cloak of the secluded garden and I go check on my tree. Oh, yeah.

Uh, it is, uh, starting to grow faster than you expected. Oh, nice. Well, I water it. Ooh, water. Make a nature check, Mud. Nice. You water it okay. Not the best watering job. A little bit of pee in there. Yeah. You spill a little bit on your foot. You start watering the leaves and you remember, oh, wait, no, the ground. The ground. Oh, the ground, the ground, the ground. John, do you remember the tree at the house you grew up in? Mike is asking. Yes. Okay, yeah, he does.

What was the point of the question? He says the little one with stilts. Little tree with stilts? It's so cute. Is that the quarterling? Oh, I think I know what he's talking about. Yes, I know exactly what he's talking about. That's the size. Oh, okay. Bart will jump in, but he's very scared. So Bart jumps in, but he's a little scared? Yeah. You're the quarterling, though. He holds on to Gum-Gum's...

a friendship bracelet. Yeah. I have a speed of 35, so I'm going to back up 15 and then sprint and then jump 20. And then I'm going to do a cannonball. I'm going to summon the ancient ball of cannon, and I'm going to go cannonball!

Make an acrobatics check. Acrobatics check, of course, of course. It's not my best splash, 16. It's all right. It's respectable. Not amazing. All right, so everyone jumped in, right? Yeah. Okay. You dive into the black abyss and splash. Everything goes dark. Everyone roll a perception check.

Ooh, nat 20, 29, 9, 19. I rolled a 25. Gum-Gum, I think you always roll a 9 or less on perception checks, because I think you're mostly the reason I get to read the low check numbers on these. It's always because of Gum-Gum. All right, well, Gum-Gum, you see nothing, but in the distance, you hear the rumbling of thunder and the rustling of wind, and you feel a cold sweat come over you, now shivering in the darkness.

Bart and...

mud, you instinctively look around and you spot two details amidst the darkness. First to the north, which is your left, you spot a small box made of bones precariously sitting on the edge of a craggy rock overlooking a waterfall of purple fluid falling into blackness.

Second, you look past Inku on her throne and spot three shadowy figures. It looks like a halfling, a dragonborn, and a human. Inku greets you. Welcome, Bartholomew. You're right on time. Inku stands up from a spiny throne in the center of the pool. A veil of darkness drapes her gaunt figure. A thin smile curls along her black lips and she waves her spindly fingers at you. I'm waiting. Her eyes narrow. Hmm.

I thought you would have learned some manners by now. I agree. Manners are everything, my dear. But I suppose we can simply chalk that one up to bad parenting. I laugh awkwardly as well. Make a performance check.

Good one, Inku. Two. It's just like one of those really awkward moments where even your party turns and stops and stares at you. Like, what are you doing? Trying to break the tension. Come on. I start shoving him a little bit back through the portal.

All the way across the purple pool, you spot a middle-aged man in a tattered top hat slink out from the shadows. He's wearing a black suit, a red ascot, sporting a well-groomed Van Dyke beard. Hugh Manor. It feels like it's been ages since I've seen the four of you, doesn't it? Oh yes, dear Infinites, I remember you. I will admit, you may have found success in the past,

but my eyes were always on the future. Quite right, my dear. But in this place? Waves her skeletal hands around. Time stands still, and without the light of day, it can feel like an eternity. Can it, Bart? Inku snaps her fingers and two figures appear beside you, Manor. They're bound and gagged by inky black vines, a ginger-haired halfling and a golden dragonborn.

Looks like I'll finally have the full set of the Finn family. Yo, is Bart half dragonborn? We'll have to tune into the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon to find out. Mama, Papa. This was a really fun episode. For a second, I thought you were going to tell me that Hugh Manor was my dad and I was going to be like, uh. That's impossible. That's impossible.

All right. Well, thanks for listening. I had a lot of fun with this episode with you guys. I always like the episodes where you guys get to come up with solutions to problems that are put in front of you and see what you all come up with. Like a lot more free form. It was fun. Yeah. That was scary, that episode. Mm-hmm. A little scary.

All right. Well, you'll feel better next week when we have another episode of Tales from the Sneaky Dragon. Here's a quick shout out to folks that interacted with us on social media recently. Here are some NPCs named after them in this episode. Ladoria, the Shadow Dragon, named after La Ladoria. Bolink, the Shadrow, named after Link IB. Namito, the Dragonborn Elder, named after Falsely Named. Estream, the Dragonborn Elder, named after Estream Writes.

Shizu, the Dragonborn Elder, named after Grill Shiz, and Wanaabe, the Dragonborn Elder, named after Just Wannabe Funny. Also want to give a special thanks to some friends who provided voiceover for characters in this episode, like Elder Wanaabe, voiced by our own Stinky Dragon producer, Ben Ernst, Bow Link, voiced by Achievement Hunters, Joe Lee,

ElderNamito, voiced by StinkyDragon producer Brendan Carruthers. ElderEstream, voiced by Rooster Teeth's Quentin Smith. ElderShizu, voiced by Achievement Hunter's Ashley Dillard. RedDragonAshigo, voiced by KindaFunny's Mike Howard, aka SnowBikeMike. JDragonGeo, voiced by Rooster Teeth's Hector Gonzalez.

Silver Dragon, Sunam, voiced by Richard T. Chad James. Bronze Dragon, Sora, voiced by Achievement Hunter's Kyla Cook. Dia, voiced by Achievement Hunter's Black Crystal. Inku, voiced by Raquel Lily. And Hugh Banner, voiced by Achievement Hunter's Trevor Collins. Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon.