Short Rest - Skaldova Ep. 12: The End

Re-listening a year later - I have been at a party where someone actually did whip out a fucking theremin. They were an instant legend. Everyone had a go. Had an absolute blast. May have been a biased crowd (we were pretty much all working musicians), but still.

Finishing this up just as season 2 ep 1 is posted - shimmering bees!

Relistened to the campaign for the upcoming season and Murph's quiet "what?" during Emily's sonnet has had me crying for 5 minutes. The way Murph intonates certain words, especially "What" and "No", is just so fucking funny

we were an Annie's household

Absolutely incredible job, Jake.

No here's the realness. Kids have so much more energy than adults, adults need that sugar on their cereal XD

I want a second campaign of Skaldova so bad! Cannot wait for this story to be continued

Emily- if you use oil on labels, you can cleanly get them off nice jars, because the glue binds with the oil. Sincerely, Fellow Prolific Glass Jar Keeper

I had to look up some translations, but i definitely have had birch juice before. It tastes lovely and not at all like cum

I know I'm late, but sonnets do not need to use Iambic Pentameter! That's only used in Elizabethan sonnets. Italian sonnets, for instance, don't use it

At Caldwell when the first "F-" bomb is dropped it's so good lmfao

I just recently moved to South Carolina and I had to share that the state motto is “While I breathe I hope” and i don’t remember that being said in any of the episodes

Not making Caldwell’s cool beach rock the short rest cover was a sad move.

I need to defend Emily about the containers because I too have kept So. Many. Glass. Containers. I don’t want to throw them out! What if I can use them?!

Beekeeper is bad, but it’s a fun kind of bad, and honestly pretty much what I want out of a Jason statham movie

I just tried birch syrup at an arboretum for the first time this year! It almost had a balsamic vinegar flavor to it. Also, I learned black walnut syrup is becoming more popular because those trees are more resistant to climate change. It’s expensive but it’s more caramel-y in my opinion (and it’s great in old fashioneds!)

YooHoo is currently in the vending machine in the cafe at my place of work. I've never had it. But it's wild seeing it at work

I used to work at a maple sugar bush! The sap runs best in spring and it's sweetest then as well. It takes 40L of sap to make 1L of syrup, and Emily's right that you just boil it down.

In this bastion we believe potions are enemas and crows fly loose

bird swear pitch: a grackle is a bird and thus your version of frack can be grack

“It’s the hotdog of juiceboxes” very curious what that could possibly mean

The Beekeeper slander is preposterous!! Emily DON'T LISTEN to Jerk "I don't like vengeance boners and I misunderstood the plot" Hurbuttz!

Once again just shouting out Thrice’s The Alchemy Index if you want some actual good sonnets, they close each disc of the 4 album ep with a sonnet from the pov of one of the 4 elements and they rip.

I had to rewind it multiple times to understand how they got on the subject of bees.

Caldwell! You’re thinking of the Bradford Pear tree.

birch syrup is actually really tasty! they sell it in alaska all over, and its basically got more tang than maple syrup, dont know how else to describe it

I wonder if the romantasy book Emily was listening to was Fourth Wing, those kids do curse a lot

I literally founded my college’s bee club this is awesome

I do think it's fair to note that Sir Mathis was grievously injured by a flying axe mishap, which I would say is a pretty solid excuse to sit out an adventure

it’s rude that we don’t get to see the rock

I hope Emily knows that I think about wife worm on a weekly basis 💖🪱

Emily’s dad giving “one black coffee”

Emily, please drop the fun YA fantasy audiobook name! I’m always looking for more book recommendations. ☺️

Not at all related to D&D, but Wella is a hair care brand. Emily was super close.

Omg you're not wrong. I am the emily, the rock collector, whilst my partner, my Murphy has to deal with too many rocks in the house

I will not stand for this Stormlight Archive slander storm you!

It’s the fucking Bradford pear

The cum trees are probably Bradford pears, or any sort of ornamental pear species. My grandmother has them in her yard & I always hated their smell

What a brilliant DMing debut Jort🎉🎉🎉💖💖 truly so proud of you and inspired! I’ve been really nervous about dming but you created such a fun fantastic world… it’s got me thinking I can do it too🎉

Might I posit the carnal keep

I need one thousand more episodes of Skaldova, thanks Jank

Laidam would be such the wrong move imo. I can't root for a homewrecker, and it's not like the Zu crew has done anything at all to make themselves appealing to Laila. Can't we just believe in a woman and her first knight in love for ONCE? Feydam, though, that I can get behind.

1. Jake great campaign, great job 2. You pour the sugar on cereal on the cereal let it sink to the bottom. Then you have a sweat treat at the bottom of the cereal

Emily talking about Adam ruins Everything just reminded me that she was literally my childhood.

I’m really hoping that Jake will give them an item to awaken the boar prince one day so that we can get a scene where the boar prince is dressed in noble clothes stressing over paperwork at a desk while running the bastion

Caldwell, Capri Sun has so much less sugar nowadays. Let the little ones live a little!! 😀

So I do need to say, first congratulations, Jake, excellent season! But second, I just got home from Battle at the Bowl Rumble in the Chungle, a 6 hour drive mind you, and now I’m leaving the house to get a Yoo-hoo because of this ep 😂

Bradford pear maybe?

The bee thing is called Shimmering, and it looks like waves rippling across a swarm. I love bees.

*cracks knuckles* At a pest control professional, the way the bees counter the wasps that attack the nest is by vibrating… COOKING THE WASP ALIVE. Bees have a slightly higher max temperature threshold, but they can handle it, wasps can’t. 🐝🐝🐝

One Big Bud for the next season!

"You're allowed to crash and be human after you've been a hero." - Emily Axford accidentally saying the most poignant and relevant thing I've heard in a long time during NADDPOD Short Rest

Yoohoo being THAT old is INSANE

Yoo-Hoo was cheaper than water at Warped Tour around 2001-2003

Yoo-hoo isn’t milk it’s specifically Chocolate “Drink”

Treecum is actually such a good portmanteau because it sounds like a play on treacle

I think I found a video of the signal cloaking Caldwell is referring to https://youtu.be/8bNKU8GRYmU?si=Vz3PEGGZ-PLTIFMw

Great opportunity to state my opinion that the word "treacle" sounds disgusting

Im with Emily. I keep all my weird little jars I've obtained over the years. I put wacky loose stuff in them and/or use them as travel mugs

One does not simply install a Boar-Door

Fun fact about bees stinging wasps, it normally is fine for the bee! The barbs on bee stingers don’t catch in exoskeletons the same way they do skin (most of the time)

I’m worried about Emily’s safety. She’s a worm wife and it is well known that Murph is a city pigeon.

shattering piece of media to listen to as i am actively doing the dishes (half of which are weird little jars i’ve kept) suck beans murph, i’ll die w my horde of lil artisanal mayo jars

After a holiday party my kiddo brought home a yoo-hoo and I tried it, and personally it didn't taste as good. Very watery

Speaking of drinks discovered by sticking a tap directly into New Jersey soil, I need to know if Murph has ever had a Boost slushie.

The plot of The Bee Keeper is actually incredible tho. Not in a good way, but it is an incredible movie.

Fun fact! The company Wella is originally from Germany (from a town only a few kilometres away from where I grew up) and used to make products for perms - „Welle“ being the German word for wave. They were bought up by an American cooperation ;)

We have a saying at my home table, " I cannot DM without my horny." No, I will not elaborate. But in reference to the CON Saves for carnal release is also something I'm unfortunately doing at my table before Skaldova so I love love love that it's such prevalent bit

I believe the tree y’all are looking for is the Bradford Pear. Infamously cum-like scent. We had one in our front yard as a kid and we called it the “wee wee tree” growing up bc it smells like genitals LMAO

Rock/tincture bottle keepers for the win

I regret to inform you that Capri Sun is still absolutely a thing

That would have a very different episode if they knew about the cum sap...

Carn save

“That’s life, baBY” “IS it?”

Can we see the rock please?

Something indescribable about sipping on a frosty Yoo-hoo on a hot summer day that just feels right. These guys get it.

Emily, I also keep glass jars of various shapes and sizes. It seems a waste to throw out good glass that can be used again! You never when you might need to contains something!

We need a mixed bag thats just a nostalgia snack tier list!

Drop the rock pic. - sincerely, a professional geologist

I like how everyone is giving different answers for which tree is the cum-smelling tree

I think the welly and fey ship name should be whey like the yoohoo ingredient

The tree you are thinking of is Ailanthus altissima, also known as the Tree of Heaven. They are very common in New York and known to smell like semen. They are actually an invasive species from China.

The jizz tree you're thinking of is the infamous Bradford Pear, bane of ecologists everywhere.

If you guys are fans of Timtams you should go try Milo. Its like Australian Nesquick (quick) but with more of a barley taste. Its so good you always take a spoonful dry as you make a glass.

No weigh

As a Canadian who never had Yoohoo growing up but has a garbage palette like Murph, I tried one for the first time in New York recently when I was there for the MSG D20 show and honestly, it just tasted like bad chocolate milk.

Also this guy justininthetrees is a very good insta account where he makes ice cream out of tree bark and eats it out of bowls made from the same wood. He made a video on the Bradford Pear and it went about as you would expect. Great account though I think everybody should check him out

My favorite thing about the bee thing Murph mentioned is that they kill the wasp via friction and just dog pile on the fuckers and rub 'em to death

I love the shorter seasons you guys are doing for now! It’s nice to be able to bounce between the worlds we love while knowing we have a major hook to return (: great season Jalen!

In the Northeast (Like Pennsylvania) there's a soda called birch beer which is a slightly better rootbeer that probably uses the sap from the birch trees

Love seeing the Clair Obscura reference by Caldy. Hope the whole group (even Jake) plays it.

Two Z's in jizz 🤣🤣🤣

em i can see my shelf of actual trash (mostly soda bottles) from where i am in bed. you are right, i am usually a murph but murph is wrong. i applaud your rock keeping skills 🫶🏽

All my fav references: one piece, mistborn, beeeees (I am a beekeeper) Caldwell was spitting FACTS

Clair Obscur mention!!! Great game great story great graphics great music 10/10

Linden is a jizz tree

This was such a good chapter and I am going to be so impatient waiting for the next one! Great job!

this short rest is just em and murph being my wife and me

Omg, they mentioned one piece, I would LOVE to hear them do a one piece mixed bag

My fave fantasy setting has a cuss. They say "Resh" instead of fuck or shit or trizz.

the restaurant i used to work at started getting yoohoo as an option for kids but me and my coworkers just kept stealing them from the walk-in instead. one guy had 8 in one night & i took at least one every day. i don't think any kids actually got any tbh

It's the Bradford pear that's the cum tree and there's a guy in SLC on YouTube that makes ice cream out of plants and then uses their wood to make a bowl and spoon to hold it and he does the Bradford pear and it's wild

@ Emily, can you share your goodreads account/booklist with us so we can read along with you? I love her taste in books!

Can't believe jake would besmirch the beekeeper

Yo is trizz the wild child cousin of triss?

Show us the rock caldwell

Bradford pear tree, they smell of cum and pee, are super invasive, AND they have super weak wood so they fall and block roads very often. But hey they have white flowers so theyre planted everywhere.

BRADFORD PEAR THATS the jizz tree

Caldwell's rock sounds like maybe an agate

Pitching a new villain for the next arc: The Trizzler.

Would be awesome to have a supercut of all the ways that Boggy said the Buds died.

show the rock caldwell

It’s definitely sycamore trees, my college campus had a sycamore glen but we all just called it the cum forest

oh no... I'm the Murph of my relationship 🫣

My terrible breakfast streak was in 4th grade, every morning my dad would stop by the gas station on his way to drop me off at school. I’d get a Zebra Cake and a Yoo-hoo, every day, for like a year.

I can only hear Drops of Tree Cum like Drops of Jupiter

Murph casually saying he didn't respond to a group text because he didn't give a shit made me laugh out loud. Im still freaking laughing

Trizz sounds like a species of bad guys in children's sci fi.

Book expletives are my favorite thing! 😂 I have a whole note section dedicated to them! 🤣

Emily one piece reference EVERYONE CLOCK IT

Trying to remember if they busted out Boulder, Parchment, Shears in the episodes of CR that Emily guested on, but assuming this was just parallel thinking haha

jake please i can't wait dm more please jake i love skaldova please

Lol "Boar Door" giving me PTSD flashbacks to Emily's CR eps with Bor'Dor Dogson

BeeKeeper is so funny i love it but i shouldnt

Skaldova was amazing. I can't wait for Jake's next DM experience.

When is 12 EST for uk time? (Awaiting a stream excitedly)

Bradford pear is the cum tree

The Beekeeper could have been amazing if it was just about a quiet dude that used his skills of science and bags of wasps to wreak havoc. When it became super-secret agent man that's tougher than any other secret agent man EVER I rolled my eyes so hard I did a backflip.

Murph having a 10/10 murloc impression wasnt on my bingo card

Murph under sold the bee vs wasp fight. The wasps are actually too big to fight so the bees swarm them and their combined body heat is thought to be so intense they just cook the attacking wasps.

Honeybees will cook Hornets alive to protect their hive. 🤘🏻🔥 Instead of stinging the intruder, the honeybees swarm the hornet and begin vibrating, raising their collective temperature to 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47.2 ºC) and turning their crush of bodies into a bee convection oven. Honeybees can tolerate temperatures of 118 degrees Fahrenheit (47.8 ºC), BUT Japanese giant hornets can only tolerate 115 degrees (46.1 ºC), and get straight COOKED.

while I'm on murphs side about the jars (not the rocks; earth should be cherished and I think bringing it inside with you is beautiful) I really admire Emily's lust for life and ability to find beauty in the mundane

I have enjoyed this season so much, I can’t wait for season 2

Warcraft creatures are Murlocs. Morlocks are the creatures from HG Wells' The Time Machine

It pays to be a nocturnal naddpole once again