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[2.4s] I'm, I feel anxious to get going.
[5.2s] I take the bird in my hands, close my eyes like I did when we were praying.
[9.4s] The warmth begins to come back.
[11.2s] You open your hands and you look down at the bird
[17.1s] and it begins flapping its wings, slow at first and then quicker, and it takes flight.
[25.0s] I pack up, you know, I throw my pack back on my shoulders and pick up my stuff and I'm
[29.4s] I'm ready.
[30.2s] Seem like a good kid.
[31.5s] I want to do you a favor.
[32.8s] I'm going to need something in return.
[34.6s] But I need to know that you can use these tools that are laid out here
[38.2s] as you say they are your possessions.
[41.4s] I'm verily proficient in the tools you seek.
[44.1s] There is a certain higher up who carries a ledger.
[49.0s] Hey listen, you want out of here?
[50.2s] No.
[50.7s] What's your mission?
[52.1s] I steal something from Dinglehopper Never Never.
[54.3s] Lord Dagglet Never Ember.
[55.8s] That's what I said.
[57.0s] I'm looking for Mr. Gabriel.
[60.1s] I'm sure you're of the highest character.
[62.2s] If you were to find him, perhaps the Fallen Tower.
[65.5s] I'm too drunk to teach you right now.
[67.8s] Can I find you somewhere tomorrow?
[70.1s] I'll probably be here.
[71.2s] Okay.
[72.6s] Maybe come by a little earlier in the day.
[74.7s] I've never seen anything like you before.
[77.5s] I'm a dragonborn.
[78.8s] My name's Glim.
[81.3s] It's very nice to meet you Glim.
[82.8s] I'm Moot.
[84.0s] Nice to meet you, Moot.
[85.1s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
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[90.7s] And I'm your dungeon master, Russ More.
[92.3s] And with me today is Carla Johnson.
[94.5s] That is me.
[95.7s] I play Norixious Akra, better known as Glim.
[99.0s] And Tom Laird.
[100.4s] Hey, that's me.
[101.5s] I play Moot.
[102.7s] He's a half-orc wild magic sorcerer.
[106.2s] And Amy More.
[108.0s] Indeed I am.
[109.6s] I play Sullivan Slyte or Sully, a lightfoot halfling rogue.
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[163.0s] Previously, Glim, you have made it to Neverwinter.
[167.3s] And you just met an interesting half-orc who just ran the other direction.
[172.8s] So now it's night-time-ish, early night-time dusk.
[177.3s] What you doing?
[179.6s] I think I will probably grab a snack and then like wander.
[187.2s] Just to like, like Glim hasn't been anywhere, right?
[191.0s] She's so sheltered.
[192.4s] So just to, yeah, like check out this new city.
[196.9s] Sure.
[197.4s] So you've come into kind of the northeastern entry to Neverwinter.
[205.8s] There is a large outcropping where caravans can kind of pull in,
[211.0s] offload everything that they need to and then ride back out.
[214.7s] In the vicinity, you see a few different shops, most of which are closed at this point.
[220.2s] There's a bustle of noise going on down the street
[225.0s] in the direction that the half-orc ran.
[227.1s] There is a dimly lit information center.
[230.8s] Which calls to you?
[232.2s] It does.
[233.1s] For some reason that calls to me.
[235.0s] But I need my snack first.
[237.3s] As far as people kind of in the street,
[239.0s] there are mostly the people that you were on the caravan with.
[242.3s] But yeah, that's what you see.
[244.0s] Dude, you need your snack first.
[245.4s] I thought you'd have like literally a baggie of like, I don't know, granola.
[251.2s] Oh, I'm sure I do.
[252.6s] I'm sure I have snacks.
[253.9s] Trail mix.
[255.0s] Totally.
[255.5s] No, no, that's like so on brand for Glim.
[258.2s] You pull out a snack pack, like that's how.
[261.3s] No, what is something like granola?
[263.3s] Like that's like some gorp.
[264.6s] Like that seems right.
[266.6s] Maybe I'll ask my good friend from the caravan.
[271.8s] I want to ask them where I should go get some food.
[274.2s] She's kind of busy offloading some of her stuff from one of the caravans.
[278.6s] Ain't a lull?
[280.1s] Yes.
[280.4s] You've been here before, right?
[282.5s] A few times, yeah.
[284.0s] Where would I go to find some sort of delicacy on a budget from a street vendor?
[294.7s] A delicacy on a budget from a street vendor.
[298.2s] Well, I mean, if you walk down, you hear the noise going on down off to the east there?
[303.4s] I do.
[305.1s] So if you keep going down that way, you'll eventually run into the Fallen Tower,
[309.0s] which is a very well-known tavern in the area.
[313.6s] They've got some pretty good food and a little bit of a shady clientele from time to time.
[323.0s] But also on the way, I mean, sometimes there are street vendors kind of just milling about
[327.8s] getting that sweet drunk coin, you know, how they do outside of taverns.
[334.5s] Awesome.
[335.0s] Thank you so much.
[336.0s] It was so great to travel with you.
[338.6s] I love you very much.
[340.2s] And I can't wait until I see you again.
[343.1s] That love word again.
[345.0s] Every time.
[346.0s] It just really gets me.
[348.1s] I am fond of you as well.
[350.0s] Glam, it's a pleasure riding with you.
[352.7s] I hope to see you again soon.
[354.4s] See you soon.
[356.6s] God, I love it.
[358.3s] She's a delight.
[358.9s] I love you.
[360.5s] I love you very much.
[362.1s] I love you very much.
[362.7s] She just has had, like, that's her whole life has been that, right?
[367.0s] Um, so she is going to go towards the fallen tower because shady character sounds pretty fun.
[374.2s] The thing that I think is fun about Glam is like, she's very big and strong.
[378.4s] So she's very innocent, but not like helpless, fearful and not helpless.
[384.0s] Exactly.
[385.0s] So so why not?
[387.8s] Sure.
[388.0s] Why not?
[389.0s] There are varying degrees of inebriated people.
[392.7s] I don't know how much drinking went on in your your village.
[396.6s] I think it would have been a thing, probably.
[399.5s] Yeah.
[399.8s] Okay.
[400.8s] Well, there are some people who are pretty far in as far as that goes.
[405.6s] Coming from the direction that you are walking.
[409.6s] Specifically, there's a human and a dwarf bustling about telling stories as they kind of
[416.8s] come up to and walk past you.
[419.3s] And you continue on down the way and you make it to a pretty well lit for what you've seen so far.
[426.7s] Most of the stores have all their lights are are snuffed and you make it to a literal fallen tower.
[435.6s] It looks like it's been broken or sheared off and it's fallen into the street.
[440.3s] There's a loud jovial goings on inside.
[445.7s] Great.
[446.2s] Okay.
[446.3s] I'm going to go in there.
[450.0s] Is there a performer or anything?
[452.5s] It does sound like there's a bar playing.
[454.6s] Yep.
[455.0s] As you as you get closer to go in and like go up to the bar and order probably like a pint of beer.
[465.5s] No, I think like Glenn would drink.
[467.7s] I think like she's not a child and it's like again big and strong.
[472.2s] So probably has like a very good tolerance for alcohol because she's like big.
[478.5s] Yeah.
[478.7s] So you walk in and it's as far as like the outside goes is it looks like a destroyed tower inside.
[485.4s] It looks very well kept all things considered.
[488.6s] There's warm woods.
[491.0s] Most of the tables are pretty much full.
[493.4s] Some of them have a couple people passed out on them.
[496.6s] Others look like they're kind of finishing up their drinks and moving out.
[500.0s] Given the later hour.
[503.3s] May you walk up to the bar.
[506.0s] There is a dwarven woman behind the bar and she's busy serving some people who are
[514.2s] more or less taking up most of her attention.
[517.2s] But she kind of catches you out of the corner of her eye.
[519.7s] Walk up and she kind of hushes them for a little while.
[523.1s] Slams a couple of tankards down in front of them and walks over to you and says,
[526.6s] What can I do for you there miss?
[528.3s] Hi, could I get a pint of your finest ale?
[531.9s] And can I still get something to eat?
[534.2s] Is it too late?
[535.6s] Yeah, no, well, I mean, it's getting a little bit late,
[538.8s] but we can certainly give you some food here.
[542.7s] Is there anything in particular you're looking for?
[544.9s] Let me get you that that that ale here.
[547.4s] And you didn't even try for a woman's voice, do you?
[550.6s] Just a dwarven woman's very mouthful.
[552.4s] Dwarven woman.
[553.2s] Very, very deep.
[554.6s] Yeah, well, all types.
[556.6s] She's a very sexy voice.
[558.0s] All types.
[559.2s] And she comes back and she's like,
[560.2s] Well, the menu's been pretty picked clean.
[562.8s] We've still got some of the special tonight.
[564.3s] It's roasted tarantula with hairs carefully singed off
[567.4s] and their fangs used for toothpicks later.
[572.5s] Tarantula.
[573.4s] There's a lovely sauce that goes with it too.
[576.4s] No, I mean, tarantula is my number two favorite spider to eat.
[579.8s] So perfect.
[581.0s] What's your number one?
[582.5s] You know that big one that like eats birds?
[584.8s] It's like really big, so it's like quite meaty
[587.4s] because, you know, I've got a big appetite.
[589.6s] I haven't eaten any of those.
[591.8s] They're like didn't even know there were spider eating birds.
[595.0s] They're enormous.
[595.7s] Wow, you must have traveled.
[597.0s] You must have traveled all over the place to see spiders like that.
[599.9s] Oh, I haven't been anywhere.
[601.7s] Those are local to where I'm from.
[603.7s] That's terrifying.
[608.4s] I like you, though.
[609.5s] I like you.
[610.2s] I'm going to go get you some tarantulas.
[612.4s] Extra sauce because I feel like it.
[615.3s] Hey, thanks.
[616.2s] I like you too.
[617.4s] She puts down the ale in front of you there.
[621.0s] Perfect.
[621.4s] She goes off into the back.
[624.0s] I'm going to like scan around, see who I see.
[627.8s] Who was it was like a group of people
[629.8s] that she was dealing with before that are also sitting at the bar?
[633.0s] Yes.
[633.5s] Yeah, there looks to be two human males,
[637.5s] a female half-elf and a dwarven male.
[642.1s] And they're kind of they've turned into themselves,
[644.7s] or not turned into themselves,
[645.8s] but like turned and are talking to themselves loudly.
[649.3s] Some of them are talking about joining the mercenary force
[656.2s] to go off and fight against the cult of the dragon.
[659.8s] Oh, yeah, I'm definitely going to want to talk to them.
[665.2s] So I'll approach with my pint in my hand and say,
[670.5s] excuse me.
[671.7s] One of the males turns and says,
[675.6s] what can I do for their dragon friend?
[679.1s] Hi, I'm Glim.
[680.2s] I'm so sorry to interrupt.
[681.8s] I couldn't help but overhear
[683.5s] that you're talking about fighting the cult of the dragon.
[686.9s] Yeah, well, I mean, they're terrible.
[692.1s] Well, so I just left my home to maybe help
[696.6s] that fight I just got here.
[698.6s] And I thought, these seem like experts.
[701.8s] Maybe they can tell me the best way to help fight
[705.3s] and the main sources of conflict
[708.2s] and who the major players are
[709.8s] and all the socio geopolitical situations
[712.5s] that are happening here.
[713.3s] Can you guys fill me in on that?
[714.7s] They kind of look to each other and they start to laugh.
[724.3s] I'm having trouble taking you seriously there, my dear.
[728.5s] So what you're saying is
[729.4s] you have no idea what's happening?
[731.9s] Well, I wouldn't say no idea.
[734.2s] A bard did come to my village and tell us that,
[737.3s] you know, this cult of the dragon's trying to rise Tiamat
[740.2s] and obviously I don't want that.
[743.4s] I follow Bahamut, so that's, you know.
[746.7s] Oh, Bahamut, a dragon god.
[749.6s] But the very best believer in truth
[753.4s] and justice and peace, dragon god.
[756.2s] Yes, yeah, absolutely.
[758.8s] You know what you can probably do is
[761.8s] we need lots of people.
[763.4s] You know what?
[763.8s] I'm a recruiter.
[766.0s] I could get you right into the battle
[768.6s] if that's what you're looking for.
[772.6s] Where's the battle happening?
[773.9s] I've only just arrived in town.
[775.4s] Would I have to ship out tonight or?
[778.8s] Well, not tonight.
[779.7s] We're leaving in a couple of days.
[782.6s] We're actually probably leaving tomorrow morning
[785.0s] and heading down south.
[788.4s] Down to the Well of Dragons
[791.0s] where the cult has their little setup going on down there.
[794.5s] Oh, so the main headquarters, that's where.
[797.3s] Yeah, we're getting all the people
[800.2s] who want to just fight and do good.
[803.8s] And you sound like you want to do that.
[805.4s] You must be very high ranking.
[808.6s] Pretty, pretty high ranking
[810.2s] and he gets an elbow into the side.
[813.2s] I mean, I know some people.
[818.4s] Okay, and what are your names?
[821.5s] My name's Lop, Lop Kim.
[824.6s] And this is my friend, Ken Rat.
[829.0s] Is this the two humans?
[829.8s] Microphone.
[832.6s] Those are the two humans.
[835.8s] My dwarven friend here is Eugenie.
[839.6s] And your elven friend is Gene Genie.
[844.7s] Her name is Uchu.
[846.6s] And they all kind of tip their head to you
[849.3s] as a couple of them turn back to their drinks
[852.1s] and just allow Lop to continue talking to you.
[858.1s] And so how long have you been fighting
[860.9s] the cult of the dragon?
[863.8s] Ever since basically day one.
[867.5s] No hands for hire here.
[870.4s] We've been with the forces
[873.0s] since they've been starting to make their way
[875.6s] into little towns and villages.
[878.1s] See, I'm a little bit confused
[879.6s] because what I did over here,
[881.0s] I was eavesdropping, I apologize,
[882.6s] but it sounded like you were just thinking
[886.2s] about maybe joining up.
[888.2s] So I feel like one of these stories
[891.4s] isn't maybe quite the truth.
[895.3s] So you're eavesdropper.
[896.6s] So you're pulling my leg.
[897.8s] That's what you're saying.
[900.9s] I like her.
[901.7s] You're funny.
[902.7s] You guys are funny.
[903.6s] That's funny.
[905.1s] So you're not fighting yet then?
[908.6s] No, but I mean, I do know people
[910.3s] who could probably sign you up
[911.6s] if that's what you're interested in.
[913.1s] And the bartender comes back with your plate
[917.2s] and she says, oh, here,
[918.0s] I'll just bring it down here to your drink.
[920.1s] You might want to eat up.
[922.2s] Thank you so much.
[923.0s] Hey guys, if you, I love a laugh.
[926.0s] So I'll be back after I eat my dinner.
[928.6s] You can tell me some more stories maybe.
[930.5s] Oh, so many, so many stories.
[932.6s] I'm going to have to think of them.
[933.9s] You can't believe it.
[935.6s] And I walk away kind of laughing.
[937.4s] I got a good sense of humor about the whole thing.
[940.2s] We would pull pranks where I was from too
[942.8s] on new people passing through.
[944.3s] It's fine.
[945.5s] And then I'm going to just like dig
[947.0s] into that delicious tarantula dish
[949.4s] that I'm eating apparently.
[951.4s] Well, at least, you know,
[953.0s] the hair has been removed.
[954.8s] Carefully singed off.
[956.7s] The fangs have been placed
[958.2s] like toothpicks on the side of the plate.
[960.6s] Delicious.
[962.1s] Probably say that you kind of spend
[965.0s] some more of your evening there.
[967.7s] Do you go and find lodging somewhere else
[970.1s] or do you try and find something there?
[971.9s] If there's rooms there,
[972.9s] I probably would just stay there.
[974.1s] Like I really like the bartender.
[975.7s] She is really great.
[976.8s] And I mean, you know, I'm happy wherever
[980.1s] I ate that delicious meal.
[981.2s] So if I can find a room there,
[982.5s] I'll just stay there.
[983.2s] Sounds good.
[984.2s] We'll say you get a room there
[985.9s] and we'll cut to the next morning.
[991.1s] Sully, you are.
[996.3s] You just kind of wake up
[997.5s] with the sunlight coming
[999.1s] through your bars.
[1001.3s] You hear a bird song outside
[1004.3s] and you hear your good friend
[1006.6s] Merv down the way,
[1007.6s] kind of coughing and stirring
[1009.3s] as he usually does
[1010.3s] waking when he wakes up.
[1015.5s] Hi, you're sounding old today, buddy.
[1018.6s] Well, I mean, I kind of am old.
[1020.9s] It's worse in the morning.
[1023.0s] Well, you know, you lay down,
[1024.6s] everything settles.
[1026.2s] Yeah, everything kind of settles
[1027.8s] and everything's got to work itself back out.
[1030.4s] Work on the sea.
[1031.2s] You know, there's a lot of things
[1032.5s] that get in there.
[1034.2s] What?
[1035.9s] Sea science.
[1038.2s] That doesn't sound like real science.
[1039.9s] Are you ready, buddy?
[1041.0s] Are you ready?
[1041.8s] Today's the day.
[1042.6s] What are we doing today?
[1044.7s] Well, today we go in
[1047.4s] and I get real close to the bars
[1048.9s] and I go, we're going to steal
[1051.6s] Lord Never Ember's ledger.
[1053.8s] Yeah, that sounds like a terrible idea.
[1055.8s] You sure you want to do this?
[1058.4s] Well, OK, I guess you could stay here.
[1060.3s] No, I mean, I'm going to come
[1062.3s] because, you know,
[1063.2s] if we get out of here.
[1064.2s] But I mean, it still sounds like a terrible.
[1066.2s] Do you know who Lord Never Ember is?
[1068.8s] A Lord?
[1070.8s] Like the Lord of Neverwinter.
[1074.1s] OK, cool.
[1075.3s] Oh, my God.
[1076.1s] Do you think he has more than one ledger?
[1080.0s] I mean, did you not get a description of the ledger?
[1084.0s] Yeah, I'm sure I did at some point.
[1087.2s] I have total faith that this plan is going to work.
[1089.6s] I love that the biggest concern
[1091.0s] is that there might be more than one ledger.
[1094.1s] I'm just going to walk into a vast, like, ledger room.
[1096.7s] It's just like wall to wall, Florida ceiling, ledger.
[1100.1s] It's like a ledger Rolodex.
[1102.2s] Like, oh, shit, I don't even know.
[1104.5s] I can't wait for this.
[1105.4s] Hopefully, they give us a bag of holding or something
[1107.5s] for all the ledgers we're going to find up in here.
[1109.6s] Yeah, well, I was lucky to get some of the items
[1112.5s] that I did manage to not leave with her, so that's fine.
[1116.9s] That's good.
[1117.9s] It's fine.
[1118.7s] So, yeah, you sound ready.
[1120.3s] Totally ready, totally ready.
[1122.1s] Let's do this.
[1122.8s] Door opens to the jails.
[1124.2s] As soon as I say, let's do this.
[1126.2s] And one of the guards walks in with the tray of bread.
[1129.4s] I'm like, OK, I'm going to do this.
[1131.7s] And one of the guards walks in with the tray of breakfast.
[1135.5s] More slop.
[1137.0s] Slides it under Merv's, and then slides it down to yours,
[1139.6s] and then turns to Leif.
[1141.1s] Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
[1143.2s] What?
[1145.8s] Are we getting out?
[1147.2s] Why would you get out?
[1148.1s] You're prisoners.
[1149.5s] Well, we've got a secret mission.
[1152.7s] Yeah, that's what all prisoners say.
[1154.7s] Do they really?
[1155.6s] Yeah.
[1156.2s] They all say they have a secret mission?
[1157.9s] All of them.
[1158.5s] They say they're here on a secret mission,
[1160.2s] and they've been wrongfully accused,
[1161.8s] and they shouldn't be hanged or have their head chopped off.
[1164.9s] Yeah, I bet anyone in that situation would say that.
[1167.0s] But no, I just had a meeting with Miss Fuck.
[1172.7s] I've never met Miss Fuck.
[1174.5s] Well, then you're missing out, my friend.
[1177.0s] Sounds like it.
[1178.3s] Miss Mam Meow Meow.
[1180.1s] Miss Madame Meow Meow.
[1182.9s] I have mam down here.
[1185.1s] Miss Mam Meow Meow.
[1186.2s] All right, Miss Mam Meow Meow Meow.
[1189.0s] Wait, hold on.
[1189.6s] Are there three meows?
[1191.7s] Meow?
[1195.9s] Say that again, meow.
[1197.8s] Like meow?
[1199.7s] So, wait.
[1200.8s] Are you super drooping?
[1204.3s] Eat your slap right meow,
[1205.4s] and then I'll come back with Miss Madame Meow Meow and meow.
[1211.0s] Miss Mam Meow Meow is not going to come down here and talk to me,
[1214.6s] but I just went up there and talked to her,
[1216.1s] and I'm not going to tell you the secret plan.
[1217.6s] You look like a lackey.
[1219.7s] You got me right.
[1221.2s] Cool, but like, could you just tell her?
[1223.5s] Yeah, I'll go tell her.
[1224.2s] Okay, thanks.
[1224.7s] Yeah, I got her direct line right here.
[1227.6s] He walks out and he flips the bird as he walks.
[1230.0s] I flip him back.
[1231.6s] Both of them, my teeny tiny fingers through the bars.
[1235.3s] As the door shuts, Merv says, are you sure?
[1238.9s] No.
[1239.1s] There's a secret mission?
[1240.4s] Yes.
[1242.0s] I didn't just make up that whole conversation.
[1246.7s] I didn't just make up that whole conversation.
[1249.8s] Make a persuasion shit.
[1251.1s] Oh my god.
[1254.6s] All right, all right.
[1256.9s] Well, hopefully they come for us soon
[1258.9s] because we're getting out on our own here.
[1260.7s] Well, you know what?
[1261.3s] We're just fueling up.
[1262.2s] They just want us to fuel up before we go.
[1264.5s] That's all that is.
[1265.0s] He picks up his slop tray and sits back down
[1267.6s] and starts eating away at it.
[1270.3s] I kind of push mine around a little bit.
[1272.2s] I'm picky.
[1276.8s] Where are you?
[1277.9s] You're probably waking up at this point.
[1280.4s] Sure, back at Nogwoods.
[1282.4s] Yeah, so you went back to Nogwoods.
[1284.3s] You ran back after meeting this dragonborn
[1287.0s] who helped you up in the street.
[1288.9s] So you're waking up.
[1290.0s] You had made it back.
[1292.2s] There was a key and a note left on the main door
[1295.8s] or main kind of desk at the entrance way there
[1299.0s] because everybody had gone to sleep by that point
[1302.6s] with some directions to your dorm.
[1305.2s] You had made it safe and sound
[1307.8s] and now you're waking up the next morning.
[1311.2s] Lovely bird song and lights coming in
[1313.6s] through the shade.
[1317.0s] What time of the morning is it?
[1319.3s] How late does Moot sleep?
[1320.6s] I guess should be the better question.
[1322.2s] Well, he's still a youngster
[1323.6s] so he takes as much opportunity
[1325.7s] to get all the sleep that he can.
[1327.8s] So I'll say until, yeah, 1030?
[1330.6s] Sure, knowing your appointment
[1332.1s] isn't until the lunch hour.
[1334.2s] You sleep the better part of the morning away
[1336.6s] and are waking up.
[1337.8s] Sun's a little higher in the sky
[1339.4s] than had previously mentioned.
[1340.6s] Maybe you woke up a little bit
[1342.0s] and you just close your eyes again
[1343.4s] and then woke up at 1030.
[1345.4s] I'm going to put on the best clothes that I brought
[1348.6s] because it's the first day of school.
[1350.5s] Got to look sharp.
[1353.0s] And I'm going to head back over.
[1355.3s] I'm assuming Gabriel's back at the inn again
[1358.9s] or am I eating him somewhere else?
[1361.4s] I think he told you to meet him there
[1364.9s] at the Fallen Tower.
[1366.8s] Okay, yeah.
[1367.4s] So one final spot check in the mirror before I go
[1370.6s] and I make my way back to the Fallen Tower.
[1375.4s] You make your way back down
[1376.7s] and you pass by Shilso who calls to you
[1380.6s] and says, you found everything okay?
[1383.5s] Everything was great.
[1384.2s] The note and the key, it was all perfect.
[1386.7s] Ah, good.
[1387.4s] Yes, yes.
[1387.9s] Well, good.
[1389.0s] Well, you're off for your day then?
[1391.0s] Are you going to go do what people
[1395.2s] who don't go to this school but stay here do?
[1397.9s] Yeah, I'm going to go talk to this Gabriel guy
[1401.5s] and see if he can teach me a thing or two.
[1403.8s] And I had a question.
[1405.0s] Is there like a laundry service here at the school as well?
[1407.9s] Because I mean, I only brought a couple of outfits
[1409.9s] and one is pretty dirty after some travel.
[1412.6s] So I wonder if I can maybe get it cleaned.
[1415.2s] Yep, we could probably do that for you.
[1418.2s] You're staying here.
[1419.0s] We can just, if you just, you know, here's a bag.
[1424.3s] Just leave it outside your door.
[1425.9s] It'll be cleaned up for you by the time you get back.
[1428.6s] Oh, oh, perfect.
[1429.5s] That's awesome.
[1430.2s] So I run back to my room and throw those clothes in a bag.
[1436.4s] You head back out and down and out to the Fallen Tower
[1439.9s] unless you're stopping anywhere else on the way.
[1443.1s] No, I figured I'd probably go right there nice and early.
[1445.4s] You know, apt pupil, et cetera.
[1447.8s] You make it there, I'd say you'd probably make it there
[1451.9s] early-ish, like probably quarter two, 1130 quarter two.
[1455.4s] That seem fair?
[1456.6s] Sure.
[1457.8s] You stroll in and there's a, it's a very thin crowd
[1461.4s] compared to the scene that you walked into last night.
[1467.7s] There's one bartender who's kind of cleaning up,
[1471.4s] cleaning up the glasses and the tables
[1473.4s] and just rearranging after a night of frivolity
[1478.6s] that the city had underwent.
[1481.0s] Is there the bartender that was working yesterday in there?
[1483.7s] Is there a different one this time?
[1486.1s] There is a different one.
[1489.3s] Perfect.
[1489.8s] I'll stroll over to the bar and I'll say,
[1494.1s] Bartender, have you seen Gabriel?
[1496.6s] Has he been in yet?
[1497.7s] Gabriel, no.
[1502.2s] He usually gets in later.
[1507.5s] I'm supposed to meet him here at noon.
[1510.7s] Okay, well, hopefully he's keeping his appointments today.
[1519.0s] The way you said that makes it seem like maybe
[1520.9s] that's not what happens every day.
[1522.3s] Is that not what happens every day?
[1524.4s] You don't know Gabriel very well, do you?
[1526.7s] Uh, no, no.
[1529.0s] Okay, well, sometimes he does.
[1531.4s] Sometimes he's really good.
[1532.6s] Sometimes he's punctual and sometimes he's not.
[1537.4s] So, okay, so just, I'll get, I'll get what I get, I guess, huh?
[1541.8s] That's what I'm getting at.
[1543.4s] Can I get you anything while you wait?
[1545.7s] Do you have any, like, decks of cards or anything
[1550.0s] I can maybe borrow or kill some time before he shows up?
[1553.4s] He kind of looks around.
[1556.5s] I think we used to have something here.
[1559.5s] He lifts up a bunch of stuff underneath one of the tables
[1562.9s] or behind the bar and then pulls out a deck of cards
[1566.3s] and tosses it across to you.
[1567.5s] So yeah, there you go.
[1571.1s] I'll just go.
[1572.2s] Nothing to eat or drink?
[1574.1s] Yeah, do you have something like a lighter beer?
[1577.5s] Something in that neighborhood?
[1578.6s] It's a little early for me to start with the heavy stuff.
[1581.5s] I mean, we got water.
[1583.4s] I'll take one of those, sure.
[1587.8s] What's the lightest beer you have?
[1590.2s] Water.
[1590.7s] Some places do not look kindly on those who order just water.
[1594.2s] That's fair.
[1595.1s] You seem like a nice kid and you're going to be waiting on Gabriel a while.
[1598.5s] I'm not going to steal your money.
[1600.1s] I'll give you some water.
[1602.2s] He slides a glass across the bar to you.
[1605.8s] Perfect, yeah, thanks.
[1606.6s] I'll just, I'll be over there.
[1608.1s] If you see Gabriel, send him my way.
[1609.4s] I'm sure you'll see him before anybody else does.
[1614.9s] Well, I'm just going to be looking at the door nonstop, so yes, probably.
[1618.9s] If he sneaks in through the back way, there's no back way.
[1623.6s] Just keep an eye out.
[1624.6s] Perfect, will do.
[1625.4s] He goes back to shining up the glasses there.
[1627.8s] So you sit down at one of the tables
[1630.6s] and you hear some footsteps coming down the stairs
[1634.6s] and you see the dragonborn that you saw last night as Glim enters the room.
[1639.4s] Glim, what do you do?
[1640.4s] I mean, I was just making the stupidest big smile
[1642.9s] and that's probably, was actually, I, Carla, was doing it.
[1648.5s] But really, it's probably what Glim would do too
[1650.9s] because she would recognize him.
[1652.3s] She'd be excited.
[1654.8s] So I'm going to walk down the stairs and...
[1658.8s] Tell him you love him.
[1660.6s] Not yet.
[1661.5s] I barely know him.
[1662.7s] I just really like him.
[1663.7s] We did not ride on a caravan together for days on end.
[1665.3s] I really like him quite a bit.
[1667.4s] He was so clumsy.
[1670.0s] What's falling down?
[1671.9s] So yeah, I'm going to walk up and say,
[1674.4s] good morning.
[1675.4s] Oh, oh, it's you again.
[1677.8s] Hi.
[1678.0s] It's you again.
[1679.0s] How are you?
[1680.4s] I'm great.
[1681.7s] I had a great night's sleep last night.
[1683.8s] I'm excited for, I guess it's my first day of school to an extent.
[1688.6s] Oh, that's an exciting day.
[1690.6s] I can't remember if I gave you my name.
[1692.5s] I'm Glim and I hold my hand out.
[1695.6s] Yeah, yeah, Glim, it's Moot.
[1698.0s] Moot, it is so great to see you again.
[1700.2s] Where are you going to go to school?
[1701.7s] What are you going to go to school for?
[1703.1s] Tell me everything.
[1704.8s] Okay, to answer the first question, I think it's here.
[1709.6s] Is it like a bartending school?
[1711.4s] No, no.
[1712.6s] Second question will cover that.
[1714.6s] I'm trying to learn magic.
[1719.4s] Oh.
[1719.9s] There was a guy here last night that the school,
[1723.8s] the Nogwood School of Wizcraft and Witchery
[1727.0s] sent me over here to talk to this Gabriel fellow.
[1730.0s] So I'm hoping he'll be able to help me out.
[1732.6s] What kind of magic?
[1733.4s] I see you've got cards.
[1734.3s] Are you going to do like card tricks?
[1736.7s] Sleight of hand?
[1737.6s] What kind of magic are you going to learn?
[1739.7s] If only.
[1740.5s] We had a magician, quote unquote,
[1743.1s] that came to our village one time and he was really good with that stuff.
[1747.3s] But he wouldn't tell me how any of them were done.
[1749.4s] I love a magician.
[1751.4s] I guess it's in their code or something that they don't want to tell you.
[1755.1s] I asked so many questions and they wouldn't tell me any of the secrets.
[1758.1s] Yeah, it's the worst.
[1759.8s] But no, so I don't think it's going to be that type of magic.
[1765.3s] I seem to have what the lady at the school called was wild magic.
[1771.2s] Oh, that sounds exciting and kind of dangerous.
[1775.3s] Is it dangerous?
[1776.2s] It was scary.
[1777.6s] Yeah, I can't really control it.
[1780.1s] So I'm hoping that's what Gabriel can help me out with.
[1783.3s] Wow.
[1783.8s] You know what?
[1784.2s] It sounds like we have a lot in common because I also have a very special gift.
[1789.3s] Really?
[1791.2s] I'm like, I mean, this sounds conceited,
[1794.9s] but I think I'm like maybe going to help save the world.
[1798.8s] I have a calling.
[1800.6s] Wow.
[1801.5s] Yeah, I mean, no, I shot like this freezing ray out of my hands one time.
[1805.0s] Yours is way cooler.
[1806.2s] I don't know if it is.
[1807.0s] A freezing ray sounds pretty cool.
[1809.2s] But like saving the world, that's awesome.
[1811.4s] Well, I mean, if I'm going to be honest, and we're friends now,
[1814.2s] so I feel like I can be honest, I don't exactly know how I'm going to do that.
[1822.3s] Okay.
[1823.0s] But I think that I can.
[1825.3s] I'm looking for, hey, I'm looking for some people to help me.
[1832.4s] And I...
[1833.6s] To help you save the world?
[1835.0s] This sounds kind of crazy, but I think you might be one of them.
[1841.5s] What makes you say that?
[1842.7s] I'm like, I don't even know how to do this magic stuff.
[1847.4s] I just have a feeling.
[1849.0s] I don't know.
[1849.8s] I don't know, Moot.
[1850.6s] I just have a feeling about you.
[1853.3s] Okay, that's cool.
[1855.1s] The door opens with a loud bang and then heavy footsteps and Moot,
[1861.3s] you see Gabriel kind of, he's got a hat that's low on his face.
[1867.6s] Sunglasses are on.
[1869.1s] Tucked into himself.
[1871.0s] And he goes over and up to the bar and just holds up a finger
[1875.0s] and the bartender slides him a drink as he kind of just sits there for a moment
[1880.3s] while you're still conversing.
[1882.7s] Have I noticed Gabriel come in or am I...?
[1885.4s] Yeah, I mean, I figure you've kind of got at least half an eye on the door
[1890.0s] the whole time even while you're talking with Glim.
[1892.7s] So yeah, you definitely see him.
[1894.4s] I kind of excitedly tap Glim on the hand.
[1899.6s] I say, oh, that's him.
[1900.4s] That's Gabriel.
[1902.0s] That's the guy who's going to teach me.
[1904.5s] That guy.
[1906.2s] Yeah, that's who the school told me to find.
[1909.1s] Glim, you definitely see someone who is...
[1912.2s] He looks pretty rough.
[1912.7s] If not half in the bag, he's rough.
[1915.0s] He's probably still drunk and hungover at the same time.
[1918.3s] Yeah, like I can probably smell him.
[1921.0s] Oh, yeah, there's an odor.
[1922.8s] Roll for smell.
[1924.6s] Roll for odor.
[1926.6s] It's a good one.
[1927.2s] Yeah.
[1927.8s] Yeah.
[1928.4s] Pungent.
[1929.2s] Yeah.
[1930.5s] Huh.
[1931.0s] Well, and he's a teacher?
[1935.8s] Well, I guess he studied wild magic at the school
[1940.4s] because he thought there was something that he could tap into with it.
[1944.5s] But I guess they kind of also kicked him out of the school for...
[1948.1s] I mean, the lady at the school said
[1949.9s] she didn't say he wasted his time, but I think that's kind of what she felt.
[1955.4s] Hmm.
[1956.2s] Well, you can't judge a magician by their smell, I always say.
[1964.4s] So I guess I should leave you to school.
[1969.2s] It was really good to see you again.
[1970.6s] Are you going to...
[1971.2s] Maybe I'll see you back here.
[1972.2s] I'm staying here.
[1973.4s] Oh, you're staying here?
[1974.4s] Cool.
[1974.6s] I'm staying here.
[1975.4s] I'm just over at the school,
[1976.6s] but I imagine because I think this is like Gabriel's base of operations.
[1980.6s] I think we're going to be here a while.
[1982.7s] Okay.
[1983.1s] Well, I'm going to, you know, go about my day, but you're my friend now.
[1987.8s] I'm going to see you again, Moot.
[1989.4s] Good luck with school.
[1990.8s] That sounds like a great plan.
[1992.6s] I'll see you later.
[1995.3s] So I'm going to like go out and like,
[1998.6s] I don't know, go look at shit or whatever.
[2000.2s] There's like floating things.
[2001.2s] It's amazing, right?
[2002.6s] Yep.
[2003.0s] Absolutely.
[2003.4s] We'll catch back up with you in a moment.
[2006.2s] I can't wait to hear what Gabriel's got going on.
[2009.4s] Moot, you, so Glim says goodbye, you split ways, you...
[2018.1s] Yeah.
[2018.3s] Has he moved yet from his...
[2021.8s] He's taken a couple of drinks,
[2023.0s] but more or less he's been very stationary.
[2027.0s] Not really.
[2027.6s] It doesn't appear that he's looking for you particularly
[2030.6s] or anything else in the room.
[2034.2s] Okay.
[2035.4s] Yeah.
[2035.7s] Is he just at the bar?
[2037.5s] Yeah.
[2038.7s] I'll head over, sidle up next to him at the bar and say,
[2045.4s] Gabriel, I'm so glad you made it.
[2047.6s] You hear a low rumble, almost like a snore.
[2055.8s] And I kind of tap him on the shoulder
[2058.7s] and shake him a little bit and say,
[2059.8s] Gabriel?
[2063.5s] It's just the rest of my eyes.
[2064.7s] Who are you, what?
[2066.2s] Well, we met last night.
[2068.2s] My name's Moot.
[2071.1s] Were you the one who stole all my money?
[2073.9s] Nope.
[2074.2s] Definitely, definitely wasn't me.
[2076.2s] Were you the one who switched my shoes?
[2078.2s] Over at the school, told me to find you.
[2080.5s] We chatted last night about Wild Magic.
[2083.0s] You're the kid who wants to learn things.
[2084.6s] You came back.
[2085.3s] Yeah, you told me to come back.
[2086.5s] I did.
[2087.2s] You said meet here at noon.
[2088.8s] I've sent a lot of people to meet here at noon and they...
[2093.5s] I don't know, they don't come back.
[2095.7s] I mean, at least four.
[2097.3s] Anyways, so you came back.
[2099.6s] Great.
[2101.4s] You got magic in you.
[2103.6s] I mean, yeah, that's what Savoy seemed to think.
[2105.9s] And I mean, that's, I mean, yeah, I just, I don't know.
[2110.4s] Like, do you think you're going to be able to help me?
[2113.6s] Yeah.
[2113.8s] Have you had a drink yet?
[2116.2s] I had some water.
[2118.6s] Had some water.
[2120.4s] Well, I asked for a lighter beer and then he suggested water.
[2123.6s] So I just went with that.
[2126.1s] Okay.
[2128.7s] You could have had some special stuff.
[2130.1s] I hear that's really good in the first thing in the morning.
[2132.3s] Oh, yeah.
[2132.6s] You seemed to really like that last night when I got you a couple of rounds of that.
[2135.9s] Yeah, it's very good.
[2137.4s] Very good.
[2138.8s] Okay, so we got to learn magic.
[2143.4s] Out of curiosity, is that like a two-day process?
[2148.6s] How many days do you want to do it in?
[2150.5s] I mean, did we talk rates last night?
[2153.9s] No, you just kind of sunk back into your drink and said you'd do it for free.
[2161.8s] I said I'd do it for free?
[2163.9s] Yeah.
[2164.2s] You said that you were just so excited someone had wild magic that you were just so into it.
[2170.6s] Make a deception check with advantage.
[2173.8s] Because he's drunk?
[2175.7s] His senses aren't really keen right now.
[2179.0s] So the first one was a 16.
[2181.0s] The second roll was an 11.
[2183.6s] So I'll go with the 16.
[2186.2s] Well, I was a philanthropist at one point.
[2191.6s] So I'm probably good to teach you for free, I guess.
[2196.6s] Well, that's awesome.
[2197.3s] Well, I mean, I'll gladly buy a few rounds of that special stuff every now and then as a thank you.
[2202.7s] Great, great.
[2204.7s] Okay, so you said you had fire magic.
[2211.4s] Well, the one that manifested was like ice.
[2215.0s] It was like I froze people.
[2218.0s] Ice is like fire of the north.
[2221.9s] So is winter coming?
[2225.0s] Well, maybe sometime there's seasons.
[2228.2s] Do you need to teach you about seasons too?
[2231.2s] No, I think I can handle that.
[2233.6s] Okay, so can you show me what you got?
[2238.3s] Are you sure that's safe?
[2240.0s] I don't really know what I'm doing at all.
[2242.6s] I mean, this place has been wrecked harder times than...
[2246.4s] Well, I mean, it is literally a fallen over tower, so...
[2250.1s] Right?
[2250.7s] So what's the worst you could do?
[2252.2s] We can't fall it over twice.
[2254.1s] Well, I mean, I froze some...
[2257.4s] Yeah, okay, I'll try.
[2259.6s] Give me your beer.
[2261.5s] What are you going to do with my beer, boy?
[2263.4s] Well, I'm going to try and make it colder.
[2266.6s] All right, he slides his beer.
[2270.4s] So let's make a...
[2273.4s] I don't want to do this.
[2275.5s] Make a charisma check with disadvantage.
[2278.8s] Okay.
[2280.9s] Okay, first was a nat 20.
[2284.5s] Shucks.
[2286.1s] Second one is an 18.
[2288.2s] Oh, so 21.
[2290.5s] Shit, all right.
[2293.4s] So describe this.
[2294.7s] This is going to work really well.
[2296.3s] Okay.
[2296.7s] So probably better than what you're trying to do.
[2300.8s] So describe to me what happens when this spell incurs.
[2306.6s] I take the beer that has some condensation on it
[2310.4s] because it's been sitting there for a few seconds
[2312.0s] while he's been drinking it.
[2313.9s] And as I touch the glass,
[2318.2s] all of a sudden kind of frost starts forming around the edges
[2322.9s] and the bits of condensation start freezing to the glass.
[2326.7s] And I kind of like look at him like I'm doing it.
[2329.9s] I'm doing it.
[2331.2s] And then the glass like shatters because I'm doing it too well.
[2336.2s] You see kind of a look of hope and joy in his eyes
[2342.3s] as he sees the glass begin to frost.
[2344.7s] And then it shatters and like his entire body just slumps.
[2351.1s] I see.
[2351.8s] Bartender, can you pour him another one real quick?
[2357.6s] Well, you got the magic in you, boy.
[2362.2s] You need to control it
[2363.7s] so that you don't waste any more goddamn drinks.
[2366.6s] Yeah, I mean that's why I want to learn from you.
[2370.6s] I want to be able to control this.
[2374.6s] Okay, good.
[2377.1s] I'm going to finish this drink
[2379.1s] and then we're going to go somewhere safer away from drinks.
[2382.6s] I can't believe that you did this in this
[2385.8s] this zone of safety for drinks.
[2389.3s] This hallowed ground.
[2390.3s] I'm sorry.
[2391.0s] I'm sorry about that.
[2391.7s] This hallowed ground for beverages.
[2392.7s] You wanted me to show you what I tried my best.
[2395.7s] Don't listen to me.
[2397.9s] I mean, do listen to me because I'm going to teach you.
[2399.8s] But yeah, it's a lot of conflicting messages here.
[2401.7s] Don't touch my drink.
[2404.0s] He takes another drink and begins to finish it.
[2415.5s] Well, hey there, welcome to the middle part.
[2419.0s] Had a little something hanky go on with our interlude recording.
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[2477.1s] that Amy and I played at D&D Live 2019, The Descent.
[2481.5s] It was such a fun game and such a fun setting
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[2549.8s] He just said his hopes and dreams.
[2551.1s] He didn't cast a spell.
[2552.4s] You gotta get down deep and lift from the knees.
[2555.2s] But that's the only big organ he has.
[2558.2s] Damn.
[2558.8s] Taking initiative.
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[2569.0s] You've been sitting in your cell all day now.
[2572.0s] Merv calls over.
[2573.4s] He's like, are you sure you're sure?
[2576.2s] That's what she said.
[2579.6s] You hear...
[2580.3s] Guard!
[2581.4s] Make a perception check.
[2583.4s] Guard!
[2585.2s] What about my secret mission?
[2587.6s] Yeah, right?
[2588.3s] Seventeen.
[2590.2s] You hear footsteps and like he's jingling coming from down the hall.
[2595.8s] Hello!
[2598.4s] They stop outside the door and the door opens.
[2602.3s] And you see the same guard you saw the night...
[2607.4s] Yesterday, I guess.
[2609.7s] Officer Tangrin.
[2611.0s] And he's standing there and he comes into the room and says...
[2616.6s] Ah, tattie boy, tattie boy.
[2621.4s] Is it time for my secret mission?
[2625.3s] You talk very loud about your secret mission.
[2628.0s] There's two of us in here, for god's sakes.
[2631.6s] I've been hearing complaints of somebody yelling out into the street.
[2636.7s] I told Merv not to do that.
[2639.7s] You hear him scoff.
[2641.4s] He goes to unlock your cell.
[2649.1s] Opens it up and then goes to unlock Merv's cell as well.
[2651.8s] He's like, well, are you coming?
[2653.5s] Totally.
[2656.4s] The two of you follow Officer Tangrin back to Miss Mammyowmyow's office.
[2663.2s] He opens the door and lets you in.
[2666.4s] And Miss Mammyowmyow is sitting at her desk with all of your
[2670.5s] things and Merv, what you can presume, are Merv's things out on the table.
[2675.5s] Hey, Merv, are those your things?
[2678.3s] Yeah.
[2679.0s] You want to trade some things later?
[2682.0s] No.
[2682.7s] Look at my things.
[2685.0s] There's nothing to mine you want.
[2687.0s] You wouldn't do any sort of trade things.
[2689.5s] I've seen you put things up your butt.
[2692.9s] You saw nothing.
[2695.0s] Things fell out of what I can only presume was your butt.
[2697.9s] I don't want to touch any of your things.
[2700.5s] Miss Mammyowmyow pipes in.
[2702.7s] Look, you want to do this or what?
[2706.2s] Oh, yeah, for sure.
[2707.0s] Yes, Miss Mammyowmyow.
[2708.3s] All right.
[2709.4s] So here's what you're going to do.
[2710.2s] You're going to take your things.
[2712.8s] You're going to go to Castle Never.
[2716.0s] You're going to sneak on in there to Dangle Never Embers.
[2721.7s] You're going to grab a ledger.
[2723.2s] Hey, does he have more than one?
[2725.7s] Yes.
[2726.9s] What color?
[2727.5s] Good of you to ask.
[2728.9s] It should be a red ledger.
[2731.8s] Is there any writing on it just in case he has two red ledgers?
[2736.5s] There's going to be a symbol on it.
[2743.7s] No, there's not going to be symbols on it.
[2748.3s] There's going to be a symbol on it.
[2752.0s] It's the symbol of the Never Embers.
[2755.0s] Oh, yes.
[2756.5s] And they say a picture says a thousand words.
[2761.0s] You know what the symbol for the Never Embers is, don't you?
[2763.6s] Of course it's it's not embers.
[2769.0s] That's for sure.
[2770.6s] Never would they put embers.
[2772.9s] No, ma'am, I don't know.
[2774.3s] I don't know.
[2775.5s] I don't know what the symbol is.
[2777.3s] Okay, it's it's a like an oculus singular.
[2785.5s] Like a like a looky-loo.
[2787.4s] What's a looky-loo?
[2788.6s] Like something you look through.
[2790.4s] Well, it's no, it's just like one glass.
[2792.8s] Yes, like the one glass.
[2794.0s] Ah, the one like a monocle.
[2796.8s] Sure, if that's what you call it here.
[2799.5s] Anyways, it's got that a chain that wraps around it some fires from below.
[2806.8s] Well, it's really pretentious.
[2808.6s] Right?
[2809.2s] Yeah.
[2809.8s] This is why we need this ledger.
[2811.2s] Very pretentious.
[2812.1s] We have to bring down the pretension.
[2814.0s] I'm ready.
[2815.4s] Hold on.
[2815.8s] I'm going to write this symbol down.
[2818.0s] Have you been to Castle Never?
[2819.4s] Do you know how you're going to get in there?
[2821.8s] No, but I get invited to many places.
[2825.4s] Merv speaks up.
[2826.3s] He's like, I've seen it.
[2827.9s] I know kind of whereabouts his office is.
[2831.4s] See, and this is why we need Merv.
[2833.2s] Can't believe you didn't want me to bring Merv.
[2835.3s] Well, good.
[2835.8s] I mean, at least one of you is worth something.
[2838.0s] So you bring the ledger back to me and then...
[2842.7s] Hug it out and you set me free.
[2845.0s] Us free.
[2846.5s] Is that what we agreed on?
[2847.7s] That is, yeah.
[2849.7s] So, okay, you go free.
[2850.8s] Don't worry about it.
[2851.4s] Well, hold on a second.
[2852.2s] If I come back, are you going to let me go?
[2854.2s] Yeah, absolutely.
[2855.1s] Well, it certainly doesn't sound like that.
[2856.0s] I am a cat of my word.
[2859.2s] I don't believe you, but I'm searching for some excitement in my life.
[2864.5s] That those three walls and one bar just can't offer me.
[2870.6s] I'll take my chances at Castle Ember.
[2873.6s] Well, good.
[2874.8s] Off you go then.
[2876.5s] Okay, thank you.
[2877.1s] I start to gather up my shit.
[2880.8s] I hop her desk.
[2882.3s] She watches you.
[2883.8s] I have a bag.
[2884.6s] Does anybody have a bag?
[2886.0s] Didn't you have this all on you when you came in here?
[2888.4s] Yeah, you took my bag.
[2891.0s] She holds up the bag on the desk.
[2893.2s] Yeah, that one.
[2894.2s] Start to fill it.
[2896.8s] Come on, Murph.
[2898.6s] Yeah, I'm already.
[2899.8s] Okay.
[2900.1s] All right.
[2900.3s] Yeah, Castle Ember waits for no person.
[2905.6s] You are led back out into the street.
[2908.4s] Murph, I don't fully trust this.
[2911.8s] I mispronounced the castle name twice and nobody corrected me.
[2915.8s] I don't think anybody knows what's happening here.
[2917.8s] Pretty sure they're aware that you probably don't know what's happening.
[2921.5s] Fair enough, yeah.
[2922.5s] Um, but if all we have to do is go in, get a ledger and get out,
[2927.6s] then we might be able to hedge our bets.
[2931.2s] All right.
[2931.6s] Lead the way, trusty steed.
[2934.0s] Yah!
[2935.4s] Yah!
[2935.8s] What a thing to say to your new partner.
[2939.8s] You follow Murph through the streets.
[2943.2s] It's getting to be about dusk now.
[2946.2s] And he leads you to a large gate that surrounds
[2953.2s] Castle Never.
[2954.0s] And he says, look, there it is.
[2956.1s] All right.
[2956.7s] Now it's your job.
[2958.2s] How are we getting in there?
[2961.2s] We knock.
[2963.1s] You're going to knock on cat?
[2964.5s] What are you going to say when you knock on the door?
[2967.0s] They'll come to me.
[2968.6s] I love this plan.
[2969.4s] I love this plan.
[2971.4s] Do you want me to hang back or do you want me to come in?
[2973.8s] Oh, no, no, we're partners.
[2975.3s] Great.
[2975.6s] You're right in this.
[2976.4s] Yeah.
[2977.0s] Just don't look.
[2977.9s] Don't have that look.
[2979.4s] What look?
[2979.9s] Fix your face.
[2981.6s] You're still doing it.
[2983.1s] No, that's also weird.
[2984.8s] Can you look like you have a purpose?
[2986.2s] A little different.
[2988.0s] No, don't do weird things with your arms.
[2990.1s] Put your hands down.
[2990.9s] You look like you're hiding something.
[2992.9s] Oh, God.
[2994.5s] Okay, let's go.
[2996.2s] Okay.
[2999.2s] So you walk up to the gate and there's two guards standing at the gate to Castle Never.
[3005.8s] Good sirs or ma'am.
[3008.5s] Are they fully arbored?
[3010.5s] Yes.
[3010.9s] Well, that's why I can't tell.
[3013.7s] What do you want?
[3014.8s] I am here on behalf of Lord Neverember.
[3021.4s] You're here on behalf of Lord Neverember?
[3023.8s] Yes.
[3024.3s] He said I have to come in.
[3027.5s] For what purpose?
[3028.7s] I can't believe you have.
[3031.6s] My name is Sullivan's Light.
[3035.4s] Great.
[3037.0s] Are you saying you've never heard of me?
[3040.0s] No.
[3043.0s] I make only the best linens for all of the kings and queens and lords and ladies of the lands.
[3052.6s] Okay.
[3054.2s] My linen services have been requested here.
[3057.8s] Deception.
[3060.1s] Eighteen.
[3062.6s] And nobody keeps a linenery waiting.
[3066.5s] Lord Neverember didn't say anything about linens.
[3070.4s] I'm sorry.
[3071.0s] Does he talk to you about his underwear as well?
[3073.3s] Do you know how personal a man's linens are, sir or ma'am?
[3078.4s] He goes over to a booth and he says usually he tells me if he's expecting
[3084.2s] particularly individuals.
[3086.5s] Right here he's got his shoemaker.
[3091.1s] Right here he's got his favorite cook.
[3094.4s] Right here he's got his underwear maker.
[3096.9s] And it's not Sullivan's Light.
[3098.9s] Who does he have making his underwear, sir?
[3102.0s] Because I have been called in for linens, which I assumed included underwear as well.
[3108.6s] And if there is someone else encroaching in on my underwear game,
[3113.2s] I need to talk to Lord Neverember to tell him how much of a mistake
[3117.8s] he is making going with these other people.
[3120.3s] Lord Neverember's not here.
[3122.5s] He's off to fight the battle of the linens.
[3126.2s] Battle against the cult of the dragon.
[3128.9s] And when he comes back and does not have a smooth set of soft, cool silk sheets
[3136.6s] to crawl into at night after he is done battling for your freedom,
[3142.0s] you can tell him.
[3144.6s] Can I like roll intimidation?
[3146.4s] Yeah, what are you trying to do here?
[3147.4s] Are you trying to intimidate or persuade?
[3149.0s] I'm trying to like, I don't know, both.
[3151.4s] I'm trying to-
[3152.3s] Yeah, well pick which one's the best for you.
[3154.4s] Is there a convince roll?
[3156.7s] They're the same.
[3159.3s] 17.
[3161.3s] He looks quite taken aback.
[3164.7s] Sure, tell me.
[3165.3s] I don't want to disappoint.
[3167.0s] How do you feel when you, after a hard day's work,
[3170.9s] crawl into a freshly made bed?
[3174.6s] I mean, my bed's very rarely made, but I mean, I assume it's very good.
[3178.6s] Right?
[3179.1s] Yeah.
[3179.8s] Best feeling in the world.
[3181.6s] You want to take that away from your lord?
[3184.1s] Yeah, no.
[3185.3s] He looks over to his friend and his friend's like,
[3189.9s] I'm getting involved in this, man.
[3191.7s] It's kind of luck you're getting from him.
[3193.6s] So, okay, so do you have like a card or something,
[3198.8s] some sort of writ that says that who you are, who you say you are?
[3206.8s] I have slight of hand.
[3209.0s] Can that just mean to work like instead of stealing,
[3211.8s] but like to show something really fast,
[3213.8s] like how FBI show their badges?
[3215.4s] Like, sorry, sorry, how do they do it?
[3223.6s] So you're trying to show them a badge to say you're a linen maker.
[3227.7s] You're an underwear maker.
[3229.5s] Yeah.
[3230.7s] It's a very strong guild.
[3232.0s] Yeah, sure.
[3233.0s] I get it.
[3233.5s] We take our job very seriously.
[3236.2s] Okay, yeah.
[3237.3s] Um, perhaps let's say you can use slight of hand,
[3244.6s] but you use it to quickly.
[3247.0s] Can I like quickly backwards behind,
[3248.9s] write something official sounding?
[3252.2s] Okay, okay.
[3255.1s] It's a nat 20 plus six, 26.
[3258.7s] No problem.
[3259.4s] Like Merv sees you do it because he's standing behind you.
[3262.6s] But otherwise, there's like fucking blown away by my penmanship.
[3265.4s] Blown away by this behind the back,
[3268.0s] like upside down penmanship that you're doing.
[3271.3s] But you managed to write whatever you want to write on this page.
[3277.6s] And you go to hand it to him.
[3279.4s] And what does it say?
[3280.6s] It says,
[3281.8s] Linenary Guild of Faerun, Sir Sullivan Sleight,
[3288.2s] Esquire, Linenary Extraordinaire,
[3292.8s] um, to see Lord Neverember's bedroom chambers
[3298.3s] in order to outfit with new linens upon his arrival.
[3302.6s] He looks this over and it's,
[3306.2s] I mean, there's even like,
[3307.4s] So now I got a stamp on it.
[3309.0s] There's like a sealed something on it.
[3312.2s] It's official as fuck.
[3315.7s] To him, it looks completely official.
[3318.0s] Oh, all right.
[3318.8s] I'm sorry, Mr. Sir Sullivan Sleight.
[3323.1s] He opens the gates and here's your visitor's badge.
[3328.0s] Thank you.
[3328.3s] One for my associate, please.
[3330.9s] He looks to Merv and so are you a linen, linen?
[3335.8s] Do you do linens too?
[3338.2s] Yeah, I do the best linens.
[3341.5s] Untrue.
[3342.2s] He is but a apprentice.
[3345.7s] That's the one.
[3346.5s] I am an apprentice of linens.
[3349.5s] All right.
[3350.2s] Hence you both your badges and
[3352.9s] ushers you towards the front gate of the Castle Neverember.
[3356.4s] Thank you.
[3357.5s] Of course.
[3357.8s] I won't mention it to Lord Neverember.
[3359.6s] Thank you.
[3360.1s] Thank you for, thank you for that, Sir Sullivan Sleight.
[3365.0s] And we walk up to the-
[3366.2s] You walk up a long path to the front entrance,
[3369.7s] um, and the doors open for you as you get to the top there.
[3376.5s] And you find yourself in Castle Neverember and Merv says,
[3379.8s] well, uh, I didn't think we'd get past that.
[3382.6s] But, um, uh, yeah, his, his office is on the top,
[3387.4s] top of the castle.
[3388.4s] So I guess we head up there.
[3392.9s] Okay.
[3394.5s] Are you trying to just go straight up or are you going sneakily?
[3397.4s] What are you trying to do?
[3398.2s] Let's sneak.
[3399.1s] Let's sneak.
[3399.7s] We're like, we don't want to draw attention to ourselves,
[3403.1s] but if we're there, we obviously have a 16.
[3406.7s] You stealthily, um, make your way through.
[3409.8s] There's, there aren't too many people kind of milling about.
[3412.5s] It is kind of later hours.
[3413.8s] So there are a few guards that you kind of stop and make your way past
[3417.6s] without them noticing you, uh, Merv as well.
[3421.6s] And you make your way up to the top of the castle
[3426.2s] and there's a single door up at the top of the flight of stairs.
[3429.4s] Um, it's a large carved, uh, entryway, big, huge wooden door,
[3435.8s] massive silver and brass handle.
[3439.6s] As far as it goes, I'm pretty sure this is where his office is.
[3443.4s] Well, I go up and I touch it.
[3444.6s] I go, Ooh, this is fancy.
[3449.3s] Have you never seen a door?
[3451.0s] No, but this one's super nice.
[3453.2s] I try the handle.
[3454.5s] It's locked.
[3455.8s] I take out my thieves tools and I pick it.
[3462.2s] Is that?
[3463.5s] It's light of hand.
[3464.2s] Okay.
[3465.8s] 25.
[3466.7s] Damn.
[3468.2s] Frank, these big dice.
[3469.6s] Big dice, it's crushing it.
[3471.4s] So it takes you a minute, um, before you kind of feel where,
[3476.1s] where the mechanism is, but-
[3477.8s] I'm a very romantic tune as I do it.
[3481.0s] Merv's kind of just standing watch.
[3483.4s] But it takes you a minute to kind of find it.
[3485.0s] But once you do, it's like butter thing opens up
[3488.5s] and you feel the door open and swing open and into the room.
[3493.6s] And inside there's a large wooden desk.
[3496.6s] There's lots of tapestries hung by the walls
[3499.7s] and two huge bookshelves filled with different writings and scrolls.
[3506.5s] Hey, do you think if we pull on enough books,
[3508.2s] we're going to find that one of these bookshelves swings open
[3511.8s] and there's going to be a secret passageway down inside?
[3516.2s] Uh, I mean, maybe,
[3518.8s] but we should probably just find the ledger and get out of here.
[3520.8s] Sure, but yeah, if we have a few extra minutes,
[3522.5s] I think we should totally look for a secret passage.
[3524.3s] Okay, okay.
[3525.8s] Maybe we should just kind of look around.
[3527.0s] Yeah, no, for sure.
[3527.8s] I go to the desk.
[3529.0s] Make an investigation check.
[3532.6s] 13.
[3534.3s] You rifle through some of the papers on the desk
[3537.7s] and you don't find anything on top.
[3540.4s] There are four drawers along the side.
[3543.0s] I would like to go through the drawers starting at the bottom.
[3545.9s] You pull on them and they are locked.
[3548.0s] Oh, I have to pick these too.
[3549.7s] You see Merv kind of going through the books on the shelves.
[3554.2s] 13.
[3555.3s] It takes you a little longer with each lock as you go through,
[3558.0s] but you manage to get them.
[3559.8s] And you pull open the first three locked drawers.
[3566.2s] Yeah, you don't find the ledger.
[3567.4s] You find lots of different papers and official looking documents,
[3571.3s] but nothing from as far as the ledger that you're looking for.
[3573.8s] I scroll a couple smiley faces on the corners of some of the papers.
[3577.3s] The more important looking ones.
[3579.4s] Okay, good.
[3580.9s] Noted.
[3582.0s] Do you sign your name to them too?
[3583.8s] I do not.
[3585.9s] Sully's no dumb.
[3587.0s] No dummy.
[3587.8s] Okay, yeah, the third one you get to,
[3592.1s] you manage to open up and inside underneath a few pieces of paper
[3595.8s] is a ledger matching the description that Ms. Ma'am Meow Meow gave you.
[3603.1s] I take it out and I open it.
[3608.6s] You see written in a language that you do not recognize.
[3616.1s] It looks like there could be different subjects or names
[3621.2s] followed by a colon and a list of different things.
[3626.0s] You can't read it though.
[3627.5s] I have no idea what the language is.
[3629.4s] No idea.
[3629.9s] It's not something you've ever seen before.
[3631.5s] Merv!
[3633.2s] You look up and you see Merv, he's got a few books in his hand as well.
[3638.1s] What?
[3639.2s] He's got a few books in his hand.
[3641.2s] What you got?
[3642.8s] Just some things.
[3645.0s] You stealing.
[3647.2s] Some things I wanted to learn and catch up on.
[3649.7s] What you stealing?
[3650.8s] There's a book on fishery practices and taxes
[3656.2s] and the best trade routes through the canals.
[3662.6s] So just workbooks.
[3664.5s] It's workbooks.
[3666.5s] You said there were three.
[3667.8s] You only told me two.
[3670.2s] Two of them are tax related.
[3672.4s] Oh, yeah, that sounds about right.
[3673.8s] Wow, those are boring as all get out.
[3676.1s] I mean, that's why I'm in jail is I got caught on like taxes and goods and stuff.
[3680.3s] There you go.
[3680.8s] You learn at you.
[3681.8s] Yeah.
[3682.2s] You don't make the same mistake twice.
[3683.5s] I appreciate that.
[3683.9s] Slip them into his bag and he comes over and looks.
[3687.4s] You understand any of this?
[3689.9s] I mean, no.
[3692.3s] It looks like an old language.
[3696.3s] I'm kind of limited in the languages I know.
[3698.6s] I know.
[3698.9s] But you're old.
[3700.1s] I'm not that old.
[3701.5s] How old are you?
[3703.6s] That's an awfully personal question.
[3706.2s] I'm like 32.
[3707.1s] Shit.
[3709.5s] Really?
[3710.1s] Yeah.
[3710.6s] Dude.
[3711.4s] Dude hasn't aged very well.
[3712.6s] The sea has not been kind to you, my friend.
[3714.7s] No, apparently not.
[3717.9s] With that, you hear a noise, a loud crack coming from outside a window in the room.
[3727.1s] You see a bright purple and black light come and it shines and illuminates in the window.
[3735.1s] And three figures come through.
[3738.4s] They're robed.
[3741.4s] Uh, Murph.
[3743.5s] They see you and Murph's like, um, what's this?
[3749.0s] They see you, they turn to you, and they draw weapons.
[3752.1s] Oh, shit.
[3753.7s] What are you doing here?
[3756.8s] Who are you?
[3758.8s] They pull their arrows tighter and said, we are asking the questions.
[3763.4s] I, can I make a sleight of hand to sneakily slip the book, the ledger into my bag?
[3769.6s] Yep.
[3772.8s] Fuck.
[3774.0s] It's now good.
[3774.9s] Nine.
[3776.3s] What's that?
[3777.0s] What do you have there?
[3778.7s] Oh, here?
[3779.4s] Can I make another sleight of hand roll to take something different off of the
[3783.1s] desk to show them?
[3784.7s] One of them looses an arrow and it clipped Murph's shoulder.
[3789.1s] Rude.
[3790.6s] He kind of stumbles back.
[3792.4s] You can make a sleight of hand if you want to.
[3794.5s] Oh, good.
[3795.0s] That's a 19.
[3795.8s] So 25.
[3797.5s] Um, I mean, he, he sees that you slipped something into your bag
[3802.2s] and now have something different in your hand.
[3804.3s] Yeah.
[3805.1s] Um, it's like, no.
[3807.9s] And they move towards you and Murph.
[3811.8s] I pick up a heavy bottle of ink from the desk
[3817.8s] and I throw it in their eyes to blind them so we can escape.
[3822.7s] Okay.
[3823.2s] I make a straight dex check.
[3825.6s] Oh, fuck these dice.
[3826.9s] I gave you one compliment.
[3828.5s] 14.
[3829.5s] Yeah, you hit one of them in the face, but there's one who's talking
[3834.3s] and appears to be the leader and then another one is moving towards Murph
[3838.4s] and he moves to grab him.
[3842.2s] But he doesn't cause Murph is like, real slippery person.
[3845.3s] Murph rolled a nat one.
[3846.6s] So he grabs Murph and begins pulling him back towards
[3851.8s] as the other one's trying to wipe the ink from his eyes.
[3855.3s] Well, I should do something about this.
[3857.4s] They're moving back towards the portal.
[3860.4s] Oh, it was a portal.
[3862.8s] You could presume.
[3863.8s] It was a light.
[3864.6s] You're several stories up in the air.
[3867.0s] I'm going to acrobatic, like, parkour, like,
[3873.0s] foot on the desk, foot on the chair,
[3876.6s] hop to grab Murph and like pull him to the side
[3881.8s] and away from the backing up to the portal.
[3884.5s] Make an acrobatics check.
[3887.1s] 13.
[3888.5s] You do that.
[3889.1s] It looks super cool.
[3890.2s] Nice.
[3891.3s] However, as you're jumping and leaping towards Murph,
[3894.5s] the one with the ink in his eyes kind of clears it just in time to see you
[3898.8s] and jumps and tackles you to the ground.
[3901.6s] You see Murph and the other one and the person or thing
[3905.5s] who took him go through the portal
[3908.2s] and the other one follows and calls to him saying,
[3911.7s] bring him to.
[3913.3s] I'm tackled on the floor right now?
[3914.9s] Yeah.
[3915.6s] I'm going to intimidate, I think.
[3919.0s] So Murph is basically already through the portal.
[3921.5s] Yeah, Murph is gone.
[3922.7s] I'm just working on not going through the portal myself.
[3925.3s] I'm going to intimidate in a very strange way.
[3927.3s] I'm going to like, as he's got me around the waist,
[3930.5s] I'm going to like hook my legs around him and like cuddle his face
[3936.5s] and be like, I haven't been held in so long
[3940.5s] and just like make him like super uncomfortable
[3943.2s] and like really nuzzle into his neck.
[3945.6s] I don't know if there's a proper thing for that.
[3947.5s] Sure, go intimidate.
[3950.6s] Trying to like.
[3952.2s] Make him feel uncomfortable.
[3953.7s] Yeah.
[3956.6s] Nine.
[3957.5s] You know, I think you make him feel uncomfortable enough
[3960.6s] to try and like pry you off
[3962.1s] and give some space between you and him
[3964.2s] before he starts to move back towards you.
[3966.0s] No, but it was so nice.
[3967.4s] So you have space between him.
[3968.6s] The door's behind you.
[3969.8s] The portal is off to the other side of the room.
[3972.5s] Both the other assailants have walked through with Murph.
[3976.2s] If I turn to run, will he get any sort of, okay.
[3980.9s] No, we're in a skills check, not a combat.
[3982.3s] Okay, I'm going to make an athletics check then to run.
[3986.1s] Sure.
[3986.4s] I guess.
[3988.4s] Fuck me.
[3989.2s] Three.
[3990.4s] Have I forgotten how to run?
[3992.5s] Well, we'll say it's an acrobatics
[3993.9s] because athletics is strength.
[3995.8s] Acrobatics is for, yeah.
[3997.9s] So yeah, you turn to run
[4001.2s] and you feel this guy has jumped
[4005.1s] and has grabbed your ankle and you fall to the ground
[4008.0s] and he is now trying to pull at your legs.
[4010.3s] I, as I'm being pulled, so we're like midway to the door.
[4019.9s] Yeah, you're kind of almost at the door.
[4021.8s] Like you could, in theory, you were like a few feet from it.
[4026.2s] He's now got you.
[4027.6s] He's laying on the ground as well
[4029.2s] and he's like pulling at your legs.
[4031.4s] Okay, I think I might have to attack this poor guy.
[4035.6s] However.
[4036.4s] He's not a poor guy.
[4037.3s] Yeah, that poor guy.
[4038.6s] You're a level one character.
[4039.9s] Will be when I'm done with them.
[4041.6s] I have acrobar.
[4044.5s] Yeah, you do.
[4046.1s] What kind of attack?
[4047.3s] Like obviously whacking him.
[4049.1s] And I'm gonna.
[4049.9s] Gonna be plus your strength modifier.
[4052.7s] Which is huge because you're half length, so it's low.
[4055.0s] Yeah, it's minus one.
[4056.0s] Go down.
[4056.5s] What kind of weapons proficiencies you have?
[4060.6s] Weapon.
[4063.0s] Simple weapons.
[4063.8s] Yeah, that would count as a simple weapon.
[4065.1s] So you plus proficiency.
[4066.2s] So it would be plus one to attack.
[4068.8s] Okay.
[4072.2s] Twelve.
[4072.7s] Yeah, you clock him in the head.
[4073.9s] Good.
[4074.8s] Hard enough to kind of stun him.
[4077.1s] But you have a straight shot to the door now.
[4078.9s] I run.
[4080.6s] You make your way down the door.
[4082.1s] You don't hear him kind of calling.
[4084.1s] You see, you look up as you're kind of rounding these stairs.
[4088.0s] You see the purple and black light go out.
[4091.8s] And you make it down to the bottom and then you hear a bell ringing.
[4096.6s] Loud and echoing down through the chamber as you leave the front door.
[4100.2s] And you see the two guards turn to you withdrawing their weapons.
[4103.8s] And they say, what's going on in there?
[4106.5s] I, I stop running and I casually stroll over to them.
[4111.2s] And I say, are you aware that there are people
[4115.8s] portaling in to the castle and stealing lininaries?
[4123.0s] I don't really care about the lininaries.
[4124.7s] But if there's portals, like we saw it,
[4127.9s] one of them begins to run in.
[4129.3s] The other one goes back to the gate to stand watch, stand guard.
[4133.8s] And you hear a commotion inside.
[4137.0s] But you, as of right now, are free to carry on.
[4140.9s] Okay. I carry on out of there.
[4143.1s] You make your way out into the main street.
[4146.2s] You're walking down the street back towards wherever you're going.
[4151.5s] I'm headed to the first bar I see.
[4154.2s] Okay.
[4154.4s] That was very stressful.
[4155.8s] Sully hasn't had a drink in, I don't know how long he's been in that prison.
[4160.2s] You make it to a building where there looks to be a lot of people gathering.
[4164.1s] There's no real sign outside.
[4167.3s] But as you're walking in, you come face to face with a rather tall
[4173.7s] and imposing Dragonborn.
[4176.6s] For the love of Pete, you're big.
[4179.4s] I am pretty big.
[4181.4s] You are a little bit smaller than me, though.
[4185.4s] Yes. Yes.
[4186.5s] That is, that was implied.
[4188.3s] That was implied.
[4189.6s] Make a perception check, Lynn.
[4191.9s] Well, I mean, I have a plus one, so that's a problem.
[4194.6s] Wait, am I perceiving that he's smaller than me?
[4197.0s] Just some spatial awareness.
[4198.3s] Eyes at 18.
[4201.1s] So you hear bells ringing off in the castle off,
[4204.7s] which you, throughout your travels and speaking with people in the city,
[4208.2s] have come to know as Castle Never.
[4210.8s] You notice that Sully may have a tinge of panic behind the eyes,
[4217.2s] but you also see a very, like the bag that Sully is carrying.
[4223.6s] You don't know Sully, but the bag that this halfling is carrying
[4226.7s] is kind of half open and there's a very impressive looking book inside.
[4236.4s] Well, we've been staring at each other for a little bit,
[4238.8s] so I feel inclined to ask you your name.
[4241.8s] Okay.
[4242.2s] That socially thing.
[4243.2s] That's a social thing.
[4244.3s] What's your name?
[4245.8s] I'm Glim.
[4247.0s] Who are you?
[4248.0s] The name's Sullivan Sleight.
[4250.3s] You can call me Sully.
[4251.4s] Oh, thanks, Sully.
[4255.6s] Looks like I'm hearing a lot of noise and commotion.
[4260.7s] Sounds like they might be looking for something important
[4265.0s] and I like make a significant glance down toward his bag.
[4269.7s] Really?
[4270.2s] Because I thought those were party bells.
[4271.9s] See, I'm new here in the city.
[4273.4s] I literally just got out of prison.
[4277.0s] Wrongfully accused, mind you.
[4280.3s] And I was just looking to,
[4281.4s] do you know where there's like a good place we can sit down and have a beer?
[4285.8s] I assume we're at the Fallen Tower, are we?
[4288.1s] Or like near the Fallen Tower?
[4289.3s] Was that where the people were gathering?
[4291.2s] You're on another side of the city,
[4292.6s] so you're at a different tavern to be named.
[4296.7s] Oh, okay.
[4298.4s] Well, you know, I'm staying at a nice place,
[4300.4s] but it's a long way away.
[4301.6s] Why don't we should just...
[4303.9s] Do you want to maybe have a drink?
[4305.9s] Sure, you're from here?
[4307.3s] I just got here, just last night.
[4310.4s] Whoa, well, tell me about your travels.
[4322.6s] Um, maybe I'll ask my good friend...
[4335.7s] Melania.
[4336.4s] No, just kidding.
[4337.3s] Do you want to make up a name for us?
[4338.7s] That I thought, because that is not what it's going to be.
[4341.0s] Too political.
[4341.9s] Guys, it's easy.
[4342.9s] Moot is just Tom backwards.
[4346.0s] Which I didn't even put together when I named the character that.
[4348.4s] Then I was like, oh, all right.
[4349.9s] I saw it on like the screen and I was like,
[4352.4s] oh, yep, yep.
[4353.8s] Sure did that.
[4354.5s] I'm changing my character name to Al Rack.
[4357.4s] And that's a good character name.
[4359.2s] That's awesome.
[4360.6s] Yeah, Al Rack is totally...
[4362.0s] Yeah, see, these are all D&D names.
[4363.9s] These are great.
[4366.1s] I got to write these down here.
[4369.8s] These will be key characters later, so...
[4372.2s] Definitely, big players.
[4373.7s] Well, they might...
[4374.5s] You never know.
[4375.2s] You never know with us.
[4377.1s] That's also a really good point, Tom.
[4379.8s] Giant dice.
[4380.8s] Roll to 16.
[4382.2s] Add my bonus.
[4384.4s] Spider-Man.
[4387.2s] It was a really good bonus, you guys.
[4389.8s] All of a sudden, I'm Spider-Man.
[4392.3s] What time of the morning is it?
[4395.4s] It's probably fairly early.
[4397.8s] We'd say, you know, seven-ish.
[4402.7s] OK, well, I'm supposed to meet What's-his-nuts-at-noon, correct?
[4406.2s] What's-his-nuts-at-noon, correct?
[4409.0s] You're inspiring, mentor?
[4411.0s] Yeah, that's the one.
[4411.7s] Oh, what's-his-nuts?
[4412.7s] Oh, what's-his-nuts.
[4414.4s] Old drunk McGee.
[4416.1s] Calls to you and says, you found everything OK.
[4418.6s] I can't remember if that was her voice, but it is now.
[4420.6s] Oh, she had a lot of Irish going on.
[4421.8s] Yeah, they sometimes do.
[4424.0s] You guys are so fucking sweet.
[4426.2s] And I feel like Sully is going to come in and just like fuck this shit up.
[4430.2s] It's going to be adorable, adorable, adorable, friendship, love.
[4434.5s] Keyster.
[4438.2s] And I'm just going to suck all that adorableness like right up my bum.
[4440.8s] Right up your keys.
[4442.6s] This is why we need this ledger.
[4444.0s] Very pretentious.
[4444.9s] We have to bring down the pretension.
[4447.0s] I'm ready.
[4448.2s] Hold on.
[4448.6s] I'm going to write this symbol down.
[4449.9s] I mean, you've heard of toppling the patriarchy.
[4452.3s] Wait till you try to topple the pretension.
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