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[2.2s] so you guys found yourselves walking down some stairs and the steps descend to a walkway that
[7.6s] appears to stretch across infinite space so it's heaven are these constellations and things
[14.2s] we're seeing the same different ones as we saw when we were in the maze all new and exciting
[20.3s] like we're in a different different other different space god damn portal jumping
[25.5s] zonthal's tower maze business all right i i open that door you see two massive hour glasses
[33.5s] that occupy this irregularly shaped chamber slumped against the wall at the far side of
[39.4s] the chamber is the cultist who called to you from the balcony of the tower his dark
[44.6s] robes are charred and torn and a blue dragon mask is clutched in his red stained hands okay
[51.4s] i'm gonna hustle over there and check for a pulse there is no pulse there's no sign of breath
[56.6s] i mean it seems a little anticlimactic he's just here and he's just dead you begin to
[60.9s] walk down this hallway that curves to the left as you walk and you begin to see a light
[67.6s] shining out as the corridor opens into a room set with comfortable looking oversized
[75.6s] furnishing in the center of the room a red-skinned creature wearing armor of flame bronze and
[82.0s] volcanic stone sits cross-legged on the floor he looks up and he lets a big smile across
[88.6s] his face and he says hello welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons we are dnd fifth edition actual
[97.4s] play podcast and i'm your dungeon master Russ More and with me today is Amy More
[102.4s] yeah did you know that probably best way of being avoided like avoiding getting murdered in your
[107.7s] sleep is by keeping your eyes closed and still pretending to sleep when you think you hear an
[112.4s] intruder fun fact also i play yeah i'm estasia these are the thoughts that i have when i wake
[119.5s] up at 2 a.m and think i hear something i just close my eyes and i'm all like nobody no axe
[125.9s] murderer wants to just kill someone in their bed while they're sleeping they want you to
[130.1s] like get up and run and stuff so i assumed they would just come over loom over your bed and i'd
[134.6s] be like peaceful is all ghetto and then and then they wouldn't kill me hey there are other
[142.0s] people on this podcast too and their names are carla johnson so when i'm in the shower by
[151.1s] myself continue i sometimes will sing like a really upbeat song because i think sort of
[160.4s] the same thing like no one could murder me to this song it's so like peppy and fun like no
[166.8s] one can axe murder me when i'm like grooving this radly and i find you laura moonbrook
[174.5s] and i can't wait for his tale tom laird you know i sometimes think along the same lines as carla
[182.0s] that no one's gonna murder you to a peppy upbeat song but then a little movie came along called
[188.2s] american psycho and that totally nipped that theory right in the bud because that huey lewis
[193.6s] tune is a banger and yet jared leto still gets totally axe murdered and i play flint fire
[199.4s] beard hashtag last time carla takes a shower
[205.8s] you've ruined showers for showers are done it's over goodness so i'm not sure what turn that
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[216.8s] there and for this kind of amazing pretty solid gold stuff in the news song into our
[223.1s] facebook thing that we have for our spotify music list because i'll forget that we mentioned huey
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[242.9s] i mean this is i think the longest it's taken to get through just the introductions
[247.4s] that is certainly i think it's the introductions you're right maybe one
[250.6s] of our most unique introductions but it's okay we're gonna get we're gonna get right to it now
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[266.2s] we are we're a murder related murder adjacent podcast res i tried i was so good that was
[272.8s] good that was a good setup and it was teed up and i thought tom was going to take it away
[277.4s] you know what tom did tom came up it's a t-ball and he just kicked it from underneath the ball
[283.1s] so it's as i was swinging the ball i did the old lucy with the football and just ripped it away
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[307.9s] they are definitely murdering people and the second one it's it's very mysterious and
[312.3s] thriller like and there may be who knows what's happening there there could be plenty of
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[334.4s] don't want to be murdered to on the facebook group oh i'd love to know i mean any song
[339.5s] but like the one you think protects you good facebook starters happening within the episode
[343.9s] i really like we'll forget by the time we're done recording and then they're gonna come out
[347.0s] we're gonna be excited you know what that does though that passes the buck off to the
[350.2s] listener right to go start that thread yeah all those great people in that group that always
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[377.4s] just a good thing fuck it let's play dnd yay yay previously you guys spent oh it was almost
[385.6s] like we spent two whole episodes talking about hourglasses almost like but forgetting the name
[392.2s] hourglass yep so as you head down the corridor light shines out ahead and flint was the first
[400.3s] one to get to the opening of this chamber that had comfortable looking oversized furnishings
[406.6s] in the center of the room and a red-skinned hulking creature wearing armor of flame and bronze
[413.6s] and volcanic stones sits cross-legged on the floor studying a chessboard hello there and as
[421.0s] you stand staring at the room he says pardon me excuse my manners my name is terrasse the fair
[427.4s] and who are you uh hey terrasse uh flint Firebeard here lovely to meet you flint
[434.2s] he extends a hand and i gladly shake it as he extends the hand everybody kind of catches
[440.6s] up behind you thea you see along the threshold of the room as flint is about to step into the
[447.8s] room a line of what looks like sand or salt flint wait what's up just this doesn't look
[457.0s] right um can i roll to just like roll like um maybe uh i don't know i'll like to roll
[464.9s] and i don't know like an arcana like if i know what this is like if it's for like a spell i
[470.6s] rolled a uh 22 uh you definitely see that it's salt okay but do i know different spells but
[482.1s] she doesn't know is that like containing him come on she's magic as fuck she probably
[486.2s] knows i'm zero percent magic in real life and i carla johnson know salt means something
[492.3s] salt's usually yeah it's some sort of barrier yeah there you go thank you right we know our
[498.4s] lore we know stuff we know things we've seen hocus pocus tis the season it is okay so
[506.4s] with a 22 you see the salt across the barrier but you also look further into the room and
[512.4s] see that at least from the view that you have that it extends around the perimeter of this room
[519.5s] was it uh taraz you said yes yes and he leans forward a little further i have to ask her as
[525.8s] what's with the salt on the floor he looks down oh yes yes the salt well you see my friend
[534.0s] uh flint it was right that's that's correct yep right yes um i've been trapped here
[540.6s] for quite some time by none other than the great xanthor oh well this must have been a
[547.0s] while then because he has not been around for a long time i have been you have no idea
[552.9s] how long i have been here by myself playing chess by myself he trapped me here which
[560.3s] removed my powers just to be his little puppet playing this game of chess can i do
[568.0s] a history check to see if i know exactly how long it's been how long xanthor has been dead
[573.4s] yeah is that what you're looking for yeah absolutely all right oh nat 20 well that's a waste
[583.0s] you know fucking everything about xanthor it is unbelievable i should know god damn everything
[587.3s] about xanthor though you actually have a xanthor tattoo it's nuts you are like number one fan
[592.5s] pull out a little mole scan and i'm like let me flip to my xanthor pages uh yeah we'll say that
[598.0s] xanthor has been deceased i mean we've never really set a year but i mean xanthor has been
[605.4s] deceased for somewhere between 150 to 200 years so almost uh 200 years you've been down here hey
[613.5s] oh has it been that long already uh yeah that's what i'm telling you yes yes it's been that
[619.2s] long yeah hey sorry uh yeah amastasia um lovely to meet you as well yes so i'm just i'm just
[627.6s] getting a vibe here so you just seem like a real open guy of course one of us walks over this
[636.2s] barrier yes place chess with you the winner leaves okay well is that how it works is this
[645.0s] how are you trying to escape like i think she's asking if we're going to be trapped
[649.0s] after we cross over this salt it was is imbued with to keep me behind the salt i i don't believe
[657.3s] it's for anybody else so why was that you see xanthor had an affinity with elementals and
[666.1s] genies and all that sort of thing and i being the great taraz the fair was quite the
[672.8s] the trophy piece so to speak he wanted to study my connection with the elements and that was
[681.6s] that was it and he trapped me here he didn't like do anything he didn't deserve it yeah can
[689.4s] i roll to see if he actually is fair sure what do you what do you okay like fair in looks or
[694.6s] fair in temperament what are we going for here exactly like history like do i do i know
[698.6s] about this guy probably not but i worked in a library oh fuck off with your library roll
[705.4s] for your library fuck off with your backstory amy how dare you i know right how dare i use my
[710.6s] motherfucking backstory 14 this specific elemental you probably haven't heard of
[719.5s] what makes you so fair i have the power to grant wishes to those who so desire
[726.6s] so you're a genie oh i have similar powers to a gene yes oh this is like your bottle
[733.5s] i suppose oh okay i get it now i was very confused by that comment initially
[740.3s] i was with you thank you i was right there with you sorry was this the only path for us to go
[746.5s] like like just can we just leave him here just curious out of what were you down here for
[753.4s] oh we were trying to find our friend who was down here trying to escape and so we came down
[762.1s] looking for him your friend oh well there was someone not too long before you came down
[768.6s] a wizard perhaps of sorts longish brown hair doesn't ring a bell did he did he tell you
[774.6s] his name no he did he did much the same came down this way and i i asked him to come in
[781.0s] and stay but he he looked very panicked and ran the other direction was he holding anything
[786.5s] you know he was holding something it looks perhaps like a mask might have been blue
[793.7s] perhaps a tinge of green it's a little bit darker down here oh yeah we found him that
[798.5s] was our friend oh you found him yeah and is he all right he didn't look well oh no he's
[804.9s] very dead yeah he's definitely dead now just to clarify we're not cold evil monsters he wasn't
[811.0s] so much our friend as a person we were looking for sounds bad of course our friend
[817.4s] and then be like yeah oh no super dead soup's dead super dead i get it it's fine i understand
[823.2s] i understand it was just out for the money i i totally get you uh but i'm very sorry to
[830.3s] i mean trying to save the world isn't really out for the money but all right like i mentioned
[835.2s] before flint i've been stuck down here for nearly 200 years how do we get a wish all you
[841.6s] have to do is break the salt and it allows me to have my powers back so what i'm seems
[848.9s] like a bad idea yeah why didn't our friend break the salt and cure his um his affliction
[856.3s] and panic this i don't know people in with great desire to to hide and he looked like
[863.0s] he was trying to escape something perhaps he was panicking i don't always think the most
[867.6s] clearly um i i kind of huddle around them and i was like guys i want to wish for guacamole
[874.2s] i know but i i totally get it but what we need to remember is that the cult was here they
[880.6s] knew this guy was here and the cult didn't let him out like how bad is this dude that
[885.0s] the cult of the dragon wasn't trying to get him working for him like fair enough i guess
[889.8s] that's a pretty fair comment i have a question about your wishes yes my dear so can you wish
[895.6s] for people like back from the dead people to fall in love like are there any limits to your
[899.4s] wishes like is there anything you can't do i mean a wish is a wish i have i have endless
[906.2s] power and can do anything that's factually correct he's got you there except i mean a
[912.3s] wish is a wish the salt now if we just step over this salt does that mean you're still imprisoned
[920.7s] yes as a matter of fact it does can i roll a deception check on that russ see if i get any
[927.0s] like weird vibes from him or if he's straight up are you looking to deceive him about stepping
[932.6s] over the salt oh my god another fucking crit this is serious i'm wasting all my good ones
[951.7s] which part are you looking to figure out the insight for okay uh mainly i just want to know
[959.1s] if we can enter the the salt uh and if he's still contained and maybe if there's still some
[964.6s] insight left over if his wishes are wishes comment seems true give me also a either a history or an
[972.4s] arcana check as well to go along with that okay i'll do history because that's much better
[976.4s] for me than arcana all right let me just are arcana the wrong is it arcana oh it's all the
[981.4s] same shit arcana arcana it's all it's just like tomato tomato you know it's it's just
[988.2s] uh that's 17 17 russ okay so you get the sense um that what he's telling you is probably not true
[1002.1s] in that uh elementals don't have the ability to grant wishes yeah that seemed crazy right off
[1009.0s] the top you also get the sense that whatever is binding him here might be keeping him here
[1018.7s] but probably isn't stopping whatever power he does have it's merely contained within
[1026.1s] within the salt okay so we definitely get the sense that he could fucking nuke us if we walked
[1033.4s] in there if he so wanted to i won't put it in so many words but you get the sense
[1037.2s] that something's wrinkly okay
[1041.5s] a little wrinkle there's a wrinkle in time guys guys if you can help us get guacamole back i
[1049.1s] i i worry that this is my only shot i i don't know where she is i'm kind of freaking out
[1055.1s] what do you think should i go in it just seems so risky although i know that
[1062.2s] my word isn't worth a lot right now but i want you to get guac back but
[1069.3s] i don't know it's so weird that he's in here and they weren't using him and
[1075.0s] just seems risky uh taraz i have a few more questions about these wishes
[1079.5s] that you say you're able to grant yes master flint um it doesn't seem like it's maybe
[1087.0s] 100 truthful on your end so maybe level with me about that and we'll see what we can do about
[1093.9s] breaking that salt okay okay i mean you yourself stated that xanthal loved elementals yes and i
[1102.4s] mean when we asked if you were a genie you kind of skirted around that fact so nobody
[1107.4s] here thinks he are so like what's what's with these wishes that you're promising
[1113.0s] well you seem to have caught me in my own ruse to try and free myself
[1120.2s] i don't get it you're trapped you're gonna say whatever you can say to like get people in here
[1123.9s] but i just like what's the deal here xanthal has as as prisoned me down here had prisoned me
[1130.2s] down here imprisoned me down here is the word i'm looking for that's one i'm a very
[1135.7s] intelligent being clearly i can tell by your voice yes very real and you're correct in that
[1142.7s] the dealings that i've had with people have been fruitless to this point in order to escape so i
[1149.1s] might have bent the truth a little bit and it it pains me to say so and i regret my decision
[1154.8s] to do that why wouldn't anyone let you out before i mean would you let a giant fire elemental
[1161.8s] clad in armor with a scimitar this size and he holds up a massive scimitar that's larger
[1167.5s] than any of you uh it's not really the size that counts and i turn around and i walk out
[1172.3s] i'm trying to be on the level with you via via what are the names of your friends
[1177.9s] so why the name the fair if you're kind of lying all the time here that doesn't seem like
[1183.4s] someone who's fair would would behave that way many years ago i was fair and just in the fight
[1192.2s] for for freedoms and righteous abilities to bring peace to the world and whose freedoms are those
[1201.3s] oh i'm Nulara by the way oh pleasure i've been meaning to get around the room here to
[1206.5s] to do formal introductions that is flamey kens now we've all been introduced yeah hey mother
[1210.7s] so who were you fighting to protect many many people i was i was no but like specifically
[1219.7s] i was a a hired hand in the great blood war you know the blood war don't you oh yes the war of
[1225.7s] blood i mean rings of l roll a history check i was gonna say do we know what that is i thought
[1232.8s] maybe 22 20 i just remembered something oh we know everything about the blood wars well
[1238.0s] mine wasn't i have a real good history bonus so the blood war and pretty much everybody has
[1243.5s] knows or has heard of the blood war is the constant fight between devils and demons
[1250.9s] between the abyss and the nine hells there's a oftentimes breaking points between them and
[1257.1s] they fight each other back in hopes that the other doesn't take over and then break
[1263.2s] through to rule the world so he says yes i think i was it was a hired hand in the
[1268.8s] great blood war and i was on the devil's side to prevent those horrid demons from
[1273.0s] coming out of the abyss and wrecking shit for everyone i mean so you're from the nine hells
[1280.2s] i mean i stayed there for a little while yes yes i mean you realize we think demons and
[1286.5s] devils are both bad news right yes i would understand why but you should know that
[1294.6s] the the fight between the two oftentimes you want the more lawful and organized evils in charge of
[1304.7s] the the under realms such as the abyss and the nine hells demons they're terrible creatures
[1313.4s] terrible they just they just want to murder everything whereas devils there's a little more
[1318.1s] give and take so what you're saying is you're not going to let me out then i mean it really
[1325.3s] doesn't seem like we should please don't feel like i want to like i want to find my owl but
[1332.5s] good gravy you haven't really given us any kind of no you actually lied to us to try to trick
[1340.3s] us into letting you fly which makes us want to do it even less he couldn't just perhaps just
[1346.2s] with one foot just push the salt a little to the just a little to break it like maybe someone
[1354.1s] might sneeze by accident is that what you're kind of thinking maybe you small goblin you
[1360.9s] could do it fuck off dude i ain't doing that shit all right i mean you heard the lady do
[1366.5s] you have a good reason other than you want us to other than wanting my freedom back going home
[1375.8s] to my eleven thousand children of elemental form no no good reasons so you're just gonna go
[1385.9s] back to hell all right see you later i bid i bid you adieu fair fair adventurers
[1394.6s] in hopes that someday i too shall be free listen we have a lot on our play right now
[1402.0s] maybe after we stop the rise of Tiamat we'll come back and let you out and then we can battle it
[1408.1s] out and devils versus demons versus the human and other humanoid races another time do you
[1415.8s] mean it yes i mean really you guys would do that for me okay is she actually telling the
[1422.3s] truth or is she trying to deceive him i mean it doesn't really matter but okay well just
[1428.8s] throw me a deception oh um 20 you you would do that for for me to razz for sure t baby we got
[1440.2s] you oh that is the kindest thing anybody has said to me i don't believe it worth fucking salt
[1446.9s] but um all right always salt with this guy salt salt salt always salt it is my weakness as it
[1454.2s] turns out well till next time good friends i'm sure i will find some other poor soul to
[1460.6s] to trick into uh letting me free but it won't be you today not not today again if you could
[1467.0s] have come yeah i mean just something but you just i got really latched into the whole
[1472.5s] oh poor me i'm a poor genie wow maybe less self-deprecation more like future plans okay
[1482.5s] yeah i like it and like 20 more earnest bribes you can follow through on not wishes that you
[1490.4s] clearly came to jay what if we'd asked for a test that seems like a i just i'm not sure
[1496.9s] about your logic you seem intelligent you do i do i do have this voice um i mean i did tell
[1501.7s] you that my powers were taken away by the salt so i mean that would have caught your test
[1505.9s] in a little bit of a loophole for a little while but it doesn't but we kind of figured
[1509.8s] out that your powers still exist if i had known you were such high level adventurers i wouldn't
[1516.6s] have stood i wouldn't have worried about that all right well it's been nice knowing you
[1524.1s] i mean once you want to carry on this conversation for a little while you seem to just want to
[1527.8s] leave me here but you're just hanging around in the doorway i mean i do have one question
[1533.4s] oh yes how do you play chess by yourself i mean you sit in in one large seat and he sits down
[1541.2s] in one large seat squeaking leather and then you make a move oh yes and then you stand up
[1549.8s] and you slowly walk to the other side yeah but i mean uh t-baby as uh thea calls you there
[1556.6s] i just you already know your own moves so isn't this just the most pointless thing in the world
[1565.3s] welcome to my own personal hell good sir flint i i dig inside my bag and i find a deck of cards
[1573.8s] and i throw a deck of cards carefully over the salt not breaking or there's no wind
[1580.6s] there's a breeze to bother the salt but i throw a deck of cards into his salty prison
[1588.6s] and he picks them up what am i to do with these you you play with them you can play some
[1596.1s] solitaire how do you play solitaire well actually if you look at the front card
[1601.7s] it explains the rules of solitaire it's a solitaire specific deck of cards and
[1606.1s] poker but you can't play poker with with just a singular person it seems you have given me
[1611.6s] another hell to endure it's better than free sell though if i ever get out of here i will
[1617.9s] be someone you will rule to your death unless we come in yeah i mean we said unless you come
[1625.8s] and help me out yes i was just you know tomato tomato no that's not me to your death
[1633.4s] or release me and we will be friends forever and i mean terese we got a real big like
[1640.2s] demon dragon queen to worry about so we're probably gonna be dead before that ever shows
[1645.4s] up anyway so what did i tell you those demons they are just the shits i mean you heard it
[1652.6s] here first you know what if we need your help maybe we'll come back and let you out oh so
[1657.1s] when you need me when we need you we'll let you out do you not want us to let you out if we need
[1664.1s] you no i'd love you to let me out right now i mean i can help how i have this big sword
[1670.9s] oh god never mind guys i have the strength of a thousand men what kind of men children men you
[1678.9s] don't even know guys we are wasting time i we are wasting time this is let's get the
[1685.5s] fuck out of here it was nice to meet you ah pleasure to meet you dear thira it's thea
[1692.5s] that's what i said i turn and i leave i'm not no more lara that is flamey kens you have a lovely
[1700.4s] day dragon too yes dragon you i yell from the hall i'm like come on we're coming we're coming
[1709.5s] this guy rook to queen six four i don't know if that's a move but that's what i'm doing
[1716.4s] i actually don't even know how to play chess
[1720.7s] horsey man to the pointy guy
[1725.6s] tallest one tiny people protecting the big ones
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[1862.7s] okay where to now what's happening i we were at the end of a hall there so yeah you head
[1867.6s] back down the hallway what else do we see and you get back towards the t intersection and so
[1872.1s] you have endless infinite space or the hourglass room or the closet or back to terrasse
[1881.2s] it's an endless infinite space just like that from where we came yeah it's the
[1884.9s] pathways over the stars and stuff yeah can we can we get back up through that staircase that
[1890.1s] we came down into the room that had infinite space because there was another exit i just made
[1894.6s] a split decision to go down the stairs oh yes yes there was there was one at the top of
[1899.6s] the stairs let's do that yeah okay get out of the terrasse voice
[1905.1s] yes yes yes basically the only way to go from here is back over the the rainbow bridge
[1912.4s] yeah um what no and well yeah that's right because we have to dodge all the
[1917.3s] fucking meteors yep yep um and then it goes back up the stairs and then there was the
[1923.1s] room with the elementals with the uh hallway that took you back to where there was the
[1928.6s] teleportation circle and then there was another door that flint split decision following the
[1935.6s] bloody footsteps down and across the rainbow road bridge yeah right so you head back out
[1941.8s] and you see the stars and everything around you and there's comets zipping by
[1953.2s] and you make it back across into the top of the stairs and you see
[1956.6s] into the room and the elementals are frozen in place where they were you last left them as you
[1963.3s] ran from the room and then to your right now is a a narrow hallway sorry a 10-foot hallway
[1971.8s] that leads into another chamber all right i'll be i'll be first we'll head down that hallway
[1977.0s] you head down the hallway and into it looks like a study there's a large simple desk with
[1983.7s] several ink pots quill pens and a single chair that occupy the center of this otherwise
[1991.0s] empty room see it's time to shine yeah can i make a perception check
[1995.9s] yes uh tom roll me a straight d20 you make a perception check okay i got a 14
[2003.3s] 15 you find yourselves looking at the the desk and you see writings for uh for different
[2011.9s] spell books perhaps from xanthel himself the ink pots are all dried up and that's uh that's all
[2019.5s] you see there quill pens they are they are exquisitely fashioned still look usable i take
[2026.1s] some of the quill pens sure you have three quill pens and what else do we see in this
[2031.6s] room other than the desk just like books and stuff is there any other exits uh no other
[2038.6s] exits it is a sealed room and no no other books any of the papers look interesting you said that
[2045.0s] they were for maybe spells yeah can we do like an investigation check see if maybe we see the
[2050.2s] name taraz written on anything um super interested about this trans guy yeah you look
[2056.8s] through and um there there's like scrawled notes that have been scratched out um it
[2063.0s] looks like perhaps a lot of what was there was taken and this was just his writing room
[2068.9s] so it's quite literally it's just an empty room with some papers some scrolled and scratched
[2074.2s] out notes uh no no mention of taraz anything on the walls that would indicate maybe like a
[2081.1s] secret passage like any sconces yeah uh no bare walls damn no sconces bricks that i could
[2091.1s] tap harry potter style different colored bricks yeah to get into the diagon alley roll an investigation
[2097.1s] oh my god it was a crit fail nothing looks too i'm just tapping on the wall like an
[2102.5s] asshole you guys are like um yeah nothing nothing looks like it would uh move it is
[2108.3s] an otherwise empty room with a single chair table no more pens anymore uh and papers and
[2115.6s] dried up ink hey guys what's our what's our plan here why don't we just teleport back
[2120.0s] to the entrance and see if we can find guacamole there we have the mask is candor's dead
[2126.4s] taraz is a bit of a dick let's get out of here do you hear from down the hall
[2130.0s] i'm not a dick he's like down four hallways and through like the fucking rainbow bridge but
[2135.9s] an elemental is staring is amazing mind your own fucking business i will murder you good
[2140.5s] friend not if i murder you first okay let's go you guys yeah that seems like a good call
[2145.9s] all right so back and you're at the doorway to the uh the we'll call it the elemental chamber
[2152.8s] and they're frozen they as when you first entered this area uh they appear frozen in place
[2160.6s] okay frozen in place not like frozen not frozen just like not moving right like when you
[2167.0s] immobilized immobilized okay how far is it from the entrance that we're going to be coming
[2173.2s] in into the other exit it is 10 feet and there is one earth elemental that you would have to pass
[2181.4s] by that would be in vicinity okay so if i were to engage this earth elemental while everyone
[2189.2s] ran past me would that be a doable option for people you're going to need to roll initiative
[2196.5s] but yeah you could just like ready it too but if it attacks you're ready to attack it if it
[2203.1s] attacks then you right then you fight it you don't have to just stand yeah but i'm assuming
[2207.1s] as soon as we cross the threshold of the room it will come alive oh i'm sure you're right
[2211.9s] this seems very likely that's how it happened when you first entered the room yeah yeah
[2216.6s] they're they're not different if you if you avoid them once you're good to go
[2222.8s] that's it yeah okay so last time we came in this room these things sprung to life there's one
[2228.6s] that's kind of in the way so i think i'll engage it in combat and hopefully everyone can
[2234.8s] run past and then i will disengage and follow suit everybody down with the plan down like a
[2240.5s] clown man let's run for our lives all right let's do it everybody roll initiative new laura
[2247.7s] i'll take the one furthest away you take the closest one and then somehow we'll try and
[2254.2s] you know keep them busy while everyone runs past sounds like a good plan all right let's go
[2259.0s] all right flint you're up first okay i do like a big old like video game combo style move
[2266.2s] where i have like a big side uh swipe sort of thing followed by an upper cut and then
[2272.1s] like a big thrust with my axe because there's a bit shiny shiny bit on the end there sliding
[2278.6s] into the room with sweet style you connect with the earth elemental with three solid hits as it
[2284.9s] starts to come to life and pieces of it are flying off new laura well i mean i i just get
[2292.8s] that one hit so it's not so amazing but i guess i'm using dragon slayer so i'm just
[2299.5s] gonna come and kind of you know slice into its left side you slice true as the earth elemental
[2309.5s] is turning towards flint as he was the first one taking out a big chunk of its middle and
[2314.0s] it swings back and you dodge and lose your bAlydince on your second swing which is why it
[2319.4s] misses donnie uh okay donnie's gonna try and see if he can get his breath back and he did
[2327.4s] breathe fire at an elemental donnie flies in behind you and connects he hits both of the earth
[2334.6s] elementals that despite not being really anything that can set fire maybe there's
[2339.6s] like some twigs and stuff in with them that set ablaze and uh they take a step back one
[2347.6s] of the earth elementals swings at flint the one that he was fighting with so as it takes
[2353.7s] this huge cone blast of fire it swings down and crushes into your armor with one of the
[2361.0s] thaddeus in the commotion begins to run forth and he makes it up the hallway as the earth
[2368.5s] elemental crashes into the wall behind him and is now standing between the two doorways
[2375.0s] the earth elemental that new laura is fighting swings two huge crushing blows but
[2380.8s] misses and hits the ground on both sides of you as you dodge out of the way flamey kens as the
[2388.9s] fire elemental kind of hits the wall and swirls there is a brief opening and she leaps through
[2395.8s] it and manages to get up and into the hallway as well via via runs forward and wild shapes
[2405.3s] into a winter wolf again you follow quickly behind flamey kens but the opening closes
[2412.9s] a little bit and you get singed but you make it to the hallway back to flint i will disengage
[2421.4s] and make a break for it yeah um you have a clear shot to the hallway you run quickly up
[2427.8s] you laura uh i'm gonna try and do the same thing okay donnie's doing the same thing
[2434.7s] yeah you both disengage and follow quickly behind flint as the wall of flame
[2441.7s] closes quickly behind you and you are all up the hallway into the teleport chamber
[2450.1s] i shake off some of my singed fur well that was a close one oh you got singed you
[2454.6s] shouldn't have fallen so closely behind me oh i growl at her yeah sorry okay you guys let's go
[2462.6s] all right yeah let's do this you all pile into the teleport chamber where do you where what do
[2468.4s] you push oh the triangle was a sundial um which i'm sure last time we could walk to the exit
[2477.9s] from there that is correct yeah so the the right triangle you all pile into the
[2484.5s] teleportation circle and press the right angled triangle and a final wash of the white
[2492.4s] light and energy courses over you and you find yourselves back in the sundial room
[2498.7s] um and you begin to hear a terrible sound of villagers screaming a dragon roaring and
[2511.4s] lightning bolts tearing through the houses in the city yeah we run toward yeah and i assume
[2520.3s] all also kind of looking up to see if once we get away from the like portal bullshit of the
[2527.6s] sundial area if guacamole is out there yeah
[2533.8s] you run towards the city and you exit and there is the brief reprieve of a
[2541.6s] lovely sculpted garden but then mayhem behind as you look up and you see a large blue dragon
[2549.0s] and three red dragons swooping and burning up the city you see smoldering off in the
[2554.8s] distance the wreckage of the airship and Nulara and thea you look up and you see
[2564.1s] the blue dragon and you get a closer look and this blue dragon is lenathan the dragon you
[2571.9s] remember fighting in greenest a long long time ago oh wow that's way back and then you look
[2579.8s] off to the south and you see a red dragon swooping and you hear
[2587.2s] a call and you see guacamole swoop towards the dragon's face and dig her claws
[2594.5s] into its open eye that's my girl yeah hashtag family guac
[2616.9s] you got food stuck in your mouth do you need a do you need some floss floss break
[2620.9s] floss break you're just gonna make some awkward mouth noises perfect tasley's
[2624.5s] not making them so somebody asked you everyone loves to listen to that oh people do love mouth
[2629.7s] noises on podcasts in their earbuds yeah it's a it's a whole asmr thing that we're so we're
[2635.0s] now we're murder and asmr oh man we're gonna be rich you guys the m in asmr stands for
[2640.6s] murder oh yeah a sound murder i mean you guys are joking but i'm gonna leave that in there
[2659.4s] is someone's cell phone going off i can hear someone's cell phone yeah okay can you hear
[2663.5s] that too yeah okay good i thought it was my computer breaking because i'm in an isolated
[2668.0s] cabin in the middle of the woods legitimately i've never seen a horror movie that starts that way
[2672.4s] please don't get murdered oh my god there's two dogs here they'll protect me or at least they'll
[2677.4s] bark so people think they're intimidating good enough hopefully fingers crossed i think carl is
[2682.1s] the one who spends the most time in the woods because we've had this conversation on
[2685.3s] a previous podcast when you were at a cabin in the woods yeah oh yeah that was a different
[2690.1s] one that was more like near the beach this one's near a river so that one was more
[2694.7s] likely to be murdered this one i'm like yeah house sitting it's less like a vacation
[2701.6s] the end of carla's long list of favors for other people right it's true no more favors
[2707.2s] no more favors 2019 no more favors oh good that means there's still time in 2018 perfect
[2713.4s] yeah there's a few months left guys i really i don't know if this might be the only way to
[2720.3s] get guacamole back you didn't insight i know okay i'm i i had previously just said i want to
[2726.4s] wish for guacamole and now i'm telling them sorry i think this might be i thought you were
[2730.1s] leading the insight no and i know that wasn't me and like as a as a character i think flint
[2736.3s] really would like her to get guacamole back so maybe he won't tell her this information if
[2742.3s] there's a chance that we can get this owl back like maybe we should take it
[2745.1s] it okay so sorry i'm sorry take off again i'm sorry you sorry just edit character you know
[2751.8s] he's lying and you're well i know something i know something's weird but like if there's a
[2756.2s] chance that we can like hoodwink this guy into getting your fucking owl back maybe we should
[2760.9s] take it out told you elementals don't cast wishes i was gonna go in there and wish for my
[2766.8s] owl back okay i won't say anymore words edit it doesn't make any difference that's true take
[2773.1s] all the time you need guys have you ever heard the alphabet sung like that before
[2787.0s] it's quite majestic um i was i was often oh goodness all of a sudden i can't hear you
[2793.4s] yeah we can hear you yes thumbs up we can hear carla can you not yet no you can't hear us
[2808.3s] should you try leaving skype and coming back into skype she can't hear you can't hear you
[2813.8s] right
[2828.0s] like you know she can't hear you do you rush towards it or do you go back
[2837.2s] well Dumbgeons and dragons is a dumb dragons production