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Previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons.

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Our adventurers, Flint, Thea, and Eulara, are in the Misty Forest.

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They've been followed for a little while by a couple interesting characters.

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My name is, uh, let's go with Will.

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And you can call me Kelp.

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We're, uh, trying to figure out what's going on with these dragon attacks in

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this forest.

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Oh, yeah.

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Dragons.

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We've seen some of those around here.

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Um, I think it was, uh, what is it, a green one?

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Yeah, he looked like a, like a mean old bastard.

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Reburned off all the hair on my face.

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Oh my god, I can't even imagine.

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I think if you could, uh, do us a favor, maybe we could get you there.

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What kind of problems are you having?

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We want to go back to the fae.

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There's this, uh, mean old, uh, do we call her, she's kind of, she's kind of

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a bitch.

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Her name is Avon, and we just want to go home.

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You'd be helping all of the creatures of the fae.

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I've read enough fantasy novels.

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This is a very bad idea.

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Let's do it.

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Who tripped a trap?

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Did you guys trip our trap?

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I'm sorry, sir.

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We tripped your trap.

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Sorry about that.

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Boss says, whoever trips the trap has to come say hi.

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You all hear a loud and quick, the light seems to dim around you.

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All right.

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In that case, I'm going to take my, uh, action surge and attack them again.

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Just for mouthing off.

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As he's like, she's going to skin you alive.

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And then you just, you just splat him.

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As one does with an ax, yeah.

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Brutus!

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Noooooooo!

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Avon briefly shows her form.

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I'll use fairy fire.

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So she can be seen and tracked?

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Yeah, I'm just going to stab her.

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She needs to sleep for four hours.

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Her wings stop flapping and she falls to the ground.

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Oh, we can just, we can just kill her.

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Yep.

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Is there no law?

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She was just trying to kill us.

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The only difference now is she's asleep.

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So I feel like it's okay.

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Okay, you do it.

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I make a little hole and I kind of shove the rapier in there.

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What if, what if, I'll take the bottom half, you take the top half and then we could just

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kind of like fluff her like you're doing your sheets, but like on, onto the, on the

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rapier a couple times.

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We can like kind of like throw her sideways like we're throwing a toddler.

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Oh my god.

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If the light comes back to her eyes, but then quickly leaves.

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We'd like to show them the way.

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You make it to the edge of Alton.

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Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.

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We are a fifth edition actual play podcast.

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I'm your dungeon master Russ More and with me today is Amy More.

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Yes I am.

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And Carla Johnson.

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I am her.

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And Tom Laird.

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He is me.

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No character names.

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We're incognito this game, I guess.

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Yeah.

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It's true.

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You're not listening by now and you don't know who we are.

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Go back to episode one.

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Start at the beginning.

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Have yourself and have yourself a journey.

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Or just start at like episode three once we figure out the audio situation.

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Or that.

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Or just start at the last recap episode.

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We're getting a lot of directions off the top here.

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Do all of those things.

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Actually just ignore what we say and you do you.

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Do what you want.

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And we're okay with that.

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As long as it involves listening to us.

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We want to be a part of your life.

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Just Furnace.

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I didn't know where to go from there.

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Just Furnace.

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I'm sorry.

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What day is it today?

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It is March.

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It's March.

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March 14th.

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Happy March everybody.

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14th.

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Two weeks into March.

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Patreon.com slash dumbdragoncast.

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You can go check out the tiers and rewards over there.

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What?

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No nothing.

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It's just tiers didn't pop into my mind as T-I-E-R-N.

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It's so sad over there.

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It is.

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It's just sad over there.

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You can see Russ's tears over on the Patreon page.

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We're trying to make it a happy place.

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Maybe there are joyful tears of disbelief that people are our patrons because we're

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just a bunch of dinguses.

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It's true.

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That's how I feel every time we get someone.

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Right?

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Part of being a patron is you get a random episode dedicated to you.

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Like today, he's been mentioned on the podcast before, but now he's a patron.

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Ty Zuniga.

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Thanks, Ty.

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You're the best.

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You are amazing.

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You are one of the best.

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And everybody else is also amazing.

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Yes.

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We don't have favorites.

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And I mean, if we did, they probably know who they are.

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You know who you are.

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I'm going to go message everybody all right now and say, you're my favorite

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I'm going to go message everybody all right now and say, you're my favorite.

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It was you.

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We were talking about you.

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I like that.

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It was inside you all along.

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Part of being on Patreon as well, which we announced before this episode, but we

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will be doing a monthly hangout live stream.

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We talked about it with each other and we put a little, put a little poll up on

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Patreon and you guys, you guys want to see our faces and how awkward we are.

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So, uh, towards the end of the month here, we'll host our first one.

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And then every month after that, for about a half an hour, an hour, there'll be a

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Patreon hangout for the tiers five, five dollars and up should be pretty special

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because I have no idea the, like what my face does, like I have no, yeah, there's

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a lot of expressions I make.

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There's a lot of challenges here.

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You can see my face already worries me.

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This is a lot of editing to make us sound less awkward, which I know seems

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unbelievable because we are so awkward anyway.

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You should hear the raw audio.

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And this will be unedited, us actually just, just soaking in the awkwardness.

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Although maybe we're, we're usually pretty good until like the second we start

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So maybe it'll be fine.

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Let's have, let's think positively.

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Because we won't be playing.

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It'll just be bullshitting.

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It'll all just be preamble.

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It'll, yeah.

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And then we'll just, you know, chat.

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That's where we shine.

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Once we hit the anvil.

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I think it's going to be endearing.

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I think our awkwardness attached to our faces might be endearing.

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Oh, I hope so.

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I'd be sad if we lose all our patrons and listeners once we do one of these.

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No, just remember they voted for this.

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It's what they want.

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It's what they want.

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That's on them.

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Give the people what they want.

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Oh goodness.

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They decided it.

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It's all good.

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All their fault.

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Shall we play some Dumbgeons and Dragons?

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I don't think that's how it goes.

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That sounds oddly formal.

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No, we shall not.

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Is that how we're starting things now?

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Oh, I don't like it.

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That's a weird.

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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to play Wizards of the Coast Dungeons and

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Dragons, fifth edition.

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Fuck it.

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Let's play some D&D.

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There we go.

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That's more on brand.

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Isn't it though?

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You showed up at the city.

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Altened.

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Altened, where the settlement, where the elves are.

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You had just turned around and looked behind you and Kel and Will, they're gone.

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Thea has a Hybsil antler in hand.

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You're like, how the fuck did I get this?

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Yeah, it's slowly coming back to you, but your friends, they don't know quite

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what's going on, you being of the Fae persuasion.

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But Altened, as you turn back around and look upon the settlement, is much like the

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last settlement you were in, where there are very few buildings or structures on the

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ground level.

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You look around and you see towards the center of this settlement there is a

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clearing and in that there is a large statue of an elf in very woodland attire.

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And you look up and much like the last one, there is a village in the trees.

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And walking along string rope bridges between these different sites and

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constructs are wood elves.

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There are actually elves in this settlement.

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What do you do?

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Does it seem destroyed at all?

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Has the dragon been here or not at all?

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Did they fight them off?

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And probably something I should have said first.

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It appears, just looking at it, to have some damage to the city.

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Some of the bridges are broken, some of the pulley elevator type situations,

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the pulley systems have been damaged and destroyed, and it looks like there

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has been much fleeing and scuffling about down on the ground floor.

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But there are still people, so whether they escaped and have come back or

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something else has happened is uncertain, but it looks like something

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has happened here.

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Is there any people on the ground floor with us?

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And by ground floor I mean ground.

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Not that you can see, no.

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Can I go look at the statue and see if there's like a placard on it that tells me

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anything?

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Yeah, of course you can.

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Great.

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You walk over to the statue and it is carved out of what looks to be a bronze

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type material.

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And it is of a male elf dressed in very ranger-esque clothing.

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So very woodsy, very outdoorsy type clothing.

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And the placard on there says Adren.

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Just the one name.

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I can't remember what the guy's name was, you guys, but remember we're looking for

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that guy, so I thought I'd better ask.

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Nerenvane.

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Nerenvane.

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Thank you.

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No problem.

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I couldn't remember and I only have one page of notes with me, not the whole

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book.

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I got my notes in front of me.

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We're good.

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Like to get to where I assume like the village part of the city is?

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the elves up on the higher level there.

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And you walk towards one of the pulley systems and one of them calls down to

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you and he says, excuse me, do you have business here?

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We do.

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We're, I'll just be blunt.

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We're looking to fight a dragon.

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We heard there was a dragon had been here and we want to find out what's

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And we're supposed to be meeting our friend Delane here.

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00:10:43,539 --> 00:10:45,539
You've seen him?

265
00:10:45,539 --> 00:10:47,539
Other non-elf kind of guy?

266
00:10:47,539 --> 00:10:52,539
No, Delane, Delane has, let me, let me send down the, let me send down the

267
00:10:52,539 --> 00:10:57,539
platform and we'll come up here so we don't have to yell at each other.

268
00:10:57,539 --> 00:11:04,539
And he starts reefing on the rope and the pulley system comes down and I assume

269
00:11:04,539 --> 00:11:06,539
you climb aboard.

270
00:11:06,539 --> 00:11:10,539
Is this like the platform from Mad Max Fury Road?

271
00:11:10,539 --> 00:11:13,539
Much smaller in scale, but yes, very similar to.

272
00:11:13,539 --> 00:11:14,539
All right.

273
00:11:14,539 --> 00:11:15,539
Yeah.

274
00:11:15,539 --> 00:11:22,539
So yeah, you four climb aboard and are raised up to the tree top village.

275
00:11:22,539 --> 00:11:26,539
And he says, I'm sorry, you four are?

276
00:11:26,539 --> 00:11:31,539
We're the.

277
00:11:31,539 --> 00:11:32,539
Classic.

278
00:11:32,539 --> 00:11:33,539
The.

279
00:11:33,539 --> 00:11:34,539
Okay.

280
00:11:34,539 --> 00:11:35,539
You're the.

281
00:11:35,539 --> 00:11:36,539
I'm Luana Moonbrook.

282
00:11:36,539 --> 00:11:37,539
Nice to meet you.

283
00:11:37,539 --> 00:11:38,539
Thea Amastasia.

284
00:11:38,539 --> 00:11:39,539
LinFirebeard.

285
00:11:39,539 --> 00:11:42,539
Yeah, yeah, I'm Thaddeus.

286
00:11:42,539 --> 00:11:44,539
And you, sir?

287
00:11:44,539 --> 00:11:48,539
My, my name is, is Gallenden.

288
00:11:48,539 --> 00:11:54,539
And he said you were sent by, by Delane.

289
00:11:54,539 --> 00:11:58,539
He hasn't been through in quite a while, but his, his, his agents of the Emerald

290
00:11:58,539 --> 00:12:04,539
Enclave, they have been previously, not currently.

291
00:12:04,539 --> 00:12:07,539
You are looking for the dragon, you said?

292
00:12:07,539 --> 00:12:11,539
Well, yeah, that's the short version.

293
00:12:11,539 --> 00:12:14,539
Yeah, we're looking for the dragon.

294
00:12:14,539 --> 00:12:17,539
I mean, we generally are opposed to dragons in general.

295
00:12:17,539 --> 00:12:21,539
So we wanted to see what was going on here.

296
00:12:21,539 --> 00:12:27,539
We heard that a dragon was destroying villages and in fact have seen one.

297
00:12:27,539 --> 00:12:33,539
And we want to help or want to know what's going on.

298
00:12:33,539 --> 00:12:37,539
It seems like your village has taken a little bit of a hit here.

299
00:12:37,539 --> 00:12:39,539
Can you tell us what happened?

300
00:12:39,539 --> 00:12:40,539
Yes, yes.

301
00:12:40,539 --> 00:12:43,539
I am not specifically from Altand.

302
00:12:43,539 --> 00:12:45,539
I came from one of the other settlements.

303
00:12:45,539 --> 00:12:55,539
There are, we, we were here recently hit by the green dragon and, and whoever is

304
00:12:55,539 --> 00:12:57,539
controlling it.

305
00:12:57,539 --> 00:12:59,539
There are some survivors.

306
00:12:59,539 --> 00:13:03,539
I, I showed up after much of the cleanup had happened.

307
00:13:03,539 --> 00:13:09,539
So, I mean, I only have kind of hearsay about what has been going around.

308
00:13:09,539 --> 00:13:13,539
Perhaps you should find the warden, Gallen.

309
00:13:13,539 --> 00:13:19,539
He, he was on hand when the dragon specifically hit.

310
00:13:19,539 --> 00:13:24,539
And it's been, it's been said that he is one of the reasons why the dragon had left.

311
00:13:24,539 --> 00:13:26,539
I'm sorry.

312
00:13:26,539 --> 00:13:30,539
Your name is Gallenden and we need to find the warden name Gallend.

313
00:13:30,539 --> 00:13:32,539
Gallen.

314
00:13:32,539 --> 00:13:34,539
G-A-L-I-N.

315
00:13:34,539 --> 00:13:36,539
And my name, yes, is Gallenden.

316
00:13:36,539 --> 00:13:37,539
Okay.

317
00:13:37,539 --> 00:13:39,539
That's not going to be confusing at all.

318
00:13:39,539 --> 00:13:40,539
Don't worry.

319
00:13:40,539 --> 00:13:41,539
You'll never talk to me again.

320
00:13:41,539 --> 00:13:43,539
Oh.

321
00:13:43,539 --> 00:13:45,539
Quite.

322
00:13:45,539 --> 00:13:49,539
I am but, I am but a, I am but a long time pulley man.

323
00:13:49,539 --> 00:13:52,539
So, I mean, you might see me on the way out.

324
00:13:52,539 --> 00:13:59,539
We're what we call in the biz an expedition dump.

325
00:13:59,539 --> 00:14:07,539
We are also, we're also looking for a friend of ours and Nerenvane.

326
00:14:07,539 --> 00:14:11,539
Have you heard or seen?

327
00:14:11,539 --> 00:14:13,539
Wait, is he our friend?

328
00:14:13,539 --> 00:14:16,539
No, I was using the word friend.

329
00:14:16,539 --> 00:14:18,539
Let's, let's try this.

330
00:14:18,539 --> 00:14:24,539
We met Nerenvane's father and he said he would be here somewhere.

331
00:14:24,539 --> 00:14:26,539
Do you know a Nerenvane?

332
00:14:26,539 --> 00:14:29,539
We have, we have a message from his father.

333
00:14:29,539 --> 00:14:31,539
That's better than what I said.

334
00:14:31,539 --> 00:14:37,539
You're speaking of, of Nerenvane King Melandrich's lost son.

335
00:14:37,539 --> 00:14:38,539
Yes.

336
00:14:38,539 --> 00:14:39,539
That's the one.

337
00:14:39,539 --> 00:14:45,539
Well, I mean, I have never met, met him in particular myself.

338
00:14:45,539 --> 00:14:47,539
Being but a simple pulley man.

339
00:14:47,539 --> 00:14:49,539
Being but a simple pulley man.

340
00:14:49,539 --> 00:14:54,539
He often, you know, veers away from the pulleys and just.

341
00:14:54,539 --> 00:14:56,539
He's a real anti-pullite.

342
00:14:56,539 --> 00:15:01,539
He just uses the magic of the wind to carry him about.

343
00:15:01,539 --> 00:15:04,539
So I heard, but he's been missing for quite some time.

344
00:15:04,539 --> 00:15:09,539
I don't know why you would be looking for him in this specific instance.

345
00:15:09,539 --> 00:15:11,539
Yeah, me neither.

346
00:15:11,539 --> 00:15:13,539
I don't remember why we're looking for him guys.

347
00:15:13,539 --> 00:15:15,539
Because he might be a bad guy or he might not be.

348
00:15:15,539 --> 00:15:17,539
We don't know.

349
00:15:17,539 --> 00:15:22,539
That was said out of character, not in front of the simple pulley man.

350
00:15:22,539 --> 00:15:25,539
Do you know why you are here exactly?

351
00:15:25,539 --> 00:15:27,539
No, no good.

352
00:15:27,539 --> 00:15:29,539
We're here to help.

353
00:15:29,539 --> 00:15:32,539
I wish I could help you more.

354
00:15:32,539 --> 00:15:37,539
But as I said, I was not here when this direct attack happened.

355
00:15:37,539 --> 00:15:44,539
He directs you towards a kind of towards the center of the settlement.

356
00:15:44,539 --> 00:15:52,539
And if you walk that way, Galen, the warden, he is his establishment is over there.

357
00:15:52,539 --> 00:15:58,539
And perhaps on the way you might find other people who have who were here when the attack happened.

358
00:15:58,539 --> 00:16:00,539
Thank you for your help.

359
00:16:00,539 --> 00:16:03,539
Anytime you need a pulley.

360
00:16:03,539 --> 00:16:05,539
Sounded weirdly suggestive.

361
00:16:05,539 --> 00:16:07,539
We clapped twice and he appears.

362
00:16:07,539 --> 00:16:09,539
Well, I mean, you have to come back here.

363
00:16:09,539 --> 00:16:10,539
I'm not allowed to leave.

364
00:16:10,539 --> 00:16:12,539
I am on till about till about eight.

365
00:16:12,539 --> 00:16:16,539
So, you know, catch me before then.

366
00:16:16,539 --> 00:16:19,539
Next guy, he's a real bumpy ride.

367
00:16:20,539 --> 00:16:29,539
OK, so we walk away from our friend that we'll never talk to again.

368
00:16:29,539 --> 00:16:30,539
Never.

369
00:16:30,539 --> 00:16:33,539
And I can fervor with my friends.

370
00:16:33,539 --> 00:16:37,539
I turn back to look at Gallendale just one more time.

371
00:16:37,539 --> 00:16:40,539
All right, I'm good.

372
00:16:40,539 --> 00:16:44,539
So I guess, guys, we go find Gallen.

373
00:16:44,539 --> 00:16:48,539
Seems like the next the next obvious.

374
00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:50,540
Wait, how is everyone feeling?

375
00:16:50,540 --> 00:16:52,540
Seriously, are you guys all fucked up?

376
00:16:52,540 --> 00:16:54,540
I've lost some hit points in our last adventure.

377
00:16:54,540 --> 00:16:59,540
But I'm not many that I worried about it.

378
00:16:59,540 --> 00:17:00,540
Yeah, that's what I'm wondering.

379
00:17:00,540 --> 00:17:02,540
I'm still full health.

380
00:17:02,540 --> 00:17:06,539
Yeah, but we can always, you know, like, oh, yeah, I'm bloodied.

381
00:17:06,539 --> 00:17:10,539
OK, I'm like straight up like half dead.

382
00:17:10,539 --> 00:17:12,539
I guess two questions.

383
00:17:12,539 --> 00:17:14,539
Russ, what time is it?

384
00:17:14,539 --> 00:17:20,539
And is there an inn somewhere nearby so we can rest and get our hit points back?

385
00:17:20,539 --> 00:17:24,539
Well, we do have a cleric in our group that could heal us.

386
00:17:24,539 --> 00:17:25,539
Yeah, Thaddeus.

387
00:17:25,539 --> 00:17:28,539
Thaddeus, pull your weight.

388
00:17:28,539 --> 00:17:29,539
Hey, Thaddeus.

389
00:17:29,539 --> 00:17:31,539
Yeah, Thaddeus, I keep forgetting is with us.

390
00:17:31,539 --> 00:17:37,539
Any any champs that can do that voodoo you do?

391
00:17:37,539 --> 00:17:39,539
I was kind of hoping we'd have a little nap.

392
00:17:39,539 --> 00:17:42,539
But yeah, sure, I could do the voodoo.

393
00:17:42,539 --> 00:17:43,539
Oh, nap totally works.

394
00:17:43,539 --> 00:17:45,539
I just didn't know our timeline.

395
00:17:45,539 --> 00:17:46,539
Yeah, no, it's.

396
00:17:46,539 --> 00:17:47,539
You know what, guys?

397
00:17:47,539 --> 00:17:49,539
No, we're probably going to end up napping anyway.

398
00:17:49,539 --> 00:17:57,539
We're going to find this this warden and he's going to direct us to a good inn.

399
00:17:57,539 --> 00:17:59,539
We're going to have a rest.

400
00:17:59,539 --> 00:18:01,539
We're going to have a good talk.

401
00:18:01,539 --> 00:18:03,539
It looks like this place has already been hit once.

402
00:18:03,539 --> 00:18:05,539
It's probably not going to be.

403
00:18:06,539 --> 00:18:12,539
Thea starts slamming her fist on on like a branch beside her like knock on wood.

404
00:18:12,539 --> 00:18:17,539
Like it's probably not going to get hit again by the dragon.

405
00:18:17,539 --> 00:18:19,539
Well, what time is it, though?

406
00:18:19,539 --> 00:18:22,539
I mean, if it's nine a.m., we're probably not going to go lay down.

407
00:18:22,539 --> 00:18:25,539
But if it's like nighttime, you were traveling for the bulk of the day.

408
00:18:25,539 --> 00:18:30,539
So it's probably late afternoon.

409
00:18:30,539 --> 00:18:34,539
I'd say, you know, if we're going off of GAlydindin's schedule,

410
00:18:34,539 --> 00:18:37,539
you've got a couple hours before he's off the clock.

411
00:18:37,539 --> 00:18:42,539
So he probably is like just about to take up his schedule.

412
00:18:42,539 --> 00:18:44,539
I mean, he's just looking to get to the weekend, man.

413
00:18:44,539 --> 00:18:46,539
Working for the weekend, as they say.

414
00:18:46,539 --> 00:18:47,539
That's fair. That's fair.

415
00:18:47,539 --> 00:18:53,539
I'm just thinking, like, in theory, we can just like go to the inn, eat some food, go to bed, wake up.

416
00:18:53,539 --> 00:18:54,539
It's the next morning.

417
00:18:54,539 --> 00:18:56,539
Let's go talk to Galen.

418
00:18:56,539 --> 00:18:58,539
Sure. That's what you want to do.

419
00:18:58,539 --> 00:18:59,539
Yep.

420
00:18:59,539 --> 00:19:02,539
Perhaps you should find someone to direct you towards an inn, though.

421
00:19:02,539 --> 00:19:05,539
That'd be good. We walk back over to GAlydindin.

422
00:19:05,539 --> 00:19:07,539
He's not there anymore.

423
00:19:07,539 --> 00:19:08,539
Oh, what?

424
00:19:08,539 --> 00:19:10,539
What? He's on until eight.

425
00:19:10,539 --> 00:19:12,539
My dwarf heart is breaking, Russ.

426
00:19:12,539 --> 00:19:16,539
There's a new elf there.

427
00:19:16,539 --> 00:19:20,539
Hey, Mr. Bumpy Ride.

428
00:19:20,539 --> 00:19:21,539
His name's Carrick. What do you want?

429
00:19:21,539 --> 00:19:22,539
Just kidding, Carrick.

430
00:19:22,539 --> 00:19:28,539
We were wondering if you can direct us to an inn, a place we might rest for a while.

431
00:19:28,539 --> 00:19:29,539
Yeah, of course.

432
00:19:29,539 --> 00:19:38,539
If you head that way, and he points you in the direction and gives you directions across the rope bridges, he says,

433
00:19:38,539 --> 00:19:47,539
you'll find a lovely inn named the Nimble-Fingered Homestead.

434
00:19:47,539 --> 00:19:49,539
Ugh.

435
00:19:49,539 --> 00:19:53,539
Is there another less creepily named inn?

436
00:19:53,539 --> 00:19:56,539
Is there a non-sex inn we could stick in?

437
00:19:57,539 --> 00:20:02,539
Well, I mean, you guys kind of looked like the kind of type. I don't know.

438
00:20:02,539 --> 00:20:03,539
Nope.

439
00:20:03,539 --> 00:20:07,539
Well, Flint, maybe. Maybe he's naked a lot of the time.

440
00:20:07,539 --> 00:20:11,539
We could stay at the champagne room, because we all know there's no sex in the champagne room.

441
00:20:11,539 --> 00:20:14,539
There is no sex in the champagne room.

442
00:20:14,539 --> 00:20:22,539
So, I mean, you got the Nimble-Fingered Homestead, or you got Beefy Stews Beefy Stews.

443
00:20:22,539 --> 00:20:25,539
Oh, yeah. Beefy Stews Beefy Stews all the way.

444
00:20:25,539 --> 00:20:27,539
He is really hungry. Thea could go for Beefy Stews.

445
00:20:27,539 --> 00:20:30,539
Okay, let's go to Beefy Stews Beefy Stew.

446
00:20:30,539 --> 00:20:36,539
Alright, he gives you directions to Beefy Stews Beefy Stew.

447
00:20:36,539 --> 00:20:43,539
And if you're looking to write that down, that's Beefy Stew is in the Man's Stew, who makes Beefy Stews.

448
00:20:43,539 --> 00:20:44,539
Oh, no, we all got it.

449
00:20:44,539 --> 00:20:46,539
Okay, I just wanted to make sure.

450
00:20:46,539 --> 00:20:49,539
Oh, it was not lost on us.

451
00:20:49,539 --> 00:20:50,539
Oh, goodness.

452
00:20:50,539 --> 00:20:53,539
Okay, let's go.

453
00:20:53,539 --> 00:20:58,539
You pull up and there's a sign that says Beefy Stews Beefy Stews.

454
00:20:58,539 --> 00:21:02,539
And it's got one of those double swinging doors.

455
00:21:02,539 --> 00:21:03,539
Like a saloon?

456
00:21:03,539 --> 00:21:08,539
Like a saloon, and you go on in there and there's a...

457
00:21:08,539 --> 00:21:10,539
A beefy looking guy with a name tag.

458
00:21:10,539 --> 00:21:11,539
You know what?

459
00:21:11,539 --> 00:21:13,539
Or is he really skinny, because that would be really great.

460
00:21:13,539 --> 00:21:15,539
Is he standing over a pot of stew?

461
00:21:15,539 --> 00:21:21,539
You don't normally see beefy elves, but this elf, he's a little bit beefy.

462
00:21:21,539 --> 00:21:25,539
And he's tending to a pot on the stove.

463
00:21:25,539 --> 00:21:29,539
And there are quite a few people in the establishment.

464
00:21:29,539 --> 00:21:33,539
He doesn't notice you come in though.

465
00:21:33,539 --> 00:21:36,539
Is there also a bar or just a giant stew pot?

466
00:21:36,539 --> 00:21:38,539
Is it like in the middle of the room?

467
00:21:38,539 --> 00:21:44,539
There's a giant stew pot behind what looks to be a counter of some sort.

468
00:21:44,539 --> 00:21:49,539
It's like one of those kitchen theater restaurants, but it's just one dude with a pot.

469
00:21:49,539 --> 00:21:53,539
But Gordon Ramsay will still bust in and just start screaming at him,

470
00:21:53,539 --> 00:21:56,539
making all the patrons really uncomfortable.

471
00:21:56,539 --> 00:22:00,539
I go up to the counter, where I see...

472
00:22:00,539 --> 00:22:01,539
Is there anyone else?

473
00:22:01,539 --> 00:22:05,539
Is there a diminutive Tim at the counter?

474
00:22:09,539 --> 00:22:11,539
As a matter of fact, no, there's not.

475
00:22:11,539 --> 00:22:17,539
It appears to be a family establishment, and there's a few different families.

476
00:22:17,539 --> 00:22:20,539
One of them sitting at the counter there,

477
00:22:20,539 --> 00:22:24,539
as well as what you can assume to be beefy stew,

478
00:22:24,539 --> 00:22:27,539
stirring his stew, who turns around and looks at you and says,

479
00:22:27,539 --> 00:22:30,539
Gordon Ramsay, come in there.

480
00:22:30,539 --> 00:22:32,539
What can I get for you?

481
00:22:32,539 --> 00:22:38,539
I guess some of your delicious stew and rooms for the night, if you have them.

482
00:22:38,539 --> 00:22:41,539
I walk up and I say, and an ale, if you have it.

483
00:22:41,539 --> 00:22:43,539
Oh yeah, I'll take one of those too.

484
00:22:43,539 --> 00:22:46,539
Yeah, of course, I'll get you...

485
00:22:46,539 --> 00:22:50,539
Okay, stews all around and...

486
00:22:50,539 --> 00:22:51,539
And brews.

487
00:22:51,539 --> 00:22:52,539
And brews.

488
00:22:52,539 --> 00:22:54,539
Stews and brews.

489
00:22:54,539 --> 00:22:56,539
Stews and brews. Gonna change my name.

490
00:22:56,539 --> 00:22:59,539
Name a restaurant to suit their beefy stews.

491
00:22:59,539 --> 00:23:00,539
Don't you dare.

492
00:23:00,539 --> 00:23:01,539
Stews and brews.

493
00:23:01,539 --> 00:23:03,539
Beefy stews and beefy brews.

494
00:23:03,539 --> 00:23:06,539
All right, coming right up in a set of rooms here.

495
00:23:06,539 --> 00:23:07,539
Okay, I'll be right back.

496
00:23:07,539 --> 00:23:11,539
And he goes into a back room.

497
00:23:11,539 --> 00:23:14,539
Yeah, the family sitting beside you at the counter there.

498
00:23:14,539 --> 00:23:21,539
They look over to kind of nervously and then back to their meal.

499
00:23:21,539 --> 00:23:25,539
I look over and I say, how's the beefy stew?

500
00:23:25,539 --> 00:23:30,539
It's as can be expected.

501
00:23:30,539 --> 00:23:33,539
But it is the best stew in town.

502
00:23:33,539 --> 00:23:35,539
So, I mean, we come often.

503
00:23:35,539 --> 00:23:39,539
Where do you keep the cows up in this tree?

504
00:23:39,539 --> 00:23:40,539
This beefy stew.

505
00:23:40,539 --> 00:23:44,539
You don't want to know.

506
00:23:44,539 --> 00:23:45,539
It's not beef.

507
00:23:45,539 --> 00:23:48,539
There are some questions we don't ask.

508
00:23:48,539 --> 00:23:50,539
Fair, that's fair, that's fair.

509
00:23:50,539 --> 00:23:57,539
We come through town to meet a friend and see if we might help with this, you know,

510
00:23:57,539 --> 00:24:01,539
dragon problem that seems to be plaguing these woods.

511
00:24:01,539 --> 00:24:05,539
You've come to aid us.

512
00:24:05,539 --> 00:24:07,539
They've been taking out settlements.

513
00:24:07,539 --> 00:24:16,539
We are but a mishmash of pretty much all the settlements from the Misty Forest now here in Alton.

514
00:24:16,539 --> 00:24:20,539
There aren't many wood elves left.

515
00:24:20,539 --> 00:24:27,539
A couple settlements further south and one more that we know of to the far east.

516
00:24:27,539 --> 00:24:30,539
How has Alton managed to stay standing?

517
00:24:30,539 --> 00:24:33,539
Well, it's difficult.

518
00:24:33,539 --> 00:24:39,539
You know, for some it might be difficult to say, but we were attacked not too long ago

519
00:24:39,539 --> 00:24:45,539
and we really, we were saved by our village warden.

520
00:24:45,539 --> 00:24:48,539
I don't know if you've heard of him, Gowan.

521
00:24:48,539 --> 00:24:55,539
He, our priest went out to try and stop the dragon and to try and stop the people coming

522
00:24:55,539 --> 00:24:59,539
and destroying our village and killing our people.

523
00:24:59,539 --> 00:25:02,539
And the priest was killed.

524
00:25:02,539 --> 00:25:09,539
But Gowan, he was in the thick of the fight and he seemed to survive unscathed.

525
00:25:09,539 --> 00:25:14,539
And after he went down into the fray, everyone left.

526
00:25:14,539 --> 00:25:18,539
So he is the reason that we are here today.

527
00:25:18,539 --> 00:25:22,539
The attackers left when he went down into the fray.

528
00:25:22,539 --> 00:25:24,539
Yes.

529
00:25:24,539 --> 00:25:29,539
Is Gowan particularly strong or particularly magical?

530
00:25:29,539 --> 00:25:31,539
Why, why would they leave?

531
00:25:31,539 --> 00:25:34,539
Why would the fighting stop?

532
00:25:34,539 --> 00:25:41,539
It's, it's, no one would describe him as particularly strong, I don't think.

533
00:25:41,539 --> 00:25:47,539
I don't, I don't know exactly how he did it or if he convinced them or if he did something.

534
00:25:47,539 --> 00:25:53,539
But all we know is that he went down and they turned away.

535
00:25:53,539 --> 00:25:55,539
What a hero.

536
00:25:55,539 --> 00:26:00,539
He must, was he, he must be much beloved in your city then.

537
00:26:00,539 --> 00:26:06,539
He is, he is highly revered for saving those who he could at that, at that moment.

538
00:26:06,539 --> 00:26:09,539
Do you know where we may find him?

539
00:26:09,539 --> 00:26:12,539
Um, yes, yes, of course.

540
00:26:12,539 --> 00:26:17,539
He lives just up the way there and they give you directions very much the same as GAlydindan did.

541
00:26:17,539 --> 00:26:22,539
Uh, was he much loved before this incident as well?

542
00:26:22,539 --> 00:26:29,539
He was a large part of the settlement, um, in the day-to-day and making sure everyone was taken care of.

543
00:26:29,539 --> 00:26:38,539
Um, he, he himself has since the attack, um, lost a lot as well.

544
00:26:38,539 --> 00:26:49,539
His, his wife was killed in the attack and he right now seems to be suffering from the weight of this new leadership role.

545
00:26:49,539 --> 00:26:58,539
The priest was previously in charge of the, of the entire settlement, um, and he after this was next in line of sorts.

546
00:26:58,539 --> 00:27:01,539
But yes, previously he's, he's friend to all.

547
00:27:01,539 --> 00:27:03,539
You're lucky to have him.

548
00:27:03,539 --> 00:27:04,539
That we are.

549
00:27:04,539 --> 00:27:10,539
Um, as you're having this conversation, Beefy Stew comes back with, uh, with your Beefy Stews and Beefy Brews.

550
00:27:10,539 --> 00:27:13,539
And, uh, tosses you some room keys.

551
00:27:13,539 --> 00:27:15,539
How long are you staying there?

552
00:27:15,539 --> 00:27:18,539
At, at least one night and maybe more.

553
00:27:18,539 --> 00:27:21,539
We're, we're waiting for a friend to meet us here.

554
00:27:21,539 --> 00:27:23,539
Of course. Yep. Yep. So let's stay as long as you need.

555
00:27:23,539 --> 00:27:27,539
We don't have a lot of people coming through these parts here.

556
00:27:27,539 --> 00:27:28,539
Thank you.

557
00:27:28,539 --> 00:27:32,539
Of course. If anything, if you need anything else, just, just, just keep a hauler.

558
00:27:32,539 --> 00:27:34,539
I start tucking into the stew.

559
00:27:34,539 --> 00:27:36,539
Thea, are you particularly hungry?

560
00:27:36,539 --> 00:27:42,539
You didn't even give Beefy Stew the old up and down eyeball maneuver you give most people.

561
00:27:43,539 --> 00:27:49,539
You know, throughout the battles, Thea has significantly calmed down sexually.

562
00:27:49,539 --> 00:27:50,539
It's true.

563
00:27:50,539 --> 00:27:53,539
I think she's just really tired. You know, all this fighting takes a toll on a person.

564
00:27:53,539 --> 00:27:55,539
Yeah, you are bloody right now.

565
00:27:55,539 --> 00:28:01,539
And maybe she's becoming a little more, a little more discerning in her, in her choices of, uh, you know.

566
00:28:01,539 --> 00:28:02,539
That's fair.

567
00:28:02,539 --> 00:28:08,539
You know what? I, I think she's actually, she's holding a bit of a torch for, uh, for Salazar.

568
00:28:08,539 --> 00:28:11,539
Yep. That makes sense. That makes sense.

569
00:28:11,539 --> 00:28:15,539
Uh, how's our stew, DM? Is it delicious? Am I really enjoying it?

570
00:28:15,539 --> 00:28:19,539
It is, uh, it is a, it is very good. It's very good stew.

571
00:28:19,539 --> 00:28:22,539
It's perhaps not the best stew you've ever tasted.

572
00:28:22,539 --> 00:28:27,539
Um, but it is, uh, probably top six. Top six stew.

573
00:28:27,539 --> 00:28:28,539
Oh, top six stew.

574
00:28:28,539 --> 00:28:30,539
It's pretty good. It's pretty good.

575
00:28:30,539 --> 00:28:38,539
It's very rich and it has lots of big, big chunks of vegetables and meats, which you would hope to find in a stew.

576
00:28:38,539 --> 00:28:45,539
Um, but yeah, you, I would say you'd, you know, give it a good Yelp rating and recommend it to all your friends.

577
00:28:45,539 --> 00:28:50,539
All right. Thea's tired. Thea has plowed through the soup and is yawning.

578
00:28:50,539 --> 00:28:55,539
Like, like almost like comically, like, yeah.

579
00:28:55,539 --> 00:28:56,539
Yeah.

580
00:28:56,539 --> 00:29:00,539
I'm on board. Let's, let's go to our rooms.

581
00:29:00,539 --> 00:29:03,539
Tuck in, go to bed and wake up the next day, fully refreshed.

582
00:29:03,539 --> 00:29:04,539
Perfect.

583
00:29:04,539 --> 00:29:05,539
Oh baby.

584
00:29:05,539 --> 00:29:06,539
Ah, that feels so good.

585
00:29:06,539 --> 00:29:09,539
Ready to take on the adventure.

586
00:29:09,539 --> 00:29:17,539
Uh, well, let's, uh, break our fast with some leftover stew, I assume.

587
00:29:17,539 --> 00:29:19,539
Oh yeah. He's got breakfast stew.

588
00:29:19,539 --> 00:29:21,539
Is that oatmeal? What's breakfast stew?

589
00:29:24,539 --> 00:29:25,539
Cereal?

590
00:29:25,539 --> 00:29:26,539
It's got eggs.

591
00:29:26,539 --> 00:29:27,539
Do you mean cereal?

592
00:29:27,539 --> 00:29:28,539
Probably sausage.

593
00:29:28,539 --> 00:29:29,539
Yeah.

594
00:29:29,539 --> 00:29:30,539
Sausage, eggs.

595
00:29:30,539 --> 00:29:31,539
Yeah. Just mix it all together.

596
00:29:31,539 --> 00:29:32,539
In some broth.

597
00:29:32,539 --> 00:29:33,539
Are we just talking about a scramble here?

598
00:29:33,539 --> 00:29:34,539
Sounds delicious.

599
00:29:34,539 --> 00:29:36,539
Yeah. In a, in a, in a meaty broth.

600
00:29:36,539 --> 00:29:38,539
In a thick gravy. Delicious.

601
00:29:38,539 --> 00:29:40,539
Sounds like a nice take on eggs, Benedict.

602
00:29:40,539 --> 00:29:41,539
Yep.

603
00:29:41,539 --> 00:29:42,539
So good.

604
00:29:42,539 --> 00:29:44,539
Let's go talk to Galen.

605
00:29:44,539 --> 00:29:50,539
Uh, you follow the directions of both people who you've asked for them,

606
00:29:50,539 --> 00:29:56,539
and you make your way to a modest dwelling suspended among iron-strong bows.

607
00:29:56,539 --> 00:30:01,539
You come up and it's an open-air concept.

608
00:30:01,539 --> 00:30:03,539
Um, there's no real doors, but yeah,

609
00:30:03,539 --> 00:30:07,539
you come to what you assume is the front entryway there.

610
00:30:07,539 --> 00:30:12,539
I, uh, got some extra breakfast stew to go and brought that with us for now.

611
00:30:12,539 --> 00:30:13,539
Oh, that's nice. Good thinking. Good thinking.

612
00:30:13,539 --> 00:30:14,539
Oh, wow.

613
00:30:14,539 --> 00:30:16,539
Very considerate, Flint.

614
00:30:16,539 --> 00:30:17,539
Uh, I guess we-

615
00:30:17,539 --> 00:30:18,539
Might do it again.

616
00:30:18,539 --> 00:30:21,539
Knock on, I don't know, a pillar.

617
00:30:21,539 --> 00:30:23,539
I don't know what open air means.

618
00:30:23,539 --> 00:30:25,539
I feel like we just wandered into a living room.

619
00:30:25,539 --> 00:30:30,539
But we stop at what seems like the entrance and knock.

620
00:30:30,539 --> 00:30:32,539
Yeah, you knock and you hear from inside.

621
00:30:32,539 --> 00:30:34,539
Yes, yes, yes, come in.

622
00:30:34,539 --> 00:30:35,539
And we do.

623
00:30:35,539 --> 00:30:40,539
And you enter into the dwelling and you enter into a cozy sitting room,

624
00:30:40,539 --> 00:30:42,539
which is where the voice was coming from.

625
00:30:42,539 --> 00:30:46,539
And a slim elf sits at a desk and he stands up to greet you

626
00:30:46,539 --> 00:30:50,539
and seems to have kind of a forced smile

627
00:30:50,539 --> 00:30:55,539
as a raven perched in a nearby cage cause hideously.

628
00:30:55,539 --> 00:30:58,539
And he says, uh, welcome to our village.

629
00:30:58,539 --> 00:31:01,539
How can I be of service?

630
00:31:01,539 --> 00:31:04,539
Galen, I assume?

631
00:31:04,539 --> 00:31:05,539
Yes, yes.

632
00:31:05,539 --> 00:31:08,539
I heard there were some travelers coming through

633
00:31:08,539 --> 00:31:11,539
and I assume that's you.

634
00:31:11,539 --> 00:31:12,539
It must be.

635
00:31:12,539 --> 00:31:14,539
Is there something I can help you with?

636
00:31:14,539 --> 00:31:18,539
Well, I'm new Laura. Nice to meet you.

637
00:31:18,539 --> 00:31:20,539
Nice to meet you, Galen.

638
00:31:20,539 --> 00:31:23,539
And he shakes your hand.

639
00:31:23,539 --> 00:31:25,539
Thea is mesmerized by this.

640
00:31:25,539 --> 00:31:27,539
You said it was a raven?

641
00:31:27,539 --> 00:31:28,539
Yes.

642
00:31:28,539 --> 00:31:29,539
In the cage.

643
00:31:29,539 --> 00:31:32,539
I'm getting a really uneasy feeling about it.

644
00:31:32,539 --> 00:31:34,539
You know, it does seem strange.

645
00:31:34,539 --> 00:31:37,539
Is there anything I notice about the raven?

646
00:31:37,539 --> 00:31:42,539
It seems like it's maybe a pet raven.

647
00:31:42,539 --> 00:31:46,539
It's calling pretty consistently.

648
00:31:46,539 --> 00:31:52,539
It's an interesting pet you have.

649
00:31:52,539 --> 00:31:55,539
What is your raven's name?

650
00:31:55,539 --> 00:31:58,539
Franklin.

651
00:31:58,539 --> 00:32:01,539
It's a dwarf. It's very endearing.

652
00:32:01,539 --> 00:32:03,539
He's awfully loud.

653
00:32:03,539 --> 00:32:07,539
I put my hand forward to shake his and I say, my name is Thea.

654
00:32:07,539 --> 00:32:12,539
Yes, since the dragon attacks, he's been a touch on edge.

655
00:32:12,539 --> 00:32:17,539
And it's been difficult to calm him down when new people come around.

656
00:32:17,539 --> 00:32:21,539
If only someone had animal handling.

657
00:32:21,539 --> 00:32:22,539
I do!

658
00:32:22,539 --> 00:32:26,539
I walk forward and hand him the stew and say, have you tried this breakfast stew?

659
00:32:26,539 --> 00:32:27,539
It's out of this world.

660
00:32:27,539 --> 00:32:29,539
Flint Fire Reader, nice to meet you.

661
00:32:29,539 --> 00:32:31,539
Oh, yes, beefy stews.

662
00:32:31,539 --> 00:32:35,539
I recognize the lovely breakfast stew.

663
00:32:35,539 --> 00:32:37,539
Nice to meet you, Flint.

664
00:32:37,539 --> 00:32:41,539
And Thaddeus seems to be just kind of standing by the doorway.

665
00:32:41,539 --> 00:32:49,539
I walk over to the bird and I look at the warden and I say, may I?

666
00:32:49,539 --> 00:32:51,539
Yes, yes, of course.

667
00:32:51,539 --> 00:32:54,539
And I'm going to use my animal handling to like...

668
00:32:54,539 --> 00:32:56,539
Unless you're going to eat it, then no.

669
00:32:56,539 --> 00:32:59,539
May I eat your bird?

670
00:32:59,539 --> 00:33:01,539
No.

671
00:33:01,539 --> 00:33:05,539
That's what most people mean when they look at a pet and go, can I?

672
00:33:05,539 --> 00:33:08,539
May I? I can stop this noise.

673
00:33:08,539 --> 00:33:11,539
Strange things have been happening.

674
00:33:11,539 --> 00:33:14,539
Do what you will.

675
00:33:14,539 --> 00:33:18,539
As long as it's not eating my bird.

676
00:33:18,539 --> 00:33:20,539
He's really made a weird vibe in the room now.

677
00:33:20,539 --> 00:33:23,539
Yeah, he has created something quite strange.

678
00:33:23,539 --> 00:33:26,539
Also, isn't it like some really bad juju to eat a raven?

679
00:33:26,539 --> 00:33:32,539
Yeah, at least with crows, if you kill one, then the other ones remember you.

680
00:33:32,539 --> 00:33:36,539
I think that's most birds, actually.

681
00:33:36,539 --> 00:33:41,539
Anyway, I use my animal handling to try to calm the bird down so it stops screaming.

682
00:33:41,539 --> 00:33:43,539
Sure, you got to roll for that?

683
00:33:43,539 --> 00:33:45,539
Yeah, I'm going to roll some dice.

684
00:33:45,539 --> 00:33:46,539
22.

685
00:33:46,539 --> 00:33:49,539
Tell me how you calm down Franklin.

686
00:33:49,539 --> 00:33:54,539
I walk toward the bird with my palms out.

687
00:33:54,539 --> 00:33:57,539
I just start kind of like whispering to him.

688
00:33:57,539 --> 00:34:03,539
And I slowly open the cage and put my hand in for him to hop on.

689
00:34:03,539 --> 00:34:07,539
And I stroke his feathers and I just...

690
00:34:07,539 --> 00:34:09,539
Calm, buddy, calm.

691
00:34:09,539 --> 00:34:15,539
And it takes a minute, but yeah, you manage to calm Franklin down

692
00:34:15,539 --> 00:34:18,539
from the hideous cawing that is coming from him.

693
00:34:18,539 --> 00:34:24,539
I put him gently back inside his cage and give him a little do-do-do on the top of his head.

694
00:34:24,539 --> 00:34:25,539
And I close the cage.

695
00:34:25,539 --> 00:34:26,539
He starts hideously calling you.

696
00:34:26,539 --> 00:34:29,539
Are you fucking kidding me?

697
00:34:29,539 --> 00:34:30,539
Oh, he hates that.

698
00:34:30,539 --> 00:34:34,539
He doesn't like to be treated to look down upon with little scratches on it.

699
00:34:34,539 --> 00:34:37,539
No, it's fine.

700
00:34:37,539 --> 00:34:38,539
Okay, good.

701
00:34:38,539 --> 00:34:46,539
So Galen says, I'm sorry, is there something I can help you with?

702
00:34:46,539 --> 00:34:52,539
We're in town looking, waiting to meet with our friend Delaine

703
00:34:52,539 --> 00:34:56,539
and just wanted to see if we could help with anything.

704
00:34:56,539 --> 00:35:06,539
We have some experience fighting dragons and helping settlements that need assistance.

705
00:35:06,539 --> 00:35:12,539
And since it seems like you're in charge, we thought we'd see if there was something we could do

706
00:35:12,539 --> 00:35:15,539
or if not, at least introduce ourselves.

707
00:35:15,539 --> 00:35:18,539
Yes, yes, of course.

708
00:35:18,539 --> 00:35:25,539
Well, I mean, I can tell you what I can recall from the attack.

709
00:35:25,539 --> 00:35:31,539
Maybe that will give you some clue as to where you can go next.

710
00:35:31,539 --> 00:35:40,539
And he begins to tell you about the attack that occurred.

711
00:35:40,539 --> 00:35:48,539
And he says, the dragon swooped down and attacked on the ground first.

712
00:35:48,539 --> 00:35:55,539
Nearly half of the village died during the first assault.

713
00:35:55,539 --> 00:36:03,539
It was after that that humans in Regalia, many wore a deep purple.

714
00:36:03,539 --> 00:36:09,539
They had an insignia that I believe was from the cult of the dragon

715
00:36:09,539 --> 00:36:14,539
followed in behind and started killing people as they tried to flee

716
00:36:14,539 --> 00:36:18,539
that the dragon did not catch up to.

717
00:36:18,539 --> 00:36:25,539
Our priest, he went down to try to reason with anybody who was in charge

718
00:36:25,539 --> 00:36:32,539
and he himself was killed by the dragon in his attempts to halt their attacks.

719
00:36:32,539 --> 00:36:40,539
The attack lasted only a short while and then the dragon, it unexpectedly retreated

720
00:36:40,539 --> 00:36:42,539
and the cultists followed.

721
00:36:42,539 --> 00:36:48,539
But as they fled, they took nothing really of value from the village.

722
00:36:48,539 --> 00:36:58,539
It just seemed they came in to kill our people, not to gain anything from it.

723
00:36:58,539 --> 00:37:04,539
I'm really sorry to hear that you've suffered such a loss.

724
00:37:04,539 --> 00:37:06,539
Thank you. Thank you.

725
00:37:06,539 --> 00:37:12,539
Do you know of King Melandric's son?

726
00:37:12,539 --> 00:37:19,539
King Melandric's son? The missing one? Or the not?

727
00:37:19,539 --> 00:37:20,539
The missing one.

728
00:37:20,539 --> 00:37:26,539
Of course. Yes, we've all heard stories of Naren Vane,

729
00:37:26,539 --> 00:37:31,539
but he hasn't been seen in quite some time.

730
00:37:31,539 --> 00:37:37,539
As he's saying this, make an insight check.

731
00:37:37,539 --> 00:37:39,539
Nat 20.

732
00:37:39,539 --> 00:37:40,539
What?

733
00:37:40,539 --> 00:37:47,539
Yeah, he doesn't seem to be making eye contact with you

734
00:37:47,539 --> 00:37:54,539
during any of what he's telling you about King Melandric or his son.

735
00:37:54,539 --> 00:38:00,539
And you're not sure what he might be withholding, but you sense that he's withholding something.

736
00:38:00,539 --> 00:38:07,539
So you've heard stories of Naren Vane, but you have not seen him around here?

737
00:38:07,539 --> 00:38:08,539
No.

738
00:38:08,539 --> 00:38:11,539
You have not heard tales of him being here?

739
00:38:11,539 --> 00:38:17,539
Because we have under fairly good authority that he is in this forest.

740
00:38:17,539 --> 00:38:23,539
If he is in this forest, I have not seen him. I don't know who...

741
00:38:23,539 --> 00:38:28,539
It's hard to see anything when you're staring at the ground.

742
00:38:28,539 --> 00:38:38,539
I did not invite you here at all. You come, you show up, you question me.

743
00:38:38,539 --> 00:38:42,539
In my own house, in my own settlement, who do you think you are?

744
00:38:42,539 --> 00:38:47,539
We're the people here to help save you from this dragon, but if you don't give us the truth,

745
00:38:47,539 --> 00:38:49,539
there's nothing we can do for you.

746
00:38:49,539 --> 00:38:56,539
As you say that, you hear a voice come from outside the building.

747
00:38:56,539 --> 00:39:01,539
It sounds like it's a small voice, but very gruff.

748
00:39:01,539 --> 00:39:10,539
And she says, hey boss, I tried to find those papers you were looking for, but I didn't find them.

749
00:39:10,539 --> 00:39:18,539
And he says, oh, shit. Yes, yes, come in, come in, flamekins.

750
00:39:18,539 --> 00:39:28,539
And in walks a female goblin dressed in, how do I describe it, kind of like swashbuckler attire.

751
00:39:28,539 --> 00:39:30,539
Like puss in boots.

752
00:39:31,539 --> 00:39:32,539
Except not naked.

753
00:39:32,539 --> 00:39:35,539
Sure, but not naked. Yeah, it's got clothes on.

754
00:39:35,539 --> 00:39:36,539
Amazing.

755
00:39:36,539 --> 00:39:41,539
And she walks in and she senses the tension in the room.

756
00:39:41,539 --> 00:39:50,539
And she's like, oh, did I walk? Okay, what's going on in here?

757
00:39:50,539 --> 00:39:56,539
We're here to help. We're trying to find a man named Narenvain.

758
00:39:56,539 --> 00:40:02,539
I haven't heard the name myself. I'm kind of new to these parts though.

759
00:40:02,539 --> 00:40:04,539
Where are you from?

760
00:40:04,539 --> 00:40:09,539
I was on a ship. We were a merchant ship.

761
00:40:09,539 --> 00:40:14,539
And now, you know, I just felt like I needed to try something new, something different.

762
00:40:14,539 --> 00:40:22,539
So me and a group, we wandered in here to the Misty Forest, and then all these dragons attacks started happening.

763
00:40:22,539 --> 00:40:28,539
And I found these fine folks, and Galen here was willing to put me to work.

764
00:40:28,539 --> 00:40:30,539
Bet you were wishing you were still on that ship.

765
00:40:30,539 --> 00:40:38,539
Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's dangerous out there too, but the dragons weren't swooping over our heads all the time.

766
00:40:38,539 --> 00:40:46,539
I turn back towards Nularaaa and Flint and I go, remember that time we were on a boat with Larry?

767
00:40:46,539 --> 00:40:49,539
Yeah. Remember we played that really neat dice game?

768
00:40:49,539 --> 00:40:51,539
Hey, do you know that dice game that you play on boats?

769
00:40:51,539 --> 00:40:53,539
I ask her.

770
00:40:53,539 --> 00:40:55,539
You know that dice game?

771
00:40:55,539 --> 00:40:59,539
I know many dice games. I know many dice games.

772
00:40:59,539 --> 00:41:04,539
There's one very difficult one that nobody seems to get, so we don't play it all that often.

773
00:41:04,539 --> 00:41:07,539
Maybe sometime. Maybe sometime.

774
00:41:07,539 --> 00:41:15,539
She says, well, if you don't need me now, Galen, I'll just go down to get some stew from stews.

775
00:41:15,539 --> 00:41:19,539
And maybe I'll see you guys. Maybe I'll see you guys around.

776
00:41:19,539 --> 00:41:20,539
What's your name?

777
00:41:20,539 --> 00:41:23,539
It was nice to meet you, Flammokins.

778
00:41:23,539 --> 00:41:25,539
Flammokins. Flammokins.

779
00:41:25,539 --> 00:41:26,539
Flammokins.

780
00:41:26,539 --> 00:41:27,539
Yes.

781
00:41:27,539 --> 00:41:28,539
It's nice to meet you.

782
00:41:28,539 --> 00:41:30,539
Nice to meet you as well.

783
00:41:30,539 --> 00:41:32,539
And she hops off.

784
00:41:32,539 --> 00:41:41,539
And Galen returns to a bit of a scowl, and he's like, if there's no other questions, I believe we're done here.

785
00:41:41,539 --> 00:41:51,539
Galen, we want to help. We've been fighting the Cult of the Dragon for a long time, and it seems they're behind this attack.

786
00:41:51,539 --> 00:41:57,539
So I think we maybe got off on maybe the wrong foot, but we are here to help.

787
00:41:57,539 --> 00:42:02,539
We're at Beefy Stews, if you think of anything else that might help us stop this.

788
00:42:02,539 --> 00:42:04,539
And she hands him our card, which says...

789
00:42:04,539 --> 00:42:07,539
Which says...

790
00:42:07,539 --> 00:42:08,539
Nothing.

791
00:42:08,539 --> 00:42:10,539
For a good time, call Nulara.

792
00:42:10,539 --> 00:42:13,539
I don't think it would say that.

793
00:42:13,539 --> 00:42:29,539
He seems slightly less on edge and just kind of slumps back into his chair, and he says, I'm sorry.

794
00:42:29,539 --> 00:42:35,539
In this dragon attack, I've seen many friends die.

795
00:42:35,539 --> 00:42:45,539
I've seen my wife at the hands of the dragon die.

796
00:42:45,539 --> 00:42:56,539
For you to come in here and question my ability to stand up for my city is an insult.

797
00:42:56,539 --> 00:42:59,539
You've been doing a wonderful job for this city.

798
00:42:59,539 --> 00:43:05,539
The people we have talked to speak irreverently about you.

799
00:43:05,539 --> 00:43:20,539
I just feel like there's maybe more to the story that, once you're ready, you could share with us and we would be able to help each other.

800
00:43:20,539 --> 00:43:29,539
I have told you all I can.

801
00:43:29,539 --> 00:43:30,539
A liar.

802
00:43:30,539 --> 00:43:31,539
Make an insight check.

803
00:43:31,539 --> 00:43:32,539
I'm gonna insight.

804
00:43:32,539 --> 00:43:34,539
Insight the shit out of this.

805
00:43:34,539 --> 00:43:37,539
13.

806
00:43:37,539 --> 00:43:42,539
You feel that he may be telling you the whole truth.

807
00:43:42,539 --> 00:43:48,539
Okay, so now I feel like he may be telling the whole truth, although he hasn't given any extra information from what he's given before.

808
00:43:48,539 --> 00:43:49,539
I don't like this.

809
00:43:49,539 --> 00:43:51,539
Smells fishy.

810
00:43:51,539 --> 00:43:52,539
Thank you for your time.

811
00:43:52,539 --> 00:43:53,539
We'll take our leave.

812
00:43:53,539 --> 00:43:58,539
We'll be at Stu's if you think of anything else.

813
00:43:58,539 --> 00:44:03,539
I shake his bird cage.

814
00:44:03,539 --> 00:44:04,539
No, I don't.

815
00:44:04,539 --> 00:44:05,539
Motherfucker.

816
00:44:05,539 --> 00:44:06,539
Motherfucker.

817
00:44:06,539 --> 00:44:07,539
Is it a parrot or is it a raven?

818
00:44:07,539 --> 00:44:09,539
That's a raven who talks like a parrot, obviously.

819
00:44:09,539 --> 00:44:10,539
I'm just kidding.

820
00:44:10,539 --> 00:44:16,539
I don't do that, but I want to a little bit, but then I'm extremely ashamed of myself because, like, nature and shit, right?

821
00:44:16,539 --> 00:44:18,539
Obviously.

822
00:44:18,539 --> 00:44:23,539
I guess we go, like, so we leave.

823
00:44:23,539 --> 00:44:25,539
Guys, what should we do here?

824
00:44:25,539 --> 00:44:32,539
I mean, we're waiting for, like, I don't know, he's in charge.

825
00:44:32,539 --> 00:44:34,539
He doesn't seem to need our help.

826
00:44:34,539 --> 00:44:42,539
And really, I don't know what we can do if, I mean, you know, if there's an attack, we can attack.

827
00:44:42,539 --> 00:44:48,539
Thaddeus stops you and he says, we let's head back to Beefy Stu's.

828
00:44:48,539 --> 00:44:54,539
That goblin gave me the heads up that we should go talk to her.

829
00:44:54,539 --> 00:44:59,539
And he's still not telling the truth.

830
00:44:59,539 --> 00:45:00,539
I knew it.

831
00:45:00,539 --> 00:45:02,539
I knew it.

832
00:45:02,539 --> 00:45:05,539
Thaddeus, are you psychic?

833
00:45:05,539 --> 00:45:09,539
I just rolled a higher insight than she did.

834
00:45:09,539 --> 00:45:12,539
No, that totally makes sense.

835
00:45:12,539 --> 00:45:15,539
I was just like, how did that happen?

836
00:45:15,539 --> 00:45:19,539
Has he been reading our thoughts this whole time?

837
00:45:19,539 --> 00:45:26,539
Yes.

838
00:45:26,539 --> 00:45:28,539
Hey there, I'm your Dungeon Master Russ More.

839
00:45:28,539 --> 00:45:33,539
Thank you for joining us for episode 34 of Dumbgeons and Dragons titled Welcome to Altant.

840
00:45:33,539 --> 00:45:37,539
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841
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842
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843
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844
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845
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846
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847
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848
00:46:01,539 --> 00:46:05,539
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849
00:46:05,539 --> 00:46:08,539
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850
00:46:08,539 --> 00:46:12,539
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851
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852
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853
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854
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855
00:46:26,539 --> 00:46:30,539
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856
00:46:30,539 --> 00:46:33,539
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857
00:46:33,539 --> 00:46:37,539
Another Patreon reward is naming an NPC, which in this episode is Flamikins,

858
00:46:37,539 --> 00:46:40,539
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859
00:46:40,539 --> 00:46:43,539
I think we're going to have a lot of fun with her character here.

860
00:46:43,539 --> 00:46:45,539
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863
00:46:51,539 --> 00:46:54,539
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864
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867
00:47:03,539 --> 00:47:06,539
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869
00:47:10,539 --> 00:47:14,539
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870
00:47:14,539 --> 00:47:17,539
The next episode will be out March 28th,

871
00:47:17,539 --> 00:47:20,539
but let's dive back into the tale with Flint, Thea, and Nulara,

872
00:47:20,539 --> 00:47:24,539
and see if we can't figure out where to go next in the Misty Forest.

873
00:47:24,539 --> 00:47:27,539
Have a great couple weeks. We'll talk to you soon.

874
00:47:30,539 --> 00:47:39,539
Well, at least I think we got off on the right foot with little Flammikins.

875
00:47:39,539 --> 00:47:42,539
So you head back to Beefy Stews, and you go in there,

876
00:47:42,539 --> 00:47:46,539
and you see Stew, and you see Flammikins.

877
00:47:46,539 --> 00:47:48,539
Fuck. Flammikins.

878
00:47:48,539 --> 00:47:49,539
Is it Flammikins?

879
00:47:49,539 --> 00:47:51,539
Her name is Flammikins.

880
00:47:51,539 --> 00:47:53,539
Get it right.

881
00:47:53,539 --> 00:47:56,539
I know. Flammikins.

882
00:47:56,539 --> 00:47:59,539
And she hops up out of her chair and runs over and says,

883
00:47:59,539 --> 00:48:03,539
You guys, are we going on an adventure or what? Holy shit.

884
00:48:03,539 --> 00:48:05,539
I want out of here.

885
00:48:05,539 --> 00:48:07,539
Oh, my God. I love your enthusiasm.

886
00:48:07,539 --> 00:48:09,539
Great.

887
00:48:09,539 --> 00:48:13,539
I immediately feel like a kindred spirit to this Flammikins.

888
00:48:13,539 --> 00:48:14,539
I very much like her.

889
00:48:14,539 --> 00:48:19,539
So what did he say? Did he say how he's been going out late at night and shit?

890
00:48:19,539 --> 00:48:22,539
Like, fuck, I don't know what he's doing out there.

891
00:48:22,539 --> 00:48:26,539
I feel like she's very loud in the, like, any way.

892
00:48:26,539 --> 00:48:28,539
Oh, yeah. She's boisterous.

893
00:48:28,539 --> 00:48:33,539
So I just shh and I kind of bring us over to like a corner booth.

894
00:48:33,539 --> 00:48:34,539
Is there like a?

895
00:48:34,539 --> 00:48:35,539
Sure.

896
00:48:35,539 --> 00:48:36,539
Sure. Yeah.

897
00:48:36,539 --> 00:48:39,539
Like, you know, somewhere a little more less like standing in the middle of it.

898
00:48:39,539 --> 00:48:42,539
Stew, send us over some stew.

899
00:48:42,539 --> 00:48:44,539
Yeah, you got to have privacy at Beefy Stews.

900
00:48:44,539 --> 00:48:46,539
You got to eat your stew in peace.

901
00:48:46,539 --> 00:48:50,539
He was lying the entire time, Flammikins. He was.

902
00:48:50,539 --> 00:48:52,539
Well, I mean, I don't I don't know exactly what he told you.

903
00:48:52,539 --> 00:48:54,539
So I can't tell if he was lying the entire time.

904
00:48:54,539 --> 00:49:00,539
But I mean, he I mean, he did see a lot of the villagers die and stuff and his wife did die.

905
00:49:00,539 --> 00:49:06,539
But I mean, he I've been kind of hired by him to, you know,

906
00:49:06,539 --> 00:49:10,539
take care of some paperwork and just run an errands for him, really.

907
00:49:10,539 --> 00:49:15,539
But yeah, he sneaks out just about every night is what I've seen.

908
00:49:15,539 --> 00:49:19,539
I tried to follow him one night, but kind of lost him.

909
00:49:19,539 --> 00:49:23,539
So I don't know where he's been going, but he's been going somewhere.

910
00:49:23,539 --> 00:49:28,539
Is he a bad man or is he everyone seems to like him?

911
00:49:28,539 --> 00:49:29,539
Do you like him?

912
00:49:29,539 --> 00:49:34,539
I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't peg him as a as a bad man,

913
00:49:34,539 --> 00:49:43,539
but he's got something something below the surface going on that it doesn't quite add up to some of the stories that he's been telling.

914
00:49:43,539 --> 00:49:46,539
I mean, the dragon didn't just disappear.

915
00:49:46,539 --> 00:49:50,539
From what I hear, the dragon wiped out entire settlements.

916
00:49:50,539 --> 00:49:51,539
It's true.

917
00:49:51,539 --> 00:49:55,539
And then this one, they just leave some leave some folks just hanging about.

918
00:49:55,539 --> 00:49:57,539
Do you think he made a deal with the dragon?

919
00:49:57,539 --> 00:49:59,539
Made a deal with me?

920
00:49:59,539 --> 00:50:02,539
That's possible. Maybe made a deal with somebody.

921
00:50:02,539 --> 00:50:07,539
I mean, there were a lot of from from what they told me, there's a lot of a lot of humans running about.

922
00:50:07,539 --> 00:50:11,539
And maybe one of them was actually in charge and he just happened to catch the right one.

923
00:50:11,539 --> 00:50:12,539
I don't know.

924
00:50:12,539 --> 00:50:16,539
And he I mean, he sneaks out about about about the same time.

925
00:50:16,539 --> 00:50:21,539
Oh, you know, you know, there's this thing they call like a sting operation.

926
00:50:21,539 --> 00:50:25,539
You just you set up and you follow them.

927
00:50:25,539 --> 00:50:27,539
Uh huh. Uh huh.

928
00:50:27,539 --> 00:50:29,539
And you see who he's meeting with.

929
00:50:29,539 --> 00:50:30,539
I like it.

930
00:50:30,539 --> 00:50:32,539
I like what you're putting down, Flamikins Kins.

931
00:50:32,539 --> 00:50:33,539
I like it a lot.

932
00:50:33,539 --> 00:50:34,539
Good.

933
00:50:34,539 --> 00:50:37,539
Oh, this is this is what I got off the boat for.

934
00:50:37,539 --> 00:50:39,539
Alrighty.

935
00:50:39,539 --> 00:50:43,539
Is there anybody else from your boat still in the in the village?

936
00:50:44,539 --> 00:50:47,539
Uh, no, no, we kind of got separated.

937
00:50:47,539 --> 00:50:51,539
We came originally to a different settlement.

938
00:50:51,539 --> 00:50:54,539
A lot of the people who came with us, they just kind of scattered.

939
00:50:54,539 --> 00:50:58,539
We lost each other and I ended up here.

940
00:50:58,539 --> 00:51:00,539
Good thing for us.

941
00:51:00,539 --> 00:51:04,539
Good thing for everybody.

942
00:51:04,539 --> 00:51:07,539
Beefy stew brings you over your stews.

943
00:51:07,539 --> 00:51:08,539
Thanks, Stu.

944
00:51:08,539 --> 00:51:10,539
Thanks, Stu.

945
00:51:10,539 --> 00:51:12,539
I'm already eating it.

946
00:51:12,539 --> 00:51:14,539
He's like when...

947
00:51:14,539 --> 00:51:17,539
Flamikins Kins, can I ask you two more questions?

948
00:51:17,539 --> 00:51:19,539
You can ask me all the questions.

949
00:51:19,539 --> 00:51:20,539
What?

950
00:51:20,539 --> 00:51:22,539
Except that question.

951
00:51:22,539 --> 00:51:23,539
Uh oh.

952
00:51:23,539 --> 00:51:26,539
I'm just kidding.

953
00:51:26,539 --> 00:51:32,539
Any anything interesting in the paperwork he's got you shuffling?

954
00:51:32,539 --> 00:51:36,539
No, I mean, not really.

955
00:51:36,539 --> 00:51:40,539
It's just regular like day to day.

956
00:51:40,539 --> 00:51:42,539
Just warden-y day to day?

957
00:51:42,539 --> 00:51:44,539
Taxes, wardens.

958
00:51:44,539 --> 00:51:47,539
You know, there's been a lot of deaths, so there's some death certificates.

959
00:51:47,539 --> 00:51:51,539
I mean, really, it's just moving papers from one place to the other.

960
00:51:51,539 --> 00:51:55,539
Not really a merchant's life.

961
00:51:55,539 --> 00:51:57,539
Second question.

962
00:51:57,539 --> 00:52:00,539
What times, Galen, head out?

963
00:52:00,539 --> 00:52:02,539
How are we going to...

964
00:52:02,539 --> 00:52:05,539
When we're doing the sting operation is what I'm asking.

965
00:52:05,539 --> 00:52:12,539
It's always kind of in the middle of the night about just after like the midnight hour.

966
00:52:12,539 --> 00:52:16,539
So you guys want it tonight?

967
00:52:16,539 --> 00:52:17,539
Absolutely.

968
00:52:17,539 --> 00:52:18,539
Let's do this.

969
00:52:18,539 --> 00:52:19,539
All right.

970
00:52:19,539 --> 00:52:29,539
He's hiding something and whether or not it's, you know, malicious intent or not, I think it's something we need to know.

971
00:52:29,539 --> 00:52:32,539
I think it's something that'll help.

972
00:52:32,539 --> 00:52:35,539
Also, what else are we doing?

973
00:52:35,539 --> 00:52:36,539
Right?

974
00:52:36,539 --> 00:52:37,539
So it's currently 9 a.m.

975
00:52:37,539 --> 00:52:42,539
What do we do for the next 15 hours?

976
00:52:42,539 --> 00:52:49,539
Just give me like a point form, things you want to do in Altand.

977
00:52:49,539 --> 00:52:51,539
And that's what you do for the next...

978
00:52:51,539 --> 00:52:54,539
Thea walks around like just spreading a little bit of cheer.

979
00:52:54,539 --> 00:53:01,539
So like seeing people working, like rebuilding things, bringing them cold drinks, helping hoist stuff.

980
00:53:01,539 --> 00:53:08,539
And just generally talking to people and keeping things light in a gloomy situation.

981
00:53:08,539 --> 00:53:10,539
Pedaling her merch.

982
00:53:10,539 --> 00:53:13,539
I want to ask someone about...

983
00:53:13,539 --> 00:53:15,539
Right, there it comes.

984
00:53:15,539 --> 00:53:18,539
I want to ask someone about Adren.

985
00:53:18,539 --> 00:53:20,539
You know, he of the statue down below.

986
00:53:20,539 --> 00:53:23,539
Anybody in particular you want to approach?

987
00:53:23,539 --> 00:53:29,539
There's lots of people kind of just working about and going about their day.

988
00:53:29,539 --> 00:53:30,539
Is there...

989
00:53:30,539 --> 00:53:34,539
I'm a very loyal Beefy Stew's Beefy Stew's customer.

990
00:53:34,539 --> 00:53:35,539
Sure.

991
00:53:35,539 --> 00:53:36,539
But is there another...

992
00:53:36,539 --> 00:53:39,539
Is there like a tavern or anything I could go into?

993
00:53:39,539 --> 00:53:41,539
Yeah, of course.

994
00:53:41,539 --> 00:53:43,539
Beefy Stew hears about it.

995
00:53:43,539 --> 00:53:46,539
He sees you leave and he's like...

996
00:53:46,539 --> 00:53:49,539
He knows you're going to the Clock and Hen.

997
00:53:49,539 --> 00:53:51,539
The Clock and Hen?

998
00:53:51,539 --> 00:53:53,539
I was just going to say that.

999
00:53:53,539 --> 00:53:54,539
The Clock and Hen?

1000
00:53:54,539 --> 00:53:55,539
Is it?

1001
00:53:55,539 --> 00:53:56,539
Yep.

1002
00:53:56,539 --> 00:53:57,539
Okay.

1003
00:53:57,539 --> 00:53:58,539
Yep.

1004
00:53:58,539 --> 00:53:59,539
Okay.

1005
00:53:59,539 --> 00:54:04,539
I go into the Clock and Hen.

1006
00:54:04,539 --> 00:54:05,539
Yep.

1007
00:54:05,539 --> 00:54:09,539
And go up to the bar and order an ale and sit down.

1008
00:54:09,539 --> 00:54:10,539
Sure.

1009
00:54:10,539 --> 00:54:13,539
And what's the bartender like?

1010
00:54:13,539 --> 00:54:18,539
Bartender is a female elf and she hands you your ale and says,

1011
00:54:18,539 --> 00:54:20,539
You're new around these parts.

1012
00:54:20,539 --> 00:54:26,539
What has you coming through in such a time as people are trying to all leave?

1013
00:54:27,539 --> 00:54:29,539
Well, a couple things.

1014
00:54:29,539 --> 00:54:32,539
We're waiting to meet a friend here and...

1015
00:54:32,539 --> 00:54:34,539
Well, we're kind of...

1016
00:54:34,539 --> 00:54:39,539
My friends and I make a habit of trying to wreck the plans of this Call to the Dragon.

1017
00:54:39,539 --> 00:54:42,539
We're here trying to get a little bit more information.

1018
00:54:42,539 --> 00:54:45,539
See if we can't, you know, kill some of them.

1019
00:54:45,539 --> 00:54:49,539
Well, we would greatly appreciate that.

1020
00:54:49,539 --> 00:54:53,539
My name is, when I find it I will tell you,

1021
00:54:53,539 --> 00:54:58,539
Don't move on Vedanya.

1022
00:54:58,539 --> 00:55:00,539
Don't move on Vedanya.

1023
00:55:00,539 --> 00:55:01,539
That sounds like a good song.

1024
00:55:01,539 --> 00:55:04,539
Yeah.

1025
00:55:04,539 --> 00:55:07,539
Song to the tune of Come On Eileen.

1026
00:55:07,539 --> 00:55:08,539
My name is Vedanya.

1027
00:55:08,539 --> 00:55:09,539
Nice to meet you.

1028
00:55:09,539 --> 00:55:10,539
And you are?

1029
00:55:10,539 --> 00:55:12,539
Sorry, you might have said already.

1030
00:55:12,539 --> 00:55:13,539
Nulara.

1031
00:55:13,539 --> 00:55:14,539
Nice to meet you.

1032
00:55:14,539 --> 00:55:16,539
Vedanya.

1033
00:55:16,539 --> 00:55:21,539
Hey, I'm curious about that statue down on the ground.

1034
00:55:21,539 --> 00:55:23,539
Adren, is it?

1035
00:55:23,539 --> 00:55:25,539
Adren, yes, yes.

1036
00:55:25,539 --> 00:55:32,539
He was the founding member of Altand here.

1037
00:55:32,539 --> 00:55:38,539
He was the one to find the site and bring other wood elves here with us.

1038
00:55:38,539 --> 00:55:42,539
And that's our commemoration of him.

1039
00:55:42,539 --> 00:55:50,539
He was an adventurer at heart and when he decided it was time he settled his people here.

1040
00:55:50,539 --> 00:55:54,539
And that is just us remembering him.

1041
00:55:54,539 --> 00:55:57,539
Was that many generations ago?

1042
00:55:57,539 --> 00:55:59,539
It was quite some time ago.

1043
00:55:59,539 --> 00:56:04,539
You know, us elves live quite a long time.

1044
00:56:04,539 --> 00:56:09,539
Quite a lot longer than you human folk.

1045
00:56:09,539 --> 00:56:13,539
But yes, it was several hundred years ago.

1046
00:56:13,539 --> 00:56:16,539
Only several hundred years ago?

1047
00:56:16,539 --> 00:56:18,539
Several hundreds of years ago.

1048
00:56:18,539 --> 00:56:19,539
Oh.

1049
00:56:19,539 --> 00:56:21,539
It's in the thousands, you know.

1050
00:56:21,539 --> 00:56:22,539
Yeah.

1051
00:56:22,539 --> 00:56:24,539
Hundred hundreds.

1052
00:56:24,539 --> 00:56:25,539
One hundred hundred.

1053
00:56:25,539 --> 00:56:29,539
One hundred hundred years ago.

1054
00:56:29,539 --> 00:56:34,539
Any other tourist sites I should see while I'm here?

1055
00:56:34,539 --> 00:56:39,539
I mean, we don't like to recommend our competitors.

1056
00:56:39,539 --> 00:56:42,539
But have you tried Beefy Stew's Beefy Stew?

1057
00:56:42,539 --> 00:56:43,539
You know, I have.

1058
00:56:43,539 --> 00:56:45,539
And that is some good stew.

1059
00:56:45,539 --> 00:56:46,539
Some good stew.

1060
00:56:46,539 --> 00:56:47,539
Excellent, excellent.

1061
00:56:47,539 --> 00:56:48,539
Well, no, no.

1062
00:56:48,539 --> 00:56:53,539
Just make yourself at home here and if you need anything you let me know.

1063
00:56:53,539 --> 00:56:58,539
Otherwise, anybody here would be glad to discuss anything with you.

1064
00:56:58,539 --> 00:56:59,539
Great.

1065
00:56:59,539 --> 00:57:00,539
Thanks, Vedanya.

1066
00:57:00,539 --> 00:57:02,539
Hey, hey, one other thing.

1067
00:57:02,539 --> 00:57:03,539
What's...

1068
00:57:03,539 --> 00:57:04,539
How about that warden?

1069
00:57:04,539 --> 00:57:06,539
We met him and I got...

1070
00:57:06,539 --> 00:57:09,539
I don't know, he seemed nice but I got kind of a weird vibe.

1071
00:57:09,539 --> 00:57:11,539
What's his story?

1072
00:57:11,539 --> 00:57:12,539
Galen?

1073
00:57:12,539 --> 00:57:14,539
Well, he...

1074
00:57:14,539 --> 00:57:18,539
I mean, he's been going through, I mean, some of his own problems.

1075
00:57:18,539 --> 00:57:23,539
Having lost his wife obviously is quite a large problem.

1076
00:57:23,539 --> 00:57:26,539
He's kind of thrust into this leadership role.

1077
00:57:26,539 --> 00:57:31,539
I noticed he's been a little more tucked away than he usually is.

1078
00:57:31,539 --> 00:57:41,539
Usually he is out and about and he's been kind of hiding away in his house there.

1079
00:57:41,539 --> 00:57:50,539
But, I mean, we just kind of assumed that he's dealing with the stresses of the events that occurred.

1080
00:57:50,539 --> 00:57:51,539
That seems reasonable.

1081
00:57:51,539 --> 00:57:53,539
Hey, thanks, Vedanya.

1082
00:57:53,539 --> 00:57:54,539
Of course.

1083
00:57:54,539 --> 00:57:55,539
Flint, what are you doing?

1084
00:57:55,539 --> 00:57:58,539
I'm going to go sharpen my axes.

1085
00:57:58,539 --> 00:57:59,539
Okay.

1086
00:57:59,539 --> 00:58:00,539
Is that a euphemism?

1087
00:58:00,539 --> 00:58:03,539
Because that's gross.

1088
00:58:03,539 --> 00:58:05,539
Well, guilty as charged.

1089
00:58:05,539 --> 00:58:10,539
So you're finding a blacksmith?

1090
00:58:10,539 --> 00:58:11,539
Yeah, no, that one.

1091
00:58:11,539 --> 00:58:13,539
Or a brothel?

1092
00:58:13,539 --> 00:58:17,539
A blacksmith slash brothel, yep.

1093
00:58:17,539 --> 00:58:19,539
It's a dangerous thing to be.

1094
00:58:19,539 --> 00:58:21,539
It's this economy, guys, you got to multitask.

1095
00:58:21,539 --> 00:58:23,539
Blacksmith and naked, it just doesn't seem...

1096
00:58:23,539 --> 00:58:26,539
No, it seems very dangerous, very bad idea.

1097
00:58:26,539 --> 00:58:34,539
You ask around and you find that there's just one blacksmith in town and in fact they call it just blacksmiths.

1098
00:58:34,539 --> 00:58:36,539
Yeah, solid naming.

1099
00:58:36,539 --> 00:58:37,539
Yep.

1100
00:58:37,539 --> 00:58:39,539
It's hitting the nail on the head.

1101
00:58:39,539 --> 00:58:43,539
I mean, it's direct, it's to the point, it's minimalist, I'm on board.

1102
00:58:43,539 --> 00:58:49,539
And you're heading there and there's just one elf.

1103
00:58:49,539 --> 00:58:56,539
One elf working in there and calls over to you and says, welcome, what can I do for you?

1104
00:58:56,539 --> 00:59:03,539
I got a little downtime here, I was wondering if I could sharpen my axes in your smith.

1105
00:59:03,539 --> 00:59:06,539
Smith-a-rino?

1106
00:59:06,539 --> 00:59:12,539
Yeah, we don't usually run into a lot of people who can smith themselves, but...

1107
00:59:12,539 --> 00:59:16,539
I don't think we're using that word right, you guys.

1108
00:59:16,539 --> 00:59:21,539
Jonathan, if you're listening, fix this for us, please.

1109
00:59:21,539 --> 00:59:23,539
No, it's fine, it's fine.

1110
00:59:23,539 --> 00:59:28,539
There's no rules on what you have to call a blacksmith, but yeah, help yourself, I suppose.

1111
00:59:28,539 --> 00:59:34,539
Awesome, thanks, if there's any projects you need to hand with, I'm pretty good, I'll help you out.

1112
00:59:34,539 --> 00:59:38,539
You're like that Flint always just looks for some freelance smithing work.

1113
00:59:38,539 --> 00:59:40,539
Little odd jobs here and there.

1114
00:59:40,539 --> 00:59:41,539
That's kind of sweet.

1115
00:59:41,539 --> 00:59:44,539
Sure, sure, where are you from?

1116
00:59:44,539 --> 00:59:50,539
Originally from the Grey Peak Mountains, but our family moved and set up shop in Mithril Hall.

1117
00:59:50,539 --> 00:59:57,539
Oh, from the higher up dwarven settlement there, good, good.

1118
00:59:57,539 --> 01:00:04,539
So, did you work as a smith there? Is that why you know your way around the tools?

1119
01:00:04,539 --> 01:00:10,539
No soldier all through and through, but I've kind of picked up smithing in my last couple years here.

1120
01:00:10,539 --> 01:00:13,539
I've been liking to think I'm getting pretty good at it.

1121
01:00:13,539 --> 01:00:15,539
Excellent, excellent.

1122
01:00:15,539 --> 01:00:23,539
He tosses you a blade and doesn't warn you about it, so make a dexterity check.

1123
01:00:23,539 --> 01:00:26,539
Kind of rude.

1124
01:00:26,539 --> 01:00:27,539
14.

1125
01:00:27,539 --> 01:00:31,539
You catch it, quite fine, he says, give that a sharpen.

1126
01:00:31,539 --> 01:00:34,539
I will do so.

1127
01:00:34,539 --> 01:00:37,539
Roll a smith tools check there.

1128
01:00:37,539 --> 01:00:43,539
Roll a honing check.

1129
01:00:43,539 --> 01:00:47,539
I'm honing in on it, it's a 26.

1130
01:00:48,539 --> 01:00:55,539
Oh, you sharpen that motherfucker, and he looks at it and says, so you live in here now?

1131
01:00:55,539 --> 01:00:57,539
Is that what's happening?

1132
01:00:57,539 --> 01:01:00,539
No, no, no, no, no.

1133
01:01:00,539 --> 01:01:05,539
We're just going through, we're on our way to hunt some dragons.

1134
01:01:05,539 --> 01:01:10,539
You guys have been having a bit of a problem, but yeah, we're just here for a couple days.

1135
01:01:10,539 --> 01:01:13,539
Yeah, problem to say the very least.

1136
01:01:13,539 --> 01:01:18,539
Well, take as much time as you need, sharpen as many things as you'd like.

1137
01:01:18,539 --> 01:01:25,539
We're going to need some sharp blades here, I feel, coming very, very soon.

1138
01:01:25,539 --> 01:01:27,539
Oh yeah, what makes you say that?

1139
01:01:27,539 --> 01:01:35,539
Well, I mean, it's just, most of the other settlements, they were completely wiped out.

1140
01:01:35,539 --> 01:01:38,539
Yeah, it's kind of weird that you guys weren't, hey?

1141
01:01:38,539 --> 01:01:44,539
And we weren't, and I mean, there was rumors kind of floating around

1142
01:01:44,539 --> 01:01:50,539
that the dragon was being ridden or controlled by someone.

1143
01:01:50,539 --> 01:01:52,539
Whoa, what?

1144
01:01:52,539 --> 01:01:57,539
And yeah, I mean, it's just rumors.

1145
01:01:57,539 --> 01:02:07,539
No one has a firm grasp on who it was or exactly what they were wearing or who they were.

1146
01:02:07,539 --> 01:02:15,539
But there's rumors that the dragon was being ridden by somebody, by a humanoid creature.

1147
01:02:15,539 --> 01:02:17,539
Oh, this is interesting.

1148
01:02:17,539 --> 01:02:22,539
Yeah, I mean, some people firmly believe it, others aren't quite so sure.

1149
01:02:22,539 --> 01:02:24,539
There was a lot going on.

1150
01:02:24,539 --> 01:02:30,539
I mean, I'm one that, you know, I thought I saw somebody there.

1151
01:02:30,539 --> 01:02:34,539
But again, we were all fleeing as quick as we could.

1152
01:02:34,539 --> 01:02:40,539
So who's to say, you know, unless we were to see them again, of course.

1153
01:02:40,539 --> 01:02:44,539
Fair enough. I appreciate the heads up on there.

1154
01:02:44,539 --> 01:02:48,539
Somebody might be riding the dragon. That's new information to us.

1155
01:02:48,539 --> 01:02:55,539
Well, I hope it brings you some aid in whatever battle you have coming towards yourself, if you have one.

1156
01:02:55,539 --> 01:02:58,539
Oh, we always seem to have one.

1157
01:02:58,539 --> 01:03:01,539
Aha, adventuring types then. Good.

1158
01:03:01,539 --> 01:03:06,539
So, yeah, I guess I finish up and head back to tell my crew what I found out.

1159
01:03:06,539 --> 01:03:09,539
Sure. Yeah, you guys all meet back up.

1160
01:03:09,539 --> 01:03:12,539
I relay all the information to them.

1161
01:03:12,539 --> 01:03:15,539
Then I have a quick nap, eat some more stew.

1162
01:03:15,539 --> 01:03:19,539
Now it's eleven thirty and I put on my cat burglar outfit.

1163
01:03:19,539 --> 01:03:21,539
Oh, yeah, there we go.

1164
01:03:21,539 --> 01:03:25,539
Flammokins, she gives you a place to kind of meet.

1165
01:03:25,539 --> 01:03:32,539
That's a little bit of ways from where Galen was seen by her.

1166
01:03:32,539 --> 01:03:36,539
And you guys go meet there, the four of you.

1167
01:03:36,539 --> 01:03:38,539
I guess do all four of you go.

1168
01:03:38,539 --> 01:03:42,539
Do you bring Thaddeus or do the three of you just go?

1169
01:03:42,539 --> 01:03:44,539
I don't know. What's Thaddeus doing?

1170
01:03:44,539 --> 01:03:46,539
We haven't heard much from him.

1171
01:03:46,539 --> 01:03:48,539
Thaddeus has just been chilling.

1172
01:03:48,539 --> 01:03:50,539
He's like, you guys, you guys seem to got this.

1173
01:03:50,539 --> 01:03:51,539
You let me know when you need me.

1174
01:03:51,539 --> 01:03:54,539
But I mean, if you want me there, I'll I'll be there.

1175
01:03:54,539 --> 01:03:59,539
I think it might be good not to have somebody there to have someone who knows where we are.

1176
01:03:59,539 --> 01:04:02,539
If we're not back at a certain time, come find us kind of business.

1177
01:04:02,539 --> 01:04:04,539
Please alert the authorities.

1178
01:04:04,539 --> 01:04:05,539
Yeah, sure.

1179
01:04:05,539 --> 01:04:11,539
Thaddeus stays behind a beefy stews and you guys go to the meeting spot where Flammokins told you to meet.

1180
01:04:11,539 --> 01:04:15,539
And you look around and she's not there at the moment.

1181
01:04:15,539 --> 01:04:17,539
Guys, are we being set up?

1182
01:04:17,539 --> 01:04:21,539
I'm going to cast Pass Without a Trace on us.

1183
01:04:21,539 --> 01:04:22,539
Sure.

1184
01:04:22,539 --> 01:04:23,539
So we're like super stealthy.

1185
01:04:23,539 --> 01:04:24,539
It's the short version.

1186
01:04:24,539 --> 01:04:25,539
Super stealthy.

1187
01:04:25,539 --> 01:04:26,539
Yeah.

1188
01:04:26,539 --> 01:04:33,539
As you as you cast Pass Without a Trace, you hear from behind you coming from what you thought was a tree.

1189
01:04:33,539 --> 01:04:36,539
You hear, hey, hey, hey, I'm back.

1190
01:04:36,539 --> 01:04:37,539
I'm back here.

1191
01:04:37,539 --> 01:04:38,539
Shh.

1192
01:04:38,539 --> 01:04:39,539
Shh.

1193
01:04:39,539 --> 01:04:41,539
Come over here.

1194
01:04:41,539 --> 01:04:50,539
And you turn around and you don't see anybody, but you hear the direction that the voice is calling and you head back a little ways.

1195
01:04:50,539 --> 01:04:55,539
And she drops whatever spell she has on her.

1196
01:04:55,539 --> 01:04:57,539
And she's just blended in with the surrounding.

1197
01:04:57,539 --> 01:05:02,539
And she's like, I like your cat burglar outfit, but don't worry.

1198
01:05:02,539 --> 01:05:07,539
I can just cast Seeming on us and we'll just blend into the surroundings.

1199
01:05:07,539 --> 01:05:10,539
Oh, well, even better.

1200
01:05:10,539 --> 01:05:12,539
So now we're like extra wicked.

1201
01:05:12,539 --> 01:05:13,539
We've all got stealthy spells.

1202
01:05:13,539 --> 01:05:15,539
Extra wicked, super stealthy.

1203
01:05:15,539 --> 01:05:18,539
So she could see us even though we had Pass Without a Trace.

1204
01:05:18,539 --> 01:05:20,539
Pass Without a Trace does not make you invisible.

1205
01:05:20,539 --> 01:05:21,539
Right, right, right.

1206
01:05:21,539 --> 01:05:22,539
It just makes you super stealthy.

1207
01:05:22,539 --> 01:05:23,539
Yes, right.

1208
01:05:23,539 --> 01:05:26,539
But yes, she was there waiting for you anyway.

1209
01:05:26,539 --> 01:05:28,539
So she saw you come up.

1210
01:05:28,539 --> 01:05:30,539
Russ has done his homework on Pass Without a Trace.

1211
01:05:30,539 --> 01:05:33,539
You'd better believe it.

1212
01:05:33,539 --> 01:05:35,539
It's not an invisibility.

1213
01:05:35,539 --> 01:05:37,539
There is invisibility.

1214
01:05:37,539 --> 01:05:38,539
Yes.

1215
01:05:38,539 --> 01:05:41,539
It just masks us from detection.

1216
01:05:41,539 --> 01:05:44,539
We can't be tracked and we get super bonuses to stealth.

1217
01:05:44,539 --> 01:05:48,539
Yeah, you get like a plus 10 or something to your stealth checks.

1218
01:05:48,539 --> 01:05:51,539
So basically you can't fail stealth is essentially what it is.

1219
01:05:51,539 --> 01:05:54,539
I guess you can still crit fail.

1220
01:05:54,539 --> 01:05:55,539
Yeah.

1221
01:05:55,539 --> 01:05:56,539
Yeah, we don't.

1222
01:05:56,539 --> 01:05:57,539
Yeah.

1223
01:05:57,539 --> 01:05:58,539
I mean, I don't.

1224
01:05:58,539 --> 01:06:01,539
If you roll a one, I still let you add on your modifier for a check though.

1225
01:06:01,539 --> 01:06:05,539
So you should still be OK.

1226
01:06:05,539 --> 01:06:08,539
So she's like, OK, well, he's he's probably going to be down here soon.

1227
01:06:08,539 --> 01:06:10,539
So let's just head out.

1228
01:06:10,539 --> 01:06:11,539
OK.

1229
01:06:11,539 --> 01:06:16,539
Yes, she leads you and you guys are all super stealthy heading through the trees.

1230
01:06:16,539 --> 01:06:25,539
And you catch a glimpse a ways up ahead there, but of a cloaked figure heading away from the settlement.

1231
01:06:25,539 --> 01:06:27,539
She's like, there he is.

1232
01:06:27,539 --> 01:06:32,539
But as you continue to follow him, he steps into an open clearing.

1233
01:06:32,539 --> 01:06:35,539
And she's like, OK, get get down, get down.

1234
01:06:35,539 --> 01:06:39,539
And she casts seeming on the four of you.

1235
01:06:39,539 --> 01:06:47,539
For all intents and purposes, you guys are our bushes just kind of setting by the side there.

1236
01:06:47,539 --> 01:06:54,539
Gallan is pacing around this this open clearing and looking up at the stars that you can see through.

1237
01:06:54,539 --> 01:06:59,539
And she keeps checking the sky and looking around and pacing around.

1238
01:06:59,539 --> 01:07:08,539
And she's like, he's I don't he's been doing this for I don't know how long you guys what you guys want to do here.

1239
01:07:08,539 --> 01:07:11,539
But I see we just wait him out.

1240
01:07:11,539 --> 01:07:13,539
Yeah, I was going to say, wait patiently.

1241
01:07:13,539 --> 01:07:17,539
We're not so much of a sting operation right now as we are just a stakeout.

1242
01:07:17,539 --> 01:07:18,539
Yes.

1243
01:07:18,539 --> 01:07:19,539
Sure.

1244
01:07:19,539 --> 01:07:25,539
So he paces around for what seems like the better part of an hour.

1245
01:07:25,539 --> 01:07:35,539
And he's getting increasingly nervous and openly frustrated by the fact that whoever he's waiting for has not shown up.

1246
01:07:35,539 --> 01:07:43,539
And then he gives one last look to the sky and then he throws his arms down and then starts heading back towards the settlement.

1247
01:07:43,539 --> 01:07:45,539
Crazy. I guess we follow him back. Yeah.

1248
01:07:45,539 --> 01:07:51,539
You keep being stealthy and you follow him back to the settlement and he heads directly back to his house.

1249
01:07:51,539 --> 01:07:54,539
Do we want to go confront him now or go back the next day?

1250
01:07:54,539 --> 01:08:03,539
Maybe next day we might get a better idea of what's going on if we can kind of catch them in the act rather than trying to force him.

1251
01:08:03,539 --> 01:08:05,539
Oh, I see. Like follow him again the next day.

1252
01:08:05,539 --> 01:08:06,539
Yeah. Yeah.

1253
01:08:06,539 --> 01:08:07,539
Yeah. Maybe we'll see.

1254
01:08:07,539 --> 01:08:10,539
Maybe what he's waiting for will finally show up.

1255
01:08:10,539 --> 01:08:11,539
Yeah, you're right.

1256
01:08:11,539 --> 01:08:13,539
Like, I want to see what's going on.

1257
01:08:13,539 --> 01:08:14,539
I want to see it.

1258
01:08:14,539 --> 01:08:16,539
He's obviously not telling us something.

1259
01:08:16,539 --> 01:08:17,539
Exactly.

1260
01:08:17,539 --> 01:08:18,539
He's looking at the sky.

1261
01:08:18,539 --> 01:08:20,539
A dragon is fucking coming.

1262
01:08:20,539 --> 01:08:22,539
And is his wife riding it?

1263
01:08:22,539 --> 01:08:25,539
Why do they keep saying his wife died?

1264
01:08:25,539 --> 01:08:26,539
What's up with that?

1265
01:08:26,539 --> 01:08:28,539
It's tragic.

1266
01:08:28,539 --> 01:08:31,539
I don't want to keep hearing about it.

1267
01:08:31,539 --> 01:08:35,539
I hate hearing about other people's pain.

1268
01:08:35,539 --> 01:08:37,539
If everyone could just stop, that'd be great.

1269
01:08:37,539 --> 01:08:41,539
So you head back to Beefy Stews and Thaddeus is sitting there waiting.

1270
01:08:41,539 --> 01:08:43,539
So what did you find?

1271
01:08:43,539 --> 01:08:48,539
Fucking nothing. Guy didn't have anything waiting for him.

1272
01:08:48,539 --> 01:08:52,539
No, but he was waiting for someone or something to come down from the sky.

1273
01:08:52,539 --> 01:08:54,539
Did you see him looking up?

1274
01:08:54,539 --> 01:08:56,539
Yeah, I mean, he was clearly waiting for somebody,

1275
01:08:56,539 --> 01:09:02,539
but whoever must have caught wind that, you know, maybe the jig was up

1276
01:09:02,539 --> 01:09:06,539
or maybe they just had other things going on and didn't tell him.

1277
01:09:06,539 --> 01:09:08,539
I don't know.

1278
01:09:08,539 --> 01:09:15,539
I have a feeling from the look of frustration on his face

1279
01:09:15,539 --> 01:09:18,539
that this is not the first time.

1280
01:09:18,539 --> 01:09:20,539
I think he's been going back.

1281
01:09:20,539 --> 01:09:22,539
I don't think anyone's been coming.

1282
01:09:22,539 --> 01:09:24,539
Thaddeus says, so what are we going to do?

1283
01:09:24,539 --> 01:09:26,539
Well, follow him again tomorrow.

1284
01:09:26,539 --> 01:09:29,539
I mean, it's got to be the dragon or maybe Nerenvane, right?

1285
01:09:29,539 --> 01:09:32,539
That's when he was acting all sketchy is when you were asking him about Nerenvane

1286
01:09:32,539 --> 01:09:36,539
and someone said Nerenvade flies on the clouds or something,

1287
01:09:36,539 --> 01:09:38,539
something poetic like that.

1288
01:09:38,539 --> 01:09:41,539
But unless we catch him, how do we know?

1289
01:09:41,539 --> 01:09:45,539
Thaddeus kind of has this look of consternation.

1290
01:09:45,539 --> 01:09:47,539
And he says, well, it's not what he always looks like.

1291
01:09:47,539 --> 01:09:49,539
Yeah, no, it's more so this time.

1292
01:09:49,539 --> 01:09:50,539
He's like, fuck.

1293
01:09:50,539 --> 01:09:55,539
And he gets up and he walks out of the building.

1294
01:09:55,539 --> 01:09:58,539
I think he's too close to this, you guys.

1295
01:09:58,539 --> 01:10:00,539
I guess we should probably follow him.

1296
01:10:00,539 --> 01:10:04,539
He's heading directly towards Galen's house.

1297
01:10:04,539 --> 01:10:06,539
Oh, I want to see where this turns out.

1298
01:10:06,539 --> 01:10:07,539
Yeah.

1299
01:10:07,539 --> 01:10:12,539
He goes in and you're following a bit behind.

1300
01:10:12,539 --> 01:10:16,539
And you walk into the sitting chamber where you originally met Galen.

1301
01:10:16,539 --> 01:10:22,539
And Thaddeus has Galen up against a wall by the scruff of the neck, screaming at him.

1302
01:10:38,539 --> 01:10:43,539
Music in today's episode was by Kavin McLeod of Incompetech.Filmmusic.io.

1303
01:10:43,539 --> 01:10:45,539
The Snuggly Duckling.

1304
01:10:45,539 --> 01:10:47,539
Oh, that sounds nice.

1305
01:10:47,539 --> 01:10:51,539
Yeah, sure, the Snuggly Duckling.

1306
01:10:51,539 --> 01:10:52,539
Perfect.

1307
01:10:52,539 --> 01:10:54,539
Can you name it the Snuggly Duckling?

1308
01:10:54,539 --> 01:10:55,539
I think you can and did.

1309
01:10:55,539 --> 01:10:57,539
That's from the movie Tangled.

1310
01:10:57,539 --> 01:10:58,539
Oh, fuck.

1311
01:10:58,539 --> 01:11:01,539
Isn't he going to come in here and sue us?

1312
01:11:01,539 --> 01:11:02,539
I don't think so.

1313
01:11:02,539 --> 01:11:03,539
Maybe.

1314
01:11:03,539 --> 01:11:04,539
I don't want that shit.

1315
01:11:04,539 --> 01:11:08,539
I had stew for dinner without a word of a lie.

1316
01:11:08,539 --> 01:11:09,539
Really?

1317
01:11:09,539 --> 01:11:12,539
It was a pork stew, but still it was stew.

1318
01:11:12,539 --> 01:11:15,539
Wow, that's kind of amazing.

1319
01:11:15,539 --> 01:11:16,539
What stew?

1320
01:11:16,539 --> 01:11:18,539
It was a pork stew, pork and vegetables.

1321
01:11:18,539 --> 01:11:21,539
I heard horse, which I wouldn't judge you for.

1322
01:11:21,539 --> 01:11:22,539
Horse stew.

1323
01:11:22,539 --> 01:11:24,539
Good ol' horse meat.

1324
01:11:24,539 --> 01:11:26,539
Tom's family's very European.

1325
01:11:26,539 --> 01:11:30,539
Gonna wait till the midnight.

1326
01:11:30,539 --> 01:11:31,539
That's a good one.

1327
01:11:31,539 --> 01:11:33,539
We used to sing that on the boat.

1328
01:11:33,539 --> 01:11:39,539
We made it one hour before a song got sung, I think, because I couldn't find Franklin.

1329
01:11:39,539 --> 01:11:40,539
So, wow.

1330
01:11:40,539 --> 01:11:42,539
I couldn't let that one slide.

1331
01:11:42,539 --> 01:11:44,539
It had to happen.

1332
01:11:44,539 --> 01:11:45,539
Whoa.

1333
01:11:45,539 --> 01:11:46,539
That's crazy.

1334
01:11:46,539 --> 01:11:48,539
What's he screaming?

1335
01:11:48,539 --> 01:11:54,539
Well, we'll find out next time on Dumbgeons & Dragons.

1336
01:11:54,539 --> 01:11:56,539
Same dumb time.

1337
01:11:56,539 --> 01:11:58,539
Same dumb channel.

1338
01:11:58,539 --> 01:12:01,539
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