1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,000 You are restrained by webbing. 3 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Donnie will fly up and try and, like, chomp on one of them Spideys. 4 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,000 The target falls unconscious for one hour. 5 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Nice. 6 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,000 So the eight wolves come in and swarm these two Ettercaps 7 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,000 and just churn out Ettercap meat. 8 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 It's just flying everywhere. 9 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:56,000 The spiders see this and flee into the trees and run away. 10 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 That makes me feel very gross. 11 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,000 It's a pretty solid plan on their part. 12 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Well, let's keep going. 13 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,000 My wolves are coming with us. 14 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:07,000 No, you come to a large clearing where there is a lake at the base 15 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 of approximately 100 foot waterfall. 16 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Well, I can't see in the dark, so I'd prefer not to fight at night. 17 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,000 So you turn around and you do see Lascaux come up behind. 18 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Man and dragon take delay. 19 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Wolves no common. 20 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,000 They're intelligent. 21 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,000 I am speaking very good. 22 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000 I'm a wolf. 23 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,000 He speaks common, but he just isn't really a good talker. 24 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,000 So you guys hunker down and hide away. 25 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Your wolves disappear. 26 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Approximately an hour later, you hear a loud flapping of wings 27 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,000 and a bellowing roar emit from behind the waterfall. 28 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:51,000 And a large green dragon comes out, bursting from the waterfall, 29 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,000 water spraying everywhere with a dark figure on its back. 30 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:01,000 And it flies off into the night. 31 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,000 Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons. 32 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 We are a fifth edition Actual Play podcast. 33 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 I'm your dungeon master, Russ More. 34 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,000 And with me today is Carla Johnson. 35 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,000 Hey, it's me. 36 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 I play Nulara Moonbrook. 37 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,000 And Tom Laird. 38 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Hey, that's me. 39 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 I play Flint Firebeard. 40 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,000 And Amy More. 41 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 I'm also me and I play Thea Amastasia. 42 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Hey, guys. 43 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,000 This episode is split into two episodes. 44 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Yay! 45 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,000 We love D&D. 46 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000 We just want to keep playing. 47 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 We played so good. 48 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 So good. 49 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Fuck it. 50 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Let's play D&D. 51 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,000 You guys are standing at the edge of this lake 52 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 that you've come upon at the base of this waterfall. 53 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:42,000 And this enormous green dragon with a rider on its back 54 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,000 emerged and flew off into the night. 55 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Let's scoot. 56 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Could you not have cast Hunter's Mark on one of them? 57 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Just a question. 58 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 I don't care. 59 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Would that have done anything? 60 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 It just would mean that it only lasts for an hour. 61 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Never mind. 62 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,000 So probably he won't be back. 63 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,000 That's something you can do. 64 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 But I can do it once we see them, for sure. 65 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 That would get me a little bit of extra. 66 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,000 But good thinking. 67 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Because I mostly forget I have spells at all. 68 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,000 So good thinking. 69 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,000 All right. 70 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 So we run up there. 71 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,000 We run up there. 72 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:27,000 And as we're running, I say it's about a 15-foot incline 73 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 climb to get into the cave. 74 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,000 And then it is a... 75 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Human ladder. 76 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Well, Flint has a ladder ladder. 77 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,000 So we could probably just use that. 78 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,000 I do have a ladder. 79 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 I mean, we could human ladder as well. 80 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,000 From what you saw, it is a steep, wet slope 81 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,000 getting into the next area that you saw there. 82 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,000 So you guys... 83 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 It's an up, and then it's a quick down, you guys. 84 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Watch yourselves. 85 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,000 So you guys get up. 86 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,000 And if you're just climbing down, 87 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,000 everybody needs to make a dexterity check 88 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,000 or an acrobatics check or an athletics check. 89 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Dexterity, acrobatics, or athletics? 90 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Acrobatics or athletics. 91 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 OK. 92 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 15, 21. 93 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Thaddeus with a 15 as well. 94 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 And a 19 for Flint. 95 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 OK. 96 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 20 for Flamingans. 97 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,000 And Laska will fuck it up for everybody. 98 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Come on, he's a wolf. 99 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 He's got a lower center of gravity. 100 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,000 So you climb and crawl, sliding your way down, 101 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:41,000 and you descend down into... 102 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,000 You come to a corner, and looking around the corner, 103 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:49,000 you see it opens up into a large island chamber. 104 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:54,000 There is a lake of sorts with an island in the middle of it. 105 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 And that's all you can really see 106 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 from just peeking around the corner. 107 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,000 So you go further. 108 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 I whisper to... 109 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Or no, Donnie can show these pictures to Nularaaaa. 110 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Right? 111 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Yeah, sure. 112 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Gee, I'm just so she knows what's going on. 113 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,000 I feel like, is there a little rowboat, 114 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,000 and then there's a cup and something in the middle 115 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,000 that someone has to force someone else to drink, 116 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 and it saps their life essence? 117 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,000 No, not that. 118 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 No, no rowboats. 119 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,000 OK. 120 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 What about any robots? 121 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Is Dumbledore here at all? 122 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,000 No. 123 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,000 What have we been playing this whole game for 124 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,000 if Dumbledore's not here? 125 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,000 I'm not sure. 126 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Russ, how big is this underground lake? 127 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Are you guys going in further, 128 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 or are you just looking from around the corner? 129 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,000 How far have you gone before I tell you how big the lake is? 130 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 I feel like we go into the chamber. 131 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,000 I mean, there's only one place to go. 132 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,000 You trying to be stealthy? 133 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Yeah. 134 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Everybody roll a stealth. 135 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Thea goes in whistling. 136 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:14,000 And so does Flameykins. 137 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 We're actually singing a duet. 138 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Wow. 139 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,000 That sounds right. 140 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,000 The bold choice. 141 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,000 What are you guys singing? 142 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,000 I've never been in a cave like this before. 143 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,000 Tell it, girls. 144 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Sorry. 145 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 So you guys walk in, 146 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,000 and you see the pool in here, the lake in here. 147 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:40,000 The chamber itself has 40 foot high ceilings 148 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,000 set with all the massive stalactites 149 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 and smaller stalagmites set across the ground. 150 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 The pool is about the same, 151 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,000 just a little bit smaller than the lake outside, 152 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:58,000 so about 125 feet across. 153 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 And then there is a back wall that it goes to, 154 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:06,000 which is about another 120 feet. 155 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 But you step into the chamber, 156 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,000 and you are approached by a group of elf guards. 157 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 And they stand off to the side there 158 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,000 where you couldn't see them, naturally. 159 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,000 And they come up to you and say, 160 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,000 who are you? 161 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,000 What are you doing here? 162 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 I'm going to look at Thea, because she's, you know, 163 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:29,000 elves are real snobs. 164 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,000 I mean, Thea's cool, but come on. 165 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 She's got to be the one that talks to them, right? 166 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Racially profiling me. 167 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Oh, my God. 168 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Okay, Thea tries to get over that. 169 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,000 And... 170 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Come on, if we ran into dwarves, 171 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000 we'd get Flynn to talk to them. 172 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,000 It's happened before. 173 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,000 He's got his belt, though. 174 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 He has, like, something special. 175 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 I've got nothing but my wits and boobs. 176 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Look, we don't care about his belt. 177 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Who are you? What are you doing here? 178 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Hi, my name's Thea. 179 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,000 My name's Thea. 180 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,000 These are my friends. 181 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:04,000 I'm trying to be very charismatic and stuff. 182 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:08,000 And what are you doing here? 183 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Aren't you supposed to be guarding the entrance? 184 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,000 We are guarding the entrance. 185 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 We didn't... 186 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,000 We weren't told that more people were coming. 187 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,000 What's the secret password? 188 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Oh, please. 189 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Are you kidding me right now? 190 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Okay. 191 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Bluff check. 192 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 That's all I want. 193 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 That's all I want to happen. 194 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,000 How many guards is there, Russ? 195 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Nat 20. 196 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Yeah, so, okay, you're right. 197 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,000 There was no secret. 198 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,000 What is this, clubhouse for children? 199 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,000 You do not even look like you're standing at the ready. 200 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,000 We're always ready. 201 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,000 If the boss gets wind of this, you know what he'll do. 202 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 What's the boss's name? 203 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Are you fucking kidding me right now? 204 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,000 I slap him. 205 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,000 I step forward and I just backhand him. 206 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Two of the other ones raise their spears, 207 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,000 and they're like, we need to know what... 208 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,000 We need to make sure that you're supposed to be here. 209 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Who, who, who, who does... 210 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Wait, are you an owl, too? 211 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:13,000 I'm an owl, too. 212 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Tell us, who, who is, who is the boss here? 213 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,000 I feel like we thought I was the boss thing before. 214 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:30,000 This arc is called Who's the Boss, episode four. 215 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Excellent. 216 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:37,000 The boss is Naren Vane, idiot. 217 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:47,000 They look a little taken aback because it appears that you may have got it right. 218 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:53,000 But they're like, all right, why are you here? 219 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,000 If the boss didn't tell you why we're here, you don't need to know. 220 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Yeah, okay. 221 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,000 The other one, the one who's been the most quiet slaps him in the back of the head, 222 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 and he's like, don't get us in trouble. 223 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Okay, fuck, we're just... 224 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Okay, you just go, don't tell him, we just, don't tell him. 225 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Don't tell him what? 226 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Do you keep secrets from the boss? 227 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Oh, God. 228 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,000 We don't, we don't want him to, don't want him to eat us. 229 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Okay, okay. 230 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,000 I don't want to hear another word from any of you. 231 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Yeah, okay. 232 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,000 And we just walk through. 233 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Guys, we didn't have to kill them. 234 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Yeah. 235 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 I want all my hit points. 236 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,000 I want all my hit points when I see the dragon. 237 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,000 No kidding. 238 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Two of them get closer to the entrance where you assume they were supposed to be, 239 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:48,000 two of the other ones you notice go back to, 240 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,000 so you guys are walking into the room like this. 241 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:57,000 So to the left and further to the back wall, there is an open passageway, 242 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,000 and two of them go in that way. 243 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Is that the only open passageway? 244 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Yeah, what are the directions we can go in here? 245 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:10,000 So now that you've been allowed access, you see one, 246 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,000 so the open passageway to the left, 247 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:19,000 and then there is also another open passageway to the right that you can see. 248 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Does Laska pick up any scent of Delaine or anything? 249 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Good question. 250 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Keen smell, keen senses. 251 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Yeah, yeah, sure. 252 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 How do you want to ask that? 253 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Well, quietly. 254 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Where is he, boy? 255 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:43,000 If we need to go left or right, if there's a smell coming from one direction, 256 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,000 maybe we should go that one. 257 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Laska points her nose to the right. 258 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Subtly though. 259 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Subtly. 260 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Like just kind of like starts to walk in that direction and we all... 261 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Yeah. 262 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:01,000 So you walk down a long narrow corridor, 263 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:06,000 and you come into a filthy chamber, 264 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:11,000 and you hear grunting and yelling and sounds like, 265 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:15,000 oh, quit touching me stuff, you stupid son of a bitch. 266 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,000 And you hear like things being thrown against the wall. 267 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:24,000 You come around and you see three large ettins. 268 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Pictures. 269 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000 What's that? 270 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 I don't know, but they sound like my grandpa. 271 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:35,000 It sounds like it was the page after Ettercap. 272 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Yeah, you guys haven't noticed? 273 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Before. 274 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Russ has been taking us through alphabetically. 275 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000 That's how we fight our monsters. 276 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Okay. 277 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,000 New podcast, Tam Tam, the ABCs of D&D. 278 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:53,000 And you have to fight all the monsters in alphabetically. 279 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Amy, that's a fun idea. 280 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Thanks. 281 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,000 These guys. 282 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Oh, he's got two heads. 283 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Yeah. 284 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Let me see. 285 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,000 So they each have two heads. 286 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,000 They're big ogre-looking creatures, and there are three of them. 287 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,000 So there are six heads in the room, 288 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,000 and there are six different voices all screaming, 289 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,000 I didn't touch your stuff, and you touched it, and I didn't. 290 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:22,000 And they hear you come in, and they all just quickly turn and look. 291 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Who are you? 292 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Well, we didn't touch your stuff. 293 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000 I didn't say you touched my stuff. 294 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,000 You're in our room. 295 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:38,000 What are you doing in our room? 296 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 We're looking for the prisoner. 297 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Oh, they're all prisoners. 298 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:47,000 What do you want with them? 299 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 We need to question one of them. 300 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:56,000 The biggest of them comes forward to you, and she is quite intimidating. 301 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,000 I didn't walk into the room and go, boys. 302 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,000 I thought about it. 303 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:05,000 She walks up to you, and she kind of stumbles over to you, 304 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:11,000 and you notice she's wearing a very nice belt kind of as a sash. 305 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:18,000 But she says, look, I forget what the question was. 306 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:25,000 But you got to tell me who you are and what you need with them prisoners, 307 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:35,000 or else I'm going to call up the boss and get all sorts of crazy up in here. 308 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 That's a really nice sash. 309 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:45,000 You look great. 310 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Yes. 311 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Everyone just kind of turns to look at you, Lara. 312 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,000 And everyone makes some ooh kind of noises. 313 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Absolutely. 314 00:14:54,000 --> 00:15:02,000 What is your object in saying that? 315 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,000 I'm just being nice. 316 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 No, I'm not just being nice. 317 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Be on her good side. 318 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 A little bit, but also because you made note of it, 319 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,000 I'm wondering if it is like something, 320 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:21,000 if it is like a mark of rank or if it is like something that has been put on 321 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,000 them that is controlling them somehow. 322 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,000 You know, like if it's like a magical item or something. 323 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Like some fucked up armor that might turn you into a zombie. 324 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:36,000 She looks down at her sash, her belt sash, and she says, 325 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 yeah, that's mine. 326 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,000 You keep your dirty, filthy human hands off of it. 327 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,000 I took it off of one of you pip squeaks. 328 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 It all looked the same to me. 329 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000 I mashed him up and took his sash. 330 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 He wasn't wearing it right. 331 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Well, I mean, gross, but you look great. 332 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,000 You look great. 333 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Make a deception check. 334 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,000 No need to. 335 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Hey, maybe she does look great, Russ. 336 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,000 I just showed you the picture. 337 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Are you sure? 338 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Okay, I'll do a deception check. 339 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,000 No need to. 340 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,000 No need to get worried over here. 341 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,000 I rolled an 11. 342 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,000 So she doesn't seem that like picked up on keyed into social cues. 343 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:20,000 I'm sure she bought it. 344 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 She kind of scoffs at you. 345 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 She's like, you're making fun of me. 346 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,000 What are you saying? 347 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000 No, we're not making fun of you. 348 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:37,000 We need to question one of the filthy human captives that you have here. 349 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,000 Never heard one of you say they were filthy. 350 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 You've never heard an elf say that? 351 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,000 I move my hair back and I'm like. 352 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Oh, yeah. 353 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,000 All right. 354 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Go on in there. 355 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Pointy hair motherfucker. 356 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Just let you stroll into the prisoners area. 357 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Sure. 358 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,000 Yeah. 359 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 Whatever. 360 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,000 She being sarcastic. 361 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Is that genuine? 362 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,000 I know. 363 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Sounds like you're being sarcastic. 364 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,000 She points her hand to an open doorway to the left. 365 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Naren Vane is an elf, so. 366 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Yeah. 367 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,000 And the guards were too. 368 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:17,000 So like, it seems like, is it racist or speciesist of it for me to always think 369 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:24,000 the creatures that seem dumb are like lower caste creatures? 370 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,000 They kind of seem just put to work. 371 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Like we were told to sit here and stare at the danger door. 372 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Like it makes me uncomfortable to think that. 373 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,000 I don't think that, but like, yeah, like there seems like there's a hierarchy in this 374 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 world based on intelligence. 375 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:45,000 It's definitely a thing in D&D that some classes or some races think that they're 376 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,000 higher up. 377 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:51,000 So playing into that if, yeah, it's like how like high elves are like incredibly 378 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,000 racist. 379 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,000 So if we play into that, then that's like we've got an elf with us. 380 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,000 It's a good thing in this case. 381 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:04,000 As you guys, I assume, are just walking down the hallway. 382 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Yeah. 383 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Yeah, I say thank you, friend. 384 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,000 I'll make sure to mention this to the boss. 385 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Flamikins Kins kind of waddles up behind. 386 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,000 She looks behind the big one. 387 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,000 She's like, hey, hey, he's stealing your shit over there. 388 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,000 And the big one turns around. 389 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,000 She's like, what the fuck are you doing over there? 390 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:27,000 And she takes this huge club that she has and just starts wailing on the other one. 391 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,000 Oh, my God. 392 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:33,000 And then they all start kind of wrestling about and you guys rush out of the room 393 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,000 down the hall. 394 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,000 But they are currently engaged in battle with each other. 395 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,000 OK. 396 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Yeah. 397 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Like in Flamikins Kins. 398 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,000 I know. 399 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,000 It's good. 400 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:52,000 So you walk down another narrow corridor and come to a door. 401 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,000 It's a rickety wooden door. 402 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Can I receive any traps or any sort of? 403 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:02,000 It's been kind of piecemealed together from scraps that have been found in the area. 404 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Doesn't mean it can't be booby trapped. 405 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Sure. 406 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Go for it. 407 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,000 Investigate. 408 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,000 I'm going to investigate the shit out of this. 409 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,000 18. 410 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 No, it's just a door. 411 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Nice. 412 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,000 I reach forward. 413 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,000 I'm going first now, I guess. 414 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,000 I reach forward and I open the door. 415 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:25,000 You open the door and inside you see about a dozen elves and one human in varying 416 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:32,000 states of beatenness. 417 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,000 Some look like they are being more well kept than others. 418 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:40,000 Others look like they are being used as a dragon chew toy. 419 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:45,000 Is Delaine the human? 420 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Delaine is the human. 421 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Yes. 422 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Yay. 423 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,000 I made boo. 424 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,000 It's not good. 425 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,000 But yeah. 426 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,000 We found him. 427 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,000 How dare he get captured before we could meet up. 428 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Rude. 429 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:02,000 Laska goes over and is checking on Delaine who seems to be unconscious at the moment. 430 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,000 But they all seem like they're prisoners, yes? 431 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:10,000 To make a fair guess, you would say they're all prisoners. 432 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:17,000 You see similar clothing and insignias or markings to some of the elves that you 433 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:23,000 saw around Altund and others bear clothing that you haven't seen yet. 434 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:29,000 So the elves, all of them are elves except for Delaine and they all stand up and kind 435 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,000 of hold their weapons. 436 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000 They were allowed to keep weapons? 437 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,000 Yep. 438 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:42,000 They have weapons and they hold them and say, what are you doing here? 439 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Friends, put down your weapons. 440 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000 We're here to help. 441 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,000 I make sure the door is shut behind me. 442 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Not that they could probably hear over there. 443 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,000 It's all muffled. 444 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,000 What do you mean help? 445 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Well, do you want to be here? 446 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:08,000 No, but we don't necessarily want to leave because the dragon will come and find us and 447 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000 kill us. 448 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Okay, die now. 449 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Die later. 450 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,000 It's up to you. 451 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,000 And I start walking forward toward Delaine. 452 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:21,000 And they half step forward to you and half step away from you. 453 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Like, should we stop her? 454 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Like, that's the kind of feeling you're getting from them. 455 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Are you guys guards? 456 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Are you guys secret guards? 457 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Are you? 458 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,000 I mean, we were brought... 459 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,000 You guys work for this monster. 460 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000 What is happening in here? 461 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,000 We were brought here. 462 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:51,000 Who are you? 463 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,000 My name is Thea. 464 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:57,000 We're here to save the fucking day, motherfuckers. 465 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,000 And she beats her chest. 466 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,000 I love her. 467 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Are you from Altend? 468 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,000 Yes, some of us are, yes. 469 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,000 Others from other settlements that have been attacked. 470 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,000 We were just there. 471 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Yep, we sure were. 472 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 We saw Galen. 473 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 We saw Gallenden. 474 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,000 We ate some beefy stew. 475 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,000 Of course, beefy stew. 476 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000 How was the stew? 477 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Did it suffer in quality since we've been attacked? 478 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 No. 479 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Do I still have any of the breakfast stew to go that I had that Gallen didn't want? 480 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Do you? 481 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,000 I don't know. 482 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,000 It's been a couple days. 483 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Probably not. 484 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 It's probably not very good if you do, but... 485 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Yeah, fair enough. 486 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Yep. 487 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Well, that Galen, he's a piece of work, isn't he? 488 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000 How do you mean? 489 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,000 Oh, well, I mean, sure, he's the only reason why your settlement is still standing, 490 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:58,000 but he is giving secret information about the protection of other places in the forest 491 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,000 and essentially throwing them under the bus. 492 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Great kind of guy. 493 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Not sure you want to go back there specifically, 494 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,000 but hopefully the judicial system will get him. 495 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,000 Can we go to our friend and see if he's all right? 496 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,000 Yeah, they've let you by. 497 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Oh, okay, good. 498 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,000 Okay, I keep walking to Delaine. 499 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,000 I had a feeling like half of them were still like... 500 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,000 No, they're still uncertain about you, but they're like, 501 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:26,000 yeah, I mean, we know that he's the one who made the deal, 502 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 but it was to save our people. 503 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,000 At the expense of others. 504 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 Whatever, that's not what we're here for. 505 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,000 I'm not judging. 506 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,000 I've done, you know, sketches. 507 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:42,000 We've all tied people up and thrown them in rivers. 508 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,000 It's fine. 509 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Water under the bridge, am I right? 510 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:49,000 I love it. 511 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Okay, let's go see Delaine because I feel like he knows stuff 512 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,000 and I want him to be better before we get into any fights. 513 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 How hurt does Delaine seem? 514 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 He seems pretty beat up. 515 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:06,000 I'm going to give him my rare healing potion. 516 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,000 What if I just hit him with a Cure Wounds there, Amy? 517 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Yeah, do that one. 518 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,000 As Thaddeus. 519 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000 Yeah, Thaddeus can do that kind of thing. 520 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,000 Yeah, Thaddeus is going to cast Cure Wounds. 521 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Okay. 522 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Yeah, do that. 523 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:25,000 As a second level spell slot, so he'll get an extra DA. 524 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Six and seven is 13 plus spell cast modifier of two, so 15. 525 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:37,000 So some of the some of the wounds heal up and he comes back to 526 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,000 comes back to consciousness there and he looks around. 527 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Fuck, it was his voice. 528 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Everybody's a gruff old man in this. 529 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:53,000 Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons where Russ plays many gruff old men. 530 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,000 We'll change his voice. 531 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,000 What do you people do? 532 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,000 No, no, no. 533 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Thea cannot be attracted to a man with a voice more ephemeral than hers. 534 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 I was attacked by a dragon and now I sound like this. 535 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:12,000 I like the voice though, but I definitely would have remembered if that was Delaine's voice. 536 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:16,000 No, it was something just like, what are you guys doing here? 537 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,000 No, he doesn't say, what are you guys doing here? 538 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,000 Oh, it's good to see you guys here. 539 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Fuck. 540 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Shit. 541 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,000 I'm from the woods. 542 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Delaine. 543 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:29,000 I feel his forehead. 544 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,000 I'm like, are you feverish? 545 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,000 I'm almost eaten by a dragon. 546 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Is he like well buffed up in his health? 547 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:47,000 Like we're about to fight a dragon, so I just feel like he should probably be at full capacity here. 548 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,000 He reaches into his fanny pack, for lack of a better term. 549 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Fanny pack of holding. 550 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:58,000 And pulls out a potion and he appears to be ready to go. 551 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Cool. 552 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:03,000 And he's like, what, how did you, did you kill the dragon already? 553 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 How did you guys get this far? 554 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,000 We snuck in here while he took off for his nightly stroll. 555 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Good thinking, good thinking. 556 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,000 I get by on my charms. 557 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,000 I give him a little wink. 558 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000 Yeah. 559 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Alright. 560 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 You have to say that you did that. 561 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,000 You can't just, you can't just do it. 562 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000 He winks awkwardly. 563 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000 Was it ever awkward? 564 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,000 With like a grimace and his like, hasn't seen. 565 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,000 But is Thea like, whoo, fans herself? 566 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000 Yes, please. 567 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,000 It's been a while. 568 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,000 I don't want to speak for you, Thea, but I think you're into it. 569 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,000 So dang hot out today. 570 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Boy howdy. 571 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Yeah, you feeling better? 572 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,000 Cause that dragon's going to be back like pretty quick. 573 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,000 And I think we're probably going to have to like try to fight him. 574 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,000 Do you know anything? 575 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,000 Like it seems like it's Narenvain. 576 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Oh yeah. 577 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 I mean, it's probably, yeah, yeah. 578 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,000 It's definitely Narenvain. 579 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,000 Yeah. 580 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,000 I haven't seen much of this layer here. 581 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,000 Maybe one of these. 582 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,000 If you talk to these motherfuckers standing around with their swords out. 583 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,000 See if we get like a. 584 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,000 Some sort of escape hatch. 585 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Some sort of press the button and run type of thing or. 586 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,000 Well, do we really want to run? 587 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,000 We have an opportunity to end this here. 588 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:31,000 We want to kill the dragon. 589 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000 He's killing people all. 590 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,000 Like he's just destroying settlements. 591 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000 We want to stop him. 592 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Okay. 593 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,000 Okay. 594 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,000 You down? 595 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,000 And I just look around like you guys in? 596 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,000 Fuck. 597 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,000 You want to maybe save your whole civilization or your whole. 598 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,000 All your friends. 599 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,000 Your family. 600 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Okay. 601 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,000 Other guys here. 602 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,000 You like work here and shit. 603 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,000 And they're like, yeah. 604 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Yeah. 605 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,000 I mean, he took us prisoner, but they let us kind of mill about. 606 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,000 Good. 607 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,000 So what the fuck are we working with here? 608 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:08,000 And they go on to explain that there are the three Etans. 609 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,000 There are among them. 610 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,000 There are the people in the room. 611 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,000 There are six other. 612 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:21,000 Cult members, specifically cult members who have been seen. 613 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,000 In the lair. 614 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Humans. 615 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Yep. 616 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000 Okay. 617 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:32,000 And then Naren Vane and. 618 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,000 They say Cuth, who is the dragon. 619 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:41,000 So are the other elf guards at the entrance that we saw also kind of like. 620 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,000 Quasi prisoner guards. 621 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,000 Like they've been taken prisoner, but are being forced to work there as well. 622 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,000 Yes. 623 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,000 Yeah. 624 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,000 Yeah. 625 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,000 We have all been taken captive from various settlements and. 626 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,000 Are told to guard. 627 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,000 Cuth's lair. 628 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,000 When he is not here. 629 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,000 And when they are done with us. 630 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,000 They feed us to him. 631 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Of sorts. 632 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,000 Well, that sounds real bad. 633 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,000 Sounds not good. 634 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,000 We should we should probably like kill this dragon. 635 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000 What do you guys say? 636 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,000 Fuck I'm doing it. 637 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,000 What are you guys waiting for? 638 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,000 Try to kill the dragon or just wait around to get eaten. 639 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,000 Those are your options. 640 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,000 Solid choices. 641 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,000 Doesn't seem like a hard choice to me. 642 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Okay. 643 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,000 Yeah. 644 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,000 We'll we'll be right behind you. 645 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,000 Yeah. 646 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,000 Lot of faith in you. 647 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:40,000 Got a lot of faith in you guys. 648 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:45,000 Do you know the like the layout of this cavern? 649 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000 Where does Cuth sleep? 650 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000 What's the schedule? 651 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,000 You guys are like running this this at a low level kind of way. 652 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,000 So fill us in. 653 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,000 We we haven't been able to explore the entire. 654 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,000 There are some areas that they don't allow us to be. 655 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:11,000 Cuth has his main lair underneath the the the pool in the in the main chamber area. 656 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:17,000 If you go beneath the pool and into another area that is where his chamber is. 657 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:22,000 Off of that are Narenvane's chambers. 658 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:31,000 And from the front area the passageway to the left is where the cultists is where the cultists are. 659 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000 I say we wait in Narenvane's chambers. 660 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,000 Wouldn't it be great to battle him separately from the dragon? 661 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,000 Yes. 662 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:45,000 Once he gets up on that dragon, it's gonna be a little harder to. 663 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000 Are we gonna kill him? 664 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:52,000 Well, I think we seems like a pretty bad dude. 665 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:59,000 But I definitely he's been missing for a long time and it seems like I mean, he's riding the dragon, so he must have. 666 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,000 Let's do what we always do. 667 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,000 We'll try to take him prisoner, but realistically, we'll probably kill him. 668 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,000 OK, fair enough. Good. 669 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:13,000 It's just the old usual. 670 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,000 I'll have the usual, please. 671 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:20,000 How do we get into Narenvane's chamber? 672 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:25,000 How can we do it without the cultists knowing? 673 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:33,000 Well, Narenvane's chamber is you have to go through the cultists area to get to his chamber. 674 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,000 Do the cultists ever leave their chambers? 675 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,000 Are they Brian Wilson? They just like hang out in there constantly? 676 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:47,000 They throughout the night, they're generally in there the whole whole night. 677 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,000 They mostly only leave to go out on raids. 678 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:59,000 What about the three Eddins? Are they loyal to the dragon or are they just doing their own thing and they're also prisoners? 679 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,000 Oh, Flameykins could probably help with this. 680 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:11,000 Flameykins, don't you have a spell that could potentially change the way some of us look to help get us past? 681 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,000 Oh, fuck, guys, I got a disguise spell, I think. 682 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,000 Oh, yeah, yeah. She cast a spell on us before. 683 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,000 Yeah. Oh, yeah. 684 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,000 Seeming. 685 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,000 Yeah, we got seeming. We can. 686 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,000 I mean, we can make us look like bushes. 687 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000 Does that work? 688 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:33,000 Not quite what I was thinking. 689 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:41,000 To go back to your other question, the Eddins are here to help protect Kuth's horde. 690 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:49,000 They, as you may have seen from the ruckus still coming from out there, they they hate each other, 691 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:55,000 but will fight to protect Kuth and what Kuth has here. 692 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,000 What does Kuth have here that's so important? 693 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:05,000 His horde, his treasure, whatever dragons love to... 694 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:10,000 General dragon horde, there's not anything like in particular that anyone knows about? 695 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,000 Not that we are aware of, no. 696 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:20,000 OK, well, it seems like what we'll need to do is cause some kind of distraction 697 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:28,000 to get the cultists out of their chambers and then like scoot in there and scoot on in. 698 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000 Or we could all look like cultists. 699 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,000 But can we do that or can we only look like bushes? 700 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,000 No, we can look like anything. 701 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,000 Oh, OK. 702 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,000 Do you guys still have cult clothes? 703 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,000 No, that was like four years ago. 704 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,000 I mean, OK. 705 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,000 Just been carrying around. 706 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,000 Checking, checking. 707 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,000 The spell allows. 708 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,000 Well, I mean, Thea has a pretty awesome bag of holding that holds a lot of stuff, 709 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000 so it could just have cult clothes in there. 710 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,000 That's true. We could have kept that stuff in there. 711 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,000 It could have. 712 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,000 That seems actually pretty reasonable. 713 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,000 Where we all look like different people. 714 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,000 God. 715 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,000 I think that... 716 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,000 It's up to you. 717 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:08,000 I could potentially have a bag of holding that has a bunch of extra different clothes in it. 718 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,000 It doesn't say if I do or don't. 719 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000 Sure would hate for anything to happen to that bag of holding. 720 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,000 I know, right? 721 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,000 Seems like that bag of holding is really just holding everything together. 722 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,000 Ever. 723 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:27,000 How would you like to help us defeat the dragon the easiest way possible? 724 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,000 Sounds pretty good, right? 725 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,000 Sounds like easy. 726 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,000 Sounds almost too good to be true. 727 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,000 Almost too good to be true. 728 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,000 What would you have us do? 729 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,000 We would like to get into Naren Vane's chamber. 730 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:45,000 Our group and any of you that are willing to come help fight. 731 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:50,000 But we need to get the cultists out of their chambers so we can get in there. 732 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:55,000 So we need you and the other elf guards to create a distraction. 733 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:04,000 To start a fire or something to raise the alarm so that the cultists will leave their chambers and we can slip in. 734 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000 Or a big brawl of some kind. 735 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,000 Can you do that? 736 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,000 Oh, or a big... 737 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000 See, but I think... 738 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,000 Yeah, that's good. 739 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,000 Yep, yep, yep. 740 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,000 You know, like descent among the ranks. 741 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Make a persuasion check, please. 742 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,000 14. 743 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:34,000 So the elf, main elf you've been talking to says, okay, so we will make a distraction. 744 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000 But we don't want to fight the dragon. 745 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:43,000 We don't feel we would be helpful in that instance. 746 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,000 That's understandable. 747 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:50,000 We will do our best to draw the cultists out so you can get in there. 748 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,000 But I don't, I can't fight with you. 749 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,000 Fair enough. 750 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,000 Yep, sounds good. 751 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:06,000 So a few of them pick up their weapons and straighten their clothes. 752 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,000 And they open the door and walk out. 753 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:13,000 And you hear the Etans hollering and still wailing on each other. 754 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,000 And it sounds like it's kind of dying down a little bit. 755 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:24,000 And you hear mumbling from the elves as they kind of are just like, okay, yeah, we're just going to go swap stations. 756 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:29,000 And the Etans don't even look at them, really. 757 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,000 And they go out into the main chamber. 758 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,000 Where are you guys waiting? 759 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,000 Are you waiting in that prisoner chamber? 760 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,000 Are you kind of following behind them a little bit? 761 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:44,000 I think we have to kind of follow them because we need to be like, we need to find a place to like, you know, we need to be right there. 762 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:49,000 Tuck away so that when they all run out, we can like run in basically, right? 763 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:54,000 Yeah, so you follow them to the entrance to where the main area is. 764 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,000 And they tell you to wait there. 765 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,000 And they go over to where the other elves were guarding the front door. 766 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,000 And you hear some low murmuring. 767 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:08,000 And then you hear hollering from them saying, they're over here. 768 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,000 They're trying to break in. 769 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,000 They're over here. 770 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:15,000 And you hear the footsteps of cultists coming down the hallway. 771 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,000 And they run out towards them. 772 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,000 And they're like, they just ran back out the waterfall. 773 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,000 We need to go stop them. 774 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,000 They stole stuff from Cuth. 775 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:27,000 And everybody in that group goes up the slope. 776 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,000 And you hear them go out past the waterfall. 777 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,000 Hey there. I'm your Dungeon Master, Russ More. 778 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:41,000 Thank you for joining us for episode 37 of Dumbgeons and Dragons, titled Knock Knock Anyone Home, Part 2. 779 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,000 Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 780 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,000 There you can sign up and get in on some amazing perks. 781 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,000 And we are like 70% of the way to our second goal. 782 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:54,000 And when we hit that, there will be a Patreon exclusive giveaway. 783 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000 And we've just added a new tier. 784 00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:02,000 So if you've been there already and weren't sure, maybe check it out again, because something might speak to you more this time. 785 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:08,000 Some rewards for patrons of Dumbgeons and Dragons include the amazingly fun Patreon bonus episodes, 786 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,000 which will be starting a new story in the next couple months using the fake core system. 787 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,000 So there will soon be a bingeable contained story, 788 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:20,000 DM'd by Tom, plus all the new monthly episodes that will continue to roll out. 789 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:24,000 And for patrons $5 and up, you can get in on the monthly gook hangs, 790 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:29,000 where you can hang out with us and chat about the show and the game and anything else that you can think of. 791 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:36,000 Supporting us on Patreon makes the show better with each episode and allows us to do new, awesome and cool things for you. 792 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,000 Really hope you have a chance to check it out. 793 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000 Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 794 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:45,000 The next episode will be out next week, and we are back on regular schedule for April 25th. 795 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000 And boy, is it going to be a big one. 796 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,000 Let's go see how sneaky the group can be as they make their way further into Kuth Slayer. 797 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,000 Super sneaky. That's always the answer. 798 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000 Have a great week and we'll talk to you soon. 799 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,000 Let's let's scoot. 800 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,000 Yeah, sneak in past into the chamber of the. 801 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:15,000 So you go down that another narrow corridor which goes off to the left and it looks like a kind of a common room. 802 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:23,000 There are long tables, split logs where it looks like they used to to eat and there's a burnt out cooking fire. 803 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:28,000 And then to the right, there is it looks like they're they're sleeping quarters. 804 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,000 There's rough bunks and bedrolls and backpacks in this area. 805 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,000 We walk on through. 806 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,000 To the right, there is an open passageway. 807 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:42,000 You go into the room and off to the right and it oh and it goes back down a long narrow hall, 808 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:47,000 which there is a right turn and then you can go a little bit further and it ends in a dead end. 809 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:48,000 But there's a left turn. 810 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:54,000 So they told you that you had to go off to the right where Naren Vein's chambers are and you go down another long corridor 811 00:39:54,000 --> 00:40:02,000 and you enter into what looks to be created as a lush living space in this rough walled cavern. 812 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:08,000 There are select art and craft works that look to be elven nature. 813 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:14,000 Rich carpets and tapestries that cover the floors and the walls. 814 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:21,000 And there's a large feature, a hewn log bed and a large mirror and trunk in this room. 815 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,000 I look around for any good stuff. 816 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:29,000 Well, you know, like we've got a little bit of time. 817 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,000 I peek inside the trunk. 818 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,000 You peek inside the trunk? 819 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,000 Yeah, just kind of like, you know, moving around. 820 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,000 Okay. 821 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,000 What if it's a trap, Thea? 822 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,000 No, you did it. 823 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,000 No, it's totally fine. 824 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,000 This is funny. 825 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,000 So, you go to lift. 826 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,000 They can't help herself, she's a snooze. 827 00:40:52,000 --> 00:41:00,000 You lift the, you go to lift the trunk and acid splashes from it. 828 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,000 Oh my god. 829 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,000 Well, she had her shield out, so it's fine. 830 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:11,000 And you take everybody within 20 feet of it, which is everybody. 831 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,000 Oh my god, I'm so sorry. 832 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,000 Takes 5d8 acid damage. 833 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000 Oh my god. 834 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:27,000 Fuck, that's a lot of damage. 835 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000 I'm so sorry. 836 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,000 That's fine. 837 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:36,000 So that is 20 acid damage to everybody. 838 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,000 Holy shit. 839 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,000 And as that happens. 840 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,000 Everyone shoots Thea. 841 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,000 Super dirty luck. 842 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,000 Everyone shoots Thea. 843 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:47,000 A dirty luck. 844 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,000 A dirty luck. 845 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,000 She shoots Thea. 846 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:56,000 So everybody is reeling from this damage that you have taken. 847 00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:01,000 And, I mean, inside the trunk. 848 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,000 Okay, sorry, I'm going to be a dick. 849 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,000 I'm going to be a dick. 850 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:11,000 I'm going to use my, I'm going to use a lucky. 851 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,000 There's no attack against it, it just happens. 852 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:19,000 Yeah, it's not like you rolled anything, so adding extra dice to it is not going to solve any problem. 853 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,000 We weren't looking for anything, so. 854 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,000 Is there something good in the trunk, at least? 855 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000 Did we find some rad shit? 856 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,000 Are you kidding me? It's empty? 857 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,000 No, it's not empty. 858 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,000 In the trunk. 859 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,000 Oh, sorry, you all are poisoned. 860 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:34,000 I'm not. 861 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,000 Yeah, you're not. 862 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,000 But everybody else is. 863 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:43,000 Yeah, in there, there's, it looks to be, there's a whole, there's more art and more gold. 864 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:48,000 I mean, looking at it, it looks to be a total worth of about 1,500 gold pieces. 865 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,000 Oh, I take all that gold I put into my bag. 866 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:57,000 Much of it you recognize as potential property of the elves in the forest. 867 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,000 Put it into my bag of holding. 868 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,000 Okay. 869 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:02,000 To give back to them when we're done. 870 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,000 Naturally. 871 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:09,000 But I didn't get 20 damage acid all over my beautiful face. 872 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:14,000 So you guys are looking around and maybe going to make some investigation checks? 873 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,000 I'd like to open the chest. 874 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,000 Oh, wait, no, you already did. 875 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,000 A cautionary tale. 876 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:28,000 Can anybody magical detect magic anywhere? 877 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,000 See if there's any like, I don't know, is this a magic mirror? 878 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,000 What do we, what are we working with here? 879 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:34,000 I can't detect magic. 880 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,000 I can't. 881 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,000 And I can't remember. 882 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,000 Okay, I go outside. 883 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,000 I can remember if you could. 884 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:39,000 I can detect magic. 885 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,000 I cast detect magic. 886 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,000 Sure. 887 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:44,000 Yeah. 888 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:51,000 You, you sense that there may have been some sort of glyph of warding casted on the trunk. 889 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,000 Cast on the trunk. 890 00:43:53,000 --> 00:44:01,000 But otherwise there are no other magical items in this room. 891 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:05,000 Who the fuck was that idea like 30 seconds ago? 892 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,000 Russ. 893 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:13,000 I would like to go back outside of the room with Thaddeus and like back to where the 894 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,000 junction is to come to Naren Payne's room. 895 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,000 And a little bit, yeah, a little bit down that path. 896 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:25,000 I'd like to cast the alarm spell and make it a mental alarm. 897 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,000 So that way if anybody walks through that area, I find out about it. 898 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,000 Yeah, for sure. 899 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,000 Okay. 900 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,000 You do that. 901 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,000 Yeah, everybody make an investigation check while you're looking around this room. 902 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:41,000 Thea's not sure she wants to look around the room anymore. 903 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,000 Remember when we all wanted to have all our hit points? 904 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:45,000 Totally. 905 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,000 So sorry. 906 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,000 16. 907 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,000 That's real bad. 908 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:49,000 14 for Flint. 909 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:50,000 I rolled a four. 910 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,000 I rolled a four, so I see nothing. 911 00:44:53,000 --> 00:45:00,000 Thea, you're looking around and you find what looks to be behind one of the larger 912 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:08,000 art pieces in the back of the room, a secret passageway that opens into another candle 913 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,000 lit chamber. 914 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,000 Hey guys, there's a secret passageway back here. 915 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,000 Are we going to get more acid splashed on us? 916 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:21,000 Only one way to find out. 917 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:26,000 Flint, after you. 918 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:31,000 Yeah, we can tiptoe in there if you want. 919 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,000 So you guys go into this other room. 920 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,000 It's smaller than the last one. 921 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:40,000 It's about 30 feet by about 15 feet. 922 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:49,000 And inside you see a small shrine to Fenmeril Mesterine, who Thea you know as the elven 923 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:55,000 god of outcasts, scapegoats, and solitude, which resembles a pair of white eyes peering 924 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:59,000 out from the dark wall above a small basin. 925 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:05,000 You look around this room some more and you see a journal present in this room at 926 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,000 a small desk off to the side. 927 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:17,000 Dear Diary, I ran away from my family today and started my own thing in the forest. 928 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:22,000 Dear Diary, if you're reading this, acid in your face. 929 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,000 Everybody takes it. 930 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,000 Is anybody picking up the diary or journal? 931 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,000 Thea's not too sure she wants to touch it. 932 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,000 Is she still detector reading magic? 933 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,000 There is no magic coming off of it. 934 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:41,000 Well, you can probably read Elvish, so... 935 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:45,000 I pick up the book and I open it. 936 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:50,000 You skim through the book and make an investigation. 937 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,000 Give me your investigation check to see how fast you're reading through. 938 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,000 So you pick out quite a lot from this book. 939 00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:04,000 And it reveals, in fact, that Nerenvane is, in fact, King Melandric's lost son, 940 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:11,000 who Nerenvane frequently throughout his writings refers to as my poor father. 941 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:16,000 The journal also reveals in some of the later writings that the green dragon mask 942 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:20,000 is already at the Well of Dragons under Severn's protection 943 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,000 and ready to be assembled into the mask of the Dragon Queen. 944 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:28,000 And as you guys are reading this, you hear from the front screams 945 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:32,000 echoing down the halls from some of the elves. 946 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,000 They're faint because you guys are further in. 947 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:41,000 But you hear the loud roar of Kuth entering back into his lair. 948 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,000 Music in today's episode was by Kavin MacLeod of incompetech.filmmusic.io. 949 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:54,000 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.