[0.0s] previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons. [2.2s] So, uh, have we, uh, maybe check the chest out later then? [5.7s] Yeah, Hila. Let's chase the crazy guy first that was just going to kill you. [9.8s] Three small clawed arms shoot up and grab at Glim's arm. [14.3s] Uh, well, if I'm not mistaken, I, uh, I think those are the, um, uh, the dirt bat. [19.8s] Should we keep trying to find him or should we go back and see what's in that treasure [25.0s] chest because he's probably going to come back for it? [27.0s] Or maybe he looped around and he's back there now. [29.4s] Exactly. [29.8s] Sully begins bounding up the stairs. [32.0s] Uh, Moot, you are looking around the staircase as you look up the stairs and Sully is gone. [38.2s] What? What? Where'd Sully go? [39.6s] What do you mean? He was just- [41.3s] Sully, you find yourself back on the far side of the bridge. [45.8s] As Glim turns around and addresses you, [48.2s] Hila and Moot, you see that Glim has grown a full bushy beard. [53.1s] Maybe we just, like, opens a box? [56.4s] Kind of makes sense that he would have run up here and opened it, so maybe he should. [60.6s] There is a pile of gold. We found the gold! [63.9s] We lost a friend, but we found the gold. [67.8s] Don't cry, that sounds evil. [86.4s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons. We're a D&D 5th Edition Actual Play podcast, [94.6s] and I am your Dungeon Master Russ More, and with me today is Karla Maxted. [99.2s] That is me. I play Glim. I am a Dragonborn PAlydin. [103.3s] And Tom Laird. [105.0s] Yep, that's me. I play Moot. He is a half-orc, wild magic sorcerer. [110.5s] And still stuck all by herself, Amy More. [114.0s] All by myself. Sully is all by himself as a halfling, lightfoot, halfling rogue. [123.6s] Someday. Someday. [124.6s] We'll get it eventually. [126.5s] These are new people, it's hard. [128.2s] So we're babies, it's okay. [131.0s] Where we always get it, that's that extra... [136.2s] What do we get? 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[196.6s] And you can get that over on Patreon. [199.0s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. [200.4s] But it's kind of throwing us off because it's new. [202.2s] But you can go find that over there. [203.6s] Fuck it! [204.2s] Let's play D&D! [208.0s] Sully, you have just made it up to the ravine. [211.1s] Cackling laughter down, rains down upon you. [214.4s] Everybody else, Glim, you have a beard. [217.2s] Hylip has half a mustache. [219.8s] Your facial hair's the same as when you started. [222.2s] And also cackling laughter raining down upon you. [227.0s] Let's start with Sully. [231.1s] Sully like looks around, sees no one, and starts to trek up toward the... [242.2s] Gets a strange feeling in his chest. [244.8s] Like, I don't know. [248.3s] Like he like he all of a sudden like worried about his buddies. [252.3s] And then was like, huh? [254.8s] And then was like, what is this? [256.6s] I feel. [257.3s] And so he started to go toward the log. [263.2s] Oh, you're on the right side. [264.5s] You're on the other side! [266.3s] See, I totally figured. [267.8s] I totally figured I was going back to the side and would have to cross back over. [271.8s] I gave you the right side. [274.3s] Because that just feels like that's how it goes for something. [277.8s] At least last time. [278.5s] Like, okay, let's do this again. [281.0s] Damn it, I chose the bridge again. [282.9s] Okay, good. [283.8s] Okay, so I go back toward where the bridge is though, [287.6s] because that's where we continued on the path. [290.0s] So I'm going to go find my friends because I'm worried about them. [293.8s] You're running or walking? [295.3s] Oh, run. [296.8s] Okay. [297.4s] Jog, jog. [298.4s] We'll come back to you. [299.4s] Everybody else, two of you are at the top of the stairs. [302.6s] Moot, you are down at the bottom of the stairs holding said skull laughter. [310.0s] That was evil. [311.2s] Yeah, I don't like that much. [312.5s] I don't like the sound of that. [314.0s] I mean, it sounds like maybe Esau is going to come back and we can kill him. [318.2s] So, I mean, that's great news. [320.9s] Yeah, that would be very cool. [322.4s] But also, if we got all this gold, like, look at this. [325.2s] Everybody got pockets to put this in. [327.2s] Like, maybe, here, you grab one side. [329.1s] I grab the other. [329.8s] One sec there, Hillip. [331.4s] Because right after you open that chest is when the evil laughter showed up. [334.2s] So I don't know if you should really touch that gold. [336.7s] It's too late. [337.4s] I am rubbing it all over my bodies. [340.5s] Oh, well, I guess I was looking at someone else when I meant to tell you that. [345.3s] Is the laughter continuing this whole time? [348.9s] No, you heard it once kind of echo through and it has gone flat. [353.5s] Open and close it and make the evil laughter go away? [357.1s] It appears to be coming from off in the distance [361.1s] more towards where you thought Esau was running. [366.7s] In the vague direction. [370.3s] So I'm going to just put... [372.5s] Look, we'll just slide it down the stairs and it will be okay. [375.1s] And then we'll come back and then it will be at the bottom of the stairs. [377.4s] We don't have to come back up and get more beards. [382.2s] Or go poof. [383.3s] Right, the beard. [384.5s] We really, you and me, we really went out on that one. [387.9s] I don't know about that other guy. [390.6s] I mean, I can help you carry it to the bottom of the stairs. [393.4s] Sweet, cool. [395.0s] Just give me a strength check as you go down. [396.6s] Oh, sweet cool. [398.2s] Oh, why roll the one? [402.0s] Are you top or bottom? [404.8s] Go top! [407.8s] What's harder, bottom? [408.8s] Probably bottom. [412.0s] It'd be real heavy. [413.8s] Yeah, I mean, bottom's going to have it up over, you know. [416.8s] Yeah. [417.3s] You definitely drop it. [418.4s] Yeah. [419.8s] And it, as you kind of lift it and drop it, it begins to slide down. [424.7s] Now you're on top of it and Hillop is dragging behind. [428.2s] He's like, ah! [430.2s] And she's riding it like a, like it's some kind of Teen Wolf. [434.7s] That's right. [435.5s] Like Dr. Strangelove where he's riding the bomb. [438.0s] Yeah, exactly. [439.2s] That's it. [440.4s] As you hit the bottom, the chest opens and the gold spills out onto the ground. [447.0s] And Hillop takes one stair damage from falling down. [455.1s] Okay, well, if you come back and get this after I feel good in my legs again. [462.0s] I thought you were a big strong, big strong dragon lady. [465.0s] I sort of missed a stair. [466.3s] I don't know. [466.7s] They didn't measure them properly, you know, when you're going downstairs [469.9s] and your mind really adjusts to exactly the right length. [472.4s] And then if one is like just a centimeter out, you just... [475.8s] I'm embarrassed. [476.5s] It was probably the crumbly bits that I saw, you know. [480.0s] Maybe it moved a stair. [481.5s] Yeah. [482.1s] Yeah, that's probably why I hurt so bad now. [486.6s] Usually the crumbly bits are like the best part of a dessert. [489.3s] So that's disappointing to hear it's no good for stairs. [491.6s] You, you think so too? [493.1s] Oh, yeah. [493.6s] Very, very good. [495.0s] I like, we should go out for some desserts after we get out of this evil laughter place. [499.2s] I love desserts. [500.2s] Let's do it. [501.2s] Okay, cool. [502.2s] I guess you make a dessert date plan. [504.3s] The laughter rings out again. [506.6s] Sully, you make it back up to the bridge. [509.8s] And the two pathways that head into the forest. [514.5s] Ah, yes, the two pathways of which I was paying attention, which way to go. [524.0s] And I for sure wrote down, did not. [528.3s] So I stand, Sully stands and is looking at the two pathways. [533.3s] Make a survival check. [534.6s] I was just going to say, could I make a perception [536.7s] to see if like we busted through one of them, broke some branches, got a little messy. [542.6s] How about I think survival is negative one. [545.2s] So I think that's 14. [546.6s] 14. [549.1s] You remember going down the one that comes straight off the bridge [554.2s] and you feel like you remember more or less the directions to get back to the stairs. [561.4s] Over the river and through the woods too. [564.1s] The stairs we go. [565.8s] Yeah. [567.6s] Okay, back to everybody else. [569.7s] So what are we going to do is about the laughter. [574.2s] It's that one sounded really loud. [578.2s] Yeah, should we? [580.2s] I don't, I'm really torn. [581.2s] Do we go try and find Sully or or do we stay here and just wait for Esau to come fight us? [589.8s] Well, if Sully's anywhere around here, [593.6s] he'll know his way back, I would think, right? [596.6s] Yeah. [597.2s] Does that guy pay attention to anything? [600.4s] No, but when there's gold involved, maybe. [603.8s] Yeah. [605.3s] Touche, yeah, the gold is a good driving factor for landscaping. [612.3s] So maybe maybe we wait for Sully and in the meantime, [617.0s] get ready in case the bad dude comes back. [621.4s] Yeah, sure. [622.2s] You've got pockets. [623.1s] I'm going to stuff some of this in just in case we can't come back right away. [629.4s] Yeah, I have a pocket and I give him like a [633.0s] handkerchief so he can put some gold in there. [636.2s] So that's just not a pocket. [637.3s] That's just a sneeze rack. [638.7s] Yeah, but then he can put that in my pocket. [642.2s] Okay, okay. [644.3s] He lays it down onto the dirt and is now piling gold up. [648.2s] Sully, you've made your way along the path. [650.9s] You make it back to the windmill. [655.0s] Do you keep going from there? [657.2s] Yeah, no, I don't stop in the windmill. [659.0s] You keep passing through. [663.4s] It's all fitting so well. [664.6s] Who doesn't like the gorillas? [665.9s] Come on. [669.4s] You keep passing through and you make it through the graveyard. [672.3s] You hear the laughter go again. [674.5s] Creepy laughter, too. [675.5s] That's straight out of that song. [679.7s] I laugh back. [680.9s] And then it laughs again immediately. [686.7s] And I laugh again immediately. [691.3s] Like I'm having some kind of laugh off. [693.3s] Make a perception check. [695.9s] Oh no, I get to roll that again because of my luck. [699.1s] It wasn't that one. [700.6s] Wow, Amy, you are having some great rolls. [703.1s] All right, well at least now if I get a one, [705.9s] it's not the end of the world, [707.1s] which is like the perfect thing for me. [709.3s] Okay, well that was five. [711.5s] I'm sorry, that was perception? [713.6s] Yeah. [716.6s] That's a negative one. [718.1s] I rolled four. [719.7s] Everything seems fine to you. [721.0s] You keep going on. [722.6s] That's right. [723.8s] And you move down the path. [728.3s] You feel like you're getting a little hungry, too. [733.7s] I searched through my pack for some thing. [737.5s] As you look down. [737.9s] I'm pretty sure I took some hard cheeses. [739.4s] As you look down to your pack, [740.6s] the mushrooms are looking real tasty. [746.0s] Um. [749.7s] I have some knowledge about nature. [753.2s] Can I kind of figure out maybe if this is a safe mushroom to eat? [758.7s] God, guys, I've eaten mushrooms and it never goes well for me. [764.3s] Yeah, roll a nature check. [768.9s] Oh, thank God. [769.8s] 18. [772.3s] These mushrooms aren't familiar to you. [774.3s] What do they look like? [776.4s] They're varying degrees of what they look like. [779.1s] Most of them, the biggest ones of them, [782.0s] and they're quite large for the most part, [786.0s] are like purple and gray. [791.0s] That doesn't sound appetizing. [794.9s] Will one side make me smaller? [798.0s] And one side will make me taller? [800.9s] I don't know. [802.5s] Didn't Hillop eat some of them? [804.9s] He did. [808.2s] Sully doesn't remember that. [810.5s] Well, I don't know that we ever really figured out what they did to him. [814.5s] No, you haven't yet. [816.0s] There's been no connections made. [817.7s] No side effects yet. [819.1s] Wait, we haven't made connections for something for us? [821.6s] Sounds so unlike us. [823.3s] It's going to come back in about a year or so. [825.6s] You'll be like, remember those mushrooms? [828.2s] I want to squash the urge to eat the mushrooms [834.7s] because the feeling in my chest of needing to save my friends [838.6s] is bigger than the feeling of my empty tummy. [841.3s] Make a wisdom saving throw then. [846.8s] But I have a negative one. [849.9s] Yes, you do. [852.0s] I rolled a one, but I get to roll again. [855.0s] Okay, good luck. [858.6s] Nine. [862.7s] You feel like you don't want to eat them right now, [865.1s] but you feel like you want to take some to eat very soon. [868.5s] I put some in the pack. [871.6s] I take some of the smaller ones. [873.0s] More manageable size. [874.0s] Yep, that's cool. [875.6s] Okay, you do that and you have made it back to the stairs [878.8s] and as a laugh rings out and echoes down around you. [885.2s] I return it. [886.7s] The three of you hear the laugh just enveloping the area [891.4s] that you're in and then you hear another laugh [893.8s] coming from off to your kind of right, [897.8s] the pathway coming from the graveyard area. [900.3s] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. [904.0s] Sully? [904.6s] Yeah, whoa, I say. [907.0s] I see Clem. [909.1s] Sully, you're back. [910.1s] We didn't know where you went. [911.0s] We went up the stairs to try and find you [912.7s] and then now I guess this. [914.7s] Oh gosh. [915.9s] No, don't go up the stairs. [918.5s] Well, you know. [920.2s] Whoa, lady. [924.1s] Sir, I don't know. [926.4s] So there's like a weird laugh going on. [928.2s] I just got zipped back to the bridge [931.9s] and then fell into the ravine [934.1s] and then washed up on the shore [935.5s] and then had to climb the mountain. [936.9s] You can tell it was a big thing, [938.9s] but you guys hear that laughing all over the place [941.0s] is getting on my nerves. [942.0s] Oh yeah, we've heard it. [943.0s] We have heard it. [943.9s] It's not great. [944.7s] We were sort of thinking, [947.3s] you know, just wait here for the evil guy to show up [949.7s] and instead of chasing him through the woods [951.5s] and finding mud bats and stuff. [954.2s] Yeah, fair enough. [955.4s] Hey, gold. [956.7s] Yeah, see, I'm trying to fit it in his handkerchief. [960.8s] I don't understand how Hamut wants this to go in the back. [965.0s] Hillef, I don't want to touch it. [967.4s] It's gold. [968.6s] Well, that's when the evil laughter started, [971.4s] those when you open that chest. [973.5s] It could have also been the beard [975.7s] that grew on your friend's face. [977.2s] It tickled the spirit. [980.0s] But it's not like the evil laughter is not having fun. [983.0s] It's evil. [984.0s] Touche. [985.0s] All right. [985.4s] Well, do you want to put some in your bag there too? [988.6s] I open up my satchel. [990.6s] He comes over with handfuls of gold. [992.6s] He's like, oh, you got some of the mushrooms. [994.2s] They were pretty tasty. [995.6s] Drops his gold into your bag. [997.7s] Now, you eat some of these, [998.8s] were they, you feeling okay? [1000.2s] Yeah, they were pretty meaty. [1001.3s] I feel good in my tummy after. [1004.0s] It was very hungry at the time, but now very good. [1009.0s] Well, maybe I'll maybe I'll just take, [1012.2s] can I roll another wisdom? [1016.4s] And not eat it? [1020.8s] You don't know what the mushrooms are, [1022.3s] but you don't think, like, [1023.8s] I eat one. [1024.8s] I eat one. [1026.3s] You want me to eat it? [1027.4s] I don't want you to do it. [1029.0s] You choose what you want to do. [1030.2s] I know. [1030.5s] I failed that saving throw though. [1032.6s] So I'll play by the rules of the game. [1036.0s] I eat one. [1037.4s] See? [1037.7s] Very good. [1038.2s] Very tasty. [1040.3s] What's it taste like? [1041.5s] It tasted like woody. [1044.6s] Like very earthy. [1048.5s] Does yours taste different? [1051.2s] I guess I claim it tastes like a mushroom. [1053.1s] Like, I guess. [1054.1s] Very good. [1054.6s] Very good. [1055.8s] Anyways, maybe we, okay. [1057.5s] So I fill up your bag. [1059.1s] I fill up my pockets. [1060.2s] I fill up my bag. [1061.6s] I put a couple in the handkerchief. [1063.7s] He hands the handkerchief back to you. [1067.0s] So we go now? [1068.3s] Try and get away from the laugh. [1069.9s] Laffy ha ha. [1071.1s] I mean, I'd like to stop Esau. [1074.7s] I know that you guys just wanted the gold [1077.0s] and now we have that. [1078.3s] So, okay. [1079.9s] So we go towards the laughter. [1082.2s] I'd like to stop the evil guy. [1085.4s] Possible. [1088.0s] You can hear where the laughter is coming from? [1090.1s] Yeah, the exact direction-ish. [1092.9s] Well, let's take the fight to him. [1096.2s] I like your attitude, Sully. [1097.9s] Let's go. [1099.3s] All right. [1100.9s] So there's the pathway that Sully just came down [1103.8s] or cutting back through the trees, [1105.8s] which you had done previously. [1108.2s] The direction of the laugh is encompassing both of those? [1112.2s] Well, I mean, you could go out [1113.9s] and then to the left on the pathway. [1116.1s] Like the pathway turns back towards that way [1119.8s] from which you came, [1121.3s] but it is in more the direction of which Esau broadly, you know. [1127.6s] Oh my god, I'm so lost in these woods. [1129.1s] You guys have no idea. [1131.1s] Me too. [1132.6s] Well, guys, I mean, when we've cut through, [1135.0s] there's been quicksand and mud bat, [1137.7s] but then that other time it was fine, so. [1140.6s] Let's go for it. [1141.6s] Okay. [1142.6s] I'll follow you, my banded buddy. [1144.5s] So sorry, we're cutting through? [1145.5s] Yeah. [1146.4s] The four of you head back into the woods. [1150.6s] Same way you came, you're following your steps. [1152.6s] And when previously you had stepped out onto a path, [1157.4s] now you step out into a clearing [1159.6s] and there is a hut in the middle of this clearing. [1162.6s] A wooden hut with a red door. [1165.8s] This is where a witch lives. [1167.8s] It looks like there is a light glowing inside. [1173.7s] And it is kind of like, yeah, [1176.2s] it's a wood stick walled hut. [1181.0s] Sticks and wood for a roof. [1184.0s] Looks very drafty as far as construction goes. [1186.6s] More of a fort. [1188.6s] Sounds like a fort I would have built when I was a kid. [1191.5s] Yeah, kind of like that. [1193.4s] Oh, it's like kind of a yurt. [1194.7s] Oh, I was just going to say it's a yurt. [1197.0s] It's a yurt. [1197.8s] Sure. [1198.0s] That's what I said. [1198.6s] Okay. [1199.9s] I didn't. [1200.4s] Didn't. [1202.3s] Have we heard the laughter again? [1204.7s] You don't hear the laughter at this moment. [1209.3s] Who's feeling brave? [1210.3s] Who wants to knock on that red door? [1213.4s] I'll knock on the door. [1216.2s] You go, girl. [1218.1s] Boy. [1220.2s] And I go and knock on the door. [1223.9s] Make a perception check as you approach. [1231.7s] Pen. [1232.7s] As you reach towards the door handle, you see a skull-shaped handle and it catches your attention. [1241.0s] Okay, I'm going to crouch down in front of the skull door handle and say, [1245.4s] you got anything to say? [1250.5s] The eyes in the skull illuminate. [1254.4s] And it says, find the code and break the curse. [1258.3s] Okay, didn't we already find a code? [1263.6s] I bring my skull out. [1266.1s] Your skull says, to the right of the cross, the code will be. [1271.7s] All right. [1272.4s] And I hold my skull up. [1274.9s] In the graveyard. [1276.2s] One, two, three. [1277.9s] Seems like these rhyme. [1279.1s] Oh, you got a skull too? [1281.0s] Yeah, and I think they're like, it's part of the same verse. [1284.9s] Let's go, buddies. [1286.1s] Okay, well, I like the sound of find the code and break the curse. [1292.0s] That sounds good. [1293.5s] Well, we know where the code is. [1294.5s] And we know where the code is, and maybe Moose is like an extra clue? [1299.9s] Maybe the code is just one, two, three. [1301.5s] I mean, people got to be really like, it has to be something you can remember. [1308.0s] Where do you think we put the code once we find the code? [1312.9s] Did I knock? [1313.6s] Has anyone answered the door? [1316.1s] No, you just bent down and talked to the door handle. [1319.5s] Yeah, I started talking to the door handle. [1320.9s] I want the door to open while she's whispering at the door. [1324.8s] It just sounds like an awkward encounter. [1327.2s] The door does not open. [1329.8s] As you're standing there, not doing anything else. [1332.7s] You had like a diagram or something for us last time, Ross. [1335.8s] Can you send that again? [1340.1s] I can. [1341.9s] Oh, let me see if I can just like. [1344.0s] Oh, I found it. [1344.9s] It's like that thing. [1348.4s] Yeah, that was the graveyard. [1350.7s] Yeah, OK. [1352.7s] Well, do you guys think we should go try and find this code in the graveyard? [1355.9s] It seems like the clues are telling us that would make sense. [1359.1s] And I would like to break the curse. [1360.9s] What do you think? [1361.8s] Then we can get out of here. [1364.3s] Yeah, it sounds good. [1365.4s] I mean, everybody make an intelligence check [1367.4s] and we'll see if you can just remember what the graveyard looked like. [1370.3s] Fuck. [1372.1s] 16. [1372.8s] 18. [1375.1s] So Moot. [1376.7s] I don't. [1377.6s] Oh, eight. [1380.3s] Moot and Glim, you have a pretty good memory of the layout of the graveyard. [1389.8s] So we'll say that using the diagram that you have, that's how you remember it. [1393.7s] OK. [1394.2s] To the right of the cross. [1403.0s] Oh, yeah, I remember this conversation now. [1405.2s] Des. [1406.0s] Zed. [1406.7s] Yeah. [1407.8s] Party Ds. [1409.7s] Oh, man. [1411.6s] I'm pretty sure it's party Ds, guys. [1415.3s] Or party Zed. [1417.9s] Zed's a cool guy. [1419.2s] Always have the parties. [1421.2s] Or Days E. [1424.8s] Or those are all right of the cross, right? [1428.8s] Yeah. [1429.2s] God is Ed. [1430.0s] Art C. [1434.3s] As you guys are standing there trying to remember, [1437.6s] the skulls begin to speak again. [1439.5s] This time Moot's goes first. [1441.4s] It says in the graveyard, one, two, three. [1445.0s] And then Sully says to the right of the cross, the code will be. [1450.7s] Yeah, one, two, three. [1456.2s] There's three crosses, though. [1457.6s] I know. [1458.0s] That's what I was going to say. [1458.8s] I was like, well, it could be one, two, three, or one, two, three. [1461.9s] Damn it. [1465.1s] And there's only, no, I was going to say maybe there's two on one side. [1469.4s] But no, there's one, two, one on the left. [1474.4s] Or two, you know what I mean? [1476.0s] There isn't one, two, three crosses in a row. [1478.8s] I think we go, we dig up the third, the one to the right of the third cross. [1484.1s] So the D, I guess it is. [1488.1s] We're going to go grave robbing. [1490.0s] That's cool. [1491.6s] So funny because I would have thought the third cross was the one between the P and the Z. [1499.2s] Because as we approach it, that would have been the third one we were hit. [1504.1s] Oh, I guess so. [1504.8s] I was reading it from top down, not from bottom up. [1507.4s] Same here. [1509.7s] Maybe I misremembered. [1510.2s] So there's an empty grave is the one you think. [1514.4s] Is one empty? [1515.5s] Are those the? [1517.6s] T and Z are empty, right? [1520.3s] Is that what the line? [1521.4s] I thought that was just some beautiful shading that Russ had done for us. [1524.4s] Sorry, now we have, signifies more of an open grave. [1528.0s] I'm sure you told us that. [1529.1s] It just was a long time ago. [1530.3s] So looking at it now, I thought, well, he did a really nice job with this diagram, [1533.8s] a lot of depth to it. [1535.7s] In the graveyard, one, two, three, to the right of the cross, the code will be. [1540.0s] We're going to say that you've been like drawing this out in the dirt, [1542.6s] just so that everybody can visual. [1544.2s] Just in front of this house. [1545.2s] Just in front of the house. [1547.3s] So we want to go dig or do, because what do you think the code would be? [1552.9s] Like the code is the letters or the code is like hidden inside the ground? [1557.5s] I mean, I thought the code would be the letters, but. [1561.3s] Well, say the letters. [1562.4s] Well, we don't know which cross is one, two or three. [1569.7s] Well, you have one row, you have two rows, you have three rows. [1573.4s] And then the right, right? [1575.2s] That's what that's creepy skull said. [1577.0s] Yeah. [1577.9s] And then the skull says to the right of the cross, the code will be. [1581.7s] So you got the one, you got the two, you got the three, [1584.4s] and then to the right of the cross, you've got letters. [1588.8s] So then why E.D.A. or or just said E.D. [1597.3s] As you say said E.D., you hear a almost a crack come from the door [1607.2s] and light goes just emanates out from the door [1612.5s] and you hear the cackling laughter and whooshing a swirling wind kick up behind you [1619.8s] as the door cracks open. [1623.0s] And you won't get a fucking this house. [1629.2s] The wind pours down on top of you. [1632.9s] Sully runs to the house. [1634.3s] Behind it, you turn and you see atop a broomstick, a witch. [1640.2s] That's a motherfucking witch in long black flowing cloak [1645.9s] and a wide brimmed pointed hat. [1648.8s] And she says you have broke my code. [1652.4s] I will kill you before you ruin my curse. [1656.3s] It's half broken, you bitch. [1658.4s] Roll for initiative. [1659.7s] That's right. [1660.2s] I corrected her, her grammar and insulted her by calling her a bad name. [1666.3s] Solid work. [1667.3s] Sixteen. [1668.0s] Eleven. [1669.9s] Eight. [1670.7s] Twelve. [1671.1s] I know how to count. [1674.4s] Order Glim, you are up first. [1676.3s] Guys, I broke the code. [1679.1s] Yeah, you did. [1681.0s] Was that so much easier than we were making it out to be? [1684.6s] It always is. [1685.3s] It was so much easier than we were making it out to be. [1688.8s] How far away is this bitchy witch? [1692.6s] She's coming over top of the trees, so she's up in the air, [1696.8s] probably 30 or 40 feet and then another 20 feet from you, [1701.6s] so she's quite a ways away. [1703.0s] Would you say she's up in the air like she just don't care? [1705.8s] I would say that. [1706.7s] She seems to care quite a bit. [1708.0s] You could. [1708.8s] Why, I guess. [1710.1s] Uh, I am going to... [1714.9s] So my throwing weapon has a range of 30 to 120 feet. [1718.7s] Sounds like I could try and hit her with it. [1721.2s] You could. [1721.7s] Dope. [1722.1s] I'm gonna javelin this bitch like I'm in the Olympics. [1726.7s] That's an Olympic sport. [1728.7s] What else would javelin be? [1730.6s] Witch javelin. [1733.1s] No, witch javelin specifically. [1735.4s] Just javelin. [1736.6s] I mean, it probably was back in the day though. [1738.8s] Who knows? [1740.0s] That is a 16. [1744.6s] Is that going to hit the witch? [1747.2s] No. [1747.7s] Damn. [1748.2s] No, it will not. [1749.2s] Oh shit, you know our level ones, right? [1752.6s] You throw this javelin, [1754.8s] you ran towards the door. [1759.7s] Me? Yes, I did. [1762.9s] From around the side, you catch out of the corner of your eye, [1766.5s] Esau coming around with a shovel. [1769.4s] Fucking Esau with a shovel. [1771.0s] And that's going to be an 18. [1774.1s] He swings at you with this shovel. [1776.1s] Yeah, he hits me with his shovel. [1778.4s] That's going to be two bludgeoning damage to the side of your shoulder. [1784.8s] Oh, guys, I'm bloodied. [1790.4s] It's your turn. [1792.6s] Uh, I turn on him and with daggers in both hands go to stab, stab, stab him. [1800.0s] I don't even like, there's no waiting. [1802.3s] Do it. [1802.6s] Only stabbing. [1804.8s] If I have a dagger in each hand, do I roll for each dagger? [1808.5s] Do you have two-armed attack? [1811.8s] No. [1812.7s] So, no, you roll once and stab him with one. [1815.9s] No, I want to slash him with my rapier instead. [1820.8s] Okay. [1822.7s] Ah, 15. [1824.6s] That will hit. [1825.3s] Yeah, well, fuck you, Esau. [1829.0s] Then seven slashing damage, you bitch. [1831.6s] You slice into his side and blood begins to pour, [1834.7s] but it's kind of like a purplish gray color as it oozes down his side. [1839.4s] Oh, god, purple gray. [1840.7s] Like the mushrooms? [1841.8s] Like the mushrooms. [1843.4s] God damn it, Russell. [1845.7s] I didn't do anything. [1846.6s] Take this game. [1847.7s] I immediately try to make myself vomit. [1853.1s] Make a constitution saving throw. [1854.6s] Fine. [1856.4s] Well, that is a 16. [1859.6s] So you don't vomit. [1860.5s] Ah, fuck. [1861.2s] No, it seems like you would overpower your own constitution. [1863.2s] She's trying to want to vomit. [1865.4s] I'm just kidding. [1866.8s] You can vomit if you want to. [1868.0s] Yeah, we can vomit if we want to. [1870.6s] Can you vomit all over him? [1873.7s] I wouldn't leave that mushroom behind. [1877.3s] Yeah, I want to try it. [1878.1s] I want to throw up on him, at least on his shoes. [1881.8s] You're right in front of him. [1882.8s] I can say, yeah, you slice at him with your rapier [1886.2s] and then just put your other hand finger down your throat [1890.1s] and just spew vomit all over him. [1893.7s] I hope this becomes Sully's signature move. [1895.9s] Sully, why do you get like 17,000 million calories a day? [1905.4s] Well, because some of that comes back up later. [1910.0s] The witch swoops down on her broom towards you, glim. [1918.8s] And strikes you with the tip of the broom for a 19. [1923.8s] Damn it. [1925.5s] That would hurt. [1927.2s] I've been jabbed with a broom before. [1929.7s] That's going to be three bludgeoning damage [1933.0s] and make a strength saving throw. [1938.6s] 16. [1939.2s] You stay on your feet but are knocked about five feet [1942.0s] back towards the house as she swoops past you, [1945.6s] cackling maniacally through the air. [1949.7s] Moot, you are up. [1951.6s] OK, do I know anything about which? [1955.0s] No, I wouldn't think I would. [1957.4s] You're flipping through your notepad. [1960.2s] When did they tell that story? [1962.0s] I've had it indexed properly, but no, nothing under witches. [1967.4s] I'm going to look at this witch [1969.2s] and I'm going to try out a little something [1970.9s] that Gabriel taught me right before we parted ways. [1974.7s] A little ditty I like to call magic missile. [1977.7s] OK, flashback scene then. [1983.1s] You guys are sitting around probably [1985.2s] after one of your training sessions. [1987.8s] We're out in the field by the river there [1991.5s] that we were in before. [1993.9s] And Gabriel set up like a row of antique cans [1997.7s] along like a couple of stumps. [2000.8s] All right, so you like to ruin drinks. [2003.7s] I get it. [2004.6s] I found your focus. [2007.6s] These pretend they're full. [2010.0s] OK, yeah, yeah. [2011.5s] Yeah, you see? [2014.0s] So now what you're going to do [2016.8s] is you're going to knock them over with force. [2020.1s] Now, I can hit all of these cans? [2025.7s] All at once. [2027.8s] Huh, you're sure about this. [2031.0s] I can I can hit all three at once. [2033.2s] I mean, I'm hoping. [2035.0s] For your sake, I mean, my previous stuff, [2037.3s] it's all been kind of like one at a time, [2039.8s] but this is going to this is going to do multiples. [2042.8s] Yeah, you have to, you know, think about it like. [2048.2s] You know, when you really got a fart. [2051.6s] OK, how you just there's a lot of people around. [2058.4s] OK, and you're like, I shouldn't fart, [2061.0s] but it's going to feel real good after you do it. [2064.2s] OK, so maybe you push a little too hard. [2068.1s] OK, what is this analogy? [2074.1s] I want to rewind the video, [2075.6s] the exact moment you say that probably be like. [2081.1s] Just like, yeah, yeah, what? [2084.8s] And then things come out. [2090.0s] OK, where's he shooting these missiles? [2093.8s] I. It's a feeling more than anything. [2098.0s] OK, it's not like an actual practical [2099.9s] shooting things out of your behind. [2101.5s] You have me really worried there. [2102.8s] The emotion and the feeling. [2104.5s] Maybe they'll come out your butt. [2105.7s] I don't know, but we're going to wait and find out. [2109.9s] Why did anyone tell him what being a wizard was like? [2112.8s] It's a sorcerer. [2113.6s] It's a sorcerer. [2115.6s] Doesn't come out of their butt when they're a wizard. [2118.4s] So he just kind of takes a step back. [2121.6s] So you use that as you will. [2124.6s] Oh, OK, it's really like scared about this now. [2130.7s] But yeah, so he kind of. [2133.5s] Takes a look at all three targets [2136.3s] and in his mind, they all kind of just combine into like one. [2141.5s] And he like puts his hand up and three bolts [2146.8s] and escape from his hand and they strike all three targets all at once. [2150.8s] As this scene dissolves. [2157.6s] Those same three bolts fly out of your hand, [2162.0s] I assume, not your butt. [2163.6s] Definitely my hand and up and towards this witch [2167.2s] and strike her in the back as she swooped away. [2172.3s] Roll some damage. [2174.7s] That was a weird way to say that. [2176.0s] I really was. [2177.2s] Roll some damage. [2178.4s] This is pretty good, though. [2179.5s] Four, four and three. [2180.7s] So that is eleven force damage. [2183.7s] They strike into her back. [2186.6s] Glim and Sully, you're kind of facing away. [2189.6s] You hear you hear like whistling eruptions come. [2195.1s] Hillip and Glim, you see these three magical bolts of energy [2200.6s] hit the back of the witch, which propels her forward. [2203.9s] And she turns and she looks at you. [2206.3s] And it's no longer a laugh, more of a scream [2210.3s] as she howls and turns and makes her way back around for another attack. [2218.0s] Hillip's turn and he goes to help Sully [2224.4s] and swings at Esau with his dagger and strikes him. [2230.3s] Yeah, he does. [2230.9s] For sixteen. [2231.4s] Come help me out, buddy. [2232.6s] And that's going to be five piercing damage. [2236.5s] He stabs right in the wound again and Esau drops to his knee. [2240.7s] And he says, that's ucky goop. [2242.8s] Why does his blood look so different? [2246.1s] I don't know why. [2246.8s] This is so nonchAlydint for me. [2248.5s] I should not be this easy with killing people. [2252.7s] But he seems freaky and weird. [2255.6s] So I don't think he's human, really. [2258.5s] But his blood's the same color as those mushrooms. [2261.2s] Oh, that could be problematic in the later story. [2266.8s] As he's saying this, he looks in. [2268.4s] He said, hey, he kind of you see him looking through the door. [2272.0s] He says, hey, there's an orb in there. [2275.9s] Well, yeah, I was headed into the house to see if there was anything I could fuck up. [2280.5s] Sweet. [2281.6s] Well, maybe once this guy is. [2285.5s] You see Esau drop to his knees and look up at you. [2288.9s] And the light kind of leaves his eyes as they suck back into his head. [2294.1s] And he turns to dissolving into mud and sand and disperses into the ground below you. [2315.0s] Welcome back to the middle. [2318.9s] Oh, that was nice. [2320.4s] Oh, wow, that took a turn. [2323.9s] Wow. [2324.7s] I just felt needed a little grit. [2326.2s] And he put some stink on it. [2327.8s] Yeah, I did. [2329.3s] I really did. [2330.8s] Well, where do you go from there? [2333.6s] I don't really feel that you can go anywhere. [2335.4s] We tell people, no, no, no. [2337.8s] We tell people that we have new Patreon tiers that you can go check out. [2342.4s] That's what we tell people. [2344.4s] Over at Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. [2346.7s] We've been working on this for a little while. [2348.7s] Kind of talking to our existing patrons, talking to some other industry insiders. [2353.3s] You know how it is. [2354.7s] The industry insiders. [2356.0s] That's right. [2356.3s] We're so hooked up. [2357.1s] But no, we've been kind of working on this, trying to figure out [2360.4s] what we can do to give our patrons, the people who give us money to keep doing this [2367.8s] and doing it better and better every single time and give them something fun and exciting [2373.7s] and that we're excited about and that they're excited about. [2376.5s] And I think we've done it. [2378.4s] But George, I think we've done it. [2379.5s] Craft a code. [2380.4s] In that long roundabout way. [2381.9s] So you can go to Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. [2384.3s] And I'd love you to go at least just take a look at it. [2386.4s] See what we've got going on over there. [2388.8s] So some of the new things that we're, one of the existing things that we're adding, [2392.0s] but we've changed the kind of the way that it's released [2394.0s] is the Adventures of Bonus episodes, which are DM'd by lovely Tom Laird. [2399.2s] Hey, that's me. [2400.1s] That's you. [2401.2s] They are now released monthly. [2402.8s] So every month, whereas before we do like a six to 10 episode season. [2408.5s] Take a break for something else and then come back to it. [2410.8s] You're going to get one of those, those, those sweet, sweet nuggets every month. [2415.6s] I have a super fun idea in my head for the next few episodes. [2420.6s] I am not sure how I'm going to translate that to in game, [2424.2s] but we're going to see if it works. [2426.2s] You know what? [2427.0s] That first episode comes out in two weeks. [2430.4s] So we will find out altogether if it worked out. [2434.4s] Also, we are launching a new show in January, 2020 called Facing Fate. [2442.1s] That's right. [2443.6s] What is Facing Fate? [2445.2s] It is collaborative storytelling and it is frightening to play and even listen to. [2455.6s] I like this. [2456.2s] This is like Russ quizzes us about the things that we do [2459.6s] and then asks us like, what are you doing? [2461.7s] And we're like, well, I don't know. [2463.3s] How would you describe this to people? [2464.9s] Show your work. [2466.0s] So what Facing Fate is in the little blurb right up? [2469.2s] It's an anthology based actual play podcast where we release two seasons a year. [2476.0s] The first season, which comes out January, 2020, [2478.4s] and is available September 16th exclusively to patrons is a sci-fi based thriller. [2486.1s] Now, if you're a patron of ours from before, you've heard the first six episodes, [2490.5s] but Russ has remastered them and added a little more pizzazz to them. [2496.1s] And plus, there's more episodes on top of those original sets. [2498.5s] That's right. [2498.8s] We've extended it to be a full 10 episode season. [2502.5s] So patrons have access to that right now. [2504.3s] Now we've ramped enough, I think. [2505.6s] Let's ramp up to that big one. [2506.9s] What do we got? [2507.8s] What's bigger than playing with your favorite Dumbgeons and Dragons podcasters? [2515.1s] Nothing. [2515.4s] The answer is nothing. [2516.2s] We're really good at selling ourselves here. [2522.1s] We don't know how rhetorical questions work. [2525.4s] Big part of the feedback that we got from existing patrons is that [2529.2s] a lot of people wanted the chance or the ability to be able to [2534.0s] hang out with us or play games with us. [2536.0s] And this is the way that we've kind of worked it, [2538.4s] that we can make it something that is possible. [2541.2s] And we want to play games with you is what we're saying. [2544.0s] We love playing games. [2544.9s] I don't know if you guys know this about us. [2546.8s] So all those new things are over on Patreon. [2548.6s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. [2550.8s] Ahead in the feed, we've released a bit of a longer episode [2553.2s] kind of breaking down each of the tiers, [2555.0s] what some of those things mean. [2556.1s] So go listen to that. [2556.9s] If you skipped over it, totally understand it. [2559.0s] Or if you just don't want to read it from the Patreon page. [2562.2s] Yeah. [2562.6s] If you don't want to do that, we will explain it to you over there. [2565.2s] Thanks, everybody. [2566.0s] Hopefully you enjoy this next part of the episode where [2570.2s] Stuff happens. [2570.8s] Stuff is happening. [2571.3s] Stuff happens. [2572.7s] We're in the middle of the forest still. [2574.3s] So, you know, it's all good. [2579.8s] Glim, it's your turn. [2581.8s] Well, I think I because I don't have any other ranged attacks. [2584.4s] So I would have come around to also try and fight Esau [2589.2s] because I was delighted there was going to be a person on the ground [2591.8s] I could fight since I threw my javelin. [2593.8s] And that's all I can do and the witch is in the air. [2597.6s] So I don't know if I heard any of that explanation, [2603.1s] not explanation, but make a perception check. [2606.6s] The orb, orbness. [2608.9s] Well, I don't perceive sweet FA because that's a five. [2616.0s] So I come around the corner and say, Hey guys, what's going on? [2620.4s] There's an orb in there. [2621.4s] Did you not hear me? [2622.2s] You were like five feet away. [2623.4s] Oh, I was so disturbed by Esau just like [2628.4s] Yeah, he's just like [2630.2s] Blah, blah, blah. [2631.4s] Yes, that's a perfect way to describe it. [2634.1s] Yeah, you saw it too. [2635.5s] Phillip, can you remind me? [2638.0s] I know there was an orb in the story. [2639.6s] Do we destroy the orb to save the people? [2642.4s] Do we take the orb? [2645.8s] This is a long winded conversation for having right now [2648.8s] when the witch is going to swing back [2650.8s] and get your magic blasty blasty friend. [2652.6s] You're right. [2653.1s] I run in and grab the orb or I try and go in and take the orb. [2657.2s] As you run in, he's yelling behind you. [2659.0s] He's like the orb supposedly powered the windmill and kept the evil away. [2666.0s] I actually remembered that. [2667.4s] I could have given that information. [2669.2s] Oh, do you want to? [2670.2s] Nah, it's fine. [2671.6s] But I just want to say for the record, [2673.9s] I remembered that's what the orb was for. [2675.0s] I couldn't remember. [2675.8s] I just remembered that the orb was part of it. [2678.3s] I didn't remember if it was good or bad. [2679.5s] Yeah, the light, the windmill and the light. [2682.5s] We'll say you make it to the orb and you're able to pick it up. [2685.8s] It is a glowing rainbow Illuminescence. [2690.5s] Iridescence, I guess, is probably a better term [2693.5s] because Illuminescence isn't a word. [2695.1s] But it's a really pretty word you just made up. [2697.2s] It is, right? [2698.0s] Yeah. [2698.6s] Celia, it's your turn. [2700.4s] Where's the witch at this point? [2702.9s] She's swooping back around [2704.8s] and is looking like she's aiming towards Moot. [2709.0s] I will take out my short bow [2712.6s] because Glim totally ran in there [2715.2s] and did the thing that I was going to do. [2717.6s] Thanks, Glim. [2719.5s] And I shoot my short bow at her. [2723.1s] Do it. [2724.8s] Fucking twos. [2726.4s] It goes wide and off into the trees. [2729.0s] And let that be a warning to you. [2731.6s] Glim, sorry, I could have said [2733.7s] that you see along the walls many shelves [2738.2s] and you see a large number of various potions and herbs. [2742.8s] What you can presume to be potions and herbs [2744.9s] kind of scattered, not scattered, [2746.4s] but organized throughout this hut. [2748.5s] And it is the witch's turn. [2751.3s] And she is going to swoop down. [2753.4s] And kill me. [2755.6s] Towards Moot. [2758.9s] You went fucking far left. [2761.2s] She didn't even know you tried to shoot at her. [2765.1s] That's going to be a 21 to hit you [2767.2s] as she swoops down. [2769.1s] Good sir. [2771.2s] And three bludgeoning damage [2773.8s] and a strength saving throw, please. [2776.4s] Okie dokie. [2777.3s] Just straight up? [2779.6s] Yes, sir. [2781.7s] Oh, 19. [2783.4s] You remain on your feet [2784.4s] but are knocked back five feet towards the hut as well. [2787.1s] Okay. [2789.0s] And she swoops down [2790.3s] and is making her ascent back up. [2793.6s] It's your turn. [2798.1s] You hear commotion behind you [2799.6s] as your friends are running into and around the hut. [2805.5s] Okay, I'm going to throw a ray of frost her way. [2812.4s] What's the range on that? [2814.1s] The range is 60 feet. [2816.4s] Okay, yep. [2817.8s] Okay. [2821.5s] That is an 18. [2826.1s] That will hit. [2827.3s] Yeah, will! [2829.6s] Alright, so you're going to take five cold damage [2834.6s] and your speed is reduced by 10 [2837.5s] until the start of, I guess, my next turn? [2842.4s] Yes, my next turn. [2843.1s] It's usually how it works, yeah. [2845.0s] That is relevant. [2847.8s] Okay, she lets out another scream as your ray hits her [2852.9s] and you can visibly see that her speed through the air is slowing down. [2860.0s] Do you want to do anything else on your turn? [2863.6s] Move, speak, do anything. [2866.0s] I guess take a peek at what's happening with that orb and say, [2870.3s] ooh, what do we do with that? [2872.7s] Well, it says it's supposed to be powers of windmill from the story. [2876.8s] We should probably get it back to the windmill. [2878.6s] Maybe that'll kill the witch. [2881.1s] Kills a witch, kills a witch. [2884.2s] Look at all this cool stuff in here. [2885.7s] Maybe we come back afterwards and just see. [2887.8s] We have so many things to collect after. [2889.4s] My god, yes. [2890.1s] It's Hillop's turn. [2890.9s] He's like, so are we running with the thing? [2893.2s] I'm definitely going to run with the thing. [2895.2s] Like, we need to get it back to the windmill, right? [2897.2s] And I don't even have any kind of weapons I can use on a flying enemy, so. [2901.3s] We'll cover you. [2908.4s] We got your back. [2910.2s] All right. [2910.5s] Everybody begins running. [2913.2s] You are dashing, I presume, because you are running with the orb to get it back. [2918.0s] Sure. [2918.7s] I'm way at the fucking back of this. [2922.3s] Oh, because your speed's less. [2924.9s] It's only 25. [2927.2s] I'm so small. [2928.8s] Okay, so you make it out and there is a pathway on the other side of the hut that you begin [2935.2s] to make your way down towards. [2936.4s] It's the only pathway unless you cut through the woods somewhere. [2941.0s] I mean, I don't know. [2945.3s] Didn't oh, no, because we don't know. [2946.8s] We've never been at this hut before. [2948.7s] I was going to say, didn't we? [2949.6s] We cut through the woods. [2950.4s] It was fine. [2951.0s] But I don't know. [2952.8s] Witch made a man out of the other quicksand. [2957.7s] So I feel like I'll stick with the path, even though it'll take longer. [2963.5s] Sully. [2966.1s] The witch has you can see that she's kind of slowed, but is making her way back towards [2972.0s] more aiming now towards Glim, who has the orb. [2976.7s] How many feet is she for me? [2978.4s] My short bow goes to 320 feet. [2980.4s] Will it fit? [2980.9s] Will it fit? [2982.4s] Will it hit? [2983.2s] It will fit. [2985.2s] If it fits, it hits. [2987.0s] I'm going to I'm going to shoot her with an arrow. [2992.1s] Twenty six. [2992.8s] Damn. [2994.7s] Yeah, you strike the witch right in the shoulder and she can knock her off course [2999.6s] a little bit. [3000.9s] Roll damage. [3002.4s] Sully's good with that bow. [3004.5s] It's a six. [3005.8s] So it's an eleven. [3010.4s] An enormous scream and a blast of wind comes forth. [3015.2s] Everybody make a dexterity saving throw. [3018.4s] Oh, good. [3018.8s] One of my strong suits. [3020.0s] Yeah, right. [3020.5s] Me too. [3021.9s] Oh, fourteen. [3022.8s] That's not bad. [3023.9s] Twenty. [3024.8s] Not now. [3025.6s] Thirteen. [3027.2s] Hylip is knocked to the ground. [3029.9s] Actually, Hylip's still in the hut, so that doesn't matter. [3032.8s] Oh, Hylip didn't come running with us? [3034.4s] Well, I mean, we're not you can't run at the same time. [3036.8s] Like we're going in initiative order here. [3038.6s] So those two would have started. [3040.0s] You would have used your movement to get out. [3043.2s] And then your action to shoot. [3045.8s] Glim. [3046.8s] Sorry, what did you get for Glim? [3049.4s] Thirteen. [3050.4s] Thirteen. [3051.8s] You are knocked prone. [3057.2s] And then it is the witch's turn and she's going to fly. [3061.3s] God, I killed her. [3062.2s] I got so excited. [3063.2s] Oh, no. [3065.0s] Oh, honey, no. [3066.4s] Honey, no. [3068.0s] She swings down at you for a twelve. [3073.2s] At me? [3074.4s] That will not hit. [3076.5s] She glides right over top of you and like it's a cat frustrated cackle [3082.5s] that she lets out as she glides over top of you and back up into the air. [3087.1s] Moot. [3089.5s] Yeah, OK. [3091.2s] So sorry, you did not get knocked prone because you're still in the hut. [3094.0s] Sure. [3095.2s] I guess I make my way out of the hut. [3097.6s] OK. [3098.3s] Um, yeah, how far away is the witch from me at this point? [3104.1s] She's up and in front of Glim. [3106.5s] So probably 60, 75 feet in front of you from where because Glim dashed. [3115.1s] So she's way the fuck out. [3116.6s] OK, I'm going to cast Chill Touch, which has a range of 120 feet. [3124.1s] I create a skeletal hand in the space of a creature within range. [3128.4s] And I make a range spell attack against said creature. [3132.1s] Cool. [3133.1s] Right. [3136.1s] That is a 14. [3140.1s] The hand appears and misses her. [3145.3s] It's kind of glances or just glances along the back of her flowing robes. [3151.1s] You see them kind of freeze and shrivel, but then go back to their normal state and you miss. [3158.3s] So use your full movement to pursue all your friends. [3161.2s] Yep. [3161.7s] Hylip does the same. [3163.0s] He uses his dash to come run towards Glim and aids you and helps you up so you don't [3170.8s] have to use your movement to stand next time. [3174.0s] That's neighborly. [3176.6s] Says you got to run fast as it gets to the thing. [3179.7s] It's a windmill. [3180.5s] I forgot where we were. [3184.5s] It's back to you, Glim. [3185.3s] OK, I'm going to keep on running. [3189.1s] You do so. [3190.3s] You round two bins. [3193.5s] There's no turnoffs and you make it back to the area that looks very familiar, [3201.7s] but the ground has kind of settled. [3204.1s] Make a perception check. [3206.8s] Oh, I actually made a pretty good roll. [3210.5s] 19. [3212.9s] This is the quicksand area where you found Esau originally. [3216.5s] So you kind of stop short of this quicksand area that had seemingly caught him previously. [3225.7s] Great. [3226.4s] And that is your full movement. [3230.2s] Sully? [3231.7s] Do I still see the witch in the air? [3234.9s] From yes. [3236.1s] Yes? [3236.5s] OK, I want to hit her again. [3239.3s] Pull another arrow out of my quiver. [3242.9s] Draw the end do the thing. [3246.9s] It's a 20. [3249.2s] Damn, damn. [3252.6s] Roll me some damage. [3254.0s] Yeah, some damn, damn damage. [3256.0s] I only get to add my bonus once, right? [3258.1s] Yes, roll twice. [3259.3s] Oh, fuck. [3261.3s] OK, so that's 11. [3266.4s] Your arrow flies and impales in her back and you see her dip below the tree line, [3272.7s] letting out another hideous scream. [3275.2s] Dad, why won't you die? [3278.4s] Nobody knows. [3280.8s] And as you do that, do you use any of your movement? [3283.6s] Yeah, I continue to run forward after Glim. [3287.9s] So you've run a total of 50 feet. [3290.1s] She has run 120 feet around many corners. [3292.7s] So you've lost sight of her, but you were running in the direction that she had left. [3297.7s] You look above the tree line and the witch turns [3300.6s] around and seems to be trying to figure out where everybody is. [3307.4s] She kind of hovers above the tree, doesn't look like she's moving anywhere. [3311.8s] Moot. [3314.3s] OK, I'm ways back, I would assume, at this point. [3317.7s] Yes, sir. [3319.7s] Well, you would have moved 30 feet, so you're a little bit behind, Sully. [3323.7s] OK. [3325.5s] Yeah, I guess I'll try Chill Touch again. [3327.3s] It's probably the best one I have for range and stuff. [3330.1s] So. [3332.5s] All right, big money. [3335.3s] That's a 15. [3336.4s] It's one better than last time. [3339.8s] It still misses. [3340.6s] OK. [3341.8s] Yep. [3343.1s] Move. [3343.7s] Yes. [3344.3s] Yep. [3345.2s] So you run forward past Sully by 10 feet. [3350.0s] Sully's just running. [3352.1s] Uh, Hillop is in pursuit of Glim as well, and he sees you stop. [3358.7s] He's running kind of right behind you as you're going, sees you stop, [3361.7s] almost runs into you and says, why did we stop? [3365.4s] It's the quicksand spot. [3367.3s] We got to. [3368.6s] Oh, yeah, look at that. [3370.9s] Very good eyes. [3371.7s] I was paying attention more to, I don't even know. [3375.7s] I was just following you. [3376.9s] Good thing you stopped. [3379.7s] And it is back to your turn. [3381.0s] You continue to run. [3382.3s] Yeah, but, you know, skirting the edges of the quicksand. [3385.6s] Yep. [3386.0s] You skirt the edge of the quicksand. [3387.4s] Now, when you had previously come to the quicksand, [3389.7s] you had cut through the trees from the windmill [3392.8s] because you had heard yelling through the trees. [3395.3s] I will do that again. [3396.3s] It was safe last time. [3398.1s] Yep. [3398.6s] You do so and you end up in front of the windmill. [3402.1s] We'll say that it's out of order, [3404.3s] but we'll say that Hillop is right behind you following in tow. [3407.4s] Sully. [3407.9s] Sully. [3409.7s] Is the witch still just hovering above? [3413.1s] Yes, for the moment. [3414.4s] I'm going to. [3418.2s] You know. [3418.7s] Sully's going to shoot a shot. [3421.8s] 17. [3422.7s] That will hit. [3425.0s] At least somebody's hitting. [3426.0s] See, you just keep moving up one. [3427.8s] Eventually. [3429.3s] I kept rolling it on my crotch. [3431.5s] Seven. [3434.2s] It goes and it cuts in front of her [3436.9s] and you see a big tear in her robe [3439.8s] and she you see like blood spew out into the air above you [3446.0s] and she turns and her eyes glow [3448.2s] and she turns to aim towards you. [3451.9s] I've ran 25 feet. [3455.8s] Then you're running towards her 25 feet [3459.0s] and she swoops down towards you. [3463.1s] That's only going to be an 11. [3464.9s] That won't hit me. [3466.9s] Fair enough. [3467.5s] Then she goes above you as you duck and dodge. [3471.0s] You have to duck or did she maybe just think I was taller than I really am? [3474.2s] You dodge, dip, duck, dive, and dodge. [3478.6s] I dodged twice. [3479.8s] That's right. [3480.2s] So we're back to back to Glim and Hillop. [3483.5s] So you're about 30 feet from the door. [3485.9s] Great. [3486.2s] Well, I'm going to try and make it that last 30 feet. [3490.2s] That's my movement. [3491.0s] You make it to the door and it is locked. [3495.4s] Right. [3497.3s] Okay, I want to try and kick it. [3504.4s] Cool. [3505.2s] Because, you know, what else am I going to do? [3507.5s] Strength. [3508.7s] Okay, so. [3511.5s] Roll that strength. [3512.3s] We'll say with advantage because I would assume Hillop would try and help you. [3517.2s] So I will do an unarmed strike because that's one of my things I can do. [3522.1s] Yeah, sure. [3524.2s] Okay, that is a 14. [3527.4s] It's not great. [3528.6s] No, a 15. [3531.0s] Okay, you hit the door. [3532.1s] 15 on door and then oh, the other one was lower. [3537.0s] Does anything happen? [3538.5s] And I do some damage. [3539.4s] Roll me damage. [3540.0s] Okay. [3540.4s] Roll me damage. [3541.4s] Oh, damage is five. [3542.7s] Defeat the building. [3543.4s] I'll roll it. [3544.2s] It just is five. [3545.4s] Oh, it's just five. [3546.8s] Cool. [3547.8s] The wood begins to crack. [3549.7s] You hear like a sickening thud as it as it cracks, [3553.6s] but does not open. [3554.6s] Okay. [3555.8s] Sully. [3557.4s] I turn around to see her swoop by me and I unleash another arrow. [3563.9s] Sure. [3566.5s] Oh, fuck. [3569.2s] Nine. [3573.8s] I obviously try to do that as I'm running. [3576.2s] Wasn't. [3579.6s] Yeah, it goes. [3580.2s] And I run. [3585.0s] You see the witch go up and in and something catches her eye [3589.7s] and she zips off above the tree line [3594.5s] in the direction where you presume Glim would have run. [3599.1s] Come back here, you tacky whore. [3601.0s] Moot. [3601.7s] You've kind of lost sight of the witch. [3606.2s] Okay, can I dash Delma moves? [3610.0s] You sure can. [3611.7s] So you're going to have been. [3617.0s] Okay, you make it to the edge of the quicksand area. [3624.2s] Make a perception check. [3628.7s] 18. [3630.2s] You definitely recognize this as that as that area [3633.2s] and skirt or able to skirt around the edge. [3636.6s] Um, Hillop says, so you're going to just punchy punchy to the door [3642.1s] or do we got those cool tools that your other friend had? [3645.5s] I don't know how to do that. [3646.6s] I only can I can hit really hard, but I don't have the finesse or the tools. [3652.7s] I should have picked the little one up. [3656.0s] Someone come back for me. [3658.8s] Do we split the party again and I go that way to go get him [3662.1s] or do I stay here and kick? [3663.4s] You could do that, but can you kick first and then run in the other direction? [3668.2s] Just a little kicky kicky. [3670.9s] He rolls a seven to kick and he's like, oh, my ankle. [3675.5s] Oh, I remember you hurt your leg when you fell down with the chest. [3678.7s] Okay, maybe now you're in pain. [3681.1s] I don't know how helpful it'll be. [3682.5s] But yeah, do you mind heading back and. [3685.8s] I shall go try. [3687.1s] He hobbles, kind of run hobbles. [3690.0s] He's like, little friend. [3692.8s] Little friend, where are you? [3695.4s] It's your turn, Glenn. [3696.6s] Okay, I am going to kick again. [3700.8s] Yep, that is 25. [3705.0s] It's a little bit better. [3705.7s] I did it. [3706.2s] I kicked the door, you guys. [3707.6s] You kicked that door. [3708.6s] It's still just five damage, so it's just five. [3711.4s] The wood begins to splinter, but you're still unable to. [3716.2s] It hasn't removed from the hinges and you don't have a way to reach in through the wood. [3721.0s] That was going to be my question. [3722.5s] I just like push it, poke it through. [3725.0s] Not yet. [3726.6s] Yeah, Sully. [3729.1s] You've lost sight of the witch. [3730.3s] Yeah, I just I dash. [3732.8s] Okay, you make it kind of right behind where moot is. [3737.1s] Hey, buddy. [3738.9s] Hey, Sully. [3741.2s] We're not cut out for this. [3744.2s] You want to carry me? [3745.9s] No. [3746.8s] Okay. [3749.8s] That's all I do. [3751.2s] Okay, make a perception check. [3752.7s] Yeah. [3753.9s] All right, stand. [3755.8s] Oh, I perceive nothing. [3760.0s] Four. [3763.4s] You don't recognize the area. [3766.2s] Where are we? [3769.9s] Sully, wait. [3771.9s] Oh, he's behind you. [3773.1s] He runs too slow. [3774.0s] Yeah, no, I was going in front of you. [3775.2s] Oh, I assumed he would be dashing at this point. [3776.6s] Yeah, no. [3777.4s] Well, he is dashing, but he still has... [3779.6s] He still hasn't caught up. [3780.2s] He's got 25 feet movement. [3781.9s] Okay, can I give him a little heads up that the quicksand's on the way? [3785.4s] Absolutely. [3786.0s] All right. [3786.3s] Sully, the quicksand's up ahead. [3787.7s] Watch out. [3790.1s] Thanks, moot. [3791.0s] Thanks, buddy. [3794.2s] Glim, you hear the cackle come over the trees and you turn to see the witch [3799.0s] and she is diving down towards you. [3802.6s] And that is going to be a 20 not critical to hit you. [3805.5s] Well, that will hit me. [3806.6s] They not crit. [3807.4s] Jesus. [3808.5s] And that's going to be two bludgeoning damage and a strength saving throw. [3814.5s] Okay. [3815.0s] Oh, maybe she pushes you into and through the door. [3817.0s] Oh, I actually rolled a good strength save, you guys. [3819.5s] It's never... [3820.6s] It hasn't happened yet. [3821.2s] Are you really strong? [3822.6s] I am strong, but I've been rolling like twos. [3824.6s] I rolled a nat 20, but I have a four, so it's 24, so... [3828.6s] I feel like she should, like, ricochet off you and take it. [3831.1s] Off my shield. [3833.0s] It's like in... [3833.9s] You grab her broom and she keeps going. [3836.5s] When Wile E. Coyote hits the wall, but... [3840.2s] No, so, yeah, she hits you, glances off you, and you stand strong [3845.8s] as she zips up above the windmill. [3849.3s] And you see her and turn and she looks down at you [3853.9s] and there begins to this purple, dark, black glowing energy about her [3861.1s] as it is Moot's turn. [3863.6s] Uh, how far am I from the, like, the clearing outside the windmill? [3868.9s] Um, the way that you came, another dash would get you to the clearing. [3875.0s] Okay, but I can't get there on just my normal moves, eh? [3878.4s] Okay, dash it up. [3880.0s] All right, you make it back and through the trees [3882.0s] which you came and you see Glim standing at the windmill, [3885.4s] a damaged door and this glowing energy [3889.6s] now surrounding the witch up and to the left of the windmill. [3893.3s] You see, you pass by Hillop as he's like, [3896.6s] did you see the little friend? [3898.6s] He's right back there. [3900.0s] I will go get him, maybe. [3903.5s] Save the orb and the friend. [3906.2s] I'm working on it, Hillop. [3908.8s] He dashes, but he's lost some of his movement, [3911.5s] so he makes it out into the quicksand right in front of you, Sully, [3916.7s] and he's like, hey, do you want to hop on my back? [3919.8s] I'm a little sore, but apparently you run very slowly. [3925.3s] Uh, how far away is he? [3928.5s] He's, like, right in front of you. [3929.8s] Oh, um. [3933.4s] You basically have the same movement mechanics-wise at this point. [3936.5s] Oh, maybe you could, like, shoot from his back if he dashes. [3939.4s] You could hold on to your action [3941.3s] and then, like, shoot your bow from his back as you come in. [3943.8s] Ooh, yes, I want to do that. [3946.3s] That does sound fun. [3948.1s] Yeah, it does, yeah. [3949.0s] I get on his shoulders. [3950.2s] You hop aboard. [3951.1s] Glim, it is your turn. [3952.6s] Well, I'm just going to keep kicking that door [3954.5s] because it's really what I got to do. [3957.8s] So that is 16 for door. [3962.7s] That will hit the door. [3964.2s] Thank God. [3965.2s] So five damage. [3968.7s] The door busts in, crushing into the room. [3975.2s] There's, like, a vacuum pull sucking all the debris into the room [3980.9s] and you feel this wind gushing behind you. [3984.6s] Can I go in? [3987.0s] As you step in with the orb, you feel it pulling from your hand. [3992.5s] Do you do anything in particular? [3997.9s] Just watch in wonderment at the miracle that I'm witnessing. [4002.2s] Ha. [4003.4s] It lifts and pulls to the center of the windmill and sucks up [4007.4s] and you hear the gears begin to churn. [4011.6s] As the blades begin to churn, dust begins to swirl inside [4016.6s] as all of this begins to move. [4018.0s] Outside, you can see kind of the tips of the windmill [4021.0s] from where you and Hilla Barcelli and Moot you see it. [4024.2s] The windmill begins to churn [4026.5s] and the energy that's surrounding the witch [4029.7s] gets sucked up into and churning with the windmill [4033.1s] and she lets out a hideous scream [4036.0s] as she herself is pulled off of her broom [4039.8s] and through the blades of the windmill [4042.4s] and dispersed into the air [4044.4s] as the darkness that has settled over this little village is lifted [4050.7s] and it is a bright sunny day as the windmill begins churning [4054.7s] without the power of anything else except the magical orb inside. [4062.6s] The broom falls to the ground [4065.0s] and Hilla Barcelli run [4067.0s] and you are now near Moot on the outside of the windmill. [4071.8s] I've been definitely making like sounds as. [4077.0s] That is good. [4077.7s] Yeah, it's like I am a horse and you are the jockey. [4081.4s] That is pretty fun. [4083.4s] You like to play the games, don't you? [4086.2s] All the games. [4087.6s] So I run out and like friends and hug my friends [4091.8s] because everything is like nice now. [4095.5s] We did it. [4096.3s] We did. [4097.0s] We did the thing and now you got your thing. [4103.0s] Does she have a beard still? [4104.6s] I'm curious. [4105.4s] Oh, yeah. [4106.1s] Yeah. [4106.6s] Yeah, you definitely have a beard. [4107.8s] Oh, yeah. [4108.6s] All right. [4110.0s] You still have your beard. [4111.3s] It didn't suck the evil beard away, though. [4113.6s] That's pretty unfortunate. [4114.2s] Oh, maybe it's not an evil beard. [4115.8s] I mean, it looks majestic as fuck. [4117.9s] You could be a beard for good. [4119.6s] Thank you. [4120.1s] I'm not. [4120.6s] It's a beard for good. [4121.5s] I don't know. [4122.5s] One thing at a time. [4123.4s] Maybe I got to go get my javelin. [4127.2s] Good thinking. [4128.0s] Maybe we go get your javelin. [4129.4s] We swing back and get all that sweet, sweet gold that we didn't. [4133.6s] And there was some cool stuff in that hut. [4135.3s] We could look in the hut. [4136.1s] Maybe there were some potions or. [4139.2s] Russ, can I scoop up the [4141.4s] flying broom as I walk by it? [4144.0s] Sure you can. [4145.1s] Yeah, I'm bleeding like all over the place, you guys. [4147.4s] I don't know if you can see this, but I'm literally covered in blood, mud, and my own vomit. [4153.8s] Interesting. [4154.6s] How hurt are you? [4156.3s] You're the most hurt, aren't you? [4159.1s] I definitely only have four hit points left if I were to quantify my amount of living. [4167.0s] Uh, OK, then I will put my hand on your shoulder and I will give you five. [4178.0s] No, let's say four hit points back. [4181.3s] Thank you. [4182.1s] So this has never happened before either. [4184.4s] So what does Sully feel as as this happens? [4189.3s] I think probably just like my hand is on her shoulder and I was like, [4192.4s] I just want you to feel better and sort of just like a warmth, [4195.8s] like a warm glow kind of feeling. [4200.9s] Like a nice hot water bottle kind of feeling. [4204.1s] Oh, very comforting. [4206.9s] Comes on your shoulder and kind of spreads and heals you a bit. [4211.9s] Oh, that's woman tingly. [4213.3s] Thanks. [4214.5s] That's good. [4215.1s] That's good. [4215.7s] That's good. [4216.1s] That's crazy though. [4217.2s] You guys need a magic. [4218.5s] That is pretty cool. [4219.5s] You got any more of that for good old hill up here? [4222.6s] Uh, sure, Hillip. [4224.0s] Maybe this will will help with your leg struggles. [4229.8s] And so I do the same thing, but he only gets one. [4232.2s] Sorry. [4233.6s] Oh, that feels like a little bit better. [4237.0s] Like a lukewarm bath on a cool winter's day. [4242.2s] Just like Mama used to do. [4246.6s] OK, you guys go. [4249.0s] We'll do inventory and stuff on the next one. [4251.6s] But you guys go, you get a bunch of potions and herbs. [4255.4s] If you decide to take any of those and split amongst you, [4262.0s] among you, 300 gold, four ways, math. [4269.8s] And unless you say otherwise, you go back through the forest [4274.1s] and you make it back to the caravan where there you see [4278.2s] that the majority of the caravan has left. [4281.8s] Well, we did take a long time. [4283.8s] We were in there for a while. [4284.9s] So your wagon is there and Winifred's wagon is there [4287.2s] and she runs over to you and she's like, [4288.6s] where did you guys go? [4292.5s] Well, we were, there was gold and- [4296.6s] Well, Hillip wanted to go check out a town he heard about [4301.1s] in a story one time, so we had to go have a look. [4341.6s] The gears begin to churn as the big... [4352.2s] Plates? [4352.9s] The wacky waving- [4353.8s] Plates? [4353.8s] Plates! [4354.2s] ...and portable arp tubes, man. [4357.0s] The word was gone. [4359.2s] A huge thank you to our supporting producers Jacob Madden, [4362.3s] Cat Waterflame, and Ryan Cushman. [4364.6s] Find out more at Patreon.com slash Dumb Dragon Cast. [4368.2s] The music in today's episode, Long Road Ahead, [4370.6s] Scheming Weasel, Nervous, Return of Lazarus, Red Letter, [4373.5s] and Come Play With Me are by Kavin MacLeod of incompetech.filmmusic.io. [4377.8s] Visit creativecommons.org slash licenses slash buy slash 4.0.