But when you get over to where it was, you do see, uh, jaguar tracks left lightly in the dust, like some large cat.

Uh.

And he gets down on his hands and knees and starts, like, snuffling at the ground where the tracks are, getting dust in his magnificent beard, just like... [snuffling] And starts just, like, crawling along the trail, getting close.

[laughs]

I see what you're saying, brother, but, like, the, we, it can only take two.

And he looks up at the house.

He knows that they're in there doing whatever.

He hasn't heard any screams or any, like, fright or anything like that.

'Cause he'd probably look to you first

... uh, I, I think as, as a semi-professional poet, I think he would be in- attuned to this, the, the idea that, that powers beyond our reckoning can communicate with us through our dreams sometimes.

Mm.

And so I think that it's m- maybe it's more likely that if I see that this thing, you know, we've, i- immediately, like we would draw weapons, but if we see that this thing is not being threatening towards us and is just peacefully eating leaves off of trees that are too high for any other animal, maybe I would give it a pass.

Skid Mark, what is the color of your lightsaber?

I have a blue one and a red one, so I th- but I, I, I really like the red.

I know it's supposed to be evil and everything.

Yes.

I like the green because it, it, it leaves some room for ambiguity as to his moral state, because he may be drifting over to the dark side.

Like, maybe green is, like, an e- intermediary color between blue and red.

So...

Skid, who do we see?

Uh, you see a man who is of indeterminate age.

He seems like he could be really old, he could be really young.

He's wearing a tweed jacket, a burgundy vest, and an ascot.

And he comes in, he says, "Oh, hello.

So, so sorry to interrupt.

I was just sitting outside listening to all your delightful expositions, so there's no need to repeat it all.

Sure.

Nice.

And my YouTube algorithm is aware of this, and so a couple days ago what popped up is a play l- actual play session that Noura did with Mike Pondsmith running it.

Okay.

I want to...

Yeah, he doesn't imagine in this i- initial instinct is he doesn't imagine killing King Lot.

He imagines, you know, drawing a surrender and, and, uh, capturing him and, uh, ransoming him back to his family [laughs] for so much money.

[laughs]

[laughs][laughs]

[laughs]

I went down so that the guys on the force didn't go down.

[laughs]

I was dishonorably discharged from-

[laughs]

We're back here tomorrow.

[laughs]

[laughs] Amazing.

Well, anyway- So Lord Edwallan, that said, we have, um, a, a proposal for you to consider and you as well, obviously, Hugin.

Uh, well, uh- While it is true that we believe this child to not be a changeling, for we saw no fae folk whatsoever, we can of course not be 100% certain of that fact.

And we thought perhaps we would relieve you of this child rather than have you kill it.

Uh, we could take it with us and determine our own, on our own if it is a changeling.

And if it is not, we will raise it as one of ours.

Mm-hmm

Good, buddy.

If you're looking for a little cozy TTRPG podcast, this is not the one for you.

[laughs]

Let me tell you

...

I absolutely think I could if they recognized that I was always right.

... energetic is a pagan virtue, so, uh, uh, Paula will roll with 2D6 plus six

sixAll right.

Uh, I got a 12 in energetic.

Yeah.

I, this is so fun.

We, we play almost no games anymore with, like, randomized, you know, personal kind of attributes.

Oh my God.

Uh, and in walks, uh, yeah, same, same as you've seen him before, a young man, black hat, hoodie, keeping a low profile.

Comes walking, you know, opens up the door and looks in.

I have no idea what this character relationship is, if there is one at all, but yeah.

We probably don't know each other.

[laughs]

[laughs] And when he sees the web shoot, you know, the web shoot- Right ... that's not something that's easy to fake, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Uh, and he's just like, "Whoa.