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[30.0s] Are you ready buddy? Are you ready? Today's the day.
[33.0s] What are we doing today?
[34.0s] We're gonna steal Lord Neverember's ledger.
[38.0s] Yeah, that sounds like a terrible idea.
[40.0s] I make my way back to the Fallen Tower.
[42.0s] It's you again. How are you?
[44.0s] I'm excited for, I guess it's my first day of school to an extent.
[48.0s] I think I'm like maybe gonna help save the world.
[51.0s] I have a calling. I'm looking for some people. I think you might be one of them.
[56.0s] What makes you say that?
[57.0s] I don't know, Moot. I just have a feeling about you.
[59.0s] You're gonna take your things, sneak on in there. You're gonna grab a ledger.
[64.0s] I go to the desk.
[65.0s] And inside is a ledger matching the description. With that you hear a noise.
[70.0s] Three figures. They see you, they turn to you, and they draw weapons.
[74.0s] Oh shit!
[75.0s] What are you doing here?
[77.0s] You see Merv and the other person go through the portal.
[80.0s] I'm headed to the first bar I see.
[83.0s] You come face to face with a dragonborn.
[87.0s] For the love of Pete, you're big.
[89.0s] You are a little bit smaller than me though. I just got here.
[93.0s] Well, tell me about your travels.
[96.0s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[98.0s] We're a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast.
[101.0s] And I'm your dungeon master Russ More.
[103.0s] And with me today is Amy More.
[105.0s] Yeah, it's true. I'm married to this guy and I like to mouth the words as he says them.
[109.0s] Which totally bugs him.
[111.0s] And I play Sullivan Slyte.
[114.0s] Also with me, Tom Laird.
[117.0s] Hey, that's me. I just sit quietly until Russ is done.
[120.0s] Unless I'm trying to interrupt him saying, fuck it, let's play D&D.
[123.0s] Then I pounce like a goddamn Bengal tiger.
[127.0s] And I play Moot.
[129.0s] And with us today, Carla Johnson.
[132.0s] I'm just like free and easy. I don't have a plan about how I'm going to irritate Russ.
[136.0s] But I do know I'm always going to do it.
[138.0s] I play Glim.
[140.0s] Guaranteed annoyance just all around.
[144.0s] Irritation.
[145.0s] Comes with the package.
[146.0s] In fun and exciting new ways every time we play.
[149.0s] Every time it's something different.
[150.0s] You're welcome.
[151.0s] Thank you.
[152.0s] If you'd like to give Tom, Amy, and Carla ways to irritate me, which they haven't already figured out,
[157.0s] you can probably do that over on Patreon.
[159.0s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[161.0s] We're always looking for new ideas.
[163.0s] Always looking like outside the box ideas.
[166.0s] None of this just normal interrupt me stuff.
[168.0s] If you want me to put water in Russ's seat before he sits down, just make it a little damp.
[173.0s] If you want me to consume some sort of snack.
[177.0s] You're taking away all of their thunder here.
[179.0s] Could you slide an ice cube down his back while we're recording?
[183.0s] I could. You want to see this table flip?
[186.0s] I could release moths in the room.
[190.0s] Oh, moths.
[191.0s] Oh, yes. Russ has a deep fear of moths.
[195.0s] It's the day all characters die.
[197.0s] Oh, no.
[198.0s] Oh, no. Not our character, our level ones.
[201.0s] You think that's a threat for me, Russ?
[203.0s] Yeah, right?
[204.0s] Yeah, really, Russ.
[205.0s] I'm not even attached to this character yet.
[209.0s] Yeah. The goal.
[210.0s] The goal is just to make everybody make as many characters as possible before season two is over.
[217.0s] Yeah.
[218.0s] And when you are a patron, speaking of which, you have an episode dedicated to you.
[223.0s] And today's episode is dedicated to Dylan Powell.
[228.0s] Thanks, Dylan.
[229.0s] Hey, thanks, Dylan.
[230.0s] Dill.
[231.0s] Thanks, Dylan.
[232.0s] I wonder if anyone calls...
[233.0s] Do people call you Dill?
[234.0s] Yeah, I'm wondering.
[235.0s] I was like, Dill.
[236.0s] I just did.
[237.0s] And I'm like, I have a pot full of Dill out on my porch.
[244.0s] Not the human.
[247.0s] That's a good clarification.
[248.0s] Good to clarify. Good to clarify.
[250.0s] We won't murder you and put you in a pot if you're a patron.
[254.0s] We'll just dedicate an episode to you.
[256.0s] I'm going to edit that out of the podcast.
[258.0s] That's probably for the best.
[259.0s] And just Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[262.0s] All the ways that you can irritate Russ.
[264.0s] Just send them on over there.
[265.0s] We'd love to hear them.
[267.0s] Fuck it. Let's play D&D.
[273.0s] Moot.
[274.0s] Yeah.
[275.0s] We find you.
[276.0s] You had followed Gabriel from the Fallen Tower.
[279.0s] Unknown direction at first, but he has led you to an open field by the riverside.
[285.0s] Okay.
[286.0s] So you are standing in the middle of this field and he says, okay, you stand there.
[292.0s] And then he starts walking away from you a little ways.
[295.0s] Does he load no van down by the river?
[298.0s] I would assume as much.
[299.0s] I really think so.
[300.0s] He's like, you stay here.
[301.0s] And he's just going home.
[303.0s] You wait here.
[304.0s] I'll be back.
[305.0s] He seems like a very transient fellow.
[306.0s] There's no van in sight.
[308.0s] Doesn't mean there's not one, just not one in sight.
[311.0s] He walks about 50 paces from you and turns around.
[316.0s] And as he holds a tankard of ale in his hand and takes a big swig, says, all right, well, we're going to start your training, I guess.
[326.0s] Okay.
[327.0s] What do we do?
[329.0s] Well, I brought you here.
[333.0s] Because we're really close to you like to freeze stuff, don't you?
[338.0s] I mean, that's just kind of the things that have happened so far.
[342.0s] Yeah.
[343.0s] Okay.
[344.0s] Good.
[345.0s] So I brought you here because there's water.
[347.0s] Oh, for freezing.
[348.0s] That makes sense.
[349.0s] For freezing.
[350.0s] See, you're catching on already.
[352.0s] So what we're going to do is you're going to try and just feel it all out.
[360.0s] What's the it in this scenario?
[363.0s] What is it I'm feeling?
[366.0s] Did we talk about wild magic, you and I?
[369.0s] I mean, you kind of grumbled drunkenly about some stuff, but I didn't really catch too much.
[374.0s] Okay.
[375.0s] Wild magic.
[377.0s] It's all around you.
[379.0s] And you, my young sorcerer friend, have the ability to just pluck it from thin air.
[387.0s] So whether you know how to do that or not, that's something we'll obviously have to get to.
[392.0s] But we're going to figure out, A, how you can get to do that in a consistent manner.
[400.0s] And once we figure that out, then it should just be easy peasy for you to just sling like sharp frozen objects at people or things.
[410.0s] Don't hurt people.
[412.0s] Yeah, I don't really want to hurt people.
[415.0s] That's kind of why I want to get this under control.
[418.0s] Yeah, yeah.
[419.0s] That sounds like a really good idea.
[422.0s] Okay.
[424.0s] So close your eyes.
[427.0s] Okay.
[429.0s] Close your eyes and think about the last time that it happened really, really good.
[437.0s] Oh, so when we were in the bar the other day.
[441.0s] Now, was that really, really good or did that ruin my beer?
[444.0s] Well, from my point of view, it seemed really good because I actually managed to do it, albeit a little too well.
[450.0s] Potato potato, I guess.
[453.0s] I mean, does anyone actually say potato?
[456.0s] I met a guy once.
[458.0s] Really? What was his name?
[459.0s] Potato.
[460.0s] Oh, his name was Potato.
[462.0s] Got you there.
[464.0s] Yeah, I mean, story checks out.
[466.0s] I mean, it takes all types.
[468.0s] Should I still have my eyes closed?
[469.0s] What's happening here?
[470.0s] No, keep your eyes closed, bud.
[471.0s] You're fine.
[473.0s] You hear him drinking heavily from his glass.
[476.0s] I don't know where that was tankered from.
[477.0s] Is he like Silent Bob but with like, did he use the beer?
[481.0s] It's like, where did you even?
[483.0s] He had it with him when he left.
[485.0s] He just took it with him as a road beer.
[490.0s] Focus really hard on a better time when it happened.
[494.0s] If you want to use the ruined beer, that's totally fine.
[497.0s] But see if you can't pull that same inspiration.
[502.0s] Now, Tom, I'm going to get you to describe
[507.0s] what Moot is thinking or feeling or saying
[513.0s] as you are trying to do this and then roll me a d20.
[519.0s] Okay, Moot is thinking about the incident in the bar from the other night
[527.0s] because he was super stoked about how it went.
[531.0s] Like, he wasn't sure he was going to be able to do anything.
[534.0s] And then the fact that he ruined his beer because his magic was too good
[539.0s] is like, he's still kind of strutting around because of that.
[543.0s] So he thinks about that feeling of success that he had
[549.0s] when he was trying to cast this magic.
[552.0s] And he thinks about how he can just kind of almost reach out and touch it.
[558.0s] Like, he knows it's right there.
[563.0s] Should I roll now?
[564.0s] Yes.
[568.0s] Any bonuses or straight up?
[570.0s] Use your spell casting modifier.
[572.0s] Okay, 16.
[576.0s] You are reaching out to where you think metaphorically or physically.
[584.0s] I mean, kind of both because he's new at this.
[587.0s] Cool.
[588.0s] So you begin reaching out and Gabriel is standing back just kind of watching you.
[595.0s] And what he sees and what you begin to feel is a shift in the air.
[605.0s] The temperature around you specifically and out a little ways begins to drop.
[612.0s] And you begin to feel the same power that came in surges both in the bar
[622.0s] and when your family was being attacked by the cult and in the headmistress's office.
[630.0s] Those quick surges of something that you weren't sure what they were.
[637.0s] You begin to feel that this might be what everybody's talking about in Wild Magic.
[646.0s] Gabriel sees this and feels the shift in the air as well.
[651.0s] What is it that Moot casts in this moment?
[655.0s] Moot casts the spell frostbite.
[660.0s] So describe to me what it looks like as he casts frostbite.
[664.0s] Technically, it's supposed to be cast on a person,
[667.0s] but I'm going to cast it on just like the body of water that's nearby.
[672.0s] Sure.
[674.0s] So as Moot reaches out towards the water right at the edge where the water meets the land,
[683.0s] you see like a cold frost starting to spread out along the water.
[690.0s] And it gets a couple feet into the body of the water and then kind of peters out,
[697.0s] but maintains around the edge.
[700.0s] And there's kind of a thin sheet of frost and ice on top of the water.
[706.0s] You open your eyes as you feel like you're doing something.
[713.0s] And you see this frost stretching out into the water and down on the ground around you.
[721.0s] And as soon as you focus on it, it snaps back and like sucks in towards you and disappears.
[730.0s] Gabriel, did you see it?
[733.0s] Yeah, yeah, no.
[736.0s] Definitely saw it.
[739.0s] Hey, he begins to walk over to you.
[742.0s] He says, what had that feel for you when you were doing it?
[746.0s] I mean, it felt really good.
[748.0s] It felt like I don't know.
[750.0s] I felt like an energy around.
[753.0s] It was so close I could just reach out and touch it.
[756.0s] And it felt amazing when I did.
[760.0s] I think we need to find you a something to channel your energy,
[766.0s] what they call an arcane focus.
[769.0s] Oh, is it is that something that we need to like track down or buy or?
[774.0s] No, no.
[776.0s] Well, I mean, you could.
[778.0s] Generally speaking, it's something that has some pretty high value to you.
[784.0s] Personally, terribly or like sentimentally sentimentally more than anything, I think.
[791.0s] Takes another big drink.
[793.0s] Oh, you have anything on you that might fit?
[797.0s] Yeah, I think I might have something before I left home.
[802.0s] I I I borrowed something of my mom's kind of a keepsake to remember her by.
[811.0s] OK, OK, what's that?
[813.0s] I reach into my little messenger style bag and I pull out a feather necklace.
[822.0s] It's quite simple in its look.
[825.0s] There's about five feathers on it.
[827.0s] The middle one is quite a large feather, doesn't even know what bird it's from.
[831.0s] The other ones are eagle and falcon and all sorts of other feathers in this really large middle feather.
[838.0s] But it doesn't look like much to the eye, but it means a lot to him.
[842.0s] That yeah, that might work.
[845.0s] Let's try it again.
[846.0s] He spins around and he starts walking back in the other direction.
[850.0s] I'll take it personally.
[851.0s] I just don't want to get frosted.
[853.0s] OK, do I what do I do with this?
[855.0s] Do I wear it?
[856.0s] Do I hold it in my hands?
[858.0s] I mean, do what feels natural.
[861.0s] You could put it behind your ear if you want to.
[863.0s] But I mean, you seem to be using your hands to cast everything.
[867.0s] So maybe try holding on to it and seeing, you know, close your eyes again,
[874.0s] focus and try and take that energy and put it into the item that you hold into your mother's necklace.
[885.0s] OK, so Moot kind of takes the necklace and kind of loops it around his fist.
[892.0s] Once or twice all the feathers are kind of going down his wrists.
[897.0s] And he holds out his arm and he touches the wild magic that he got before.
[903.0s] And what happens to us?
[906.0s] Does he succeed? Does he?
[907.0s] You feel the energy course into you and you feel it transferred down and to the feather.
[915.0s] You open your eyes at that moment, almost with a fear that you might ruin it.
[922.0s] But when you look at it, you see a glow.
[929.0s] You see almost a silverish blue aura to it and you feel it resonating in your hand.
[942.0s] Are you going to cast the same spell or are you going to do something different?
[946.0s] You know what? Let's do something different.
[949.0s] It's going to be Ice Knife.
[951.0s] What are you aiming for with an Ice Knife?
[953.0s] Because there's an attack roll that comes along with that as well.
[957.0s] Are there any, like, stumps or anything nearby?
[960.0s] Yeah, yeah. We'll say there's a couple full trees and a couple stumps, whichever you prefer.
[965.0s] I'm going to go for the stump.
[967.0s] OK.
[971.0s] So that is, with the plus five, an eighteen.
[975.0s] As you open your eyes and you see this, you feel like you can throw this energy.
[981.0s] And you do so.
[982.0s] Yeah, I see this kind of blue, silver, I mean, ball of energy, for lack of a better term,
[991.0s] kind of start to spread out in his hand.
[996.0s] And it looks not like a traditional throwing knife, but like maybe one of those double-bladed throwing knives.
[1004.0s] You know, those really cool ones.
[1008.0s] Like two pronged or like both sides?
[1011.0s] Like both sides.
[1013.0s] OK.
[1014.0s] Mood sees this in his hand and kind of thought comes to him that he should throw it.
[1018.0s] So he throws this ice shard towards the stump that's near Gabriel.
[1026.0s] I mean, not too close to him.
[1028.0s] How close is the stump to Gabriel?
[1030.0s] Like ten feet to his right.
[1032.0s] OK.
[1034.0s] The knife flies from your hand, soaring in the direction of Gabriel and this stump.
[1041.0s] And it strikes deep into the stump and explodes, shooting shards of ice out.
[1048.0s] And Gabriel kind of jumps back and spills his beer all over himself.
[1054.0s] Looks at his drink and looks at you and says, well, you ruined another drink.
[1059.0s] I mean, maybe we just maybe we just shouldn't be drinking while we do this.
[1063.0s] Are you the teacher or the student?
[1067.0s] I mean, student.
[1068.0s] But if you if I keep ruining your beers, I don't think that's going to be great for either one of us.
[1073.0s] He begins walking towards you and goes to drink from his cup, which is pretty much empty.
[1077.0s] So he just kind of looks at it and shakes it.
[1079.0s] And he says, what you did there is you you pulled the wild magic from the very air itself.
[1091.0s] You, sir, with some practice are going to be very successful.
[1096.0s] That's awesome.
[1098.0s] It's very awesome.
[1100.0s] Don't throw knives at me anymore.
[1102.0s] I mean, it wasn't really at you.
[1104.0s] I just I didn't know it was going to explode.
[1106.0s] I'm sorry.
[1108.0s] When was how many knives have you thrown in your life?
[1111.0s] How sure were you that you weren't going to hit me?
[1113.0s] Well, I mean, we used to throw them on the farm a little bit, but I just didn't know it was going to explode.
[1119.0s] I've never thrown a knife that exploded before.
[1121.0s] He turns around and begins walking away, throwing his his drink to the ground or his empty cup to the ground again.
[1133.0s] Last we saw Sully and Glim, they had met outside a tavern nearest Castle Never.
[1141.0s] I'm going to say that we're still in that tavern.
[1144.0s] So we're a little bit earlier in the day with Moot right now.
[1147.0s] Later in the day with Sully and Glim.
[1149.0s] We'll kind of catch up as we go through here.
[1152.0s] But so what are Sully and Glim up to as the door closes behind you and you are now in this tavern?
[1162.0s] It's a rather busy night.
[1164.0s] There's many tables that are filled.
[1165.0s] But as Glim was kind of on her way out, there is a table still that she perhaps was sitting at that is that is vacant with a couple chairs at it.
[1176.0s] Feel like want to grab a seat or something?
[1178.0s] Want to grab some food?
[1179.0s] I could go for some food.
[1181.0s] Well, I'll join you for a drink.
[1183.0s] Great.
[1184.0s] You sit down at the table and a waitress comes over and she says,
[1190.0s] You're back again and you brought a new friend.
[1192.0s] I'm back.
[1193.0s] I made a friend and I thought I'll have another drink.
[1196.0s] Why not?
[1197.0s] That's what everybody says.
[1198.0s] Why not?
[1199.0s] Indeed.
[1200.0s] You know this waitress to be Vex Lana.
[1204.0s] She says, well, what can I get you?
[1205.0s] Well, I'll have another pint of ale.
[1207.0s] Vex Lana.
[1208.0s] Thanks.
[1209.0s] I look into my coin purse and see that there's nothing there.
[1215.0s] Why don't you let me get the first round?
[1218.0s] Oh, that's so kind of you.
[1220.0s] So kind of you.
[1221.0s] Thank you.
[1222.0s] I will have an ale as well.
[1224.0s] A little, little short, you know, paydays.
[1229.0s] She's coming right up.
[1230.0s] On the way.
[1232.0s] And then she walks away to go get those for me.
[1234.0s] So when we met, Sully was clearly like...
[1238.0s] Shifty as fuck.
[1240.0s] Yes.
[1241.0s] Right?
[1242.0s] I'm remembering that correctly.
[1244.0s] Yeah.
[1245.0s] So your initial view of Sully was perhaps he was panicked.
[1250.0s] Might not be the right word, but...
[1252.0s] Definitely.
[1253.0s] Definitely some shifty eyes.
[1254.0s] Definitely some shifty eyes.
[1256.0s] You saw a book in his satchel that judging by his demeanor, judging a book by its
[1262.0s] cover, looked like it might be a little bit out of place.
[1265.0s] And he perhaps was like looking over his shoulder.
[1268.0s] Right.
[1269.0s] Also weren't their bells tolling?
[1270.0s] Yeah.
[1271.0s] Yeah.
[1272.0s] The alarm bells were going at Castle Never.
[1273.0s] Yeah.
[1274.0s] Yes.
[1275.0s] Yeah.
[1276.0s] And you saw...
[1277.0s] He saw me coming from that direction.
[1278.0s] Guards and various police running towards Castle Never in the opposite direction of
[1283.0s] the way he was coming.
[1284.0s] Right.
[1285.0s] Okay.
[1286.0s] That is what I thought.
[1289.0s] So are you from around here?
[1291.0s] Oh, no.
[1292.0s] No, not me.
[1293.0s] Nope.
[1294.0s] Just passing through.
[1297.0s] You know how you just find yourself in these kind of places.
[1300.0s] Oh.
[1301.0s] Well, no, not really.
[1302.0s] I've never really just found myself in a place.
[1304.0s] I've either stayed somewhere by choice or chosen a destination and gone there.
[1309.0s] You're telling me you've never been drugged in the middle of the woods and then shown
[1312.0s] up in a city you'd never been to before?
[1314.0s] Oh, uh, no.
[1316.0s] I can definitively say I have never done that.
[1319.0s] Is that...
[1320.0s] Huh.
[1321.0s] How...
[1322.0s] You were in the woods and then you just woke up here?
[1324.0s] Oh.
[1325.0s] Well, that...
[1326.0s] You know.
[1327.0s] I'm sure it happens to a lot of people.
[1329.0s] So tell me your story.
[1330.0s] You're a big, shiny dragon lady.
[1333.0s] Dexlana comes back and puts the drinks down in front of you and says,
[1336.0s] Can I get you anything else?
[1337.0s] Oh, thank you, my dear.
[1338.0s] Thank you.
[1339.0s] Are you hungry?
[1340.0s] Well, I could eat.
[1341.0s] Why don't we get some nachos for the table?
[1345.0s] I love nachos.
[1346.0s] I love nachos.
[1348.0s] But they're for you.
[1349.0s] I'm trying to, you know...
[1351.0s] Sure.
[1352.0s] You're trying to what, Carla?
[1353.0s] Pander to my poor person who...
[1355.0s] I'm trying to not make it obvious that I am trying to buy you food,
[1359.0s] because I think you will be too proud to just accept it.
[1363.0s] She says, uh, yeah, one round of special...
[1367.0s] Special...
[1368.0s] Whatever night this is...
[1370.0s] Table nachos coming up.
[1373.0s] Special night table nachos.
[1376.0s] Those are my favorite.
[1378.0s] Those are the best.
[1380.0s] So, since you've never really been anywhere, dragon lady,
[1382.0s] like, what are you doing here?
[1384.0s] Oh, well, I am on a mission to save the world.
[1389.0s] I'm drinking my beer at this point, and I'm like...
[1393.0s] I'm sorry.
[1394.0s] Save the world?
[1397.0s] Yes, I know.
[1398.0s] From what?
[1399.0s] Well, I mean, right now it seems like Tiamat is the main threat to the world.
[1406.0s] You'd have to agree, right?
[1407.0s] I mean, this cult of the dragon is just running roughshod over all of Faerun,
[1411.0s] and everything is just going absolutely crazy,
[1414.0s] and I'm a follower of Vahamet, so obviously Tiamat and the cult of the dragon
[1418.0s] are my natural enemies.
[1421.0s] I'm against them, of course.
[1424.0s] Yeah, for sure.
[1425.0s] Who's not against all them?
[1427.0s] Of course, right?
[1428.0s] All good people are, I think, against the cult of the dragon.
[1433.0s] Of course.
[1434.0s] Well, you know.
[1436.0s] So I'm not sure...
[1437.0s] It takes all kinds, right?
[1441.0s] So good ale, right?
[1442.0s] So you're Neverwinter to save the world because things are going down here?
[1448.0s] Are people coming here?
[1450.0s] Is the cult of the dragon coming here?
[1453.0s] Did you hear anything?
[1454.0s] What have you heard?
[1455.0s] Are they coming here?
[1457.0s] Do you have some secret information?
[1459.0s] I'm just super curious.
[1460.0s] I'm a little bit nosy.
[1461.0s] Vex'lana comes back and lays a plate of nachos,
[1466.0s] which we're going to invent here within this world,
[1468.0s] which are thickly sliced potatoes that are fried up.
[1476.0s] There looks to be a very curd-y cheese on top,
[1479.0s] and strips of kind of an oily black meat on top,
[1487.0s] as well as some various vegetables.
[1489.0s] Sully starts stress-eating immediately.
[1492.0s] You like the eel, do you?
[1494.0s] Oh, yeah.
[1495.0s] It's super good.
[1496.0s] It's straight to my hips.
[1497.0s] I just can't help myself.
[1499.0s] All right.
[1500.0s] Well, call if you need anything.
[1501.0s] Chew.
[1502.0s] Watson.
[1503.0s] So tell me everything you know.
[1504.0s] So to answer your question, no.
[1507.0s] I don't know anything about the cult of the dragon coming here.
[1510.0s] My own personal mission in saving the world
[1515.0s] requires me to find help from two individuals.
[1522.0s] So that's what's brought me to Neverwinter.
[1525.0s] And then after I leave here,
[1526.0s] I'll have to go and declare myself to Bahamad.
[1529.0s] And there's a lot of steps to saving the world
[1532.0s] I didn't really realize before I was trying to do it.
[1535.0s] There's a lot of travel, a lot of things you need to do.
[1539.0s] The hardest part of saving the world is the commute.
[1541.0s] Always.
[1542.0s] No, I totally get it.
[1543.0s] You know what?
[1544.0s] And I'm really sorry I can't help you out
[1545.0s] because I don't know anybody in this city.
[1547.0s] I told you.
[1548.0s] I just kind of like am visiting short time.
[1552.0s] Term.
[1553.0s] Short term.
[1554.0s] Short term for a short time.
[1556.0s] Actually, I'm on my way out.
[1559.0s] Tonight's my last night here.
[1560.0s] Oh.
[1561.0s] Oh, that's too bad.
[1562.0s] I had so enjoyed meeting you.
[1564.0s] Where's your next stop?
[1565.0s] Oh, you too.
[1566.0s] Well, I got to find my buddy Merv.
[1568.0s] I'm not entirely sure where he is.
[1571.0s] Oh.
[1572.0s] Um, where did you last see him?
[1575.0s] In the woods before you came here?
[1577.0s] Or here in Neverwinter?
[1579.0s] Oh, here in Neverwinter.
[1580.0s] Yeah, no.
[1581.0s] You know, we met when I arrived
[1584.0s] and we just bonded immediately
[1586.0s] over some really stressful circumstances
[1590.0s] and then he just like kind of whipped into a portal
[1594.0s] like one does.
[1595.0s] And so I'm just gonna search for him.
[1600.0s] You know, Sully, your life is very different than mine.
[1604.0s] I've never fallen asleep in the woods
[1606.0s] and woken up somewhere else
[1607.0s] and I don't know I've ever even seen a portal.
[1611.0s] Oh, just big swirly,
[1613.0s] makes a mess of everything around it.
[1615.0s] It's overrated.
[1617.0s] Steals friends.
[1618.0s] Huh.
[1619.0s] And are you gonna go try and find a portal
[1622.0s] to find Merv?
[1624.0s] Maybe.
[1625.0s] You know, everywhere I go,
[1628.0s] I seem to find a friend who might be able to help me
[1631.0s] because, I mean, you can't just go and just find a portal.
[1633.0s] You gotta know somebody, you know?
[1635.0s] Both of you make a perception check
[1637.0s] because you're sitting around.
[1640.0s] Seventeen.
[1641.0s] Oh, I'm a fucking minus one.
[1643.0s] Level one characters, my dude.
[1645.0s] That's weird.
[1646.0s] Fourteen.
[1647.0s] Both of you notice as you're discussing
[1650.0s] very different lives.
[1652.0s] Some people come in to the tavern.
[1655.0s] Glim, especially, you see that
[1658.0s] they're wearing very official guard armor
[1663.0s] and they are coming in,
[1665.0s] trying to be as quiet as possible,
[1667.0s] but begin coming into the room.
[1669.0s] There's three of them and they kind of fan out
[1671.0s] and they're just kind of walking around
[1673.0s] looking at people
[1675.0s] and kind of overlooking tables as they walk in.
[1678.0s] Gotta take a whiz, Sully.
[1681.0s] Sully slides down from the, what I assume,
[1684.0s] chair that's taller than he's comfortable
[1689.0s] and starts to meander to the bathroom area.
[1693.0s] Do you take your bag with you?
[1695.0s] I absolutely do.
[1696.0s] I never took my bag off.
[1698.0s] That tracks.
[1700.0s] Well, I'm just gonna keep my eye on those guards
[1704.0s] because I do kind of suspect that they're, you know,
[1708.0s] looking for my new friend.
[1710.0s] Sure.
[1711.0s] I'm slipping, I'm going in the way of the bathroom
[1714.0s] and I'm slipping out, slipping through the window.
[1719.0s] Okay.
[1720.0s] You see your friend Sully move towards the bathroom
[1723.0s] and the guards themselves
[1725.0s] are continuing to go table to table.
[1727.0s] One of them satisfied that the other two
[1730.0s] are kind of taking the room,
[1732.0s] begins to walk back towards the bathroom as well
[1734.0s] for no particular reason.
[1736.0s] Probably has to take a whiz.
[1738.0s] That's going around.
[1740.0s] Is he, yeah.
[1743.0s] Is he near me?
[1747.0s] Yeah, we'll say he's passing,
[1749.0s] he's like a table away from where you are,
[1752.0s] so he's walking past you nowish.
[1754.0s] Okay, so I'm gonna kind of like
[1756.0s] look towards the bathroom and then look back at this guy
[1759.0s] and say like, excuse me, sir.
[1762.0s] He kind of takes another step
[1764.0s] and then stops and turns and says,
[1766.0s] what can I help you with?
[1768.0s] I was just wondering who you're looking for.
[1771.0s] I've been here most of the night, maybe I could help.
[1774.0s] There was a robbery at Castle Never
[1777.0s] and you see him scrutinizing you
[1780.0s] and something quite valuable was taken.
[1784.0s] So we're looking for an individual
[1788.0s] who might be in possession of that.
[1791.0s] Oh, what'd they take?
[1792.0s] Was it, wait, can I guess?
[1794.0s] Was it the crown jewels?
[1798.0s] No, no, it was not the crown jewels.
[1802.0s] Was it a precious fur stole
[1808.0s] that belonged to the lady of the castle?
[1812.0s] No, no.
[1816.0s] Like birth certificate?
[1818.0s] You said you were here all night?
[1820.0s] This keeps going on.
[1822.0s] What's going on, Sully?
[1823.0s] You make it back to the bathroom.
[1825.0s] I go through the very small window they have.
[1831.0s] I jimmy it open.
[1836.0s] There's no window.
[1839.0s] That Neven Rolte fell dead on a one.
[1843.0s] Boom.
[1844.0s] There never was a window
[1846.0s] and there's never gonna be a window, baby.
[1849.0s] Windows don't exist in this world for you.
[1852.0s] Paved it over, which is weird
[1854.0s] because paving goes on the ground, not on the wall.
[1857.0s] I open up my bag
[1863.0s] and I take out the contraband
[1869.0s] and I take, want something waterproof
[1873.0s] that I have in my bag.
[1875.0s] We might have like a water skin or something.
[1877.0s] Yeah, that would work.
[1879.0s] I do.
[1880.0s] I quickly cut it open.
[1882.0s] It's a very big water skin
[1885.0s] and I wrap it, the ledger, tightly within it
[1891.0s] and then I slide it in a toilet tank.
[1898.0s] Like, yeah, I'm trying to water-brush a toilet in this world.
[1904.0s] Nope, nope, we don't.
[1905.0s] I was thinking it was more of a pit situation.
[1908.0s] We've got what's called a hole in the ground.
[1910.0s] Maybe with a board over it or something.
[1913.0s] I never really thought about the insides of the tavern bathers.
[1918.0s] What if there's just like a communal hand-washing sink
[1922.0s] and maybe the water's real gross
[1924.0s] because everybody's been using it to wash their hands
[1926.0s] and you could just put that in that dirty water.
[1928.0s] More of a trough, yeah.
[1930.0s] Well, it's better than the hole in the ground, Amy.
[1933.0s] It's certainly better than the hole in the ground.
[1935.0s] Yep, it is.
[1936.0s] So I slip it and it is concealed
[1941.0s] under the water in the communal hand-washing trough.
[1947.0s] As soon as you do so, the door behind you opens.
[1952.0s] And I start to wash my hands.
[1956.0s] But like nonchAlydintly, I'm not whistling or anything.
[1958.0s] Not like how you just did it.
[1960.0s] No, much sneakier.
[1962.0s] Just washing my hands in here by myself.
[1965.0s] Definitely not hiding anything in the sink here in the dirty water.
[1968.0s] You turn and you see just another, not one of the guards,
[1973.0s] but just another patron walk in
[1975.0s] and see you quickly rush and put your hands in the water.
[1979.0s] You're all right?
[1982.0s] Yeah, you know when you wipe, but you miss a little.
[1988.0s] He silently keeps walking towards the stall.
[1993.0s] Good luck with that.
[1994.0s] Thanks.
[1995.0s] You know what I'm talking about, though, buddy.
[1997.0s] Yeah.
[1998.0s] Don't pretend you don't.
[1999.0s] So he walks into the stall.
[2001.0s] All I want to talk about right now
[2005.0s] is what the inside of this bathroom looks like.
[2007.0s] Right?
[2008.0s] I know.
[2009.0s] I'm obsessed.
[2010.0s] There's stalls now and like, OK, I can kind of picture it,
[2012.0s] but like, oh, it's incredible.
[2015.0s] I've never really delved into the sanitation situation in Faerun.
[2021.0s] It's probably real dirty.
[2023.0s] Well, it's almost certainly horrifyingly gross.
[2025.0s] There's no fine water, so it...
[2027.0s] It's, you know, it's as clean as clean can get.
[2031.0s] I wonder if they have magic clears.
[2032.0s] It is near Castle Never,
[2034.0s] so it's not like you're in the slum part of town.
[2037.0s] There's just only so much that can be done
[2039.0s] in a place without running water.
[2041.0s] New podcast idea.
[2043.0s] We designed fantasy bathrooms, kitchens, houses.
[2048.0s] I love it.
[2049.0s] I like it.
[2050.0s] Flip this fantasy house.
[2064.0s] Welcome back to the middle.
[2066.0s] We had a contest running on...
[2069.0s] It ended on June 30th,
[2070.0s] and we gave it away at the beginning of July there,
[2073.0s] but we haven't really been back
[2075.0s] because there was a bonus episode last week,
[2076.0s] so we just want to say congratulations
[2078.0s] to William Rhino Henderson.
[2080.0s] Congratulations, William.
[2082.0s] William.
[2083.0s] Congratulations and a huge thank you to you
[2086.0s] and to everybody else who participated
[2088.0s] by sharing a link to the show
[2091.0s] or to your favorite episode on Facebook or Twitter.
[2094.0s] We will be doing another contest very soon-ish
[2098.0s] that you can participate in there
[2099.0s] and hopefully win something really cool
[2101.0s] because William, he won the adventure module
[2104.0s] Ghosts of Saltmarsh,
[2105.0s] and we still have one more
[2106.0s] that we want to give away too,
[2107.0s] so just keep locked here.
[2109.0s] That's what radio people say.
[2111.0s] No, keep it locked here.
[2112.0s] Listen to all the episodes on repeat
[2114.0s] and then start again.
[2115.0s] Yep, that's right.
[2116.0s] You got it.
[2117.0s] Speaking of things that we have going on
[2119.0s] that we're super proud about,
[2121.0s] we are up for nomination
[2123.0s] for the 14th annual People's Choice Podcast Awards.
[2128.0s] Ooh.
[2129.0s] I totally knew this was a thing before Russ told me.
[2133.0s] It's all right.
[2134.0s] I just assume that nobody knows anything
[2136.0s] until I tell them.
[2137.0s] Yeah, fair enough.
[2138.0s] I mean, you've been proven that time and time again.
[2141.0s] In this company, that is a safe assumption.
[2144.0s] So how you can help us win that
[2148.0s] is by going to podcastawards.com.
[2152.0s] Click on the Nominations Now Open button.
[2155.0s] All you have to do to be able to vote in that
[2158.0s] is give them your name and email address.
[2161.0s] And after the nominations are all done,
[2163.0s] they say they purge it from their system
[2165.0s] and no longer hold on to it.
[2167.0s] So I'm going to take them at their word
[2169.0s] because, you know, why not?
[2170.0s] Russ, what was that website again?
[2172.0s] Podcastawards.com.
[2174.0s] Click on the Nominations Now Open.
[2177.0s] But all you got to do is vote for us
[2178.0s] in the games and hobbies
[2179.0s] and the People's Choice.
[2180.0s] We would love it if you could do that.
[2182.0s] That would just make our hearts all warm and fuzzy
[2184.0s] because then if we win, we get an award.
[2187.0s] And we like, we've never received an award
[2189.0s] for the podcast before.
[2190.0s] Oh, it'd be so cool.
[2191.0s] It'd be amazing.
[2192.0s] Russ said there's a trophy.
[2194.0s] There is a trophy.
[2195.0s] Oh, God, I love it.
[2196.0s] We'll have to share custody of the trophy.
[2198.0s] Just mail it around?
[2199.0s] Yeah.
[2200.0s] We'll lose more money mailing it around
[2202.0s] than we'll gain anywhere else.
[2204.0s] But I think it'll be worth it,
[2206.0s] at least for the first couple months.
[2208.0s] We'll be so proud.
[2209.0s] Yeah, absolutely.
[2210.0s] So if you've already voted,
[2212.0s] I know some people in our Discord already voted.
[2214.0s] Thank you very much.
[2215.0s] If you haven't voted, please do.
[2217.0s] I mean, even if it's not for us,
[2218.0s] we would really appreciate it if it's for us.
[2220.0s] But if you see somebody else on there
[2221.0s] that you think is better,
[2222.0s] then vote for them.
[2223.0s] Oh, yeah, that's totally fair game.
[2225.0s] 14th Annual People's Choice Podcast Awards.
[2227.0s] Podcastawards.com.
[2228.0s] I'll link it down in the description
[2230.0s] so that you can click right there
[2231.0s] and just enter in your info
[2233.0s] and toss us a vote.
[2234.0s] We'd really appreciate it
[2235.0s] because you're all beautiful people
[2236.0s] and we love you so very much.
[2238.0s] True, agreed.
[2239.0s] Yeah.
[2240.0s] In the meantime,
[2241.0s] while you're doing that,
[2242.0s] I'm going to give you
[2243.0s] the back half of this episode.
[2244.0s] If you don't do that,
[2245.0s] the episode mysteriously stops.
[2247.0s] Oh no.
[2248.0s] Whoa.
[2249.0s] Oh.
[2250.0s] I don't know how I'm going to do that.
[2252.0s] I'll figure it out.
[2253.0s] That's why you're the tech guy.
[2255.0s] We're in trouble.
[2256.0s] Alright, hope you enjoy
[2257.0s] the rest of the episode.
[2258.0s] Next week is a new episode.
[2261.0s] We kind of stopped telling you
[2262.0s] when things are coming
[2263.0s] because we kind of forgot.
[2264.0s] New episode comes out next week,
[2266.0s] next Wednesday, July 17th.
[2268.0s] Hope you enjoy it.
[2269.0s] We'll talk to you soon.
[2271.0s] Up above, you see
[2274.0s] blood red clouds
[2275.0s] boiling across the sky.
[2276.0s] I hear that you're only
[2277.0s] about to go on an adventure.
[2279.0s] You know how Amy likes
[2280.0s] to have me running around
[2281.0s] worrying about things.
[2282.0s] You see armies at your back,
[2284.0s] dwarven, elven, human.
[2286.0s] You see all the races
[2287.0s] under your command
[2289.0s] and you wickedly smile
[2290.0s] back at yourself.
[2291.0s] We can do this the easy way
[2293.0s] or we can do this the hard way.
[2295.0s] And you see this light
[2296.0s] being shattered
[2297.0s] into seven different pieces.
[2299.0s] It's not worth the risk.
[2301.0s] Just say it's part of
[2302.0s] my inquisitive nature.
[2303.0s] I have been following you
[2305.0s] for a very long time.
[2307.0s] Do you want to count down?
[2309.0s] Three, two, one.
[2313.0s] Now.
[2314.0s] And you feel the ball
[2316.0s] drop out from beneath you.
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[2330.0s] Moot, you and Gabriel
[2331.0s] are walking out of the field.
[2333.0s] You've been practicing
[2336.0s] slinging various spells all day.
[2340.0s] We'll say you probably
[2341.0s] haven't cast Mage Hand
[2343.0s] or Magic Missile
[2344.0s] but all of your
[2345.0s] frost-based stuff.
[2347.0s] We'll say that you have
[2349.0s] practiced.
[2350.0s] You're feeling pretty good
[2351.0s] about it at this point.
[2353.0s] So you two are
[2354.0s] walking back through the street,
[2356.0s] presumably headed back
[2357.0s] towards the Fallen Tower.
[2360.0s] So you're sticking around
[2364.0s] for some time?
[2368.0s] What's your plan?
[2369.0s] I mean, short of learning
[2372.0s] how to cast this magic
[2374.0s] and make sure I don't
[2375.0s] hurt anyone with it,
[2376.0s] how long do you think
[2377.0s] I should stick around for?
[2379.0s] Seemed like we had
[2380.0s] a good day today.
[2381.0s] It was a pretty good day.
[2383.0s] I mean, we can definitely
[2384.0s] do that again.
[2385.0s] I feel like, you know,
[2387.0s] there's some extra stuff
[2389.0s] that you could be doing.
[2391.0s] Okay, I did have
[2392.0s] some questions.
[2394.0s] Yeah, sure, shoot.
[2396.0s] Okay, so it's called
[2397.0s] wild magic.
[2400.0s] What's wild about it?
[2402.0s] It's an energy source
[2404.0s] that is tapped into
[2406.0s] and has come to our world
[2408.0s] through various rifts
[2411.0s] or tears with other worlds.
[2414.0s] Oh.
[2415.0s] And not everybody has
[2416.0s] the ability to feel that energy.
[2420.0s] And those that can,
[2422.0s] we call them sorcerers.
[2425.0s] They have a very specific
[2427.0s] magic set and they use
[2429.0s] that magic to cast spells
[2433.0s] that, for people of this world,
[2436.0s] would otherwise have to
[2437.0s] study in order to,
[2440.0s] say, using incantations
[2442.0s] or somatic abilities
[2446.0s] and he moves his hands
[2447.0s] and light begins to glow
[2449.0s] and he puts it out.
[2450.0s] Oh, so over at Nogwoods,
[2453.0s] that's why they have
[2454.0s] all the books and things there.
[2456.0s] Got it, got it, got it.
[2457.0s] Exactly, yeah.
[2459.0s] So as much as you yourself
[2462.0s] can get into that,
[2463.0s] if you so desire,
[2465.0s] your powers will grow naturally
[2469.0s] as you begin to hone
[2471.0s] and perfect the spells
[2474.0s] and abilities that you currently have.
[2479.0s] Is there a way to, like,
[2482.0s] improve my training
[2485.0s] or is it all just like,
[2486.0s] do I just have to put in the reps?
[2488.0s] I mean, you just kind of got to,
[2490.0s] you just kind of got to do it.
[2491.0s] You got to feel it.
[2492.0s] You got to just feel it
[2494.0s] kind of course through your veins.
[2497.0s] Moot takes out a little notepad
[2499.0s] and he writes,
[2500.0s] feel it and then do it.
[2504.0s] Aw, that's so cute.
[2507.0s] You like to keep notes.
[2510.0s] It's good, it's good.
[2512.0s] Well, I just find at the end of the day,
[2514.0s] I can kind of look over
[2516.0s] everything that happened
[2517.0s] and then I remember it a lot better.
[2519.0s] Sure, no, that totally makes sense.
[2523.0s] I myself used to write a lot of things down.
[2525.0s] I don't, I don't so much anymore.
[2527.0s] But I'm glad you found me.
[2528.0s] Where, where are you staying, kid?
[2531.0s] I'm actually, they gave me a room over at Nogwoods.
[2534.0s] They said I could stay there for the time being.
[2536.0s] Just indefinitely?
[2538.0s] No charge?
[2539.0s] I don't think it's like an open invitation
[2540.0s] to stay forever, but, you know,
[2542.0s] for the time being they said,
[2543.0s] yeah, you know, when I tracked you down
[2545.0s] and all this stuff, they just said,
[2546.0s] yeah, you can stay here.
[2547.0s] So I thought it was really nice of them.
[2550.0s] Interesting.
[2551.0s] All right.
[2552.0s] Well, good, milk it for all it's worth
[2554.0s] because they're cheapskates over there.
[2557.0s] What do you mean?
[2558.0s] Well, I mean, they're going to
[2559.0s] probably start charging you.
[2560.0s] So just watch if they start slipping
[2562.0s] like bills underneath your,
[2565.0s] underneath your door.
[2567.0s] Start getting you to do odd jobs.
[2569.0s] That's payment.
[2570.0s] Oh, I don't mind doing odd jobs.
[2572.0s] That's fine.
[2574.0s] Fair enough.
[2575.0s] Fair enough.
[2576.0s] I mean, it's good to work.
[2577.0s] It's good to work.
[2578.0s] Can't always live in a van
[2579.0s] down by river.
[2580.0s] Don't know what you're talking about.
[2581.0s] Shall we go?
[2582.0s] Shall we go get a get a drink?
[2586.0s] Do you drink?
[2588.0s] I don't know if I've actually
[2589.0s] seen you drink.
[2590.0s] Yeah.
[2591.0s] I partake every every once in a while.
[2594.0s] It's I mean, it's not really my thing
[2596.0s] yet, but I think at some point
[2598.0s] I'll I'll I'll enjoy it a lot more.
[2601.0s] But yeah, let's let's go.
[2602.0s] Cool.
[2603.0s] All right.
[2604.0s] Well, I haven't had a drink
[2605.0s] in the last four hours
[2606.0s] because you ruined my last one.
[2608.0s] We'll go do that.
[2609.0s] I promise not to ruin any beer this time.
[2614.0s] I'll ruin something of yours.
[2617.0s] Oh, he said I wouldn't.
[2619.0s] I'm just letting you know.
[2621.0s] Oh, OK.
[2625.0s] You guys begin to walk back
[2627.0s] and you make it back
[2628.0s] to the Fallen Tower
[2629.0s] and it's just starting to get
[2630.0s] busy at this moment.
[2631.0s] It's getting to be dusk.
[2634.0s] And we cut back to Glim
[2636.0s] who is talking to the guard still
[2638.0s] and the guard looks defeated.
[2640.0s] Like he he knows he can't walk away
[2642.0s] because you're you're engaging
[2645.0s] in the investigation that he's doing.
[2648.0s] But he's like, I just
[2650.0s] I just want to go is the look
[2653.0s] you have he has in his eyes.
[2655.0s] Doesn't matter.
[2656.0s] Just let me die.
[2657.0s] Is it a small figurine
[2660.0s] that the Lord's mother-in-law
[2664.0s] gave him as a test to see
[2667.0s] if he would pass it on to his daughter?
[2670.0s] But then he lost it.
[2672.0s] But then he found it.
[2673.0s] And now he's worried
[2674.0s] that it got stolen.
[2676.0s] He slams his hand down on the desk.
[2679.0s] It's a book.
[2680.0s] Oh, a book.
[2682.0s] It's a book.
[2684.0s] A precious book.
[2686.0s] Fairly precious.
[2688.0s] And who do you think took it?
[2690.0s] He kind of looks around
[2692.0s] sees that the other guards
[2694.0s] aren't really finding
[2695.0s] what they're looking for.
[2696.0s] He says there was an individual
[2699.0s] who was seen selling linens
[2703.0s] at Castle Never
[2706.0s] with a friend went in
[2709.0s] came out without the friend
[2712.0s] and the alarm started going off
[2714.0s] prior to that.
[2716.0s] Short fellow.
[2718.0s] I've been told he talks a lot.
[2721.0s] Have you seen anybody like that?
[2723.0s] I don't think I've seen a linen seller.
[2727.0s] What's Sully doing in the bathroom?
[2730.0s] Still vigorously washing his hands
[2732.0s] until this dude leaves.
[2735.0s] I'm going to say this dude is coming,
[2738.0s] he's come and gone
[2739.0s] and he's looked at you
[2741.0s] still washing your hands
[2743.0s] and actually just leaves the water alone
[2745.0s] he's like, I'm good.
[2748.0s] Not cool, man.
[2749.0s] Not cool.
[2750.0s] Cleanliness is next to godliness, you know.
[2752.0s] I'll go wash him next door
[2755.0s] and he leaves.
[2758.0s] That's really weird about him
[2760.0s] washing his hands.
[2762.0s] Alright.
[2764.0s] I draw a mustache on myself.
[2766.0s] With what?
[2767.0s] With my little stinker disguise kit.
[2772.0s] With my, well, naturally
[2777.0s] as a person who
[2782.0s] fools people a lot
[2784.0s] I must have
[2787.0s] I must have a disguise kit.
[2791.0s] Not must have.
[2794.0s] Hold on.
[2796.0s] Do you have expensive linens
[2797.0s] you could change into?
[2799.0s] No, it'll be so suspicious.
[2801.0s] Because I don't want to pass as a linenery.
[2804.0s] I forgot about the linens.
[2805.0s] Me too.
[2806.0s] I don't know how.
[2807.0s] Still a word.
[2808.0s] So funny.
[2809.0s] I swear to god as I made this
[2812.0s] I had
[2814.0s] I put down disguise kit.
[2816.0s] Well now I'm just real sad.
[2818.0s] Maybe you had it
[2821.0s] and it was taken from you
[2824.0s] as you were in jail.
[2826.0s] Well now I can't quite remember
[2827.0s] what I told her that I would have.
[2830.0s] I have an oil flask
[2833.0s] that won't do anything.
[2835.0s] Anyway.
[2837.0s] Well, if you say you had a disguise kit
[2840.0s] we can say you have a disguise kit
[2842.0s] which has a marker in it
[2844.0s] or a pen in it or something.
[2845.0s] It sure does.
[2846.0s] A grease pencil or something.
[2847.0s] Or just a mustache.
[2849.0s] Or just a mustache.
[2850.0s] And I put a mustache on
[2852.0s] and I come out.
[2855.0s] Okay.
[2857.0s] I guess I'm still talking to this guard.
[2861.0s] Yeah, you're at this point
[2862.0s] just discussing the fact that it's a book
[2864.0s] and he's giving you the description
[2866.0s] of the linenist.
[2868.0s] And you hear the bathroom door open
[2871.0s] and out of the corner of your eye
[2873.0s] you see Sully begin to walk out.
[2875.0s] And you see Glim talking to the guard.
[2879.0s] Very intently at this point
[2881.0s] because he's just like
[2883.0s] shut her up for who knows how long.
[2885.0s] I give a little tip of my invisible hat
[2888.0s] and I mosey on the fuck out of there.
[2893.0s] Make a...
[2895.0s] Mosey check.
[2897.0s] Mosey check.
[2898.0s] Roll for mosey.
[2900.0s] Make a stealth check.
[2904.0s] Fuck me.
[2905.0s] Twelve.
[2906.0s] You quite cockily begin to mosey out thinking
[2911.0s] you have the greatest disguise of all time.
[2914.0s] Is she like twirling it as she was?
[2917.0s] I am, yeah.
[2920.0s] I'm like doing finger guns at people as I leave.
[2922.0s] You're about halfway to the door
[2923.0s] so you're now kind of passing
[2925.0s] where Glim and the guard are
[2927.0s] and you hear from behind you
[2928.0s] one of the other guards yell,
[2929.0s] There he is!
[2932.0s] I turn and like to look behind me
[2935.0s] to be like,
[2937.0s] like, where? Who?
[2940.0s] You see two guards rushing towards you.
[2942.0s] I still look behind me.
[2944.0s] Like, where is he?
[2945.0s] There's ten feet away from you.
[2947.0s] And then I look and I point my finger at me
[2949.0s] and I mouth.
[2951.0s] They are at you now and...
[2952.0s] Hey buddies!
[2954.0s] They grab you by the shoulders
[2955.0s] and say you're coming with us.
[2957.0s] Hold on a second. Why?
[2959.0s] Because you were one of the last people
[2963.0s] in Castle Never.
[2965.0s] I have never once been to Castle Never.
[2968.0s] Make a perception check.
[2974.0s] Six.
[2976.0s] What am I perceiving?
[2978.0s] You look up at the guards
[2979.0s] and you now notice that one of them
[2981.0s] is one of the guards that you talked to
[2984.0s] going into Castle Never.
[2986.0s] Cool.
[2987.0s] He says, You were there.
[2989.0s] I was not!
[2991.0s] He reaches down and pulls off your mustache
[2994.0s] and says, You were there.
[2997.0s] I smacked my hand.
[2999.0s] You were trying to sell linens.
[3001.0s] Who sells linens?
[3003.0s] You!
[3005.0s] What do you even call somebody who sells linens?
[3009.0s] You're coming with us and they begin to...
[3011.0s] Hold on. Is this because I'm short?
[3013.0s] They're walking and they...
[3015.0s] Both of them have picked you up by the armpits.
[3017.0s] And I'm bicycling.
[3018.0s] My leg's in the air.
[3020.0s] Glim, what are you doing?
[3022.0s] The guard says, Well, it looks like we might have found
[3026.0s] the person we're looking for.
[3028.0s] Glim!
[3030.0s] Glim!
[3031.0s] Glim!
[3032.0s] Hey!
[3033.0s] Yeah?
[3034.0s] Don't forget to wash your hands.
[3037.0s] Okay. It was nice to meet you.
[3040.0s] I wave goodbye.
[3042.0s] I thought you said that you didn't see someone of...
[3046.0s] I said I didn't see a linenist.
[3048.0s] I didn't know that he was a linenist.
[3052.0s] Touché.
[3054.0s] Might we ask you to come with us as well
[3057.0s] just to confirm that you aren't associated?
[3062.0s] I mean, you can ask Vex'lana.
[3066.0s] I was here all afternoon.
[3069.0s] Vex'lana comes, sees this happening.
[3072.0s] She comes over.
[3073.0s] She was here all night.
[3076.0s] That one, he came in most recently
[3078.0s] and just kind of stopped and turned Glim around.
[3082.0s] Yeah, she was here.
[3084.0s] The guard kind of thinks about it and says,
[3088.0s] All right, okay.
[3090.0s] He turns around and he goes to walk it.
[3093.0s] I am going to go wash my hands.
[3098.0s] I assume he said it significantly.
[3102.0s] Well, actually, it's just something he reminds people to do.
[3106.0s] He's like, All right, buddies.
[3107.0s] Yeah, yeah, keep it tight.
[3108.0s] Keep it tight.
[3109.0s] Hey, wash your hands.
[3110.0s] So you go back into the bathroom.
[3113.0s] I presume you go into the male bathroom,
[3115.0s] but I'm not certain if that's what you're going with.
[3117.0s] Are they gendered, do you think, in the tavern?
[3119.0s] Nah, probably not.
[3121.0s] Again, there's so much for us to talk about about these bathrooms.
[3125.0s] Let's say unisex.
[3127.0s] Sure.
[3128.0s] Okay, so I go into the bathroom.
[3131.0s] And you see the hand washing trough, several stalls,
[3137.0s] all of which have their doors slightly open.
[3139.0s] It doesn't look like there's anybody currently in there right now.
[3142.0s] I guess I go, and like trepidatiously,
[3145.0s] it's so dirty, it's really gross.
[3148.0s] It's not for washing hands.
[3150.0s] It's really gross.
[3151.0s] It's really gross.
[3152.0s] It's really gross, yeah.
[3153.0s] But I'll just stick my hand in there, see what I find.
[3159.0s] You reach in and you find a water skin
[3162.0s] that looks like it's been cut open
[3164.0s] and kind of very hastily folded back over
[3168.0s] with a feel of a book on the inside.
[3174.0s] So I pull it out and put it,
[3177.0s] well, I mean, I do this a lot
[3179.0s] to try and get some of the water off of it
[3183.0s] and pull it out of the water skin
[3186.0s] and shove it in my bag.
[3188.0s] I don't investigate it any more than that.
[3191.0s] It's definitely the book that you saw in Sully's bag.
[3193.0s] And you slide it in.
[3195.0s] And then, we'll cut back to Sully here.
[3199.0s] You're being walked down by three or two of them
[3202.0s] carrying you kind of underneath the arm.
[3204.0s] Am I heavy?
[3205.0s] Is your arm getting tired?
[3207.0s] They're not responding to you.
[3209.0s] And one of them leans down to you
[3211.0s] and says, Miss Man Meow Meow
[3213.0s] is not going to be very happy about this.
[3216.0s] Oh, Miss Man Meow Meow has nothing to worry about.
[3219.0s] Mm-hmm.
[3221.0s] It's supposed to be a quiet chat.
[3224.0s] Well, it was.
[3227.0s] Until someone portaled in there and stole Murph.
[3231.0s] Mm-hmm.
[3233.0s] Was that you?
[3235.0s] Did I portal in there and steal Murph?
[3237.0s] No, I mean, did Miss Man Meow Meow do that?
[3240.0s] Why would Miss Man Meow Meow
[3242.0s] portal in and steal a prisoner of her own?
[3244.0s] I don't know.
[3246.0s] But that was, you have to say,
[3248.0s] extenuating circumstances, for sure.
[3251.0s] Yeah, you can explain to her
[3253.0s] why you didn't go back with the book
[3256.0s] to explain that to her once we get back.
[3259.0s] It's called laying low, God.
[3279.0s] We now find Moot.
[3282.0s] Not Sullivan's Light. Get out of here.
[3284.0s] No, I know, but I just went
[3286.0s] at the same time as you were talking.
[3288.0s] Do you want to say that again?
[3289.0s] I mean, you do it all the time.
[3297.0s] Shame.
[3298.0s] Yeah, good.
[3299.0s] Should probably get Amy one of those Hannibal Lecter masks.
[3304.0s] It's your turn to talk now, Amy.
[3306.0s] He says,
[3308.0s] Hit me with your best shot.
[3310.0s] Fire away.
[3314.0s] Ice, ice, baby.
[3316.0s] Oh, wow, we're just jumping all over the place here.
[3318.0s] Well, because it's not really fire
[3320.0s] that you've got going on.
[3322.0s] It's ice. So, you know,
[3324.0s] you're as cold as ice.
[3329.0s] This is going to be a fun one.
[3331.0s] You're right. Oh, boy.
[3333.0s] Oh, misses wildly.
[3335.0s] It's very, very
[3337.0s] stump has really good AC,
[3339.0s] really good AC that stump
[3341.0s] and uncanny dodge, which is
[3343.0s] unexpected. Can we recruit
[3345.0s] this stump to help us save the world?
[3347.0s] Because we might need them.