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[2.2s] Holy shit, you guys.
[3.5s] Yeah, that about sums it up.
[5.6s] You see landing atop those towers one of each of the different five coloured chromatic dragons.
[13.8s] Above the orders you hear screams forming.
[17.0s] You see the dragons begin to stop circling and they begin to soar down to the volcano floor.
[25.3s] Can we sneak by these dragons somehow that are busy eating these people?
[29.7s] Sorry people.
[30.9s] At that moment you hear the same crushing crack.
[35.8s] This is a fucking ice giant's castle.
[38.1s] A flying ice fortress.
[40.2s] You see three red robed wizards standing at the gate to the temple of Tiamat.
[47.9s] He runs through the doors as they slam shut and the dragons in the air
[54.7s] and off in the distance they roar incredibly loud.
[60.1s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[62.8s] We're a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master Russ More and
[67.4s] with me today is Tom Laird.
[69.5s] Hey, that's me.
[70.4s] Unexpected first out of the gate and I play FlintFirebeard.
[74.2s] And Carla Johnson.
[75.8s] Hey, it's me the in-betweeny weenie like most of the time.
[80.0s] And I play Nulara Moonbrook.
[81.6s] And Amy More.
[83.0s] Well, I don't have a funny like rhyme to go with mine.
[87.8s] But like third is the one with the hairy chest.
[92.2s] Doesn't really seem to fit in this instance.
[94.6s] Or does it?
[95.7s] And I play Thea Mastasia.
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[160.5s] Fuck it.
[160.9s] Let's play some D&D.
[162.7s] It's been a weird night.
[164.5s] Oh, I changed it.
[166.1s] You did.
[166.7s] It's a weird night, folks.
[168.5s] Get ready for it.
[172.7s] Friends.
[173.9s] You are standing at the gate to the temple of Tiamat.
[178.3s] You've just seen three red wizards run in and shut the door behind them with a loud
[185.4s] was probably what I did in post there.
[190.2s] Yeah, yeah, that sounds like me.
[192.3s] It sounds like something I would do.
[194.2s] Echoed through as there are dragons roaring above your head.
[198.6s] You hear them fighting off in the distance.
[203.5s] What do you do?
[204.6s] Guys, we have to get through this door.
[207.1s] Agreed.
[208.6s] I assume we're all at the door at this point.
[210.3s] Like we've run forward.
[211.9s] I assume nothing.
[212.9s] Because if I put you there, then you could be in danger.
[215.4s] Oh, I totally.
[216.7s] I totally ran there.
[217.8s] Yeah.
[218.3s] Like once Thea did the old blasty blast and Flint booked it, I think.
[224.7s] I assume we all would have been taken off.
[226.5s] We're doing it.
[227.1s] Yeah.
[227.5s] So we all like ran because in theory, we wanted to, you know,
[231.5s] maybe stop them from closing that door.
[236.3s] No such luck.
[237.8s] Is it maybe a situation where they're like panicked and trying to lock it
[241.5s] and they just can't seem to get it locked?
[243.1s] Like when the serial killers after them in a movie
[245.5s] and then we just like kick on through the door.
[247.8s] Or related question.
[249.7s] Is there a small, I don't know, like doggie door, like a drake door,
[255.4s] a little drake door.
[257.5s] And, you know, because I'm imagining they were very,
[261.4s] like it was huge, like castle-y doors, right?
[264.3s] Not a human sized door.
[266.3s] Definitely.
[266.9s] Yeah, it is a large, large door.
[271.9s] Judging by the sound that I found to use on the last episode.
[276.3s] Yeah, it really was.
[277.7s] Loved it.
[278.5s] So good.
[279.0s] Stone, right?
[280.2s] Stone doors?
[281.4s] Yeah, well, stone and bone and something else that rhymes with bone.
[287.1s] Old iPhone.
[289.4s] But no, you don't hear them fumbling with any locks on the other side
[292.3s] and there appear to be no drake doors.
[295.6s] Dang.
[296.5s] Are there handles or anything?
[297.9s] Is it a smooth fucking?
[300.4s] Good question.
[301.5s] Good question.
[302.1s] It's a smooth fucking.
[305.1s] What is like a good smooth fucking?
[307.8s] I mean, it's not smooth.
[309.5s] It's jagged, as is the rest of the temple.
[315.7s] But in saying that, you don't appear to see any handles of sorts.
[322.8s] So it's made, obviously, of the same amalgam of materials
[328.7s] as the rest of the temple.
[330.5s] You got it.
[331.3s] Okay, cool.
[335.5s] Does anyone have the ability to walk through walls?
[341.1s] You guys just maybe hadn't mentioned it yet.
[343.1s] Let me just look at my character sheet real quick here.
[345.9s] I mean, are there any nooks and or crannies?
[349.0s] First level dwarf skill.
[352.1s] I mean, it was Nulara asking, not Carla.
[354.9s] Oh, my apologies.
[356.4s] Yeah, I've known that since day one.
[358.1s] It's the weirdest never come up.
[360.7s] Because if there are nooks or crannies,
[362.3s] could become an ant or something
[365.2s] that could squeeze through a nook and or cranny.
[368.4s] Okay.
[369.9s] And open it from the other side
[371.2s] because it seems to be a push, not a pull situation.
[375.3s] I mean, we might want to hop on that giant owl
[377.4s] and just fly up to that window we saw earlier, too.
[380.7s] Are there any windows on this side?
[382.3s] More conveniently located?
[383.8s] Yeah, there are slits running up
[385.9s] that would fit a human sized individual.
[390.7s] Oh, let's go.
[391.7s] Gwak you into it.
[392.9s] She's all like.
[397.0s] It's her owl battle cry.
[398.9s] Beautiful.
[399.5s] It was really good.
[401.8s] Inspiring.
[404.3s] Okay, we all hop on her.
[406.3s] You all fly up to one of these slits in the tower.
[411.4s] From the angle that you can see in,
[414.3s] you don't see into any sort of opening.
[417.5s] You see a wall directly in front of you.
[420.6s] And without looking any further,
[422.9s] you see a spiraling chromatic color from above and below,
[428.4s] moving up and down at the same time.
[431.8s] Kind of like a tube of energy, if you will, in the middle of this.
[435.1s] Yeah.
[435.4s] Kind of got like an Aya Sauron situation going on here.
[438.6s] Perhaps, perhaps.
[440.7s] Does it look like there's a floor or anything at a higher level,
[444.7s] like near this window?
[446.0s] Like we're not just going to jump through this slit
[448.2s] and then like drop straight to the floor and die?
[450.7s] Somebody can peek their head through.
[452.3s] I'm in.
[453.5s] You look through.
[454.8s] There appears to be a platform above you
[458.3s] and then equidistant to what you climbed.
[461.6s] Down to the floor below you.
[463.8s] So probably about 100 feet down.
[466.2s] One other thing you see down at the bottom,
[468.2s] you see a red-robed wizard and he is casting something.
[474.0s] Okay.
[474.9s] Does the slit go like all the way up past that floor
[477.5s] or is the slit only like open to this level?
[480.5s] Appears to be only open 20 or 30 feet
[484.2s] carving into the side of this tower.
[486.7s] How far away?
[488.0s] That we're about 100 feet.
[489.9s] Okay, I'm going to Eldritch Blast the bitch.
[492.3s] Okay, there we go.
[495.1s] To 26.
[496.5s] Sure, yeah.
[497.3s] Nice.
[497.9s] I'm three blasts on this dude.
[499.9s] I have to do one for each.
[501.7s] That one's not going to hit.
[502.8s] That one's only a 12.
[505.7s] But that was also a 26.
[507.1s] Guys, I'm rolling 17s like they're candy.
[509.0s] I love it.
[509.8s] That's not a thing.
[510.9s] It is now though.
[511.6s] It is now.
[513.9s] You feel the energy move up your arm and halt.
[520.7s] As it reaches your fingertips.
[522.7s] What, what, what?
[524.7s] To what, what, what?
[525.5s] I would like to perceive.
[526.7s] I rolled a three plus nine.
[531.1s] That's a 12.
[532.7s] From above, you hear the rumble of flame coming down towards you
[538.8s] and you must make a dexterity saving throw.
[541.2s] Guys, my magic not working.
[543.5s] That's a 14.
[545.5s] You pull your head back and get out of the way just in time.
[551.5s] As flames erupt out of the slit that you were in.
[556.6s] As this fireball hits and explodes outward.
[561.5s] Okay, well that was hot.
[562.7s] That was hot.
[563.1s] You guys, my magic didn't work.
[564.4s] I don't know what's going on.
[566.1s] Guys, this does not bode well for us.
[568.5s] That was a very strong spell I just tried to cast
[570.7s] and it was just kind of like smooshed aside.
[573.5s] Um, I mean, really the whole idea of Tiamat hasn't
[577.5s] bowed well for us since day one.
[579.2s] So it's not going to stop us now.
[580.7s] This is true.
[581.7s] Do we want to fly down to the ground
[583.4s] and like get out of this visible area
[586.7s] or do we want to fly around
[590.7s] and see if there's another way in?
[591.9s] Because it seems like we have to get inside to try and like
[595.3s] we have to get inside, right?
[596.7s] Yeah, we got to disrupt whatever's going on in there.
[598.7s] Yeah, let's see if there's another way in.
[600.8s] So we fly with guacamole.
[603.4s] You begin flying around
[605.0s] and you see down amidst the rubble.
[606.9s] Everybody make a perception check.
[610.3s] I don't want to.
[610.9s] My dice suck.
[612.4s] 15.
[613.9s] 15 is pretty good.
[615.4s] No, it was a six and I have a nine bonus.
[617.9s] Oh, that's not so great then.
[619.6s] No.
[620.3s] Uh, 26.
[622.3s] Oh, I'm not even going to say mine.
[625.6s] Mine's embarrassing.
[626.5s] I don't see anything.
[628.0s] You guys fly around.
[629.2s] You're looking for another way in.
[630.7s] You see the chaos of the frost giants
[634.4s] fighting off the chromatic dragons
[636.3s] with different armored weapons
[639.2s] and throwing axes and spears
[642.2s] as they are battling them in the caldera of the volcano.
[645.6s] You fly out back towards the direction you came
[649.0s] and you see, Nularaaaa,
[650.6s] you see down amidst the rubble a person.
[655.4s] Looks like they are trying to hide,
[657.5s] moving from bone to stolder, bone to stolder.
[662.7s] Stone to boulder?
[663.7s] Stone to boulder.
[665.8s] Stone to boulder to bone.
[668.3s] Whatever.
[669.0s] You see them hiding and moving.
[670.5s] Bull stoners.
[671.8s] Rook to bishop seven?
[673.5s] Yeah.
[676.3s] A human, like one of the sacrifices?
[678.6s] Yeah, that's what you could assume.
[680.8s] Guys, I see a person down there,
[682.7s] like one of the sacrifices.
[685.6s] They can't complete the ritual
[686.7s] without the last person, right?
[688.3s] What do we do?
[689.1s] Do we go help them?
[690.3s] Do we find out how they came out of the thing?
[693.2s] Like, should we go to that person?
[695.5s] I mean, they might have a way in for us.
[697.7s] Guacamole can't take another person,
[699.3s] but we can get down there to them.
[701.1s] Yeah, I see you do it.
[703.3s] You fly down and the person looks as you
[706.3s] soar above them and sees you
[707.9s] and kind of cowers behind one of the boulders.
[710.6s] It's okay, we're good guys?
[713.1s] We're not looking to, you know, ritually sacrifice you.
[717.5s] We're trying to stop this whole campaign.
[719.5s] We're trying to get in there
[720.7s] and take it down from the inside.
[722.6s] Any ideas on a way we can get in there?
[725.1s] Do you want to get in there?
[726.1s] That seems dangerous.
[727.9s] Yeah, I mean, there's the way
[730.2s] they brought us in there.
[732.6s] And how was that?
[734.3s] It was through some of the tunnels.
[736.6s] I was trying to make my way
[738.9s] over to a tunnel that we've been led to before
[743.6s] on the other side of the caldera here.
[747.4s] What's your name?
[749.1s] Merv.
[749.7s] Is that short for a Mervin?
[752.0s] Murphy?
[753.1s] No, it's just Merv.
[754.7s] Oh, Merv.
[755.7s] Yeah.
[756.5s] Merv the Perv.
[758.1s] All right.
[758.7s] I mean, poor Merv.
[759.7s] That seems inappropriate.
[761.5s] He's having a pretty rough day.
[763.0s] Do you want me to help you?
[764.3s] Yeah, no, sorry.
[765.1s] I didn't have another rhyme, I'm sorry.
[767.7s] Merv the Perv, short for perfect.
[770.3s] Perfect.
[770.6s] You're a gem.
[775.6s] Why don't we go together?
[779.1s] You can get into the tunnel and get out
[781.2s] and we can get into the tunnel and get in.
[784.3s] Okay, yeah, sure.
[786.1s] Yeah, let's do that.
[788.6s] Assuming you were following behind him,
[790.3s] he begins leading the way to a tunnel on the far side
[795.9s] of the caldera.
[797.2s] And you enter and he says,
[801.9s] sometimes they keep guards here.
[804.0s] I don't know.
[804.6s] It seems kind of busy.
[806.1s] They might be somewhere else,
[807.2s] but I can kind of lead the way here
[810.7s] if you maybe take the lead.
[814.3s] Yeah, you let me know what way to go, Merv.
[816.3s] I've got you.
[818.4s] You begin walking down the paths.
[821.7s] You come to a T-intersection.
[823.7s] He's like, take a right here.
[825.6s] You don't hear anything as you walk up to it
[829.3s] and you keep walking.
[831.3s] Merv, are you the only survivor?
[834.3s] I think so.
[834.7s] Everybody else kind of got eaten.
[836.0s] I managed to hide as the dragons were swooping down
[841.1s] and then some others, I don't know if you saw,
[844.3s] but they got blasted by the wizards
[846.0s] as they were running away.
[847.5s] And I just kind of waited.
[849.5s] It seemed like those giants were taking care
[851.3s] of a lot of the business over there.
[853.5s] Okay.
[855.1s] Terrible business.
[856.0s] Do you know if all of you need to be sacrificed?
[862.5s] I don't know.
[864.9s] They just brought us out there.
[866.6s] What do you do, Merv?
[867.8s] What's your job?
[869.1s] I did run a fishing boat, fishing ship.
[873.6s] Awesome.
[873.9s] Yeah, I know.
[874.5s] Sounds super important.
[875.5s] You're running of the fishing boat.
[877.3s] You know what?
[878.3s] Soon, before you know what you're going to be.
[880.7s] Fishing that sea again.
[883.5s] Well, I hope so.
[884.2s] I mean, they did kind of destroy my village.
[885.9s] Hopefully they'll rebuild if anybody survived.
[891.1s] Okay, I'm trying to stay positive for you here, Merv.
[894.4s] Trying to stay positive.
[895.7s] You continue walking down a ways
[897.8s] and he's giving you directions
[900.1s] and he leads you through a long tunnel
[906.2s] where there's no turns to get out of it.
[909.5s] You eventually make it back to a familiar location
[915.8s] where you initially came in and walked down
[919.7s] and found the prisoners' chambers.
[922.0s] So this is the way they took you to get into the tower?
[926.7s] Well, they've taken us down like different people
[929.5s] come in different ways when they bring you here.
[933.2s] They keep us just up ahead here on the right
[935.9s] and then just straight ahead is where they led us
[939.3s] to get into the tower and then they took us out
[941.9s] to feed us to the dragons.
[945.4s] Okay, well, yeah, I guess we can take it from here.
[948.4s] You don't want to come back into the tower, do you?
[950.5s] Not particularly if I have the option.
[953.3s] Once you get out there,
[954.9s] find anyone that is obviously fighting against.
[959.4s] Look for a goblin that thinks she's a pirate.
[961.9s] Yeah, just say,
[964.0s] I'm with the Decimator of Dragons.
[966.7s] They're going to take care of you.
[967.9s] A singular decimator, they know who that is?
[970.3s] Yeah.
[971.0s] One of you?
[972.7s] Is that one of you?
[973.4s] The Decimators of Dragons.
[974.7s] Okay, just checking.
[977.2s] I just wanted to know if I needed a specific name after that
[979.5s] like once you know, maybe they ask you
[982.2s] for the secret handshake after that.
[983.5s] I didn't know.
[984.8s] Okay, yeah.
[986.0s] I mean, if there's a secret handshake,
[987.7s] we don't know what it is.
[988.7s] No, they didn't teach it to us.
[989.9s] Okay, well.
[991.5s] Sounds right.
[992.5s] Thank you.
[994.8s] Good luck.
[995.9s] Yeah, yeah, you too.
[997.8s] It's straight ahead there and he begins backing away
[1000.8s] and heading back out the way that you had originally entered.
[1006.6s] If he's fucking us over, you guys might be so mad.
[1009.2s] I'm not fucking you over.
[1011.9s] He says as he drifts off into the shadows.
[1015.1s] Is he really a ghost?
[1017.1s] I'm not fucking you over.
[1019.9s] Merv's been dead the whole time.
[1023.1s] Oh.
[1024.6s] Who led you here?
[1025.5s] Merv.
[1026.0s] Oh, Merv?
[1027.3s] We killed him first weeks ago.
[1028.7s] I haven't heard that name in a long time.
[1031.5s] Merv's been dead for 20 years.
[1034.7s] Yeah.
[1035.5s] All right, shall we head on down the path?
[1038.3s] Let's go in the direction he pointed us.
[1042.2s] You follow down and you pass
[1045.5s] the same rooms that you had passed before.
[1047.7s] There's the massacre of cultists
[1051.6s] in their eating chambers.
[1053.4s] Whoops, who did that?
[1055.3s] As you get to the T-intersection,
[1058.6s] there is a burnt up horde of zombies that you see
[1063.6s] all lying and ashen on the ground.
[1068.4s] You continue straight ahead and you pass by two other chambers
[1073.9s] that look like another prisoner's area
[1077.5s] and to the left, more of a refined, perhaps cultist chamber.
[1082.7s] Ah, so some common areas.
[1085.0s] Yep.
[1085.5s] Just hangout rooms, beanbag chairs everywhere.
[1089.3s] Exactly.
[1090.1s] Foosball table.
[1091.3s] Yep.
[1091.9s] Yep.
[1092.8s] There is-
[1093.0s] Bar bridges.
[1099.1s] There is a long stretch, a long corridor
[1102.0s] that you follow with no other turns
[1104.3s] and it ends with a door in the ceiling,
[1109.8s] a stepladder up to it.
[1113.9s] You want more rock, paper, scissors to see
[1116.5s] who pokes their head up through this death trap?
[1119.7s] I'll do it.
[1121.9s] God love ya.
[1123.4s] After you find, sir.
[1125.1s] Gonna scamper on up that ladder.
[1127.6s] Tell me what you do once you get to the top of the ladder.
[1129.9s] I give the door a cursory little push
[1133.3s] to see if I can move it without being too forceful with it.
[1136.7s] There is a very heavy wooden door
[1139.2s] with steel framework around it.
[1142.6s] It takes a good amount of strength to push it up
[1145.9s] but you crack it open and a beam of light shines through.
[1152.3s] Am I blind?
[1154.1s] Blinded, blinded.
[1155.6s] Does it sound like a diamond?
[1157.1s] Is Rihanna up there?
[1158.3s] Oh, all right.
[1159.9s] All you can see from just a cursory glance through
[1165.3s] while trying to not shake or move too quickly
[1169.1s] is a lot of the chromatic light that you saw through the window.
[1177.2s] Okay, I'm gonna try to kind of lift it slowly up
[1180.7s] and prevent it from like slamming on the floor as it opens.
[1185.1s] You raise the door and the more it opens
[1189.9s] you are able to see standing in front of you
[1192.8s] with their back to you, a wizard in red robes.
[1197.4s] Yeah, so I would really like to keep this door
[1199.1s] from slamming open as I open it.
[1201.3s] Roll a stealth check.
[1204.3s] I would love to.
[1206.3s] Just one wizard, did you say, Russ?
[1208.7s] That's all he sees in front of him, yes.
[1211.5s] A 31, is that good?
[1215.1s] How do you, what?
[1216.7s] According to my roll 20 sheet,
[1217.9s] my stealth has 14 bonus to it.
[1220.6s] I'm just telling you what's on my sheet.
[1222.5s] I mean, I believe it.
[1224.4s] I mean, I am proficient.
[1226.4s] Yeah, that'd give you a boost.
[1229.0s] That's good.
[1229.8s] Yeah, I mean, that seems excessive,
[1232.6s] but I mean, you're a high character.
[1234.1s] I mean, yeah, I got a 17 plus this 14
[1236.9s] that's listed on the sheet.
[1238.7s] Yeah, you probably, yeah, you got it, that's it.
[1243.4s] I mean, I'm just telling you what's on there, Russ.
[1245.5s] Yeah, you quite handily managed to slowly open the door fully.
[1253.3s] Nary a peep.
[1254.4s] So there is no sound.
[1255.9s] You're moving in silent as shadows right now.
[1258.7s] Can I continue this stealthiness
[1261.1s] into destroying this wizard?
[1264.0s] You can certainly take an action.
[1265.9s] That would spur on initiative order, though,
[1269.5s] with your friends down at the bottom just saying.
[1272.4s] Yeah, are you going to tell us there's a wizard?
[1274.6s] Yeah, I give them the old like hand wave up,
[1278.5s] but also a shh.
[1282.8s] I mean, it gets the point across, right?
[1284.3s] Sure does.
[1285.4s] Who's going up and in what order?
[1288.3s] I can go last.
[1291.6s] Okay, so Nulara is going up first.
[1294.8s] So when do you make your attack there, Flynn?
[1297.9s] I'm going to wait right as Nulara is kind of getting
[1300.2s] to the top of the ladder.
[1302.3s] So that way she'll be able to like scamper up
[1305.3s] and have a turn when it's time.
[1307.6s] Okay, as you kind of look out beyond the wizard
[1312.4s] and beyond the spire that you are in,
[1316.2s] your eyes have a chance to adjust to this chaos
[1320.9s] that is Tiamat's temple.
[1324.1s] And you see that its interior is a single cathedral
[1328.5s] like space that towers far overhead.
[1331.9s] You look up and you see the platform above you.
[1335.3s] You look out and you see it just rises as high
[1340.9s] as you can imagine, though the overwhelming color
[1344.7s] of this place is a lifeless ashen gray.
[1347.6s] Each of the side vaults shimmers dimly blue,
[1352.3s] green, red, and white or black.
[1356.7s] The hues of the evil dragons
[1358.9s] and their world consuming queen.
[1361.1s] What color is the vault that we're in?
[1364.4s] Black.
[1366.0s] You see across the way red wizard standing
[1371.9s] looking up as the one in front of you is
[1374.5s] in each of the five vaults chanting
[1376.7s] and channeling magical force into the central apps.
[1380.6s] They're a kaleidoscope.
[1383.1s] Whirl of arcane energy rises above the blackened floor,
[1387.1s] stretching up into the twisting recesses
[1389.5s] of the temple's central spire.
[1394.2s] Yelora comes to the top of the chamber.
[1398.9s] Um, yeah, I guess, um,
[1404.3s] guess I'm going to take my shot.
[1407.2s] Only live once.
[1408.5s] Right?
[1409.7s] Yolo.
[1410.2s] Yolo.
[1411.6s] Yolo.
[1414.6s] All right, that is a 23.
[1419.6s] Yes.
[1421.9s] 27 damage.
[1424.6s] And I'm like, just going to aim straight for his neck.
[1429.9s] You connect with the neck because he did not see this coming
[1436.3s] and because of your precise hit.
[1440.2s] His head falls to the ground.
[1445.9s] Roll for initiative.
[1449.9s] Yelora, you are up first.
[1451.2s] So you are just coming through.
[1453.0s] You see Flint behead a wizard in front of you.
[1457.7s] The black energy that was coming from this spire
[1465.1s] weakens but does not stop.
[1468.0s] You see across the way, there is another wizard directly in front of you
[1472.4s] and he sees this happen and he looks like he has stopped chanting
[1479.6s] and is now preparing a spell towards you and your crew.
[1485.1s] It is your turn.
[1486.6s] How far away is he?
[1488.4s] Easily 500 feet.
[1489.9s] So too far for me to do anything with that guy, honestly.
[1495.4s] Honestly.
[1496.6s] And he, I guess, is the only one I can see though
[1499.3s] because we are like back in our like vault area.
[1505.5s] Yeah.
[1506.4s] Cool.
[1507.5s] Sorry if I was like better at circle math.
[1511.6s] I could probably figure this out if he's 500 feet away across
[1514.9s] but how close would like how bigger is each vault?
[1518.8s] Approximately 100 feet.
[1520.7s] Okay, so even the next closest guy to me would be 100 feet away.
[1524.8s] If he's in the middle and I'm in the middle.
[1526.6s] Yeah.
[1527.5s] Exactly.
[1528.4s] Okay.
[1530.0s] Do you want to ready your action?
[1533.5s] I mean, I can't even ready an action.
[1534.9s] I got to make an action to get anywhere close to being able to like do a thing, right?
[1539.5s] We have a bow and arrow.
[1541.0s] Yeah, it doesn't go 500 feet, my dude.
[1543.8s] Like even ranged weapons only go 120 feet.
[1547.2s] I'm sorry.
[1548.0s] The best ones only go that far.
[1550.8s] No, no, no, it's really, really far.
[1554.3s] How far does a longbow go?
[1556.2s] My longbow goes 600 feet, man.
[1558.2s] I passed you up my longbow.
[1561.7s] I'm still on the bottom of the ladder.
[1566.2s] Yeah, like I yeah, I mean I have ranged weapons but not that range.
[1570.4s] That's that's crazy far.
[1573.5s] But sorry, another question.
[1577.4s] The energy in the center of the room is it like
[1581.2s] a column of energy or a central glow?
[1585.5s] Is it an eye of Sauron or is it a Marvel-style portal to another world?
[1590.3s] It's like a tower of light.
[1593.6s] So the chromatic colors are coming out from the spires.
[1597.0s] Yeah.
[1597.8s] Joining in the center and swirling up into the central apps.
[1603.1s] Okay, I can dash as a bonus action because it's one of my feets.
[1607.8s] Okay.
[1608.5s] So I'm going to dash with my feets.
[1610.4s] Using my feet, get it?
[1612.4s] It's a it's upon you guys.
[1614.4s] Yeah, I'm going to like run out.
[1619.4s] I'll try to get to the entrance, I guess.
[1621.4s] Yeah, you get to the entrance and it opens wide.
[1625.4s] The spire to your right juts back and in so you can't see who's there.
[1631.4s] You can see the guy preparing the spell looking at you across the way.
[1637.4s] You can see another wizard to the right of him who is still doing his incantations
[1647.7s] and also a big wide open spire to the left with the red chromatic energy.
[1656.8s] You can see the wizard in there but still very well probably 200 feet away.
[1663.1s] Okay, then I guess all I'm going to do is yell back to my friends.
[1667.6s] The guy across the way is going to attack so get up here and then take cover.
[1673.1s] It is Thea's turn.
[1678.1s] Got it.
[1679.1s] Got it.
[1680.7s] Okay, I skittle up the ladder.
[1685.1s] Yeah, you're up.
[1686.1s] And I immediately take out from my pack.
[1689.0s] Actually, I probably took it from my pack while I was down there because
[1692.4s] that's a smart thing to do.
[1693.6s] And then I skittled up the ladder with my Tome of Thunderstep.
[1696.8s] I open it and I say,
[1701.4s] and I immediately transport myself behind the dude.
[1706.8s] I can transport myself instantly to an empty space I can see.
[1711.2s] I can see behind the dude in front of me.
[1713.2s] I transport behind there and that motherfucker takes 3d10 thunder damage.
[1718.9s] But he gets to make a save.
[1723.7s] A constitution saving throw.
[1728.1s] But I mean, he'll still have to take half.
[1731.3s] You know, wizards and their constitution.
[1733.4s] Very, very high traditionally.
[1735.3s] That's a good old six.
[1738.0s] It's so close.
[1740.1s] Okay, so he takes 20 thunder damage.
[1744.0s] In the blink of an eye,
[1745.6s] Thea runs up and she disappears and is immediately on the other side
[1751.1s] of the wizard casting the spell.
[1753.3s] Nularaaaia, you see this most directly.
[1755.3s] Flint, you see her run up and kind of disappear.
[1758.9s] And the wizard is propelled out, but he is not prone.
[1764.8s] Yeah, he is.
[1766.4s] Can casting spells make you horny?
[1769.0s] I don't see why not.
[1769.6s] I feel like it probably would, honestly.
[1771.6s] Could that be like your battle bloodlust, right?
[1775.3s] Thea's like fanning herself with her thunder tome.
[1778.3s] Just like, pitch please.
[1781.2s] This is great.
[1785.9s] It is the wizard in the red spire's turn.
[1791.1s] And he actually, now that you have a chance to look him over,
[1796.8s] looks familiar to you.
[1798.1s] With bald head and pasty white skin.
[1804.3s] A staff with a glowing red gem on the end.
[1809.6s] This wizard is adorned in red and gold armor.
[1814.5s] This is a wizard you haven't seen
[1817.8s] since you were aboard the frost giant's floating fortress.
[1823.9s] This wizard is Wrath Modar.
[1829.1s] He looks to you, Nulara, and you see his lips begin to move.
[1833.4s] You can't hear him from a ways.
[1835.3s] And he traces his free hand, a large sigil in the air.
[1842.7s] Energy begins to glow around him and a globe extends out and surrounds him.
[1849.3s] And he begins to step forward towards you.
[1854.2s] Pussy.
[1854.7s] Yay.
[1857.6s] I obviously don't yell that as Thea, because I can't see him.
[1860.9s] Yeah.
[1862.1s] If you could see him though.
[1864.3s] Oh boy.
[1865.7s] Oh boy.
[1867.1s] You hear from around you the chant of the ritual continuing
[1871.8s] and you are reminded of the several red wizards in the room
[1876.8s] preparing for Tiamat's arrival.
[1880.9s] Flint, it is your turn.
[1882.3s] I know you didn't tell us what the potions did that you gave us for us.
[1887.8s] But I would like to drink Andrei's Gojuice right now.
[1891.6s] Yes.
[1894.2s] Yep.
[1895.3s] Drinking a potion, is that an action?
[1898.6s] It's usually bonus-y?
[1900.9s] Yeah, I'd give you a bonus action.
[1902.4s] Okay, good.
[1903.0s] So I'm like, if I want to drink one, do I not get to do something?
[1905.7s] With a name like Andrei's Gojuice, I gotta be moving quicker, right?
[1909.2s] You'd hope so.
[1910.6s] Less is an ironic name, and it cuts my movement in half?
[1913.2s] Oh no.
[1913.8s] Yeah, well.
[1914.5s] Why would Arvid give this to you?
[1916.4s] I mean, it seems like a bad idea.
[1918.2s] This will help you when the world is just moving too fast and you need to slow down.
[1922.6s] Just breathe it all in.
[1924.1s] Take a minute.
[1925.6s] So you drink this potion, and you feel a rush of strength course through your body.
[1933.7s] You have just drank a spell of cloud giant strength.
[1937.7s] I mean, I didn't think Gojuice would be strength-related, but alright.
[1941.2s] Your strength score changes to 27 for one hour.
[1946.1s] Whoa.
[1946.8s] Oh my god.
[1948.7s] Is there even a bonus level for that high?
[1951.3s] There is.
[1952.1s] Oh my god, there is, guys.
[1960.2s] Welcome to the world of Gojuice.
[1963.7s] Welcome to the middle part.
[1969.1s] I'm your dungeon master, Russ More.
[1970.9s] This means my lovely wife, Amy More.
[1974.4s] We don't usually get to do this part together alone.
[1976.7s] No we don't.
[1977.7s] This feels like, I don't know, feels like weird.
[1982.5s] Although the only thing I can think of is you said welcome to the middle part,
[1986.1s] and all I can think about is the middle part is usually the best part of stuff.
[1989.8s] Like donuts, like the filled donuts.
[1992.9s] I'm just thinking about donuts.
[1994.8s] By that tone, the middle part is the best part,
[1997.3s] because we get to say thank you to all of our lovely people.
[2000.0s] That's what I was thinking, exactly.
[2001.5s] Thank you to you for listening to us.
[2003.3s] Thank you to our patrons.
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[2006.1s] This is the part where we just love on everybody, and it's great.
[2011.5s] Some place where there's going to be a whole lot of love,
[2014.6s] and where we got invited to, and where we love that we got invited to,
[2017.5s] was D&D Live 2019, The Descent.
[2021.5s] It's a super creepy name.
[2023.4s] We don't know anything about it.
[2025.7s] Some details have started to leak to the people who are going to be there,
[2028.7s] but we can't tell you.
[2030.9s] I am not privy to those details yet, but it sounds creepy.
[2036.1s] You got to get up on the Discord then, is what you got to do.
[2039.0s] But that's going to be in LA, May 17th, 18th, and 19th,
[2043.2s] and we're going to be there.
[2044.9s] Schedule hasn't been released yet,
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[2049.8s] it gives you the full list of all the podcasts who are going to be there.
[2052.7s] Tons of great folks who, just like us, are very excited to be there.
[2057.1s] Rating and reviewing.
[2058.7s] It may or may not help with charts.
[2060.5s] We don't know.
[2061.3s] We don't understand charts.
[2062.8s] That's borderline math.
[2064.5s] But when you say, when you look at a podcast in a podcast app,
[2069.3s] and it's got like 50 five-star reviews or 100 five-star reviews,
[2073.6s] and a whole bunch of people saying how much they love it.
[2075.5s] Guys, it just looks good.
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[2077.7s] Makes people want to, I was going to say read it.
[2080.1s] I know how podcasts work.
[2082.2s] Makes people want to listen.
[2083.3s] When I see something that's highly reviewed,
[2085.9s] I think, well, you know what?
[2088.1s] A hundred people can't be wrong.
[2089.7s] Once you leave us a review, you know what?
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[2101.3s] playing a home game shines through in a great and relatable way.
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[2148.3s] just talk about Dumbgeons and Dragons
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[2176.5s] The next episode, it'll be out Wednesday, April 24th.
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[2188.7s] So there are two episodes after today's episode
[2193.3s] before we wrap up this arc in one way or another.
[2199.3s] The end is nigh.
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[2216.1s] You down this potion,
[2217.7s] silver sliver of fingernail included,
[2220.3s] and you...
[2221.4s] Yeah.
[2222.9s] Oh, it was good on the way down, though.
[2224.6s] Everybody turns and looks at you,
[2226.2s] and muscles are just rippling on top of muscles at this point.
[2230.5s] His muscles have muscles.
[2232.9s] Yeah.
[2234.5s] So you now have the strength of a cloud giant, my friend.
[2237.7s] Oh, my goodness.
[2238.5s] Okay.
[2239.3s] Now the one question.
[2240.4s] What are you going to do with it?
[2242.3s] That is the one question.
[2245.1s] Okay.
[2245.4s] How far is it to the front entrance of the vault?
[2250.5s] 60 feet.
[2251.3s] So even though it took me like five feet to go kill this wizard?
[2255.1s] Well, you came up like right behind him, so...
[2257.6s] Okay, fair enough.
[2258.5s] Yeah.
[2259.9s] Okay, I'm gonna dash as far as I can,
[2263.3s] which I mean my speed's only 25,
[2265.0s] so I get almost there.
[2266.5s] Yep.
[2267.7s] I guess I'm gonna dash again.
[2271.5s] Can you back to back dash?
[2273.0s] Is that a thing that you can do?
[2274.5s] I'd say you could probably do one more dash
[2277.1s] because the theory is you're gaining extra movement,
[2279.7s] so you're taking your movement plus your extra movement.
[2282.7s] So if you want to dash again,
[2285.0s] I'd give you another 25 feet or whatever you have.
[2287.9s] Okay, so like a little bit further,
[2289.5s] but not a full double again.
[2291.1s] Yeah.
[2292.1s] Okay.
[2293.1s] Yeah, I mean, I might as well.
[2294.6s] Standing back in that cave
[2296.1s] probably isn't going to accomplish too much at the moment.
[2298.9s] So I'm going to get like 15 feet past New Laura this time?
[2303.0s] Yeah, because you would move 75.
[2304.6s] So yeah, are you going left or right?
[2308.6s] Uh, I'll go to the right to see if I can see down that curvy backy path there.
[2315.5s] So if you go out further into the center,
[2318.5s] you would be able to clear the edge and see.
[2321.9s] Otherwise, the wall is.
[2323.4s] Yeah, that sounds good.
[2324.9s] You're getting close to the edge of the swirling vortex of colors,
[2329.8s] and you can see inside,
[2332.1s] and this one is the green chromatic color.
[2337.4s] And is this guy like super far away as well?
[2340.7s] From your current location?
[2342.0s] Yeah, he's going to be, you know, 150 to 200 feet.
[2346.6s] Okay.
[2348.9s] I guess I'll just like ready an attack if anyone comes near me.
[2354.2s] Sounds good.
[2355.4s] Because I mean, worst case scenario,
[2356.9s] my turn comes back around and the readied action was wasted.
[2360.3s] So as you reach the edge of this chaotic mess of magic,
[2366.6s] a rush and an explosion of energy collides in the center,
[2370.1s] drawing your attention to it for just a moment.
[2373.7s] Uh, Russ, what color was the one that the, uh, snuck up on?
[2377.6s] Blue.
[2378.5s] Question, Russ, when he stopped doing his chanting,
[2382.5s] did the blue energy die down at all or did it continue strong?
[2386.8s] Uh, weakened.
[2387.9s] Okay.
[2388.5s] It's still continuing.
[2389.7s] Same with the red as wrath kind of changed his his direction.
[2394.3s] The only wizard that continues to do something
[2397.3s] is the one that you knocked forward.
[2399.4s] He stands up and begins to cast a spell at you.
[2405.3s] Fancy trick you got there.
[2407.7s] Thank you.
[2408.7s] It's new.
[2410.3s] He fires a cone of cold at you.
[2415.1s] Blast of cold air begins to erupt from his hands
[2419.7s] and you must make a constitution saving throw.
[2424.6s] Okay.
[2430.1s] Doesn't seem like it is okay.
[2431.7s] Okay.
[2432.0s] No, it is.
[2432.6s] It's fine.
[2433.2s] Fine.
[2434.5s] Okay.
[2434.9s] So I got a seven plus four is 11,
[2439.3s] but I don't think it's going to be good enough.
[2443.3s] So I am going to spend a luck point.
[2448.8s] Okay.
[2449.6s] And I am going to reroll my saving throw,
[2455.6s] which is a 14 plus four is 18.
[2463.0s] You see this cold beginning to form and come towards you.
[2468.3s] Do you tell me what you do?
[2470.5s] I do like some really like awesome backflip,
[2475.9s] but where it's not like a tuck.
[2478.1s] It's like the chest goes first.
[2480.5s] And I'm like, and I'm like, I didn't even know I could do that.
[2483.4s] It was amazing.
[2484.8s] I yell like, guys, did you see my flip?
[2487.4s] You do your backflip cold catching you as you flip backwards
[2493.3s] and you land and you take half.
[2496.0s] So three.
[2497.7s] No, the full damage is 36.
[2500.0s] So you're going to take 18 cold damage.
[2503.3s] Well, that was really easy math because I was at 118.
[2505.9s] So I can appreciate that.
[2508.0s] He stands his ground towards you and we are back to the top of the round.
[2515.8s] Remember when we got those diamonds from Xanthal's tower?
[2519.0s] What the fuck did those do again?
[2519.8s] They only let us go 30 feet.
[2522.8s] I've been looking at them going like, can we?
[2526.3s] Glad we're all on the same page.
[2529.8s] I just got nothing.
[2532.3s] I have a jumpy diamond on my character sheet.
[2536.1s] I mean, I headed right, which now doesn't seem kind of stupid
[2539.3s] because Flint has also gone right.
[2542.2s] We'll say you kind of went more straight
[2543.9s] because then you had kind of retconned
[2545.7s] and said you just get to the entrance.
[2548.6s] Rathmodar did walk out towards the middle.
[2552.8s] So he's technically closer to you now.
[2554.9s] He's moved 30 feet.
[2556.2s] Yeah.
[2556.6s] So he's still about 100-ish feet away, but he's getting closer.
[2561.9s] Okay.
[2562.4s] No, if he's a hundred feet away, I can actually do something.
[2566.5s] I am going to cast a spell.
[2571.5s] What?
[2572.1s] I know it's crazy.
[2574.9s] Do it.
[2575.8s] I'm going to cast a hail of thorns.
[2578.1s] It's a bonus action.
[2580.6s] And then I am going to try to attack Rathmodar with my crossbow.
[2588.2s] So that is a 17.
[2591.5s] Yes, that hits.
[2592.6s] Sweet.
[2594.9s] Then when I hit him, a hail of thorns sprouts from my arrow.
[2601.6s] So in addition to the normal attack, he has to make a deck save
[2608.5s] and then he'll take more damage based on that.
[2611.7s] You want me to do the normal damage first?
[2613.9s] Does that make sense?
[2614.8s] Sure.
[2615.2s] That's an amazing four points of arrow damage.
[2619.0s] Well, he drinks it up.
[2621.8s] So the arrow comes through and strikes him in the shoulder.
[2630.6s] Then what do you think happens?
[2631.4s] Then he has to make a deck save.
[2633.8s] I think his protective bubble probably just nullifies it.
[2637.5s] No fucking bubble.
[2638.6s] I forgot about the fucking bubble.
[2640.9s] So as the arrow passes this shimmering globe
[2645.9s] and springs to action 10 feet in front of him,
[2650.4s] but is shattered and disperses as the arrow continues to go through and hit him in the shoulder.
[2656.3s] So it's maybe like a little anti-magic shield.
[2659.7s] Certainly seems to be that way.
[2662.3s] Also, maybe the thorns are like on the shield now
[2665.0s] and they're obstructing his vision and he has disadvantage on all his attacks.
[2669.0s] Dispersed.
[2669.7s] I said dispersed.
[2670.6s] No, but I mean like maybe they're just on there.
[2673.4s] Poofed.
[2674.9s] Well, there's a fine dust so it's blurry.
[2677.5s] Dare to dream.
[2679.5s] He gets his magical windshield wipers out.
[2684.2s] Okay, so I mean, I guess I may as well shoot him with another arrow.
[2690.9s] Why not?
[2691.7s] I mean, it's not doing much, but it's doing something.
[2695.3s] But it's probably not doing nothing because that's a 13.
[2698.3s] Yeah, 13 hits.
[2699.5s] Okay, these wizards are usually kind of soft, right?
[2705.6s] They wear a lot of robes, a lot of assless robes.
[2710.1s] Similar to your assless chaps.
[2711.8s] Interesting.
[2714.1s] It's really just a hospital gown.
[2716.0s] That is only another four damage.
[2720.0s] And then I will try to, well not try to, I'll move closer.
[2727.2s] Sure, so yeah, your first arrow goes, the spell disperses.
[2730.7s] Second one grazes his arm.
[2735.6s] Yeah, and Donnie, by the way, is just not doing anything
[2737.9s] because he's too far away to do anything.
[2740.1s] Makes sense.
[2740.7s] Can he roll to like recharge his fire breath if he needs it?
[2744.0s] Or does he automatically have it charged up?
[2746.5s] He has to recharge it at the start of his turn, but then he has to use it.
[2750.1s] And he only goes 50.
[2751.2s] He can't like hang on to it?
[2752.2s] I don't think so.
[2753.3s] Yeah, you can hang on to it.
[2755.0s] He could ready his action.
[2756.5s] Well, yeah, you can recharge it and then it's just,
[2759.5s] it is recharged for the next time you want to use it.
[2762.0s] Oh, okay.
[2763.1s] Well, great.
[2763.8s] Let's try it.
[2765.3s] Yeah.
[2766.1s] Great.
[2766.4s] He did that.
[2767.1s] He's recharged.
[2768.4s] His fire is better than no fire.
[2770.5s] All right, he has recharged.
[2772.1s] Okay, he's got that pilot light going all the time.
[2775.3s] Now it is the hand guacamole's turn.
[2778.4s] So I still have this douchebag in front of me, right?
[2781.0s] Yeah, he's saying come get some.
[2783.1s] He made me chilly.
[2784.7s] I didn't like it.
[2786.2s] So I'm going to cast Eldritch Blast on him.
[2791.9s] Gonna be 27.
[2795.8s] Gotta roll that three times.
[2798.0s] Oh, right.
[2798.6s] Okay, well, the first one gets four damage.
[2802.1s] And then, oh.
[2805.7s] What was that?
[2808.1s] So close.
[2810.3s] Okay.
[2812.4s] Yeah, keep going.
[2814.4s] I'll tell you what happens because of that.
[2816.6s] And a 19.
[2819.5s] Okay, so two of those hit.
[2821.3s] It made me damage on two of those.
[2822.8s] And then I will tell you what happens for the last time.
[2825.3s] Amy totally just rolled the dice into her own crotch.
[2829.4s] I thought there was no table there at all.
[2833.7s] And an eight, so 12.
[2838.1s] Two of your Eldritch Blasts hit him.
[2840.5s] He is able to harness one and throw it back at you.
[2849.1s] You take two forced damage.
[2852.9s] This is cutthroat.
[2855.2s] It is, it is.
[2857.1s] I whisper, I'm gonna kill you.
[2859.7s] Not if I kill you first.
[2862.1s] It's kind of flirty.
[2862.9s] We might make out here.
[2863.8s] Yeah, it really is.
[2864.7s] There's like a serious energy going on here.
[2866.7s] It is.
[2869.9s] It is Wrath's turn.
[2872.5s] The energy in the center looks like it's gaining power
[2876.5s] as Wrath begins to move closer to Nulara.
[2882.3s] He continues to walk towards you, Nulara.
[2884.9s] And he begins speaking in a low tone again.
[2889.6s] And suddenly you see four of him walking towards you.
[2893.9s] Classic mirror image.
[2897.9s] How, out of curiosity Russ,
[2899.4s] how far away from me is Wrath Modar now?
[2902.4s] He's walking at just a casual pace.
[2904.8s] He's not looking to...
[2906.0s] He's walking serial killer style.
[2907.9s] Oh yeah.
[2908.5s] He's not in any rush.
[2909.7s] So from Nulara, 40 feet from him.
[2913.8s] And you would be now another 60 feet.
[2919.3s] So you're probably about 100 feet from that action.
[2922.1s] Okay.
[2923.3s] The swirling vortex grows and explodes and shoots off energy
[2928.9s] that gets sucked back in as the chanting of the ritual
[2933.2s] resonates throughout the Temple of Tiamat.
[2937.6s] And it is Flint's turn.
[2940.2s] I'm going to dash towards Nulara there.
[2943.9s] Okay.
[2944.9s] So I'm going to move 50 feet that way.
[2947.3s] Okay, you would make it...
[2949.9s] About halfway.
[2950.8s] Yeah, a little bit ahead of Nulara if you went the full distance.
[2954.6s] Yep.
[2956.1s] Okay, and I'm going to throw my Dwarven Thrower a couple times at Wrath.
[2962.6s] Which one?
[2963.5s] Well, all four of them and we'll find out.
[2966.6s] But you have to aim at Wrath, right?
[2968.4s] Yeah.
[2969.2s] Well, I aim at him and then Russ determines what one it hits, if it hits any of them.
[2974.3s] Oh.
[2975.5s] Yeah.
[2978.2s] All right.
[2978.9s] First roll.
[2979.5s] Yeah, it's like a 28, should be fine.
[2981.9s] Your hammer flies forward striking the chest of one of the Wrath modars
[2986.2s] and vanquishes it, turns to dust as your hammer zips back to your hand.
[2991.4s] Second throw.
[2994.6s] 27.
[2997.0s] Just as quickly you overhand throw your hammer again, striking another duplicate
[3003.0s] that disperses into the air, the energy being sucked into the center of the room.
[3009.0s] And as your hammer returns to your hand again, Flint, with a ringing thud, a voice
[3016.2s] echoes among the resonating energy, sounding like it begins high up in
[3023.1s] and echoing down and smashing itself upon you.
[3028.5s] The voice says,
[3030.9s] You are too late.
[3034.3s] Our queen will rise.
[3038.6s] Tiamat will destroy you soon.
[3060.1s] Some of the music in today's episode is by Kavin McLeod of incompetech.filmmusic.io
[3065.0s] and Scott Buckley at scottbuckley.com.au.
[3068.9s] Sound effects can be found at boomlibrary.com and at sirenscape.com.
[3074.6s] So Flint chopped his head off.
[3077.8s] And then what happens?
[3079.0s] Like what happens to the ritual?
[3081.8s] Does like one of the colors come out of all the chromatic magic
[3085.3s] that's happening in the middle or what?
[3088.2s] Good question.
[3088.9s] That's a great question.
[3090.1s] It's a really good question.
[3092.1s] I think.
[3093.4s] I'm so glad Carla's on our team, guys.
[3096.4s] Here's just what I'm thinking.
[3098.1s] Would they be stupid enough to just have one wizard color?
[3103.4s] No, they probably wouldn't.
[3104.9s] They probably have backups just in case their wizards die.
[3109.2s] Maybe.
[3109.7s] I mean, I don't know why you're giving us ideas, but.
[3111.9s] Yeah, really.
[3112.6s] There's no ideas needed.
[3113.9s] Don't you worry folks.
[3114.8s] Yeah, I'm not worried.
[3116.0s] I'm like, I'm pretty sure this part's all written down.
[3118.4s] You go by the book, mister.
[3119.8s] You owe us that.
[3121.8s] I think we're going to be dead if Russ goes entirely by the book.
[3124.8s] Yeah, probably.
[3125.4s] Go a little bit easier than by the book, mister.
[3129.0s] Just make it seem like we have a chance.
[3132.6s] Sorry, I got to roll them each individually because it's quite important.
[3137.2s] Well, it's not like you've rolled that same die like 13 times already.
[3140.9s] Yeah, no problem.
[3141.6s] Nobody's worried about it at all.
[3144.0s] Who's counting?
[3145.2s] I wish that.
[3145.6s] Tommy's got tally marks going.
[3147.6s] Cali marks.
[3148.3s] I've just got them cali marks.
[3150.2s] They're cali marks.
[3151.0s] Cali marks, eh?
[3153.0s] Okay.
[3153.6s] All right.
[3154.1s] Founded in California, 1762.
[3157.4s] The cali mark.
[3158.9s] The crow, the energy in the center gains power, gains clarity, is more powerful,
[3171.4s] is looks like it's more clear, more powerful.
[3175.5s] It looked like it used some conditioner in the shower this morning.
[3178.8s] Maybe she's born with it.
[3179.8s] Maybe it's Maybelline.
[3181.0s] Maybe it is.
[3181.6s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.