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[30.0s] I mean, I think I have a million, you know? Like, what do I need to do? Where do I need to go? What skills do I need to have before I go there?
[36.2s] How much experience do you have with conflict?
[40.8s] I've barely been in an argument.
[42.3s] Your calling or your goals could be upholding the values of Bahamut. Decisions might cause you to go against what Bahamut would believe to be correct.
[56.9s] Oh, Sirma, I'm totally confident that Bahamut's gonna show me exactly what I need to do.
[61.4s] You know what? Walk with me.
[62.7s] Ooh, walk and talk. I love these.
[64.4s] Put yourself back on that night. You see old members pull a large blade and go to attack this woman.
[73.7s] Mom!
[74.3s] There was a man who studied almost too much into wild magics of the world. His name is Gabriel.
[82.3s] Go hang out around the House of Knowledge to find Gabriel.
[85.9s] We will see you again soon, Bahamut.
[88.9s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons. We're a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master Russ More and with me today is Karla Johnson.
[96.7s] Hey, that's me. I play Glim. I am a dragonborn pAlydin.
[102.0s] And Amy More.
[104.2s] Yep, that's me. And I play a lightfoot halfling rogue named Sullivan Sleight or Sully.
[111.4s] And Tom Laird.
[113.3s] That's me. I play a half-orc wild magic sorcerer named Moot.
[119.8s] You just like saying his name last.
[121.8s] It does have a certain cadence to it.
[124.2s] Yeah, it's final, right?
[126.6s] I mean, usually.
[127.6s] It's a last of three.
[128.4s] I was trying to mix it up a little bit. I got halfway there. Two thirds of the way there.
[133.2s] There you go.
[133.9s] Math is hard.
[135.1s] I know math.
[135.7s] Fractions are difficult.
[136.5s] I'm a dungeon master. I don't need to know math. Wait a second.
[138.6s] Wait a minute. There's so much math in this game.
[142.2s] Not in these last two episodes.
[143.5s] No, I have my dice all set up super nice. All with their big numbers up.
[151.4s] Putting out positive things into the atmosphere.
[154.5s] I'm trying to vibe my dice.
[157.1s] Fair enough.
[157.9s] It's better than when you were constantly nagging your dice.
[160.7s] Let's see if this works better.
[162.9s] She was getting them down is what was happening.
[164.6s] I don't even know how to nag. I know what it is,
[166.6s] but I can't for the life of me think of an example of it.
[169.2s] Of nagging?
[170.4s] Negging.
[171.1s] Oh, negging.
[171.9s] Russ doesn't even know what negging is. Look at his face.
[174.4s] That's like when a dude would go up to like an attractive girl or part and be like,
[178.2s] I normally don't like chicks with big noses, but you're great.
[181.4s] Like, yeah, come on, man.
[183.6s] But it kind of makes you feel special at the same time.
[186.3s] It's disgusting.
[187.7s] Yeah, no, I don't like this at all.
[189.8s] It's a thing.
[190.3s] Where there's no negging, Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[195.0s] No negging allowed.
[195.9s] No negging allowed.
[197.2s] Only positiving.
[198.4s] Positiving.
[200.3s] No, wait, that means like, that's already a word.
[203.4s] Maybe you pause the episode, you come back to it.
[205.4s] Maybe that's something.
[207.4s] You also get an episode dedicated to you
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[211.3s] And today's episode is dedicated to Melanie Patterson.
[216.0s] Yay, thanks Melanie.
[217.8s] Thanks Melanie.
[218.6s] Thank you.
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[223.3s] And now fuck it.
[224.6s] Let's play D&D.
[228.4s] Glim.
[233.2s] Yes.
[234.4s] You have spent a long day sparring and reading books.
[239.4s] What kind of reading were you doing?
[241.5s] Yeah, kind of like travel logs of Faerun
[245.5s] because I haven't really ever been anywhere
[247.8s] nor have I even really traveled.
[249.4s] So I don't even really like know the basic concepts
[253.6s] of how that works.
[255.5s] But now I do because I read some books about it.
[259.4s] And then also maybe some like kind of religious texts.
[264.2s] But I think like Glim was really raised
[267.8s] like hardcore into Bahamut.
[270.2s] So I think her like spiritual knowledge is pretty good.
[273.8s] It's just her like real world knowledge
[277.3s] that's pretty lacking.
[279.0s] She hasn't had much experience in the world
[282.7s] except her very protected little enclave
[285.0s] where she grew up.
[286.2s] So yeah, learning about traveling
[287.8s] and about the different places
[290.6s] and maybe even about different races
[294.6s] because she's seen some like
[295.9s] she was mostly dragonborn people
[297.4s] where she is from though.
[298.6s] But she hasn't seen much of the world
[300.4s] and honestly didn't have a ton of interest in it.
[304.0s] You know, she wasn't like striving
[305.6s] to go on an adventure until she heard
[308.6s] that the world might be ending
[310.7s] and then thought she might do something about it.
[313.3s] You're in the chapel
[314.2s] and you're taking in some of these books.
[316.8s] Sirma comes in with a bowl of soup
[322.8s] and a roll and hands it to you
[325.4s] and says she's learning some good things.
[328.6s] She looks at some of the books
[329.7s] and it's the Faerun equivalent
[332.4s] of talking to people for dummies.
[336.6s] Like how to win friends and influence people.
[339.8s] But the fantasy version of that
[342.0s] which is like how to win friends and influence.
[346.4s] Creatures?
[347.4s] I don't know.
[347.8s] Yeah. Yeah, I like that.
[348.9s] That's good.
[349.9s] And she hands you the food.
[353.3s] Thank you, Sirma.
[355.8s] I feel anxious to get going
[358.4s] but I don't...
[360.3s] Should I stay?
[361.0s] What else do I need to learn here?
[363.2s] There is one other thing
[365.3s] that we should probably do.
[367.8s] We'll likely do it in the morning
[370.1s] and then you would be on your way.
[373.2s] Well, like I said,
[374.7s] go into town, find a caravan for you
[376.9s] and send you off to Neverwinter
[378.9s] where hopefully you'll meet up
[381.4s] with your new companions.
[385.5s] In the morning we will pray together
[390.5s] and call to Bahamut to bestow power upon you
[398.6s] to get you started on your quest.
[402.9s] Sirma, are there any other people here?
[407.3s] I've just been spending time with you
[410.2s] but I thought that first day...
[412.2s] I guess, gosh, it was only yesterday.
[413.8s] It feels like it's been so long.
[415.6s] There was a man.
[417.9s] Are there other people here
[419.6s] that I might have something I need to learn from?
[422.7s] No. No.
[424.7s] I'm the only one who lives here permanently.
[427.1s] Sometimes people do come through.
[429.4s] If I recall, there was a gentleman
[432.2s] who had stopped in earlier that day,
[434.4s] a traveling gentleman,
[436.4s] but I have not seen him since yesterday.
[440.2s] But sometimes travelers through the forests,
[443.1s] they stop in for a moment of respite.
[447.0s] But nobody else lives here other than myself.
[451.9s] Well, thank you for bringing me dinner
[453.8s] and unless there's something else you need me to do,
[456.6s] I'm happy to just keep reading and studying
[460.0s] and thinking about maybe getting on my way tomorrow.
[464.4s] Of course.
[465.2s] I will leave you to it and meet me here
[470.1s] and we will say a word and then send you on your way.
[479.4s] Okay, so yeah, I'm just going to keep reading.
[482.6s] The night rolls on.
[483.9s] Do you stay up super late reading or do you kind of...
[486.3s] I don't think so.
[487.7s] I want to get a good solid sleep
[489.4s] before I head off on my adventure.
[491.9s] You do that.
[494.1s] You've gained a whole ton of knowledge
[495.8s] from all these new books.
[497.5s] You have a great sleep
[498.6s] because you got your butt kicked by Sirma,
[501.9s] war picking, but you feel like you're doing better.
[505.7s] And you wake up the next morning,
[508.1s] a new fresh bowl of warm oatmeal
[511.3s] and water is left on your table
[514.6s] and all of your things have been laid out for you.
[518.4s] Sirma's so sneaky, always like,
[520.7s] how she get in there with that oatmeal?
[525.8s] She's very light-footed.
[528.7s] Okay, well, I guess I like gather up my things
[531.8s] of which there is not a ton,
[533.9s] but including like that shield that was there
[537.6s] that first day and the war pick.
[540.4s] And yeah, I go find Sirma.
[545.4s] You go walk into the chapel.
[548.2s] She is doing busy work kind of tidying up
[552.4s] up at the front.
[554.0s] And she turns and sees you walk in.
[555.8s] She says, oh, a good sleep, I hope.
[559.6s] I did, I'm nervous, but I'm excited.
[564.2s] I feel ready to go find these other parts of my soul
[567.6s] that are just out there
[568.8s] and they're going to help me on my mission.
[570.5s] You're so cute.
[574.9s] I love it.
[575.4s] I'm going to miss this energy around here.
[578.5s] Yes, it looks like you're ready.
[581.0s] Put down your things, come up here
[582.5s] and we'll say a quick word before we go.
[585.2s] So I put down all my stuff and then, you know,
[588.0s] approach the altar, I guess,
[589.8s] is where she is kind of up at the front there.
[592.8s] She ushers you to sit down at a step down front.
[598.5s] She sits down with you and she says,
[602.2s] she shouldn't hurt, shouldn't hurt at all.
[605.5s] And she lowers her head and kind of folds her hands
[610.4s] and begins speaking soft and low.
[616.4s] What do you do?
[617.7s] I think I will like reach into my pocket
[619.4s] and pull out that like my symbol
[622.6s] and hold it in my hands
[624.0s] and then also just like close my eyes.
[627.4s] And if is she speaking loudly enough
[629.1s] that I can hear her or she is?
[630.9s] Yeah, she is.
[631.8s] Okay, then I don't have a specific speech.
[635.5s] Speech preferred.
[636.6s] We'll do something in the background.
[637.3s] Just general communing with the Lord, you know.
[639.5s] Yeah, you got it.
[641.0s] But yeah, I'm like in it.
[643.2s] Eyes closed, like sunk into the moment.
[646.5s] Definitely.
[650.3s] The speaking goes on for a little while
[653.4s] and you begin to hear her start repeating
[659.5s] a pattern in the way she's speaking
[663.4s] and you feel yourself begin to say
[667.4s] the same phrases that she is saying.
[671.0s] It goes around for a few times
[673.8s] and then you begin to feel a warmth like sunlight
[679.2s] shine down on you.
[684.5s] You hear the sound of very distinct birdsong.
[692.8s] Very similar to the day
[694.0s] that you walked into the chapel.
[698.8s] You don't feel the need to open your eyes
[701.2s] at this point but you feel this
[704.6s] warm energy kind of embrace you and sink into you.
[714.3s] Your prayer goes on for a little while longer
[718.0s] until everything kind of calms down a little bit
[722.6s] and you open your eyes and Sirma is standing before you
[728.2s] and she says, how did that feel?
[734.3s] It felt wonderful.
[737.8s] It felt like warmth filling me up.
[742.4s] Good, good.
[745.4s] I'd like you to try something formal.
[748.0s] Okay.
[750.1s] She goes into her room and comes out with a birdcage
[759.1s] and inside is a wounded bird.
[762.5s] It looks like it had its wing broken.
[767.2s] She says, I would like you to hold this bird
[772.0s] and try to channel in your own way
[775.9s] the energy that you felt while in prayer.
[782.9s] So I take the bird in my hands
[785.0s] and close my eyes like I did when we were praying
[788.2s] and I concentrate on Bahamut
[793.1s] and try and like feel the power of him moving through me.
[800.1s] The warmth begins to come back and you can kind of
[805.7s] feel it start in your chest
[808.6s] and it begins to move out through your arms
[810.9s] and into your hands and into this bird.
[813.6s] You open your hands and you look down at the bird
[819.4s] and it begins flapping its wings,
[823.5s] slow at first and then quicker and it takes flight.
[830.6s] Did I, did I, did I do that, Sirma?
[835.7s] She smiles at you and she says, yes, yes, you did.
[841.0s] Yes, yes, you did.
[844.3s] It appears that the call to Bahamut has worked
[849.0s] and you are ready to begin your quest.
[854.6s] You have the ability to do that in times of need
[858.6s] but it requires a significant rest in order to do it again.
[864.6s] We should go to town and find you a caravan
[868.3s] and get you to never winter.
[873.2s] Okay, let's go.
[875.5s] I pack up, you know, I throw my pack back on my shoulders
[878.2s] and pick up my stuff and I'm ready.
[881.1s] She grabs a small satchel and you set out into the woods
[885.0s] to the next town where she arranges with a caravan heading out
[893.4s] carrying some different fabrics and different spices
[898.4s] and arranges for your travel with them.
[902.3s] And she says, you are always welcome back here as you know.
[907.1s] I mean, your mothers are still here.
[910.9s] You would probably go there first but if you ever need assistance
[914.6s] this is a place of safety for you if you ever need.
[923.1s] Thank you, Sirma.
[924.1s] I'll see you again.
[926.0s] Of course.
[927.9s] You climb aboard one of the wagons and the caravan sets off
[933.8s] and Sirma kind of watches you and the caravan leave
[937.4s] and then turns back and walks back towards the forest.
[946.1s] Sully, you were put back into your cell.
[953.4s] Officer Tangrin turns and walks back towards the door.
[960.5s] Murph says, what was that about?
[963.7s] Oh, it was just meeting the warden.
[968.2s] Nice, nice.
[971.4s] Yeah, she was okay.
[973.1s] Okay, what's she getting out?
[975.9s] Like, what are you talking about here?
[978.2s] Well, I told her I don't even know how I got here.
[982.6s] And there's no way I was stealing so beneath me.
[989.1s] And I'm so small and all her guards are so big.
[992.2s] How the hell did one of her guards end up in the infirmary?
[995.8s] It all just doesn't add up.
[997.4s] Seems kind of shady business.
[999.2s] I have no recollection of coming here.
[1000.9s] I don't like that.
[1001.6s] I like to know what I do.
[1003.3s] Well, I mean, they did bring you in and you were knocked out
[1007.2s] so I figured you got into some kind of altercation.
[1012.0s] See, I fell asleep in the high forest and woke up here.
[1015.9s] That's a long ways away.
[1017.8s] Whatever in between happened, I'm not aware of it.
[1021.9s] Shit, you don't think it was magic, do you?
[1024.2s] What do you mean?
[1024.9s] Well, I don't know.
[1025.5s] It's just a long way to go.
[1028.3s] I mean, it is a long way to go, but why would somebody use magic on you?
[1033.0s] I don't know.
[1035.3s] Okay.
[1038.3s] We all have a past, you know.
[1042.2s] Sure.
[1042.8s] Yeah.
[1043.2s] Yeah.
[1043.5s] What's your past?
[1044.9s] What's your past?
[1046.0s] I was a fisherman.
[1047.7s] How'd you get here?
[1048.8s] Like I said previously, they thought I was selling, you know,
[1052.2s] some subpar goods for higher prices than otherwise would have been thought fair.
[1060.7s] I disagreed with them.
[1062.6s] They put me here.
[1065.8s] Have you talked to the warden?
[1067.2s] No, not yet.
[1068.7s] I haven't really felt the need yet.
[1071.1s] I was hoping for some counterpart here to try and, you know, maybe sneak out,
[1077.0s] but I don't think you could do that.
[1080.2s] I see what you're doing.
[1081.8s] I'm not doing anything.
[1084.2s] You are.
[1085.3s] You're nagging me.
[1090.6s] I could get out of here if I wanted to.
[1092.6s] Yeah.
[1093.1s] Yeah, but I need a competent partner.
[1096.0s] I don't see one of those around here, unfortunately.
[1098.4s] That's unfortunate.
[1099.4s] You know what?
[1099.8s] Usually I don't hang out and plot and conspire with fishermen,
[1104.9s] but there's just something about you.
[1107.4s] Well, you know, I'm just trying to get back to my hometown.
[1111.0s] Where's that?
[1112.4s] Burriff Earth.
[1113.7s] Far from here?
[1115.4s] Yeah, it's just south down the Sword Coast,
[1119.8s] kind of between Waterdeep and Baldur's Gate, a little set of islands there.
[1124.5s] It's real nice.
[1125.8s] Sorry.
[1126.2s] So that's a long ways.
[1129.0s] Yeah, yeah.
[1130.4s] Fishermen have a boat.
[1132.4s] Travel's easy.
[1135.9s] Where are you looking to go?
[1138.6s] Well, you know, it's not too bad in here, to be honest with you,
[1143.2s] but I'm just I'm just looking to, you know, regularize my life.
[1152.3s] What?
[1153.6s] Yeah, you know,
[1155.4s] just like standardize my living situation.
[1160.1s] You know, maybe get a
[1163.8s] one of those, you know, like thing like, you know,
[1167.0s] earn money in a productive way to with society and, you know, maybe
[1175.8s] like, I don't know, like nobody knows me or something that,
[1179.8s] you know, that kind of stuff.
[1181.4s] Yeah, like regular Joe in it.
[1183.8s] You talk a lot.
[1185.7s] She's kind of in circles.
[1190.2s] Yeah.
[1191.7s] Okay.
[1193.0s] So you're you're meeting with the warden.
[1195.4s] She's obviously not letting you out.
[1198.1s] Oh, no.
[1199.0s] Yeah.
[1199.8s] Ms.
[1200.1s] Ma'am.
[1201.0s] Meow meow is not a kid to be trifled with.
[1205.6s] Her name is Ms.
[1206.9s] Ma'am.
[1207.3s] Meow meow.
[1208.8s] Wow.
[1209.4s] Yeah, I laughed.
[1211.4s] It might not be it might not have been my finest moment.
[1215.4s] May not have done anything to to win to win her over.
[1219.6s] But she's just a real big cat in a chair.
[1225.0s] And the fact that there was anything on her desk at all blew my mind.
[1231.2s] Sounds like she's got it all under control in there.
[1234.1s] She did say she'd see what she could do for me, but.
[1237.0s] Oh, wow.
[1238.8s] Never trust a fat cat.
[1240.6s] Is that what they say?
[1241.8s] Where are you from?
[1242.4s] Oh, yeah.
[1242.8s] Where are you from?
[1244.3s] Oh, all right.
[1246.1s] He said that you weren't paying attention.
[1247.4s] That's insultful.
[1249.6s] Sorry for being so insultful.
[1251.1s] No, that's fine.
[1251.7s] Hey, what's your plan to get out of here?
[1255.1s] Well, I mean, we need something to get out of here with.
[1259.4s] I they took all my stuff, obviously.
[1262.2s] I procure a fork.
[1265.0s] Where'd you get a fork from?
[1266.3s] Same place I got that cup from.
[1270.0s] OK, have you ever heard of keistering?
[1276.5s] So it's up your butt is what you're saying.
[1279.4s] Yeah.
[1279.9s] OK, you have heard of keistering.
[1282.0s] Yeah, I mean, obviously.
[1285.6s] Why would you keister a fork?
[1289.6s] I thought maybe you'd have more questions about the cup, but whatever.
[1294.1s] I'm done with questions about the things.
[1297.1s] OK, so can you get us out?
[1301.9s] Why else would you keister a fork?
[1304.4s] He said you needed something.
[1306.6s] I'm trying to wrap my brain around why in the first place,
[1310.8s] before you knew you were going to be put in jail,
[1313.4s] before you knew you were going to wake up in the high forest,
[1316.6s] you would put a fork up your butt.
[1321.1s] We're trying to be friends here.
[1322.8s] Right.
[1323.4s] Yeah, and I need a little state of, you know,
[1329.0s] know the mindset of the accomplice that I'm trying to acquire here.
[1334.3s] OK, listen, I'm a teenager.
[1337.1s] I make poor choices.
[1338.9s] I see that.
[1341.3s] So can you use it to open something?
[1343.5s] I don't want to touch that.
[1344.7s] Well, it's been washed.
[1345.7s] I will.
[1348.6s] Where?
[1350.7s] You just took it out of your butt.
[1353.0s] No, not just right now.
[1355.8s] Not in front of you.
[1357.1s] That's ridiculous.
[1358.0s] What did you wash it with?
[1360.8s] Toilet water.
[1362.6s] You mean the bucket?
[1364.0s] Yeah.
[1365.8s] He looks in his.
[1366.6s] He's like, I don't see any water in mine.
[1370.1s] Mine came with what?
[1374.1s] The door to your area opens and officer walks back in and he's like, OK,
[1380.6s] yeah, small one.
[1382.2s] Yeah, you.
[1383.4s] That's offensive.
[1385.6s] Sully.
[1386.5s] All right, yeah.
[1388.9s] Warden wants to see you again.
[1390.6s] Where'd you get that fork?
[1393.4s] I'm sorry.
[1394.1s] I handed it to him.
[1395.8s] He takes it.
[1397.6s] OK, let's go.
[1398.2s] I put my hands.
[1400.8s] I don't want to talk about it.
[1401.9s] I put my hands through the breath.
[1403.6s] He cuffs you and opens the gate and ushers you back down the hallway as you walk out
[1410.3s] the door.
[1411.0s] Merv.
[1411.4s] Am I walking past Merv?
[1412.6s] Yep.
[1413.9s] I drop quickly dropped like a knife down through my pant like and onto the floor.
[1419.4s] Make a stealth roll.
[1420.7s] Oh, yeah.
[1421.5s] Stealth, man.
[1422.6s] If this is happening.
[1423.9s] Unless you're are you trying to be stealthy about or are you just dropping
[1426.7s] a knife out of your pant?
[1427.5s] No, I'm going to be sneaky.
[1429.2s] OK.
[1429.5s] Stealth roll.
[1432.8s] A slight of butt is not a check.
[1436.5s] 21.
[1437.5s] Whoa.
[1438.6s] It it you feel it kind of fall down your pant leg and it hits the top of your shoe
[1443.6s] and kind of slides down onto the floor, making nary a sound and kind of brushes up
[1449.1s] against the side bars there.
[1451.0s] Doesn't appear that the officer has noticed as he kind of gives you a shove as you
[1455.9s] continue to walk back down the hall into the warden's door.
[1459.1s] Unless you do anything in particular different walking down that hall,
[1462.5s] you make your way back.
[1464.9s] He opens the door and Ms.
[1468.2s] Ma'am Meow-Meow is sitting at her desk and she says, yes, yes, yes, come in,
[1474.1s] come in, come in.
[1476.4s] Take off, take off those shackles too.
[1478.2s] We can take those off.
[1479.3s] Oh, thank you, Ms.
[1480.5s] Ma'am Meow-Meow.
[1481.3s] That's like super, super nice of you.
[1483.1s] Yeah.
[1483.8s] Yeah.
[1484.4s] He undoes the shackles and kind of you you're able to walk freely inside.
[1492.5s] And I do.
[1493.0s] And I like swing my arms very purposely.
[1497.4s] Is there something wrong with your arms?
[1498.7s] Oh, no, I just love the feeling of them not being so close to each other.
[1503.1s] Of course, of course.
[1504.2s] I understand.
[1505.4s] You hear the door close behind you and you walk back over to her desk
[1510.7s] and laid out on her desk are all of your items.
[1516.1s] Hey, these look familiar.
[1518.4s] Yeah, yeah, they're yours.
[1521.9s] Actually, right now, Ms.
[1522.7s] Ma'am Meow-Meow, they're yours.
[1526.5s] Good, good answer.
[1527.8s] Good answer.
[1529.1s] So you told me that you would never steal.
[1535.0s] What would someone who never steals need with this?
[1540.2s] And she opens your bag and dumps it out.
[1542.6s] And there's a set of thieves tools and ball bearings,
[1549.1s] various other implements of break and or enter.
[1553.8s] Dagger, your quiver, your short bow, your hole.
[1557.7s] Oh, King Kaboodle.
[1558.7s] Yeah.
[1559.3s] All right.
[1560.8s] Well, Ms. Ma'am Meow-Meow, I can see how this would look very damning
[1567.7s] if you didn't know what they were used for.
[1572.1s] Tell me, tell me what were they used for?
[1574.8s] Ma'am, with these tools, I broke people out of the capture
[1581.2s] or a clause of the Cult of the Dragon.
[1585.9s] Oh, the Cult of the Dragon.
[1587.3s] You've had run ins with them.
[1589.3s] Unfortunately, many.
[1591.1s] So you broke people out, but it would just it would be
[1597.8s] unbecoming of you to ever try to steal something and be caught for it.
[1603.0s] Absolutely.
[1603.5s] I pride myself on being a fairly, averagely honest person.
[1609.0s] Make a persuasion or a deception check, whichever you're trying to do.
[1613.2s] A Dersuasion check.
[1614.2s] You got it.
[1616.6s] Well, that's not good.
[1618.4s] It's only an 11.
[1621.0s] I something tells me that you're not telling me all of the truth.
[1628.1s] Ma'am, I am not a bad person.
[1630.6s] Bad person?
[1631.8s] I never said you were a bad person.
[1634.4s] Thieves stealing for the sake of stealing to harm others.
[1640.6s] Look, you stole something.
[1644.6s] What did I steal?
[1645.8s] Did you find it on me?
[1647.4s] Yes.
[1647.9s] That's why you were brought here.
[1650.2s] You stole food.
[1651.4s] You stole clothing.
[1652.5s] You stole many things and then attacked an officer.
[1656.4s] The blood is still on the dagger.
[1658.8s] Was I walking around just with like this big ass sack?
[1662.5s] Just being like, and one of these, and one of these.
[1666.4s] Like, ma'am.
[1667.8s] You're in a set of trouble here, Sully.
[1670.4s] Obviously.
[1671.3s] If we don't-
[1671.8s] I can agree on that.
[1672.6s] If you don't come clean, something terrible could happen.
[1678.9s] You've assaulted an officer.
[1681.4s] That's very serious crime.
[1685.1s] Is there a witness?
[1686.2s] There's a whole market full of witnesses.
[1689.0s] Well, fuck.
[1691.0s] Was I drugged?
[1693.5s] I don't know.
[1694.1s] Were you on drugs?
[1695.9s] No.
[1696.4s] Was I drugged?
[1698.4s] That's different than being on drugs.
[1700.1s] How would I know if you were drugged?
[1701.8s] Well, because I don't do the drugs.
[1704.8s] So if I had been drugged, that would explain my lack of knowledge.
[1711.5s] I was not in my own right mind.
[1713.8s] Those actions were not of my own.
[1715.8s] What if I was given some sort of drug that made me malleable in my mind hole?
[1723.8s] What if somebody whispered whisperies in my ear
[1726.7s] and made me do things that I otherwise wouldn't have done?
[1729.7s] Am I at fault for that?
[1733.0s] I think there's someone out there.
[1734.2s] We gotta-
[1734.7s] We gotta go after them, Ms. Meow Meow.
[1738.6s] I've heard a lot of stories in my time.
[1743.6s] This is a new one.
[1744.6s] This is the best one?
[1745.3s] This is a good one.
[1746.4s] This is a good one.
[1749.2s] Look, you seem like a good kid.
[1756.4s] I want to do you a favor.
[1758.5s] I would like that very much.
[1760.2s] Good.
[1762.7s] I'm gonna need something in return.
[1766.2s] But I need to know that you can use these tools that are laid out here
[1769.9s] as you say they are your possessions.
[1773.4s] I'm verily proficient in the tools you see.
[1779.7s] For good.
[1783.0s] So we have a deal, then?
[1784.1s] What can I give for you?
[1785.3s] You name it.
[1786.6s] You name it, as long as it's for good.
[1789.3s] It is for good.
[1790.2s] Okay.
[1791.6s] There is a certain higher-up
[1796.3s] who carries a ledger on him
[1800.9s] in his belongings.
[1803.7s] He's going to be away dealing with the battle
[1808.8s] with the Cult of the Dragon.
[1811.8s] And I need that ledger.
[1817.1s] I need someone who is unknown in the region.
[1821.4s] Yeah, okay.
[1821.8s] I'll do it.
[1823.0s] Perfect.
[1824.9s] Would you like to make any requests as to what happens to you after you do it?
[1829.5s] Oh, well, yeah, I just kind of assumed that we'd be square.
[1833.9s] That'd be super cool.
[1835.0s] You know what else would be super cool?
[1837.7s] It'd be super cool if my buddy Merv downstairs.
[1843.5s] I need a partner.
[1846.2s] And you want a fisherman?
[1848.1s] You know what?
[1849.0s] His proficiency with tying knots comes in handy way more than you think.
[1854.9s] Fair enough.
[1856.6s] Well, I'll think on the Merv thing.
[1860.6s] He's Mervalicious.
[1861.8s] He's Mervalicious.
[1863.9s] He's Mervalous.
[1865.2s] You will get some of these some of these back in order to do what you need to do.
[1871.9s] And then the rest once you're done.
[1875.0s] Sound fair?
[1875.6s] Yeah, half now, half later.
[1877.2s] I dig it.
[1878.2s] Fair enough.
[1879.1s] Which ones do you think you would need to break into a reasonably well-fortified establishment?
[1889.0s] Well, I'm definitely going to need the old
[1892.6s] lockpicking tools there.
[1894.6s] Yeah, that'd be real good.
[1897.4s] Half the ball bearings.
[1898.5s] Probably don't need all of them.
[1901.0s] Crowbar just to be safe.
[1904.2s] I wouldn't mind having my cloak back.
[1905.9s] That'd be pretty neat.
[1907.6s] I just always feel a lot sneakier with the hood up.
[1910.2s] You know how it is.
[1911.1s] Half of it's just how you feel.
[1914.2s] And if I could have my dagger back, just in case.
[1920.2s] Oh, hold on a second.
[1921.8s] Someone comes up on me, right?
[1925.3s] What do you want me to do?
[1927.4s] Why would anybody come up on you?
[1929.3s] You said you're sneaky and can get in and out, yes?
[1932.2s] Well, fuck yeah.
[1933.0s] But I mean, if someone literally comes up on me, things happen, Miss Miamia.
[1938.9s] Let's just say a second count of stabbing another
[1943.0s] potential officer might go down poorly in your books.
[1947.6s] Cool.
[1948.3s] All right.
[1949.0s] I might not be able to pull as many strings if you do something like that.
[1953.5s] So maybe the dagger stays with me.
[1955.5s] Okay.
[1955.8s] Well, then I'm going to need a stick of incense.
[1958.7s] Why?
[1960.0s] Because I may need to improvise.
[1963.8s] Okay.
[1965.7s] And I'll need my flask of oil.
[1967.8s] Just one of them.
[1972.2s] Should be good.
[1975.0s] You gather up the things that you say you need.
[1979.3s] And she says, where you need to go is Castle Never.
[1985.7s] Castle Never.
[1986.6s] Yeah.
[1988.2s] The office you need to enter and acquire a specific ledger
[1994.5s] is Lord Dagult Neverember's office.
[1998.6s] Lord Dingle.
[2001.4s] Lord Dagult Neverember.
[2004.6s] He's the lord of the region.
[2006.4s] You're new here, right?
[2007.7s] I forget.
[2009.3s] Well known across Faerun.
[2011.2s] You might have heard of him.
[2012.6s] And I'm stealing it from the Castle Nevernever?
[2015.8s] The Castle Never.
[2017.5s] All right.
[2018.4s] Okay.
[2018.6s] So I'm going to go to the Lord Castle Neverever.
[2021.4s] Lord Dinglehopper Neverember.
[2025.1s] And I'm going to take his ledger.
[2027.0s] Yeah.
[2029.1s] You know what?
[2029.7s] Having Merv with me is probably going to be a real good idea.
[2032.8s] If even just to get me to the right place.
[2036.4s] That's fair.
[2037.7s] All right.
[2038.6s] You can have Merv.
[2040.2s] Cool.
[2040.7s] He's old.
[2041.3s] He ain't going, you know, he won't go anywhere.
[2043.3s] All right.
[2044.6s] I'll return him in one piece maybe if I don't have to sacrifice him for the cause you understand.
[2049.8s] Yes, of course.
[2051.0s] You, so you're gathering your things into like a bag there or a satchel or?
[2055.2s] Yes.
[2055.4s] I ask if I can have a satchel.
[2056.5s] Just your butt.
[2059.8s] Excuse me.
[2061.4s] Episode three.
[2063.9s] How long did it take Amy to mention stuff up her butt?
[2067.4s] Three episodes, folks.
[2068.6s] That's how long it's a new record.
[2070.2s] New record as far as I think it was day one.
[2074.9s] Last time we played round restraint.
[2076.8s] We have restraint.
[2077.7s] We do.
[2078.6s] We need that if you're going to use it.
[2080.1s] You put everything into your satchel.
[2083.2s] And she says we will give this to you when you when you leave.
[2088.6s] Oh, man.
[2089.1s] Oh, wait.
[2089.5s] Can I take this string too?
[2091.5s] Just a little bit of string.
[2093.5s] You can have some of it.
[2095.3s] Just dangle it in front of her.
[2096.6s] Yeah, there you go.
[2099.0s] She lifts her hand and then uses her other hand to put it back down and shakes her head.
[2104.6s] No, no.
[2107.8s] Give me the satchel.
[2108.6s] We'll give it to you on your way out and we'll arrange for Merv to come with you.
[2115.1s] Lord Neverember is supposed to be leaving Neverwinter.
[2118.2s] Not Faerun.
[2119.0s] Leaving Neverwinter in approximately a day.
[2122.8s] Once we have heard word that he is gone, we will allow you to go and procure the ledger.
[2130.2s] Sound fair?
[2131.6s] Very fair, ma'am.
[2132.5s] Wonderful.
[2134.8s] You're just you're amazing.
[2136.2s] Thank you.
[2136.5s] I do deep bow.
[2138.7s] No, you don't need to do that.
[2141.0s] Okay, that's fine.
[2142.2s] That's fine.
[2143.8s] I will see you in a day or so, whenever.
[2147.5s] Guard.
[2148.2s] Guard.
[2149.8s] And the officer comes back in, take this one back to get back to his cell.
[2155.4s] Piggyback this time.
[2157.7s] He puts the shackles on you and pushes you through the door.
[2162.2s] You get back to your cell and you see Merv.
[2166.6s] He watches you walk in.
[2168.2s] The knife is still where it was previously.
[2173.8s] And the officer leaves.
[2175.8s] Hey, Merv.
[2176.4s] How many more things you got up your butt?
[2178.6s] Lost count.
[2179.5s] Hey, Merv.
[2180.0s] Freaking weird.
[2182.3s] Hey, listen.
[2182.8s] You want out of here or no?
[2184.2s] What do you mean?
[2185.2s] Well, I have a mission and I'm going to need a little bit of help.
[2189.4s] And I suggested that no one would be more qualified than my BFF, Merv.
[2193.9s] What's your mission?
[2195.3s] I steal something from Dinglehopper Never Never.
[2199.1s] What?
[2205.3s] From who?
[2207.3s] Yes, he lives in the Never Castle.
[2211.4s] He is some...
[2212.7s] Lord Dagult Neverember.
[2214.2s] That's what I said.
[2215.6s] From Castle Never.
[2217.0s] Yes.
[2217.3s] You're going to try to steal something from Castle Never.
[2220.6s] No.
[2220.8s] From specifically Lord Dagult Neverember.
[2223.1s] No.
[2224.1s] What do you mean no?
[2225.0s] I'm not going to try.
[2226.2s] I'm going to do it.
[2227.5s] What do you have to steal?
[2229.4s] A ledger.
[2230.5s] What's a ledger?
[2231.8s] I didn't want to ask.
[2232.8s] Didn't want to look stupid.
[2234.5s] It's a book.
[2235.4s] Oh, cool.
[2236.2s] It's not at all what I thought.
[2237.8s] Okay.
[2238.6s] It's a book.
[2239.2s] It usually has like...
[2241.6s] Pages?
[2243.0s] Oh, okay.
[2244.5s] Yeah.
[2245.4s] All right.
[2245.8s] Cool.
[2246.2s] You in?
[2248.2s] Sure.
[2249.2s] Okay.
[2249.7s] Yeah.
[2250.4s] Awesome.
[2250.7s] Great.
[2251.6s] I'm not a thief.
[2252.7s] I'm a fisherman.
[2253.5s] Hey, I'm not a thief.
[2254.9s] You watch your mouth.
[2266.6s] Interlude, interlude.
[2268.8s] It's something that we need right now.
[2271.0s] Welcome to the interlude.
[2272.5s] That's our theme song by Amy this week.
[2274.5s] You're welcome.
[2274.9s] And we just want to let you know that we've got that sweet,
[2277.4s] sweet contest going on where you can enter to win the Ghosts of Saltmar still.
[2282.4s] What do you got to do Carla?
[2283.9s] Well, you need to tell people how much you like us.
[2287.7s] Sort of.
[2288.3s] By sharing an episode.
[2289.7s] By sharing an episode.
[2291.0s] Or the post that we have.
[2292.6s] Or the post that we have on the Facebook page, yeah.
[2295.0s] Yeah, that post works great.
[2296.2s] You share that.
[2297.1s] Give a little comment there because privacy and stuff,
[2299.2s] I can't exactly see who shares,
[2300.8s] but if you comment and say you shared it,
[2303.0s] I'll believe you and you're entered to win.
[2305.2s] It's a trust thing, you guys.
[2306.6s] And on Twitter.
[2307.4s] Trust exercises.
[2308.5s] With the hashtag DumbDragonCast.
[2311.4s] There we go.
[2312.1s] Any episode you like.
[2313.4s] And say, you know, why you like it.
[2316.1s] Or don't like it.
[2316.9s] Maybe share one that you don't like.
[2318.3s] But I mean, that's kind of counterproductive.
[2320.0s] Don't do that.
[2320.3s] Yeah, that doesn't seem like a great idea.
[2321.2s] This episode right here.
[2322.5s] This was a piece of shit.
[2324.1s] But go to the next episode.
[2325.4s] But the rest are pretty good.
[2326.4s] We're open to your constructive criticism,
[2328.3s] but I mean, maybe you could just send that to us privately.
[2330.8s] Yeah, be kind.
[2331.2s] And publicize something nice.
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[2333.2s] It will crush us.
[2334.5s] If you have something constructive to say,
[2336.2s] DumbDragonPodcast.gmail.com
[2338.7s] We'd love to hear it straight from your mouth,
[2340.3s] and we can talk to you about it right there.
[2342.5s] That would be great.
[2343.5s] Contest ends June 30th.
[2346.2s] And then we'll be giving away that sweet, sweet book,
[2347.8s] which I want to start playing like pronto.
[2351.5s] Well, get on it, Russ.
[2354.2s] You guys aren't.
[2355.0s] I mean, you're on it.
[2356.1s] We're in a whole new world.
[2357.5s] Whole new world right beside the ocean.
[2358.7s] We're so squishy, though.
[2359.9s] Right beside the ocean.
[2361.4s] Acceptable adventures for level ones in that book?
[2364.2s] Yeah, why not?
[2364.9s] Oh, OK, yeah, sure.
[2366.2s] I want to be a mermaid.
[2368.1s] Level ones versus a giant kraken?
[2369.8s] Why not?
[2370.6s] Exactly.
[2371.2s] Any adventure can be for level ones.
[2372.8s] It just might be a very short adventure.
[2374.6s] This is true.
[2375.3s] That's a good point.
[2376.8s] This is what happened.
[2378.0s] Great.
[2379.0s] Contest.
[2379.8s] Happening.
[2380.7s] Book.
[2381.4s] Going to be giving away June 30th.
[2383.8s] Share.
[2384.6s] Share.
[2386.2s] Tweet.
[2387.5s] Enter.
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[2389.8s] Love you.
[2390.4s] Make it so.
[2391.8s] Hugs.
[2393.5s] Let's get to the rest of that episode.
[2395.6s] We'll talk to you next week.
[2397.7s] Outer loon, outer loon.
[2400.5s] This is the song for the outer loot.
[2403.1s] Perfect.
[2404.3s] Three Azimar and a T-Fling are sent to a strange new world on a divine mission.
[2409.5s] Trouble is, when they arrive, none of them can remember what the mission is,
[2412.8s] and only one of them has any interest in the god that sent them.
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[2446.4s] Happy gaming, y'all.
[2454.4s] Moot.
[2455.5s] Where were you heading?
[2457.3s] I was headed to maybe find Gabriel, who should be near the House of Knowledge.
[2464.3s] Or at least that's where he used to live.
[2466.2s] You get directions to the House of Knowledge.
[2470.7s] And you find your way there.
[2473.5s] Totally fine.
[2474.2s] You pass by the prison that you had passed by before,
[2479.2s] where you'd heard somebody yelling up top.
[2481.7s] And you hear, coming from there,
[2484.1s] how many more things do you have up your butt?
[2487.3s] I just increase my tempo a little bit as I'm walking.
[2492.1s] You pass by plenty of people, all different races and social statuses.
[2499.3s] And you make it to the location where you were told
[2502.5s] you would find the House of Knowledge on the southern side of Neverwinter.
[2508.3s] So it is a large, very decorative architecture of this house.
[2517.4s] And by house, I mean it is a large facility.
[2521.5s] Like more of a school-sized building than just a house.
[2529.0s] Is there just like a door or a gate or anything I can go knock on?
[2532.3s] You can go right up to the front door.
[2533.5s] A few steps to get up to the main front entrance
[2536.1s] is a big large red wood door.
[2541.3s] I'm going to use the ornate knocker that's on the door.
[2544.9s] Give it a couple one, two, threes.
[2547.9s] And then call out, hello, House of Knowledge?
[2552.7s] I'd like some knowledge.
[2556.2s] A moment passes and you hear some footsteps on the other side.
[2559.2s] And the door swings open and there is a very skinny
[2566.3s] older man dressed in a very clean-cut tuxedo.
[2572.5s] And he says, can I help you?
[2576.8s] Yes, I'm looking for Mr. Gabriel.
[2581.4s] Do you know if he's still here?
[2585.7s] Gabriel hasn't been here in much time.
[2588.7s] If you're looking for Gabriel, I'm sure you're of the highest character.
[2592.9s] No, if you were to find him, perhaps the Fallen Tower or some other hole.
[2601.8s] Did you say hole?
[2603.5s] Yes, yes, hole.
[2604.9s] He could be in a hole.
[2608.8s] Does he enjoy being in holes?
[2612.5s] No, no, he does not enjoy being in hole.
[2615.7s] He might enjoy being in a hole.
[2617.6s] Because he's been cast out from everywhere that he's stepped into.
[2622.3s] Oh, so not an actual hole.
[2625.7s] You just mean like a crummy place to be.
[2628.5s] A crummy place to be, yes.
[2630.8s] A place of which is looked down upon by people of higher status.
[2638.8s] A hole.
[2639.5s] Okay, got it.
[2640.5s] I thought we had some man gopher thing going on here.
[2644.3s] I didn't know what was happening.
[2646.3s] It's been a while since I've seen him.
[2647.7s] Maybe he has turned himself into a gopher using his wild magic.
[2652.6s] Oh yeah, the wild magics.
[2654.0s] That's why I want to see him.
[2657.7s] Check the Fallen Tower.
[2660.3s] Okay, I just like bound off the stairs.
[2664.7s] Do I know where the Fallen Tower is?
[2666.2s] I assume I did.
[2667.1s] You walked past it.
[2668.5s] Perfect.
[2669.1s] Probably both ways, going to and from Nogwoods.
[2673.7s] So yeah, you make your way back there.
[2675.9s] And just like the previous time, there are people in all states of happy.
[2683.2s] Some are less happy.
[2685.8s] They're very angry.
[2688.0s] I don't know.
[2688.4s] How much experience does Mood have with alcohol and people drinking?
[2695.4s] I mean that one dude had like moonshine in their village, didn't he?
[2698.7s] Yeah.
[2699.3s] So I think he's been around it.
[2700.7s] Sure.
[2701.1s] Okay, yeah.
[2702.2s] These people appear intoxicated.
[2705.1s] Some severely.
[2707.5s] I'm gonna keep a wide berth of these people while I make my way to the Fallen Tower.
[2713.2s] You step in and it is a bustling tavern.
[2717.4s] The tower itself is a black stone that has fallen into the streets.
[2723.9s] Looks like when it did fall, it knocked down several buildings
[2728.3s] and barricades and walls around it.
[2731.2s] But the remains of the tower have been turned into this warm and rich tavern.
[2741.5s] You walk in, it's quite full.
[2743.8s] There is a bar off to your left and further into the building.
[2750.1s] There are a couple of empty tables, but it's pretty packed right now.
[2753.2s] It's getting to be kind of evening hour.
[2756.1s] Can I make my way over to the bar,
[2757.7s] see if I can grab the bartender's ear for a second?
[2761.7s] You do, he's currently serving somebody else.
[2764.3s] All right, I give it a sec till he's ready to go
[2766.4s] and then I catch his eye and say,
[2767.9s] oh, barkeep, I was wondering if you could answer a question or two for me?
[2773.3s] He walks over and says, what, what, how old are you?
[2778.5s] Old enough to be here.
[2781.3s] All right, what can I do for you?
[2784.6s] I was curious, do you know of a man named Gabriel?
[2790.2s] Gabriel, yeah, yeah, I know a guy named Gabriel.
[2793.6s] What do you want with Gabriel?
[2794.4s] He's a wizard of some sorts?
[2796.7s] Yeah, you can say that.
[2799.7s] I was wondering if maybe you could,
[2801.7s] if he's here, if you could point him out to me
[2803.3s] or if maybe you could tell me where I can find him?
[2806.2s] Um, yeah, he's here.
[2810.3s] He points over your shoulder kind of to the back of the room.
[2815.1s] There is a very disheveled looking
[2819.9s] man, long, long, bushy, unkempt beard,
[2827.3s] kind of torn and tattered tunic and cloak around himself.
[2833.1s] Looks like he is kind of head in arm, pint in hand,
[2838.2s] people kind of moving around him.
[2839.9s] There's a waitress who's picking up some of the empty glasses around him.
[2843.9s] Says that's, that's Gabriel.
[2847.4s] Oh, oh, all right, thanks.
[2848.7s] One final question for you.
[2851.9s] Why did you decide to call it the Fallen Tower?
[2856.4s] It's a tower that's fallen.
[2858.0s] Oh, so it's like the literal thing.
[2860.3s] What? Yeah.
[2863.5s] Okay.
[2865.1s] Cool.
[2865.6s] And then he just walks away.
[2868.5s] You walk, push to make your way through the crowd.
[2871.6s] You bump into a few people as they're
[2873.7s] kind of moving to go get more drinks and talking with their friends.
[2877.4s] I tap this disheveled looking man on the shoulder and say, hello, Gabriel?
[2885.3s] He doesn't move.
[2887.3s] I give him a little shake.
[2889.4s] Are you, are you Gabriel?
[2891.3s] He kind of grumbles from underneath his cloak and beard.
[2898.3s] Do you know, you can't really, you can't really quite make out what, what he said,
[2902.9s] but you can tell that he's, he's breathing it alive at this point.
[2906.6s] I pull up the chair across the table from him and say, I've been all over town looking for you.
[2912.9s] Can I, can we chat for a minute or two?
[2915.4s] He, you see a big hand kind of slam down on the table in front of you
[2921.1s] and he kind of lifts himself up and his beard is like pressed into his face as he lifts
[2929.5s] and says, what are you looking for me for?
[2931.6s] Well, I was looking for you.
[2934.7s] I went to, I went to Nogwood's to, to see if they could maybe teach me a thing or two,
[2939.5s] but then I was talking to the boy and she said to come find you,
[2944.6s] something about, and she wouldn't be able to teach me anything
[2947.4s] cause I have wild magic in me.
[2949.1s] And she said, you might know something.
[2953.0s] Yeah, I know things.
[2957.5s] So you want to teach her.
[2959.7s] I mean, yeah, I, I would love to just like understand what's going on with this,
[2965.5s] with this magic.
[2967.0s] You tell me what's going on.
[2969.7s] Well, see, I don't know.
[2971.3s] That's why I came to find you.
[2973.3s] What can I teach you if I don't know what you want?
[2976.8s] Well, I was told you did some studying of a wild magic.
[2980.2s] So I figured you might know something.
[2982.3s] Well, there is wild magic.
[2984.4s] Do you have wild magic?
[2986.6s] Yeah, that's, can I get you a coffee or something?
[2991.9s] No, I'm fine.
[2993.4s] Well, how do I know if I can teach you
[2995.1s] if I don't know if you actually have wild magic?
[2997.1s] You show me your wild magic first.
[3001.4s] Well, I, I don't, I don't really know if it works that way for me.
[3006.4s] I, Zavoy had this like, she painted this kind of scene.
[3012.3s] It seemed very vivid in my mind.
[3014.4s] And then I ended up casting a spell and she had it in this like energy field.
[3019.9s] And she said I had wild magic.
[3022.3s] And then she turned it into butterflies.
[3024.5s] It's all very confusing.
[3025.9s] She's showing off is what she's doing.
[3028.2s] He kind of leans back and stretches and his shirt untucks
[3034.1s] and his belly just kind of rolls out from his shirt.
[3037.3s] And he kind of brushes his beard down off of his face and pulls it down.
[3044.7s] So you're a sorcerer then?
[3047.7s] Hey, I don't, I, I don't know.
[3051.0s] Where are you from, boy?
[3053.7s] A small village where a bunch of half-orcs lived.
[3057.9s] Wasn't a lot of magics there, was there?
[3060.4s] No, that's, that's kind of why I ended up leaving.
[3062.9s] It was, everyone was a little bit afraid after I cast a spell, I guess.
[3074.7s] Yep, I heard that before.
[3076.3s] Really?
[3076.8s] You get a lot of half-orcs who have wild magic in them coming to find you?
[3080.9s] Not the precise, not the precise story, my boy.
[3083.6s] It's just, it's just the general people scared of magic.
[3088.7s] The real magic, not that book magic where you gotta like remember everything.
[3093.0s] It's just the magic where you tap into it and you can just do it.
[3097.4s] Yeah, see, I would love to know how to do that so I don't hurt anyone.
[3104.7s] I can't guarantee you won't hurt anyone.
[3107.0s] Well, just, I just don't want to hurt anyone unintentionally.
[3112.4s] So you want to hurt people, is that what you're saying?
[3115.0s] No.
[3116.3s] You just said you don't want to do it unintentionally,
[3118.5s] which implies that you want to do it intentionally.
[3120.6s] Who are we hurting here?
[3122.5s] Well, I mean, if the need arose, then sure, I just don't want there to be any accidents.
[3129.5s] Speaking of accidents, I have to take a leak.
[3132.4s] I'll be back, you get me another drink.
[3134.6s] He gets up and he makes his way to the back of the tavern.
[3139.5s] I try to catch the barkeep's eye and ask him for a coffee.
[3145.5s] Black, extra hot.
[3148.0s] Is this for you or for Gabriel?
[3151.7s] It's for Gabriel.
[3153.1s] I think he needs it.
[3154.7s] He's gonna get real mad if this is in front of him.
[3157.7s] I'm just warning you.
[3160.3s] Okay, what should I, what should I get him?
[3162.7s] He passes you two drinks.
[3165.2s] He passes you a pint of ale and a larger pint of, this is water.
[3175.5s] Tell him it's the good stuff.
[3178.4s] It'll probably work at this point.
[3181.1s] I appreciate that.
[3182.0s] I don't think he needs any more of this other stuff.
[3184.7s] Well, good luck with that.
[3186.8s] You see Gabriel come back out and he's walking toward, back towards the table.
[3195.1s] I got you the special reserve that they keep in the back.
[3198.3s] It's the good stuff, according to the bartender.
[3200.8s] He looks at it and he's like, it's about time he's serving up the good stuff.
[3205.9s] Yeah, drink up.
[3208.3s] He takes a huge swig and like three large gulps downs it.
[3216.1s] It tastes like water every time.
[3221.0s] Oh, you got something else there too?
[3223.9s] I got just this beer that I've been sipping on.
[3228.5s] Fair enough.
[3230.5s] Sits back down.
[3231.9s] You hear the chair kind of creak underneath him.
[3236.0s] I've been cast out by Nogwoods.
[3242.0s] I've been cast out by the House of Knowledge
[3245.4s] because they don't feel that the magic that you're trying to tell me that you can do
[3252.4s] haven't shown me yet.
[3255.2s] I don't know how.
[3256.0s] I get it.
[3256.9s] I get it.
[3258.0s] Don't worry about it.
[3261.0s] I've been cast out because I put too much time into studying that.
[3266.4s] Well, wouldn't you like that time and effort to maybe be helpful to someone?
[3272.3s] Yeah.
[3273.0s] Yeah, there was a time.
[3275.7s] What about now?
[3277.1s] You can help me.
[3277.8s] I'm right here.
[3280.7s] I see you.
[3284.1s] I could probably help you.
[3286.3s] I mean, I don't know what we're dealing with here.
[3290.3s] How many times have you cast your spells?
[3293.8s] Two times.
[3295.2s] Two times.
[3297.7s] But very recently.
[3299.7s] Nothing, no inkling of magic before that.
[3303.2s] And what happened, you might have told me.
[3306.6s] I forgot.
[3307.9s] What happened when your spells happened the first time?
[3313.0s] Well, my family was being attacked and I kind of shot this freezing beam out of my hands
[3326.2s] and then I did it again with Zavoy.
[3330.6s] Right.
[3331.7s] So you like it cold.
[3333.9s] Okay.
[3335.5s] I don't know.
[3337.7s] I'm too drunk to teach you right now.
[3340.3s] Okay, yep, that checks.
[3343.5s] I think I can teach you.
[3346.5s] At least if we can make this happen again.
[3352.4s] If we can't, well, obviously I can't teach you
[3354.7s] because it doesn't work.
[3355.6s] But if we can make it happen again, we can see what we're dealing with.
[3362.1s] Okay, can I find you somewhere tomorrow?
[3367.7s] Yep.
[3369.5s] I'll probably be here.
[3372.5s] Maybe come by a little earlier in the day.
[3374.8s] Yeah, I was going to say early is probably a good call.
[3377.2s] Yeah, I'll be here like noon.
[3379.6s] Okay, yeah, I'll go hunker down for the night
[3384.3s] and I'll be back at noon and I'll get the barkeep to drop off some more of the good stuff for you.
[3389.5s] Tell him to bring the better stuff.
[3391.9s] Well, he'll bring you what he brings you.
[3393.4s] Yeah, that's fine.
[3394.0s] I'll go get it myself.
[3395.5s] Okay, perfect.
[3396.4s] Yeah.
[3397.9s] I guess it was a pleasure to meet you, Gabriel.
[3401.0s] Pleasure to meet you.
[3401.9s] What was your name?
[3403.5s] Name's Moot.
[3404.6s] Moot.
[3405.8s] Funny name.
[3408.1s] Thank you.
[3409.1s] You're welcome.
[3409.6s] He gets up and he moves back towards the tavern tomorrow.
[3415.0s] Noon.
[3417.0s] Barkeep.
[3418.3s] Dust myself off and head back to Nogwoods, I guess.
[3424.3s] You head back out into the streets and you head directly back towards Nogwoods?
[3430.8s] Yeah.
[3431.7s] You leave the Fallen Tower and where you would turn left to go to Nogwoods, you hear
[3439.5s] a large caravan pulling into Neverwinter off to the side.
[3447.1s] There's lots of wagons coming in and you see all sorts of people just kind of at,
[3455.6s] just kind of, it catches your eye.
[3458.3s] Some of them are wearing very fine robes and then you see a lizard-looking creature,
[3468.2s] shining scales.
[3469.7s] It's nighttime now.
[3470.5s] The moon is starting to rise and it catches your eye,
[3473.9s] the shine that comes off of especially the platinum scales.
[3478.7s] Can I be like, looking at this dragonborn and like,
[3482.7s] walk into a barrel or something and cause a lot of noise?
[3485.9s] Make a, make a wisdom, you make a wisdom saving roll.
[3489.4s] Glenn, you make a perception check.
[3493.5s] That's an eight.
[3497.6s] Nine.
[3499.8s] Made for each other.
[3501.8s] So yeah, you catch, you're watching as this, you see this dragonborn,
[3506.0s] something you've never seen before and you do walk into a person who has passed out in the
[3511.6s] street and you trip over top of them making a pretty significant ruckus and Glim, you hear this
[3519.5s] off to the side and you see a tall half-orc kind of looking your direction as he's just
[3525.6s] falling onto the ground, not really putting his hands out to save himself as he hits the ground.
[3531.9s] How far away is he from me?
[3534.3s] A block, maybe.
[3536.6s] Okay, I think I would go over.
[3538.7s] Like, do you need help?
[3540.2s] And try and like, help him up.
[3544.1s] Uh, yeah.
[3548.0s] Are you okay?
[3548.7s] Did you have too much to drink?
[3550.5s] Like this guy, this drunk we're standing over that just like, reeks, I guess.
[3554.8s] Just tripped on him.
[3556.7s] I only had a couple of sips.
[3558.5s] I'm sorry, I didn't mean to stare.
[3560.3s] I've just, I've never, I've never, I've never seen anything like you before.
[3567.5s] Oh, um, well, you know, I just left where I came from not very long ago and I found
[3574.5s] that this is happening a little bit.
[3577.6s] Where I'm from, everyone looks like this.
[3580.2s] I'm a dragonborn.
[3581.6s] My name's, my name's Glim.
[3584.0s] I reach my hand out.
[3586.3s] I, uh, take her hand.
[3588.7s] Uh, well, it's very, it's very nice to meet you, Glim.
[3591.6s] I'm, uh, I'm Moot.
[3593.3s] Nice to meet you, Moot.
[3594.7s] Are you from around here?
[3596.8s] Uh, no, no, I, uh, I came, I came here to see if I could learn about magic.
[3603.1s] Oh, cool.
[3604.0s] Are you a magician or a sorcerer or a wizard or something?
[3607.9s] Uh, I, that's what some people are telling me.
[3610.8s] I'm, I'm not really sure yet.
[3612.7s] I guess there's something called, like, wild magic and I've got it in me and,
[3617.8s] I don't know, it's all very confusing at the moment.
[3620.3s] Huh.
[3621.0s] That sounds pretty cool, though.
[3623.0s] I, I guess so.
[3624.2s] I, I just, I, I don't know, it's so crazy.
[3627.1s] I'm supposed to go for training tomorrow, though, so I better go get some sleep.
[3630.1s] It's nice to meet you.
[3631.2s] Nice to meet you, Moot.
[3634.1s] And I take off back to Nogwood.
[3635.9s] And Glim, you see, uh, Moot run off into the opposite way that you have come in and
[3644.4s] now you are standing in Neverwinter.
[3646.5s] It's late.
[3647.7s] You're standing outside of the, what you don't know is the Fallen Tower.
[3652.7s] It looks like a Fallen Tower.
[3653.9s] You could probably figure that out more than Moot can.
[3656.7s] And, uh, there is a large ruckus of people kind of coming in and out of the Fallen
[3663.0s] Tower.
[3664.1s] But you have made it to Neverwinter.
[3686.5s] Something makes up.
[3688.9s] I'm sorry for doing so.
[3690.5s] He didn't get any.
[3692.2s] Insultful.
[3696.8s] He's sort of standard schooling.
[3699.8s] He's from the streets.
[3701.7s] At the cults.
[3702.6s] Like, it just wasn't, book learning was just a priority.
[3709.1s] A fork.
[3714.2s] Yeah, I'm trying to decide which way would have been better to put it in.
[3717.1s] Neither.
[3718.2s] Neither.
[3718.6s] They're both terrible.
[3719.7s] They're both terrible options.
[3720.8s] All the tongs, the prongs, were bent, like, inwards.
[3724.7s] That's what I meant.
[3725.9s] The tongs, the prongs.
[3726.7s] The tong prongs.
[3731.3s] It's got away from me.
[3735.5s] You don't say.
[3736.3s] In a really big way.
[3738.3s] He already was like, didn't really want to be your friend and now it's like,
[3743.2s] I don't care.
[3744.4s] Yeah, yeah.
[3745.1s] You, uh, you get vague, or not vague, you get appropriate directions.
[3749.4s] Why would they give you vague directions?
[3750.7s] That doesn't seem very helpful.
[3752.0s] Eh, it's over there a ways.
[3753.7s] Eh, it's fine.
[3754.7s] Yeah, you'll get there.
[3760.1s] When the three of us come together.
[3764.2s] It's gonna be amazing.
[3765.1s] Something somewhere is gonna explode.
[3768.1s] It's just gonna be too much.
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