[0.0s] Previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[2.2s] You are on the road.
[4.3s] I'm on top of one of the airships making good use of my looky-loo.
[7.8s] Much like you've seen on some of your other travels, empty and charred villages.
[12.6s] Excuse me, are you Lara Moonbrook?
[15.0s] Please don't take this the wrong way. You don't seem like you're a professional soldier.
[19.4s] I'm not. I actually joined the militia because of you and what them decimators of dragons are doing.
[27.0s] Wow. Well, thank you. It's all going to go super well, don't you think?
[31.8s] We now see the full force of the Cult of the Dragon.
[36.2s] Mercenaries, wizards, undead, and hundreds of dragons.
[43.1s] Shit.
[43.8s] Are you ready?
[45.2s] I don't really think anybody could be ready for this, but I'm here with my friends
[51.8s] and we're going to make it happen.
[53.0s] What we can plan is potions of invisibility and get you as close to the location as we can.
[61.5s] As you begin to disappear, he says, good luck.
[64.7s] You belay down as the shield lets free.
[69.3s] A giant falls directly in front of you and you nimbly leap up and over top of it.
[74.7s] Guys, we're so fucking nimble.
[76.2s] Just so goddamn nimble.
[77.4s] A blue dragon falls to the ground with a bronze dragon on top of it, tearing it apart.
[85.8s] You make it to the mountainside.
[87.6s] The war raging on behind you, you enter one of the tunnels leading into the well of dragons
[96.4s] and you hear voices coming from down the halls up ahead of you.
[104.6s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[106.9s] We're a D&D fifth edition actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master Russ More.
[112.0s] And with me today is Amy More.
[115.4s] I am here.
[116.6s] I have adopted my married name again.
[119.5s] Everything is fine.
[121.6s] Mom and dad aren't fighting anymore.
[123.3s] And I play Thea Mastavia.
[125.8s] Also with me, Tom Laird.
[128.5s] I'm just very thrilled that that week long cliffhanger has been wrapped up
[132.6s] nice and early in the episode.
[133.9s] It's real good.
[135.0s] I play Flint Firebeard.
[136.6s] And Carla Johnson.
[138.4s] I wish I had a quip, but I don't.
[141.3s] I play new Laura Moonbrook.
[144.3s] Sometimes not having a quip and saying you don't is just as good as having one.
[150.4s] How's everybody feeling today?
[152.9s] Like I'm ready.
[154.1s] I'm ready.
[155.7s] Like, I mean, I'm not, but I am.
[157.6s] I'm excited about it.
[159.4s] But I'm excited.
[160.2s] This is like, we're here and it's happening.
[164.6s] Yeah.
[165.8s] I mean, this might not be it, but like, this is definitely the beginning of it.
[169.8s] Yes.
[171.0s] All of it.
[172.4s] Not Stephen King's it.
[173.8s] Like, they're no clowns.
[174.9s] Oh, my God.
[175.5s] Don't give them ideas.
[176.6s] Better not be a killer clown, Russ.
[178.2s] I'm going to be so mad if there is.
[179.5s] We get in there.
[180.2s] Severin's fully in clown makeup.
[183.0s] Pennywise.
[185.9s] So this whole time, Tiamat has actually been Pennywise.
[190.3s] With five clown heads.
[192.2s] Yeah.
[192.6s] Somehow less scary than actual like the normal Pennywise.
[196.0s] I don't know.
[197.6s] Maybe she's like in a portal and she's like, there are baby dragons down here.
[204.2s] Come on.
[204.7s] And then she gets each one of us to come into the portal with her.
[208.0s] Yeah, it's exactly that.
[209.0s] I mean, that would get me to go into a weird portal.
[211.4s] So like you roll an insight check DC 46.
[217.4s] Oh, y'all got to go in.
[219.5s] You trust this weird dragon clown.
[222.2s] Would that get Flint in there or would that get Tom in there?
[225.9s] I mean, it would probably get Tom in there.
[229.1s] Tom has no wilderness experience.
[232.5s] Look, he's like, no, I would die in the wilderness.
[235.2s] No, it would not go well for me.
[236.9s] Especially with clown dragons.
[238.3s] Geez.
[239.0s] Clown dragon was like, I've got a lot of yard down here.
[241.9s] I'd be in there in a moment.
[244.2s] I mean, I've always kind of hated camping.
[246.6s] So I've never really gone out of my way to learn things about the outdoors
[250.6s] because it wasn't that interesting.
[252.6s] If you want Tom to learn how to wilderness better,
[255.8s] come join us over on Patreon.
[257.3s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[259.5s] And we're setting up goals where we're getting Tom wilderness experience.
[265.0s] No, we're not doing that.
[266.0s] I was going to say, are you going to choose like a personal struggle we're each having?
[272.6s] Like Amy's going to pick up her French again.
[275.0s] Once we hit $350, Amy has to commit to a French course.
[281.6s] Please feel free to test her.
[283.4s] I like this.
[284.1s] I like this.
[284.6s] It's bettering ourselves with the assistance of our patrons.
[288.6s] I mean, I've been meaning to start doing yoga again,
[290.9s] so that could be a goal for me.
[292.8s] A stretch goal, if you will.
[296.9s] Carla, what about you?
[297.8s] Oh, you're perfect.
[298.5s] You don't have to work.
[299.1s] No, that's what I mean.
[300.5s] I am so wildly imperfect.
[302.8s] It could be any number of things.
[306.2s] I don't know.
[306.7s] What do you got?
[307.4s] Roast me.
[307.8s] Don't roast me.
[308.6s] I can't handle it.
[309.6s] No.
[310.8s] Kindly roast me.
[311.8s] Roast you.
[314.1s] Gently, lightly toast me.
[317.0s] You can't wear your hair up in a bun anymore.
[319.8s] You have to wear your beautiful hair down all the time.
[322.0s] I'd have to wash it more than once a week.
[324.2s] See?
[326.3s] It's probably good.
[327.7s] So for Carla, we'd be buying shampoo.
[329.6s] Yeah.
[331.6s] Because her budget's going to go through the roof.
[333.3s] It would.
[333.8s] It's very expensive shampoo.
[336.2s] I believe it.
[336.8s] And Carla's got a lot of hair right now.
[339.8s] So aside from what we need to all work on as ourselves,
[344.7s] patrons get an episode dedicated to them every now and again.
[347.5s] Or an episode shouted out to them.
[350.4s] If you're listening to last episode.
[352.5s] I got edited out.
[353.6s] I don't know what you're talking about.
[355.0s] Wow.
[357.4s] Let's shout this one out to someone.
[359.8s] Shout it out.
[360.7s] We're shouting it out to ALex Kirk.
[363.8s] Thanks ALex Kirk.
[366.4s] You rock.
[367.7s] Okay guys, there's danger coming.
[369.4s] I know.
[370.0s] Fuck it.
[371.0s] Let's play D&D.
[372.3s] Oh, it was serious.
[378.8s] You have just entered a caldera leading into the well of the dragons.
[386.2s] You are presently uncertain for how long.
[390.2s] Still invisible.
[393.0s] And you, taking a quick survey of this tunnel,
[398.5s] see that it is a heavily used tunnel.
[404.0s] There are lots of footsteps leading to and from this way in.
[409.6s] You hear voices echoing from down the halls up ahead of you.
[413.7s] And as you enter there is a choice for you.
[416.7s] You can go left or you can go right.
[420.2s] Do we assume we're heading like into the heart of the volcano?
[424.2s] Yeah.
[424.8s] Directionality wise, yes.
[428.2s] All evil things happen at the heart of the volcano.
[431.3s] I mean just if you're going to have a lair in the, in a,
[434.2s] is it a dead volcano I guess?
[435.7s] Like you want to be like in the dead volcano, right?
[439.0s] Ask Dr. Evil.
[440.3s] How far is that?
[442.4s] Obviously I know we're going to go through tunnels and stuff,
[445.0s] but like as the crow flies,
[447.0s] what is my sense of the distance kind of to the middle?
[449.8s] Like a mile or half a mile?
[454.2s] Okay.
[456.1s] Great.
[456.3s] A kilometer.
[457.2s] These are all in feet.
[459.8s] Yeah, no, no, I just like, I mean, because a mountain,
[465.0s] i.e. a volcano, could be enormous, right?
[467.4s] So it could be like, we're going 20 miles to get to the center.
[473.0s] It is not, it is not that far.
[475.7s] Thank you for answering my question.
[478.4s] Ish, give or take.
[479.5s] Yeah, no, no, that's, that's cool.
[481.7s] Don't quote me.
[482.7s] I won't.
[483.4s] We've been traveling for more than half a mile, Russ.
[486.5s] We should be there by now.
[487.8s] So it's not like 300 feet like the,
[490.7s] from the entrance of Mount Doom to the pit
[492.9s] where they can throw the ring in?
[494.2s] Yeah.
[495.1s] Negative.
[496.2s] Okay.
[496.6s] So do you, do you think that you have an idea of which way to go, Nularaaaa?
[502.6s] Um.
[503.2s] With your tracker ranger power?
[507.2s] Well, see, normally if there was one dragon or even just a few,
[514.3s] yes, because they're like my greater favorite enemy.
[517.3s] So I would be able to use that information to know where they're coming from.
[520.4s] But there's fucking hell of dragons outside.
[525.1s] Plus we're not trying, like, hopefully there ain't no dragon in here yet, right?
[529.4s] Like we're trying to find Severin before TMA gets here.
[533.5s] A real big bad dragon shows up.
[535.1s] So unfortunately I don't know that my,
[538.7s] like that skill will not help us like direction right now.
[543.3s] Can I look on the walls and see if there's a sign?
[545.8s] Oh, good.
[546.8s] A lot of people using this got it.
[548.7s] They might need to know where to go.
[549.8s] Got to be clear.
[551.8s] Maybe it says mess hall this way and heart of evil lair that way.
[555.9s] I don't know.
[556.8s] Summoning room that way.
[559.6s] You don't see a sign, but you hear footsteps coming from both directions now
[565.3s] towards your present location.
[567.8s] I think this should not make me uninvisible,
[570.2s] but maybe tell me if it is going to make me uninvisible.
[572.9s] But I don't think it should.
[574.3s] But I would like to enact my armor of vulnerability
[577.5s] so that I am immune to non-magical damage for 10 minutes.
[581.4s] Yeah, sure.
[582.1s] Once this special action is used, it can't be used again until next dawn.
[584.9s] So yeah, you're on a 10 minute clock now.
[588.0s] Let's pull out all the fucking stops.
[589.9s] So what does Nulara do to enact this?
[593.4s] Because I don't think we've ever used this before.
[595.1s] I've never used it before.
[596.6s] I was waiting to use all of my things in the final battle.
[601.2s] I'm still going to forget about half of them,
[603.0s] but I did read my character sheet today.
[605.8s] You're welcome, teammates.
[607.8s] I do my patented five snap move.
[614.9s] And then it activates.
[616.6s] To you, your armor begins to glow.
[619.4s] The runes on it begin to illuminate, and it goes back within itself.
[625.7s] As you see coming down the halls from one direction,
[630.5s] five cult members from another direction,
[635.4s] three guard drakes, and four more cult members.
[639.5s] How much of the hallway are they taking up?
[642.6s] Like, is there a little room that we could shuffle off to the side
[645.8s] and maybe overhear them talk about where they're coming from
[651.9s] and where they might be going to?
[653.8s] The hallways about 20 feet wide.
[658.3s] Yeah, it's a big, big lava tube.
[661.4s] Okay, so hold on.
[662.3s] So we are in like, essentially a foyer
[666.2s] and there are two tunnels coming off of it, right?
[669.1s] We just stay where we are.
[672.3s] We could be able to hear either them talk about something
[676.9s] or just wait until they pass if we stick to the walls, guys.
[680.5s] Okay, I like, yeah.
[682.2s] Okay, good.
[683.7s] Doesn't have to be A or B.
[684.8s] Pick mystery option C.
[686.8s] I like it.
[687.4s] You guys hug up against the walls,
[689.5s] and these cult members and drakes converge on this central point,
[697.0s] and they are speaking draconic.
[699.3s] Perfect, I speak draconic.
[700.9s] Me too.
[701.7s] So everybody except Flint knows what's going on right now.
[705.7s] But I mean, Bort can speak that shit knees in my head.
[709.5s] Sure, Bort's relaying some information to you.
[712.1s] I mean, it's all hands on deck, Russ.
[713.4s] This is the last fucking kick of the can here.
[715.4s] No, it's good.
[716.1s] And Donnie can like do the psychic thing, you know.
[719.1s] It makes sense.
[719.8s] You guys all understand what's happening.
[721.9s] There's no secrets.
[723.1s] It's fine.
[723.7s] Just go kill the Tiamat dragon queen.
[725.8s] Perfect.
[727.1s] You see the cultists walk up to the other group,
[732.3s] and they begin talking.
[734.3s] Hey there, bud.
[735.7s] So they took the sacrifices out there,
[739.9s] and it's all going to be real good.
[742.6s] We're getting real, real comfortable in this new abode
[746.9s] and these new positions that we have here.
[749.2s] When Tiamat gets here, I hope we get all the things
[754.0s] that they've been promising us.
[757.0s] Now, I know we've been talking about this kind of a lot.
[760.0s] Once these sacrifices go down,
[761.5s] that's going to be a real big mess.
[763.5s] I don't know Tiamat's real position
[766.2s] on keeping things too clean.
[769.9s] Yeah, well, that wasn't my job before.
[775.2s] No, it's going to be fine.
[777.4s] Because we're so close to this,
[778.8s] I think all of our hard works are going to be paid off
[783.2s] real nice.
[783.9s] Uh, we were promised like gold and riches
[786.8s] and, uh, and treasure and stuff.
[789.3s] Tiamat will take care of all of you.
[791.2s] The boss has told me that Tiamat,
[794.5s] she's real good.
[795.5s] She's real nice.
[797.7s] Nothing to worry about here.
[799.0s] So yeah, sacrifices are in place.
[801.1s] All is good.
[802.2s] So what did you think about that, uh,
[803.7s] that stew I cooked up there the other night?
[806.9s] Nobody, nobody said too much about it.
[809.6s] Yeah, I mean, it was real flavorful.
[816.8s] Yeah, flavorful.
[818.3s] I get Flynn and Nularaaa's attention
[821.8s] and I gesture to the right tunnel
[825.1s] and I slowly start to move to there
[828.9s] because it just seems like they're just milling around.
[831.4s] So the right was just the cultists?
[834.0s] Yes.
[834.4s] Because there's something to me
[835.7s] that makes me feel like they are higher up
[838.2s] and would be like coming from the important place.
[841.9s] So I had the same instinct was to go that way.
[844.7s] Well, and also if they have sacrifices
[847.3s] and sacrifices are needed,
[850.0s] if they're needed,
[850.9s] if we can like fuck up their sacrifices somehow
[854.0s] that will hopefully give us some time
[856.3s] or fuck the whole thing up.
[857.6s] Some something.
[858.3s] So I'm gesturing and I'm like,
[860.3s] like really panting.
[861.4s] I'd be like, shh, creepy walking.
[866.7s] Not creepy walking.
[868.6s] As you get in behind this group,
[870.7s] everybody make a stealth check.
[875.6s] My rollin' lights out so far.
[877.8s] That's a 20 but not a...
[879.1s] Oh, I got a 10.
[883.7s] 17.
[885.4s] You begin to walk away
[888.4s] and you feel the effects of the potion wearing off
[894.7s] and as you are rounding the corner
[898.3s] Thea, your foot knocks some rocks loose
[904.1s] and the guard trick turns quickly
[907.1s] and sees you duck down the hall
[909.9s] and begins chasing after you.
[912.9s] Now hold on.
[914.4s] Hold on.
[916.1s] Wait a moment.
[918.1s] Wait a second.
[919.6s] So he sees me like...
[929.5s] Oh, fuck.
[930.5s] Never mind.
[933.3s] You're like translucent, I guess,
[934.9s] or like opaque because it's like wearing off.
[938.0s] I thought maybe he just saw like
[939.5s] the swish of my cloak or my foot.
[942.1s] Never mind.
[942.6s] What I was going to do doesn't...
[943.8s] I mean, it's like a 20 foot cavern
[947.0s] that you guys are walking through.
[948.1s] It's not like you guys are walking down narrow hallways.
[950.3s] Yeah, I know.
[951.1s] It's going to alter self to make me look like a drake
[953.6s] but whatever's good.
[955.7s] Yeah, no.
[956.2s] He sees you and lets out a bark
[961.1s] and that alerts the other cultists
[965.7s] who begin coming after you down the hall.
[969.5s] Roll for initiative.
[970.8s] Fuckin' sweet.
[971.5s] I was going to be so sad if we didn't get to fight
[973.2s] while I couldn't get hurt.
[975.5s] 11.
[976.0s] It's so brutal.
[978.3s] 19.
[979.5s] 15.
[980.7s] Bad roll.
[981.3s] Bad roll, my friend.
[982.2s] Sorry.
[987.7s] Preparing for battle,
[989.1s] we zoom back outside to chaos of the charging cult force
[997.1s] running headlong into Zaz Tam's undead army.
[1001.6s] The zombies and wights and ghosts
[1005.2s] all putting up a valiant battle
[1007.2s] taking down equal number cultists to their own forces.
[1012.6s] Zaz Tam's red wizards high above in the airships
[1015.7s] fire down rippling energy
[1017.5s] clearing the way for their own army.
[1020.6s] Cutting and carving their way through,
[1022.8s] dragons begin swooping,
[1025.3s] blasting them with acid and fire and ice,
[1028.9s] scooping them up in their giant maws
[1031.6s] and throwing them across the battlefield.
[1034.7s] We see in the sky,
[1036.3s] as the airship containing some of the red wizards
[1039.7s] is being charged by a young black dragon
[1043.9s] when suddenly from above
[1045.8s] is crushed and charged down by an armored blue dragon.
[1051.2s] It is my friend and Sir Lygard Willidan.
[1056.0s] He screams a giant merciless battle roar
[1059.8s] as he plummets down to the ground
[1062.3s] atop my friend driving the black dragon to the earth
[1066.3s] met with a giant crushing explosion.
[1082.7s] Okay, we're ready.
[1083.5s] We rolled initiative.
[1084.2s] Let's do this.
[1084.8s] Let's fuck up some dudes.
[1087.1s] Flint, you're up first.
[1088.7s] So are we like around the corner?
[1090.7s] Yes, you are around the corner.
[1092.6s] As they're rushing,
[1093.4s] begin rushing towards you,
[1094.7s] they are 30 to the closest,
[1097.2s] 60 to the farthest person.
[1099.5s] Yeah, I guess I'm gonna,
[1100.7s] I'm gonna,
[1102.7s] gonna run towards the guy that is leading the pack
[1106.8s] and just like,
[1107.7s] just slide kind of past him
[1110.6s] and give him a big old axe chop as I'm doing that.
[1113.1s] Nice.
[1113.8s] That's going to be the guard Drake.
[1116.0s] Perfect.
[1116.3s] Well, we started from the bottom.
[1117.8s] Now we're here.
[1119.0s] Let's do it.
[1120.7s] It's accurate now.
[1121.9s] Your Drake shots are accurate now.
[1124.1s] So that's a 20 but not critical.
[1125.8s] You slide and you drag your axe along the side of it.
[1129.6s] 15 damage.
[1130.6s] And it begins bleeding out the side of it.
[1133.4s] I kind of get up to my feet
[1135.1s] and as I do that,
[1136.2s] I give like a big old uppercut swing with my axe
[1139.4s] right in it,
[1139.9s] right in his chopper.
[1141.8s] 28.
[1142.5s] You get up to your feet
[1143.9s] and it looks at you as you swing your axe up.
[1147.9s] That is 13 damage.
[1149.5s] And through its jaw
[1151.8s] and it splits its head open,
[1154.1s] gray matter going onto the ceiling
[1157.7s] and it slumps to the ground.
[1159.9s] And I'm going to throw my Dwarven Thrower
[1162.7s] at I'll say one of the cultists.
[1167.2s] That is a 16.
[1168.5s] Your Dwarven Thrower hits the center of this cultist chest.
[1172.8s] One of the largest looking of the cultists.
[1177.4s] So 16 damage in total.
[1178.7s] It's got studded armor that crumples underneath
[1181.6s] and winds him as your thrower comes back to you.
[1185.8s] It is some of the cultists turns
[1188.9s] and they stop just beyond where this one was hit
[1193.5s] and three of them from beneath a cloak
[1197.7s] begin to unfurl wings.
[1200.3s] Three of them beneath one cloak?
[1202.3s] Like they're trying to sneak into an R-rated movie.
[1204.6s] Like are they one on top of the other?
[1206.1s] We thought it was one cultist
[1207.3s] but it's really three minions.
[1208.9s] It's really winged something.
[1209.7s] Yeah.
[1210.2s] Jesus.
[1211.1s] Le badis!
[1213.5s] Banana!
[1215.6s] No, three individual cultists
[1219.2s] removing their cloaks,
[1221.8s] unfurl wings
[1223.1s] and begin to fly towards you
[1226.3s] with scimitar in hand.
[1228.1s] What the hell are they?
[1229.5s] I always assume cultists are humans.
[1231.7s] Me too.
[1233.0s] That's very race?
[1234.9s] No, it's something-ist of us.
[1237.1s] It's something, yeah.
[1238.4s] One rushes forward and slices at Thea.
[1241.5s] Its blade goes wide on both wide arcing swings.
[1246.3s] One swings at Flint and doesn't hit.
[1249.8s] The other one slices twice at Nularaaaa,
[1254.7s] hitting once but the damage glints off
[1258.2s] and the runes glow where you are struck
[1261.1s] and it absorbs the energy of the strike.
[1265.0s] Dope.
[1266.4s] Is it like Black Panther's suit
[1268.1s] where you can store the kinetic energy
[1270.3s] and then blow it back at people?
[1271.8s] That is sort of what I pictured
[1273.0s] just as the runes glow
[1274.9s] and then it kind of dissipates.
[1277.1s] It looks rad as fuck, you guys.
[1278.5s] Yeah, it sure has helped us.
[1280.0s] Thank God I'm not invisible anymore, right?
[1282.4s] Right.
[1283.1s] Nularaaaa and Dany are off.
[1285.1s] Okay.
[1286.3s] I have got Dragon Slayer out
[1289.3s] and I guess I'm going to go for that one
[1291.8s] that just tried to go for me.
[1295.8s] So that is a 25.
[1298.0s] You slice up and into the air
[1301.2s] and knock this winged creature down to the ground.
[1305.8s] 11 damage.
[1306.7s] And it is prone in front of you.
[1309.8s] Going to go for him again, 21.
[1312.8s] As the creature falls and hits the ground,
[1315.3s] you drive Dragon Slayer straight into his chest.
[1319.0s] That is 9 damage.
[1321.1s] And you hear ribs crack
[1323.5s] as he lets out a scream of pain.
[1327.1s] Sweet.
[1328.1s] Then my boy, Dany, is going to come in.
[1331.2s] Do you guys remember that Dany has two attacks?
[1333.4s] I didn't, but he does.
[1334.6s] No.
[1335.7s] That's awesome, though.
[1336.5s] He is going to try to...
[1339.6s] You know what?
[1340.0s] The guy's prone,
[1341.0s] so I think he should actually just fight him
[1343.5s] because that makes sense.
[1346.8s] That is an 11.
[1349.4s] 11 does not hit.
[1351.4s] Actually, no, he's prone.
[1352.6s] He gets advantage,
[1353.4s] so you should get advantage on both of those rolls.
[1355.2s] Oh, that one's better.
[1356.1s] That's 22.
[1358.9s] Okay.
[1360.2s] And that one was 9, so it was still terrible.
[1362.9s] So one bite.
[1364.1s] He chomps deep into the neck of this winged creature.
[1368.9s] And 10 damage.
[1370.6s] It lights out.
[1371.5s] Sweet.
[1372.6s] Some more cultists turns,
[1374.9s] and these ones are on foot.
[1376.4s] They rush forward and two of them move to attack.
[1381.6s] Rolling at disadvantage because I have my fucking cloak on.
[1385.2s] Flint, the two that rush towards you
[1389.3s] are swinging wildly, not connecting with you.
[1393.3s] Two coming at Flint.
[1394.7s] Two strikes connect with their scimitars.
[1398.2s] You take 12 slashing damage.
[1401.1s] Due to me being a heavy armor master,
[1403.2s] I will take three less damage than the 12 you initially assigned me.
[1407.2s] And one trying to avenge his friend
[1410.1s] runs to Nulara and strikes at her.
[1413.2s] But again, when the scimitar connects,
[1416.6s] the damage is absorbed into the armor of invulnerability.
[1422.8s] Thea.
[1423.7s] It's my turn?
[1424.4s] Yeah.
[1424.8s] Okay.
[1425.1s] Who's left over here?
[1426.4s] Six on foot, two in the air.
[1428.4s] Okay.
[1428.8s] Well, I'm going to eldritch blast.
[1433.6s] I can direct three beams.
[1435.6s] So I'm going to direct two beams
[1438.4s] in front of these two posers in front of me
[1441.8s] that are just doing wild moves, but nothing else.
[1445.5s] And then one of the flying creatures.
[1450.4s] But before I do that, I call out Guacamole.
[1457.2s] I need you, girl.
[1459.2s] So Guac is out and ready to fucking party.
[1462.9s] Roll her into the initiative.
[1465.2s] Okay, here.
[1466.0s] She is going to be directly after me.
[1470.1s] Thea's eldritch blasts come out of her hands,
[1473.2s] a purple luminescence that flies towards her attackers.
[1476.8s] The first.
[1478.6s] Oh, it's an add 20.
[1482.2s] Strikes with an impressive force,
[1484.0s] knocking the winged creature down to the ground.
[1487.4s] The second.
[1488.4s] 26.
[1489.2s] And third.
[1490.1s] Third one is going to be 26.
[1491.8s] You guys are doing it.
[1493.6s] Love it.
[1494.2s] Oh my God.
[1495.4s] The end of the thing.
[1497.6s] Amy finally learns how to roll a d20.
[1500.8s] Very exciting for her.
[1502.6s] Strike into their attackers, knocking them off bAlydince.
[1506.0s] But they correct themselves and charge back into battle.
[1509.3s] Now y'all get him, Guac.
[1511.5s] She is going to slash with her talons.
[1517.8s] She just looks terrifying.
[1519.6s] She rolled an eight.
[1522.2s] They are terrified.
[1525.5s] Wouldn't you be if a big owl came out of nowhere?
[1529.0s] There's an owl.
[1531.6s] And then it is the big guy's turn who took the hammer to the chest.
[1537.2s] And he too, from underneath a cloak, sprouts wings and flies directly towards Flint,
[1544.4s] almost following the hammer back to him.
[1548.8s] Swings at you with his short sword.
[1551.3s] So you're going to take six piercing damage
[1554.4s] and seven acid damage.
[1557.5s] Oh, that's fun.
[1559.7s] As the short sword strikes into you as he flies to and past you.
[1566.4s] Flint, since that guy delivered himself right to me,
[1569.2s] I mean, I might as well just hack away at him.
[1575.9s] It's like a 29.
[1577.0s] As he's flying towards you, you catch him with your axe.
[1581.2s] All right, so that's 11 damage on the first attack.
[1584.1s] Bring him down to the ground and begin laying into him.
[1588.3s] A 25, 11 more damage on the second attack.
[1593.1s] And a 13.
[1594.5s] Does not hit.
[1595.6s] He is still alive, but probably wishing that he wasn't right now.
[1601.6s] As it is the winged cultist's turn, one of them stands back up and takes off with its wings
[1612.2s] to come and attack via.
[1614.9s] It slashes out at you again wildly, but connecting with one hit,
[1619.2s] ending your advantage that the cloak gives you.
[1621.9s] And you take six slashing damage and three cold damage.
[1627.0s] The other flighted cultist gets a nat 20 on Nulara.
[1633.2s] That doesn't fucking matter.
[1638.0s] Not that I'm bitter or anything.
[1638.8s] You'll get to kill me eventually, Russ.
[1640.3s] Don't worry about it.
[1641.1s] Yeah, it's coming, Russ, it's coming.
[1642.4s] Patience, patience.
[1644.0s] I got to find the word magic in here.
[1646.0s] Magic.
[1646.8s] Also, fun to finally see that fucking armor in action.
[1651.3s] It's pretty badass.
[1653.5s] Strikes into you with the scimitar and it seems like flames are coming up from the strikes,
[1661.1s] but still a no damage dealt.
[1664.4s] Nulara.
[1665.6s] Ha ha.
[1666.8s] I mean, obviously I'm going to attack that guy because he's all up in my business.
[1671.6s] Uh, 18.
[1673.5s] Yes.
[1674.0s] 13 damage.
[1675.4s] So your strike clips the wing of this creature.
[1679.1s] Okay, one more.
[1680.4s] Uh, no, probably not.
[1681.6s] Only a 13.
[1683.1s] Then my boy, he'll just give a little chompy chomp.
[1686.4s] Oh, and he does it this time.
[1687.5s] It was a 25.
[1689.1s] Yes.
[1690.4s] What a good boy he is.
[1692.7s] That is 10 damage.
[1694.4s] Oh, Donnie.
[1695.4s] Donnie.
[1696.7s] He was embarrassed.
[1697.4s] He missed twice to the prone guy last time.
[1700.8s] And it falls to the ground as Donnie catches it midair and crushes its spine in his mouth.
[1707.6s] Oh yeah, he does.
[1709.3s] Damn, Donnie.
[1711.2s] Vicious.
[1712.0s] I love it.
[1712.9s] Who else is nearby?
[1714.1s] What about the guy that was near me?
[1715.6s] Who else can he spine crush?
[1717.2s] Well, there's three, three dudes around Flint.
[1719.9s] There's one walking dude near you.
[1722.8s] So there is another guy near you.
[1724.2s] Okay.
[1724.5s] Well, I guess Donnie will try and bite him.
[1726.0s] I'm not going to come like kill the guy that you just killed.
[1729.6s] Yeah, exactly.
[1730.6s] Like, I'm not going to Salazar.
[1732.1s] Also, where is that dude?
[1733.7s] But I mean, in the order of things, that guy is up before I'm up again.
[1737.6s] So like, if you did happen to kill him, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
[1741.0s] Dude, he's like gurgling on the ground.
[1744.4s] I'm just saying he's probably going to bust out some sort of crazy blood magic
[1747.9s] when Russ gets his next turn with him.
[1750.6s] But now you said that it seems like cheating somehow for me to go.
[1754.3s] Yeah, that doesn't seem right.
[1757.0s] So he'll do the other guy that's just wandering around, I guess.
[1760.7s] Donnie's going to try and bite him.
[1761.9s] He's minding his own business.
[1763.2s] That is a 19.
[1766.8s] So that is eight damage to him.
[1769.1s] He takes a huge chunk out of this guy's side as he yells and it echoes down the hall.
[1778.0s] The two that are on Flint, one of them strikes you with his scimitar
[1784.8s] and you take six slashing damage.
[1789.1s] Of the two that are on you, Thea, one of them strikes you with a natural 20
[1794.4s] and you will take 12.
[1797.3s] Okay, I took my damage.
[1798.5s] Look at me.
[1800.1s] 21 points of damage already.
[1802.0s] We're in the mouth of the motherfucking cave.
[1804.3s] One of the able-bodied cultists begins running down the leftmost tunnel
[1811.8s] and it is your turn.
[1812.9s] Well, good.
[1814.4s] I'm going to kill him.
[1816.1s] I'm going to hit him with Guiding Bolt.
[1818.5s] Oh, that's a fun one.
[1819.8s] I'm going to make a range spell attack for 21.
[1829.2s] 4d6 radiant damage.
[1832.6s] 10 damage, 10 radiant damage.
[1835.1s] A flash of light comes out from your hands and strikes this cultist in the back
[1840.0s] and his skin begins to boil as he lets out a whimpered cry and falls to the ground.
[1846.9s] And now also, he's totally glowy and a dim mystic light is coming from him
[1852.8s] and the next attack roll made against him has advantage.
[1857.6s] That's fun.
[1858.7s] It sounded like Russ said he was dead, but was that not the case?
[1861.9s] Was he dead?
[1862.6s] I mean, his skin bubbled and he fell to the ground.
[1866.0s] I didn't get that either, Amy.
[1867.6s] I just thought he had fallen flat.
[1869.4s] I mean, you don't know that he's dead, so you don't know if he's dead.
[1873.0s] Well, you can kick a man while he's dead.
[1875.9s] Sure, yeah, absolutely.
[1877.7s] I mean, you would think any attack roll would have advantage against him then.
[1882.4s] Gwak.
[1885.0s] Gwak is going to...
[1887.7s] What's left?
[1888.4s] Like, what's happening here?
[1889.5s] So I've got a couple guys at my feet, don't I?
[1893.2s] Yeah.
[1893.9s] All right, Gwak's going to try for one of them again.
[1895.8s] I say, okay, girl, you can do it.
[1897.2s] Come on, just focus, just focus.
[1900.8s] She rolls a 21.
[1902.6s] Good girl.
[1904.4s] So this is slashing damage.
[1906.3s] She gets 2d6 plus one, so it's eight.
[1910.5s] She sinks her talons into this cultist and begins lifting him off the ground
[1917.2s] and drops him to the ground, flaying his shoulders as she does so.
[1923.5s] The gurgling cultists on the ground below Flint's feet, you hear a rumble come from his chest
[1933.2s] and a plume of acid comes out of his mouth and towards you.
[1937.8s] Oh, God.
[1940.6s] That's a 24, so that's going to be 22 acid damage that comes to your face.
[1952.7s] Oh, hey there.
[1954.8s] Welcome to the middle part.
[1958.8s] Is that what that's called?
[1960.3s] The middle part.
[1961.1s] It's our podcast within a podcast where we talk about different hairstyles.
[1965.3s] That's right.
[1966.0s] Oh, good one.
[1967.3s] Hey, it's me, your dungeon master, Russ More with all these other friends.
[1971.4s] Just some randos.
[1972.1s] Just random friends.
[1973.9s] We just wandered in.
[1975.4s] This is still a new thing for me to have other people do this part,
[1978.4s] so you can introduce yourselves if you'd like to.
[1981.2s] They probably already know who we are.
[1982.7s] I don't even know why I introduced myself in this middle part
[1986.1s] because I've already done so,
[1987.6s] and they've already listened for at least half an hour.
[1989.8s] Hey, it's me, the same guy you've been listening to for the past half hour,
[1993.2s] just in case you've forgotten and you have some memento kind of thing happening.
[1997.3s] Oh, is there a memento situation?
[1999.2s] This is probably why I didn't have you guys in this part.
[2001.8s] Probably.
[2003.8s] Welcome together.
[2004.6s] Thanks for joining us for episode 76 of Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[2008.3s] Into the Well, part one.
[2010.4s] If you're liking what you're listening to so far, and we really hope you are,
[2014.9s] why don't you come over and visit us on Patreon?
[2018.8s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon.
[2022.1s] Nope, still no.
[2022.8s] No, son of a bitch.
[2023.6s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[2025.6s] You gotta say it with confidence.
[2026.8s] Ah, Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[2030.8s] Over there, we have an amazing community filled with awesome people who support us
[2035.1s] and who we love so dearly and help make this podcast what it is.
[2040.0s] And also other stuff for you.
[2042.1s] A community and other episodes you can listen to and other content you can see.
[2048.2s] And just like, you know, you can see our dumb faces once a month if you want.
[2052.7s] I don't recommend it.
[2053.5s] This is true.
[2054.2s] But no, no, we do have dumb faces.
[2056.8s] I love how that's the sell for gook hang always for Carla.
[2060.0s] It's like you can just see our dumb faces.
[2061.8s] Well, it's certainly not for the content.
[2063.2s] Well, yeah, there's, I mean, very rarely good content in the Google Hangout,
[2067.7s] but it is fun.
[2068.2s] Oh, it's always gold.
[2069.3s] You can chat with us about D&D or other.
[2073.3s] Mostly it's just us talking about like pop culture nonsense, but whatever.
[2077.6s] It's kind of just you get to hang out with us like friends.
[2080.4s] Yeah, and we are.
[2081.6s] We're all like friends.
[2083.3s] And you can cat chat with everybody else in Patreon in there.
[2086.7s] You can cat chat.
[2087.8s] There's lots of cats.
[2089.5s] People seem to prefer dogs more so, but there are several people named Cat.
[2093.8s] Yep, Cat or Cathy or all those sorts of people.
[2097.0s] So Patreon just for a dollar a month gets you into those bonus episodes.
[2101.7s] Two dollars gets you that gook hang and it kind of goes up from there.
[2105.6s] But if you're unable to join us on Patreon,
[2108.2s] there are still other ways that you can help us out.
[2111.5s] Not only by listing because we certainly appreciate that.
[2114.4s] But if you can't commit to the monthly pledge of Patreon,
[2118.0s] there are ratings and reviews that you can do to help out the show that put us
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[2127.5s] if that matters, or just send us something that you kind of like about the show.
[2133.6s] Like some of these people.
[2135.2s] So this retune, this retune, this reviews from iTunes by ALex the DMBE.
[2140.8s] This show is a friggin blast.
[2142.7s] The interactions of the players with the DM is hilarious and the production quality
[2146.8s] gets amazing.
[2148.0s] I was smiling the whole time I listened to this and laughed out loud multiple times.
[2151.8s] Seriously, this is a hilarious show with a quick witted cast
[2154.9s] who play off each other so well.
[2156.7s] If you like TTRPG actual plays, this is one of the best out there.
[2161.4s] Thank you so much.
[2162.1s] That's an amazing review.
[2163.4s] And let me just preface this.
[2164.9s] I say this every time, but every single time we get a review
[2168.5s] or anything on Facebook, it absolutely blows my mind.
[2172.8s] It's amazing.
[2174.6s] This review called, let's see here.
[2177.4s] Lots of fun.
[2178.2s] And it's by J-Man Weird.
[2180.2s] Hey guys, F-72 was lots of fun.
[2182.8s] We just wanted to wish you all the best with Tiamat.
[2185.2s] Thumbs up emoji and then a egg in a frying pan emoji?
[2189.9s] Yeah, that's like a crazy face emoji.
[2194.5s] Oh, I just had two other small little squares,
[2196.9s] so I could not see the other emojis.
[2199.2s] Yeah, no, it's a crazy face, a thumbs up, bacon,
[2201.9s] and then an egg in a frying pan.
[2203.2s] Emojis have never spoken to me as much as they have right now.
[2206.8s] I'm going to go into this battle with a confidence of a weird face.
[2209.9s] Thumbs up, bacon, and a fried egg.
[2213.5s] Good.
[2214.0s] Sounds like a lot of confidence.
[2215.8s] This is from Laura Ojetalo.
[2219.6s] This is a Facebook review.
[2221.4s] I found these guys when I realized that you can actually listen
[2223.7s] to people playing D&D in Spotify.
[2225.6s] I'm new to listening to any kind of podcast.
[2227.4s] I'm a Finnish woman living and working in Spain
[2229.2s] and found role playing in D&D here in Spain about three years ago.
[2232.3s] Our group of D&D and role gaming is separating this spring
[2235.5s] because some of us are moving back to Finland, which is sad.
[2238.2s] So I started to Google the rise of Tiamat,
[2240.2s] which Dumbgeons and Dragons Group is playing now.
[2246.7s] We are almost at the end of Horde of the Dragon Queen with our group.
[2249.7s] Somehow after jumping from link to link, I found them in Spotify
[2252.5s] and it was love at first sight or maybe at first listening
[2255.7s] or however it's supposed to be said in English.
[2258.2s] She's correct.
[2258.8s] There is no good way to say that in English.
[2260.9s] She nailed it.
[2262.0s] I started to listen then from the first episode
[2263.8s] and I'm loving every moment of it.
[2265.2s] I'm now on episode 32, so I'm catching up.
[2267.2s] I'm honestly laughing out loud and really enjoying what they are doing here.
[2270.8s] Also listening to these Canadian people does great for my English,
[2275.0s] which I will back up because of that incredible,
[2279.0s] very well written review.
[2280.9s] Thank you so much.
[2282.3s] Imagine trying to write her an amazing review.
[2285.0s] No, I can't do it.
[2286.1s] In her language, which is Finnish.
[2288.8s] It wouldn't sound.
[2290.1s] She's amazing.
[2291.0s] It wouldn't even be intelligible at all.
[2294.3s] But you know what is intelligible?
[2296.4s] Sarah McWilliams who reviewed us on Facebook and she says,
[2299.6s] this is my new obsession.
[2302.7s] Creepy.
[2303.2s] I like that.
[2303.6s] I love it.
[2305.5s] If you're a fan of D&D or just going on an adventure with four people
[2309.2s] who will quickly feel like your best friends,
[2311.4s] you should start listening.
[2312.8s] Enjoy the new ear candy.
[2315.2s] I think that part should be, if it's an obsession,
[2317.2s] I think, sorry, let me try it again.
[2318.6s] You should start listening.
[2320.0s] Enjoy the new ear candy.
[2322.9s] I like it.
[2324.4s] I like it.
[2325.9s] So many reasons why you did these alone.
[2328.4s] So many reasons.
[2330.1s] So many reasons.
[2331.8s] It's okay though.
[2332.5s] We're in it.
[2333.2s] We're in it now.
[2334.6s] Thank you to everybody who left us a review.
[2336.9s] We really appreciate you.
[2338.3s] You're all amazing.
[2340.2s] If you are so inclined to write us a review,
[2343.4s] we will gladly read it right here.
[2345.6s] We'll do it.
[2346.8s] We promise and swear.
[2350.0s] We might forget about it at some point and then come back to it
[2352.9s] because that's what we do too.
[2355.5s] Yep.
[2356.0s] We're slightly scatterbrained like that,
[2357.5s] but I think it lends a certain charm.
[2360.8s] Oh, unreliable is what they call us.
[2363.2s] That's what they call us.
[2365.6s] Links for all the things that we mentioned today
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[2376.9s] Everybody can just come and join and chat about the show
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[2399.2s] Final thanks to Sirenscape for some of the amazing atmosphere and music
[2402.4s] in today's episode.
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[2406.3s] The next episode will be out next Wednesday,
[2409.6s] March, opening a calendar, March 20th where we get to part two of Into the Well
[2419.4s] and we get closer to the maybe Rise of Tiamat.
[2423.5s] Oh, come on Ross, you know it's inevitable.
[2425.6s] It's into the inevitable Rise of Tiamat.
[2428.0s] So let's get back into the game.
[2430.2s] Enjoy the rest of the episode.
[2431.7s] Have a great week.
[2432.6s] We'll talk soon.
[2433.4s] I mean, I told you all it was coming.
[2441.4s] You did.
[2442.1s] You did say that.
[2443.4s] Now, this is acid, not poison, correct?
[2445.5s] This is acid.
[2447.3s] You're wishing for poison, aren't you?
[2448.9s] Oh, every time.
[2450.7s] Flint, we're back to you.
[2452.8s] Sweet.
[2453.5s] Well, that acid bath was fun.
[2455.4s] You have baby soft skin now, though, because that's true.
[2457.9s] How many layers did that peel off?
[2460.0s] Yeah.
[2462.0s] Yeah, can I murder this guy finally?
[2464.5s] Maybe.
[2465.2s] We'd all like it if you did.
[2466.5s] You also got two other dudes on you.
[2468.4s] OK, well, it's murder time for this other dude.
[2471.2s] So that's a 23 for the guy on the ground.
[2473.8s] You swing your axe down almost like as he's shooting up this acid,
[2478.4s] you're swinging your axe down.
[2479.8s] So you take this face of acid and the axe connects with his head.
[2484.8s] Does the acid happen to like ricochet off the axe
[2488.0s] and hit one of the other guys that's standing nearby?
[2490.4s] Like, I'm still taking it, but.
[2492.4s] Sure, yeah, that'll each take some acid damage.
[2495.5s] You don't know.
[2496.0s] I like that.
[2496.8s] Until you ask, right?
[2497.3s] The acid cloud spreads to the other cultist to your side.
[2501.6s] I'll turn to the guy on the right and give a big like overhand,
[2505.9s] two hand chop down on him.
[2509.0s] So that's a 27.
[2510.4s] With your big cleave through.
[2512.7s] 12 damage.
[2513.9s] And the acid damage he took previously, he is dismembered on the ground.
[2519.0s] I'll spin around and some sort of, you know,
[2522.7s] tree like chop into his midsection should do the job.
[2526.9s] 19.
[2527.4s] Yep.
[2528.7s] Nine damage.
[2529.6s] Again, with the combined damage you cleave this man through.
[2536.0s] Well, just feels like home covered in blood.
[2539.7s] Perfect.
[2540.4s] Before my turn ends, I'm going to use my second wind
[2543.7s] and it's a bonus action to recover some hit points.
[2546.9s] So it's 1d10 plus my fighter level.
[2549.7s] Nice.
[2550.9s] 21.
[2552.8s] It's like nothing happened.
[2555.9s] The final winged one sets off down the hall to the right at a brisk pace.
[2562.2s] He dashes down the hall and it is new Laura's turn.
[2567.9s] Damn it.
[2569.1s] Yeah.
[2569.3s] I have fleet of foot is one of my feats.
[2572.1s] So I can use dash as a bonus action.
[2574.8s] So I don't know how that works.
[2576.5s] Like, because he got a head.
[2577.7s] Does he have a head start or can I catch him?
[2579.8s] Yeah, you'd be there and able to swing at him with your full attacks as well.
[2584.2s] Great.
[2585.1s] I want to not let him alert more bad guys.
[2589.8s] We've only made it into the entrance as a 27.
[2595.0s] Knocking him to the ground, you catch up to him.
[2597.5s] Seven damage.
[2598.6s] Men are now on top of him as you take your second swing.
[2602.6s] Only 16.
[2603.8s] Still hits.
[2604.6s] That one was 14 damage, which is much better.
[2608.7s] Where do you drive your sword into this creature?
[2612.2s] Well, he was already prone.
[2613.9s] Yeah.
[2614.4s] Like I knocked him down on the first one on his face.
[2616.4s] So on his on his on his tum tum.
[2618.9s] Oh, anything I say now feels mean.
[2624.4s] But yeah, I guess I'm going to stab him through the neck.
[2629.6s] Yeah.
[2629.8s] With a gurgling mess.
[2632.8s] You stab him through his neck and he is dead beneath your feet.
[2636.7s] Donnie's still in the room because he obviously didn't dash with me,
[2640.1s] but we were fighting a guy.
[2642.4s] Yeah, there's one guy.
[2644.0s] I like that he's just become a guy.
[2646.9s] Just a guy.
[2647.9s] Just a faceless, nameless guy.
[2650.5s] 16.
[2651.8s] Yes.
[2653.3s] And so this is just bite again.
[2655.2s] That's five damage.
[2656.8s] He takes a good chunk out of this man's back as he's swirling around.
[2662.0s] And he'll do it again.
[2664.8s] And that is a 12.
[2667.1s] 12 does not hit, no.
[2669.2s] And it is those final cultists turns.
[2673.3s] There are still two on Thea who you have started your turn.
[2678.0s] So your thing comes back.
[2679.6s] So they swing wildly at you again.
[2683.0s] And the one that got bit by Donnie swings at Donnie,
[2687.6s] but critically misses.
[2689.0s] So he falls to the ground as he's thrown off bAlydince by the bite in his back.
[2695.1s] Thea.
[2695.8s] Thea is going to Eldritch Blast again.
[2700.8s] No, they're the last two left, aren't they?
[2702.4s] They're the two that are on you.
[2703.2s] And then Donnie's fighting with one that just got knocked to the ground.
[2706.0s] He's not dead, but there's one that got knocked.
[2707.9s] Oh, well, I'm going to do three bolts.
[2709.4s] So why wouldn't that one guy?
[2711.6s] Spread the love around.
[2712.0s] Why wouldn't I?
[2712.8s] Yeah, sure.
[2713.9s] Okay.
[2715.1s] So the first bolt to the one that Donnie's on top of.
[2719.4s] Is only a 14.
[2721.6s] We'll hit.
[2722.6s] Okay.
[2722.9s] Well, then I guess 20 will hit.
[2726.8s] And as will a 26.
[2729.5s] So they get 10.
[2734.1s] Nice.
[2735.6s] Seven.
[2736.9s] Also nice.
[2737.7s] And nine.
[2738.6s] Damn, Amy.
[2739.7s] Damn, Amy.
[2741.9s] Can we just play like four more sessions while Amy's rolling dice?
[2744.5s] I know these are like the hottest her dices have been ever.
[2748.4s] Three massive purple eldritch blasts come out from your hands
[2752.4s] and you shoot them at these cultists
[2754.8s] and they are blown back and into the walls.
[2758.4s] Except for the one that's right on the ground.
[2760.1s] And they take an extra three damage as they hit the walls
[2765.3s] and crumple to the ground, seemingly dead.
[2769.6s] The only uncertain one that you are aware of
[2772.5s] is the one that you blasted that was running down the left hallway.
[2776.9s] But otherwise, everybody else is dispatched.
[2780.4s] Can I say walk over?
[2783.1s] See if she can.
[2784.5s] Stab him?
[2785.2s] No, she doesn't, though.
[2787.2s] She can tell if he's dead.
[2788.8s] See if we can like talk to this dude, get some answers.
[2791.3s] Yeah.
[2791.6s] Can she see if he's dead?
[2793.3s] She like lands on top of him.
[2796.6s] Okay.
[2796.8s] What do you want to do?
[2797.9s] Because I want her because he's like.
[2802.3s] He's like face down on the floor.
[2804.1s] Yeah.
[2804.8s] So I want her to like turn him over.
[2808.2s] Yeah, he flops over and with a death rattle
[2812.5s] appears to be no more in this world.
[2816.5s] Well, I would think his horribly burnt back
[2819.0s] would be very painful to be rolled over on too.
[2821.6s] So he was alive.
[2823.6s] Also, the death rattle gave it away.
[2825.7s] Right?
[2826.4s] Yeah.
[2827.2s] So did one that one ran down the left hall
[2829.6s] and the other one went down the right hall?
[2832.9s] You chased ran down the right hall.
[2834.8s] That doesn't tell us anything, you guys.
[2838.0s] Tricky.
[2838.4s] Well, except that the guy running down
[2841.2s] the right hall probably.
[2844.3s] Oh, I don't know.
[2845.1s] I see we just continue right.
[2846.6s] Guys, should we just keep going this way?
[2848.8s] Yeah, it makes it makes sense.
[2850.4s] Let's just be consistent.
[2852.0s] And then if we have to backtrack, we can remember.
[2855.1s] That was new.
[2855.6s] We'll just come back to the room with all the bodies in it.
[2857.9s] We won't remember.
[2859.2s] So you continue on down the hall
[2861.4s] and it carries on for approximately like 200 to 250 feet.
[2867.5s] As you keep going, you hear muffled voices ahead of you.
[2872.0s] But then it forks again.
[2874.9s] Yulara, you can tell that the path to the right
[2878.9s] seems to skirt along the side of the mountain.
[2882.9s] Whereas the path to the left, you see more openings
[2886.7s] down the hall as far as you can see.
[2890.2s] It appears to be moving towards the center of the volcano.
[2897.5s] Which way do you think we should go, Yulara?
[2900.0s] Well, if we go right, which we literally just said
[2902.8s] was what we were going to keep doing,
[2904.4s] it all seems like it kind of keeps us around
[2906.4s] the perimeter a bit more.
[2907.5s] If we go left, that's heading in.
[2910.4s] But it seems like there's a lot more tunnel options in there,
[2914.7s] which means things are going to get more complicated.
[2917.3s] But do we think he's near the center?
[2921.9s] If I were an evil dude trying to raise a fucking dragon lady,
[2930.8s] I'd want to be around a volcano center.
[2933.9s] Me too.
[2936.0s] He can have the most people between him
[2938.4s] and the outside protecting him.
[2940.8s] And if they're drawing on the elements as well,
[2945.6s] I mean, you'd want to be near the center.
[2947.5s] Yeah.
[2948.8s] So left?
[2950.6s] Left it is.
[2953.9s] You begin moving down the hall
[2956.0s] and there are multiple openings the further down you go.
[2960.0s] The first pair you come to, it splits off left and right.
[2964.9s] You hear as you approach muffled voices to your left.
[2970.2s] Can I get real close up against the wall
[2972.7s] and try to listen and know what they're saying?
[2975.1s] Does Thea have a cup that she can put up against the wall?
[2979.6s] Could I get guacamole since we talk palatathically?
[2989.6s] Shut up, Tom.
[2991.2s] Telepathically.
[2992.6s] I said that.
[2993.3s] She is keen hearing and sight.
[2996.4s] She has, like on perception checks, she has advantage.
[3002.4s] She speaks common to me.
[3004.9s] My mind?
[3005.6s] Yeah, absolutely.
[3006.5s] She does.
[3007.3s] She does not, however, speak draconic.
[3012.2s] She just sends me pictures of like dragon, dragon, dragon.
[3016.4s] Pictograms, dragon.
[3019.5s] Can I make a perception check of listening real hard?
[3023.1s] How close are you getting to this opening
[3025.2s] as you go before you start making these checks?
[3028.8s] Because that's also going to determine like stealth rules and stuff.
[3032.2s] Right now, you're about 60 feet down the hall
[3035.2s] before the first openings.
[3037.2s] And it's low muffled rumblings.
[3040.4s] You can't really hear anything more than the...
[3043.9s] I changed my mind.
[3044.8s] I don't want to...
[3045.6s] I think we should just keep going, guys.
[3047.6s] Yeah.
[3048.2s] Like if Severin's the goal, like we think he's in, let's go.
[3053.8s] Eyes on the prize.
[3055.1s] Okay, so we're walking past these openings, yes?
[3059.0s] Quickly.
[3059.4s] In a sneaky way.
[3060.0s] I feel bad about it now, but yes.
[3063.0s] Everybody make a stealth check.
[3064.5s] Damn it, I didn't want a stealth check.
[3068.4s] Fuck, I got a nine.
[3071.2s] I got a 16.
[3075.2s] Well, I got an eight, so...
[3079.2s] That's not just me.
[3081.7s] As you're walking by, Flint nimblefootedly is skipping ahead.
[3086.0s] I feel like he's doing like cartwheels, like ha, ha.
[3089.7s] Amazingly, his armor is making little to no noise in this moment.
[3094.0s] It's amazing.
[3095.3s] Nularaaaa, you look to the left as you go,
[3099.5s] and you lock eyes with the room of cultists who are staring back at you.
[3105.2s] Thea, you look to the right and you see an empty chamber
[3109.2s] that is soaked in the corners with blood and bile.
[3113.7s] And it looks like it is where the prisoners may have been kept.
[3119.2s] As the cultists stand up from the table they're at
[3122.0s] and draw their weapons charging towards you,
[3124.6s] we find ourselves back outside.
[3129.2s] The battle for Faerun and all of Toriel raging on.
[3135.6s] Persons on all sides dropping to the ground,
[3139.1s] sacrificing their lives for what they believe.
[3141.4s] When we look, we see the cyclone growing stronger above the Well of Dragons.
[3148.4s] Faint, light auras can be seen leaving the deceased bodies from the battlefield,
[3154.4s] rising up into the sky and into the heart of the cyclone.
[3171.4s] Some of the music in today's episode is by Kavin McLeod of incompetech.filmmusic.io
[3186.3s] and Scott Buckley at scottbuckley.com.au.
[3190.3s] Can I ask a question?
[3192.4s] No.
[3194.8s] No, the question period has passed.
[3197.2s] No, I was with the P time.
[3198.4s] That was not the time to ask questions.
[3201.2s] And you hear them talking about how they have the...
[3208.8s] They have the...
[3211.2s] Why is the word leaving me?
[3214.4s] Don't, no, just wait.
[3218.2s] It's an easy word.
[3219.0s] Yeah, it's that timer that turns the hour glass.
[3222.3s] It's not an hour that you couldn't even think of the word.
[3227.0s] The joke would have been better had I could have thought of it.
[3229.4s] It's the timer.
[3231.6s] It's so much better that you didn't remember.
[3235.1s] Something about that word.
[3236.4s] True to form.
[3237.5s] The damage is absorbed into the...
[3242.9s] That's not a shield.
[3243.7s] The sheep?
[3244.4s] The armor of invulnerability.
[3247.2s] She says a sheep that's just like...
[3251.1s] I call out guacamole.
[3254.0s] Okay.
[3254.6s] I need you, girl.
[3256.2s] Oh, God.
[3260.3s] She somehow turned into a dove.
[3263.6s] One of them strikes you with a natural 20 and you will take 12.
[3271.6s] 12 slashing damage.
[3273.8s] What did you roll to hit me?
[3276.6s] A natural 20.
[3277.7s] Well, I don't like that.
[3279.8s] That's what I said.
[3281.2s] Hits you with a natural 20.
[3282.9s] I don't like it.
[3287.3s] This is how much I listen to Russ when he speaks.
[3290.8s] Yeah, but what did you roll?
[3294.1s] Sorry, I just went...
[3294.8s] For real, I'm going to need to know what you roll.
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