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[30.0s] the building, two guards, and one man dressed in foodwares.
[36.6s] who are you and why are you here?
[38.8s] where's macawthin?
[39.8s] where's my bag of holding?
[40.8s] and they say that they saved you, and that they brought you back here, and those
[45.8s] people were gone by now.
[46.8s] oh shut up, welcome, my friends.
[49.8s] we had discussions with the magistrates here, and they are willing to help you
[55.1s] out.
[56.1s] but your brain friend, brain friend.
[59.6s] there is a spell of sorts, that does require some components we don't have
[64.8s] regularly here.
[65.8s] a request.
[66.8s] you might have seen the airship, i feel like that's for you.
[69.8s] let's go see this guy, what name did he give you?
[73.8s] Grancis?
[74.8s] that sounds like, that sounds me now.
[75.8s] oh, you guys are back!
[76.8s] it's been weeks!
[77.8s] and he runs back into the airship, and then you see a ladder just fly over the
[82.8s] edge.
[83.8s] just come on up, come on up!
[84.8s] and you come in and you see him kind of frantically running about the airship,
[89.6s] flipping knobs and turning things, and saying it's time to go!
[92.6s] oh, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa!
[94.6s] i've been waiting here for weeks, what do you mean we can't go?
[97.6s] nope.
[98.6s] where do you want us to go?
[99.6s] well we gotta go down in the serpent hills area, there, uh, bermspeaker, white
[104.6s] mouse.
[105.6s] so like option two that you gave us like way back when?
[108.6s] can we get out of here now?
[110.6s] let's go!
[111.6s] you see three recognizable horses riding in your field.
[115.6s] tiny!
[116.6s] are we picking up these horses or what?
[119.2s] they shit!
[120.2s] i'm not cleaning up!
[121.2s] and then he takes back off, setting itself towards the serpent hills.
[129.2s] welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons, we are a fifth edition actual play podcast.
[133.2s] i am your dungeon master, Russ More, and with me today is Amy More, who plays
[138.2s] Thea Amastasia.
[141.2s] and Carla Johnson, who plays
[143.2s] New Laura Moonbrook.
[144.2s] and Tom Laird, who plays
[146.2s] FlintFirebeard.
[147.2s] hi guys!
[148.7s] we nailed that, you guys.
[149.7s] we really did.
[150.7s] we know who we are.
[152.7s] i got nervous halfway through, but i think we did a good job.
[155.7s] now that i'm not looking at all your faces, it seems a lot easier to do this.
[160.7s] yeah.
[161.7s] it's less pressure.
[162.7s] like when Russ can actually stare at me and like shake his head ever so slightly,
[167.7s] it's too much.
[168.7s] he's doing it right now!
[169.7s] i know who he is!
[170.7s] i know who he is and i don't even see him.
[174.2s] i was just happy to have him stare at someone that wasn't me.
[178.2s] but he did, most of the time, stare at me anyway out of habit.
[182.2s] after you called me out on it, i spread around the love of staring.
[186.2s] one, two, three, switch.
[189.2s] one, two, three, switch.
[193.2s] it was a good time though.
[194.2s] it was a good time.
[195.2s] it was great.
[196.2s] i miss you guys.
[197.2s] aww.
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[304.4s] so on with the game.
[307.3s] onward.
[308.8s] last time you guys acquired an airship with your new friend grancis.
[315.8s] grancis the man who no one seems to like very much.
[321.0s] but we begged for this character too this is all our fault.
[324.2s] i don't remember us not liking him i just remember the entire
[327.7s] town of luskin not liking him.
[330.7s] yeah they were all pretty choked at him.
[333.2s] i mean he spent a fair amount of time there just waiting for you guys
[336.9s] so maybe he just he was very intense and they weren't wanting him or his airship
[341.8s] there.
[342.8s] maybe he kept talking about his sports almanac and buying kept trying to get
[348.6s] people to get like playing magic the gathering with them oh and the townsfolk
[354.2s] hated that idea they were like listen we have jobs and stuff it's a big
[359.6s] financial investment i just don't have the time who has the time i don't
[366.4s] understand it when you explain it to me what's mana is he is he a deep crimson
[374.1s] red yet i think he might be weeping
[376.6s] thanks guys so you uh you know i have feelings too
[393.8s] you set out from luskin in your airship and you went and swung by uh went and
[398.6s] swung by little rock got our ponies and you got your ponies so now you have
[404.0s] three horses on this airship which doesn't really have like an
[408.3s] space for them underneath so they're on the deck nice which you've managed
[412.6s] to fashion away to make sure they're secure in those gusty big gusty
[416.2s] breezes well we missed them we want we wanted them to be like part of
[420.1s] the group yeah absolutely and we definitely didn't want them going back
[423.5s] to that asshole in luskin no that is someone we definitely didn't like and i
[428.0s] mean that will never come to bite anybody back in the butt ever don't see
[432.6s] how it could no you guys have been traveling for the better part of two
[438.3s] days down the sword coast seeing some lovely scenery some burning cities
[444.4s] seeing some some general mayhem occurring in large and small towns
[451.2s] and this you can assume is just various groups and perhaps even the cult of the
[457.8s] dragon asserting their dominance across the land and we're just cool flying
[463.8s] over top like laughing at them this is what i'm this is what i'm going to
[467.3s] ask you you pass by a lot of cities that you know you pass by never
[471.0s] winter it seems more or less intact all of the major cities seem pretty
[475.5s] well well to do right now so never winter seems fine water deep seems
[480.1s] fine it's some of the smaller cities that seem like they've been recently
[485.6s] attacked a lot of them seem more or less abandoned at this point i guess i'm
[489.6s] going to leave that up to you guys if you along your ways have stopped and
[492.8s] looked in these towns or if you've just kind of glanced at them i don't
[497.2s] think we can stop at every burning city i think the best way to help
[501.6s] everyone is probably just get to where we need to go agreed we already
[506.4s] have many things to accomplish on our list what like the second thing on the
[512.4s] list exactly exactly and you know how much
[515.8s] we love cross and stuff off lists oh it's the best it is you see these
[520.4s] cities in shambles and but you you see caravans of people heading
[524.4s] towards the major centers heading towards water deep and never winter
[528.5s] and they seem like they are ahead of whatever attacked them or whatever
[534.0s] caused the mayhem that was brought upon their cities and after
[537.6s] like i said the better part of two days you come up
[541.2s] and uh Grancis yells to you and says uh oh boy we're uh we're uh we're
[546.8s] almost here um almost at the borskia bridge right
[549.6s] where we need to be where we're uh right where the guy was uh
[553.2s] what was the guy's name varam the white right where he was last seen i'm
[556.4s] just going to set her down and then in an open field here and
[560.1s] oh you guys can be on your way and i'll just wait here for you
[563.2s] your old man enthusiasm exhausts me yeah people say that yep yep yep
[570.0s] um and he's busy flipping knobs and switches as he do
[574.2s] and he brings down his airship right in a big field
[577.3s] on the west side of the borskia bridge
[581.0s] and to the east of the borskia bridge there is a
[584.0s] way station settlement that is little more than a collection of tents
[588.0s] and wagons and caravans with some people's
[591.7s] humans and halflings mostly going about and doing business
[595.6s] in this little area you see the borskia bridge
[599.6s] which is a a large pronounced landmark constructed of black
[606.0s] granite and it bears sculpted images of the deities
[609.5s] syric and bal commemorating a legendary battle that they fought on
[615.3s] the bridge during the time of troubles
[617.2s] and if you want to make a history check i can tell you more about that
[620.2s] but that's again up to you oh god it went so far
[624.5s] 14 six for Nulara so i just stare in the other direction i guess
[630.0s] 17 all all three of you know that the time of troubles
[634.1s] is when the gods were forced to walk Faerun
[637.2s] flint and thea you know of the battle between bal
[641.2s] and did they not have uber they did not
[644.8s] have uber do they have people yelling shame
[649.0s] shame at them uh perhaps perhaps yes all right ball
[656.2s] is the god of murder yes syric is a mortal who gained
[664.0s] the divinity from ball when ball was slain
[667.9s] by syric and syric became the god of lies
[672.2s] now ball was slain by at the time mortal syric using
[676.9s] the avatar of mask a sword named god's bane
[680.9s] who then stole ball's divinity along in the story and the in the lore of
[686.3s] that ball was not removed from Faerun part
[689.8s] of his divinity remained in the winding water
[692.4s] around the boars gear bridge where he was slain and his blood having flowed
[696.8s] into the river more importantly ball foresaw his
[701.5s] death and impregnated many mortal women
[706.2s] creating his heirs which later were known as the ball spawn
[711.2s] yeah wow whoa okay ha ha you know that as these
[719.2s] children grew up they found out that they were in fact
[723.1s] descendants of ball they fought for control
[726.8s] of their respected realms and cities one of them
[730.5s] stood up to the rest of them he fought against his his
[736.0s] call to kill and to and to fight and he
[741.1s] stopped the rise of ball again within Faerun
[747.3s] that is what that bridge represents and this is kind of a trading post
[751.4s] built around that and you pass over the bridge and you
[757.2s] enter the settlement and you see like i said humans and
[762.4s] halflings doing business but also a contingent of well-armored
[767.6s] pAlydins who look like they are standing guard and
[773.2s] watching over the settlement and this is the last
[776.5s] known location of veram the white what do the
[780.0s] pAlydin's uniforms look like perhaps you'd like me to roll to
[783.8s] find out uh no no you can you can just look at them
[786.4s] and looking at it but like not not aggressively
[790.1s] not just glancing casual sure you see that they are very clean
[796.8s] and polished very silver and bright looking
[800.4s] steel and on them they're very intricately designed
[804.0s] but you see also an insignia which is the insignia
[808.1s] of the elcher guard which the elcher guard
[812.1s] is the realm within the the southern part of the sword coast
[817.3s] where you are and as a nation of different cities some of which
[821.3s] you've actually been to and they encompass a large portion
[826.1s] of the area that you're in right now some of the cities that are part of
[829.3s] that are el turo triel scornuble burdusk
[834.4s] and in a bore who are all under this umbrella
[838.1s] of protection of these pAlydins and it appears that they are
[842.2s] within this settlement as well let's make friends
[845.6s] i don't know we're so bad at that we are really bad at it but i'm happy to
[848.9s] try did they see us land in our sick ass
[853.1s] airship or were we far enough away that they
[856.5s] did not notice that you were a little far away but you
[860.5s] could see from when you were landing you could see the settlement as well
[864.0s] so you can assume that they saw you but perhaps
[867.2s] you're not the first airship they've seen and being that they are
[871.2s] a trading looks like a trading settlement there are plenty of
[874.9s] caravans and stuff they may have seen many different groups kind of
[879.0s] coming to and from in similar vessels perhaps so it
[883.1s] doesn't look like they're too thrown by
[885.1s] seeing your airship land across the bridge there they're not like ah
[888.2s] demons no okay um maybe we should talk to a
[892.0s] pAlydin first it kind of seems like if they're in charge of the safety of
[896.2s] this area that they would know about
[899.9s] veram yeah like when he was last here this seems reasonable thank you standing
[906.3s] just beyond the bridge at the unofficial kind of opening to
[910.5s] this tent settlement you see two human
[913.6s] pAlydins standing guard they're both very tall
[916.7s] uh or they're both quite tall standing at just over six feet
[920.7s] each one has very pale white skin the other
[924.8s] a lighter brown skin um and the the pale fellow is uh clean shaven
[932.8s] the other one he bears a goatee now which one do you think you guys would
[937.4s] match with on okay cubit oh the first guy definitely yeah you
[941.5s] like him clean shaven oh yeah is this in character it doesn't
[945.4s] matter tom and flint both have big beards
[947.9s] that's why so you know maybe he's like not into uh
[952.0s] he's no beard competition exactly i wear the beard in this relationship
[958.1s] yeah i would just be jealous of someone else's beard
[961.8s] beard envy i get that all the time uh thea walks up to the clean shaven
[968.8s] pale looking fellow i suppose um and says
[972.4s] hello friend and he uh he sees you walking up and
[977.1s] um kind of they keep an eye on you they don't move
[980.3s] in any aggressive manner towards you but he says yes yes hello how long have
[985.2s] you been stationed around these parts um well uh quite quite a while who are
[990.8s] who are you and why are you asking such questions
[994.3s] my name is thea jeez we try and make conversation one time
[997.9s] my name is thea these are my traveling companions these are my buddies
[1004.6s] is there someone here we can talk to that might
[1008.2s] give us some information of a fellow we're looking for
[1011.2s] uh who who is it you're looking for i mean there's many people that come
[1015.1s] through here um but uh i may be able to help you
[1018.7s] or direct you where you need to be my name is
[1022.2s] nohythic and i would love to love to help you
[1026.2s] are you hating on me says no no i'm a man of
[1030.0s] man of faith and i need to uh to talk to god right now talk to god
[1033.5s] right now excuse me god uh who uh i i turn just too little aside
[1039.6s] to new lar and flint and just kind of like should we ask him
[1044.3s] like should we like do we just name drop or like is that gonna look bad on
[1047.9s] us now i'm at a loss i've done the
[1050.3s] introduction i'm stuck who who are we name dropping well we're
[1053.6s] around right yeah oh so by name drop you just mean
[1056.8s] tell them what we're interested in yeah i don't know if that's just gonna
[1059.9s] seem like if that's gonna cause it these are like my trust issues
[1063.4s] coming up again because i feel like yes because
[1066.1s] because russ broke me as a human now i no longer
[1070.3s] like just i have no faith that any stranger is not wishing me harm
[1075.7s] glad i'm not the other that being said in character Nulara
[1079.4s] it's obnoxious so here it goes hey uh we're looking for a real
[1084.6s] powerful wizard uh okay he's a bad dude he's a bad
[1089.2s] dude fair enough yeah that's that's uh so you guys have
[1092.8s] uh you guys are some sort of uh policing
[1096.1s] body or are you well yes yeah well it's kind of we're we do good
[1103.3s] we're basically trying to save the world so yes
[1106.4s] interesting oh well that's i mean world needs saving
[1110.4s] i uh i totally hear you there i know what that's all about
[1113.6s] saving the world so i'd love to help you but you need to
[1117.6s] i've seen lots of wizards coming through here too so you need to give me like a
[1120.7s] description of the fellow perhaps anything he may be
[1125.1s] wearing or a race or
[1129.9s] okay maybe you have seen a dwarf in purple robes
[1136.8s] dwarf in purple robes uh not uh oh not in some time uh
[1144.8s] and then his counterpart speaks up and he says uh
[1149.1s] oh um i i know who might have seen him uh if you go in a little bit there big
[1155.5s] tent uh bolo's tent she runs kind of the pub
[1159.6s] area she was talking a story about a dwarf in purple robes it was again
[1166.3s] some time ago that he passed through here but
[1169.2s] maybe that's kind of who you're looking for yes that's very helpful
[1172.7s] thank you and he says do you guys have like any like badges or
[1176.8s] paperwork or anything that's saying that you're you know you're
[1180.8s] you're looking for things i just say no and i boop them on the nose
[1185.4s] and then i walk toward the uh the tent that he
[1188.9s] directed us to that was just the uh flint and i pull out our badges sorry
[1193.3s] flint i don't want to talk for you i don't know what you do
[1195.6s] oh yeah sure i pull out my badge and say thank you sir
[1199.7s] what is your name uh my name is shoop jow and he looks uh looks over your badge
[1204.2s] and says oh uh from water deep there the cancel
[1206.8s] water deep so yeah uh bolo's uh bolo's tent she she could probably
[1211.0s] help you out she's like i said she was telling
[1213.2s] stories of a dwarf in purple robes so if anybody has talked to you
[1216.7s] might want to start with her thank you so much you're welcome i
[1219.8s] follow theed awards bolo's tent the uh
[1223.0s] rushes ahead about halfway apparently i was making an exit
[1227.2s] yeah uh so you guys catch up with the uh and you pass by these tents and then
[1232.6s] everybody's it seems there's a rotation of things going
[1236.1s] through the city um it's a very fluid settlement you
[1239.6s] could say but you get to what seems to be the
[1242.4s] center of this this tent settlement and there is a
[1246.7s] larger tent than everything else and uh there are people carrying
[1251.5s] steins of of things coming to and from
[1254.5s] this tent and you go inside and it is a
[1257.5s] it is a reasonably busy tavern it is a rough and tumble
[1261.4s] establishment set up in in the middle of the of the settlement in a large
[1265.3s] pavilion yeah inside mostly humans there are a
[1268.9s] couple dwarves and halflings kind of about milling about eating food and
[1273.1s] drinking and behind the makeshift bar is a
[1277.3s] older looking halfling female who's barking orders at
[1281.8s] servers and and serving people up uh beer behind the
[1286.1s] behind the bar there we go on over there
[1290.2s] and she's busy serving somebody else and then sees you walk up and comes
[1294.4s] over and says uh new faces in town there what
[1297.0s] what can i help you out with are you bolo as a matter of fact i am
[1300.6s] this is my establishment thank you for coming in
[1302.6s] uh can i get you some beers some food what are you in the need for
[1306.4s] uh absolutely drinks my friends yeah great great great and some food would
[1314.1s] be great too of course of course uh and then she
[1318.0s] calls over to one of these servers says arden
[1320.7s] make sure you bring out some some food here for our friends here
[1324.0s] and uh she says anything else i can help you with what are you passing
[1327.3s] through for and she's filling up the beers for you
[1329.9s] we all take out our badges and show them to her
[1335.4s] and you've got some badges great great your uh your enforcement staff then i see
[1342.0s] yes ma'am we were just hoping you could um
[1345.6s] tell us we're looking for a for a wizard and
[1348.6s] and one of the pAlydins told us you maybe might have met him
[1352.0s] a wizard uh you got a you got a description of uh
[1355.4s] your fellow there dwarf with a purple robe
[1359.8s] dwarf with a purple robe uh some time ago that i saw him
[1364.0s] but uh yeah dwarf with a purple robe i saw him i saw him
[1368.0s] he was asking about what was he asking about he's asking about
[1371.7s] escorts into the hills when uh so not not the other type of escort
[1376.7s] uh i don't know i know no that's a different tent
[1380.4s] um he was asking he's asking about uh somebody to take him to the hills
[1385.9s] uh the serpent hills there uh when this this hooded fellow starts
[1390.0s] asking him you know asking him his business asking him what he's doing
[1393.2s] here and the dwarf looks him straight in the eye
[1397.3s] then pulls out his dagger and stabbed the tall fellow dead
[1401.3s] he did it right there whoa and then this dead folk he was one of the
[1406.0s] scaled folk from the serpent hills that come down to spy on us you know
[1410.2s] that dwarfs he that dwarf there he's a hero
[1413.4s] make no mistake there but he and his entourage
[1416.8s] shortly thereafter took off straight away for the hills quick as cats you
[1419.9s] know how long ago was this oh let me see here that's about uh
[1427.0s] i'd say a little more than a month maybe four weeks four weeks ago
[1430.9s] gosh guys we would have been right on schedule had we had not made all
[1433.7s] those detours
[1437.8s] and you say they headed up to the serpent hills yeah now north and uh
[1441.5s] north and a little east there do you have any escorts that could take
[1444.7s] us oh maybe sure yeah if you're uh you're
[1447.6s] heading up that way i look back to most people here they kind of run
[1453.3s] caravans you could probably find somebody quite easily if you're willing
[1456.5s] to pay them a few gold if you if you feel you need it is
[1460.2s] there what are the roads like like is it
[1463.4s] like do we need escorts or can we just like
[1466.7s] head to the hills have any of the um have any of the people that went
[1473.2s] with him returned no we haven't seen them since
[1476.6s] they left uh we'd assume that they would have
[1480.1s] perhaps passed back through here if they had other business but maybe they
[1483.2s] just kept going uh going up the river there or they
[1486.4s] found what they were looking for or they got uh or they got you know
[1490.4s] eaten by uh something in the hills what kind of dangerous creatures are
[1494.1s] and then they're hills well i mean you know the you find
[1498.0s] your usual like herd animals you find uh you find some lizard folk that
[1503.1s] kind of roam around there and then i mean there's some hill giants that
[1506.5s] that creep through there uh so there there are a bunch of different things
[1510.3s] that live in the hills it's a it's a wild place um
[1514.0s] but are the hills alive with the sound of music
[1517.5s] uh you know i haven't heard much music out of there but uh if you go up
[1520.8s] there singing i bet you will hear it she's very kind to humor us in this
[1525.2s] way isn't she she's a good business woman i pass her
[1529.1s] some gold to pay for our food and our drink of course and she says oh
[1532.5s] thank you very much and it has brought you your beers by
[1534.9s] this point uh why don't we go sit down and discuss amongst ourselves what we'd
[1539.0s] like to do instead of awkwardly talking about it
[1541.3s] in front of bolo sounds wonderful we nod and take our
[1544.7s] sounds out of character sends let me know if you need anything else and she
[1548.0s] goes back to helping other people there is an open table that you you
[1551.6s] you're fine just yeah what do you guys
[1554.0s] think should we try and join a caravan i mean all we know i think
[1557.9s] is serpent hills for where he was going
[1561.4s] nothing more specific than that uh it would be great if we just went up there
[1567.1s] and there was like a big sign said like dragon that would be amazing
[1572.9s] but varum this way yes i think maybe we should just i mean
[1578.0s] new lar you're really good at going through
[1582.1s] like forested areas right in terrain
[1585.5s] it's true you'd be good in the hills i would assume
[1588.6s] yes is this a forested area dungeon master
[1591.8s] the serpent hills are alive with the sound of they really are
[1599.6s] uh the serpent hills are a swath of badlands mesas and rocky
[1607.2s] plateaus sprinkled with trees and tall grasses
[1611.4s] so yes not really sure yeah i don't know ish
[1615.0s] well i think either way um we will probably just end up getting people
[1619.2s] killed if we go with a caravan true um and if we go with a
[1623.6s] caravan that seems much slower than just the three of us
[1628.4s] scooting along yeah we could even take our horses and cut down our time
[1633.0s] we could take our horses what time of day is it can we get going like
[1637.8s] right now uh yeah you planned it kind of midday
[1641.4s] guys let's pound these beers back eat our mutton and leave
[1645.2s] i order some takeout for uh Grancis oh you are sweet
[1652.4s] i feel like we've just been eating like just the worst food on the ship
[1656.4s] this whole time which he probably thinks is fine
[1659.0s] but you know he probably probably wants something different
[1662.7s] that's really that's kind of you wow she gets you your to-go mutton
[1666.5s] is it just like a shank yeah yeah i just have to carry it back yeah by
[1671.6s] the bone like a turkey leg at disneyland or
[1674.8s] something you can put it on your spear maybe
[1677.7s] that seems unsanitary i've killed a lot of people with that
[1681.5s] you don't clean that well occasionally girl we were probably pretty bar
[1687.4s] pretty bored on that airship probably all our weapons are tip top and
[1690.9s] everything's very clean because you know what else are we doing
[1694.4s] yeah okay yeah okay let's go get our horses let's do this thing let's do it
[1701.1s] we all jump and high five in the air oh amazing i love it when we do that
[1705.9s] you head back out and you head back to the airship saddle up the
[1709.6s] horses Grancis is like uh oh you're taking
[1712.6s] taking the horses there you don't want to take the airship
[1715.1s] no you're just gonna leave me here waiting okay
[1718.3s] okay oh god Grancis do you want to come no i don't have a horse
[1722.9s] tiny is a giant i mean i somebody better watch the airship otherwise some hooligan
[1727.6s] is going to come up here and press all the knobs and buttons and that's my job
[1730.5s] that's my job to push the buttons i'll just stay here the good news is
[1735.2s] you know that we're coming back so you can like
[1738.4s] go into the settlement you can you know you don't have to stay
[1742.3s] at the airship all the time like yeah i think you kind of did in luskin
[1747.5s] well no i went i i mean at the at the end there but they kind of got
[1751.7s] i think they got tired of me so it's a new place new place new people new
[1757.2s] new things happening for me it won't be two weeks buddy we promise
[1761.2s] it's the few days of Grancis that's what we're going to call it that's what
[1764.3s] yeah few lines of Grancis i think there's
[1766.9s] going to be a side episode of Grancis just talking to people it's
[1769.7s] going to be great that sounds amazing okay bye bye Grancis
[1775.7s] okay you guys have fun now i'll just stay here
[1779.3s] try not to fly away okay bye okay okay bye
[1782.8s] okay bye yes mount up and ride towards the serpent hills
[1789.2s] onward buttercup you head north and to the east you're
[1793.6s] traveling through there and it's about midday so you
[1798.8s] get going and how long do you guys are you guys expecting to travel for
[1802.3s] here until we it's time to eat dinner or
[1805.6s] we run into an incident you guys managed to travel
[1809.9s] um about six hours somebody roll me a d20
[1813.9s] 16 uh you travel about six hours from when you left there so it is about
[1818.6s] time you know you're starting to feel hungry
[1821.4s] but it's kind of an open area uh down in some badlands there
[1826.3s] and you haven't you haven't seen much you've seen some packs of
[1829.9s] some goats and antelopes that you've passed by are we keeping our eyes
[1833.6s] open as we are riding for any clues i don't know you tell me well yes i have
[1838.4s] been yes high alert you have seen
[1841.6s] lots of different trails and paths that have been padded down but
[1847.2s] being that you know varam and hubolo said he you know he left with
[1851.9s] with some people they left about four weeks ago
[1855.8s] nothing super fresh or in any direction that makes
[1859.5s] sense to you right now that makes sense four weeks is an awfully long time
[1863.5s] there could have been lots of people going to these places
[1866.0s] i'm pretty sure that Nulara is a good enough tracker though
[1871.2s] is this like did we just go into a notorious frightening place or it
[1876.4s] just has as many frightening creatures as
[1878.8s] everywhere else in Faerun it has just as many frightening creatures so
[1882.9s] there would have been travelers and stuff
[1884.8s] other people coming through this way yeah okay i'll stop whining about
[1888.1s] being an expert tracker then are you guys are you guys stopping
[1891.7s] for food or are you carrying on for a little while
[1894.9s] well we won't travel into the night how equatorial are we here is it getting
[1900.1s] dark uh no you're doing fine still you
[1902.4s] probably have another few hours of uh of travel time i say we can eat on
[1907.2s] our horses and continue on agreed what if our what if our horses
[1911.5s] are tired though is your tiny horse tired no he's fine
[1915.8s] but i was just curious we're gonna say that you can travel
[1918.0s] for another few hours and uh and then your horses are going to
[1922.3s] need a break and you will probably need a break too
[1924.5s] so somebody roll me another d20 i'll roll it this time
[1928.4s] oh no it's doc these dice suck just kidding it's okay you come
[1935.7s] dog it's getting close to dusk and you come across
[1939.2s] a ruined settlement and it appears to be
[1942.7s] kind of crumbling stones and dry wells that are
[1946.7s] what remains of many lost settlements of the serpent hills from a different
[1951.5s] time so you come across that and it is about
[1955.3s] dusk and your horses are slowing down
[1957.6s] let's set up camp in this sure to be haunted
[1960.9s] abandoned settlement definitely not haunted
[1964.1s] place that we're in right now um i kind of like
[1967.8s] can i look around and is there anything that i notice about this
[1971.1s] place any specific significance or importance does it
[1975.2s] look like everyone left in the middle of a meal or does it just look like
[1979.6s] it's old are there are there like feet marks from
[1982.6s] people being dragged off exactly doesn't appear to be any of
[1986.4s] that it it just appears to be a settlement
[1989.6s] that's been long abandoned and neglected yeah it doesn't appear
[1992.7s] that anybody has has camped there recently beyond the usual
[1997.6s] animals in the area have uh have passed through
[2000.8s] fia can you detect magic i could again i have no trust in anything that it does
[2006.3s] like that we're not constantly about to be jumped and murdered
[2010.2s] i do have detect magic uh what do you guys think think we're fine
[2013.6s] my thing is i'm wondering if there is like
[2017.2s] if this is a place that maybe was searched by
[2024.6s] baram for his mask right if like something is hidden here or
[2030.9s] although if he was such a powerful wizard he would absolutely have
[2035.2s] already looked here um i guess russ can you be more specific about
[2040.4s] abandoned settlement like is it half like is it ruins or is it just
[2046.4s] like real old shacks that are still standing
[2050.0s] like what are we looking at it's it's ruins like it's crumbling
[2053.7s] stone like was built many centuries ago okay type bat yeah
[2059.4s] so like half walls yeah may have been a city
[2063.0s] under siege at one point and yes half walls and
[2067.4s] it is yeah it's yeah not a not a ghost town
[2071.4s] much like little rock is now are there any monsters high can i make a
[2075.6s] can i make a role for can i just keep asking is it haunted
[2079.2s] you can do you have a haunt check i don't think that exists does that
[2082.8s] exist no i'm looking for it too i'm like is it
[2086.8s] on here fine um okay i i say we just let it go
[2092.4s] yep agreed we're not getting anything from them well and if there's like
[2095.7s] semi-ruined walls like we can kind of like if we're gonna build a
[2099.6s] fire or whatever like with walls ish to our back even if they're just
[2104.4s] you know like it's some protection more than being in the middle of an
[2108.0s] open field i like that idea right all right we
[2111.4s] build a little fire have a little food tell sing a few songs
[2116.1s] camp stories what how do the songs go yeah tom how does the song go
[2120.6s] oh it's that famous uh dwarven sea chante that everybody is familiar
[2125.9s] with and i don't have to sing oh it's this one in west philadelphia
[2130.7s] born and raised on the playground is where i spent most of my days
[2134.1s] chilling out you know the one i thought you guys were gonna join me
[2136.9s] yep that's the one oh no sorry i thought you were about to change the
[2139.5s] words to make it like warfish oh god i wish i was that good i was
[2144.8s] excited i remembered that the fresh prince existed
[2148.7s] yeah you got really far too oh i could have done way more
[2154.0s] we'll see how many nights we camp so you guys uh sing songs
[2157.7s] and it is now uh it is now sleep time
[2160.8s] i guess we will take rotating watches i'm excited to get jumped in
[2164.8s] my sleep me too no because we're gonna take
[2166.8s] rotating watches i volunteer to take first watch
[2170.0s] i think we should all just sleep at once it seems to work out really well
[2174.0s] for us before instead of sleeping i'm just going to go
[2176.9s] into a trance how long does your trance last
[2179.6s] um i can meditate for up to four hours instead of sleeping if i want to
[2183.9s] well you're only going to you can't sleep you can't meditate for four
[2187.3s] hours we're not gonna be here for 12 hours
[2189.6s] because you have to take your shift you turd
[2198.0s] hey there it's me your dungeon master russmore thank you for joining us for
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[2303.3s] stomp the dastardly cult of the dragon we'll talk to you soon
[2313.6s] i said i could meditate for up to four hours
[2316.9s] i will meditate until it is my turn so you are meditating
[2320.8s] and flint is sleeping and newlara you are
[2324.2s] watching are you keeping the fire low are you stoking it up
[2327.5s] oh no i'll keep the fire pretty low uh donnie is of course with me as he always
[2333.0s] is uh so he'll be like you know flying up
[2337.2s] checking things out if i don't know you know we're just
[2340.5s] hanging out sure sure um so roll a d20 for me
[2347.1s] get that look on your face you're sitting you're kind of propped up against the
[2350.8s] wall and you hear from behind you
[2356.3s] just like a little louder than a skittering
[2359.9s] um but wider than like footsteps and you hear that pass behind you
[2366.3s] uh do the horses react they they don't appear to notice what's
[2371.6s] going on no okay i
[2376.5s] put my hand on my sword just in case like i'm aware
[2380.0s] i hear it donnie kind of senses me like freeze a little bit and so
[2384.6s] he's on high alert yep i don't get up or anything
[2388.0s] because it's like you know i don't want whatever
[2391.4s] it is to uh know that i know it's there but
[2395.5s] i'm ready sure you're doing this you're readying your sword
[2399.0s] are you uh the the half wall you're sitting down
[2402.9s] and kind of back to it how high is is it like
[2406.3s] literally half a wall like i'd have to get up to see over it
[2409.6s] well it's maybe a foot above where your head rests now
[2412.9s] well that makes me uncomfortable uh okay so i'm going to like
[2417.3s] rise up to so that i'm like crouching basically sure
[2424.4s] but i'm not gonna like i don't know what if it's a deer it's not a deer
[2428.6s] ross is definitely gonna try and kill me
[2432.6s] he's losing his shit right now
[2436.6s] yeah so was it it was right like it was behind me on the other side of
[2440.1s] the wall it sounds like whatever it was was
[2442.8s] just on the other side of the wall there i'm just ready
[2445.6s] i'm ready for action you look at you you kind of look
[2449.4s] evaluate your surroundings um a little more and
[2453.6s] the wall does end down about about 15 feet and where you could look
[2459.2s] around the corner to see as well if you don't want to look
[2461.9s] directly up over um you hear the footsteps trudging
[2465.8s] along and it sounds like it's a little bit
[2468.4s] like they're a little bit out of cadence and they kind of stop and scuff
[2473.3s] kind of near the end of this wall oh my god carla just look
[2480.3s] i can't take it i can't handle the suspense uh
[2483.6s] okay i stand up and turn around and look but it's dark so i
[2490.6s] probably can't see anything but i look because
[2493.2s] i what else am i gonna do stand here crouching all night
[2496.0s] you cautiously lift your head up over the wall
[2500.8s] and you come face to face with a goat okay now this is the cat scare and
[2508.8s] he's just fucking with me you're just staring staring down a
[2512.1s] goat who is chewing who's reached down and picked up some
[2516.1s] some grass from the ground and is just kind of
[2519.1s] making its way through and it sees you and kind of takes a step back
[2522.8s] and just carries on carries on walking down
[2525.9s] walking down the path okay night goat i like it
[2529.9s] and uh your watch goes by with no incidents perfect
[2536.4s] who's on next watch did we decide oh i can do it
[2539.5s] i wake up flint perfect see i was just gonna decide
[2544.3s] flint you're up i saw a goat i'm sweet i'm sleeping now oh all
[2550.3s] right it was very intense don't talk to me i'm stressed out
[2554.4s] i'm a really good sleeper i can just fall asleep like that
[2558.0s] so flint the fire is is basically embers now
[2562.0s] so you can you can do what you will with that but you have
[2566.3s] can i stoke it back to life a little bit sure yeah just preparing for the
[2570.2s] night you guys have stocked some some wood and some kindling around so
[2574.1s] yeah you could stock it up a little bit
[2575.8s] you are kind of in a a cove is just of two
[2582.4s] walls that are cornered to each other so where are you
[2585.4s] where are you seated for your watch in the corner where the two walls meet
[2589.9s] roll a d20 for me as a nat 20 about an hour goes by
[2596.0s] roll a d12 for me mixing it up that is a one
[2603.6s] and you start to get it a little sleepy you get kind of like the head bob going
[2610.3s] i am bad at watching and you catch yourself and you're you're
[2615.0s] okay and you're just kind of rubbing your eyes
[2617.5s] yeah just make a constitution check okay
[2623.2s] that is a 14 so you kind of catch yourself in one of these head bobs
[2627.5s] and you're rubbing your eyes and you open
[2629.6s] them up and there is a spider hanging in front of you
[2636.5s] and it uh with 14 it gives you a little bit of a shock
[2640.5s] otherwise your watch goes by uneventful okay man oh god
[2650.4s] just uh i hope those new dice are lucky amy and you just they're not
[2654.1s] you know because they're mine you knock thea from her meditation or
[2661.5s] she's awake from her meditation and flint drifts off back to sleep
[2666.3s] again the fire is burning a little lower
[2669.6s] i stoke it just a little bit no make it
[2673.3s] just roll a d20 for me oh that's a four
[2677.6s] you hear what sounds like a cry off in the distance like in
[2683.2s] oh here it is everybody cry of an animal
[2686.4s] an animal cry not a human cry can i roll to see if i know that
[2691.5s] animal cry and all that nature sure i rolled
[2697.6s] so 19 yeah it sounds like the cry of a vulture
[2704.3s] okay i make note of the direction in which i heard the sound and
[2709.7s] remain non-plussed yep nice vocab thank you you maintain watch
[2716.0s] until uh until the sun begins to come up
[2719.1s] and your night goes by uneventful as well
[2722.9s] another successful watch i do take some charcoal and draw funny pictures on
[2727.9s] both of my friends for funsies nice i look at Nulara and i say i
[2734.2s] mustache you a question and then giggle a lot as you look at me
[2740.2s] with a confused look yeah yeah what's your question
[2744.0s] you're just laughing and i walk away
[2747.6s] onward i dose the fire you pack up your camp
[2751.6s] mount back up and head out onto the trail
[2754.4s] you head north and east further into the serpent hills
[2758.4s] where you pass over a smallish river and on the other side of the river
[2762.8s] you come across a set of tracks they're older
[2766.2s] but there aren't as many around and Nulara you pick up
[2769.7s] in these tracks that it looks like there are about eight to twelve
[2773.2s] humanoid creatures that appear to be traveling
[2776.1s] north together and even more east than your current direction
[2780.5s] i tell the members of my party and suggest that we follow them
[2784.7s] as we have no other leads as to where we're going so why not
[2788.8s] you begin to follow these tracks and you travel for most of the rest of
[2792.3s] the day nearly eight to ten hours without coming
[2795.6s] across anything larger than roving packs of goats and oxen
[2800.1s] but the longer you travel for the tracks being made by this group become
[2804.8s] more and more clear and after nearly a full day of
[2808.2s] travel you happen upon a larger more
[2811.3s] mountainous wall and at the foot of a cliff face there
[2814.7s] lies another city of ruins same as before the city looks like it
[2819.5s] was inhabited long ago crumbling walls but of much larger buildings than
[2824.7s] before you follow the footsteps and they
[2828.2s] track up and down the streets of this town
[2831.2s] along your way you are watching for signs of movement in life but
[2835.0s] nothing catches your eye as you round a large mostly intact building
[2840.2s] you come to a large paved plaza the remains of a fountain are now
[2845.7s] little more than a stone circle set around a
[2848.9s] crumbling hole in the ground leading to a well deep below
[2853.9s] three bedrolls are laid out near the fountain and there is a long burned out
[2858.3s] campfire in the center of them two stone statues stand in the
[2862.8s] courtyard rising 20 feet high behind them a 40 foot high edifice
[2868.2s] is carved into the cliffside dominated by relief columns carved
[2872.3s] with strange otherworldly scenes you see scenes of
[2876.9s] what looks like planets and planes and odd objects and
[2880.6s] depictions of portals and other mystical engravings
[2884.4s] and carvings that seem some of which unrecognizable to
[2888.4s] you the two statues both of which are
[2891.6s] statues depicting two separate colossus the one on the
[2895.2s] right of the opening is a young human male and is
[2899.0s] wearing exotic clothes its face is smashed beyond recognition
[2904.1s] and it holds a bAlydince in its right hand and a cudgel
[2907.6s] at its side its left hand raised as if in a warning
[2912.2s] the colossus to the left is a bearded human male
[2915.6s] wearing similarly exotic clothing the left half of its head cracked off
[2920.2s] and lying at its feet guys i'm guessing ball
[2924.3s] and that other guy yeah yeah that'd be uh it seems like a theme around here it's
[2929.4s] a pretty good guess yeah ball and syric that hey you were
[2933.6s] writing notes weren't you always as soon as he said what kind of
[2938.4s] clothes did you say they were wearing uh exotic i immediately went to
[2944.0s] coconut bra grass skirt and then as you started to
[2948.8s] to kind of elaborate on it i was like no probably not
[2952.4s] okay it looks like some mystical shit has gone down here you guys
[2956.4s] i don't say that quite so loud because it seems like a whisper place
[2959.9s] um is the stone edifice uh it is a door or it is just like a
[2965.6s] huge wall carving um it is a it is a hole in yeah it
[2970.2s] is a it is a doorway it is and then car there are
[2973.5s] carved columns surrounding it i see yeah that and then
[2977.9s] the doorway looks like it goes into this cliff side well
[2983.1s] dudes if i was gonna hide some mystic shit
[2986.0s] seems like this might be the place to do it yep
[2989.1s] um should we tie up the horses somewhere safe and out of the way
[2994.2s] they've got some grass we can leave them some water
[2997.1s] yes i like this idea okay good whatever monster is going to come out
[3000.7s] of this thing i don't want it to hurt the horses
[3003.0s] exactly i whisper to tiny i pet his giant head i'm like we'll be back for
[3007.7s] you let's go i want to fight something
[3011.6s] or discover something as you approach the statues
[3016.5s] you hear the sudden sound of grinding stone
[3021.2s] and the colossal figures turn their massive heads
[3024.8s] their shattered features staring down at you
[3027.9s] and two voices issue forth in unison booming out as though erupting from
[3032.8s] the deep earth halt you come before didyrius
[3037.6s] ether walker and conduit of clairvoyance
[3041.2s] behold ye now his wondrous triumphs didyrius
[3045.2s] extends wisdom and didyrius offers knowledge
[3049.3s] which do you seek i do the polite thing and i like
[3054.3s] i i like bow to one knee we're in the presence of a god
[3059.7s] uh yeah okay i'm on board with that sure
[3062.8s] so i do the same thing sure let's make it three
[3066.7s] you all kneel and they continue to stare in your general direction
[3071.5s] without any response um i would like
[3077.5s] wisdom didyrius shall they speak forth
[3081.0s] didyrius shall grant you what you seek but only if you heed him and
[3086.5s] continue to show proper respect you hear the grinding stone again
[3090.8s] and they revert to their original positions
[3096.2s] um do do we know who didyrius is have we heard of this person
[3099.8s] this is a great question you know nothing of didyrius or what he may have
[3105.4s] done or been doing here okay neato um let's go forth and
[3112.5s] maybe we have more wisdom i'm sorry if i chose wisdom for everyone
[3117.7s] it's okay i thought we all got to choose wisdom or intelligence
[3121.6s] uh who could have known which would have been the good one or the bad
[3124.4s] one i thought maybe we all had our own
[3126.5s] options uh let's go forth into the cavern in the side of this
[3132.8s] mountain sure let's do it you enter this
[3136.1s] cave of wonders and you enter kind of an
[3141.4s] antechamber of sorts and while an illusion still shows a tomb with
[3147.5s] gilded carvings and silver sensors it appears that these are mere shadows
[3153.7s] and it looks like perhaps looters have defaced
[3157.2s] and ruined the relief carved walls and the sensors are long gone
[3164.2s] set between the carvings are a dozen alcoves recognizable as
[3168.0s] funerary niches though these contain only splinters of bone
[3173.5s] at the far end of the chamber a stone door hangs a jar
[3177.4s] marks on the door and frame indicate that it was recently forced
[3182.2s] i guess like should i look like run up
[3186.1s] run roll a perception check or an investigation check like to see if
[3192.0s] there's anything else in this room to stop us from
[3197.2s] like a trap or something yeah like just if
[3200.4s] you know i don't want in like three episodes to be like
[3204.4s] oh the mask was sitting in one of those funerary niches you should have
[3207.6s] looked damn it i look around
[3213.3s] i'll do a roll you want me to do a roll yeah for sure okay
[3217.2s] uh what is the like investigation or perception
[3222.4s] uh perception perception you're trying to perception is what you
[3226.6s] notice just at a glance so you walk into a room and it's just what you see
[3230.1s] investigation is when you are actively looking for something
[3234.5s] okay well i'm not really actively looking for something particular
[3238.2s] so i guess i'll roll a perception that is a 14
[3242.5s] you just see that there have been footsteps
[3245.6s] um that have kind of stirred up some of the dirt and dust
[3249.5s] um and that that the door in front of you
[3253.3s] has um recently been looked like it's been
[3257.3s] forced open and perhaps some of the the hinges
[3261.1s] which are all carved from stone have shattered
[3264.6s] a little bit based on something or someone pushing the door open
[3269.7s] uh in our direction or coming out going
[3273.1s] into this room yeah yeah that's a good question
[3277.5s] like oh we already missed the monster it already left perfect
[3281.1s] um okay well i'm i'm happy to keep on rolling
[3285.9s] yeah and by rolling i mean walking not rolling which is also the thing you can
[3289.6s] do in this game we walk forward through the door
[3292.4s] it's for work i was planning the session i thought you were i don't know
[3296.0s] i forgot to plan the intro
[3302.7s] yeah but nobody wants to play with me
[3306.5s] now's not the time yeah anyways if you want to play magic with
[3312.1s] me just hit me up on twitter lonely rust.com
[3328.4s] i would absolutely do that but amy was like uh you know rust we're moving
[3332.4s] away and then tom and carla would have to
[3334.3s] buy cards and i was like yeah that i mean it's like a solid it's a it's a
[3339.0s] monetary investment in something you're not sure you
[3344.0s] oh his face oh oh would it be investigation if i'm looking
[3348.4s] specifically for a trap yeah if you're looking for something
[3351.9s] in particular yeah it would be investigation
[3354.2s] well shit that's a nine what kind of trap are you looking
[3359.5s] like a mechanical trap or like a pressure plate yeah kind of like
[3363.3s] that it's littered with bodies in this
[3366.2s] chamber that's a long narrow-ish
[3370.7s] hallway not bodies bones okay i'm just uh still it would have been bodies at
[3375.4s] one point um and there's a door at the end this
[3379.6s] just smells trap it's just smells of trap you guys have stopped
[3384.2s] i assume in the front of this room okay um you notice no
[3389.7s] noticeable pressure plates looking around
[3393.6s] um you don't see any any signs of any like dart do i see any rocks around
[3401.6s] me um stones big bones yeah i mean a skull
[3407.0s] perhaps yeah i i pick one up and i throw it
[3409.6s] into the middle of the hallway now i'm just desecrating well you
[3413.5s] picked up a shattered skull and it throw it and it bounces and
[3417.5s] rolls into the center of this room and nothing
[3420.4s] appears to move or react in any way to that
[3424.5s] to that movement you don't see it shall we move forward
[3428.5s] cautiously i like it okay we move forward cautiously you
[3435.2s] slowly walk forward into this room what order are you going in here i'll
[3440.1s] go first yeah i was gonna say a human meat shield
[3444.0s] well too orrish but yeah yeah oh no i bet you're shielding humans
[3447.8s] oh i'm not human so flint as you pass the halfway point of this room
[3455.0s] the sound of grinding stone announces the statues turning their
[3461.7s] cowled heads to follow your movements
[3468.0s] what do you do i just kind of look at them and like
[3472.2s] kind of nod my head at them like what's up
[3476.0s] you look into them and you look into the darkness of their hoods
[3484.5s] make a wisdom saving throw oh no so one of my weak ones guys that
[3491.6s] is a seven as if he needs more things in his head
[3496.5s] you are
[3501.2s] yeah uh yeah i made a roll for board there
[3504.2s] you look into which seems to you now to be the darkest black you have ever
[3510.9s] seen and your gaze is
[3516.4s] held by the dark gaze within the stony cow
[3523.7s] you begin to hear the statue whispering impossible secrets
[3532.2s] things that you can't quite piece together
[3535.6s] right now make an intelligent saving throw again one of my strong suits
[3543.4s] oh that was all right 16 thea newlar what are you doing as flint is
[3547.5s] staring into these i looking kind of has he stopped
[3552.8s] moving stop moving and he's staring into the
[3556.9s] the cowl one of these statues i look at new lar and i say don't
[3561.1s] don't look at the statues i think um much like we did at the
[3565.6s] entrance it was so smart when thea did it
[3568.7s] because it told us to be respectful right
[3572.1s] so i drop to a knee and like lower my gaze
[3575.9s] i i follow suit and i i pull i i pull flint down with us
[3583.2s] flint doesn't move okay well but flint you
[3588.2s] after a brief time you begin to understand
[3593.7s] the world that you're entering in the world that you're in
[3597.0s] more accurately and for the next 24 hours
[3601.0s] you gain advantage on intelligence checks
[3605.8s] and your gaze snaps clear of this statue
[3609.7s] and you shake your head a moment and you're back
[3614.0s] and you see thea and Nulara kneeling towards these statues
[3622.8s] you okay buddy
[3626.4s] uh i don't know
[3630.7s] neat let's go
[3635.2s] did the statues move their heads back or they still
[3638.7s] i guess they they're still locked on you
[3644.1s] okay and i'm scared to look it just like froze our friend
[3648.9s] and i don't know i think i would just try and like keep walking
[3653.8s] yeah let's let's let's go uh yeah flint you
[3657.2s] you experience just like a bombardment of
[3660.7s] whispers and like multiple voices talking to you
[3666.2s] you picked some things up but nothing that really sticks as to what the
[3670.8s] meaning might be right now um but you know that
[3675.6s] whatever you've heard may help you going forward
[3679.0s] okay question so i didn't actually like you didn't
[3682.9s] i didn't actually hear like you didn't say
[3686.3s] something particular and i just missed it it's just like a
[3689.2s] cacophony of voices that i've somehow kind of filtered through
[3692.7s] it didn't seem like it started off as gibberish and it started off as just
[3697.4s] sound in your head that you couldn't break and you couldn't remove your
[3700.8s] gaze from um but you began to pick things out
[3704.8s] so nothing that really sticks in your mind right now but you feel that
[3710.4s] you have gained some sort of knowledge that
[3714.7s] may help you going forward into these chambers
[3717.9s] okay oh and so russ they don't like they don't know what was happening when
[3722.8s] i was frozen correct no they didn't hear any of the voices
[3725.8s] or anything like that okay they just saw they just saw you
[3729.1s] freeze in place staring directly at one of the statues
[3732.2s] i kind of shake my head and say did you guys hear that
[3737.4s] hear what hear what no obviously no i i don't really know how to explain it
[3743.3s] all right yeah let's just keep going he seemingly brushes off whatever
[3746.6s] happened to him and carries forward at a
[3749.3s] a bit of a speedier pace and as you guys continue walking through this the
[3753.3s] the heads of these statues follow you to the end
[3756.8s] and you reach the door at the end it opens
[3760.6s] and enters into another chamber with a high vaulted
[3764.6s] dome with a deep inset ledge circling the room
[3768.5s] about 10 feet wide and 15 feet up the floor here is set with a beautiful
[3775.7s] tile mosaic showing a knight in plate armor
[3779.9s] wielding a glowing sword against a chimera
[3784.8s] the room is nearly darkness now but you make out the faint outline of a
[3790.8s] door on the left wall of the room and
[3794.0s] written on that door in bright white chalk
[3798.3s] is the word safe
[3819.1s] music in today's episode was by Kavin mcleod of incompetech.filmmusic.io
[3824.4s] my name is thea these are my traveling companions these are my buddies my
[3832.6s] right and left hand it's flin fire beard and now we're on the brights's
[3838.3s] right come on down come on Nulara
[3843.4s] moonbrook come on down i apologize for this
[3846.8s] Dumbgeons and dragons is a dumb dragons production