Speaker 1: He Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
I'm Martin and you are listening to Dad's bedtime stories.
Tonight we'll be headed back into the Cards of Power
universe and I'm going to take on the challenge of
incorporating three of your story ideas into a single episode.
So let's check them out.
Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Arlin from Australia. My suggestin for
the Cards of Power series would be that you find
a elemental tiger battling a poison snake and the poison
snake wins, then you want to battle it to try
to catch it. Thanks, I love your podcast.
Speaker 1: Great idea, Arlen, I'll use that for the start of
the story. Now let's see what else we have here.
Speaker 3: My name's Stella and I am six years old. And
now suggestion for the Cards Power series. I just want
a teleporting elemental black old dragon.
Speaker 2: So it's shoes, buckles and it and it like teleports.
Speaker 3: You two different dimensions, but they're like if you have
a fire type and teleports into a snow type, doing
like a snow type biome, and then if you have
like yeah, so it teleports on the opposite of of.
Speaker 2: The creature of creature you have.
Speaker 3: Because you know, because it knows that that creature is
gonna be weak in that biome.
Speaker 1: Very creative idea. And I think I heard your name
as Stella, but I might be mishearing that. So thank
you very much, and I think we can fit in
just one more that I got almost a month ago.
Now let's check it out.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 3: My name is a Lot and high how a suggestion
by the Cards of Power series where the log cabin
bitches and you have to fix it while creatures fight you.
I love your podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Molana. And as I said, I'm not sure
how I did it, but when I listened to these
three ideas, somehow they all came together in my head
as a single episode, which hopefully I can pull off
when I create it. Here in a second, before we
get started, though, there is a lot of Cards of
Power news that I want to share with you. First
of all, there's going to be a Cards of Power game.
It's it's a ways off, probably won't be ready to
the end of the year, but I'm actually working on
it with Arlen, who just left that messages his dad. Honestly,
his dad's doing most of the work, but I'm consulting
on it. Anyways, it'll be it'll be a card based game.
I won't say much about it yet, but I wanted
to let you guys know that that's in development. And
last and much sooner than that, I am just getting
ready to release a new podcast called Dad's Anytime Stories.
I'm not sure I came up with the right name,
but I just figured why not keep it on brand
here with Dad's Bedtime Stories. And the first season of
that is going to be the Cards of Power novel. So,
as you know, I put that novel out, which you
can purchase on Amazon a while ago, but I never
really finished the audiobook version. So I decided to kind
of create a new podcast where I'd be reading complete novels.
Each season would be a novel of its own, a
novel I created often based on the stories we're doing here,
and the first one will be the first book of
Cards of Power. So it's going to come out, I believe.
We have it set for April the sixth, and it'll
run twice a week until the first season's over. We're
going to start with three episodes, I believe, and then
release another one on Mondays and Wednesdays. Now, those ones
are not optimized for bedtime, like they don't have the
relaxing music at the end and stuff like that, and
I might get a little louder when I read them
and that sort of thing. But I'm hoping people listening
to this might enjoy checking that out as well, maybe
when you're on a road trip or just hanging around
the house and you don't want to, you know, be
on screens. And if you own the book, you could
even read along. But that is probably enough of an
intro with all of those ideas, so I should probably
get on to the story after a possible word from
a possible sponsor. Did you get one? Either way, close
your eyes, get as comfy as you can in that bed,
and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does.
As you may recall from past episodes of Cards of Power,
Magnus the uh well might powerful fire Dragon recently got
a card that allowed him to learn all elemental powers,
and in the last episode he focused on learning just that,
and I believe when I checked, we ended up going
to bed in the log cabin just outside Gabe and
sALS little elemental learning zone. You wake up in your
log cabin, Magnus is laying at the end of the bed. Ah.
Good morning, Magnus says as he stretches in his very
cat like manner. Together, you head downstairs, grab a snack,
and then you head back outside into the beautiful elemental valley.
You summon your log cabin card back to your card
core and walk over towards the queen Little Village, where
Sal the salamander who taught Magnus about the ways of
the elements, and Gabe, his card holder live. To your surprise,
you find Gabe and Sal walking out towards you at
the same time. Good morning, Gabe says, are you ready
to head back? I guess so, Unless there's much to
explore around here, you answer, oh, well, it is actually
in the middle of a protected zone. I know it's
a strange way to sort of make your house, but
there's all sorts of different magical creatures around here if
you want to catch them. It's not of any particular
level though, so you'll find anything from beginner creatures all
the way up to deity level. Well, it might be
a chance to practice my elemental powers and maybe capture
another creature or two if we go have a look around.
Magnus suggests, Okay, as long as you don't mind teleporting
us tomorrow or something, I think we'll do just that
all right, then, Gabe answers, well have fun if you
head out in that way, I've heard reports of an
elemental tiger and some poison type creatures. Gabe points down
a forest path that leads through the mountains, so you
and Magnus decide to follow it. Not feeling very much
like walking, you reach into your card core and summon
a card you haven't had to use for a while.
Your power wings two wings shoot out of your shoulder
blades and to float up off of the ground above
the path. You gently glide through the forest without really
any effort at all, until you come to a large
valley surrounded by lakes and trees and uh something battling.
You see flashes of fire, lightning, and stone off in
the distance, as well as a strange green cloud of smoke.
What's going on over there, you say, zipping up in
the sky overhead to get a better view. As you
look down, you realize that two magical creatures are actually
fighting with each other. One of them seems to be
a tiger with well various elemental powers. You watch as
he stops on the ground, causing raw to fly up
in the air, then punches towards the rock sending them
flying towards a very large snake that's oozing a strange
green mist, obviously some sort of poison type. The snake
responds by blasting a stream of what is obviously some
sort of venom. The tiger stomps on the ground, summoning
a rock wall to shoot up and block the strange substance.
As soon as it hits there's a weird hissing sound
and it begins to burn through. The tiger runs jumps
up in the air, launching himself up with the help
of the ground itself. Then he seems to summon the
air into a tornado and sends it blasting towards the snake.
The snake slithers off to the side, jumps up in
the air, and unleashes another blast of that strange poisonous venom.
This time it hits the tiger on the arm and
looks like it burns a little bit. Then the snake
unleashes a huge puff of green smoke that fills the
entire area. Distracted by the wound on its arm. The
tiger doesn't notice in time and breathes in some of
the gas, immediately making him weaker and dizzier. He falls
over on the ground and completely passes out, at which
point the snake looks up towards you. Well, what are
you doing this here? The snake says, uh, oh, it's
smart too, probably a higher level. You say, that shouldn't
be a problem for me. I see the mistake that
that elemental tiger made. Would you like to do some battles?
The snake asks, ugh, I guess so you respond instinctively,
summoning your high tech armor from your card core. Energy
wraps around your body and solidifies into a high tech
metal case around all of your arms, limbs, and head.
Being no longer necessary, you allow your energy wings to
retract into your card core. At the same time, you
continue floating above the battle, only using your high tech
armor for flight instead. The helmet allows you to zoom
in on the snake and analyze some of its characteristics
mythic level. The voice in your helmet says, poison type.
Don't worry, I got this, Magnus says, dropping down to
the ground in front of the snake, and then glowing
with a bright blue energy. Magnus begins to transform, making
his way through his various evolutionary changes, first into a
tall dragon standing upright, then out into a larger legendary
dragon form, all the way up into a gigantic mythic form,
before shrinking back down into his deity level, a sleek
black dragon with veins made of pure sunlight energy, even
hotter than the lava he had in his previous forms.
I don't see see how you're going to deal with
poison fire dragon, the snake says, unleashing an even bigger
cloud of the green stuff all around. Well, then you
might not know. I've developed a few extra powers lately.
Magnus focuses. Instead of attempting to blast the snake with
his firepower, which would be his normal go to move,
or you know, even melting the ground beneath him into lava,
Magnus summons the air. He grabs the air around him,
swirls it and circles and blows it over towards the snake.
He continues having the air move around and around the snake,
capturing all of the poison he can and funneling it
up towards the sky noses my poison. This is, the
snake says, But Magnus doesn't wait very long. He immediately
stomps on the ground, causing earth to shoot up and
wrap around the snake. The snake blasts poison towards the dragon,
and he, in the same way the tiger did, stomps
on the ground, causing a rock wall to shoot up
and block the stuff. Magnus turns to the side, loops around,
and unleashes a powerful blast of pure energy, which hits
the snake directly. Almost immediately, the snake collapses onto the ground,
defeated and captured in stone. You carefully float down towards
the ground and walk over to the snake. You place
your hand the creature, activate your card core and focus.
You feel your card core connect. The creature begins to
transform into energy, and you use your mind to focus
that energy into the form of a card mythic level
poison Snake, the card says, as you grab it out
of the air and tuck it into your pocket. Then
you look over towards the tiger is still passed out
on the ground. Might be a good time to capture
a second card too. You walk over to the creature,
place your hand on it as well, and activate your
card core one more time. The creature begins to glow,
transforms into energy, which swirls around and reforms itself into
a card. You grab the card out of the air
and tuck it in your pocket. You look over at Magnus. Oh,
good job, buddy. Using all those elements together really helped
you out in that battle. Yeah, it wasn't really a
big deal. Plus the creature was only mythic levels, so
you know what avs. But the whole thing made me
kind of hungry. I think we could go have some lunch.
Oh yeah, I guess so, there should be plenty to eat.
The lug cabin. You reach into your card core and
summon the log cabin. A glowing blue card appears in
front of you, before transforming into energy, swirling through the air,
and reforming itself into a lug cabin. Only as soon
as it solidifies, something seems wrong with it. You walk
over to the cabin and it looks kind of like
it's glitching, as if it's there one second and then
disappearing the next. Magnus, any ideas what's going on? I
don't know. Try taking it back into your cardcore. He
suggests you attempt to summon it back, but something blocks
the pull. It's not working. You say, something's wrong here.
Ah yeah, and I'm sensing some sort of strange energy
from inside computer suit whatever. Scan the cabin and tell
me what's going on. Understood, the voice says. From inside
your helmet, you watch the little digital overlay as it
scans the cabin and detects a strange ball of energy
in the middle. Anomaly detected. I believe you have accidentally
summoned your log Cabin card around a teleportation anomaly. It
is attempting to absorb the log cabin into a different dimension.
The energies are clashing with each other, and the cabin
is stuck in limbo. You must find the source of
the disturbance to stop this from happening. The voice explains,
any idea What that is? I think I might know,
Magnus says, pointing behind you. You turn around to find
another dragon, pure black dragon with strange balls of black
energy floating around him. Analyzing your suit says, deity level
creature detected black hole dragon with elemental powers. What does
that mean? You say? This dragon has the ability to
create black holes, which will suck you into different dimensions.
It also seems to have a connection to various elements. Okay,
I guess prepared to battle. If it's that thing's powers
that are disrupting a log cabin card, I think we
have to defeat it to fix the problem. I was
thinking the same thing. Magnus responds, let's see how it
deals with a little bit of lava. Suddenly begins to glow.
Heat rises from around his body and the ground below,
and melts into lava. The other dragon jumps up into
the air, swoops nearby, and sends one of the black
holes towards him. Magnus summons lava to shoot up and
stop the black hole, but it just passes right through
it and slams into the dragon. In a flash, both
you and Magnus find yourselves well somewhere else in the
middle of a strange ocean, an ocean that looks like
it has walls on every side. Where are we? You ask?
You have been teleported to a pocket dimension. I believe
it is a water element dimension. Oh maybe it brought
us here because it assumes you're weak against water. I
hate water. Although actually now maybe I don't. The black
Hole Dragon appears floating above the water across from you
and Magnus. At the same time. Magnus grabs the water
around him and uses it to lift him off of
the ocean floor in a giant stream of water. He
then commands two huge pillars of water to spin around him,
transform into ice, and begins shooting them straight at the
other dragon. Some of the ice hits the dragon, causing
it to scream, and then it unleashes another blast of
well strange black holes, which hit you and Magnus again
and stint, you're teleported into another pocket dimension, only this
one is surrounded by clouds and lightning.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: I'm getting a feeling that it's taking us to places
it thinks will be weak. I'm getting that impression too.
Magnus says we need to stop this thing fast, but ah,
I'm not actually sure how. It just keeps teleporting us
before I can do anything. Well, sometimes it's best to
fight dimensional magic with dimensional magic. You reach into your
card core and some in a card you've barely used before. Dominic,
the magical and dimensional Dingo. Dominic appears in front of you,
and then a whole bunch more Dominick's appears surrounding you
time clones of the creature, different versions of him from
different possible universes or different points in the future, all
appear at once surrounding the dragon. The dragon immediately starts
to fire different black holes towards the creature or creatures
I should probably say, at the same time, blasts of
lightning shoot out of the sky and attempt to take
out as many dingoes as they can, But for Dominic
none of that is really a big issue. While his
clones attack, Dominic disappears from well from view, making himself
completely invisible. At the same time, he slows down time
around him, while his clones to Dominic waltzes up towards
the creature completely unseen, creates five more clones of himself
and orders them all to attack at once. Instantly, the
black Hole Dragon finds himself with a dingo on both
of his legs, a dingo on both of his arms,
and a dingo standing on top of his chest ready
to bite. Magnus uses the opportunity, slams down his foot
onto the ground and captures the dragon's wings using his
Earth powers. Then he jumps up in the air, pulls
in all of the heat he can from the area,
which somehow pulls the lightning from this strange lightning pocket
dimension towards him. He absorbs the energy and leashes a
blast of pure heat surrounded by electricity, directly at the dragon.
Dominic jumps out of the way just in time for
the beam to hit the dragon and uh well, completely
defeat it. The dragon is both electrocuted and well hit
with a powerful stream of fire, until eventually it just
gives up and goes to sleep. As soon as it does,
the pocket dimension around you disappears, and you drop back
to the ground on the field you were originally in.
You look behind you and the log cabin has stopped
glitching as well. The defeated dingoes disappear well, the rest
of them surround you, Magnus and the strange dem dragon.
You walk up to the creature, now asleep on the ground.
You place your hand on its chest and you activate
your card core once again. Your card core connects to
the creature. It begins to glow a bright blue color.
Then the energy swirls through the air reforms itself into
a card that you grab out of the air with
your thumb and forefinger. Dimensional dragon deity level. This dragon
can suck enemies into small pocket dimensions using its black
hole powers pocket dimensions of different elemental types. Cool, you say,
tucking that card in your pocket as well. Well, Magnus,
probably time for that food, you say, I can't wait.
You recall your eye Tech Armor card as well as Dominic.
Then you and Magnus head over to your log cabin.
As Magnus shrinks back down to his normal dragonling size.
You enter inside, head straight for the kitchen, and begin
making yourself one of your favorite meals. After eating it
and feeling completely stuffed, you decide to head up to
the bedroom for just, you know, a little nap after all,
fighting three magical creatures takes a lot out of you.
You lay down on the bed, pull the covers up
to your chin as Magnus curls up between your legs.
You close your eyes and with each breath you just
focus on letting go of all of the tension and
your muscles. You start by letting go of any tension
in your legs. With the next out breath, you just
release it all, allowing your legs to sink down into
the bed. Next, you focus on your arms releasing the
tension with the next out breath and allowing them to
sink into the bed as well. You let go of
the tension in your shoulders, your back, your chest, your neck,
and even the tension in your face. And the more
you breathe, the deeper you sink, and the deeper you sink,
the better you feel, until it feels like you're floating
on a cloud, and you will allow your mind to
wander off the thoughts of new dreams and new adventures
to come. Good Night, everyone, Mum.
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