Busy Bees: Furry Road

**Busy Bees: Furry Road** is a one-shot that ran in Spring 2022. It was DMed by Chris Hislop.

It is the third part in the Busy Bees one-shot series, after Busy Bees and Busy Bees 2: Don't Worry, Bee Happy.

## Player Characters

* Willby/"Liquid Otter", played by Tom Jancis
* Clint, played by Sam McKay
* Pickle, played by Liz Drake
* Professor Mollusk, played by Jon Scholey
* Toni, played by Natalie Winter

## Plot

The show opens with a harrowing description of the apocalypse - the tarrasque was summoned by the throwing away of Clint's hat from the Hatbox of Dahlver-Nar from Busy Bees 2, and it has subsequently annihilated Faerun, devouring everything in its path.

The only survivors appear to be the remaining Busy Bees - Willby, Clint & Pickle - and new characters Professor Mollusk and Her Royal Highness El Bandito (also known as Toni), who have come up with a plan to defeat the tarrasque. Professor Mollusk's mech battlesuit, the S.L.U.G., contains a powerful bomb that should annihilate the creature - but they need to get it inside. Various plans are discussed, but they decide to wing it.

With the tarrasque on the horizon, overlooking the remains of Waterdeep (and a prominent giant naked statue with its feet in the air and rear at eye-height), the party enter their mechanised battle bus, which Toni has dubbed Spangletits, and drive it into the fray. They manage to get off some good shots, mostly with Clint's gigantic new antimatter rifle Mathilda, but eventually end up in the tarrasque's mouth. They try and use an instant fortress to prop it open and just deposit the S.L.U.G. in the creature's gullet, but are sadly all swallowed (bar Clint).

Inside the tarrasque's stomach, Professor Mollusk activates the S.L.U.G., which starts to tear a hole in reality. All of the characters suffer horrific stomach acid damage, but are able to escape (including an inventive magic item based on the Metal Gear weather balloon and a misguided attempt at a catapult spell) as the tarrasque is pulled out of this plane of existence.

A Gatecrasher appears, remarking that the bomb will destroy this entire plane of existence, and offers to take the Busy Bees away into the multiverse, establishing the Togetherverse and confirming that the Busy Bees timeline was separate to the rest of the Roll Together campaigns and streams. The Busy Bees all agree, and their universe is destroyed as they depart.

## Trivia

* Clint and Willby blame each other for the throwing away of Clint's hat and the summoning of the tarrasque. Willby has slightly more of a leg to stand on.
* Professor Mollusk's S.L.U.G. acronym doesn't stand for anything. The cast offered up "Super Limp(id) Unattractive Guy/Super Limp Under Garments".
* Each of the characters is prominently themed around various post-apocalyptic fiction:
	+ Willby looks and sounds like Solid Snake from Metal Gear, including hiding in a cardboard box, smoking incessantly and using a Codec, which he dubs his "Ottercon".
	+ Clint is a post-apocalyptic prepper in the style of Days Gone/The Last of Us/The Road, with absurd conspiracy theories and too many guns.
	+ Pickle has taken on a Mad Max-style gasoline punk aesthetic, with a shaved/plucked head and two flails as weapons.
	+ Professor Mollusk's mech suit and general helplessness outside of it, as well as the suit being a bomb, are all references to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
	+ Toni is as close to blatant rip-off of Borderlands' Tiny Tina as possible, with similar aesthetics, speaking style and unhingedness.
* Toni's weapons, including her arcane firearm and eldritch cannon, are all named after Tom's characters' previous companions and allies, including Nutmeg and Startrail. Nat admitted live that this was, literally, to mess with Tom.

## Twitch Clip Archive

* Ottercon
* Forked Up Boy
* Spanglet\*ts Borderlands Intro
* "I am afraid.." etc
* A wonderful piece of metal

## Media

A typical scene from Busy Bees: Furry Road.Busy Bees- Furry Road - IntroThe title sequence for Busy Bees: Furry Road.