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[16.1s] I say we just every so often just apologize.
[18.8s] I thought we were stuffing our faces full of snacks.
[21.6s] Guys, guys, it's been 20 minutes.
[23.2s] Sorry!
[24.8s] Previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[27.0s] We need your gold and your weapons.
[29.3s] Then you can get by.
[31.6s] No.
[32.4s] You hear another thunderous crash and out comes a large Tyrannosaurus Rex.
[38.3s] I'm going to cast Animal Friendship on the dinosaur.
[42.0s] I'm going to say, hey, dino, dino, dino.
[44.6s] You begin talking to this and you see its eyes kind of soften to you.
[48.8s] Can I get in the saddle on the dino now that I'm on the back of it?
[52.2s] Yeah, absolutely.
[53.2s] But that's the end of your turn.
[54.1s] No more messing with the dinosaurs.
[55.9s] Nope, that's all I like.
[57.5s] What more could I want to do, Rex?
[59.2s] I will jump from the boat toward the edge of the water and in midair change myself
[67.8s] into a large winter wolf.
[70.6s] Donnie is able to telepathically communicate and he shows you, Nularaaaa, images of
[76.2s] packs of gnolls surrounding this dinosaur and other dinosaurs in the area and taking
[82.7s] them captive.
[83.8s] I can't imagine that the ranger and the druid who are so in love with nature are like,
[90.8s] no, this is fine.
[91.8s] Oh, I'm on board with whatever you guys want to do.
[94.0s] Let's go fuck up some gnolls.
[95.6s] At the same time, Thea charges out, killing two of the gnolls.
[100.2s] Flint and Nularaaaa, you charge into cluster of gnolls.
[104.9s] All of you begin to feel a rumble coming from the trees.
[108.6s] Rexie bursts through the trees as four more gnolls are coming out of one of the tents
[113.8s] saying, what's going on here?
[115.2s] And then they take a tail and just get swiped and knocked into the trees as Rexie lets
[120.7s] out a huge roar.
[122.3s] How do you kill him?
[123.3s] He sees a glint in my eye and he knows as I walk towards him that his death is
[129.0s] meeting him and he just falls over dead.
[132.0s] I don't even have to hit him.
[133.4s] Okay, so maybe me and Rexie walk over to them and they like are reuniting and I untie them.
[139.6s] Just behind their eyes you see that there's a thank you there.
[142.9s] They all work their way into the forest.
[145.4s] Takes you about the rest of the day, but you get out of the forest around dusk
[149.1s] and you are right at the edge of Luskin and standing right in the middle of the
[154.9s] river is the host tower of the Arcane Brotherhood.
[164.3s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[166.2s] We are a Dungeons and what are we?
[168.8s] We are a Dumbgeons and Dragons 5th edition actual play podcast who today are playing
[173.8s] in the same room together.
[175.0s] Hooray!
[177.0s] It's weird.
[179.0s] It's gonna be weird.
[180.0s] Yeah.
[180.6s] I'm your dungeon master Russ More and with me in person today is Tom Laird.
[185.6s] Oh, he mixed it up.
[186.6s] He was looking at you.
[187.8s] She's always here in person with me.
[189.4s] Okay.
[189.8s] Hello, that's me.
[191.0s] And Carla Johnson.
[192.2s] Hello.
[193.2s] And Amy More.
[194.8s] Hi.
[195.8s] You waved it.
[197.2s] I did.
[199.6s] Hi.
[200.6s] I told this was a webcast.
[201.8s] Is that on the case?
[203.0s] No, no, no.
[203.8s] We'll get there someday.
[204.6s] We'll get settled.
[205.8s] There was too much stuff in teeth.
[207.0s] Okay, that was fair enough.
[208.4s] Yeah, we'll be a snack.
[209.2s] Yes.
[209.8s] Apologies.
[210.4s] We are stuffing our faces full of snacks.
[212.4s] So yeah, good luck with that.
[213.6s] Well, it's we haven't seen each other in a while.
[215.2s] That's all we do together is just eat snacks.
[217.4s] You guys want to stay for pizza?
[218.6s] I hear Little Caesar's does stuffed crust snacks.
[220.4s] What?
[222.6s] I hear there's a better future plan.
[223.4s] So much has changed.
[224.6s] I know.
[225.0s] Since you've been away.
[226.0s] I know.
[227.4s] Surely we are in the future now.
[230.0s] Amazing.
[230.4s] Little Caesar's not a sponsor,
[231.6s] but you can give us a call.
[232.4s] That's fine.
[233.0s] Oh, yeah.
[233.4s] We're all in Canada now.
[234.4s] We can all enjoy.
[236.8s] Enjoy might not be the right word.
[238.8s] Hey, Little Caesar's trying to jam.
[240.6s] Oh, sure.
[241.4s] Get us food.
[242.8s] That crazy bread's tasty though.
[244.0s] That's a no for Little Caesar.
[247.2s] We'll talk about it more.
[248.2s] That's right.
[249.0s] If you are, if this is your first episode jumping on with us,
[251.8s] we are all in the same room.
[253.0s] So the editing will be more difficult to do.
[256.8s] It's usually much cleaner than this.
[258.8s] And we apologize, but it'll be fun.
[262.4s] So that's good.
[264.4s] This is our first Patreon episode after of which we've asked you to sign up on Patreon.
[269.6s] So our rewards begin and we're going to dedicate this episode to a random patron.
[277.2s] And today it's Yago Vanny.
[280.4s] Vanny.
[281.4s] Yago Vanny.
[283.0s] Thanks, Yago.
[283.8s] Thanks, Yago.
[284.6s] You're awesome.
[285.4s] Wow.
[286.6s] Do any of you know that person?
[288.2s] He talks to me quite a lot on Twitter.
[292.8s] There's one fucking powerful name.
[294.6s] I just want to say it right.
[296.2s] That's like you walk into the room and that's Yago.
[300.2s] Will you arrive on your dragon is what it sounds like.
[304.4s] Maybe.
[306.0s] Yeah, Yago talks us up a lot on Twitter.
[308.8s] Awesome.
[309.2s] Thank you, Yago.
[311.2s] So thank you very much for that and for contributing to our podcast.
[314.6s] He's at the $5 level.
[316.6s] So he gets chances for a dedication.
[320.0s] Obviously, he won that one in this one and then also can contribute to a future
[323.8s] Q&A episode, which we will do eventually.
[327.0s] And like respect.
[329.2s] About respect.
[330.2s] Because you don't have to buy that now.
[333.2s] For reals.
[334.0s] Respect doesn't come for free.
[335.6s] Anybody who does Patreon for us is blowing our mind.
[338.9s] So thank you all.
[340.2s] Yeah.
[341.6s] Agreed.
[343.2s] Yes.
[344.5s] And then this is episode 21, guys.
[347.7s] We've been doing this for two decades.
[349.6s] Oh my God, our podcast can drink in the United States.
[352.6s] Each episode is a year long, obviously.
[355.4s] We let a year go by before we record again.
[358.8s] That's how we test the dedication of our listeners.
[361.6s] Are you still with us?
[362.4s] It's 2018.
[364.0s] So this may be a good point to do a little description of your characters again,
[368.6s] because it's been a while.
[370.2s] You always string these things on us.
[372.8s] You should know your characters.
[375.2s] No warning.
[377.8s] He did it just so he could see all of us go.
[380.2s] Free as DNA headlight style.
[382.8s] Oh my God, Russ, every time.
[385.2s] Well, you've been playing these characters for two years now.
[388.6s] You think you know what you look like.
[391.2s] I think I know my character.
[392.9s] I can't remember if we've ever been on a train, but I know my character.
[395.9s] You know, right?
[396.9s] I didn't dream my little action figure that I normally have,
[399.9s] so now I can't remember what I played.
[402.3s] Oh, there we go.
[403.1s] That's fun.
[403.7s] It's always inside my dice container.
[406.0s] The sword for mine is in my dice container.
[408.3s] It's a symbol.
[409.5s] It's symbolic.
[409.9s] But the other one's on my desk, where I've worked.
[412.9s] You usually play in work.
[414.3s] Yeah.
[415.8s] So who wants to start?
[418.7s] Looks like Amy does.
[419.5s] Amy, go.
[421.0s] Who do you play?
[421.7s] Amy, what's your deal?
[427.9s] I play Thea Amastasia.
[430.1s] I am a druid elf, elf druid.
[435.6s] Is there a specific order you're supposed to say that?
[437.5s] Probably elf druid.
[438.3s] Elf druid.
[439.5s] And I am badass.
[443.1s] I like to kill and slash things a lot,
[446.6s] but I'm getting more in touch with my druid self
[449.2s] and my oneness with nature, figuring myself out.
[455.3s] Now, finally, I feel like I'm in the teenage years,
[457.8s] the way that I've kind of put my character.
[461.6s] Look at the bio.
[462.4s] I know, I'm trying to play.
[467.0s] Things from here have disappeared.
[469.4s] No, look at me, too.
[470.5s] Have you ever put them in there?
[471.6s] No, yet, like character appearance.
[473.0s] My whole bio is empty.
[476.4s] It's because you guys never film it.
[477.8s] No, that's not it.
[478.6s] It's on my paper one.
[479.9s] Untrue.
[484.4s] So elf, I'm awesome.
[487.6s] I'm also a weed dealer.
[489.1s] That's how I know Flynn.
[490.3s] So because of PTSD, so it's all medicine.
[494.5s] Nobody can freak out.
[496.2s] And Nularaaa and I are totally buds
[499.6s] after defeating an orc together, bond over battle.
[502.5s] And I have this amazing book that I'm
[505.8s] digging into trying to figure out
[507.2s] more about my druid self and what that means for me.
[511.1s] And mostly I'm just like trying not to die
[516.3s] because I'm learning that you shouldn't be front line
[520.1s] in a battle if you can't fucking swing a sword.
[523.7s] And what do you look like?
[524.8s] Mm.
[527.8s] Wasn't that the whole exercise?
[529.7s] Was it?
[530.6s] Damn it.
[532.1s] I'm an elf.
[533.0s] I have pointy ears.
[534.3s] I have bright green eyes and bluish white skin.
[538.5s] That's almost like.
[540.2s] I think you're pretty tall.
[541.4s] I'm very tall.
[542.4s] I'm 5'9".
[543.6s] That's very tall to someone who's only 5'1".
[546.6s] I'm 110 pounds because I put weight in here, I guess.
[549.8s] So I'm tall and willowy, small nature-y and stuff.
[555.2s] And my hair is a brilliant blue.
[557.2s] But since I am a magical being,
[559.1s] I can change my appearance when necessary.
[563.1s] Sweet, good job.
[564.3s] And I'm 200 years old.
[567.4s] Well now, see, we can get people to draw pictures of us
[569.9s] maybe because we actually described ourselves.
[571.7s] That would be super fantastic.
[573.3s] Not that we're soliciting that,
[574.5s] but if you wanted to, we would appreciate it.
[576.7s] Yeah, if there's anyone who can do fan art out there,
[579.1s] that would be so.
[580.3s] I would also like one of my character in Tom's
[583.1s] the side-scrolling game because I think that Goliath
[585.7s] picture that I have up there is super.
[587.3s] Like nothing too titty.
[588.6s] Oh, now you're going to get stuff that's titty
[592.8s] if you're going to get it at all.
[595.0s] Well, no, all the girls are all like super busty.
[597.6s] If you could make any fantasy character not too titty,
[602.4s] that would be unbelievable.
[604.1s] 25% less titty.
[605.4s] Trying to find pictures.
[607.8s] Like when we started the side-scrolling game,
[609.5s] I was trying to find a picture and everything was like,
[612.0s] I'm uncomfortable looking at this.
[614.0s] Like this was not for me.
[616.0s] Well, and not to mention completely impractical.
[618.9s] I would not be all open in the chest area in battle.
[622.4s] Like, let's come on.
[623.3s] I'm covered in armor.
[624.4s] I'm a smart elf, you know.
[628.7s] Smart elf.
[629.9s] I'm a smart elf.
[631.9s] Not like those Keebler elves.
[633.9s] Smart elves.
[635.2s] Who does baking in the middle of a tree?
[637.7s] No, it's a recipe for disaster.
[640.1s] Recipe pun intended.
[642.6s] That's good.
[644.0s] So yeah, some non-slutty character art would be fantastic.
[648.5s] Just throwing that out there.
[649.3s] I'm done.
[652.1s] End of scene.
[653.5s] I'm not eating film kits.
[655.3s] All right, let's go down the line.
[656.4s] Carla, who do you plan?
[657.6s] What's your deal?
[658.9s] And like the, and what's your deal?
[661.5s] What's your deal?
[663.3s] Russ's interviewing techniques.
[665.0s] Solid. What's your deal?
[666.7s] And then the person just talks.
[667.9s] He's a real Terry Gross.
[669.0s] I was a really great one there.
[670.4s] What's your deal?
[672.5s] It also makes you like immediately uncomfortable.
[675.8s] You're like, I have a deal?
[677.0s] What?
[678.0s] What's my deal?
[679.0s] I play Nulara Moonbrook.
[681.5s] I am a human ranger.
[683.0s] I'm also tall because I'm five foot ten.
[686.5s] Since I'm five foot two in real life.
[689.0s] So I was like, oh, I have to be tall.
[692.0s] Five ten.
[693.0s] Whoa.
[697.5s] Pale dark hair.
[699.0s] We're talking about looks.
[701.0s] Pale dark hair.
[704.0s] Pale face.
[705.0s] Oh.
[705.5s] Dark hair.
[706.5s] Pale, comma, dark hair.
[708.5s] Yes.
[710.5s] I am quite gruff.
[712.0s] I was a ranger.
[713.5s] Lived in the woods alone for a long time.
[716.5s] My politeness skills are a little lacking sometimes.
[723.0s] You know you say, you're not polite, you're still polite.
[725.5s] Well, it's hard.
[726.5s] I think in real life, I try to be polite.
[729.0s] It's hard to.
[730.0s] Also Canadian.
[731.0s] All Canadian cast.
[732.0s] I feel like I need to apologize right now.
[734.0s] We started this podcast with an apology.
[736.0s] It's true.
[738.0s] It's true.
[739.0s] And I have a little buddy.
[741.0s] I have a pseudo dragon.
[743.0s] Who's like a cat-sized dragon, basically, named Donnie.
[747.0s] Sometimes Russ does his voice with a great accent.
[751.0s] Super great.
[752.0s] It's really good.
[753.0s] Maybe Donnie will talk this episode through.
[755.0s] Maybe.
[756.0s] We could probably get into some sort of shenanigans where he has to talk.
[759.0s] Last time I drew attention to Donnie in that way, Russ almost killed him.
[763.0s] It's purely accidental.
[765.0s] I mean, I intended to aim for him.
[767.0s] Accidental is like, yeah, let's hit Donnie with some shit.
[769.0s] Accidental?
[770.0s] He couldn't have known he had so many hit points.
[772.0s] He does have the hit points, like, of a cat.
[775.0s] I was just thinking, I was like, you know, Donnie never gets targeted by anything.
[780.0s] It's true.
[781.0s] He's always flying around, like, snipping at people's ears.
[783.0s] And I took that opportunity to almost kill him.
[786.0s] It's fair.
[788.0s] You guys can heal things a little bit.
[789.0s] You're good.
[790.0s] When we remember.
[792.0s] I have two spells I can heal.
[795.0s] I'm eating a chip now, so I guess I'm done.
[797.0s] You're done.
[798.0s] Tom!
[799.0s] That's your reward.
[800.0s] It's a nice reward.
[801.0s] I like it.
[802.0s] I play Flint Firebeard.
[803.0s] He's a short, because not like these other tallies over here.
[806.0s] He's a dwarf champion fighter.
[808.0s] A career background in the military, but his company went kind of more mercenary
[814.0s] than military and he wasn't really digging it.
[817.0s] Plus there's some PSTD issues as well.
[822.0s] PTSD issues.
[823.0s] I don't know what that is.
[826.0s] No, there's some PTSD issues in his background, which is why he met Thea originally,
[831.0s] because she would hook him up with some sweet, relaxing herb to take the edge off.
[837.0s] And he's lawful good in alignment, so he always tries to do the right thing
[842.0s] and rushes in kind of through the doors first, because he's a dwarf fighter
[847.0s] and that's probably what he should be doing.
[850.0s] That's about it.
[851.0s] I'm not going to eat a chip because I've already been eating them constantly.
[854.0s] That's fair.
[856.0s] Oh, he's got a bitching beard too.
[858.0s] Don't forget that.
[859.0s] With the name of Firebeard.
[860.0s] It's in the name.
[861.0s] And a scar on his face.
[863.0s] Anywhere you want it, it's fine.
[867.0s] It's a floating scar.
[868.0s] Just whatever you want.
[869.0s] Like here.
[870.0s] Putting that out there.
[871.0s] There's probably not a lightning bolt in between his eyebrows, but anything else.
[876.0s] Cool.
[877.0s] I think the other part is probably an intellectual property of one JK Rowling.
[881.0s] Probably.
[882.0s] I would assume.
[883.0s] Probably.
[884.0s] We don't want to date him.
[886.0s] Yeah, so we are playing through The Rise of Tiamat,
[890.0s] which is from The Wizards of the Coast there.
[893.0s] If you've started listening to us recently, we haven't really been doing it,
[898.0s] I think, within the book since about episode 7.
[900.0s] And now this is episode 21.
[902.0s] So we're getting back there.
[903.0s] We're getting back.
[904.0s] There's some little side things that happened.
[905.0s] Dress is steering us back.
[907.0s] What was supposed to be a side quest?
[909.0s] I mean, somebody had a great idea after that.
[911.0s] I don't know who it was, but probably it was me.
[914.0s] I'm going to go with Amy.
[915.0s] Yeah.
[916.0s] I think Amy had the great idea.
[917.0s] Was it me?
[918.0s] I don't know to what we're referring.
[921.0s] It's all good.
[922.0s] I think just in general.
[923.0s] Wasn't your idea to do the podcast?
[925.0s] It was.
[926.0s] Great idea.
[927.0s] Such a good idea.
[928.0s] Such a long time ago.
[929.0s] It was a joke.
[930.0s] It was a hammered.
[931.0s] It came true.
[932.0s] I'm going to get really drunk, you guys.
[934.0s] Yeah, you should probably make all your wishes come true.
[936.0s] Isn't that the saying?
[938.0s] A joke when you're hammered is a dream your wish made?
[944.0s] No, a wish your heart made.
[947.0s] A wish your heart made.
[948.0s] A wish your heart made.
[949.0s] Yes.
[950.0s] Thank you.
[951.0s] It's gone.
[952.0s] I can't find the words in my head.
[953.0s] Yeah.
[955.0s] I know.
[956.0s] Carla thought steering into the skid was a good idea, but it was not.
[959.0s] Look on your hammer to dream your wish made.
[962.0s] It's good.
[963.0s] It just rolls off the top.
[965.0s] So at one point we'll probably have merch, right?
[967.0s] So that's going to be on a t-shirt somewhere.
[969.0s] We have merch.
[970.0s] Good segues.
[971.0s] Oh.
[972.0s] I'm sorry.
[973.0s] No, segues are good.
[975.0s] No.
[976.0s] You're welcome.
[977.0s] You're welcome.
[978.0s] You know.
[979.0s] Where do they go to get our merch?
[982.0s] We're doing it, guys.
[983.0s] They go to Redbubble.
[986.0s] No.
[987.0s] Well, you can, but easier.
[989.0s] Go to dumbdragons.com and click our store button.
[993.0s] You know what's even easier than that?
[995.0s] Have Russ and Amy bring it to you when they move back from Korea.
[998.0s] We got stickers.
[999.0s] They look great.
[1001.0s] They're awesome.
[1002.0s] I'm too tired just seeing them in real life for the first time.
[1005.0s] I have to decide where to put them.
[1007.0s] I was thinking like on the back of my, because I got a bunch of radio station stickers on there,
[1012.0s] but then I was like, no, I want to put that somewhere good.
[1015.0s] I don't know if people are going to see this.
[1017.0s] Ooh, laptop's a good choice.
[1018.0s] Only if it's a new laptop.
[1020.0s] Exactly.
[1021.0s] I mean, if you're going to get rid of your MacBook in a year, I mean, you're just
[1024.0s] going to have to buy a new sticker.
[1026.0s] It's true.
[1027.0s] Okay, I think we're done schlocking all our stuff, so we might as well get on
[1030.0s] with the podcast.
[1031.0s] That was amazing.
[1034.0s] Amy just tried to sell me stickers.
[1036.0s] Hope you noticed.
[1037.0s] She said, if you get a new laptop, you'll have to buy a new sticker.
[1041.0s] Well, that's fair.
[1043.0s] Okay.
[1044.0s] First one's free.
[1045.0s] First one's free.
[1046.0s] The first taste is free, as with any good dealer.
[1048.0s] I can still get you a deal.
[1049.0s] It's okay.
[1051.0s] So yeah, you guys remember what happened last time?
[1054.0s] We found some dinosaurs.
[1056.0s] Yeah, we did.
[1057.0s] And rode some dinosaurs.
[1058.0s] I always forget.
[1059.0s] This is, well, not surprising to anyone, probably who's ever listened to us before,
[1063.0s] but, and then I look back at my notes and I'm like, oh yeah, we found dinosaurs
[1069.0s] and rode them and became friends with them.
[1071.0s] And it was amazing.
[1074.0s] I turned into a dire wolf.
[1075.0s] Yeah, you did.
[1076.0s] You're a winter wolf.
[1077.0s] Freezing wrath.
[1078.0s] That was so good.
[1079.0s] Anytime I turn into something though, the fight is over in like two more turns.
[1083.0s] Yeah.
[1084.0s] I think just keep doing it though.
[1085.0s] And then you'll come into a fight where you actually get to like do that for a long time.
[1088.0s] Maybe I'll turn into one like at the very beginning.
[1090.0s] Like, oh, we fighting?
[1092.0s] Like, what's that?
[1093.0s] A noise in the woods?
[1094.0s] Bam.
[1095.0s] And then Russell will be like, it's a squirrel.
[1098.0s] I catch the squirrel and I eat it.
[1101.0s] The squirrel was actually the savior of the universe, so we're all doomed.
[1107.0s] Yes, dinosaur riding, freeing other dinosaurs, and then shenanigans?
[1113.0s] Yeah.
[1114.0s] And then you came, you came upon the city of Luskin, which was your destination
[1120.0s] since episode seven.
[1122.0s] Success!
[1123.0s] Yay, we're back!
[1125.0s] We made it, you guys.
[1127.0s] We made it.
[1128.0s] So you exit the forest, and it's around dusk.
[1133.0s] You exit the forest and you gaze upon what is the mouth of the river Marar,
[1138.0s] which splits the city of Luskin into two sections.
[1141.0s] North and a south.
[1143.0s] They have a huge map on this TV here.
[1146.0s] It's amazing.
[1147.0s] I'll post a picture to the Patreon because, yeah.
[1151.0s] On like the world's biggest TV right now.
[1154.0s] It's a curved screen, I just realized.
[1157.0s] This is the fanciest place I've ever been.
[1159.0s] Like the sound bars.
[1161.0s] This is insane.
[1162.0s] What?
[1163.0s] They're even behind us?
[1168.0s] So you come upon the city of Luskin.
[1172.0s] Sorry, Russ.
[1173.0s] It's okay.
[1174.0s] Russ is like, we're going to get two episodes out of this.
[1178.0s] Sure we are.
[1179.0s] Russ is remembering why you guys moved to Korea.
[1182.0s] Now we're moving to Alberta maybe, so.
[1185.0s] You're mobile.
[1186.0s] It's true.
[1187.0s] Perfect.
[1188.0s] I'll see you there.
[1189.0s] Excellent.
[1190.0s] So you come upon the city of Luskin, which splits into two sections, the north
[1193.0s] and the south.
[1194.0s] And right in the middle stands the impressive host tower of the Arcane Brotherhood.
[1199.0s] The tower, as you look upon it, resembles a tree with what now has three complete limbs
[1207.0s] or spires.
[1209.0s] And you can see growth of the fourth limb nearing completion, which the fourth limb
[1215.0s] was where Aruthatar attacked and stole a bunch of books which you helped recover
[1222.0s] fighting in his lair.
[1224.0s] With my bag of holding.
[1225.0s] Episode 7?
[1226.0s] Why was this so long ago, you guys?
[1228.0s] Six was your battle with Aruthatar.
[1230.0s] I think almost every episode since then I've tried to use my bag of holding
[1233.0s] and it goes, nope, you can't.
[1235.0s] That's where I picked up those sweet ice cream eggs and then didn't use them
[1238.0s] in the last 20 episodes.
[1240.0s] Whoops.
[1241.0s] The remainder of Luskin's makeup of buildings is no larger than two or three stories
[1247.0s] in general.
[1248.0s] There is another feature, however, that catches your eye as you approach the city
[1253.0s] and it's to the north side of the city.
[1255.0s] You see a small sized airship hovering above a section in the city, which you know
[1263.0s] is in approximately the same area that is used by the dwarves in Luskin for storage
[1270.0s] of dwarven weaponry and artifacts from Mithra Hall and Mirabar.
[1276.0s] What do you want to do?
[1278.0s] Do you want an aircraft?
[1279.0s] I know, this is like...
[1281.0s] While I'm here?
[1282.0s] We have been trying for four years in real life, one year in game, to get
[1290.0s] back here to find Makkoth and find out if the Arcane Brotherhood is going to help us,
[1294.0s] but that airship sounds pretty dope.
[1298.0s] Did Tabby bring it?
[1299.0s] Is this a something that exists in this world?
[1305.0s] You know that airships exist in the world and it's about dusk so it's getting pretty dark
[1309.0s] so you can't see any noticeable markings on it that would tell you if it's part of a group
[1313.0s] or anything like that.
[1314.0s] Also, I love that I'm amazed at the airship.
[1316.0s] We saw a fucking flying castle that was driven by a freaking giant.
[1319.0s] This is true.
[1320.0s] And we actually rode on it and crashed in it.
[1324.0s] But like airships!
[1325.0s] Whoa!
[1327.0s] And trains?
[1328.0s] Are there trains in this world?
[1329.0s] I don't think so.
[1330.0s] I've never been on one.
[1334.0s] So you guys have been traveling all day down the river and fighting dinosaurs.
[1338.0s] And you're in dusk.
[1340.0s] Can I have all my hip points back?
[1344.0s] We sleep up high and then you do?
[1348.0s] This is the racist city, right?
[1351.0s] Yeah, you were told by Macoth that other races other than humans,
[1357.0s] which is mostly what makes up the bulk of Luskan,
[1360.0s] look down upon most other races,
[1362.0s] which is why you were avoided to perhaps deter it for now.
[1366.0s] You were told by Leon and Glory Gem, however, in Mirabar
[1372.0s] that they get in there fine all the time
[1375.0s] and, you know, it's a rough city, but generally they have no problems.
[1379.0s] Where's my horse?
[1381.0s] Yeah, what about our horses?
[1383.0s] You left your horses tied up in the trees outside of Little Rock.
[1387.0s] Oh, God, that was...
[1389.0s] I believe that Tiny probably wrestled himself and then helped Clip Clop get free and...
[1397.0s] Buttercup?
[1399.0s] I mean, where's my horse? I love it so much.
[1402.0s] Of course I can't remember.
[1405.0s] Okay, Little Rock, so that's a whole different place.
[1408.0s] So yeah, probably like sleep overnight.
[1411.0s] And remember, Little Rock was more than three and a half weeks ago
[1415.0s] based on your time jump to Eden.
[1418.0s] Well, I'm sure they got free.
[1420.0s] In game, Russ told me last time,
[1423.0s] we had been gone from Luskan for five or six weeks.
[1428.0s] Do you remember saying that?
[1430.0s] Well, yeah, based on...
[1432.0s] In game, Russ told me.
[1434.0s] You can say all sorts of shit.
[1437.0s] You have the cred now. Look at all those notes.
[1440.0s] From the day you arrived in Luskan after you fought Arithator,
[1443.0s] which was in episode seven, you arrived.
[1446.0s] From your travel to Little Rock, your dealings in Little Rock,
[1449.0s] and then your travel to Mirabar, and then your subsequent time loss,
[1453.0s] having traveled through the portal to Eden,
[1456.0s] part of the Bros and Dragons podcast.
[1459.0s] Check them out on our friends of page at dumbdragons.com.
[1463.0s] Because they're great, too.
[1465.0s] That was smooth.
[1467.0s] And then travel back, it's been about that five to six week period
[1472.0s] that you've been gone.
[1474.0s] I say we just go straight to the host tower of the arcane.
[1478.0s] Yeah, I mean, that's where...
[1480.0s] We've put that off long enough, right?
[1482.0s] I think we have. I mean, the ship is cool and whatever,
[1484.0s] but apparently those...
[1487.0s] Do what needs to be done. I want my bag of holding.
[1490.0s] I want some answers.
[1492.0s] Okay.
[1493.0s] So you come up to the city,
[1495.0s] and you come in on the south side of the river there,
[1498.0s] passing by these stables, which are by the bridge there.
[1502.0s] I thought you said staples,
[1504.0s] and I was like, do we need office supplies?
[1507.0s] That was easy.
[1509.0s] But no, you pass by these stables,
[1512.0s] where they keep horses.
[1514.0s] Where we see...
[1516.0s] You pass by, and you hear a call to you that says,
[1519.0s] hey, you guys, where are my horses?
[1523.0s] There's a short, disgruntled human male
[1530.0s] who comes running out into the streets to you,
[1532.0s] waving his finger, saying, where are my horses?
[1535.0s] You're too far. I can't hear you.
[1538.0s] He's right in front of you now.
[1541.0s] I thought we were on the river.
[1543.0s] How does he run out into the river?
[1545.0s] We don't have a boat at this point anymore.
[1547.0s] When did we get off the boat?
[1549.0s] I think the dinosaurs sunk in.
[1551.0s] Yeah, the dinosaurs sunk in.
[1553.0s] You tried to fix it,
[1555.0s] but then determined fighting was probably better.
[1557.0s] Sorry, I thought when you said you come by the river,
[1559.0s] I was like, we're still on boat.
[1561.0s] No, you're on the south side of the river,
[1563.0s] so walking along the trail to the south into the city there,
[1565.0s] and you walk directly by the stables.
[1567.0s] Right, where it says stables on the map.
[1570.0s] I got you.
[1572.0s] It's the first time we've had a cool map.
[1574.0s] Where are my horses?
[1576.0s] They're being well cared for at Little Rock.
[1578.0s] Calm yourself, little man.
[1580.0s] You were supposed to be back in just a few days, you told me.
[1582.0s] We got transported to another dimension, calm down.
[1585.0s] With my horses?
[1587.0s] No, your horses are in Little Rock and they're fine.
[1590.0s] I keep walking.
[1592.0s] I also keep walking.
[1594.0s] I'm just innocently whistling as we walk by.
[1596.0s] He says, well, you guys owe me horses,
[1599.0s] and I'm going to find someone who's going to come
[1601.0s] and get my horses back from you.
[1603.0s] And then he storms off.
[1605.0s] Send them to Little Rock.
[1607.0s] Where are the horses?
[1609.0s] Don't know how many times we can tell you the same information.
[1612.0s] Character voices are hard when we're all like right here.
[1614.0s] Yeah.
[1616.0s] Hold on, hold on, I just need to get breathy.
[1620.0s] Whoa, messy.
[1624.0s] Don't look at me.
[1626.0s] Don't look at me.
[1628.0s] So you guys passing along the bank?
[1630.0s] Just straight into the tower?
[1632.0s] We have a goal, we have a mission, apparently.
[1635.0s] So you've got purpose to our walk.
[1638.0s] There's a straight lane that cuts through right along the river,
[1642.0s] and you follow that right to the market in Little Rock.
[1648.0s] And it's dying down, but there's still market things happening.
[1652.0s] There are a bunch of humans,
[1655.0s] human males and females kind of about just kind of buying things,
[1659.0s] foodwares and clothes and that sort of thing.
[1661.0s] It's not foodware.
[1663.0s] It's a different city, so you don't know.
[1665.0s] No.
[1667.0s] It's fashion.
[1669.0s] It's food. It's foodware.
[1671.0s] It's cheesecloth foodware.
[1673.0s] Little Caesar's now offers the stuff crap.
[1675.0s] Foodwares.
[1677.0s] I'll eat the middle of the pizza,
[1679.0s] leave the ring weird around my head like some sort of wreath of cheesy goodness.
[1684.0s] But you pass through the market,
[1686.0s] and you notice that people kind of look at you,
[1691.0s] some with a little bit of disdain at your group,
[1695.0s] some with a little bit of hatred,
[1698.0s] and then they kind of just keep going.
[1700.0s] Nobody seems to be starting anything with you, though.
[1702.0s] And you come to the bridge,
[1704.0s] which is to cross over to Kurth
[1708.0s] and then pass through to the host tower of the arcane
[1713.0s] with no issues.
[1716.0s] And you go up to the door,
[1718.0s] and it is locked.
[1721.0s] I knock on the door.
[1723.0s] And you wait for a little while,
[1727.0s] but nobody seems to come to the door.
[1729.0s] I unlock the door with my thieves' tools.
[1732.0s] Whoa, this is a bold move for me.
[1735.0s] Nat 20.
[1739.0s] And that's Amy's only good roll of the episode.
[1743.0s] It's done. I peaked, you guys.
[1746.0s] You quite easily pull out your thieves' tools
[1750.0s] and enter the building.
[1753.0s] Turns out it was actually a push.
[1755.0s] A door, and we were trying to pull it open.
[1757.0s] A push door, yeah.
[1759.0s] Thieves' tools just told you that you should push it.
[1761.0s] But you unlock it,
[1763.0s] and you walk in, and there are no torches lit inside.
[1767.0s] There's no light of any sort.
[1769.0s] You go into the main entrance area,
[1772.0s] and the door slams shut behind you.
[1776.0s] And you take a few steps forward,
[1779.0s] and you come face to face with an invisible horse field.
[1785.0s] Sounds about right.
[1787.0s] God, Jesus, fuck!
[1789.0s] And a sound begins blaring in the building.
[1792.0s] It's music.
[1793.0s] They have a damn party.
[1795.0s] It's everywhere right now, you guys.
[1797.0s] I've never heard that before.
[1799.0s] Wow, welcome back to Canada.
[1802.0s] You'll be sick of it soon.
[1805.0s] Yeah, an alarm begins blaring through the building.
[1808.0s] And you hear beyond another door,
[1812.0s] which is just a little bit of ways ahead of you.
[1814.0s] And you hear footsteps.
[1816.0s] Sounds like armor-clad people running forward,
[1821.0s] and they open the door, and there are two guards,
[1825.0s] and one man dressed in very nice robes.
[1831.0s] Foodwares.
[1835.0s] I yell out, we knocked!
[1839.0s] I mean, we did.
[1840.0s] We did.
[1841.0s] It's factually correct.
[1842.0s] We rolled the tape back, or else we knocked.
[1844.0s] You did not, yeah.
[1845.0s] And the man speaks up, and he says,
[1847.0s] Who are you, and why are you here?
[1850.0s] This is...
[1851.0s] I don't know what the who are you question is.
[1853.0s] Always, always.
[1854.0s] This is a question we can never answer,
[1856.0s] even though we've been playing this for how long?
[1860.0s] We are the guy.
[1862.0s] You really gotta come up with a name.
[1863.0s] We really do.
[1864.0s] Clearly, we were not expecting you.
[1866.0s] Where's MacArthur?
[1867.0s] Where's my bag of holding?
[1868.0s] How do you know MacArthur?
[1870.0s] We delivered her to you.
[1872.0s] You delivered her, didn't you?
[1873.0s] And then you broke into the host tower after hours.
[1877.0s] We knocked!
[1879.0s] Also, we delivered her, like, seven weeks ago?
[1881.0s] Yeah.
[1882.0s] Well, whoever delivered her was supposed to be back many, many weeks ago.
[1885.0s] Yeah, we know!
[1886.0s] Presumed dead!
[1887.0s] Presumed dead!
[1888.0s] Hold, please.
[1889.0s] I will be right back.
[1890.0s] Presumed dead?
[1891.0s] It's been six weeks.
[1893.0s] Apparently, if you leave for a long time, you automatically die.
[1896.0s] Presumed dead.
[1897.0s] Good day to you.
[1898.0s] It's been like a week.
[1899.0s] They're probably dead, right?
[1900.0s] Probably dead.
[1901.0s] Yeah, probably dead.
[1902.0s] She spent some time with us.
[1904.0s] He storms out, and you are left in the room
[1907.0s] with the two armor-clad guards who are each holding.
[1910.0s] Has the alarm turned off?
[1912.0s] Or is it like,
[1914.0s] The alarm has ceased now that he's walked out.
[1917.0s] Alright.
[1918.0s] You are still, what you can tell, in the force-fielded area.
[1922.0s] I flirt with the guards.
[1923.0s] I make pleasant small talk with them, soldier to soldier.
[1926.0s] I glare at them rudely.
[1929.0s] Well, let's RP some of this out.
[1931.0s] What do you do?
[1932.0s] No, that was the pleasant small talk.
[1937.0s] Pleasant small talk.
[1938.0s] Pleasant small talk.
[1940.0s] I don't make eye contact and say like,
[1942.0s] How about the weather?
[1943.0s] And then I just turn around.
[1947.0s] I drag my finger up and down the force-field and go,
[1949.0s] So, which one of you big men controls this?
[1955.0s] Makes a constitution save throw.
[1957.0s] Constitution?
[1959.0s] It's a seven plus three.
[1961.0s] It's the force-field.
[1962.0s] I was like, what are they doing?
[1963.0s] They're gonna zap?
[1966.0s] Burdens!
[1967.0s] You take two electrical damage.
[1969.0s] God damn!
[1974.0s] And he just kind of glares at you and he says,
[1977.0s] We do not talk to thieves.
[1979.0s] You just did.
[1982.0s] Well, technically she's a druid, so.
[1986.0s] Are they humans?
[1987.0s] They're humans, yes.
[1990.0s] Just kidding.
[1992.0s] Doesn't change any approach.
[1993.0s] You try.
[1994.0s] I don't think they like my elfishness.
[1997.0s] Oh, that's true.
[1998.0s] Could be.
[1999.0s] They just don't like elves.
[2001.0s] Don't worry.
[2002.0s] Flirt with them.
[2003.0s] No, I'm definitely not going to do that.
[2005.0s] I want to see what Nulara floating would be like,
[2008.0s] You play sports?
[2015.0s] Not even, like not even that subtle.
[2018.0s] I'd be like, you, me.
[2020.0s] We're gonna.
[2021.0s] Let me drop this force-field.
[2024.0s] You drop that force-field, I'll drop my pants.
[2028.0s] Good trade.
[2029.0s] It's a good trade.
[2034.0s] Good.
[2035.0s] So you guys just kind of stand there awkwardly staring at these guards.
[2038.0s] Okay, you hear from.
[2041.0s] You hear from beyond the door the same man saying.
[2044.0s] And they say that they saved you and that they brought you back here
[2047.0s] and they figured that those people were gone by now.
[2050.0s] And Macoth and the gentleman in robes come back into the room
[2054.0s] and she says, oh, shut up, Wilfred.
[2058.0s] I'm sorry.
[2059.0s] And she snaps her fingers and the field drops around you.
[2064.0s] And says, these are the people who saved me.
[2067.0s] Welcome, my friends.
[2069.0s] Where have you been?
[2071.0s] It's been weeks since I expected you to return.
[2074.0s] So much has happened.
[2076.0s] And we relay all the things that happened to her.
[2078.0s] Yes, you do.
[2079.0s] In very specific point order form.
[2081.0s] And we're done with our recap.
[2083.0s] Excellent, going forward now.
[2085.0s] And what happened?
[2086.0s] I'm sorry I didn't catch that.
[2088.0s] We don't have to spell it out for you.
[2090.0s] You don't have to go pee.
[2092.0s] What a convenient excuse.
[2095.0s] Gonna have to remember that one for later.
[2097.0s] Oh, hold on, guys.
[2099.0s] Gotta go get some more water.
[2101.0s] There are three bathrooms in here, so you guys are done.
[2104.0s] Our whole adventuring party's gonna be in the bathroom.
[2108.0s] Every time Russ asks us a question.
[2110.0s] I do have all my notes.
[2112.0s] We left with the guy.
[2114.0s] Maybe his name started with an L, can't remember.
[2116.0s] To help his family.
[2118.0s] And then we fought the creepy child ghost thing.
[2122.0s] The Onis.
[2124.0s] Thank you.
[2126.0s] This is a really compelling story we're telling.
[2129.0s] We're just point forming.
[2131.0s] Yeah, exactly.
[2133.0s] Then we teleported?
[2136.0s] No.
[2137.0s] Then we went to...
[2139.0s] Where were we just?
[2142.0s] Mirror Bar.
[2144.0s] Mirror Bar.
[2146.0s] We went to Mirror Bar.
[2148.0s] Threw some chickens at a dragon.
[2150.0s] Yeah, a dragon showed up.
[2152.0s] Got teleported to a different place.
[2154.0s] Flynn has a guy in his head.
[2158.0s] Came back.
[2160.0s] Fought the...
[2162.0s] Brains in jars.
[2164.0s] Crimsbane.
[2166.0s] And he's still up there.
[2168.0s] Doing some evil shit if you listen to the end of that one episode.
[2172.0s] It didn't.
[2174.0s] I heard it.
[2176.0s] I was like, whoa, where did this come from?
[2178.0s] There's like an extra special bonus.
[2180.0s] I should really catch up.
[2182.0s] But character knowledge, player knowledge.
[2186.0s] Yesterday we fought some...
[2188.0s] Not even yesterday.
[2189.0s] Earlier today we fought some dinosaurs.
[2191.0s] Now we're back, we're here.
[2193.0s] Well, we saved the dinosaurs, yeah.
[2195.0s] Well, you have had a fantastic journey.
[2199.0s] What have you been doing?
[2201.0s] What's up with you?
[2203.0s] Well, I've convinced the Arcane Brotherhood that your cause was worthy, but then you disappeared.
[2209.0s] So I'm going to have to revisit that with them.
[2213.0s] They did seem willing to lend their efforts to help you in your fight against the Cult of the Dragon.
[2219.0s] It shouldn't take long knowing that you've come back now, but there seems to be some issues that you need to address, so come with me.
[2225.0s] And she leads you into...
[2227.0s] Yeah, there's always issues with us.
[2229.0s] Be more specific.
[2233.0s] She leads you into the main building and it opens up into a grand entrance area with stairways leading to all different spires.
[2241.0s] Are they like the stairways at Hogwarts?
[2243.0s] I'm just thinking that.
[2245.0s] This is like our second JK Rowling.
[2247.0s] We're already stealing intellectual property.
[2249.0s] What's up, JK?
[2251.0s] Tweet at me.
[2253.0s] They look exactly like that, changing one minor thing to make sure that the copyrights are legit.
[2257.0s] They're actually made out of wood.
[2259.0s] Same exact music that plays, just like a key difference.
[2263.0s] One note variance.
[2265.0s] And she says, you say you teleported to another world, and you have somebody in your head?
[2271.0s] Yes.
[2273.0s] How did that come to be?
[2275.0s] How did that come to be?
[2277.0s] Well...
[2279.0s] We were trying to make our way back to Fate Rune.
[2283.0s] And then you chopped my head off, you hear in your head.
[2285.0s] From Eden, I do believe it was called.
[2287.0s] They don't hear.
[2289.0s] We had to make a sacrifice.
[2293.0s] One of the adventurers we were adventuring with chopped someone's head off, unexpectedly.
[2299.0s] It wasn't us.
[2301.0s] And I got stuck with Bort in my head.
[2303.0s] And you got that cool electricity breath.
[2305.0s] You got that cool lightning breath now.
[2307.0s] And then you hear in your head, Flint, you mean we're best buddies, right?
[2311.0s] Not stuck in your head. You mean we're best buddies.
[2313.0s] We're cool, but we both know you're stuck in my head.
[2317.0s] You just hear him talking to himself.
[2319.0s] We're probably used to him by this point.
[2321.0s] It's really just a mutter under my breath.
[2325.0s] She says, well, it's been a while since we've had to deal with two souls in one body,
[2331.0s] and we do know ways to separate that.
[2333.0s] I'll look into that further.
[2335.0s] If that's what you desire, or if you wish to keep your lightning breath.
[2339.0s] Let me check with Bort.
[2341.0s] What's up, Bort?
[2343.0s] Are you cool with separating, or do you want to stick around?
[2345.0s] I'd like to be gone.
[2347.0s] Yeah, that's fair.
[2349.0s] So she says, I will gladly look into that for you.
[2353.0s] That'd be great.
[2355.0s] And she leads you into what you can assume is her chambers,
[2359.0s] and she reaches to her table and hands you, Thea, your bag of holding.
[2365.0s] I go, ha, ha, ha.
[2367.0s] Clutch it tightly.
[2369.0s] You cannot put it into your equipment, or unless you've already had it there.
[2373.0s] You put it on the ground, kind of climb in a little bit.
[2379.0s] It's all just been for a bit the whole time.
[2381.0s] That's the only reason she wants it.
[2383.0s] So you're in front of a cough. What do you need?
[2387.0s] What can we do to help you convince the Arcane Brotherhood to help us?
[2392.0s] I mean, seriously, we've been gone for six weeks.
[2395.0s] It's not that long.
[2397.0s] I know there's trains in this world, but there's...
[2401.0s] But that's about all I know.
[2403.0s] I don't even know that.
[2405.0s] That's like the most rapid transit that exists.
[2407.0s] I don't know how fast you expected us to get back.
[2409.0s] That's why there are airships.
[2411.0s] Oh, there's no way there's airships in this world.
[2413.0s] No. We'll get to the airship.
[2415.0s] Don't you worry.
[2417.0s] She says, well, we were expecting you within a few days, as you had originally entailed.
[2424.0s] And in the time of much trouble, since you've been gone,
[2428.0s] there have been many things that have been popping up with the Cult of the Dragon.
[2431.0s] And we figured you might have gotten wrapped up in one of those,
[2435.0s] and perhaps something had happened to you, as nobody had heard from you,
[2439.0s] from any of our mutual allies.
[2443.0s] But you did have a super sweet vision about the Cult of the Dragon.
[2447.0s] Did I?
[2449.0s] I think so. Didn't you?
[2451.0s] Yeah. In a kitchen.
[2455.0s] I remember you super really specific, not helpful information.
[2459.0s] No, this was...
[2461.0s] It was after I got the book, and there was all sorts of stuff about like...
[2465.0s] Oh, about you guys running into that building and stuff?
[2467.0s] I went to a different kitchen.
[2469.0s] I'm alone in a burning city watching myself.
[2472.0s] Seems like a memory, but not one I can recall.
[2475.0s] This is super point form.
[2477.0s] Your notes are really good, by the way.
[2479.0s] Yeah, but listen, this literally is a note here that's like,
[2482.0s] ask Ross what the thing...
[2484.0s] Because it was like a poem and all this stuff, and I couldn't write it down fast enough.
[2487.0s] I meant more so the vision where it was like the cult gaining in strength.
[2494.0s] Oh god, did I have two visions?
[2496.0s] Or whatever, and everything looked a little bit darker, or whatever it was.
[2499.0s] We both just felt that something in the world, the energy, something shifted.
[2505.0s] That's what I meant.
[2506.0s] As soon as you came back through the portal, you felt like a shift in the end.
[2511.0s] But yeah, that other vision totally happened too.
[2513.0s] And she was in the kitchen.
[2515.0s] With Diana.
[2517.0s] And she says you have...
[2519.0s] We were in a tunnel.
[2520.0s] And she says you...
[2521.0s] We were in the tunnel.
[2522.0s] Shit.
[2523.0s] It wasn't when you were in the tunnel.
[2524.0s] Yes, no, I had alligators.
[2526.0s] Was there like a hot plate in the tunnel and Amy just got confused?
[2529.0s] Maybe.
[2530.0s] Maybe.
[2531.0s] It was the tunnel with all the snack machines and stuff where soldiers would get their snacks.
[2535.0s] That was nicknamed the kitchen.
[2536.0s] So it's basically the kitchen.
[2537.0s] And they weren't trying to break down the wall, they were just trying to get their snacks.
[2541.0s] I see.
[2542.0s] Totally makes sense.
[2543.0s] I can relate to that.
[2544.0s] Of course.
[2545.0s] You have visions, do you?
[2548.0s] How long have those been going on for?
[2550.0s] Hey there, popcorn.
[2552.0s] Did you just put eight in your mouth?
[2554.0s] Answer the question now.
[2555.0s] Yes.
[2558.0s] I thought you were taking a break.
[2560.0s] No, you already started it back up.
[2562.0s] It's no break.
[2563.0s] So sneaky.
[2564.0s] No, one of those servants had brought in an appetizer platter, right?
[2569.0s] Yeah, obviously, yeah.
[2571.0s] Snappies.
[2572.0s] You're Chicago-style popcorn, my lady.
[2576.0s] I knew Lauren was just having food in her mouth.
[2578.0s] Is this filo pastry?
[2580.0s] This is delicious.
[2582.0s] Look at the little spanic openers.
[2587.0s] Kind of always.
[2589.0s] Like, as long as the Cult of the Dragon's been active, I've been seeing glowing dragon eyes in my dreams.
[2598.0s] This one was a bit different, though.
[2600.0s] It was very explicitly seemed like I was seeing the future.
[2607.0s] Looked bad.
[2608.0s] Looked pretty bad.
[2610.0s] Sounds like it.
[2611.0s] Your powers, I feel, might be stronger than you know.
[2614.0s] I feel like you tried to tell me this before.
[2617.0s] I brushed you off.
[2619.0s] You certainly did.
[2620.0s] One hundred percent, that's what happened.
[2623.0s] Huh, neat.
[2624.0s] Kind of a dick move.
[2626.0s] Anyway, so my flaming sword.
[2631.0s] Once you're done on your journey, you may want to come visit us and look into those more.
[2638.0s] I won't stop you now.
[2640.0s] Note.
[2643.0s] Literally.
[2644.0s] Eighteen million years from now when we're done.
[2647.0s] Is this going to be one of those notes that we like totally specifically ask about and then completely forget?
[2653.0s] Odds are.
[2655.0s] I normally have a different colored pen to make note of important things.
[2659.0s] I don't have that.
[2661.0s] Sorry.
[2662.0s] Nothing that's getting me down.
[2665.0s] You want stationary supplies?
[2667.0s] I got stationary supplies.
[2668.0s] At your back.
[2670.0s] And she goes on to say that the higher ups here at the Arcane Brotherhood will not be back or ready to speak until tomorrow morning.
[2679.0s] Well, are they what?
[2680.0s] Not ready to speak?
[2681.0s] Are they not back?
[2682.0s] Are they gone?
[2683.0s] Are they here?
[2684.0s] They will not be speaking to anybody.
[2686.0s] Meetings adjourned for the day.
[2690.0s] Five p.m.
[2691.0s] Five p.m.
[2692.0s] They have regular hours to keep bankers hours, you know.
[2694.0s] Is this like one of those silent retreats where they just like don't talk for days at a time?
[2698.0s] Hard knock life.
[2700.0s] But they will return in the morning and I can discuss with them your return and helping along the way.
[2707.0s] There are many places where you can be put up within the city of Luskin through the night.
[2713.0s] One thing I should mention, though, is you might have seen the airship.
[2719.0s] I feel like that's for you.
[2722.0s] There's a disgruntled old man who says he was sent by the Guild of the Nine Shadows and he hasn't left in weeks.
[2731.0s] Is it Salazar?
[2733.0s] It's not the name he gave me.
[2736.0s] Did you happen to fight someone with him and then at the last minute he just like killed them when you did all the damage?
[2742.0s] No.
[2743.0s] There was no fighting.
[2747.0s] But he says he's not to leave until he reconnects with you three.
[2751.0s] And even though it was presumed that you were dead or presently otherwise occupied, he has just been hovering above the city.
[2759.0s] How long has he been there for?
[2761.0s] Weeks.
[2762.0s] So he's going to be super happy that we finally showed up.
[2765.0s] Yeah.
[2766.0s] Let's go see this guy.
[2767.0s] What name did he give you?
[2769.0s] The name?
[2771.0s] Grancis?
[2772.0s] Grancis, I believe, was his name.
[2774.0s] That sounds like that sounds made up.
[2777.0s] This is what I thought.
[2778.0s] This is why I was concerned with him hovering above the city.
[2781.0s] But we have allowed him to stay over in the Dwarven area.
[2785.0s] I take your narrative and I spit on it.
[2789.0s] Sounds like a fake name.
[2790.0s] Grancis.
[2792.0s] George.
[2793.0s] George Glass.
[2795.0s] It's Jan's fake boyfriend on the Brady Bunch.
[2797.0s] Of course.
[2798.0s] Thanks, Dom.
[2800.0s] Thanks for that super topical reference.
[2804.0s] That's current.
[2805.0s] That's a current reference.
[2806.0s] Right?
[2807.0s] Before any of us were even alive.
[2808.0s] That's correct.
[2809.0s] Is that what you were watching today?
[2810.0s] I'll know that forever.
[2811.0s] No.
[2812.0s] I was watching the Little League World Series.
[2813.0s] Thank you very much.
[2814.0s] Because I had nothing to do until Carla showed up.
[2817.0s] Thank God she was early.
[2818.0s] So if you could help me get out of the city, that would be super great.
[2823.0s] But yes, if there's anything else you require from us, I will look into the removal of the soul a little bit more before you return tomorrow.
[2834.0s] And see what we can do there.
[2836.0s] Otherwise, all right, your visions.
[2839.0s] Well, what period were you gone in the portal?
[2843.0s] Like three weeks, I think.
[2844.0s] Three weeks here time.
[2846.0s] Yeah, but it was only like a day, wasn't it, or something, in the portal?
[2849.0s] Time was different there.
[2851.0s] During that time, there have been rumors that the Red Wizards of Bay have been amassing for the Cult of the Dragons.
[2864.0s] We don't know where, but the timeline coincides with the feeling you say you received, Nularaaa and Thea, with the change from good to evil.
[2881.0s] So they may be working towards the next step in opening the dimensional barrier between the nine hells and here to return Tiamat.
[2893.0s] Return Tiamat to the world.
[2895.0s] How many hands?
[2896.0s] Nine.
[2897.0s] We should probably stop that.
[2899.0s] Agreed.
[2901.0s] That is what you know you've been fighting for, yes?
[2904.0s] Yes.
[2905.0s] Good.
[2906.0s] Just making sure we're all on the same page.
[2908.0s] Let's go see Granson.
[2910.0s] Grancis.
[2912.0s] Grancis.
[2914.0s] Let's go see him.
[2915.0s] Let's get out of their hair.
[2917.0s] We'll talk in the morning.
[2918.0s] Of course.
[2919.0s] Unless we get whisked away on this ship.
[2921.0s] Ever think of that?
[2922.0s] Like, oh, what if we don't come back for like seven more weeks?
[2924.0s] He's been here for three weeks.
[2925.0s] Whatever he's here for must not be a huge urgency.
[2928.0s] Well, someone just said that.
[2930.0s] Well, someone just said that.
[2931.0s] At least someone was happy that we were going to come back at some point.
[2935.0s] Alright, so we want to run over to the airship?
[2937.0s] Yeah.
[2938.0s] So you head back out and back through the city.
[2942.0s] You pass across, there's a bridge right at the market there, passing to the north side of the city, which is where you see the airship hovering.
[2951.0s] As you get closer, you see an insignia on it.
[2955.0s] Tell me what that insignia is.
[2958.0s] Oh, God.
[2960.0s] It's not a unicorn pointing left.
[2963.0s] It's not something you've seen before.
[2964.0s] Okay, God, I was like, I have to go back through one year's worth of notes to find the insignia.
[2970.0s] It's a...
[2972.0s] It's one of those ink blots I couldn't...
[2975.0s] It's open to interpretation.
[2979.0s] It's actually a magic eye puzzle that you can't see what's in there because it's broken.
[2985.0s] But then once you do see it, though, you cannot see it.
[2987.0s] Okay, fair enough.
[2988.0s] True.
[2989.0s] And what we see in the magic eye puzzle is...
[2993.0s] There's no right or wrong answer.
[2994.0s] A big eye.
[2995.0s] Just tell me what you see.
[2996.0s] Just one eye.
[2997.0s] It's very meta.
[2998.0s] Big eye.
[2999.0s] Eye.
[3000.0s] In the magic eye.
[3001.0s] You see a magic ink blot eye in the eye.
[3004.0s] I saw Amy drop popcorn, that was pretty great.
[3006.0s] Three pieces.
[3007.0s] It was like they exploded out of your hands.
[3011.0s] So what did you see?
[3012.0s] I got excited.
[3013.0s] You saw a magic eye?
[3014.0s] A big eye.
[3015.0s] A big eye.
[3016.0s] Yeah, just a single eye.
[3019.0s] So the letter eye?
[3020.0s] So there's a symbolism we can throw in there.
[3022.0s] A line with a dot over it.
[3024.0s] Me a capital I, come on.
[3026.0s] You see the symbol, a large single eye, and you know that that is the symbol of the Guild of the Nine Shadows.
[3035.0s] You saw it.
[3036.0s] The Guild of the Nine Shadows.
[3040.0s] Are you sure there was no wrong answers?
[3042.0s] There was no wrong answers.
[3045.0s] No wrong answers.
[3047.0s] So you know that having, you know, McAuth having told you that Grants has said he was sent by the Guild of the Nine Shadows.
[3055.0s] You can call him whatever you want when you get on board as long as he doesn't fight you for it.
[3058.0s] I will, it's gonna be granny.
[3059.0s] Now seeing the symbol, which you said you, which you have seen around your time with the Guild of the Nine Shadows,
[3067.0s] you know that this airship should in theory be sent from Salazar or someone else at the Guild.
[3073.0s] And you pass through the city and you walk by the Red Dragon Trading Post,
[3078.0s] which is the largest building on the north side of the city.
[3082.0s] And there is a ruckus activity happening out there.
[3087.0s] There's people getting in like fistfights.
[3090.0s] It looks like there's drinking and partying.
[3093.0s] Is there cavorting?
[3094.0s] There's cavorting, all the cavorting.
[3097.0s] It looks like perhaps a group has just returned from a caravan transport or something.
[3105.0s] Remember our days caravan from long ago.
[3108.0s] But you walk closer to where the airship is and you come to a large gate that is guarded by one dwarf.
[3116.0s] And he says, what's your business here?
[3119.0s] What's your business here?
[3120.0s] My business is to protect all this business.
[3122.0s] What's your business here?
[3123.0s] My business is to be up in your business.
[3125.0s] I was super hoping he was just going to repeat everything and send back to him again.
[3129.0s] And I was like.
[3131.0s] He started talking.
[3133.0s] That's fair.
[3134.0s] We are here.
[3136.0s] We need a name.
[3137.0s] We need a fuck.
[3138.0s] We are the three.
[3141.0s] So original.
[3145.0s] It seems like very presumptuous.
[3149.0s] We are the three.
[3154.0s] Pals.
[3156.0s] We are the three best friends ever.
[3162.0s] I'm bored the whole time.
[3163.0s] Four.
[3164.0s] Four.
[3165.0s] Four digits.
[3166.0s] God damn it.
[3167.0s] What's your business here?
[3169.0s] I think your business is waiting for us.
[3171.0s] That's what we heard.
[3172.0s] I don't know who you are.
[3174.0s] Who are you waiting for?
[3175.0s] I'm not waiting for anybody.
[3176.0s] I'm here guarding all the dwarven stuff that we've got back here.
[3179.0s] Now, what are you doing here?
[3181.0s] I'm here to see a man on an airship.
[3184.0s] Trying to get to that airship.
[3186.0s] Oh, you're here with the airship.
[3188.0s] Well, I wouldn't say that.
[3190.0s] We heard that the person with the airship was looking for us.
[3194.0s] All right.
[3195.0s] We don't have anything better to do.
[3197.0s] Good.
[3198.0s] We don't have a name for our group.
[3200.0s] Maybe that means he'll be like, Benny!
[3202.0s] Benny, get over here!
[3204.0s] And another dwarf in armor walks up to the gate.
[3207.0s] Is his name Benny?
[3208.0s] Benny.
[3209.0s] Ah, too bad.
[3210.0s] He's just doing a lot of stretches.
[3214.0s] More of a Gumby figure.
[3217.0s] Can you take these guys to the airship?
[3219.0s] Maybe he'll leave after that, okay?
[3221.0s] And he opens the gate and leads you guys to the airship.
[3226.0s] So you're walking through all of these storage buildings back to the airship.
[3232.0s] And you get to it.
[3234.0s] And he calls up and he says, Grancis!
[3237.0s] Some people are here for you!
[3240.0s] And we hear some scuffling about.
[3244.0s] Man, he pokes his head over the edge.
[3246.0s] And it's a human male, balding.
[3249.0s] Picard-style balding, but with hair solid here.
[3252.0s] Oh!
[3253.0s] That was unexpected.
[3255.0s] And he says, Oh!
[3259.0s] You guys are back!
[3260.0s] You guys are back!
[3261.0s] It's been weeks!
[3263.0s] I can't believe you're here!
[3265.0s] Is it very super light?
[3267.0s] That came up in reference one time and now he's going to work him in?
[3272.0s] And he runs back into the airship and then you see a ladder just fly over the edge.
[3277.0s] He says, Come on up!
[3279.0s] Okay.
[3281.0s] They go first because I'm slow on ladders, because I'm tiny.
[3285.0s] Maybe you go first and we push up.
[3288.0s] Your little dwarf bomb.
[3290.0s] Come on down!
[3293.0s] It's a little hot, like he can't reach, it's not all the way.
[3296.0s] I need a little boost.
[3297.0s] Do a little one of these.
[3298.0s] You climb in and you see him kind of frantically running about the airship,
[3302.0s] flipping knobs and turning things and saying, It's time to go!
[3305.0s] Oh! Oh! Whoa! Whoa!
[3308.0s] I've been waiting here for weeks!
[3309.0s] What do you mean we can't go?
[3311.0s] No.
[3312.0s] Who are you?
[3313.0s] I'm Grancis.
[3314.0s] Ugh.
[3316.0s] Is it like a dirgeable or is it like a flying ship?
[3323.0s] Is it blue?
[3324.0s] Or is it like a ship?
[3325.0s] It's like a zephyr.
[3327.0s] It's like a ship with a large balloon covering it in the air.
[3333.0s] So like Stardust style?
[3335.0s] More so.
[3336.0s] Okay.
[3338.0s] Whoa, whoa, whoa.
[3340.0s] Whoa.
[3341.0s] Grancis.
[3342.0s] Who sent you?
[3343.0s] Obviously.
[3344.0s] Brotherhood.
[3345.0s] Why?
[3346.0s] Brotherhood?
[3347.0s] Who's the brotherhood?
[3348.0s] Guild.
[3349.0s] Guild of the Brothers.
[3350.0s] Guild of the Brothers.
[3351.0s] Are you who you say you are?
[3353.0s] Yes, but it's been a long travel day.
[3355.0s] Somebody else talk.
[3356.0s] See ya!
[3357.0s] He holds up kind of like a torchlight to your face.
[3360.0s] Alright.
[3361.0s] Even though he's never met you.
[3362.0s] I would hope that he would hold up like a pencil sketching of you and be like,
[3366.0s] Well, I didn't really nail your eyes, but the rest is theirs.
[3369.0s] If I covered the nose, it would look like you.
[3372.0s] Salazar sent me a while ago.
[3375.0s] You disappeared, so he sent me to your last known location.
[3378.0s] And I got word from him a little while ago that you showed back up in Mirabar with
[3383.0s] some portal shit happening.
[3384.0s] But he told me to wait here because he knew you'd be coming back above this
[3387.0s] ring.
[3388.0s] So we're here.
[3389.0s] Let's go.
[3390.0s] Nope.
[3391.0s] Nope.
[3392.0s] Nope.
[3393.0s] Okay, first off, where do you want us to go?
[3394.0s] We've got to go down the Serpent Hills area.
[3396.0s] They're Wormspeaker, White Mountain.
[3399.0s] So like option two that you gave us like way back when?
[3403.0s] We've got to get there quick.
[3404.0s] Well, you've been waiting for three weeks.
[3406.0s] We have some business.
[3407.0s] We have an appointment at 9 a.m.
[3409.0s] Yes.
[3410.0s] That's true.
[3411.0s] That we are seven weeks late.
[3413.0s] Well, it's good they could sneak you in so quickly then, I guess.
[3418.0s] I hear they're all booked up.
[3419.0s] There was a cancellation.
[3420.0s] Yeah.
[3421.0s] Fair enough.
[3422.0s] Fair enough.
[3423.0s] I mean, the system around here is just overbooked with people waiting.
[3426.0s] All right.
[3427.0s] So you're going to stay the night then?
[3429.0s] Yes.
[3430.0s] Cool down.
[3431.0s] Relax.
[3432.0s] Okay.
[3433.0s] Good.
[3434.0s] Somewhere we can sleep here?
[3436.0s] Yeah, I guess.
[3437.0s] You okay, buddy?
[3438.0s] We really took a wind on his side.
[3441.0s] I know.
[3442.0s] Hey, when we go back, can we fly over the little rock?
[3445.0s] That's kind of in the other direction there, but I guess.
[3448.0s] We should get our horses, you guys.
[3450.0s] Can the horses come on the airship?
[3452.0s] One is gigantic.
[3455.0s] We are going to fly over these horses and they're just going to be two small pony bodies
[3460.0s] and a giant horse body just skeletonized.
[3463.0s] Yes, if they're still there, they're not alive.
[3465.0s] My horse might be eating your horses.
[3467.0s] It's entirely possible.
[3468.0s] I assume they chewed free of their ropes and are now living as free horses.
[3473.0s] Anyway.
[3474.0s] The rest is looking thrilled.
[3475.0s] Maybe we can pick up our horses.
[3477.0s] Horses.
[3478.0s] Yeah, we can probably fit some horses in here.
[3481.0s] What if the horses chewed their way free and have teamed up with the dinosaurs we freed
[3486.0s] and are now like totally kicking ass somewhere?
[3489.0s] That sounds nice.
[3491.0s] We don't have a good life for horses, I feel like.
[3494.0s] I feel like we should maybe go return that one.
[3496.0s] Oh, I care about that guy.
[3498.0s] Who's that guy?
[3499.0s] I don't even remember that guy.
[3501.0s] Just don't say anything.
[3503.0s] I never remember anything.
[3504.0s] We've written something down.
[3506.0s] I'm going to punish us later for this.
[3508.0s] No, I'm just going to write that I'm going to release a bloopers episode as a Patreon
[3512.0s] bonus content on this one.
[3514.0s] Because it's going to be longer than that.
[3517.0s] The next actual episode is going to be so delayed because Russ is going to have to
[3521.0s] comb through this garbage.
[3523.0s] It's solid gold.
[3525.0s] Solid gold.
[3526.0s] Yeah, that's what I meant.
[3528.0s] In fact, I'm pretty sure that's what I said.
[3532.0s] Also, there's totally cheesecakes in that fridge upstairs.
[3535.0s] Yeah, true.
[3538.0s] Yeah, but we figure out what you're doing for the night.
[3541.0s] We're bunking here.
[3543.0s] Okay.
[3544.0s] Do we trust Grancis?
[3547.0s] I like to pretend he has a fake name.
[3549.0s] Grancis.
[3551.0s] I even keep writing it in quotes.
[3554.0s] I don't know why.
[3555.0s] Is he who he says he is?
[3557.0s] This would be my concern.
[3558.0s] Grancis?
[3559.0s] He really wants to leave.
[3560.0s] We don't know this dude exactly.
[3562.0s] He's just going to take off with us in the airship.
[3564.0s] I think we could just set up camp below the airship.
[3567.0s] For sure.
[3568.0s] Let's do that.
[3569.0s] We don't mind sleeping outdoors.
[3571.0s] What if we just tied the airship to a tree and then forgot about it for seven weeks?
[3575.0s] What if we tied him up in the airship and then forgot about him for seven weeks?
[3579.0s] Oh.
[3581.0s] And threw him in the convenience store.
[3584.0s] There's a river right there.
[3586.0s] Are we talking about this in front of him?
[3588.0s] Yeah, I'm assuming so.
[3590.0s] I don't like you guys.
[3592.0s] I'm pretty sure we do a lot of our talking just in front of people.
[3595.0s] Not just out of character.
[3599.0s] So you're staying here?
[3600.0s] What are you doing?
[3601.0s] We can go see your horses or whatever and have fun.
[3603.0s] Sure.
[3604.0s] Whatever.
[3606.0s] Hey Grancis.
[3608.0s] Thanks for waiting for us.
[3610.0s] We appreciate it.
[3612.0s] We're going to camp underneath the ship.
[3614.0s] You can't camp down there.
[3616.0s] I tried already.
[3617.0s] Says who?
[3618.0s] Says the dwarves?
[3619.0s] Says the dwarves.
[3620.0s] They say you can't camp anywhere.
[3622.0s] Let me go talk to those dwarves.
[3624.0s] Alright, they got sensitive materials and stuff.
[3626.0s] Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine.
[3628.0s] Alright.
[3629.0s] He's got a belt.
[3630.0s] I got a belt.
[3631.0s] It's fine.
[3632.0s] There's things and stuff, but whatever.
[3633.0s] You guys camp.
[3634.0s] Alright, see you later then.
[3635.0s] So I shimmy back down that ladder.
[3637.0s] You guys coming with?
[3638.0s] Sure.
[3639.0s] Excellent.
[3640.0s] Well, maybe we stay up here and let him do some talking first.
[3642.0s] Like some dwarf to dwarf talking.
[3644.0s] Yeah.
[3645.0s] Little D to D.
[3646.0s] But I'm sure that's not what that means.
[3649.0s] That's totally pretty sure that's what that is.
[3654.0s] So I go and talk to whatever the dwarf, I don't remember his name.
[3657.0s] Did he have a name?
[3658.0s] Bendy?
[3659.0s] Bendy?
[3660.0s] Is that the letter there?
[3661.0s] Bendy.
[3662.0s] Sure, Bendy.
[3663.0s] Alright, I go talk to...
[3664.0s] I definitely get the D to D.
[3665.0s] Right?
[3666.0s] I go talk to...
[3668.0s] I go talk to Bendy.
[3670.0s] Oh, and I want to see about the camping situation nearby.
[3681.0s] Russ is never going to hang out with us.
[3685.0s] Russ, this is killing Russ.
[3687.0s] We are killing Russ.
[3689.0s] You guys are much more restrained when we're on the Skype call.
[3692.0s] We're not full of sugar.
[3694.0s] It's true.
[3695.0s] It's my fault, it's my fault.
[3698.0s] So yeah, Bendy is waiting down at the bottom there for you.
[3703.0s] Alright.
[3704.0s] Bendy, are we able to camp down here?
[3708.0s] No, no, we got to...
[3711.0s] It's very...
[3713.0s] No.
[3714.0s] Okay, why not?
[3716.0s] Because I mean we've got stuff here that we're trying to guard and we don't want
[3719.0s] to know you, so...
[3721.0s] Come on, you know us.
[3722.0s] We're not down here.
[3724.0s] Stop trying to make it happen.
[3727.0s] I'm going to roll a persuasion check.
[3731.0s] Oh my god, dice.
[3732.0s] I know, right?
[3733.0s] It's been so long since Amy rolled that nat 20.
[3736.0s] It was glorious.
[3737.0s] I got into that building.
[3739.0s] Okay.
[3740.0s] Don't have my belt stats written down here.
[3743.0s] I think it just gives me...
[3745.0s] I'm pretty sure it just adds...
[3747.0s] Belt of Dwarven Kind.
[3748.0s] Your constitution score is increased by 2 to a maximum of 20.
[3751.0s] You have advantage on Charisma, Persuasion, so you have advantage.
[3754.0s] Excellent.
[3755.0s] So I can roll again.
[3757.0s] Perfect.
[3758.0s] That's even better.
[3759.0s] So that is 16 on my persuasion.
[3763.0s] We got a minus one.
[3766.0s] I'm not very charismatic, but that belt really helps when talking to Dwarves.
[3770.0s] Dwarves really like you.
[3772.0s] Yeah.
[3773.0s] It says, you can't, but if they find out that I let you, I could get in some
[3778.0s] trouble, man.
[3779.0s] I mean...
[3780.0s] Well, you guys have someone guarding it at all times, right?
[3783.0s] Yeah, but they don't like people just loitering about.
[3786.0s] They let him stay because he had some sort of pass or something like that from some
[3790.0s] higher up guy.
[3791.0s] I don't want to get into who had a pass to do what, because that's been a hot
[3796.0s] button topic in the news lately.
[3799.0s] The crazy Nazis in Charlottetville were apparently okay because they had a pass.
[3803.0s] They had like a permit to be there.
[3805.0s] I mean, he had like a...
[3806.0s] I agree with that.
[3807.0s] Yeah.
[3808.0s] I mean, he had like some regulation from, you know, some higher up guy.
[3812.0s] Not a pass.
[3813.0s] Not a pass.
[3814.0s] Anyway, that's why we've let him stay here.
[3816.0s] But I'd have to check with my boss.
[3819.0s] I don't know.
[3820.0s] I'd let you stay if it was me.
[3822.0s] Is there an inn somewhere?
[3823.0s] I don't know why you guys like...
[3826.0s] I just wanted someone to roll.
[3828.0s] I'm bored of all of this.
[3829.0s] Let's go to an inn.
[3830.0s] Get an inn recommendation.
[3832.0s] Grantson-sis?
[3833.0s] No, this is Bendy.
[3835.0s] Grantson-sis?
[3836.0s] What are you talking about?
[3837.0s] Oh, I'm not down there with you.
[3838.0s] Okay, that's better.
[3839.0s] Yeah, that's right.
[3840.0s] I yelled down to you.
[3841.0s] Oh, okay.
[3842.0s] To ask Bendy.
[3843.0s] Exactly.
[3844.0s] I put my hand to my mouth.
[3847.0s] I put my hand to my mouth.
[3849.0s] Is there a good inn around here?
[3851.0s] Yeah, I mean, I recommend staying at the Cutlass.
[3853.0s] It's probably the best one in the area.
[3855.0s] It's busy, but they probably have a room for you at the very least.
[3858.0s] How come it's not on the...
[3859.0s] Oh, no, it is.
[3860.0s] So far.
[3861.0s] Oh, it's just way across town.
[3862.0s] Jeez, nothing closer?
[3863.0s] It'll be fine.
[3864.0s] I mean, you can stay at the Red Dragon Trading Post, but they're going to try and like
[3869.0s] sign you up for jobs and stuff.
[3870.0s] There you are.
[3871.0s] At least, you know, you got good...
[3872.0s] And besides, we'll be right close to the Host Tower of the Arcane, so it's fine.
[3877.0s] It's totally fine.
[3878.0s] Let's go.
[3879.0s] Yep, found an inn, guys.
[3881.0s] And he gives you rough directions on how to get there, and you make your way to
[3886.0s] the Cutlass.
[3887.0s] And it is a large building, probably a three-story building, so large for the
[3892.0s] area.
[3893.0s] And you go in, and it is busy.
[3897.0s] It is wall-to-wall.
[3898.0s] People are drinking and cavorting and having just a gay old time.
[3903.0s] There are...
[3904.0s] A lot of D2D happening.
[3907.0s] A lot of D2D happening.
[3909.0s] No.
[3910.0s] Majority of them are humans, and you open the door, and it's almost like
[3916.0s] everything kind of stops for a second, and everybody looks over at you.
[3922.0s] Just for an uncomfortable beat.
[3924.0s] So it's like we walked into a diner in a small town.
[3927.0s] Yeah.
[3928.0s] And then the music kicks back up again, and everybody goes back about their
[3931.0s] business as you walk in.
[3932.0s] I mean, a dwarf sent us here.
[3935.0s] A dwarf that didn't like us that much, so I guess.
[3938.0s] I mean, story checks out.
[3941.0s] Oh, great.
[3942.0s] Time for some awkward small talk with some NPCs.
[3945.0s] We're excellent at this.
[3952.0s] Hey there.
[3953.0s] This is Dungeon Master Russ More.
[3954.0s] Thank you for joining us for the mega episode 21 of Dumbgeons and Dragons
[3958.0s] titled Reunited in Luskin, and it feels so good.
[3962.0s] This really is the first episode that we've played in person in over a year.
[3966.0s] And now that Amy and I are back in Canada, we wanted just to make sure
[3969.0s] that we did at least one session before we head off to wherever we go to next.
[3974.0s] We had a ton of fun recording and being super awkward in front of each other
[3978.0s] as we tried to do all our character voices, and we hope you're enjoying it too.
[3982.0s] Again, sorry for the snacks.
[3985.0s] Unavoidable when you're playing D&D.
[3987.0s] It is pretty long as it is, but if you want to hear even more goofs
[3991.0s] that were cut out from the main feed episode, you can join us on Patreon.
[3996.0s] Over there we've released an extended cut that has some more outtakes
[3999.0s] and bloopers that we left into the show.
[4002.0s] You can have access to that episode and all other bonus content
[4005.0s] we release on Patreon, including our dungeon side-scroller episodes
[4009.0s] right now DM'd by Tom Laird.
[4011.0s] It's a super fun show that if you haven't heard you can get a taste of
[4013.0s] with the first episode.
[4015.0s] It's just a couple back in your feed here on the main D&D feed.
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[4021.0s] including a special holiday card from us to you,
[4024.0s] thanking you for supporting us and the show.
[4027.0s] And we do have higher tiers that have more rewards including episode dedications,
[4031.0s] contributing to future Q&A episodes,
[4033.0s] and having an NPC named after you or in the name of your choosing.
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[4042.0s] Our next episode will be out September 27th
[4044.0s] and we'll be back to the normal sound of the show,
[4047.0s] continuing the trail to stop the cult of the dragon.
[4050.0s] More downtime coming your way with the back half of this episode.
[4054.0s] Trust me, it gets even more awkward.
[4056.0s] I didn't think it was possible, but it does.
[4058.0s] Have a great couple of weeks and we'll chat with you soon.
[4066.0s] We approached the bar.
[4068.0s] Sure.
[4069.0s] Can we get there if I have to elbow my way in?
[4071.0s] Because I love that.
[4073.0s] I'm real pushy.
[4074.0s] I'm like, excuse me, excuse me, pardon me, excuse me, excuse me.
[4077.0s] And I'm touching people as I walk by.
[4080.0s] Excuse me, pardon me.
[4084.0s] As you're handsing your way through the crowd,
[4086.0s] you find your way to the bar.
[4088.0s] And there is a male holder standing at the bar and says,
[4093.0s] what can I get you?
[4094.0s] Room for the night.
[4096.0s] They're talking because I'm the human.
[4099.0s] Of course, yeah, room for the night.
[4101.0s] I would run you a few gold for the night.
[4103.0s] Just the three of you.
[4104.0s] Yeah, and a round of ale for my friends.
[4107.0s] Yeah, absolutely. Where are you guys from?
[4108.0s] As he goes to pour.
[4110.0s] Seems like that's not any of your business.
[4113.0s] You are very standoffish.
[4116.0s] I'm an asshole.
[4117.0s] I got very rude.
[4118.0s] I liked that. That was character.
[4120.0s] All right, yeah, not any of that. Fair enough.
[4123.0s] I'm looking forward and I put the gold on the bar
[4127.0s] and I say, around, general.
[4130.0s] Yeah.
[4131.0s] Yeah, yeah.
[4132.0s] Because I can't remember.
[4133.0s] Like the woods.
[4135.0s] That's where I'm from.
[4137.0s] The woods. Maybe you've heard of it.
[4141.0s] Can we get dinner as well?
[4142.0s] Yeah, we've got some lamb.
[4144.0s] That's, yeah, it's good.
[4146.0s] That sounds great. We'll take three.
[4149.0s] All right, all right, no, no more.
[4153.0s] I mean, I'm an older gentleman, but we'll get you three.
[4157.0s] Yeah, it's all good.
[4159.0s] And he, if that's all you need, I'll go about my business.
[4164.0s] Scared him.
[4166.0s] Oh yeah, he did not like that wink.
[4169.0s] Well, I mean, you guys told him
[4171.0s] he didn't want to tell him where you're from, so.
[4173.0s] Is it around? I don't know what to say.
[4175.0s] I can't remember the names of the cities.
[4177.0s] So he finished filling up your beers
[4181.0s] and hands them to you and says, well, make yourselves at home.
[4184.0s] Here's your room key.
[4185.0s] It's third floor, room seven.
[4188.0s] Thank you.
[4189.0s] You have your beers and you look around
[4192.0s] and yeah, it's a bustling, loud bar.
[4196.0s] There are plenty of humans.
[4198.0s] There are a couple of dwarves,
[4200.0s] a couple of half-orc type humanoids in there
[4204.0s] who are just doing their business.
[4208.0s] Is there a bathroom in this place?
[4213.0s] Is there somewhere we can sit?
[4216.0s] It's a skewer.
[4217.0s] I mean, they've planned for it.
[4218.0s] It is finger food.
[4219.0s] They know it's busy.
[4220.0s] I just imagine standing with our skewer and our beer
[4223.0s] just like awkwardly in the middle of the crowd.
[4226.0s] It's like Carla in real life at every wedding.
[4229.0s] Instead of skewers, there are mini cutlasses.
[4233.0s] Because it's the cutlass.
[4236.0s] We hover by a booth
[4239.0s] because these people kind of look like they're done eating.
[4242.0s] They're settling up how much each one should pay
[4245.0s] and we're just loitering close by.
[4247.0s] And you've already done the mental math real fast for them.
[4249.0s] They don't know.
[4250.0s] Can't really say anything though.
[4251.0s] It's 12.70.
[4253.0s] And so you go stand by a booth.
[4256.0s] You said there was somewhere to sit.
[4258.0s] Why don't you go stand by a booth?
[4260.0s] We were creating a world of fantasy.
[4263.0s] We were creating a world of awkward fantasy life
[4265.0s] that happens to us in real life.
[4266.0s] We're terrible at this.
[4268.0s] It's not a fantasy works.
[4270.0s] I walk in and make a scene.
[4271.0s] Right away, I'm charming.
[4273.0s] I have exact change in my purse
[4275.0s] and my food comes on time.
[4278.0s] Fantasy work.
[4279.0s] That is true.
[4280.0s] That is better.
[4281.0s] I wonder why I'm creating awkwardness
[4283.0s] in my fantasy life.
[4286.0s] You want to drag us all down with you.
[4290.0s] So you go walk to a table that is open
[4293.0s] and you pass by a group that consists of a couple of humans
[4297.0s] and a dwarf and a half-orc.
[4300.0s] And they notice you walking past and say,
[4302.0s] hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, where are you from?
[4304.0s] Where are you from?
[4305.0s] Haven't seen you around these parts.
[4306.0s] He really wants to know where we're from.
[4308.0s] We're new.
[4310.0s] You're new?
[4311.0s] Oh, good.
[4312.0s] What brings you through Luskin?
[4314.0s] I like it.
[4315.0s] What do we want to tell them?
[4320.0s] What do we want to tell them?
[4322.0s] We have a friend in the host tower up there.
[4328.0s] So we're just, we're visiting.
[4331.0s] And a buddy in an airship.
[4335.0s] It's just kind of like hanging out.
[4338.0s] You're meeting a friend in the magical fucking host tower
[4341.0s] with somebody flying over our city for the last three weeks.
[4344.0s] He's a harmless kind of person.
[4346.0s] Which guy?
[4347.0s] The host tower or the airship?
[4349.0s] The airship.
[4350.0s] Oh.
[4351.0s] Well, yeah.
[4352.0s] But he's still been eyesore.
[4354.0s] Eyesore.
[4355.0s] But why are you meeting at the magical place?
[4356.0s] It just gives me the heebie-jeebies.
[4363.0s] He says, fuck.
[4364.0s] Well, fuck, fine.
[4365.0s] All right.
[4368.0s] My brain literally turned off.
[4372.0s] She's laughing at heebie-jeebies.
[4379.0s] How about you?
[4380.0s] You speak better than this lady.
[4382.0s] No.
[4384.0s] Well, I'll be happy to try.
[4385.0s] I haven't said a word the whole time.
[4388.0s] You talked to the bartender.
[4390.0s] Okay, now we can interact with humans.
[4395.0s] Oh my god.
[4396.0s] We can't interact with them.
[4398.0s] If only there was some clue as to why our real life
[4401.0s] interactions were very awkward with people.
[4403.0s] I don't know what it is.
[4405.0s] Oh my god.
[4406.0s] Okay.
[4407.0s] I'm sweating and crying.
[4410.0s] The stare I have on my face.
[4412.0s] So much.
[4413.0s] It's like I caught you doing something that you're
[4415.0s] responsible for.
[4416.0s] At least when we were together.
[4417.0s] I had a whole conversation in my head about like,
[4420.0s] well, I didn't know that's how the host tower was
[4423.0s] viewed from.
[4424.0s] Yeah, exactly.
[4425.0s] But it was all internal.
[4427.0s] We are from afar.
[4430.0s] How are you?
[4431.0s] Kind, sir.
[4432.0s] I'm just trying to be nice.
[4434.0s] Solid, yeah.
[4435.0s] I didn't say that part.
[4436.0s] No.
[4437.0s] Good.
[4438.0s] Just noticed you come in and we just, you know,
[4439.0s] like to welcome people to this fine establishment here.
[4443.0s] That is super nice.
[4446.0s] Isn't that nice?
[4447.0s] Super nice.
[4448.0s] Very nice.
[4449.0s] Super nice.
[4450.0s] Well, good.
[4451.0s] What's your story?
[4452.0s] Where are you from?
[4453.0s] Oh, long time Luskin.
[4454.0s] You know, we've just been working here.
[4457.0s] Pirate ships, that sort of thing.
[4459.0s] Oh, so your regular is at the Cutlass thing.
[4461.0s] Yep.
[4462.0s] Yep.
[4463.0s] You got it.
[4464.0s] Yeah.
[4465.0s] And, you know, we just like to make people feel welcome.
[4468.0s] Didn't mean to make you feel awkward or anything there.
[4470.0s] You just kind of stared off into the distance there a little bit.
[4473.0s] Trust us, sir.
[4474.0s] You had nothing to do with us being awkward.
[4476.0s] Fair enough.
[4477.0s] Fair enough.
[4478.0s] We've had a long travel day.
[4481.0s] We freed some dinosaurs earlier.
[4483.0s] Freed some dinosaurs?
[4484.0s] Where'd you find some dinosaurs?
[4486.0s] Upriver.
[4488.0s] They're this far north?
[4490.0s] Yeah, there were some gnolls.
[4492.0s] There were gnolls.
[4493.0s] I knew it was like a sign of a letter.
[4496.0s] Some gnolls had captured them and brought them this far up north.
[4500.0s] We hope that they travel further south and meet up with their wild clans and live their lives.
[4506.0s] Hopefully it sounds dangerous to have dinosaurs in the forest.
[4509.0s] No, they're super nice though.
[4511.0s] Everything is cool.
[4512.0s] Okay.
[4513.0s] They're going to migrate back to where they're from, so it's totally cool.
[4516.0s] Please do not go after them, or we will have to go after you.
[4520.0s] Makes sense, makes sense.
[4521.0s] I get it.
[4522.0s] Hey, why don't you like the people in the host tower?
[4524.0s] Yeah, the host tower.
[4526.0s] Well, I mean, it just gives...
[4528.0s] Haven't you felt it?
[4529.0s] Like this weird...
[4530.0s] Just got to town.
[4531.0s] Kind of magical...
[4532.0s] It's a 12 hour travel day and we just rolled in.
[4535.0s] We're feeling magical weirdness all over the place though.
[4538.0s] It's kind of difficult to...
[4539.0s] It's been kind of a weird time.
[4541.0s] You're right, you're right.
[4542.0s] Yeah, no, it's a...
[4543.0s] I mean, it's got a weird history of like liches running the building.
[4549.0s] So they say they've cleaned it up, but you never know, right?
[4554.0s] I mean, it's a tower that grows itself.
[4556.0s] So how much can you trust that?
[4559.0s] Oh man, like when he was describing it, I totally thought it was just under construction.
[4564.0s] Yeah, me too.
[4566.0s] I'm glad we talked to this random patron of the bar.
[4569.0s] Absolutely.
[4570.0s] I thought that the tree thing was growing, but not the whole thing.
[4573.0s] Sir, what is your name?
[4575.0s] My name is Badal.
[4576.0s] Nice to meet you.
[4577.0s] And your name?
[4578.0s] Me too, Badal.
[4579.0s] I'm Thea.
[4580.0s] New Laura.
[4581.0s] Flip.
[4582.0s] Excellent.
[4583.0s] This is my friend Ben.
[4584.0s] There's a lot of Ben's in this town.
[4585.0s] Apparently.
[4586.0s] And...
[4587.0s] Out of four people we've met, two have been named Ben or Benny.
[4592.0s] The next one will be Benjamin.
[4595.0s] The next one will be Benji.
[4598.0s] Benji.
[4601.0s] There's not that many weird names.
[4603.0s] They just call this guy Favache.
[4607.0s] Sorry, Favache or Bavache?
[4609.0s] Favache.
[4612.0s] Favache.
[4615.0s] Ben.
[4617.0s] The bartender brings you over your meal and sets it onto the table, which is just beside the group you are talking to.
[4624.0s] I grab one of those mini cutlasses and just chow down on some of that lamb.
[4628.0s] I say, join us at the table.
[4631.0s] I mean, order your own food, but sit with us.
[4633.0s] The bartender thinks you're talking to him, and it's like...
[4636.0s] No, yes, of course, you too.
[4637.0s] You can join us too.
[4638.0s] Do you have a break coming up?
[4639.0s] Sit with us.
[4640.0s] Is that a 15?
[4641.0s] Maybe in a bit.
[4642.0s] I got some work to do, I guess.
[4644.0s] We've got a 15.
[4645.0s] We've also used to work in restaurants.
[4651.0s] Two 15s in a half hour, maybe 45.
[4654.0s] You start smoking.
[4656.0s] You get a lot more breaks when you work in a restaurant.
[4658.0s] That's true.
[4659.0s] You sure do.
[4661.0s] And the group of four there...
[4665.0s] I'm going to give it three names.
[4667.0s] And the other fellas...
[4669.0s] Silent Bob.
[4670.0s] The other fellas' names, yeah.
[4672.0s] We call them...
[4674.0s] We call them the Quiet One.
[4677.0s] That is an ominous name.
[4679.0s] Extremely creepy.
[4681.0s] Does he look creepy? What's he look like?
[4683.0s] He's super friendly.
[4684.0s] That's like us telling people we are the Three.
[4687.0s] It sounds like we're like blind old ladies.
[4690.0s] Like the tapestry weavers.
[4692.0s] Like we should be in Macbeth mourning Macbeth about the future.
[4696.0s] Yes, not at all. Hercules from Disney.
[4699.0s] The four pull their table up to yours, and you sit down, and your food is there.
[4706.0s] We eat.
[4707.0s] We eat it.
[4708.0s] It's delicious.
[4709.0s] Boop, boop, boop.
[4710.0s] I gave back to...
[4712.0s] Oh!
[4714.0s] I didn't rest it anywhere, yeah.
[4716.0s] My finger still hurts.
[4717.0s] Still a little singed.
[4719.0s] No fingerprints on this.
[4721.0s] Life of pride.
[4723.0s] What do you mean liches used to run that place?
[4727.0s] Oh, some time ago.
[4729.0s] I mean, the building itself was built as a stronghold when the town was just called Alusk.
[4737.0s] It was an orcish kind of battlefront, and then that was overrun.
[4741.0s] And then years later, some wizards came in, and they did their wizardy stuff and turned themselves into liches.
[4750.0s] You know, as they do sometimes when they're trying to just own their powers.
[4754.0s] But then they wanted to just have this overseeing power over the city, and this was a whole big thing.
[4760.0s] They were then run out by some other not like-minded individuals.
[4765.0s] And then the latest group here, the Arkane Brotherhood, they came in and they use it as what they say as a place to learn magic
[4775.0s] and learn about all these spiritual things.
[4779.0s] But the tower itself, it gives off this aura throughout the city.
[4786.0s] It just leaves people uneasy.
[4788.0s] We don't like magic so much.
[4790.0s] How are the Brotherhood as citizens of Luskin? Secretive? Helpful?
[4797.0s] I mean, they kind of oversee the city right now.
[4800.0s] They're what you call a bit of the governing body.
[4805.0s] They have the checks and bAlydinces up there, but they kind of keep to themselves.
[4810.0s] They don't really leave the tower all that often.
[4813.0s] Questions? Anybody?
[4816.0s] I'm sure we covered all of this like one year ago when we first ran into the Arkane Brotherhood.
[4823.0s] Back in like February sometime.
[4826.0s] As you guys are discussing, the door bursts open and you hear,
[4830.0s] That's them! Those are the people who stole my horses!
[4833.0s] Oh, this guy.
[4834.0s] I knew he was coming back.
[4836.0s] And he's followed by what looked like four or five...
[4841.0s] There are five city guardsmen dressed in full armor and regalia following in behind him.
[4847.0s] He says, Get them! Take them away! Take them to the gallows!
[4850.0s] Whoa!
[4851.0s] Sounds like a pretty high crime here that he's committed.
[4854.0s] Whoa. Whoa. I stand up. I put down my...
[4857.0s] Like the stockades, maybe. The gallows, come on!
[4861.0s] Sir, your horses...
[4865.0s] Are not back in my stables!
[4869.0s] Thea takes one of those breaths where she's just like...
[4875.0s] Out with the good, out with the bad.
[4878.0s] Did I not say that we would return your horses?
[4881.0s] You did, but I don't see my horses and I see you.
[4885.0s] Did you end up sucked into some sort of alternate dimension
[4891.0s] for what you thought was only a day and a half,
[4895.0s] but ended up being three weeks back here?
[4897.0s] Did you?
[4898.0s] Yes.
[4899.0s] Don't believe it.
[4900.0s] You should consider yourself lucky that we made sure that the horses
[4904.0s] were not also captured by this horrendous person who had imprisoned us.
[4909.0s] And thusly we ended up in this alternate dimension shit.
[4913.0s] You're imprisoned in a portal without horses.
[4915.0s] Yeah. Yeah, that's right.
[4917.0s] You're wrong.
[4918.0s] Interesting.
[4919.0s] Take them away!
[4921.0s] Can you give us time to get you your horses back?
[4923.0s] Trust me when I say we love tiny, clip-clopping, butterhub.
[4929.0s] While this conversation is happening, you see your new friend stand up
[4933.0s] and go to talk to the guards.
[4935.0s] And he says, I don't think...
[4937.0s] Guards! Guards! Come here!
[4939.0s] And all of them just kind of walk over to him and say, nothing.
[4943.0s] Nothing.
[4945.0s] And they walk up.
[4947.0s] He's a half-orc?
[4949.0s] It's the person we're talking to today?
[4951.0s] A human.
[4952.0s] He's a really ugly human.
[4954.0s] Really ugly.
[4956.0s] He looks like a handsome.
[4958.0s] As the kids would say, bubbly.
[4961.0s] Yes. I say, thank you, my friend.
[4964.0s] He was...
[4966.0s] Unbearable. Yeah, unbearable.
[4968.0s] Yeah, he's... Don't rent horses from him anymore.
[4971.0s] I mean, I don't know what you did with the horses or where the horses are,
[4974.0s] but just to kind of steer clear of them.
[4976.0s] I didn't... I would like to keep the horses.
[4979.0s] We love the horses!
[4980.0s] This is what I'm wondering. Can we just buy the horses?
[4982.0s] I mean, do you have the horses?
[4984.0s] In Little Rock, yeah.
[4986.0s] In our hearts.
[4991.0s] Okay.
[4992.0s] When does your business take you out of the city?
[4995.0s] Because you've got a few days before he's going to go knock on the guard's doors again.
[5000.0s] Possibly tomorrow.
[5002.0s] You'll be fine.
[5003.0s] We'll be gone by then.
[5004.0s] You'll be fine. Don't worry about it.
[5006.0s] Thank you again.
[5008.0s] We'll buy you a beer.
[5009.0s] Definitely.
[5010.0s] And some of those lamb skewers, because they were delicious.
[5013.0s] He says, thank you.
[5015.0s] And you carry about your night.
[5018.0s] Unless there's anything else in particular you want to discuss.
[5022.0s] You have lots of fun, and then you go and you crash.
[5026.0s] That's the international symbol for fun.
[5028.0s] It's a lot better than the international symbol for magic that wizards do,
[5032.0s] because that looked like this, and I got confused.
[5036.0s] As you were hand gesturing, you were like, and they did their wizard magic,
[5041.0s] and I was just like, come on, magic is this.
[5046.0s] Special magic.
[5047.0s] Verifying. God damn it. I wouldn't trust those people either.
[5050.0s] That's just a big phallic symbol.
[5053.0s] Yeah, so you tell tales, not in an awkward fashion, of your travels,
[5058.0s] and you hit the hay, and you wake up the next day, and it is bright.
[5064.0s] We go to sleep in an inn, sleep the whole night,
[5068.0s] and I'm not awoken by someone choke-holding this guy,
[5071.0s] or like a dragon tearing him.
[5073.0s] Nothing, we just sleep.
[5074.0s] Wow, I love the colors.
[5077.0s] Cutlass will win.
[5078.0s] I didn't get my things back because of sleeping.
[5081.0s] You're really worried about those two hit points, really.
[5084.0s] I feel like I earned them, but I didn't want to.
[5088.0s] Fingerprints are back. Your fingerprint, just that one.
[5091.0s] It was just one, I was just like, hey.
[5094.0s] But I brushed it off, I was like, eh.
[5098.0s] Like when you try to push your hair back all sexy,
[5100.0s] but you get it stuck in a knot, and you're like.
[5104.0s] I often have that problem, so I know what you're talking about.
[5107.0s] It's the beard twirl, right?
[5108.0s] You're like snappy, like a hangnailer.
[5111.0s] Then I can't remove my, yeah.
[5113.0s] It's real bad.
[5115.0s] Yeah, so it is the morning.
[5118.0s] Oh, let's book it over to the host tower of the arcane.
[5121.0s] I feel like this is just kind of something we need to wrap up,
[5124.0s] because I want to get on that ship and do that other mission.
[5127.0s] I know, that sounds fun.
[5129.0s] For the betterment of the world.
[5131.0s] So you settle up with the innkeeper who you've learned through the night.
[5136.0s] His name is Arum Gardepac.
[5138.0s] Hey.
[5140.0s] That's what his name is.
[5141.0s] Why wouldn't it be?
[5142.0s] It's not even funny.
[5144.0s] It's a very common name.
[5145.0s] Sorry, Arum?
[5146.0s] Arum Gardepac.
[5148.0s] And you make your way to the host tower, and the door is wide open.
[5151.0s] Good, that'll be.
[5154.0s] The same gentleman is standing at the front desk area.
[5160.0s] Wilfrid.
[5162.0s] Concierge.
[5163.0s] Ephraim.
[5165.0s] Wilfrid says, oh, you're back again.
[5168.0s] You're here to see Makoth, yes?
[5171.0s] Yes.
[5173.0s] He picks up some device and kind of whispers into it,
[5181.0s] and a plume of smoke rises up into the air,
[5185.0s] and it floats up and into one of the rooms at the back,
[5188.0s] and then Makoth comes out and she says,
[5190.0s] Neat.
[5192.0s] That's fun.
[5194.0s] Good to see you again.
[5195.0s] I have had discussions.
[5197.0s] She comes down.
[5198.0s] She says, I have had discussions with the magistrates here,
[5202.0s] and they are willing to help you out in your fight against them.
[5208.0s] They are concerned about the portal incidents you've had up late,
[5213.0s] rips being torn and dimensional walls and whatnot.
[5217.0s] Oh, that's not our fault, though.
[5219.0s] Okay.
[5220.0s] Well, whose fault is it?
[5221.0s] Tibby.
[5222.0s] Who's Tibby?
[5223.0s] It's the one who created the portal.
[5225.0s] Yes, but who's Tibby?
[5226.0s] Tibby is a little robot.
[5231.0s] Girl?
[5232.0s] A mech.
[5233.0s] That was modern.
[5235.0s] Yeah, I see the modern.
[5237.0s] Yes.
[5238.0s] Okay, interesting.
[5239.0s] Well, we did not choose to go through the portal.
[5242.0s] We were stuck in a dungeon.
[5243.0s] There was no way out.
[5244.0s] Hopefully beyond...
[5245.0s] Circumstances being what they are.
[5248.0s] Hopefully beyond these troubles that we are having,
[5251.0s] we are able to perhaps meet and discuss these portal,
[5257.0s] portal magics that this Tibby has learned
[5260.0s] and see if we can't get them sorted out
[5263.0s] and figure out what's going on there.
[5266.0s] But your brain friend,
[5269.0s] brain friend, there is a spell of sorts
[5275.0s] that does require some components we don't have regularly here.
[5280.0s] Sweet.
[5281.0s] At the Arcane Brotherhood.
[5282.0s] Request!
[5284.0s] So, we are more than willing to do the spell
[5287.0s] and run the situation for you.
[5293.0s] Is there a host vessel for the spirit that's in me to be put into?
[5301.0s] I ask without any prompting from my friend Bort
[5305.0s] because he knows I've got it back.
[5307.0s] This is one of the components that we require.
[5312.0s] So, if you were to put him not just into the Aether,
[5318.0s] please don't put me in the Aether,
[5320.0s] but rather into a new body,
[5323.0s] that would be better.
[5325.0s] We would require a new body for him.
[5329.0s] Anything particular about this body?
[5333.0s] Just a body?
[5338.0s] Well, I mean the body can't really be dead.
[5342.0s] Okay.
[5343.0s] So, I'll leave that part up to you,
[5346.0s] how you figure that out.
[5349.0s] We also require a drop of your blood,
[5352.0s] easy enough to obtain.
[5354.0s] I don't know, that seems pretty difficult.
[5357.0s] We require diamond as a dust.
[5362.0s] So, brown to diamonds.
[5364.0s] And we also require the amulet of wonder.
[5369.0s] I pulled that out of my back pocket.
[5371.0s] Oh, this amulet?
[5372.0s] This one?
[5373.0s] Yes.
[5374.0s] The amulet of wonder will probably be the most difficult to obtain.
[5378.0s] Most of the other things you could probably,
[5380.0s] well, you have your blood, a new body,
[5382.0s] you just find one, somehow, someway, your call.
[5388.0s] Sounds legit.
[5389.0s] And the diamond as dust you can probably find from a merchant
[5393.0s] somewhere along your way.
[5395.0s] But the...
[5397.0s] So, what you're saying is you literally have nothing you need.
[5400.0s] Oh, there are many other pieces to this thing that we do have,
[5404.0s] but these are the ones that we do not.
[5407.0s] So, you didn't already have some of my blood?
[5410.0s] What a weird coincidence.
[5412.0s] Or a vessel?
[5413.0s] No willing vessels.
[5416.0s] Does the vessel have to be willing?
[5418.0s] Well...
[5419.0s] Better?
[5420.0s] I suppose not.
[5421.0s] I mean, it would be easier, but...
[5423.0s] We could capture a bad guy.
[5425.0s] Put him in there.
[5426.0s] He could take over the bad guy's mind.
[5429.0s] But wouldn't there then just be the same problem of having two and one?
[5433.0s] This is my question.
[5434.0s] We put the second soul into a new vessel,
[5438.0s] does he have to fight the...
[5440.0s] Well, part of the procedure is removing the soul from the new vessel.
[5446.0s] Oh, good. That sounds fun.
[5448.0s] So...
[5449.0s] Remember that horse guy? He was a real jag.
[5451.0s] Nice.
[5453.0s] He's kind of scrawny, though. I don't think we want him.
[5457.0s] My name? Bortnobody?
[5460.0s] We can't hear Bortnobody, but that's a great name.
[5463.0s] Beggars, something-something choosers.
[5466.0s] The Amulet of...
[5468.0s] What did I call it?
[5469.0s] The Amulet of Wonder is probably going to be the most difficult to find.
[5473.0s] It was... the last known location of it was in a temple in Kalimshan,
[5479.0s] which is on the north coast of the Shining Sea,
[5484.0s] and it's to the south of a city called...
[5488.0s] or a region called Tether.
[5492.0s] The capital city we probably know as Kalimport.
[5496.0s] And you would probably want to start there.
[5500.0s] Is this south?
[5502.0s] It's on the north coast of the Shining Sea,
[5505.0s] which is on the opposite side of Faerun,
[5508.0s] which you, as players, have never seen a map of.
[5511.0s] Pretty sure, if I remember my map of Faerun correctly,
[5514.0s] that's somewhat close to where Dantheros is.
[5520.0s] What?
[5521.0s] Because I'm pretty sure I had Carla's character go over the sea
[5525.0s] to get to where she was going.
[5528.0s] It's probably a different time period.
[5531.0s] You might never run into those people.
[5533.0s] It's entirely possible.
[5535.0s] But that temple, not exactly the precise location,
[5539.0s] you'd probably want to start in Kalimport and see, ask around there.
[5543.0s] Obviously this is on your timetable,
[5545.0s] so we are ready to begin whenever you are,
[5548.0s] but there are obviously more pressing things at hand.
[5551.0s] It's up to you.
[5554.0s] Should we ask her if she knows anything
[5556.0s] about that other dragon speaker guy
[5559.0s] that the airship dude wants to go take care of
[5562.0s] from way back in the day?
[5564.0s] Transparency and whatnot,
[5566.0s] we're all supposed to be working together.
[5568.0s] Just that she might know something.
[5570.0s] She might.
[5571.0s] Do for sure have that person written down.
[5574.0s] Wormspeaker leaders.
[5577.0s] Vram the White? Is that who we're looking for?
[5580.0s] In the Serpent Hills, yes.
[5582.0s] And he like went rogue, right?
[5585.0s] What Leosin told you in episode two
[5589.0s] was Vram the White,
[5592.0s] who is known to be a close ally and confident of Severin,
[5596.0s] the cult of the dragon leader,
[5599.0s] has gone missing.
[5603.0s] Or rather, he hasn't gone missing.
[5606.0s] The rumor is his white dragon mask has gone missing.
[5611.0s] But the rumor also states
[5614.0s] that Severin does not know Vram has lost the mask yet.
[5620.0s] Well, no, you don't tell your boss you fucked up your head.
[5623.0s] So Vram was last seen in the Serpent Hills.
[5629.0s] Airship fake name guy.
[5632.0s] Believed to be tracking his lost mask,
[5636.0s] which has been stolen from him.
[5639.0s] But that was the last location he was seen.
[5641.0s] I feel like he's changed his story to stolen from him.
[5644.0s] Not like he's misplaced it.
[5646.0s] He's completely incompetent.
[5648.0s] Just like left it in the back of his cab
[5650.0s] on the boat night from the bar one night.
[5652.0s] That's what Leosin would have told you.
[5655.0s] So I say, McAuth,
[5659.0s] Grancis
[5665.0s] Grancis
[5667.0s] is here to help us on the next part of our journey
[5671.0s] to defeating the cult of the dragon.
[5675.0s] We are going to Serpent Hills
[5679.0s] to look for the white mask of Vram.
[5691.0s] Do you have any information that can help us?
[5694.0s] We all have the same goal here.
[5696.0s] Vram the White was...
[5699.0s] We have heard that he is in search of the white dragon mask
[5704.0s] that was in fact stolen from him.
[5707.0s] He has managed to hide this from Severin.
[5710.0s] Last I heard, something may have changed since then.
[5713.0s] It's been a while since we last heard of this.
[5716.0s] But it was stolen perhaps by a thief with the Zhentarim.
[5722.0s] And last heard, he was tracking it through the Serpent Hills.
[5727.0s] That is really all the information we have,
[5730.0s] but sounds like that's still what they're going off of
[5733.0s] with your guild, Denied Shadows,
[5736.0s] and perhaps what the council at Waterdeep is still going off of.
[5740.0s] Well, it looks like we are going to investigate this further.
[5745.0s] Do you have anything that could help us on our journey?
[5748.0s] Well, when you need the Arcane Brotherhood, we will be there.
[5751.0s] But there is nothing I can grant you.
[5754.0s] I mean, I tried to grant her knowledge of wisdom and magic.
[5757.0s] Shh, turn me down.
[5759.0s] It was a pretty harsh rejection.
[5761.0s] You just told me yesterday I could come back
[5763.0s] when we were done this adventure.
[5765.0s] I could, but I tried to get you right off the boat.
[5767.0s] Yeah, months ago.
[5769.0s] Remember, you come with me, this isn't a trap.
[5772.0s] I don't want to break up the game.
[5775.0s] We're very reluctant to break up the game.
[5777.0s] What are we doing?
[5779.0s] We've got to stay together.
[5782.0s] Aside from separating your friend and his new friend from each other,
[5787.0s] there's nothing I can send you with at this moment.
[5790.0s] Is there anything else you need from us at this moment?
[5793.0s] Because we're going to hop on that airship.
[5796.0s] Knowing that you are back in the fight against the Cult of the Dragon,
[5801.0s] knowing that you are still in the fight against the Cult of the Dragon,
[5805.0s] has appeased the magistrates of the Arcane Brotherhood,
[5812.0s] and they will be in touch with the Council at Waterdeep
[5817.0s] and with the Guild of the Nine Shadows
[5819.0s] in order to find out what needs to happen next.
[5821.0s] But it sounds like you need to catch an airship
[5824.0s] and get it out of here with Grancis.
[5826.0s] Get rid of Grancis.
[5828.0s] Grancis?
[5830.0s] The most popular man in town.
[5833.0s] And us, by association, with him.
[5836.0s] Yeah, totally.
[5838.0s] Makoth, I will return to learn more
[5843.0s] when we have defeated the Cult of the Dragon.
[5847.0s] I guess that's when I'll return.
[5849.0s] I feel you will find more of your abilities along your journey,
[5853.0s] but we would be grateful to help you in discovering those.
[5858.0s] Thank you for your help.
[5863.0s] To the airship.
[5864.0s] To the airship.
[5866.0s] To everyone's favorite, Grancis.
[5870.0s] To the man everyone hates for some reason.
[5873.0s] For some reason.
[5874.0s] Krystrel Zoid's very lovable.
[5875.0s] I don't know why everyone just loves him.
[5877.0s] He could just be an intense personality.
[5879.0s] You make your way back out and you meet the same dwarf at the gate.
[5884.0s] Knock, knock.
[5885.0s] Is he leaving this time?
[5887.0s] Yes.
[5888.0s] Good.
[5889.0s] We're going to go.
[5890.0s] We're going to take Grancis with us.
[5891.0s] Alright.
[5892.0s] Alright.
[5893.0s] He lets you in.
[5894.0s] He gives us whatever we want from the dwarf's trouble.
[5897.0s] Anything you guys need?
[5899.0s] You need some weapons, some armor, some something?
[5902.0s] You got anything cool?
[5904.0s] I mean, it's all like ore and stuff, but I don't know.
[5908.0s] You're fine.
[5909.0s] Just get out of here.
[5910.0s] That's all I'm saying.
[5911.0s] So yeah, he just lets you through
[5913.0s] and sees you climb aboard the airship.
[5915.0s] And Grancis says,
[5916.0s] Alright, so we can...
[5918.0s] She's already gone, but can we get out of here now?
[5922.0s] Yeah, I don't see why not.
[5924.0s] Let's go.
[5925.0s] Alright, so he...
[5926.0s] Let's go find a dragon mask.
[5927.0s] He starts pulling knobs and levers.
[5930.0s] He's like, are we going to go see your horses or what?
[5933.0s] Yeah, the horses.
[5934.0s] Quick stop by the horses?
[5937.0s] I have no idea of the geography of this place.
[5939.0s] I only have a map of the city.
[5940.0s] We left them in a forest
[5943.0s] before we found the Oni, the kid that was the Oni,
[5947.0s] if I remember correctly.
[5948.0s] Oh, so that wasn't that far.
[5949.0s] That was like less than a day's walk.
[5951.0s] How fast does this airship go?
[5953.0s] Quick, perfect.
[5954.0s] We're there.
[5955.0s] Grancis turns all the knobs and everything
[5957.0s] and sets off towards Little Rock.
[5959.0s] You see, along your way,
[5963.0s] three recognizable horses riding in the field.
[5967.0s] I scream out the ship,
[5968.0s] Tiny!
[5969.0s] He says, are we picking up these horses or what?
[5971.0s] Fuck yeah.
[5972.0s] So he drops the airship down and lowers a ramp.
[5975.0s] And you guys lead the horses back onto the ship.
[5979.0s] And he says, if they shit, I'm not cleaning it up.
[5982.0s] Well, the horses, they're definitely going to shit.
[5984.0s] Yeah, but I'm not cleaning it up is all I'm saying.
[5986.0s] Fair.
[5987.0s] But there's not really an if.
[5988.0s] That's all we're saying.
[5989.0s] When they shit, I'm not cleaning it up.
[5990.0s] So just figure it out.
[5992.0s] Also, I'm not bringing these guys back to that jackass guy.
[5995.0s] And then he takes back off
[5997.0s] and starts setting south towards these serpent hills.
[6002.0s] Guys, we played D&D together.
[6004.0s] Yay!
[6028.0s] Music in today's episode was by Kavin McLeod of incompetech.filmmusic.io.
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