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[30.0s] You are restrained by webbing.
[32.0s] Donnie will fly up and try and, like, chomp on one of them Spideys.
[36.0s] The target falls unconscious for one hour.
[41.0s] Nice.
[42.0s] So the eight wolves come in and swarm these two Ettercaps
[45.0s] and just churn out Ettercap meat.
[49.0s] It's just flying everywhere.
[51.0s] The spiders see this and flee into the trees and run away.
[56.0s] That makes me feel very gross.
[58.0s] It's a pretty solid plan on their part.
[59.0s] Well, let's keep going.
[60.0s] My wolves are coming with us.
[62.0s] No, you come to a large clearing where there is a lake at the base
[67.0s] of approximately 100 foot waterfall.
[70.0s] Well, I can't see in the dark, so I'd prefer not to fight at night.
[73.0s] So you turn around and you do see Lascaux come up behind.
[77.0s] Man and dragon take delay.
[79.0s] Wolves no common.
[80.0s] They're intelligent.
[81.0s] I am speaking very good.
[83.0s] I'm a wolf.
[85.0s] He speaks common, but he just isn't really a good talker.
[88.0s] So you guys hunker down and hide away.
[91.0s] Your wolves disappear.
[94.0s] Approximately an hour later, you hear a loud flapping of wings
[101.0s] and a bellowing roar emit from behind the waterfall.
[105.0s] And a large green dragon comes out, bursting from the waterfall,
[111.0s] water spraying everywhere with a dark figure on its back.
[115.0s] And it flies off into the night.
[121.0s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[122.0s] We are a fifth edition Actual Play podcast.
[124.0s] I'm your dungeon master, Russ More.
[126.0s] And with me today is Carla Johnson.
[128.0s] Hey, it's me.
[129.0s] I play Nulara Moonbrook.
[131.0s] And Tom Laird.
[132.0s] Hey, that's me.
[133.0s] I play Flint Firebeard.
[135.0s] And Amy More.
[136.0s] I'm also me and I play Thea Amastasia.
[139.0s] Hey, guys.
[140.0s] This episode is split into two episodes.
[142.0s] Yay!
[144.0s] We love D&D.
[145.0s] We just want to keep playing.
[147.0s] We played so good.
[149.0s] So good.
[150.0s] Fuck it.
[151.0s] Let's play D&D.
[152.0s] You guys are standing at the edge of this lake
[154.0s] that you've come upon at the base of this waterfall.
[156.0s] And this enormous green dragon with a rider on its back
[162.0s] emerged and flew off into the night.
[165.0s] Let's scoot.
[167.0s] Could you not have cast Hunter's Mark on one of them?
[172.0s] Just a question.
[173.0s] I don't care.
[175.0s] Would that have done anything?
[177.0s] It just would mean that it only lasts for an hour.
[181.0s] Never mind.
[183.0s] So probably he won't be back.
[185.0s] That's something you can do.
[187.0s] But I can do it once we see them, for sure.
[190.0s] That would get me a little bit of extra.
[192.0s] But good thinking.
[193.0s] Because I mostly forget I have spells at all.
[196.0s] So good thinking.
[197.0s] All right.
[198.0s] So we run up there.
[200.0s] We run up there.
[201.0s] And as we're running, I say it's about a 15-foot incline
[207.0s] climb to get into the cave.
[211.0s] And then it is a...
[212.0s] Human ladder.
[213.0s] Well, Flint has a ladder ladder.
[215.0s] So we could probably just use that.
[217.0s] I do have a ladder.
[218.0s] I mean, we could human ladder as well.
[221.0s] From what you saw, it is a steep, wet slope
[225.0s] getting into the next area that you saw there.
[229.0s] So you guys...
[230.0s] It's an up, and then it's a quick down, you guys.
[232.0s] Watch yourselves.
[233.0s] So you guys get up.
[235.0s] And if you're just climbing down,
[237.0s] everybody needs to make a dexterity check
[241.0s] or an acrobatics check or an athletics check.
[245.0s] Dexterity, acrobatics, or athletics?
[247.0s] Acrobatics or athletics.
[249.0s] OK.
[251.0s] 15, 21.
[254.0s] Thaddeus with a 15 as well.
[257.0s] And a 19 for Flint.
[259.0s] OK.
[260.0s] 20 for Flamingans.
[262.0s] And Laska will fuck it up for everybody.
[267.0s] Come on, he's a wolf.
[269.0s] He's got a lower center of gravity.
[272.0s] So you climb and crawl, sliding your way down,
[276.0s] and you descend down into...
[281.0s] You come to a corner, and looking around the corner,
[284.0s] you see it opens up into a large island chamber.
[289.0s] There is a lake of sorts with an island in the middle of it.
[294.0s] And that's all you can really see
[296.0s] from just peeking around the corner.
[298.0s] So you go further.
[300.0s] I whisper to...
[301.0s] Or no, Donnie can show these pictures to Nularaaaa.
[306.0s] Right?
[308.0s] Yeah, sure.
[310.0s] Gee, I'm just so she knows what's going on.
[312.0s] I feel like, is there a little rowboat,
[314.0s] and then there's a cup and something in the middle
[317.0s] that someone has to force someone else to drink,
[320.0s] and it saps their life essence?
[323.0s] No, not that.
[324.0s] No, no rowboats.
[326.0s] OK.
[327.0s] What about any robots?
[330.0s] Is Dumbledore here at all?
[334.0s] No.
[335.0s] What have we been playing this whole game for
[337.0s] if Dumbledore's not here?
[339.0s] I'm not sure.
[340.0s] Russ, how big is this underground lake?
[346.0s] Are you guys going in further,
[348.0s] or are you just looking from around the corner?
[350.0s] How far have you gone before I tell you how big the lake is?
[354.0s] I feel like we go into the chamber.
[356.0s] I mean, there's only one place to go.
[358.0s] You trying to be stealthy?
[360.0s] Yeah.
[361.0s] Everybody roll a stealth.
[365.0s] Thea goes in whistling.
[368.0s] And so does Flameykins.
[374.0s] We're actually singing a duet.
[376.0s] Wow.
[377.0s] That sounds right.
[378.0s] The bold choice.
[379.0s] What are you guys singing?
[380.0s] I've never been in a cave like this before.
[383.0s] Tell it, girls.
[384.0s] Sorry.
[386.0s] So you guys walk in,
[390.0s] and you see the pool in here, the lake in here.
[395.0s] The chamber itself has 40 foot high ceilings
[400.0s] set with all the massive stalactites
[404.0s] and smaller stalagmites set across the ground.
[407.0s] The pool is about the same,
[410.0s] just a little bit smaller than the lake outside,
[413.0s] so about 125 feet across.
[418.0s] And then there is a back wall that it goes to,
[421.0s] which is about another 120 feet.
[426.0s] But you step into the chamber,
[428.0s] and you are approached by a group of elf guards.
[432.0s] And they stand off to the side there
[434.0s] where you couldn't see them, naturally.
[437.0s] And they come up to you and say,
[439.0s] who are you?
[442.0s] What are you doing here?
[445.0s] I'm going to look at Thea, because she's, you know,
[448.0s] elves are real snobs.
[449.0s] I mean, Thea's cool, but come on.
[450.0s] She's got to be the one that talks to them, right?
[452.0s] Racially profiling me.
[456.0s] Oh, my God.
[457.0s] Okay, Thea tries to get over that.
[460.0s] And...
[463.0s] Come on, if we ran into dwarves,
[464.0s] we'd get Flynn to talk to them.
[466.0s] It's happened before.
[467.0s] He's got his belt, though.
[468.0s] He has, like, something special.
[470.0s] I've got nothing but my wits and boobs.
[471.0s] Look, we don't care about his belt.
[473.0s] Who are you? What are you doing here?
[476.0s] Hi, my name's Thea.
[477.0s] My name's Thea.
[478.0s] These are my friends.
[479.0s] I'm trying to be very charismatic and stuff.
[484.0s] And what are you doing here?
[488.0s] Aren't you supposed to be guarding the entrance?
[491.0s] We are guarding the entrance.
[492.0s] We didn't...
[493.0s] We weren't told that more people were coming.
[494.0s] What's the secret password?
[497.0s] Oh, please.
[499.0s] Are you kidding me right now?
[501.0s] Okay.
[502.0s] Bluff check.
[504.0s] That's all I want.
[505.0s] That's all I want to happen.
[506.0s] How many guards is there, Russ?
[508.0s] Nat 20.
[511.0s] Yeah, so, okay, you're right.
[513.0s] There was no secret.
[514.0s] What is this, clubhouse for children?
[517.0s] You do not even look like you're standing at the ready.
[520.0s] We're always ready.
[522.0s] If the boss gets wind of this, you know what he'll do.
[525.0s] What's the boss's name?
[527.0s] Are you fucking kidding me right now?
[529.0s] I slap him.
[530.0s] I step forward and I just backhand him.
[533.0s] Two of the other ones raise their spears,
[535.0s] and they're like, we need to know what...
[537.0s] We need to make sure that you're supposed to be here.
[541.0s] Who, who, who, who does...
[545.0s] Wait, are you an owl, too?
[547.0s] I'm an owl, too.
[553.0s] Tell us, who, who is, who is the boss here?
[559.0s] I feel like we thought I was the boss thing before.
[564.0s] This arc is called Who's the Boss, episode four.
[570.0s] Excellent.
[572.0s] The boss is Naren Vane, idiot.
[577.0s] They look a little taken aback because it appears that you may have got it right.
[587.0s] But they're like, all right, why are you here?
[593.0s] If the boss didn't tell you why we're here, you don't need to know.
[597.0s] Yeah, okay.
[599.0s] The other one, the one who's been the most quiet slaps him in the back of the head,
[603.0s] and he's like, don't get us in trouble.
[605.0s] Okay, fuck, we're just...
[606.0s] Okay, you just go, don't tell him, we just, don't tell him.
[611.0s] Don't tell him what?
[612.0s] Do you keep secrets from the boss?
[614.0s] Oh, God.
[615.0s] We don't, we don't want him to, don't want him to eat us.
[618.0s] Okay, okay.
[620.0s] I don't want to hear another word from any of you.
[624.0s] Yeah, okay.
[626.0s] And we just walk through.
[629.0s] Guys, we didn't have to kill them.
[631.0s] Yeah.
[633.0s] I want all my hit points.
[635.0s] I want all my hit points when I see the dragon.
[637.0s] No kidding.
[638.0s] Two of them get closer to the entrance where you assume they were supposed to be,
[643.0s] two of the other ones you notice go back to,
[649.0s] so you guys are walking into the room like this.
[652.0s] So to the left and further to the back wall, there is an open passageway,
[657.0s] and two of them go in that way.
[660.0s] Is that the only open passageway?
[662.0s] Yeah, what are the directions we can go in here?
[664.0s] So now that you've been allowed access, you see one,
[670.0s] so the open passageway to the left,
[672.0s] and then there is also another open passageway to the right that you can see.
[679.0s] Does Laska pick up any scent of Delaine or anything?
[683.0s] Good question.
[684.0s] Keen smell, keen senses.
[687.0s] Yeah, yeah, sure.
[691.0s] How do you want to ask that?
[693.0s] Well, quietly.
[695.0s] Where is he, boy?
[698.0s] If we need to go left or right, if there's a smell coming from one direction,
[703.0s] maybe we should go that one.
[704.0s] Laska points her nose to the right.
[709.0s] Subtly though.
[710.0s] Subtly.
[711.0s] Like just kind of like starts to walk in that direction and we all...
[715.0s] Yeah.
[716.0s] So you walk down a long narrow corridor,
[721.0s] and you come into a filthy chamber,
[726.0s] and you hear grunting and yelling and sounds like,
[731.0s] oh, quit touching me stuff, you stupid son of a bitch.
[735.0s] And you hear like things being thrown against the wall.
[738.0s] You come around and you see three large ettins.
[744.0s] Pictures.
[745.0s] What's that?
[747.0s] I don't know, but they sound like my grandpa.
[750.0s] It sounds like it was the page after Ettercap.
[755.0s] Yeah, you guys haven't noticed?
[757.0s] Before.
[758.0s] Russ has been taking us through alphabetically.
[760.0s] That's how we fight our monsters.
[762.0s] Okay.
[763.0s] New podcast, Tam Tam, the ABCs of D&D.
[767.0s] And you have to fight all the monsters in alphabetically.
[773.0s] Amy, that's a fun idea.
[775.0s] Thanks.
[777.0s] These guys.
[778.0s] Oh, he's got two heads.
[780.0s] Yeah.
[781.0s] Let me see.
[782.0s] So they each have two heads.
[785.0s] They're big ogre-looking creatures, and there are three of them.
[789.0s] So there are six heads in the room,
[791.0s] and there are six different voices all screaming,
[793.0s] I didn't touch your stuff, and you touched it, and I didn't.
[797.0s] And they hear you come in, and they all just quickly turn and look.
[802.0s] Who are you?
[806.0s] Well, we didn't touch your stuff.
[809.0s] I didn't say you touched my stuff.
[811.0s] You're in our room.
[812.0s] What are you doing in our room?
[818.0s] We're looking for the prisoner.
[821.0s] Oh, they're all prisoners.
[823.0s] What do you want with them?
[827.0s] We need to question one of them.
[829.0s] The biggest of them comes forward to you, and she is quite intimidating.
[836.0s] I didn't walk into the room and go, boys.
[840.0s] I thought about it.
[841.0s] She walks up to you, and she kind of stumbles over to you,
[845.0s] and you notice she's wearing a very nice belt kind of as a sash.
[851.0s] But she says, look, I forget what the question was.
[858.0s] But you got to tell me who you are and what you need with them prisoners,
[865.0s] or else I'm going to call up the boss and get all sorts of crazy up in here.
[875.0s] That's a really nice sash.
[877.0s] You look great.
[885.0s] Yes.
[886.0s] Everyone just kind of turns to look at you, Lara.
[889.0s] And everyone makes some ooh kind of noises.
[893.0s] Absolutely.
[894.0s] What is your object in saying that?
[902.0s] I'm just being nice.
[905.0s] No, I'm not just being nice.
[907.0s] Be on her good side.
[908.0s] A little bit, but also because you made note of it,
[912.0s] I'm wondering if it is like something,
[915.0s] if it is like a mark of rank or if it is like something that has been put on
[921.0s] them that is controlling them somehow.
[924.0s] You know, like if it's like a magical item or something.
[927.0s] Like some fucked up armor that might turn you into a zombie.
[931.0s] She looks down at her sash, her belt sash, and she says,
[936.0s] yeah, that's mine.
[938.0s] You keep your dirty, filthy human hands off of it.
[941.0s] I took it off of one of you pip squeaks.
[944.0s] It all looked the same to me.
[946.0s] I mashed him up and took his sash.
[949.0s] He wasn't wearing it right.
[951.0s] Well, I mean, gross, but you look great.
[954.0s] You look great.
[955.0s] Make a deception check.
[958.0s] No need to.
[960.0s] Hey, maybe she does look great, Russ.
[962.0s] I just showed you the picture.
[966.0s] Are you sure?
[967.0s] Okay, I'll do a deception check.
[969.0s] No need to.
[970.0s] No need to get worried over here.
[973.0s] I rolled an 11.
[975.0s] So she doesn't seem that like picked up on keyed into social cues.
[979.0s] I'm sure she bought it.
[980.0s] She kind of scoffs at you.
[982.0s] She's like, you're making fun of me.
[984.0s] What are you saying?
[985.0s] No, we're not making fun of you.
[987.0s] We need to question one of the filthy human captives that you have here.
[997.0s] Never heard one of you say they were filthy.
[1000.0s] You've never heard an elf say that?
[1002.0s] I move my hair back and I'm like.
[1005.0s] Oh, yeah.
[1006.0s] All right.
[1007.0s] Go on in there.
[1008.0s] Pointy hair motherfucker.
[1011.0s] Just let you stroll into the prisoners area.
[1014.0s] Sure.
[1015.0s] Yeah.
[1016.0s] Whatever.
[1018.0s] She being sarcastic.
[1019.0s] Is that genuine?
[1020.0s] I know.
[1021.0s] Sounds like you're being sarcastic.
[1023.0s] She points her hand to an open doorway to the left.
[1026.0s] Naren Vane is an elf, so.
[1028.0s] Yeah.
[1029.0s] And the guards were too.
[1030.0s] So like, it seems like, is it racist or speciesist of it for me to always think
[1037.0s] the creatures that seem dumb are like lower caste creatures?
[1044.0s] They kind of seem just put to work.
[1047.0s] Like we were told to sit here and stare at the danger door.
[1050.0s] Like it makes me uncomfortable to think that.
[1053.0s] I don't think that, but like, yeah, like there seems like there's a hierarchy in this
[1057.0s] world based on intelligence.
[1059.0s] It's definitely a thing in D&D that some classes or some races think that they're
[1065.0s] higher up.
[1066.0s] So playing into that if, yeah, it's like how like high elves are like incredibly
[1071.0s] racist.
[1072.0s] So if we play into that, then that's like we've got an elf with us.
[1076.0s] It's a good thing in this case.
[1079.0s] As you guys, I assume, are just walking down the hallway.
[1084.0s] Yeah.
[1085.0s] Yeah, I say thank you, friend.
[1087.0s] I'll make sure to mention this to the boss.
[1089.0s] Flamikins Kins kind of waddles up behind.
[1091.0s] She looks behind the big one.
[1094.0s] She's like, hey, hey, he's stealing your shit over there.
[1097.0s] And the big one turns around.
[1099.0s] She's like, what the fuck are you doing over there?
[1102.0s] And she takes this huge club that she has and just starts wailing on the other one.
[1107.0s] Oh, my God.
[1108.0s] And then they all start kind of wrestling about and you guys rush out of the room
[1113.0s] down the hall.
[1114.0s] But they are currently engaged in battle with each other.
[1118.0s] OK.
[1119.0s] Yeah.
[1122.0s] Like in Flamikins Kins.
[1123.0s] I know.
[1124.0s] It's good.
[1125.0s] So you walk down another narrow corridor and come to a door.
[1132.0s] It's a rickety wooden door.
[1134.0s] Can I receive any traps or any sort of?
[1137.0s] It's been kind of piecemealed together from scraps that have been found in the area.
[1142.0s] Doesn't mean it can't be booby trapped.
[1143.0s] Sure.
[1144.0s] Go for it.
[1145.0s] Investigate.
[1146.0s] I'm going to investigate the shit out of this.
[1149.0s] 18.
[1150.0s] No, it's just a door.
[1152.0s] Nice.
[1153.0s] I reach forward.
[1154.0s] I'm going first now, I guess.
[1156.0s] I reach forward and I open the door.
[1158.0s] You open the door and inside you see about a dozen elves and one human in varying
[1165.0s] states of beatenness.
[1172.0s] Some look like they are being more well kept than others.
[1176.0s] Others look like they are being used as a dragon chew toy.
[1180.0s] Is Delaine the human?
[1185.0s] Delaine is the human.
[1186.0s] Yes.
[1187.0s] Yay.
[1188.0s] I made boo.
[1189.0s] It's not good.
[1190.0s] But yeah.
[1191.0s] We found him.
[1192.0s] How dare he get captured before we could meet up.
[1194.0s] Rude.
[1195.0s] Laska goes over and is checking on Delaine who seems to be unconscious at the moment.
[1202.0s] But they all seem like they're prisoners, yes?
[1205.0s] To make a fair guess, you would say they're all prisoners.
[1210.0s] You see similar clothing and insignias or markings to some of the elves that you
[1217.0s] saw around Altund and others bear clothing that you haven't seen yet.
[1223.0s] So the elves, all of them are elves except for Delaine and they all stand up and kind
[1229.0s] of hold their weapons.
[1231.0s] They were allowed to keep weapons?
[1233.0s] Yep.
[1234.0s] They have weapons and they hold them and say, what are you doing here?
[1242.0s] Friends, put down your weapons.
[1244.0s] We're here to help.
[1246.0s] I make sure the door is shut behind me.
[1249.0s] Not that they could probably hear over there.
[1252.0s] It's all muffled.
[1256.0s] What do you mean help?
[1258.0s] Well, do you want to be here?
[1261.0s] No, but we don't necessarily want to leave because the dragon will come and find us and
[1268.0s] kill us.
[1270.0s] Okay, die now.
[1271.0s] Die later.
[1272.0s] It's up to you.
[1273.0s] And I start walking forward toward Delaine.
[1276.0s] And they half step forward to you and half step away from you.
[1281.0s] Like, should we stop her?
[1284.0s] Like, that's the kind of feeling you're getting from them.
[1288.0s] Are you guys guards?
[1292.0s] Are you guys secret guards?
[1294.0s] Are you?
[1296.0s] I mean, we were brought...
[1299.0s] You guys work for this monster.
[1301.0s] What is happening in here?
[1303.0s] We were brought here.
[1306.0s] Who are you?
[1311.0s] My name is Thea.
[1312.0s] We're here to save the fucking day, motherfuckers.
[1317.0s] And she beats her chest.
[1320.0s] I love her.
[1321.0s] Are you from Altend?
[1325.0s] Yes, some of us are, yes.
[1327.0s] Others from other settlements that have been attacked.
[1331.0s] We were just there.
[1334.0s] Yep, we sure were.
[1337.0s] We saw Galen.
[1339.0s] We saw Gallenden.
[1341.0s] We ate some beefy stew.
[1344.0s] Of course, beefy stew.
[1345.0s] How was the stew?
[1346.0s] Did it suffer in quality since we've been attacked?
[1350.0s] No.
[1351.0s] Do I still have any of the breakfast stew to go that I had that Gallen didn't want?
[1356.0s] Do you?
[1357.0s] I don't know.
[1358.0s] It's been a couple days.
[1359.0s] Probably not.
[1360.0s] It's probably not very good if you do, but...
[1362.0s] Yeah, fair enough.
[1363.0s] Yep.
[1364.0s] Well, that Galen, he's a piece of work, isn't he?
[1366.0s] How do you mean?
[1368.0s] Oh, well, I mean, sure, he's the only reason why your settlement is still standing,
[1372.0s] but he is giving secret information about the protection of other places in the forest
[1378.0s] and essentially throwing them under the bus.
[1381.0s] Great kind of guy.
[1382.0s] Not sure you want to go back there specifically,
[1385.0s] but hopefully the judicial system will get him.
[1388.0s] Can we go to our friend and see if he's all right?
[1391.0s] Yeah, they've let you by.
[1392.0s] Oh, okay, good.
[1393.0s] Okay, I keep walking to Delaine.
[1394.0s] I had a feeling like half of them were still like...
[1397.0s] No, they're still uncertain about you, but they're like,
[1401.0s] yeah, I mean, we know that he's the one who made the deal,
[1406.0s] but it was to save our people.
[1409.0s] At the expense of others.
[1412.0s] Whatever, that's not what we're here for.
[1414.0s] I'm not judging.
[1415.0s] I've done, you know, sketches.
[1417.0s] We've all tied people up and thrown them in rivers.
[1422.0s] It's fine.
[1423.0s] Water under the bridge, am I right?
[1425.0s] I love it.
[1429.0s] Okay, let's go see Delaine because I feel like he knows stuff
[1433.0s] and I want him to be better before we get into any fights.
[1437.0s] How hurt does Delaine seem?
[1439.0s] He seems pretty beat up.
[1441.0s] I'm going to give him my rare healing potion.
[1446.0s] What if I just hit him with a Cure Wounds there, Amy?
[1450.0s] Yeah, do that one.
[1451.0s] As Thaddeus.
[1452.0s] Yeah, Thaddeus can do that kind of thing.
[1454.0s] Yeah, Thaddeus is going to cast Cure Wounds.
[1457.0s] Okay.
[1458.0s] Yeah, do that.
[1459.0s] As a second level spell slot, so he'll get an extra DA.
[1465.0s] Six and seven is 13 plus spell cast modifier of two, so 15.
[1471.0s] So some of the some of the wounds heal up and he comes back to
[1477.0s] comes back to consciousness there and he looks around.
[1480.0s] Fuck, it was his voice.
[1482.0s] Everybody's a gruff old man in this.
[1486.0s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons where Russ plays many gruff old men.
[1493.0s] We'll change his voice.
[1495.0s] What do you people do?
[1496.0s] No, no, no.
[1497.0s] Thea cannot be attracted to a man with a voice more ephemeral than hers.
[1501.0s] I was attacked by a dragon and now I sound like this.
[1504.0s] I like the voice though, but I definitely would have remembered if that was Delaine's voice.
[1512.0s] No, it was something just like, what are you guys doing here?
[1516.0s] No, he doesn't say, what are you guys doing here?
[1518.0s] Oh, it's good to see you guys here.
[1519.0s] Fuck.
[1520.0s] Shit.
[1521.0s] I'm from the woods.
[1523.0s] Delaine.
[1524.0s] I feel his forehead.
[1529.0s] I'm like, are you feverish?
[1530.0s] I'm almost eaten by a dragon.
[1534.0s] Is he like well buffed up in his health?
[1542.0s] Like we're about to fight a dragon, so I just feel like he should probably be at full capacity here.
[1547.0s] He reaches into his fanny pack, for lack of a better term.
[1551.0s] Fanny pack of holding.
[1553.0s] And pulls out a potion and he appears to be ready to go.
[1558.0s] Cool.
[1559.0s] And he's like, what, how did you, did you kill the dragon already?
[1563.0s] How did you guys get this far?
[1565.0s] We snuck in here while he took off for his nightly stroll.
[1568.0s] Good thinking, good thinking.
[1570.0s] I get by on my charms.
[1572.0s] I give him a little wink.
[1574.0s] Yeah.
[1576.0s] Alright.
[1580.0s] You have to say that you did that.
[1582.0s] You can't just, you can't just do it.
[1584.0s] He winks awkwardly.
[1586.0s] Was it ever awkward?
[1588.0s] With like a grimace and his like, hasn't seen.
[1592.0s] But is Thea like, whoo, fans herself?
[1595.0s] Yes, please.
[1597.0s] It's been a while.
[1598.0s] I don't want to speak for you, Thea, but I think you're into it.
[1601.0s] So dang hot out today.
[1604.0s] Boy howdy.
[1608.0s] Yeah, you feeling better?
[1609.0s] Cause that dragon's going to be back like pretty quick.
[1612.0s] And I think we're probably going to have to like try to fight him.
[1615.0s] Do you know anything?
[1617.0s] Like it seems like it's Narenvain.
[1620.0s] Oh yeah.
[1621.0s] I mean, it's probably, yeah, yeah.
[1623.0s] It's definitely Narenvain.
[1626.0s] Yeah.
[1627.0s] I haven't seen much of this layer here.
[1631.0s] Maybe one of these.
[1632.0s] If you talk to these motherfuckers standing around with their swords out.
[1636.0s] See if we get like a.
[1638.0s] Some sort of escape hatch.
[1640.0s] Some sort of press the button and run type of thing or.
[1644.0s] Well, do we really want to run?
[1647.0s] We have an opportunity to end this here.
[1650.0s] We want to kill the dragon.
[1651.0s] He's killing people all.
[1653.0s] Like he's just destroying settlements.
[1656.0s] We want to stop him.
[1658.0s] Okay.
[1659.0s] Okay.
[1662.0s] You down?
[1663.0s] And I just look around like you guys in?
[1665.0s] Fuck.
[1666.0s] You want to maybe save your whole civilization or your whole.
[1669.0s] All your friends.
[1670.0s] Your family.
[1671.0s] Okay.
[1673.0s] Other guys here.
[1674.0s] You like work here and shit.
[1676.0s] And they're like, yeah.
[1677.0s] Yeah.
[1678.0s] I mean, he took us prisoner, but they let us kind of mill about.
[1681.0s] Good.
[1682.0s] So what the fuck are we working with here?
[1684.0s] And they go on to explain that there are the three Etans.
[1688.0s] There are among them.
[1691.0s] There are the people in the room.
[1693.0s] There are six other.
[1696.0s] Cult members, specifically cult members who have been seen.
[1701.0s] In the lair.
[1703.0s] Humans.
[1704.0s] Yep.
[1705.0s] Okay.
[1707.0s] And then Naren Vane and.
[1712.0s] They say Cuth, who is the dragon.
[1715.0s] So are the other elf guards at the entrance that we saw also kind of like.
[1721.0s] Quasi prisoner guards.
[1723.0s] Like they've been taken prisoner, but are being forced to work there as well.
[1726.0s] Yes.
[1727.0s] Yeah.
[1728.0s] Yeah.
[1729.0s] We have all been taken captive from various settlements and.
[1732.0s] Are told to guard.
[1735.0s] Cuth's lair.
[1737.0s] When he is not here.
[1740.0s] And when they are done with us.
[1743.0s] They feed us to him.
[1746.0s] Of sorts.
[1747.0s] Well, that sounds real bad.
[1750.0s] Sounds not good.
[1752.0s] We should we should probably like kill this dragon.
[1754.0s] What do you guys say?
[1756.0s] Fuck I'm doing it.
[1757.0s] What are you guys waiting for?
[1759.0s] Try to kill the dragon or just wait around to get eaten.
[1763.0s] Those are your options.
[1765.0s] Solid choices.
[1766.0s] Doesn't seem like a hard choice to me.
[1769.0s] Okay.
[1770.0s] Yeah.
[1771.0s] We'll we'll be right behind you.
[1773.0s] Yeah.
[1774.0s] Lot of faith in you.
[1775.0s] Got a lot of faith in you guys.
[1780.0s] Do you know the like the layout of this cavern?
[1785.0s] Where does Cuth sleep?
[1787.0s] What's the schedule?
[1789.0s] You guys are like running this this at a low level kind of way.
[1792.0s] So fill us in.
[1793.0s] We we haven't been able to explore the entire.
[1796.0s] There are some areas that they don't allow us to be.
[1799.0s] Cuth has his main lair underneath the the the pool in the in the main chamber area.
[1811.0s] If you go beneath the pool and into another area that is where his chamber is.
[1817.0s] Off of that are Narenvane's chambers.
[1822.0s] And from the front area the passageway to the left is where the cultists is where the cultists are.
[1831.0s] I say we wait in Narenvane's chambers.
[1834.0s] Wouldn't it be great to battle him separately from the dragon?
[1838.0s] Yes.
[1840.0s] Once he gets up on that dragon, it's gonna be a little harder to.
[1845.0s] Are we gonna kill him?
[1847.0s] Well, I think we seems like a pretty bad dude.
[1852.0s] 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.
[1859.0s] Let's do what we always do.
[1862.0s] We'll try to take him prisoner, but realistically, we'll probably kill him.
[1866.0s] OK, fair enough. Good.
[1869.0s] It's just the old usual.
[1873.0s] I'll have the usual, please.
[1876.0s] How do we get into Narenvane's chamber?
[1880.0s] How can we do it without the cultists knowing?
[1885.0s] Well, Narenvane's chamber is you have to go through the cultists area to get to his chamber.
[1893.0s] Do the cultists ever leave their chambers?
[1897.0s] Are they Brian Wilson? They just like hang out in there constantly?
[1902.0s] They throughout the night, they're generally in there the whole whole night.
[1907.0s] They mostly only leave to go out on raids.
[1911.0s] What about the three Eddins? Are they loyal to the dragon or are they just doing their own thing and they're also prisoners?
[1919.0s] Oh, Flameykins could probably help with this.
[1923.0s] Flameykins, don't you have a spell that could potentially change the way some of us look to help get us past?
[1931.0s] Oh, fuck, guys, I got a disguise spell, I think.
[1934.0s] Oh, yeah, yeah. She cast a spell on us before.
[1938.0s] Yeah. Oh, yeah.
[1939.0s] Seeming.
[1940.0s] Yeah, we got seeming. We can.
[1942.0s] I mean, we can make us look like bushes.
[1945.0s] Does that work?
[1947.0s] Not quite what I was thinking.
[1953.0s] To go back to your other question, the Eddins are here to help protect Kuth's horde.
[1961.0s] They, as you may have seen from the ruckus still coming from out there, they they hate each other,
[1969.0s] but will fight to protect Kuth and what Kuth has here.
[1975.0s] What does Kuth have here that's so important?
[1979.0s] His horde, his treasure, whatever dragons love to...
[1985.0s] General dragon horde, there's not anything like in particular that anyone knows about?
[1990.0s] Not that we are aware of, no.
[1992.0s] OK, well, it seems like what we'll need to do is cause some kind of distraction
[2000.0s] to get the cultists out of their chambers and then like scoot in there and scoot on in.
[2008.0s] Or we could all look like cultists.
[2010.0s] But can we do that or can we only look like bushes?
[2012.0s] No, we can look like anything.
[2014.0s] Oh, OK.
[2015.0s] Do you guys still have cult clothes?
[2017.0s] No, that was like four years ago.
[2021.0s] I mean, OK.
[2022.0s] Just been carrying around.
[2023.0s] Checking, checking.
[2025.0s] The spell allows.
[2026.0s] Well, I mean, Thea has a pretty awesome bag of holding that holds a lot of stuff,
[2030.0s] so it could just have cult clothes in there.
[2032.0s] That's true. We could have kept that stuff in there.
[2034.0s] It could have.
[2035.0s] That seems actually pretty reasonable.
[2037.0s] Where we all look like different people.
[2039.0s] God.
[2040.0s] I think that...
[2041.0s] It's up to you.
[2043.0s] I could potentially have a bag of holding that has a bunch of extra different clothes in it.
[2048.0s] It doesn't say if I do or don't.
[2050.0s] Sure would hate for anything to happen to that bag of holding.
[2053.0s] I know, right?
[2054.0s] Seems like that bag of holding is really just holding everything together.
[2058.0s] Ever.
[2059.0s] How would you like to help us defeat the dragon the easiest way possible?
[2067.0s] Sounds pretty good, right?
[2069.0s] Sounds like easy.
[2070.0s] Sounds almost too good to be true.
[2071.0s] Almost too good to be true.
[2073.0s] What would you have us do?
[2076.0s] We would like to get into Naren Vane's chamber.
[2080.0s] Our group and any of you that are willing to come help fight.
[2085.0s] But we need to get the cultists out of their chambers so we can get in there.
[2090.0s] So we need you and the other elf guards to create a distraction.
[2095.0s] To start a fire or something to raise the alarm so that the cultists will leave their chambers and we can slip in.
[2104.0s] Or a big brawl of some kind.
[2106.0s] Can you do that?
[2107.0s] Oh, or a big...
[2108.0s] See, but I think...
[2109.0s] Yeah, that's good.
[2110.0s] Yep, yep, yep.
[2111.0s] You know, like descent among the ranks.
[2113.0s] Make a persuasion check, please.
[2117.0s] 14.
[2120.0s] So the elf, main elf you've been talking to says, okay, so we will make a distraction.
[2134.0s] But we don't want to fight the dragon.
[2137.0s] We don't feel we would be helpful in that instance.
[2143.0s] That's understandable.
[2144.0s] We will do our best to draw the cultists out so you can get in there.
[2150.0s] But I don't, I can't fight with you.
[2155.0s] Fair enough.
[2157.0s] Yep, sounds good.
[2158.0s] So a few of them pick up their weapons and straighten their clothes.
[2166.0s] And they open the door and walk out.
[2168.0s] And you hear the Etans hollering and still wailing on each other.
[2173.0s] And it sounds like it's kind of dying down a little bit.
[2176.0s] And you hear mumbling from the elves as they kind of are just like, okay, yeah, we're just going to go swap stations.
[2184.0s] And the Etans don't even look at them, really.
[2189.0s] And they go out into the main chamber.
[2192.0s] Where are you guys waiting?
[2193.0s] Are you waiting in that prisoner chamber?
[2195.0s] Are you kind of following behind them a little bit?
[2198.0s] 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.
[2204.0s] Tuck away so that when they all run out, we can like run in basically, right?
[2209.0s] Yeah, so you follow them to the entrance to where the main area is.
[2214.0s] And they tell you to wait there.
[2217.0s] And they go over to where the other elves were guarding the front door.
[2221.0s] And you hear some low murmuring.
[2223.0s] And then you hear hollering from them saying, they're over here.
[2228.0s] They're trying to break in.
[2229.0s] They're over here.
[2230.0s] And you hear the footsteps of cultists coming down the hallway.
[2235.0s] And they run out towards them.
[2236.0s] And they're like, they just ran back out the waterfall.
[2239.0s] We need to go stop them.
[2240.0s] They stole stuff from Cuth.
[2242.0s] And everybody in that group goes up the slope.
[2247.0s] And you hear them go out past the waterfall.
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[2328.0s] Let's go see how sneaky the group can be as they make their way further into Kuth Slayer.
[2332.0s] Super sneaky. That's always the answer.
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[2341.0s] Let's let's scoot.
[2343.0s] Yeah, sneak in past into the chamber of the.
[2347.0s] So you go down that another narrow corridor which goes off to the left and it looks like a kind of a common room.
[2355.0s] There are long tables, split logs where it looks like they used to to eat and there's a burnt out cooking fire.
[2363.0s] And then to the right, there is it looks like they're they're sleeping quarters.
[2368.0s] There's rough bunks and bedrolls and backpacks in this area.
[2372.0s] We walk on through.
[2374.0s] To the right, there is an open passageway.
[2376.0s] You go into the room and off to the right and it oh and it goes back down a long narrow hall,
[2382.0s] which there is a right turn and then you can go a little bit further and it ends in a dead end.
[2387.0s] But there's a left turn.
[2388.0s] 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
[2394.0s] and you enter into what looks to be created as a lush living space in this rough walled cavern.
[2402.0s] There are select art and craft works that look to be elven nature.
[2408.0s] Rich carpets and tapestries that cover the floors and the walls.
[2414.0s] And there's a large feature, a hewn log bed and a large mirror and trunk in this room.
[2421.0s] I look around for any good stuff.
[2424.0s] Well, you know, like we've got a little bit of time.
[2430.0s] I peek inside the trunk.
[2433.0s] You peek inside the trunk?
[2435.0s] Yeah, just kind of like, you know, moving around.
[2438.0s] Okay.
[2439.0s] What if it's a trap, Thea?
[2442.0s] No, you did it.
[2444.0s] No, it's totally fine.
[2446.0s] This is funny.
[2448.0s] So, you go to lift.
[2450.0s] They can't help herself, she's a snooze.
[2452.0s] You lift the, you go to lift the trunk and acid splashes from it.
[2460.0s] Oh my god.
[2461.0s] Well, she had her shield out, so it's fine.
[2465.0s] And you take everybody within 20 feet of it, which is everybody.
[2471.0s] Oh my god, I'm so sorry.
[2474.0s] Takes 5d8 acid damage.
[2477.0s] Oh my god.
[2482.0s] Fuck, that's a lot of damage.
[2487.0s] I'm so sorry.
[2489.0s] That's fine.
[2490.0s] So that is 20 acid damage to everybody.
[2496.0s] Holy shit.
[2498.0s] And as that happens.
[2501.0s] Everyone shoots Thea.
[2503.0s] Super dirty luck.
[2504.0s] Everyone shoots Thea.
[2506.0s] A dirty luck.
[2507.0s] A dirty luck.
[2509.0s] She shoots Thea.
[2511.0s] So everybody is reeling from this damage that you have taken.
[2516.0s] And, I mean, inside the trunk.
[2521.0s] Okay, sorry, I'm going to be a dick.
[2525.0s] I'm going to be a dick.
[2526.0s] I'm going to use my, I'm going to use a lucky.
[2531.0s] There's no attack against it, it just happens.
[2534.0s] Yeah, it's not like you rolled anything, so adding extra dice to it is not going to solve any problem.
[2539.0s] We weren't looking for anything, so.
[2541.0s] Is there something good in the trunk, at least?
[2544.0s] Did we find some rad shit?
[2546.0s] Are you kidding me? It's empty?
[2547.0s] No, it's not empty.
[2549.0s] In the trunk.
[2551.0s] Oh, sorry, you all are poisoned.
[2553.0s] I'm not.
[2554.0s] Yeah, you're not.
[2555.0s] But everybody else is.
[2557.0s] Yeah, in there, there's, it looks to be, there's a whole, there's more art and more gold.
[2563.0s] I mean, looking at it, it looks to be a total worth of about 1,500 gold pieces.
[2568.0s] Oh, I take all that gold I put into my bag.
[2571.0s] Much of it you recognize as potential property of the elves in the forest.
[2577.0s] Put it into my bag of holding.
[2580.0s] Okay.
[2581.0s] To give back to them when we're done.
[2582.0s] Naturally.
[2583.0s] But I didn't get 20 damage acid all over my beautiful face.
[2589.0s] So you guys are looking around and maybe going to make some investigation checks?
[2594.0s] I'd like to open the chest.
[2596.0s] Oh, wait, no, you already did.
[2598.0s] A cautionary tale.
[2601.0s] Can anybody magical detect magic anywhere?
[2608.0s] See if there's any like, I don't know, is this a magic mirror?
[2611.0s] What do we, what are we working with here?
[2613.0s] I can't detect magic.
[2614.0s] I can't.
[2615.0s] And I can't remember.
[2616.0s] Okay, I go outside.
[2617.0s] I can remember if you could.
[2618.0s] I can detect magic.
[2619.0s] I cast detect magic.
[2622.0s] Sure.
[2623.0s] Yeah.
[2624.0s] You, you sense that there may have been some sort of glyph of warding casted on the trunk.
[2631.0s] Cast on the trunk.
[2633.0s] But otherwise there are no other magical items in this room.
[2641.0s] Who the fuck was that idea like 30 seconds ago?
[2645.0s] Russ.
[2646.0s] I would like to go back outside of the room with Thaddeus and like back to where the
[2653.0s] junction is to come to Naren Payne's room.
[2657.0s] And a little bit, yeah, a little bit down that path.
[2660.0s] I'd like to cast the alarm spell and make it a mental alarm.
[2665.0s] So that way if anybody walks through that area, I find out about it.
[2668.0s] Yeah, for sure.
[2669.0s] Okay.
[2670.0s] You do that.
[2672.0s] Yeah, everybody make an investigation check while you're looking around this room.
[2675.0s] Thea's not sure she wants to look around the room anymore.
[2681.0s] Remember when we all wanted to have all our hit points?
[2684.0s] Totally.
[2685.0s] So sorry.
[2686.0s] 16.
[2687.0s] That's real bad.
[2688.0s] 14 for Flint.
[2689.0s] I rolled a four.
[2690.0s] I rolled a four, so I see nothing.
[2693.0s] Thea, you're looking around and you find what looks to be behind one of the larger
[2700.0s] art pieces in the back of the room, a secret passageway that opens into another candle
[2708.0s] lit chamber.
[2710.0s] Hey guys, there's a secret passageway back here.
[2713.0s] Are we going to get more acid splashed on us?
[2717.0s] Only one way to find out.
[2721.0s] Flint, after you.
[2726.0s] Yeah, we can tiptoe in there if you want.
[2731.0s] So you guys go into this other room.
[2733.0s] It's smaller than the last one.
[2735.0s] It's about 30 feet by about 15 feet.
[2740.0s] And inside you see a small shrine to Fenmeril Mesterine, who Thea you know as the elven
[2749.0s] god of outcasts, scapegoats, and solitude, which resembles a pair of white eyes peering
[2755.0s] out from the dark wall above a small basin.
[2759.0s] You look around this room some more and you see a journal present in this room at
[2765.0s] a small desk off to the side.
[2769.0s] Dear Diary, I ran away from my family today and started my own thing in the forest.
[2777.0s] Dear Diary, if you're reading this, acid in your face.
[2783.0s] Everybody takes it.
[2786.0s] Is anybody picking up the diary or journal?
[2789.0s] Thea's not too sure she wants to touch it.
[2792.0s] Is she still detector reading magic?
[2794.0s] There is no magic coming off of it.
[2797.0s] Well, you can probably read Elvish, so...
[2801.0s] I pick up the book and I open it.
[2805.0s] You skim through the book and make an investigation.
[2810.0s] Give me your investigation check to see how fast you're reading through.
[2813.0s] So you pick out quite a lot from this book.
[2816.0s] And it reveals, in fact, that Nerenvane is, in fact, King Melandric's lost son,
[2824.0s] who Nerenvane frequently throughout his writings refers to as my poor father.
[2831.0s] The journal also reveals in some of the later writings that the green dragon mask
[2836.0s] is already at the Well of Dragons under Severn's protection
[2840.0s] and ready to be assembled into the mask of the Dragon Queen.
[2844.0s] And as you guys are reading this, you hear from the front screams
[2848.0s] echoing down the halls from some of the elves.
[2852.0s] They're faint because you guys are further in.
[2855.0s] But you hear the loud roar of Kuth entering back into his lair.
[2866.0s] Music in today's episode was by Kavin MacLeod of incompetech.filmmusic.io.
[2870.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.