[0.0s] previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[2.6s] You were being rushed by four ogres.
[5.2s] The dwarves that you were dealing with,
[8.8s] they have turned tail and fled.
[10.9s] So you are now under the possession of the cultists.
[14.7s] So we have to fight and babysit at the same time.
[17.0s] She left like steel, yes.
[18.4s] Donnie, make sure you look at that prisoner.
[21.3s] Yeah, she shackled up, but I'll go over there.
[23.4s] Yeah, Donnie's got his watchful eyes on her.
[26.2s] Second roll, critical fail, critical fail.
[29.6s] Yeah, I like the delay.
[32.9s] Donnie does take a bite or a sting at him,
[37.1s] trying to stop him and paralyze him, but it doesn't work.
[41.2s] And he still manages to get to Cheela
[44.7s] and he breaks her neck.
[46.4s] And she doesn't seem to put up a fight at this.
[50.8s] Saves you having to tie her up
[52.4s] and throw her in a river, yeah.
[55.7s] It was a lot of fun.
[56.8s] We're gonna keep going a little rock
[58.4s] and save B.A. Baracus.
[61.8s] Wait, did you say B.A. Baracus?
[64.2s] Yeah.
[65.7s] Nice.
[66.5s] And Baran and the older lady
[68.0s] are having a bit of a discussion.
[70.3s] They brought with them something evil.
[74.5s] I don't think they knew they had it
[76.5s] among them when they came,
[78.0s] but I do believe they've left it here.
[81.2s] Yeah, we wanna pick a good location
[84.8s] where we can keep an eye on things,
[87.0s] like we're gonna trap it.
[88.0s] And then you hear a woman scream
[92.3s] and it sounds like it's coming
[93.7s] from the direction of Baran's house.
[97.5s] There doesn't appear to be anything in the room
[101.8s] except you see a green haze or mist
[109.0s] and she's screaming over and over.
[112.4s] It's gone.
[113.8s] It's gone.
[114.9s] I don't know what it was,
[116.1s] but I think I heard it and it's big.
[130.7s] Last time you guys burst into Baran and Sasha's house
[135.4s] after you set your trap in the town square.
[139.8s] Which did not work.
[141.1s] Which clearly did not work.
[142.9s] But I get to jump like a badass off a roof onto an owl.
[145.9s] Yeah, you did.
[147.8s] Can you really call that a fail?
[149.6s] Oh no, it was a win all around.
[151.0s] So you burst in and you see Sasha screaming.
[154.6s] She's covered in blood.
[156.9s] She has some minor cuts.
[158.1s] You look at her and you don't really think
[160.6s] that it's all of her blood specifically.
[163.1s] You see there's a smashed window to the right
[167.1s] in the room where she's sitting.
[168.9s] Is it smashed in or smashed out?
[171.1s] It is smashed in into the room.
[173.8s] You can see from the front door,
[175.8s] there's a straight shot to the back door.
[177.3s] The back door is also open.
[180.0s] So you notice a kind of a mist in the room
[185.8s] where Sasha is that seems out of place,
[189.7s] but you can't figure out exactly what it is.
[192.6s] But there's a mist in the room.
[194.0s] Guys, there's a mist in the room.
[195.8s] Does it seem like it's magical?
[197.4s] I'm gonna say yes.
[198.4s] Spooky.
[199.3s] Just because I just feel it.
[200.5s] I just feel it in my bowels.
[202.1s] I don't like the sound of this mist.
[204.9s] No, I'm not into magic mists at all.
[209.4s] You wanna turn off your phone there, Hollywood?
[211.1s] Sorry.
[211.9s] God.
[215.5s] You guys said sass her, right?
[217.4s] That's exactly what we said.
[218.7s] I was gonna just say, did you guys ever see,
[220.8s] and then I couldn't even remember what the movie was
[223.0s] so that Tom and I were bugging you guys to go see.
[225.9s] Rogue One.
[226.8s] Did you ever go see Rogue One?
[228.5s] No, we haven't seen any movies in theaters.
[230.3s] Oh my God.
[231.9s] You guys are the worst.
[233.3s] It's almost out on VHS, isn't it?
[237.8s] Betamax, yeah.
[239.2s] Oh, good, good.
[241.1s] That's funny.
[242.1s] I have arcana.
[243.1s] Can I, can I like?
[244.9s] You have arcana?
[245.9s] Arcana.
[246.8s] Arcana would be more dog-like.
[250.7s] Well, I have that too.
[252.9s] Can I make an arcana chat?
[255.9s] Sure.
[257.7s] I know of any magical or historical properties
[260.5s] having to do with like, creatures that it's a,
[263.4s] it's a, it's a.
[265.7s] Fuck.
[271.3s] We all know what you're trying to say.
[273.0s] I'm trying to figure out my modifier.
[276.7s] It's a plus five.
[277.9s] I got 16.
[279.0s] You can detect that there are some magical properties
[282.4s] to it.
[283.2s] I knew it, I knew it in my bones.
[284.1s] But you haven't come across this spell in particular
[288.0s] in your, in your magical enlightenment period.
[291.3s] Can I tell if, like, do I have like a little
[295.4s] Rolodex of mystical, like, creatures that create
[299.1s] this kind of mist in their wake?
[306.4s] Like, maybe.
[307.9s] Like, his look on his face is like, mm.
[311.4s] No.
[312.7s] It's not some kind of smoke bomb that fantasy Batman
[317.5s] throws down before he leaves the room?
[320.5s] No, no, not a smoke bomb.
[322.8s] Well, I'm thinking more of like, ectoplasm left behind.
[327.1s] Okay, okay.
[327.9s] So, no.
[329.8s] Also a hard no.
[331.2s] While we've been checking out this mist,
[333.1s] I assume, uh, Baron has run to Sasha's side
[338.0s] and is seeing if she's okay,
[339.8s] since we're all just standing here
[341.1s] jagging around talking about the mist.
[344.3s] She's bleeding.
[345.8s] Yes, Baron rushed immediately to Sasha's side
[348.8s] to try and calm her down as she was screaming
[351.5s] and yelling.
[352.4s] Good, good.
[353.2s] And they are discussing what happened.
[357.1s] And she tells him that two beasts in dark cloaks
[364.4s] came in, they had long claws and bright white eyes.
[370.4s] And when they came in, she felt that she could not move.
[375.0s] She was enthralled or something?
[377.0s] Like paralyzed?
[378.1s] She says, it felt like I had control of my body
[384.4s] but I just couldn't, like I was in my body
[389.2s] but I just couldn't move.
[390.0s] I don't know what, if they were doing something to me
[394.9s] or if I was just so frightened.
[397.6s] Where'd the blood come from?
[398.7s] Is she bleeding?
[399.5s] You examine her a little bit
[402.2s] and she does have some cuts on her.
[405.9s] Looks like they could be some from the glass
[408.7s] of the window.
[409.6s] There are a couple, a bit larger cuts
[412.7s] which looks like they could be from some sort of claw
[415.8s] or knife or something like that.
[419.2s] But there's a little bit of blood elsewhere in the room
[422.3s] but you don't see anything major
[425.0s] where a lot of the blood could have come from.
[427.2s] Could you walk us through the events of what happened?
[429.6s] She says, yeah, well, I was waiting here
[433.3s] for Bahrain to come back
[436.0s] and there was a loud explosion beside me
[440.2s] as the window burst in.
[444.0s] I was hit by some of the glass
[445.8s] and in came these two creatures.
[448.7s] And as I said, I couldn't move to run away.
[453.5s] And then they started to attack me
[458.1s] but you guys quickly came after I screamed
[463.1s] and they heard you running up.
[464.5s] And then I think they left through the back.
[466.8s] Well, it looks like we saved the day again.
[469.9s] End of adventure.
[472.3s] Well, I guess if they just left
[474.3s] we should probably high tail it after them.
[476.3s] Yeah, probably.
[477.7s] I quickly like go down
[479.2s] and like take like a little sample of the blood
[482.6s] like a CSI elf, like an ECSI.
[485.4s] Sue put it into your test tube and.
[487.3s] I love that you just said that
[488.6s] cause that's what I was just thinking.
[490.0s] Like I want to say to her, tell us everything
[492.3s] even if it doesn't seem important.
[494.0s] And it's like, I'm not a cop.
[497.2s] Like I'm not.
[498.0s] Even the most minor detail.
[499.9s] Yeah, like I don't know any of the creatures
[502.4s] in this universe,
[503.3s] except for the ones we have explicitly already seen
[506.2s] and I probably forget some of them.
[508.4s] But still for like the sake of character interaction,
[512.7s] exactly.
[513.5s] I like it.
[514.3s] So you take a sample of blood.
[515.5s] I do for.
[516.6s] What do you put your blood in?
[517.7s] I have, well, considering I am a magical druid
[521.5s] I have my satchel, my bag, right?
[524.4s] That can carry many things.
[525.5s] No, not this bag, not yet.
[526.9s] But my bag, my regular bag
[528.6s] has a lot of different little glass jars
[531.9s] and containers in order to gather the things
[535.1s] that I need to create my spells.
[536.5s] Cause there are some spells that need to ship.
[539.0s] All right, good.
[539.9s] And of course I have empty ones
[540.8s] because I need to collect shit.
[542.6s] I'm just looking for you guys to justify things
[544.2s] every now and again.
[545.0s] I justify the shit out of that.
[546.8s] Russ, you just got served.
[547.7s] That's good.
[548.5s] You just got served.
[549.3s] That's right.
[550.8s] I mean, if I didn't have an answer whipped up for that
[552.8s] I'd be like, I get a cup from the kitchen
[554.7s] and put it in there.
[555.5s] It would be a bit of a power move
[558.9s] to chase an enemy,
[560.8s] go into the fight and be like, what's this?
[563.8s] Oh, this is a glass of your blood.
[568.0s] It'd be pretty intimidating.
[569.3s] I would have to think so.
[570.7s] I would be intimidated.
[572.0s] Well, I'd be very freaked out.
[574.1s] Amy left should be right back, I assume.
[576.2s] We could try and take guacamole without her.
[579.8s] They're taking guacamole.
[581.6s] Without me?
[582.5s] Yeah.
[583.3s] Oh fuck.
[586.1s] Can I come too?
[587.2s] Yeah, guacamole doesn't go for it.
[591.8s] What is your problem?
[593.3s] I'm hungry.
[594.1s] That's my problem.
[595.0s] So you got the noisiest snack in the house?
[597.8s] I can't open the bag.
[599.6s] This is like when someone is at the movie theater
[601.7s] trying to quietly open their bag
[603.4s] instead of just ripping it open.
[606.9s] Did you not want to get a bowl?
[608.4s] Oh shit.
[611.9s] We'll wait.
[613.3s] No, don't get in louder things.
[617.5s] She picked up a mouse pad wrapped in a plastic bag
[620.5s] and was like, I'll use this.
[622.5s] So good.
[625.1s] She really took that sass note to heart.
[627.1s] Yeah, yeah.
[628.3s] I think both of the Moors did.
[630.5s] You're good now.
[632.5s] Oh, another bag.
[636.3s] Amy's fully work this episode is amazing.
[638.6s] Hi.
[639.4s] Oh, stellar.
[640.4s] This is her collecting the blood in a Ziploc bag.
[645.2s] There are no snacks.
[646.1s] She's making all these noises.
[646.9s] That's what I was just gonna say, little do we know.
[649.2s] She's not even getting snacks.
[650.6s] She's making this all up
[652.3s] just for the amazing theater that she's creating.
[656.4s] So Thea, can we take guacamole
[657.8s] to chase the blind werewolves?
[660.2s] For sure.
[661.0s] Well, they have white eyes.
[662.1s] It's not necessarily that they're blind.
[663.9s] Well, we don't even know if they're covered in hair.
[665.9s] I know, I was just picturing them like cataracty.
[669.0s] Well, like goats.
[670.0s] Yeah, like kind of milky.
[672.5s] Like big freaky eyes.
[674.5s] You're looking, Russ is staring at me.
[677.8s] Like I've got a walnut in my hand
[680.7s] and he's just staring me down.
[682.7s] Like how much fucking noise are you gonna make with that?
[688.5s] They can more work for us.
[690.8s] Okay, what are you guys doing?
[692.1s] We are hopping on the back of my giant owl
[694.8s] and we're gonna soar and like,
[698.0s] I don't know, get a bird's eye view.
[699.3s] See if we can.
[700.2s] Sure, you guys say you're gonna go out the back
[702.6s] and see if you can't track down whatever creature it is
[707.3s] and Baron is going to take Sasha back to the house
[711.7s] where everybody had set up camp.
[714.4s] It is still the middle of the night.
[717.1s] Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I have a question.
[718.8s] Are they gonna be safe walking?
[720.9s] I don't know.
[722.6s] Sasha, how did you manage to cut the beast
[725.5s] if you couldn't move when they were near you?
[728.3s] Didn't the beast probably get cut going through the window?
[730.9s] Seemed like a lot of blood for a window.
[734.5s] She says, I don't think,
[736.7s] I don't know if I cut the beast.
[738.4s] Oh, okay.
[739.3s] Just assumed with the amount of blood
[740.9s] there was probably some sort of struggle.
[743.3s] It could have cut itself somewhere,
[746.9s] somewhere else.
[749.2s] Seems suspicious.
[750.4s] Let's get on the owl.
[753.2s] Okay, two, three, Lee.
[755.1s] I can never tell if Russ just isn't ready
[757.1s] for the question or if that's how he's actually
[759.7s] reacting as the NPC.
[761.5s] That's why he's so, yes, exactly.
[763.9s] I never know if the character is being wily
[766.9s] and we need to interrogate them more
[769.3s] or if Russ is like, it doesn't fucking matter,
[772.1s] let's move on.
[774.8s] Why are you asking about this?
[777.5s] His face gives nothing away either.
[779.5s] He just has this dickish smile on his face.
[781.9s] I was thinking at least when we played in the same room,
[784.6s] sometimes he could be like dudes.
[788.7s] Just with his body language, he could say dudes.
[791.8s] Just a total slump of my body.
[793.9s] Yes, exactly.
[795.3s] The defeat in his eyes as we focus
[797.9s] on something completely irrelevant.
[799.6s] All right, well, let's hop on this owl.
[801.2s] Okay, we run out the back door
[802.9s] and I whistle for guacamole and she swoops down.
[805.6s] Sure.
[806.4s] You hop onto her, you see footsteps leave the house
[811.0s] and their house backs onto the little ways onto the forest
[816.5s] and they run straight for the forest.
[818.5s] Through the forest.
[819.3s] With your owl or without your owl?
[820.4s] How thick is this forest?
[821.5s] If we were flying above the trees,
[824.1s] would we be able to see down?
[826.4s] It's fairly thick in most parts.
[828.8s] Of course it is.
[829.7s] On foot we go.
[830.9s] Well, that was a bitching ride on guacamole.
[833.1s] He's still around for like three days, right?
[836.1s] Guacamole is a girl, but yes.
[837.8s] Oh yeah, sorry.
[838.7s] Yeah, that's okay.
[840.1s] So into the dark woods we go.
[843.4s] Fly up on guacamole,
[845.3s] but you see that it is quite thick in most areas
[849.9s] and you determine that you probably won't be able
[853.0s] to see something walking around.
[857.2s] I instruct guacamole to go,
[859.5s] to still fly above the forest and like circle around
[864.7s] because the owl has amazing eyesight.
[867.1s] So there's a good chance that if something happens,
[870.2s] I tell her to like do a loud owl cry.
[873.8s] Sure.
[874.7s] Or she can be there to snag us up
[875.8s] if we get into trouble.
[877.3s] Exactly.
[878.2s] I love it.
[879.0s] You go off on foot into the forest.
[883.4s] Do you want to make a?
[884.7s] I don't care what it is.
[885.5s] Yeah.
[886.4s] I rolled a 14.
[889.9s] Now tell me what it was and I'll add my bonus.
[892.5s] Is it nature?
[893.3s] Cause I'm proficient in that.
[894.6s] I was going to say probably nature, yeah.
[896.8s] Perfect.
[897.6s] That is 18 for me.
[899.4s] 19 if we're going with survival.
[901.2s] 20.
[902.1s] Okay, so you quite easily follow the footprints
[905.4s] for quite a while.
[907.0s] I take it you guys are probably moving fairly quickly.
[909.7s] Mm-hmm.
[910.5s] We're trying to catch them.
[911.4s] You get a good distance into the forest
[913.9s] and it's quite thick and dark there
[915.9s] and the footprints seem to disappear.
[920.2s] And as you kind of stop and you're looking around
[923.4s] trying to find where they went or what happened to them,
[926.7s] you hear a small cry for help coming up
[931.7s] from further into the woods
[933.2s] and you hear small footsteps
[936.2s] running in roughly your direction.
[939.3s] Can I see?
[940.2s] I think you guys can both see in the dark, can't you?
[942.5s] I have dark vision.
[943.4s] Yeah.
[944.2s] Within 60 feet.
[945.2s] So can I see this person?
[946.5s] Is this person like within 60 feet in front of us?
[950.1s] You don't see them directly.
[950.9s] There's a fair number of trees and stuff.
[952.9s] Oh, okay, right.
[953.8s] Yeah.
[954.6s] But you don't see them directly
[956.5s] in your field of vision at this moment.
[958.7s] You can more or less tell
[960.5s] which direction they're coming from
[961.9s] and it's the direction that you were traveling in.
[965.2s] And they are coming towards us?
[967.0s] Yep, roughly in the direction that you guys are,
[969.5s] you hear them coming towards you.
[972.3s] I say we call out and ask if they need help
[974.9s] or who they are.
[976.0s] Mm-hmm.
[976.8s] Do that in your character voice.
[979.3s] Someone has to join me.
[980.1s] Come on, you guys.
[981.5s] I'll work on it for next time.
[984.4s] Hello.
[985.9s] Who's out there?
[986.9s] It's me, Lent.
[988.2s] I'm over here.
[989.5s] And you guys can pick up pretty closely
[992.3s] the direction that it's coming from
[994.6s] and it sounds like a child's voice.
[997.0s] We run.
[998.1s] So you run in the direction you think it is
[1000.5s] and you eventually come to a small boy
[1004.9s] and he looks like he's in some tattered clothes
[1010.1s] and it looks like he has been running for quite a while.
[1014.5s] He's a little bit out of breath
[1016.3s] and he finds you and he looks a little uncertain
[1020.6s] because obviously he doesn't know who you are.
[1024.3s] But he says, can you help, help me?
[1027.7s] Is he a human boy?
[1028.7s] Yes.
[1029.5s] Of course we can help you.
[1031.2s] What's chasing you?
[1032.5s] The, I don't know what it is,
[1037.1s] but it took me from my house
[1040.7s] and took me to this place and there's lots of bones
[1045.9s] and it's not good.
[1051.2s] It's okay.
[1052.4s] Thea has an affinity for children
[1054.6s] and she crouches down and hugs the little boy.
[1057.7s] So thank you.
[1058.7s] I, it's back in the woods there.
[1063.2s] I don't want to go back for fear that he'll get me.
[1067.7s] Fair enough.
[1068.7s] Can Guacamole take him back?
[1070.5s] We'd have to go all the way out of the woods, I think.
[1072.7s] I don't know if Guacamole can like
[1074.0s] burst down through the tree.
[1076.2s] Can he burst down through the trees?
[1078.0s] He can just climb up the tree, can't he?
[1080.4s] Well, yeah, I mean, you could find
[1081.8s] a bit of a clearing patch, yeah.
[1085.3s] What's your name, little boy?
[1086.5s] Oh wait, Lent, right?
[1087.9s] Lent.
[1089.2s] Lent or Lent?
[1090.7s] Lent, L-E-N-T.
[1092.7s] I gave up cider for you.
[1096.3s] Okay, so we go in, we find a clearing
[1098.7s] and maybe Guacamole can take Lent back to the village?
[1103.5s] Yeah, yeah, so you find a clearing,
[1105.2s] Guacamole comes down and he looks a little scared
[1110.7s] of your giant owl.
[1112.1s] She's really nice.
[1112.9s] Wait, did he tell us where this lair was in detail?
[1117.4s] Or what the creature looked like
[1118.8s] just to make sure there's not
[1119.9s] a other creature we're after?
[1122.3s] He didn't yet because he didn't ask, but.
[1128.1s] Well, sorry.
[1130.2s] He said there's this cave that he has been keeping me
[1137.5s] in and other people from my village.
[1141.2s] And it's further back into the woods
[1145.7s] the way I was running.
[1146.6s] I didn't know which way to go once I got out
[1149.5s] so I pretty much just kept running.
[1152.2s] I don't know what direction specifically I took.
[1157.6s] The creature that I saw, he was big, he was really big
[1163.0s] and he was always kind of hunched over
[1166.3s] and had a robe or a cloak on, something like that.
[1171.7s] And he had scary eyes, scary eyes.
[1177.9s] Was there only one of them or was there two?
[1180.9s] There was only one that I saw.
[1185.8s] I don't know if there are more.
[1188.2s] What is he doing with all the people?
[1189.8s] Eating them.
[1193.4s] Well, you're safe now.
[1195.3s] So just hop on up on the owl
[1198.7s] and Guacamole will take you home.
[1201.8s] Okay.
[1203.6s] I instruct Guacamole to come back after she's done dropping.
[1207.1s] Sure.
[1207.9s] So he hops on and holds on to.
[1210.8s] The saddle.
[1211.6s] The saddle, obviously.
[1212.5s] I couldn't remember if there was a saddle or not.
[1214.5s] Yep.
[1215.9s] Hops on and holds onto the saddle
[1217.2s] and Guacamole takes off and you hear a little
[1220.8s] as he's going up into the air and then flies away.
[1224.9s] To the cave.
[1225.7s] I assume like, I know he's a little kid
[1227.1s] but he also was running for his life.
[1228.7s] So he probably left sort of like a thrashed out trail
[1232.1s] from the cave, right?
[1233.8s] Oh, I would imagine so.
[1235.0s] I think someone out running something
[1236.9s] is not really caring about whether or not
[1238.7s] they're breaking twigs.
[1240.2s] Exactly.
[1242.0s] I'm a master tracker.
[1243.3s] So I think we should just probably be able
[1245.1s] to go to the cave or at least follow the path
[1248.8s] that he ran away from the cave in.
[1251.0s] So we head in that direction.
[1252.7s] Yeah, so you guys go back to where you met him
[1254.9s] and you are quite easily able to follow his footprints
[1258.7s] because obviously he's not trying to cover anything up
[1260.9s] and you make it to a very dark cave
[1264.9s] that's carved into the side of a large hill
[1269.5s] that's back in these forests.
[1271.9s] Okay, guys, what's the plan?
[1274.0s] Rush in like foolish maniacs, like normal.
[1277.0s] Ooh, tempting.
[1280.6s] Or our other plan where you turn into a small creature
[1283.6s] and go suss things out.
[1285.3s] What do you guys feel in tonight?
[1288.0s] We do only have two plans, don't we?
[1290.1s] We basically do those two things.
[1292.9s] We also, I guess, could send Donnie in there
[1295.2s] because he can also see in the dark.
[1297.1s] Oh yeah, let's send Donnie.
[1298.4s] So Donnie's gonna fly in sneakily, he's very small,
[1301.5s] and see what he can see
[1302.9s] and then send us some telepathic messages back.
[1305.9s] Sure, so you send Donnie in there
[1309.7s] and he's in there for a few minutes
[1312.4s] before you start getting any word from him
[1315.1s] and you start seeing images of,
[1319.1s] it's very, there is no light in there.
[1323.3s] Everything's very, very dark and dank,
[1326.1s] but you see images of piles of bones.
[1329.2s] There are a couple people in makeshift cages
[1334.0s] that look like they're in similar garb
[1336.8s] to the people from the city you were in, Little Rock,
[1339.7s] but you don't see any creature
[1342.1s] that you think you're looking for anyways.
[1343.7s] So you see a couple humans in cages
[1346.9s] and lots of bones, both human and animal bones as well.
[1351.3s] Can Donnie fly down and look at the cages
[1353.7s] and see how they are fastened?
[1357.1s] Yeah, they're very tightly tied with thin rope.
[1361.5s] Thicker than twine, but thinner than rope
[1364.2s] and it just looks like it's very well knotted.
[1368.8s] So as the people inside can't easily get out.
[1372.2s] Can Donnie try and chew through it?
[1373.9s] Yeah, yeah, he could probably chew through it.
[1376.1s] Cause if the creature's not there,
[1377.2s] we should try and get these people out.
[1379.3s] Yep, do you want him to chew through it now?
[1382.7s] Sure.
[1383.5s] He chews through it and the people inside
[1386.7s] look like they were kind of asleep,
[1390.1s] but not that halfway between sleep stage
[1393.0s] and they hear their doors open, but they aren't,
[1397.7s] they look a little concerned about leaving the cages.
[1401.3s] Can Donnie give them some kind of vision
[1403.5s] of, well, maybe Little Rock,
[1406.1s] where we just were or something
[1407.7s] so that they understand where we're coming from?
[1410.4s] He manages to explain through some images and stuff
[1415.5s] that you guys are from Little Rock
[1418.7s] and they were sent here to try and help
[1421.4s] and that the path looks clear to the cave door.
[1426.3s] And it looks like they are getting up and leaving.
[1431.7s] Yay.
[1432.6s] So they slowly make their way out of the cave
[1435.1s] and you meet them at the cave entrance
[1436.8s] and they say, who are you?
[1440.1s] Are you here to help us?
[1441.2s] Yes, we are.
[1442.1s] We're here to get you out.
[1443.2s] That's good.
[1444.0s] We might go quickly before it comes back,
[1450.1s] before they come back.
[1452.1s] They?
[1452.9s] Yes, yes.
[1454.2s] How many are there?
[1456.5s] Two that we've seen.
[1457.6s] Should we send the people home?
[1459.6s] Via owl.
[1460.4s] And go and get in the cages and jump them?
[1463.8s] You don't think they might notice
[1464.9s] that they used to have two people
[1467.1s] and now they have three people and a pseudo dragon?
[1471.1s] Is there only two people?
[1472.9s] I thought there was like a group of people.
[1474.8s] There are two people, a man and a woman.
[1477.2s] Do they look okay?
[1478.1s] Are they okay like health-wise?
[1480.9s] Yeah, they look more or less like the kid,
[1484.6s] a little beaten up, clothes tattered,
[1486.6s] but more or less they look okay at this point.
[1488.9s] What are your names?
[1489.9s] The man says, my name's Landon and this is Umara.
[1496.3s] We're from Little Rock.
[1498.1s] You are?
[1500.9s] We are the.
[1503.4s] I was hoping someone knew to fill that in.
[1505.9s] That'd be very organic.
[1506.7s] We are the.
[1509.8s] Oh, I was waiting.
[1510.6s] Tom, I thought you were gonna come up
[1512.0s] with something really weird.
[1513.2s] I got nothing.
[1515.5s] We are the.
[1518.0s] Thea, Nularaaaa and Flint, okay.
[1522.1s] We're trying to come up with a clever name for our team.
[1525.3s] It'll happen, it'll happen, it'll happen.
[1528.1s] We already got little Lent home.
[1532.0s] Lent, Lent died a while ago.
[1538.1s] Oh, this isn't good, guys.
[1539.5s] God, come on.
[1541.1s] Russ, you think they can't be the bad guys?
[1542.7s] Always with this shit.
[1544.3s] No, you know what, I fucking knew it.
[1546.2s] I contact Guacamole.
[1550.0s] If you fucking killed my owl.
[1551.6s] How long's your range on Guacamole?
[1553.3s] We, it's telepathic.
[1555.3s] Yeah, but there's a specific range.
[1557.1s] There is no range.
[1558.1s] There is a range.
[1559.0s] There is no range.
[1560.6s] I can't believe you pulled the like,
[1562.4s] there hasn't been a Lent here in 60 years.
[1566.1s] You know, I almost said earlier
[1570.3s] that if this is another like witch situation
[1572.7s] like we had in that goddamn forest before,
[1574.8s] I was gonna lose my mind.
[1576.5s] Russ as a DM wants us to not trust anyone.
[1580.7s] That then makes us feel so guilty
[1583.6s] if someone is not a bad person
[1586.2s] and we don't trust them.
[1587.7s] Yeah, if I was like, and I fucking murder the kid.
[1590.9s] Exactly.
[1592.8s] He would have been like,
[1593.6s] well, turns out it wasn't the kid after all.
[1597.6s] Turns out you murdered an innocent child.
[1600.5s] I reach out.
[1601.4s] Guacamole, yeah, you do your telepathic thing
[1605.2s] with Guacamole,
[1606.0s] and Guacamole is already on the way back to you.
[1608.9s] So she's dropped off the kid.
[1612.1s] Okay, how close is she?
[1613.4s] Is it better to just get her to come
[1615.1s] and pick up these people
[1616.2s] and then drop them back off in the city of Mayhem?
[1618.8s] Guacamole should probably just pick us up.
[1621.5s] Yeah, it sounds like we just sent the big bad
[1623.2s] back to the city on winged owl.
[1627.7s] So maybe we should take that same route back.
[1630.5s] Yeah, I think we should, I think we might.
[1632.0s] Let's get the fuck out of here.
[1633.5s] Sure.
[1634.9s] Kid's creepy ass.
[1635.8s] Oh Russ, you've done it again.
[1637.2s] Oh man.
[1640.1s] Okay, so we can get on Guacamole's back,
[1641.8s] but I'm sorry,
[1642.7s] you two are gonna have to be carried via claw.
[1645.6s] Okay.
[1646.5s] You'll be fine.
[1647.9s] They'd be less scared.
[1648.7s] Sounded a lot more menacing than it actually is.
[1652.0s] It's actually delightful.
[1653.2s] There's no time to lose people, come on.
[1654.9s] But like it's totally fine guys,
[1656.0s] don't worry about it, you're totally safe.
[1657.8s] They say, okay, we could be on board for that.
[1660.5s] We run to the clearing that we were at before.
[1663.9s] Yep.
[1664.8s] And Guacamole meets you there
[1666.4s] and everybody gets on board.
[1670.6s] Pretty sure we're pushing the limits
[1672.1s] of what your owl can carry at this point.
[1673.9s] But you know what though,
[1674.8s] Guacamole is just gonna have to push through.
[1676.4s] It's fine.
[1677.2s] It's an emergency.
[1678.2s] She just doesn't fly as fast.
[1679.7s] Little adrenaline.
[1680.7s] Little adrenaline pumps through and away you go.
[1684.1s] What if these people are the bad people now?
[1686.3s] Like what if Russ is pulling a double switch on us?
[1688.9s] Cause there's two of them.
[1690.2s] And now I can't trust anything.
[1692.6s] Okay, so now that we're in the air and we're flying,
[1695.4s] Guacamole has them in her claws.
[1696.8s] Perfect.
[1697.9s] Let's interrogate them.
[1702.0s] Can we roll some sort of check at least
[1703.9s] to see if we can figure anything out
[1705.3s] before we interrogate them?
[1707.0s] I detect magic.
[1708.0s] I do detect magic on them, right?
[1709.5s] If they're shapeshifters.
[1710.7s] I should have done that.
[1711.6s] I thought about doing that on the kid.
[1712.9s] Oh, I thought about so much stuff with that damn kid.
[1715.3s] We were all trying to be nice this time.
[1717.6s] Damn it.
[1718.7s] Maybe we should be the untrusting three.
[1724.1s] The too trusting three.
[1725.0s] Our DM has ruined us.
[1726.5s] Exactly.
[1728.9s] I rolled a perception check,
[1729.9s] but I didn't perceive very much.
[1731.2s] So nevermind.
[1733.0s] Yeah, they look like people.
[1736.5s] Solid perception.
[1737.5s] I swear to God, I used detect magic in the last.
[1740.1s] I thought so too.
[1741.8s] Oh, I do.
[1742.6s] I have it because it's on my heart.
[1743.9s] You do have detect magic.
[1744.9s] Well, you had it before.
[1746.6s] Yes, I certainly did.
[1747.8s] Long story short,
[1749.0s] you don't detect magic on either of these.
[1752.3s] I just wanted to make sure you could do it.
[1754.6s] See?
[1755.4s] See why we don't trust you.
[1757.0s] Kidding.
[1757.8s] Okay, maybe we should ask these people
[1759.3s] if they've ever seen these evil things
[1761.7s] like shapeshifters.
[1762.5s] Absolutely.
[1763.7s] Whenever they've come into the cave,
[1766.4s] it's usually,
[1768.3s] they're usually rather big.
[1770.1s] I've never seen them change form,
[1772.9s] but that doesn't mean they can't.
[1776.7s] It just means we've never seen them do that.
[1779.0s] It's very philosophical of you.
[1780.9s] Shouldn't you be yelling this all
[1782.2s] because you're in an owl claw high above the trees.
[1785.8s] I've never seen them do anything like that before.
[1790.6s] Thank you.
[1791.4s] I feel so safe.
[1792.5s] I'm very relaxed in this giant owl claw.
[1797.1s] While you interrogate me.
[1798.4s] She has a gentle caress.
[1799.9s] And you guys come up to the edge of the city
[1802.5s] where you want Guacamole to set you down.
[1804.7s] Yes, edge of the city.
[1807.5s] I instruct Guacamole to take us
[1810.1s] to where he or she dropped off Lent
[1813.7s] or the Lent imposter.
[1816.9s] Yeah, and she takes you to the house
[1821.3s] that was the barricade point for the people you met.
[1825.1s] Oh, shit.
[1825.9s] There's gonna be a fucking massacre in there, you guys.
[1829.2s] We've really messed this one up.
[1831.1s] And drops you at the front door.
[1834.9s] And you go in and everything seems to be okay.
[1839.7s] Everybody kind of looks to you expectantly,
[1843.3s] but you don't see the boy.
[1845.4s] Where's the boy?
[1846.5s] What boy?
[1847.8s] Oh, fuck.
[1848.7s] The old lady says, what are you talking about?
[1852.3s] Also, also a muppet.
[1857.5s] Okay, so we messed up a little bit.
[1860.3s] What do you mean?
[1861.3s] We met a boy named Lent
[1862.9s] and we sent him back to town.
[1865.4s] But then these two,
[1867.5s] gesturing of course to land in Enumara.
[1869.8s] They wave.
[1870.7s] They said Lent's dead.
[1871.9s] The old lady says,
[1873.0s] Lent was one of the first boys to go missing
[1875.5s] of our people.
[1877.5s] So yeah, we assume he's been dead for quite a while.
[1882.2s] Well, we saw him in the forest
[1883.7s] and I hugged him and everything
[1884.9s] and he seemed really weird.
[1886.2s] Now that's, that's not good.
[1889.3s] No, no.
[1890.2s] So we've just unleashed a Lent looking thing
[1897.1s] into the city.
[1899.3s] Our apologies.
[1900.2s] Did anything happen here while we were gone?
[1902.5s] Sasha and Baron showed up
[1904.6s] and we saw your owl swoop by.
[1908.2s] But when we went and kind of looked out,
[1910.5s] it flew off and we didn't see anybody.
[1913.1s] Oh, okay guys.
[1913.9s] It was just a ghost.
[1914.7s] Don't worry about it.
[1915.6s] Oh, perfect.
[1916.4s] Yeah, but I hugged it.
[1918.3s] You can't hug ghosts.
[1920.3s] Who says what you can and can't do
[1921.8s] to ghosts in this world?
[1923.1s] I suppose.
[1924.8s] Is everybody from town in this stronghold?
[1928.5s] Yes, yes.
[1929.3s] Everybody that's left is here.
[1933.3s] There are about 10 or 15 people within this main room.
[1937.7s] And then she says there's some more people
[1940.9s] in the bedrooms upstairs,
[1942.4s] a couple of people in the kitchen.
[1943.7s] But yeah, everybody is now in this house
[1947.3s] that is left in the town.
[1949.3s] Well, that's good news.
[1950.9s] The bad news is it's a shapeshifter,
[1954.6s] so could be any of us.
[1957.6s] Oh goodness.
[1959.2s] Or maybe it's not.
[1960.1s] Maybe Thea just hugged a ghost.
[1962.0s] I don't know.
[1962.9s] Maybe I did.
[1964.1s] I don't know.
[1965.0s] I like that option better.
[1966.2s] Maybe Thea should run another archana chair.
[1969.8s] I'd do that.
[1972.9s] From this room, you can see upstairs that go upstairs.
[1977.0s] Helpful.
[1980.8s] There's the kitchen.
[1981.7s] Hey, those stairs could go downstairs.
[1983.6s] Could have.
[1984.9s] Could go downstairs.
[1986.0s] Yeah.
[1986.9s] But they go upstairs.
[1987.7s] Okay.
[1988.5s] Not big on basements here apparently.
[1990.1s] So the stairs that go upstairs,
[1991.6s] there is a feeling of some sort of magic
[1998.3s] coming up or down the stairs there.
[2001.0s] I, am I like a snake?
[2004.0s] Am I like, there's like just a hint, guys.
[2008.7s] Just a hint of magic happening.
[2009.6s] Well, you get like a glow off of it, right?
[2013.3s] So.
[2014.7s] Let's follow the yellow brick glow.
[2016.6s] So you go upstairs
[2018.7s] and there is more of the mist
[2022.1s] that you saw in the room with Sasha.
[2027.6s] And it's coming out of one of the bedrooms
[2031.5s] and you can hear inside singing.
[2035.4s] Oh, I kicked that door down.
[2038.6s] That's right.
[2039.5s] I'm just, I'm making an executive decision.
[2042.0s] I'm gonna use that.
[2042.8s] No time for singing.
[2043.8s] I want to Jean-Claude Van Damme that door down.
[2047.1s] You kick in the door and you very clearly startle.
[2052.7s] There are a man and a woman and her daughter in there
[2055.6s] and the daughter was singing.
[2057.3s] And they kind of jump up and huddle together
[2062.1s] in the corner.
[2062.9s] Is there more mist in the room?
[2064.2s] Yeah.
[2065.0s] Is there like a glow?
[2065.8s] Is it coming particularly from a place?
[2067.5s] Yeah, there is.
[2068.3s] Sorry.
[2069.1s] Like I'm like a bloodhound on the glow trail.
[2070.6s] Yeah, there is.
[2071.6s] This room has quite a lot of the mist.
[2074.5s] No one else can see this mist.
[2076.3s] Are you asking somebody that?
[2078.3s] Yeah.
[2079.2s] Well, yeah.
[2080.0s] Like everybody can see the mist.
[2082.1s] And they don't find,
[2082.9s] they're just hanging out in the mist room.
[2084.5s] Like they're hot boxing in the mist room.
[2087.3s] What are you doing in this misty room?
[2089.7s] Fuck, I don't know.
[2091.7s] What do you say after you kick a door in?
[2093.9s] Hey, what's going on here?
[2096.9s] Mist be gone.
[2099.2s] We were just having some quiet time with our family.
[2103.3s] What in the creepiest of all of the rooms?
[2107.7s] What do you mean creepy?
[2108.6s] I can barely see a foot in front of my face.
[2111.2s] Okay, it's not that much of a mist.
[2112.8s] It's not like a fog.
[2113.9s] It's a wall of mist.
[2114.7s] I'm imagining it to be like,
[2116.3s] I open the door and-
[2117.3s] John Carpenter's The Fog.
[2119.5s] There's like-
[2120.3s] Yes.
[2121.2s] It's a light misty aura about the room.
[2125.0s] Do you not notice the light misty aura about this room?
[2128.1s] Well, yeah.
[2130.0s] It's been happening since-
[2132.8s] Since when?
[2133.6s] For quite a while.
[2134.4s] How long has it been like this?
[2135.3s] Figured it was like a fog thing.
[2136.3s] How long?
[2137.2s] Well, since people started going missing.
[2139.5s] This room in particular?
[2140.9s] Not this room specifically, just-
[2142.5s] How when to this room?
[2144.3s] Within the room, like tonight.
[2145.5s] I thought it was just like a cold,
[2147.5s] cold mist form. How many minutes?
[2150.0s] A lot of-
[2150.8s] Are we talking like an hour?
[2151.6s] Well, like a few.
[2153.4s] It started a little while ago.
[2156.1s] I turn back toward them.
[2157.3s] Probably since we accidentally dropped off the lens.
[2160.7s] Seems to line up.
[2162.1s] Also, who doesn't notice that there's a mist
[2164.9s] that comes to town at the same time
[2166.3s] as people start disappearing?
[2168.4s] I glare at these family that we just kicked in their door.
[2172.8s] I have no remorse.
[2173.7s] I trust no one now.
[2174.8s] The-
[2175.7s] I have a little girl.
[2177.9s] The man kind of adjusts his glasses
[2180.3s] with his middle finger, as you say that.
[2184.0s] Pushing it up on the bridge of his nose
[2186.5s] and says, well, I guess we didn't put two
[2190.8s] and two together.
[2191.6s] That mist might mean not good things.
[2195.4s] Well, there's some things specifically not good
[2198.0s] about what's going on in this room.
[2200.0s] How have any of you been separated in the last two hours?
[2204.5s] I'm talking bathroom breaks.
[2206.3s] Did you implement the buddy system or not?
[2212.6s] Well, yeah, I mean, we've used the bathroom.
[2216.9s] That was your first mistake.
[2218.1s] All three of you or just one of you.
[2221.0s] My wife went.
[2222.1s] My daughter went.
[2224.9s] In what order?
[2227.9s] My wife and then my daughter.
[2230.3s] And when your wife went, were you with the daughter?
[2232.8s] Yes.
[2234.0s] The whole time.
[2236.1s] You didn't even go get a snack.
[2238.1s] There's not much snacks here.
[2241.4s] There's not many snacks here.
[2244.7s] Sorry, we're not as intuitive
[2246.1s] and intelligent for your likings.
[2249.5s] There is something wrong here.
[2251.3s] She call you the hoity-toity.
[2253.0s] I'm making a scene now.
[2255.9s] Thea was a scribe.
[2256.9s] She's very particular about language, it's fine.
[2259.3s] As you are having this argument,
[2263.8s] the mist seems to be swirling around you,
[2269.7s] specifically Thea.
[2271.0s] Oh God, I've anchored the mist, you guys.
[2272.9s] Just blow really hard.
[2274.6s] Yeah, I just kind of kick and blow at it.
[2277.3s] You don't feel like it's doing anything to you,
[2279.6s] but it is swirling around you
[2281.5s] as you are interrogating this family.
[2284.6s] Okay, there's something mystical about this family,
[2286.3s] you guys.
[2288.1s] I would detect magic,
[2289.1s] but I have a feeling like it's just.
[2291.1s] But you're surrounded by a glowing mist,
[2293.1s] so you feel like it might be redundant.
[2295.3s] There might be plenty of magic already going on.
[2298.2s] Can she feel it?
[2299.1s] Sorry, Russ, I think you might've just said that.
[2301.0s] Can she?
[2302.1s] Yeah, it's not hurting me.
[2303.8s] Nothing is happening, it's just.
[2305.6s] She doesn't, she feels like the breeze of it
[2308.5s] moving around a bit,
[2310.2s] but it doesn't feel like there's any sort of substance
[2312.7s] to it.
[2314.2s] Okay, which one of you is doing this?
[2317.5s] Fess up.
[2318.4s] They all look to each other.
[2319.5s] Fess up.
[2321.3s] No, shaking your head isn't gonna do anything, fess up.
[2324.3s] I think we're not doing anything to you.
[2328.2s] The husband and wife are shaking their heads
[2331.3s] and the little girl is just looking down.
[2334.7s] Great, I'm glad now we automatically suspect children.
[2338.4s] Another guilty child.
[2340.0s] Oh my God, this is the worst.
[2343.6s] I switched tactics.
[2345.3s] I switched tactics and I'm like,
[2346.9s] listen, listen, I'm sorry.
[2348.6s] We had an awful experience.
[2350.9s] We found little Lent, but it wasn't him.
[2354.4s] It was somebody in his body
[2356.9s] or pretending to look like him.
[2359.8s] And we're just trying to make sure
[2361.1s] that the house is secure.
[2363.1s] As you're doing this,
[2364.6s] the little girl starts to sing again.
[2367.7s] Oh my God.
[2369.3s] What's she singing?
[2370.7s] She sings.
[2372.5s] Lock the door, blow out the light.
[2375.8s] The hungry Oni haunts the night.
[2379.5s] Hide and tremble.
[2380.8s] Oh my God.
[2381.6s] It'll want to be fun.
[2383.3s] I'm gonna have nightmares now.
[2385.2s] Yeah, so.
[2386.1s] The Oni wants to have some fun.
[2390.0s] Oh gross.
[2390.9s] I turned to her parents and I'm like,
[2392.0s] that's a lovely ditty, you teacher.
[2393.6s] Like dudes, this ain't normal.
[2395.6s] Hey there, long time no see.
[2403.9s] It's me, your dungeon master Russ More.
[2405.9s] And this is episode nine of Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[2408.7s] This one titled A Hunter in Little Rock part one.
[2412.7s] This is the episode where I think it's really
[2414.9s] becoming evident how little trust in me
[2417.6s] as the DM the players have.
[2419.8s] And you know what?
[2420.8s] That's okay by me.
[2422.5s] What's a little fear of children among friends?
[2424.5s] They can be scary.
[2425.7s] I know, I have one.
[2429.0s] We didn't do any comments or feedback in the last episode
[2431.2s] so we have a few today that I would like to get to.
[2432.8s] So let's kick that off right now.
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[2438.0s] great D&D podcast.
[2439.6s] If you're a fan of Dumbgeons and Dragons,
[2441.2s] then this is the podcast for you.
[2443.0s] Russ and co do a great job
[2444.4s] and every episode is filled with tons of fun and laughs.
[2447.1s] Highly recommended to anyone into D&D.
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[2452.4s] awesome, love listening to your adventures.
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[2531.2s] Let's jump right back in.
[2532.0s] Episode 10 will be available April 12th
[2535.5s] and that will be the continuation
[2537.3s] of this Hunter in Little Rock side quest.
[2541.1s] You have a most wonderful couple of weeks
[2542.7s] because you know what?
[2544.0s] You deserve it.
[2544.8s] And I can't wait to talk to you again.
[2546.3s] Back to the episode.
[2547.4s] Let's find out how many more trust bridges I can burn
[2549.7s] before this one's over.
[2551.0s] We'll see you later.
[2552.2s] They kind of looked at us and said,
[2559.1s] well, that's a children's lullaby that, you know,
[2562.8s] we tell kids to scare them into listening
[2565.1s] to their parents.
[2566.0s] I was, the only is going to come and get them.
[2567.6s] The only is not real.
[2568.7s] Anything horrible when they say, the only is not real.
[2571.1s] And then the only burst through the closet.
[2573.0s] No, the little girl stands up and begins to shift shape.
[2580.6s] Ah, the fuck.
[2581.5s] Yeah, she does.
[2582.3s] And she grows into a large.
[2587.9s] Oh, I'm going to get to see a picture.
[2592.1s] I'm not going to show you the picture.
[2593.1s] It's an audio medium.
[2597.0s] You used to show pictures.
[2599.2s] This was more fun in Canada.
[2601.5s] You see a giant or ogre looking creature
[2606.9s] with dark blue skin, very dark hair.
[2611.9s] It has a set of ivory horns protruding from its forehead.
[2616.0s] The eyes are dark, but the pupils are strikingly white.
[2620.2s] And it has very sharp razor teeth
[2623.2s] and claws that are jet black.
[2625.3s] Do we scare you guys?
[2626.8s] Well, let's fucking kill them.
[2628.1s] Before we roll for initiative,
[2632.0s] you make a charisma saving throw.
[2637.0s] A charisma saving throw?
[2638.5s] Well, that was shitty.
[2639.7s] Nine.
[2641.6s] I'm not very charismatic today.
[2643.3s] You feel like you don't want to hurt this thing.
[2649.2s] Ah, shit.
[2650.5s] Roll for initiative.
[2653.4s] I have a three.
[2654.5s] I rolled a 20.
[2655.6s] Nice.
[2656.7s] 15.
[2657.5s] No, I hate it when I wasted on initiative.
[2659.1s] What a waste.
[2659.9s] I know.
[2660.8s] God damn it.
[2662.2s] I mean, good for you, but.
[2663.5s] I know, but then I get a fucking one on my attack roll.
[2667.1s] That's okay.
[2667.9s] Well, yeah.
[2668.7s] No, Laura, you're up first.
[2669.9s] Perfect.
[2670.8s] I pull out flame tongue.
[2672.1s] I whisper Mui Caliente, and then I roll an amazing.
[2677.4s] Oh, 19.
[2678.3s] That will do because I get,
[2681.2s] I don't even remember anymore,
[2683.1s] but to plus something amazing.
[2685.0s] It's like nine or something stupid like that.
[2686.8s] I think it is nine.
[2687.7s] Why can't I remember how to play this game?
[2689.4s] Yep, plus nine.
[2692.8s] It really hasn't been that long.
[2694.1s] You know, but I feel like we haven't had a fight in a while.
[2695.9s] Only almost two years.
[2697.1s] And we're fighting children, so.
[2699.2s] I know.
[2700.4s] Not fighting a child anymore.
[2702.0s] So that is a 28.
[2704.5s] By the way, Rusty,
[2705.4s] these parents just like freak the fuck out
[2708.2s] when this thing transforms.
[2709.7s] The parents, yeah, the parents lose their shit.
[2713.8s] And they are working their way towards the door.
[2716.2s] They're still in the room,
[2717.2s] but they're not quite frozen in fear,
[2719.3s] but they're just kind of scooching along,
[2721.4s] screaming and not having a great time
[2723.5s] that their kid just turned into this giant monster.
[2725.7s] Scream, scooching.
[2726.7s] Scream, scooching, yep.
[2728.7s] Classic.
[2729.5s] Sorry, it was wisdom saving throw.
[2731.1s] So you had.
[2732.0s] I didn't do a wisdom saving throw.
[2734.1s] I know.
[2735.0s] So.
[2735.8s] That gives me an 11.
[2736.6s] You still feel friendly towards this creature.
[2740.4s] Friendly, like I'm not gonna be able
[2741.7s] to participate in the battle.
[2742.8s] We'll see once it gets to your turn.
[2744.4s] So sorry, yeah, Noir, you're hit.
[2746.9s] Eight damage.
[2748.3s] It was a 28, which I assume hit.
[2751.7s] Yeah, 28.
[2752.5s] Okay, so eight damage.
[2754.7s] Second attack.
[2757.0s] Not so good.
[2758.6s] 14.
[2759.5s] 14 is not a hit.
[2761.3s] Okay, Donnie's gonna go for it
[2763.0s] because he's real pissed off at this fake out.
[2767.6s] And he got a 20 just with bonuses.
[2771.3s] Cool, yep.
[2772.2s] Donnie.
[2773.1s] And Russ, it's up to you if I do this,
[2775.2s] but I actually was reading my notes today
[2777.4s] and I've been giving Donnie his normal damage,
[2780.9s] which is one D four plus two,
[2782.7s] but he's also supposed to get a plus three
[2786.5s] for something to do with one of my level ups
[2788.6s] that I had forgotten about.
[2790.3s] Oh yeah, sure, absolutely.
[2791.4s] Okay, so that is five damage from Donnie
[2795.5s] and then it needs to do a constitution saving throw.
[2799.7s] That is a 15.
[2801.1s] Yeah, that's fine, that's fine then.
[2803.1s] Oh, Flint.
[2804.6s] Oh, I'm gonna bring the pain.
[2806.1s] I am not impressed with this whatsoever.
[2811.3s] So the first one is a 21.
[2812.6s] 21 is good, yeah.
[2815.6s] Six and 11 is 17 and four, so 21 damage.
[2822.8s] And second one is a 18.
[2826.2s] 18 is still good, yeah.
[2827.3s] All right, perfect.
[2829.9s] Six again.
[2832.1s] 10 this time, so plus four is 20.
[2835.3s] Okay, and it is his turn.
[2839.0s] Donnie's, at the start of their turn,
[2841.5s] regain 10 hit points,
[2843.5s] as long as they have at least one remaining.
[2845.8s] Good lord.
[2847.4s] So he will do that.
[2849.1s] Is there some way I can learn that skill?
[2851.3s] It's called regeneration, you figure that out.
[2854.4s] All right, I'll work on it.
[2855.5s] You can work on it.
[2856.3s] He pulls from his cloak a long glaive,
[2861.5s] which is a long spear type rod
[2864.3s] with two blades on either end.
[2866.7s] And he swings at Flint and he gets two attacks.
[2873.0s] So first one is a 13.
[2878.1s] Second one is a 19.
[2880.8s] I think the 19 hits.
[2882.1s] The 19 definitely hits, yeah.
[2883.7s] That sounded like a lot of dice.
[2887.9s] There's only two dice.
[2888.8s] 16 slashing damage.
[2891.0s] Ow.
[2891.9s] He moves himself towards the window in the room.
[2897.3s] It's Thea's turn.
[2898.9s] And you, Thea, you see your friends hitting the Oni
[2904.3s] and you are drawn to stop them from doing that.
[2910.2s] Okay.
[2911.0s] So you are going to attack one of them.
[2915.1s] Okay.
[2915.9s] You are going to try and attack.
[2917.5s] Okay.
[2918.4s] I'll roll for it just to keep it random.
[2922.0s] You are going to attack Nulara.
[2924.6s] Okay, sorry, Nulara.
[2925.8s] But I get to choose what I attack her with.
[2928.1s] Yep.
[2929.0s] Okay, so Nulara, this is good.
[2932.6s] This is fine.
[2933.5s] It's gonna be okay.
[2934.3s] Okay.
[2935.1s] So I'm going to use hold person
[2938.3s] and that is going to be my, okay.
[2941.8s] So it doesn't actually cause any damage, but it doesn't.
[2945.5s] Why do you have 2D8 fire damage associated to it?
[2949.5s] I don't know.
[2950.6s] Oh, because I, no, I.
[2953.9s] It's not just damage when it's convenient.
[2956.9s] Let me look.
[2958.7s] Essentially, it just stops you from moving.
[2961.4s] But then again, oh wait, do you want that
[2963.2s] or do you want to be hurt?
[2964.1s] I'm just gonna have to.
[2965.1s] Just like hit me with some shitty weapon.
[2967.6s] Okay.
[2968.4s] I have full hit points.
[2969.3s] Don't move me or anything, but.
[2972.0s] Okay, no, I wouldn't do that.
[2973.4s] I'm gonna use like, oh, I'm gonna use my slingshot.
[2976.8s] I'm gonna throw a rock at you.
[2978.5s] Perfect.
[2979.3s] I'm gonna throw a rock at you.
[2980.2s] I mean, I guess not perfect, but.
[2982.7s] Roll for your attack.
[2983.7s] It's one of those healing rocks.
[2986.6s] Four, does a four hit you?
[2988.1s] It does not.
[2989.1s] Plus two, how about a six?
[2990.8s] Even still.
[2992.1s] Okay, nevermind.
[2993.9s] Perfect.
[2994.7s] So I whip it at you and I go just kidding.
[2996.3s] The end of your turn, you can save
[2997.8s] against the charm that you have over you.
[3000.1s] Fuck.
[3002.3s] You are still charmed by the Oni
[3004.5s] and it's Nulara's turn.
[3006.6s] And you guys just see the end aim for Nulara
[3009.7s] and now it's Nulara's turn.
[3012.2s] You don't know that she is charmed.
[3014.4s] Even though she's threw a rock at me?
[3016.0s] So I know something's up.
[3017.1s] You know something's up,
[3018.1s] but you don't know that she has been charmed.
[3020.6s] Right.
[3021.4s] Player knowledge, character knowledge.
[3022.3s] Okay.
[3023.1s] Flint, I think that miss did something to her.
[3025.6s] She's throwing rocks at me.
[3027.0s] That's super weird.
[3028.2s] And then, and then I attack the Oni with a 24.
[3033.2s] Yep.
[3034.3s] And 16 damage on that attack, second attack.
[3041.3s] 21 and that is seven, 11, 13 damage.
[3049.9s] Then Donnie gets in on the action.
[3052.2s] He rolls a 20, well he doesn't roll a 20,
[3056.9s] and he gets four plus three is seven damage.
[3062.5s] And then constitution saving throw for that big bad.
[3067.8s] 17.
[3068.7s] Yeah, that'll, that'll do it.
[3070.0s] Flint, you're up.
[3070.8s] I'd like to get in the way
[3073.1s] in between the window and this Oni
[3076.2s] because it seemed like it was making its way over there.
[3078.2s] Sure, yeah.
[3079.0s] It is currently between you and the window at this point
[3083.6s] but there's about five to 10 feet
[3086.7s] between it and the window.
[3087.7s] All right, well I hustle
[3089.2s] and do some sort of awesome powerslide
[3092.2s] to get into its way.
[3093.2s] Rewind a little bit here.
[3094.2s] So you, if you go through his reach, his zone,
[3097.8s] there is a chance for an opportunity attack from him.
[3100.7s] Okay, that's fine.
[3101.8s] So you go to move past him
[3104.3s] and get between him and the window
[3105.9s] and he tries to reach at you with his claw,
[3109.3s] which might not be good.
[3111.7s] 13.
[3112.6s] He doesn't do any damage.
[3113.4s] It's like a swipe at me but didn't hit.
[3115.5s] Exactly.
[3116.4s] So you are now between him and the window.
[3118.3s] Excellent.
[3119.7s] Cause it's go time.
[3123.9s] So 23 on that roll.
[3125.8s] Yeah, 23 is good.
[3128.8s] Four.
[3131.0s] And six, 10 and four is 14.
[3134.8s] And second attack.
[3136.3s] That's 21 but not critical.
[3140.2s] Six, seven, 13 and four, 17.
[3144.7s] It's his turn and with that hit,
[3147.0s] he's looking noticeable damage to him.
[3150.0s] So he's looking a little bloodied there.
[3151.6s] And he, when you ran past him,
[3153.8s] he kind of turned and followed you
[3155.7s] and he looks like he is charging you.
[3159.4s] So that'll be 19.
[3161.8s] That hits.
[3162.6s] He runs into you and is trying to push you
[3167.9s] seemingly with him through the window.
[3170.9s] So I'll give you a strength saving throw.
[3174.4s] To see if you can block him
[3176.5s] from pushing both of you out the window.
[3178.3s] Strike, don't fail me now.
[3182.1s] So that is a 17.
[3183.3s] And he rolled a 16.
[3185.6s] He runs into you for,
[3188.0s] you take four damage off of his hit
[3190.2s] but you stop him from vacating the room.
[3193.5s] Excellent.
[3194.4s] His second attack, he's going to claw at you.
[3197.4s] And that is a 25.
[3199.6s] Whoa, that definitely hits.
[3201.2s] You take eight slashing damage from his claws.
[3204.4s] And now it is Thea's turn.
[3207.8s] So he's blocking Flint.
[3209.5s] So you're going to try and attack Nularaaaa again.
[3212.8s] Soaring Nularaaaa.
[3214.9s] 13 plus.
[3217.2s] Yeah, your sling is plus four.
[3219.5s] My sling is plus four?
[3220.6s] Yeah.
[3222.0s] Really?
[3222.8s] I'm proficient in slinging.
[3224.6s] Apparently.
[3225.8s] Does a 17 hit you?
[3227.7s] 17 does hit me because that matches my AC
[3230.5s] and we said that is a hit now, right?
[3233.4s] Yeah.
[3234.3s] Yeah, and it's a one D three.
[3236.0s] One D four plus three.
[3238.1s] Five damage.
[3239.3s] I'm sorry Nularaaaa.
[3240.8s] We're cool.
[3242.3s] I can roll for, to break this bubble.
[3244.4s] And now you can roll to save, yeah.
[3247.9s] Fuh, uh, uh, uh.
[3250.2s] Is this a wisdom?
[3251.4s] Is wisdom.
[3252.2s] So that's seven plus four.
[3253.8s] And you have advantage.
[3254.6s] Is 11, and which is plus two.
[3258.6s] An advantage.
[3259.6s] Your wisdom saving throw is seven.
[3262.9s] So you got 14 plus two.
[3267.0s] So you shake whatever charm he had on you.
[3271.5s] And you know that anything you have been doing since then
[3274.6s] was because he put the charm on you.
[3277.5s] And now it's Nularaaaa's turn.
[3279.3s] We'll hug it out later, girl.
[3280.3s] Is he facing Flint?
[3282.8s] Like, is he facing towards the window?
[3285.2s] I think they're in the middle of a man hug right now.
[3287.2s] Are they not?
[3288.1s] Yeah, they're more or less grappled.
[3291.1s] Yeah, to a point, yeah.
[3292.2s] Like man hug better, but.
[3294.2s] Yeah, so his back is to you and, uh, Thea.
[3298.3s] Does that give her advantage?
[3301.0s] Whoa.
[3302.4s] Stab him in the back.
[3304.1s] I'm just worried about Flint now if they're like
[3307.3s] locked in a manly embrace.
[3310.5s] Nah, you go for it, girl.
[3312.0s] I rolled a 17, so that's 28.
[3315.5s] Um, where are his feet?
[3319.3s] On the floor.
[3320.1s] I'd like to chop off one of his legs.
[3321.6s] Ah, I'd like to chop off one of his legs.
[3324.4s] Or at least like below the knee, something.
[3327.5s] Sure, yeah.
[3328.5s] Kick slash an Achilles tendon.
[3330.7s] Yeah, yeah, you could try that.
[3332.8s] So that's 16 damage on that one.
[3334.8s] Yeah, you take a good chunk out of his leg there.
[3337.5s] So he kind of crumples a little bit under that hit.
[3340.9s] Great, I'm going for the other one now.
[3342.4s] Kind of reaches off and pulls his hand away from Flint.
[3346.6s] So that was a 25.
[3348.6s] Okay.
[3349.4s] Is he, he's still upright though.
[3351.8s] Yeah?
[3352.6s] Yeah, he kind of, fall into one knee there
[3355.5s] with that last hit.
[3356.9s] Okay, so that is seven plus four plus three
[3361.6s] is 14.
[3363.4s] I'm just gonna try and just stab him right through
[3367.4s] with my 14 damage.
[3369.6s] Did I say what my roll was?
[3371.2s] Did I black out there?
[3372.3s] That was a 25.
[3373.2s] That was a 25.
[3374.0s] Yeah, I did.
[3374.8s] I was sure you hit him,
[3376.0s] but what weapon are you using, your flame sword?
[3378.4s] Yeah.
[3379.3s] Yeah, okay, so 14 damage.
[3381.9s] So you go through the body?
[3383.0s] Yeah, just through the body.
[3384.8s] Cause he's gonna be dropped away from Flint a bit, right?
[3387.6s] Yeah, your sword is now through him.
[3391.2s] Yeah, yeah, we could say that.
[3393.3s] Okay.
[3395.3s] Johnny rolled a 16, does that get him?
[3397.6s] Yeah, 16 hits.
[3398.8s] Okay, so Johnny gets seven damage.
[3402.1s] Even with that new plus three?
[3403.4s] Yeah, he only gets to roll one D4 plus five.
[3408.1s] So seven damage and then constitution saving throw.
[3411.4s] 15.
[3412.3s] Yeah, it's fine, he's fine.
[3413.6s] Johnny did sting someone that one time.
[3416.4s] Yes, I remember.
[3417.5s] That one time and it was glorious.
[3419.5s] It's great, it's so good.
[3420.8s] We go to Flint.
[3422.5s] How's this thing looking?
[3424.5s] It's not looking good.
[3426.6s] He's got a sword through his chest.
[3428.7s] A flaming sword at that.
[3429.9s] A flaming sword through, yeah, the chest shoulder region.
[3434.2s] It's got a big chunk taken out of its leg.
[3437.2s] It's pulled off of the embrace that it had you in.
[3441.1s] It was a sweet embrace.
[3442.0s] Oh, he really was.
[3443.3s] Yeah, you felt like he just meant good things.
[3446.6s] No, you don't buy it?
[3447.9s] All right, well, I guess I'm gonna go
[3450.0s] for the old killing blow then.
[3451.6s] Okay.
[3454.2s] So that's a 16,
[3455.4s] which I think you said for Carla, hit.
[3457.3s] Yep. Perfect.
[3459.6s] Six, and six is 12 and four is 16.
[3464.0s] Okay, still alive.
[3466.4s] Didn't sound like it, kill them.
[3468.6s] No.
[3469.5s] It keeps getting that stupid plus 10 back, so.
[3471.6s] Oh, natch 20.
[3475.9s] Not gonna get out of that one.
[3478.0s] This doesn't seem like it's gonna go well for this guy.
[3481.1s] No, no, probably not.
[3482.6s] All right, I've got a ton of things to roll.
[3486.2s] Four, six is 10, so 14 on the first one.
[3492.4s] 11, and four is 15, so 19 on the second one.
[3498.2s] 33.
[3500.6s] Yeah, so you, what are you, what were you doing?
[3505.5s] Cause he's dead, go for it.
[3509.6s] Well, I was taking a vicious swing
[3512.4s] at his head slash neck area.
[3514.7s] Yeah, you do that and it comes off,
[3517.2s] like when a pool ball hops off the table, it's gone.
[3521.6s] And as you do that, the mist that's still in the room
[3527.3s] begins to churn a little bit more
[3529.7s] and looks like it's reforming as the little girl
[3535.8s] that it changed from.
[3538.4s] So there is, the little girl is now in the room
[3541.9s] with you and the mist is gone.
[3542.7s] She has every urge to murder her.
[3544.8s] She looks quite scared.
[3547.6s] What's your name?
[3549.6s] My name is Betha, Betha.
[3552.0s] Hi Betha, where were you?
[3555.1s] I felt like I was in the room,
[3558.4s] but I tried to tell somebody,
[3561.5s] but I couldn't, everything I was doing and saying,
[3566.9s] I just, no one was listening.
[3570.3s] It's okay, sweetie, it's because you were missed.
[3574.7s] Well, I'm glad to hear you missed me.
[3576.2s] Yeah, okay.
[3578.4s] So I'm pretty sure she's just a regular human child.
[3582.7s] Okay, human child, let's take you down to your parents.
[3586.6s] Did you just call her human child?
[3589.0s] I did.
[3592.1s] Yeah, let's take her down to her parents
[3594.2s] and yeah, not that they really noticed anything wrong
[3598.5s] with her before,
[3599.5s] because there is still one of these creatures, right?
[3602.0s] There was two of them, wasn't there?
[3603.6s] That's what everyone had told us.
[3606.4s] But maybe we can take her to her-
[3607.2s] Thea just came to a realization.
[3608.7s] What's that?
[3609.7s] If the mist was the girl, where else did we see mist?
[3615.8s] Oh, come on, God, at Baran's place,
[3619.7s] his sister is another one of those stupid Onis.
[3622.7s] Oh no.
[3625.8s] Oh man.
[3626.9s] I'm trying to redress his facial expression.
[3629.1s] I know, but I think, but you must be right, right?
[3634.9s] Wasn't that-
[3636.6s] There's only one way to find out.
[3638.4s] Yeah, let's take her downstairs and find Sasha.
[3644.7s] You go down the stairs
[3647.3s] and everybody's kind of piled in down at the bottom.
[3652.5s] Listening in.
[3653.3s] Listening in a little bit.
[3655.6s] And Beth runs back to her parents,
[3657.8s] the two people that were in the room they had left,
[3660.6s] and everybody's there except Sasha and Baran.
[3665.2s] Naturally?
[3666.0s] They are sitting over in the main living area.
[3670.7s] There is still that mist about.
[3673.4s] Of course there is.
[3674.8s] And Sasha pulls from behind her,
[3679.1s] and it seems to grow in her hand another glaive.
[3682.9s] And she swings at Baran,
[3686.0s] and he takes a big hit to his neck,
[3689.4s] and he is down on the ground bleeding.
[3692.5s] And she begins to take form of another Oni.
[3696.0s] Sweet.
[3696.8s] Still gonna die just as hard.
[3698.2s] Oh yeah.
[3699.0s] Music in today's episode was by Kavin MacLeod of Incompetech.Filmmusic.io.
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