S2 Ep. 7 - The Gofast Club
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Attention, everyone. If you're not on fire, look over here. It's me, Teeny the Teeny. I know we're scared and the cafeteria's on fire and there's probably been at least a couple casualties, but this is a dance class started. And just because the school and the authority figures and the teachers let us down, we're going to party like we want to party. But they can't keep us safe. We're going to do a wild one now.

Gross, I got zit juice all over my Gundam cosplay.

Welcome to Dungeons and Daddies, not a BDSM podcast. This is the story of four teens searching for their lost dads in a world forever changed after that one time their granddad's accidentally unleashed an eldritch god into our world. Boy, oh boy, what a wild ride it's been. My name is Freddie Wong.

I play Taylor Swift. Taylor's rad fact, teen fact for this week. Taylor's bedroom, he has two bedrooms. One, of course, in the house where his bed and stuff is. But he has a secondary sleeping location, which is a tent that he's pitched in the woods near his house. He's a tent kid? So he can practice his survival skills out in the wilderness. Now, to be fair...

Taylor like sleeps in the tent maybe once every like two weeks, maybe like obviously inside is where, you know, the heat and air conditioning and his blankie is. But I got to hear more about this blankie. Yeah, I'll save that for another time.

You gotta string it up. I would say I'm very excited for Taylor's survival skills to make their migration out of the dad facts and into the story. I suspect as a ranger, which has a bunch of stuff, and I had stuff where it's like, oh, what are the environments that you are better at tracking in? And then I'm beginning to think that there might not be a lot of tracking. He's good at tracking down torrents of his favorite animes, I bet. I know, but that's not the desert. You could have been tracking the kid that turned out to be the musician. Yeah, but that wasn't in the desert.

I'm a natural explorer. That's what I got. I got natural explorer. I respect that. Like there is a consistency and a comeback around this to Taylor's tent kidness, because I feel like a lot of people tried to stay in a tent like once when they were teenagers. And then they're like, well, I'm never doing that again. So the fact that he is doing it every two weeks. They're like that fucking twerpy kid in Parasite. Yeah. He's like, whatever.

I want to sleep in the tent. The next morning, I didn't like that. It's like, come on, shut up. Stupid, stupid kid. That's what I got out of parasite. It was this stupid kid came and do the family camping trip. Right.

Anyway. Hey, everybody. My name is Matthew Arnold. I play schooled at home soccer kid, Lincoln Lee Wilson, protective paladin. Quick little, little rad fact. It's not really that rad. It's just, you know, it's just a little fact about Lincoln. Do you believe in yourself? No, it's just totally just rad. I think it's cool. Okay. It's enduring. I don't know. Anyways. I thought it'd be interesting. It's interesting. He's very focused. It's not really interesting. It's just, you know what? Here's a fact. Okay. Here's a nugget of information about Lincoln. Okay.

Which is that, again, in order to stay focused and keep his mind always on the goal of being a great soccer player, he needs white noise to fall asleep. And his white noise is, this has all been done by himself. So he edited it. He learned how to do sound recording. So it's a preacher. Damn it. He learned how to do sound recording. So all of his white noise is just the sound of a ball going into a net and grasping. Just like...

So he just hears that. He just hears that. And then, and it's just like feet on grass. So he just hears the sound of the field. Like lo-fi chill soccer beats. Yes. What you're saying? He wakes up in his alarm. Lo-fi cleats, if you will. And his alarm is a, Oh,

His alarm is a compilation of all the announcers screaming goal of his favorite goal. So he wakes up to goal. So yeah, that's, that's, you know, he stays focused. That's why all of his dreams are very confusing. All right. Okay. Hey everyone. I'm Will Campos. I play Norm Oak.

Plain Jane, garden variety, run of the mill, ordinary teen. Great. That's great. Fun fact about Norm, his favorite part of going to school, summer vacation, am I right? Three months before school comes back. I miss normal. There's something so haunting about this. I know. I love this. I don't like this kid. We lost a character already. It took like 60 episodes to kill a character. We lost normal. Well,

Hi, I'm Beth May and I play Scary Marlow, a goth punk seeker of darkness who is not like the other warlocks. Fun fact about Scary this week, Scary is the head of the Students for Realism in Fiction Initiative. What?

which is a separate sort of book club that argues that books like Lord of the Rings or The Martian or Anne of Green Gables have happy endings incompatible with the true human experience. And that curriculum...

That the school's curriculum should focus on books like The Road or Less Than Zero that reflect everyday tragedies of human existence. Wow. That's wild. That's really good. What does that acronym spell? Like snurf? Suffer. Suffer.

Suffer. Suffer. Yeah, suffer. Yeah, it's just suffer. That's great. That's really good. Pronounced suffer. It's not even spelled like suffer, though. Yeah, you wouldn't get it anyway. Take it up with students for realism and acronyms. Hi, I'm Anthony Birch. I'm your daddy master. And I...

reached out to daddy magic Matt Menard over Twitter trying to get him to come on the podcast and also implicitly challenging him to a match in the ring. He has not responded. I'm wondering if I should speak to a wrestler in the language of the rest understands, which is cutting a video promo of myself in tights and, and calling him like the B word a lot. So I think I may, uh,

do that. Wow. All right. Something to look forward to. Download it down now. Need any AV help? I was literally going to say, like, Freddie, I may have to, like, we may have to carve out an hour for me to come to your house with. If you need any ER help after the match, that's another thing. Oh, no, no, no. The match is not going to happen. No, no, no. You can also brainstorm business decisions like not on the podcast. This is not business. Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt. This isn't business. This is personal. Personal.

So when we last left you, there would have been incursion at the dance. Normal had spoken to Lark and Sparrow, who are on another plane and were communicating and kind of couldn't control what they said, but still kind of meant what they said. And Sparrow implied that he was not proud of Normal and wanted Normal to be more of a normal kid. You

You defeated Pocoroni Tony, the monster that was created when a tentacle came out of the incursion point and made his lips really big and turned him into a kissing monster. How does he do it, ladies and gentlemen? Anthony Birch, the man of a thousand monsters. They're all just tentacles and body parts. It's one monster rotated 90 degrees every single time. It's an asset flip. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's just red orcs and blue orcs.

You found out that Hermione the Unworthy is a method actor. A different type of monster. The cafeteria kind of got on fire and then kind of didn't catch on fire. If you want to, we can start the next day at school. What about the post dance hanging out at Sonic's? Okay, so you're at, it's still Sonic, but it's Sonic the Hedgehog. It's like a branded, you can only get chili dogs and onion rings. What about speedy dogs?

Sure. No, no. What do you mean no? Don't stop beating dogs. Beth, do you even know anything about Sonic? The Hedgehog? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Name one thing about Sonic. That his arms are supposed to be tan. That's right. She gotcha. Lincoln's looking at the clock and he's like, dude, it's like really late. And like, my dad said, like, can we go home?

I'm like, hey, hang on. Is that cool to go to this restaurant when you want to eat when you brought all of us in this car? We are still covered in white pus from that zit exploding. And I don't know if they will let us in. I get four orders of onion rings, three chili dogs and a medium Sprite. And a fast dog.

And a fast dog, sure. I'm not hungry, but Marco's probably hungry. He works late, so I'll get three speedy dogs. Is that what it is? Yeah. Scary? Cool. I'll take the speedy dogs. I'll have... What's like a normal thing to get? I'll have the exact average middle of what you three ordered. Okay, so a couple minutes later, a waiter who's dressed like Sonic, along with a large prosthetic erection, comes out...

Roller skates. Oh, sorry. Your characters would know this. So when the world turned red, everything was lost from Sonic except for fan art of Sonic. So gotta go fast, horny Sonic comes out, balancing all of your drinks and all of his food on its prosthetic dick. We all give him our fake IDs because he has to be over 21 to eat at Sonic's now. Yeah. Go ahead and roll deception.

I got an 11. I also got an 11. You're probably going to get kicked out of Sonic's.

I got a seven. I got an 11. What? We go to 7-11. We go to 11-7, the crazy flip version of 7-11. So this waiter looks at you with anger and he puts his hands on his hips as he talks his boner shakes. How dare you try to sully the good name of Sonic by bringing yourself. Buddy, we're not here for all the erotic art in there. We just want some hot dogs and boners. Beady Dog is an inherently erotic experience. I didn't.

that when you're old enough you will and then you won't go to anywhere else that's why there's such a line to get in here we waited three hours to get in here yeah yeah and it would have been worth every second if you had actually been 18 this is why you don't don't fuck with sonic

I'm going to go. Oh, I'm so angry. I just might yiff. That word changes in the future. You get kicked out. And as I get kicked out, I throw my onion rings everywhere. Like, whoa. And the sound. Yeah, yeah. It makes that sound. And he goes, oh, that's good. That's funny. Come back when you're 18. That guy's cool. Of all those kids, that's the cool one. Taylor has his hand out being supported by Lincoln North. He's like, if I get hit one more time, guys.

It's okay. I got you. I gather up a bunch of onion rings from the ground and feed them. No, you're not allowed to. You're not 18 yet. You know what? These are outside, man. They're on the ground. The ground's not gate guarded by your rules. No, yes, it is. We have an outside, like the parking lot. If you've ever been to a Sonic, it's the parking lot is part of the restaurant. No, he's right. We're on their property. We should go. But wait, before we get bricks. Okay. So really quick. I just, this is why I brought you all here. Norm, you

Your uncles and dad, they said something about your guys' other dads are like at the school or something. He said something about drama club. They're just at our school, like hidden from view. We had three hours in line to talk about this. Well, yeah, but we were trying to figure out our order before that.

We all know so much about anime now. We all sat here for three hours waiting. Yeah, I had to sum up one piece for you up until now. Yeah, well, I mean. Which is still going. It's still going. I figure we can scope around the school tomorrow and maybe check that stuff out. Do we know anyone who takes drama? Do any of you guys take drama? I mean, scary? I think I might know someone who takes drama. Somewhere 30 miles away, you hear, oh, okay.

What if it's not Hermes? Some guy named Josh? The next day at school, first things first, is anyone wearing the teeny costume? Oh, yeah. Oh, I definitely would have given it back to you. When you arrive at school, your badges vibrate and you get a message on them that just says bathroom. Okay.

So May Hales is calling you to the meeting space. So I assume you guys are at the bathroom. When Norm enters the bathroom, here's what you see. You see a boy not wearing the mascot outfit, but with a classic split down the middle, middle school hair part situation, the pork pie hat on top. Oh, no. My man. He's got black lipstick on. Woo!

That's actually really cool. A band t-shirt, but it's like an old Jimmy Buffett shirt that his dad probably had. And he's kind of like drawn all over it in black Sharpie to turn it black. Excuse me, wait.

Wait, your parents who are like today's Zoomers had Jimmy Buffett shirts? He comes back. He comes back. He gets really big on weird Twitter. Okay. Listen, Rick Astley was nowhere. Was nowhere, okay? Okay, okay. So he's got like a Jimmy Buffett shirt that he's like gothed up with Sharpie and like he's like cut some holes in it and it's sort of like a

crop top tank top thing with a bunch of safety pins and then he's wearing uh soccer pants and argyle socks hiked up like around his knees like soccer like soccer socks and then he's wearing like sneakers hey hey buddy hey hey we're taking a poop in here this is a wait is that you hey everybody what's up norm you're looking like five ninths of a cool guy that's exactly what

Yeah. Loving the hat, man. Not quite sure if it matches with everything else. Well, yeah, you know, I figured it's like, you know, if my dad wants me to be like a normal kid, like you all seem pretty normal. So I just figured I'd average the three of you out and see how it goes. What did you just say to me?

Uh-oh. I mean, yeah, you know, like, but I mean, like, not normal, like, you know, but like a typical teenager. Okay. I thought that we were friends, Norm. Take a D8 of psychic damage. Scary. I got an eight. You got an eight? That hurt a lot. That hurt a lot. Typical.

Oh, I'm sorry. I was, I'm just trying to do like a normal, I'm just trying to like not be just like a normal teen norm. You completely don't understand me. Oh man. Okay. I feel not great about that, but good, I guess. Anyway, let's just, you know, we don't need to make it any bigger deal than what it is. I just, you know, I'm changing my personality. Are you happy with what you're doing right now?

I mean, you know, I'm feeling normal. I'm feeling average about it. You know? I'd like to perception check to see if his pork pie hat is better, more expensive, cooler, et cetera, than mine. Okay.

Go ahead. That's a nine perception check. Okay. So I can describe it. Give him a not very specific description because it was a nine perception check. It looks like for a nine, it's not as good as yours. You have not realized the secret of this hat yet, but it is not as good as yours. Taylor takes off his pork pie hat, wipes the sweat off his brow, goes whew, and puts it back down.

Uh, so from one of the stalls, you hear Mayhale's voice going, can I, can, can I come out now? Can I talk? Oh, or should we go down? Should we go to our base? Or you want to talk in the bathroom? I mean, we can go to the base if you want to. Sure. People do not listen to the signs. So it's stinky in here. Okay, great. Let's go to base. You all sit on the big old toilet. Uh,

Simultaneously, I decided. And you get zoomed through the base and you head to the vending machine and she goes, oh, you successfully stopped the incursion. You pop the incursion hole. So congratulations. Here's a 25 daddy warbucks. Wow. If you wanted to spend them on vending machine stuff, you were more than welcome to do so. Yeah. Sure. Did you hear the whole like that Larkin Sparrow were?

Were there? Yeah, we saw Lark and we saw Sparrow. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I did hear that. It was pretty fucked up. Yeah, that's... They were like mind in there. Yeah, so I had a question about that. They were like under mind control, right? Like that wasn't like, you know... Oh, they might have been. Did they look like they had like a big tentacle coming out of their head that was like sort of like a marionette, like a puppeteering thing? Uh, no, but maybe it was like behind them.

They were like holograms or something, though. Would have been the head. Yeah, no, I don't think they were under mind control based on what you're saying. They were probably just out of sorts and probably just said a bunch of things that they really believe deep down that might matter to them. It's probably what I would... Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. I can... I can... I can... Yeah. Can I whisper to Hale? Go for it. I say, hey, Miss Hale, his dad said some, like, really not cool stuff, so I could probably just be like, for the morale of the team, it'd be nice if you just, like, maybe, you know,

You get what I'm saying. Do you want to roll stealth to see if you can keep that from Norm? Ooh, 17. Okay. Okay, I got a 15. Okay. She hears you and she goes, oh, oh, oh, I see. Okay, sorry. Yeah, they're probably just lying. I think your dads might be liars. Yeah. I totally get what you're going through, Norm. Like, one time my mom told me to do the dishes or I couldn't watch my...

goth Santa Claus marathon. I love goth Santa Claus so much. I know. Yeah, it's the best. He spreads so much sadness to the children every year. Yeah. And all the coal. I think coal is so cool anyways, but I just didn't want to do the dishes because that felt stupid and then I couldn't watch it. Yeah.

Yeah, well, you know, there's like hostages, like, you know, there's traps somewhere. Sometimes they got to say things like that. Yeah, they may be communicating to you with their eye blinks and Morse code. There was a guy. Oh, OK. I think I know what's going on here. You guys are trying to make me feel better and I appreciate it. But, you know, I'm really OK. I like that my dad and I have the kind of open relationship where we can tell each other stuff like, you know, I'm not proud of you. And like, you know, so he's honest and I can accept that.

And, you know, that's constructive criticism. So I'm going to work with it. And that's what this is about. That's what this whole thing is about. So, you know, we're going to see how it goes. If anybody would like to roll insight to see if he's really as okay with this as he seems to think he is, feel free. Can I just guess that he isn't? That check, we just have to beat a one. Look, any...

Look, anyway, let's focus on them. The whole point is to get our dads back so we don't have to do this anymore. So let's just let's drill down. Oh, God, I almost forgot. Normal. I was down in the dungeon this morning and I was looking at the door, the Amigara fault door with all of your outlines in it. Yours is glowing now. What? Oh, OK. Like, I think. Is that mean my dad's proud of me?

I don't know. It means that whatever you're doing, I think you could keep doing. And maybe if all of you can do that, then you can get through that door. So you're one-fourth of the way there. It's like some narrative momentum's happening. So you're telling me I have to get a hat like that? I would never say that to you. Oh.

She puts her hand on your shoulder. She said, I would never say that to you. Well, thank you. Link realizing, kind of piecing together, remembering the door, he kind of starts getting like sweaty and fidgety and he's looking around. He's like, we got enough for two keys. I don't want to like step in front of the line or anything, but like if I could, at least could we use 10 of those for me seeing if I could know where my dad is? Because yeah, we heard that their dads are like

maybe hidden in the school or something, kind of like Lark and Sparrow were? Yeah, it was like we used one of the keys and then, you know, voila, my dad showed up. Maybe we can find the other dads by opening more of this door, right? Yeah, I mean, I hope mine stays hidden. Am I right? Why would you want that? I thought that we were all like, never mind. Could you guys heal me really quick? Oh, yeah, here. I do lay on hands for a 5 HP. 5 HP? Come on, I'm really suffering. I gave you 5 back, so you only have 3 HP done. Yeah, it only did 3 damage, effectively, so.

Hey guys, what's one HP of damage in real life? No, we're not doing that. Okay. Okay, so do you want to buy one of the keys for the obsidian door or two? There are three locks remaining. How many do you want to buy? We have 25. You have 25. I think we can do two. To remind you, a violent...

item that'll help you is five Daddy Warbucks, a tactical item is three, and a quote-unquote worthless item that could be really useful in the right circumstances is two. My vote is one big key and three, like, fives. I think we just do two keys. I think we do two keys. Okay. So...

It eats 20 of your daddy warbucks and spits out two jeweled keys that look distinct and different from the ones that you saw before. Where is it? I grabbed one too quickly. Do you have the physical key? I do, but I don't. I want to see it. I grabbed it. Link grabbed the first one before it even hits the bottom of the vending machine. You don't even hear the clink. He's just like, boom.

Whoa. Like a necklace key. Dude, that's like a Warhammer-esque. That's cool. Steampunk key. Yeah, that's one of them. I bet I can fit it around my head. I want to describe this key because it's very cool, Anthony. It's an old-fashioned metal key, but it's got a purple rose in the middle and then a purple chain wrapping around the key. And it's got two other flourishes, which is one is some sort of elaborate ivy leaf and then also a dragonfly made of silver.

Wow. That's a lot of effort. With like a mirror in the middle. Wait, let me see that. Whoa. Jesus Christ. Cool key. And then the second key that comes out is this key. Oh, wow. What? It's like red with Santa on it? God, Santa? And it says believe...

Believe in St. Nicholas is what it says. Is that God Santa? Well, who wants this other key? Norm, you want to take it out? Norm has it. That's fine. I don't need it. So Norm took the other key. Now you have five Daddy Warbucks remaining. What would you like to buy? You could get a tactical and a worthless. You could get a hardware. You save those until we open the doors. I feel like... I really want to open the door. Here's how I feel. I'm getting a key. I'm going to get more powerful. You're getting a key. You're going to get more powerful. I'm getting a key.

I think, Taylor, you should use the five Daddy Warbucks and buy yourself something nice. Give me two worthless items. Okay. I'm going to hand you the deck and you're just going to grab. You're going to grab two random. As usual, nobody's thinking about me. Hey, wait. Scary could get one. You have the worthless item that I don't want. Okay. Hey, guys, like we're a team here. We should all get something. I get it. I'm used to it.

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On your way down to the obsidian door, you pass a couple of doors that you can use those worthless item keys on and you open them up and you find. Holy shit. Okay. So these two items, the machine, an ATM size machine with a single red button that when pressed will cause thousands of portals to open up from which thousands of assassins from every conceivable time period will blast the button presser into oblivion. But it's an ATM machine. Yes.

It is not easy to move around. Got it. Okay. That's a break roll of 17-inch whiz. Can you make it appear wherever? I think it's a dragon. No, it's like an ATM-sized thing, so you would have to find a way to get it somewhere. You opened one of the worthless doors, and you saw this machine inside with a bunch of corpses next to it. Can we put it back and return that and then get a cool five-one instead if we don't like it? These were my... You...

You don't get to second guess what I chose for my tactical readiness. And then the second item, the puberty. Anyone who stands under this plastic tree for at least 60 seconds will go through puberty. And we all know what the puberty voice is for Taylor.

If they've already gone through puberty, they will go through another more violent puberty. Oh, no. So that one is you could presumably pick it up and move it around places, but you have to be careful that wherever you move it, it takes less than 60 seconds because otherwise you'll go through puberty. Or you turn it like sideways and hold it sideways and you're not underneath it.

Like a ladder, like holding a ladder. Oh, sure. But I was just imagining like if the rays are coming down from the leaves, then it's just like it's in your midsection. It's like anything beneath the canopy of leaves. You're telling me that I can go through puberty on like a part by part basis? Yeah, just your feet or just your midsection go through puberty. So it's a tree standing in the middle of the room and underneath it is just like, it's a grass. It's just a bunch of hair. What if it's a tree? It's just a bunch of pubes underneath the tree. It's pubes. So you're saying it's like a high puberbolic time chain.

Oh, wow. Will, on point today, my man. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. So should we just, like, leave those here? We're not going to carry them around the school, are we? We're going to keep these here handy. May says that, like, hey, whenever you want to, at least the puberty... I mean, I'd have to figure out a way to move the machine, but the puberty, I can always send you through the fast travel back to the school if you ever need it. You can also just put that tree in, like, a random part of the school. Yeah.

If you want to. It's good to have these items in case we need them. I think for now it's maybe not monkey around with them. Yes, I agree. We may use these later. Cool. I just feel like next time as a team, I guess since we're trying to save our dads, maybe let's use them on a useful item next time. That's all. I don't mean to be grumpy. I'm just saying maybe next time we do that.

Are you fucking questioning? No, I'm not questioning. I'm just asking as a group if we can just, you know, kind of focus on you. You were the one who said that I get to choose what I buy with my hard earned cash. That's okay. We don't need to worry about that. I didn't say that. Now, as you walk down to the obsidian door, which again is like halfway down this sort of like corkscrew spiral down to the bottom, you can see as you look down all the

all the way to the bottom, that what Mayhale said was true. There's a little purple glow coming from what was Norm's section of that door. Norm, didn't your dad tell us to enact code purple? I think that was my uncle Lark, and he said something about an amplifier that...

like needing an amplifier to get Code Purple to work. But it also seemed like that was something you wanted to do if we like weren't going to save our dads. And it feels like we don't want to save our dads, right? It sounds like something we need anyway, especially when I form my killer rock band. Oh, okay. Yeah, I can search for something. Yeah, we don't really know what is amplifying yet, but just like maybe start just doing some research on amplifiers in general. And maybe like, we just know that whatever Code Purple is,

We're going to have to amplify it. Okay. Yeah, I can look around for that. Sure. Okay, so Ling wants to look. He wants to see if there's any signifying marks around the keyholes to try to get a sense of which keyhole would be for Grant. Sure, great. Roll investigation. I'm assuming that this keyhole...

You using the keyhole had Larkin Sparrow appear or like it's made this glowing after we met Larkin Sparrow. Like, obviously, this is connected somehow. So I just want to see if there's any way to tell if these keyholes are connected to a specific dad. Because I want to try to use it on obviously on my grand ski hole. OK, go ahead and give me an investigation. I got a natural one. Natural one. That's three locks. There's three locks. Three locks. I guess a one in three chance. OK, well, I'll just...

I'll do... Well, how are they arranged? Left to right, at the same level, chest height. Okay, and Scary did the... Scary did the first one, the leftmost one. All right. We'll just go from front to back, so I go to the back one. You go to the back. The farthest right one. Farthest right one. And I'll enter the key. Okay.

I'll enter the key. Help. The key will enter the door as provided by the action of my hand moving it towards the door. Your key enters the door. I thought your key was going to enter the lock. The lock. Which is part of the door. Okay. Visual storytelling. So you put the key in and it turns. Two things happen immediately. Firstly, you hear in your head a voice that you link to.

Lee Wilson don't recognize, but that all of us recognize as a young Terry Jr. saying, Terry Sr., I invite you in. And in that moment, Scary gets another level up. What? What? What? Wait, what? What? Scary levels up again. What level are you at now? I'm at level four. This is outrageous. Did we level up after the last fight? Are we level three or are we still level two? You're still level two. God damn. Fuck.

We need another fight. We have $25. Now I know how you guys felt when I was rolling through the levels. But it's like crazier because you were like, one level is just double. So, yeah. You heard something? Yeah, I just heard. I mean, I didn't really recognize the voice. It's kind of disappointing. It didn't sound like my dad. It sounded like a kid. And just like said, Terry Senior, I'll let you in. Wait, Terry Senior? Yeah, so it must be. It's probably your dad's scary or something. Are you sure? Who did you hear? Stepdad. Sorry, your stepdad. What was your stepdad's dad's name? Who cares?

I mean, I do. It's kind of important. No, well, no, it's important to figure out what's going on with our dad. So what was his name? So like my stepdad, his name is Terry Jr., which he still goes by, which is pretty dumb if you ask me. Like, oh, look.

Baby, no, I'm your stepdad. Obey me. Like, whatever. So apparently his dad was named Terry, too. So you heard a kid say, I invite you in, Terry Senior. Yeah. That must really suck for you, Scarra. I'm sorry that having the same name as your stepdad would be complicated. I'm sorry. It's...

Thank you, Link. I just imagined that would suck. I get that. Yeah, so anyways, I guess I heard your stepdad or stepgranddad or step... I don't want to say the wrong thing, but I think we heard him and he said, I invite you in. Interesting.

Also, you look like really powerful. Thanks, I'm feeling powerful. Choosing packed boon and ability score improvement at the fourth level. The glee in Beth's voice. All right, well, I guess let's see if we hear anything else when I use this Santa Claus key and I put the key in the door. Okay, and you hear what to you, Normal Oak, or Norm Oak, is an unfamiliar voice, but to everyone listening,

I'm talking to you right now would recognize as the voice of a young Nicholas Foster going, I'm ready, ready for the big ride, baby. So I just realized it. So it's Santa Claus and it says, believe in St. Nicholas on the back of the key. So I think, what is your, Matt, what does your key look like? Oh, it's got like a rose and a dragon. And I couldn't find perfectly themed keys for everybody. The St. Nicholas key was by far the best. Fair.

Fair enough. What were you going for for this one, Jared? Also, scary levels up again. What? What? She's level five? We're level five? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, we should have had scary step away from the door before we opened it. I don't know that that would do anything. Only one lock remains. You don't have enough daddy warbucks for it. So something to think about later, I guess. Okay. Well, I heard a kid singing a song about a big ride, so I don't know what that's about, but maybe it's a Disneyland thing. Sound like this. Sound like my dad. What did your dad sound like when he sound like he sound like, okay, my dad, I love

My son, you're so beautiful. My boy, good morning. Let's have breakfast together. Like that? Do you sound like that? Not exactly winning America's Got Talent. Well, I'm not a good singer. He's a good singer. I don't think it was him. It sounded way cooler than that. Oh, okay. Well, yeah, he sounds cool when he does it. It's like, my mornings are, it's cool. And then my dad opens the door. He sings good morning.

Well, uh, okay. Okay. All right. So, uh, Megan's like, okay, well that's all of your, your stuff. I guess you have the one, you know, daddy Warbuck left. If you want to hold onto it or you can, whatever. Sure, sure, sure. While they do that, I just want to like, do we ever see where their desks are? Yeah. Their desks are all the way back up in like the office space where she goes, go ask the whale. I need to use the bathroom upstairs real quick. Okay. You want everybody else to go talk to the whale? Cause I want to go get that Glock out of the fucking desk, dude. Sure.

Are you going to stealth away from your team? You have to convince us to. I just told everyone that I need to go to the bathroom. Yeah. I need to poop real bad. Okay, well, I guess I mean, normal's ready to go back to school, I guess. Okay, yeah. Does anybody have any, do they feel like your characters have any reason to be suspicious of Taylor saying that he wants to go to the bathroom? Okay, in that case, then you're going to have to roll deception, Taylor, and you're going to have to roll insight. 12 deception. You fuck.

Yeah, he just has to go to the bathroom as far as you're concerned. Okay, man, we'll have fun up there. Well, we're going back to a bathroom. So do you want to just go? Yeah, the gross bathroom? Forget it. The bathroom here is one of those ones that has a lock on the door. I mean, you know how fucking hard that is to find in public.

Back up for a second. You don't feel palpable satisfaction every time you go into the public and there's a bathroom with a lock on the door? They all have locks. No, no, I'm talking about like single use, just you in there, your fucking throne, your fucking space. Yeah, yeah, now I see what you mean. No, because I always forget to lock them and then somebody just comes in and sees me in my most vulnerable place. What? That's your

problem. I'm not blaming anybody else for it. That's a me problem, but I also suffered the consequences. This was at Rocket Jump when it happened. It might have been with somebody in this room who's being very polite and not mentioning it.

Was it me? I don't know. I don't know. It might have been me and I don't remember. So great. Was it me? It's a victimless crime. May says, oh, yeah, I'll show you to the bathroom. And she she walks up the stairs. She goes, there it is. I'm just going to be in the office. So she goes into the office and you hear the typing on a keyboard. She's in the office where their desks are. Yes. I'm going to be like, yo, something's fucked up. The thing's all clogged up. Oh, OK. That's that's that's too bad. You need to fix this.

Oh. Convince. I want to roll a persuasion. I want to roll like a persuasion to be like, hey, this bathroom's not bad. This is your job. Can I get a bonus because it is her job? It actually is. Yeah, I feel like you are her boss. I'm getting this gun. Yeah. I mean, you're her boss. You can roll with advantage. All right. So I rolled two 11s again. You need to use a different program. I'm just using D&D Beyond, bro. Yeah. Don't use D&D Beyond anymore. That's insane. So she goes like,

Do you just not want me to be in this room? Yes. You need to get out of this room and fix the bathroom. Okay. You're the boss, she said. Yes, I am. Okay. In the back of her mind, she's like, but my other three bosses told me to do research on this. She goes, I'm just... Take a smoke break or whatever the hell it is adults do. Okay. I'll give you 30 seconds in here then, I guess. But I do have to go back to my work that your three other friends told me to do. Yes.

Okay, and so she leaves the room and just stands outside the door. I'm going to fucking get that Glock out of the desk, dude. Okay, you find a loaded Glock underneath Lark's desk. I do a press check. It works. It's a working Glock. Not what a press check does, but all right. This is Taylor we're talking about, you know? Sure. So it's got a normal size mag, which means it has...

A number of bullets in it. 17? 15 round. You have a 15 round magazine, but it's been fired a couple of times before. Which you can tell by smelling the barrel. So you only have eight rounds in this Glock. Hmm. Interesting. A clue. This will come in handy later. I'm going to call an Uber. I'm going to do this thing that my friend has done, which is, hold on. Are you legally sure you want to say this? Whatever's coming next. Because my friend, his dog had like a photo shoot booked.

So he was like, I need to get this dog across town, but I need to be somewhere else as well. So he basically just called an Uber and was like, I need you as a delivery driver for his dog kennels. He just put the dog kennel in the Uber and then the Uber went over there. You're going to put this gun? Well, I'm going to put it in like a box or like a bag or something. I'm like, hey, I need to post this back to my house. All right, sure. An Uber driver comes up and takes your, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Do this or you won't get five stars. You should roll to see if this guy opens the box. Your mom's rich, Taylor. I know you can afford a tip. Yeah, now that you've said that, this guy is going to take the box and he's going to put it into the driver's seat and I'm going to roll to see if he fucking opens it or not. Can I intimidate him out of that? No, he did it after you left. You offended him. Actually, you can try to roll intimidation now to see if you can intimidate him with a five-star thing into actually following your instructions. Natural 20, motherfucker.

Nice. You got a natural 20? Yeah, bro. It gets home and there's two guns in there. It's morphed. Interesting. Yeah, I'm just going to send it home. Okay. Further study. So it is, yeah, the Glock is now at your home with a bag of cookies and a please rate me five stars. I'm reliant entirely on your generosity. Okay.

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See store for details. You go back to school and you hear an announcement over the loudspeakers, which is the voice of Tony Pepperoni saying, Okay, yes, I know you may have heard about a lot of crazy things that went down at the dance last night. Wait, is he alive? You only cut off my lips. Wait, sorry, I left the transmit on. I heard what you said. I'm turning that off now. Okay, I can't hear anything you say starting now. I'm not spying on you all the time. I promise. Yeah, no, I'm still alive. Don't have any lips, but...

a lot of people got really scared. You may notice that some of the kids got taken out of school because their parents got all worried. Some of the teachers just shifted around. We may have had a couple of teachers quit. And so I think it'd be the best thing if we just kind of did a clean, kind of a fresh start for San Dimas High School, which it leads me to believe, actually, that I should change the name of San Dimas High School. And the thing that sort of

gave everybody a lot of comfort and made everybody really happy at the dance before and after everything went crazy was that Teenie the Teen, that mascot that we all sort of ironically voted for initially, but like everybody, everybody loves Teenie the Teen now. A round of applause. Yeah, you hear every classroom around you, yeah, Teenie the Teen, Teenie, Teenie, and he goes, and so for that reason, we are renaming ourselves to Teen High School. Yeah!

I can't hear you clapping because I'm in my office, but yay, everybody be clapping. What about something like that really invokes like the spirit of the school, like Dark Hearts High School? No, it's teen. Hey, you said you weren't listening to us. You're a liar. Oh, shit. You're a liar. No, I forgot to turn it back on again. That's all. I could definitely not hear you ever unless I press the button. I promise. It's not... I'm not...

How you doing? How's Norm reacting to everyone? So Norm takes this news and he's kind of just sort of just drawing squares on a piece of paper. And then his pencil breaks at hearing the name Teen High. And he's like, okay. All right. Okay. That's yeah. Well, yeah. Okay. And then he kind of just crumples up the piece of paper and stuffs it in his backpack and zips his backpack shut. Yeah.

Hey, but those people are probably going to be at the school square and be really pumped to see you in the outfit again. I don't do that anymore. Oh. Wait, where's the outfit? I don't know. Wherever. Wherever we put mascot outfits is not my problem. I'm a normal teen now. Damn. The bell has rung. You are a little bit all late for government class, which is usually run by Dr. Lovell. But he quit.

So if you want to go to government class, you're more than welcome to. I think we have to. I mean, yeah, it sounds like a bunch of squares, but yeah, sure. So you head into government class, and normal, you see it is being taught by Mrs. Swallows-Oak-Garcia, your mother. Mom?!

Oh, hey, hey, tardiness is no good. Love you, sorry, I can't, I don't want to do favoritism, but yes, this is my son, Normal Oak. You may have seen him in the- It's Norm, Mom. It's Norm now. You're right, I didn't respect your new name. This is Norm Oak. He is, or was, Teenie the Teen. So everybody, big round of applause for Teenie the Teen. You feel a classroom full of your peers.

applauding you. How does that make you feel? And there's one kid who does a standing ovation. Yeah, and he tries to make it start and nobody else will stand. It's the very complicated feelings for Norm. It's like this joy because this is everything he's ever wanted. But I'm like, no, no, no, no, never mind. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, but if you would all take a seat, we'll go ahead and get into the three branches of government. Oh,

That's a really good sigh. Your mom begins to teach the class. Link, will you roll perception for me? I'm sorry. Link's not paying attention. Link is actually studying soccer plays. So. Okay. Then roll perception with disadvantage. Okay.

Fair enough. That's on me. I got a five. Okay. If anybody else would like to roll perception, feel free. I got a 17. I'm doodling my anime, so no, and I got three. I got a 16. Okay. So I guess scary. You just see like an adult outside the window, like beating on the glass, but it's not making any noise. His hands kind of going through the glass and he's like waving his arms in the air and he's pointing at Link and he's just trying to get some attention.

Yo, Link, there's some ghost boy out there who wants you. What? Please don't talk while I'm talking about the Supreme Court. Yeah, guys, my mom's talking. It's a good, cool system. I guess...

I cast charm person on. Okay. What does that do? You attempt to charm a humanoid you can see within range. It must make a wisdom saving throw and does so with advantage. If it fails the saving throw, it is charmed by you until the spell ends or until your companions do anything harmful to it. The charm creature regards you as a friendly acquaintance. Mrs. Swallows-Oak-Garcia rolled a two. So she goes, hey.

Yeah, I'm allowed to talk in class, right? Yeah. No, we're friends. We go back. Yeah, we do. Anyway. I mean, we were acquaintances. We don't know each other that well, but like, yeah. Okay, so I'm so sorry. Go ahead and say whatever you were saying. Go ahead and finish your conversation. Please do. Like, Link, there's some ghost boy out there who wants you. Where? What are you talking about? Look. And then I look. It's Grant. It's Grant? It's your dad. Link, Link, Link sprints at the window. Uh, wait. Ha ha ha.

Roll acrobatics to make sure you don't smash into it. Well, I mean, that might be what he's trying to do. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, and you want to smash with him when you go. You roll a 21. 18 plus 3. Okay, so you get to decide whether that made you stop to work you. Like a lot of school windows, it's got like the big pane of glass, but then it's got like that secondary above one that's like slightly open. He like Jackie Chan like slips through like

He runs the corner of the wall up the flagpole and then slides down and lands. He goes like onto Grant, like ready for like a fucking like air dive hug. Great. You dive onto Grant, arms open, and he looks up at you, arms open, and you go straight through him just like Norm did with Larkin Sparrow. Is he still there though? But he's still there and he still goes...

- Dad! - Oh, Link, I'm so happy. - You're a ghost too? - I'm not a ghost, I'm not a ghost. - Okay, oh, so you're not dead. - No, I'm not, not yet. I don't think, I might be. There's like a chance I might be, but I'm pretty sure I'm not. And even if I am, that means that this is just my memory of you and this isn't real, so it doesn't, I'll just pretend that this is all real and that I'm alive.

Let's go with that, okay? Okay. How are you feeling? How are you doing? I'm happy you're here. I'm scared, though. That's great. We're trying to find all... You, I mean, I'm with, you know, Normal. He's Norm now, but, you know, I know I wasn't supposed to hang out with, like, you know, all the crew, but, like, we're trying to find you guys, and, like, you lied to me. I'm a little angry about it, but we don't need to talk about that, but, like, you did stuff. When did I lie? You lied.

you're not, I mean, I guess you probably still are a librarian, but like you do like, like spy stuff or shit. Like, I'm sorry. I have killed so many people and demons. And I, here's the thing. I,

- I love it. I love it so much, the killing. It's like, I don't know, maybe you get this with soccer, I feel like maybe you do, that's kind of why I'm worried about you, but when you're in the moment and everything's really stressful,

all the anxieties of everyday life and all the worries you have and the fears slash knowledge that you're a piece of shit who doesn't deserve to be happy. Like all that just kind of goes away when you're fighting and killing and it all just goes white and everything's so simple and it's so nice. And so it's really important to me. You got to do this big favor for daddy. I probably shouldn't tell you this,

but I don't want you to ever be anything like me at all, okay? I'm a bad and broken and wrong and villain person, and it's important to me that you... I can't pass that on to you, okay? You can't be anything like me. So you got to promise don't ever kill anybody, okay?

Don't see bad things. I'm broken and you can't. And tears were streaming down his face. Like, don't be broken like daddy. Sometimes I see how anxious you are and how worried you are. And I think you might be just like, we're not even blood related, but I just, I can see it happening. So do me a big favor and don't ever be like me. And maybe don't love me as much as you do. No, that's bad.

Scout, that's bad. Dad doesn't deserve that. Oh, the other important thing. There's a code purple thing.

Okay, so there's a specific door in the dungeon. So the door is just this weird burgundy color. It's like an off burgundy color. You'll know when you see it. Basically, they look like little rivets on the side of the door, but one of them is actually a button. The third rivet down is a button. You need to press that button, and then something inside will help you with code purple. And it's also kind of messed up. I remember that.

But that's, oh, and yeah, there's probably going to be an incursion somewhere around your government where I am. That's, oh, that's it. I'm in danger because there's an incursion point here and I might get killed. But I wanted to stay here to see you for what's probably going to be the last time. And I'm kind of psyched that I might die. No, because then that means I can't poison you with who I am. So that's great. Big.

five buddy and he goes for a high five okay you go for a hug and you move through him and his high foot moves to you and he goes oh that's darn daddy and i need you you need to come back well i'm gonna save you no don't save me i think just do code purple i think code purple is better i don't want you to come save me i think this is i'm realizing this is the ideal situation for me i die you get to live with marco who's way better and yeah hey man hey we

High five again. Oh, dang. Okay. What are good last words? Um, I, I, there's not gonna be a last word. So just, just say whatever you want to add because we're going to, I'm going to get you. Then you know what? No, I was going to say victory royale, but that doesn't make any sense. I don't know what that is. Instead. I'll just say what I say to start every day. And what I think at the end of every day that you are still happy. And that is goal. And he, and he fades away.

Hey, Link. What the fuck? Dang, dude. Are you okay, man? I just turn around, I guess. I'm just like outside the classroom. Yeah, you're outside the classroom. You see the door. Everybody watched him. Normal's like peeking his face up over the little window. He's like, Link, you okay, man? I mean, no. It's more, my dad doesn't seem okay. I mean, I'm not okay, obviously. That was horrible. Well, I was going to say. Ugh.

My dad doesn't want me to be like me. Your dad doesn't want you to be like him. Do you want to trade? Do you want to just be like me and I'll be like you? I'm reading the room wrong. You're processing a lot. No, yeah. Hey, are you okay, buddy? We can talk about it. Do you want to just, we should go get some Sonics. Not Sonics. We should just go. Yeah, we should all ditch. Hey, Mrs. What's your name again? Swallowish-Oak-Garcia. Yeah, we're going to leave and that's chill.

Oh, you're so neat. You're taking the initiative. You know, that's actually something that our founding fathers were very much all about is taking the initiative. Okay, we're outside now. In a lot of problematic ways. I'm sort of a centrist. She's beginning to argue the both sides of like America as you exit the classroom. As scary as can be, I think Link like gets into, he puts on like his game face and he goes, guys, look, they said there's an incursion in this classroom though. So, so like,

I don't know. Team scary. You're out here. Taylor, where are you, buddy? We need to, we need to talk the yellow bracelets, whatever. We'll come up with a cool team name, but like we got to,

We got to do something. You call it a team huddle? Team huddle. All right, we're here. What do you need, bud? Do you guys hear, but it sounds like my dad, Grant, you know, he said that the next incursion or there's an incursion here in government class. So like, I don't know. In this government class? Yeah, in this government class. We should brace for that to happen, right? Do we just, I gotta, we should get ready to, I don't know. What's, I sort of catched about for supernatural shenanigans going on. Yes, give me an arcana roll. Okay. I got us three. Taylor's arcana. I will as well.

I got a natural one.

I got 19. Whoa! Thank you. I didn't know how I was going to get this information to you otherwise. Okay, so with a 19 arcana roll, you, having seen an incursion point, having seen them as these big old zits, you can tell that there is one in that classroom right at the front of the class where Normal's mom is currently teaching and that it's very, very young in its maturation. Like, if it's a zit, then it's barely a bump under the surface right now. Like, over time, this thing is going to build something incredible

is going to happen, and more than that, emboldened by the presence of your dad and the love that you feel for him, you get a feeling that a very important authority figure is going to be related to that thing rupturing. In the classroom, you hear Mrs. Swallow's Oka Garcia saying, "Ah, and that brings me to my best part." So as you may or may not know, I am the heir to the fortune of the Swallow's ice cream company. And using that political clout, that's also a lesson to learn, is that it's about money primarily.

- Thanks to Citizens United. - Yeah, thanks to Citizens United. - The fourth branch of government. - Yeah, the new fourth branch of government, Citizens United, I was able to secure a visit

the mayor of San Dimas. He's going to come here. I was so expecting you guys all were expecting free ice cream, right? Like I was so waiting for free ice cream. And the fact that it's not is immeasurably disappointing to me. So she hears that and she goes, well, the thing about an America where cities do not, is that this fourth branch is that nothing it's illegal for things to be free. Now you got to pay for everything kiddo. Um,

So just to clarify, is the zit, so there's a zit there? There is a zit under the surface there, and the zit is going to slowly gain energy, and it's going to pop. Just sitting at a desk. Can I run and jump on it? Lance it? No, it's like under the, you know how like a zit, before it comes out on your skin, is under your skin? It's like there. You cannot see it. You can just sense it. And she goes, so the mayor's going to come in here and talk to you about local government and all the fun, different elements of...

- What's local government? - Wait, who cares about local government? Let me give a shit about local government. - Exactly. That's why his perspective will be so interesting, don't you think? - Oh, loser. - It's all about balance. You have to understand the big and the small, the good and the bad, the right and the left. You have to always be right in the dead center.

I don't know how I exactly feel this is that maybe that daddy magic stuff but like yeah I think I don't know if the time exactly but like I think this mayor guy like I think this is like the incursions when when is he coming actually tomorrow oh yeah he's coming tomorrow that's the big surprise surprise everybody in that moment you hear uh high heels clicking down the hallway and you turn and you see everybody roll perception with advantage 18 natural 20 again oh my

Oh my god, I got another one and then an eight. Okay. But the one. That's fitting. Scary's like, doesn't care. Yeah, you don't care. If somebody comes in, you don't care. But Beth, she rolled better. I got a 12. Okay, Link and Taylor, you see what is very clearly Mae Hales doing a never been kissed and trying to pretend to be a teenager. Oh my god! She's just dressed like a teen and she goes like, ah, ha ha. And the other two of you, you either don't realize or don't care until she speaks.

And she goes, oh, is this, this is history class. Great. Government. Government class. That's great. Cool. So I'll just, oh, we're all outside. We're doing like an outside class thing. That's great. That's great. Hi, fellow teens. Hey, fellow teens. Teens, teens, teens. Hey, I'm going to introduce myself to everybody really quickly. Go on ahead and keep talking about government stuff. And she leans in really close and huddles you all together. And she goes, I checked the heat map and you have to kill the mayor. He's got the sauce.

Not today, no, not today.

♪ Before tomorrow makes the day can't change ♪ ♪ We got a day, no not today ♪ ♪ Just start back tomorrow ♪

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Guys, really quick. Can we just like take a quick nap? And then I nap for eight hours. I wake up. You all slept before you came to school. Oh, yeah. Lay on hands again. No, you can't short rep. No, no.