[0.0s] previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[30.0s] we're gonna open them out like the Wizards of Thay.
[32.0s] there's a couple guys stationed or they were last stationed at Xanthels Tower.
[36.0s] you're gonna find Naer Gotht Blade Lord, Jorgen Pawl, Iskander.
[39.9s] he's there too.
[40.9s] they don't want Tiamat to come back, they want power for themselves.
[43.4s] you guys got shrunk down.
[44.4s] a whole bunch of tiny frogs are coming out for the sock.
[50.6s] and you fly towards Gransys as he's just ducking in and you see his head kind
[55.5s] of poke back out.
[56.8s] Squish him!
[58.1s] Grants us looks over to us like,
[59.8s] I was right.
[60.9s] These were the grunts that I accidentally shrunk.
[63.7s] I've been talking to their head honcho here
[65.7s] and he seems to think that we can settle the differences.
[69.9s] There's apparently also something else that I,
[72.8s] I'm still not a hundred percent sure what it is.
[74.7s] Shut up, what do we have to fight?
[76.4s] I don't know.
[77.3s] I'd love some sort of weapon
[78.9s] if we're fighting something.
[80.2s] They're gonna give us some weapons.
[82.5s] They lead you to what looks like
[85.7s] an open coliseum or arena
[88.7s] and they push all five of you through this door
[91.6s] and the big gate slammed shut
[93.5s] and stepping out is a giant white sock dragon.
[98.8s] That's my sock!
[100.2s] And it lets out a moaning, dry bellow.
[104.9s] So they're gonna let us go.
[106.9s] I just have to make sure that I get them back
[109.0s] to where they came from.
[110.3s] So you guys have drinks and you rest.
[112.5s] The next day you are called upon by Leosin
[116.6s] and he leads you to where the council
[119.7s] is having their meeting and he opens the door
[122.5s] and you see the entire council chamber
[125.4s] barking and yelling at each other.
[127.9s] It's mayhem and chaos.
[131.9s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[134.2s] We are a D&D fifth edition actual play podcast.
[137.3s] I am your dungeon master, Russ More
[139.2s] and with me today is Tom Laird.
[141.4s] Whoa, surprise order, that's me.
[143.5s] I play FlinkFirebeard.
[145.0s] And Carla Johnson.
[146.6s] Hey, how's it going?
[147.6s] I play new Laura Moonbrook.
[149.1s] And Amy More.
[150.5s] Yes, I am.
[151.4s] I play Thea Amastasia.
[153.3s] Welcome, everybody.
[154.5s] Thanks for having us, Russ.
[156.3s] Thanks for being on the show.
[157.9s] Happy to be here.
[159.2s] Thanks for picking up that Skype call.
[162.6s] I really appreciate it.
[163.5s] Even though it's Tom's birthday,
[165.2s] wish everybody Tom, wish everybody Tom birthday.
[170.7s] I would like to wish all the listeners.
[172.9s] Everybody birthday happy.
[174.5s] Hashtag wish everybody a Tom birthday.
[178.2s] Happy birthday, Tom.
[179.2s] Happy birthday.
[180.1s] Happy birthday, Tom.
[181.1s] Way to celebrate it with our 30th episode.
[184.5s] Yeah.
[185.7s] Tom, you're turning 30, right?
[188.2s] Sure, we'll go with that.
[190.2s] I'm sure there's a three in it.
[191.9s] It does start with a three.
[193.5s] There you go.
[194.3s] Nailed it.
[195.1s] Yeah, well then we're good, solid.
[197.2s] So Patreon, you get an episode dedicated to you.
[200.3s] Like today, our episode dedication is to Gabriel Lynch.
[205.3s] Hey, Gabe.
[206.4s] Thank you, Gabriel.
[207.3s] Thank you, Gabriel.
[208.5s] Thanks, Gabriel.
[209.3s] For supporting the podcast.
[210.9s] We really appreciate you,
[212.1s] as well as all the other amazing people out there.
[215.4s] All right, fuck it.
[216.2s] Let's play D&D.
[219.1s] He's second week in a row.
[220.9s] He is feisty.
[222.1s] That's it now.
[222.9s] That is how we start a game.
[224.5s] I like it.
[225.7s] It's aggressive.
[227.5s] It's final.
[229.0s] We're not fucking around anymore.
[230.2s] No more Chitter-Chatter.
[231.6s] Except now we're gonna get into all the Chitter-Chatter.
[235.5s] Welcome to the council session
[237.7s] where we talk for two hours.
[239.8s] Oh, shit.
[240.7s] I just heard everyone turn off the podcast
[243.0s] simultaneously.
[243.9s] Oh, come on.
[244.7s] This is gonna be much better than episode two.
[246.9s] Yep, they've already swiped left
[248.7s] and that little delete option
[250.9s] is just hovering right there.
[251.7s] Tune in to the very end
[252.8s] when we all compliment each other a whole lot.
[255.2s] I'm gonna listen to it at the very end, though.
[258.6s] None of this skipping through stuff.
[260.5s] Yeah.
[262.8s] There will be a quiz.
[264.2s] There will be a quiz.
[267.0s] You enter the council chamber
[269.5s] and unlike the last time you were here
[272.1s] where there was quiet and order,
[275.5s] the entire room seems to be erupting
[278.7s] in argument and chaos.
[281.9s] You hear much heated discussion
[284.6s] about the death or suicide
[286.9s] of an aide from Neverwinter
[289.1s] who, Leosin mentioned,
[290.7s] had been reported as having hanged himself.
[295.1s] You see and hear an argument
[297.0s] between who you remember as Delaine Winterhound
[300.6s] of the Emerald Enclave
[302.3s] and King Melandrech,
[304.3s] the Elven King of the Misty Forest,
[306.8s] who is waving off concerns from Delaine
[310.3s] about dragon attacks in the Misty Forest
[312.7s] saying the elves have increased their patrols
[314.9s] and fortified their positions.
[318.1s] During all of this,
[319.3s] you see Lady Leral Silverhand
[322.5s] quietly observing the room
[324.1s] from the head of the council table.
[327.2s] And then from behind you,
[329.0s] you hear the heavyset footsteps
[331.6s] of Lord Dagult Neverember
[333.3s] as he strides past you
[335.1s] in followed by a human woman
[337.7s] who is very well dressed in silver robes.
[341.9s] You feel drawn to her presence
[343.7s] even more than the regal Lord Neverember,
[346.7s] but you do not recognize her
[348.3s] from the previous council session.
[351.1s] Lord Neverember sits at Lady Silverhand's right
[354.2s] and the woman following him sits beside him.
[357.7s] You enter the room further
[358.9s] and catch the eye of Lady Silverhand
[361.1s] who calmly says above no more
[363.9s] than a quiet conversation level,
[366.7s] council is in session.
[369.5s] Be seated.
[371.7s] Everyone quiets in the room
[375.2s] and goes to their seat.
[377.4s] There are four open seats
[378.9s] between Delaine Winterhound and Anthar Froome
[382.1s] who sees you hesitating by the door
[384.2s] and calls you over.
[385.9s] Come on now, you're as much a part of this as any of us.
[388.2s] Sit down and let's begin.
[390.6s] Yes, sir.
[391.5s] I stride over and I take a seat beside Anthar.
[395.4s] Yeah, of course, yeah, I just go sit down.
[397.0s] Yeah, yeah, yeah, just go and sit down.
[399.4s] Frances says,
[400.3s] so, okay, yeah, let's go sit down there, okay, yeah.
[402.8s] Oh boy.
[403.6s] I thought we ditched him.
[404.5s] I looked behind me and I was like,
[405.3s] have you been here the whole time?
[407.2s] Frances is still with you.
[409.5s] So tired all of a sudden.
[412.4s] Frances pulls up a chair
[413.8s] and scoots really close to Nulara
[416.5s] and says, oh, what do you think is gonna go on here?
[420.9s] Shh, just be quiet, please.
[425.7s] Everybody kind of, oh, yeah, okay.
[429.5s] It's been a while since I've been one of these.
[430.7s] I just don't remember how it goes.
[432.6s] Everybody kind of looks over in his general direction.
[435.9s] He's like, okay, sorry, yep.
[438.7s] As everybody's seated and settles in,
[441.3s] Lady Silverhand says,
[444.3s] ladies and gentlemen, we have much to discuss
[448.1s] and not much time to discuss it, unfortunately.
[451.2s] Our goal here today is to learn what we can
[454.7s] from our deputized investigators,
[457.5s] what they have learned and gained.
[460.7s] Second is to hear what is occurring in our various regions
[465.1s] and determine the correct course of action moving forward.
[470.1s] Flint, Thea, Nulara and Grancis,
[473.1s] what can you tell the council of your findings?
[476.8s] Oh, wow, Grancis is a part, he's, we are.
[480.1s] He has been assigned to you.
[481.9s] We are.
[483.1s] No one else wanted him.
[485.4s] I'm part of the team.
[488.6s] Oh, nobody's gonna jump in, I'll jump in.
[490.3s] What do you got?
[491.7s] Thea tries to just squash the feeling
[493.8s] of like really being trapped, like shackled to this man.
[500.7s] I'm really torn between just letting him talk
[502.9s] because I kind of want that to happen.
[505.3s] Yeah, me too.
[507.9s] Yeah, I say, I'm sorry, can you repeat the question?
[511.4s] I completely blacked out after the part
[513.1s] that you said that we're all together.
[514.4s] Since the last council meeting,
[517.9s] tell us of your findings.
[519.4s] Tell us of what you have found, your adventures
[522.8s] and where you come today.
[525.1s] It has taken you a little bit longer
[526.8s] than we had anticipated.
[528.7s] So something must have gone on.
[531.6s] Shit, he's making us recap, bitches.
[535.1s] It's the beginning of the year in episode 30.
[538.3s] God damn it.
[539.6s] And there's a song.
[541.8s] Let's start at the end.
[544.3s] We captured Ver'Am the White
[546.6s] and we've brought him here to you.
[549.5s] Oh, we're Quentin Tarantino-ing this bitch, I get it.
[554.1s] Who's Quentin Tarantino?
[556.8s] He works down the street.
[557.9s] He starts at the end of his stories all the time
[560.2s] and works backwards.
[561.6s] Interesting.
[562.8s] Yes, Ver'Am, he has been in interrogation
[565.1s] and he has told us some surprising things
[568.5s] about the cult.
[569.8s] How much do you believe what he says?
[573.1s] What did he say?
[574.7s] We really didn't get a chance to thoroughly talk with him
[578.7s] as we brought him straight to you.
[580.7s] He told us that you had a thorough conversation
[583.6s] about the goings on of the locations
[586.9s] of the Cult of the Dragon
[588.7s] and various people who may be swayed to our cause.
[592.4s] They have the Drakorn.
[593.7s] Remember, that's why we left,
[595.2s] originally was to go searching to see about that.
[600.2s] Yes.
[601.7s] They got it.
[602.9s] They wanna use it.
[604.0s] So no surprise there,
[608.2s] I guess, just confirming what we all suspected.
[612.9s] The wizards of Fae are going to cast a spell
[616.4s] that we'll call Tiamat.
[618.0s] There are people within their organization
[621.4s] who can be swayed.
[623.7s] They are, I have a list of things here.
[627.8s] They are in Xanthal's Tower,
[632.1s] Nargoth, Bladelord, Jorgen Paul, Iskander.
[636.5s] These sound like people
[637.6s] I've definitely heard of before.
[639.3s] And who are these people
[643.0s] in relation to how the cult is run?
[646.3s] These are groups that are helping
[647.5s] the Cult of the Dragon, I believe.
[649.3s] I believe Bladelord fears that Severin
[653.7s] will succeed in his plan
[655.1s] and Tiamat will end up destroying the cult.
[657.0s] And so he definitely doesn't want that.
[659.0s] He could be convinced to work on our side.
[664.9s] He wants to bring back the,
[666.5s] this is what it looks like my notes say,
[668.3s] Draco Bitches, but I bet it says Draco Liches.
[672.2s] Probably liches, not bitches.
[674.9s] Is that Jorgen?
[676.2s] That is Nargoth.
[678.1s] Yes, the Draco Bitches.
[679.5s] I haven't heard of them, but the Draco Liches, yes.
[682.5s] Then I wrote some hippogriffs
[683.7s] and that was the most exciting thing that happened.
[685.9s] So I have no further memories.
[688.3s] Oh, that was the big Harry Potter episode.
[690.4s] I remember that one.
[691.3s] We hear that you have swayed
[693.2s] the Arcane Brotherhood to our cause.
[696.8s] I didn't really think it took much swaying.
[699.5s] Yeah, they're on board for helping.
[701.5s] They are a great asset.
[703.1s] How did you go about bringing them onto our side?
[708.3s] We returned Macoth from her icy prison
[712.9s] and they seemed pretty amiable after that.
[716.7s] Icy prison, where was she being held?
[719.5s] She was the prisoner of the ice dragon,
[723.0s] whose name is?
[724.3s] Aruthator. Aruthator.
[726.3s] There it is. Or agruthator.
[729.1s] Yeah. Or,
[730.6s] all variations of those words.
[733.0s] Yes. Of course, of course.
[734.5s] And what of Aruthator?
[737.5s] As he is known to have dealt with the cult of the dragon.
[741.0s] Yes, he's the one who sold them the Dracorn.
[744.2s] Interesting.
[745.3s] And he is studying magical tomes, right?
[750.9s] To become-
[751.8s] He's wanting, yeah,
[753.1s] he's wanting to procure his own magic and spells.
[758.8s] And so Macoth was there helping,
[762.0s] translating with all the books
[764.1s] from the Arcane Brotherhood.
[766.1s] You see Heads nod around the room
[768.8s] and to your left, Anthar kind of grunts,
[772.3s] and he's like, you know, the Arcane Brotherhood,
[775.8s] I seem to be the only one here
[777.3s] who doesn't think this is a good idea,
[779.0s] but they've been known to harbor some evil,
[781.2s] evil wizard types.
[784.1s] Oh, oh, oh, what's that damn elf wizard bitch's name?
[790.7s] Is that-
[791.5s] Primsbane. Primsbane?
[793.9s] Oh, fucker.
[795.8s] Was he part of the-
[797.9s] You don't know.
[798.8s] Oh, well, I will ask.
[801.5s] Does the name Thelonious Primsbane
[803.8s] mean anything to any of you?
[806.0s] You see a look of not much recollection
[809.8s] among anybody in the room.
[811.3s] Well, he's like a little bit of a loose end.
[813.8s] He kind of, he's kind of after us a little bit.
[819.6s] I just want to go full disclosure here.
[821.9s] I look over to Flynn Newar
[825.4s] just to get like the, like,
[829.9s] Lady Silverhand says,
[831.7s] is it something of urgent concern
[834.4s] that we should look into?
[836.5s] I don't know,
[837.3s] but he seems like the kind of guy
[838.7s] who could just like pop up at any moment, you know?
[841.7s] Hmm, interesting.
[843.3s] It's kind of like a side plot bad guy.
[846.3s] Oh, was he a side plot bad guy?
[849.1s] No one knows exactly when those characters pop up.
[852.9s] Okay, well, we weren't able to defeat him,
[856.5s] which is really a thorn in my paw,
[860.8s] but I can't remember where I was going with this.
[864.3s] I seem to be the only one who doesn't like this,
[866.3s] so I'll just keep quiet over here.
[869.1s] Okay, good, good.
[870.5s] Looks to you, he's like,
[871.3s] I still don't like you.
[872.5s] I pat his thigh.
[875.7s] Inner thigh.
[877.2s] Oh my goodness.
[879.4s] He gives you a wink and a nod.
[880.9s] Oh, what about the thumbs up?
[883.8s] No thumbs up.
[884.7s] Oh, okay, I haven't quite reached thumbs up status yet.
[887.5s] Yeah.
[889.6s] You know, he's a human.
[890.8s] It's a dwarf thing, obviously.
[892.1s] Oh, fair enough.
[893.7s] I'm confused.
[894.5s] I've been flirting with so many different characters.
[895.9s] Sure, yeah.
[896.8s] It's just, it's kind of been.
[898.4s] So, sorry, Ruthatar was killed?
[901.5s] No, we fought him, but he managed to get away.
[905.3s] Wounded severely.
[907.8s] Well, that is something.
[909.9s] It takes dragons quite a while to recuperate.
[915.0s] So, maybe he will be out of the fight
[917.2s] for long enough to help us.
[920.4s] So, the Arcane Brotherhood is working with us.
[926.0s] You mentioned there's a rogue wizard and Varam.
[932.5s] Where did you find Varam and?
[934.9s] Varam had lost his mask, and he was.
[941.5s] His white dragon mask.
[942.7s] And he was trying to find it, and we found him first.
[947.1s] Did you procure ways of obtaining his mask?
[952.2s] No, it's back in possession of the cult.
[957.9s] So, that is why he is helping us, I take it.
[960.5s] Yeah, he's dead if he goes back to them, so.
[963.6s] Oh, hey, here's a fun fact.
[965.9s] This is how I talk in council meetings.
[968.1s] Hey, fun fact.
[970.3s] Time for one of your Lara's patented fun facts.
[972.8s] Yeah, quick sound a little bitchier about it.
[975.9s] Yeah, totally.
[978.4s] The cult has all of the things they've been collecting,
[982.1s] all the treasures in the Well of the Dragon?
[986.6s] Nope, it's an extinct volcano, like real super villains.
[991.0s] That's right, the Well of the Dragons.
[993.5s] Did you get, obviously Varam has given this information,
[997.1s] but for the council, did you get the location of this?
[1001.7s] The northern end of the Sunset Mountains.
[1004.7s] And that is where they are held up.
[1007.1s] Did you get any further information from Varam
[1009.7s] as to how close they might be to actually bringing Tiamat?
[1016.2s] He thinks they're pretty close.
[1018.4s] I am wary to send troops there as of yet.
[1024.4s] I feel we have more information to gain
[1027.3s] before moving forward.
[1030.1s] I myself have been to battle and lost many, many an ally,
[1034.9s] and I don't wish that upon anybody as of right now.
[1040.1s] Delaine Winterhound speaks up.
[1043.0s] So about the dwarf, you brought him here.
[1047.7s] He's been known to upset the natural order of things before,
[1052.5s] and I feel like holding him here,
[1054.3s] we might be asking for more trouble than what it's worth.
[1058.4s] Is there anything that we should,
[1059.5s] now that we've kind of got the information out of him,
[1061.8s] is there, like, do we wanna just offer him up
[1064.8s] to get him out of here, or do we wanna?
[1068.6s] He could potentially be leverage,
[1070.1s] why would we just give him up?
[1072.5s] Well, it seems like if they're-
[1074.3s] No, no, no.
[1075.6s] That was a stupid idea.
[1076.8s] No more talking from you.
[1080.2s] I see how it is.
[1082.4s] Fucking shut down.
[1084.1s] Right?
[1084.9s] Why don't we take him for a reconnaissance mission?
[1088.3s] He'll be able to show us exactly where to go,
[1091.9s] potentially help mitigate pitfalls,
[1096.7s] and at the very least,
[1098.9s] offer him up as bait or distraction.
[1101.1s] You don't think he could double cross you
[1103.1s] and send you to the wolves, so to speak?
[1106.5s] You don't think that I could turn into a wolf
[1108.3s] and just tear him from limb to limb?
[1111.1s] She raises a good point.
[1113.7s] I like you.
[1114.6s] You're good.
[1116.4s] All right.
[1118.0s] So you wanna go on a reconnaissance mission,
[1119.6s] is that what you're saying?
[1120.4s] Where are you going on a reconnaissance mission?
[1121.8s] Well, Silver Lady just kinda made it seem like
[1124.2s] things weren't ready and we needed more information.
[1126.9s] I was reading between the lines,
[1128.3s] I see what she's saying.
[1129.5s] Fair enough.
[1130.3s] Lady Silverhand says, you have gained much.
[1133.9s] Is there anybody else that you swayed to our side
[1136.2s] while you were out there?
[1137.2s] Well, we saved Mirabar.
[1138.7s] We saved Little Rock.
[1140.1s] We saved...
[1142.3s] Oh, what about the Army of Mirabar?
[1145.5s] Axe of Mirabar.
[1147.2s] The Axe of Mirabar.
[1148.4s] The Axe of Mirabar has been reluctant
[1151.3s] to join the council,
[1152.7s] but they are an astounding force
[1155.8s] that if they are on our side,
[1157.1s] then that is another plus in our column.
[1160.1s] Well, they're about as half as outstanding
[1163.3s] as they were before.
[1164.7s] How so?
[1165.9s] Well, remember that Primsbane guy we were mentioning?
[1169.1s] He kinda did a number on their army.
[1171.0s] Oh.
[1172.8s] Well.
[1173.7s] But they still have a lot of troops,
[1174.5s] so that's good.
[1175.8s] That is good.
[1177.1s] And babies are born every day.
[1179.9s] This is true.
[1181.3s] Takes a while for dwarves to age,
[1183.0s] but that is okay.
[1184.7s] The more numbers we have,
[1186.2s] the better, is what I say.
[1188.5s] We'll suit up every baby.
[1191.4s] It'll be an adorable army.
[1193.5s] Not effective.
[1194.3s] This baby dwarf army sounds pretty awesome.
[1196.5s] Very cute.
[1197.7s] Very cute.
[1198.5s] They'll only be as high as your knees,
[1199.9s] but they will be vicious.
[1201.6s] Last time we were talking to this council,
[1204.6s] we were supposed to find Macoth.
[1208.5s] Did it?
[1209.3s] You're welcome.
[1210.7s] We were supposed to find Varam the White.
[1213.0s] Did it?
[1214.7s] We freed Little Rock.
[1216.1s] I'm looking at my list, you guys,
[1217.5s] of things from one year ago
[1219.1s] that we were supposed to accomplish.
[1220.9s] Very exciting.
[1222.8s] And then the other thing is
[1225.5s] that the worm-speaker Nereveen
[1228.5s] is in a misty forest stronghold.
[1231.8s] We ever track that guy down?
[1233.1s] Maybe we should do that.
[1234.5s] King Melandrich says,
[1236.1s] what was that name?
[1239.5s] God.
[1240.7s] Worm-speaker?
[1241.7s] Nerenveen.
[1243.9s] Nerenveen.
[1245.1s] It's not possible.
[1247.2s] Well, it's on our to-do list.
[1249.1s] It's in the other info section.
[1253.0s] Flips the page.
[1255.1s] It's down in a footnote.
[1256.9s] He says,
[1258.6s] no, Nerenveen is my son.
[1265.9s] And he's been lost for many, many years now.
[1271.1s] We find things.
[1272.4s] We're the finders.
[1273.6s] That's pretty good.
[1275.2s] I mean, it's better than what we currently have,
[1276.9s] which is nothing.
[1278.3s] Delayne speaks up and he says,
[1281.4s] you said the misty forest is where this Nerenveen is.
[1285.3s] That's where he was last seen, yep.
[1287.4s] As I've been trying to tell King Melandrich here,
[1291.3s] he says, oh, fuck off.
[1295.5s] Anyway, I have
[1299.3s] heard and have been getting reports
[1302.7s] that there have been many recent dragon attacks
[1305.4s] in the misty forest.
[1307.8s] This could be connected to what you have found,
[1310.9s] might not be,
[1312.5s] but if this Nerenveen, son of King Melandrich,
[1317.2s] fuck you.
[1320.1s] Maybe he's working for the cult now.
[1322.9s] That's fucking impossible.
[1324.9s] King Melandrich tells me that it has been taken care of.
[1328.9s] The elves have increased their patrols
[1331.5s] and fortified their positions,
[1333.3s] but as I asked him,
[1336.0s] he has not heard from his patrols in quite a while.
[1340.7s] I'm sorry, can King Melandrich speak for himself?
[1345.7s] I don't wish to, my dear.
[1347.5s] Oh, this man speaks for you?
[1349.9s] This man is a fucking idiot.
[1353.1s] Do you want us to find your son or not?
[1356.6s] If it is my son, he's...
[1359.2s] Do you believe your son is working
[1362.0s] for the cult of the dragon?
[1363.1s] That's not possible.
[1364.7s] Why? That's not possible.
[1365.9s] That's not how I raised him.
[1367.3s] Oh, doesn't count.
[1369.5s] Anyways, with all due respect here,
[1372.6s] he hasn't heard from his outposts in quite a while,
[1376.3s] which means that these dragon attacks
[1378.2s] could have taken out large elven villages.
[1382.8s] He himself hasn't been back there in a while.
[1386.1s] Oh, Thea doesn't feel good about this.
[1388.2s] She's all like, my people.
[1390.6s] Delaine says,
[1391.6s] But with more emotion.
[1392.5s] I'm willing to lead a team there.
[1395.5s] I know the area.
[1397.7s] I just need support in case his reports aren't true.
[1403.3s] I kind of like, like a group huddle.
[1407.5s] Come here, come here.
[1409.1s] And then we whisper loudly and like,
[1411.0s] shh, wha, wha, wha, wha, wha, wha, wha, wha, wha.
[1414.0s] And then we say, we'll do it.
[1416.5s] I don't know, I'm speaking for everybody.
[1418.9s] Of course we'll do it, right?
[1421.5s] Oh yeah, we got this.
[1423.9s] This is what we do.
[1424.8s] We're trying to find the people
[1426.4s] running the cult of the dragon.
[1427.7s] And if that's our next clue
[1429.4s] as to where one is going to be,
[1431.6s] we may as well go.
[1432.5s] Maybe we can save some lives while we're there.
[1435.0s] Maybe we can kill a dragon while we're there.
[1438.1s] Ooh, that excites Thea.
[1440.5s] Lady Silverhand says,
[1441.9s] Well, add it to your quest log.
[1445.1s] Because this is, this is happening now.
[1447.9s] Delaine Winterhound will lead a team
[1451.5s] of you investigators to the Misty Forest,
[1456.0s] where hopefully King MAlydindrich is true
[1459.4s] in that his cities are fine and everything is good.
[1463.7s] If not, you may find the next step we are looking for.
[1468.7s] Granthas should stay here, I think.
[1470.5s] What the fuck, we got the airship.
[1473.2s] He does have the airship.
[1475.1s] I can get us there, look at his flip.
[1477.0s] Yeah, let's not, let's not spend like,
[1479.7s] like three months traveling.
[1481.1s] I spoke in haste.
[1482.3s] We'll take the airship.
[1483.5s] He can stay on the airship.
[1485.7s] He probably should.
[1487.0s] Perfect.
[1488.2s] We're also whispering in front of Granthas.
[1491.2s] Definitely.
[1492.0s] I can hear you, you know?
[1493.5s] I mean, I gotta make, okay, I'll go.
[1495.4s] What'll happen is I'll drop you in the Misty Forest.
[1499.3s] I gotta go make a swing by some frog places
[1501.7s] with an old buddy of mine.
[1503.1s] We'll get to that later.
[1506.3s] But yeah, it'll be fine.
[1508.1s] You guys do what you gotta do
[1510.3s] and then I'll come back and swing,
[1511.6s] pick you up, lickety split.
[1512.9s] We'll be back here, Bob's your uncle.
[1514.7s] I put a finger to his lips and I go, shh, shh, shh.
[1518.7s] We will go to the Misty Forest.
[1521.1s] Lady Silverhand says, wonderful.
[1525.5s] Well, it seems we have determined our next step.
[1527.4s] Lord Neverember had one more piece
[1531.5s] that we needed to discuss before we go.
[1533.7s] Lord Neverember stands up and says,
[1537.1s] thank you, Lady Silverhand.
[1538.7s] I've been approached by
[1541.5s] and sent a representative from the Metallic Dragons.
[1545.6s] This is Elia.
[1547.7s] Elia, please inform the council
[1550.7s] of the Metallic Dragons' request.
[1553.5s] I look over at Flint and I go,
[1555.5s] are they talking robot dragons?
[1558.7s] You know the Metallic Dragons are dragons.
[1561.8s] They are just metallic in color.
[1563.3s] They're the gold, silver type dragons
[1567.6s] and they always lean on the good side of the spectrum.
[1572.3s] Whereas the Chromatic Dragons
[1573.9s] lean on the evil side of the spectrum.
[1576.3s] Elia stands up and says, thank you.
[1580.1s] Everybody feels very drawn to her,
[1582.3s] like I mentioned before.
[1584.5s] When the Cult of the Dragon sounded the dracon,
[1588.6s] as you know, its tremors were felt across the north.
[1593.7s] Many metallic dragons began to investigate what it meant
[1598.1s] and gather information on the cult.
[1602.1s] One of those dragons, Protanther,
[1605.3s] invoked an ancient draconic rite of council
[1610.4s] summoning ambassadors from among the Metallic Dragons.
[1613.8s] The council has determined what they want
[1616.0s] and what the council here wants
[1617.8s] have overlapping similarities in,
[1620.7s] of course, stopping the rise of Tiamat.
[1624.1s] And they wish for a representative to be sent
[1627.8s] to their council meeting in the Nether Mountains
[1631.3s] to find out how, if at all, you can help each other.
[1635.1s] She looks to Lady Silverhand and she speaks.
[1638.2s] Having such an alliance would be
[1641.6s] immensely powerful in our fight.
[1644.4s] Is this something that you, four,
[1647.6s] she looks to Thea, three,
[1650.9s] if Grancis has somewhere else to be?
[1654.5s] He does, I'm sure he does.
[1656.0s] He's a busy guy.
[1656.8s] Can take on and handle the negotiations
[1659.0s] with the Metallic Dragons?
[1660.4s] Are we being asked to be in two places at once?
[1662.5s] Elia says the council meeting will be held
[1665.9s] when you get to it.
[1668.1s] If there are matters that need to be taken care of
[1670.1s] before that, with the Misty Forest,
[1673.6s] they would be understanding in that.
[1675.9s] They do not wish to wait much longer, though.
[1678.9s] Well, it only takes us about four months
[1681.5s] to accomplish a goal.
[1684.7s] Totally.
[1686.5s] What do we think?
[1687.7s] I mean, it just sounds like
[1689.6s] having more allies is a good thing.
[1691.7s] That you know the Metallic Dragons
[1693.1s] to be some of the wisest and smartest creatures
[1699.2s] in the land.
[1700.8s] I would like to meet those creatures.
[1702.4s] I don't know about you, Nularaaaa.
[1704.1s] I think it is a good idea for the alliance.
[1707.7s] I think we are not diplomats
[1713.9s] and this will not play to our strengths.
[1717.5s] However, I'm willing to go
[1719.0s] if that's what the council wants.
[1720.8s] I think as long as we can properly articulate
[1725.2s] the side in which that we are both on,
[1729.1s] I think it will be fine.
[1730.6s] I think we are all on the same team.
[1733.2s] What exactly are they looking for?
[1734.9s] Are they just looking for an amicable show of faith?
[1740.5s] I have only been sent to ask for a representative.
[1743.9s] Okay, so they just want to chit chat.
[1745.3s] I say we go.
[1746.4s] Sure. Of course.
[1747.6s] Grant just says,
[1748.5s] I can make sure that I've done my thing
[1749.9s] before you guys go there and we can,
[1752.5s] I've talked to lots of dragons before.
[1755.4s] You speak Draconic.
[1757.9s] Well, I mean, they speak common too.
[1761.2s] Very common.
[1764.9s] Look, they were yummy mashed potatoes.
[1768.3s] Just don't get me started.
[1770.4s] Yes, we will go.
[1771.3s] I got distracted of our common talk.
[1773.1s] You know, the star of John Wick 2.
[1776.2s] Of course, of course.
[1778.6s] He's an underrated actor.
[1780.9s] Shut up.
[1781.7s] Been watching him in Hell on Wheels.
[1782.9s] He is amazing.
[1785.0s] He's pretty good, pretty good.
[1786.5s] Sounds like we got a new list of tasks.
[1788.5s] Yes, we are in agreement.
[1790.6s] Wonderful.
[1791.5s] So you shall head with Delaine Winterhound
[1795.2s] to the Misty Forest
[1796.6s] and then go to the Nether Mountains
[1799.8s] and meet with the Metallic Dragons.
[1802.3s] Promptly witch reporting back here
[1804.7s] as to findings of both.
[1806.1s] Sorry, what do you mean by promptly?
[1808.1s] We don't do anything promptly.
[1809.3s] As quickly as possible.
[1811.5s] As time, of course, is of the essence.
[1815.2s] Well, you have much to prepare for.
[1817.7s] I will dismiss you from the meeting
[1821.5s] unless there's anything else
[1822.9s] you require from us before you leave.
[1825.7s] Just standard provisions.
[1827.8s] Definitely could use some more healing potions.
[1830.9s] Yeah, that'd probably be good.
[1832.1s] Yes, we can supply you with all the things you need.
[1836.7s] As many healing potions as your airship can carry
[1840.8s] and it shall be so.
[1842.3s] Lady Silverhand dismisses you
[1844.5s] and then carries on with the meeting
[1846.1s] and you hear as you,
[1847.6s] are you staying, are you going?
[1848.9s] What's happening?
[1849.7s] I think we should go.
[1850.9s] Yeah, great.
[1851.8s] We're terrible at interacting with things.
[1853.6s] Let's on to action.
[1856.2s] You hear kind of the general conversation
[1860.6s] as you are exiting the room
[1863.1s] is just different heads of regions
[1868.1s] talking about the different things
[1870.3s] that the cult is doing in their countries,
[1872.6s] in their realms.
[1874.4s] And it sounds like it's not looking very good.
[1879.0s] The cults have been sacking cities
[1882.0s] and there's not a lot of people anymore
[1886.0s] fighting back against them in a lot of these areas
[1889.6s] that they are hitting.
[1890.5s] They're hitting a lot of smaller towns.
[1892.6s] Again, taking treasures
[1894.4s] and just general murdering of people.
[1898.1s] Well, that's not good.
[1904.7s] Well, hello there.
[1905.6s] I'm your dungeon master, Russ More.
[1907.3s] Thank you for joining us
[1908.3s] for episode 30 of Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[1910.9s] Can you believe it?
[1911.8s] 30 episodes titled A Council Meeting in Waterdeep.
[1915.4s] Wanna take a moment just to say thank you
[1917.5s] for joining us for these 30 episodes
[1920.1s] or if this is your first episode, thank you as well.
[1922.5s] The show of support from our listeners
[1924.2s] and other podcasters that we've received
[1925.9s] over the last year has been amazing
[1927.9s] and it's with your support
[1929.5s] that we keep making each episode better.
[1932.2s] The next episode will be out January 31st
[1934.1s] and this next episode coming up
[1935.8s] will feature our very first guest star, DM Doc
[1938.9s] from the Bros and Dragons podcast.
[1940.8s] Go check out his podcast
[1942.3s] and give him some love over there.
[1944.1s] But let's get back to the episode
[1945.7s] and set forth on the next adventure.
[1948.3s] Have a great couple of weeks
[1949.3s] and we'll talk soon.
[1954.0s] What you doing?
[1954.8s] Gathering supplies, throwing them on the airship,
[1958.1s] punching Grancis in the stomach.
[1960.8s] Hoi!
[1963.5s] How many healing potions
[1967.2s] am I actually updating my inventory to include?
[1970.3s] Yeah, ditto.
[1972.5s] Like, I'll give you,
[1975.5s] I'll give you,
[1977.9s] how many did you have last night?
[1978.9s] You started to say 50, did you say 50?
[1980.9s] I was gonna say four.
[1982.9s] I was gonna say four.
[1984.2s] Four each?
[1985.4s] Yeah.
[1986.2s] Okay.
[1987.8s] It's not as good as 50,
[1989.1s] but I'll take four because I had a zero.
[1992.2s] They're gonna give you each one rare
[1998.2s] and three uncommons.
[2001.0s] So the one rare is an eight d four plus eight
[2005.1s] and the uncommons are four d four plus four.
[2009.5s] Uh oh, this means fights are gonna get real hard, guys.
[2012.3s] Yeah, so you gather your health potions
[2014.6s] and you head to the airship
[2016.6s] and there is a new person there.
[2019.1s] First you get word from a representative from the council
[2023.0s] that Delaine Winterhound will be heading out on foot.
[2027.7s] Oh God, it's gonna take him forever to get there.
[2029.7s] I'm pissed about it because I really,
[2031.9s] I thought we hit it off.
[2033.4s] Why is he going on foot?
[2034.9s] He's a man of the ground and of the wild.
[2038.9s] And approximately how long will it take him
[2040.7s] to get there on foot?
[2041.7s] Oh, not long.
[2042.9s] How long will it take us to get there by air?
[2045.1s] Less than long.
[2046.9s] Oh my God, you're so specific.
[2051.1s] It's all the units of time you've got to lose.
[2053.3s] Don't worry about it.
[2054.2s] Story things, we'll just figure it out.
[2057.0s] Okay.
[2058.1s] So yeah, he will be heading out on foot with his wolf
[2062.0s] and he will be meeting you at the rendezvous point,
[2065.5s] which she has left for you.
[2068.3s] Right, we totally talked about it.
[2069.9s] Yeah, which you totally talked about
[2071.3s] and it's totally in this scroll
[2074.0s] that has been handed to you.
[2075.9s] Perfect.
[2077.5s] And you get on board the airship
[2079.3s] and there is another older man standing there.
[2083.2s] Oh joy.
[2086.0s] Is it Grandsass?
[2087.7s] It's Francis, Francis' twin brother.
[2091.4s] It's Francis and Grantsass.
[2095.6s] Nope.
[2096.4s] Super team.
[2098.6s] Tells stupid stories, does stupid shit.
[2101.9s] Grantsass comes aboard and he says,
[2103.6s] yeah, no, this is my buddy.
[2107.0s] He's going to help me take the frogs back.
[2109.0s] I mean, after we deal with all your misty,
[2111.9s] misty forest dragons and stuff.
[2117.3s] You want to know his name, I take it.
[2119.7s] Yep, yep.
[2122.2s] Yeah, yeah, you want to know his name.
[2123.0s] Hey, Thaddeus, this is my friends,
[2127.7s] the, my best friend, Laura and Clint,
[2133.1s] all of which are great friends.
[2135.3s] This is Thaddeus, sicker, crumple.
[2138.4s] I've been calling him Crandall this whole time.
[2141.5s] And he says,
[2142.6s] If anyone got my Simpsons reference, you're welcome.
[2145.2s] Yeah, it's true, one person got it.
[2147.9s] Somebody did and they were delighted.
[2150.8s] And they signed up for Patreon right after.
[2154.5s] I'll work more Simpsons references into my games,
[2156.8s] that idea.
[2157.7s] He looks at you and he's like,
[2160.8s] judging by the look on your face,
[2163.5s] you've spent a little time with Grantsass.
[2165.5s] Yeah.
[2168.3s] Just a little bit.
[2170.2s] How do you?
[2171.0s] Yeah, the only.
[2173.4s] Seems like it's been forever.
[2175.0s] I was trying to talk to you.
[2177.1s] Go for it.
[2178.8s] How do you know Grantsass, Thaddeus?
[2181.3s] Oh, we go, we go way back.
[2182.9s] We were, we were in the magic military a long time ago.
[2187.7s] I was his, his guy who made sure he didn't die.
[2193.2s] Oh, he only had one of those guys?
[2195.1s] Seems like that'd be like a full-time five person job.
[2198.6s] Why we don't work together anymore.
[2202.5s] Anyways, yeah, we've been on a lot of excursions,
[2205.3s] including this frog excursion,
[2206.8s] which I'm being roped back into
[2209.5s] to help them bring thousands of frogs back down south.
[2214.5s] I'm sorry, are these frogs currently on the airship?
[2218.1s] Yeah, oh yeah, they're down below.
[2220.3s] They're not big, he kept them small.
[2222.1s] He's gonna make them bigger.
[2223.5s] Yeah, no, we remember.
[2225.7s] Oh boy.
[2227.5s] All right, okay, I mean, there's just some frogs.
[2230.2s] Yeah, we may or may not have been kidnapped
[2231.9s] by these frogs before.
[2233.6s] Anyway, does this not seem like a bad idea
[2236.0s] to anyone else to have thousands of frogs
[2238.7s] in the bottom of the airship on the way to a mission?
[2243.0s] Oh, don't worry about it, guys.
[2244.3s] I got them all locked up there.
[2247.2s] They're in, and we talked about it.
[2249.0s] You know, ribbit, ribbit, frog, frog.
[2251.7s] And we came to a conclusion
[2255.3s] that they just wanna be back home.
[2257.0s] Okay, but do you swear you're not gonna mess with them?
[2261.5s] You're not gonna shrink anything?
[2263.9s] Swear on your mashed potatoes.
[2267.1s] Swear on your airship you are not going to shrink
[2270.3s] or embiggen anything while we are on this ship
[2274.3s] and we are with you.
[2276.3s] Yes, sorry.
[2277.2s] I swear on my airship and my mashed potatoes
[2282.1s] and my pancakes that I will not shrink in
[2285.4s] or embiggen anything on the airship while we are traveling.
[2291.7s] Excellent use of embiggen, guys.
[2294.6s] Yeah, I'm loving this.
[2298.2s] It's a perfectly Cromulan word.
[2300.2s] Thaddeus is, he's an older human male
[2303.7s] who is about, just about six feet.
[2308.5s] He looks like he's in his late 70s.
[2312.5s] Wrinkled, sun-worn skin and long flowing white hair.
[2317.1s] Not like the crazy hair of Grancis.
[2320.2s] He looks to Grancis and says,
[2323.1s] once this is done, we're done, dude.
[2325.6s] Like, seriously.
[2327.8s] Dude. Yeah, yeah.
[2329.1s] He's an old hippie, I like it.
[2330.7s] It's an old hippie.
[2332.9s] Yeah, I got it.
[2333.9s] Okay, let's just, you know, one last,
[2336.3s] one last, one last kick at the can.
[2341.6s] And he goes and fires up the airship
[2346.4s] and you guys start flying off towards the misty forest.
[2350.9s] What are you guys doing on the airship?
[2353.8s] Playing that dice game?
[2355.4s] Oh, yeah.
[2357.3s] I roll two sticks, a half a heart,
[2362.7s] and a side nostril.
[2364.1s] Nobody knows what you're talking about.
[2366.2s] You win.
[2368.8s] This is like the game of cups.
[2370.5s] You have a full cup.
[2371.6s] For pretty much a solid day,
[2373.4s] just play this dice game.
[2376.2s] Grancis had the dice game, that's what he had, yeah.
[2379.3s] Here, guys, I learned this when I was on the water ship.
[2384.2s] Here, you might be able to play it.
[2387.4s] It's pretty intense, though.
[2389.4s] A lot of rules.
[2392.6s] A lot of confusing, confusing rules.
[2395.1s] So you guys are traveling for about a day
[2397.1s] and it's a little, it's about a day and a half flight
[2400.5s] to get to the misty forest from where you are.
[2403.2s] And you are suddenly in what appears
[2408.2s] to be a lot of fog.
[2410.1s] Grancis yells out, he's like,
[2412.0s] just keep an eye out, make sure we don't dip too low
[2415.2s] and clip a tree or something, you know.
[2417.7s] I'm sorry, who are you talking to?
[2419.2s] You guys.
[2420.3s] We are to keep an eye out.
[2421.8s] Yeah.
[2422.9s] Aren't you driving this airship?
[2425.4s] Yeah, now I'm a fucking pilot.
[2427.6s] God damn it, I look out the window,
[2429.3s] I'm like, I don't see anything.
[2432.1s] And as you look out the window
[2433.7s] and you say you don't see anything,
[2435.4s] there is a burst of black flame that strikes the airship.
[2440.5s] And a adult black dragon swoops overhead
[2444.4s] as you begin plummeting to the ground.
[2446.6s] And Grancis yells, I told you to watch out.
[2450.2s] Hold on to your butts.
[2451.8s] I had to pop in here at the end
[2455.7s] because amidst being bickered at,
[2458.0s] I forgot to mention that Thaddeus sickercrum-uple
[2460.6s] is an NPC name given to us by one of our patrons,
[2463.8s] Adam Farber.
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[2486.1s] cast.
[2486.9s] Music in today's episode was by Kavin McLeod
[2489.4s] of incompetech.filmmusic.io.
[2492.4s] Karla.
[2493.7s] Yep, I have some stuff.
[2494.5s] I sent you guys a page.
[2496.2s] Okay.
[2497.0s] Uh-oh.
[2497.9s] Uh-oh.
[2498.7s] Y-O.
[2499.5s] I'm the work.
[2501.2s] I'm sorry, I didn't read it.
[2506.2s] All sorts of like vocal activities going on.
[2508.0s] I know, I like it.
[2508.8s] And he's panicking.
[2510.1s] Freeing the natural voice over there.
[2511.7s] Russ just nodded, very like,
[2513.4s] I can't believe you got it that fast.
[2515.4s] I'm just looking through my notes and it's like,
[2518.4s] I'm just looking through my notes and it's like,
[2521.7s] well, there are some people we saved.
[2523.6s] There are some people we saved.
[2524.8s] Surely some of these people will help us
[2526.9s] if we need them too.
[2528.5s] I'm sorry, what accent is this?
[2530.1s] I don't know.
[2530.9s] I like it though.
[2531.7s] It was very British at the beginning
[2533.9s] and now I don't know.
[2534.7s] He's just getting angry.
[2535.5s] So he just, you know, you know, loses it.
[2538.1s] This is Elia Stormborn.
[2541.8s] Elia, please inform.
[2545.5s] That's not your, that's not your real,
[2547.0s] like Elia, yes, but is it Stormborn?
[2549.3s] No.
[2550.1s] It is?
[2551.0s] No.
[2551.8s] Okay.
[2552.6s] I was like, I was pretty sure.
[2553.5s] It's Daenerys Stormborn.
[2554.7s] But you gave me a micro heart attack there.
[2557.0s] I was like, what is this shit
[2558.8s] you're launching on me right now, Russ More?
[2561.1s] Oh yeah, this is a fucking surprise crossover.
[2564.8s] Bitch, get on board.
[2567.1s] I feel really bad for Russ when he talks as Grancis,
[2570.3s] because the look I give him is like,
[2574.3s] I'm just sitting here just looking at him like,
[2576.5s] just stop talking.
[2580.7s] Why, why do you exist?
[2584.6s] I agree.
[2585.5s] I always feel bad when I mean to Grancis
[2587.3s] cause like it's Russ being Grancis.
[2589.9s] So just so you know, I think you're great, Russ.
[2592.8s] Grancis, it's the worst.
[2595.7s] I originally designed Grancis to be super useful,
[2598.9s] but then he kind of quickly became super un-useful
[2602.9s] and you guys just went with it.
[2604.1s] So that's what we're going with now.
[2605.7s] Hey, the airship comes in real handy.
[2608.9s] It does, it does.
[2609.7s] He's good for that.
[2610.5s] It cuts down on our time.
[2612.0s] Yeah.
[2612.9s] Yeah, that was the one thing that he had going for him.
[2615.9s] Anyways, Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons
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