[0.0s] previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[1.9s] Shoot it at whatever you're shooting it at.
[4.6s] Sorry.
[5.4s] Dragon.
[6.3s] When you use it, it adds an extra 60, 10 piercing damage.
[10.3s] Whoa!
[11.1s] Wowzer.
[12.0s] What?
[12.8s] You hear from all around you a voice say,
[18.3s] it looks like the humans have brought me dinner.
[22.4s] We want to dispatch of this dragon as quickly as possible
[25.3s] so I should try and hit him with my magic arrow, right?
[28.8s] Totally.
[30.5s] Do we want to like save that
[32.0s] and really surprise him with it?
[33.4s] Well, sure.
[35.7s] She shoots it off and it deflects off of the scales.
[39.1s] What?
[40.7s] I'm trying to save some of my magic for later.
[43.9s] And I piss myself.
[48.8s] Friends, it's been nice knowing you.
[51.1s] Yeah, it's been good.
[51.9s] Same here, I think we may have all just died.
[53.6s] I can't wait till I get to DM a campaign
[55.6s] and murder Russ immediately.
[57.5s] Have you been whispering like-
[58.8s] Oh, sweet nothings.
[59.9s] Sweet nothings in his ear.
[61.2s] Like really break him down, just, you know.
[64.0s] Like, yeah, psychologically torment that fucking dragon.
[68.7s] A crit 20, a match 20.
[71.2s] What?
[73.1s] Oh my God.
[74.3s] I told you I believed in you.
[76.2s] Amy, you're amazing.
[77.4s] Wow.
[78.2s] Thanks for believing in me, you guys.
[80.1s] Can I just say that I am invisible
[81.8s] and all I have done this whole time
[83.4s] is stand up and get knocked down.
[85.5s] I'll call you chumbalumpa.
[87.4s] He has recharged his breath weapon.
[90.0s] 19.
[91.3s] Constitution is plus one, so that is an eight.
[94.4s] Record scratch, freeze frame.
[96.4s] Yeah, that's me.
[97.2s] You might be wondering how I got here.
[100.4s] Thea, you take 31.
[105.0s] Oh no.
[105.9s] Points of damage.
[107.2s] Nulara, I think you're gonna shatter.
[109.8s] I think so too.
[111.5s] Nulara, so you take 60 damage.
[114.8s] Oh my God.
[116.0s] It looks like he's attempting to make an escape.
[119.7s] All right, well, since I'm next to Nulara,
[122.9s] I will try and stabilize Nulara.
[125.3s] So that is 16.
[127.1s] So she is also stabilized.
[129.4s] Part of me wants to continue after the dragons.
[132.8s] I feel like if we let him go now,
[134.6s] we're gonna lose the trail.
[135.8s] What you see in the cavern is a chute
[139.5s] that descends down into the ocean,
[141.8s] frigid waters of the ocean.
[143.6s] There's a spell I can light the ocean on fire.
[145.7s] Is there a spell you could light the ocean on fire?
[147.5s] Yes. No.
[148.3s] No.
[149.2s] Well, hello, how are you today?
[154.6s] That's great.
[155.6s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons,
[157.2s] a D&D fifth edition actual play podcast.
[160.7s] I'm your dungeon master and co-host Russ More.
[162.8s] Not with me today are Carla Johnson,
[165.1s] who plays Nulara Moonbrook,
[166.8s] Tom Laird, who plays Flint Firebeard,
[169.2s] and my wife Amy More, who plays Thea Amastasia.
[172.3s] Together, we are creating a world and a story
[174.8s] for you to come along with.
[176.2s] Take part in and enjoy for what it is,
[178.3s] a dive into a fictional universe
[180.0s] where adventure, intrigue, and excitement
[182.4s] all come together and make a sweet, sweet, delicious
[185.4s] Hot Pocket-style narrative podcast.
[188.1s] Too much?
[189.0s] Well, let's get to the reason
[191.2s] we're breaking format a bit today.
[193.4s] It starts with some good news and some bad news.
[197.4s] The good news is you probably noticed
[200.0s] you have two new episodes in your download queue from us.
[203.1s] Woo-hoo!
[205.4s] The bad news is the reason for those two episodes.
[208.8s] This episode, episode seven,
[210.5s] now titled The Lost Dice Game,
[213.2s] was lost to the tech gremlins
[215.2s] that decided to jack with some audio,
[217.8s] making it unrecognizable as conversation.
[220.6s] And I couldn't put you through that.
[223.5s] It just didn't sound very good at all.
[225.9s] So here's what we're gonna do instead.
[227.5s] I'm gonna give you a rundown
[229.0s] of the major plot points that were missed
[230.9s] in this episode.
[232.1s] And then we're gonna move right along to the next one.
[235.4s] So let's get started.
[237.2s] Fortunately, this was a bit of a decompressed period
[239.6s] for our adventurers.
[241.0s] Flint, Thea, and Nularaaaa
[242.5s] lugged their treasures back on board the frost skimmer
[244.7s] and set sail towards Luskin
[246.2s] to return Makoth the Crimson
[247.7s] and all the stolen wares to the Arcane Brotherhood
[250.8s] in hopes of signing them on board
[252.4s] to battle against the Cult of the Dragons.
[254.6s] To begin, the adventurers take a long rest
[257.1s] to regain much-needed HP, hit dice, and spell slots
[260.9s] that were lost in their battle with Aruthatar.
[263.4s] When they finish that, though,
[265.1s] we resolve some of the special items
[266.7s] that they used plot points for
[269.0s] at the end of the dragon battle episode
[272.9s] that they found when they were digging out treasure.
[275.2s] Thea is now in possession
[276.8s] of two functional Arrows of Dragonslaying,
[279.8s] where the dragon being attacked
[281.0s] must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw
[284.9s] or take an extra 6d10 piercing damage,
[288.8s] half of that on a success.
[290.8s] Flint has two wonderfully magical
[292.9s] ice fragmentation grenades
[294.5s] that have a 60-foot range and a 20-foot blast radius.
[298.4s] Each creature within that radius
[300.3s] must make a DC 15 Dex saving throw,
[303.4s] taking 5d6 piercing damage
[305.7s] plus 2d4 cold damage on a fail,
[308.2s] half on a success.
[310.1s] Nularaaaa spent some of her time
[311.9s] after her rest with Makoth the Crimson
[313.9s] to learn a new spell from one of the spell books
[317.0s] found within the Arcane Brotherhood stuff.
[319.8s] She learned a spell called Boomerang Quiver.
[322.4s] It's a second-level transmutation
[324.7s] with a casting time of one bonus action
[326.9s] requiring verbal and somatic or gesturing components
[330.5s] and will last through concentration up to one hour.
[334.2s] When Nularaaaa casts this spell on a quiver,
[336.4s] any Arrows removed from that quiver
[338.3s] that do not find their target
[339.8s] return to the quiver by the beginning of the next turn.
[343.2s] During this training montage
[344.5s] that Nularaaaa had with Makoth,
[345.9s] Makoth mentions that she senses
[347.9s] Nularaaaa has exceptional skill
[350.2s] in more ways than she knows,
[352.5s] to which Nularaaaa said,
[354.8s] "'Well, thank you.'"
[356.2s] And that's where it was left.
[358.6s] After looking at their goodies,
[360.0s] Flint, Thea, and Nularaaaa head down to the galley
[362.5s] where there are some of the shipmates
[364.6s] playing a dice game.
[365.8s] And I'll let you know,
[366.8s] the technical difficulties might have saved you
[369.2s] from having to listen to me
[370.2s] try to describe a dice game over Skype
[373.0s] and everyone just not do well at it.
[376.3s] Long story short, they lost some money
[378.4s] and went to have some grog.
[380.2s] Flint challenged a half-orc named Baran
[382.8s] to an arm wrestle and beat him handily many times.
[387.1s] Needless to say, Baran was quite embarrassed
[389.1s] but used this opportunity to approach Flint
[391.9s] and ask for assistance with what he describes
[395.0s] as a cult problem in his hometown of Little Rock.
[398.7s] Baran tells Flint that he and his sister Sasha
[401.5s] escaped Little Rock and describes wearers of purple
[404.3s] having come into his town
[405.9s] and terrorizing the people in Little Rock
[408.0s] for seemingly no other reason than to cause havoc.
[411.0s] Flint tells Baran that he will have to discuss
[413.3s] with Thea and Nularaaaa,
[415.0s] but this is likely something
[416.2s] that they'll be able to help out with.
[418.1s] Nularaaaa is approached again by Makoth in the galley
[420.7s] and taken aside.
[422.1s] Makoth warns Nularaaaa that Luskin is a very prejudicial
[425.9s] and racially charged city.
[427.9s] And while Thea and Flint will likely be able to pass
[431.0s] about the docks of Luskin with little issue,
[433.4s] they might not be as welcomed in the city.
[436.3s] Makoth suggests that Nularaaaa enters Luskin with her alone
[439.4s] to return the stolen goods and sway the leaders
[442.0s] of the Arcane Brotherhood to their cause.
[444.9s] Thea, Flint and Nularaaaa all come together
[446.9s] to discuss Baran and Sasha's problems
[449.1s] as well as Makoth's concerns
[450.5s] about Thea and Flint entering Luskin
[452.8s] to meet with the Arcane Brotherhood.
[454.8s] After much debate about splitting the party,
[457.0s] they decide to tell Makoth
[458.6s] that she must do what she can to convince the Brotherhood
[461.3s] to fight against the Cult of the Dragon
[463.2s] while the three of them go off to Little Rock
[465.7s] and help the people there.
[467.5s] When they return, they will meet with Makoth
[469.7s] and any other representatives of the Arcane Brotherhood
[472.2s] and discuss options further if needed.
[474.8s] Once they arrive in Luskin,
[476.0s] the three send Makoth through the gates of Luskin
[478.3s] and head off with Baran and Sasha
[480.4s] after renting a carriage of horses.
[482.5s] Little Rock is located approximately halfway
[484.7s] between Luskin and Mirabar
[486.7s] and they expect to arrive within one to two days.
[489.9s] On the road, the adventurers come across a band of dwarves
[492.6s] who appear to have taken a wear of purple
[494.6s] with the Cult of Dragons prisoner.
[496.5s] After some negotiation and payment to the dwarves,
[499.5s] they question this woman
[501.1s] who they find out is named Chila Flagsteel.
[504.0s] They learn that she got a little too greedy
[505.8s] while leading a group of cultists
[507.2s] that was terrorizing the dwarves.
[509.2s] Some super tough negotiations and banter happens
[512.3s] and the adventurers learn of a lead from Chila.
[515.0s] They learn that one of the worm-speakers,
[516.7s] Nerenvain, has gone missing from the cult
[518.6s] and is heard to have fortified a stronghold
[520.6s] in the Misty Forest.
[522.1s] He may even be trying to defect from the Cult of the Dragon,
[524.8s] but who's to say either way
[527.0s] until you talk to someone, right?
[529.4s] As the adventurers go to hand Chila back over,
[531.8s] the dwarves are struck by a large boulder
[533.8s] and the adventurers turn to see four ogres
[535.9s] charging towards them.
[537.4s] The dwarves turn tail and run,
[539.1s] but the adventurers charge to fight the ogres.
[541.7s] That's the end of the episode.
[543.2s] Quite a lot covered there.
[544.8s] Thanks for listening through this one.
[546.8s] There is another episode right away
[548.5s] so you can have the full adventure experience
[550.9s] with all four of us,
[552.0s] but there was just too much that was touched on
[555.2s] to just avoid it altogether.
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[623.2s] And that's all for your Russ the DM centric episode.
[626.4s] Episode eight is out right now.
[627.9s] There is definitely some cool stuff coming up,
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[633.3s] Yeah, I heard it.
[634.1s] It's terrible.
[635.3s] Yeah.
[652.2s] Music in today's episode was by Kavin MacLeod
[653.8s] of Ncompetech.Filmmusic.io.
[656.1s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a DumbDragon's production.