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[30.0s] That leads directly up to the maze. You notice movement high up on the tower.
[35.4s] Heroes! They saw you in the village! I've taken the mask but they'll realize it's missing
[39.7s] within minutes! Look for me beneath the tower! This is the key that will let you teleport
[44.3s] into the dungeon! You run into the path and you've entered an open area which is an
[51.4s] intersection where eight paths converge symmetrically. A sundial stands in the
[57.0s] center of the intersection. The shadow from its gnomon points straight toward the tower.
[62.9s] I think this one right ahead of us. It's as good a guess as any.
[66.2s] You come back into the very same sundial area. The shadows are now pointing to A and C.
[76.1s] How about this one? And I gesture to C.
[78.7s] On our way to entrance C, Russ, I would like to drop some coins or something on the ground
[85.1s] to mark our entry there. You enter a large square courtyard and filling the center of
[92.0s] this courtyard is a circular pool of water. A garnet gemstone hovers one foot above the
[97.8s] center of this pool. Donnie flies to the center and as he grabs it a pincer claw reaches up
[105.5s] and grabs his claw. The room is clear of jewels. Donnie has the garnet in hand.
[111.5s] You enter back into the sundial room and it is still at A and C.
[115.4s] Can we see the coins I dropped on the ground? Are they still there?
[118.3s] They appear to have disappeared.
[122.9s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons. We are a D&D fifth edition actual play podcast and I'm
[127.0s] your dungeon master, Russ More, and with me today is Amy More.
[129.8s] And I can't even handle it.
[132.5s] And also with me, who do you play? Oh, I play Thea Mastazia.
[137.8s] Also with me is Carla Johnson.
[139.8s] I think I can handle it, but I definitely play Nulara Moonbrook.
[144.2s] And Tom Laird.
[146.2s] I can 100% handle it and I play FlintFirebeard.
[151.0s] Coming in confident, Tom. I like it.
[153.2s] Gotta start high. There's never ever been a drop off when you start at the top, right?
[157.0s] Yeah, never. You just keep going up.
[159.1s] Never. That's how things work.
[161.4s] You did just watch Never Stop Never Stopping, so.
[163.9s] Oh, so good.
[165.0s] It's got your confidence level right up here.
[168.0s] Right?
[168.9s] It is a good movie.
[169.9s] It's no pop star.
[171.4s] I was going to say, I'd like to hear more about Pup Star,
[173.8s] which apparently has had repeated viewings in the More household.
[177.0s] Pup Star 2.
[178.2s] Oh, Pup Star.
[179.0s] Sorry, yes, Pup Star 2.
[181.0s] Yeah, that's the one we watched.
[182.0s] No, it was really good. You know, little tiny dog making it big.
[185.8s] Amy watched it more intently than Addison did.
[190.5s] I don't know why either. It sucked me in and it was bad.
[193.5s] It's because your mother never let you watch talking animal movies.
[196.6s] It's true. It was like the one thing.
[198.0s] She let me watch Terminator 2 when it came out.
[200.0s] I was like, what, eight?
[201.4s] But babe?
[202.1s] But she wouldn't let me watch Babe, Pig in the City.
[204.9s] Wow, that's a weird, weird choice.
[207.7s] She's like, Amy, it's a talking pig.
[210.5s] Though there was one movie that we were allowed to watch
[214.0s] with animals talking and it was Homeward Bound.
[217.9s] OK.
[218.4s] It's a good choice. It's a classic.
[220.1s] That one, the dog's mouth don't move.
[222.1s] It wasn't a classic then, Carla.
[224.8s] I was going to think that maybe it was the incredibly sad Disney Fox and Hound.
[230.5s] That's animated.
[232.1s] Still, though, I'm sure you must have got to watch
[234.3s] talking animated animal movies, right?
[237.0s] Did you get to watch Look Who's Talking?
[240.1s] No. Well, it's not that she didn't let me watch it.
[242.5s] We just never watched it.
[243.4s] I don't. I think to this day, I still haven't watched it.
[245.8s] I mean, the first one you are clearly missing out.
[248.4s] The first one is pretty great.
[250.7s] Welcome to our podcast.
[251.9s] We talk about movies Amy wasn't allowed to watch when she was little.
[255.4s] I like it. Hey, Amy, let's put it on the list.
[257.6s] OK. It's another one of our podcasts
[258.9s] we're going to do any time now.
[260.4s] We're going to launch a different one from my childhood.
[263.0s] Can we can we do television shows as well?
[265.0s] Because I have a bunch I wasn't allowed to watch when I was a kid.
[267.3s] I didn't have TV, so we have endless content.
[271.4s] Oh, wow.
[271.9s] It's the podcast that will keep renewing itself.
[273.6s] Any show that exists I did not see.
[277.4s] Perfect.
[278.1s] Wow.
[278.6s] Basically, unless I like was at a friend's house.
[281.1s] All right. So I'm just waiting on you guys to just take
[283.1s] take the reins on one of those ideas.
[285.0s] Any time now, one of them is going to stick.
[287.1s] Sure is going to happen.
[287.7s] This podcast network that we have going.
[290.2s] Our empire is going to grow.
[292.4s] This network of one.
[293.8s] I have some narrative podcast ideas.
[296.6s] Truly, truly I actually do, but it seems like a lot of work.
[300.6s] So I'll get back to you on it.
[303.3s] Let's talk Carla, because that sounds like a great idea.
[306.6s] That does sound very interesting.
[307.8s] I'm willing to get you off the ground on that one.
[309.8s] I listened to you five stars on iTunes.
[313.6s] Oh, thanks, Amy.
[315.0s] And if you want to support us, we're also on Patreon.
[317.2s] Tom can tell you about Patreon.
[318.6s] Yeah. Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[323.1s] Russ. Yes.
[324.8s] Yes. Nailed it was just waiting for that nod.
[328.3s] Yeah. So we do one episode a month.
[331.9s] It comes out on the 15th of every month.
[334.2s] Currently, right now, we're just about.
[337.1s] Well, I guess it will have been released already.
[339.8s] We'll release our first episode of our fate campaign.
[343.8s] Technically, it's like the third episode,
[345.5s] but it'll be the first one that features us
[348.2s] actually using the characters and everything that we're like.
[351.4s] Actually comes out today.
[352.9s] Oh, it comes out today.
[353.7s] This is released.
[354.8s] Amazing.
[355.5s] Also on that Patreon list of episodes is an 11 episode arc that I did
[361.8s] in the D&D world of Faerun as well,
[364.7s] but with different characters for Russ, Amy and Carla to play
[368.5s] and navigate that crazy world with.
[371.7s] And we have other fun things like character sheets
[374.0s] that come out fortnightly.
[375.8s] And a goog hang.
[377.0s] And a monthly goog hang.
[378.9s] There's so much.
[380.1s] Our dumb faces.
[382.0s] So much going on over there.
[383.4s] Three beautiful faces and one dumb face.
[386.0s] Oh, who's the dumb face?
[388.1s] Well, me.
[389.0s] Oh, dumb face.
[392.1s] You guys, you all pointed at yourself.
[394.1s] I didn't.
[395.0s] It's me.
[395.6s] I wasn't going to like zing you guys.
[397.4s] Amy was like, it's Russ.
[403.0s] So, yeah, thank you.
[404.5s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[406.5s] Lots of great people.
[407.4s] I don't know if I missed anything else with Patreon.
[409.8s] There's also other stuff, but go check it out.
[412.2s] I don't want to spoil it all.
[413.1s] Yeah, no spoilers.
[414.0s] You go look, do some work yourself.
[415.8s] Amy's can't hanker us today.
[417.8s] God.
[418.6s] Yeah, I like it.
[419.7s] It's good.
[420.0s] We got a death maze to face.
[421.0s] Yeah, I'm just like, I'm just trying to be like.
[423.8s] Get jacked for it.
[426.0s] Guys, I feel like someone's going to die today.
[428.1s] Fuck it, guys.
[428.7s] Let's play D&D.
[430.3s] That was great timing.
[431.8s] I was waiting for a good cue.
[433.8s] He was waiting for Tom not to be able to.
[436.0s] He was waiting for Tom to take a drink of something.
[438.2s] He's like, God, he's got to be the Perrier.
[440.7s] Come on.
[443.0s] It's the lemon Perrier, though.
[444.2s] It's no good.
[445.3s] But you're drinking it anyway.
[447.9s] You've entered back into the sundial where there's the intersection
[450.6s] where there are eight paths converge symmetrically
[453.4s] and the shadows are pointed again towards A and C.
[458.5s] Where is the tower in relation to the pathways?
[465.6s] Towers pointed towards H.
[469.0s] OK, so it's different than the last time we were in this.
[471.3s] Yeah.
[471.8s] And Flammikins pipes up and she's like,
[474.6s] because it's getting kind of dark now and she's like,
[479.1s] Flammikins, Flammikins, there I am.
[480.9s] Let's get fucked.
[482.2s] Let's get fucked.
[482.9s] I don't know what Flammikins sounds like.
[484.2s] We're in this maze.
[485.0s] Next jewel pool.
[486.0s] We're jumping in.
[488.1s] No.
[489.7s] Hey, guys, look at these stars.
[491.7s] They seem kind of weird.
[494.3s] I looked up.
[494.8s] What do I see?
[496.2s] Make a check.
[497.5s] Make a check.
[499.4s] Seven.
[500.2s] Wait.
[500.7s] Am I just perception?
[501.4s] Make a nature check.
[503.8s] Oh, I got just like fucking bags of nature.
[508.3s] Bags of it.
[509.7s] Big old bags of nature.
[512.7s] Oh, fuck.
[517.2s] You guys, there's a big hole in my bag of nature.
[520.3s] It's empty.
[521.5s] The bag of nature is empty because I rolled a three.
[523.8s] Do I need to roll a nature roll?
[526.1s] Yeah.
[526.3s] So I only got a nine.
[527.4s] I also got a nine.
[528.4s] Yeah, I got a 15.
[530.3s] But I have a plus six.
[531.8s] OK, that's better.
[533.1s] I got a 15 with no bonus.
[535.2s] You're looking up.
[535.8s] You're like, yeah, they're stars.
[537.4s] He looks to Flammikins.
[539.3s] You recognize that they don't look like constellations
[541.9s] or stars that you are familiar with.
[543.8s] Guys, something's weird about the sky.
[546.6s] I don't recognize anything up there.
[549.0s] Yeah, like when I'm out at sea because I was a pirate,
[552.2s] you guide by the stars.
[554.2s] But these are not stars that I'm familiar with.
[556.3s] Well, maybe this whole place is in another world or something.
[563.2s] That's something now.
[564.7s] We haven't really talked about it.
[565.9s] We've gone into it.
[567.2s] It's true.
[568.1s] Or like this is just like a little pocket dimension
[571.4s] where they fuck with us in the maze or something.
[573.8s] Thaddeus says that looks to be exactly what it is.
[577.4s] Good, good call.
[578.8s] A pocket dimension where they fuck with us.
[581.4s] The old fuck with your pocket dimension.
[583.6s] I mean, that's what I would do if I was making a killer maze.
[586.9s] Man, if only it was the let's get fucked pocket dimension.
[591.8s] It would be so much better.
[595.6s] Maybe we'll find one of those things.
[597.0s] Yeah, we'll see.
[598.5s] Probably not.
[599.1s] Probably not here.
[599.8s] Well, they never want anyone to get through these mazes.
[602.2s] So maybe they will just put up a pub somewhere where you just don't
[607.0s] take your squeaky toy elsewhere.
[608.3s] I beg the pardon of the squeaky toy dog in this episode.
[613.0s] There's your disclaimer.
[615.2s] She's here.
[615.8s] She's not leaving.
[616.9s] No, she settled in with her squeaky toy.
[619.4s] All good.
[620.3s] Yeah, maybe they just set up a pub somewhere and, you know,
[622.4s] you just sit in and the beers are all good and you never have to pay.
[625.7s] And that's where you, you know, get stuck.
[627.8s] Let's not get trapped like that, you guys.
[629.1s] Let's not do that.
[629.8s] Sounds like a weird purgatory, but a good one at the same time.
[633.6s] So last time we walked and it was only pointed to A.
[637.1s] We walked down A and then we came back in and it changed.
[641.5s] But when we went in the last one, there was no change, but we had to fight shit.
[648.9s] So if the shadow is still pointing at A and C, do we try C again?
[651.9s] But there was change because the shadows were at A and C,
[654.7s] but the tower was at D and now the towers at H.
[657.6s] Right.
[659.5s] Right. Right.
[662.9s] So maybe we just go H because that's the way the tower is.
[666.6s] Sure.
[666.8s] Because I mean, we went we went A because that was the way the tower was originally.
[670.9s] And then we went C because that's where the shadow was,
[675.5s] but the tower was at D.
[677.1s] So maybe we should have went tower and ignored the shadows.
[681.1s] Everybody make a perception check as well.
[684.7s] My strongest one.
[685.6s] Thanks.
[685.8s] Oh, motherfucker.
[686.7s] You had like a huge perception bonus.
[688.9s] Yeah, but still 11.
[693.6s] I am just killing it on these rolls, by the way.
[697.4s] It doesn't matter.
[697.8s] It was a very low roll that you needed.
[700.1s] So you you also notice as you're kind of looking at the stars
[703.4s] and looking around and that the moon is up now
[707.0s] and that the shadow that it or the light that it's casting
[710.3s] and the shadows that are casting on you are clearly not
[714.3s] making the shadow that's on the sundial.
[718.6s] So your shadows are going in one direction,
[720.5s] whereas the sundial appears to be making its own shadows.
[724.6s] Fucking magical shadows.
[726.6s] I agree with Flint.
[727.9s] Let's let's try to follow the tower.
[730.3s] I guess we I mean, what have we got to lose?
[733.2s] Well, I don't know.
[733.8s] I mean, we tried C last time and it led us to come back
[737.2s] to this same place after a big fight room.
[739.2s] So, yeah, I say let's try to follow the tower.
[744.2s] Give it a shot.
[745.4s] So you walk down H and you walk.
[747.7s] Sorry, quick question.
[748.6s] Yay.
[749.6s] With the garnet, I vaguely remember like checking
[753.7s] to see if it fits in the sundial anywhere, does it?
[756.7s] No, no, it does not.
[758.7s] Okay, cool, cool.
[760.8s] Sorry.
[761.2s] We walk for you begin walking down H
[763.8s] and you walk for about a little bit more than a minute
[767.0s] and you come into a new area.
[769.9s] You emerge from a path into an area far larger than any open
[777.7s] area you expected to encounter in the maze garden.
[781.7s] This rectangle space must be 90 feet across
[785.4s] with its far side almost 150 feet away.
[789.7s] It looks like a boulder strewn pasture
[792.9s] with a large pond to one side and a fenced vegetable garden
[796.6s] and oversized cottage on the other.
[799.4s] Sheep graze in the pasture tended by a pair of cyclops
[804.1s] but none of them are moving.
[806.2s] They all appear frozen in time.
[813.0s] Do I see any obvious exit out the other side of this pasture?
[819.4s] Yes, you do.
[821.4s] Off to the far other side, there appears to be another path
[824.8s] much like the last area you were in.
[826.4s] There was one directly across.
[828.2s] I whisper, guys, and then I start to sneak quietly
[832.6s] because I don't want to wake up the cyclops.
[835.0s] As soon as you begin to advance into the area,
[840.4s] the creatures spring to life with the sheep grazing
[843.0s] and the cyclops chatting idly to each other.
[845.7s] What do you do after you see that?
[847.7s] Do they see me?
[849.0s] I just said they're chatting idly to each other.
[851.2s] Well, I mean, they only have one eye, so.
[854.3s] Their peripheral is a little bit more narrow.
[857.0s] They're chatting idly.
[862.9s] I couldn't help myself.
[865.7s] I sneak quickly behind a boulder
[867.9s] because you said this was boulder strewn, right?
[869.9s] Very boulder strewn.
[871.1s] Okay, I like behind a boulder.
[873.7s] Make a stealth check.
[875.8s] What are you doing at the entrance there?
[878.0s] Everybody else?
[879.4s] Just watching Thea dance behind boulders?
[883.8s] Yeah, it's a six.
[885.4s] So Thea thinks she's really sneaky and she stops
[890.3s] and she puts her hands out and then she tucks and rolls.
[895.7s] It makes a little bit of noise
[897.5s] because everything starts rattling together that she's carrying.
[901.0s] And the cyclops notice and they look up
[904.5s] and they notice over to you and all the other people entering.
[909.0s] Because I'm the only one who clumsily jumped behind a boulder
[912.0s] and just left you guys.
[912.8s] I'm picturing like, you know,
[914.7s] when like a five-year-old does a somersault,
[917.1s] then it's so cute, but like not good.
[919.9s] That's what I'm picturing.
[920.7s] I think that's what it was.
[921.7s] It's so cute, it's nice.
[923.3s] And then you see them kind of exchange a few unheard words
[927.0s] and they play a sort of game
[929.0s] that's analogous to rock, paper, scissors.
[932.6s] And one loses and both cyclops begin to approach you
[939.9s] and they don't appear to be carrying any weapons.
[942.3s] How big are cyclopses?
[943.5s] Are they like giant?
[944.8s] Like, are they, they're big, right?
[946.2s] Yeah.
[946.7s] Yeah.
[947.9s] I know we've seen them before.
[950.0s] Well, you guys did run into one in a certain cave
[953.7s] in the Patriot games, so.
[955.7s] Yeah, cyclops are huge giants.
[957.7s] So they are, yeah, they are quite big.
[960.6s] Okay.
[961.4s] They are walking towards you.
[962.9s] They don't appear to have any weapons.
[965.2s] I want to climb up on the boulder.
[967.4s] Okay, you don't have to roll.
[969.8s] You can just climb up on the boulder.
[970.9s] Good, because.
[971.9s] You don't have to roll.
[972.3s] I haven't rolled over a 10 yet.
[974.3s] Just climb up on the boulder.
[976.0s] I haven't rolled over a five yet.
[977.5s] I think I need to start rolling with my right hand.
[984.5s] This is me taking off my wrist brace
[986.5s] for those of you playing the home game.
[988.7s] I love Amy's strategies to have better rolls.
[991.5s] Use different dice, use my other hand.
[993.8s] You should start using the digital dice,
[995.2s] see if those do better for you.
[996.3s] No, I want to roll.
[999.2s] What is everybody else doing?
[1000.6s] Flame McKinsey is like, yeah, I want to be up on a rock, too.
[1003.2s] I just kind of give them like a like a wave, like a hello.
[1007.8s] One of them waves back to you.
[1009.6s] That's very nice.
[1010.6s] Oh, that's nice.
[1013.0s] Kind of surprising.
[1014.2s] Nularaaa, you and Thaddeus are just chilling
[1016.8s] and they continue towards you.
[1018.6s] And as they get to about within 20 feet of you,
[1023.8s] the one that lost the game
[1026.2s] scoops up a small boulder from the ground
[1028.5s] and gestures towards you and your party.
[1033.2s] He then looks downfield and heaves the boulder 100 feet
[1037.2s] where it bounces and rolls another 20 feet.
[1040.6s] Both Cyclops then turn and face you
[1044.5s] looking kind of expectant at you.
[1046.2s] I am applauding wildly.
[1048.2s] Me, too.
[1048.6s] I'll also clap.
[1049.4s] I'm sitting crisscross applesauce on top of this boulder
[1051.5s] just like, well, once you guys start clapping,
[1054.7s] I'll start clapping because you look like an asshole.
[1058.0s] Exactly.
[1058.5s] I don't want to be the dick that's not clapping.
[1060.7s] Plus, it was an impressive throw and good throw there.
[1064.0s] They're just standing staring at you as you applaud them.
[1066.7s] I say that was a great throwing.
[1070.9s] Should one of us throw?
[1071.9s] None of them respond.
[1073.1s] I pick up a little like pebble that I find on top of the boulder and I have it.
[1077.4s] You throw a pebble and they look at it
[1079.5s] and look at each other and kind of chuckle and then look back at you.
[1083.1s] What language do they speak?
[1085.0s] Giant or do they have Cyclops?
[1086.6s] Do they have their own language?
[1087.7s] I believe it's giant.
[1089.0s] No, yeah, you know they speak giant.
[1091.8s] I don't speak giant.
[1093.2s] I do.
[1095.8s] So I say, hello, we're trying to get to the tower.
[1102.2s] Which way should we go?
[1103.6s] They don't answer your question, but they say,
[1106.1s] well, you need to play game.
[1109.3s] Okay. Is it a throwing game?
[1112.6s] Yes, you go pick up boulder.
[1116.2s] You throw farther and then you pass.
[1121.9s] Only one of us has to do that.
[1124.6s] Only one has to throw further.
[1125.8s] We all can go.
[1127.0s] And any throws.
[1129.6s] Okay.
[1130.0s] Must go farther.
[1131.6s] Okay. Nobody else speaks giant, right?
[1135.2s] You guys?
[1136.2s] Well, there is like a certain one,
[1137.8s] someone in my head that does speak giant,
[1139.8s] but he's not in control right now.
[1141.5s] Okay. So anyway, so I explain what they said,
[1144.9s] like we have to play this game.
[1146.4s] If one of us can throw the boulder,
[1148.1s] pick up the boulder and throw it further
[1150.2s] than they did, then we can go.
[1152.6s] That's ridiculous.
[1154.6s] But your magic, don't you have like.
[1158.4s] Oh yeah, maybe lightning.
[1159.8s] Maybe like Thaddeus could do something.
[1162.6s] Maybe Thaddeus has Thaddeus.
[1164.3s] Do you know Mage Hand?
[1166.2s] Mage Hand lifts 10 pounds.
[1168.4s] Max.
[1169.0s] Well, some DM did their research.
[1171.7s] Geez, yeah.
[1175.0s] Hang on here.
[1175.5s] Let me just bring up Thaddeus's character sheet
[1177.8s] because I have an idea.
[1179.4s] I could conjure something that could maybe
[1184.9s] carry something this big.
[1187.0s] I don't know if I could get it to throw it though.
[1189.1s] We need to like put a levitate spell
[1191.4s] on something or something so that it,
[1194.5s] you know, so that it's light.
[1195.8s] So we can just like push it.
[1197.8s] I hope they don't speak common.
[1199.3s] So we're just talking strategy.
[1201.0s] They're just staring at you.
[1202.1s] They don't seem to be minding too much.
[1204.7s] Thaddeus does have a levitate spell,
[1208.6s] but it can, let's see here,
[1210.6s] can rise up to 20 feet,
[1213.1s] but it will just be like suspended there.
[1215.0s] So yeah, I guess we'd have to like
[1217.0s] push it or something to.
[1218.7s] Well, we'd have to like cast it,
[1220.8s] pretend to lift it, throw it, right?
[1224.7s] I assume magic is against the rules probably,
[1227.9s] but there's no way we can do it.
[1229.4s] Otherwise, I don't think.
[1231.5s] Yeah.
[1231.8s] My other solution also involves magic.
[1235.5s] They haven't said no magic.
[1237.2s] I don't want to ask because I feel like.
[1240.1s] Because yeah, Thaddeus,
[1241.1s] with grants a spell book also has induce or,
[1244.9s] or enlarge or reduce.
[1247.5s] So you could take like a small or yeah,
[1251.8s] like a small rock,
[1253.0s] lift it up, throw it,
[1254.2s] and as it's being thrown,
[1255.3s] like transform it into a large rock.
[1257.8s] Right.
[1259.2s] Still, that's still awfully far throw.
[1261.9s] Yes, it's a long way to go.
[1263.4s] We would need a lot of strength
[1264.7s] to do something like that.
[1266.4s] Also, levitate only has a 60 foot range,
[1269.7s] so Thaddeus would have to like
[1271.5s] you'd have to chase it.
[1272.3s] Walk alongside it.
[1278.3s] But it can levitate something up to 500 pounds,
[1281.0s] so that's good.
[1281.6s] We make some sort of catapults.
[1283.9s] I don't know how to do that.
[1285.9s] Some sort of trebuchet.
[1288.3s] Hmm.
[1289.4s] In theory, probably like one of us
[1292.6s] could know how to do that.
[1294.3s] But I mean, I'm a former soldier.
[1296.2s] Quickly, exactly.
[1297.5s] But not like.
[1298.5s] We need a half a day to build this.
[1300.7s] Yeah, don't worry, Iskander.
[1303.7s] We're coming.
[1304.3s] We're in a hurry.
[1305.5s] We're like, we're doing a trebuchet.
[1308.9s] Has the door behind us disappeared?
[1311.5s] Should we just leave you guys like.
[1314.7s] Oh, this is throw or what?
[1317.0s] Uh, we'll we'll see.
[1318.6s] We're just we're talking strategy.
[1320.3s] We're not as naturally gifted as you at throwing.
[1323.5s] Oh, yeah, you you puny.
[1325.8s] Yeah, we are.
[1328.6s] Could we, uh, can we can we go back
[1331.5s] the way we came and maybe come back later?
[1333.5s] Try and play the game.
[1335.1s] I mean, sure.
[1337.6s] Okay, okay, guys.
[1339.7s] They're not going to try and stop us
[1340.8s] if we leave the way we came.
[1342.5s] We can leave and go try a different one.
[1344.9s] I mean, I'm into it.
[1347.5s] Let's go.
[1348.7s] So you you exit back the way you came.
[1350.7s] Yeah.
[1351.2s] All right.
[1351.7s] So there's no shame in running away.
[1356.7s] Well, because we don't know.
[1357.6s] Like last time it just like scooped us back in.
[1360.2s] But you're right.
[1360.8s] Let's just try a different one.
[1361.9s] It's not like we have to go there
[1363.4s] because that's where we ended up.
[1365.0s] Or maybe we do, but we'll find out.
[1366.7s] All right, well, let's go because
[1367.7s] I wasn't going to lift that thing.
[1369.9s] And you guys all begin to walk back out
[1372.3s] the way you came and you walk for bad.
[1375.1s] A little less than a minute this time.
[1376.7s] And you find yourselves back in the open pasture.
[1380.1s] God damn it.
[1381.1s] And the cyclops see you and they're like, ha ha ha.
[1385.3s] They thought they could leave without throwing boulder.
[1388.7s] You guys.
[1389.7s] You guys got us.
[1390.7s] We got them.
[1391.5s] Yeah, we did.
[1392.6s] You got us.
[1393.5s] So you throw a boulder or what?
[1395.6s] Yeah, we're going to.
[1397.0s] I try to get the boulder nearest to me.
[1399.1s] We're going to work something out.
[1400.7s] No, you throw.
[1401.5s] You throw a boulder.
[1402.5s] We we threw.
[1404.6s] That way it's fair.
[1406.7s] Oh, same boulder.
[1408.1s] Well, that's that's why it's fair.
[1410.1s] Yeah, that you.
[1412.3s] That's you're right.
[1413.5s] You're right.
[1414.7s] What do you say?
[1416.3s] So we need to go throw the boulder that he threw so that it's fair.
[1420.5s] I start walking to the boulder.
[1422.3s] OK, me too.
[1423.5s] I mean, I want to let's go see this thing.
[1425.9s] Maybe it's a lot later than we think it's going to be.
[1428.1s] It's not spoiler alert.
[1429.7s] It's probably not.
[1431.3s] But you're right.
[1431.8s] It's worth a shot.
[1433.4s] Yeah, as you approach the boulder that they threw,
[1437.5s] you you you examine it's about two feet in diameter
[1440.8s] and just given it the old heave hole,
[1442.9s] you could probably guess that it weighs about 500 pounds, maybe more.
[1447.1s] Oh, my God.
[1447.6s] And it's only two feet.
[1449.4s] It's a hefty boulder.
[1450.9s] That's some dense, dense in diameter.
[1453.0s] It's a dense, like heavy, heavy rock.
[1456.7s] Guys, this must be like a million pounds.
[1463.4s] Ah, OK, you've got a good idea.
[1467.1s] Yeah, I do want to.
[1468.6s] How many tries do we have to throw it the farthest?
[1470.9s] Is it just we just keep throwing till we get it or we throw once
[1476.1s] and like something horrible will happen?
[1480.1s] This is a good question, which I then ask them.
[1483.1s] You just have to throw boulder farther than we throw boulder.
[1487.5s] OK, we just have to throw it further than they threw it.
[1491.1s] This is flawed because we're going to get tired after the first time and then.
[1495.9s] Well, there's I think no way we can throw it non-magically.
[1500.8s] We can't even lift it non-magically.
[1502.7s] All of us working together could lift it.
[1504.9s] OK, guys, I think I think here's our play.
[1509.3s] So I got that rod, a lordly mite that can turn into a ladder.
[1513.5s] So what we do is we find a really big boulder,
[1517.5s] put the ladder over top of it with at the halfway point lower,
[1525.1s] the one half of it down with this smaller boulder
[1528.4s] that we need to throw over 120 feet onto the end of it and kind of lock it in place.
[1533.9s] And then, you know, as we put all of our combined weight into the other end of the
[1539.7s] ladder and thus create some sort of launching system to throw this boulder as far as we
[1545.8s] possibly can. So you want to create leverage using your ladder and another boulder as a fulcrum?
[1553.3s] Yes, that's that's exactly the words I was looking for.
[1556.2s] Can't I just use magic?
[1558.2s] I mean, I don't know, shit all over my great idea, Thaddeus, whatever.
[1564.3s] No, you do you, man. I want to see this happen.
[1566.8s] Yeah, I want to see something.
[1568.7s] It was too good. It was too beautiful to live.
[1570.7s] It was too good. I feel like.
[1572.9s] I think we should try Flint's plan because we need to save spells.
[1579.2s] It's a good point.
[1580.0s] I agree.
[1581.1s] Also, way more fun.
[1584.7s] Yeah, let's work together.
[1585.5s] Let's work together. I like it.
[1588.5s] Teamwork. And I jump into the air.
[1590.2s] What's the combined weight of everybody if that's what you're doing?
[1597.3s] I mean, not that I'm going to do all the physics behind it, but it'll give me an idea.
[1600.8s] I'm 110 pounds.
[1602.7s] Flint is a hundred and sixty four pounds.
[1606.7s] Twenty five of which is beard.
[1608.1s] Hey, Thea.
[1609.5s] Whoa, I'm way.
[1611.5s] Yeah, you're way fish.
[1613.5s] I forget how tall I am.
[1614.8s] I probably weigh like one hundred and sixty pounds.
[1618.0s] I'm like normal size.
[1619.9s] Geez, Thaddeus is one hundred and forty three.
[1623.2s] Thaddeus is a skinny dude, too.
[1626.2s] I'm surprised that Flint was that skinny.
[1628.2s] Well, he's only four foot eight.
[1630.6s] He's but thick.
[1632.2s] I'm five foot two and I don't weigh that much less than that.
[1636.3s] And I am not a dwarf.
[1637.9s] Flamikins Kins is fifty two pounds.
[1640.0s] Oh, all right.
[1641.5s] It's canon now.
[1642.3s] One hundred and ninety four pounds.
[1644.3s] One hundred and ninety four.
[1645.4s] You're like skinny shaming Flint.
[1647.0s] We didn't mean to.
[1647.5s] Combined, you all weigh five hundred fifty nine pounds.
[1650.8s] And Donnie.
[1651.8s] Donnie.
[1653.6s] Who is bigger now.
[1655.3s] And Donnie can like take a head start flying into that thing.
[1658.7s] Yeah, see, I get guacamole.
[1661.1s] Oh, guac, of course, guacamole out.
[1664.0s] OK, so let's say we're up to like seven hundred.
[1667.5s] Let's say we're up to like seven hundred pounds, maybe more.
[1671.1s] Let's go eight hundred pounds.
[1672.3s] OK, I don't know how physics works.
[1674.4s] I didn't know we were going to get like a math master class.
[1677.8s] No, I'm just I'm just using it for my own.
[1679.9s] We need more weight to push down if we don't weigh as much or have much as.
[1684.3s] OK, so how this is going to work is this is Flint's idea.
[1689.7s] So it's all his fault if it doesn't work.
[1692.0s] Flint is going to be making the roles for it.
[1695.1s] OK, anybody can assist in those roles to give advantage.
[1701.1s] But that's what we're going to do.
[1702.3s] So how many times can we do that?
[1704.3s] Explain to explain to me.
[1705.9s] Well, we'll see what happens in the first one.
[1707.7s] Explain explain to me what happens during the setup.
[1711.2s] OK, so we find the biggest boulder that we can.
[1714.7s] Like maybe the one that was kind of the size that Amy was sitting on
[1718.2s] earlier, whatever.
[1719.8s] Because I imagine we have to throw it either back to the Giants
[1723.6s] or from like that's what I was thinking back this way.
[1727.0s] Like, I'm not sure.
[1727.8s] OK, so we find a rock that's close by that's bigger than the one
[1732.6s] that we're needing to throw.
[1734.7s] And we use the ladder with the big rock as what do you call it?
[1738.4s] A fulcrum in the middle.
[1740.8s] Yes, we're making simple machines.
[1742.9s] It's been so long since I did any of this stuff in like math
[1747.2s] that I forgotten all about it because you don't need math in the real world.
[1750.9s] Listeners, please correct us if we are using 100 percent.
[1755.0s] We're wrong.
[1755.8s] Yeah, 100 percent.
[1757.4s] But yeah, so we use we use a larger rock as like the fulcrum
[1762.5s] and have the ladder in its full mode, which it can support up
[1766.3s] to five thousand pounds or something, the book said.
[1768.6s] So we should be free and clear as far as that's concerned.
[1771.2s] We have the boulder that we need to throw weighing it down
[1774.9s] on one end like like a seesaw.
[1777.3s] And then we all pile on the other end in like some sort of, I don't know,
[1782.5s] maybe we all jump off guacamole and land on the fucking thing.
[1785.8s] I don't know.
[1786.9s] But somehow we need to all put all of our weight on that end
[1791.0s] and hurl that so well, even just like, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah,
[1797.2s] that would work, too. Right.
[1800.7s] The I feel like it would crush us.
[1802.5s] The only thing I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to probably change here,
[1807.0s] not change, because this is this is canon is how it's been portrayed within the game
[1812.3s] is the the ladder you're speaking of is more of a pole with like
[1817.5s] things that shoot out the side.
[1819.0s] So it's a climbing pole, not so much a dual side.
[1822.8s] A pogo stick with many different.
[1825.7s] Pretty sure that's how we've described it before.
[1829.8s] I do not remember the way.
[1831.1s] Neither, but that makes sense.
[1833.1s] I mean, it makes sense if it's like a sword like that.
[1836.4s] It's a rod.
[1837.8s] And then it just seems it seems reasonable, I guess.
[1842.2s] It does have a spike at the bottom and three hooks at the top, though.
[1845.7s] So in theory, you could manipulate that to hold that boulder in place.
[1850.0s] Yeah, OK. Yeah, sure.
[1851.8s] Yeah, this is going to be a that's going to be a straight strength roll.
[1857.0s] OK, that's like my best one.
[1859.2s] Because so all of you are trying to aid Flint or you're all aiding in the thing.
[1864.7s] But yeah, so Flint is going to make the role.
[1866.7s] Anybody who wants to aid can give assistance.
[1871.5s] And then I believe it's just advantage that they that he gets.
[1876.6s] Is this going to be like a rule that we could have been using
[1879.2s] the entire time we've been playing, but never knew?
[1882.9s] Actions in combat.
[1884.3s] This is the page that you should look at.
[1886.1s] Probably a thing we should have read.
[1888.3s] So you can you can lend your aid to another creature in the completion of a task
[1892.9s] when you take the help action.
[1894.3s] The creature you aid gains advantage on the next ability check
[1897.2s] it makes to perform the task you are helping with,
[1900.3s] provided provided that it makes the check before the start of your next turn.
[1905.2s] Alternatively, you can aid a friendly creature,
[1907.3s] attacking a creature within five feet of you.
[1908.9s] You faint distraction to cause advantage.
[1911.9s] So like I could get on my hands and knees behind someone that the is fighting
[1916.1s] and she could push that person over top of me.
[1918.7s] Yep, it's a classic move.
[1920.7s] Or like if you were a tabaxi, you could like get the crowd pumped up.
[1925.1s] Oh, yeah.
[1925.6s] To distract people.
[1926.9s] Yep, yep, yep, yep.
[1930.7s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cat.
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[1935.0s] You really should listen to it.
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[1939.0s] That's my favorite.
[1940.1s] It's one of my favorite things.
[1941.9s] Are you not entertained?
[1943.5s] We do need that on a show.
[1944.7s] But it's just for patrons of only people that have heard it anyway.
[1948.0s] Well, that's an inside joke.
[1949.2s] It is an inside joke.
[1950.5s] Also, we're still learning so much about how Dumbgeons and Dragons work.
[1953.9s] That's true.
[1954.3s] Help, guys.
[1955.1s] That's an action we can do.
[1957.2s] OK, so what?
[1957.9s] Sorry.
[1958.1s] What's your strength there?
[1959.9s] My strength is 19.
[1962.4s] OK, and you're rolling with advantage.
[1965.9s] My homies.
[1967.5s] I am rolling with my homies.
[1969.5s] He is almost literally rolling with his homies.
[1973.1s] OK, so I guess I get two rolls in.
[1975.8s] You sure do.
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[2082.0s] All right, first role was a 15, so that's a 19.
[2090.7s] Second role is also a 15 or 19.
[2096.2s] That is the third 15 I've rolled tonight.
[2098.6s] You already did help.
[2100.8s] That was his advantage.
[2102.5s] So with a 19, you all like in one fell swoop,
[2107.9s] guacamole and Donnie are trying to use all their might.
[2111.9s] And you manage to get the bowler up and it's in the air and it flies for seems like forever.
[2121.9s] But then it lands about 40 feet away and rolls about 20 feet.
[2129.5s] And Nulara hears the giant say, not far enough.
[2133.2s] Dang, guys.
[2134.0s] Does she yell back?
[2134.7s] No, shit.
[2135.2s] I was worried it was going to land on a sheep.
[2139.4s] I was worried it was just going to land on us.
[2141.3s] Directly on us and end of campaign.
[2145.5s] I didn't even have to do it.
[2146.7s] You did it yourself.
[2148.8s] That would be hilarious.
[2152.1s] God, what an end.
[2153.2s] What an end to three years.
[2155.9s] I love it in a rock throwing contest.
[2159.6s] We might need to use magic, you guys.
[2161.5s] I just I don't think we're strong enough.
[2163.8s] So what do you guys got?
[2166.3s] Yeah, Thaddeus, what you got?
[2167.5s] I mean, I got levitate or I mean, I got reduce and large.
[2172.5s] I can make it small and one of you big.
[2175.7s] But I don't think that's going to fly for the actual boulder itself.
[2182.3s] Has to be the same size when we throw it.
[2184.4s] But no, they said it has to be the same boulder.
[2186.9s] They didn't say it has to be the same size.
[2190.0s] It's true.
[2191.6s] I don't know.
[2192.1s] Just ask them.
[2194.0s] Are we so technically speaking, it just needs to be the same boulder, correct?
[2205.0s] Yeah, yeah.
[2206.8s] Do they not get it?
[2208.3s] No, I don't think I don't think they get it.
[2211.0s] OK, so you pick up that boulder that you just that one.
[2215.6s] You did very good job, but not good enough.
[2219.1s] So you take that boulder and you throw it farther.
[2223.0s] OK, you just do it.
[2225.1s] OK, is this like a matrix situation where you can just like dispend our belief
[2230.3s] in like the law of physics and it'll just go as far as we want it to go?
[2234.8s] I don't know what you're referring.
[2235.9s] I was asking Russ, not the Cyclops.
[2241.2s] Well, it sounds like I mean, they think I'm a real dumb dumb.
[2245.2s] We just got to throw that boulder.
[2247.0s] So Thaddeus, it's your shrink it.
[2249.4s] It's your magic.
[2250.0s] What's going to work best?
[2251.2s] Do you think?
[2253.3s] I mean, if I levitate it, we can.
[2257.3s] Push, push it.
[2260.3s] See if that works.
[2261.4s] I mean, worse, they say is no, it doesn't seem like they want to hurt us.
[2264.6s] This is true.
[2265.4s] Let's try that first.
[2266.5s] It seems less seems like we could play it off more naturally.
[2271.8s] I don't think we have to play it off naturally at this point.
[2274.0s] I think we just need to make it happen.
[2275.9s] Yeah, fair.
[2277.4s] Can we push it with his Rod of Lordly Might and just kind of walk it over to the 150?
[2283.0s] We can't walk it over.
[2284.0s] They have to throw it.
[2285.9s] Well, Thaddeus is going to have to walk with it for a little bit because he can have 60
[2290.5s] feet of range on either side.
[2292.3s] So, yeah, he can just run beside it.
[2294.1s] But I think to give it a good shove, I don't know.
[2298.3s] We could do the ladder trick again.
[2300.0s] It'll be light.
[2300.9s] It'll go further.
[2302.1s] Sure.
[2302.3s] Let's give it a try.
[2303.5s] I don't think it'll go directionally the way we want to go.
[2306.3s] If it's levitate, won't it just continue on straight up in the air?
[2311.5s] Excuse me, Cyclops's.
[2313.0s] What happens if we technically it would be further disappeared?
[2317.3s] That's going to kill sheep later.
[2319.5s] Three hours later, you just hear a strangled cry.
[2324.9s] Betsy, no, Betsy.
[2328.0s] Interesting.
[2329.9s] Yeah, let's let's get it done.
[2333.0s] Thaddeus begins casting levitate and the boulder rises vertically.
[2340.6s] Up into the air about push ability height, which is about, I don't know, say 10 feet.
[2347.4s] It can go up to 20 feet, but you wouldn't be able to reach it then.
[2351.1s] It's a true story.
[2353.5s] I was going to say, does Thaddeus have to push it because it's his thing or I mean,
[2356.7s] I still think Flint should do it because he's by far the strongest of us.
[2359.4s] So it would go the furthest.
[2360.7s] So maybe if you could knock that down a little.
[2364.0s] I got to hop on someone's shoulders.
[2367.9s] He waves his hands and it goes down a little bit.
[2369.9s] All right, perfect.
[2371.3s] So, yeah, am I am I rolling for this, Russ, or am I just tossing it?
[2374.6s] What's happening here?
[2376.7s] What are you trying to do with it?
[2377.6s] Are you trying to push it or are you trying to throw it?
[2379.1s] Or are you trying?
[2379.6s] I am trying to throw slash push it.
[2384.0s] Yeah, kind of like give it the old heave ho.
[2387.2s] Like I'm throwing a ball in in soccer and I'm going over the head.
[2390.2s] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[2391.0s] Yeah, sure.
[2392.1s] All right.
[2392.7s] Yeah, let's do that.
[2395.2s] Thaddeus is like, just don't don't throw it so fast.
[2398.2s] You can't run very fast.
[2399.7s] But if he has like a 40 or 50 foot head start on me,
[2403.5s] then it'll still be within the six year old range.
[2405.8s] Yeah, he'll already be halfway there.
[2408.3s] Yeah.
[2408.8s] So yeah, we'll say you have advantage because I assume somebody's helping you.
[2412.3s] I need a lot of help.
[2413.3s] So I assume that or just like encouraging from the side.
[2416.6s] All right.
[2416.8s] That's a 14.
[2419.5s] The first row.
[2420.1s] Oh, not 20.
[2424.3s] You walk up to you.
[2426.3s] You explain to me how you have and then I'll tell you what.
[2429.4s] So I've got it kind of in my in my hands.
[2433.4s] And then true to throwing a soccer ball in back to the field,
[2436.4s] I put it over my head and then hop like a step and a half forward
[2440.9s] and give it the old heave ho towards Thaddeus.
[2444.7s] Doing my best to keep it level.
[2446.3s] I don't want it on an angle of any sorts.
[2449.4s] Sure.
[2449.9s] Yeah, you do that and you're using all your might.
[2452.6s] And it feels pretty light to you at this point because of the reduced weight.
[2457.4s] You know, magic now.
[2458.9s] And it begins to cruise towards the Giants area where the Giants threw from.
[2466.6s] Sorry, the Giants begins to cruise.
[2469.7s] They are giant creatures.
[2471.4s] Yeah, but are they Giants?
[2473.6s] Technically, yes.
[2474.5s] Cyclops is our Giants.
[2476.8s] They speak giant.
[2477.9s] They are giant.
[2478.6s] I'm learning so much today.
[2481.1s] Help Giants.
[2482.0s] It's mind blowing.
[2484.2s] Yeah, and it begins cruising along and it kind of catches up and surpasses Thaddeus
[2489.4s] and he begins to jog a little bit and it goes and it kind of parts the Cyclops
[2495.1s] and they step as it goes by and it hits the hedge and begins to roll sideways.
[2501.8s] And Thaddeus, once he thinks that it's made it past,
[2505.5s] he drops the levitate spell and it hits the ground and the Cyclops is
[2509.4s] kind of look back to where you threw it,
[2511.3s] where theirs landed because you threw it from the second point from a different spot
[2515.9s] into where it landed now.
[2517.4s] And they turn to you and knew Laura, you hear them say,
[2520.7s] you did it puny people.
[2522.5s] Yay.
[2523.6s] We did it.
[2527.9s] So what was the tower?
[2530.7s] You got to go.
[2533.4s] You got to go that way.
[2534.3s] But wait, but wait, hold on.
[2536.2s] You have to go back out that way.
[2538.0s] Hold on.
[2539.4s] And one of the Cyclops is goes and picks up another boulder
[2544.3s] and he lifts it above his head and smashes it down on top of the rock that you just threw.
[2552.7s] And it cracks open and reached.
[2555.1s] He reaches down into the rubble and like dust something off and walks over to you
[2560.1s] and hands you a topaz gemstone and says, you can go now, I guess.
[2568.5s] Thank you.
[2569.6s] We can go, guys.
[2570.3s] We're going to get all the birthstones, you guys.
[2572.4s] Yeah, totally.
[2573.4s] Is there some sort of gauntlet we could put this?
[2577.5s] That's right.
[2578.2s] So I assume you just bid your Cyclops's farewell.
[2581.9s] Indeed.
[2582.3s] Do you head out the way you came or the far side?
[2585.3s] I got to go far.
[2586.0s] I guess the far side.
[2587.3s] I mean, it just will probably take us back to the fucking sundial room, but maybe not.
[2592.0s] Maybe not.
[2592.7s] Yeah.
[2593.6s] You begin walking out and you pass through the pasture and you see sheep
[2597.7s] and then you walk out and it's a it's a pretty quick journey this time.
[2602.0s] It only takes you about 30 seconds and you end up back in the sundial room
[2606.6s] with the sundial shadows still pointing to A and C.
[2611.6s] Where's the tower in relation?
[2614.7s] You actually don't see the tower this time.
[2617.6s] Kind of fuckery is this, Russ.
[2621.0s] I don't know.
[2621.5s] I like soups haven't figured it out.
[2624.0s] I don't know if you guys have, but.
[2625.7s] Nope, sure, haven't figured it out yet.
[2627.7s] Me neither.
[2629.7s] What way is our shadows like?
[2633.7s] Are they still counter counterintuitive to what's actually in the moonlight or on the sundial or?
[2639.7s] Yep.
[2640.2s] OK, yeah, it does.
[2641.7s] Yeah, they don't seem to be facing the same direction anybody shadow seems to be faced.
[2645.7s] Well, this everybody else's shadow seems to be facing where the moonlight is coming from.
[2651.0s] But everybody else's or the sundial shadow.
[2653.4s] But those shadows haven't moved.
[2655.4s] Haven't moved, still pointed at the A and C exits.
[2659.4s] Guys, it seems like we might just have to go through all of them.
[2663.4s] All of them. Yeah, I mean, we've got we tried A and it circled around.
[2667.4s] We went through C and found the jewels, went through H, found the giants.
[2673.4s] So I don't know.
[2675.4s] I think maybe we should go through A or C again.
[2679.4s] Damn it, Amy.
[2681.4s] Damn it, Amy.
[2683.4s] When Russ smiles like that, it's the wrong thing to do.
[2687.4s] Or when one of us says, I think we're just going to have to go through every single one of them.
[2692.4s] And he goes like this.
[2696.4s] Well, is that the wrong way?
[2699.4s] When we went a better poker face.
[2701.4s] When we went through A, nothing happened originally.
[2705.4s] Right. It just circled us back around so we could try that again.
[2709.4s] When you originally went through A.
[2711.4s] Yeah. Like when it was only pointed at A.
[2713.4s] Yeah. It came in and it was the shadows changed to A and C.
[2717.4s] Yeah. And the tower.
[2718.4s] But nothing happened when we went through A, right?
[2720.4s] Yeah. This was what I was saying.
[2721.4s] Let's try again.
[2722.4s] Yeah. This is what I was saying.
[2723.4s] In game, Russ.
[2724.4s] Geez, Russ, yeah.
[2726.4s] God, mind your own business.
[2728.4s] God damn.
[2730.4s] This weird voice coming from the heavens.
[2734.4s] It's me, Iskander.
[2736.4s] Have you figured it out yet?
[2738.4s] Shut up, Iskander.
[2739.4s] Or give us better tips.
[2743.4s] Theo, do you want to try A again?
[2745.4s] Sure.
[2746.4s] Just to see?
[2747.4s] Let's see what happens.
[2748.4s] Yeah.
[2749.4s] Now walk through A.
[2753.4s] It's like another 40 seconds to walk down this winding path.
[2757.4s] And you enter.
[2760.4s] And ahead, you see a bubbling fountain.
[2764.4s] Filling the pathway.
[2767.4s] It's filling the pathway.
[2768.4s] Large, bright flowers grow in the hedges on both sides of the fountain
[2773.4s] and each blossom shimmering in the light.
[2776.4s] The air smelling particularly fresh and sweet here.
[2781.4s] So a large flower grows on each northern and southern side of each square.
[2787.4s] Guys, it's so pretty in here.
[2789.4s] Makes me think it's probably poison.
[2791.4s] You're so cynical.
[2792.4s] If only we had people that knew nature.
[2794.4s] So this is like a long corridor with the path going up the center.
[2798.4s] There is a bubbling fountain in the center.
[2801.4s] There's large, bright flowers that grow in hedges on both sides of the fountain.
[2805.4s] So imagine like your north is one hedge, south is one hedge,
[2809.4s] and you cut through the center there.
[2811.4s] As you get closer, you can see that the shimmering of the flowers
[2815.4s] comes from a large pearl set into each one.
[2824.4s] Some of the music in today's episode is by Kavin McLeod of incompetech.filmmusic.io
[2848.4s] and Scott Buckley at scottbuckley.com.au
[2851.4s] So previously you guys found yourselves arriving at Zanthal's tower
[2856.4s] and escorted into the maze where you saw who?
[2862.4s] Screaming at you?
[2865.4s] Magellan.
[2866.4s] The dude we were supposed to see.
[2867.4s] Yep, not Magellan.
[2869.4s] Magellan.
[2871.4s] Galileo.
[2872.4s] I can't read your writings.
[2874.4s] Which one of the astronomers was it?
[2876.4s] And the sprinkle of gold breadcrumbs that Tom just threw
[2879.4s] because money doesn't mean anything to you guys.
[2882.4s] It doesn't.
[2883.4s] They're gone.
[2884.4s] Are gone.
[2885.4s] They weren't coppers.
[2886.4s] It's no big thing.
[2887.4s] It's like dropping pennies.
[2889.4s] What are pennies?
[2890.4s] The millennials who listen to us, eh?
[2893.4s] Amy, we went over this.
[2895.4s] You are a millennial.
[2896.4s] I know.
[2897.4s] But I'm not happy about it.
[2900.4s] Sorry, Ross.
[2901.4s] It's another podcast.
[2902.4s] Are you a millennial?
[2906.4s] Yep.
[2909.4s] Yep, you do.
[2910.4s] He's dialing up.
[2911.4s] Hold on a second.
[2914.4s] Because I can edit out crunches and stuff.
[2916.4s] I can't edit out squeaks.
[2918.4s] We've already apologized for the squeaks.
[2920.4s] We want to see a real life throw.
[2922.4s] Will you throw that squeaky toy?
[2923.4s] It'll be analogous to you throwing that pebble in game.
[2927.4s] Perfect.
[2929.4s] Amazing.
[2930.4s] So good.
[2931.4s] I chucked this pebble.
[2932.4s] And I say, wow, Carla, that was great.
[2938.4s] That's what giant sounds like.
[2940.4s] Not what I expected giant to sound like.
[2942.4s] I know.
[2943.4s] It's like when Mike Tyson speaks and you're like, really?
[2946.4s] Wasn't expecting that.
[2949.4s] Are they like big red flowers that just look like, are they in green plumbing
[2956.4s] pipes?
[2957.4s] There are like seven flowers.
[2960.4s] How are we going to eat this as we walk by?
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