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Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons. We're a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast, and I'm your Dungeon Master, Russ More, and with me today is Amy More.

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Yes, she is. I'm Amy More, and I'm playing...

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Who do you regularly play?

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I regularly play Thea Amastasia.

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And also with us, Tom Laird.

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Hey, that's me. I saw a really weird commercial earlier for a show called Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club, so we've got that to contend with as alternative programming, and I normally play Flint Firebeard.

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Does it play at the same time as we do? Like, are we competing in bright time?

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We play always, though, honey. It's a podcast.

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Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's a real show, so...

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We've got that going for us. And also with us, Carla Johnson.

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And I play new Laura Moonbrook, and I had a dream last night that was very real, and I only just now realize it clearly must have been a dream that I was out at a restaurant and there was a child sitting beside me named New Laura.

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But that can't be real.

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I mean, it's kind of a real name, but it's not a totally wacky name or anything.

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Maybe there are people who are now naming their children Flint, Thea, and New Laura because of the podcast.

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That certainly can't be.

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I certainly would just not enjoy that at all for that child.

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No, I would just give them a good middle name.

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I could actually see any of our names being names.

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Well, Svea is a name.

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The kid's god. Yeah, Svea is. But even Flint, I could see that.

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I can see that.

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I once taught a kid named Sunshine and also one named Boogie.

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So Flinty and New Laura are not bad names.

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No, there are no bad names. Maybe that's what I'm saying.

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How's everybody doing?

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Good. Weird day. Super weird day. But good.

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That's good. I'm glad you're all here and ready to play the game because we're doing something different.

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We're so ready.

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But what isn't different is when we dedicate an episode to a patron.

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That's true. We do that all the time.

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Who is it?

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Like today. Yeah, I mean, there was that incident.

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We were all drunk.

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It was just a blip. We mostly remember.

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We were having a tough time.

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Anyways, today's patron, we're dedicating to one, Jacob Madden.

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Jacob, you da bomb.

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Thanks, Jacob.

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Thanks, Jacob.

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And if you want to check Patreon out, Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.

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You can come join the community over there, but we also have other communities like Discord, where there are exclusive Patreon channels.

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And our Facebook group, the Reckless Play Guild, where we joined up with the End of Time and Other Bothers, the Lucky Die and Dark Dice.

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You can come join us over there.

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They've got great, great people all over the place.

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You can come hang out and chat with.

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Hey, remember when Russ used to tell all this stuff, but then he used like pop quiz us and you'd be like, and you can also find us on Tom.

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The worst.

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The worst.

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But then it never worked out so we stopped.

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But then we got really good at it, I think.

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We were like so ready with like the websites and stuff that it wasn't fun for him anymore.

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And he stopped doing it.

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Yeah, it just became quicker just for me to do it.

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You don't like us stumbling through it?

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www.Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.

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Damn it, Steve.

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Well, and also that's the whole like mantra for our whole podcast is it's just easier.

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You know what?

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D&D.

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It's just easier if the DM does it all.

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Make that a t-shirt.

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Yeah.

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And we have t-shirts too.

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We won't get into that now.

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We'll wait for the interlude for that one.

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I don't know if we should say fuck it.

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Let's play D&D because we're doing things a little different today.

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Fuck it.

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Let's do it different.

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So fuck it.

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Let's do it different.

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And we've been doing things differently for the last, it seems like a couple of months.

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Have we said that every episode?

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It's going to be a little different today, I guess.

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I guess in that, in that respect, we're doing things normally for 2019, 2019 doing things

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Today, we are, we're looking to the future of Dumbgeons and Dragons is what we're doing.

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And Flinty and Nulara, they've got a big battle coming up now.

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We don't know how that battle is going to turn out.

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We're, we're all hoping for the best.

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But it is the inevitable rise of TMS.

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Exactly.

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And I mean, we've pissed Russ off a lot.

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We are exceptionally irritating people.

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It's, it's, I mean, it's still all up to the dice rolls and we still plan on going ahead with Flinty and Nulara.

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However, we would like to explore the world around at a lower level.

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It's double meaning there.

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But so we're starting with some new characters today.

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And these characters will do a couple episodes here, but they won't be back until after that battle.

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And they're going to start at level one.

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So that's something that US Dumbgeons and Dragons listeners haven't experienced with us because we only started Flinty and Nulara at level ones around the table before we started recording.

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So they started like, I can't remember six or seven.

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It was somewhere in there.

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So we get to go through that process together.

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And then it gets us to give a chance to look at what Flinty and Nulara haven't really been being able to take a look at, which is like how the world is changing for the regular people because they've been floating above in their airships, kind of just flying over all the cities that are on fire.

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At one point we kind of just stopped going to different troubled cities, right?

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Like we were in the forest.

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We were helping elves.

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We were in Leskin.

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And then it just became a little too side questy, right?

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Because we always were like, oh, we will help these people.

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And then Russ is like, I've been trying to rise to that for two years.

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What is wrong with these people?

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The Cult of the Dragon is stalling now at this point saying, oh, where are the heroes?

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They're just doing their knitting that they haven't cut off on.

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But yeah, so we want to do that and hopefully introduce some new characters who you will love.

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And then we don't have a schedule set up for this, but we'll be recording, I don't know, we'll say 50-50 for now and see how it kind of evolves after that.

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If we like the characters, then we'll do that.

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If not, then maybe we'll do something different.

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We don't know.

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What I'm saying is we don't know how it's going to look, but we're introducing these characters and doing some new things.

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So who are these characters, you might ask?

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Well, we don't know.

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Oh, so that whole lead up.

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Well, end of episode.

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I have something to confess.

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I haven't done my character.

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Was I supposed to have a new character?

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Just kidding Russ.

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Stop having a heart attack slash plotting our murders.

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We're ready.

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Too late. They're level ones.

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They're easy to kill.

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God, they're so easy to kill.

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So soft and squishy.

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That's something too that Tom, Carla and Amy haven't really had to deal with in a while because Flintia and Eulara are like fucking tanks.

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I think after this episode, we are really going to go back to Flintia and Eulara with renewed awe and wonder at how fucking awesome they are.

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Because you know why?

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When you are used to awesomeness, you become complacent.

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It doesn't wow you as much.

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You know, the shiny armor has been dulled.

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But I think we're going to go back and go like, oh, it's so nice not to have to roll death throws every fucking time.

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I think it's going to make me more reckless with new Laura because I'll be like, oh, my God, I have so many hit points.

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Let's fight this fucking dragon.

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It's so tough.

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Let's do it.

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Let's climb right on in and kill it from the inside out.

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Wait, which head?

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You don't know which one's the key.

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Is one a key?

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No, he's just fucking with us.

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This is the problem with Russ.

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I never know.

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Our marriage is like one of those like, it's like a game of Clue.

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What?

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It was Russ in the kitchen with the sandwich.

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Usually.

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Yes.

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Usually I do like a good sandwich.

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Nailed it.

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That sandwich is for Addison.

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Let's face it.

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Tom, who is your character?

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My character is a fellow by the name of Murin Arrel Odania Torserin.

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But you can call him moot.

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He's the youngest of a whole bunch of kids.

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He's a half orc.

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And since he was the youngest of a bunch of kids, his opinion often didn't matter.

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And hence it was a moot point most of the time.

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So half orc sorcerer.

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Orcs-er-er?

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We can do this.

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Orcs-er-er?

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Sorcs-er-er?

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Sorcs-er-er?

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Sor ors.

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Sorcerer orc?

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Sorcerer orc.

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Got it in one.

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That was one, right?

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One group effort.

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It was just one really long one.

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My character also goes by a nickname, as is the way of her people.

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So Nurixus is her clan.

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But everybody calls her Glim.

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So I am a dragonborn pAlydin.

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and beautiful, like metallic brass, rose gold, a little bit of platinum.

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You're so fancy.

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I imagine you with a unicorn horn, and I know that's not how.

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I know that's not what dragonborns look like.

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Dragonborns can wear hats.

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That's true.

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Really fun hats.

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Really fun unicorn horn style hats.

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My character's name is Sullivan Sleight.

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He is a lightfoot halfling rogue.

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The Cult of the Dragon decimated his village when he was like nine or ten.

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where he was found huddling under a pile of wreckage, essentially,

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wood from homes.

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he had been indoctrinated into the Cult of the Dragon doing small jobs

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where they needed somebody small like a halfling and slight and sneaky.

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that we haven't really been doing with Flinthi and Lara

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because the focus has been more on this.

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The focus has been more on their goal and how we've got to the goal

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You get new abilities. You get new things that happen.

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You grow hair in different places.

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So if you get an ability, it's about how you learn that ability

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So we have to set out kind of story guidelines

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So they don't just happen.

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You always wake up the next day and they're there.

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You move up a level and then we have to figure out a way to get your ability.

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So you don't just wake up and all of a sudden

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you can throw daggers with blinding accuracy

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and you just look at your friends and go...

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Exactly.

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But the thing is your friends don't even react

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like the way we've been doing and it's just like,

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Oh, look at you go.

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Hey, that's cool.

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Like that scene in every superhero movie

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where they test out their newfound abilities.

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Or the Matrix where he wakes up and he knows Kung Fu.

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So that's what we're going to do.

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It's going to be more, a little bit more

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real world for these characters, I think.

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And then we're going to try that form of storytelling out.

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And it's also going to be probably a little more like we did

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I guess for you guys and for Patreon,

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like we did with Fatecore

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where it's a little bit more open world

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and a little more you guys get to decide

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which string you're going to follow, right?

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So you can...

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Which totally goes great for us.

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Yeah. Well, I mean, it will be...

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Sometimes it does.

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I feel like we won Fatecore.

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Yeah, sure.

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It was very fun collaborative storytelling.

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It was.

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Yeah. If you want to check out Fatecore,

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go check out Patreon, Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.

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But what I'm saying is so I'll set up like, you know,

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your bulletin board of things and you guys get to pick.

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And then based on what you pick,

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that's where that story goes until you figure out where to go next.

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So it will be still controlled by the overarching God.

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That is the DM.

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Russ is going to say himself.

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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The molder of the world.

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I'm all board with it, Russ.

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Don't let Amy DM shame you.

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Yeah. So but you guys will have...

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It won't be as as railroaded as it modules can sometimes feel.

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Is what I'm trying to get at, I think.

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That's the characters.

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And that's what we're doing.

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Sullivan Sleight.

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We find you in Luskin.

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So Sully is from a small village outside of Athkatla.

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And a group of when he was 10 years old,

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a group of the cult of the dragon came and decimated his entire village,

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murdered his family in front of him.

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He was huddling in a pile, probably a pile of ruins,

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could potentially have been a wood pile.

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He doesn't really remember much from that time,

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but he was found cowering in the ruins by the head cultist,

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Akhtar Tarvan.

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And he was taken by Athkar and indoctrinated into the cult of the dragons.

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And he was groomed to do their spy work.

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Being a halfling, he was really good at fitting into tight spaces,

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going places unnoticed.

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And for years, he was loyal and did recon for the cult.

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And he would bring back tales of,

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and let me like if this is like right in timeline wise,

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at this point after he's been with them for seven years or so,

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seven or eight years,

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bringing back tales of the decimators of dragons who are fighting back.

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Akhtar sent Sully to Luskin with a group to learn higher skills,

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as he put it.

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Sully wasn't sure what that was meaning,

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but he went anyway because he saw what happened to people who said no to Akhtar

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and so went along without too much of a stink.

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So you're with a small group of cultists and you're keeping,

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like you said, pretty under the radar.

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You're wearing more or less common or mercenary clothes.

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Luskin is a big travel city, so you fit in.

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There's no need to really hide.

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There's a lot of unsavory fellows who you're with.

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One of them's name is Benty and Barty.

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They're brothers.

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You're kind of going merchant to merchant,

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just kind of seeing what they have available.

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And Benty, he comes up to you.

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He's like, all right, kid, we got the job.

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So you're ready to go?

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What's the job?

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Look, Akhtar said you wasn't going to ask no questions.

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Yeah, he said you was pretty easy to just come along.

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Is that all I'm doing, is coming along?

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Well, I mean, he told us to teach you the ropes, yeah?

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What kind of ropes are we talking about?

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Oh, a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, what he said.

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Okay.

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Meet us at the room tonight,

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and then we'll head out and go get on our way, okay?

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We'll be there by morning.

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Okay, sure. Yeah, okay.

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They wander off, blending into the crowd.

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What do you do before you have to go to the room?

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I probably go to probably like a local pub or a bar,

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somewhere where there's music playing, and I sit in the back.

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I don't order anything, but I love, Sully like loves listening to the music.

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So anytime he can, anytime he's on a mission,

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he takes a small amount of time out of his schedule

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and we'll find where Bard is playing and get his news, essentially,

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because he doesn't like to talk to people.

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Yeah, you head to the Cutlass,

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which is one of the larger, more well-known taverns in town.

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You sit down in the back, and there's a bard playing,

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and you order a drink or whatever you order.

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Nothing.

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Nothing?

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No.

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You blend in quite nicely.

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Nobody really pays too much attention to you.

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You see a lot of people coming and going,

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and there's a trio that kind of catches your eye.

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There's a dwarf and an elf and a human,

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and they walk up to the bar,

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and you see them kind of stumbling about,

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not knowing what they're doing there either.

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But otherwise, it goes by rather uneventful,

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and it's about time that you should be going to meet Benty and Bardy.

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I pass by where the bard had out his hat,

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and I put a silver coin down,

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and I continue out and to the room,

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reluctantly, almost slowly.

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You're walking your way to the room where you're staying,

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and make a perception check.

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Oh, my.

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Ooh, 16 plus perception, 17.

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You hear a wagon coming up behind you.

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Squeaky wheels.

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Yeah, very squeaky wheels.

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You hear the familiar voice of Benty yell,

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God damn it, Bardy,

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you're supposed to get something sneakier than this.

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Sorry, boss, it's all they had.

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He hops down and he's like,

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okay, I was going to scoop you up and be like,

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you were kidnapped and teach you a lesson about paying attention,

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but you could hear us coming from down the block.

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Is this what I'm here to learn about?

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No, just get in the wagon.

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We're going to be going on the road here.

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As I go around to the back of the wagon,

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I give the wheel a swift kick in the hub,

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and it doesn't squeak anymore.

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See, Bardy, that's all you had to do.

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Sorry, boss.

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So you hop in, and they set off,

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and they don't outwardly tell you where you're going.

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You just begin to travel out of Luskin and on your way.

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Can I tell if we're going north or south?

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Am I good at that kind of stuff?

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Yeah, you can make a direction roll.

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Nature or survival?

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At 15.

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Yeah, you can tell you're heading in a westerly direction.

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You're on the road for at least two or three days.

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Oh, my God.

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Are we there yet?

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You've been asking that the whole time.

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Look, we get there.

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When we get there, we're going to meet up with some other folks,

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and then we're going to help out the boss, you know.

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Can you at least tell me what city we're going to?

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They kind of look at each other and say, no.

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Why?

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We're going to get there, and you're going to be like, ah, we're in?

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Well, no, it's going to be a surprise to the people in the city.

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And I will somehow ruin that surprise by having that information.

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Gosh, you talk back a lot.

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Boss said you were pretty easy going.

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Boss said you guys knew what you were doing.

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Okay, we're going to the city of Kars, okay?

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Was that so hard?

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Well, we tried to keep the mirror of illusion and wonder in your tiny, tiny, tiny brain.

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Maxar's going to be so pissed when he finds out you told me.

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Oh, shit.

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God damn it.

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We're in trouble now.

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Another day goes by, and you get to the high forest,

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and you are a distance away from the city of Kars,

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and you're pulling up to an area where there is a large gathering of other cult members.

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So is this some sort of birthday party?

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Yeah, you could say that because we're going to get all the presents,

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and it's going to be really, really nice.

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Is it a raid?

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Yeah, yeah, it's a raid.

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Look, you stick with us, you'll be okay, kid.

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Don't worry about it.

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How many villages have you guys raided?

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Oh, I can't even count them on one hand.

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Look, we're going in at night time, and it's going to be just fine, right?

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You just stick with us, you learn the ropes.

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What are these ropes that you keep talking about?

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Look, what have you been doing for the boss?

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I've been going to different cities, seeing who's meeting up together,

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seeing how many people are meeting in what groups, what they're talking about,

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and then coming back and giving them that information.

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Yeah, well, now we're in more of a less of an information gathering situation,

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more of an item and house clearing situation.

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Got it?

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Good.

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Night comes and they signal to you that you're ready to go.

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The entire cult begins moving towards the city.

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It's dark, the canopy of the forest covers it quite well.

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It's not a lot of light.

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There's some light within houses as you get closer to the city.

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The cult has this place surrounded.

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They've got any number of humans and drakes and wormlings all waiting to move.

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They get their signal and everybody begins rushing into the city.

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They begin kicking in doors, setting fires.

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You hear people screaming as you're chasing behind Bente and Barty.

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What is Sully doing or feeling at this moment?

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Sully's never really been in this kind of situation.

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He's barely ever seen a battle, let alone been involved with one.

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His heart is racing.

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He's battling his feelings between following orders

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and the fear that he's feeling that's coming up.

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He's not quite sure where it's coming from,

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but it's absolutely having to do with memories of this exact thing happening

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to his village when he was a child.

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As you see those memories flash in your mind's eye,

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Bente and Barty get to a door and they try to open it and it's locked.

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They kick it in and there's a scream from inside

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and a man rushes forward with a blade.

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He's tripped out the door and stabbed right in front of you at your feet by Barty.

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Bente then moves into the house and you hear more screaming.

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Barty pushes you into the house along with them.

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You see a woman and a child huddled in a corner,

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clutching various what could be construed as family heirlooms.

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And they strike them down.

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Cold blood. They don't strike out.

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They begin gathering things into sacks

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as the woman and the child and the man out in the street, the life drips away.

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They fill up their sacks and say,

487
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You're on the next one there, kid.

488
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What?

489
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And they begin moving towards the next house.

490
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I think I remain frozen in this living space,

491
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just looking at the mother and child just completely shocked and horrified.

492
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Come on, let's go.

493
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Yeah, guys, I don't think this is for me.

494
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What do you mean this isn't for you?

495
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Well, I'm not a fighter and this is a lot of fighting.

496
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Look, Barty, just pick him up and let's get going, OK?

497
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,000
Barty begins to move towards you.

498
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,000
I back up.

499
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,000
He rushes at you to try and grab you.

500
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,000
I try to dodge.

501
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000
Dexterity saving throw.

502
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000
14.

503
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:31,000
You kind of stumble backwards and he reaches for you

504
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,000
and he trips over a floorboard and falls down

505
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,000
and you manage to sneak to the side.

506
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000
The door is open in front of you.

507
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,000
I rush at the door.

508
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,000
You see Bente standing out in the street and saying,

509
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,000
OK, let's get, hey, where's Barty?

510
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000
He'll be right there.

511
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,000
And I rush in behind the house,

512
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,000
so I make a hard right and rush in between the houses.

513
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000
You hear footsteps up into the building

514
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,000
and then he looks and sees and says,

515
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000
kid, I'm coming, get back here.

516
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,000
And then you hear footsteps in behind you.

517
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,000
There's forest in front of you.

518
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,000
I run into the forest.

519
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,000
You hear footsteps keeping pace with you almost

520
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,000
and then you hear, oh, Barty's in the tree.

521
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,000
I don't know if we're going to get him back.

522
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:28,000
We'll just say maybe he got shot with an arrow.

523
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000
Yeah, that'll go over well.

524
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,000
All right.

525
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000
Boss isn't going to be too happy about that.

526
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,000
You hear the footsteps stop

527
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,000
and start to walk back towards.

528
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,000
You hear screams and then an explosion.

529
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,000
There's a large ball of fire that goes up in the city.

530
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,000
I don't look back.

531
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,000
I keep running.

532
00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:02,000
Where do we find Murian, Oral, Ordenya, Torsaren, or Moot?

533
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000
Yeah, Murren, first off, if you're going.

534
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,000
Murren, sorry.

535
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,000
That's all right.

536
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,000
Marion.

537
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,000
I said Marion.

538
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,000
That's too wise.

539
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,000
Mid Marion.

540
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,000
Mid Marion.

541
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,000
Mid Marion.

542
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,000
Yeah.

543
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,000
Yeah.

544
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:20,000
So I mean, old school wise, he grows up in the high forest

545
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,000
in a small forest village east of Kars.

546
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:28,000
And how old is Moot at this point?

547
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:33,000
In his backstory where his event happens,

548
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,000
he's probably about 16 or 17.

549
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,000
So the city you live in,

550
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:44,000
largely humans and half orcs and that sort of type or just half orcs?

551
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:49,000
Yeah, the village that they're in is a blended village

552
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,000
of a lot of humans and orcs and half orcs.

553
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:57,000
It's a place where they all kind of gathered together to live peacefully.

554
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:02,000
Moot's family, how are they ingrained in the village?

555
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,000
Pretty well.

556
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000
I mean, his folks are around.

557
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,000
His dad's name is Orell and his mom's name is Odania,

558
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,000
which are his two middle names, the two O's in his names,

559
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,000
because he has so many brothers and sisters that they ran out of middle names

560
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,000
by the time they got to him.

561
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,000
So they just named them after themselves.

562
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,000
It's a bright sunny day.

563
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:31,000
And we find Moot hanging out with some friends.

564
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,000
Who's he hanging out with?

565
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,000
Oh, good question.

566
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:41,000
Probably some other half orc kids.

567
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:49,000
We'll go with his friends, Davey and Raquel.

568
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,000
You're hanging around with Davey and Raquel.

569
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:58,000
And you guys are talking, you know, you're doing what, you know, young half orcs do.

570
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:05,000
And you're just kind of having a conversation about some things that you heard the night prior.

571
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:12,000
You heard primarily a loud explosion that ran through the forest.

572
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,000
Did you guys hear that last night?

573
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,000
Yeah, the rumbly thing.

574
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,000
Yeah, what was that?

575
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,000
I don't know.

576
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,000
My mom said it was an explosion.

577
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,000
Wow.

578
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000
Who would be exploding things here?

579
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,000
I don't know.

580
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,000
I mean, it's pretty, pretty quiet place, really.

581
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:38,000
Yeah, no, it's probably like, I don't know, like people trying to mine trees.

582
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000
People don't mine trees, Davey.

583
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,000
What are you talking about?

584
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,000
What do you mean people don't mine trees?

585
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,000
Well, they cut them down.

586
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,000
They don't mine them.

587
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,000
Hmm.

588
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,000
But my dad said that that's how they make wood.

589
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:58,000
I mean, I don't really know about that, Davey, but I don't I still don't think you mine trees.

590
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,000
You're kind of a fucking idiot, Davey.

591
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,000
Oh, geez.

592
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,000
Why do we keep him around?

593
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,000
He's fun.

594
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,000
So that's something.

595
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,000
Yeah.

596
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,000
Yeah.

597
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,000
I'm fun.

598
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,000
Right.

599
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,000
I think that's good.

600
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,000
I don't know.

601
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,000
Sorry.

602
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,000
Explosion.

603
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,000
Did you hear anything else about what it might have been?

604
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,000
I mean, I mean, I don't know.

605
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,000
My my parents seem pretty concerned about it.

606
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,000
But just I mean, they didn't really say too much else in front of me.

607
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000
So it's hard to say.

608
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:39,000
My folks are saying there's some some weird stuff happening like outside of the forest, like big cults or something like that.

609
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,000
Have you heard anything about that?

610
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,000
Oh, shit.

611
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,000
No, that that doesn't sound good, though.

612
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,000
No, I don't know.

613
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000
They seem pretty cagey about it.

614
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:57,000
Maybe they were trying to hide something, but it doesn't seem very good if there's like people mining for wood over there.

615
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:03,000
I mean, yeah, it's hopefully they they leave the forest alone.

616
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000
I mean, that's our home.

617
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Yeah, exactly.

618
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000
That's all I'm saying.

619
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Oh, well, hey, maybe we go check and see with the with the old man.

620
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,000
What's his nuts over there?

621
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,000
You know, old old man Barclay.

622
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,000
Yeah.

623
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,000
Old man Barclay.

624
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000
See if he knows anything.

625
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:24,000
Yeah, I guess we could go go check with him.

626
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000
Let's let's head over there.

627
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000
Old man Barclay doesn't know anything.

628
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,000
Probably tell us they can't mine wood.

629
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,000
I mean, we've been telling you we can't mine wood.

630
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,000
OK, well, if he tells me, then I'll believe it.

631
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:42,000
OK, Davey, you guys carry on to old man Barclays,

632
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:47,000
which is just a rickety old shack at the edge of town.

633
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,000
You see him sitting out in his in his front front yard,

634
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,000
just kind of enjoying a cup of moonshine.

635
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,000
Hey, hey, Barclay, do you do you know anything about what happened last night?

636
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,000
We heard a big, big rumble and my mom said was an explosion.

637
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,000
Moot, you got to say hello first.

638
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000
That's how you start conversations.

639
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,000
Sorry, sorry.

640
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,000
Hey, hey, Barclay.

641
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:17,000
Hey, Moot, Davey, Raquel, sorry, been drinking my cup.

642
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000
You've been you've been hitting the shine today.

643
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,000
Well, you know, when they tell you to stay at the edge of town,

644
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,000
what else are you going to do?

645
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,000
Anyways, what was your question?

646
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,000
Did you see what happened last night?

647
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000
There was something about an explosion nearby.

648
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,000
Do you have any idea what's going on?

649
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,000
Yeah, I did hear it.

650
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:47,000
It did wake me up from my stupor dream, my dream.

651
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,000
You know, it's probably nothing to worry about.

652
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:56,000
You know, they've been they've been like mining.

653
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,000
Yeah, wood, wood, right?

654
00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,000
No.

655
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,000
Davey, they don't mine wood.

656
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,000
They don't.

657
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,000
I've been telling you for weeks, Davey.

658
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,000
Oh, right.

659
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,000
Anyway, there's some new mining things going up not too far from here.

660
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Probably just that.

661
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,000
Oh, OK.

662
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,000
Well, I mean, that takes a load off.

663
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,000
Thanks, Barclay.

664
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,000
What do you know about the hold on, hold on, hold on.

665
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,000
What do you know about the cult situation things happening?

666
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000
Yeah, I just kind of I just kind of heard about this from Raquel.

667
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000
I don't I don't really know too much.

668
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:35,000
Oh, well, there's some there are some folks passing through here that said

669
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:40,000
there's some cult things happening where there's like there's there's people

670
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,000
trying to bring like dragons back or something.

671
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Oh, dragons are cool.

672
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,000
Oh, yeah.

673
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,000
Yeah, dragons are sweet, dude.

674
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,000
Sweet.

675
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:56,000
But I think what they're doing is, you know, not not the most good things.

676
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,000
Oh, that's what they say anyways.

677
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,000
It was just one group.

678
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,000
I mean, they were probably just trying to swindle me from a shine.

679
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,000
You got to watch out for that, hey.

680
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,000
Right. Right.

681
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,000
So what are you kids up to today?

682
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,000
I mean, I don't know.

683
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,000
We were just kind of hanging out, you know, walking around in the forest.

684
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000
You should get a job.

685
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,000
I mean, I don't I don't know.

686
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Like, my my dad's always looking for help at the mill.

687
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,000
But, you know, he says I'm kind of too young still.

688
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000
How old are you?

689
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,000
About to turn 17.

690
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,000
When I was 17, I was.

691
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,000
I was working.

692
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:38,000
I was really I really thought there was going to be more to that.

693
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,000
No, no, no more.

694
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,000
I was working.

695
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,000
I was earning a living.

696
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,000
I had 16 kids of my own, probably.

697
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,000
Wow, that's a lot of kids for that young in life.

698
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,000
Well, that's what they called me.

699
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,000
The man with too many kids for his age.

700
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,000
Anyway, I'll probably let you kids get back to doing what you're doing.

701
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,000
Kid things.

702
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,000
Yeah, I guess we should we should head back.

703
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,000
See you. See you, Barclay.

704
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:08,000
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

705
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,000
Come back any time.

706
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,000
I'll tell you stories.

707
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,000
I mean, we probably won't.

708
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:21,000
You head back to town and you spend the rest of the day, you know, doing what kids do.

709
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Nighttime comes.

710
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,000
Your friends all kind of rush back to their houses.

711
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,000
And what does what does Moot do?

712
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,000
He heads home for for dinner as well.

713
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,000
He usually helps out, you know, setting the table, that sort of thing.

714
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:41,000
Yeah, you get back home just as just as your mother is kind of finishing up the meal.

715
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,000
You smell it as you walk through.

716
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,000
It's one of your favorites, too.

717
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:45,000
What do you smell?

718
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:51,000
Yeah, obviously smelling cutlets of some sort, maybe pork pork cutlets.

719
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,000
You walk through the door and you smell those delicious pork cutlets.

720
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:59,000
And you hear your mom call somebody comes at the table.

721
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,000
I'm on it.

722
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,000
Oh, good, good, good.

723
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,000
What what what you've been up to today?

724
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:13,000
We were in the in the forest and then we ran across Barclay and he was told you not to go by old Barclays.

725
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,000
I know, but he's harmless, harmless.

726
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,000
The man had 16 kids by the time he was 17.

727
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,000
Yeah, he was telling us about that.

728
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,000
What a weird choice.

729
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,000
What were you going out there for?

730
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:34,000
Well, we were talking about that explosion last night and then Raquel mentioned something about a cult or something.

731
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,000
And then Barclay was talking about a cult.

732
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,000
I don't know.

733
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,000
It was all really weird.

734
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,000
Do you know anything about this cult?

735
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,000
Cults.

736
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,000
I heard something, but it didn't sound like anything too serious.

737
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:48,000
You know, just you know what?

738
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,000
Cults is as cults does.

739
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,000
I mean, I don't.

740
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,000
But OK, I mean, they were probably just mining trees.

741
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000
I really don't think that's a thing.

742
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,000
Why does everybody keep saying that?

743
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,000
I hear it's a new way to do it.

744
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,000
Anyways, it's going to put the mills out of the business.

745
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,000
Your father's not going to be too happy about it, but we'll just keep that between you and me.

746
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,000
OK?

747
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000
OK.

748
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaking of which, your father walks through the door and he sees you setting the table and says, oh, good job.

749
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,000
You have a good day.

750
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,000
Yeah, it was pretty good.

751
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,000
How was the mill?

752
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,000
When are you going to come work with me?

753
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,000
I mean, you've been telling me I'm too young.

754
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,000
So I've been waiting for you to say this exact thing to me.

755
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,000
Well, today's the day, boy.

756
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,000
OK, maybe not today, because it's the end of the day and the mills actually closed.

757
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,000
But tomorrow's the day, boy.

758
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,000
Awesome. I can't wait.

759
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,000
Can't believe I didn't say this sooner.

760
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:48,000
That means I get to work less while you do more work because I'm training you.

761
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,000
Yeah, that's usually how training works.

762
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,000
Yeah, it's not twice as much work for the person training the new person at all.

763
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,000
That's what I'm hoping for.

764
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,000
Easy couple of weeks for me.

765
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:08,000
Your brothers and sisters, those that are around, they come in and everybody sits down to a big meal.

766
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,000
You go through the evening and it's about time for bed.

767
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:20,000
Everybody goes and climbs in and your dad yells out to you, he's like, get some good rest tonight.

768
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,000
Tomorrow, get some good rest tonight.

769
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,000
That's the sentence I was looking for.

770
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,000
Were you into the shine with Barclay earlier?

771
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,000
No, don't go see Barclay.

772
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,000
He's not he's not good news.

773
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:35,000
Anyways, what I'm saying is big day at work tomorrow.

774
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,000
OK, great. I'll I'll go hop into bed.

775
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:51,000
You drift off to sleep and not sure how much time passes, but it's it's a it's a late sunset and it's pitch black when you wake up.

776
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:59,000
You wake up to the sound of screams coming from the streets.

777
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:06,000
I hop out of bed and run into my parents.

778
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,000
What's happening?

779
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:19,000
Your mother and some of your brothers and sisters, they're in the room and your father is not in there.

780
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,000
Your mother says he's he's out.

781
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,000
He's out by.

782
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:27,000
He went to go see what's going on, told us to stay here, stay here.

783
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000
We we we got to go help them.

784
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,000
You and your two brothers are OK.

785
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,000
Let's let's let's go.

786
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,000
Let's go see what we can help them with.

787
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:44,000
You head out in the front doors open and you see people running and screaming and there's there's lanterns.

788
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:55,000
And you look across and down the streets and you see someone throw one into what you know as Raquel's house.

789
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:06,000
The house goes up quickly in flames and you hear screaming from inside the house and you see a couple of people dressed in black robes

790
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:14,000
and cloaks and they are running around, some of them carrying bags, some of them carrying weapons.

791
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,000
What do you do?

792
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:23,000
Yeah, I yell into my mom, I say like they're they're burning people's houses.

793
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,000
We we have to get out of here.

794
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:33,000
She yells back and begins bringing out your your sisters who are in there as well and kind of looks out the window.

795
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:41,000
You know, and two of these people come and stand in front of you and your brothers.

796
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:46,000
And they say, look, if you don't put up a fight, we're not going to hurt you.

797
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:50,000
Yeah, yeah, what he said.

798
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:56,000
Uh, yeah, I mean, please don't please don't hurt us.

799
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,000
Why why are you burning people's houses?

800
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:04,000
You kind of hear from behind you three more people begin to move into your house.

801
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,000
What? There's there's nothing in there.

802
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,000
Just what's happening?

803
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,000
Just don't worry about it.

804
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:15,000
OK, there's there's things above you kid that you're just you're not ready to understand yet.

805
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:22,000
Now give us everything you've got in the house and nobody else gets hurt.

806
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,000
You hear screams from inside your house.

807
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,000
I'm going to bolt for the house.

808
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,000
Dexterity check.

809
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,000
OK, it's a 13.

810
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:46,000
You managed to outrun one of the people behind you and you get in and you see one of the men with his arm raised towards your your mother and your sisters with a sword in hand.

811
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,000
I kind of shoot like the arm out like no.

812
00:45:50,000 --> 00:46:05,000
But while I'm doing this, a like beam of white light like streaks out of my hand and and towards the the man with his arm raised.

813
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:18,000
The temperature of the room drops several degrees and this white light hits this man and he seems frozen in the place where he was.

814
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:26,000
Your mother and your sisters scream even louder as they see what you have done.

815
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:31,000
And I kind of look down at my hand like what the fuck just happened.

816
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:42,000
They run back into the house and into their room and two men come behind you.

817
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:46,000
And move to grab you and the same thing happens.

818
00:46:46,000 --> 00:47:00,000
This blue white light emanates from your hand from your bodies and it freezes these people in place and a rift seems to open up in front of you.

819
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:10,000
And you see a deep purple black energy and you feel it begin to course through you.

820
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:14,000
Something you've never experienced before.

821
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:21,000
And the men frozen in place shatter to the ground.

822
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:25,000
I'm just kind of staring at both my hands like dumbfounded.

823
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:34,000
Your brothers are standing watching from behind you and say what what what happened.

824
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:40,000
I I don't know.

825
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:44,000
I. I. I.

826
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:49,000
He's just speechless.

827
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:54,000
You hear an explosion out in the town.

828
00:47:54,000 --> 00:48:01,000
And you look out the window and you see a lot of these these men that you didn't recognize dressed in the dark robes.

829
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,000
They run away.

830
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:07,000
They have bags full over their shoulders.

831
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:13,000
Screaming is still happening, but they look like they are fleeing the town.

832
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:20,000
You go out into the streets and there are many more houses on fire.

833
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:27,000
Is there any sort of like water stations or anything that I can like try to help try to put these fires out?

834
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:32,000
Yeah, there's there's a there's a well in this in town center.

835
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:40,000
You see people running back and forth as quickly as they can to little to no avail.

836
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:50,000
The city itself is by morning half destroyed.

837
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:57,000
And news spreads quickly about what happened with moot.

838
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:06,000
Despite the fact that you you did what is deemed as is totally good because you saved your your family.

839
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:11,000
People begin to look warily upon you.

840
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:17,000
That's shitty, but kind of fair magic.

841
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:25,000
And those types of things is more or less frowned upon.

842
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:30,000
And you're sitting at the table the next day.

843
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:34,000
And your dad.

844
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:38,000
Sits down with you. He was out fighting the fires.

845
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:45,000
And he sits down with you and says, Well, well, well, boy, I don't think we're going to be going into work today.

846
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:49,000
Not just because the place is burned down.

847
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,000
But because we've been asked to leave.

848
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,000
All of us.

849
00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:09,000
Well, most specifically, you, but we can't we can't leave, leave, leave, leave you.

850
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:13,000
But I mean, everyone's life is here.

851
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:17,000
You can't you can't leave.

852
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:25,000
I mean, the town needs to be rebuilt and people need homes and there's there's so much to do here.

853
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,000
Yeah, you're not wrong.

854
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:38,000
But what are we to do? Let our let our let our shining star or our lovely moot go out on the world on his own.

855
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:44,000
I mean, I can't I can't ask everybody to to come with me.

856
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,000
That's that's not fair either.

857
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:54,000
I mean, I know the the villagers are are wary and they're worried.

858
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:58,000
This is I'm worried, too, because I don't know what's happening.

859
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:14,000
But what if what if I left for a while and and went to go find some sort of teacher who could make me help me harness whatever this is that I've got going on?

860
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:17,000
And then I can come back.

861
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,000
Teachers, who where are you going to find a teacher?

862
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:24,000
Well, I mean, who even teaches these things?

863
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:28,000
I don't I don't know. But there's got to be somebody in like Neverwinter.

864
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,000
There's all sorts of magicians and things.

865
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,000
Sure, sure. Yeah, Neverwinter.

866
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:38,000
All right. Yeah, OK, sure.

867
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:56,000
Yeah. How about we think the day on it and then we'll decide whether your magician teachers are real and then or if we're going to go be realistic about life and go find somewhere else to live and then just maybe just I don't know.

868
00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:01,000
Put gloves on you so you don't freeze anybody.

869
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:07,000
I mean, I guess that's it's I guess that's an option.

870
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,000
But this is I I'm worried.

871
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:17,000
What if what if this happens again and it's it's someone that.

872
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:22,000
That's not trying to kill us that I heard what like I don't I don't know what to do here.

873
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:29,000
Let's just think on it that they've given us the day we can sort it out with sleep on it.

874
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:32,000
Figure out what we're going to do in the morning.

875
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,000
OK.

876
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:38,000
You go through the day. I don't know how much going out you do.

877
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:42,000
Not a lot. Doesn't seem like everyone's too fucking happy to see.

878
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:48,000
But night comes everybody kind of nestles in and goes to sleep.

879
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,000
You're lying awake.

880
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:57,000
I pack a few belongings in like a knapsack sort of thing.

881
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:02,000
Write out a brief note that says, you know, like, I'll come back when I can.

882
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,000
Gone to get some answers.

883
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,000
You know, all the best sort of thing.

884
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:15,000
And I sneak off into the night.

885
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:19,000
Hello there, lost and lonesome Dumjineer.

886
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,000
Wait, you're not lonesome.

887
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,000
You're here with us.

888
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,000
It's me, your dungeon master, Russ More.

889
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:30,000
Thanks for joining us for episode 74 of Dumbgeons and Dragons, The Call to Adventure,

890
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:33,000
a beginning of sorts for these new characters.

891
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:37,000
And we'll be getting to Carla and Glim's story in just a moment here.

892
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:42,000
But first, I'd just like to remind you of a couple places that you can join us.

893
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:46,000
First is on Patreon, Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.

894
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:50,000
For those that don't know, Patreon is a platform where people join creators,

895
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,000
pledging a monthly amount to those creators,

896
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:56,000
and in turn building a community full of amazing people who enjoy,

897
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,000
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898
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,000
In return for joining those communities, our community,

899
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:06,000
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900
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901
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902
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903
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904
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:21,000
Big thanks to all of our patrons who came out to the gook hang just last night.

905
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,000
We had a blast just catching up on the last month.

906
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:28,000
The second place that you can join us is the Reckless Play Guild Facebook group,

907
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:32,000
where you can join all of us, but also three other amazing podcasts.

908
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:36,000
At the end of time another bothers, The Lucky Die and Dark Dice.

909
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:39,000
We all get together, talk D&D, plan campaigns,

910
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,000
talk characters and upcoming releases,

911
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,000
and also, not to bury the lead here,

912
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:46,000
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913
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:49,000
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914
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:52,000
So if you have a conundrum that we might be able to help with,

915
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:55,000
it's a great place to start and hopefully get answers.

916
00:54:55,000 --> 00:55:00,000
Sometimes we fumble through it, but most of the time we try really hard.

917
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,000
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918
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:06,000
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919
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:09,000
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920
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,000
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921
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:17,000
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922
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:21,000
A final thanks to Syrinscape for some of the amazing atmosphere.

923
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:25,000
Make sure you check them out at syrinscape.com to bring your games to life.

924
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:28,000
The next episode will be out Wednesday, February 13th,

925
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:32,000
when Flint, Thea and Nularaaaa are back in the regular story

926
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:36,000
and they are getting on the trail to stopping the cult of the dragon.

927
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:39,000
No more pit stops. We're heading there.

928
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,000
Starting next week.

929
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,000
But now, let's get back and join Carla and I

930
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:49,000
and find out where Glim's story begins.

931
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,000
Have a great week. We'll talk soon.

932
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:11,000
So, Neryxias Akra, or Glim, where is she from?

933
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:17,000
Her clan lives in the Misty Forest, on the edge of the Misty Forest.

934
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:23,000
And she lives with a large clan or a small clan of dragonborn there?

935
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:28,000
I think she lives with, gosh, let's say,

936
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:32,000
I mean, quite a small clan.

937
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:38,000
I think there are sort of several clan enclaves in the same area

938
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:44,000
that sort of all like, you know, trade together and intermarry and all of that.

939
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:48,000
She's not, you know, totally isolated growing up like my girl Nularaaaa was.

940
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:53,000
But her clan itself is probably like 60 people.

941
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:57,000
And that's all basically like her family, right?

942
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,000
Her family and kind of extended family.

943
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:07,000
Dealings with outside, like you live in pretty much like a community

944
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,000
solely based on dragonborn.

945
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:10,000
Yes.

946
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:14,000
Probably a little bit more sheltered, well maybe not sheltered,

947
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:18,000
but there's probably only like pass or throughs of other races.

948
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:19,000
Yeah, definitely.

949
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,000
So that is predominantly like the people she has been around,

950
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,000
the people she has grown up with, you know,

951
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:28,000
like bards come through every once in a while.

952
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:31,000
So that's how they, of course, like get their news.

953
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:33,000
And so she sees different races that way.

954
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:37,000
And there are always kind of, you know, like adventurers and whatnot

955
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,000
that kind of roll through.

956
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:44,000
But otherwise, yeah, I mean, she's grown up with dragonborns.

957
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:49,000
Your family, they send you off somewhere.

958
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:54,000
Not because of it, for any reason, just to kind of go get resources.

959
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:59,000
But you say perhaps Glim is a good hunter-gatherer

960
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:03,000
or perhaps she might actually be not so much.

961
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:04,000
Not so much.

962
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:11,000
I think that Glim, she has thus far in her life,

963
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:19,000
she's only 25, has sort of been like almost literally the golden child.

964
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:22,000
Like she has been Glimer.

965
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,000
She can find her looks a lot.

966
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,000
Not necessarily her looks,

967
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:32,000
but because she and her clan and the surrounding enclaves

968
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:36,000
like all sort of believe that she is destined for something great

969
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:39,000
and have since she was very small.

970
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,000
Not necessarily something great,

971
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:46,000
but they believe she is, you know, a million generations later,

972
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,000
a descendant of Baha Men.

973
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:51,000
So she is like kind of spoiled.

974
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:56,000
She is like a good person, but yeah,

975
00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:01,000
hasn't faced a lot of struggle in her life, let's say.

976
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,000
Let's take that a different way then.

977
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:08,000
There's a bard that's come through, an orc, long tusks.

978
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:15,000
And he comes through and he's telling tales of battles going on in Faerûn.

979
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:19,000
You watch his songs and you listen to his stories

980
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:26,000
and you come to learn through them that there is perhaps something

981
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:28,000
that you might have been shielded from

982
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:32,000
or just not told by some of your elders

983
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:35,000
is that there is a cult of the dragon

984
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:39,000
and they are trying to rise Tiamat,

985
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:46,000
who is the polar opposite to Bahamut.

986
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:53,000
The bard is singing in the center of your village.

987
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:56,000
Everybody is kind of crowded around him, listening to these stories.

988
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,000
Some look a little more shocked than others.

989
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:03,000
Others look like this is, you know, they might have heard of these tales.

990
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:09,000
But you come in and you catch the majority of one of these last songs

991
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:15,000
singing tales of what he calls the decimator of dragons.

992
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:19,000
And as he wraps up, everybody kind of claps

993
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:22,000
and gives him some change in food

994
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:26,000
and begins going about their day.

995
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:30,000
So he's tidying up his stuff up at the front.

996
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:33,000
Uh, what does Glim do?

997
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:35,000
Well, I'm going to go talk to him.

998
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:40,000
Um, excuse me, sir?

999
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,000
Uh, yes, yes.

1000
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,000
Um, what do you...

1001
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:48,000
Surely, please don't take this the wrong way,

1002
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:53,000
but surely you must be exaggerating a little bit about the state of the world.

1003
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:57,000
I mean, Tiamat couldn't be rising. That's crazy.

1004
01:00:57,000 --> 01:00:59,000
Oh no, my dear.

1005
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:05,000
Um, yes, the world beyond your village here is, um,

1006
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:11,000
uh, how do I say, uh, going to the shit.

1007
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:15,000
Oh, but I mean,

1008
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:20,000
surely the followers of Bahamater are fighting against...

1009
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:25,000
I mean, our god is so kind and powerful and wise and strong.

1010
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:27,000
I mean, there's...

1011
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:31,000
So how... can you... what's...

1012
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,000
I guess I'm just confused.

1013
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:36,000
I understand your confusion, my dear.

1014
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:40,000
You live in a very central...

1015
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,000
How do I put this?

1016
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:47,000
Um, so you... you are a shiny dragon.

1017
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:50,000
There's... there's the not-shiny dragons,

1018
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:52,000
and then there's the shiny dragons.

1019
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,000
You know that, right? Yes, okay.

1020
01:01:54,000 --> 01:02:00,000
The not-shiny dragons, they want to take over the world,

1021
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:07,000
and, uh, yeah, and the shiny dragons are there, I think.

1022
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:12,000
They're around, and I think they try to stop.

1023
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:14,000
I don't know.

1024
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:18,000
What about just the normal people?

1025
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:20,000
Aren't...

1026
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:23,000
How... how can there be so many followers of Tiamat

1027
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:27,000
that they can overwhelm all the other people in the world?

1028
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:30,000
Oh, um, yeah, they...

1029
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:36,000
Well, they have lots of things where they take in all these people

1030
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:39,000
and they destroy their villages,

1031
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:42,000
and they steal all their stuff,

1032
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:47,000
and... oh, boy.

1033
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:50,000
They make it very difficult for people to be around,

1034
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,000
so lots of people have been fleeing from them

1035
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,000
because there's not a lot of warriors,

1036
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:59,000
but some warriors, the decimators of dragons, as you heard,

1037
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:02,000
they are standing up for what is good and what is right,

1038
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:07,000
and they are the ones who are leading the battle to try to stop.

1039
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:10,000
They must be very brave and smart warriors.

1040
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:14,000
Yes, yes, they are the bravest and the smartest.

1041
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:18,000
I think I met them once.

1042
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,000
You know, they were okay.

1043
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:22,000
Um, well, sir, thank you.

1044
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:25,000
Thank you for coming and seeing us and telling us the news,

1045
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:29,000
and I give him some, you know, coins and food and stuff,

1046
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,000
and then I go to try and find my parents.

1047
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:34,000
Thank you, thank you.

1048
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:37,000
And you head off to where you think you'll find them.

1049
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,000
Where is that exactly?

1050
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,000
Probably... well, I guess, I mean, they were...

1051
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,000
everybody was just kind of there, you know,

1052
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:45,000
in the bard.

1053
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,000
So I think they're probably just, like,

1054
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:51,000
walking back to our domicile.

1055
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:57,000
So their names are my parents, Spark and Bean.

1056
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,000
You're going to have to help me with mother and father here,

1057
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,000
or mother and mother, or father and father.

1058
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,000
I don't...

1059
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,000
Oh, I like that.

1060
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:09,000
Okay, yes, mother and mother, Spark and Bean.

1061
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:11,000
Perfect.

1062
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:16,000
Yeah, you catch up to them as they get back to your home,

1063
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:18,000
and they're kind of just entering the door,

1064
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,000
and they see you coming, and they're like,

1065
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,000
oh, yes, yes, yes, come in, come in, Glenn.

1066
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:24,000
And they open the door for you as they see you running up.

1067
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,000
Mom, mama.

1068
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,000
It's because they have to have different names

1069
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,000
because they're both moms.

1070
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,000
Did you...

1071
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:37,000
Did you know that that's happening in the world?

1072
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,000
That this cult is trying to rise team at?

1073
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:42,000
You heard that, did you?

1074
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:44,000
I did, and then I talked to the orc bard,

1075
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:49,000
and he told me, I mean, things are really terrible.

1076
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:52,000
Yes, yes, they...

1077
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:54,000
Things seem to be...

1078
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:57,000
We've heard from more than just that bard

1079
01:04:57,000 --> 01:05:01,000
that things are not well.

1080
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:05,000
In fact, some of our own have gone out to see

1081
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:08,000
if they can help,

1082
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:14,000
and it appears that dragons

1083
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:18,000
and dragon type are trying to do

1084
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:22,000
things that would hurt others right now.

1085
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:24,000
Well, don't you think it's our duty

1086
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:28,000
to stop them from doing that?

1087
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:31,000
Surely we can't just stay here and do nothing

1088
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:33,000
if Tiamat might be rising.

1089
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:37,000
I mean, that is for the love of Bahamut.

1090
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:40,000
We couldn't possibly just let that happen.

1091
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:42,000
We have to go do something.

1092
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:45,000
You see them kind of look between each other,

1093
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:50,000
and one of, we'll say, Bean,

1094
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:52,000
is that mama or mom?

1095
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:54,000
Yep, that's mama.

1096
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:56,000
Your mama, Bean,

1097
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:59,000
she kind of rolls her eyes a little bit

1098
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,000
at Spark, your mom,

1099
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:04,000
and your mom says,

1100
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:10,000
Glim, we've been trying to keep you

1101
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:15,000
from what is happening,

1102
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:20,000
and I feel like...

1103
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:25,000
I feel like you are old enough now

1104
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:31,000
that you can know.

1105
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:39,000
The world is not a great place

1106
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:43,000
for our kind right now.

1107
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:46,000
There are many people who look to

1108
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:49,000
either recruit us,

1109
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:54,000
to make us slaves,

1110
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:56,000
to larger dragons,

1111
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,000
or to harm us

1112
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:03,000
because they don't understand who we are.

1113
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:13,000
You have a special place in this,

1114
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:17,000
and Bean, your mama,

1115
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:20,000
she kind of crosses her arms

1116
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:25,000
and walks into the next room.

1117
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:29,000
We were...

1118
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:31,000
It sounds crazy,

1119
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:34,000
but it came to us in a dream

1120
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:39,000
that you would rise to be

1121
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:41,000
a great protector,

1122
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,000
a great warrior,

1123
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:49,000
someone who people could turn to

1124
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:55,000
but our elders and your mama,

1125
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:57,000
she didn't want to tell you this.

1126
01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:00,000
I want to protect you,

1127
01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:04,000
but it might be time

1128
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:07,000
for you to see the elders

1129
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:13,000
and to go off on your own.

1130
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:19,000
I think that I have to.

1131
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:23,000
I mean, surely I'm not so worth protecting

1132
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,000
we can let Tiamat rise.

1133
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:29,000
I mean, that's crazy.

1134
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:30,000
I have to help.

1135
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:31,000
We should all help,

1136
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:32,000
even if it's hard,

1137
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:35,000
even if it means leaving here.

1138
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:40,000
I think it's the right thing to do.

1139
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:43,000
Your mama, she comes back in

1140
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:44,000
and she says,

1141
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:50,000
I will take her.

1142
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:53,000
She picks a bag up off the floor

1143
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:55,000
that she was clearly packing

1144
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:57,000
in the next room

1145
01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:01,000
and hands it to you and says,

1146
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:06,000
we have people to see.

1147
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:09,000
Okay, mama, let's go.

1148
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:12,000
She hands you the bag and you head out

1149
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:16,000
and you begin heading off

1150
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:19,000
down a path you probably haven't,

1151
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:21,000
well, you might have gone down,

1152
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:23,000
but you travel for quite a ways

1153
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:26,000
until you get to a building

1154
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:28,000
you haven't been to before.

1155
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:32,000
And on the wall

1156
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:34,000
is a symbol that you recognize.

1157
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:39,000
It's the symbol of Bahamut.

1158
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:00,000
Some of the music in today's episode

1159
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:01,000
is by Kavin McLeod

1160
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:04,000
of incompetech.filmmusic.io.

1161
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:05,000
Sound effects can be found

1162
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:07,000
at sirenscape.com.

1163
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:10,000
Okay, who wants to start?

1164
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:16,000
Eeny meeny miny moe,

1165
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:18,000
catch a tiger by the toe,

1166
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:20,000
if he hollers let him go,

1167
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:23,000
Eeny meeny miny moe.

1168
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:25,000
Where do we find Sullivan's light

1169
01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:27,000
when we first...

1170
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:28,000
It's Sullivan's light.

1171
01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:29,000
That's what I said.

1172
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:30,000
There's no space in between the two.

1173
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:31,000
Sullivan's light.

1174
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:32,000
Sullivan's light.

1175
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:33,000
Sullivan's light.

1176
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:35,000
Sullivan's light.

1177
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:36,000
You can call him Sully.

1178
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:38,000
Super squeaky wheels.

1179
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:39,000
What do they sound like?

1180
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:42,000
Hee hee hee, hee hee hee.

1181
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:44,000
Like a sad monkey.

1182
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:49,000
Sad monkey wheels,

1183
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:50,000
it's a real problem.

1184
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:53,000
It's all around Faerun.

1185
01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:56,000
Can I make a super sad dog?

1186
01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:57,000
While you're doing that,

1187
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:58,000
let's just think about

1188
01:10:58,000 --> 01:10:59,000
the family dynamics

1189
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:00,000
where one brother

1190
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:01,000
has to call the other brother

1191
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:02,000
boss.

1192
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:03,000
Boss.

1193
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:07,000
It's just a bad situation.

1194
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:10,000
Maybe you should just let it go.

1195
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:12,000
Maybe.

1196
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:13,000
I mean, it's an option.

1197
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:14,000
It's an option.

1198
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:15,000
Just don't rule it out.

1199
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:16,000
We haven't got there yet.

1200
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:17,000
We haven't got there yet.

1201
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:18,000
Fucking DOSNY.

1202
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:20,000
Dumbgeons and Dragons

1203
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:22,000
is a Dumb Dragons production.