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The Naturolls is your seat at the table for a Daggerheart TTRPG actual play. Listen in as a group of friends from around the world tells campfire stories (and puns) in The Shatterlands, a once-divided kingdom whose 100 years of peace is unexpectedly ended by a dangerous threat.
All right, everybody. Welcome to The Naturolls Winter Wondershot 2025. Today we've got a bit of a special crew with us. We got some uh I got some new new voices to join you, uh, and I would love it if they would introduce themselves and if you'd like. You know, you can share where to where to find yourself online or whatever, but just want people to to know what you sound like when we get started here. So uh anybody who wants to go, go ahead. Ladies first. All right. My name's Tiddly and I stream on Twitch, twitch. tv forward slash Tiddly Monday through Friday 9 Central. I pedal a brand of auditory caffeine. most of my experience in D D has been um has been doing Telltale Tavern podcast Um, which is amazing. So this is my first time doing a dagger heart podcast, which is gonna be really fun. But I also have done um IRL D D. So I'm excited to um do this one shot. I think it'll be fun. Thank you for joining us, Sidley. Who wants to go next? Yeah. I'll go. Birthday boy. My name is Marilyn Maverick. You can also call me James, a government name. Um you can find me on uh Blue Sky by the same name, Marilyn Maverick, um, and around Twitch as well under the same name. I am a lawyer, I am a father, a husband. Um and I've played a little bit of DD, uh, both in real life and uh mostly on the internet. But I'm really happy to be here doing Daggerheart with um the only person that has ever GM'd Daggerheart for me before. Uh Michael hooked me in with his his riveting uh portrayal of Fidget, the small caffeinated child, uh, in the the startup wonder one shot. So excited for tonight. I was I was telling Mick about that earlier. I was like, you know, you know who Mav's favorite character is, right? I was telling To this day. To this day. Long live fidget. Okay, I can go. Um hi, I'm uh Fate Walker. I um uh been role-playing since uh I was twelve, so what we're sick sitting at like almost 30 years ago at this point. Um, I've played so many different varieties of of games from Bezum to DD, Advanced Edition DD, uh Pathfinder Savage Worlds. I've I've Got a pretty good repertoire of just different games I've s I've um played around. This will be my first time ever playing Dagger Heart. So this will be a fun new role set to learn. Um You can find me at twitch. tv slash brofasor underscore panda um as a uh side mod. Um um or twitch. tv slash uh fate walker. Um, I am a very part-time streamer Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Um, and and then often on uh twitch. tv slash revealing too much because I like to hang out with him a lot. and play whatever co-op games I can when I have time. Outside of that, um nothing other crazy new. I'm I'm just uh uh at the moment uh Florida man so We'll see how crazy stuff I can do. Alright, we got one more joining us. Oh, it me Okay, sorry. Uh hello, this is um Professor Panda. Um Probably the the easiest place to find me is is also on Twitch. Got a lot of a lot of Twitch Twitch folks on here. Uh twitch. tv uh slash professor underscore panda. Um I uh um I like the and also like the having the the time frames. Um the current setup is Thursdays through Sundays for me. Um And uh I uh don't really know what I'm doing, but definitely here to have a good time and hopefully uh everybody's gonna have a good time alongside me. So Awesome. And uh I am your GM, your host. You're you know what? It's the holiday season. You're Charles Dickens, I suppose. Um so uh I'm revealing too much. I'm on the naturals and I edit the show and I post on Blue Sky for the show and eh. Anyways, I do it I do a lot of things. I wear a lot of hats and I'm wearing a Santa hat right now, so that's pretty convenient to say. Uh so uh a little backstory about this one shot. Um, we kind of decided to play this one shot a few days ago. So um characters have been created in the last few days. world has been created in the last few days. I originally went, I might just run the one shot I ran last year for some people for the holidays. And as I built it, I realized I could do something either much cooler or much dumber. And so what you're going to see is is definitely there was well, gear, I guess is probably the right word, huh? What you're going to hear is definitely the result of that. Uh also, Marilyn Maverick's birthday is tomorrow. Happy birthday. Um by the time you by the time you hear this, that won't be true. But maybe you'll listen next year on the day before Mav's birthday and then it'll then it'll be right. So who knows? Make an annual thing, you know? We're all Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So um uh yeah, I guess without further ado I would like to welcome everyone to the Naturals Winter Wondershot. I wish I had cool music to like play for you guys to set the mood, but um I'm very afraid of being taken down from the internet. So you guys can just fair you guys can just listen to nothing and like it. We just need Royalty-free Christmas music. On a flat top. Honda Snowy. I said without further ado. So much further ado after I said that. That was crazy. There has been quite a bit of ado. Yeah. It was much ado and unfortunately it was about nothing. So can we further this ado? I second it. All right. At the northernmost pole of Ardea, the region commonly called the Shatterlands, sits the small town of Winterbury, an otherwise unremarkable place that finds its bright and brilliant purpose once a year for the holidays. You see, Winterbury is no ordinary town this time of year. It is a magical place, full of cheer as far as the eyes can see. Lights are hung all around, on rooftops, between buildings, lining every window and door, giving its snow-lined streets an otherworldly glow. It should be gaudy, but it isn't. And you find that just the sight of it warms you. And I'm going to be a little generous right here and say all of my uh my players can take an extra hope. As you feel the warmth of the holiday spirit. Okay, where do I mark hope on the sheet? In at the top of the sheet, at the top of your sheet, there should be a Like top left, hit points and stress? Yes. That is not the right side. The top right it says hope. Top right. Oh thank you. I was not looking at the sheet as I started that, so that was the same thing. Look to your top left. Yeah. And then look on the other side of the page. Yeah, you look to the top left. left so look at the top left not that right exactly dude i have not gm'd in a while okay if you look to the bottom you've gone too far exactly exactly exactly You find it's so I'm gonna I'm gonna go back to that for just a moment. So you find that just the sight of all of these lights warms you. And the smells, oh, the smells. There's food and drink of every kind cooking and simmering and being poured into tall tankards. There, off in the distance, you see a cart serving large pieces of bread with melted cheese poured all over it. Your mouths begin to water. And your ears aren't left out either, and you hear the soft tinkling of bells, the light clip clop of hooves. For a moment you look to the rooftops to see if a jolly man might be crouched there, a sack over his shoulder. It is, in a word, perfect. You all, the hopeful heroes of our tale Find yourselves between adventures with a little downtime, stopping for a moment in this idyllic place And now I'm gonna hand the story over to you, and you all can tell me who your characters are. What brought you here, and where we find you as our story begins And this is where I put you on the spot because Daggerheart is a shared storytelling game, and share whatever you think is is relevant or fun or interesting. We're gonna use this time for our party for this one shot to to gather and meet each other and get to know each other. So Great. So who your character is, what brought you here, and what's the third one? Uh third one is Where We Find You. So Where We Find You. It doesn't have to be a specific list, it was more just prompts as an idea of What you're doing, who I think people would like to get to know your characters a little bit. And, you know, meeting each other could be a good way to do that, you know, picking a fight with with A reindeer could be an interesting way. Yeah, I don't know. It's up to you guys. Wait, hold on. I am a reindeer. This is We start something already. Um I can go first. So um my character is or should I talk from my from my character's perspective? Sure. Or are we just introducing our characters? I would say let's I don't know. How how d do any of the characters do any of the characters know each other so far? Well that's the question, because I mean we could be meeting in a tavern for the first time and I I think it's ourselves or something like that. Setting you all in a tavern. And then I was like, you know, a lot of adventures start in a tavern. I will give the players an opportunity to say, maybe they want to do something else. Maybe Maybe there's something else. But also, if you guys would like to start in a tavern, that's A-O-K too. Okay. There are plenty of places to get warm mulled wine and Anything you might want in Winterbury. Quick question. Um Is Winterbury the North Pole? Is this Santa's village? Does Santa's village exist? Does Santa exist in this in this? Okay. Winterbury is not Santa's village. Okay. He is not here. In Winterbury. Okay. He has a he has a couple of years. It's outside. It's outside. That's why you heard the jingling. That's right. So uh I'll kick us off. I'll kick us off. Uh Krampus Middle Height is a three and a half foot tall Um snowy white goblin. He's got big ears, kind of stick out from the sides of his head. Downy white fur, very fine. And he is at the base of what is the largest tree he has ever seen. Um, and probably the most lit-up tree he's ever seen in the middle of the town square, like in the middle of the Warnerbury Square. enormous you know evergreen tree with lights strung and there's candles lit and you know shiny filigree and and tinsel and stuff and he's just staring slackjawed. at the enormity of this tree as the kind of snow filters down around him. Um and there's, you know, bustling traffic and and people selling things and the you know food, the wafting of of, you know, delicious smells. And he's a he can't get over how enormous this tree is. And so he's kind of standing like not he's not like out of the way. He's kind of actually like in the way of traffic. Like people are trying to like move down, you know, up across this square and he's kind of in the middle of the way. But being a country boy from uh far outside of Winterbury and have it this being his first time in a town this big, um he's kind of awestruck. That's awesome. I l I like the image of kind of Krampus standing in there and I almost picture for Krampus everything is slow motion as the the kind of warmth and the glow of this tree. uh takes takes over him, but everybody else, uh, cause it's the holidays. There's hustle and there's bustle, and everything else behind him kind of seems to be moving faster. And even though Krampus is in the way, um, people are just they just keep moving. You know what I mean? They're they're not necessarily Waiting to see why this person is standing in the way. There's no time for that. They've got to keep going. Okay, so my character is um Joseph Twinkleheart, and he is a very, very large blue reindeer. And he is um he's walking around um Winterbury and he notices a group of children and a couple of them trip and fall. Um, and he goes over there and um basically helps helps them up, like tries to help them up. Um And like like is very patient while they pet him and, you know, hang out with him a little bit. Um, his nose is glowing gently. Um I love that. I love that. I think uh I think one of the kids would would reach into his pocket and um he would come back out with a with a candy cane. And he would hold it up to you and just kinda you know, you're you're a big creature and he's a small creature. Very large. Yeah. And he he would hold it up to you and You know, he you've just been so friendly to him, but he's still a little bit frightened. He's a little bit of a shy kid. Yep. And um he would just he would just offer you the candy cane and say, thank you. And Joseph would um kind of like bend his front legs down, kind of like, you know, how a dog, like when they want to play, he would just kind of kneel down, um, so his head was more at level with the the kid and take the candy cane and um, you know, basically say thank you. Do you eat it? Do you do you hang it from one of your antlers? Is it is it decoration? Yeah, let's let's hang it from an antler. I think that's cute. Dosef is gonna go around and collect see how many candy canes he can collect by the end of the end of the year. But if one of the other kids like um puts something else on his antlers, like a a bauble or something like that, he's starting to look very festive. Yeah, you keep milling about and like someone someone sees what's happening and you get a little tinsel wrapped around one of the antlers and uh You're looking very, very festive, but also a little bit blue. A little bit blue. And Joseph also is um wearing um a Christmas sweater. Joseph is an avid knitter and always knits Christmas sweaters for himself and his family and friends for the holiday season. That is lovely. I love it. I love it. It this is out on the street, right? So you might out on the street, walking around, yes. Okay. You you might be within range of this small goblin who is just awestruck. Probably meandering in that direction. Yes. Okay. Sounds good. Alright, I can go. Um so in the same area, uh I'm I'm picturing that that this giant tree twinkling bringing hope and light in in such a a just magnificent way. Um Sits on one of the benches that surround this tree is a little three and a half foot Santa elf. Um, he's wearing his blue uh little little uh Christmas hat, fluff white trim. He's got a blue ja jacket on um that that wraps and then it's it's buckled down with some gold gumdrop buttons with uh Gold trim that kind of sort of just goes around his old tunic. He's wearing shorts and then he's got his blue and white striped leggings and his classic blue um elf Santa Elf uh uh shoes and um he's Just breathing in the amazing environment, the smells. Uh, and he noticed that there's a hustle and bustle going on. Um And he's using his elementalist ability um to do some some lighthearted trying to slow people down a little bit and he's changing the snowflakes and and having them kind of sort of bend off the lights to make them twinkle a little bit more or hitting hitting someone in the nose with a little of a snowflake to kind of sort of make them pause for a second and maybe look more at the tree and just take a second out of their day to enjoy where we are. Uh He um in and very much huge smile, eyes are big and wide, watching um uh this uh amazing looking goblin taking in this wondrous tree and enjoying the holiday spirit. So Chili, uh Chili Chip, you are you you you know Santa. Correct. Yes. You know Santa. So you've seen Santa's village. You've seen the operation. Yeah. So I'm in the operation, yeah. My question is. This is a town that once a year dedicates itself to celebrating What you do. So what are your reactions to this obviously isn't w Santa's village, but what are your reactions to their celebration of you and your life and what you've dedicated yourself to. Like obviously you are you are staring in wonder because it's just It's such a beautiful environment, but like what what are you feeling in these moments? Same thing I feel every time. It just the amazing joyous feeling of of of of the holiday spirit, right? Um I I'm here because I've caught up on all my work at the village Uh he doesn't need a ton of smoothies, except for when he goes, you know, to the other lower half of the of the of the globe to When it's warmer on that side instead of colder up here. So I've got my smoothies done for him. So when the R and R team, which is the reindeer resupply team, goes out and gives him his smoothies so he doesn't um need any 'Cause he doesn't drink hot chocolate the whole time. You can't drinking hot chocolate in that southern hemisphere when it's summertime is just you know, so nice little a nice little mocha smoothie. He loves it. So um but uh as far as here, I When you enjoy what you do, is it really work, you know? And watching other people enjoy the things that I enjoy, I I am I am in my element. Literally and figuratively. Uh this is this is the greatest time of the year And honestly, well, almost every time is the greatest time of the year, but this is the greatest time of the year, even more greater than the great time of the year, which is also great. I'm I'm just I'm very I'm I I'm I'm content and ecstatically happy. Uh and that cheese bread sounds really good. I'm also eyeing that a little bit. I might hit a couple people with snowflakes in the eye by accident, because that cheese bread Is distracting me slightly. Uh as you as you're sitting on the bench, kind of taking everything in, doing your your elemental magic. Um, you see two kids rush by and they both have snow on their knees and they're they're kinda la they're kinda laughing, like not Not in a mean way, they're laughing like joyously. Um y you get the feeling that something kind of wonderful just happened, and then they see you and they like skid to a stop And they look at each other and they go, I think that's one of them. I think that's I think that and then and then they realize that you're you see them. And they quick they scurry off. They uh they're just they're they're taken in by by the moment in probably a similar way that you are. So I I verify that I'm not on a shelf and I am on a bench. Wench on a bench? Something like that. Because I don't need to be mistaken for for for Jeff. Jeff has his shelf thing. I don't need to take his thing. I'm on this bench. Not a shelf. I don't think they the the kids would have had the same reaction if they had seen Jeff. I think they would have that would have been more of a run screaming situation. Jeff is a cop, okay? Jeff is a surveyor for the state. An elf with an attitude. That's Jeff is Jeff is a surveillance operation, okay? He's an op. Oh no. Uh anyways, I believe we have one more character that we uh that we have yet to meet. So I just uh uh just a quick clarification if I can. So because of the the day itself that's going on, would you say that Because like the because of the celebration that's going on has all of the direc the decorations like on the tree, for example, and like around the the the town, would they have already been set up and like fully like decked out or would that be something in progress? Would you say? That's a great question. So It is a long festivity in this town. It is um kind of their purpose at this time. So you are not arriving on day one or like before it starts. You're you're a few days in. Um so you're showing up to a holiday celebration a few days in. So everything is is pretty much kinda you know they've they've checked it twice in in the common par parlance of the season. So Oh okay, well that cool. Option B then. Um so uh in that case, um I I I guess the the w in in the with the merriment and the the the atmosphere um as it currently stands being as you know as f as festive as can be. Um The the the way I would I would see this happen is um so in the center of town there's this large um the large tree that has already been decorated and lit up and everything and i in the midst of kind of focusing on that. Um All of a sudden it kind of shakes a little bit and some of the um and let's say like maybe the star at the top of the tree almost like falls off and um a a large like paw just kind of like catches it before it falls. Um And just kind of just this this clumsy large yeti-like creature just kind of like just it wasn't there and it just kind of has appeared. by the train. It was just kind of like just uh uh distracted by just kind of the brightness and the beauty of it and ac and accidentally in in focus on it kind of just bumped into the tree accidentally, uh, but was able to catch the the star before it fell and is large enough he's able to just kinda put it back. on top of the tree and he kind of just pats the side of it and just goes, Raggle Fraggle. And just kind of just Just it just kind of stares in wonder at all the lights and the the noise and like clearly like does not belong in the in the in the environment just kind of stumbled into town. Um And uh just kind of like is padding to make sure like where he bumped into the tree, nothing else was was damaged or anything, which of course as he pulls back from it, some of the ornaments have probably stuck to his furnail um as a result. And is just kind of just wandering through the wandering through the street, just observing and ooing and awing, uh, mumbling to himself Okay. Uh Krampus, you are watching this tree and you see this this giant stumble out from the tree or into the tree or into and out of the tree. What's your reaction? Um huh. He's like very nervously like kind of chuckling and talking to himself because there's nobody around him. Uh but he's looking now at like this tree is the size of Like it is several sizes like several times the size of any home he's ever lived in, and now there's a creature next to it that's the same height. So he's like he kind of skitters out of the way. Um I I don't I don't know that like necessarily it's a it's a like danger sense kind of thing, but he's like, whoa, he's so big. Wow, um let's not be stepped on by him and kind of like shifts out of the way and and then at the same time realizes he's like s been standing in the middle of traffic. Probably with his you know slack jawed for like probably ten minutes. Um and this appearance uh kind of brings him back to himself. Um and and he looks around To see if he's drawn any attention. Doesn't seem like has he drawn any attention? Seems like maybe no. He's too small that anybody would be paying attention to him. Um but he has never seen a creature as large. as this thing that just appears. So if it starts to walk off, I think Krampus will follow him at a you know Safe distance so he doesn't get kicked, but like he's gonna he's gonna follow him because it's he's flabbergasted. Sounds good. Uh Humble, are you going anywhere or what is what is Humble doing now? Now that now that the tree has been kept upright and you you interestingly you and Dosif are now both slightly decorated for the holidays. Um Dosef by passers by, you by brushing into the town tree. Oh, um there are to to kind of help you along here a little bit, there are so many different things to see. There are um There is a there's a winter tavern, there are booths with food, there are games that you can play. Um there is so much that you can do and everybody seems to be doing everything. It is just a a picture I guess a pic a picturesque picture that's a bad sentence. Uh it is a perfect picture of merriment. There we go. Nailed it. First try. I would I I guess just because right now so so bumbles just literally just bumbling around. Um I would probably say the whatever the first like because it's it's very much squirrel mode. Like, oh like because, you know, I everything that's around. So Probably just the first thing that caught my attention, I would just immediately just like focus on and go to that to to investigate. Um That's I think why the tree was initially where kind of I I focus on a k immediately. So just turning my attention whatever is closest to kind of there, that's the first thing I would um I would go to, I would say. So not necessarily gravitating toward specific thing, but just whatever would be the most eye-catching is where I would where I would navigate to first. Okay. Because that would is what would catch my attention immediately. Okay. I think as Krampus is or sorry, as uh Bumble is walking Krampus would try to get his attention, but like he's so small and his and he's not doing a great job of projecting, be like, uh hey, um kind of nervous. Hey, um Hel h uh how did you get so tall? Huh? Um And like if i realizing he's not like he's far too quiet and far too small to get this thing's attention. Um Krampus does the first thing he can think of to get his attention and scoops up a bunch of snow and packs it into a snowball and kind of lofts it up toward him to like try to like not hard but just like loft it up there like maybe hit him in the shoulder or just like Um to see if I can like get him to turn around. Alright, let's uh let's let's get our let's get our first roll of the night. We're gonna go ahead and do uh do do a It's an attack roll? That's an ad we'll say that's a agility roll against uh against Bumble. Okay, I got it. I like it, I like it. Bust of agility That is a uh a thirteen with fear. Oh sorry, fifteen, fifteen with fear. A fifteen with fear. I realized that. I mean he was kind of nervous about it. He's like, eh. Hope this goes okay. Uh Bumble, does 15 clear your evasion? Uh yeah I I I think so. Okay. I believe it is a twelve, so I'm gonna say yes. Okay. Um uh we're not gonna make you roll for damage. It's a snowball. You're you're a Yeti. It's a very finely powdered snowball. It it just like poofs immediately. So Humble Bumble, a which definitely sounds like I'm s definitely sounds like I'm saying humble bundle. I know, right. Sponsor. That's a good time to talk about our first sponsor of the night. Uh no, um, so Humble Bumble, you are walking along following whatever catches your fancy, and suddenly. Something kind of hits you in the lower shoulder blade. It doesn't hurt, but you do you do feel something hit you. Okay. Um I would uh um I would uh you know I would like I do the thing where I just kind of like immediately pause Um, I would I would kind of like scratch like towards the area and then turn around and look. Uh Downward to see like the source of what caused it. So I would be able to see um I would be I would be able to see Krampus. Oh yeah, he's not hiding himself. He's like Okay. Eyes up, eyes wide, big like, oh my gosh, he's looking at me. Um and you see he's like he kinda takes a half step back, like, oh, did I make a mistake? Hi. I uh I would I would lean down like and towering clearly, right? But like I would like I would I would uh start I would start to uh to lean down and kind of reach a a paw like over you and then I would I would gently like pat you on the head and just silly billy And just I'm just leaning just w like watching you. It's like it's like getting padded with a piece of plywood like the womb Correct. Correct. It is not. Do you take damage? Krampus sinks into the ground from there. Even shorter than I was before Um undeterred, Krampus is looking up at you. He's like, um, so I've never seen anything as tall as that tree before, and you're as tall as that tree. Um This is gonna be a super fun request for me and it may be super weird for you. I shouldn't ask this, should I? This is dumb. And he's like talking to himself. No, do it anyway. Um Do you think you can pick me up and maybe I could ride on your shoulder or something? Cause I've never been up that high before and it seems like it would be pretty neat. I So uh Ye yeah, no, if uh if um Ravilla, if are you are you like are you okay with this? Do we need to like you you can pick up a goblin that is a tenth of your size or whatever it happens to be with without a roll. You as you are pretty easy. You are not gonna need to roll for that one. Okay. Uh then I would uh What the I think the way that Bumble would do this is he wouldn't he wouldn't like because because of his his past and experience with reindeers before, he wouldn't just grab you. What he would do is he would like Like he would take his paw and kind of like he would lay it uh with his with like his palm out. on the on the ground to where you could like stand on his his stand in his palm to like lift you up. So basically like like he's offering to pick you up. Yeah, so I I have a question about Humble Bumble. Um, does he is he like intelligible to most people? Because the reason I ask is is um uh Krampus is a druid and one of his abilities is nature's tongue. I can speak to the the language of the natural world. So I can speak to plants and animals around me, but I can probably also speak to people who have like a more natural like less society based language that a lot of people in town might have trouble understanding? S so the the way that I I envision it in my head is uh bumble is very much like Schnitzel from Chowder where it's like rahda rahda rahda but like you kind of like you just kind of get like the gist of what he's trying to say. So I I if and Ravillon if you have no concern with it Like, I I think that's reasonable enough. Like you get the at least you get the gist of what he's trying to at least if nothing else the way that he is the he's picked up certain words and tries to use them with certain in inflections, I think is the right word. Uh to where like Decrempus I think Decrempice he's like He understands everything. He's like uh the like the Queen's English from Humble Bumble. Like of course good sir, please. Exactly. We just organically created Rocket and Greet. Just one thing. Um Hugh Humble or so uh Krampus will absolutely accept the the offer. He'll clamber up into uh up into his palm. And then I I'll I'll lift him up and then just offer it, which is as you you lift up what you notice is there's like indents in his shoulders where like clearly it looks like people have like like his f his fur's been like flattened. So clearly other people have have taken have done the exact same thing. So you can see like natural like crevices you could like sit comfortably on his shoulders or on his head. I think shoulder's good. He'll just, you know, he'll kind of latch onto the fur and just like hold on and um he's pretty nimble. You know, Krampus is is is pretty nimble. He I think he can he he can handle the the motion. uh a a as as uh humble is walking around. Um but in thanks what he's gonna do is he kind of Like, you know, he's kind of giggling nervously to himself as he's looking around. He's like, ooh, this is high. Um and he waves his hand and kind of like pulls a bunch of snowflakes out of the air. And they turn into fireflies. Uh and they kind of just like float around Humble's head. Just like doing little firefly dances around his head. No effect, just like visual. As this is happening, um I'd be curious to know if Dosiff or Chili are seeing this, what their reactions are. We're gonna shift shift focus a little bit. Um but that, you know, keep keep that in mind that that's still going on. I yeah, I think Dosef would probably wander over. Um Joseph is starting to look almost like a festive Christmas tree himself. And so he's, you know, wandering towards towards the Christmas tree, I would say also. Okay. Um Chili Chip is going to uh laugh a little bit uh and and there is recognition in his eyes. on Humble. Um he's going to hop up. He was winging swinging his little legs on the bench. He's going to hop up and um As the interaction's happening or at as as Krampus is being put and settled in on the shoulder, I'm gonna be like, oh humble. You really need to watch out where you're going. I see you've made a friend. I don't think Krampus can hear any of this because he's 30 feet in the air. Uh and just just for just for confirmation as well. Um uh sorry uh Dose if you said you were heading over in the same area as well. Yeah Okay. Um so oh sorry, go ahead. Okay. Uh so I I guess so uh Bumble would would like kind of hear. So two things would catch his attention. One was uh voice of familiarity, but also uh Clopping? Yes. Large blue reindeer. I mean, and you're also you're also blue, right? I'm assuming I mean I'm not sure. Yeah, d definitely white fur, but undertone blue, yes. Undertone blue, okay. All right. So you know very very yup. Yup. Uh so uh like n neck like quick like turns to look in the direction of the noises as well. Probably not enough to like like rattle uh rattle Krampus, but um So it's it's kind of the thing of like eyes darting back and forth between Dose and Chili and just like this big like Lo not toothless, but definitely like mit there are there are teeth that are that have clearly been knocked out. uh like just big grin with like some missing teeth uh and starts to like lean down a little bit towards um But not uh as as like towering as over um uh Krampus because of because of Dosef, but like more trying to get at level Um, but just kind of darting eyes uh between um uh between Dosef and uh Chili and looks at uh kind of points towards uh chili and goes, um uh oh, it would be uh what we don't need silly, so it'd be uh Tilly chili, oh no, Tilly Chili, and uh then points at Dosef and goes, friend. Cause he's thinking previously to his reactions with other uh with other uh with other does that he's seen so would probably even though Dosef and they've probably never met definitely knows Friend for sure so don't have Friend so absolutely I'll wander and I'll wander over and say, Well, hello, my name is Joseph Hello and Oh my goodness, are you an elf? I love elves and I love Santa and but oh my goodness, Rudy is so mean and he doesn't like Blue Reindeer and I wanted to hang out with Santa, but I can't. But it's so nice to meet you and oh my goodness, hello? Well well hello there. Uh I I don't think I've seen him be rude, but maybe it wasn't such a great day for him. And Santa's always always I I mean it's in his name. It's Rudis and Rudy's. He's just he doesn't like me. I've tried so many times. I tried sending him nice Christmas notes, but unfortunately I am just too blue. It you know what? But it is so nice to meet you. Hello, I am Dosef. Hi, Dose. And you know what it sounds like maybe it's a little bit of a mix-up. Cause my brother's name ch chili chip and I'm named chili chip but his chili is with an eye and I'm in a with a Y. He makes chili and I make things chili. So it's it could be a confusion thing. Oh my goodness, but maybe you can get me into Santa. I don't know. But it is so nice to meet you. You are very tall and very large. It is so nice to meet you also. Don't be shy, Bumble. Introduce yourself. I Hello On his big toe I'm I'm I'm at the expression. Would you like to pet me? I do not mind At the exact same time Krampus is like hitting him in the face like, she's talking to you. Hello, hello. I'm gonna gently bump um bump his I don't know how high up I am on on him. I'm gonna gently bump him with my antlers just like playfully. So Humble Bumble is getting nudged in the foot in the face and somewhere in the in the upper upper thigh range. Yeah, yeah. I have dose this. So uh So uh so I'm trying to think process of uh the way Bumble would process. So uh we go prior prioritization, it would start to say stop hear the acknowledgement of the ca uh of the pat and like immediately like accept the offer and like so so go to Again, it's in his mind gentle, but it's not you know it it like you said, it's it's basically it's not not not it's not rough, but But basically attempts to try to like uh uh pat you like I guess not on the horns, but like on the head, I guess, Dose. Yeah. Maybe at like a single finger Right exactly the little. Stops immediately and boops. I like definitely like it understands boop. Uh uh hit uh snoop snoop boop. Joseph's like blue nose starts glowing brighter in appreciation. So I I got a I got a question here. I got a question. Is humble is humble is you like are you like leaning down to to pet? This is so I but not not like towering over like where like you're at risk of like slipping off because it's more at level because of uh dose of being larger than like chili. Uh Uh, but yeah, I am leaned down lower, so like you're definitely more in range than before. Hanging off. Just a good grip on the case. Oh my goodness, you are very small. Would you like a candy cane? I have Several candy canes! The people are so nice in this town. Could if if I wanted to, could Krampus try to slide down Bumble's arm to land on Dosef's back. Oh the the boop the the the arm I'm using to to boop Dosef, Krampus could like slide down it like I love it. You are uh you are You're good at difficult terrain and uh I am. I it's not even it's uh that that doesn't even require a role. That's that's the kind of movement you were born for. And I ha I have an actual ability that allows me to help an ally traverse any difficult terrain. So I can literally like guide, help guide you down if needed. So I think I think Krampus would slide down Bumble's arm, having been like up top and like seen he's been at roof level for for a few minutes now. Uh he slides down Bumble's arm and kind of lands on Doses back. Like giggling the whole time nervously. But like, ha ha it's this uh this is Hi, I'm Krampus. Um, is it okay that I'm here? I kind of just came down and figured it would be fine. Um this is I've ridden two people today, which is more people than I have to do. Hello, Krampus! I am Joseph! Have a candy cane! I am so glad that you're riding me! Let us ride somewhere together! This sounds fun. Uh and so he takes a candy cane and then he replaces it. Like replaces the where the candy cane was. with a uh like a snowball that he's packed around like a little s like span of twine. So it's like a snowball like bobble like you would hang on a tree. He just hangs it up there. Hello, shall we go for a clippity clop? I am smelling some delicious cheesy bread and Joseph loves cheesy bread. Would you like to go get some? I don't know what a clippity clop is or a chance. I'll show you! Okay. And then Joseph's Joseph starts clippity-clopping towards the food. Yes, perfect. Krampus is down for it. You can like grab on tight to the Christmas sweater as best you can. As as they clippity clop away. I I looked at Bumble, Bumble, you've gotta stop being so humble. That cheese bread does smell good. But why did why didn't you why didn't you tell them that you're Like one of the main defensiven for the Tinsel League hockey team on on the on the treetopers. B Bumble processes it for a minute and then he he kinda like because he's got s like random stuff just kind of in his fur at this point, especially from like the tree. But he he he like the again, the sense of acknowledgement of who Chile is. Um he'll like he'll kind of poke a finger like like in that not his belly button, but like in his in some of his fur and he like he pulls off what looks like just like a s like a handkerchief and he like like lowers it down to you and it's like an old like one of your old handkerchiefs you've lost. Like with like your initials in it, it's it's it's moist, it's it's definitely like oh it's been gone for a while, but like just basically just gives it to you Thank you, Bumble. I don't know where I must have left this at one of the games. I'm I'm sometimes I just I just missed some stuff. Um I'm gonna freeze the moistness and kinda sort of break off the ice while it's going there. Tust it off, right? Um let's let's let's go. Let's go to a snot rag that is moist. Let's go Let's go get some cheesy bread. That's great. Let's go get some cheesy bread. Also, I think you guys have a sure five, you know, chance to win the Cocoa Cup this year. Uh it it is like uh uh um Bumble like looks at you like nodding head, smiling, has no idea what you're talking about. Like but just is definitely like and like yeah yeah yeah uh Uh has no idea what you're talking about. I'm just and I'm gonna be trailing off like as we're walking, I'm trailing off uh Oh, have you seen my my mentor Frosted Flakes? He's been doing like the r the rainbony the whole year. And we really miss him in the kitchen. And and again, like Bumble is listening, acknowledging, and it is in one ear, right out there, has no idea what he's talking about. But it's five is f just following right along. So which again, like B Bumble's learned to be more cautious. So like he's he's not like just boom, boom, boom. Like he's kind of having to tippy toe to make sure he doesn't shake things. So he's being gentle as he's kind of following along, but just kind of just following his chi uh chip uh chili is talking. So t to keep up with I'm gonna skip a little. That is whimsical as hell. As all of you kind of get in line, it's a long line to to get this delicious bread with cheese. Um You look around at everything that's happening around you and you see, like I said, like people People moving as if they are knowing. Like, let me try that sentence again. You see people moving as if they know just where they're going. They are they're moving with purpose. Uh people are fixing pieces of the tree since say uh a Yeti may have may have bumped into it slightly. Um they are, you know, they're tending to to peep some people who got maybe some ice crystals in their eyes. Um one person is kinda like looking up really curiously at um at a at a bunch of fireflies that weren't there a moment ago. So like people are People are m you know moving with purpose and everything is coordinated. And then you actually look kind of behind you at two people who don't really seem to be a part of all of the movement Um, it's a Furbulg with a with a giant axe and a shield and a fairy, and they're having a little argument about what the true meaning of the season is. Maz, you know. You know that it's about spreading coarse light. You know that, right? Tell that to my toe. Tell that to my toe. What? Ambush Special cameos Would you join me for a pint over at Dusty Tavern? Nah, you know, I I I I I'm gonna get over there. It's gonna take me a while though. We're gonna have to go a little bit slow because I'm still working that one off, but I don't know, you tell me about this Yeah, tell me about this core mess. Look all around us. I don't see any warmth. It just snow, snow, snow. You see that gang over there? You see how well they get along That is coarse warmth. That is what the season is all about. Come on, friend. You can jump on my back if you need to. Ah, thank you. And the Slightly familiar Burbog and Fairy uh meander off. And you are we we shift focus back to the players for this wonderful one-shot. And um you are waiting in line to uh to get your bread and cheese Huh. This kind of smells like it I mean I know it's probably good. You said it was good, right? Like like cheese and bread that sounds really good, but It it kinda smells like my uncle. Like stinky. Is it supposed to smell like that? Sorry, I don't know. I've never had this before. I am very sorry. Joseph may have farted Sometimes sometimes Joseph cannot help it. I am very sorry. Would you like me to move? No, no, no, it's okay. Um I'm B it may surprise you how um awful the smell is where I come from, uh, pretty persistently. So I just it smells Like the food is good, I just it it's supposed to be stinky, right? Like that's the stinky cheese. Not not like the stinky. Okay. Okay Huh. Hey Dosef, how did you come to be here? Cause I'm I'm from outside of town and um Maybe not totally supposed to be here, but it was just such a a uh a big trip that I wanted to take and so I so decided that I would just go. Um, but that's about enough about me. How did you get here? Well yes, I am Joseph, and when I was a young reindeer, I got into a terrible snowstorm when I was playing with my sister, Stagatha Twinkleheart, and unfortunately I lost her and I have not seen her for many years. I feared the worst that she had been lost. But recently Joseph got a note, and I do believe that she is alive, and so I have come to this town to try to find any Any news or information about my sister, Stagatha Twinkleheart. Have you have you heard anything? No, but I also don't know what a note is. Oh, it is something you put Notes on paper Yes, yes. I am very bad at writing because of hooves. I don't know um what writing is, so uh maybe you can show me some time. Yes, we can do that. After the cheesy bread. Okay. I d uh we we stand a functional functionally illiterate Pairing. How about you two? What brings you here? And have you heard any word of my sister, Stagatha? I look at the I look at our our other companions. Um I Bumble would probably like again like is is is listening here in the words and he gotta he gotta l Does the heat like scratches his chin thinking for a moment and goes Raggle Fraggle What what what do I know that he said? Uh it just he just said it you would probably interpret it as like north North Just North That's uh so Krampus kind of looks f at Humboldt, looks down at Dosef. Um He said north. I don't know if that's because he's from there or he saw your sister there or it just happens to be the direction we're facing. So um Well, it's a biggest uh he said it again. Oh North is a good direction. Perhaps Joseph will go in that direction. To look for Stagatha. Does does Stagatha look like you by any chance? I mean I know you haven't seen her in a while, but like when you were young Um, 'cause like me and my seventeen other uh siblings, we all look pretty similar. Um, even you know, but particularly when we were younger, but uh we we look a lot alive. Do you look like your sibling? Joseph does Joseph does not know what Stagatho looks like now. It has been many years. However, Joseph was not always blue. Joseph was normal, a normal reindeer, until the night that Dosef lost his sister. So I would assume that Stagatha is a normal colored reindeer, but I have not seen her in many years. Um can I go ahead can I do some type of roll um to see if I know of Stagatha? The deep reindeer lore. It's probably a an a Santa's elf, right? Um absolutely that's a that's a knowledge role. And can I do something with my holiday hope experience? Oh, in the sense of um uh this sounds like it could be uh great news to impart if I do know something. Um, to help give a little bit more of that hope for the holidays. 100%. So roll your duality dice. Add your knowledge modifier, spend one hope, and add your plus two from your holiday hope experience. I envision Chippy Chippy like whipping out the Rolodex. Like Jesus. Alright, my first official role is a uh Nine, ten, eleven with fear. Eleven with plus three and plus two. I rolled a six And then plus three, plus two. Oh. We may still be like a- Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. What were the dice you rolled? My uh two D twelves? Yeah, but like what were the numbers? Was it four and two or five and one? Two on hope on four on fear. Okay. I was gonna say if it was Because crits work differently in Daggerheart. If it's the same number, it's a critical success. Right. It it would tell me it would tell me I'd crit on the because I'm using the the dimmy plane. Oh, look at you. And if I had rolled a one, I'd be able to re-roll the hope die But I did it. Um so that's that's my first official uh dagger heart roll. Look, it can only get better, right? For the for the hope of the season. Yeah, so um chili chip, you You look at Dosef and you think back to the thousands of reindeer that you have met. Over the years. And you may have met Stagatha, but unfortunately, you just don't. Have any idea? And the thought of seeing this person who needs this this holiday hope, they need this thing. Um, you you feel a small little trickle of sweat start to form on your brow, and you look up and around, and all of the hustle and bustle has stopped. And people are staring at you. Oh. It's like on the tip of my tongue. He opens up one eye and then he looks around. He's like, uh, uh. And just as quickly, everybody gets back to what they were doing. That is that is okay. I understand. You meet many reindeer. I will not lose hope. I will still look for my sister. So sorry, I I have to describe what I care what I'm doing on camera. Um I'm I I'm I'm taking what Joseph said. But I'm looking around because I'm a little confused about what just happened because everything just stopped for a second. Yeah, did did any of us notice this? Do you guys wanna make maybe a group action roll to see if anybody else noticed? Yeah. Yeah, I'm down. Okay, so He is like doing little little just left to right um looking around little confused on his eyes. A little bit of that that overwhelming joy has just faded just a little bit. Uh Chili, you get the sense something isn't quite right. The rest of you, what we're gonna do is we're gonna do a group action role. So the way that works is you are going to elect one of you To lead the roll. Uh it's just the just the the other the three others. One of you is gonna lead the roll, but everybody is going to roll their duality dice. And we are going to basically what happens is um we are comparing the difficulty to what originally the leader roles and if the other people beat the difficulty, they add plus one to the leader's role If they don't beat the difficulty, they subtract one. So you're all working together to look around to see, you can tell something just happened that unsettled chili and you're you're looking around to see if you saw anything. I I think chili leads this role. Sure. I'm I'm down. Okay. Yep. Sounds good to me. We'll uh we'll get Chili involved in that one. So that will be a instinct roll. So all of you roll your 2D12s, add your instinct modifier, and let's start with chili and then hear everyone's results. And for this rolled for this, we're not this is more of a reaction roll, so we're not gonna do hope and fear for this. So this won't this won't do any hope and fear. Because you guys are consistently giving me fear. So at this point I'm just kind of like, you know, settle down a minute. Settle down. This is a holiday episode. My second official role, which no longer rolls with hope. is a 26. All right. Because it was a 12 and a 10. Wow. That is that is very good. So wait, hold on. We have to beat that to add? No, you have to beat the difficulty. Okay, all right, all right, got it. And that'll either add or subtract from his. You don't have to beat his role. You have to beat the difficulty set. Good luck. Yeah, we needed that one earlier. I don't know. All right, everybody else give me your roles. And actually, let me let me double check something, because you might actually still take you you might still take a hope for that. Let me double check the rules there, uh Chili, while everybody else gives me their number. Sure I think. Okay. Dosef rolled a fifteen. Fifteen, okay. That's plus one to your roll, so that's a twenty-seven. Uh Krampus got a twenty. Okay, so that's plus two, so that's a 28. Hey. Come on, Bumbles. The most perceptive among us. Yeah. That's that's on that's on brand. Uh Bumble got a 12. Oh dear Alright. That is uh I was mistaken, by the way. So you roll action as normal, so you still take that hope chilling. Uh everybody else is considered a reaction role when a in a group action role. So you are good? Um, even though Humble Bumble i looks around, gets very distracted by the shinies everywhere, does not notice anything amiss, everybody else. Working together does realize that there was this moment where the cheer Was gone, and everything felt wrong for a moment It was like we were in a place where nobody knew our names. Did anybody Feel that it's it almost felt like that moment when someone gets added to the naughty list. It kind of felt like I did not feel a thing. I was too busy waiting for my cheesy bread. Smells delicious. Slippy bibby. Yeah, uh Humboldt, it kind of felt like like when I left home when I wasn't supposed to. Um and I knew it was wrong, but I did it anyway. Yeah. Oh well this cheesy bread smells really good. Um how much does it cost? Because we're getting kind of close to the front of the line and I don't have much money and I'm pretty hungry It's just a gold piece. It's a gold piece. You see a big sign that, you know, describes the it's a it's a it's not your run-of-the-mill uh which is it I think an accidental bread pun. It's not your run-of-the-mill bread. Um it's it's more of your like your high-end, your You're it's almost a baguette and it's a just a white melted cheese. There's you notice as you get closer, there's some some kind of peppers or something like that. on on the bread and you can you can choose to get those or you can't but you do you do see a sign that says that it is it is just a gold piece for a large piece of bread smothered in cheese per person. Well I mean you can get as many as you want, but we're gonna we're gonna need like seven for Humble. I mean he's he's like really big and I I don't know, are you hungry buddy? Hmm Lemon? Yeah. He's kinda shrugs. Yeah, he's me he he's gonna need like seven. So um Let's let's maybe like pool our money together. Hopefully we can get enough to get everybody everybody at least some. Uh All of your money, all of your money combined is is more than enough for you guys to get as much of the cheese and bread as you want. And you get up to the front of the line and Interestingly, that moment where everything froze and everyone looked at you It it's like it never happened to anyone else. And You kind of shrug and get your cheese, get your bread. Everybody, uh, everybody digs in and it's delicious. And Yep. Joseph is gonna kind of um loaf on the ground like a cat would loaf, um, and eat the cheesy bread. And then when he's done, he's going to pull pull out um his out of his pack, he's gonna pull out um his knitting needles and start making um tiny a tiny Christmas sweater. I I have to know this about Dose. I have a question uh about Dose of. Yes. Dose of walks around on four legs Correct? Yes. When Doseph sits down to knit, does Doseuf take off gloves that look like hooves And have fingers underneath them? Joseph no, Joseph has hooves, but uh and no fingers. No, no fingers. But I mean sometimes he does like knitting festive holiday mittens also. Okay. Yes. So he's gonna knit a knit a small sweater for um for Krampus because Krampus is the easiest one to knit it for. He is gonna that's true. He is a small so he's gonna he's gonna hand Krampus a a um a hand knit sweater. He's gonna so Krampus holds the hand that sweater up to like his like homespun. It's all like he's he's dressed in like all whites Like to kind of camouflage in but the the like snowy background. What is this like a really bright festive color? It is it is a very f incredibly festive. We're talking like I mean, Krampus is an sorry, um, Dose is an incredibly talented ditter. So you're talking like little penguins, it's green, it's red, it's got like, you know, blue, it's incredibly festive and and cute. Uh Krampus dons it immediately and he's like he's like stretching his arms out. It's like it's It's like it's cut just to me. I I was only riding on your back for like ten minutes, but like, wow, you this is you're really talented. This is wonderful. Thank you. Thank you Anything for my new friend. Joseph loves knitting sweaters for new friends. And he he points at one of the um one of the colors, like red or green or whatever it is, and he goes, What do you call this? Oh this this color, I mean, it is not my color. It is it is green. Okay. Do you not see colors? No, I see colors. I just I didn't know what this was called Or this one either, because uh where I live everything's just kind of white and gray and um we don't really have a whole lot of words for for stuff that looks differently than that. Light is green. Okay, green. I like Yes, and this one this one is my color. This is blue. Blue. I know blue, cause the sky. But um what about this one? He points at the the red. Red, yes. That is red. That is the color of that rude that rude reindeer's nose. Very rude, ruddy, rude Oh, okay, so bad bad color and he kinda like slaps it. Bad color. But it is a nice color. It is just not a nice colour for a nose. I mean Santa does wear red. Oh, that is fine, but I do not like Rudy. And you just you just hear like I'm not sure. If you guys were to meet each other, I think it'd be fine. However, your sweater looks amazing and what an incredible holiday gift that is. Oh, I bet the people in the sweater division would love to see your handiwork. That is very nice of you to say. Dof Joseph starts knitting him a sweater too. We're just knitting and eating cheesy bread So in so in Krampus, how did you enjoy your Clippity Clop journey? Uh it was very nice. Um Joseph is very stable. She uh he is um he doesn't bump around a whole lot, which is really great because I while I'm very nimble, um my behind is very small and stable unlike my family life. Yes. Yes. Um But my uh um and he's like, I'm trying to figure out a way to pay Doseph back for the sweater. Um and so he I you said Joseph is is loafing on the ground, like closer to the ground? Yeah, just like a like a cat would loaf. He's loafing and then kind of like on his like um like reindeer elbows tr so he's knitting. So he uh like his tongue out in concentration. Yeah, yeah. I love this visual so much. It's great. So he's gonna um Krampus will kind of like hop around up like touching to touch various points of Doseph's antlers and as he touches each of them um these like White winter lilies blossom along the the antlers. Oh my goodness, Joseph is so beautiful! Thank you so much! Well, you made me something really nice, and I wanted to make something nice for you because that's what nice people do. And uh my granddad taught me that, and um I hope you like them. I love it! Wow, are we best friends? I think we are best friends. Friends with Dosa forever. I don't I don't think I've ever had a friend. Um, mostly just my siblings and we throw snowballs at each other a lot and sometimes there's ice on them. Oh no, we are best friends! We must stay together forever And then um, so that means that uh Joseph considers Krampus now part of his uh family. During this whole exchange, Chili is just is clapping. So happy with how much Christmas is going on right now with the kings and gifts. And everything is okay after so after the the after a little while Joseph finishes chili sweater and our hands chili sweater also. This one has um this one has polar bears on it. Yay, I love polar bears. They're one of my most favorite animals ever. Right next to reindeers, elephants. He will Chili at this point will name every animal that he knows. And then Dosef just looks at uh looks at Bumble is like, you are very big. I will knit you. I will knit your gloves. Oddly the gloves are more material than the the sweaters for either the butt. Bumble will just look look at Dosef and just pinkies out and just present them. Like not even full gloves, just rapturous pinkies. Maybe they're fingerless gloves, right? Like maybe Joseph is like running out of yarn and just is like, this is all I can do, but they look great on you. Alright. So everyone has a knitted item, yeah. As this is happening, um a a young boy walks by. And he is he's got like a a knitted hat with kind of the little tassels going down the sides. Um he's got a big puffy coat. His gloves are clipped Or like his mittens are clipped to his sleeves and he's holding two bags in his hands. as he's walking by. And he's just kinda he's kinda hustling. He feels out of rhythm with the rest of the happenings. um in the town, and he's he's just kinda hustling by you. Well hello! You have such a nice hat. Joseph knows a lot about knitting, and that is a very nice knitted hat. And the boy stops and looks at you, claps both of his hands to his cheeks. And screams and then takes off running. Oh no! Did Joseph scare that little boy? Joseph is not usually very scary. A few seconds later, you actually see a like a tall man with curly hair. And then like a short, balding man who seems to be missing the top of his hat chasing after. Um wait, like chasing after the going in the same direction. You don't know you don't know necessarily that it's it's chasing, but going in the same direction. So I have um one of the goblin ancestry traits is danger sense, which has a mechanical value, right? But in in terms of a storytelling value Do I get like a vibe through that of of like intent radiating off of these men chasing appearing to be running in the same direction as this boy? You don't even have to roll for that. You absolutely something is is not right about this. Something there is some danger here Hmm. Oh no, are we worried? Uh Would you like to clippity clop? Yeah, I think so. Um, that looks a lot awful lot like Um when my uncle was throwing snowballs at us and like it was all fun and games and then sp they started putting ice in the snowballs and then everybody got really mad and they seem like that right now. Um Hmm. Yeah, let's clipity clap. And he like grabs a bunch of snow and makes it into snowballs as he like hops up on Dosopher's back. Okay. And and Joseph has like the the um Christmas sweater has multiple pockets in it, you know, so so you know That means that if Krampus wants to put snowballs in the pockets in the s on he could do that and store some snowballs in there. And so uh Joseph is gonna start clippity clopping after um after the little boy. Come on, Chippy! Hop up! Yes, you may join us for the clippity clop. Uh you Bumble you coming? Oh well trying to think how Bumble would interpret that. 'Cause I think Bumble knows well enough that He would not be able to hop on for clipy clop as well. No, there is no super bubble. So like a the way you you so you can certainly try Like so so you either. And then just he he just uh raggle fraggle and he like he just he You know, he kind of adjusts himself. He wipes his mouth off from the cheesy bread that we were doing and uh um and follows along. Like again, he has to kind of pace himself, but yes. Uh It would be my honor if I could clippity clop with you, yes. Krampus whispers when when uh Humble Bumble says Raggle Fraggle. Krampus whispers down into Joseph's ear. He says, indubitably, I don't know what that means, but that's what he said. Oh, that is a very large word. Joseph does not know that word. But let us go. So as if I'm go ahead. Go ahead. If I'm allowed on the back, I jump on the back. I uh wiggle my nose and touch it and my um Candy cane staff comes out and around the hook a little frozen snowball starts to form. Cool. I am so glad that you are with me. I love elves, and I love Santa. What a great honor. And we love reindeer. All of you guys. So you all take off in the direction following this kid who is terrified and the two the two people that were chasing him. And as you get back into the town square because the cart with the with the bread and the cheese was a little bit off the o off the town square. You had to you had to walk down a street or so. And as you get back into the town square Chili Chip, your arcane sense hangs You realize that something is different around this tree From when you were last here and you don't like what you're feeling And it's as we're running by as you get to the tree. Like the closer you get to the tree, the stronger the senses, the more weight it seems to press down on you. What's what's wrong with the tree? Um I'll I'll I'll I'll I won't yell, but I'll just I'm just sort of saying. Um What are w what are these these two that are tracing after the kid? Are they running past the tree? Are they running to the tree? You don't see them. We've lost them? You have. But back in the town square, something is wrong. The people that were moving about in all of these hurried but cheerful ways are gone. The lights on the trees seem to be dimmed, almost darkened. There's joy missing here. I mean the the um tree is still just as tall as it was before, right? I it's just wow, it's dark up there. is and it's not glowing with happiness like it used to And I don't know where the other where those guys went. Yeah. Actually everything feels weird right now. This does not feel very very Christmassy. Yes. Where are the children? Joseph loves children. I do not see children. Do we do we see anybody? Like the square the square is cleared. Square is empty. Where is everybody? Something s something is very strange. I'll I'll look over, I'll look over Dose back over to Bumble. Bumble, do you see anything from up there? Well and just for just for confirmation, um you said the the tree looks dim. Yeah, it is there is still light coming off of it because there's candles and all of that on the tree, but it is it is dampened Oh no. Yeah. Bumble will go, Row, uh, and assume that he broke one of the lights on the tree. And just basically just beeline it to the tree to try to see if he can figure out how to fix it. All right. Wait. What is anybody else doing? I don't know. And like that's as much as he gets out. Alright, so we've got a bumble beeling to the tree. Um I will probably hop off of Dose of and Try to see if I can start sensing where things are stronger with the with the not so joyous Christmassy vibes. Okay. Um Joseph will follow along, basically. Joseph is, you know, happy to be there. So Okay. So what it sounds like to me is that Humble Bumble and Chili Chip are both investigating to see if they can figure out what's wrong. It's a little bit of a different flavor. So chili chip you're using your arcane sense to try to detect what's happening in this area, is that correct? I just want to make sure I'm understanding. And Humble Bumble, you're basically checking each individual bulb on the tree to see if one's out. Is that correct? Uh basically what he's he's actually doing, it's it's even goofier than that. He's gonna do the thing where like, you know, where you kinda like uh like you kind of wiggle a pipe to see if like there's like if there's something wrong or like you wiggle a light to get it to come back on. So he's just taking his paw and just Doo-doo doo do just shaking around, see if he can figure out like if you can get it to light back up. Cause he assumes he's the reason the lights are out. So he's just kind of just physically touching and like kind of shaking the tree a little bit, trying to get it to light. So it's not a very clean investigation, but it could definitely be that if that's the easiest way to roll this. But it is it's it is more the intent trying to fix what he think he thinks he broke. Okay. That sounds that sounds very good to me. So um Chili, I would like you to make an instinct. role using your arcane sense to um to kind of investigate around see if you can get a sense of where things are happening. Um humble bumble to me and you can correct me if I'm wrong here It sounds like you're trying to to brute force a little bit, getting the tree to light back up. Is that a fair way to say that? I think that's fair. I I I would say so. Okay, let's make a strength check against the tree. Oh no, no, oh no, oh no. Okay. Okay, it's it's for the holidays. It's fine. Okay, you said a a a strength, just a straight strength check. Yep. So just roll your uh roll your duality dice and add your strength modifier. So from Chili Chip, you're getting a twenty-five with fear. Okay. That's a huge fucking roll. Probably makes sense. Holy shit. It's big, yeah. Twenty five is big. Hey. So that is a what am I looking at here? A fourteen with hope for you? Is that correct? Humble bumble? Did that come through? Uh I think it's it's it says with hope So that's that's good right because it's okay, because the hope die was higher. Okay, I understand. Sorry, it's it has been a minute. Yes. Okay. We did we didn't we didn't really do a recap of the rules. We just kind of threw you in and See what would happen. So it's all good. So all right. So let's start with Humble Bumble. Um uh first of all, make sure you add an extra hope to your sheet. It is not on the left side of your character sheet, just for clarification. If you see Start on the left side. Turn right. I did start there though, just to be clear. I started there just so I didn't lose my way. So go ahead and add a hope, because you uh you rolled with hope. Um even though the lights are are dimming, still just being this close to something uh so beautiful kinda still has the ab the ability to to warm you a little bit humble um but The tree does darken even further. Hmm. Chili chip Is likely the only person to notice that in four distinct places there seems to be. A negative presence. There seems to be Something awful waiting, and you sense all of these places at once, chili chip, and you are kind of frantically looking between the places where your arcane sense is telling you something is lurking. And as you do that, as you are looking around A giant spectre sheathed in a gown of green holly apparates and poof Lands right in front of you. Holy broken ornaments! And as as this specter lands in front of you Off in the distance, you see three more specters appear. And that's where we're gonna wrap up part one of the Naturals Winter Wondershot 2025. Thank you for listening. Make sure you tune in next time for the stunning conclusion. I love every one of you guys' characters. I do. It's amazing. I love this. This is fun. I was I was before he broke, I was gonna be like, I know that that color's green! I know that one!