Camp Diogenes Staff Handbook, Creature Supplement, Rule #11: Talking frogs are very self-conscious creatures. They can exist both on land and sea, which give them even more opportunities to tell you how great they are. This may stem from being consistently confused with talking toads, who have that alliteration thing going on.
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Transcript
Amanda: Last time on Join the Party.
Eric: Assistant Director Z comes by the CIT cabin to talk to Les, giving him some mentoring advice to take care of his friends, and a tip on where to find his non-monster hurting but definitely monster restraining net gun. ADZ also asks the best friends to look into why a bunch of beds are missing from the new girls' cabin. It seems like something is keeping this massive cabin spotless, which is even more strange since the campers aren't interested in doing anything other than gambling for candy and lusting after Les. And you know, one girl's foot is totally gone and so that might be bad. What's even more strange is that there's an abandoned gymnasium underneath the cabin with an archery range, an obstacle course, and a big old swimming pool. But they're not alone down there as Frederick the Frog, the frog fact knowing house demon of the cabin confronts them, demanding to challenge the Chosen One. What's even more strange is that the party is gonna get started. Let's get the party started!
[theme]
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): Okay, Chosen One and her two friends. Thank you for coming down here to save me, Frederick, the keeper of the nice cabinet and the secret gymnasium underneath, ribbit ribbit.
Julia: Phoebe looks at Carrie-Ann and is like-
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay, so it's either, it's either you or me. And like, I have been hoping that I was a Chosen One since I was eight years old. So like-
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): I know. It's probably you. I know what I'm about. I was just, I was just hoping.
Julia (as Phoebe): Carrie-Ann, you're the chosen one for camp. The camp chose you.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Thank you. Thank you.
Julia (as Phoebe): That's, that's like what your destiny is right?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): [sobbing] Thank you.
Julia (as Phoebe): My, I just think my destiny might be saving this frog?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Yeah. Let's uh-
Amanda: And then Carrie-Ann turns towards the frog.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Um, why is this here? And why are you here? And who's eating all the stuff?
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): Good question. I don't know. I'm Fredrick the Frog, the keeper of the gymnasium down here and-- and another great question. I don't know.
Julia: I thought he did just tell us that he knew.
Brandon: Alright. I gotta use my broad-- my Ockham's Broadsword and see if this thing-
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: -is-
Julia: Do it.
Brandon: -natural, unnatural creature, a weird phenomenon or a person.
Amanda: New move! New move!
Eric: Ooh, I'm gonna go with saying this is an unnatural creature.
Brandon: Hmm.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): Here's another fun fact about frogs.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay-
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): When a frog swallows its prey, it blinks which pushes its eyeballs on top of the mouth, to help push the fruit down its throat, ribbit ribbit.
Julia (as Phoebe): What?
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): I've been waiting for the Chosen One to come down here, I thought it was those girls upstairs but really it's you, the one who shoots the arrows.
Brandon: Les faints again.
Julia: Phoebe just like goes to like pick up Les.
Julia (as Phoebe): So heavy.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): No, I'll deal with it. I'll deal with it, Phoebe. You're the Chosen One. Go ahead. Go ahead.
Julia (as Phoebe): Everyone keeps saying that I don't know how I feel about it. I should be very excited but now it feels very overwhelming.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): Here's the thing I've been trying to figure out what's been destroying everything for so long because everything seems to be falling apart here. Some of the American Ninja Warrior things are destroyed and there's holes in the wall.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay, um, do you like really like cleaning?
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): No, I hate it. I'm a frog.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): Where we live in bayous and such.
Julia (as Phoebe): Now again, you're a frog and I don't mean this like in a insulting like all frogs know about goo. But do you know anything about like some goo that might be over there?
Julia: And Phoebe gestures towards the shower area. What would be underneath the shower area.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): That's interesting. There are some pipes down here that connects the pool to the shower but I haven't seen anything around there. I have seen some green, some green goo around though.
Julia (as Phoebe): In the pool?
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): Ribbit ribbit.
Brandon (as Les): Why are we talking about goo?
Julia (as Phoebe): Is that a yes? Because there's goo, okay? Because it's goo and it's gonna be in the showers and it might like I don't know, hurt people.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): You knew about the green goo that definitely makes you the Chosen One-
Julia (as Phoebe): Stop saying that! I don’t know how I feel about it.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): -with your preternatural powers of knowing things! Ribbit!
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Phoebe, it's okay to be-- like everyone is someone's Chosen One, you know?
Julia (as Phoebe): If I just specifically this frogs Chosen One then? Because that's like, not as much pressure but like also kind of underwhelming.
Brandon (as Les): I think Carrie-Ann is this frog's Chosen One if you know what I mean.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): It's not no it's not it is not that. I want to be very clear that I'm dealing with this human child in front of me, this human young woman in front of me.
Julia: Can I read a bad situation about the pool now that the pool has been pointed out to me as like, there's a connection between the pool and the showers.
Eric: Sure. Yeah.
Julia (as Phoebe): Seems like the bad plumbing, seems like really bad, like plumbing choices.
Eric: Bad plumbing. Yeah.
Julia: Alright, cool. I'm gonna roll. Okay, so I rolled an 8. So that means I get to hold 1.
Eric: Sure. Alright, you can ask me one of the read bad situation questions.
Julia: I'm going to go with what's the best way to protect the victims? The victims being the people who are eventually going to take a shower in the goo.
Eric: Yeah.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): Well.
Eric: Frederick hops up onto your shoulder and it's like having a bird that's too big on your shoulder like a macaw.
Julia (as Phoebe): It's like my aunt's weird parrot. I hate this.
Eric: He's like slimy, he's also like bright green. Like you're like this frog is green in a children's book. He's so green, he's so green.
Julia (as Phoebe): Sir, Sir, you also just told me that like one little ounce of poison dart frog venom can kill 100,000 people. So like if you could just like not touch my-
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): No, that's not me. That's just a fun frog fact for you to know. Ribbit ribbit. I think the best way if you want us if you want to save us and everyone here, you have to defeat the monster that's destroying everything before it gets out into the real world through the pipes.
Julia (as Phoebe): Great. Where is that monster?
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): Great question, I don't know I'm just a frog!
Julia (as Phoebe): Ah, it's probably in the pool. Okay.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): Ribbit
Julia (as Phoebe): I almost drowned like two weeks ago, I don't know how I feel about going in this pool.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): Okay, but you're, as the Chosen One, you got to figure it out.
Julia (as Phoebe): I can- this is a lot of pressure that you're putting on me and I don't know how I feel about it.
Brandon (as Les): If going into the pool will let me out of the situation, I will go in the pool.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): I don't know if I feel how I feel about the Chosen One who is definitely is supposed to be choosing me and helping me try feeling like they're going to back out of it. Ribbit. Ribbit
Julia (as Phoebe): No one said I was backing out of anything.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): Okay.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): Some frogs breathe through their skin and don't have lungs. Ribbit.
Julia (as Phoebe): Les, do you want to like, I don't know how I feel about going in this pool that might be full of slime. But if you would like to join me in the pool full of slime. That would be cool, I guess.
Brandon (as Les): Okay, whatever you say Miss blue power Chosen One.
Julia (as Phoebe): Alright, please don't call me that. That seems-
Brandon (as Les): Is that not a good nickname?
Julia (as Phoebe): Oh, I'm hating this.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): How about the Chosen One who's going to save us all? Ribbit ribbit.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Eric (as Fredrick the Frog): And the world probably.
Julia: Phoebe's gonna very gently just like, slide into the pool. Just like, like it's real cold and you're like it's not I'm not hot enough yet to really be into this water situation. But I'm just gonna sliiide in very slow.
Eric: She's gonna sliiiiiide-
Julia: Slide right in.
Eric: -right in.
Amanda: Before she does that can Carrie-Ann trust her gut? Can I consult my instincts about what to do next?
Eric: Sure. I don't think you can. I don't think you can do it beforehand. I think that-
Amanda: Okay.
Eric: -as Phoebe sliding into the pool.
Amanda: That's fine. This is me using magic. I'm gonna roll plus Weird. [dice roll]
Brandon: Oh, was at your cool alternate move?
Amanda: It is. Yeah.
Brandon: Oh, nice.
Amanda: Alright. I only got 5 unfortunately. So I'm gonna mark experience.
Eric: Cool. What happens when you fail that?
Amanda: Well, Eric, my instincts lead me into danger.
Eric: Okay. Hey Carrie-Ann-
Julia: Get in that pool.
Eric: Carrie-Ann, you have a thought, right? Where are the counselors? They should be here.
Amanda: Where are they kissing?
Eric: Where are they kissing? You know what would be a great place to kiss. You know what would be a great place to kiss Carrie-Ann?
Amanda: Would it be down here in this pool?
Eric: It'd be down here not in the pool. It would be in the farthest, in the most secretive place inside of the secret gymnasium, right?
Amanda: The top of the ninja wall?
Eric: It's probably at the top of the ninja wall. Yeah.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Yeah. Okay. Good luck guys. I'm gonna go do some reconnaissance.
Amanda: And Carrie-Ann is gonna-
Brandon (as Les): What?
Amanda: -run over to the ninja wall.
Brandon (as Les): What the fuck is happening?!
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): If no one will kiss me, no one can kiss!
Julia: Phoebe's just like-
Julia (as Phoebe): Wha? What?
Brandon (as Les): I can't help you with that! We're cousins!
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): I wasn't- that wasn't a leading question, Les! No, thank you.
Julia: I keep forgetting you guys are cousins. It's so fucking weird.
Eric: It's so funny. Carrie-Ann, you hustle over to the gymnasium area and there is an American Ninja wall warped wall that’s like up 10 feet.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: And you're like there is a dark corner back there, I knew it!
Amanda: Yeah Carrie-Ann is just gonna start trying to run up but-
Eric: You start running. Trying to run up it. Do you or do you think that is outside of what Carrie-Ann's able to do?
Amanda: Oh yeah.
Eric: It's outside of it.
Amanda: Oh, certainly.
Eric: Alright. Hell yeah. Act under pressure for me.
[dice roll]
Amanda: I did just my cool and luckily that means I got a 9 + 2-
Julia: Nice!
Amanda: -for an 11.
Brandon: Sick.
Julia: You're just so much motivated to stop kissing that you're like, Ahh!
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah, and I run up in one go.
Julia: Wow.
Eric: You're up at the top. You're looking out. No one is kissing over here.
[Brandon gasps]
Amanda: Okay. And then I like scan the horizon and like look into all the corners of the room to see if someone else is kissing elsewhere.
Eric: Yep. You see that there is a-
Julia: There are people kissing in every corner of every room.
Brandon: One person kissing in the mirror.
Eric: Yeah, everyone's kissing. Carrie-Ann, at the top of the Warped Wall, you're looking out on this gym on this old gymnasium domain.
Amanda: I don't know why you're laughing. Yeah.
Eric: And I think that you see, there's like, the really big adult monkey bars.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: That's a really far space. That's all upper body.
Amanda: The offset ones.
Eric: Yeah, where you have to like throw yourself from one monkey bar to another and there's like a, there's a pit in there that's filled with like the styrofoam-
Amanda: Blocks, yeah.
Eric: The styrofoam blocks. And then from there, you see them start to the styrofoam blocks start to dissolve away. And as it's like sliding towards you quite fast is a six by six cube of bright green goo. Sliding and oozing and shuffling towards the warp wall as fast as they can slide.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Halt, fiend!
Julia: Phoebe's just like-
Julia (as Phoebe): Wha-what?
Brandon (as Les): I've stopped- I've stopped what do you, what?
Julia (as Phoebe): What?
Eric: It's charging towards you. It is charging towards the Warped Wall. You'll also see that like it is literally burning a path in the gymnasium floor as it's heading towards you.
Amanda: Can I try to kick some ass?
Eric: Do you want to get into the way, do you want to try to run away? Do you how do you want to hurt it? Tell me what do you want to do?
Julia: Amanda would like to kick its ass.
Amanda: No, no, I'm trying to think...
Brandon: Too many options.
Julia: Get away from there.
Amanda: I know. I mean, I feel like I'm pretty safe on top of the wall unless it hits the wall and then the wall starts to disintegrate.
Eric: Sure.
Amanda: So I want to like knock some mats over on top of it. Or like let a tarp go on top of it and try to catch it up. Is there something I can trap it in?
Eric: Sure, as you try to push things. There's like mats and other stuff at the top of the warp wall where they I guess they were storing stuff.
Amanda: Yeah, yeah.
Eric: Up there. You try to push it over. And it just keeps charging forward. It engulfs every single piece of styrofoam and plastic you push into it. And now it's starting to eat into the Warped Wall and you're feeling that it's unstable underneath your feet. What do you do?
Brandon: Amanda, this is what we trained for in our cabin. You got to jump onto the mats.
Amanda: You're right, Brandon. I am just going to bail. I'm going to grab a rope that is no doubt hanging near the top of this wall and try to swing my way into either the pool or the foam pit, whatever is closer.
Eric: Abso-god damn-lutely.
Julia: Love that for you.
Eric: I mean that's acting under pressure.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: If you can't think of anything else, do it.
Amanda: Oh, yeah.
[dice roll]
Amanda: Okay, I got a 7, a 5 + 2.
Brandon: Nice.
Amanda: So that means that the keeper's gonna give me a worse outcome, hard choice, or price to pay.
Eric: Oh okay, I think that you swing down because you spent the time throwing the mats down on the gelatinous ooze, it is eating into the Warped Wall.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: And the Warped Wall is like coming down underneath and as you hop down and you're able to not fall down with the Warped Wall but it like gives under your feet so you don't get a good jump.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: So you're able, you're back safe on the ground, but you're not out of the way of the ooze.
Amanda: Okay.
Eric: Which then like is still eating the warped wall. It's half in it as it's like pivots towards you and starts to slide forward.
Amanda: I mean, I think the only thing Carrie-Anne would conceive of to do is to jump in the water. So I think she'll just run back to where her friends are and like jump in the pool.
Eric: Okay, I think yeah, you're charging back towards Phoebe and Les, you hear your friend screaming out and then a tons of crashes from the other side. And Frederick says-
Eric (as Frederick): Oh, that must be the monster! Help us, Chosen One and her friend Ribbit ribbit!
Julia (as Phoebe): I'm trying. Uh- Uh- Uh.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): It’s eating everything as it comes by! [talking frantically]
Amanda: And Carrie-Ann is gonna jump into the pool
Eric: Sploosh. I think rounding the corner is again the 6x6, acidic, bright green, gelatinous ooze is sliding towards now all of you and Frederick.
Brandon (as Les): Nope, nope, nope. I’m bailing.
Brandon: I'm gonna start running towards the ladder.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Julia: The pool is full of water, right?
Eric: Sure. Yeah.
Julia: Okay. I want to do my like primary objective here which is one, protect this fucking frog and two, stop the ooze from going into the pipes. So what I'd like to do is I want to use magic to seal up the pipes that lead from the pool to the showers.
Eric: Cool. I like that. Yeah, I think that there's just like Julia, I'll say that the pipes are literally go from the pool like there's like a big like instead of a water feeder it like goes out of the building.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: So if the ooze gets in the pool it's probably bad news
Julia: Great I want to like crush the pipe then.
Eric: Cool, cool, cool. Alright yeah do the magic roll, baby.
Julia: Okay.
[dice roll]
Julia: Okay, that was a very bad failure so I think I'm going to use a luck point.
Eric: Oh yeah baby. What happens when you use luck point? So remember when you use the luck point you automatically get a 12 you automatically get a credit. What happens when you use a luck point?
Julia: For me specifically as I mark off luck points my dark sides needs get nastier.
Brandon: Oh-
Brandon (as Dark Side): I need two meese!
Eric: Alright, what do you want to do with your magic roll?
Julia: I think that the like electric ice blue energy arcs out of Phoebe's fingers and kind of like makes almost like a lightning shaped hand.
Brandon: Cool.
Julia: Which wraps itself around the pipe and crushes it to cut off the pipe.
Eric: Oh, I like that. I think in your in your head, Phoebe you here again-
Eric (as Dark Side): Phoebe! Demonstrate your power over this unnatural creature. Save the frog friend. Do whatever it takes, but demonstrate your power. The power of nature.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Eric (as Dark Side): Also, yes, I am a moose. I just didn't have a chance to say it before.
Julia (as Phoebe): You know what, I’m so glad that like now that we you know I have something I can picture now when I'm talking to you in my head. So that's cool. I guess.
Eric (as Dark Side): I have cool antlers and everything. I'm very large.
Julia (as Phoebe): That's awesome. I can't wait to see you in person. That's gonna be so cool. Am I really get Chosen One?
Eric (as Frederick): Ribbit ribbit Help me!
Julia (as Phoebe): I'm working on it!
Eric: Hell yes. Yeah, I think that you're in response to your luck point, the thing that's talking to you is asking for blood.
Julia: I hope it likes acid ooze instead of blood.
Eric: Maybe. Les, are you out of here?
Brandon: I'm yeah, I'm sort of making my way downtown walking fast and I'm home bound.
Eric: Cool. Les, you're very fast and you're very good at climbing. You want to just get out of the gymnasium?
Brandon: Yeah, I was gonna use my no limits to try to just like, get the fuck out here.
Eric: I'll just let you do that. I think that you're great at climbing. You can just do that.
Brandon: Okay. Yeah, I mean, like, I think what I'm going to do is sort of run as fast as I can out of there but leave the door open so I can see and then sit down cross legged and flip through my book to see if I can see like slime, green or frog, Fredrick or-
Julia (as Phoebe): Acid?
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia (as Phoebe): Acid is also a problem, I think
Brandon: Acid, acid.
Amanda: Surrounded by like Milk Duds, Smarties, lollipops?
Julia: He eats another Take Five.
Brandon: I was gonna say I started shoving and Take Five my mouth as comfort food.
Eric: Alright. Yeah. Well, why don't you read a bad situation for me? That's plus sharp.
Brandon: I have a +1 to sharp.
Eric: Hell yeah.
[dice roll]
Brandon: Oh, I got 5, so, 6, anyone could help me out I guess but probably not.
Eric: No, because you're out of there. On a miss you misread the situation. Or you might reveal tactical details to your enemies.
Amanda: Hey, this is a good game.
Julia: Hey, it's a great game, Monster of the Week. Great game.
Amanda: I'll go ahead and say it.
Eric: Here's what you see. If you're flipping through, and you're looking for a way to defeat this thing, I think the thing that you realize that the thing is super ridiculously extremely dangerous. And like It's like everything is like warning. Do not touch gelatinous ooze acidic, something in there will never be recovered. Unless you have secret magical gloves that will protect you from it will strip you down to the bone. And I think as you look down there, you look into the gelatinous ooze, and you see that Assistant Director Z's net gun is floating around in there. And you also see that like, oh, there are the bones of two people in there as well, don't like that.
Brandon: That's bad.
Julia: Ooop! There's the counselors.
Eric: So I think that the thing that you're most keyed in on is how dangerous it is. That's the main thing that's on your mind.
Brandon: Okay.
Eric: I also think there's another thing next you you see that someone has left a supersoaker there. And there's also like a big jar of like, I don't know a big jar that used to have a lot of candy in it. So now it does it's candy dust in it. And you're like pretty badass, maybe if I charged it. I got some in the jar. I can have an ooze gun that can be neat.
Brandon: Huh okay, here's what I'll do, Eric.
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: I think after it well first I'm gonna start screaming loudly and too quickly for anyone to recognize what I'm trying to say this these new knowledge I've learned.
Amanda: Classic.
Brandon: But I am going to so like imagine the camera is like face on the hole. But on the underside of it and then you see follows my head popped down but then the camera turns around to like right side up. And I'm gonna take like handfuls of candy and just sort of like throw it down there and try to like get the ooze to back away from my friends and follow the candy and stuff.
Eric: Follow the candy, yeah.
Brandon: Yeah.
Julia: Does it like the candy?
Brandon: We'll find out.
Julia: What neutralizes acid?
Brandon: Bases.
Amanda: Baking Soda?
Brandon: Baking soda.
Julia: Okay.
Brandon: Bleach, I believe is basic stuff.
Amanda: That suppresses fires, right? Like is there a fire system in the basement? Because if we set it off then maybe like that's what fire extinguishers are is a basic solution.
Julia: Cool. Cool.
Eric: Yeah. You're throwing, you're throwing the candy down there? Les, what are you screaming?
Brandon: I mean it's indeterminable it's just like-
[Les' indeterminable screams of information]
Eric: Got it. The ooze ignores the candy and continues to slump forward. Carrie-Ann and Phoebe you're still you're waiting in the pool with Frederick still perched on your shoulder Phoebe, what do you do?
Julia: I'm gonna probably take a leaf out of what Amanda suggested and look for like some sort of fire suppressant system or something like that.
Eric: Yeah, there is not a there's no fire suppressant system down here.
Brandon (as Les): That's not up to code.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): This is an unsafe basement!
Eric: It's definitely an unsafe basement it is theirs that is there and Frederick says-
Eric (as Frederick): Do! Please save me, Ribbit! Ribbit!
Julia (as Phoebe): I'm doing my best!
Eric (as Frederick): Do something! Do it now! Ribbit! Or maybe you're not the Chosen One I thought you.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay! Well, don’t say that!
Eric (as Frederick): Maybe it's the boy who ran away or this other wet girl here.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Julia: I guess I'm gonna try to shoot the bow and arrow while swimming. Does that cool with you?
Eric: You're going to shoot the bow and arrow?
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Alright. Yeah, kick some ass.
Julia: Great. Is this weapon already like an enchanted weapon?
Eric: No, it is not.
Julia: Okay, so can I use magic then instead to make this an enchanted weapon?
Eric: You would take time to enchant it and then do it.
Julia: Okay.
Eric: So you would have to like if that's what you want to do, you can do it but you know.
Julia: Yeah, the spell would take 10 seconds, 30 seconds, or one minute to cast. So I don't I don't think that's a good idea now that I think about it. Am I just gonna get out of this pool and fucking big whammy it? Is that what's gonna happen where I just punch it with magic?
Brandon: Do it! Do it.
Amanda: Do it! I really don't think I can do anything so-
Brandon: Big Whammy! I'm out of ideas so I threw a KitKat at it.
Amanda: It was a good idea.
Julia: So what Phoebe is going to do is Phoebe is going to very gently take the frog off of her shoulder put on Carrie-Ann's shoulder instead.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Julia: And that is going to like swim pull herself out of the pool and just like charge at this ooze, I guess and it's big whammy time.
Eric: Do it. Big whammy is that still you do the big whammy when you kick some ass?
Julia: Yes. So you can use your powers to kick some ass roll weird instead of tough the attack has 2 harm close obvious ignore armor.
Eric: Okay cool. Yeah, you are still getting close to this very dangerous acidic thing but do that kick some ass roll.
Julia: I rolled a 13.
Brandon: Nice
Eric: Oh, hello! So on a 10+ you get to choose one extra effect, you gain the advantage take +1 forward to give +1 forward to another hunterm you inflict terrible harm which is +1 harm you suffer less harm which is -1 harm or you force them where you want them.
Julia: Hey, what up suffer less harm.
Eric: Nice nice nice.
Julia: Like I almost picture it like Phoebe is kind of covered in the blue magic energy now instead and in charging and basically punching I guess this giant ooze the magic surrounds her arm and protects her hopefully from getting too burned by the acid.
Eric: Yeah for sure. Yeah, you do that to harm you you big whammy a big hole in that gelatinous ooze and it takes a second to like reform and put its ooze back into real proper place.
Julia: Would it be too much to try to grab Les' net gun out of there as well or?
Eric: That would be too much, correct.
Julia: Okay.
Eric: And I think that you don't get a good beat on that I think that's only only Les was able to see that.
Julia: That's fair.
Eric: You'd still take 1 harm but that's that was reduced from 2 from touching an acidic thing because you covered yourself
Julia: That makes sense.
Eric: Hell yeah yeah. You push it back. Carrie-Ann, what do you do?
Amanda: Um, Eric, is there any identifying detail on either of these skeletons? Do they have like for example, letter plate necklaces that read Lana and Lanna?
Eric: I was- Amanda, I need to take it, you know here's the thing of Monster of the Week how you're supposed to only say the name of the characters names-
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: -if you want to stay in the story. I have to pull back and say, Amanda, that's literally what the fuck I was gonna say. Like look you get there you see that there's two necklaces that are like disintegrating and you see Lana and Lanna with two n's, both of them both of them disintegrating away.
Amanda: So Carrie-Ann does have a quick sort of like proud moment that she has done her side mission for the day.
Julia: Very good.
Amanda: And that does mean that I get some info or help associated with the mystery.
Eric: Here's what you got to do. When you're dealing with a large creature and you learn this and bear safety, that Assistant Director Z told you all about how to what to do if you see bears. Here's the thing when you're dealing with black bears, you got to get big. And you say, "Whoa, Bear, I'm bigger than you!" and you raise your hands up and you have to dominate it. You got to figure out some way to communicate with this thing either to dominate it and put it in its place and corral it or figure out another way to talk to a beast.
Julia: We just have to really impress it by doing this American Ninja Warrior.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Um, Phoebe, get up on my shoulders, okay?
Brandon: Get a big trench coat.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Frederick, get up on Phoebe's shoulders, okay?
Eric (as Frederick): Ribbit, ribbit!
Amanda: And I want to hoist you both up on my shoulders. And all of us wave our arms and try to turn the ooze around, love to hear percussion.
[giggles]
Julia: Amanda that was great.
Eric: Alright, yeah. What would this be? This is a great move.
Amanda: Intimidate, right?
Julia: Yeah. Or manipulate a bit except it's a monster and there's rules for Monster.
Eric: There's rules for that, yeah.
Amanda: If it's easier we can also run around the perimeter of the pool and since you sealed off the pipes, Phoebe, I'd be really interested to like see it either dilute or like I'm picturing like the pour acid into water like it kind of neutralizes, right? Like it must.
Brandon: It dilutes. But depending on how much it dilutes, it would still be acidic.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Yeah, but it just wouldn't be deadly acidic, hopefully.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: I think that like yeah, like making it either take in all that water or sort of dissolve in the water could be better. But that's just an instinct. I don't know.
Brandon: Yeah, I don't know either.
Amanda: What's the pH of chlorine, Brandon? Could you look that up?
Brandon: Oh, chlorine is super basic.
Amanda: Okay, I have a I have a thing then. That's what I want to do.
Brandon: Cool.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Phoebe, frog, Frederick, this way, okay?
Amanda: Excellent.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Amanda: Then I'm going to plant my stocky legs like tree trunks and get Phoebe on my shoulders and Frederick on her shoulders and say-
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Come and get us, ooze!
Julia (as Phoebe): Oh boy. Okay, come and get us!
Eric (as Frederick): Ribbit! Ribbit! You can't scare me, Ooze! I have the Chosen One and her friend here and I'm tall! Ribbit!
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Because one of the things that they teach you in maintenance of camp is that chlorine is super, super basic.
Julia (as Phoebe): Yeah.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): And so I'm hoping by getting an acidic ooze in a basic pool might mean that we just have some harmless jello.
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Eric: Alright. I'll give you manipulate someone because that's that makes a lot of sense. I'm gonna, yeah, I'll give you +1 for that. So it’s not just straight charm.
[dice roll]
Amanda: Okay, excellent. I rolled a 10. Normally I do +0, but I'll do +1 for an 11.
Eric: Oh, that's an 11. Let's go!
Brandon: Fuck, yeah!
Julia: Amanda!
Eric: Yeah, I guess you'll do what they want. So you want you're gonna try to force the ooze into the pool?
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Alright. Hell yeah. You all get up on each other's shoulders, and you're a big tall person. And I think Ooze starts to back up. There's no face. The Ooze just kind of like jiggling and wiggling and moving in all directions. But it definitely starts to like retreat. It's cowing to you a little bit, especially because it's a little bit smaller after Phoebe knocked it and a Big Whammy out of it sort of starts to move back and it like sinks into the pool and it's wiggling a little bit slower. And it you see like its power is kind of like leaching out of it.
Amanda: Yeah, I'm gonna just like move in a bit of an arc and like try to advance slightly and try to like get it fully into the pool if possible.
Eric: Yeah, I think it continues to back into the pool. It doesn't like it. But it's like very definitely scared of all of you. So it's just moving back and now it's just like wiggling sadly in the pool.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): If you can communicate please tell me but this seems like the safest option.
Julia (as Phoebe): You did eat a girl's foot so and also two people.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Yeah.
Julia (as Phoebe): So I don't feel bad about potentially dissolving you
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): And much of our newest facility here at camp that was a big donation.
Julia (as Phoebe): Yeah. Also like I think I'm supposed to do this. This is my destiny.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Feel it, Phoebe! Your destiny!
Eric: For now. Things are okay. Frederick was like-
Eric (as Frederick): I loved that! I loved being up high Ribbit ribbit! That's not a fun frog fact. That's just about Frederick the frog.
Julia (as Phoebe): That's so cool, bud.
Brandon (as Les): It's a fun Frederick the frog fact.
Amanda: Oh.
Brandon (as Les): Fun Frederick- fun Frederick the frog fact.
Julia: That's too many F's.
Eric: Are you shouting that down from the trap door?
Brandon: Sure, why not?
Amanda: I think I can let Phoebe and Frederick down. And I think Carrie-Ann is just gonna be like-
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Uh, Frederick, where did you come from, if I may ask.
Eric (as Frederick): Well, that's nice that you've ask. I am the house demon for the biggest for the big cabin here and for the things below it.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Do they do you like clean for them in exchange for wages?
Eric (as Frederick): Cleaning? No. I try to instead get into their dreams and tell them to be the Chosen One. But it turns out that the Chosen One was right here.
Julia (as Phoebe): What? Hold on, no.
Eric (as Frederick): Ribbit ribbit!
Julia (as Phoebe): No, don't ribbit ribbit me.
Eric (as Frederick): Oh, you are another frog fact?
Julia (as Phoebe): No, I don't!
Eric (as Frederick): The Waxy Monkey. The biggest frog in the world is the Goliath frog. It lives in West Africa and measures more than a foot in length and weighs more than seven pounds, which is as much as a newborn baby.
Julia (as Phoebe): You are. You're two feet tall. Also because you're a demon, right. What? Sorry. Why are you telling people that they're the Chosen One?
Eric (as Frederick): Well, I'm looking for the Chosen One to protect the camp.
Julia (as Phoebe): So do you just think everyone's the Chosen One.
Eric (as Frederick): No.
Julia (as Phoebe): Do I mean nothing to you?
Eric (as Frederick): No, only the ones that are there. I didn't find them until now, but I think that there's an even better situation for you to prove yourself that you're the Chosen One.
Julia (as Phoebe): Like what?
Eric (as Frederick): Well, I'll show you.
Julia (as Phoebe): Oh no.
Eric: And Frederick hops off of Phoebe's head.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: And jumps into the pool and swims forward and frog swims over to the other side of the pool, and using two of his froggy hands, opens up the pipe-
Brandon: God damn it!
Eric: -that goes to the shower house.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): No, no, no, no, no!
Eric (as Frederick): Now, it's an opportunity for you to do better! Ribbit ribbit!
Julia: I did do better already! Sorry, that was not in character that was Julia being mad. Let me answer that in character.
Julia (as Phoebe): I did do better already. I stopped it.
Eric (as Frederick): Ooze is kind of that now is like he's getting sucked out through the water even though it's powerless. It's like wiggling out.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Frederick, why?
Eric (as Frederick): It's a challenge. All of life is a challenge. Ribbit ribbit.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Life is challenging enough, Frederick.
Julia: No, I'm gonna I'm gonna use magic and try to crush the thing again.
Eric: Sure. It's gonna be I'm gonna give you -2.
Brandon: Can I rush over towards the shower? So to start heading that way?
Eric: Yeah, got it.
Julia: No, I failed.
Eric: Oh, hell yes. Hell yes. What do you do? What do you get?
Amanda: Oh, no.
Julia: With -2?
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: Like I don't even get to add my + Weird at all?
Eric: No, you do.
Julia: Okay, so it's just it's a flat zero now so it's a 5.
Eric: Oh, it's a 5, oh, piss.
Amanda: Can I help at all?
Eric: Absolutely not.
Julia: Absolutely not.
Eric: There's no, I cannot think of a way for you to help here.
Julia: I am marking experience fuck that. I'm gonna murder this frog.
Eric: Sorry. I'm too busy looking at fun facts about frogs. Give me a second. I need to find what happens when you fail magic.
Brandon: Did you know that frog school Ribbit ribbit? Fun frog fact!
Eric: On a miss, you lose control the magic. This never ends well.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Oh, boy. Okay. I already did something to you that was bad. I wasn't looking- I didn't know that this would be worse.
Julia: Story of my life, guy.
Eric: Do you know what happens? Here's what happens as you tried to re-crush the tube that goes out there. I like this thing that you were like, you have like enhanced limbs that you've kind of said in this way that the magic does here and like you're looking for a hands and instead you like make a claw.
Brandon: Butt oh-
Eric: Brandon, great joke.
Julia: What?
Eric: Instead, you make a butt and it's super gross and it farts.
Amanda: Everyone sees it.
Eric: And everyone sees your butt and everyone's like, oh, there's Phoebe's butt, nice!
Brandon: I am playing a little teenager, Eric.
Eric: So Carrie-Ann, what do you do? Instead, you make a big electric blue claw that slices through the gelatinous cube. And then the gelatinous, it kind of like separates out into three parts and then reforms-
Julia: No! Now, there's 3 ooze.
Eric: -into smaller gelatinous cubes.
Amanda: No.
Eric (as Frederick): This will be perf-- Now, we it's even more you're turning the difficulty up. That's everything that the Chosen Hero should be doing! Ribbit! Ribbit!
Julia: So just just to remind myself, this house demon which is what this frog is.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: He doesn't do anything. All he does is tell these girls in their dreams that they're the Chosen One, right?
Eric: Well he's looking for the Chosen One.
Julia: For what purpose?
Eric: To have the Chosen One exist. And to defeat the evil.
Brandon: The real chicken or frog situation.
Amanda: Yeah, yeah yeah.
Eric: What came first the chicken or the frog?
Julia: I'm about to throw this thing into one of the gelatinous cubes because I'm fully done.
Brandon: Well, I was thinking can I use my no limits to pop up from the trapdoor? Grab as much candy as I can in my arms and dash off towards the entrance to the showers.
Eric: For sure. What are you trying to do?
Brandon: So I want to get to the showers before anyone goes into them.
Eric: Cool.
Brandon: And then maybe use some candy to bribe them to not use the showers right now.
Julia: Excellent.
Eric: Yeah, let's do that. That sounds cool. Yeah, I think that Les, as you sprint out with all the candy in your arms, the rain is starting to stop it's starting to peter out and everyone's like-
Eric (as Campers): Oh, I guess we gotta get clean again.
Brandon: I did get a 13 total for-
[exclamations of surprise]
Eric: What did you roll?
Brandon: 11 + 2 weird for 13.
Eric: Oh, my god. Remind me of this move because I don't have it on my stuff.
Brandon: Yeah, on a 10 or morem my body obeys my will to the limits of physical possibility for a moment.
Eric: Yeah, you just sprint over there as fast as possible. Yeah, definitely. Here's what's really funny in the Tome of Mysteries, it says the things that are physically possible. Like lift an SUV, jump over a truck, push through a wall. What I think is very funny is like maybe the the cabins are on each on respective hills and like this is that like kind of the top of the girl's hill. And like I like the idea that you just like fling yourself from the top of girl's hill as far as as fast as possible and then like dual roll while still holding all the candy.
Brandon: Fuck yeah, no damage. I'm just like, it's like would you skip a stone on on water? I'm just like-
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: -flinging off that mud, baby.
Amanda: Oh.
Eric: I love that!
Amanda: Hey, guys, it's connected by the breezeway, Brandon you can just jump on like the old screen door and just surf down the breezeway. If it's wet and muddy.
Eric: I love that, yeah, any of that stuff is great.
Brandon: Yeah, whatever your headcanon is, that's what happened, baby.
Amanda: That's what happened.
Eric: So yeah, I think all the kids as the girls who are mudding are now getting up and trying to head towards the the girl's shower house. And what do you what do you say with your arms full of candy?
Brandon: So I'm going to say-
Brandon (as Les): Hold on, everyone. The showers are out of order for as a, as a apology from the camp to you. Anyone who wants candy can have it. And anyone who wants to ask the cute CIT a question can also do that. Let's go talk!
Julia: Really playing it up, huh bud?
Eric: All of the campers so from ages 8 to 13 that have the feelings of male of being attracted to men, they all immediately raise their hand.
Brandon (as Les): Great, let's walk this way.
Brandon: And then I throw the candy over the other side.
Eric (as Camper): Les, what are all of your siblings names?
Brandon (as Les): I only have one. Her name is-
Julia: More.
Brandon: Oh, I like that. Yeah.
Brandon (as Les): I'll have one, Herles.
[laugh]
Brandon: I just got it.
Julia: I was waiting.
Eric: Pretty good.
Brandon: Fuck you, Julia.
Julia: You're welcome.
Brandon (as Les): I only have one. Her name is Maureen. I call her More. My parents call it More, you get it, You get it.
Amanda: Maureen.
Eric (as Camper): 'Cause Les and More. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Give me the candy. I love the candy!
Eric: The eight year olds pushing to tackle you over for you the candy in your hands. Hell yes. Alright back in the pool. There are now three smaller oozes and Frederick the frog is jumping around and splashing around demanding Phoebe do something.
Brandon: More like Fredrick the fuckboy frog, am I right?
Julia: God, he's the worst. Question for you, Eric.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: This is a pool. Pretty established.
Brandon: Not a question.
Julia: No, hold on. I'm getting to my point. This is the pool we already established that there is chlorine in this pool.
Eric: Sure.
Julia: Which means that someone has probably been maintaining it which means that there are probably like additional chemicals around to put in this pool to maintain it. Can I just find a shit ton of chlorine and dump it in this pool?
Amanda: Yeah, I would love to know if there's like a what do you call like a footlocker you know or something with with just like the pool supplies in it. I do have a ring of keys as my weapon and so I can if there is I can try the keys and see if I can open it.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: That is a great idea. But first I would love to do something. I need both of you to roll tough.
Amanda: Oh.
[dice roll]
Amanda: I only got a 6.
Julia: I got a 4.
Eric: Alright. As you slice them into three separate oozes, I feel like they kind of like spread out just from the sheer momentum of the slice and I feel like they're able to get out of the pool and get some of their like ooze their acidic ooze energy back and two of them charge the both of you and you are engulfed one in each. So each of you take 2 damage and you stay in the pool Carrie-Ann, you don't get armor on this because it's acid damage so you got to take just straight up the 2 the 2 harm. If you want to do anything to escape, you're off the roll tough again. But right now you are engulfed. Each engulfed inside your own pet ooze.
Julia: Great can I Big Whammy my way out of this?
Eric: If you want to leave, you'd have to roll tough but you can fight when you're inside of it if you would like.
Julia: Right so the reason I asked is because when I do the Big Whammy I'm using weird instead of tough.
Eric: No, the I'm using and engulf move against you.
Julia: Okay.
Eric: And you have to use plus tough. So unless like you guys are like stuck inside of the ooze right now. So if you want to fight or you want to do something while stuck inside of there continue to do so. It's got like your movement is 0.
Amanda: Do we take more damage over time as we're stuck in them?
Eric: You will, yes.
Amanda: Okay.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: So both of you are engulfed inside and I think Frederick says-
Eric (as Frederick): Oh, I guess you're not the brave- I guess you're not the brave, Chosen One after all. Well, I guess I'll have to do something about that.
Eric: And Frederick kind of hops away and like goes out. I think there's a water cooler in there and Frederick uses his big tongue to like grab an empty water cooler bottle and like charges one of the oozes and gets one of the small oozes into the big water bottle. He like ushers it in there. He's like-
Eric (as Frederick): I guess that you're not the person. I thought you we're. So good day! Ribbit Ribbits!
Eric: And Frederick starts to hop away.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Eat rocks, frog!
Eric (as Frederick): You eat, rocks, unhelpful child. Ribbits!
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Come over here and make me!
Eric (as Frederick): I won't, you're stuck and I knew it the entire time. Also a red eyed tree frog lays eggs on the other side of leaves that hang over water. When eggs hatch, the tadpoles fall into the water below. Frogs are helpful and aware of their surroundings while it seems like you two or not, and your friend that just ran away.
Julia (as Phoebe): Yeah, it really seems like you as a frog are extremely helpful right now.
Eric (as Frederick): Ribbit ribbit. I'm helpful to nature at large looking for the Chosen One. But good day, madam. Good day you're coming with me, oozy?
Brandon: What does the ooze say in return?
Eric: Nothing, it wiggles.
Julia: I do want to just big whammy this thing because I'm not convinced that I'm gonna be able to like easily tough my way out of this.
Eric: Yeah, why don't you-
Brandon: Biiiiiiiig whammy!
Eric: Yeah, do a big whammy.
Julia: Okay, that is an 8.
Eric: Alright. So on a +7, you and the other thing inflict damage on each other. So you do +2 to this one particular small ooze. You don't have the protection that you did before. So you take 2 harm as the acid kind of eats into your skin. But you still do to harm as it kind of like this smaller ooze, you bust a hole a bit another hole in this ooze as you have a bit you might have a better time getting out.
Julia: Great. You girl's unstable. And if I take another two from this ooze, I'm going to be dead. So that's cool.
Eric: Carrie-Ann. What do you do?
Amanda: I grab the mace from my belt that I carry at all times, stick my hand out of my ooze and spray Phoebe's
Eric: On Phoebe's. Yeah, roll plus tough.
[dice roll]
Amanda: Oh, I got a 9 + 0.
Eric: Alright. Since you you're not dealing with your own ooze, you still get + another 2 harm that as the acid starts to eat into your skin and it starts start just burn through your clothes.
Amanda: Sure.
Eric: But you do spray the other ooze with your mace which I think is enough to let Phoebe stumble out of the oozing out of her ooze and you are no longer engulfed.
Julia (as Phoebe): Oh, thank god.
Amanda: I am now unstable. But I have 3 harm left.
Julia: Yes. Okay, great.
Eric: Yeah, I think Frederick is also just like, you see Frederick once again open up just like a hole in the gymnasium and says-
Amanda: Hate that.
Eric (as Frederick): Bye, losers! Ribbit ribbits!
Eric: And just hops through.
Eric (as Frederick): I never should have thought you were anything significant. What was the whole point of doing this entire ooze challenge?
Julia (as Phoebe): You, you. Sorry, you brought the oozes in here?
Eric (as Frederick): While he was here the entire time. I guess we've always been here together.
Julia (as Phoebe): You're the worst.
Eric (as Frederick): No, you're the worst because you failed. Ribbits!
Eric: And in the hole just closes behind him. And he Frederick and the ooze in the bottle are gone.
Brandon: This is the WB frog, right?
Eric: Yeah, what uh, yeah, it's wearing a top hat. And it's kinda like, you know, it has real Jar Jar Binks energy is what I'm saying.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Phoebe, Fredrick now is over Steven on my list of people whose asses we need to kick, okay?
Julia (as Phoebe): Seriously, yeah, he's, I still just want to teach Steven how to read. But like, yeah, this is like, this is bad. Okay.
Eric: Carrie-Ann, you're still fully engulfed inside of the ooze.
Julia: Right, no. So I would like to use magic to kind of try to pry open the ooze to help Carrie-Ann get out.
Eric: Sure.
Julia: Come on magic. [dice roll] That is a 8.
Eric: Allright, that's an 8.
Amanda: Nice.
Julia: So it gets a glitch, which means effect is weakened or it has a short duration. Or I take 1 harm, ignore armor. Please don't do that to me. I don't want to die.
Eric: No.
Julia: Magic draws immediate unwelcomed attention or it has a problematic side effect.
Eric: Right. Okay. I think the effect is of a short duration.
Julia: Okay.
Eric: I think you're able to like, I don't know maybe, it's like you're able to create a barrier for Carie-Ann to step out of the ooze. So Carrie-Ann's no longer engulfed in you're, you're both still very hurt.
Amanda: Like in your rolling pie crust. And there's a there's a little hole that forms need to fold back over and form it together.
Eric: Yeah, I think you're all still very hurt. But I think that like you're only able to like pull Carrie-Ann out of it. While the ooze is now still, like advancing on both of you.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah. Unless we see pool supplies nearby. I think our move has gotta be to climb out of here and seal it in and then call adults.
Julia: Yeah, I think that's fair.
Eric: Here's what I'm gonna say here. I'm gonna say that because you two both are unstable right now, right?
Julia: Yes.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: I think you pull Carrie-Ann out of ooze. I think both of you are feeling an incredible amounts of pain. You're burning the acid is burned into your skin. It feels like the worst sunburn you've ever had. Like your entire body is shoved into an oven and you're you're touching a hot stove all at the same time, right? I think that you only have one moment before the pain starts to overtake both of you and you start to pass out do you want to like radio for help-
Amanda: Yes
Eric: -in this moment?
Amanda: I'm definitely going to hold down the like SOS button of my you know radio or panic button and try to call the director.
Eric: So I think as both of you like the, the burning feels like too much and as the ooze advances on you, you hear-
[radio on]
Eric (as Director Löw): Carrie-Ann, you're not supposed to call this unless you have an emergency.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Emergency.
Julia (as Phoebe): We're literally dying.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Under the Flycatcher cabin!
Eric: I think that the last thing you see is the oohs advanced I got both of you. Les.
Julia: How are you doing telling teens that have crushes on you about yourself?
Brandon (as Les): And that is my left bicep workout routine? Yes, yes, Jennifer I do do it generally in a tank top or without a shirt. I feel it's an inappropriate question to ask. But yes, and then go on to my core. Work that out.
Eric: They're all swarming around you and then you hear [warning sirens] as Assistant Director Z is speeding past you in a golf cart. He says-
Eric (as ADZ): Les, Les, get in.
Eric: And he holds a big meaty paw out for you.
Eric (as ADZ): We're still moving get into get the cart.
Brandon: Yeah, I'm gonna run over there and dash in.
Julia: Les, please make sure no one goes to those showers. I beg of you.
Brandon: Oh yeah, yeah.
Brandon (as Les): Oh, showers are continuing out of limits. No one go in there or you will die and you will get pregnant.
Eric: Yeah. Assistant Director Z just makes a real hard stare at all of the girls and the muddy girls standing around you and they go-
Eric (as Campers): Okay, yeah, we'll wait that's fine.
Eric: Both of you speed back over to the new fancy cabin. And Assistant Director Z just like lowers his shoulder and busts in the door flies off, throws the secret door open and just straight up hops down.
Brandon: Les is suspicious after that.
Eric: He opts out he lands like superhero pokey superhero poses on the ground. And you see that Les, as you you shimmy down the ladder, you see that your to Carrie-Ann and Phoebe are passed out with the- with the gelatinous ooze advancing on them at the smaller gelatinous is advancing on them. I think Assistant Director Z immediately sprints away from Carrie-Ann and Phoebe and you see him get out of sight for a second and then hear-
Eric (as ADZ): Les, get out, get down here take the shot.
Eric: As he throws the net gun up to you.
Brandon: I okay, I shocked and and surprised but I grabbed the gun and I shoot it at the ooze.
Eric: Are you like on the ladder? Where are you? Are you still like on the ladder?
Brandon: Yeah, so like I'm coming down off the ladder as the gun is like being thrown to me so I like do like a somersault grab it land on one knee and then pop it off.
Eric: Alright roll + tough
Amanda: Several of the older girls are like oh, what was that feeling?
Eric: Oooh, Les did something cool.
Brandon: I have zero to plus tough but I still got an 8.
Amanda: Okay, and don't you get a +1 forward dealing with the monster?
Brandon: Yeah, no only the frog, I think.
Eric: It was only the frog. Yes, alright, +8, that's fine.
Julia: I'm gonna kill this frog at some point. I've changed my mission in life.
Brandon: Oh yeah, we're gonna be even frog legs by the end of the night, baby
Eric: As you shoot the net out he like opens up and snatches the gelatinous ooze inside of the net, I think with the + tough with the + tough okay. Because that was that was a middle of that was a middling success and you wouldn't get like splashed by it or anything. Okay.
Julia: I don't know. I think everyone should take a little bit of acid damage this episode.
Brandon: Maybe I just like because he threw the gun quickly. I rolled my ankle or something, you know?
Eric: Yeah. I think in your fall you rolled your ankle and I think that you got like them. You got the majority of the ooze, but there was still like a little ooze that was like wiggling around. And our Assistant Director Z says-
Eric (as ADZ): Les, you. What we talked about is that I want you to know that I think you're the most capable here. And when you're in a situation-
Julia: Hey rude.
Eric (as ADZ): -that have monsters. You're the one who's able to do deal with these things. And I don't know what happened of why Carrie-Ann and Phoebe were left here. But I know that this is your responsibility to take care of your friends. It's something we all grow into. But I want you to know that this is an important moment in your life. And I want to help you with that.
Eric (as Les): Okay. Thanks, dad. I mean, ADZ.
Eric (as ADZ): That's fine.
Eric: So that net gun, Brandon, it's 0 harm restraining reload, which means that you only get like one net at a time unless you grab the net again.
Brandon: Okay.
Eric: And then also it's unstable. In that I think that the net gun is attached to this memory in your mind. And depending on the situation, if you're stable enough, you might have a negative penalty. And you like overcoming your ability to like, save your friends.
Brandon: Love that.
Eric: Okay. So you will have now the net gun in your possession.
Brandon: Sick.
Amanda: Fun.
Eric: Okay. Assistant Director Z, he says-
Eric (as ADZ): Alright, so just carry both of them up the ladder and I'll see you up there.
Julia: What?
Eric (as Les): Alright, and I'm gonna use my no limit sling them both over my shoulder.
Eric (as ADZ): No, no, I'm kidding. No, no, that was that was a joke. I could do both. I was medically trained. I don't know how their spines are I need to be careful.
Eric (as Les): Okay.
Brandon: And Les is gonna take some notes on that.
Eric: Assistant Director Z he has both of them over one shoulder and it's holding a very tightly as you want arms his way back up the ladder.
Amanda: God Carrie-Ann wishes she were conscious for this. Phoebe wishes she were conscious for this.
Julia: Weirdly hot, yeah.
Brandon: Fuckers definitely a werewolf.
Eric: Alright, let's do the thing that we do at the end of our mystery.
Brandon: Yay!
Eric: Let's do our end of session questies.
Julia: I have a question before we get started with our questions.
Eric: Sure. Sure.
Julia: Did I successfully stop my premonition from happening?
Eric: I'm gonna go with yes.
Julia: Yeah. Yeah, all right.
Eric: I will say Les definitely did. It might have happened anyway if you weren't able to stop it, but it was able to be stopped for sure.
Brandon: It's teamwork.
Eric: I'll count it. I heard it made the dream work. Okay, this is our end of session questions where we give out some exp at the end. One, did we conclude the current mystery?
Everyone: Yeah.
Eric: I would say that we figured you figured out that the ooze existed.
Julia: We didn't win, but we did conclude it.
Eric: Right. And also Frederick was a traitor the entire time and this was a challenge.
Julia: Bastard.
Eric: So that's one. Did we save someone from certain death or worse?
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: Ourselves.
Amanda: Ourselves and all the campers, yeah.
Eric: I'm gonna say no for this one. Although you stopped the worst possible thing to happen. I don't think you saved like, functionally, I don't think you saved someone.
Julia: Okay.
Brandon: Okay.
Amanda: Okay.
Eric: But here we go. Three, did we learn something new and important about the world?
Everyone: Yeah.
Brandon: One, that ADZ is a fucking werewolf.
Eric: And four, did we learn something new and important about one of the hunters?
Julia: Yes.
Amanda: Phoebe's the Chosen One.
Brandon: Couple things, yeah.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: I think we learned the Phoebe. Someone's considering Phoebe The Chosen One whatever's going on with your the thing that speaking to you the moose that's speaking to you. You are you now have 2 luck points you used, which I think is bad news for Pheebs.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: And I think Les went through some emotional learning about things about himself.
Amanda: Yeah. So we mark 2 experience because we got three yeses to our end of session question.
Eric: Hell yes, anyone leveled up?
Julia: Your girl leveled up.
Brandon: I didn't fail all day, I don't think I did, right?
Eric: I don't think so.
Amanda: I don't think so.
Brandon: Man, I'm just too fucking good at Monster of the Week, Eric. I'm just so fucking good. I'm never gonna level up because I'm perfect.
Eric: That's fine. It unfortunately your friends are unstable.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: So we're gonna touch on that next time.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: But listen, I want to I want to do one more thing before we go.
Brandon: Okay.
Julia: Oh?
Brandon: Just like a nice hug session?
Eric: Yeah. We're gonna-
Amanda: Is it where we all give a compliment about each other and what we did today?
Julia: Yes.
Eric: Yes, that's what it is.
[acousting music playing]
Eric: As Assistant Director Z has Phoebe and has both Phoebe and Carrie-Ann over one shoulder and one arming up the ladder and the other Les, you head up behind him. And you do one last turn into the weird gymnasium underneath the good cabin. And you think you hear-
Eric (as Frederick?): Ribbit Ribbit! Did you know most frogs have teeth although only in their upper jaw?
Julia: What?
Eric: But maybe you didn't hear that.
Julia: Frog’s gonna die. That frog’s gonna die!
[theme]
Transcriptionist: KM