Episode 230 - A Burning Tree

## Intro

**Episode description:**
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**Opening Quote:**
Lauren: One day I can play D&D with my frien-

**Player introduction:**
Lauren: Hello and welcome to another episode of the tabletop champions! I'm Lauren your dungeon master and tonight we have Ben who plays Throden...

Ben: It's got really annoying since the wizard learned Polymorph Other. Now he won't stop badgering me.

Lauren: Booooo. Matt who plays Fanel...

Matt: You know, I'm just gonna make like a tree and leave.

Lauren: Delightful- no. Stephanie who plays Raquel...

Stephanie (in Raquel's voice): Ahoy-hoy, dahlings.

Lauren: Kyle who plays Irpaks...

Kyle: Beep boop.

Lauren: And Sean who plays Abutton.

Sean (in Lisan's voice): Hey, it's me Lisan, I'm not dead anymore!

Lauren: Awww....

Sean: No, nope I'm still dead.

Lauren: What a plot twist. Okay, uh, that was everyone okay. I can't count tonight apparently.

Kyle (in a weird voice): No I'm here too!

Lauren: Oh god.

Sean: Wait, who's that?

Lauren: Sup-

Sean: The voice of reason?

Lauren: Surprise player. You're in the wrong podcast.

Sean: No, you're not - you don't belong here.

Kyle (same voice): Let's all get high.

Lauren: Maybe you do.

Sean: Uncle Tom?

## Episode Summary

The episode opens with the party being teleported into a fungus forest by Markus, who then leaves. Throden remembers it from his mushroom trip, and says to look for a burning tree. He feels drawn in a certain direction. Some tiny myconids start following them. Abutton picks up two of them and kills them for food, to Fanel's dismay. Abutton signs in *Thieves' Cant* to Raquel that his master is crazy. She asks who his master is, and when he points to Fanel, she recommends a change. He says he doesn't have a choice.

They hear chattering, screeching, and a thud up ahead. Through an opening in the trees they can see some movement. Raquel and Abutton sneak up and see several kobolds attacking a stone golem. With permission from Raquel, Abutton attacks, taking out most of the kobolds, and the rest of the party follows suit. Irpaks casts Wall of Fire in a forest again228, Abutton kills the last kobold, and Throden bites the golem to death. Abutton loots a button-adorned tail wrap from the kobold chieftain, and Irpaks loots a dragonskull helmet, a spiky shield, and a *potion of firebreathing*. Throden reanimates the five non-chieftain kobolds as zombies, and they find the kobold's camp, but continue on to find the burning tree.

Eventually they come to a clearing with a giant tree covered in dragonheaded red and gold leaves, fluttering in the still air. A voice says, *"You have found me"*, and a lizardfolk wearing an elongated golden mask with raven feathers, tattered robes, and gloves steps out from behind it. They say, *"Greetings champion. It's about time you have gathered here."* They remove the mask to reveal the decaying face of **Throden's mate**.

## Memorable Quotes

Kyle: I have a healing potion in my bag. Don't touch my bag though.

Stephanie: I just assumed that I'm awesome and I get 15 damage.

Kyle: Because Kyle hadn't learned his lesson, Irpaks has not learned his lesson about lighting forests on fire.
Matt: Fanel's going to have a talk with you.
Ben: We're going to find the burning tree a lot faster then.

## Trivia

* Kyle and Sean didn't realize Irpaks' spell caused the forest fire in the last episode.