Confused Chieftain

Dragon On Your Heels is the title of the fourth episode episode of Jarren's Outpost Hustle, a D&D is for Nerds Adventure. It features Adam Carnevale as the Dungeon Master. The episode was released on 11th July, 2017. The introductory soundbite is "Sanspants radio: it's all in the wrist." spoken by Adam Carnevale. The previous episode is Dragon on Your Heels and the following episode is Folly of Full Plate.

Events

 * 1) Leo kills a dwarf and manages to reunite with the others.
 * 2) The party fights their way through the waves of dwarves.
 * 3) Periwinkle fatigues himself with his stingers, which start to sap his strength.
 * 4) Greg restores Periwinkle's health, but Leo fails to help with the gauntlets.
 * 5) The three narrowly avoid being stepped on as the dragon takes out the final wave of orcs.
 * 6) Greg confuses the chieftain who holds the magic bag above gnomes and dwarves, but then the dragon bites off the orc's arm and flies away.
 * 7) The three dive into the water off the docks.

Players & Their Characters

 * Jackson Baly as Greg Piss
 * Joel Zammit as Leo Shadow, with Meatpie the Magpie
 * Handsome Tom as Periwinkle O'Rourke

NPCs

 * Dwarves
 * Orc honour-guards of the chieftain
 * Nok Nok (mentioned)
 * The dragon
 * Gnomes
 * The orc chieftain

Locations

 * Jarren's Outpost
 * The docks
 * Chieftain's tent

Plot
Some of the dwarves are taking swipes at the halfling that landed by them. Leo sneaks up behind a dwarf that didn't see him land and kills him, clearing a path to reunite him with the other two. Periwinkle didn't notice he wasn't there in the first place. Periwinkle is continuing to fight through the masses with his stinger hands, but he has harmed himself significantly. Nonetheless, he gets them through the final wave of dwarves. Periwinkle doesn't kill all three of the orcs that he comes up against next, he is too fatigued. He's worn out the magic of his gauntlets, and they won't stop taking from his muscles to rebuild themselves - his strength is sapping.

Greg heals Periwinkle as he dispels his stingers, and Leo isn't sure what to do. Periwinkle keeps punching, entering a rage state. He's pretty angry; nonetheless, they make no progress. Greg slides below Periwinkle and casts confusion on an orc, who lowers his weapon and babbles. Periwinkle's strength continues to be sapped as Leo fails to heal him. At this point, if they lose any more time, the dragon will catch up with them. The dragon's behind them and they have one wave of orcs left. A group of orcs charge the party, but with many "bang" sounds they are shot down by a gnomish infantry line.

Meatpie assess the situation as Greg heals Periwinkle some more. The party is close to the tent. Leo still can't work out how to fix Periwinkle. The dragon steps its way forward. Periwinkle gets weaker and the three make no progress. Everything goes dark when the dragon steps over them - exactly around them. The party look at each other from in between its claws and the orcs they were about to fight are crushed.

When they burst into the tent, they witness the fight ensuing before them - madly. "Two dwarves are hanging off this giant orc who's trying to wade his way through gnomes." He has a bag which Leo and Greg identify as bag of magical holding. The orc uses a dwarf to kill a gnome. Greg tries to fascinate them, but nobody pays attention in the confusion. Instead, he confuses him, resulting in the orc killing another gnome with another gnome. Periwinkle attempts to recover his own strength, and succeeds. He pushes muscle back into his arm, and over the next few days it will restore itself to its proper strength. Leo casts grease on the floor, and Meatpie warns, "Dragon!" eleven times. All the gnomes fall, but the orc stands, holding the bag aloft. The tent crunches inwards, and the dragon reaches in, tearing off the arm of the orc. Everyone is bowled over as the dragon starts to fly away.

All three of them run off, to the sea, and dive off the edge of the docks.

''Will Periwinkle fight Piss on their swim back to the city? Find out next time...''

Quotes

 * "The first layer of dwarves.." - Jackson
 * "How close to 40 am I?" "40? You're on 19." - Handsome Tom and Adam, respectively
 * "Adam, why that face?" - Handsome Tom
 * "It's a bee curse!" - Zammit
 * "It's O'Rourkin' time." - Handsome Tom
 * "You recover 5 hit points... 10 hit points... no, 6, sorry. Wait! ... nah." - Adam
 * "You mean I punched all of those people for nothing?" - Periwinkle

Trivia

 * Periwinkle killed 9 people in 3 turns previously.
 * "Highs or lows?" is Adam's chance mechanic. When either is picked, the outcome of a situation will be more or less favourable depending on the scale of the "highness" or the "lowness".
 * Adam refers to the 1928 film, Steamboat Bill, Jr., in which the side of a house falls perfectly around Buster Keaton, who stands in the exact spot a window collapses down over him, and is totally unharmed.
 * It is suggested in Buttons and Sweatrock, the sixth chapter of Jarren's Outpost Hustle, that the orc in the tent may not in fact have been the chieftain.